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* FlawExploitation: How Discord [[BreakTheCutie breaks]] the Mane Cast and turns them against their Elements of Harmony.

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* FlawExploitation: How Discord [[BreakTheCutie breaks]] the Mane Cast (except Twilight) and turns them against their Elements of Harmony.
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After each pony gets corrupted, Twilight meets up with them, shocked and confused at they are all now the opposite of their Elements, but has no idea why. They eventually spot the disloyal Rainbow Dash flying away -- because she broke the "no wings, no magic" rule, the game is over and [[TheBadGuyWins DISCORD HAS WON]]. Black clouds and lightning abound! All is lost, a storm of ''chaos'' has arrived! Equestria is '''doomed'''!

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After each pony gets corrupted, Twilight meets up with them, shocked and confused at they are all now the opposite of their Elements, but has no idea why. They eventually spot the disloyal Rainbow Dash flying away -- because she broke the "no wings, no magic" rule, the game is over and [[TheBadGuyWins '''[[TheBadGuyWins DISCORD HAS WON]]. WON]].''' Black clouds and lightning abound! All is lost, a storm of ''chaos'' has arrived! Equestria is '''doomed'''!
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After each pony gets corrupted, Twilight meets up with them, shocked and confused at they are all now the opposite of their Elements, but has no idea why. They eventually spot the disloyal Rainbow Dash flying away -- because she broke the "no wings, no magic" rule, the game is over and [[TheBadGuyWins DISCORD HAD WON']. Black clouds and lightning abound! All is lost, a storm of ''chaos'' has arrived! Equestria is '''doomed'''!

-> '''Discord:''' Looks like we might be due for a big old storm of ''chaos!'' [''EvilLaugh'' accompanied by ''DramaticThunder'']

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After each pony gets corrupted, Twilight meets up with them, shocked and confused at they are all now the opposite of their Elements, but has no idea why. They eventually spot the disloyal Rainbow Dash flying away -- because she broke the "no wings, no magic" rule, the game is over and [[TheBadGuyWins DISCORD HAD WON'].HAS WON]]. Black clouds and lightning abound! All is lost, a storm of ''chaos'' has arrived! Equestria is '''doomed'''!

-> '''Discord:''' ->'''Discord:''' Looks like we might be due for a big old storm of ''chaos!'' [''EvilLaugh'' ''[EvilLaugh accompanied by ''DramaticThunder'']
DramaticThunder]''
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After each pony gets corrupted, Twilight meets up with them, shocked and confused at they are all now the opposite of their Elements, but has no idea why. They eventually spot the disloyal Rainbow Dash flying away -- because she broke the "no wings, no magic" rule, the game is over and [[TheBadGuyWins DISCORD '''HAD WON''']]. Black clouds and lightning abound! All is lost, a storm of ''chaos'' has arrived! Equestria is '''doomed'''!

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After each pony gets corrupted, Twilight meets up with them, shocked and confused at they are all now the opposite of their Elements, but has no idea why. They eventually spot the disloyal Rainbow Dash flying away -- because she broke the "no wings, no magic" rule, the game is over and [[TheBadGuyWins DISCORD '''HAD WON''']].HAD WON']. Black clouds and lightning abound! All is lost, a storm of ''chaos'' has arrived! Equestria is '''doomed'''!
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After each pony gets corrupted, Twilight meets up with them, shocked and confused at they are all now the opposite of their Elements, but has no idea why. They eventually spot the disloyal Rainbow Dash flying away -- because she broke the "no wings, no magic" rule, the game is over and [[TheBadGuyWins '''''DISCORD HAD WON''''']]. Black clouds and lightning abound! All is lost, a storm of ''chaos'' has arrived! Equestria is '''doomed'''!

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After each pony gets corrupted, Twilight meets up with them, shocked and confused at they are all now the opposite of their Elements, but has no idea why. They eventually spot the disloyal Rainbow Dash flying away -- because she broke the "no wings, no magic" rule, the game is over and [[TheBadGuyWins '''''DISCORD HAD WON''''']].DISCORD '''HAD WON''']]. Black clouds and lightning abound! All is lost, a storm of ''chaos'' has arrived! Equestria is '''doomed'''!
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After each pony gets corrupted, Twilight meets up with them, shocked and confused at they are all now the opposite of their Elements, but has no idea why. They eventually spot the disloyal Rainbow Dash flying away -- because she broke the "no wings, no magic" rule, the game is over and [[TheBadGuyWins '''DISCORD HAD WON''']]. Black clouds and lightning abound! All is lost, a storm of ''chaos'' has arrived! Equestria is '''doomed'''!

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After each pony gets corrupted, Twilight meets up with them, shocked and confused at they are all now the opposite of their Elements, but has no idea why. They eventually spot the disloyal Rainbow Dash flying away -- because she broke the "no wings, no magic" rule, the game is over and [[TheBadGuyWins '''DISCORD '''''DISCORD HAD WON''']].WON''''']]. Black clouds and lightning abound! All is lost, a storm of ''chaos'' has arrived! Equestria is '''doomed'''!
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After each pony gets corrupted, Twilight meets up with them, shocked and confused at they are all now the opposite of their Elements, but has no idea why. They eventually spot the disloyal Rainbow Dash flying away -- because she broke the "no wings, no magic" rule, the game is over and [[TheBadGuyWins Discord has WON]]. Black clouds and lightning abound! All is lost, a storm of ''chaos'' has arrived! Equestria is '''doomed'''!

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After each pony gets corrupted, Twilight meets up with them, shocked and confused at they are all now the opposite of their Elements, but has no idea why. They eventually spot the disloyal Rainbow Dash flying away -- because she broke the "no wings, no magic" rule, the game is over and [[TheBadGuyWins Discord has WON]].'''DISCORD HAD WON''']]. Black clouds and lightning abound! All is lost, a storm of ''chaos'' has arrived! Equestria is '''doomed'''!
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After each pony gets corrupted, Twilight meets up with them, shocked and confused at they are all now the opposite of their Elements, but has no idea why. They eventually spot the disloyal Rainbow Dash flying away -- because she broke the "no wings, no magic" rule, the game is over and [[TheBadGuyWins Discord has '''WON''']]. Black clouds and lightning abound! All is lost, a storm of ''chaos'' has arrived! Equestria is '''doomed'''!

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After each pony gets corrupted, Twilight meets up with them, shocked and confused at they are all now the opposite of their Elements, but has no idea why. They eventually spot the disloyal Rainbow Dash flying away -- because she broke the "no wings, no magic" rule, the game is over and [[TheBadGuyWins Discord has '''WON''']].WON]]. Black clouds and lightning abound! All is lost, a storm of ''chaos'' has arrived! Equestria is '''doomed'''!
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After each pony gets corrupted, Twilight meets up with them, shocked and confused at they are all now the opposite of their Elements, but has no idea why. They eventually spot the disloyal Rainbow Dash flying away -- because she broke the "no wings, no magic" rule, the game is over and [[TheBadGuyWins Discord has '''''WON''''']]. Black clouds and lightning abound! All is lost, a storm of ''chaos'' has arrived! Equestria is '''doomed'''!

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After each pony gets corrupted, Twilight meets up with them, shocked and confused at they are all now the opposite of their Elements, but has no idea why. They eventually spot the disloyal Rainbow Dash flying away -- because she broke the "no wings, no magic" rule, the game is over and [[TheBadGuyWins Discord has '''''WON''''']].'''WON''']]. Black clouds and lightning abound! All is lost, a storm of ''chaos'' has arrived! Equestria is '''doomed'''!
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After each pony gets corrupted, Twilight meets up with them, shocked and confused at they are all now the opposite of their Elements, but has no idea why. They eventually spot the disloyal Rainbow Dash flying away -- because she broke the "no wings, no magic" rule, the game is over and [[TheBadGuyWins '''''Discord has WON''''']]. Black clouds and lightning abound! All is lost, a storm of ''chaos'' has arrived! Equestria is '''doomed'''!

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After each pony gets corrupted, Twilight meets up with them, shocked and confused at they are all now the opposite of their Elements, but has no idea why. They eventually spot the disloyal Rainbow Dash flying away -- because she broke the "no wings, no magic" rule, the game is over and [[TheBadGuyWins '''''Discord Discord has WON''''']].'''''WON''''']]. Black clouds and lightning abound! All is lost, a storm of ''chaos'' has arrived! Equestria is '''doomed'''!
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After each pony gets corrupted, Twilight meets up with them, shocked and confused at they are all now the opposite of their Elements, but has no idea why. They eventually spot the disloyal Rainbow Dash flying away -- because she broke the "no wings, no magic" rule, the game is over and [[TheBadGuyWins Discord has won]]! Black clouds and lightning abound! All is lost, a storm of ''chaos'' has arrived! Equestria is '''doomed'''!

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After each pony gets corrupted, Twilight meets up with them, shocked and confused at they are all now the opposite of their Elements, but has no idea why. They eventually spot the disloyal Rainbow Dash flying away -- because she broke the "no wings, no magic" rule, the game is over and [[TheBadGuyWins Discord '''''Discord has won]]! WON''''']]. Black clouds and lightning abound! All is lost, a storm of ''chaos'' has arrived! Equestria is '''doomed'''!
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* BrightnessShadows: Discord throws a glass of chocolate milk that explodes casting a dark shadow this way, though given the character it's hard to know if the implausibility was intentional.
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** Also at the beginning of the episode, the Cutie Mark Crusaders arguing pretty much made them responsible for causing to get freed from his stone prison.

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** Also at the beginning of the episode, the Cutie Mark Crusaders arguing pretty much made them responsible for causing Discord to get freed from his stone prison.
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** Also at the beginning of the episode, the Cutie Mark Crusaders arguing pretty much made them responsible for causing to get freed from his stone prison.

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* FailedASpotCheck:
** This almost ends up being Twilight's undoing, as she was so focused on trying to find the elements and defeat Discord, she failed to notice her friends' personalities' radically shifting when finding them the maze, assuming it to just be stress on their part.
** Twilight also somehow doesn't seem to notice the desaturation in her friends' coat and mane colors, which are a dead giveaway they're more than just stressed out.

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* FailedASpotCheck:
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FailedASpotCheck: This almost ends up being Twilight's undoing, as she was is so focused on trying to find the elements and defeat Discord, she failed fails to notice her friends' personalities' radically shifting when finding them in the maze, assuming it to just be stress on their part.
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part. Twilight also somehow doesn't seem to notice the desaturation in her friends' coat and mane colors, which are a dead giveaway they're more than just stressed out.



** When Discord announces the rule that all six ponies have to play his game or they forfeit, guess which pony is in shot?

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** %%** When Discord announces the rule that all six ponies have to play his game or they forfeit, guess which pony is in shot?

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* FailedASpotCheck: This almost ends up being Twilight's undoing, as she was so focused on trying to find the elements and defeat Discord, she failed to notice her friends' personalities' radically shifting when finding them the maze, assuming it to just be stress on their part.

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* FailedASpotCheck: FailedASpotCheck:
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This almost ends up being Twilight's undoing, as she was so focused on trying to find the elements and defeat Discord, she failed to notice her friends' personalities' radically shifting when finding them the maze, assuming it to just be stress on their part. part.
** Twilight also somehow doesn't seem to notice the desaturation in her friends' coat and mane colors, which are a dead giveaway they're more than just stressed out.
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* SurpriseCreepy: Discord is a silly-looking MixAndMatchCritter. The episode starts with chocolate rain from cotton candy clouds. [[DownerEnding It ends]] with DarkestHour.

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* SurpriseCreepy: SurprisinglyCreepyMoment: Discord is a silly-looking MixAndMatchCritter. The episode starts with chocolate rain from cotton candy clouds. [[DownerEnding It ends]] with DarkestHour.
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* EvilPlan: Discord wants to return Esqueria to the days of his rule: eternal chaos.

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* EvilPlan: Discord wants to return Esqueria Equestria to the days of his rule: eternal chaos.
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Cheerilee and the kids are visiting the world famous Canterlot Sculpture Garden, where there are statues representing friendship, victory, and... a tall slender fellow with a head of a pony and a body made of many different animals, like a lion's paw and a snake's tail. Cheerilee asks the class what that represents, and Cutie Mark Crusaders respond with a variety of answers, calling Scootaloo a dodo in the process.

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Cheerilee and the kids are visiting the world famous Canterlot Sculpture {{Sculpture|s}} Garden, where there are statues representing friendship, victory, and... a tall slender fellow with a head of a pony and a body made of many different animals, like a lion's paw and a snake's tail. Cheerilee asks the class what that represents, and Cutie Mark Crusaders respond with a variety of answers, calling Scootaloo a dodo in the process.
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* EmptyQuiver: Not with actual nuclear weapons (this being a children show in a magical world with SchizoTech) but Discord's theft of the Elements of Harmony otherwise has parallels to this trope. They're incredibly powerful magical weapons and are used as Equestria's greatest line of defense. [[BigGood Celestia]] discovering they've been stolen [[OhCrap legitimately shocks and scares her]].

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* GratuitousItalian: Discord's angry yell of "Arriverderci!" after trying and failing to break Fluttershy's (almost) permanently sunny disposition.
* GravityIsAHarshMistress: When Rainbow's wings vanish.
* GutPunch: The brainwashing of the mane cast, starting with Applejack.
* HatePlague: What Discord inflicts on the mane ponies. See BecameTheirOwnAntithesis.

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* GratuitousItalian: Discord's angry yell of "Arriverderci!" "Arrivederci!" after trying and failing to break Fluttershy's (almost) permanently sunny disposition.
* %%* GravityIsAHarshMistress: When Rainbow's wings vanish.
* %%* GutPunch: The brainwashing of the mane cast, starting with Applejack.
* %%* HatePlague: What Discord inflicts on the mane ponies. See BecameTheirOwnAntithesis.ponies.%%Is?


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* PaletteSwap: The Keepers of the Grove of Truth are physically perfect copies of each other, their only differences being that one is dark red, one is orange-red, and one is green.
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** The Keepers of the Grove talk like this.

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** The Keepers of the Grove talk like this.rhyme every sentence that they speak.
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* RightForTheWrongReasons: While Twilight is right to point out her friends are somehow not acting like their usual selves, she's wrong about ''why'' they're acting that way. She initially thinks the maze has gotten to them so much that they're doing it out of frustration, when in reality, they've been hypnotized by Discord.

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* HypnotizeTheCaptive: With the exception of Twilight, Discord hypnotizes each of the Mane 6 into behaving the opposite of what element they represent.

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* HypnotizeTheCaptive: With the exception of Twilight, Discord hypnotizes each of the Mane 6 mane characters into behaving the opposite of what element they represent.represent. Twilight isn't affected until the next part, only she ''wasn't'' hypnotized.


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* PreAssKickingOneLiner: Pinkie's first line after becoming susceptible to Discord's corruption:
-->'''Pinkie:''' "Happy"? I don't think so...
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* HypnotizeThePrincess: With the exception of Twilight, Discord hypnotizes each of the Mane 6 into behaving the opposite of what element they represent.

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* HypnotizeThePrincess: HypnotizeTheCaptive: With the exception of Twilight, Discord hypnotizes each of the Mane 6 into behaving the opposite of what element they represent.

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