My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1/E02 Elements of Harmony: Difference between revisions

* [[Androcles' Lion]]: The manticore.

* [[Aside Glance]]: While Rarity is talking about having just cut off her own tail, Pinkie Pie turns her eyes briefly in the direction of the camera.

* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: There seems to be a hint of this with Twilight Sparkle at first not wanting to make new friends only to find out later that "just when I learn how wonderful it is to have friends, I have to leave them." That is a milder case though as it turns out Celestia lets Twilight stay in Ponyville with her new friends anyway.

* [[Beneath the Mask]]: Turns out that the evil Nightmare Moon was really just a lonely pony who missed her sister.

* [[Fire-Forged Friends]]

* [[Foreshadowing]]: For every Element Twilight lists off, the camera centers on the pony that represents it.

* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: Nightmare Moon does this to Twilight after {{spoiler|smashing the Elements Of Harmony right in front of her,}}, telling her that she never had a chance of stopping her and has failed to save the world. {{spoiler|Twilight's friends provide her with a very effective [[Shut UP, Hannibal]].}}

* [[Hidden Depths]]: The quest for the Elements Of Harmony reveals these in the group to Twilight Sparkle and the audience.

* [[Rampage From a Nail]]: Fluttershy realises that this is the case with a monster that's attacking them, and is able to calm it down. The first part of the trope was [[Invoked]] by Nightmare Moon, who ''was'' the thorn in its paw.

* [[Secret Test of Character]]

* [[Space Whale Aesop]]: Dear Princess Celestia, no matter how strong and smart you may be, there are some things you just can't do alone. Friends have a special bond that has more meaning than you can find in any book. So cherish your friends, nurture your relationships with them and always hold them near and dear to your heart because together you can {{spoiler|smite evil with a badass goddamn rainbow [[Wave Motion Gun]]. Because [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|friendship...is magic.]]}}

* [[Stab the Salad]]: Rarity yanks a scale from the sea-serpent's neck with her teeth and...cuts her own tail off with it.

* [[Talking Is a Free Action]]: As Twilight is delivering her speech about how the ponies all represent the Elements of Harmony, Nightmare Moon does nothing to try and stop all six from being activated.