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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 16th 2023 at 5:37:57 PM

Snoketrope Barb / Temporary Kylo from California Since: Oct, 2020 Relationship Status: Waiting for Prince Charming
Barb / Temporary Kylo
#32526: Nov 22nd 2024 at 8:38:12 PM

Can't Go Home Again

Edited by Snoketrope on Nov 22nd 2024 at 8:56:13 AM

Bow to the Prototype
jahman Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
#32527: Nov 22nd 2024 at 10:35:03 PM

Bleach: Arrancars

Loly

  • Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Loly's intensified hatred for Orihime, particularly following their healing by Orihime and Menoly, indicates that her existence as a Hollow has left her unable to grasp the essence of Orihime and what she truly symbolizes.

Bleach: Ichigo's Companions

  • Ms. Fanservice: She often chooses outfits that seem designed to highlight her curvy, busty figure, with a particular focus on her skirts, legs, chest and stockings. Even when she's dressed more modestly, like in the Las Noches uniform, her clothes still tend to be quite fitted and form-hugging.

  • Everyone Can See It: When it comes to Ichigo and Orihime, the classic Brooding Boy and Gentle Girl dynamic, nearly everyone around them—friends, bystanders, and even foes—consistently points out that they make a picture-perfect couple. Orihime certainly has deep feelings for Ichigo, but her shyness keeps her from expressing them openly. On the other hand, Ichigo often seems oblivious to her feelings, though he is fiercely protective of her whenever she's in danger. Fast forward to the epilogue set a decade later, and we find Ichigo and Orihime happily married, enjoying their life together with their son, Kazui, in what can be described as a true Babies Ever After scenario.

Edited by jahman on Nov 23rd 2024 at 6:01:51 AM

Tylerbear12 What you see is what you get, just a guy. from The Green Hills. Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
What you see is what you get, just a guy.
#32528: Nov 23rd 2024 at 12:10:16 AM

YMMV.Disney Theme Parks:

  • I Knew It!: A Muppets re-theme of Rock 'n' Roller Coaster has been a popular rumor/theory amongst the fandom for years before Disney officially announced it in November 22, 2024.

TheyChangedItNowItSucks.Disney Theme Parks:

  • Muppet fans were absolutely devastated by the news that the Monsters, Inc. land would be replacing Muppet*Vision 3D, especially since Muppet Vision 3D was the last Muppet production by Jim Henson before his death in 1990. The additional news that Rock 'n' Roller Coaster would be getting a Muppets re-theme and that Disney is looking to preserve the show in some form did help soften the blow a bit, with some hoping that Disney would simply relocate the show elsewhere in Hollywood Studios (like they did with Festival of the Lion King when Camp Minnie-Mickey was replaced by Pandora: The World of Avatar), but it doesn't make the news any less bitter.

Edited by Tylerbear12 on Nov 23rd 2024 at 9:38:39 AM

G-Editor The 47th President Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
KBoult Since: Jun, 2024
#32530: Nov 23rd 2024 at 4:46:23 AM

I am correcting some of the tropes for Quantum Entanglement.

• Angry Collar Grab: When she's being attacked by someone who she thinks is Amber (it's actually Richie) in a Ghostface costume, Tara is lifted up by the collar and shaken repeatedly, as she hasn't fought back against her assailant.

• Book Ends: The story begins with Tara being run over by a car while studying law at Blackmore University in New York and then being told that she could go back to Woodsboro to stop Amber from killing people or if she doesn't go back, she could possibly die in hospital from the injuries. At the end, she wakes up back in New York, thinking that it was all a dream until she is saved from being run over by Amber and finds out that she succeeded in stopping Amber from killing people and along with Amber herself, dying.

• Kick Them While They Are Down: While he's attacking Tara at her house, Richie (while dressed as Ghostface) kicks Tara while she's on the floor when she doesn't fight back.

• Leitmotif: "I Found" by Amber Run is a song that Amber and Tara first kissed to while dancing to it as well. The song is also heard on Tara's phone before seeing Amber's ghost warning her to run before Tara gets run over by a car.

• Love Triangle: After realising that she is in love with and then ends up dating Amber, Tara ends up in a love triangle with Richie. In the end, he gets killed by Amber and Tara and Amber remain a couple while living in New York with Sam and their friends.

• Running Over the Plot: While walking back to her apartment in New York, Tara gets run over by a car, which puts her in Limbo, where an unknown voice tells her that she can go back in time to stop Amber from killing people, which Tara agrees to do.

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#32531: Nov 23rd 2024 at 6:54:33 AM

Page 1301 @Alpinist

     Corrections 

Jackie's grandmother was the original tenant of their apartment and Jackie took over the lease when she died.

The mastermind of a four-part storyline known for his immense wealth and his cruelty.

After driving a businessman <missing text>, he has an unspecified parent grudge with to suicide, he sets out to endanger or financially ruin the man’s widow and children while also killing the pet dog of a lawyer <- no comma trying to help them.

^ After driving a businessman what? Crazy?

^ "grudge with to suicide" is not correct English, but I can't tell what you meant to write.

learning his Secret Identity (which goes poorly for him) and capturing many of his agents.

Edited by Arivne on Nov 23rd 2024 at 6:55:00 AM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#32532: Nov 23rd 2024 at 6:57:32 AM

[up] @Snoketrope

I don't see any English mistakes in that example.

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#32533: Nov 23rd 2024 at 6:59:31 AM

[up] @jahman

I can't find any English problems in those examples.

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#32534: Nov 23rd 2024 at 7:01:52 AM

[up] @Tylerbear 12

...devastated by the news that the Monsters, Inc. land would be replacing Muppet*Vision 3D, <- comma especially since...

Alpinist Since: Jul, 2023
#32535: Nov 23rd 2024 at 7:17:56 AM

Thanks

The Shadow

The Hawk and the Skull

Appear in: The Shadow, the Hawk, and the Skull
Two rival European thieves who journey to New York. The Hawk (real name Carl Tournay) is a jewel thief while the Skull (real name Giles Brenk) is an armed blackmailer of sorts. After their Heist Clash first encounter with themselves (and the intervening Shadow), they later form a short-lived Villain Team-Up against the Shadow.
  • Animal Motifs: The Hawk compares his speed, sharp eyesight, and predatory instincts to a hawk.
  • At Least I Admit It: The Hawk takes pride in embracing his identity as an outright thief rather than thinking of himself as a blackmailer like the Skull does when both are robbing people at gunpoint.
  • Calling Card: The Hawk tauntingly leaves hawk feathers at the scenes of his heists, the Skull gives the men he robs a minature ivory skull to serve as an intimidating reminder of his visit.
  • The Corruptor: The Hawk tricks innocent people, like society dates, into accompanying him on his robberies and then makes them help him escape, cover up his actions, and perhaps even aid him in the future by making them afraid of being charged as accomplices. Whenever they resist going along with this plan, he kills them.
  • Delusions of Eloquence: The Hawk's Gentleman Thief image is damaged a bit by how he misquotes works of literature and often fails to recognize the quotes his valet makes.
  • Foil: Both are ruthless, prideful thieves and gunmen, but there are stark contrasts between them. The Hawk is handsome and prefers semi-public robberies, while the Skull has a Red Right Hand face and prefers more out-of-the-way confrontations with people who won't be able to report being robbed. The Hawk is a respected socialite in his day identity and uses this to gather information for robberies, while the Skull farms out his valet to infiltrate households and watch for potential targets. The Hawk and his valet have a Bantering Baddie Buddies dynamic, while the Skull prefers for his valet to remain silent as he talks to himself (although they still get along well). The Hawk has some Delusions of Eloquence, while the Skull is better in that regard.
  • Gentleman Thief: Both are suave, sophisticated men who employ live-in servants and prefer robberies where no one dies, although they will coldly kill when things don't work out.
  • The Gunslinger: Both are fast at pulling guns and deadly shots who handle themselves well against the Shadow, to the point where he ultimately defeats them through trickery rather than a fair fight.
  • Red Right Hand: The Skull may be less cold-blooded than the Hawk, but will try to Leave No Witnesses if he ever has to kill a robbery victim and has a sallow, shrunken face that resembles a skull.
  • The Resenter: The Skull is unhappy about how more famous than him the Hawk is, although he can put aside that grudge for their alliance.
  • Stealing from Thieves: The Skull may present what he's doing as a form of blackmail, but he robs gangsters and shady businessmen of ill-gotten gains they will be afraid to report to the police and will shoot those who resist.
  • Villain Team-Up: They decide to pool their resources against the Shadow, not realizing he is manipulating them into doing so to take them both down simultaneously.

The Shadow

  • The Hydra, an audacious We Are Everywhere crime syndicate that elects two new leaders for every one the Shadow kills and arouses even more of the public than usual to be interested in stopping them, could have been a good Arc Villain for multiple books but is dispatched in one.
  • Slade Farrow's colony for rehabilitating abducted criminals not seen as Beyond Redemption had some nice story potential and could have provided nuance toward the Shadow'a quickness to kill all criminals, but it is only mentioned and never seen, and only in Farrow's last appearance at that.

@ The Canterville Ghost

  • Has a Type: In the 2021 series, Ralph Stilton seems to like charming Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak outdoorswomen, bonding with Ginny over riding and flirting with a well-dressed wedding guest who knows how to fly fish.

@ Serge Storms

  • Lethal Klutz: Scooter Escobar from Pineapple Grenade accidentally shot a rebel (who the army has a policy of ignoring so their continued presence justifies more military spending) on patrol during his army days, impulsively shredded important files to alleviate his boredom and hurt himself with a stapler on military intelligence duty prior to the book. After being transferred to Miami as an embassy spy, he blows up a powerful Arms Dealer's Ferrari with a rocket launcher he was goofing off with during a weapons buy, cuts off his own finger with a broken mirror while snorting cocaine (and then accidentally flushed it down the toilet), and eventually shoots himself in the head while showing off his new gun.
  • Nightmare Fetishist: The Coroner in Pineapple Grenade keeps giggling and speaking admiringly about the effort and ingenuity Serge showed every time he describes how the latest victim was killed.

@ ymmv Serge

  • Scooter Escobar from Pineapple Grenade may be a hedonistic Nepotism-enjoying Lethal Klutz and The Load, but he does at least try to do his job, never personally requests to get Kicked Upstairs, and seems invested (albeit still incompetent) about trying to stop a supposed plot to assassinate his President despite the President and his uncle being political enemies. This can make his anticlimactic Accidental Suicide feel a bit mean-spirited.

@ YMMV Ned declassified

  • The Comically Serious Claire Sawyer, Future Lawyer, stops appearing early into season 3 but is a particularly beloved recurring character.

@ Blitz (2024)

  • Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The scene showcasing a nightclub before it is bombed can feel a little dissonant and drawn-out.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse:
    • Ife, a brief Parental Substitute to George, Friend on the Force Jack, and Jewish little person, labor leader, and shelter organizer Mickey are two of the most frequently and fondly mentioned supporting characters in reviews.
    • Tommy, the oldest of the runaway brothers who are afraid of being separated and befriend George on the train, makes a strong impression in his couple minutes of screen time.
    • The two air raid wardens investigating thefts who George hides from in a building at risk of collapsing add a lot of tension to that scene.
  • Moral Event Horizon: Albert himself is scummy through and through from the start, but most of his cronies cross the line by gleefully mocking the deaths of the nightclub patrons they are robbing the corpses of.
@ Angel Big Bad
    Larry 

Larry Mullins

Appears in: Haunted
A young lawyer who assists Lilah in satisfying clients who have The Bluebeard tendencies with a supernatural twist.
  • Badass Bureaucrat: He prides himself at revealing little in long and procedurally correct documents and knows to use a typewriter instead of a computer when it is dangerous to leave an electronic record.
  • Break the Haughty: He starts the book smug about his prospects at the firm and imagining what new car to get and ends the book disgraced and being warned that people are watching him critically and will give him a You Have Failed Me death if he slips up again.
  • Hidden Depths: Smug Amoral Attorney he may he, but he makes small talk about trivia regarding The Monkees and their family.
  • Punch-Clock Villain: He finds their current client annoying and morally distasteful, but will still work for him without qualms for the kind of money it brings the firm.

Edited by Alpinist on Nov 24th 2024 at 1:59:26 AM

Bullman Enid Sinclair Since: Jun, 2018 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
Enid Sinclair
#32536: Nov 23rd 2024 at 10:10:00 AM

For FriendlyFandoms.Film:

  • Fans of Wicked: Part I and Gladiator II get along very well, due to both releasing on the same day, both being connected to popular films (The Wizard of Oz and Gladiator respectively), and both relying on mostly practical effects and sets instead of CGI. The fandoms have even given them multiple nicknames most notably "Glicked".

Any corrections?

Edited by Bullman on Nov 24th 2024 at 2:33:56 PM

Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup thread
Tylerbear12 What you see is what you get, just a guy. from The Green Hills. Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
What you see is what you get, just a guy.
#32537: Nov 23rd 2024 at 11:01:44 AM

Thanks, Arivne.


YMMV.Gotham By Gaslight The Kryptonian Age:

  • So Okay, It's Average: The general consensus amongst fans and critics is that it starts off relatively strong and has great ideas at its core, but that it falls into this territory after the first issue, with many criticizing the comic for its poor pacing, excessive focus on worldbuilding over the story, and overly dense and scattershot Kudzu Plot.

Literature.The Railway Series:

  • Franchise-Driven Retitling: Downplayed. The series has largely maintained its original Railway Series title to this day despite the popularity of Thomas & Friends. However, compilations of the series tend to be released under the Thomas the Tank Engine moniker instead of its original title thanks to the show.

Edited by Tylerbear12 on Nov 24th 2024 at 1:53:51 PM

animuacid The girl of the window from Astyr residence in Lilysthia's grounds Since: Jan, 2024 Relationship Status: I love you for psychological reasons
The girl of the window
#32538: Nov 23rd 2024 at 3:13:09 PM

This is for a new work page, Please Put Them On, Takamine-san:

Please Put Them On, Takamine-san (履いてください、鷹峰さん, Haite Kudasai, Takamine-san) is an Ecchi manga by Yuuichi Hiiragi. It began running in Square Enix's Monthly Gangan Joker in 2019 and it has been licensed by Yen Press.

Takane Takamine is the almost god-like Student Council President, towering over the high school's social hierarchy, while protagonist Koushi Shirota sits at the lowest ranks. One day, Shirota starts witnessing Takamine engaging in unladylike acts such as changing clothes in the sports storage room and taking off her panties in the middle of class. She notices him and reveals that it's part of her ability to undo recent events if she takes off a piece of underwear. However, the skill has the drawback of these items vanishing into thin air when it's triggered. Takamine convinces Shirota to become her "closet", starting a relationship in which he is to provide her spare undergarments.

An anime adaptation by Liden Films has been announced to air on April 2025.

Please Put Them On, Takamine-san contains the following examples:

  • Embarrassing Superpower: Each time Takamine wants to trigger her Time Rewind ability, she has to take off her bra or panties without anyone noticing, and they disappear for good.
  • Frame-Up: Shirota initially refuses to become Takamine's closet. In response, she pulls him to the floor in a very risque position and screams to get the attention of the other students. It all makes him look like a sexual offender and he's only saved from being arrested by Takamine undoing this at the last second.
  • Go-Getter Girl: Takamine strives for perfection and being number one in everything, including grades, sports, beauty and popularity. She inevitably makes minor mistakes, but she just corrects them thanks to her Time Rewind Mechanic.
  • Going Commando: Takamine usually ends up wearing no underwear under her clothes because her ability makes it disappear.
  • Potty Failure: Back in fifth grade, she finished in second place during a team relay race. The feeling of humilliation caused her to pee herself. She took off her dirty underwear and that was the first time she undid her actions with her newfound skill.
  • P.O.V. Boy, Poster Girl: The titular Takamine is an attractive School Idol who is the only character featured in all manga covers. Meanwhile, the story is told through the point of view of Shirota, an average student who gets roped into an unequal relationship with Takamine.
  • Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Shirota is unnafected by Takamine's "Eternal Virgin Road" and is able to remember the events she undoes. This is all because he saw her bare breasts.
  • This Loser Is You: Shirota is a friendless, average student who has no particular talents and is not known by anyone at school.
  • Time Rewind Mechanic: By taking off a piece of underwear, Takamine can activate the "Eternal Virgin Road" ability and undo any recent action she made.

Edited by animuacid on Nov 24th 2024 at 1:26:40 PM

FGonzalez Since: Oct, 2021
#32539: Nov 23rd 2024 at 11:19:21 PM

Hey Arivne, here are some tropes for American Dragon: Jake Long episode, The Hunted.


  • Because Destiny Says So: When he's chained up in his dragon form, Jake tries to convince Huntsgirl that she doesn't have to be like the Huntsman. However, Huntsgirl disagrees, as she believes it's her destiny to destroy magical creatures due her dragon Huntsclan birthmark.
  • You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Jake, in his dragon form, tries to convince Huntsgirl that she's not as evil as the Huntsman, but she replies she's not yet but will be soon.
  • You Look Familiar: While talking to Jake in his dragon form, Huntsgirl mentions that there's something familiar on him when she looks at his eyes. Jake later confirms it to her when he transforms back into his human form before she can destroy him.

Edited by FGonzalez on Nov 23rd 2024 at 11:19:38 AM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#32540: Nov 24th 2024 at 10:32:18 AM

[up] @Alpinist

     Corrections 

After a Heist Clash first encounter between themselves and the Shadow during a Heist Clash, <- comma they later form...

The Hawk is handsome and prefers semi-public...able to report the crimes. The...Buddies dynamic, <- comma while the Skull...

The Skull may be less cold-blooded than the Hawk, <- comma but...has a sallow, shrunken face that resembles a skull.

They decide to pool their resources against the Shadow, not realizing he is manipulating them into doing so to take them down.

...during his army days, <- comma and impulsively...he blows up a powerful Arms Dealer's Ferrari...

A young lawyer who assists Lilah...

He finds their current client annoying and morally distasteful, <- comma but will still work for him without qualms for the kind of money it brings the firm.

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#32541: Nov 24th 2024 at 10:33:58 AM

[up] @Bullman

...have even given them multiple nicknames, <- comma most notably "Glicked".

Edited by Arivne on Nov 24th 2024 at 10:34:09 AM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#32542: Nov 24th 2024 at 10:36:25 AM

[up] @Tylerbear 12

I can't find any English problems in those examples.

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#32543: Nov 24th 2024 at 10:43:38 AM

[up] @animuacid

     Corrections 

...towering over the high school's social hierarchy <- no comma while protagonist Koushi Shirota sits at the lowest ranks. One day, Shirota witnesses Takamine engaging...

...she pulls him to the floor in a very risqué position and...students. It all makes him look like a sexual offender, <- comma and...

This is all because he saw her bare breasts.

...and undo any recent action she performed.

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#32544: Nov 24th 2024 at 10:45:12 AM

[up] @F Gonzalez

Huntsgirl mentions that there's something familiar about him when...

Edited by Arivne on Nov 24th 2024 at 10:45:22 AM

animuacid The girl of the window from Astyr residence in Lilysthia's grounds Since: Jan, 2024 Relationship Status: I love you for psychological reasons
The girl of the window
#32545: Nov 24th 2024 at 11:07:42 AM

Thanks, Arivne. I'm launching the page now.

Alpinist Since: Jul, 2023
#32546: Nov 24th 2024 at 2:13:26 PM

Thanks

@ Pickett

  • Defiant to the End: In Long Range, a wounded and helpless Dallas Cates spends most of his last scene calmly saying that Joe and Nate have every reason to kill him, that he views that as the best of his bad options for the future, and that he still hates them with every fiber of his being and has no remorse for anything he has done to them or their families.

@ Betty and Veronica

  • Children On Their Birthdays has an interesting example of this where one girl is the Veronica to two different boys, each with a Betty in their life. Ms. Lily Jane Bobbit is a precious, mildly flirty tween who insists on putting on Southern Belle airs and dreams of going to Hollywood, attracting the attention of Billy-Bob and Preacher. Both boys have local Girl Next Door girls they have been cautiously courting, Janice and Cora-Mae, who are less flashy or ambitious but have Tsundere moments as they get more annoyed by the Love Dodecahedron, although they ultimately make amends after. Lily Jane leaves town to pursue her dreams.

@ Betty and Veronica Switch

  • Fear Street Sagas: A new Fear: Nicholas Fear already has a girlfriend, Rosalyn, in his old hometown, but in Shadyside, he is courted by Betsy and Ruth, the respective daughters of his landlady and employer. Both cook and Ruth is the richer of the pair, but she is more of the Betty as a brunette, clumsy, clammy-skinned, bicycle-riding, Shrinking Violet bookworm while Betsy is a blonde, flirty Genki Girl. However, Betsy turns out be a Goode descendant who wants to put a stop to being Feuding Families with the Fears, while Ruth turns out to be a homicidal killer.

@ Not-So-Harmless Villain

  • A Night Of Watching: Nazi sentry Corporal Greff is introduced as an amiable village boy who longs to get along with the Danes and find a woman who he can experience mutual, courtly love with, and finds pranks the Danes pull against the occupiers Actually Pretty Funny. Then he mechanically massacres a crowd of civilians due to a misunderstanding.

@ Angel Wolfram

  • Evil Is Not a Toy: He helps the Tremblors with their problems to get a source of muscle, but their experiences while fighting Angel on his behalf nearly motivate them to wage war on humanity.
  • Intrepid Merchant: The business interests he represents may be occult, evil, and murderous, but he still has warding spells cast on himself and then mountain-climbs down to subterranean caverns (despite how rock dust makes him cough a lot) to conduct the final steps necessary for his land purchase in the climax.
  • Know When to Fold 'Em: After the defeat of the Tremblors, he decides to just legitimately buy the land he is after, not realizing he has been Out-Gambitted into that corner from the start.
  • Non-Action Guy: Intrepid Merchant or not, Rome's contribution to the final battle is to try and kick Angel off a ledge while he is distracted, after which he backs off.

  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Larry has a wife named Kat who he still finds "awesome" after two years of marriage and says he has a hard time imagining ever wanting to kill her.

Novel Exclusive Clients

    The Tremblors 

The Tremblors (First-Warrior Priest Basalt, Maarl, Feldspaar, the Batholith, the Grounding, etc.)

Appear In: Shakedown (novel)
An ancient demon tribe living beneath the Earth. They can cause earthquakes and create new members of their race by sacrificing humans who symbolize each of the four major elements. They form an alliance with Wolfram & Hart to attack enemies of the firm, such as the Serpentene demons, in exchange for the lawyers helping the Tremblors identify new sacrifice targets.
  • The Alliance: They were once three warring tribes before banding together into one in their backstory.
  • Genius Bruiser: They are large, immensely powerful creatures who are made of of rock and have a warrior caste, but they communicate telepathically and can spend decades at a time just sitting around, coming up with complex math equations or playing games like an expanded version of tic-tac-toe.
  • Combo Platter Powers: They are super strong, can make earthquake vibrations with their hands, are telepathic, are durable due to their rock skin, and can use their thick tails as fifth limbs.
  • Dropped a Bridge on Him: Their mythology, culture, and different factions and perspectives get a lot of focus, but after just a few pages of fighting in the climax, it is heavily implied that the whole race, or at least all of the name members and a few hundred others, are wiped out when Doyle and the Serpentene turn on a giant fan and point it at them.
  • Hive Mind: Their leaders, the Grounding, are six minds linked as one.
  • Noble Demon: They will often spare people besides their targets even when those people fight them, can compliment their enemies, and feel bad about killing other demons that attack them due to their inherent nature as predators, and only truly begin considering waging war on the surface instead of just conducting the odd sacrifice after one of them suffers a Sanity Slippage from an injury and gradually uses his telepathy to spread his mindset, even doing so by force when his people resist.
  • Precursors: They believe their giant ancestors live deep beneath the Earth and will one day rise to reunite with them for a war against their enemies.
  • The Shut-In: They are fine traveling the world underground, but have extreme agoraphobia when forced into wide open spaces on the surface for long.
  • Skewed Priorities: They are motivated to kidnap people for a sacrifice will let them create a new Tremblor and increase their population, but Basalt is willing to leave behind his henchman Maarl, which will lead to their effort potentially being negated, after a fight, although he is happy when Maarl manages to escape and reunite with them.
  • The Star Scream: A long-lasting desire to one day bring war to the humans and a head injury that changes his thought process and gives him a "Eureka!" Moment about how to get around the Tremblor weaknesses makes Basalt ready to launch a coup if the others won’t listen to his ideas.
  • Theme Naming: They are named after kinds of rock, sometimes with spelling differences.
  • Weaksauce Weakness: Exposure to fast-moving wind and large amounts of air can harm or even kill them.

    Sarah and Fisca 

Sarah Clark and Louise Fisca

Appear In: Shakedown (novel)
A flight attendant and a firefighter targeted as Tremblor sacrifices. Both are past Wolfram & Hart clients who were arrested for smuggling cocaine and murdering an ex-lover, respectively: Sarah acknowledges that she was guilty of her crime, while Fisca's response is more ambiguous.
  • Action Survivor:
    • Fisca treats a fellow hostage's injuries with her first aid training, has survived several fires at work, and is on edge throughout the hostage situation.
    • After being snapped out of a mental reversion to her childhood (brought on by the Tremblors' telepathy), Sarah is surprisingly cool-headed and analytical, which she puts down to her airline having training for hijacking scenarios.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: They seem like decent people and capable Action Survivors before their crimes are revealed near the end of the book.
  • Boyish Short Hair: Fisca is a firefighter who cuts her hair short.
  • Damsel in Distress: They are two women who are kidnapped by the villains and need Angel to save them, although they are less innocent than the average damsel. That said, they do get more competence, sympathy, and dialogue than their male fellow hostage (a lifeguard who Associate Rome claims is a Serial Rapist), who spends most of the book in a coma.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Fisca has a wry sense of humor that shows in her dialogue.
  • Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Sarah has mental flashbacks to enjoying the camaraderie of summer camp and giggly shopping at the mall with her friends but, by her own admission, smuggled drugs at least once and was likely prepared to do so again for Wolfram & Hart if they demanded it as a price for defending her.

    Parker 

Parker McKay

Appear In: Haunted (novel)
A rich man who is one of the many clients of Wolfram & Hart in a long-running The Bluebeard operation.
  • The Bluebeard: Downplayed: what Wolfram & Hart offers him (and that he accepts) is an opportunity to kill his old wife and transfer all of the memories and personality traits from the happy, early years of their marriage into a woman the firm abducts and subjects to a Death of Personality fate while brainwashing her to be the new wife of whoever their current client is.
  • Driven to Suicide: He shoots himself after the ritual to "create" his new wife is interrupted and he realizes he killed his old wife for nothing.
  • Fiction 500: He is worth $700,000,000 from assets like natural resources, aerospace firms, and the sale of a dot.com business he got out of just before the crash.
  • Hollywood Mid-Life Crisis: He is about sixty, still plays a lot of tennis, and is insecure about his balding hair and need for dental work, while wanting to be with a more young and beautiful woman than his current wife.
  • Walking Spoiler: It is hard to talk about him without revealing the nature of the scheme he is involved in and who some of the periphery targets and victims are.

@ Avatar Law and order

  • Ambiguous Situation: Downplayed and not brought up in the episode itself, but the sole hard evidence that Gregg, not Molly, is telling the truth about their incriminating encounter is how his roommate saw them having sex, but after so many months between that brief incident and the trial, he could be remembering the wrong girl, or could be choosing to back up his friend in a lie.

@ Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Federation and Bajor

  • And Then John Was a Zombie: She is temporarily possessed by a malignant pah-wraith for one episode.
  • Renaissance Man: She is a skilled botanist and solo primary school teacher who also plays wind instruments and helped her grandmother with brush calligraphy as a child.

@ Star Trek: The Next Generation - Recurring Crew

  • Combat Medic: She is a sickbay nurse who will occasionally take up arms during a crisis, such as in the First Contact time travel incident.
  • Imperiled in Pregnancy: She is pregnant during a terrifying disease outbreak that ravages the ship and threatens to wipe out the crew, although her pregnancy actually saves everyone when amniotic fluid from the baby are used in the antidote.
  • Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: In one episode she helps Crusher access off-limits files to vindicate her of charges against her and simultaneously make a crucial medicinal breakthrough.

Edited by Alpinist on Nov 25th 2024 at 11:36:49 AM

Ojandora from Obama, Fukui, Japan Since: Aug, 2016
jahman Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
#32548: Nov 24th 2024 at 7:43:52 PM

Naruto - Team 7 Members

Sakura

  • The Cynic: Although cheerful and enthusiastic, her overly optimistic outlook, sense of humor, and opinions about specific individuals, such as Naruto, can be somewhat negative. Additionally, her temper often exposes a more cynical side, especially during her difficult teenage years, when she sometimes appears grumpy.

  • Irony: Sakura is hot-blooded and often reacts with explosive outbursts when something or someone—usually Naruto—irritates her, even if unintentionally. However, she becomes uncharacteristically quiet when faced with painful truths and avoids confrontation. She often hides behind comforting lies, accompanied by unsettling smiles and a tone of voice that conceals her true feelings.

Mario & Luigi: Brothership

Shipshape

  • Cool Boat: It is a mobile, boat-based island that hosts the newly planted Uni-Tree, designed to help reconnect all of Concordia.

  • Player Headquarters: Shipshape Island serves as the heroes' base of operations, featuring the newly planted Uni-Tree, which Connie lovingly tends to. One of the Mario Bros' primary objectives is to link the fragmented islands to this tree to restore Concordia. As the adventure progresses and more islands are connected, Shipshape Island transforms into a vibrant hub for their growing team of allies and civilians, bringing in a variety of shops and merchants that enhance the overall experience.

Zokket

  • Underestimating Badassery: Zokket consistently underestimates the Mario Bros. and their expanding team, even as he begins to recognize how they are hindering his plans.

AsrulGuza A QUINCY Since: Jul, 2022 Relationship Status: All is for my lord
A QUINCY
#32549: Nov 25th 2024 at 1:10:38 AM

Monster (2023) is an Indonesia thriller movie based from the film titled The Boy Behind the Door. Its directed and written by Rako Prijanto and Alim Sudio.

The film had its world premiere at the 18th Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival on 29 November 2023. Its also aired in Netflix at May 16th 2024.

The film is about two elementary school students named Alana and Rabin, who bein kidnapped by mysterious person and they must to escape from the kidnapper house. Unlike the original movie, the movie has no dialogue.


  • Adaptational Friendship: The Creep is just a customer for Ms.Burton. Jack and Murni are partner in crime.
  • Adaptational Nice Guy: Very minor for Murni, a character based from Ms.Burton. Ms.Burton is depraved woman and child-trafficker who only care about money and nobody else. Murni actually show care toward Jack. As shown on Jack's phone where he kept him and her picture, meaning they are not just partner in crime and Murni is bit distraught of his death by Alana.
  • Adaptational Villainy: While The Creep is still antagonist in the film, he is not a Big Bad or The Dragon for Ms.Burton. Jack is Murni partner and judging from his behavior, it seems that Ms.Burton sadism is more prominent on his character.
  • Action Survivor: Alana and Rabin have to fight against Jack and then Murni to escape from their hands alive.
  • Accidental Murder: When Jack awoke after slipped in slippery floor in front of Alana, he isn't aware that she still hold the kitchen knife ends up impaling himself against the blade.
  • Ascended Extra: Jack is based from The Creep. While they both depraved person, unlike The Creep, who is secondary antagonist and was Ms. Burton customer, Jack is Murni partner in crime who also responsible for kidnapping and trafficking.
  • Badass Adorable: Alana and Rabin are just a normal child but smart and brave enough to faced the kidnappers. Special mention to Alana, who has no problem fight against Jack with a kitchen knife
  • Cop Killer:Murni murders the first officer that arrives to investigate the kidnappings with axe.
  • Feel No Pain: Jack feel no real pain from being slayed or stabbed by knife.
  • Earn Your Happy Ending: After suffer nightmarish experience in night by the hand of kidnappers, Alana and Rabin finally saved by the cops. While traumatized and need a serious therapy, they are comeback to their family alive and well.
  • Humans Are the Real Monsters: The movie title is refers for the main Big-Bads, who are the sociopathic kidnappers and traffickers. The way of they hunting the children pretty much like how much the predatorial animals hunt their prey, as they always finding the spot where the kids hiding from them and only death who can stop their action.
  • Human Traffickers: Jack and Murni are kidnapper and trafficker who abducts minors and sells their organs to another criminal.
  • Gender Flip: Alana is clearly based from Bobby, who is a young boy.
  • More Deadly Than the Male: Murni show more no-nonsense than Jack as she never toying at her prey and straight up try to kill them without any hesitation.
  • The Kindnapper: Played with. Jack seems to generous enough to bring a glass of water and plate of donuts for Rabin. However, the sugar-looking substance that he sprinkle in the donuts actually a poison
  • They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: The child abductors turns out to be a seemingly kindly and normal person.
  • Villains Out Shopping: After kidnapping Alana and Rabin, Murni leave Jack on their house to buys some food in the store.
  • Villainous Valor: Murni NEVER stop chasing Alana and Rabin. Even after the car crashed in the river, she still chasing them in the river stream until the cops shoot her to death.
  • The Voiceless: The film has no dialogue, they are use facial expression and the voice is mostly from the grunt on the characters. Subverted for while when Murni call Jack name when she come back to their home.
  • Would Hurt a Child: Jack and Murni are a kidnappers and human traffickers who hunted a young children and has no qualms in trying to even murder them in order to cover their crimes or sell their organs to another criminals for money.

Edited by AsrulGuza on Nov 25th 2024 at 5:27:42 PM

KBoult Since: Jun, 2024
#32550: Nov 25th 2024 at 6:52:58 AM

I am listing the tropes that I found and some that I had corrected before for Another Apple Sleep Experiment.

• A Taste of Their Own Medicine: Twilight gave Applejack a potion that caused her to kill 13 ponies 7 years before, so Apple Bloom, after finding all that out, decides to expose Twilight to a gaseous version, which results in Starlight's death by the Alicorn's hooves.

• Abandoned Area: After the murders that happened in the orchard and Granny Smith dying, Sweet Apple Acres is said to have been abandoned for years, since no extended family members wanted to take up residence in the farmhouse because of said murders.

• Accidental Murder: All the ponies (except Twilight) were accidentally killed by a potion-suffering Twilight and her friends (except Fluttershy and Starlight): Twilight killed Starlight, Pinkie killed Mr and Mrs Cake, Rarity killed Sweetie Belle and Rainbow Dash killed Soarin.

• Accomplice by Inaction: Twilight's friends knew that the reason Applejack killed those ponies was because the Alicorn gave her a potion, but hide that fact.

• Agony of the Feet: While searching for Applejack in the lab, Twilight crashes into a table, causing a vial of acid to splash on to her hooves, burning them. Then, while she confronts Applejack at the farm, she gets her hoof caught in a shallow trap filled with stakes that embed themselves into her hoof when she removes it from the trap.

° While going to confront Applejack at the farm with Twilight, Rainbow gets her hoof caught in a bear trap.

• Ambiguous Ending: There are some unanswered questions at the end. What happened to Princess Celestia and Luna if they've been gone for weeks? Will Twilight's friends (except Fluttershy as we already know) be put in a mental hospital? What is Scootaloo's reaction to what happened to Sweetie Belle, Rainbow Dash and the other ponies involved? Will Applejack wake up from her coma and will Apple Bloom get away with killing Twilight?

• Anybody Can Die: Out of the Mane Six (and Starlight who has replaced Applejack as the Element of Honesty), Starlight and Twilight are dead and Applejack is in a coma being looked after by Apple Bloom (the sound of a flatline at the end of the final Dramatic Reading suggests she died).

• Ask a Silly Question....: After waking up bound with rope with Apple Bloom taking care of a comatose Applejack, Twilight asks a couple of these by asking "What is this?" and "What's going on?", and the younger pony comments on the Alicorn's stupidity.

• Audible Sharpness: In the Dramatic Reading, the sound of the sharpened blade of Applejack's shovel can be heard by Fluttershy when she visits her cottage and Rainbow Dash when confronting her at Sweet Apple Acres.

• Bait and Switch: After Applejack kills Angel Bunny, Fluttershy tries to save the other animals, believing that Applejack plans to kill them as well, only to see her talking to and hypnotising them.

° It appears that the story is about Applejack getting revenge on all her friends for abandoning her to rot in prison, by attacking them and killing other ponies who get in the way, only for it to be revealed by her thought-to-be-dead sister Apple Bloom that not only was Applejack never there (she was in a coma from hitting her head really hard in a fight with a guard while trying to escape the prison with Apple Bloom's help), it was Twilight and the others who, after Apple Bloom exposed them to a gaseous version of the Sleepless Potion, hallucinated Applejack being there and (except Fluttershy, who killed her animals) killed all those ponies.

• Berserk Button: To Twilight. Never say to Apple Bloom that Sweetie Belle, who abandoned her, was still her friend after finding out that the earth pony exposed Rarity to the Sleepless Potion, resulting in her killing her little sister. It will make Apple Bloom bring up Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo abandoning her after she was paralyzed at the end of the first story by a potion-suffering Applejack.

° Also to Twilight, don't try to reason with her by saying that everything Applejack did wasn't your fault, especially crippling Apple Bloom, it won't help, as she's furious at you for betraying and leaving her big sister to rot in prison.

• Big "SHUT UP": After crashing into the apple orchard and being mocked by Applejack about the night the earth pony was cured, Rainbow Dash yells at her to shut up.

• Blood-Splattered Innocents: Out of the ponies covered in blood in this fic: Twilight, Pinkie, Mr Cake (in a Dramatic Reading image), Rarity and Rainbow, only Mr Cake is innocent, as the others killed the ponies whose blood is on them.

• Bookcase Passage: A variation of this trope. The passage leading to Twilight's secret lab is hidden behind her bed.

• Call Back: While looking at the memorial sculpture after Fluttershy says she misses Applejack, Twilight remembers when she lied to Applejack about their being no Sleepless Potion at the end of the first story.

° The Cake Twins are awakened by a noise coming from the kitchen caused by Pinkie baking treats, just like Apple Bloom in the first story, who was awakened by Applejack making noise while preparing Zap Apple Jam in the kitchen.

° After crashing into the apple orchard, Rainbow starts hearing Applejack's voice saying the words that were said on the night that the latter was cured by Apple Bloom.

° While explaining to Twilight how Applejack getting hurt while escaping the prison caused her to take care of her at the farmhouse and delay their attempt to get out of Equestria, Apple Bloom repeats the words "Sometimes ya can't have what you want, it's just how life goes" that Applejack said to her the day she was preparing the Zap Apple Jam.

• Chekhovs Gun: When she is visited by Applejack, Pinkie mentions that she sent letters and packages to the prison for Applejack that were sent back. It is revealed that the gifts were sent back to Twilight and that Apple Bloom intercepted them, which made the latter suspicious of why Pinkie would send gifts to a prisoner.

• Chekhovs Gunman: While decorating for the memorial, Rarity says that Spike left a year before, saying that he "left the nest to forge a path on his own". At the end of the story, Apple Bloom reveals that the reason that Spike had left was because he found out that not only was Applejack alive, but that the reason that she killed ponies was because Twilight gave her a potion that made her stop sleeping.

° When Applejack confronts Rarity about what happened because she wasn't cured by the latter 7 years ago, Rarity says that "Apple Bloom wasn't her fault". We find out at the end that Apple Bloom is still alive but is partially paralyzed in her back legs after Applejack kicked her into a tree the night Applejack was cured from the effects of the Sleepless Potion.

• Chemically-Induced Sanity: It is revealed that the deaths of ponies were not caused by a vengeful Applejack, but by potion-suffering Twilight, Pinkie, Rarity and Rainbow (Fluttershy killed her animals, believing that Applejack hypnotized them to attack her), after Apple Bloom exposed them to a gaseous version of the Sleepless Potion as revenge on Twilight for giving Applejack said potion and, along with the others, abandoned her sister to rot in prison.

• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Spike is revealed to be no longer helping Twilight or her friends, with Rarity saying that he "left the nest". We find out from Apple Bloom that he left because he was disgusted with Twilight and the mares, after the earth pony showed him that Twilight lied about Applejack being dead and discovering that the Alicorn gave the earth mare a potion that caused her to kill all those ponies years before.

• Control Freak: Twilight was like this to Apple Bloom when the latter was staying at the castle: she wouldn't let her go outside on her own out of fear that she'd get hurt or the device to help her walk on her back legs got stuck on something.

• Create Your Own Villain: Twilight inadvertently does this with Apple Bloom by not only locking up Applejack for killing ponies under the influence of a potion that the Alicorn gave her, telling other ponies (except her friends) that the earth mare was killed in the massacre in the apple orchard and implying to Applejack that she killed Apple Bloom and not partially paralyzed her, it's no wonder the teenaged mare wants revenge on the Alicorn and her friends, who also knew about Applejack taking the potion and abandoning her.

• Darkness Equals Death: Rarity is left in Sweetie Belle's dark bedroom with the latter's dead body, grieving her sister's demise, only for lightning to flash around the room revealing the word "guilty" written around the room in Sweetie's blood.

• Despair Event Horizon: After Applejack kills Mrs Cake and Sugarcube Corner is on fire with the other family members and herself inside, Pinkie goes through this, believing that all of it is her fault, including abandoning Applejack, but is snapped out of it when she sees the twins nearby and realises she can save them and their dad.

• Detectives Follow Footprints: While wandering the apple orchard, Twilight follows what she thinks are Applejack's hoofprints. It turns out she was following her own hoofprints.

• Died in Your Arms Tonight: A variation, with Starlight dying from blood loss from her throat being slit by Twilight's hooves.

• Dies Wide Open: In the images of the Dramatic Reading, Starlight, Mrs Cake, Sweetie Belle and Soarin all end up dying with their eyes open.

• Downer Ending: The story ends with Twilight dead, her friends either institutionalised, in prison or, in Starlight's case, dead, along with Mr and Mrs Cake, Sweetie Belle and Soarin and Apple Bloom, who is the cause of everything that has happened, is snuggling against a comatose Applejack, begging her to wake up and apologising for not listening to her about letting go of her grudge on Twilight and the girls for abandoning Applejack to rot in prison.

• Driven to Villainy: After being abandoned by her friends and brother, lied to by the ponies she trusted and her sister Applejack in a coma after a fight with a prison guard whilst trying to escape with her help, Apple Bloom decides to expose Twilight and her friends to the same potion that caused Applejack to kill ponies, making them kill the ponies and animals that are close to them (one of them being Sweetie Belle, one of Apple Bloom's former friends).

• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Apple Bloom's sister Applejack counts as the loved one to the villain, as the reason the former did everything to Twilight and the others was out of revenge for them abandoning her sister and putting her in prison.

• Evil Is Hammy: Applejack speaks a few words like this when tormenting her former friends, like "Are you blind and dumb?" to Twilight when she fails to hit the earth pony with her magic or "Dash has a brain after all! Who'd a thunk it?" to Rainbow when she starts dodging traps around the farm.

° Apple Bloom also gives some to Twilight after the latter wakes up to the former taking care of Applejack, who is lying in bed and after noticing she's tied up, asks what's going on and to let her out.

Apple Bloom: What is this? It's rope, dumbass.

• And after explaining the aftermath of Starlight's death, she says why she didn't cure Twilight right away.

Apple Bloom: You used to always harp on me 'bout takin' extensive notes on my potion experiments. Isn't knowledge the TRUE power, Twilight?

• Exhausted Eye Bags: Apple Bloom is described as having bags under her eyes. It is revealed that she microdosed her own exposure to the Sleepless Potion so that she can't sleep and have Princess Luna stumble upon her dreams, which is centered on her plans to expose Twilight and her friends to the same potion.

• Extreme Melee Revenge: Rainbow tries to do this to Applejack as revenge for Applejack tricking her into killing Soarin, but Applejack is able to fight back against the pegasus's attempts to take the shovel she's holding off her.

• Failed a Spot Check: While racing Soarin, Rainbow Dash doesn't realise that Cloudsdale is floating above the apple orchard until she looks down.

• Faux Shadow: The memorial for the ponies killed by a potion-suffering Applejack. Twilight and her friends are preparing for it and Applejack says that Twilight's secret, that she gave Applejack a potion that caused her to kill all those ponies, will be revealed to everypony who is at the memorial. But it doesn't happen, as we find out that Applejack was never there and that Twilight and her friends were hallucinating her after Apple Bloom exposed them to a gaseous version of the Sleepless Potion.

• Five Second Foreshadowing: In the audio reading when Rainbow kills the demonic creature, you can hear Soarin's voice.

• Forced to Watch: After escaping, along with Pound Cake from Sugarcube Corner, which is engulfed in flames, and the colt runs away from her, she just lies on the ground and watches the whole building burn.

• Foreshadowing: In the beginning of chapter one, Twilight is described as having tired eyes and Pinkie is not only mentioned to have been baking non-stop for three days, but in the audio reading image, she appears tired-looking, with bags under her eyes and her mane a mess.

° In the scroll explaining Applejack's escape from prison, it reads that the guards can't remember the past few days, hinting that the Sleepless Potion was used.

° Both Twilight and Starlight hear a noise from above them but Twilight finds Applejack in her lab below her bedroom since there is a secret passage hidden behind her bed.

° Twilight wonders how Applejack escaped the prison, hinting that somepony must have helped.

° The lock on the door to Twilight's lab is broken despite Twilight saying it is a magical lock and Applejack couldn't have had the strength to do that because she is described as looking like she hadn't eaten in a long time.

° When Twilight tries to blast Starlight's bedroom door open, the spell deflects off it as if a shield is blocking it even though Applejack is in the room with Starlight.

° Mr Cake angrily shirks Pinkie away as he mourns his wife's death and Pound fights and bites her while she tries to save them from the fire.

° When "Applejack" visits Rarity, the latter says that the former moved towards a tapestry without the sound of hoofsteps after damaging the one of Rarity's father.

° Neither Rarity, Twilight (after regaining consciousness) nor Rainbow Dash know about the fire at Sugarcube Corner, hinting that the events aren't happening on the same night.

° When Rarity drops the scissors on Applejack to kill her, the latter disappears, despite Rarity looking down at where she laid on the ground.

° In the audio reading image, when Rarity lies on the floor after failing to kill Applejack who had left the bedroom, you can see blood on the scissors even though she failed to kill Applejack, and in another image, you can see that it looks like Sweetie Belle was stabbed, hinting that Rarity killed her.

° Both Pinkie and Rainbow don't believe that Applejack is there when she confronts them. Pinkie believes that she's hearing voices from not getting any sleep, and Rainbow says she's not real and can't hurt her because she believes she's suffering from trauma from being in the same orchard where she fought Applejack 7 years ago.

° The fact there is a potion bottle in the farmhouse window despite Applejack only drinking the potions and was not carrying a saddle bag when we first saw her in the lab, hints that she was a hallucination and somepony else made or stole a potion.

° Clue to Apple Bloom being alive is in the audio reading. You can see a flash of red and yellow when lightning strikes at the mention of her name when Applejack mentions the ponies in the orchard the night she was cured, hinting that Apple Bloom is nearby.

• Forgot I Could Fly: While trying to find the way out of the lab to chase Applejack as there is smoke blocking her from seeing a door, Twilight doesn't use her wings to clear it or to fly up to look for the door.

° When Applejack or her animals are about to attack her, Fluttershy doesn't think to fly away, which is understandable, as she's scared and wants to save her animals or is angry that her animals are so easily corrupted by Applejack.

• Freak out: Rainbow begins to do this after crashing into the apple orchard and hearing the words said to her by Applejack on the night the latter was cured of the Sleepless Potion.

• Freeze Frame Bonus: When we are shown the ice sculpture with all the ponies that Applejack killed 7 years ago, you can recognise some of them. They include Lyra,Bonbon, Hondo Flanks, Cheerilee (you might mistake her as Apple Bloom), Doctor Whooves, Bulk Biceps and Thunderlane.

° In the audio reading image when Pinkie hears Applejack's voice for the first time, you can see Applejack's shadow on the left of the image.

• Gardening-Variety Weapon: When Pinkie is visited by Applejack, she notices that the latter is carrying a shovel and wearing a tool-belt full of gardening tools. Applejack throws the shovel at Pinkie but misses, and then throws a spade from the tool-belt and misses again.

• Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: Partially subverted. You're meant to think that the whole story takes place all on the same night on the eve of the Commemoration Memorial for ponies who were killed by Applejack 7 years ago, but it is revealed that only Rainbow Dash's confrontation with Applejack happened that night, and the others are confronted over the span of two weeks.

• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Rainbow Dash impales what she thinks is a demonic Applejack (it's soon revealed to be Soarin) with a shovel.

• Improbable Infant Survival: Both the Cake Twins survive the fire at Sugarcube Corner, while their mother was stabbed and their father was still in the burning building, grieving her death.

• Jerkass Woobie: Apple Bloom. She may have exposed Twilight and her friends to a gaseous version of the same potion that caused Applejack to kill ponies and paralyse her sister, resulting in them killing other ponies and then she killed Twilight for giving her sister the potion and for betraying and abandoning her to rot in prison, but it is hard not to feel sorry for her as her granny's dead, her brother and friends abandoned her and Applejack is in a coma after hitting her head really hard in a fight with a guard while trying to escape the prison.

° Twilight. She may have had Applejack locked up in prison and lied about there being no Sleepless Potion, implied that Apple Bloom was dead and stopped Pinkie's gifts from being sent to the prison, but after being told that while under the influence of the Potion she killed Starlight, received injuries from lab equipment, acid and traps around the Sweet Apple Acres farm.

• Kill it With Fire: Mr Cake dies in one as he grieves his wife's death.

• Laser Guided Karma: In the first story, Twilight gave Applejack a potion that stopped her from sleeping and ended up killing ponies. In this story, she (along with her friends) is exposed to a gaseous version of said potion by Apple Bloom and ends up killing Starlight.

• Lied to Protect Your Feelings: After Apple Bloom reveals that Spike left because he found out from her that Twilight lied about Applejack's death and that she killed ponies because of a potion that the Alicorn gave her, Twilight reveals that the reason she didn't tell him about Applejack being a murderer was to spare him from the guilt of knowing that.

• Lightning Reveal: While grieving Sweetie Belle's death, lightning flashes to reveal that the word "guilty" was written all over the room in the dead pony's blood.

• Murder by Mistake: Rainbow Dash impales what she thinks is a demonic Applejack, until she sees Applejack nearby and realises that she killed Soarin instead.

• My Greatest Failure: Rarity's is the fact that she didn't help to cure Applejack 7 years ago because she found her father's dead body while searching for Applejack, just like Twilight and Rainbow Dash did.

• Mythology Gag: Fluttershy is revealed by Apple Bloom to be in the mental hospital, just like in the Shed MOV video.

• Neck Snap: It is revealed by Apple Bloom that Fluttershy accidentally snapped Angel Bunny's neck when trying to protect him from Applejack.

• Never My Fault: Twilight basically says this as Apple Bloom reveals that she plans to kill her for causing Applejack to kill ponies by giving her the Sleepless Potion in the first place, saying that she warned Applejack about possible side effects before giving it to her.

• Only Mostly Dead: It is revealed that Applejack has been in a coma for three weeks ever since she hit her head really hard in a fight with a prison guard during her escape with Apple Bloom.

• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Rainbow Dash is surprised about the usually shy Fluttershy being aggravated at her for being absent from decorating the castle for the memorial because her animals haven't been fed all day, as she's been helping with the decorations since dawn and Rarity was constantly giving her different tasks to do.

° Fluttershy also notices this about herself after thinking about the days events: Rarity requesting slight changes to the decorations, Rainbow arriving to help at the end of the day, and that her emotions are more negatively charged, but brushes it off as her being exhausted.

• Please, Don't Leave Me: Twilight says this as Starlight bleeds out from a slit throat.

• Please Wake Up: After killing Twilight, Apple Bloom lies next to a comatose Applejack, pleading with her to wake up.

• Plot Twist: Applejack wasn't the one attacking some of her former friends, mind-controlling Fluttershy's animals, tricking Rainbow Dash into killing Soarin and killing other ponies after escaping Canterlot Prison. It was her friends, who, after being exposed to a gaseous version of the Sleepless Potion by a still-alive Apple Bloom, hallucinated Applejack being there and killed those ponies and, in Fluttershy's case, animals, believing that the earth pony had killed them or possessed the animals.

° Applejack did escape prison, with help from Apple Bloom, but the former is in a coma from hitting her head really hard in a fight with a guard and is being looked after by Apple Bloom at the Sweet Apple Acres farmhouse.

• Posthumous Character: Apple Bloom reveals that Granny Smith passed away from the grief of believing that Applejack was dead and taking care of Apple Bloom, who was partially paralyzed, and Big Mac, who was suffering from heat stroke from overworking in the orchard during the drought.

• Psychotic Smirk: While explaining to Twilight how she was behind everything that happened in the story, Apple Bloom has an evil grin on her face.

• Pyrrhic Victory: Apple Bloom may have gotten revenge on Twilight and her friends for abandoning AJ by killing the former and having the others institutionalised, dead (in Starlight's case) or in prison, but Applejack is still in a coma and by the sound of a flatline at the end of the Dramatic Reading, dies.

• Rewatch Bonus: In the audio reading, Twilight is described as tired-looking and Pinkie is said to have been baking non-stop for three days, suggesting that they have not slept much.

° Twilight is questioning how Applejack escaped and wonders if a guard felt sorry for her and helped. She had help, but from a family member she thought had died.

° If you listen during the Fluttershy scene, you can hear the animals saying "we can't let her get away with this" when Angel Bunny dies, hinting that Fluttershy killed the rabbit, not Applejack.

° Neither Rarity nor Rainbow Dash mention the fire at Sugarcube Corner despite the former living in the town and the latter flying around hints that it's not all happening on the same evening.

° The fact that when Applejack does or says anything around Pinkie, Fluttershy or Rarity, the Cakes, the animals nor Sweetie Belle don't immediately come to see what's going on, hints that Applejack isn't there.

° The fact that the ponies that Applejack visits describe her in different ways hints at her being a hallucination. Twilight describes her as having scars and being emaciated, not only in her lab but at the farmhouse, while Rainbow describes her as muscular (the same as Rarity) and bulkier, Pinkie says she is haggard-looking and sun bleached and Fluttershy says her fur is just her natural orange.

° While Twilight is lying on the ground after escaping the spike trap, you can hear the sound of wheels approaching and, after having something blown from a tube causing her to start passing out, she notices something off about her assailant, who she thinks is Applejack, but it isn't, it is Apple Bloom.

• Shear Menace: Rarity uses her own sewing scissors as a weapon to try and kill Applejack. Only after a moment of hesitation does she thrust the weapon downward, only for the latter to have moved out of the way. It is suggested that she killed Sweetie Belle with them as the images in the Dramatic Reading video shows blood on the scissors, and that it looks like Sweetie Belle was stabbed multiple times.

• Shell-Shocked Veteran: After fighting with Applejack in the orchard 7 years ago, Rainbow has been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder caused by getting beaten up by the earth pony. Twilight even suggests that she should see somepony about it but Rainbow refuses, but she begins to regret doing that after crashing into the same orchard and hearing Applejack's voice say the exact words she said to her all those years ago.

• Shout Out: In the audio reading image, when Fluttershy is trying to get her animals to leave her cottage, you can see some animals from the animated series The Owl House.

• Slashed Throat: Starlight dies from blood loss because her throat is cut by a potion-suffering Twilight.

• Slipping a Mickey: After overhearing Twilight and Starlight arguing about the former wanting to visit someone in Canterlot and connecting it with Pinkie's gifts that were sent back from Canterlot Prison, Apple Bloom drugs the two mares and Spike the dragon with a mighty good sleep aid she brewed so she could sneak off to Canterlot.

• Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Granny Smith died from the grief of thinking that Applejack was dead and the strain of taking care of a heat stroke-suffering Big Mac and a partially paralyzed Apple Bloom.

• Sweetie Belle is killed by a potion-suffering Rarity.

• Twilight, after surviving a lot of traps around the Sweet Apple Acres farm, is killed by a vengeful Apple Bloom after being told that both her and her friends had killed ponies and, in Fluttershy's case, animals, because Apple Bloom had exposed them to a gaseous version of the Sleepless Potion.

• The flatline heard at the end of the Dramatic Reading hints that Applejack, who has been in a coma for three weeks after hitting her head really hard in a struggle with a prison guard while trying to escape with her sister, is dead.

• The Atoner: Twilight resigns herself to an unspoken atonement and remains in Ponyville instead of ruling over Equestria and letting Celestia and Luna retire, all out of remorse for choosing to leave Applejack to rot in prison.

• The Reveal: The final chapter reveals that Applejack didn't attack or kill anypony in the story, but that Twilight and her friends, while under the influence of a gaseous version of the Sleepless Potion created by Apple Bloom hallucinated Applejack being there, and they were the ones who killed those ponies and, in Fluttershy's case, animals, because of said potion.

• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Because of her bad aim and rage, Apple Bloom stabs Twilight a number of times in different parts of the body with a shovel.

• Unreliable Narrator: Twilight and her friends count as this, as they think that Applejack has come back to get revenge on the former for letting her take all the blame for killing ponies when the Alicorn gave her a potion that caused her to stop sleeping and the others for abandoning her to rot in prison. But it is revealed by Apple Bloom that Applejack was never there and that they hallucinated her being there after Apple Bloom exposed them to the same potion that Twilight gave Applejack.

° It's left ambiguous whether Apple Bloom counts as unreliable, as we can't be sure that she did more than cure Twilight and her friends after they killed somepony or, in Fluttershy's case, animals.

• Used to be a Sweet Kid: Before she was partially paralyzed, her brother and friends abandoned her, and finding out that Twilight and her friends not only pretended that Applejack was dead, but knew that she killed ponies because of a potion the Alicorn gave her, Apple Bloom used to be a sweet filly.

• Wham Line: Apple Bloom mocks Twilight's stupidity for thinking Applejack, who is in bed while hooked up to medical equipment, attacked her.

Apple Bloom: I'd ask if the cure makes a mare an idiot, but AJ didn't exhibit any signs.

° After explaining how she found out Applejack was still alive and how she helped her escape prison, only for her to get put in a coma from hitting her head really hard fighting a guard and then saying that three weeks have passed since the escape, not three days, which confuses Twilight, so she explains more specifically.

Apple Bloom: Ya see, from what I gathered, the Sleepless Potion makes time all fucky for its victims.

° Then she reveals to the Alicorn that she studied and perfected the Sleepless Potion before using it and making it gaseous so that its side effects don't show up right away when she releases it.

Apple Bloom: I released it in the castle when you and yer friends were planning that stupid memorial.

• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: After escaping a pit full of spikes, Twilight tries to fool somepony she thinks is Applejack with this as the supposed latter approaches, but the pony stops a distance away from her.


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