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* ActionGirl: Gilda and Rainbow Dash are this.
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* BattleTrophy: Initially, Twilight is this to Nightmare Moon.
* BetaCouple: [[spoiler: Moon Beam and Cherry Tart.]]
* BerserkButton: Insolence is one for Nightmare Moon.
* BigDamnHeroes: Twilight saving Nightmare Moon from [[spoiler: Silent Brook]].
* BigNo: Twilight after [[spoiler: Silent Brook betrays her.]]
* BetaCouple: [[spoiler: Moon Beam and Cherry Tart.]]
* BerserkButton: Insolence is one for Nightmare Moon.
* BigDamnHeroes: Twilight saving Nightmare Moon from [[spoiler: Silent Brook]].
* BigNo: Twilight after [[spoiler: Silent Brook betrays her.]]
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* FalseFriend: [[spoiler:Silent Brook to Twilight.]]
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* TheNightThatNeverEnds: A given, since this was Nightmare Moon's plan in the canon story. The problems of this causing frosts and crop failures is addressed by Nightmare Moon giving the moon 'night cycles' which are just like normal nights, and 'day cycles' in which the moon emits heat to warm the world.
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* TheNightThatNeverEnds: A given, since this was Nightmare Moon's plan in the canon story. The problems of this causing frosts and crop failures is addressed by Nightmare Moon giving the moon 'night cycles' "night cycles" which are just like normal nights, and 'day cycles' "day cycles" in which the moon emits heat to warm the world.
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* HasTwoMommies: Moon Beam [[spoiler: after Twilight and Nightmare Moon become marefriends.]]
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* TheyDo: Nightmare Moon returns Twilight's feelings after they talk about Twilight's confession of love.
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Part of the reason that Nightmare made Cloudy Horizon the High Commander is that she stood out as being tougher and more experienced than the other recruits.
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: Part of the reason that Nightmare made Cloudy Horizon the High Commander is that she stood out as being tougher and more experienced than the other recruits.
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* BaitAndSwitchTyrant: [[spoiler:Nightmare Moon appears to be a BadBoss at first and is often harsh to the ponies she interacts directly with, but later is shown to be doing what she thinks is necessary for Equestria and begins to soften up on others, eventually deciding she would rather be celebrated than feared.]]
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* BaitAndSwitchTyrant: [[spoiler:Nightmare Moon appears to be a BadBoss MeanBoss at first and is often harsh to the ponies she interacts directly with, but later is shown to be doing what she thinks is necessary for Equestria and begins to soften up on others, eventually deciding she would rather be celebrated than feared.]]
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* InfantImmortality: The story contains some fairly gruesome fight and death scenes, but no foals have died on-screen yet.
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* InfantImmortality: ImprobableInfantSurvival: The story contains some fairly gruesome fight and death scenes, but no foals have died on-screen yet.
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What shall happen to the world under Nightmare Moon’s rule? Only time shall tell…
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What shall happen to the world under Nightmare Moon’s Moon's rule? Only time shall tell…
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* AdaptationalBadass: Gilda the griffon, after joining Nightmare Moon’s army.
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Celestia’s royal guard mounts an attack on Nightmare Moon’s castle in New Mareland at the peak of the civil war. [[spoiler: And they brought dragons.]]
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: She starts doing this even before she falls in love, but Twilight decides to protect Nightmare’s life even though letting her die would free Equestria. Actually becomes this after Twilight confesses her love for Nightmare.
* AMatchMadeInStockholm: Eventually what Twilight and Nightmare Moon’s relationship becomes.
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Celestia’s royal guard mounts an attack on Nightmare Moon’s castle in New Mareland at the peak of the civil war. [[spoiler: And they brought dragons.]]
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: She starts doing this even before she falls in love, but Twilight decides to protect Nightmare’s life even though letting her die would free Equestria. Actually becomes this after Twilight confesses her love for Nightmare.
* AMatchMadeInStockholm: Eventually what Twilight and Nightmare Moon’s relationship becomes.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Gilda the griffon, after joining Nightmare Moon’s Moon's army.
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs:Celestia’s Celestia's royal guard mounts an attack on Nightmare Moon’s Moon's castle in New Mareland at the peak of the civil war. [[spoiler: And they brought dragons.]]
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: She starts doing this even before she falls in love, but Twilight decides to protectNightmare’s Nightmare's life even though letting her die would free Equestria. Actually becomes this after Twilight confesses her love for Nightmare.
* AMatchMadeInStockholm: Eventually what Twilight and NightmareMoon’s Moon's relationship becomes.
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs:
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: She starts doing this even before she falls in love, but Twilight decides to protect
* AMatchMadeInStockholm: Eventually what Twilight and Nightmare
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* ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: While visiting Valtaura, Nightmare and Twilight go shopping on Tyra’s account.
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* ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: While visiting Valtaura, Nightmare and Twilight go shopping on Tyra’s Tyra's account.
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* AwfulTruth: Celestia’s actions against Cloudy Horizon are this to Twilight.
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* AwfulTruth: Celestia’s Celestia's actions against Cloudy Horizon are this to Twilight.
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* BloodKnight: Although Gilda joined Nightmare’s army to get back at her father, she revels in fighting, even against her own people. This is actually part of the reason Gilda is rebelling against her father in the first place.
* BoisterousBruiser: While not the best fighter around, Gilda is shown to be better than the average soldier in Nightmare’s army and is quite loudmouthed. This trait often gets her into trouble with her superiors though.
* BoisterousBruiser: While not the best fighter around, Gilda is shown to be better than the average soldier in Nightmare’s army and is quite loudmouthed. This trait often gets her into trouble with her superiors though.
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* BloodKnight: Although Gilda joined Nightmare’s Nightmare's army to get back at her father, she revels in fighting, even against her own people. This is actually part of the reason Gilda is rebelling against her father in the first place.
* BoisterousBruiser: While not the best fighter around, Gilda is shown to be better than the average soldier inNightmare’s Nightmare's army and is quite loudmouthed. This trait often gets her into trouble with her superiors though.
* BoisterousBruiser: While not the best fighter around, Gilda is shown to be better than the average soldier in
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* TheCaptain: Cloudy Horizon, being High Commander of Nightmare Moon’s armies.
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* TheCaptain: Cloudy Horizon, being High Commander of Nightmare Moon’s Moon's armies.
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* TheChainsOfCommanding: Twilight is starting to feel this on her journey to Drakenrange, using soldiers who don’t respect her and may be treasonous.
* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler: Silent Brook, Cherry Jubilee, and Blueblood so far. Some ponies from Ponyville were killed in a griffon attack, but the extent of the damage hasn’t been revealed yet.]]
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Twilight tries to help everypony she can, including both Nightmare Moon and Nightmare’s enemies. This causes her a lot of trouble, but she is starting to get over it.
* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler: Silent Brook, Cherry Jubilee, and Blueblood so far. Some ponies from Ponyville were killed in a griffon attack, but the extent of the damage hasn’t been revealed yet.]]
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Twilight tries to help everypony she can, including both Nightmare Moon and Nightmare’s enemies. This causes her a lot of trouble, but she is starting to get over it.
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* TheChainsOfCommanding: Twilight is starting to feel this on her journey to Drakenrange, using soldiers who don’t don't respect her and may be treasonous.
* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler: Silent Brook, Cherry Jubilee, and Blueblood so far. Some ponies from Ponyville were killed in a griffon attack, but the extent of the damagehasn’t hasn't been revealed yet.]]
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Twilight tries to help everypony she can, including both Nightmare Moon andNightmare’s Nightmare's enemies. This causes her a lot of trouble, but she is starting to get over it.
* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler: Silent Brook, Cherry Jubilee, and Blueblood so far. Some ponies from Ponyville were killed in a griffon attack, but the extent of the damage
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* CollateralAngst: Some of the attacks on Nightmare Moon and the counterattacks against the aggressors focus on Twilight’s reaction to them.
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* CollateralAngst: Some of the attacks on Nightmare Moon and the counterattacks against the aggressors focus on Twilight’s Twilight's reaction to them.
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* DecisiveBattle: The battle for Nightmare Moon’s castle in New Mareland, which marked the climax of the Equestrian’s civil war.
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* DecisiveBattle: The battle for Nightmare Moon’s Moon's castle in New Mareland, which marked the climax of the Equestrian’s Equestrian's civil war.
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* {{Depower}}: After being captured by Nightmare Moon, Twilight’s magic is sealed with a binding ring and she loses the ability to use magic. [[spoiler: She gets it back though.]]
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* {{Depower}}: After being captured by Nightmare Moon, Twilight’s Twilight's magic is sealed with a binding ring and she loses the ability to use magic. [[spoiler: She gets it back though.]]
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* DreamingOfTimesGoneBy: After the empathic bond between Twilight and Nightmare forms, Twilight’s AnxietyDreams start to be replaced with visions of Nightmare’s past.
* DreamWeaver: Nightmare Moon, as part of her powers as Queen of the Night. She uses them to view Twilight’s AnxietyDreams and offers to make them stop, but Twilight declines.
** However, Nightmare couldn’t see into or shape Twilight’s dreams when she was DreamingOfTimesGoneBy except to share a vision willingly, which frustrated her.
* DreamWeaver: Nightmare Moon, as part of her powers as Queen of the Night. She uses them to view Twilight’s AnxietyDreams and offers to make them stop, but Twilight declines.
** However, Nightmare couldn’t see into or shape Twilight’s dreams when she was DreamingOfTimesGoneBy except to share a vision willingly, which frustrated her.
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* DreamingOfTimesGoneBy: After the empathic bond between Twilight and Nightmare forms, Twilight’s Twilight's AnxietyDreams start to be replaced with visions of Nightmare’s Nightmare's past.
* DreamWeaver: Nightmare Moon, as part of her powers as Queen of the Night. She uses them to viewTwilight’s Twilight's AnxietyDreams and offers to make them stop, but Twilight declines.
** However, Nightmarecouldn’t couldn't see into or shape Twilight’s Twilight's dreams when she was DreamingOfTimesGoneBy except to share a vision willingly, which frustrated her.
* DreamWeaver: Nightmare Moon, as part of her powers as Queen of the Night. She uses them to view
** However, Nightmare
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* EasilyForgiven: After [[spoiler: Silent Brook’s betrayal]] Twilight just seems to forget how Nightmare Moon treated her, and immediately forgives Nightmare after she [[spoiler: brands Twilight]]. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Nightmare Moon.
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* EasilyForgiven: After [[spoiler: Silent Brook’s Brook's betrayal]] Twilight just seems to forget how Nightmare Moon treated her, and immediately forgives Nightmare after she [[spoiler: brands Twilight]]. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Nightmare Moon.
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* ForgottenFirstMeeting: How Silent Brook knows Twilight. [[spoiler: It doesn’t happen quite how she says, since it’s part of her plan to explain why she looks familiar and to seduce Twilight in order to find out Nightmare’s weakness.]]
* FriendToAllChildren: It is revealed that Nightmare Moon still has Luna’s soft spot for foals.
* FriendToAllChildren: It is revealed that Nightmare Moon still has Luna’s soft spot for foals.
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* ForgottenFirstMeeting: How Silent Brook knows Twilight. [[spoiler: It doesn’t doesn't happen quite how she says, since it’s it's part of her plan to explain why she looks familiar and to seduce Twilight in order to find out Nightmare’s Nightmare's weakness.]]
* FriendToAllChildren: It is revealed that Nightmare Moon still hasLuna’s Luna's soft spot for foals.
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* HoneyTrap: [[spoiler: Part of Silent Brook’s plan.]]
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* HoneyTrap: [[spoiler: Part of Silent Brook’s Brook's plan.]]
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* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Nightmare Moon uses Twilight for ‘relief.’
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* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Nightmare Moon uses Twilight for ‘relief.’'relief.'
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* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Some of Twilight’s friends feel she has done this.
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* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Some of Twilight’s Twilight's friends feel she has done this.
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* LoveEpiphany: Twilight’s dreams force her to realize that she wants to stay with Nightmare Moon because Twilight loves her. She forgets this after wakening, but realizes it again after preventing another assassination attempt.
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* LoveEpiphany: Twilight’s Twilight's dreams force her to realize that she wants to stay with Nightmare Moon because Twilight loves her. She forgets this after wakening, but realizes it again after preventing another assassination attempt.
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* LoveRedeems: After accepting Twilight’s love, Nightmare Moon starts trying to become a better pony. However, WordOfGod says that she will not revert to Princess Luna.
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* LoveRedeems: After accepting Twilight’s Twilight's love, Nightmare Moon starts trying to become a better pony. However, WordOfGod says that she will not revert to Princess Luna.
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* MakeUpOrBreakUp: After being ordered to [[spoiler: kill an enemy captive]], Twilight begins to doubt the sincerity of Nightmare Moon’s feelings and avoids her. This causes Nightmare to feel rejected and go into an UnstoppableRage, causing a fight when Twilight tries to stop her. [[spoiler: They make up, but not before Nightmare Moon brands over one of Twilight’s cutie marks.]]
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* MakeUpOrBreakUp: After being ordered to [[spoiler: kill an enemy captive]], Twilight begins to doubt the sincerity of Nightmare Moon’s Moon's feelings and avoids her. This causes Nightmare to feel rejected and go into an UnstoppableRage, causing a fight when Twilight tries to stop her. [[spoiler: They make up, but not before Nightmare Moon brands over one of Twilight’s Twilight's cutie marks.]]
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* MiseryBuildsCharacter: [[spoiler: Silent Brook’s betrayal]] helps Twilight discover her feelings for Nightmare Moon.
** Nightmare and Twilight’s fight causes Nightmare to want to be a better pony and a loved ruler.
** Nightmare and Twilight’s fight causes Nightmare to want to be a better pony and a loved ruler.
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* MiseryBuildsCharacter: [[spoiler: Silent Brook’s Brook's betrayal]] helps Twilight discover her feelings for Nightmare Moon.
** Nightmare andTwilight’s Twilight's fight causes Nightmare to want to be a better pony and a loved ruler.
** Nightmare and
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* NightmareSequence: Twilight’s AnxietyDreams play out like this.
* TheNightThatNeverEnds: A given, since this was Nightmare Moon’s plan in the canon story. The problems of this causing frosts and crop failures is addressed by Nightmare Moon giving the moon ‘night cycles’ which are just like normal nights, and ‘day cycles’ in which the moon emits heat to warm the world.
* TheNightThatNeverEnds: A given, since this was Nightmare Moon’s plan in the canon story. The problems of this causing frosts and crop failures is addressed by Nightmare Moon giving the moon ‘night cycles’ which are just like normal nights, and ‘day cycles’ in which the moon emits heat to warm the world.
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* NightmareSequence: Twilight’s Twilight's AnxietyDreams play out like this.
* TheNightThatNeverEnds: A given, since this was NightmareMoon’s Moon's plan in the canon story. The problems of this causing frosts and crop failures is addressed by Nightmare Moon giving the moon ‘night cycles’ 'night cycles' which are just like normal nights, and ‘day cycles’ 'day cycles' in which the moon emits heat to warm the world.
* TheNightThatNeverEnds: A given, since this was Nightmare
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* ObliviousToLove: Nightmare Moon initially mistakes Twilight’s feelings as a subject’s love for their queen, and has to use their empathic bond to figure out that it means more than that.
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* ObliviousToLove: Nightmare Moon initially mistakes Twilight’s Twilight's feelings as a subject’s subject's love for their queen, and has to use their empathic bond to figure out that it means more than that.
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* OnrushingArmy: The royal guard’s main tactic during the civil war.
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* OnrushingArmy: The royal guard’s guard's main tactic during the civil war.
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** When Nightmare catches Twilight’s friends trying to rescue her Twilight asks this of Nightmare and Moon Beam convinces her.
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** When Nightmare catches Twilight’s Twilight's friends trying to rescue her Twilight asks this of Nightmare and Moon Beam convinces her.
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* PowerNullifier: Nightmare Moon places a binding ring on Twilight’s horn shortly after capturing her, sealing Twilight’s magic. [[spoiler: Twilight destroys it when she forces a teleport spell in order to save Nightmare Moon and Moon Beam from Silent Brook.]]
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* PowerNullifier: Nightmare Moon places a binding ring on Twilight’s Twilight's horn shortly after capturing her, sealing Twilight’s Twilight's magic. [[spoiler: Twilight destroys it when she forces a teleport spell in order to save Nightmare Moon and Moon Beam from Silent Brook.]]
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* PretextForWar: The griffons are using Celestia’s disappearance at the hooves of Nightmare Moon as a reason to invade Equestria [[spoiler: which convinces the remnants of the royal guard to help them.]]
* PrinceCharmingWannabe: Blueblood tried to pull a PrinceCharming act on Nightmare Moon. It didn’t end well for him.
* PrinceCharmingWannabe: Blueblood tried to pull a PrinceCharming act on Nightmare Moon. It didn’t end well for him.
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* PretextForWar: The griffons are using Celestia’s Celestia's disappearance at the hooves of Nightmare Moon as a reason to invade Equestria [[spoiler: which convinces the remnants of the royal guard to help them.]]
* PrinceCharmingWannabe: Blueblood tried to pull a PrinceCharming act on Nightmare Moon. Itdidn’t didn't end well for him.
* PrinceCharmingWannabe: Blueblood tried to pull a PrinceCharming act on Nightmare Moon. It
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* RedshirtArmy: Nightmare Moon’s army. During the civil war, all of the castle guards [[spoiler: except Cloudy Horizon]] died.
* RelationshipUpgrade: Twilight and Brook coming together after one of Twilight’s punishments. Also, Nightmare Moon promoting Twilight from pet to royal consort.
* RelationshipUpgrade: Twilight and Brook coming together after one of Twilight’s punishments. Also, Nightmare Moon promoting Twilight from pet to royal consort.
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* RedshirtArmy: Nightmare Moon’s Moon's army. During the civil war, all of the castle guards [[spoiler: except Cloudy Horizon]] died.
* RelationshipUpgrade: Twilight and Brook coming together after one ofTwilight’s Twilight's punishments. Also, Nightmare Moon promoting Twilight from pet to royal consort.
* RelationshipUpgrade: Twilight and Brook coming together after one of
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* SaveTheVillain: Soon after being captured, Twilight decides she doesn’t want anypony to die if she can help it and tries to keep Nightmare Moon alive, tending to her injuries and shielding her from assassins.
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* SaveTheVillain: Soon after being captured, Twilight decides she doesn’t doesn't want anypony to die if she can help it and tries to keep Nightmare Moon alive, tending to her injuries and shielding her from assassins.
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* ShameIfSomethingHappened: Lord Jahurl says this to Nightmare Moon when she talks about Twilight’s injuries. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] because Jahurl admires Twilight and meant it honestly.
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* ShameIfSomethingHappened: Lord Jahurl says this to Nightmare Moon when she talks about Twilight’s Twilight's injuries. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] because Jahurl admires Twilight and meant it honestly.
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* SkilledButNaive: Even Nightmare Moon admits that Twilight is the only being besides Celestia with the power to challenge her rule, but Twilight’s inexperience and naivety prevent her from making the most of her abilities.
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* SkilledButNaive: Even Nightmare Moon admits that Twilight is the only being besides Celestia with the power to challenge her rule, but Twilight’s Twilight's inexperience and naivety prevent her from making the most of her abilities.
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* SuicideMission: Twilight’s diplomatic mission to Drakenrange is regarded as this by Jahurl.
* SwissCheeseSecurity: Twilight’s friends have no trouble breaking into Nightmare Moon’s castle. Justified because they did so right after the civil war ended and the castle had no guards left.
* SwissCheeseSecurity: Twilight’s friends have no trouble breaking into Nightmare Moon’s castle. Justified because they did so right after the civil war ended and the castle had no guards left.
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* SuicideMission: Twilight’s Twilight's diplomatic mission to Drakenrange is regarded as this by Jahurl.
* SwissCheeseSecurity:Twilight’s Twilight's friends have no trouble breaking into Nightmare Moon’s Moon's castle. Justified because they did so right after the civil war ended and the castle had no guards left.
* SwissCheeseSecurity:
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* TheyDo: Nightmare Moon returns Twilight’s feelings after they talk about Twilight’s confession of love.
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* TheyDo: Nightmare Moon returns Twilight’s Twilight's feelings after they talk about Twilight’s Twilight's confession of love.
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* TooKinkyToTorture: A minor version. Twilight responds normally to Nightmare Moon’s punishments, but her reactions to being injured during her fight with Borea leads her opponent to accuse her of being a CombatSadomasochist. She denies it, but other characters confirm that she orgasmed during the fight.
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* TooKinkyToTorture: A minor version. Twilight responds normally to Nightmare Moon’s Moon's punishments, but her reactions to being injured during her fight with Borea leads her opponent to accuse her of being a CombatSadomasochist. She denies it, but other characters confirm that she orgasmed during the fight.
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* UnequalPairing: Even after they become marefriends, Nightmare Moon is still Twilight’s queen and holds a lot of power over her.
* UngratefulBastard: Played straight then subverted with Nightmare Moon. When Twilight tries to tend to her injuries when Nightmare first takes over Celestia’s castle, she hits and tells off Twilight. However, after Twilight saves her from an assassin she is somewhat grateful and agrees to grant Twilight’s request for mercy.
* UngratefulBastard: Played straight then subverted with Nightmare Moon. When Twilight tries to tend to her injuries when Nightmare first takes over Celestia’s castle, she hits and tells off Twilight. However, after Twilight saves her from an assassin she is somewhat grateful and agrees to grant Twilight’s request for mercy.
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* UnequalPairing: Even after they become marefriends, Nightmare Moon is still Twilight’s Twilight's queen and holds a lot of power over her.
* UngratefulBastard: Played straight then subverted with Nightmare Moon. When Twilight tries to tend to her injuries when Nightmare first takes overCelestia’s Celestia's castle, she hits and tells off Twilight. However, after Twilight saves her from an assassin she is somewhat grateful and agrees to grant Twilight’s Twilight's request for mercy.
* UngratefulBastard: Played straight then subverted with Nightmare Moon. When Twilight tries to tend to her injuries when Nightmare first takes over
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* UnwantedRescue: Twilight’s friends try to rescue her, but she has already decided she wants to stay with Nightmare Moon.
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* UnwantedRescue: Twilight’s Twilight's friends try to rescue her, but she has already decided she wants to stay with Nightmare Moon.
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* WarIsHell: The ponies didn’t know much about war before, but they quickly come to this conclusion.
* TheWarRoom: Nightmare Moon’s castle has one.
* WeHaveBecomeComplacent: Specifically, Nightmare Moon believes that Celestia’s policies have made Equestria complacent, especially in concern to the griffons whom Celestia was trying to pacify with gifts and trade.
* TheWarRoom: Nightmare Moon’s castle has one.
* WeHaveBecomeComplacent: Specifically, Nightmare Moon believes that Celestia’s policies have made Equestria complacent, especially in concern to the griffons whom Celestia was trying to pacify with gifts and trade.
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* WarIsHell: The ponies didn’t didn't know much about war before, but they quickly come to this conclusion.
* TheWarRoom: NightmareMoon’s Moon's castle has one.
* WeHaveBecomeComplacent: Specifically, Nightmare Moon believes thatCelestia’s Celestia's policies have made Equestria complacent, especially in concern to the griffons whom Celestia was trying to pacify with gifts and trade.
* TheWarRoom: Nightmare
* WeHaveBecomeComplacent: Specifically, Nightmare Moon believes that
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* [[invoked]] AngstWhatAngst: After the civil war, Twilight is quick to forget how Nightmare Moon treated her, and later on shows no emotional trauma from [[spoiler: being branded.]]
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* [[AcePilot Ace Flier]]: Rainbow Dash of course.
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* [[spoiler: BackFromTheDead: After taking a sword for Nightmare Moon, Twilight dies while confessing her love. Nightmare takes her to the infirmary and uses her magic to bring Twilight back.]]
* [[spoiler: BaitAndSwitchTyrant: Nightmare Moon appears to be a BadBoss at first and is often harsh to the ponies she interacts directly with, but later is shown to be doing what she thinks is necessary for Equestria and begins to soften up on others, eventually deciding she would rather be celebrated than feared.]]
* [[spoiler: BaitAndSwitchTyrant: Nightmare Moon appears to be a BadBoss at first and is often harsh to the ponies she interacts directly with, but later is shown to be doing what she thinks is necessary for Equestria and begins to soften up on others, eventually deciding she would rather be celebrated than feared.]]
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* [[spoiler: BackFromTheDead: After [[spoiler:After taking a sword for Nightmare Moon, Twilight dies while confessing her love. Nightmare takes her to the infirmary and uses her magic to bring Twilight back.]]
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* BigDamnHeroes: Twilight saving Nightmare Moon from [[spoiler: Silent Brook.]]
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* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler: Silent Brook, Cherry Jubilee, and Blueblood so far. Some ponies from Ponyville were killed in a griffon attack, but the extent of the damage hasn’t been revealed yet.]]
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* [[spoiler: DyingDeclarationOfLove: Twilight confesses her love for Nightmare Moon while dying from a fatal chest wound. She gets better.]]
* EasilyForgiven: After [[spoiler: Silent Brook’s betrayal]] Twilight just seems to forget how Nightmare Moon treated her, and immediately forgives Nightmare after she [[spoiler: brands Twilight]]. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Nightmare Moon. See WhyWouldAnyoneTakeHerBack
* EasilyForgiven: After [[spoiler: Silent Brook’s betrayal]] Twilight just seems to forget how Nightmare Moon treated her, and immediately forgives Nightmare after she [[spoiler: brands Twilight]]. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Nightmare Moon. See WhyWouldAnyoneTakeHerBack
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* [[spoiler: DyingDeclarationOfLove: Twilight [[spoiler:Twilight confesses her love for Nightmare Moon while dying from a fatal chest wound. She gets better.]]
* EasilyForgiven: After [[spoiler: Silent Brook’s betrayal]] Twilight just seems to forget how Nightmare Moon treated her, and immediately forgives Nightmare after she [[spoiler: brands Twilight]]. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Nightmare Moon. See WhyWouldAnyoneTakeHerBack
* EasilyForgiven: After [[spoiler: Silent Brook’s betrayal]] Twilight just seems to forget how Nightmare Moon treated her, and immediately forgives Nightmare after she [[spoiler: brands Twilight]]. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Nightmare Moon.
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* [[FriendToAllChildren Friend to All Foals]]: It is revealed that Nightmare Moon still has Luna’s soft spot for foals.
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* [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim If You Kill Her You Will Be Just Like Her]]: Twilight invokes this to try and convince [[spoiler: Silent Brook]] not to kill Nightmare Moon, but is ignored. Later, the same pony invokes it as well to talk Twilight into saving them, and she [[spoiler: ignores it as well.]]
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* [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim If You Kill Her You Will Be Just Like Her]]: IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: Twilight invokes this to try and convince [[spoiler: Silent Brook]] not to kill Nightmare Moon, but is ignored. Later, the same pony invokes it as well to talk Twilight into saving them, and she [[spoiler: ignores it as well.]]
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* JerkAss: {{Jerkass}}: Nightmare Moon is very cruel to Twilight in the beginning and shows no remorse for the way she treats her.
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* EasilyForgiven: After [[spoiler: Silent Brook’s betrayal]] Twilight just seems to forget how Nightmare Moon treated her, and immediately forgives Nightmare after she [[spoiler: brands Twilight]]. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Nightmare Moon. See [[WhyWouldAnyoneTakeHimBack Why Would Anyone Take Her Back?]]
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* EasilyForgiven: After [[spoiler: Silent Brook’s betrayal]] Twilight just seems to forget how Nightmare Moon treated her, and immediately forgives Nightmare after she [[spoiler: brands Twilight]]. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Nightmare Moon. See [[WhyWouldAnyoneTakeHimBack Why Would Anyone Take Her Back?]]WhyWouldAnyoneTakeHerBack
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* [[invoked]] [[WhyWouldAnyoneTakeHimBack Why Would Anyone Take Her Back?]]: WhyWouldAnyoneTakeHerBack: In-universe, Nightmare Moon to Twilight after their fight, asking why Twilight continues to forgive all the things Nightmare has done to her.
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* MayflyDecemberRomance: Twilight is a mortal unicorn and Nightmare Moon is an immortal alicorn. [[Subverted by the SoulJar aspect of the spell Nightmare Moon used to revive Twilight acting as an ImmortalityInducer. WordOfGod has said that as long as Nightmare Moon is still alive, Twilight Sparkle will not die of old age.]]
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* MayflyDecemberRomance: Twilight is a mortal unicorn and Nightmare Moon is an immortal alicorn. [[Subverted [[spoiler:Subverted by the SoulJar aspect of the spell Nightmare Moon used to revive Twilight acting as an ImmortalityInducer. WordOfGod has said that as long as Nightmare Moon is still alive, Twilight Sparkle will not die of old age.]]
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* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Nightmare Moon has been shown governing, and does not shy away from a fight.
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* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Nightmare Moon has been shown governing, and does not shy away from a fight.fight.
* SaveTheVillain: Soon after being captured, Twilight decides she doesn’t want anypony to die if she can help it and tries to keep Nightmare Moon alive, tending to her injuries and shielding her from assassins.
* ScarsAreForever: Twilight gets a scar on her barrel from [[spoiler: a griffon assassin]] and a FlashForward reveals she will get another on the side of her face, but it is not revealed what caused it.
* SecondLove: Nightmare Moon is this for Twilight.
* SecretRelationship: Twilight starts one of these with Silent Brook. [[spoiler: It ends when Brook betrays her and promises to kill her.]]
* SexSlave: Twilight is forced to serve as this after being captured.
* ShameIfSomethingHappened: Lord Jahurl says this to Nightmare Moon when she talks about Twilight’s injuries. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] because Jahurl admires Twilight and meant it honestly.
* ShockAndAwe: While shapeshifting, Moon Beam can [[BreathWeapon breath electricity]].
* ShockinglyExpensiveBill: Twilight and Nightmare Moon buy several expensive items while in Valtaura, shocking Tyra with the prices as she is the one who has to pay for them.
* ShootTheDog: Some of the decisions Nightmare makes on Equestrian policy and wartime policy are necessary but still seem cruel.
* ShowerOfLove: Or Bath of Love anyway.
* SilenceYouFool: Nightmare does this a few times.
* SkilledButNaive: Even Nightmare Moon admits that Twilight is the only being besides Celestia with the power to challenge her rule, but Twilight’s inexperience and naivety prevent her from making the most of her abilities.
* TheSnarkKnight: Nightmare Moon is this, particularly early on.
* StockholmSyndrome: Twilight develops this after being foalnapped.
* TheStoic: Nightmare Moon shows little emotion in her face or voice, even after [[DefrostingIceQueen defrosting]].
* SugarAndIcePersonality: After [[DefrostingIceQueen defrosting]], Nightmare Moon acts like this.
* SuicideMission: Twilight’s diplomatic mission to Drakenrange is regarded as this by Jahurl.
* SwissCheeseSecurity: Twilight’s friends have no trouble breaking into Nightmare Moon’s castle. Justified because they did so right after the civil war ended and the castle had no guards left.
* TermsOfEndangerment: How Twilight feels about Nightmare calling Twilight her pet, at least until they became marefriends.
* TheyDo: Nightmare Moon returns Twilight’s feelings after they talk about Twilight’s confession of love.
* ThrownFromTheZeppelin: Nightmare Moon has several instances of this.
** She keeps detailed records of every pony in her army, and threatens to kill them and their families if they desert.
** To prepare for the war with the griffons, she orders a draft for every able-bodied pony who does not have an important role to fill for their towns or foals to care for, and is implied to be ordering the ones who refuse to be killed discreetly.
** Nightmare also had supplies and airships confiscated from nobles and the elite, and having any pony that tried to resist detained.
* TooCleverByHalf: [[spoiler: Silent Brook]] falls into this by [[spoiler: explaining her plan to Twilight, thus causing it to fail.]]
* TooKinkyToTorture: A minor version. Twilight responds normally to Nightmare Moon’s punishments, but her reactions to being injured during her fight with Borea leads her opponent to accuse her of being a CombatSadomasochist. She denies it, but other characters confirm that she orgasmed during the fight.
* ToothbrushFloorScrubbing: Gilda had to do this. See PunishmentDetail.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: The premise of the story, Nightmare Moon was not defeated by the Elements of Harmony and takes over Equestria.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Borea to Twilight.
* UndyingLoyalty: Moon Beam to Nightmare Moon, and later Twilight to Nightmare.
* UnequalPairing: Even after they become marefriends, Nightmare Moon is still Twilight’s queen and holds a lot of power over her.
* UngratefulBastard: Played straight then subverted with Nightmare Moon. When Twilight tries to tend to her injuries when Nightmare first takes over Celestia’s castle, she hits and tells off Twilight. However, after Twilight saves her from an assassin she is somewhat grateful and agrees to grant Twilight’s request for mercy.
** Later played straight with a former royal guard. Nightmare Moon captures him and offers mercy, but he rejects her offer and spits in her face.
* UnstoppableRage: Nightmare Moon has a couple of moments of these, usually involving Twilight.
* UnwantedRescue: Twilight’s friends try to rescue her, but she has already decided she wants to stay with Nightmare Moon.
* UpperClassTwit: Prince Blueblood. [[spoiler: This, combined with the fact that he does nothing to improve Equestria, leads Nightmare Moon to revoke his title and confiscate his estate.]]
* VillainousRescue: Nightmare Moon saves Twilight from assassins looking to get her out of the way.
* ViolenceIsDisturbing: The ways in which Nightmare Moon deals with her enemies are rather brutal, and for Twilight, traumatic.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Moon Beam can do this.
* WarIsHell: The ponies didn’t know much about war before, but they quickly come to this conclusion.
* TheWarRoom: Nightmare Moon’s castle has one.
* WeHaveBecomeComplacent: Specifically, Nightmare Moon believes that Celestia’s policies have made Equestria complacent, especially in concern to the griffons whom Celestia was trying to pacify with gifts and trade.
* WhatTheHellHero: Rarity to Twilight after the journey to Valtaura.
* [[invoked]] [[WhyWouldAnyoneTakeHimBack Why Would Anyone Take Her Back?]]: In-universe, Nightmare Moon to Twilight after their fight, asking why Twilight continues to forgive all the things Nightmare has done to her.
* SaveTheVillain: Soon after being captured, Twilight decides she doesn’t want anypony to die if she can help it and tries to keep Nightmare Moon alive, tending to her injuries and shielding her from assassins.
* ScarsAreForever: Twilight gets a scar on her barrel from [[spoiler: a griffon assassin]] and a FlashForward reveals she will get another on the side of her face, but it is not revealed what caused it.
* SecondLove: Nightmare Moon is this for Twilight.
* SecretRelationship: Twilight starts one of these with Silent Brook. [[spoiler: It ends when Brook betrays her and promises to kill her.]]
* SexSlave: Twilight is forced to serve as this after being captured.
* ShameIfSomethingHappened: Lord Jahurl says this to Nightmare Moon when she talks about Twilight’s injuries. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] because Jahurl admires Twilight and meant it honestly.
* ShockAndAwe: While shapeshifting, Moon Beam can [[BreathWeapon breath electricity]].
* ShockinglyExpensiveBill: Twilight and Nightmare Moon buy several expensive items while in Valtaura, shocking Tyra with the prices as she is the one who has to pay for them.
* ShootTheDog: Some of the decisions Nightmare makes on Equestrian policy and wartime policy are necessary but still seem cruel.
* ShowerOfLove: Or Bath of Love anyway.
* SilenceYouFool: Nightmare does this a few times.
* SkilledButNaive: Even Nightmare Moon admits that Twilight is the only being besides Celestia with the power to challenge her rule, but Twilight’s inexperience and naivety prevent her from making the most of her abilities.
* TheSnarkKnight: Nightmare Moon is this, particularly early on.
* StockholmSyndrome: Twilight develops this after being foalnapped.
* TheStoic: Nightmare Moon shows little emotion in her face or voice, even after [[DefrostingIceQueen defrosting]].
* SugarAndIcePersonality: After [[DefrostingIceQueen defrosting]], Nightmare Moon acts like this.
* SuicideMission: Twilight’s diplomatic mission to Drakenrange is regarded as this by Jahurl.
* SwissCheeseSecurity: Twilight’s friends have no trouble breaking into Nightmare Moon’s castle. Justified because they did so right after the civil war ended and the castle had no guards left.
* TermsOfEndangerment: How Twilight feels about Nightmare calling Twilight her pet, at least until they became marefriends.
* TheyDo: Nightmare Moon returns Twilight’s feelings after they talk about Twilight’s confession of love.
* ThrownFromTheZeppelin: Nightmare Moon has several instances of this.
** She keeps detailed records of every pony in her army, and threatens to kill them and their families if they desert.
** To prepare for the war with the griffons, she orders a draft for every able-bodied pony who does not have an important role to fill for their towns or foals to care for, and is implied to be ordering the ones who refuse to be killed discreetly.
** Nightmare also had supplies and airships confiscated from nobles and the elite, and having any pony that tried to resist detained.
* TooCleverByHalf: [[spoiler: Silent Brook]] falls into this by [[spoiler: explaining her plan to Twilight, thus causing it to fail.]]
* TooKinkyToTorture: A minor version. Twilight responds normally to Nightmare Moon’s punishments, but her reactions to being injured during her fight with Borea leads her opponent to accuse her of being a CombatSadomasochist. She denies it, but other characters confirm that she orgasmed during the fight.
* ToothbrushFloorScrubbing: Gilda had to do this. See PunishmentDetail.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: The premise of the story, Nightmare Moon was not defeated by the Elements of Harmony and takes over Equestria.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Borea to Twilight.
* UndyingLoyalty: Moon Beam to Nightmare Moon, and later Twilight to Nightmare.
* UnequalPairing: Even after they become marefriends, Nightmare Moon is still Twilight’s queen and holds a lot of power over her.
* UngratefulBastard: Played straight then subverted with Nightmare Moon. When Twilight tries to tend to her injuries when Nightmare first takes over Celestia’s castle, she hits and tells off Twilight. However, after Twilight saves her from an assassin she is somewhat grateful and agrees to grant Twilight’s request for mercy.
** Later played straight with a former royal guard. Nightmare Moon captures him and offers mercy, but he rejects her offer and spits in her face.
* UnstoppableRage: Nightmare Moon has a couple of moments of these, usually involving Twilight.
* UnwantedRescue: Twilight’s friends try to rescue her, but she has already decided she wants to stay with Nightmare Moon.
* UpperClassTwit: Prince Blueblood. [[spoiler: This, combined with the fact that he does nothing to improve Equestria, leads Nightmare Moon to revoke his title and confiscate his estate.]]
* VillainousRescue: Nightmare Moon saves Twilight from assassins looking to get her out of the way.
* ViolenceIsDisturbing: The ways in which Nightmare Moon deals with her enemies are rather brutal, and for Twilight, traumatic.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Moon Beam can do this.
* WarIsHell: The ponies didn’t know much about war before, but they quickly come to this conclusion.
* TheWarRoom: Nightmare Moon’s castle has one.
* WeHaveBecomeComplacent: Specifically, Nightmare Moon believes that Celestia’s policies have made Equestria complacent, especially in concern to the griffons whom Celestia was trying to pacify with gifts and trade.
* WhatTheHellHero: Rarity to Twilight after the journey to Valtaura.
* [[invoked]] [[WhyWouldAnyoneTakeHimBack Why Would Anyone Take Her Back?]]: In-universe, Nightmare Moon to Twilight after their fight, asking why Twilight continues to forgive all the things Nightmare has done to her.
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* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Silent Brook, Cherry Jubilee, and Blueblood so far. Some ponies from Ponyville were killed in a griffon attack, but the extent of the damage hasn’t been revealed yet.]]
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* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Silent Brook, Cherry Jubilee, and Blueblood so far. Some ponies from Ponyville were killed in a griffon attack, but the extent of the damage hasn’t been revealed yet.]]]]
* LargeAndInCharge: Nightmare Moon counts, being larger than other ponies. Also Lord Jahurl and Lady Borea.
* TheLeader: Nightmare is Types II and IV, while Cloudy Horizon is a Type II.
* LoveEpiphany: Twilight’s dreams force her to realize that she wants to stay with Nightmare Moon because Twilight loves her. She forgets this after wakening, but realizes it again after preventing another assassination attempt.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler: Silent Brook]] wants to kill Twilight because [[spoiler: Celestia stopped paying attention to her when Twilight became her student.]]
* LoveRedeems: After accepting Twilight’s love, Nightmare Moon starts trying to become a better pony. However, WordOfGod says that she will not revert to Princess Luna.
* MadeASlave: Nightmare Moon takes Twilight as a pet and a trophy to her victory.
* MagicallyBindingContract: Once they finished negotiations, Nightmare Moon and Jahurl signed an unbreakable magic contract confirming their alliance.
* MakeUpOrBreakUp: After being ordered to [[spoiler: kill an enemy captive]], Twilight begins to doubt the sincerity of Nightmare Moon’s feelings and avoids her. This causes Nightmare to feel rejected and go into an UnstoppableRage, causing a fight when Twilight tries to stop her. [[spoiler: They make up, but not before Nightmare Moon brands over one of Twilight’s cutie marks.]]
* MayflyDecemberRomance: Twilight is a mortal unicorn and Nightmare Moon is an immortal alicorn.
* TheMedic: Despite receiving a pardon from the draft, Fluttershy volunteers to serve as a medic in the war.
* MiseryBuildsCharacter: [[spoiler: Silent Brook’s betrayal]] helps Twilight discover her feelings for Nightmare Moon.
** Nightmare and Twilight’s fight causes Nightmare to want to be a better pony and a loved ruler.
* TheMole: [[spoiler: Silent Brook.]]
** When the war with the griffons begins a servant pony named Sweet Scoop is introduced as a spy for the griffons.
* MoralityPet: Twilight becomes this to Nightmare Moon.
* NightmareSequence: Twilight’s AnxietyDreams play out like this.
* TheNightThatNeverEnds: A given, since this was Nightmare Moon’s plan in the canon story. The problems of this causing frosts and crop failures is addressed by Nightmare Moon giving the moon ‘night cycles’ which are just like normal nights, and ‘day cycles’ in which the moon emits heat to warm the world.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Nightmare Moon delivers several of these accompanied by [[CruelAndUnusualDeath Cruel and Unusual Deaths]], typically during an UnstoppableRage.
* NotSoStoic: Nightmare Moon has a few moments of these, sometimes accompanied by an UnstoppableRage.
* NowLetMeCarryYou: Done literally by Twilight to Nightmare Moon by carrying her across the desert to Valtaura when Nightmare is injured.
* ObliviousToLove: Nightmare Moon initially mistakes Twilight’s feelings as a subject’s love for their queen, and has to use their empathic bond to figure out that it means more than that.
* OfficialCouple: Nightmare Moon and Twilight.
* OnrushingArmy: The royal guard’s main tactic during the civil war.
* ParentalSubstitute: Cloudy Horizon for [[spoiler: the orphaned Cherry Tart.]]
* PetTheDog: Nightmare Moon has some moments like this early on, being kinder than expected to Twilight and treating those who do their jobs well.
* PhysicalGod: Celestia and Nightmare Moon are much more powerful than ordinary ponies. [[spoiler: Nightmare reveals that they used to be even stronger, but lost much of their power after the Lunar War.]]
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Twilight says a version of this to Nightmare Moon after [[spoiler: Silent Brook]] betrays her. She also asks again a few other times, and Nightmare assures her that she will not be abandoned.
* PleaseSpareHimMyLiege: Twilight begs mercy for the first assassin to attack Nightmare Moon and is implied to have asked the same for many others after that, with Nightmare sometimes agreeing.
** When Nightmare catches Twilight’s friends trying to rescue her Twilight asks this of Nightmare and Moon Beam convinces her.
* PoisonedWeapons: The griffon assassin that attacked Nightmare Moon used a sword coated in drake venom. It is later revealed that the griffons are hunting drakes to get the venom sacs, which would upset the dragons if they knew, prompting Twilight to go on a diplomatic mission to Drakenridge.
* PoorCommunicationKills: A lack of communication after Nightmare Moon forces Twilight to [[spoiler: kill a would-be assassin]] leads to Nightmare believing Twilight has rejected and causing Nightmare to enter an UnstoppableRage which ends with [[spoiler: her branding Twilight.]]
* PostVictoryCollapse: Nightmare Moon and Moon Beam after the civil war.
* PowerNullifier: Nightmare Moon places a binding ring on Twilight’s horn shortly after capturing her, sealing Twilight’s magic. [[spoiler: Twilight destroys it when she forces a teleport spell in order to save Nightmare Moon and Moon Beam from Silent Brook.]]
* ThePowerOfLove: Used by Twilight to bring Nightmare Moon out of an UnstoppableRage and convince her to act better.
* PretextForWar: The griffons are using Celestia’s disappearance at the hooves of Nightmare Moon as a reason to invade Equestria [[spoiler: which convinces the remnants of the royal guard to help them.]]
* PrinceCharmingWannabe: Blueblood tried to pull a PrinceCharming act on Nightmare Moon. It didn’t end well for him.
* PromotedToLoveInterest: Both in and out of universe. Nightmare Moon initially takes Twilight as a pet and trophy, and later promotes her to royal consort after Twilight proves to be loyal, eventually also returning her feelings of love.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: The griffons. Also part of the reason Gilda is rebelling against her father: because her father is a VIP she is expected to become a priestess even though Gilda feels she should be a warrior.
* PunishmentDetail: Gilda is forced to clean several floors of the castles latrines when Cloudy finds out that Gilda has been referring to her by disrespectful nicknames.
* RapePillageAndBurn: What the griffons did to Dodge Junction and other towns.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Nightmare Moon, surprisingly. She is strict and can be cruel, but is a competent ruler and usually gives the castle staff warnings before hoofing out punishments.
* RedshirtArmy: Nightmare Moon’s army. During the civil war, all of the castle guards [[spoiler: except Cloudy Horizon]] died.
* RelationshipUpgrade: Twilight and Brook coming together after one of Twilight’s punishments. Also, Nightmare Moon promoting Twilight from pet to royal consort.
* TheResenter: [[spoiler: Silent Brook]] to Twilight. Also Cloudy Horizon to Celestia (see the BrokenAce entry for details), which carried over to Twilight until she proved her loyalty by protecting Nightmare Moon from a griffon assassin.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Silent Brook is loyal to Celestia, but jealous of Twilight and plans to kill Twilight as well as Nightmare Moon and Moon Beam.]]
* RichesToRags: Prince Blueblood offends Nightmare Moon with his behavior in the royal court, and is stripped of his title and has his estate confiscated by the government. [[TooDumbToLive He protests this and approaches the queen]], getting himself sent to the dungeons until he agrees to become a civil servant. [[spoiler: Blueblood is later killed in a griffon attack.]]
* RomanticFalseLead: [[spoiler: Silent Brook again.]]
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Nightmare Moon has been shown governing, and does not shy away from a fight.
* LargeAndInCharge: Nightmare Moon counts, being larger than other ponies. Also Lord Jahurl and Lady Borea.
* TheLeader: Nightmare is Types II and IV, while Cloudy Horizon is a Type II.
* LoveEpiphany: Twilight’s dreams force her to realize that she wants to stay with Nightmare Moon because Twilight loves her. She forgets this after wakening, but realizes it again after preventing another assassination attempt.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler: Silent Brook]] wants to kill Twilight because [[spoiler: Celestia stopped paying attention to her when Twilight became her student.]]
* LoveRedeems: After accepting Twilight’s love, Nightmare Moon starts trying to become a better pony. However, WordOfGod says that she will not revert to Princess Luna.
* MadeASlave: Nightmare Moon takes Twilight as a pet and a trophy to her victory.
* MagicallyBindingContract: Once they finished negotiations, Nightmare Moon and Jahurl signed an unbreakable magic contract confirming their alliance.
* MakeUpOrBreakUp: After being ordered to [[spoiler: kill an enemy captive]], Twilight begins to doubt the sincerity of Nightmare Moon’s feelings and avoids her. This causes Nightmare to feel rejected and go into an UnstoppableRage, causing a fight when Twilight tries to stop her. [[spoiler: They make up, but not before Nightmare Moon brands over one of Twilight’s cutie marks.]]
* MayflyDecemberRomance: Twilight is a mortal unicorn and Nightmare Moon is an immortal alicorn.
* TheMedic: Despite receiving a pardon from the draft, Fluttershy volunteers to serve as a medic in the war.
* MiseryBuildsCharacter: [[spoiler: Silent Brook’s betrayal]] helps Twilight discover her feelings for Nightmare Moon.
** Nightmare and Twilight’s fight causes Nightmare to want to be a better pony and a loved ruler.
* TheMole: [[spoiler: Silent Brook.]]
** When the war with the griffons begins a servant pony named Sweet Scoop is introduced as a spy for the griffons.
* MoralityPet: Twilight becomes this to Nightmare Moon.
* NightmareSequence: Twilight’s AnxietyDreams play out like this.
* TheNightThatNeverEnds: A given, since this was Nightmare Moon’s plan in the canon story. The problems of this causing frosts and crop failures is addressed by Nightmare Moon giving the moon ‘night cycles’ which are just like normal nights, and ‘day cycles’ in which the moon emits heat to warm the world.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Nightmare Moon delivers several of these accompanied by [[CruelAndUnusualDeath Cruel and Unusual Deaths]], typically during an UnstoppableRage.
* NotSoStoic: Nightmare Moon has a few moments of these, sometimes accompanied by an UnstoppableRage.
* NowLetMeCarryYou: Done literally by Twilight to Nightmare Moon by carrying her across the desert to Valtaura when Nightmare is injured.
* ObliviousToLove: Nightmare Moon initially mistakes Twilight’s feelings as a subject’s love for their queen, and has to use their empathic bond to figure out that it means more than that.
* OfficialCouple: Nightmare Moon and Twilight.
* OnrushingArmy: The royal guard’s main tactic during the civil war.
* ParentalSubstitute: Cloudy Horizon for [[spoiler: the orphaned Cherry Tart.]]
* PetTheDog: Nightmare Moon has some moments like this early on, being kinder than expected to Twilight and treating those who do their jobs well.
* PhysicalGod: Celestia and Nightmare Moon are much more powerful than ordinary ponies. [[spoiler: Nightmare reveals that they used to be even stronger, but lost much of their power after the Lunar War.]]
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Twilight says a version of this to Nightmare Moon after [[spoiler: Silent Brook]] betrays her. She also asks again a few other times, and Nightmare assures her that she will not be abandoned.
* PleaseSpareHimMyLiege: Twilight begs mercy for the first assassin to attack Nightmare Moon and is implied to have asked the same for many others after that, with Nightmare sometimes agreeing.
** When Nightmare catches Twilight’s friends trying to rescue her Twilight asks this of Nightmare and Moon Beam convinces her.
* PoisonedWeapons: The griffon assassin that attacked Nightmare Moon used a sword coated in drake venom. It is later revealed that the griffons are hunting drakes to get the venom sacs, which would upset the dragons if they knew, prompting Twilight to go on a diplomatic mission to Drakenridge.
* PoorCommunicationKills: A lack of communication after Nightmare Moon forces Twilight to [[spoiler: kill a would-be assassin]] leads to Nightmare believing Twilight has rejected and causing Nightmare to enter an UnstoppableRage which ends with [[spoiler: her branding Twilight.]]
* PostVictoryCollapse: Nightmare Moon and Moon Beam after the civil war.
* PowerNullifier: Nightmare Moon places a binding ring on Twilight’s horn shortly after capturing her, sealing Twilight’s magic. [[spoiler: Twilight destroys it when she forces a teleport spell in order to save Nightmare Moon and Moon Beam from Silent Brook.]]
* ThePowerOfLove: Used by Twilight to bring Nightmare Moon out of an UnstoppableRage and convince her to act better.
* PretextForWar: The griffons are using Celestia’s disappearance at the hooves of Nightmare Moon as a reason to invade Equestria [[spoiler: which convinces the remnants of the royal guard to help them.]]
* PrinceCharmingWannabe: Blueblood tried to pull a PrinceCharming act on Nightmare Moon. It didn’t end well for him.
* PromotedToLoveInterest: Both in and out of universe. Nightmare Moon initially takes Twilight as a pet and trophy, and later promotes her to royal consort after Twilight proves to be loyal, eventually also returning her feelings of love.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: The griffons. Also part of the reason Gilda is rebelling against her father: because her father is a VIP she is expected to become a priestess even though Gilda feels she should be a warrior.
* PunishmentDetail: Gilda is forced to clean several floors of the castles latrines when Cloudy finds out that Gilda has been referring to her by disrespectful nicknames.
* RapePillageAndBurn: What the griffons did to Dodge Junction and other towns.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Nightmare Moon, surprisingly. She is strict and can be cruel, but is a competent ruler and usually gives the castle staff warnings before hoofing out punishments.
* RedshirtArmy: Nightmare Moon’s army. During the civil war, all of the castle guards [[spoiler: except Cloudy Horizon]] died.
* RelationshipUpgrade: Twilight and Brook coming together after one of Twilight’s punishments. Also, Nightmare Moon promoting Twilight from pet to royal consort.
* TheResenter: [[spoiler: Silent Brook]] to Twilight. Also Cloudy Horizon to Celestia (see the BrokenAce entry for details), which carried over to Twilight until she proved her loyalty by protecting Nightmare Moon from a griffon assassin.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Silent Brook is loyal to Celestia, but jealous of Twilight and plans to kill Twilight as well as Nightmare Moon and Moon Beam.]]
* RichesToRags: Prince Blueblood offends Nightmare Moon with his behavior in the royal court, and is stripped of his title and has his estate confiscated by the government. [[TooDumbToLive He protests this and approaches the queen]], getting himself sent to the dungeons until he agrees to become a civil servant. [[spoiler: Blueblood is later killed in a griffon attack.]]
* RomanticFalseLead: [[spoiler: Silent Brook again.]]
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Nightmare Moon has been shown governing, and does not shy away from a fight.
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** However, Nightmare couldn’t see into or shape Twilight’s dreams when she was DreamingOfTimesGoneBy except to share a vision willingly, which frustrated her.
* DuelToTheDeath: When Twilight offends Lady Borea by speaking out against her in her court, Borea demands a duel and will have Twilight executed if she loses.
* [[spoiler: DyingDeclarationOfLove: Twilight confesses her love for Nightmare Moon while dying from a fatal chest wound. She gets better.]]
* EasilyForgiven: After [[spoiler: Silent Brook’s betrayal]] Twilight just seems to forget how Nightmare Moon treated her, and immediately forgives Nightmare after she [[spoiler: brands Twilight]]. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Nightmare Moon. See [[WhyWouldAnyoneTakeHimBack Why Would Anyone Take Her Back?]]
* EliteArmy: The Valtauran minotaurs are this for Equestria.
* EvilFormerFriend: In-universe, some of the Elements of Harmony see Twilight this way.
* EvilOverlord: What Equestria thinks of Nightmare Moon.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Twilight attempts this after Nightmare Moon defeats the Elements, prompting Nightmare to take her as a pet.
* [[spoiler: FalseFriend: Silent Brook to Twilight.]]
* FlashForward: Some chapters do not have a number, taking place some time in the future.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: How Silent Brook knows Twilight. [[spoiler: It doesn’t happen quite how she says, since it’s part of her plan to explain why she looks familiar and to seduce Twilight in order to find out Nightmare’s weakness.]]
* [[FriendToAllChildren Friend to All Foals]]: It is revealed that Nightmare Moon still has Luna’s soft spot for foals.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Fluttershy is this, which starts to make her unpopular during the war with the griffons when she shows concern for the enemy soldiers.
* GoGoEnslavement: Shortly after moving to the new castle, Nightmare Moon commissions a dress for Twilight to show off her position, which embarrasses her.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Nightmare Moon takes over Equestria and declares herself queen. [[spoiler: Subverted, because she is actually trying to be a good ruler for Equestria.]]
* GoldSilverCopperStandard: Valtaura has this currency system.
* TheGoodChancellor: Fancypants impressed Nightmare Moon with his behavior in the royal court and was rewarded by being made chancellor.
* GoodIsNotNice: Some of the things Nightmare Moon does, particularly when dealing with enemy soldiers, are justifiable and even necessary, but still come off as the actions of a JerkAss.
* GreenEyedMonster: [[spoiler: Silent Brook]] is jealous of Twilight because she [[spoiler: caused Celestia to pay less attention to her.]]
* [[spoiler: TheGrimReaper: Appears to take Twilight to the afterlife when she dies protecting Nightmare Moon from a griffon assassin, and attacks them both when Nightmare appears to bring her back to life.]]
* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler: Cherry Tart is adopted by Cloudy Horizon.]]
* HappinessInSlavery: Twilight eventually comes to love Nightmare Moon despite being her pet. Becomes a SubordinateExcuse after Twilight willingly chooses to serve Nightmare Moon instead of attempting to escape.
* HasTwoMommies: Moon Beam [[spoiler: after Twilight and Nightmare Moon become marefriends.]]
* TheHeart: Moon Beam serves as this to Nightmare Moon and sometimes Twilight.
* HoneyTrap: [[spoiler: Part of Silent Brook’s plan.]]
* [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim If You Kill Her You Will Be Just Like Her]]: Twilight invokes this to try and convince [[spoiler: Silent Brook]] not to kill Nightmare Moon, but is ignored. Later, the same pony invokes it as well to talk Twilight into saving them, and she [[spoiler: ignores it as well.]]
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Nightmare Moon uses Twilight for ‘relief.’
* InfantImmortality: The story contains some fairly gruesome fight and death scenes, but no foals have died on-screen yet.
* InterruptedIntimacy: Has happened a couple of times to Nightmare and Twilight.
** First when Tyra walked in on them in the morning while at Valtaura.
** Rarity also finds them in a compromising situation and [[WhatTheHellHero does not take it well]].
* JerkAss: Nightmare Moon is very cruel to Twilight in the beginning and shows no remorse for the way she treats her.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Occasionally Nightmare Moon would do something nice for Twilight even before they warmed up to each other. Also see [[FriendToAllChildren Friend to All Foals]].
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Some of Twilight’s friends feel she has done this.
* JustBetweenYouAndMe: [[spoiler: Silent Brook]] tells the details of their plan to kill Nightmare Moon to Twilight before leaving and promising to return and kill her.
* KickTheDog: Done frequently to Twilight by Nightmare Moon early on.
* KickTheMoralityPet: During some of her [[UnstoppableRage Unstoppable Rages]], Nightmare Moon does this to Twilight.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Silent Brook, Cherry Jubilee, and Blueblood so far. Some ponies from Ponyville were killed in a griffon attack, but the extent of the damage hasn’t been revealed yet.]]
* DuelToTheDeath: When Twilight offends Lady Borea by speaking out against her in her court, Borea demands a duel and will have Twilight executed if she loses.
* [[spoiler: DyingDeclarationOfLove: Twilight confesses her love for Nightmare Moon while dying from a fatal chest wound. She gets better.]]
* EasilyForgiven: After [[spoiler: Silent Brook’s betrayal]] Twilight just seems to forget how Nightmare Moon treated her, and immediately forgives Nightmare after she [[spoiler: brands Twilight]]. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Nightmare Moon. See [[WhyWouldAnyoneTakeHimBack Why Would Anyone Take Her Back?]]
* EliteArmy: The Valtauran minotaurs are this for Equestria.
* EvilFormerFriend: In-universe, some of the Elements of Harmony see Twilight this way.
* EvilOverlord: What Equestria thinks of Nightmare Moon.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Twilight attempts this after Nightmare Moon defeats the Elements, prompting Nightmare to take her as a pet.
* [[spoiler: FalseFriend: Silent Brook to Twilight.]]
* FlashForward: Some chapters do not have a number, taking place some time in the future.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: How Silent Brook knows Twilight. [[spoiler: It doesn’t happen quite how she says, since it’s part of her plan to explain why she looks familiar and to seduce Twilight in order to find out Nightmare’s weakness.]]
* [[FriendToAllChildren Friend to All Foals]]: It is revealed that Nightmare Moon still has Luna’s soft spot for foals.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Fluttershy is this, which starts to make her unpopular during the war with the griffons when she shows concern for the enemy soldiers.
* GoGoEnslavement: Shortly after moving to the new castle, Nightmare Moon commissions a dress for Twilight to show off her position, which embarrasses her.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Nightmare Moon takes over Equestria and declares herself queen. [[spoiler: Subverted, because she is actually trying to be a good ruler for Equestria.]]
* GoldSilverCopperStandard: Valtaura has this currency system.
* TheGoodChancellor: Fancypants impressed Nightmare Moon with his behavior in the royal court and was rewarded by being made chancellor.
* GoodIsNotNice: Some of the things Nightmare Moon does, particularly when dealing with enemy soldiers, are justifiable and even necessary, but still come off as the actions of a JerkAss.
* GreenEyedMonster: [[spoiler: Silent Brook]] is jealous of Twilight because she [[spoiler: caused Celestia to pay less attention to her.]]
* [[spoiler: TheGrimReaper: Appears to take Twilight to the afterlife when she dies protecting Nightmare Moon from a griffon assassin, and attacks them both when Nightmare appears to bring her back to life.]]
* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler: Cherry Tart is adopted by Cloudy Horizon.]]
* HappinessInSlavery: Twilight eventually comes to love Nightmare Moon despite being her pet. Becomes a SubordinateExcuse after Twilight willingly chooses to serve Nightmare Moon instead of attempting to escape.
* HasTwoMommies: Moon Beam [[spoiler: after Twilight and Nightmare Moon become marefriends.]]
* TheHeart: Moon Beam serves as this to Nightmare Moon and sometimes Twilight.
* HoneyTrap: [[spoiler: Part of Silent Brook’s plan.]]
* [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim If You Kill Her You Will Be Just Like Her]]: Twilight invokes this to try and convince [[spoiler: Silent Brook]] not to kill Nightmare Moon, but is ignored. Later, the same pony invokes it as well to talk Twilight into saving them, and she [[spoiler: ignores it as well.]]
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Nightmare Moon uses Twilight for ‘relief.’
* InfantImmortality: The story contains some fairly gruesome fight and death scenes, but no foals have died on-screen yet.
* InterruptedIntimacy: Has happened a couple of times to Nightmare and Twilight.
** First when Tyra walked in on them in the morning while at Valtaura.
** Rarity also finds them in a compromising situation and [[WhatTheHellHero does not take it well]].
* JerkAss: Nightmare Moon is very cruel to Twilight in the beginning and shows no remorse for the way she treats her.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Occasionally Nightmare Moon would do something nice for Twilight even before they warmed up to each other. Also see [[FriendToAllChildren Friend to All Foals]].
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Some of Twilight’s friends feel she has done this.
* JustBetweenYouAndMe: [[spoiler: Silent Brook]] tells the details of their plan to kill Nightmare Moon to Twilight before leaving and promising to return and kill her.
* KickTheDog: Done frequently to Twilight by Nightmare Moon early on.
* KickTheMoralityPet: During some of her [[UnstoppableRage Unstoppable Rages]], Nightmare Moon does this to Twilight.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Silent Brook, Cherry Jubilee, and Blueblood so far. Some ponies from Ponyville were killed in a griffon attack, but the extent of the damage hasn’t been revealed yet.]]
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* TheCaptain: Cloudy Horizon, being High Commander of Nightmare Moon’s armies.armies.
* CaptainSmoothAndSergeantRough: Cloudy Horizon and Gilda have this dynamic, with Cloudy as TheCaptain and Gilda as either SergeantRock or DrillSergeantNasty.
* TheCavalry: Lord Jahurl and the minotaurs saving an injured Nightmare and Twilight from the griffons.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: Twilight is starting to feel this on her journey to Drakenrange, using soldiers who don’t respect her and may be treasonous.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Twilight tries to help everypony she can, including both Nightmare Moon and Nightmare’s enemies. This causes her a lot of trouble, but she is starting to get over it.
* CirclingVultures: When the civil war ends, Nightmare sends Twilight to take Cloudy Horizon to the infirmary, and she finds Cloudy being circled by vultures.
* CivilWar: The royal guard rebels against Nightmare Moon, first attempting to assassinate her, then fighting a short war at the New Mareland castle. [[spoiler: After losing the war the royal guard continues to fight Nightmare by helping the griffons invade.]]
* ColdBloodedTorture: Some of the punishments and threats Twilight receives from Nightmare are like this, such as being lashed with a flaming whip.
* CollateralAngst: Some of the attacks on Nightmare Moon and the counterattacks against the aggressors focus on Twilight’s reaction to them.
* CombatSadomasochist: Borea accuses Twilight of this, which she denies. The masochism part appears to be true though.
* ConflictingLoyalty: Twilight is loyal to Nightmare Moon, but still wants to help Celestia.
* {{Conscription}}: To prepare for the war with the griffons, Nightmare Moon orders a draft, and is implied to be ordering the deaths of those who [[RefusalOfTheCall refused]]. Rainbow Dash is one of the ponies drafted this way.
* ConsummateProfessional: Cloudy Horizon has shades of this.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: [[spoiler: Cherry Tart]] is orphaned soon after entering the story, but Cloudy Horizon and Moon Beam help her to move past it quickly.
* CooldownHug: Twilight does this while talking Nightmare Moon down from an UnstoppableRage. [[spoiler: It works, but not before Nightmare brands her.]]
* CorporalPunishment: A brutal one is dealt to Gilda after she mouths off to Nightmare Moon during training.
* CoupDeGrace: Gilda delivers one to a paralyzed griffon assassin.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Nightmare Moon inflicts these or orders killings like these most times she is confronted with an enemy.
* CurbStompBattle: Borea challenges a partially disabled Twilight to a duel, with death as the punishment for losing, and it turns out like this. [[spoiler: Twilight wins anyway.]]
* DeathGlare: Nightmare often does this after being offended.
* DecisiveBattle: The battle for Nightmare Moon’s castle in New Mareland, which marked the climax of the Equestrian’s civil war.
* DeepCoverAgent: [[spoiler: Silent Brook.]]
* DefrostingIceQueen: Nightmare Moon starts out treating other ponies and especially Twilight coldly, but gradually begins to treat others better as she and Twilight grow closer.
* {{Depower}}: After being captured by Nightmare Moon, Twilight’s magic is sealed with a binding ring and she loses the ability to use magic. [[spoiler: She gets it back though.]]
* DoubleAgent: [[spoiler: Silent Brook, sort-of. She is truly loyal to Celestia, but has no problem with sending royal guards and other ponies to their deaths for her own advancement.]]
* DownerBeginning
* DreamingOfTimesGoneBy: After the empathic bond between Twilight and Nightmare forms, Twilight’s AnxietyDreams start to be replaced with visions of Nightmare’s past.
* DreamWeaver: Nightmare Moon, as part of her powers as Queen of the Night. She uses them to view Twilight’s AnxietyDreams and offers to make them stop, but Twilight declines.
** However, Nightmare couldn’t see into or shape Twilight’s dreams when she was DreamingOfTimesGoneBy except to share a vision willingly, which frustrated her.
* CaptainSmoothAndSergeantRough: Cloudy Horizon and Gilda have this dynamic, with Cloudy as TheCaptain and Gilda as either SergeantRock or DrillSergeantNasty.
* TheCavalry: Lord Jahurl and the minotaurs saving an injured Nightmare and Twilight from the griffons.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: Twilight is starting to feel this on her journey to Drakenrange, using soldiers who don’t respect her and may be treasonous.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Twilight tries to help everypony she can, including both Nightmare Moon and Nightmare’s enemies. This causes her a lot of trouble, but she is starting to get over it.
* CirclingVultures: When the civil war ends, Nightmare sends Twilight to take Cloudy Horizon to the infirmary, and she finds Cloudy being circled by vultures.
* CivilWar: The royal guard rebels against Nightmare Moon, first attempting to assassinate her, then fighting a short war at the New Mareland castle. [[spoiler: After losing the war the royal guard continues to fight Nightmare by helping the griffons invade.]]
* ColdBloodedTorture: Some of the punishments and threats Twilight receives from Nightmare are like this, such as being lashed with a flaming whip.
* CollateralAngst: Some of the attacks on Nightmare Moon and the counterattacks against the aggressors focus on Twilight’s reaction to them.
* CombatSadomasochist: Borea accuses Twilight of this, which she denies. The masochism part appears to be true though.
* ConflictingLoyalty: Twilight is loyal to Nightmare Moon, but still wants to help Celestia.
* {{Conscription}}: To prepare for the war with the griffons, Nightmare Moon orders a draft, and is implied to be ordering the deaths of those who [[RefusalOfTheCall refused]]. Rainbow Dash is one of the ponies drafted this way.
* ConsummateProfessional: Cloudy Horizon has shades of this.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: [[spoiler: Cherry Tart]] is orphaned soon after entering the story, but Cloudy Horizon and Moon Beam help her to move past it quickly.
* CooldownHug: Twilight does this while talking Nightmare Moon down from an UnstoppableRage. [[spoiler: It works, but not before Nightmare brands her.]]
* CorporalPunishment: A brutal one is dealt to Gilda after she mouths off to Nightmare Moon during training.
* CoupDeGrace: Gilda delivers one to a paralyzed griffon assassin.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Nightmare Moon inflicts these or orders killings like these most times she is confronted with an enemy.
* CurbStompBattle: Borea challenges a partially disabled Twilight to a duel, with death as the punishment for losing, and it turns out like this. [[spoiler: Twilight wins anyway.]]
* DeathGlare: Nightmare often does this after being offended.
* DecisiveBattle: The battle for Nightmare Moon’s castle in New Mareland, which marked the climax of the Equestrian’s civil war.
* DeepCoverAgent: [[spoiler: Silent Brook.]]
* DefrostingIceQueen: Nightmare Moon starts out treating other ponies and especially Twilight coldly, but gradually begins to treat others better as she and Twilight grow closer.
* {{Depower}}: After being captured by Nightmare Moon, Twilight’s magic is sealed with a binding ring and she loses the ability to use magic. [[spoiler: She gets it back though.]]
* DoubleAgent: [[spoiler: Silent Brook, sort-of. She is truly loyal to Celestia, but has no problem with sending royal guards and other ponies to their deaths for her own advancement.]]
* DownerBeginning
* DreamingOfTimesGoneBy: After the empathic bond between Twilight and Nightmare forms, Twilight’s AnxietyDreams start to be replaced with visions of Nightmare’s past.
* DreamWeaver: Nightmare Moon, as part of her powers as Queen of the Night. She uses them to view Twilight’s AnxietyDreams and offers to make them stop, but Twilight declines.
** However, Nightmare couldn’t see into or shape Twilight’s dreams when she was DreamingOfTimesGoneBy except to share a vision willingly, which frustrated her.
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The Elements of Harmony fail to purge Nightmare Moon from Luna leaving her to claim her throne, but not without a prize. She takes Twilight, the only pony that could ever hope to challenge her, and holds her as a prisoner in her new palace.
Nightmare Moon quickly returns to her full power, and, in order to further strengthen her hold on the kingdom, returns her most powerful minion from her first reign to keep a watchful eye on her captive.
What shall happen to the world under Nightmare Moon’s rule? Only time shall tell…
Can be found [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/3669/after-that-fateful-night here]]
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*[[AcePilot Ace Flier]]: Rainbow Dash of course.
*AcheyScars: Twilight gets a scar on her barrel after taking a hit from [[spoiler: a griffon assassin with a poisoned sword]] for Nightmare Moon. The ache is actually caused by remnants of poison and not the scar itself.
*ActionGirl: Gilda and Rainbow Dash are this.
*ActualPacifist: Fluttershy, which causes Rainbow Dash to become worried about her when she hears about the war draft.
*AdaptationalBadass: Gilda the griffon, after joining Nightmare Moon’s army.
*AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Celestia’s royal guard mounts an attack on Nightmare Moon’s castle in New Mareland at the peak of the civil war. [[spoiler: And they brought dragons.]]
*AlwaysSaveTheGirl: She starts doing this even before she falls in love, but Twilight decides to protect Nightmare’s life even though letting her die would free Equestria. Actually becomes this after Twilight confesses her love for Nightmare.
*AMatchMadeInStockholm: Eventually what Twilight and Nightmare Moon’s relationship becomes.
*AngstWhatAngst: After the civil war, Twilight is quick to forget how Nightmare Moon treated her, and later on shows no emotional trauma from [[spoiler: being branded.]]
*AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Twilight confesses her love to Nightmare Moon after an assassination attempt, and later confesses again to ask what Nightmare thinks of her.
*AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Nightmare Moon makes it clear that if Twilight will not be her pet then she will die.
*AnxietyDreams: For a time after telling her friends that she chooses to stay with Nightmare Moon, Twilight starts having nightmares about her friends rejecting her.
*ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: While visiting Valtaura, Nightmare and Twilight go shopping on Tyra’s account.
*AssassinOutclassin: Soon after taking over Equestria, Nightmare Moon finds herself the target of frequent assassination attempts. However, Twilight prevents a great deal of these attempts, usually by shielding Nightmare with her body.
*AssholeVictim: Many ponies are killed by Nightmare Moon, but several of them are shown to have deserved it and at least one rejected an offer of mercy.
*AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Part of the reason that Nightmare made Cloudy Horizon the High Commander is that she stood out as being tougher and more experienced than the other recruits.
*AttemptedRape: Because Twilight keeps getting in the way of assassins who target Nightmare Moon, four stallions decide to kill her, as well as have fun with her first. [[spoiler: Silent Brook warns Nightmare Moon, who then kills them before they have their way with her.]]
*AwfulTruth: Celestia’s actions against Cloudy Horizon are this to Twilight.
**The way Celestia treated Nightmare Moon and Moon Beam one thousand years ago also count for Twilight.
*TheBadGuyWins: The premise of the story.
*[[spoiler: BackFromTheDead: After taking a sword for Nightmare Moon, Twilight dies while confessing her love. Nightmare takes her to the infirmary and uses her magic to bring Twilight back.]]
*[[spoiler: BaitAndSwitchTyrant: Nightmare Moon appears to be a BadBoss at first and is often harsh to the ponies she interacts directly with, but later is shown to be doing what she thinks is necessary for Equestria and begins to soften up on others, eventually deciding she would rather be celebrated than feared.]]
*BattleTrophy: Initially, Twilight is this to Nightmare Moon.
*BetaCouple: [[spoiler: Moon Beam and Cherry Tart.]]
*BerserkButton: Insolence is one for Nightmare Moon, as is [[spoiler: others hurting Twilight.]]
*BigDamnHeroes: Twilight saving Nightmare Moon from [[spoiler: Silent Brook.]]
*BigNo: Twilight after [[spoiler: Silent Brook betrays her.]]
*BloodKnight: Although Gilda joined Nightmare’s army to get back at her father, she revels in fighting, even against her own people. This is actually part of the reason Gilda is rebelling against her father in the first place.
*BoisterousBruiser: While not the best fighter around, Gilda is shown to be better than the average soldier in Nightmare’s army and is quite loudmouthed. This trait often gets her into trouble with her superiors though.
*[[spoiler: BondBreaker: When Twilight chooses to stay with Nightmare Moon instead of going along with her friends rescue attempt and explains why, their friendship is damaged.]]
*BreakTheCutie: Twilight goes through this.
*BreakTheHaughty: When Gilda starts to get too belligerent Cloudy Horizon or Nightmare Moon threaten to do this, and sometimes punish her to invoke this.
*BringNewsBack: Cherry Jubilee decides to take her daughter, Cherry Tart, and head for the castle to warn Nightmare Moon that the griffons are attacking after they destroy Dodge Junction. [[spoiler: She reaches the castle, but dies from her injuries afterwards, leaving Cherry Tart an orphan.]]
*BrokenAce: Cloudy Horizon is this, being a skilled and competent commander [[spoiler: even after losing a wing in the civil war]], but has issues and a grudge against Celestia which she claims is due to [[spoiler: being unfairly imprisoned and that the foal she was pregnant with was stillborn because of the prison conditions.]]
*BroughtDownToNormal: The binding ring Nightmare Moon puts on Twilight prevents her from using her magic, and she is forced to perform tasks like an Earth Pony would.
*CallousnessTowardsEmergency: A griffon raiding party attacks a group of servants and foals that were playing outside the castle, and the guards who heard the attack brushed it off as them just being noisy.
*TheCaptain: Cloudy Horizon, being High Commander of Nightmare Moon’s armies.
Nightmare Moon quickly returns to her full power, and, in order to further strengthen her hold on the kingdom, returns her most powerful minion from her first reign to keep a watchful eye on her captive.
What shall happen to the world under Nightmare Moon’s rule? Only time shall tell…
Can be found [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/3669/after-that-fateful-night here]]
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!! This fanfic provides examples of:
*[[AcePilot Ace Flier]]: Rainbow Dash of course.
*AcheyScars: Twilight gets a scar on her barrel after taking a hit from [[spoiler: a griffon assassin with a poisoned sword]] for Nightmare Moon. The ache is actually caused by remnants of poison and not the scar itself.
*ActionGirl: Gilda and Rainbow Dash are this.
*ActualPacifist: Fluttershy, which causes Rainbow Dash to become worried about her when she hears about the war draft.
*AdaptationalBadass: Gilda the griffon, after joining Nightmare Moon’s army.
*AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Celestia’s royal guard mounts an attack on Nightmare Moon’s castle in New Mareland at the peak of the civil war. [[spoiler: And they brought dragons.]]
*AlwaysSaveTheGirl: She starts doing this even before she falls in love, but Twilight decides to protect Nightmare’s life even though letting her die would free Equestria. Actually becomes this after Twilight confesses her love for Nightmare.
*AMatchMadeInStockholm: Eventually what Twilight and Nightmare Moon’s relationship becomes.
*AngstWhatAngst: After the civil war, Twilight is quick to forget how Nightmare Moon treated her, and later on shows no emotional trauma from [[spoiler: being branded.]]
*AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Twilight confesses her love to Nightmare Moon after an assassination attempt, and later confesses again to ask what Nightmare thinks of her.
*AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Nightmare Moon makes it clear that if Twilight will not be her pet then she will die.
*AnxietyDreams: For a time after telling her friends that she chooses to stay with Nightmare Moon, Twilight starts having nightmares about her friends rejecting her.
*ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: While visiting Valtaura, Nightmare and Twilight go shopping on Tyra’s account.
*AssassinOutclassin: Soon after taking over Equestria, Nightmare Moon finds herself the target of frequent assassination attempts. However, Twilight prevents a great deal of these attempts, usually by shielding Nightmare with her body.
*AssholeVictim: Many ponies are killed by Nightmare Moon, but several of them are shown to have deserved it and at least one rejected an offer of mercy.
*AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Part of the reason that Nightmare made Cloudy Horizon the High Commander is that she stood out as being tougher and more experienced than the other recruits.
*AttemptedRape: Because Twilight keeps getting in the way of assassins who target Nightmare Moon, four stallions decide to kill her, as well as have fun with her first. [[spoiler: Silent Brook warns Nightmare Moon, who then kills them before they have their way with her.]]
*AwfulTruth: Celestia’s actions against Cloudy Horizon are this to Twilight.
**The way Celestia treated Nightmare Moon and Moon Beam one thousand years ago also count for Twilight.
*TheBadGuyWins: The premise of the story.
*[[spoiler: BackFromTheDead: After taking a sword for Nightmare Moon, Twilight dies while confessing her love. Nightmare takes her to the infirmary and uses her magic to bring Twilight back.]]
*[[spoiler: BaitAndSwitchTyrant: Nightmare Moon appears to be a BadBoss at first and is often harsh to the ponies she interacts directly with, but later is shown to be doing what she thinks is necessary for Equestria and begins to soften up on others, eventually deciding she would rather be celebrated than feared.]]
*BattleTrophy: Initially, Twilight is this to Nightmare Moon.
*BetaCouple: [[spoiler: Moon Beam and Cherry Tart.]]
*BerserkButton: Insolence is one for Nightmare Moon, as is [[spoiler: others hurting Twilight.]]
*BigDamnHeroes: Twilight saving Nightmare Moon from [[spoiler: Silent Brook.]]
*BigNo: Twilight after [[spoiler: Silent Brook betrays her.]]
*BloodKnight: Although Gilda joined Nightmare’s army to get back at her father, she revels in fighting, even against her own people. This is actually part of the reason Gilda is rebelling against her father in the first place.
*BoisterousBruiser: While not the best fighter around, Gilda is shown to be better than the average soldier in Nightmare’s army and is quite loudmouthed. This trait often gets her into trouble with her superiors though.
*[[spoiler: BondBreaker: When Twilight chooses to stay with Nightmare Moon instead of going along with her friends rescue attempt and explains why, their friendship is damaged.]]
*BreakTheCutie: Twilight goes through this.
*BreakTheHaughty: When Gilda starts to get too belligerent Cloudy Horizon or Nightmare Moon threaten to do this, and sometimes punish her to invoke this.
*BringNewsBack: Cherry Jubilee decides to take her daughter, Cherry Tart, and head for the castle to warn Nightmare Moon that the griffons are attacking after they destroy Dodge Junction. [[spoiler: She reaches the castle, but dies from her injuries afterwards, leaving Cherry Tart an orphan.]]
*BrokenAce: Cloudy Horizon is this, being a skilled and competent commander [[spoiler: even after losing a wing in the civil war]], but has issues and a grudge against Celestia which she claims is due to [[spoiler: being unfairly imprisoned and that the foal she was pregnant with was stillborn because of the prison conditions.]]
*BroughtDownToNormal: The binding ring Nightmare Moon puts on Twilight prevents her from using her magic, and she is forced to perform tasks like an Earth Pony would.
*CallousnessTowardsEmergency: A griffon raiding party attacks a group of servants and foals that were playing outside the castle, and the guards who heard the attack brushed it off as them just being noisy.
*TheCaptain: Cloudy Horizon, being High Commander of Nightmare Moon’s armies.
