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[[File:744px-S2E21_Spike_is_the_winner-1_3679.png|frame|A SPIKE draws near! Command?]]

Happily back in Ponyville, Spike writes a letter to Princess Celestia, explaining that he's learned that his real family are the ones who love and care for him. He also manages to hatch the abandoned phoenix egg, and welcomes "Peewee" into their family.

 

 

* [[Adult Fear]]: Spike taking off to discover his true identity (especially since we know how mean dragons can get). {{spoiler|And then he initially decides to stay with them forever.}}

* [[Adults Are Useless]]: The adult dragons don't even bother monitoring the teen dragons' antics. [[Shown Their Work|Then again, very few real world reptiles are involved in their childrens' lives,]] and how many things could actually ''hurt'' a dragon anyway, even a teen one? {{spoiler|Apparently, pheonixes, whose flames can burn even dragons.}}

** Justified for the dragons, who are established as being extremely resistant to heat. As for the ponies…[[Hand Wave|Maybe Twilight cast a spell that protected them from the heat?]]

* [[Cool Pet]]: {{spoiler|Peewee the phoenix. Spike gets a pet that will live as long as he does.}}

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Spike joining the teenage dragons is very much like a child falling in with the wrong crowd.

** There is also an ''[[Animal House]]''/random college fraternity similarity, with Spike having undergone their hazing process. And all in all, the teenage dragons are rather disturbingly similar to real bullies in the way that their emotional and physical abuse is portrayed.

* [[Roll Out the Red Carpet]]: Literally - Rarity does this along with a bit of confetti flourish to announce her arrival at the trench to watch the dragon migration and show off her new "camo" outfit.

* [[Second Place Is for Winners]]: The other dragons aren't won over by Spike having the largest lava cannonball splash, but instead by the fact he slams into the lava belly-first. The fail is so epic as to both impress them and earn their sympathy.

* [[Shout-Out]]: The episode title, to the ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' series, of all things!

** Even funnier, the baby phoenixes are nearly identical to [[Final Fantasy|Final Fantasy's]] Chocobos, especially the FF Tactics and FFIX designs. [[Dragon Quest]] and [[Final Fantasy]] were rivals before [[Square Enix]] merged.

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