History YMMV / ABriefHistoryOfEquestria

%%* CrazyAwesome: Puddinghead

** At one point a letter from Smart Cookie mentions that of her seven children, only four of them survived to adulthood.

* CrazyAwesome: Puddinghead

* MagnificentBastard:
** [[spoiler:Platinum]].
** Also Wind Whistler, who not only got away with years of standing up to [[TheCaligula Sullamander]], but also managed to engineer a massive coup against her with a minimum of effort.
** Cripps the Pink, who's such a tactical genius[[labelnote:*]]'' '''CRIIIIIIIPPSSSS!!!''' ''[[/labelnote]] that during the Lake Trot Crisis her forces suffer ''one'' fatality... who chokes on a sandwich.
* MoralEventHorizon: Talonhoof soared past this long ago.
* NightmareFuel: ''Every damn thing Talonhoof does''.

* CompleteMonster: [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Talonhoof]] the [[NamesToRunAwayFrom Reviled]] is a Hippogriff (and KnightOfCerebus) who seeks to commit [[FinalSolution genocide on ponies]]. After killing the king of Griffonstone and establishing an army, he launches a full scale war on Equestria, imprisoning ponies regardless of age in the salt mines and forcing them to work there for the rest of their lives, and having his army kill any ponies they come across. When a soldier spares a child, Talonhoof [[WouldHurtAChild beats her to death with his bare limbs]] before [[BadBoss gutting the soldier]] and [[CruelAndUnusualDeath leaving him to slowly bleed out in agony]]. He later destroys the city of Celestine and kills all the inhabitants, [[spoiler:by turning the city into a giant fuel bomb.]]
%%Please do not re-add the CompleteMonster trope without discussing it in the clean up thread first.

* CompleteMonster: [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Talonhoof]] the [[NamesToRunAwayFrom Reviled]] is a Hippogriff (and KnightOfCerebus) who seeks to commit [[FinalSolution genocide on ponies]]. After killing the king of Griffonstone and establishing an army, he launches a full scale war on Equestria, imprisoning ponies regardless of age in the salt mines and forcing them to work there for the rest of their lives, and having his army kill any ponies they come across. When a soldier spares a child, Talonhoof [[WouldHurtAChild beats her to death with his bare limbs]] before [[BadBoss gutting the soldier]] and [[CruelAndUnusualDeath leaving him to slowly bleed out in agony]]. He later destroys the city of Celestine and kills all the inhabitants.

* FridgeHorror: In spite of [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial what the narration says]], it is strongly suspected that Mareinus and Sullamander were lovers before the latter's appointment as Second-in-Command, and that Mareinus was a [[{{Lolicon}} pedophile with a filly fixation]]. So what does that mean about how far back their relationship goes?

* BizarroEpisode: The original version of chapter 18 -- covering the formation of a unified Equestrian government after the Winter War, it suddenly runs into a tangent about how awesome Puddinghead's parties were, then describes a scene where Hurricane and [[TheSlenderManMythos Slendermare]] fought over who's sexiest, and then there was an orgy... and then Twilight Sparkle wakes up at her desk, where she fell asleep working on the text. This was an April Fool's Day joke chapter, and it was later moved to ''Brief History: Side Stories'' and replaced with a proper chapter.

* CompleteMonster: [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Talonhoof]] the [[NamesToRunAwayFrom Reviled]] is a Hippogriff (and KnightOfCerebus)) who seeks to commit [[FinalSolution genocide on ponies]]. After killing the king of Griffonstone and establishing an army, he launches a full scale war on Equestria, imprisoning ponies regardless of age in the salt mines and forcing them to work there for the rest of their lives, and having his army kill any ponies they come across. When a soldier spares a child, Talonhoof [[WouldHurtAChild beats her to death with his bare limbs]] before [[BadBoss gutting the soldier]] and [[CruelAndUnusualDeath leaving him to slowly bleed out in agony]]. He later destroys the city of Celestine and kills all the inhabitants.

* AbductionIsLove: Seven years after the Warming, [[spoiler:Hurricane steals Clover out of her own bedroom. However, he's a complete gentlepony about it, and eventually returns Clover to her bedroom after sharing a [[CaptiveDate private dinner]] with her. It's suspected that Princess Platinum helped set this up without either Hurricane's or Clover's knowledge.]]

* MagnificentBastard: [[spoiler:Platinum]].

* TearJerker: Princess Platinum's final moments, wherein she convinces herself both that her father and Star-Swirl would be disappointed in her and that she'd be facing eternal damnation for the NecessarilyEvil acts she performed for the greater good. Also, Velvet Hooves' and Clover's emotional breakdowns in reaction to her death.

* WildMassGuessing: Just why ''does'' Twilight Sparkle keep making her pathetic attempts to whitewash Sullamander's obvious sexuality whenever she discusses her PsychoLesbian traits? Is it because Twilight's a homophobe or just [[{{Squick}} squicked out]] over the {{Lolicon}} aspect of the whole thing? Or is it a case of PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad -- that is, Twilight's so hooked up on the UnfortunateImplications of PsychoLesbian (the whole "being crazy and being lesbian are interlinked" thing) that she [[PositiveDiscrimination absolutely refuses to give it credence]], since Sullamander is obviously a psycho, but admitting she's a psycho ''and'' a lesbian [[InsaneTrollLogic proves the belief right]]... completely unaware that this is ''just as sexist in its own way'', since [[TropesAreNotBad it's perfectly possible to be both a crazy bitch AND a lesbian without one leading to the other]].

* WildMassGuessing: Just why ''does'' Twilight Sparkle keep making her pathetic attempts to whitewash Sullamander's obvious sexuality whenever she discusses her PsychoLesbian traits? Is it because Twilight's a homophobe? Or is it a case of PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad -- that is, Twilight's so hooked up on the UnfortunateImplications of PsychoLesbian (the whole "being crazy and being lesbian are interlinked" thing) that she [[PositiveDiscrimination absolutely refuses to give it credence]], since Sullamander is obviously a psycho, but admitting she's a psycho ''and'' a lesbian [[InsaneTrollLogic proves the belief right]]... completely unaware that this is ''just as sexist in its own way'', since [[TropesAreNotBad it's perfectly possible to be both a crazy bitch AND a lesbian without one leading to the other]].