History Recap / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E26TheCutieRemarkPart2

* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Starlight Glimmer is stuck with one near the end. Give up her quest for revenge, or face ultimate destruction in the future. The risk is too great, causing her to break down and eventually surrender.

* ToBelawfulOrGood: Starlight Glimmer is stuck with one near the end. Give up her quest for revenge, or face ultimate destruction in the future. The risk is too great, causing her to break down and eventually surrender.

Returning to the Sonic Rainboom race, in desperation Starlight is prepared to tear up the scroll, trapping them both in the past to and prevent Twilight from stopping her. Twilight then [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath chooses to reason with her]], telling Starlight that cutie marks won't change a pony, differences between friends are what make a bond stronger and that she shouldn't let one event in the past prevent her from moving forward and trying to make new friends. With this finally getting through, Starlight lets the Sonic Rainboom come to pass and the future is restored.

* MoralDilemma: Starlight Glimmer is stuck with one near the end. Give up her quest for revenge, or face ultimate destruction in the future. The risk is too great, causing her to break down and eventually surrender.

** After that is a quick montage where Tirek took over (though he's shown ravaging the landscape so this was likely after he has gotten the alicorn magic), another where it was Discord (who pretty much does what he did at the end of his debut episode, only now torturing poor Celestia and Luna), and finally one where ''[[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking the Flim-Flam Brothers]]'' are deforesting Ponyville.

* ForgottenPhlebotinum: Alternate Zecora has a salve that could [[GlamourFailure reveal disguised changelings]]. But despite changelings still being a threat in the main timeline they never consider the possabilaiy of Zecora recreating it despite its potential use.

Returning to the Sonic Rainboom race, in desperation Starlight is prepared to tear up the scroll , trapping them both in the past to and prevent Twilight from stopping her. Twilight then [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath chooses to reason with her]], telling Starlight that cutie marks won't change a pony, differences between friends are what make a bond stronger and that she shouldn't let one event in the past prevent her from moving forward and trying to make new friends. With this finally getting through, Starlight lets the Sonic Rainboom come to pass and the future is restored.

* SadisticChoice: Starlight Glimmer is stuck with one near the end. Give up her quest for revenge, or face ultimate destruction in the future. The risk is too great, causing her to break down and eventually surrender.

* MoralDilemma: Starlight Glimmer is stuck with one near the end. Give up her quest for revenge, or face ultimate destruction in the future. The risk is too great, causing her to break down and eventually surrender.

* PlotHole: When Starlight explains to Twilight about her past friendship with Sunburst, Starlight outright states that she has dwelled on her misfortune of never getting her cutie mark at the same time as Sunburst, despite that she was built up as a pony who hated cutie marks and wanted to get rid of them because she thought they created differences among ponies and destroys friendships.

* FrickinLaserBeams: Twilight and Starlight when they finally engage each other in combat. Twilight even has an attack that looks and sounds like a magic-beam machine gun when she makes a strafing run at Starlight.

* HellishPupils: Chrysalis and Nightmare Moon have vertically-slitted pupils, as do Nightmare Moon's bat-pony royal guards, with the exception of Rainbow Dash.

* ThreeDEffectsTwoDCartoon: The timberwolves, once again, stands out from the Flash animation. Though their very fluid movements help making them look even creepier.

* ConspicuousCG: The timberwolves, once again, stands out from the Flash animation. Though their very fluid movements help making them look even creepier.

* PyrrhicVictory: Invoked. Twilight shows Starlight that even if she succeeded with her plans, Equestria would be led to ruin as a result, and in turn would ultimately doom ''herself''. Starlight ''[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone doesn't like this]]'' ''at all.''

* SuddenlyVoiced: While the comics already established changelings sans Queen Chrysalis are able to speak, this is the first time they are shown doing so in the show (two of them spoke while impersonating Rarity and Rainbow Dash).

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: By the end of the two-parter, the only past or alternate present character to verbally take note that Twilight is an alicorn is filly Rainbow Dash.

* XMustNotWin: Played with. Even after seeing the BadFuture, Starlight is still furiously obsessed with destroying Twilight and even starts upon ripping the map to seal it as permanent. She finally backs down, but it takes a good while for her to be truly talked out of her quest for revenge.

* BookEnds:

* {{Bookends}}:

** The season begins with a confrontation with Starlight Glimmer and end in one, though with better results this time.

** Rainbow Dash's first Sonic Rainboom united the Mane six. When it happens (or rather re-happens), it ends up uniting Starlight Glimmer with the Mane Six.

** Confucious said that "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves." In this case, Starlight dug graves not only for herself and Twilight Sparkle but also for countless others in the alternate timelines.