Day of the Flutter Explained

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"Day of the Flutter Explained" is a video commentary created by MysteryLoop to explain the bizarre events of "Day of the Flutter", which he created. The remaining few minutes of this video cover the ending of "I am Adagio Dazzle", which takes place just after "Day of the Flutter".
As it lasts for around 2 hours and nearly 25 minutes, it may be the longest video related to the Parody Series.
== Summary of details ==
=== Playlist listing, Chronology ===
* MysteryLoop wanted "Day of the Flutter" to occur before the events of "Rainbow Rocks", as the events that occurred between both episodes were to be explained in a future date.
* "Day of the Flutter" takes place from some time before the first episode up to some time before "Rainbow Rocks".
* "Day of the Flutter 2", the planned sequel, was abandoned. MysteryLoop gave his reasons in some of his Twitter posts.
=== Prologue ===
* In this episode, Overlord Hasbro is referred to with "they" pronouns, as during that episode, his gender was considered unknown, and his race (as an Overlord) was perhaps undetermined..
* When Overlord Faust and Overlord Hasbro worked and ruled Equestria together, Season 1 of "Friendship is Magic" was taking place. Overlord Faust gave the characters personalities and stories of their own, and Overlord Hasbro produced and sold merchandise related to their lives. That was also when the fandom developed, before Overlord Faust left after Season 1.
* In the episode, Overlord Faust left Equestria to work on JonTron episodes. The actual reason is left unknown, so it will be given in "Day of the Flutter 2" (the proposed sequel): nonetheless, in the entry for "War of the Gods" in this wiki, a possible reason was something to do with her being dissatisfied with Overlord Hasbro's decision to transform the characters and place them into a high-school setting. Still, a third possible reason given in this video, was that she wanted to stop Overlord Hasbro from using a superweapon that he may use to destroy Equestria.
* The narrator with the male voice in the prologue is Fluttershy, or "Fluttershy #1" (ZXInsanity) to be more precise. She was narrating this story right after Overlord Hasbro killed everyone else in Equestria, while she was searching for Overlord Hasbro across the emptied world, as an account of much of the major events leading up to her present situation.
* The cease-and-desist actions against various fan-made projects is interpreted as Overlord Hasbro going mad. Without Overlord Faust, he was able to take over Equestria for himself.
* Around the time when Hasbro was preparing to turn the Equestrians into high-school themed humanoids ("Equestria Girls"), the War of the Gods broke out as a rebellion against Overlord Hasbro's growing domination.
* The Mane Six were possibly involved in the War of the Gods, before Overlord Faust eventually transformed them into the humanoid Equestria Girls characters and controlled them.
* The Triforce used by the Gods is used as part of the Gods' theme of trios.
** The face in ZXInsanity's piece is based on a work from his old DeviantArt account, to represent "insanity".
** The apple in JakeWhyman's piece is just "apples".
** The OC pony in Blarghalt's piece is for one of his videos that introduced it and its species as Queen Chrysalis' minions.
* The universe of the Parody Series is a diversion of the original universe of "Friendship is Magic" or "Equestria Girls", away from the canon of the original franchise: Hasbro altered it by turning the Equestrians into humanoids, and then the Gods altered it again by turning Hasbro and the Mane Six into stone statues and splitting the universe into three.
* The Mane Six and Hasbro being turned into stone may explain on how the characters in the earlier episodes consist of bouncing vectors that do not have any facial expressions.
* Even though Overlord Hasbro was stuck in his stone form, he could still use his powers to affect the world (such as some of the villains that he sent to stop the Mane Six, and copyright strikes, for instance), although he was not as powerful as he was before the Gods defeated him and restricted his powers.
* The Gods turned the Mane Six into stone after defeating Hasbro, as by then they have become mindless puppets that Hasbro used for his marketing campaigns. By doing so, they also wanted the Mane Six to retain (and even develop) their own personalities.
* The earlier episodes up to "Day of the Flutter" took place within their minds: at first they consisted of vectors that bounced around and who spoke in robotic voices, but over time they began to move their bodies and develop facial expressions, as the stone seal begun to wear off. As this was happening, the stone sealing Overlord Hasbro is also starting to get weaker.
=== The Fluttershy Paradox ===
* The three Fluttershys are the Gods themselves.
* Fluttershy's father is Morgan Freeman, hence another Fluttershy referring herself as "Fluttershy Freeman" when she wandered the later-emptied Equestria. All three Fluttershys also share the same name.
** MysteryLoop initially planned to incorporate Morgan Freeman into the movie, but he abandoned that idea due to time constraints, so he decided to let Morgan appear in "Day of the Flutter 2". Like the proposed video, his appearance was also scrapped.
* The Equestria Girls characters of the Parody Series have exaggerated personalities that vary throughout the episodes, depending on the whims of their respective creators. For example, Rarity being addicted to Facebook and social media (although her personality is not so exaggerated), Twilight Sparkle being controlled by the Reapers, and Fluttershy (in the episode "EQUESTRIA GIRLS" by ZXInsanity and his other episodes, but not in "Vengeance, Thy Name Is Apples" in which she has a female voice) having a male British gentleman's voice.
** So MysteryLoop created "Day of the Flutter" to see what may happen if this Fluttershy and the other Fluttershys created by the two authors meet together.
** Another reason for him creating this video is that the Fluttershy character(s) in the videos up to "Day of the Flutter" does not have much of an exaggerated personality as her other five friends did.
* The Fluttershy who was beside Rainbow Dash on the latter's balloon is either JakeWhyman (most likely) or Blaghalt. She was the one who crashed unto Rarity on the first episode.
* Rainbow Dash, like Fluttershy and Rarity, does not have much of a personality. She just pretends to be fast and great, but she uses a hot air balloon with Sonic's face on it ("gotta go fast"). Her placement in that weird and (ironically) slow hot air balloon, and the balloon's Sonic theme itself, is fitting for her pretentious attitude.
* Even though Rainbow Dash claimed that her hot air balloon is "the fastest hot air balloon in Horseland", it goes at around 1 mile per hour or less, which is rather slow.
* The "Equestria Girls" movies used modernized analogues for certain concepts and groups from the show. So for the "Wonderbolts" (who were originally a team of pegasi ponies), MysteryLoop used a pilot in his airplane, even though the Wonderbolts did not exist in the Equestria Girls universe as a team of pilots.
** The Wonderbolts' counterparts in the Equestria Girls universe exist instead in the form of the CHS Wondercolts, a soccer and games team that competed against Crystal Prep Academy's team, the Shadowbolts (influenced by a group of illusions led by Nightmare Moon).
* "Day of the Flutter" occurs roughly before the first episode of the Parody Series (as the prologue and backstory of the Series), but also takes place on that episode, so to cause a paradox.
* The Fluttershy (Fluttershy #2) who arrived to warn Rainbow and Fluttershy #1 is ZXInsanity.
* Having lost her memory during her transformation, Fluttershy #2/ZXInsanity thought that the other Fluttershy (Fluttershy #1) is a paradox. As Fluttershy #2 briefly appears as Pinkie Pie, it is a sign that the universe they are in (JakeWhyman's universe) is being distorted by their paradox.
* The paradox Fluttershy #2 caused from her meeting with Fluttershy #1 is known as "the first paradox".
=== Greggs and Sausage Rolls ===
* The void where the two Fluttershys ended up in is Twilight's mind.
* Twilight, then under the control of the Reapers, speaks and behaves menacingly.
* Twilight dragging the two Fluttershys into her mind is a method used to stop the paradox before it can destroy the universe. It was she herself, not the Reapers, who made that decision.
* Twilight disappearing in front of Rarity is herself entering her own mind.
* MysteryLoop had a Greggs store appearing inside Twilight's mind, as a random joke about the end of the world.
* The Greggs appearing out of nowhere in front of the two Fluttershys is Twilight's subconscious mind responding to Fluttershy #1's suggestions. Twilight disguised herself as the shop's salesman.
* Here are the three Fluttershys and their real identities:
** Fluttershy #1 (masculine voice) - JakeWhyman, labelled by MysteryLoop as "Fluttershy B"
** Fluttershy #2 (British gentleman's voice) - ZXInsanity, or "Fluttershy A"
** Fluttershy #3 (feminine voice) - Blarghalt, or "Fluttershy C"
* Fluttershy #2 thought that the other Fluttershys are her past selves, and that she was a time traveler (when she and the other two were actually the Gods).
* The horde of sausage rolls that appeared outside of the Greggs store were caused by Twilight's own mind, who was thinking about sausage rolls after Fluttershy #1 ordered all the sausage rolls in the Greggs store.
** They, and the later glitches from Twilight's collapsing mind were actually caused by the Reapers, as they tried to control her mind and stop the paradox from destroying the universe.
** Also, MysteryLoop added the sausage rolls to play with the headcanon that "Fluttershy is a vegeterian" (since in the original show she handles animals, and she might not kill and eat them as a result. Also, in the Equestria Girls movie, she eats fruit and a salad), depicting her instead as either not being a vegetarian, or being a hypocrite, in that she works at KFC and likes to eat meat-related foods such as sausage rolls.
*** This may also be a reason why Fluttershy #1 asked, "How in the name of Buddha are we supposed to do that?", when trying to find a way to fly to Fluttershy #2 and rescue her. In Buddhism, killing animals and eating meat are considered as bad things to avoid, as they bring suffering to animals, so many Buddhists (not all of them) prefer to be vegetarian for the sake of kindness to animals. This may have led to others associating Eastern religions such as Buddhism with vegetarianism.
* Fluttershy #1/JakeWhyman is the Fluttershy who wears a helmet that says "Barry", a reference to Pony Grumps (a parody of Game Grumps), which associates Fluttershy as Barry Kramer.
* Fluttershy #2 has "Gangster's Paradise" as her ringtone, as a reference to "Poverty" (created by JakeWhyman), where she is a gangster.
** Also, her phone being a poor-quality Nokia phone, contrasting against Twilight's not-so-regal iPhone, throne and crown, and makeup, are based on Twilight's perceptions of herself as a princess, as much of all this takes place within her own mind.
** Furthermore, there are two Twilights in her mindscape: one is the silent Twilight who flies around with her wings and is controlled by the Reapers (or represents the parts of her mind under the Reapers' control), and the other Twilight with the crown and makeup who represents her subconscious mind.
* The wave of white squares approaching the three Fluttershys is Twilight's mind collapsing, as an attempt to erase the paradox, which are the three Fluttershys themselves.
** The glitching flying Twilight is Twilight removing her own paradox, which is a version of herself going into her own mind.
** Also, the other flying, glitching Twilight may be the "second paradox".
* Pinkie Pie has the ability to travel through minds.
* Pinkie's purple car was JakeWhyman's contribution to the series, which was introduced in the episode "Hospital Visit", where it was Rarity's car.
** Also, the live-action alligator sitting next to Pinkie is Gummy.
* Sunglasses appear frequently in the previous episodes, such as "Letter to Celestia".
* Pinkie Pie sonic-rainbooms her car out of Twilight's mind to save the three Fluttershys, and goes back to the real world,
* The scene with what appears to be dipped ink into a white background and a Fluttershy wearing a black hat is Fluttershy #2's subconscious mind, in which the real ZXInsanity speaks to his Fluttershy body. Her hat is the hat worn by the Gray Man from the video-game "LSD: Dream Stimulator", and is used to distinguish her from the other two Fluttershys.
** When ZXInsanity whispers to Fluttershy #2, he asks, "Do you know the answer, Fluttershy?" He is asking her on whether she knows who she really is: a disguise. He wants Fluttershy #2 to hurry up and transform already, so she can use his powers to stop Hasbro when he is released.
=== Pinkie Pie's Super Quiz ===
* Pinkie Pie's game show, the Greggs store in Twilight's mind, time travel, and the rap battle with Zecora are all ideas that MysteryLoop planned to implement in his Equestria Girls Parody Series episodes, so he placed them all into this episode. Her role as a game show host is also to add to her character after she played a detective role in the episode "Celestia's Reign".
** The music playing during the game show is from Banjo-Kazooie.
* Fluttershy #1 being from the Isle of Man is a reference to the actual ZXInsanity (a friend of MysteryLoop) being from that location; it itself is part of a parade of references (along with gangsters and male voices) that hint on which Fluttershy is which respective member of the three warriors.
** Fluttershy #1 saying "big shout-out to Mom and Dad" is another reference to Morgan Freeman being Fluttershy's father, in all three versions of her.
* The name plate under each of the three Fluttershys' platforms indicate the personalities of each respective Fluttershy through their respective writing styles:
** Fluttershy #1's name plate is a mess, representing her insanity and quirkiness. Her screen also has a small Triforce drawn on the upper left, hinting on her and her companions' theme of being the three Gods in disguise; and the word "stupid!!!" written on the lower right indicates that she and Fluttershy #2 dislike each other very much.
** Fluttershy #2's name plate has orderly, plain text, representing her down-to-earth way of thinking. She also seems to be associated with gangsters.
** Fluttershy #3's name plate has curving text, representing her refined thinking and her closeness to the original show's Fluttershy.
* The Wheel of Brad represents JakeWhyman's obsession with Nicolas Cage, who represents "Brad". Every other character other than "Brad" in the Wheel is based from various ridiculous suggestions from ZXInsanity, JakeWhyman, and Blarghalt (who likes Ron Paul), except for Reggie Fils-Aimé (who is a favorite of MysteryLoop).
* Phil Mitchell is a character from the British television series, "EastEnders". He and various other Doctor Who references are a reflection on the British roots of this video's creator.
* The announcer who presented Fluttershy #1's prize (being a vacuum cleaner) was voiced by a friend of his, who offered his help.
** MysteryLoop took around six to nine months to create this video, and spent much of his time talking with friends on Skype. He also talked to ZXInsanity, but kept his video as a secret from him as ZXInsanity had a role in that video.
* Pinkie Pie's second question, which is about finding a word used to "describe the current economy", was enjoyed by MysteryLoop.
* Mr. Barkles, a dog who assisted Pinkie Pie's game show, also appeared in "Vengeance, Thy Name is Apples". He was named "Mr. Barkles" mainly because he is a dog.
* Pinkie's question, "Do any of us even exist?" suggests that the Gods were the ones who were creating this story as their characters live through it.
* The earthquakes interrupting Pinkie Pie's game show is considered the "turning point" of the episode": from a random, ridiculous comedy to an epic adventure afterwards.
** Also, while the actual cause of the earthquakes is not stated within the episode, MysteryLoop suggests that they were caused by Overlord Hasbro breaking the stone seal placed upon him, disrupting the universe.
* The red dots on the radar screens represent the massive buildup of Solar Empire troops around the game show's studio, and the voice coming through the speakers is from (a pilot using) one of the helicopters flying outside.
=== Solar Empire Headquarters ===
* The "You do not ... " voice during the transmission from Celestia is from Overlord Hasbro.
* Chrysalis (as Celestia) has sensed that the three Fluttershys are the Gods, and was already prepared when Overlord Hasbro broke from his stone seal. She wanted the three Fluttershys to assist her in her plan to defeat Overlord Hasbro, after her time developing a super-weapons and communicating with Overlord Faust.
* The scenes with the helicopter flying away to the Solar Empire Headquarters are a reference to the opening scenes in "Day of the Doctor", in which a helicopter drags the TARDIS.
** There were opening scenes for this episode, but they were deleted due to a lack of effort.
* Cory Baxter (the smiling, flying head that emerged from the exploding helicopter) is the Great One's son. He is later seen lying dead next to the Great One, and is also seen with him after they were revived.
* The helicopter used to transport the three Fluttershys to the Solar Empire Headquarters, and the landing pad on the Headquarters, were designed using computer-generated imagery.
* MysteryLoop added an edited Hub commercial at 13:23 to 13:41 for his own amusement, as he felt that creating his long video made him tired, and caused him to almost lose his mind.
** He used an edited TruMoo milk commercial, as not only he considered them to be foreign (TruMoo is sold in America), but they also appeared very frequently in the Hub (like the Gak commercials). He also considers the TruMoo commercial in the video as a sequel to an earlier edited TruMoo video that he created some time ago.
* The Solar Empire Headquarters is a front used by Queen Chrysalis (who impersonates a tyrannical Principal Celestia) to infiltrate Hasbro and retrieve his plans.
* Chrysalis hired Rainbow Dash to fly the helicopter that took the three Fluttershys into her headquarters.
* The Fluttershys' assumption that each of them was sent back to warn the others (whom they considered as past versions of themselves) was a false memory: they had not yet realized that they are actually the Gods.
* When Rainbow Dash said that "Celestia is dead", she is referring to Principal Celestia being cut in half by Vice Principal Luna in "Celestia's Reign".
* When "Celestia" was acting like a villain to the three Fluttershys. she was suspicious of them, on whether were they following Hasbro's or not orders.
* Fluttershy #3 was the one who figured out who "Celestia" actually is. Furthermore, she also saw Vice Principal Luna kill Celestia.
* MysteryLoop added Phoenix Wright references in Fluttershy #3's exposure of the false "Celestia", as he was playing Phoenix Wright games while he was creating this video.
* Many of the descriptions in the earlier videos by ZXInsanity, JakeWhyman, and Blarghalt were meant to suggest that they were leaked security footage from Hasbro. This influenced MysteryLoop's idea of Queen Chrysalis (as "Celestia") infiltrating Hasbro's plans.
** He also suggested that Chrysalis was the one who stole and uploaded their videos, but as he found it to be bizarre for him, he instead suggested that it was the Gods who created and uploaded them.
* The hairclip on Fluttershy #3 glows and hums because it senses that something is wrong, as it is a piece of the Triforce.
* When Overlord Faust has left Equestria, the Equestrians (including the villains, such as Chrysalis herself) retained their individual personalities. They knew that Hasbro was trying to dominate and control them, so they formed an army.
* The other products and toys fighting the Equestrians — alicorn Twilights, Optimus Prime, Play-Doh, a Super Soaker Nerf gun, Zoe Trent, Mr. Monopoly (also known as Rich Uncle Pennybags), Mr. Potato Head, a Furby doll, Elmo, various other MLP dolls, and a baby Pinkie Pie doll with a handgun, etc. — were all part of Hasbro's army. Hasbro did not suspect that the Equestrians' leaders had such an overwhelming army, so he used his products and toys to destroy the Equestrian armies.
* The "dazzling white light" mentioned in Chrysalis' flashback was the catalyst that transformed the Equestrians into humanoids and erased their memories.
* The cracks (similar to those that appeared in Pinkie's quiz show) in the transformation scene are directly correlated to Hasbro.
* Brad (appearing as Nicolas Cage) appeared during the transformation scene for reasons unknown.
* Chrysalis was working with Overlord Faust to develop a super-weapon to destroy Overlord Hasbro.
* Morgan Freeman (blurred) was the one who overheard and discovered Queen Chrysalis' plans. He would have also worked as a time-travelling agent, and tried to help Fluttershy.
* While Chrysalis was one of several characters who knew about earlier events (such as Fluttershy knowing that Celestia is dead, and King Sombra (who became one of Chrysalis' associates)), all the other characters forgot what had happened before their transformations.
** MysteryLoop suggests that the erasure of the Equestrians' memories may had been the cause of Applejack being able only to say "apple". He also expected "The Great Appul War" by DXIndustriesInc to be finished, so to provide more on her, the Appuls', and Chester's backgrounds.
* Vice Principal Luna is actually a cyborg built in several years by the Solar Empire, to allow Queen Chrysalis to pretend that "Celestia" was killed, so she can infiltrate Hasbro.
* The scene with "Celestia" passing by a wall of many screens, supervised by the Gray Man, takes place within Hasbro's Headquarters. Even though Hasbro was turned into stone, his allies and associates continued his business, watching over Equestria and its events as Hasbro entered into the minds of the Mane Six.
* The scene with Chrysalis conversing with Overlord Faust using red telephones in a park at night took place at the end of "Dawn of Shimmer".
* The energy source that Zecora has produced for Chrysalis' plans was the Triforce.
* The three universes developed by the Gods were the same in characters and setting, but having different voices and personalities for the characters. Nonetheless, they and their events form into the single background universe, which is the setting of the Parody Series.
* If these three universes collide, the Gods would phase out of existence, allowing Hasbro to break free.
* The "Easter bunny" mentioned by Fluttershy #1 is a reference to the date of this episode's uploading, April 20, 2014, being Easter.
** Another reference to Easter in the episode is in the theme of "resurrection" in the ending: for example, while two of the Gods and all the other Equestrians have been killed by Overlord Hasbro, upon realizing her true nature, Fluttershy #2/ZXInsanity uses her powers to free herself from her stone form and bring her friends back to life.
* While Queen Chrysalis was talking to the three Fluttershys, she was facing a mural displaying the Gods and a frame for the missing Triforce. That scene foreshadows later events.
* While Chrysalis did not know that the three Fluttershys are the Gods, she considered their ability to survive the paradox and distort reality to have been bestowed to them by the Gods, based on the information that she had learned from her infiltration and research.
=== Everfree Forest ===
* MysteryLoop added Zecora because he wanted to introduce a new character and her personality into the Series (Zecora was only mentioned at the end of "Dawn of Shimmer", and this episode was his only episode for the Series as he declined to create a sequel, so he wanted to leave something for other creators to use if they wanted to add new episodes), and also to include a rap battle into the episode.
* When Fluttershy #2 said that Rarity once threw chairs at her for dating with Brad (at Applebee's), she mentioned the events of the episode "Dating".
* Fluttershy #1 mentioning that her masculine voice was caused by her Supergluing a Poison Joke flower on her hair was derived from a joke caused by MysteryLoop mistaking Fluttershy's butterfly hairclip for a flower while writing this episode's script.
* Eminem is Zecora's son.
** His quotes being lyrics from his songs was a joke that MysteryLoop created for this episode, which makes it ridiculous for anyone to attempt to communicate with people who speak only in lyrics.
* As Vinyl Scratch had no official voice in prior episodes, several voices were used. One of MysteryLoop's friends (who acted as one of the characters in this video) suggested that she should speak like a British character, but he ended up with a randomly-selected young, feminine voice for her. He was also unsure on what personality Vinyl should have.
* The stock footage of applauding people's silhouettes was purchased online for £10.
* MysteryLoop found it to be difficult to make text-to-speech voices (such as Fluttershy #2's and Zecora's voices) rap, as these voice tend to crack or mispronounce words.
* Fluttershy #2 likes to pose as a gangster, but is not very good with rapping poetry lines.
* The Queen (Queen Elizabeth II, who previously appeared in "How the Queen Stole Bradmas") speaks with a text-to-speech voice in this episode, instead of clips of her actual voice. Her character and Prince Philip (who wears a striped mohawk wig, similar to Zecora's hairstyle) are also fans of Zecora.
** Her character's high-class voice (such as using "innit") was done by MysteryLoop at the request of a friend of his.
* Many of Equestria's inhabitants were also panicking, as they (including Zecora) knew that Overlord Hasbro has broken free from his stone seal, and he will purge their world. They were also looking for the Triforce in order to stop Overlord Hasbro from carrying out his plan.
* The Triforce was protected by an unknown force (that scorched anyone else, such as Zecora, who touches it) so that only the Gods can use it.
* Zecora is an agent of Queen Chrysalis (and presumably her Solar Empire).
* MysteryLoop found the part where Fluttershy #2 went off to find the Triforce to be sad, as it was the last time she and the other Fluttershys can interact with each other before they will be killed. It was also that the three Fluttershys (as characters and bodies of the Gods) had different personalities from the Gods, so these individual personalities were erased once the Gods manifested themselves from them.
* The false Triforce made from Toblerone chocolate and gold-colored coating was a decoy made by Overlord Hasbro to lure Fluttershy #2 and her friends to him.
* Overlord Hasbro was following Zecora and listening to her rap battle, and then Fluttershy #2, leading him to acquire the real Triforce. However, he did not realize that the Fluttershys' hairclips are the pieces of the actual Triforce.
* Overlord Hasbro has a "farmer's voice" ("Peter" from Acapella, possibly resembling the dialect of a rural British farmer), as MysteryLoop wanted a understandable voice to contrast against the deep, low-pitched voices used by some antagonists in prior episodes. Furthermore, many other suitable voices have been used by other characters, so he ended up with a rural British accent for Overlord Hasbro.
* The "vortex energy" in Fluttershy #2 mentioned by Overlord Hasbro, is her being powerful enough to be one of the Gods in disguise.
* Overlord Hasbro, by that time, did not realize that Fluttershy #2 is one of the Gods, but a paradox that was caused by the colliding universes, so he says lies and plays mind tricks to manipulate them to his control.
* The "real Triforce" in the Everfree Forest that Overlord Hasbro possesses is also a decoy, like the Toblerone chocolate Triforce. It was placed by the Gods at an earlier time to distract and trick Overlord Hasbro, so he will not be able to find the pieces of the real Triforce disguised as butterfly hairclips on the Fluttershys' hair.
* Overlord Hasbro wanted to give Fluttershy #2 a stern warning to stop her and her friends from stopping his plans to take over Equestria.
* The negatively-colored scenes dissolving to black represent the universe being destroyed.
** The stock footage scenes of black ink dipped into water (such as when ZXInsanity speaks into Fluttershy #2's conscience, and Fluttershy #2 witnessing Equestria's destruction) represent the stream of consciousness in Fluttershy #2, or the flow of her thoughts.
* Various characters (supposedly all the Equestria Girls Parody Series characters up to this episode, and the other two Fluttershys as well) were killed as the video's creator wanted the story to focus only on Fluttershy #2's journey. It was also influenced by the shocked reactions by fans to Applejack's temporary death and revival in "Vengeance, Thy Name Is Apples", as they objected to a (not-so) serious death breaking against the happy-go-lucky and random theme of the Parody Series.
** The two Reapers lying dead around Fluttershy #2 are smaller replicas.
** The human head next to a Reaper and the Gray Man represents JackTHerbert.
** The lady in a blue dress is Megan McCarthy, one of the members of the staff working on the original "Friendship is Magic" show.
** The Celestia with a seagull's head (who snatched Rainbow Dash away after she took the three Fluttershys to Queen Chrysalis) is referred to as "Seagullestia".
=== The Last Equestrian ===
* Fluttershy's journey though the empty Land of the Overlords took place some time after the destruction of Equestria.
* The horse that Fluttershy rode on, while she spent some time looking for Overlord Hasbro, was a reference to another horse that she rode on at the end of "Physics".
* The three Fluttershys can also travel through time, but Overlord Hasbro took away their time-travelling abilities (most likely when he destroyed Equestria). Even though they did not travel through time in the first place, Fluttershy #2 thought that her ability to time travel has been taken away from her.
* MysteryLoop originally planned to include a part in which Fluttershy #2 travelled through time on her horse, but he decided to leave it for another time. He also originally planned to have this episode as a serious time-travelling episode (instead of three universes), but he has already changed it. As he planned to make this video to add some logic and relationships to the episodes of the Parody Series, it only made things more confusing, so he explained that "the universes are screwed by Overlord Hasbro, who causes the paradoxes as they collide" for its lack of sensible events (e.g. the Appuls still live in spite of Black Appul's defeat, Applejack's appearing again after her supposed deaths).
* The scene with the statues of the Mane Six is basically what is really happening in the three universes throughout the entire Parody Series, up to this episode. All the prior episodes are the dreams of the Mane Six.
* According to the TVTropes entry for the Parody Series, Fluttershy and Rarity are the most normal members of the Mane Six.
* Fluttershy #2 grew a beard (in spite of her physical female gender) because
** it is part of a reference to Morgan Freeman,
** ZXInsanity (who is male) lives in her,
** she is rapidly aging (within 564 days, or a year and a half) and is on the verge of passing away,
** it (along with the cowboy hat, poncho, sunset, and music from "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly") is part of a reference to the Western films the MysteryLoop had been watching previously.
* The description used in this video is a diary entry written during Fluttershy #2's search for Overlord Hasbro.
** "Day 238. Low on supplies. Knife broke, will have to cope with the overgrowth until I find another. Mother's shining slightly today, carrying a fine mist of raindrops in her wake. Headed up to the ridge. I took some time and reflected. I lost the ability to feel regret long ago, but I can't help but feel that things could have been prevented. It should've been me. I think I saw a light glimmering in the distance, though it could be the fog clouding my eyesight. I'm going to head west at dawn."
* The stars leading to the dawn next to a mountain range led Fluttershy #2 to Overlord Hasbro's location.
* When Fluttershy #2 leaves her horse to meet Overlord Hasbro, MysteryLoop considered their scene to be "the most cinematic scene" in the entire episode.
* Overlord Hasbro wanted Fluttershy #2 to come to him, so he will see her individual personality die as he turns her into a puppet. He mistook her for one of the Mane Six, and did not realize that she is actually ZXInsanity himself inside her.
* The villains that Overlord Hasbro mentioned were used by him while he was in his stone form.
** So Black Appul's invasion was most likely orchestrated by Overlord Hasbro all along.
* The Rainbow Rocks, the Nightmare Loaf, and the "Voice of Elysium" were supposedly villains that have yet to appear in future events.
** The "Voice of Elysium" was originally the main focus and antagonist of "Day of the Flutter 2" (which was also known as "EQUESTRIA GIRLS: The Voice of Elysium"), being a counter-weapon used by Overlord Hasbro against Queen Chrysalis' own weapon. MysteryLoop selected "Elysium" as part of that antagonist's name because he wanted an evil-sounding name for them.
** As the "Voice of Elysium" could break the stalemate between the Gods and Overlord Hasbro (as his death might lead to the destruction of the Equestrians), MysteryLoop considered it to be "really, really, really extreme" for changing the Parody Series into his plans (so to make it appear as though he is controlling the series). Because of this, he planned to place the "Voice of Elysium" only at the possible final episode of the Parody Series, although it and "Day of the Flutter 2" were later discarded.
* Fluttershy is reminded by herself (Fluttershy #2 to Fluttershy #1) and Overlord Hasbro (to Fluttershy #2) that she "is a paradox", she "does not exist", and that she "is not special". Overlord Hasbro continues to insult Fluttershy using this to manipulate her into accepting her character's dissolution into being his instrument.
* There was a semi-coherent plot line that flowed through the Gods' three universes (in their respective episodes) that became the main story of the Parody Series, and these three universes peacefully coexisted and relied on each other. If any of them gets altered, such as the paradox caused by Fluttershy #1 meeting Fluttershy #2, the universes and their story get distorted, such as one Fluttershy cannot exist unless the other two are in their respective alternate universes.
* Furthermore, the Gods' power is reliant on their status as Gods: if one of them stops being one of the Gods, their power will decrease and stop, and many disasters will ensue. As the Gods entered into the universe in the form of Fluttershys, their absence and Hasbro's releases causes the universes to distort and collide.
* Without the other two Fluttershys and the Gods' powers, Fluttershy #2 will not stay young and immortal. Within the 564 days (being a year and a half) of her travels, her body quickly ages and is about to pass away, so Fluttershy #2 has to meet Overlord Hasbro to let him kill her.
* Some of ZXInsanity's and Blarghalt's episodes had the more serious content, so MysteryLoop wanted to make the scene between Fluttershy #2 and Overlord Hasbro to be more emotional to test their limits. It was also because he found it interesting to add more emotional depth to this random episode, as viewers tend to sympathize with the protagonist of the story (in this case being Fluttershy #2), regardless of how unusual she was.
** MysteryLoop added the "Doomsday Theme" because he was a "Doctor Who" fan. Its tune also adds to the tragic atmosphere of the scene.
* Overlord Hasbro wanted to turn the Mane Six into stone so they will not move or think independently. He also wants to break the stone seals of the Mane Six, so they will lose their independent minds and personalities, and become his puppets after they (re-)emerge from their stone forms.
* The eccentric, independent personalities of the Mane Six were formed while their characters were formed while they were trapped as stone statues.
* The Chest of Harmony is used by Overlord Hasbro for another of his plans. With its power, he will use the Mane Six to promote his latest movie, "Rainbow Rocks"
** It was also why this episode comes before "EQUESTRIA GIRLS 2: Rainbow Rocks", because MysteryLoop wanted Overlord Hasbro to have a plot device, being the Chest of Harmony that inevitably turns the Mane Six and the other Equestrians into Rainbow Rocks characters.
* The Equestria Girls characters, or more specifically the Mane Six, are actually stone statues all along, and Overlord Hasbro turned them back into statues of vectors to control them as his puppets.
* As Fluttershy #2 falls and turns to stone, the other two faded Fluttershys next to her are another reference to her being actually one of the Gods. They also show that the other two Gods fall and turn to stone together with Fluttershy #2.
* The faded vectors of the Equestria Girls characters are their dead characters.
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* The field of black grass with a white static background is the world of the dead, or the afterlife. MysteryLoop added it so that the pony Fluttershy can appear in this episode.
** Also Fluttershy #2 was confused: even though everyone else was killed by Overlord Hasbro, they do not appear in the afterlife, leaving it silent and empty.
* Space Jam music was played there (to Fluttershy #2's displeasure) because Shaquille O'Neil was at the distance.
* Fluttershy #2 wishing for Greggs is a reference to the Greggs store at the beginning of the video in Twilight's mind, as MysteryLoop enjoys placing references in various places.
** Pony Fluttershy's mention about "KFC" is also a reference to Fluttershy's "hypocritical vegetarian" personality in this video (from the beginning scenes with Fluttershy #1 on Rainbow Dash's balloon, and her liking of sausage rolls in the Greggs store).
* Pony Fluttershy meeting Fluttershy #2 was a reference to "The Day of the Doctor", which involves a character meeting their past or future self. This meeting, with the episode's music, was meant to reenact the Eleventh Doctor's meeting with the Fourth Doctor (or "the Curator")
* MysteryLoop added this scene because he wanted to see what might happen if a canon character (pony Fluttershy) interacts with the world of the Parody Series. The only other occasion in the Parody Series when canon elements interact with its elements was at the episode "Prologue", which supposed depicted how the pony Mane Six became into the Equestria Girls. It was also one of his favorite scenes in this episode.
* Pony Fluttershy and the ponies were not destroyed: they continued to exist in the afterlife.
** This afterlife and its ponies (including Pony Fluttershy) were also another topic that MysteryLoop planned to explore in "Day of the Flutter 2".
** He also planned to include the magic mirror from "Equestria Girls" in his sequel (which he interpreted as a portal between the worlds of the dead and the living), and an event in which the ponies cross the mirror and interact with the world of the Parody Series.
** Furthermore, Pony Fluttershy was dead due to an event in the War of the Gods, while the Equestria Girls Fluttershy (and presumably all the other Equestria Girls characters) exists because the Gods exist.
** MysteryLoop also considered the voice actress for Pony Fluttershy to be "brilliant".
** Pony Fluttershy's clean-quality vector form contrasts against Fluttershy #2's blurred vector form.
* Pony Fluttershy's bobbing up and down (like Fluttershy #2 and all the other characters of the Parody Series) can be explained as being part of ZXInsanity's mind, where the characters are moving statues.
** Perhaps the afterlife scene is ZXInsanity's experiences in his mind, after the death of his Fluttershy #2 character.
* Fluttershy #2's hairclip, and its connection with the three butterflies on Fluttershy's cutie mark and being one of three hairclips used by her and the other two Fluttershys, were another reference to the Gods with the theme of "threes"
* Pony Fluttershy's "Turkbox" fanfic is an actual, poorly-written fanfic at Fanfiction.net that MysteryLoop and a friend of his wrote as a joke. Only one of its seven chapters has been uploaded.
* The scene with Fluttershy trying to recall her memories was influenced by science fiction, Sherlock Holmes' mind palace (in zooming and analyzing thoughts and ideas), and Phoenix Wright's investigations (in explanations)
* Now that Fluttershy #2 is starting to know more about herself and the true nature of her hairclip, ZXInsanity can be seen briefly with more contrasting and visible colors. He is still in Fluttershy's form and wearing her clothes because he has not fully manifested himself yet.
* The Gods' icons also appeared in previous videos (such as "Vengeance, Thy Name is Apples") to represent their characters. MysteryLoop added them to develop them into real characters for this episode, and to see how would they be like.
* The Gods met at a forest with the Triforce, as they knew that the stone seal on Hasbro is weakening. Not only the stone seal is always temporary (as Hasbro will eventually break free), but the Gods will also not be able to be present forever, so they held their meeting in a forest to find a way to stop Hasbro from causing more havoc unto Equestria.
* The Gods are indeed very powerful beings in Equestria: they can:
** see into the future,
** weave out their own stories to influence Equestria's events,
** control the lives of the characters.
* Fluttershy #2's masculine voice was caused by ZXInsanity preferring to keep his original voice. It may have also been inherited from her father, Morgan Freeman, who also has a deep and distinctive voice.
* After ZXInsanity turned into Fluttershy #2, and fell from the sky into an ocean, she swam to a beach to enter Fluttershy's mind, where she went to Canterlot High and warn the other Fluttershy about an ancient evil, triggering the paradox.
* The Gods were entering into the minds of the Mane Six in each of their three universes, disguising themselves as Fluttershy using the Triforce. They knew that Hasbro will also be coming into the minds of the Mane Six, and they will meet Hasbro in each of their universes as well.
** However as Fluttershys who know very little about what had happened earlier, the Gods were very confused about their meeting. All of them assumed that they are time travelers who warn their past selves of an ancient evil (which is Overlord Hasbro).
** All three of the Gods nonetheless were present in JakeWhyman's universe.
* When Fluttershy #2 revealed and realized her true identity, her piece of the Triforce (disguised as a butterfly hairclip) has activated and unleashed its full power.
* The flickering light on Fluttershy #2's hairclip was caused by a glitch in the Sony Vegas program used to create this episode.
** This episode was also created with Adobe After Effects.
* The scenes involving Fluttershy's transformation were also among MysteryLoop's favorite scenes.
** He was thinking about the song "The Ballad of the Goddess" since he begun creating this episode, and he enjoyed using it for the scenes involving Fluttershy's transformation, as it was fitting for their events.
* When the other characters were lying dead in the Everfree Forest, they were also turned into stone, so they appeared to have black and white colors. Fluttershy #2 was using her powers to free them, revive them, and wake them up. MysteryLoop also wanted to show every character in the Parody Series in these scenes.
* The characters flying up when Fluttershy #2 raises her arms were them being taken out of the Everfree Forest toher location.
* Another reference to "threes" and the Gods are the colors used by each of their members and their cutie marks:
** ZXInsanity's color is blue, and his cutie mark is a face.
** JakeWhyman's color is green, and his cutie mark is three apples (one of which has Nicolas Cage's face on it).
** Blarghalt's color is red, and his cutie mark is an OC pony. His Fluttershy wears an eyepatch bearing an image of a skull on a wreath.
* Some of the antagonists in the Parody Series — the Appuls, Sunset Shimmer (who were sent by Overlord Hasbro to stop the Mane Six), Chester the Cheetah, and the Original Characters — were among the Equestrians who stood alongside the Gods in the stalemate against Overlord Hasbro.
** Even though their characters were dead in Equestria, they were alive in the realm where the Gods confront Hasbro.
* The stalemate between Overlord Hasbro and the Equestrians was caused by this:
** Hasbro cannot turn his characters to attack the Gods because of their presence, and he cannot destroy the Gods (for now);
** and if the Gods destroy Hasbro, the characters will also be destroyed.
* MysteryLoop planned to include a scene involving the second war between the Gods and Overlord Hasbro, but he refused, because he considered that the episode's current 36-minute duration is enough.
** However, on February 25, 2018, he created a little video based on that abandoned concept to celebrate ZXInsanity's birthday, simply known as "Day of the Flutter 2".
* DXIndustriesInc mentioned as "Potato Peeler" was a reference to his then-upcoming "The Great Appul War" episodes.
== Commentary on "I am Adagio Dazzle" ==
MysteryLoop decided to add the ending of the episode "I am Adagio Dazzle" (created by ZXInsanity), as its scenes continue the events of the standoff between Overlord Hasbro and the Equestrians.
* The ending takes place directly after "Day of the Flutter", in which the Gods and Overlord Hasbro were still in their standoff, editing programs and videos in their computers. While Overlord Hasbro once again attempts to get into the minds of the Mane Six, the Gods try to stop him, such as by using his copyright strikes to defeat his plans.
== See also ==
* Day of the Butter
* Deleted content (for other examples)
* A Real Spooky Day (DIRECTOR'S CUT), second place for the longest episode (for now)
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