History Fanfic / TheElementsOfHarmonyAndTheSaviorOfWorlds

* NotSoDifferent: The TCB!Mane Six insist that humans are awful, completely unlike ponies, which is why they need to be ponified. The RB!Mane Six fire back that Humanity and Ponies are NotSoDifferent, that despite protests, ponies ''have'' had wars, insane beings, and animosity, pointing out to well-known historical figures from Equestrian history, such as Commander Hurricane and Queen Majesty.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Like in the ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'', Discord destroyed the Rainbow of Light when Celestia and Luna attempted to use it on him, forcing them to convert its remains into the Elements of Harmony and resulting in Discord's first imprisonment.

** The kids from ''WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons'' did go there and come back, but it happened [[YearInsideHourOutside in the space of a single day.]] (It should be noted, this show was not aired in syndication, but on Creator/{{CBS}}, and it was produced solely by Marvel, with Sunbow not involved (Disney owns the rights to the cartoon now); presumably it counts because Hasbro owns the rights to D&D, having acquired Wizards of the Coast in 2000.)

''The Elements of Harmony and the Savior of Worlds'' is an ongoing crossover between ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', the original G1 ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'' and [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover a lot more besides]]. It interprets the new series as being set in the distant future of the original, and examines how "Dream Valley" could eventually become "Equestria". Collectively, this universe is known as "The {{Creator/Hasbro}}verse," since it contains not only MLP but every Hasbro cartoon in TheEighties. The most notable entries are the original ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'', but ''WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons'', ''WesternAnimation/JemAndTheHolograms'' and the ''WesternAnimation/{{Inhumanoids}}'' are also mentioned as being part of this world.

** The kids from ''WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons'' appear a few times in sequels and side stories, none the worse for wear. Most prominently, Albert "Presto" Preston works at the White House as President Abernathy's magical expert, and appears several times in ''United We Stand''. Eric now runs a company named Aegis Security, Bobby joined the [[SemperFi Marine Corps]] ([[HeIsAllGrownUp and gained about 100 pounds of muscle in the process]]), Diana's a gold medal gymnast, and Hank and Sheila got married. Oh, and they still have their magic weapons.

* RockBeatsLaser: In ''Bargains and Dragons'', [[WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons Bobby's]] EDC laser pistol doesn't do anything to an angry dragon, but his magical club chases it off in just a few hits.

** Chapter 23 might have some as Megan [[spoiler: [[MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls "ponies up"]] at the end of the chapter]].

* BehemothBattle: [[spoiler: The [[ComicBook/TransformersShatteredGlass Shattered Glass]] [[EvilDoppelganger Autobots]] lay siege to Autobot City with Omega Doom, and [[GeniusLoci Metroplex]] is deployed to face him. And then Omega Supreme gets in on the action.]]

* AdaptationalSexuality: [[spoiler: Rarity appears to be a lesbian. In ''Chaos Runs Rampant'', it appears that she has a secret crush on Applejack, if Discord's attempt at Rarity is anything to go by. Though since she tried to flirt with Blueblood, either she's bisexual or hasn't figured out her sexuality yet.]]

* MirrorUniverse: Rainbow Bridge Equestria (the main setting of this story) vs. ''Fanfic/TheConversionBureau'' Equestria. The former owes its existence to human civilization and the help of human individuals; the latter has already forcibly [[BalefulPolymorph ponified]] its respective Earth (which was implied to be the Transformers: Shattered Glass variant). Inevitably, the two don't see eye to eye.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The TCB!Ponies thought they were saving the Shattered Glass earth from Nuclear Annihilation of the Cold War. They may have... though given that the Cold War fizzled out without major conflict in both the real-world version of earth and the Hasbroverse Earth, and that all the humans were ponified, we will never know. On the flipside, because they now have to share resources with seven billion Newfoals, starvation and food shortages are now rampant in Neo-Equestria.

* SelfFulfillingProphecy: An Alternate Universe Discord warns Alternate Celestia and Luna that they'll be defeated by Megan some time in the future. This is implied to be Alternate Celestia's FreudianExcuse for starting the conversion bureaus, something Megan takes exception to. The conclusion is still a long way off, but all signs point to it being this.

* StartOfDarkness: We see a flashback explaining why TCB!Celestia is so afraid of humans. Discord [[VillainsNeverLie warned]] [[SelfFulfillingProphecy her]] about them, saying they would defeat her.[[spoiler: Later on, we see that the event that changed everything was far earlier than expected - TCB!Firefly never returned from over the Rainbow Bridge.]]

** It's unknown what, if any, form this Trope would apply to to the Shattered Glass humans, as they've all been Ponified by the time of the story.

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* AdaptationalSexuality: [[spoiler: Rarity appears to be a lesbian. In ''Chaos Runs Rampant'', it appears that she has a secret crush on Applejack, if Discord’s attempt at Rarity is anything to go by. Though since she tried to flirt with Blueblood, either she’s bisexual or hasn’t figured out her sexuality yet.]]

* ContinuityNod: The dragon that attacked Albert and his friends in Ponyville is the same green dragon that kickstarted "Savior of Worlds."

* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler: For a member of G.I. JOE, there are few better ways to go out in a fight - [[HeroicSacrifice defending the West Point graduation ceremony from a COBRA remnant cell]] rearing its ugly head, and blasting the enemy cyborg commander to bits with an overloaded laser pistol. Yo Joe, Conrad 'Duke' Hauser]].

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Duke, still wounded in action from a previous mission, holds off a COBRA revival attack on West Point's graduation ceremony. Though he kills the ringleader, the cyborg Overkill, it's too much for his body to take]].

* EndOfAnAge: For the humans and most creatures who left beyond the land that became Equestria, and so begins a new era for the ponies.

* GodIsGood: [[spoiler: Granny Bonnie]].
* GodzillaThreshold: The Equestrian military's reference to an extreme emergency is Code: Tirac [[spoiler: like Tirac himself coming back to life]].

* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler: Tirac plans to do this to Megan in order to revive himself, and [[AndIMustScream keep her aware enough to watch him destroy all she cares about]]]].

* HandicappedBadass: [[spoiler: Danny is paraplegic. That doesn't stop him from raising hell with a shotgun in defense of Ponyville]].

* PatchworkFic: Blends the original ''My Little Pony'' with ''Friendship is Magic''. Also, while [[WesternAnimation/GIJoeTheMovie Cobra-La]] exists, Cobra Commander's origin is that of his counterpart in ''ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel'', which is a human who used to be a used car salesman.

* BabiesEverAfter: In the wake of the war's end, the Autobots developed a new way of creating Transformers- or more specifically, their Sparks- by combining the energies of two preexisting sparks. This removes, as "Dare to Be Stupid!" calls it, the bottleneck of Sparks only being able to be created by the Matrix (only one of them and in the care of the leader of the Autobots) or Vector Sigma (which was difficult to get to even when there wasn't a war on). The end of "United We Stand" reveals that Starscream's Decepticons stole the plans and are working on repopulating as well.

* KilledOffForReal: "Wreck And Ruin" shows the Stunticons die in a last stand. The Combaticons (minus Swindle, who ran away earlier) decide to surrender instead.

* LegendFadesToMyth: There were already examples of this with Megan becoming the goddess Mag'ne, Kentucky becoming the holy land of Key'tuck, and more. "Shape Up Or Slaughter Out," revealed that the Bloody Jaws, legendary warlords and warriors from the land of Key'tuck, were actually a distorted version of the GI Joes.

* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: WordOfGod has called it the ''Creator/{{Hasbro}}verse'', though for the most part it's kept to fairly minor hints; ''G.I. Joe'' characters holding governmental jobs (General Hawk is now President Abernathy of the US, while his Oktober Guard (Russia's G.I. Joe equivalent) counterpart, Ivan Brekhov, is now Premier of Russia), [[{{WesternAnimation/Jem}} Jem and the Holograms]] being a popular band, the existence of WesternAnimation/TheTransformers (Megan and Mike apparently went to Autobot City on their honeymoon, Chip Chase is now an aide to President Abernathy), etc.

* ForgottenFirstMeeting: Megan and Mike actually met when they were around 6, and she saved him from bullies. When Danny introduced him to Megan, it all came back to him.

--->'''Megan:''' 'A Tail of Two Fillies'? Have you no shame?\\

* MrSmith: One recurring Secret Service agent is named Smith, and [[NeverHeardThatOneBefore he's aware of the irony]].

* OneWorldOrder: The omake thread mentions the Earth Republic.

* OriginalCharacter: Spellion, who's the [[StraightMan Straight Stallion]] to Star Swirl.

* SparedByTheAdaptation:
** Wheeljack and Windcharger survived the Battle of Autobot City.
** Shockwave. WordOfGod says he was killed when Unicron attacked Cybertron in ''The Transformers: The Movie'', but his death was left ambiguous in the finished film anyway.

* KentBrockmanNews: Rosie Ramirez (daughter of Hector Ramirez, recurring character in Hasbro cartoons as exactly this sort of reporter) accuses Megan of being a pawn of [[MemeticMutation our new pony overlords]]. She stops harassing Megan when Shipwreck reminds her about [[NoodleIncident her interview with Stephanie Meyer.]]

* HeroicBystander: Mike Richards was this during his high school days, as he helped people during Decepticon and COBRA attacks.

* MaliciousSlander: In one of the ''Side Stories'', Megan is confronted by Rosanna Ramirez (daughter of Hector Ramirez who appeared in nearly every Hasbro/Sunbrow cartoons) of accusations of Equestria's plan to invade Earth and that she's in league with them.

** A [=FIMFiction=] blog post from the author confirmed that ''WesternAnimation/{{MASK}}'' is also in-continuity; they were "adopted" by ''GI Joe'' in 2008 when they released a figure of Matt Trakker (as "Specialist Trakker").

*** The [[WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGoBots [=GoBots=]]] are also featured. But in this universe, they're [[AdaptationalSpeciesChange Cybertronians]] instead of cyborgs. The show's BigBad Cy-Kill becomes Megatron/Galvatron's SuperiorSuccessor.

* PocketDimension: Jack Harkness, using the TARDIS sensors, confirms that Equestria and it's star system exist in a small pocket world.

** G1 Applejack was indeed a "silly pony" as she was depicted in the UK comics.
* NamedByTheAdaptation:
** The G1 Twilight's full name is Twilight Wish.
** This [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/hasbroverse-omake-thread-the-elements-of-harmony-and-the-savior-of-worlds.368026/page-424#post-66370592 omake]] revealed that Sparkplug's wife's name was Mary.

*** The [[WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGoBots [=GoBots=]]] are also featured. But in this universe, they're [[AdaptationalSpeciesChange Cybertronians]], with Cy-Kill as Megatron/Galvatron's SuperiorSuccessor.

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: In one of the ''Side Stories'', President Abernathy is worried the State Department might have one replace Megan as a representative, since everypony in Equestria will be displeased if Megan isn't involved.

** G1 Applejack was indeed a "silly pony" as depicted in the UK comics.

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12051782/1/Bring-Them-Home Bring Them Home]]'' -- A raid behind Quintesson lines uncovers Autobots thought lost. Prequel to 'The Elements of Harmony and Savior of Worlds'.

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11956125/1/Wreck-and-Ruin Wreck and Ruin]]'' -- On an airless moon, the war ends for nine Decepticons. Prequel/side-story to 'The Elements of Harmony and Savior of Worlds'.

* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/30775/the-conversion-bureau-united-we-stand The Conversion Bureau: United we Stand]]'' -- A sequel to "Savior of Worlds," where [[Fanfic/TheConversionBureau a parallel universe]] threatens the new peace.

* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/453452/bargains-and-dragons Bargains and Dragons]]'' -- This is a crossover with the Dungeons and Dragons animated series from the 1980's, and is a Hasbroverse story, taking about two weeks or so after the events of United We Stand, in late 2012.

* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/460836/1/chaos-runs-rampant/chapter-one Chaos Runs Rampant]]'' a sequel to ''Savior of Worlds'' and ''United We Stand'', in which Discord escapes and wrecks havoc.

* AdaptationalVillainy: WordOfGod says that Discord will be more villainous than even in his debut episode.

* BadassBandolier: Megan wears one on her visits to Equestria, except at the Grand Galloping Gala.

* RetroUniverse: Hasbro Earth has the same history as the real world. Though it also includes interstellar travel, which follows the continuity of ''The Transformers'' cartoon.

* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:Celestia is the only one who knows Spike is the grandson of Spykoran, who prefers to keep it that way. At least for now.]]

** [[spoiler:Sting]].

** Twilight Sparkle, when Star-Swirl the Bearded is referred to as a "nut".

[[folder:Day of the Broken Fang]]
* AntiClimacticUnmasking: When Cobra Commander and his fellow escapees are unmasking to each other, everyone is expecting some mutated horror under the Commander's mask, but when he does so, he's just an ordinary guy with a moustache. The stories were just propaganda from Golobulus. It helps that Cobra Commander also underwent genetic and surgical reconstruction so that he'd look more human.
* BullyingADragon: The reason for Cobra's downfall and near-complete annihilation. See, while Cobra Commander was smart enough to realize that challenging the Decepticons was a seriously bad idea, Serpentor was... [[TooDumbToLive not that bright]]. In addition to not listening to anyone who told him that attacking the Decepticons was a bad idea, or considering that no human nation had ever successfully attacked the Decepticons without Autobot support, anyone who ''could'' have developed anti-Cybertronian weapons (and even that is a big maybe) left Cobra years ago, making any offensive actions against them suicidal. Megatron utterly annihilated Cobra in retaliation for an assault launched on his undersea base; there are only twelve confirmed survivors by the time of the story. (Cobra Commander himself, Destro and The Baroness -- who had quit Cobra and got married several years before Serpentor made his stupid decision -- Storm Shadow, Zarana, Zartan's daughter Zanya, half-a-dozen nameless Cobra grunts loyal enough to Cobra Commander that he took them with him when he escaped before the retaliatory strike, and dozens of former Cobra goons who either were laying low and got jobs at MARS industries, or got together years later). It's also rumored that Zartan survived, but it's unconfirmed. That attack went down in history as the ''[[TitleDrop Day of the Broken Fang]]''.
* CallForward: One scene in this fic is Megan and Mike Richards and their one-year-old daughter Danielle, watching the news about Cobra's demise. After Mike goes to bed, Megan and her sister Molly chat about what their old friends the ponies would think about it all.
* ContinuityNod: Joe Colton (as in the ''original'' G.I. Joe figure from 1964, and the namesake of the modern team) and his 1970s Adventure Team are mentioned at one point.
* CurbStompBattle: The entire Day of the Broken Fang, when the Decepticons annihilated COBRA with very little resistance. Only a few of COBRA's higher-ups survived, plus those who had the brains to get the hell out of dodge while they still had a chance like Cobra Commander himself.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler: For a member of G.I. JOE, there are few better ways to go out in a fight - [[HeroicSacrifice defending the West Point graduation ceremony from a COBRA remnant cell]] rearing its ugly head, and blasting the enemy cyborg commander to bits with an overloaded laser pistol. Yo Joe, Conrad 'Duke' Hauser]].
* EvilVsEvil: The Decepticons vs. COBRA. Decepticons win.
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: When Cobra Commander gets news of COBRA conducting an undersea military strike in the mid-Atlantic, he wonders what they could be attacking, before paling when he works out that the only potential underwater target in the area is the Decepticons' underwater base.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Cobra Commander in this continuity is a blend of his cartoon and Marvel Comics incarnation, so here he's a former used car salesman who stumbled upon Cobra-La during a trek around the world; Golobulus created his cartoon backstory, as [[SlaveToPR it would've been bad PR for him to have a human doing his dirty work]].
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Duke, still wounded in action from a previous mission, holds off a COBRA revival attack on West Point's graduation ceremony. Though he kills the ringleader, the cyborg Overkill, it's too much for his body to take]].
* OutsideRide: While escaping from Cobra Island's fortress, Cobra Commander brings two loyal vipers from the fortress to the docks in the flight pod he used to get there, with the two vipers hanging off the sides of the pod.
* KarmaHoudini: InUniverse, Cobra Commander; despite the fact he is based off of his comic incarnation (making him a ''lot'' more ruthless, effective, and deadly), he's one of the very few Cobra members who survived the Decepticon assault and is currently living comfortably in a mansion somewhere in upstate New York.
* MakeAnExampleOfThem: When Serpentor launched an offensive against the Decepticons that merely resulted in a few scratches to their base and several energon cubes destabilized (which set back Megatron's schedule), Megatron decided to respond to the audacious assault and send a message to humanity at the same time - by exterminating COBRA to a man. This is averted, though, as the biggest response that the Decepticons get is Megatron getting sent "Thank You" cards.
* ManlyTears:
** Billy can't help but cry when he receives a video from his father, ''Cobra Commander'', apologizing for how things turned out for their family.
** Abound at [[spoiler: Duke's funeral]].
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Megatron and the Decepticons, on hearing that Cobra's attack mildly damaged one part of his ship and may have spilled some Energon, completely obliterates Cobra (save for a few scattered survivors that had either already left, fled, or went into hiding). His goal is to show the PunyHumans of Earth [[MakeAnExampleOfThem the price of meddling in Decepticon affairs!]] He's naturally shocked and annoyed when the reaction he ''gets'' is that they start sending him "Thank You" E-Cards.
** The destruction of COBRA makes the nations of earth band together to form the EDC, which started forming alliances and eventually drove the Decepticons out of the Solar System.
* OhCrap: ''Multiple'' Cobra soldiers get this when they realize that Serpentor decided to attack the Decepticons, especially Cobra Commander. Some of the guards sent to arrest him jump ship the instant they're told why he objected to Serpentor's [[TooDumbToLive stupid, stupid plan.]]
* ProperlyParanoid: The reason Cobra Commander wants nothing to do with Cybertronians is that one fine day, a typical Cobra operation got crashed by Decepticons shooting up the place. After Soundwave and Starscream decided that the fleshling with the stupid mask would make a nifty last survivor to tell the world that mighty Megatron meant business, he issued an order that when robots in disguise showed up, Cobra troops were to drop what they were doing and run.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When Serpentor ordered COBRA's attack on the Decepticons, Cobra Commander panicked, grabbed every bank book[=/=]PIN number he could find, hopped on a hydrofoil with a half-dozen loyal soldiers, and got as far away from Cobra Island as humanly possible. Hence the reason why he was one of the only members to survive the resulting massacre. It should be noted that many of the "Loyal" soldiers were loyal to Serpentor right up until they were informed of what Serpentor did, at which point they, too, had this reaction.
* TakeCareOfTheKids: The essence of Zartan's final call to his sister Zarana as he and his brother Zandar are about to be attacked by the Insecticons, to tell her to take care of his daughter Zanya and that he loves both of them.
* TitleDrop: The ''Day of the Broken Fang'' is the name given by the media to the day Cobra was destroyed by the Decepticons.
* TooDumbToLive:
** Serpentor, who decided that it would be a great idea to attack the Decepticons' base of operations. ''Cobra Commander'' points out how monumentally stupid this is, even stating that no nation on Earth has managed to do this successfully, or create anti-Decepticon weaponry without Autobot aid. He even explains that the members of Cobra who ''could'' do that had already left, and that the ones remaining don't have the right scientific skills. When Serpentor decides to not listen, he [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere runs like hell]], and the soldiers he convinces to come with him are some of the ''very few'' members of Cobra who survive that day, most of whom remain in hiding.
** Cobra Commander later says the same about the cyborg Overkill trying to resurrect COBRA with woefully insufficient firepower to match the new EDC.
---> '''Cobra Commander:''' I mean seriously, fifty people, some tanks and some [=BATs=]? Did his hard drive crash or something?
* VideoWills: Billy finds himself receiving a video message from his father, ''Cobra Commander'', telling him of the death of COBRA (not the Commander himself though; he's still alive), and $100,000 to do with as he wishes.
* WorthyOpponent: Every surviving executive of COBRA is present at [[spoiler: Duke's funeral, all having nothing but respect to say for their JOE adversary. Destro makes clear to Cobra Commander that if he tries to start anything here, he will die]].
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** [[spoiler: Spike (and presumably all the other non-ponies of TCB!Earth) is unfortunately not going to be able to be turned back into a dragon, as there's no guarantee that the Potion Antidote will work on a non-human.]] And since the ones who made the antidote, as well as the potion itself, are all locked away in the RB!Equestria (Queen Celestia and TCB!Twilight are in prison, and RB!Twilight and Princess Celestia are back home without a way to contact the other universe) there's little chance anyone can find a way to turn them back.

* StupidEvil: Flutters, the TCB version of Fluttershy, is the only member of the TCB ponies whose actions can't be explained by logic. The others seem to take their element to a twisted conclusion, like Dash and AJ, or personal loyalty to Celestia, like Twilight. These can be explained or excused in one way or another based on their character, their circumstances, and their connection to their element. Flutters does not get this luxury, and instead hates the humans because she can't stand the thought of creatures- ''any'' creatures- eating other creatures, simply because it's part of their biology. This extends to the creatures under her care, which she's trying to teach not to eat meat and to instead eat plants (something that is ''extremely'' dangerous and hazardous to the animals in question), and ignores that humans can choose to not eat meat (as Vegetarians and Vegans do in real life). This is a point that the humans in "Savior of Worlds" were worried about but the ponies simply brushed off. In short, she's not basing her decision on the element she's linked to, making her seem more like a TakeThat against those who rally against the evils of meat-eating.