History NightmareFuel / MyLittlePonyAndFriends

[[caption-width-right:240:Yes, clearly a show for [[StopBeingStereotypical little girls]].[[note]] List of episodes, clockwise from top to bottom: Rescue at Midnight Castle, The Return of Tambelon, Bright Lights and The Ghost of Paradise Estate.[[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:240:Yes, clearly a show for [[StopBeingStereotypical little girls]].[[note]] List of episodes, clockwise from center: Rescue at Midnight Castle, The Return of Tambelon, Bright Lights and The Ghost of Paradise Estate.[[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:240:Yes, clearly a show for [[StopBeingStereotypical little girls]].[[note]] List of episodes, lockwise from center: Rescue at Midnight Castle, The Return of Tambelon, Bright Lights and The Ghost of Paradise Estate.[[/note]]]]

* Tirac and Catrina are full of nightmare fuel, and are part of the show as the pilot (Rescue at Midnight Castle was treated like this for the longest time) or independent episodes within the series. Nightmare fuel for both can be found [[NightmareFuel/MyLittlePonyTVSpecials here]].

* The opening to "Return to Tambelon", with the unicorns disappearing after winking out with no explanation as to why. Grogar himself is pretty nasty too, at one point shooting lightning at the ponies with intent to kill and being nigh-unstoppable until the finale.

** The shadow-less ponies in "Bright Lights" advancing on Knight Shade. The angle they're shot at makes them look like ''zombies''. This is even worse because this is Knight-Shade's ''hometown'' which are essentially forming a lynch mob to try and kill him for something Erebus tricked him into doing.

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** The shadow-less ponies in "Bright Lights" advancing on Knight Shade. The angle they're shot at makes them look like ''zombies''. This is even worse because this is Knight-Shade's ''hometown'' which are essentially forming a lynch mob to try and kill him for something Arabus tricked him into doing.

** The shadow-less ponies in "Bright Lights" advancing on Knight Shade. The angle they're shot at makes them look like ''zombies''.

* Princess Porcina turning Ponyland and its inhabitants into glass. She's not even aware of what she's done at first, saying that when she looked through her mirror the ponies didn't seem real.

!! ''My Little Pony''

* Then we have "Somnambula", which seems to owe something to ''[[WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries The Lorelei Signal]]''. We have a witch who lets every pony live their dream, with everything they wanted, [[spoiler:even as she saps their energy, accelerating their aging so fast that in a matter of hours they're really long in the tooth]].

** The shadow-less ponies in "Bright Lights" advancing on Knight Shade. The angle they're shot at makes them look like ''zombies''!

!! ''Moondreamers''

* The Night Mare, appropriately enough: an equine monster that the star-horse Andromeda turns into after falling into Monstrous Middle. If horses seem mundane to most people, the transformed Andromeda effectively illustrates how scary a horse might seem to hippophobiacs like the two-parter's human protagonist Timmy.
* In the Night Mare, there is a brief moment where thunder illuminates a statue built in honour of the Evil Queen and it does honour her nightmarish role.
* Monstrous Middle itself is a pretty terrifying place. Among gruesome monsters and horror-themed locations like dark woods and Castle Insomnia with an air so foul that it transforms space animals into abominations of nature, one could easily consider it an EldritchLocation made of negative energy.

* The Night Mare, appropriately enough: an equine monster that the star-horse Andromeda turns into after falling into Monstrous Middle. If horses seem mundane to most people, the transformed Andromeda effectively illustrates how scary a horse might seem to hippophobiacs like the two-parter's human protagonist Timmy. (Although, revisiting the show as a grown up, the Night Mare is predictably less scary, though still a surprisingly good piece of creature design.)

* Monstrous Middle itself is a pretty terrifying place. Among gruesome monsters and horror-themed locations like dark woods and Castle Insomnia with an air so foul that it transforms space animals into abominations of nature, one could easily consider it an EldritchLocation made of negative energy.

* "Would Be Dragonslayer" has a prince trying to ''kill Spike'' for the sake of his beloved.

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* "The Golden Horseshoes" has Mimic falling ill for no reason. Her symptoms include weakness, a pale complexion, no appetite, and even the loss of the twinkle in her eye.

** At one point in part 8, literally ''every'' heroic character is either captured or missing.

** At one point in part 8, literally ''every'' heroic character is either captured or presumed dead.

* The chair monster in "The Ghost of Paradise Estate."

* "The Quest of the Princess Ponies" has Lavan, a lava demon who turns himself into a crystal being with the Princess Ponies' wands and unbalances the magic of Ponyland.

* The opening to "Return to Tambelon", with the unicorns disappearing after winking out with no explanation as to why. Grogar himself is pretty nasty too, at one point shooting lightning at the ponies with intent to kill.

* "Fugitive Flowers" has the Flories, plant-like creatures who exploit the fact that they look innocent to trick the Ponies into defeating their enemies, the benevolent yet fierce-looking Crabnasties, and then suck the life out of the soil from Posey's garden, killing everything around themselves and growing into giant, ugly monsters who plan to drink the life from the entire valley.

** They also form some great UncannyValley [[NightmareFace Nightmare Faces]] during the musical number they sing.