History Characters / WakingNightmares

%%* AnythingThatMoves: [[spoiler: During the fifty years she spent drunk.]]

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Nightmare Gardener]]. Sure she helped a ChildEater kidnap foals, but damn her fate was pretty gruesome.
* EatenAlive: [[spoiler: The grisly fate of Nightmare Gardener. Having her body consist of a mass of extremely poisonous flowers was a good idea - less so when changelings are immune to it and consider it to be delicious candy.]]
%%* GreenThumb: As [[spoiler: Nightmare Gardener]]
%%* INeedAFreakingDrink: After talking with BLU Soldier.
* PlantPerson: [[spoiler: Nightmare Gardener has vine and petaled wings]].
* TookALevelInBadass: After [[spoiler:being host of a Nightmare]], Cheerilee has her Earth pony magic significantly enhanced, being capable of making entire trees grow in an instant.

[[folder: Grey Hoof (aka [[spoiler: Nightmare Grave]] ]]

* BodyHorror: Grey Hoof's ''very'' disturbing TransformationSequence. [[spoiler: his skeleton, and only his skeleton, grow to the size of an alicorn. He also grows bone wings and a horn. As expected, this tears his flesh apart.]]
* BoredWithInsanity: Grey Hoof and his buddies were insane for part of the time they spent as [[spoiler: cursed zombies in Sunnytown]]. Eventually, they got better.
* DealWithTheDevil: Grey Hoof does this with Masky Pegasus to gain freedom for him and his friends [[spoiler: after Celestia cursed Sunnytown to live as zombies as punishment for their actions]]. However, once his friends learn the price for their freedom, they immediately HeelFaceTurn and abandon Grey Hoof out of disgust.

* LaserGuidedKarma: He tried to shift the Zompony Curse onto all of Ponyville in exchange for his and his friends freedom. Not only do his friends betray him out of disgust, he gets his flank handed to him by AppleDemo and then gets the curse returned to him, followed by Celestia sending him to live out all of eternity in isolation with no hope of escape or even the mercy of going insane.

* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler: Nightmare Grave]].

* AndIMustScream: His ultimate punishment: [[spoiler: Celestia imprisons him in the ruins of Sunnytown, and places a [[Anime/CodeGeass geass]] on the village to turn away forms of life from Sunnytown's former location, as Sunnytown has also shifted dimensions so that he can't be seen by anyone else. And to add insult to injury, Celesita's spell also prevents Grey Hoof from going insane.]] [[BewareTheNiceOnes Proof that you should ]] ''[[GoodIsNotNice never]]'' [[GoodIsNotSoft piss Celestia off.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist:

* GoMadeFromTheIsolation: Horribly '''HORRIBLY''' Averted. While he is forever isolated in the ruins of Sunnytown with nobody to see, hear, or feel him, Celestia also placed a spell to prevent him from going insane, meaning he can't even escape into madness from the loneliness.

--> [[spoiler: Grey Hoof]]: "So what if it cost Ponyville their souls? After so long, didn't their freedom matter? Wasn't it the ONLY thing that mattered?"

* Body Horror: Grey Hoof's ''very'' disturbing TransformationSequence. [[spoiler: is skeleton, and only his skeleton, grow to the size of an alicorn. He also grows bone wings and a horn. As expected, this tears his flesh apart.]]

%%* ItsAllAboutMe
%%* LaughingMad: As part of his VillainousBreakdown.
%%* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler: Nightmare Grave]].

* OffScreenTeleportation: As [[Machinima/{{PainisCupcake}} Painis Cupcake]].

* BodySwap: Twilight knows a spell to do this. She's very reluctant to cast it, though, as it can go wrong in a number of ways.
* [[spoiler: BrainwashedAndCrazy]]: During the "Nothing Can Stop It" arc, courtesy of the Masky ponies.

* CatapultNightmare

[[folder: Spike]]
* [[spoiler: BrainwashedAndCrazy]]: During the "Nothing Can Stop It" arc, courtesy of the Masky ponies.
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* EvilMeScaresMe: The alternate version of Pinkie from [[spoiler:''Fanfic/CupcakesSergeantSprinkles'']].
* [[spoiler: FusionDance]]: Again, [[spoiler: with BLU Scout.]]
* FourthWallObserver: And apparently she's rubbing off on BLU Scout.
* GenkiGirl: Well, it wouldn't be '''''Pinkie Pie''''' without this.
* HyperspaceArsenal: One of Pinkie's abilities. And she's teaching BLU Scout how to do it.

* BurningWithAnger: Dash does a variation with lightning after learning Scout got fired from his weather factory job on his first day. Good thing Pinkie Pie was there to calm her down.
* [[CampStraight Butch Straight]]
* EyeScream: She got hit in the eyes by [[spoiler: the Smooze]] and stays like that for several chapters.
* [[spoiler: FusionDance]]: [[spoiler: With BLU Sniper.]]

* PrecisionFStrike: Rainbow Dash has one during her nightmare.

* SuperSenses: BLU Sniper teaches Dash how to do this to counter her blindness.

* [[spoiler: FusionDance]]: [[spoiler: With BLU Demoman. This makes BLU Scout provide his own, rather perverted theory on the trope. Naturally, they weren't very pleased with him.]]
* INeedAFreakingDrink: A side effect of the [[spoiler: FusionDance with BLU Demoman.]]

* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Magnum and Marsha.

* AndIMustScream: When [[spoiler: Rarity]] is brainwashed by Nightmare [[spoiler: Cuddles]], he leaves enough of her intact that she knows what she's doing and can't stop it.

* [[spoiler: BrainwashedAndCrazy]]: During the "Nothing Can Stop It" arc, courtesy of the Masky ponies.
* [[spoiler: FusionDance]]: [[spoiler: With BLU Heavy.]]
* MoralityPet: To Discord.

--> '''Trixie''': "You literally cannot swing a cat anywhere in Equestria without an apple catching the cat and telling you to stop hurting the poor thing."

* [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections Screw The Rules, My Friends Have Connections!]]: Trixie invokes this trope on the Flim Flam brothers to save Sweet Apple Acres. ''And it is awesome.''

* [[spoiler: FusionDance]]: Again, [[spoiler: with the BLU Spy.]]
* OfficialCouple:[[spoiler: With the BLU Spy.]]
* RhymesOnADime: Generally speaks like this.
* YouAreACreditToYourRace: Zecora gets greeted with this by Rarity's parents.

* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler: With BLU Soldier]]

* AnythingThatMoves: [[spoiler: During the fifty years she spent drunk.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Celestia goes '''''COMPLETELY APESHIT''''' when she discovers [[spoiler: Grey Hoof turned everypony in Ponyville into zombies]], and [[spoiler: curses him to an AndIMustScream fate.]]

* [[BigBrotherInstinct Big Sister Instinct]]: Towards Luna, which fuels her quest to stop [[spoiler: Slendermane.]]

** Earlier, she also does this after learning [[spoiler: Sunnytown murders anyone who has a Cutie Mark, foals included]].
* DrowningMySorrows: [[spoiler: Celestia did this for fifty years out of guilt for what she did to Luna, and because of that she approved of laws she shouldn't have. She is currently trying to get rid of said laws.]]

* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler: Celestia]], post-SanitySlippage. She becomes very willing to kill someone on suspicion of them being Slendermane.

* [[spoiler: SanitySlippage]]: Over the course of the story.

* [[ZombieApocalypse Zompony Apocalypse]]: [[spoiler: Celestia creates a localized one in [[VideoGame/StoryOfTheBlanks Sunnytown]] after seeing the horrors within.]]

* DemonicPossession: By [[spoiler: King Sombra]], no less.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: As [[spoiler: Queen Sombra]].
* [[spoiler: MindRape]]: As [[spoiler: Queen Sombra]], Cadence does this to [[spoiler: BLU Scout, BLU Heavy, BLU Demoman, and BLU Engineer, making them relive their worst moments while in their fused forms.]]

[[folder: Prince Blueblood [[spoiler: aka 'Cadet']]]]

* JerkAss: The same as ever.
* PrinceCharmless
* TooDumbToLive: Fell for BLU Scout's ExactWords, leading to the GroinAttack above.
** He kept trying to get cake banned from Equestria. Princess Celestia ADORES cake.

!!!Everypony Else

[[folder: Vinyl Scratch]]
* LightEmUp: One of her powers as [[spoiler: Nightmare Dubstep]]
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[[folder: Octavia]]
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* [[spoiler: EatenAlive:]] [[spoiler: The grisly fate of Nightmare Gardener. Having her body consist of a mass of extremely poisonous flowers was a good idea - less so when changelings are immune to it and consider it to be delicious candy.]]
* GreenThumb: As [[spoiler: Nightmare Gardener]]
* INeedAFreakingDrink: After talking with BLU Soldier.
* [[PlantPerson Plant Pony]]: [[spoiler: Nightmare Gardener, whom has vine and petaled wings]].
* TookALevelInBadass: After being host of a Nightmare, [[spoiler: Cheerilee]] has her Earth pony magic significantly enhanced, being capable of making entire trees grow in an instant.

[[folder: Spitfire]]
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[[folder: Lyra Heartstrings]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Thanks to [[spoiler: Nightmare Doctor]].
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[[folder: Bon Bon]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Thanks to [[spoiler: Nightmare Doctor]].
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* GoodIsNotNice: [[spoiler: After her HeelFaceTurn]].

* MakeMeWannaShout: All the changelings, including Queen Chrysalis, can do this.

* PsychicLink: With the changelings.

* VillainousRescue: [[spoiler: Queen Chrysalis shows up in time to defeat Sergeant Crits and Major Bomber.]] She's partially [[HeelFaceTurn HeelFaceTurned]] at this point, but the truce is still uneasy enough to count as this.
--> [[spoiler: '''Queen Chrysalis''']]: "This town is under my protection. So swears [[spoiler: QUEEN CHRYSALIS, mistress of the Changeling Swarm!]]"

* [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Discord Has Standards]]: Discord, ''the embodiment of chaos and discord'', would rather become a Bastion of Order than let Slenderman/Slendermane have his way.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: Discord's response to hurting Fluttershy.]]

* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler: About a year after 'Keep Calm and Flutter On', Discord relapsed and tried to take out Celestia, hurting Fluttershy in the process. Once he realized what he had done, he surrendered and willing went back into his can.]]

* FourthWallObserver: As the result of hanging around Pinkie Pie.
* [[spoiler: FusionDance]]: Again, [[spoiler: with Pinkie Pie.]]
* TheHeart: Scout sees himself and Pinkie Pie as this to the BLU team and the Mane 6.

* LaughingMad: After his first kill (See Dark and Troubled Past).
* OfficialCouple:[[spoiler:With Pinkie Pie.]]
* StepfordSmiler: Has shades of this.
* ThisExplainsSoMuch: Scout says this when he finds out that [[spoiler: Pyro's a girl]].

* DrillSergeantNasty: [[spoiler: To Blueblood.]]
* [[spoiler: DrivenToMadness]]: [[spoiler: He took the deaths of his family '''''HARD'''''.]]
* ForcefulKiss: Did this to Derpy as [[spoiler: Painis Cupcake.]] Derpy rather liked it, however.
* [[spoiler: FusionDance]]: [[spoiler: With Derpy Hooves.]]

* LeeroyJenkins: Soldier, especially when the teams were just getting started.

* PartingWordsRegret: [[spoiler: Soldier/Solomon got into a fight with his brother, Lucas, who wanted to enlist in WWII. The fight makes his newborn daughters cry and he leaves on an errand, only for the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor to begin. His brother and entire family was killed when a shot-down plane crashes into his house.]]

* OfficialCouple: Again, [[spoiler: with Derpy Hooves.]]
* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: Soldier has one of these [[spoiler: after being struck by Queen Sombra while fused with Derpy]].

* [[spoiler: BrokenBird]]: [[spoiler: Underneath her CloudCuckooLander tendencies]].
* CloudCuckooLander

* [[spoiler: FacialHorror]]: [[spoiler: Pyro's human form]]
* {{Geisha}}: Again, [[spoiler: Pyro's mother]], but an uglier version of one.

--> '''Scout''': "Oh my God..."
--> '''Soldier''': "Oh geez... That ain't right. Even for HER that ain't right."
--> '''Engineer''': "Pyro... darlin'... yer scarin' the locals..."

* [[spoiler: KillItWithFire]]: [[spoiler: How she murdered her mother in the human world.]]

* PlayingWithFire
* PyroManiac: Becomes more noticable now that she's capable of speech.
* OfficialCouple: With Engineer.
* [[spoiler: SamusIsAGirl]]
* [[spoiler: SplitPersonalityTakeover: Her original personality, due to the abuse she suffered as a child, has been completely overwhelmed by the Pyro persona. It's implied that this was done willingly.]]

* [[spoiler: FusionDance]]: [[spoiler: With Applejack. This makes BLU Scout provide his own theory on the trope. Naturally, they aren't pleased with him.]]

* OfficialCouple: With Berry Punch.

* ChildSoldier: Heavy's sparrow story in ''VideoGame/PokerNightAtTheInventory'' is made canon.
* TheBigGuy: Type V. He's bigger than Big Macintosh.

* [[spoiler: FusionDance]]: [[spoiler: With Fluttershy.]]
* GroinAttack: Heavy became a victim of this on Sweet Apple Acres on accident.
* HypnoticEyes: Heavy's power as [[spoiler: Nightmare Cuddles/Juggernaut]]

* MindRape: Heavy's ability as [[spoiler: Nightmare Cuddles]]. His repertoire ranges from just making you happy and lazy, to removing your memories and adding subconscious orders, to trapping you in a delusion ''while a small part of you in unaffected and forced to watch.''
* OneWingedAngel: As [[spoiler: Nightmare Juggernaut]]
* StraightGay

* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: Heavy has one of these [[spoiler: after being struck by Queen Sombra while fused with Fluttershy]].

* [[spoiler: FusionDance]]: [[spoiler: With Rarity.]]
* [[spoiler: GoMadFromTheIsolation]]

* NoSell: As [[spoiler: Nightmare Clockwork]], Engineer does this to Twilight's shield (that's withstood multiple powerful explosions) with a single blow.
* OfficialCouple: With Pyro.
* SteamPunk: [[spoiler: Nightmare Clockwork]]

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: While possessed as Christian Brutal Sniper.]]
* ConsummateProfessional: Played seriously (The original game plays it more like a joke, however). Sniper's dedication is enough to shrug off mind control.
* [[spoiler: FusionDance]]: [[spoiler: With Rainbow Dash.]]
* INeedAFreakingDrink: After learning of Soldier's head collection.

* PaintItBlack: [[spoiler: Sniper]], after turning into a Nightmare.
* SuperPoweredEvilSide: Again, [[spoiler: Christian Brutal Sniper.]]
* [[spoiler: WellDoneSonGuy]]: [[spoiler: Sniper desperately wants his father to accept his choice of career, but his father only sees him as a crazed animal.]]

* AbusiveParents: Spy's father, both RED and BLU.

* [[spoiler: BrainwashedAndCrazy]]: During the "Nothing Can Stop It" arc, courtesy of the Masky ponies.

* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Spy badly needs one after seeing Discord's reign, before Celestia and Luna intervened.
* DopeSlap: Spy does this to Scout whenever he gets fed up with him.
--> '''Scout''': "That hurts more with hooves, y'know."
--> '''Spy''': "GOOD."
* FlatWhat: Spy does this after hearing Soldier's plan before their first battle, which is completely unintelligible because of him using a bunch of gibberish code phrases.
* [[spoiler: FusionDance]]: Again, [[spoiler: with Zecora.]]

* GratuitousFrench: Spy, [[spoiler: after being corrupted by Masky Pegasus]].

* OfficialCouple:[[spoiler: With Zecora.]]
* OffScreenTeleportation: Spy tends to do this, thanks to his new powers, despite being a pegasus. [[spoiler: He does have Changeling DNA inside him, which enables him to do this.]]
* PrecisionFStrike: Spy gives one to the Administrator when he discovers [[spoiler: why the [=REDs=] and [=BLUs=] are identical.]]

* OddFriendship: With Merasmus, of course.

* AbusiveParents: Same as BLU Pyro.

* CloudCuckooLander

* [[spoiler: FacialHorror: Shares this with BLU Pyro in human form.]]
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Shares this with BLU Pyro.

* FriendlyEnemy: With BLU Soldier, since technically they're on opposite teams (until the Administrator fucked it up)

* [[spoiler: ConvenientComa]]: RED Heavy undergoes this after his BLU counterpart is transformed into [[spoiler: Nightmare Cuddles]]
* HumanoidAbomination: As [[spoiler: Heavydile.]]
* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler: Again, Heavydile, which makes RED Heavy swear off meat after he reverts back to normal.]]

[[folder: Engineer]]
* [[spoiler: GoMadFromTheIsolation]]
* HumanoidAbomination: As the [[spoiler: Vagineer.]]

[[folder: Sniper]]
* ADarkerMe: Shares this with BLU Sniper.

[[folder: Medic]]
* {{Determinator}}: Despite facing an unstoppable EldritchAbomination with no chance of survival, RED Medic absolutely refuses to let Slenderman take RED Heavy, desperately firing Heavy's minigun, Sasha, at the foe. His conviction is so great that [[spoiler: he manifests the Dark Crown of Magic and empowers Sasha with Harmony, which is one of the few things capable of actually injuring Slenderman.]]
* ForScience: Medic's answer for [[spoiler: keeping BLU Spy's head in his fridge.]]
* PapaWolf: In Chapter 15, he protects a comatose RED Heavy from [[spoiler: an avatar of Slenderman]] by [[spoiler: tapping into the Elements of Magic and Kindness through [[GatlingGood Sasha]]. Doubles as a [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome CMOA]]]]
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[[folder: Spy]]
* AbusiveParents: Shares this with his BLU counterpart.
* FlatWhat: Spy does this when he realizes why Soldier created the Decoy [=MvM=] map.
* TwinThreesomeFantasy: Suggests this option after crossing over to [[spoiler: Zecora]], who against her better judgement actually entertains the possibility. [[spoiler: They actually do it]] by the time of "Running of the Leaves".
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[[folder: Merasmus]]
* GroinAttack: Gets subjected to a few of this after insulting the RED team one too many times.
* HeelFaceTurn: Does this after [[spoiler: he grew tired of keeping secrets from the RED team, including Soldier]].
** ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight
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* [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]]: In Chapter 15 [[spoiler: it's revealed that years ago she tricked Merasmus into giving her a spell that splits a person's soul into two halves. This is how RED and BLU were created from the original mercenaries]].
** [[spoiler: And sometime after that, she made RED Demoman and BLU Soldier, who were close friends, hate each other by making them believe the other one betrayed him, solely on the basis that people from enemy teams can't be friends.]]

* [[spoiler: DealWithTheDevil]]: [[spoiler: With Slenderman/Slendermane]]
* ICanExplain: Gray Mann does this when attempting to justify [[spoiler: failing to destroy Ponyville to Slendermane]].
* PowerNullifier: [[spoiler: Gray Mann's Disharmony Device, capable of negating the fusions]].

[[folder: Miss Pauling]]
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* TheAtoner
* {{Expy}}: Basically Series/DoctorWho in pony form.
* EvilLaugh: As [[spoiler: Nightmare Doctor.]]

[[folder: River Song (aka Minuette)]]
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[[folder: Captain Jack Harkness (aka Orion)]]
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[[folder: Mitta (aka [[spoiler: Mare-Do-Well]] ]]

* [[spoiler: RedemptionEqualsLife]]: [[spoiler: Celestia turns her into a living, breathing pony again, both as a reward for her role in defeating Grey Hoof, and as an apology for turning her into a zombie despite her innocence.]]

* Body Horror: [[spoiler: Grey Hoof's]] ''very'' disturbing TransformationSequence. His skeleton, and only his skeleton, grow to the size of an alicorn. He also grows bone wings and a horn. As expected, this tears his flesh apart.

* ItsAllAboutMe
* LaughingMad: As part of his VillainousBreakdown.
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler: Nightmare Grave]].

* [[spoiler: BrainwashedAndCrazy]]: [[spoiler: This happens to her a lot. She's not happy about it.]]

* [[TinyGuyHugeGirl Tiny Stallion, Huge Mare]]: With her husband, Dr. TL Care.

* UndyingLoyalty: One of his most defining traits.

* {{Magitek}}

* [[RobotGirl Robot Mare]]: A fully sentient AI made out of crystals.

* [[TinyGuyHugeGirl Tiny Stallion, Huge Mare]]: With his wife, Barricade.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: With his daughter Fluttershy.

* ChildEater
* EldritchAbomination: Possibly.

* WhiteMaskOfDoom

* [[spoiler: BoundAndGagged]]
* ButtMonkey: Shaping up to be this given how much he is put through.
* ChildEater
* EldritchAbomination: Possibly.
* FlatWhat: [[spoiler: During his jail break, Masky Pegasus corrupts Heavy, turning him into Nightmare Cuddles. Masky Unicorn does not find this funny at all.]]

* OhCrap: His entire confrontation with the Mare-Do-Well. Serves as a [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments CMOF.]]
* WhiteMaskOfDoom

* ChildEater
* EldritchAbomination: Possibly.

* WhiteMaskOfDoom

* [[spoiler: BigBad]]
* ChildEater
* TheDreaded: Even '''''Discord''''' is terrified of him.
* EldritchAbomination
* ForTheEvulz: A lot of the things he did are based around this.
* MindRape: An identifying trait.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: Apparently, according to [[spoiler: Gray Mann]], Slendermane has been doing this formula when attacking Ponyville.
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant
* NoSell: Applies to Slenderman's avatar. He is completely unaffected by normal and magical attacks, including MONOCULUS! That is, until he is killed by [[spoiler: RED Medic tapping into the Elements of Harmony.]]

* TheVoiceless: Which is why he communicates with his subordinates telepathically.

* OneSteveLimit: goes by her real name to avoid confusion with her pony self.

[[folder:Sunset Shimmer]]
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!!! The Dazzlings

[[folder: Adagio Dazzle]]
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[[folder:Aria Blaze]]
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[[folder:Sonata Dusk]]
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* BigDamnVillains: [[spoiler: Helps the ponies and the BLU team defeat Nightmare Gardener.]]
* [[spoiler: HeelFaceTurn]]: Chrysalis did this after learning [[spoiler: Slendermane strung her around ForTheEvulz.]] That and [[spoiler: she and the changelings were given an artificial self-renewing source of love by Derpy, Soldier, and Cadance, removing the need to hunt for food.]]

* EvilMeScaresMe: The alternate version of Pinkie from [[spoiler: ''Fanfic/{{Cupcakes}}'']].

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: In regards to Nightmare Gardener's sense of humor.