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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic)

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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic)	comment	The sequel to Parting Words.The story begins at the start of the season 3 finale and contains a second divergence from canon. Instead of only Twilight ascending, all of the Mane Six become alicorns. Celestia and Luna give the group a new mission: to track down other alicorns that they believe are manifesting all over Equestria, as part of a grand plan to bring immortality to the entire population.By the way, Luna thinks it might be a good idea if they focused first on finding an alicorn stallion or two...It is currently ongoing.Can be found here; it used to be on FIMFiction, but the author pulled all his stories out due to disagreements with the moderators.Beware of unmarked spoilers ahead!Tropes:
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_10e22e6e	type	Can't Believe I Said That
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_10e22e6e	comment	Can't Believe I Said That: In chapter 34, Zephyr orders one of his men, regarding a defensive shield, to "Set that field to squirrel-only, and I cannot believe I just said that."
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Copying an organization, not a person. The Filli Terriam is basically Equestria's version of the KKK. Bold Lion is Equestria's version of Leonardo da Vinci ("Leonardo" literally translates to "bold lion").
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_12b045	type	Winds of Destiny, Change!
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_12b045	comment	Winds of Destiny, Change!: It turns out that Pinkie Pie's unusual abilities are due to an innate ability to perceive and manipulate probability. It's a extremely rare variation of Earth Pony magic, unfortunately they're most commonly known as "Ill-Starred" and thought to be jinxed. Celestia and Luna have learned it, and Luna gets the unfortunate job of mentoring Pinkie. Celestia, who was left behind with the nobles, is debating who actually drew the short straw.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_13f1c46e	type	Recursive Fanfiction
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_13f1c46e	comment	Recursive Fanfiction: Chapter 29 was one for A Great and Powerful Heart: After leaving Promise, Trixie and Jasper spent a year being hunted by Sheriff Brass and his friends from Filli Terram. During a magic show, Jasper and Trixie end up ascending to alicornhood. Later, with Princess Celestia's help, they stage a magic show to both introduce themselves as royalty, and perform a sting operation on Sheriff Brass and Filli Terram friends.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_1434e55c	type	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_1434e55c	comment	Chapter 5 features Rainbow Dash's parents telling Scootaloo about the "Iddle Binky" incident.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_149f7447	type	Rescue Romance
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_149f7447	comment	Rescue Romance: In this continuity, Starlight Glimmer's cult overthrew her without the Mane Six's intervention. They held her captive until Sunburst rescued her. By the time she comes to the Mane Six's attention, the two are engaged, living in the Crystal Empire, and working on magical research together.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Twilight Sparkle's first impression of Flash Sentry, his graduation from Wing Point, and his quick thinking in the field, is that "We are going to work so well together!" And then she finds out the hard way that his Indy Ploy tendencies clash with her Obsessively Organized tendencies.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_15da4941	type	Badass Adorable
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_15da4941	comment	Bishi's fights turn into this because his opponents habitually underestimate him.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_1713b00a	type	Your Head A-Splode
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_1713b00a	comment	Your Head Asplode: How Dapper Blue, one of Rarity's Radiant Guard, deals with a kappa terrorizing a couple of passing ponies (one of whom is in labor). He stuffs an exploding chili pepper (a result of crossbreeding with poison joke) into a cucumber and lets the kappa eat it, completely vaporizing the creature's head when it goes off.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_1871c897	type	Kirk Summation
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_1871c897	comment	Kirk Summation: When arresting all the members of the Filli Terriam, Celestia also takes the time to shut down their racial purity nonsense by pointing out that she — who they revere as much as any other of her subjects — couldn't be any more mixed racially. When Mach is lecturing his Uncle Fussbudget after his ascension, he shoots down every attempt Fussbudget gives to defend his actions as a Corrupt Politician. Rainbow Dash delivers one to the Crownbreakers responsible for the destruction of the Thunderdome about how their action was pointlessly destructive and cruel, and she does it in full ROYAL CANTERLOT VOICE no less.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: "It looks like the great Alicorn hunt is on, after all."
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_1a8dc238	type	Underestimating Badassery
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_1a8dc238	comment	Underestimating Badassery: According to Celestia, Twilight toward Spike: And toward Spike himself: Almost a Running Gag with Bishi, every time he gets ready to fight, as nopony can believe such a cute and delicate-looking little guy can do any damage; his opponents always learn their lesson the hard way. Apple Bloom is underestimated by Malfunziona for being a small, non-cutie marked earth pony. It doesn't end nicely for him. When Gold Star wonders why the Crownbreakers have started acting up, Dash suspects a political version of this trope is in play: she doesn't have an elder alicorn watching her back like Twilight and Pinkie, Rarity's connections, or Fluttershy's looks. Add to that the stigma of the Jerk Jock stereotype, and she looks like an easy target for a smear campaign, right? By the end of the Windy City arc, she's helped thwart a terrorist attack, begun overturning Mayor Fussbudget's inane laws, lit a fire under the Alicorn Academy's collective ass to begin reforming it's equally inane policies, and quickly becomes Windy City's favorite new alicorn.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_1b60dcba	type	The Bully
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_1b60dcba	comment	The Bully: Pennyworth and his two surprisingly thuggish companions, Bullhorn and Air Drop, along with Marzipan, Ruby Drop, and Ivy, are snobs who berate ponies they consider to be lesser then them (most ponies) and go as far as forcing "the diaper dance" on them.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_1b9df446	type	Wrong Context Magic
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_1b9df446	comment	Wrong Context Magic: What little Discord reveals about chaos magic makes it this. Unlike pony magic it doesn't really have rules but it does have hardwired limits. He claims that it essentially runs on "it just does because it's Wild Magic" logic in results and can actually act up when he is using it. Malfunziona shows that it's possible for chaos magic to lock into a specialization as well as establishing that trying to get chaos magic to go against its own nature will backfire.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_1beef720	type	Living Forever Is Awesome
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_1beef720	comment	Living Forever Is Awesome: Celestia and Luna are tired of outliving everypony else, but otherwise they hold this opinion. Thus, they ask the Mane Six to assist them in their quest to make everypony immortal. The trope is more nuanced than the standard in that they are truly seeking an end to senescence or "old age" so that nopony has to wither, sicken or grow frail before they die.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Well, not kills, but it does lead to a lot of friction between the Wonderbolts and Rainbow Dash. Spitfire claims that Celestia told her about their new assignment... which Rainbow Dash assumes is that they've all been briefed on "The Plan" (see above). Celestia actually told Spitfire that their mission was to keep an eye on Rainbow Dash, and that Dash would provide further details later. As such, the Wonderbolts feel like they're babysitting a spoiled fan-girl, while Dash can't understand why they don't like her. Pinkie thought her family sent her away because they were scared she was "Jinxed". They were scared for her, namely that the ponies they lived around would hurt her over it and so sent her to Ponyville where odd things were more common in hopes of letting her live a more normal life. And the reason they didn't reply to her initial coronation invites was they thought people might look down on Pinkie from coming from a family of rock farmers and didn't want her reputation to suffer. In Chapter 34, the opening ceremony of the Colt Scout Jamboree is ruined by a horde of enraged squirrels. One of the scouts had tried to invite them, but ended up inciting a riot because he didn't speak their language very well. A VERY literal example with the Vitality Elixir. Apparently, the original formula worked quite well, but, over time, some details got lost in translation, and the many attempts to find the right ingredient, or a good substitute, had been either useless or extremely dangerous, as is what happened with Cotton Mouth's version; similar to what happened with the original Snake Oil which is referenced.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_1f137e42	type	Artificial Limbs
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_1f137e42	comment	A fairly mundane but still horrible example: One of Mach One's wings failed to develop normally and had to be amputated. He was just a FOAL when it happened, and never had the chance to learn to fly. When he becomes an Alicorn, he gains a phantom magical wing that manifests itself whenever he concentrates on its feeling. A real one has begun to grow in, but it'll be a very slow process.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_1f250372	type	I Need a Freaking Drink
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_1f250372	comment	I Need a Freaking Drink: After her short arc in Neigh Orleans, which involves getting dragged through the bayou and having to sleep on a lice-infested bed, among other things, Rarity decides to get "smashed off [her] freaking plot" (her words) once back on her airship. Her servants eventually switch the champagne in her mimosas for ginger ale in an attempt to keep her from doing too much damage to herself, but by that point she's had so many that she passes out.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_20779065	type	Marry Them All
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_20779065	comment	Marry Them All: Ponies can form herds (or at least used to, fairly recently. It's far less common in the present.) Sweetie Belle thinks this'd be the perfect solution to all the CMC crushing on Breezy Shy.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_20e20e99	type	Not the Intended Use
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_20e20e99	comment	Not the Intended Use: Rainbow Dash uses bubblegum trading cards to help figure out the lineup for Wonderbolt shows. Spitfire thinks it's funny at first, but she soon realizes that those cards give quick summaries of performance stats for the ponies on them and can even be used to rough out flying formations.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_21d47bb7	type	Nouveau Riche
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_21d47bb7	comment	Nouveau Riche: Banana Supreme, Bananas Foster's grandfather, is the one responsible for the family fortune. Supreme's wife, Banana Liqueur, is obsessed with earning the respect of the Canterlot nobility; he couldn't care less, though, and he tells her bluntly that she'll never get it. Babs' bullies are this trope as well, meaning their parents are quite eager to advance in society, even throwing away teaching their foals basic decency in favor of social climbing tactics. Luna encourages Rarity to become a patron for those who have recently gained wealth, so that they may be truly noble like herself and Fancy Pants instead of turning into scheming, pompous twits.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_21f60711	type	Good Is Not Soft
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_21f60711	comment	The Crownbreaker saboteurs who intended to blow up the cloud stadium, potentially dropping every flightless patron in attendance to their deaths and destroying an innocent farming community in the aftermath, just to get at Dash end up having their own tools turned on them by a furious Mach, who has no qualms about leaving them to potentially die. He did tie parachute cords to their ankles and left the mare's wings unbound but he saw no reason to tell them either of those things.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Several. Dapper Blue's exploding chili pepper that was used to kill a Kappa in the bayou could have easily been a one shot gag... One of AJ's Roughnecks was telling stories about vampire fruits/gourds. Cut to chapter 58... The giant scissors that Babs uses to defeat the giant hair monster at the trade show come in handy later on, when she cuts the rigging and gas envelope of a blimp full of Diamond Dog pirates.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_230d64	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_230d64	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Pennyworth and Babs' other bullies are used to getting away with their actions due to this. As part of their punishment, they get cut off from their high society life and are temporarily placed into the custody of Granny Smith and Big Mac. Both of these Screw The Rules tropes are also hinted at heavily by the Wonderbolts, wondering who that mare is in charge. This doesn't go over well.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Fire Streak is the only Wonderbolt who thinks it might be a bad idea to badmouth Rainbow Dash. You know, their new boss.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_243c8078	type	Spontaneous Human Combustion
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_243c8078	comment	Spontaneous Human Combustion: One pony took a medicine made from phoenix feathers. It cured all his health problems, but now he tends to burst into flames at random intervals. It's frequent enough that they usually keep him in a room with fire suppression sprinklers.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_247b578a	type	NotSoHarmlessPunishment
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_247b578a	comment	Not So Harmless Punishment: For all their failings as an academic institution and being a breeding ground for the likes of the Crownbreakers, The Alicorn Academy gets... matched donations. Instead of the government giving them grants or loans, it will instead match whatever donations they receive from alumni and fundraisers and so on. This doesn't sound like much of a punishment until Dash tells them that because the university has been doing so poorly in recent years, virtually no one has been making donations and they've been relying almost exclusively on the crown funds which have now been cut off.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_25101d1a	type	Post-Victory Collapse
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_25101d1a	comment	Post-Victory Collapse: Apple Bloom passes out for two days after defeating and imprisoning Malfunziona. Both Scootaloo and Mach ended up doing this after neutralizing the giant storm, although Mach stayed conscious for long enough to take the unconscious Scootaloo back to the others.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_26beee71	type	Taught by Experience
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_26beee71	comment	Taught by Experience: Spike and Owlowiscious took cover in the Library's basement as soon as Twilight received Star Swirl's notebook, and Spike started wearing a hard hat and taking his naps in the basement for good measure. A smart move, considering what happened. And again, when Twilight and company cast the spell to trigger Shining Armor's ascension. This time, Spike puts on a helmet and sets up a sandbag bunker for protection.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_275d19ee	type	Birds of a Feather
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_275d19ee	comment	Birds of a Feather: The Nobody's Fools are all ponies (and a zebra/donkey, and a griffin) that don't fit in normal pony society; they are all close friends. Rainbow Dash and Prince Ajax (from the griffin's royalty) are both athletic, adventurous types from unsophisticated backgrounds (Ajax and his father had been wilderness guides and explorers) who had been suddenly raised to heights of prominence that they truthfully weren't sure they were quite ready for. They hit on quickly after they both noticed how mutually out of place they were at a formal dinner.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_27ab0123	type	Offing the Offspring
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_27ab0123	comment	Offing the Offspring: There used to be, as Mach One points out, a custom of literally bumping off disabled Pegasus foals off of pegasus cities that was ended fairly recently (as in, "Cloudsdale still has No OSHA Compliance regarding guardrails" and "Hey, remember how nopony tried to help Fluttershy when she fell, despite a policy of If They Are Falling You Catch Them?" recently). It's stated to be one of the reasons they live in floating cities.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_29c480a3	comment	Good News, Bad News: Bad news, Pecan Praline is too far into labor to make it to a hospital in time for the birth. Good news, among her rescuers is Doctor Southern Comfort, and all he needs is the nearest roof and clean water.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_2a7b0247	comment	Could Say It, But...: Upon being ordered to stop trying to cure long-lasting disabilities because that might cause her patients to stop fitting in with the handicapped community, Doctor Hospice Care does this while discussing the root cause of Scootaloo's inability to fly with Rainbow Dash. He could tell her the names of several out-of-town specialists, along with their clinics and contact numbers, and he might know a couple of helpful therapies, but he's not going to say anything, because it is against policy wink.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_2b14367f	type	Bring My Brown Pants
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_2b14367f	comment	Bring My Brown Pants: When Rarity scares a gator off, according to the footnote, the gator left the water even less fit for drinking than he found it.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_2b8295a1	type	Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_2b8295a1	comment	Twilight Sparkle's reaction to eating Tabasco-frosted cupcakes includes a a Goofy Holler.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_2c467b4b	type	Stop Drowning and Stand Up
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_2c467b4b	comment	Stop Drowning and Stand Up: Downplayed when Rarity's horn drags her through the swamp and drops her into the dead center of a brackish pool. After only a moment of frantic thrashing and splashing she discovers, to her semi-relief, that the water only comes up to her withersnote top of her shoulderblades at the back of her neck.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Dapper Blue, a member of Rarity's Radiant Guard, is an avid gardener and has his own greenhouse aboard her airship. He breeds plants with unusual magical properties, including an explosive chili pepper that he uses to bring down a kappa in the Neigh Orleans swamps.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_2e9641d7	type	Flashback Echo
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_2e9641d7	comment	Flashback Echo: After Spitfire tells Rainbow Dash that the latter needs to be "taken down a peg", Rainbow flashes back to the time when her friends unmasked themselves as Mare-Do-Well, ending with Applejack saying almost the same thing. Naturally, Rainbow isn't pleased.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_31083edb	comment	Logic Bomb: In chapter 37, Apple Bloom drops a humorous logic bomb on the booth bunny manning a superglue booth. Said booth bunny suffers a BSOD. In chapter 38, Apple Bloom devises an epic mechanical version to contain Malfunziona, whose power only allows him to break things. It's a 3-D arrangement of gears meshed so that none of them can turn, with him trapped inside. Breaking any of the gears will allow the others to turn freely, effectively fixing the device - something Malfunziona absolutely can't do, fixing something being lethally anathema to his being. She ends up getting her cutie mark and ascending to Alicornhood as a result. Bold Lion's original prison for him worked on a similar principle; a bronze container with a screw-on lid that would tighten the more you tried to unscrew it.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_31a2a33c	type	Stuff Blowing Up
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_31a2a33c	comment	Stuff Blowing Up: The fate of Ponyville Library when the Mane Six Ascend is BOOM! Canterlot Castle's Western Solarium, to a lesser extent, when they trigger Shining Armor's ascension. Spike even comments that they've gotten better at containing the collateral damage (limited to a blown-out ceiling and a badly scorched floor).
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_351e7cf9	type	Romanticism Versus Enlightenment
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_351e7cf9	comment	Romanticism Versus Enlightenment: Celestia and Luna are on Team Enlightenment. They believe that the more they learn about magic, and the more they apply themselves and their reason, the better they can make life for everypony. Old age (i.e. senescence) is an illness that everyone except them is born with and a cure should be found for it like any other illness. Applejack is initially on Team Romanticism by voicing concerns about immortality not being "natural" and worrying about consequences of removing something that is "part of life". Luna argues that something being "natural" is not a good thing: disease, war, and greed are also "natural". The enlightenment angle is given a boost in this particular setting because the only natural landscape in Equestria is the Everfree Forest, which is considered by everyone to be an Eldritch Location because it is natural.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_35b090a3	type	Shared Family Quirks
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_35b090a3	comment	Shared Family Quirks: Fluttershy's parents and brother share her coat/mane colors, soft voice, and introverted demeanor. Like her, they are also surprisingly talented: her brother is highly skilled at martial arts, her father is a cloud sculptor/architect who developed the principles of cloud hydroponics, and her mother is a botanist/gardener in Cloudsdale with a fondness for exotic (and dangerous) plants. Yes, Fluttershy's mother grows plants on clouds.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_37141022	type	Can't You Read the Sign?
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_37141022	comment	Can't You Read the Sign?: In Chapter 3, while panicking over six new alicorns, someone activated the klaxon marked "in event of invasion by giant snails", which the situation clearly was not.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_37ddb0bf	type	Not a Mask
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_37ddb0bf	comment	Not a Mask: Sweetie Belle realizes the zomponies are not costumed actors when she sees a front leg fall off.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_38b48685	type	Born in the Wrong Century
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_38b48685	comment	Born in the Wrong Century: As Discord points out, Malfunziona, whose power grows depending on how complicated the machine he breaks is, was active during a time where the most complex devices were wheels and farming tools and so could hardly ever become more than a minor nuisance, albeit one that kept Equestria's technology from developing further until he was imprisoned. Cut forward several centuries after being sealed where he finds himself surrounded by so much advanced machinery that he could become more powerful than Discord or Celestia in just an hour.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_3929e0db	type	You Need to Get Laid
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_3929e0db	comment	You Need to Get Laid: The reason Luna asks the Mane Six to try finding Alicorn stallions? She's really tense from not getting any action for 1500 years.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_3a1c2171	type	The Man Behind the Man
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_3a1c2171	comment	The Man Behind the Man: Cotton Mouth initially appeared to be responsible for the kappa, hinkypunk and zombie infestations around Neigh Orleans. Turns out they're all working for the same being, a lich and necromancer who is also responsible for the destruction of the city of Port Malfou two or three hundred years before. The Crownbreakers have somepony backing them up; but whoever they are, they haven't been revealed as of ch 55. They've been supplying the jackasses who are the public faces of the movement (including Poindexter, Mayor Fussbudget's intern) with the funding they need.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_3a88a563	type	Vocal Dissonance
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_3a88a563	comment	Vocal Dissonance: Jade Blossom, one of Rarity's Radiant Guard. Neighponese descent, coloration and angled features to show for it, has the air of an exotic kunoichi - and a heavy Appleloosan accent that she loves to use to completely destroy that mystique.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: The Ancient Lemurians put a large number of safety measures on everything. They have good reasons: Also, the creators of the Tree of Harmony have Lemurian-level of paranoia, to the point that if the Tree and its creations weren't so benevolent, she would be inclined to believe they created it (the Lemurians managed to sink their own continent; the Elements of Harmony, for all their power, could not harm anyone, no matter how aggressively they were used). Hollow Shades' residents have prepared their homes with multiple measures against the various monsters and ghosts that apparently haunt the area. For starters, we're talking solid oak construction, garlic hanging everywhere, and everything is reinforced with Cold Iron.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_3b99a9e0	type	Reality Warper
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_3b99a9e0	comment	When questioning the necessity of effectively scattering the Elements of Harmony to the four winds to hunt for Alicorns for the Panacea, Twilight points out that, among other possible magical sources, they have a bucking Draconeques. Celestia explains that they already exhausted those sources (from the various plants of the Everfree Forest, to the regenerative magics of Phoenixes) with no results. Discord's powers in particular were less than successful, resulting in a bunch of weird effects. As Discord himself explains that Chaos Magic tends to get 'irritable' when you try to apply science and logic to it.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_3b9b21c9	type	So Beautiful, It's a Curse
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_3b9b21c9	comment	So Beautiful, It's a Curse: The other princesses feel this way about Fluttershy, who is now so beautiful that every straight colt around her has self-control issues, which might be potentially troublesome if affecting a large number at once.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_3bebfcc0	type	Living Lie Detector
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_3bebfcc0	comment	Applejack has become a Living Lie Detector, and has to personally find all sides of a matter before her instincts are satisfied. She can also sense if what someone says is based on fact or belief; if someone says "I created this statue" she will receive a vision of them actually working on it.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Several incidents get noodled in this story. Apparently the greatest state of chaos Canterlot palace ever faced was not at the hands of Nightmare Moon, Discord, or the Changelings, but when a griffon ambassador's wife called Celestia's hindquarters fat. Chapter 5 features Rainbow Dash's parents telling Scootaloo about the "Iddle Binky" incident. Discord once tried to use his magic against his chaotic nature and suffered some very unpleasant aftereffects, including three weeks of cramps. The time Banana Foster set a cloud on fire. It apparently involved a lot of rubbing alcohol, and a complete disregard for personal safety.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_3c7022ce	type	Mundane Solution
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_3c7022ce	comment	Mundane Solution: When Twilight and Trixie are struggling to figure out a way for the latter send the former notes on the latter's illusion spells, a noticeably annoyed Dash hits upon the perfect solution; hold the notes up to a magic mirror, and have someone on the receiving end photograph them. Cue nearly everyone Facehoofing.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: When Pinkie's unusual earth pony magic is explained by Celestia and Luna, Twilight is (initially) more concerned with how the Pinkie Sense ultimately has a rational explanation than the obvious distress that talking about it is causing Pinkie Pie.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Rainbow Dash delivers one to Spitfire. The fight lasts all of three seconds. Bishi's fights turn into this because his opponents habitually underestimate him. Lord Malifec stands no chance against a swarm of his own zombies.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_3dcc914f	type	Took a Level in Kindness
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_3dcc914f	comment	Took a Level in Kindness: Iron Will. After his incident with Fluttershy, he came to realize the ideal of "strength with focus", eventually opening up a martial arts studio with the mottoes "You don't need to step on somepony to stand up for yourself" and "Meekness isn't weakness; it's strength that's under control". Fluttershy's brother Bishi is one of his best students.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_3f7a958b	type	Secret Test of Character
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_3f7a958b	comment	In Chapter 31, Celestia gets tired of being on the receiving end of this trope with respect to the mystery box, the Tree of Harmony, and whoever made them. She decides that rather than wait for the Mane Six to pass whatever Secret Test of Character the box represents, she'll simply find another way in - and she hires Daring Do for the job.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_41744185	type	Follow the Chaos
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_41744185	comment	Follow the Chaos: How do you find a Walking Techbane draconequus at a technology expo? Look for what's breaking.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_41c08e5	type	Establishing Series Moment
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_41c08e5	comment	Establishing Series Moment: The very first paragraph which highlights that the story is NOT going to follow Magical Mystery Cure while giving a quick recap to Parting Words and bringing the readers up to speed on what's about to happen.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_41d23ee5	type	Accusation Fic
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_41d23ee5	comment	Accusation Fic: Though not as prominent as in the previous story, this story continues to call out the actions of many of the characters in canon: Applejack failing to stop the bullying of her sister and her friends, Celestia's manipulative tendencies by Sunset Shimmer of all ponies and the total failure of the Wonderbolts to act in dire situations.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_41f26c58	type	Happy Dance
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_41f26c58	comment	Happy Dance: Luna and Celestia go into one when they realize that Twilight had successfully ascended the Mane Six into Alicorns. Twilight does one when she indulges a long-held dream of hers; entering a bookstore and buying one of everything on the shelves. A young unicorn who was trying to market his newest invention - the fountain pen - keeps breaking out in giddy hysterics after Apple Bloom introduces him to Twilight Sparkle and Twilight promptly ordered a thousand of them, a lifetime's worth of ink refill and replacement nibs, and gave his product a royal seal of approval.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_42c8293a	type	Sibling Team
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_42c8293a	comment	Sibling Team: Three out of the six princesses are this. With the exclusion of Twilight and Pinkie Pie, we have: Rarity and (sister) Sweetie Belle Applejack with (sister) Apple Bloom and (cousin) Babs Seed Fluttershy and (brother) Bishi And 'honorary sisters' Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_442e3d95	type	Professor Guinea Pig
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_442e3d95	comment	Professor Guinea Pig: Cotton Mouth tested his vitality elixir on himself before marketing it as a tonic for pregnant mares. However, the side effects that showed that it didn't work nearly as well as he thought on himself didn't show up until well after the elixir had killed virtually every foal exposed to it.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_45af45f7	type	They Just Don't Get It
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_45af45f7	comment	They Just Dont Get It: Rainbow Dash quickly realizes Pinkie doesn't understand the concept of having smaller separate parties instead of one giant one to celebrate all the fillies getting their cutie marks, Scootaloo's first flight, and everyone's ascensions all at the same time.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_45cd286c	type	Corrupt Politician
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_45cd286c	comment	When Mach is lecturing his Uncle Fussbudget after his ascension, he shoots down every attempt Fussbudget gives to defend his actions as a Corrupt Politician.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_45d22aad	type	Sweet and Sour Grapes
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_45d22aad	comment	Sweet and Sour Grapes: Due to her ascension to Alicornhood, Rainbow Dash cannot become a Wonderbolt. She can, however, command them... and since the titular hunt will be done undercover, she can fly with them as part of her cover story.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_45f0bb2d	type	Hope Is Scary
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_45f0bb2d	comment	Hope Is Scary: The administrators of Windy City's Flightless Foal's Clinic believe that permanently crippled foals should be convinced to accept their limitations instead of getting their hopes dashed time and again by experimental treatments. Dr. Hospice considers this idea antithetical to the very practice of medicine. After all, the treatments will never work if they are not attempted and so hope should be maintained until a successful one is found. He eventually ends up in charge of the clinic after Prince Mach One takes it over and fires the entire administrative board.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Cotton Mouth, the Snake Oil Salesman who peddled a poisonous health tonic in the swamps around Neigh Orleans years ago, leading to a rash of dead and severely deformed foal births. He returns in Chapter 40 to kidnap Mudpuppy and Sweetie Belle, using an army of kappas and zombies under his control, and it's strongly implied that he bred the hinkypunks that bit and nearly killed Sweet Peach and other foals in Neigh Orleans. Chapter 41 reveals that he's actually working for the monsters' real breeder, and he honestly didn't know his elixir was flawed when he gave it to the mares. But he still proves himself capable of purposely hurting children when he rips out some of Mudpuppy's feathers to keep her from escaping. The Crownbreaker infiltrators at the Thunderdome have no qualms about setting bombs to disintegrate the whole facility and potentially drop all the non-Pegasi - and the crippled foals attending at Rainbow Dash's invitation - to their deaths.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Discord takes a lot of comedic abuse. He forgets that Fluttershy now being an Alicorn supercharges The Stare, getting his eyes blown out for his trouble. He suffers the most from the plunderseed's vines, ending up with thorns in a lot of painful places. Also, in this universe his riddle to trick the Mane Six into the maze never worked in the first place thanks to Twilight's logic. Orange Roughy, one of Fluttershy's guards, gets this role when he volunteers to give Breezy some fighting lessons. Not knowing Breezy's background, he tells the frail-looking colt to ditch his training shoes and take his best shot. Breezy's first punch lays him out cold and sends him to the dentist to get his teeth fixed. Daring Do starts off this way when she first tries to force open the mystery box from the Tree of Harmony. She tells Celestia about her lock picks being shattered, taking an electric shock that nearly blew the fillings out of her teeth, and breaking a 50-pound sledgehammer on the box out of frustration. Vertical File, a Canterlot bureaucrat, gets a taste in Chapter 32. Spike fire-mails the huge backlog of paperwork on Flash Sentry's desk to keep Twilight from seeing it and freaking out. The whole lot re-materializes in Celestia's throne room and falls directly on Vertical's head, prompting him to re-think his stand against a proposal to cut down on government paperwork.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_485eb589	type	Sealed Evil in a Can
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_485eb589	comment	Sealed Evil in a Can: Malfunziona, a lesser cousin of Discord's who was basically an over-sized gremlin, was eventually sealed away by Bold Lion (an Expy of Leonardo da Vinci) in a statue of himself, only to get out centuries later during Applejack's group's visit to a Trade Expo where the statue is on display, and wreaks havoc. Until Apple Bloom figures out how to beat and re-imprison him.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_4881cda1	type	Ãœberwald
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_4881cda1	comment	Überwald: Hollow Shades and surroundings. The forest is full of The Undead and Timberwolves, there's an Eldritch Abomination sleeping in the lake, and everyone builds their houses out of Oak and Cold Iron to keep the beasties out. Ponies are warned not to go out after dark - and it's always dark in Hollow Shades. The crew that works the dock is made up of Deep Ones too.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_48d9e12d	type	Funetik Aksent
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_48d9e12d	comment	Funetik Aksent: Mudpuppy and her grandmother speak with thick New Orleans/Cajun accents.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_48e8fe57	type	Happily Adopted
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_48e8fe57	comment	Happily Adopted: Jasper considers the day that Trixie adopted him to be the best day of his life and they have a splendid relationship going when Sunset Shimmer finds them. Bowser, by a family of Diamond Dogs - though it's left him with some very canine mannerisms as a result (chapter 44).
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: Most members of Rarity's Radiant Guard are "Black Flag specialists" - trained in plainclothes security work. Since they don't openly carry armor or weapons when on duty as the standard Royal Guards do, they have to be ready to take out targets hard, fast, and if need be, permanently.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_4a0f5520	type	Guys are Slobs
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_4a0f5520	comment	Guys are Slobs: When Twilight, Flash Sentry and Spike are going undercover in a town, Flash claims that as college men (their cover identity), he and Spike are expected to be "TOTAL SLOBS!" Which is why he's wearing an old, stained goofball jersey as part of his disguise. Twilight just rolls her eyes.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_4a8c4e5f	type	Big "WHAT?!"
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_4a8c4e5f	comment	Big "WHAT?!": Scootaloo has enlisted Sweetie Belle's help with Flute's mute issues. Sweetie gives Flute an extremely unusual directive:
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_4bca5b2e	type	We Have Become Complacent
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_4bca5b2e	comment	In spite of halting her "cryptic mentor" tendencies with Twilight Sparkle, Celestia still tends to be enigmatic and manipulative with a few things. After a couple thousand years, it's become a habit. This includes selecting a host of male guards for Twilight and Fluttershy in hopes that they find their 'super special somepony'. It also includes not fully briefing the Wonderbolts on their 'true' mission with Rainbow Dash to return them to the proper military force they once were before complacency set in. This is also a major factor in why Sunset Shimmer fell, as she saw Celestia much like Twilight did in the beginning of Parting Words, and hated being manipulated. Applejack suspects the reason her guard is such an eclectic collection of species is because Celestia is trying ease her out of any unintentional bigotry she might have but it is also implied that she was trying to show Applejack that she didn't have to act like a Manehatten socialite just because she had become a princess (something that Apple Bloom is in full agreement with).
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_4bf3d8d7	type	Personality Powers
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_4bf3d8d7	comment	Personality Powers: The Bearers' inherent traits, as they relate to their Elements, have only been enhanced by their ascension into Alicorns. Rainbow Dash is now able to feel her guards' loyalty to her. Chapter 46 reveals this goes deeper: she can see all the bonds of loyalty that every pony (and probably every being that's got pony-level intelligence) has and also whether the loyalty is true and at what strength the bond is held by both sides of the bond. This enables her to give the Nobody's Fools the benefit of the doubt when they're accused of being part of the Crownbreakers and Scootaloo defends them; she knows Scootaloo well enough to know that ponies doing the things the Crownbreakers have done and are threatening to do could never earn the pure clean loyalty she sees Scootaloo has for the Fools. In chapter 51 to her displeasure, she finds she can also feel betrayal, which she describes as a rotten sensation that makes her nauseous. Applejack has become a Living Lie Detector, and has to personally find all sides of a matter before her instincts are satisfied. She can also sense if what someone says is based on fact or belief; if someone says "I created this statue" she will receive a vision of them actually working on it. Rarity's ability to find gems has been expanded into the ability to know what ponies need at that exact moment, and then let her find it and get it to them. This includes the plant that saves Sweet Peach's life, the Alicorn who helped grow it, and enough booze for a massive drinking binge to calm her nerves after the crisis has passed.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_4e1d9178	type	Tailor-Made Prison
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_4e1d9178	comment	Tailor-Made Prison: Apple Bloom makes one for Malfunziona that counters his powers by way of a Logic Bomb. His powers are focused entirely around making machines break down. So she countered this by locking him inside a machine that is locked because it's broken, and any attempt to break it further will actually make it work better. Because using his powers to break the cage will also fix it, Malfunziona's powers cannot affect the cage. Bold Lion had the same idea, with a canister with a screw-on lid that tightens whichever way you turn it. The reason it didn't last was because it was dented in a way that allowed Malfunziona to strip the threads.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_4e4fa32c	type	The Ahnold
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_4e4fa32c	comment	The Ahnold: Pinkie Pie's guards, former bouncers, intentionally act like this. The sight of them sends Luna to a series of cold showers and a raid on the ship's stockpile of double fudge ripple ice cream - somehow eating all of the fudge ripple (Not the fudge ripple ice cream; just the fudge ripple).
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_4e64ae3a	type	Rip Van Tinkle
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_4e64ae3a	comment	Rip Van Tinkle: In chapter 39, after Apple Bloom has been Asleep for Days, she finds herself overtaken by this trope.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_4ed2cd33	type	Meekness is Weakness
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_4ed2cd33	comment	Meekness is Weakness: Discussed and subverted - Iron Will explains how his previous encounters with Fluttershy set him on the path to learning that "Meekness is not weakness, it is strength under control."
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_5037b961	type	Et Tu, Brute?
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_5037b961	comment	Et Tu, Brute?: Twilight Sparkle gets a moment of this in chapter 28 when her loyal friend Spike (who has been incinerating much of the admittedly pointless paperwork between her and her captain) asks Twilight to give poor Flash Sentry a break. In this continuity: Starlight Glimmer was revealed to have been overthrown by her own lieutenant who had her imprisoned and ruled over Our Town with an iron fist, until Sunburst came and saved her.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: The side effects of Cotton Mouth using his "Vitality Elixir" on himself, that only emerged after he'd given it to several pregnant mares, most of whom miscarried. He started growing a third eye in the middle of his cheek, a second horn, and stumpy wings, and one of his legs withered away. The lich Malifec is even worse off. He's immortal, but he doesn't heal, forcing him to spend more and more of his power holding his decaying body together. He and Cotton Mouth developed a way to reduce living ponies to protoplasm to undo some of the effects of being undead, albeit temporarily, and he hopes to use Mudpuppy's essence to create a new indestructible body. Cotton Mouth gets the worst of it in the end. Malifec's power is the only thing keeping the effects of the elixir under control; once he dies, Cotton Mouth's body starts to mutate even more horribly at an accelerated rate. Princess Luna can do nothing for him except grant his request for a Mercy Kill. A fairly mundane but still horrible example: One of Mach One's wings failed to develop normally and had to be amputated. He was just a FOAL when it happened, and never had the chance to learn to fly. When he becomes an Alicorn, he gains a phantom magical wing that manifests itself whenever he concentrates on its feeling. A real one has begun to grow in, but it'll be a very slow process.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_505ff63	type	Bag of Kidnapping
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_505ff63	comment	Bag of Kidnapping: Zombies and kappas ambush the Maredi Gras parade and they carry off Mudpuppy and Sweetie Belle in a burlap sack.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_506ffa51	type	Tears of Joy
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_506ffa51	comment	Tears of Joy: Scootaloo, Rainbow Dash, the Nobody's Fools, and everyone around get these when Scootaloo ascends, gains her cutie mark, and manages to fly all in one moment. Even Harshwhinny is crying fit to bust.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_50b05d30	comment	Later in the same chapter, she also takes a dig at the idea of Celestia Petrifying and banishing Ponies to the moon for the most minor of offenses, pointing out the two known cases of these punishments-Nightmare Moon and Discord- were literal God-tier threats.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: Twilight designs the group's communicator compacts to be as indestructible as she can make them, bragging that they'll still work even after being hit with a sledgehammer. They get put to the test right away when Apple Bloom drops hers on a stone floor, then later when Rarity briefly loses hers while being dragged through the Neigh Orleans swamps. Later still, Celestia modifies hers to hang around her neck and act as a video camera, and after the Mane Six return the Element gems to the Tree of Harmony, they have the necklaces re-shaped to hold their compacts. Twilight also adds an enchantment to the Element necklaces and her tiara, so that they'll teleport back to their wearers if they get more than ten feet away. Breezy Shy brings his martial-arts training shoes to the Junior Gala just in case he has to defend himself. When the bullies from Babs' school start to threaten the Crusaders, he changes into those shoes and handily beats the stuffing out of their leader. Rarity somehow manages to hide 15 stilettos and a garrote in a little black dress she makes for one of the mares in her security detail. Her ship contains not only a boutique so she can keep selling her fashion designs (under an alias), but a huge range of specialized workshops and facilities for the comfort of passengers and crew. Twilight and Flash Sentry have opposing definitions of the term. For Twilight, it means everything is punched into an itemized checklist, while for Flash, his preparation is in his lack of preparation so he can react immediately to new conditions. Whoever created the Tree of Harmony did it to help maintain harmony, and anything it creates has a lot of safety measures to prevent misuse and exploitation by unworthy users. When Twilight, Flash, and Spike set out for Hollow Shades in Chapter 33, Flash ditches most of Twilight's gear in favor of weapons and items they can use against the supernatural creatures rumored to live in the area - including spices and herbs Spike can use for cooking. He even packs a repeating crossbow and hides a retractable blade under his athletic jersey. Spike carries at least two emergency bananas, one of which he uses to escape from what he describes as a "Franken-Monkey" in chapter 63.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_5103ab7b	type	Sexy Backless Outfit
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_5103ab7b	comment	Rarity gets to wear a long, form-fitting, backless gown during the Mane Six's departure ceremony, much to the appreciation of the male audience there. She later makes several colts swoon by doing a mane toss.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: A non-fatal version: Apple Bloom drops one after a potion-making mare who disregarded her warnings because she was a filly and had learnt the notions of the potions the mare was making from a zebra finds out Apple Bloom was right in the most explosive way possible. It's Played for Laughs In-Universe too, as the guards accompanying her broke into laughter.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_54cbd0cb	type	This Is Unforgivable!
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_54cbd0cb	comment	This Is Unforgivable!: Pinkie is utterly horrified upon learning that Fussbudget once gave Mach One a papier-mâché prop instead of an actual cake for his birthday party, and ominously swears that she will inflict some unspecified punishment upon him for this violation of party ethics. She later re-creates the prop cake and forces Fussbudget to eat every bite.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_54cc6b24	type	Le Parkour
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_54cc6b24	comment	Le Parkour: Mach One, a one-winged pony, uses expert parkour moves to evade the guards trying to catch him, and impresses Rainbow Dash in the process.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_55ec42d7	type	Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_55ec42d7	comment	Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: There are several instances of "thee" and "thou" being used as plural forms of "you". To give Luna her due, of course, she's still likely getting used to the fact that they no longer have declensions for pronouns. 1,000 years is a lot of linguistic drift.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_5627b73e	type	JailBaitWait
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_5627b73e	comment	Jailbait Wait: After getting pranked by an introduction to the newly ascended adolescent Alicorn prince Mach One, and then learning that he's actually pretty good at quoting romantic poetry, Luna declares that she's offended by the familiarity implied by his poem, and as such will not speak to him again... until he's legal.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_5798bfbf	type	Reassigned to Antarctica
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_5798bfbf	comment	The majority of Applejack's guard, The Roughnecks, fit both this trope and Reassigned to Antarctica. Aside from the usual discipline problems, there are also a few donkeys, a crystal pony, three bat-ponies, a gryphon, a zebra and even a couple of diamond dogs. One of them is one of Applejack's cousins, the sight of whom really throws her for a loop.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: Gets a variety of different treatments. When Trixie appears in the fic, she's on the run from the corrupt sheriff of a town controlled by a group of bigoted earth ponies after she rescued two unicorn foals from them. When Celestia finds out, she has the sheriff and every official of that town (down to the dog-catcher) arrested and replaced by interim appointees. A potioneer dismisses Apple Bloom's warnings about how to prepare a potion, both because of her age and because Apple Bloom mentions Zecora's teachings; she considers herself way superior to any zebra shaman. Cue the explosion - not from Apple Bloom, but from said potion; both Apple Bloom and Zecora clearly know what they're talking about. Diamond Dogs struggle with speaking Equestrian so everyone thinks they're stupid brutes. Bowser got cans tied to his tail for being Happily Adopted by a pair of Diamond Dogs. Crackerjack is a small unicorn who wants to be a fighter. At one point, his dad (an earth pony) is bewildered at this, asking him why he isn't doing "unicorn things" with other unicorns; this prompts Crackerjack to ask exactly what "unicorn things" are. In chapter 51, Presto is an earth pony who has been denied a proper education in magic because he isn't a unicorn. In spite of his extensive academic knowledge in the field.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_58b42f3d	type	Trickster Mentor
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_58b42f3d	comment	Trickster Mentor: In spite of halting her "cryptic mentor" tendencies with Twilight Sparkle, Celestia still tends to be enigmatic and manipulative with a few things. After a couple thousand years, it's become a habit. This includes selecting a host of male guards for Twilight and Fluttershy in hopes that they find their 'super special somepony'. It also includes not fully briefing the Wonderbolts on their 'true' mission with Rainbow Dash to return them to the proper military force they once were before complacency set in. This is also a major factor in why Sunset Shimmer fell, as she saw Celestia much like Twilight did in the beginning of Parting Words, and hated being manipulated. Applejack suspects the reason her guard is such an eclectic collection of species is because Celestia is trying ease her out of any unintentional bigotry she might have but it is also implied that she was trying to show Applejack that she didn't have to act like a Manehatten socialite just because she had become a princess (something that Apple Bloom is in full agreement with). In Chapter 31, Celestia gets tired of being on the receiving end of this trope with respect to the mystery box, the Tree of Harmony, and whoever made them. She decides that rather than wait for the Mane Six to pass whatever Secret Test of Character the box represents, she'll simply find another way in - and she hires Daring Do for the job.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_59e0e022	type	Ground-Shattering Landing
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_59e0e022	comment	Ground-Shattering Landing: In chapter 5, the Mane Six (minus Pinkie Pie) deliberately make use of this trope in order to convince the Pie Family that attending the Royal Coronation of Equestria's six newest princesses is just short of Compulsory.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_5a0e88d8	type	Bring It
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_5a0e88d8	comment	Bring It: After Rarity's magic drags her willy-nilly through the swamp, she vents her foul mood by threatening a gator that dared to threaten her.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_5a59b3a1	type	Hulk Speak
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_5a59b3a1	comment	Hulk Speak: Diamond Dogs sound like this when they try to speak the Equestrian language because the shape of their mouths makes it hard for them to form the words properly. Played for Laughs after the unjustified arrest of the Nobody's Fools, when Ms. Harshwhinny talks Rainbow Dash out of storming the police station:
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_5b1a2f4e	type	Ain't Too Proud to Beg
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_5b1a2f4e	comment	Ain't Too Proud to Beg: After being confronted by an alicorn princess (Sunset Shimmer), Trixie attempts to flee. Finding her escape route blocked, she throws herself at the princess's hooves and begs (In the hammiest way possible) for mercy. On Jasper's behalf, if not her own.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_5b2efa6c	type	Music Soothes the Savage Beast
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_5b2efa6c	comment	Music Soothes the Savage Beast: When under siege by the lich's army of minions, Sweetie Belle uses music to prevent the Home Defense plants from fighting each other, and direct them against the minions, and later, after running out of plants, manages to turn the minions against the lich with a song.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: Humorously averted with the Diamond Dog air pirates attacking Applejack's airship: a few boarders miss their jump and go plummeting away howling... and then their parachutes open, but they're still screaming like puppies. (Turns out subterranean races are a bit acrophobic.)
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_5be7bd04	type	Raised by Wolves
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_5be7bd04	comment	Raised by Wolves: Bowser of the Nobody's Fools was raised by Diamond Dogs. They had adoption papers and everything.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_5d753b19	type	The Smurfette Principle
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_5d753b19	comment	The Smurfette Principle: Inverted. As of chapter 50, there are 18 Alicorns in Equestria (the Mane Six, Celestia, Luna, Cadence, Shining Armor, Sunset Shimmer, Necturus a.k.a. Mudpuppy, Trixie, Jasper, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, and Mach One), only three of whom are male. Luna would really like that gender inequality to be fixed, or at leeast improved soon. Especially considering one of the males is taken and the other two are underage (and the one of them closest to being of age seems likely to end up with Rainbow Dash).
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_5d86966a	type	Man on Fire
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_5d86966a	comment	Man on Fire: The side effect of a phoenix-feather-based potion left a patient spontaneously combusting at random intervals. Cookie Spritzer once managed to set his tail on fire while painting a mural. The rest of the Nobody's Fools made him switch from spray paint to non-flammable rainbow juice for his own safety.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_5e3c35bd	comment	Mayor Fussbudget of Windy City gets one when it's exposed just how far he bent the law to arrest the Nobody's Fools. First a whole herd of concerned parents show up to register their disapproval... loudly. Then Harshwhinny enters the scene and tears his flimsy attempts at justification to shreds. Then he discovers that the story's already hit the press, and the whole city knows that the Mayor ordered a raid on a skating club in direct violation of Princess Rainbow's explicit orders, and arrested the Princess's foster sister in the process. And the nephew he trotted around like a cardboard cut-out and then abandoned for calling him out is an Alicorn, meaning Mach has both no interest in ANY of Fussbudget's ideologies or political actions, along with no reason to defend his uncle, so Mach's probably going to work with the Princesses to overturn most if not all of Fussbudget's policies and is definitely going to destroy any hope Fussbudget has of any kind of political career. Also, his punishment for using Mach's tenth birthday party to improve his public image, and giving him a papier-mâché cake? Pinkie makes an identical cake, and forces him to eat it all, which will give him several days worth of digestive issues.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_5eecd64c	type	Oh, No... Not Again!
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_5eecd64c	comment	Oh, No... Not Again!: The side effect of a phoenix-feather-based potion left a patient spontaneously combusting at random intervals.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: The alicorns and their friends/relatives are becoming this for whatever threat they run into— it seems that with more alicorns crawling out of the woodwork, they tend to upset or derail any antagonist's plans by a good margin.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_608b26d	type	Uniqueness Decay
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_608b26d	comment	Uniqueness Decay: For close to a thousand years, there was only one Alicorn in Equestria: Princess Celestia. By the start of the story, they were up to three: Princess Luna and Cadence. By chapter 50, there are eighteen, and that number could still be growing. Celestia and Luna have explicitly stated that they consider this to be a good thing because it will enable them to have closer relationships with others and separate the notion of "Alicorn" equalling "Prince/Princess".
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_616f634b	type	Ventriloquism
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_616f634b	comment	Ventriloquism: Apparently one of the many things the CMC attempted. Sweetie Belle uses it to direct joke-seeking tomatoes at a lich and a mad scientist. Flute of the Nobody's Fools is mute, but can magically play music and sound effects from his horn. Sweetie Belle figures out a way for him to speak by using this talent.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_617f0563	comment	Diamond Tiara, having not undergone her canon Heel–Face Turn as per all of RC's fanfics, gets a delicious and sustained public breakdown after the CMC ascend, even wailing "We were the in crowd, they were the out crowd. When they get back, we're going to be so far out of the in crowd they'll have to make up whole new words to describe how NOT IN we are..."
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_6375f746	type	Drill Sergeant Nasty
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_6375f746	comment	Drill Sergeant Nasty: Granny Smith gets to play this part when punishing the Manehattan bullies. She lays down the law in a tough no-nonsense manner. Averted when Bishi says goodbye to his sensei — who turns out to be a much more serene Iron Will. Dash calls Spitfire out on this attitude in chapter 16 because (among other reasons) she hasn't actually done actual military work for a while.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_63cf9a3	type	Rage Against the Mentor
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_63cf9a3	comment	Part of Twilight's Rage Against the Mentor in Parting Words involves calling Celestia out for not warning them that Discord could tamper with their minds. Here, a flashback shows that, in this continuity, Twilight solved his riddle, retrieved the Elements, and re-imprisoned him before he had a chance to demonstrate that. This left a Series Continuity Error until it was later revised to reveal Twilight was angry that she didn't get a warning that he could have done this.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_643659d4	type	Spit Take
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_643659d4	comment	Spit Take: Mayor Mare upon reading about the CMC's ascension in the paper. As well as a good number of other adults in Ponyville. Gold Star does one when confronted with the sight of the Nobody's Fools as alicorns. (It turns out to be only a prank.)
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_6455e8e	type	Life Will Kill You
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_6455e8e	comment	Life Will Kill You: There are many "natural" things in life that will eventually kill a pony. Celestia and Luna think this is stupid and seek the aid of other alicorns in order to defy this trope (at least as far as disease and old age goes).
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_67f26dcc	type	Planet of Hats
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_67f26dcc	comment	Planet of Hats: It's noted how, due to the way cutie marks work, Equetria's hat is a nation of savants.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: This trope attempts to merge with Instantly Proven Wrong and create a new trope in Chapter 34. Twilight, Flash and Spike have arrived in the spooky, possibly haunted town of Hollow Shades. Fluttershy has arrived at the Foal Scout Jamboree just as it descends into chaos.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: The entire Nobody's Fools has had this drummed into their heads; they are their brother's keepers, no questions asked. Bonus to Mach, who dives after a free-falling Scootaloo and is perfectly okay with dying as long as he can save her. When Scootaloo is free-falling, Dash casts her first proper spell to save her.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_6a42ef	type	Cynicism Catalyst
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_6a42ef	comment	Cynicism Catalyst: Mach One, leader of the Nobody's Fools, has little love for the Equestrian government and the princesses due to the many, MANY faults he sees in their society. This has many sources but the first and most prominent is that no one has a cure for his missing wing, in spite of the magic at Equestria's disposal.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: Mach One's telling Scootaloo "Well then, I guess one of us had better learn to fly really quick". The first time, he's joking around as the two are safely diving off a cliff; the second time, he's serious, as the two are in freefall in the middle of a supercell at that point. Fortunately, they both indeed learn to fly soon after.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Chapter 40 justifies the show's use of these as a result of prophetic insights by mares giving birth.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_6c8ce91f	type	Insult to Rocks
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_6c8ce91f	comment	Insult to Rocks: Bowser's Diamond Dog parents are not impressed with the city watch's charges against their son. They are most especially disappointed by how flimsily they are constructed.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_6c97d884	type	With Great Power Comes Great Perks
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_6c97d884	comment	With Great Power Comes Great Perks: After Rarity discovers how the Element of Generosity works for her - allowing her to look at a pony and let her magic guide her to exactly what they need at that moment - she has fun testing it out here and there. The first things she intentionally procures? A tissue and a piece of gum, a bit coin, a book, a hard kick in the pants (for Prince Blueblood), and a raid on the airship's wet bar (for herself). Thinking about all the great things he could do for his friends and others like them gets Mach on board with the princesses' plan.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_6df8075f	type	Clueless Chick-Magnet
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_6df8075f	comment	Clueless Chick-Magnet: Bishi/Breezy Shy, Fluttershy's little brother. All of the CMC and Babs Seed are crushing badly on him, yet he's too shy to be anything but oblivious to their crush.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_6f0966ad	type	Real Joke Name
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_6f0966ad	comment	Real Joke Name: Zonk's birth name looks exotic on paper and sounds beautiful when spoken from the perspective of an Equestrian, but when translated out of Zebrabwayan, it means "Copyright 988, All Rights Reserved". To make it sillier, a statement made by a watch-zebra upon learning this implies that he is not the first person to end up with a name of this nature.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_7012424f	type	Stealth Hi/Bye
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_7012424f	comment	Stealth Hi/Bye: Jade Blossom, a member of Rarity's Radiant Guard, apparently does this all the time.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_70eb0e50	type	Bishounen
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_70eb0e50	comment	Bishounen: Breezy Shy. His nickname is Bishi, for Celestia's sake! He even comes with Bishie Sparkles!
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_70f7063d	type	Unflinching Walk
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_70f7063d	comment	Unflinching Walk: After an alchemist fails to heed Apple Bloom's warnings about a potion being made improperly, Apple Bloom turns and walks away, even counting down to the inevitable (non-lethal) explosion. She doesn't even look back when the explosion happens.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_71c5c7df	type	Wolves Always Howl at the Moon
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_71c5c7df	comment	Wolves Always Howl at the Moon: Played with. Timberwolves howl at lightning, which means that they howl exclusively during storms - and end up gargling through a mouthful of rainwater. Woodcutter the timberjack hasn't found any of them drowned yet, but he figures it's just a matter of time because they're not too bright.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_722c7fe5	comment	"Where? Where?": Several weeks (or even months) after ascending, Rainbow Dash still looks around for somepony else when she's addressed as "Princess". The gryphon prince Ajax tells her he does the same thing whenever he hears "Your majesty".
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_7276d0de	comment	Mugging the Monster: A gator is no match for the alicorn he tried to snack on. The gator is scared off by Rarity's threat and magical display.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_72a6bff0	type	Eloquent in My Native Tongue
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_72a6bff0	comment	Diamond Dogs struggle with speaking Equestrian so everyone thinks they're stupid brutes. Bowser got cans tied to his tail for being Happily Adopted by a pair of Diamond Dogs.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_72cdfc33	type	Big Bad Ensemble
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_72cdfc33	comment	Big Bad Ensemble: So far, there have been multiple major threats, all in one specific area (since the mere presence of the new alicorns tend to upend their plans)- Applejack, Apple Bloom and Babs have gone up against Malfunziona, Sweetie Belle and Mudpuppy encountered Lord Malifec, and Rainbow Dash, Scootaloo and Mach One have been dealing with Fussbudget and the Crownbreaker terrorists.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_72e0023f	type	Invoked Trope
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_72e0023f	comment	As of chapter 53, Granny Smith is trying to Invoke this with the Manehatten bullies. She started by putting Marzipan in charge of three piglets with the promise of paying her to take care of them.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_73733868	type	Awesomeness by Analysis
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_73733868	comment	Awesomeness by Analysis: Apple Bloom only needs a brief explanation (and sometimes, not even that) and a fast look at any machine to immediately understand how it works.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_740f0e9e	type	Wronski Feint
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_740f0e9e	comment	Wronski Feint: Chased by bullies, Scootaloo finds an updraft. Her glider's much larger wings catch the air better than the bullies' wings, sending her hurtling up fast while the bullies continue going forward and crash into a dumpster.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_740f59b4	comment	Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Everything relating to the Mane Six princesses are color-coded according to their coat color, from their Elements up to their airships.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_751bd286	type	Is This Thing Still On?
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_751bd286	comment	Is This Thing Still On?: Rarity ends her ship-wide summons with a croissant and coffee. And a very big burp.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_75d6bf40	type	Belligerent Sexual Tension
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_75d6bf40	comment	Belligerent Sexual Tension: Twilight and Flash Sentry's relationship starts turning into this, due to her annoyance at his general Indy Ploy nature, and his at her Obsessively Organized tendencies matched with their mutual attraction.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_762b9223	comment	Played for Laughs after the unjustified arrest of the Nobody's Fools, when Ms. Harshwhinny talks Rainbow Dash out of storming the police station:
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_76c7754f	type	All of Them
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_76c7754f	comment	All of Them: Twilight Sparkle frantically begs for ALL the vanilla ice cream to extinguish the burning in her mouth from Tabasco-frosted cupcakes.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_796bffea	type	Mistaken for Racist
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_796bffea	comment	Mistaken for Racist: Happens more than you might expect. Applejack briefly falls victim to this, when she first meets her zebra guardsman Omari. First, when she expresses surprise at a zebra in the Royal Guard, he asks if that's a problem, and when she asks if he knows Zecora, he seems insulted that she apparently assumes all zebras know each other. Southern Comfort expresses his discomfort for using zebra potions as remedies in such a way that Applejack believes he's got a problem with zebras. He gets flustered and explains he meant because they're untested.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want of a Nail: A blink-and-you-miss-it example: Chapter 5 reveals that Spike still has Peewee. Peewee also gets mentioned again in Chapter 28. For whatever reason, different circumstances mean that Equestria Girls didn't happen in this universe. Instead, Sunset Shimmer was arrested while infiltrating the Crystal Empire, after which Celestia makes amends and helps her ascend. There's also the prequel's version of how Sombra was handled, where it took maybe a few minutes (tops) to defeat him utterly. In a similar vein, Twilight analyzed the riddle that Discord gave her, and found the Elements almost immediately, leaving Discord standing alone in the maze for over an hour before he tried to find the Mane Six... who were now decked out with the Elements and waiting for him. Discord remembers the whole Tree of Harmony situation before it gets out of hand, allowing the Royal Guard to stop the vines from spreading beyond the Everfree. The Mane Six still have to give up the Elements, but that doesn't matter now that they embody their Elements. The Tree of Harmony still produces the mystery box, but Celestia tells them not to worry about it for the moment. Later, she hires Daring Do to find a way inside.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Celestia gives an excellent one to Sheriff Brass and Deputy Flute, two members of an earth pony-supremacist hate group, after arresting them for their persecution of two innocent unicorns.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_7d24907e	type	SkyPirates
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_7d24907e	comment	Sky Pirates: An airship filled with diamond dogs whose mountainous home offers little for them to mine.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_7d4a47d1	type	Let Us Never Speak of This Again
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_7d4a47d1	comment	Let Us Never Speak of This Again: In chapter 44, Spritz insists that the Nobody's Fools promised never to talk about an accident in which he passed out, caught fire and exploded. Foster says he never joined in on that promise and cheerfully tells Scootaloo the whole story.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Chapters 15 and 16 have a back and forth of this: The latter half of chapter 15 involves Spitfire chewing out Rainbow Dash because she thinks Dash didn't "earn" her position as a Firebolt or princess. Chapter 16 swings the other direction with Dash reminding Spitfire that all the deeds she had done, including her work with the Elements of Harmony and her Sonic Rainbooms, as well as saving Spitfire's life, were all based on her own merit while every time the Wonderbolts have been called to do anything more than put on a stunt show, they'd failed spectacularly. In Chapter 29, Celestia gives one to Sheriff Brass. Starting with the fact that his ongoing pony-hunt against Trixie basically means that he hasn't set hoof in the territory he's supposed to be responsible for for over a year and working up from there. Chapter 48 is practically vacuum-packed with these. Most of them are directed at Mayor Fussbudget and the officers he sent to perform a totally unjustified raid and mass arrest on the Nobody's Fools, but Bananas Foster gives a hilariously unhinged one to his family for trying to force him into a career he truly hates. Chapter 49 features Foster's grandfather Banana Supreme giving his wife Banana Liqueur one for meddling in the affairs of the family, saying that he built his business empire so his family could be happy, not forced into business against their will. He gives a shorter one to his son Banana Smoothie for thinking that Foster wasted his tuition money by dropping out of college. Chapter 51 has three of them. Two are delivered by Rainbow Dash, to the two Crownbreakers about to go on trial for wrecking the Thunderdome and to the Alicorn Academy faculty/staff who have wasted huge amounts of royal funds. Mach One delivers one to Mayor Fussbudget for his willingness to do anything he had to in order to keep his grip on political power.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_7fb81c9d	type	Strawman U
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_7fb81c9d	comment	Strawman U: The Alicorn Academy, patterned after the reputation of political activism ascribed to the city of Berkeley, California. Its faculty consists of shallow, politically motivated, self-righteous incompetents who care more about converting students to their causes than actually teaching. The students aren't any better, a mix of snobby trust-fund kids and protesters ready to take up whatever new cause comes their way instead of studying. The Nobody's Fools take considerable enjoyment in breaking up one of their street demonstrations.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_808316b6	type	Politically Motivated Teacher
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_808316b6	comment	Politically Motivated Teacher: The university teachers in Windy City have taken this to the point where the extent to which students agree with and help advocate the teacher's personal views is part of their final grade. Which brings about student protests on any subject imaginable clogging up the city streets every week, and creating the environment that brought about the Crownbreakers. This causes Rainbow Dash to rework how the Equestrian Crown subsidizes higher education in a manner that will cut their funding severely in the short term, hopefully inspiring them to reorganize the school to focus on teaching the actual course material instead of the various causes of the faculty.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In Chapter 45.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_80f4e386	type	Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_80f4e386	comment	Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance: Mach One has a lot of valid criticisms about the failings of Equestrian Society, however, his comments regarding why there aren't any non-fliers living in Cloudsdale and why Canterlot is built on the side of a mountain are rather off the mark regarding the actual situation. The latter has to do with Unicorn nesting instinct making them build high up, rather than to deliberately exclude Earth Ponies and Pegasi due to being respectively higher and lower than they'd like, and in the case of the former, it's because Mach can't conceive that perhaps non-Pegasi just might not be comfortable living in the cloud city on account that they can't fly. He misses this point even after calling out how impractical living in Cloudsdale really is on account of having absolutely no farmlands to grow food on and basically relying on importing food grown on the ground. He's also unaware that Celestia has mages working on cures for dismemberment and they have achieved partial success.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_81ae2774	type	Evil Matriarch
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_81ae2774	comment	Evil Matriarch: Banana Liqueur, Foster's grandmother and wife of the head of the Chiquita Banana family, is this trope because of how smothering she was to her grandson. Unusually for this trope, she doesn't have any real power and her husband tells her to mind her own business, even calling her an old bat.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_81c4faa3	type	Entertainingly Wrong
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_81c4faa3	comment	Entertainingly Wrong: Many supporting characters wind up drawing all the wrong conclusions. Sheriff Brass tries to arrest Trixie and Jasper for "impersonating royalty", only to find out way too late that after becoming alicorns, they now ARE royalty. The Crownbreakers believe that Celestia ascended all of the other new Alicorns when actually Twilight ascended herself and the rest of the Mane 6; Shining Armor was ascended by the Mane 6; Sunset Shimmer was ascended by Celestia, Cadance, and Shining Armor; Trixie and Jasper ascended themselves; Mudpuppy was born an Alicorn (having ascended in the womb); Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle earned their ascensions; and Rainbow Dash ascended Scootaloo, who in turn ascended Mach One. They also think it's a brilliant idea to destroy a cloud stadium, putting many lives at risk to get back at Dash, who they think is a "fake" princess. Mach One's cynical rant in ch 45 is hilarious considering the things he doesn't know. While he has a few good points (like the lack of guardrails in Cloudsdale or Ponyville's tradition about not using magic during Winter Wrap Up) he thinks that no one is working on cures for dismemberment (like missing wings) when, in this very story, Twilight previously visited mages who were working on that very thing and have succeeded in regrowing limbs via transfiguring the subject into a frog first. In Mach's defense, this is not publicly known for various reasons. Chapter 53 gives us the Gala Bullies discovering that their victims are now royalty. They are convinced that the Apple Clan now has all the clout they need to utterly destroy all of their families.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_82a4fadc	type	Our Liches Are Different
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_82a4fadc	comment	Our Liches Are Different: Cotton Mouth turns out to be working for one, Malefic. He is a rotting, corpse like creature who wields necromancy to enslave both the living and the dead.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_82d2715f	type	Magitek
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_82d2715f	comment	Magitek: Twilight's magic mirror compacts, which are basically the magical equivalent of cellphones that work exclusively on Skype. Celestia even manages to modify hers to work like a Go Pro.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_84c5ec0b	type	Free-Range Children
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_84c5ec0b	comment	Free-Range Children: Most young Pegasi have more freedom than unicorns and earth pony foals. Apparently a natural consequence of being flying children who wouldn't be easy to supervise closely anyway; their parents and guardians still try to be responsible and make sure they're fine by their own. For comparison, Rainbow Dash checking on Scootaloo via magic mirror every hour or so is considered to be smothering compared to the pegasus standard.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_84df0713	type	ForgotICouldFly
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_84df0713	comment	Forgot I Could Fly: Weaponized by Mach against the Crownbreaker terrorists. When he primed the cloud-solvent bombs, in addition to the parachute chords tied to their ankles, he left the Pegasus mare's wings unbound, saying it would have been their own faults if the cords had failed and they didn't make use of her flight abilities. Per the course with this trope, the terrorists were under the impression they would have fallen to their deaths. Happens to Rarity twice when she's dragged by her locator spell across Neigh Orleans: once when she's first dragged off the ship (thankfully, her flailing her wings helped soften the landing), and later when she's about to crash into some road work (she does remember this time, unfortunately her earlier flailing has gotten her wings tangled in her dress-fortunately her guards are on hand to giver her a lift).
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_85460422	type	Reaching Between the Lines
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_85460422	comment	Reaching Between the Lines: In Chapter 14, Pinkie Pie reaches through the magic mirrors they're using to communicate to give Rainbow Dash a hug. Naturally, everypony else wonders how she did that.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_85e7c12f	type	Puppy-Dog Eyes
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_85e7c12f	comment	Puppy-Dog Eyes: Chapter 5 gives us a well executed example.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_863fac26	type	Jerk Jock
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_863fac26	comment	When Gold Star wonders why the Crownbreakers have started acting up, Dash suspects a political version of this trope is in play: she doesn't have an elder alicorn watching her back like Twilight and Pinkie, Rarity's connections, or Fluttershy's looks. Add to that the stigma of the Jerk Jock stereotype, and she looks like an easy target for a smear campaign, right? By the end of the Windy City arc, she's helped thwart a terrorist attack, begun overturning Mayor Fussbudget's inane laws, lit a fire under the Alicorn Academy's collective ass to begin reforming it's equally inane policies, and quickly becomes Windy City's favorite new alicorn.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: In chapter 13, the Wonderbolts lose significant respect for Rainbow Dash when they think she bought her way onto the throne. After Spitfire chews her out in chapter 15, Rainbow Dash's pedestal quickly crumbles. Thankfully, both are rebuilt in the next chapter after a nice, long talk.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Sweetie Belle, faced with thousands of zomponies, a lich, and a Mad Scientist with nothing but another foal and a bunch of bickering plants for aid, promptly uses one as a rallying cry. Said boast is the (slightly filled) opening to Heather Alexander's March of Cambreadth. Ms. Harshwhinny has her own in ch. 48 (see Badass Bureaucrat below). The Nobody's Fools Badass Creed doubles as one (see below).
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_86c192f4	comment	Badass Creed: "Nobody's Fools! Nobody falls!"
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_86f4f393	type	Stating the Simple Solution
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_86f4f393	comment	Stating the Simple Solution: Rainbow Dash comes up with an easy way to use the magic mirrors to transfer information: hold a document up to the mirror so the recipient can read it. When Twilight asks about preserving and recording, Dash merely suggests that the recipient use a camera. Celestia and Luna quickly realize that her idea may prove useful in both military and civilian communications. The aftershock from the ascension of Twilight and her friends wakes Celestia in the middle of the night. Just as she's about to start calculating the location, Luna interrupts with news that it happened in Ponyville, having seen it from her tower in the castle. Celestia gives these rapid fire to Canterlot's panicking nobles, parliament, and heads of staff. Don't know how to manage six new princesses? Just do the same thing they did for Cadence; it wasn't that long ago. Don't have enough guards? Promote all the recruits to active duty and let the veterans do on-the-job training. Trouble planning six coronations? Roll them all together into one big ceremony. Not enough servants and staff members? Hire some more. Worried about paying for it all? Sell off part of the royal jewelry collection. When questioning the necessity of effectively scattering the Elements of Harmony to the four winds to hunt for Alicorns for the Panacea, Twilight points out that, among other possible magical sources, they have a bucking Draconeques. Celestia explains that they already exhausted those sources (from the various plants of the Everfree Forest, to the regenerative magics of Phoenixes) with no results. Discord's powers in particular were less than successful, resulting in a bunch of weird effects. As Discord himself explains that Chaos Magic tends to get 'irritable' when you try to apply science and logic to it.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: After the Malfunziona statue, you'd forgive most readers for thinking that it'd come to life (even after AJ's magic confirms it really is just a statue, and not a real Draconequus). Instead, he emerges from a cylinder in a secret compartment of a statue of Bold Lion. This is intentional on Bold Lion's part: he hid Malfunziona in the Bold Lion statue (with instructions that said statue be placed over his grave, where it would presumably be left untouched out of respect), and made the Malfunziona statue to fool anypony wishing to use the Draconequus' power for their own nefarious affairs.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_87ab7f69	type	Sharp-Dressed Man
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_87ab7f69	comment	Sharp-Dressed Man: Rarity's royal guard contingent, the "Radiant Guard" are some of the best dressed ponies in all of Equestria.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_87c62ade	type	Deadly Dodging
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_87c62ade	comment	Deadly Dodging: Malfunziona stands in front of a wall, goads Apple Bloom's griffin guard into charging him, then steps aside to let the guard run into the wall and knock himself out.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_8878f3be	type	Badass Army
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_8878f3be	comment	Badass Army: Mudpuppy and Sweetie Belle's Home and Garden Defense Brigade can Hold the Line against an army of zombies for hours.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_8879db82	type	Badass Crew
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_8879db82	comment	Badass Crew: The Nobody's Fools are infamous in Windy City for their massive pranks and never getting caught, even with the mayor leveling most of the city's police department against them. In Ch 50 they are the first to start rescuing people in the collapsing Thunderdome.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_88fa35e0	comment	Walking Techbane: Malfunziona is a lesser draconequus who gains power from the chaos caused by failing technology. While he's weakened, he resorts to active physical sabotage until he has enough power to automatically cause technology to fail around him.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_89909a87	type	Well, This Is Not That Trope
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_89909a87	comment	Well, This Is Not That Trope: The opening paragraph of the first chapter is essentially this, and serving as both a joke and a brief Take That! at the synopsis to Magical Mystery Cure.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_89ae06cc	type	School Bullying Is Harmless
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_89ae06cc	comment	School Bullying Is Harmless: No, it is not. Like its predecessor, bullying is portrayed realistically, via the introduction of Babs Seed's personal bullies. Babs even states something that any kid who's been bullied will relate to; telling the teacher doesn't work because either the teacher will ignore the issue or the punishment will be barely a smack on the wrist; plus bullies will wait until "no adults are looking. Or no adults are around. Or no adults who care are around." We also find out that one of the reasons Twilight was so scared of being sent back to magic kindergarten in "Lesson Zero" was because she was bullied a lot as a young filly and it was giving her flashbacks. She's mostly over it by now, but it can still make her eye twitch.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_89dcd4e	type	Small-Town Tyrant
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_89dcd4e	comment	Small-Town Tyrant: Sheriff Brass, an Earth Pony supremacist who basically abandoned a filly and a colt to die, just for the crime of being unicorns. He blackmailed Trixie into finding them, and when Trixie tried to adopt the colt (Jasper), Brass tried to lock her up to cover up his crime, and then later tried to charge both of them with impersonating royalty. It eventually backfired on him because by that time, Trixie and Jasper actually were royalty, having accidentally triggered their own ascension.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_89f50aaa	type	Restraining Bolt
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_89f50aaa	comment	Restraining Bolt: As part of his parole, Discord is made to wear a collar that greatly reduces his power. (As it turns out, this was at Applejack's insistence, before she'd agree to the whole parole idea.)
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_8ad43dc9	type	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_8ad43dc9	comment	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: The majority of Applejack's guard, The Roughnecks, fit both this trope and Reassigned to Antarctica. Aside from the usual discipline problems, there are also a few donkeys, a crystal pony, three bat-ponies, a gryphon, a zebra and even a couple of diamond dogs. One of them is one of Applejack's cousins, the sight of whom really throws her for a loop. In Chapter 44, Scootaloo meets Mach One and his buddies, the Nobody's Fools, none of whom quite fit the norm of pony society. A one-winged Pegasus (Mach), a mute unicorn who can play music/sounds through his horn (Flute), a talented graffiti artist (Cookie Spritzer), an earth pony studying unicorn magic (Presto), a scrawny brawler who also happens to be a unicorn, making him doubly odd as a brawler (Crackerjack), a zebra/donkey hybrid who speaks several languages (Zonk), a colt raised by Diamond Dogs (Bowser), another who makes dolls for foals in hospitals and orphanages (Soft Touch), an asthmatic comic book nerd with a formidable memory (Wheezer), and a rich family's son with a talent for comedy (Bananas Foster) who fears being disowned if his parents ever find out about the group. Another of their members is a young griffon (Fledge) whose family owns a major tourist attraction that the Fools love to visit whenever they can scrape up the cash.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_8ca89acb	type	I Need to Go Iron My Dog
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_8ca89acb	comment	I Need to Go Iron My Dog: In chapter 6, Rarity encounters Prince Blueblood. She reminds him that Applejack is nearby.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: Post-ascension Sunset comes to the conclusion that her "brilliant" plan to ascend herself (the plot of Equestria Girls) was really stupid. If it had worked, she would have either been outnumbered five to one against the other Element Bearers (or worse if Celestia and Luna got involved) if she tried to conquer Equestria, or she would have gotten herself bombed off the map if she tried to conquer Earth, along with having only teenagers as her forces in either case. Spike points out to Twilight in the Hollow Shades hotel that her preparations for finding a potential Alicorn assumes said Alicorn will actually be GOOD. Considering that Hollow Shades is being billed as the pony version of Innsmouth, and that the potential Alicorn is suspected of being responsible for it being that way.... At the inventor expo, one of the ponies presents a super glue that can stick to any kind of material. When Apple Bloom asks how anypony can get it out of the bottle to use it, the pony presenting it doesn't have an answer.note Most superglue formulations start to react and set up only when exposed to moisture in the air. As long as the stuff is processed and stored under a completely dry atmosphere, it'll flow. Given that the author is known to be a fan of Dungeons & Dragons, this may be a Shout-Out to Sovereign Glue, a minor magic item that sticks to everything except the equally magical Salve of Slipperiness. The D&D description specifically notes that an 8-oz bottle of Sovereign Glue actually contains seven ounces of glue and one ounce of Salve of Slipperiness, which coats the inside of the bottle and keeps the glue from sticking to it. Also it's implied that the pony who's making that claim isn't the inventor but rather a ditzy salespony who the inventor hired because she's pretty and talks a good game but didn't bother to prep her for that specific question. Mayor Fussbudget's plan succeeds in arresting the Nobody's Fools, but then he runs into the fact that even after the Watch seizes all their stuff, the most they have evidence to charge anyone with is for a hoof-full of petty misdemeanors that did not warrant a police raid, the prisoners are not homeless street urchins as he assumed and have influential relatives who object to the unjustified arrests and use of excessive force, and Rainbow Dash isn't happy about him disobeying a royal command that she didn't want them arrested at that time. And to top it off, he had brought a member of the press to the sting, so when the aftermath of his plan blows up in his face, all the details of his screw-up end up on the front page of the evening news. He also didn't think to check Mach One's face during the arrest or at the station. Otherwise he would have realized that he had tried to get his own nephew sent to prison. Mach One accuses the Princesses of this in regards to the ascension plan, stating that there are bleeding heart liberal groups that will deride the plan on principle of not being sensitive to the disabled community's Special Snowflake Syndrome, and power hungry nobles who won't want to upend the status quo. Rainbow counters by stating that Mach has not taken into account two things: 1) Celestia is an expert Chessmaster who has dealt with these people before (if Alicornundrum is any indication) and 2) It's Worth It anyway. When Twilight's plan to drive away the Timbrwolves that chased them into the abandoned mansion is to turn the surrounding trees into Whomping Willows, Spike points out that they've just gone from 'surrounded by ravenous Timberwolves' to 'surrounded by trees that'll bludgeon anything that gets near them'.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_8f37b	type	Medieval Stasis
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_8f37b	comment	Medieval Stasis: Equestria was in one until 500 years ago thanks to a lesser draconequus known as Malfunziona who made mechanical devices malfunction. Then he was bound by the pony equivalent of Leonardo da Vinci.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_90300051	type	Mic Drop
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_90300051	comment	Mic Drop: In Chapter 51, Rainbow Dash does one to end her "The Reason You Suck" Speech to the Alicorn Academy faculty and staff.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Several of these throughout the story: For attempting to assault the CMC, Babs Seed and Bishi (four of whom are immediate family of Princesses and one of them an apprentice/honorary sister to one), Babs' bullies get their flanks kicked and subsequently cut off from their families' wealth by royal decree; they are also sent off to work at Sweet Apple Acres. Orange Roughy challenges Bishi to a sparring match, and during said match, asks Bishi to remove his padded booties and helmet, despite his hesitation. Needless to say, one punch knocked him out and, as later Fluttershy reveals, causes him to lose his teeth. For stomping on Rainbow Dash's Berserk Button and dissing her in Chapter 13, Spitfire gets her flank handed to her in less than three seconds in a scuffle, followed by Rainbow chewing the Wonderbolt captain out, big-time. Sheriff Brass gets a taste of this; for abandoning two foals in the woods just for being unicorns (he was an Earth Pony supremacist) and hunting down Trixie to the point of leaving his appointed jurisdiction for over a year, he gets fired and arrested by Celestia. Celestia also does the same to his deputy and the mayor of his town (also Earth Pony supremacists), and states she will personally go to their town of Hope to not only replace them, but possibly most of the town's bureaucratic leaders, because of how deeply the rot has seeped into the town's governing body. Mayor Fussbudget of Windy City gets one when it's exposed just how far he bent the law to arrest the Nobody's Fools. First a whole herd of concerned parents show up to register their disapproval... loudly. Then Harshwhinny enters the scene and tears his flimsy attempts at justification to shreds. Then he discovers that the story's already hit the press, and the whole city knows that the Mayor ordered a raid on a skating club in direct violation of Princess Rainbow's explicit orders, and arrested the Princess's foster sister in the process. And the nephew he trotted around like a cardboard cut-out and then abandoned for calling him out is an Alicorn, meaning Mach has both no interest in ANY of Fussbudget's ideologies or political actions, along with no reason to defend his uncle, so Mach's probably going to work with the Princesses to overturn most if not all of Fussbudget's policies and is definitely going to destroy any hope Fussbudget has of any kind of political career. Also, his punishment for using Mach's tenth birthday party to improve his public image, and giving him a papier-mâché cake? Pinkie makes an identical cake, and forces him to eat it all, which will give him several days worth of digestive issues. Minor example: Banana Smoothie, Foster's uncle, sneers about the family having wasted money on Foster's tuition. Foster explains that the university refunded most of it because he dropped out so early, and he sent it back to the family member in charge of the finances. This just happens to be Smoothie himself, who kept the money for himself and instantly ends up on the whole family's bad side for it. The Crownbreaker saboteurs who intended to blow up the cloud stadium, potentially dropping every flightless patron in attendance to their deaths and destroying an innocent farming community in the aftermath, just to get at Dash end up having their own tools turned on them by a furious Mach, who has no qualms about leaving them to potentially die. He did tie parachute cords to their ankles and left the mare's wings unbound but he saw no reason to tell them either of those things. Diamond Tiara, having not undergone her canon Heel–Face Turn as per all of RC's fanfics, gets a delicious and sustained public breakdown after the CMC ascend, even wailing "We were the in crowd, they were the out crowd. When they get back, we're going to be so far out of the in crowd they'll have to make up whole new words to describe how NOT IN we are..."
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_92286f7f	type	Precursors
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_92286f7f	comment	Precursors: Daring Do figures that one of these is responsible for creating the Tree of Harmony, she just can't figure out who.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_94680696	type	Shaped Like Itself
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_94680696	comment	Shaped Like Itself: Part of why Apple Bloom doesn't like the Cutie Mark she gets in her dream is that it was essentially "A Cutie Mark in crusading for Cutie Marks". She compares it to winning a pie eating contest only to find the prize was a free pie.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_95b875b1	type	Not Me This Time
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_95b875b1	comment	Not Me This Time: A rare heroic example; when Malfunziona escapes his imprisonment, Applejack assumes that he's another one of Celestia's "time-released" prisoners. Turns out, Celestia's never even heard of him, and he was actually sealed away by someone else.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_96b89043	type	Not So Above It All
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_96b89043	comment	Not So Above It All: Harshwhinny, a very serious, professional bureaucrat, who gets regularly annoyed by Rainbow's antics, has a little fun at the cyan Alicorn's expenses via some trolling.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_96f6335d	type	Bodyguard Crush
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_96f6335d	comment	Bodyguard Crush: Poor Twilight has this on Flash Sentry, the captain of her new guard. She has this uncontrollable urge to blush and smile. Poor Luna has a HILARIOUS one on ALL of Pinkie's large and strapping bodyguards. Inverted with Fluttershy, with all the guards having a crush on her. The best part is that Celestia did this on purpose, as another motivation for them to defend her.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_978c4f8f	type	You Didn't See That
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_978c4f8f	comment	You Didn't See That: Chapter 22 sees Rarity meeting Mudpuppy. Mudpuppy is a Unicorn who nearly falls over but stabilizes herself at the last second with her wings.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_97fa0a10	type	Mass "Oh, Crap!"
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_97fa0a10	comment	Mass "Oh, Crap!": The bullies get this when they realize the CMC were telling the Truth about being related to the new Princesses... via an angry Applejack showing up after hearing them start to plan getting revenge. The Wonderbolts were badmouthing the recently-crowned Rainbow behind her back, because they thought that she had not earned her position. Unfortunately, Scootaloo enters the room at the worst possible time (managing to overhear everything they were saying), leading to this reaction. Unusually, the reaction of the entire group is only said out loud by one member. When the Crownbreakers' plan to destroy the Thunderdome goes off, panic is the reaction of everyone there. Chapter 52 is a chapter-long one suffered by all of Ponyville upon their learning that the infamous Cutie Mark Crusaders are now alicorns.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_99010fab	type	Maternity Crisis
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_99010fab	comment	Maternity Crisis: Played with, the labor starts before the crisis does instead of the other way around. The mother is already in labor when the kappa shows up and demands a toll. What makes this a crisis is that the family only has enough cucumbers for two out of the three family members - the kappa is planning to delay the family until the baby is born, then eat both cucumbers and whoever didn't get their name carved on a cucumber.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_9b2923bc	type	Mooning
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_9b2923bc	comment	Mooning: Pinkie Pie and Luna wave their rumps at their audience during the Maredi Gras parade. This being Maredi Gras, they are rewarded with many bead necklaces.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_9bca83eb	type	Death by Irony
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_9bca83eb	comment	Lord Malifec stands no chance against a swarm of his own zombies.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_9bee1a7f	type	Eldritch Location
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_9bee1a7f	comment	Eldritch Location: The Gothic Forest. Number four on the list of the ten most possibly eldritch locations of Equestria, after the Scariest Cave in Equestria and ahead of the Everfree Forest. Twilight, Flash and Spike visit Hollow Shades, a village in the middle of this forest whose inn includes a wide range of protections against supernatural threats.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Mudpuppy's grandmother derisively uses the term "handy-capable" when talking to Rarity. This term becomes a prominent plot point in the Windy City arc.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_9dd2af4a	comment	Inspirationally Disadvantaged: Deconstructed. When Rainbow Dash visits a doctor to learn more about why Scootaloo can't fly, he goes on at length about how this attitude has stymied attempts to actually cure handicaps instead of laying down and taking it.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: More than once. In Ch 47, Foster is feeding Scootaloo some Nightmare Fuel. Mach isn't happy with the situation. In Ch 49, Foster has picked up the guard station's public address system microphone and is Calling the Old Man Out. Pinkie in chapter 54 with Mayor Fussbudget and a cake.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_9eb11fac	type	Weak, but Skilled
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_9eb11fac	comment	Weak, but Skilled: Several ponies have to deal with this trope. Presto, an Earth Pony, has a magic-themed cutie mark; while he can't perform even the most basic unicorn spells by his own, his technical knowledge and ingenuity allows him to create potions to replicate spells on an academically-trained unicorn level. Twilight intends to put him in contact with Sunburst, a magical researcher who has this trope apply to him despite being a unicorn himself. Crackerjack is a unicorn colt with a fighting cutie mark. Most fight instructors wouldn't touch him because "Unicorns are weak". He is, none the less, a scrappy and capable fighter.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_9f80e1da	type	Sarcasm Mode
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_9f80e1da	comment	She ends up force-feeding Fussbudget a replica of the papier-mâché cake he generously gave his nephew at the "birthday party" flightless appreciation event.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_9fbe06a5	type	Badass in a Nice Suit
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_9fbe06a5	comment	Badass in a Nice Suit: Rarity's royal guard contingent, "The Radiant Guard" are some of the best dressed ponies in all of Equestria. They are also "Black Flag Specialist" plainclothes security. Rarity's hoofmaidens alone could fold Big Mac into a small box without breaking a sweat.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_a1a02b6e	type	My Defense Need Not Protect Me Forever
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_a1a02b6e	comment	My Defense Need Not Protect Me Forever: Sweetie Belle and Mudpuppy escape Lord Malifec's manor, only to find themselves trapped in an area that can't be seen on any map and is nearly impossible to escape from. Instead of running, they set up a position on a small island, grow an army of plant soldiers for defense, and hope that the other alicorns find them before Malifec's forces can overrun the place.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_a1b0c1c2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_a1b0c1c2	comment	Revealing Cover-Up: Trixie's Alicorn Notice-Me-Not aura (augmented by her own illusions) is so thorough at disguising the traces of her passing that Sunset was able to track her by following the road that looked like it had never been used, ever, even when it went straight through a small town.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_a293102a	type	Eek, a Mouse!!
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_a293102a	comment	Eek, a Mouse!!: Rarity screams and stands on a chair when she sees Mudpuppy's menagerie in chapter 26.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_a2968da6	type	If Only You Knew
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_a2968da6	comment	If Only You Knew: When Mammaw first sees a thoroughly disheveled Rarity, Mammaw exclaims "Sakes alive, chile! Did summon drag ye here by yer horn?" Rarity's magic did indeed drag her through the swamp to Mammaw and Mudpuppy.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Played for Laughs in chapter 12, when Fluttershy uses her Stare (now turbocharged due to her ascension) on Discord to get him to behave. It completely blows his eyes out of their sockets, but he replaces them by twisting one of his antlers.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Chapter 40 goes from funny to Nightmare Fuel very quickly. Chapter 45 also goes from funny to melancholic just as quickly. Chapter 50 goes from hilarious to heart-pounding terror to breathtakingly awesome in short order.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_a54534a0	type	Parental Neglect
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_a54534a0	comment	Parental Neglect: Pinkie Pie's family sent her to Ponyville and have barely talked to her since - not out of malice, but because they wanted her to have a life free of persecution due to her unusual abilities. While Rarity and Sweetie Belle's parents are generally nice, they have a tendency to go off on long trips and leave Sweetie Belle in the care of various sitters. Foster's entire family tried to force him into business his whole life, completely ignoring that he was terrible at it and that their treatment was making him miserable. Mach's antagonistic relationship with Fussbudget stems from a six month period in the past where Fussbudget acted as this to Mach. Mach eventually snapped and called him out... which caused Fussbudget to kick Mach out of his home and sent him to live with Mach's grandmother.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_a60f7120	type	Physical God
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_a60f7120	comment	Really, this applies to most of the Mane 6 when it comes to magic, given that only two of them started out as unicorns, and of those two, only Twilight has made a dedicated study of magic (Rarity only knowing the basics). That being said, the fact that they're alicorns means that what little magic they do have is insanely powerful (case in point: Fluttershy's Stare originally didn't work on Discord; once she's ascended, it blows out his eyes and leaves him with an Ash Face, cowing him rather neatly).
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_a7382a73	type	Imagine Spot
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_a7382a73	comment	Imagine Spot: Rarity imagines some poor Earth pony getting a pegasus's ottoman through their roof.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_a7b324e	type	Handicapped Badass
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_a7b324e	comment	Handicapped Badass: Twice over in Chapter 43, while Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo are visiting Windy City. Scootaloo's scooter has been fitted with a fold-up glider, which she's gotten very good at maneuvering. She uses the rig to thoroughly embarrass two teenage pegasus colts who make fun of it. A gang of pranksters is led by a one-winged Pegasus who is incredibly talented at Le Parkour. Another member, whom Scootaloo meets after her showdown with the bullies, is a mute unicorn colt who can play music and sound effects from his horn.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: The zombie army of the lich Malifec still contain the trapped souls of their once-living bodies, only just conscious enough to animate their zombie bodies and follow Malifec's orders, until Sweetie Belle reawakens their minds once more. Along with all the memories of the monstrosities done by their own hooves at Malifec's command.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Her beauty is said to entrance not only stallions but also colts, to the point that almost anyone of the opposite gender who meets her instantly falls in love.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_a9317105	type	Age Without Youth
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_a9317105	comment	Age Without Youth: The lich Lord Malifec has lived for centuries, but he doesn't have any self-healing capacity, resulting in a frail body that needs to be patched up with pieces of other ponies.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_a9cec1f1	type	Missing Secret
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_a9cec1f1	comment	Missing Secret: The basis of one of Rainbow Dash's pranks, which Scootaloo tells Mach One about. She took four piglets, painted the numbers "1", "2", "3" and "5" on their sides, and released them in Town Hall. As a result, poor Mayor Mare spent the whole day going out of her mind trying to find the extra piglet.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_ab62343b	type	Bee-Bee Gun
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_ab62343b	comment	Bee-Bee Gun: Apple Bloom MacGyvers the twittermite vacuum cannon out of random broken machine parts. Then she puts it in reverse to send them all up a lessor draconequus' nose.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: Cotton Mouth. Dear Lord, COTTON MOUTH. First, his Vitality Elixir malfunctioned, warping his body after it had caused all the stillbirths and deformities in the Bayou, then he hid in the Bayou trying to find answers while having his reputation ruined by his mistake... when he was reintroduced in chapter 41, he seemed to be really out of it and didn't realize how much he's fallen, and acts like if perfecting his elixir will absolve him of his guilt from killing the rest of Mudpuppy's and Twig's age mates... and then it turns out he is very aware of how badly he screwed up, as being in denial was just a coping mechanism after he got himself geased by a lich, and was cursed to have his body mutate out of control should his master die. He was suffering so much in the end that he asked Princess Luna for a Mercy Kill.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_aca32000	type	Armor-Piercing Response
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_aca32000	comment	Armor-Piercing Response:
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: When Pinkie Pie becomes an Alicorn, she realizes she can do magic. This trope is Rarity's reaction. Also in Chapter 30 when the princesses realize Fluttershy, who had become So Beautiful, It's a Curse, will be around dozens if not hundreds of young colts. The zebra roughneck that Applejack asks if he knows Zecora goes from annoyed at the belief that he knows all other zebras, to nervous when she metions that Zecora speaks in rhyme. Since only zebra shaman does so. Discord's reaction at learning that Malfunziona is loose at the Expo is not delighted at the chaos the lesser will create. Mach's reaction when the Crownbreakers' plot turns out to involve destroying a cloud stadium with a crowd that's at least half flightless patrons is a mix of panic and fury. Rainbow Dash attempts to flirt with Mach One, only to be confused by his reply; it was unusually high-voiced. This is her reaction to finding out Mach is underage.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_af98df4e	type	They Called Me Mad!
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_af98df4e	comment	They Called Me Mad!: It turns out this is Cotton Mouth's motivation behind his actions since he created the Vitality Elixir is to prove to other chemists that his potion is successful. It's gone downhill since then.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b1191cb2	type	I Ate WHAT?!
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b1191cb2	comment	Apple Bloom enjoying a food and then discovering it is something/is produced in a way she finds revolting.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: Mach One seems to feel that his uncle, Mayor Fussbudget might be headed for one of these in Chapter 51. She ends up force-feeding Fussbudget a replica of the papier-mâché cake he generously gave his nephew at the "birthday party" flightless appreciation event.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: Malfunziona can't directly affect any of the livestock at the expo in Ch 38. So he breaks their enclosures and sets off a string of loud firecrackers, causing a mass livestock panic / stampede, thus distracting the opposition.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b1ed0e0c	type	Rank Up
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b1ed0e0c	comment	Rank Up: Happens twice with Flash Sentry. He enters the story as a lieutenant, having recently been promoted after stopping Sunset Shimmer from stealing the Element of Magic. Later, when Twilight inducts the first bunch of Royal Guards into her service as the Twilight Guard, Celestia's last act as their commander is to make Flash a captain on the spot. She points out that since he's going to be in charge of this security detail, he should have the rank to go with it. When Celestia learns that there aren't enough Royal Guards to provide a security detail for all of the Mane Six, she immediately promotes all the recruits in basic training to active duty. "Welcome to the world of on-the-job-training" indeed.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b1efb7a7	type	Mayflyâ€“December Romance
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b1efb7a7	comment	Mayfly–December Romance: Luna had one about 500 years before her banishment; she swore not to try again, but after 1,500 years of not getting any she's feeling a bit tense. And as of chapter 7, Cadence and Shining Armor's marriage is no longer one.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: Chapter 2 originally had Celestia saying that Cadance had been born an Alicorn and that she hadn't known before Cadance's birth that ponies could be born as Alicorns. But sometime after Chapter 27 was posted, Chapter 2 was edited to say that Cadance had been born a Pegasus, ascending shortly after being born, and that Celestia hadn't known before that that normal ponies could become Alicorns, thus bringing the story into compliance with Parting Words, which, in Chapter 4, has Celestia say that she and Luna were born as Alicorns. In an earlier version of Chapter 5, Rainbow Dash's dad was named Spectrum Blitz, and it was heavily implied that her mom had passed away. The author later revised the chapter so that Rainbow's dad was renamed Rainbow Blaze, and that Rainbow's mom (who isn't given a name in the chapter, but is otherwise suggested by her physical description to be Windy Whistles, Rainbow's mom in canon) was alive and present. Chapter 12 has also been slightly revised in this fashion. Part of Twilight's Rage Against the Mentor in Parting Words involves calling Celestia out for not warning them that Discord could tamper with their minds. Here, a flashback shows that, in this continuity, Twilight solved his riddle, retrieved the Elements, and re-imprisoned him before he had a chance to demonstrate that. This left a Series Continuity Error until it was later revised to reveal Twilight was angry that she didn't get a warning that he could have done this. Sheriff Brass' deputy's name is changed from Flute to Piccolo, presumably to keep him from being confused with the Nobody's Fool of the same name.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b3bdf232	type	Alien Geometries
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b3bdf232	comment	Alien Geometries: Pinkie's pinkie powers are due to the ability to perceive and act in more dimensions than most people. In addition to being able to move through more spatial dimensions than most (which allows her to do things like lean through a magic mirror to hug someone on the other side, hundreds of miles away), she can see forward in time to a limited degree and perceive probability itself. The Uncharted spell, which alters the geometries of the affected area so that it's impossible to enter or exit through any direction except a very specific one, separating the location from reality itself.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b4d6aa7d	type	Dungeon Bypass
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b4d6aa7d	comment	Dungeon Bypass: Daring Do is apparently an expert at this. How did she deal with the cursed locks on the sarcophagus in the Temple of Lesser Sun? Dynamite (the museum wasn't too happy, as she damaged the sarcophagus). The deadly riddle doors in the Maze of Mysteries? Flying over the maze. The Minotaur King's killer golem, without having the Minotaur crown that controls it? Pouring water in the gears and letting the incredibly cold weather freeze it, wrenching the whole thing apart. The cursed plaque of Nunhotep? A sledgehammer. Hence why Celestia hired her to deal with the locks of the Chest of Harmony.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: Bananas Foster is so bad at business that he had to declare bankruptcy on his lemonade stand, the bank foreclosed on his treehouse, and he became the first 12-year-old in Equestria's history to undergo an income tax audit. Similarly, Rainbow Dash is extremely clumsy at flirting. Not only does her voice become husky instead of sultry, but she also falls off a table trying to impress Mach One. Then it gets even funnier as she realizes that Mach's voice is unusually high, and, lowering his hoodie herself, finds out that she just flirted with an underage pony. Cue her horrified "oh shit!" reaction.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b5049d76	type	Added Alliterative Appeal
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b5049d76	comment	Added Alliterative Appeal: RH seems to like this trope well enough to drop it in repeatedly. From Chapter 22: In Chapter 30 (emphasis added): And later in Chapter 30: The Weasel twins' Desperation Dinner Ditching Drops, which get put to good use at the Baltimare trade show.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: The story has many: The whole idea of a "wingboner" gets called out as a ridiculous myth spread by unicorns and Earth ponies. The idea of a unicorn's horn being "Sensitive" is called equally sillynote Later chapters state that Pegasus wings are sensitive, in the sense that they are a sensory organ - Pegasi wings are associated with the extra sense they use to track wind currents, which they need to use to be able to fly. But that doesn't make them a source of Fantastic Arousal any more than the average person's nose is. Likewise, the Rule 34 idea that the lack of male Alicorns is due to the fact that they embody all three Pony races AND both genders is met with shock and disgust on Luna's part, with her outright questioning "What is wrong with ponies?!". Chapter 6 has several towards a few of the more iconic moments in the series, such as the Winter Wrap Up (just letting the snow melt would probably be more beneficial), The Running of the Leaves (two ponies squabbling shouldn't be enough to prevent leaves from falling; wind would be more efficient and easier), Weather Factories (making individual snowflakes by hoof is remarkably inefficient, though ultimately it's kept as a means of employing Pegasi who are disabled), and draining the reservoir via tornado (evaporation would work just as well, with much less time, energy, and effort for all involved). Chapter 45 tears into several iconic moments/places/rules/etc like hot knife through butter, courtesy of Mach One. Winter Wrap-Up gets mentioned again, with Mach One questioning about disallowing unicorn magic just because the town was founded by Earth Ponies, with him reasoning that getting the job done should be the first priority. Celestia's School Of Gifted Unicorns (and all gifted schools) is also not spared; Mach calls out how they were exclusively for unicorns. Given that one of Nobody's Fools is an Earth Pony studying unicorn magic (who couldn't get into one of these schools because none would accept anyone that aren't Unicorns) this is understandable. Cloudsdale also gets mentioned; Mach points out that living in Cloudsdale is very impractical on account of having no farmlands to grow food and that they are totally dependent on importing food grown on land to survive, and that this had been going on as far back as before Equestria was founded. With hindsight, Sunset Shimmer is able to ridicule how stupid her plan from Equestria Girls was, and blames it all on the hormones of the human teen body she was stuck in. Later in the same chapter, she also takes a dig at the idea of Celestia Petrifying and banishing Ponies to the moon for the most minor of offenses, pointing out the two known cases of these punishments-Nightmare Moon and Discord- were literal God-tier threats. Malthus gets one in chapter 4 via having a pony counterpart who Luna dismisses as "an ignorant idiot, a misanthropist and a fool" who had predicted that Pony-kind should have starved to death eight hundred years ago. In chapter 30, both Trixie and the Mane Six admit both sides made mistakes when first meeting Trixie, as she was being a show-off mostly because it was part of her job, something the others didn't consider at that time, and Trixie admitted she went too far with her bragging, making herself an unlikable pony in general. Chapter 35 skewers "Crusaders of the Lost Mark", having it be a horrifying nightmare for Apple Bloom and giving Babs the giggles. In Chapter 45, Mach One shows no mercy in his criticism of the story of Snowdrop (2013), seeing it as evidence that Equestria's royalty and upper class are more interested in maintaining their own position than helping the less fortunate. Previously, his group also criticizes the Hipster attitude, making emphasis on their condescension, arrogance and hypocrisy. Chapter 48 has a doctor at a Flightless Foal's Hospital, Hospice Care, deliver a brutal body slam to Political Overcorrectness and "social justice warriors" while speaking to Rainbow Dash. Similarly, one of the Nobody's Fools tells his family off about constantly pushing him towards business, stating that the university was full of hipsters and PC warriors, and the professors were either slave drivers or delusional ex-hippies. Chapter 51 has Rainbow Dash lecturing the faculty/staff of the Alicorn Academy (the university mentioned above) for letting their standards fall so far that professors are failing students for disagreeing with them, students are punished for violating speech codes that change every week, they pay outrageously high tuition that invariably ends up going to waste, and the school has become a breeding ground for Social Justice Warriors such as the Crownbreakers and the ones spreading the attitude called out by Hospice Care in Chapter 48. According to the author, Twilight's arc in Hollow Shades will be this to the Cthulhu Mythos, and Lovecraftian/Cosmic Horror works in general.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b575a2b1	type	Cold Iron
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b575a2b1	comment	Hollow Shades' residents have prepared their homes with multiple measures against the various monsters and ghosts that apparently haunt the area. For starters, we're talking solid oak construction, garlic hanging everywhere, and everything is reinforced with Cold Iron.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b5914444	type	Noodle Implements
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b5914444	comment	Noodle Implements: Pinkie Pie buys a literal boatload of these in chapter 11. Even more hilarious is that Luna admits she can think of uses for over half of those items...which worries her. Naturally, as Noodle Implements, the uses are not given. The departure ceremony at the end of chapter 12 probably accounts for how the cannons, cake mix, and some of the confetti are being used... And in Chapter 30, Pinkie reveals that she and Luna have been dropping cupcakes (tied to balloons) on the towns they pass during their travels. The dolls and paint actually look reasonable and obvious. Which may be a Red Herring, of course.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b593baf1	type	Author Filibuster
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b593baf1	comment	Author Filibuster: The Windy City arc is an extended rant against Social Justice Warriors, specifically the anti-ableism crowd infesting medicine.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b5b4b485	type	The Bet
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b5b4b485	comment	The Bet: Before meeting Fluttershy's folks, her friends take bets on which one will be "the loud one". (Dash, knowing the answer, abstains.) Babs wins the pot by correctly guessing that the whole family acts just like Fluttershy. Rainbow Dash loses a bet to Spike over which one of the Mane Six will be the first to find another Alicorn. When Flim and Flam learn of the Crusaders' ascension, they start taking bets on what disaster the trio will cause next and where. They have to turn down a wager on a zombie attack because it's already happened.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b6db5695	type	Political Overcorrectness
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b6db5695	comment	Chapter 48 has a doctor at a Flightless Foal's Hospital, Hospice Care, deliver a brutal body slam to Political Overcorrectness and "social justice warriors" while speaking to Rainbow Dash. Similarly, one of the Nobody's Fools tells his family off about constantly pushing him towards business, stating that the university was full of hipsters and PC warriors, and the professors were either slave drivers or delusional ex-hippies.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b731fa6e	type	I Cannot Self-Terminate
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b731fa6e	comment	I Cannot Self-Terminate: Cotton Mouth, in the end, wants to die but can't due to Lord Malefic's curse. He instead begs Luna for a Mercy Kill.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b78ccff7	type	Griping About Gremlins
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b78ccff7	comment	Griping About Gremlins: Malfunziona is essentially a merger of a gremlin and a draconeqeus. Especially since his power is to make technology go haywire.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b7b1aa73	type	And Then What?
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b7b1aa73	comment	And Then What?: Celestia asks this of Sunset Shimmer in Chapter 18 before revealing her reasons for the Pancaea, as Shimmer didn't know what Celestia's true plan was. Interestingly, Sunset Shimmer does have sort of an answer to the trope question: Sunset Shimmer admits she didn't really have a plan on what she was planning to do after becoming a princess, but she says that well, if she was a princess, she'd have plenty of opportunity to figure it out. Opportunity that Celestia denied her. Surprisingly, Mudpuppy gets some of this once she learns that she's a princess in chapter 27. In chapter 50, Mach One is convinced that Celestia hasn't answered this question for all the points between starting the "Ascend everybody scheme" and its conclusion.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b89ed08a	type	Obvious Rule Patch
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b89ed08a	comment	Obvious Rule Patch: The manager at a Cloud City fast food joint laments Mayor Fussbudget's quick closing of a critical loophole in one of his "Healthy for your own good" ordinances in Chapter 51.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b9922ce5	type	Literal Ass-Kicking
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_b9922ce5	comment	Literal Ass-Kicking: In chapter 27, Rarity tells the others how she delivered one to Prince Blueblood after her Personality Powers determined that was what he needed most at that moment. And how she blamed her actions on being drunk at the time.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_bbcdd673	type	One-Gender Race
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_bbcdd673	comment	One-Gender Race: Something that's been frustrating Luna for centuries is the lack of Alicorn stallions. There are now three male Alicorns as of the Windy City arc, but Shining Armor is taken and Jasper and Mach One are underage. Dash might end up calling dibs on Mach when he grows up, and Dinky Doo is said to be "on the inside track" with Jasper.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_bc15bc0a	type	Eternal Love
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_bc15bc0a	comment	Eternal Love: Princess Luna swore to herself that her next lover will be immortal after she lost her previous partner five hundred years before Nightmare Moon. Cadence and Shining Armor are now officially this, thanks to Twilight's spur-of-the-moment decision to try and ascend Shining to Alicornhood. It worked.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_bc74ef27	comment	For stomping on Rainbow Dash's Berserk Button and dissing her in Chapter 13, Spitfire gets her flank handed to her in less than three seconds in a scuffle, followed by Rainbow chewing the Wonderbolt captain out, big-time.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_bcf61e25	type	The Last Straw
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_bcf61e25	comment	Mach's antagonistic relationship with Fussbudget stems from a six month period in the past where Fussbudget acted as this to Mach. Mach eventually snapped and called him out... which caused Fussbudget to kick Mach out of his home and sent him to live with Mach's grandmother.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_be795a6c	type	Of Corset Hurts
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_be795a6c	comment	Of Corset Hurts: First thing Dash does after her coronation ceremony is over is strip off her girdle and advise Scootaloo to never let anyone talk her into wearing one.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_bebb370	type	Gratuitous Italian
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_bebb370	comment	Gratuitous Italian: Malfunziona peppers his speech with Italian words. It's likely due to being stuck in a statue in the counterpart country for five hundred years.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_c0f87dda	type	Humans Are Warriors
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_c0f87dda	comment	Humans Are Warriors: Sunset Shimmer realizes that this is the reason her plans of conquest in the human world were doomed to failure from the very start.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_c1105f41	type	Hold the Line
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_c1105f41	comment	Hold the Line: In Chapter 42, Mudpuppy, Sweetie Belle, and their plant army are forced to defend a blessed hillock against the lich Malifec and his army of zomponies and kappas. They spend hours spawning soldiers and singing battle marches.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_c145f69b	comment	Rainbow Dash attempts this with the collapsing Thunderdome, with significantly less success; however, the thaumic backlash of the attempt provides the raw magical fuel for the double ascension of Scootaloo and Mach One.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_c15f1f71	type	Keeping the Handicap
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_c15f1f71	comment	Keeping the Handicap: The doctors at Windy City firmly believe this is a good thing and attempt to persuade others that it's the way things should be. Rainbow Dash and others, on the other hoof, are utterly disgusted with the idea, viewing handicaps as problems to be fixed rather than something to be proud of.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_c2299d6e	type	Cutting the Knot
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_c2299d6e	comment	Cutting the Knot: Celestia decides that rather than deal with whatever doubtlessly lengthy Secret Test of Character is required to open the box from the Tree of Harmony, she'll just have Daring Do (who has a history of successfully doing this) find a way to force it open.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Rarity's horn drags her through and out of Neigh Orleans. When she remembers that Neigh Orleans is surrounded by swamp — and she really doesn't want to get dragged through a swamp — she wails "No. No! NOOOOOOO!!" as she gets dragged through the swamp anyway.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_c2d04a04	type	Names to Trust Immediately
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_c2d04a04	comment	Names to Trust Immediately: The unicorn, Southern Comfort, is a doctor. This means he is addressed as "Dr. Comfort". Likewise, there is Dr. Hospice Care and Nurse Tender Care.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Bananas Foster, the heir apparent to the Chiquita Archipelago Banana Empire, who built their fortune on bananas, has a banana peel in his cutie mark, whose whole family are named after banana products and has eaten bananas his entire life, HATES BANANAS! It's because he had too much of them pushed onto him too fast. The cutie mark actually refers to the slipped-on-a-banana-peel joke. The Alicorn Academy, named in honor of the Princesses, pretty much runs on everything the Princesses can't stand, from preventing ponies from reaching their full potential to allowing professors to fail students just because they don't like them, often for petty reasons like "not agreeing with every word I say".
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_c435ec5d	type	Aesop Amnesia
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_c435ec5d	comment	Aesop Amnesia: Averted at the start. After the mass Alicorn-Ascension of the Mane Six, Twilight thinks Celestia is still being a secretive and manipulative chessmaster. Then Celestia says "let me explain" and she does. She even opens up a Q&A in case she missed something. Also, this plan was set in motion before the Aesop of the previous story (or rather, they knew such an event would happen eventually and were patiently waiting for it).
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_c5ccf60f	type	Internal Reveal
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_c5ccf60f	comment	Internal Reveal: Chapter 51 has the "Big Sisters" introduce the freshly ascended CMCs simultaneously. Their collective squeeing is described as ear splitting.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_c5fe6c81	type	Strong Family Resemblance
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_c5fe6c81	comment	Strong Family Resemblance: Fluttershy's entire family is just as shy (and adorable) as she is. Complete, down to the color schemes.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Has its own page.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_cc4d190a	type	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_cc4d190a	comment	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Cthulhu never stood a chance against the Cutie Mark Crusaders. It's ultimately Apple Bloom who figures out how to take down Malfunziona and re-imprison him for good. Mudpuppy and Sweetie Belle manage to bring down a lich by having Mudpuppy raise an army of sentient plants to Hold the Line until Sweetie Belle manages to bring the zomponies back to sentience with her singing. Newly ascended Scootaloo and Mach stop a supercell that the Wonderbolts were struggling with by themselves and without speaking a single syllable to each other.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_cce399	type	This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_cce399	comment	This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: While a perfectly respectable cutie mark talent, hair-styling is not generally particularly useful in battle... unless you're fighting a giant monster made entirely out of hair (and a pair of sneakers).
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_ce2969d8	type	Spiritual Antithesis
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_ce2969d8	comment	Spiritual Antithesis: To Winter Storm. While both stories have a similar premise, Celestia attempting to create more alicorns, they are dramatically different in tone and presentation of Princess Celestia. Here, Celestia is presented as warmer and more down to Earth than canon after the events of the previous story. In Winter Storm, Celestia is colder and her chessmaster traits are played to the extreme. In both stories, creating alicorns is presented as being for the greater good, but in Winter Storm Celestia does this to take a firmer control over mortals. In Alicorn Hunt, she and Luna hope to make everyone an Alicorn so that they can step back and allow ponies to govern themselves. The Great Alicorn Hunt takes place across Equestria in an alternate version of the show's present, Winter Storm and its predecessor primarily take place within the Crystal Empire in the distant future.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_ce60aef3	type	Heroic Resolve
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_ce60aef3	comment	Rainbow Dash and Applejack are still learning the basics of unicorn magic, but they can perform quite impressive feats of raw power, specially with the right motivation.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_cf4d770	type	Nightmare Fuel
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_cf4d770	comment	In Ch 47, Foster is feeding Scootaloo some Nightmare Fuel. Mach isn't happy with the situation.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: None of the bullies believe it when the CMC warn them they're related to Alicorn princesses. Apple Bloom is so used to Applejack ignoring her claims about being bullied this way that she doesn't expect her to act any differently now, even after the events of Parting Words. Mach One finds it hard to believe that Mayor Fussbudget wasn't in cahoots with the Crownbreakers.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_d0d90308	type	Bizarre Taste in Food
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_d0d90308	comment	Bizarre Taste in Food: Discord eats seven hors d'oeuvres trays at the Coronation Gala. Not the hors d'oeuvres themselves, just the trays. (He complains that they weren't very filling because they were made of sterling silver.)
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_d112f7ec	type	"Oh, Crap!" Smile
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_d112f7ec	comment	"Oh, Crap!" Smile: Bananas Foster's family thought all the tuition money they'd used to try to hammer business lessons into his head was wasted when he dropped out. The college offered to give him a refund, but he instead asked to have the money sent back to the family member in charge of the finances. This happens to be Foster's uncle, Banana Smoothie, who secretly kept the money for himself and can only offer a weak smile in respone to a Death Glare from the entire family once they realize he's scammed them.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: What is Trixie's final trump card when she thinks she and Jasper are about to be arrested by the ascended Sunset Shimmer? Beg for mercy in the most outlandish way possible.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_d1affec1	type	That Came Out Wrong
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_d1affec1	comment	That Came Out Wrong: In Chapter 32, Twilight is advising Flash on how to dress casually for their incognito visit to Hollow Shades, and says that he could just go without clothes, as he looks fine without them. She then realizes what that sounds like and backspaces immediately, blushing all the while. Her consternation is doubly amusing, seeing as how most ponies normally don't wear clothes anyway...
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Most of Lord Malifec's magical attacks are completely useless against his own zombies, as all of them are geared to attack the living, so he's pretty much defenseless when they turn against him. When Mach One captures two Crownbreakers and learns of their plan to set off bombs that will disintegrate the Thunderdome cloud stadium, he leaves them tied up with a couple of their own bombs primed to destroy the floor under them. He doesn't tell them that he's tied parachute cord to their ankles to keep them from falling too far. Nor does he tell the Pegasus of the pair that he left her wings unbound, calling it karma if they forgot they could fly.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: After having had enough of the Wonderbolts giving her the cold shoulder and badmouthing her behind her back, Rainbow Dash confronts Spitfire about it. When the latter says that Dash is a show off who hasn't earned anything she has, Dash snaps and gives her a scathing "The Reason You Suck" Speech, pointing out how hard she worked to earn everything she has, not to mention has saved the world several times, whereas the Wonderbolts are either no-shows or ineffective in a crisis, and Spitfire herself is as guilty of being self-absorbed as she accused Rainbow Dash of being. Spitfire admits Rainbow Dash is right, and they make amends, with Spitfire helping Dash mend fences with the other Wonderbolts.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Trixie's Ain't Too Proud to Beg moment when she is confronted by a princess (Sunset Shimmer).
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_d67f0a23	type	Modest Royalty
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_d67f0a23	comment	Modest Royalty: All the Mane Six and the other new Alicorns, but also Prince Ajax the gryphon, who instantly hits off a friendship with Rainbow Dash over their shared dislike for courtly decorum.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Babs' bullies always got off scot free due to having wealthy and influential families. Unfortunately for them, Babs is now technically royalty. They didn't realize that until after they tried to attack her AND the CMC and Bishi, three of whom are royalty, being immediate family of three princesses, and one practically being an apprentice to one. So not only did they get their flanks kicked, they also got on the bad side of the Princesses, shipped off to Sweet Apple Acres to do hard labor or not get fed, and cut off from their parents' wealth due to royal decree. It's made very clear in Chapter 48 that the only reason the Mayor got a judge to give him an arrest warrant for the Nobody's Fools was because that judge was his cousin. Any other judge would have thrown the warrant out, since there wasn't a scrap of solid evidence behind it. Gold Star, the police commissioner, only cooperated with the plan because he knew that if he didn't, Fussbudget would have replaced him with somepony who would and made an even worse mess of things.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_d86071cf	type	Special Snowflake Syndrome
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_d86071cf	comment	Mach One accuses the Princesses of this in regards to the ascension plan, stating that there are bleeding heart liberal groups that will deride the plan on principle of not being sensitive to the disabled community's Special Snowflake Syndrome, and power hungry nobles who won't want to upend the status quo. Rainbow counters by stating that Mach has not taken into account two things: 1) Celestia is an expert Chessmaster who has dealt with these people before (if Alicornundrum is any indication) and 2) It's Worth It anyway.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When Flim and Flam realize Apple Bloom heard them...
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_d9d2c40b	type	Amazon Brigade
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_d9d2c40b	comment	Amazon Brigade: Rarity's Radiant Guard is almost entirely made up of mares. They double as Ladies of War, though she apparently took them mostly so she could use them all as models for her dresses. Celestia's castle staff includes a large number of mares who are also members of her Day Guard, trained in plain-clothes security and just as effective in combat as the stallions. Many of them transfer to the Radiant Guard.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_dae0cfd5	type	Something Else Also Rises
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_dae0cfd5	comment	The whole idea of a "wingboner" gets called out as a ridiculous myth spread by unicorns and Earth ponies. The idea of a unicorn's horn being "Sensitive" is called equally sillynote Later chapters state that Pegasus wings are sensitive, in the sense that they are a sensory organ - Pegasi wings are associated with the extra sense they use to track wind currents, which they need to use to be able to fly. But that doesn't make them a source of Fantastic Arousal any more than the average person's nose is. Likewise, the Rule 34 idea that the lack of male Alicorns is due to the fact that they embody all three Pony races AND both genders is met with shock and disgust on Luna's part, with her outright questioning "What is wrong with ponies?!".
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_db4b76d1	type	Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_db4b76d1	comment	Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: Bishi gets to spout one when asked why he's donning training shoes: Apple Bloom just after Malfunziona mockingly called her "A helpless, useless, powerless little blank-flanked FOAL!"
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_dbca2c99	comment	The dolls and paint actually look reasonable and obvious. Which may be a Red Herring, of course.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Commissioner Gold Star. He more or less recognizes that the Crownbreakers are a bigger threat than the Nobody's Fools, only begins investigating the latter due to concerns that they might've been infiltrated by the former, and only goes along with Fussbudget's poorly planned raid out of concern that he'd be replaced with some mindless stooge who'd make an already bad situation worse.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: The captain of the Guard appointed for Twilight by Celestia is Flash Sentry — and Twilight seems to be developing a crush on him. Apple Bloom certainly remembers Fancy Toff from the Coronation Gala in Chapter 10, when he visits Dodge Junction with his father in Chapter 19. Lampshaded by Applejack and Babs Seed in Chapter 35. Rainbow and Mach certainly find each other attractive in the Windy City arc. Lampshaded by Scootaloo and Flute in Chapter 45. Jasper and Dinky Doo. When Celestia implies that the two of them will share a class (Derpy having been made 'official royal mailmare'), Jasper immediately perks up. Apple Jack and Red Fort. When Celestia mentions the story of of the "Thunder Engineer who risked his life to save a princess", AJ's face dimples, and Red Fort bashfully coughs into his hoof.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_dcd423d2	type	Affectionate Nickname
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_dcd423d2	comment	Affectionate Nickname: Banana Pudding, Foster's little sister, has Nanner and Puddin'.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_de0df7a0	type	Stock Scream
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_de0df7a0	comment	Stock Scream: The author gets around the issue of trying to describe stock screams in text by including YouTube links to the sound effects. Pinkie Pie theorizes that her parents would freak out at her new Alicorn abilities amplifying her old abilities, acting out their potential reaction with a Wilhelm scream. Twilight Sparkle's reaction to eating Tabasco-frosted cupcakes includes a a Goofy Holler.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_deea2fb5	type	Idle Rich
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_deea2fb5	comment	Idle Rich: Played straight at first with Fancy Toff, a noble's son attending the Junior Gala. Averted by the time of the Cherry Jubilee in Dodge Junction; he's started helping out around his father's honey/sweetener business.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_df5c3013	type	Think Unsexy Thoughts
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_df5c3013	comment	Think Unsexy Thoughts: Whenever she sees an attractive stallion, Luna reminds herself of the vow she took that she must wait for an immortal stallion before she can get laid. It is taken to funny extremes when seeing the Bouncer Brigade (Pinkie's guards) drives her to take three cold showers and eat the ripples out of two tubs of fudge ripple ice cream.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_dfa40c1b	type	Didn't See That Coming
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_dfa40c1b	comment	Didn't See That Coming: Played for Drama when zombies and kappas launched a surprise ambush to kidnap Mudpuppy and Sweetie Belle. The guards did their best and apologized for being caught unprepared. Princess Luna tells them that they have nothing to be sorry for because they cannot predict the unpredictable, by definition.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_e21faf11	type	Friend to All Living Things
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_e21faf11	comment	Friend to All Living Things: Mudpuppy fills this trope just as well as Fluttershy. The filly even has her own menagerie of swamp-dwelling critters, (frogs, salamanders, etc) some of whom hitch a ride in her mane.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_e2d457	comment	Also it's implied that the pony who's making that claim isn't the inventor but rather a ditzy salespony who the inventor hired because she's pretty and talks a good game but didn't bother to prep her for that specific question.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_e38b0f45	type	Snake Oil Salesman
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_e38b0f45	comment	Cotton Mouth, the Snake Oil Salesman who peddled a poisonous health tonic in the swamps around Neigh Orleans years ago, leading to a rash of dead and severely deformed foal births. He returns in Chapter 40 to kidnap Mudpuppy and Sweetie Belle, using an army of kappas and zombies under his control, and it's strongly implied that he bred the hinkypunks that bit and nearly killed Sweet Peach and other foals in Neigh Orleans. Chapter 41 reveals that he's actually working for the monsters' real breeder, and he honestly didn't know his elixir was flawed when he gave it to the mares. But he still proves himself capable of purposely hurting children when he rips out some of Mudpuppy's feathers to keep her from escaping.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_e482cfa7	comment	To the Pain: Rarity threatens a gator with the fate of being used alive in one of her sewing projects. The gator high-tails it out of there.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_e4d1b37d	type	Load-Bearing Hero
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_e4d1b37d	comment	Load-Bearing Hero: Applejack does this with the Glass Palace housing the Trade Expo when Malfunziona sabotages it. Rainbow Dash attempts this with the collapsing Thunderdome, with significantly less success; however, the thaumic backlash of the attempt provides the raw magical fuel for the double ascension of Scootaloo and Mach One.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_e502e268	type	Family Theme Naming
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_e502e268	comment	Family Theme Naming: Every member of Foster's family, like the Apple family, is named after bananas or products made from them. Known members are Banana Crème (mother), Banana Bread (father), Banana Supreme (grandfather and the family patriarch/founder), Banana Liqueur (grandmother), Banana Smoothie (uncle), Banana Pudding (baby sister, a.k.a. "Nanner Puddin'"), and Foster himself (his full name is Bananas Foster, but no one calls him that).
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_e529d5c3	type	Torches and Pitchforks
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_e529d5c3	comment	Torches and Pitchforks: Discussed by Cotton Mouth just before Princess Luna gives him his mercy-kill.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_e52a0409	type	Calling the Old Man Out
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_e52a0409	comment	In Ch 49, Foster has picked up the guard station's public address system microphone and is Calling the Old Man Out.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: Discord would like to remind everypony that Malfunziona is a lesser draconequus.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_e7fd5cdc	type	Brain Bleach
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_e7fd5cdc	comment	Brain Bleach: Rarity attempts to use copious amounts of alcohol to erase her memories of all the mud and grime and creepy-crawly critters she's encountered in the swamps of Neigh Orleans.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_e851b5	type	The Plan
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_e851b5	comment	Well, not kills, but it does lead to a lot of friction between the Wonderbolts and Rainbow Dash. Spitfire claims that Celestia told her about their new assignment... which Rainbow Dash assumes is that they've all been briefed on "The Plan" (see above). Celestia actually told Spitfire that their mission was to keep an eye on Rainbow Dash, and that Dash would provide further details later. As such, the Wonderbolts feel like they're babysitting a spoiled fan-girl, while Dash can't understand why they don't like her.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_e9db9908	comment	Younger Than They Look: Mach, much to Rainbow Dash's horror and shock (and our amusement) after she tried flirting with him. This later happens again with Luna after Mach's ascension.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_ea39d156	comment	Who Wants to Live Forever?: Or rather, who wants to live alone forever? Celestia and Luna have no problems being immortal, but having to watch, again and again, the ponies close to them grow old, feeble and die after such a short time together is truly heartbreaking for them. This is what kicks off the main plot of the story — to find more Alicorns and eventually find a way to pass the gift of immortality on to everypony. When Mach seems hesitant to ascend, Rainbow Dash asks if he believes in this trope, directly quoting it and even calling him an emo for it. He tells her to give him more credit; he's actually thinking of more immediate problems.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_eb81c601	comment	In this continuity: Starlight Glimmer was revealed to have been overthrown by her own lieutenant who had her imprisoned and ruled over Our Town with an iron fist, until Sunburst came and saved her.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_f15c2859	comment	Rainbow Dash delivers one to the Crownbreakers responsible for the destruction of the Thunderdome about how their action was pointlessly destructive and cruel, and she does it in full ROYAL CANTERLOT VOICE no less.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_f25b1ae6	comment	Unskilled, but Strong: Rainbow Dash and Applejack are still learning the basics of unicorn magic, but they can perform quite impressive feats of raw power, specially with the right motivation. Really, this applies to most of the Mane 6 when it comes to magic, given that only two of them started out as unicorns, and of those two, only Twilight has made a dedicated study of magic (Rarity only knowing the basics). That being said, the fact that they're alicorns means that what little magic they do have is insanely powerful (case in point: Fluttershy's Stare originally didn't work on Discord; once she's ascended, it blows out his eyes and leaves him with an Ash Face, cowing him rather neatly).
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: Between what was done to him by his own experiments and the Lich's curse, Cotton Mouth flat out asks for one and is granted it.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_f4f01ac	comment	Deadly Rotary Fan: Discussed and Averted in chapter 38 when three batponies find themselves dealing with a runaway airplane.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_f7903e81	comment	That's Gotta Hurt: Scootaloo and the Nobody's Fools share a moment of bonding by swapping tales of their crashes and ouching in sympathy at each others' stories.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_f8a82c75	comment	I Always Wanted to Say That: Twilight's thrilled that she can walk into one of her favorite stores (a book store, of course) and order one of everything.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_f9f2c33	comment	Almost a Running Gag with Bishi, every time he gets ready to fight, as nopony can believe such a cute and delicate-looking little guy can do any damage; his opponents always learn their lesson the hard way.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_fbba5e98	comment	Gadgeteer Genius: Apple Bloom has to think very fast in order to jury-rig a trap for the (lesser) draconequus Malfunziona, using only items on display at the trade show in Baltimare. She succeeds so brilliantly that she gets her cutie mark AND becomes an Alicorn at the same time.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: During a rant by Mach One about how there are social protest groups that will complain about just about anything and stupid politicians will pass laws to make said people happy, Rainbow Dash gets sidetracked by the fact that Mayor Fussbudget had outlawed the sale of jumbo hay-burgers in Windy City.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_fc4a7224	comment	Trash Landing: Scootaloo uses a Wronski Feint to trick some bullies into flying into a dumpster.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_fd5603b	comment	MacGyvering: After Malfunziona lets a swarm of Whizbees loose in the Expo, Apple Bloom builds a bug vacuum from the broken pieces of everything else that Malfunziona had wrecked to trap them. And then shoots the now very angry electric bees up the draconequus' nose.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_fdd20c06	comment	Alternate Universe Fic: Building off of Parting Words, with the main divergence coming when all of the Mane Six ascend instead of just Twilight. None of the Equestria Girls films happen, as Sunset is captured when she first infiltrates the Crystal Empire, and subsequently talked into a Heel–Face Turn by Celestia. This means Equestrian Magic is never introduced to the human world, the Dazzlings stay in their mostly depowered state etc. At some point off-screen, Starlight Glimmer was overthrown as leader of the Equality cult, and later rescued from it by Sunburst. Twilight reveals that they're now engaged and working on magical research together. The events of The Lost Treasure of Griffonstone never happen. Instead, Ajax's father finds the Idol of Boreas and is thus named king.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_fe1b2e75	comment	Bigger on the Inside: Daring Do figures that the Tree of Harmony's box is this, due to being a four-dimensional construct. There are also apparently spells to replicate the effect on rooms and homes. Rarity uses them on her own ship to increase the available space.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_fea27091	comment	Buffy Speak: Rarity is so drunk, she fumbles a similie by saying "Likewise my magic seemed to know precisely what I needed after my little misadventure. It led me straight to the wet bar on board like a... magical... pointy... guided... projectile....thing."
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_fef0037b	comment	Unnaturally Looping Location: In chapter 54, Pinkie Pie is furious at soon-to-be ex-Mayor Fussbudget for giving Mach One a papier-mâché cake instead of a real birthday cake. So she decides to recreate the papier-mâché birthday cake and force-feed it to Fussbudget. When he tries to escape, Pinkie Pie invokes this trope by warping his escape routes to bring him right back where he started so that he can't escape his punishment.
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: The background information on kappas in Chapter 25 is a condensed version of the Japanese folklore behind them, including their love of cucumbers. The scouts yell 'Fire' when needing help, even if the emergency is way different. This is usual advice for self-protection; as the scouts say themselves, most people tend to run away or ignore calls for help, but pretty much everyone goes to take a look when hearing 'Fire'. One of Applejack's batpony guards makes mention of vampire melons, melons and gourds left out under the moon which bleed from the stem and roll around thirsting for blood. According to one of the footnotes, this is based on real Romanian folklore.
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