*CrystalDragonJesus: The story plays this trope straight, but does so in a very interesting way with the religion of the Teutschen. WordOfGod states that the religion is [[CrystalDragonJesus based off Christianity]], but is not it. They share the sign of the cross—which the narrator calls ''das Kreuzzeichen''—wear crosses, and even refer to their deity as “God” (or “Adonai”, an old Hebrew name meaning “Lord”).
** However, the more details the story gives about the religion, the less Christian it seems. Like how they believe that [[NameOfCain Kain]] to be a dark hero. Or, for one interesting example:
--> “... the sixth tenant of the faith is ‘you shall not murder’. It does not say ‘you shall not kill’. I mean, yes, you could interchange those two things sometimes, but to murder and to kill are two different concepts. Murder is wrong. Killing is just a fact of life in this world we live in. The faith makes the distinction quite clearly. The faith teaches that there is no shame in taking somebody’s life for the right reasons.” 
** And their version of the sign of cross is spoken with a different phrase, which means “in the name of the Father, and of the Prophet, and of the Machine Spirit.” Or, as it is said in the fic:
--> ''“In Nomine Patris, et Prophetae, et Spiritus Machinae.”''

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** Overlaps with NakedPeopleAreFunny. Jericho it still the only pony wearing pants. Hilarity continues to ensue.
* NoodleIncident: Quoth one of Jericho's monologs: ‘The idea of ''that'' reminded me of the first case I’d ever worked on, where a psychotic professor at some prestigious medical school had been going around murdering girls, stuffing their dead bodies full of extra organs because “aliens told him to do it”.’
** This is actually something a CallBack, sorta. It's a reference to one of Jericho's earlier lines, when he was talking about his time as a ''Spezialagent'': “It was things like that which probably contributed a great deal to making me the psychological mess I am today.”
* OnceMoreWithClarity: When Jericho looks back at the inn, realizes that everypony is Equestria is naked, not that he stumbled into a mislabeled whorehouse
** Later on in chapter 3, when he looks back on the scene with that mare at the train station, Selena, he begins to realize something was wrong with that whole thing, but isn't yet sure to what end.
** Then he looks back on the letter his guardian angel gave him, quoting the line “by this time tomorrow, you will again have blood on your hooves”. That's when re realizes what the angel had meant, that he was to murder the agents of the GovernmentConspiracy and unravel it all.

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* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: InUniverse example with Jericho, whose first language is ''Teutsch'', an expy of German; his “Equestrian” is incredibly good. It gets lampshaded a few times, too.
--> [[GoodSamaritan Lyra]]: “But you don’t even have a foreign accent at all!”
--> [[DeadpanSnarker Jericho]]: “Neither do you.”
* TapOnTheHead: Amazingly played straight, lampshaded, subverted, and deconstructed—all in one chapter! First Jericho knocks a guy unconscious with a side-neck chop, has a WhatTheHellHero moment on himself wherein he lampshades this; then when Jericho himself get a nightstick upside the head, he only gets a nasty, nasty bruise. (The deconstruction is the head injury he gets, plus having possibly hairline-fractured his shoulder in the fight.)
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Lampshaded when a guard just lets Jericho walk into a guarded compound when all Jericho offers in the flimsy excuse that he's a “plumber”.
--> ''You are a very trusting stallion and should be fired from your job. You didn’t even check to see if I had any identification... if Equestria even uses identification like that. Huh. I should look into that.''
** And then b-e-a-utifully subverted! Jericho walks up to the Baron's plantation house, tricks the guard into letting him in, then, as Jericho is walking past, the guard attacked Jericho from behind, shouting, “That’s for my sister’s black eye, you bastard!”
* TheDrifter: Jericho tends to just wander around. Possibly justified because he's doing seemingly because an unseen angel is telling him to do it. However, he doesn't fit ''any'' of the stoic character traits usually associated with this character archetype. He's too sarcastic.
* TitleDrop: Taken UpToEleven. The name of the main character and the story are one in the same. Just look at this name for the amount of times the name Jericho is dropped.
* WalkingTheEarth: Jericho, literally. He's walked across the entire world, and the story begins during the most recent new land he's exploring. But it's justified, sorta, by the fact that Jericho's doing it because an unseen angel is telling him to do it, and thus to fight evil. Jericho leans on this when he says, “It was my God-given duty as a ''Teutscher'' to do this, I resolved.”
* WeaponForIntimidation: Subverted them lampshaded when the Baron of Sleepy Oaks brandishes a knife at Jericho, Jericho isn't intimidated in the slightest.
-->  ''A bluff if ever I saw, but best not call it. I doubt this guy could so much as smack a fly, let alone murder a pony. Still,I’d rather not push him into actually having to do anything.''
* WhatTheHellHero: The reaction of the little filly and her mother when Jericho, in self-defense, knocks their father out. Lampshaded by the hero himself.
--> Jericho: “Oh, you mean the side-neck chop? That’s just a martial arts move. I mean, yeah, if I’d done it wrong, it would have killed him via cardiac arrest, and so, in hindsight, that was highly irresponsible of me to do but... I’m not helping my case any, am I?”

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This fanfic is the result when you take a certain [[BlatantLies possibly]] [[{{Determinator}} insane]] [[http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Crushric author]], then took the plot and characters from WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic and mixed it with massive servings of RuleOfCool, RuleOfFunny, RuleOfDrama, and innumerable tidbits from multiple universes, making sure to include an sizable dosage of CharacterDevelopment, melding it all into both a seamless mix and one of the longest fanfictions on the internet.

Not to mention how the fic aims to deconstruct a lot of things whilst delving into the HiddenDepths of our beloved ponies. And let's not even get started on the absurdly detailed and rewarding-to-know backstory.

Alternatively, this fic is what happens when you have an insane, narcissistic FirstPersonSmartass, throw him into the company of an {{adorkable}} yet [[SociallyAwkwardHero socially awkward heroine]], a FriendToAllLivingThings, a {{Tomboy}} AcePilot, a [[{{cowboy}} cowgirl]], an ActionFashionista, a pink GenkiGirl, and a FishOutOfTemporalWater Princess, then sit back and watch as HilarityEnsues.

Jericho recently crossed over 700k words... and the author doesn't see any end in sight. However, he has unpublished a great many chapters in order to redo them, making them better, so the word count has technically dropped astronomically. But as of now, the story has just restarted from the ground up; expect anything!

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This fanfic is the result when you take a certain [[BlatantLies possibly]] [[{{Determinator}} insane]] author, then took the plot and characters from WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic and mixed it with massive servings of RuleOfCool, RuleOfFunny, RuleOfDrama, and innumerable other tidbits of awesome, making sure to include an sizable dosage of CharacterDevelopment, melding it all into both a seamless mix and an incredibly interesting story. Not to mention how the fic aims to deconstruct a lot of things whilst delving into the HiddenDepths of our beloved ponies.

Alternatively, this fic is what happens when you take a sociopathic FirstPersonSmartass and DeadpanSnarker whose first language is German, throw him into a nation whose culture creates instant CultureClash, a really interesting story, compelling characters, then sit back and watch as HilarityEnsues.

At one point Jericho was over ''700,00 words'' long, making it not only one of the longest fanfictions but one of the longest pieces of literature ''ever'', only for the author to take it down, claiming it was all no good. Then, in mid-March of 2013, Jericho resurfaced, entirely redone from the ground-up, promising an entirely different story arc, even more RuleOfCool, RuleOfFunny, RuleOfDrama, plus the author's quality of writing is now at damn-near professional levels! It all goes to show just how committed the author is to bringing us high-quality and consistently entertaining fiction—expect to find great things within!

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--> From the summary: "Still, with enough [[GuileHero wit]], some [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Prussian ingenuity]], [[DeadpanSnarker a droll sense of humor]], and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick wanton murder]], [[{{Determinator}} I might just survive this]]. Then again, when you’re going up against an unending list of things like [[GovernmentConspiracy government conspiracies]], that [[OurAngelsAreDifferent guardian angel]] who [[GoodAngelBadAngel keeps telling you]] to [[SerialKillerKiller kill people]], [[AllWomenAreLustful psycho Equestrian girls]] with [[EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench allophilia]], a [[NoSocialSkills lunatic]] [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses prin]][[FishOutOfTemporalWater cess]], the [[TheLegionsOfHell legions of the Inferno]], the [[CultureClash Equestrian]] [[YourNormalIsOurTaboo culture]] itself, swashbuckling [[HeroesPreferSwords sword]] [[SwordFight fights]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking laissez-faire economists]], you begin to [[OhCrap realize]] why there’s [[DoomedProtagonist a big  “if” in the middle of your]] l''if''e."

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* AmbiguouslyBi: Jericho, when speaking to himself in chapter one, says: “It doesn’t matter that you’ve been on your own for so long now that even the colts are starting to look good. Do. Not. Stare.”
* [[AllMenArePerverts All Stallions Are Perverts]]: Played with. He is actually more annoyed by nudity than anything else.
--> A little pony in my head assured me I didn’t have a dirty mind, just a sexy imagination.
** [[AManIsAlwaysEager A Stallion Is Always Eager]] is actually rather averted, thus.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Laissez-faire economists!
--> From the summary: Still, with enough wit, some Prussian ingenuity, a droll sense of humor, and wanton murder, I might just survive this. Then again, when you’re going up against an unending list of things like government conspiracies, that guardian angel who keeps telling you to kill ponies, psycho Equestrian girls with allophilia, a lunatic princess, the legions of the Inferno, the Equestrian culture itself, swashbuckling sword fights, and laissez-faire economists, you begin to release why there’s a big “if” in the middle of your l''if''e. 
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Jericho
* BadassLongcoat: Invoked by Jericho.
--> “One always overcompensates for disabilities. I’ve been thinking of having my entire body surgically removed. But until the day that happen, I’ll just stick to wearing awesome outfits; [[LampshadeHanging they make me feel cool]].”
** Overlaps with NiceHat, since no BadassLongcoat is complete without one.
* BadSamaritan: Jericho suspects this of Lyra—“ but the idea is subverted. “
--> From his inner monolog: ''Last time a girl offered you a drink, it was poisoned. That was fun, though, trying to solve your own murder. Still surprised we managed to torture the cure out of her so easily—and all we had to do was manually remove her ovaries without the use of anesthetics.''
** GoodSamaritan: Lyra, as it turns out, is really this.
* [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench Everything Sounds Sexier In German]]. Lyra's reaction to Jericho speaking ''Teutsch'', his native tongue.
--> “Oh, my,” she almost crooned, her eyes sparkling. “I don’t know what you said, but I ''liked'' it. A. Lot. There’s just something—” she hesitated, “—spooky about it! There’s, like, a certain throaty toughness to it, I think.”
** And then immediately lampshaded: “Is it really that big of a deal?”
* DeadpanSnarker: One of Jericho's defining character traits.
* Determinator: Possibly Jericho, since he appears to half ''walked'' across the whole planet to get to Equestria, which is where the story begins.
--> See the summary above under ArsonMurderAndJaywalking, wherein it becomes pretty clear ''is'' this.
* FirstPersonSmartass: Jericho oh so very much. Even his own ''thoughts'' mock him.
** * HearingVoices: Possibly. It's unclear if it's his thoughts mocking him, or it if he's really just that snarky.
* InnerMonologue: Jericho. All. The. Time.
* InformedAttractiveness. Justified. The character ''are'' all ponies, and so is Jericho.
* MeaningfulName: Jericho is Canaanite for "moon", the same meaning as Princess Luna's name.
* NakedFirstImpression. Exaggerated, but justified. Jericho meets '''every''' Equestrian as they are naked, since Equestrians don't usually wear clothes.
--> His first reaction into walking into a tavern and seeing everypony naked? [[CrowningMomentOfFunny This is a whorehouse!]]
--> Then, in a monolog: “Does this mean that the Princesses will also be naked? Oh, Father above, that’s gonna be fun. Why, hello there, so-called deities of sun and moon. No, I swear I wasn’t leering creepily at your haunches. I can’t even say I know what ‘leering’ means. Is it a type of frog?”
* OneOfUs: The author.
* [[PhysicalGod Physical Goddess]]: Princess Celestia and Luna, while not expressly referenced in the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic show]], Jericho, a foreigner, seems to think this. A monolog of his references them as “deities of sun and moon”, respectively.
** [[FallenAngel Fallen Angels]]: According to Jericho, Princesses Celestia and Luna are actually these.
--> This was the mythical motherland, Equestria, where Princesses Celestia and Luna—fallen angels, as many back home said—ruled.
* SociopathicHero: Jericho. Judging from one line of his thoughts [[note]] ''Last time a girl offered you a drink, it was poisoned. That was fun, though, trying to solve your own murder. Still surprised we managed to torture the cure out of her so easily—and all we had to do was manually remove her ovaries without the use of anesthetics.''[[/note]], he appears to be this.
* SurprisinglyGoodForeignLanguage: The German—in-universe, it is called ''Teutsch''—is all really well done, no errors. Surprisingly.
* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Possibly. Jericho is never ever described (WordOfGod says the author never will), but the fan-art cover depicts a pony that seems to be Jericho.

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