History Webcomic / AgeInappropriate

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Part 18 is called "Back to Reality". It concerns Spike [[spoiler:finally making his move on Rarity... [[RealityEnsues who is shocked]] [[MyGodYouAreSerious that Spike was being serious]]]].

* RealityEnsues: Even after everything Spike went through to get the opportunity to ask Rarity out, [[spoiler:the second he does, she thinks he's joking]].

* WhamShot: After Spike is beaten to death by those he wronged, Twilight reveals that he is just the latest "Spike" out of a long line and every time one dies she has the princesses send her another egg and uploads the most important memories into them.

[[caption-width-right:350:Spike is ''[[Main/TheChessmaster The Chessmaster]]'' in this comic series]]

* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: Twist gets accidentally killed by Spike who tried to kill Big Mac at that moment, due to Derpy accidentally falling on him.]]
* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:After Spike has gotten rid of his competition, he makes his way over to Rarity's house, and asks her out... [[KickTheDog only for Rarity to laugh in response,]] [[MyGodYouAreSerious due to thinking he was joking.]]]]

* BrickJoke: [[spoiler:At the end of one strip, we're shown a voodoo doll of Big Mac burning. Later on, we hear from Spike that Big Mac had an accident involving fire]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Part 18 is called "Back to Reality". [[spoiler:It concerns Spike finally making his move on Rarity... [[RealityEnsues who is shocked]] [[MyGodYouAreSerious that Spike was being serious.]]]]
* FrameUp: [[spoiler:After accidentally killing Twist, Spike left the murder weapon with Derpy, who had been the cause of his aim going wrong. Pinkie Pie manages to get her off on a technicality with an insanity plea]].
* GreenEyedMonster: Literally, in this case. Spike's actions are driven chiefly by his jealous obsession with Rarity.
** He also seems extremely possessive of Sweetie Belle. He goes berserk when he sees Button and Sweetie Belle talking, and later gives him an unwinnable game [[spoiler:that drives him insane]] to keep him away from her.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Throughout the comic, Spike has framed Thunderlane and Derpy, tried to kill Caramel and has comitted several other crimes, all in the name of being able to date Rarity... [[spoiler:who promptly rejects him when he finally asks... and then everyone he's crossed (aside from Thunderlane) shows up with Twilight.]]
* MamaBear: [[spoiler:In order to keep Button Mash away from Sweetie Belle, Spike gives him a cursed video game that's so addictive it nearly drives him insane and breaks him. At the end when Spike's confronted with the angry ponies he's wronged, Button's mother Cream Heart is among them, and she '''isn't''' happy one bit...]]
* NoodleIncident: Based on Spike's reaction to [[spoiler:seeing Twilight unconscious like she's drunk with him groaning "-told her a thousand times 'Cider before liquor, never been sicker', but nooo", it seems that Twilight has a habit of becoming intoxicated]].
* NotMeThisTime: [[spoiler:When Spike mentions that Big Mac had a freak accident with fire at his home, he states he had nothing to do with it]].
* OutOfContextEavesdropping: [[spoiler:Just before entering her room, Luna overhears Twilight talking with Ralph, a guard she had fallen asleep with. Luna mistakes their conversation about Ralph drooling in his sleep as the two getting busy and orders one of her servants to throw out her entire room]].
* PaperThinDisguise: Played with. When Luna tries to conceal unconscious Twilight, she [[spoiler: puts a lampshade on her head and pretends it's a lamp she bought at a flea market. Celestia rolls with it but it's later revealed she was fully aware it was actually Twilight, not a lamp, and she accepted the lamp as a gift just to take Twilight away from whatever Luna was doing to her]].
* PedoHunt: Exploited. Spike gets rid of Thunderlane by [[spoiler:telling Sweetie Belle that he feels "lust" for her and that lust is what ponies feel when they like each other; Sweetie asks Thunderlane if he likes her, Thunderlane answers yes, Sweetie happily tells her friends that Thunderlane feels lust towards her, and in short order Thunderlane is sent to prison]].
* PoliceAreUseless: To the point where [[spoiler:one police pony actually helps Spike to carry Caramel in a bag and throw him off the cliff because the police pony tried to help Spike who basically ordered him around to commit his crime]].
* [[HumanMail Pony Mail]]: Celestia [[spoiler:mails Twilight back to her home in order to get her away from Luna]].

* RealityEnsues: Even after everything Spike went through to get the opportunity to ask Rarity out, [[spoiler:the second he does, she thinks he's joking.]]
-->'''Rarity''': [[spoiler:[[ActuallyPrettyFunny Snrk!]] [[KickTheDog (sees Spike's heartbroken reaction)]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone O-oh...]] Darling, you're ''[[MyGodYouAreSerious serious]]'' aren't you.]]

* UnwinnableJokeGame: Spike gives Button a parody version of the infamous Desert Bus - Desert Cart - and challenges him to play it until [[spoiler:Button goes insane from playing it]].

* VoodooDoll: [[spoiler:Luna apparently uses this. At the end of one strip, a doll of Big Mac is shown burning. Later on, it's said that Big Mac had an accident involving fire]].
* WhamShot: After Spike is beaten to death by those he wronged Twilight reveals that he is just the latest “Spike” out of a long line and every time one dies she has the princesses send her another egg and uploads the most important memories into them.
* XanatosGambit: [[spoiler:Spike claims to have predicted every possible outcome of his actions to stop Rarity from dating stallions. Throughout the series, it seems his claims are true. Even apparent failures benefit him in the end. He even has an actual chart showing his complex plan as a map of points and arrows leading from one point to another]].

An ongoing FanWebcomic made by [[https://www.deviantart.com/pony-berserker/ Pony-Berserker]] based off ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', ''Age (In)appropriate'' follows Spike's misadventures as he tries to undermine every stallion Rarity shows interest in through a series of increasingly extreme means.