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* TomboyAndGirlGirl: Twilight Twinkle and Shining Sapphire, respectively.

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* WhamLine: Chapter 27, [[spoiler:"Behold, Nightmare Eclipse."]]

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** "Oh, it's only me, dear. Only your mother." - [[spoiler:Chrysalis, the Changeling Queen]] to Wisp.
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Chapter 27, [[spoiler:"Behold, Nightmare Eclipse."]]
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* RealityEnsues: When [[spoiler:Nightmare Eclipse attacks Shining Sapphire, she breaks one of the mare's back legs with her first attack. At the end of the fic, when Shining Sapphire's recovered from the rest of her injuries, she still has a noticeable limp.]]
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* AccidentallyAccurate: Twinkle flippantly suggests that Star-Swirl the Bearded's journal is kept in a vault inside another vault inside a bunker guarded by sword-wielding golems. Then she finds out that it is.
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* HeroicRROD: [[spoiler:Shining Armor won't wake up, no matter what healing spells are used on him. Then Twinkle notices that what with the wedding planning and the stress, he's been pushing himself too hard, and has in fact just fallen asleep.]]

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* HeroicRROD: [[spoiler:Shining [[spoiler:After knocking himself out, Shining Armor won't wake up, no matter what healing spells are used on him. Then Twinkle notices that what with the wedding planning and the stress, he's been pushing himself too hard, and has in fact just fallen asleep.]]
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Inverted. Twinkle considers Spike her big brother, and is incredibly protective of him. She gets angry at Twilight Sparkle for almost leaving him in Ponyville on her birthday.

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* BreakingTheFourthWall: Pinkie Pie... doesn't do this. Except once, where after being badly battered with a piano she reappears a few paragraphs later as fresh as a daisy. She explains it as a "blatant retcon in my favor", before mentioning that she'd been "saving them for the wedding".

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* BreakingTheFourthWall: Pinkie Pie... Pie doesn't do this. Except once, where after being badly battered with a piano she reappears a few paragraphs later as fresh as a daisy. She explains it as a "blatant retcon in my favor", before mentioning that she'd been "saving them for the wedding".


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** Pinkie Pie manages to get into the library and place herself in-between the Twilights, and Spike, without any of them noticing until she starts speaking.
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** Gossip sets her off as well.


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** The last time somepony told Spike there'd be "no heavy lifting", he ended up carrying a whole roll of parchment, three puppies, some guard armor and twenty eight books.
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* AreWeThereYet: Naturally occurs when Rarity, Rainbow, Twilight and Midday follow after Spike in Rarity's dragon costume. Twilight threatens to "turn the dragon around" in the middle of an argument, before admitting she has no idea why she said that.

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* ABirthdayNotABreak: Midday regards most of her birthdays as terrible. Invoked with chapters 62 and 63, which BreakTheCutie even further, and just happen to be named "Happy Birthday, Twilight Twinkle".

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* ABirthdayNotABreak: Midday regards most of her birthdays as terrible.terrible, and mention is made of her having to go to school on her birthdays. Invoked with chapters 62 and 63, which BreakTheCutie even further, and just happen to be named "Happy Birthday, Twilight Twinkle".



* BlessedWithSuck: Cadence's talents with love come with a drawback, in that she can sense where ponies who are in love have broken up, or had a fight, or worse. And it's even worse with true love. Lyra and Bon-Bon having an argument causes her physical pain.



** Twinkle's cover as an accountant almost seems like an afterthoughtt, until Flim and Flam show up. Twinkle introduces herself to them as a "consulting accountant".



** Twinkle's cover as an accountant almost seems like an afterthough, until Flim and Flam show up. Twinkle introduces herself to them as a "consulting accountant".

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** Twinkle's cover as an accountant almost seems like an afterthough, until Flim and Flam show up. Twinkle introduces herself Cadence's ability to them as a "consulting accountant".sense when love is being "threatened".



** Granny Smith manages one that manages to reduce the temperature around her, in mid-summer.

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** Granny Smith manages one that manages to reduce the temperature around her, in mid-summer.mid-spring.
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* FaceDoodling: Twinkle's first encounter with the CMC involves her opening her eyes to find Scootaloo about to try and draw on her face (she was daydreaming on a bench).
** Shining Armor tries not to fall asleep on the job for fear of this happening.


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** Whatever happened when the CMC tried to be Assistant Librarians. Twilight Sparkle forbade them from ever setting hoof in her library again. It didn't help that they somehow managed to set Spike on fire, with a telescope.
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** After hearing about Trixie and Twinkle's duel, Twilight remarks that [[{{Irony}} she's glad no-one in her family's that crazy]]. The scene then cuts to Cadence and Shining Armor fooling around.


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** Trixie is incapable of speech before noon or coffee, whichever comes first.


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** Trixie asks what the ponies of Ponyville do to [[Series/DoctorWho ward off "Boredom?" "Trixie was going to say self-harm"]].
** Twinkle lists the activites of Ponyvillians: They talk, go for picnics, have wholesome athletic activities, [[Film/BlazingSaddles play chess, and screw]]. Much like the actors in that movie, Trixie can't help but laugh over that one.
** When Trixie sits in a chair Rainbow Dash had filled with whoopee cushions, the narration states "[[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy There was a terrible, terrible noise. There was a terrible, terrible silence.]]


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* SoreLoser: Twinkle speculates that Trixie is one, after their ludicrously short duel. Considering Trixie holds a grudge about it for several chapters, she might just have a point.
** Rainbow Dash takes being pranked poorly.


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* WizardDuel: A drunken Trixie and Twinkle agree to have one set at high noon. Only they arrive early, and the fight only lasts a few seconds.
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** An early chapter has Twilight remark that "Pinkie's pretty persistent at persuading ponies to participate in her parties". Twinkle tries to respond with alliteration of her own, only to fail half-way through.


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* {{Angrish}}: Rainbow Dash's reaction to being tricked by an "egghead".


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* DramaQueen: Averted in an early chapter when Rarity runs out of taffeta in the middle of working. Instead of loudly declaring it the "Worst! Possible! Thing!" she just states that it's annoying.


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* OrphanedPunchline: "Are you kidding me? I'm not going back in there! It's full of oatmeal!"
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** Chapter 2: while looking through a book on children's tales, Midday has a bad reaction to Discord, and an even worse one to Changelings. It's several chapters before we learn why, though.


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** Twinkle tells Spike that how she got her Cutie Mark "[[ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye Isn't a long story. I just wanted to say 'it's a long story'.]]"
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** Ditzy manages to almost instantly figure out how many scrolls are in the Star-Swirl the Bearded wing of the Royal Canterlot Archives (for the record: seven hundred thousand, nine hundred and eighty-five).
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** Twinkle manages to be worse, haggling for over an hour with Rarity over a dress.


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* ImmortalityHurts: Eventually Twinkle wants to go home so that she can apologise to her mother for what she said the last time they'd talked, and avert this trope.


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** Twinkle has a precision "B" strike when she finds out the Doctor was (or will be) responsible for the Cutie Mark Swapping spell.


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* ARareSentence: "She wants to destroy time so it won't be Tuesday."
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** The title for chapter 55 is [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10"Blink" Quite Possibly]], and a reference to the Peter Davidson-Doctor episode Recap/DoctorWhoS19E3"Kinda". The chapter is Doctor-heavy.
** The title for chapter 56 is [[Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance A Distinctly Average Paradox]], since the chapter is about the events of "It's About Time". It's also a WhatCouldHaveBeenMoment, since the characters were going to "infiltrate" the Canterlot Archives by singing "With Catlike Tread", for RefugeInAudacity (not even the author knows why they didn't).

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** The title for chapter 55 is [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10"Blink" [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink Quite Possibly]], and also functions as a reference to the Peter Davidson-Doctor episode Recap/DoctorWhoS19E3"Kinda".[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E3Kinda Kinda]]. The chapter is Doctor-heavy.
** The title for chapter 56 is [[Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance A Distinctly Average Paradox]], since the chapter is about the events of "It's About Time". It's also a WhatCouldHaveBeenMoment, WhatCouldHaveBeen moment, since the characters were going to "infiltrate" the Canterlot Archives by singing "With Catlike Tread", for RefugeInAudacity (not even the author knows why they didn't).
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** The title for chapter 55 is [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10"Blink" Quite Possibly]], and a reference to the Peter Davidson-Doctor episode Recap/DoctorWhoS19E3"Kinda". The chapter is Doctor-heavy.
** The title for chapter 56 is [[Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance A Distinctly Average Paradox]], since the chapter is about the events of "It's About Time". It's also a WhatCouldHaveBeenMoment, since the characters were going to "infiltrate" the Canterlot Archives by singing "With Catlike Tread", for RefugeInAudacity (not even the author knows why they didn't).
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* HypocriticalHumor: Future!Pinkie Pie states that Twilight Sparkle [[Film/TheLordOfTheRing is never late, that she arrives precisely when she means to]]. When Twilight Sparkle appears seconds later, Pinkie informs her that she's late.

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* HypocriticalHumor: Future!Pinkie Pie states that Twilight Sparkle [[Film/TheLordOfTheRing [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings is never late, that she arrives precisely when she means to]]. When Twilight Sparkle appears seconds later, Pinkie informs her that she's late.



** Watching Pinkie Pie's haggling strategy, Midday notes that it's called [[WesternAnimation/DuckSeason the Duck Season Strategy]] but nopony knows why.

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** Watching Pinkie Pie's haggling strategy, Midday notes that it's called [[WesternAnimation/DuckSeason [[WesternAnimation/RabbitFire the Duck Season Strategy]] but nopony knows why.

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** While ruminating on the origins on Ponyville, Twinkle wonders why they called it that, and whether [[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents Tim]] or [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls Townsville]] were taken.



** Rainbow Dash does this at one point, which stops Twinkle mid-rant. As she notes "when Rainbow Dash was raising eyebrows, it was time to stop".



* IncrediblyLameFun: The tao of Twilight Sparkle, "organising is always exciting". She then proceeds to describe exactly how she writes up her monthly schedule for at least a few hours.



* TheMunchausen: Any tale Rainbow Dash tells will eventually mutate into one of heroism and darin' do. For example, trying to avoid Pinkie Pie somehow involved fighting off a band of sky-pirates. The only tale Rainbow Dash will never exaggerate is the "Party of One" incident.



** While out shopping, Twinkle encounters Celestia disguised as [[FanFic/Scootamom an ordinary pony]].

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** While out shopping, Twinkle encounters Celestia disguised as [[FanFic/Scootamom [[FanFic/{{Scootamom}} an ordinary pony]].


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** Watching Pinkie Pie's haggling strategy, Midday notes that it's called [[WesternAnimation/DuckSeason the Duck Season Strategy]] but nopony knows why.


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* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Twinkle says this to Silver Spoon, after her speech to Diamond Tiara.
** She tries it again with an angry Fluttershy, triggered her MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment in the process.

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** Depending on the lie, she'll either immediately feel compelled to backspace, or her vocal cords just stop working, like when she tries to claim she's a "mature and responsible adult".

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** Depending on the lie, she'll either immediately feel compelled to backspace, or her vocal cords just stop working, like when she tries to claim she's a that she and Rainbow Dash were both "mature and responsible adult".adults".



** Before heading to Canterlot with Rainbow Dash and the [=CMC=], Twinkle predicts they will run off at some point. Lo, and behold at the end of the chapter, they do just that. She isn't even surprised.



* HyperAwareness: Twinkle has something like this, being able to notice things others don't, as well as having abnormally good hearing. It doesn't come up too often, and it isn't portrayed as a superpower, just something she has. Of course, some of it might also just be her GenreSavvy-ness.



* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Princess Celestia, during the Wedding arc. Justified, since if she knew about the Changelings, she'd just directly attack Chrysalis, which Twinkle is certain would endanger Cadence and Shining Armor.

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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Princess Celestia, during the Wedding arc. Justified, since if she knew about the [[spoiler:the Changelings, she'd just directly attack Chrysalis, which Twinkle is certain would endanger Cadence and Shining Armor.]]



* MadeOfExplodium: The Cutie Mark Crusaders once made an oven explode. It convinced them they probably weren't going to become Cutie Mark Crusaders Pastry Chefs.



* MamaBear: Princess Celestia makes it quite clear off the bat, that if Twilight Twinkle is someone trying to hurt Twilight Sparkle, then she's going to find herself at the business end of an angry PhysicalGod.

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* MamaBear: Princess Celestia makes it quite clear off the bat, that if Twilight Twinkle is someone trying to hurt Twilight Sparkle, then she's going to find herself at the business end of an angry PhysicalGod. It's also the reason she's left out of the loop regarding [[spoiler:the Changelings]], because Twinkle knows she'll instantly confront them, even if her fighting skills are somewhat rusty after years of disuse.


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** Spitfire apparently knows one hundred and twelve separate butt-jokes.


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* SanitySlippage: Happens to Twinkle in the seventh flashback, and happens ''hard''.


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** While out shopping, Twinkle encounters Celestia disguised as [[FanFic/Scootamom an ordinary pony]].
** Also, apparently no Alicorn is able to knit. The author confirmed this one was a deliberate shout-out.
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* EscapeArtist: As Wisp explains, when you've spent your life trying to avoid the Pies sneaking past Changelings is easy.


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* HypocriticalHumor: Future!Pinkie Pie states that Twilight Sparkle [[Film/TheLordOfTheRing is never late, that she arrives precisely when she means to]]. When Twilight Sparkle appears seconds later, Pinkie informs her that she's late.


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** Apparently when Future!Pinkie was carrying Banoffee Pie, she drank some coffee, and since the resultant filly was even more hyperactive than her mother, Pinkie swore off drinking coffee ever again.


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** Future!Pinkie Pie declares that the Pie family motto is "[[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Go beyond the impossible, and kick reason to the curb!]]"

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** In one of the Hearth's Warming chapters, mention is made of a law which made an invitation to somepony's house for tea legally binding, until the lawsuits piled up and the law was gently buried. Many chapters later, Pinkie uses this law to make everypony attend a party.



* BrokenPedastal: Played for laughs with Rainbow Dash, when she learns that several Wonderbolts are "eggheads".

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* BrokenPedastal: BrokenPedestal: Played for laughs with Rainbow Dash, when she learns that several Wonderbolts are "eggheads".



** When Shining Armor sees Cadence dressed up for a Hearts and Hooves day date, he's rendered speechless.



* INeedAFreakingDrink: Trixie's reaction to Hearts and Hooves day is to find the nearest bottle of bourbon. And again, when she, Twilight and Twinkle realise what the Cutie Mark Crusaders are up to.



* OhCrap: Twinkle and Trixie's reaction to learning the Cutie Mark Crusaders have gotten their hooves on a potion-recipe book. And then again when Twilight asks what a love poison is.



* OneOfTheKids: Twinkle gets on pretty well with the Cutie Mark Crusaders, for the most part. During a snowball fight, she notices Diamond Tiara, and when Scootaloo suggests aiming at her, Twinkle chides her... because as the oldest pony present, she gets the first throw.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted, when Twilight finds out who Twinkle is. After that she starts calling Twinkle by her first name, which makes some conversations confusing.



** When [[spoiler:Twinkle and Chrysalis fight]], Twinkle quotes a line from Franchise/{{Bionicle}}.

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** Applejack's reaction to the Hearts and Hooves Day problem? Asking [[Film/BlazingSaddles what in the wild world of sports is going on]].
** When [[spoiler:Twinkle and Chrysalis fight]], Twinkle quotes a line from Franchise/{{Bionicle}}. "Peace loving, not weak."


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* ShoutOutToShakespeare: The titles for chapters 38 and 39 are a reference to a line from Theatre/{{Hamlet}}.
** When Twinkle learns the Cutie Mark Crusaders have their hooves on a potion-recipe book, she mutters "Alicorns and ministers of grace, defend us".
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** Among the mentioned possibilities of Cutie Mark Failure, the narration notes that sometimes it results in [[JohnMajor clowns becoming politicians]].

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* BrokenPedastal: Played for laughs with Rainbow Dash, when she learns that several Wonderbolts are "eggheads".



* CampGay: The pony managing the theatre in Canterlot Castle pretends to be this. His actual voice is much deeper.

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* CampGay: The pony managing the theatre in Canterlot Castle pretends to be this. His actual voice is much deeper.He's actually got a very deep and clear voice.



** Played straight when Twinkle mentions that several Wonderbolts have doctorates, much to Rainbow Dash's alarm.



** Any time Twinkle is terrified, she teleports, with no control over where she goes. In one instance, this results in her teleporting from the Crystal Empire to Ponvyille, which in this story is ''several hundred miles''.



* {{Retgone}}: Twilight Twinkle's father, Comet Chaser, courtesy of an angry Discord. After three years, Twinkle starts wondering if he ever existed at all, or if he's just somepony Discord made up to mess with her. [[spoiler:Turns out he does.]]

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* {{Retgone}}: Twilight [[spoiler:Twilight Twinkle's father, Comet Chaser, courtesy of an angry Discord. After three years, Twinkle starts wondering if he ever existed at all, or if he's just somepony Discord made up to mess with her. [[spoiler:Turns her, which doesn't help her already terrible mood. Turns out he does.]]
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* CallingTheOldMan: Twilight Twinkle to Princess Twilight Sparkle in the sixth flashback, pointing out her mother was barely there during her childhood. She almost instantly regrets it, but by then it's too late.

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* CallingTheOldMan: CallingTheOldManOut: Twilight Twinkle to Princess Twilight Sparkle in the sixth flashback, pointing out her mother was barely there during her childhood. She almost instantly regrets it, but by then it's too late.
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** Don't mention Seaponies around Twilight Sparkle.


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* DamnedByFaintPraise: Twilight Sparkle's opinion on the sixth Daring Do book is that "it's readable".


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* FanonDiscontinuity: Invoked. As far as Twilight Sparkle's concerned, Daring Do never had a sidekick.


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** Soarin' of the Wonderbolts has a doctorate.
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** The medical staff of Ponyville's hospital, who have somepony keep an eye on Rainbow Dash whenever she practices her stunts.


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* NotThatKindOfDoctor: Averted with Princess Celestia. She ''is'' a doctor. Or rather has been, at some point (among other things).
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* CallingTheOldMan: Twilight Twinkle to Princess Twilight Sparkle in the sixth flashback, pointing out her mother was barely there during her childhood. She almost instantly regrets it, but by then it's too late.
** She tries again at the end of the story, but with less anger this time.


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* StepfordSmiler: Twinkle's well on her way towards this by the end of the story. She would actually be there, were it not for her inability to lie.

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** The Pie offspring, most of whom have their mother's wild mane and general weirdness (though none are shown that have Pinkie Sense), even the adopted ones. Per WordOfGod, her firstborn Banana Bread is more along the lines of her aunt Maud.



* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:As they're fighting, Chrysalis mentions she considered replacing Princess Luna, before choosing Cadance. The reason she didn't? It didn't seem worth the ''effort''.]]

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* KickTheDog: Twilight Twinkle's CallingTheOldManOut moment ends with her saying that if [[spoiler:Discord had erased her mother, she'd have celebrated.]]
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* TheRockStar: Future!Sweetie Belle has become a very successful musician, and has also apparently broken off contact with everypony she used to know.


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* ThemeNaming: Most of Future!Pinkie Pie's many, many children are named after different types of pie. Failing that, they're named after foodstuffs.

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