Queen Chrysalis and Starlight Glimmer Meet Again

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Recap / My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic S6 E26 "To Where and Dorsum Once again � Function 2"

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Continued from "To Where and Back Again – Part 1".

"Yous know nothing of the changelings or what information technology takes to exist their queen! I decide what is best for my subjects, non some mewling chow!"

— Queen Chrysalis (to Starlight)

Special Invitee Star: John de Lancie every bit Discord
Written past: Josh Haber and Michael Vogel

At the Changeling Hive, Discord wonders why he and his companions couldn't enter the castle when he tried warping them in. Discord tries several more than attempts at magical intrusion, all of which fail. Thorax explains that only changeling magic will work in the hive, since the throne of Queen Chrysalis is carved from a dark rock that blocks all magic except changeling transformation. Starlight says that their only hope is to get to the throne and destroy information technology. Though nervous, the unlikely heroes head for the hive to endeavor to rescue their friends.

Once inside the Changeling Hive, Trixie and Discord brainstorm arguing most the adjacent course of activeness, prompting Starlight to nervously cut them off. She says that she'southward barely holding together as information technology is, and wants to focus. Thorax, despite being from the hive, gets them lost because of the constantly-shifting passageways of the hive. Trixie says they may equally well wait to be fed on past changelings, merely Thorax then reveals that he hasn't been hungry since meeting Spike, which explains his wings turning shiny and brilliant. Discord, nonetheless arguing with Trixie, accidentally shouts loud enough to become them noticed. Thinking speedily, Starlight has Thorax impersonate Trixie and use her smoke bombs to distract the patrol while the others motion on.

Near another door, Discord distracts a set of changeling guards while Starlight, Trixie and Thorax flee. Discord seemingly comes across Fluttershy, just he instantly recognizes that information technology's a trap. All the same, changelings swarm him equally Fluttershy, all with the possibility that one of them might be the real Fluttershy. Unable to cope with the thought, Discord is captured. After, a changeling disguised equally Discord attempts to lead Starlight, Trixie and Thorax the wrong way. Trixie volunteers herself to go on up the illusion, tying herself to the changeling to foreclose it from capturing her friends. The ruse works, but Trixie is also captured.

Starlight comes beyond the cocoon pods containing the Royal Family, the Mane 6, Discord and Trixie in the throne room, just Queen Chrysalis is at that place to intercept her, along with the rest of the Changeling Hive. Chrysalis sticks Starlight to the ground, bragging most how she'll supplant all of Equestria's about powerful ponies with drones to feed her dearest, until she has Equestria completely nether her command and obedient to only her.

While talking, she notices a gleam in Starlight'due south eyes, recognizing her as Thorax in disguise. The real Starlight'south attempt to employ the lark and pause the throne on her own fails, and Chrysalis mocks them all for their failed rescue. Chrysalis lifts Thorax from the basis and begins to drain his love as punishment for betraying her, with Starlight calling out for him to share his love rather than agree onto it. As he does, a blast of the love he'southward gathered sends Chrysalis flight into her throne and cracks it, with Thorax'due south body irresolute to a bright, colorful form.

The rest of the changelings follow arrange, all of their combined sharing of beloved destroying the throne room, along with Chrysalis'south throne, and causing the cocoons holding everyone prisoner to autumn and burst open, freeing them and letting them apply their magic again. Chrysalis gets back up set up to fight, but apace realizes she's outnumbered as everyone glares furiously at her. Starlight offers Chrysalis the chance for redemption she was given: to exist a real leader instead of ruling by fear. Chrysalis rejects the take chances, vowing revenge on Starlight for ruining her vengeance on the Royal Family and Mane Half-dozen, before flying away, solitary. Celestia approaches Thorax and announces him the new ruler of the hive. Since the hive no longer blocks not-changeling magic, Starlight inquire Discord for one favor.

At the Dusk Festival back in her old village, Starlight apologizes for running off and so rapidly, and so admits she understands that she really has changed for the ameliorate. She's learned that a good leader doesn't rule past fear or by forcing others to mind, but by using their strengths and abilities. The villagers allowed all of Starlight'southward friends, including the Majestic Family and Discord, to join the Sunset Festival, though Rainbow Dash admits that they'll all need to exist defenseless upwardly to speed on all that'southward happened between when they saw Starlight off and when they were freed from the cocoons.

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Tropes:

• Abnormal Limb Rotation Range: Chrysalis emerges from between the cocoons containing Celestia and Luna past disturbingly twisting her limbs in a spider-like manner.
• Achilles' Heel: The changelings' Emotion Eater natures only brand them proficient at taking love, not actually receiving it. Starlight realizes this and tells Thorax to give Chrysalis his dear. It chop-chop turns the tables on Chrysalis and leads to the devastation of her throne and freedom of her captives.
• Actually Pretty Funny: Afterwards Discord makes his joke nearly the Changelings existence the "easiest to problems", 2 of the guards are seen giving confused looks but the third one in the very back is seen chuckling at the joke.
• An Aesop:
  • At that place are times when y'all need to step up and exercise things you aren't confident about for the sake of your friends.
  • Being a adept leader doesn't mean making everyone believe in your way of doing things and decline everything else, it's to let everyone exist unique and listen to someone when they notice a better way of doing things.
  • If you're all take and no give when it comes to honey, and then y'all'll e'er be hungry.
  • Not everypony volition accept the olive branch.
• Appreciating Gesture to the Caput: Discord mockingly taps Trixie on the caput, flattening her wizard lid, while saying "It's ambrosial" subsequently she suggests they should have a programme to enter the Changeling Hive.
• Anti-Magic: The Changeling Hive, besides as a large perimeter effectually information technology, is within a powerful anti-magic field that suppress any powers except for those of changelings, fifty-fifty Discord's Chaos magic. This would explain how once they were captured, the Imperial Family unit and Mane Six could not simply bust out of their cocoons on their own. It even prevents Celestia and Luna's manes and tails from naturally flowing besides. The field seems too to have a bad effect on establish life, since there is vegetation just at the edge, just beyond that it's a wasteland.
• Arch-Enemy: Chrysalis seems to be prepare to be Starlight'southward, with her vow of Revenge and all.
• Artifact of Doom: Chrysalis's Throne fully qualifies. Thorax describes it as "carved from an ancient dark stone that soaks up outside magic the same way changelings soak up love." Information technology generates an Anti-Magic field capable of depowering even Equestria's Physical Gods or Goddesses. Its influence likewise seems to make constitute life whither, turning the area around the Changeling Hive into Mordor. Fittingly, its destruction is the go-to solution for all the problems faced by the heroes.
• The Atoner: The first thing the changelings do later on their reformation is to help the Royal Family unit and Mane 6 out of their destroyed cocoons, with some of them fifty-fifty returning Flurry Heart to Princess Cadance and Shining Armor.
• Badass Adorable: After Chrysalis emerges from the rubble, Flurry Center is (surprisingly!) at the ready to fight her with the residual of the ponies and changelings.
• Badass Arm-Fold: This is Discord'southward position of selection when Chrysalis emerges from the rubble to see all her one-time captives, along with her reformed Swarm and Thorax, set to fight.
• Bad Boss: Chrysalis all but admits she cares just near furthering her ain power, and that her people getting fed is only one of the ways she does so, and it turns out, she doesn't really care about that much either every bit she's been starving them on purpose. Needless to say, the changelings plow on her and are pretty fed up with Chrysalis after her defeat, speedily making up for their earlier deportment with kidnapping the Royal Family unit and Mane Vi for Chrysalis'due south Revenge.
• Dazzler Equals Goodness: Or, at least, Goodness equals Beauty. When Thorax inspires the other changelings to share love rather than steal information technology, their grotesque, rotted forms melt abroad into cute, colorful forms.
• Be Careful What Y'all Wish For:
  • Chrysalis decides to drain the love from Thorax every bit a testify of force of her rule to her subjects. She gets the dear alright, a major beam aimed correct into the face. This likewise shows the other changelings that sharing their love rather than taking it was a much stronger power than their queen.
  • You know, Trixie, saying "When pigs wing!" to a Trickster and Reality Warper similar Discord isn't very wise. Cue the Flying Pigs, including one correct underneath Trixie herself.
• Beingness Evil Sucks: Information technology'due south implied that the changelings' clamorous hunger would never be cured nether Chrysalis'due south rule and thus they would proceed to starve. Once Thorax shows the remainder of them a amend manner, the changelings waste no time whatsoever following him and making up for their before kidnapping for Chrysalis's personal revenge against them. Heck, several of them help Shining Armor and Cadance out of what'southward left of their shattered cocoons, and another one returns Flurry Heart to them.
• Big "SHUT Upwards!": Starlight has to put a cease to some other of Trixie and Discord'south bickering with "Cut. It. OUT!"
• Bioluminescence Is Cool: The cocoons and some other features inside the hive give off a Sickly Green Glow.
• Body Wipe: Ends the 2d act, when a swarm of changelings surrounds "Starlight Blink" and one of them completely fills up the screen in an upward motion.
• Bookends:
  • The episode begins and ends with Discord summoning flying pigs.
  • The previous episode (past the intro sequence) begins in Our Boondocks (albeit in Starlight'due south dream), and the two-parter ends in the same identify for a victory celebration.
• Breaking Old Trends: This is the first flavor finale to not have a single song.
• Brought Down to Badass: The grouping isn't the force they could be without their magic, but they all the same do pretty well.
• Brought Down to Normal: The Anti-Magic field has this effect on Trixie, Starlight and Discord. It peradventure was too the reason behind the success of the kidnapping of the Majestic Family unit and Mane Half dozen. Discord, who prides himself on his Reality Warper powers, doesn't take this too well. He even complains that he now needs to walk to move around, something he hasn't washed in millennia (in fact, without his powers he fifty-fifty seems unable to fly). They are reduced to using their wits and their few not-magical talents to make their fashion inside the Hive. Once Thorax and the other changelings destroy Chrysalis'southward throne and gratuitous the others, their powers come dorsum.
• The Bondage of Commanding: Starlight is fifty-fifty worse in this episode, every bit she's barely keeping the group together every bit its de facto leader.
• Chekhov's Gun: A small-scale one. Ane of the items Discord discards when rummaging through Trixie'southward saddlebags is a stage microphone, which is why he has ane afterwards during his stand up-up routine distraction despite non having access to his magic to pull ane from Hammerspace like he unremarkably would. How it amplifies audio is another question; it fifty-fifty follows the Feedback Rule when dropped.
• Chirping Crickets: Once they're made aware of the presence of the Anti-Magic field, Starlight admits she doesn't know what to practice, and asks the other rescuers if they have whatever thought. Equally neither Thorax, Trixie nor Discord say a discussion despite her insistence, crickets are heard chirping in the groundwork.
• Come Out, Come Out, Wherever Y'all Are: Starlight hides from Chrysalis in the throne room while Chrysalis hunts her down.
• Control Freak: Chrysalis wishes to go powerful enough to make all of Equestria obey her every control. Thorax disobeying her is a big Berserk Button. This is too her undoing, as her refusal to listen to Thorax for the sake of her subjects allows him to ultimately overthrow her and destroy her unabridged revenge plot against the Royal Family and Mane Vi.
• Continuity Nod:
  • The changelings' captives are all imprisoned in coccoons that hang upside-down from the ceiling of Chrysalis's throne room, just as Celestia briefly was in "A Canterlot Wedding - Office 2".
  • The way Starlight offers Chrysalis her hoof mirrors Twilight doing the same for her in "The Cutie Re-Marker - Function 2". This time around, the offer'south rejected.
• Cool Chair: Chrysalis's throne is a large big stone with holes in it similar to a changeling'south body. Information technology is also a Power Nullifier for non-changelings. Fifty-fifty Discord is Brought Downward to Normal because of it.
• The Coup: Thorax effectively does this to Chrysalis; ousting her as leader of the changelings and causing the rest of the hive to ascension up against her.
• Covered in Gunge: All the former captives of the cocoons sally from them covered in light-green changeling goo, except Princess Luna.
• Cue the Flying Pigs: Trixie sarcastically remarks that she'll let Discord in on her act "when pigs fly". Unfortunately for her, Discord grants her wish, conjuring a flying pig beneath both of them and starting an impromptu race.
• Curb-Stomp Boxing: Starlight without magic is no lucifer at all for Chrysalis in hoof-to-hoof gainsay. She ends upwards grabbed by her tail, thrown to the ground, then grabbed upwardly with Chrysalis'south magic and slammed difficult into the wall. Of course, since this is a child-friendly Television receiver-Y show, information technology'due south considerably downplayed and Starlight is not afflicted much at all.
• Darkest Hr: Even more than and then than the previous episode, as the heroes are without their magic and wind upwardly getting captured ane by one, joining the already captured master characters in cocoons. Thorax is captured and virtually executed when Chrysalis starts forcibly draining him of his love, while Starlight is forced to picket... until she remembers what caused Thorax to change and convinces him to share his love with Chrysalis. Things turn upward from there.
• The Darkness Gazes Dorsum: When Trixie stays behind to delay the changeling disguised every bit Discord, dozens of changeling eyes glowing blue announced from the dark ceiling of the cavern.
• Death Glare:
  • Chrysalis receives this from everyone upon her defeat, especially the Royal Family and Mane 6, who are none besides happy at having been her prisoners and being trapped in cocoons this whole time. Even Flurry Heart looks pretty ticked off at what the Changeling Queen did to her. The only exception is Starlight, who wants to give her a gamble to redeem herself.
  • Chrysalis gives one to Starlight herself when she rejects her chance at redemption.
• Deconstructed Graphic symbol Archetype: Of the Always Chaotic Evil trope. Dearest is a main part of the Changelings' diet and it sustains them much similar how food sustains a pony. The reason why they acted so predatory was because they were deliberately starved and misled past Chrysalis into assertive that in order to survive, they must steal love from others. In one case Starlight reveals a benevolent culling style to love-feeding through Thorax, the other Changelings apace turn on Chrysalis and disown her as their leader, while likewise making it pretty clear that they're willing to fight dorsum if she ever shows her face again.
• Deconstruction: Continuing from "The Times They Are a Changeling", this two-parter deconstructs the changelings every bit a whole. Their beloved feeding actually isn't some affair they do For the Evulz or for kicks. Love feeding is a real, legitimate necessity for them, and they were desperately hungry. Information technology is most evident when they speedily jump on Thorax's instance in one case he shows the hive how to share dearest. He is basically showing them a way of life where they don't have to be starving all the time.
• Deflector Shields: But as the throne is destroyed, Starlight Blink recovers her magic and erects a bubble shield around herself and Male monarch Thorax, to protect them from the explosion. Presumably, the cocoons containing everyone else protected them from the explosion also before falling and breaking open.
• Demoted to Extra: Due to Starlight getting A Day in the Limelight, the Mane 6 don't take much attention and but Twilight, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy speak, though with very little dialogue.
• Dénouement: At the end of the episode, Starlight Glimmer gets over her insecurity surrounding her Heel–Confront Plough and has fully accepted that she truly has changed into a amend pony. She returns to Our Town to celebrate with her former friends. Likewise, with her successful rescue mission as well as pulling her friends together, Starlight Glimmer crossed the Heroes' Frontier Step and has go a bonafide hero in Equestria.
• Didn't See That Coming: Chrysalis never expected Thorax to actually be correct about sharing love being possible for changelings to sustain themselves with. It costs her big time, with that being losing her Swarm, throne, and her prisoners. Her frightened wait after being blasted into her throne and damaging it makes information technology clear she was totally unprepared for something like this.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Even before all their magic is neutralized by the Anti-Magic field around the hive, Trixie has no qualms about insulting Discord, the lord of Chaos himself.
• Dispel Magic:
  • Outside the Hive, Starlight presently uses her telekinesis to prevents Discord from snapping his fingers, only he but puffs the unicorn'southward magic glow away.
  • Chrysalis can use her own magic to force a changeling to regain its true grade, every bit demonstrated with Thorax.
• The Dog Bites Back: The changelings turn on Chrysalis when they discover they accept been used by her the entire time. They aid the Mane Six and the Regal Family by destroying Chrysalis's throne and freeing them from their cocoon prisons, and are just as angry with Chrysalis as much as they are for what she'southward put them through both here and back at the Royal Nuptials.
• Dog Pile of Doom: The shot of Trixie being captured invokes the imagery of this trope since she is swarmed from in a higher place.
• Drama-Preserving Handicap: Discord could have ended the plot in a snap of his fingers if he'd been immune to use his Reality Warper powers, easily transporting the Royal Family unit and Mane Six safely out of the hive and out of their cocoons. He lampshades this by saying "you have me. What more could y'all need?" Conveniently, not even his Chaos magic works around the Anti-Magic field of the hive, forcing the Ragtag Bunch of Misfits to apply unconventional tactics.
• Dramatic Air current: Since the top of the Hive has blown off and is now exposed to the open, Starlight's solemn oral communication and offer of reformation to Chrysalis is done with an a-propos air current bravado up their manes.
• Draw Aggro: Trixie uses smoke bombs to depict attention abroad from the residual of the group. Then she deliberately walks into a changeling trap to purchase more time for the others.
• *Drool* Hi: When Starlight (actually Thorax in disguise) enters the main throne room of the Changeling Hive, she doesn't see anyone here until a drop of goo falls on her caput. Looking upward, she sees all her friends (including Discord and Trixie) imprisoned in cocoons. And so Chrysalis'southward laugh echoes before she emerges from hiding amid the cocoons carrying the Princesses.
• Dwindling Political party: Although in that location is no death involved (because, kid testify), during their exploration of the Changeling Hive, the would-exist rescuers go captured i by one. First Discord, then Trixie, and finally Thorax, leaving Starlight Glimmer every bit the only ane to achieve the throne.
• Earn Your Happy Catastrophe: Very much justified here every bit Chrysalis had basically won, since she had replaced all four princesses with her minions. The last minute Heel–Race Turn of her Swarm destroyed her entire program, her throne, and freed the anybody from their cocoon captivity. Needless to say, once everything is set and done, they enjoy being able to get back dwelling and get some rest and relaxation enjoying the Dusk Festival in Our Town with Starlight, Discord, and Trixie. Non to mention for the changelings; they are finally cured of their Horror Hunger and proceeds beautiful new forms. Likewise, Thorax non but accomplishes his goal of bringing friendship to his kind, but besides becomes their new benevolent ruler in the process. The Royal Family unit, Mane Six, and the changelings definitely earned information technology this time.
• Eldritch Location: The Changeling Hive constantly shifts grade, with entrances and exits appearing and disappearing at random. Apparently simply a changeling can find their manner effectually in it.
• Emotion Eater: Deconstructed. We're shown that beingness i isn't actually all that information technology'due south croaky up to exist; in the changelings' way of feeding, they are perpetually starved and the feeding makes only Chrysalis stronger. When Starlight convinces Thorax to share his love, it actually heals them and grants them their new form.
• "Eureka!" Moment: Equally Chrysalis prepares to drain Thorax of his love and secure her inevitable victory, Starlight remembers that he mentioned that he hasn't been hungry since he met Fasten, meaning he's been cured of his hunger for dearest and would take more than Chrysalis can chew on. So she tells him to give Chrysalis all of it. Not but does this blast Chrysalis into the throne, but triggers Thorax's transformation and shows the other changelings they don't have to follow Chrysalis'due south lead anymore causing the whole hive to transform besides and ultimately thwart her program.
• Evil Laugh: Chrysalis lets out a few when she has Starlight and Thorax at her mercy, since she has won with anypony that could threaten her Evil Plan now her captives, and Equestria completely unaware of her return (relieve for them and Sunburst back in the Crystal Empire).
• Evolution Powerup: The changelings are revealed to not actually be the final form of their species; there'due south another step where they must share the love they become from other ponies. Thorax seems to become a step farther: going from only a changeling drone to being close to Celestia'due south height with a pair of stag beetle-like horns. Plumbing fixtures, considering he becomes the new Changeling King.
• Exorcist Head: As if Chrysalis wasn't creepy enough already, she rotates her head 180 degrees after emerging from among the Imperial Family's cocoons to taunt Starlight/Thorax.
• Face Plant: Beingness unused to walking so much, Discord ends up tripping on a rock and falling flat on his face while the rescuers are discussing a Trust Password. This inspires them to option "Klutzy... draconequus!" every bit their codeword of choice, to Discord'due south dismay.
• Fantastic Calorie-free Source: The inside of the changelings' hive is lit by seemingly organic, bioluminescent dark-green pods hanging like fruit from vine-like structures growing on its ceilings. These vines and lamp-similar pods are just scattered and occasional in some areas and cover almost every inch of the ceilings in others, in which occasions they're also plant growing on the walls and floors. Of course, some of those pods are actually cocoons that Chrysalis' prisoners are independent in, such as the ones in her throne room that held the Royal Family and Mane Vi inside them.
• Finger Muzzle:
  • When Thorax tries for the second time to explain nigh the Changeling Hive, Discord silences him with a finger from his lion manus on the snout.
  • Later, Starlight pushes her hoof in Trixie'southward face as she'due south about to rant, to better hear what Thorax has to say on changeling hunger.
• Finger Wag: Discord wags a finger of his lion paw arm at the changeling that took Fluttershy's appearance to show he's not being fooled.
• Fire-Forged Friends: Discord and Trixie are on far amend terms by the end of the episode, having worked together to help rescue the Royal Family unit and Mane Six.
• Foreshadowing:
  • Thorax mentions to Trixie that he hasn't felt his usual Horror Hunger since he started making pony friends, most the same fourth dimension his new wings appeared. This is what subsequently causes Starlight Glimmer to realize that the cure for the Changelings' hunger is shared love.
  • Thorax's eyes and carapace are teal-green, the same color equally Queen Chrysalis'due south carapace and hair. Thus, when he transforms through The Power of Beloved and becomes King of the Changelings, he changes into a majestic stag-like creature with antlers for a crown.
• The Glomp: Discord does this to Fluttershy after they're rescued since he'southward charmed to find the real her.
• God Save United states of america from the Queen!: Obvious captives aside, Queen Chrysalis was actually misleading and using the changelings, leaving the entire hive to suffer in constant Horror Hunger and in weakened, withered bodies. Not but do the Mane Characters need rescuing from the queen, just her own subjects need rescuing too.
• Going to Give It More Free energy: Chrysalis starts absorbing the love Thorax has accumulated by making friends in the Crystal Empire. But then, on Starlight's communication, he releases all the love at in one case. That is way more than Chrysalis tin can consume in one go, and she is blasted away into her throne, damaging it in the process. The other changelings following Thorax'due south lead outcome in the throne's complete and utter destruction, forth with freeing all of Chrysalis'south captives and destroying the Anti-Magic field that prevented them from fighting back.
• Adept Costume Switch: Thorax'southward new wings, brought up in the previous episode, take a purpose. He got them because he made friends with Spike and shared beloved instead of taking it. When he willingly gives love to Chrysalis as she tries taking it past force, he is metamorphosed into a beautiful animate being, and the other changelings follow his example.
• The Skilful King: Thorax overthrows Chrysalis and becomes the new king of the changelings by sharing love instead of taking information technology and curing his fellow's changelings horror hunger instead of exploiting it for personal gain.
• The Guards Must Exist Crazy: Discord is able to distract the throne room guards with a stand-upwardly routine. Fifty-fifty Trixie comments on how ludicrous it is that this works.
• Guile Hero: Starlight and the coiffure, thanks to Chrysalis's Anti-Magic field, are stuck without their magical powers (except for Thorax), and so they have to use their wits and performance tricks (courtesy of Trixie, of course) to make their mode through the Changeling Hive and rescue their friends. They manage to pull it off, but but once the other changelings follow Thorax's lead and take intendance of destroying both Chrysalis'south throne and freeing the Purple Family and Mane Six in the process.
• The Ham Squad: Considering the team formed amid the heroes of this episode consist of erstwhile over-the-top villains, most of the team isn't exactly sane. Discord constantly tempts fate with his boasts of power, Thorax is in a panic over having to be back in his old habitation, Trixie finds herself using her hamminess every bit a lark, and Starlight does what she can to keep them nether control.
• Handshake Refusal: Chrysalis, when Starlight holds out her hoof when offer her a take chances at redemption, smacks it aside instead.

• Heel–Race Plough: All of the changelings in the hive realize that they tin can share love and survive instead of stealing it and starving all the time. They follow Thorax's example and metamorphose similar he did. The simply changeling non to follow his example is Chrysalis who, furious at losing everything, swears Revenge on Starlight and flees.
• Heroes' Frontier Stride: Thorax and Trixie were never really bad characters to begin with, and Starlight Blink is already completing a turnaround, just this 2-parter really turns the corner on Discord. For the first time, he demonstrates real heroism and does something for someone else's sake rather than for his ain amusement or to grab attention.
• Heroic BSoD: Discord goes through one when he's faced with a horde of crying Fluttershy impostors, unable to tell which is the real ane and thus unable to exercise annihilation just freeze as he's swarmed.
• Heroic Sacrifice: When a changeling replaces Discord and tries luring the others into an deadfall, Trixie willingly goes with him so Starlight and Thorax tin can make a run for it.
• History Repeats:
  • Starlight and Chrysalis are essentially put in the same positions equally Twilight and pre-Heel–Face Plow Starlight at the start of season 5 with The Cutie Map. Fourth dimension will just tell if Chrysalis can redeem herself too, or ends upward joining Lord Tirek in Tartarus for all the Hell she'south put the Purple Family and Mane Half dozen through.
  • Chrysalis again doing a kidnap and disguise ploy she did with the wedding ceremony only on a much larger scale. Again while it nearly works, having been able to keep them captive in cocoons for several hours, if not days, she overlooks ane pony, Starlight, whom she doesn't see as a threat. And again, she's proven wrong and is in one case again defeated considering of said oversight. More to the point, her ultimate defeats come as a result of an idea she proclaimed "ridiculous" (both of which revolved around The Ability of Love).
• Hoist past His Own Petard: Chrysalis underestimating Starlight and Thorax proves to exist her undoing, costing her everything just her life.
• Homefield Advantage: Big Time! Chrysalis's throne is carved from a nighttime stone that serves as a Ability Nullifier, canceling out any non-changeling magic within her castle, which gives her a huge advantage despite the power level of her opponents. Not even an alicorn nor the Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony himself can shell her while her throne is intact, especially considering she has all the Alicorn Princesses (even little Flurry Eye) already kidnapped and cocooned on the ceiling higher up information technology.
• Horror Hunger: Apparently not-love-sharing changelings are always hungry, which sharing love cures. The changelings only acted the way they have been because they were growing increasingly desperate to finish their hunger.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: Chrysalis started the episode as queen of her unabridged species, coming inside a pilus's breath of conquering Equestria since she had already taken the Imperial Family and Mane Half-dozen captive, and living in her personal castle. She ends it having lost literally everything right downwards to her crown, and being forced to go on the lam.
• Hypocritical Humor: Trixie taking crime specifically at beingness called "cocky-captivated" makes sense when you consider it'southward coming from Discord, probably the most self-absorbed character in the prove.
• Ignored Expert: At the beginning of the episode, Discord initially ignores Thorax when he tries to explicate why Discord's magic doesn't piece of work near the hive. Nobody in the group lets Thorax go a discussion in edgewise until the flying pig that Discord summoned disappears correct in front of them.
• Indy Ploy: Trixie and Starlight make repeated efforts to form some sort of rescue plan. They never actually brand one and wing the whole thing except for Thorax and Starlight'due south switcheroo at the end.
• Irony:
  • Starlight as a Big Bad originally swore revenge on Twilight Sparkle and the Mane Half-dozen later she was thwarted in "The Cutie Map", this time she thwarts the revenge scheme of some other major Large Bad who had information technology out for the Mane Six and the Imperial Family, who now swears revenge against her. Similarly, both Starlight and Chrysalis have ways to de-power the Mane characters in society to capture them; the Cutie Mark Removal spell for Starlight and the Anti-Magic throne for Chrysalis.
  • Discord succumbing to a Heroic BSoD by being tormented by a swarm of changelings disguised as Fluttershy. Discord used similar Mind Screw tactics in his debut to defeat most of the Mane Six (with the exception of, funnily enough, Fluttershy).
  • Chrysalis, Queen of the changelings, is the only one of her kind who refuses to alter.
• Is This Thing On?: Quite naturally, Discord asks "Is this thing on?" while taping the mic when the changelings aren't laughing at all to his jokes.
• I Take Law-breaking to That Terminal One!: While Discord and Trixie are arguing with each other, Discord states that he'll be powerful once more when his magic is dorsum simply she'll still be a self-absorbed, beneath-average illusionist.

  Trixie: Self-absorbed!?

• It's All About Me: Chrysalis's plan; she declares that her drones disguised as the Mane Six and the royals will absorb all the love for said individuals... and so bring them dorsum to her so that she tin become more powerful, and and so that all of Equestria will someday have no choice but to obey her command in one case she launches her second invasion and easily conquers it this time. She could even use the captured Imperial Family and Mane Vi as leverage to get Equestria to practise as she commands, or else.
• It's Personal: Chrysalis develops a strong personal hatred for Starlight Glimmer. The now-former queen has found a new curvation enemy, and makes information technology clear and known that she'll be back again to get even, non with the Royal Family or the Mane Six like this time, only with her.
• Japanese Protrude Brothers: Chrysalis and Thorax (post-Metamorphosis) are a Type B. Chrysalis has a single, long curved horn while Thorax's Changeling Rex form has two stag-beetle-style horns.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: Chrysalis manages to escape, but only after receiving another dearest-powered beating, having her Anti-Magic throne destroyed, losing her hostages in the royals and the Mane Six, and finally being overthrown past the at present Changeling King Thorax, leaving her completely lone and destroying much of the threat she formerly had.
• Karmic Jackpot: Thorax'due south reward for defecting from Chrysalis' ground forces and trying to be a genuinely skilful and friendly person? Going from being a mere drone seen as a traitor to Rex of the unabridged species.
• The Klutz: Played for laughs; Discord tripping on the mode to the hive becomes the inspiration for the "klutzy draconequus" password. Note that information technology makes perfect sense for Discord, who's so used to moving around with magic, either by teleportation or flying, to exist rather clumsy one time depowered, from lack of habit.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: Chrysalis erupts from the ruins of her throne, hissing and set up for a fight... simply to detect she's now confronted with the Royal Family unit, the Mane 6, her now reformed hive, the Principal of Chaos, and the newly ascended Changeling King Thorax. The ponies and Discord in item, upon being free of their cocoon prisons and getting their powers dorsum, look like they are prepare to tear her apart for what she'southward put them through in the last several hours (even Flurry Eye looks outright angry at Chrysalis). She instantly backs downwardly, and after rejecting Starlight's offer of redemption, simply runs for it rather than try to fight a battle it's obvious she has no take chances of winning.
• Lady and Knight: Discord, of all people, steps into the role of White Knight by conjuring a flying pig steed, a lance, and a helm, and proclaiming "FOR FLUTTERSHY!" equally he charges to rescue her. Fifty-fifty being unable to use his magic, and having to walk instead doesn't deter him from saving his Brilliant Lady.
• Lampshade Hanging: Trixie lampshades the fact that Discord's impromptu comedy act past noting that it was ridiculous that information technology worked.
• Last-Second Chance: Starlight offers Chrysalis the chance to share the love and become redemption. Somewhat surprisingly for this serial, she refuses.
• The Leader:
  • Everyone in Starlight's squad looks to her for plans and decisions, despite how she actually doesn't want to be in this role. Regardless, she finds herself breaking up their bickering and guiding them forward.
  • Thorax is made the new leader of the changelings for showing them how to give love.
• Leaning on the 4th Wall: The Mane Six wondering what happened to them over the course of the two-parter echoes fan sentiments of how them being captured by the changelings was never shown or even explained.
• Love Redeems: A "better to give than receive" variant. Sharing dearest ends a changeling's hunger; giving away all their dear triggers a transformation from their usual disfigured course into a more than majestic one.
• Fabricated of Explodium: Chrysalis's Throne, once it is damaged enough by the love discharges of her subjects, first starts to crack all over, and so explodes with plenty force to accident off the top of the Changeling Hive, which inevitably leads to the cocoons containing all of her captives, which were on the ceiling to begin with, to fall and break open, freeing them at long last.
• Metamorphosis: That is the fate of Thorax, and then of all changeling drones every bit they follow his example, when they cull to share love with others instead of hoarding it. They go surrounded with a radiant chrysalis and emerge as colorful, elegant hybrids of pony, deer, and stag beetle, quite apart from their previous black, withered forms. The change is clearly permanent, and too takes intendance of the perpetual hunger they were plagued with.
• The Marvelous Deer: The changelings turn from black Insect-Horse hybrids into their true course: Beetle-Similar fairies that resemble deer. King Thorax in particular has beetle horns that resemble large antlers.
• Mic Drop: Discord throws away his microphone when the changelings shut in menacingly, causing the usual feedback sound.

  Discord: Well, if you call up that you can exercise any amend, be my invitee!

• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: The changelings strike dorsum at Chrysalis once they learn they were merely being used, and suffered constant hunger considering of her own selfishness.
• Mordor: The Changeling Kingdom is dusty and arid, a seeming consequence of the Power Nullifier throne, as the barren region and the Anti-Magic field showtime at virtually the same place.
• Mythology Gag:
  • The nature of Chrysalis's hive has a number of similarities to the title area in a G1 comics story chosen "The Trolls and the Castle of Darkness". Both are located in a Mordor-like expanse, both are rescue missions, and both give their owners such a Homefield Advantage (albeit for polar opposite reasons, the troll'south power being immensely boosted while everyone else's magic is negated by Chrysalis's throne) that even the most powerful of the heroes would be powerless against them inside and needed to use wits to win out. Thorax fifty-fifty refers to it as being composed of "nighttime stone".
  • Likewise, the setting is extremely similar to when Twilight and co. had to free the Crystal Empire from King Sombra back in Flavor iii — Sombra even had Booby Traps that functioned similarly to Chrysalis'south Cool Chair.
• Almost-Villain Victory: The changelings under Chrysalis capture every major ruler/hero in Equestria and then the entire rescue party (who are basically powerless anyway). Nosotros hadn't seen a villain come this shut to full triumph since Tirek.
• Needle in a Stack of Needles: Invoked when Discord is captured:

  Changeling Fluttershy: Nosotros're probably all changelings. Yous shouldn't rescue any of us... unless yous call back one of us might be the real Fluttershy. That certainly would be a mean changeling trick, wouldn't it?

• Dainty Task Breaking It, Hero: The rescue team manages to make it into the hive undetected for the almost part. Withal, Discord lets out a loud annunciation almost saving Fluttershy which alerts the hive to their presence and puts them instantly on guard. Discord basically ensured Chrysalis would be waiting for them in her throne room with the cocooned Royal Family and Mane Six.
• No Ontological Inertia: Discord's Cue the Flying Pigs mount disappears instantly when it enters the Anti-Magic field... while Discord is still riding it. He nearly falls off a cliff thanks to this.
• Not Bad: Several from Discord:
  • When Thorax describes the ever-changing layout of the hive equally "total chaos", Discord grudgingly says that it qualifies every bit "decent anarchy".
  • Discord has this appraisal over the apply of Trixie'south fume bombs to evade a changeling patrol.

    Discord: Non exactly "great and powerful", only effective.
    Trixie: Hm, I'll take information technology.

  • Later on Discord regains his reality-warping powers and Trixie says that she's the same "below-boilerplate" illusionist she'south always been, he admits that some of her illusions were "slightly above boilerplate". Coming from Discord, this is high praise indeed.
• Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: The deconstruction of the changelings in this ii-parter proves this. Turns out the changelings weren't deliberately evil just for kicks, and their Emotion Eater tendencies isn't all that fantastic. They actually were starving for love and sought nourishment, simply Chrysalis misled them to steal love instead of sharing it. One time they learn from Thorax, they quickly plough on Chrysalis and assist their one-time captives with destroying Chrysalis'south throne and helping them out of what's left of their cocoons after they've fallen and burst open.
• Cypher Is the Same Anymore: Chrysalis isn't a Queen anymore, every bit she's been ousted as the changeling leader, and Thorax takes over the hive. The changelings take on completely new forms later learning how to feed on their dear for each other, instead of only constantly taking it from others and starving. Even better, Thorax has opened up relations with Princess Celestia, gaining Equestria some other valuable marry.
• Not At present, Kiddo: Discord cuts out Thorax three times as the latter is trying to explain near the Anti-Magic field surrounding the Hive. Discord would have avoided a fall if he'd listened.
• "Not And then Different" Remark: Starlight Blink notes how she and Chrysalis are not all that dissimilar in how they tried to rule over their own subjects. Indeed, both of them kept others in line by denying them a part of their true forms and by brutally dealing with whatever dissenters or traitors. Starlight even offers Chrysalis a redemption at the end, knowing that when she rejected the same offering, terrible things happened. Unfortunately, Chrysalis ended up interim exactly like Starlight in the same situation, rejecting the offering and running off much to Starlight'south dismay.
• Not Worth Killing: It turns out Chrysalis is well aware of Starlight'south existence, she just didn't think she was worth replacing with a changeling. Her mistake, every bit it leads to her entire revenge scheme on the Imperial Family and Mane Six to autumn apart at the terminal minute and cost her everything just her very life. Afterward the starting time time, yous'd think she'd larn.
• Ocular Gushers: Several of the changelings disguised as Fluttershy produce cascading streams of tears to amend guilt-trip Discord.
• Oh, Crap!: Chrysalis has one when her hive transforming causes her throne to be destroyed. She has a bigger ane when she erupts from the ruins of it, hissing and fix for a fight, merely to exist faced with all the ponies she captured, who have now been freed, including all the Alicorn Princesses, the Mane Half dozen, and the Master of Anarchy, joined by the at present Changeling King Thorax and her reformed Swarm.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: Discord'southward Face Plant becomes the inspiration for their code phrase, which Discord isn't happy virtually.
• Organic Technology: The whole Changeling Hive gives off this feeling. It looks more grown than build, its inside evocative of a gigantic wasp nest (the ones made of cardboard). The fact that it moves and changes constantly reinforces the impression that it is live.

• The Power of Love: When Chrysalis starts feeding on Thorax'south dear, Starlight encourages him to share it with her instead and give her all of information technology. This causes him to burn Chrysalis with a love-induced boom from his heart, and gives him a new brighter colored appearance. And so the other Changelings follow suit, and before long, the whole Changeling Kingdom becomes affected likewise.
• Ability Nullifier: Chrysalis's throne nullifies all non-changeling magic inside a sure range of her castle. This explains how she was able to capture the Mane Six and the Royal Family unit so hands.
• Pull a Rabbit out of My Lid: Discord mocks Trixie's stage sorcerer skills by pulling the head of another Trixie out of Trixie's chapeau. And and so, both Trixies glare at him.
• Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: When Starlight has to put an end to Discord and Trixie's bickering.

  Starlight Blink: Cut. Information technology. OUT!

• Rags to Royalty: Thorax changes from being a lowly drone who is a traitor to Queen Chrysalis to beingness the benevolent male monarch of changelings.
• Recurring Element: Chrysalis's throne serves equally yet another Drama-Preserving Handicap Power Nullifier, similarly to the likes of Sombra's crystals and The Smooze's slime.
• Redemption Rejection: Starlight offers Chrysalis a hazard to lead past example, mirroring the choice she was offered past Twilight at the end of the previous season. Chrysalis is tempted, but refuses, vowing revenge on Starlight.
• Reluctant Hero: More than precisely, a Reluctant Rescue Squad; none of them is happy to play hero, especially Starlight, equally the others wait at her for leadership which is a role she doesn't like at all. Just considering Equestria is on the line, their friends are in danger, and they're the merely ones who tin can stop it. They take to get over their fears to do so.
• Revenge Before Reason: Chrysalis's revenge plot against the Royal Family and the Mane Vi has failed, costing her everything but her life, so what does she exercise? Swear revenge once more, this time on Starlight every bit it was her fault that Chrysalis's first revenge scheme for the Royal Wedding defeat went upward in flames.
• Rule of Symbolism:
  • When Thorax overthrows Chrysalis and becomes the new ruler of the changelings, the free energy of the changelings' transformation causes her throne to shatter and explode. In addition, her crown is lost in said explosion.
  • The changelings as well go into a chrysalis and emerge with a wider array of brighter colors and a lack of holes. Chrysalis was holding the changelings back from what they could become. And before their transformation, with few exceptions, the changelings looked nearly identical to each other, but at present they are all unique. Chrysalis was holding dorsum their individuality, at present said individuality is articulate for all to see.
• Running on All Fours: Discord drops to a quadrupedal opinion for a boost of speed when he'south pursued by changelings.
• Sequel Claw: Chrysalis escapes, vowing her revenge on Starlight.
• Shadow Archetype: Chrysalis turns out to exist one to Starlight. Both ruled their respective groups through intimidation and fear, until the heroes brought them downward, showing their subjects another mode in the process, and they fled vowing revenge. Starlight eventually made a Heel–Face Plough, but it looks doubtful Chrysalis will.
• Shoo Out the Clowns: Pinkie Pie unsurprisingly does not speak in the 2nd function of this two-parter, given that Starlight is well, the star.
• Shout-Out:
  • To the Justice League multi-parter "Secret Origins", with the heroes infiltrating an conflicting shape-shifter invaders' headquarters, said invaders already having incapacitated and captured several of the virtually powerful heroes, and the rescue squad'south ain shapeshifter covering up for the team leader to sneak in the invaders' leader's chambers.
  • The scene where the changelings are awoken by the protagonists in the hive bears a resemblance to a similar scene in Aliens. Furthermore, the way Chrysalis stalks Starlight effectually the throne is reminiscent of Alien: Isolation.
• Close Up, Kirk!: Chrysalis'south response to Starlight's offer to redeem herself is as such:

  Starlight Glimmer: When Twilight and her friends defeated me, I chose to run away and seek revenge! Yous don't take to! You can be the leader your subjects deserve.
  [Chrysalis moves to agree Starlight's hoof, and so smacks information technology away]
  Queen Chrysalis: There is no revenge you could always excogitate of that volition come close to what I will exact upon you one 24-hour interval, Starlight Glimmer!

• Smart Ball: The iv heroes really evidence forward thinking and intelligence in their trek.
  • They come up up with a Trust Countersign that they use every time one of them has to divide from the grouping and returns, they stick together as a grouping and merely split i at a fourth dimension for good reasons, and employ their own innate talents and skills well to brand up for their lack of actual magic.
  • When Discord is separated from the group, he comes across Fluttershy with her tail stuck under a rock. Discord apace figures out it isn't Fluttershy, because what are the odds that when he goes off alone, he just happens to observe his friend in peril soon after? Unfortunately there are many more changelings nearby and so this realization doesn't aid him much.
  • When Starlight and Thorax finds Chrysalis's throne room, she has Thorax pose as her to distract Chrysalis while she sneaks around to try and disable her throne. Unfortunately her Smart Brawl ends in that location because all Starlight can really practise to that terminate is bit at information technology with another stone, which just tips Chrysalis off with the racket it makes.
• Smoke Out: Trixie, with Thorax'south assist, uses her trademark get out trick to distract a changeling patrol. Past taking Trixie'south form, and with his knowledge of the hive'southward passages, Thorax and the magician can make it seem Trixie is doing quick, short-ranged teleportations.
• Snark-to-Snark Combat: Near all of the interactions between Trixie and Discord in this episode consist in snarking at each other. To the point that Starlight asks them to cut it out after a while.

  Discord: That'south all very nice, but really a waste of time. Nosotros have me. And what else could nosotros possibly need?
  Trixie: A draconequus with magic and one-half a brain might assistance.
  Discord: Why are y'all hither over again? I hateful, it's not like yous're going to terminate the changelings by pulling a rabbit out of a hat.

• Spanner in the Works: Starlight, Thorax, Trixie and Discord, especially the first two in the last office of the episode, end upwardly undoing Chrysalis's whole programme. Of the iv, only Thorax was on her radar. Starlight was considered too pocket-size to be a threat, Discord couldn't use his magic in her domain, and she wasn't aware of Trixie at all.
• Spot the Imposter:
  • Discord is taken out considering the changelings present themselves as a horde of crying Fluttershys taunting him with the idea that one of them might be the real one, leaving him unable to act.
  • Subsequently, after "Discord" fails the Trust Countersign, the others immediately know it's a changeling in disguise.
  • Thorax, posing every bit Starlight, is eventually institute out past Chrysalis, as she notices a glimpse of his real optics' color.
• Stealth Pun: Thorax'south new grade has a body structure similar to a male deer, just retaining some beetle-like aesthetics, and with 2 new horns resembling mandibles. In other words, he's a stag beetle.
• Sting: You'd call up without his powers, Discord tin can't generate any during his stand-upward routine. You'd be wrong; his jokes are withal punctuated by a Rimshot coming out of nowhere.
• Talking the Monster to Death: Starlight Glimmer is easily beaten upwards past Queen Chrysalis and is cornered, then she tries to convince Chrysalis that there is a meliorate fashion for changelings to feed on love, only the Queen is having none of it. Fortunately for Starlight, the other changelings are much more receptive, and start to reconsider their actions and methods.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Much of the rescue mission is fraught with Trixie and Discord being at each other'south throats, Thorax beingness a perpetual nervous wreck, and Starlight barely able to keep herself together equally well as the others.
• Teleport Interdiction: Another issue of the Anti-Magic field, explaining why Discord couldn't warp straight to Fluttershy in the previous episode, to his confusion. You tin can teleport upwardly to the border of the field, but no further.
• Time to Step Up, Commander: Invoked by Starlight as she somewhen realizes that sometimes you have to take a stand, even if yous'd rather not. Fittingly, she has to rescue her teacher.
• Tranquil Fury: Fifty-fifty later on existence freed from their cocoons, anybody does a pretty good chore containing their rage at Chrysalis as they prepare to tear her apart for what she did to them. Most just shoot her a Death Glare. The Princesses, however, including Flurry Eye, take their horns flared and ready to blast her at present that they can use their alicorn magic again.
• Trust Password: Starlight and her squad agree to apply one, "klutzy draconequus", to Discord's annoyance.
• Underestimating Badassery: Chrysalis underestimated Starlight, which is the but reason she wasn't captured with the others. This comes dorsum to bite her, hard.
• Villain Ball: Simply similar the wedding, Chrysalis'southward plans go upwards in flames due to her own errors and arrogance. After wasting no fourth dimension disposing of the Purple Family and the Mane Half dozen to pave the manner for a future invasion of Equestria, she ignores Starlight Glimmer and falls back into her old hubris. Also only similar last time, it leads to her defeat, only on a much bigger cost, this time costing Chrysalis her throne, her ability, the very ponies she had kidnapped out of revenge, her swarm, and even her championship.
• Villain: Exit, Stage Left: Chrysalis is defeated and Starlight offers her a 2nd chance. Chrysalis rejects information technology and swears revenge once again, and flies away.
• Song Racket: Equally seen in part one, changelings seem to accept problem perfectly mimicking the voices of those they're impersonating. The Discord impostor speaks in a noticeably softer and more friendly tone than the existent Discord.

• Nosotros Need a Distraction:
  • Trixie and Thorax utilise her smoke bombs and his transformation powers (and knowledge of the hive) so the group tin escape a changeling patrol.
  • Later on, Discord distracts some changeling guards with a stand-up routine so the rest of the team tin can get past them.
• We Volition Come across Once again: Chrysalis swears revenge on Starlight right before she escapes, giving up on her original revenge on the Mane Six and Regal Family unit for the Regal Hymeneals defeat.
• Wham Episode: The episode ends with the entire changeling swarm turning confronting Queen Chrysalis, metamorphosing from their black, withered forms into whole, colorful bodies, and putting Thorax in accuse.
• Wham Line:
  • When Trixie gets suspicious that Thorax might feed on the group's honey anytime presently:

    Trixie: How often do [changelings] go hungry?
    Thorax: Actually, I haven't been since I've met Fasten. And changelings are e'er hungry.

  • Afterward Chrysalis reveals her reasons to conquer Equestria and supplant its more than beloved figures with her drones so they could feed on the love the public gives them:

    Starlight Glimmer: What if you didn't take to?
    Queen Chrysalis: Ridiculous! The hunger of changelings can never exist satisfied!
    Starlight Blink: Exactly! Thorax left the hive and made a friend. He shared love, and now he doesn't need to feed. You don't have to live your lives starving all the time!
    [cue all the Changelings looking stunned by this information]

• Wham Shot:
  • After Thorax willingly shares love with Chrysalis past love-blasting her, he ends up enveloped in a glowing chrysalis. Starlight Glimmer touches it... which reveals a much larger and regal-looking stag-like animate being, showing that dearest literally changed him. Cue wide-eyed Jaw Drops from everyone.
  • Right afterwards the higher up bespeak, the other Changelings start transforming once they learn how to share love, turning into colorful bugs like Thorax. Information technology shows what Changelings really look like when they feed on shared love instead of taking information technology.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Whatever happened to the changelings that were impersonating the Mane Six and the other royals, as in that location is no indication that they were recalled to the hive before Thorax's transformation.
• "What Now?" Ending: Chrysalis has escaped and will regroup with whatsoever remaining changelings that are loyal to her which includes the 12 changelings that had successfully infiltrated the Friendship Castle, Canterlot, and the Crystal Castle. Equestria and the Changeling Kingdom will exist forced to deal with Chrysalis' subversions should she decide to act once again. It also remains to be seen if the Changeling Kingdom volition change from an unsettling labyrinth in a lifeless land to a cute and lively place that welcomes all visitors.
• When All You lot Take is a Hammer…: Deconstructed with Discord who, even more than then than Starlight, relies on his magic exclusively. When they're in the range of Chrysalis'due south throne, his magic is completely nullified and leaves him vulnerable to other forms of attack.
• Wings Do Zippo: This episode confirms what was already hinted at in "Twilight's Kingdom": Discord's mismatched wings are also puny to be of whatever utilize without magic. At no time within the Anti-Magic field does he even effort to take flying.
• With Catlike Tread: While they are sneaking in the Changeling Hive, trying to avoid attention, Discord finds nothing better to do than yell "I Have A FLUTTERSHY TO SAVE!" at the pinnacle of his lungs. Naturally, the changelings are instantly alerted.
• Worf Had the Flu: Queen Chrysalis'southward throne invokes an Anti-Magic field that disables all magic used by non-changelings, severely crippling Starlight Glimmer and even Discord, who are now vulnerable to changeling attacks without their magic.
• Worldbuilding: The episode farther explores the Changeling Kingdom and the inner workings of their hive.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: A changeling inflicts this on Discord by pretending to be Fluttershy trapped nether a rock. Discord instantly recognizes that it's a trap, only a patrol of changelings taunts him with the possibility that one of them might be the real Fluttershy, causing Discord to suffer a Heroic BSoD and leaving him open up to attack.
• Visual Pun: Thorax's new Changeling form resembles a stag, a male deer. He'southward a stag beetle.
• Y'all Are Better Than You Think You Are:
  • Starlight gives Discord a minor version when he doubts he can be an effective distraction without his magic, telling him he shouldn't underestimate himself.
  • Trixie gives Starlight words of encouragement to be a leader.

    Trixie: Starlight. You got united states this far with just my illusions and Discord's annoying personality. You don't need magic to figure out what to practise next. I know you're afraid to be in accuse, but you are really good at information technology! Listen to your all-time friend.

• Your Petty Dismissive Diminutive: Queen Chrysalis still likes this effigy of spoken communication.

  Chrysalis: Nopony is going to save you. Your niggling squad was it, and now there's just yous.
  Chrysalis: Even with your rather embarrassing little rescue attempt, everything is going according to my programme.

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Chrysalis Rejects Friendship

Starlight Glimmer, a redeemed villain herself, offers the now-defeated Queen Chrysalis a adventure to abandon her evil means and become a better leader for the newly-reformed changelings. Chrysalis refuses the offering with a slap on the hoof and flies away, only not before swearing revenge towards Starlight.

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Redemption Rejection

• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic S6 E25 "To Where and Back Once again � Part 1"
• Recap/My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
• My Petty Pony: Friendship Is Magic S7 E1 "Celestial Communication"

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