A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2

A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2
Season №:	2
Season episode №:	26
Overall episode №:	52
Original airdate:	April 21, 2012 (television) April 14, 2012 (screening)
Written by:	Meghan McCarthy
Storyboard:	Sabrina Alberghetti Raven Molisee Justin Nichols Tom Sales
Featured characters:	Princess Cadance Shining Armor Queen Chrysalis Changelings
Songs:	This Day Aria, Part 1 This Day Aria, Part 2 Love Is In Bloom
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credits • transcript • gallery • allusions animation errors • statistics • speculation
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A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2 is the twenty-sixth episode of the second season of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic and the fifty-second episode overall. It is the second episode in a two-part season finale.

After being imprisoned by an impostor, Twilight Sparkle finds the real Princess Cadance and sets out to stop the changelings from taking over Equestria.

Summary

Trapped

Twilight Sparkle finds herself alone in a dark cavern and uses her horn to provide light. On the crystalline walls around her, a reflection of Princess Cadance taunts Twilight and reveals that she has been imprisoned in the caves beneath Canterlot to prevent her from interfering with plans for Shining Armor. Enraged at the implied threat to her brother, Twilight begins firing bolts of magic at the reflections, which continue tormenting her until one of the walls breaks open to reveal a scratched and disheveled Princess Cadance sitting behind it.

Twilight finds the real Princess Cadance in the underground caves.

Twilight tackles the princess, who appears surprised to see her and claims that she has been imprisoned in the caves by an impersonator. Though initially skeptical, Twilight becomes convinced when the figure before her recites the nursery rhyme that she and Cadance shared in her youth, and the two happily embrace.

In a song, Cadance's impostor gloats about her plan to use Shining Armor while Twilight and the real Cadance search for a way out of the cave. They spot light from the surface as they pass just beneath the wedding hall, only for the three missing bridesmaids to show up in an apparent trance and close in on the pair.

Chrysalis reveals herself

The impostor's true form: Queen of the Changelings!

In the wedding hall, Princess Celestia is about to pronounce the impostor and a fully entranced Shining Armor husband and wife when Twilight and Cadance burst through the door. After they mention distracting the three bridesmaids with a flower bouquet, Cadance declares that her impostor is a changeling that feeds off of love and can change shape at will. The attendees look on in horror as the fake Cadance transmogrifies into her true form as Queen Chrysalis and reveals her plan to weaken Shining Armor's protective spell over the city so that her minions can break through and take over. As she speaks, a horde of changelings batters away at the magic barrier outside.

Princess Celestia, having let Chrysalis reveal her plan, steps in to stop her from enacting it. The two struggle to overpower each other with beams of magic from their horns, though having recently consumed so much of Shining Armor's love for Cadance, Chrysalis manages to win the duel. Lying incapacitated on the floor of the wedding hall, Celestia instructs the Mane Six gathered around her to retrieve the nearby Elements of Harmony and use their power to defeat the queen.

Begun, the Clone War has.

While Twilight and her friends race toward Canterlot Tower where the Elements are held, the changelings finally shatter the city's protective barrier and begin descending en masse from the sky. The ponies soon find themselves blocked off from the tower by a group of changelings, who transform themselves to look like each of the Mane Six as they close in on them. A melee ensues wherein the ponies manage to defeat the changelings by various whimsical means, though upon reaching the doors of Canterlot Tower, they find the interior brimming with changelings. Exhausted and vastly outnumbered, the ponies capitulate.

The power of love

In the wedding hall, Princess Celestia wakes up imprisoned in a cocoon while Cadance stands next to an entranced Shining Armor with her hooves sealed to the floor. Queen Chrysalis gloats when her changelings escort the Mane Six into the hall and sings as she admires the havoc being wreaked outside. Taking advantage of the distraction, Twilight sneaks over to free Cadance, who embraces Shining Armor and breaks his trance with a love spell.

Who needs the Elements when true love is at your disposal?

Suddenly aware that the city is under attack, Shining tries to cast another protective barrier spell but finds himself too weak to do so. Chrysalis scoffs when Cadance claims her love will give him strength, though as the bride and groom's horns connect, a purple aura begins to shine around them and lift them into the air. A burst of light flashes from their horns, catching Chrysalis' attention just as she gets ejected from the hall by a magic sphere that expands rapidly across the city. The magic launches the changelings far off into the horizon and dissolves the cocoon that imprisoned Princess Celestia, who assures the group of her recovery and advises that they proceed with the wedding.

Love is in bloom

The royal wedding celebration.

Princess Cadance enthusiastically joins Twilight Sparkle in supervising a fresh round of wedding preparations. The ceremony proceeds as planned, and while Cadance and Shining Armor wave to a cheering crowd on the castle balcony, Princess Celestia commends Twilight for her bravery and emphasizes the value of trusting your instincts. Rainbow Dash performs a sonic rainboom as the couple kiss, and when evening arrives, Pinkie Pie puts on dance music for the reception while Twilight sings a song celebrating the marriage.

Quotes

For more quotes, see the episode's transcript.

Twilight Sparkle: You remember me!

Princess Cadance: Of course I do. How could I forget the filly I loved to sit for the most?

Applejack: I-I don't understand. How can there be two of 'em?

Princess Cadance: She's a changeling. She takes the form of somepony you love and gains power by feeding off your love for them.

Queen Chrysalis: Ah! Shining Armor's love for you is even stronger than I thought! Consuming it has made me even more powerful than Celestia!

Queen Chrysalis: It's funny, really. Twilight here was suspicious of my behavior all along. Too bad the rest of you were too caught up in your wedding planning to realize those suspicions were correct!

Applejack: Sorry, Twi. We should have listened to you.

Twilight: It's not your fault. She fooled everypony!

Queen Chrysalis: I did, didn't I?

Shining Armor: My power is useless now. I don't have the strength to repel them.

Princess Cadance: My love will give you strength.

Queen Chrysalis: What a lovely but absolutely ridiculous sentiment.

Twilight Sparkle: Seriously, though. I get why the Queen of the Changelings wanted to be with you, but how did you get someone as amazing as Cadance to marry you?

Shining Armor: I told her she wouldn't just be gaining a husband, she'd be getting a pretty great sister too.

Twilight Sparkle: Now this was a great wedding.

Spike: Oh yeah? Just wait until you see what I have planned for the bachelor party!

Gallery

A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2 image gallery

References

v • e Episodes, films, and animated shorts

Make Your Mark
Episode 1 Izzy Does It	Episode 2 Growing Pains	Episode 3 Portrait of a Princess	Episode 4 Ali-Conned
Episode 5 The Cutie Mark Mix-Up	Episode 6 The Traditional Unicorn Sleep-Over	Episode 7 Hoof Done It?	Episode 8 Have You Seen This Dragon?
Episode 9 Top Remodel	Episode 10 The Jinxie Games	Episode 11 Sunny Side Up	Episode 12 The Manesquerade Ball
Episode 13 A Little Horse	Episode 14 Missing the Mark	Episode 15 Cutie Blossom Bash	Episode 16 Family Trees Pt. 1
Episode 17 Family Trees Pt. 2	Episode 18 Father of the Bridlewood	Episode 19 Mane Smelody	Episode 20 Nightmare on Mane Street
Episode 21 The Isle of Scaly‎‎	Episode 22 Roots of All Evil Pt. 1‎	Episode 23 Roots of All Evil Pt. 2