Night of the Shy: Difference between revisions

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: The King of the Diamond Dogs apparently used to serve Nightmare Moon centuries ago, but was so sickened that he betrayed her during her [[Final Battle]] with Celestia. Needless to say, when Nightmare decides to re-recruit the Dogs for her new army, he dies first.

* [[Fighting From the Inside]]: Fluttershy is trying (and apparently cursing up a storm), but her efforts are just amusing Nightmare -- who also claims that Luna did the same, and that a thousand years stuck with it drove her to the point of ''letting'' the Mane Cast defeat her, ''just so she could get away from it.''

* [[Happily Adopted]]: Blueblood adopts Trixie's orphans {{spoiler|and Dinky Doo}}, so that he can properly protect them.

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Twilight has one after the events of chapter 4, and it takes an emotional conversation with Applejack and Pinkie in the following chapter to get her out of it.

** Celestia seems to realize what's about to happen right before {{spoiler|she's sneak-attacked and killed.}}

** Luna when she realizes that {{spoiler|her powers don't work in the Everfree Forest}}.

* [[Orphanage of Fear]]: Scootaloo grew up in one, and eventually ran away when the abuse became too much.

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Applejack's parents disappeared when she was a foal.

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: Blueblood and General Spur are both over a thousand years old. Apparently, any pony can live that long, but association with the royal family, at least, seems to ensure a youthful appearance.

** Actually, it's because they both have alicorn blood.

* [[Running Gag]]: Twilight's parents ruffling her mane as an act of affection, to her annoyance.

* [[Rhymes On a Dime]]: Turns out, Zecora doesn't talk this way naturally. She started doing it in her homeland to entertain children, and when she came to Ponyville and was initially treated with disdain, she started doing it to annoy the ponies as a form of payback. After she was accepted into the community, she went back to doing it for entertainment. Of course, now she's started doing it even when alone out of habit, much to her own annoyance.

** Blueblood fought alongside Spur during the last war, and was apparently so sickened by what he experienced that it's what caused him to lose himself in the trappings of royalty and become the [[Prince Charmless]] we saw in canon.

* [[We Have Reserves]]: Due to needing to preserve her own power, Nightmare lets her Diamond Dog and parasprite troops get slaughtered in order to wear down Canterlot's defenses.

** Chapter 6 -- {{spoiler|Canterlot falls to Nightmare. Meanwhile, the Mane Cast and their allies flee to a possible safe haven, which happens to be where Pinkie's long-lost family live.}}

* [[You Are in Command Now]]: {{spoiler|Twilight is forced into the role of Princess when Celestia and Luna die.}}