History MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic / TropesCToD

* CrapsaccharineWorld: While the show features bright colors and themes of friendship, kindness, etc., there are a plethora of [[VileVillainSaccharineShow life-threatening and ruthless villains]] underneath it all, and the ones that are worse than [[VillainyFreeVillain others]] come frighteningly close to potentially killing the heroes.

*** Philomena to [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Philamena]].

*** From the WebGames ''[[http://www.hubworld.com/my-little-pony/shows/friendship-is-magic/games/mlpfim-ponymaker The Fabulous PonyMaker]]'' and/or ''[[http://royalwedding.hosting-hasbro.com/fashion.html Rarity's Bridal Boutique]]'', one of the available cutie marks is Music/TheAquabats' mascot, and some of the available parts look ''{{Transformers}}''-y (the former game even has said parts together as one of its costume {{Easter Egg}}s, complete with sound effect).

* DragonsAreDemonic: Dragons are seen as AlwaysChaoticEvil by the ponies at the beginning of the series, with Spike being the only exception. Even he falls into this when he [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E10SecretOfMyExcess begins to indulge his more selfish impulses]] and begins growing into a giant dragon that terrorizes Ponyville. And the [[TeensAreMonsters teenage dragons]] Spike meets later are little more than [[TheBully bullies]]. Starts to get {{subverted}} in later seasons with the introduction of more reasonable and friendly dragons.

* DramaQueen: Rarity provides the page image for this.
** Some of Twilight's freakouts are also pretty epic. Maybe it's a unicorn thing.

** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E26ACanterlotWeddingPart2 A Canterlot Wedding, Part 2]]" has the villain point out their NearVillainVictory was possible because Twilight's friends dismissed her warnings as jealously to [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Twilight's ashamed friends]]]].
--->'''[[spoiler:Queen Chrysalis]]:''' It's funny, really. Twilight here was suspicious of my behavior all along. Too bad the rest of you were too caught up in your wedding planning to realize the suspicions were correct!

** The rainbow that flies through Equestria in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E26TwilightsKingdomPart2 Twilight's Kingdom, Part 2]]" is seen by everypony who gave the Mane Six their keys - Coco Pommel, Spitfire and the Wonderbolts, Cheese Sandwich, Seabreeze, Silver Shill, and Discord last of all.

** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E12PinkiePride Pinkie Pride]]", we see Pinkie's sister [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E18MaudPie Maud Pie]] as a filly in a photo six whole episodes before Maud - now grown up - shows up in person.

*** Tirek's brother Scorpan is shown in the story flashback to go off with a unicorn wizard; though the name is not said, this is clearly meant to be Star Swirl the Bearded, based on similar imagery from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E11ThreesACrowd Three's A Crowd]]".

** [[RealityWarper Discord]] fashions himself quite an evil-looking throne - a dark gray and deep red color scheme, a stylized skull shape with pointed teeth at the top, and a huge pair of antlers sprouting from the skull for added demonic imagery - and plops it right in the middle of Ponyville so that he can observe [[RealityIsOutToLunch the chaos he's wrought]] firsthand.

** [[spoiler:At the end of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E26TwilightsKingdomPart2 Twilight's Kingdom]]", Twilight gains a castle in Ponyville after the library is destroyed. It contains seven thrones arranged in a circle - a full-sized one for each of the Mane Six, set with their cutie marks, and a smaller seventh one for Spike next to Twilight's.]]

** In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E25ACanterlotWeddingPart1 "A Canterlot Wedding - Part 1"]], the main six are called to help plan Princess Cadance's wedding. Twilight Sparkle, the only one of the group who knows Cadance from her childhood, is taken aback when Cadance doesn't seem to remember her--and she gets more suspicious as Cadance exhibits {{Bridezilla}} behaviors quite unlike the kind pony Twilight remembers. But Twilight's suspicions fall on deaf ears as the rest of her friends, and the groom and Princess Celestia, just write off Cadance's behavior as the effects of pre-wedding jitters. Just as Twilight begins to doubt herself, Cadance captures and imprisons her, proving [[SubvertedSuspicionAesop Twilight was right to be suspicious all along]]. The [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E26ACanterlotWeddingPart2 followup episode]] reveals that the real Princess Cadance had been captured and replaced by the shapeshifter Queen Chrysalis. And when Chrysalis is on the verge of victory, she rubs salt in the main six's wounds by {{lampshad|eHanging}}ing how no one believed the one pony who was correct about her from the start.

* DomainHolder: King Sombra seems able to warp the Crystal Empire to his liking. He turns it into a {{Mordor}} (complete with a RedSkyTakeWarning), makes it vanish through space and time, and even creates BiggerOnTheInside chambers (as part of his CrazyPrepared security system) inside the Crystal Castle.

** In the Romanian dub, Celestia's name is pronounced with a "ch" sound instead of an "s" one, although the first two Equestria Girls movies keep the English pronunciation. In season 2, Cadance is called "Ke-d?ns" instead of "Kay-d?ns", but future seasons translate her name to Caden?a. Philomena is pronounced "Filamena" instead of "Filamina". In the case of places, Manehattan is pronounced the same as Manhattan, while Equestria is pronounced "Ek-ves-tri-a".

*** Applejack: "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E4ApplebuckSeason Applebuck Season]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E8LookBeforeYouSleep Look Before You Sleep]]" (Shared w/ Rarity), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E13FallWeatherFriends Fall Weather Friends]]" (Shared w/ Rainbow Dash), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E14TheLastRoundup The Last Roundup]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E9AppleFamilyReunion Apple Family Reunion]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMAgicS3E10SpikeAtYourService Spike At Your Service]]" (Shared w/ Spike), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E7Bats Bats!]]" (Shared w/ Fluttershy), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E13SimpleWays Simple Ways]]" (Shared w/ Rarity), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E20LeapOfFaith Leap of Faith]]"

* CharacterExaggeration: Used lightly in later episodes (which focus more on individual characters, as opposed to the initial stories which focused more on the whole ensemble and their bonds) and so intensify some of their defining quirks for {{Aesop}}s and obstacles. Perhaps most noticeable is Twilight Sparkle, after growing out of her FishOutOfWater status in Ponyville; Twilight-centered episodes focused more on her overcoming her (originally more subtle) neurotics and fears of failure, establishing her as a SuperOCD NervousWreck. Most examples are kept balanced by proper CharacterDevelopment, however, and their other traits are still used prominently, shielding them from {{Flanderization}}.

** [[IncrediblyLamePun Mane]] 6 collectively: "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E9BridleGossip Bridle Gossip]]" (Shared w/ Apple Bloom), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E10SwarmOfTheCentury Swarm of the Century]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel Over A Barrel]]", "[[SeasonFinale The Best]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E26TheBestNightEver Night Ever]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E13HearthsWarmingEve Hearth's Warming Eve]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E3CastleManeia Castle Mane-ia]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E19TradeYa Trade Ya]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E3CastleSweetCastle Castle Sweet Castle]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E13DoPrincessesDreamOfMagicSheep Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep?]]" (Shared w/ Princess Luna)

*** Apple Bloom: "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E9BridleGossip Bridle Gossip]] (Shared w/ the [[IncrediblyLamePun Mane]] 6), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E12CallOfTheCutie Call of the Cutie]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E6TheCutiePox The Cutie Pox]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E11FamilyAppreciationDay Family Appreciation Day]]" (Shared w/ Granny Smith), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E17SomeponyToWatchOverMe Somepony To Watch Over Me]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E4BloomAndGloom Bloom and Gloom]]"

** The [[IncrediblyLamePun mane]] Cast eventually manages to do the same.

* DysfunctionJunction: A light example. Every [[IncrediblyLamePun mane]] character has had her turn at going completely around the bend, some more extreme than others. Particularly, it tends to happen when a character finds their special talent, marked by their Cutie Mark, just not working how they'd expect.

*** Hummingway is called Hemingway, presumably to avoid copyright issues due to a character from [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV a Japanese game]] also [[NamesTheSame being named Hummingway]].

* DropInCharacter: Done frequently. Though an EnsembleCast show, whoever is the central character of the episode in question will frequently find themselves badgered by uninvited guests. Aloof GrumpyBear Twilight Sparkle is naturally the most frequent victim to this, most often from [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace Pinkie Pie]] (who has a tendency to bring a party load of other Drop In Characters along with her) and Rainbow Dash, who often ''[[CaptainCrash crashes]]'' into someone's house.

*** The changelings are referred to as mutanti (Italian folklore has no equivalent of changeling myths and consequently lacks a native word for changelings).