History Fanfic / EquestriaGirlsAFairlyOddFriendship

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* AffablyEvil: Like in canon, [[spoiler: Sonata Dusk]] is genuinely nice and sweet, but has no problem with the evil things she and [[spoiler: her sisters]] do to get what they want.

* AndroclesLion: Timmy helps a jaguar who is suffering severe pain. [[spoiler: The jaguar saves him after he is kidnapped by Doombringer and Adagio]].
* AndThisIsFor: Sunset indulges in this while beating up [[spoiler: Doombringer]] for what she did to Timmy.

** [[spoiler: Sonata Dusk]] is this to her sisters, due to her sheer incompetence getting on their nerves.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: {{Averted|Trope}} during the {{Internal Reveal}}s. [[spoiler: The Rainbooms expect Timmy to not believe them about Equestria and the related magic, but he shrugs it off due to having experience with far weirder stuff.]]

** Moondancer refuses to help the Rainbooms save Timmy from [[spoiler: the Dazzlings]] due to her grudge against them (especially Sunset). Then Fluttershy demands to know what Timmy did to her to deserve leaving him in danger. This makes Moondancer realize she's gone too far, and she agrees to help.
** When Sunset tries to justify Timmy [[spoiler: destroying a truck with a meteor]] after being subjected to a brutal humiliation by Crocker, Twilight says this:
-->'''Twilight''': [[ReformedBully You]] humiliated me! Should I have [[spoiler: dropped a meteor]] on you?
** During the massive argument between Timmy and Sunset [[spoiler: that occurs after the Rainbooms come clean to Timmy and after Cosmo and Wanda are captured]], when Sunset tries to argue how ungrateful Timmy is after everything she had done to be his friend, he shocks her and everyone else into silence with this:

** The Medallion of Manipulation, which [[spoiler: the Dazzlings use to MindRape Timmy into giving into his anger and darker impulses]].

* BadHumorTruck: [[spoiler: Doombringer]] uses an ice cream truck to try and capture Timmy and his fairies. [[spoiler: While she succeeds in capturing Timmy, she fails to capture Cosmo and Wanda]].

* BaitAndSwitch: During the epilogue, [[spoiler: Adagio finds Norm's lamp while doing chores in Abacatraz, and appears to be about to free him... but instead tosses the filthy lamp into an incinerator]].
* BaitTheDog: [[spoiler: The Dazzlings]] treat Timmy nicely to win him over, and after starting to develop some real affection for him even [[WeCanRuleTogether offer to let him join them]]. However, when he realizes their true colors and refuses, they resort to [[spoiler: brutally torturing him]] to try and force him to do what they want.
* BatmanGambit: During the FinalBattle, [[spoiler: Timmy keeps goading the Dazzlings into making wishes that break Da Rules, repeatedly temporarily removing their stolen fairy magic and giving Sunset an opening to overpower them]].

** [[spoiler: The Dazzlings]] find to their surprise that they have developed affection towards Timmy. When he briefly manages to beat them, their reaction is to decide to turn him to their side. Ultimately {{Downplayed|Trope}}, however, as when Timmy refuses to join them, [[spoiler: they beat and torture him]], showing that while they like Timmy, they don't truly care for him and are just using him.

** After they see that [[spoiler: the Dazzlings]] have manipulated and hurt Timmy, the Rainbooms are '''pissed''' off beyond belief.
** [[spoiler: On top of broken rules, Jorgen is very, very angry at the Dazzlings for damaging Cosmo and Wanda's wands]].

** Sunset maybe a better person, but she is still capable of being ruthless: When Timmy disobeys her and sneaks off to a skate park, she's so pissed off that she makes Timmy nearly wish for Vicky to come back. [[spoiler: She later knocks Crocker off a balcony after seeing him humiliate and torture Timmy to get his magic]].
** Cosmo and Wanda are loving fairy godparents but will not hesitate to blow away something that threatens Timmy. [[spoiler: Wanda has little problem with Timmy turning Sunset into a worm when the fairy thinks Sunset is an evil villain trying to take over the world]]. While she initially forgives [[spoiler: the Dazzlings]] for using Timmy for wishes, she still forces them to do chores as punishment.

* BeyondRedemption: Twilight feels that about [[spoiler: the Dazzlings]] for what they did to Timmy.

** Gilda herself becomes Timmy's bodyguard and takes to the task eagerly. [[spoiler: She mercilessly beats Crocker after he hurt Timmy with one of his schemes]].
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Rainbow saving Trixie from falling off the roof of the Dazzlings' lair.]]

** [[spoiler: The Dazzlings use Sunset's past two-faced behavior as part of their bid to sell to Timmy that they're kind and heroic beings who want what's good for him and are trying to save him from a demonic Sunset. In reality, they're as heartless as ever and just want Timmy for his magical prowess]].
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The Dazzlings have been defeated, the Rainbooms have been allowed to keep their memories of Cosmo and Wanda, and Canterlot High lauds Timmy as their hero. But Timmy's trust in them has not yet recovered, as he is still horribly traumatized by what the Dazzlings put him through. Sunset, however, hopes Timmy can trust her once again]].
* BlackmailBackfire: [[spoiler: The Dazzlings eventually resort to threatening to send photographic evidence of Cosmo and Wanda to Crocker in order to force Timmy to grant their wishes. It fails when Timmy calls their bluff, as he realizes that if the fairies disappear, the Dazzlings lose their wish-restored magic, and they know it.]]
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: The Rainbooms initially approach Timmy due to him appearing to have a magical artifact and wanting to get it away from him due to their concerns that he could become corrupted by it and cause problems for the public, which is justified due to all the problems Timmy’s past wishes have caused and due to him using his wishes to get back at people. However, even though they had good intentions, they still had deceived Timmy (who is already dealing with many horrible people in his life) and had only approached him in the first place to get close to his supposed magical artifact, [[spoiler: and when they confess the truth to Timmy, he is left feeling betrayed and used by them]].
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: The Dazzlings, as per canon, are capable of doing this once they've tricked Timmy into wishing their magic back. They proceed to use it on him and the fairies.]]
* BreakTheHaughty: PlayedWith: [[spoiler: While her intentions were well-meaning, Twilight ultimately admits to herself that due to she having grown arrogant because of her past successes and too used to having ponies immediately respect her, she had assumed that Timmy would happily become her friend after she took care of the supposed magical artifact. After Cosmo and Wanda are captured and Timmy calls her out, Twilight is forced to realize that Timmy isn’t a pony from Equestria (thus giving him no reason to immediately respect her), that she had hurt him greatly with her actions and her past successes were mainly due to the villains being arrogant and dumb luck.]]

** [[spoiler: Timmy was at first wary of Sunset when she becomes his babysitter because of his bad experiences with Vicky. He warms up to her when it was clear to him that she was not an evil babysitter that would abuse him. Timmy grows to love Sunset like an older sister because of how caring she and her friends are to him and helping with his problems. Timmy is heartbroken to learning from the Dazzlings Sunset's past as a bully and seeing firsthand her bullying via his time travelling scooter, and seeing her become an evil demon. He becomes even more heartbroken to learn she only became his babysitter because she thought he owned some dangerous magical artifact, believing she was only nice to him because of that and had planned just leave him when she got the artifact]].
** Played for laughs when Twilight is horrified to learn that [[spoiler: Starswirl the Bearded simply tossed everything that caused him problems onto Earth and refused to take responsibility for the damage they caused]].

** Timmy's Dad's sound-cancelling earplugs. [[spoiler: Timmy uses them to avoid getting brainwashed a second time by the Dazzlings.]]
** The various bits of learning Timmy gets from each of the Rainbooms comes in handy when [[spoiler: he's using those skills to fight the Dazzlings]].

** Pinkie later does something similar, convincing some cops to let the Rainbooms handle [[spoiler: the Dazzlings]] by bribing them with two boxes of [[DonutMessWithACop donuts]].
* ColdBloodedTorture: [[spoiler: In a last ditch effort to force Timmy to grant them the wish to rule the world, The Dazzlings subject him to both this, and a [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown Beatdown]] at the same time. Outside of the Wet Willy Sonata gives him,]] this is definitely NOT PlayedForLaughs.
* CooldownHug: Pinkie gives Timmy one when [[spoiler: Crocker's scheme humiliates him to the point of tears]].
* TheCorruptible: Timmy, due to his insecurities and anger issues, is susceptible to bad influences. The Rainbooms observe this, [[spoiler: while the Dazzlings are easily able to goad Timmy into being bad]].
* CrossoverVillainInChief: [[spoiler: The Dazzlings]], once they enter the stage, effectively become the main threat due to their cunning, sadism, and magical power.

* DarkActionGirl: [[spoiler: All three of the Dazzlings are this, but Aria loves to get the most physical, and she's an incredibly sadistic bully]].

** The fic explores how a benign group of people would react to Timmy's life. Namely, they would pity him for all the suffering he goes through while be alarmed at his wielding of powerful magic. [[spoiler: They get so worried about him, they feel the need to give him a bodyguard]].
** The fic explores how Timmy would be increasingly unhinged by all the torment and abuse in his life: he begins crying and lashing out at the pain in his life. When Sunset first comes to his door, he's afraid that she'll be a mean bully to him like Vicky. [[spoiler: This is why he so easily believes Adagio's lie that Sunset is an evil villain: because he's been hurt and betrayed by so many other people in his life]].

* DePower: This is what the Elements of Harmony do; they not only strip a being of their magic, but disconnect them from the Equestrian magical system. [[spoiler: The Dazzlings find, to their annoyance, that they can no longer access Equestrian magic to power their gems, even after Cosmo and Wanda fix them, and have to rely on negative fairy magic to do it.]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler: The Rainbooms, while they were aware how unhappy Timmy would be at them spying on him, never imagined how he'd feel about them only (at first) acting nice to him over him possessing magic. Twilight admits that she is so used to be seen as an infallible authority, and so used to coming out on top in Equestria, she never imagined someone like Timmy wouldn't just accept her actions.]]
* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler: Whenever the Dazzlings are on top, they gloat about how great they are, but once they are put on the defensive, they whine and complain. After their defeat, they try and run away from being punished]].
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Crocker is set up as the main antagonist, as he continually tries to get ahold of Timmy's fairies. [[spoiler: But once the Dazzlings show up, they quickly take center stage.]]

** [[spoiler: Doombringer]]'s kidnapping -- an old stranger is offering a ten year old boy free ice cream if he gets into her van.
** [[spoiler: Timmy's interactions with the Dazzlings, with them using the fact that they "saved" him from Sunset to make him do what they want, is like a portrayal of an abusive relationship.]]

** {{Downplayed|Trope}} with [[spoiler: the Dazzlings. When Wanda threatens to kick them out for using Timmy, Sonata puts on a convincing crying act. Wanda gives them another chance... but forces them to do chores to make up for using them]].
** [[spoiler: {{Averted|Trope}}. Both Sunset and Timmy become furious at each other for their transgressions toward one another. It's only by considering the other side's actions later on after cooling off that they gradually come to understand each other.]]
** [[spoiler: Brutally defied with the Dazzlings. They try and put on a show of redemption and forgiveness, but nobody seriously buys it due to it sounding so self-serving and entitled. Instead they are brutally beaten up, tied, and gagged, with Twilight planning to have them dumped into Tartarus]].
** [[spoiler: Played straighter with Moondancer, who is forgiven by the Rainbooms. This is also justified since the Rainbooms [[JerkassHasAPoint admit she did have a good reason to be angry at them]], and since she was willing to put her life on the line to save Timmy]].

** Pinkie Pie is a normally peppy and cheerful person who can be immature and a little weird, but even she was annoyed with Gary and Betty. When she first meets Gary and Betty, they get along great because all three were peppy and cheerful people. However, she becomes annoyed with them [[spoiler: when Gary and Betty took her candy and burn it because they say they are bad for her brain. She later becomes disgusted with them when Gary and Betty humiliated Timmy in a safety seminar under the glades of helping him. She angrily calls them out for their insensitivity and calls them idiots. Later, Timmy uses his magic to have a giant meteor destroy Gary and Betty's truck; Pinkie defends his actions, saying they were mean to him while thinking they were nice]].

** Gilda and her crew are nasty pranksters, but they draw the line at seriously hurting someone or breaking their spirit. [[spoiler: They're appalled with Crocker's plan to humiliate and hurt Timmy to gain access to his magic and beat Crocker up, along with Gary and Betty for their part in Timmy's humiliation. Gilda chuckled at Timmy's retaliation against her with giant spiders...until Fluttershy points out the spiders could've been poisonous]].

** Moondancer grows uncomfortable with how [[spoiler: the Dazzlings]] are using Timmy, and ultimately agrees to help the Rainbooms save him despite not liking any of them.
** [[spoiler: Jorgen is mean to Timmy and likes to cause pain, but he is angered over how horrible the Dazzlings were]].

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Interestingly, [[spoiler: the Dazzlings]] may have developed genuine affection towards Timmy. When Timmy angrily calls them out for using him, they show signs of discomfort, implying that they do feel guilty for what they did. Later, when Timmy almost beats them, they're impressed and decide they want him on their side. Ultimately {{Downplayed|Trope}}, though, as when Timmy refuses to join them, they were willing to [[spoiler: beat and torture him]], showing that while they like Timmy, they don't truly care for him unless they can use him.

** [[spoiler: After manipulating Timmy into a RageBreakingPoint that has him attack Tad and Chad and then lash out at his friends when they intervene, the Dazzlings expect their friendship to be ruined, thus isolating him completely. Then to their shock, his friends immediately forgive him.]]
** [[spoiler: The Dazzlings' plan to blackmail Timmy falls apart, because they believe Timmy would only care about magic, not Cosmo and Wanda's well being. They are taken aback when he is willing to lose his fairies if it means saving them.]]
* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler: The Dazzlings are this for the Rainbooms. While the Rainbooms spied on Timmy, they did it to save him from an evil form of magic. And they learned to care for Timmy beyond their mission; the Dazzlings only care about using him for magic. While the Rainbooms try and help Timmy grow as a person, the Dazzlings manipulate and bully him into doing what they want and are willing to destroy his life to do so]].
** [[spoiler: Aria is this to both Rainbow and Gilda. The latter two are tough girls who are not afraid to be aggressive to people who cross them, but under their rough exterior are kind people who are hard on Timmy because they want him to become a stronger person. While Aria may act as she cares for Timmy, she is really just a bully who wants to turn Timmy into a violent thug so she can use him for her own benefit]].
** [[spoiler: Sonata is this to Pinkie. They're both bubbly {{Cloudcuckoolander}}s, but unlike Pinkie, Sonata has no problem manipulating Timmy and hurting people to get what she wants.]]
** [[spoiler: Adagio to Sunset. They're both leaders of their groups and come from former positions of prestige, but where Sunset has had a HeelFaceTurn and is trying to be a better person, Adagio has not changed at all and is still obsessed with power at all costs.]]
* EvilerThanThou: [[spoiler: The Dazzlings]] establish themselves as the most dangerous villains in the setting, not just outwitting everyone but managing to intimidate [[spoiler: Doombringer]] into being their minion. They show themselves to be crueler than Vicky, and much smarter and more dangerous than Timmy's other enemies.

** [[spoiler: If Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna see their students committing violence against the Dazzlings, they have to do something about it. So, the two, along with their staff, go to where they can't see any violence taking place]].
** Da Rules state that the existence of fairies can't be revealed to non-magic humans or humans not in the know. [[spoiler: Since the Rainbooms have magic, and since both Twilight and Sunset are magical ponies, they both can get away with seeing Cosmo and Wanda]]. Since Canterlot High already are aware of magic [[spoiler: and since they believe Cosmo and Wanda to be talking fish, they also can walk away with their memories intact]].

* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler: Adagio acts like Timmy's friend and savior, but it is a barely veiled attempt to manipulate him into giving her what she and her sisters want. She uses her "saving" him from Sunset's "evil" in order to bully him further. This facade falls apart when Timmy utterly refuses her demands point blank.]]

* ForcedToWatch: Cosmo and Wanda can only watch helplessly as [[spoiler: the Dazzlings beat Timmy]].
* ForcedTransformation: [[spoiler: Thinking Sunset is an evil villain, Timmy uses Cosmo and Wanda's magic to turn her into a worm and ditch her in the Everfree Forest. Once the Dazzlings have him under their spell, they brainwash him into doing this to the rest of the Rainbooms too.]]

** Twilight feels this way about [[spoiler: the Dazzlings]] after hearing [[spoiler: Adagio]]'s MotiveRant -- she acknowledges they've had terrible lives, but since they've crossed so many lines and have refused to accept responsibility for their actions, she no longer has any sympathy for them.
* GoodIsNotNice: [[spoiler: Jorgen von Strangle is the enforcer of the rules, but he's very cutthroat about how he goes about things. He crushes the Dazzlings with his fist and drags them to Abracatraz for their crimes. He is also eager to erase the memories of the Rainbooms, especially Sunset for her sordid past, only not doing so because of Timmy using Da Rules. He also brutalized Starswirl for his irresponsible dumping of magical artifacts on Earth]].

** Rainbow and Gilda jump at the chance to teach Timmy to become a stronger person. But they ''don't'' pull punches in doing so. The former is willing to have Scootaloo steal his hat to motivate him to run faster, and the latter is willing to pull [[CombatPragmatist sneak attacks]] on him to get him in shape. The latter also has little problem with breaking bones of some really nasty people [[spoiler: as shown by her beating Crocker within an inch of his life for tormenting Timmy. She later comes close to killing the Dazzlings for their monstrous treatment of the boy, and was only stopped by Princess Twilight]].
** [[spoiler: All of Canterlot High subject the Dazzlings to an ''absolutely'' vicious beating for what they did. Principal Celestia doesn't like violence, but seeing how horrible the Dazzlings were, she implicitly gives her students permission to enact violence upon them]].
* GracefulInTheirElement: [[spoiler: Sonata]] may be dim, but she can be good at manipulation in the right situation.

* HeroesFrontierStep: [[spoiler: Timmy proves to the Rainbooms when, without him knowing they are listening, his refuses to let Cosmo and Wanda become the Dazzlings' puppets, even if it means losing them or their magic forever. His sparing, but not pardoning, of the Dazzlings also makes him into more of a hero by Canterlot High]].
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler: Timmy, when he sees footage of Sunset being an evil demon, is reduced to tears, believing the girl who cared for him is nothing but a nasty villain who wanted him for his magic.]]
** [[spoiler: He is then hit by another when Cosmo and Wanda are taken and the Rainbooms come clean about only approaching him due to they thinking that he had a magical artifact, leaving him crying in the bathroom]].

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Sunset's bullying of Moondancer comes back to bite her HARD. [[spoiler: The Dazzlings are able to goad Moondancer into providing evidence of Sunset's past misdeeds, which they can use to claim to Timmy that Sunset is still an evil bully]].
* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: Timmy manages to beat the Dazzlings and is about to free the brainwashed Cosmo and Wanda, when he falls into a trap set Adagio set up just in case.]]

** [[spoiler: Crocker's scheme to steal Cosmo and Wanda falls apart catastrophically. Sunset and Gilda are able to knock him off the balcony he is standing on, and not only does his laser break, but the fall breaks his leg for good measure. Then Principal Waxelplax discovers his scheme and demotes him to janitor. Then Gilda physically punishes him for messing with Timmy, with the Dimmsdale kids cheering and Waxelplax spitefully looking the other way.]]
** [[spoiler: The Dazzlings go through a harsh one: Timmy turns the tables on them during the FinalBattle by tricking them into breaking Da Rules, they are hit with a combo of the Elements of Harmony and fairy magic, all of Canterlot High brutally beats them up, Zephyr Breeze spitefully shaves them bald as revenge for what they did to Fluttershy, Timmy punishes them by forcing them to repair the lawn, and finally Jorgen drags them off to jail]].

** When the Rainbooms are trying to explain to Timmy why they lied to him, the resulting argument gets so heated that Sunset (who still has a grudge over him [[spoiler: turning her into a worm]] earlier) insults and almost attacks him, while later her lingering frustration and anger (triggered by Timmy [[spoiler: lying and running off]]) leads to her deciding to try and [[spoiler: reveal his fairies to get rid of his magic]]. Fortunately, the others stop her, and seeing Timmy's parents selling his stuff snaps her out of it.
** Moondancer refuses to help the Rainbooms save Timmy from [[spoiler: the Dazzlings]] due to her grudge against them (especially Sunset) despite previously being uncomfortable with [[spoiler: the Dazzlings]] manipulating him. It takes Fluttershy's ArmorPiercingQuestion to get through to her and change her mind.

** [[spoiler: While defending Timmy's choice to destroy Gary and Betty's truck, Gilda points out to Rarity, Fluttershy, and Applejack that THEY didn't object to her beating Crocker within an inch of his life and would've done the same thing if it was their siblings in Timmy's position. They acknowledge that while they would've gotten physical...but not to the point of causing collateral damage]].

** Seeing Timmy's parents selling his stuff due to [[spoiler: the Dazzlings' brainwashing]], as well as a photo album of Timmy and his fairies, snaps Sunset out of her anger at him from both their argument and him sneaking off to [[spoiler: go after the Dazzlings alone]].

* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: [[spoiler: The Dazzlings]] show that they really do somewhat care for Timmy... then when he refuses to side with them, they [[spoiler: beat and torture him]], showing they don't care for him unless he does what they want.

** [[spoiler: The Dazzlings]] laughing at Timmy's torment during the Learn-A-Torium demonstration, and having the nerve to post his torment online. Later, when he rejects their offer to rule alongside them, they [[spoiler: torture him as cruelly as possible]].
* KnightOfCerebus: The story, while somewhat more dramatic, is a mostly lighthearted fare. Then [[spoiler: the Dazzlings]] move into the picture, and while they do have humorous moments, their villainous actions are not PlayedForLaughs. [[spoiler: They destroy Sunset's relationship with Timmy by exposing her horrible past to him and feeding him a dark untruth that she is planning to steal his fairies, which leads to Timmy turning Sunset into a worm. They then proceed to manipulate and abuse Timmy into granting their wishes. Then, after they manage to enthrall Cosmo and Wanda and take their magic, they brainwash Timmy's friends and family into hating him, and manipulate him into trying to kill the rest of the Rainbooms. And then when Timmy mouths off to them, they subject him to a horrific NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, and threaten to throw Trixie off the roof if he doesn't grant their wish to rule Dimmsdale.]]
* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: During the FinalBattle, [[spoiler: the Dazzlings fall into a mental trap of using this logic to try and figure out if Timmy is trying to use reverse psychology on them or not.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler: Once he believes Sunset is a demon who brainwashed Canterlot High, Timmy makes a wish that causes everyone forget Sunset's redemption and kick her out of the school.]]

** [[spoiler: Doombringer knocked Sunset out to kidnap Timmy, but she later get to return the favor with her sledgehammer when she and her friends raid the factory to rescue Timmy and his fairies.]]
** [[spoiler: After beating Timmy to an inch of his life, the Dazzlings are subjected to a brutal beating at the hands of Canterlot's students]].
** [[spoiler: After losing to a fight to Timmy and being transferred to Crystal Prep Junior, Tad and Chad have themselves become social outcasts]].

** Wanda is this for Timmy. She punishes [[spoiler: the Dazzlings]] for using Timmy for his access to fairy magic by making them do chores, and [[spoiler: upon being tricked into thinking Sunset is evil, gladly helps turn her into a worm]].

* MundaneSolution: [[spoiler: Timmy is captured by Doombringer, and Cosmo and Wanda can't use magic to rescue him. Wanda's solution: borrow a cell phone to call the police]].

** [[spoiler: The Rainbooms are all horrified at themselves when Timmy [[WhatTheHellHero chews them out]] for spying on and manipulating him, since despite their good intentions it was still the wrong thing to do. Twilight in particular is upset at herself for assuming that he'd just automatically forgive and befriend her.]]
** [[spoiler: Sunset feels horrible seeing how she hurt Moondancer and failed to properly make amends for what she did, after seeing her past actions come back to haunt her. She also feels horrible for nearly hitting Timmy in a fit of rage and for nearly revealing Cosmo and Wanda to his parents to have them taken away from him out of revenge]].
** [[spoiler: Moondancer is shocked and regretful when she sees the Dazzlings tormenting Timmy and realizes they tricked her.]]
* NiceGuy: Cosmo, while dim, is a loving and cheerful man. [[spoiler: While thinking Sunset is an evil villain, he still has second thoughts about her being turned into a worm, and even convinces his wife to change back Sunset after a week.]]

* NothingPersonal: Whereas [[spoiler: Sonata and Aria]] show slight guilt at having used Timmy, [[spoiler: Adagio]] merely shrugs it off by comparing them to predators looking for a meal. Even Timmy notes how sincere she sounds.

** [[spoiler: Sunset, Pinkie, and Gilda react this way when they see Timmy dropped a giant meteor on Gary and Betty's truck]].
** [[spoiler: Timmy, Cosmo, and Wanda have a deadly serious one when they witness Sunset's transformation into a demon]].
* OneWingedAngel: During the FinalBattle, [[spoiler: the Dazzlings absorb all of Cosmo and Wanda's magic and merge into a giant {{kaiju}}]].
* OpportunisticBastard: In the backstory, [[spoiler: the Dazzlings attacked Equestria when Celestia was mourning having to banish Luna]].

* OutsideContextProblem: The Rainbooms' [[spoiler: and Dazzlings]] entire understanding of Timmy is based on the assumption that he's using Equestrian magic, due to the fact that they don't know things like fairies even exist.
* PoliceAreUseless: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zigzagged.]] The police are brainwashed into helping [[spoiler: the Dazzlings]], and when freed they are easily convinced to let the Rainbooms handle [[spoiler: the sirens]]. However, they do assistant girls in helping the jaguar Joanna and Trixie.
* PositiveFriendInfluence: Gradually, the Rainbooms help Timmy become a kinder and more empathetic person. [[spoiler: Despite being angry enough at their duplicity to push them away, he still finds their influence and the lessons they sought to instill into him to be helpful on his personal journey to save Cosmo and Wanda]].
* ThePowerOfLove: Timmy's love for his fairies is so strong that [[spoiler: it's the one thing that the Dazzlings' brainwashing can't overpower.]]
* PreAsskickingOneLiner: When preparing [[spoiler: to beat Crocker for trying to hurt Timmy]], Gilda says this:

--> '''[[spoiler: Crocker]]:''' [[OhCrap I]]-,

* PsychicAssistedSuicide: [[spoiler: The Dazzlings threaten to have Trixie jump off the ledge if Timmy doesn't grant them more wishes.]]

** [[spoiler: Later, Gilda gives Crocker a vicious beating he harms Timmy with one of his schemes and her cronies pummel Gary and Betty for idiotically hurting him]].
** [[spoiler: They also humiliated the Dazzlings after their first defeat, and they came very close to brutalizing them after all the horrible things they did and planned to do to Timmy]]. And Gilda herself is not afraid to be rough with Timmy to get him in shape.
* PsychoForHire: [[spoiler: Adagio hires Doombringer, a vicious maniac, to capture Timmy in exchange for his fairy's wands]].
* PsychopathicManchild: [[spoiler: The Dazzlings]] are revealed to be petty, immature children who are willing to hurt others to get what they want without accepting any responsibility. [[spoiler: They are completely unable to accept criticism, brutally beating Timmy when he calls them out for how horrible they are]]. Twilight considers [[spoiler: Adagio's]] MotiveRant to be the words of a whiny, entitled child. [[spoiler: Their reaction to Timmy beating them is to whine and complain about how unfair it is that they are losing]].
* RageBreakingPoint: Sunset reaches hers when [[spoiler: the Dazzlings, once they gain control of Cosmo and Wanda's magic, banish the other Rainbooms, and not only plan to enslave her friends in Canterlot High, but also plan to destroy Timmy's life out of sheer spite. She ends up taking on her Daydream Shimmer mode to in order to fight them]].

* ReformedButNotTamed: Sunset may be a better person, but bits of old Sunset still pop up. [[spoiler: When Timmy enrages her by calling her an evil witch, she comes very close to slugging him]]. Later, Rainbow notes that Sunset showed a bit of her old self when beating Doombringer; afterwards, Twilight assures Sunset that she's just learned to channel her old instincts towards a good cause instead of trying to suppress them. [[spoiler: A worse example of this comes up after her argument with Timmy and her finding off he had snuck off, as she decides to tell expose his fairies to his parents to have to taken away out of revenge, only to snap out of it once she sees them selling his things and his album of his fairies]].
* RulesLawyer: As per canon, Timmy has learned from experience how to work around Da Rules to get what he wants from his wishes. [[spoiler: During the FinalBattle, he weaponizes this knowledge against the Dazzlings, repeatedly tricking them into making wishes that violate Da Rules so that they'll be rendered temporarily powerless. And afterwards, he uses this same skill to keep Jorgen from taking Cosmo and Wanda and erasing the Rainbooms' memories.]]

** [[spoiler: Adagio]] getting electrocuted. Which, as you might tell, [[AssholeVictim she is richly deserving of]].
* SadisticChoice: [[spoiler: The Dazzlings threaten to make a brainwashed Trixie jump off a roof if Timmy doesn't use Cosmo and Wanda to grant their wishes. Fortunately, the Rainbooms intervene in time.]]
* SatanicArchetype: [[spoiler: The Dazzlings as a whole. They serve as TheCorrupter to Timmy, seeking to drive him toward bad ends while exploiting him as part of their plans to rule the world. They are consumed by their extreme hatred of others, greed, and egotistical belief in their own superiority. They try and bring Timmy over to their side by falsely claiming they will build him a better world. Finally, once they gain control over Cosmo and Wanda's magic, they obtain a massive three-headed form which they intend to use to bring about a reign of destruction.]]
* ScareEmStraight: [[spoiler: Sunset decides to try and reform Vicky this way: by pretending to still be a bully and intimidating her into giving up by blackmailing her, forcing her to do humiliating chores, and having Applejack beat her and throw her out of her apartment]].

* SecretTestOfCharacter: Twilight gives Timmy one to see if he has learned not to give into violence. [[spoiler: She encourages him to turn the Dazzlings into worms after they are defeated. Instead, Timmy just punishes them with lawnwork, passing the test, and earning him even greater respect from Canterlot High]].

** [[spoiler: Tad and Chad have been sent to Crystal Prep Junior and are plotting with Remy Buxaplenty to ruin Timmy.]]
** [[spoiler: Trixie vaguely remembers the events from her kidnapping, and it starts to make her rethink her view on Timmy.]]
** [[spoiler: Crocker is plotting to not only find Timmy's fairies, but to learn about Sunset Shimmer's secret.]]
** [[spoiler: Adagio meets Anti-Cosmo in prison, and the two form a VillainTeamUp to break out of prison and plot to destroy their enemies.]]
** [[spoiler: Sci-Twi is not only learning about Equestrian magic, but has also detected Timmy's fairy magic and plans to study both.]]
* SevenDeadlySins: The author posted a [[https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/957733/how-the-dazzlings-in-equestria-girls-fairly-odd-friendship-are-an-analogy-of-the-seven-deadly-sins-and-satan-spoilers journal entry]] detailing how the Seven Sins apply to [[spoiler: the Dazzlings]] and the more flawed aspects of the heroes.

** Gary and Betty are this to Pinkie Pie. All three of these characters are peppy and cheerful. However, while they have good intentions, Gary and Betty don’t have empathy, unlike Pinkie Pie. Even when she is insensitive, Pinkie realizes that, or when it points out to her, she always apologizes and tries to make things right. Gary and Betty remain blissfully unaware of the harm they cause. When Pinkie first meets Gary and Betty, they get along; they got on her bad side when they took her candy and burned it because they say that they are bad for her brain. [[spoiler: Pinkie grows disgusted with them; when Gary and Betty humiliated Timmy in a safety seminar under the guise of helping him, she angrily calls them out for their insensitivity and calls them idiots. Gary and Betty remain unaware of the harm they cause Timmy, while Pinkie took Timmy away and hugs him to comfort him]].

* ShoutOut: The scene in the final chapter [[spoiler: with Adagio sitting in a cell, pretending to be nice by not swatting a fly]] is one to the final scene of ''Film/{{Psycho}}''.

* SparedButNotForgiven: [[spoiler: Timmy doesn't forgive the Dazzlings for their horrible acts, but he decides not to turn them into worms, instead putting them to work fixing the lawn]].
* SpitefulSpit: Timmy does this to Sunset during their huge fight, and later also does it to [[spoiler: Adagio]] when she's trying to force him to give in to her demands.
* SuperMode: [[spoiler: Sunset transforms into Daydream Shimmer during the FinalBattle, after being driven to desperation to save Timmy and stop the Dazzlings.]]

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler: The Dazzlings]] throw this in Timmy’s face multiple times throughout the story, both subtly, and outright. Timmy returns the favor after their last one. [[spoiler: They...[[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown REALLY]] [[ColdBloodedTorture don’t take it well...]]]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Thanks to Rainbow and Gilda, Timmy gradually becomes more athletic. [[spoiler: [[DeconstructedTrope However, his athletic prowess is limited to fighting people his age and size.]] He is completely outclassed by grownups, and has to rely on trickery to be able to battle them.]]

* TraumaCongaLine: Timmy goes through a rough one throughout the back half of the story: [[spoiler: the Dazzlings gaslight him to turn him against the Rainbooms, then brainwash him into their servant. After he's freed, they kidnap Cosmo and Wanda and rub their actions in his face. And when he comes to save his fairies, they beat him savagely when he refuses to give in to them, and when they succeed in stealing the fairies' magic, they eat Cosmo and Wanda, plan to destroy everything and everyone Timmy cares about, and make him watch as they rampage with it while telling him it's all his fault]].

* UngratefulBastard: [[spoiler: The Dazzlings]] repay Timmy's kindness to them by manipulating him viciously [[spoiler: and giving him a brutal NoHoldsBarredBeatdown when he stands up to them]].
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: The Dazzlings become increasingly unhinged as they start losing, screaming in a rage about how unfair their lives are. When they see the Elements of Harmony about to be used on them, Adagio starts desperately begging Sunset for mercy]].
* VillainRespect: [[spoiler: The Dazzlings come to respect Timmy after he nearly beats them singlehandedly.]]
* VillainTakesAnInterest: [[spoiler: The Dazzlings]] take note of Timmy when they learn of his magic.
* VillainsWantMercy: [[spoiler: After being rendered powerless, the Dazzlings beg Canterlot High for a chance at friendship. Canterlot High, however, is not in a forgiving mood]].
* WeCanRuleTogether: [[spoiler: The Dazzlings]] try to convince Timmy to join them voluntarily.

** "The Honeymoon is Over": [[spoiler: Timmy is kidnapped by Doombringer. While he escapes, this results in Adagio learning about Timmy's magic.]]
** "Camp Learn-A-Torium's Safety Seminar": [[spoiler: Crocker's scheme leads to him getting harshly suspended, and earns him the enmity of Canterlot High. Timmy gives in to his rage and destroys Gary and Betty's truck with a meteor, horrifying Sunset. And the Dazzlings learn about the extent of Timmy's magic and seek to take it for themselves.]]
** "Past Demons": [[spoiler: Timmy, Cosmo, and Wanda travel back in time, and witness Sunset's old horrible ways and how she brutally humiliated Moondancer. And then the Dazzlings show Timmy footage of Sunset's demon transformation, which convinces him that Sunset is an evil villain who never cared about him.]]
** "Breaking Point (Part 2)": [[spoiler: Timmy, under the Dazzlings' spell, comes close to feeding the Rainbooms to a bird after turning them into worms. Sunset is able to snap him out of it through an act of mercy. The Dazzlings reveal themselves, helping the Rainbooms learn that they've been manipulating Timmy. The Dazzlings are able to defeat the Rainbooms and trap them in concrete with Crocker's technology, but not before revealing Cosmo and Wanda's presence to them. They finally steal Cosmo and Wanda away from them, leaving Timmy crying on the ground.]]

** [[spoiler: Timmy is given a choice by the Dazzlings: he can grant them what they want and rule at their side, or he could lose his fairies. Without knowing the Rainbooms are listening in, he furiously refuses to help them, not wanting Cosmo and Wanda to be reduced to magical batteries.]]
* WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou: [[spoiler: The Dazzlings]] blame Timmy for them [[spoiler: eating Cosmo and Wanda and later planning to destroy Dimmsdale, claiming it's all his fault for being a selfish brat and not giving them what they want]].
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: The Dazzlings]] resort to beating Timmy to try and bend him to their will, and are willing to throw Trixie off a roof as part of a SadisticChoice.

** Details on the characters' last names are elaborated more with Applejack, Apple Bloom, and Big Mac's names being revealed to be nicknames here with their real names being Jacqueline Smith, Appletini Bloom Smith, and Macintosh Apple Smith respectively. For Rarity, her last name is Belle here (revealing Belle actually is a last name for her sister Sweetie Belle).

The story is Complete as of July 9, 2021, and has a sequel called ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/479498/pinkie-pie-vs-yugopotamia Pinkie Pie vs. Yugopotamia]]'', where a rogue element of the Yugopatamian army wants to destroy the planet. Cosmo and Wanda are out of commission, so Pinkie Pie intervenes.

* BreakTheHaughty: PlayedWith: [[spoiler: While her intentions were well-meaning, Twilight ultimately admits to herself that due to she having grown arrogant because of her past successes and too used to having ponies immediately respect her, she had assumed that Timmy would happily continue being her friend after she took care of the supposed magical artifact. After Cosmo and Wanda are captured and Timmy calls her out, Twilight is forced to realize that Timmy isn’t a pony from Equestria (thus giving him no reason to immediately respect her), that she had hurt him greatly with her actions and her past successes were mainly due to the villains being arrogant and dumb luck.]]

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Sunset tries to apologize to Moondancer for having bullied her years ago. However, her claims that she was "in a bad place," inability to admit any wrongdoing, and running off in the middle of it to get a text from Moondancer just aggravates her.

** [[spoiler: Timmy was at first wary of Sunset when she becomes his babysitter because of his bad experiences with Vicky. He warms up to her when it was clear to him that she was not an evil babysitter that would abuse him. Timmy grows to love Sunset like an older sister because of how caring she and her friends are to him and helping with his problems. Timmy is heartbroken to learning from the Dazzlings Sunset's past as a bully and seeing firsthand her bullying on video, and seeing her become an evil demon. He becomes even more heartbroken to learn she only became his babysitter because she thought he owned some dangerous magical artifact, believing she was only nice to him because of that and had planned just leave him when she got the artifact]].

** As she usually does, Vicky pulls this act in front of Cheerliee, pretending to be Timmy's loving babysitter in front of Miss Cheerilee.

-->'''Timmy''':Timmy the boy with a magic rock or Timmy the buck tooth loser?! (Everyone freezes, the question hitting them hard)It that why all of you did nice things for me? Did you really like me, or were you just trying to keep...me...quiet?

* PsychoForFire: [[spoiler: Adagio hires Doombringer, a vicious maniac, to capture Timmy in exchange for his fairy's wands]].

* NotSoStoic: While generally not an emotional person, Maud genuinely gets devastated to near tears when the Dazzlings claim to have killed the Rainbooms (including her sister Pinkie).

** Moondancer might be acting out of vengeance, but none of the Rainbooms can really argue with her when she chews them out for basically ditching her.

* AlternateUniverseFic: Despite the title, the fic places Canterlot in the FOP version of California, in proximity to Dimmsdale. The EG characters aren't a candy-colored humanoid group, although they retain their unique hair colors and eye colors. Likewise a few ages on some characters are shifted (Zephyr Breeze is middle-school aged rather than in high school and the Cutie Mark Crusaders are much more younger then the tweens they were in canon). Timeline wise it seems to take place after ''Rainbow Rocks'' and on the FOP side of things, the events of seasons 6-10 never happened here.

* AdaptationalNameChange: A variation occurs with Applejack, Apple Bloom, and Big Mac's names being revealed to be nicknames here with their real names being Jacqueline Smith, Appletini Bloom Smith, and Macintosh Apple Smith respectively.

* AlternateUniverseFic: Despite the title, the fic places Canterlot in the FOP version of California, in proximity to Dimmsdale. The EG characters aren't a candy-colored humanoid group, although they retain their unique hair colors and eye colors. Likewise a few ages on some characters are shifted (Zephyr Breeze is a younger sibling rather then the older to Fluttershy as he was in the man continuity and the Cutie Mark Crusaders are much more younger then the tweens they were in canon). Timeline wise it seems to take place after ''Rainbow Rocks''.

* AdaptedOut: Poof, Sparky, and Chloe don't appear or have any bearing on the plot in the fic, mainly because the author sees their appearance as when ''Fairly Oddparents'' began its decline.

* AdaptationalNameChange: A variation occurs with Applejack's real name being "Jacqueline Smith" with Applejack being revealed to actually be a nickname.

* AgeLift: The Human CMC are elementary school-age while Zephyr is a middle-schooler. In ''Equestria Girls'', the CMC and Zephyr are in high school.

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Spike's human world counterpart goes from being Sci-Twi's pet dog to her younger, adopted younger brother.

** [[Spoiler: He is then hit by another when Cosmo and Wanda are taken and the Rainbooms come clean about only approaching him due to they thinking that he had a magical artifact, leaving him crying in the bathroom]].

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[spoiler:Sonata Dusk's]] [[TrademarkFavoriteFood taco]] addiction gives [[spoiler:her]] [[PottyEmergency stomach pains.]]