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Being able make a pun is not the same as them putting in a pun. Considering the origin of the term, it\'s more than likely coincidental.
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* StealthPun: When Fluttershy attempts to douse Starlight in water, she mostly misses but a small drop does hit Starlight's mark, enough to reveal the mark. One could say that Fluttershy did get "splash damage".
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The equalization process slightly desaturates a pony's coat. The fact Starlight's coat is not desaturated like the rest of the town is a clue that she has not had herself equalized like everyone else.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The Simular to the effects of Discord's corruption, the equalization process slightly desaturates a pony's coat.coat, which worsens over time. The fact Starlight's coat is not desaturated like the rest of the town is a clue that she has not had herself equalized like everyone else.
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* GroupHug: One conclude the episode for the Mane Six (almost; Pinkie Pie reminds them they can still take part in the festivities). Party Favor, Night Glider, Double Diamond, and Sugar Belle also engage in one near the end after Starlight's defeat.
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* GroupHug: One conclude concludes the episode for the Mane Six (almost; Pinkie Pie reminds them they can still take part in the festivities). Party Favor, Night Glider, Double Diamond, and Sugar Belle also engage in one near the end after Starlight's defeat.
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* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Party Favor's talent is balloon art. When Starlight destroys the bridge in order to evade being caught, he manages to inflate and create a balloon bridge in ''seconds''.
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* GroupHug: One conclude the episode for the Mane Six (almost; Pinkie Pie reminds them they can still take part in the festivities).
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* GroupHug: One conclude the episode for the Mane Six (almost; Pinkie Pie reminds them they can still take part in the festivities). Party Favor, Night Glider, Double Diamond, and Sugar Belle also engage in one near the end after Starlight's defeat.
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* ShownTheirWork: The {{Room 101}} techniques mentioned above [[Brainwashed are actually used by some cults]]; [[http://thefederalist.com/2014/04/15/cults-in-our-midst-patty-hearst-and-the-brainwashing-of-america/ put them someplace they can't escape from, spout your philosophy at them, and don't let them leave]].
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* ShownTheirWork: The {{Room 101}} techniques mentioned above [[Brainwashed [[{{Brainwashed}} are actually used by some cults]]; [[http://thefederalist.com/2014/04/15/cults-in-our-midst-patty-hearst-and-the-brainwashing-of-america/ put them someplace they can't escape from, spout your philosophy at them, and don't let them leave]].
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* VillainExitStageLeft: Starlight Glimmer bolts through a secret door under her bed before the ponies she once ruled over could regain her cutie marks. She is quickly found out and tracked down and chased before she is eventually cornered by both the Mane 6 and the former Equal Ponies. Starlight manages to escape again, this time into a cave, before she can answer for her crimes.
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* VillainExitStageLeft: Starlight Glimmer bolts through a secret door under her bed before the ponies she once ruled over could regain her their cutie marks. She is quickly found out and tracked down and chased before she is eventually cornered by both the Mane 6 and the former Equal Ponies. Starlight manages to escape again, this time into a cave, before she can answer for her crimes.
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** As is [[spoiler:cult leaders holding themselves to different standards than everyone else and rationalizing it]].
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* ShownTheirWork: The {{Room 101}} techniques mentioned above [[Brainwashed are actually used by some cults]]; [[http://thefederalist.com/2014/04/15/cults-in-our-midst-patty-hearst-and-the-brainwashing-of-america/ put them someplace they can't escape from, spout your philosophy at them, and don't let them leave]].
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* LastSecondChance: Twilight gives one to Starlight Glimmer, trying to convince her to make a HeelFaceTurn, but Starlight ignores it.
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* DoubleStandard: Starlight Shimmer claims that she ''needs'' her cutie mark to use her magic, so she can't get rid of it. It doesn't work on the other townsponies, as they very rightly don't accept her explanation.
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* DoubleStandard: Starlight Shimmer Glimmer claims that she ''needs'' her cutie mark to use her magic, so she can't get rid of it. It doesn't work on the other townsponies, as they very rightly don't accept her explanation.
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* AllThereInTheScript: Of the four ponies who help the Mane Six, Night Glider is the only one who is never named in the episode.
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* StockScream: The Wilhelm scream can be heard at the end of the episode.
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* DecoyProtagonist: Of all things, the ''Mane Six themselves''. While Fluttershy does a bit (and Twilight prevents a repetition afterwards, see below), without their cutie marks the cast spends the episode sidelined and largely helpless, and it falls to the inhabitants of the village to save the day. Given the episode's aesop, this is likely intentional.
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* DecoyProtagonist: Of all things, the ''Mane Six themselves''. themselves'', but played with. While Fluttershy does a bit expose Starlight Glimmer (and Twilight prevents a repetition afterwards, see below), without their cutie marks the cast spends the episode sidelined and largely helpless, and it falls to the inhabitants of the village to save the day. Given the episode's aesop, this is likely intentional.intentional, and seeing the mane six remain steadfast, happy friends despite their differences helped undermind Starlight's indoctrination.
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* VillainousBreakdown: Starlight loses it when she's exposed, going from FauxAffablyEvil to complete fury.
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* GroupHug: One conclude the episode for the Mane Six (almost; Pinkie Pie reminds them they can still take part in the festivities).
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* DoubleStandard: Starlight Shimmer claims that she ''needs'' her cutie mark to use her magic, so she can't get rid of it. It doesn't work on the other towns ponies, as they very rightly don't accept her explanation.
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* DoubleStandard: Starlight Shimmer claims that she ''needs'' her cutie mark to use her magic, so she can't get rid of it. It doesn't work on the other towns ponies, townsponies, as they very rightly don't accept her explanation.
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* DoubleStandard: Starlight Shimmer claims that she ''needs'' her cutie mark to use her magic, so she can't get rid of it. It doesn't work on the other towns ponies, as they very rightly don't accept her explanation.
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* BeyondTheImpossible: Party Favor's special talent involves balloons, including creating a pair of binoculars out of them that actually ''works'', followed by later on creating a bridge sturdy enough for ponies to walk on ''out of a single long balloon''.
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* BeyondTheImpossible: Party Favor's special talent involves balloons, including creating a pair of binoculars out of them that actually ''works'', followed by later on creating a bridge sturdy enough for ponies to walk on ''out of a single long balloon''. He's essentially a male Pinkie Pie, matching Cheese Sandwich in ability.
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* FreezeFrameBonus: If you pay close enough attention once Starlight steps out of the way to dodge the water Fluttershy tries to splash onto her, you could see a drop of water managed to land on her back, which is what slides down her flank to reveal part of her Cutie Mark.
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* FreezeFrameBonus: If you pay close enough attention once Starlight steps out of the way to dodge the water Fluttershy tries to splash onto her, you could see a drop of water managed to land on her back, which is what slides down her flank to reveal part of her Cutie Mark.
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* FreezeFrameBonus: If you pay close enough attention once Starlight steps out of the way to dodge the water Fluttershy tries to splash onto her, you could see a drop of water managed to land on her back, which is what slides down her flank to reveal part of her Cutie Mark.
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[[caption-width-right:350:The story's [[DecoyProtagonist real heroes]] go to work.]]
[[caption-width-right:350:The story's [[DecoyProtagonist real heroes]] go to work.]]
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* ShutUpKirk: Starlight's response to Twilight's KirkSummation is to cut her off with a [[BigShutUp Big "Quiet"]] the first time she tries it and after Twilight actually finishes it, Starlight follows it up with a short MotiveRant and a magic blast.
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* StealthPun: When Fluttershy attempts to douse Starlight in water, she mostly misses but a small drop does hit Starlight's mark, enough to reveal the mark. One could say that Fluttershy did get "splash damage".
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* KirkSummation: Twilight's speech to Starlight Glimmer at the end.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Starlight Glimmer delivers one to the villagers once they turn against her.
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* ShutUpHannibal: Double Diamond cuts off Starlight's final bit of ranting at the end, calling out the big flaw of her philosophy.
-->'''Double Diamond:''' How would you know!? You NEVER gave us a chance!
* ShoutOut: To free the marks, the rebelling ponies [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8 throws the staff at the vault, shattering the glass]].
-->'''Double Diamond:''' How would you know!? You NEVER gave us a chance!
* ShoutOut: To free the marks, the rebelling ponies [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8 throws the staff at the vault, shattering the glass]].
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* GreenEyedMonster: Starlight Shimmer's gripe over Twilight mastering a spell Starlight Glimmer spent months studying and failing to do implies the real reason she is taking away everypony's talents is becaus eshe was jealous of others being better at things than she.
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* GreenEyedMonster: Starlight Shimmer's gripe over Twilight mastering a spell Starlight Glimmer spent months studying and failing to do implies the real reason she is taking away everypony's talents is becaus eshe because she was jealous of others being better at things than she.her.
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* MotiveRant: Starlight Glimmer delivers one to the villagers once they turn against her.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Starlight Glimmer delivers one to the villagers once they turn against her.
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* SequelHook: Starlight gets away still fully believing in her cause. And we never did find out what she was talking about in Part 1 that having a princess in the town would help her with.
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* DecoyProtagonist: Of all things, the ''Mane Six themselves''. While Fluttershy does a bit, without their cutie marks the cast spends the episode sidelined and largely helpless, and it falls to the inhabitants of the village to save the day. Given the episode's aesop, this is likely intentional.
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* DecoyProtagonist: Of all things, the ''Mane Six themselves''. While Fluttershy does a bit, bit (and Twilight prevents a repetition afterwards, see below), without their cutie marks the cast spends the episode sidelined and largely helpless, and it falls to the inhabitants of the village to save the day. Given the episode's aesop, this is likely intentional.
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* ChekhovsSkill: The fact that Fluttershy so easily succumbs to peer pressure in the opening in the previous episode becomes a key point here.
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* DeflectorShields: Once she recovered her Cutie Mark, Twilight create a shimmering purple shield to protect the townponies from Starlight Glimmer's magical attack.
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* DeflectorShields: Once she recovered her Cutie Mark, Twilight create creates a shimmering purple shield to protect the townponies townsponies from Starlight Glimmer's magical attack.
* GreenEyedMonster: Starlight Shimmer's gripe over Twilight mastering a spell Starlight Glimmer spent months studying and failing to do implies the real reason she is taking away everypony's talents is becaus eshe was jealous of others being better at things than she.
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* OcularGushers: Rarity opens the dam when she realizes her lacks of cutie mark makes her unable to tell whether the curtains are tacky or not.
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* VillainExitStageLeft: Cornered by both the Mane 6 and the ponies she once ruled over. Starlight manages to escape into a cave before she can answer for her crimes.
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U-Verse synopsis: ''The Mane 6 struggle to find a way in which to get their Cutie Marks back to no avail, but when they learn an unpleasant secret about the pony that took them away, they believe they have found the perfect means by which to retrieve them.''
This episode premiered on April 4, 2015 at 11:30 AM EST.
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* BeyondTheImpossible: Party Favor's special talent involves balloons, including creating a pair of binoculars out of them that actually ''works'', followed by later on creating a bridge sturdy enough for ponies to walk on ''out of a single long balloon''.
* BroughtDownToNormal: The Mane Six really suffer from this without their cutie marks, especially when Rainbow Dash realizes her SuperSpeed is gone.
* DecoyProtagonist: Of all things, the ''Mane Six themselves''. While Fluttershy does a bit, without their cutie marks the cast spends the episode sidelined and largely helpless, and it falls to the inhabitants of the village to save the day. Given the episode's aesop, this is likely intentional.
* DeflectorShields: Once she recovered her Cutie Mark, Twilight create a shimmering purple shield to protect the townponies from Starlight Glimmer's magical attack.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: When the villagers regain their cutie marks, their manes and tails change from the stuffy equalist styles they sported to more diverse forms.
* FakeDefector: Fluttershy becomes one of these to find out just what Starlight Glimmer is up to.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The equalization process slightly desaturates a pony's coat. The fact Starlight's coat is not desaturated like the rest of the town is a clue that she has not had herself equalized like everyone else.
* HeelFaceTurn: Double Diamond, Starlight's NumberTwo, rebels with the rest of the villagers once they learn of Starlight's hypocrisy.
* HeroicSacrifice: Party Favor confesses to telling the Mane Six about the vault while keeping the rest of his friends safe.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Starlight Glimmer kept her cutie mark hidden under a cover of paint and an equal sign stencil. She needs it to perform her cutie mark removing spell.
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: Starlight Glimmer asks Fluttershy to prove her loyalty by identifying the ponies who want their cutie marks back. While Fluttershy stalls, Party Favor pulls a HeroicSacrifice by confessing without implicating his friends.
* KarmaHoudini: Starlight Glimmer escapes without any direct repercussions for her actions, possibly as a SequelHook.
* MagicFeather: The Staff of Sameness turns out to just be a random stick. Starlight is actually using her magic to take away ponies' cutie marks. Briefly foreshadowed when Twilight mentions Meadowbrook apparently never had a magical staff.
* OcularGushers: Rarity opens the dam when she realizes her lacks of cutie mark makes her unable to tell whether the curtains are tacky or not.
* PieInTheFace: Sugar Belle creates a pie-shaped snowball and throws it at a fleeing Starlight.
* PromptingNudge: Although Fluttershy had already agreed to pretend being willing to join the Equal Ponies, Twilight has to remind her to speak by nudging her before they'd be locked back.
* {{Room 101}}: The Mane Six are placed in one after their cutie marks are removed, complete with speakers repeating Starlight's equality philosophy and their talents being slowly removed highlighted when the equal cutie marks start to radiate.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Starlight Glimmer delivers one to the villagers once they turn against her.
* VillainExitStageLeft: Cornered by both the Mane 6 and the ponies she once ruled over. Starlight manages to escape into a cave before she can answer for her crimes.
* ShoutOut: To free the marks, the rebelling ponies [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8 throws the staff at the vault, shattering the glass]].
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This episode premiered on April 4, 2015 at 11:30 AM EST.
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!!Tropes:
* BeyondTheImpossible: Party Favor's special talent involves balloons, including creating a pair of binoculars out of them that actually ''works'', followed by later on creating a bridge sturdy enough for ponies to walk on ''out of a single long balloon''.
* BroughtDownToNormal: The Mane Six really suffer from this without their cutie marks, especially when Rainbow Dash realizes her SuperSpeed is gone.
* DecoyProtagonist: Of all things, the ''Mane Six themselves''. While Fluttershy does a bit, without their cutie marks the cast spends the episode sidelined and largely helpless, and it falls to the inhabitants of the village to save the day. Given the episode's aesop, this is likely intentional.
* DeflectorShields: Once she recovered her Cutie Mark, Twilight create a shimmering purple shield to protect the townponies from Starlight Glimmer's magical attack.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: When the villagers regain their cutie marks, their manes and tails change from the stuffy equalist styles they sported to more diverse forms.
* FakeDefector: Fluttershy becomes one of these to find out just what Starlight Glimmer is up to.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The equalization process slightly desaturates a pony's coat. The fact Starlight's coat is not desaturated like the rest of the town is a clue that she has not had herself equalized like everyone else.
* HeelFaceTurn: Double Diamond, Starlight's NumberTwo, rebels with the rest of the villagers once they learn of Starlight's hypocrisy.
* HeroicSacrifice: Party Favor confesses to telling the Mane Six about the vault while keeping the rest of his friends safe.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Starlight Glimmer kept her cutie mark hidden under a cover of paint and an equal sign stencil. She needs it to perform her cutie mark removing spell.
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: Starlight Glimmer asks Fluttershy to prove her loyalty by identifying the ponies who want their cutie marks back. While Fluttershy stalls, Party Favor pulls a HeroicSacrifice by confessing without implicating his friends.
* KarmaHoudini: Starlight Glimmer escapes without any direct repercussions for her actions, possibly as a SequelHook.
* MagicFeather: The Staff of Sameness turns out to just be a random stick. Starlight is actually using her magic to take away ponies' cutie marks. Briefly foreshadowed when Twilight mentions Meadowbrook apparently never had a magical staff.
* OcularGushers: Rarity opens the dam when she realizes her lacks of cutie mark makes her unable to tell whether the curtains are tacky or not.
* PieInTheFace: Sugar Belle creates a pie-shaped snowball and throws it at a fleeing Starlight.
* PromptingNudge: Although Fluttershy had already agreed to pretend being willing to join the Equal Ponies, Twilight has to remind her to speak by nudging her before they'd be locked back.
* {{Room 101}}: The Mane Six are placed in one after their cutie marks are removed, complete with speakers repeating Starlight's equality philosophy and their talents being slowly removed highlighted when the equal cutie marks start to radiate.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Starlight Glimmer delivers one to the villagers once they turn against her.
* VillainExitStageLeft: Cornered by both the Mane 6 and the ponies she once ruled over. Starlight manages to escape into a cave before she can answer for her crimes.
* ShoutOut: To free the marks, the rebelling ponies [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8 throws the staff at the vault, shattering the glass]].
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