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-->'''Navarone''': Take a chill pill or something.
-->'''Ames''': I do not need ice to cool me down, Navarone.

* GoLookAtTheDistraction: Attempting to escape from Pinkie generally does not work well, but rather bizarrely invoking this does.
-->'''Navarone''': Look over there, a distraction!
-->'''Pinkie Pie''': What are we supposed to be looking at?
-->'''Navarone''': Just keep looking, you’ll see it

* IAintGotTimeToBleed: Following his SuperWindowJump to escape Celestia, Nav is completely oblivious to the fact he's bleeding, and only notices some time later after attracting a lot of staring. And Octavia pointing all this out to him.

* HelloNurse: A rare example of a character managing to pull the equivalent trope for both genders off. While gender switched, F!Nav ends up inducing this in Spike in Chapter 106, and several members of his crew also comment positively on his appearance.

* AGodIAm:

* TheGrimReaper: Nav's choice of costume for [[AllHallowsEve Nightmare Night]], complete with the trademark SinisterScythe. While ponies mistake [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E4LunaEclipsed Twilight's costume]] for something else, the human personification of Death just ends up [[RunningGag flat out confusing them]].

-->''(cut to the two standing in front of some weaboo anime place)''

* GoodGuyBar: The Shady Trough, favourite haunt of the Night Guard.
* GoodIsNotNice / GoodIsNotSoft: Navarone and Celestia could easily be the poster children for this.

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: After 5 years of escaping the consequences of her actions, Luna eventually starts to receive some recompense after [[TheAtoner publicly admitting her many wrongs]].

* MayflyDecemberRomance / MayDecemberRomance: Luna's interest in Nav starts off as the first, and turns into the second when his life expectancy shoots up after his EmergencyTransformation. Celestia's interest in him also qualifies as this.

* GenreSavvy:
** Nav becomes quite savvy over the course of his adventures. A particularly good example is when he goes to the Crystal Empire, and later on when he recognises that the Mane Six are trying to interfere in his relationship with Kumani. He is also well aware of Taya's attempts to pull the wool over his eyes after he orders her to go and make some friends.
-->'''Navarone''': If we find any hidden rooms at all, there are bound to be several more. Crazy bastards like Sombra [[VillainBall do seem to enjoy those]].
-->'''Flo''': Nav, you’re basing all of that on TV.
-->'''Navarone''': [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall Well, isn’t this a TV world]]? Clichés run rampant and stereotypical villains like Sombra take over willy-nilly. So yeah, I’m basing my knowledge off TV. [[LampshadeHanging But look how far it’s gotten me]].
** In Chapter 77, after having learned from past experience, Twilight prevents Nav from avoiding her and slipping out through the window by waiting right outside on the balcony.
** Earlier, during his stint in Appleloosa's changeling hive, Nav and Chrysalis spot a sword on an altar in the middle of a petrified forest. Nav's response is to try and leave it where it is, because [[DontTouchItYouIdiot he knows for a fact that if it's taken]], ''something'' is going to attack. [[GenreBlind Chrysalis rolls her eyes and picks it up.]] Cue the GiantSpider.
-->'''Chrysalis''': [[IToldYouSo Don't you dare say it.]]

* [[invoked]]MemeticSexGod: Some of Navarone's exploits end up giving him a legendary reputation. Rather unfairly for him, however, as several of these events are caused by factors completely outside his control, rather than willing actions on his part.

** Nav's InfinityPlusOneSword turns out to be [[spoiler: Excalibur]].
** The Spear of Destiny is also mentioned briefly.

* KillItWithFire: Nav suggests the changelings dispose of a diamond dog clan in the mines in this way. The lucky ones are quickly asphyxiated by the fire sucking out the oxygen. The unlucky ones...

* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Cadance and Shining Armor experience trouble in paradise after the birth of their daughter, and end up asking Nav for advice. Apparently said advice helps.

* NormallyIWouldBeDeadNow: Rock is essentially a walking tank, and capable of walking around with extensive injuries as if they were nothing. In one instance, it's only when Nav [[ICanStillFight orders him]] to go and get healed up that he stops fighting.
* TheNoseKnows: While not exactly taken to superpower levels, ponies have a much greater sense of smell than humans. Other species also beat out humans in the nose department.

* InsistentTerminology: Nav constantly insists he's not a pony whenever the term anypony is used around him. [[CaptainObvious He does have a point]].

* MoralityPet: Taya often acts as one for Navarone. The others occasionally fulfill this role as well.

* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: When Nav first gets turned into a pony, his lack of familiarity with the instincts that come with that renders him particularly vulnerable to [[SmellsSexy pony pheromones]]. This can be negated through magic or experience, however.
** Averted on the subject of attraction; even after being turned into a pony himself, Nav does not find them appealing in the slightest.

* HiddenDepths: Derpy is one of the few ponies who actually bothers to use the Ponyville library, and regularly checks out advanced science textbooks.

* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: Discord brings Miguel back from the very verge of death as part of a DealWithTheDevil]].
* NotSoDifferent: While not explicitly stated, it's made clear over the course of the story that Nav and Celestia are not as different as either would like to believe.

* GiantSpider: Nav and the changelings get attacked by one in Chapter 52. Because apparently giant ants weren't bad enough.

* AGodIAm: Discord. He also gets very irritated when anyone refers to Celestia or Luna as one, viewing them as pretenders.

** Earlier, during his stint in Appleloosa's changeling hive, Nav and Chrysalis spot a sword on an altar in the middle of a petrified forest. Nav's response is to try and leave it where it is, because he knows for a fact that if it's taken, ''something'' is going to attack. [[GenreBlind Chrysalis rolls her eyes and picks it up.]] Cue the GiantSpider.

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--->'''Navarone''': If we find any hidden rooms at all, there are bound to be several more. Crazy bastards like Sombra [[VillainBall do seem to enjoy those]].
--->'''Flo''': Nav, you’re basing all of that on TV.
--->'''Navarone''': [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall Well, isn’t this a TV world]]? Clichés run rampant and stereotypical villains like Sombra take over willy-nilly. So yeah, I’m basing my knowledge off TV. [[LampshadeHanging But look how far it’s gotten me]].

** Celestia furiously orders Nav and Spike to get out after they come to her seeking healing following a wild night on the town. Though her resulting mood is certainly ''not'' helped by her being in heat, and by Spike having mailed her various items of an adult nature during the course of the previous evening.

* GiantFlyer: The "giant moth thing" Nav gets attacked by in Chapter 12.

--->''I was just going to wander around for a few hours. [[TemptingFate What’s the worst that could happen]]?''
--->''(cut)''
--->''I hate everything.''

--->'''Navarone''': Well, as long as it’s not some weaboo anime place, I’ll be fine.
--->'''Rarity''': …Right.
--->''(cut to the two standing in front of some weaboo anime place)''
--->'''Navarone''': God dammit, Rarity.

* GoodIsNotNice: Navarone and Celestia could easily be the poster children for this.

* GrewASpine: Navarone is initially reluctant to refuse the princesses' demands but eventually grows to have no issues refusing them.

* GroundhogDayLoop: Discord briefly puts himself through one of sorts during the prologue, as part of his attempts to convince Celestia. Every time he says something wrong he wipes her memory and starts from the beginning, and mentions to having gone through hundreds of loops until he succeeds.

** Cadance certainly seems to think so at least.

--->'''Ames''': What a queer pony.
--->'''Navarone''': You don’t know the half of it.
* HealingFactor: Nav ends up with a minor version of this after his EmergencyTransformation, since he heals faster, and becomes capable of regenerating from damage that would kill a regular human. Serious injuries still result in significant levels of downtime and recuperation however, and he's far from invulnerable.

** Navarone turns into one, using drugs, drink, and sex as coping mechanisms.

* HemoErotic: Luna. Her combining this with her MindRape of Nav ends up being the final straw and causes him to break off their relationship. After he's run out the room screaming in terror.
* HeroicBSOD: Twilight has a small one upon killing something for the first time in Chapter 99. Unfortunately Nav is probably one of the worst possible choices to comfort her.

* [[HisOwnWorstEnemy Her Own Worst Enemy]]: Luna has some serious problems, but never really seems to stop and consider that she may be at fault, or that a change of behaviour is warranted. It is also implied that Celestia has been somewhat shielding her sister from all this, or otherwise indulging her, and she [[HeelRealization eventually]] comes to realise what she's done.

** [[spoiler: Ames']] unfortunate drunken escapade with the giant squid. It's probably best not to think about it [[BrainBleach too much]].

* HowDoIShotWeb: Nav initially has to learn to fly with his new wings and doesn't have complete control over them for much of the story, as you might expect from someone who has suddenly grown a new set of appendages. In fact, he doesn't even know how to fold them properly until Fluttershy [[YouDidntAsk finally takes pity on him]] and shows him how.

* HumanitysWake: Aside from a few legends amongst the minotaurs, very little is left of humanity, though many of the major cities are built on the ruins of older human settlements.

* HumansAreWarriors: Luna in particular believes this to the point of thinking all humans are {{Blood Knight}}s, and Celestia also comments favourably on humanity regarding this, when she sees how useful Nav has been. Nav himself occasionally cultivates this image when it serves his goals.

** He might lie about giving his word quite a bit and use ExactWords to get out of it, but when he genuinely means it then Nav will stick by his promises.

* ILied: [[spoiler: Discord does this to Taya when luring her and Nav into a trap]].

** LifeDrinker: Nav is a variant of this. By Celestia/Luna periodically using the spell to transfer LifeEnergy it would be possible for him (or anyone else) to effectively become TheAgeless. The spell also works on non-sentient beings such as plants and so can be used benevolently instead of requiring a victim to steal from.
** TheUndead: Several types of them, including [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vamponies]].

* [[ImpossiblyTackyClothes Impossibly Tacky Armour]]: Navarone gets granted a set of technicolour armour to go with his title of ''Defender of Harmony''. Ostensibly it's a huge honour, but in reality it's a [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment form of revenge]] by Celestia due to him ruining one of her plans.

--->'''Twilight''': I’m standing right here, you know!
--->'''Navarone''': Yeah, I know. We were just in the barber shop together, remember?
--->'''Pinkie Pie''': Yeah, Twilight, we’re not ''blind''.
--->'''Twilight''': Ugh.

--->'''Kat''': I’m right here, you know.
--->'''Navarone''': Yes, I know; you’re rather noticeable.

--->'''Navarone''': I’m right here, ladies.

** The [[{{Familiar}} alphyn]] Trixie summons in Chapter 5 is not happy at being in Equestria. While he has to follow Trixie’s orders [[ExactWords to the letter]], that doesn’t mean he has to help her if she’s unable to ask. Alphyns also do their best to return the favour to their summoner, if they get the opportunity.

** Ponies believe this about Celestia, but over [[BrokenPedestal the course of events]] it's shown to be far from the truth.
** Fancy Pants is pretty much the only one of these among the Canterlot nobility, and genuinely uses his position as a force for good, rather than self-interest.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Spike can occasionally come out with stuff that has a very different meaning from what he thinks. In several cases this deeply angers Nav, but he forces it down when he reminds himself that Spike doesn't know what he's saying, and that he doesn't mean anything by it.
* InnocentSwearing: A variant. Apple Bloom overhears Nav commenting on how Twilight [[YouNeedToGetLaid needs to get laid]], and has no idea what this means. So of course she asks about this in front of her family... and Twilight!

--->'''Navarone''': You’re a terrible person. And that armor looks gayer than you do. Trust me, that’s saying something.
--->'''Cadance''': [[HaveAGayOldTime I’m glad you think I look so happy!]] And it’s good you think [[ImpossiblyTackyClothes your armor]] does, too.
--->'''Navarone''': …You know that wasn’t a compliment, right?

** Luna and Nav briefly have one. It doesn't end well. He later gets involved with Kumani, a dragoness.
** [[spoiler: Bon-Bon and Lyra, a changeling and unicorn respectively]].

* IntimateHealing: A platonic version where Nav lathers up Fluttershy to help her with her flea problem, since hooves are not the best tool for the job. It is extremely awkward however, and certainly not helped by Fluttershy's badly-hidden interest in him.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Just one of the many issues Luna has. Her resulting lack of respect for personal boundaries is one of several reasons that finally leads Nav to end their relationship.

** Discord becomes this for Nav, [[spoiler: when he discovers the former is responsible for the extinction of humanity]].
** Discord is also this for the Royal Sisters, [[spoiler: due to him destroying almost all the alicorn race, save for themselves]].

* IWasNeverHere: After finding AJ and Rarity drinking tea in Rarity's boutique while both wearing frilly dresses, Nav's response is to slowly back out the door without saying a word.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He might be abrasive, condescending, and make little secret of how much he [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech thinks you suck]], but if you're a good person or his friend then the chances are that Nav will eventually come through for you when you need help.

* KissingUnderTheInfluence: Cadance recklessly firing off love magic leads to a bunch of palace staff and guards doing this... including Celestia. Few are happy with the results. Those few are usually paired up with others who are not.

* KissOfTheVampire: Vamponies don't have to do this in order to feed, but can play this one straight if they wish. [[spoiler: Nav ends up asking Midnight Blossom for one as a going away present in exchange for allowing her to feed off him]].

* KnightInSourArmor: Nav starts out fairly idealistic but becomes increasingly cynical as he gets let down and used throughout the story. He doesn't even bother trying to pretend otherwise later on in the story.

* LampshadeHanging: Nav often lampshades how Equestria feels like a cartoon world, and other things that make no sense, such as ponies shrugging off impacts that should injure them, or Pinkie Pie's insanely weird abilities and behaviour.

** Navarone is the last remaining human. [[spoiler: Later on his transformations render him only partially human, and when he discovers that he's no longer human enough to qualify he becomes somewhat depressed, since it now means humanity is completely extinct]].
** Celestia and Luna are the last two remaining alicorns, [[spoiler: due to Discord destroying the rest]].

--->''...it seems like every time they want to involve me with something it’s the fucking clichéd plot of a cartoon or TV show.''

--->'''Spike''': We don’t talk about those days, Nav.

--->'''Rarity''': We will never speak of this again.
* LightmareFuel: An in-universe example. When Shining Armor tries to break into Nav's mind yet again, Nav gives him a choice between two doors in Nav's mindscape. Shining ends up picking the door that leads to all of Nav's memories of being tortured and abused, to which Nav comments was a fortunate choice since the other door [[spoiler: led to the memories of him having sex with Celestia]]. It's more a case of FauxHorrific for Nav and the reader however.

* TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday: The BazaarOfTheBizarre Nav winds up entering in Chapter 92.
* LivingLieDetector: There's a unicorn spell that does this. Celestia and Twilight eventually figure that it's a good idea to cast it on Nav, though he sometimes gets around it by employing ExactWords or being [[MetaphoricallyTrue metaphorical]].

** Celestia and Luna, almost to the point of appearing to be TheAgeless. Technically they do age, but extremely slowly; Celestia states that she's physically in her late twenties [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld despite being over 6200 years old]]. Apparently her extended adolescence was ''not'' a fun time.

* LostTechnology: The dream machine, which eventually gets rediscovered by Luna and Nav, and allows ponies to dream again. With the exception of Pinkie Pie, who already had them regardless.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy / LoveMakesYouEvil: Well, it's probably more "jealous obsession" than love, but either way it's not a good comination with Luna's already questionable sanity.

* LovingAShadow: Nav suggests himself that Luna doesn't love him as a person, but rather what she thinks of him as. Namely, a BloodKnight and a warrior like herself.
* LuridTalesOfDoom: After Nav's BlatantLies rumours about himself and Shining Armor end up making the presses, he then decides to start making up even more ridiculous ones. Like Celestia secretly being a narwhal.

* TheManyDeathsOfYou: Luna ends up being repeatedly killed during her multiple attempts to force her way into Nav's dreams. Both Nav and Flo have quite a bit of fun coming up with creative methods of doing so. Highlights include: being boiled alive, [[BoomHeadshot death by shotgun]], [[EyeScream a spike to the eye]], [[LudicrousGibs a grinder, explosive decompression, and a trip mine]], [[NeckSnap tripping over a log]], and [[NoodleIncident something involving plants]]...

* {{Matriarchy}}: Equestria. Other cultures vary however.
* MayflyDecemberRomance / MayDecemberRomance: Luna's interest in Nav starts off as the first, and turns into the second when his life expectency shoots up after his EmergencyTransformation. Celestia's interest in him also qualifies as this.

* [[invoked]]MemeticSexGod: Some of Navarone's exploits end up giving him a legendary reputation. Rather unfairly for him however, several of these events are caused by factors completely outside his control, rather than willing actions on his part.

* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: When Nav first gets turned into a pony, his lack of familiarity with the instincts that come with that renders him particularly vulnerable to [[SmellsSexy pony pheromones]]. This can be negated through magic or experience however.

** Navarone deliberately invokes this when Shining Armor tries to break into his mind, by presenting him with horrifying memories. [[spoiler: It ends with Shining Armor screaming on the floor in terror]].

* MindlinkMates: There's a unicorn spell for this which Luna tries on Nav at one point. Not being a unicorn and thus having no control over what happens in the environment, it ends badly for Nav. ''[[MindRape Very, very badly]]''.

* MindScrew: [[spoiler: Discord doesn't just break the fourth wall, but on a few occasions actively deceives the reader]].

* MomentKiller: A ''very'' one-sided moment between Luna and Nav is ruined in the revised Chapter 11 by a ride attendent. Nav is particularly grateful for the interruption, even if the resulting silence afterwards is extremely awkward.

* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Gilda ends up about to invoke this to get out of her ArrangedMarriage with Nav, though he manages to convince her of a less murderous plan.

* NaughtyUnderTheTable: Octavia tries for this at a party, but [[spoiler: Luna, (who disguised as herself as Celestia to Nav)]] has already beaten her to it. Cue the awkwardness.

--->'''Pinkie''': I’m not allowed to see them anymore… The restraining order is pretty lenient, but I can’t risk it.

** {{Averted|Trope}} in Chapter 22, as Twilight ends up leaving Nav behind in a rather dangerous situation when she [[ForgotICouldFly finally remembers]] she can teleport.

** Navarone often acts like this, simply because he doesn't care. He can turn on the charm if he wants to however.
* NotAfraidOfYouAnymore: In Chapter 16, [[spoiler: after a week of being used as Kat's SexSlave under the threat of them killing Spike, Nav finally stands up to her and tells her that he'll kill her if she so much as looks at him in the wrong way in future]].

** One of the times [[spoiler: Midnight Blossom]] attempts to feed off Nav gives a ''very'' different impression from what actually happened.

--->'''Shining Armor''': We weren’t bucking!
--->'''Bloodbeak''': Am I… interrupting something?

* NukeEm: [[spoiler: Discord managed to destroy much of humanity in this way, as part of his ploy [[DeathSeeker to finally die]]. Unfortunately for him, HumansAreSurvivors]].

** Nav becomes quite savvy over the course of his adventures. [[spoiler: A particularly good example is when he goes to the Crystal Empire, and later when he recognises that they're trying to interfere in his relationship with Kumani]]. He is also well aware of Taya's attempts to pull the wool over his eyes after he orders her to go and make some friends.

* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Almost everyone tells Nav this at one point, but especially Flo and Taya.

* GuyOnGuyIsHot: Cadance certainly seems to think so at least.

* ItAmusedMe: Celestia occasionally tries to alleviate some of her boredom in ways that would be described as unusual at best, and highly unethical at worst. Navarone can sometimes engage in this as well, often in response to Celestia's antics.

* IHatePastMe / OtherMeAnnoysMe: [[spoiler: When Nav runs into his (far older) past self, both end up getting under the skins of the other]].

* InterspeciesAdoption / RaisedByHumans: Taya's adoption by Nav.

* JumpedAtTheCall / ResignedToTheCall: Spike and Nav in Chapter 15. While Spike is thrilled to be going on an adventure, Nav is forced to go to Egypt by Celestia as punishment.

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