History Awesome / ABriefHistoryOfEquestria

* [[spoiler: After Hearth's Warming, Princess Platnium -- realizing that her court will never accept peace with the other tribes -- has them all killed.]] Even in-universe, this is considered a KickTheSonOfABitch moment.

* Clover's ''whole'' life. She was a girl born into a male-dominated society to [[AbusiveParents a father who saw her as a pawn to marry off to a rich stallion to produce grandchildren at best]] with barely average magical powers. What does Clover do? [[{{Determinator}} She forces her brothers' teachers to let her learn]], becomes Starswirl's apprentice on her wit alone and trains one of the three most powerful unicorns in history. [[NotSoDifferent Small wonder she and Hurricane fell in love.]]

* Platinum's ThanatosGambit, the final act in a lifetime of [[MagnificentBastard magnificence]] -- by killing herself, she not only ends the royal line, but causes all the royal family's money and holdings to default to the Equestrian government, keeping them out of the hooves of the nobility. This finally completes Platinum's long-term goal of breaking the nobility's back, eliminating their last chance of ever regaining their stranglehold on the common pony. Hell, at the very least, this ruined Count Pyrite's plan to force her to (or forge documents to make it look like she did) make Clover's adoption by the royal family official so that he could then make Clover's son the new PuppetKing (and knowing Platinum, she already knew all about this scheme).

* The Battle of the Corridor: Star Burst leads what's left of the Equestrian military in [[HoldTheLine holding the line]] against Talonhoof's horde in order to buy time for refugees to escape. One highlight is Star Burst, [[BadassGrandpa in his eighties]], personally fighting Talonhoof himself, who's thirty years younger than him, and nearly killing him ''twice''.

** Bonus points for what she says to get him to stand down.

--> Pansy: Because he [Trencher] is to me what [[TheLostLenore Mother]] was to you...

** Meanwhile, a Pegasus unit known as the Burning Timber Wolves uses lightning to do its own share of damage; this unit eventually evolved into the famous Wonderbolts.

** Crisp, the Republic force leader using [[AbnormalAmmo hardened pastries]] and bum rush tactics to confuse and curbstomp the Unicorn forces.

* Crisp, the Republic force leader using [[AbnormalAmmo hardened pastries]] and bum rush tactics to confuse and curbstomp the Unicorn forces. Meanwhile, a Pegasus unit known as the Burning Timber Wolves uses lightning to do its own share of damage; this unit eventually evolved into the famous Wonderbolts.

* Crisp, the Republic force leader using [[AbnormalAmmo hardened pastries]] and bum rush tactics to confuse and curbstomp the Unicorn forces. Meanwhile, a Pegasus unit uses lightning to do its own share of damage; this unit eventually became the Wonderbolts.

* Just about all of Commander Hurricane's Life qualifies. Think about it: he suffers greatly in his youth for being born the wrong gender in a strictly matriarchal society. So how does he deal with it ? By playing down his Stallionhood? All the contrary. He is basically what Testosterone would be like , if testosterone was a pony.

** The FinalBattle of the Celestine Civil War (Wind Whistler's coup against Sullamander), ended with a fight between Sullamander, Hurricane, and Pansy. While details about it are sparse (there was only one witness, who missed most of it, and Hurricane and Pansy never talked about it afterwards), we do now how it ended -- Pansy, while beaten, bloody and half-crippled, still managed to stab Sullamander ''twice'' with throwing daggers, and stared her down as she tried to kill her in retaliation. At which point Hurricane ran a sword through Sullamander from behind, finally killing her.

** The FinalBattle of the Celestine Civil War (Wind Whistler's coup against Sullamander), ended with a fight between Sullamander, Hurricane, and Pansy. While details about it are sparse (there was only one witness, who missed most of it, and Hurricane and Pansy never talked about it afterwards), we do now how it ended -- Pansy, while beaten, bloody and half-crippled, still managed to stab Sullamander ''twice'' with throwing daggers, and stared her down as she tried to kill her in retaliation. At which point Hurricane ran Sullamander threw from behind, finally killing her.

* Just about all of Commander Hurricane's Life qualifies. Think about it: he suffers greatly in his youth for being born the wrong gender in a strictly matriarchal society. So how does he deal with it ? By playing down his Stallionhood? All the contrary He is basically what Testosterone would be like , if testosterone was a pony.

* Just about all of Commander Hurricane's Life qualifies. Think about it: he suffers greatly in his youth for being born the wrong gender in a strictly matriarchal society. So how does he deal with it ? By playing down his Stallionhood? All the contrary]] He is basically what Testosterone would be like , if testosterone was a pony.

* Just about all of [[RatedMforManly:Commander Hurricane's Life]] qualifies. Think about it: he suffers greatly in his youth for being born the wrong gender in a strictly matriarchal society. So how does he deal with it ? By playing down his Stallionhood? [[UptoEleven: All the contrary]] He is basically what Testosterone would be like , if testosterone was a pony.

* When Commander Sullamander introduced a tyrannical new law forbidding sexual relations between stallions and mares, a new Chief of Staff named General Wind Whistler rallied the other Chiefs to her side. She then showed Sullamander a passage stating that she was a traitor to the Junta, and gave her thirty seconds to renounce her treason, or suffer a painful and humiliating death.