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[[File:Nihilus_Wrong-2_7986.jpg|frame|“You will not call me Twilight. My name is Nihilus.”]]

 

** On the other hand, {{spoiler|Titan's first wife Harmony (Terra's mother), did care about her subjects. Enough that Titan eventually killed her for ignoring her duties to protect them from Discord.}}

* [[Action Girl|Action Mares]]: Rarity, Applejack, Rainbow Dash and Princess Luna most notably, although Pinkie and Fluttershy have their moments as well.

* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]]: Rarity’s blade, Vorpal. Rainbow Dash gets a sword like this later on.

* [[Actual Pacifist]]: Sparkle is literally unable to bring herself to attack anything, even Puppets.

** {{spoiler|Titan tortures Sparkle for personal information he can use against Celestia.}}

* [[Convenient Coma]]: {{spoiler|Twilight ends up in one after Nihilus' defeat, and doesn't wake up until after the [[Time Skip]].}}

* [[Crazy Prepared]]: {{spoiler|In the entirely possible event that Titan can withstand the Elements of Harmony, or that they don't all even live long enough to use them, Twilight has a backup plan. His name? Discord.}}

* [[Cry for the Devil]]: Terra gets a flashback chapter that shows how she became the way she is: {{spoiler|she had to [[Mercy Kill]] her brother/husband after Discord corrupted him, then Titan killed her mother for "betraying" him, forced her to be his new wife, and subjected her to the Insanity so that she'd become as brutal as him}}. It's kind of hard not to pity her after reading that.

* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: Nihilus Nix Naught? ''Somepony's'' got a zero fetish.

* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: Twilight crosses it on the eve of the [[Final Battle]], as she deduces that they don't have a chance of winning. Luna gives her hope with the speech that the page quote comes from.

* [[Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?]]: {{spoiler|Rainbow Dash kicks Titan's avatar in the face. It doesn't do much, but it distracts it long enough for Luna to slice it in half with her blade.}}

* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Twilight managing to nearly kill Terra during the second battle of Ponyville. {{spoiler|Then Terra heals and proceeds to return the favor.}}

* [[The Dog Bites Back]]: There's shades of this when {{spoiler|Rainbow Dash breaks free of the Insanity and goes apeshit on Nihilus.}}

* [[Elite Mooks]]: The Unicorn Puppets.

* [[Enemy Mine]]: {{spoiler|Allying with Discord against Titan. Celestia describes the situation as "[[Lesser of Two Evils|better the devil they know]]".}}

* [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones]]: In his own sick, twisted way, Esteem actually seems to care about Rarity. Likewise, Terra seems to genuinely love Titan.

* [[Fighting From the Inside]]: Dash struggles with the Insanity, trying to resist it's control over her. It doesn't go well {{spoiler|until Fluttershy uses The Stare, which weakens the Insanity enough for Dash to break free.}}

** Twilight also fights Nihilus passively by providing her bad information and distractions whenever possible, but it isn't until her friends are all in a position to defeat her that she can resist long enough to provide them help in the form of the elements.

* [[Godzilla Threshold]]: That's all you can really call it when the group {{spoiler|recruits Discord.}}

* [[Hammerspace]]: Twilight/Nihilus' null-space

* [[Last of His Kind]]: As it turns out, {{spoiler|Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie are part of -- and are possibly the last -- of very rare, naturally evolved, pony subspecies that Titan ordered destroyed for not fitting in his design.}}

* [[Legacy Character]]: Empyrean turns out to be one; he was modeled and named after {{spoiler|Titan's first son, who was also Terra's brother/husband.}}

* [[Load-Bearing Boss]]: {{spoiler|When Nihilus is defeated, her [[Ominous Floating Castle|floating fortress]] falls apart.}}

* [[Mama Bear]]/[[Papa Wolf]]: Don't mess with Twilight, or you'll have her parents coming after you. Especially her mother Starlight, who, before Rarity hooks up with the Loyalists, is the only pony able to match Esteem in a sword fight.

* [[Paint It Black]]: Nihilus starts out looking exactly like Twilight, but eventually ends up looking like the picture above. In a faster example, when Rainbow Dash is subjected to the Insanity, it turns her fur black and her mane and tail white.

* [[Pay Evil Unto Evil]]: {{spoiler|Twilight's rather brutal killing of Esteem would be a [[Moral Event Horizon]] if he didn't totally have it coming.}}

* [[Physical God]]: All the royals, obviously. {{spoiler|Also Twilight, once she fully taps into the power of the Elements of Harmony.}}

* [[Humanoid Abomination|Pony Abomination]]: Discord's creechlings from the flashbacks definitely sound like they fit, going by the description.

* [[Revenge by Proxy]]: Titan sends Terra to destroy Ponyville after {{spoiler|the Loyalists retake Canterlot}}. As Luna puts it, it's not about winning, it's about punishment.

* [[Rogue Protagonist]]: As suggested in the picture and mentioned in the picture's caption, Twilight Sparkle {{spoiler|but only for about the first half of the story.}}

* [[He's Back|She's Back]]: Rainbow Dash {{spoiler|breaking free of the Insanity}} in order to save Pinkie, performing a Sonic Rainboom in the process {{spoiler|that restores her normal coloration}}.

** {{spoiler|The personalities of Twilight and Sparkle being fused back together, and the true Twilight Sparkle emerging from it, proceeding to [[Curb Stomp Battle|curbstomp]] all of Titan's forces arrayed against her.}}