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The show has gone for quite a bit so you'd expect it to have covered all the cliches by now. But what cliches do you think they did not pull off yet?

 

-Magical Tournament. Whether it has combat in it or just general I'm better than you magic tournaments. Yes there were magic duels but not tournaments. Think Dragon Ball, Yu Yu Hakusho, Naruto etc.

 

-A beach adventure. Very typical in japanese cartoons.

 

-War. Sure there was an invasion but not the same thing. 

 

-I am your father. A secret reveal of someone that wasn't someone you'd expect to be. A oops I suppose Chrysalis covered that one.

 

-Tsundere love story. A character that has secret special feelings for another but won't admit it

 

-The "Dad." You know those dads that try to act really cool and just come out awkward and cringey? Yes don't have one of those in the show yet.

 

-I can feel his spiritual power! You know how annoying some cartoons are when all the characters know what everything is happening to other characters even if they're not there? That cliche I'm talking about.

 

-Everything explodes. You know like a typical Michael Bay movie. Even things that weren't supposed to explode exploding.

 

-The Badass. A character that makes an amazing appearance kicking everyone's butt and acting like it was just a walk in the park.


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A boys vs girls episode, and I'm glad they haven't.

 

We haven't had any body swapping plots yet in the show.

 

Considering how good the voice actors are at making impressions that's something that needs to happen, as long as they don't swap the voices like most other cartoons of course.

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How about that tired old cliche, you know where a princess gets kidnapped (in this case princess twilight) and has to be saved by a stallion (Flash centry)

 

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Cadence trying to save Shining Armor was the subversion of this already.

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Or the tomboy character trying to be a lady (in other words, Rainbow Dash has yet to act like a member of high society).

I would love that! I wanna see rainnbow dash do that and try to impress soarin at wondbolt hq

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-War. Sure there was an invasion but not the same thing. 

 

 

it'd be nice if they touched back on the crystal wars timeline to give us a good war thing.

That being said, I don't think we'll see a "war" in the show though I DO think they might do something like that in the GOH series/comics in the future.

 

 

-The "Dad." You know those dads that try to act really cool and just come out awkward and cringey? Yes don't have one of those in the show yet.

 

This would be a good personality for Dash's dad :P

 

 

-Magical Tournament. Whether it has combat in it or just general I'm better than you magic tournaments. Yes there were magic duels but not tournaments. Think Dragon Ball, Yu Yu Hakusho, Naruto etc.

 

Be a fun episode, but I can't see how they'd get pure "Fight" tournament going on, and a purely magical Tournament would disqualify 4/6 of the mane six.

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-The Badass. A character that makes an amazing appearance kicking everyone's butt and acting like it was just a walk in the park.

 

trixie did that with the alicorn amulet  


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How about the Karate Kid. Less popular pony trains then beats up the bullies. Though there is tidbits of that theme just not the full blown kind. Like Fluttershy training but to be a better flier rather than face an adversary and Spike overcoming the teenage dragons but he doesn't have a training montage.


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We saw both the threat of war and war itself in Season 5. Not sure how much of a focused it needs to be in your mind to be considered a true cliche, or if alternate realities count.

 

My memory fails me, but have we seen an episode centered around disappointment of a worshipped hero?


 

 

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The mind switching gag.

One of the dumber characters suddenly becoming a genius

The characters meeting and interacting with opposite/alternate versions of themselves

Characters get turned into babies (or old mares)

Shrinking and entering another character to help with some illness or problem.

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