History CodexEquus / TropesSToT

*** Fanged Paw's entry deals with his hateful relationship with Crimson Star, one of his younger brothers - Fanged Paw constantly got into violent fights with Crimson Star for being an InsufferableGenius. When he continued bullying Crimson Star after he was blinded and became severely depressed, his brothers ([[BigBrotherInstinct Blazing Hoof in particular]]) reacted with anger and disgust. [[PapaWolf Golden Scepter]] was ''furious'' with Fanged Paw for his actions, and after [[EmotionBomb showing him Crimson Star's emotional torment]], he exiled his son as punishment. Fanged Paw felt so guilty that he accepted his exile without complaint, and had nightmares and hallucinations about what he had done. By the time he was allowed to come back home, Fanged Paw had become an Alicorn as well as [[TookALevelInKindness a much better stallion]] thanks to the CharacterDevelopment he undertook. Fanged Paw's entry also deals with his [[DoesNotLikeMagic distrust of magic in general]] - while his reasons were understandable, his distrust really stemmed from resentment over having [[AntiMagic Disruption magic]] and the social stigma that came with it, so his hatred of Crimson Star for wielding magic made him look like a hypocrite. He would eventually get over this when he practiced his Disruption magic enough for him to get used to it, and Golden Scepter made him continue studying magic despite hating it, resulting in Fanged Paw becoming a skilled magic user even though he is WeakButSkilled compared to some of his magically-inclined brothers. On a hilarious note, after becoming the Alicorn god of War, he had little to no control over his [[MakeMeWannaShout voice powers]], and would suddenly and accidentally end up using them without warning. This caused incidents such as one where his boisterous entry into the palace library caused a large pile of books to topple and fall on Written Word. As a result, after he befriended [[LargeHam Prince Vultus IV and Clamos]], his brothers fear the day when he'll get into a shouting match with either one, or both of them.

** Blackheart the Accursed, one of Blackrose's daughters and one of the Spring Court's few "[[BlackSheep bad apples]]", was imprisoned by her own mother for her crimes towards Changelingkind. This was in part because she became immortal and couldn't be killed.

* TerrorHero: [[spoiler:Gabriel D. Griffin]] during the Battle of Dragontown. Played with, in that [[spoiler:Gabriel]] did not want to become one, seeing it as slipping back into his prior habits as a dreaded warlord. Given the sheer carnage that ensued, [[spoiler:Gabriel]]’s fears were not entirely unfounded.

** At one point, Prince Healing Song recounted to Rainbow Dash an incident where he witnessed [[Music/{{Creed}} a pseudo Mag'nean rock band]] from the Second Age being sued by its own audience for a [[EpicFail horrifically bad performance]].

** Rarity voices her disgust towards ''Porn fics''.
---> '''Rarity:''' "Hmmph. Seems like, the more popular a public figure is, the more likely some crazy fan is to write some sort of - fan fiction depicting said public figure as a hormone-crazed sex fiend who (sometimes literally) couldn't keep it in their pouches if their lives depended on it. Even if said public figure is already in a committed relationship. Admittedly, that's true for SOME of those public figures (and I'm enough of a lady to NOT specify which ones), but NOWHERE NEAR all of them."

* {{Superhero}}: Superheroes (and supervillains) would appear and become a very prominent feature of the Second Age of Known History, the time of [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTales Ponyland and the Tales Seven]] where magic was less prominent and Equus was a world of advanced technology. One of the first and greatest to appear is none other then a SupermanSubstitute, Metamare, though other heroic individuals have been recorded and confirmed by Queen Dazzleglow, such as [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Shadow Sentinel I]], [[ComicBook/LexLuthor Silver Smith, Sr.]], and [[Manga/Cyborg009 Wind Runner/C-009 and the 00-Cyborgs]].

** The [=G1=] children's book, ''My Little Pony: Glory the Magic Unicorn'', was a LighterAndSofter First-Age adaptation of what happened to Queen Magus Kawan, then known as Glory from [=G1=], in her mortal fillyhood. Like in the story, Glory teleported herself to a Human kingdom out of desire for acceptance, ran afoul of the wizard Omar who cut off her horn, and befriended the young Prince Rudolph over their shared loneliness. But unlike the book, Glory's loss of her horn was treated seriously, Omar was an EvilSorcerer seeking to seize the throne from Rudolph's father, King David, and both Rudolph and Glory worked together to expose Omar's treachery. Glory also stayed friends Rudolph long after their adventure ended, and continued visiting him until the day he died of old age.

--> '''Second-Age video-game developer:''' The stories in our games...! THEY ACTUALLY HAPPENED?!
** Similarly, the ''Francise/DeadSpace'' series was another Second-Age adaptation of real-life events, this time based on the "Ishimura Incident" where both the United Tellus Government and their alien allies purged the Second Age's [[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/872587897/4952530310 Church of Unitology]] to destroy malicious xeno influence through the Markers the Church's members worshiped, and to prevent corruption of innocent people into space zombies. According to [=BrutalityInc=], both ''Dead Space'' and ''Denizen Evil'' were based on [[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/869479644/4952536874 psychic visions on the future]] that occurred long before the actual events happened, which served as inspirations for the respective franchises.
** The [=G1=] children's book, ''My Little Pony: Glory the Magic Unicorn'', was a LighterAndSofter First-Age adaptation of what happened to Queen Magus Kawan, then known as Glory from [=G1=], in her mortal fillyhood. Like in the story, Glory/Magus teleported herself to a Human kingdom out of desire for acceptance, ran afoul of the wizard Omar who cut off her horn, and befriended the young Prince Rudolph over their shared loneliness. But unlike the book, Glory/Magus' loss of her horn was treated seriously, Omar was an EvilSorcerer seeking to seize the throne from Rudolph's father, King David, and both Rudolph and Glory/Magus worked together to expose Omar's treachery. Glory/Magus also stayed friends Rudolph long after their adventure ended, and continued visiting him until the day he died of old age.

* TurtlePower: One of the researchers and writers working for the InUniverse ''Codex Equus'' project is Jade Shell, a female Tortoise who wrote entries on various deities, including the Terran Empire's royal family and the notoriously xenophobic [[JerkassGods Elternteil Deer Pantheon]] (along with [[HeelFaceTurn former members]] who [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere jumped ship]] after getting sick of [[TopGod Irminsul and Arvan]]'s behavior). She's also the AuthorAvatar of [=Randomfan11=], one of the real-life ''Codex Equus'' project's writers and a frequent editor of TV Tropes.

* SapientEatSapient: As noted under EatenAlive, this is a depressingly common occurrence on Equus, with many monstrous or monstrous-sized sapient beings having no problems with eating other sapient beings, from [[IAmAHumanitarian cannibalistic cultists ritualistically devouring their victims]], to [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame predatory sapients targeting prey sapients]], to [[BigEater gigantic beings eating whole lands]] and even [[GodEating Gods eating each other]] (And [[UpToEleven anyone else less powerful]]). Partly explained in that their very natures often mean they can't afford to be picky, and where they ''could'' choose to eat non-sapient sustenance they would often choose not to eat sapients, downplaying this aspect.

* TakeUpMySword: Taken UpToEleven by those categorized as 'Torchbearers.' These are heroes who don't necessarily take up a power held by previous, but rather the heroism and ideologies of the entire ''proceeding Age'' during an 'Era of Embers', the [[EndOfAnAge transitionary period between Ages]]. Their duty is the carry on the benevolence of the previous Age to lay a good foundation in the next while defending it from that Age's remaining malevolence.

** The Codexverse also harshly condemns the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek Pantheon]], whose members are depicted here as the Old Orosian Pantheon. Most of the Orosian deities behaved like vindictive, spoiled, hedonistic, and immature brats who abused their mortal worshipers/subjects by raping anyone who attracted their lusts, punishing them for perceived slights, and used them as cannon fodder in wars started by petty rivalries. Unlike the Greek Pantheon, who [[KarmaHoudini received no punishment for similar actions]], the Orosian Pantheon was eventually wiped out once their victims decided they had enough - an event that would be called '[[{{Gotterdammerung}} Twilight of the Orosians]]'. The surviving Orosians either were genuinely benevolent people or [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realized what monsters they were]] and strived to atone for their sins.
** At one point, Princess Hnignun finds herself being romantically pursued by [[ComicBook/{{Thanos}} an extremely nihilistic Deer stag who committed increasingly depraved atrocities to woo her]]. She deals with him permanently by giving her AbhorrentAdmirer over to her older twin brother, Prince Stækka, [[BigBrotherInstinct who avenges Hnignun's honor]].

*** Jasper is a walking ShoutOut to the entire ''Text to Speech'' series in that his life more or less parallels that of "[[ButtMonkey Little Kitten]]" - like Kitten, he's treated like shit by military personnel, he's a BadassBookworm, he's best friends with one of Emperor Golden Scepter's sons (in Jasper's case, it's Crimson Star), and he has a slavish devotion to Golden Scepter that he's gradually getting out of. A few of his exploits involved exposing/incapacitating moles disguised as Terran Imperial Council members (echoing how Magnus and Kitten killed several Xenos disguised as the High Lords of Terra), nearly beating one of Pokhot's infernal divine sons in a card game (echoing how Kitten fought and beat Tzeentch in a card game), and going on an adventure that somehow [[BalefulPolymorph turned his fur gold while Crimson Star transformed into a blue-feathered chicken]] (echoing Magnus and Kitten months-long adventure away from the Golden Throne that ended with Magnus being transformed into his blue-feathered Daemon Primarch self by Tzeentch).

** Various entries mentions the application of the '[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novikov_self-consistency_principle Neighvikov Self-Consistency Principle]]', a scientific principle which in RealLife was conceived as a solution to the paradoxical nature of time travel, speculating quantum mechanics would ensure in the event of a time travel to the past, any action or event caused by the time-traveller which could cause changes to the timeline would be cancelled out, if not outright coopted/railroaded to ensure events as they originally unfolded would unfold as they would, ensuring no time paradoxes occur. There are ways to get around it, but they are incredibly difficult and rare to facilitate, making it nearly impossible to change the past and with it the present and future. In the Codexverse, the principle is an actual cosmic law, and Twilight Sparkle's time-travelling shenanigans in the canon episode ''"[[https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/It%27s_About_Time It's About Time]]"'' is depicted in the Codexverse as essentially the principle in action, as nothing the time-travelling Twilight did in the past changed anything and even ensured she would eventually attempt to temporarily travel into the past, completing the loop. As far as the universe is concerned, the self-consistency of the timeline and flow of causality takes precedent over everything else, even free will of those existing within the timeline.

[[NothingIsTheSameAnymore Now they have all three]], and [[WhosLaughingNow they do not fear]]… [[YouCanPanicNow They CANNOT fear]].

** Both ''TabletopGame/WarhammerTheEndTimes'' and its sequel/semi-reboot, ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'' (both respectively titled as ''Ponyhammer Fantasy Battle: Time of Endings'' and ''Ponyhammer: Age of Sigmare'' in the Codexverse), are revealed to be [[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/884432948/4931135144 badly-written interpretations of events that actually happened during pre-Known History]]. Not only were both games massively unpopular with fans InUniverse, but the goddess Sigmare, who was alive to witness said events, was ''furious'' with both the terribly-written gameplay rules and the flanderization of certain historical characters, and had to be physically restrained from [[BoltOfDivineRetribution smiting the game company responsible]]. The game company's terrified employees quickly discontinued and literally buried both ''Ponyhammer'' games to appease her.

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----> '''Crimson Star:''' ''([[IgnoringBySinging singing]])'' '''''LA LA LA LA LA, I CAN'T HEAR THIS, I DON'T WANT TO BE ON THIS PLANET ANYMORE!!!'''''

* SiblingYinYang:

** Belyolen and Temnobog are twin brothers thanks to a ritual their father, Irminsul, cast to get rid of all of his elder son's flaws, and are literally a GodOfGood and GodOfEvil, respectively. Belyolen is compassionate and uses his powers to help people, while Temnobog uses his powers to tempt people to the side of evil in order to test their resolve, and condemns those who willingly gave in to his influence. While this veered into CainAndAbel territory for a time due to Temnobog resenting Beloyen for receiving praise while he was cast off, they eventually reconciled as their unique nature prevented them from killing each other (one would be weakened/strengthened, and vice-versa), and Belyolen revealed that he always loved his brother despite being born as a tainted god.

* TheSocialDarwinist: King Brachion Lyonesse is this, in part due to his backstory. Notably, for this reason he apparently has respect for his ArchEnemy Kick Hopper for being a fellow survivor.
--> '''Brachion''': The Law of the World is the Law of the Jungle.

** Both ''TabletopGame/WarhammerTheEndTimes'' and its sequel/semi-reboot, ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'' (both respectively titled as ''Ponyhammer Fantasy Battle: Time of Endings'' and ''Ponyhammer: Age of Sigmare''), are revealed to be [[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/884432948/4931135144 badly-written interpretations of events that actually happened during pre-Known History]]. Not only were both games massively unpopular with fans InUniverse, but the goddess Sigmare, who was alive to witness said events, was ''furious'' with both the terribly-written gameplay rules and the flanderization of certain historical characters, and had to be physically restrained from [[BoltOfDivineRetribution smiting the game company responsible]]. The game company's terrified employees quickly discontinued and literally buried both ''Ponyhammer'' games to appease her.

** Both ''TabletopGame/WarhammerTheEndTimes'' and its sequel/semi-reboot, ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'' (both respectively titled as ''Ponyhammer Fantasy Battle: Time of Endings'' and ''Ponyhammer: Age of Sigmare''), are revealed to be [[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/884432948/4931135144 badly-written interpretations of events that actually happened during pre-Known History]]. Not only were both games massively unpopular with fans InUniverse, but the goddess Sigmare, who was alive to witness said events, was ''furious'' with both the terribly-written gameplay rules and the flanderization of certain historical characters, and had to be physically restrained from [[DivineBoltOfRetribution smiting the game company responsible]]. The game company's terrified employees quickly discontinued and literally buried both ''Ponyhammer'' games to appease her.

** Moon Ray Vaughoof [[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/844421514/4855969356 expresses annoyance]] that his fellow Trimortidae have been frequently requesting him to play "[[Music/MichaelJackson Thriller]]" ever since they discovered he can [[SoulPower control the souls of both dead and living creatures]] through [[MagicMusic music]]. The only reason he could give for his annoyance is that the song's creator is "...controversial".