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[[File:744px-S2E21_Spike_is_the_winner-1_3679.png|frame|A SPIKE draws near! Command?]]
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Happily back in Ponyville, Spike writes a letter to Princess Celestia, explaining that he's learned that his real family are the ones who love and care for him. He also manages to hatch the abandoned phoenix egg, and welcomes "Peewee" into their family.
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* [[A Day in the Limelight]]: For Spike. Again!▼
* [[Adult Fear]]: Spike taking off to discover his true identity (especially since we know how mean dragons can get). {{spoiler|And then he initially decides to stay with them forever.}}
* [[Adults Are Useless]]: The adult dragons don't even bother monitoring the teen dragons' antics. [[Shown Their Work|Then again, very few real world reptiles are involved in their childrens' lives,]] and how many things could actually ''hurt'' a dragon anyway, even a teen one? {{spoiler|Apparently, pheonixes, whose flames can burn even dragons.}}
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* [[Bullying a Dragon]]: Literally and metaphorically.
* [[Call Back]]:
** Rarity calls out Spike's nickname from "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1
** Fluttershy's [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1
** [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1
** [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1
** Spike still has that blanket from Applejack in the "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2
** Spike's immunity to fire damage was already explained during "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1
** Among the adult dragons, one can spot the red one from "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1
* [[The Cameo]]:
** [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2
** The dragons from "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it scene, {{spoiler|the mother and father phoenix can be spotted on Spike's journey}}.
* [[Circling Birdies|Circling Butterflies]]: At the end of the [[Cold Open]].
* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: Rarity's camo outfit. Purple and magenta aren't really good colors for hiding in greenery.
** "Who says camouflage has to be drab?" Answer: The very definition of "camouflage".
* [[Continuity Nod]]: Spike owns pictures that show events from his life, including one of [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1
** Fluttershy's [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2
** Spike suffers no damage at all after belly-flopping on a pool made of ''lava'', not even after he accidentally gets a mouthful of it. His immunity to fire damage was already mentioned during "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1
* [[Contrived Coincidence]]: Rarity just happens to make a dragon costume identical to a real dragon.
** Or maybe she's been [[Shown Their Work|Shown Her Work]], having based the costume on a real dragon variety (that could still fit three ponies ''and'' which had ''eight legs'').
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** Justified for the dragons, who are established as being extremely resistant to heat. As for the ponies…[[Hand Wave|Maybe Twilight cast a spell that protected them from the heat?]]
* [[Cool Pet]]: {{spoiler|Peewee the phoenix. Spike gets a pet that will live as long as he does.}}
▲* [[A Day in the Limelight]]: For Spike. Again!
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Spike joining the teenage dragons is very much like a child falling in with the wrong crowd.
** There is also an ''[[Animal House]]''/random college fraternity similarity, with Spike having undergone their hazing process. And all in all, the teenage dragons are rather disturbingly similar to real bullies in the way that their emotional and physical abuse is portrayed.
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** The ponies know better than to even ''try'' the Lava Cannonball.
** Taking on a group of teenage dragons that outmass them and have the same numbers (four on four) is dangerous enough that running away ''is'' a reasonable option, even for [[Magic Knight|Twilight Sparkle]] and [[Action Girl|Rainbow Dash]], especially since they were intruding in ''dragon'' territory, with the adults not far away. Besides, they'd already gotten Spike back, so there was nothing to gain by fighting even if they won.
*** See, in [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1
*** Plus, spending the whole day watching the dragons show off their strength might have had something to do with it.
*** Finally, the one who made the decision to run was Spike, who knew that he wouldn't be able to beat any of the dragons in a fight. Making the decision to run was the only way that he could protect his friends.
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* [[Mono-Gender Monsters]]: Despite the number of dragons that show up, there's not one apparent female, with the possible exception of Crackle. (Then again, do those teenage dragons seem like the sort to attract girls?).
* [[Mood Motif]]: The Strings of Suspense when Spike {{spoiler|hovers on going through with the bigger dragons' insistence that he smash the phoenix egg he rescued}}.
* [[Mundane Utility]]: Spike's tail, which has been shown strong enough to [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1
* [[Mythology Gag]]: ''[[My Little Pony and Friends]]'' had an episode, "Spike's Search", about ''their'' baby dragon named Spike trying to get in touch with his own kind. Even the plots are basically the same, Spike leaving the ponies to try living among his own kind, only to discover that dragons are immense jerks and realizing he really belongs among the ponies, which have become his "real" family.
* [[Name's the Same]]: To the [[Video Game]] ''[[Dragon Quest]]''. There's no battling slime though.
* [[Nice Hat]]: The Mane Cast's camo outfits. Yes, including Rarity's.
* [[Nigh Invulnerable]]: Spike is praised for suffering no damage after belly-flopping into lava from a cliff. The other dragons fly into a tree with enough force to punch through it and make it fall (falling face-first with the whole weight of the tree) twice, and aren't even bruised. Which might explain why Twilight decided to run from them despite being ready to fight Cerberus [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2
* [[No Name Given]]: The teenage dragons aren't named in the show, though the red one at least has a name [[All There in the Script|in the script]] (Garble).
* [[Non-Standard Character Design]]: Crackle.
** The other teen dragons also qualify to various degrees, especially compared to Spike's teen form in "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2
* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: Andrea Libman slips from her Pinkie voice into her Fluttershy voice when the former says "Ahoy, maties! Dragons, ho!"
* [[Outside Inside Slur]]: Because Spike has lived with ponies all his life, the teen dragons initially insist that while he's a dragon on the outside, he's actually a pony on the inside. {{spoiler|[[Insult Backfire|Spike later takes it as a point of pride]], seeing that the adolescent dragons are complete jerks.}}
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* [[Roll Out the Red Carpet]]: Literally - Rarity does this along with a bit of confetti flourish to announce her arrival at the trench to watch the dragon migration and show off her new "camo" outfit.
* [[Second Place Is for Winners]]: The other dragons aren't won over by Spike having the largest lava cannonball splash, but instead by the fact he slams into the lava belly-first. The fail is so epic as to both impress them and earn their sympathy.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The episode title, to the ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' series, of all things!
** Even funnier, the baby phoenixes are nearly identical to [[Final Fantasy|Final Fantasy's]] Chocobos, especially the FF Tactics and FFIX designs. [[Dragon Quest]] and [[Final Fantasy]] were rivals before [[Square Enix]] merged.
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* [[Would Hurt a Child]]: The delinquent dragons have absolutely no qualms hurting poor Spike, even though he's a baby dragon. {{spoiler|They top themselves by trying to ''smash'' Phoenix eggs.}}
* [[Wreathed in Flames]]: The phoenixes charge at Spike in this form.
* [[You Are a Credit to Your Race]]: Rarity, Rainbow, and Pinkie compliment Spike on being not like the other dragons. This sets him off because up until then he hadn't known he was different from other dragons, other than the events of "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2
* [[You Owe Me]]: Rainbow Dash tries to collect on Fluttershy for joining her for the Great Butterfly Migration, by having her come to the Great Dragon Migration. [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|It doesn't work.]]
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