What You Likely Never Noticed About One of the Most Iconic Scenes in Make Your Mark Before

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Missing the Mark, the finale to Make Your Mark Chapter 4, is widely regarded as one of the best episodes of the show and it contains one of the show's most iconic moments, the scene where Misty bursts the magic bubble Opaline has Sunny and her friends trapped in with one of the sticks by Opaline's throne, thus freeing them. Back when I first watched this scene, my favorite part about it besides Misty being awesome was how what looked like just a simple background detail actually turned out to be vital to the plot. However, this scene gets even better when you realize that it doesn't just tie back to something previously shown...but something that gets revealed later. 

Opaline's magic bubble very likely doesn't just get popped in this scene because of Misty ramming a sharp object into it, given how durable the magic bubble was shown to be. Remember that this sharp object is actually part of a Together Tree and a Together Tree being intertwined with Opaline's lair isn't revealed until the end of MYM Chapter 5. Since Together Trees get their power from the ponies uniting together, it makes perfect sense for Misty's realization of how much her friends really mean to her to give a part of a Together Tree the power to destroy a product of evil magic. This is my favorite mark of good writing in any form of entertainment, how everything in the story is connected. Not just through events being foreshadowed earlier on in the story, but those foreshadowed events then later turning out to be foreshadowing for more things you never would've anticipated.