History WebVideo / MLPAnalysis

The trend originally began from the rise to popularity of WebVideo/BeatriceTheGoldenWitch[[note]]Who has since retired, becoming an anime analyst and later a musician and general vlogger[[/note]], in early 2013/late 2012.

** Similarly, Beatrice (going by Digibrony in her MLP analysis days) has a massive fondness for Applejack.

** Beatrice (going by Digibrony in her MLP analysis days, when she was still presenting as a man) once grew one, then she [[SubvertedTrope shaved it off]]

* BigDamnHeroes: Tommy Oliver pulls this in "Thoroughly Fanboying: The Return of Harmony" to restore a recently [[BrainwashedAndCrazy discorded]] Beatrice (going by Digibrony at the time);, by reminding her of her love for the franchise.

** Beatrice (known as Digibrony in her MLP analysis days) sometimes comes off like this since her style shift.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Beatrice's redesign (going by Digibrony in her MLP analysis days), complete with her smoking a cigarette.

%%*** Beatrice (going by Digibrony in her MLP analysis days) was initially an optimist, but slowly became either a Cynic or an Apathetic as season four went along.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: [=AntonyC=] as well as Voice of Reason and Tommy Oliver. Beatrice (known as Digibrony in her MLP analysis days) can appear as this after her redesign.

** Beatrice (known as Digibrony in her MLP analysis days) was the one who gave the reviewers their official home on Reddit, and has admitted to taking on this role in her social circles. She's since publicly disavowed this status with an [[DarkerAndEdgier edgy new style]]. [[BrokenBase Fan reaction was mixed.]] After that, though, she abandoned that style.
** In Beatrice's (known as Digibrony in her MLP analysis days) absence, Silver Quill, Josh Scorcher, and Dr. Wolf have more or less come to act as the group's unofficial leaders. Each could respectively be described as primarily charismatic, headstrong, and levelheaded.

** Less so now that Beatrice (known as Digibrony in her MLP analysis days) has gone off on her own.

* WhyTheFandomCantHaveNiceThings: Beatrice (known as Digibrony in her MLP analysis days) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5tRX246-AA made this video]] to completely slam the amount of immature and ridiculous Website/YouTube comments she got from her video, "Your Anime Sucks: Sword Art Online S1", and she is frustrated to the point where she proclaims, at the end of the video, that the replies on the next "Your Anime Sucks" videos will all be disabled.

The trend originally began from the rise to popularity of WebVideo/{{BeatriceTheGoldenWitch}}[[note]]Who has since retired, becoming an anime analyst and later a musician and general vlogger[[/note]], in early 2013/late 2012.

The trend originally began from the rise to popularity of WebVideo/{{Diginee}}[[note]]Who has since retired and is now an anime analyst[[/note]], in early 2013/late 2012.

** Similarly, Digi has a massive fondness for Applejack.

** Digi-neé once grew one, then she [[SubvertedTrope shaved it off]]

* BigDamnHeroes: Tommy Oliver pulls this in "Thoroughly Fanboying: The Return of Harmony" to restore a recently [[BrainwashedAndCrazy discorded]] Digi-neé, by reminding her of her love for the franchise.

** Digi sometimes comes off like this since her style shift.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Digi-neé's redesign, complete with her smoking a cigarette.

%%*** Digi was initially an optimist, but slowly became either a Cynic or an Apathetic as season four went along.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: [=AntonyC=] as well as Voice of Reason and Tommy Oliver. Digi-neé can appear as this after her redesign.

** Digi-neé was the one who gave the reviewers their official home on Reddit, and has admitted to taking on this role in her social circles. She's since publicly disavowed this status with an [[DarkerAndEdgier edgy new style]]. [[BrokenBase Fan reaction was mixed.]] After that, though, she abandoned that style.
** In Digi's absence, Silver Quill, Josh Scorcher, and Dr. Wolf have more or less come to act as the group's unofficial leaders. Each could respectively be described as primarily charismatic, headstrong, and levelheaded.

** Less so now that Digi has gone off on her own.

* WhyTheFandomCantHaveNiceThings: Digi-neé [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5tRX246-AA made this video]] to completely slam the amount of immature and ridiculous Website/YouTube comments she got from her video, "Your Anime Sucks: Sword Art Online S1", and she is frustrated to the point where she proclaims, at the end of the video, that the replies on the next "Your Anime Sucks" videos will all be disabled.

* AffablyEvil: [=ToonKriticY2K=] demonstrates shades of this[[labelnote:*]]though the evil part was not known yet[[/labelnote]] at the end of Lightning Bliss' slice-and-dice of the ''WesternAnimation/RainbowBrite'' reboot (which reduces even her SuperpoweredEvilSide to a sobbing wreck), he comes with [=GoldenFox=], offering genuine consolation.

** Cartoonz was thought to be the Hyde to ToonKritic's Jekyll, until [[EvilAllAlong Toon's]] RealLife [[EvilAllAlong skeletons in the closet]] came to light.

** Cartoonz is the Hyde to ToonKritic's Jekyll.

** Digi-neé once grew one, then he [[SubvertedTrope shaved it off]]

* BigDamnHeroes: Tommy Oliver pulls this in "Thoroughly Fanboying: The Return of Harmony" to restore a recently [[BrainwashedAndCrazy discorded]] Digi-neé, by reminding him of his love for the franchise.

** Digi sometimes comes off like this since his style shift.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: [=AntonyC=] as well as Voice of Reason and Tommy Oliver. Digi-neé can appear as this after his redesign.

** Digi-neé was the one who gave the reviewers their official home on Reddit, and has admitted to taking on this role in his social circles. He's since publicly disavowed this status with an [[DarkerAndEdgier edgy new style]]. [[BrokenBase Fan reaction was mixed.]] After that, though, he abandoned that style.

The trend originally began from the rise to popularity of WebVideo/{{Digibro}}[[note]]Who has since retired and is now an anime analyst[[/note]], in early 2013/late 2012.

** Digibrony once grew one, then he [[SubvertedTrope shaved it off]]

* BigDamnHeroes: Tommy Oliver pulls this in "Thoroughly Fanboying: The Return of Harmony" to restore a recently [[BrainwashedAndCrazy discorded]] Digibrony, by reminding him of his love for the franchise.

* DarkerAndEdgier: [=DigiBrony=]'s redesign, complete with him smoking a cigarette.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: [=AntonyC=] as well as Voice of Reason and Tommy Oliver. Digibrony can appear as this after his redesign.

** Digibrony was the one who gave the reviewers their official home on Reddit, and has admitted to taking on this role in his social circles. He's since publicly disavowed this status with an [[DarkerAndEdgier edgy new style]]. [[BrokenBase Fan reaction was mixed.]] After that, though, he abandoned that style.

** Less so now that Digi has gone off on his own.

* WhyTheFandomCantHaveNiceThings: Digibro [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5tRX246-AA made this video]] to completely slam the amount of immature and ridiculous Website/YouTube comments he got from his video, "Your Anime Sucks: Sword Art Online S1", and he is frustrated to the point where he proclaims, at the end of the video, that the replies on the next "Your Anime Sucks" videos will all be disabled.

** [=MisAnthroPony=] was quite upset about the Grogar twist in "The Ending of the End", not just because it wasted all of the potential that Grogar had as the final villain of the show, but also because it completely ruined Discord's character development since "Keep Caln and Flutter On".

* [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpdeouc-gLYfHH9yTo2T5KQ [=MisAnthroPony=]]]

** The mere ''hint'' of a reference to the episode "Bridle Gossip" or "Rainbow Falls" will send Voice of Reason into a rage.[[note]]The former does not extend to Zecora herself.[[/note]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/user/Animechristy Sapphire Heart Song]]

* {{Adorkable}}:
** ALL of the analysts show examples of this, in particular WebAnimation/ILoveKimPossibleAlot, Voice of Reason, Eliyora, and Paleo.
** Voice of Reason's eventual girlfriend, [=SEGASister=], [[http://comments.deviantart.com/4/23788609/3602789134 asking permission to give him a birthday hug]].

* Brawny Buck absolutely detests Flurry Heart and felt that "A Flurry of Emotions" was sending a poor message of disciplinary practice by having Twilight apologize to her, despite the fact that Flurry Heart is an infant and was well-behaved for most of the episode, with her tantrum being a result of constant neglect on Twilight's part.

* Creator/LilyOrchard (is at times considered part of the group, although she doesn't think of herself as such)
* [[WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter Mr. Enter]] (is at times considered part of the group, although he doesn't think of himself as such)

** Absolutely, do '''NOT''' make a slightest mention of ''WebAnimation/DoubleRainboom'' (as well as ''anything'' related to it, such as ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'') in front of Firebrand. At his worst, he even held Voice of Reason with an '''M-16''' at gun-point ''twice''!

* RealMenWearPink: Dustykatt, often dubbed "the most manly Brony in the world", who has no trouble loving a little girl show... or even [[https://derpibooru.org/1838945 eventually crossdressing]].

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: Most members of the group tend to fall more in the middle of this trope, although some tend to fall squarely on the side of either idealism (Dr. Wolf and Persian Poetess) or cynicism ([=AntonyC=] and Tommy Oliver).
** InUniverse, Nightmare Shadow is completely on the "cynicism" end of the scale. To the point where he cannot even ''concieve'' of the idea that someone might not be evil.

** InUniverse, Nightmare Shadow is completely on the "cynicism" end of the scale. To the point where he cannot even ''concieve'' of the idea that someone might not be a CompleteMonster.

** Emerald Comet's "Horror Month" arc. The experience actually leaves him so traumatised that he flat out refuses to participate in a Halloween special the following year. Even having FlashbackEchoes to his experience.

* KnightOfCerebus: [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Lethal Aurora]] in "A Lethal Halloween". While most antagonists the Analysis Ponies face are simply jerks or troublemakers, Lethal Aurora is both a PhysicalGoddess and a sadistic mass-murderer.

*** Occulus. While the "villain" part is currently ambiguous, he's certainly threatening and is perhaps the first antagonist to have NO comedy whatsoever. Being a straight faced, NoNonsenseNemesis

* Creator/LilyPeet

* WhamLine: Antony C gets one partway through "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FqPUVg48lc All About That Drama]]," surrounding the controversy of [=ILoveKimPossibleALot=] using show assets for her video "Let's Go Meet John de Lancie." Antony eventually reveals how KP got her hands on the show assets in the first place.

** Even '''less''' so now that the Rift Cafe's skype group has been divided in half with some reviewers such as Dr. Wolf, KP and Silver Quill no longer being in the skype groups, though they still appear in larger collaboration videos, such as Channel Hopper's "Meanwhile 3" (which was posted to the Rift Cafe YouTube channel) and "A Serpent's Tale" and Looney is currently trying to make a video to emphasize the fact that "The Rift" is not limited to any skype group. Some people in the "Secret Rift" in particular seem to view the split as a competition while the people in the "old rift/The Rift Cafe" do not and generally find the division to be rather immature and/or pointless. It's probably for the best though as a lot of people in "old rift/The Rift Cafe" do not get along well with certain members of the "Secret Rift".