History FridgeHorror / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicSeason5

* The Nightmare Moon timeline is one of the more pleasant to live in because [[PragmaticVillainy she wants everyone to love her which they won't do if she treats them like dirt.]] Fair enough, but considering that her taking charge involved imprisoning [[OneHundredPercentAdorationRating Celestia]] in the moon and presumably quashing any other attempts to stop her, and everyone's initial fear when she resurfaced in the series premiere, her initial takeover probably didn't leave Equestria with much reason to love her. While we don't see many others beyond Rarity and Rainbow Dash react to Nightmare Moon's rule, the point remains that, in the "years" that Celestia has been stated to be trapped on the moon for, Nightmare Moon was basically trying to invoke Equestria-wide ''Stockholm Syndrome''.

[[folder: The Cutie Map, Parts 1 & 2 ]]

** Given recent evidence I think the original train of thought is the best "concrete" idea out there. If we have to pin it down and not leave it up to [[NothingIsScarier Nothing is Scarier]]; then if we consider the Season 7 Episode Royal Problems and what little we see of her, Daybreaker AKA Evil/Nightmare Celestia, I think is as good a culprit as we currently can ge. In the end Fans have been thinking on the existence of Evil Celestia/Nightmare Sun|Star/Solarflare/Daybreaker for years, and yet the episode depicts her worse that we could imagine. A monstrous and fiery psychopath with the powers of the Sun itself at her command and a complete disregard for anything other than herself; she possess more than enough might and the requisite depravity to burn the world to ashes and create the barren wasteland pictured as the "worst" of the bad futures.

* In ''"A Royal Problem"'', when Celestia is stuck with Luna's nightly job(long story), she quickly begins talking to herself, indicating that she is ''very'' unaccustomed to being without anyone to talk to. And that was mere minutes before she called in Luna. We don't know how many years Celestia was trapped on the moon in the Nightmare Moon timeline, but it was probably more than sufficient for her to GoMadFromTheIsolation.

* Diamond Tiara only had a few non-speaking cameos after this episode Is her mother keeping a tighter rein on her now?

* As of halfway through Season 7, Diamond Tiara has made a few cameos but has yet to have another speaking role after this episode. Is her mother keeping a tighter rein on her now?

* Suddenly Diamond Tiara's KickTheDog action of mocking Scootaloo for being flightless makes a disturbing amount of sense. Spoiled Rich probably knows at least a few noble ponies who are Pegasi so Scootaloo isn't being demonized for her race/species. But all of the Pegasi Spoiled Rich knows are capable of flight (in fact, Scootaloo is the only Pegasus who's had any degree of focus who can't do more than hover; even Fluttershy can fly ''extremely'' well if needed). So combine Scootaloo's lack of Cutie Mark with her inability to do the one thing ''every'' known member of her race can do and you get someone that Spoiled Rich not only would want her daughter to look down on and belittle but someone Spoiled Rich ''might not even think deserves to be alive''. Yikes...
** And how would Spoiled Rich react to Diamond Tiara ''losing'' a prestigious position to Scootaloo? Or Diamond losing her position as head of the "Foal Free Press"? ? Or anything else? KarmaHoudiniWarranty much?

* Fluttershy can somehow get her hooves on stuffed animals...as in killed and gutted animals.

** Even if those treats ''aren't'' made of pony, griffons are still presumably carnivores. [[CaptainObvious Ponies are herbivores]].

* Given how much Spoiled Rich abuses her daughter, [[DomesticAbuser what are the chances that she treats her husband any better?]]
** And that could pull Filthy Rich's demonizing portrayal in this episode into a new light. What if he's only doing it because his wife thinks he should and he's only able to be the pony we've seen him as when she's not around [[DomesticAbuser because she hurls verbal abuse or worse on him the instant they're out of the public eye if she catches him treating their "inferiors" well]].

* Something not mentioned yet. While the village looks calm and peaceful, it's almost completely lifeless. Remember, with earth ponies equalized, their unable to grow plants and till the land. With the pegasi equalized their unable to manage weather, preventing the land from getting the sunlight it needed to grow plants in the first place. So if Starlight hadn't been stopped when she was, the entire community would have eventually starved anyway.

** For that matter, given his "Sometimes you have to pay dirty to win" line... what if this was how he "earned" the record in the first place?

** It was actually a [[spoiler]]bear dressd as a[[/spoiler]] Gill-Man style fish monster. Still, the fact that ''nopony'' wondered what it was could indeed imply familiarity.

* Bon Bon a.k.a. Special Agent Sweetie Drops was the one who first captured the bugbear, said that it was in Ponyville to find her, and ran out on Lyra to keep her safe from harm after explaining the situation. Was she spilling her secrets now because she expected the bugbear to kill her?