History YMMV / RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: To a minor degree at the beginning of the run, many avoided the story simply due to the switch-up of Luna's and Celestia's roles, not helped ''at all'' by [[spoiler: Celestia/Corona rejecting an offer of friendship when in-canon Luna accepted it]], or [[spoiler: Corona willingly threatening the lives of ''foals'' to get her way]].

* CrackPairing: [[spoiler: Pinkie Pie and Blueblood]]. RainbowDoubleDash has repeatedly referred to it as "the one good thing to come out of ''At the Grand Galloping Gala'', a fact that is surprisingly universally agreed upon.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: As of ''At the Grand Galloping Gala'', some readers perceived the L6 as descending to the level of the corrupt nobles and planning to commit high treason to fight them, which caused them to stop caring which side wins.

* ExiledFromContinuity: As you might have noticed, some people have...issues...with the Night Court, and the direction it was taking the Lunaverse. This extends to the series creator himself. While no Night Court story has been decanonized, RainbowDoubleDash has flatly refused to allow any more canon stories focused on the Night Court.
** The exception to this is TalonAndThorn's ''Climbing the Mountain'' series, for three reasons: First, it was already in-progress, and RainbowDoubleDash didn't want to cut off TalonAndThorn from finishing it; second, it is far more focused on showing a ''positive'' side to the Night Court, rather than constant scheming and dirty dealing (notably, our perspective character is the newly-created Baron Mounty Max and him learning the ropes and trying to improve things for his new province, rather than any political games focused on gaining power or gaining control of the Elements); and third, because it is considered "soft canon" that other "hard canon" fics can contradict and take priority over if need be.

* MisaimedFandom: Some readers have a habit of assuming the worst of certain characters. The standout examples being the belief that L!Applebloom is a bully similar to Diamond Tiara, and that L!Twilight [[spoiler: would be perfectly willing to team up with Corona]]. These ideas annoy RainbowDoubleDash enough to discourage people from believing them.
** Both of these examples have lessened considerably since ''Carrot Top Season'' and ''A Chance Encounter'' have been published. The former showed Applebloom in more detail and the latter proved that Twilight does not sympathize with [[spoiler: Corona]].
*** By season 2, both ideas have been firmly Jossed.
** RainbowDoubleDash has also noted that readers have come to see the Lunaverse as a lot darker than he originally intended.

** Long comment threads in 'At the Grand Galloping Gala' reveal that some folks think that fic includes moral event horizons for Viceroy Night Light (who [[spoiler: delayed reconstruction funding to Ponyville because he hates Trixie]]), the Court as a whole (who tolerates this), and/or Trixie (who RainbowDoubleDash has implied will [[spoiler: use the Truth is a Scourge potion on the entire Court and force them all to reveal all their secrets, which would be hypocritical, since that act itself is highly illegal and borders on treason but she intends to do it to protest the illegal dealings of the Court]]).

** The early portrayal of the regular Mane 6 in general was (and on occasion still is) in general.

* BrokenBase: There are four camps relating to 'At the Grand Galloping Gala', the culmination of the season 1 'Night Court' storyline. One faction feels that the fic ruins things because it makes the Night Court too dark and evil, able to cause a whole town to suffer because one pony in it hates Trixie. One faction feels that the fic ruins things because it turns Trixie and co. into hypocritical criminals and Luna into a tyrant (an ironic protest given that she expressed fear of that very thing happening InUniverse) for letting them get away with what is essentially treason in order to expose/punish the (comparatively smaller) crimes of the bad nobles. A third group thinks that the fic breaks everything in both ways; that by implying that treason is the only way to fix the Court, it makes the Court far more broken and malign than before while also not actually solving the corruption (since Trixie and co. would get away with what they did). And a fourth faction likes things just fine or wishes the Court's punishment had been more severe.
* CrackPairing: [[spoiler: Pinkie Pie and Blueblood]] if the end of the Gala is anything to go by.

* FandomNod: ''Boast Busted'' twice hints that Lyra's hooves were turned into...something, which is always cut off before the speaker can finish. Those who are familiar with Lyra's fanon characterization can probably guess what that something is. More hints to these events are dropped during ''Family Matters''. The events mentioned are ''finally'' shown in "Helping... Hands?", where Lyra is turned into a human directly.

** Kindle and his thing with Raindrops, which she returned up until she learnt who he was.

* MisaimedFandom: Some readers have a habit of assuming the worst of certain characters. The standout examples being the belief that L!Applebloom is a bully similar to Diamond Tiara, and that L!Twilight [[spoiler: would be perfectly willing to team up with Corona]]. These ideas seem to annoy RDD enough to discourage people from believing them.
** RDD has also noted that readers have come to see the Lunaverse as a lot darker than he originally intended.
*** Both of these examples have lessened considerably since ''Carrot Top Season'' and ''A Chance Encounter'' have been published. The former showed Applebloom in more detail and the latter proved that Twilight does not sympathize with [[spoiler: Corona]].
** UpToEleven with ''At the Grand Galloping Gala'', which even has some of the authors protesting how dark the story has gotten.

** Long comment threads in 'At the Grand Galloping Gala' reveal that some folks think that fic includes moral event horizons for Viceroy Night Light (who [[spoiler: delayed reconstruction funding to Ponyville because he hates Trixie]]), the Court as a whole (who tolerates this), and/or Trixie (who RDD has implied will [[spoiler: use the Truth is a Scourge potion on the entire Court and force them all to reveal all their secrets, which would be hypocritical, since that act itself is highly illegal and borders on treason but she intends to do it to protest the illegal dealings of the Court]]).

** Also lampshaded later by Amethyst Star.

* FoeYay: In ''The Hero of Oaton'', Cut N' Dry starts crushing hard on Raindrops at first sight.

* NeverLiveItDown: Applejack's early portrayal as dangerously obsessive over her farm's future, to say nothing of her becoming increasingly hostile and paranoid through ''Carrot Top Season''. Even after writers did their best to soften her behaviour, the damage was still done.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: To a minor degree at the beginning of the run, many avoided the story simply due to the switch-up of Luna's and Celestia's roles, not helped ''at all'' by [[spoiler: Celestia/Corona rejecting an offer of friendship when in-canon Luna accepted it]], or [[spoiler: Corona willingly threatening the lives of ''foals'' to get her way.]]

* MisaimedFandom: Some readers have a habit of assuming the worst of certain characters. The standout examples being the belief that L!Applebloom is a bully similar to Diamond Tiara, and that L!Twilight [[spoiler: would be perfectly willing to team up with Corona.]] These ideas seem to annoy RDD enough to discourage people from believing them.

* PuritySue: Dinky, especially come Season 2, is loved by absolutely everyone in Ponyville, very good at magic, and utterly sweet, kind and lovable, with little to no negative traits whatsoever.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: To a minor degree at the beginning of the run, many avoided the story simply due to the switch-up of Luna's and Celestia's roles, not helped ''at all'' by [[spoiler: Celestia/Corona rejecting an offer of friendship when in-canon Luna accepted it.]]

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: So a minor degree at the beginning of the run, many avoided the story simply due to the switch-up of Luna's and Celestia's roles, not helped ''at all'' by [[spoiler: Celestia/Corona rejecting an offer of friendship when in-canon Luna accepted it.]]

** A vocal few, prior to ''At the Grand Galloping Gala'' were getting sick of the Night Court arc on the basis that it was taking up time in-story better-suited for going after Corona.

* ADayInTheLimeLight: ''Greengrass' Night'' is one [[CaptainObvious for Greengrass]].

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: As of 'At the Grand Galloping Gala', some readers perceived the L6 as descending to the level of the corrupt nobles and planning to commit high treason to fight them, which caused them to stop caring which side wins.

*** Both of these examples have lessened considerably since ''Carrot Top Season'' and ''A Chance Encounter'' have been published. The former showed Apple Bloom in more detail and the latter proved that Twilight does not sympathize with [[spoiler: Corona]].
** UpToEleven with 'At the Grand Galloping Gala', which even has some of the authors protesting how dark the story has gotten.

* RonTheDeathEater: Some feel the deconstruction of the canon Mane Six falls into this, due to the treatment they get and how few good points they seem to have.

* ADayInTheLimeLight:''Greengrass' Night'' is one [[CaptainObvious for Greengrass]].

* MemeticSexGod: According to chapter 5 of "Beating The Heat," ''everypony'' has dreams about Big Macintosh. Granted, the story is non-canon with the rest of the Lunaverse...

* RonTheDeathEater: The author tries to hide behind the "deconstruction" claim, but that's not a magical get-out-of-accusation card.

* RonTheDeathEater: Some feel the deconstruction of the canon Mane Six falls into this, due to the treatment they get and how few good points they seem to have. The original author did admit that Twilight being turned into an anti-villain was intentional, presumably to serve as a counterpart for Trixie.
** On the other hand, the various authors of the Lunaverse noticed this problem and have spent considerable time rectifying their original portrayals of the Mane-6 in later fics.

** In-universe, many of Ponyville's citizens seem to regard Twilight's [[spoiler:summoning a Ursa Minor just to try and upstage Trixie]] this way. Out of universe, it hasn't helped her RonTheDeathEater reputation among some readers, either...

* Author'sSavingThrow: ''The Return of Tambelon'' and to a lesser extent ''Magic Tutor'', both by RDD himself and intended to fix some problems with the Lunaverse's narrative. The former exists primarily to change Corona's character into something less monstrous and therefore both easier to write as a villain [[spoiler: while also making sure that she won't go overboard and have people hating her return to grace by the end of the season.]] Zecora's role in the series is also more clearly defined [[spoiler: she is working with Corona because she knows that Corona has some part to play come the season finale]]. ''Magic Tutor,'' meanwhile, exists to finish Twilight's arc happily, by placing her in Ponyville where she can make friends, while also making it clear that [[spoiler: no one in Ponyville really cares about the Ursa Minor incident from ''Boast Busted,'' since monster attacks happen all the time in Ponyville]].

* CompleteMonster: [[AGodAmI Corona]], for her kidnapping of Ponyville citizens as hostages, her vicious assault on Luna and plans to destroy Canterlot.
** Grey Hoof, in Dinky and the Blanks. What he tries to do to Dinky confirms it.
** Flim and Flam. They abduct a foal as part of a political gambit. Carrot Top is not amused.
** Grogar, if you think of how Luna described him.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: As of 'At the Grand Galloping Gala', in which the L6 descend to the level of the corrupt nobles and plan to commit high treason to fight them, has caused some readers to stop caring which side wins.

* BrokenBase: There are four camps relating to 'At the Grand Galloping Gala', the culmination of the season 1 'Night Court' storyline. One faction feels that the fic ruins things because it makes the Night Court too dark and evil, able to cause a whole town to suffer because one pony in it hates Trixie. One faction feels that the fic ruins things because it turns Trixie and co. into hypocritical criminals and Luna into a tyrant for letting them get away with what is essentially treason in order to expose/punish the (comparatively smaller) crimes of the bad nobles. A third group thinks that the fic breaks everything in both ways; that by implying that treason is the only way to fix the Court, it makes the Court far more broken and malign than before while also not actually solving the corruption (since Trixie and co. would get away with what they did). And a fourth faction likes things just fine or wishes the Court's punishment had been more severe.

* BaseBreaker: At the Grand Galloping Gala. Some folks hate the first half, which tortures Trixie for several chapters. Some hate the second for what it does to the ongoing Night Court storyline, and Trixie's and Luna's characters at the end. And mentioning it on the boards or in the story comments is guaranteed to provoke a flame war.

** The situation was bad enough that series creator [=RainbowDoubleDash=] recently banned all discussion and fics about the Night Court, the exception being any fics currently in-progress.

* DracoInLeatherPants: Trixie, who in the canon universe is a self-absorbed liar and blowhard willing to use forbidden magic to get her way, has become the nigh-flawless heroine whose every act is considered justified.
** Flawless? Lunaverse Trixie? How many times has she nearly destroyed each of her friendships now?

* JumpingTheShark: Trixie's actions in 'At the Grand Galloping Gala' as well as the WordOfGod argument that her actions are actually necessary (and no lesser acts would suffice) has caused the Lunaverse to do this for some, according to comment threads on the stories and the Lunaverse message board.