History Fanfic / EquestriaGirlsFriendshipSouls

The author has written a crossover with ''Fanfic/TheBridge'' called ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/447956/hunters-and-hollows Hunters and Hollows]]'', where the Dark Hunters scout alternate universes and stumble upon Hueco Mundo. It is now complete.

!!''Hunters and Hollows'' provides examples of:

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* MachiavelliWasWrong: Definitely subverted by Tirek and the Arrancar. In the DeathWorld that is Hueco Mundo, the reason that Las Noches and the Espada haven't devolved into petty in-fighting is because ''no one'' can question the Hollow King and Primera Espada when he puts his foot down and all are in fear of his wrath and power. The only person in Las Noches who could possibly challenge him is the Dos Espada Chrysalis, and even she admits while their battle would destroy the whole fortress he would still win as things are. Despite this, Tirek used both his power and his people's fear to forge them into a competent faction and the closest thing the Hollows have to a government/ruling body. Without him Hueco Mundo would basically be squabbling weak factions of Arrancars and Vasto Lordes carving out territories while being vulnerable to attacks from the infinitely more organized Soul Society and Quincy, and while definitely feared and envied he is not a ''hated'' king as he understands the value of powerful subordinates and does not go out his way to treat them cruelly or make life worse for them just because. [[spoiler:Adagio]] even admits he's actually a competent ruler and there are certainly worse options even among the Espada to be his replacement.
* MadScientist: Grogar is obsessed with collecting powerful and unique individuals to experiment on.
* MagicAIsMagicA: Unlike the Human side and Equestrian, the Inhabitants of Beast Realm can use both Magic and Spirit power, mixing them into something they call Anima.
* MagicallyIneptFighter: Hollow reiatsu just isn't suited to the fine-tuned reiryoku manipulation that enables Soul Reapers to dish out all the various kinds of Kido spells, and despite all of Grogar's experiments to try and give Arrancars more versatile power sets he's been unable to overcome this failing. As a result, he's rather interested in the resurgence of Fullbring among humans, since while it's still at least partially born of Hollow energy it's ''much'' less limited in scope than Hollow abilities normally are (Pinkie, whose abilities let her pretty much do anything as long as it falls under RuleOfFunny, is a prime example of this).
* MagicIsAMonsterMagnet: Grogar gets interested in the amplifying effect of Equestrian magic on spiritual power, so he sends various minions after the main characters to try and gain the power of magic himself.
* MagicStaff: [[spoiler:Sweetie Belle's Fullbring takes the form of a large staff that can [[SizeShifter can change its size at will.]]]]
** [[spoiler:Bount Trixie's Doll can detach one of these from his body that his mistress can use to hex people.]]
* {{Magitek}}: All of the factions use technology that makes use of spiritual energy to some degree.
** The Quincy use technology to aid them the most, in the form of VTOL craft and tanks that can fire Quincy arrows for use in Hueco Mundo, etc.
** Twilight's research focuses on combining spiritual energy and technology with magic. She's already made some progress, like Sugarcoat's visor and Indigo Zapp's legs.
** Grogar's self-experimentation and augmentation makes him look like a {{Cyborg}} in Resurrección form.
** Human Twilight is extremely proficient at combining human technology with Equestrian magic. Shortly after starting studying magic with Sombra's blessing, she created M-cell that works as batteries that can empower a user with magical energy and a fully functioning [[MiniMecha Mech]] suit [[spoiler: for Spike]].
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Princess Luna's reaction to [[spoiler: having her wing blasted off]] is to mutter, "...Oh, that's not good."
** In her battle with Lament, Harshwinny acts like losing a leg doesn't bother her, to the concern of her allies. The truth is, it does bother her, but they don't have the luxury to worry about it.
-->'''Upper Crust''': Harshwinny, um, I don't mean to alarm you, but you seem to be, uh, missing a limb...\\
'''Harshwinny''': That had not escaped my attention, thank you.
** Lament is badly beaten and [[AnArmAndALeg missing an arm]] after a battle with his [[spoiler: wife and daughter,]] yet he acts like it's the happiest day of his life. Which probably was.
* MakeSomeNoise: Sternritters "E - The Echo" and "O - The Octave" have powers around the manipulation of sound, but in different ways. The Octave generates sound to then control as needed, while the Echo senses and affects all existing sound around its user who can also then increase the reverberation of that sound to any degree they want. This makes The Echo less suited for direct combat, but more useful for spying and reconnaissance.
* MakingASplash: [[spoiler:Adagio after becoming a Vasto Lorde.]]
* MartialPacifist: Fluttershy's entire fighting style and Fullbring revolves around taking down her opponents without harming them.
* MamaBear:
** Pipsqueak's mother is ''very'' protective of him, due to his illness. Starswirl notes that [[spoiler:Platinum]] would do just about anything to protect him, [[spoiler:even betray Soul Society]].
** Ditzy is this to her daughter Derpy. She taught her how to defend herself, and she gives Sunset and her friends an ImpliedDeathThreat to make sure they don't get her involved with their mission. [[spoiler:Derpy herself is annoyed though understanding at this, however, because she ''knows'' about these things and has to pretend otherwise to spare her peace of mind.]]
** One of the few ways to quickly get on Hollow Chrysalis' bad side is to threaten or bad-mouth her "true-born" children. She got noticeably colder in attitude when discussing with Grogar how [[spoiler:the experimental siren gem overloaded and hurt Pharynx]], and Sunset while viewing [[spoiler:Gaia Everfree's memories sees that when Gaia bad-mouths the newly-born Thorax to Chrysalis' face, she takes notice of the way Chrysalis' eyes narrow and blaze in much the same way when Platinum felt threatened about Pipsqueak.]]
* MaskOfPower: All Hollows have them. Ditzy has one [[spoiler:on account of being one of the first Vizards, and presumably Screwloose and Screwball have similar potential]]. And [[spoiler:Starlight Glimmer has one due to perfecting the Vizard transformation, with the implications that Pipsqueak post-"Hollowfication" procedure can form a mask with time and training]].
* MaskOfSanity: While the Lament is able to hide it beneath a polite, calm, friendly and pleasant act and function well enough to be a good father, beneath it all he's actually the ''least'' stable of the Espada, threatening to kill [[spoiler:Adagio]] just because he thought she wasn't going to finish an apple.
* MasterOfIllusion: Trixie's magical specialty, and she uses it to great effect.
* MasterOfUnlocking: Pony Rarity reveals that she taught herself how to pick locks after locking herself out of her Manehattan store one too many times.
* {{Matricide}}: [[spoiler:Charbydis suspects that her sister Scylla killed their mother.]]
* MeaningfulName:
** Just about every Zanpaktou's name is one of these. For example [[spoiler:Flash Sentry's]] Zanpakuto ''Kochi Yojinbo'' (East Wind Bodyguard) represents how his pony self [[spoiler:is a member of the royal guard.]]
** Bubbles whose main weapon are bubbles.
** The Word "Kido" translates to ''Demon Arts''. It's more than just a name. Every spell is represented by a Demon, not unlike Zanpakutō. Lower spells are easy to use but above level Eighty, the Soul Reaper needs to confront the Demon to use the spell freely.
* TheMedic:
** Fluttershy qualifies with her Fullbring.
** Of course, the Soul Reapers have plenty of healing Kido and the Fourth Division dedicated for it.
** The Quincy use advanced medical technology combined with spiritual energy for their healing. Hoity Toity specifically can do this via The Xenomorph.
** Most Arrancar have to rely on their HealingFactor and time for healing, and there are only two people in Las Noches who specialize in medical ability: Grogar, resident MadScientist who will probably implant all manner of devices inside of you in the process for experiments, and Roka, loyal Arrancar and adopted daughter of the Lament, who's [[AxCrazy unstable]] and [[PapaWolf very protective of her and her "siblings"]].
* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Sweet Cider]] says she's going to do this with her husband, saying that it's her duty as a Soul Reaper and that she doesn't want him to spend eternity [[spoiler:as a Hollow.]] Applejack agrees with her, and also says that she wants to be there when it happens. [[spoiler:Things get much more complicated when the moment actually arrives and they realize that not only is he an Arrancar, but also a PapaWolf to a bunch of Arrancar children.]]
* MergerOfSouls:
** What the end result of the FusionDance of [[spoiler:Gloriosa Daisy and Gaia Everfree is. Gaia Everfree makes it clear that she is ''both'' of them and that trying to differentiate their identity is pointless. Notably, Gaia clearly considers Timber ''her'' "brother" and is influenced by Gloriosa's thoughts and identity in considering Camp Everfree her home. Even Gaia admits she didn't expect the merger to run so deeply and completely.]]
** Twilight Sparkle herself is a merge between [[spoiler:the unborn child of Radiant Hope and King Sombra, part of Radiant Hope's own soul, and the part of the Soul Queen known as the "Eye". And then there's Midnight Sparkle as Twilight Sparkle's alter ego created from exposure to Equestrian magic, who herself wonders after learning the truth of Twilight's origin if ''she'' is in fact Sombra's child finally manifested.]]
* MightMakesRight: Kyoki certainly seems to feel this way. When Fluttershy finds out, she gives him a big speech about what a terrible idea that is.
-->'''Fluttershy:''' You may be big, mean, and don’t care about hurting people, but that ''doesn’t'' give you the right to do whatever you please! Nobody has that right! We’re all stuck living together in this world, and if you want to try and make it a "dog eat dog" world then you’re gonna find there’s plenty of dogs around bigger and meaner than ''you'', buster! If you really care about Posey, then you’re gonna stop pushing her around ''this instant'' and be a good and loyal dog for her. Otherwise I’m going to have to teach you a very ''harsh'' lesson you don’t want to experience.
* MilitaryBrat: As Quincies are a military organization, every Quincy is a soldier, and their children are expected to follow the suit, no matter what branch they chose to join. In modern times, they get a chance to leave and live normal lives, but because their lives consist of training and many lost their parents and other loved ones, most choose to stay and fight the Hollows and Soul Reapers, [[ForeverWar continuing the tradition.]]
* MiniMecha: Twilight eventually creates a set of magical armor that [[spoiler: Spike]] can use to fight Hollows and other threats. Since he's just a [[spoiler: tiny puppy]] and the suit is huge he can pilot it like MobileSuitHuman.
* MindManipulation:
** Fluttershy's power, which manifests as a ThirdEye. Once she's made physical contact with someone in order to insert her reiatsu into them, she can compel them with her commands.
** Medley of the Zero Division wields a zanpakuto that allows her to manipulate the minds of others on a grand scale, making herself or things of her choice (such as her sword) invisible to their perception or scrambling their senses.
* MissingMom: Rainbow Dash's mother left when she was in kindergarten. Discord claims she is still alive, but he doesn't know where she is. [[spoiler: It turns out she was a member of Xcution and had a Fullbring just like Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie, and Rarity's mothers, but she was the only one who didn't get hit with LaserGuidedAmnesia by Soul Society when the group was disbanded]].
** [[spoiler:Human Luna's mother apparently abandoned her, as she has never met her at all.]]
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Technically all of the members are equal but it's clear that Glory is the one calling all the shots. That being said, Medley rarely follows her orders in the most effective way. [[spoiler: Case in point, she allowed Ditzy to attain information about Hell, took the Heroe's Magical Pendants, but let left them unharmed and even gave Discord a lead about ZD's plans.]]
* MirrorCharacter: During the Soul Society arc, Sunset and the Humane Five fight a Soul Reaper who is remarkably similar to them.
** Sunset Shimmer's main rival is Platinum and are very similar despite their opposing elements. Both are very prideful people driven by their passions and both [[spoiler: are very familiar with the allure of evil, though Platinum's motives are far more complex than Sunset's were.]]
** Pinkie Pie fights Cheese Sandwich, Both are good-natured and fun-loving jokers, being the most laid-back and open-minded of their respective groups and despite their kindness both have an EvilWeapon that is far more bloodthirsty and brutal than they'd like: Pinkamena and Cheese's Zanpakto,''Hone Nashi''.
** Rarity fights Blueblood. Both are gifted, classy, cultured people who appreciate art and the finer things in life, and have technical fighting styles. But while Rarity is generous and accepts criticism, Blueblood is a SmugSuper who doesn't believe he needs to improve.
** Rainbow Dash fights Fancy Pants who despite their different personalities are the same at the core. Both are people defined by their loyalty and honor to their cause and fight to defend their friends. But Rainbow Dash follows the spirit of loyalty while Fancy Pants gets caught up in the letter of it, compounded by [[spoiler: Platinum exploiting his friendship.]]
** Rainbow gets a second case of this with [[spoiler: her mother, Firefly.]] Both have aerial based Fullbring, see themselves as awesome, and are loyal their friends, [[spoiler: but Firefly has a more cynical view on loyalty since she felt she betrayed it when she had to abandon Rainbow Dash when the Zero Division came knocking and her failure as the leader of Xcution.]]
** Fluttershy fights Posey, who are so similar that Rainbow calls the latter "Fluttercopy". Both are kind, withdrawn people who would prefer not to fight, but while Fluttershy has plenty of willpower and will fight when needed Posey has crippling self-esteem issues and gives into her SuperPoweredEvilSide to fight. [[spoiler:It turns out Fluttershy is actually the {{Reincarnation}} of Posey's mother, Pansy]].
** Applejack fights Sweet Cider, her mother. Both are of the upfront and honest sort who prefer to do things head which is shown by their straightforward brute-force fighting styles and despise shady intrigue. But Sweet Cider is far more abrasive than Applejack [[spoiler: and is her amnesiac mother.]]
** A cross dimensional example is Princess Celestia and Human Discord of all people. Both are the ultimate BigGood of their worlds, both are long-lived leaders who are fountains of exposition and wisdom, and both act as {{Trickster Mentor}}s to their world's leader pony. You gotta wonder how Princess Celestia would react to that version of Discord given her tenuous relationship with her own.
* MirroringFactions: Of all of factions Equestria and the Vandenreich. Both are run by powerful and long-lived monarchs, both of their leaders want their subjects to follow a harmony-based ideology of working together and putting aside their differences for the greater good, the only difference is that King Sombra uses it to forge an efficient and well-organized military while Equestria uses such an ideology for peace. You gotta wonder how the ponies would react to such similar ideals ended up creating the Quincies martial culture.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Bount Trixie was CapturedOnPurpose to spy for Human Starlight]].
* MoleMen: What [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame Dwarves]] basically are. They look like giant humanoid moles sporting thick birds.
* MoralMyopia: A noted, even integral, part of three spiritual factions' relationship. Centuries of the ForeverWar and ItsPersonal on all sides has left them in a CycleOfRevenge where it's easy to have a character espouse their beliefs on why the other sides are a bunch of murdering bastards who have no right to act as they do and justifying their own atrocities with IDidWhatIHadToDo, when really they're all equally guilty with no true moral high ground to stand on. Luckily, there do exist outsiders and even people within said factions who can see through the complicated mess.
* MotherOfAThousandYoung: All of Chrysalis' Arrancar are her own children, though "how" she conceives them is how she ranks them. First are her "blood drones", which she creates from her own spilled blood as disposable shock troops with barely any personality and only serving as extensions of her will (though she could invest more personality in them if she wants to). Next are her simple "drones" who have more personality and willpower naturally, but are still subservient to her. Then there are her "true born," the most powerful of all and are fully independent of her will, like Thorax, Pharynx, and Ocelus. [[spoiler:It's implied that this ability is tied to her possession of a piece of the Soul Queen, which is hinted to be her womb.]]
** [[spoiler:This is apparently confirmed later when Chrysalis lets slip to her Equestrian counterpart that her ability to spawn children used to be a lot weaker.]]
* MultiArmedAndDangerous:
** Fluttershy's Evolved Fullbring gives her not only six arms, but the ability to make even more.
** Torch resurrection's form lives up to the name. Besides giving him extra pair of arms, he bears a different kind of weapon in each hand. He is literally [[DualWielding Multi-armed]] and [[BloodKnight extremely]] [[DraconicAbomination dangerous]].
** [[Myth/HinduMythology Ravana]] has three pairs of arms.
** Jörmungandr can form eight truly giant dragon claws forged from Anima.
* MultipurposeTongue: One of Thorax's more disgusting abilities, though he notes that [[TooMuchInformation the ladies, and a few men, love him for it.]]
* MustHaveCaffeine: As Scorpan puts it, Smart Cookie makes the only coffee in "this reality or any other" that can get him functional in the morning.
* MyBelovedSmother: A sympathetic example. Because of [[DelicateAndSickly Pipsquick's sickness,]] he needs constant observation and care. There's also the fact no one knows how long he has to live, which makes Platinium wish to spend as much time with him as possible, isolating them both from the outside world. [[spoiler: When she finds a way to cure him, she doesn't need much convincing to cut all her ties to the Soul Society and commits a few very morally ambiguous deeds to save him, ultimately alienating his son. [[spoiler: However, once pip's life is no longer in danger, [[DeconstructedTrope Platinium begins to slowly open up to people, even forging real friendships]].]]
* MyFistForgivesYou: Applejack eventually forgives Discord for his lies and manipulations, but punches him in the gut.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
** In order to defeat Captain Blueblood, Rarity catches him off-guard with her sword to his throat, neutralizing his Shikai and threatening him with death if he tries anything. Blueblood tries to [[YouWouldntShootMe call her bluff]], but Rarity in turn manages to keep up appearances in her tone and posture so that he's unwilling to risk it. After he surrenders and she binds him up, she leaves and has the internal realization that the threat ''wasn't'' as much a bluff as she was attempting to make it, and the idea that she would have willing killed an unarmed and surrendered opponent, even one that had just been trying to badly injure her at minimum, gives her an internal moment of chill. [[IDidWhatIHadToDo She does brush it off as necessary]] and tells herself that she wouldn't have done it, but the doubt remains regardless.
** The Lament has this realization [[spoiler:when the already horribly wounded Jet Set sacrifices himself to save his wife Upper Crust from his killing blow, which brought up the fractured memories of his own last moments as Hard Nail and how he tried to do the same for Sweet Cider against Grand Fisher.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: Discord still feels responsible for what happened to the Humane Five's mothers. [[spoiler:As well as not seeing Starlight's eroding mental state and trust in him until she decided to strike out on her own to fix the problem she believed he was in on and would do nothing about.]]
* MythicalMotifs:
** Sunset, as in canon, is associated with ThePhoenix, the association going further with her Soul Reaper powers. Her Shikai gives her PlayingWithFire abilities, and [[spoiler:her Bankai gives her HotWings, has her shield morph to look more like a Phoenix, and her ultimate attack, Final Phoenix, has her combine her sword and shield and throw them at her foe, forming a giant fiery Phoenix that explodes when damaged, but unfortunately limiting her to Shikai for at least a day afterward]].
** [[spoiler:Adagio]] unsurprisingly has that of a Mermaid. Her Adjuchas form looked like that of her Equestrian form, while her resurrection turns her into a traditional mermaid in armour and with razor sharp fins.
** Gilda Resurrection has more of an [[AnimalMotifs animal motif]] with a centurion helmet in a shape of a lion head, lower body that of a lean anthropomorphized lion with golden fur, thick claws but also with a barbed tail not unlike Equestrian Manticores. Her spear also drips [[OurHydrasAreDifferent caustic droplets of blood.]]
** Fluttershy's completed Fullbring is heavily inspired by the "Bodhisattva" of Buddhist religion.
** All Sternritters have an Angel motif in their Vollständig form. The appearance warry from person to person but they all have [[WingedHumanoid wings]] (Butterfly wings, wheels of fire, etc) and [[HolyHalo halos]] of some sort.
* MythologyGag: There are several references to both Bleach canon and previous generations of the My Little Pony franchise.
** After an assassination attempt on Twilight, Sombra notes that he is far from omnipotent or omniscient, and sometimes wishes that he could see the future, despite the headache that it would be. Seeing the future was the power of Yhwach's "Almighty" in canon.
** It's often pointed out that Posey resembles Fluttershy, to the point of being nicknamed [=FlutterCopy=]. There really was a pony in Generation 1 named Posey that [[https://www.derpibooru.org/images/249711?q=posey%2C looked a lot like Fluttershy.]] [[spoiler: Then it turns out, Fluttershy was Posey's mother in her previous life.]]
** Apparently Jin, or at least his Equestria Girls counterpart, once tried to enact revenge on Soul Society like in the Bount arc of the anime, and it ended similarly poorly for him.
** Several of the Espada and other Arrancar are villains from previous generations of the ''My Little Pony'' franchise, like Grogar, Catrina, and Squirk.
** Starswirl at one point uses a Kido named [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E10SwarmOfTheCentury Century Swarm]] that creates tiny little creatures to attack.
** Following the Everfree arc, Discord mentions that [[Manga/BurnTheWitch2018 Sunset should visit London sometime]] when talking about groups other than the three main factions.
** Grogar is researching Segunda Etapa.
** Twilight mentions how [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDWIssue34To37 her world's version of Sombra left with his Radiant Hope]].
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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: [[spoiler:The Zero Division keying the blades of Soul Reapers to send the souls of reincarnated members of the Star family to Hell, regardless of their actual deservedness, potentially along with others that they don't like or view as threats, is directly compared by Applejack to rounding people up and putting them in death camps.]]
* NeckLift: [[spoiler:Gaia Everfree does this to Fluttershy at the climax of the fight. Unknown to her, Fluttershy banked on this as this gives her the chance to douse Gaia in the contents of the ginto tube given to her by Twilight, allowing her trigger The Variable's power and distract Gaia so Fluttershy can then make physical contact with her own Fullbring to strike directly at Gaia and Gloriosa's MentalFusion.]]
* NextTierPowerUp: Given this is a ''Bleach'' crossover, this was inevitable. In the span of little more than a month, for each of the main characters...
** Sunset starts out as a girl swinging around an Asauchi before she properly bonds with it to create an unreleased zanpakuto that she trains with for a time while learning Kido. She then unlocks her Shikai while fighting Sternritter "T" Fleur de Lis, and goes through TrainingFromHell to get ready for the assault on Soul Society. From there, she achieves Bankai in ''one'' day and learns she actually has a dual Zanpakuto in the process, and from then on continues to train to maximize her power and learn new techniques.
** The Humane Five start out powerless aside from their magic, then gain their Fullbrings. They undergo TrainingFromHell to maximize their abilities and force their Fullbrings to evolve to their next level, which makes each of them easily a match for a Lieutenant-class Soul Reaper. From there, it's a matter of coming to an [[EnlightenmentSuperpowers emotional epiphany with their own personal hang-ups about themselves or their powers]] to achieve their "complete" Fullbring, which puts each of them on par with Captains, Espada, or Sternritter.
** Human Twilight Sparkle starts off apparently powerless, but begins training with her Quincy powers. However, her latent magic powers thanks to [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Midnight Sparkle]] flare up when her [[EmotionalPowers emotions peak]] and synergize with her already potent Quincy powers to propel her rapidly to the level of and even past her Shadowbolt peers with comparatively less time spent training, especially when she and Midnight come to a mutual understanding. She then gains [[spoiler:a Schrift as a Sternritter and access to Vollstandig]] and continues her research into magic and reishi to maximize her ability, including being able to switch control between herself and Midnight to maximize her control of magic.
** [[spoiler:Adagio Dazzle thanks to her latent magical power starts her evolution as a Hollow directly at the level of an Adjuchas, and after eating a large amount of souls from dead humans, other Hollows, and Gillians and Adjuchas evolves to a Vasto Lorde, which also comes with a newfound control of water. Shortly afterwards and during the battle against the Quincy at Las Noches, absorbing some of the lifeforce of the fallen Ninth Espada Squirk and her battle with Captain Luna to save her friend Ember from capture prompts Adagio to rip off her mask and evolve into an Arrancar, now strong enough to be worthy of the title of Sixth Espada and even greater control of water.]]
* NoConservationOfEnergy: This is lampshaded by Twilight [[spoiler:at the meeting for the Canterlot Spirit Coalition]] as one of the major issues with the official story that Quincy arrows utterly obliterate any Hollow that they destroy, as while spiritual abilities ''do'' often play fast and loose with physical laws as mortals understand them, the fact remains that energy ''can't'' be created or destroyed, just transformed or altered in some way, so the souls have to be going ''somewhere''.
* NoNameGiven: The Fourth Espada. Everyone just calls him "the Lament" or just "the Fourth". [[spoiler:It turns out his name is Hard Nail.]]
* NoodleIncident: Apparently, one of [[spoiler:Celestia's]] previous plans involved a song and dance number, [[spoiler:Luna]] in a dress and convenient explosives.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Despite falling in his fight against the Sternritter, none of the Espada are actually sure if the Smooze is really dead or not, some even joking that he'll just show up again one day. [[spoiler:As it turns out, he really is alive.]]
* NothingPersonal:
** Starlight Glimmer makes it clear that she has nothing against [[spoiler:Captains Luna or Celestia]]. It's just that she needs [[spoiler:the Sogyoku]] for her plans and she had to set up their execution [[spoiler:in order to let the weapon be released so she could steal it]]. Indeed, she has no issue at all with letting them go alive once she gets what she wants. Of course, they along with Sunset and the gang take it pretty personally.
** Despite his disparaging remarks to her, [[spoiler:Adagio honestly has no hard feelings against Squirk. It's just it's either kill him or bring down Chrysalis' wrath on her head.]]
* NotQuiteDead:
** [[spoiler: Applejack's parents. Though they died in the human world, Applejack's mother is now a member of Soul Society as a Captain, and her father is still "alive" as the Fourth Espada.]]
** [[spoiler: Adagio, who is also still "alive" as a hollow.]]
** [[spoiler: Human Sunset Shimmer, who's not only still alive in ''Hueco Mundo'', but has somehow gotten a Fullbring!]]
* NotSoDifferentRemark:
** Several Arrancar note that Chrysalis and [[spoiler:Adagio Dazzle]] are very similar to each other, in that they're both beautiful yet powerful schemers who aren't satisfied with just defeating their opposition but manipulating or breaking them to their will in the process. To drive it home, [[spoiler:Gaia Everfree's flashback reveals that Chrysalis' original position in the Espada was the Sixth, the very same position Adagio was first elevated to.]]
** Midnight makes this observation of Twilight and [[spoiler:Sapphire Shores after it's revealed that the latter is behind the assassination attempts on Twilight and what her motivations were]], saying that they both "jump to conclusions, overthink things, and don’t have the courage to go after what you want and instead hide your real feelings, then pretend like you’re doing what’s best for everyone".
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist:
** Despite the claims of [[spoiler:Glory that her and the Zero Division's plans are simply doing what they must [[KnightTemplar to create a new world free from evil]], it's later made clear that she's ultimately driven by a desire to resurrect her fallen brethren who became the souls of mortals, to which she's willing to create Hell, and send innocent souls there (like Sunburst for just being a descendant of the Star family, or Rarity to weaken the power of the heroes), to reconstitute said souls... while still preserving some "worthy" souls in the Soul Palace, proving that she realizes that mortals are just as deserving of existence as the gods are, especially with her tantrum when Discord refused to join her.]]
** [[spoiler:Jörmungandr's plans for Ragnarok would have him kill Yggdrasil, which would halt the cycle of reincarnation, to free it of the modifications that Glory has made for her plan above. While he's correct in that Yggdrasil isn't eternal and ''will'' die eventually, his obsession with killing it early rather than finding a way to undo what Glory did and letting it happen naturally, among other things like a desire for glory in the battles of Ragnarok, puts him in this territory.]]
* NotWhatItLooksLike: [[spoiler:Bount Trixie tries to claim this when they discover her performing her ritual to seal off the portal, then her Equestrian counterpart falls out of the closet BoundAndGagged, so she gives up and admits that it's ''exactly'' what it looks like.]]
* ObfuscatingStupidity: The Lament does this all the time. Or, rather he acts laid back and easygoing. [[spoiler:Adagio]] isn't fooled, noticing immediately that he is in reality in a state of constant, battle-ready tension.
* OddNameOut: Applejack's father, Hard Nail, is the only member of Applejack's immediate family to not have an apple themed name. {{Justified}} in that he married into it.
* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler:Time Turner and Ditzy are ChildhoodFriends and it's made clear from their actions and words that they're together, along with the not-so-subtle implication that the former is Derpy's father]].
* OffscreenAfterlife: Regarding what happens after death in Equestria, not even Celestia and Luna supposedly have much, if any knowledge of it. Souls definitively ''exist'' there, but what happens after death is still a mystery.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome:
** Puddinghead's entire fight with The Kraken is this. When he next appears, The Kraken has been reduced to the size of a small dog with little explanation. Puddinghead is more than happy, however, to recount [[UnreliableNarrator how he bested The Kraken with ease thanks to his amazing Kido abilities.]]
** [[spoiler: Wing Bind's]] been actively and efficiently fighting off Jörmungandr's dragon forces in Europe.
** Prior to the events of the story time Grogar somehow managed to seriously wound Torch. Centuries later it still bothers him.
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:The Grand Fisher dies when Applejack, Sunset, and Rainbow Dash destroy his head with a CombinationAttack. He's still standing after that so they think he's still alive, but he did indeed die.]]
** According to Ember, this is the Lament's preferred way of killing.
* OhCrap: Moondancer [[spoiler:when she realizes that the assassin she and Meadowbrook are fighting is, despite not unsealing their zanpakuto, easily matching them at every turn with no apparent difficulty]]. It gets bigger [[spoiler:when said enemy casts ''Hado #90: Kurohitsugi'' (Black Coffin) without the incantation, something only a Captain-level Soul Reaper should be capable of performing]].
* OlderThanTheyLook: Besides Soul Reapers and Hollows who have lived for centuries without looking it, Sunset Shimmer is technically older than the Humane 5 given her age as a pony, but still looks to be of High School age.
** [[spoiler: Scootaloo]] despite looking like a young teenager, is only twenty-three years old, which in Bount years doesn't make her older than her friends. Like she said, Bounts age weird, depending on what they ''eat''. She doesn't like to talk about it.
* OldMaster: Each member of the Zero Division is responsible for establishing a fundamental part of Soul Society. Bowtie [[UltimateBlacksmith created the Zanpakutous]], Minty [[CombatMedic founded the healing arts of Kido]], and Medley [[KungFuWizard placed down the principles of Hakuda and Shunko]].
* TheOneThatGotAway: Could be taken literally in [[spoiler: Thorax and Luna's]] case. They met when they were, [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld relatively]] young, and, while it started as normal fights, it eventually turned into [[FriendlyEnemy friendship]] and later into genuine affection. Unfortunately, It ended poorly for them when [[spoiler: Thorax]] trusted his family too much and [[spoiler: Luna]] almost died, barely escaping [[spoiler: but not without losing a piece of her soul]]. A big part of his plans revolves around convincing her to talk with him so he could apologize. [[spoiler: After events at Camp Everfree, Thorax finally had the chance, but Luna says she can't forgive him yet.]]
* OnlyFleshIsSafe: Nocturn's ''Yakkai Koto'' can make any non-animal object it strikes, from plants, pieces of paper, clothing, even water, to be as heavy and stiff as steel.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Tirek has declared this about Sombra and told his Espada that none of them may try and take that right from him. {{Justified}} in that Sombra is so powerful that not even the other Espada, save maybe the #2 Chrysalis, could hope to defeat him.
* {{Orichalcum}}: The metal is the most treasured creation of the dwarves, the secret of which is strictly guarded. As light as {{Mithril}} but ten times more durable and perfect to conduct Anima. Among other races, it's a symbol of status.
* OtherMeAnnoysMe: [[spoiler:Human Chrysalis and her counterpart do not get along well.]]
* OurDragonsAreDifferent:
** Dragons are native species to the Beast Realm and at least a substantial number of them seem to serve Jörmungandr. They vary in shapes and sizes; some are traditional winged Western dragons and some are eal-like Eastern dragons that glide through the air on discs made of reishi (similarly to Quincy or Fullbringers) and some barely resemble dragons and are more [[MixAndMatchCritters amalgamations of creatures.]]
** Jörmungandr's true form is a massive dragon-like entity, complete with arms, legs, and four wings, all covered with horns, spines, and barbed scales.
** Celestia's Shikai takes the form of a twin dragon made out of fire and plasma. She's very reluctant to release them as they possess full autonomy, and because they are very aggressive and confrontational, they are as dangerous to her allies as they are to her enemies.
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: They are native to Beast Realm. They look like [[MoleMen Moles]] sporting thick beards and braids. Naturally, they are excellent Artisians, [[UltimateBlacksmith blacksmiths,]] Runecrafters, and engineers. They are the only ones that know how to forge {{Orichalcum}}. They can be found in Svartalfheim where they mine and [[FriendlyRivalry skirmish with Diamond Dogs.]]
* OurKoboldsAreDifferent: Diamond Dogs. They are a race of giant bipedal, anthropomorphic Dogs. Despite living in the Beast Realm they come in various real-life species. They can be found in Svartalfheim where they mine and [[FriendlyRivalry skirmish with Dwarves.]]
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent:
** The Lament's Ressurreccion resembles a great black wolf which eerily resembles [[spoiler:the Hollow that attacked him while he was human]]. Incredibly powerful, but he loses control of himself and acts like a feral beast out to kill.
** [[spoiler:Luna's]] Bankai gives her the appearance of one, covering her body in a large shadowy mass in the form of a wolf while a [[BadMoonRising a sphere resembling a crimson moon bathes the surroundings in shadows]]. [[spoiler:When the sphere is damaged, she absorbs all the shadows involuntarily due to lack of control brought on by her Beast Realm heritage and turns into a black-and-red werewolf with incredible physical power, but her mind is consumed by bloodlust and the most she can do is keep herself targeted on her foe with no higher thought process than "rip and tear".]]
* OurWitchesAreDifferent:
** Seaponies can't cast spells like unicorns they have a specialized group called Witches of the Sea that can call upon the Sea Spirits that allow them to use magic. [[SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic Twilight speculates]] that those spirits are in reality Ocean's [[BackgroundMagicField natural magic field,]] and Seawitches use their innate magic to influence and draw from it like Earth Ponies.
** Technically they are not witches, [[spoiler: [[OurVampiresAreDifferent but Bounts,]]]] but Scootaloo's aunts share a lot of familiarities with them. They live in an old house covered in Celtic symbols and other trinkets, far outside of town. They're seclusive, know how to brew potions, and their powers resemble spells. Lofty even have a doll a.k.a. a familiar that takes the form of a cauldron.
** Human [[spoiler: Trixie]] takes it a step further by dressing like a witch (pointed hat, a cape, etc.), and her weapon is a staff with which she can cast curses. [[spoiler: Her Bount Doll even takes the form of BlackKnight.]]
* OurSpiritsAreDifferent: Wraiths are magically created ghosts bound to a place or an object. They're completely dark in appearance and very aggressive. Nothing indicates they remember who they were. [[spoiler: The City of Aqualania is filled to the brim with them. They are City's previous inhabitants, trapped by Charybdis' magic.]]
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Draugr are RevenantZombie, that had been mostly used by denizens of Niflheim and Muspelheim. They retain their minds and abilities while their bodies turn dark and their eyes blue. They require Anima from the person who created them or from the person they strike a deal. Without it, they will become inanimate and pass away. A lot of current living draugr are just leftovers from the God Wars.
* TheOwlKnowingOne: The spirit of Clover's Zanpakuto, ''Chishiki'' (Knowledge), is a large owl who inhabits a massive library.
* PapaWolf:
** Torch is unafraid of sending Ember out into the field of battle because he trusts her ability to fight and survive. Do something that threatens her otherwise, like say capturing her, and he will bring down the full wrath of his horde on your head.
** The Lament is already a somewhat unstable guy, but the fastest way to get on his shit-list is to harm the Hollow children he calls his own. [[spoiler:According to Twilight Velvet, he was still this even when he was still Hard Nail]].
* ParentalSubstitute: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed.]] Due to the uncanny resemblance to her mother, both in looks and personality [[spoiler: and literally being her in previous life]] Posey can't help but seek attention and approval from Fluttershy, desperately calling her mother. Fluttershy sees it as an unhealthy obsession and makes it clear that [[DefiedTrope she's not and never will be her mother.]] Still, she says she'll gladly call her a friend and help her workout her issues.
* PastLifeMemories:
** [[spoiler:Sombra has these due to being a {{Reincarnation}} of the Soul Queen's Consort, though he mentions to Twilight that the memories are fragmented, took him centuries to put together enough to make sense of, and notes that some or much of it could be corrupted, misinterpreted or false.]]
** The subject was more elaborated on the Equestrian side, to the point of {{Deconstruction}}. Whenever an Inheritor awakens their relic, their minds might be flooded with memories of their past lives. If the person is not prepared, their current personality might be overwritten the first time they try to access them. That can happen even if their past life is not malicious. Even after getting control over their bodies again, accessing and sorting through the memories might take a while. We're talking about the lifetime of centuries-old beings. And even then, the influx of new memories might make it hard for them to differentiate themselves from their past life. Dash, for example - who was a stallion in their past life - had some difficulty using a bathroom.
* PentUpPowerPeril: The danger in training Fullbringers. The field used to aggravate their powers causes their Hollow energy to build up before painfully escaping. The only way to avoid this is for the user to evolve their Fullbring. [[StuffBlowingUp If not...]]
* PetTheDog:
** Hurricane is Soul Society's premiere {{Jerkass}} and TokenEvilTeamMate and while not the best dad truly loves Posey, his bastard daughter, and goes out of his way to defend her honor when it's insulted.
** Though he hasn't had very many appearances, the Lament seems rather fond of doing this.
** Ravana rescued [[spoiler: Hel/Wallflower]] from Jörmungandr. The reason he did it was because he couldn't stomach what he did to her.
* PercussiveMaintenance: Tempest suggests this in order to get [[spoiler: ''The Treasury'']] up and running. Seaspray only does so as to prove Tempest wrong, only for it to actually work.
* PercussivePrevention: After running into Captain Blueblood, an enraged Rarity orders Sunset to run while she deals with him personally. Sunset, despite not being able to use her right arm fully, is having none of that and prepares to leap in to help right up until [[spoiler: Ditzy Doo]] sucker punches her in the chest and runs off with her slung over her shoulder.
* PersonOfMassDestruction:
** The reason why Captain [[spoiler:Celestia]] refuses to ever use even just her Shikai in a populated area. Apparently, [[MyGreatestFailure the last time she did so was so bad she swore off doing so again]]. Details are sparse, [[spoiler:but it involves the death of Captain Platinum's husband]].
** Princess Celestia is revealed to be this, able to cast extremely powerful magic spells that can decimate her surroundings. The drawback is that [[AwesomeButImpractical these spells take quite a bit of time to prepare and cast]], stating that someone like Tirek could drain her magic before it's completed or Discord could snap his fingers and turn it on her (which he apparently has done in the past).
** Hollow King Tirek and Quincy King Sombra are this without a doubt. Sombra's Schrift "The Absolute" grants him total mastery of space and one way he can manipulate it is to create arrows capable of punching through even the strongest materials. Tirek without releasing his zanpakuto is strong enough to unleash swings capable of destroying ''skyscrapers'' while his Ceros are described as akin to solar flares, and just one shot was almost enough to blast through Shining Armor's [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe Bastion power]].
* PhysicalGod:
** [[spoiler: The ancient race of Alicorns that once ruled over Equestria, with many of them proclaiming AGodAmI. When it was discovered that their actions had upset the natural cycle and would lead to TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, a plan was formed to transfer all their godlike power into different items and [[MortalityEnsues become mortal]] to hopefully repair the natural cycle.]]
** Many of the truly ancient Soul Reapers and Hollows are in fact the children of or just a few generations removed from being the divine children of the Soul Queen, and many of them would become seen as gods. All the members of the Royal Guard are in fact her direct children, while the likes of Tirek and Scorpan are second-generation.
* PiecesOfGod: There are a few characters with pieces of the Soul Queen in the story.
** [[spoiler:Sci-Twi apparently has the Soul Queen's Eye.]]
** [[spoiler:Chrysalis also has a piece of the Soul Queen, which, given her [[MotherOfAThousandYoung reproductive habits]] and the placement of her hands when she revealed this fact, is implied to be her womb. She also seeks to claim the other pieces and take the Soul Queen's place.]]
** [[spoiler:Sombra believes that all mortal souls were originally parts of the various gods descended from the Soul Queen and her consort, who was originally a part of her that she split off.]]
** [[spoiler:The Dazzlings are all Inheritors of a singular Equestrian goddess, who split her essence between them while using a single Relic to contain her power instead of the other way around like all the other known ones did.]]
** [[spoiler:''All'' of the mortal souls in existence are in fact fragments of the slain children of the Soul Queen and her Consort, aka the various deities of different pantheons who died during their wars. The "Zero Plan" intended by the Royal Guard (some of her few remaining children) would in theory result in the resurrection of their fallen siblings by collecting and breaking down the souls in Jigoku into their base particles and reconstructing those deities. Of course, this would mean CessationOfExistence for all but a few "chosen" mortal souls by the end.]]
** [[spoiler:Each of the Zero Division has taken up one of the pieces of the Soul Queen to boost their already impressive power.]]
* PillarOfLight: When Sunset Shimmer first releases her Zanpakuto, [[spoiler:Hokori]], it generates a pillar of fire that can be seen by every spiritually aware person ''in the city''. Happens again when she activates her Bankai. This time tall enough to ''pierce the clouds'' and strong enough to shake the ground like an ''earthquake''.
* PlayingBothSides: [[spoiler:Zero Division is apparently doing their best to keep the Soul Reapers, Quincy, and Arrancars fighting each other for some reason]].
* PlayingWithFire: Sunset Shimmer, naturally [[spoiler:both Equestrian and Human]]. Same with Spitfire of the Quincy who's Schrift is "The Inferno", who remarks that the same applies to [[spoiler:Celestia]]. Torch is completely flame resistant and can breathe fire.
* PleasePutSomeClothesOn:
** Being a [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl Yoruichi]] expy, when [[spoiler:Ditzy Doo]] transforms into her human form, she is completely naked. Sunset, [[AlienAmongUs being a pony]], is unfazed by this, but her friends react just as you'd expect.
** Amusingly, both Lament and Sombra express this opinion of [[spoiler:Adagio]] post-Arrancar transformation, since it didn't come with a change of clothes to replace the original bone armor.
* PoisonousPerson:
** Hydia, complete with DeadlyGas and Acid Spit.
** The Smooze, quite literally since his body is basically a BlobMonster of sickly putrid mass that poisons and kills most things it touches.
** Gilda's Resurreccion gives her this power, specifically in the form of [[ThePowerOfBlood caustic blood]] that can [[PoisonIsCorrosive infect and dissolve inanimate objects and people]].
* PortalCut: [[spoiler:Weaponized by Twilight/Midnight when Velvet's death awakens the Eye within her and it takes partial control of their body, using the magic from the portal offensively against the Lament.]]
* PositiveFriendInfluence: She would never admit it but it's obvious that after a short time with Sunset (and her defeat), Adagio has become a much better person. Keep in mind, she's still motivated by revenge and the improvement of her own living condition. It's just the person she wants to kill is a MadScientist and the people she surrounds herself profit from 'her' success.
* PowerEchoes: Midnight talks this way. Or at least talked, until Twilight demanded from her to stop. After that, her voice changed from an ethereal echo to just smug and sultry.
-->'''Twilight''': Okay, I’ll hear what you have to say, but there are some rules I’m setting down first.\\
'''Midnight''': ''Oh? What rules would those be?''\\
'''Twilight''': First rule; stop doing that thing with your voice and talk like a normal person.\\
'''Midnight''': ''What thing?''\\
'''Twilight''': That thing! The weird and entirely unnecessary echoing quality. Just talk in a normal voice, otherwise I’m going to be distracted the entire time wondering how you’re even doing it in the first place.\\
'''Midnight''': Fine, ruin all my fun why don’t you?

* PowerCopying: Several characters duplicate the powers and abilities of other characters/groups.
** During the Hueco Mundo siege to slay Squirk, Sombra keeps Tirek out of the fight by using his SpaceMaster powers and trapping him with him in a pocket dimension that Tirek notes is based off of the Caja Negacion technique.
** Starswirl once slew a Sternritter who could copy other powers.
** Starswirl's own Bankai lets him produce reishi particles in such a way that he can mimic the Quincy ability to create reishi construct weapons, like machine guns and missiles, duplicate Kido spells, and even mimic Hollow energy to fire Ceros.
** Grogar's Resurrección form can mimic the Smooze's PoisonousPerson goop, Torch's flames, Guto's chains, and Squirk's rapid Garganta creation abilities, among others, though each canister of these replicated powers has a limited amount of uses, and he can apparently only use four at once. Combined with him copying Adagio's Siren Gem and combining it with what is implied to be the power of the [[spoiler:Arrancar Storm King]] to absorb power from his slain experiments, Celestia accuses him of [[CreativeSterility not having anything of his own instead of stolen powers]].
** [[spoiler:Discord’s Hogyoku is modified so that the Humane Seven should be able to do this to a degree.]]
** Morgawr's PowerTattoo enhancing his body is deliberately noted to be similar to the Blut techniques of the Quincy in the narration. [[spoiler:Given that Charybids has knowledge of Earth and the spiritual beings that inhabit it, this may have been intentional]].
* PoweredArmor:
** Applejack's Evolved Fullbring is a reduced variant, consisting of armor for just her arms and legs and like that [[ComicBook/IronMan "fella wit the fancy armor suit"]] she can use them to fly. Her Completed Fulbring is a near perfectly form fitting golden armour with skull motif and many faintly visible circular ports.
** [[spoiler:Firefly's]] Complete Fullbring "Ace Of Sky" is a more complete example.
* PoweredByAForsakenChild:
** The Quincy access Hueco Mundo via two captive Gillians kept in forced hibernation by Quincy alchemy, forcing them to create Gargantas. Twilight, upon seeing this, vows to create a better way.
** The Cross Gate to Equestria requires a colossal amount of energy. So much that [[spoiler: Starlight]] had to use the power of Sokyoku to power it up. [[spoiler: Chrysalis and Grogar]] go around by capturing and suspending a number of Hollows to drain them from their energy.
* PowerGivesYouWings:
** Rainbow Dash is the absolute Queen of this trope. With every power-up gaining on power and speed. First, she had her regular [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames blue wings]]. After that, they evolved into a pair of white, razor-sharp wings with rainbow colors along the fringes and crackling [[ShockAndAwe electric energy]]. In her evolved Fullbring, he'd six wings; two still made out of metal but bigger and four seemingly forged from solidified electricity. Finally, her Completed Fullbring gained a full meter of wingspan and transmuted into jets of solid light, while the electric wings turned, long, elegant and solid blades of metal, [[spoiler: not unlike her mother's]]. Firefly could only stare in awe upon seeing them.
** [[ZigZaggingTrope Played with]] Fluttershy. She still has her pegasus wings but, unlike Rainbow, they don't change and simply drown in the number of extra limbs.
** [[spoiler: Firefly]] has her powered armor with a series of blade-like energy wings and boots with smaller fin-like wings.
** Sunset's bankai gives her twin wings of phoenix flame, flowing with power and heat which can be used as jets to increase speed. Sunset compares the level of power to the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls1 two]] [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames previous]] moments in her life when she had wings.
** Guto's Ressurection takes a form that brings to mind an Aztec warrior with clothes decorated with feathers and the head of an eagle yet [[ZigZaggingTrope instead of wings]] he has jet turbines made out of bones.
** Every Quincy gets wings in the Vollständig state but, they are all shaped in different kinds. To describe a few, there is a Sterrniter with five wings looking like heater shields floating around his back, one with a pair of glowing butterfly wings, one with circles made of fire that (the narration even mentions ancient texts describing angelic beings), one with two large, thin tendrils that were spawning even more tendrils, and one with wings made of clockwork. There are no set standards. There are as many types, as there are Sterrniters.
* ThePowerOfApathy: Weaponized by Harshwhinny. Her power, The Uncaring, produces a powerful sense of apathy in her targets that leaves them sapped of their willpower, such as their will to fight or defend themselves against attacks, leaving them vulnerable to enemy attacks. [[spoiler: [[HoistByHisOwnPetard It ends working against her when fighting the Fourth Espada.]] While it makes him care less about his ally [[TeethClenchedTeamwork (which he only because of politeness)]] it also makes him more focused and determined to kill all threats while blocking out his deeper emotional turmoil.]]
* ThePowerOfCreation:
** Captain Starswirl's Shikai allows him to produce any chemical structure he's aware of be it solid, liquid or gas, and he knows not only of nearly every Earth-based chemical but many Spirit-World native ones and quite a few unique compounds he's made himself. His Bankai expands this power to include reishi particles and massively ups the production speed and volume, allowing him to do things from mimic the Quincy's ability to form reishi constructs by creating all manner of spirit-based weaponry (such as machine guns and missiles) to producing facsimiles of Kido spells to even mimicking Hollow energy to fire Ceros.
** Filthy Rich's Schrift, The Mason, allows him to transform reishi or reishi-imbued materials into other solid materials at will. He normally prefers to use it to create and repair large fortifications, completing with bristling weaponry like cannons, but can even use it, at least in Vollstandig, to transmute his own blood into large chains.
* ThePowerOfHate:
** This, along with sporadic sacrifices, is what kept [[spoiler: Gaia]] alive. Her hate towards Chrysalis is so strong it kept her [[DamagedSoul fragmented soul]] together for centuries.
** [[spoiler:Once he senses the spiritual energy around Aqualania, Flash is struck by the sheer ''hate'' in it.]]
** When a sinner gets sentenced to Hell, they become part of it. And if their hatred is strong enough they can manifest powers through that connection. Like [[spoiler: Sunburst]] and [[PlayingWithFire his flames]] or [[spoiler: Cozy]] and her [[ChainPain control over Hell Chains.]]
* ThePowerOfLove: Human Chrysalis believes in this, though unlike her Equestrian counterpart who believes only she and other Changelings can use it, she acknowledges anyone can use it and admires both the good and ''especially'' bad things love will make someone do. Of course, like her counterpart she also believes people who let themselves be ruled by it are weak.
* PowerParasite: Human Starlight's Zanpakuto, ''Sekai Chitsujo'' (World Order) lets her steal Zanpakuto spirits and use their powers. She can even lend them to other people at will. However, the Zanpakuto must be released and directed at her (even accidentally), which means she just can't steal them willy-nilly [[spoiler:and why she had to set up the executions of Celestia and Luna by Sokyoku since the powerful Zanpakuto is only released during said executions]], in most shown cases she actually has to make physical contact with the Zanpakuto with her own to steal it, and she only seems able to use one Zanpakuto's power herself at a time (this doesn't apply to a Zanpakuto she lends out). It's also speculated that she needs to keep the Soul Reaper she steals the blade from alive to keep using it, since a Zanpakuto is supposed to die with its Soul Reaper.
** Thorax's Resurrección form has the ability "Sifon del Alma,” or "Soul Siphon", which allows him to siphon off some of his foe's reiatsu and consume it if he "tasted" it before releasing the form.
** Morgawr's trident can absorb magic directed at it.
** Bakkoto, as in canon, are parasitic and will drain the spiritual energy of whoever uses them, but Starlight discovers that they can also feed off ''magic''.
** [[spoiler:Rarity's]] Sinner power lets them drain the strength of others using their chains.
* PowerTattoo: Morgawr's tattoos, given to him by Charybdis, which allow him to enhance himself in a similar manner to the Quincy Blut techniques.
* PredecessorVillain: The Queen of Thorns [[spoiler:Gaia Everfree]], the former Second Espada who was usurped by Chrysalis. [[spoiler:What was left of her was nurtured by a cult over the centuries that in the modern day it turns out were Gloriousa and Timber's ancestors.]]
* PregnantBadass:
** Cadance. She's a powerful Sternritter skilled enough to fight an Espada one on one, which is rare for Quincy. Granted, her pregnancy is still in the early stage, and the only reason she knows about it is that Sapphire used her powers on her. She's worried that she won't be able to do her duties once [[PapaWolf Shining]] finds out.
** She hadn't shown her skills, yet but just the fact she holds a high rank in military organization, it's safe to assume that Radiant Hope is pretty badass. [[spoiler: She was strong enough to [[TearJerker save herself or her unborn child]].]]
* PrettyBoy: Thorax is described as an effeminately handsome man.
* {{Pride}}: Sunset's greatest personality trait [[spoiler:and the very emotion that embodies her Zanpakuto spirit, who takes the form of her demon self]]. Part of Sunset's struggle to manifest her Shikai is in fact [[spoiler:to come to terms with the fact that while her pride did lead to her banishment and transformation into a monster, it also lead her to becoming the best at what she could do]]. Only once she accepts this [[spoiler:does her demon self finally relent enough to allow her to unleash her power, and her Zanpakuto's full name is ''Hokori no Hikari'' (Pride's Light)]].
* PropheticNames: In the comics, Amore and Radiant Hope had a very strong connection with Sombra. Only time will tell what the relationship between the three we see in this story will be. Radiant Hope is revealed to be [[spoiler:a former Quincy and Sombra's wife whose soul ended up in Soul Society due to how her soul is connected to the Eye of the Soul Queen and a Soul Reaper purified her before Sombra could collect her soul when she died.]]
* PunnyName: [[spoiler: ''Flash'' Sentry]] can use the FlashStep.
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* QualityVsQuantity: This is the dynamic that keeps all sides fairly even.
** The Quincies are heavy on "Quantity". Individually their warriors are the weakest fighters, with even their Sternritter often needing to pair up on Espada or Captains. You'd also be hard-press to find a Quincy who's lived much longer than an average human lifespan outside of Sombra or his elites. But they have the advantage of numbers, their technological prowess is the most advanced of all the factions, and their birth rates boom pretty well to replenish their numbers and even Sternritter, of which there are 26, can be replaced as easily as Sombra finding a sufficiently strong candidate and giving them a fallen member's Schrift.
** The Arrancar are heavy on "Quality". Most Arrancar are decades, if not centuries or millennia old, and have honed themselves on the DeathWorld of Hueco Mundo to survive. Individually, Arrancar outmatch most Soul Reapers and Quincies for raw power, and the Espada are noted to be on average the strongest of the individual elite factions of the war. However, Arrancar due to low birth rates (even if not ''quite'' so low as it might seem at first glance since fornicating is probably one of their favorite pastimes when not fighting), low survival rates of said children in said DeathWorld, and the long time it takes Arrancars of any worth to be created from Menos Hollows means they can't easily replenish their losses, and even though they can and will bolster their ranks with lesser Hollows and Menos it only helps so much.
** The Soul Reapers are in-between. They have a larger army and elite faction than Arrancar if not possibly not quite as much as the Quincies and can replenish it fairly well both due to birth rates and recruitment souls coming into Soul Society. Individually they can surpass Quincies for power and hold their own against Arrancar, and again the average age and experience of a Soul Reaper is between a Quincy and an Arrancar. However, they can't as easily replace someone of Captain level or even Lieutenant level as the Quincy can their Sternritter, and on an individual level an Espada could still likely surpass a Captain.
* RagTagBunchOfMisfits:
** [[spoiler:Adagio]] is slowly making one. So far, it consists of Ember, Di Roy, and Gaw.
** Human Starlight's group. They're all very different, but they all have two things in common: They're all very powerful and they all have a bone to pick with Soul Society.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking:
** Sombra and Tirek are the Quincy King and Hollow King[=/=]Espada #1, and therefore the strongest of the Quincies and Hollows respectively. Chrysalis is Espada #2 and Tirek's NumberTwo, with the narration referring to her as essentially the Hollow Queen and the only other one in Tirek's army aside from himself who could possibly fight Sombra on equal ground [[spoiler:and her subordinate Thorax is apparently strong enough that he can masquerade as her in Hueco Mundo with none the wiser]].
** Captain-Commander Scorpan is the most powerful member of the Gotei 13. His spiritual power is so great it can destroy weaker Hollows on contact!
** All the members of the Zero Division are the founders of Soul Society and its highest authority short [[spoiler:in theory]] of the Soul Queen herself, and each one is ''at least'' in Scorpan's weight class, if not stronger.
* RapidFireFisticuffs: Fluttershy of all people. Helps she has [[MultiArmedAndDangerous six arms and can generate more.]] [[spoiler: Not that it helps against member of Zero Division.]]
* RazorFloss: Ember invokes this when seeing how Roka heals people, (she uses needles and thread) saying how it could easily be used to tear things apart rather than sew them back together.
* ReadingLips: Sugarcoat can read lips, even from a distance with her visor.
* RealityWarper:
** Discord's Zanpaktou, ''Konran Arashi'', (Chaos Storm) is half this and half SpaceMaster. It has the power to disrupt naturally existing orders. Whether that be the order in one’s body, or the order of spirit energy that creates a Zanpaktou’s powers, or even more fundamental laws like the direction sound travels through the air. In other words, anyone that gets hit with it gets an InterfaceScrew. Its Bankai is even more powerful, but also more dangerous because it's area-of-effect and he can't guarantee the safety of anyone who gets caught up in it by accident [[spoiler:like what happened to Screwball and Screwloose when they got hit by the tail-end of it during his fight with Starlight Glimmer during her betrayal.]]
** Pinkie's evolved Fullbring is basically the RuleOfFunny weaponized such that she can distort the laws of physics as long as the result can be considered a "gag".
** Hoity Toity's Schrift, The Xenomorph, allows him to transform any and all physical matter he implants with his reiatsu as he desires, to the point that at full power, he can even transform his own body such that it resembles someone else or that it changes forms of matter from 'solid' to 'liquid' to even a full-on EnergyBeing state. It's major weakness is that a sufficiently strong spiritual pressure can resist him.
** Sci-Twi's Schrift, The Variable, provides a limited version of this. By analyzing the target of her choice, including herself, she can change the "variables" about it to her liking. This can let her do things from changing the "speed" and "direction" of her own attacks, to switching around "resistances" and "weaknesses", to even [[GenderBender switching from "female" to "male"]].
** The Soul Queen's powers included using her absolute command of reishi to reshape the world around her.
* RedBaron:
** Centuries ago, there existed a powerful Arrancar. Everyone in Las Noches has heard about her, but besides the facts that she was powerful and she was the first Segunda Espada [[ShroudedInMyth no one besides a few old enough to meet her knows anything about her.]] After a spat with the current Segunda Espada, Chrysalis, she'd disappeared, but it's unknown if she's dead or became a Privaron Espada. So she's better known as The Queen of Thorns. [[spoiler: Her real name is Gaia. [[LegendFadesToMyth Better known as Gaia Everfree]].]]
** Ofridr has a lot of titles. In Nifheim he is known as "Thousand Wails of the Dead" for his Violin can mimic the wails of the dead, and his ability to control them. In Alfheim, he's known as "Lifebane" after destroying two of their clans. However, his favorite title is the one he gave himself - Dirge Singer.
* {{Reincarnation}}:
** As always, the cycle of life, death and rebirth. Once the living pass on, they either go to Soul Society or become Hollows, and once they die in Soul Society they return to the Spirit Realm to eventually be reborn in the living world. Memories between both worlds don't usually last the journey, though there are plenty of exceptions with PastLifeMemories and those who remember their living lives. Physical appearances and even gender don't usually stay the same either, though again exceptions do exist. However, it is the law of Soul Society to treat reincarnated individuals as their own person separate from who they were in a past life. [[spoiler:Fluttershy for example is the reincarnation of former 11th Division Lieutenant Pansy, the mother of current Lieutenant Posey and the lover of Captain Hurricane, and according to both of them she's all but an exact copy.]]
** How Sombra's soul absorption of Quincies work. When they die, he draws them into his own soul and body to gestate for a period time before they are reborn without memories of who they are. It can effectively be described as a faster method over how the usual cycle works. However, not all of the souls go to him directly, as was the case with Radiant Hope due to the fact she was cleansed by a Soul Reaper first and went to Soul Society rather than back to him, and presumably a Quincy soul devoured by a Hollow is equally lost. As it turns out, Twilight Sparkle herself is a reincarnation of [[spoiler:Sombra and Radiant Hope's unborn child.]]
** [[spoiler:Sunburst was consigned to Hell because he was the reincarnation of a member of the Star family, who rebelled against Soul Society over the formation of Central 46]].
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Sombra, Scorpan, Starswirl, Tirek, and Grogar are some of the oldest beings in this universe, with Tirek and Scorpan having been alive when the Soul Queen was still in her prime [[spoiler:and the former was there to witness her fall]] while Sombra [[spoiler:is the human reincarnation of the Soul Queen's Consort]], and Starswirl and Grogar are from the same generation as Scorpan and Tirek.
** [[spoiler:Sapphire Shores is roughly six hundred years old.]]
** [[spoiler:Sunset notes that Gaia Everfree's memories show Scorpan when he was apparently in his ''twenties'', and she mentions Ares, as in the ''Greek God'', in the present tense.]]
* RelatedInTheAdaptation:
** Captain Platinum and Pipsqueak. In Equestria, Platinum is a Princess from before Celestia and Luna's rule, while Pipsqueak is a modern-day young Colt who goes to the same school with CMC. In human World Platinum is Pipsqueak's mother.
** [[spoiler:Fenice is the younger sister of the Human Sunburst as the children of Stellar Flare, which leads Sunset to wonder if she's related to Equestrian Sunburst.]]
** [[spoiler:Played around with by Rainbow's mother. While canon Rainbow Dash's (and presumably her Equestria Girl's counterpart) mother is Windy Whistles, here Firefly is her mother while Windy is Firefly's sister and thus Rainbow's aunt. However, Rainbow's dad Bow Hothoof is heavily implied to be [[SettleForSibling falling for Windy]] after all the years Firefly has been gone, which Rainbow doesn't actually mind.]]
* RequiredSecondaryPowers:
** Although Arrancars, Soul Reapers, and Quincies have super strength and durability, they still weigh the same as ordinary people, meaning they can get knocked down by ordinary people if they don't brace themselves.
** Quincies have to activate [[SuperToughness Blut Vene]] before using [[FlashStep Hirenkyaku]] so that the excessive G-Forces don't kill them. [[spoiler:When Twilight augments her Hirenkyaku with magic to make it even faster, Midnight warns her even by also strengthening her body with magic alongside her Blut Vene she's risking hurting herself if pushed too hard for too long.]]
** Similarly to the Quincy example above, Applejack notes during her fight with Troubleshoes that her Fullbring forms a protective aura around her body, allowing her to jet around at breakneck speeds without hurting herself. She suspects that Rainbow's does the same thing, as do the others, if to a lesser degree.
** Twilight's Schrift The Variable is incredibly versatile, but it's main drawback is that in order to make it work at its full potential she needs to ''know'' exactly what the thing she's trying to change the variables of is, or at the very least make educated guesses as to its nature, plus she needs the mathematical and scientific knowledge to know what variables she wants to change and by how much (which makes her incredible intellect quite useful).
** Sunset is normally immune to her own Zanpaktou flames, but her black flames, drawing from her wrath, can even injure her.
** Fenice is fully immune to the molten rock her MagmaMan powers generate, and has full control of its motion besides, allowing her to "surf" a wave of magma.
** Celestia is similarly immune to the incredible heat of her Shikai.
** The spell that grants Twilight and company their underwater physiology has a few, namely sensory adaptations and adaptations for rapid decompression.
* RetroactiveWish: When Sour Sweet is interrupted mid-sentence saying that Sombra wouldn't summon Twilight to see him out of nowhere by a messenger... requesting Twilight's presence, she tries again, specifically asking for a million dollars and a "oiled up, half naked adonis", as she puts it, to fall into her lap, and is disappointed when it fails to happen.
* RevenantZombie: Draugrs are people or creatures whose souls have been caught and trapped/tied/bound to their bodies with Anima. They retain their personalities, memories, skills, and abilities they had in life, and basically only their decaying bodies and blue eyes betray their state. They are also bound to the one that reanimated and they have to obey their orders.
* RevengeBeforeReason:
** Applejack begins to slip into this due to her desire to kill Grand Fisher [[spoiler:for murdering her parents]].
** [[spoiler:Gaia Everfree/Gloriosa Daisy thanks to their mutual grudges being amplified by the Equestrian magic they've absorbed. It's the reason why Sunset can't let her go without a fight, since she made it clear she'd kill every Hollow, Quincy, and Soul Reaper around Camp Everfree unless smacked around until she gets her sense back.]]
* RoaringRampageOfRescue: [[spoiler:Adagio's plan to get Ember back from the Soul Reapers in a nutshell, with the help of her Arrancar friends, Sunset, the Humane Five, and Human Twilight of course to ensure it doesn't become a bloodbath. The need to keep it from devolving into a full-out blood bath and destroying everything between Canterlot City and Camp Everfree is the reason why she kept Torch and his horde out of it.]]
* RuleOfFunny: Pinkie's evolved Fullbring weaponizes this. Whenever she strikes something with the hammer, it reacts in a hilarious way, like forming a springboard under someone's feet or absorbing an energy blast with a loud belching sound. It pretty much [[RealityWarper lets her warp reality on a limited scale as long as the result can be considered a gag...such as forcing the fight between her and Cheese Sandwich to literally function by 2D fighting game mechanics]].
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* {{Sadist}}: This gets invoked twice with Ditzy Doo. The first time (when she tells the Humane Five she named her daughter Derpy) is PlayedForLaughs, the second time (when she's putting them through TrainingFromHell) not so much.
* SadisticChoice: Medley gives Ravana a choice, either he sends [[spoiler: Human Sunset/Fenice]] to Hueco Mundo or she'll fight him right there, most likely killing her in the process. Ravana calls her out of it, but Medley counters it saying that as a half-hollow she has a bigger chance of survival there.
* SanitySlippage: The Lament. Becoming a Hollow has quite clearly taken its toll on his sanity.
* ScarsAreForever:
** Luna gains a scar over eye. While it would be easy to remove, she keeps it as a reminder until she settles her match with the Arrancar who gave it to her. [[WorthyOpponent She says it's not sign of a grudge but a respect.]]
** After battle Sunset had fought, she accumulated a myriad of scars that even [[MadScientist Discord's expertise]] and [[TheMedic Fluttershy's power]] can't erase completely.
* SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan: [[spoiler:Human Twilight is revealed to have something known as "The Eye" sealed inside her that's been there since she was born. Details are vague, but it's all but stated this "Eye" is a part of the Soul Queen.]]
* SecretTestOfCharacter: The Lament subjects [[spoiler:Adagio]] to two. The first one is implied to be how she interacted with his children, and the second one was how she interacted with his dog.
* SeeingThroughAnothersEyes: Grogar installed implants that let him spy on Adagio and her surroundings via her own perspective. [[spoiler:It wouldn't be until the Everfree Arc that Discord would find and remove them.]]
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Upon a first time, seeing Ditzy's (who's a Yoruichi Expy, [[spoiler: and a Visored,]]) Human form, the heroes can't help but gawk. Dash even [[ACupAngst felt jealous.]]
* {{Shapeshifting}}:
** Chrysalis, natch. [[spoiler:With Zecora's zanpakuto added to the mix thanks to Starlight, she could pass flawlessly for the 4th Division Captain, while her drones are capable of masquerading as members of Central 46 and Thorax can masquerade as ''her'' back in Hueco Mundo]].
** [[spoiler: Sweetie Belle's Fullbring allows her to transform into whatever she absorbs into it, with the addition of CartoonyEyes.]]
** [[spoiler:As part of the power of The Xenomorph, Hoity Toity can change his own or other's physical appearances. However, he can't change their reishi signature. ''However'', when combined with Sapphire Shores' own Schrift that can change the fundamental nature of reishi at her discretion, suddenly they can create the perfect disguise.]]
** Just like her Counterpart, Equestrian Chrysalis can Shapeshift. Arguably her powers are even more potent as she can transform into other beings (like dragons or redcap) and gain their powers. She can even [[PartialTransformation transform parts of her body into weapons and minerals.]] The main downside is that she needs love to transform.
* ShieldBash:
** Sunset doesn't hesitate to use her shield offensively in combat, and it even has a sharpened lower tip just for that reason.
** Fluttershy proves to be surprisingly efficient in it as much as in shielding herself and her friends.
* ShroudedInMyth: There was once a powerful Arrancar, nicknamed The Queen of Thorns. Everyone in Las Noches has heard about her, yet no one besides a few old enough to meet her knows anything about her. After a battle with Chrysalis, she'd disappeared, but no one is sure what had happened to her. Chrysalis deliberately [[NothingIsScarier uses the lack of information]] as a warning to anyone thinking about challenging her. [[spoiler: Later turns out that her real name is Gaia. Better known as Gaia Everfree.]]
* ShockAndAwe:
** Rainbow Dash can create and build up electricity in her body, combined with RazorWings.
** Spike's [[MiniMecha suit]] possesses both shock missiles and an electric sword.
* ShoutOut:
** Applejack [[Film/IronMan mentions]] certain "fella wit fancy armour suit from them big budget superher flicks" before using her [[HandBlast gauntlets and boots]] to fly.
** Confirmed by WordOfGod, [[spoiler:Firefly's]] Fullbring "Ace of Sky" is one to HumongousMecha {{Anime}} like Gundam, able to manifest constructs including AttackDrones, [[PowerGivesYouWings Energy Wings]], a {{BFG}} [[GatlingGood Gatling gun]] and a LaserBlade, among other abilities.
** Gaw is one big one to [[{{Kaiju}} the giant Japanese monster movie franchise]] as well as ''Fanfic/TheBridge''. She is named after a very obscure one tied to King Kong lore.
** Chapter 54, featuring the climatic showdown between Sunset and Platinum during the Soul Society Arc, is titled "[[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire A Showdown of Ice and Fire]]".
** Twilight suspects that the Seele Schneiders were created by a Quincy who was a ''Franchise/StarWars'' fan.
** Chapter 96, featuring the Equestria Girls and Shadowbolts working together to fight a large sea monster, is titled "[[Manga/AttackOnTitan Attack on Kraken]]".
** Grogar and Pinkie Pie/Pinkamena's fight has one of the battle gags being the former thrown into the courtroom of ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'', complete with the series' theme in acapella (with Grogar expressing his hatred for the genre of music).
** Chapter 124: Clover firing rapid-fire Kido spells at [[spoiler:Gaia Everfree]] and her physically-superior opponent's annoyed and angry reaction to continuously being battered by explosions is more or less [[WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged Tien blasting Semi-Perfect Cell]].
** In her battle with [[spoiler:Gaia Everfree,]] Pinkamena used blue and orange portals to save Applejack from a Cero. AJ noted, she hold some [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} weird-looking white plastic gun.]]
-->'''Pinkamena''': Just yanked you through a portal. Don’t think about it too hard.
** The fish people that [[spoiler:kidnap Aria and Sonata]] are [[TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms sahuagin]].
** The ''character'' know how much Spike's new [[PoweredArmor Mech Suit]] looks like Bladewolf from VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance mixed with Zords from Franchise/PowerRangers. Its name Gunwolf might be an accidental shout-out to [[VideoGame/Borderlands3 Borderlands 3's]] enemy with the same name.
* ShutUpHannibal: As Flash prepares to perform the Konso Ritual on [[spoiler: the bound Wraiths of Seaquestria]], Charybdis screams at him to stop, saying that what he's doing is far worse than anything she's ever done. He has none of it, and counters that even if she wasn't trying to kill them, this is still his duty as a Soul Reaper and he will fulfill it no matter what she says. Even after she swears to destroy everything he holds dear, he just calmly says that he's the least of her worries...
* SinisterScythe:
** [[spoiler:Luna's]] Zanpakuto takes the form of dual scythes in Shikai, complete with CastingAShadow powers. When she goes Bankai, her werewolf form has literal scythes for claws. [[spoiler:And when she goes all out, she creates a single giant two-handed scythe with dual blades at both ends and covered along the shaft with smaller blades to swing with reckless abandon.]]
** Cheese Sandwich's Shikai takes the form of a kusarigama (chain-sickle) with multiple scythe blades at one end reminiscent of a rooster head and a large incense orb replacing an iron ball at the other.
** [[spoiler: Nereid Adagio]] wields an obsidian scythe wrapped in shark skin.
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Unlike other Espada, Guto would prefer to enslave Quincy as cannon fodder and servants. He captured Fleur with a plan to 'tame' her and demonstrate Tirek that it is possible. He would also include humanity as well. He mentions rather elaborate plans for how to effectively breed them.
* SmugSuper: Fleur Des Lis, Captain Platinum, and Captain Blueblood are this in spades, looking down at Sunset and the girls for their inexperience as if they were little kids playing at real power. Considering they're all three are extremely powerful and experienced fighters (a Sternritter of the Vandenreich and Captains of the Gotei 13 respectively), they do have a point, though Fleur takes a few blows to the ego once Sunset [[spoiler:goes Shikai]] and it's noted that Blueblood's ego (along with lack of experience) [[UnskilledButStrong keeps him from fully developing his powers]].
* TheSocialDarwinist: Las Noches, and to a lesser extent all of Hueco Mundo, runs on this. Tirek, as possibly the most powerful Hollow/Arrancar to ever exist, is at the top of the hierarchy, and position in the Espada below him is determined by strength (though in some cases [[WeakButSkilled useful abilities can compensate somewhat for lack of raw power]], like with Squirk and his Garganta creation skills, Grogar's technical skills, etc.). Part of the reason he goes with this approach is because he wants strong warriors to fight the Quincy and Soul Reapers.
* SoulPower: Besides the various races and beings with abilities that come from manipulating spirit energy, Charybdis has a form of magic that gives her direct control of spirit energy, and allows her to affect things both alive and dead, along with transferring power.
** Her sahuagin minion's BloodMagic seems to work similarly to Fullbring, using the power of the blood to manipulate the "soul" of the ocean, which the seaponies can do on their own.
* SpaceMaster:
** Sombra's "Absolute" gives him mastery of space.
** Soul Reaper Flash Sentry's Shikai bends space so he appears to be in multiple locations at the same time, mirroring him so he can attack from multiple angles at once. The catch is that doing so is disorienting, and anything that affects one of him affects ''all'' of the Flashes, since they're all the same entity.
* SpamAttack: After training with Captain Puddinhead of the Kido Corps, Clover can now invoke multiple Kido in quick succession, allowing her to rain down an assault of low-level Kido against foes.
* SpearCounterpart: Adagio immediately pegs Thorax as a male version of herself. They're both beautiful and charismatic schemers who are skilled at manipulating people but are not afraid to get into a fight if it comes to that.
* SplitPersonality:
** The memories from their past lives are just that - memories. Yet, they can form a separate entity based on inherited experiences. How their cooperation goes usually depends on their past-time personality. Astra and Anteros prefer to act as advisors until their current lives [[SplitPersonalityMerge absorb their memories]]. [[EnemyWithin Eos]], on the other hand, tries to forcefully take over Celestia, [[HeroicWillpower only for her strong will to keep her at bay.]]
** [[spoiler: Wallflower]] is actually a new personality Hel's mind developed after having her memories suppressed. And since regaining her old memories, Hel is in control, but she expresses annoyance that the meek, WeakWilled girl has enough power to try and resurface.
* SplitPersonalityTeam:
** Pinkie's Fullbring allows her to bring Pinkamena, who is the embodiment of her repressed negativity and emotions, into the physical world, and Pinkie eventually [[EquippableAlly becomes a hammer]] for Pinkamena to wield. [[spoiler:In the Camp Everfree arc, completing their Fullbring merges them physically together again, though they later reveal that they can separate again if needed, but allowing them to remain as distinct mental entities]].
** Twilight eventually manages to come to a mutual understanding with Midnight to the point where they begin working together in combat, Twilight handling Quincy reishi manipulation and Midnight focusing on magic.
* SquareCubeLaw: As Ember puts it to Adagio, "mass is mass". A larger Adjuchas might not be anything special in terms of spiritual power, but its larger mass means that its blows can still send a Hollow of greater strength but smaller size flying. Similarly, Soul Reapers, Quincies, and Arrancars only weigh as much as a normal human, so if caught off-guard even an ordinary human can knock them down.
* {{Squick}}: The rumor is that both [=McColts=] and Hooffields - took the "pure breeding" concept a little too far. Even Sombra notes he should do something about it.
* StarterVillain: Grand Fisher is the ArcVillain of the first arc, acting as the girls' first hurdle as they enter the spiritual world.
* StopWorshippingMe: After Celestia and Luna first appeared, some ponies started treating them as deities. They stomped that out pretty quickly, to the point that their discouragement has led to Equestria lacking ''any'' kind of central religious belief system. Applejack even had some trouble comprehending the ''idea'' that seaponies worshipped Domare as a goddess.
* StrongAndSkilled: Bowtie, who matches [[UnskilledButStrong Sweet Cider]] in strength but outclasses her in [[MasterSwordsman fencing skills.]] He's eager to point it out. It bears mentioning that in the past [[spoiler:when Zero Division made their move against the Soul Queen]], he was the one who fought ''Tirek''.
* SummonMagic: Pinkie Pie's initial Fullbring power is to summon her EvilTwin, Pinkamena. [[spoiler:The next step involves [[EquippableAlly turning into a hammer]] for Pinkamena to wield]].
* SuperEmpowering: Charybdis's SoulPower magic allows her to share powers with others. Several Beast Realm clans have gained spell-like abilities from "contracts" with her.
* SuperMode: Soul Reapers have Shikai and Bankai, Arrancar have Resurreccion, and Quincy have Vollstandig. Sombra explicitly mentions that he had his people develop Vollstandig to close the gap against the other two races' {{Super Mode}}s, it being a relatively new development that was only openly used for the first time during the story's events.
* SuperPowerfulGenetics: How Quincies keep up with Soul Reapers who have centuries of experience on them. The purer their blood the faster their body instinctively learns and picks up techniques and skill at an accelerated pace when exposed to other Quincy. Best shown with Twilight instinctively learning Blut Arterie from sparring with Lemon Zest (and blowing a hole through her body in the process).
* SuperPrototype: The Zanpaktou of the Zero Division are the first of their kind, forged by the Zero Division member [[UltimateBlacksmith Bowtie]] for himself and his fellow divine siblings. The mass-produced Asauchi that would become the standard Soul Reaper Zanpaktou came later when Soul Society was established and are much weaker due to how most Soul Reapers are mostly still human souls [[spoiler:(or rather, [[PiecesOfGod fragmented divine souls]])]] that couldn't hope to handle that kind of power, and [[OldSoldier Scorpan's]] own Zanpakutou ''Shiki no Ken'' was the first of even those, an "in-between" stage before Bowtie settled on the Asauchi. Most notably, the Zero Division's Zanpaktou don't have "Shikai" or "Bankai" states to restrict their power, but instead call upon their true power with only the {{Invocation}} of their names, and their base power without it already rivals if not surpasses most Bankai abilities.
* SuperSpeed: Almost everyone with sufficiently high amounts of reiatsu has it, but several impressive examples include Rainbow Dash, Ditzy Doo, and Catrina.
* TakeOverTheWorld:
** The Sixth Espada Guto admits he's pretty much the only Espada who wants to conquer the Quincy rather than eradicate them (Tirek's offered alliance, but Sombra's always refused), seeing them as useful tools and slaves for dealing with the Soul Reapers and eventually taking over the Human World. His zanpakuto is even called ''Conquistador'' (Conqueror).
** [[spoiler:Scylla planned to take over the world after taking the throne.]]
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:What Twilight Velvet ''intended'' to do in her fight against The Lament when it becomes clear even her Vollstandig and Schrift aren't powerful enough to defeat his Resurreccion. By utilizing the Vengeance's final attack, she would unleash an explosion that would kill or at least cripple him...but when Twilight teleports in trying to save her, she has to switch to just using her LastBreathBullet to restrain The Lament to keep him from killing her daughter (and to avoid definitely blowing her daughter up in her original planned attack).]]
* TallPoppySyndrome: [[spoiler:Adagio Dazzle]] learns that while Las Noches is ruled by the motto of "[[TheSocialDarwinist the strong will rise while the weak serve]]", the higher and more importantly the ''quicker'' you rise will get you all sorts of attention, with the higher ups intrigued or threatened by a potential threat to their status quo (especially if you're nearing their level) while your supposed peers rankle at the idea you got it "easy" by breezing through the ranks at speeds that took them years of training and struggle to reach. The current Fourth Espada is equally feared and envied for coming out of nowhere a few years back, crippling the former Sixth Espada when the latter tried to "teach him a lesson", and then fighting Tirek before being given his seat. [[spoiler:Adagio follows suit when she goes from a simple Adjuchas to a Vasto Lorde, and later still an Arrancar worthy as the new Sixth Espada over the current one Guto (a very prideful warrior who didn't take kindly to how she chose to be tested by Tirek rather than face him directly, though to be fair, she would have taken the position of the Seventh Espada to avoid ruffling his feathers if Tirek had let her) in the span of only about a month]]. About the only person who ''doesn't'' really care is [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership Tirek]], since he's so strong no one can hope to match him in a one-on-one and he wants strong warriors no matter what their circumstances.
-->'''[[spoiler:Adagio]]''': Oh for the love of...''stop'' acting like such a child! Are you that bothered by my being stronger than you that you’d rather get your idiot-self killed than just accept your position for what it is? You’re still an Espada. Get over yourself and start acting like one!\\
'''Gilda''': What would you know about it? You’ve been an Arrancar for barely a fraction as long as I have! Do you have any idea what I’ve been through to get where I am? How long I’ve fought, and bitten, and clawed my way through Guto’s army to ''earn'' their respect and a shot at reaching the top! How many years I’ve done nothing but train, and fight, and train, and ''fight'' just to get this far...then you show up and like a damn golden child you ''steal'' not just my glory, but ''Lord Guto's'' too!? Lord Guto gave me everything I have, and you stole his position away from him, and shamed me at the same time. And you did it without even trying. No effort. You just walked into Las Noches like you owned the place... I’d have preferred it if Tirek had made us fight for the position and you’d killed me. At least then I wouldn’t feel so...so damn ''worthless''!
* TalkToTheFist: Ditzy doesn't appreciate talky opponents.
-->'''Ditzy''': Geeze, tell it to someone who has time to listen to that bullcrap! Monologuing twerp!
* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Averted hard. While the Heroes were stalling for time, Jörmungandr in turn used the opportunity to gather more Blanks, [[spoiler: so he can open the Portal to Niflheim.]]
* TankGoodness: Quincy have futuristic-looking Tanks created, fueled, and firing projectiles made out of reishi similar to Quincy arrows. They are useless in the Living World, but in the Spirit World, like Hueco Mundo, they work perfectly as additional firepower.
* ATasteOfPower: Sunset, Human Twilight, and the Humane Five [[spoiler:all get their magical geodes at the end of the Everfree Arc, using them to save Gaia/Gloriosa, and then Gaia uses them to stop the Equestria portal from exploding and killing everyone. Then Medley swoops in and uses her powers to snatch the geodes out from under them, deciding that if they keep them, they could legitimately threaten the Zero Division's plans. Sunset suspects that the pendants ''let'' Medley take them for some future plan.]]
* TechnicolorFire: Sunset can produce different-colored flames with different effects, which are tied to her emotions.
** Her "normal" fire is the usual orange-red.
** The flames of her Aoihi Senko are blue, representing her {{pride}} and is her main offensive-based attack.
** The flames of her Midorihi Hashira are green, representing her intellect and is her [[TrapMaster strategic move since they work like landmines that explode at her command]].
** The flames of her Shirohi Yume are white, representing her love for others and her desire to [[DoppelgangerAttack be in multiple places to protect them]].
** The flames of her Kurohi Moegara are black, representing her wrath and her desire to utterly destroy those who would stand against her and harm those precious to her. Noticeably, these black flames are just as capable of hurting ''her'' as her enemies if she's not careful.
* TeleFrag: Apparently a major risk with teleporting in unfamiliar scenarios.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork:
** The Espada may be working together, but ''all'' of them hate each other. Even the Lament, the TokenGoodTeammate among them, freely admits he wants to ditch the lot of them. The ''only'' reason they haven't torn each other apart is because they're all afraid of Tirek, who comes down hard on any serious in-fighting.
** Seaspray and Tempest do not get along. It's easy to see why as Tempest had led an attack on Seaspray's home. They constantly argue and shoot deathly gazes at each other, but they do manage to work together, slowly developing mutual respect after visiting Aqualania.
* TerseTalker:
** Smooze barely talks and when he does, his speech pattern is very simplistic. It's mostly because of the excruciating pain he constantly feels. After Fluttershy manages to ease the pain, he's extremely polite and eloquent.
** [[spoiler: Gaw]] after she turns into an Arrancar.
* ThatCameOutWrong:
** While Shining Armor is training Twilight, she complains that she's in pain. He says, "Your body will adapt, and it will get easier, but it always hurts the first time..." Twilight gets embarrassed and he realizes how dirty that sounded and says, "Yeesh, never thought I’d be saying stuff like that to my little sister."
** Done again when Sweetie Belle tried to [[ItMakesSenseInContext absorb a giant rock crocodile into her wand.]] Lampshaded by Scootaloo.
-->'''Silver Spoon''': Can't that wand do anything?\\
'''Sweetie Belle''': I'm trying! I don't think it'll work on something this big. It's too huge to take inside!\\
'''Scootaloo''': Phrasing, Sweetie Belle, ''phrasing''!
* ThatManIsDead: The Lament invokes this when [[spoiler:Adagio]] asks him his name, saying that he hasn't known his name in a long time. [[spoiler:That comes undone when he ends up fighting Sweet Cider (his wife) and Applejack (his daughter) and he acknowledges who he once was.]]
* TheSpartanWay: To join Guto's horde requires passing rigorous training and a series of gruesome tests. If they fail even one, they starve. The final part is a group fight to the death. This happens to [[ChildSoldiers children,]] btw.
* ThinkingUpPortals: The 9th Espada Squirk is a particular master of creating Gargenta portals amongst Hollows, such that it's the main reason he's kept his rank due to the fact he can quickly make multiple portals almost everywhere and is a massive tactical asset. [[spoiler:Which is why the Quincy target him for assassination (Chrysalis has Adagio kill him because he's plotting alongside Catrina to kill her to send a message, as well as on Starlight Glimmer's command to prevent him from possibly being used to bypass the booby trap on the Equestria portal)]].
** [[spoiler:Bowtie, and presumably the other Zero Division members, can apparently make portals to the Soul Queen's palace at will]].
* ThinkingUpPortals: Every Hollow has an innate ability to summon partal to Hueco Mundo, but special mentions go to Squirk. Unlike other Hollows, he can summon as many Gargantas as he desires whenever and wherever he wants, and while regular hollows can only move between Hollow and Living World, he can move from place to place within the realms. Even Wards especially designed to prevent Gargantas can't stop him. [[spoiler: After Adagio kills him, she gains this power. She can even attach them to people to summon them.]]
* ThirdLineSomeWaiting: [[spoiler: After the first arc the story shifts into three story arcs following Sunset and the Humane Five invading Soul Society to rescue Celestia and Luna, Twilight joining the Quincy to understand their culture to help end the war in Soul Society, and Adagio surviving Hueco Mundo, though as the main protagonist Sunset's storyline receives the most attention. Once Sunset's arc concludes, Twilight and Adagio's arcs take center stage and merge together for the Quincy/Hollow battle at Las Noches.]]
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Flash's reaction before his duel with Princess Celestia. Not that he was underestimating her in the slightest before, just that moment the duel begins and [[SilkHidingSteel Celestia's focus completely shifts]] does he fully realize how screwed he is.
* TitleDrop: Happens in chapter 32. Discord refers to Sunset and her friends, due to combining the Magic of Friendship from Equestria with the spiritual power of the human world, as "friendship souls". Sunset herself [[SelfDeprecation thinks it's kind of tacky]].
* TokenEvilTeammate:
** Pinkamena. Fortunately, Pinkie is there to act as TheKidWithTheLeash.
** Human Starlight's group has Chrysalis. It's more than obvious she's just using them, they have very little control over her, and she will betray them without a second thought, and Starlight and [[spoiler:Firefly]] both agree they must keep an eye on her at all times.
** Hurricane is this to the Gotei 13.
* TokenGoodTeammate: The Lament seems to be the only Espada who's a genuinely good person [[spoiler:before Adagio joins their number]], likely because [[spoiler:he was Applejack's father in life.]] Of course, this isn't saying much, seeing how becoming a Hollow has clearly done a number on his sanity.
* TookALevelInKindness:
** Discord is implied to have almost been as bad as his Equestrian self as an unethical MadScientist, but his time as Xcution's handler and taking Starlight Glimmer as his apprentice (and his [[MyGreatestFailure utter failures with both of them]]) caused him to grow a conscience becoming the BigGood we see in the present day.
** Quincy King Sombra was apparently a great deal more wrathful and more like his pony self before mellowing out as the centuries passed. The narration implies this may have something to do with human Radiant Hope.
* TorsoWithAView: Besides the standard hole possessed by all Hollows, [[spoiler:Lemon Zest has the misfortune of experiencing this after a training accident with Twilight.]]
* TradingBarsForStripes: As it turns out, Quincy have their own penal company called Strafbattalion. Twilight directly compares it to companies used by Germans in World War Two, but Sombra notes that the idea is much older than that, and Quincy are much more lenient in handling it. When a Quincy commits a crime (be it cowardice in battle, theft, or dealing with drugs) they're given a choice; being stripped of their powers and send to a guarded colony, or join Straffbattalion stationed in Hueco Mundo. After four years of service, they can rejoin the Quincy Ranks.
** Wind Raider had been sentenced to Strafbattalion after draining the soul energy of both normal humans and Quincy alike to remain strong and young. He became a high-ranking member of the company and, ironically, grew prideful of them. [[GlorySeeker He's still bitter for being shunned into the shadows while others rose to glory.]]
** After [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames the events of the movie,]] Cinch chose a servitude in Strafbattalion to eventually return to Quincy Military. Sombra wasn't surprised, saying that [[AmbitionIsEvil Cinch doesn't lack ambition]] and stubbornness to get back into his good graces.
* TragicMonster: [[spoiler:Adagio, after becoming a Hollow]]. This happened in the backstory [[spoiler:with Applejack's father as well, who suffered a similar fate. Still, he went on to get a new home and family in Las Noches as the Fourth Espada, so he seems to have made the best out of a bad situation. That being said it's implied he hates life as a Hollow, with his reiatsu oozing regret for his new life]].
* TrainingFromHell: Discord and [[spoiler:Ditzy Doo]] fully intend to put the girls through this, since doing so is the only way to ensure they'll be ready to face Captain-Level enemies in time. [[spoiler: Twilight and Adagio are also going to be put through this, though in Adagio's case it's more like "act as a guinea pig or die".]]
* TransformationIsAFreeAction: {{Averted}} more often than not. If someone transforms, it's usually because they managed to distract their opponent long enough to pull it off, it's too fast to stop in the first place, their enemy let them do it because they want a challenge or don't really care, or the sheer amount of reiatsu they release in the process is enough to stop their enemy from harming them until it's over. Otherwise, characters will go out their way to stop their opponents from powering up by any means necessary.
** Comes into play in chapter 187, when Di-Roy tried to transform only for Pharynx to stop him. He even complains about it only for Pharynx to shut him up.
-->'''Di-Roy''': H-hey! That’s cheating! You let Gaw do her thing, dammit!
-->'''Pharynx''': That was because I was still evading the young lady’s threads. Also, there’s no cheating in battle, you fool. Just whoever is standing at the end.
* TranslatorMicrobes:
** A saguhain named Ulgriv has a translation spell cast on him so the heroes can interrogate him. This leads to the others assuming that he's a traitor.
** Despite [[spoiler: Wallflower]] speaking perfect English, Hel doesn't know it. She instead casts a spell that translates her words to others. Asuna knows a similar spell, though not as precise. It comes in handy when interacting with Svartalfheim natives.
* TrueCompanions: Though the Humane Seven may argue from time to time, they’ll fight for their friends to the end!
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* UltimateBlacksmith: Dwarves of course, with {{Orichalcum}} being their greatest and most sought creation. Even among Dwarves, the Allhammer family is known for their skills at manufacturing the metal.
* UnderestimatingBadassery:
** Sunset and her friends learn the hard way how outmatched they are against a Captain when Hurricane unleashes his Bankai.
** [[spoiler: Flash Sentry]] invokes this when he sees just how capable pony Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle is. He does this again when he and Celestia have a friendly spar.
** Jet Set ''massively'' underestimates Torch after dealing with several of his Fraccion rather easily, only to get a rude awakening when Torch ''bites'' through his reishi tendrils. "Luckily" for him, Torch decides to switch targets to Shining Armor because he thinks he'll be a more worthy foe, only to get even more brutally stomped by the even stronger Lament.
** Gilda vastly underestimates Sunset when she attempts a brazen assassination attempt. While it's true Gilda is strong [[spoiler:having just been made the Tenth Espada, after all]], she was basing her attack on the intel the Arrancar had on Sunset's strength pre-Soul Society Arc, before both her TrainingFromHell in prep for the assault and her further training to obtain Bankai, much less her training afterwards. As such, she went in expecting a fight she could win easily only to once Sunset counters her surprise attack end up on the losing end of the resulting clash [[spoiler:that Adagio had to bail her out of.]]
** Squirk looks down on [[spoiler:Adagio]] when he first meets her, believing she's nothing but a common Adjuchas and Torch should stop combing the lower ranks for new subordinates. [[spoiler:Not only does Adagio end up becoming a Vasto Lorde, she's the one who kills him and his death is part of what allows her to become an Arrancar and new Espada.]]
** [[spoiler:Glory, the leader of the Zero Division, admits she did in fact underestimate Scorpan during their battle. Despite Scorpan being the Captain-Commander of Soul Society, Glory confesses she still saw him first as the youth she trained so long ago, hence why she was taken off-guard by the power of his Bankai and neglected unleashing her own true power at first while only using her considerable base power and the Soul Queen's Heart. After being all but ''punched into Soul Society's equivalent of outer space'' by Scorpan's best technique and getting multiple bones, limbs, and organs pulverized in the process, she finally concedes [[SoProudOfYou with some level of pride]] he deserves nothing less than her best and finally invokes her blade's true power. Even then, she didn't realize that Scorpan's blow actually damaged her Soul Sleep, and that combined with the stress of releasing her full power causes her to collapse on the steps of the Soul Palace when she leaves after her victory. Scorpan himself notes this is her FatalFlaw, and what he suspects even if and when he falls to her will be how Sunset and her allies will be victorious.]]
* UnderwaterCity: Aqualania, a seapony city devastated and forced to be abandoned after a terrible civil war between the two heirs to the throne. Now it's a GhostCity, with The Sahuagin occasionally roaming the ruins, and even they are scared of that place. [[spoiler:As it turns out those fears were not without a good reason.]]
* UnfortunateNames: Human Rainbow invokes this when Ditzy tells her and her friends she named her daughter Derpy. Ditzy tries to justify this, saying that it's a traditional name for her house and that she taught her how to defend herself against any bullies anyway.
* UnholyGround: Averted with [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast]] Mountains of Teeth. Besides the name and being the place of the Great Civil Wall between Seaponies, it's not an evil place. Besides lingering bones, weapons, and destroyed buildings, it's only dangerous because of predatory creatures and occasional Sahuagin patrols. It surprises Flash who has dealt with places like this on Earth. [[spoiler: The closer you get to [[CityOfTheDamned Aqalania]] however...]]
* TheUnintelligible: Gaw can't really talk normally, but everyone is able to understand her just fine. [[spoiler:Until she becomes an Arrancar]].
* UniqueProtagonistAsset: Magic is this for Sunset Shimmer, the Humane Five, Human Twilight Sparkle, and [[spoiler:Adagio Dazzle]]. Magic is effectively an AmplifierArtifact that awakens, enhances, and accelerates the growth of spiritual powers, allowing them to gain and hone their powers in weeks or months to match and surpass those who have spent decades to centuries honing theirs. Several villains in particular are intrigued and want to study and obtain magic for themselves to reap the benefits of such growth.
* UnskilledButStrong:
** Blueblood is counted amongst the Gotei 13 thanks to possessing a legitimately powerful Bankai and high spiritual potential, but it's noted that his lack of experience compared to the other Captains and his [[SmugSuper arrogance]] keeps him from training and bringing out his full potential, which is why he's considered the weakest of them. Sure enough, Rarity, despite being far weaker in terms of power, defeats him through [[AwesomeByAnalysis carefully observing his actions throughout the fight]] and [[CombatPragmatist using "unconventional" techniques to catch him off-guard]] before he can use his Bankai.
** [[spoiler:Sweet Cider]], being this world's Kenpachi, is this as well. She lacks Bankai or any real skill in Kido, but her raw physical power puts her in league with the likes of [[spoiler:Celestia]] and Hurricane in terms of destructive power and she's technically the physically strongest of all the Captains (barring Captain-Commander Scorpan). On the topic of [[spoiler:Sweet Cider]], her Shikai is this as well. It doesn't have any fancy powers. It just absorbs her Spirit Energy and lets it out ''hard''. [[spoiler:And she only gets stronger when she regains access to her Fullbring and unlocks her true Shikai]]. [[spoiler: She finally meets her match in [[StrongAndSkilled Bowtie.]]]]
** Captain Thunderhooves' Shikai is a massive club becomes stronger with each successive swing, but in return each swing becomes increasingly unwieldy. This allows him to snowball into a ridiculously powerful combatant who can take out numerous foes with even near-misses, but collateral damage is all but assured and it's not a safe ability to use with allies present.
** Both Lament's Resurreccion and [[spoiler:Luna's]] fully-released Bankai turn them into this. They gain incredible power alongside massive boosts in physical ability, but in return their minds drown in soul-rending regret and predatory rage respectively and they can't do much to "plan" outside of "kill the targets in front of me with extreme prejudice".
** Guto calls out [[spoiler:Adagio]] as this [[spoiler:when she makes her move after becoming an Arrancar to claim a place among the Espada and indirectly acknowledging ''very'' begrudgingly that her power in her sealed state is a close match and perhaps slightly superior to his own]], stating that she might have the power but she lacks the experience. [[spoiler:Adagio]] noticeably doesn't refute that assessment [[spoiler:which is why she chooses to be tested by Tirek himself for her placement, and she also notes she'll need both to step up her training and come up with some killer finishing moves for when the two of them inevitably clash after she's named the new Sixth Espada over him. In fact, she would have been comfortable with starting as the Seventh Espada as to avoid pissing Guto off over taking his rank, but Tirek refused to rank her any lower.]]
** [[spoiler:When Di Roy runs into Maud again, he notes that while her burgeoning Fullbring is fairly powerful, it's clear that she's still learning to properly use it]].
* UnwantedRescue: Adagio is trying to prevent this, knowing full well that Sunset and her friends will inevitably try to "rescue" her from Hueco Mundo, which could throw a wrench into her plans to eliminate Grogar and become an Espada.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: [[spoiler:The Zero Squadron wants to create a "perfect" world, and are willing to go to horrific lengths, up to sending innocents like Sunburst to Hell, to achieve it, though Medley at least thinks that that specific incident was a screw up on their part. It's even hinted at that ''they'' are the ones imprisoned the Soul Queen, who they consider their "mother", when she refused to go along with their plans.]]
* VictoriasSecretCompartment: [[spoiler:Sunset uses her cleavage as a temporary place to hold Discord’s Hogyoku until Rarity could craft something better.]]
* VillainForgotToLevelGrind:
** Played with, in that the Soul Reapers, Arrancar, and Quincy ''have'' been grinding anywhere from years and decades to ''centuries and millennia'' to get as strong as they are, but Sunset, the Humane Five, Human Twilight, and [[spoiler:Adagio]] are to put it bluntly ''freaks'' that have gained and honed their powers in just ''weeks'' to close the gap. In other words, the heroes are on an exponential curve thanks to their Equestrian magic acting as TheGift while the villains are on a linear one.
** [[spoiler:While the Zero Division members ''have'' gained a significant power boost due to the stolen pieces of the Soul Queen that they wield, they've been holed up in the Soul Queen's palace for centuries while everyone else has been training and pushing themselves in the spiritual war. As a result, Scorpan is able to do some serious damage to Glory in their fight, even if it kills him, due to how badly she underestimates him.]]
* VillainTakesAnInterest: Several villains due this to the Humane Seven due to the power their magic gives them.
** Grogar sends numerous minions to try and capture then for their magic. [[spoiler:Once Adagio becomes a Hollow, he switches focus to her instead.]]
** [[spoiler:Starlight Glimmer wants them to gain strength so they can defeat the Zero Division.]]
** [[spoiler:Medley of the Zero Division also takes a disturbing interest in them, even appearing before them near the end of the Everfree arc.]]
* VillainTeamUp:
** The Espada are this compared to canon. They're an alliance of the top ten Arrancar warlords with each Espada having their own armies and some of them have their own Espada-level fighters personally loyal to them.
** Subverted with pony and human Chrysalis. Human Chrysalis says she wants to meet her. ...So she can kill her and devour her soul.
* VillainousFriendship:
** Starlight Glimmer and Firefly have a Type I. They've been friends for years and have sworn to change the world no matter what together. [[spoiler:Begrudgingly, Platinum starts to view Firefly in a similar light.]]
** Tirek openly admits he respected Ravana for his independence and that [[WorthyOpponent he could give him a good fight.]] He even calls him a friend. Ravana on his part gave Tirek his own recipe for hard alcohol, so it's possibly mutual.
* VillainousVirtues: Despite being insane, the Lament has a few. There's honesty, love for his family, friendship, and faithfulness.
* WalkingSpoiler:
** Saying anything about Applejack's parents other than "they're dead" is a major spoiler.
** Considering what we find out about her, [[spoiler:Sunset Shimmer's human counterpart]] is this.
* WalkingWasteland:
** Two fighters of sufficient power will cause this when they clash, especially in the human world. During the battles at Camp Everfree, [[spoiler:Sixth Espada Adagio and 2nd Division Captain Luna pretty much destroy the local lake and wreck kilometers of forest during their clash, while 10th Division Captain Kenpachi Sweet Cider and 4th Espada Lament blow holes in mountains, cause miniature earthquakes, and start a localized thunderstorm/hurricane around their location ''before they go all out''.]]
** Captain [[spoiler:Celestia]] with her Shikai activated alone can release enough heat to not just melt the snow on a mountain, but the mountain itself. When in Bankai, Grogar notes that the release of energy could wipe out everything in a 20-mile radius [[spoiler:which is why he gambled on forcing her unruly zanpakuto to go Bankai to escape his dimensional trap to make her take his offer to send them both to the Precipice Realm to prevent her from accidentally killing everyone in Camp Everfree and Canterlot City, who are in the blast radius.]]
** [[spoiler:Captain Platinum's Bankai is powerful enough to cause a flash freeze in the middle of summer of the human world, which ended up accidentally killing Gloriosa and Timber's parents when she used it fighting the original [=XCution=] in the Everfree Forest when they were caught up in it.]]
** [[spoiler: Wallflower/Hel's]] [[LifeDrinker life drinking ability]] sucks the life out of the plants around her making them wilt and die. Her attacks have the same effect, even ''before'' reaching her target.
* WasItAllALie: This is pony Twilight's reaction when she finds out that [[spoiler:Flash Sentry has been a member of Soul Society the whole time.]] It was, at first, [[spoiler:but then he started to [[BecomingTheMask legitimately fall for her]]]].
* WaveMotionGun: Princess Celestia and Princess Luna have not one, but two of these: ''Instar Solis Lunaeque'' and ''Stellar Mallus'', High Magic Spells that harness the power of the Sun and Moon to wipe out entire armies.
* WeakButSkilled:
** The lower-ranked Espada The Smooze, Squirk, Grogar are counted less for their strength so much as their unique powers and skills. The Smooze in particular notes that even with his rank as the 10th Espada there are quite a few Fraccion who have more spiritual power than him but his [[PoisonousPerson powers]] and [[EldritchAbomination true form]] give him an edge, and Tirek concedes that Squirk [[spoiler:after he's killed during the battle between Hollows and Quincy in Hueco Mundo]] would have held the title of 10th Espada if Smooze didn't insist on holding it when Chrysalis notes that Guto's protégé Gilda is likely stronger than Squirk, but notes his tactical advantages in his Garganta creation make him invaluable even if he was demoted off the Espada.
** With few exceptions, the Quincy are on the lower end of the power scale between the three factions, with even the Sternritter struggling against the power of Soul Reaper Captains or the Espada. They make up for it with their training and the unique abilities of their Schifts.
** The Kraken that attacked the beach was not very powerful compared to the Equestrian Luna and Celestia magically speaking, but it had a ''lot'' of versatility, which combined with its size and strength made it a tough opponent.
** Grogar's experiments are not that weak, but their real strength comes from the nasty little tricks he equips them with. Abilities like [[DetachmentCombat splitting themselves to pieces]], potent poison, or [[HomingProjectile targeting balas]] that can use FlashStep. [[spoiler: They can also use those abilities on their allies strengthening them.]]
* WeaponWieldsYou:
** Initially, when Lieutenant Posey activated her Shikai, Kyoki, it would take control of her and cause her to go berserk. This is because Kyoki hates how weak-willed and passive she is and believes he can do a better job, but Fluttershy forces him to see that he's being a bully making her do things instead of actually helping her.
** Happens to [[spoiler: Sweet Cider]] during her fight with Lament, as the emotional stress finally causes her Fullbring to overpower her and her Zanpakto, turning both of them into a wild berserker.
* WeirdnessCensor: Sugarcoat lampshades that it seems like Canterlot City has a collective blind spot for the strange and unusual, given that no one's seemed to notice all the magic stuff going on at Canterlot High.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Human Starlight Glimmer and her group (with the obvious exception of Chrysalis) are doing ''very'' morally dubious things that leave innocent people crippled and even killed in their wake, but their goal is to [[spoiler:stop the Zero Division from pulling off an EvilPlan involving the fallen Soul Queen. Discord and Ditzy, despite being burned so badly by Starlight's actions, actually empathize with her once they realize just what said plan entails.]]
* WhamEpisode:
** [[spoiler:Adagio Dazzle becomes a Hollow.]]
** [[spoiler:Sunset's human counterpart is not only still alive, but has ended up in Hueco Mundo and somehow has a Fullbring!]]
** [[spoiler:Discord sends a letter to Scorpan declaring the formation of the "Canterlot Spirit Coalition"]].
** [[spoiler:Fenice and Sunburst are the children of a Star family member and an Arrancar, and their medallions contain Phantom Blades, which is connected to Tyr in Fenice's case.]]
** [[spoiler:Wallflower Blush is actually an amnesiac ''Hel'', and dog Spike is apparently connected to Fenrir.]]
* WhamLine:
** [[spoiler:“You’re a freakn’ ''Vasto Lorde''!”]]
** [[spoiler:“...You’re human. A living human.”]]
** [[spoiler:“Found at last, brother Fafnir! The time has come, and Ragnarok draws near! And I, [[Myth/NorseMythology Nidhogg]], have come to take you home!” ]]
* WhiteShirtOfDeath: Besides greatly increasing Rarity's [[ThePowerOfBlood control over her blood]] [[SpontaneousWeaponCreation creations,]] her Fullbring turns her whole form snow-white, making it easy to spot even the tiniest drop of blood. WordOfGod it's to symbolize her willingness to kill her opponents, and [[IDidWhatIHadToDo acceptance of the consequences.]]
* WideEyedIdealist: Sombra and Twilight Sparkle discuss this trope in regards to Twilight Velvet. He says that she was this when she was a part of Xcution and, like Twilight, wanted peace between the Quincy and Soul Society. However, he also says that she became jaded due to Soul Society's actions, turning in to the woman she is today. He thinks that the same thing will happen to her. Twilight, naturally, doesn't believe him.
* WildCard:
** [[spoiler:Firefly, Rainbow Dash's mother. Originally TheMole for Discord to spy on Starlight Glimmer, before becoming one of her CoDragons, and yet isn't above helping Rainbow Dash and her friends. Even Firefly admits she's not quite sure whose side she's on.]]
** Chrysalis. As Ocellus puts it:
-->'''Ocellus''': Mother is only ever on one side; hers. All other sides vary in importance depending on her mood and appetite. Even us.
* WhipSword: Wielded by the Tenth Espada, The Smooze, and resembling [[BadWithTheBone a sharpened human spine and rib-cage as the hilt.]]
* WindsOfDestinyChange: Troubleshoe's Zanpaktou ''Kusatta-Un'' can redirect [[BornUnlucky his own bad luck]] to his foes in a fight when the Shikai is released.
* WistfulAmnesia: Despite not remembering Applejack when they see each other, [[spoiler:Sweet Cider]] not only feels a connection to her because of their similar looks, but her zanpakuto reacts as well, wanting her to fight her. [[spoiler:Sweet Cider]] even notes that her zanpakuto ''never'' reacted like this towards anyone else before, feeling almost ''happy''.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: The Lament may not be the most stable individual, but he goes completely over the edge when he releases his Resurreccion, ''Lamentar (Regret)''. He loses himself so much that he has a special bunker under his tower to protect his children from himself.
* WorldOfActionGirls: It's a crossover between ''My Little Pony'' and a shonen battle manga; there is an ''endless tide'' of powerful female warriors.
* WorldTree: The most well know example, Yggdrasil. It can be used to travel between dimensions [[spoiler: and is responsible for reincarnation of souls.]] [[spoiler: Jörmungandr describes it as the heart of the Beast Realm and wishes to destroy it because [[GreaterScopeVillain Glory]] corrupted it in some way. He believes if he succeeds it will be reborn free of her influence.]]
* WorthIt: [[spoiler: When Zecora asks Platinum if she felt like betraying Soul Society to save her son by turning him into a Hollow-hybrid was worth the cost she answers with a BluntYes with absolutely zero regret.]]
* WorthyOpponent:
** Blueblood sees Rarity as one after their battle, going from insulting and looking down on her to offering to take her out for dinner sometime. Rarity is surprised and exasperated at this sudden turnaround, but admits "maybe"...if he works on his [[SmugSuper attitude]] a lot.
** Torch acknowledges Shining Armor as one, admitting that unlike Jet Set he's not a boy but a man and fellow warrior. So he'll honor Shining's SuperMode [[OneWingedAngel with his own]].
** Starswirl sees Twilight as one after their own fight, especially since she never ceased to impress him with her ingenuity and cleverness with her powers. [[spoiler:To the point he has no issue whatsoever with forming an alliance with her or helping protect her against Sapphire Shores' assassination along Twilight's other Quincy allies.]]
** Hoity Toity acknowledges Rarity as one, apologizing for looking down on her in the beginning, [[spoiler:and expressing satisfaction when she fatally injures him.]]
** Jörmungandr sees Sunset as one after their brief skirmish in the Midgard. He advises his Einherjars to leave her to him since [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou he's the best suited to deal with her.]]
** Ofridr has a deep respect for the Nereids as skilled singers and for giving him [[BloodKnight the fight of his life.]] Like the youngest Nereid sister, he wouldn't mind if they killed him instead the opposite.
* WouldHurtAChild: Despite loving his own daughter, Torch has no compunctions about ordering the deaths of children, as he views that as just a natural part of life and war. Indeed, he'll willing send his own daughter into a life-or-death situation because he trusts her to be strong enough to fight and survive, and chides Night Light and Shining Armor for seemingly not having any faith in Twilight's own ability to do so.
* WouldntHurtAChild: Medley had the opportunity to kill[[spoiler: young Fenice]] but instead opted to send her to Hueco Mundo. Then again, sending a person that knows nothing about fighting to a Realm full of extremly aggresive, hungry Beasts can barely be called mercy. Though she justifies it saying that as a Half-hollow she could thrive there. [[spoiler: She was right.]]
* WoundThatWillNotHeal: [[spoiler:Firefly is injured by Luna's magic in Equestria, and none of the spiritual healing techniques that Starlight has tried are working. Her best guess is that she needs magic to cure her.]]
* WrongContextMagic: Equestrian magic and Soul Reaper and Quincy skills like Kido are noted to be different. When Clover teaches Sunset to control her Reiatsu, Sunset learns that her methods for controlling her Unicorn magic don't work, and she needs a different kind of thinking. It actually distorts spiritual powers when used against it, efficiently giving every magic user an edge against spiritual foes.
** Anima from the Beast Realm seems to be a mix of both Equestrian magic and spiritual energy in a unique way.
* XanatosGambit: [[spoiler:As far as Starlight Glimmer is concerned, pushing Sunset and the heroes to get stronger is just as crucial a part of her plan as getting every resource she can grab for her war with the Zero Division. If she wins, all well and good. If Sunset and her friends defeat her, well at least by that point they'll have proven themselves strong enough to stop the Zero Division themselves as a fallback plan (and she knows that once they learn the truth of Zero Division's plans, they ''will'' be in conflict against them regardless of their justified grudge against her).]]
* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler:Sapphire Shores to Sombra, though [[MaskOfSanity she kept it on the down-low most of the time]]. She'd still happily murder those she thought were a threat to him behind his back, and she admitted she loved and hated Radiant Hope, the former because she made Sombra happy, the latter because it was her and not Sapphire who could make him happy. The crazy only ''really'' comes out during her VillainousBreakdown fighting Twilight, Starswirl, and allied Sternritter.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness:
** Plenty of Grogar's "experiments" have ended up this way. Often, they end up as fodder for "better" experiments to grow stronger.
** [[spoiler:Poor Squirk ended up this way due to Chrysalis, both because he made the mistake of backing the wrong Espada in the one-sided feud between Catrina and Chrysalis, and because his death by Adagio's hand would make her strong enough to more than make up for any tactical advantage he brought to the table.]]
* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: [[spoiler:The crimson moon of Luna's Bankai holds power and lunacy from ''every'' Hollow she's ever cut down with her blade. Unfortunately, she can't control that power yet, so if it's damaged, she goes into a berserker rage.]]
* YouKilledMyFather:
** Grand Fisher killed [[spoiler:Applejack's parents.]] After he is defeated, [[spoiler:Applejack's anger transfers to Soul Society because they allowed Grand Fisher to attack her family.]]
** [[spoiler: It's ''heavily'' implied THAT Torch is the one that killed Posey's mother and Hurricane's wife.]]
* YouNeedToGetLaid: Midnight Sparkle says as much to human Twilight, much to her annoyance and embarrassment.
* YourSoulIsMine: Hollows are capable of this, of course. [[spoiler:And Sombra, just like Yhwach, can do this to those who he grants a Schrift to. Tirek mockingly calls him a {{Hypocrite}} on this, seeing as he's no less a soul-devouring monster than the Hollows he hates and leads the Quincy against]].
** [[spoiler:More generally, ''any'' dead Quincy's soul ends up inside him before being reborn, essentially skipping the Soul Society step of the {{Reincarnation}} cycle before being reborn, usually in a family member.]]
** [[spoiler:Apparently Adagio made a DealWithTheDevil with Charybidis that resulted in Adagio giving up a part of her soul to learn how to feed off negative emotions with her siren gem. Discord suggests that Aria and Sonata go after this piece to help their sister]].
* YouWillBeSpared: [[spoiler:The Zero Division wishes to revive their deceased family, but since [[PiecesOfGod their fractured souls became the ones mortals have]], this involves using Hell to basically [[AssimilationPlot grind them up into soup and eventually fish out the pieces of their loved ones]]. There's enough wiggle room for a few thousand souls to be "preserved" though, with each of the Zero Division having those souls they view worthy by their standards in the Soul Palace. In fact, the only reason that they didn't wipe out all mortal souls immediately is that Glory decided to use the cycle of reincarnation to allow said souls multiple lives and chances at reaching this fate before being sentenced to Hell. When it becomes clear that the secret of Hell's true nature is out, Glory goes to the meeting and spills the beans herself and offers everyone there this chance, but no one takes her up on it.]]
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* AbsenceOfEvidence:
** The way Twilight's attempted assassin left so little evidence behind is noteworthy. [[spoiler:It's because the assassin (Spoiled Rich) had high-ranking Sternritter accomplices (Gladmane and Hoity Toity) to help cover her tracks.]]
** [[spoiler:When telling Twilight to the truth about his connection to Quincy souls, Sombra leads up to it by getting her to realize that although she's seen Quincy fall in battle, there's a distinct ''lack'' of Quincy souls after said deaths.]]
** A major part of the reason why Quincy arrows are believed to destroy the souls of Hollows is because the souls seem to disappear from the reincarnation cycle entirely. The fact that Soul Reapers killed by Quincies ''don't'' disappear the same way is a major inconsistency.
** It's noted that Equestrian culture barely even deals with the afterlife there, and even Luna and Celestia apparently know all but jack squat about it. [[spoiler:Soul Reaper Flash]] is rather weirded out by the lack of any Equestrian spirits or negative spiritual energies from an ancient battle site that on Earth would likely have been ''crawling'' with Hollows, despite the fact that Sunset proves beyond a doubt that Equestrians ''do'' have souls.
** [[spoiler:The fact that no one has seen the Soul Queen in millennia, even discounting how she had a history of not making public appearances, is something noted to be concerning.]]
* AchillesHeel:
** Captain Starswirl's Shikai and Bankai have the equal weaknesses of once he's produced a chemical or material respectively, the created attack can hurt him if aimed poorly. This isn't of much danger with his Shikai alone, but once he activates Bankai he needs to create a "safe area" with a radius of 10 meters around himself that he doesn't allow attacks to pass into ala Byakuya. Human Twilight still admits it's impressive and that if she had a similar power to his Bankai, she wouldn't be comfortable with anything less than a 20-meter radius for her safe zone. [[spoiler:As it turns out, however, Starswirl has a final line of defense within that safe zone consisting of multiple small camouflaged cubes meant to transform into protective shielding]]. His Bankai has a secondary weakness in that it's all controlled by a small cube in Starswirl's hand, and if this control nucleus was damaged or he dropped it the Bankai would be useless, but good luck actually getting through the storm of death he can throw at you [[spoiler:plus the hidden defenses]].
** Captain [[spoiler:Luna's]] Bankai has a weakness in the form of the [[BadMoonRising crimson moon]] that produces the extra shadows. [[spoiler:Damaging the moon causes it to release all those shadows at once and forcibly transform Luna into her full-werewolf state, which is even stronger but has none of her previous subtlety and control.]]
* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: Hydia's slowly exposed her Fraccion to her poison bit by bit for years, if not decades, so she's fully capable of unleashing it when they're near her without having to worry about them being affected.
* ActionDad:
** Fifth Espada Torch to Ember of course, as is Captain Hurricane to Lieutenant Posey.
** The Lament is the adoptive father of many arrancar children [[spoiler:and was Applejack's biological father in life]]. He's also the Fourth Espada, and he's more than capable of taking on ''three'' Sternritter using [[SuperMode Vollstandig]] at the same time while in his sealed form, albeit with effort.
** Filthy Rich to Diamond Tiara, being a Sternritter and all. [[spoiler:Even if it turns out she's not actually his daughter, but he still loves her all the same.]]
* ActionMom:
** Ditzy Doo.
** [[spoiler: The mothers of the Humane Five and human!Twilight, though currently they (except for Sweet Cider, Firefly, and Twilight Velvet) have lost this status.]]
** Captain Platinum is obviously this to her son, [[spoiler:Pipsqueak]].
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: As a terse fight between Catrina and Sombra is about to begin, Squirk suddenly rips open a Garganta right underneath the former, grabs her by the ankles and ignobly yanks her inside with her yelping in surprise, before giving Sombra the middle finger as it closes up. Spitfire and Shining Armor can only stare in stupefied confusion, but Sombra after a moment manages a half-choked laugh while commenting on the "unusual" individuals Tirek has chosen as his Espada.
* AdaptationalBadass:
** Villainous example with Grand Fisher. Here, he puts up much more of a fight in his incomplete Arrancar form. Though this is justified as in canon, [[spoiler:he made the mistake of going up against a former Captain-class Soul Reaper]] while here he's facing Sunset and the other Humane Five, who still haven't fully mastered their new powers and are much closer to his level (for reference, Sunset has only just unlocked her Shikai and she's the strongest of the bunch while the others only have initial level of their Fullbrings).
** Many of the background ponies take levels in badass as Soul Reapers, Hollows, Fullbringers, Quincies and the like.
* AdaptationalHeroism:
** Discord is a great deal more noble than the one we got on the show, even after his HeelFaceTurn. He's even TheAtoner for all the bad things he did in the past and is the closest thing Sunset and the human five have to a mentor.
** While the broken system and poor living conditions of Soul Society are ''far'' more deeply examined than in canon and this version having its own skeletons in its closet such as Hitsyo Aku, Project [=Xcution=], and the Bount Genocide, ''Equestria Girls'' Soul Society comes off as much better overall: There was never a Quincy genocide, no signs of there ever being Hollow Pits, the Fourth Division is treated with respect instead of moronically being bullied for being weak, the Eleventh Division is a well-disciplined unit instead of being a band of thugs, and a majority of the Captains are shown to be far more concerned with doing their jobs with monsters like Kenpachi and Mayuri not on their payroll.
** The Quincy get this as well; they aren't a band of one-dimensional cackling, AxCrazy Nazis who team kill their own side and are shown to truly want to protect the world from Hollows with good people fighting for that cause, and a king who doesn't casually murder his own men for trivial reasons. Combined with Soul Society's AdaptationalHeroism above this leads to more nuance and legitimate GreyAndGreyMorality in the war between the two factions.
* AdaptationalIntelligence: Garble, of the SmarterThanYouLook variety. He instantly knows that [[spoiler:Adagio]] had something to do with Ember spontaneously attacking him during the Hollow's invasion of the Quincy's training area, and is now spending a good deal of his time finding out what. [[spoiler:He also stole Torch's Caja Negación cube to use against Adagio, and when faced against Prim Hemline's "Zero" Schrift, he tricks her into killing him so that the cube drops into his Hollow hole, saving Ember from being slayed by her.]]
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In {{Manga/Bleach}} Dolls would kill their Summoners the moment they deem them too weak to control them. Here they are more protective of their masters. WordOfGod is the Bounts were more focused on survival and hiding, so they developed a ritual that focused on creating more loyal Dolls that would protect their uses to death.
* AdaptationalSpeciesChange: In ''Equestria Girls'', it's implied all the dragons in the pony world are the equivalent of dogs in the human world. Here, however, they are all human, or at least they presumably ''were'' before they became Hollows.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Grogar, on the other hand is a lot ''worse'' than his G1 counterpart. It makes sense, as he ''is'' an {{Expy}} of Szayelaporro Granz.
* AdaptationDyeJob: For some reason, Grogar isn't blue in this story, and Catrina isn't brown. Or at the very least, they aren't described as such.
** [[spoiler:Grogar turns blue in his Resurrección form.]]
* AdaptationDeviation: Many of the ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' sides of the crossover are changed for the sake of WorldBuilding.
** The Quincy were never subjected to a genocide by Soul Society and are a thriving faction who are openly in conflict with it.
** Instead of being subjugated and founded by a Soul Reaper, the Espada are their own faction founded by Hollow Tirek as an alliance of ten Hollow warlords to better fight against Soul Society and the Quincy.
* AdaptationExpansion: In {{Manga/Bleach}} Segunda Etapa is an exclusive to Ulquiorra Ciferand a secret only he knows about. Here it's a legendary transformation that many have heard about but few believe. [[spoiler: And it's theorized that achieving it requires Equestrian magic.]]
* AffablyEvil:
** Despite being Arrancar and as a species acclimated to violence and negative emotions naturally, Ember, Di Roy, Lament, and Roka can be pretty nice and friendly. Despite his more brutal nature Torch also has enough positive traits to avoid falling into FauxAffablyEvil territory.
** Thorax, Pharynx, and Ocellus, despite their mother Chrysalis being FauxAffablyEvil incarnate, are all shown to be surprisingly well adjusted and civil Arrancar who never go out their way to act like assholes to others.
* AfraidOfTheirOwnStrength: Rarity and Fluttershy both have this regarding their Fullbring, which is keeping them from evolving them any further. For Fluttershy, [[BadPowersGoodPeople it's fearing what her powers could potentially do]], and for Rarity it's the thought that she may actually need to [[ItGetsEasier take a life with her powers.]]
* AgeLift: [[spoiler: The human version of Starlight Glimmer was a contemporary of the Humane Five's mothers and Twilight Velvet back when they were teenagers.]]
* AlchemyIsMagic: [[NotQuiteFlight Not exactly.]] Just like Soul Reapers can use kido to cast spells, Quincy can use spirit particles to make spells on their own. The main difference between those two is that while Soul Reapers only need to invoke an incantation, Quincy need to prepare them in advance using chemicals and physical mediums, most common being Ginto, a silver tube filled with spirit water distilled from Quincy's spirit power. Ironically, [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls Human world]] is connected to [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic the World]] where alchemy is seen as a form of magic.
* AllForNothing: Played with during the Quincy's assault on Las Noches. Their major goal above everything was to kill the Espada who allowed Tirek to launch the surprise attack on the Silbern (Squirk) and kill so many cadets with any other high-profile targets being secondaries. And Squirk does indeed end up killed. [[spoiler:However, he dies not because of the Quincy team of Sassy Saddles, Cadence, and Twilight Velvet, but by Adagio's hands as per Chrysalis' orders. Even worse, Cadence is forced to make the choice of going after Squirk or rushing off to aid Velvet against Lament, and chooses the former. In other words, not only does she end up believing she contributed to Velvet's death by not helping when she could, but she didn't even make the sacrifice mean something because it wasn't her who killed Squirk and [[YouAreTooLate only gets to see the aftermath of both Adagio killing Squirk and Velvet's death]].]]
** [[spoiler:Scylla admits that her ambitions cost her everything in the end in her last words.]]
* AllLovingHero: Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy. When you're willing to show mercy to the one who just tried to kill you, your friends, and/or your family, you ''definitely'' qualify.
* AllMythsAreTrue:
** It's implied that several versions of the underworld in human mythology were based on Vasto Lorde domains in Hueco Mundo, like Shadowlock's "Gehenna" and Silver Sable's "Naraka". Tirek himself is implied to be the inspiration for the Judeo-Christian Devil, at least [[BigRedDevil visually]].
** [[spoiler:Sombra relates to Twilight that many gods and deities in human mythology were the children and descendants of the Soul Queen.]]
** [[spoiler:Gaia Everfree turns out to be an ancient Arrancar who was defeated by Chrysalis and left in the human world to rot, sustained only by animal sacrifices from mortals that worshipped her.]]
** [[spoiler:Gaia Everfree remembers a time when spirit energy abilities were used more openly in the mortal world, leading to many of the tales of gods and monsters. She also mentions Ares by name in a flashback, and when she takes a direct hit from a furious Rainbow Dash after nearly killing Human Twilight the narration notes it was comparable to an attack from ''Zeus'', and that's not hyperbole because she remembers when those deities were more than just myths.]]
** Myth/NorseMythology plays a huge role in later chapters, with gods like Hel, Jörmungandr, and [[spoiler: [[PiecesOfGod Fenrir's Soul piece]],]] with Ragnarök looming over them.
* AlternateSelf: While the main premise of ''Equestria Girls'' is alternate versions of ''My Little Pony'' characters as humans the crossover with ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' adds more layers too it with the counterparts of characters like Discord, Sombra, Torch, Lightning Dust, Twilight, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash's parents, Blueblood, and [[spoiler: Bount Trixie]] ending up in different places and moralities than their Equestrian versions thanks to the different powers they have, the cultures they grew up in, and the events they experienced; the end result tends to make then [[{{Foil}} Foils]] to their other self in some way.
* AmazonianBeauty: The story brims with gorgeous females with muscles to back it up, to the point it would be easier to count the ones that are not this. Here are a few examples:
** Captain Celestia is the same [[StatuesqueStunner tall, gorgeous woman]] we know, and under her clothes, she hides a set of hardened abs and toned arms.
** Sweet Cider is even more amazonian to the point she could be an object of envy of every professional athlete while still keeping a very womanly figure. Applejack is not far behind and is quickly catching up.
-->'''Sunset Shimmer''': Is the 'A' in the Apple family name for Abs.
** Seeing Sunset starring at Apple family's muscles, Pinkie assures her that her muscles are great too. Then she adds Maud is in the same boat.
-->'''Pinkie Pie''': “Gehehe, is Sunset feeling intimidated by the Apple family gun show? No worries, Sunny, your muscles are hard as rocks, too! And I should know, I bathed with Maudie!”
** Ember is noted to sport a very athletic physique with a hint of abs and a very punkish face.
** Gilda. After a life as an orphan in a brutal DeathWorld that is Las Noches, she's built like a brick house, and her choice of clothing puts her golden-brown athletic build, abs-laden torso, and well-muscled arms on full display. Greta looks very much like her to the point to point they could be mistaken for sisters.
** Asena's human form is described as a 'Hulking Woman who would put female bodybuilders to shame'.
* AmbiguouslyEvil:
** Quincy King Sombra, he acts as TheGoodKing to his Quincies and treats them well, with his personality being based on his comics incarnation and the presence of Amore and Radiant Hope lending to that this Sombra made different choices that stopped him from becoming evil, but at the same time, he's ''Sombra'' and serving as the equivalent of [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Yhwach]], he's all but stated to have been little better than a tyrant in the past before he changed and came to regret it, [[spoiler:and he still has the ability to absorb the souls of Quincy who die, albeit here it's treated as him simply storing them to be reincarnated rather than to selfishly increase his life and power]].
** The Zero Division were already pretty shady in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' canon with their moral ambiguity being compounded in the light novels. Here, their shiftiness is cranked up with [[spoiler: them ensuring that innocent souls like Sunburst are sent to Hell causing Starlight Glimmer and Firefly's StartOfDarkness, as well as planning ''something'' that once Discord and Ditzy see from the secret records has them realizing why Starlight is going the route she is and would send Soul Society in open rebellion if made public.]][[spoiler:Any ambiguity is dropped once it's revealed that they ''made'' Hell as part of a plot to grind the souls within up into their basic components in order to revive their slain loved ones whose souls [[PiecesOfGod became those of mortals]].]]
* AmbiguouslyGay: More than one character has wondered or assumed that Pony Trixie and Starlight are romantically/sexually involved.
* AmbiguousSituation: InUniverse, the whole "Quincy arrows completely destroy the souls of Hollows" is this, as no one is really ''sure'', according to what Shining Armor tells Twilight.
** Sweet Cider later comes to suspect that that statement might be a lie, or at least a half-truth.
** After the climax of the Camp Everfree events, Celestia notes that the inconsistency between the souls of Soul Reapers killed by Quincy arrows still remaining in the reincarnation cycle vs. the disappearance of the souls of Hollows slain by the same weapons, and how the cycle remains intact despite centuries of Quincies killing Hollows.
** What exactly ''does'' happen with the souls of the inhabitants of Equestria and the other nations of their world after death? It's been noted that Equestrian culture barely deals with the afterlife at all, and if Sunset wasn't proof enough that Equestrians have souls comparable to those on Earth, Human Chrysalis and her brood were able to eat the souls of some Timberwolves. But there's no clues as of yet what happens to those souls after death, with [[spoiler:Soul Reaper Flash]] noting a specific absence of the kind of negative spirit energy that would be expected from an ancient battlefield like what they're passing by. The Beast Realm is also apparently connected to Equestria, but where that fits in is anyone's guess right now.
* AmbitionIsEvil:
** Grogar's ambition to use his experimentation to surpass Tirek is a major character trait of his.
** Downplayed, but [[spoiler:Adagio's]] ambition to climb the ranks of the Espada, maybe even to the point of overthrowing Tirek himself eventually, is her main reason for staying in Hueco Mundo. Her Zanpakuto's name is even Ambicion, which means "Ambition".
* AmnesiaMissedASpot: After seeing Applejack, [[spoiler: Sweet Cider]] starts to get faint memories of her past life as [[spoiler: her mother.]]
* AmplifierArtifact: Clover's shikai has the ability to dramatically increase the power of any kido cast through it using the full incantation.
** [[spoiler:The Hogyoku, as in canon, with Discord modifying his version to better suit the Humane Seven.]]
* AnalogyBackfire: Clover tries to use the "you only live once" saying, only to keep backspacing because of the mechanics of the afterlife and reincarnation. Pinkie even lampshades that it doesn't really fit.
* AnatomyOfTheSoul:
** Adagio gave Charybdis a piece of her soul in exchange for her tutelage.
** [[spoiler:Human Chrysalis once ripped a piece of Luna's soul out.]]
* AnArmAndALeg: Several Quincy lose limbs during the assault on Hueco Mundo, including [[spoiler: Indigo Zap loses her legs due to Gilda and Twilight's right hand to the out-of-control Lament.]]
** Nocturn loses his arm to a berserk Posey.
** At the end of their climatic showdown in Soul Society, [[spoiler:Platinum loses one of her hands to Sunset's finishing attack.]]
** Garble loses an arm fighting Ember [[spoiler:due to Adagio's interference saving Twilight and the other Quincy cadets]].
** Harshwinny loses most of her leg fighting Lament. [[ConsummateProfessional She's too professional for it to stop her.]]
** Luna loses her wing trying to capture [[spoiler: Firefly and Platinum]]. After that, she's stuck in the castle, [[HealingMagicIsTheHardest in the process of regrowing her limb,]] leaving her really bored.
** Lament loses his left arm after an intense battle with Sweet Cider and Applejack. [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction It doesn't bother him much.]]
* AndIMustScream:
** [[EldritchAbomination The Smooze]] admits his every moment of existence is pain, only kept to "manageable" levels by medicine produced by Grogar. The only thing stronger is his [[{{Determinator}} iron-clad will]] to push through and ''keep existing'' because he wants to experience the small pleasures of life others take for granted because they're ''not'' soul-destroying agony. [[spoiler:It's why he decides to swear loyalty to Fluttershy after she manages to heal him as no one else ever had.]]
** [[spoiler:Gaia Everfree was reduced to a barely sentient warped soul trapped in the depths of the Everfree Forest by Chrysalis to the point the ability to ''think'' wasn't something available to her for varying periods of time, only holding on by ThePowerOfHate.]]
* AndThenWhat: [[spoiler: Sweet Cider]] invokes this during her fight with Applejack, saying that even if she is [[spoiler: her mother]] giving her her memories back won't make any real difference because she'll still be dead while Applejack is still alive. Applejack doesn't care, outright stating that all that matters to her is making [[spoiler: Sweet Cider]] remember who she is and she can decide what she wants to do with that knowledge afterwards.
* AnIcePerson: Captain Platinum, who uses an ice-based zanpakuto, ''Fuyukogo'' (Winter Empress).
* AnswerCut: In Chapter 195, while talking about Fenice's counterpart, she and Adagio speculate whether or not the latter and her sisters have ones in the human world, something Adagio never thought much about before. She dismisses the idea, saying that if the Dazzlings did have such counterparts, they're uncharacteristically avoiding the spotlight and thus either dead or boring, and Fenice agrees. In the following scene, [[spoiler:the story shifts to Niflheim in the Beast Realm, where Orfridr uses his necromancy to reanimate the perfectly preserved corpses of the Dazzlings' Nereid counterparts who died by his magic a long time ago as draugr (bound undead), souls and all]].
* AntiMagic: Morgawr's trident can absorb magic directed at it. It's implied to be connected to Chrysalis's former throne.
** A similar weapon has been used to pierce [[spoiler: [[StoryBreakerPower Discord]]]] to prevent him from Meddling with Starlight's Plans.
* ArchnemesisDad: The Lament, who not only is the adopted father of a bunch of Hollow children [[spoiler:but he's Applejack's biological father]].
* ArmedLegs: Applejack's power, a pair of rocket boots to increase the power of her kicks and shoot energy blasts. She eventually upgrades to [[PowerPalms gauntlets]] for {{Hand Blast}}s as well.
* ArtifactOfDoom: [[spoiler:Recent chapters in Equestria have made mention of items called "Relics", which are apparently tied to "Inheritors", including the native Chrysalis, Celestia, Luna, and others. Details are sparse, but while the Relics are apparently neither good or evil, using them can be dangerous. Using two at once is part of what caused Luna to be transformed into Nightmare Moon]].
* ArtificialHuman: Reigai lacks blood and internal organs, and according to Chrysalis [[OurSoulsAreDifferent they taste bland.]]
* AscendedExtra: While the Grand Fisher was introduced as a major foe to Ichigo in canon it went unresolved and was subjected to an AbortedArc as he was unceremoniously killed by Isshin and forgotten about by Ichigo. In this fic he acts as the story's first ArcVillain and [[spoiler: was used by Soul Society to attack women to create Fullbringers for Project Xcution that would lead to the Humane Five developing their own Fullbrings from their mothers.]]
** Di Roy was Grimmjow's weakest Fraccion and killed off with minimal sceentime. Here, he causes the heroes' lots of trouble as "Sharkface" and latter joins [[spoiler:Adagio's]] RagTagBunchOfMisfits in Hueco Mundo.
** Roka had it even worse than Di Roy. She was a nameless Arrancar with few scenes, no speaking lines, and offhandedly killed. Here she's an adopted daughter of Fourth Espada, acting as a caretaker of her siblings, taking the role of the smart girl of Adagio's group. She had more [[ZigZaggingTrope prominent role]] in ''Spirits are Forever With You''.
* AssimilationPlot: [[spoiler:All mortal souls in the human world were once [[PiecesOfGod fragments of the slain children and descendants of the Soul Queen whose souls broke apart when they met their demise]]. While the Soul Queen accepted this, her surviving children in the Zero Division do ''not'', and created Hell in order to break down mortal souls so that they can reconstitute their loved ones again. There's enough leeway in the process for a few thousand mortal souls to remain separate though, allowing the Zero Division members to "preserve" any mortal souls that they view worthy of keeping around for some reason, with the only reason that any mortal soul exists outside of Hell at ''all'' being because Glory wanted to give every soul as many chances as possible to reach this reward.]]
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: Discord]] is responsible for many horrible things, but he grew to see the members of Xctiun as friends and family and deeply regretted putting their lives in danger. After the termination of the group, there wasn't a day he didn't regret irrevocably altering their lives. In his own words, all his actions are motivated by the desire for change and to protect the lives of X-cution's children. [[spoiler: He laments that all his actions only pushed them further into the spiritual conflict.]]
* AtrociousArthropods: Chrysalis has a very obvious insect motif and is without a doubt the most evil and cruel character in the entire story. While in her Resurreccion form, her upper body remains that of a [[BeautyIsBad beautiful woman]] with a pair of green antennae, while [[OurCentaursAreDifferent her lower half]] is an amalgamation of different kinds of insect and arachnid parts, including over six feet long [[SlayingMantis mantis-like scythe blades]], two sets of wings - [[MothMenace one of a moth's]], one of a wasp's and a [[SpidersAreScary barbed spider abdomen]] [[WickedWasps with a wasp stinger]] at the end. And to add to her status as [[HiveQueen the Queen]], [[MotherOfAThousandYoung she can spontaneously lay eggs to make mindless but powerful offsprings.]] Her part of Hueco Mundo closely resembles a hive and she has the ability to put people in cocoons. [[spoiler: Her son, Thorax, while taking a lot from her, [[AvertedTrope is an aversion]].]]
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Gaia Everfree, after becoming DrunkWithPower, transforms her massive tree into a just as massive giant tree monster.
* AwesomeButImpractical:
** Celestia has spells in her repertoire that make her a PersonOfMassDestruction, but they take time to set up, allowing someone like Discord to just snap his fingers and disrupt it, or Tirek to drain her magic before she can complete it.
** The main reason Equestria's never used mass-scale teleportation is that, besides the fact that most unicorns can't use it, the risks make it unfeasible. There's also a method that uses a person to hone in on the destination, but it only works in close-range.
* AwesomeByAnalysis:
** Rarity, who defeats Blueblood, a Captain of the Gotei 13, not through brute force but by carefully observing his movements and the workings of his Shikai in order to eventually neutralize him before he can activate his Bankai.
** Twilight naturally is able to do this thanks to her incredible intelligence working with the battle adrenaline allowing her to analyze and predict the most likely course of action they'll take.
* AxCrazy:
** Poesy, at least when she's activated her Shikai. Otherwise, she's very passive and kind.
** The Fourth Espada. Ember claims the guy is NOT a stable person; saying he's unpredictable, prone to very violent mood swings, an ''extremely'' short fuse, and has killed other Hollows simply for being near him at the wrong time. That's not to say it's impossible to reason with him, but he has some high standards to hold to and [[spoiler:Adagio]] is basically walking through a minefield during her first real conversation with him.

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* BadassBookworm:
** Clover. Member of the 12th Division and able to take on a horde of Hollows alone.
** Twilight Sparkle, she's capable of fighting opponents stronger than her, using her [[AwesomenessByAnalysis wits]] [[spoiler: and magic]], and is smart enough to design and create artificial limbs. [[spoiler: Then she became a Sternitter.]]
** Captain Starswirl. Captain of the 12th Division and head of Soul Society's R&D, and perfectly capable of slaughtering countless foes with all manner of reisatsu-based chemical compounds created by his zanpakuto.
** Grogar. Head of R&D for Hueco Mundo, and also one of their Espadas who's taken to [[ProfessorGuineaPig altering his own body to improve himself]].
** Discord. ''Former'' Captain of the 12 Division, creator of the Hogyoku, and more than capable of training Sunset even after the latter has achieved Bankai.
* BadassNormal:
** Maud Pie. Despite not being able to see them, she still takes on several lesser Hollows with whatever ImprovisedWeapon she has in arm's reach, to the point that they start running from ''her''.
** Derpy isn't far behind either. She's strong enough to lift a ceiling beam ''with one hand'' and pick up a person with the other. Then with little effort, she took down a Cragadille, a creature that both Quincy and a Fullbringer in training had troubles. [[ImprovisedWeapon With a Frying Pan.]] Guess those defense lessons finally come in handy.
* BaitAndSwitch: Done briefly when Ditzy Doo, Clover, the Humane Five, and Sunset [[spoiler:prepare to breach the South Gate into Seireitei]]. After saying "[She knows] just how to distract" the gate guard, the former disrobes, much to the distaste of the others save Clover. [[spoiler:Being a Yoruichi expy, Ditzy turns into her cat form and heads into the gatehouse to cause trouble]].
* BareHandedBladeBlock: Grogar effortlessly catches Sunset's sword, even though it is on fire.
* BattleCouple: Twilight Velvet & Night Light and Jet Set & Upper Crust, both couples married and Sternritters. [[spoiler:It avails the latter couple little when they fight the Lament with Harshwhinny's aid, however, with Jet Set sacrificing himself to save Upper Crust and only the Lament's [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone own guilt and regret]] due to remembering what happened to his wife Sweet Cider and himself before they died making him quit the battle and spare their lives]].
* BeachEpisode: Chapter 95 is largely this, featuring Sunset and the girls all enjoying a day at the beach. Eventually even Twilight and the Shadowbolts join in, later remarking how easy it is to put aside the animosity between Soul Reaper and Quincy for the moment. [[TentacledTerror Too bad it doesn't stay that way...]]
* BeamOWar:
** {{Averted}} with the clash of Catrina's Gran Rey Cero and Spitfire's Godfire technique. The narration explicitly describes the two spiritual-based attacks as not clashing in a show of wills, but mixing together before exploding in an uncontrollable burst that sends both combatants flying.
** {{Averted}} again when Di-roy and Pharynx shot ceros at each other. In tight space. The combined energy beams explode burying them under tons of rubble. [[spoiler: Which was Di-roy's plan all along. He prepared and managed to escape, gaining time to escape.]]
* BeautyIsBad: Hollow Chrysalis is always described as completely stunning and is one of the most malevolent and cruel villains of the story. Catrina described as slightly less so, in both senses.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: The reason why the Lament's family is so loyal: Because he went out of his way to save and protect them when all other Hollows tried to eat them.
** Princess Celestia surmises this is likely why [[spoiler:Bount Trixie]] is loyal to [[spoiler:Starlight Glimmer]], as the latter saved her from the hunts that wiped out her clan.
* BecomingTheMask:
** [[spoiler:Flash]] started out as only pretending to have a crush on pony Twilight so she would let her guard down so he could find out more about her. Nowadays, however, he feels the crush isn't nearly as fake anymore...
** This happened to Soul Reaper Discord in the backstory. As the project head of [=XCution=], he was supposed to be researching and testing the Humane Five's mothers under the guise of being a helpful soul training their powers. Overtime, his contact with them made the mask become genuine, and he went from using them to doing his damnedest to try and help them. His failure to do that still weighs heavily as one of his biggest failures.
** [[spoiler:Adagio's]] BenevolentBoss treatment of her minions, particularly outside of her inner circle, was at least partially PragmaticVillainy, but it seems that over time she's come to start genuinely caring for them.
* BenevolentBoss:
** Hydia's helped her servants build up an immunity, or at least a heavy resistance, to her poison so she can use it without harming them. She also cares more about loyalty than appearances.
** It's partially PragmaticVillainy, at least outside of her inner circle, but [[spoiler:Adagio]] treats her subordinates well, judging more on loyalty and results than just strength. [[spoiler:She even splits up the Seed equally with her inner circle.]]
* BerserkButton:
** Fleur does not take well to being wounded. She goes utterly AxCrazy once Sunset starts doing so, and her later fight with Guto implies [[FreudianExcuse there's a darker reason for it]].
** The Lament has several, not the least being dishonesty and being seduced.
** Grogar was already getting pissed with Pinkie's Fullbring defying logic and physics, but he gets even madder when one of her attacks traps him in an Ace Attorney parody and plays a capella music, which he hates. Following that, he just gets madder and madder.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Ditzy Doo has to be one of the nicest of Discord's allies. She's also a badass ActionMom, has no problem killing, and when she coldly threatens the girls to not get her daughter involved in any of this, it's clear it's a promise she'll keep.
** Posey... DEAR GOD POSEY. Goes out of her way to hold back? Check. Borderline ShrinkingViolet? Check. ApologeticAttacker? Check. Turns into an AxCrazy TheBerserker when she ''stops'' holding back? '''Check.''' Her Zanpakuto is even called ''Kyoki'' (Bloodthirst). It's later stated that her change in personality is caused by Kyoki's influence.
** The Lament is a good father, the TokenGoodTeammate of the Espada, and his friendliness even seems genuine. He's also the most AxCrazy out of all of them, and just as willing to kill as the other nine.
* BewareTheSillyOnes:
** [[spoiler: Bount Trixie is just as silly and hammy as her pony counterpart, but she can back up her ego with her power being just below Captain-level and is able to fight Princess Twilight, Rainbow Dash, and Flash Sentry to a near standstill.]]
** Cheese Sandwich is a powerful, competent, and intelligent Soul Reaper captain. ...Who acts exactly like his pony self. (that is to say, a male Pinkie Pie)
** Medley of the Zero Division is rather quirky, but she's still a member of, again, the Zero Division, and is thus insanely strong, with a Zanpakuto that can obscure and confuse the senses, but she makes it clear that the Humane Seven will ''die'' if they challenge the Soul Palace.
** [[spoiler: Nereid Sonata]] is as chirpy and optimistic as [[spoiler: Siren Sonata,]] but under that positivity is a bloodthirsty killer. Heck, she thanks her killer for resurrecting her because she can now kill more people.
* {{BFG}}: [[spoiler:Twilight Velvet's]] Quincy "bow", described as a cross between an arbalest and a cannon, and large enough to need to be carried over the shoulder like a rocket launcher.
* {{BFS}}:
** [[spoiler:Sweet Cider's]] Shikai, Kizuna (Bonds); described as less a sword and more like a gigantic slab of pure bronze that was hammered into the rough shape of a blade [[spoiler:though once her Fullbring is properly separated from it, it assumes a more standard, if still just as massive, sword form]]. It's large enough that [[spoiler:Cider]], no small woman herself, has to stretch her arm just to reach the handle and grab it. [[spoiler:Her Fullbring Hearthstone is a no less massive sword made of solid rock, and since both are extensions of her spiritual powers she has no issue DualWielding them together once they're finally separated.]]
** [[spoiler:Sunset's]] Bankai turns her sword from a moderately-sized blade into a flamberge that would normally require two hands to use properly.
** [[spoiler:Human Sunset's]] Fullbring is a greatsword nearly as big as she is.
** Tirek's zanpakuto is described as a massive golden claymore that's as big as him (and Tirek is a big guy).
* BigBadEnsemble: Due to all the parties of interest, there are several who contend for the spot.
** On the surface, there's Tirek as the leader of Hueco Mundo, the most openly malevolent leader of the darkest faction, and most everyone agrees he's likely got to go if there's even a chance of peace being made between the three main factions.
** Then there's [[spoiler:Human Starlight Glimmer and her cohorts]], who are aiming to upend the status quo of the world violently no matter who gets hurt, [[spoiler:but they have the excuse of mostly being {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}s out to stop the Zero Division.]]
** [[spoiler:Chrysalis has the honor of being a DragonWithAnAgenda to ''both'' Tirek and Starlight Glimmer, and wants to overthrow the Zero Division and obtain all the scattered pieces of the Soul Queen to take her place and rule the planes of existence.]]
** And finally, [[spoiler:the Zero Division have the honor of being behind much of why the world is screwed up and partially behind the Soul Reapers, the Hollows, and the Quincy being at war in the first place, and are planning ''something'' for the world that's gotten Human Starlight Glimmer in arms about taking them out, no matter the cost.]]
* BigCreepyCrawlies: Svartalfheim is filled with giant versions of Earth bugs like pill bugs the size of a bison, and butterflies (one of them sucking out the blood from dog-sized mice) as big as helicopters. They also find spiderwebs big enough to catch jetliners.
* BigDamnHeroes: Hilariously subverted at one point when Sunset drops in to save Rarity and Fluttershy... only to realize that they've already defeated the enemies without her help.
* BigGood: Discord plays this role, he acts as Sunset and the Humane Five's guide to the spiritual world, gives them the resources and allies they need to survive, protects their families, acts as Sunset's personal mentor, and wants to end the war between Soul Society and the Quincy.
* BigRedDevil: Tirek is implied to be the inspiration for the idea of the Judeo-Christian Devil looking like this.
* BirdsOfAFeather: Princess Twilight and [[spoiler:Flash Sentry]] actually turn out to be this. Both are powerful supernatural beings (An Alicorn and [[spoiler:a Soul Reaper Lieutenant]]) both are very popular despite being total dorks, and both have UndyingLoyalty towards their version of Celestia.
* BishonenLine: Hollows gain more humanoid forms as they go through their evolution, which culminates into becoming a Vasto Lorde and/or an Arrancar. [[spoiler:Adagio goes from looking like a bone-white version of her true Siren appearance as an Adjuchas into her human form plus a tail, fin wings, and bone-white armor once she achieves Vasto Lorde, and finally into her full human form wearing a crown of bone across her brow when she achieves Arrancar]].
* BizarreBelching: Since Pinkie's evolved Fullbring runs on the RuleOfFunny, it can do some very bizarre and ridiculous things - in one case, belching in response to absorbing an energy blast (also a case of BurpOfFinality).
* BlackKnight: [[spoiler:Bount!Trixie's doll Eisenwand appears as a HellishHorse covered entirely in black iron armour when summoned in Equestria, with Princess Twilight noting how it looks a lot like the Alicorn Amulet her counterpart once used. It's probably safe to assume that his "real" appearance in the human world would look something like this instead.]]
* BlindObedience: Like his {{Expy}}, Sombra detests the idea of this trope, and tells Twilight as such.
* BloodMagic: Rarity's power, using her blood as a catalyst to create armor, weapons, and [[ImaginationBasedSuperpower pretty much anything else she can come up with]] made of [[GemstoneAssault crystals]].
** The sahuagin use blood sacrifices in their magic.
** In her Resurrección form, Gilda gains the ability to produce acidic blood. And since in all accounts, it's a real blood it can be used as a catalyst for Gran Ray Cero.
* BloodKnight:
** [[spoiler:Sweet Cider,]] befitting of one bearing the title of Kenpachi.
** Hurricane also really enjoys fighting as Captain of the 11th Division, and admits he was at least partially prolonging his first fight against Sunset and the others simply because it had been a while since he fought opponents who could actually pose a challenge.
** Cheese Sandwich is one...or rather, his zanpakuto ''Hone Nashi'' (Boneless) is. Cheese pretty much admits that if a fight goes on too long and he holds back Hone Nashi will actually start fighting his control and aiming for dangerous strikes. [[spoiler:Several times during the fight with Pinkie and Pinkamena he actually has to restrain it from fatally injuring the pair]].
** Among the Espada, there's Torch. During his fight with Shining Armor, he is openly laughing at finally having a [[WorthyOpponent worthy foe to fight,]] enough for him to release his Resurreccion.
** Hokori is a personification of Sunset's blood knight tendencies, more interested in a good fight than anything else. Sunset must remind her to focus on their main goal even she admits she would also like to cut loose and see how much stronger she had become. They agree to fight after making sure people are safe, though.
** Fleur is a particularly bloodthirsty individual. While other troops are nervous before the upcoming battle at Hueco Mundo, she's practically giddy at the prospect.
** Pharynx's fights with Gaw and Fenice turn out more challenging than he had initially expected. He actually finds it more fun than aggravating. [[spoiler: At least, until Fenice beginsn to gain an upper hand.]]
** While she's concerned with her sister's critical state, Fenice is amazed at how much fun she has fighting a very one-sided battle with Pharynx. Then she notes how much happier she's been since in the last few months she had more fights than in the last few years. [[spoiler: Like father like daughter.]]
* BloodSport: Guto has his own colosseum, where the last test of passage takes place. It's also the place where his underlings solve their disputes or just get their entertainment. More often than not those end up in someone's death.
* BlowYouAway:
** Fleur Des Lis. Her title is even ''Tempest''.
** Captain [[MeaningfulName Hurricane]] of the Eleventh Division. His Bankai more or less lets him ''make'' hurricanes.
* BodyHorror: [[MadScientist Grogar's]] favorite pastime. The things he creates are made of hollows he experimented on, resulting in creatures of mutated flesh mixed with whatever cybernetics and weapons of his own design. [[spoiler: Later he adds replicas od Adagio's Siren Gem.]]
* BoringButPractical:
** Out of the main cast, Rarity's the most practiced with Fullbringing things other than herself from the start, like the air to stand on it or jump off of it, which helps greatly in her fight against Blueblood, though the others start following in her footsteps more later.
** Night Light's Schrift, The Command, doesn't grant him any direct combat powers like some of the others, and he becomes a HumanoidAbomination in his SuperMode so he can't use it unless Sombra gives explicit permission, but the ability to track and relay orders back and forth to an entire army of Quincy at once is still incredibly useful. In addition, while he lacks any special techniques outside of the Quincy basics, he's honed them to a degree that only ''Sombra himself'' could match or exceed him in them.
** Twilight approves of the simplicity and efficiency of Sugarcoat's pear bow.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: In typical Pinkie Pie fashion:
-->'''Pinkie Pie''': What, too much like the source material?
* BrokenMasquerade: As time goes on, the supernatural and/or spiritual going-ons in Canterlot City become harder and harder to keep under wraps.
* BrokenPedestal:
** Captain [[spoiler:Celestia]] to Captain Platinum. Apparently, the later idolized the former until an incident involving [[spoiler:Celestia's]] zanpakuto resulted in [[spoiler:the death of her husband]]. She's blamed her ever since. [[spoiler:Though Platinum herself states that whatever her enmity with Celestia, it has nothing to do with why she's doing what she's doing now.]]
** Discord was this for Human Starlight Glimmer, his former Lieutenant. The shiftiness of his work, his own self-assurance and arrogance, combined with Starlight's belief of his compliance with [[spoiler:Zero Division's dark plans]] eventually eroded all of her trust in him and caused her to strike out on her own.
* BunnyEarsLawyer:
** Grogar is a particularly depraved and evil example. Despite being the most loathed being in Los Noches Grogar can get away with almost anything because he has Tirek's protection since his scientific expertise make him indispensable. That said, since Espada live by the law of YouKillItYouBoughtIt, not even that would save him if an Arrancar came along and decided to climb the ranks by defeating him.
** Captain Starswirl is a downplayed example. He's usually serious enough, but he has moments of blatant disrespect for Central 46, outright stating that he's older than most of them, uses inflatable gigai as distractions in battle, and [[spoiler:booby-trapped Ember's zanpakuto with a bomb that can only be deactivated by answering a riddle given by a pre-recorded chibi Starswirl.]]
** Every Quincy (including Sombra) is annoyed by [=McColts=] and Hooffield's constant bickering and, ehm, [[KissingCousins old-fashioned interpretation of Pure Breeding...]] but they are also the ones that build Tanks and [=VTOLs=] to use against Hollows, so everyone tolerates them.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: By the Everfree arc, the Canterlot High students have become fairly accustomed to magical events happening on a regular basis.

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* CallBack: The name of the 188 chapter is called "The Phoenix and the Hollow" which is a reference to the first chapter "The Phoenix and the Soul Reaper". Both of them tackle Sunset [[spoiler: (Pony and Human respectively)]] awakening an otherwordly, previously unknown [[spoiler: to them]] power.
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: [[spoiler:Adagio]] invokes this when making a deal with the Lament, saying that his desire to stay out of the rest of the Espada's struggles will eventually all come for naught and that sooner or later their "games" will put him and his family in danger. She then tells him that if he wants to protect his family then he cannot afford to hold himself apart. He seems to agree with her, though he isn't sure if she's completely right or not.
* CallingTheOldManOut: [[spoiler:Rainbow Dash ''tries'' to do this towards her mother Firefly for being a MissingMom and now suddenly reappearing working for Starlight Glimmer and acting all chummy towards her, but it fails for two reasons: The first is that Firefly to Dash's frustration doesn't seem that emotionally affected by it for the second reason, that being Firefly can tell Dash ''herself'' doesn't quite believe her own words.]]
* TheCameo:
** Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck shows up in the Fourth Espada's lair as one of his adopted Arrancar children.
** Lavan from Generation 1 makes an appearance in Glory's Restrospect. He's an Arrancar and part of Tirek's Warband.
* CanonCharacterAllAlong:
** The shark Hollow from the first arc turns out to be Di Roy, who had the ignoble honor of being the first of Grimmjow's Fraccion to die in ''Bleach'', but he's gotten better luck in this universe [[spoiler:thanks to becoming Adagio's vassal.]]
** One of the Fourth Espada's Fraccion turns out to be Roka, who until the ''Bleach'' light novels fleshed out her character was most well known for being the Arrancar nurse Yammy punched for no good reason after she reattached his arm.
** Twilight's family butler Robert is in fact the same-named Sternritter, albeit "[[RetiredBadass former]]" in this universe since he [[BroughtDownToNormal sacrificed his powers]] via the Letzt Stil transformation to save her father's life in the past.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: [[spoiler:Twilight argues this with Sapphire, given how useful her Quintessence Schrift is. And since she's under the effect of the Lust, she's bound to Cadence anyway.]]
* CapturedOnPurpose: [[spoiler:Bount Trixie being captured was ''intentional'' on Human Starlight's part]].
* CarryABigStick: Princess Twilight becomes bonded with a Relic in the form of a large mace.
* CastHerd: The three main factions are divided into the Soul Reapers, Hollows, and the Quincies, and while it isn't ironclad, each herd is mainly based around a certain type of Equestrian archetype.
** A majority of the Soul Reapers are the human versions of Equestria's prominent historical and mythological figures (Scorpan, Celestia, Luna, Amore, Radiant Hope, Daring Do, Platinum, Hurricane, Smart Cookie, Posey, Starswirl, Meadowbrook, and Clover) for example.
** The Quincies Sternritter mainly consist of modern day Equestria's important figures and upper crust (Shining Armor, the Sparkle family, Fluer, Candence, Spitfire, Soarin', and Filthy Rich) with King Sombra being the biggest exception, paralleling Yhwach's millennia of life.
** The Espada and their minions mainly consist of ''My Little Pony's'' Generation villains and non-pony folk (Tirek, Chrysalis, Catrina, Torch, Guto, Hydia, Grogar, Squirk, Smooze, Garble, Ember, Gilda, Thorax, Pharynx, Ocellus).
* CastingAShadow:
** Fittingly enough, [[spoiler:Luna's]] Shikai and presumably Bankai works with this. The former enshrouds her in a cloak of darkness that covers the battlefield and [[ParanoiaFuel she can appear out of anywhere the darkness is]].
** Sombra is capable of this, though it's really just one manifestation of his [[SpaceMaster real power]].
** Cloudy Quartz, Pinkie's mother, was this back when she was a member of Xcution. Her Fullbring, Hades Shadow, manifested as a LivingShadow that [[TokenEvilTeammate revelled in slaughtering Hollows.]]
* ChainPain: Guto's Resurreccion allows him to create golden chains with manacles to bind his opponents.
** Daring Doo's weapon is a long chain that produces mist with every swing.
** [[spoiler:Human Cozy Glow's]] power as a Sinner is to use the very chains of Hell binding her to the realm as weapons.
** [[spoiler:Rarity's]] power as a Sinner lets them bind others using their chains and [[PowerParasite drain their powers to enhance their own]].
* ChainsawGood: Lieutenant [[ShrinkingViolet Posey]]'s Shikai turns into the medieval equivalent, a saw-tooth serrated blade that spins around the length of the blade, which befits her [[AxeCrazy change in personality]].
* ChargedAttack:
** In exchange for needing to invoke the full incantation, Clover can channel her Kido through her Zanpakuto and increase the spell's power threefold.
** Sunset's Shikai works so that any damage the shield takes is converted to power that she charges into the sword as flames, which she can release at her leisure. [[spoiler:Her shield can also use the damage the sword does to heal her injuries, as well as form energy barriers.]]
** How Rainbow Dash's powers work. Part of her Fulbring is that the more she moves the more she's charged with [[ShockAndAwe electricity,]] until she can unleash it into a barrage of attacks or one big strong one enough rival the power of Zeus. [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Yes, that guy.]]
* TheCharmer: The previous Ninth Division Captain before Captain Blueblood, according to Clover. Not only was he the only one successful in negotiations with the Beast Realm, [[spoiler: he directly resulted in the births of both Celestia and Luna with the two Beast Tribe Chieftains, Quetzalcoatl and Fenris.]]
* CharmPerson:
** Cadance. Her Schrift, The Lust, allows her to influence those struck, such as making Hollows eat one another, or forcing an opponent to surrender. [[spoiler:Its most powerful form forcibly and permanently turns the target into an enthralled "love slave" under her command that only desires to serve her. For obvious reasons, she doesn't like resorting to that, but has no choice in order to stop Sapphire Shores.]]
** [[spoiler:Adagio after her siren gem is restored is able to once again be this via her song.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: In the flashback to [[spoiler:the Zero Division's betrayal of the Soul Queen, Tirek is accompanied by the Arrancars Typhon and Cerberus. The former shows up several chapters later in Hell, where he blocks the path of Rarity, Cozy Glow, Blueblood, and Starburst.]]
* TheChessmaster:
** [[spoiler:Human Starlight Glimmer]], being [[spoiler:one of]] the main antagonist, obviously is one, caring out her plan against Soul Society pretty much without a hitch thanks to her knowledge and the skillset of her allies.
** Chrysalis is one herself, acting as Tirek's main voice of confidence [[spoiler:while doing her thing with Starlight.]] She masterminded [[spoiler:Squirk's death by Adagio's hands while simultaneously ensuring the creation of a new Arrancar that would more than make up for his death.]]
** [[spoiler:Adagio is shaping up to being one herself as she takes on politics in Las Noches, carving a niche into the society while manuevering around or playing along with other big players like Chrysalis and Grogar]].
* ChildSoldiers: Downplayed with Quincy. Most of them are trained since a young age to fight Hollows and spend most of the time perfecting their skills. With how regularly Quincy is outclassed in terms of power compared to Arrancars and Soul Reapers, it's necessary. Sugarcoat mentions that, while they have times off, they have hard time maintaining their social life. Still, they stay away from serious fights until they graduate to soldats and have a chance to leave instead of joining them. The age at which they start their training also varies from person to person. [[spoiler: Twilight and Diamond Tiara]] for example were [[GiveHimANormalLife unaware of their families' business]] until recently, while [[spoiler:Silver Spoon]] was being trained since the day she was able to walk.
** Played straight with Guto's army. To become part of it, children have to pass series of gruesome tests and if they don't, they're being starved. The final part is a group fight where only a handful of them survives. Gilda says that before [[FriendToAllChildren Lament]], it was this or staying in the warrens, trying to not being eaten.
* CityOfTheDamned: Laying in the deepest layer of Hell lays a place called Tartarus, the closest thing Sinners have to a Town. Because Kushanāda don't go there, it allows them to create something resemble a community, torn by constant [[HellIsWar gang wars.]] To get there, however, Sinners have to traverse through Hell avoiding Kushanada that will reap them apart the moment they see them, find a specific hole shaped like a gaping maw filled with teeth, either walk through a makeshift metal bridge heated to the point it will burn anyone that tries to touch it or jump from stalagmite to stalagmite and risk falling into the lava river. While walking there you witness graffiti painted in blood and depicting all manners of vulgarity and debauchery alongside many cages with sinners not strong enough to protect themselves inside. Once there, the Town is a ramshackle pile of rocks, iron slabs, and chains tightly inhabited by people dressed in human hides and bones, while the constant string of noise, screams, shouts, and even small explosions drift in the air.
* ClingyMacGuffin: [[spoiler:Implied with Twilight's mace, which she seemingly picked up again after setting it down.]]
* CoDragons:
** Tirek has the other nine Espada.
** Sombra has the other twenty-five Sternritter.
** [[spoiler:Human Starlight has Chrysalis, Firefly, Platinum, and human Trixie.]]
** The Lament has Roka and Fenice.
* ColdHam
** Starlight Glimmer is OlderAndWiser than her pony counterpart and sees herself as above villain cliches acting detached and casual, but her inability to ''not'' monologue about something, long-winded manner of speech, DramaticDeadpan one-liners, megalomania, and dressing like a Creator/TetsuyaNomura villain complete with TooManyBelts makes her just as hammy in spite of that.
** Captain Platinum puts on the facade of a cool-headed and icy mask fit for a noble and her element but is ultimately driven by a fiery passion hidden under her stoic demeanor making her tremendously dramatic in whatever she does. [[spoiler: When she undergoes a VillainousBreakdown she becomes a full on LargeHam.]]
* CombatClairvoyance: Part of Sapphire Shores' power as The Quintessence is that since she has absolute control over her own reishi and can control/detect others, she can also analyze her opponent's reishi and see the "threads" of how their interactions with others will move forward into the future. This allows her to predict their movements in battle and, with less accuracy, predict the future in general based on how others' reishi interacts with others. Twilight compares it to the quantum theory of how if you know every variable about a molecule, you can predict just about everything it will do. [[spoiler:However, magic [[WrongContextMagic fundamentally messes with her calculations]], not that she doesn't know how to rely on common sense and her prior knowledge of her foe's personality to predict their actions.]]
* CombatMedic: Fluttershy graduates to this as she grows stronger. Originally, the most she could do was use a CompellingVoice and injecting her reiatsu into others to weaken or dominate her enemies while also using the same principles to power up herself and her allies, but as she improves she gains the ability to use that same power to heal others and herself while developing her hand-to-hand skills.
* CombatPragmatist:
** Rarity is full of this trope. Her fighting style depends on observing her opponents, attacking when they're distracted and using any means necessary to win. Your opponent is busy monologuing? Attack. [[ExplainingYourPowerToTheEnemy Ask about her powers?]] Tell them what a ridiculous idea it is. An enemy prepares a strong attack? Stab them in the back while they are at it. It's what makes her so deadly. Medley even describes her as the most ruthless of the group.
** Applejack has shades of this. While a very straightforward fighter, she's not above using more dirty tactics for her advantage, like creating a dust cover saturated with her reiatsu to hide and perform a sneak attack.
** Pharynx has the honor to be amongst the few people that stopped their opponents from releasing their full power. In his words there's no cheating, only the winner.
* CombatSadomasochist: Human Chrysalis' another disturbing Character Trait. She loves to receive pain as much she likes to inflict it. She enjoys it so much she consciously withholds her prominent [[HealingFactor healing powers]] so she can enjoy it longer.
* CombatTentacles: Jet Set is Sternritter K - The Kraken - which allows him to form massive spiked reishi tendrils around a reishi bubble with himself inside it powerful enough to act as both an offense capable of piercing through Hollows and protecting him from attacks. Of course, it's not perfect as someone with enough reiatsu can counter it, such as Torch tanking the strikes and ''biting'' through the tentacles, or the Lament slicing through them like paper.
* CommonalityConnection: Spike and Rainbow Dash quickly bond over their shared love of Anime. They promise to organize Anime Nights after everything calms down and the World doesn't end.
* ConflictingLoyalty:
** [[spoiler:When Celestia and Luna end up being tried as traitors, Soul Society is sent into an uproar as Soul Reapers from the lowest rank to even the other Captains have to decide whether to stand by the law of Central 46 or with the condemned Captains, both of which having records of being among the greatest members of their organization. Celestia's entire 13th Division pretty much gathers together in preparation to fight the 11th Division, and Luna's 2nd Division is noted to be split right down the middle in their loyalty]].
** [[spoiler: Zecora experiences this during the trial. Her Zanpakuto is said to be impossible to fool, so despite knowing that Celestia and Luna would never betray Soul Society, she still casts the deciding vote against them. Though considering she was really Chrysalis at the time, this was subverted since she was just playing a role.]]
** [[spoiler:When evidence all but mounts that the "treason" has been a bunch of hogwash and nothing more than manipulation, both Blueblood and Troubleshoes falter, but their loyalty to Platinum and Soul Society's laws respectively and lack of hard evidence lead them to siding with Hurricane (who himself honestly couldn't have cared if Celestia and Luna really were traitors and saw this as an opportunity to get Soul Society back on the offensive in the spirit war) against Sweet Cider, Cheese Sandwich, Daring Do, and Amore.]]
* CoolBoat: A really cool one [[spoiler: called The Treasury, found in the Underwater City, Aqualania]]. It's a peak of Ancient Seaponies {{Magitek}} preceding any modern warfare by centuries. Capable of [[CoolAirship air,]] water, and underwater travel, big enough to board hundreds of creatures while being manned by only a handful and equipped with magical shields and enough firepower to hold off a massive [[spoiler: mutated by dark magic]] sperm whales accompanied by an army of angry spirits. [[spoiler: No wonder Scylla thought she can conquer the world with it.]]
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Sunset, who grew up in the foster care system.
* CoverBlowingSuperpower: Several students and staff in Canterlot High are really Soul Reapers undercover in Gigai. The reason why they didn't use their powers in the previous three movies was because they were under orders from Soul Society not to use them in public.
* CovertPervert:
** [[spoiler:Celestia]], of all people. Her plan to escape imprisonment? [[spoiler:Making a ward pass out of her underwear.]] She also owns a bunch of reverse-harem manga.
** Midnight speaks in a sultry voice, dresses in very revealing clothes, and can't make a sentence without making a flirty comment. And since she's the sum of Twilight's repressed desires and emotions, then...
* CreepyCentipedes: The first creature that Sunset sees in Svartalfheim is a miles-long centipede, moving along the cave's ceiling. It doesn't bother them as they are too small for it to care.
* CreepyChild: [[spoiler: Cozy Glow]] full stop. Let's start with that she is in HELL. An actual Hell (and later claims to have been ''born'' there). Then there is the fact she might be the top dog on the pile of corpses in there, keeping the deepest part of it in relative order with her own gang called Legion, speaks about how horrible humans are and all the atrocities of the place with a huge smile on her half-burned face and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking casually swears and flips people off.]]
* CreepyGood: Discord, the kind candy store owner who assists the main characters.
* CurbStompBattle:
** The heroes fare badly against Fleur Des Lis. [[spoiler:Until Sunset gets her Shikai, then it becomes a much more even fight]].
** The heroes fare badly against [[spoiler:Grogar]] and later Captain Platinum. This convinces them that they need to step up their training if they want to start dealing with the big threats.
** Moondancer and Meadowbrook, both seated officers with released Shikai versus [[spoiler:Starlight Glimmer]]. It isn't even a contest [[spoiler:with Meadowbrook being rendered unconscious and in critical condition and Moondancer potentially fatally injured while their opponent is practically unharmed. The only reason they survive is because Starlight put them in medical pods afterwards, and even then Meadowbrook lost his Zanpakuto and Moondancer lost her powers]].
** Gilda versus the Quincy cadets is barely a contest, with only Twilight tapping into her magic giving her an edge. [[spoiler:When Twilight is forced to disengage to deal with her assassin, the rest of them do decently against her, but when she returns with Cinch in tow Gilda reveals she was holding back immensely since she wanted to fight Twilight and proceeds to decimate the cadets, slicing off Indigo Zap's legs, badly injuring Sour Sweet, almost killing Lemon Zest, and murdering Hacksaw before Twilight is able to turn the tables thanks to giving into more of Midnight's power.]]
** Once Fluttershy [[spoiler:completes her Fullbring, the end of the "fight" with Gilda can hardly be called such with how utterly she dominates her.]]
** Grogar admits that in a straight fight [[spoiler:Celestia]] would certainly deal this to him, [[CombatPragmatist which is why he doesn't play fair]]. Even with the deck stacked in his favor via [[spoiler:separating her from her Zanpakuto, using his copy of Adagio's siren gem to siphon power from all his slain Hollow experiments, and releasing his Resurreccion]], however, he still expresses some level of impressiveness she can still fight on a roughly even level.
** Morgawr vs Twilight. It's less of a fight and more of Twilight checking what her Higher Magic Spells can do.
* CurbStompCushion:
** When Hurricane unleashes his Bankai, Sunset and her friends are completely outmatched, literally getting scattered by his winds. That being said, they still do manage to give him a good fight, and Ditzy even says that the fact that they managed to hurt him ''at all'' shows just how far they've come. Best shown near the end, when Sunset's final and most powerful attack actually manages to stalemate a direct hit from Hurricane's Bankai; though it quickly loses ground, it's much better than Ditzy's Cero, which was completely swamped without resistance.
** Downplayed with Pinkie's fight with Cheese Sandwich. While she does give him a good fight and even manages to injure him, she still loses and it's clear she never stood a chance, even without Cheese using his Bankai.
** Human Starlight's first fight with Sunset and her friends was much harder for her than the chapter and Starlight's own public dismissal would have you believe. Rainbow's attack actually made her hand go numb, and when Ditzy went all-out Starlight states it was a good thing she was in an enclosed space (forcing her to scale things down) as she likely would've been soundly defeated otherwise.
** The "fight" between [[spoiler:Equestrian and Hollow Chrysalis]] [[CurbStompBattle can barely be called such]] given the former is under too heavy WorfHadTheFlu to put up a proper fight, but [[spoiler:she's able to shapeshift her foreleg into adamantium metal that lets her stab through the Arrancar's Hierro. It doesn't last long thanks to the Arrancar's HealingFactor, but points for what was otherwise a total defeat.]]
** Her fight with Cadence was even worse. Cadence ended up badly beaten, [[spoiler: and her soul almost taken from her.]] Her saving grace is that she's the first creature to hurt Chrysalis, [[CombatSadomasochist in a way that she doesn't enjoy.]] It's also the first time Chrysalis lost her cool.
** Bowtie barely takes Sweet Cider seriously during their fight, even calling out her [[UnskilledButStrong lack of technique]]. Then she uses the same trick Applejack used on her and manages to wound him. [[VillainRespect He's more impressed than angry.]]
** The mysterious [[TheGhost Segunda Etapa]] vs The Early Zero Division. They ultimately failed and fell to Glory and her army. But not before decimating the Army of God-like Spirits on par with Glory and her Siblings.
* CursedWithAwesome: Hell's chains have an element of this. Sure, they bind Sinners to Hell, to the point that even if a Sinner manages to physically escape Hell for a time they'll just get dragged back before too long, but if they have enough [[ThePowerOfHate hatred]], they can get powers out of it. [[spoiler:Cozy Glow's]] power actually lets her [[ChainPain control the chains bound to her to a degree]], using the nearly indestructible bonds as weapons. They ''also'' make sure that the Sinners revive after being killed in Hell (even if it slowly breaks them down over time), as any soul lacking said chains would be completely destroyed after being killed in Hell, with no hope of reincarnation.
* {{Cyborg}}: What [[MadScientist Grogar's]] Resurreccion turns him into. Noticeably, this ''isn't'' what he originally looked like, but rather the result of "[[ProfessorGuineaPig enhancements]]" he made to himself. He can also do it to others. [[spoiler: Apparently, Guto's army is first in line to get upgrades too.]]
** [[spoiler: Greta]] is the first to receive this treatment. The first time we see her [[HarpingOnAboutHarpies Resurrección]] it's already been modified to turn into this. It adds metal lining to the bone feathers into metal, jet boosters onto her shoulders, and hosses that go into her sides. She says she agreed to be modified after [[spoiler: Gilda abandoning her during the Everfree Arc.]]
* CycleOfRevenge: The Soul Reapers, Hollows, and Quincy have been at war for so long a lot of people, from the veterans to the newbies, have grudges for losing people they love. Probably best highlighted when Twilight is desperately fighting Gilda to keep her from killing her Quincy comrades, where Gilda notes they're not that different [[spoiler:before murdering Hacksaw [[=McColt=]] when the latter is forced to push her sister Buzzsaw and Cotton Barrel out of the way of Gilda's Cero]].
-->'''Twilight''': L-Leave my friends alone!\\
'''Gilda''': Pisses you off, doesn't it? Seeing your comrades bleed? Pisses me off too. Want to guess how many comrades I’ve seen bleed and die fighting you Quincy!? Payback is a ''bitch'' and so am I.
* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: [[spoiler: Firefly]] claims she had good reason for abandoning Rainbow Dash and her father, though it's still unclear what said reason is or even if it was a good one. Regardless, Rainbow is too angry at her to care. [[spoiler: Firefly later reveals that the reason she left was to protect Rainbow and her father from the Zero Division.]]
* DamagedSoul: This is [[spoiler: Gaia's]] fate after her confrontation with Chrysalis. She had been left as a barely conscious soul remnants, held together only by her hatred [[spoiler: and occasional sacrifices,]] for hundreds of years. To finally regain her mind and powers she had to [[DealWithTheDevil make a deal with Charybdis,]] [[spoiler: [[MergerOfSouls and merge her soul]] with Gloriosa.]]
* DamselOutOfDistress: [[spoiler:Sonata and Aria manage to escape their cell by the time the rest of the heroes come to rescue them]].
* DeathlessAndDebauched: Chrysalis used to feast on human sacrifices five hundred years before events of the story, not because it was convenient but because she'd found it funny. Her favorite pastime activities are massive orgies, instigating and watching senseless slaughter, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and playing catch with her trueborn daughter.]]
* DecompositeCharacter:
** Kenpachi Zaraki is split between Hurricane (Captain of the 11th division, tends to hold back when he fights, sees the main character as a WorthyOpponent.) and [[spoiler: Sweet Cider]]. (Has earned the title of Kenpachi, UnskilledButStrong, one of the strongest Soul Reapers, can't properly use her Zanpakto, [[spoiler:is in a parental relationship with a young girl.]]) Also, both are [[BloodKnight Blood Knights]].
** Ichigo's Soul Society[=/=][[spoiler:Hollow[=/=]Quincy abilities]] are split between Sunset Shimmer,(Soul Society), human Twilight Sparkle,(Quincy), and [[spoiler: Adagio Dazzle (Hollow).]]
** His decomposition is taken a step further in that while Sunset got Soul Reaper abilities, [[spoiler:Applejack has a GenderInverted variant of his TragicPast: her mother became a Soul Reaper, her father was infected by a Hollow, and Grand Fisher was responsible for their deaths]].
** Captain-Commander Yamamoto is split between Captain-Commander Scorpan and [[spoiler: Celestia]]. The former bears his title, immense spiritual power and personality, while the latter possesses a similar Zanpakto to Yamamoto's ''Ryujin Jakka'', as well as a similar release phrase:
--> [[spoiler: '''Celestia''']]: ”Reduce the firmaments of creation to dust and consume the weeping ashes. ''Shinryu Taiyo!''”
** Kon is split between Adagio (a living plush toy that's one of the main characters) and Chappy (a comedy relief character who is the result of a Soul Candy pill)
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Rarity learns in Chapter 117 just ''why'' Fullbringers need someone nearby to stabilize their final transformation. When she's forced to do so in order to gain the power-up necessary to defeat and kill Hoity Toity, she only realizes when Rainbow Dash shows up afterwards and points it out that the explosion of power ''actually killed her, destroyed her body, and broke her Soul Chain'', which she didn't notice because she was so busy in her life-and-death struggle against the Sternritter. To be fair, she'd already been ''stabbed in the heart''. with only her powers keeping her alive, so she would have almost certainly died anyway.]]
* DeadAlternateCounterpart:
** Princess Twilight asks Sunset if she knows anything about her human counterpart. Sunset reveals that she found out that her human self died in a fire years ago. Given that this is a ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' crossover whether she got sent to Soul Society or became a Hollow is still a question up in the air. [[spoiler:It turns out to be neither, as she's very much alive.]]
** Eventually Adagio gets asked this question [[spoiler:by Sunset's said counterpart]]. She confesses that she hadn't really thought about it, but imagines that her counterpart and her sisters' own are either dead or in hiding, as she can't imagine another version of [[ItsAllAboutMe her]] would be satisfied not making a name for herself. [[spoiler:As it turns out, the Siren's counterparts are ''Undead'' Alternate Counterparts.]]
* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:Adagio gave up a part of her soul to Charybdis in order to learn how to use her siren gem to feed on negative emotion.]]
* DeflectorShield: Just like in canon, Shining Armor can use his power, ''Bastion'', to create massive forcefields that vaporize Hollows on contact.
* DestructoNookie: [[spoiler:It's all but stated that Sweet Cider and Hard Nail engaged in this while alive during a brief moment of peace when Lament jokes about how his fight with Sweet Cider reminded him [[NoodleIncident of that time when Granny Smith wasn't around]] and Cider quickly shushes him with a blush since Applejack is nearby.]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough:
** Sunset regularly pokes fun at herself by pointing out how poorly thought out her EvilPlan to conquer Equestria with brainwashed highschoolers really was.
** On her first day in Svartalheim, Rainbow Dash eats some mushrooms. Without asking if they are edible. IntoxicationEnsues.
* DieOrFly:
** Ditzy tells the girls that true desperation in life-or-death situations is the fastest way to awaken and evolve one's powers. The girls' TrainingFromHell is very likely to actually kill them. It works.
** This is the usual process behind a Menos becoming an Arrancar. In theory, all you have to do is tear off your mask. In practice, your will needs to be strong enough to hold your destabilizing spiritual power together as your body reshapes itself. The more advanced you are in your evolution the more it boosts the chance that you'll survive, but it's still a risk. [[spoiler:Adagio transforms in a rage at seeing Luna and her subordinates take Ember from Hueco Mundo, determined to not lose her first friend here.]]
* DirtyBusiness: [[spoiler:Sapphire Shores has used her power to seek out internal threats to Sombra for hundreds if not thousands of years to nip them in the bud, and she's done everything from quietly dissuaded them from their predicted course of action to [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident to killing them or putting them in a position to be killed while disguising it as accidents]]. About the only time she's ever hesitated was when one of those predictions required her to [[MurderByInaction let Radiant Hope die]] to prevent her unborn children from possibly killing Sombra in the future.]]
* DisabilitySuperpower: The Lament's emotional state combined with his "deathless" body prove a boon against two Sternritter's powers. Against Harshwhinny's The Uncaring, the apathy simply makes him more focused and determined to kill all threats while blocking out his deeper emotional turmoil, while the fact he doesn't need his organs to function makes Upper Crust's The Judgement fail when she uses her DesperationAttack to stop his heart [[spoiler:after fatally wounding Jet Set]]. It's only the fact that Harshwhinny recognizes this that lets the two Sternritter escape with their lives [[spoiler:when she realizes her power is preventing him from [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone properly registering the regret he felt killing Jet Set after he sacrificed himself for his wife Upper Crust]] and deactivating causes him to retreat back to Las Noches to digest what he did.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: Again, the Lament ''threatened to kill someone'' because he thought she wasn't going to finish an apple. An apple, by the way, that [[spoiler:Adagio]] never gave any indication that she was going to waste it. And according to Ember, the guy's rather fond of this trope...
* DivineConflict: [[spoiler:One occurred in Equestria in the past between two factions of gods, one that wished to preserve the world as it was, one that believed that the old way was unsustainable and wanted to remake the world anew. Reportedly, neither the Reformists or Preservers won.]]
* DontCallMeSir: Sombra, King of the Quincy, admits that he finds the royal titles tedious and would prefer to be called Sombra. As most of the Quincy are scared of him due to well-earned tales of his youth, they continue to call him "His Majesty" and only [[spoiler:Twilight Sparkle]] calls him Sombra.
* DoppelgangerGetsSameSentiment: Despite not being her children, Chrysalis keeps doting and treating Thorax and Pharynx like they were hers, to the point, Cadence wonders if she had gone insane and literally can't see the difference.
* DraggedOffToHell: The fate of any soul subjected to the Soul Reaper's ''Konsō'' ritual that ends up summoning the [[HellGate Gates of Hell]], as we can see in the chapter 6. Clover explains its reserved for any soul judged too sinful in life. [[spoiler:Or any soul the Zero Division wants to have removed from the cycle of reincarnation for their own reasons, whether it's because you're someone they have a personal beef with or just a reincarnation of said person. Sunburst being the latter is what causes Starlight's StartOfDarkness, and Rarity ends up suffering this fate for being the former in Episode 180.]]
* DragonsAreDivine: [[spoiler: Celestia's]] Zanpakto, ''Shinryu Taiyo'' (Divine Dragons of the Sun), manifest not as a weapon, but as [[ThePowerOfTheSun twin dragons of pure fire.]] Unfortunately, they are very willful and difficult to control even in Shikai, let alone Bankai.
* DramaticIrony: When talking to Twilight about the similarities and differences between the worlds [[spoiler:Flash mentions that Radiant Hope is a part of Soul Society, noting that she doesn't have any connection to Earth's version of Sombra.]] If only he knew...
* TheDreaded: Scorapan is this to the Hollows. He's the strongest Soul Reaper that's ever been, fought and defeated Tirek, the strongest Hollows of them all. Gilda even calls him a Boogeyman. For her, he was not a [[CoolOldGuy kind old man]] but a monster that terrorized her kind, longer than most Arrancars lived. Unlike the people like Celestia, other Captains, and even the characters, [[spoiler: the news of his death make her happy.]]
* DreamingOfTimesGoneBy: [[spoiler:When Twilight picks up her mace, she catches a glimpse of an ancient goddess named Astra talking with another deity.]]
* DualWielding:
** [[spoiler:Celestia and Luna]], who are the only known Soul Reapers to wield dual Zanpakuto.
** After having her Zanpakuto and Fullbring separated, [[spoiler: Sweet Cider]] can now dual wield both at once. Particularly impressive considering they're both {{BFS}}es.
** [[spoiler:Sunset]] eventually discovers that her own Zanpakuto is this, complete with two Zanpakuto spirits. Interestingly, it's a single blade when not released, which is part of why she didn't figure it out sooner.
** Thanks to Starlight Glimmer lending it to her [[spoiler:Chrysalis]] can use her own Zanpakuto and [[spoiler:Zecora's]] at once.
** In his Resurreccion form, Thorax has a pair of "deer horn" knives as weapons.
** After she awakens to her [[spoiler:Phantom Blade's power, Fenice can use it and her Fullbring at once.]]
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Thorax is described as quite effeminate and [[PrettyBoy quite good-looking]], and his [[TheGadfly personality]] seems set to match it. [[spoiler:It's likely part of the reason why he can impersonate Chrysalis so well]].
* DueToTheDead:
** Despite working with death, Soul Reapers have their own funeral rites. When a soul "dies", it leaves a body before being absorbed into the ambient reishi. They use cremation to speed up the process, so they don't bury their dead. Instead, they carve their names on stone pillars.
** Quincy perform a Military Funeral for those that had lost their lives during the attack on Las Noches. Each family carried a casket of their fallen family member (at least of those that bodies been managed to [[NoBodyLeftBehind be brought back]]) towards a graveyard counting possibly tens of thousands of graves, followed by a speech from Quincy King. Twilight, in her grief finds the whole ordeal superfluous.
* DyingDeclarationOfHate: She doesn't die, but after being beaten by Sunset, Platinum tells her that she hopes Sunset has someone she loves more than anything, so she'll know the pain of losing them.

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* EarlyBirdCameo: Someone implied to be Wallflower Blush has made a couple of appearances by the "Camp Everfree" arc.
* EasyRoadToHell: [[spoiler:While Hell is ''supposed'' to be reserved for those who committed grave sins in life, Zanpakutou can and ''do'' scan for other criteria set by the Zero Division, and any soul with those characteristics will be DraggedOffToHell as well. These criteria can be anything from being a reincarnation of a member of the Star Family that rebelled in protest at the idea of creating the Central 46, like Human Sunburst, or being someone that the Zero Division personally wants out of the way, like Human Rarity.]]
* EatingTheEnemy: Pinkamena. And of course any Hollow can do this.
* EatingTheEyeCandy:
** Despite herself, [[spoiler:Sweet Cider]] can't stop eying up [[spoiler:Lament/Hard Nail]] and remarking to herself how handsome he looks even while in a maelstrom of conflicting emotions while they fight. [[spoiler:Only fitting, considering he ''is'' the man she fell in love with and married and even turning into an Arrancar didn't detract from his looks. In fact, she even admits to herself she likes the longer shaggy hair.]]
** Adagio finds both [[{{Bishonen}} Thorax]] and [[{{Hunk}} Pharynx]] extremely attractive in their own ways and wouldn't mind a moment with each of them alone. She quickly stops herself from thoughts like that as she is on the brink of full-blown war.
* ElementalPowers: Many characters have various powers relating to the elements, but Captain Commander Scorpan is the standout, as his Zanpakutou ''Shiki no Ken'' (Sword of Four Seasons) invokes the elements associated with the seasons of Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter and allows him to combine and wield them at will [[YinYangBomb even if they would logically cancel each other out]]. [[spoiler:When he unleashes his Bankai ''Shunkashuto-Ikkon'' (Four Seasons - One Soul), he becomes capable of [[KungFuWizard channeling the elements directly through his body via martial arts]].]]
* EmpoweredBadassNormal:
** Night Light is this among the Sternritter. His Schrift, The Command, isn't of much use in a one-on-one fight and is best suited for tactical command, and while he has [[SuperMode Vollstandig]] he can't even use it unless all else is on the line since as one of the [[PraetorianGuard Schuztstaffle]] he'll turn into a HumanoidAbomination upon activation. He has no other "unique" abilities that even a simple Quincy doesn't learn. The difference is that Night Light refined the base Quincy abilities to a level only ''Sombra'' himself can match. His normal arrows are massive and described as closer to spears, his version of Licht Regen fires ''millions'' of arrows at once while most Quincy can "only" get by with hundreds or thousands, and even his Seele Schneider is larger and powerful enough to slice clean through the Cero of an Espada as strong as Torch while in his Resurreccion.
** [[spoiler:Maud Pie was fending off lesser Hollows on her own ''before'' she gained a Fullbring.]]
* EnemyMine:
** WWI and WWII were some of the few times that the Soul Reapers and Quincy were able to put their own conflicts aside, for the most part at least, and focus on the Hollows born from all the people dying horrific deaths.
** Tirek has repeatedly offered to ally with Sombra and the Quincies against their mutual Soul Reaper enemies, but Sombra has always refused. Most of the Espada think that it's just a courtesy at this point and he doesn't really think that Sombra will take it. Guto is the only other Espada who doesn't want to wipe them out, but that's simply because he wants to conquer and enslave them instead.
** When the Kraken attacks the beach trying to get the magic in Indigo Zap's legs, the Humane 6, Twilight, and the Shadowbolts team up to fend it off.
** [[spoiler:When Grogar sets his experimental subjects on Canterlot City as a distraction, Sweet Cider and her forces work together with Filthy Rich and Soarin to defend the citizens.]]
** [[spoiler:Starswirl works together with Twilight, Cadence, Filthy Rich, and Soarin to defeat Sapphire Shores.]]
** Ulgriv is forced to flee with the ponies since the translation spell on him causes his fellows to assume that he's a traitor. He openly admits that he hopes that they get killed though.
* EnemyScan: One of Clover's shikai's abilities. Given enough time, it can analyze an attack or ability and use ''Hitei'' to negate it.
* EnigmaticMinion:
** Thorax serves Chrysalis faithfully as her son and top Fraccion, but his AffablyEvil nature combined with his respect for [[spoiler:Adagio]], his self-stated desire to keep the Arrancar in high spirits, and some level of distrust for what his mother and Grogar are getting up to paints him as someone with motivations of his own. [[spoiler:He also apparently has some history with Luna, make of it what you will.]]
*** [[spoiler:He eventually reveals to Adagio that he wants change in Hueco Mundo, to change the status quo for the better, rather than just keep living in a DeathWorld where Hollows must fight against everyone, including each other, to simply survive.]]
** Medley is noted to be the loose cannon of the Zero Division, with Discord himself admitting she's the one member who he's not confident he can accurately predict the actions of. Not even the other Zero Division members are privy to what exactly she's thinking or planning, which frustrates them to no end when she trolls them about it. [[spoiler:She claims to Bowtie that she wants to shake things up because she doesn't like Glory bossing the rest of them around when they're ''supposed'' to be equals, which is why she let Ditzy escape with information about the Zero Division's crimes, among other things, and at the very least she also wants to [[ItAmusedMe get amusement out of it]], but it's hinted that there's more to it than just that, particularly regarding the heroines.]]
* EnlightenedSelfInterest: The basis of Adagio's Rule. Yes, she takes in the dregs of Arrancar society, treats them with respect, and helps them get stronger, but it's mostly to strengthen her own position as an Espada. [[TheSocialDarwinist Torch]] is somewhat baffled by this approach and points out [[StrawmanHasAPoint the potential flaws,]] but Adagio assures him she can make it work.
* EntertaininglyWrong: The still-active translation spell on Ulgriv causes his fellows to assume that he's a traitor allied with the rescue party.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: Hydia's Fraccion are all somehow deformed from the more normal human shape most Arrancar possess, since she doesn't care about looks as long as they're loyal to her and aren't sticks in the mud.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: As shown in Glory's flashback [[spoiler:to the day Zero Division betrayed the Soul Queen]], not even TheSocialDarwinist Tirek could ever bring himself to hate his divine grandmother, only able to embarrassingly mutter to himself on how he'd have to bathe in the blood of his enemies to ignore how her declaration of love for her family moved him. [[spoiler:Ironically, this moment of emotional vulnerability made him just a little too slow on the uptake when Glory and her cohorts made their fateful move.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** Hurricane still loves his late wife Pansy; hiding it behind a tough facade because he presumably doesn't want to show weakness.
** Human Torch (an Espada) clearly loves his daughter Ember dearly.
** Human Starlight's entire motivation is due to this, she wants to get back at Soul Society because she believes they [[spoiler: sent her friend Sunburst to Hell.]]
** The Fourth Espada [[AxCrazy might be a few eggs short of a dozen]], but he cares for his adopted children dearly, to the point where he'll kill anyone who tries to hurt them. [[spoiler:This love quickly extends to Sweet Cider and Applejack when he remembers them.]]
** Hollow Chrysalis is FauxAffablyEvil incarnate, but she does truly love her "trueborn" Arrancar children, namely Thorax, Pharynx, and Ocellus. Thorax is actually rather conflicted by this, since he wants to call his mother "evil", but knows that she genuinely loves him and his siblings. [[spoiler: That love is so strong that [[DoppelgangerGetsSameSentiment it extends even to their Equestrian Counterparts.]]]] This is in stark contrast to her Equestrian counterpart.
** [[spoiler:The Gaia Everfree/Gloriosa Daisy fusion still has all of the latter's love for her brother Timber Spruce, and in the past the former genuinely cared about her Fraccion, her feud with Chrysalis starting partially because Chrysalis killed one, and when she had the other two killed, Gaia was ''furious''.]]
** Hollow Tirek would self-admit to being fully willing to kill his brother Scorpan over their ideological differences [[spoiler:and hated how his brother refused to believe him about the fate of the Soul Queen, but when he senses that Scorpan has been killed by Glory, he does feel genuine grief for his brother's passing. It also adds yet another grudge to his vendetta against the Zero Division.]] He also values what few beings he considers "friends" to the point that [[spoiler:when he realizes that Human Sunset Shimmer/Fenice is the daughter of one of said friends, Ravana, he's outright ''chummy'' with her.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler: [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017 The Storm King]]]] thinks [[spoiler: Captain Platinum]] is out of [[spoiler: her]] mind after [[spoiler: being captured by Human Starlight’s group and interrogated by Platinum]].
** [[spoiler:Bount Trixie is seemingly worried for a moment when she thinks that her Doll's killed the Equestrian Rainbow Dash]].
** [[spoiler:In a flashback, Gaia Everfree was rather disturbed by Chrysalis's hunger for Soul Reaper flesh.]]
** An OmnicidalManiac Jörmungandr is, he forbids Ofridr from using the corpses of his comrades. He's cool with using every else's however.
* EvilMatriarch:
** [[spoiler: Firefly is Rainbow Dash's mother, and is one of Starlight Glimmer's CoDragons. Although "evil" is really up for debate.]]
** Chrysalis's Arrancar are all her children, and she's one of the evilest people in the story.
* EvilIsNotAToy: Human Starlight and [[spoiler:Firefly]] discuss this about their "ally" human Chrysalis, ending with them agreeing wholeheartedly that she must be kept on a tight leash and must be observed at all times.
* EvilIsPetty: Human Chrysalis, who Hoops, Dumbbell, and Score all say will see any Hollow claiming the chambers of a former enemy of hers as a challenge to her authority.
* EvilReactionary: [[spoiler:The Zero Division's entire plan is basically a hatred of how the world has become, and wanting to make it what it once was by grinding up all but a chosen few mortal souls to revive their fallen divine family, with Glory all but throwing a tantrum at the idea that the deaths and fracturing of the souls of their relatives could be a natural thing like the Soul Queen had accepted.]]
* EvilWeapon: Posey's Zanpakuto ''Kyoki'' and Cheese Sandwich's ''Hone Nashi''. Kyoki plays the trope to its fullest extent by affecting Posey's mind and turning her into an AxCrazy psychopath when its shikai is released. Hone Nashi prefers to simply disobey orders and go for lethal strikes of its own accord once it feels a fight has been dragging on too long.
* ExactWords:
** When asked by Pony Twilight if she and Luna have any capability with spirit energy, Celestia replies that the mysteries of such power are realms beyond the experience and knowledge they ‘presently’ have. Twilight notices the word choice, but doesn't comment on it, figuring that Celestia would tell them if it was important.
** Human Wind Rider copied the Bount in the past, and while he swore never to make any more of the soul energy vials he used, he managed to hang onto a few just in case, since his oath didn't forbid him from ''using'' what he still had, just making it.
** [[spoiler:Adagio]] notes that Tirek specifically says that the Zero Division has power that ''rivals'' his own and Sombra, not exceeds it. Meaning that if she gets powerful enough to beat Tirek, she'll have reached the power ceiling.
** [[spoiler:The "Treasury" in Aqualania turns out to be the name of a ship, not a literal treasury.]]
* ExcuseMeWhileIMultitask: Ditzy is so strong, fast, and skilled that she can casually chat, make witty observations, check her nails, etc while the girls are trying their hardest to hit her.
* ExplainingYourPowerToTheEnemy: {{Lampshaded}} and {{defied}} by Rarity during her battle with Captain Blueblood.
-->'''Blueblood''': Stop that!\\
'''Rarity''': Stop what?\\
'''Blueblood''': Using dirty little tricks! You only injure me when you pull out some weird fake-out maneuver out of nowhere with that icky blood power! That spike didn’t even come from the disgusting pool that you have flying around! Where did it even come from!?\\
'''Rarity''': Oh, are we sharing the secrets of our abilities now? I’ve seen this part of Rainbow Dash’s quaint Japanese cartoons. The characters do so love to talk about how their powers work in those shows. Sorry, darling, but I don’t think I want to tell you anything. Doesn’t strike me as a very smart thing to do. Of course if you want to tell me about your abilities, I’m all ears.
* ExtranormalInstitute: Along with CHS, Crystal Prep is revealed to be this combined with HeroAcademy, serving as a training ground for Quincies.
* EyeScream:
** During the Arrancar attack on the Quincy cadets, Garble ends up blinded by Twilight, but he recovers. He repays the favor by slicing and destroying Sugarcoat's eyes. Because she doesn't have handy regeneration, she initially believes her fighting days are over before Twilight makes a visor combining technology, magic, and reishi to give her sight back.
** [[spoiler:Midnight slams the wrecked remains of her bow into Sapphire Shores' eyes to temporarily blind her so she can forcibly tear away the Sternritter's defenses and let Cadence strike the final blow.]]
** [[spoiler:The Soul Queen lost both of her Eyes. One is sealed inside of Twilight, and the other's whereabouts are unknown.]]
* FacialHorror: Cozy Glow's right side of her face is melted flesh, with all her features scorched away. That includes her eye. It's worth mentioning that Cozy is still a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl.
* FakeWeakness: During her battle with Captain Starswirl, Twilight attempts to fool him into believing her Schrift [[RealityWarper The Variable]] requires her to physically see her target in order to alter its variables as she desires in order to set up a decisive blow, when in reality she only needs to detect it with her spiritual senses. While he does suspect a trick, she's able to lead him on sufficiently with carefully-timed feints and fake limitations that when she finally goes for the finisher and seemingly misses, he lets his guard down upon believing she's goofed up and ends up taking a massive explosive arrow to the back. He congratulates her and admits she truly is impressive before activating his Bankai.
* FamilyValuesVillain: The Lament puts a strong emphasis on family, togetherness and friendship. Fitting, as he was [[spoiler: a member of the Apple Family in life.]]
* FantasticRacism:
** [[FishPeople Sahuagin]] and Seaponies do not like each other, as shown by interactions between Ulgriv and Wavecrest. Seaponies see them as nothing more than killers and plunderers. Sahuagins justify their actions, that they'd been driven out of their home to the Abyss centuries ago by Seaponies and other aquatic races. A place that is cold, dark, and lacks food and any other necessities.
*** Despite her animosity, [[ActionMom Wavecrest]] admits she [[SympathyForTheDevil feels sorry for Ulgriv,]] who had to [[ChildSoldiers become a warrior at such a young age.]]
** After centuries of war, there is a lot of bad blood between Soul Reapers, Hollows, and Quincies. It's ''especially'' bad between Hollows and Quincies.
*** Fleur has it especially bad, even by Quincy standards. She's exceptionally eager to murder them all. Reapers are barely any better in her book.
** As hard to find anyone Glory doesn't look down at, he has a special disgust for Hollows.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: [[spoiler:Soul Reaper Flash Sentry]] gets a Pacific Island vibe from the Equestrian seaponies.
* FearlessFool: Lightning Dust, who will happily throw herself into any fight LeeroyJenkins style. It is partially due to the fact her Schrift "The Daredevil" makes her stronger the more in danger she is, but she also admits that she would prefer to go out young in a blaze of glory than waste away in old age. The Smooze calls her sort of thinking insane, [[AndIMustScream as he would gladly do anything to escape the pain he's constantly in and live a full life]], and Hoity Toity expresses an amused similar sentiment after the battle.
* FemaleMonsterSurprise: [[spoiler:Adagio]] is floored when Di Roy tells them that the giant tyrannosaurus Adjuchas Hollow, Gaw, he's partnered with is a female.
* Fiction500: Many Quincy families are rather wealthy, like the Riches or Twilight's family.
* FighterMageThief: The three main factions roughly fall into this dynamic:
** The Hollows/Arrancars are the "Fighter" archetype; they tend to be physically larger and stronger than the average Soul Reaper or Quincy (especially before they become Arrancar and gain a more human-sized form), can fire powerful and destructive Cero blasts, and their Hierros and the regenerative abilities that some possess make them much better at taking damage than the other groups, but Grogar notes [[MagicallyIneptFighter that their reiatsu isn't suited to the finely tuned reiryoku manipulation that gives Soul Reapers such versatility with their Kido spells]], with all of his experiments to try to fix this failing having been failures.
** The Soul Reapers are the "Mages"; their Zanpakutou, with their inherent abilities, edge them into more MagicKnight territory, but they are still by far the best of the three at manipulating reiryoku in order to cast the various types of Kido spells.
** The Quincies fall into the "Thief" role; since they fight in living human bodies they tend to be more fragile than Soul Reapers and Arrancars, even with Blut Vene, hence why they prefer to used ranged weapons in comparison to the more sword-dominated other factions, and most don't have anything close to the lifespans of the either group, with their Quincy alchemy being more limited than Kido and requiring physical components and preparation to use effectively. As a result of being relatively WeakButSkilled, they rely heavily on technology and the unusual tactics that the Sternritters can use due to their Schrifts in order to keep up with the other factions.
* TheFightingNarcissist: Catrina is incredibly proud of her beauty, to the point she's jealous of Chrysalis, becomes enraged if she's ever marked (especially on her face) and only resorts to her Resurreccion when she has no choice because it apparently makes her uglier.
* FireIceDuo: Sunset Shimmer wields the fire-type Zanpakuto ''Hokori'', while Sixth Division Captain Platinum wields the ice-type Zanpakuto ''Fuyukogo''. Not only do the two clash on personality and ideological issues, their [[LivingWeapon Zanpakuto]] also are quite eager to clash against each other, something both of them comment on. Fittingly enough, the two face each other both at the prelude to and the climax of the Soul Society Arc ala Ichigo and Byakuya.
* FirstPeriodPanic: Sunset tells Ditzy that at her first period, she freaked out so much she went to a hospital, thinking she was dying. After the embarrassment, she spent the next week studying human biology. She finds periods more annoying than being in heat.
* FisherKing: A sufficiently powerful Arrancar have limited control over the part of Hueco Mundo they have claimed as their territory.
** This is what cause the inside of Las Noches to be basked in constant light.
** The ground at Storm King's base of operation was able to bear trees for that reason. It allowed him to provide additional food for his subject. [[spoiler: It also adds to his modus Operanti - He lures other Arrancars with promise of food and shelter only to devour them up in the end.]]
* FisherKingdom: Any non-Beasts that find themselves in the Beast Realm will gradually transform into a Beast themselves, which can become permanent with enough time. Typical humans would become visibly transformed within days, while those with higher spiritual powers would need to remain for weeks for any noticable changes to occur, [[spoiler:though Sunset having a Phoenix MythicalMotif apparently makes her changes happen faster.]]
* FlamingSword: Half of Sunset's Shikai, a flaming broadsword.
* FlashStep: This is a Manga/{{Bleach}} crossover, so this is to be expected.
** One of Grogar's experiments can fire tiny ''Balas that can use Flash Steps''.
* FlawedPrototype: [[spoiler:Ditzy's Vizard abilities seem less refined than Human Starlight's, who has better control over her Inner Hollow, given that her eyes are unchanged when she summons her mask. Firefly later confirms that Pipsqueak's own Inner Hollow shouldn't come out unless he gets really riled up or brings it out deliberately, thanks to Starlight refining the process.]]
** As in canon, the Letzt Stil technique has been abandoned by the Quincy for its flaws, like how a Quincy using it will lose their powers. Vollständig, the new SuperMode they created to replace it, is a relatively recent development that only got openly used for the first time in the attack on Los Noches, but it provides far more power with fewer drawbacks.
* FlechetteStorm: Blueblood's Shikai ''Mezurashi Kokei'' (Uncommon Vision) produces 32 nearly invisible daggers made of glass that he can control at will, very similarly to [[{{Expy}} Byakuya's Senbonzakura]]. He can also make them individually [[StuffBlowingUp release an explosion of Reishi energy that annihilates whatever they hit without damaging the blades]].
* {{Foil}}: Several, particularly between the human world and Equestrian versions of the characters.
** Captain Blueblood and Prince Blueblood, Prince Blueblood is a shallow PrinceCharmless with no depth, only holds his position by blood, has shown no appreciable skill, and blew off Rarity, while Captain Blueblood is a boorish, foppish noble, he was born with TheGift, the more martial culture of Soul Society ensures that he has the power and skill needed of his position, and after his defeat by Rarity he listens to her criticisms and shows HiddenDepths beginning to put forth the effort to improve himself.
** Pony Starlight and Human Starlight Glimmer as villains. Pony Starlight is unstable LargeHam, while Human Starlight is a composed ColdHam, Pony Starlight is a PsychopathicWomanChild with a VagueAge who is at most in her twenties, while Human Starlight is defined by being an OlderAndWiser villain who has refined her skills as a woman in her thirties, Pony Starlight ruled over a town as a dictator, manipulating them into giving up their individuality while denying her own absurd magical talent, Human Starlight revels in her great power which she spent decades building and refining while surrounding herself with a small cabal of talented and unique individuals who willingly serve her knowing what they're getting into, Pony Starlight became Twilight's apprentice while Human Starlight holds seniority over Sunset as the HerosEvilPredecessor, Pony Starlight's plans regularly suffer from DidntThinkThisThrough while Human Starlight is TheChessmaster who can play XanatosSpeedchess when things get dicey, Pony Starlight's appearance invokes TheyLookJustLikeEVeryoneElse, while Human Starlight wears a flamboyant outfit that consists of a SpyCatsuit, TooManyBelts, and a BadassLongcoat, Pony Starlight's StartOfDarkness was caused by Sunburst moving away causing her to commit petty DisproportionateRetribution against a working society, while Human Starlight's StartOfDarkness and madness was caused by a broken system that caused [[spoiler: Sunburst to unjustly be sent to Hell.]]
** King Sombra to Quincy King Sombra, King Sombra is ObviouslyEvil with a ZeroPercentApprovalRating among the Crystal Ponies as TheDreaded who he turned into a SlaveRace, Quincy Sombra is AmbiguouslyEvil and acts as AFatherToHisMen to the Quincy, who all willingly serve him with UndyingLoyalty. In the comics Sombra usurped the Crystal Empire from Princess Amore while Quincy Sombra is the rightful king of the Quincy, being the progenitor of the race, King Sombra was an EvilOverlord while Quincy Sombra acts as TheGoodKing, King Sombra spent a thousand years being sealed away while Quincy Sombra has been active for over a thousand years. However, several comments and Sombra's own words imply there was a time he wasn't so different from his Equestrian counterpart before he TookALevelInKindness.
** Equestrian Discord towards Human Discord. Equestrian Discord is his words most powerful magic user while Human Discord is his world's greatest MadScientist, even creating the Hogyoku. Equestrian Discord was his own act at first feeling like he needed no friends or allies, while Human Discord was a part of an organization like Soul Society and even after being exiled was joined by his closest friends and allies. Equestrian Discord was turned to stone because Celestia and Luna would not tolerate his cruelty while Soul Society allowed Human Discord to perform unethical experiments as the head of Hitsuyo Aku. Both Discords were once evil in one way or another, but Equestrian Discord's god like powers gave him an extreme LackOfEmpathy making his reformation very difficult even with friends while the weaker Human Discord could more easily emphasize with others and once he actually got to know his test subjects he turned into a better man all by himself eventually going as far to become the BigGood in contrast to the still unreliable Spirit of Chaos.
** Equestrian Chrysalis and Arrancar Chrysalis.
** Equestrian Ocellus and Arrancar Ocellus.
** Siren Sonata and [[spoiler: Nereid Sonata]]
* FogOfDoom: Daring Doo's power allows her to create a dense mist, in which she can hide. The fog is harmless on its own, but Daring can dissolve her body in it, [[{{Intangibility}} making herself impervious to attacks.]]
* TheForceIsStrongWithThisOne: Characters and the narration commenting on each other's spiritual power is quite common. Sunset also notes that once someone gets into the high enough tiers it becomes fuzzy trying to accurately guess what their power is at exactly and it's more of a "feeling" based on past experience with others of a similar level.
** Special mention has to go to Tirek, however, who's reiatsu is so strong the other Espadas' own pale before it. [[spoiler:Adagio]] describes the Fifth Espada Torch's weakened spiritual pressure like a bonfire with ever-present heat on her skin; she then goes on to describe a casual reading of Tirek's ''suppressed'' spiritual power like the corona of a blazing star ready to vaporize anything that displeases him.
** The first time [[spoiler:Gaia Everfree]] ever met Chrysalis, she was shocked by the fact that she ''couldn't'' sense Chrysalis' spiritual pressure and realized upon closer probing that she had concentrated the potent energy so close to her body it was like an armor or barrier, demonstrating both her strength and more importantly ''control''.
** When Medley first shows up before the Humane Seven, they can't even sense her reiastu and don't understand why Pinkie is [[OhCrap freaking out from her Pinkie Sense so badly]] until she readjusts it for them to actually ''feel'' it. Medley then comments she often forgets that only people like "little Scorpan" are actually used to sensing spiritual pressure of her and the other Zero Division's level.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** In the first chapter, Twilight is the only one to hear something akin to a howl. [[spoiler: It's because she's a pure-blood Quinvy.]]
** As the story progresses many hints are dropped that the Fourth Espada is [[spoiler:Applejack's father,]] with said hints increasing to the point where it's all but stated when he actually makes his appearance.
** Flash is repeatedly weirded out by the AbsenceOfEvidence of negative spiritual energies in Aqualania. [[spoiler:As it turns out, they were just sleeping...]]
** We are told Wallflower's living address is at the cemetery and she spends her time there when not living at other people's houses. [[spoiler: It'sa because she's in fact Hel, the Norse Goddess of Death.]]
* ForeverWar: The fic starts with Soul Society, Hueco Mundo, and the Vandenreich stuck in a three-way deadlock with no progress happening in centuries. Discord, King Sombra, and Tirek believe that the Humane Five, Sunset, and Twilight gaining their powers will trigger the turning point that will heat up the war.
* ForgotAboutHisPowers:
** [[spoiler:When Ember kicks Adagio down into the Menos Forest, she's so busy cursing her out that she briefly forgets that she can ''float'' until the last second.]]
** [[spoiler:Flash forgets that he can make platforms on air when chasing Bount Trixie, trying to use his new pegasus wings instead, until Pony Twilight reminds him.]]
** More like forgot about her species powers. While sneaking into Starlight's base, Chrysalis forgot that her human counterpart was also a changeling at the time and could [[EmotionEater smell her emotions.]] She's quick to berate herself for this.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed hard.]] Just because you forget about the fallen friend doesn't mean, they will forget about you. This happens to Greta during the events of Everfree Arc. While Gilda was dealing with Fluttershy, Greta's been put out of the fight. Once the fight's been wrapped up Gilda never bothered to check if her oldest friend was alright. [[spoiler: Gets worse when it turns out Thorax has drugged and impersonated her, and Gilda's [[OutOfCharacterAlert never]] [[SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay noticed]].]] All of this makes her, rightfully so, feel abandoned and betrayed. All of which prompts her to retaliate on Gilda, [[spoiler: even going so far be experimented on by Grogar.]]
* FragileSpeedster: Catrina is this compared to the other Espada. She proudly boasts the fastest Sonido of them all, but her Hierro she herself notes is actually weaker than the likes of Guto's, which is why she relies on evasion heavily in battle.
* FriendlyEnemy:
** Despite being on opposite sides, [[spoiler: Cadence, Celestia, and Luna]] seem to be on good terms with each other. Not only that, Sombra doesn't seem to have a problem with this!
** Chrysalis likes treating [[spoiler:Celestia and Luna]] as this, a sentiment the two do ''not'' reciprocate.
** This is the core relationship between Sunset, Human Twilight, and Adagio. All are on different sides and have their own goals, but they still act very friendly with one another despite it all.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: [[spoiler:Scootaloo's]] Bount clan is this, doing their best to only take small amounts of spirit energy from souls, not enough to harm them. When [[spoiler:Scootaloo]] hears that not only are Screwball and Screwloose willing to "donate", Discord is working on other solutions rather than feeding on souls directly, she's relieved and happy about it.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Pinkamena is accepted as a part of the group because she's a part of Pinkie Pie. Of course, her casual brutality and bloodlust, combined with her talking about wanting to eat the Humane Five ensures that no one actually likes her at first until she works on her attitude.
* FriendToAllChildren: The Fourth Espada has a soft spot for orphaned children. ...Or rather, the orphaned children of Hollows. It's unclear how he feels about human kids, [[spoiler:though given how he saved the half-dead Human Sunset Shimmer from being killed when she ended up in Hueco Mundo and even makes trips to the human world to get her supplies]], it can probably be assumed he feels similarly about that too.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler: Lament was once nothing more than a humble farmer and unlike his wife had no spiritual power, but after being killed by Grand Fisher he ended up becoming powerful enough to become the ''Fourth Espada''. A flashback from Twilight Velvet reveals, however, that when he was alive and before meeting Sweet Cider he was attacked and infected by a strange Hollow (much like the proto-Arrancar White infected Misaki in ''Bleach'' canon), though Discord was able to contain the infection and he didn't develop any powers. [[DeathActivatedSuperpower That pretty obviously changed once he actually died]].]]
* FullContactMagic: Princess Luna is revealed to prefer fighting up close and personal, using magic to craft armor, weapons such as axes and claws, and to [[StatusBuff buff her speed and strength]]. [[spoiler:When she fights a "mock battle" with Flash Sentry, [[CurbStompBattle she utterly stomps in, even with Celestia telling him to not hold back]].]]

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* TheGadfly:
** Thorax is this, clearly enjoying throwing both teases and jokes at other Arrancar and watching how they react. He once apparently set up his brother Pharynx and Ember on a date without either of them knowing for a joke.
** Hoops, Dumbbell, and Score occasionally go into the human world and mess around with people for kicks. Apparently there's a video online of them haunting someone by messing with the lights and stuff.
* GambitPileup: Besides Sunset and company, who are mainly trying to do what's right and protect their loved ones, it seems like everyone and their mother has their own agenda, both among the more heroic and villainous characters.
* GenderBender: This is how Twilight tried to hide her identity. She even took the name, Dusk Shine. It didn't work but, Roka noted He/She was quite [[AttractiveBentGender handsome]].
* GeniusDitz: [[spoiler:Adagio's]] "secretary" Usagi is a bit of an airhead, but she has a skill with people, helping her boss organize work teams, keep notes, etc.
* GeniusLoci: [[spoiler:The whole of Aqualania seems to be infused with the vengeful spirits of the slain seaponies.]]
** Later chapters imply that this is the case for Hell in this universe. When [[spoiler:trying to keep it from claiming Rarity, Fluttershy]] compares it to a massive Zanpakutō, and [[spoiler:Typhon]] claims that the realm has a voice for those with the will to listen, and has apparently learned some of its secrets. The latter also refers to Hell as "her", implying that the realm has a gender identity.
* TheGift:
** How the Equestrian magic of friendship interacts with spiritual power. It's basically shonen protagonist in a bottle giving the recipient an accelerated growth rate allowing them to be able to surpass Lieutenants and press Captains who have had centuries of experience in a matter of months as shown by Sunset and the Humane Five.
** Sweet Cider and Blueblood are prodigies as well. Sweet Cider became one of the strongest Captains in only ten years and she doesn't even have Bankai. Blueblood never put any effort into his training in his life and still made Captain, and then he ''does'' begin to put in effort and you'd think he has a friendship magic power boost as well.
** Tirek is revealed from Grogar's musing to have this. Not only is he one of the oldest Hollows/Arrancars in existence, but he has the unique trait to get the most power out of every soul he ever devoured, allowing for near-infinite growth. This fills Grogar [[TheResenter with no small amount of envy]], as despite being of the same generation as Tirek he himself has long ago hit the limit of his natural growth, forcing him to resort to artificial augmentation to grow stronger. [[spoiler:Which is why he's so obsessed with studying and successfully replicating Adagio's Siren Gem.]]
** [[TeenGenius Human Twilight]] when it comes to science and magic. In a short amount of time, she managed to tap magic into batteries called M-cells and create a Mechanical Suit for Spike. Even Sunset, a magical prodigy trained under Princess Celestia admits she's much smarter than her. [[spoiler: Helps that she has an alter ego of pure magic in her head.]]
* GiveHimANormalLife:
** [[spoiler:Shining Armor]] insisted that [[spoiler:Twilight Sparkle's]] Quincy heritage and knowledge of the spiritual world be kept a secret from her so she could be given a normal life. However, she finds out about it anyway, so he has no choice but to train her so she can survive.
** [[spoiler:Ditzy Doo]] wants to do the same for her daughter, [[spoiler: Derpy]] and coldly threatens the girls to not get her involved in any of this. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for her, Derpy knows what's going on too and only stays silent because she doesn't want Ditzy to worry, and then the attack at Camp Everfree forces her to get involved.]]
** [[spoiler:Filthy Rich was originally planning to tell Diamond Tiara the truth about her Quincy heritage when she turned 18, so she could have a normal childhood first.]]
* GodhoodSeeker: [[spoiler:Hollow Chrysalis possesses a fragment of the Soul Queen within herself, implied to be her womb, and her goal is to collect all of lost parts to take her place and destroy the Zero Division.]]
* GodsHandsAreTied: [[spoiler:The main reason why the Soul Queen didn't directly interfere with the wars of her children. She loved all of them, but she refused to take the choice of free will from them and if they were to fight for their ideals then that was their right. She could and would try to have meetings to get them to find common ground, but she would never fight their battles for them or force her will on them. Even as she felt and grieved for the deaths of her family, she accepted that ultimately death was a natural part of life and didn't hate the mortals [[PiecesOfGod born from their fractured souls]]. Ultimately, however, the future Zero Division saw this as nothing but cowardice and decided they would take matters into their own hands.]].
* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: [[spoiler:The gods of Equestria apparently found a way to gain magical power from mortal worship.]]
* GodzillaThreshold: [[spoiler:Principal Celestia considers her Zanpakuto too dangerous to release in a populated area.]]
* GoGoEnslavement: [[spoiler:Guto's forced Fleur into something that Adagio can just barely call an "outfit", consisting of thin strips of white cloth that barely allow her a ghost of modesty.]]
* {{Gonk}}: Hydia. She's just as ugly as her G1 counterpart; short, fat, and looking more like a toad than a human. Her children follow the pattern.
* GoodIsNotDumb:
** Pretty much all of the mane cast, but especially Fluttershy.
-->'''Fluttershy:''' "I'm nice. Not stupid."\\
'''[[spoiler:Gilda]]''': Good. It would have been embarrassing to lose to a total dweeb.
** After Thorax took over the Changelings, the overall security has much more lenient, to the point of nonexistence. He doubled the security over Chrysalis' personal vault containing dangerous items. He even ordered additional wards from his Equestrian Allies.
* GoodIsNotSoft: The girls prefer to fight without aiming to kill, but if push comes to shove they won't hold back for those they hold dear. [[spoiler:Coming to terms with this is key for Rarity unlocking the full power of her Fullbring.]]
** Best shown when [[spoiler:Gilda]] attacked Sunset in her apartment. She [[TranquilFury calmly tells]] her that she will be allowed to crawl back to Hueco Mundo if she apologizes but she will still lose [[AnArmAndALeg a limb or two.]] When [[spoiler:Gilda]] doesn't back down, Sunset's ready to kill her if it means protecting any innocent bystanders. It briefly concerns her how readily she thought about killing someone, but she says will worry about morality later.
** Eventually Adagio, too. After her brief time spent with Sunset, she starts to grow a conscience and finds people she actually cares about. Eventually, she admits she might have gone softer, but not that much.
** Just because Thorax's the most moral of Chrysalis' brood doesn't mean he has his hands clean. He is skilled in things like manipulation and druggery, and while he preffers to solve conflicts peacefully e's not above violence and assassination.
* GoodParents: So far, almost every parent (whether human, Soul Reaper, Quincy, or even Hollow) has been this. Hurricane at bare minimum is neglectful to Posey's mental health, but he does care about her. The only exception so far is [[spoiler:Guto, who treats his daughter Greta (who doesn't even know he's her father) like he treats the rest of his horde and wouldn't bat an eye if she died.]]
* {{Gotterdammerung}}: [[spoiler:According to legend, the DivineConflict between the Preservers and Reformists got so bad that what was left of them were forced to withdraw from the mortal world.]]
* GratuitousJapanese: {{Lampshaded}} by Sunset Shimmer. According to Clover, this is due to the fact that the original Soul Reapers started in Japan and they just kept it for tradition. [[spoiler:Hilariously, it's actually because Bowtie (or as he prefers to be called, ''Chonekutai'') of the Zero Division loved the country of his birth so much that he insisted on using the "beautiful" language whenever he could, even in the modern day to Medley's exasperation.]]
* GravityMaster:
** Princess Twilight defeats [[spoiler:Bount Trixie and her Doll]] by ramping up the gravitational field around them to over 100x Equestria's gravity, enough to crater the ground beneath them and practically pancake them. They survive, barely, but the former decides to "call it a draw" and surrender.
** Gladmane is Sternritter W - "The Weight", which allows him to fire reishi bullets that explode and create fields of gravity that can either magnify to the point of crushing his foes to death or reverse it to send them flying into orbit. The major weaknesses are that he can't immediately ramp it up and has to do it gradually over the course of a fight against powerful foes and they're limited to a set total area.
* GuardianEntity: [[spoiler:Human Trixie can summon one, as per being a Bount]].
* GreenThumb:
** The Queen of Thorns/[[spoiler:Gaia Everfree]] had this power, being able to even make plants grow in the desert wastelands of Hueco Mundo when normally even bringing in soil from the human world can't let that happen, tying to her "theme" of cycles.
** As in canon, Gloriosa Daisy has this power, but [[spoiler:it's actually a ''Fullbring'' Gaia Everfree ensured that she'd develop, having been grooming her family line to provide a new host body for her. The magic of the geodes merely brought it out and masked the Hollow energy.]]
* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: It's been repeatedly noted that the Chappy Sunset uses to exit her body for Soul Reaper duties has developed a personality beyond what is normal for her model, particularly a hedonistic streak.
* HairTriggerTemper: The Lament has a very short temper, best shown when he threatens to kill [[spoiler:Adagio]] because he thought she wasn't going to finish an apple.
* HatedByAll: Nobody really seems to like Grogar, to the point where he doesn't even seem to have a single willing Fraccion and they're all just loyal experiments of his. Not that he seems to care, if anything he seems happy to earn the hatred of everyone else. Tirek keeps him around solely because he does all the useful science stuff.
* HaveYouSeenMyGod: No one outside the Zero Division, even the few Soul Reapers invited to the Soul Palace, have seen the Soul Queen in millennia [[spoiler:because the Zero Division mutilated and imprisoned her for opposing their plans.]]
* HeadlessHorseman: [[spoiler:Bount Trixie's Doll is based on a dullahan, and can thus detach his head for spying purposes.]]
* HealingFactor:
** All Hollows and Arrancar have one to an extent, but The Lament's stands out. [[spoiler:While he admits his healing isn't as ''fast'' as the other Espada, it doesn't really matter because his body doesn't truly bleed nor do his organs actually ''function''. He can get his entire body perforated by attacks and walk it off without issue, and he notes that nothing short of [[NoBodyLeftBehind completely destroying his body]] would probably kill him]].
** Chrysalis is noted to have an abnormally powerful HealingFactor as well, shrugging off attacks that leave her limbs and organs mangled with barely a thought and regenerating an entire lost side of her body ala [[Manga/DragonBallZ Perfect Cell]] with as much nonchalantness. It's to the point Sombra has specifically picked out Sternritter capable of negating her HealingFactor to fight her, and she still doesn't have too much issue in the fight. About the only time she's ever shown real worry is when faced with an attack that could legitimately destroy her in one go if it properly connected.
** The Smooze is no less impressive in this department either, capable of regenerating as long as a scrap, or at least the core of his BlobMonster body, remains intact, though Grogar is of the opinion he's not so much regenerating as replacing his lost mass. As such, nobody on the Espada's side really believe he dies from Lightning Dust's DeathOrGloryAttack and figure he went off to recover. [[spoiler:As it turns out, he did survive, though circumstances meeting Fluttershy dictate he decides to take a new career path.]]
** [[spoiler:Sunset's shield, Hikari, can heal her wounds.]]
** Hoity Toity, as an extension of The Xenomorph's ability to alter physical matter, can use this on his own body to rapidly heal wounds. However, as Rarity notes during their battle, this ability is tied both to his available reiatsu and the severity of the wound. [[spoiler:As such, when she goes unleashes her final attack on him, she not only does it when he's already heavily exhausted and injured to the point he can't quickly heal, but goes for a fatal wound through his chest.]]
** The Equestrian Chrysalis, while nowhere ''near'' as fast as her human counterpart, can still use her abilities to heal fast, though the energy requirements are high enough that she usually only uses it for severe wounds.
* HealingMagicIsTheHardest: Equestrian magic is potent, but healing is still rather difficult, at least compared to some of the spiritual healing techniques out there.
** Discord cannot use his powers to heal because his chaos magic can only disrupt and rearrange already existing orders, or create his own in place of another (presumably undoing what he's already done counts). If he wanted to replace [[spoiler:Luna's]] injured wing with a jet engine or spider legs, he could, but ''healing'' her isn't something that he's capable of.
** Celestia mentally lampshades how healing magic is harder than many people think. Transmutations can make people less familiar with magic think that changing a body is an easy task, but it's just layering a "costume" over the true form, and never last for more than a few days. Even then they tend to be more fragile than the real limbs. Most practitioners of medical magic are limited to healing relatively simple injuries that normal medicine could have done ''anyway'', simply accelerating what would happened without them, with Celestia being one of the few skilled enough to truly regenerate limbs.
** Hollows and Arrancar often have a HealingFactor, but there aren't many in Los Noches actually skilled at ''medical treatment'' as a result. Besides Roka, apparently the next best choice is ''[[MadScientist Grogar]]''.
** The Equestrian Chrysalis doesn't have the insane HealingFactor that her human counterpart does, but she can still use her shapeshifting to restore injured body parts to their uninjured state. It's just energy-intensive enough that it's rarely worth the trouble except in cases of grievous harm. Thus, despite not saying so, she's rather impressed by healing kido.
* HeelRealization:
** Adagio experiences this when she learns about the portal back to Equestria, and that her actions may have gotten her and her sisters stranded in this world permanently.
** Human Discord himself had one sometime before the story started due to his experiences interacting with the original [=XCution=] and Starlight Glimmer (and his failures to help them when they needed him or see how unstable the latter was becoming respectively) that made him realize his ForScience mentality had only caused pain to others.
* {{Hellhound}}: Kyoki's zanpakuto spirit is a huge, black bloodhound the size of a grizzly bear, and its inner world is suitably nightmarish: an endless ocean of blood (which can be inexplicably walked on as though it were solid) with a single tree growing out of it with pitch black bark and blood red leaves, underneath an ash-coloured sky.
* HeroesPreferSwords: Sunset's Zanpakuto of course, but especially applies to her Shikai, half of which is a long broadsword that she can focus [[PlayingWithFire extremely intense flames]].
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Garble, [[{{Jerkass}} of all people]], sacrifices himself to save a helpless Adagio and Ember (mostly Ember) from a [[SuperMode Vollstanding]] Prim Hemline, trapping her in a [[PrisonDimension Caja Negaccion.]]]]
** [[spoiler: Gaia Everfree does this in order to prevent the damaged portal to Equestria from going nuclear. Being part Hollow now, she only "dies" in the physical sense and instead becomes an Arrancar once more.]]
* HeroicWillpower: [[spoiler: Adagio, after becoming a Hollow manages to resist the urge to eat a soul for almost ten hours.]]
* HiddenAgendaVillain:
** Even as we learn more about the full depths of the [[spoiler:Zero Division's]] manipulations and plans, their ultimate goals remain vague, not helping this is the fact that the various members don't always see eye-to-eye, and may have separate agendas from the group's. Human Starlight also hints that their plans might be a threat to Equestria as well... [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed that they wish to revive their deceased family members... by [[AssimilationPlot grinding up almost every mortal soul in Hell over time]] in order to put their PiecesOfGod back together.]]
** Charybdis aided [[spoiler:in Gaia Everfree's resurrection]], but besides the opportunity to gain access to Earth, a realm where the powers that be were unaware of her existence, and couldn't limit her plans as easily, unlike Equestria, it's unclear what she sought to gain from it.
* HiddenDepths:
** Sugarcoat reveals that in addition to their physical abilities, most of the Shadowbolts were chosen to enter the Friendship Games for their technical skills (with Indigo Zap being the main exception due to her superb physical ability). Sugarcoat herself got top marks in robotics and physics, Sunny Flare knows a ''disturbing'' amount about chemistry, Sour Sweet was literally right behind Twilight in engineering classes, and Lemon Zest knows enough about coding and software to program her own video games. [[spoiler:This is part of the reason why Twilight takes them all on as part of her magic research team.]]
** Platinum has some knowledge about insects. Perhaps more than Equastria Chrysalis. Apparently, she had picked it up from her late husband.
** Well, not hidden. G’nash is very open about his desire to become the best culinarian in Nifelheim.
* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: [[spoiler:Scylla stole artifacts from across the world, and was planning to TakeOverTheWorld after assuming the throne. Modern day seaponies revere her.]]
* HopeCrusher: Cheese accidentally becomes this at the end of his fight with Pinkie. Him shrugging off her strongest attacks and taking out Pinkamena so easily robbed her of the will to fight so thoroughly that her hair goes straight and she doesn't even try to resist when Cheese knocks her out to take her to Zecora for healing.
* HopeSpot: This happens with the Dazzlings. After Aria and Sonata are saved from the Grand Fisher, it seems like Adagio may finally regain her body back and they'll actually get to go back to Equestria. [[spoiler: Then Grogar shows up and forces Adagio to pull a HeroicSacrifice, (right after her HeelRealization, no less) turning herself into a Hollow to save Sunset and the others.]] And you know what the worst part is? It turns out Celestia was willing to give the Dazzlings a second chance, meaning that if that didn't happen, they would've gotten to go back to Equestria.
* HumanNotepad: [[spoiler:When Rarity is DraggedOffToHell, Twilight has the quick thinking to cast the spell that lets Princess Twilight and Sunset communicate through the journal in order to give them a line of communication to her. But since Rarity has no item to write with herself, it ends up manifesting on her skin.]]
* HumanoidAbomination:
** [[spoiler:As a Bount, human Trixie.]] Also, any human-looking Hollow.
** Smooze even by Hollow standards. In his "human" form he's an extremely tall and lanky figure with a human skeleton covered with sludge that will infect anyone who touches even the tiniest amount with the worst diseases known to life and unlife. His [[EldritchAbomination Resurrection]] loses the "humanoid" part.
** The Lament's organs are non-functional, so he can shrug off most of his body being destroyed and speculates that it would take his entire form being destroyed at once to truly kill him. He also barely has something enough like "blood" to use in a Gran Rey Cero.
** It's revealed that a [[PraetorianGuard Schuztstaffle's]] Vollstandig will turn them into one of these once activated, due to how close their power is to the Quincy King Sombra, himself such an abomination due to being the {{reincarnation}} of the Consort of the Soul Queen.
* HumongousMecha: Rarity can do this with her completed Fullbring by gathering all her knights together into one giant knight, complete with cockpit in the head for her to control from.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: While Sinners are repeatedly tormented in Hell, they are left alone at the deepest level to their own devices. [[HopeSpot Which doesn't improve their situation very much,]] this being Hell we are talking about. It's still filled with horrible human beings. You just exchange one tormentor for another...
* {{Hunk}}:
** Pharynx, in contrast to his [[DudeLooksLikeALady effeminate brother Thorax]], is described as a chiseled and toned mass of muscle that's easy on the eyes. Adagio actually admits to herself they are both quite attractive in their own ways.
** Tirek. Sunset describes him as built like a brickhouse and a "walking mountain of testosterone", has ManlyFacialHair framing a square and rigid jawline, and he claims half-jokingly to Chryslais the reason he [[WalkingShirtlessScene doesn't wear a shirt]] is because he kept tearing them everytime he flexed.
* HypnoTrinket: It's implied that the chain at the end of [[spoiler:Sweet Cider's]] Shikai is what's keeping her from regaining her memories. [[spoiler:Applejack breaking it is what makes all of Cider's memories, both as her mother and a member of Xcution, come back to her]].
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** Sunset calls out Twilight Velvet on [[spoiler:refusing to help save Cloudy Quartz's daughter Limestone from Grand Fisher yet having the gall to call out Discord for using Cloudy and the other [=XCution=] in her youth, despite the fact Discord himself now very much regrets those actions and is working to save Limestone as just one small part of said atonement while Velvet was a friend of Cloudy in their youth.]]
** Sunset calls out Hurricane as a hypocrite for continually telling the six of them that they aren't taking the battle seriously when he keeps acting like he's already won despite the girls giving him [[CurbStompCushion an impressive showing]]. Hurricane admits that wasn't practicing what he was preaching, partially because it's been so long since his last good fight that he didn't want it to end too soon, and unleashes his Bankai.
** Kyoki is disgusted that Posey is such a WellDoneSonGuy, always doing her father's bidding without question to try and please him, and he just wishes she would grow a spine and do something for herself for once. Somehow he came to the conclusion that the best solution to this problem is to ''hijack her mind and control her like a puppet'' whenever he's released, with the stock justification that it's okay when ''he'' does it because he knows what's ''really'' best for Posey. Fluttershy is quick to point that this makes him just as bad as Posey's father, but she's wrong, since using ''actual mind control'' really makes him ''worse''.
** Tirek mockingly calls out Sombra on his hatred of Hollows, [[spoiler:reminding him that he's just as much a "soul-devouring monster" as them given what will happen to those that accept his Schrifts when they die]]. Sombra replies that may be true, but he'll let his people judge him for that another day.
** [[spoiler:Luna]] likes to talk quite a bit about the arrogance of her opponents, but as [[spoiler:Adagio]] notes the Soul Reaper herself has quite the prideful streak.
** [[spoiler:The Zero Division condemns the Quincy because their spirit weapons supposedly destroy the souls of Hollows entirely, removing them from the cycle of reincarnation entirely. Hell, which they created, ''supposedly'' doesn't do the same damage because the Sinners quarantined inside ''still exist'', and thus can be counterbalanced by Soul Society, but the constant deaths and revivals of the Sinners slowly breaks down their souls into raw spirit energy for some future plan, throwing things into the very disbalance that they supposedly oppose. Even worse, with souls repeatedly being reborn, over time it becomes more and more likely that a soul is going to exposed to the kind of horrible circumstances that can twist a person into being damned, so eventually almost ''every'' soul in existence will end up in Hell!]]
** [[spoiler:Glory's betrayal of the Soul Queen was motivated by her mother's refusal to intervene in the war between Tirek's Hollows and the Soul Reapers despite it leading to the deaths of most of their family and it being clear that nothing short of death would stop Tirek. Not only does she keep the war going after defeating her mother and stealing her power in order to hide their true aims, but the fact that she's willing to "preserve" some mortal souls from the fate of being broken down to revive the fallen means that she's fully aware that mortals are just as worthy as existence as those she has lost (especially given how upset she was when Discord rejected her offer to join her), and Scorpan even calls her out for how she's directly going against the values Soul Society is supposed to represent. She also expresses a [[DoesNotLikeMagic dislike of magic]], noting that while it has its place in Equestria she feels that it doesn't belong in the human world, but she make a deal with the mad alicorn Eos in order to get the upper hand that she needed to defeat the Soul Queen in the first place.]]

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* ICantSenseTheirPresence:
** [[spoiler:Human Starlight and her co-conspirators]] use cloaks that suppress their reiatsu when infiltrating the Seiretei.
** In a flashback, [[spoiler:Gaia Everfree]] is initially shocked that she can't sense Chrysalis's power at all. Upon closer inspection, she realizes that Chrysalis is concentrating the power close to her body like it's an armor or barrier, demonstrating that she has not only raw power in spades, but ''control'' of it as well.
** Pinkie can slip past Grogar's senses because it would be funny if she could, not that Grogar gets it. [[spoiler:After she completes her Fullbring and hits the ground with her hammer, Grogar senses her reiatsu throughout the area, as if she's everywhere and nowhere at the same time.]]
** When Medley of the Zero Division first appears before the Humane Seven, while Pinkie's Pinkie Sense goes ''ballistic'', the other six don't understand what she's freaking out about so badly before Medley readjusts things so they can actually ''feel'' her spiritual pressure, having forgotten that only people like "little Scorpan" are used to feeling reiatsu at her level.
* IcePalace: Platinum's Bankai manifests as a massive island of ice with an ice palace in the center, which allows her to control the area and launch whatever attack she desires from within.
* IAmNotLeftHanded: [[spoiler:Bount Trixie deliberately withheld some of her Doll's abilities.]]
* IAmWhatIAm: This, coupled with a HeroicSecondWind finally allows Sunset to unlock her Shikai.
* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: The Equestrian team has this reaction when hear they'll be passing through a place called Mountains of Teeth. The place is no more dangerous than the rest of the ocean, however.
* IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight:
** Applejack's mindset in her fight with [[spoiler: Sweet Cider]], hoping to literally beat her into remembering her family. [[spoiler:She succeeds]].
** Fittingly, something similar happens when [[spoiler:Sweet Cider and Hard Nail/Lament fight, followed up by Applejack and Fenice/Sunset Shimmer jumping in. They succeed too.]]
* ILetYouWin: The narration makes it clear that the only reason Applejack beat [[spoiler: Sweet Cider]] was because [[spoiler: Sweet Cider getting her memories back]] made her end their fight.
* INeedYouStronger: [[spoiler: Starlight and Firefly want Sunset and the Humane Five to continue to grow stronger, seeing them as a back-up plan in case they fail to stop the Zero Division.]]
* InternalReformist: This is [[WideEyedIdealist Twilight's]] plan for joining Quincy Military. She plans to rank up and influence it as a whole to become more peaceful, open to a truce with Soul Reapers, and treat (at least the more amicable) Arrancars humanly.
* ImposterForgotOneDetail:
** Grand Fisher attempts to lure in the Pie family by making his lure look like Pinkie Pie. Maud sees through it because "Pinkie" mentions she abandoned her friends to save herself from the Hollows, which Pinkie would never do. Maud also claims [[TheNoseKnows her scent is wrong]].
** Acknowledged by [[spoiler:Hoity Toity while masquerading as Sour Sweet, as despite changing his appearance and having Sapphire Shores change his reiatsu signature he knew he doesn't know nearly enough about Sour Sweet's personality and mannerisms to 100% act like her. However, he takes advantage of the fact none of the Shadowbolts or Twilight ''really'' know all of Sour Sweet's quirks down pat like TrueCompanions should to make the deception work.]]
* IndustrialGhetto: The Warrens beneath Las Noches is this, a massive factory overseen by the Tenth Espada, The Smooze, to manufacture luxuries and basic necessities that would otherwise need to be stolen from the living world. [[spoiler:When Smooze goes missing after his battle with Lightning Dust, Chrysalis takes it over.]]
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Gilda is a powerful Arrancar who loves to talk the talk and walk the walk, but it's clear she deeply resents [[spoiler:Adagio's]] rapid rise in power in such a short period of time when she's had to struggle and claw her way up to her current level of strength the hard way over centuries. [[spoiler:When she's made the Tenth Espada, these insecurities come out even more as she's scared of screwing up and being viewed as a liability, which makes her prone to taking big unnecessary risks (such as attacking Sunset at her apartment using outdated info on her strength, or attacking the weakened Smooze while Fluttershy and Timber are in the vicinity) to secure her standing. It turns out it all stems from her mistreatment in Guto's horde as a child and her desire to become strong enough that she never gets under his thumb again.]]
* InnocenceLost: Twilight's time as a Quincy has not been kind to her. While she wasn't blind to the horrors of war, it's the battle at Las Noches, and seeing her friends being slaughtered, that left her mentally scarred. After that she became somewhat colder and more motivated to end [[ForeverWar the Spiritual War]], and obvious to anyone. Sunset saw right away, that something was deeply bothering her, while Timber upon first tme seeing her wondered how someone so pretty can have [[DullEyesOfUnhappiness such sad eyes.]] Even Twilight wonders if she's the same person she used to be.
* InsaneTrollLogic: According to the Mc Colts, Hacksaw Mc Colt's HeroicSacrifice to save Cotton Baller Hooffield and her sister's lives was actually all a ploy by Cotton Baller Hooffield to get a Mc Colt killed, willingly putting herself in harm's way in order to get Hacksaw killed. Night Light later needs to intervene after the Mc Colts seize one of the Hooffield's factories in retaliation.
* InsistentTerminology:
** Clover is very insistent on the security constructs in the sewars ''not'' being robots... despite her boss Starswirl having programmed them to go "beep-boop", and that their attacks aren't lasers.
** [[spoiler:Adagio]] is insistent that her Arrancar subordinates are "vassals", not "friends". She gets lightly called out on this concerning her relationship with Ember, with it being noted if she can't honestly call her a friend after everything they've done for each other what chance does she have of doing so for anyone else? And she only ''very'' reluctantly admits to that particular case for the sake of her own pride.
** [[spoiler:Bowtie of the Zero Division is so obsessed with the language of his birth country, Japan, that he's the reason for the GratutiousJapanese all over Soul Society, including using the Japanese versions of his own name and the names of his fellow Zero Division members. Medley, in turn, makes it clear that she prefers the English version.]]
* InstantExpert: [[spoiler:Twilight]] summons her Quincy bow seconds after being handed the focus. Subverted in that she still needs to train to use it. Also PlayedWith by Sunset, who does need training but is noted by Clover and multiple Soul Reapers, [[SmugSuper even the mocking ones]], to have unbelievably high levels of natural talent and scary fast learning ability.
* IntangibleMan:
** Meadowbrook's Shikai ''Kasso-ha'' (Gliding Leaf) allows him to turn himself and anything of choice he's touching intangible, allowing attacks to pass through and move through physical obstacles like walls unimpeded. However, he can only maintain this state for a maximum of thirty seconds at a time before it shuts off, and he mentions [[TeleFrag he'll rematerialize in whatever he was passing through at the time]]. [[spoiler:Also, as it's a zanpakuto ability, an attack with [[MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours higher reiatsu]] than his released Shikai can bypass the intangibility, as proven when Starlight traps him in [[GravityMaster Hado #90: Kurohitsugi (Black Coffin)]].]]
** It's rarely used or talked about but Hollows can pass through walls in the Human World. And with the ability to hide their reiatsu they can effectively get around without the Reaper or Quincy's notice.
* IntoxicationEnsues: Rainbow winds up eating some mushrooms called Prismcap Mushrooms. It scrambles her brain for a bit.
-->'''Rainbow Dash''': Whoa! My hair looks like a rainbow!? Why didn’t anyone tell me!? Nom! Ugh! This doesn’t taste like Skittles at all!
* InvisibleToNormals: Much like the source material, Hollows and Soul Reapers are invisible to normal people. Quincy soldiers possess uniforms that achieve the same effect. Since Reiatsu is different from magic, Princess Twilight Sparkle can't see them either. [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] that said "[[{{Muggles}} normals]]" can still sense what effects they have on their surroundings, like dust they throw up (especially with Hollows, which tend to be larger than humans or Soul Reapers) or physical items that they bump into or move.
** Later Twilight upgrades them with her power to make them work on Arrancars. However, it doesn't cancel any of the effect mentioned above or the noise.
* ItAlwaysRainsAtFunerals: Twilight lampshades and wishes it was raining at her [[spoiler: mother's]] funeral. Instead, it was sunny day with painfully blue sky, perfect for a family picnic. It only makes her feel more depressed.
* ItGetsEasier: This is the crux of Rarity's fears about herself, as she realizes she has a surprisingly ''easy'' time being willing to resort to fatal means of defeating her foes compared to the rest of her friends. She also recounts how she got into a scuffle with a robber and in order to protect Sweetie Belle she stabbed the man through the stomach with his own knife, and what disturbed her was how clinically she did so and how she didn't feel disturbed about the act itself. [[spoiler:Coming to terms with this and being willing to ''choose'' when [[DirtyBusiness to make that choice]] [[IDidWhatIHadToDo and own up to the consequences]] rather than hold herself back or immediately go to that killer instinct is what lets her complete her Fullbring.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe:
** Grogar says he's trying to master Equestrian magic to both improve the Hollow condition and benefit himself...then immediately admits he's completely doing it for his own benefit with the Hollow condition being a mere afterthought. He repeatedly states that it is his ambition and destiny [[EvilutionaryBiologist to be the one to guide Hollowkind to true evolutionary perfection]], and he seethes at the fact he still has to rely on Tirek and Chrysalis' favor.
** Guto wants to be seen as the Arrancar that successfully conquers the Quincy and Soul Reapers and will take any opportunity to make a move he believes will advance his position. He drills obedience into his horde and pushes them in their training because he views their performance as a reflection of his own ability. [[spoiler:Gilda even admits to Fluttershy she realized a long time ago that Guto has only ever cared about ''his'' glory and power with anyone else as just a stepping stone.]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: As it turns out, [[spoiler:Sapphire Shores has loved Sombra for centuries ever since he saved her as a child, but when he fell in love with Radiant Hope instead she buried her feelings for their sake since Sombra truly was happy with her. She simultaneously loved and hated Radiant Hope for being the one to make Sombra happy and denying her the chance to be the one to do so.]]
* TheJailer: This is how Human Starlight's Zanpaktou spirit ''Sekai Chitsujo'' (World Order) functions once she [[PowerParasite actually steals another Soul Reaper's Zanpaktou]]. They're imprisoned within her sword's Inner World and, whenever she wants to use one, Sekai Chitsujo rattles off the "inmate" and how many "days" are left in their "sentence". Each usage of the Zanpaktou ticks off their remaining days (how many days per use is actually negotiated before then, and Starlight cannot add an "extension" to the initial sentence) until they're freed and able to return to their true owners. They ''technically'' have the option to refuse being used, but as most Zanpakutou have UndyingLoyalty to their original wielders, [[TeethClenchedTeamwork they accept the terms to get it over with as soon as possible]].
* JoustingLance: Applejack eventually gains a [[{{BFS}} truly massive]] golden lance, with the tip of two helical grooves giving it an appearance of a [[ThisIsADrill twist drill]] than a weapon.
* JustFollowingOrders: Captain Platinum. She reasons that she was ordered to keep Sunset and her friends under control, whether that means forcing them to join Soul Society willingly or not. Same with Fancy Pants, though he appears to have slight misgivings about doing so. [[spoiler:Though it turns out it was just a BatmanGambit to make Celestia and Luna come back to Soul Society to be tried for treason]].
* {{Kaiju}}: Torch is already pushing it in his normal form, and his Resurreccion turns him into one outright by making him even bigger with spiky scales, four arms, and a roar described as making a ''T. Rex'' sound like a kitten.
* KlingonPromotion: To become an Espada and assuming you're not gunning for an already-empty spot, you have to be strong enough to defeat one in combat. The Fourth Espada became one after showing up in Las Noches and crippling the former Sixth Espada Ahuizotl into a Privaron, but gained the title of Fourth instead of Sixth after he fought Tirek and the Hollow King determined him strong enough to be worthy of the rank over Torch, which is why Guto became the Sixth Espada and Torch the Fifth. And that's actually preferable to the ''other'' option of becoming an Espada, which involves being tested by Tirek himself and failure to impress results in the unlucky sod [[ImAHumanitarian becoming dinner]].
* KnightInShiningArmor: [[spoiler:What Sunset's Bankai turns her into]].
** [[spoiler:Applejack's completed Fullbring covers her in armor save for her head, and gives her a giant lance/drill combination]].
* KnightTemplar:
** [[spoiler:Celestia's]] Zanpaktou spirits, ''Shinryu Taiyo.'' They see everything that isn't them and [[spoiler:Celestia]] as corrupt and thus must be "cleansed" (read: destroyed) at all costs. It really is shocking that someone like [[spoiler:Celestia]] would end up with Zanpaktou spirits like them.
** [[spoiler:Luna]] is shown to be one at least in part, taking her duty as a Soul Reaper very seriously and, while not unaware of the problems and corruption in Soul Society, still upholds several of the more draconian laws, particularly those involving Hollows and the mentality to destroy them no matter what. [[spoiler:This can be seen in her treatment of Ember and how she responds to Celestia and Sweet Cider expressing distaste for her capture and experimentation, as well as during her battle with Adagio.]]
** Several Quincies are this against Hollows and Soul Reapers. These include Fleur de Lis, who's practically a TokenEvilTeammate who delights in fighting and killing Soul Reapers and Hollows no matter what, [[spoiler:and Sapphire Shores, who's devotion to Sombra is so great she won't hesitate to even kill her fellow Quincy if she believes through her Schrift they will become threats.]]
** [[spoiler:The Zero Division as a whole has shades of this, but particularly Glory, who is described as being willing to go to any lengths to make the world what she thinks that it ''should'' be, desiring to create a 'new universe free of all evil'. For that, she is willing to consign the reincarnated members of the Star former noble family (like Sunburst) who rebelled after opposing the formation of Central 46, along with other otherwise innocent and undeserving enemies of threats to them, to Hell, which itself slowly breaks down the souls of Sinners into base resihi particles with each death and revival as energy for some future goal, hypocritically removing the souls from the cycle like they accuse the Quincy of doing with their arrows. It's eventually revealed that she wishes to revive her fallen loved ones whose essence formed the souls of mortals, even if it means consigning nearly every soul to Hell to do so.]]
* KrakenAndLeviathan: Supposedly the crown jewel of the Aqualania city zoo was a Kraken, which are mythical even by Equestrian standards. We get a better look at one when it emerges at the beach in the human world. It looks like a giant squid on steroids covered with poisonous spiked armor and with a black beak as large as a house. Besides many "normal" tentacles, the creature has two main tentacles, much bigger than the rest, and each one ending with scything claws. [[ItCanThink It's also intelligent]] and can cast spells. It's unknow if it's the same creature.
* LamarckWasRight
** Like her mother's, Pinkie's Fullbring takes the form of a separate and bloodthirsty entity.
** [[spoiler:The narration notes when Applejack completes her Fullbring that the Apples seem to have a preference for giant weapons, what with Sweet Cider and her {{BFS}} Zanpakuto and Fullbring pair and Applejack's lance/drill.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia:
** Like in canon, Soul Reapers usually erase the memories of ordinary people they save.
** It is revealed Pinkie's mother, Cloudy Quartz, used to fight Hollows in her youth [[spoiler:as a Fullbringer]], but she doesn't remember this or that she had powers. Discord later reveals that the same applies to Rarity, Applejack, and Fluttershy's mothers as well. Rainbow's mother Firefly managed to avoid this [[spoiler:thanks to a little help from Twilight Velvet and the Quincies]]. [[spoiler:Sweet Cider recovers them after facing off with Applejack in combat, eventually learning that her memories returned after she died, but they were sealed again as a side-effect of Scorpan placing a seal on her Zanpakuto to prevent her Soul Reaper and Fullbringer powers from mixing and merging, while Discord later, upon realizing things are going to get hot with the Zero Division soon, offers to restore the former members of [=XCution's=] memories so they can better help their families]].
* LastOfHerKind:
** [[spoiler:Trixie claims to be the last of the Bounts...or at least, as her doll Eisenwand reminds her, ''one'' of the last. Part of her reasons for following Human Starlight is that she was promised a way to revive her nearly extinct race. Scootaloo and her family are revealed to be said others]].
** [[spoiler:The Dazzlings may be the last remaining Sirens.]]
* LegendFadesToMyth: Many mythologies and legends in the human world seem to be based on misremembered spiritual entities and locations.
** Vasto Lordes have a limited ability to reshape parts of Hueco Mundo that they claim as territory, and two of them are named "Gehenna" and "Naraka", implying that the various underworlds and Hells in human myth were based on such domains.
** Tirek is implied to be the inspiration for the Judeo-Christian Devil, at least on a visual level.
** [[spoiler:Sombra reveals to Twilight that many of the gods of myth and legend actually existed as the children and descendants of the Soul Queen.]]
** [[spoiler:The Beast Realm is connected to both Earth ''and'' Equestria, and Rainbow Dash wonders if that means that dragons and the like once existed on Earth before Soul Reapers and Quincy forced them to retreat. The fact that the Beast Realm inhabitants working with/for Charybdis have access to both magic ''and'' spiritual power lends some support to the hypothesis.]]
** [[spoiler:Gaia Everfree remembers a time before TheMasquerade when spirit energy abilities were used more openly in the mortal world. She also remembers the gods Sombra mentioned above, when Rainbow Dash attacks her for nearly killing Twilight, the narration compares the power of the attack to one by ''Zeus'', which is no exaggeration since she remember when those gods were more than just myths.]]
** Ravana from [[Myth/HinduMythology Hindu Mythology]] makes an appearance in Glory's retrospect as an Arrancar and part of Tirek's Warband.
** Chrysalis begrudgingly comes to the realization that this is her fate. With her out of the Hive, the future generation will only hear about her in stories and she'll end up as nothing bad a bad memory, or a bogeyman for naughty children.
* Segunda Etapa Transformation and the Hollow that achieved it are nothing but a cautionary story among young Hollows against hubris. Only the oldest Hollows that have witnessed them know they are real, but even then, none of them have any idea how to achieve it.
* LethalChef:
** Human Discord's last attempt at cooking apparently gained sentience and tried to kill him, Screwball and Screwloose, and Celestia immediately knows that he didn't make a dish when it tastes good.
** Amaru says his stew (made out of sentient boars, since she played dice with them) tastes like gravel. G’nash in return accuses her of being picky.
* LifeDrinker:
** Wind Rider was sentenced to the Strafbattalion for copying the Bount and [[SoulEating draining the soul energy of both normal humans and Quincy alike]] to remain strong and young. Though he was forced to give up all the soul energy he'd collected, he still managed to hide a few vials in the event he ever needed a quick boost.
** [[spoiler:Wallflower/Hel's]] basic ability is to absorb LifeEnergy not only from people and plants but can also absorb energy attacks directed at her, [[AntagonistAbilities making her almost untouchable.]] She uses it to make her attacks stronger.
* LightIsNotGood: Fleur Des Lis. While both Soul Reapers and Quincys are presented as neither good nor evil, Fleur is possibly the most bloodthirsty of the Quincy, shooting [[spoiler:Clover]] without provocation and fully prepared to use a technique that would have destroyed half the city once her BerserkButton was pushed.
** [[spoiler:Glory's powers are light-based, but she's the leader of the Zero Division and wishes to grind up all mortal souls to revive her lost family through them.]]
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Torch might have more redeeming traits than most of the Espada with a strong sense of respect and loves his daughter but he is still a very bad man following a brutal SocialDarwinist philosophy that creates a murderous warband and has no problem killing children.
* LivingIsMoreThanSurviving: [[spoiler:Thorax believes in this, and a big part of his motivation is to somehow change Hueco Mundo into something more than a barren DeathWorld operating on "kill or be killed" logic, where Hollows have to fight against everyone, including each other, just to eke out another day of existence.]]
* LogicalWeakness: [[spoiler:Starlight's]] zanpakuto can steal other released zanpakuto used against her, so Sunset has Rarity [[SpontaneousWeaponCreation create a blood-crystal copy of Hokori]] so she can fight her. Granted, [[spoiler:Starlight proves she's more than capable of standing against Sunset even while holding back]], so it's not too big a weakness to exploit. Also, it has to be used against ''her'', even accidentally, before she can steal it, hence [[spoiler:why she set up the whole execution for Celestia and Luna so she could have a chance to steal the Sokyoku.]] It's unconfirmed, but it's also speculated that the nature of the connection between Soul Reaper and Zanpakuto means that she can't kill the Soul Reaper she stole the sword from if she wants to keep it.
* LooseLips: Lightning Dust's major flaw, blathering about her abilities to the enemy and allowing them to counteract it.
* TheLostLenore: Lieutenant Pansy is this for Captain Hurricane. [[spoiler:Realizing that Fluttershy is without a doubt her {{Reincarnation}} leads him to DrowningMySorrows at her grave when the fighting at Soul Society is over and despite her repeated assertions Fluttershy's nothing to him and not the woman he loved Rainbow Dash can see the guilt and sadness in his eyes (especially since Hurricane did his damnedest to kill Fluttershy earlier on to deny to himself what he saw).]]
* LoveAtFirstPunch: Blueblood seems to be crushing on Rarity after she defeats him, even going so far as to ask her out on a date. Rarity surprisingly enough says maybe but that he'll have to work on his attitude first!
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Half of Sunset's Shikai, which increases the power of her flames with each attack to the shield. [[spoiler: Later revealed to possess its own spirit: ''Hikari'' (Light), taking the form of Daydream Shimmer.]]
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* MachiavelliWasWrong: Definitely subverted by Tirek and the Arrancar. In the DeathWorld that is Hueco Mundo, the reason that Las Noches and the Espada haven't devolved into petty in-fighting is because ''no one'' can question the Hollow King and Primera Espada when he puts his foot down and all are in fear of his wrath and power. The only person in Las Noches who could possibly challenge him is the Dos Espada Chrysalis, and even she admits while their battle would destroy the whole fortress he would still win as things are. Despite this, Tirek used both his power and his people's fear to forge them into a competent faction and the closest thing the Hollows have to a government/ruling body. Without him Hueco Mundo would basically be squabbling weak factions of Arrancars and Vasto Lordes carving out territories while being vulnerable to attacks from the infinitely more organized Soul Society and Quincy, and while definitely feared and envied he is not a ''hated'' king as he understands the value of powerful subordinates and does not go out his way to treat them cruelly or make life worse for them just because. [[spoiler:Adagio]] even admits he's actually a competent ruler and there are certainly worse options even among the Espada to be his replacement.
* MadScientist: Grogar is obsessed with collecting powerful and unique individuals to experiment on.
* MagicAIsMagicA: Unlike the Human side and Equestrian, the Inhabitants of Beast Realm can use both Magic and Spirit power, mixing them into something they call Anima.
* MagicallyIneptFighter: Hollow reiatsu just isn't suited to the fine-tuned reiryoku manipulation that enables Soul Reapers to dish out all the various kinds of Kido spells, and despite all of Grogar's experiments to try and give Arrancars more versatile power sets he's been unable to overcome this failing. As a result, he's rather interested in the resurgence of Fullbring among humans, since while it's still at least partially born of Hollow energy it's ''much'' less limited in scope than Hollow abilities normally are (Pinkie, whose abilities let her pretty much do anything as long as it falls under RuleOfFunny, is a prime example of this).
* MagicIsAMonsterMagnet: Grogar gets interested in the amplifying effect of Equestrian magic on spiritual power, so he sends various minions after the main characters to try and gain the power of magic himself.
* MagicStaff: [[spoiler:Sweetie Belle's Fullbring takes the form of a large staff that can [[SizeShifter can change its size at will.]]]]
** [[spoiler:Bount Trixie's Doll can detach one of these from his body that his mistress can use to hex people.]]
* {{Magitek}}: All of the factions use technology that makes use of spiritual energy to some degree.
** The Quincy use technology to aid them the most, in the form of VTOL craft and tanks that can fire Quincy arrows for use in Hueco Mundo, etc.
** Twilight's research focuses on combining spiritual energy and technology with magic. She's already made some progress, like Sugarcoat's visor and Indigo Zapp's legs.
** Grogar's self-experimentation and augmentation makes him look like a {{Cyborg}} in Resurrección form.
** Human Twilight is extremely proficient at combining human technology with Equestrian magic. Shortly after starting studying magic with Sombra's blessing, she created M-cell that works as batteries that can empower a user with magical energy and a fully functioning [[MiniMecha Mech]] suit [[spoiler: for Spike]].
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Princess Luna's reaction to [[spoiler: having her wing blasted off]] is to mutter, "...Oh, that's not good."
** In her battle with Lament, Harshwinny acts like losing a leg doesn't bother her, to the concern of her allies. The truth is, it does bother her, but they don't have the luxury to worry about it.
-->'''Upper Crust''': Harshwinny, um, I don't mean to alarm you, but you seem to be, uh, missing a limb...\\
'''Harshwinny''': That had not escaped my attention, thank you.
** Lament is badly beaten and [[AnArmAndALeg missing an arm]] after a battle with his [[spoiler: wife and daughter,]] yet he acts like it's the happiest day of his life. Which probably was.
* MakeSomeNoise: Sternritters "E - The Echo" and "O - The Octave" have powers around the manipulation of sound, but in different ways. The Octave generates sound to then control as needed, while the Echo senses and affects all existing sound around its user who can also then increase the reverberation of that sound to any degree they want. This makes The Echo less suited for direct combat, but more useful for spying and reconnaissance.
* MakingASplash: [[spoiler:Adagio after becoming a Vasto Lorde.]]
* MartialPacifist: Fluttershy's entire fighting style and Fullbring revolves around taking down her opponents without harming them.
* MamaBear:
** Pipsqueak's mother is ''very'' protective of him, due to his illness. Starswirl notes that [[spoiler:Platinum]] would do just about anything to protect him, [[spoiler:even betray Soul Society]].
** Ditzy is this to her daughter Derpy. She taught her how to defend herself, and she gives Sunset and her friends an ImpliedDeathThreat to make sure they don't get her involved with their mission. [[spoiler:Derpy herself is annoyed though understanding at this, however, because she ''knows'' about these things and has to pretend otherwise to spare her peace of mind.]]
** One of the few ways to quickly get on Hollow Chrysalis' bad side is to threaten or bad-mouth her "true-born" children. She got noticeably colder in attitude when discussing with Grogar how [[spoiler:the experimental siren gem overloaded and hurt Pharynx]], and Sunset while viewing [[spoiler:Gaia Everfree's memories sees that when Gaia bad-mouths the newly-born Thorax to Chrysalis' face, she takes notice of the way Chrysalis' eyes narrow and blaze in much the same way when Platinum felt threatened about Pipsqueak.]]
* MaskOfPower: All Hollows have them. Ditzy has one [[spoiler:on account of being one of the first Vizards, and presumably Screwloose and Screwball have similar potential]]. And [[spoiler:Starlight Glimmer has one due to perfecting the Vizard transformation, with the implications that Pipsqueak post-"Hollowfication" procedure can form a mask with time and training]].
* MaskOfSanity: While the Lament is able to hide it beneath a polite, calm, friendly and pleasant act and function well enough to be a good father, beneath it all he's actually the ''least'' stable of the Espada, threatening to kill [[spoiler:Adagio]] just because he thought she wasn't going to finish an apple.
* MasterOfIllusion: Trixie's magical specialty, and she uses it to great effect.
* MasterOfUnlocking: Pony Rarity reveals that she taught herself how to pick locks after locking herself out of her Manehattan store one too many times.
* {{Matricide}}: [[spoiler:Charbydis suspects that her sister Scylla killed their mother.]]
* MeaningfulName:
** Just about every Zanpaktou's name is one of these. For example [[spoiler:Flash Sentry's]] Zanpakuto ''Kochi Yojinbo'' (East Wind Bodyguard) represents how his pony self [[spoiler:is a member of the royal guard.]]
** Bubbles whose main weapon are bubbles.
** The Word "Kido" translates to ''Demon Arts''. It's more than just a name. Every spell is represented by a Demon, not unlike Zanpakutō. Lower spells are easy to use but above level Eighty, the Soul Reaper needs to confront the Demon to use the spell freely.
* TheMedic:
** Fluttershy qualifies with her Fullbring.
** Of course, the Soul Reapers have plenty of healing Kido and the Fourth Division dedicated for it.
** The Quincy use advanced medical technology combined with spiritual energy for their healing. Hoity Toity specifically can do this via The Xenomorph.
** Most Arrancar have to rely on their HealingFactor and time for healing, and there are only two people in Las Noches who specialize in medical ability: Grogar, resident MadScientist who will probably implant all manner of devices inside of you in the process for experiments, and Roka, loyal Arrancar and adopted daughter of the Lament, who's [[AxCrazy unstable]] and [[PapaWolf very protective of her and her "siblings"]].
* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Sweet Cider]] says she's going to do this with her husband, saying that it's her duty as a Soul Reaper and that she doesn't want him to spend eternity [[spoiler:as a Hollow.]] Applejack agrees with her, and also says that she wants to be there when it happens. [[spoiler:Things get much more complicated when the moment actually arrives and they realize that not only is he an Arrancar, but also a PapaWolf to a bunch of Arrancar children.]]
* MergerOfSouls:
** What the end result of the FusionDance of [[spoiler:Gloriosa Daisy and Gaia Everfree is. Gaia Everfree makes it clear that she is ''both'' of them and that trying to differentiate their identity is pointless. Notably, Gaia clearly considers Timber ''her'' "brother" and is influenced by Gloriosa's thoughts and identity in considering Camp Everfree her home. Even Gaia admits she didn't expect the merger to run so deeply and completely.]]
** Twilight Sparkle herself is a merge between [[spoiler:the unborn child of Radiant Hope and King Sombra, part of Radiant Hope's own soul, and the part of the Soul Queen known as the "Eye". And then there's Midnight Sparkle as Twilight Sparkle's alter ego created from exposure to Equestrian magic, who herself wonders after learning the truth of Twilight's origin if ''she'' is in fact Sombra's child finally manifested.]]
* MightMakesRight: Kyoki certainly seems to feel this way. When Fluttershy finds out, she gives him a big speech about what a terrible idea that is.
-->'''Fluttershy:''' You may be big, mean, and don’t care about hurting people, but that ''doesn’t'' give you the right to do whatever you please! Nobody has that right! We’re all stuck living together in this world, and if you want to try and make it a "dog eat dog" world then you’re gonna find there’s plenty of dogs around bigger and meaner than ''you'', buster! If you really care about Posey, then you’re gonna stop pushing her around ''this instant'' and be a good and loyal dog for her. Otherwise I’m going to have to teach you a very ''harsh'' lesson you don’t want to experience.
* MilitaryBrat: As Quincies are a military organization, every Quincy is a soldier, and their children are expected to follow the suit, no matter what branch they chose to join. In modern times, they get a chance to leave and live normal lives, but because their lives consist of training and many lost their parents and other loved ones, most choose to stay and fight the Hollows and Soul Reapers, [[ForeverWar continuing the tradition.]]
* MiniMecha: Twilight eventually creates a set of magical armor that [[spoiler: Spike]] can use to fight Hollows and other threats. Since he's just a [[spoiler: tiny puppy]] and the suit is huge he can pilot it like MobileSuitHuman.
* MindManipulation:
** Fluttershy's power, which manifests as a ThirdEye. Once she's made physical contact with someone in order to insert her reiatsu into them, she can compel them with her commands.
** Medley of the Zero Division wields a zanpakuto that allows her to manipulate the minds of others on a grand scale, making herself or things of her choice (such as her sword) invisible to their perception or scrambling their senses.
* MissingMom: Rainbow Dash's mother left when she was in kindergarten. Discord claims she is still alive, but he doesn't know where she is. [[spoiler: It turns out she was a member of Xcution and had a Fullbring just like Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie, and Rarity's mothers, but she was the only one who didn't get hit with LaserGuidedAmnesia by Soul Society when the group was disbanded]].
** [[spoiler:Human Luna's mother apparently abandoned her, as she has never met her at all.]]
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Technically all of the members are equal but it's clear that Glory is the one calling all the shots. That being said, Medley rarely follows her orders in the most effective way. [[spoiler: Case in point, she allowed Ditzy to attain information about Hell, took the Heroe's Magical Pendants, but let left them unharmed and even gave Discord a lead about ZD's plans.]]
* MirrorCharacter: During the Soul Society arc, Sunset and the Humane Five fight a Soul Reaper who is remarkably similar to them.
** Sunset Shimmer's main rival is Platinum and are very similar despite their opposing elements. Both are very prideful people driven by their passions and both [[spoiler: are very familiar with the allure of evil, though Platinum's motives are far more complex than Sunset's were.]]
** Pinkie Pie fights Cheese Sandwich, Both are good-natured and fun-loving jokers, being the most laid-back and open-minded of their respective groups and despite their kindness both have an EvilWeapon that is far more bloodthirsty and brutal than they'd like: Pinkamena and Cheese's Zanpakto,''Hone Nashi''.
** Rarity fights Blueblood. Both are gifted, classy, cultured people who appreciate art and the finer things in life, and have technical fighting styles. But while Rarity is generous and accepts criticism, Blueblood is a SmugSuper who doesn't believe he needs to improve.
** Rainbow Dash fights Fancy Pants who despite their different personalities are the same at the core. Both are people defined by their loyalty and honor to their cause and fight to defend their friends. But Rainbow Dash follows the spirit of loyalty while Fancy Pants gets caught up in the letter of it, compounded by [[spoiler: Platinum exploiting his friendship.]]
** Rainbow gets a second case of this with [[spoiler: her mother, Firefly.]] Both have aerial based Fullbring, see themselves as awesome, and are loyal their friends, [[spoiler: but Firefly has a more cynical view on loyalty since she felt she betrayed it when she had to abandon Rainbow Dash when the Zero Division came knocking and her failure as the leader of Xcution.]]
** Fluttershy fights Posey, who are so similar that Rainbow calls the latter "Fluttercopy". Both are kind, withdrawn people who would prefer not to fight, but while Fluttershy has plenty of willpower and will fight when needed Posey has crippling self-esteem issues and gives into her SuperPoweredEvilSide to fight. [[spoiler:It turns out Fluttershy is actually the {{Reincarnation}} of Posey's mother, Pansy]].
** Applejack fights Sweet Cider, her mother. Both are of the upfront and honest sort who prefer to do things head which is shown by their straightforward brute-force fighting styles and despise shady intrigue. But Sweet Cider is far more abrasive than Applejack [[spoiler: and is her amnesiac mother.]]
** A cross dimensional example is Princess Celestia and Human Discord of all people. Both are the ultimate BigGood of their worlds, both are long-lived leaders who are fountains of exposition and wisdom, and both act as {{Trickster Mentor}}s to their world's leader pony. You gotta wonder how Princess Celestia would react to that version of Discord given her tenuous relationship with her own.
* MirroringFactions: Of all of factions Equestria and the Vandenreich. Both are run by powerful and long-lived monarchs, both of their leaders want their subjects to follow a harmony-based ideology of working together and putting aside their differences for the greater good, the only difference is that King Sombra uses it to forge an efficient and well-organized military while Equestria uses such an ideology for peace. You gotta wonder how the ponies would react to such similar ideals ended up creating the Quincies martial culture.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Bount Trixie was CapturedOnPurpose to spy for Human Starlight]].
* MoleMen: What [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame Dwarves]] basically are. They look like giant humanoid moles sporting thick birds.
* MoralMyopia: A noted, even integral, part of three spiritual factions' relationship. Centuries of the ForeverWar and ItsPersonal on all sides has left them in a CycleOfRevenge where it's easy to have a character espouse their beliefs on why the other sides are a bunch of murdering bastards who have no right to act as they do and justifying their own atrocities with IDidWhatIHadToDo, when really they're all equally guilty with no true moral high ground to stand on. Luckily, there do exist outsiders and even people within said factions who can see through the complicated mess.
* MotherOfAThousandYoung: All of Chrysalis' Arrancar are her own children, though "how" she conceives them is how she ranks them. First are her "blood drones", which she creates from her own spilled blood as disposable shock troops with barely any personality and only serving as extensions of her will (though she could invest more personality in them if she wants to). Next are her simple "drones" who have more personality and willpower naturally, but are still subservient to her. Then there are her "true born," the most powerful of all and are fully independent of her will, like Thorax, Pharynx, and Ocelus. [[spoiler:It's implied that this ability is tied to her possession of a piece of the Soul Queen, which is hinted to be her womb.]]
** [[spoiler:This is apparently confirmed later when Chrysalis lets slip to her Equestrian counterpart that her ability to spawn children used to be a lot weaker.]]
* MultiArmedAndDangerous:
** Fluttershy's Evolved Fullbring gives her not only six arms, but the ability to make even more.
** Torch resurrection's form lives up to the name. Besides giving him extra pair of arms, he bears a different kind of weapon in each hand. He is literally [[DualWielding Multi-armed]] and [[BloodKnight extremely]] [[DraconicAbomination dangerous]].
** [[Myth/HinduMythology Ravana]] has three pairs of arms.
** Jörmungandr can form eight truly giant dragon claws forged from Anima.
* MultipurposeTongue: One of Thorax's more disgusting abilities, though he notes that [[TooMuchInformation the ladies, and a few men, love him for it.]]
* MustHaveCaffeine: As Scorpan puts it, Smart Cookie makes the only coffee in "this reality or any other" that can get him functional in the morning.
* MyBelovedSmother: A sympathetic example. Because of [[DelicateAndSickly Pipsquick's sickness,]] he needs constant observation and care. There's also the fact no one knows how long he has to live, which makes Platinium wish to spend as much time with him as possible, isolating them both from the outside world. [[spoiler: When she finds a way to cure him, she doesn't need much convincing to cut all her ties to the Soul Society and commits a few very morally ambiguous deeds to save him, ultimately alienating his son. [[spoiler: However, once pip's life is no longer in danger, [[DeconstructedTrope Platinium begins to slowly open up to people, even forging real friendships]].]]
* MyFistForgivesYou: Applejack eventually forgives Discord for his lies and manipulations, but punches him in the gut.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
** In order to defeat Captain Blueblood, Rarity catches him off-guard with her sword to his throat, neutralizing his Shikai and threatening him with death if he tries anything. Blueblood tries to [[YouWouldntShootMe call her bluff]], but Rarity in turn manages to keep up appearances in her tone and posture so that he's unwilling to risk it. After he surrenders and she binds him up, she leaves and has the internal realization that the threat ''wasn't'' as much a bluff as she was attempting to make it, and the idea that she would have willing killed an unarmed and surrendered opponent, even one that had just been trying to badly injure her at minimum, gives her an internal moment of chill. [[IDidWhatIHadToDo She does brush it off as necessary]] and tells herself that she wouldn't have done it, but the doubt remains regardless.
** The Lament has this realization [[spoiler:when the already horribly wounded Jet Set sacrifices himself to save his wife Upper Crust from his killing blow, which brought up the fractured memories of his own last moments as Hard Nail and how he tried to do the same for Sweet Cider against Grand Fisher.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: Discord still feels responsible for what happened to the Humane Five's mothers. [[spoiler:As well as not seeing Starlight's eroding mental state and trust in him until she decided to strike out on her own to fix the problem she believed he was in on and would do nothing about.]]
* MythicalMotifs:
** Sunset, as in canon, is associated with ThePhoenix, the association going further with her Soul Reaper powers. Her Shikai gives her PlayingWithFire abilities, and [[spoiler:her Bankai gives her HotWings, has her shield morph to look more like a Phoenix, and her ultimate attack, Final Phoenix, has her combine her sword and shield and throw them at her foe, forming a giant fiery Phoenix that explodes when damaged, but unfortunately limiting her to Shikai for at least a day afterward]].
** [[spoiler:Adagio]] unsurprisingly has that of a Mermaid. Her Adjuchas form looked like that of her Equestrian form, while her resurrection turns her into a traditional mermaid in armour and with razor sharp fins.
** Gilda Resurrection has more of an [[AnimalMotifs animal motif]] with a centurion helmet in a shape of a lion head, lower body that of a lean anthropomorphized lion with golden fur, thick claws but also with a barbed tail not unlike Equestrian Manticores. Her spear also drips [[OurHydrasAreDifferent caustic droplets of blood.]]
** Fluttershy's completed Fullbring is heavily inspired by the "Bodhisattva" of Buddhist religion.
** All Sternritters have an Angel motif in their Vollständig form. The appearance warry from person to person but they all have [[WingedHumanoid wings]] (Butterfly wings, wheels of fire, etc) and [[HolyHalo halos]] of some sort.
* MythologyGag: There are several references to both Bleach canon and previous generations of the My Little Pony franchise.
** After an assassination attempt on Twilight, Sombra notes that he is far from omnipotent or omniscient, and sometimes wishes that he could see the future, despite the headache that it would be. Seeing the future was the power of Yhwach's "Almighty" in canon.
** It's often pointed out that Posey resembles Fluttershy, to the point of being nicknamed [=FlutterCopy=]. There really was a pony in Generation 1 named Posey that [[https://www.derpibooru.org/images/249711?q=posey%2C looked a lot like Fluttershy.]] [[spoiler: Then it turns out, Fluttershy was Posey's mother in her previous life.]]
** Apparently Jin, or at least his Equestria Girls counterpart, once tried to enact revenge on Soul Society like in the Bount arc of the anime, and it ended similarly poorly for him.
** Several of the Espada and other Arrancar are villains from previous generations of the ''My Little Pony'' franchise, like Grogar, Catrina, and Squirk.
** Starswirl at one point uses a Kido named [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E10SwarmOfTheCentury Century Swarm]] that creates tiny little creatures to attack.
** Following the Everfree arc, Discord mentions that [[Manga/BurnTheWitch2018 Sunset should visit London sometime]] when talking about groups other than the three main factions.
** Grogar is researching Segunda Etapa.
** Twilight mentions how [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDWIssue34To37 her world's version of Sombra left with his Radiant Hope]].
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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: [[spoiler:The Zero Division keying the blades of Soul Reapers to send the souls of reincarnated members of the Star family to Hell, regardless of their actual deservedness, potentially along with others that they don't like or view as threats, is directly compared by Applejack to rounding people up and putting them in death camps.]]
* NeckLift: [[spoiler:Gaia Everfree does this to Fluttershy at the climax of the fight. Unknown to her, Fluttershy banked on this as this gives her the chance to douse Gaia in the contents of the ginto tube given to her by Twilight, allowing her trigger The Variable's power and distract Gaia so Fluttershy can then make physical contact with her own Fullbring to strike directly at Gaia and Gloriosa's MentalFusion.]]
* NextTierPowerUp: Given this is a ''Bleach'' crossover, this was inevitable. In the span of little more than a month, for each of the main characters...
** Sunset starts out as a girl swinging around an Asauchi before she properly bonds with it to create an unreleased zanpakuto that she trains with for a time while learning Kido. She then unlocks her Shikai while fighting Sternritter "T" Fleur de Lis, and goes through TrainingFromHell to get ready for the assault on Soul Society. From there, she achieves Bankai in ''one'' day and learns she actually has a dual Zanpakuto in the process, and from then on continues to train to maximize her power and learn new techniques.
** The Humane Five start out powerless aside from their magic, then gain their Fullbrings. They undergo TrainingFromHell to maximize their abilities and force their Fullbrings to evolve to their next level, which makes each of them easily a match for a Lieutenant-class Soul Reaper. From there, it's a matter of coming to an [[EnlightenmentSuperpowers emotional epiphany with their own personal hang-ups about themselves or their powers]] to achieve their "complete" Fullbring, which puts each of them on par with Captains, Espada, or Sternritter.
** Human Twilight Sparkle starts off apparently powerless, but begins training with her Quincy powers. However, her latent magic powers thanks to [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Midnight Sparkle]] flare up when her [[EmotionalPowers emotions peak]] and synergize with her already potent Quincy powers to propel her rapidly to the level of and even past her Shadowbolt peers with comparatively less time spent training, especially when she and Midnight come to a mutual understanding. She then gains [[spoiler:a Schrift as a Sternritter and access to Vollstandig]] and continues her research into magic and reishi to maximize her ability, including being able to switch control between herself and Midnight to maximize her control of magic.
** [[spoiler:Adagio Dazzle thanks to her latent magical power starts her evolution as a Hollow directly at the level of an Adjuchas, and after eating a large amount of souls from dead humans, other Hollows, and Gillians and Adjuchas evolves to a Vasto Lorde, which also comes with a newfound control of water. Shortly afterwards and during the battle against the Quincy at Las Noches, absorbing some of the lifeforce of the fallen Ninth Espada Squirk and her battle with Captain Luna to save her friend Ember from capture prompts Adagio to rip off her mask and evolve into an Arrancar, now strong enough to be worthy of the title of Sixth Espada and even greater control of water.]]
* NoConservationOfEnergy: This is lampshaded by Twilight [[spoiler:at the meeting for the Canterlot Spirit Coalition]] as one of the major issues with the official story that Quincy arrows utterly obliterate any Hollow that they destroy, as while spiritual abilities ''do'' often play fast and loose with physical laws as mortals understand them, the fact remains that energy ''can't'' be created or destroyed, just transformed or altered in some way, so the souls have to be going ''somewhere''.
* NoNameGiven: The Fourth Espada. Everyone just calls him "the Lament" or just "the Fourth". [[spoiler:It turns out his name is Hard Nail.]]
* NoodleIncident: Apparently, one of [[spoiler:Celestia's]] previous plans involved a song and dance number, [[spoiler:Luna]] in a dress and convenient explosives.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Despite falling in his fight against the Sternritter, none of the Espada are actually sure if the Smooze is really dead or not, some even joking that he'll just show up again one day. [[spoiler:As it turns out, he really is alive.]]
* NothingPersonal:
** Starlight Glimmer makes it clear that she has nothing against [[spoiler:Captains Luna or Celestia]]. It's just that she needs [[spoiler:the Sogyoku]] for her plans and she had to set up their execution [[spoiler:in order to let the weapon be released so she could steal it]]. Indeed, she has no issue at all with letting them go alive once she gets what she wants. Of course, they along with Sunset and the gang take it pretty personally.
** Despite his disparaging remarks to her, [[spoiler:Adagio honestly has no hard feelings against Squirk. It's just it's either kill him or bring down Chrysalis' wrath on her head.]]
* NotQuiteDead:
** [[spoiler: Applejack's parents. Though they died in the human world, Applejack's mother is now a member of Soul Society as a Captain, and her father is still "alive" as the Fourth Espada.]]
** [[spoiler: Adagio, who is also still "alive" as a hollow.]]
** [[spoiler: Human Sunset Shimmer, who's not only still alive in ''Hueco Mundo'', but has somehow gotten a Fullbring!]]
* NotSoDifferentRemark:
** Several Arrancar note that Chrysalis and [[spoiler:Adagio Dazzle]] are very similar to each other, in that they're both beautiful yet powerful schemers who aren't satisfied with just defeating their opposition but manipulating or breaking them to their will in the process. To drive it home, [[spoiler:Gaia Everfree's flashback reveals that Chrysalis' original position in the Espada was the Sixth, the very same position Adagio was first elevated to.]]
** Midnight makes this observation of Twilight and [[spoiler:Sapphire Shores after it's revealed that the latter is behind the assassination attempts on Twilight and what her motivations were]], saying that they both "jump to conclusions, overthink things, and don’t have the courage to go after what you want and instead hide your real feelings, then pretend like you’re doing what’s best for everyone".
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist:
** Despite the claims of [[spoiler:Glory that her and the Zero Division's plans are simply doing what they must [[KnightTemplar to create a new world free from evil]], it's later made clear that she's ultimately driven by a desire to resurrect her fallen brethren who became the souls of mortals, to which she's willing to create Hell, and send innocent souls there (like Sunburst for just being a descendant of the Star family, or Rarity to weaken the power of the heroes), to reconstitute said souls... while still preserving some "worthy" souls in the Soul Palace, proving that she realizes that mortals are just as deserving of existence as the gods are, especially with her tantrum when Discord refused to join her.]]
** [[spoiler:Jörmungandr's plans for Ragnarok would have him kill Yggdrasil, which would halt the cycle of reincarnation, to free it of the modifications that Glory has made for her plan above. While he's correct in that Yggdrasil isn't eternal and ''will'' die eventually, his obsession with killing it early rather than finding a way to undo what Glory did and letting it happen naturally, among other things like a desire for glory in the battles of Ragnarok, puts him in this territory.]]
* NotWhatItLooksLike: [[spoiler:Bount Trixie tries to claim this when they discover her performing her ritual to seal off the portal, then her Equestrian counterpart falls out of the closet BoundAndGagged, so she gives up and admits that it's ''exactly'' what it looks like.]]
* ObfuscatingStupidity: The Lament does this all the time. Or, rather he acts laid back and easygoing. [[spoiler:Adagio]] isn't fooled, noticing immediately that he is in reality in a state of constant, battle-ready tension.
* OddNameOut: Applejack's father, Hard Nail, is the only member of Applejack's immediate family to not have an apple themed name. {{Justified}} in that he married into it.
* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler:Time Turner and Ditzy are ChildhoodFriends and it's made clear from their actions and words that they're together, along with the not-so-subtle implication that the former is Derpy's father]].
* OffscreenAfterlife: Regarding what happens after death in Equestria, not even Celestia and Luna supposedly have much, if any knowledge of it. Souls definitively ''exist'' there, but what happens after death is still a mystery.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome:
** Puddinghead's entire fight with The Kraken is this. When he next appears, The Kraken has been reduced to the size of a small dog with little explanation. Puddinghead is more than happy, however, to recount [[UnreliableNarrator how he bested The Kraken with ease thanks to his amazing Kido abilities.]]
** [[spoiler: Wing Bind's]] been actively and efficiently fighting off Jörmungandr's dragon forces in Europe.
** Prior to the events of the story time Grogar somehow managed to seriously wound Torch. Centuries later it still bothers him.
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:The Grand Fisher dies when Applejack, Sunset, and Rainbow Dash destroy his head with a CombinationAttack. He's still standing after that so they think he's still alive, but he did indeed die.]]
** According to Ember, this is the Lament's preferred way of killing.
* OhCrap: Moondancer [[spoiler:when she realizes that the assassin she and Meadowbrook are fighting is, despite not unsealing their zanpakuto, easily matching them at every turn with no apparent difficulty]]. It gets bigger [[spoiler:when said enemy casts ''Hado #90: Kurohitsugi'' (Black Coffin) without the incantation, something only a Captain-level Soul Reaper should be capable of performing]].
* OlderThanTheyLook: Besides Soul Reapers and Hollows who have lived for centuries without looking it, Sunset Shimmer is technically older than the Humane 5 given her age as a pony, but still looks to be of High School age.
** [[spoiler: Scootaloo]] despite looking like a young teenager, is only twenty-three years old, which in Bount years doesn't make her older than her friends. Like she said, Bounts age weird, depending on what they ''eat''. She doesn't like to talk about it.
* OldMaster: Each member of the Zero Division is responsible for establishing a fundamental part of Soul Society. Bowtie [[UltimateBlacksmith created the Zanpakutous]], Minty [[CombatMedic founded the healing arts of Kido]], and Medley [[KungFuWizard placed down the principles of Hakuda and Shunko]].
* TheOneThatGotAway: Could be taken literally in [[spoiler: Thorax and Luna's]] case. They met when they were, [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld relatively]] young, and, while it started as normal fights, it eventually turned into [[FriendlyEnemy friendship]] and later into genuine affection. Unfortunately, It ended poorly for them when [[spoiler: Thorax]] trusted his family too much and [[spoiler: Luna]] almost died, barely escaping [[spoiler: but not without losing a piece of her soul]]. A big part of his plans revolves around convincing her to talk with him so he could apologize. [[spoiler: After events at Camp Everfree, Thorax finally had the chance, but Luna says she can't forgive him yet.]]
* OnlyFleshIsSafe: Nocturn's ''Yakkai Koto'' can make any non-animal object it strikes, from plants, pieces of paper, clothing, even water, to be as heavy and stiff as steel.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Tirek has declared this about Sombra and told his Espada that none of them may try and take that right from him. {{Justified}} in that Sombra is so powerful that not even the other Espada, save maybe the #2 Chrysalis, could hope to defeat him.
* {{Orichalcum}}: The metal is the most treasured creation of the dwarves, the secret of which is strictly guarded. As light as {{Mithril}} but ten times more durable and perfect to conduct Anima. Among other races, it's a symbol of status.
* OtherMeAnnoysMe: [[spoiler:Human Chrysalis and her counterpart do not get along well.]]
* OurDragonsAreDifferent:
** Dragons are native species to the Beast Realm and at least a substantial number of them seem to serve Jörmungandr. They vary in shapes and sizes; some are traditional winged Western dragons and some are eal-like Eastern dragons that glide through the air on discs made of reishi (similarly to Quincy or Fullbringers) and some barely resemble dragons and are more [[MixAndMatchCritters amalgamations of creatures.]]
** Jörmungandr's true form is a massive dragon-like entity, complete with arms, legs, and four wings, all covered with horns, spines, and barbed scales.
** Celestia's Shikai takes the form of a twin dragon made out of fire and plasma. She's very reluctant to release them as they possess full autonomy, and because they are very aggressive and confrontational, they are as dangerous to her allies as they are to her enemies.
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: They are native to Beast Realm. They look like [[MoleMen Moles]] sporting thick beards and braids. Naturally, they are excellent Artisians, [[UltimateBlacksmith blacksmiths,]] Runecrafters, and engineers. They are the only ones that know how to forge {{Orichalcum}}. They can be found in Svartalfheim where they mine and [[FriendlyRivalry skirmish with Diamond Dogs.]]
* OurKoboldsAreDifferent: Diamond Dogs. They are a race of giant bipedal, anthropomorphic Dogs. Despite living in the Beast Realm they come in various real-life species. They can be found in Svartalfheim where they mine and [[FriendlyRivalry skirmish with Dwarves.]]
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent:
** The Lament's Ressurreccion resembles a great black wolf which eerily resembles [[spoiler:the Hollow that attacked him while he was human]]. Incredibly powerful, but he loses control of himself and acts like a feral beast out to kill.
** [[spoiler:Luna's]] Bankai gives her the appearance of one, covering her body in a large shadowy mass in the form of a wolf while a [[BadMoonRising a sphere resembling a crimson moon bathes the surroundings in shadows]]. [[spoiler:When the sphere is damaged, she absorbs all the shadows involuntarily due to lack of control brought on by her Beast Realm heritage and turns into a black-and-red werewolf with incredible physical power, but her mind is consumed by bloodlust and the most she can do is keep herself targeted on her foe with no higher thought process than "rip and tear".]]
* OurWitchesAreDifferent:
** Seaponies can't cast spells like unicorns they have a specialized group called Witches of the Sea that can call upon the Sea Spirits that allow them to use magic. [[SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic Twilight speculates]] that those spirits are in reality Ocean's [[BackgroundMagicField natural magic field,]] and Seawitches use their innate magic to influence and draw from it like Earth Ponies.
** Technically they are not witches, [[spoiler: [[OurVampiresAreDifferent but Bounts,]]]] but Scootaloo's aunts share a lot of familiarities with them. They live in an old house covered in Celtic symbols and other trinkets, far outside of town. They're seclusive, know how to brew potions, and their powers resemble spells. Lofty even have a doll a.k.a. a familiar that takes the form of a cauldron.
** Human [[spoiler: Trixie]] takes it a step further by dressing like a witch (pointed hat, a cape, etc.), and her weapon is a staff with which she can cast curses. [[spoiler: Her Bount Doll even takes the form of BlackKnight.]]
* OurSpiritsAreDifferent: Wraiths are magically created ghosts bound to a place or an object. They're completely dark in appearance and very aggressive. Nothing indicates they remember who they were. [[spoiler: The City of Aqualania is filled to the brim with them. They are City's previous inhabitants, trapped by Charybdis' magic.]]
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Draugr are RevenantZombie, that had been mostly used by denizens of Niflheim and Muspelheim. They retain their minds and abilities while their bodies turn dark and their eyes blue. They require Anima from the person who created them or from the person they strike a deal. Without it, they will become inanimate and pass away. A lot of current living draugr are just leftovers from the God Wars.
* TheOwlKnowingOne: The spirit of Clover's Zanpakuto, ''Chishiki'' (Knowledge), is a large owl who inhabits a massive library.
* PapaWolf:
** Torch is unafraid of sending Ember out into the field of battle because he trusts her ability to fight and survive. Do something that threatens her otherwise, like say capturing her, and he will bring down the full wrath of his horde on your head.
** The Lament is already a somewhat unstable guy, but the fastest way to get on his shit-list is to harm the Hollow children he calls his own. [[spoiler:According to Twilight Velvet, he was still this even when he was still Hard Nail]].
* ParentalSubstitute: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed.]] Due to the uncanny resemblance to her mother, both in looks and personality [[spoiler: and literally being her in previous life]] Posey can't help but seek attention and approval from Fluttershy, desperately calling her mother. Fluttershy sees it as an unhealthy obsession and makes it clear that [[DefiedTrope she's not and never will be her mother.]] Still, she says she'll gladly call her a friend and help her workout her issues.
* PastLifeMemories:
** [[spoiler:Sombra has these due to being a {{Reincarnation}} of the Soul Queen's Consort, though he mentions to Twilight that the memories are fragmented, took him centuries to put together enough to make sense of, and notes that some or much of it could be corrupted, misinterpreted or false.]]
** The subject was more elaborated on the Equestrian side, to the point of {{Deconstruction}}. Whenever an Inheritor awakens their relic, their minds might be flooded with memories of their past lives. If the person is not prepared, their current personality might be overwritten the first time they try to access them. That can happen even if their past life is not malicious. Even after getting control over their bodies again, accessing and sorting through the memories might take a while. We're talking about the lifetime of centuries-old beings. And even then, the influx of new memories might make it hard for them to differentiate themselves from their past life. Dash, for example - who was a stallion in their past life - had some difficulty using a bathroom.
* PentUpPowerPeril: The danger in training Fullbringers. The field used to aggravate their powers causes their Hollow energy to build up before painfully escaping. The only way to avoid this is for the user to evolve their Fullbring. [[StuffBlowingUp If not...]]
* PetTheDog:
** Hurricane is Soul Society's premiere {{Jerkass}} and TokenEvilTeamMate and while not the best dad truly loves Posey, his bastard daughter, and goes out of his way to defend her honor when it's insulted.
** Though he hasn't had very many appearances, the Lament seems rather fond of doing this.
** Ravana rescued [[spoiler: Hel/Wallflower]] from Jörmungandr. The reason he did it was because he couldn't stomach what he did to her.
* PercussiveMaintenance: Tempest suggests this in order to get [[spoiler: ''The Treasury'']] up and running. Seaspray only does so as to prove Tempest wrong, only for it to actually work.
* PercussivePrevention: After running into Captain Blueblood, an enraged Rarity orders Sunset to run while she deals with him personally. Sunset, despite not being able to use her right arm fully, is having none of that and prepares to leap in to help right up until [[spoiler: Ditzy Doo]] sucker punches her in the chest and runs off with her slung over her shoulder.
* PersonOfMassDestruction:
** The reason why Captain [[spoiler:Celestia]] refuses to ever use even just her Shikai in a populated area. Apparently, [[MyGreatestFailure the last time she did so was so bad she swore off doing so again]]. Details are sparse, [[spoiler:but it involves the death of Captain Platinum's husband]].
** Princess Celestia is revealed to be this, able to cast extremely powerful magic spells that can decimate her surroundings. The drawback is that [[AwesomeButImpractical these spells take quite a bit of time to prepare and cast]], stating that someone like Tirek could drain her magic before it's completed or Discord could snap his fingers and turn it on her (which he apparently has done in the past).
** Hollow King Tirek and Quincy King Sombra are this without a doubt. Sombra's Schrift "The Absolute" grants him total mastery of space and one way he can manipulate it is to create arrows capable of punching through even the strongest materials. Tirek without releasing his zanpakuto is strong enough to unleash swings capable of destroying ''skyscrapers'' while his Ceros are described as akin to solar flares, and just one shot was almost enough to blast through Shining Armor's [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe Bastion power]].
* PhysicalGod:
** [[spoiler: The ancient race of Alicorns that once ruled over Equestria, with many of them proclaiming AGodAmI. When it was discovered that their actions had upset the natural cycle and would lead to TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, a plan was formed to transfer all their godlike power into different items and [[MortalityEnsues become mortal]] to hopefully repair the natural cycle.]]
** Many of the truly ancient Soul Reapers and Hollows are in fact the children of or just a few generations removed from being the divine children of the Soul Queen, and many of them would become seen as gods. All the members of the Royal Guard are in fact her direct children, while the likes of Tirek and Scorpan are second-generation.
* PiecesOfGod: There are a few characters with pieces of the Soul Queen in the story.
** [[spoiler:Sci-Twi apparently has the Soul Queen's Eye.]]
** [[spoiler:Chrysalis also has a piece of the Soul Queen, which, given her [[MotherOfAThousandYoung reproductive habits]] and the placement of her hands when she revealed this fact, is implied to be her womb. She also seeks to claim the other pieces and take the Soul Queen's place.]]
** [[spoiler:Sombra believes that all mortal souls were originally parts of the various gods descended from the Soul Queen and her consort, who was originally a part of her that she split off.]]
** [[spoiler:The Dazzlings are all Inheritors of a singular Equestrian goddess, who split her essence between them while using a single Relic to contain her power instead of the other way around like all the other known ones did.]]
** [[spoiler:''All'' of the mortal souls in existence are in fact fragments of the slain children of the Soul Queen and her Consort, aka the various deities of different pantheons who died during their wars. The "Zero Plan" intended by the Royal Guard (some of her few remaining children) would in theory result in the resurrection of their fallen siblings by collecting and breaking down the souls in Jigoku into their base particles and reconstructing those deities. Of course, this would mean CessationOfExistence for all but a few "chosen" mortal souls by the end.]]
** [[spoiler:Each of the Zero Division has taken up one of the pieces of the Soul Queen to boost their already impressive power.]]
* PillarOfLight: When Sunset Shimmer first releases her Zanpakuto, [[spoiler:Hokori]], it generates a pillar of fire that can be seen by every spiritually aware person ''in the city''. Happens again when she activates her Bankai. This time tall enough to ''pierce the clouds'' and strong enough to shake the ground like an ''earthquake''.
* PlayingBothSides: [[spoiler:Zero Division is apparently doing their best to keep the Soul Reapers, Quincy, and Arrancars fighting each other for some reason]].
* PlayingWithFire: Sunset Shimmer, naturally [[spoiler:both Equestrian and Human]]. Same with Spitfire of the Quincy who's Schrift is "The Inferno", who remarks that the same applies to [[spoiler:Celestia]]. Torch is completely flame resistant and can breathe fire.
* PleasePutSomeClothesOn:
** Being a [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl Yoruichi]] expy, when [[spoiler:Ditzy Doo]] transforms into her human form, she is completely naked. Sunset, [[AlienAmongUs being a pony]], is unfazed by this, but her friends react just as you'd expect.
** Amusingly, both Lament and Sombra express this opinion of [[spoiler:Adagio]] post-Arrancar transformation, since it didn't come with a change of clothes to replace the original bone armor.
* PoisonousPerson:
** Hydia, complete with DeadlyGas and Acid Spit.
** The Smooze, quite literally since his body is basically a BlobMonster of sickly putrid mass that poisons and kills most things it touches.
** Gilda's Resurreccion gives her this power, specifically in the form of [[ThePowerOfBlood caustic blood]] that can [[PoisonIsCorrosive infect and dissolve inanimate objects and people]].
* PortalCut: [[spoiler:Weaponized by Twilight/Midnight when Velvet's death awakens the Eye within her and it takes partial control of their body, using the magic from the portal offensively against the Lament.]]
* PositiveFriendInfluence: She would never admit it but it's obvious that after a short time with Sunset (and her defeat), Adagio has become a much better person. Keep in mind, she's still motivated by revenge and the improvement of her own living condition. It's just the person she wants to kill is a MadScientist and the people she surrounds herself profit from 'her' success.
* PowerEchoes: Midnight talks this way. Or at least talked, until Twilight demanded from her to stop. After that, her voice changed from an ethereal echo to just smug and sultry.
-->'''Twilight''': Okay, I’ll hear what you have to say, but there are some rules I’m setting down first.\\
'''Midnight''': ''Oh? What rules would those be?''\\
'''Twilight''': First rule; stop doing that thing with your voice and talk like a normal person.\\
'''Midnight''': ''What thing?''\\
'''Twilight''': That thing! The weird and entirely unnecessary echoing quality. Just talk in a normal voice, otherwise I’m going to be distracted the entire time wondering how you’re even doing it in the first place.\\
'''Midnight''': Fine, ruin all my fun why don’t you?

* PowerCopying: Several characters duplicate the powers and abilities of other characters/groups.
** During the Hueco Mundo siege to slay Squirk, Sombra keeps Tirek out of the fight by using his SpaceMaster powers and trapping him with him in a pocket dimension that Tirek notes is based off of the Caja Negacion technique.
** Starswirl once slew a Sternritter who could copy other powers.
** Starswirl's own Bankai lets him produce reishi particles in such a way that he can mimic the Quincy ability to create reishi construct weapons, like machine guns and missiles, duplicate Kido spells, and even mimic Hollow energy to fire Ceros.
** Grogar's Resurrección form can mimic the Smooze's PoisonousPerson goop, Torch's flames, Guto's chains, and Squirk's rapid Garganta creation abilities, among others, though each canister of these replicated powers has a limited amount of uses, and he can apparently only use four at once. Combined with him copying Adagio's Siren Gem and combining it with what is implied to be the power of the [[spoiler:Arrancar Storm King]] to absorb power from his slain experiments, Celestia accuses him of [[CreativeSterility not having anything of his own instead of stolen powers]].
** [[spoiler:Discord’s Hogyoku is modified so that the Humane Seven should be able to do this to a degree.]]
** Morgawr's PowerTattoo enhancing his body is deliberately noted to be similar to the Blut techniques of the Quincy in the narration. [[spoiler:Given that Charybids has knowledge of Earth and the spiritual beings that inhabit it, this may have been intentional]].
* PoweredArmor:
** Applejack's Evolved Fullbring is a reduced variant, consisting of armor for just her arms and legs and like that [[ComicBook/IronMan "fella wit the fancy armor suit"]] she can use them to fly. Her Completed Fulbring is a near perfectly form fitting golden armour with skull motif and many faintly visible circular ports.
** [[spoiler:Firefly's]] Complete Fullbring "Ace Of Sky" is a more complete example.
* PoweredByAForsakenChild:
** The Quincy access Hueco Mundo via two captive Gillians kept in forced hibernation by Quincy alchemy, forcing them to create Gargantas. Twilight, upon seeing this, vows to create a better way.
** The Cross Gate to Equestria requires a colossal amount of energy. So much that [[spoiler: Starlight]] had to use the power of Sokyoku to power it up. [[spoiler: Chrysalis and Grogar]] go around by capturing and suspending a number of Hollows to drain them from their energy.
* PowerGivesYouWings:
** Rainbow Dash is the absolute Queen of this trope. With every power-up gaining on power and speed. First, she had her regular [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames blue wings]]. After that, they evolved into a pair of white, razor-sharp wings with rainbow colors along the fringes and crackling [[ShockAndAwe electric energy]]. In her evolved Fullbring, he'd six wings; two still made out of metal but bigger and four seemingly forged from solidified electricity. Finally, her Completed Fullbring gained a full meter of wingspan and transmuted into jets of solid light, while the electric wings turned, long, elegant and solid blades of metal, [[spoiler: not unlike her mother's]]. Firefly could only stare in awe upon seeing them.
** [[ZigZaggingTrope Played with]] Fluttershy. She still has her pegasus wings but, unlike Rainbow, they don't change and simply drown in the number of extra limbs.
** [[spoiler: Firefly]] has her powered armor with a series of blade-like energy wings and boots with smaller fin-like wings.
** Sunset's bankai gives her twin wings of phoenix flame, flowing with power and heat which can be used as jets to increase speed. Sunset compares the level of power to the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls1 two]] [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames previous]] moments in her life when she had wings.
** Guto's Ressurection takes a form that brings to mind an Aztec warrior with clothes decorated with feathers and the head of an eagle yet [[ZigZaggingTrope instead of wings]] he has jet turbines made out of bones.
** Every Quincy gets wings in the Vollständig state but, they are all shaped in different kinds. To describe a few, there is a Sterrniter with five wings looking like heater shields floating around his back, one with a pair of glowing butterfly wings, one with circles made of fire that (the narration even mentions ancient texts describing angelic beings), one with two large, thin tendrils that were spawning even more tendrils, and one with wings made of clockwork. There are no set standards. There are as many types, as there are Sterrniters.
* ThePowerOfApathy: Weaponized by Harshwhinny. Her power, The Uncaring, produces a powerful sense of apathy in her targets that leaves them sapped of their willpower, such as their will to fight or defend themselves against attacks, leaving them vulnerable to enemy attacks. [[spoiler: [[HoistByHisOwnPetard It ends working against her when fighting the Fourth Espada.]] While it makes him care less about his ally [[TeethClenchedTeamwork (which he only because of politeness)]] it also makes him more focused and determined to kill all threats while blocking out his deeper emotional turmoil.]]
* ThePowerOfCreation:
** Captain Starswirl's Shikai allows him to produce any chemical structure he's aware of be it solid, liquid or gas, and he knows not only of nearly every Earth-based chemical but many Spirit-World native ones and quite a few unique compounds he's made himself. His Bankai expands this power to include reishi particles and massively ups the production speed and volume, allowing him to do things from mimic the Quincy's ability to form reishi constructs by creating all manner of spirit-based weaponry (such as machine guns and missiles) to producing facsimiles of Kido spells to even mimicking Hollow energy to fire Ceros.
** Filthy Rich's Schrift, The Mason, allows him to transform reishi or reishi-imbued materials into other solid materials at will. He normally prefers to use it to create and repair large fortifications, completing with bristling weaponry like cannons, but can even use it, at least in Vollstandig, to transmute his own blood into large chains.
* ThePowerOfHate:
** This, along with sporadic sacrifices, is what kept [[spoiler: Gaia]] alive. Her hate towards Chrysalis is so strong it kept her [[DamagedSoul fragmented soul]] together for centuries.
** [[spoiler:Once he senses the spiritual energy around Aqualania, Flash is struck by the sheer ''hate'' in it.]]
** When a sinner gets sentenced to Hell, they become part of it. And if their hatred is strong enough they can manifest powers through that connection. Like [[spoiler: Sunburst]] and [[PlayingWithFire his flames]] or [[spoiler: Cozy]] and her [[ChainPain control over Hell Chains.]]
* ThePowerOfLove: Human Chrysalis believes in this, though unlike her Equestrian counterpart who believes only she and other Changelings can use it, she acknowledges anyone can use it and admires both the good and ''especially'' bad things love will make someone do. Of course, like her counterpart she also believes people who let themselves be ruled by it are weak.
* PowerParasite: Human Starlight's Zanpakuto, ''Sekai Chitsujo'' (World Order) lets her steal Zanpakuto spirits and use their powers. She can even lend them to other people at will. However, the Zanpakuto must be released and directed at her (even accidentally), which means she just can't steal them willy-nilly [[spoiler:and why she had to set up the executions of Celestia and Luna by Sokyoku since the powerful Zanpakuto is only released during said executions]], in most shown cases she actually has to make physical contact with the Zanpakuto with her own to steal it, and she only seems able to use one Zanpakuto's power herself at a time (this doesn't apply to a Zanpakuto she lends out). It's also speculated that she needs to keep the Soul Reaper she steals the blade from alive to keep using it, since a Zanpakuto is supposed to die with its Soul Reaper.
** Thorax's Resurrección form has the ability "Sifon del Alma,” or "Soul Siphon", which allows him to siphon off some of his foe's reiatsu and consume it if he "tasted" it before releasing the form.
** Morgawr's trident can absorb magic directed at it.
** Bakkoto, as in canon, are parasitic and will drain the spiritual energy of whoever uses them, but Starlight discovers that they can also feed off ''magic''.
** [[spoiler:Rarity's]] Sinner power lets them drain the strength of others using their chains.
* PowerTattoo: Morgawr's tattoos, given to him by Charybdis, which allow him to enhance himself in a similar manner to the Quincy Blut techniques.
* PredecessorVillain: The Queen of Thorns [[spoiler:Gaia Everfree]], the former Second Espada who was usurped by Chrysalis. [[spoiler:What was left of her was nurtured by a cult over the centuries that in the modern day it turns out were Gloriousa and Timber's ancestors.]]
* PregnantBadass:
** Cadance. She's a powerful Sternritter skilled enough to fight an Espada one on one, which is rare for Quincy. Granted, her pregnancy is still in the early stage, and the only reason she knows about it is that Sapphire used her powers on her. She's worried that she won't be able to do her duties once [[PapaWolf Shining]] finds out.
** She hadn't shown her skills, yet but just the fact she holds a high rank in military organization, it's safe to assume that Radiant Hope is pretty badass. [[spoiler: She was strong enough to [[TearJerker save herself or her unborn child]].]]
* PrettyBoy: Thorax is described as an effeminately handsome man.
* {{Pride}}: Sunset's greatest personality trait [[spoiler:and the very emotion that embodies her Zanpakuto spirit, who takes the form of her demon self]]. Part of Sunset's struggle to manifest her Shikai is in fact [[spoiler:to come to terms with the fact that while her pride did lead to her banishment and transformation into a monster, it also lead her to becoming the best at what she could do]]. Only once she accepts this [[spoiler:does her demon self finally relent enough to allow her to unleash her power, and her Zanpakuto's full name is ''Hokori no Hikari'' (Pride's Light)]].
* PropheticNames: In the comics, Amore and Radiant Hope had a very strong connection with Sombra. Only time will tell what the relationship between the three we see in this story will be. Radiant Hope is revealed to be [[spoiler:a former Quincy and Sombra's wife whose soul ended up in Soul Society due to how her soul is connected to the Eye of the Soul Queen and a Soul Reaper purified her before Sombra could collect her soul when she died.]]
* PunnyName: [[spoiler: ''Flash'' Sentry]] can use the FlashStep.
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* QualityVsQuantity: This is the dynamic that keeps all sides fairly even.
** The Quincies are heavy on "Quantity". Individually their warriors are the weakest fighters, with even their Sternritter often needing to pair up on Espada or Captains. You'd also be hard-press to find a Quincy who's lived much longer than an average human lifespan outside of Sombra or his elites. But they have the advantage of numbers, their technological prowess is the most advanced of all the factions, and their birth rates boom pretty well to replenish their numbers and even Sternritter, of which there are 26, can be replaced as easily as Sombra finding a sufficiently strong candidate and giving them a fallen member's Schrift.
** The Arrancar are heavy on "Quality". Most Arrancar are decades, if not centuries or millennia old, and have honed themselves on the DeathWorld of Hueco Mundo to survive. Individually, Arrancar outmatch most Soul Reapers and Quincies for raw power, and the Espada are noted to be on average the strongest of the individual elite factions of the war. However, Arrancar due to low birth rates (even if not ''quite'' so low as it might seem at first glance since fornicating is probably one of their favorite pastimes when not fighting), low survival rates of said children in said DeathWorld, and the long time it takes Arrancars of any worth to be created from Menos Hollows means they can't easily replenish their losses, and even though they can and will bolster their ranks with lesser Hollows and Menos it only helps so much.
** The Soul Reapers are in-between. They have a larger army and elite faction than Arrancar if not possibly not quite as much as the Quincies and can replenish it fairly well both due to birth rates and recruitment souls coming into Soul Society. Individually they can surpass Quincies for power and hold their own against Arrancar, and again the average age and experience of a Soul Reaper is between a Quincy and an Arrancar. However, they can't as easily replace someone of Captain level or even Lieutenant level as the Quincy can their Sternritter, and on an individual level an Espada could still likely surpass a Captain.
* RagTagBunchOfMisfits:
** [[spoiler:Adagio]] is slowly making one. So far, it consists of Ember, Di Roy, and Gaw.
** Human Starlight's group. They're all very different, but they all have two things in common: They're all very powerful and they all have a bone to pick with Soul Society.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking:
** Sombra and Tirek are the Quincy King and Hollow King[=/=]Espada #1, and therefore the strongest of the Quincies and Hollows respectively. Chrysalis is Espada #2 and Tirek's NumberTwo, with the narration referring to her as essentially the Hollow Queen and the only other one in Tirek's army aside from himself who could possibly fight Sombra on equal ground [[spoiler:and her subordinate Thorax is apparently strong enough that he can masquerade as her in Hueco Mundo with none the wiser]].
** Captain-Commander Scorpan is the most powerful member of the Gotei 13. His spiritual power is so great it can destroy weaker Hollows on contact!
** All the members of the Zero Division are the founders of Soul Society and its highest authority short [[spoiler:in theory]] of the Soul Queen herself, and each one is ''at least'' in Scorpan's weight class, if not stronger.
* RapidFireFisticuffs: Fluttershy of all people. Helps she has [[MultiArmedAndDangerous six arms and can generate more.]] [[spoiler: Not that it helps against member of Zero Division.]]
* RazorFloss: Ember invokes this when seeing how Roka heals people, (she uses needles and thread) saying how it could easily be used to tear things apart rather than sew them back together.
* ReadingLips: Sugarcoat can read lips, even from a distance with her visor.
* RealityWarper:
** Discord's Zanpaktou, ''Konran Arashi'', (Chaos Storm) is half this and half SpaceMaster. It has the power to disrupt naturally existing orders. Whether that be the order in one’s body, or the order of spirit energy that creates a Zanpaktou’s powers, or even more fundamental laws like the direction sound travels through the air. In other words, anyone that gets hit with it gets an InterfaceScrew. Its Bankai is even more powerful, but also more dangerous because it's area-of-effect and he can't guarantee the safety of anyone who gets caught up in it by accident [[spoiler:like what happened to Screwball and Screwloose when they got hit by the tail-end of it during his fight with Starlight Glimmer during her betrayal.]]
** Pinkie's evolved Fullbring is basically the RuleOfFunny weaponized such that she can distort the laws of physics as long as the result can be considered a "gag".
** Hoity Toity's Schrift, The Xenomorph, allows him to transform any and all physical matter he implants with his reiatsu as he desires, to the point that at full power, he can even transform his own body such that it resembles someone else or that it changes forms of matter from 'solid' to 'liquid' to even a full-on EnergyBeing state. It's major weakness is that a sufficiently strong spiritual pressure can resist him.
** Sci-Twi's Schrift, The Variable, provides a limited version of this. By analyzing the target of her choice, including herself, she can change the "variables" about it to her liking. This can let her do things from changing the "speed" and "direction" of her own attacks, to switching around "resistances" and "weaknesses", to even [[GenderBender switching from "female" to "male"]].
** The Soul Queen's powers included using her absolute command of reishi to reshape the world around her.
* RedBaron:
** Centuries ago, there existed a powerful Arrancar. Everyone in Las Noches has heard about her, but besides the facts that she was powerful and she was the first Segunda Espada [[ShroudedInMyth no one besides a few old enough to meet her knows anything about her.]] After a spat with the current Segunda Espada, Chrysalis, she'd disappeared, but it's unknown if she's dead or became a Privaron Espada. So she's better known as The Queen of Thorns. [[spoiler: Her real name is Gaia. [[LegendFadesToMyth Better known as Gaia Everfree]].]]
** Ofridr has a lot of titles. In Nifheim he is known as "Thousand Wails of the Dead" for his Violin can mimic the wails of the dead, and his ability to control them. In Alfheim, he's known as "Lifebane" after destroying two of their clans. However, his favorite title is the one he gave himself - Dirge Singer.
* {{Reincarnation}}:
** As always, the cycle of life, death and rebirth. Once the living pass on, they either go to Soul Society or become Hollows, and once they die in Soul Society they return to the Spirit Realm to eventually be reborn in the living world. Memories between both worlds don't usually last the journey, though there are plenty of exceptions with PastLifeMemories and those who remember their living lives. Physical appearances and even gender don't usually stay the same either, though again exceptions do exist. However, it is the law of Soul Society to treat reincarnated individuals as their own person separate from who they were in a past life. [[spoiler:Fluttershy for example is the reincarnation of former 11th Division Lieutenant Pansy, the mother of current Lieutenant Posey and the lover of Captain Hurricane, and according to both of them she's all but an exact copy.]]
** How Sombra's soul absorption of Quincies work. When they die, he draws them into his own soul and body to gestate for a period time before they are reborn without memories of who they are. It can effectively be described as a faster method over how the usual cycle works. However, not all of the souls go to him directly, as was the case with Radiant Hope due to the fact she was cleansed by a Soul Reaper first and went to Soul Society rather than back to him, and presumably a Quincy soul devoured by a Hollow is equally lost. As it turns out, Twilight Sparkle herself is a reincarnation of [[spoiler:Sombra and Radiant Hope's unborn child.]]
** [[spoiler:Sunburst was consigned to Hell because he was the reincarnation of a member of the Star family, who rebelled against Soul Society over the formation of Central 46]].
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Sombra, Scorpan, Starswirl, Tirek, and Grogar are some of the oldest beings in this universe, with Tirek and Scorpan having been alive when the Soul Queen was still in her prime [[spoiler:and the former was there to witness her fall]] while Sombra [[spoiler:is the human reincarnation of the Soul Queen's Consort]], and Starswirl and Grogar are from the same generation as Scorpan and Tirek.
** [[spoiler:Sapphire Shores is roughly six hundred years old.]]
** [[spoiler:Sunset notes that Gaia Everfree's memories show Scorpan when he was apparently in his ''twenties'', and she mentions Ares, as in the ''Greek God'', in the present tense.]]
* RelatedInTheAdaptation:
** Captain Platinum and Pipsqueak. In Equestria, Platinum is a Princess from before Celestia and Luna's rule, while Pipsqueak is a modern-day young Colt who goes to the same school with CMC. In human World Platinum is Pipsqueak's mother.
** [[spoiler:Fenice is the younger sister of the Human Sunburst as the children of Stellar Flare, which leads Sunset to wonder if she's related to Equestrian Sunburst.]]
** [[spoiler:Played around with by Rainbow's mother. While canon Rainbow Dash's (and presumably her Equestria Girl's counterpart) mother is Windy Whistles, here Firefly is her mother while Windy is Firefly's sister and thus Rainbow's aunt. However, Rainbow's dad Bow Hothoof is heavily implied to be [[SettleForSibling falling for Windy]] after all the years Firefly has been gone, which Rainbow doesn't actually mind.]]
* RequiredSecondaryPowers:
** Although Arrancars, Soul Reapers, and Quincies have super strength and durability, they still weigh the same as ordinary people, meaning they can get knocked down by ordinary people if they don't brace themselves.
** Quincies have to activate [[SuperToughness Blut Vene]] before using [[FlashStep Hirenkyaku]] so that the excessive G-Forces don't kill them. [[spoiler:When Twilight augments her Hirenkyaku with magic to make it even faster, Midnight warns her even by also strengthening her body with magic alongside her Blut Vene she's risking hurting herself if pushed too hard for too long.]]
** Similarly to the Quincy example above, Applejack notes during her fight with Troubleshoes that her Fullbring forms a protective aura around her body, allowing her to jet around at breakneck speeds without hurting herself. She suspects that Rainbow's does the same thing, as do the others, if to a lesser degree.
** Twilight's Schrift The Variable is incredibly versatile, but it's main drawback is that in order to make it work at its full potential she needs to ''know'' exactly what the thing she's trying to change the variables of is, or at the very least make educated guesses as to its nature, plus she needs the mathematical and scientific knowledge to know what variables she wants to change and by how much (which makes her incredible intellect quite useful).
** Sunset is normally immune to her own Zanpaktou flames, but her black flames, drawing from her wrath, can even injure her.
** Fenice is fully immune to the molten rock her MagmaMan powers generate, and has full control of its motion besides, allowing her to "surf" a wave of magma.
** Celestia is similarly immune to the incredible heat of her Shikai.
** The spell that grants Twilight and company their underwater physiology has a few, namely sensory adaptations and adaptations for rapid decompression.
* RetroactiveWish: When Sour Sweet is interrupted mid-sentence saying that Sombra wouldn't summon Twilight to see him out of nowhere by a messenger... requesting Twilight's presence, she tries again, specifically asking for a million dollars and a "oiled up, half naked adonis", as she puts it, to fall into her lap, and is disappointed when it fails to happen.
* RevenantZombie: Draugrs are people or creatures whose souls have been caught and trapped/tied/bound to their bodies with Anima. They retain their personalities, memories, skills, and abilities they had in life, and basically only their decaying bodies and blue eyes betray their state. They are also bound to the one that reanimated and they have to obey their orders.
* RevengeBeforeReason:
** Applejack begins to slip into this due to her desire to kill Grand Fisher [[spoiler:for murdering her parents]].
** [[spoiler:Gaia Everfree/Gloriosa Daisy thanks to their mutual grudges being amplified by the Equestrian magic they've absorbed. It's the reason why Sunset can't let her go without a fight, since she made it clear she'd kill every Hollow, Quincy, and Soul Reaper around Camp Everfree unless smacked around until she gets her sense back.]]
* RoaringRampageOfRescue: [[spoiler:Adagio's plan to get Ember back from the Soul Reapers in a nutshell, with the help of her Arrancar friends, Sunset, the Humane Five, and Human Twilight of course to ensure it doesn't become a bloodbath. The need to keep it from devolving into a full-out blood bath and destroying everything between Canterlot City and Camp Everfree is the reason why she kept Torch and his horde out of it.]]
* RuleOfFunny: Pinkie's evolved Fullbring weaponizes this. Whenever she strikes something with the hammer, it reacts in a hilarious way, like forming a springboard under someone's feet or absorbing an energy blast with a loud belching sound. It pretty much [[RealityWarper lets her warp reality on a limited scale as long as the result can be considered a gag...such as forcing the fight between her and Cheese Sandwich to literally function by 2D fighting game mechanics]].
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* {{Sadist}}: This gets invoked twice with Ditzy Doo. The first time (when she tells the Humane Five she named her daughter Derpy) is PlayedForLaughs, the second time (when she's putting them through TrainingFromHell) not so much.
* SadisticChoice: Medley gives Ravana a choice, either he sends [[spoiler: Human Sunset/Fenice]] to Hueco Mundo or she'll fight him right there, most likely killing her in the process. Ravana calls her out of it, but Medley counters it saying that as a half-hollow she has a bigger chance of survival there.
* SanitySlippage: The Lament. Becoming a Hollow has quite clearly taken its toll on his sanity.
* ScarsAreForever:
** Luna gains a scar over eye. While it would be easy to remove, she keeps it as a reminder until she settles her match with the Arrancar who gave it to her. [[WorthyOpponent She says it's not sign of a grudge but a respect.]]
** After battle Sunset had fought, she accumulated a myriad of scars that even [[MadScientist Discord's expertise]] and [[TheMedic Fluttershy's power]] can't erase completely.
* SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan: [[spoiler:Human Twilight is revealed to have something known as "The Eye" sealed inside her that's been there since she was born. Details are vague, but it's all but stated this "Eye" is a part of the Soul Queen.]]
* SecretTestOfCharacter: The Lament subjects [[spoiler:Adagio]] to two. The first one is implied to be how she interacted with his children, and the second one was how she interacted with his dog.
* SeeingThroughAnothersEyes: Grogar installed implants that let him spy on Adagio and her surroundings via her own perspective. [[spoiler:It wouldn't be until the Everfree Arc that Discord would find and remove them.]]
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Upon a first time, seeing Ditzy's (who's a Yoruichi Expy, [[spoiler: and a Visored,]]) Human form, the heroes can't help but gawk. Dash even [[ACupAngst felt jealous.]]
* {{Shapeshifting}}:
** Chrysalis, natch. [[spoiler:With Zecora's zanpakuto added to the mix thanks to Starlight, she could pass flawlessly for the 4th Division Captain, while her drones are capable of masquerading as members of Central 46 and Thorax can masquerade as ''her'' back in Hueco Mundo]].
** [[spoiler: Sweetie Belle's Fullbring allows her to transform into whatever she absorbs into it, with the addition of CartoonyEyes.]]
** [[spoiler:As part of the power of The Xenomorph, Hoity Toity can change his own or other's physical appearances. However, he can't change their reishi signature. ''However'', when combined with Sapphire Shores' own Schrift that can change the fundamental nature of reishi at her discretion, suddenly they can create the perfect disguise.]]
** Just like her Counterpart, Equestrian Chrysalis can Shapeshift. Arguably her powers are even more potent as she can transform into other beings (like dragons or redcap) and gain their powers. She can even [[PartialTransformation transform parts of her body into weapons and minerals.]] The main downside is that she needs love to transform.
* ShieldBash:
** Sunset doesn't hesitate to use her shield offensively in combat, and it even has a sharpened lower tip just for that reason.
** Fluttershy proves to be surprisingly efficient in it as much as in shielding herself and her friends.
* ShroudedInMyth: There was once a powerful Arrancar, nicknamed The Queen of Thorns. Everyone in Las Noches has heard about her, yet no one besides a few old enough to meet her knows anything about her. After a battle with Chrysalis, she'd disappeared, but no one is sure what had happened to her. Chrysalis deliberately [[NothingIsScarier uses the lack of information]] as a warning to anyone thinking about challenging her. [[spoiler: Later turns out that her real name is Gaia. Better known as Gaia Everfree.]]
* ShockAndAwe:
** Rainbow Dash can create and build up electricity in her body, combined with RazorWings.
** Spike's [[MiniMecha suit]] possesses both shock missiles and an electric sword.
* ShoutOut:
** Applejack [[Film/IronMan mentions]] certain "fella wit fancy armour suit from them big budget superher flicks" before using her [[HandBlast gauntlets and boots]] to fly.
** Confirmed by WordOfGod, [[spoiler:Firefly's]] Fullbring "Ace of Sky" is one to HumongousMecha {{Anime}} like Gundam, able to manifest constructs including AttackDrones, [[PowerGivesYouWings Energy Wings]], a {{BFG}} [[GatlingGood Gatling gun]] and a LaserBlade, among other abilities.
** Gaw is one big one to [[{{Kaiju}} the giant Japanese monster movie franchise]] as well as ''Fanfic/TheBridge''. She is named after a very obscure one tied to King Kong lore.
** Chapter 54, featuring the climatic showdown between Sunset and Platinum during the Soul Society Arc, is titled "[[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire A Showdown of Ice and Fire]]".
** Twilight suspects that the Seele Schneiders were created by a Quincy who was a ''Franchise/StarWars'' fan.
** Chapter 96, featuring the Equestria Girls and Shadowbolts working together to fight a large sea monster, is titled "[[Manga/AttackOnTitan Attack on Kraken]]".
** Grogar and Pinkie Pie/Pinkamena's fight has one of the battle gags being the former thrown into the courtroom of ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'', complete with the series' theme in acapella (with Grogar expressing his hatred for the genre of music).
** Chapter 124: Clover firing rapid-fire Kido spells at [[spoiler:Gaia Everfree]] and her physically-superior opponent's annoyed and angry reaction to continuously being battered by explosions is more or less [[WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged Tien blasting Semi-Perfect Cell]].
** In her battle with [[spoiler:Gaia Everfree,]] Pinkamena used blue and orange portals to save Applejack from a Cero. AJ noted, she hold some [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} weird-looking white plastic gun.]]
-->'''Pinkamena''': Just yanked you through a portal. Don’t think about it too hard.
** The fish people that [[spoiler:kidnap Aria and Sonata]] are [[TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms sahuagin]].
** The ''character'' know how much Spike's new [[PoweredArmor Mech Suit]] looks like Bladewolf from VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance mixed with Zords from Franchise/PowerRangers. Its name Gunwolf might be an accidental shout-out to [[VideoGame/Borderlands3 Borderlands 3's]] enemy with the same name.
* ShutUpHannibal: As Flash prepares to perform the Konso Ritual on [[spoiler: the bound Wraiths of Seaquestria]], Charybdis screams at him to stop, saying that what he's doing is far worse than anything she's ever done. He has none of it, and counters that even if she wasn't trying to kill them, this is still his duty as a Soul Reaper and he will fulfill it no matter what she says. Even after she swears to destroy everything he holds dear, he just calmly says that he's the least of her worries...
* SinisterScythe:
** [[spoiler:Luna's]] Zanpakuto takes the form of dual scythes in Shikai, complete with CastingAShadow powers. When she goes Bankai, her werewolf form has literal scythes for claws. [[spoiler:And when she goes all out, she creates a single giant two-handed scythe with dual blades at both ends and covered along the shaft with smaller blades to swing with reckless abandon.]]
** Cheese Sandwich's Shikai takes the form of a kusarigama (chain-sickle) with multiple scythe blades at one end reminiscent of a rooster head and a large incense orb replacing an iron ball at the other.
** [[spoiler: Nereid Adagio]] wields an obsidian scythe wrapped in shark skin.
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Unlike other Espada, Guto would prefer to enslave Quincy as cannon fodder and servants. He captured Fleur with a plan to 'tame' her and demonstrate Tirek that it is possible. He would also include humanity as well. He mentions rather elaborate plans for how to effectively breed them.
* SmugSuper: Fleur Des Lis, Captain Platinum, and Captain Blueblood are this in spades, looking down at Sunset and the girls for their inexperience as if they were little kids playing at real power. Considering they're all three are extremely powerful and experienced fighters (a Sternritter of the Vandenreich and Captains of the Gotei 13 respectively), they do have a point, though Fleur takes a few blows to the ego once Sunset [[spoiler:goes Shikai]] and it's noted that Blueblood's ego (along with lack of experience) [[UnskilledButStrong keeps him from fully developing his powers]].
* TheSocialDarwinist: Las Noches, and to a lesser extent all of Hueco Mundo, runs on this. Tirek, as possibly the most powerful Hollow/Arrancar to ever exist, is at the top of the hierarchy, and position in the Espada below him is determined by strength (though in some cases [[WeakButSkilled useful abilities can compensate somewhat for lack of raw power]], like with Squirk and his Garganta creation skills, Grogar's technical skills, etc.). Part of the reason he goes with this approach is because he wants strong warriors to fight the Quincy and Soul Reapers.
* SoulPower: Besides the various races and beings with abilities that come from manipulating spirit energy, Charybdis has a form of magic that gives her direct control of spirit energy, and allows her to affect things both alive and dead, along with transferring power.
** Her sahuagin minion's BloodMagic seems to work similarly to Fullbring, using the power of the blood to manipulate the "soul" of the ocean, which the seaponies can do on their own.
* SpaceMaster:
** Sombra's "Absolute" gives him mastery of space.
** Soul Reaper Flash Sentry's Shikai bends space so he appears to be in multiple locations at the same time, mirroring him so he can attack from multiple angles at once. The catch is that doing so is disorienting, and anything that affects one of him affects ''all'' of the Flashes, since they're all the same entity.
* SpamAttack: After training with Captain Puddinhead of the Kido Corps, Clover can now invoke multiple Kido in quick succession, allowing her to rain down an assault of low-level Kido against foes.
* SpearCounterpart: Adagio immediately pegs Thorax as a male version of herself. They're both beautiful and charismatic schemers who are skilled at manipulating people but are not afraid to get into a fight if it comes to that.
* SplitPersonality:
** The memories from their past lives are just that - memories. Yet, they can form a separate entity based on inherited experiences. How their cooperation goes usually depends on their past-time personality. Astra and Anteros prefer to act as advisors until their current lives [[SplitPersonalityMerge absorb their memories]]. [[EnemyWithin Eos]], on the other hand, tries to forcefully take over Celestia, [[HeroicWillpower only for her strong will to keep her at bay.]]
** [[spoiler: Wallflower]] is actually a new personality Hel's mind developed after having her memories suppressed. And since regaining her old memories, Hel is in control, but she expresses annoyance that the meek, WeakWilled girl has enough power to try and resurface.
* SplitPersonalityTeam:
** Pinkie's Fullbring allows her to bring Pinkamena, who is the embodiment of her repressed negativity and emotions, into the physical world, and Pinkie eventually [[EquippableAlly becomes a hammer]] for Pinkamena to wield. [[spoiler:In the Camp Everfree arc, completing their Fullbring merges them physically together again, though they later reveal that they can separate again if needed, but allowing them to remain as distinct mental entities]].
** Twilight eventually manages to come to a mutual understanding with Midnight to the point where they begin working together in combat, Twilight handling Quincy reishi manipulation and Midnight focusing on magic.
* SquareCubeLaw: As Ember puts it to Adagio, "mass is mass". A larger Adjuchas might not be anything special in terms of spiritual power, but its larger mass means that its blows can still send a Hollow of greater strength but smaller size flying. Similarly, Soul Reapers, Quincies, and Arrancars only weigh as much as a normal human, so if caught off-guard even an ordinary human can knock them down.
* {{Squick}}: The rumor is that both [=McColts=] and Hooffields - took the "pure breeding" concept a little too far. Even Sombra notes he should do something about it.
* StarterVillain: Grand Fisher is the ArcVillain of the first arc, acting as the girls' first hurdle as they enter the spiritual world.
* StopWorshippingMe: After Celestia and Luna first appeared, some ponies started treating them as deities. They stomped that out pretty quickly, to the point that their discouragement has led to Equestria lacking ''any'' kind of central religious belief system. Applejack even had some trouble comprehending the ''idea'' that seaponies worshipped Domare as a goddess.
* StrongAndSkilled: Bowtie, who matches [[UnskilledButStrong Sweet Cider]] in strength but outclasses her in [[MasterSwordsman fencing skills.]] He's eager to point it out. It bears mentioning that in the past [[spoiler:when Zero Division made their move against the Soul Queen]], he was the one who fought ''Tirek''.
* SummonMagic: Pinkie Pie's initial Fullbring power is to summon her EvilTwin, Pinkamena. [[spoiler:The next step involves [[EquippableAlly turning into a hammer]] for Pinkamena to wield]].
* SuperEmpowering: Charybdis's SoulPower magic allows her to share powers with others. Several Beast Realm clans have gained spell-like abilities from "contracts" with her.
* SuperMode: Soul Reapers have Shikai and Bankai, Arrancar have Resurreccion, and Quincy have Vollstandig. Sombra explicitly mentions that he had his people develop Vollstandig to close the gap against the other two races' {{Super Mode}}s, it being a relatively new development that was only openly used for the first time during the story's events.
* SuperPowerfulGenetics: How Quincies keep up with Soul Reapers who have centuries of experience on them. The purer their blood the faster their body instinctively learns and picks up techniques and skill at an accelerated pace when exposed to other Quincy. Best shown with Twilight instinctively learning Blut Arterie from sparring with Lemon Zest (and blowing a hole through her body in the process).
* SuperPrototype: The Zanpaktou of the Zero Division are the first of their kind, forged by the Zero Division member [[UltimateBlacksmith Bowtie]] for himself and his fellow divine siblings. The mass-produced Asauchi that would become the standard Soul Reaper Zanpaktou came later when Soul Society was established and are much weaker due to how most Soul Reapers are mostly still human souls [[spoiler:(or rather, [[PiecesOfGod fragmented divine souls]])]] that couldn't hope to handle that kind of power, and [[OldSoldier Scorpan's]] own Zanpakutou ''Shiki no Ken'' was the first of even those, an "in-between" stage before Bowtie settled on the Asauchi. Most notably, the Zero Division's Zanpaktou don't have "Shikai" or "Bankai" states to restrict their power, but instead call upon their true power with only the {{Invocation}} of their names, and their base power without it already rivals if not surpasses most Bankai abilities.
* SuperSpeed: Almost everyone with sufficiently high amounts of reiatsu has it, but several impressive examples include Rainbow Dash, Ditzy Doo, and Catrina.
* TakeOverTheWorld:
** The Sixth Espada Guto admits he's pretty much the only Espada who wants to conquer the Quincy rather than eradicate them (Tirek's offered alliance, but Sombra's always refused), seeing them as useful tools and slaves for dealing with the Soul Reapers and eventually taking over the Human World. His zanpakuto is even called ''Conquistador'' (Conqueror).
** [[spoiler:Scylla planned to take over the world after taking the throne.]]
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:What Twilight Velvet ''intended'' to do in her fight against The Lament when it becomes clear even her Vollstandig and Schrift aren't powerful enough to defeat his Resurreccion. By utilizing the Vengeance's final attack, she would unleash an explosion that would kill or at least cripple him...but when Twilight teleports in trying to save her, she has to switch to just using her LastBreathBullet to restrain The Lament to keep him from killing her daughter (and to avoid definitely blowing her daughter up in her original planned attack).]]
* TallPoppySyndrome: [[spoiler:Adagio Dazzle]] learns that while Las Noches is ruled by the motto of "[[TheSocialDarwinist the strong will rise while the weak serve]]", the higher and more importantly the ''quicker'' you rise will get you all sorts of attention, with the higher ups intrigued or threatened by a potential threat to their status quo (especially if you're nearing their level) while your supposed peers rankle at the idea you got it "easy" by breezing through the ranks at speeds that took them years of training and struggle to reach. The current Fourth Espada is equally feared and envied for coming out of nowhere a few years back, crippling the former Sixth Espada when the latter tried to "teach him a lesson", and then fighting Tirek before being given his seat. [[spoiler:Adagio follows suit when she goes from a simple Adjuchas to a Vasto Lorde, and later still an Arrancar worthy as the new Sixth Espada over the current one Guto (a very prideful warrior who didn't take kindly to how she chose to be tested by Tirek rather than face him directly, though to be fair, she would have taken the position of the Seventh Espada to avoid ruffling his feathers if Tirek had let her) in the span of only about a month]]. About the only person who ''doesn't'' really care is [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership Tirek]], since he's so strong no one can hope to match him in a one-on-one and he wants strong warriors no matter what their circumstances.
-->'''[[spoiler:Adagio]]''': Oh for the love of...''stop'' acting like such a child! Are you that bothered by my being stronger than you that you’d rather get your idiot-self killed than just accept your position for what it is? You’re still an Espada. Get over yourself and start acting like one!\\
'''Gilda''': What would you know about it? You’ve been an Arrancar for barely a fraction as long as I have! Do you have any idea what I’ve been through to get where I am? How long I’ve fought, and bitten, and clawed my way through Guto’s army to ''earn'' their respect and a shot at reaching the top! How many years I’ve done nothing but train, and fight, and train, and ''fight'' just to get this far...then you show up and like a damn golden child you ''steal'' not just my glory, but ''Lord Guto's'' too!? Lord Guto gave me everything I have, and you stole his position away from him, and shamed me at the same time. And you did it without even trying. No effort. You just walked into Las Noches like you owned the place... I’d have preferred it if Tirek had made us fight for the position and you’d killed me. At least then I wouldn’t feel so...so damn ''worthless''!
* TalkToTheFist: Ditzy doesn't appreciate talky opponents.
-->'''Ditzy''': Geeze, tell it to someone who has time to listen to that bullcrap! Monologuing twerp!
* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Averted hard. While the Heroes were stalling for time, Jörmungandr in turn used the opportunity to gather more Blanks, [[spoiler: so he can open the Portal to Niflheim.]]
* TankGoodness: Quincy have futuristic-looking Tanks created, fueled, and firing projectiles made out of reishi similar to Quincy arrows. They are useless in the Living World, but in the Spirit World, like Hueco Mundo, they work perfectly as additional firepower.
* ATasteOfPower: Sunset, Human Twilight, and the Humane Five [[spoiler:all get their magical geodes at the end of the Everfree Arc, using them to save Gaia/Gloriosa, and then Gaia uses them to stop the Equestria portal from exploding and killing everyone. Then Medley swoops in and uses her powers to snatch the geodes out from under them, deciding that if they keep them, they could legitimately threaten the Zero Division's plans. Sunset suspects that the pendants ''let'' Medley take them for some future plan.]]
* TechnicolorFire: Sunset can produce different-colored flames with different effects, which are tied to her emotions.
** Her "normal" fire is the usual orange-red.
** The flames of her Aoihi Senko are blue, representing her {{pride}} and is her main offensive-based attack.
** The flames of her Midorihi Hashira are green, representing her intellect and is her [[TrapMaster strategic move since they work like landmines that explode at her command]].
** The flames of her Shirohi Yume are white, representing her love for others and her desire to [[DoppelgangerAttack be in multiple places to protect them]].
** The flames of her Kurohi Moegara are black, representing her wrath and her desire to utterly destroy those who would stand against her and harm those precious to her. Noticeably, these black flames are just as capable of hurting ''her'' as her enemies if she's not careful.
* TeleFrag: Apparently a major risk with teleporting in unfamiliar scenarios.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork:
** The Espada may be working together, but ''all'' of them hate each other. Even the Lament, the TokenGoodTeammate among them, freely admits he wants to ditch the lot of them. The ''only'' reason they haven't torn each other apart is because they're all afraid of Tirek, who comes down hard on any serious in-fighting.
** Seaspray and Tempest do not get along. It's easy to see why as Tempest had led an attack on Seaspray's home. They constantly argue and shoot deathly gazes at each other, but they do manage to work together, slowly developing mutual respect after visiting Aqualania.
* TerseTalker:
** Smooze barely talks and when he does, his speech pattern is very simplistic. It's mostly because of the excruciating pain he constantly feels. After Fluttershy manages to ease the pain, he's extremely polite and eloquent.
** [[spoiler: Gaw]] after she turns into an Arrancar.
* ThatCameOutWrong:
** While Shining Armor is training Twilight, she complains that she's in pain. He says, "Your body will adapt, and it will get easier, but it always hurts the first time..." Twilight gets embarrassed and he realizes how dirty that sounded and says, "Yeesh, never thought I’d be saying stuff like that to my little sister."
** Done again when Sweetie Belle tried to [[ItMakesSenseInContext absorb a giant rock crocodile into her wand.]] Lampshaded by Scootaloo.
-->'''Silver Spoon''': Can't that wand do anything?\\
'''Sweetie Belle''': I'm trying! I don't think it'll work on something this big. It's too huge to take inside!\\
'''Scootaloo''': Phrasing, Sweetie Belle, ''phrasing''!
* ThatManIsDead: The Lament invokes this when [[spoiler:Adagio]] asks him his name, saying that he hasn't known his name in a long time. [[spoiler:That comes undone when he ends up fighting Sweet Cider (his wife) and Applejack (his daughter) and he acknowledges who he once was.]]
* TheSpartanWay: To join Guto's horde requires passing rigorous training and a series of gruesome tests. If they fail even one, they starve. The final part is a group fight to the death. This happens to [[ChildSoldiers children,]] btw.
* ThinkingUpPortals: The 9th Espada Squirk is a particular master of creating Gargenta portals amongst Hollows, such that it's the main reason he's kept his rank due to the fact he can quickly make multiple portals almost everywhere and is a massive tactical asset. [[spoiler:Which is why the Quincy target him for assassination (Chrysalis has Adagio kill him because he's plotting alongside Catrina to kill her to send a message, as well as on Starlight Glimmer's command to prevent him from possibly being used to bypass the booby trap on the Equestria portal)]].
** [[spoiler:Bowtie, and presumably the other Zero Division members, can apparently make portals to the Soul Queen's palace at will]].
* ThinkingUpPortals: Every Hollow has an innate ability to summon partal to Hueco Mundo, but special mentions go to Squirk. Unlike other Hollows, he can summon as many Gargantas as he desires whenever and wherever he wants, and while regular hollows can only move between Hollow and Living World, he can move from place to place within the realms. Even Wards especially designed to prevent Gargantas can't stop him. [[spoiler: After Adagio kills him, she gains this power. She can even attach them to people to summon them.]]
* ThirdLineSomeWaiting: [[spoiler: After the first arc the story shifts into three story arcs following Sunset and the Humane Five invading Soul Society to rescue Celestia and Luna, Twilight joining the Quincy to understand their culture to help end the war in Soul Society, and Adagio surviving Hueco Mundo, though as the main protagonist Sunset's storyline receives the most attention. Once Sunset's arc concludes, Twilight and Adagio's arcs take center stage and merge together for the Quincy/Hollow battle at Las Noches.]]
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Flash's reaction before his duel with Princess Celestia. Not that he was underestimating her in the slightest before, just that moment the duel begins and [[SilkHidingSteel Celestia's focus completely shifts]] does he fully realize how screwed he is.
* TitleDrop: Happens in chapter 32. Discord refers to Sunset and her friends, due to combining the Magic of Friendship from Equestria with the spiritual power of the human world, as "friendship souls". Sunset herself [[SelfDeprecation thinks it's kind of tacky]].
* TokenEvilTeammate:
** Pinkamena. Fortunately, Pinkie is there to act as TheKidWithTheLeash.
** Human Starlight's group has Chrysalis. It's more than obvious she's just using them, they have very little control over her, and she will betray them without a second thought, and Starlight and [[spoiler:Firefly]] both agree they must keep an eye on her at all times.
** Hurricane is this to the Gotei 13.
* TokenGoodTeammate: The Lament seems to be the only Espada who's a genuinely good person [[spoiler:before Adagio joins their number]], likely because [[spoiler:he was Applejack's father in life.]] Of course, this isn't saying much, seeing how becoming a Hollow has clearly done a number on his sanity.
* TookALevelInKindness:
** Discord is implied to have almost been as bad as his Equestrian self as an unethical MadScientist, but his time as Xcution's handler and taking Starlight Glimmer as his apprentice (and his [[MyGreatestFailure utter failures with both of them]]) caused him to grow a conscience becoming the BigGood we see in the present day.
** Quincy King Sombra was apparently a great deal more wrathful and more like his pony self before mellowing out as the centuries passed. The narration implies this may have something to do with human Radiant Hope.
* TorsoWithAView: Besides the standard hole possessed by all Hollows, [[spoiler:Lemon Zest has the misfortune of experiencing this after a training accident with Twilight.]]
* TradingBarsForStripes: As it turns out, Quincy have their own penal company called Strafbattalion. Twilight directly compares it to companies used by Germans in World War Two, but Sombra notes that the idea is much older than that, and Quincy are much more lenient in handling it. When a Quincy commits a crime (be it cowardice in battle, theft, or dealing with drugs) they're given a choice; being stripped of their powers and send to a guarded colony, or join Straffbattalion stationed in Hueco Mundo. After four years of service, they can rejoin the Quincy Ranks.
** Wind Raider had been sentenced to Strafbattalion after draining the soul energy of both normal humans and Quincy alike to remain strong and young. He became a high-ranking member of the company and, ironically, grew prideful of them. [[GlorySeeker He's still bitter for being shunned into the shadows while others rose to glory.]]
** After [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames the events of the movie,]] Cinch chose a servitude in Strafbattalion to eventually return to Quincy Military. Sombra wasn't surprised, saying that [[AmbitionIsEvil Cinch doesn't lack ambition]] and stubbornness to get back into his good graces.
* TragicMonster: [[spoiler:Adagio, after becoming a Hollow]]. This happened in the backstory [[spoiler:with Applejack's father as well, who suffered a similar fate. Still, he went on to get a new home and family in Las Noches as the Fourth Espada, so he seems to have made the best out of a bad situation. That being said it's implied he hates life as a Hollow, with his reiatsu oozing regret for his new life]].
* TrainingFromHell: Discord and [[spoiler:Ditzy Doo]] fully intend to put the girls through this, since doing so is the only way to ensure they'll be ready to face Captain-Level enemies in time. [[spoiler: Twilight and Adagio are also going to be put through this, though in Adagio's case it's more like "act as a guinea pig or die".]]
* TransformationIsAFreeAction: {{Averted}} more often than not. If someone transforms, it's usually because they managed to distract their opponent long enough to pull it off, it's too fast to stop in the first place, their enemy let them do it because they want a challenge or don't really care, or the sheer amount of reiatsu they release in the process is enough to stop their enemy from harming them until it's over. Otherwise, characters will go out their way to stop their opponents from powering up by any means necessary.
** Comes into play in chapter 187, when Di-Roy tried to transform only for Pharynx to stop him. He even complains about it only for Pharynx to shut him up.
-->'''Di-Roy''': H-hey! That’s cheating! You let Gaw do her thing, dammit!
-->'''Pharynx''': That was because I was still evading the young lady’s threads. Also, there’s no cheating in battle, you fool. Just whoever is standing at the end.
* TranslatorMicrobes:
** A saguhain named Ulgriv has a translation spell cast on him so the heroes can interrogate him. This leads to the others assuming that he's a traitor.
** Despite [[spoiler: Wallflower]] speaking perfect English, Hel doesn't know it. She instead casts a spell that translates her words to others. Asuna knows a similar spell, though not as precise. It comes in handy when interacting with Svartalfheim natives.
* TrueCompanions: Though the Humane Seven may argue from time to time, they’ll fight for their friends to the end!
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* UltimateBlacksmith: Dwarves of course, with {{Orichalcum}} being their greatest and most sought creation. Even among Dwarves, the Allhammer family is known for their skills at manufacturing the metal.
* UnderestimatingBadassery:
** Sunset and her friends learn the hard way how outmatched they are against a Captain when Hurricane unleashes his Bankai.
** [[spoiler: Flash Sentry]] invokes this when he sees just how capable pony Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle is. He does this again when he and Celestia have a friendly spar.
** Jet Set ''massively'' underestimates Torch after dealing with several of his Fraccion rather easily, only to get a rude awakening when Torch ''bites'' through his reishi tendrils. "Luckily" for him, Torch decides to switch targets to Shining Armor because he thinks he'll be a more worthy foe, only to get even more brutally stomped by the even stronger Lament.
** Gilda vastly underestimates Sunset when she attempts a brazen assassination attempt. While it's true Gilda is strong [[spoiler:having just been made the Tenth Espada, after all]], she was basing her attack on the intel the Arrancar had on Sunset's strength pre-Soul Society Arc, before both her TrainingFromHell in prep for the assault and her further training to obtain Bankai, much less her training afterwards. As such, she went in expecting a fight she could win easily only to once Sunset counters her surprise attack end up on the losing end of the resulting clash [[spoiler:that Adagio had to bail her out of.]]
** Squirk looks down on [[spoiler:Adagio]] when he first meets her, believing she's nothing but a common Adjuchas and Torch should stop combing the lower ranks for new subordinates. [[spoiler:Not only does Adagio end up becoming a Vasto Lorde, she's the one who kills him and his death is part of what allows her to become an Arrancar and new Espada.]]
** [[spoiler:Glory, the leader of the Zero Division, admits she did in fact underestimate Scorpan during their battle. Despite Scorpan being the Captain-Commander of Soul Society, Glory confesses she still saw him first as the youth she trained so long ago, hence why she was taken off-guard by the power of his Bankai and neglected unleashing her own true power at first while only using her considerable base power and the Soul Queen's Heart. After being all but ''punched into Soul Society's equivalent of outer space'' by Scorpan's best technique and getting multiple bones, limbs, and organs pulverized in the process, she finally concedes [[SoProudOfYou with some level of pride]] he deserves nothing less than her best and finally invokes her blade's true power. Even then, she didn't realize that Scorpan's blow actually damaged her Soul Sleep, and that combined with the stress of releasing her full power causes her to collapse on the steps of the Soul Palace when she leaves after her victory. Scorpan himself notes this is her FatalFlaw, and what he suspects even if and when he falls to her will be how Sunset and her allies will be victorious.]]
* UnderwaterCity: Aqualania, a seapony city devastated and forced to be abandoned after a terrible civil war between the two heirs to the throne. Now it's a GhostCity, with The Sahuagin occasionally roaming the ruins, and even they are scared of that place. [[spoiler:As it turns out those fears were not without a good reason.]]
* UnfortunateNames: Human Rainbow invokes this when Ditzy tells her and her friends she named her daughter Derpy. Ditzy tries to justify this, saying that it's a traditional name for her house and that she taught her how to defend herself against any bullies anyway.
* UnholyGround: Averted with [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast]] Mountains of Teeth. Besides the name and being the place of the Great Civil Wall between Seaponies, it's not an evil place. Besides lingering bones, weapons, and destroyed buildings, it's only dangerous because of predatory creatures and occasional Sahuagin patrols. It surprises Flash who has dealt with places like this on Earth. [[spoiler: The closer you get to [[CityOfTheDamned Aqalania]] however...]]
* TheUnintelligible: Gaw can't really talk normally, but everyone is able to understand her just fine. [[spoiler:Until she becomes an Arrancar]].
* UniqueProtagonistAsset: Magic is this for Sunset Shimmer, the Humane Five, Human Twilight Sparkle, and [[spoiler:Adagio Dazzle]]. Magic is effectively an AmplifierArtifact that awakens, enhances, and accelerates the growth of spiritual powers, allowing them to gain and hone their powers in weeks or months to match and surpass those who have spent decades to centuries honing theirs. Several villains in particular are intrigued and want to study and obtain magic for themselves to reap the benefits of such growth.
* UnskilledButStrong:
** Blueblood is counted amongst the Gotei 13 thanks to possessing a legitimately powerful Bankai and high spiritual potential, but it's noted that his lack of experience compared to the other Captains and his [[SmugSuper arrogance]] keeps him from training and bringing out his full potential, which is why he's considered the weakest of them. Sure enough, Rarity, despite being far weaker in terms of power, defeats him through [[AwesomeByAnalysis carefully observing his actions throughout the fight]] and [[CombatPragmatist using "unconventional" techniques to catch him off-guard]] before he can use his Bankai.
** [[spoiler:Sweet Cider]], being this world's Kenpachi, is this as well. She lacks Bankai or any real skill in Kido, but her raw physical power puts her in league with the likes of [[spoiler:Celestia]] and Hurricane in terms of destructive power and she's technically the physically strongest of all the Captains (barring Captain-Commander Scorpan). On the topic of [[spoiler:Sweet Cider]], her Shikai is this as well. It doesn't have any fancy powers. It just absorbs her Spirit Energy and lets it out ''hard''. [[spoiler:And she only gets stronger when she regains access to her Fullbring and unlocks her true Shikai]]. [[spoiler: She finally meets her match in [[StrongAndSkilled Bowtie.]]]]
** Captain Thunderhooves' Shikai is a massive club becomes stronger with each successive swing, but in return each swing becomes increasingly unwieldy. This allows him to snowball into a ridiculously powerful combatant who can take out numerous foes with even near-misses, but collateral damage is all but assured and it's not a safe ability to use with allies present.
** Both Lament's Resurreccion and [[spoiler:Luna's]] fully-released Bankai turn them into this. They gain incredible power alongside massive boosts in physical ability, but in return their minds drown in soul-rending regret and predatory rage respectively and they can't do much to "plan" outside of "kill the targets in front of me with extreme prejudice".
** Guto calls out [[spoiler:Adagio]] as this [[spoiler:when she makes her move after becoming an Arrancar to claim a place among the Espada and indirectly acknowledging ''very'' begrudgingly that her power in her sealed state is a close match and perhaps slightly superior to his own]], stating that she might have the power but she lacks the experience. [[spoiler:Adagio]] noticeably doesn't refute that assessment [[spoiler:which is why she chooses to be tested by Tirek himself for her placement, and she also notes she'll need both to step up her training and come up with some killer finishing moves for when the two of them inevitably clash after she's named the new Sixth Espada over him. In fact, she would have been comfortable with starting as the Seventh Espada as to avoid pissing Guto off over taking his rank, but Tirek refused to rank her any lower.]]
** [[spoiler:When Di Roy runs into Maud again, he notes that while her burgeoning Fullbring is fairly powerful, it's clear that she's still learning to properly use it]].
* UnwantedRescue: Adagio is trying to prevent this, knowing full well that Sunset and her friends will inevitably try to "rescue" her from Hueco Mundo, which could throw a wrench into her plans to eliminate Grogar and become an Espada.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: [[spoiler:The Zero Squadron wants to create a "perfect" world, and are willing to go to horrific lengths, up to sending innocents like Sunburst to Hell, to achieve it, though Medley at least thinks that that specific incident was a screw up on their part. It's even hinted at that ''they'' are the ones imprisoned the Soul Queen, who they consider their "mother", when she refused to go along with their plans.]]
* VictoriasSecretCompartment: [[spoiler:Sunset uses her cleavage as a temporary place to hold Discord’s Hogyoku until Rarity could craft something better.]]
* VillainForgotToLevelGrind:
** Played with, in that the Soul Reapers, Arrancar, and Quincy ''have'' been grinding anywhere from years and decades to ''centuries and millennia'' to get as strong as they are, but Sunset, the Humane Five, Human Twilight, and [[spoiler:Adagio]] are to put it bluntly ''freaks'' that have gained and honed their powers in just ''weeks'' to close the gap. In other words, the heroes are on an exponential curve thanks to their Equestrian magic acting as TheGift while the villains are on a linear one.
** [[spoiler:While the Zero Division members ''have'' gained a significant power boost due to the stolen pieces of the Soul Queen that they wield, they've been holed up in the Soul Queen's palace for centuries while everyone else has been training and pushing themselves in the spiritual war. As a result, Scorpan is able to do some serious damage to Glory in their fight, even if it kills him, due to how badly she underestimates him.]]
* VillainTakesAnInterest: Several villains due this to the Humane Seven due to the power their magic gives them.
** Grogar sends numerous minions to try and capture then for their magic. [[spoiler:Once Adagio becomes a Hollow, he switches focus to her instead.]]
** [[spoiler:Starlight Glimmer wants them to gain strength so they can defeat the Zero Division.]]
** [[spoiler:Medley of the Zero Division also takes a disturbing interest in them, even appearing before them near the end of the Everfree arc.]]
* VillainTeamUp:
** The Espada are this compared to canon. They're an alliance of the top ten Arrancar warlords with each Espada having their own armies and some of them have their own Espada-level fighters personally loyal to them.
** Subverted with pony and human Chrysalis. Human Chrysalis says she wants to meet her. ...So she can kill her and devour her soul.
* VillainousFriendship:
** Starlight Glimmer and Firefly have a Type I. They've been friends for years and have sworn to change the world no matter what together. [[spoiler:Begrudgingly, Platinum starts to view Firefly in a similar light.]]
** Tirek openly admits he respected Ravana for his independence and that [[WorthyOpponent he could give him a good fight.]] He even calls him a friend. Ravana on his part gave Tirek his own recipe for hard alcohol, so it's possibly mutual.
* VillainousVirtues: Despite being insane, the Lament has a few. There's honesty, love for his family, friendship, and faithfulness.
* WalkingSpoiler:
** Saying anything about Applejack's parents other than "they're dead" is a major spoiler.
** Considering what we find out about her, [[spoiler:Sunset Shimmer's human counterpart]] is this.
* WalkingWasteland:
** Two fighters of sufficient power will cause this when they clash, especially in the human world. During the battles at Camp Everfree, [[spoiler:Sixth Espada Adagio and 2nd Division Captain Luna pretty much destroy the local lake and wreck kilometers of forest during their clash, while 10th Division Captain Kenpachi Sweet Cider and 4th Espada Lament blow holes in mountains, cause miniature earthquakes, and start a localized thunderstorm/hurricane around their location ''before they go all out''.]]
** Captain [[spoiler:Celestia]] with her Shikai activated alone can release enough heat to not just melt the snow on a mountain, but the mountain itself. When in Bankai, Grogar notes that the release of energy could wipe out everything in a 20-mile radius [[spoiler:which is why he gambled on forcing her unruly zanpakuto to go Bankai to escape his dimensional trap to make her take his offer to send them both to the Precipice Realm to prevent her from accidentally killing everyone in Camp Everfree and Canterlot City, who are in the blast radius.]]
** [[spoiler:Captain Platinum's Bankai is powerful enough to cause a flash freeze in the middle of summer of the human world, which ended up accidentally killing Gloriosa and Timber's parents when she used it fighting the original [=XCution=] in the Everfree Forest when they were caught up in it.]]
** [[spoiler: Wallflower/Hel's]] [[LifeDrinker life drinking ability]] sucks the life out of the plants around her making them wilt and die. Her attacks have the same effect, even ''before'' reaching her target.
* WasItAllALie: This is pony Twilight's reaction when she finds out that [[spoiler:Flash Sentry has been a member of Soul Society the whole time.]] It was, at first, [[spoiler:but then he started to [[BecomingTheMask legitimately fall for her]]]].
* WaveMotionGun: Princess Celestia and Princess Luna have not one, but two of these: ''Instar Solis Lunaeque'' and ''Stellar Mallus'', High Magic Spells that harness the power of the Sun and Moon to wipe out entire armies.
* WeakButSkilled:
** The lower-ranked Espada The Smooze, Squirk, Grogar are counted less for their strength so much as their unique powers and skills. The Smooze in particular notes that even with his rank as the 10th Espada there are quite a few Fraccion who have more spiritual power than him but his [[PoisonousPerson powers]] and [[EldritchAbomination true form]] give him an edge, and Tirek concedes that Squirk [[spoiler:after he's killed during the battle between Hollows and Quincy in Hueco Mundo]] would have held the title of 10th Espada if Smooze didn't insist on holding it when Chrysalis notes that Guto's protégé Gilda is likely stronger than Squirk, but notes his tactical advantages in his Garganta creation make him invaluable even if he was demoted off the Espada.
** With few exceptions, the Quincy are on the lower end of the power scale between the three factions, with even the Sternritter struggling against the power of Soul Reaper Captains or the Espada. They make up for it with their training and the unique abilities of their Schifts.
** The Kraken that attacked the beach was not very powerful compared to the Equestrian Luna and Celestia magically speaking, but it had a ''lot'' of versatility, which combined with its size and strength made it a tough opponent.
** Grogar's experiments are not that weak, but their real strength comes from the nasty little tricks he equips them with. Abilities like [[DetachmentCombat splitting themselves to pieces]], potent poison, or [[HomingProjectile targeting balas]] that can use FlashStep. [[spoiler: They can also use those abilities on their allies strengthening them.]]
* WeaponWieldsYou:
** Initially, when Lieutenant Posey activated her Shikai, Kyoki, it would take control of her and cause her to go berserk. This is because Kyoki hates how weak-willed and passive she is and believes he can do a better job, but Fluttershy forces him to see that he's being a bully making her do things instead of actually helping her.
** Happens to [[spoiler: Sweet Cider]] during her fight with Lament, as the emotional stress finally causes her Fullbring to overpower her and her Zanpakto, turning both of them into a wild berserker.
* WeirdnessCensor: Sugarcoat lampshades that it seems like Canterlot City has a collective blind spot for the strange and unusual, given that no one's seemed to notice all the magic stuff going on at Canterlot High.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Human Starlight Glimmer and her group (with the obvious exception of Chrysalis) are doing ''very'' morally dubious things that leave innocent people crippled and even killed in their wake, but their goal is to [[spoiler:stop the Zero Division from pulling off an EvilPlan involving the fallen Soul Queen. Discord and Ditzy, despite being burned so badly by Starlight's actions, actually empathize with her once they realize just what said plan entails.]]
* WhamEpisode:
** [[spoiler:Adagio Dazzle becomes a Hollow.]]
** [[spoiler:Sunset's human counterpart is not only still alive, but has ended up in Hueco Mundo and somehow has a Fullbring!]]
** [[spoiler:Discord sends a letter to Scorpan declaring the formation of the "Canterlot Spirit Coalition"]].
** [[spoiler:Fenice and Sunburst are the children of a Star family member and an Arrancar, and their medallions contain Phantom Blades, which is connected to Tyr in Fenice's case.]]
** [[spoiler:Wallflower Blush is actually an amnesiac ''Hel'', and dog Spike is apparently connected to Fenrir.]]
* WhamLine:
** [[spoiler:“You’re a freakn’ ''Vasto Lorde''!”]]
** [[spoiler:“...You’re human. A living human.”]]
** [[spoiler:“Found at last, brother Fafnir! The time has come, and Ragnarok draws near! And I, [[Myth/NorseMythology Nidhogg]], have come to take you home!” ]]
* WhiteShirtOfDeath: Besides greatly increasing Rarity's [[ThePowerOfBlood control over her blood]] [[SpontaneousWeaponCreation creations,]] her Fullbring turns her whole form snow-white, making it easy to spot even the tiniest drop of blood. WordOfGod it's to symbolize her willingness to kill her opponents, and [[IDidWhatIHadToDo acceptance of the consequences.]]
* WideEyedIdealist: Sombra and Twilight Sparkle discuss this trope in regards to Twilight Velvet. He says that she was this when she was a part of Xcution and, like Twilight, wanted peace between the Quincy and Soul Society. However, he also says that she became jaded due to Soul Society's actions, turning in to the woman she is today. He thinks that the same thing will happen to her. Twilight, naturally, doesn't believe him.
* WildCard:
** [[spoiler:Firefly, Rainbow Dash's mother. Originally TheMole for Discord to spy on Starlight Glimmer, before becoming one of her CoDragons, and yet isn't above helping Rainbow Dash and her friends. Even Firefly admits she's not quite sure whose side she's on.]]
** Chrysalis. As Ocellus puts it:
-->'''Ocellus''': Mother is only ever on one side; hers. All other sides vary in importance depending on her mood and appetite. Even us.
* WhipSword: Wielded by the Tenth Espada, The Smooze, and resembling [[BadWithTheBone a sharpened human spine and rib-cage as the hilt.]]
* WindsOfDestinyChange: Troubleshoe's Zanpaktou ''Kusatta-Un'' can redirect [[BornUnlucky his own bad luck]] to his foes in a fight when the Shikai is released.
* WistfulAmnesia: Despite not remembering Applejack when they see each other, [[spoiler:Sweet Cider]] not only feels a connection to her because of their similar looks, but her zanpakuto reacts as well, wanting her to fight her. [[spoiler:Sweet Cider]] even notes that her zanpakuto ''never'' reacted like this towards anyone else before, feeling almost ''happy''.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: The Lament may not be the most stable individual, but he goes completely over the edge when he releases his Resurreccion, ''Lamentar (Regret)''. He loses himself so much that he has a special bunker under his tower to protect his children from himself.
* WorldOfActionGirls: It's a crossover between ''My Little Pony'' and a shonen battle manga; there is an ''endless tide'' of powerful female warriors.
* WorldTree: The most well know example, Yggdrasil. It can be used to travel between dimensions [[spoiler: and is responsible for reincarnation of souls.]] [[spoiler: Jörmungandr describes it as the heart of the Beast Realm and wishes to destroy it because [[GreaterScopeVillain Glory]] corrupted it in some way. He believes if he succeeds it will be reborn free of her influence.]]
* WorthIt: [[spoiler: When Zecora asks Platinum if she felt like betraying Soul Society to save her son by turning him into a Hollow-hybrid was worth the cost she answers with a BluntYes with absolutely zero regret.]]
* WorthyOpponent:
** Blueblood sees Rarity as one after their battle, going from insulting and looking down on her to offering to take her out for dinner sometime. Rarity is surprised and exasperated at this sudden turnaround, but admits "maybe"...if he works on his [[SmugSuper attitude]] a lot.
** Torch acknowledges Shining Armor as one, admitting that unlike Jet Set he's not a boy but a man and fellow warrior. So he'll honor Shining's SuperMode [[OneWingedAngel with his own]].
** Starswirl sees Twilight as one after their own fight, especially since she never ceased to impress him with her ingenuity and cleverness with her powers. [[spoiler:To the point he has no issue whatsoever with forming an alliance with her or helping protect her against Sapphire Shores' assassination along Twilight's other Quincy allies.]]
** Hoity Toity acknowledges Rarity as one, apologizing for looking down on her in the beginning, [[spoiler:and expressing satisfaction when she fatally injures him.]]
** Jörmungandr sees Sunset as one after their brief skirmish in the Midgard. He advises his Einherjars to leave her to him since [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou he's the best suited to deal with her.]]
** Ofridr has a deep respect for the Nereids as skilled singers and for giving him [[BloodKnight the fight of his life.]] Like the youngest Nereid sister, he wouldn't mind if they killed him instead the opposite.
* WouldHurtAChild: Despite loving his own daughter, Torch has no compunctions about ordering the deaths of children, as he views that as just a natural part of life and war. Indeed, he'll willing send his own daughter into a life-or-death situation because he trusts her to be strong enough to fight and survive, and chides Night Light and Shining Armor for seemingly not having any faith in Twilight's own ability to do so.
* WouldntHurtAChild: Medley had the opportunity to kill[[spoiler: young Fenice]] but instead opted to send her to Hueco Mundo. Then again, sending a person that knows nothing about fighting to a Realm full of extremly aggresive, hungry Beasts can barely be called mercy. Though she justifies it saying that as a Half-hollow she could thrive there. [[spoiler: She was right.]]
* WoundThatWillNotHeal: [[spoiler:Firefly is injured by Luna's magic in Equestria, and none of the spiritual healing techniques that Starlight has tried are working. Her best guess is that she needs magic to cure her.]]
* WrongContextMagic: Equestrian magic and Soul Reaper and Quincy skills like Kido are noted to be different. When Clover teaches Sunset to control her Reiatsu, Sunset learns that her methods for controlling her Unicorn magic don't work, and she needs a different kind of thinking. It actually distorts spiritual powers when used against it, efficiently giving every magic user an edge against spiritual foes.
** Anima from the Beast Realm seems to be a mix of both Equestrian magic and spiritual energy in a unique way.
* XanatosGambit: [[spoiler:As far as Starlight Glimmer is concerned, pushing Sunset and the heroes to get stronger is just as crucial a part of her plan as getting every resource she can grab for her war with the Zero Division. If she wins, all well and good. If Sunset and her friends defeat her, well at least by that point they'll have proven themselves strong enough to stop the Zero Division themselves as a fallback plan (and she knows that once they learn the truth of Zero Division's plans, they ''will'' be in conflict against them regardless of their justified grudge against her).]]
* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler:Sapphire Shores to Sombra, though [[MaskOfSanity she kept it on the down-low most of the time]]. She'd still happily murder those she thought were a threat to him behind his back, and she admitted she loved and hated Radiant Hope, the former because she made Sombra happy, the latter because it was her and not Sapphire who could make him happy. The crazy only ''really'' comes out during her VillainousBreakdown fighting Twilight, Starswirl, and allied Sternritter.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness:
** Plenty of Grogar's "experiments" have ended up this way. Often, they end up as fodder for "better" experiments to grow stronger.
** [[spoiler:Poor Squirk ended up this way due to Chrysalis, both because he made the mistake of backing the wrong Espada in the one-sided feud between Catrina and Chrysalis, and because his death by Adagio's hand would make her strong enough to more than make up for any tactical advantage he brought to the table.]]
* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: [[spoiler:The crimson moon of Luna's Bankai holds power and lunacy from ''every'' Hollow she's ever cut down with her blade. Unfortunately, she can't control that power yet, so if it's damaged, she goes into a berserker rage.]]
* YouKilledMyFather:
** Grand Fisher killed [[spoiler:Applejack's parents.]] After he is defeated, [[spoiler:Applejack's anger transfers to Soul Society because they allowed Grand Fisher to attack her family.]]
** [[spoiler: It's ''heavily'' implied THAT Torch is the one that killed Posey's mother and Hurricane's wife.]]
* YouNeedToGetLaid: Midnight Sparkle says as much to human Twilight, much to her annoyance and embarrassment.
* YourSoulIsMine: Hollows are capable of this, of course. [[spoiler:And Sombra, just like Yhwach, can do this to those who he grants a Schrift to. Tirek mockingly calls him a {{Hypocrite}} on this, seeing as he's no less a soul-devouring monster than the Hollows he hates and leads the Quincy against]].
** [[spoiler:More generally, ''any'' dead Quincy's soul ends up inside him before being reborn, essentially skipping the Soul Society step of the {{Reincarnation}} cycle before being reborn, usually in a family member.]]
** [[spoiler:Apparently Adagio made a DealWithTheDevil with Charybidis that resulted in Adagio giving up a part of her soul to learn how to feed off negative emotions with her siren gem. Discord suggests that Aria and Sonata go after this piece to help their sister]].
* YouWillBeSpared: [[spoiler:The Zero Division wishes to revive their deceased family, but since [[PiecesOfGod their fractured souls became the ones mortals have]], this involves using Hell to basically [[AssimilationPlot grind them up into soup and eventually fish out the pieces of their loved ones]]. There's enough wiggle room for a few thousand souls to be "preserved" though, with each of the Zero Division having those souls they view worthy by their standards in the Soul Palace. In fact, the only reason that they didn't wipe out all mortal souls immediately is that Glory decided to use the cycle of reincarnation to allow said souls multiple lives and chances at reaching this fate before being sentenced to Hell. When it becomes clear that the secret of Hell's true nature is out, Glory goes to the meeting and spills the beans herself and offers everyone there this chance, but no one takes her up on it.]]
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* DropTheHammer: The next evolution in Pinkie Pie's Fullbring involves this, [[spoiler:except [[EquippableAlly she's the hammer]] being used by Pinkamena]].

* WrongContextMagic: Equestrian magic and Soul Reaper and Quincy skills like Kido are noted to be different. When Clover teaches Sunset to control her Reiatsu, Sunset learns that her methods for controlling her Unicorn magic doesn't work, and she needs a different kind of thinking.

* FisherKingdom: Any non-Beasts that find themselves in the Beast Realm will gradually transform into a Beast themselves, which can become permanent with enough time. Typical humans would become visibly transformed within days, while those with higher spiritual powers would need to remain for weeks for any noticable changes to occur.

* Ultimate Blacksmith: Dwarves of course, with {{Orichalcum}} being their greatest and most sought creation. Even among Dwarves, the Allhammer family is known for their skills at manufacturing the metal.

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: The Espada may be working together, but ''all'' of them hate each other. Even the Lament, the TokenGoodTeammate among them, freely admits he wants to ditch the lot of them. The ''only'' reason they haven't torn each other apart is because they're all afraid of Tirek, who comes down hard on any serious in-fighting.

** Despite [[spoiler: Wallflower]] speaking perfect English, Hel doesn't know it. He instead can cast a spell that translates her words to others.

** His decomposition is taken a step further in that while Sunset got Soul Reaper abilities, [[spoiler:Applejack has a GenderFlipped variant of his TragicPast: her mother became a Soul Reaper, her father was infected by a Hollow, and Grand Fisher was responsible for their deaths]].

** [[spoiler: The ancient race of Alicorns that once ruled over Equestria, with many of them proclaiming AGodIAm. When it was discovered that their actions had upset the natural cycle and would lead to TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, a plan was formed to transfer all their godlike power into different items and [[MortalityEnsues become mortal]] to hopefully repair the natural cycle.]]

* LastOfHerKind: [[spoiler:Trixie claims to be the last of the Bounts...or at least, as her doll Eisenwand reminds her, ''one'' of the last. Part of her reasons for following Human Starlight is that she was promised a way to revive her nearly extinct race. Scootaloo and her family are revealed to be said others]].

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Compared to the rest of the Espada, the Lament. Ember says nobody knows what type of Hollow he is, and that his reiatsu is "''weird''."

* TitleDrop: Happens in chapter 32. Discord refers to Sunset and her friends, due to combining the Magic of Friendship from Equestria with the spiritual power of the human world, as "friendship souls". Sunset herself [[TakeThatUs thinks it's kind of tacky]].

* {{Cyborg}}: What [[MadScientist Grogar's]] Resurreccion turns him into. Noticeably, this ''isn't'' what he originally looked like, but rather the result of "[[ProfessorGuineaPig enhancements]]" he made to himself.

** Dragons are native species to the Beast Realm and a big part of them seems to serve J. They come in all shapes and sizes; some traditional, winged Western dragons, some eal-like Eastern dragons that glide through the air on discs made of reishi (similarly to Quincy or Fullbringers).
** Celestia's Shikai takes the form of a twin dragon made out of fire and plasma. In its released state her Zanpakutō has full autonomy, and because they are very aggressive, Celestia has a hard time controlling them.

* PoweredByAForsakenChild: The Quincy access Hueco Mundo via two captive Gillians kept in forced hibernation by Quincy alchemy, forcing them to create Gargantas. Twilight, upon seeing this, vows to create a better way.

* BigCreepyCrawlies: The first creature that Sunset sees in Svartalfheim is a miles and miles long and wide centipede, moving along the cave's ceiling. It doesn't bother them as they are too small for it to care.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Sunset regularly pokes fun at herself by pointing out how poorly thought out her EvilPlan to conquer Equestria with brainwashed highschoolers really was.

* IntangibleMan: Meadowbrook's Shikai ''Kasso-ha'' (Gliding Leaf) allows him to turn himself and anything of choice he's touching intangible, allowing attacks to pass through and move through physical obstacles like walls unimpeded. However, he can only maintain this state for a maximum of thirty seconds at a time before it shuts off, and he mentions [[TeleFrag he'll rematerialize in whatever he was passing through at the time]]. [[spoiler:Also, as it's a zanpakuto ability, an attack with [[MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours higher reiatsu]] than his released Shikai can bypass the intangibility, as proven when Starlight traps him in [[GravityMaster Hado #90: Kurohitsugi (Black Coffin)]].]]

* RedBaron: Centuries ago, there existed a powerful Arrancar. Everyone in Las Noches has heard about her, but besides the facts that she was powerful and she was the first Segunda Espada [[ShroudedInMyth no one besides a few old enough to meet her knows anything about her.]] After a spat with the current Segunda Espada, Chrysalis, she'd disappeared, but it's unknown if she's dead or became a Privaron Espada. So she's better known as The Queen of Thorns. [[spoiler: Her real name is Gaia. [[LegendFadesToMyth Better known as Gaia Everfree]].]]

* AmbiguouslyEvil:
** Quincy King Sombra, he acts as TheGoodKing to his Quicies and treats them well, with his personality being based on his comics incarnation and the presence of Amore and Radiant Hope lending to that this Sombra made different choices that stopped him from becoming evil, but at the same time, he's ''Sombra'' and serving as the equivalent of [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Yhwach]], he's all but stated to have been little better than a tyrant in the past before he changed and came to regret it, [[spoiler:and he still has the ability to absorb the souls of Quincy who die, albeit here it's treated as him simply storing them to be reincarnated rather than to selfishly increase his life and power]].
** The Zero Division were already pretty shady in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' canon with their moral ambiguity being compounded in the light novels. Here, their shiftiness is cranked up with [[spoiler: them ensuring that innocent souls like Sunburst are sent to Hell causing Starlight Glimmer and Firefly's StartOfDarkness, as well as planning ''something'' that once Discord and Ditzy see from the secret records has them realizing why Starlight is going the route she is and would send Soul Society in open rebellion if made public.]][[spoiler:Any ambiguity is dropped once it's revealed that they ''made'' Hell as part of a plot to grind the souls within up into their basic components in order to revive their slain loved ones whose souls [[PiecesOfGod became those of mortals]].]]
* AmbiguouslyGay: More than one character has wondered or assumed that Pony Trixie and Starlight are romantically/sexually involved.
* AmbiguousSituation: InUniverse, the whole "Quincy arrows completely destroy the souls of Hollows" is this, as no one is really ''sure'', according to what Shining Armor tells Twilight.
** Sweet Cider later comes to suspect that that statement might be a lie, or at least a half-truth.
** After the climax of the Camp Everfree events, Celestia notes that the inconsistency between the souls of Soul Reapers killed by Quincy arrows still remaining in the reincarnation cycle vs. the disappearance of the souls of Hollows slain by the same weapons, and how the cycle remains intact despite centuries of Quincies killing Hollows.
** What exactly ''does'' happen with the souls of the inhabitants of Equestria and the other nations of their world after death? It's been noted that Equestrian culture barely deals with the afterlife at all, and if Sunset wasn't proof enough that Equestrians have souls comparable to those on Earth, Human Chrysalis and her brood were able to eat the souls of some Timberwolves. But there's no clues as of yet what happens to those souls after death, with [[spoiler:Soul Reaper Flash]] noting a specific absence of the kind of negative spirit energy that would be expected from an ancient battlefield like what they're passing by. The Beast Realm is also apparently connected to Equestria, but where that fits in is anyone's guess right now.
* AmbitionIsEvil:
** Grogar's ambition to use his experimentation to surpass Tirek is a major character trait of his.
** Downplayed, but [[spoiler:Adagio's]] ambition to climb the ranks of the Espada, maybe even to the point of overthrowing Tirek himself eventually, is her main reason for staying in Hueco Mundo. Her Zanpakuto's name is even Ambicion, which means "Ambition".
* AmnesiaMissedASpot: After seeing Applejack, [[spoiler: Sweet Cider]] starts to get faint memories of her past life as [[spoiler: her mother.]]
* AmplifierArtifact: Clover's shikai has the ability to dramatically increase the power of any kido cast through it using the full incantation.
** [[spoiler:The Hogyoku, as in canon, with Discord modifying his version to better suit the Humane Seven.]]
* AndIMustScream:
** [[EldritchAbomination The Smooze]] admits his every moment of existence is pain, only kept to "manageable" levels by medicine produced by Grogar. The only thing stronger is his [[{{Determinator}} iron-clad will]] to push through and ''keep existing'' because he wants to experience the small pleasures of life others take for granted because they're ''not'' soul-destroying agony. [[spoiler:It's why he decides to swear loyalty to Fluttershy after she manages to heal him as no one else ever had.]]
** [[spoiler:Gaia Everfree was reduced to a barely sentient warped soul trapped in the depths of the Everfree Forest by Chrysalis to the point the ability to ''think'' wasn't something available to her for varying periods of time, only holding on by ThePowerOfHate.]]

* DeadAlternateCounterpart: Princess Twilight asks Sunset if she knows anything about her human counterpart. Sunset reveals that she found out that her human self died in a fire years ago. Given that this is a ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' crossover whether she got sent to Soul Society or became a Hollow is still a question up in the air. [[spoiler:It turns out to be neither, as she's very much alive.]]

* LethalChef: Human Discord's last attempt at cooking apparently gained sentience and tried to kill him, Screwball and Screwloose, and Celestia immediately knows that he didn't make a dish when it tastes good.