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16-> ''"My Little Pony...My Little Pony''\
17''What will today's adventure be?''\
18''My Little Pony…My Little Pony''\
19''Will there be exciting sights to see?''\
20''Where will you wander? Hither and yonder''\
21''Letting your heart be your guide''\
22''My Little Pony...My Little Pony''\
23''I’ll be there right by your side''\
24''I’ll be there right by your side"''
25-->--The opening theme song for the series.
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27''My Little Pony 'n Friends'' is an animated TV series that was released by Claster Television, Inc. and produced by Creator/{{Hasbro}}, Marvel Productions and Creator/SunbowEntertainment in 1986 and ran until 1987. It was based on the toyline [[Franchise/MyLittlePony of the same name]]. It came out a few months after ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie1986 My Little Pony: The Movie]]'' and ran for two seasons. It was an AnimatedAnthology, featuring [[QuarterHourShort quarter hour shorts]]. The first half of the show would have an episode of ponies, and then the second half would feature an episode of their friends, ''WesternAnimation/GloFriends'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Moondreamers}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/PotatoHeadKids''. As a result, the pony episodes often ran as [[TelevisionSerial television serials]], as did the other shorts.
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29This incarnation of ''My Little Pony'' was set in a world called Ponyland. Ponyland is a MagicalLand on the other side of the rainbow, populated by Bushwoolies, Sea and [[OurFairiesAreDifferent Flutter]] Ponies, [[AllTrollsAreDifferent Grundles]], bee-people, talking pigs, giant terriers, bird-dog hybrids, zebra-people, evil storm clouds, elves, bigfoot-like people who build forests, and monster weeds, among other, weirder things. The ponies are assisted in their adventures by an Earth teen named Megan, her siblings Molly and Danny, Spike the Baby Dragon, and the Moochic, a scatter-brained gnome wizard with mushroom motif, and his BeleagueredAssistant, Habit the Rabbit.
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31Being a fantasy-esque weekday afternoon cartoon, the episode plots were adventures, normally focused on a VictimOfTheWeek requiring the ponies' help to defeat some BigBad. The weirdness -- and the overt scariness of some of the villains -- kept the show from being as dangerously cute as one might naturally assume. Some episodes did not involve {{sugar apocalypse}}s, though, and rather focused on more mundane plots, such as using one's imagination to have fun, scavenger hunts, taking care of a giant dog, dealing with bullies, and mending friendships after a feud escalated to [[MundaneMadeAwesome ice cream warfare]].
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33The episodes focused on ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' ran for 65 episodes in total. There were 16 multi-part serials, each 2-4 parts long with the sole exception of the [[FiveEpisodePilot ten-part pilot]], and 9 stand-alone episodes, as well as two 2-part serials compressing the WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTVSpecials.
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35''WesternAnimation/GloFriends'', ''WesternAnimation/PotatoHeadKids'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Moondreamers}}'' have their own pages.
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37!!'''''My Little Pony 'n Friends''''' provides examples of:
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41[[folder: Common Tropes]]
42* AnimatedAdaptation: Of ''four'' toylines.
43* AnimatedAnthology: There were two episodes per airing, and four intellectual properties showcased.
44* {{Animesque}}: Especially noticeable in the episodes animated by Creator/ToeiAnimation.
45* ApocalypseHow: The ''My Little Pony'', ''Glo Friends'', and ''Mondreamers'' segments showcased every flavor of this trope to the point where it crossed right into TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed.
46* BigBad: Starnose in ''Glo Friends'', Queen Scowlene in ''Moondreamers'', and different ones in different episodes or serials of ''My Little Pony''.
47* TheEighties: Perhaps a no-brainer, but in truth you will be hard pressed to find a more ''80s'' show than this.
48* FiveEpisodePilot: Two of the shows had these, only theirs were ten episodes long due to the TwoShorts format.
49** For ''My Little Pony'' it was "The End of Flutter Valley".
50** For ''Glo Friends'' it was "The Quest".
51%%* MerchandiseDriven:
52%%* OpeningCreditsCastParty: The series TitleThemeTune is essentially this.%%How?
53%%* ProtagonistAndFriends
54* QuarterHourShort: Yep, and to make room for [[AnimatedAdaptation animated adaptations]] of no less than ''four'' toylines.
55* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Pretty much the vast majority of the cast all across the board. In fact, the show's purpose was to make cartoons out of Creator/{{Hasbro}}'s cutest toylines.
56%%* SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon: The show's entire run.
57%%* StockFootage: This show was notorious for reusing animation footage.%%Like?
58%%* TelevisionSerial: Thanks to the show being [[QuarterHourShort quarter hour shorts]].
59* TitleThemeTune: The main show had one that encompassed all the properties showcased, and each show had their own specific theme tune that played as well. So this show sported no less than five theme songs over the course of just ''one'' 65 episode season.
60* TwoShorts: First ''My Little Pony'', and then one of three others shows.
61* VileVillainSaccharineShow: All of them except for The Potato Head Kids. While My Little Pony is the most infamous for this, all the shows were full of horrible monsters right next to the cuddly protagonists. Like a [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons D&D]] monster manual covered with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Frank Lisa Frank]] stickers.
62* TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed: See RecycledScript for more details. The writers were absolutely in love with this scenario. They used and abused it in as many as episodes all across the board as they could get away with. The ''only'' aversion to this the show ever had was in the ''Potato Head Kids'' segment, which was more based in SliceOfLife than in fantasy-adventure.
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66* EightiesHair: Both here and in the movie above for two female humans, and here for one male pony. Draggle's hair is this with some late '70s in her hair as well. To a lesser extent, Megan's little sister Molly also has '80s hair. Nightshade is a pony with an afro.
67* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Often played straight in that the cartoon looked better than the source toys.
68* AncientEvil:
69** Squirk is so ancient that Dream Valley was part of the ocean when he ruled over it. Unlike most examples, he wasn't SealedEvilInACan but instead waiting for time to catch up with his archenemy and make him easy prey for him.
70** Grogar was imprisoned in the Realm of Darkness 500 years ago.
71* AntagonistTitle: "Fugitive Flowers" and "Somnambula" are named after their respective villains, the Flories and the witch Somnambula.
72* AnthropomorphicShift: It's more subtle than in ''Tales'', but compared to the pilot the ponies act less like actual ponies. They sleep in beds, sometimes walk on two legs, don't move as much like horses, don't have animal behaviors like licking each other, etc
73* AntiVillain:
74** Pluma doesn't ''want'' to hurt anyone, but Squirk captured her grandfather and is holding him hostage in exchange for the half of the Flashstone he can't reach on dry land.
75** [[spoiler:Knight Shade doesn't ''want'' to be a villain: he made a DealWithTheDevil with Erebus and is now being forced to carry out his end of the bargain, whether he wants to or not.]]
76* BabysittingEpisode: A late episode, "The Ice Cream Wars", has a group of ponies babysitting for the First Tooth ponies. [[ThatRemindsMeOfASong They even sing about it!]] ''Tales'' and ''FIM'' will each go on to have a "babysit the super rambunctious twins" episode, making this a once-a-series plot.
77* BadBoss: Many villains, such as Squirk, Grogar, Queen Bumble, and Lavan, are demanding, harsh and often arbitrarily cruel towards their underlings. In the cases of latter two, this results in their servants [[MookFaceTurn rebelling]].
78* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor:
79** Accidental misuse of the magic coins from the four-part serial of the same name has devastating results. Baby Lickety Split wishes for it never rain again, causing a drought to the point where the sea ponies had no water to swim in, and eventually wildfires began to rage.
80** In "The Prince and the Ponies", the First Tooth Ponies are jealous of how much attention the Newborn Twins are getting, and sing that they'd be happy if bad things happened to them. The song includes the line "I'd have no regrets, if someone [[spoiler:bought them collars and turned them into pets]]", which is what ends up happening.
81* BreatherEpisode: "Pony Puppy", "Sweet Stuff and the Treasure Hunt" and "Little Piece of Magic" serve as low-stakes, slice-of-life one-episode installments placed between longer, much more high-stakes arcs focused around major villains and dangers.
82* CastsNoShadow: The victims of Zeb and Erebus's shadow stealing no longer cast shadows. This also leaves them weak and sick.
83* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: All the ponies featured in "Rescue at Midnight Castle" -- most notably Firefly, Twilight, Bowtie, Applejack, and Ember -- are never seen nor mentioned in any other episode, all of which are set after. The ponies in the rest of the episodes rotate. Scorpan, Catrina and Rep likewise disappear, and are neither seen nor mentioned in the series.
84* CliffHanger: Every story that runs over multiple installments has its component episodes end with the characters in peril of life or limb, with no clear way out of their predicament, leaving them in a dire situation quickly resolved when the next episode starts. At exact intervals of only about ten minutes, there has to be something to make a dramatic ''to be continued'' moment, even in stories that are as long as [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie1986 the actual theatrical film]].
85* CrapsaccharineWorld: Dream Valley is a vibrant land full of kind ponies, but with villains consistently out to harm the ponies.
86* CrapsackWorld: What Ponyland used to be before the ponies came along. Its mentioned by the witches of the Volcano of Gloom that evil used to reign supreme, and we even meet a few of those [[SealedEvilInACan ancient evils]], most notably Grogar and Squirk.
87* DarkestHour:
88** Part 8 of "The End of Flutter Valley" has everyone captured and Honeysuckle apparently dead.
89** 3/4ths into "The Return of Tambelon", the heroes' multiple plans have all failed spectacularly, they have all been captured by [[DimensionLord Grogar's]] forces, and he's started a ritual to banish them to the Realm of Darkness.
90** When the first attempts to negotiate with Niblick fail in "The Magic Coins", seemingly dooming Pony Land to a drought, and the Baby Sea Ponies to certain death.
91* DismantledMacguffin: The Flashstone was split in half, one half buried underneath what is currently Paradise Estate and the other half in the deepest depths of the river. Squirk forces Pluma to retrieve the half beneath Paradise Estate and quickly retrieves the other half using the first.
92* DisneyDeath:
93** Happens to Honeysuckle in "The End of Flutter Valley" arc after she falls down the hole as is presumed dead for a while.
94** Played for laughs in "Woe is Me" when the nursery collapses around the sleeping Woebegone.
95--->'''Lickety-Split:''' He's so still! Is he...?\
96'''Woebegone:''' ACHOO!\
97'''Lickety-Split:''' You're alive!
98* EasilyForgiven: The protagonists never hold a grudge against the genuinely repentant, although this is counterbalanced by [[GoodIsNotSoft how hard they are on the genuinely evil]].
99* EvilOverlord: Some villains, such as Grogar and Lavan, are depicted as powerful sorcerous lords who rule over distant domains, command armies of minions, and scheme and plot to conquer the world.
100* FantasyKitchenSink: As a result of the show introducing new allies and threats more or less every episode, the setting is a widely diverse collection of fantasy and fairytale elements -- unicorns, pegasi, hippocampi, dragons, goblins, trolls, elves, talking animals, wicked sorcerers and ancient evils, lava and ice monsters, animated plants, assorted magic artifacts, and various original creations all populate Dream Valley.
101* FeatheredFiend: The Raptorians, a trio of unrepentantly wicked bird-dogs, and King Charlatan, a tyrannical penguin king.
102* FromSpecialToSeries: The WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTVSpecials led to [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie1986 the My Little Pony movie]], which in turn led to this series.
103%%* GenreBlindness: If there's such a thing as ''Dangerously'' Genre Blind, the ponies fall under this.%%Because...?
104* GeodesicCast: The cast consistently rotates between episodes, due too needing to promote as many lines from the toys as possible.
105* GoodIsNotSoft: While the heroes are very forgiving, the genuinely evil villains normally end up being KilledOffForReal.
106* HeelFaceTurn: Numerous villains, including Sting, Queen Bumble, Princess Porcina, Knight Shade, Crunch and King Charlatan, are convinced by various means to live in peace with the ponies (or at least to cease hostilities, in Queen Bumble's case).
107* InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers: In "The Return of Tambelon", as every creature in Ponyland is kidnapped, the babies are not spared either. Baby Ribbon is the first to be taken.
108* KindnessBall: Lickety-Split and Gusty are usually sarcastic and can sometimes even be mean. However neither of them were rude or mean in "The Glass Princess" (besides Gusty being mildly rude towards the episode's villains). Gusty also bullies Shady in the movie, but in this episode she doesn't act mean to her once.
109* LastSecondVillainRecovery: In "The End of Flutter Valley", Hydia and her daughters flee when Rosedust and the other Flutter Ponies return with the Sunstone. After Queen Bumble and her bees are dealt with, the witches make one last attempt to retain control of the valley by summoning a cloud to block out the sun, and the Flutter Ponies quickly blow them and the cloud far away.
110* LiteralGenie:
111** The titular items in "The Magic Coins" grant wishes as they're said, without accounting for side effects, metaphor or even whether a statement was intended as a wish.
112** The actual genie in "Through the Door" is an unusual case -- he never gets around to granting wishes because he instead starts asking about increasingly abstruse detail when asked to make the weather "perfect".
113-->'''Genie:''' I also need to know the prevailing wind speed, and the percentage of the color orange in the sunset.\
114'''Lickety-Split:''' Look, all I want is a perfect day! What's so difficult about that?
115* LiteralMetaphor: The Flutter Ponies sing about how they're [[SuperSpeed "faster than a lightning bolt"]] while [[NonChalantDodge effortlessly dodging]] the [[ShockAndAwe lightning bolts Erebus is shooting at them]], proving it's no exaggeration. Later, after Zeb is Utter Fluttered into Erebus, Erebus kicks him, just as the Flutter Ponies sing how challenging them will cause you to "meet defeat".
116* LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy: The series features a mixture of talking animals, magical creatures, magical humanoids and realistic human characters. Some of the humans are from another world and regularly travel to Ponyland from there, while others are legitimately from the pony world. Notably, this is the only ''My Little Pony'' series to do so.
117* LoadsAndLoadsOfRaces: Between humans, five different pony species, grundles, bushwoolies, and others, the TV specials and movie had already started this trend. The cartoon keeps it up -- every other episode, the protagonists encountered members of a previously unmentioned race.
118* MagicalLand: Ponyland/Dream Valley, a fairytale land of talking unicorns and pegasi, dragons and magic, and natural wonders, periodically menaced by monsters and sorcerers and accessible from Earth only by flying over a rainbow.
119* MeaningfulName:
120** Lavan is a lava demon.
121** Erebus is named after the Greek god of darkness. He devours shadows and looks like a sapient storm cloud. The name itself also means shadow.
122** Somnabula's name is a play on somnambulism, otherwise known as sleepwalking. Her thing is trapping her victims in a LotusEaterMachine to live out their deepest fantasies and dreams.
123** Porcina turns people into glass statues. Glass is one possible ingredient in porcine dolls.
124* MinionWithAnFInEvil: It's common for the series' villains to have minions who are either too incompetent to be successfully evil or too moral to want to, such as Draggle and (to a lesser extent) Reeka to Hydia, Knight Shade to Zeb and Erebus, Sting to Bumble, and Prince Edgar to King Charlatan. "The Glass Princess" inverts the trope, as the Raptorians are far more dangerous than Porcina, who mostly suffers from a LackOfEmpathy.
125* MonsterOfTheWeek: The show has little overarching continuity, and its episodes mostly focus on the characters dealing with whatever villain, monster or magical disaster has reared its head this time around.
126* MoreDespicableMinion: "The Glass Princess" showcased this with the Raptorians. Their boss, Princess Porcina, was vain and obliviously evil, but they planned to use her to turn Ponyland and everyone in it into glass, then get rid of her when they no longer needed her. Porcina has a Heel–Face Turn by the end of the episode when she realizes that she’s been harming living things, while the Raptorians are turned into glass.
127* MythologyGag: TJ receives a [[https://derpicdn.net/img/view/2013/6/5/341201.png redesign]] that makes him resemble ''My Pretty Pony'', a short-lived toy that predated ''My Little Pony''.
128* NamedworldAndNamedland: The show follows the lives of ponies living in Ponyland.
129* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In "Fugitive Flowers", the ponies rescue the desperate Flories from the pursuing Crabnasties, only to discover later that [[WhatMeasureIsANonCute the former are escaped convicts, whereas the latter are a heroic police force]]. Oops.
130* NoAntagonist: While most four-part episodes have a villain, "The Magic Coins" does not. Ironically it is the darkest episode with the drought that threatens to destroy Pony Land and up front kill the baby Sea Ponies, and [[spoiler: attempt at negotiating with the only creature that can reverse the spell fails at first]]. Though of course everything still turns out in the end.
131* OhCrap:
132** Grogar gets one when he hears the ringing of the bell which is the one thing capable of defeating him.
133** Lavan gets a big one when [[spoiler:he sees his own attack be reflected right back at him by the Princess Ponies' wands]].
134* OnePersonOnePower: In addition to a shared ability to teleport, each unicorn has a magical power unique to themselves -- Gusty can create gusts of wind, Fizzy can create bubbles, Ribbon is telepathic, Buttons has telekinesis, and so on.
135* OncePerEpisode: Besides "The Return of Tambelon", every episode has at least one song.
136* OneWingedAngel:
137** Pluma can turn into a number of forms, her most common being a monstrous specter.
138** Lavan goes from being a lava monster into a nearly all powerful crystal monster.
139** The Flories also do this. They start out in a weakened, tiny and cute state. But once they've devoured enough food from their surroundings, they transform into gigantic, monstrous forms.
140* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Generally, dragons are wingless, crocodile-bellied and fire-breathing. While Spike, an infant dragon, is tiny and mellow, most adult dragons seen are on the large side and tend to more monstrous in demeanor, although they're not serious monsters for the most part -- the three dragons in "Spike's Search" are simply thugs, while the monster in "Through the Door" is much more dangerous but ultimately only reluctantly villainous.
141* OurGoblinsAreDifferent:
142** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE32TheMagicCoins2 The Magic Coins, Part 2]]", while crossing the Jewel Desert, Megan and the ponies are ambushed by a group of aggressive goblins. These are depicted as squat, blue-skinned, long-armed and neckless humanoids, and are terrified of bright lights.
143** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE57TheGoldenHorseshoes2 The Golden Horseshoes, Part 2]]" has some very different goblins. The ones encountered here are large, burly green humanoids who tower over Megan, and tend to be ugly and deformed in various unique ways -- one has three short horns and flat-topped head, another has flabby wide lips, and a third has an almost beak-like snout. They live underground and are greedy, hostile and argumentative beings, stealing from others and refusing to ever give anything away.
144* {{Pegasus}}: Pegasi are one of the three main kinds of ponies, and physically look just like the other kinds but with a small pair of wings that allow them to fly.
145* PetTheDog: While Hydia's cruel even to her daughters, she admonishes Reeka for wanting to really punish Draggle -- though it's implied ''she'' wanted to do the punishing.
146%%* PlotTailoredToTheParty: In particular, the powers of "The Magic Coins" fit the needs of the story with ridiculous precision.%%How?
147* ThePowerOfRock: In a few cases, the obligatory song would be worked in as a plot point.
148* PutOnABus: Happens to the Flutter Ponies and the baby Sea Ponies. The former never appear after "The Return of Tambelon", and the latter never appear after "Baby, It's Cold Outside". %%Or at least I think it's the case for the latter.
149* RealityWarper: The Flashstone makes its user into a low-level one by allowing them to transform anything it's fired at.
150* RememberTheNewGuy: Happens often, mostly due to the GeodesicCast. Notable examples include the Big Brother ponies in "Somnambula", Mimic in "The Golden Horseshoes", and Twilight in "Flight to Cloud Castle". All of them are introduced as characters the ponies already know, and vanish for the rest of the show after said episodes they appear in.
151* RiddleOfTheSphinx: "Sweet Stuff and the Treasure Hunt" and "The Golden Horseshoes". In the latter case, it's used to bargain with a mole-man who likes junk and riddles. The ponies get their horseshoe in exchange for a riddle he doesn't know. It works, since humans are mostly unknown in Ponyland.
152* ScoobyDooHoax: Despite the series being set in a world full of unicorns, dragons, and every kind of monster imaginable, [[spoiler: the titular Ghost of Paradise Estate turns out to be "merely" a shape-shifting bird]].
153* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Peach Blossom. Naturally, [[TheSpock Wind Whistler]] speaks her language just fine. Everyone else is left scratching their heads.
154* SharedUnusualTrait:
155** All Twinkle-Eyed ponies have gems encrusted in their eyes and multi-colored manes and tails.
156** Just like in the first two specials, the normal-eyed unicorns always have a streak in their mane that is differently coloured from the rest of their hair.
157* {{Teleportation}}: All unicorns share the ability to perform "winks", short-range teleports, although this ability takes some practice in childhood before it can be done properly. It's also impossible to wink if there's a solid object between where you are and where you want to reappear -- which apparently includes nets.
158* TemptingFate: In the climactic showdown from "Bright Lights", the Flutter Ponies sing that "Nothing can withstand our Utter Flutter." Fast-forward three episodes, to "The Return of Tambelon" part 2, where we learn that Grogar has defeated the Flutter Ponies.
159* ThatRemindsMeOfASong: ''Every'' episode contains a song, and most of them are just busy filler.
160** The only exception being one of the four episodes comprising the [[DarkestHour Return of Tambelon]] arc. An awkward break between scenes suggests a song ''was'' planned -- but with so much going on, there was no time left for it.
161** Ironically, "Rescue from Midnight Castle", the episode revision of the first special, actually cuts out the song "A Little Piece of Rainbow" from the special.
162* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: "The Glass Princess" does this for Shady. She is shown to be clumsy, terrible at sports, not all that bright, not very brave, and full of self-loathing, but she manages to come up with a plan to save the day.
163* TimeAbyss:
164** Squirk has been around so long that the very geography of Dream Valley changed completely. He actually exploits this fact to claim a VictoryByEndurance over Pluma's grandfather by simply waiting for time to leave him old and weak.
165** Grogar is at the very least 500 years old, and possibly far older.
166%%* ToBeContinued: The multi-part episodes lack them in the Disney Channel/DVD versions.
167* UncertainDoom:
168** In "The Ghost of Paradise Estate", [[spoiler: Squirk and Crank are sucked into a whirlpool by Megan when she removes the extra water Squirk used to flood Dream Valley]].
169** In "The Revolt of Paradise Estate", [[spoiler: Beezen is last seen being chased by his wand, which can zap things out of existence]].
170* {{Unicorn}}: Unicorns are one of the three main kinds of ponies, and physically look just like the other kinds but with a short, spiraling horn. They can all perform short-range teleports called "winks", although this takes a bit of practice and young unicorns aren't very good at it, and additionally all possess a single personal power unique to the individual.
171* VileVillainSaccharineShow: Not as bad as the specials, but when there are villains, they take the scare factor up to eleven. The most evil of these are Hydia, Squirk, Grogar and Lavan.
172* VillainousBadlandHeroicArcadia: The ponies make their home in Dream Valley, an idealized pastoral landscape of green meadows and picturesque woods bordered by scenic mountains. The villains make their homes in decidedly less wholesome-looking places -- the witches live on the stark, barren peak of the Volcano of Gloom, Queen Bumble and King Charlatan in two different frozen wastes, the sorceress Porcina among the jagged and ominous Black Mountains, Grogar in the dark and looming spires of the city of Tambelon, and Lavan in a system of caves running with rivers of lava. This is especially enforced by Crunch the Rockdog, who despises anything "soft" and goes out of his way to turn his lands into wastelands of jagged stone and nothing else.
173* VillainSong: Quite a few, such as "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" from "The Ghost of Paradise Estate" (which is a borderline DisneyAcidSequence given the way Squirk uses his dark magic), "[[http://www.kimsites.net/dreamvalley/songs86-2.html#nothing_quite_like_shadows There's Nothing Quite Like Shadows]]" from "Bright Lights" (where Erebus and Zeb plot in song to steal the characters' shadows), and "Here's to Power" from "The Quest of the Princess Ponies" (where Lavan sings about how power for power's sake is the only thing that matters).
174* TheVoiceless: Sundance. Like many other characters, her voice actress from the movie did not return for the TV series. Unlike the other characters, they never cast anyone to replace her. Thus, Sundance appears in dozens of episodes without saying a word.
175%%** The Flutter Pony Lily.
176* VoidBetweenTheWorlds: The Realm of Darkness is described as being one of these. It's where Grogar and his city were [[SealedEvilInACan sealed in]] after his original defeat.
177* WeaksauceWeakness: The unicorns' [[UselessSuperpowers teleportation abilities]] would be a whole lot more useful if they could "wink" through solid objects spaces smaller than they are. They cannot, and thus cannot use it to circumvent walls. Or cages. Or ''nets''. It's mostly useful for crossing gaps and playing tag or hide and seek.
178* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway:
179** Pegasi can fly. Unicorns teleport and each have a unique powers. Earth ponies... can run and jump real well. And occasionally bake. With hooves.
180** The Golden Horseshoes -- one lets you see into the future, one lets you read minds, one lets you fly by summoning a cloud to ride on and the last... glows really brightly.
181** The Princess Ponies each have a unique power, thanks to their wands. Some are impressive, some are not; Primrose can control the wind, Royal Blue can summon snow and hail and Tiffany can control clouds, whereas Serena can duplicate objects, Sparkle can make plants grow and Starburst can change the color of objects.
182* TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed: The possibility that Dream Valley or surrounding areas will be rendered uninhabitable crops up ''nine times'' in twenty-eight stories. Additionally, those are most of the multi-episode stories, so they represent the bulk of the episodes.
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