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== Trivia ==
=== Pet Sounds ===
* The story takes its title from the Beach Boys' 1966 album of the same name.
* This story picks up right after the events of "Transformation Is Magic"—that story had Soundwave and the other Decepticons arrive in Equestria via space bridge and crash-land all over Equestria.
* Discord debuted in the ''Friendship Is Magic'' cartoon as a straight-up villain who sought to plunge all of Equestria into eternal chaos. Although Twilight Sparkle and her friends sealed him away at the end of the "The Return of Harmony" two-parter, he returned in the third-season episode "Keep Calm and Flutter On"; there, Fluttershy took it upon herself to befriend Discord, and eventually convinced him to change his evil ways. Over the rest of the show's run, he gradually mellowed into a kinder, though still mischievous, character.
* Fluttershy and Discord's tradition of holding tea parties together played a role in the ''Friendship Is Magic'' episode "Discordant Harmony". This episode also featured Discord's personal "chaos dimension" that he mentions in his story to Fluttershy on page one.
* While under interrogation, Fluttershy tells Frenzy the story of what is, presumably, the series premiere, which saw Twilight Sparkle and her new friends receive the magical Elements of Harmony after using them to defeat Nightmare Moon.
* Much like his appearance in the recent ''Transformers vs. The Terminator'' miniseries and the concurrently released ''Transformers/Back to the Future'' crossover, Soundwave's dialogue uses the blue, "electronic" speech bubbles that debuted in the 2019 IDW continuity.
* Soundwave's order to Discord (quoted above) is a riff of one of his lesser known quotes from "Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2", in which he orders a group of enslaved humans to "increase efficiency, or be terminated."
* Soundwave admits that "friendship... superior" in reference to his famous line from ''The Transformers: The Movie'': "Soundwave superior, Constructicons inferior."
=== The Flyin' Fox Trot ===
* Although she doesn't create one in the comic itself, Rainbow Dash alludes to her powerful "Sonic Rainboom" maneuver in her first conversation with Windblade.
* Misfire's accompanied by the Rainmakers; originally a trio of generic Seekers from the ''The Transformers'' episode "Divide and Conquer", Acid Storm found fame when he received a toy in 2008; Ion Storm and Nova Storm received names in 2015's "Ask Vector Prime" column, and all three have recently returned as a cohesive unit over in IDW Publishing's ongoing ''Transformers'' comic.
* Misfire himself is wielding a twin-barreled gun based on his traditional Targetmaster partner Aimless, although we're not putting that down as an appearance because there's nothing to suggest Misfire's gun is alive here.
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