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* [[A Load of Bull]]: Iron Will is a minotaur.
* [[An Aesop]]: Being assertive and standing up for yourself is good, but no license to become a jerk or a bully yourself.
* [[Appeal to Flattery]]: Rarity's tactics for getting the last bundle of Asparagus from the nerdy teenage colt is to flirt with him.
* [[Ascended Fanon]]: Derpy's saddlebag buckle is a [[Trademark Favorite Food|muffin]].
** Also, Lyra Heartstrings and Bon Bon are seen sharing a drink.
** What's more, Bon Bon's saddlebag has a clasp shaped like a ''lyre''.
* [[Audience? What Audience?]]: When Pinkie Pie and Rarity first confront Iron Will, he gives the viewers a thumbs up. Rarity and Pinkie Pie<ref>who, despite [[Word of God]]'s denial, is portrayed in fanon as a [[Fourth Wall Observer]]</ref> both glance around in the audience's direction, visibly confused.
* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: '''''Iron Will.'''''
* [[Barrier-Busting Blow]]: Subverted. When trying to collect his fee, Iron Will rips the boards off Fluttershy's front door, visibly winds himself up, then politely knocks on it.
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* [[Call Back]]:
** New Fluttershy's behavior is [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2 E2 The Return of Harmony Part 2|awfully familiar, isn't it?]]
*** Not to mention the one who leads to her behavior is in a maze.
** Fluttershy's [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1 E17 Stare Master|stare]] makes a return in the end.
** "As Celestia as my witness..." Hmm, [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2 E5 Sisterhooves Social|where have we heard]] [[Gone with the Wind|that line before?]]
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** Also, the reason why Bon Bon has Lyra Heartstrings's saddlebag; their being friends is pretty much official by now.
*** "Friends".
* [[Feather Fingers]]: In one scene, Fluttershy uses a wing like a hand to open her saddlebags.
* [[Fisher King]]: When Fluttershy isolates herself due to realizing her recent horrid behavior, her normally pleasant little cottage becomes completely gloomy: The flowers and foliage disappears, the stream turns to a mud wallow, all the entrances [[Up to Eleven|including the bird houses and a burrow]] are all boarded up.
** And this all happens in the space of ''a few hours'', even though the cottage looks like it's been abandoned for years.
* [[Flexing Those Non-Biceps]]: The nerdy pony tries this when Rarity is charming him for the asparagus.
* [[Foil]]: Iron Will could be seen as one to Trixie, Gilda, and the Flim Flam brothers, as he combines elements of all of them and still comes across much more sympathetically. He also leaves more gracefully and even learned something from his venture in Ponyville compared to the other three.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: Right after the scene at the market, a goat with a certain basket in its mouth can be seen leaving Fluttershy's place.
* [[Gollum Made Me Do It|Flutterbitch Made Me Do It]]: Before New Fluttershy takes completely over in the third act, Fluttershy alternate between her old, kind self and her new assertive side within moments, whenever she's being treated unfairly. Most noticeable when she leaves Sugarcube Corner.
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* [[Furry Confusion]]: Not from the Minotaur but from his assistants, the herd of goats. One was seen in "May The Best Pet Win!" as a pet Rainbow Dash could choose. That said, none of the goats speak, so they may just be highly intelligent pets like Angel. Although Iron Will seems able to understand their bleating just fine...
* [[Furry Reminder]]: The goats again. While they're smart enough to understand English and competent enough to use machinery and headsets, they talk in bleats and chew on things like the [[Extreme Omnivore]] goats they are. One even tries to eat Pinkie's tail.
** The goats' eyes even have horizontal pupils [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Closeup_of_goat_eye.jpg like real goats,] which is very unusual in a cartoon.
* [[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:
{{quote|'''Fluttershy''': [finishing her rant to Pinkie and Rarity] ...when they are throwing their own lives away on pointless pursuits that ''nopony else gives a flying [[Unusual Euphemism|fea]][[Precision F-Strike|ther]] about''!}}
* [[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]].
* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: Fluttershy's "give a flying [[Precision F-Strike|feather]]".
** This could make Rainbow Dash's comment about Ditzy Doo being a "feather brain" from "Winter Wrap Up" much [[Harsher in Hindsight]]...
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* [[Jaw Drop]]: Pinkie at Fluttershy's assertiveness towards {{spoiler|Iron Will}}.
* [[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}}.
{{quote|'''Fluttershy:''' ''Iron Will is '''not''' a monster! HE'S A MINOTAUR!!! (''sees her angry reflection in a puddle'') '''I'm''' the monster...''}}
* [[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.
** Angel, too. For his behaviour in this episode, he really deserved something more than just Fluttershy refusing to make him special salads anymore.
* [[Kick the Morality Pet]]: Fluttershy's assertiveness training works [[Understatement|a little too well]], and she begins acting like a jerk and treating even innocent ponies terribly. It isn't until {{spoiler|her insults cause Rarity and Pinkie Pie to run away in tears that she realizes just how bad it's become.}}
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* [[Know When to Fold'Em]]: Iron Will in the end. He hadn't really done anything to make himself look bad to the ponies in general, and decides to keep it that way, making him different from virtually every other antagonistic character in the show thus far.
** 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.
{{quote|'''Iron Will:''' No! When somepony tries to block, show them that '''YOU ROCK'''!}}
* [[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]].
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* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Angel Bunny was willing to eat the salad until Fluttershy apologized for missing out the cherry, which only brought it to his attention.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Iron Will appears to be an [[Expy]] of motivational speaker [[Infomercial|Tony Robbins]] with elements of [[Mr. T]], [[Hulk Hogan]], [[Randy Savage|Randy "Macho Man" Savage]], and [[Dwayne Johnson|Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson]]. He even resembles Johnson's Brahma Bull logo.
* [[Non
* [[Old Dark House]]: Fluttershy's home becomes one, complete with boarded up windows and an unseen wolf [[Howling to the Night]] in the distance.
* [[Out-of-Character Moment]]: When New Fluttershy is getting angry with Pinkie and Rarity, she hovers around them, while she's normally the most earth-bound pony around. It looks like her self-confidence also re-inforced her confidence in her flight capacities.
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** Pinkie's [[Duck Season! Rabbit Season!|method]] for bargaining with others is [[Looney Tunes|pretty]] [[Bugs Bunny|familiar]].
*** Especially when she does it with Iron Will, who sounds like Yosemite Sam.
** Iron Will [[Mr. T|pities the fool]] who doubts his methods!
** The Assertiveness Seminar held by Iron Will, the ''minotaur'', is held in the center of a [[Classical Mythology|hedge maze]].
** Pinkie's "Fashion is her Passion." could be a reference to [[Bratz]].
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* [[Stealth Pun]]: The maze Iron Will's seminar takes place in is grown from corn. A maze of maize.<ref>Not that [[wikipedia:Corn maze|corn mazes]] are anything unusual.</ref>
** Also, Iron Will himself, a minotaur who espouses a philosophy that one should be aggressive, take what they want, and push people around before they can be pushed around. He is a bull bully.
* [[Suspiciously Similar Song]]:
** The piano piece from the scene where Fluttershy locks herself in her house is based on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d4C1ZQKmw4 "The Lonely Man"] from ''[[The Incredible Hulk (TV series)|The Incredible Hulk]]''.
** Iron Will's intro music also sounds suspiciously like the beginning of "Eye of the Tiger."
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* [[That Man Is Dead|That Mare Is Gone]]: New Fluttershy insists Old Fluttershy isn't coming back.
* [[Third Person Person]]: Iron Will talks this way. Fluttershy does this too when she begins to assert herself.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: "New Fluttershy" {{spoiler|gives a brutal one to Pinkie Pie and Rarity}}.
* [[Took a Level in Jerkass]]:
** New!Fluttershy, especially in the second phase of her rage.
** Angel too, who went from a mildly rude attitude to ''throwing his owner out of her house'' for a single cherry.
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