* It's popular to pit the gang from ''Friendship is Magic'' against updated versions of G1 villains, such as Tirac from "Rescue at Midnight Castle".
** Not to mention the Smooze
* Princess Celestia [[RonTheDeathEater turning out to be a horrible tyrant]], or Equestria being a CrapsaccharineWorld. Often this will involve the characters being unaware of this, and scolded by some OC for [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids how naive they were]].
** Alternatively, by [[DarkIsNotEvil Princess Luna]].
** Corollary: Nightmare Moon returning and taking over where Celestia was de-throned. DependingOnTheWriter RealityEnsues.
* Rainbow Dash having an accident and, irreparably or not, injuring her wings, requiring another character to care for her (may or may not involve shipping). At one point these were ''so'' ubiquitous that Equestria Daily outright ''banned'' them. Then there was the ''actual episode'' where Rainbow broke her wing and was confined to a hospital...(though it went a different route, using the accident to give her a new fandom). However, unlike all the fanfics, her wing healed in only a few days, and she spent her time in a hospital bed, not a friend's house.

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* It's popular to pit the gang from ''Friendship is Magic'' against updated versions of G1 villains, such as Tirac from "Rescue at Midnight Castle", and the Smooze from [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie the movie]].
* Princess Celestia [[RonTheDeathEater turning out to be a horrible tyrant]], or Equestria being a CrapsaccharineWorld. Often this will involve the characters being unaware of this, and scolded by some OC (or [[DarkIsNotEvil Princess Luna]]) for [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids how naive they were]].
** Corollary: Luna (or even Nightmare Moon) taking over where Celestia was de-throned.
* Rainbow Dash having an accident and, irreparably or not, injuring her wings, requiring another character to care for her (may or may not involve shipping). At one point these were ''so'' ubiquitous that Equestria Daily outright ''banned'' them. Then there was the ''actual episode'' where Rainbow broke her wing and was confined to a bed... (However unlike all the fanfics, her wing healed in only a few days, and she spent her time in a hospital bed, not a friend's house.)

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* "Character X becomes an alicorn" has always been a popular plot, as it allowed exploration of what it ''meant'' to be an alicorn, having to deal with power and immorality, and what the Canterlot royalty was like. While all of the mane six have undergone it at some point, Twilight was by far the most common. [[spoiler:And then [[IKnewIt it actually happened]].]]
** A popular theme in these has Twilight Sparkle (and possibly the other members of the mane six as well) turning into alicorns and taking over the rule of Equestria from Celestia and Luna, who have [[WhoWantsToLiveForever grown tired of immortality]].
* It used to be common for [[MemeticBystander Derpy]] to be TheWoobie, having a speaking disorder that typically made her speak gibberish and being TheKlutz, which caused her to be ostracized by other ponies. This plot has since faded out, with more fans preferring Derpy as just being a klutz with a lazy eye instead of disabled, and the only remainder of it is Derpy calling Dinky "muffin".
** In Derpy fics where she's the mother of Dinky, it'll often center around the hardships of being a single mother, and Dinky would either be embarrassed of her mom but learn to accept her by the end, or would be the helpful daughter.

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* There are countless incessant fanfics where Changelings are made out to the noble, majestic master race, and more often than not victims of an increasingly demonized, hate-filled, fascist and Balkan-esque genocidal Equestria.
* "Character X becomes an alicorn" has always been a popular plot, as it allowed exploration of what it ''meant'' to be an alicorn, having to deal with power and immorality, and what the Canterlot royalty was like. While all of the mane six have undergone it at some point, Twilight was the most common....and then rumours of it happening in show started to pop up...
** [[spoiler:And then said rumors were officially confirmed...]]
* Trixie, her career ruined and having nowhere else to turn, shows up (usually in the rain) on Twilight's doorstep. They inevitably fall in love.
* Ever since ''Cupcakes'', Pinkie's straight-haired mode has been something of a fixture of the fandom, with the change of Pinkie's mane and tail from fuzzy to straight indicating some form of emotional trauma (although, fortunately, it's rarely an indicator of her descent into ''Cupcakes'' level insanity unless said transformation occurs in one of the story's ''many'' offshoots). Equally frequently is the tendency of writers to refer to her straight-haired form as "Pinkamena" to distinguish it from the puffy-maned Pinkie.
** Which in itself is a hilarious epidemic of CowboyBebopAtHisComputer because Pinkie acted like her normal bouncy self in said fic.

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