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[[File:Nihilus_Wrong-2_7986.jpg|frame|“You will not call me Twilight. My name is Nihilus.”]]
{{quote|"Go to your friends. Look them in the eyes, talk with them, laugh with them, and tell me if lifting a duster is more magical than what you ''feel'', truly ''feel'', in your heart. Friendship is a ''force'', {{spoiler|Twilight Sparkle}}.
“Love. Wonder. Happiness. [[Big Bad|Titan]] has none of these things. If you allow him to take ours, then you give up our only advantage. If we are going to win, it will be for our intangible virtues, not brute force. Magic, ''real'' magic, the kind that I use to raise the moon, cannot be fought.”|'''Princess Luna'''}}
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* [[Abusive Precursors]]: To say Titan and Terra's initial reign over Equestria (in the backstory) was nightmarish would be a ''major'' understatement. Their current rule is even ''worse''.
** 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.
** Twilight's mother Starlight counts as
* [[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.
* [[
* [[A God Am I]]: Said by Luna, before her fight against Nihilus in Cloudsdale.
** After the same fight, Nihilus wonders {{spoiler|what defeating a god makes her}}.
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* [[Axe Crazy]]: Nihilus in spades, Wrong as well.
* [[Badass Princess]]: Celestia and Luna both qualify.
* [[
** It also has the added benefit of {{spoiler|serving as a focus for the Elements of Harmony.}}
▲* [[Big Bad]]: Titan
* [[Big No]]: Nihilus lets one rip when {{spoiler|Twilight retakes control of her body long enough for the Elements of Harmony to be used on her.}}
* [[Blood Knight]]: Nihilus and Esteem both fit this trope quite nicely
* [[Blood Is the New Black]]: Esteem "spreads" a helpless pony all over himself and Rarity. Then he apologizes for not considering that the color doesn't go with her mane, like it does his.
* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Wrong, Rainbow Dash after Nihilus implants a spell called [[Mind Rape|the Insanity]] into her skull that constantly tears at her sense of self, resulting in a nigh-amnesiac assassin who divides her time between [[Implacable Man|hunting down the Mane Six]] and [[Apologetic Attacker|begging them to run.]]
** {{spoiler|Titan inflicted the Insanity on Terra to turn her from a nurturing pony into a [[Complete Monster]].}}
* [[Brainwash Residue]]: {{spoiler|Although Dash is freed from Nihilus' mind control, she's still subconsciously compelled to obey Twilight Sparkle.}}
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Pinkie Pie gets hit hard by this after {{spoiler|she thinks that Wrong!Dash killed Fluttershy}}.
* [[Brick Joke]]: In the Mane Cast's first scene (before everything goes to hell), Rainbow Dash makes an [[Accidental Innuendo]] about Fluttershy's dancing. Much later, after {{spoiler|breaking free from Nihilus' mind control to save Pinkie Pie}}, she makes another one about the latter situation.
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* [[Calling the Old Man Out]]: Rarity.
** {{spoiler|Once Celestia is restored, Twilight rips into her, calling her out on her manipulations.}}
* [[The Chessmaster]]: Celestia.
** {{spoiler|Twilight becomes this as well after her [[Split Personality|Split Personalities]] merge back together.}}
* [[Climax Boss]]: {{spoiler|Nihilus. She is the primary threat for roughly the first half of the story, and it is only after her defeat that Luna and the Mane Six can focus on taking the war to Titan.}}
* [[Co-Dragons]]: Nihilus and Esteem. {{spoiler|After Nihilus' defeat, Esteem takes on full Dragon duties.}}
** One could argue that Terra has shades of [[The Dragon]] as well, though she doesn't do much for most of the story. {{spoiler|Though following Esteem's death, she steps down into the role.}}
* [[Cosmic Chess Game]]: The titular Immortal Game referred to by Celestia and Titan at points in the story.
* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: {{spoiler|Inflicted on the depowered Celestia by [[Evil Matriarch|Terra]], her own mother.}}
** {{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]].}}
* [[The Corruption]]: Discord's MO back in the
* [[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.
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* [[Dark Fic]]: And How! [[War Is Hell]], the corruption of Ideals, [[Rage Against the Heavens]] and [[Rage Against the Mentor]], [[Mad God]] predecessors, Mass war, Brainwashing.
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Luna, especially in later chapters.
* [[The Dead Have Names]]: Pinkie lists the names of all the ponies killed in Terra's attack on Ponyville when {{spoiler|stating her reason for voting to kill her when she's imprisoned}}.
* [[Death Faked for You]]: {{spoiler|After Nihilus is defeated, the world at large thinks Twilight is dead. And while she's recuperating, Luna and the other Mane Cast members do nothing to counter those rumors, in order to keep her safe.}}
* [[Death Glare]]: The Stare becomes this literally when Fluttershy uses it on Puppets -- [[Hand Wave|apparently]], it works by bending a pony or animal's will, but since the Puppets don't have any will of their own, it burns through them instead.
* [[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.
* [[Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat]]: Part of Nihilus' flaws as a minion is that she's a ''complete'' inversion of
* [[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.}}
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* [[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 Civil War]]: In the [[Backstory]]
* [[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.
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* [[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.
* [[The Fighting Narcissist]]: General Esteem, widely recognized as the greatest bladecaster in the
* [[Godzilla Threshold]]: That's all you can really call it when the group {{spoiler|recruits Discord.}}
* [[Hammerspace]]: Twilight/Nihilus' null-space
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* [[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.}}
* [[Les Collaborateurs]]: All the nobles and soldiers who side with the royal family after Titan takes over. Though it should be noted that aside from Esteem and the Cadet, who joined for power (and the former's respect in the Cadet's case), this is presented more realistically than most
* [[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.
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* [[The Messiah]]: Due to being Celestia's prized student, Twilight has a reputation like this among the Loyalists, which causes their ranks to swell after the [[Internal Reveal]] that she's still alive. {{spoiler|And after her [[He's Back]] moment, with the awakening of her true power, she really starts to live up to it.}}
* [[Mighty Glacier]]: Applejack
* [[Mind Hive]]: Celestia can split her mind into at least three separate consciousnesses, each able to concentrate on a different train of thought. {{spoiler|Twilight also acquires this skill after being freed of Nihilus, and Terra implies Titan has the ability as well.}}
* [[Mind Rape]]: The Insanity does this to Rainbow Dash whenever she even thinks about resisting one of Nihilus's orders. Or [[Loss of Identity|remember she's Rainbow Dash.]]
* [[Mooks]]: The Puppets
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* [[My Name Is Inigo Montoya]]: {{spoiler|Twilight Sparkle gets a moment like this when Titan's torture forces her [[Split Personality|fractured mind]] back together.}}
* [[Mythology Gag]]: Out of the Mane Six, the first two to {{spoiler|use another race's abilities are Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy, who use pegasus and earthpony magic respectively. This hearkens back to their original G4 designs which in turn were based off of two G1 characters.}} And as a cherry on top, immediately afterwards we get:
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* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]: Titan puts {{spoiler|Sparkle in such a bad situation it forces her to reintegrate her minds.}}
** Terra's assault on Ponyville, which serves no strategic goal and is only to hurt her enemies emotionally, ends {{spoiler|with her losing her godhood and the Elements of Harmony re-ignited}}.
* [[Nietzsche Wannabe]]: Terra would appear to qualify, as she believes that the only purpose in life is to survive, and that any other goal is meaningless.
* [[Never My Fault]]: Titan blames ponykind for {{spoiler|the deaths of his wife and first son}}, even though Discord was responsible for the latter, and ''he himself'' was responsible for the former.
* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]: Since there is a ''war'' going on and all, naturally no one's holding any punches. Still, that being said, the key fights always seem to be a bit harsher than most of the others.
* [[Not Now, Kiddo]]: The moon turning red.
* [[
** And both Titan and Terra have a spell that neutralizes other ponies' magic {{spoiler|including the Elements of Harmony.}}
* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: After Applejack and Fluttershy end up sharing a bed for the night, Rainbow Dash walks in on them the following morning lying on top of each other. She quickly leaves the room, and Applejack just as quickly follows after to explain.
* [[Offing the Offspring]]: Titan and Terra have no problem with doing this {{spoiler|as proven when Titan kills Empyrean for [[You Have Failed Me...|failing him]]}}.
* [[Ominous Floating Castle]]: Nihilus' floating citadel.
* [[Only Known by Their Nickname]]: Sir Unimpressive and the Cadet.
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* [[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.}}
* [[Humans Are
* [[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.
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* [[Rage Against the Mentor]]: {{spoiler|When they're reunited, Twilight ''really'' tears Celestia a new one, calling her out for all her manipulations. Celestia tries to mend things between them, but Twilight points out that the way she's doing it is just another manipulation.}}
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Applejack gives a rather simple one to Esteem when they meet for the first time:
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** Esteem himself gives one to Twilight when he thinks the villains have won, telling her that she was foolish to think she could win, and that all she'll be remembered for is failing. {{spoiler|When Twilight kills him, she gives a similar speech about how all ''he'll'' be remembered for is his treachery.}}
* [[Rebel Leader]]: Twilight's parents seem to have been, if not ''the'' leaders of the Loyalists, then at least among them. Until the Mane Six hook up with them, and Twilight hesitantly accepts Luna's decision to appoint her General of the Armies of Equestria, which makes her leader of the Loyalists by default.
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* [[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.}}
* [[Royal Brat]]: Prince Empyrean,
* [[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.}}
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* [[Shoo Out the Clowns]]: Well, [[Cloudcuckoolander|Pinkie's]] still involved, so this trope isn't in full effect. However, the CMC are quickly removed from the story after a quick mention as they're shipped off to safety, thus allowing the story to focus on the more serious characters.
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: During the second Battle of Ponyville, while Terra is beating the Mane Six and Luna into the ground, she's also ranting about how survival is all that matters, and doesn't understand why they're fighting her even though they have no chance to beat her. They shoot her down simply:
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'''Fluttershy''': Friendship. }}
** This is immediately followed by Terra stating that she's still more powerful than all of them and trying to finish them, only to be stopped by {{spoiler|the previously-neutralized Elements of Harmony reigniting.}}
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(''Attempts to kill Twilight, {{spoiler|but the Elements reignite, blocking and then immobilizing her}}'')
'''Terra''': [[This Cannot Be!|No! That's impossible!]]<br />
'''Twilight''': Hadn't you heard? Friendship ''is'' magic. }}
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* [[Stop or I Shoot Myself]]: When Nihilus captures the Element bearers and is trying to take the Elements from them, Rarity threatens to slit her own throat with a diamond (that she hid in her mane) if she doesn't release the others. {{spoiler|Nihilus agrees, but the point ends up being moot anyway.}}
* [[Storming the Castle]]: The Loyalists attacking Canterlot castle. By the time it's done, {{spoiler|they've retaken the castle, Empyrean and Esteem are dead, Celestia's power has been restored, and Titan is ''pissed''.}}
* [[
* [[Time Skip]]: After {{spoiler|Nihilus' defeat}}, the story skips ahead a month, and after a couple of chapters bringing various plot threads together, subtly skips ahead roughly two weeks {{spoiler|for the [[Final Battle]]}}.
* [[Title Drop]]: For both of the story's titles:
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** Also how Terra refers to her original, kind self. She even goes so far as to say that even if there was any of the old her left buried inside her, she'd gladly destroy it.
* [[Try Not to Die]]: Just before they [[Storming the Castle|storm Canterlot castle]], Twilight orders Sir Unimpressive not to die, as a contingency plan (specifically, he can lead if she dies).
* [[Took a Level
** According to the author, all of the Mane Six will take multiple levels in badass, yes even Fluttershy.
* [[Torture Technician]]: Terra seems to be this when she's not busy creating Puppets {{spoiler|unfortunately for Celestia.}}
* [[To the Pain]]: A subtle example, but {{spoiler|Discord}}'s threat to {{spoiler|Titan}} during their confrontation qualifies:
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* [[Unfortunate Names]]: One of the Loyalist commanders is a Pegasus named [[Punny Name|Noble Steed]]. When he introduces himself, he comments that he doesn't know what he did to his parents when he was only a day old that they decided to punish him by giving him that name.
* [[Ungrateful Bastard]]: {{spoiler|When the Mane Six defeat and depower Terra, they vote to spare her life. She mocks them for it and calls them weak.}}
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** Empyrean has shades of this as well.
* [[World of Cardboard Speech]]: {{spoiler|Celestia}} gives a brief one after regaining her power, in the same vein as the [[Trope Namer]].
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* [[World's Most Beautiful Woman|World's Most Beautiful Mare]]: Terra.
* [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]]: {{spoiler|Following her loss of power and imprisonment, Terra pretends to have an emotional breakdown in order to lure Fluttershy close to her cage so she can try and kill her.}}
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: {{spoiler|When Empyrean is stripped of his power by the Mane Six, Titan doesn't hesitate to kill him.}}
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