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[[File:e2s22_425.png|frame|''[[Kids Are Cruel|Fluttershy! Fluttershy! Fluttershy can hardly fly!]]'']]
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'''Fluttershy:''' ''I won't make a difference!'' }}
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At an all-pegasus meeting, Rainbow Dash announces that Ponyville's reservoir has been chosen this year to supply Cloudsdale with the water for all the rain for Equestria -- and Ponyville's pegasi will get the water from the ground to Cloudsdale by flying together and making a tornado of at least 800 wing power. Rainbow Dash wants Ponyville to break the record of 910 wing power set by Fillydelphia the previous year with a hurricane of over 1,000 wing power! Everypony's cheering is marred by a little coughing.
As training begins, Rainbow Dash watches over the proceedings, scolding the coughing ponies for attempting to malinger. Fluttershy is conspicuously absent -- she's at home, faking being sick and injured. Rainbow Dash spots the ploys, forcing Fluttershy to admit the real problem: she was humiliated by her weak flying in front of the other young pegasi at Flight Camp, and now she feels a crippling sense of performance anxiety. Rainbow tones down her usual brash approach and reminds her friend how important their mission is. Fluttershy agrees to try despite her obvious misgivings.
Twilight brings [[Shown Their Work|an anemometer]] to the training grounds to test pegasus wing power. When it's Fluttershy's turn, she makes a valiant effort, but when she hears laughter from twin pegasi on the sidelines, it causes her to [[Flash Back]] to being teased:
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Fluttershy falters, resulting in a miserable score of 0.5. She runs off in tears. Rainbow Dash tries to bolster her spirits, but Fluttershy's nerve has failed. Alone with her animal friends, however, she soon musters up her courage and begins practicing on her own. When she returns, her wing power has improved significantly -- but it is still only 2.3, well short of the goal Rainbow Dash has set for all pegasi. Though both Rainbow and Twilight commend her for her significant improvement, Fluttershy still feels humiliated and useless, running away yet again.
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Spitfire congratulates Rainbow Dash, who graciously steps aside and gives props to Fluttershy, her number one flier! Everypony begins to chant:
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Fluttershy narrates her letter to Princess Celestia from the shoulders of everypony: ''"Sometimes you can feel like what you have to offer is too little to make a difference. But today, I learned that everypony's contribution is important, no matter how small. If you just keep your head high, do your best, and believe in yourself, anything can happen!"''
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=== Tropes present in this episode ([[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* [[Absentee Actor]]: Applejack, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity are not present, although Ashleigh Ball and [[Andrea Libman]] are still present as Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy, respectively. This leaves [[Tabitha St. Germain]] as the only main VA absent.
* [[Actor Allusion]]: Twilight's comment about how she doesn't speak squirrel. [[Powerpuff Girls|Guess which one of Tara Strong's roles had that ability.]]
* [[Adorkable]]: When asked to explain what an anemometer is, Twilight happily explains (in scientific jargon), before hopefully asking, "Any more questions?"
** Twilight also closes her eyes and clops her front hooves when she happily explains the anemometer. She does this every time she explains something scientific (or inviting Applejack and Rarity to a sleepover) and the gesture makes her absolutely adorable.
** Twilight's celebration dance with Spike is very adorkable. Apparently she's had ''some'' lessons since her birthday party in "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* [[Affectionate Gesture to
* [[Against the Setting Sun]]: Fluttershy's entrance to retest her wing speed after her intensive training.
* [[Anime Hair]]: Cloudchaser.
* [[Artistic License Physics]]: While the spinning air in a tornado can lower the pressure at the center, and a pressure drop can create some lift on internal fluids, it's not like it's going to suddenly shoot water high into the air immediately upon crossing some threshold. Furthermore, it's not like the trajectory of such a thing would be as reliably predictable as the trajectory Cloudsdale relied on.
* [[Badass Adorable]]: One of the participant in the tornado making is a little colt, Rumble.
** There's also [[Fan Nickname|Tornado Bolt]] shown just before Fluttershy's first measurement.
* [[Bad Bad Acting]]: Fluttershy tries to fake sickness and a hurt wing. Unfortunately, her voice is too monotone to be convincing. Even her sneezes are [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* [[Be Quiet Nudge|Be Quiet Slap]]: Twilight does this towards Spike when he's accidentally being insensitive towards Fluttershy.
* [[Big Yes]]
** The muscular white pegasus, whose every appea--
** '''{{color|red|YEAH!!!}}'''
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** And a completely serious one, with Fluttershy declaring that she ''is'' going to let her fillyhood trauma scare her away from joining the tornado.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: [[Downplayed Trope|With more emphasis on the sweet than the bitter.]] {{spoiler|The pegasi never broke the record set up by Fillydelphia, but they still succeeded in providing the water, and while Fluttershy did overcome her anxiety she still remains as a ''very'' weak flier. Her training montage raised her pitful 0.5 wing power to a measly 2.3 and even after she sheds all of her fears and gives her best, she only manages to raise it up to 5.0 wing power units, aka ''half'' the power of an average pegasus }}.
** Actually, {{spoiler|we never find out the final number. They probably didn't break 1000 but Fluttershy is shown flying ''past'' the other pegasi towards the end, so she probably managed one of her [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Fluttershy, ''[[Up to Eleven|3 times]]'' (though twice it's partially self-inflicted). The poor girl just couldn't get a break the entire episode.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Fluttershy as a filly.
* [[The Cameo]]:
** Derpy is present, derped-eyes and all, throughout the entire show, including participating in generating the tornado. No surprise; she ''is'' a pegasus. Thankfully, it wasn't her fault the tornado failed the first time. <ref>Her friend Raindrops was the first to give out, followed by many others.</ref>
** The same mule from [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* [[Call Back]]:
** [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** As Rainbow Dash flies around and announces the meeting at the library:
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'''Mule:''' None taken. }}
** Fluttershy's and Rainbow Dash's time at [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** Rainbow Dash coaches while wearing a [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** When questioned by Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy admits that she's capable of impressive flying, {{spoiler|[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** Fluttershy's wings [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* [[Canon Immigrant]]: Blossomforth gets her debut in the show after making two appearances in the toy line the previous year.
* [[Character Development]]: Rainbow Dash starts off as being very aggressive when confronting Fluttershy about participating in the tornado but seems to catch herself on this before switching to a gentler approach, reflecting a greater sense of empathy and understanding in her character.
** This actually goes beyond this episode and for the rest of the series beforehand. In initial episodes like "Dragonshy", Rainbow Dash had zero patience for Fluttershy's cowardice and was most insistant she be left behind. While previous Season Two episodes made subtle pushes into a [[Cool Big Sis|kinder role]], this cements it, with Rainbow Dash being nothing short of gentle and supportive towards Fluttershy despite her excessive lack of self esteem.
* [[Circle of Shame]]: Fluttershy keeps imagining that everypony is laughing at her like in her [[Flash Back]].
* [[Incurable Cough of Death|Chekov's Cough]]: At first Rainbow Dash sharply tells Thunderlane not to fake a cough to get out of the competition. Then the mare next to him also coughs. Next thing you know eight pegasi are in the hospital.
* [[Comic Role Play]]: Angel Bunny, the animals of the cottage, and the animals of the forest wear little outfits, some in pony masks, to help Fluttershy learn to cope with her fear of performing with other ponies watching.
* [[The Determinator]]: Rainbow Dash and all of the Ponyville pegasi.
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** Fluttershy also becomes this when she [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|sucks an about-to-fall tear right back up into her eye!]]
* [[Delayed Reaction]]: {{spoiler|Fluttershy keeps flying around in circles even after the tornado has disappeared}}.
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* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: The overly-muscled pegasus stallion wi--
** '''{{color|red|YEAH!!!}}'''
** ...with disproportionately small wings is somewhat suggestive of steroid abuse. (Hence, why one [[Fan Nickname]] for this pony is "Roid Rage.")
* [[Do Not Touch the Funnel Cloud]]: Somewhat averted, everybody outside the tornado gets tossed around.
* [[Dope Slap]]: Spike gets dope slapped a few times by Twilight during his bouts of being [[Innocently Insensitive]].
* [[Expy]]: Blossomforth was previously a [[My Little Pony G 3
* [[Fandom Nod]]: Fluttershy's disguise as a ''tree'' could possibly be one.
** Spitfire being the leader of the Wonderbolts may count as well.
* [[Fan Nickname]]: The white overly-muscular pegasus has been named many things, including Horse Power, [[
* [[Fantastic Measurement System]]: Wing Power
** A fan did some work and calculated 1 Wing Power to be roughly equivalent to 19.5 Miles Per Hour.
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* [[Meaningful Echo]]: "Fluttershy, Fluttershy, Fluttershy can hardly/really fly!".
* [[Mythology Gag]]: A male pegasus spotted during the final tornado attempt is [[Palette Swap|Caramel in G1 Firefly's colors.]]
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Rainbow Dash calls out Thunderlane for trying to [[Playing Sick|play sick]] to get out of training and tornado duty and forces him to train with the other pegasi. {{spoiler|Turns out Thunderlane<ref>or Blossomforth</ref> really ''was'' sick and managed to get several other pegasi sick on the big day, which not only prevented them from breaking the wing power record, but nearly prevented them from raising the water to Cloudsdale.}}
** Fluttershy, Rainbow, and Twilight seemed satisfied with her 0.5 first attempt, but Spike then had to be snide about it, sending the poor girl into tears. Twilight's thump to his head was well deserved.
* [[Nigh Invulnerable]]: Both Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash end up crashing halfway through a tree, neither suffering more than the minor inconvenience of being in that position. Rainbow's, we can sort of expect, given this was after being hastily ejected from the first failed tornado attempt. But Fluttershy's came while she was practicing with her animal friends to overcome her performance anxiety and she wasn't flying very fast. Ergo, [[Insane Troll Logic|all trees in Equestria must be made of balsa wood]].
* [[Non
** '''{{color|red|YEAH!!!}}'''
** ...who has drawn comparisons to the works of [[John Kricfalusi]] and been [[Fan Nickname|Fan Nicknamed]] Roid Rage.
** Cloudchaser's [[Anime Hair]] is straight out of [[Final Fantasy]].
* [[Painting the Frost
** It could be the needed a lot of water at that immediate time and waiting for evaporation would take too long. Gathering clouds from across Equestria instead of manufacturing and distributing them from a central location would also greatly complicate things.
* [[Performance Anxiety]]: Fluttershy is a great flyer when it's an emergency like catching falling birds [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* [[Power Levels]]: The anemometer readings definitely have this vibe.
* [[Playing Sick]]:
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** '''{{color|red|YEAH!!!}}'''
** ...pegasus shouting exactly that.
* [[Schizo
** Also, in Dash's chart, Ponyville is represented by the expected thatched roofs and cottages, but Fillydelphia has a skyline full of skyscrapers.
* [[Second Place Is for Winners]]: The pegasi might not have broken the previous wing power record, but Spitfire congratulates everypony for having the guts to keep trying.
* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: [[Adorkable|Twilight]] naturally, when trying to explain the anemometer to Cloudchaser and Flitter.
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'''Twilight Sparkle:''' This is an anemometer. It measures your accelerative velocity and translates it into wing power, thus gauging your cumulative H2O anti-gravitational potential. Any other questions?
'''Flitter:''' Yeah. ''(to Spike)'' What exactly does this machine do?
'''Spike:''' It tells you how fast you're going and how strong your wings are.
'''Pegasi:''' ''(collective "Ohhhh.")'' }}
* [[Shown Their Work]]: Twilight refers to a device to measure the "wing power" of the pegasi as an [
* [[Shout
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: Fluttershy telling her own flashback of kids taunting her to shut up.
* [[Spock Speak]]: Twilight's technical term-filled explanation of the anemometer.
* [[Stylistic Suck]]: The educational film shown to the pegasi
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* [[Translator Buddy]]: Spike plays this role after the pegasi are confused by Twilight's [[Spock Speak]] explanation of the anemometer.
* [[The Walls Have Eyes]]: When Fluttershy [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJWRu7QF2Hw panics], she envisions [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?|a monstrous tunnel of giant, disembodied eyeballs, their collective glare uniformly fixed on her.]]
* [[When Things Spin, Science Happens]]
** Twilight's anemometer measures [[Fantastic Measurement System|wing power]] by how fast the the propeller on it moves.
** By creating the tornado's vortex, [[Shown Their Work|the pegasi are helping to draw water from the reservoir]].
* [[Writers Cannot Do Math]]: As [[Fantastic Measurement System|Wing Power]] is stated to be cumulative for the 8 Pegasi missing to account for breaking the record versus barely not able to make the tornado would require them to have an average of over 13.75, unlikely given that only Dash displays a higher number. And that's only to beat Fillydelphia's 910, Dash's over 1000 goal would require the 8 to have been averaging over 25.
** But then, [[Fridge Brilliance]]: are the numbers merely additive? Usually, flying on the air that has already been 'cut' by someone else makes you faster, so it's possible that the total wing power is not simply the sum of the individual wing powers of the ponies taking part in the tornado!
* [[Yank the Dog's Chain]]: The first time Fluttershy attempts to test run, she gets off to a good start, but her trauma kicks in and she stumbles at the last second making only 0.5. After an intense training montage and bulk up in courage, she tries again, more hopeful and confident, but still only makes 2.3. {{spoiler|[[Give the Dog A Bone|She finally musters up a proper speed for the actual tornado]].}}
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