CRISIS: Equestria: Difference between revisions

* [[Combat Sadomasochist]]: Red Velvet enjoys dishing out pain and doesn't mind receiving it in the least. [[You Have Failed Me|Unless it's her father punishing her, of course]].

* [[Commander Contrarian]]: Rainbow Dash gets worse and worse about this as the fic continues, but it isn't too noticeable until after meeting Grayscale Force, who encourages the behavior as part of her method of corrupting Rainbow's Loyalty.

* [[Cool Sword]]: Pinkie's one-time weapon in Chapter 16 is described as incredibly pretty, and it's able to hold against Red Velvet's powerful blood blades, which we'd seen can rip through A.M.P. Troopers with ease.

* [[Counterpart Combat Coordination]]: Played straight and [[Averted Trope|averted]]. The Mean Six seem to be purposefully trying to match up their members against the Mane Six according to skill and threat level. So far, Pinkie has been unanimously paired against Red Velvet, and Tick Tock has partnered with Rarity against Insipid, and Twilight against Starlight Shadow. Curaçao, Grayscale Force, and Havocwing have yet to face their counterparts, though Grayscale notes at the end of Chapter 21 that she was supposed to, until Havocwing insisted otherwise.

*** Grayscale Force: Eternally bored because her powers are shown to be rather impressive, with no concern whatsoever for the opinions of others

*** Havocwing: [[Leeroy Jenkins]] + [[Butt Monkey]] + [[Hair-Trigger Temper]].

*** Red Velvet: [[The Dreaded|Fear incarnate]], capable of taking extreme amounts of pain and using it to her advantage, and [[Combat Sadomasochist|enjoying every second of it]].

* [[Evil Counterpart]]: The Mean Six to the Mane Six, natch, seeing as {{spoiler|they're clones}}.

* [[Hybrid Monster]]: Gargantuans are, in a nutshell, a hybrid combination of various deadly insects and arachnids, all rolled into one horrible package; if you're Entomophobic, these things are easily [[Nightmare Fuel|your worse nightmare]]. Described as a mix between a tarantula (body-shape and fur) with a scorpion-like exoskeleton, tail, and stinger, with mantis-like claws, it also possesses a deadly venom not unlike a black widow spider. The young ones are easily twice or more the size of a pony. Then, [[Big Creepy Crawlies|there's the adults]], with males being apparently a size large enough to crush a house, and the females [[It Got Worse|even bigger and equipped with thicker armor and more claws]].

{{quote| Tick Tock: "...they look like a spider shagged a mantis..."}}

{{quote| Curaçao: Ouah, kung-fu? Where did you learn your technique? A cereal box?}}

* [[I Shall Taunt You]]: Tick Tock pulls an absolutely [[Up to Eleven|ridiculous]] one on Starlight Shadow in Chapter 17, goading the hyper-powered unicorn into triggering the conditions for Tick Tock to use her mentor's Time Keeper to freeze time and allow her group to escape. Of course, she underestimates Starlight's [[Berserk Button|anger]], but it pops up again in Chapter 21, where Twilight uses it to distract Starlight long enough to save Tick Tock's life.

* [[I Was Just Joking]]: Rainbow Dash makes use of this quite a few times.

* [[I'm a Humanitarian|I'm A Ponytarian]]: Red Velvet's main quirk that she uses to frighten her victims is to remind them that she eats pony meat and blood like they were candy. Thus far, Jetstream has been her only kill and the only pony she's ever eaten, so this is ''not'' just her trying to be creepy.

* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: At the end of Chapter 21, Havoc attempts to usurp the (temporary) void of leadership after Starlight is injured by the feedback accident with Twilight. Her argument essentially amounts to: "I had a stupid idea, and you all listened to me, therefore, none of you would make good leaders, but I would because I wouldn't listen to a stupid idea." Grayscale calls her on this:

{{quote| Grayscale Force: What planet are you from that ''that'' makes any logical sense?}}

* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: Silvertongue has some shades to this (though his is more [[Spock Speak]]), but nopony takes the cake more than Starlight Shadow. The latter, of course, breaks form when she's angry, while the former does not in the slightest.

* [[Shipper On Deck]]: Rarity has been trying her best to hook Fluttershy and Lockwood up since they left the city and seems to be doing a fair job at it. Insipid, as her [[Evil Counterpart]], seems to have this quality too, and ships Fluttershy/Rarity, which they both deny. Makes sense, since Insipd is {{spoiler|Rarity's clone.}}

** During the escape from the city, Tick Tock attempts to hack the giant Gate in a fashion similar to [[Star Wars|Han Solo]] in [[Return of the Jedi (Film)|Episode VI]]. She even quotes direct from the film when she messes up:

{{quote| Tick Tock: "Got it! I think I got it!" *alarms sound and Gate starts closing* "Um... I don't got it. [[Oh Crap|Oh bugger]]."}}

* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: Pinkie Pie is explicitly given a critical weakness to her otherwise seemingly limitless power: If somepony claims that what she's doing is impossible, suddenly it ''is''. Gilderoy explains this rule straight-up as the reason Pinkie can't just take them all home right then - the Chronomancers wrote the rules of space/time eons ago, and claimed it impossible to travel between dimensions in such a way. In Chapter 24, Curaçao figures the weakness out and uses it to easily handle Pinkie Pie in combat.

* [[Whatevermancy]]: Just about every single thing you can do has some sort of type of magic related to it, from handling herbs (Biomancy) or animals (Zoolomancy), to even [[Up to Eleven|talking]] (Sociomancy).

* [[Wicked Cultured]]: Silvertongue always dresses in style, likes opera sung in a dead language, drinks wine at breakfast, etc.

* [[You Fight Like a Cow]]: Havocwing and Rainbow Dash frequently engage in rapid-fire insults while flying at near-supersonic speeds and firing projectiles at each other. It's mostly relegated to name-calling. Rainbow is unimpressed at being called Rainbow Crash, a name she's endured since fillyhood; Havoc, on the other hand, [[Understatement|does not like it when you talk about her dad.]]

* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: Silvertongue does this to anypony and anything he deems to not be any use to him any longer. He even quotes the line {{spoiler|when he kills Doctor Blutsauger}}. He isn't worried about applying this on a massive scale, either, {{spoiler|as when he's used every resource he can talk the gryphons into using, he committs genocide upon them, causing their race to become extinct, save for [[Last of His Kind|Gilderoy]]. He even avoids a pesky [[Genocide Backfire]] because Gilderoy is just a decrepit old gryphon, and a pacifist at that.}}

* [[Your Little Dismissive Diminutive]]: Starlight Shadow falls into this extremely often whenever she's talking down to somepony she feels beneath her. Which of course, is just about everypony.

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