Funny / The Flash Sentry Chronicles

The Element of Courage

• Flash and Twilight once again meet each other by crashing into each other. Only this time it happens to them when they are just kids, and Flash is running to get away from Donut Joe, having tried to steal some of the donuts for Twilight's birthday party.

Flash Sentry, Defender of the Peace S 1

• Flash is not excited about attending the Grand Galloping Gala, since he remembers how boring it was when he went last time. He is completely fine with giving his ticket away to one of his friends just so he doesn't need to go. At the end, he tries to give his ticket to Spike after everyone else gets one, only for Celestia to send Spike his own ticket, meaning now Flash needs to go to the Gala.
• After Flash and Springer find out they are immune to the effects of Poison Joke, Springer wonders what would happen to him if it did affect him. Flash chuckles that maybe it would probably change his color, like turn him Yellow. Springer does not like that idea at all.
• When Flash and Twilight's friends meet Lightning Blitz Rarity quickly becomes disgusted with him, not just because of his bad attitude but because his headphones don't go with his mane. Lightning quickly barks his own insult back at Rarity until he gets a good look at her and immediately changes his tune upon seeing she is actually beautiful. He then tries to flirt with her and ask her out while simultaneously insulting her friends. Rarity swiftly rejects his advancements.
  Lightning: What's the matter bright eyes?! Time with the riffraff dampen your sense of taste? (scans Rarity over and lets out a purr) Then again, you ain't half bad looking honey. (tries to lay his hoof on hers) How about you and me go make some sweet music somewhere away from these street vermin?
  Rarity: (swatting her hoof away from his) As if!
• Pinkie defends Flash against Lightning's insults, saying he is the the toughest apprentice knight she knows... and also the weakest and only one she knows.
• After Flash captures Shake Shocker, Grand Hoof tells him he needs to file a 10 page report of what happened, including every detail of the battle and what they said to each other, in triplicate. Flash's friends decide to let him do it himself, since he was in charge of capturing Shake Shocker by himself too.
  Flash: I hate you all.
• Flash and Springer laugh their heads off when they see the new gala dresses Rarity made them, only laughing harder when they say they aren't jokes or Nightmare Night costumes.
  • Before the fashion show, Rarity takes a moment to thank Flash for his help before forcing his suit on him and his screams of pain can be heard from outside. It also serves as a Shout-Out to Silver Quill.
  Flash: That is not gentle, that's the opposite of gentle! Brutality, thy name is RARITY! (Flash is now in his suit with his hair combed back and giving Rarity a Death Glare) I swear, I've received beatings more gentle then one of your fitting sessions.
  Rarity: And that my dear Flash, is the price we pay for fashion.
  Flash: I'd like a refund if you don't mind.
• While Flash goes to take the Great Test, the Mane 6 help Springer watch over Ponyville and do Flash's job for him. Their efforts quickly get out of control and by the time Flash gets back to town it is a complete wreck, with the Mane 6 all dog piling him and asking him to never leave again.

Flash Sentry, Chaos and Disharmony

• Not even Discord knows why his magic doesn't work on Flash. He first tries to figure it out by looking through the chaos magic manual... only for it to immediately turn to dust because it is centuries old. His second plan is to figure it out by having a "doctor" version of himself check him out. After awhile, and being reminded he's just talking to himself, Discord worries that the stress is getting to him since he is actually trying to use logic.

Flash Sentry, Defender of the Peace S 2

• A flashback shows an incident known as 'Wild Sugar Springer incident.' Springer took one bite of one of Pinkie's super sugar muffins and went on a massive sugar rush rampage, attacking everyone in site while shouting about how he would destroy a "yellow mouse," which nobody understood. After that incident, Springer wasn't allowed sugar anymore.
  Springer: I'LL GET YOU, YOU BLASTED YELLOW ELECTRIC RAT! I'LL GET YOU AND YOUR WEIRD RED CIRCLE CHEEKS! I'LL DESTROY YOUR POPULARITY, YOU BLASTED ELECTRIC MOUSE! RRRAAAUUUGGGHHHH!!!
• Iron is quickly annoyed by the antics of the Cutie Mark Crusaders, believing they are the cause of most of the disasters that happen around town.
• Flash and Twilight have a Freaky Friday plot when they end up switching bodies with each other and see just how hard the other's life is.
• Flash avoids helping foalsit the Cake twins because when he was younger Twilight asked him to foalsit Spike when he was still a newborn, and he quickly set Flash's tail on fire after only a few seconds.
• Rainbow runs into Soarin in Ponyville (who actually came to town for a chance to meet her) when she kicks a cloud from out beneath him for moving them out of position to take a nap on. Soarin crashes to the ground and Rainbow immediately has a Freak Out when she realizes what she just did to one of her idols. While freaking out and making sure Soarin is okay she accidentally lets slip that he is her favorite Wonderbolt, something she quickly denies when Soarin questions if that is correct.
• In a bit of a Call-Forward to "Secrets and Pies", Rainbow tells Soarin that she is not a fan of pies, but quickly whispers to him not to tell Pinkie Pie that. Soarin just grins and is actually fine with it since it means more pie for him.
• When Rainbow's parents meet Soarin during Hearts and Hooves day Windy Whistles takes a liking to him and becomes a huge supporter of him and Rainbow dating. After Soarin leaves after making plans to get together with Rainbow again, Windy is actually cheering happily and is already making plans for their wedding, much to Rainbow's embarrassment.
• When Future Twilight appears, Future Flash is with her and while Future Twilight desperately tries to warn Twilight, the two Flashes just have a normal conversation. Future Flash could easily tell them what Future Twilight wants to since his past self isn't interrupting him, but knows from reading his comics like Cyborg-Hoof and Metapool that changing the past can lead to disastrous consequences.
• During the Gabby Gums incident, there is a story about Springer having fleas, with a photo of him using a Bone Breaker to scratch his back.
• When Twilight becomes enraged over learning her brother is getting married from a invitation, and believes it is to someone she has never met, she slowly becomes angrier when Flash shows he knows who Princess Mi Amore Cadenza is. Flash eventually just has Twilight sounds out her name to realize it is Cadance.
  • Twilight is even more shocked to learn that her brother and Cadance have been dating for years without her knowing, and that everyone knew before her.
  Twilight: Everypony?! You're kidding, right?
  Flash: Well there's me, your parents, Princess Celestia, Donut Joe-
  Twilight: Donut Joe knew before me?!

Flash Sentry, Crystal Darkness

• When Flash arrives at the library after training, Twilight immediately tries to force him to take a shower before they go to Canterlot for her test. After she blows the library into the sky when Spike says the test is "just a test" she still tries to force Flash to take a shower.
• This exchange when Rainbow convinces Flash to help her set up for jousting, only to see the area is in worse condition than she described.
  Flash: It'll be done in no time, huh?
  Rainbow: It could be worse.
  Flash: How?
  Rainbow: You could be listening to Pinkie trying to play the flugelhorn.
  Flash: (shivering at the thought) Maybe a little clean up won't be so bad.
  Rainbow: Told ya.
  Flash: Shut up and get to work.

Flash Sentry, Defender of the Peace S 3

• While Flash and Springer are training with Iron, Springer crashes into a rock out of control and gets dazed. While dazed he calls Flash "coach" and asks him not to replace him with the yellow mouse.
• During "Wonderbolt Academy" whenever someone says "go beyond" Pinkie Pie interrupts and shouts "Plus ultra!" much to everyone else's confusion. The first time this happens, Pinkie sheepishly remarks "Sorry, wrong show."
• Rainbow and Soarin end up literally bumping into each other at the academy twice. Both times are actually after Rainbow just got out of the shower too. Looks like Flash and Twilight aren't the only couple that occasionally bumps into each other.
• When Rainbow and Soarin are alone in the medical bay they have a brief moment of bonding before slowly leaning in towards each other without even realizing it, only to be interrupted and jump away from each other when the medic rushes through the door to check on Rainbow. After he leaves, things get a little awkward between Rainbow and Soarin, and Soarin excuses himself, walking backwards only to smack into the door first before exiting.
• Gremlins invade Ponyville and cause trouble all over town with their pranks. The only thing the Gremlins say at all is "Gotcha!" though it turns out to just be a natural cry to them, like how a lion roars, and is actually where the term came from.
  • When all other attempts to get rid of the Gremlins fail, the way the town finally manages to get rid of them is by ignoring their pranks and doing their own pranks on them.
  • Rainbow is absent through the whole thing due to being away at the Wonderbolt academy. She returns the day after the event to find the town still recovering and asks what she missed.
• Twilight and Trixie's dynamic is drastically different in "Magic Duel" compared to the original episode. Instead of an intense grudge between the two, Twilight is jealous of Trixie through most of the chapter due to Trixie expressing a desire to ask Flash out on a date.
  • When Twilight imagines what could happen if Flash and Trixie do go on a date together, it eventually leads to her panicking and having an Imagine Spot where Flash moves back to Canterlot with Trixie, proposes to her, marries her and has foals with her only to cut her own train of thought off with a scream.
  • Flash realizes Twilight it jealous of Trixie and comforts her, assuring her that everything will be alright and having a heartfelt moment with her. It takes a massive Mood Whiplash when it turns out Flash thinks Twilight jealous of Trixie's improved magic and her position as the princess's number 1 student is threatened. When Twilight and Trixie realize Flash is clueless that they both have feelings for him they both give him unamused Death Glares and proceed to beat him up off-screen in just a few seconds.
  Trixie: Boys...
  Twilight: You can have him.
• In "Just For Sidekicks" Springer acts as a Deadpan Snarker to all of Spike's antics and trouble he gets himself into, unlike how Owlowiscious tended to be a Silent Snarker to Spike in the original episode.

Flash Sentry Chronicles: EQG

• When Twilight, Spike, and Flash travel through the mirror, Flash is actually a bit upset to find out that CHS is a school instead of a castle, since he never went to school and doesn't know how they work. He also says that he probably just ignored anything Twilight told him about them.
• Flash's reaction when Twilight announces she is going to become the Fall Formal Princes, and that she has no idea how to do it.
  Flash: This is either gonna lead to something very good...or apocalyptically bad.
• Flash and Sunset's confrontation in the Band Room has some humorous moments:
  • Sunset eventually starts flirting with Flash, saying she needs a new boy toy, but Flash quickly shoots her down saying his mother taught him not to date anyone who wears leather... or is a total nutcase.
  • Flash tells Sunset he isn't scared of her after everything that he has faced, and asks what she could possibly do to him. She responds by grabbing him by his jacket and pulling him to her, smashing their lips together in a kiss. Afterwards, Flash is stunned silent by this, and Sunset mocks him for having stolen his first kiss.
  • As Flash is recovering from the surprise kiss, Sunset continues to try to seduce him, asking if he wants another kiss, only for Flash to quickly recover and say he's not falling for that again. Sunset responds by gently placing her forehead against his, before violently kneeing him in the groin. While he is in pain she mocks him for his lack of experience with his new body before kneeing him again and leaving him curled in pain.
• When playing soccer against Rainbow, Flash realizes he can't even access his Theta Mode and admits Iron was right about him relying on it too much. He then realizes what he just said and makes Twilight promise to never tell Iron that.

Flash Sentry, Defender of the Peace S 4

• Lightning complains when Flash has him babysit the Crusaders while the rest of them figure out why the Everfree Forest is invading, saying that it is not what he thought he would do when he took the position as a Defender. After being left with them for a short bit, and the three of them cowering at him, he awkwardly asks if any of them have read any good books.
• Some of Lightning's interactions with the ponies in town when doing odd jobs for them.
  • When he gets the bouncy castle for a filly's birthday working, she gratefully hugs his leg. He is quickly swarmed by all the other foals at the party and dog piled by them in hugs.
  • When helping Doctor Time Turner with one of his inventions, Time Turner calls it the Mag-U-Lator three thousand and one. He claims that he had a three thousand model, but it was stolen by an unknown intruder, who only left behind a silver feather quill.
• When the Mane 6 decide to find out where A.K. Yearling lives so they can track her down and help her finish her next book, all of the Defenders immediately tell them that is a bad idea, even saying that is how restraining orders are formed. However, the Mane 6 once again choose to ignore their advice and go anyway, and force Flash to come along with them.
• After meeting Daring Do, Flash is the only one she allows to come with her at first despite her I Work Alone attitude, since she admits it would be dumb to not get help from a Royal Knight. She then asks to make sure Flash is really a Knight and his weapon isn't just for show. Flash quickly tells her he is, knowing it would be bad to tell her he is still only an apprentice.
• When Flash and Daring are fighting Ahuizotl over the ring, Flash gets in his own Deadpan Snarker remarks when Daring mockingly flirts with Ahuizotl.
  Daring Do: Now Ahuizotl, you know I love you, but I can't give you the ring till I've properly proposed.
  Flash: You realize if you put that in your next book, you're gonna be fuelling a ton of slash fiction.
• Springer finds himself in a few humorous situations while trapped in his "Hedgehog Day" Loop, despite the dark circumstances. Most of them involve Springer doing the loop again to do something differently.
  • He tries to get Time Turner to help him since he was the one to tell him about Hedgehog Days, but he doesn't believe him at first and asks him what number he is thinking of. After another loop he keeps adding more numbers to his question, forcing Springer to loop several times just to convince him. Then he has to remember each number each subsequent time to convince him all over again.
  • Springer and Time Turner spy on Rainbow to see if she accidentally caused the explosion. Soarin eventually arrives at her house and they find it interesting when she welcomes him inside. Springer uses some balloons to spy into Rainbow's home and is quickly stunned by whatever he saw inside. He quickly pops the baloons and falls to the ground, declaring Rainbow and Soarin innocent, and only explains that what he saw was "something he could have gone his whole life without seeing."
    Time Turner: So Rainbow's clean as well.
    Springer: Not the word I would have used. Memory, please fail me now.
  • The two try to figure out what Iron is hiding in a suspicious box, only to find out it is ridiculously booby trapped. In their first attempt to open it, a Bear Trap goes off around Time Turn's leg. It takes several loops to disable every trap and look inside the box.
  • Springer assures Time Turner Derpy is innocent because in a previous loop he spent the entire loop watching her and she did nothing but eat muffins for the entire hour.
• After Rainbow and Soarin go public with their relationship they are the topic of gossip for weeks. Several reports even come by Rainbow's house. Ironically, Rainbow actually avoided the spotlight since she thought her relationship was something too personal to brag about.
• When Pinkie asks where she can get pompoms like the Cloudsdale cheerleaders Flash tells her to try E-Hay before she runs off leaving a trail of smoke behind. Fluttershy asks what E-Hay is and Twilight explains they learned about it when chasing Sunset.
• Flash is equally horrified with Rainbow over Rarity's horrible design for Ponyville's Equestria Games uniforms, even wondering at one point if Rarity was replaced by a fashion blind Changeling.
• Twilight and Flash easily see through Rainbow's fake injuries and make a bet about it. Flash bets 20 bits that the whole thing will blow up in her face, which Twilight agrees to and adds an extra 5 that she comes clean about it and agrees to fly for Ponyville. Twilight wins and Flash pays her while groaning in annoyance.
• Wild continues to avoid asking Pinkie out and telling her how he feels despite Lightning encouraging him. One reason Wild gives is even if they did go all the way and got married and had foals, then one day he would need to explain to their kids how they met each other. It would be pretty awkward explaining to their kids that he first met their mom by attacking her while trying to help their Evil Uncle Lightning Blitz take over Equestria.
  Wild: (realizes who he is talking to) Err, no offense.
  Lightning: (grumbles) None taken.
  • Funny enough, even that first encounter between Wild and Pinkie could still count as their "first date" since they were complimenting each other during their fight to the point that Spike asked them to "stop flirting."
• The Running Gag throughout "Pinkie Pride" where Wild Smile imagines in a imagination cloud above his head Pinkie dating and eventually marrying somepony else. First a mysterious pony in all black before it is replaced with Cheese Sandwich. Each time he yells a Big "NO!" in response to it and destroys the cloud in different ways.
• Everyone's attempts to get Flash to transform into his strange armor form with his powers:
  • He is given an elixir that gives the drinker tenfold their normal energy. Instead of making him transform he just becomes a Motor Mouth. Luna is amused by this and imagines setting Flash on their enemies when he is like this, but Celestia refuses the idea because she isn't that cruel. The group is forced to tie Flash down with nets and rope until he burns through the elixir.
  • They try to shock him into transforming by scaring him. Unfortunately, they forgot that because Flash has trained to be a Royal Knight and has already faced many threats against Equestria for years he does not scare easily. Amusingly, one of their attempts involved threatening to burn his comics, which got more of a reaction out of him than a previous attempt of seeing his sister Scootaloo fall to her death, much to her irritation.
  • The last attempt to get Flash to transform is by creating a battle scenario like a previous scenario. He is pitted against a unicorn, earth pony, and pegasus to get him to transform, with Lightning and Iron filling the first two roles. Flash asks if Rainbow is going to be his third opponent, something she seems eager to accept, until being told his third enemy is on his way. At that very moment, Soarin lands in front of everyone, causing Rainbow to blush at his sudden appearance and winking at her upon landing.
    Flash: Do uh...do I get a say in this?
    Twilight: Nope!
• After Flash defeats Iron, Lightning, and Soarin by transforming, he realizes he got a bit carried away.
  • Rainbow rushes to check on Soarin and tries to wake him by smacking his cheek. Soarin briefly wakes up along with Lightning and Iron and groans "Wagnar loves chicken." before collapsing back to unconsciousness with the others.
  • Even after transforming like they wanted they don't learn much about Flash's powers beyond what his armor looks like because the device Twilight put on him to scan him was overloaded by Flash and broke.
• Twilight has a small Heroic BSoD when Flash tells her that her study methods didn't actually help him when they were younger and he ended up passing his tests by using his own study method.
• When Rainbow is questioned on why she doesn't already know the history of the Wonderbolts despite being such a fan, and Twilight and Flash believing she just wants to join them to be noticed herself instead of caring about the actual team, Rainbow defends that she "loves the Wonderbolts." Rarity mumbles under her breath "one more than others," in response.
• Rainbow shows her friends her test after she passed, but Twilight says she only made a 75% instead of a perfect score. Apparently, Rainbow's eyes were just deceiving her when she first got her score.
• When hearing Spike's title for the first time, Springer snarks that he never thought that the words "Spike, brave, great and glorious" could go together in the same sentence, much to the anger of the Crystal Guards.
• Flash, Springer, Iron, and Lightning are absent during Spike's botched anthem, but it is so bad that Springer actually feels it happen through the aura. He says "I felt a great disturbance in the aura, as if thousands of voice cried out...in cringe."
• When Spike is telling Springer how he is upset he messed up after finally being seen as a hero, he explains that Springer doesn't understand because everyone sees him as a hero for his accomplishments, including having his own Arch-Enemy. Springer says back that having an arch-enemy isn't a good thing, it sucks and has nothing to do with being a hero.
• Flash and Twilight are set up on a date to try to set them up. Several hilarious moments happen in these attempts:
  • Twilight's Absurd Phobias show up during both attempts. First, she sees a ladybug and freaks out. Later, when the two are on a boat alone with plenty of food for both of them, Twilight freaks out once again when they find a box filled with quesadillas. Since they can't just toss them overboard because of the runes that are keeping them on the boat, Flash instead eats them all to get them away from Twilight. Ten minutes later he has a oversized belly. While Twilight thanks him for his help, Flash accidentally burps in her face due to eating too much, and she gets a whiff of his cheesy breath, making her go green.
  • While Twilight and Flash are alone, they slowly start to bond while isolated, much like the group hoped. Unfortunately, both attempts are ruined due to interruptions. The first time, Flash and Twilight are interrupted by fans of them recognizing them, taking their focus away from each other. While isolated on the boat, their ship crashes into a reef right as they are leaning in toward each other and they decide to focus on getting home. The last one gets a lot of angry reactions out of everyone who was watching them via magic movie projector thanks to Discord.

Flash Sentry Chronicles: Rainbow Rocks

• After getting word from Sunset about the Sirens and Twilight quickly explaining their origin to everyone, Flash points out how a lot of ancient evils were simply sealed away instead of being dealt with.
  Flash: Say...why is it that great evils get locked away instead of actually being dealt with? Don't say I'm not right. This keeps happening. Nightmare Moon, Discord, Sombra, the Omni Sphere, Tirek, and now these girls. I'm just saying, the ancient forces of good in Equestria had a nasty habit of shoving evil inside of a box, writing 'do not open' on it, and expecting that to be the end of it. I just wanna know why.
• Sonata develops a Villainous Crush on Flash after seeing him. While talking about how good he looks, with a bit of drool coming out of her mouth, Adagio quickly shut her up.
  • When Flash later backs up Sunset when she confronts the Dazzlings, Adagio offers Flash to hang out with them when they are done with the school, pointing out how her sister Sonata has a thing for him. Flash sees Sonata giving him a suggestive look, but turns down the offer with the same response he gave Sunset the last time he was in the human world, that he doesn't date girls who wear leather or are total nutcases. Sonata is briefly saddened by his decline, but seems to get over it quickly and teases him that he just "missed out" while snapping at him before leaving with her sisters.
• Sunset tries to apologize to Flash for what she did to him last time he was at CHS, but can't bring herself to actually say what she did and just points to her lips and then points downwards. Flash crosses his legs a little, remembering that dirty move, before saying he forgives her.
• After defeating the Dazzlings, Twilight says that without their pendants and magic, they're just three harmless teenage girls. Flash jokingly disagrees with calling them "harmless", because their terrible singing is the most painful thing he has ever experienced since coming to the human world... mostly.

Flash Sentry Chronicles: The Forgotten Darkness

• When everyone with wings realizes they can't fly Twilight says they have more important things to worry about. Flash just shouts back that she only thinks that because she hardly uses her wings anyway.
• When everyone realizes they can't touch anyone, Twilight originally guesses that maybe they are ghosts. Several of the reactions from the others just emphasize their Skewed Priorities:
  • Rainbow Dash is upset because another new Daring Do book is coming out in a month and she was in the middle of a reading marathon to get ready for it.
  • Rarity just finished a new fashion line and still needs Sapphire Shores to approve them.
  • Applejack says she can't die because she needs to make sure the Apples have a next generation. She can't leave that to her siblings because Big Mac is too oblivious to ever seduce a mare himself and she hasn't given Apple Bloom The Talk yet, which she can't leave to Granny Smith and Big Mac after the The 'Grape Family Incident.
• Shade is completely flustered when Springer says he has already explained everything to Flash and the others while Shade was busy praising himself. He begins ranting they have a lot of nerve interrupting his monologue, since he spent months working on everything.
• Although the battle between Springer and Shade is intense and much darker than most fights in the series, the Running Gag of Springer constantly interrupting Shade while he is monologuing by punching him in the face is hilarious, especially when Shade gets tired of it and yells for him to knock it off. Springer eventually interrupts Shade another way... but giving him a Groin Attack. Shade asks through the pain what Springer did to him, and Springer says that Flash told him about his own experience with it when he went through the mirror.

Flash Sentry Chronicles: Our Town

• When Rainbow is recapping everything that happened since defeating Tirek and getting the new castle, she mentions how they were all kidnapped by Shade and that Iron and Lightning were completely useless during the whole thing since Springer saved them. The two of them just growl at her for mentioning that.
• The Defenders all enjoy the training room in Twilight's new castle. When the map summons the Mane 7 to Starlight's village Flash has Springer and Spike stay behind to look after Scootaloo and her friends, but after remembering how last time they ended up on a train to the Crystal Empire, also has Iron and Lightning stay behind to look after them. They are both upset about having to babysit at first, until Flash tells them that means they also get extra free time in the new training room. After hearing that they both immediately agree with huge grins. They both just end up getting even more excited when Spike says they can also join him and Big Mac for their weekend planned with Hoofball activities.
• When Flash tries one of Sugar Bell's awful muffins for himself, he takes one bite out of it and dies, collapsing out of his chair with his soul coming out of his mouth. Pinkie sucks it up with Dustbuster vacuum and puts it back in his body, instantly resurrecting him. Twilight just casually asks him what it felt like to die and he says it wasn't that bad... before adding that Goldy one through twelve say hi.
  Twilight: One through twelve?
• When Pinkie gets fat from eating all the muffins, Flash helps her move around by rolling her like a ball.
• When Flash captures Double Diamond and interrogates him, Double Diamond asks where he's hiding the Staff of Sameness. Flash says he hid it somewhere Starlight and the others will never find it.
  Double Diamond: It's in that bush over there, isn't it?
  (Beat as Flash glances at said bush before knocking out Double Diamond again)
  Flash: (after Double Diamond wakes up again) Now it's hidden where you'll never find it.
• When everyone returns to Ponyville at the end, Fluttershy and Pinkie embrace their coltfriends in a kiss, only for Wild to go red in the face when Pinkie keeps making out with him.

Flash Sentry Chronicles: The Knight of Friendship

• Soarin shows up at the Crystal Empire, wanting to see Flash's big day. He expects to get his head chewed off by Spitfire when he gets back for ditching though. Shortly after this, Rainbow taps his shoulder and asks if he "forgot somepony" with her hooves crossed, only to blush once Soarin wraps his wing and apologize.
• The girls efforts to comfort Twilight and get her to realize her feelings for Flash:
  • Cadance mumbles to herself that after all these years she can finally fix her greatest failure. Twilight asks Cadance what she failed, only for Cadance to facehoof in response.
  • When Twilight closes her eyes and is told to say how she pictures Flash, she initially only lists his flaws before being told to skip all those parts.
  • When Twilight points out how she and Flash argue all the time, everyone else who is in a relationship state a few times they have argued with their coltfriend. Rainbow says she and Soarin disagree about which Daring Do book is the best, and how he loves pies while she hates them. But she forgot Pinkie was nearby, and Pinkie is shocked to hear Rainbow hates pies, asking her what she's done to the pies she's been giving her for years before Cadance tells her to focus.
• When Twilight prepares to head out at night into the mountains to find Flash, she is stopped by running into an invisible wall by Discord. After telling him what she is doing, and him being impressed that she is actually disobeying Celesta, he snaps a few essential survival equipment she thanks him and prepares to head out, only to hit the invisible wall he put up again. Discord realizes he forgot to take it down, and quickly does so after apologizing.
• Cadance cries over the fact that she had spent years trying to get Flash and Twilight together, and that she wasn’t there for it when it finally happened.
  • When Rainbow Dash suggests Cadance using the memory potion from Zecora, Twilight immediately shoots it down, because there were some things that need to stay private between her and Flash.
  • Cadance accepts this since she doesn't want to invade their privacy, but states to compensate she wants photos of their first date together, she gets to officiate their wedding, and they need to name their first born daughter "Cadance".
• While at the party celebrating Flash's knighting, a few of the guests share stories of his past with each other. Donut Joe remembers one time when Flash stole some donuts from his store, swinging from the light fixings until he reached the door and then doing a little victory dance. Twilight's parents remember how he and Twilight tried to make Twilight Velvet breakfast for mother's day. Not only did they make a huge mess in the kitchen, they somehow made toast when they tried to make a fruit salad.
• Shining Armor finding out at the last second that Twilight and Flash are now a couple. Cadance then pulls an Ear Ache on him, as well as calling him a ‘meathead’, telling him that they need to talk. Everyone else looks on and assumes that kind of attitude runs in the family.

Flash Sentry, Defender of the Peace S 5

• Flash and Scootaloo end up avoiding the new castle just like Twilight. Flash takes up his time by running himself and the other Defenders ragged with various tasks and training. He has also fallen asleep in the tree outside the castle several times.
• A few of the characters think that Flash and Twilight are avoiding each other before learning they are really avoiding the castle. This causes them to worry about their relationship, and what Cadance might do if they breakup.
• Iron's additions to the castle are booby-traps to act as a security system. Spike and Springer end up activating all the traps when they check up on everyone and everyone makes him take them down, to his displeasure. He later says he moved them all to a hallway nobody was using to act as an obstacle course.
• When Rarity bats her eyes at Spike to convince him to keep Flash and Twilight busy, Lightning Blitz, who has become a sorta love interest for Rarity himself, gives a disappointed glare and warns her that it isn't a good idea to lead Spike on like that.
• Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle have no problem making Scootaloo's room the way she likes it, and waste no time rubbing it in everyone else's face. Iron isn't convinced that it isn't a disaster until he sees it himself, referencing the second and third 'Renegade Farming Equipment Incidents'.
• After stopping the Crimson Masquerade Gang, Iron insists on finally putting some security in the castle to prevent another break-in, forcing Flash and Twilight to help.
• While The Mane 5 are planning everything for Twilight and Flash's first official date, Rarity explains she has been teaching Twilight what to do on a date, but Fluttershy claims that Rarity has never actually been on a date herself before, only she, Pinkie, and Rainbow have. Rarity justifies that she has read plenty of romance novels.
• Flash uses the training room to practice for his date with Twilight, creating a fake restaurant and fake Twilight with other couples in the background. The other defenders all walk into the room as he is practicing and are disturbed by what they see.
• Flash and Twilight spend the day before their first date hanging out to calm themselves so they will be ready for the actual date. By the end of the day they realize that everything they did together technically qualifies as a date itself. They decide to still go out the next night and tell everyone it is their first date, leaving the impromptu one their little secret so they don't feel left out. That way they can still get pictures of the date like Cadance wants, but they agree to only send her one, and make sure it isn't romantic at all.
  • Also, their friends were planning to setup fireworks to go off at the end of their first official date and the two of them kiss. They are setting them up the night before, only to accidentally set them all off early. Unknown to them though, their plan ended up working exactly as they planned, and their fireworks went off just as Flash and Twilight kissed at the end of their date. Too bad they will never know their plan worked.
• Lightning accidentally ruins his meeting with the princesses due to an unfortunate slip of the tongue.
  Cadance: So...enjoying your life in Ponyville?
  Lightning: Yes.
  Luna: Having any issues reporting to Flash or Iron?
  Lightning: No.
  Celestia: And are you giving back to the community?
  Lightning: Yes.
  Cadance: Gotten any mares in trouble?
  Lightning: No.
  Luna: Still wanna take over Equestria?
  Lightning: Yes... (all the princesses glare at him as he catches himself) Wait, no! I meant no! NOOOOOO!
• When Trixie delivers the wedding gift to Luna after she accidentally left it, she slowly begins to back away when Celestia and Luna continue arguing, which starts to descend into how Luna teaches her student and Celestia's alektorophobia.
• Flash ends up getting a call from the map while he is in the middle of shaving and checks on the map while half his face has shaving cream on it. Twilight tells him to finish up before heading out for his mission.
• Flash and Twilight get into a small argument over whether he should bring his sword with him on the map mission. Flash eventually just pulls the princess into a long kiss, winning him the argument.
• After the mysterious stallion orders his servants, Armalum and Tempera, to gather the rest of their forces, Tempera says there is one thing she must do first before going. She then leans in and gives her master a long goodbye kiss on the mouth. The stallion however, just has a dull look in his eyes during the whole kiss, neither returning the gesture nor doing anything to resist or break it himself.
• After completing his mission, Flash realizes that he forgot to take notes on everything like Twilight wanted, and cries out that she is going to kill him. This actually gets Cold Steel to laugh for the first time in a long time, but it sounds very low and gravely, which Flash finds creepy.
• When Springer finds out how Spike told a pony to stop working on a broken pipe to keep things quiet for Twilight he just double face-paws himself and asks Spike why he didn't go with a more simple solution.
  Springer: Spike...did it occur to you that maybe instead of stopping ponies from causing noise, you could, I don't know, get TWILIGHT SOME EARPLUGS?!
• When Grand Hoof is giving a tour to some children of the delegates and sees Flash chasing the angry mob of delegates towards Twilight's room, he groans that he is too old for this, before stopping himself, remembering that kids are listening to him, and awkwardly finishes saying "Uh...stuff. I'm too old for this stuff."
• Springer stops Spike's sneeze at the end and knocks the bouquet of Dragon Sneeze Trees away from him, asking to just get rid of them since they are becoming a health hazard.
• Plenty of moments throughout "The Ultimate Ponyville Diet":
  • Rarity apparently has multiple first rule of business, and is unamused when Sweetie Belle points this out.
  • Rarity lets out a high-pitch scream that shakes the town when she realizes she has gained weight.
  • Right when the girls are about to discuss how many pounds they have gained, an "interruption" occurs that explains the exact weight is "censored" because most girls don't like to discuss their weight, and this particular group consists of a magical prodigy alicorn, a seamstress that could weave a suit out of your own blood, a pegasus with animals like tigers and bears for friends, and...well...Pinkie. The "censored" weight is described as "fashion pounds" for Rarity, "bookshelf pounds" for Twilight, "cupcake pounds" for Pinkie, and "puppy pounds" for Fluttershy.
  • Applejack and Rainbow Dash join in for the exercises they do at the castle and continuously try to outdo each other. When lifting weights they continue to dare each other to lift heavier weights, only to end up passing out before everyone else.
  • After finally making it through a week of exercise and reaching their desired weights, the girls are treated to a reward by the others, without letting them refuse this time. This turns out to be an all you could eat lunch at Hay-Burger Queen. The girls are nervous about all their progress being for nothing if they overeat, only for their starving stomachs to win out, complete with an Imagine Spot of the "S.S. Diet" being destroyed, and they devour a huge pile of hayburgers. The only one not surprised by this display is Lightning, who discovered why they were exercising and warned Rarity she should have eaten something.
  • Rarity and Lightning make a bet on whether she can last the whole week of exercise without quitting, with the loser needing to do what the winner says for a day. Rarity shows up outside Lightning and Wild's house to collect her "reward" for winning, and becomes a very big tease about it, grinning at Lightning and batting her eyes at him when reminding him of the bet. Lightning is nervous over what she'll want from him, but accepts whatever it will be. Turns out, Rarity wants him to ask her out on a date. What follows is an exchange of Rarity putting on an act of "accepting" Lightning's offer, which you can feel she has rehearsed. Also, for added irony, when the two of them first met Rarity denied Lightning's offer to go out with him, but now she is the one taking the initiative in having a date with him, once he is in a position where he can't refuse her.
    Lightning: HUH?!
    Rarity: You heard me. You can't say you're not interested, especially since you've asked me out before.
    Lightning: Yeah...that's true. And sorry for that back then. I was a sleaze and-
    Rarity: (covers Lightning's mouth with her hoof) Just ask me out.
    Lightning: (after removing Rarity's hoof) Okay...Rarity, would you like to go out on a date with me?
    Rarity: (lets out a Dramatic Gasp) Why Lightning, this is so sudden. (Lightning lets out an annoyed growl) Well...I accept. But I should warn you, a date with me isn't cheap.
    Lightning: I figured that.
    Rarity: (brushing her tail under Lightning's chin) I'm free this Saturday. I'll meet you at my house at eight. (heads off after giving a quick wink) Got it?
    Lightning: Got it... (whispers to himself) what did I just get myself into?
• After Twilight tells everyone how the Yaks plan to declare war on Equestria, while everyone else is horrified, Iron and Lightning just laugh at the idea, pointing out how they wouldn't stand a chance since Equestria has the Royal Knights, four alicorns, Discord and Flash's Sacred Light.
• Flash's reaction to Pinkie's party cave:
  Flash: I knew it! Pinkie's an interdimensional visitor from a universe made up of party supplies and we've finally found the wormhole connecting our two worlds! (turns to Twilight) HA! I was right!
• When everyone discovers Pinkie's party cave, Wild Smile does a Chair Reveal and strokes Gummy like a cat while welcoming them like a classic James Bond villain, before saying Pinkie showed him the cave when they started dating. However, he reveals that not even he knows how to get out of the cave.
• Flash points out to Pinkie that if she wanted something authentic from Yakyakistan, she could have just sent Cadance a message to get someone like Ruby to get something and magically mail it to her to save herself the trouble. When Pinkie realizes this, she just facehoofs herself, making a squeaking sound in the process.
• When Grand is forced to retire, the others try to help him find something to do with his new spare time. We see a Failure Montage from the few days prior to his retirement with him trying several activities:
  • When golfing he sees one pony hit the ball with the club and tries it himself, shouting "five" instead of "fore" and hitting the ball so hard it goes off into the horizon. He asks if he gets points for that.
  • He tries bird watching and spends hours watching a tree trying to spot a rare bird, but quickly becomes bored, comparing it to watching enemies on patrol. He falls asleep and ends up scaring away the bird without ever seeing it.
  • When playing bingo he quickly gets annoyed at one pony always joking "you sunk my battleship" when a number is called, and everyone else laughing at it. He eventually slams his face into the table in annoyance.
• Flash ends up giving Springer a bath during grooming day for the pets. He questions why he is even doing it since Springer is not his pet and is more than capable of giving himself a bath, but Springer just tells him it is what good partners do. Flash almost squirts shampoo in his eyes in annoyance before seeing everyone else make a mess in their sleep deprived states.
• Flash is also exhausted like the rest of the Mane 7, but he did not have a nightmare like them. His Sacred Light shielded him from the Tantabus, but while Twilight was suffering her nightmare she kicked him and levitated him out of bed.
  Twilight: I said I was sorry.
  Flash: You threw me out the window.
• When Trixie arrives shortly after Luna, she has a a bright light behind her as she poses heroically. This is quickly revealed to be from a spotlight, which she teleports away immediately afterwards.
• Flash is revealed to be afraid of sock puppets. Trixie is unamused that he is afraid of something so childish when he has faced genuine threats without batting an eye.
  Flash: Those eyes. Those soulless, empty eyes.
  • At the end of the chapter, Scootaloo returns to the castle from her sleepover and shows Flash a sock puppet that Granny Smith gave her and the other crusaders, completely unaware of his fear. Flash ends up screaming and flying off in front of everyone, to their confusion. Trixie just thinks she is going to keep that little bit of info to herself for a rainy day.
• Spitfire says that she got Rainbow Dash and her private sleeping quarters away from the rest of the team, since even though she is happy that Soarin and Rainbow are together she doesn't want the two of them to "exhaust each other" before the show the next day. Rainbow gets a bright blush as soon as she understands what that means. Rarity is also a bit surprised to hear Soarin and Rainbow aren't sharing a room until Rainbow says it is "captain's orders". She quickly teases Rainbow that she "didn't know she had it in her.
• Twilight becomes overly-protective of Flash following his near-death experience to the point of giving him a "royal order" of forbidding him to leave the castle to go on patrol or do any training. He eventually gets her to relent, and quickly flies outside before she can change her mind.
• While Pinkie struggles to keep Shining Armor and Cadance's surprise of having a baby a secret, Wild begins to notice how Pinkie is acting weirder than usual, especially around baby-related things. This makes him conclude that Pinkie is pregnant and he is the father.
  • When Pinkie literally falls to pieces like in the episode, Wild helps put her back together while explaining the misunderstanding to her.
• When Fluttershy tries giving Nightmare Night a go with her friends, Iron ends up getting roped into putting on a costume too, and ends up wearing a copy of the Kamen Pony uniform he wore in the comic world.
• When Spike introduces Thorax to the others in Ponyville they are understandably unsure of him, even after Flash remembers meeting him previously. After Thorax asks them all to give him a chance to prove himself, everyone glances at each other for a moment as if having a mental conversation before looking back at Thorax. The scene then smash cuts to Thorax inside the Ponyville jail.
  Thorax: I'm pretty sure I'm suppose to get a phone call!
  Pinkie: What's a phone?
  Flash: Eh, I'll tell you later.
• After Wild learns about the Pairing Stone, he advises Pinkie and her sisters not to mention it to Princess Cadance, or she would probably order it to be smashed for doing her job, since she is the "princess of love" not the "princess of fair competition". Pinkie is the first to laugh at this, before Limestone and Marble also laugh a bit too, and Maud simply gives a tiny smile.
• While Fluttershy and Rainbow's families are celebrating together, Zephyr Breeze tries to get himself and Rainbow Dash under some mistletoe together. Angel notices this and spills some pepper from a pepper shaker in his face, causing him to sneeze the mistletoe away and it lands right above Rainbow and Soarin, who happily kiss underneath it. While the other couples present join in on showing their affection, Zephyr simply begins crying.
• When Flash and the others arrive at Canterlot Castle to discuss his strange "dream" with Celestia and Luna, Trixie meets them outside and teases Flash over her being in his dream.
  Trixie: So...I hear I've been showing up in your dreams. (taps Flash on the nose) Naughty colt. The only mare that should be in your dreams is that one. (points at Twilight)
  (Everyone else laughs while Flash and Twilight blush)
• When Celestia pulls out Starswirl's old sketchpad, which had been protected from the flow of time for centuries with a stasis spell, Twilight smiles widely and starts drooling at the sight of one of Starwirl's actual notepads in front of her.
• When Luna is preparing Trixie and Ruby for their mission, she tells them both that once they make it back they are all going out for drinks again. Ruby is excited for this, the same as Luna, but Trixie's eyes just shrink upon hearing this.
  Trixie: Oh dear. Not again.

Flash Sentry Chronicles: Friendship Games

• Sunset teases Princess Twilight in her message to her, asking her if she and Flash have tied the knot yet.
• When the human Flash takes Sci-Twi's magic tracking device away from her and tells her how he is afraid the strange energy readings she has been studying could be dangerous, Sci-Twi guilts him into giving her back the device by showing him Spike's sad Puppy-Dog Eyes, who instantly makes the face on cue. It's even more funny if you imagine Sci-Twi trained Spike to make that face on command specifically to guilt-trip Flash for her.
• When Lightning and his friends finally learn about the magic at CHS and Sunset's origins, Wild laughs at Lightning while saying "You dated a horse?!", clearly enjoying this little fact.
• When human Flash and Sci-Twi transfer to CHS at the end, Flash celebrates how he's finally going to have Ruby off his back. Ruby overhears this though and says that she's going to be in contact with the guidance counselor at CHS, and if the school doesn't have one then she'll just make sure to come by herself to make sure Flash stays in line.

Flash Sentry Chronicles: War of the Lost City

• After traveling for two weeks together, Flash's team recounts everything they encountered along the way like Springer being treated like a god by a tribe of Breezies and Cold needing to be saved after falling into a volcano.
  Soarin: Yeah! Can you imagine what it would be like if somepony was watching this adventure, except they skipped from when we left Canterlot to right here, right now?
  Springer: They would have seriously missed out.
• Fire Heart and Shining Soul are amazed to hear Flash's girlfriend is a princess and ask if that means he is technically a prince. Ruby cuts in, saying no it does not, not wanting Flash to get a big head.
• After Flash explains that he is dating a princess to Fire Heart and Shining Soul, they ask shouldn't he be waited on hoof and wing. Flash says he doesn't do stuff like that and Twilight doesn't even have any servants, only for Springer to cut in saying most would probably say Spike is one.
• Heart tells everyone there is nothing in the city in the three years he and Soul have been there, with the only unusual thing being a strange wolf creature falling from the sky.
  Springer: Well let's go talk to that wolf creature. Where do we find it? (everyone else stares at him and face palms) Oh. You were talking about me.
• Apparently, Soarin snores in his sleep. Springer claims he snores even louder than Rainbow Dash. When Cold realizes he'll be bunking with Soarin in the castle he is not enthusiastic about it. Apparently nobody said anything during the two weeks they traveled together because Trixie cast a silencing spell on him every night when they slept, and Cold quickly agrees when she offers to teach him the spell.
• In a Call-Forward to season 9, when everyone is discussing how Shadow Corrupter resurrected Sombra they say how that would probably be impossible for any of the princesses and that Discord would probably be the only one who could completely restore him. Additionally, Trixie realizes that none of them have even tried to summon Discord to help. Everyone but Cold, Ruby, and the twins scream Dicord's name after realizing this... only for him not to appear anyway.
  Trixie: Rats.
• When Soul unleashes a powerful blast of magic that spreads through the city, harming the cultists but healing her friends. Searing Salix, who was already blasted by Soul in an earlier battle, tires to run from it, only to end up getting hit in the back much to his frustration.
  Salix: Oh, come on! Not again!
• Seeing Salix's backstory revealed in a flashback, he was there when the kirin accidentally destroyed their village. When he is the only one to reject the Vow of Silence idea from their leader Rain Shine, he points out to Autumn Blaze that she loves to talk just as much as he does. Autumn says it is fine since she can live without words. That's funny considering in a few years she's going to be a total Motor Mouth who is starved for conversation.
• When watching their fights with Cult of Shadow, Flash insists that his sister, along with the other younglings (including Spike), shouldn’t watch any scenes that might traumatize them, so he asks Discord to give him a "censor" button that prevents them from watching dark scenes like when Cold was stabbed by Shadow and when Gleaming Path was sacrificed by his parents, and Flash keeps pressing the button throughout the fights, especially in the seven on one fight, much to the younglings' dismay.
  • At one point, after Flash uses the button when they see his third dream, showing how Shadow got his powers, Sweetie Belle asks what he did to the other ponies they briefly saw. When Rarity can't think of something to say, Lightning quickly blurts out that he "sent them to the Shadow Realm", a prison full of darkness that traps everyone in an endless sleep. Rarity and Flash quickly agree and explain that now that Shadow is beaten, everyone is probably waking up and resuming their daily lives.

Flash Sentry, Defender of the Peace S 6

• When Heart is told to run on a treadmill, Heart gets very cocky and asks Flash to make it faster, which ends with him slipped on the treadmill and getting hurt, but instead of complaining, he says "Nailed it!"
• Flash somehow forgot to get something for Flurry Heart, causing others to rolled their eyes at him.
• Like in canon, Shining Armor and Cadence are tired and exhausted from raising Flurry Heart and even Hiveena calls Flurry Heart "Little hell-raiser". Thorax says he was worried that Shining Armor would fall asleep on the way to greet them.
• In order to help Shining Armor stay awake, Flash told Heart to go to the kitchen and ask the chef to make the strongest coffee they could make while he and the others dragged Shining Armor with Flash holding a plastic drinking funnel.
  Flash: By my oath, this crystalling will go off without a hitch.
  • Flash actually searches inside Pinkie's mane for the funnel, reaching inside himself and feeling around for them, and Pinkie telling him to look inside of the third drawer. Flash at one point even feels a bicycle inside there.
• After Thorax and Hiveena bring Starlight and Spike to Sunburst's house, Hiveena says she wants to stay so she can watch this "train-wreck".
  • After Starlight and Spike leave Sunburst's house, Hiveena comments on how the whole thing was hard to watch.
    Hiveena: I have never seen a more awkward conversation. And I once had an affair with a stallion whose wife walked in on us.
    Thorax: Lady Hiveena!
    Hiveena: What?! I was just being honest.
• After the whole crisis is averted and Flurry's power flux is curved, Flash recommends to Shining Armor and Cadance that they keep the spell just in case Flurry needs another tune up, or just to keep it for the next one.
• While he and Soul are at school, Heart thinks Flash is doing something awesome with the other Defenders. The scene then cuts to Flash, Iron, Lightning, and Grand just standing around drinking apple cider together.
  Flash: Yep.
  Iron: Yup.
  Lightning: Yup.
  Grand: Mhmm.
• When Heart told Button that he doesn't know about video games, Button is horrified to hear that because to him, video games are Serious Business and the idea of somepony never knowing the joy of playing video games baffled him.
  • He has a same reaction when Heart told them that he never heard of pizza before, Rumble fainted from hearing that and Button told his mom to put all the best stuff on the pizza for Heart.
• In a meta-joke to the two of them sharing a voice actor, it is revealed that Rumble can do a perfect impression of Flash's voice.
• When Spike is depressed over Rarity being in a relationship with Lightning, Heart eventually snaps at him for moping around and tells him to "dragon up". Spike responds by breathing fire at him, only for Heart to be completely unharmed by it.
  Heart: You don't need to be so snippy about it.
• While Springer is taking care of the eggs and unable to help the other defenders, Lightning calls it him being out on "maternity leave".
• Spike gears up in his make-shift suit of "armor" made of pillow, kneepads, and a helmet, and rushes into the Everfree Forest with a butterfly net, intending to catch the four pukwudgie that escaped so he will be seen as a hero and win Rarity's heart. With a battle cry of "FOR RARITY!" he rushes in, only to run around for ten minutes with no idea where to go, until he is exhausted and still trying to say his battle cry. He realizes soon afterwards that going into the huge forest to find such small creatures wasn't such a good idea.
• When Heart was talking about what happened at Ponyville, he was about to bring up a Noodle Incident involving Pinkie Pie, and Flash quickly shoves his hoof in Heart's mouth, telling him to not bring up the incident.
• When Spike becomes Dragon Lord and orders Garble to go home, and give every dragon he sees on the way a hug, Heart briefly wonders if that counts as an abuse of power. He changes his mind immediately when he sees Garble miserably hug one dragon, and declares "All hail Spike".
• In order to protect Ace and Mira, Springer decides to put them on baby leashes. The two jakhowls are not happy about it, but Springer is just glad he won't get exhausted chasing them down.
• While Springer is upset about losing his ear scratching privileges due to his Battle Form being permanent now, he's glad that he can handle sugar a lot easier and is no longer dealing with the yellow rodents hallucinations anymore.
• When Ace and Mira meet the Cake twins, Mira picks up Pumpkin and introduces herself. After she and Ace realize that the twins can't speak yet, Pumkpin ends up vomiting on Mira.
• When Iron sees Fluttershy in Harry's mouth to fix his toothache, he drop his jaw and is unable to respond except for holding the floss for Fluttershy.
• At the end of "Fluttershy's Marvellous Medicine", Flash ends up getting Horsey Hives and Twilight and Starlight force him to go through the same thing they did with Heart and Soul. He lets out a Big "NO!".
• When Springer is training Ace and Mira, Mira correctly answers what aura is when asked, and Springer tells her "good girl, have a cookie" pulling a brown bag behind his back. Mira happily accepts it.
• In a mix with Heartwarming, when young Trixie opens a gift from her uncle and it turns out to be a magic set, she makes a big goofy grin.
• Why doesn't Twilight let Flash near in the kitchen? The answer: Quesadillas.
• When the group is talking about the possibility of being teachers themselves one day, Trixie asks if they can imagine being principal of an entire school. Starlight jokes that she'll become a principal one day and make Trixie her vice-principal. Let's see if they remember that conversation by "A Horse Shoe-In".
• Trixie mentions that her dad changed his name to Regal Burst before she was born, but she never found out what his real name actually was. Once he enters the throne room, Celestia casually addresses him with his given name, Dynamo Dazzler, much to his shock.
• When the Wonderbolt Board of Directors set up a race between Rainbow and Spitfire to determine if Rainbow will be allowed to officially join the Wonderbolts or not, it gathers a large crowd. Everyone present cheers for the two racers, but boos the Directors when they come on stage. Even though they came to watch the race and like the racers that doesn't mean they like the circumstances.
• After Spitfire and the rest of the Wonderbolts chew out the Board of Directors for what they put Rainbow through and threaten to all quit the team if they still try to deny her a spot in the team, the three of them simply respond that they were trying to say they agree with Spitfire and she was right about Rainbow all along.
• After everything she went through, Rainbow still ends up with her "Rainbow Crash" nickname the same way she did in canon, from crashing into some trash cans. Spitfire bluntly asks her "You forgot to look both ways, didn't you?"
• Since Fire Heart has become a fan of video games thanks to button, everyone has discovered they can use the training room to act as one giant game system.
• When Flash and Twilight see Blinkermane divided between stallions and mares, they describe it as "One side looks like it's taken right out of Bulk Bicep's wet dreams while the other side looks like it's out of Rarity's."
• According to a conversation between Flash and Twilight, when Cadance first became a princess and got her love magic, she went a little love crazy. They think in retrospect, her failure to hook the two of them up with her magic (due to Flash's Sacred Light protecting him) calmed her down.
• When Zephyr Breeze sees Iron Core in Fluttershy's cottage, he immediately becomes terrified and threatened to call the authorities. Really, Zephyr? Calling the authorities on Iron Core. Never mind the fact that Iron is a Royal Knight, and essentially is the authorities, which Iron himself points out.
• During the start of the song "I Can Do It On My Own", Iron shuts the door, telling Soarin "I don't sing, and you can't sing."
• While Grand is helping Fire Heart try to control his anger to gain better control over his fire powers, he has him build a card tower, and then proceeds to distract him in various ways like blowing a gas horn, shaking the table, and throwing a cream pie in his face. When Heart finally loses it, Grand puts his fire out with a fire extinguisher, blasting the colt with it.
• When Flash tells the others to not make a move, they gives him a deadpanned stare as they are trapped in a cocoon.
• Distressed Dude Rancher is freaking out and he believes he going to be the main course for the Loucarcolh while telling Flash to get him out of the cocoon.
• At the end of the chapter when Flash and Lightning are about to join everyone for dinner, they see Rancher's Speed Stingers eating out of the large pot on the table. The Speed Stingers just give an "Oh, Crap!" Smile when they realize they have been caught, leading to an "Everybody Laughs" Ending.
• During their O&O session in "Dungeons & Discord", Spike's name for the princess of Spiketopia, "Shmarity", now comes off as a bit of an Old Shame to Spike, who admits that he made the character awhile ago and has been meaning to change her name.
• When Discord brings the guys to a jazz club, he creates a pair of bat pony mares that start flirting with Rogue. When Rogue expresses annoyance at this to Discord, he asks if he is more into earth ponies and changes the bat ponies into Applejack look-a-likes. Rogue ends up blushing at this, especially seeing the outfits they are wearing.
• When things go wrong in "Pizza Pi Party" the town starts being engulfed in giant pizza dough. Soarin actually lampshades how that's an odd threat even for Ponyville standards.
• It turns out that Heart and Soul have been trying to do some of Trixie's magic tricks themselves, including making smoke bombs and doing her Smoke Out escape routine. They end up doing this when helping Starlight leave her old village, with Soul telling the village they should do it again next year before Heart throws the smoke bomb and the three of them hightailing it out of town.
• Discord starts Breaking the Fourth Wall again in "To Where and Back Again Part 1" by calling everyone "Secondary Characters", until he points out Heart and Soul ruining the dynamic, earning glares from the twins.

Flash Sentry Chronicles: Legend of Everfree

• In a meta sense, Banshee531 states in the author notes at the beginning that even though the canon movie is his least favorite in the series, it is the film that finally motivated him to begin his own series with Flash Sentry as the main focus instead of just imagining it.
  If this movie hadn't been so bad, I might never have joined Fimfiction to begin with.
• When everyone arrives at camp and they hear Gloriosa Daisy over the PA system for the first time, Iron comments that voice could get annoying. Flash states that hopefully it was the PA system that made her voice so squeaky. When they see Gloriosa in person though and realize her voice is the same, they both moan that it wasn't the PA system.
• When Vice-Principal Luna complains how she thought their camp gift being a sundial was impractical due to not being able to be used at night, Flash says he thought campers weren't allowed to wander at night anyway. Luna gives him a Death Glare in response.
  Flash: Shutting Up Now.
• After Gaia Everfree is beaten, Iron takes hold of Flash's hand, trying to see if he can get some powers himself. Unfortunately for him he doesn't.
• Timber tells Gloriosa that he is planning to wait for Sci-Twi and Flash to break up, so he can swoop in and comfort her afterwards. Gloriosa just rolls her eyes at him. Not even his sister thinks he has a chance anymore.

Flash Sentry Chronicles: Dragon's Awakening

• While Spike is trapped in the book, he appears in a white void with nothing there. He eventually gets bored and screams that he would even settle for a book to read. Then, one magically appears in front of him. He is surprised he could do that, and tries to do the same thing by saying he would "settle for a video game"... only to get nothing.
• While Starswirl is speaking with Silverbolt in the past, Silverbolt briefly teases Starswirl over his relation with Clover the Clever, only for Starswirl to in turn tease Silverbolt over his attraction to the dragoness Fira.
• Heart was involved with two Noodle Incidents regarding Iron, one was about Iron accidentally saying a dirty word in front of Heart and begging him not to tell anyone, and the other was Heart accidentally setting Iron's mane on fire while having a bet with Scootaloo.
• After Spike escapes from the book he was trapped in, Silverbolt's spirit can still talk to him as a Spirit Advisor. But, he explains Spike is the only one who can see and hear him, so to everyone else it looks like Spike is just talking to himself.
• When Flash, having been transformed into a Light Dragon by Malafear, breaks free from his control thanks to Twilight, Springer, and Fire Heart, one of the first things he does after they all make a plan to free the others and stop Malafear is to stop Heart briefly and tell him he's grounded for running off earlier.
• As big and horrible as Malafear is, there is a moment when he finally gets his body restored. He attempts to blast everyone with his poison breath, only for absolutely nothing to happen. This surprises everyone, including him. He goes through the other elements he absorbed, screaming them out, only for nothing to happen at all. He didn't realize his body had been sealed away for so long that the elements he stole wore off, since he can't generate any of them except for his original Shadow magic.

Grand Hoof: The Legend Begins

• Similar to how Flash does, Grand Hoof channels his inner Spider-Man and makes a pun when he defeats Big Score in "A New Threat Looms". Makes you think, maybe Flash got that habit from his training with Grand?
• When Grand Hoof and Live Wire infiltrate the Cutie Markers party, when Technica starts welcoming everyone and begins her speech, Live shows her experience by whispering to Grand here comes the big speech about the world being unfair and locking everyone into a single destiny. As soon as she says this, the first thing Technica says is "The world is unfair."
• When demonstrating the powers of Cutie Markers, several ponies use them to change their talents, and every other pony chooses Kung-Fu.
  • This is followed by Grand asking why there are so many ponies using Kung-Fu, remembering how even Big Score used it. Live wonders if maybe that one is easier to make, or maybe ponies are just fulfilling their childhood dream of playing ninja.

Flash Sentry, Defender of the Peace S 7

• The events of "All Bottled Up" still happened off-screen, this time with Shining Soul accidentally teleporting the friendship map away instead of Trixie. Flash ends up finding out about the incident when Fire Heart accidentally blurting it out, but he chooses to pretend he didn't hear it so not to embarrass Starlight.
• Scootaloo brags about her brother Flash Sentry at the carnival her family is at, and pretty soon news of him being there spreads everywhere and he is showered with fans asking him questions and everyone giving him and his family special treatment. Two mares try flirting with him, and quickly start arguing with each other over him, with him not having the heart to tell them he is with his family or that he already has a girlfriend.
  • This incident becomes a Brick Joke towards the end of the chapter. After Flash and Scootaloo have a touching moment together, Scootaloo ruins it by warning him he's going to want to stay on her good side, otherwise she'll tell Twilight how he let the two mares be flirty with him. The thought of this terrifies Flash more than the cyborg they just fought.
• A few moments in "Rock Solid Friendship":
  • Derpy opens the pizza box that Pinkie threw at her, only to cringe in disgust when she sees it has pineapple.
  • Fire Heart is with Starlight and Maud when they discover the cavern in the gem cave, and Pinkie tries to drag him away before he can ride down the waterfall. When Maud moves in at the end of the chapter, it is shown he came back to ride down it and brought Ace, Rumble, and Button with him.
  • When Pinkie goes to Ghastly Gorge to find Maud, she takes Springer with her. Springer admits on the way he hasn't memorized Maud's aura because she is rarely in Ponyville and, according to him, her aura is boring. When they arrive, Pinkie grabs him and orders him to find Maud while she holds him like a metal detector.
• In "A Flurry of Emotions":
  • When Twilight is gushing over Flurry Heart's surprise visit and calls her "my favorite niece", Heart points out she's her only niece.
  • Right as Flash assures Shining Armor and Cadance they can all handle looking after Flurry, Springer points out that Heart, Soul, Ace, and Mira already ran away, not wanting to take care of her. Flash yells out to all of them, calling them cowards.
  • When Flash and Springer are collecting everything Twilight needs for her trip to the hospital, when they stop at Sugarcube Corner for snacks they hear that they just missed Heart and Soul, who apparently jumped out the window when they saw him coming. Yes they are that desperate to avoid babysitting Flurry Heart.
  • When Flash and Springer see the mess Flurry made with her mashed peas, they briefly consider cleaning it up, but decide to leave it to the kids when they finally show back up. As the two of them are grinning at each other over this idea, Flurry looks between them and giggles before doing it herself.
  • Flash and Springer need to go through The Diaper Change with Flurry Heart. They act completely dramatic during it, like they are disposing life-threatening waste. As soon as they finish changing her through, she makes a mess of her new diaper and they go through it again, twelve diapers in a row.
  • Flash and Springer freaking out when they realize Flurry escaped outside, before quickly catching her.
• The Failure Montage of Flicker trying to find a job in Ponyville during his Self-Imposed Exile.
  • He messes up baking with Pinkie Pie by setting the oven too high, turning the knob on the oven all the way instead of just the temperature he was told.
  • He can't control weather with Rainbow Dash because he can't touch clouds, and his attempts to use his fire-breath on them creates an unexpected rainstorm for the town.
  • When trying to help on Applejack's farm, the critters are all scared of him due to his appearance.
• After Iron Core fires Hard Hat for trying to go against Fluttershy's wishes for her animal sanctuary, he decides to try to build it himself instead of telling Fluttershy what happened and risk ruining her confidence. It does not go well for him.
• A flashback during "The Princess's Apprentice" has a young Flash confess to Twilight that he didn't take lessons on how to swim at the community pool because they were going to put him in the beginners class with five year-olds. He says he can't be around them because "they can be so cruel when they sense weakness". Later, when Flash is struggling to stay afloat when he falls in the water, he laments "Those five year-olds were right! Cruel, but right!"
• Rogue admits that due to his lack of social skills he doesn't know much about romance either, so when watching Big Mac try to ask out Sugar Belle he starts taking notes. Then comes the part where Feather Bangs knocks Big Mac aside to flirt with Sugar Belle himself.
  Rogue: So you knock on the door, smile at the mare, and then get body checked to the ground by somepony else. Wonder who I can get to do that for me? (Sweetie Belle grabs his notepad in her magic and rips it up) Hey!
  Sweetie Belle: That's not what's supposed to happen!
• Rogue is shocked when he hears how the CMC once used a love potion on Big Mac and Cheerilee. When he later tries to think of a way to help Big Mac get with Sugar Belle, he asks how the Mane 5 each got into relationships of their own and is continually shocked by the crazy and weird stories that led to them all dating to the point where he calls Rainbow and Soarin the most normal of them all.
• Several moments in "Dog Stray Afternnon":
  • The kids meet a puppy and try to think of a name for it, but they all have a different one in mind. Most of them are basic pet names like Speedy, Scoop, and Bouncy, others include Dog and Schnoodles. Even the dog itself doesn't particularly like the last two suggestions.
  • The kids continually try to hide the dog from everyone else, out of fear they will take it away. This leads to some funny ways of covering up their activities, even saying Ace has been making an odd "Woof" sound lately to cover up the dog's barking.
  • After Twilight and Flash discover the dog, they point out something none of the kids realized, that the dog already has an owner due to it wearing a bandana, since dogs can't dress themselves. Lifting up the bandana reveals a collar with the address of its owner. Some of the kids Facepalm at not doing this sooner.
  • Flash goes with the kids when they return the dog to its owner, many of the villagers that pass them all greet Flash casually, to the confusion of him and the kids since he has never seen any of them before. It is explained when they return the dog that they were actually addressing him, and it is revealed its name is actually "Flash"! Its owner, Karst, is a fan of Flash's and named his pet after him.
• Flash ends up with his own critics during "Fame and Misfortune", who demand answers about his Sacred Light, only to tell him the story sounds made up and that he and the other Royal Knights and Defenders feels out of place with the Mane Six.
• Fire Heart, Shining Soul, Ace, and Mira are absent for most of "Fame and Misfortune" after the Mane Six decide to publish the journal. They return in the final scene, having to fight their way through the horde of critics and fans to get in the castle, and then asks what is going on to everyone.
• After Spike just complained about how he would probably never get called by the map due to lacking a Cutie Mark, the very next chapter adapts "Triple Threat", and Spike getting a call from the map while dealing with Ember and Thorax.
  Flash: You did say you wanted a quest.
  Spike: BUT NOT RIGHT NOW!
  • When Spike explains he was called by the map to Heart and Soul later, begging if they have a problem for him to solve, Heart becomes disappointed that he is now the only one who hasn't been picked.
• When Ember and Thorax are properly introduced, Thorax asks if Ember is Spike's sister, to her shock.
• Flash seems oddly excited to see Ember and Thorax confront Spike several times, even voicing that he wishes he had popcorn if they try to kill Spike.
• A few moments from "It Isn't the Mane Thing About You":
  • Flash, Iron, Lightning, Soarin, Wild, Mac, Springer, and Rogue have a group meeting to decide how to spend Mare's Day with their girlfirends. Most of them are stressed out while making their plans, except for Springer and Rogue, who are not in a relationship and enjoy poking fun at the others. Iron argues Springer wouldn't say that if he had a girlfirend himself, but when Springer says that isn't gonna happen Iron snarks that it "serves him right" then.
  • When Lightning brags to everyone how Rarity is going to be featured in the Best Manes in Equestria article of Vanity Mare, Flash asks if that is a good thing after what happened the last time Rarity was in a piece of publication, referencing the infamous Friendship Journal incident. This causes everyone to shudder in horror at the memory. Flash also points out that hundreds of other ponies are probbaly going to be leering at Rarity afterwards, since mares aren't the only ones that read the magazine.
  • Before Rarity leaves to go to Zecora's and get some shampoo, she gives Lightning a quick goodbye kiss on the cheek, only for her to get stuck to him due to the sticky string in her mane. The two share a quick laugh over it before Lightning teleports a few feet away to free them.
  • Wild Smile ends up being just as clueless as Pinkie Pie over the mix-up, thinking the shampoo isn't removing the sticky string because "it isn't very good" instead of figuring out it is shampoo.
  • Lightning's reaction to seeing Rarity's punk fashion look. When she asks him what he thinks, he is only able to stare on in shock with his mouth hanging open. Flash even tells him he is drooling, with Lightning quickly wiping it away.
• In "An Eye for an Eyepatch", Iron is called by the map on a friendship mission. The opening lines of the chapter really sell how surprising this is for Iron.
  Iron had done a lot of crazy things in his life. He'd fought in a city wide brawl, captured many heinous criminals, and had endured more wacky shenanigans then most ponies could dream of. (Mainly from crusaders, but that was despite the point.) But he never, ever, ever thought he would one day be taking orders from a table.
• After Sweetie Belle and Grand Hoof give Lightning Blitz his birthday gifts from them, Rarity tells him she has her own "special present" for him and plans to give it to him later. Lightning raises an eyebrow at this before getting an idea what she means and smirking.
  Rarity: Now eat your breakfast before it gets cold.
  Lightning: Yes ma'am.
• The Noodle Incident from "Once Upon A Zepplin" where Twilight mentions Shining Armor getting airsick on Admiral Fairweather's Wild Ride is given a bit more detail, with Flash remembering the event and how Shining Armor ended up getting sick on him when they were on the same cart, and saying he is keeping his distance from Shining if he gets sick again.
• When everyone is discussing how the princesses aren't perfect and have their own problems like everyone else, Flash says how Twilight feels the need to please everyone and neglect herself, Luna once turned evil because she was upset, Celestia is a bit of a glutton, but can't think of something for Cadance. Shining Armor steps in, simply saying she snores.
• In a Black Comedy way, when Iron Will parachutes away, Flash aims his sword at him and announces he has a shot at him, ready to shoot him down. Twilight quickly swips it away from him before he can do so.
• The flashback in "Web of Memories" has Luna first meeting Sharp Paw early on, and she makes a deal with him where she will train him for the next three months to help him defeat Strong Strike and take his rightful place as chief of the jakhowls. The two shake on it, and it seems like the start of a beautiful friendship. Then the very next scene cuts to Sharp running for his life from Luna as she chases him down with a long blade. That was just the start of his Training from Hell.
• Flash lampshades how Starswirl was very unoriginal with how he defeated every evil threat. He always seals them away or banishes them somewhere else where they eventually end up becoming a problem for someone else.
• When Pinkie recaps every villain they have defeated to Starswirl like in canon, Wild Smile assists her by pulling out a graph-board that has the pictures of each villain as Pinkie lists them. Also, when Starswirl is skeptical of their claims, Flash says they have arguably done even better than the Pillars, since so far only one of their former villains has returned to cause more problems, before quickly assuring Starlight he was referring to Chrysalis rather than her.
• When Flash is calling out Starswirl on his rude beahavior towards Twilight he also calls him out on his tendency to just seal away or banish his foes, which instead of defeating them just made them probelms for someone else to deal with later. When he explains what happeend with Malafear, he says all he did was "put the book holding his soul behind a pretty picture", which was just begging for trouble. Flash's suggestion that he should have put up a warning sign reading "Evil book behind this wall. Stay fifty feet away at all times" gets everyone else in the room to laugh, with even Twilight and the Pillars snickering at Starswirl.
• After the Pillars explain Stygian's origins and their connections to him, Flash asks them if Stygian actually said he stole their artifacts to steal their powers for himself, or if they just assumed that was what he was doing. Springer, Ace, and Mira agree with Flash that it is better to know everything instead of jumping to conclusions, leading to a bit of Brutal Honesty from the kids.
  Springer: I'm with Flash. I've assumed things about others before without asking for a good reason. Blaming somepony without hearing their side of the story sounds kind of...
  Mira: Ignorant.
  Ace: Self-indulgent.
  Both: Stupid.

Flash Sentry's EQG Chronicles

• Principal Cadance is shown to be just as big of a Shipper on Deck for her versions of Flash and Twilight as her pony counterpart is for her versions. When she learns they are having their first official date she literally drags Sci-Twi out of bed to spend the whole day helping her get ready and spruced up.
  Cadance: Twilight... do you remember what I told you after you and Flash admitted you were now dating?
  Sci-Twi: You lectured me for one hour, twenty-two minutes and fourteen seconds about how I take things too logically and have no idea about romance or love.
  Cadance: Yes. And I am a love guru. That's why we're having a beautification day. That's one thing that you can't logic yourself out of. Time to teach you romance 101.
• When Flash sees Sci-Twi spruced up for their date, time seems to slow down for him as he stares at her, blushing at her beauty, only to suddenly return to normal when she trips and falls face-first due to the high-heels Cadance forced her to wear. When Iron Core is driving the two and them and Fluttershy to the pier, Sci-Twi reveals that she secretly snuck a pair of trainers into her backpack to replace her high-heels once they were away from Cadance.
• When Flash assures Sci-Twi that he'd never lie to her, she glares at him briefly before he admits he did once about the Spike sugar incident but nothing else.
• When The Rainbooms have their carwash at the start of "Dance Magic", Flash remembers how several dirty cars showed up, only to drive away after realizing the girls were all wearing their normal clothes. Apparently, they were expecting some Fanservice.
• When Flash and Sci-Twi take Spike to the park before eventually meeting up with the others to hear Rarity's idea, Spike ends up chasing a squirrel up a tree and asks Sci-Twi to use her magic to list him up so he can catch him. After she refuses, Flash looks up and swears he can see the squirrel Blowing a Raspberry at Spike.
  Sci-Twi: You really need to get over this squirrel grudge you have.
  Spike: Never!
• Flash briefly admires a muscle car they see in the parking lot, and briefly imagines the type of sports car he wants to own one day. Though he knows he could only afford it by winning the lottery and donating his kidney.
• There is a small Running Gag where when someone addresses The Rainboom as "Ladies" or "Girls", Flash gives a brief cough and then they add "and Flash" or "and guy".
• When Flash calls Sci-Twi and sees her dressed as Masked Matterhorn, he asks if she can show him the full costume, with her using her magic to levitate her phone back to show him. He takes a quick photo of her like that, much to her annoyance. She keeps telling him to delete it and later steals his phone to do it herself, not knowing he already backed it up to his computer.
• Flash offers to come to Equestria with Sunset, saying he didn't get a good look at the place when he was "hurtling to [his] almost certain doom last time". Sunset just rolls her eyes at this while Sci-Twi blushes at the memory.
• In "Mirror Magic", Fire Heart and Shining Soul join Starlight in coming back to the Human World with Sunset. Heart is initially excited, until he realizes that he has lost his wings as a human and immediately says the Human World sucks. Starlight tries to bonk him for his language, only to almost lose her balance.
• It seems that Human Flash is a Chick Magnet just like his pony counterpart. After Juniper Montage accidentally zaps the Rainbooms with her magic mirror, and Flash with them, Juniper describes Flash as their "rather cute friend".
• In "Overpowered", Flash's magic goes out of control like the girls and it causes him to destroy the coffee maker at home. At the end of the chapter when Flash and Sci-Twi get home, Velvet demands an explanation from Flash.
• In "Room to Grow", Flash's hair is ruined by the living plants, with one sucking on his hair and leaving it covered in slime. Lucky for him though, Rarity manages to fix it by giving him a new style.
• Flash points out to Trixie how counterproductive it is trying to pull the door open while having her foot on it. This causes Trixie to blush in embarrassment.
• In "Unsolved Selfie Mystery", Iron Core volunteers to go with Fluttershy to look for the supposed sea monster. When they get back they are both covered in seaweed and briefly mistaken for sea monsters, giving Flash a hilarious line when he and the others see Iron take the seaweed off.
  Flash: Wait! That's not a sea monster! It's just a regular monster that went for a dip.
  Iron: (grumbling) Funny.
• When Rainbow Dash gives her Suspiciously Specific Denial of not being afraid of a roller coaster and having already ridden it nine times, she ends up getting dragged onto the ride again by Heather and First so she can "tell them where the best place to sit is".
• Applejack tries explaining her jealousy and suspicion of Vignette to Iron, only to discover he fell asleep as soon as she started talking.
• Iron is very unamused to some of the more comedic antics around the park, like warning Pinkie if she tries to put a homemade fun inspector badge on him he'll throw her in the trash, and wondering if the security guard he and Applejack run into actually escaped from the old folks home.
• When Flash is zapped by Vignette's phone and transported to the white room where Fluttershy, Rainbow, and the salad are, he complains about how this is the third time this has happened to him.
• In "Soccer Showdown", Rainbow and Soarin make a bet with each other to see who between them can make the most goals in their soccer game, and the loser needs to take the winner to a restaurant of their choice and pay for their meal. Even though Soarin and the Wonderbolts win the game in a landslide, Rainbow wins the bet due to scoring one goal for her team while Soarin scored none. However, when Rainbow tells her friends about the bet, Rarity points out that this essentially means Rainbow and Soarin are going on a date together. Rainbow's panicked reaction to this and insisting that she "doesn't do dates" shows she Didn't Think This Through. Also, remembering that Soarin was the one who proposed the bet to her may imply he set it up just to score a date with Rainbow regardless of the outcome.

Flash Sentry Chronicles: The Movie

• The Royal Knights, their two squires, Springer, and Lightning Blitz all sit around in the training area waiting for Solid Script. Fire Heart expresses his annoyance at being kept waiting so long, with Ruby Scarlet saying patience is a virtue every Royal Knight must master. Less than a minute later though, Ruby cracks from waiting so long too and agrees she wishes Script would hurry up too.
• When everyone is discussing their previous encounters with the Trials, Flash mentions that Flurry Heart was the only one that was able to damage a Trial in one hit, remembering how she destroyed Trial-T's power source in a single blast. Cold however just points out this means they were outshined by a foal, especially in Flash's case since he fought all of them.
• When Flash tests out the crystals that Solid Script made, that would let the Royal Knights share their magic with each other, he ends up creating a giant tower of smoke that can be seen from the festival going on. When Twilight and her friends see it, they all just roll their eyes, knowing Flash did something overkill.
• Flash and Springer realize that they and the others missed out on the "We Got This Together" musical number, but says he's fine with that since he wasn't in the mood to sing. If only he knew that he was going to go through a lot of musicals. Also, Flash checks with Derpy and confirms that the musical was basically a way to calm down Twilight when she was stressed.
• Flash stops Fire Heart from drinking cactus juice, claiming he doesn't want to listen to Heart singing about how "quenching" it is.
• When everyone dresses as pirates during the "Time To Be Awesome" song, Fire Heart wears an eye-patch over both of his eyes thinking it will make him look extra cool, only to end up walking right into a wall.
• When Rarity goes full Drama Queen and collapses, complaining she can't walk anymore, Springer walks up from behind her and asks if she's finished. Rarity gives him a Puppy-Dog Eyes look, only for him to immediately tell her he's not carrying her.
• Silverstream's first appearance in Seaquestria has her asking Fire Heart and Shining Soul multiple questions about what the surface is like in quick succession.
  Silverstream: What's a cloud look like? What does it feel like when the wind blows? Are there really creature out there that walk on two legs? How long does it take to learn how to fly? I heard there are these things called stairs. How do you play hideo fames with hooves? What's it like when it rains?
• Thorax goes red with embarrassment after he tells Spike and Ember that Hiveena is looking after the eggs back home, and the two of them congratulate him over it.
• While Heart is being bandaged up by First and Heather, they warn him that he needs to be careful and not use his powers for awhile, or else the wounds he suffered against Void might never fully heal. Heart just boasts he is fine with that since all the best heroes have cool scars to show off, only to moan in pain when Heather tightened his bandage.
• Everyone gives Discord death glares when he returns from his vacation in the middle of the party.
  Discord: Did I miss something? Like a full movie or something?
• After Tempest Shadow reveals her real name is "Fizzlepop Berrytwist", Flash constantly corrects Twilight every time she calls her "Tempest" by interrupting her her with a simple "Fizzlepop", much to Twilight's annoyance.

Flash Sentry Chronicles: School's in Session

• Ace is pretty disappointed that he and Mira need to attend class at the School of Friendship too.
• When everyone is getting settled into their dorms, Twilight finds Yona stuck in the door to her own dorm. Twilight teleports Yona inside and uses her magic to enlarge the door so she won't get stuck again.
• During Flash's first class when he makes the first exercise for the students:
  • He creates two houses that burst into flames, which freak out Yona. One of the students reminds her it isn't real and thus can't hurt her, and tries to demonstrate by putting his hoof into the flames, but when he pulls it back he sees that everything up to his knee is gone. Before he can start panicking about this though, Flash presses the crystal in the room and the student's hoof repapers, with Flash explaining that in this exercise, although the flames aren't real if they touch anyone then that part of them will disappear until the end of the exercise.
  • When Yona accidentally trips over her braids during the exercise, she ends up slamming into the burning building and the flames consume her. When she smashes out through the back, her entire body has disappeared except for her head.
• Flash trying to hide his actual class exercises from Twilight when she inspects his class, creating a hologram of a regular classroom and some for the students that are currently participating in an exercise.
• Ace and Mira become embarrassed when the other students mistake Springer as their father, and by extension the two of them as brother and sister.
  Gallus: So...what does your dad do around here?
  Mira & Ace: (while wide-eyed) He's not our dad! (point to each other) You think I'm related to him/her?!
• After Twilight fires Flash from the school she tries to think of someone new to teach the class on courage.
  Twilight: Maybe Springer would be willing to do it. Or Grand...Iron...Lightning...Derpy?
  Starlight: You'll probably run into the same problem. They're all gonna agree with Flash about how the lessons should go. And really...Derpy?
• In what can only be described as a massive Take That! to a certain infamous politician's ideas, when Heart remarks that Neighsay's racism makes it sound like he wants to build a wall around Equestria to keep other creatures out, Neighsay himself remarks that's "not a bad idea".
• When Twilight apologizes to Flash for firing him and asks if he will be willing to teach the class on courage at the school again, Flash teases her for a bit by pretending to not be sure, saying he heard "she wasn't nice to the last teacher of the subject", before they both break out into laughter together.

Flash Sentry, Defender of the Peace S 8

• One of Flash's classes involves partnering up and one partner needing to help the other walk through an invisible maze and touching the walls gets you zapped. Heart ends up needing to go through the maze first, but unfortunately for him his partner is Ace, who gets lost going through town all the time. This results in Heart constantly getting zapped due to Ace's bad directions and eventually emerging from the maze covered in bruises.
• When Flash Sentry finds Flash Magnus after the latter lost to Electra, Magnus explains that she mentioned something about "conducting" and wonders what an orchestra has to do with any of this, not understanding how water conducts electricity. Even Flash can't help but briefly chuckle a bit at his ancestor over it.
• Wild Smile has a lot of moments throughout "The Maud Couple":
  • When he learns from Maud that she has a boyfriend, after his initial Big "WHAT?!" reaction, he says that there was a betting pool going around where others guessed on how Maud would reproduce, and it sounds like Flash just won the pot. Wild himself guessed Maud would sculpt a pony out of clay and use a spell or something to turn it into a real pony.
    Maud: Well that's just ridiculous. Clay is far too brittle a material. If I was gonna do that, I would use something stronger, like diabase.
  • Wild helps Maud explain to Pinkie that she has a boyfriend, by quickly jumping her in a mini-tornado, and revealing he somehow locked her in a straight-jacket, put her in a large sack trolley, and taped her mouth shut. Maud actually compliments him on it and he says he picked it up from dating Pinkie. Of course, Pinkie gets so excited from hearing Maud has a boyfriend that she easily breaks out of it all.
  • Wild is a little confused himself seeing Mudbriar has a stick for a pet, but notes having a rock and stick as pets isn't any weirder as someone having puppets for friends like him.
    Puppets: Friends, friends, friends.
    Wild: Don't patronize me.
  • Wild constantly remarks throughout the chapter how strange it feels that ever since he started dating Pinkie, he has became The Straight Man in the relationship, even asking himself at one point if he can be the "insane" one for once.
• When Soarin goes to Flash and his friends in Ponyville to tell them he plans to ask Rainbow to marry him:
  • After Soarin makes this announcement, Rarity lets out a loud squeal that echoes through the whole castle and causes everyone else to cover their ears.
  • When Soarin is asking for advice on how to propose, Lightning asks Grand if he could tell how he proposed to Live Wire. Grand recalls he proposed to her in the middle of a fight with some enemies, and looks back on it as a romantic memory and the best decision of his life. He is a bit disappointed when the others don't share the same sentiment, and Soarin decides to avoid any danger when proposing to Rainbow, despite Grand insisting she will probably like it.
  • Rarity says she can't believe Rainbow is the first member of the group that is going to end up married, and then every mare that's in a relationship in the group turns to their significant other, who all avoid their gaze by looking at either the floor or ceiling.
• When Soarin shows Rainbow and her parents to his parents' condo in Las Pegasus, they arrive at a fence around it and Soarin starts looking for the code in his bag. When Bow asks if they can just fly over it, Soarin wordlessly picks up a pebble and tosses it over the gate, only for it to get zapped by an electric barrier.
  Bow Hothoof: Nevermind.
• While Rainbow and Soarin are watching the rainbow fountain display together, Rainbow comments on what Rarity would probably say if she was there to see it, restyling her mane to look like Rarity's and mimicking her quickly. Soarin thinks it is funny himself and laughs.
• After Rainbow says yes to Soarin's proposal and the two begin making out with each other, they are interrupted by their parents cheering happily for them, while the four of them are dressed in hats and scarves designed around the pair.
• When Fire Heart learns the CMC have been called by the map on a friendship mission, he is still upset that he hasn't been called yet, saying he is now the only one who lives in the castle that hasn't been called yet. Flash also points out Springer and the jakhowl cubs haven't been called yet either, and briefly wonders to himself what part of their bodies would glow if they were chosen, like maybe the spikes on their paws.
• "Plan Bee":
  • All of the students in Fluttershy's class Freak Out when they see a bee while gardening. Gallus points out though there is no reason for Smolder to be scared too, since her scales will protect her from any bee stings.
  • When the students are voicing their disgust for bees, Smolder asks why they should care about any "disgusting bugs", with Ocellus glaring at her in response.
    Smolder: Not you. The tiny ones that look gross.
  • When Rainbow tells her friends that so far her married life with Soarin is going well, Pinkie asks if she and Soarin plan to have any kids, and a blushing Rainbow explains they are holding off on that for now, with Pinkie's mane deflating in disappointment. You can just tell she wants to be an honorary aunt to more foals and throw even more parties for them.
  • When Silverstream sees Fire Heart practicing to use a chain mace, she asks if she can try. Instead of pulling off all the impressive moves she just saw Heart doing though, all she manages to do is get herself wrapped up in the rope.
  • The Running Gag in the chapter that every time the Student Six do the exercise, Sandbar ends up stepping in a steaming pile of cowpat. The first three times he ends up stepping in the exact same one, finally avoiding it on the fourth, only to accidentally step into a different one when he and the others are celebrating their success. He should just be happy it was a simulation and not a real one.
• "The Break Up Breakdown":
  • In the opening scene when Twilight is discussing the magic of love to her class, Heart and Ace are goofing off in the back making gagging noises, until Twilight's magic yanks them by the ears and mutes their voices, which goes unnoticed by the other students. After class, Twilight confronts the two of them, briefly forgetting to give them their voices back first, and punishes them by extending their essay word count to seven hundred words instead of five hundred like the rest of the class. When they complain about this she threatens to extend it to a thousand words, causing the two of them to zip out of the classroom.
  • The Student Six briefly discuss how their own cultures demonstrate love, with Ocellus making up a fake story of female changeling laying eggs in their mate's stomach and bursting out of his stomach when they hatch, and Yona says Yaks show affection by charging at who they like and knocking them down as a sign of affection, charging at Sandbar as she explains and stopping just short of slamming into him. Ace and Mira also comment that Springer probably doesn't know how jakhowls express love, or he'd have told them by now.
  • When Heart observes Flash and Twilight to see what they are doing for Hearts and Hooves Day, he sees they are babysitting Flurry Heart for her parents, and as soon as he sees Cadance give them a box of diapers he rushes out of the castle as fast as he can.
  • Heart is accidentally knocked out of the sky by Rainbow and Soarin and crashes into a tree. He briefly has Circling Birdies around his head, until it is revealed the birds are real and are mad at him for crashing into their nest, and start pecking at his head. When Rainbow and Soarin fly off after checking on Heart they accidentally knock him back into the tree and he gets pecked by one of the birds again.
• When Heart and Jaden begin their test together, Heart claims that Flash gives him plenty of good advice, depending on the situation.
  Jaden: What do you mean?
  Heart: Well, Flash would say stuff like: Remember Heart, anything that is glowing dark red is evil. Never trust dark red glowy stuff. Or something like: Heart, Ace is not a vacuum cleaner. Don't just give him any food you don't want. Or sometimes he says: Remember Heart, if you ever get caught up in one of Twilight's dimension altering spells she does once every two months, make sure it sends you to dimension J7-36. It's filled with three-headed rabid weasel creatures that are weak to fire. You'll be fine there until we can find you.
• When Heart and Jaden are discovered by several doctors after finding themselves in a hospital of some kind on their journey, what starts out as a seemingly dangerous and scary situation quickly changes to a hilarious moment.
  • They are teleported into a dark room, and all they see is an electric screen with glowing red letters saying "NOW YOU DIE", which naturally freaks them both out. Then a loud booming voice speaks to them, saying they are trespassing and must be punished. Things quickly change when First Aid comes in and turns on the lights, revealing they are in a cafeteria and the "booming voice" belongs to unicorn filly their age named Raisins who was speaking into a coffee cup and just trolling them. First also sees the sign and hits the wall, causing it to shake and reveal a few more letters, with the message now reading "KNOW YOUR DIET FACTS". First growling "Stupid sign!" also implies this is a common problem.
  • The coffee mug Raisins was using also belongs to First Aid, and after he makes her give it back to him he shows it to the boys, showing it has "World's Sexiest Chief of Staff and Vice Chancellor of Medical Administration" written on it and proudly saying he bought it at a train station.
    First: What are the odds?
• There are a few moments throughout "Molt Down":
  • Lightning Blitz joins Rarity and Spike when they travel to the Dragon Lands. When Spike shows the two of them his stone scale, Lightning offers to pop it for him and takes out one of his knives. Spike quickly declines.
  • When Twilight bitterly remarks that Princess Celestia has probably never had a blemish in her life there is a brief cutaway scene showing that Celestia actually does have a big red spot on her cheek and attempts to hide it using magic, potions, and makeup.
    Celestia: Tirek better not be planning a comeback this week.
  • Springer ends up as a bit of a Butt-Monkey due to Spike's molt. His tail ends up accidentally getting burned by Spike's fire burps, with him lamenting the one time he gets burnt happens to be while Fire Heart is gone. He later can't get the horrible smell from Spike out of his nose when he gets a sniff of it, and has a strangely specific description of it.
    Springer: It's as if dead fish and a dumpster had a baby, and the baby puked, and a dog ate the puke and it smells like the rear end of that dog.
  • Mira and Cozy both say that Rarity, due to her deafness from the phoenix feathers, had to shout everything she said during her class.
• "The Truth Shall Set You Flea" is basically one huge moment in itself.
  • Seeing the Mane 7, the Defenders, and Starlight struggle with trying to hide they have fleas before they all break in front of each other, and then attempting to remove them through extreme means while under quarantine like trying to freeze them and blow them off. They eventually suffer such Sanity Slippage that they try to beat the fleas off each other (while apologizing for hitting each other).
  • Remember when Twilight suggested Derpy be a new teacher for teaching the class on Courage at the school? Well, Derpy ends up being one of the substitutes hired while everyone is under quarantine.
  • Soul and Cozy are seen playing chess in the library, but Cozy acts like she doesn't know the rules or the names of the pieces. When Soul points out she has one of the pieces right on her flank, referring to her cutie mark being a Rook, Cozy claims she doesn't know why it looks like that or even remember when she got it. It is pretty obvious she is just screwing with Soul the whole time, and shortly after the two of them talk to Heart, Cozy checkmates Soul.
  • Big Score and his two goons think that stealing the artifact from the school will be easy with the most powerful ponies in Ponyville out of commission. Their simple plan hits a snag due to the runes security system, some bad luck in each of their attempts to snatch it, and their stupidity in general.
  • Doubling as an awesome moment, after everyone get the Super Fleas off them, they reprogram them and set them lose on Big Score, Rickashay, and Boulder as a bit of Laser-Guided Karma.
• When Twilight is giving the Student Six the assignment to spend the day with one of Defenders (with the addition of Skybreaker), she asks who wants to be paired with Springer. All of them raise their hands wanting to be paired with him (except Smolder, who already called dibs on Flash), so Twilight says they will decide by drawing straws. As soon as she turns around with the straws though, she sees the students have all drawn pictures of straws on pieces of paper and are holding them up to her. Twilight says that isn't what she meant, but is impressed by Silverstream's picture since her "use of light and shadow is impeccable" and declares she can have Springer.
• After each of the students are assigned a Defender for the day, Twilight warns them all they had better make sure none of the students get hurt on their watch, complete with a dark aura surrounding her and leaving the six of them quivering before her.
• When Chrysalis is taking pictures of the Mane 7, before she takes one of Flash he makes a Call-Back to Camera Trap and his master, asking if she's a fake pony that was created by a spider monster to suck others into photos. When she just looks at him in wide-eyed confusion he says it happens more often than you'd expect.
• The final scene of "The Mean Seven" has everyone discover the remains of the six destroyed clones in the cave the Tree of Harmony's in. They notice the odd colors they all are and Applejack says she could probably whittle a version of themselves from the wood. After a Beat of silence though, everyone decided "NAH!" and toss the logs into their campfire, bringing the chapter to an end in a darkly comedic way.
• Even when Grubber shows to be a lot more successful now and helps Flash, Tempest, and the others, he just can't seem to escape his Butt-Monkey status. When he offers them to use one of his emergency exits in his office, Tempest grabs him and throws him down a tube before everyone else jumps in. This leads to him hitting his head against the pavement on his way out, and everyone else landing on top of him as they exit.
• Serving as a Shout-Out to The Road to El Dorado, Flash has a Failed Attempt at Drama, pointing dramatically to the West while declaring "The trail... that we blaze!" before Starswirl checks the map and says they need to head North first, with Flash quickly pointing in the correct direction and repeating the line.
• When Flash, Spike, Tempest, and Starswirl meet up with Celaeno's crew, Flash and Spike eventually dress up like pirates themselves while on the journey, similar to The Movie. But Starswirl and Tempest also somehow got roped into dressing up too, and are pretty embarrassed by it.
• Jaden joining Ruby and Sombra on their mission to find the last piece of Amore's statue has a few moments:
  • Jaden insists he can help and pulls out a crossbow he packed, claiming he is armed with twenty bolts. As soon as he says this the crossbow fires and one bolt shoots down the mountain. He immediately amends this to "nineteen bolts". Ruby groans he's been hanging out with Heart too long.
  • When they all stop to eat some of their rations, Jaden pulls out a chocolate bar, and ignores Sombra when he says he doesn't want to try eating that. When Jaden bites down on it, his teeth almost break due to it being as hard as metal, and he finds his water bottle is frozen solid and as heavy as a brick. As Sombra explains, that's what happens when your bag isn't properly insulated.
  • When they return from their mission and everyone notices Jaden with them, Flash comments he's glad he's not the only one with an apprentice that sneaks into situations he shouldn't be part of.
• The beginning of "The Quest of Redemption - Part 2" has everyone left in the Empire bored as they wait for Ruby and Sombra (and Jaden) to return. While most of them pass the time doing things like playing chess, sketching, lazing around, or pacing, Pinkie constantly hits Springer on the head with a rubber mallet she pulled out of nowhere.
  Flash: Let me guess. You're all bored.
  Pinkie: I need to be entertained or my brain turns to oatmeal. The bland kind. Not the kind with sprinkles and whipped cream. Now I'm bored and hungry.
  Springer: I was okay before all the head trauma. (goes cross-eyed) Does anypony else hear bells ringing?
• Ruby, Sombra and Jaden have Squick reactions when an Earth Golem uses Amore's last piece as a back-scratcher, with each of them trying not to throw up. Ruby comments they won't tell Amore about this.
• Pinkie has her class play different instruments in her class to try to get them to play in harmony. But since she didn't check if any of them could actually play an instrument, it results in everyone being Dreadful Musicians. Considering what Pinkie put everyone through briefly with her yovidaphone in "Yakity-Sax", there is some serious irony there.
• Applejack briefly leaves Heart alone with Autumn Blaze while she goes back to the village.
  Fire Heart: So uh...what do you usually do for fun around here?
  Autumn Blaze: Oh, I do plenty of things. Forage for food, sing, talk to my friends. (points over to the face covered fruits, with Heart grimacing)
  Fire Heart: I need an adult.
  Autumn Blaze: I am an adult.
• There are a few surprisingly humorous moments from the many villains in "The Misadventures of Springer 4: The Final Trick":
  • Many of the villains released by Shade in the prison riot get focus and one or two fight scenes. However, Storm Blade only appears very briefly for one scene. Having clearly undergone Sanity Slippage while imprisoned, he yells at Flash and Springer demanding to know where "his" blade is and charges at them. Ruby quickly constructs a wall of crystals between them, leading to Storm ramming head first into it with a loud clang, knocking himself out.
  • When it seems like Doom Raizer and Toxic Fang have Flash dead to rights, Lightning Blitz shows up to save Flash in a Big Damn Heroes moment. He gives his dad the choice to either let him blast him now, or release Flash and let him beat him up instead. Doom just stares at Lightning's glowing horn and has one thing to say before the scene cuts off.
    Doom Raizer: Aw, son of a-
  • Throughout Springer and Shade's fight, Springer repeatedly tells Shade he can't win. Once it is revealed that Springer has found a way to use his aura to heal himself instead of using it to fight, which is something Shade can't prevent.
    Shade: You filthy furball... Are you saying I can't win this?!
    (Springer just blinks at him, resisting the urge to facepalm)
    Springer: Yes. Yes, I am. Along with the last like...twenty times I said it.
• Flash questions Faust why she didn't realize what Cozy Glow was doing until it started to affect her, saying he bought she was "all seeing". Faust responds "No, that's Santa Claus", with Flash being confused since he has no idea who that is.

Flash Sentry Chronicles: Jakhowls Rising

• Springer tries to find Flash, needing to remind him he promised to take over Springer's patrol. He eventually finds him in the shower, and discovers Twilight is in there with him. She claims they are "conserving water", but it is pretty obvious they are having a Shower of Love. As they both try to shoo Springer away, he finally relents, but flushes the toilet before leaving, hearing their screaming as he runs out.
• While Ace, Soul, and the pups are playing hopscotch with a few other Jakhowl pups, it is discussed how the Jakhowls of Aurarora don't have access to a lot of games played across Equestria, and Spike asks what they normally play for fun. Mirage says they do lots of things explaining "We play tag, we go swimming... Um... did I say we play tag?"
• During the climactic battle against Razor Fang, it is revealed that not only did he not believe any of Springer's memories that were seen in the Aura-Scape, he outright ignored it all! As a result, he is blindsided when Flash activates his Shining Guardian form, believing no pony could possibly match his power, is surprised when Springer demonstrates his own ability to create an Aura Avatar, and when he is compared to Shade by Ace and Mira, calling them both bullies, he asks who Shade is.

Flash Sentry Chronicles: Evil's Rising

• When Celestia and Luna announce their retirement and how Twilight will rule with the help of her friends, Flash asks if that will conflict with his duties as a Royal Knights, since he is supposed to be subservient to the ruler, rather than rule himself. Celestia says he will be an advisor to Twilight, similar to how Grand Hoof and Skybreaker were to her and nothing about his station will change, before giving a cheeky smile and adding one more thing.
  Celestia: Except the fact you'll be sharing a bed with the most powerful figure in Equestria.
• When Twilight finds out her friends made the verb "Twilight-ing", Flash says he wanted to go with "going Twily-nanas", but was outvoted.
• When Shroudheart tells the other villains he was trapped outside of time and saw multiple other universes and timelines, he at one point says he saw one version of Equestria that's completely different from their own, shuddering at the memory on how some song is still stuck in his head and commenting he'll never rollerblade again. This is a clear Take That! at earlier MLP generations.
• After Shroudheart leaves to put his own plan in motion, Tirek states he doesn't care what he has planned and just can't wait to see Twilight and her friends blast him back out of time, chuckling and saying it's fun when it isn't happening to him. Chrysalis laughs along with him in agreement.
• When Starlight reveals she uses the phrase "Twilight-ing" too, she says she actually heard someone planned to add it to the dictionary.
• When Flash informs the others Defenders of Celestia and Luna planning to retire and how Twilight will take the throne, there is a small discussion with similar criticisms to what a few fans gave, such as how it seems a bit short-sighted for the princesses to want Twilight to take over so soon, and Iron stating he understands why Celestia wants to retire since she has been ruling for over a millennia, but Luna has only been back for a few years herself after returning from her banishment.

Flash Sentry: Defender of the Peace S 9

• When Ace and Mira wake up from their Shared Dream with the Student Six after receiving a message from the Tree of Harmony, Springer walks in looking half-asleep asking why they are up so early. When they say how they need to use the Rune Gate to get to Ponyville right away Springer yawns while saying it is too early for this. He really is acting more and more like a dad to the two of them.
• Ace and Mira try to honor the tree by becoming new "wisdom givers" to take its place, but the problem is they aren't very good on giving advice on complicated problems to complete strangers.
• When Silverstream declares "Brown isn't an Element of Harmony!" Ace laughs and says she clearly hasn't seen Flash after taco night.
• During a flashback in "The Point of No Return", Flash is reading a comic while waiting for Twilight, and she and Dusty talk about him. Dusty says that if Flash ever settles down with someone it should be with a well learned pony that can help him become wise enough to be a Royal Knight. Twilight becomes excited hearing this, thinking she sounds perfect and she hopes she meets whoever that is so they can be best friends. The whole exchange is filled with Dramatic Irony.
• Flash isn't excited about retirement homes at first, even saying how he is glad Celestia and Luna won't be joining one when they retire. But he changes his mind when he sees how many activities Silver Stable Community has, saying he hopes he lives long enough to retire there. He is particularly excited about the squishy fruit food-fight tournament and asks if they can play one round after settling things with Dusty. Twilight pulls him by the ear in response for what feels like the first time in a long time.
• The new Best Book Borrower after Twilight loses the title is Derpy Hooves. This causes Twilight to nearly Faint in Shock.
• In "Jakhowls in Equestria", when Springer and Mirage share their First Kiss together, they are interrupted by a servant bringing them their meals, and proceed to eat together. After the servant returns to take their plates away, the two are anxious to continue, and as soon as the servant closes their door they leap at each other and start making out. This scene is implied to end with a Sexy Discretion Shot like a few other couples have had, since both of them are a bit tired at the meeting the next morning.
• Rogue has a lot of moments in "Growing to Seed":
  • It is discovered that he is allergic to cats when Goldie Delicious brings several of her cats with her. Combine that with his sonic scream, and it makes for a dangerous Sneeze of Doom.
  • There is a Running Gag of Rogue getting caught in Apple Bloom's traps. When he gets caught in one snare trap, he says he's going to have to "one hundred and twenty-seven hours" his way out. When Apple Bloom questions him on cutting off his hoof to get out though, Rogue is horrified that that is what happened and admits he didn't actually get to read the ending and thought the main character wiggled himself free.
  • Rogue questions Applejack's Arbitrary Skepticism on the Great Seedling when she has already experienced so many other magical creatures on her adventures, such as Discord and Shroudheart.
• "A Dash of Parenting Advice":
  • It turns out that the Wonderbolts have an official breakfast cereal, Wonder-Ohs. However, Rainbow and Soarin don't like it and never looked for it while shopping. This leads to them being shocked when Spitfire shows them an advertisement on one of the boxes detailing a contest, to win the chance to train with some Wonderbolts, in this case the two of them.
  • Spitfire explains to Rainbow and Soarin how they are perfect for this assignment since they are both young and already have experience training kids thanks to their time at the School of Friendship, leading both of them to start to hate Twilight for a moment.
  • After Rainbow has a talk with Soarin about not wanting to have any kids, Soarin tries to contain his heartbreak, and ends up explaining everything to Spitfire and Fleetfoot when they asks what's going on. When he explains how they didn't talk about having kids or not until now, they both call him out for marrying Rainbow without discussing such an important topic sooner with her.
  • After Soarin says that a kid that was part him and part Rainbow would be guaranteed to grow up to be awesome, Spitfire smirks and agrees that the Rainbow part would be awesome but any kid with Soarin's genes might have their awesomeness weakened a bit, with Soarin shooting her a Death Glare as Fleetfoot laughs.
• Ocellus tries to argue that she doesn't spend every waking moment of her time reading. However, when she recalls other activities she has done, she realizes she always got sidetracked due to reading a book while doing so, like reading a nature book while on a nature walk, reading a game manual instead of playing the video game, or reading about art in a museum instead of observing the actual art.
• In order to expose Saddleberg is sabotaging his own film, Smolder tells Ocellus she needs to disguise herself as his superior Pan Shot. Ocellus isn't thrilled about the idea, thinking it is too similar to how the Changelings deceived others while Chrysalis was their leader, but Smolder convinces her otherwise. But Ocellus ends up saying a familiar quote to a certain famous rabbit.
  Ocellus: Oh dear...fine. I'll do it. But I'll probably hate myself in the morning.
• "A Horse-Shoe In":
  • When Trixie meets up with Starlight for lunch, she finds Starlight in the process of freaking out due to the responsibility of running the School of Friendship full-time now, nearly reaching Twilight-ing levels of panic. Trixie calms her down by slapping her across the face and telling her to get ahold of herself.
  • After Trixie hears how Starlight plans to make a position of Vice-Headmare, Trixie says everything she said from the canon episode, as if she thinks Starlight created the position just for her and she is guaranteed the job... before promptly saying that's what she probably would have said before she became Luna's student and knows she can't just be given the job and will take the process seriously.
  • After the entire chapter shows off Trixie's Character Development and doing things differently from how she did in canon, the chapter still ends the same way it did in canon, with Trixie throwing Starlight's potted plant Phyllis in the trash after being made the new student counselor because "potted plants scream desperation". The more things change the more they stay the same.
• Due to the events of "Lingering Shadows" happening at the same time as "Growing Up is Hard to Do", Flash was originally supposed to be the chaperone for the CMC, the Jakhowl pups, Heart, and Soul, before he and Heart were called by the map.
  • When Ace and the girls are all turned into adults by the wish-granting flower, Soul is at first unsure about this and thinks they should tell Twilight right away, only going along with the others when they run off anyway. However, when she and Ace are separated from everyone, she quickly changes her mind when she meets the stallion Argo Belle, with the two taking an interest in each-other and Soul now considering staying this way permanently. From that point one, Ace takes her position as the responsible one.
  • Argo's reaction when he finds out the mare he was seemingly romantically interested in was just a filly. He looks like he is about to hurl while remarking he could have gotten in some serious trouble. Despite him telling off Soul for deceiving him like that, and tuning down her suggestion to be pen-pals due to their age-gap, he suggests maybe they can try again in about ten years when she's older and see how things work out.
  • The implications from the chapter that Ace and Heart, the two characters that were previously the most immature of the kids, are now the most responsible and mature members of their age groups.
• "Flash's Destiny":
  • When magic starts going crazy due to Faust not being around to maintain the world, at one point Ocellus and Silverstream start transforming randomly. When they hear it's happening to the rest of their races and that it is only a problem for hippogriffs near pearl fragments, Silverstream removes her necklace holding a fragment and throws it away from her. It accidentally lands on an earth pony student and transforms him into a seapony.
  • Gallus carries around a fire extinguisher and uses it to keep putting out Heart when he randomly bursts into fire. This happens so much the extinguisher is almost out.

Flash Sentry Chronicles: The Last Problem

• There's a humorous moment when the Mane 7 all arrive at the castle with their kids. Rainbow and Soarin are shown to now have more kids than any of the others, and Rainbow scolds the youngest of four of the kids for flying when he's still grounded. Considering that Rainbow previously didn't want to have any kids at all, there is some amusing irony that she has the most of her group of friends.
• Upon Flash's revival, the first thing he does after a happy reunion with his friends and loved ones is asking the gathered group of escaped villains which one of them thought it was a good idea to try to kill the mare he loves. Everyone immediately points to Doom Raizer, and Flash thanks them, saying he'll make sure their defeats aren't as painful as his.
• Flash finally appears in the future segments after the flashbacks reveal his revival, having not been present until now due to training the guards. When Fire Heart tells him about his successful mission in capturing Tragus, he asks why he told him to lie to his younger self and pretend he was dead, noting how it tore him up. Flash chuckles and says he'll explain everything later. It is amusing that the warning from the future that hung over Flash's head ever since Season 7 causing him and a few readers all kinds of angst and was interpreted in multiple ways, is revealed to not only have been false but caused by his own future self preserving the timeline.

Flash Sentry Chronicles: Lightning Siege

• Four months after Flash's return, his new body is described as still having that "freshly made smell" to it, almost like it s describing a new car smell.
• The conference in Manehatten includes several accommodations for each room of the different creatures. This includes fire-proofing the dragon and kirin rooms, sugarless treats for the Jakhowls (a clear Call-Back to Springer's experiences with sugar in his childhood), and putting sea scented cleaning supplies for the hippogriff's room.
• As Rarity is thinking about Lightning Blitz and hoping he will propose to her soon, Sassy Saddles remarks "Girl, you've got it bad."
• Rarity hopes that Lightning will ask her to marry him soon since half her friends are already married, and she knows if and when Flash and Twilight get married there will be no topping that event.
  Rarity: I mean, I don't mind waiting, but Lightning had better ask me soon. It's one thing getting married after Rainbow. But if Applejack gets engaged before me, then I'll be really annoyed.
• During the final battle with Overthrow, Grand comes across one pegasi member that he actually trained for the guard but cut due to his picking fights with other recruits and refusal to follow orders. This member boasts about how once Overthrow rules Equestria he'll be on top and rule the land once he's the strongest. Grand instantly defeats him just by tapping his hammer's staff against the ground, creating a thin layer pillar of concrete that smashes against the pegasi's chest and sends him crashing through the window, screaming the whole way.
• After it is revealed that all of Lightning's friends were only Faking the Dead in order to properly motivate him to defeat Breaker, Lightning screams he's going to kill them himself and chases after them as they run from him laughing.

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