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From the commissioner:



This comic is a parody of a scene from a comedic 90's superhero cartoon called "The Tick" about a city full of incompetent super heroes with endless parodies of old superhero cartoons and characters littered throughout the episodes. The main character, The Tick, is the strongest yet most incompetent hero in the city, and always has his shy, meek, pudgy sidekick Arthur along for the ride. There is a particular episode where they fight a villain that is 100% a parody of classic Bane from Batman named Baron Violence. Here is the episode, i recommend watching from the start for full context (You'll likely get a good laugh too), but the scene the commission is based on starts at 10:19:


www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYZ2KC…

I felt that Arthur's hesitant and meek personality matched up pretty well with Fluttershy, and felt if this scenario were to play out with the mane six, she'd be the one involved. So how would this play out Anthro-ponified?

BRIEF PHONED-IN EXPOSITION:

Fluttershy is down on herself. Recently she and her friends have had to engage in more physical altercations to protect Equestria and every time she feels like she can't help. Applejack is big and strong (We're going by Matchstickman's bodybuilder version of her here), Rainbow Dash is athletic and swift (and no slouch herself with strength), Twilight has powerful magic, Pinkie helps in her own way, and... well Rarity doesn't help either, but that's beside the point. Fighting and strength are just not her strong suit and she feels helpless and useless whenever such a situation come along.

Cue another day in Ponyville, weird things always happen in Ponyville and today some massive Minotaur showed up and is harassing ponies in town. Fluttershy is out with AJ and Dash, when they turn the corner and see the hysterically large and over-pumped minotaur bothering a shop owner. AJ and Dash quickly move to tell him off despite him being easily twice their size and looming over them, not to mention wide enough to cast a shadow over both at the same time. He laughs at them and tells them to buzz off. And of course Dash had to try and kick him, instantly starting a fight, but it turns out his comically large muscles are not for show, and within seconds he's twirling Dash in the air by a leg while pressing down over AJ with one hand, her own strength proving no match for his.

Fluttershy is nearby and panicking. She wants to help, but how? The thought of feeling weak and useless still fresh in her mind, she shuffles over behind the Minotaur and tries to grab him around the waist while calling him a 'big meanie'. He starts to shuffle around, looking down and around to see what had grabbed him. Fluttershy squeaks as she's tugged around, quickly clamping down and looking for something to hold onto, grabbing the belt he was wearing with one hand and reaching the other around. The other hand hits something on the belt as she reaches, the sound of several clicks followed by rumbling and a squeaky hiss like noise. She blinks and looks up to see the minotaur shrinking, his towering height receding until he was the same height as her and all his muscles vanishing at the same time until he was a skinny rail, much like her. She stumbles back away from him, but the belt stayed with her, snapping off the minotaur's waist as she held onto it.

Fluttershy stares at the shrunk down Minotaur in front of her, utterly confused as he frantically yelps and looks around and at himself. Shy looks down at the belt in her hands, and turns it over to see the dial with numbers on it. She starts looking back and forth between the belt and the minotaur several times until she put two and two together. The belt was what made him big and strong?

The Minotaur sees her and demands she give him the belt back, but before he can get near her. Applejack comes in like a bat out of hell and kicks him so hard that he blasts off again. With him taken care of, AJ and Dash convene and ask each other if they saw what the hell happened, but when they look to ask Fluttershy...

Where did Fluttershy go?

Cue comic scene. Fluttershy's desire to be stronger and more helpful leads her to try on a random muscle device she pulled off some random meanie in town. This will totally end well... but at least we can enjoy the show!

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wolfimusX [2025-06-26 23:42:54 +0000 UTC]

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Mrsupreme1 [2025-06-08 00:08:21 +0000 UTC]

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StevensonAIDAN72 [2025-01-27 22:12:44 +0000 UTC]

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Redyoshi1992 [2023-06-16 14:09:43 +0000 UTC]

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Enterprise-1701-A [2022-03-03 17:28:42 +0000 UTC]

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lokkLan [2021-11-25 21:08:28 +0000 UTC]

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flashgunner In reply to lokkLan [2021-11-28 19:26:38 +0000 UTC]

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Openuser [2021-05-18 07:10:03 +0000 UTC]

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BigHImiko [2021-05-01 20:06:22 +0000 UTC]

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X-distroyer [2020-04-15 18:30:07 +0000 UTC]

Whoa. Heh Muscleshy indeed.

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lokkLan [2020-03-15 06:55:05 +0000 UTC]

I hope she gradually turns it up and becomes corrupted and power-crazy like in the cartoon.Β 

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flashgunner In reply to lokkLan [2020-03-16 13:58:54 +0000 UTC]

That's more or less the extended idea i have for this, something along the lines of her turning it down one notch when her friends show up in order to put on something that hides her muscles, but while shes out and about the temptation becomes too hard for her to resist and she starts ticking it up a little while they're walking around town including sneaking off to help other ponies with feats of strength like lifting boxes or moving a heavy cart. Eventually she accidentally turns it up to the point where her muscles are clearly visible beneath her clothes (so close to the 2) and Rainbow dash notices, but expresses awe instead of skepticism as if Fluttershy was simply hiding it from them, but as Dash is more or less lifting fluttershy's clothes to look, AJ notices the belt the Minotaur (mentioned in the description) was wearing and from there it basically becomes the cartoon, AJ demanding she hand it over, flutterhsy refusing, a bit of a scuffle ensuing and fluttershy begins turning the belt up more and more to fight back the more resistance she gets from her friends, eventually turning it up so high that she's the size of the minotaur they confronted. eventually twilight arrives and manages to use her magic to both turn off the belt and remove it from Fluttershy, she shrinks back down, comes back to her senses, and becomes an apologetic mess. They all forgive her and AJ says something along the lines of, if you wanted to become stronger you could've asked us for help etc.Β 

But then the belt suddenly vanishes, and oops, Dash is gone too. final panel shows Dash back at her house with the belt on turning it up while flexing in the mirror as sort of a comedic "And nothing was learned today" ending.

Maybe in the future i'll look into getting more from Match, but this did take a while to do so i may hold off for a while for other things on my mind when he takes commissions again.

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Nebula250 [2020-02-04 16:03:42 +0000 UTC]

Love the way she's built.

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Roughsolider [2019-11-17 17:56:28 +0000 UTC]

I hate the face or if she has at turn on 8

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rds98 [2019-09-30 11:12:47 +0000 UTC]

Man, this looks cool.

I wish we had something like that in real life.Β 

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Gokufan100 [2019-09-08 17:05:49 +0000 UTC]

Is there going to be one where she cranks it up even more? If so I’m siked

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flashgunner In reply to Gokufan100 [2019-09-09 13:38:32 +0000 UTC]

Maybe, i've thought about adding to this comic the next time Match does commissions, though not sure if i'm going to continue it or have him draw the scene that happens before it first. We'll see what im feeling when the time comes.

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Gokufan100 In reply to flashgunner [2019-09-09 19:52:50 +0000 UTC]

Can’t wait!!

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pokemonkid22 [2019-09-05 01:21:12 +0000 UTC]

I wonder what Fluttershy looks from 3 to 8.

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The-Rebel-Angel [2019-08-02 05:36:26 +0000 UTC]

Rainbow Dash: I never thought I'd be saying this to YOU, but... SPOOOOOOOON!!!!

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Justo4810 [2019-07-30 23:13:09 +0000 UTC]

I hope for a continuation to see her get hulk big

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Krysnha [2019-07-30 08:17:03 +0000 UTC]

sexy

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BlankmanV3 [2019-07-29 15:23:26 +0000 UTC]

That's about the perfect amount of muscle. Nice!

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redsaber2020 [2019-07-29 14:57:02 +0000 UTC]

I would so love to see what she looks like after dialing it all the way to 8.

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DemonBunnyPix In reply to redsaber2020 [2019-07-30 01:04:00 +0000 UTC]

Same

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Jose-Ramiro [2019-07-29 04:03:09 +0000 UTC]

Oh, yeah, I remember that Tick episode.

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Kira8242 [2019-07-29 03:45:58 +0000 UTC]

Nice write in.Β  The drawings are great, too, but a background story just makes it extra nice.

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BuRnEr-JuIcE [2019-07-29 03:05:40 +0000 UTC]

Wow great as always matchstickman

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rednec0 [2019-07-29 00:47:39 +0000 UTC]

Gonna have to pencil in a 9, 10 and 11 in there later

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Eddyzim1234 In reply to rednec0 [2019-07-29 00:54:57 +0000 UTC]

I second this!

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TheBoxer21 [2019-07-28 22:16:49 +0000 UTC]

I used to love the tick back in the day. Great job on the artwork.

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Mud--Man [2019-07-28 19:57:21 +0000 UTC]

only at 2 and already looking this good, great to see

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Spoogleboy [2019-07-28 17:09:15 +0000 UTC]

Would love to see her keep turning the dial!

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Saberwolfsaren [2019-07-28 16:43:00 +0000 UTC]

be cool to see a story about this

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flashgunner In reply to Saberwolfsaren [2019-07-28 16:51:28 +0000 UTC]

i did have something in mind aside from the context provided for what happens next. I could get another page or two from commissions in the future, but for now i just really wanted this scene. Been looking for an artist who could do it forever and Match's style fit it perfectly.

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DepravedDefense [2019-07-28 16:40:44 +0000 UTC]

Always a hot scenario. I actually got flashbacks toΒ this story Β here.

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flashgunner In reply to DepravedDefense [2019-07-28 16:53:43 +0000 UTC]

I've wanted to get something like this from an artist for years. Loved that cartoon as a kid and it baffled me that i literally never see any muscle growth art use the concept.

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The-Rebel-Angel [2019-07-28 16:36:14 +0000 UTC]

Will there be a continuation?

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flashgunner In reply to The-Rebel-Angel [2019-07-28 16:49:43 +0000 UTC]

Maybe, i thought about possibly getting the scene before this done and a scene or two after in the future, but it depends on what i want next time Match does commissions.Β 

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Rivera92 [2019-07-28 16:13:30 +0000 UTC]

Pretty Cool!!!!!


Fluttershy goes from being shy to having a lot of confidence, I wonder if she will raise the level.


This comic deserves sequel

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WickedWizz [2019-07-28 16:03:24 +0000 UTC]

Dang, time to get a pen out and add a few more numbers

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AranRyan126 [2019-07-28 16:02:13 +0000 UTC]

very good story and drawing i wait to se more

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fudgebrown1es [2019-07-28 16:01:59 +0000 UTC]

very good muscle definition, it needs a sequel

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flashgunner [2019-07-28 16:00:03 +0000 UTC]

It turned out amazing! Thanks so much!

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Enderjack2000 [2019-07-28 15:54:01 +0000 UTC]

Go to 8

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