History Fanfic / FightingIsMagicTournament

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:After the tournament, Sombra discovers that while he was away his world's Rainbow Dash successfully overthrew his Empire and put the Royal Sisters back on the throne. Him and his sister are then turned into foals by his world's Discord and stripped of their horns before being dragged back to their world.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:After the tournament, the Rainbow Dash from Sombra's timeline comes with Cadence and Pinkie Pie to apprehend Sombra and his family for his crimes. While they succeed with the help of their world's Discord, [[DisproportionateRetribution Sea Breeze attempts to charge her for "for bringing in unauthorized guests before the closing ceremonies" and "fighting an unauthorized fight"]] despite the group ''not knowing of the tournament or it's rules'' and then calls her out for "expecting others to swoop in and fix your problems for you". This comes back to bite him ''big time'' when he gets a huge bag of bits dropped on his head, with a letter threatening to leave Sombra with him next time, and it later turns out that the bits are "Sombra tokens" that were only used in Sombra's Empire, and are ''completely worthless'' anywhere else! And to add salt to the wound that world's Celestia and Luna have closed off access to their world so he can't complain to them. Zipzee points out that [[KickTheSonOfABitch he kind of deserved it.]] PlayedWith, as the ones who make Sea Breeze do so and make the rules, the tournament sponsors, more or less get off with no real karma to speak of.]]

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking:
** Queen Chrysalis, naturally, who is strong enough to win against Daring Do.
** The Princesses, all of who are quite powerful.
** Dragon Lord Ember, unlike Garble, manages to put up a pretty effective and even fight with an Alicorn, namely Twilight.
** Queen Majesty from G1 is so powerful that she's not allowed to compete. She's powerful enough to turn Chrysalis into a ladybug with barely any effort, and unlike the Alicorns and villains, she's not over a thousand years old. [[spoiler: She's eventually allowed to participate in the sequel due to new rules being added.]]

--> '''Sombra''': [[Anime/DragonBallZBrolyTheLegendarySuperSaiyan Is that another word for coffin?]]

** Patch manages to defeat King Sombra [[spoiler:by [[HoistByHisOwnPetard tricking him into nailing himself with his]] YourWorstNightmare spell, causing him to ring himself out in his terror.]]

** [[spoiler:Patch defeats Sombra by tricking him into using his YourWorstNightmare spell into a mirror and hitting himself with it.]]

* SmugSuper: Discord is naturally this, not taking King Sombra seriously at all. It costs him when Sombra [[spoiler:uses his YourWorstNightmare power to scare him out of the ring]] to win their match.

* YourWorstNightmare: Sombra is in the tournament, and thus has this spell at his disposal. [[spoiler:He uses it to defeat Discord, who's worse nightmare involves a job. He's ultimately defeated when Patch [[HoistByHisOwnPetard tricks him into using it into a mirror and hitting himself with it.]] Sombra's worst fear? The idea he had a ''choice'' and could've been good.]]
** Trixie pulls this on Spike, forcing him to see his friends and family disowning him, causing him to fall out of the ring.
** [[spoiler:Flash turns this around on Trixie by tricking her into attacking his shield point-blank [[HoistByHisOwnPetard and getting hit by the spells rebound herself,]] she ends up seeing Starlight Glimmer fearing what she's become, prompting her to take off the amulet, giving Flash enough time to destroy it.]]

* BalefulPolymorph: Garble gets turned into a Pegasus foal by Luna. Luna leaves it up to Ember when he'll get turned back to normal.

* BalefulPolymorph:
** Tirac turns several ponies into minions with the Rainbow of Darkness, and wins his match by doing it to Spike.
** Reeka actually manages to do this to Teddy on accident. She was aiming for 'sunk' to make him sink through the ring and get rung out, but got the word wrong, first turning him into a hunk, and then into a [[SmellySkunk skunk.]]

* ThePrankster: Both Patch and Rainbow Dash are this, and even settle their match with a prank war.
* PrinceOfPranksters: Patch gave herself the title Queen of Pranksters as her RedBaron because she felt it fit her (having had a song all about this trope in her show)).

* DidYouThinkICantFeel: As in her canon, [[TheStoic Wind Whistler]] runs into this, with Chrysalis treating her as emotionless. The fact Patch ''doesn't'' see her as this (due to knowing from Bright Eyes that intellectual and logically minded does not mean emotionless) sincerely touches her [[spoiler:and combined with their NotSoDifferent moment, wins Patch the match by making Wind Whistler smile, which was the challenge they did instead of fighting.]]

* NotSoDifferent: Patch and Wind Whistler come to this understanding when they realize [[spoiler:they've both been judged by others for how they appear externally, even if it's in opposite ways. It's what wins Patch the match, as her sympathy makes Wind Whistler smile and wins the challenge they'd set up in place of fighting.]]

* RealityEnsues: Iron Will ended up in prison for the whole 'performing high treason helping Radiant Hope attack the Crystal Empire' thing, and Lightning Dust is a wanted fugitive for the same reason.

* 38. G1 Tirek

* 53. G4 Tirek

** Tirek gets to use his Rainbow of Darkness for the race for the losers of the tournament.

** G1 Tirek turns several ponies into minions with the Rainbow of Darkness, and wins his match by doing it to Spike.

** Spike, along with Roseluck, Minuette, and Moondancer are transformed into G1 Tirek's servents by thew Rainbow of Darkness.

* LogicalWeakness: The Memory Stone effects ''memories'', it can't effect ''instincts''. As such, it can't do anything to remove a Kirin's power to turn into a Nirik, which is an instinctive reaction. WordOfGod points out a greed grown dragon or G1 Tirek's animalistic minions would likewise be unaffected as they're also driven by instinct.

** Twilight and Celestia are ''outraged'' when G1 Tirek turns Spike into his minion with the Rainbow of Darkness.

* 64. Maud Pie, Sunburst, Sting the Bee, G4 Moon Dancer, Scorpan, and Wallflower Blush (decided via individual matches).

1) Sandbar
2) Yona
3) Smolder
4) Gallus
5) Ocellus
6) Silverstream
7) Reeka
8) Draggle
9) Teddy
10) Patch
11) Hydia
12) Daybreaker
13) Gizmonks
14) Storm King
15) Queen Novo
16) Princess Skystar
17) Capper
18) Captain Calaeno
19) Cheerilee
20) Apple Bloom
21) Scootaloo
22) Sweetie Belle
23) Gilda
24) Garble
25) Blueblood
26) Adagio Dazzle
27) Aria Blaze
28) Sonata Dusk
29) Lavan
30) Sunny Daze (G3)
31) Whimsey Weatherbe (G3.5)
32) G3 Rainbow Dash
33) Firefly (G1)
34) Queen Majesty
35) Meghan Williams
36) Grogar (G1)
37) Twilight (G1)
38) G1 Tirek
39) G1 Smooze
40) Twilight Sparkle
41) G4 Rainbow Dash
42) Fluttershy
43) Applejack
44) Pinkie Pie
45) Rarity
46) Spike
47) Starlight Glimmer
48) Trixie
49) Sunset Shimmer
50) Celestia
51) Luna
52) Discord
53) G4 Tirek
54) Chrysalis
55) Cozy Glow
56) Tempest Shadow
57) Spitfire
58) Soarin.
59) Autumn Blaze.
60) G3 Rarity
61) Cadence
62) Shining Armor
63) Flurry Heart
64) Maud Pie, Sunburst, Sting the Bee, G4 Moon Dancer, Scorpan, and Wallflower Blush (decided via individual matches).

* PrinceOfPranksters: Patch gave herself the title Queen of Pranksters as her RedBaron because she felt it fit her (having had a song all about this trope in her show.]]

* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:After the tournament, the Rainbow Dash from Sombra's timeline comes with Cadence and Pinkie Pie to apprehend Sombra and his family for his crimes. While they succeed with the help of their world's Discord, [[DisproportionateRetribution Sea Breeze attempyts to charge her for "for bringing in unauthorized guests before the closing ceremonies" and "fighting an unauthorized fight"]] despite the group ''not knowing of the tournament or it's rules'' and then calls her out for "expecting others to swoop in and fix your problems for you". This comes back to bite him ''big time'' when he gets a huge bag of bits dropped on his head, with a letter threatening to leave Sombra with him next time, and it later turns out that the bits are "Sombra tokens" that were only used in Sombra's Empire, and are ''completely worthless'' anywhere else! And to add salt to the wound that world's Celestia and Luna have closed off access to their world so he can't complain to them. Zipzee points out that [[KickTheSonOfABitch he kind of deserved it.]]

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57) Spitefire

** Queen Majesty from G1 is so powerful that she's not allowed to compete. She's powerful enough to turn Chrysalis into a ladybug with barely any effort, and unlike the Alicorns and villains, she's not over a thousand years old.

* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:After the tournament, the Rainbow Dash from Sombra's timeline comes with Cadence and Pinkie Pie to apprehend Sombra and his family for his crimes. While they succeed with the help of their world's Discord, [[DisproportionateRetribution Sea Breeze attempyts to charge her for "for bringing in unauthorized guests before the closing ceremonies" and "fighting an unauthorized fight"]] despite the group ''not knowing of the tournament or it's rules'' and then calls her out for "expecting others to swoop in and fix your problems for you". This comes back to bite him ''big time'' when he gets a huge bag of bits dropped on his head, with a letter threatening to leave Sombra with him next time, and it later turns out that the bits are "Sombra tokens" that were only used in Sombra's Empire, and are ''completely worthless'' anywhere else! And to add salt to the wound that world's Celestia and Luna have closed off access to their world so he can't complain to them. Zipzee points out that [[KickTheSonOfABitch he kind of deserved it. Though it should be noted that this was kind of MisplacedRetribution, as Sea Breeze wasn't in charge of the tournament and merely enforcing the rules, and doesn't really care in the end so long as he gets to go back to his family.]]
--> '''Zipzee''':"Well you DID try to extort a war hero... Plus, you didn't bother charging Sombra when HE demanded help from Celestia and Twilight. In hindsight, you kinda had it coming."]]

* CurbstompBattle:

** Twilight easily rings Cheerilee out with the Want It Need It Spell.

** Twilight and Celestia are ;;outraged'' when G1 Tirek turns Spike into his minion with the Rainbow of Darkness.

* SoreLoser: Aria doesn't take her loss to Celestia very well.

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* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: Wallflower gets a bit of this due to having the Memory Stone back and it proving devastatingly effective, and the villains cheering for ''her'' when she plays dirty. As in canon, she comes to regret it.

* {{Irony}}: Celestia wins her first match against Aria by replicating the same strategy Chrysalis used against her and the first tournament, complete with having a Changeling in the audience help trick her opponent.

* SmellySkunk: Reeka accidentally turns Teddy into one. Teddy naturally tries spraying her...but Reeka likes it and promptly tries to eat him.