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| 6 | [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic/TropesAToB Tropes A-B]] | '''Tropes C-D''' | [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic/TropesEToK Tropes E-K]] | [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic/TropesLToP Tropes L-P]] | [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic/TropesQToS Tropes Q-S]] | [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic/TropesTToZ Tropes T-Z]] |
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| 8 | !!''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' provides examples of the following tropes: |
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| 13 | * CallBack: In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E26TheBestNightEver The Best Night Ever]]", the Mane 6 remind us with a song their motivations for going to the gala which were first mentioned in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E3TheTicketMaster The Ticket Master]]". |
| 14 | ** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Every episode page]] lists its call-backs. |
| 15 | * TheCameo: |
| 16 | ** During the prologue of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E23InspirationManifestation Inspiration Manifestation]]", various pony families are seen together setting up the fair, including [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E22HurricaneFluttershy Thunderlane and Rumble]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E11FamilyAppreciationDay Diamond Tiara and Filthy Rich]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E5SisterhoovesSocial Sweetie and her (and Rarity's) parents (without their vacation clothes), and Dinky and Amethyst Star]]. Vinyl Scratch and Bulk Biceps are also at the fair. Rarity's upgrade to the mariachi band for the filly's party includes two orchestra members who played at the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E26TheBestNightEver Grand Galloping Gala]]. |
| 17 | ** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E24EquestriaGames Equestria Games]]": |
| 18 | *** The Saddle Arabians (from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E5MagicDuel Magic Duel]]") are part of the royal delegates, as well as Prince Blueblood (last seen in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E9SweetAndElite Sweet and Elite]]") and Fancy Pants seated in the box below. |
| 19 | *** Practically ''every character who's ever appeared in the series'' can be seen in the audience, most prominently in [[http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140505204748/mlp/images/4/41/Complete_Equestria_Games_brochette_S04E24.png this]] shot, with a couple of other good ones [[http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140505212350/mlp/images/8/85/Spike_tries_counting_to_ten_S4E24.png here]] and [[http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140505212351/mlp/images/7/77/Spike_counts_to_%22fourteen_thousand%22_S4E24.png here]]. |
| 20 | ** Flash Sentry makes his second appearance in the series in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E25TwilightsKingdomPart1 Twilight's Kingdom, Part 1]]", and this time he gets a line. |
| 21 | ** The rainbow that flies through Equestria in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E26TwilightsKingdomPart2 Twilight's Kingdom, Part 2]]" is seen by everypony who gave the Mane Six their keys -- Coco Pommel, Spitfire and the Wonderbolts, Cheese Sandwich, Seabreeze, Silver Shill, and Discord last of all. |
| 22 | * CampingEpisode: |
| 23 | ** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E6SleeplessInPonyville Sleepless in Ponyville]]" has the Crusaders go camping with their older idols to get a taste of the outdoors. "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E16CampfireTales Campfire Tales]]" does the same. |
| 24 | ** The infamous "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E13TheMean6 The Mean 6]]" has the Mane 6 plus Starlight go on a camping retreat next to the Tree of Harmony to spend time with each other after so much work at the School of Friendship. It eventually turns into a HorribleCampingTrip when they get separated and a series of misunderstandings are caused by their evil clones, resulting in a disagreement that almost ruins their friendship. |
| 25 | * TheCaper: "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E4SparklesSeven Sparkle's Seven]]"[[note]]Some sources "Twilight's Seven"[[/note]] features an over-the-top ''Film/OceansEleven'' style attack on the newly fortified Canterlot Castle. |
| 26 | * CapeSnag: Technically, [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E7MayTheBestPetWin a wing snag]]. |
| 27 | ** There was a slight cape snag in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E17StareMaster Stare Master]]", where Scootaloo's cape caught on Fluttershy's fence. |
| 28 | * CaptainsLog: During Season 1, Twilight's letters to Princess Celestia on the {{Aesop}} of the episode. Granted, unlike most examples, this happens at the ''[[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle end]]'' of each episode and they were used to deliver the episode's Aesop rather than exposit, but the basic idea is the same. Over the next two seasons, other characters get a chance to write about what they've learned -- first in letters to Celestia, then in a shared journal. |
| 29 | * CardCarryingJerkass: |
| 30 | ** Even after his HeelFaceTurn, Discord delights in messing with others, especially [[OnlySaneMan Twilight]] due to her uptight, by-the-book nature. |
| 31 | ** Flim and Flam are a pair of ConArtist brothers who shamelessly swindle other ponies for a living, and generally act as {{Smug Snake}}s to those who try to stop their scams, gleefully taunting them about their successes. In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E20VivaLasPegasus Viva Las Pegasus]]", they [[EnemyMine worked together with the good guys]] to get rid of another villain, then [[RedemptionRejection rejected]] all notions of turning over a new leaf and went right back to conning others. |
| 32 | * CareBearStare: Essentially how the Elements of Harmony work, and [[spoiler:how Twilight Sparkle restores her friends after Discord's MindRape in the first part of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E1TheReturnOfHarmonyPart1 The Return Of Harmony]]"]]. |
| 33 | * CaretakingIsFeminine: While the show is already an ImprobablyFemaleCast, every "foal sitter" depicted has been female: |
| 34 | ** In "Baby Cakes", Mr. and Mrs. Cake notably only ask the members of the Mane 6 to foalsit their rambunctious twins at the last minute, before agreeing to let Pinkie Pie do it. While Pinkie herself has a very hard time adjusting to the responsibility (especially since the twins start developing their pegasus and unicorn powers at just the wrong moment), she eventually figures it out and agrees to be their regular sitter. |
| 35 | ** Princess Cadance was Twilight Sparkle's sitter when she was younger, and Twilight eventually acts as sitter for Cadance's child (and Twilight's niece) Flurry Heart in "A Flurry of Emotions". |
| 36 | * CarnivoreConfusion: In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel Over a Barrel]]", Pinkie Pie's song confirms that they're all vegetarians, but she mentions a hot-dog-eating contest in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E13FallWeatherFriends Fall Weather Friends]]". That's veggie dogs... right? |
| 37 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E8LookBeforeYouSleep Look Before You Sleep]]", they're shown making (and eating) s'mores. Modern day marshmallows contain gelatin, which is derived from animal hides and bones.[[note]]Gelatin can also be made from horse's hooves, so the ponies might even be engaged in ''cannibalism!''[[/note]] Historically, however, marshmallows were made from mucilaginous root extracts of the marsh-growing African mallow, ''Althaea officinalis'', AKA the '''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin marsh mallow]]''' plant, and modern vegan marshmallows use fruit pectin to provide protein instead of gelatin. |
| 38 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E5GriffonTheBrushOff Griffon the Brush Off]]", Fluttershy is being greeted from the lake by some fish smiling at her, which means that fish in Equestria are at least partially sentient (like Angel Bunny), and some of them are apparently friends with Fluttershy. Then in the beginning of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E7Dragonshy Dragonshy]]", we see Fluttershy feeding dead fish to her pet ferrets. |
| 39 | *** In classical mythology, Griffons ate mostly horses. |
| 40 | ** In an apparent inversion, in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E11WinterWrapUp Winter Wrap Up]]", Fluttershy delivers a load of vegetables to a couple of wild ferrets. A fan artist on /co/ named "shuffle" came up with [[http://www.reddit.com/r/mylittlepony/comments/fvu1d/bad_bunnies/ a rather dark explanation for how this makes sense]]. |
| 41 | *** Fluttershy doesn't deliver the vegetables, one of her helpers does. Really, this is just another example of the poor organization of the event. When Fluttershy is shown feeding ferrets, she feeds them fish. |
| 42 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E13FallWeatherFriends Fall Weather Friends]]", after Applejack ties up Rainbow Dash's wings, she says "Trussed up like a turkey!" The only way for her to make that comparison... |
| 43 | ** The ponies raise cattle, which vaguely makes sense because they can be milked. They raise chickens, presumably because eggs are a necessary component of many of the apple pastries they bake. But in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E18TheShowStoppers The Show Stoppers]]", we see that ponies farm pigs. Pretty sure ponies don't eat bacon... (WordOfGod says that the pigs needed somewhere to live, and ponies ''really'' like truffles.) Plus pigs can be used as "garbage trucks" -- they eat the leftovers. |
| 44 | *** FridgeBrilliance: Swine manure is an excellent fertilizer for bushes and trees. What do the Apple family have in job lots? |
| 45 | ** In the scene where Applejack tries to decide what she is supposed to eat first in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E22ABirdInTheHoof A Bird in the Hoof]]", one of things on the table is a ham sandwich. Interestingly, there were no truffles in sight in spite of the fact that the guest of honor was the princess. |
| 46 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E24OwlsWellThatEndsWell Owl's Well That Ends Well]]", Spike noted that owls ''do'' eat mice and he actually uses that knowledge in an attempt to frame Owlowiscious. |
| 47 | ** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E5SisterhoovesSocial Sisterhooves Social]]" shows Rarity making fried eggs. |
| 48 | *** [[http://mylittlewiki.org/wiki/File:CCFryingPan.jpg Fried]] [[http://treehousetv.com/kids/games/MLP_CastleCreator/assets/props/MLP_Prop_FriedEggs.swf eggs]] had previously appeared in the ''Canterlot Castle'' toy set and [[http://treehousetv.com/kids/games/activity.aspx?ID=1868&showID=121 original version]] of ''[[http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/en_US/play/details.cfm?guid=5B309E58-5056-900B-1040-324367303E14 Castle Creator]]''. |
| 49 | ** Slightly oblique take on this, but the show makes very clear that Equestrians write on parchment rather than paper. They do seem to use a LOT of the stuff so questions must be raised as to where they get it. Maybe the cows will their skin to the state upon their natural deaths. |
| 50 | *** [[http://www.chichesterinc.com/HorseRawhide.htm Or maybe...]] |
| 51 | *** Parchment ''can'' be made from plants, and that tends to be what people think of/mean when parchment is mentioned in fictional settings. Perhaps a case of RealityIsUnrealistic in people thinking paper is as common historically as it is now. |
| 52 | ** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E8RarityTakesManehattan Season 4]] shows us carrot hot dogs, so they ''are'' veggie dogs after all. |
| 53 | * CastFromSanity: The Alicorn Amulet corrupts its user with every use, though the user can return to normal by taking it off (and only by themselves). |
| 54 | * CastHerd: (Technically, cast [[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary_of_collective_nouns_by_collective_term Strings, Blessings]], and Constellations) First off, you've got the Mane Six ponies and Spike. The Cutie Mark Crusaders form a PowerTrio with a smaller version of the mane group, having an earth pony, pegasus and unicorn, with the latter also falling into TomboyAndGirlyGirl. Big Mac tends to show up mainly around his sisters and the rest of his family; the same goes for Granny Smith. Even the background ponies fall into this, with Rose, Daisy and Lily Valley tending to show up around each other. |
| 55 | * CastingGag: This isn't the 1st time Creator/TabithaStGermain and Creator/CathyWeseluck's [[Manga/BlackLagoon voiced characters were together crush-wise]]...[[note]]Hint- Cathy's the little boy, Tabitha's the adult girl (see Actor Allusion [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic/TropesAToB above]]).Make that of what you will.[[/note]] |
| 56 | ** Most of [[Creator/JohnDeLancie Discord's]] episodes have "Discord" somewhere in the title, just like how most of [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Q's]] episodes had "Q" somewhere in the title. |
| 57 | ** The Latin American dub has Twilight's parents voiced by Creator/MarioCastaneda and Romy Mendoza -- parents to Carla Castañeda, [[RealLifeRelative Twilight Sparkle's Mexican voice actress]]. |
| 58 | * CatapultNightmare: |
| 59 | ** Happens to Rainbow Dash in the episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E7MayTheBestPetWin May the Best Pet Win!]]", after being awoken from a crazy dream in which she is menaced by a [[MixAndMatchCritter mash up]] of several of her friends' pets. |
| 60 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E25TwilightsKingdomPart1 Twilight's Kingdom, Part 1]]", Celestia does this when she gets the vision of Tirek returning. Luna then comes in to confirm it wasn't just a nightmare. |
| 61 | * CensoredForComedy: Every instance of the word "loser" is blanked out when "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E6BoastBusters Boast Buster]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E12CallOfTheCutie Call of the Cutie]]", or "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E25PartyOfOne Party of One]]" (though not "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E16SonicRainboom Sonic Rainboom]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E2TheReturnOfHarmonyPart2 The Return of Harmony, Part 2]]", or "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E13HearthsWarmingEve Hearth's Warming Eve]]") airs on Creator/TreehouseTV. Needless to say, this makes sentences containing that particular word sound ''more'' dirty. |
| 62 | * CentralTheme: |
| 63 | ** [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Friendship is Magic]]! ThePowerOfFriendship is, of course, the central concept of the series; with the help and support of your friends, nothing is impossible. |
| 64 | ** Starting with Season 4, every season has had a shifting core theme reflected in many episodes, particularly season finales and premieres. |
| 65 | *** Season 4's theme concerned the spreading of friendship to others, and staying true to yourself under pressure. This culminated with the six keys given to the Mane Six by new friends they had made that unlocked the Chest of Harmony. |
| 66 | *** Season 5's theme was Cutie Mark Magic, as named by the toyline. The [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E1TheCutieMapPart1 season premiere]] concerned Starlight Glimmer who could take cutie marks, the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E25TheCutieRemarkPart1 season finale]] concerned her traveling through time to stop the Mane Six from getting theirs, and the new Cutie Map regularly sent the Mane Six to places in Equestria that needed their aid, and it called on them via their cutie marks. |
| 67 | *** Season 6's theme is redemption. Starlight has performed her HeelFaceTurn and joined the main cast, and returning antagonistic characters like Trixie, the changelings, and the dragons, got a chance to reform and show their HiddenDepths, culminating with a group of reformed villains being the ones to save the day in the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E25ToWhereAndBackAgainPart1 season finale]]. |
| 68 | *** [[invoked]] Season 7's theme, according to WordOfGod, is family, with many episodes spotlighting one of the cast and their relationship with family members, including parents, siblings, and in Twilight's case, niece Flurry Heart. There is also a major theme of legacy, expressed both through the family elements and the Pillars of Equestria, legendary heroes of the ancient past who spotlight in the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E25ShadowPlayPart1 season finale]] and a tie-in comic miniseries. |
| 69 | *** Season 8's theme is multiculturalism, with the focus on the Student Six and exploring the history of their races, Chancellor Neighsay's FantasticRacism towards non-ponies, and the reveal that [[spoiler:Cozy Glow]] is the BigBad of the season adds a HumansAreTheRealMonsters vibe to things. |
| 70 | *** Fittingly for the show's final season, Season 9's theme is closure and letting go of the past. Several episodes have their central conflict set in motion by something that happened in the past, or concern characters pondering their future, and the running story arc for the season is Twilight getting her life affairs in order as she prepares to to [[spoiler:ascend to the throne of Equestria]]. The BigBad of the season is her EvilCounterpart, a villain that in the ancient past declared himself TheEmperor of Equestria, and now he's back to reassert his claim. |
| 71 | * CentrifugalFarce: The Dizzytron in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E7WonderboltsAcademy Wonderbolts Academy]]". |
| 72 | * CerebusRetcon: |
| 73 | ** Spike was often the ButtMonkey of earlier seasons, with Season 3 having several entire episodes revolving around him hilariously failing at things. In Season 4, Spike has a series-long character arc revolving around self esteem issues and feeling useless. |
| 74 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E20ItsAboutTime It's About Time]]", Cerberus leaves the gates of Tartarus, where the most evil beings in all of Equestria are imprisoned. The whole thing is PlayedForLaughs when [[FluffyTamer Fluttershy tames him like a cute puppy]]. Then "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E25TwilightsKingdomPart1 Twilight's Kingdom, Part 1]]" comes along to reveal that Tirek, ''the'' most catastrophic threat Equestria has faced yet, managed to escape while he was gone. |
| 75 | ** In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon the very first episode]], Twilight blew off her friend Moondancer's party to catch up on her studies. In Season 5's "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E12AmendingFences Amending Fences]]", we see that Moondancer [[CynicismCatalyst didn't take it well]], and even [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E5ThePointOfNoReturn later in Season 9]], we see that in her panic over Nightmare Moon, she lost track of a library book that she never returned and accidentally cost the librarian her perfect record. |
| 76 | * CerebusRollercoaster: The show has made a balancing act of starting and ending each season with a dark two-parter episode, and sandwiching light comedy episodes in-between. |
| 77 | * ChangingChorus: |
| 78 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E11WinterWrapUp Winter Wrap-Up]]" from the episode of the same name, the first chorus says, "Winter wrap-up, winter wrap-up" only twice, but the second chorus says it three times, then three times again for the third, and the third one says, "'Cause tomorrow, spring is here" several times instead of twice. |
| 79 | ** In "Babs Seed" from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E4OneBadApple One Bad Apple]]", the second chorus pauses to add non-chorus lyrics, then when it resumes, it repeats the "She's just a bad, bad" line twice before ending. |
| 80 | * CharacterExaggeration: Used lightly in later episodes (which focus more on individual characters, as opposed to the initial stories which focused more on the whole ensemble and their bonds) and so intensify some of their defining quirks for {{Aesop}}s and obstacles. Perhaps most noticeable is Twilight Sparkle, after growing out of her FishOutOfWater status in Ponyville; Twilight-centered episodes focused more on her overcoming her (originally more subtle) neurotics and fears of failure, establishing her as a NervousWreck. Most examples are kept balanced by proper CharacterDevelopment, however, and their other traits are still used prominently, shielding them from {{Flanderization}}. |
| 81 | * ChaseScene: Complete with [[Series/TheBennyHillShow Benny Hill]]-[[SuspiciouslySimilarSong esque]] background music. Twice. Another two [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L142_juksw8 chase scenes]] are in the style of [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Pepé Le Pew]]. |
| 82 | * ChasteToons: According to Rarity, Princess Celestia has a nephew, which should raise an eyebrow considering that it would either imply that he is Luna's son (even though she spent the last thousand years sealed in the moon), or that there is another divine sibling we don't know about. Creator/LaurenFaust eventually explained by saying that he was a very distant relative on Celestia's mother's side, "about 52 times removed, roughly speaking". |
| 83 | ** In Applejack's and Rarity's case, they have children hanging around who are their little sisters rather than nieces, but play a similar role. |
| 84 | ** However, we have seen Pinkie Pie's and Rarity's parents and also Twilight Sparkle's parents. Twilight Sparkle's mom, Twilight Velvet, has also appeared in the toy line, though you wouldn't know who she is without recognizing her from the show. |
| 85 | ** We even have baby ponies, incidentally showing that pegasi, earth ponies and unicorns can mix and a pony can have any combination of the three kinds of ponies. |
| 86 | * CheapGoldCoins: Bits, despite most likely being named after horse tack, are these. |
| 87 | ** It's a pun on a word that was [[https://www.almanac.com/fact/how-much-is-two-bits-and-where slang for 1/8 peso]], back when English-speaking Americans frequently used pesos, but is now almost exclusively used in cliches like "give your two bits". WorldOfPun in action. |
| 88 | * CheerThemUpWithLaughter: |
| 89 | ** As the bearer of the Element of Laughter, Pinkie Pie's mission is to spread joy and laughter all over Equestria, although the results will vary, as her delivery of humour ranges from cheers to cringe. In the first episode, for example, she helps her friends overcome their fear of a scary forest by encouraging them to laugh at it. |
| 90 | ** In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E21EveryLittleThingSheDoes "Every Little Thing She Does"]], Pinkie herself is on the receiving end, albeit inadvertently. As she and Starlight Glimmer make cakes together, Pinkie is fuming over Starlight's behaviour earlier in the episode. Then she sees the mess Starlight is making of herself and breaks into a good-natured smile. |
| 91 | * ChekhovsGun: |
| 92 | ** The show has one an entire season in the making. Discord has {{Mind Rape}}d the Mane Six and [[DarkestHour Twilight has given up]]. She comes home to find Princess Celestia has been sending her scrolls all day. It turns out they're the letters that Twilight had been sending Celestia the entire previous season. They remind her what her friends mean to her and help her realize how to stop Discord. |
| 93 | ** [[spoiler:Twilight and Cadance's "Sunshine, sunshine, ladybug's awake" song in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E25ACanterlotWeddingPart1 A Canterlot Wedding, Part 1]]" is the reason Twilight can determine that Cadance is really Cadance in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E26ACanterlotWeddingPart2 Part 2]].]] |
| 94 | ** The [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E25ACanterlotWeddingPart1 second season finale]] has Pinkie's "I never leave home without my party cannon!" statement return when she pulls it out of nowhere to wield against mooks. This took ''17 episodes'' to return. Also [[spoiler:a technique utilized half a season prior (in the ancient past in universe) to defeat the Windigos is used to defeat the BigBad, only using ThePowerOfLove in place of ThePowerOfFriendship]]. |
| 95 | ** In the very end of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E2TheCrystalEmpirePart2 The Crystal Empire, Part 2]]", Luna pulls out a black book. There's no focus on it so you probably wouldn't pay attention to it until you rewatch the episode after seeing the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E13MagicalMysteryCure Season 3 finale]], where the book is sent to Twilight and she is asked to complete a spell in it. |
| 96 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E24EquestriaGames Equestria Games]]", the anti-magic field later prevents magic-using ponies from helping out with magic during the ice cloud incident. |
| 97 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E26TwilightsKingdomPart2 Twilight's Kingdom, Part 2]]", the medallion Tirek gives to Discord as a sign of "trust" turns out to be Twilight's key, which Discord gives her after she shows she still considers him a friend after his betrayal. |
| 98 | *** Basically all the things each of the Mane Six had acquired from a pony/creature whose lives they've changed as a symbol of their respective element throughout all of Season 4 are these: Coco Pommel's rainbow thread, the Wonderbolts' medal, Cheese Sandwich's rubber chicken Boneless, Seabreeze's flower, and Silver Shill's first honestly-earned bit. |
| 99 | * ChekhovsGunman: |
| 100 | ** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon The first episode]] introduces Applejack's little sister Apple Bloom in passing during the extremely crowded Apple Clan reunion. Later on, there's a brief shot of her with two other fillies. Later in the season, Apple Bloom plays a key role in the events of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E9BridleGossip Bridle Gossip]]", and gets the spotlight in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E12CallOfTheCutie Call of the Cutie]]", which ''also'' officially introduces the other two fillies, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle. |
| 101 | ** Big Macintosh and Granny Smith from the family reunion; both became regulars. |
| 102 | ** When Twilight first arrives in Ponyville, a pink mare gasps and bolts. Turns out she's bolted to organize a welcome-wagon party. |
| 103 | ** An episode-specific example: "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E18AFriendInDeed A Friend in Deed]]" introduces a donkey named Matilda early on. She turns out to be Cranky's lost love. |
| 104 | ** Near the beginning of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E11KeepCalmAndFlutterOn Keep Calm and Flutter On]]", Discord casts a spell that causes a group of beavers to become mean-spirited and they later appear near the end and build a dam that causes Sweet Apple Acres to flood. |
| 105 | ** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E26TwilightsKingdomPart2 Twilight's Kingdom, Part 2]]", bordering on {{subverted}} for some viewers. Scorpan helped defeat Tirek in the first place, so one would expect Celestia to send Twilight to... not look for him. Or even mention asking him for help at all. Odd. |
| 106 | *** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E20ItsAboutTime It's About Time]]", Cerberus, guardian of Tartarus, appears as part of a small joke. He returns in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E25TwilightsKingdomPart1 Twilight's Kingdom]]" and [[spoiler:it is explained that his brief absence is what caused Tirek to escape in the first place]]. |
| 107 | ** All of Starlight Glimmer's previous quick background appearances throughout Season 5 tie together in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E25TheCutieRemarkPart1 The Cutie Re-Mark]]" [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E26TheCutieRemarkPart2 two-parter]]. [[spoiler:In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E12AmendingFences Amending Fences]]", she saw how one missed event soured Moondancer on the idea of friendship. In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E22WhatAboutDiscord What About Discord?]]", she overheard the suggestion about using time travel to witness an event that had been missed. Finally, in this episode, Twilight recounting how the Sonic Rainboom brought the Mane Six together gives Starlight the information she needs to potentially stop their friendship before it ever starts.]] |
| 108 | * ChekhovsSkill[=/=][[ChekhovsHobby Hobby]]: |
| 109 | ** Turns out Fluttershy has a ''surprising'' knowledge of sewing, as evidenced when she was forced to tell Rarity what was "wrong" with her dress in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E14SuitedForSuccess Suited For Success]]". This skill allowed Fluttershy and the others to finish Rarity's dress at the end of the episode. |
| 110 | ** Twilight Sparkle is shown as ''very'' organized in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E11WinterWrapUp Winter Wrap Up]]". It comes in handy when she's not allowed to use her unicorn magic to help [[PaintingTheFrostOnWindows clean up the winter weather in preparation for spring]], but eventually learns the clean-up efforts of her friends and neighbors are horribly disorganized. |
| 111 | ** Applejack's herding skills in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E4ApplebuckSeason Applebuck Season]]" resurface five episodes later in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E10SwarmOfTheCentury Swarm of the Century]]". |
| 112 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E7Dragonshy Dragonshy]]", Rainbow Dash is shown playing with a ball and skillfully bouncing it off her head. Later, during the Iron Pony competition in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E13FallWeatherFriends Fall Weather Friends]]", she uses her skill to easily win the ball-bouncing challenge. |
| 113 | ** Twilight spent the ''entire first Season'' writing reports back to Celestia with what she's learned about friendship. In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E2TheReturnOfHarmonyPart2 The Return of Harmony, Part 2]]", [[spoiler:Celestia snaps Twilight out of Discord's spell... by sending back copies of all her reports, so that reading them will remind Twilight that friendship is worth fighting for]]. |
| 114 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E9BridleGossip Bridle Gossip]]", the Mane Six walk through poison joke plants despite Zecora's warning. The effect they have on Fluttershy is causing her to have a deep, manly voice, but it is eventually cured along with the others' ailments. Three seasons later in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E14FilliVanilli Filli Vanilli]]", Big Macintosh loses his voice the day before he is supposed to perform with the Ponytones singing group. To save the show (and the group's subsequent appearances), Fluttershy drinks a poison joke potion from Zecora so she can sing in Big Macintosh's place behind the scenes while he lip-syncs. |
| 115 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E12PinkiePride Pinkie Pride]]", we see Pinkie's sister [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E18MaudPie Maud Pie]] as a filly in a photo six whole episodes before Maud -- now grown up -- shows up in person. |
| 116 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E26TwilightsKingdomPart2 Twilight's Kingdom, Part 2]]", Celestia's reason for sending Discord after Tirek was that he could sense the magical disruption caused by Tirek's ManaDrain. When the Princesses transfer their magic to Twilight, Discord is able to sense it, but doesn't tell Tirek. And once Tirek drains Discord of magic, he can pinpoint Twilight's location without trouble. |
| 117 | * ChewingTheScenery: |
| 118 | ** Rarity. Oh so very much. |
| 119 | ** Also Luna, in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E4LunaEclipsed Luna Eclipsed]]", who combines LargeHam with NoIndoorVoice, GaleForceSound ''and'' FloweryElizabethanEnglish in one package. It probably helps that both she and Rarity are both voiced by Creator/TabithaStGermain. |
| 120 | ** Pinkie Pie. Give her a big enough megaphone, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Femf0b8PqPI her yelling can]] ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Femf0b8PqPI push back mountains]]''. |
| 121 | ** Kathleen Barr does it too. The relevant equation is Trixie + Stage = '''VOLUME'''. |
| 122 | ** You wouldn't think [[ShrinkingViolet Fluttershy]] would ever chew the scenery, right? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwp60eYuie0 Wrong!]] Of course, she's suffered SanitySlippage leading up to this. |
| 123 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E23InspirationManifestation Inspiration Manifestation]]", you can almost imagine Tabitha St. Germain desperately trying to hold back the maniacal laughter in her rant at the end, especially with the [[ForDoomTheBellTolls omnious bells]] chiming in the background. |
| 124 | -->'''Rarity:''' ...until there isn't an inch of Equestria that hasn't been ''utterly transformed by'' '''''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis my! creative! GENIUS!]]''''' |
| 125 | * ChirpingCrickets: |
| 126 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel Over a Barrel]]", the crowd's reaction to Pinkie Pie's song is stunned silence, broken only by Spike's somewhat-desperate applause and the cry of a hawk. |
| 127 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E6TheCutiePox The Cutie Pox]]", after Spike blabs about how Apple Bloom has contracted the titular disease, which scares nearly everypony in Ponyville into hiding, a tumbleweed blows by and a hawk can be heard screeching in the distance. |
| 128 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E12BabyCakes Baby Cakes]]", Pinkie's attempt to cheer the twins up with stand-up comedy elicits this. There's also the sound of someone coughing. |
| 129 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E24EquestriaGames Equestria Games]]", following Spike's attempt at the anthem, the giant stadium is quiet, save for the cries of a lone baby, and Pinkie's echoing "[[{{Bathos}} Nailed it!]]". |
| 130 | * ChristmasSongs: A whole album's worth, believe it or not. In 2015 Hasbro released "It's A Pony Kind of Christmas" which has ponified versions of several Christmas songs (as well as three original songs), though it does keep the word Christmas despite the fact that Christmas doesn't exist in Equestria. |
| 131 | * ChromaKey: Was apparently used in episodes [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon 1]] and [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E6BoastBusters 6]] at least, judging by their [[http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/en_US/play/details.cfm?R=748FD778-5056-900B-1058-67C660F92478:en_US story]] [[http://www.hasbro.com/common/assets/Flash/Demos/dad2af6e1c4311ddbd0b0800200c9a66/C21AD62C5056900B109690D7D6FB6F09/C21C78D85056900B10540B526C90E7D8.swf galleries]]. |
| 132 | * ChocolateBaby: Vaguely implied: Cup Cake (earth pony) gives birth to a unicorn and a pegasus. Her husband Carrot Cake (also earth pony) gives an explanation involving far-back genetics and a relative who isn't even related by blood. Once he finishes the explanation he gives the audience a nervous AsideGlance and says "That makes sense, right?". |
| 133 | * ChosenOne: Twilight Sparkle, Princess Celestia's very own student and Chosen One. As the bearer of the Element of Magic, she would be sent to Ponyville to unite five more Elements of Harmony (all of them mares her age) under her leadership, so that she could use her friends as test-cases for the inevitable moment she must lead all of Equestria as its new princess. It's later revealed in the Season 4 premiere that the Tree of Harmony, a mystical tree where the Elements of Harmony come from, foretold of a pony that bore a certain cutie mark that matches the six-pointed star shape of the Element of Magic, and it's implied but never stated that Celestia was searching for this pony to choose as her student. |
| 134 | * CircleOfFriendship: |
| 135 | ** The Mane Six defeat Nightmare Moon in this exact way, though it takes the [[CosmicKeystone Elements of Harmony]] to create the "friendship beam". They do roughly the same thing to Discord at the end of Part 2 of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E2TheReturnOfHarmonyPart2 The Return of Harmony]]". |
| 136 | ** In the "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E13HearthsWarmingEve Hearth's Warming Eve]]" episode, it's revealed that the founders of Equestria also used this, ''by accident'', to destroy the Windigos, a group of spirits who [[EmotionEater feed off of]] ThePowerOfHate and were attempting to freeze the world. Instead of the rainbow from before, it forms a flaming heart that incinerates the Windigos. It would appear that weaponized friendship is the method of choice in Equestria for dealing with {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. |
| 137 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E26TwilightsKingdomPart2 Twilight's Kingdom, Part 2]]", the Mane Six open the box produced by the Tree of Harmony, giving them [[SuperMode Rainbow Power]]. Opening the box is done by standing in a circle around it and turning all six keys at once, giving it this effect. They then follow this up with a [[PowerOfFriendship new Friendship-powered]] WaveMotionGun to defeat Tirek and [[DraggedOffToHell seal him back in Tartarus]]. The ending implies their upgrade comes with the ability to do this at will. |
| 138 | * CirclingBirdies: Whenever someone gets dizzy, be it from [[AnvilOnHead any]] [[CrashIntoHello kind]] of [[AmusingInjuries amusing blunt trauma]] or [[NauseaFuel motion sickness]], the character will have stars circling their heads for a short while. |
| 139 | ** Lampshaded in "Daring Don't"; when Rainbow runs into a tree where Fluttershy is helping some baby birds in their nest learning to fly, the chicks fly and circle around Rainbow's dazed head. |
| 140 | ** In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E15FeelingPinkieKeen "Feeling Pinkie Keen"]], Spike has Circling Stars when Twilight gets distracted by her spell and drops a rock on his head. Also happens to Twilight [[RuleOfThree thrice]]: The first when she falls into a ditch, the second when an anvil falls on her head and the third when she crashes into the cliff after fleeing the hydra. |
| 141 | ** In the "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E13HearthsWarmingEve Hearth's Warming Eve]]" episode, Rarity gets the stars variation during a SnowballFight. |
| 142 | * CityInABottle: Downplayed; "Village in a Bottle", actually. The opening of Season 5 ("The Cutie Map") features [[KnightTemplar Starlight Glimmer]] and her isolated village where all of the residents have essentially been cut off from the outside world and only think about living with one another equally, where talents don't determine value or social standing. Starlight's defeat reforms the village and herself, but [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten this doesn't stop her villainous past from being brought up ad nauseum]]. |
| 143 | * TheCityNarrows: |
| 144 | ** Trixie goes through an alleyway to find a shop that sells the Alicorn Amulet. |
| 145 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E25TwilightsKingdomPart1 Twilight's Kingdom, Part 1]]", this is where Tirek begins stealing magic from unicorns. |
| 146 | * CivilizedAnimal: While previous pony cartoon series had been leaning towards FunnyAnimal from ''Tales'' onwards, ''Friendship is Magic'' fits this portrayal; the ponies can talk, live in houses, and in some cases have jobs, but are otherwise quite equine in behavior, eating hay, grass, and flowers and using their mouths (or occasionally magic or wings) to manipulate things. |
| 147 | * ClarkKenting: [[spoiler:A.K. Yearling '''is''' Daring Do!]] |
| 148 | * CliffHanger: At the end of the first half of every two-part episode. More specifically, the premiere episode of all three seasons, plus the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E25ACanterlotWeddingPart1 second to last episode of Season 2]]. They also sometimes like to set up mini-cliffhangers going to commercial breaks. |
| 149 | ** For instance, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L142_juksw8 this]]. |
| 150 | * ClothespinNosePlug: ** Spike goes through a molting process in ''Moltdown'' which produces, among other things, a bad-smelling odor that attracts predators. Zecora uses two clothespins in order to not breathe in the stench. |
| 151 | ** When Twilight gets sprayed by a skunk, Spike [[TomatoSkunkStinkCure washes her in tomato soup]] with a clothespin on his nose, along with a look of disgust. |
| 152 | ** In ''Hearts and Hooves Day'', during the song "The Perfect Stallion," Scootaloo wears a clothespin on her nose while rejecting a dirty stallion with a garbage can cutie mark as "too smelly." |
| 153 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Pinkie Pie, in ''spades''. |
| 154 | -->'''Pinkie Pie:''' And then I said "Oatmeal, are you crazy?" |
| 155 | ** Subverted in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E11FamilyAppreciationDay Family Appreciation Day]]". It turns out that Granny Smith actually ''isn't'' a senile old mare: [[ChekhovsGag the seemingly insane acts she performs, such as pep-talking glass jars or sweet-talking bees]] are actually required in order to make Zap Apple Jam. |
| 156 | ** Snails from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E6BoastBusters Boast Busters]]": |
| 157 | -->"I like pudding..." |
| 158 | * TheCoconutEffect: Being a setting populated by sentient equines, the show uses the old "two coconuts banging together" sound effect in interesting ways. For example things that would normally involve hand sound effects are replaced by the coconut sound effect to reflect the fact that the characters are hoofed creatures who are using their forelegs as a substitute for hands. |
| 159 | * ColdOpening: While all the episodes are almost exactly 22:00 each, the openings vary, with "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E1TheCrystalEmpirePart1 The Crystal Empire, Part 1]]" being the shortest at 29 seconds and "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E8LookBeforeYouSleep Look Before You Sleep]]" being the longest at 2 minutes 51 seconds. |
| 160 | * ColonCancer: The [[UsefulNotes/IOSGames iOS game]] ''[[http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/my-little-pony-twilight-sparkle/id465213808?mt=8 My Little Pony: Twilight Sparkle: Teacher for a Day]]''. |
| 161 | * ColorCodedWizardry: Though present since Season 1, the unicorns' magic has clear distinctions in their aura colors from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero Lesson Zero]]" on, usually matching the color of the unicorn's eye color or cutie mark. For example, Twilight's is dark pink, Celestia's is bright yellow, and Luna's is clear blue. |
| 162 | ** Demonstrated in the episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E9SweetAndElite Sweet and Elite]]", when a unicorn with a pink magic aura picks up a bag and passes it to Rarity--the aura changes from pink to blue. |
| 163 | ** Also serves as a subtle hint in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E25ACanterlotWeddingPart1 A Canterlot Wedding]]", [[spoiler:Cadance's magic is blue in Twilight's flashback, but green in the present day]]. |
| 164 | ** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E1TheCrystalEmpirePart1 The Crystal Empire, Part 1]]" introduces BlackMagic that has a unique black-and-purple-and-green aura regardless of the user's own magic aura color. |
| 165 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E5MagicDuel Magic Duel]]", the Alicorn Amulet gives Trixie a red magic aura instead of her usual blue color. |
| 166 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E1PrincessTwilightSparklePart1 Princess Twilight Sparkle]]" the invading Everfree forest changes Rarity's blue and Sweetie Belle's green magic auras to strange blue dots as it causes things go out of control. |
| 167 | ** When under the influence of the Inspiration Manifestation book in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E23InspirationManifestation Inspiration Manifestation]]" Rarity's blue magic aura becomes bright green. |
| 168 | * ComicBookAdaptation: |
| 169 | ** [[ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW Has its own page.]] |
| 170 | ** While not comic books of their own, at least eleven short comics have been printed in a German ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' magazine published by Panini. |
| 171 | ** A licensed ''Franchise/MyLittlePony''/''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' Comic Creator Kit manufactured by Buzz Products and distributed by Singapore Airlines includes at least three short MLP comics. |
| 172 | * ComicallyMissingThePoint: |
| 173 | ** In the episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipISMagicS1E6BoastBusters Boast Busters]]", a unicorn named Trixie comes to town [[MilesGloriosus claiming to be incredibly powerful]] and capable of vanquishing the dreaded [[BearsAreBadNews Ursa Major]]. Most of the ponies don't buy it, but two young colts fall for her story and proudly defend her. Spike tells them that unless they actually see her pulling off the feats she claims, they shouldn't believe her. They take this as a cue to find an Ursa Major and bring it to town so Trixie can defeat it in front of everypony. Bad idea. |
| 174 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipISMagicS1E18TheShowStoppers The Show Stoppers]]", The Cutie Mark Crusaders enter the school talent show hoping to get their cutie marks, but each tackles something they're not suited for (and that another one of them is perfect for). They do actually win an award, but don't get their cutie marks. They realize they failed to get their marks because they neglected their true talents, but decide that their actual calling in life must be comedy, since they won [[SoBadItsGood Best Comedy Act]]. |
| 175 | ** Done once again by Scootaloo in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipISMagicS1E23TheCutieMarkChronicles The Cutie Mark Chronicles]]": |
| 176 | --->'''Scootaloo:''' Argh! These namby-pamby stories aren't getting us any closer to our cutie marks! They're all about 'finding out who you are' and boring stuff like that! |
| 177 | *** Let's just save time and say the CMC pretty much embody this trope [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption every time they appear in the show]], because instead of cultivating the talents they're actually ''good'' at, they spend all their time trying every random activity they can think of. Like WesternAnimation/WileECoyote, they've gotten so obsessed with the short-term goal ("catch the roadrunner"[=/=]"get a cutie mark") that they've lost sight of ''why'' they wanted to accomplish the goal in the first place. |
| 178 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipISMagicS1E25PartyOfOne Party of One]]" Pinkie Pie throws a birthday party for her toothless pet alligator Gummy, and her friends have a delightful time, though she's a little overeager during the party. The next day, she invites them to an after-birthday-party party that afternoon. All five of her friends decline the invitation. The viewer is led to assume they turn her down because two parties in two days is too much partying, [[spoiler:but they're actually planning a surprise party for her own birthday, which she forgot due to being wrapped up in her own plans for the second party.]] Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash collaboratively lie, hilariously building the worst excuse of the bunch. |
| 179 | --->'''Pinkie Pie:''' Something strange is definitely going on around here, Gummy. Sure Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy had to house-sit for that vacationing bear, but what are the chances all my other friends would have plans this afternoon too? Rarity ''(the fashionista)'' has to wash her hair? Applejack ''(the farmer)'' has to pick apples? Twilight ''(the student)'' is behind on her studies, and has to hit the books? The more I think about it, the more those are starting to sound like… ''*gasps*'' excuses! |
| 180 | ** Even before that, in the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipISMagicS1E2ElementsOfHarmony second episode]].. |
| 181 | --->'''Fluttershy''': Why Rarity, it's so lovely!\ |
| 182 | '''Rarity''': I know! ''(Whips her [[ItMakesSenseInContext restored tail]])'' I'll never part with it again!\ |
| 183 | '''Fluttershy''': No, your necklace. |
| 184 | * CommonTongue: Seemingly every creature in Equestria and beyond speaks Ponish. |
| 185 | * CompanionCube: |
| 186 | ** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel Over a Barrel]]": Applejack's apple tree Bloomberg gets this treatment. She buys it a private sleeping car in a train and reads it bedtime stories. Spike gets into the act when he bunks with Bloomberg to get away from the girls' night-time chatter, and apologizes in advance to the tree if he starts snoring. (This may be justified if he snores ''fire'', however.) |
| 187 | ** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E25PartyOfOne Party of One]]": Pinkie Pie has a nervous breakdown when she thinks her friends don't want to come to her parties anymore. She sets up a pile of rocks ("Rocky"), a sack of flour ("Madame Le Flour"), a bucket of turnips ("Mr. Turnip"), and a piece of lint ("Sir Lintsalot") as her new friends, and tries to throw a party with them. Pinkie Pie does their voices so well that she even gets Rainbow Dash to argue with the rocks. The most noticeable sign of Pinkie's [[SanitySlippage deepening depression and insanity]] is that at first, she pretends that "Rocky", "Madame Le Flour" and the rest are talking to her by nudging them back and forth to create the illusion of movement. When they give her the ArmorPiercingQuestion, she loses any sanity she had left ''[[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness and her party guests seem to start moving on their own]]''. And then the camera zooms out to reveal that the "party guests" are still inanimate, as always... |
| 188 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E1TheReturnOfHarmonyPart1 The Return]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E2TheReturnOfHarmonyPart2 of Harmony]]", Rarity is brainwashed by Discord into thinking a boulder is actually a giant diamond. She becomes increasingly obsessed with and protective of it, and starts calling it "Tom". |
| 189 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero Lesson Zero]]", Twilight Sparkle introduces her cherished childhood toy "Smarty Pants": a raggedy old stuffed pony doll with a notebook and quill. Twilight casts an [[ArtifactOfAttraction enchantment spell]] that makes everypony in town be attracted to the doll, leading to a large fight between all of them over it. After the spell is lifted, every pony loses interest and leaves the doll behind, except for Big Macintosh who is ([[RealMenWearPink for some unexplained reason]]) still attracted to it and ends up running away with it. |
| 190 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E12PinkiePride Pinkie Pride]]", Pinkie's rival Cheese Sandwich has a rubber chicken he calls "Boneless", which he talks to and carries with him on his travels around Equestria. |
| 191 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E18MaudPie Maud Pie]]", the titular character has a small pet rock ironically named "Boulder". [[RunningGag This is the]] ''[[RunningGag third]]'' [[RunningGag rock-based companion cube depicted in this series.]] |
| 192 | *** When we meet Maud's boyfriend Mudbriar in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E3TheMaudCouple The Maud Couple]]" it is revealed that he has a pet stick named "Twiggy" who is apparently friends with Boulder. |
| 193 | ** DownplayedTrope in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E23InspirationManifestation Inspiration Manifestation]]". Rarity considers the book to be an actual person, which Spike admits is pretty creepy. That said, she's never seen trying to interact with it, nor is she all that upset when the book is destroyed. (Though that's mostly because she didn't need the book by that point.) |
| 194 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E20AHorseShoeIn A Horse Shoe-In]]", Starlight Glimmer keeps a potted plant on her desk that she named Phyllis and acts like it's sapient; talking to "her" and asking for advice. [[spoiler:She also got very upset when Trixie threw the plant into a trash can.]] |
| 195 | * CompositeCharacter: With the sole exception of Applejack, the six mane characters are a composite of a "G1" pony and a G3 pony. Rainbow Dash, for example, has the wings and personality of the pony Firefly, and the color scheme (more or less) of the G3 Rainbow Dash. Faust couldn't use the names of the original "G1" ponies, due to Hasbro having lost the trademarks to all of them but Applejack and Spike, so the use of more recent ponies for extra inspiration is her WritingAroundTrademarks. Full explanation [[http://ponibooru.413chan.net/_images/02b14f657f8b589243c1279e8a08d8f6/122%20-%20applejack%20chart%20Firefly%20fluttershy%20g1%20lauren_faust%20list%20pinkie_pie%20Posey%20rainbow_dash%20rarity%20Sparkler%20Surprise%20twilight_sparkle.jpg here.]] |
| 196 | ** Discord is a ''very'' literal example of this, being a mish-mash of [[MixAndMatchCreatures just about every creature known to man]]. |
| 197 | * CompressedAdaptation: |
| 198 | ** The {{Novelization}}s in general, since many of them are either storybooks that come with toys or short stories published in different countries' magazines. |
| 199 | ** The Canadian live show. It managed to squeeze part of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E3TheTicketMaster The Ticket Master]]", part of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E4ApplebuckSeason Applebuck Season]]", part of [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E2ElementsOfHarmony Part 2]] of the pilot, part of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E11WinterWrapUp Winter Wrap-Up]]" and part of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E26TheBestNightEver The Best Night Ever]]" into a 30-minute play (which took place over an ''entire year''). |
| 200 | * CompulsiveLiar: Since Applejack represents the Element of Honesty, her exact opposite ends up being one of these as shown when Discord corrupts her into lying about everything and when Chrysalis makes a clone of her who lies. |
| 201 | * ConeOfShame: |
| 202 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E22ABirdInTheHoof A Bird in the Hoof]]", Celestia's pet bird Philomena gets one to stop her from plucking her feathers. |
| 203 | ** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E21LeapOfFaith Leap of Faith]]" shows the [[EnsembleDarkhorse/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic background pony]] [[AllThereInTheManual Sea Swirl]] wearing a ConeOfShame. Makes one wonder why a pony has to wear one — a unicorn, no less, that could easily circumvent the cone with magic. |
| 204 | * ConflictBall: Shows up in a few episodes. "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E8LookBeforeYouSleep Look Before You Sleep]]" particularly comes to mind. |
| 205 | ** Merriwether Williams's use of this trope seems to be the main criticism against her writing style. |
| 206 | * TheConscience: |
| 207 | ** Spike often attempts to provide common sense to Twilight Sparkle when she is more apt to ignore her own in favour of [[BookDumb book smarts]]. |
| 208 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E23InspirationManifestation Inspiration Manifestation]]", Owlowiscious functions as this for Spike. |
| 209 | * ContinuityCameo: [[spoiler:The villain of the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E25TwilightsKingdomPart1 Season 4 finale]] should be instantly recognizable to anypony familiar with the original series.]] |
| 210 | * ContinuityCreep: |
| 211 | ** Season 3 experienced a higher level of continuity from previous seasons, due to several episodes acting as continuations of previous episodes. (e.g. "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E5MagicDuel Magic Duel]]" from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E6BoastBusters Boast Busters]]", and "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E11KeepCalmAndFlutterOn Keep Calm and Flutter On]]" from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E1TheReturnOfHarmonyPart1 The Return of Harmony]]"). |
| 212 | ** Season 4 continues the trend with "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E1PrincessTwilightSparklePart1 Princess Twilight Sparkle]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E11ThreesACrowd Three's A Crowd]]", and "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E25TwilightsKingdomPart1 Twilight's Kingdom]]" building off "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E11KeepCalmAndFlutterOn Keep Calm and Flutter On]]"; "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E5FlightToTheFinish Flight to the Finish]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E10RainbowFalls Rainbow Falls]]", and "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E24EquestriaGames Equestria Games]]" building off "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E12GamesPoniesPlay Games Ponies Play]]"; and the entire season's story arc from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E13MagicalMysteryCure Magical Mystery Cure]]". |
| 213 | ** Season 5 is just choc full of them: "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E4BloomAndGloom Bloom and Gloom]]" completing the CMC[=/=]Luna trilogy, "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E5TanksForTheMemories Tanks for the Memories]]" picking up from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E7MayTheBestPetWin May the Best Pet Win!]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E8TheLostTreasureOfGriffonstone The Lost Treasure of Griffonstone]]" from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E5GriffonTheBrushOff Griffon the Brush-off]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E12AmendingFences Amending Fences]]" from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon Friendship is Magic]]"... |
| 214 | * ConversationCut: Used several times throughout the show: |
| 215 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E2ElementsOfHarmony The Elements of Harmony]]", as Twilight Sparkle is reading the last known location of the Elements of Harmony, the scene dissolves from the library into the location as she (and the other ponies) say "...the Everfree Forest!" Pinkie Pie does another one at the end of the episode: |
| 216 | --->'''Pinkie Pie:''' Hey, you know what this calls for? ''(transitions to Ponyville)'' A party! |
| 217 | ** Pinkie Pie pulls another one in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E4ApplebuckSeason Applebuck Season]]" as the ponies try to figure out how to show their appreciation to Applejack for saving Ponyville from a stampede. This cut apparently lasts a week. |
| 218 | ** The cold open in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E20GreenIsntYourColor Green Isn't Your Color]]" is basically a series of these. |
| 219 | * ConstructedWorld: Despite a few slip-ups of writing such as a few mentions of France, Equestria is part of a world that is very different from our own with its own features. |
| 220 | * ContinuityNod: Quite a few, which is unexpected for a show where the episodes are supposed to be watchable in any order. |
| 221 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E4ApplebuckSeason Applebuck Season]]", Applejack explains to Twilight that her huge family was only in town for the Sun Festival (the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon pilot episode]]), which is why she's the only one left on her farm that's strong enough to harvest the orchard after Big Macintosh hurts his back. |
| 222 | ** During "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E7Dragonshy Dragonshy]]", Rainbow Dash mentions the ferocious manticore that Fluttershy befriended during the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon pilot episode]]. |
| 223 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E5GriffonTheBrushOff Griffon the Brush Off]]", Rainbow Dash says in a playful and friendly tone, "Pinkie Pie, you are so random!". A few episodes later, in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E10SwarmOfTheCentury Swarm of the Century]]", Rainbow Dash says the same thing [[IronicEcho in an irritated voice]]. |
| 224 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E14SuitedForSuccess Suited For Success]]", Rarity is creating the dresses that she and her friends will wear for the Grand Galloping Gala announced in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E3TheTicketMaster Episode 3]]. Some of these dresses can be seen in later episodes (Rarity wears hers at the beginning of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E22ABirdInTheHoof A Bird In The Hoof]]"). The Gala itself is the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E26TheBestNightEver season finale]]. |
| 225 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E15FeelingPinkieKeen Feeling Pinkie Keen]]", Fluttershy remembers the jumping advice that Pinkie Pie gave to her during "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E7Dragonshy Dragonshy]]" and, thanks to it, manages to escape from the Hydra chasing her. In the same episode, Twilight Sparkle uses the [[LeeroyJenkins same approach that Rainbow Dash used]] when facing the dragon in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E7Dragonshy Dragonshy]]" on said Hydra. |
| 226 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E19ADogAndPonyShow A Dog and Pony Show]]", Applejack mentions that Rarity won't even touch mud unless it's imported, a nod to the mud masks in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E8LookBeforeYouSleep Look Before You Sleep]]". |
| 227 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E20GreenIsntYourColor Green Isn't Your Color]]", Rarity states that she "[[Film/GrandHotel vants to be alone]]" when she is upset over Fluttershy's popularity. She said the same thing in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E14SuitedForSuccess Suited For Success]]", after a failed fashion show made her a laughingstock in Ponyville. While sorting through dresses for Fluttershy to try on, she tosses aside several outfits which appeared in prior episodes. |
| 228 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E12CallOfTheCutie Call of the Cutie]]", Rainbow Dash gives Apple Bloom a little bit of Karate training. In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E18TheShowStoppers The Show Stoppers]]", Apple Bloom incorporates Karate into her "dance". |
| 229 | ** At the beginning of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E22ABirdInTheHoof A Bird in the Hoof]]", the dresses from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E14SuitedForSuccess Suited For Success]]" can be seen hanging in Fluttershy's closet. In a later scene, Rarity is wearing hers. |
| 230 | ** In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon the first episode]], one of the dresses Rarity has Twilight try is a Statue of Liberty outfit. In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E23TheCutieMarkChronicles The Cutie Mark Chronicles]]", we learn that a pony version of the Statue of Liberty actually exists in their world. |
| 231 | ** The straight-haired version of Pinkie Pie seen in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E23TheCutieMarkChronicles Cutie Mark Chronicles]]" reappears in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E25PartyOfOne Party of One]]" when Pinkie Pie convinces herself everypony is avoiding her because they no longer like her parties. |
| 232 | *** Also briefly in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E26TheBestNightEver The Best Night Ever]]" as she tries to straighten it for the Gala. But because she's happy, it goes poofy again immediately. |
| 233 | *** And once again in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E13MagicalMysteryCure Magical Mystery Cure]]", where she is miserable due to being stuck with Applejack's destiny. |
| 234 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E16SonicRainboom Sonic Rainboom]]", Rainbow Dash mentions that she's broken the rainbow barrier once before, "a long time ago". In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E23TheCutieMarkChronicles The Cutie Mark Chronicles]]", we get to see how it happened. |
| 235 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E26TheBestNightEver The Best Night Ever]]", the Wonderbolts recognize Rainbow Dash from the events of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E16SonicRainboom Sonic Rainboom]]". The entire episode also serves as one giant nod to everypony's {{Imagine Spot}}s about the Gala way back in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E3TheTicketMaster The Ticket Master]]". During her attempts to befriend the animals at the garden, Fluttershy remembers the advice Twilight gave her in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E22ABirdInTheHoof A Bird In The Hoof]]". Additionally, this episode features the dresses created in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E14SuitedForSuccess Suited For Success]]" and has a brief appearance of Pinkie Pie's straight hair from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E25PartyOfOne Party of One]]". |
| 236 | ** And Zecora, debuting in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E9BridleGossip Bridle Gossip]]", establishing the context for her cameo one episode later in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E10SwarmOfTheCentury Swarm of the Century]]". She's also mentioned (but not seen) in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E17StareMaster Stare Master]]"; visiting her for tea is Twilight's reason for going into the Everfree Forest that night. |
| 237 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E6BoastBusters Boast Busters]]", Snips and Snails are shown to be awe-struck by Trixie's magic skills. In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E18TheShowStoppers The Show Stoppers]]", they attempt to stage a magic show of their own. |
| 238 | ** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E2TheReturnOfHarmonyPart2 The Return Of Harmony, Part 2]]" features two short segments with several clips taken from previous episodes, when [[spoiler:Twilight and Applejack's memories are being restored]]. |
| 239 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero Lesson Zero]]", Twilight's messed-up bird nest from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E11WinterWrapUp Winter Wrap Up]]" can be seen. |
| 240 | ** Another nod to "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E9BridleGossip Bridle Gossip]]" was made in the Season 2 episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E6TheCutiePox The Cutie Pox]]". Seems Zecora hasn't forgotten her initial treatment by Ponyville's inhabitants. |
| 241 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E8TheMysteriousMareDoWell The Mysterious Mare Do Well]]" Pinkie Pie says she used her Pinkie Sense (from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E15FeelingPinkieKeen Feeling Pinkie Keen]]") to save the construction workers. She then immediately gets a twitch and pushes Rainbow Dash out of the way of a falling flower-pot. Pinkie Sense then gets brought up again during "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E20ItsAboutTime It's About Time]]", where Pinkie is doing a [[FortuneTeller fortune telling]] routine. Twilight asks Pinkie to use her Pinkie sense to predict the coming disaster, but Pinkie says she doesn't use her Pinkie sense for that. Pinkie then immediately gets a twitch and a flower-pot falls on Twilight. |
| 242 | ** During the musical number in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E9SweetAndElite Sweet and Elite]]", Rarity attends an opera in the same dress she wore at the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E26TheBestNightEver Grand Galloping Gala]]. |
| 243 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E18AFriendInDeed A Friend In Deed]]", Rainbow Dash is shown in Twilight's library reading a ''Daring Do'' novel, a hobby that she picked up in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E16ReadItAndWeep Read It And Weep]]". We see her with a ''Daring Do'' novel again while hanging out next to the pool in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E3TooManyPinkiePies Too Many Pinkie Pies]]". |
| 244 | ** All of them are listed on the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic recap]] page for every episode. |
| 245 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E1TheReturnOfHarmonyPart1 The Return of Harmony, Part 1]]", Sweetie Belle corrects Apple Bloom by telling her "victoryful" isn't a word. Scootaloo asks "What are you, a dictionary?". In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E11FamilyAppreciationDay Family Appreciation Day]]", Apple Bloom rapidly lists synonyms for "embarrassed", prompting Scootaloo to ask her the same question (even the same recording was used). |
| 246 | ** Possibly the most subtle one is from the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E13MagicalMysteryCure Season 3 finale]], "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E13MagicalMysteryCure Magical Mystery Cure]]". Check how long it takes for Rainbow Dash to clear the skies [[spoiler:after Rarity has been screwing up Rainbow Dash's job]]. |
| 247 | ** One worth mentioning is the insane pony that barks like a dog in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E20ItsAboutTime It's About Time]]". Fast-forward to "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E8JustForSidekicks Just For Sidekicks]]" in Season 3, and we catch a glimpse of the same pony who has since recovered a great deal and is on her way to being fully sane. |
| 248 | ** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E23InspirationManifestation Inspiration Manifestation]]": Spike mentions Owlowiscious' bow tie that Rarity made for him in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E24OwlsWellThatEndsWell Owl's Well That Ends Well]]". |
| 249 | *** During the prologue, various pony families are seen together setting up the fair, including [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E22HurricaneFluttershy Thunderlane and Rumble]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E11FamilyAppreciationDay Diamond Tiara and Filthy Rich]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E5SisterhoovesSocial Sweetie and her (and Rarity's) parents (without their vacation clothes), and Dinky and Amethyst Star]]. |
| 250 | ** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E24EquestriaGames Equestria Games]]": In the episode, Shining Armor is wearing his captain's armor for the first time since "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E25ACanterlotWeddingPart1 A Canterlot Wedding]]". |
| 251 | *** Derpy, despite not competing herself, is still part of Ponyville's delegation, as shown in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E10RainbowFalls Rainbow Falls]]", probably as an emergency replacement in case it's necessary. |
| 252 | *** Pinkie Pie is the only person in the audience who enjoys Spike's rendition of the Cloudsdale anthem. She even shouts "Nailed it!" at the end. This is an inverse of the scene from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel Over a Barrel]]", where Spike was the only person in the audience to enjoy Pinkie's "You Gotta Care, You Gotta Share" song. |
| 253 | *** Spike wishes that Twilight had some way to turn back time. [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E20ItsAboutTime Twilight does, in fact, know a spell that does something quite similar]], and she looks like she's seriously considering using it. |
| 254 | *** Twilight being brutally honest with Spike regarding the torch-lighting ceremony could be considered a nod to the previous episode's {{Aesop}}. |
| 255 | *** Spike's in-universe MemeticMutation of the "easy peasy" couplet. |
| 256 | --->'''Spike''': Easy peasy [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E15TheSuperSpeedyCiderSqueezy6000 Cider Squeezy]]! |
| 257 | ** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E25TwilightsKingdomPart1 Twilight's Kingdom, Part 1]]": Spike once more reminds us [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E2TheCrystalEmpirePart2 he's the hero of the Crystal Empire]]--[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E24EquestriaGames twice]]. |
| 258 | *** Twilight is freaking out again, this time over [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething her role as a princess]]. Cue [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E22TestingTesting123 another freak-out aria about freaking out]]. |
| 259 | *** Tirek's brother Scorpan is shown in the story flashback to go off with a unicorn wizard; though the name is not said, this is clearly meant to be Starswirl the Bearded, based on similar imagery from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E11ThreesACrowd Three's A Crowd]]". |
| 260 | *** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E11KeepCalmAndFlutterOn Once more]], Fluttershy is the only one of the Mane Six to find Discord's antics rather amusing. |
| 261 | *** After Rainbow Dash says, "In your dreams!" Discord replies with, "Oh, I never dream of such things. Ask Princess Luna." This is a reference to Luna's ability to walk into other ponies' dreams as seen in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E6SleeplessInPonyville Sleepless in Ponyville]]" and "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E20ForWhomTheSweetieBelleToils For Whom the Sweetie Belle Toils]]". |
| 262 | *** When Celestia explains where Tirek came from, it's found in the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon same book from the first episode and told in the same style, right down to the first shot of the original episode]]. |
| 263 | ** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E26TwilightsKingdomPart2 Twilight's Kingdom, Part 2]]": All the ponies who gave the keys to the Mane 6 over the season are shown as the rainbow flies through Equestria. |
| 264 | *** This is the second time this season we've seen Shining Armor in uniform, and the first time since "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E25ACanterlotWeddingPart1 A Canterlot Wedding]]" that he's been shown performing his duties as Captain of the Royal Guard. |
| 265 | *** Cerberus' escape from Tararus in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E20ItsAboutTime It's About Time]]" is directly mentioned, and cited as the most likely reason Tirek was able to escape. |
| 266 | * ConvergingStreamWeapon: |
| 267 | ** Princess Celestia using the elements of Harmony on her own to banish Nightmare Moon in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E1PrincessTwilightSparklePart1 Princess Twilight Sparkle]]" is presented this way, with the other five Elements channeling their power into the Element of Magic for a massive beam. |
| 268 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E26TwilightsKingdomPart2 Twilight's Kingdom, Part 2]]", the Mane Six's new friendship-powered WaveMotionGun manifests this way, blasting Tirek with six individual beams of light before they combine into one powerful blow that defeats him, takes back the stolen magic, locks him back in Tartarus, and releases Celestia, Luna, and Cadance from Tartarus when their own magic is restored. |
| 269 | * CoolAirship: Airships are often seen in the possession of the very wealthy. [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E21OnceUponAZeppelin One episode]] showed an airship used for a luxury cruise that operated very much the same way as modern luxury cruise ships of today. |
| 270 | * CoolChair: |
| 271 | ** [[RealityWarper Discord]] fashions himself quite an evil-looking throne -- a dark gray and deep red color scheme, a stylized skull shape with pointed teeth at the top, and a huge pair of antlers sprouting from the skull for added demonic imagery -- and plops it right in the middle of Ponyville so that he can observe [[RealityIsOutToLunch the chaos he's wrought]] firsthand. |
| 272 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E24EquestriaGames Equestria Games]]", the four princesses each have their own elaborate thrones at the Games, emblazoned with stylized renditions of their cutie marks. This is similar to the VIP seating for the heads-of-state at the UsefulNotes/OlympicGames, including the leader of the host nation. |
| 273 | ** [[spoiler:At the end of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E26TwilightsKingdomPart2 Twilight's Kingdom]]", Twilight gains a castle in Ponyville after the library is destroyed. It contains seven thrones arranged in a circle -- a full-sized one for each of the Mane Six, set with their cutie marks, and a smaller seventh one for Spike next to Twilight's.]] |
| 274 | * CoolHorse: All of the ponies could count. |
| 275 | * CoolHouse: All six ponies live in some sort of Cool House (not surprising given that one of the show's jobs is to sell the playsets those houses are based on). |
| 276 | ** Twilight lives in a library built into a giant hollow tree, with an observatory on top, a balcony a little farther down, and a bizarre laboratory in the basement. |
| 277 | *** [[spoiler:The library is destroyed during "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E25TwilightsKingdomPart1 Twilight's Kingdom]]", but she eventually gets an even cooler house to replace it: a castle built of crystal and styled to resemble the old tree.]] |
| 278 | ** Rarity lives at her business, the Carousel Boutique, which is styled to resemble an ornate antique merry-go-round, complete with horses. |
| 279 | ** Pinkie Pie lives at Sugarcube Corner, a bakery whose roof resembles a heavily decorated gingerbread house with two cupcakes stacked on top. |
| 280 | *** Oddly, the apartment itself is kind of bare, for reasons speculated upon in this wiki's WildMassGuessing page (Pinkie has one all to herself). |
| 281 | ** Fluttershy lives in a large sod-roof cottage near the Everfree Forest. The entire property, inside and out, is filled with houses and shelters for an assortment of small animals, plus the house itself is covered with beautiful plants. It's reminiscent of a [[Literature/TheHobbit Hobbit hole]]. |
| 282 | ** Rainbow Dash lives in a floating house made of clouds... that looks like a small Greek palace, with rainbow waterfalls on either side. |
| 283 | ** Applejack and her family live in a house/barn on the edge of their sprawling apple orchard. |
| 284 | ** Applejack's old clubhouse becomes one after Apple Bloom fixes it up for the Cutie Mark Crusaders' use in record time. It has a drawbridge-style ramp that can be pulled up and even sprouts an observatory in later appearances. |
| 285 | * CoolTrain: The Friendship Express Train. |
| 286 | ** The Crystal Empire's royal train takes this to new levels, apparently being made of crystal. |
| 287 | * CostumePorn: Almost anything Rarity designs (with some glaring yet justified exceptions), particularly the dresses she and her friends wear to the Grand Galloping Gala. |
| 288 | * CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: |
| 289 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E3TheTicketMaster The Ticket Master]]", after Twilight receives two tickets to the Grand Galloping Gala, all of her friends (and eventually everyone else in Ponyville) attempt to "convince" her to give them the extra ticket. Twilight eventually sends both tickets back to Princess Celestia, saying that if she can't bring all of her friends, then she doesn't want to go either. Celestia's reply is "Why didn't you just say so in the first place?", after which she sends extra tickets for all of the Mane Cast (and Spike). |
| 290 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E10SwarmOfTheCentury Swarm of the Century]]", after spotting the [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter parasprites]] for the first time, Pinkie Pie starts scrambling around town for random musical instruments, without telling anyone else why. The rest of the town has been preoccupied with preparing for Celestia's visit, so they chalk it up to [[CloudCuckooLander Pinkie being Pinkie]]. Once Pinkie's [[MagicMusic led the parasprites out of town]], Twilight acknowledges that if she or one of the others had stopped Pinkie to ask her about the instruments, they could've avoided the town getting [[ExplosiveBreeder overrun by the parasprites]]. |
| 291 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E22ABirdInTheHoof A Bird in the Hoof]]", Fluttershy, being a FriendToAllLivingThings decides (without asking permission) to look after Princess Celestia's "sick" bird. Fluttershy struggles to nurse the bird back to health, but apparently "fails" as the bird seemingly turns to ashes. It then turns out that the bird [[spoiler:is actually a phoenix]], afterwhich Fluttershy [[AnAesop learns]] that if she had just asked Celestia first, she would have known ahead of time. |
| 292 | ** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero Lesson Zero]]" has Twilight's friends realized that if they had taken Twilight's worries seriously from the start (even if they ''did'' think she was blowing things out of proportion) they could've acted to help Twilight and avoid the [[HilarityEnsues hilarity that ensued]] at the episode's end. |
| 293 | ** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E26ACanterlotWeddingPart2 A Canterlot Wedding, Part 2]]" has the villain point out their NearVillainVictory was possible because Twilight's friends dismissed her warnings as jealously to [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Twilight's ashamed friends]]. |
| 294 | --->'''[[spoiler:Queen Chrysalis]]:''' It's funny, really. Twilight here was suspicious of my behavior all along. Too bad the rest of you were too caught up in your wedding planning to realize the suspicions were correct!\ |
| 295 | '''Applejack:''' Sorry, Twi. We should have listened to you...\ |
| 296 | '''Twilight Sparkle:''' It's not your fault - she fooled everypony. |
| 297 | ** At the end of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E4OneBadApple One Bad Apple]]", Applejack tells Apple Bloom and Scootaloo that the whole situation regarding Babs Seed could've been resolved if they had just listened to Sweetie Belle and told Applejack about it. |
| 298 | --->'''Applejack:''' You know, this all could have been avoided if you all just came to me in the very beginning.\ |
| 299 | '''Sweetie Bell:''' That's what ''I'' kept on saying! |
| 300 | ** The fifth Season episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E18BrotherhoovesSocial Brotherhooves Social]]" has Apple Bloom devastated over not being able to participate with Applejack in the Sisterhooves Social. Big Macintosh overhears Granny Smith telling her that that it shouldn't matter who her partner is as long as they both represent the spirit of the social. He [[WholesomeCrossdresser dresses in drag and a wig]] and pretends to be Apple Bloom's cousin "Orchard Blossom" so he can participate with her. After Big Mac is disqualified for unsportsmanlike conduct, the judges point out that his "Orchard Blossom" getup was pointless because there never was a rule barring stallions from the social. |
| 301 | * {{Countrystan}}: The yaks live in a place called [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Yak Yak]]istan. It is a FantasyCounterpartCulture to Central Asia with some European elements like a festival called Yickslurbertfest. |
| 302 | * CowardlyLion: Obviously, this trope applies to [[ShrinkingViolet Fluttershy]]. Perhaps not so obviously is how it pertains to ''Rarity''. Rarity is often depicted as selfish, egotistical and more then a little bit snobbish. But she is the Element of Generosity. She wants everything, but she chooses to give it instead, because she knows that is the [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E20GreenIsntYourColor right thing to do]]. In fact, Rarity is the pony who most often has to really ''try'' to do the right thing, instead of it being just natural for her. |
| 303 | * CrapsackWorld: Equestria temporarily became this during "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E2TheReturnOfHarmonyPart2 Return of Harmony, Part 2]]". |
| 304 | * CrazyCatLady: Pinkie Pie is worried that Rarity might become one in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E14SuitedForSuccess Suited for Success]]". |
| 305 | -->'''Applejack:''' Well, we can't just leave Rarity like this. |
| 306 | -->'''Pinkie Pie:''' She'll become a crazy cat lady! |
| 307 | -->'''Twilight:''' She only has ''one'' cat. |
| 308 | -->'''Pinkie Pie:''' Give her time... |
| 309 | ** Goldie Delicious is one in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E9PinkieApplePie Pinkie Apple Pie]]". |
| 310 | * CrazyPrepared: Pinkie Pie never travels anywhere without her Party Cannon, and has balls and eye patches stashed all over Ponyville in case of "ball emergencies" or "eye patch emergencies". |
| 311 | * CrazyWorkplace: The weather factory. The ponies there have the fantastical jobs of making snowflakes by hoof and producing clouds and rainbows. {{Justified|Trope}} because [[PaintingTheFrostOnWindows ponies are responsible for the weather in their world]], so they must do this as the weather doesn't handle itself. |
| 312 | * CreatorCameo: |
| 313 | ** Director Jayson Thiessen is the voice of the Canterlot Royal Guard soldiers in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E22ABirdInTheHoof A Bird in the Hoof]]" & "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E20ItsAboutTime It's About Time]]", of the Ponyville Hospital security guard) from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E16ReadItAndWeep Read It and Weep]]", of the big muscle pegasus (Bulk Biceps) in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E22HurricaneFluttershy Hurricane Fluttershy]]", and of the teacher from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E1TheCrystalEmpirePart1 The Crystal Empire, Part 1]]". |
| 314 | ** King Sombra of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E1TheCrystalEmpirePart1 The Crystal Empire, Part 1]]" and "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E2TheCrystalEmpirePart2 The Crystal Empire, Part 2]]" is voiced by storyboard supervisor "Big" Jim Miller. |
| 315 | ** The mule in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E4ApplebuckSeason Applebuck Season]]" and "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E22HurricaneFluttershy Hurricane Fluttershy]]" is voiced by co-director [[http://www.facebook.com/pages/James-Wootie-Wootton/216767748385467 James "Wootie" Wooton]]. |
| 316 | ** One of the animators [[http://princesschuchi.deviantart.com/ Holly Giesbrecht]] slipped in her OC pony Holly Dash into the background for a brief moment in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E10SwarmOfTheCentury Swarm of the Century]]". |
| 317 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E25ACanterlotWeddingPart1 A Canterlot Wedding]]" Sibsy's ponitar makes an appearance as a wife arguing with her husband about a hooficure... until Princess Cadance uses her magic to alter the situation for the better. Sibsy, a.k.a. Sabrina Alberghetti, is a storyboard artist for the show. |
| 318 | ** Series composer Daniel Ingram voices the stallion getting a scarf in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E8RarityTakesManehattan Rarity Takes Manehattan]]". |
| 319 | * CreditsGag: In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E11KeepCalmAndFlutterOn Keep Calm And Flutter On]]", the credits list Creator/TabithaStGermain as the one who provided the voice to the gravy boat. It should be pointed out that the gravy boat was mute, except for panting like a dog. |
| 320 | * CringeComedy: The show occasionally delves into this. |
| 321 | ** The most clear-cut example is probably the episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E18MaudPie Maud Pie]]", where Pinkie's sister visits town and the cast has a horrendously difficult time attempting to get to know her better due to her extreme [[TheStoic stoicism]]. |
| 322 | ** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E24EquestriaGames Equestria Games]]" has the scene where Spike interrupts a medal ceremony to insist on singing the gold medal-winner's anthem. Only after Shining Armor announces this to the crowd does Spike realize that Cloudsdale (not Ponyville) won the gold for that particular event. Spike doesn't know any of the words to Cloudsdale's anthem. As he ad-libs, the camera cuts multiple times to the audience, who are just as embarrassed as Spike is. One unicorn even yanks his top hat down to cover his entire head. |
| 323 | * {{Crossover}}: |
| 324 | ** [[http://drawsomeponies.tumblr.com/post/27587230715/room-1-of-7-sweet-apple-acres-dont-fret The]] [[http://drawsomeponies.tumblr.com/post/27587332344/room-2-cloudsdale-room-3-will-be-up-in-10 Mane]] [[http://drawsomeponies.tumblr.com/post/27587440814/room-3-sugarcube-corner-ooh-room-4-is-next Six]] [[http://drawsomeponies.tumblr.com/post/27587589122/room-4-carousel-boutique-im-putting-the and]] [[http://drawsomeponies.tumblr.com/post/27587889539/by-my-calculations-this-is-room-5-of-7-golden Spike]] [[http://drawsomeponies.tumblr.com/post/27587991170/meep-room-6-of-7-fluttershys-cottage appear]] [[http://drawsomeponies.tumblr.com/post/27588189131/room-7-of-7-dragon-breath-room-hmm-looking as]] [[http://drawsomeponies.tumblr.com/post/27588312472/and-everypony-all-in-the-same-place-if-they-do guests]] in the [[UsefulNotes/IOSGames iOS game]] ''[[http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/monopoly-hotels/id479412611?mt=8 Monopoly Hotels]]'', which also has DummiedOut unfinished coding for an appearance of the same kind by Princess Celestia. |
| 325 | ** Some of Creator/TheHub's promotional materials feature characters from this show and other Hub shows (often reaching MassiveMultiplayerCrossover levels), including ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfChuckAndFriends'', ''Series/Batman1966'' ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', ''WesternAnimation/DanVs'', ''Series/FraggleRock'', ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeRenegades'', ''[[WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012 Littlest Pet Shop]]'', ''[[WesternAnimation/PoundPuppies2010 Pound Puppies]]'', ''WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake's Berry Bitty Adventures'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperHeroSquadShow'', ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'', ''The Twisted Whiskers Show'', ''WesternAnimation/WhereOnEarthIsCarmenSandiego'', and ''The [=WotWots=]''. |
| 326 | *** [[http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Commercials#Miscellaneous A whole lot of their commercials]], which mostly consist of StockFootage from the shows blended together with new audio. |
| 327 | *** ''[[http://www.hubworld.com/club Club Hub]]'' lets you bring this trope to your room by mixing and matching characters from various shows that air on the channel. |
| 328 | *** From the WebGames ''[[http://www.hubworld.com/my-little-pony/shows/friendship-is-magic/games/mlpfim-ponymaker The Fabulous PonyMaker]]'' and/or ''[[http://royalwedding.hosting-hasbro.com/fashion.html Rarity's Bridal Boutique]]'', one of the available cutie marks is Music/TheAquabats' mascot, and some of the available parts look ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}''-y (the former game even has said parts together as one of its costume {{Easter Egg}}s, complete with sound effect). |
| 329 | ** The [[TheMerch officially licensed merchandise]] has included a couple of crossovers you'd never expect to see on ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFrienshipIsMagic'' merchandise. |
| 330 | *** The shirt and hoodie ''[[http://www.welovefine.com/product.php?id_product=1356 Pinkie]] [[http://www.welovefine.com/product.php?id_product=1357 Peek]] [[http://www.welovefine.com/product.php?id_product=1976 A Boo]]'' and the art print ''[[http://www.welovefine.com/product.php?id_product=1901 Everypony]]'' respectively show Pinkie Pie and [[AllThereInTheScript Doctor Hooves]] using portals from ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}''. |
| 331 | *** The shirt ''[[http://www.welovefine.com/product.php?id_product=1429 Derpy 209]]'' shows Derpy Hooves with the ED-209 from ''Franchise/RoboCop''. |
| 332 | *** "[[http://www.welovefine.com/1033-illusions-trixie.html Tricks]] [[Series/ArrestedDevelopment are what a foal does for money]]." |
| 333 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: |
| 334 | ** Pinkie Pie is a CloudCuckooLander and loveable [[ManChild marefoal]] whose special talent is throwing parties. Normally her use of CartoonPhysics is limited to visual gags in the show, but when she starts using it to save ponies' lives from a crumbling construction site, relentlessly pursue a pony ''who can fly'', and to ''pull a cannon out of nowhere during a fight'', she becomes an unstoppable borderline RealityWarper. |
| 335 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E24EquestriaGames Equestria Games]]", Spike shows himself to be inept at his assigned tasks in the Games, for varied reasons, but when his abilities are ''really'' called for, he steps up and delivers without batting an eye. |
| 336 | * CrowdSong: "Winter Wrap Up" from [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E11WinterWrapUp the episode of the same name]], "At the Gala" from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E26TheBestNightEver The Best Night Ever]]", "The Heart Carol" from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E13HearthsWarmingEve Hearths Warming Eve]]" and "The Flim Flam Brothers" VillainSong from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E15TheSuperSpeedyCiderSqueezy6000 The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000]]". There's also "Smile" from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E18AFriendInDeed A Friend In Deed]]", and from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E13MagicalMysteryCure Magical Mystery Cure]]", "A True True Friend" becomes one at the end, as well as the "Behold, Princess Twilight Sparkle" song. |
| 337 | * CrownOfPower: Magic, one of the Elements of Harmony, is adorned on a crown while the other Elements take on the form of pendants. |
| 338 | * CrushBlush: Spike blushes after receiving a kiss from his crush Rarity. |
| 339 | * CrystalLandscape: Season 2 introduces the Crystal Empire, an entire city of crystal architecture. In the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E25TwilightsKingdomPart1 Season 4 finale]], Princess Twilight Sparkle receives her own crystal palace. |
| 340 | * CryingCritters: The Earth Ponies cry just as much as the pegasi, unicorns, and alicorns. |
| 341 | * CrystalSpiresAndTogas: The Crystal Empire has the look down, but whether they are that magically advanced remains to be seen. |
| 342 | * CucumberFacial: First appears as part of the sleepover in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E8LookBeforeYouSleep Look Before You Sleep]]", in which Rarity [[ShownTheirWork accurately explains its purpose]]; Applejack eats hers, of course. Later, Rarity has them in the spa scene of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E20GreenIsntYourColor Green Isn't Your Color]]", and when sleeping on the train in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel Over a Barrel]]". |
| 343 | * CueOClock: In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E12BabyCakes "Baby Cakes"]], Pinkie Pie glances at a wristwatch with a picture of her face at the top while waiting for her chance to play with the Cakes' newborn twins some more. |
| 344 | * CulturalTranslation: The Japanese dub inserts a few references to Japanese culture. For example, in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E4ApplebuckSeason Applebuck Season]]", Applejack mishears "tasuke (help)" as "shiitake", a kind of Asian mushroom. In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E15FeelingPinkieKeen Feeling Pinkie Keen]]", when Spike backs out of Twilight's house with the sound of a truck backing up, the Japanese dub adds him saying "Bakkushimasu, gochuui kudasai (Backing up, please be careful)", a sound clip that accompanies large vehicles backing up in Japan. In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E6TheCutiePox The Cutie Pox]]", instead of speaking French, Apple Bloom talks in formal Japanese. In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E19PuttingYourHoofDown Putting Your Hoof Down]]", the old pony who cuts in front of Fluttershy mishears Fluttershy's "warakomi" (cutting) as "waraboshi" (wooden chopsticks). |
| 345 | * CurbStompBattle: |
| 346 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E6SleeplessInPonyville Sleepless In Ponyville]]" the "fight" between the Headless Horse and [[spoiler:Princess Luna]] is very one-sided. |
| 347 | ** And of course, there's the disappointing showdown between Princess Celestia and [[spoiler:Queen Chrysalis]] in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E25ACanterlotWeddingPart1 A Canterlot Wedding]]". |
| 348 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E26TwilightsKingdomPart2 Twilight's Kingdom, Part 2]]", Twilight and Tirek's first fight is evenly matched, but once the Mane Six get their hooves on the Rainbow Power, a few beams of magic is all it takes to shrivel and seal up Tirek once and for all and get Celestia, Luna, and Cadance back from Tartarus. |
| 349 | * CurtainsMatchTheWindow: A few ponies, such as Derpy or Scootaloo, have the standard version of this. It also turns up in a different form starting in Season 2, with several unicorns often having the auras seen when using their magic match their eye color. Examples include Rarity, Sweetie Belle, and Trixie when [[RedEyesTakeWarning affected by the alicorn amulet]] (but ''not'' without it, when her magic is a brighter shade than her eyes) |
| 350 | * CuteAndPsycho: Fluttershy once provided the page quote. Pinkie Pie, Princess Luna and Twilight Sparkle would all probably benefit from a trip to the therapist's couch as well. |
| 351 | * CutenessOverload: The Brony Community constantly joke that they die from Fluttershy's cuteness. |
| 352 | ** Similar reactions occur with Sweetie Belle and [[http://youtu.be/KCoPxQ8J5GM Baby Applejack]]. |
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| 354 | |
| 355 | [[folder:D]] |
| 356 | * DancePartyEnding: These are inevitable when Pinkie Pie is on your team. |
| 357 | ** The [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E26ACanterlotWeddingPart2 ending to Season 2]] was this. At the reception of the wedding, Twilight Sparkle nods to Pinkie Pie, who, with a sound like a squealing teddy bear, dashes behind a DJ station and proceeds to pull up Vinyl Scratch/DJ Pon-3, who then starts the music, and with it, the party. |
| 358 | * DangerousInterrogative: Celestia, [[BewareTheNiceOnes of all ponies,]] gives a very menacing "What?" in "A Royal Problem" when Starlight switches Cutie marks (and thus powers) between Celestia and Luna to stop the sisters from fighting, then says she can't reverse the spell for 24 hours...even if she wanted to. |
| 359 | * DarkestHour: While the villains of the show often pose a threat, sometimes the cast comes so close to the brink of defeat that it seems nothing can save them. |
| 360 | ** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E1TheReturnOfHarmonyPart1 The Return of Harmony]]", the Season 2 premiere. [[spoiler:Discord has {{Mind Rape}}d the Mane Six to break their friendship so they can't use the elements, Twilight has passed the DespairEventHorizon and is leaving Ponyville, and Discord is running unchecked around Ponyville. It takes Celestia's intervention to restore Twilight's hope and encourage her to restore the others.]] |
| 361 | ** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E25ACanterlotWeddingPart1 A Canterlot Wedding]]", the Season 2 finale. [[spoiler:Chrysalis has occupied Canterlot Castle, Celestia is defeated and imprisoned, the Mane Six and Cadance are captured, Shining Armor is still BrainwashedAndCrazy, and the Changelings are rampaging through Canterlot. Fortunately Chrysalis gets tossed an VillainBall when she takes her attention off the heroes, allowing Twilight to free Cadance, then her to free Shining Armor and unite their powers to banish the Changelings from Canterlot.]] |
| 362 | ** The Season 4 finale "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E25TwilightsKingdomPart1 Twilight's Kingdom]]". [[spoiler:Tirek has banished the magic-less Celestia, Luna, and Cadance to Tartarus, the Mane Six, Spike, and Discord, have been drained of their magic, along with hundreds of other ponies across Equestria, Golden Oaks Library has been ''blown up'', and Tirek has the power of four alicorn princesses and has grown to monstrous sizes]]. It took a DeusExMachina to save the day this time, as otherwise [[TheBadGuyWins the show was pretty much over by this point]]. |
| 363 | ** The Season 6 finale "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E26ToWhereAndBackAgainPart2 To Where And Back Again]]". [[spoiler:The Mane Six and Spike, Celestia and Luna, Cadance, Shining Armor, and Flurry Heart, were imprisoned and replaced by the changelings and no one knew but Starlight, Thorax, Trixie, and Discord, and in the process of infiltrating the hive the last two got captured, and then Starlight and Thorax were cornered in Chrysalis' throne room and at her mercy.]] The only reason the heroines got out of it was because Starlight was able to [[spoiler:convince the changelings to do a HeelFaceTurn]]. |
| 364 | ** Then of course there was the series finale "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E25TheEndingOfTheEndPart2 The Ending of the End]]." [[spoiler:Celestia, Luna, Discord, had been drained of their magic, Starlight and the Pillars of Equestria had been defeated, Canterlot Castle is in ruins, and Chrysalis, Tirek, and Cozy are so jumped up on the magic of Grogar's bell that seemingly nothing can stop them. And to top it all off, they've spread so much distrust and division between ponies that the windigos have returned, bringing with them a massive winter storm that could plunge Equestria into an ice age.]] The calvary this time came in the form of [[spoiler:''every other creature in Equestria'' arriving to help the Mane Six defeat the Mean Three, and a combined rainbow blast from the Mane Six, the Student Six, and the Pillars, to depower them and destroy Grogar's bell]]. |
| 365 | * DarkIsNotEvil: A recurring theme, lampshaded in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E9BridleGossip Bridle Gossip]]" and "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E4LunaEclipsed Luna Eclipsed]]". |
| 366 | ** {{Averted}} in the stories involving Queen Chrysalis and King Sombra. |
| 367 | * ADayInTheLimelight: Every member of the primary cast get their fair share of star time throughout the series run. But more often than not, one or more members of said cast get featured more prominently than others. For those keeping tab: |
| 368 | ** [[{{Pun}} Mane]] 6 collectively: "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E9BridleGossip Bridle Gossip]]" (Shared w/ Apple Bloom), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E10SwarmOfTheCentury Swarm of the Century]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel Over A Barrel]]", "[[SeasonFinale The Best]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E26TheBestNightEver Night Ever]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E13HearthsWarmingEve Hearth's Warming Eve]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E3CastleManeia Castle Mane-ia]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E19TradeYa Trade Ya]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E3CastleSweetCastle Castle Sweet Castle]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E13DoPrincessesDreamOfMagicSheep Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep?]]" (Shared w/ Princess Luna) |
| 369 | *** Twilight Sparkle: "[[PilotEpisode Friendship is Magic]] ([[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon Parts 1]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E2ElementsOfHarmony & 2]]"), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E3TheTicketMaster The Ticket Master]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E6BoastBusters Boast Busters]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E11WinterWrapUp Winter Wrap Up]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E15FeelingPinkieKeen Feeling Pinkie Keen]]" (Shared w/ Pinkie Pie), "The Return of Harmony [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E1TheReturnOFHarmonyPart1 (Parts 1]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E2TheReturnOfHarmonyPart2 & 2)]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero Lesson Zero]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E4LunaEclipsed Luna Eclipsed]]" (Shared w/ Princess Luna), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E20ItsAboutTime It's About Time]]", "[[SeasonFinale A Canterlot Wedding]] ([[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E25ACanterlotWeddingPart1 Parts 1]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E26ACanterlotWeddingPart2 & 2]]"), "The Crystal Empire ("[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E1TheCrystalEmpirePart1 Parts 1]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E2TheCrystalEmpirePart2 & 2]]") (Shared w/ Spike), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E5MagicDuel Magic Duel]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E12GamesPoniesPlay Games Ponies Play]]" (Shared w/ Rainbow Dash), "[[SeasonFinale Magical]] [[MusicalEpisode Mystery]] "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E13MagicalMysteryCure Cure]]", Princess Twilight Sparkle ("[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E1PrincessTwilightSparklePart1 Parts 1]] "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E2PrincessTwilightSparklePart2 & 2]]"), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E11ThreesACrowd Three's A Crowd]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E15TwilightTime Twilight Time]]" (shared w/ the Cutie Mark Crusaders), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E22TestingTesting123 Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3]]" (Shared w/ Rainbow Dash), "Twilight's Kingdom ([[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E25TwilightskingdomPart1 Parts 1]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E26TwilightskingdomPart2 & 2]]"), "The Cutie Map ("[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E1TheCutieMapPart1 Parts 1]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E2TheCutieMapPart2 & 2]]"), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E12AmendingFences Amending Fences]]" |
| 370 | *** Applejack: "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E4ApplebuckSeason Applebuck Season]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E8LookBeforeYouSleep Look Before You Sleep]]" (Shared w/ Rarity), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E13FallWeatherFriends Fall Weather Friends]]" (Shared w/ Rainbow Dash), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E14TheLastRoundup The Last Roundup]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E9AppleFamilyReunion Apple Family Reunion]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMAgicS3E10SpikeAtYourService Spike At Your Service]]" (Shared w/ Spike), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E7Bats Bats!]]" (Shared w/ Fluttershy), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E13SimpleWays Simple Ways]]" (Shared w/ Rarity), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E21LeapOfFaith Leap of Faith]]" |
| 371 | *** Rainbow Dash: "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E5GriffonTheBrushOff Griffon the Brush Off]]" (Shared w/ Pinkie Pie), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E13FallWeatherFriends Fall Weather Friends]]" (Shared w/ Applejack), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E16SonicRainboom Sonic Rainboom]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E7MayTheBestPetWin May The Best Pet Win!]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E8TheMysteriousMareDoWell The Mysterious Mare Do Well]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E16ReadItAndWeep Read It And Weep]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMAgicS3E7WonderboltsAcademy Wonderbolts Academy]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E12GamesPoniesPlay Games Ponies Play]]" (Shared w/ Twilight Sparkle), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E4DaringDont Daring Don't]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E10RainbowFalls Rainbow Falls]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E22TestingTesting123 Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3]]" (Shared w/ Twilight Sparkle), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E5TanksForTheMemories Tanks for the Memories]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E8TheLostTreasureOfGriffonstone The Lost Treasure of Griffonstone]]" (Shared w/ Pinkie Pie) |
| 372 | *** Pinkie Pie: "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E5GriffonTheBrushOff Griffon the Brush Off]]" (Shared w/ Rainbow Dash), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E15FeelingPinkieKeen Feeling Pinkie Keen]]" (Shared w/ Twilight Sparkle), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E25PartyOfOne Party of One]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E12BabyCakes Baby Cakes]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E18AFriendInDeed A Friend in Deed]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E24MysteryOnTheFriendshipExpress MMMystery on the Friendship Express]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E3TooManyPinkiePies Too Many Pinkie Pies]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E9PinkieApplePie Pinkie Apple Pie]]" (Shared w/ the Apple Family), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E12PinkiePride Pinkie Pride]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E18MaudPie Maud Pie]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E8TheLostTreasureOfGriffonstone The Lost Treasure of Griffonstone]]" (Shared w/ Rainbow Dash), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E11PartyPooped Party Pooped]]" |
| 373 | *** Fluttershy: "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E7Dragonshy Dragonshy]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E17StareMaster Stare Master]]" (Shared w/ the Cutie Mark Crusaders), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E20GreenIsntYourColor Green Isn't Your Color]]" (Shared w/ Rarity), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E22ABirdInTheHoof A Bird in the Hoof]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E19PuttingYourHoofDown Putting Your Hoof Down]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E22HurricaneFluttershy Hurricane Fluttershy]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E11KeepCalmAndFlutterOn Keep Calm And Flutter On]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E7Bats Bats!]] (Shared w/ Applejack)", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E14FilliVanilli Filli Vanilli]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E16ItAintEasyBeingBreezies It Aint Easy Being Breezies]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E7MakeNewFriendsButKeepDiscord Make New Friends but Keep Discord]]", "Discordant Harmony" |
| 374 | *** Rarity: "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E8LookBeforeYouSleep Look Before You Sleep]]" (Shared w/ Applejack), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E14SuitedForSuccess Suited for Success]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E19ADogAndPonyShow A Dog and Pony Show]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E20GreenIsntYourColor Green Isn't Your Color]]" (Shared w/ Fluttershy), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E5SisterhoovesSocial Sisterhooves Social]]" (Shared w/ Sweetie Belle), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E9SweetAndElite Sweet and Elite]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E8RarityTakesManehattan Rarity Takes Manehattan]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E13SimpleWays Simple Ways]]" (Shared w/ Applejack), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E23InspirationManifestation Inspiration Manifestation]]" (Shared w/ Spike) |
| 375 | ** Spike: "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E24OwlsWellThatEndsWell Owl's Well That Ends Well]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E10SecretOfMyExcess Secret of My Excess]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E21DragonQuest Dragon Quest]]", "The Crystal Empire ([[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E1TheCrystalEmpirePart1 Parts 1]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E2TheCrystalEmpirePart2 & 2]]") (Shared w/ Twilight Sparkle), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMAgicS3E10SpikeAtYourService Spike At Your Service]]" (Shared w/ Applejack), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E8JustForSidekicks Just For Sidekicks]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E6PowerPonies Power Ponies]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E23InspirationManifestation Inspiration Manifestation]]" (Shared w/ Rarity), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E24EquestriaGames Equestria Games]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E10PrincessSpike Princess Spike]]" |
| 376 | ** Cutie Mark Crusaders collectively: "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E17StareMaster Stare Master]]" (Shared w/ Fluttershy), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E18TheShowStoppers The Show Stoppers]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E23TheCutieMarkChronicles The Cutie Mark Chronicles]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E23PonyvilleConfidential Ponyville Confidential]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E4OneBadApple One Bad Apple]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E15TwilightTime Twilight Time]]" (shared w/ Twilight Sparkle), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E6AppleoosasMostWanted Appleoosa's Most Wanted]]" |
| 377 | *** Apple Bloom: "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E9BridleGossip Bridle Gossip]] (Shared w/ the [[{{Pun}} Mane]] 6), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E12CallOfTheCutie Call of the Cutie]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E6TheCutiePox The Cutie Pox]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E11FamilyAppreciationDay Family Appreciation Day]]" (Shared w/ Granny Smith), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E17SomeponyToWatchOverMe Somepony To Watch Over Me]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E4BloomAndGloom Bloom and Gloom]]" |
| 378 | *** Sweetie Belle: "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E5SisterhoovesSocial Sisterhooves Social]]" (Shared w/ Rarity), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E20ForWhomTheSweetieBelleToils For Whom The Sweetie Belle Toils]]" |
| 379 | *** Scootaloo: "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E6SleeplessInPonyville Sleepless in Ponyville]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E5FlightToTheFinish Flight to the Finish]]" |
| 380 | ** Apple Family collectively: "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E15TheSuperSpeedyCiderSqueezy6000 The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E9PinkieApplePie Pinkie Apple Pie]]" (Shared w/ Pinkie Pie) |
| 381 | *** Granny Smith: "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E11FamilyAppreciationDay Family Appreciation Day]]" (Shared w/ Apple Bloom) |
| 382 | *** Big Macintosh: "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E17HeartsAndHoovesDay Hearts And Hooves Day]]" (Shared w/ Cheerilee) |
| 383 | ** Others: |
| 384 | *** Princess Luna: "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E4LunaEclipsed Luna Eclipsed]]" (Shared w/ Twilight Sparkle), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E13DoPrincessesDreamOfMagicSheep Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep?]]" (Shared w/ the Mane 6) |
| 385 | *** Cheerilee: "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E17HeartsAndHoovesDay Hearts And Hooves Day]]" (Shared w/ Big Macintosh) |
| 386 | ** On a different note, the background ponies are generally silent with occasional brief lines, but once in a great while they'll get a bit of extended dialogue, usually (but not always) all in one scene. Specific examples include: |
| 387 | *** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon Friendship is Magic, Part 1]]" for [[AllThereInTheScript Twinkleshine]]. |
| 388 | *** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E4ApplebuckSeason Applebuck Season]]" for the flower trio Daisy/Flower Wishes, Rose/Roseluck and Lily Valley. |
| 389 | *** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E9BridleGossip Bridle Gossip]]" for the flower trio Daisy/Flower Wishes, Rose/Roseluck and Lily Valley. |
| 390 | *** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E12CallOfTheCutie Call of the Cutie]]" for [[AllThereInTheScript Time Turner]]/[[AllThereInTheScript Dr. Hooves]]. |
| 391 | *** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E20GreenIsntYourColor Green Isn't Your Color]]" for Lyra as well as for [[AllThereInTheScript Bon Bon]]. |
| 392 | *** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E6TheCutiePox The Cutie Pox]] for the flower trio Daisy/Flower Wishes, Rose/Roseluck and Lily Valley. |
| 393 | *** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E8TheMysteriousMareDoWell The Mysterious Mare Do Well]]" for [[AllThereInTheScript Amethyst Star]]. |
| 394 | *** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E14TheLastRoundup The Last Roundup]]" for Derpy [[AllThereInTheScript Hooves]]. |
| 395 | *** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E15TheSuperSpeedyCiderSqueezy6000 The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000]]" for Caramel/Chance-A-Lot. |
| 396 | *** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E19PuttingYourHoofDown Putting Your Hoof Down]]" for "Boxxy Brown" as well as for [[AllThereInTheScript Cherry Berry]]. |
| 397 | *** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E25ACanterlotWeddingPart1 A Canterlot Wedding]]" for [[AllThereInTheScript Twinkleshine, Minuette, and Lyra Heartstrings]]. |
| 398 | *** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E10RainbowFalls Rainbow Falls]]" for "Dizzy Twister" and [[AllThereInTheManual Crescent Moon]]. |
| 399 | *** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E20ForWhomTheSweetieBelleToils For Whom The Sweetie Belle Toils]]" for [[AllThereInTheScript Lemon Hearts and Noteworthy]]. |
| 400 | * DeadpanSnarker: Twilight Sparkle, of course, making various sarcastic remarks and frequently having the snarker's facial expression. |
| 401 | ** Spike, Discord, and Rainbow Dash apply as well, but to a lesser extent than Twilight. |
| 402 | ** Rarity's been getting in her share of snark too. |
| 403 | %% Discussion of who counts as a Deadpan Snarker and who does not are also available in the following thread: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1331473451059167100&page=7#173 |
| 404 | * DeathGlare: Of all ponies, Fluttershy has one. She's used it to stare down a dragon, a cockatrice, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and a few chickens]]. |
| 405 | ** This helps explain part of her shyness -- she can't really control it and doesn't want to be overbearing. As Discord, who usually ''is'' immune, can tell you. |
| 406 | ** Pinkie Pie in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E25PartyOfOne Party of One]]". She spends a big part of the episode with a Death Glare on, especially when she confronts Applejack at her farm, or by the end of the episode before the surprise party. |
| 407 | ** It turns out that it becomes Fluttershy's default expression whenever she has to deal with her shiftless, lazy brother, Zephyr Breeze, combined with an acidic tone of voice that one wouldn't usually associate with Fluttershy. |
| 408 | * DeathWorld: Equestria is this to the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E16ItAintEasyBeingBreezies breezies]], when even falling accorns are a serious enviromental hazard. |
| 409 | * DecapitationStrike: Non-lethal example: In the two-parter "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E25ToWhereAndBackAgainPart1 To Where And Back Again]]", the Changelings launch a coordinated strike and capture pretty much every powerful pony in Equestria within a week, allowing them to use their shapeshifting powers to take their place. |
| 410 | * DeclarationOfPersonalIndependence: In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E17SomeponyToWatchOverMe Somepony to Watch Over Me]]", when Applejack suddenly develops an overwhelming case of BigSisterInstinct, her little sister Apple Bloom rebels against it. She tries to deliver a cart of apple pies, to prove that she's capable of taking care of herself. But the delivery route winds up being more dangerous than Apple Bloom thought, and Applejack has to rescue her from a hungry chimera. At the end the two sisters come to a compromise: AB realizes she isn't quite as independent as she thought, and AJ admits that trying to coddle her sister was doing more harm than good. |
| 411 | * DecompositeCharacter: [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyG3 G3]] Rainbow Dash was split between the ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Friendship is Magic]]'' version of Rainbow Dash (who has her name and look) and Rarity (who has her fashion-conscious personality and accent (albeit a "transatlantic" accent instead of a wholly UsefulNotes/{{British Accent|s}}). |
| 412 | * {{Deconstruction}}: This show does this ''a lot''. |
| 413 | ** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero Lesson Zero]]" deconstructs Twilight Sparkle's OCD problems. |
| 414 | ** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E8TheMysteriousMareDoWell The Mysterious Mare Do Well]]" deconstructs Rainbow Dash's arrogance and pridefulness. |
| 415 | ** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E22HurricaneFluttershy Hurricane Fluttershy]]" deconstructs Fluttershy's issues with her shyness. Also, "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E19PuttingYourHoofDown Putting Your Hoof Down]]" deconstructs her role of an ExtremeDoormat. |
| 416 | ** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E4OneBadApple One Bad Apple]]" deconstructs the issues of bullying. |
| 417 | * DefangedHorrors: Episodes that are meant to be scary usually go for this. |
| 418 | ** Special mention has to go for the episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E7Bats Bats!]]", in which Fluttershy becomes a batpony referred to in the episode as "Flutterbat". While she herself actually gains fangs in this example, the episode makes it clear that she is no threat to other ponies, as (due to being magically crossed with a "Vampire Fruit Bat") she only eats fruit. |
| 419 | * DefeatEqualsFriendship: {{Averted}} surprisingly often. While Princess Luna (AKA [[TheNightThatNeverEnds Nightmare Moon]]) was redeemed at the end of her story arc, it's really rare for show antagonists to befriend the Mane Six in the end. In [[AllThereInTheManual the show's official companion guide]] Jim Miller & Meghan [=McCarthy=] discuss this, noting that, while they want to teach kids that some bad people will be your friends if shown kindness, others will still be jerks no matter how kind you are to them. Even so, a few of them do become friends in later seasons, through other means. |
| 420 | ** [[{{Jerkass}} Gilda]] is the second villain after Nightmare Moon, and is not redeemed at the end of [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E5GriffonTheBrushOff her episode]]. [[spoiler:However, she does come around several seasons later, when Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E8TheLostTreasureOfGriffonstone travel to her homeland]] to help the other Griffons.]] |
| 421 | ** The [[{{Hustler}} Flim-Flam Brothers]] were run out of town at the end of [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E15TheSuperSpeedyCiderSqueezy6000 one episode]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E21LeapOfFaith came back later]] with another scam, and were run out of town again, not having learned their lesson that time either. |
| 422 | ** [[EmotionEater Queen Chrysalis]] and the other Changelings [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E26ACanterlotWeddingPart2 were forcibly ejected from Canterlot]] by Shining Armour and Princess Cadance's magic. |
| 423 | ** [[CastingAShadow King Sombra]] was [[LiterallyShatteredLives destroyed]] in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E2TheCrystalEmpirePart2 his episode]]. |
| 424 | ** [[spoiler:Lord Tirek]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E26TwilightsKingdomPart2 was sent back to prison in Tartarus]]. |
| 425 | ** [[AlphaBitch Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon]] usually end their stories [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard humiliated by their own actions]], but are nothing more than schoolyard bullies anyway. Still, for being recurring antagonists in the series , very little has been done to redeem them. [[spoiler:Played more or less straight when they are finally redeemed in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E19CrusadersOfTheLostMark Crusaders of the Lost Mark]]". Although it takes a bit more than just defeat to redeem Diamond Tiara, losing the election was the start of her HeelFaceTurn.]] |
| 426 | ** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E4OneBadApple Babs Seed]] is a more-or-less straightforward example, even though the CMC can't really be said to have "defeated" her per se. |
| 427 | ** [[SmallNameBigEgo Trixie]] left town humiliated at the end of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E6BoastBusters Boast Busters]]", but by the end of her second appearance, "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E5MagicDuel Magic Duel]]", she is genuinely remorseful for how she let things get out of control under the [[AmplifierArtifact Alicorn Amulet]]. She makes peace with Twilight Sparkle and leaves Ponyville this time by choice. |
| 428 | ** While [[RealityWarper Discord]] ended his [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E1TheReturnOfHarmonyPart1 first]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E2TheReturnOfHarmonyPart2 arc]] TakenForGranite and definitely '''not''' redeemed, he returned in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E11KeepCalmAndFlutterOn Keep Calm and Flutter On]]" and was brought around to the good side. [[spoiler:"For the most part."]] |
| 429 | *** Referenced by Discord at the climax of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E2TheReturnOfHarmonyPart2 Return of Harmony, Part 2]]". Discord, not realizing the Mane Six had shaken his control and reconnected with the Elements of Harmony, sarcastically dared them to use the Elements to defeat him, saying "Fine, go ahead; ''friend me''. Just make it quick." [[spoiler:Ironically, he would be reformed by Fluttershy later on, being literally defeated by friendship.]] |
| 430 | * DemotedToExtra: [[spoiler:Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon suffer this following Season 5, not saying a word since their big reform in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E19CrusadersOfTheLostMark Crusaders of the Lost Mark]]".]] |
| 431 | * DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E23TheCutieMarkChronicles The Cutie Mark Chronicles]]", Rarity says the ponies have been "[=BFFs=] Forever". |
| 432 | ** Also, the ''Astronomical Astronomer's Almanac to All Things Astronomy''. |
| 433 | ** In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E10SwarmOfTheCentury Episode 10]], Fluttershy claims to have "tried begging, and pleading, and beseeching, and asking politely" to control the parasprites. |
| 434 | * DependingOnTheWriter: Some aspects of pony culture change from one episode to another. The usage of "somepony", "nopony" and "everypony" fades in and out depending on how much the writer is paying attention (or cares). |
| 435 | ** Also, in some episodes such as "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E18TheShowStoppers The Show Stoppers]]" and "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E20GreenIsntYourColor Green Isn't Your Color]]", the pony audience applauds by stamping their hooves on the ground, which makes a lot of sense. In other episodes, such as Hoity Toity in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E14SuitedForSuccess Suited For Success]]", they applaud like humans: clapping their hooves together with their front legs in the air, despite how unsuited pony anatomy is to that movement. |
| 436 | ** While it plays somewhat into the complexity of the cast's personalities, some facets of the characters are exagerrated from episode to episode if it helps with the {{Aesop}} or humor value, to the point that almost every character can alternate between TheStraightMan and a complete CloudCuckooLander on different occasions. Applejack, in terms of her rowdiness for example, can range anywhere from being [[CloserToEarth the most level-headed and approachable]] of the Mane Cast or something of an [[StubbornMule over]]-[[CompetitionFreak assertive]] JerkWithAHeartOfGold. Twilight Sparkle similarly can have [[NervousWreck her neurotics]] [[DeadpanSnarker subtle]] and justified due to being an OnlySaneMan or... [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero well...]] |
| 437 | * DePowerZone: In the Season 6 finale "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E25ToWhereAndBackAgainPart1 To Where and Back Again]]", [[spoiler:the area around the changeling hive serves as this to the rescue team, thanks to Queen Chrysalis's throne, which was carved out of an ancient dark stone that absorbs all non-changeling magic (even Discord's magic is rendered non-functional because of it)]]. |
| 438 | * DepthOfField: From the fourth season onward, the animation gets enhanced by emulating depth-of-field applied to the background whenever there's a close-up shot of a character. Previously, this technique was reserved for some RackFocus tricks. |
| 439 | * {{Descriptiveville}}: Multiple locations, based around horse / pony puns, mainly: |
| 440 | ** Equestria, which holds a majority equine population. |
| 441 | ** Ponies live in Ponyville. |
| 442 | ** Fillydelphia. |
| 443 | ** The Pegasus-only city, Cloudsdale. |
| 444 | ** [[BigApplesauce Manehattan]]. |
| 445 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E20ItsAboutTime It's About Time]]", Rainbow Dash makes a passing mention of a place called "Las Pegasus", subsequently visited in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E20VivaLasPegasus Viva Las Pegasus]] and [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E5GranniesGoneWild Grannies Gone Wild]]. |
| 446 | * {{Determinator}}: Despite her ShrinkingViolet personality, Fluttershy is definitely shown, time and time again, to have some real tenacity. |
| 447 | ** Try not smiling around Pinkie Pie. Let's see how long you last. She'll make you, even if it takes months. |
| 448 | * DeterminedHomesteader: Granny Smith's family founded Ponyville. |
| 449 | * DevastatingRemark: |
| 450 | ** Exploited by Rarity. One of the Diamond Dogs refers to her as a "mule". Cue Rarity playing it for all it's worth, with watering eyes, as she says, lip quivering, "Mules are ugly. Are you saying that I, too, am ugly?" When the other Diamond Dogs investigate why she's crying she takes it to InelegantBlubbering, "He called me ugly!" Turns out she was acting the whole time to make it a case of PityTheKidnapper. |
| 451 | ** The Cutie Map has summoned Starlight Glimmer and Sunburst to go on a mission together. Sunburst asks Starlight if she's excited to be going on a mission with him, and she replies with a very BluntNo. Sunburst looks like the bottom just dropped out of his world. Starlight, to her credit, and demonstrating a huge degree of CharacterDevelopment for her, quickly amends her statement to say that she's fine with going on a mission with ''him''. It's '''''where''''' they're being sent that has her down. When Sunburst realizes that it's Sire's Hollow, their hometown, he suddenly shares Starlight's misgivings. |
| 452 | ** In "Tanks for the Memories", Rainbow Dash is in a funk because [[HibernationMigrationSituation she doesn't want her tortoise, Tank, to hibernate]]. When Fluttershy says to her, "[[BrutalHonesty Your winter is going to be pet-less!]]", Rainbow Dash bursts into tears. |
| 453 | * DidntSeeThatComing: |
| 454 | ** Applejack says this in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E10SwarmOfTheCentury Swarm of the Century]]", when the voracious parasprites, instead of eating her apple crop, ate her barn instead. |
| 455 | ** The two things that Discord hadn't planned for were [[spoiler:Celestia breaking Twilight out of her HeroicBSOD by sending her the letters her student had sent her the entire previous season and Twilight somehow reuniting her friends and breaking them out of Discord's MindRape so they could use the Elements Of Harmony to defeat him]]. The former is likely an Unknown Unknown he couldn't have expected and the latter is a Known Unknown: he knew about who was involved but hadn't forseen how they could do anything to stop him at that point. |
| 456 | ** After [[spoiler:Chrysalis' true form was revealed in front of Celestia and her plans explained, it was obvious that Celestia wasn't going to stay still about it. What wasn't obvious was that the queen of the Changelings had already gathered enough strength to beat the Princess. Not even Chrysalis expected that!]] |
| 457 | ** Done heartbreakingly so in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E26TwilightsKingdomPart2 Twilight's Kingdom, Part 2]]", when [[spoiler:Discord turns against the other ponies and captures the Mane Six (save for Twilight). Discord mentions that they should have seen it coming, only for a heartbroken Fluttershy to admit she hadn't at all -- she was so convinced her friendship with him was ironclad, she never thought he'd turn his back on her. This turns into an IronicEcho when Discord himself is betrayed by Lord Tirek and Applejack tells him the same exact thing.]] |
| 458 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: Spike in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E24EquestriaGames Equestria Games]]", in an attempt to prove his worth as a hero of the Crystal Empire, offers to sing the Ponyville anthem. Unfortunately, the anthem to be sung was the one where the winners are from, in this case, Cloudsdale, which Spike has absolutely no idea what the words are. It was too late to back out now and was immediately put on the spot. He wound up ad-libbing the anthem off-key and horridly, that all the ponies in the stadium found it cringe-worthy (except to Pinkie Pie for some odd reason...). |
| 459 | * DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Twilight Sparkle leads her [[BandOfBrothers new-found friends]] into battle successfully against Nightmare Moon, a SealedEvilInACan MadGod. |
| 460 | ** Celestia and Luna rose up against and defeated a [[AnthropomorphicPersonification spirit of chaos]] to free Equestria from his tyranny over 1000 years ago. While they are {{Physical Goddess}}es in their own right, Discord is a near-omnipotent RealityWarper whose power far outclasses theirs, so it still counts. |
| 461 | ** The [[{{Pun}} mane]] Cast eventually manages to do the same. |
| 462 | ** The ponies that founded Equestria managed to take out the Windigos, a group of powerful spirits threatening to freeze everything that was [[EmotionEater feeding on their hatred]]. As always, this involved blasting it with weaponized [[ThePowerOfFriendship friendship.]] |
| 463 | ** The Mane 6 eventually enable the Crystal Ponies to break free and do this to King Sombra. |
| 464 | * DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: Spike and Fluttershy have both hummed or sung the theme song, as has Fluttershy's hummingbird friend Hummingway. The bat from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E7MayTheBestPetWin May the Best Pet Win!]]" uses sound waves to play the theme tune on wine glasses... [[spoiler:and then uses its sonar to shatter them]]. |
| 465 | * DigitalDestruction: |
| 466 | ** On iTunes, the episodes are slightly stretched, losing bits of the left and right sides of the screen. The first 28 episodes also have noticeably faded color, with following episodes still being a bit off. |
| 467 | ** According to a [[http://www.derpyhoovesnews.com/review-german-audio-plays-and-dvds/ review]], the first two German [=DVDs=] look gray-washed compared to iTunes. |
| 468 | * DigitalPiracyIsEvil: |
| 469 | ** {{Averted}}. Hasbro has been very forgiving in allowing episodes to be uploaded to Website/YouTube (now within hours of being broadcast the first time), used in remixes and video parodies, and the like. There have been cases where some episode videos have been taken down, but they are not sustained efforts, and suspected to be [[{{Troll}} Trolling]] from other sites (since anypony can submit a "takedown request" under any name at Website/YouTube). Hasbro's may be a case of having no idea what to actually do about it: one Hasbro exec even acknowledged [[http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2011/09/play/colt-success they haven't seen anything like this in 25 years]]. Without Hasbro's laissez-faire approach, it is unlikely the show would have had the following that it did. |
| 470 | *** The MerchandiseDriven nature of the show probably contributes to this. The true revenue source is the toys, not the cartoon, so distributing the cartoon online is basically giving Hasbro free advertising. Now that [=DVDs=] of the cartoon are being sold around the world, Hasbro has a little more incentive to clamp down on distributing the show, but their only real action seems to have been the shutting down of a major archive which stored every single episode in HD. |
| 471 | ** Strangely, while they seem to be okay with the sharing of the actual episodes, Hasbro has come down ''hard'' on fan parodies such as ''WebVideo/FriendshipIsWitchcraft''. It's not strange if you consider the fact that the actual show is geared towards kids of about 6, and there are a lot of parents who don't monitor what their kids do online, thus could easily stumble upon the more vulgar fan parodies. People fail to realize that ''Friendship Is Witchcraft'' can be legitimately offensive to people (not just for being uncouth), just like Derpy is and was to the MoralGuardians. It makes perfect sense that they come down on that harder than they do the actual show. |
| 472 | * DiligentDraftAnimal: The show has a plethora of characters, from the Mane Six to the background ponies doing all kinds of jobs, all the while being the ones managing the course of nature. Their cutie marks amplify their personalities and talents. Each pony race is given duties and tasks to manage nature such as: |
| 473 | ** Most of the Earth Ponies like Applejack have agricultural or mercantile backgrounds. Pinkie Pie, born from a rock farm, is dedicated to cheering up Equestria through baking and party planning, while her sister Maud is a geologist who has a fascination for rocks. |
| 474 | ** Pegasi are the athletic type are the ones who keep the weather under control. Rainbow Dash, while initially seen as slacking off, is the top speedster and can often get the job done, and lazes off to restore her energy; timid Fluttershy is Ponyville's animal caretaker, but her brother Zephyr Breeze is a slacker who got his calling as a hairdresser and later as a Royal Guard; while Derpy Hooves/Muffins is the resident mailpony. |
| 475 | ** Unicorns are the scholarly and/or the upper management type who learn and use their magic in several ways, with telekinesis as a multitasking perk. Rarity uses her magic to make clothes with a gem-encrusted streak, while Twilight Sparkle, Sunset Shimmer, Trixie Lulamoon, and Starlight Glimmer discover and practice their magic for boon or weapon purposes; Twilight Sparkle started out as Ponyville's librarian, and at the eventually ascended as the Princess of Equestria and now has the job to raise and set the Sun and Moon alongside other royal duties. |
| 476 | * DisneyDeath: Chief Thunderhooves in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel Over a Barrel]]", when he is struck down by an unknown assailant during the war between the Buffalo tribe and the Appleloosians. A taste of the [[PieInTheFace apple pie splattered on his face]] revives him, though. |
| 477 | ** Princess Celestia's pet bird, Philomeena, [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath burns to ashes]] in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E22ABirdInTheHoof A Bird in the Hoof]]", but it turns out she is a phoenix and just started a new lifecycle. |
| 478 | ** Apparently {{averted}} with King Sombra, who appears to have actually died in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E2TheCrystalEmpirePart2 The Crystal Empire, Part 2]]". No solid confirmation on that, though. |
| 479 | * DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Queen Chrysalis and her army]] in [[spoiler:"[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E26ACanterlotWeddingPart2 A Canterlot Wedding, Part 2]]"]] most likely apply. Although they eventually returned, the distance they fall is greater than both of Twilight's near-fatal falls (as listed below) put together (especially when you look at [[spoiler:the changeling falling directly toward the ground]]). |
| 480 | ** According to [[ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW the comic]], [[spoiler:they survived and began to plot revenge]]. |
| 481 | ** {{Averted}} with Twilight in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E2ElementsOfHarmony Elements of Harmony]]" and "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E15FeelingPinkieKeen Feeling Pinkie Keen]]", and with Rarity in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E16SonicRainboom Sonic Rainboom]]" and "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E10SecretOfMyExcess Secret of My Excess]]" (sharing with the Wonderbolts in the former and Spike in the latter). They are saved from their respective falls. |
| 482 | * DisapprovingLook: |
| 483 | ** Done a few times by [[DeadpanSnarker Twilight]] [[OnlySaneMan Sparkle]] a few times on the show. |
| 484 | ** Owlowiscious gives Spike several over the course of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E23InspirationManifestation Inspiration Manifestation]]". |
| 485 | * DiscardAndDraw: [[spoiler:The Mane 6 unlock Rainbow Power after Twilight sacrifices her magic in the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E25TwilightsKingdomPart1 Season 4 finale]].]] |
| 486 | * DisproportionateRetribution: Some ponies appear to be under the impression that Princess Celestia practices this. She does not. |
| 487 | ** Nightmare Moon's vow to bring about TheNightThatNeverEnds was because her pony subjects enjoyed the daytime her sister brought, but didn't appreciate the nights she created, which means ''no crops grow, nopony gets any natural heat, and everypony either freezes to death or starves''! Nightmare Moon would have inadvertently ''killed everypony'' just to get more attention! Though come the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E25TheCutieRemarkPart1 finale of Season 5]] we get to see Nightmare Moon's rule first hand, and it seems that both plants and ponies are thriving, as much as one can under the rule of a tyrant; maybe Equestrian vegetation can survive on moonlight. |
| 488 | ** Fluttershy may have gone a ''little'' too far when applying her assertiveness training in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E19PuttingYourHoofDown Putting Your Hoof Down]]". |
| 489 | ** Applejack once called Mr. Beaverton Beaverteeth a nuisance. His response? Building a dam to flood Applejack's home, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking followed by using several swear words against her]]. Luckily, Fluttershy was able to convince him to stop. |
| 490 | ** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E5MagicDuel Magic Duel]]" is all about this. Twilight exposes Trixie's lies about her having defeated an Ursa Major (which has the unfortunate effect of ruining Trixie's career, but Twilight had no intention of doing ''that'') and shows herself to be more powerful than "The Great and Powerful Trixie". Trixie returns with a magic-boosting amulet and humiliates Twilight's friends, including Dash and Pinkie magically, defeats Twilight, and banishes her from Ponyville. She then takes over the town, enslaves the ponies, ''tortures'' Snips and Snails by making them drag her around on a wheel-less wagon, and generally goes [[TheCaligula Caligula]]. It turns out that most of the crazy is caused by the evil amulet, and losing it makes her regain her senses after a while. |
| 491 | ** It's also revealed that similar disproportionate retribution happened to Trixie herself. Since a single lie told to shut up hecklers lead to her entire career and reputation being completely ruined, an apparent stint of poverty and homelessness and being forced to do manual labour to scrape a living. While revenge against Twilight is unwarranted, as she didn't really do anything, it's hard not to see how she could be frustrated by her bad fortune even before putting the amulet of insanity on. And unlike Twilight's situation, which goes away once Trixie has been stopped, none of that has been changed... |
| 492 | ** This was actually the main driving point of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero Lesson Zero]]"... in Twilight's mind. She ends up freaking out, thinking that because she forgot one letter to Celestia, she was going to get sent back to Magical Kindergarten. |
| 493 | * TheDissenterIsAlwaysRight: |
| 494 | ** In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E9BridleGossip "Bridle Gossip"]], almost all of Ponyville believes that Zecora is an "evil enchantress", fearing her so much that everyone hides indoors every time she comes to visit. When the main six all come down with mysterious maladies, most of them assume Zecora put a curse on them. Twilight Sparkle and Apple Bloom are the only ones who remain skeptical; Twilight in particular pokes holes in her friend's reasoning, and insists that curses aren't real. By the end, Zecora is proven to be innocent, and in fact, she's trying to brew a cure for the main six's ailments. Ironically, this happens almost immediately after circumstantial evidence finally convinces Twilight that Zecora really is dangerous. |
| 495 | ** In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E25ACanterlotWeddingPart1 "A Canterlot Wedding, Part 1"]], the main six are called to help plan Princess Cadance's wedding. Twilight Sparkle, the only one of the group who knows Cadance from her childhood, is taken aback when Cadance doesn't seem to remember her--and she gets more suspicious as Cadance exhibits {{Bridezilla}} behaviors quite unlike the kind pony Twilight remembers. But Twilight's suspicions fall on deaf ears as the rest of her friends, and the groom and Princess Celestia, just write off Cadance's behavior as the effects of pre-wedding jitters. Just as Twilight begins to doubt herself, Cadance captures and imprisons her, proving [[SubvertedSuspicionAesop Twilight was right to be suspicious all along]]. The [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E26ACanterlotWeddingPart2 followup episode]] reveals that the real Princess Cadance had been captured and replaced by the shapeshifter Queen Chrysalis. And when Chrysalis is on the verge of victory, she rubs salt in the main six's wounds by {{lampshad|eHanging}}ing how no one believed the one pony who was correct about her from the start. |
| 496 | --->'''Queen Chrysalis:''' It's funny, really. Twilight here was suspicious of my behavior all along. Too bad the rest of you were too caught up in your wedding planning to realize those suspicions were correct! |
| 497 | ** In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E11KeepCalmAndFlutterOn "Keep Calm and Flutter On"]], the main six start off convinced the villain Discord can only be changed through force, watching him with their Elements of Harmony at the ready to turn him back to stone if needed. But Fluttershy quickly realizes that trying to impose authority on Discord only gives him more pleasure in defying it. So, against the constant urges of her friends, she treats him with unconditional trust and kindness. This actually works, much to the surprise of everyone--most of all Discord himself, who's just manipulated the main six into a situation where they can't use their Elements on him again, only to realize he cares about Fluttershy too much to take advantage of his new position. |
| 498 | ** In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E7Bats "Bats!"]], a swarm of vampire fruit bats infest Sweet Apple Acres. Applejack argues the bats are too destructive and need to be driven away, while Fluttershy is the only one who argues that these bats are an important part of the ecosystem, so they should set aside a bat sanctuary instead. When the group goes with Applejack's plan, it has the unexpected side effect of turning Fluttershy into a vampony. Shenanigans ensue as the group tries to get Flutters back to normal. Afterwards, Applejack apologizes for not listening to her, and the group builds the bat sanctuary like she suggested in the first place. |
| 499 | ** In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E22WhatAboutDiscord "What About Discord?"]], Twilight becomes jealous when all her friends had fun with Discord over the weekend that she spent indoors re-shelving her library, and she gets particularly upset at all the [[InJoke inside jokes]] they keep laughing at. She eventually thinks Discord put her friends under a spell--and when she says this aloud, her friends are offended that she would suspect Discord like that. Twilight finally admits her jealousy and apologizes. And as Discord gloats that Twilight has [[TricksterMentor learned a valuable lesson]], he lets slip that he really did (non-magically) manipulate Twilight's friends into excluding her over the weekend, specifically to make her feel jealous. The others are not amused. |
| 500 | ** In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E6NoSecondPrances "No Second Prances"]], Twilight is mentoring the [[HeelFaceTurn former villain]] Starlight Glimmer, and she disapproves of Starlight befriending another former bad-pony, [[MilesGloriosus the Great and Powerful Trixie]], suspecting that Trixie might be manipulating Starlight for her own ends. Starlight eventually gets fed up with Twilight's meddling and calls her out on being so suspicious of Trixie. Twilight is suitable ashamed--and then Trixie lets slip that she really ''did'' just befriend Starlight for the sole purpose of getting back at Twilight. (Although she [[BecomingTheMask grew to genuinely appreciate her bond with Starlight]].) It's an odd case where Twilight the dissenter is [[BothSidesHaveAPoint both right and wrong]]: Twilight still apologizes to Starlight for trying so hard to control her, while Trixie apologizes to Starlight for living down to Twilight's low expectations of her. |
| 501 | ** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E23SoundsOfSilence "Sounds of Silence"]] features a village of {{Kirin}} who, [[SuperpoweredEvilSide when angered, transform into creatures of fire]] called [[SdrawkcabName Niriks]]. In the backstory, a particularly nasty argument turned destructive, and the Kirin tried to prevent a reoccurrence by bathing in the magical Stream of Silence, which rendered them [[TheSpeechless speechless]] and [[EmotionSuppression suppressed their emotions]]. But Autumn Blaze found she couldn't stand living this way--and when she stumbled upon a flower that could reverse the effects of the Stream of Silence, she tried to share it with the rest of the village. The other Kirin rejected this, and gave Autumn Blaze the ultimatum to either bathe in the Stream again, or be banished. Autumn chose banishment. In the episode proper, Applejack and Fluttershy arrive and attempt to reconcile the two sides--but even they're divided, with Applejack taking Autumn's side while Fluttershy agrees with the rest of the village. In the end, Autumn Blaze wins the rest over by demonstrating how to go full Nirik ''without'' becoming a danger to herself or others, thanks to healthy anger management techniques. |
| 502 | %%* DistantFinale: The final episode "The Last Problem" is set many years after the series, where Twilight is the new ruler of Equestria and she and her friends have grown into adults. |
| 503 | * DistinguishingMark: Cutie Marks, almost unique for every pony, and they're also {{Power Tattoo}}s, giving special magic that relates to the personal meaning of the mark, and its appearance is a RiteOfPassage, meaning that the pony has had some kind of personal growth about what they want to do in life. |
| 504 | * DistractedByTheSexy: |
| 505 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E16SonicRainboom Sonic Rainboom]]", some pegasus construction workers gawk at Rarity's magically-granted butterfly wings, and one of them ends up dropping the jackhammer he was working with off a cloud in his distraction. |
| 506 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E10RainbowFalls Rainbow Falls]]", Soarin' smacks into an obstacle and crashes when he sees two cheerleaders while he was flying. |
| 507 | ** In a flashback in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E13ThePerfectPear The Perfect Pear]]", Bright Mac (Applejack's father) and his friend Burnt Oak were having a plow race, and Bright Mac saw Pear Butter (Applejack's mother) in the next field... and accidentally ruined Grand Pear's water silo when veering off course. |
| 508 | * DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: |
| 509 | ** Derpy Hooves. She's also TheKlutz. Needless to say, it's a recipe for disaster. |
| 510 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E25ACanterlotWeddingPart1 A Canterlot Wedding]]", [[spoiler:[[VileVillainSaccharineShow Queen Chrysalis]] is shocked to find that consuming the love between Princess Cadance and Shining Armor has given her enough power to [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu defeat]] [[BigGood Princess]] [[PhysicalGod Celestia]] in a one-on-one WizardDuel]]. |
| 511 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E26TwilightsKingdomPart2 Twilight's Kingdom, Part 2]]", Twilight has trouble performing even the most basic magic after the power transfer, blowing up the door to the Golden Oaks Library simply by trying to open it and briefly [[TeleportSpam rapidly teleporting]] to [[RandomTeleportation random spots all across Equestria]]. It isn't until Tirek comes after her that she gets a handle on her power, if only because she's no longer trying to hold it back. |
| 512 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: |
| 513 | ** In the episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E9BridleGossip Bridle Gossip]]", the poison joke plant robs Twilight of her magic powers. This is shown by having her unicorn horn go limp. |
| 514 | ** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E23TheCutieMarkChronicles One]] LowerDeckEpisode has younger ponies fretting about when they're going to get their cutie marks, which is much like kids wondering what they're going to be when they grow up or when they're going to enter puberty, depending on your interpretation. |
| 515 | ** Rainbow Dash's depression over [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E5TanksForTheMemories her pet going into hibernation]] is a metaphor for dealing with a loved one's death. WordOfGod stated it was deliberate. |
| 516 | * DoIReallySoundLikeThat: [[http://everfreeradio.com/?p=4205 According to this interview]], Creator/AndreaLibman, the voice of Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie ([[NonSingingVoice non-singing]]), Daisy (in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E8TheMysteriousMareDoWell The Mysterious Mare Do Well]]"), and Pumpkin Cake, isn't very fond of listening to her own voice. She's perfectly happy to listen to sound-alike fans though. |
| 517 | * DomainHolder: King Sombra seems able to warp the Crystal Empire. He morphs it into a {{Mordor}}, made it vanish through space and time, and built AlienGeometries rooms in the Crystal Castle. |
| 518 | * DontAskJustRun: As seen in the episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E26TheBestNightEver The Best Night Ever]]", when [[BewareTheNiceOnes Fluttershy]] bursts into the room -- [[MadnessMakeover disheveled]], [[SanitySlippage wild-eyed]] and [[{{Yandere}} chasing a horde of scared animals while demanding their love]] -- and ''[[BigGood Princess Celestia]] herself'' tells you to run, you'd better do it. |
| 519 | * DoubleAesop: |
| 520 | ** The episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E9BridleGossip Bridle Gossip]]" does this with the lesson of not judging books by their cover. The main plot of the episode focused on the cast misjudging a zebra they knew nothing about, believing she put a curse on them. The doubled Aesop comes in when Twilight (who, ironically, had been denying the idea of a curse) dismisses the book that ultimately proved to have their cure due to misreading its title, "Super Naturals" (as in herbal remedies), as "Supernaturals" (as in the supernatural that she'd been debunking). |
| 521 | ** The Season 4 episodes where the Mane Six [[spoiler:receive their keys to the chest at the Tree of Harmony]] seem to involve both the Mane character and a CharacterOfTheDay learning a lesson related to their respective Elements of Harmony. |
| 522 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E26TwilightsKingdomPart2 Twilight's Kingdom, Part 2]]", Discord learns that [[TitleDrop friendship truly is magic]], and Twilight learns that [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower friendship is more important than the combined magic of all the alicorn princesses]]. |
| 523 | * DoubleMeaning: It's easy to assume that Twilight is the Element of Magic simply because of her incredible magic potential; the ''real'' reason behind this is because she is [[TheHeart friendship personified.]] |
| 524 | * DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Didn't expect to see this trope, did you? Completely {{averted}} in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E25ACanterlotWeddingPart1 A Canterlot Wedding]]" storyline, where [[spoiler:Shining Armor being tricked and {{Mind Rape}}d into marrying fake-Cadance is treated with all the horror and disgust that is appropriate for the situation. Of course, as the people involved are his baby sister and real fiancee.]] |
| 525 | * DoubleTake: |
| 526 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E25PartyOfOnE Party of One]]", Rainbow Dash first casually says "Hi, Pinkie Pie" to a disguised Pinkie... before freezing on the spot with her mane and tail hair completely straight when she realizes (she was trying to avoid her today...). |
| 527 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E26TwilightsKingdomPart2 Twilight's Kingdom, Part 2]]", Tirek has a delayed reaction on passing before the window mural showing Twilight rising as an alicorn, stopping in mid-evil gloating. |
| 528 | * DopeSlap: |
| 529 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E22HurricaneFluttershy Hurricane Fluttershy]]", Twilight Sparkle gives a dope-slap to Spike (flattening the green fin atop his head) for being InnocentlyInsensitive to Fluttershy. |
| 530 | ** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E25TwilightsKingdomPart1 Twilight's Kingdom, Part 1]]": AJ does one to Spike when he complains about the simple job Twilight does at the beginning of the episode, then tries to backpedal on his statement. |
| 531 | *** Rainbow Dash tossing Discord's "alicorn princess" crown from his head is also quite close to this. |
| 532 | * DownOnTheFarm/[[EverytownAmerica Everytown, Equestria]]/FlyoverCountry: Ponyville tends to be regarded as this, especially in [[ShiningCity Canterlot]]. |
| 533 | * TheDragon: [[spoiler:Discord]] temporarily becomes this in the Season 4 finale "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E25TwilightsKingdomPart1 Twilight's Kingdom Parts 1]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E26TwilightsKingdomPart2 & 2]]", in which [[spoiler:he betrays the ponies and joins forces with Lord Tirek and assists him by capturing all the ponies of Equestria and handing them over to Tirek]]. However, [[spoiler:Discord does experience a DevourTheDragon in which Tirek betrays him back and drains all of his magic, rendering Discord powerless, causing him to regret his betrayal against the ponies and joining back with them]]. |
| 534 | * DragonHoard: Dragons are greedy by nature and hoard things as an instinctive behavior. While their avarice is not restricted to treasure, they are especially covetous of gems -- because these are dragon ''food''. |
| 535 | %%* DramaQueen: |
| 536 | %%** Rarity provides the page image for this. |
| 537 | %%** Some of Twilight's freakouts are also pretty epic. Maybe it's a unicorn thing. |
| 538 | * DramaticallyMissingThePoint: In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E24OwlsWellThatEndsWell Owl's Well That Ends Well]]", Twilight lectures Spike about all the trouble he's been causing because he's jealous of Owlowiscious, telling him "This is not the Spike I know and love!". A dejected Spike interprets this as meaning Twilight doesn't love him anymore, which prompts him to run away from home. |
| 539 | * DramaticSpotlight: In the songs "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E11WinterWrapUp Winter Wrap Up]]" (it's even the page image) and "Find a Pet". |
| 540 | ** Also [[ParodiedTrope parodied]] in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E25PartyOfOne Party of One]]": Pinkie Pie draws the (wrong) conclusion that her friends have all turned against her from her interrogation of Spike, and declares so in a Dramatic Spotlight. Then it turns out the light comes from the lamp she used to interrogate him with, as he turns it off. |
| 541 | ** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E24MysteryOnTheFriendshipExpress Gustave Le Grand]] has a similar lamp on hand for his Eclairs. |
| 542 | * DreamIntro: Episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E7MayTheBestPetWin May The Best Pet Win!]]" begins with Rainbow Dash flying and seeing Twilight's pet owl Owlowiscious. Suddenly, Owlowiscious starts growing body parts of the other pets (Angel Bunny, Gummy, Winona, and Opalescence), which scares Dash so much that she actually falls into a seemingly endless black void, causing her to wake up from this nightmare |
| 543 | * DreamLand: Dreams are mostly self-contained, but are shown to exist together in a shared dimension consisting of night-blue clouds dotted with star-like lights, where dreams float as bubbles or are accessible through doors, where {{Dream Walker}}s can move from dream to dream at will. |
| 544 | * DropInCharacter: Done frequently. Though an EnsembleCast show, whoever is the central character of the episode in question will frequently find themselves badgered by uninvited guests. Aloof Twilight Sparkle is naturally the most frequent victim to this, most often from [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace Pinkie Pie]] (who has a tendency to bring a party load of other Drop In Characters along with her) and Rainbow Dash, who often ''[[CaptainCrash crashes]]'' into someone's house. |
| 545 | * DrunkOnMilk: The episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel Over a Barrel]]" suggests that salt licks are the equivalent of hard liquor. |
| 546 | ** We don't know what Twilight thought she was drinking in the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon pilot]], but the scene [[INeedAFreakingDrink pretty much speaks for itself]]. |
| 547 | ** Spike acts like he's getting drunk on doughnuts with extra sprinkles in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E26TheBestNightEver The Best Night Ever]]". Then again, he's a baby dragon that eats gems. Different foods affect him differently than ponies. |
| 548 | * DubInducedPlotHole: The German dub of the show has Twilight Sparkle introduce herself to Rainbow Dash as simply Twilight in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon the first episode]] to keep the [[LipLock lip flaps]] in sync. This is all well and good... until Rainbow refers to her by her full name towards the end of the scene. |
| 549 | * DubNameChange: |
| 550 | ** The Japanese version changes a number of character, place and item names: |
| 551 | *** The Mare in the Moon is referred to as "Moon Pony" ("Tsuki no Pony"), a possible reference to the East Asian legend [[http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rabbit "Tsuki no Usagi (Moon Rabbit)"]]. |
| 552 | *** Sweet Apple Acres is referred to as Sweet Apple Farm. |
| 553 | *** The Everfree Forest is named "the Forest of No Return". |
| 554 | *** The Grand Galloping Gala is simply called "Dance Party". |
| 555 | *** Poison Joke is called "laughing grass". |
| 556 | *** Parasprites are called Pakupakumushi ("Munch Munch Insects"). |
| 557 | *** The Running of the Leaves is called the Falling Leaves Marathon. |
| 558 | *** Hummingway is called Hemingway, presumably to avoid copyright issues due to a character from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' also named Hummingway. |
| 559 | *** Smarty Pants is called Oshare-Pants-kun (Stylish Pants). |
| 560 | *** The Mare-Do-Well is called Dark Mare, possibly to fit better as a homage to ''Film/TheDarkKnight''. |
| 561 | *** "Family Appreciation Day" is called "Family Speech Day". |
| 562 | *** The Zap Apples are called "Biribiringo" which is a combination of the Japanese words "biribiri" (an onomatopoeia for electricity) and "ringo" (apple). |
| 563 | *** The [=CMC's=] newspaper alias is changed from Gabby Gums to Gabby Chat. |
| 564 | ** In the Italian dub: |
| 565 | *** Chief Thunderhooves is renamed Capo Zoccoli Tonanti ("Thundering Hooves"), while Little Strongheart is Piccola Anima Coraggiosa ("Little Brave Soul"). |
| 566 | *** Spitfire and Soarin' are named Saetta and Fulmine (grammatically feminine and masculine terms, respectively, for "Lightning Bolt"). |
| 567 | *** Among Pinkie's family, Igneous Rock is renamed Rocco (a common male name that sounds like the word for rock), Cloudy Quartz is Quarzina (a feminine diminutive of "Quartz"), Marble Pie is Marmorina Pie (a literal translation) and Limestone Pie is Calcarea Pie ("Calcarous Pie"). |
| 568 | *** Philomena to Philamena. |
| 569 | *** The Mare-Do-Well is named Misteriosa Cuoredoro ("Mysterious Heart-of-Gold"). |
| 570 | *** Prince Blueblood is Principe Sangueblu (literal translation). |
| 571 | *** The changelings are referred to as mutanti ("mutants"; Italian folklore has no equivalent of changeling myths and consequently lacks a native word for changelings). |
| 572 | *** The diamond dogs become cani stanadiamanti ("diamond-finding dogs"; "stana" refers to finding hidden things in general but literally means "remove from a burrow", referencing their digging habits). |
| 573 | *** Timberwolves are lupi del legno ("wolves of the wood", using the word for the substance rather than for a woodland). |
| 574 | *** The bugbear is called an orsinsetto (a portmanteau of "insetto", meaning insect, and "orso", meaning bear) |
| 575 | *** In the ''Power Ponies'' ShowWithinAShow, Maretropolis is Nitropolis (pun on "nitrire", the Italian word of whinnying), the Masked Matterhorn is Magicornia Mascherata ("Masked Magicorn"), Zapp is Lampo ("Flash"), Fili-second is Millisecond, Mistress Mare-velous is Miss Meravigliosa (a literal translation), Radiance is Raggio di Luce ("Ray of Light"), Saddle Ranger is Furia Alata ("Winged Fury"), Humdrum is Imbranat ("Imbranato", meaning idiot or fool, with the last letter lopped off), and Mane-Iac is Crinimal (a pun on "crine", meaning a horse's mane, and "criminal") |
| 576 | *** Boneless is Pollastro (a colloquial term for a chicken). |
| 577 | *** Cloudsdale is Nuvola City ("Cloud City"). |
| 578 | * DubPronunciationChange: |
| 579 | ** In the Romanian dub, Celestia's name is pronounced with a "ch" sound instead of an "s" one, although the first two Equestria Girls movies keep the English pronunciation. In season 2, Cadance is called "Ke-dens" instead of "Kay-dens", but future seasons translate her name to Cadența. Philomena is pronounced "Filamena" instead of "Filamina". In the case of places, Manehattan is pronounced the same as Manhattan, while Equestria is pronounced "Ek-ves-tri-a". |
| 580 | ** In the Italian dub, Cadance is pronounced "Ca-dance" instead of "Kay-dance" |
| 581 | ** The latter half of Rainbow Dash's name is pronounced "Duh-sh" instead of "Deh-sh" in the Italian, Polish, French and Latin American dubs. |
| 582 | * DuckSeasonRabbitSeason: Pinkie Pie does this to a produce-selling pony and Iron Will in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E19PuttingYourHoofDown Putting Your Hoof Down]]". |
| 583 | * DudeNotFunny: Spike is an in-universe example. He makes jokes at the most inopportune moments much to the chagrin of his friends. |
| 584 | ** Rainbow Dash's pranks are also seen as an InUniverse example. She sometimes pulls pranks at the wrong time and often gets yelled at for it. Incidentally she uses this to notify that pranking Fluttershy is anything but funny (they have otherwise been pranking every other character). [[spoiler:This is what later tipped off Pinkie that Gilda has all of Dash's jerk, but none of her heart.]] |
| 585 | ** Meta-wise, this is the reaction Derpy spawned and why her scene was altered. |
| 586 | * DudeWheresMyRespect: The show being about [[SliceOfLife the everyday life of the cast]] intersected with SavingTheWorld arcs, this comes up in quite often; for example, it's much harder to make a plot about learning to BeYourself despite social pressure when social pressure is nearly nonexistent because everypony considers you a hero. |
| 587 | ** All six of the Mane Cast ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and]] [[TheOneGuy Spike]]) are essentially living superweapons, having fought against [[MadGod Nightmare Moon, Discord]] (then being very publicly knighted by [[GodEmperor Celestia]] for the latter), [[EvilOverlord Sombra]], and [[spoiler:''[[OutsideContextProblem the entire changeling army]]'']]. Rarity is quickly becoming a well-know fashion designer, Fluttershy had a brief but successful career as a model, Rainbow Dash is the ''fastest pony alive'' and won the Best Young Flier's competition (saving three ponies in the process) after performing a Sonic Rainboom (another feat only She can perform), and Twilight, in addition to being the protege of the ''princess'' is also part of the royal family through her brother. All of them had star roles in the biggest performance of the "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E13HearthsWarmingEve Hearth's Warming Eve]]" tale in Equestria. Still, no one even seems to recognize them, and upperclass ponies are exceptionally snobby around them, dismissing all six because of where they live. |
| 588 | ** Even the residents of Ponyville fall into this, as while they hold the Mane Six in very high esteem it's "only" for their far more mundane day jobs and not, you know, saving the town from a rampaging Ursa Minor, being choked by dragon smoke, or [[HellHound Cerberus]]. Yes, ''that'' Cerberus. |
| 589 | ** [[TheWoobie Fluttershy]] seems to get this harder than anypony else, since she's such a quiet-voiced ShrinkingViolet. As said above, she's a national hero, was a famous model, and shows compassion to just about every pony she meets. The ''one time'' she's seen mingling with ponies in town to do shopping they treat her particularly nasty, going far enough to actively scam her on the price of goods and even butt her out of line. ''[[FridgeBrilliance No wonder she tends to prefer the company of animals over other ponies...]]'' |
| 590 | ** PlayedForLaughs for Spike. He tends to do a lot of menial labor for the Mane 6, without any hesitation, and yet they hardly thank him, and generally order him around or ignore him. While in spite of it all, they do on occasion give him some respect ([[YankTheDogsChain it never lasts long]]), in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E24OwlsWellThatEndsWell Owl's Well That Ends Well]]", the owl manages to gain more respect and attention from the Mane 6 in one day than he did in his time in Ponyville. He then gets [[spoiler:a stained glass window to commemorate his assistance in defeating Sombra and saving the Crystal Empire]]... and then it takes a turn right back to this trope when he's not invited back to assist the Ponies in getting the Empire approved for the Equestria Games. |
| 591 | ** This is briefly {{averted}} for Twilight in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E1PrincessTwilightSparklePart1 Season 4's opening]]. Being a princess in her own right, she's well respected and looked to for advice during a crisis, and [[MilitariesAreUseless the guards are prompt to ask for her command]]. This is further shown in ''Literature/TwilightSparkleAndTheCrystalHeartSpell'', which reveals that stories of her magical ability have been spreading throughout Equestria. Then comes "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E8RarityTakesManehattan Rarity Takes Manehattan]]" where she can't even get Rarity a taxi, and "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E4DaringDont Daring Don't]]", where [[spoiler:Daring Do]] still doesn't seem to recognize any of them. |
| 592 | ** After several seasons of being the resident ButtMonkey, this is ''finally'' {{averted}} for Spike in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E24EquestriaGames Equestria Games]]"; it turns out that he's known throughout the Crystal Empire as "[[TheMagnificent Great and Honorable Spike]] [[TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard the Brave and Glorious]]", is seen as a LivingLegend and receives preferential treatment, since he played the key role in retrieving the Crystal Heart. |
| 593 | *** On the other hoof, the rest of the Elements of Harmony besides Twilight are supposed to be Equestria-wide heroes. Why do they have to sit way down in the stands below Mayor Mare, Fancypants, Fleur Dis Lee and Cherries Jubilee? |
| 594 | * DynamicEntry: Rainbow Dash does this a lot, from her very first appearance on the show. Pinkie Pie has occasionally been known to do likewise. |
| 595 | ** Spike gets a couple on Twilight in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E15FeelingPinkieKeen Feeling Pinkie Keen]]". |
| 596 | * DysfunctionJunction: A light example. Every [[{{Pun}} mane]] character has had her turn at going completely around the bend, some more extreme than others. Particularly, it tends to happen when a character finds their special talent, marked by their Cutie Mark, just not working how they'd expect. |
| 597 | -->'''Twilight Sparkle:''' [[{{Foreshadowing}} "All the ponies in this town are CRAZY!"]] |
| 598 | ** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E1TheReturnOfHarmonyPart1 The Return Of Harmony]]" has all of the Mane Cast (excluding Twilight) go insane ''at once''. |
| 599 | ** Aside from the various (and numerous) breakdowns, each character has some pretty serious personality quirks that cause them serious issues. Fortunately, CharacterDevelopment has them recognizing and managing their dysfuctions, growing into more stable and functional ponies as the series goes on. |
| 600 | *** Twilight Sparkle is a neurotically obsessive perfectionist and control freak, who measures her self-worth by the approval of her mentor, Princess Celestia, and always assumes the worst possible outcome for all perceived short-comings. She suffers a full-on psychotic breakdown in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero Lesson Zero]]" as the result of her over-exaggerated sense of failure. |
| 601 | *** Pinkie Pie, aside from her hyperactive, exaggerated GenkiGirl, and CloudCuckooLander traits, has a desperate need to be appreciated, to the point where she is is incapable of handling any perceived rejection. This results in her frequently violating others' personal space and privacy, and in extreme cases causes her to revert to a profoundly depressed and introverted state, most notably in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E25PartyOfOne Party of One]]". |
| 602 | *** Applejack's stubbornness and inability to handle failure causes her to badly overextend herself on multiple occasions; and culminates in her deciding to leave Ponyville entirely, and abandon her friends, after failing to take first place in a major competition in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E14TheLastRoundup The Last Roundup]]". |
| 603 | *** Rainbow Dash covers a profoundly insecure personality with exaggerated bravado. Pierce that shell, and she becomes a whimpering ball of performance anxiety with a sense of failure nearly as exaggerated as Twilight Sparkle's. She's shown to be very emotional and sensitive on the inside, when she isn't covering it up with bravado. When [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E7ParentalGlideance her parents are introduced]] in a later season, it's made immediately obvious why she is this way.[[note]]When she was growing up, they put her up on a pedestal while endlessly praising her to the point of obsession for every tiny thing she did, no matter how insignificant, and they wouldn't leave her alone about it unless she constantly agreed about how awesome she was. They are good people and had good intentions (they thought they were just being encouraging to their daughter), but ''hoo boy''. No wonder the poor girl is insecure. It also doesn't help that, while she was dealing with the constant excess praise from her parents, she was also dealing with being bullied.[[/note]] |
| 604 | *** Fluttershy's extreme introversion, crippling shyness, and general door-mat-ness hides a violent temper and pathological need for the affections of "lesser" creatures, as demonstrated in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E26TheBestNightEver Best Night Ever]]". |
| 605 | *** Rarity is possibly the least dysfunctional of the Mane Six, but repeatedly lets her greed and vanity get the best of her, completely overshadowing Rainbow Dash's attempt at a DayInTheLimelight in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E16SonicRainboom Sonic Rainboom]]", and sabotaging her attempts to charm the MonsterOfTheWeek in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E7Dragonshy Dragonshy]]". |
| 606 | *** Even Secondary characters are not free from serious character flaws. Princess Celestia is not above manipulating the Mane Six, among others, for her own amusement). Princess Luna is at least as insecure and desperate for affection as any of the Mane Six, as well as still suffering huge amounts of guilt over her time as Nightmare Moon. Spike's issues can be mostly dismissed as simple immaturity, but suffers his own breakdown when he believes he may no longer be number one in Twilight Sparkle's affections in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E24OwlsWellThatEndsWell Owl's Well That Ends Well]]". |
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