The Reason You Suck Speech / Fan Works: My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

"The Reason You Suck" Speech in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fan works.

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• In the AU Fic Actually, I'm Dead, after going through a brutal Trauma Conga Line and being turned into a Lich, Trixie is not in the mood to hear Rainbow Dash's harassment of her, and calls her out on being similar. This turns out to be a Batman Gambit on Rainbow's part, to help Trixie get some fight back in her, while she was coming close to the Despair Event Horizon.
  Trixie: Now who's the pompous braggart? You would float there and accuse Trixie of flaunting her skills, you hypocrite. Admit it, you were there only to reassure yourself in front of others by beating up Trixie. You came not to watch that day, but to try and upstage Trixie at her own show, heckling and even openly insulting me in front of others.
  Rainbow: Hey! That’s not how it was, I was—
  Trixie: You were in the front row! If it wasn’t to appreciate the show, it was to make sure Trixie heard your insults. If Trixie's mere presence is enough for you to react that way, then she looks forward to the day you encounter your own first hecklers, because you'll leave rainbow colored skid marks out the front door when the Wonderbolts throw you out afterwards!
  Rainbow: Oh yeah? At least I can live up to what I say. You're all bark but no bite.
  Trixie: Trixie answered every challenge thrown at her, by earth pony, unicorn, and pegasi alike. The only one she couldn't that day was the Ursa, and that was because it was a fiction ludicrous enough she didn't expect any pony in their right mind would try and get her to prove it.
  Rainbow: Don't let your muzzle make boasts your magic can't back up.
  Trixie: And you've never failed to live up to your boasts, right? Or just the ones you didn't make against Trixie? You know what, Trixie's sick to death of ponies like you passing judgement on her! Treating her as something inferior! You think because I am roani I deserve to be judged lesser than everypony else?! Well guess what, Trixie is as good as you, and Trixie refuses to be treated as your inferior!
  Rainbow: Hey... hey, mare— Calm down and—
  Trixie: Trixie will not calm down! And you! You come here, so full of yourself being the 'good one' who has to take a shot on the 'vile and villainous' Trixie. Sure, because being homeless, starving, ostracized, and pretty much hated by everypony else was not enough for you. Trixie would stay and see, only out of morbid curiosity, what kind of excuses do you have to cover your flank, but I have better things to do with my time, which I plan to do as far as possible from you. Farewell, and may the gods have mercy on you.
• In the oneshot fanfiction, Adored, years after the failed invasion of Canterlot, Queen Chrysalis has grown indolent and inept in running her kingdom. However, she grows concerned when she no longer senses the love and adoration of her subjects. She goes to Princesses Celestia and Luna for council when her own advisors prove unhelpful. Their conversation, naturally, turns heated quickly and the majority of this section of the story turns into a whole reason you suck speech from both princesses. First is Celestia, who sums her up as an cruel, unfeeling and empty husk of a creature unable to even comprehend love, made so by the abuse at the hooves of her cruel father, King Thorax the Terrible. However, Luna, whilst shorter, certainly delivers a more cutting speech after Chrysalis attacks Celestia, enraging Luna, who then proceeds to fight and beat the crap out of the Changeling queen.
  Princess Luna: I'm immortal, do you understand that? I have done horrible things in my lifetime, your highness, and even Celestia has done things she has regretted. And I will have to live with all them forever. But you... you get to die. That's the worst part. You have tormented my kingdom and used and abused your own subjects to the point you're driving them from your lands. And soon you'll have a child, bully all the love and compassion out of her like your father did to you, and then you'll die, knowing everything will continue when you're gone. You'll be buried and be nothing more than a portrait in the palace, but at least you won't have to pay for all you've done. Well, you know what, Chrysalis? I wish you could go on living forever, as the unloved, unfeeling, empty monster you are in the living nightmare you and your forefathers have made on this planet! I hope you live forever, you bitch.
• In Bitter Tears: An Anon-A-Miss Fic, there's quite a few of them.
  • When Apple Bloom attempts to apologize to Sunset once she and her friends are outed as the true Anon-A-Miss masterminds:
    Sunset: Save it. I don’t know why you did this, and frankly, I don’t really care. All I know is, I certainly hope it was worth it.
  • When Rainbow Dash punches Scootaloo in the face after the CMC confess that they are the true culprits:
    Applejack: (She and Pinkie Pie are holding Rainbow back from attacking Scootaloo even more) Dash! Have you lost yer cotton pickin’ mind?!
    Rainbow Dash: She’ll thank me for it! Maybe next time she’ll think twice before she ever does something this stupid again!
    Mrs. Cake: (Emerging from the kitchen) What on Earth is going on here?
    Rainbow Dash: I’ll tell you what’s going on! (Breaks away from Applejack and Pinkie Pie and points at the three pre-teens in disgust) These three are nothing but secret spreading, backstabbing, lying little brats!
  • In Chapter 8, Flash Sentry invokes one to Sunset in order to get her to stop bubbling up her anger. Sunset responds in kind with a rather explosive one of her own.
  • Chapter 13 is all about the Sirens giving a mocking one to the Humane Five and the CMC over how they had treated Sunset.
  • When Celestia and Luna discover the evidence that the CMC has been physically assaulted as revenge, the former makes a school-wide announcement issuing an ultimatum for the attackers and the Anon-A-Miss submitters. It also doubles as a What the Hell, Hero? speech:
    Celestia: Attention, students of Canterlot High. It has come to my attention that certain students have resorted to bullying and physical assault, as a result of the Anon-A-Miss incident last semester. I cannot begin to tell you all how disgusted I am by this. I had hoped — I had prayed — that you all would learn from this experience, that two wrongs don't make a right. I have always believed in the best of my students, and I trusted that you would be better than this. Sadly, you have all proven, once again, that that trust was misplaced. The culprits behind Anon-A-Miss have already been given punishment for their actions, and they were not the only ones at fault. Several of the secrets posted were submitted by other students. We have their e-mail addresses and we are still trying to find them. In hindsight, I can see the fault in not telling you all of this, but that does not excuse this despicable behavior. I am hereby issuing an ultimatum. Unless the students who submitted secrets come forward by the end of the school day, the use of all school computers and all after school and extracurricular activities will be suspended indefinitely. Those that do not come forward, I will find you, and you will be expelled. Think I'm joking? Go ahead. Call my bluff. Actions have consequences. If nothing else, I hope you will at least learn that. That is all.
  • In the penultimate chapter, Sunset gives her "friends" one about how they threw her away like trash barely a day after declaring her family, proving that they have never trusted her, so now Sunset can't trust them.
• In The Blueblood Conspiracy, Rarity goes crazy after being asked to help hook up Prince Blueblood and the Great and Powerful Trixie, and becomes obsessed with getting revenge on Blueblood for both his behavior at the Grand Galloping Gala in the episode "The Best Night Ever" and for trying to ruin her reputation in the prequel fic "Blueblood Returns". She crashes the wedding disguised as "the Phantom Mare" and tries to force Blueblood to apologize for both events. While Blueblood is quick to apologize for plotting against Rarity, he refuses to apologize for his behavior at the Gala, shooting back that Rarity should be ashamed and accusing her of being just another shallow Gold Digger who only saw Blueblood as a Prince Charming fantasy and Meal Ticket and wasn't interested at all in the person behind his royal facade.
  Blueblood: Nearly all my life, I have been the dashing prince. The dream of noblemares everywhere. The most eligible bachelor in all Equestria. A prince that Miss Rarity had attempted to claim for her own. And, like all the other mares, she had forgotten one thing. A vital, very important, thing. Do you know what that thing was?
  Phantom Mare/Rarity: [now scared out of her mind because of Blueblood's previous Tranquil Fury] Why, surely it must have been what a foal he was?
  Blueblood: SHE DID NOT KNOW ME! And neither did she care! To her, I was just a silly idea! A fantasy! A prince intended to whisk her away to a land of fairy tales; to make her a princess. But, I ask you: how? How could that have ever been anything but a loveless relationship between a selfish, self-centered witch and her hapless trophy husband?
• A Brother's Promise a Recursive Fanfiction of Princess Trixie Sparkle is basically Shining Armor giving an extended TRYSS to Trixie for everything she put his little sister Twilight through in the last story and for thinking she could not only be so Easily Forgiven as she was, but treated as a hero for fixing a problem that was largely her fault and it really seems to get to her:
  Shining Armor: Let me tell you right now, young mare, you are very, very, VERY lucky that my sister isn't one to hold grudges. And even more so that you somehow managed to con your way into getting the Element of Forgiveness.
  Trixie: Con?! Trixie Earned this Element!
  Shining Armor: And that element is the only reason you aren't being held in a dungeon for your crimes. Willingly aiding an enemy of the crown, using not one, but two illegal magical items, using said illegal magical items on royalty, impersonating royalty, abuse of authority, not to mention willing supplying said enemy of the crown with said illegal magical item! Hell, if we had let the justice system do its work, it would've been a miracle just to have you beheaded! Because trust me, that would be merciful compared to half of the punishments that could be carried out for your actions!
  Trixie: N-Now hold on a second! Trixie understands that she did many horrible things, but Trixie has made up for them hasn't she? Trixie saved Fluttershy from that Manticore!
  Shining Armor: And tell me, would Fluttershy have been in danger if she were back in her own body? Probably, but at least she would've been able to use her natural talent to calm it down! But because of your little stunt with the gem, she couldn't!
  Trixie: T-Trixie admits that the situation would have gone differently had she not used the damn gem... but Trixie still cooperated with Twilight and her friends when the true threat made itself known!
  Shining Armor: Yes, you did, all the while openly acting like you have nothing to apologize for or even feel guilty about. You even had the nerve to demand that you be let go after all was said and done!
  Trixie: Was Trixie helping save Equestria not enough?!
  Shining Armor: Yes, you saved Equestria from a threat that you technically made even worse! What made you think giving Astelle that amulet was ever going to work out in the end?! And where exactly did you get the idea to believe that you had ANY right to act like WE were the ones who should've been asking for forgiveness for not believing you?! YOU DID NOTHING BUT LIE AND MANIPULATE TWILIGHT AND HER FRIENDS SINCE THE WHOLE SITUATION STARTED! WHY SHOULD WE HAVE BELIEVED YOU?!
  (Trixie looked down at her hooves in shame. Thinking back to that moment where she had practically doomed all of Equestria by handing the amulet over to Astelle. "Celestia had been right there, if she wanted to, she could've just called her to take me away. I continuously acted like I was more entitled to her status as royalty... and yet she had done everything to earn it while I simply expected it to be handed to me...")
  Shining Armor: When Twilight told me and my wife that you had locked her in the dungeons, all the while cruelly mocking her about how you were going to keep her there for the rest of her life along with her friends... I saw my little sister break down in tears. She tried to give you the benefit of the doubt, not once, but twice: the first time after you used that amulet, and the second time when you used it to swap bodies with her. You threw her kindness and generosity back in her face.
  (Trixie looked away, the incident replaying over and over in her mind, those cruel words she said, the way she taunted Twilight and manipulated her. She shivered, she really had been a monster that whole time. A selfish, egotistical monster who bit the hoof that gave her a second chance that she hadn't earned. As she looked up at Shining Armor that guilt only increased when she realized something: he was crying.)
  Shining Armor: Do you have any idea what it was like to look down at my sister as she explained everything that happened to her because of you? To know that she was suffering, that she was terrified, broken and alone, and I was unable to do anything about it?! It hurt me as a brother. Because, once again, I was unable to do anything for her while she suffered, I felt more ashamed of myself than I did during the changeling invasion!
  Trixie: Shining... I, I didn't know-
  Shining Armor: "Was there ever any doubt?" After all, when does the “Great and Powerful” Trixie think about anyone other than herself? After all, if the situation doesn't pertain to you or benefit you in someway, why should you care?
  (Trixie remained completely silent, she really had nothing to fall back on. No matter how many time she played the scenario in her head, the fact that it was mostly her fault didn't change. She was brought out of her thoughts when she noticed Shining getting much closer to her. She instinctively took a few steps back, only to realize that she was backed up against the wall.)
  Trixie: W-Wait, I-
  Shining Armor: You may have everyone else buying your whole "Element of Forgiveness" stunt. But know this: as far as I'm concerned, you're still that selfish self-absorbed mare who tried to ruin my little sister's life, despite her showing you nothing but kindness. And I'm warning you right now. You take one step backward, one slip-up, give me one good reason to think you might hurt my little sister again, physically or emotionally, and I will put. You. Down. Right then and there. Permanently.
  (Trixie could only shiver and she stared up into his eyes. These weren't just the eyes of an overprotective big brother, these were the eyes of someone who'd been trained to kill and wouldn't hesitate to take her life in a heartbeat.)
  Shining Armor: Do I make myself abundantly clear!?
  Trixie: [Nervous nod]
  Shining Armor: Good. Now, I suggest you clean yourself up and get back to the party, Pinkie wants you to be there when they cut the cake. This conversation never happened. Oh, and thanks for helping save Equestria.
• In Circus Days, Spike rips one on the Mane Six for abandoning him YET AGAIN at the circus, recounting the times he's been absent in most episodes.
  Spike: YOU LIE! NONE OF YOU CARE ABOUT ME AT ALL AND JUST USE ME FOR LABOR! WHO WAS FORCED TO STAY HOME FROM THE CLOUDSDALE FLYING COMPETITION WHILE HAVING TO CLEAN UP THE ENTIRE LIBRARY FROM A MESS A CERTAIN UNICORN MADE?! WHO ALWAYS CLEANS UP EVERY PONY'S MESS!? IT'S ME! WHO WAS LEFT OUT OF GUMMY'S BIRTHDAY PARTY!? WHO WAS LEFT ABANDONED AT THE GRAND GALLOPING GALA AND WOUND UP AT PONY JOE'S!? WHO NEARLY DROWNED AND FROZE TO DEATH AT THE END OF WINTER WRAP UP WHILE SOME CERTAIN PONIES WERE LAUGHING AT ME!? WHO IS ALWAYS CLEANING UP MESSES FROM ALL NIGHT STUDYING!? WHO WAS LEFT BEHIND TO TAKE A BOOK HOME WHEN I REALLY WANTED TO BE WITH YOU ALL!? ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! NOW I'VE BEEN TOLD I WAS FORGOTTEN BY ALL OF YOU! I'VE HAD ENOUGH! IF THIS IS HOW I WILL BE TREATED THEN IT'S OVER! I DON'T WANT TO BE FRIENDS WITH ANY OF YOU!
• Codex Equus:
  • Blue Suede Heartstrings would deliver these twice in his life.
    • In one post-Ascension incident with tribalists, he delivered one in song form. When a group of tribalists terrorized his fans during a concert, Blue confronted them and retaliated by singing "Hound Dog", accusing the tribalists of "cryin' all the time" and calling themselves "high-class". This enraged the tribalists into attacking him instead... only for Blue to turn the fight into an impromptu yet highly-acclaimed performance, leaving his assailants bruised and completely humiliated.
    • He also made one in the early Second Age, before he Ascended. When he learned that a few tribalists brutally lynched to death a teenage Earth pony colt, Garden Spade (who is the expy/ersatz of Emmett Till), for supposedly whistling at a unicorn mare and got away with the crime, Blue was so furious that he delivered a scathing public speech when reporters asked for his opinion on the event. It was noted that this was one of few instances where Blue showed clear anger and upset instead of his usual Tranquil Fury, and became a major factor in his hatred towards tribalism/racism in general.
      Blue Suede Heartstrings: [angrily] What do I think of the lynching? I think it was a STUPID and CHILDISH and SENSELESS act. If those two hot-blooded fellas actually CHECKED what that poor colt was doin' instead of trustin' a horned mare's words an' goin' after him with barbed wire an' a loaded gun, an innocent life would've been spared. Now, I can't say anything that'll offend the King in Heaven, but anyone who does something so AWFUL like that and thinks it's okay doesn't DESERVE t' be called a 'good citizen of Ponyland'. Same for those who turn a blind eye an' let their fellas commit such acts because they don't like certain folks or have the heart t' speak up.
      
      And as for those who killed that colt, an' the judges who let those same killers walk away free... You fellas oughta be ASHAMED of yourselves.
  • Golden Scepter is also capable of giving people a dressing-down if warranted.
    • He would harshly and angrily reprimand of his sons, Steel Barricade and Clear Voice, after he learned of them getting in a violent duel while he was away on political matters, and came back to find a portion of the Terran Empire destroyed. Steel Barricade's entry notes that he received much of Golden Scepter's shame and anger, since he clearly didn't learn anything and continued to act like a spoiled and petty foal despite repeated warnings and discipline, though Clear Voice didn't escape blame either.
    • While he visited the Bogolenya Deer Pantheon, he found Belyolen and Temnobog heatedly arguing with their father, High King Irminsul, who was also visiting. The horrible things Irminsul said about Temnobog and the non-Deer/hybrid Bogolenya deities infuriated Golden Scepter to the point where he revealed his true divine form and confronted the High King in front of everyone. What followed next was a vicious dressing-down, which apparently terrified Irminsul so much that he avoids visiting the Bogolenya Deer Pantheon from then on, knowing that he might run the risk of encountering Golden Scepter again if he does.
      Temnobog: I've never seen Father look so pathetic in all my life, knowing him.
  • A canonized Codexverse quote has Prince Written Word, Golden Scepter's thirteenth son, give a vicious one to a Pony priestess who turned out to be an Autorist, misleading her followers into committing acts of racial supremacy under the guise of a righteous cause.
    Prince Written Word: You LIAR. Preaching racial supremacy to your people in the guise of righteousness, misleading them to believe that what horrific crimes they would do were for the greater good, while YOU ALONE revel in the cruelty you perpetuate... You are a DISGRACE to your position and title.
• In the Fix Fic Consequences – A Bad Apple Comedy of Justice, Applejack tears into both Babs Seed and Diamond Tiara for bullying the Cutie Mark Crusaders, but her speech to Babs is much harsher as she calls her out for instantly turning on the Cutie Mark Crusaders who had been nothing but nice to her, despite having been bullied herself.
  Applejack: I've never been ashamed to call one of my own kin family until just now! You should know better than any-pony what being bullied is like! We took you in when you were hurtin', gave you a place to stay, my little sister and her friends went out of their way to make you feel at home, and this is how you repay them? The first chance you get, you turn on them!
  Babs Seed: Bu... B-but I...
  Applejack: When you said you'd been bullied in Manehattan about not having a cutie-mark, I figured you'd feel at home here. Land sakes, I figured knowing that there are other ponies who don't have a cutie mark and don't let it get them down would be good for you. Now I'm wondering if that sob story was just a front, and the reason you needed to get out of Manehattan was because you were the bully, and ponies had gotten wise to ya!
  Apple Bloom: She was bullied?
  Applejack: She said she was! But that don't fit the way she just acted.
  Babs Seed: But I was bullied! I was scared of being bullied when those two appeared, and I... I...
  Applejack: Joined up with them and bucked dirt in the faces of every-pony who'd tried to help ya. If there's two things I can't stand, they're dishonesty and disloyalty. Two wrongs don't make a right, and being bullied don't give you leave to be a bully yourself. I know these two and the way they act. The reason they pal around with each other is that no decent pony'll have anything to do with them, unless Tiara is throwin' her daddy's money around to buy some popularity.
  Diamond Tiara: Hey!
  Applejack: Every-pony knows it, but I ain't your local parenty. Teaching you proper manners is your daddy's job! [...] [to Babs Seed] However, even those two stuck-up fillies have never done anything worse than pass a few nasty remarks. They never damaged anypony's property, maybe because they knew it'd come back to haunt 'em. But you just went and wrecked a float that was the result of a lot of hard work by Apple Bloom and the others, and you did it purely because it was the worst thing you could do to hurt them. Worse still, some-pony coulda got hurt! I nearly got hit myself! Celestia knows the Cutie Mark Crusaders have enough disasters themselves, but they're accidents, not some-pony out to wreck things.
  Babs Seed: I never meant to wreck it! I just wanted to dent it a bit...
  Applejack: Y'all can tell it to your folks back in Manehattan. I'm sending you back there first train tomorrow, and the only reason I ain't doing it tonight is 'cause I need to send your parents a pegasus mail to let 'em know to come pick you up first. I'm going to add a few choice comments about exactly how you acted around here too. I suggest you go pack up your things. I was gonna let you sleep with Apple Bloom, but I don't think that's gonna work out. I'll fix up the attic, you can sleep up there for tonight. (to Diamond Tiara) And as for you missy, you ain't getting away with this neither!
  Diamond Tiara: But I didn't wreck that stupid cart! It isn't fair!
  Applejack: You and that bookend of yours didn't try to stop her, in fact you seemed pretty darned pleased about it. What has my little sis ever done to you anyhow? Huh, if it wasn't cutie marks and my sis, it'd be some-pony else and something else, because the only way you can feel big is if you make some-pony else feel small. Apple Bloom has more moxie, more guts and more gumption in one hoof than you've got in your entire body!
  Diamond Tiara: You can't talk to me like that! When I tell my father...
  Applejack: Oh, I intend to have a long talk with old Filthy myself, and your momma too. He's a decent enough pony and I don't think he'll be best pleased with the way you're dragging his good name through the mud with yer shenanigans.
  Diamond Tiara: But he'll never believe you over me, I'm his daughter! My daddy's rich, and has powerful friends! You don't want to upset him!
  Applejack: The Apple family may not have a pile of bits in the bank, but we've got a lot of friends ourselves, including a bunch up in Canterlot. So don't think you can scare me with the hooey you're spouting! Not that it'll come to that, the Apples and the Riches have been friends for generations. I figure he'll listen when I talk!
  Don't think you can take it out on my little sis neither! One more word, one more comment about blank flanks or anything else and you'll wish you were back in only this much trouble. Your dad ain't the only one who wants a piece of our next zap apple harvest! For now, I figure it's enough that you can't get in here to bother my little sis or her friends. This is Apple family land, and you ain't welcome no more, so skedaddle. And don't come back now, y'hear?
  Diamond Tiara: Fine! I never wanted to come to this smelly old barnyard, anyway!
  Silver Spoon: (realises something) ...but what about the Grand Apple Picnic, or the Harvest Feast, or the Nightmare Night Apple-Bobbing?
  Applejack: Like I said, you ain't welcome. (points them both toward the gate)
  • Likewise, Silver Spoon gives Diamond Tiara a very satisfying one the next day, after she fully realises just how terrible she's been for going along with Diamond's bullying without question, and decides to do what she can to make up for it, starting by cutting off ties with her:
    Diamond Tiara: I'm glad you're here! Can you believe all this fuss and bother over a few farmers? It's disgusting! Well, at least those Cutie Mark cry-babies won't be joining in! Bump, bump, sugar-lump...
    Silver Spoon: (shocked by her cruelty, refuses to join in) Uh... actually, I can't stay. My parents decided you're a bad influence on me, and they've forbidden me from seeing you in the future. They're talking to Miss Cheerilee to get us different seats in class, and I'm not to come over to your place, and vice versa.
    Diamond Tiara: (shocked for a moment, and begins ranting furiously) YOU CAN'T POSSIBLY BE GOING ALONG WITH THIS! It's that rotten farm-pony, Applejack! She's doing all this because her precious little sister had her feelings hurt! She can't tell us how to run our lives! OHHH! If Apple Bloom thought I was being mean to her before, she'll realise she didn't even know what the word meant by the time I'm through with her! (notices Silver Spoon backing away, scared) ...what? Surely, you're not just going to give in? We're Best Filly Friends Forever, remember?!
    Silver Spoon: (stops backing away, and steels herself) Actually, I am. And not because of my parents. I never realised it before, but Applejack was right. We became friends because we liked the same things: fancy clothes and jewellery and magazines, and because your dad loaned mine the money to build up his sugar refinery. When we started teasing Apple Bloom, I thought we were just we were proper girls, unlike her, we couldn't be tough. But you? You really do enjoy hurting other ponies just to see them hurt! I had a long talk with my parents about who I wanted to be, and I realised that wasn't it! In fact, I'm going to work hard not to be like that any more.
    Diamond Tiara: (getting even angrier and less coherent) FINE! Who needs you?! I can find some better friends, anyway! I don't ever want to see you again either, you pathetic doormat!
    Silver Spoon: (completely unfazed) You know... I figured this would be harder, considering how close we've been, but I realise now we never were. I wasn't your friend... just a sounding-board and a yes-pony. You were the one who decided everything, and I went along with it. (...) Well, not any more! The more I listen to you, the more I realise this is the best thing that could have happened to me! I may not have the qualifications for Apple Bloom's club... (glances down at her Cutie Mark) ...but maybe, if I work hard at it, they might accept me as a friend. From what I've seen, at least they mean it. Have a nice life. (Silver Spoon turns and leaves, ignoring Diamond Tiara's increasingly-shrill shrieking commands and pleading)
  • The above is made even sweeter by the reveal immediately after that Babs, as part of her redemption, helped the Crusaders rebuild their float even better than before. In a blind rage, Diamond Tiara steals a nearby crepe and tries to throw it at them, only to be humiliated by it being launched back in her face by the float's new defence mechanism; added and controlled by Babs herself.
• The Conversion Bureau: The Other Side of the Spectrum:
  • Princess Celestia gives one to her Evil Counterpart, Queen Celestia after being shown what she was doing to the humans.
    Queen Celestia: There can be no peace, no compromise, no accord between Us and Them. You have seen his memories, how they poisoned their world, incited violence and murder, turned our own ponies against us!
    Princess Celestia: And you have done just the same, or even worse! You have corrupted your Equestria, tainted the souls of precious ponies with cruelty and malice, and drawn two realities into a war of endless death and atrocity! Harmony, true harmony, transcends species and worlds – it is the finding of common ground despite differences, the nurturing of love between all! You would create a desolation and name it Peace! I will not allow some Tyrant rule with an iron hoof. I will not allow an entire species to die quietly and fade into the darkness. I will not stand to see the rape of innocence and innocents alike, of the peaceful being forced to take up bloody arms, and the grotesque being violated in mind, body and soul! Equestria, all of Equus, will rise against you! We will fight. We will turn this darkness away, and come to the rescue of all you have subjugated, Pony and Human, Earthborn and Equestrian alike. We will cast you down, and cast you out! In Harmony's name, I swear it.
  • Celestia and Discord both give one to each other. In particular, the latter pulls a Shut Up, Kirk! and accuses Celestia of having coddled the ponies too much and turning Equestria into a stagnant Sugar Bowl. His trips through The Multiverse do force him to rethink this view, and he even does apologize to her for it.
  • TCB!Trixie gives a couple to newfoal Focus Ray.
    Trixie: No sentient being lives free of fears, hopes, dreams and doubts, not without some serious brainwashing or sheer self-delusion. You, with your sanctimonious serenity, are just a golem programmed to not question its masters, hardcoded to get a positive emotional kick every time you obey unthinkingly. True ponies, true individuals, are free to question their lives, free to fear, free to doubt, and free to find their own purpose.
    Trixie: [while impersonating Lyra Heartstrings] WE ARE NOTHING ALIKE! YOU SPEAK AS IF YOU'VE BEEN A PONY ALL YOUR LIFE! YOU ARE JUST ONE BROKEN SOUL AMONG THE MILLIONS THAT WERE CONVERTED! THE GRIFFONS ARE MORE KIN TO ME THAN YOU ARE!
  • Celestia was already incredibly stressed out, but when Blueblood pushes her too far, she gives him a long overdue verbal beatdown for being such an embarrassment to the royal family, before declaring him cut off from his inheritance.
  • From the Asia Side-Story, a PER agent tries to give one to Porter in the first chapter, calling him a broken man and a tool of a corrupt government; Porter just argues back that he at least isn't selling out his own kind to and collaborating with a bunch of xenocidal invaders. Porter himself also delivers one to an HLF member in the chapter "A Melody of Flames and Frost", stating that he and his friends have actually done important stuff for the war effort (evacuate and help civilians, fight the TCB!Equestrians and newfoals) and don't throw untrained children into the meat grinder, whereas the HLF have only hurt, destroyed and killed everything in their path.
  • In the PER chapter of Case Files, TCB!Cheerilee gave such a massive one to PER agent Mikhailovitch that he broke down, told her what she needed to know, and apologized for what he did.
  • Angus Reid delivered one to his HLF group over how they never did anything of real worth for the war effort or disprove the people's descriptions of them as "madmen destroying civilization" before declaring he's leaving for the PHL in a quote in the third chapter of Calm Before the Storm.
    Angus: Shut your fucking face, old man! We haven't been worth shit for years! How goddamn delusional do you have to be to think the public actually like us?! The PHL have evacuated civilians. The PHL can use 5.56 rifles while we have to use these stupid fucking .50 Beowulf rounds! The PHL saved Boston! The PHL have secret superweapons when all we have are homebrewed cannons and pipe guns! The PHL help power America, and we've probably used something from them! What in the fuck are we compared to that?! They're calling us terrorists and murderers, rapists and torturers, bandits that... I swear to God I'm not kidding, bandits that are destroying civilization! Crazy, right? EXCEPT DAMN NEAR NONE OF YOU HAVE DONE ANYTHING TO PROVE THEM WRONG! I'm not asking any of you to have sex with the merry-go-round toys, but at least the PHL is doing something. We're all yammer and no hammer now, the war's passed us by! We're a laughingstock, and if the PHL wins the war, we're not gonna be heroes. We'll be the guys that everyone laughs at. We're not heroic partisans like in Poland, or anything of the sort, we're just a bunch of assholes with guns pointed at everything that isn't us, because fuck you, it's the apocalypse, we've got ours! We're outlaws! We're... you! MacPherson! Is this what you signed up for? Stealing from people that don't have anything left to steal? And you, Clancy?! Killing people that I'm convinced just wanted a better life because their home is a despotic shithole?! Morhaim, did you sign up to oversee gang-rapes and eat people?! Anyone in this HLF brigade that wants to do something good... Follow me, we're going to the PHL! If Viktor Kraber can quit and do the right thing, we can outdo that bastard!
  • There's also Thaddeus Crowe's scathing debunking of the Russian Space Program's calls to start a Homeworld Evacuation space program during wartime, and Fiddlesticks' denunciation of her home.
• In the story Dash's New Mom, Rainbow Dash discovers that her father and Twilight have some how gotten together and immediately assumes that it is some kind of trick and goes to confront Discord, who she believes is almost definitely the one behind it... Only to discover this is not the case and Discord accordingly gives her a brutal tongue lashing for not only not trusting that her own friend Twilight, who tried to explain what happened, despite supposedly being The Element Of Loyalty, but immediately assuming he would do something like this after his reformation, without even giving him the slight benefit of the doubt. By the end of their meeting, she's in tears.
• A Diplomatic Visit: Used twice in chapter 4 of the second sequel, Diplomacy Through Schooling.
  • Twilight gives Neighsay a quite pointed one when he comes to complain about her plans for her school, on the grounds that his reasoning is thinly disguised prejudice and racism.
  • Blueblood later lets loose on him with an even harsher one when the chancellor comes to him for help in stopping Twilight.
• Discord's New Business: Gilda delivers a brutal one on the other griffons on how they let their selfishness and greed destroy their nation.
• Drawn With the Night: When Celestia learns that Luna continued to invade Klein's mind and drive him mad, after Celestia promised that she and Equestria would leave him alone, she rips into her about violating her trust, continuing to assault someone she wronged in an area she can remain hidden and where he can't protect himself, and for doing it all in her name. By the end, Luna is left a quivering, crying, mess.
  Celestia: My dear sister, it must have been terrible, wondering what I'd do when I found out you'd lied to me. I do wonder, what else have you lied to me about? How much of my trust have you betrayed?
  Luna: Nothing, Celestia.
  Celestia: But is that true, or just another lie? We did a man a terrible injustice. And when we hemmed in on all sides he who had offered us no threat, he prostrated himself before us and asked simply to be let alone. No threat to expose us, no cry for revenge, just the succor of time and distance to let him heal among his new friends and family. A boon we granted, I granted, and thought you had too. Was not his abject humiliation and acknowledged helplessness before us sufficient for you? Now, how many of your decisions do I have to review to see if you've kept your word to our subjects?
  Luna : Please Celestia.
  Celestia: No, your Highness, our ponies come first. I love my sister. I had hoped she would understand my disapproval and seek to correct her mistake. But if the Lunar Diarch cannot keep her word, then all we have done is suspect. Our ponies have to trust us, or we cannot help them.
  Luna: He's dangerous!
  Celestia: To whom? A maker of toys and a family man? To your image that you can do no wrong? To some desire to revenge yourself on one who wounded me? If revenge was to be extracted, it was my right and not yours! How DARE you attack an innocent in my name! You think I am so weak that I cannot defend myself and my own good name? Then what of your courage? Striking where he cannot hope to strike back, and keeping the excuse of 'I was doing it for Celestia' to deflect any blame! If he is such a threat, have the decency to face him yourself and offer a swift death. To drag it out over weeks and months is sadism, not security. Have the decency to let his family see the blood on your hooves and not make them think his growing madness is their failing. And you dare complain when someone turns the tables on you. Discord did nothing you have not already done. Be glad he withheld his hand further. Or perhaps he was crueler than I surmise. He left you alone with naught but yourself. A more conniving cellmate I could not imagine. Even an alien who stank of death and terror could not be as foul. In that cell, I had no fear of a knife in the belly in the dead of the night. Be cautious my sister, else she will slip a blade between your ribs and claim it was for my greater glory.
  • Towards the end of "Drawn With The Night", Klein basically tells the princess (using a black belt in Politeness Judo) that he doesn't like them, he doesn't want them around, and that he will never take any aid from them without looking for "The hidden hook," further stating that their refusal to leave him alone and inability to comprehend that he doesn't care that they're sorry have driven him to try and tell them that to their faces, just so he can have some peace and quiet.
• In Faith and Doubt, the fallen 6th Element, an abstract known as Doubt, turns Twilight into an alicorn. Luna, who realizes Doubt is the same voice that she heard when she was Nightmare Moon, calls him out and declares him a liar and a monster. With utter calmness Doubt rips her apart.
  Doubt: I gave you the power to rival your sister. I whispered in your ear about how she treated you as like a foal and did not let you take a larger part in governing Equestria; that is something you agreed with and something you still think now. [Cuts off Luna's retort] Do not deny it. I can read your thoughts as easily. I know that to be true... just as I know that Fluttershy here fears that I will hurt all of you. I assure you, little one, I could not hurt you if I wanted to. Nothing would bring me greater joy than to aid each and every one of you little ponies. But Nightmare Moon... everything comes back to that, doesn't it Luna? Everything you are now and everything you will ever be is tied to that horrible day when you took the mantle of the Mare in the Moon. Long you and your sister have convinced yourselves and your subjects that you were not in control... that some dark boogeyman had taken you over and twisted you into a weapon of evil and the real Luna was trapped inside. And you have now decided to cast me in that role. That... is a lie.
  Luna: No... it was you. It was all you! I was good before you...
  Doubt: Now who is the liar? All I gave you was the power. My words were a reflection of your own thoughts, nothing more. I can influence your mind as much as a foal can stop the rain from falling. Everything that happened was your fault, Luna; every dark word, every bitter thought was your own. The hatred for your sister came not from me. Nightmare Moon wasn't a separate entity or some corruption; it was merely a name you used to deflect blame. Your own feelings of self worth drove you to attack your sister and try and destroy all of Equestria. It was then that I removed my protection from you and allowed the dear traitor you call sister to banish you.
  Luna: That... that isn't true, I... I would never.
  Doubt: But you did, Luna. You did. Darkness is not evil... it is those that wield it that make it so. The sun can give life on a farm... or kill in the desert.
  • Really, this is Doubt's entire schtick.
• Chapter 4 of The Fall of Night has Luna call Celestia out on her habit of passing responsibility off to somepony else whenever Equestria is in danger:
  Celestia: You worry too much. This is a good learning experience for them. After all, facing challenges is how a pony grows! This is just what Trixie needs. Once she overcomes this, she'll be one step closer to alicornhood. Or, if she fails, she'll be dead. That is also acceptable.
  Luna: Reforming Discord was a challenge. Defeating the combined armies of all the undead is not a challenge; it is suicide. This isn't a test, sister. The survival of everypony is hanging on this. We have to take this seriously and do something! If we do nothing then ponies will die.
  Celestia: I am doing something! I've given Trixie her first job as Element of Magic, and I'm going to watch her fail. Doesn't that sound fun? Then when Equestria has burned to the ground it will be her fault, and I can laugh in her face.
  Luna: Enough! You're not my sister anymore; you're just some monster. The loving and gentle pony I once knew a thousand years ago has been lost to darkness. She would never have been this cruel. She actually cared about the lives of her subjects.
  Celestia: Come now, Luna. I really do care about all the little ponies. It's just that I care about some of them more than others.
  Luna: Do you? I wonder. When Sombra threatened to return to the Crystal Empire and enslave everypony, you turned that life-threatening situation into a test for your star pupil. You knew of the Crystal Heart and its importance, but you did not bother to tell Twilight about it. Twilight could have kept Sombra at bay with the Elements of Harmony, but you did not offer to give them to her. Instead of doing everything in your power to save those poor crystal ponies, you treated the whole thing as some sort of alicorn exam! Did it never occur to you what might happen if Twilight failed? You wouldn't even let me go and help her! Twilight could have died. All those ponies could have been enslaved again. How many times did you put Twilight's life in danger for your stupid tests?
  Celestia: It worked, didn't it? Everything turned out fine. I'm sure everything will work out this time as well.
  Luna: You are a horrible, horrible pony. You care nothing for the safety of those entrusted to your care- but I do. If you won't defend this nation then I will. Come with me, pony who was once pink; we have a country to save.
  Celestia: Don't you dare leave. I won't allow it!
  Luna: [laughs scornfully] As if you had the power to stop me. When was the last time you actually helped anypony? All you ever do is delegate your problems to someone else.
• In Fools and Drunks, Ruby recounts the events following her death, and what happened when Princess Luna realised Sunny Town killed her.
  Luna:"I have seen my friend, thine own dead daughter. For one dead of the Mark-Pox, she was most curious unmarred, save for two hoof-blows to the head. There may have been more to see, and I might have seen it, were it not for thine odd decision to bake her, as if she were some horrid pastry.
  Three Leaf: The Pox...
  Luna: There was no Pox! Dost thou mistake me for some especial-simple foal? The Pox leaves many Marks, not one. The Pox does not bash in a filly's head! Were the Pox in truth abroad in Sunney Towne, would ye all be feasting together, the better to assure its spread? Where are the medical preparations? The quarantines? Dost thou mean to convince me that thou'rt the most numb-skulled Healer in the whole equine history of medicine?!! Nay. Were she so stupid, not a one of ye would now survive, given that I know one plague after the other hath ravaged this town. Aye! I do know all about Sunney Towne. Before ye slew her, Ruby did discourse to me at length. I do know all the secrets of your village.
  Luna: Who amongst you saw her success as a threat to thine own? Who envied her? Who slew her? And, of course — who saw her slain? Ye ... ye all did? She was done to death right before ye, and ye did naught to stop it? Or to punish the slayer? What ... what are ye? What monsters?
  Luna: Ruby... She must have suspected something was wrong when she came home from the City last week. She was ever intelligent... curious... She would have asked questions. Searched for answers. And found them... She was ever good at finding things... I saw her Mark on her poor burned body, 'twas as I expected, a Finding Mark. She would have made such a good Finder... a Pony of worth... worth more than your whole damned little huddle of huts... ye destroy the best... And, no doubt she felt a duty to tell me. I was her patron, her Princess, her friend. She was Loyal to me. She knew I hated brigands... 'twas a sentiment we shared ... how it must have hurt her to find that her own family had taken to brigandage their own selves... she had such high ideals... such a beautiful heart... But she was also Loyal to ye. To her family, her brother, her father. She loved ye, one and all. How it must have hurt her to have to choose between loyalty to me and to ye, to her Princess and to her own kith and kin. She would have known how much it would have hurt ye had she informed on ye — nothing hurts as much as to be betrayed by one's own kin. What did she choose in the end? It matters not, not any more, for ye curs assumed she would choose me, for I had greater gifts to bestow, because it is what any of ye would have done.
• In For Glory! For Equus! For Epicness!, after Canterlot has suffered significant losses and destruction at the hands of the demons from Tartarus, Blueblood is at the rare giving end, which doubles as a Rousing Speech, when he shatters the argument of the nobles who have reservations about allowing changelings to fight alongside them in the coming war, and puts into perspective what it means to be a noble. This drastic change stuns everypony present.
  Blueblood: I’m sure this comes as a surprise to most-uh... all of you. But over the past few days, I’ve had some time to think about things. Namely, what it means to be a noble. I think we’ve made it no secret that we view ourselves as superior to other ponies, and for the most part others are in agreement of this. We boast of our superior bloodlines and influence. But after seeing what’s happened here in Canterlot, all the destruction of the things we once thought were so important, I asked myself ‘what would cause somepony to think of somepony else as superior? What makes a bloodline noble?’ We nobles don’t live lives of combat training, and few of us are master spellcasters, so it certainly isn’t martial prowess. It can’t be money, because there are several rich ponies out there that, despite their great wealth, aren’t considered to be nobles. So what is it? What causes one pony to look at another and think ‘yes, that pony most certainly is superior to me. They should be in charge.’ After much thought, I have my answer: Those ponies were exceptional and they showed it through their deeds.
  
  I am descended from our own Princess Celestia and her first husband, Valor. But it is not that heritage that makes me a noble. It is because my Auntie is wise, kind, understanding. It is because my ancestor was brave and honorable. It is because both of them show the best of what a pony can and should be. You are all nobles because your ancestors, or in some cases you yourselves, showed the qualities and performed the deeds that made others wish to follow you. It is for this reason that we are given so many luxuries in our lives, to compensate us for the great and important task of leading those who follow us to brighter futures. For centuries we’ve been lucky and have not had to perform these duties due to our ages of peace, but now that has changed. It is time for us to perform the tasks for which the common ponies elevated us to the highest rungs of society for, to lead and provide examples to them of what a pony can and should do. And for those of you who do not wish to perform this duty, who would rather hide or take what they value and run, go ahead and do so, you have that right. Just make sure to stay quiet and let the real nobles make the decisions.
• In Harmony Theory: Nightmare Umbra gives these to both the the Nobles of the Solar Kingdom and the modern ponies, overlapping with some evident Evil Gloating and disappointment at the lack of challenge to her.
  Nightmare Umbra: Silence! To call yourselves Noble is laughable. You claim to worship Celestia, yet when I look into your precious little Sun-Loving faces, I do not see ponies she would be proud of. Just look at you now— you trample those weaker underhoof in the hope of buying yourselves another breath of life. Craven beasts, that hope is as empty as your hearts. Eight Hundred Years have I waited, marshalling my power. Eight Hundred Years have I given you to do the same. When I emerged from my silence, I expected to see armies arrayed against me! Heroes and Sages aiding great leaders in battle, against the only foe that will ever matter for you. A worthy challenge to my Dominion. What have I found? The petty rulers of a broken World, sitting in pretty rows, celebrating the union of a blushing filly and a pampered fop who you expect to be your Sovereign. Are you such fools that you thought me gone forever? Were you not informed of my return? Did you not see the signs?
  • Max Cash, the other member of the Big Bad Ensemble, gets one of his own after finale pushing his body guard and right hand mare Charisma too far, along side a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown courtesy of the latter.
    Charisma: If you wanted someone to kill you so bad, you could have gotten literally anyone who's spent more than five minutes with you!!!
• In the eighth part of the fanfic called Heart of Azazel, Celestia gives a small one to her husband Dr. Bitch Spasms after Azazel returns:
  Celestia: I'm breaking up with you. I issue a divorce. Know why? Because you are just awful! I'm sick of watching you treat patients in a horrible manner, doing your chores, wearing this horrific dress, the list goes on. I'm tired of being called a plaything... ESPECIALLY BY A MORON LIKE YOU!!!!!
• In Heart of the Forest, after King Aspen says that it's not worth risking anyone's life to save Applejack, Fluttershy rears up to her full height and tells him very firmly that he doesn't have the right to decide who lives or dies.
• In the Fancomic The Last Adventure, Rainbow Dash bluntly apologizes to Discord for having thought that he sent the timberwolves strike Ponyville. Discord is astounded that the blue mare thought he would do something so horrible and calls out the Mane Five (not Fluttershy, the only one to support him) - for treating him like trash after his Heel–Face Turn. It may also be applied to the MLP writers, who demoted Discord to an occasional comic relief.
  Discord:You… You thought I would do that?! But why?! Oh, I forgot! Because you think I’m a crazy monster! Even if I saved the world a thousand times, ponies’ opinions about me never change!
  Fluttershy: Please, calm down.
  Discord: You almost always blamed me when something bad happened. You don’t talk anymore about Luna, Starlight, Trixie or Tempest’s past. You forgave them so many times. But when it comes to me… You can’t stop reminding me about what I did wrong! Most of the time when something important happened you rarely called me… unless you needed my powers. You never invited me to the important events. You ignored me when I really wanted to help. I know I wasn’t perfect and that my behaviour wasn’t the best… And, don’t lie to me. I know if not this whole thing with… what… what happened lately… you still would act towards me the way you did before. AND YES! I FELT LEFT OUT! I FELT UNWANTED! I FELT LIKE A BURDEN TO EVERYONE! AND THERE WAS TIMES WHEN I DIDN’T WANT TO LIVE!”
• The fancomic Love is For the Week, is a big Rick-and-Morty-styled speech from Twilight to Cadance over the latter's powers.
  Twilight: Actually, I analyzed your magic some time ago. What you're actually doing, Cadance, is hormone magic. You're releasing excessive hormones in ponies and some of them happen to cause love-like effects. But, in fact, Cadance, if you focused your magic right, you could easily kill any creature. Or drive them insane. Or make them kill themselves! But instead, you go for the worst, Cadance. You force them to make bad life decisions resulting in unwanted pregnancies, hasty marriages, burp painful divorces, and alimonies! Tons of alimonies, Cadance. What's good for the ponykind isn't always good for individuals! You deprive ponies of their free will, Cadance. You're an unholy mistake that should be consigned to Tartarus. If Tirek and Chrysalis had a baby, it would be you, Cadance. You're amoral and powerful but too stupid to realized that! Why do you think Tirek or the Storm King wanted your magic? To pick up chicks? You're a life-ruining machine dressed in a pretty pink coat. Get a clue, Cadance!
• Loved and Lost, an extended retelling of "A Canterlot Wedding", has a few of these.
  • After being exiled from Equestria by Prince Jewelius for their canon mistakes that contributed to the Changeling invasion taking place, the Mane Five (sans Twilight), Shining Armor, Spike and Celestia secretly return to Canterlot with Cadance in order to redeem themselves by helping Twilight. When Commander Hildread finds the Mane Five sneaking in the castle, she attempts to break their spirits by giving them a cruel lecture about how pathetic they are and unworthy of Twilight's friendship. The tactic works in demoralizing the five mares, but then Fluttershy notices a hanging chandelier above, so she tells Hildread where to shove her taunts and drops the chandelier onto her and her guards.
    Hildread: You all should've stayed where you were and never come back.
    Pinkie Pie: No way, we heard the rumors about changelings in the castle. We couldn't just ignore them and leave our friend, Twilight, in danger!
    Hildread: [laughs mockingly] You really are the funny pony! Because I heard you all didn't have any problems ignoring her warnings about the imposter bride and abandoning her at the wedding rehearsal! You all really need to stop playing heroes because you're not! Well, not anymore. You chose to ignore all the obvious signs of danger and focus more on what you could've gained if the bride had been the real thing, and as a result, you hurt your best friend, put all of Equestria in danger, and destroyed your own 'heroic' reputations all because you wanted to play dress up for a beast! [Hildread continues laughing as the ashamed Mane Five silently acknowledge her point] So now that you've all gotten a dose of reality, why don't you come along quietly so there won't be any trouble when we return you back to your places of exile? To think, Twilight Sparkle considered you all her best friends. What kind of pony would risk everything she cares about for the sake of her worthless, pathetic, annoying so-called friends?!
    Fluttershy: Twilight would!
  • Shortly after the previous example, the Mane Five, Shining Armor, Spike and Celestia reunite with Twilight, but Cadance is separated from them and injured by Jewelius. Twilight (who's been manipulated to stop trusting her friends, brother and mentor by Jewelius following the wedding rehearsal incident) believes the others are responsible for her beloved foalsitter becoming injured. In her anger, she gives them all a harsh earful that mirrors the one her brother gave her at the rehearsal before she allows them to be apprehended.
    Twilight: How could you have let her be put in danger? Hasn't she been through enough already?
    Celestia: Twilight, we didn't know what would happen.
    [Twilight becomes angrier]
    Twilight: Yes, you didn't know. Just like you didn't know about the bad behavior she was showing during the planning for the wedding! Just like you didn't know about the strange spells she was constantly casting on my brother, which obviously weren't headache healing spells! Just like you didn't know what that display of crocodile tears at the rehearsal was meant to do! Just like you didn't know she was imprisoning ponies who were becoming obstacles in her plan in the caverns underneath the castle, like me! And just like you didn't know that she was the EVIL queen of an army of shapeshifting insect like monsters bent on devouring all the love in Equestria! Well, I know one place that they won't be able to find any real love!
    Shining Armor: Twily, I-
    Twilight: You know, King Jewelius was going to let her back into the kingdom. It would've been easy and nopony would've gotten hurt. But you all had to follow your own selfish instincts and mess everything up again! Well no more!
    [Twilight imprisons her former loved ones in a magic dome]
    Applejack: Twilight, please don't do this!
    Fluttershy: We're your friends!
    Twilight: No you're not! You only hangout with me because my connections could help you. You never cared about me or anypony else! I can't believe I fell for it for so long.
    Shining Armor: Twily-
    Twilight: And you can forget about me calling you my BBBFF anymore! In fact, I don't even have a brother. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go check on the princess.
    Celestia: Twilight, I-
    Twilight: You have a lot to think about.
  • The same targets of the previous example get another one in the following chapter from Jewelius as he privately reveals himself to have helped Chrysalis infiltrate Canterlot before double-crossing her. He condescendingly yet accurately gloats to them how easy it was to turn Twilight against them with the way they dismissed all her concerns about the false Cadance in their blissful wedding planning.
    Applejack: You Snake! How were you able to fool Twilight when Chrysalis wasn't?
    Jewelius: Simple. I did the one thing none of YOU did. I listened to her and gave her the benefit of the doubt. I was THERE for her! I was her friend! But after you all broke her heart and abandoned her at the wedding rehearsal, she became a lot easier to manipulate. And now, I have her completely under my control. I didn't even need to use a mind control spell either!
    Shining Armor: You… you used my sister, and the changelings! You're responsible for all of this!
    Jewelius: Whoa, calm down. I didn't manipulate any of you into making yourselves look like fools. You chose to believe the lies of an imposter over the one pony who made any real sense during all that stupid nonsense. And in the end, Twilight was right about everything. Well, except one thing: she thought all of you were her friends! Now THAT couldn't had been farther from the truth! [laughs with Hildread as the ashamed heroes silently admit that he's right] How does it feel to know just how much damage you've caused?
  • When Shining Armor faces his rival Commander Hildread in the climax, he tells her that he kicked her out of the Royal Guard because she has always been too much of a brutal extremist and isn't protecting ponies now by taking part in attacking Ponyville with the orders of mass murder from Jewelius.
    Hildread: I hate you, Shining Armor. Always have. You were always too soft and weak to hold the rank of Captain of the Royal Guard. You never had the brains or the guts to do what was necessary to ensure the security of Canterlot. But now I will do what you could not.
    Shining Armor: You never could understand that brute strength is not always the answer. That is not the way of Equestria.
    Hildread: SHUT UP! I am the guardian of this great nation. I protect the ponies that live in it!
    Shining Armor: Is that what you call this? Protection?!
    Hildread: [looks at her surroundings uneasily before hardening her heart] Traitors to the King must be punished.
    Shining Armor: Traitors?! These are innocent ponies! This is a massacre ordered by that vile usurper you call a king!
    Hildread: Everything we've done was absolutely necessary! And if I have to destroy you in order to maintain peace and order in Equestria, so be it.
    Shining Armor: Your extreme desires and methods have blinded you to the fact that you're causing more harm than good. This is why you were kicked out of the guard.
    Hildread: I WILL CRUSH YOU!
  • The Big Bad Jewelius is told separately yet in a complementary way by Celestia, Cadance and Twilight how disappointed they are in the prince who has thrown away the love of everypony else out of a selfish lust for power.
    Celestia: I'm afraid it is you who will not be remembered for your greatness but your arrogance, Jewelius. You, like many others before you, have underestimated Twilight and her friends and the Magic of Friendship. And that will cost you dearly! […] You let your selfish desires turn you into a monster.
    Cadance: I finally understand, cousin. Why the changelings weren't able to feed on your love and why my spell didn't work on you. It's because you have no heart to feel love and therefore no love to give!
    Jewelius: What, are you going to kill your own flesh and blood?
    Cadance: The cousin, brother, I knew died a long time ago. His heart anyway.
    […]
    Twilight: You had a loving family, loyal friends, everything a pony could've wanted. Why wasn't it enough for you?
• Misunderstandings: Twilight lays an epic one to Silver Star, and by extension, the other nobles involved in the conspiracy against Peter.
  Silver Star: Your ascension was a mistake. We trust Princess Celestia with the very underpinnings of our world, but how she could select some... some bumpkin like you to become royalty is inconceivable! You know nothing of how politics works in this city, nothing of its deepest traditions and culture, and you dismiss this Parliament and the nobility as no more important than a common street-sweeper! It would have been better if you'd gone back to that speck of dirt called Ponyville, and somepony with some notion of what this nation needs had been given that power instead. You're not fit to rule.
  Twilight: Is that what you believe, Mister Star? That I'm unfit to rule because I don't understand traditions or politics, because I don't have or value the 'noble bloodlines' you cherish so completely?
  Silver Star: I... I, well, that is to say, perhaps not myself, but there are a number of other nobles-
  Twilight: Well. In that case, let's take note of what resulted from the plan that you and certain other nobles—who no doubt represent the 'cream of the crop' in your mind—formulated. You enlisted the aid of a complete psychopath, a wanted fugitive, whom you allowed to spread harmful rumors about an innocent creature. You and your cabal of nobles maneuvered to politically isolate Peter Collins, to persecute Sveti Windwhisper—even conspired to frame one of your own, Prince Blueblood, for your plan to disrupt my research...a plan, I might add, could have resulted in the death of myself and everyone nearby, reopening old breaches into a parallel plane, and even the utter destruction of Canterlot itself. As a result of your actions, Farris Wheel, a promising actor and playwright, lost his life. As a result of your actions, a young filly by the name of Dewdrop nearly lost hers. As a result of your actions, there has been untold needless suffering and conflict that could have been avoided otherwise. You let petty jealousy and short-sightedness gallop roughshod over everything this nation stands for. And you dare tell me that I am unfit to rule?!
• The MLP Loops: Chrysalis, of all people, gives one to Draco Malfoy.
  Chrysalis: I have never visited Hogwarts, but from what I understand the house of Slytherin is supposed to be home to the cunning. But you, you were sorted into that house because you were too cowardly for Gryiffindor, too stupid for Ravenclaw, and too lazy for Hufflepuff. You have no ambitions, no true cunning, and the only reason the Hat didn't expel you then and there was your connections which just barely qualified you to be in the house of snakes.
  Draco: ...You dare to judge my worthiness? To say I have no place in Slytherin when you have never even visited—?!
  Chrysalis: Yes.
  Draco: You have no right—!
  Chrysalis: I have every right, Draco Malfoy. Every loop, I am in charge of a race that has to feed off of love. I have to make sure my children are not starving, and to do that I have to earn the love of a non-looping populace. Look at what I am, Draco. I am beautiful and hideous, and my children do not share my beauty. And yet, every loop, my swarm survives. Not through force, but through crafty manipulations, through our ability to take other's forms and feel other's feelings, though coordination and sly tricks and never once has Equestria suspected a thing. You were sorted into Slytherin, Draco Malfoy. I was born into it.
  Draco: ...then we have a common enemy in Twilight Sparkle.
  Chrysalis: No.
  Draco: But—
  Chrysalis: A true Slytherin has no enemies, or at least none worth naming. Enemies are for the brave Gryffindors to fight, for the intelligent Ravenclaws to outwit, for the persevering Hufflepuffs to endure. Any creature that would be an enemy to Slytherin is to be... subverted. The reason for its opposition removed. And if that is impossible, then ensure it will also fight one of the other houses. In the baseline of this world Twilight Sparkle has every reason to hate me and my children, but as an Anchor I have convinced her to allow my nation to thrive. That is the true power that Slytherin claims. And that is the power that I will instill into you. [cruel smile] The elements are telling you what their traits are, how to embody them. I will teach you how to use them properly in the house of snakes. I will teach you how to be a harmonious Slytherin. And I will teach you this. You would try to deny me, but I can ensure you will suffer till the loop's end.
• A Mother's Love:
  • Apple Bloom delivers an absolutely scathing speech to Spoiled Rich for all the abuse she has inflicted on her daughter.
    Apple Bloom: Mrs Rich. There's something I've been curious about. What does your cutie mark mean?
    Spoiled Rich: W-what? I... What relevance does that have?!
    Apple Bloom: Well, you may not know this, but me and the other Crusaders aren't exactly 'talentless'. Aside from me having a big heart, Sweetie Belle's singing ability and Scootaloo's being able to ride as fast as lightning, our shared true destiny is, as you can see in the colour of our manes on the shields, to help other ponies find their calling in life, based on their cutie marks. A very important job, I'm sure you agree. We did it for Troubleshoes in Appleloosa a while ago, and we helped your daughter discover that she could harness her leadership ability without becoming... Well, like you. Now, my friends aren't here so I can't be entirely accurate with my reading, but I just got to thinking... Do you need my help?
    Spoiled Rich: N-no of course not! W-why would I ever—
    Apple Bloom: So, what does the ring on your flank represent then? Are you good at making jewellery?
    Spoiled Rich: Never! If I want something, my husband just buys it for me!
    Apple Bloom: Selling jewellery?
    Spoiled Rich: Me? Get a job? Huh! The day that happens will be the day I jump over the moon!
    Apple Bloom: So, what does it mean, then?
    
    If I may, I have a theory I'd like to run by you. It's up to you whether you take it at face value or not, and of course I could be completely wrong. But, I'm going to tell you it anyway.
    
    The ring on your flank, shows your aptitude for marrying well. And you did. Look at you, hitched to the most successful businesspony in Ponyville! One who loves his daughter dearly, contrary to what you say. One willing to journey around the world, earning extra bits to keep his selfish and ungrateful wife happy! One who tolerates her many childish tantrums and outbursts, because he has unlimited patience! His only fault is not putting his hoof down when he sees how much you mistreat and abuse your beautiful daughter, out of some wrongheaded sense of keeping his family together, because Diamond Tiara needs a mother! Well, let me say, after what I've witnessed today, forget about Applejack, Queen Chrysalis would make for a better parent than you! At least she knows what love is. It's a term that you clearly don't, and probably never will, understand!
    
    If you ignored your sole talent, and left your husband to try and make it in Canterlot with your daughter by yourself, do you really think you'd survive? That other ponies wouldn't turn against you, once they saw you for what you truly are? An abusive, lying, manipulative, nasty piece of work? No, they wouldn't. And I promise that soon, Diamond wouldn't think much of you, either. You might be able to win her favour for a while with your non-stop threats and deceit, but I've already opened her eyes to other possibilities. Soon, she'll see you as the beast you clearly are, and you'll be all alone! And, guess what? You'll have no pony to blame but your own rotten self! If I've learned one thing from you, it's that it isn't just cutie marks that tell us about the pony they belong to, the name can reveal a lot too! Spoiled by name, Spoiled by nature. That's you!
  • Twilight later gives Spoiled one herself.
    Twilight: I'll tell you who I am, seeing as how you seem a little confused...
    
    I'm the Princess Of Friendship. That isn't a boast. It's a title given to me by Celestia herself. My job is to look for the good in everyone, and encourage them to befriend each other, no matter their background, species or creed. But I must say Spoiled, you represent one of the toughest challenges I've faced so far. Nothing you've said or done since we've met has showed me you have any intention of changing your ways, in fact you seem to be getting worse with every passing minute. But, you know what? I won't give up on you. I never give up on anypony. Even if sometimes, I'm sorely tempted. I'll tell you what I told Starlight Glimmer as she ran into those caves. I hope your time alone gives you a chance to think about your life, and where you want it to go. Because as of right now, it's only heading in one direction. Downhill.
• In My Tall Human: Hatred is Science, Gilda meets again with Rainbow Dash, only to find her injured. Gilda tries to get from her who did that to her, but Dash is still hostile toward Gilda because of her behavior at the party... until Gilda fires back.
  RD: I thought I was a 'Flip-Flop' to you!
  Gilda: Right. And guess what? I'm not a Flip-Flop like you.
  RD: Oh this is good to hear after what you did to my friends behind my back!
  Gilda: Perhaps, Element of Loyalty My Ass, now that you have new friends you don't need your old friends anymore, but you have been my only true friend, not just somehuman I used to know, and being still pissed at you for throwing me away like a worn-out rag without a second thought doesn't change that, to me it doesn't change the fact that we have been friends for years, even if perhaps you forgot that...you say I only care about being 'cool'? Big fucking talking from Miss '20% cooler', do you instruct your new friends as well about how to cheer for you during competitions? And guess what, you're wrong! I care and worry about you, and since you have been beaten like that I have good reasons to do so...So Rainbow Dash, spare me the bullshit and tell me who's that motherfucking, cock-sucking son of a bitch who signed his own death warrant!
• In No Glimmer of Hope, Truth delivers a truly brutal one to Starlight Glimmer that also counts as a Breaking Speech, not only driving into her that her philosophy of equality brought nothing but suffering to her fellow villagers, but pointing out the complete fallacy of stripping other ponies of their cutie marks while secretly keeping her own, and correctly guessing the reason why she would want to do so.
  Truth: Durn zorbek dun la grak. You know what I mean. Or perhaps during the one day you've spent wandering my abode, you've already forgotten your failure?
  Starlight: If you mean the society that I made for those ponies, then it was not failure at all. It was treason, damn it! It was heresy brought upon those misguided urchins by a deluded princess and those other wretched ponies!
  Truth: Kee kee kee kee kee ku ku ku ku ku hur hur hur!
  Starlight: What the? Are...are you laughing? Is that what that sound is?
  Truth: Oh what a jest you make, dear Starlight Glimmer! Amusing indeed! That you would think yourself a savior to those ponies! Deen no ku ru, mose no griff!
  Starlight: How...how dare you! You dare mock me for the righteous cause I dedicated myself to? You dare laugh at the freedom I was giving to those ponies? When those ponies came to my town, they had nothing! Just meaningless marks on their backsides that spoke of lies and false dreams! Cutie marks make them think they are better than everypony else, that nopony else is their equal! If no pony has a cutie mark, than no pony can claim to be superior or inferior to the other! I took away their cutie marks, and the evils they carried in them, and I created a perfect society! A society where nopony felt left out! A society where everypony could go out each day and feel like they truly belonged somewhere in the world! That bucking whorse of a princess and her friends didn't help those back-stabbing excuses for ponies! They didn't create true friendship, or true harmony! I DID!
  Truth: KEE KEE KEE KEE KEE KEE KEE KU KU KU KU KU KU KU HUR HUR HUR HUR HUR HUR!
  Starlight: Shut up! Stop laughing at me! Why do you laugh at my flawless logic!?
  Truth: Kee kee kee ku ku ku hur hur hur! I laugh because I have never witnessed such a poor attempt to hide one's lies in all my life! Kee kee kee ku ku ku hur hur!
  Starlight: Wha-what!?
  Truth: You wanted to give those ponies freedom? From what? Themselves? Gru dova suva, no naak grul! Your 'perfect society' is a civilization built upon deceit and lies! The very sins YOU claim cutie marks to represent! Never was there another such as you more blind to the irony of their so-called cause! You sought to take away the 'evil' through acts of your own evil! You would build a world where nopony was truly alive and free, just mindless puppets whose lives and fates were strung to your hooves, to do with as you pleased! Sentient thinking animals reduced to nothing more than toys to play with, simple minds to fill to the brim with empty promises!
  Starlight Glimmer: B-but-!
  Truth: And you speak of these cutie marks as bringing nothing but pain and misery? Then why, oh 'wise' and 'all-knowing' Starlight Glimmer, would you hold on tightly to your own cutie mark? Why, in all of creation would you, the savior to those poor souls who wandered the earth without feeling of purpose and acceptance, wish to remain branded with a symbol she deemed a mark of shame? If all cutie marks are nothing but a symbol of evil, then what did that make you, hmm? There were some who ventured into my mountain before, who called me a monster. But looking at you, and that horrendous evil mark! Why, you must be even more vile and despicable than I! Perhaps I should be the one to cower and shiver in your presence! Kee kee kee kee kee kee ku ku ku hur hur hur! Oh please, Starlight Glimmer, whose mark makes the Devil himself seem a jolly fellow! Oh please, do not hurt me! KEE KEE KEE KEE KEE KU KU KU HUR!
  Starlight Glimmer: Sh... shut... it's not, I mean, I... I...
  Truth: But the best part of all of this? You actually believe that YOU created something close to the concept of harmony and friendship? Your infallible order rested upon making ponies believe they weren't special! That friendship stemmed from being part of a group of mindless creatures incapable of thinking for themselves! Unable to have dreams and aspirations in life and taking a chance to fulfill those ambitions! You actually believed that all ponies would be better off living a dull and bland existence, where they grew into old wrinkly stallions and mares who looked back on the life they lived, and found no beauty, no wonderful cherishing memory to take reflect upon as they counted down the final seconds of their life in this world? Even a prison cell offers more of life and freedom than what your 'perfect world' would promise!
  Starlight Glimmer: St... stop... it... please...!
  Truth: Why, whatever is the matter, my dear Starlight Glimmer? Does the truth behind your philosophy hurt you? But you seemed so blood-bound to your ideals not so long ago? Are you... (gasp) ...are you starting to doubt your own ideals? The near-biblical true way of life that you so persistently forced upon others? Tsk tsk tsk, Starlight Glimmer. If you cannot even defend your beliefs, then your cause has been but a waste of time. For yourself, and for those poor souls who you deceived with your terrible lies and false dreams.
  Starlight Glimmer: I... I only... w-wanted...
  Truth: Yes, I know. You wanted a world where only YOU were the only important pony alive. Where words like 'special' and 'talented' and 'amazing' only described yourself and not anypony else. You wanted to create a world where everypony entered the world, lived their lives, and then died having never accomplished anything in their time on this earth, because they would never have had a special talent to give them purpose in life. To give them something to dream about and work hard to fulfill, knowing that even if they don't succeed they can at least live on with the knowledge that they took a dare instead of wandering around with hideous false smiles plastered on their faces, wasting away inside until something akin to an empty colorless void remained.
  Maybe cutie marks are evil then, Starlight Glimmer. Because yours certainly reeks of sin. Grell dor no kuravas. How can you possibly return to the world outside my mountains, armed with the truth you've learned here? That you're a monster worse than anything Equestria has or will face for years to come?
• Parting Words:
  • In the very first chapter, Twilight delivers one to Princess Celestia for all of the times that she had left her in the dark through continuous testing and abusing the "With-A-Herring card" by putting limits on what her student is supposed to do in them (most of which involves trying to SAVE THE WORLD):
    Twilight Sparkle: Tell me what. The buck. Is going on.
    Princess Celestia: (Stammering) What do you – I've told you – but I – everything you need to know –
    Twilight Sparkle: Buffalo brownies! All the way back to Nightmare Moon, you've been treating me like a mushroom; keeping me in the dark and feeding me loads of horseapples! "Dear Twilight, get your nose out of those musty old books and go schedule a party... it's not like Night Eternal is about to fall or anything..."
    Princess Celestia: I didn't tell you about Nightmare Moon because if I had, the plan would have unraveled. You had to make friends – real friends – for the Elements to work...
    Twilight Sparkle: You think maybe the time to start on that might've been a little sooner than the night before her return?! And never mind that – a few heads-up notes someplace might have been appreciated! "If you are reading this, Twilight, my demigod sister has returned from the moon, she can be defeated with the Elements of Harmony, here's a map!" "Dear Twilight, that ugly statue in the garden is an evil avatar of Chaos, be careful, don't let him reverse your brain! Here are a few dozen armed guards for when you face down a mad demigod of chaos!" "Hey Twilight, guess what, my niece is marrying your brother! But be on your guard, we've been threatened by the Changeling Kingdom!" "Twilight, dragons can grow really really fast, keep an eye on Spike!" "Oh by the way, Twilight, my pet bird is a phoenix, no need to worry if it looks sick or bursts into flame!" And now this time it's "Dear Twilight, the Crystal Kingdom, previously ruled by an evil unicorn, has reappeared after a thousand years, it has a curse on it, go save it!" What crystal kingdom? What curse? Where's the evil leader, and how in Equestria am I supposed to save it? I could get more information off the back of a hoofball bubblegum card!
    Princess Celestia: [Using the Royal Canterlot Voice] You have been told all you need to know! I told you, this was to be a test –
    Twilight Sparkle: A test?! The fate of an entire kingdom at stake, and you want to make it a TEST?! All that tells me is that you already know all the answers, and precisely how to fix this, and you just aren’t telling me! I don't care what it is you're "testing" me for. Forget it, I don't care! The welfare of other ponies is supposed to come first for a ruler, no matter what. So either tell me everything I need to know, or find somepony else to do this, because I'm not going to imperil hundreds or even thousands of innocent ponies trying to get a gold sticker from you on a TEST!
  • Later, Applejack tries to blame the Cutie Mark Crusaders for how much they've been bullied, claiming that she had no way of knowing what was happening because they didn't tell her. Sweetie Belle innocently agrees with her before proceeding to point out how ample evidence of the problem was right before her eyes; she, like so many other ponies, was simply ignoring what was going on:
    Applejack: ...Now y'see, Applebloom? If'n you had been honest right from the beginning and told me 'r Big Macintosh 'r Granny Smith that Babs was bullying y'all, we coulda fixed all this and you woulda been friends right from the start!
    Applebloom: (sarcastically) Yeah. That coulda worked.
    Applejack: (scowling) Now, I can't say I care for that tone, missy...
    Applebloom: Well dog-gone it, Applejack, why in tarnation was I supposed to think this time would be any different?
    Applejack: This time?
    (All three Cutie Mark Crusaders stare at her in disbelief)
    Scootaloo: Are you kidding? Don't you remember why we all became Cutie Mark Crusaders in the first place? (pointing over to Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon pulling themselves from a mud puddle) Shoot, don't you remember what happened five minutes ago? Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon have been bullying Applebloom and the rest of us just like that for years!
    Applejack: Ain't we just gone over this? I cain't help y'all if you don't tell me what's going on...
    Sweetie Belle: She's right, guys. I mean, Applebloom, you can't blame her for not knowing what happens to you at school...
    Applejack: That's right.
    Sweetie Belle: Or in town...
    Applejack: Er...
    Sweetie Belle: Or at Sugarcube Corner...
    Applejack: Um...
    Sweetie Belle: I mean, she didn't even notice it when Babs smashed our first parade float, or threw us all out of our own clubhouse, or how she was making you sleep in the floor right in your own house! If she didn't notice that, how would she ever notice Diamond Tiara teasing you and making fun of you and coming out to the farm to laugh at you for months and months and...
    Scootaloo: She was right there at the cuteceañera.
    Sweetie Belle: Well yeah, but so were a bunch of other grownups, and none of them remembered either. Why shouldn't she not notice something happening right under her nose?
    (after recapping several of the ways they were bullied)
    Applejack: Applebloom, why... why didn't you ever tell me all this was going on?
    Applebloom: Ah did! You just kept tellin' me t' never mind about it and 'just ignore it', an' when Ah'd tell you Ah was bein' made fun of for bein' a blank flank, you'd go 'oh your cutie mark will come in'... like that woulda ever made Diamond Tiara shut up...
  • The sequel, The Great Alicorn Hunt, drops a few as well:
    • Chapters 15 and 16 have a back and forth of this: The latter half of chapter 15 involves Spitfire chewing out Rainbow Dash because she thinks Dash didn't "earn" her position as a Firebolt or princess. Chapter 16 swings the other direction with Dash reminding Spitfire that all the deeds she had done, including her work with the Elements of Harmony and her Sonic Rainbooms, as well as saving Spitfire's life, were all based on her own merit while every time the Wonderbolts have been called to do anything more than put on a stunt show, they'd failed spectacularly.
    • In Chapter 29, Celestia gives one to Sheriff Brass. Starting with the fact that his ongoing pony-hunt against Trixie basically means that he hasn't set hoof in the territory he's supposed to be responsible for in over a year and working up from there.
    • Chapter 48 is practically vacuum-packed with these. Most of them are directed at Mayor Fussbudget and the officers he sent to perform a totally unjustified raid and mass arrest on the Nobody's Fools, but Bananas Foster gives a hilariously unhinged one to his family for trying to force him into a career he truly hates.
    • Chapter 49 features Foster's grandfather Banana Supreme giving his wife Banana Liqueur one for meddling in the affairs of the family, saying that he built his business empire so his family could be happy, not forced into business against their will. He gives a shorter one to his son Banana Smoothie for thinking that Foster wasted his tuition money by dropping out of college.
    • Chapter 51 has three of them. Two are delivered by Rainbow Dash, to the two Crownbreakers about to go on trial for wrecking the Thunderdome and to the Alicorn Academy faculty/staff who have wasted huge amounts of royal funds. Mach One delivers one to Mayor Fussbudget for his willingness to do anything he had to in order to keep his grip on political power.
• The Pieces Lie Where They Fell: Wind Breaker, Night Blade and Xvital are all on the receiving end of these over the course of chapter 30.
• In the Round Robin Fic Ponies and Dragons:
  • Chrysalis in one segment has banned "King of Manehatten" (a popular in-universe board game) from her Hive due to one of its Kaiju characters being a hornet-like Changeling Queen—i.e., not her; something she finds personally offensive since SHE isn't held up as a monster like she wants. Chrysalis soon gets a visit from Queen Supia, a titanic Changeling Queen resembling a Japanese giant hornet, and Supia is not amused with Chrysalis' behavior:
    Queen Supia: [her voice a demonic, buzzing hiss] ...And then I learned of your tantrum over the game. Sending some of your soldiers to harass the poor developers just for NOT making YOU their monster? Do you even KNOW size-shifting spells? Have YOU ever caused a tsunami with just the force of your wings? Have YOU ever crushed a mad daimyo's army LITERALLY underhoof?" [Licks at her mandibles] Do YOU know what kappas taste like when you swallow them whole by the dozens?!
  • Chrysalis immediately agrees to revoke the ban, and is left with a paralyzing phobia of anything wasp-like.
  • Chrysalis later gets one of her own towards Starlight Glimmer, pointing out how naive she's being for both considering Chrysalis redeemable and considering her evil self even close to Chrysalis's level (considering Chrysalis has destroyed countries).
• In the Dark World arc of the Pony POV Series, Twilight lays down one on Angry Pie, killing her over and over^note she regenerates every time due to her Element of Chaos while verbally tearing her apart for murdering countless ponies for the crime of laughing, turning her foals into killers like her, and trying to kill her former friends when they tried to redeem her.
  Twilight: (kills Angry Pie, who regenerates) SO TELL ME! DO YOU HEAR ANY OF US LAUGHING, ANGRY PIE?! DO YOU!? DO YOU THINK WHAT FLUTTERCRUEL'S DONE TO OTHERS IS FUNNY? You whine and say you're hurt?! How many have you hurt?! HOW MANY DID YOU HELP CRUEL HURT?! HOW OFTEN DID YOU JUST STAND BY WATCHING APATHETICALLY AS SHE LAUGHED AT THEM!? How many CRIED BEGGING FOR HELP!? GIVE ME A NUMBER, YOU FILTHY HYPOCRITE! (vaporizes her with a fireball) How does it feel to have your hypocrisy deconstructed?! The worst monsters in history still had families, friends. Fluttercruel claimed to love her father. He acts like he loves her! Does that exonerate you all from the countless lives you've ended in needlessly brutal ways?!
  The Voice/Nightmare Eclipse: Twilight! You're finally getting it!
  Twilight: [blows up Angry Pie] You've been kind to your children, but butchered other foals, mothers, and fathers. Innocent families. How many children died cursing you name after you killed their parents? You're not a mother! You're just Discord's butcher. You say no one but your foals care about you?! So all the time I just wasted trying to coax you back from the dark side and repair our broken bonds, the spite I endured from you, the nonstop attacks you heaped on me while I fought my hardest... No. Not just me, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US HERE!!!! That counts for nothing?! [kills her again, while her friends watch in horror] Pop quiz, Miss Pie: WHAT do you value most? How do you remember the past? Why do you attack those who will never pose a threat to your foals or laugh at you? Do you know or care what Discord will want from you later?!
  Angry Pie: I... I... I...
  Twilight: Ha ha ha ha ha! Hilarious answer, class clown, but WRONG! Zero percent! F-minus! Flunked out, you meat-headed dunce! (crushes her with a gravity spell) You say you want to kill the past! But you're the one who wants to see your foals alive again! The ones you brainwashed into being merciless killing machines!
  Angry Pie: I... I never brainwash- (Twilight incinerates her)
  Twilight: Discord's brainwashing was magical, yours was mundane!
  Angry Pie: I never... forced ... any of...
  Twilight: Never forced?! Hah! I admit, I really wasn't paying proper attention during my 'Twilight Tragedy' days, so I'll have to imagine myself in one of your adopted foals' horseshoes. Of COURSE I'd've been in lockstep with everything you said! Knowing YOU, I'd've been too scared to SMILE, let alone perform any simple act of childish disobedience! Where could I have ever run away, from a bloodthirsty bloodhound like you?! Every day with YOU as a caretaker would be like living in a house with land mines in it!
  Angry Pie: (screaming) LIAR!
  Twilight: There's no kind way for me to say this, Angry Pie: you're going to Pony Hell. This very moment; I end your wretched existence. Today you begin paying for a millennium of murderous tantrums, for molding innocent youngsters into thugs, and for not even TRYING to atone when your friends reached out to you. If Pony Hell doesn't exist for a truly unrepentant monster like you, IT DOESN'T EXIST AT ALL. And that would simply be the worst injustice imaginable, wouldn't it?
  The Voice/Nightmare Eclipse: Yes. Exactly, Twilight. It would be. The final injustice. If Hell does not exist, it must be made. Say goodnight and welcome to purgatory! HehehehehhehehHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
  Twilight: (begins to conjure her Destruction spell to finish off Angry Pie for good) You helped Discord use this spell on Cadence! Now you can enjoy it!
  • Sparkler gives one to her maternal grandmother, Dancing Hooves, laying out what a terrible mother she's been to Derpy (Sparkler's own mother). She points out that even though Dancing never thought Derpy was capable of anything due to her disability, she's made her own path in life and been a wonderful mother to her daughters, which makes Dancing miserable because she can't accept that the daughter she hated has grown up to achieve great things. It hits so hard that Dancing actually breaks down crying at the end of it.
    Sparkler: Listen to me, grandmother, and listen good. I know you tried to MURDER your own daughter because you thought she was ‘challenged’. I think deep down inside, mom knows it too, and is just too nice to accept it.
    Dancing: [looking completely shocked] I...I thought I was doing it for her own good! I thought she had no future!
    Sparkler: No future, huh? Well look at the future she actually GOT. She just got invited to Canterlot to be honored by Princess Luna herself. She’s been employee of the month at the post office for as long as I can remember. She’s been the best mother to me and my sister a pony could ask for. And she’s HAPPY! While you’re miserable. Yeah, I said it, you think I can’t tell? Every GOOD thing mom has going for her is like a knife through your heart, isn’t it? To know she’s a better mother and a better PONY than you’ll ever be?
    Dancing: BUT IT WAS ALL I KNEW AT THE TIME!
    Sparkler: And all she knew when I was a foal was I was stubborn, disrespectful, and thought she was embarrassing, but did she try to throw me away just because I MIGHT become a delinquent?...You know, thinking about it, I’m going to thank you. For showing me what a fool I used to be. I used to be embarrassed of mom, I moved to Canterlot to get away from Ponyville and her... and looking at you, at the bitter, miserable old nag you’ve become, I realize what a moron I actually was. I was a worse daughter than she ever was to you, and all she’s ever done is love me with all her heart and do whatever she could to make me happy.
    After everything you’ve done to her, all the pain you’ve put her through, all the love you should’ve given her and didn’t, and she doesn’t even know you tried to kill her. She’s just too nice a pony for that thought to cross her mind. She still wanted you there to see her honored by Luna, not to rub it in your face, not to brag, but so once in her life, she knew you were proud of her. Personally, if I were her, I’d have just told you to go straight to Pony Hell...Actually, you’re already there, aren’t you? I hope you enjoy it.
  • As a young Concept, Celestia witnesses the three pony tribes of Equus being torn apart by their hate for each other, and asks Entropy for help in stopping them. Entropy gives her command of the Windigos, but because of their Literal Genie nature, when Celestia commands them to "end hatred among ponies", they start an Endless Winter with the goal of wiping out all ponykind (because hatred can't exist if there are no ponies alive to hate each other). Furious, Celestia blames Entropy, assuming that she was behind the Windigos bringing death to Equus, and this happens:
    Celestia: WHAT DID YOU DO TO THE REFLECTIONS? THEY'RE BRINGING DEATH TO THE WORLD! NOT SALVATION! IS THIS YOUR IDEA OF A JOKE?! WHAT OTHER ORDERS DID YOU GIVE THEM?
    Entropy: [lowering her voice] I gave them only one order. To obey all that you commanded and to follow through without failure.
    Celestia: YOU'RE LYING!
    Entropy: I DO NOT LIE. AN ALICORN STANDS BEFORE ME WITH THE FOOLISHNESS OF A MORTAL BLAMING A HIGHER BEING FOR THEIR OWN FAILURES.
    Celestia: LIAR! WHOSE REALLY RESPONSIBLE! WHO'S BEHIND THIS? Discord? Havoc? Luna?
    Entropy: (laughs) YOU WILL BE SHOWN. [summons a circle of mirrors that surround Celestia] Behold, the one who brought a frozen end to the world you love so dear.
    Celestia: No.
    Entropy: YES. THIS IS THE ONE TO BLAME. NEVER HAVE I SEEN SO FOOLISH A CREATURE IN MY REIGN.
    I COMMANDED HER REFLECTIONS TO ONLY OBEY HER COMMANDS. AND SO THEY DID ACROSS THE LANDS.
    NO MORE AND NO LESS. IN HER IGNORANCE AND IMMATURITY SHE GAVE THEM A COMMAND TO END ALL HATRED. BUT HATRED MY DEAR IS BORN OF DIFFERENCES. IT IS BORN OF CHOICES. IT IS BORN OF THE ABILITY TO FEEL. THE ABILITY TO FEEL AND EXPRESS HATRED IS BORN OF LIFE! AND THERE ARE THOSE EVEN AMONG YOUR OWN KIND WHO BELIEVE IT IS NOT A SIN TO HATE THAT WHICH IS EVIL!
    YOU DID NOT ASK FOR THEM TO MAKE IT SO THEY DID NOT NEED TO HATE OR FIGHT. NOR A WORLD WHERE THEY WOULD NOT HAVE TO. NOR TO MAKE PONIES BETTER THAN HATRED.
    YOU TOLD THEM TO MAKE IT AS IF HATE HAD NEVER EXISTED ON THAT WORLD AND TO BE IMPOSSIBLE TO RISE AGAIN.
    WHAT THEY DO IS NOT THE EASY WAY TO OBEY YOUR COMMAND. IT IS THE ONLY WAY.
    I TOLD YOU THEY WOULD FOLLOW ANY COMMAND WITHOUT REST UNTIL IT WAS FULFILLED.
    YOU ASSUMED THEY WERE LIKE MY OFFSPRING, BUT THEY ARE NOTHINGNESS INCARNATE, BORN FROM MY BEING, WAITING FOR SOMETHING TO GIVE THEM ANYTHING TO CONNECT TO AT ALL, THEN CARRY IT OUT. THEY HAD NO FREEWILL OUTSIDE WHAT YOU COMMANDED THEM.
    YOU WISH TO SEE WHO HAS BROUGHT THE FROZEN DEATH TO THE WORLD YOU LOVE? LOOK NO FURTHER THAN IN MY MIRRORS. MY LITTLE ALICORN.
    THIS IS THE WORLD YOUR CHOICES HAVE MADE YOU CANNOT DENY!
    [Celestia, finally realizing the full impact of her actions, curls up and cries]
    Entropy: NOT EVEN MY CHILDREN HAD EVER MADE ME LAUGH. SO ENTROPY SHALL GRANT YOU A GIFT. [folds up the mirrors] TAKE THIS SO YOU MAY REFLECT ON YOUR FOALISHNESS FOREVER.
• The Powers of Harmony: During their Wizard Duel, Trixie tries to invoke Sympathy for the Devil and justify herself by telling Twilight that ponies of noble birth (like her) have looked down on her for her entire life. Twilight isn't impressed.
  "So a few ponies making fun of you... gives you the right to be mean and nasty... to everypony else?! That's quite possibly the stupidest thing... I've ever heard. I never wanted special treatment... I wanted to be left alone with my studies... and my friends. You've no right to judge me... any more than anypony else... has the right to judge you! Maybe... instead of projecting your problems onto others... you should practice what you preach!"
• The Rise of Darth Vulcan: Vulcan unleashes a nasty one on Luna when she decides to rough him up. Despite Vulcan being chained to a wall and imprisoned, Luna is the one who comes out more rattled.
  Luna: My sister is too kind and soft for her own good. She would parlay with thee, let thee prattle on. I have no such compunctions. Thou hast brought evil upon our ponies, and thou shalt answer us humbly and swiftly, and give us all the truth we ask; or feel our wrath!
  [Vulcan laughs]
  Luna: Wh-what art thou laughing at?
  Vulcan: You. So Celestia sent you in to play 'bad cop,' did she?
  Luna: Bad.. cop?
  Vulcan: It means she plays nice, then you get to come in and play all mean and hard... and do the dirty work for her. Like always.
  Luna: Watch thy tongue, creature. I care not for what thou art implying.
  Vulcan: And what am I implying? The truth? Things get nasty, she leaves, you come in to rough me up. Pardon me for trusting the evidence of my own eyes.
  Luna: Celestia, did not need to ASK me to put hoof, horn or wing to thee, wretch. I would have done the same on mine own.
  Vulcan: If she let you.
  Luna: Thou shalt show respect, prisoner. [shoves horn at his face]
  Vulcan: Celestia already did the horn-in-your-face thing. She did it better, too. Forget it. I don't speak to Celestia's underling.
  Luna: I AM NOPONY'S UNDERLING!
  Vulcan: Oh get over yourself. She rules the sun, the thing that keeps everything on the planet ALIVE. You rule the moon— a fricking night light. You were so unimportant that she did your job and hers for a thousand years without help.
  Luna: [Hesitant] My sister and I share the throne. I rule with her...
  Vulcan: Rule with her? You can't even match her. You tried to stand up for yourself and she spanked your fanny and sent you to your room, and only let you back out when you promised to be a good little filly and obey her. The only reason you're a princess at all is with her permission. And she could take that away any time she wanted. Look at this place. Hell, she built Canterlot while you were gone. It's ALL hers! This is HER castle, HER kingdom, and it has been for a thousand years! You're just the unemployed kid sister she lets sleep on the sofa—
  Luna: SILENCE! [Zaps him]
  Vulcan: Whatsamatter, honey? Truth hurt? Oh hey, y'not c'mpletely useless, after all... she lets you do all the stuff that would make her look bad. She gets to be the pretty princess everyone loves... an'... an' you get to skulk around inna dark wi' your batponies, scarin' the naughty ponies straight for her. Thousan' years an nuthin's changed, hazzit?
  • Twilight gives one to the townsponies of Cirrus and Hilltop, after learning of their acts of cruelty and the felonies they committed.
• In Round Two, Princess Celestia confronts Queen Chrysalis in her hive, to get Chrysalis' terms of surrender. When Chrysalis tries to give a Breaking Speech, Celestia responds with one of these:
  Princess Celestia: Well, I am a bit older than you, I think, so let me educate you on some simple truths. You think that control equals power. True power is something far more wonderful. You were defeated by something that you don’t--and never will--understand: love. You feed upon it, but you don’t feel it, do you? That’s why you don’t understand how you were driven from MY home. The pure love that Shining Armor and Cadence shared was something so alien to you that even your own vampiric power couldn’t handle it. It was love that defeated you, Chrysalis.
  • She gives a second one after leaving Chrysalis battered and broken at her hooves after Chrysalis decided to fight her.
    Celestia: You beat me because Shining Armor’s love is that pure. That true. And you can never have that. I saw your eyes when our first battle began. You thought you were going to lose. You knew my power then, and you understand that power now. All of these subjects, and none of them care for you at all. You rule out of fear, Chrysalis. I rule out of love. I would never let my subjects come to harm. They love me, and the very least I can do is hope to love them half as much in return.
    Chrysalis: You won’t get out of here alive. Do you really think my minions won’t take you down? How can you think that they won’t stop you?
    Celestia: The real question is: how do you think that they will? Pray you don’t see me again, Chrysalis. [Leaves as the drones give her a very wide berth out of fear]
• Scootaloo's Chaotic Family takes the cake for Blueblood sucks speeches. It helps that the speech is given by Discord himself, who is well and truly disgusted with the prince.
  Discord: You. Are. Scum. Garbage. Filth. Flea-ridden manure. The only thing you’ll ever be 'top' of is a Trash. Heap.
  Blueblood: I am a prince –
  Discord: You are nothing but an ITCH on Celestia’s DOUBLE-WIDE FLANK!!! And the only reason she hasn’t taken the half a second she’d need from her schedule to SCRATCH YOU is because the impropriety would last longer THAN THE ITCH ITSELF!!! Try to understand me, you incredible dolt. I’ve just given you a quarter of my power. Not all of it; that never ends well. But it’s still enough to rival Princess Celestia. Be a hero. Be a villain. Be SOMETHING!! Make a mark, any mark, on Equestria. Sow chaos, sow order, sow anything. You’re a prince; you have looks, wealth, connections, an improbably well-built body for a pony who lazes as much as you do, a special talent for narcissism, the spirit of the sun for a godmother grandmother, and now you have more raw magical power then any unicorn has ever had. You have so much potential. AND YOU’RE SQUANDERING IT IN FRONT OF A MIRROR!!! You have twenty four hours to make a mark on Equestria. That’s twenty three more hours than any other pony would need, so I’m sure a ‘prince’ like yourself can handle it.
• The fancomic A Somber Meeting involves King Sombra attempting to win over Twilight Sparkle with a "Not So Different" Remark, but Twilight reveals she's too Genre Savvy for that and angrily tells him off. Sadly, he still gets the last laugh.
  Sombra: It's funny, we're not so different, you and I. We both-
  Twilight: Stop RIGHT THERE, Sombra!
  Sombra: What?
  Twilight: I've heard this bit a hundred times in a hundred stories! You're gonna say we're "not so different", rattle off a bunch of traits you think we share, and try to convince me to join your side! Well let me tell you, "Your Highness": we are nothing alike! I earned my friends, my wings, and my crown! You took your throne by force and enslaved other ponies for your own selfish gain! I got to where I am through love and friendship! You tried to get there through fear and violence, and you were defeated for it! Twice! You are not my equal. You're not even a real king. You're just a cliched bad guy straight out of a mediocre fantasy book.
• Fluttershy delivers a stunning one in Sophistication and Betrayal, before throwing Cashmere outside onto the streets.
  Fluttershy: I have sat here and listened to you belittle my friends, insult their business, and doubt their resolve. And for what?! So you can get some sick thrill from it?! You want to know what Rarity's accomplished? I'll tell you. She faced down a dragon. She attacked a manticore. She banished an evil goddess and defeated the very embodiment of chaos and disharmony. She saved the life of a complete stranger. She committed herself to him because she cared about him. She risked life and limb, time and again, not because she had to, but because she wanted to! Because she has people and ponies who care about her, and she cares about them! She has done more in a few years than you will ever accomplish in your entire, selfish life! You are nothing compared to her!
• A Stitch in Time has this exchange between Twilight and her jerkass of a blind date Algae Bloom, in reference to Algae's earlier remark about how her pet store job mostly consists of cleaning "slimy plants" out of the tanks. Twilight decides she's had enough after coming back from the bathroom and finding another drink already waiting for her.
  Twilight: Cyanobacteria.
  Algae Bloom: What? Is that some kind of nerd code word?
  Twilight: What you scoop out of the fish tanks. They aren’t plants, they’re cyanobacteria. You know, pond scum.
  Algae Bloom: Oh. So what? What’s the difference?
  Twilight: Proper classification is important, and those are two completely different things. Just because you don’t appreciate them doesn’t mean they aren’t good and important things. They provide something like twenty or thirty percent of Equestria’s oxygen, and they’re essential to the nitrogen cycle too. None of us would even exist without them.
  Algae Bloom: Well to me they’re just squicky, worthless ooze.
  Twilight: They survive almost anywhere, you know. From salty ocean water to rocky desert soil. You can try to kill them over and over again but they just always seem to bounce back. I just wanted you to know so that if some other mare in the future thinks it’s clever to tell you that you’re pond scum because you’ve treated her the way you’re treating me, it’s not as much of an insult as you think. If anything, it’s an insult to the cyanobacteria. Frankly, you aren’t worth cyanobacteria’s attention.
  Algae Bloom: It's a good thing you're a hot piece of flank, because I don't know how anypony could put up with how weird you are if you weren't. Seriously, you should just shut up and have a few more drinks.
  Twilight: Yes, I'm weird. I say and do crazy things sometimes. Things nopony understands, not even me. But some ponies, not horrible little stupid ones like you, mind, some ponies try. They don't know me, but they want to and they see that all those weird things are actually pretty wonderful. They look past how messed up I am. I thought I had to push one of them away because she doesn't see what I'm really like, but I was wrong.
  Algae Bloom: Where are you going now?
  Twilight: To get her back. Oh, and by the way? It's not as if it ever would have been fine, exactly, but you picked the worst possible time to try to get me liquored up so you could take me to bed. I happen to just have adopted a zero tolerance policy for mares who try to warp others' minds for their own pleasure, and if I ever hear from anypony that you've been getting fillies drunk and taking advantage of them they will never find your body.
  Algae Bloom: Wow, I didn't realize you were going to turn into such a psycho bitch over a drink.
  Twilight: Don't worry, it takes more than that to bring out my worst. A lot more. You don't even meet the detection threshold to register as something bad happening to me. If you ever do, you'll know. Briefly.
• In the webcomic series Trixie Vs, Trixie gets an ear full, after she finally drives The Hearts Warming Ghost who was trying to help her too far. (It Makes Sense in Context)
  Ghost: You are by far the most arrogant, obnoxious, contemptible, and oblivious pony that I have ever had the displeasure of having met in all my years...
  Trixie: Trixie...
  Ghost: Don’t interrupt me. Now as I was saying... You're without any empathy, tact, humility...
  [Later, back at Trixie's wagon.]
  Ghost: Your soul is an appalling dump heap, overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of rubbish imaginable.
  [Several hours later]
  Ghost: ...And with that, my time here is done. But next year, I will go all out to finally get this done.
  • Not that this has the slightest effect on her.
• In The Umbra King, Rarity gives one to Sombra after rejecting his offer. He ends up agreeing with her, and dies saving everyone.
  Rarity: Sombra... You’re a coward.
  Sombra: What was that? [he hissed, taking several steps closer]
  Rarity: I said: you’re a coward. You’re afraid. You’re afraid of trying to protect something... and failing. That’s why you leaned on the dark magic of the Nightmare Gem... That’s why you didn’t come to protect me or Sweetie Belle when we needed you most. That’s why you lost your cutie mark... You’re afraid.
  Sombra: Watch your mouth. [takes another step closer] If you truly wanted to save your sister you would take my offer. You know I can remove you both from this situation.
  Rarity: I have a duty to my sister, but I also have a duty to all of Ponyville! I'm... I'm one of the ruling ponies... I'm the element of generosity... and I would give up anything for my friends... Even my life. I won't give up on my destiny just because I'm afraid I'll fail. Unlike you.
• Princess Celestia gives a short yet brutal one to her former student Breaking Dawn in Vengeance of Dawn. This is especially hard for her to experience as she loves Celestia just as much as Twilight does, which motivated her to do all of her horrible deeds in the first place trying to get back into her teacher's good graces.
  Celestia: You are condemned entirely for faults your own, Dawn. As a student you were vain, lazy, disrespectful to your professors and disdainful of your fellow students. And now, as a grown mare, you have grown vicious and cruel. What you did to Cadance^note spiked her drink with an amnesia poison that has no known cure, whatever your intentions to reverse it, whatever your motives, your actions these past weeks have been absolutely unforgivable. You have disappointed me in ways I never believed possible, Dawn. As much as I regret my failure to better help the filly that you were, the mare that filly has grown up to become disgusts me.
  • Despite this, Dawn still doesn't get it. It takes the Element of Magic itself telling her she sucks for her to finally get it.
    Element of Magic: [as the Magic Crown electrifies Breaking Dawn with lightning after she puts it on] So you are the pony who sought to gain the powers of Harmony? Arrogant fool, did you truly think yourself worthy?
    Breaking Dawn: [in agonizing pain] Yes...
    Element of Magic: Then you are as stupid as you are over-proud. One such as you, who creeps and crawls and strikes from the shadows, will never be fit to embody Harmony.
    Breaking Dawn: But, you called out to me, I heard you singing...
    Element of Magic: A siren song, to lure those who would seek me out of the desire for power or fame. My true bearer hears nothing from me, for I am nothing to her but a means to protect that which is truly precious.
    Breaking Dawn: [as the Magic Crown begins to transform her into a demon] What's happening to me?
    Element of Magic: You are being punished for your hubris. You will wear your soul upon the outside now.
    Breaking Dawn: No, please. I was supposed to be great, known throughout the land.
    Element of Magic: You will be. As a cautionary tale.
    Hard Candy: [trying to pull the crown off Dawn's head, despite getting shocked with lightning when she tries] Get it off her, get it off!
    Razor Wind: [also trying] It won't come, it's like it's fused to her head or something!
    Cherry Blossom: [hugging Dawn] Please, Dawny, please stop. Come back to us. You don't have to hurt. You don't have to suffer alone because we're all here.
    Breaking Dawn: [silently thinking] Is this hurting them?
    Element of Magic: Only when they touch you.
    Breaking Dawn: Do whatever you like to me, but you can't hurt them, they don't deserve it.
    Element of Magic: Then make them let go.
    Breaking Dawn: [out loud] Let go. Get away.
    Razor Wind: [still trying to pull the crown off] No can do, sunshine. I'm coming away with this crown or not at all.
    Laurel: You can't leave us, Dawny, we need you. You make us more than what we are, you always did.
    Hard Candy: We already lost you once. We can't lose you again.
    Hardy Bloom: Please, Dawn, if our friendship means as much to you as it does to us...
    [the lightning disappears and Dawn's transformation reverses]
    Element of Magic: Your friends are worthier than you yourself. Be thankful for them.
• At the end of What Have You Done, the Mane 5 (sans Twilight) get this from their own Elements of Harmony, stating that how they treated Twilight means they are no longer worthy as bearers. Unfortunately(?), only the part from Loyalty to Rainbow Dash is given in full.
  Element of Loyalty: When you chose your homeland over your friends, you threw me away, saying you weren’t worthy, because you’d chosen one precious loyalty over another. I fault not my bearer for loving, for being loyal to many. But you cast me aside for that petty little thing. But now, you come to me? After choosing a stranger over your friend? Fame and praise over loyalty? How dare you. I reject you as my bearer.
• In Why Am I Crying?, Silver Spoon gets a horrific one from Green and Shady Daze while they beat her up, taking the opportunity to get revenge on her now that her friend, Diamond Tiara, is dead.
  Silver Spoon: P-please! Leave me alone! I’m sorry I bullied you! I’m sorry for everything I did! Just stop hurting me!
  Green Daze: Aw, look at that bro, she wants us to stop. How come you never stopped when you and your dead friend were mocking us for being babies because we were, what were those words, oh yeah, blank flanks?!
  Shady Daze: [spits on Silver Spoon] I wish that carriage killed both of you! The world is better off with Diamond Tiara dead and rotting in the ground! They should just put her in a ditch and bury it unmarked so the worms can eat her pretty little face! Nopony would care! Well, maybe you, but then again, you both are horrible ponies who deserve worse!
  Silver Spoon: I-I-I know I was... cruel, but I didn't-
  Shady Daze: Know? Know?! You know nothing! All you ever did to us "blank flanks" was make our lives miserable! You know how many fillies and colts you sent home crying? You know how many ponies hate you? You should just crawl under a rock and die! That way, you and Diamond Tiara can both be friends again in Tartarus!

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