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* ShadowArchetype: Silver Spoon is this to Apple Bloom, with the former basically being the latter but more callous and uncaring. Apple Bloom could have easily [[ForWantOfANail ended up exactly the same]] as Spoon had she been raised in the West, or vice versa.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: All these characters just happening to end up in the right places to run into each other after all this time. Lampshaded by Silver Spoon.
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* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: [[spoiler: Trixie tells Silver Spoon that it's not too late for her to become a better person.]]
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* CutLexLuthorACheck: When Sweetie Belle took over the Diamond Dogs, she convinced them to stop mining gems solely for their own collections and instead trading them to the Equestrian government in order to build up their own society.
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** When Sweetie Belle took over the Diamond Dogs, she convinced them to stop mining gems solely for their own collections and instead trading them to the Equestrian government in order to build up their ownsociety.society.
** Though subtle, it's implied the "two lankey stallions" that design and maintain Environment Equestria's fleet of Magitek vehicles are the Flim Flam brothers who decided at some point to drop the scams and market their technology directly.
** When Sweetie Belle took over the Diamond Dogs, she convinced them to stop mining gems solely for their own collections and instead trading them to the Equestrian government in order to build up their own
** Though subtle, it's implied the "two lankey stallions" that design and maintain Environment Equestria's fleet of Magitek vehicles are the Flim Flam brothers who decided at some point to drop the scams and market their technology directly.
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* GlamourFailure: Changelings disguised as ponies look indistinguishable, but are easy to recognize when you touch them. Their bodies feel 'lifeless' and cool to the touch.
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* GlamourFailure: Changelings disguised as ponies look indistinguishable, but are easy to recognize when you touch them. Their bodies feel 'lifeless' and cool to the touch. Diamond dogs are able to detect them, likely by smell, and Crimson Sky become suspicious of one in disguise as an earth pony because, as a trained combatant, he's able to notice it moves like it's used to having wings.
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* RaisedByNatives:
** Apple Bloom grew up in Eastern Sonhos Vale, a DieselPunk country populated by zebras and gryphons and was [[HappilyAdopted adopted]] by a zebra couple on a farm, leaving her with an affinity for machinery and technology over magic.
** Silver Spoon on the other hand grew up in the West, a [[CrapSackWorld Crapsack(er)]] version of Equestria populated by meat-eating ponies referred to as "spooks". It's implied her upbringing wasn't ''nearly'' as pretty as Apple Bloom's.
** Apple Bloom grew up in Eastern Sonhos Vale, a DieselPunk country populated by zebras and gryphons and was [[HappilyAdopted adopted]] by a zebra couple on a farm, leaving her with an affinity for machinery and technology over magic.
** Silver Spoon on the other hand grew up in the West, a [[CrapSackWorld Crapsack(er)]] version of Equestria populated by meat-eating ponies referred to as "spooks". It's implied her upbringing wasn't ''nearly'' as pretty as Apple Bloom's.
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* FriendlyAddressPrivileges: Princess Dinky prefers to speak on "equal footing" when in private with one of her subjects, mostly because it allows them to get right to the point without "all the formalities", but also too because she [[AffablyEvil actually is quite friendly]].
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* ParentalNeglect: Silver Spoon's parents, both unicorns, allegedly didn't care in the slightest about her because she was [[FantasticRacism born an earth pony]]. [[spoiler:This is actually the reason for one of her few ''good'' qualities: she is fond of children and even protective of foals like Clear Rivers, who's mother is too sick to properly care for him.]]
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* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: This one comment by Princess Dinky says it all:
--> "We’ll be there every step of the way to help her drag this mess of a nation, kicking and screaming if necessary, into a golden age."
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Lightning Dust's comments during her confrontation with Scootaloo suggest that Twilight started out this way (or at least viewed herself as such).
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** Lightning Dust's comments during her confrontation with Scootaloo suggest that Twilight started out this way (or at least viewed herself assuch).such).
** [[TheDragon Princess Dinky]] seems motivated by such an interest as well.
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** [[TheDragon Princess Dinky]] seems motivated by such an interest as well.
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* EvilPlan: Princess Dinky seems quite confident that the [[MacGuffin Elements of Harmony]] will ''not'' be an issue, claiming that [[BigBad Queen Twilight]] is preparing something ''big''.
* TheGhost: Though the driving force behind the entire plot and the story's BigBad, as of yet Twilight Sparkle has only been mentioned and has yet to appear personally.
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* InterspeciesFriendship: Apple Bloom was friends with a griffon and a number of zebras when she lived in Sonhos Vale. It's also implied she was [[InterspeciesRomance romantically involved]] with the zebra Peppercorn.
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** Apple Bloom was friends with a griffon and a number of zebras when she lived in Sonhos Vale. It's also implied she was [[InterspeciesRomance romantically involved]] with the zebraPeppercorn.Peppercorn.
** Though he's still pretty aloof about it, Bright Eyes seems to genuinely trust and care about Babs.
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* MadeOfIron: Said almost word-for-word of [[TheDreaded Captain Rumble]], who is up and about within a couple of hours of ''being run over by a speeding vehicle'' with nothing more to show of it but a slight limp and a ''very'' bad mood.
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** Crimson Sky and Lightning Dust share a close friendship, despite butting heads due to their vastly different personalities.
** [[TheDreaded Captain Rumble]] and [[TheDragon Princess Dinky]] have a similar relationship, since they were raised together by [[BigBad Queen Twilight]].
** Crimson Sky and Lightning Dust share a close friendship, despite butting heads due to their vastly different personalities.
** [[TheDreaded Captain Rumble]] and [[TheDragon Princess Dinky]] have a similar relationship, since they were raised together by [[BigBad Queen Twilight]].
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* BandOfBrothers: The R.E.A.F. provides a villainous example. Since a lot of them are misfits or outcasts with nowhere else to go, like with Pinstripe who's parents won't even answer his letters, most of them are fiercely protective of one another.
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* TheGreatEscape: In Chapters 38 and 39, Dorian breaks Apple Bloom, Silver Spoon, and the Cake twins out of the dungeons, followed by them escaping the city in a {{Magitek}} powered truck.
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* DisappearedDad: Scootaloo's father [[spoiler:who is implied to be Crimson Sky]] left before she was born.
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* WorldBuilding: The story has Sonhos Vale, the country where Apple Bloom and Silver Spoon grew up after fleeing Equestria, which despite only appearing in [[{{Flashback}} flashbacks]] is fleshed out with the east being an early 20th century-like country with southwestern American values and populated by zebras and griffons, while the east being an early Victorian Era country that speaks [[BilingualBonus Portuguese]] rather than English and is populated by strange ponies who lack cutie marks complete with their own mythology that explains why and, if Silver Spoon's mention of "going to Hell" is any clue, follow a ''religion'' of some kind. There is also Grogari Gorki, a Russian-like region where a minor character, Pavel, mentions he and his kind were "driven out" by some unknown group or force.
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* TheGlassesComeOff: Inverted with Silver Spoon during her escape from prison. The guards took her glasses along with all her personal effects which she didn't manage to recover, and after the ''second'' time she tries to kill a guard with a knife but only manages to knock him out, she remarks that her aim is terrible without her glasses.
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* JigsawPuzzlePlot: Half the fun of this story is how well this has been done. While most of the focus is put on the now adult Cutie Mark Crusaders each trying to either just live or rekindle old friendships, there is also Babs Seed who is an inspector just trying to uphold the law and do the right thing, an entire plot dedicated to Lightning Dust and [[QuirkyMinibossSquad her R.E.A.F,]] and Silver Spoon who's plot alone could be it's own story, all held together with some shady characters who seem to know a ''lot'' more than what they let on with some flashbacks and WorldBuilding for good measure.
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* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Played with. The SwitchingPOV is often used in one chapter to portray some guards or airponies as faceless {{Mooks}}, only for them to pop up as named characters with personalities in another character's chapter. Apple Bloom is also very clearly haunted by [[WarIsHell killing enemy soldiers in a civil war]], and feels ''particularly'' guilty for [[spoiler:killing the one random {{Mook}} who happened to "get lucky" and kill her two friends.]]
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* DisappearedDad: Scootaloo's father [[spoiler:who is implied to be Crimson Sky]] left before she was born.
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* SlouchOfVillainy: When [[TheDragon Dinky]] meets with Babs Seed in private, she sprawls out sloppily on the couch.
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* HealingFactor: A doctor in one chapter mentions that earth ponies naturally heal much faster than pegasi or unicorns, and that certain earth ponies will be particularly gifted in this ability.
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* EnemyMine: Apple Bloom and Silver Spoon are forced to team up twice throughout the story.
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** Silver Spoon's father, a unicorn, referred to earth ponies as "mud ponies".
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* TheUnfavorite: Silver Spoon was this as a foal, since she was the only earth pony out of an entire family of unicorns.
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* RuleOfCool: The entire high speed chase in Chapter 39 ran on this, with the author blatantly admitting she included it for this reason in the author's notes:
--> I don't care how out of place it might have been, I love car chases and I'd be damned before I'd not have a car chase in this story.
--> I don't care how out of place it might have been, I love car chases and I'd be damned before I'd not have a car chase in this story.
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* VillainOfAnotherStory: Silver Spoon seems to be this. Most of the [[OffscreenVillainy allegedly evil things]] she has done happened prior to the story or are only mentioned in passing.
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* AnythingThatMoves: First chance he gets, Pound Cake flirts with both Babs Seed and Silver Spoon, and is both hilariously and painfully bad at it.
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* OffscreenTeleportation: Pumpkin Cake has apparently weaponized this and uses it at one point to jump a guard while the rest of the group are trying to figure out how to sneak up on said guard given the complete lack of cover. No surprise there, since the Cakes were raised by Pinkie Pie.
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* ChekhovsGunman: Dorian, the kid Apple Bloom saves from being mugged, shows up later to rescue the Cake twins from the Canterlot dungeons, coincidentally rescuing Apple Bloom and Silver Spoon as well.
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* TheGunslinger: Apple Bloom is quite good with a hoofgun, having grown up in a foreign country where technology has advanced quicker due to a lack of magic and fighting in a civil war where their use was widespread.
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* TheCameo: Zipporwhill from ''Filli Vanilli'' is the mailcarrier in Hoofington. The unnamed town Apple Bloom visits has a pub run by Lyra and Bon Bon, and the Stormfront soldier who tries to arrest her fits Flash Sentry's description ([[WordOfGod The author]] goes out of her way to [[TeasingCreator neither confirm or deny it]]). The story also mentions the "two older lankey twins" who designed and maintain vehicles for Environment Equestria, which strongly implies them to be the Flim Flam Brothers.
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--> '''Lightnung Dust:''' Look at that ragged wing of yours; it just wouldn’t feel right beating a cripple to death.
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