History Recap / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E5MagicDuel

* AnAesop:
** The most powerful magic in the world is friendship.
** Raw power and skill is not necessarily the way to win, sometimes being clever is better.

* AnAesop: The most powerful magic in the world is friendship.

* FailedAttemptAtDrama: Trixie leaving Ponyville. As before, she's seen running through the smoke screen she created and even trips.

-->'''Rarity:''' You've proved your point, but you can't possibly expect Twilight to leave Ponyville!\\

-->'''Twilight:''' I know you cheated.\\
'''Trixie:''' Cheated? ''Moi?''

-->'''Applejack:''' That's ''ENOUGH'', Trixie!\\
'''Rarity:''' You've proved your point, but you can't possibly expect Twilight to leave Ponyville!\\

-->'''Trixie:''' Cheated? ''Moi?''

'''Rarity:''' You've proven your point, but you can't possibly expect Twilight to leave Ponyville!\\

-->'''Trixie:''' You fools! She's already gone! ''[magically ejects her from Ponyville]''

** Pinkie is offended at Trixie's condescending mention of [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E23TheCutieMarkChronicles a rock farm]]. And Trixie's employer is apparently Pinkie's dad.

* AdultFear: Fluttershy is utterly terrorized that her little darlings might get hurt during Twilight's levitation number, complete with [[RapidFireNailBiting Rapid Fire Hoof-Biting]].

* AdultFear: Fluttershy is utterly terrorized that her little darlings might get hurt during Twilight's levitation number.

her voice at the end, it's likely she was aghast at what she had done when wearing the amulet.

* AndIMustScream: Trixie was unable to control herself when wearing the amulet and being evil, since the amulet corrupts the user. Based on the remorseful tone in * AnswerCut: After being banished from Ponyville, Twilight wonders out loud about who can help her, since she can't contact Princess Celestia. The next scene cuts to Zecora's hut in the Everfree Forest with Twilight finishing filling the zebra in about what had happened.

* AndIMustScream: Trixie was unable to control herself when wearing the amulet and being evil since the amulet corrupts the user and based on the remorseful tone in her voice at the end, it’s likely she was aghast at what she had done when wearing the amulet.

* AmplifierArtifact: Trixie's [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver Alicorn Amulet]] amplifies her magic to the point she can best Twilight and perform other feats of otherwise improbably-powerful magic, such as age-regression.
* AnswerCut: After being banished from Ponyville, Twilight wonders out loud about who can help her, since she can't contact Princess Celestia. The next scene cuts to Zecora's hut in the Everfree Forest with Twilight finishing filling the zebra in about what had happened.

* BookEnds: "Boast Busters" ends with Trixie running away humiliated in a puff of smoke, which she recaps at the beginning of the episode. By the end of this episode, she runs away in a puff of smoke again, but this time on better terms with Twilight.

* StockSoundEffect: Pinkie makes the same "muffled protesting" sound twice in the episode, once while the gang is looking up the Alicorn Amulet and again in TheStinger.

* GrailInTheGarbage: The almighty Alicorn Amulet was sitting in a curio shop, waiting to be stumbled upon...

* OnSecondThought: The shopkeeper in the opening, regarding the Alicorn Amulet:
-->'''Shopkeeper:''' I'm afraid this is ''far'' too dangerous.\\
'''Trixie:''' ''(tosses him a bag of bits)''\\
'''Shopkeer:''' ...Would you like that gift wrapped?

* {{Adorkable}}: [[HeelFaceTurn The Great and "Apologetic" Trixie]]. A strange combination of her being genuinely apologetic and remorseful and her natural LargeHam tendencies makes her pretty {{Adorkable}}. She trips over herself as she makes her exit.

* {{Revenge}}: Trixie's motivation for returning to Ponyville is to get back at Twilight for the whole Ursa Minor incident from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E6BoastBusters]]".

* TheBusCameBack: Trixie's back, her last canonical appearance being [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E6BoastBusters two seasons ago]]. She also shows up as a [[CutAndPasteEnvironments copy-pasted background extra]] in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E9BridleGossip a couple]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E1TheReturnOfHarmonyPart1 of episodes]] and was name-dropped in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E23PonyvilleConfidential "Ponyville Confidential"]]. Seeing as there are five different Trixie [[AllThereInTheScript Lulamoon]] toys, her return makes sense, given the show's MerchandiseDriven nature. Not to mention how [[EnsembleDarkhorse popular]] [[DracoInLeatherPants she is]].

* CheatersNeverProsper: Subverted in the first duel, when no one notices Trixie with the amulet and she beats Twilight. Played straight in the second duel, when Trixie loses because she was outsmarted with Twilight's own tricks and she removes her amulet to put on the seemingly stronger one.

** The little dances Trixie forces Pinkie to perform were previously seen in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E3TooManyPinkiePies "Too Many Pinkie Pies"]] and in at least one case [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E18AFriendInDeed "A Friend in Deed"]].

** Rainbow's perception of Fluttershy after the events of [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipisMagicS1E7Dragonshy "Dragonshy"]] seems to have stuck, and she is the first to suggest entrusting her to sneak out of Ponyville to inform Twilight, with outright joyous enthusiasm.

* DisproportionateRetribution: None of what happened between Twilight and Trixie in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E6BoastBusters "Boast Busters"]] warrants Twilight's exile and the enslavement of Ponyville. Trixie's corrupted by the Alicorn Amulet, though, so whatever her original intent was, it was likely long forgotten by the time she actually got to Ponyville.

* SequelEpisode: To "Boast Busters"; after Twilight upstaged her, no one took Trixie seriously as a magician anymore, and she could no longer make a living with her stage acts. Now she's returned to Ponyville, seeking revenge.

* TakeThatAudience: To all the bronies who assumed that Pinkie Pie's story of how she got her cutie mark from "The Cutie Mark Chronicles" was a case of UnreliableNarrator; it turns out [[WordOfGod the rock farm that she grew up on DOES exist!]] (Solidified by Pinkie's father appearing with Trixie in the flashback)

* AnswerCut: After being banished from Ponyville, Twilight wonders out loud about who can help her, since she can't contact Princess Celestia. The next scene cuts to Zecora's hut in the Everfree Forest with Tiwlight finishing filling the zebra in about what had happened.

* AnswerCut: After being banished from Ponyville, Twilight wonders out loud about who can help her, since she can't contact Princess Celestia. The next scene cuts to Zecora's hut in the Everfree Forest with Twlight finishing filling the zebra in about what had happened.

** Trixie intentionally pushes Twlight's "don't hurt her friends or Spike" button in order to get her to agree to the duel.

** During the first magic duel, Twilight gives Trixie a large handlebar mustache (which both the audience and Twlight's friends found extremely funny). [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E6BoastBusters Now what spell was Twilight practicing at the beginning of "Boast Busters"?]]