My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2/E19 Putting Your Hoof Down: Difference between revisions

[[File:Iron_Will_scolding_Fluttershy_about_her_apologetic_ways_S02E19-1_9842.png|frame| When life becomes a thorn, GRAB IT BY THE HORNS.]]

 

 

Written by Merriwether Williams }}

 

* [[Garden Hose Squirt Surprise]]: New Fluttershy to her gardener, when he refuses to admit he overwaters her flowers.

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: "New" Fluttershy comes pretty dang close to a common vulgar phrase during one of her rants:

* [[Grew a Spine]]: Iron Will tries to help Fluttershy do this. It works, a little ''too'' well.

* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: Rarity and Pinkie Pie tell Fluttershy she needs to stop being a doormat, and [[Took a Level In Jerkass|so she does]].

* [[Jerkass]]: Bon Bon shows off her nastiness again along with other ponies and stall-owners, and the "New Fluttershy" becomes one after Iron Will's motivational seminar. Angel Bunny is also particularly horrible to Fluttershy, to the point of slapping her when she doesn't make him the right food, and throwing her and his food out of her own cottage when he doesn't get it made the exact way he wanted it.

* [[Jerkass Realization]]: The "New Fluttershy" doesn't know how far she has gone {{spoiler|until after she insults Rarity and Pinkie Pie}}.

* [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]]: Fluttershy goes from actually sticking up for herself against Ponyville's sudden infusion of total jerks to being a complete asshole as if the line weren't even there.

* [[Karma Houdini]]: Most of the [[Jerkass]] ponies from the marketplace.

** It could easily be argued that he wasn't an antagonist at all. He certainly didn't do anything worse than hold a training seminar and wanted to get paid for it.

* [[Large Ham]]: Iron Will. He practically flexes in some way every time he talks.

* [[Lonely Piano Piece]]: The [[Suspiciously Similar Song]] version of "[[The Incredible Hulk (TV series)|The Lonely Man]]" accompanies Fluttershy's walk home after she realizes that [[What Have I Become?|she's become a monster]].

* [[Make Me Wanna Shout]]: Assertiveshy has some powerful shouts, literally knocking small critters over. Iron Will can do this as well, and was probably her inspiration.

* [[Picky Eater]]: Angel will only eat his salad with whipped cream and a cherry on top. He also dislikes cucumbers {{spoiler|until Fluttershy uses The Stare and he eats them...and soon devours his whole salad!}}

* [[Power Echoes]]: New Fluttershy seems to have taken a leaf from [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2 E4 Luna Eclipsed|Luna's book]] when she gets angry.

* [[Public Domain Soundtrack]]: The tune that plays when Fluttershy gets assertive is taken from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X9LvC9WkkQ Hungarian Dance No. 5 by Johannes Brahms.]

* [[Protagonist-Centered Morality]]: [[Playing with a Trope|Played with,]] and ultimately [[Defied Trope|defied]]. While Pinkie Pie and Rarity try to blame Iron Will for Fluttershy's wrongdoings in an attempt at making her feel better, Iron Will at no point acts like a real villain (ignoring a bluff or two) and Fluttershy takes responsibility for taking Iron Will's teachings too far.

* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: Iron Will is carrying an adorable shopping basket.

* [[Rhymes on a Dime]]: Iron Will's catchphrases.

'''Iron Will:''' Never apologize when you can criticize! }}

** And so does Fluttershy when she repeats Iron Will's lessons:

'''Fluttershy:''' You make me lose, and I blow my fuse! }}

** Pinkie Pie as well

* [[Running Gag]]: Bon Bon has yet another, different voice. [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1 E3 The Ticket Master|And]] [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1 E20 Green Isn't Your Color|so]] [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2 E13 Hearths Warming Eve|does]] [[All There in the Script|Shoeshine]]/[[Fan Nickname|Linky]]!

* [[Sanity Slippage]]: Fluttershy becomes more of a complete bitch every hour.