My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2/E21 Dragon Quest/Tear Jerker
Tear Jerker:
- This whole episode can count as one. Spike breaks down into tears twice from not having any idea who he really is.
- The scenes are particularly familiar to anyone who also doesn't know his or her biological family.
- Spike's refusal to smash the phoenix egg, even at the risk of his own safety. "It's just an innocent, defenseless egg... like I was!" This isn't just a moral stand he's taking here (although it's that too;) he's actively identifying with the baby phoenix.
- Spike 'shopping himself into the photo of Twilight's birthday party in Canterlot, to which he apparently wasn't invited.