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*** The fic shows that Scootaloo lives with her father who is divorced from his wife. Season 9 episode "The Last Crusade" revealed that Scootaloo's parents have been away traveling and are still together.

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*** ** The fic shows that Scootaloo lives with her father father, who is divorced from his wife. The Season 9 episode "The Last Crusade" revealed that Scootaloo's parents have been away traveling and Scootaloo lives with her aunts while her parents, who are still together.together, work abroad.
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* ''Fanfic/DashsNewMom'' centers around Rainbow Dash's widower father getting a new girlfriend, and Rainbow's reaction to the event. After the fanfic's completion, "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E7ParentalGlideance Parental Glideance]]" revealed that Rainbow's mother was still alive.

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* ''Fanfic/DashsNewMom'' centers around Rainbow Dash's widower father getting a new girlfriend, and Rainbow's reaction to the event. After the fanfic's completion, "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E7ParentalGlideance Parental Glideance]]" revealed that Rainbow's mother was is still alive.
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* ''Fanfic/{{Antipodes}}'': As the story was written and drafted partway through Season 1, before the majority of the show's run and consequently before the introduction and exploration of several characters and setting elements, a lot of its elements show their age:
** The core premise of the story is that, with Princess Celestia and Princess Luna gone, the sun and moon can no longer be moved and remain permanently fixed in the sky, burning on side of the world and freezing the other. Show episodes that aired after this story came out established that the celestial bodies can be moved just fine by other beings, including groups of unicorns working in concert.

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* ''Fanfic/{{Antipodes}}'': As the story was written and drafted partway through Season 1, before the majority of the show's run and consequently before the introduction and exploration of several characters and setting elements, a lot of its the fic's own elements show their age:
** The core premise of the story is that, with Princess Celestia and Princess Luna gone, the sun and moon can no longer be moved and remain permanently fixed in the sky, burning on one side of the world and freezing the other. Show episodes that aired after this story came out established that the celestial bodies can be moved just fine by other beings, including groups of unicorns working in concert.
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* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/168683/patience-she-said Patience, She Said]]'' has Spike on the last day of his life roughly a thousand years after all his friends have passed away. In "Campfire Tales", Lord Torch is shown as an adult dragon in Rainbow Dash's story about Flash Magnus, which takes place over a thousand years prior to the series, while in the present he looks to be not that far into his middle ages. This pretty much confirms that dragons live much longer than a thousand years.

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* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/168683/patience-she-said Patience, She Said]]'' has Spike on the last day of his life roughly a thousand years after all his friends have passed away. In "Campfire Tales", Lord "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E16CampfireTales Campfire Tales]]", Torch is shown as an adult a fully grown dragon in Rainbow Dash's story about Flash Magnus, which takes place over a thousand years prior to the series, while in the present he looks to be not that far into his middle ages. This pretty much confirms that dragons live much longer than a thousand years.
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* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/168683/patience-she-said Patience, She Said]]'' has Spike on the last day of his life roughly a thousand years after all his friends have passed away. In "Campfire Tales", Lord Torch is shown as an adult dragon in Rainbow Dash's story about Flash Magnus, which takes place over a thousand years prior to the series, while in the present he looks to be not that far into his middle ages. This all but says that dragons live much longer than a thousand years.

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* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/168683/patience-she-said Patience, She Said]]'' has Spike on the last day of his life roughly a thousand years after all his friends have passed away. In "Campfire Tales", Lord Torch is shown as an adult dragon in Rainbow Dash's story about Flash Magnus, which takes place over a thousand years prior to the series, while in the present he looks to be not that far into his middle ages. This all but says pretty much confirms that dragons live much longer than a thousand years.
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* The song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrEfbBdxt10 Crusade No More]]" by Replacer, uploaded in 2012, is about the Cutie Mark Crusaders getting their Cutie Marks and splitting, as the have more important things to do now that they no longer need to try different things in search of their special talents. Come season 5, the CMC get their Cutie Marks in canon, and they get them at the same time, with their special talents being to help other ponies find ''their'' Cutie Marks, which requires them to keep working together.

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* The song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrEfbBdxt10 Crusade No More]]" by Replacer, uploaded in 2012, is about the Cutie Mark Crusaders getting their Cutie Marks and splitting, splitting up, as the they have more important things to do now that they no longer need to try different things in search of their special talents. Come season 5, the CMC get their Cutie Marks in canon, and they get them at the same time, with their special talents being to help other ponies find ''their'' with Cutie Marks, Mark-related issues, which requires them to keep working together.
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As a show whose fandom exploded in popularity very early on, before many plot developments, ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' naturally has a lot of fanworks that have been OutdatedByCanon.

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* ''Fanfic/{{Antipodes}}'': As the story was written and drafted partway through Season 1, before the majority of the show's run and consequently before the introduction and exploration of several characters and setting elements, a lot of its elements show their age:
** The core premise of the story is that, with Princess Celestia and Princess Luna gone, the sun and moon can no longer be moved and remain permanently fixed in the sky, burning on side of the world and freezing the other. Show episodes that aired after this story came out established that the celestial bodies can be moved just fine by other beings, including groups of unicorns working in concert.
** The basic idea of Celestia and Luna being transcendent {{Physical God}}desses older than the world also became distinctly dated, as alicorns were eventually established as being essentially just very special ponies and the two princesses as themselves not being very magically powerful outside of specific contexts, in addition to not being much over a thousand years old.
* ''Fanfic/{{Bubbles}}'' depicts Derpy Hooves as developmentally and physically impaired. Her later canonical characterization has her as a [[TheDitz ditz]] with some vision impairments due to a lazy eye.
* ''Fanfic/ClaroDeLuna'' was written prior to "Luna Eclipsed" and depicts Luna as a slightly shy, adorkable mare with a short mane (like her [[EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference season 1]] design). It also features ponies that age like actual horses instead of comparable to humans.
* The song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrEfbBdxt10 Crusade No More]]" by Replacer, uploaded in 2012, is about the Cutie Mark Crusaders getting their Cutie Marks and splitting, as the have more important things to do now that they no longer need to try different things in search of their special talents. Come season 5, the CMC get their Cutie Marks in canon, and they get them at the same time, with their special talents being to help other ponies find ''their'' Cutie Marks, which requires them to keep working together.
* As ''Webcomic/CutieMarkCrusaders10k'' began during season 3 of ''Friendship is Magic'', several elements contradict information established later in the show's run:
** The Cutie Mark Crusaders' Cutie Marks are all drastically different from each other instead of having the same base shield with differing emblems; Apple Bloom has a mug of cider, Scootaloo has a scooter, and Sweetie Belle has a pair of bells.
** Trixie's magic aura is red regardless of whether the Alicorn Amulet is affecting her powers; later episodes make it clear that the red is a side effect of using the Amulet and her natural magic color is pink.
** As an adult, Spike has a lanky build instead of his bulky one from the series finale.
** While the Changelings have performed a HeelRaceTurn and gained more individualistic appearances, the former event didn't lead to the latter happening like it did in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E26ToWhereAndBackAgainPart2 To Where and Back Again]]"; the Changeling drones gained their distinct looks after getting into the hive's supply of royal jelly, then joined forces with the ponies. Additionally, the redeemed drones look the same as they did before except for having hair and Chrysalis' eyes instead of being colorful beetles.
* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/8075/darkest-before-dawn Darkest Before Dawn]]'' depicted the young Twilight Sparkle as an only child, but "A Canterlot Wedding" revealed that she has an older brother, Shining Armor. The author originally planned to do more "books" chronicling each school year, but canceled it after finishing Year 1 because of this.
* ''Fanfic/DashsNewMom'' centers around Rainbow Dash's widower father getting a new girlfriend, and Rainbow's reaction to the event. After the fanfic's completion, "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E7ParentalGlideance Parental Glideance]]" revealed that Rainbow's mother was still alive.
* ''Fanfic/KindnesssReward'' has this in several fashions:
** The story predates the IDW comics canonizing that Trixie grew up with a single mother. ''Kindness's Reward'' depicts Trixie as growing in an orphanage until she ran away.
** The story revolves around Fluttershy taking in a deathly ill Trixie. Later episodes confirm that Fluttershy's medical skills apply only to woodland animals, not ponies.
** The plot begins with Trixie being lost in the Everfree Forest for weeks. The series later showed that Trixie actually went drifting and ended up working on the Pie's farm for a while.
* ''Music/LullabyForAPrincess'' depicts Celestia versus Nightmare Moon. It was animated prior to the official version and deviates in many manners. For example, Celestia had a pink mane in the animation that [[LockedIntoStrangeness changed colours]] upon using the Elements of Harmony, but in canon Celestia had her current mane even back then. The fight is also more action packed and dramatic than the official portrayal. Celestia breaks out in tears at the end of the battle. In canon, Celestia ''does'' shed tears but it's a far more subdued reaction than in ''Lullaby for a Princess''.
* ''Music/TheMoonRises'' depicts Starswirl as being around during the Nightmare Moon incident. Later episodes revealed that he was long gone by then.
* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/168683/patience-she-said Patience, She Said]]'' has Spike on the last day of his life roughly a thousand years after all his friends have passed away. In "Campfire Tales", Lord Torch is shown as an adult dragon in Rainbow Dash's story about Flash Magnus, which takes place over a thousand years prior to the series, while in the present he looks to be not that far into his middle ages. This all but says that dragons live much longer than a thousand years.
* In ''Fanfic/PrincessTrixieSparkle'' it is revealed that Starswirl the Bearded turned into and is now trapped as the Tree of Harmony. While season 7 did reveal a connection between Starswirl and the Tree, he seeded it (with the other Pillars of Equestria) rather than morph into it. He was, however, trapped in Limbo afterward.
* ''Fanfic/{{Progress}}'' uses Luna's design from the pilot and depicts her as an adorkable FishOutOfTemporalWater.
* ''WebAnimation/{{Strangers}}'' features an older Sweetie Belle. It predates Sweetie getting her Cutie Mark and thus it uses her G3 mark instead of her canonical G4 one.
* The webcomic ''Time Fades'' has an elderly Spike recounting the lives of the Mane Six and himself up to their deaths. It came out around the time of Seasons 6 and 7 and so contradicts those seasons and the GrandFinale in a few ways:
** None of Spike's lanky adult forms resemble his beefy adult form in canon.
** Twilight remains in her normal body proportions. The DistantFinale shows her grown into Princess Celestia's proportions.
** The Changelings war with Equestria. In canon, they [[HeelRaceTurn reform]] and become allies before any such conflict. They also get new forms.
** Twilight becomes ruler of Equestria after Changeling impostors kill Celestia and Luna. In canon, Twilight became ruler after the Princesses retired.
** Queen Chrysalis' final fate involves her being murdered. In canon, her final fate was [[TakenForGranite to be turned to stone]].
** Prior to becoming Captain of the Wonderbolts, Rainbow Dash loses a wing during the war with the Changelings and is forced to wear a metal one for the rest of her life. While the fic predicted that Dash would join the Bolts and eventually become Captain, she had both wings intact as of the GrandFinale.
* ''Fanfic/TheVinylScratchTapes'' has Vinyl tear into Princess Celestia for banishing Luna to the moon. Almost all of her arguments were {{Jossed}} both by WordOfGod and canonical episodes, to the point a later chapter has Luna explain in detail to Vinyl why she was wrong.
* 2015's ''Fanfic/WhenTheBoughBreaks'' revolves around Cadance and Shining Armor having a stillborn pegasus son. They would later canonically have an alicorn daughter.
* ''Fanfic/WhyAmICrying'' was written prior to season 5 episode "Crusaders of The Lost Mark" and so contradicts that episode and some others, besides Diamond Tiara not dying before that season and surviving into adulthood:
** Diamond Tiara's mother is revealed to be dead having passed away due to complications with the pregnancy of Diamond Tiara's little brother, and her name was Crystal Eyes. In canon, Diamond Tiara is an only child and her mother's name is established as Spoiled Rich who's shown to be very much alive and unfortunately nowhere as nice as Diamond Tiara's mother in the story was implied to be.
** The Cutie Mark Crusaders are implied to have gained their Cutie Marks separately (it is mentioned Scootaloo got hers last). In canon, the Crusaders gained their marks at the same time.
** Diamond Tiara's Cutie Mark is explained to represent a desire to be like her mom - a model. In canon, Spoiled Rich is not a model and the Cutie Mark was revealed to represent Diamond Tiara's skill of leadership.
*** The fic shows that Scootaloo lives with her father who is divorced from his wife. Season 9 episode "The Last Crusade" revealed that Scootaloo's parents have been away traveling and are still together.
** The final chapter, where the CMC are adults, has a future version of Ponyville that has Twilight still living there. In the show's GrandFinale, Twilight returned to live in Canterlot while the CMC were still children.

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