History Recap / TriptychContinuumTriptych

* BabyNameTrendStarter: An [[InvertedTrope Inversion]] is {{Invoked}} by being {{Discussed|Trope}} in Chapter 14, that "no pony will ever be named Twilight again", because Twilight Sparkle's now a Princess. Twilight later confirms that no newborn is *ever* named Celestia, Luna, or Cadance: the names are unique to them. (By contrast, the mare who birthed Dawn Sky in Chapter 14 is named Shining, and Twilight says that name, without a qualifier, is gender-neutral.)

* WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma: Referenced by name, as Rainbow hasn't quite mastered the art of paragraphs. Or punctuation. Or... pretty much everything else. Coordinator's attempt to gather blackmail material makes him the first pony to read her entire manuscript, suffering migraines accordingly.

* {{Blackmail}}: Chapter 29 reveals Clear Coordinator has Rainbow Dash's fanfic manuscript, and intends to use it to blackmail her into obeying him. [[GoneHorriblyWrong He has no idea how badly that's going to blow up in his face...]]

** Chapter 40 has made this ''worse'', to the point where some readers are now calling him Pony Hitler. (Which is unfair[[note]][[ARareSentence yes]], calling him Pony Hitler is being [[InsultToRocks unfair to Hitler]][[/note]], as his experiments on the unborn would make him closer to being Pony Mengele.)

* IronicEcho: before TheReveal of [[TheMasquerade The Secret]], Twilight dismissed ''her'' potential powers in earth pony state by mockingly suggesting that ''she'' would just "grow plants at us". Chapter 50 shows Doctor Gentle trying to scare ''her'' while she's in earth pony form, believing they're about to be capturing, ''knowing'' nothing will happen -- and cue instant vegetation wall.

* CombinedEnergyAttack: In chapter 52, the Mane 6 and Spike try to defeat the shield that is protecting Gentle Arrival by combining all of their magics into a single assault. It was created by ''her'' during the True Surge and subsequent fire: this means it possesses all three racial magics, layered into a single construct. Twilight and Rarity go after the unicorn aspects, Rainbow takes pegasus while Applejack counters the earth pony portion, Pinkie & Fluttery attack the shield with their shards of inner chaos and since it's a heat shield, Spike gives it the test of its life. Ultimately, all their efforts can do is create a single pupil-sized hole -- but that's enough for Fluttershy's bubble to get through.

* FreakOut: The revelations in chapter 40 are far too much for Twilight Sparkle. She relies on order as a lens through which to both view the world and force it into being something she can ''[[SuperOCD understand]]'': everything she's seen and heard has shattered it, kicking her into utter chaos. The breaking point comes when Pinkie Pie, desperate for reassurance in the face of the conference's horrifying revelations, touches her with a hoof. Twilight, who learned about the hybrid creation process moments before, suddenly can't see Pinkie Pie as a ''pony'' anymore -- and starts to scream. This forces the ponies lurking outside the viewing area to break in and take everypony captive, along with giving Quiet the chance to put a restraint on Twilight's horn. Ultimately, she keeps screaming until one of her captors finally manages to gag her.

** To ''Creator/EdvardMunch'' painting, ''Art/{{The Scream|EdvardMunch}}'': In Chapter 15, a ponified version is described:

** Fortreeze Laudanum, a historical pony mentioned in chapter 28, is regarded as this InUniverse, with the chapter repeatedly describing him as an idiot of a quality very rarely seen in anyone's lifetime: he was an incredibly talented researcher who decided to write a book about forbidden devices and how to create them, just because nopony had ever done that before. ([[WhatAnIdiot He thought this was a]] '''''[[WhatAnIdiot good]]''''' [[WhatAnIdiot idea.]]) He's expressly described as one of the ''[[AddictiveMagic fallen]]'': a pony whose personality has essentially collapsed into their talent.

* PainfulTransformation: Experienced by ''her'', '''''[[UpToEleven constantly]]'''''. Whatever went wrong in the ascension attempt resulted in perpetual cyclical shifting between the three main pony races, moving from pegasus to unicorn to earth pony to pegasus again, and so on through the cycle. Rarity believes the wing bones are ''breaking'' rather than simply being reabsorbed. Whether this is true is unknown -- but ''she'' is in endless, unrelenting agony... until Fluttershy uses her gift from Discord to erase that aspect of ''her'' changes.

** Chapter 40 has made this ''[[UpToEleven worse]]'', to the point where some readers are now calling him Pony Hitler. (Which is unfair[[note]][[ARareSentence yes]], calling him Pony Hitler is being [[InsultToRocks unfair to Hitler]][[/note]], as his experiments on the unborn would make him closer to being Pony Mengele.)