History CowboyBeBopAtHisComputer / MyLittlePony

** They initially called Discord a dragon instead of a Draconequus (or Dragonokis, as they [[SpellMyNameWithAnS misspell it]]).

* The now-infamous ''Ms. Magazine'' article [[http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2010/12/09/my-little-homophobic-racist-smarts-shaming-pony/ "My Little Homophobic, Racist, Smarts-Shaming Pony"]] criticized ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' sight-unseen in early 2010, before the show had even begyb aurubg. The research for the article was based on early artwork from the show, the first version of the official website, and the cold open of the first episode. Show runner Creator/LaurenFaust later [[https://msmagazine.com/2010/12/24/my-little-non-homophobic-non-racist-non-smart-shaming-pony-a-rebuttal/ posted a rebuttal]] that disputed every one of the points the article had made.[[note]]Ironically, the article may have helped create the [[PeripheryDemographic brony phenomenon]]. After the article was spread online, many people watched the show just to see what could inspire such vitriol about a little girls' show, liked what they saw, and stuck around. As such, the original article is also an example of the StreisandEffect.[[/note]] Errors in the article include:

* In order to appeal to the [[PeripheryDemographic Bronies]], Walmart [[http://www.dailydot.com/culture/walmart-heart-bronies-my-little-pony-shirt/ released a t-shirt with a picture of six major My Little Pony characters]], captioned "I ♥ Bronies". So where did they go wrong? They used characters from the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends 1980s G1 cartoon]] instead of those from WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic. And they couldn't even get ''that'' right, as the colors and symbols on two of the characters are wildly inaccurate anyway; Applejack, Gusty, Glory, and Princess Sparkle look okay, but North Star has Firefly's symbol and Posey has TabletopGame/TicTacToe's symbol.
* [[https://www.equestriadaily.com/2013/05/yahoo-parenting-ponies-included-in-list.html One article]], written by a woman complaining that classic kids' toys and games were getting too "sexy" for kids, consistently refers to My Little Pony as "My Pretty Pony", which is the name of the original toy that My Little Pony spun off from.
* [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3199632/We-dying-Little-Bronies-Yes-s-bonkers-summer-s-hair-raising-colour-fad.html A Daily Mail article about people with pastel hair]] claimed it to be the "Brony" style, a result of "My Little Bronies" wanting to recreate the colorful hair seen on the Franchise/MyLittlePony characters from the 80s. There are three problems here. First of all, "Brony" is not a hairstyle; second, these people were probably not dying their hair in order to make it look like the ponies' manes; and third, the term "Brony" refers to fans of ponies from the 2010s, with many bronies outright shunning the ponies of the 80s. Also, the pony shown in the article as an example is from neither of those eras, being G2 Morning Glory (released in 1997).
* The documentary series ''The Toys That Made Us'' claims that all four generations of My Little Pony have had cartoons, due to them having made the rather common mistake of assuming that ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTales'' was part of G2 rather than G1. In truth, G1 had two completely different cartoons and G2 had none; G2 canon is restricted to comics, [[VideoGame/MyLittlePonyFriendshipGardens a computer game]], and the short descriptions on the toys' packaging. The narrator also claims that "the G2 ponies were not a success, and were discontinued in 1999", which was true in the US... but not in Europe, where G2 lasted until 2003.

* [[http://www.cracked.com/article_17129_7-badass-cartoon-villains-who-lost-retarded-heroes.html This]] ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' article implies that Tirek from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePony'' was a recurring villain, despite him only appearing in the pilot, ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTVSpecials Rescue at Midnight Castle]]'', in which he was destroyed at the end. Though this may be just a case of them not changing the subheading, "Who was he '''constantly''' losing to?" that they used for the other six. A straighter example is the sentence, "The little ponies, pegasus and unicorns make their home in a valley there called Paradise Estate." The valley is called Dream ''Valley'', the ponies lived in Dream Castle - Paradise Estate was not introduced until [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie1986 the movie]], and Unicorns and Pegasi are still considered ponies, just not ''Earth'' Ponies.
* The description on the back of the case for the complete series DVD set released by Shout! Factory claims that the ponies of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'' "face evil witches, goblins, [[WhatMeasureIsANonCute Stone Backs, Grundles]] and more". In the movie set directly before the series, the Grundles got an ''entire song'' about how not being as cute as the ponies doesn't make them evil. And an important plot point of ''The End Of Flutter Valley'' is that the Stonebacks aren't evil either, despite all appearances.

* ''Ms. Magazine'' posted an article about ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' before the show had begun airing in 2010. The research for the article was based on early artwork from the show, the first version of the official website, and the pre-credits opening of the first episode. The title of the article: [[http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2010/12/09/my-little-homophobic-racist-smarts-shaming-pony/ "My Little Homophobic, Racist, Smarts-Shaming Pony."]] Show runner Creator/LaurenFaust later [[https://msmagazine.com/2010/12/24/my-little-non-homophobic-non-racist-non-smart-shaming-pony-a-rebuttal/ posted a rebuttal]] that disputed every one of the points the article had made.[[note]]Ironically, the article may have helped create the [[PeripheryDemographic brony phenomenon]]. After the article was spread online, many people watched the show just to see what could inspire such vitriol about a little girls' show, liked what they saw, and stuck around. As such, the original article is also an example of the StreisandEffect.[[/note]] Errors in the article include:
** "Homophobic" comes from Rainbow Dash "looking" angry in posters. Her rainbow color scheme and tomboy looks making her look like a stereotypical angry butch lesbian. In the show itself, Rainbow is a LovableJock who has a competitive streak, but isn't overtly mean, and stands up to a bully in the show's first season.
** "Racist" comes from Celestia being white while some of her guards ''appear'' to be black. They aren't even actually black, just dark grey - the only black ponies seen at the time were Nightmare Moon and a few background characters who ''weren't guards'', and there ''are'' white guards even in the first episode. And a pony's color isn't equivalent to a human's skin color or ethnicity.
** "Smarts-Shaming" comes from Celestia ordering Twilight to get out of the library and go see the world and make friends. The writer missed that Twilight's problem wasn't that she liked studying, but that she studied so much that she neglected everything else in life.
* The Facebook page of '''The Hub''' made a few errors:
** They called Rainbow's Shadowbolt costume a Wonderbolt costume.

** In a [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m91kw4SdYF1r2qb68o1_1280.jpg profile of Applejack]] it was stated that "Big Mac" was her husband (he's her brother) and Apple Bloom and Granny Smith were their daughters (They are their sister and grandmother, respectively). At least it inspired [[https://pony-berserker.deviantart.com/art/Big-News-384914906 a fan comic.]]

* An insert included with Creator/MadmanEntertainment's Australian [=DVDs=] misidentifies [[GodCreatedCanonForeigner toy line exclusive pony]] Ploomette as Pinkie Pie.
* [=80sTees.com's=] [[http://www.80stees.com/products/MLPFIM-Wonderbolts-Shirt.asp two]] [[http://www.80stees.com/products/Wonderbolts-Shirt.asp versions]] of Mighty Fine's ''[[http://www.welovefine.com/product.php?id_product=661 Wonderbolts]]'' [[TheMerch shirt]] have a mistake in their product descriptions misidentifying an [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] Wonderbolt as Fleetfoot, despite both of those Wonderbolts appearing at the same time in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E26TheBestNightEver The Best Night Ever]]". Though to be fair, Fleetfoot is only identified via a FreezeFrameBonus.
* [=ToyWiz.com=] [[http://www.toywiz.com/mlpfimpvcspitfire.html evidently]] [[http://www.toywiz.com/mylittleponypvc3packset.html thinks]] [[http://www.toywiz.com/glindaspitfirerainbowdash.html that]] the [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] "Wonder Bolts pony" is Spitfire, despite both of those Wonderbolts appearing at the same time in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E26TheBestNightEver The Best Night Ever]]".
* A ''New York'' [[http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2012/06/slideshow-the-my-little-pony-hair-color-trend.html slideshow]] misidentified [[http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2012/06/slideshow-the-my-little-pony-hair-color-trend.html#photo=6x00007 Sweetie Belle as Berry Punch]] and [[http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2012/06/slideshow-the-my-little-pony-hair-color-trend.html#photo=7x00006 Apple Bloom as Rose]].
* A local news segment called ''In Living Glover'' in St. Louis has claimed that the "[[PeripheryDemographic Bronies]]" are man-children who love the show so much that they ''collect disability payments so they can stay home and watch the show all day.''
* In general, a lot of news articles about bronies define them exclusively as male, when there are in fact a number of older female fans of the show who also call themselves bronies. It started as the male term (female being pegasister), but come on.
* [[http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/29/my-little-pony-parodies-katy-perry/ "If you're not 7, there's a good chance that you are unaware of the latest 'My Little Pony' re-boot"]]. Brought to you by the [[Franchise/TouhouProject Cirno]] [[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer/VideoGames News Network]].
* The Daily Mail had a pop at [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2108833/Bizarre-row-My-Little-Pony-character-Derpy-altered-mentally-disabled.html reporting on the Derpy Incident]]. The sub-headline of the article refers to the show's PeripheryDemographic as "Brownies." However, it seems more of spell-check error than actual ignorance on the part of the writer.
* In [[http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/celebritology/post/my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic-is-the-best-animated-show-on-tv-according-to-the-tubeys/2012/09/17/c2b3027e-00d9-11e2-b257-e1c2b3548a4a_blog.html this]] Washington Post article, a picture of the Cutie Mark Crusaders is captioned "The celebrated ponies of ''My Little Pony''," making it seem as if the [=CMC=] are the main characters.
* According to the official MLP magazine from Turkey, "Applebloom's friends Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle doesn't care much about cutie marks". They do care about them, and it is in fact one of their major motivations story-wise.

* The Italian TV Guide description of the show says "In Paradise Estate the Little Ponies live their peaceful lives based on music and playtime. But not every inhabitant of Ponyland is peaceful like them..."... Which blatantly refers to [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends the original TV show]].

** One summary for "Mare in the Moon" says "After trying to warn Princess Celestia about the Nightmare Moon, the ponies travel to Ponyville." Only Twilight Sparkle was trying to warn the princess; the other ponies were already in Ponyville and they didn't care about Nightmare Moon until she showed up in person after kidnapping the princess. Also, Nightmare Moon is a name, not a title.
** A summary for "Lesson Zero" claims that the plot of the episode is Twilight losing one of her friendship letters for her report to Princess Celestia. She didn't lose any friendship letters; the conflict was that she couldn't think of anything to put in a letter, as she felt like she hadn't learned anything about friendship in a while.
** TV listings' synopses of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E14SuitedForSuccess Suited For Success]]" and "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E8TheMysteriousMareDoWell The Mysterious Mare Do Well]]" respectively [[ViewerGenderConfusion refer to Rarity and Rainbow Dash as male]]. Season 3's "Apple Family Reunion" episode synopsis gives the same gender confusion treatment to Applejack.
** The description for "Flight to the Finish" misspells Scootaloo's name as Scottaloo.
** The synopsis for "A Hearth's Warming Tail" describes Starlight Glimmer having the holiday blues. She just really didn't express any interest in celebrating the holiday.
* Creator/PattonOswalt, in his special ''Talking for Clapping'', does a routine about watching ''Pony'' with his daughter. He explains that it's her favorite show but that he's not really into it, after which [[BlatantLies he launches into a minutes-long explanation of the show's premise and characters]] [[JustForFun/OneOfUs that only a fan would know]]. The routine is almost entirely flawless except that he misnames Apple Bloom as "Apple Blossom", and misidentifies Scootaloo as Rainbow Dash's little sister (they aren't biologically related, and at that point in the series they had not yet declared each other honorary sisters).
* The Croatian HRT dub has the studio-made recap for the first half of "The Return of Harmony, Part 2" erroneously claim that Applejack and Spike found the Elements of Harmony and failed to convince her friends to help her, also adding that "even Twilight lost all hope". Not only is this glaringly incorrect (it's Twilight Sparkle, not Applejack, who was involved), the clips used in the recap clearly focus on Twilight, with Applejack (who's her opposite self in all instances) appearing as a secondary focus at best.
* The people behind the ''Ultimate Guide'' made some fairly glaring mistakes regarding characters like listing Rainbow Dash's parents as unknown[[note]]Her parents, Windy Whistles and Bow Hothoof had long-since appeared in the series[[/note]], claiming Starlight Glimmer met Sunburst at Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns and that her worst quality is "impatience"[[note]]Being an only recently reformed ex-villain who's still learning the basics of social skill and right or wrong, it's been well established her worst qualities are her impulsiveness and tendency to use harmful magic to solve her problems[[/note]], and listing Princess Celestia's worst quality as "absolutely none"[[note]]The episode "Horse Play" is dedicated to her abysmal acting abilities, and she's repeatedly shown to have reasonable flaws and minor negative qualities. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Also "worst" is comparative; it's impossible to have zero "worst" qualities]][[/note]]. This has led to the joke that Twilight wrote the guide and it is intentionally biased in favor of her friends and mentor.
* When the show started on German TV, mass media were completely uninformed about it, especially the start of an all-new generation with an all-new show. Some 70% of all TV schedules didn't mention it at all and listed the completely wrong series line-up of the previous week again for premiere week (if they listed the Nick Jr. block at all), and the rest announced the G3 show. Only one independent TV news site got it right, and that only because they were informed by a Brony.
* [[https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/parenting/2019/07/31/ltbtq-representation-growing-childrens-television/1875892001/wfzz This article]] says that [[AllAnimationIsDisney the show airs on]] Creator/DisneyChannel. While the network airs the show in Spain, Germany and Japan, it's not true in case of the United States, where it airs on Creator/DiscoveryFamily.
* In [[https://youtu.be/4fVOF2PiHnc?t=2985 ''The Last Bronycon: a fandom autopsy'']], WebVideo/JennyNicholson claims that Creator/{{Hasbro}} was [[PanderingToTheBase Pandering to Bronies]] by making mainly toys of the '''[[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicTheManeCast The Mane Six]]''' over and over. However, this had already been done earlier with the Core 7 retool of G3; Hasbro ignored almost every pony aside from seven of them and only produced toys for them. The Core 7 era was a ShortRunner, however, so this mistake is understandable. She also claims that the [[BlindBagCollectables Blind Bag]] [[https://youtu.be/4fVOF2PiHnc?t=3010 pony figures only came out in G4]], and were designed to be more [[ShowAccuracyToyAccuracy Show-Accurate]] with plastic hair instead of the brushable hair of the main line. Neither is entirely accurate; there were [[http://mylittlewiki.org/wiki/Blind_Bags blind bag ponies]] and [[http://mylittlewiki.org/wiki/Tiny_Tins ponies with]] [[http://mylittlewiki.org/wiki/Ponyville_Ponies plastic hair]] in [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyG3 Generation Three]]. The early [[BlindBagCollectables Blind Bag Ponies]] were also notoriously show-inaccurate (e.g. Fluttershy having short hair due to her being a PaletteSwap of Rainbow Dash, Sapphire Shores being a Unicorn instead of an Earth Pony, Trixie being a PaletteSwap of either Rarity or Twilight depending on the wave).

* The website Animated Views had a news article regarding ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls1'', saying that, after watching the trailer, they couldn't understand why it wasn't about ponies and the reasoning behind turning the ponies into [[HighSchoolAU humans attending high school]]. However, if one watches the trailer, not only are the pony characters actually in there, but only Twilight Sparkle gets turned into a human, and all the others come from an alternate universe where they are already (albeit oddly colored) humans.
* Another article about ''Equestria Girls'' and the fandom made the infamous statement that the adult males in the fandom were "looking forward to seeing the ponies in their sexy humanized forms", apparently missing the fact that the humanized character designs were one of the most common ''criticisms'' of the movies by the adult fandom.
* ''Hasbro themselves'' have given the following synopsis of ''Equestria Girls'':
-->Learn all about the magical parallel universe with high schools instead of castles, where six pony friends become real girls with a love for fun and fashion.
** First error: once again, the mistake is made of saying that six ponies become human, when only Twilight Sparkle becomes human in the movie; the other main characters are alternate universe versions that have always been human.
** Second, they say that the girls have "A love for fun and fashion", making it seem like the movie will make the girls into the stereotypes Creator/LaurenFaust wanted to avoid. In the movie, the girls keep their personalities from the show: the fun-loving character is Pinkie Pie and Rarity is the fashion-loving one, with characters known for being tomboyish retaining such traits.
** Third, the universe isn't magical. In fact, Twilight unable to use magic is even in the trailer. The only source of magic comes from Twilight's crown, which originated from the ponies' dimension anyway.
* A Ukrainian commercial for ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks Rainbow Rocks]]'' stated that The Dazzlings were lead by Aria Blaze and were bent on destroying Canterlot High, but then went to a shot from the show of Rainbow Dash and a shot from [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls1 the first movie]] and showed a scene of Sunset Shimmer and said that "It's up to Rainbow Dash, Sunset Shimmer [[AndTheRest and their friends]] to go through the mirror once more!" forgetting the fact that it's ''Twilight and Spike'' that go through the mirror, not the rest, and the Dazzlings are led by Adagio Dazzle, not Aria Blaze. Also, they want to take over Canterlot High, not destroy it.
* [[https://www.amazon.com/My-Little-Pony-Equestria-Wondercolts/dp/0316267325/ The product description on Amazon]] for ''Wondercolts Forever: The Diary of Celestia and Luna'' erroneously says that the titular girls take part in the very first [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks Mane Event]]. The book actually more or less revolves around the very first [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames Friendship Games]] -- a very different thing[[note]]In ''Rainbow Rocks'', Principal Celestia mentions that the event in the film would be the first Canterlot High School Musical Showcase. And this is before the villains turn it into the titular Mane Event -- an all-out hostile battle of the bands. The incorrect synopsis implies a SeriesContinuityError. [[/note]] This detail is corrected in the Hachette Book Group listing for the book. What makes it particularly weird is that on that very same Amazon.com page the user can read the back of the book, where the correct synopsis is present.
* Another erroneous product description, this time for the [[https://www.amazon.com/My-Little-Pony-Equestria-Friendship/dp/0316307785/ Equestria Girls Bookset]]. It starts fine, briefly describing the plot of ''Through the Mirror''... And then it screws up magnificently by stating that, in the sequel film/book, the Equestria Girls create a band named the Sonic Rainbooms[[note]] In this case not quite a mistake; the name was apparently trademarked as the Sonic Rainbooms and is used like that on more or less all official merch, but the films themselves always refer to the band as just the Rainbooms[[/note]] to battle against ''Sunset Shimmer's band, the Dazzlings''. And it then states that Sunset Shimmer had a change of heart after that (in ''Sunset Shimmer's Time to Shine''). This is very wrong: Sunset Shimmer had said change of heart after her defeat in the first book/movie, and doesn't join or attempt to join the Dazzlings at any point during the second. In fact, her attempts at redemption are the main drive of said film and its novelization.
* A relatively minor one compared to the previously mentioned cases, but [[https://www.amazon.com/Equestria-Girls-Friendship-Games-Little-ebook/dp/B019CSNPZ2/ at least one plot synopsis]] for (again) the novelization of ''Friendship Games'' (the third film and fourth book in the series) has a line that implies that the Canterlot Wondercolts ''are'' going to use magic in order to win the Friendship Games. In the film and book itself, the girls' ''try'' to keep the magic hidden, and their vice-principal asks them to avoid using magic in order to avoid accusations of cheating.
* Yet again with the novelizations and their plot synopses/product descriptions -- [[https://www.amazon.com/My-Little-Pony-Equestria-Everfree-ebook/dp/B01N34M6R4/ The eBook version of Legend of Everfree]], for whatever reason, implies that Fluttershy is a primary focus of said film/book ("Can Fluttershy [[AndTheRest and her friends]] [...]" -- nobody else is mentioned by name).

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F_rGKAo3fg This AMC]] news video talking about the 2017 film uses what appears to be a screenshot, showing the Mane Six as god-level alicorns like Celestia and Luna. A quick search shows that this "screenshot" is actually ''[[http://jamey4.deviantart.com/art/Ascension-291598433 fanart by a deviantART user]]''. Thankfully, they credited the original artist.

* At least one reviewer who had obviously never seen the show or the movie, [[ViewerGenderConfusion mistook Rainbow Dash]] ''[[https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865690412/Movie-review-My-Little-Pony-The-Movie-pales-next-to-superior-animated-fare.html for a boy]].'' The character descriptions are obviously copy/pasted from a wiki though, so it's likely that since they never actually watched it, they assumed she was male [[PinkGirlBlueBoy just due to her color]]. You'd have to actually watch the show to know that it subverts that trope on a regular basis. Rainbow isn't as girly as Rarity or Fluttershy (at least when she thinks people are watching), but she's pretty obviously female. The same review also identifies Twilight as a unicorn, despite the fact that she became an alicorn in the finale of season 3 (almost 5 years prior).

* ''Ms. Magazine'' posted an article about ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' before the show had begun airing in 2010. The research for the article was based on early artwork from the show, the first version of the official website, and the pre-credits opening of the first episode. The title of the article: [[http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2010/12/09/my-little-homophobic-racist-smarts-shaming-pony/ "My Little Homophobic, Racist, Smarts-Shaming Pony."]] Show runner Creator/LaurenFaust later [[http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2010/12/24/my-little-non-homophobic-non-racist-non-smart-shaming-pony-a-rebuttal/ posted a rebuttal]] that disputed every one of the points the article had made.[[note]]Ironically, the article may have helped create the [[PeripheryDemographic brony phenomenon]]. After the article was spread online, many people watched the show just to see what could inspire such vitriol about a little girls' show, liked what they saw, and stuck around. As such, the original article is also an example of the StreisandEffect.[[/note]] Errors in the article include:

* In order to appeal to the [[PeripheryDemographic Bronies]], Walmart [[http://www.dailydot.com/culture/walmart-heart-bronies-my-little-pony-shirt/ released a t-shirt with a picture of six major My Little Pony characters]], captioned "I ♥ Bronies". So where did they go wrong? They used characters from the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends 1980s G1 cartoon]] instead of those from WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic. And they couldn't even get ''that'' right, as the colors and symbols on two of the characters are wildly inaccurate anyway; Applejack, Gusty, Glory, and Princess Sparkle look okay, but North Star has Firefly's symbol and Posey has Tic-Tac-Toe's symbol.

* The people behind the ''Ultimate Guide'' made some fairly glaring mistakes regarding characters like listing Rainbow Dash's parents as unknown[[note]]Her parents, Windy Whistles and Bow Hothoof had long-since appeared in the series[[/note]], claiming Starlight Glimmer met Sunburst at Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns and that her worst quality is "impatience"[[note]]Being an only recently reformed ex-villain who's still learning the basics of social skill and right or wrong, it's been well established her worst qualities are her impulsiveness and tendency to use harmful magic to solve her problems[[/note]], and listing Princess Celestia's worst quality as "absolutely none"[[note]]An entire episode was dedicated to her abysmal acting abilities and she's repeatedly shown to have reasonable flaws and minor negative qualities. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Also "worst" is comparative; it's impossible to have zero "worst" qualities]][[/note]]. This has led to the joke that Twilight wrote the guide and it is intentionally biased in favor of her friends and mentor.

* A relatively minor one compared to the previously mentioned cases, but [[https://www.amazon.com/Equestria-Girls-Friendship-Games-Little-ebook/dp/B019CSNPZ2/ at least one plot synopsis]] for (again) the novelization of ''Friendship Games'' (the third film and fourth book in the series) has a line that implies that the Canterlot Wondercolts ''are'' going to use magic in order to win the Friendship Games. In the film and book itself, the girls' ''try'' to keep the magic hidden and even their vice-principal asks them to avoid using magic, in order to avoid accusations of cheating.

* [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3199632/We-dying-Little-Bronies-Yes-s-bonkers-summer-s-hair-raising-colour-fad.html A Daily Mail article about people with pastel hair]] claimed it to be the "Brony" style, a result of "My Little Bronies" wanting to recreate the colorful hair seen on the MyLittlePony characters from the 80s. There are three problems here. First of all, "Brony" is not a hairstyle; second, these people were probably not dying their hair in order to make it look like the ponies' manes; and third, the term "Brony" refers to fans of ponies from the 2010s, with many bronies outright shunning the ponies of the 80s. Also, the pony shown in the article as an example is from neither of those eras, being G2 Morning Glory (released in 1997).

* In order to appeal to the [[PeripheryDemographic Bronies]], Walmart [[http://www.dailydot.com/culture/walmart-heart-bronies-my-little-pony-shirt/ released a t-shirt with a picture of six major My Little Pony characters]], captioned "I ♥ Bronies". So where did they go wrong? They used characters from the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends 1980's cartoon]] instead of those from WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic. And they couldn't even get ''that'' right, as the colors and symbols on two of the characters are wildly inaccurate anyway; Applejack, Gusty, Glory, and Princess Sparkle look okay, but North Star has Firefly's symbol and Posey has Tic-Tac-Toe's symbol.

* [[http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/29/my-little-pony-parodies-katy-perry/ "If you're not 7, there's a good chance that you are unaware of the latest 'My Little Pony' re-boot"]]. Brought to you by the [[Franchise/TouhouProject Cirno]] [[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer/VideoGames News Network]]
* Averted in one case that was immediately heralded [[http://boingboing.net/2012/01/05/the-best-new-york-times-correc.html "The Best New York Times Correction Ever"]]
--> "An article on Monday about Jack Robinson and Kirsten Lindsmith, two college students with Asperger's syndrome who are navigating the perils of an intimate relationship, misidentified the character from the animated children's TV show "My Little Pony" that Ms. Lindsmith said she visualized to cheer herself up. It is Twilight Sparkle, the nerdy intellectual, not Fluttershy, the kind animal lover."

* In order to appeal to the [[PeripheryDemographic Bronies]], Walmart [[http://www.dailydot.com/culture/walmart-heart-bronies-my-little-pony-shirt/ released a t-shirt with a picture of six of the characters]]. So where did they go wrong? They used the main characters from the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends 1980's cartoon]] instead of those from WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic. And they couldn't even get ''that'' right, as the colors and symbols on two of the characters are wildly inaccurate anyway; Applejack, Gusty, Glory, and Princess Sparkle look okay, but North Star has Firefly's symbol and Posey has Tic-Tac-Toe's symbol.

* In order to appeal to the [[PeripheryDemographic Bronies]], Walmart [[http://www.dailydot.com/culture/walmart-heart-bronies-my-little-pony-shirt/ released a t-shirt with a picture of the six main characters]]. So where did they go wrong? They used the main characters from the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends 1980's cartoon]] instead of those from WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic. Except they couldn't even get ''that'' right, as the colors and symbols on two of the characters are wildly inaccurate anyway. Applejack, Gusty, Glory, and Princess Sparkle look okay, but North Star has Firefly's symbol and Posey has Tic-Tac-Toe's symbol.

* In order to appeal to the [[PeripheryDemographic Bronies]], Walmart [[http://www.dailydot.com/culture/walmart-heart-bronies-my-little-pony-shirt/ released a t-shirt with a picture of the six main characters]]. So where did they go wrong? They used the main characters from the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends 1980's cartoon]] instead of those from WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic. Except they couldn't even get ''that'' right, as the colors and we-didn't-have-a-name-for-the-pictures-on-their-butts-back-then on the various characters are wildly inaccurate anyway. (North Star has Firefly's butt-mark, Posey has Tic-Tac-Toe's mark, etc.)

* [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3199632/We-dying-Little-Bronies-Yes-s-bonkers-summer-s-hair-raising-colour-fad.html A Daily Mail article about people with pastel hair]] claimed it to be the "Brony" style, a result of "My Little Bronies" wanting to recreate the colorful hair seen on the MyLittlePony characters from the 80s. There are three problems here: the first being that "Brony" is not a hairstyle but rather a term for a member of a particularly large subsection of My Little Pony fandom, the second being that these people are probably not dying their hair in order to make it look like the ponies' manes, and the third being that the term "Brony" refers to fans of a different incarnation of the series that came approximately 30 years later. Also, the pony shown in the article as an example is neither one from the 80s, nor one that bronies would be likely to even recognize, being G2 Morning Glory (released in 1997 as one of the Secret Surprise Friends).

* One article written by a woman complaining that classic kids' toy and games were getting too "sexy" for kids, keeps calling it "My Pretty Pony", which is the name of the original toy that My Little Pony spun off from.