Line #37 Fanfic/Pagliacci


1	-> ''What are you smiling at?''
2	-->--The Prankster
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4	Written as an alternate continuity to ''Fanfic/EyesWithoutAFace'', but still considered a big part of Fanfic/TheJubiverse (likely due to the story becoming rather popular).
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6	After spending five years locked away in a mental institution, the infamous Clown Princess of Crime is let loose upon Manehatten. It’s become soft in her absence, so she aims to liven things up by getting her friends together and throwing a party!
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8	Of course, when The Prankster throws a party, all are invited… but none survive.
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10	[[https://fimfetch.net/story/60289/Pagliacci You can read it here]]!
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13	!!WARNING: Smiling at the following Tropes could be hazardous to your health:
14	* ADayInTheLimelight: After the first arc ends, we see the origin story of Twenty, as told from the perspective of Berry Punch.
15	* TheAlcoholic: As expected, Berry Punch. Not portrayed as a LadyDrunk, however; she just loves her liquor too much.
16	* AlternateContinuity
17	* AmbiguouslyBi: Pinstripe. Despite [[EvenTheGuysWantHim wanting to jump Stephen Scope’s bones]] and [[SorryImGay insisting he’s gay]], he still seems pretty flirtatious with women.
18	* BadCopIncompetentCop: Berry Punch and Carrot Top, respectively.
19	* BerserkButton: Pinstripe hates the sound of laughter.
20	** Oh yeah?! Well, PINKS ''HATES'' IT WHEN YOU LOOK AT HER ''SCARS!!''
21	* BigGuyLittleGuy: [[ThemeNaming Soprano and Baritone.]]
22	* BloodKnight: Ballista.
23	* BreakingTheFourthWall: "Chapter 2 is about to end."
24	* ButtMonkey: Digger. Moreso than Pinstripe at least.
25	* TheCameo: One of the strippers in the Ringer is a certain blue unicorn mare with silver hair, who used to be a traveling magician…
26	** One of the Tongueless is Derpy.
27	* CampGay: Holy ''crap'', Stephen Scope.
28	* CarnivoreConfusion: Addressed. One of the villains operates an illicit restaurant [[NightmareFuel where sentient species are served for lunch.]]
29	* DirtyCop: Berry Punch, ''very'' much so, although the other cops don't come off as very clean either. They're more of a government-funded street gang.
30	* DistractedByTheSexy: Pinstripe's mind seems to wander when he's around the female characters, as do his eyes.
31	* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
32	** Pinkie Pie is introduced to the reader as she plays a bizarre mind-game with Pinstripe.
33	** Baritone makes quite an entrance by flipping over an entire fleet of cop cars... ''just so he can "have a talk" with Twenty.''
34	** Ballista's first appearance implies she's almost TheDreaded amongst her peers.
35	* EvenEvilHasStandards: Blitzkrieg once offered Pinstripe a Tongueless to have sex with. [[{{Squick}} Needless to say, he passed on the offer.]]
36	* FateWorseThanDeath: When a member of the Shadowbolts disappoints Blitzkrieg too often to be reliable, they are "made" into a Tongueless: a dumb animal meant to pull their carriages.
37	* HitmanWithAHeart: Despite being hired to kill Twenty, Wisp decides to let her go—[[PetTheDog and even gives her some fatherly advice while he’s at it.]]
38	* HugeGirlTinyGuy: A non-romantic, villainous example is found in the pair of griffins Grift and Lintsalot.
39	* HuskyRusskie: Quite a few of the Stalliongrad ponies are pretty big. Even the mares!
40	* [[ImAHumanitarian I'm A Carnivore]]: The majority of Pinkie's goons are meat-eaters. [[spoiler: They eat Blitzkrieg as the admittedly violent climax of the first arc.]]
41	* MonsterClown: The Clown Princess of Crime.
42	* NaiveNewcomer: Carrot Top thinks of detective work like a comic book.
43	* TheNicknamer: Pinkie doesn't really care what their real names are. They're all [[InsistentTerminology Pins, Madame LeFlour, Rocky, Sir Lintsalot, and Mr. Turnip.]]
44	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Thanks to the above trope, there's no way to know what their real names are (Except Pinstripe and Digger).
45	* PetTheDog: One of the Oranges tries to do this for his guard dog Spade by letting him escort a female Diamond Dog, since the poor thing is rarely given anything worthwhile. [[spoiler: [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished Too bad for them both the female Diamond Dog was Madame Le Flour.]]]]
46	* PoliceBrutality: A common event in Manehatten, and also how Twenty lost vision in her right eye [[spoiler: as well as her family.]]
47	* [[PersonOfMassDestruction Pony of Mass Destruction]]: Ballista's ability is to constantly emit hot, raw magical energy all around her body, turning her into the closest thing to a living nuke.
48	* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: Pinkie Pie's first goal.
49	* TearJerker: As mentioned above, one of the Tongueless is [[TheCutie Derpy.]] ''[[KillTheCutie Derpy!]]''
50	* ThemeNaming: Quite a bit going on:
51	** Soprano and Baritone
52	** [[RedScare Hammer and Sickle]]
53	** [[RedShirt Rind and Pulp]]
54	* TokenMinority: Pinstripe is the only zebra in the current group.

Context Fanfic / Pagliacci