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* {{Homage}}: Rarity's wings are wrecked [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus when she flies too close to the sun]]. Speaking of which:

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* {{Homage}}: As noted below, Rarity's wings are wrecked destroyed [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus when she flies too close to the sun]]. Speaking of which:sun, causing her to fall nearly to her doom]].



* JerkassBall: Rarity is at her rudest thus far in the show for most of the episode. When she is telling how she and the others need to go to Cloudsdale to support Rainbow Dash, she [[AssKicksYou hip checks Twilight]], knocking her across the room, to get her to find a spell that can help. Then when she and the others get to Cloudsdale, she ends up [[ItsAllAboutMe becoming obsessed with showing off her temporary wings]] and decides to enter the Best Young Flyers' Competition herself instead of supporting Rainbow.

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* JerkassBall: Rarity is at her rudest thus far in the show for most of the episode. When she is telling how she and the others need to go to Cloudsdale to support Rainbow Dash, she [[AssKicksYou hip checks Twilight]], knocking her across the room, to get her to find a spell that can help. Then when she and the others get to Cloudsdale, she ends up [[ItsAllAboutMe becoming obsessed with showing off her temporary wings]] and decides to enter the Best Young Flyers' Competition herself instead of supporting Rainbow. It takes her act at the competition [[IcarusAllusion going disastrously (and almost fatally) wrong]] for the JerkassRealization to kick in for her.

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* AsideComment: Before starting her routine in the competition, Rarity [[ExaggeratedTrope looks directly at the audience]] and says, "They'll be talking about it for years!"

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* AsideComment: Before starting her routine in the competition, Rarity [[ExaggeratedTrope looks directly at the audience]] and says, "They'll be talking about it for years!"years!" BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor, Rarity...


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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Rarity comments that her performance in the flying competition will be talked about for years, appealing to the spectacle of her temporary magic wings. At the climax of her act, said wings are burned away by the sun's heat, and the event becomes most notable for her nearly ''falling to her death'', followed by Rainbow Dash pulling off the Sonic Rainboom to save her and winning the competition in her stead.

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* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Rarity becomes entranced with the temporary wings Twilight gives her and soon forgets why she wanted them in the first place; going so far as to enter the competition herself just to show them off. At least she realizes in the end that she lost her head and regrets it. It starts early. When the other non-pegasi are amazed at Cloudsdale in general, Rarity is admiring her wings.
* AnAesop: Be there for your friends, all while keeping your hooves on the ground.

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* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Rarity becomes entranced with the temporary wings Twilight gives her and soon forgets why she wanted them in the first place; going so far as to enter the competition herself just to show them off. At least she realizes in the end that she lost her head and regrets it. It starts early. place. When the other non-pegasi are amazed at Cloudsdale in general, Rarity is admiring her wings.
wings instead. Then she goes so far as to enter the competition herself just to show them off - [[IcarusAllusion which nearly costs the mare her life]]. At least she realizes in the end that she lost her head and regrets it.
* AnAesop: Be there When doing something to show support for your friends, all while keeping a friend, never lose sight of why you did it in the first place. Keeping your hooves on the ground.ground for their sake leads to better results than upstaging them, while leaving you far less likely to fall victim to hubris.



* BoringButPractical: Twilight has only enough magical power to cast the spell for creating magical wings on Rarity, leaving the other ponies still wingless. Everypony else has to make do with a simpler cloud-walking spell that changes nothing about their appearance. The latter ends up being the right call, since the rest of the (non-pegasus) Mane 6 make it through the episode without a hitch, while Rarity's AcquiredSituationalNarcissism combined with her ignorance of Twilight's warning about her beautiful magic wings being delicate leads to disastrous consequences.



* IcarusAllusion: Twilight Sparkle makes some magical wings for Rarity, warning her that they are very delicate. Ignoring this, Rarity enters a flying competition, deciding to fly as high as possible so that the sun would shine through her wings and cover Cloudsdale in colorful light. The sun wrecks her wings, and Rarity plummets nearly to her death, being saved only at the last moment by Rainbow Dash.

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* IcarusAllusion: Since non-pegasus ponies aren't able to walk on clouds and thus can't enter Cloudsdale, Twilight Sparkle makes uses a spell to give Rarity some magical wings for Rarity, to fly with, warning her that they are very delicate. Ignoring this, Rarity enters a the flying competition, deciding to fly as high as possible so that the sun would shine through her wings and cover Cloudsdale in colorful light. The sun wrecks sun's heat burns her wings, wings off, causing her to plummet from the sky, and Rarity plummets nearly to her death, being saved it's only because Rainbow Dash saves her at literally the last moment by Rainbow Dash.that she survives to give the episode's moral. Contrast the other wingless members of the Mane 6, who resort to the BoringButPractical cloud-walking spell instead.

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* StockSoundEffect: Fluttershy's loud inhale in the teaser is Pinkie Pie's gasp played backwards. Since they have the same actress, it doesn't stand out much.

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* StockSoundEffect: StockSoundEffect:
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Fluttershy's loud inhale in the teaser is Pinkie Pie's gasp from "Friendship is Magic, part 1" played backwards. Since they have the same actress, it doesn't stand out much.much.
** Rarity's excited laughter when the sun reflects through her wings was recycled from her shocked reaction to Twilight's frizzy mane in "Friendship is Magic, part 1".
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'''Fluttershy:''' (''inhales'') [--[[FlatJoy Yay]]--].\\
'''Rainbow Dash:''' ...Ugh! (''[[FacePalm facehoof]]'') You're gonna cheer for me like ''that''? Louder.\\

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'''Fluttershy:''' (''inhales'') ''[inhales]'' [--[[FlatJoy Yay]]--].\\
'''Rainbow Dash:''' ...Ugh! (''[[FacePalm facehoof]]'') ''[[[FacePalm facehoof]]]'' You're gonna cheer for me like ''that''? Louder.\\



'''Rainbow Dash:''' (''ScreenShake'') ''LOUUUDERRRR!!!''\\
'''Fluttershy:''' (''{{rear|ing horse}}s and deeply inhales'') Yaaayyy.\\
'''Rainbow Dash:''' Ugh... (''[[FacePalm facehoof]], [[FaceFault falls over]]'')\\

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'''Rainbow Dash:''' (''ScreenShake'') ''[{{screen shake}}]'' ''LOUUUDERRRR!!!''\\
'''Fluttershy:''' (''{{rear|ing ''[{{rear|ing horse}}s and deeply inhales'') inhales]'' Yaaayyy.\\
'''Rainbow Dash:''' Ugh... (''[[FacePalm ''[[[FacePalm facehoof]], [[FaceFault falls over]]'')\\over]]]''\\



(''Rainbow Dash's eyes pop open with a "Seriously?" look on her face'')

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(''Rainbow ''[Rainbow Dash's eyes pop open with a "Seriously?" look on her face'')
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* FacePalm: Rainbow Dash does two concerning Fluttershy's cheering, the second accompanied by her [[FaceFault flipping over]].

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* FacePalm: {{Facepalm}}: Rainbow Dash does two concerning Fluttershy's cheering, the second accompanied by her [[FaceFault flipping over]].

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* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: Nor is it the 2000G of acceleration you would get from a 90-degree turn with that small a radius at Mach 1. Apparently, the Sonic Rainboom somehow alters the laws of physics.
** According to WebAnimation/DeathBattle, she was actually going around Mach 10...

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* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: Nor is it the 2000G of acceleration you would get from a 90-degree turn with that small a radius at Mach 1. Apparently, the Sonic Rainboom somehow alters the laws of physics.
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physics. (According to WebAnimation/DeathBattle, ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'', she was actually going around Mach 10...)



* PolkaDotPaint: Pinkie Pie dips a hoof in the liquid rainbow and it retains seven distinct stripes of color, despite dripping off her hoof. She then ''licks'' it...and [[FireBreathingDiner starts breathing multicolored fire!]] '''"SPIIIIIIIICYYYYYYYYYY!!!"'''

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* PolkaDotPaint: Pinkie Pie dips a hoof in the liquid rainbow and it retains seven distinct stripes of color, despite dripping off her hoof. She then ''licks'' it... and [[FireBreathingDiner starts breathing multicolored fire!]] '''"SPIIIIIIIICYYYYYYYYYY!!!"'''



--> "'''[[LeeroyJenkins Let's do this!]]'''"

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--> "'''[[LeeroyJenkins -->"'''[[LeeroyJenkins Let's do this!]]'''"
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* JerkassBall: Rarity is at her rudest thus far in the show for most of the episode. When she is telling how she and the others need to go to Cloudsdale to support Rainbow Dash, she [[AssKicksYou hip checks Twilight]], knocking her across the room, to get her to find a spell that can help. Then when she and the others get to Cloudsdale, she ends up [[ItsAllAboutMe becoming obsessed with showing off her temporary wings]] and decides to enter the Best Young Flyers' Competition herself instead of supporting Rainbow.
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* {{Pride}}: Dear Celestia, Rarity takes this one UpToEleven with those new wings. It very damn near becomes her FatalFlaw.

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* {{Pride}}: Dear Celestia, Rarity takes this one UpToEleven up to eleven with those new wings. It very damn near becomes her FatalFlaw.
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Frickin' Laser Beams entry amended in accordance with this Trope Repair Shop Thread.


* TastesLikePurple: Playfully inverted. Apparently, liquid concentrated rainbows (in the most literal sense) taste incredibly spicy, even for Pinkie Pie! [[FridgeBrilliance And it's no wonder]]: real rainbows are refractions of light, so a concentrated mouthful of the stuff would taste like ''FrickinLaserBeams''.

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* TastesLikePurple: Playfully inverted. Apparently, liquid concentrated rainbows (in the most literal sense) taste incredibly spicy, even for Pinkie Pie! [[FridgeBrilliance And it's no wonder]]: real rainbows are refractions of light, so a concentrated mouthful of the stuff would taste like ''FrickinLaserBeams''.''[[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]]''.
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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Snowflakes are apparently individually hoof-crafted by pegasi in the weather factory. At the rate we see them working, even with the comically oversized snowflakes in the factory, it would probably take all of Equestria to make the snow that falls on Ponyville on the first day of winter. Entirely PlayedForLaughs, of course.

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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Snowflakes are apparently individually hoof-crafted by pegasi in the weather factory. At the rate we see them working, even with the comically oversized snowflakes in the factory, it would probably take all of Equestria to make the snow that falls on Ponyville on the first day of winter. Entirely PlayedForLaughs, of course.Then again, [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality this is a cartoon, so]]...
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* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Creator/AndreaLibman gets hit from both sides with this one.

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* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Creator/AndreaLibman gets hit from ''on both sides sides'' with this one.
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* ContinuityNod: [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E9BridleGossip This wasn't the first time Rainbow was called "Rainbow Crash".]]
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* MythologyGag: At one point, Rarity uses butterfly wings to fly- calling back to G1’s Flutter Pony race.
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* AnAesop: Be there for your friends, all while keeping your hooves on the ground.
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** Rainbow briefly has this reaction when her non-pegasus friends arrive in Cloudsdale in a hot air balloon, and Pinkie jumps out. Until she safely lands on the cloud, and Twilight explains that she cast a cloud walking spell on them.

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