Legend Of The Falcon: Same Old Story

Cast Of Characters

(In order of appearance)

Endless Dream as Jonathan Ventus and the Falcon (Self-explanatory)
Cop Morty as Officer Mortimer Smith (Rick and Morty S3E7 "The Ricklantis Mixup")
Noella Bible as Police Dispatch ("Control" from Judge Dredd: Dredd Vs Death)
Kashif Akhter as the Convenience Store Proprietor 1
Burgerpants as the Convenience Store Part-Timer 1
Full Tilt as the Smart-Mouthed Spray Painter 2
Gassy as the Timid Spray Painter 2
Bootleg Portal Chemist Rick as Ricardo Sanchez (Rick and Morty S3E7 "The Ricklantis Mixup")
Roneo as Roneo Sanchez (named for Rick and Morty's relationship as grandfather/grandson)
Locria Tharlthane as Roneo Tharlthane (Shout-out to a friend of mine)
Locria Tharlthane's Ghirahim Fanboy Younger Brother as Roneo Patiño (He's really into Ghirahim)
Starlet as Pequeña Estrella ("Little Star" in Spanish)
Pianta Syndicate Thugs as the Primal Heart Bouncers (Big guys in suits meant to remove unruly guests)
Three Leaf as San-Ha Mitsuba (三葉 サン・ハ)
Luster Dawn as Luxia 3 Dawnes (Nwehehehehehehehehe! )
Glitz Pit Security as Gris Grande's Bodyguards (They're also in suits)
Grey Hoof as Pezuña Gris (Gris Grande) (In Spanish, "Gray Hoof" and "Big Gray" respectively)
Shining Armor as Captain Steven Armstrong (The initials, despite the Metal Gear Rising reference)
Reginald Whitmane as Himself (The MAN!!)
Mitta as Sergeant Danza 4
Ruby as the reason Danza is a cop 4
Prince Divine Right as the French Emissary (DUN DUN DUUUUUNNNN!!!)

1 I couldn't find any ponies that fit this role so I went with who I could find elsewhere.
2 Not my OCs, but are shown to identify with spray paint.
3 "Lucia" seemed the best fit, and "Lux" for "Light" was added on.
4 These two don't have a second name, not to mention their names work as human given names.

References

Mountain River - Mountain Dew. Food Lion variant is Mountain LION, so this variant also keeps "Mountain"

"Clocks stopping" incident - Batman: The Animated Series episode "Time Out Of Joint"

Gladstone's surname - "No more manure" came first, pun wrote itself.

Ivory Scrolls - Mayor of Ponyville in RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse.

"the Heights" - Children of the Red King series. Unpleasant people live there, according to Charlie Bone.

Rule 23 - From NCIS. "Never mess with a Marine's coffee if you want to live."

"Smoking gets you cancer" - A "fag" was once slang for a cigarette.

"You're happy enough" - "Gay" can mean "happy" as well.

Steven Armstrong - S.A. for Shining Armor, "strong" like Tara.

"Ricco Santoangelo" - Italian take on where "Sanchez" came from. Rookie Rick's predecessor was also a Rick.

Twila Strong - Humanized name for Sci-Twi, uses Tara Strong's surname as a nod to her.

Cosmo Stormking - Consequences by Shallow15 shows the EqG version of the movie villain.

Super Blah - The Demented Cartoon Movie. Go watch it, it's an experience.

"Do me a solid" & "Ramirez" - Final Fantasy VII Machinabridged by TeamFourStar.

"two-one-one" - Actual police code for a robbery in the state of California.

Platinum Avenue - Renamed "*belch* Avenue" based on Princess Platinum.

Salvación Desde La Viruela - "Salvation From The Virus"

(The title for "The Cutie Pox" was translated "La Viruela Cutie" in Spanish)
This is based on the fanon assumption that the ponies of Sunny Town thought Ruby's curse (actually just her Cutie Mark) was the Cutie Pox, instead of considering Cutie Marks in general a curse.

Al Hufra / The Pit - The Dark Knight Rises has this as the prison Bane was born in.

"Well that's just Prime." - Optimus Primal from Beast Wars: Transformers has this as a catch phrase.

Wolfram PP7 / DD44 Dostovei - James Bond video games, especially GoldenEye.

"The very words I live by." - GoldenEye the movie, Bond's reply to Xenia saying "enjoy it while it lasts"

Balkham Asylum - Reference to Batman's Arkham Asylum made by the Power Ponies comic.

Sulfuric acid as LSD - Needed a corrosive to kill off Ricardo. Figured exposure to fumes messed with his head.

"Then Let Me Be Evil" - TV Tropes reference.

Ronald Card - Lawyer-friendly reference to an anti-Mexican President whose given name ends in "-onald"

Bella Swan Syndrome - Reference to The Twilight Saga and Bella's belief that Edward can do no wrong.

Ventus' "shop" question - I first heard cops call their cars "shops" in The Rookie which is set in Los Angeles.

Canterlot, California - Seven Days in Sunny June has Canterlot City as its version of Redding, California.

"The Primal Heart" - Blueblood's brother Nobleheart's secret club Lunacy Is Expected by Caleb Serusa.

"Finding in the Alps" - The Big Lebowski had a line about "fucking in the ass" that was censored as this.

Sofia Lamb - Villainous psychiatrist from Bioshock 2.

David Wheeler - Villainous psychiatrist from Batman Beyond.

Sean Maguire - Benevolent psychiatrist from Good Will Hunting, played by Robin Williams.

Linda Martin - Benevolent psychiatrist from Lucifer.

Edward Roivas - Benevolent psychiatrist from Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem.

Kumiko Tamura and Victoria Drake - Psychiatrist and rich bitch from Logan Scodini's Dream Therapy series.

Victoria Drake's arrest - Ventus replaces the player in that game, but flips the script and gets Victoria arrested.

SWAT leader's failed suicide - Reference to S.W.A.T. Season 3, Episode 18, "Stigma" - aired on April 8, 2020.

San-Ha Mitsuba's war fan - She's Japanese, Code Lyoko's Yumi Ishiyama is Japanese, but Yumi's not evil.

Electron Screwdriver - Any version of Mugen Kagemaru has one, for reasons that are tl;dr

Prince Divine Right and his Canadian associates - From Seven Days in Sunny June by Shinzakura.

What Could Have Been

The Last Moments Of Pequeńa Estrella

Pequeña wasn't initially Roneo Sanchez's girlfriend, but that changed after a recent watch of a playthrough of Story Of The Blanks, which was confirmed by the page on the My Little Pony Fan Labor Wiki on FANDOM. Her death was originally going to be a straight redo of Psychopath Morty's deception, attack, and death at Rookie Rick's hand, but when I decided to make Pequeña a former patient of Ventus', the plan for her was then changed to have her commit suicide since she couldn't kill Ventus, but knew Gris Grande would have seen her dead if she didn't go through with it. But then as I wrote up how she stopped coming to sessions, I came to settle on her being in Mad Love with Roneo and this allowed the fight scene to be written back in, by having Pequeña once again attack Ventus, but for badmouthing Roneo, not because he's busting her crew.

In the first idea, I had it be that Ventus would kill Pequeña by putting her knife in her forehead instead of her wrist, but with the "former patient gone nuts" background, it would have been against Ventus' character to slay her in cold blood when he was trying to save her from herself, so it ended up going to Smith.

The reason Ventus would still have killed Pequeña, before he was finalized as wanting to save her from herself, when as the Falcon he tries to avoid taking a life, is that he wasn't in costume at the time, so it wouldn't have meant much if "Jonathan Ventus" took a life in self-defense, even if he showed off some impressive skills.

Flanks On The Brain

The "Flanksy [insert 'fake person' noun here]" schtick was initially going to pay off with Ventus telling Smith that he knew they weren't Flanksy because the real Flanksy is a patient, like ~~Sci-Twi~~ Twila, but refusing to reveal Flanksy as Sunset Shimmer due to "patient confidentiality" — even "Jonathan Ventus" has standards.

But ultimately, it didn't come to fruition, and so his knowing the real Flanksy is just implied by the fact that he knows Full Tilt nor Gassy are NOT Flanksy. I still maintain that Sunset sees Ventus for therapy.

But, In The End, The Story Refused To Finish

The whole story was supposed to be a one-shot, with Smith forced to bear Ventus' secret in silence from Balkham Asylum, and the story ending as he was driven away in cuffs, laughing mad as he figures out, from the clues Ventus accidentally missed when he wiped Smith's memory, as well as one clue the Falcon unwittingly left that he shouldn't, that Ventus is the Falcon. And this wouldn't have set up future events as Smith would be too unhinged to be taken seriously, and that would've been that.

Instead, I wound up imagining a scene not out of place in the likes of Spider-Man PS4, where Peter would receive a conveniently-timed phone call and from there the player got their next objective, in the form of Armstrong calling Ventus saying that Smith is demanding to see him after being taken into custody for killing Pezuña Gris, just so Smith could try to taunt Ventus into killing him by revealing he knows Ventus is the Falcon and threatening to spill the beans if Ventus doesn't kill him and prove there are no "heroes" in the real world.

In an expected twist, Smith finds out why you Do Not Taunt Cthulhu as Ventus just wipes Smith's memory again, getting it right this time, and just to be sure, tells Armstrong that Smith just babbled some nonsense and instructs him to cart Smith off to Balkham so he can't tell anyone if he somehow does work it out again.

Though originally, It was going to be that Ventus would use his magic to trigger a fatal aneurysm in Smith that he would have explained away when he told Armstrong about it, until I realized Ventus wouldn't need to kill him since even as "Jonathan Ventus" he has his Screwdriver with him at all times, and it'd be less messy to just memory wipe him correctly this time (since he's not in a hurry like earlier) and tell Armstrong he was nuts.