History Recap / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E25ACanterlotWeddingPart1

* ThemeTuneCameo: Very subtle, but the last "forever" Twilight sings in "BBBFF" (not the reprise) is sung in tune of the MyLittlePony theme.

...until she sees Cadance feign appreciation of Applejack's cooking, sneer at Rarity's beautiful wedding gown design, and diss Pinkie Pie's reception planning. Twilight sits down with her friends and voices her displeasure, but the other five ponies downplay the incidents as just bridal nerves, which only increases Twilight's anger. She goes to talk to Shining Armor but before she can voice her suspicions, Cadance arrives and demands his attention. Twilight eavesdrops on the ensuing conversation between the Princess and Shining Armor. Peeking through the door, she witnesses Cadance cast a spell on Shining Armor, cementing her concerns.

* DamnedByFaintPraise: Twilight sees Princess Cadance's actions towards the other ponies like this, though none of the other five notice it.

* DisappointedInYou: Celestia's response to Twilight Sparkle's apparently petty & jealousy-fueled accusations towards Cadance. Too bad Twilight turned out to be half-right.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Twilight says that she is quite "ticked" at her brother for locking her out of the loop. Now had the rating been higher...

* WeddingDay: Princess Celestia cordially invites you to the wedding of Princess Mi Amore Cadenza and..." ({{gasp}}) ''...[[RememberTheNewGuy my brother]]?!''

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: "Cadance" succeeds in keeping up her ruse even after Twilight calls her out. Even Twilight gives up her suspicions when all her friends turn their backs on her. But "Cadance" [[IdiotBall stupidly]] [[JustBetweenYouAndMe insists on gloating]] to Twilight that she was right all along afterwards, thus not only confirming Twilight's suspicions but allowing her to eventually spoil the evil plan.

* IdiotBall: The Mane Six are ''extremely'' forgiving of "Cadance's" {{Bridezilla}} behavior, and even talk about how much they like her in spite of how badly she treats them. This is done to ensure Twilight is the only character to be suspicious of her.

** Watch the scene where Shining Armor argues with Twilight for the first time as many times as you like. It would soon start sounding like a SiblingRivalry conversation.

** After her friends ditch her, Twilight is despondent, regretful, believed by no one, and Shining Armor has just kicked her out of the wedding. When Chrysalis returns to the throne room, Twilight grovels at her hooves and apologizes. This would be the perfect time for Chrysalis to make up some excuse for her poor behavior and forgive Twilight, earning her trust so Chrysalis could manipulate her to some end, like simply getting her to agree to not attend the wedding. ''Or'', she can insult Twilight, entrap her in green flames and teleport her into the caverns beneath Canterlot, in an instance confirming all of Twilight's fears and giving her more motivation than ever to stop her.

** Twilight initiates a song to talk about her brother. Since this is normally Pinkie Pie's thing, it shows how much Shinning Armor means to her.

%%* StalkerWithoutACrush: Twilight herself towards Shining Armor and Princess Cadence.

** Twilight revealing that she has a brother; she never spoke of him before. The same goes for Princess Cadence.

* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Twilight doesn't appear to do a good job of explaining why Cadence is evil to the rest of the wedding party (except for the spell she cast on Shining Armor, which was explained away) only because Cadence started crying, making Twilight look possessive and unstable in the eyes of her peers and alienate her from the group.

** The shield around Canterlot is seen in the background during B.B.B.F.F

* MusicalSpoiler: B.B.B.F.F. has a subtle but major one which could only be spotted by people well-versed in musical theory. [[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/04/day-arias-hidden-meaning.html The song ends with a chord progression known as a Deceptive Cadence]]. Confirmed by [[WordOfGod Word of Composer]].

* NonAnswer: Shining Armour is giving VERY evasive answers to Twilights’s (perfectly reasonable) questions about not being told about the wedding earlier, first evading the question by explaining about the threat against Canterlot, then distracting Twilight by asking her to be his best mare.

* NonAnswer: Shining Armour is giving VERY evasive answers to Twilights (perfectly reasonable) questions about not being told about the wedding earlier, first evading the question by explaining about the threat against Canterlot, then distracts Twilight by asking her to be his best mare.
* NotHelpingYourCase: Even before she became suspicious of Cadance, Twilight's grouchy attitude and possessiveness of her brother throughout the episode does nothing to help her in trying to sway her friends to her side.

* SubvertedSuspicionAesop: As the recap states, Twilight is suspicious of Cadance, openly expresses her doubts, nobody believes her, and it turns out that Cadance was EvillAllAlong.

** After her friends ditch her, Twilight is despondent, regretful, believed by no one, and Shining Armor had just kicked her out of the wedding. When Chrysalis returns to the throne room, Twilight grovels at her hooves and apologizes. This would be the perfect time for Chrysalis to make up some excuse for her poor behavior and forgive Twilight, earning her trust so Chrysalis could manipulate her to some end, like simply getting her to agree to not attend the wedding. ''Or'', she can insult Twilight, entrap her in green flames and teleport her into the caverns beneath Canterlot, in an instance confirming all of Twilight's fears and giving her more motivation than ever to stop her.

** Twilight makes it clear when she first meets Chrysalis-as-Cadance that she personally knows Cadance, and Chrysalis is aware that Twilight has been put in charge of overseeing wedding preparations. This means that Chrysalis has to contend with a friend of Cadance who will be around her often paying attention to keen details. Chrysalis makes no effort to be pleasant to her or explain why she didn't remember her at their introduction.
** After her friends chewed her out, Twilight is despondent, regretful, no one believes her, and Shining Armor had just kicked her out of the wedding. When Chrysalis returns to the throne room, Twilight grovels at her hooves and apologizes. This would be the perfect time for Chrysalis to make up some excuse for her poor behavior and forgive Twilight, earning her trust so Chrysalis could manipulate her to some end, like simply getting her to agree to not attend the wedding. ''Or'', she can insult Twilight, entrap her in green flames and teleport her into the caverns beneath Canterlot, in an instance confirming all of Twilight's fears and giving her more motivation than ever to stop her.

** After her friends chewed her out, Twilight was despondent, regretful, no one believed her, and Shining Armor had just kicked her out of the wedding. When Chrysalis returned to the throne room, Twilight grovelled at her hooves and apologized. This would be the perfect time for Chrysalis to make up some excuse for her poor behavior and forgive Twilight, earning her trust so Chrysalis could manipulate her to some end, like simply agreeing to not attend the wedding. ''Or'', she can insult Twilight, entrap her in green flames and teleport her into the caverns beneath Canterlot, in an instance confirming all of Twilight's fears and giving her more motivation than ever to stop her.

** In Twilight's {{flashback}} we see that Princess Mi Amore Cadenza's magic aura is a light, silvery blue. In the present day, Cadence's aura is a SicklyGreenGlow.

** "Cadance" acting like a jerk around Twilight while sucking up to her friends by making them her new bridesmaids, and successfully pulling a WoundedGazelleGambit to turn everyone against her sounds a lot like {{Gaslighting}}, a common tactic that abusers use.

** "Cadence" acting like a jerk around Twilight, sucking up to her friends by making them her new bridesmaids, and successfully pulling a WoundedGazelleGambit to turn everyone against her sounds a lot like {{Gaslighting}}, a common tactic that abusers use.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything

* VillainBall: What chance would have Twilight -- despondent, regretful, not believed by anyone -- had to ruin the imminent invasion if the villain had left her alone instead of act against her?
* WalkingSpoiler: Cadance, due to the next episode's reveal that the one in this episode is an imposter.

* AlphaBitch: How Princess Mi Amore Cadenza acts. Except it's not her.

* BrokenPedestal: Twilight's first reaction to being told her brother is marrying Cadance is nothing more than absolute glee that her childhood friend and the "best foalsitter ever" is marrying her brother. Then she sees the {{Jerkass}} Cadance has become ([[RebuiltPedestal or seemed to]]). In the end, thanks to Cadance, she ends up becoming this in everyone else's eyes to some degree.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Cadance dismisses Pinkie's plans as perfect for a six year-old's birthday party, Pinkie thanks her. Also see InsultBackfire.

* CrocodileTears: Cadance fake-cries after Twilight accuses her of being evil in front of everyone.

* DisappointedInYou: Celestia's response to Twilight Sparkle's apparently petty & jealousy-fueled accusations towards Cadance. Too bad Twilight turned out to be right.

** Cadance trying to dictate what Shining Armor can or cannot wear and hurting him when he disagreed with her made their relationship creepily abusive.

* DraggedOffToHell: In a kid's show, no less! Cadance's spell to drag Twilight down into the mines brings this to mind.
* TheDulcineaEffect: Twilight's friends leave her for and defend a pony that they only met for about a day or two. Rainbow Dash's case is larger, due to her representing UndyingLoyalty and claiming that she barely ''spoke'' to Cadance.

* EtTuBrute: Shining Armor and Princess Celestia's disappointment towards Twilight for accusing Cadance as evil, and Twilight's friends leaving her afterwards plays with it. Although the real Et Tu moment is when Twilight realizes that Cadance is really evil. Confirming her suspicions, and moments before the evil bride drags her down to the underground mines. Ultimately reversed in the next episode for the former case.

** In Twilight's {{flashback}} we see that Cadance's magic aura is a light, silvery blue. In the present day, Princess Mi Amore Cadenza's aura is a SicklyGreenGlow.

** While the ending of Part 1 bluntly reveals that Twilight's accusations of Cadance being evil were perfectly correct, only a split-second unnatural green flash in Cadance's eyes hints that she is not the real Cadance (nor even a pony) at all!

* FurryDenial: These obviously aren't real-life ponies, but we're still given this reminder. Cadance refers to Pinkie Pie's reception as a "six-year-old's birthday party." Horses, on average, live to be about 25-30 years old, so a six-year-old horse's birthday party would theoretically be more like a human Sweet Sixteen party... a far cry from what Pinkie's throwing.

* HeroicTeamRevolt: All of Twilight's friends leave her without saying a word, along with Shining Armor and Princess Celestia after she proclaims Cadance as evil right before Twilight's proclamations turn out to be right.

* HopeSpot: During Twilight's MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment, Cadance appears and gently strokes her mane. Twilight tearfully says that she's sorry, and it seems like the two are going to reconcile... until Cadance pulls out her SlasherSmile and imprisons Twilight beneath the castle.

* EasilyCondemned: Right after Twilight accuses Cadance of being evil and brainwashing Shining Armor, she gets quickly disproven and banned from the wedding. Everyone in the room then turns against Twilight without giving her a chance to explain properly despite all the good she has done for them over the two seasons, and this incident not being too dissimilar to the breakdowns she had that they experienced in the past.
** At the same time, it didn't cross Twilight's mind that the Cadence at the wedding might be fake and assumes that she just became evil after seeing her show uncharacteristic signs, even though she had happy memories of her when she was just a filly.

* EasilyCondemned: Right after Twilight accuses Cadance of being evil and brainwashing Shining Armor, she gets quickly disproven and banned from the wedding. Everyone in the room then turns against Twilight without giving her a chance to explain properly despite all the good she has done for them over the two seasons.

%%* EasilyCondemned:

** Applejack is the caterer for the wedding like she was for the Summer Sun Festival in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon the very first episode.]]

** We see that same kind of force field that Twilight conjured [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E2TheReturnOfHarmonyPart2 in "The Return of Harmony Part 2"]] and [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E23PonyvilleConfidential in "Ponyville Confidential"]] except this time Shining Armor's the one who made it. She almost certainly learned it from Shining Armor, as Twilight has displayed the ability to [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E1TheCrystalEmpirePart1 learn a spell after only one viewing]].

* CliffHanger: Twilight is captured!

** Twilight does her joyful jumping around thing both as a filly and an adult, like she did in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E23TheCutieMarkChronicles ''The Cutie Mark Chronicles'']].

** In the same scene, near the roof is a kite exactly like the one Apple Bloom tried to learn to fly in [[ReCap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E12CallOfTheCutie Call of the Cutie]].
** Nod to "[[ReCap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E14SuitedForSuccess Suited For Success]]", possibly mixed with CharacterDevelopment. This time Rainbow Dash is able to articulate what she doesn't like about her dress and how it can be improved, and Rarity is more pleasant about making changes to it.

* CrocodileTears: Cadence fake-cries after Twilight accuses her of being evil in front of everyone.

* DisappointedInYou: Celestia's response to Twilight Sparkle's apparently petty & jealousy-fueled accusations towards Cadence. Too bad Twilight turned out to be right.

* EtTuBrute: Shining Armor and Princess Celestia's disappointment towards Twilight for accusing Cadence as evil, and Twilight's friends leaving her afterwards plays with it. Although the real Et Tu moment is when Twilight realizes that Cadence is really evil. Confirming her suspicions, and moments before the evil bride drags her down to the underground mines. Ultimately reversed in the next episode for the former case.

* HeroicTeamRevolt: All of Twilight's friends leave her without saying a word, along with Shining Armor and Princess Celestia after she proclaims Cadence as evil right before Twilight's proclamations turn out to be right.

* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdsJgGfGHzU&t=0m12s Cadance has one]] that sounds like the ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' theme with two extra notes inserted into each measure.