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* GreenEyedEpiphany: In "Lazy Summer Days", Graves is set one edge when he finds out that a lot of guys in Ponyville are attracted to [[spoiler:Rarity]]. It confounds him so much it drives him to drink. In "Return to the Gala", this happens to Graves again when he [[spoiler:sees Rarity go off with Prince Blueblood, not knowing that Rarity isn't happy about it.]] It also happens to [[spoiler:Rarity]]; imagining Graves at the Gala with another woman irritates her.
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* ExoticWeaponSupremacy: Marshals are equipped with unique weapons called spellguns. They're about as awesome as they sound.
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* ExoticWeaponSupremacy: Marshals are equipped with unique weapons called spellguns. They're about as awesome as they sound. Graves' spellgun is an AceCustom modified to be a magic ''sniper rifle''.
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* RescueRomance: The relationship between [[spoiler:Graves and Rarity]] really takes off when the two are waylaid by vicious predators. It's a rare mutual case since each saves the other at different points. More importantly, the situation gives them the opportunity to open up about themselves.
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* TearJerker: Graves' past. He watched everyone close to him get slaughtered horribly…TWICE. The first was [[spoiler: his family and town getting butchered by Orcs]] when he was 10. The second time was when he had to endure [[spoiler: the Firstborn Dragon Typhon obliterate his TrueCompanions during Operation Elder.]] It's no wonder that Graves has become the steely-eyed man he is today.
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* TearJerker: Graves' past. He watched everyone close to him get slaughtered horribly…TWICE. The first was [[spoiler: his family and town getting butchered by Orcs]] when he was 10. The second time was when he had to endure [[spoiler: the Firstborn Dragon Typhon obliterate his TrueCompanions during Operation Elder.]] It's no wonder that Graves has become the steely-eyed man he is today. Then, just when he seemed to be learning to love life again [[spoiler:the LotusEaterMachine brought all of his issues back with a vengeance.]]
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* BrokenAce: Graves. One of the most decorated and successful marshals ever, good with animals and kids, always ready to help others, and a HumbleHero to boot. But, as later stories show, a lot of that comes from a very dark and sad place.
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* TheAce: Shining Armor, whom Soarin calls a seen-once-in-a-century magical prodigy. Soarin states that Shining could [[CurbStompBattle curbstomp]] Graves in a straight duel, though Graves would have the advantage in other situations.
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** Even Twilight gets in on the act when she thinks she's found evidence that Graves isn't who he claims he is. She quickly finds out she's wrong.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Graves in the entire second story. Twilight (of all people) is the one to set him straight.
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* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:Graves takes a crossbow bolt laced with enough Heart's Desire to kill ''Celestia'' in the chest to save her and uses the last of his strength to send a bolt of lightning at the attacker.]]
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Graves stabs himself in the chest to escape the LotusEaterMachine.]]
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* KillTheOnesYouLove: [[spoiler:Graves is only able to escape the LotusEaterMachine in story 8 by ''stabbing his pregnant wife Rarity''.]]
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* HeroWithBadPublicity: Due to being covered in scars, people keep seeing Graves as a monster despite the fact that he earned those scars saving them. One tribe even took those scars to be proof that he made a DealWithTheDevil and formed an angry mob. It's one of the reasons he doesn't have very good self-esteem.
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* BigBrotherWorship: Twilight, much like in canon. She responds to the reveal that [[spoiler:Graves entered the academy at age 12, when Shining had entered it at age 15]] with sputtering disbelief. She refuses to believe that there could be anyone smarter or better than her brother.
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: In the first story, the Mane Six are chagrined when they realize they never asked Graves his name each time they met him that day. In the second story, Twilight of all people has to inform Graves that the others were upset because he refused to spend more time with them, and not because he couldn't help out more.
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* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Graves doesn't have the magical reserves needed to cast stronger spells. All he can really use is the most basic lightning spell. That combined with his hard-earned skills and his modified spellgun are all he needs.
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* RedOniBlueOni: Deconstructed. Ironside explains that [[spoiler:Shining Armor]] may have wanted to understand Graves, but their backgrounds and inherent natures were too different for that to happen. While they did become friends, they still didn't have anything in common.
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* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler: Operation Elder]]. Five men left, one returned. [[spoiler:He was alos one of the only survivors of his hometown after it was ravaged by orcs.]]
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* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler: Operation Elder]]. Five men left, one returned. [[spoiler:He was alos also one of the only survivors of his hometown after it was ravaged by orcs.]]
** SurvivorsGuilt: The above has left him with a ''bad'' case of this. [[spoiler:The LotusEaterMachine apparently brought this back in full force, which is why he leaves Ponyville. He doesn't believe he ''deserves'' to be happy.]]
** SurvivorsGuilt: The above has left him with a ''bad'' case of this. [[spoiler:The LotusEaterMachine apparently brought this back in full force, which is why he leaves Ponyville. He doesn't believe he ''deserves'' to be happy.]]
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* RedBaron: The Ghost of Thunder. People started calling Graves that since he's a deadly combination of ColdSniper and ShockAndAwe.
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* RedBaron: The Ghost of Thunder. People started calling Graves that since he's a deadly combination of ColdSniper and ShockAndAwe.ShockAndAwe that just won't die.
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* ShroudedByMyth: Graves. He's magically weak marshal whose success is due to an insane training regimen and work ethic. His success and his tendency to avoid getting close to others has lead to a bunch of rumors claiming that he's some kind of SuperSoldier.
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* ShroudedByMyth: ShroudedInMyth: Graves. He's just a magically weak marshal with NoSocialSkills whose success is due to an insane training regimen and work ethic. His success and his tendency to avoid getting close to others has lead to a bunch of rumors claiming that he's some kind of SuperSoldier.
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* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: The true story about Operation Elder was covered up and the marshals involved in it effectively unpersoned [[spoiler:since admitting that Equestrian marshals slew an ancient revered dragon would have sparked a war between Equestria and dragonkind.]]
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* HarmfulHealing: Lazarus Pits can heal even the worst injuries in minutes, but those minutes are pure agony. Equestria's military academy keeps a Lazarus Pit in their basement to "heal" recruits who injure themselves doing stupid things to teach them not to be idiots. Graves exploited the pit as part of his TrainingFromHell.
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* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: In Operation Elder [[spoiler:Graves slew a draconic demigod with a bolt of lightning.]]
** BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:The rest of his team sacrificed themselves buying Graves the minutes he needed to create that bolt.]]
** BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:The rest of his team sacrificed themselves buying Graves the minutes he needed to create that bolt.]]
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* NoSocialSkills: Graves is totally unprepared to handle people who actually ''want'' his company. Twilight can hardly believe that she's met someone who has even more trouble making friends than her.
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* VitriolicBestBuds: Graves and [[spoiler:Shining Armor]]. During their years in the military academy, the latter eventually [[DefrostingIceQueen wore down Graves]]. In the present they have a strong yet snarky friendship. [[RedOniBlueOni Despite having nothing in common.]]
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* DarkAndTroubledPast/DoomedHometown: [[spoiler: Graves' hometown was destroyed by orc raiders, who slaughtered his parents. Then, after finally joining a BandOfBrothers, they all die.
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* MyGreatestFailure: According to General Ironside, [[spoiler: Graves' attitude towards Operation Elder]].
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* DeadlyGas: Not in the traditional sense: this miasma drives you into an insane, murderous rage. If someone doesn't put you down first, you're going to hurt people. [[spoiler: Made exponentially worse by the fact that a dragon demigod has been nesting right in the middle of it for who knows how long.]]
* DeadlyGas: Not in the traditional sense: this miasma drives you into an insane, murderous rage. If someone doesn't put you down first, you're going to hurt people. [[spoiler: Made exponentially worse by the fact that a dragon demigod has been nesting right in the middle of it for who knows how long.]]
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* TearJerker: Graves' past. [[spoiler: He watched everyone close to him get slaughtered horribly…TWICE. The first was [[spoiler: his family and town get getting butchered by Orcs Orcs]] when he was 10. The second time was when he had to endure [[spoiler: the Firstborn Dragon Typhon obliterate his TrueCompanions in order to kill said Firstborn. during Operation Elder.]] It's no wonder that Graves has become the steely-eyed man he is today.]]
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