History Recap / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E2TheCutieMapPart2

* ChekhovsSkill: The fact that Fluttershy so easily succumbs to peer pressure in the opening in the previous episode becomes a key point here by allowing her to trick the Equal Ponies into think she had accepted their ways.

!!Continued from [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E2TheCutieMapPart2 "The Cutie Map - Part 2"]].

* CallBack: For the second time, Applejack [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E2TheReturnOfHarmonyPart2 gives a wink to an alicorn princess.]]

* DebateAndSwitch: Starlight is revealed to be a con and an hypocrite making her arguments for equality irrelevant.

* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: On Creator/TreehouseTV airings of the episode, Starlight Glimmer saying the word "fools" is muted out.
-->'''Starlight Glimmer:''' I... I had to, you [[spoiler: fools]]!

* ShownTheirWork: The {{Room 101}} techniques mentioned [[{{Brainwashed}} are actually used by some cults]]; [[http://thefederalist.com/2014/04/15/cults-in-our-midst-patty-hearst-and-the-brainwashing-of-america/ isolate them, spout your philosophy at them, and don't let them leave]]. As is cult leaders holding themselves to different standards than everyone else and rationalizing it.

* AbsenteeActor: This is the first time Spike and Celestia are never seen or mentioned during the second half of a two-parter.

* RuleOfSymbolism: Like in Part 1, the use of the equals sign extends beyond just the surroundings. One key point is that the light of the setting sun in the room the Mane Six are held in form an equals sign on the ground.

-->'''Princess Twilight Sparkle:''' *When her and her friend's Cutie Marks start slowing* I have a feeling it means "Our work here is done."

* {{Bathos}}: Pinkie Pie. See quote under LiteralMinded below.

* ButNowIMustGo: How Twilight interprets the return call of the Cutie Map; see also LeaningOnTheFourthWall below for [[FourthWallObserver Pinkie Pie's]] interpretation.
-->'''Princess Twilight Sparkle:''' I have a feeling it means "Our work here is done."

* ContinuityNod: [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E2TheReturnOfHarmonyPart2 Fluttershy throwing a bucket of water at somepony]].

* ShownTheirWork: The {{Room 101}} techniques mentioned above [[{{Brainwashed}} are actually used by some cults]]; [[http://thefederalist.com/2014/04/15/cults-in-our-midst-patty-hearst-and-the-brainwashing-of-america/ isolate them, spout your philosophy at them, and don't let them leave]]. As is cult leaders holding themselves to different standards than everyone else and rationalizing it.

* StrawHypocrite: Starlight Glimmer claims to believe that sameness is the path to "true friendship", yet is unwilling to give up her own unique magical talent. When her hypocrisy is revealed, she [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans justifies]] this by pointing out that the magic which removed everypony else's cutie marks and talents was her own and not that of the Staff of Sameness.

** Also it remains unexplained why the map led the Mane Six to this town.

* Bathos: Pinkie Pie. See quote under LiteralMinded below.

* ButNowIMustGo: How Twilight interprets the return call of the Cutie Map; see also LeaningOnTheFourthWall for [[FourthWallObserver Pinkie Pie's]] interpretation.

* AbsenteeActor: This is the first time Spike is completely absent during the second half of a two-parter.

* BadBadActing: Fluttershy's "acceptance" and Twilight's "How could you" scene.

* CrossPoppingVeins: Starlight has one in the neck when she tells Twilight to shut up.