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!!''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' provides examples of the following tropes:

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* CallBack: In "Sonic Rainboom", Rainbow Dash says that the day of the event is the "BEST. DAY. EVER!" In "A Canterlot Wedding: Parts 1 & 2", when talking about/performing a Sonic Rainboom for the wedding, she comments "BEST. WEDDING. EVER!"
** Which also serves as a CallBack to the previous season finale, which everypony had hoped would be "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E26TheBestNightEver The Best Night Ever]]".
** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Every episode page]] lists its call backs.
* CapeSnag: Technically, [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E7MayTheBestPetWin a wing snag.]]
** There was a slight cape snag in Stare Master, where Scootaloo's cape caught on Fluttershy's fence.
* CaptainsLog: 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, but the basic idea is the same.
** Used to deliver the episode's Aesop, rather than the MrExposition variety.
* CareBearStare: Essentially how the Elements of Harmony work, and [[spoiler:how Twilight Sparkle restores her friends after Discord's MindRape in the previous episode.]]
* 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... riiight?
** 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. 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.
** 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 the 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.
*** In classical mythology, Griffons ate mostly horses.
** 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.]]
*** 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.
** 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...
** 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.
*** Might also be a good source of...well...fertilizer.
** 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.
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E24OwlsWellThatEndsWell Owl's Well That Ends Well]]", Spike noted that owls ''do'' eat mice and he actually uses that knowledge in attempt to frame Owlowiscious.
** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E5SisterhoovesSocial Sisterhooves Social]]" shows Rarity making fried eggs.
*** [[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]]''.
* CastHerd: (Technically, cast Strings, Blessings, and Constellations) First off, you've got the main six ponies and Spike. The Cutie Mark Crusaders form a PowerTrio with a smaller version of the main 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.
* TheCastShowoff: AndreaLibman (Fluttershy/Pinkie Pie) and Ashleigh Ball (Rainbow Dash/Applejack) provide their own singing voices. Ashleigh in particular is the lead singer of the band HeyOcean. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nhssMi2FtA There's a reason why fans love Rainbow Dash's singing]].
** Subverted in that neither of Ashleigh's characters have had a song to themselves yet when every other mane character has at least one, although Rainbow Dash comes pretty close with a duet with Fluttershy and both of them had their own verse during "At the Gala".
*** As of [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E9AppleFamilyReunion "Apple Family Reunion"]], where Applejack gets a song. However, the song has a rather simplistic rhythm (seeing as how it is a song to Square-Dance to, this is [[JustifiedTrope justified.]]), and the fans were a little disappointed in it, but no one yet has critiqued Ashleigh's singing in that particular song.
** Andrea only provides Fluttershy's singing voice; Pinkie's is done by Shannon Chan-Kent.
*** Though she has sung at least one song as Pinkie so far (the Welcome Song in "Friend in Deed"), but it was a short one.
* CentralTheme: Friendship is Magic!
** ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* CentrifugalFarce: The Dizzytron in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E7WonderboltsAcademy Wonderbolts Academy]]
* CerebusRollercoaster
** Season 1 has "The Ticket Master" immediately following the two-part premiere, "Dragonshy" sandwiched between the significantly less dark "Boast Busters" and "Look Before You Sleep", "Sonic Rainboom" and "Show Stoppers" book-ending "[[SurpriseCreepy The Stare Master]]", and "[[SanitySlippage Party of One]]" in-between "Owl's Well that Ends Well" (which isn't completely sunny either) and "The Best Night Ever".
** Season 2 follows up both "Return of Harmony"s and "Lesson Zero" with "Luna Eclipsed", follows up "Secret of My Excess" with "Family Appreciation Day", sandwiches "Dragon Quest" with "It's About Time!" and "Hurricane Fluttershy", and puts the light and fluffy "[=MMMystery=] on the Friendship Express" right before the finale, the latter half of which is basically distilled nightmare fuel.
* CharacterExaggeration: Used lightly in later episodes, which focus more on individual characters compared to the initial stories (which focused more on the whole ensemble and their bonds) and so intensify some of their defining quirks for Aesops and obstacles. Perhaps most noticable is Twilight Sparkle, after growing out of her FishOutOfWater status in Ponyville, her centered episodes focused more on her overcoming her (originally more subtle) neurotics and fears of failure, establishing her as a SuperOCD NervousWreck. Most examples are kept balanced by proper CharacterDevelopment however and their other traits are still used prominently, preventing much noticeable {{Flanderization}} coming into the situation.
* ChaseScene: Complete with [[Series/TheBennyHillShow Benny Hill]]-[[SuspiciouslySimilarSong esque]] background music. Twice. Another two [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L142_juksw8 chase scenes]] are in the style of [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Pepé Le Pew]].
* 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. LaurenFaust eventually explained by saying that he was a very distant relative on Celestia's mother's side, "about 52 times removed, roughly speaking".
** 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.
** However, we have now seen Pinkie Pie's and Rarity's parents (once each) and Twilight Sparkle's parents (thrice). 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.
** And now 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.
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:After Discord finally breaks Twilight's will, Celestia sends her back all the Friendship Reports that Twilight wrote to her during Season 1. This rekindles Twilight's feelings, gives her the knowledge she needed about Discord's weakness ''and'' how to release her friends from Discord's mind control.]]
** [[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]]]]
* ChekhovsSkill / [[ChekhovsHobby Hobby]]: 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.
** Also in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E11WinterWrapUp Winter Wrap Up]]", where Twilight used her organization skills to help Ponyville finish on time for the first time in years.
** Applejack's herding skills in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E4ApplebuckSeason Applebuck Season]]" resurface five eps later in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E10SwarmOfTheCentury Swarm of the Century]]".
** 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.
** 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.]]
* 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]].
* 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?"
* CircleOfFriendship: The default way of dealing with monsters, {{Mad God}}s, and {{Eldritch Abomination}}s is pretty much to blast them with weaponized [[ThePowerOfFriendship friendship]] in this fashion.
* 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.
* CliffHanger: At the end of all four two-part episodes. More specifically, the premiere episode of all three seasons, plus the second to last episode of Season 2. They also sometimes like to set up mini-cliffhangers going to commercial breaks.
** For instance, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L142_juksw8 this]].
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Pinkie Pie, in ''spades''.
-->'''Pinkie Pie:''' And then I said 'Oatmeal, are you crazy?
** 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.
** Snails from "Boast Busters":
-->"I like pudding..."
* 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.
* 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.
* ColonCancer: The [[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]]''
* ColorCodedWizardry: Though present since Season 1, the unicorns' magic has clear distinctions in their aura colors from "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.
** 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.
** 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.]]
** [[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.
** In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E5MagicDuel "Magic Duel"]], the Alicorn Amulet gives Trixie a red magic aura instead of her usual color.
* ComicBookAdaptation:
** [[ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW Has its own page.]]
** While not comic books of their own, at least eleven short comics have been printed in a German ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' magazine published by Panini.
** 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.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: 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, and prompts him to run away from home.
** The Cutie Mark Crusaders, if nothing else, are ''really'' talented in this area:
*** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E18TheShowStoppers The Show Stoppers]]", Twilight tries to guide the Cutie Mark Crusaders to see that they're very close to finding their cutie marks if they'd just switch their roles from the talent show, but they just don't get it (though they also have no interest in performing said roles on stage.)
*** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E23TheCutieMarkChronicles The Cutie Mark Chronicles]]", Scootaloo complains about having to listen to all the "namby-pamby" stories of how the other ponies got their cutie marks because they're not helpful; they're all about "finding who you really are and boring stuff like that".
*** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E17StareMaster Stare Master]]", Sweetie Belle sings a lullaby so loudly that it not only fails to put anypony to sleep, it actually wakes up everypony nearby.
*** In general, all three of the Cutie Mark Crusaders seem almost determined not to realize that Scootaloo's special talent is her scooter/dancing, Sweetie Belle's special talent is singing, and Apple Bloom's special talent is in some way related to construction.
* CompanionCube: Bloomberg from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel Over a Barrel]]", an apple tree that Applejack ''reads a bedtime story to''.
** It's contagious; Spike climbs into bed with him (yes, the apple tree has its own bed) and then apologizes in advance in case he starts snoring.
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E25PartyOfOne Party of One]]", Pinkie goes crazy when she thinks her friends don't want to come to any more of her parties, and sets up a pile of rocks, a bucket of turnips, a piece of lint, and a sack of flour as her new friends. She even gets Rainbow Dash to argue with the rocks.
** "Tom".
** Twilight's Smartypants doll in "Lesson Zero".
* CompositeCharacter: With the sole exception of Applejack, the six main characters are a composite of a Generation 1 pony and a Generation 3 pony. Rainbow Dash, for example, has the wings and personality of the Gen 1 pony Firefly, and the color scheme (more or less) of the Gen 3 pony Rainbow Dash. Faust couldn't use the names of the Gen 1 ponies, due to Hasbro having lost the trademark to all of them but Applejack and Spike, so the use of Gen 3 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.]]
** Discord is a ''very'' literal example of this, being a mish-mash of just about every creature known to man.
* CompressedAdaptation:
** The {{Novelization}}s in general, since many of them are either storybooks that come with toys or short stories published in different countries' magazines.
** The Canadian live show. It managed to squeeze part of "The Ticket Master", part of "Applebuck Season", part of Part 2 of the pilot, part of "Winter Wrap-Up" and part of "The Best Night Ever" into a 30-minute play (which took place over an ''entire year'').
* ConflictBall: Shows up in a few episodes. "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E8LookBeforeYouSleep Look Before You Sleep]]" particularly comes to mind.
** Merriwether Williams' use of this trope seems to be the main criticism against her writing style.
* ConspicuousCG: In a few of the toy commercials:
** Pinkie Pie's RC Car in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTY3zJaA2Dc its commercial]].
** Rarity's Carousel Boutique in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRSFsNbPp0o its commercial]].
** The Friendship Express Train engine, Sweetie Belle's Ice Cream Train Car, Fluttershy's Nursery Train Car, the railroad cart and the track in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPSY9QLNRY0 their commercial]].
** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E10SpikeAtYourService The redesigned Timberwolves.]]
* ContinuityNod: Quite a few, which is unexpected for a show where the episodes are supposed to be watchable in any order.
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E4ApplebuckSeason Applebuck Season]]", Applejack explains to Twilight that her huge family was only in town for the Sun Festival (the pilot episode), which is why she's the only one left on her farm that's strong enough to harvest the orchard after Big [=McIntosh=] hurts his back.
** During "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E7Dragonshy Dragonshy]]", Rainbow Dash mentions the ferocious manticore that Fluttershy befriended during the pilot episode.
** 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]].
** 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 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 season finale.
** 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.
** 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]]".
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E20GreenIsntYourColor Green Isn't Your Color]]", Rarity states that she "[[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.
** 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".
** 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.
** In the first episode, one of the dresses Rarity has Twilight try is a Statue of Liberty outfit. In "The Cutie Mark Chronicles", we learn that a pony version of the Statue of Liberty actually exists in their world.
** 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.
*** 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.
*** And once again in Magical Mystery Cure, where she is miserable due to being stuck with Applejack's destiny.
** 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.
** 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]]."
** 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.
** 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.
** "[[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.]]
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero Lesson Zero]]", Twilight's messed up bird nest from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E11WinterWrapUp Winter Wrap Up]]" can be seen.
** Another nod to "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.
** 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.
** 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]].
** 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]]"
** All of them are listed on the recap page for any episode.
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E1TheReturnOfHarmonyPart1 The Return of Harmony Part 1]]", Sweetie Belle corrects Applebloom by telling her "victoryful" isn't a word. Scootaloo asks "What are you, a dictionary?" In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E11FamilyAppreciationDay Family Appreciation Day]]", Applebloom rapidly lists synonyms for "embarrassed", prompting Scootaloo to ask her the same question (the same recording was even used).
* ContinuityCreep: Season 3 experienced a higher level of continuity from previous seasons, due to several acting as continuations of previous episodes.
* ConversationCut: Used several times throughout the show:
** 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:
--->'''Pinkie Pie:''' Hey, you know what this calls for? ''(transitions to Ponyville)'' A party!
** 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.
** The cold open in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E20GreenIsntYourColor Green Isn't Your Color]]" is basically a series of these.
* 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.
* CoolHorse: Rainbow Dash, among others.
* 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).
** 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 at the basement.
** Rarity lives at her business, the Carousel Boutique, which is styled to resemble an ornate antique merry-go-round, complete with horses.
** Pinkie Pie lives at Sugarcube Corner, a bakery whose roof resembles a heavily decorated gingerbread house with two cupcakes stacked on top.
*** Oddly, the apartment itself is kind of bare, for reasons speculated upon in this wiki's WildMassGuessing page (Pinkie has one all to herself).
** 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]].
** Rainbow Dash lives in a floating house made of clouds... that looks like a small Greek palace, with rainbow waterfalls on either side.
** Applejack lives in a house/barn on the edge of her family's sprawling apple orchard.
* CoolTrain: The Friendship Express Train.
* CostumePorn: Almost anything Rarity designs (with some glaring yet justified exceptions), particularly the dresses she and her friends wear to the Grand Galloping Gala.
* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer:
** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGc6Ullcd3o trailer]] for the DVD ''The Friendship Express'' claims that it's the show's first DVD release. While it ''is'' the first of Creator/ShoutFactory's releases and the first DVD to be available online, it's actually the ''fifth'' DVD to be released in the US, following the toy-pack-in [=MiniDVD=] ''The Ticket Master'', the Target-exclusive DVD ''Celebration at Canterlot'', the DVD ''Adventures in Ponyville'', and the toy-pack-in [=MiniDVD=] ''Applebuck Season''.
** On Hasbro's ''MyLittlePony'' {{Facebook}} [[http://www.facebook.com/mylittlepony page]], they [[http://www.facebook.com/mylittlepony/posts/390054594351142 said]] that TheHub's [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E25ACanterlotWeddingPart1 Royal]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E26ACanterlotWeddingPart2 Wedding]] WebGames are also available on Hasbro's own ''MyLittlePony'' [[http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/ site]] and that one game has you "help Pinkie Pie create a yummy cupcake treat for the guests" (the only Pinkie Pie game of the bunch being the non-cupcake-related ''[[http://www.hubworld.com/my-little-pony/shows/friendship-is-magic/games/mlpfim-dj-pinkie-pie DJ Pinkie Pie]]'').
** On TheHub's {{Facebook}} [[http://www.facebook.com/hubtvnetwork page]], they [[http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=246933645355725 called]] Rainbow Dash's Nightmare Night costume from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E4LunaEclipsed Luna Eclipsed]]" a Wonderbolt costume instead of a Shadowbolt costume, and on their own [[http://www.hubworld.com/ site]], they initially called Discord a dragon instead of a Draconequus (or Dragonokis, as they [[SpellMyNameWithAnS misspell it]]).
** Hub advertisements for the ''[[http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/en_US/play/details.cfm?guid=5B309E58-5056-900B-1040-324367303E14 Castle Creator]]'' game available on Hasbro's website and their own website describe it as a game in which you select a pony to explore the Canterlot palace with and dress them up in various costumes. Footage of the game accompanying this description shows it to be nothing like that.
** TV listings' synopses of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E14SuitedForSuccess Suited For Success]]" and "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E8TheMysteriousMareDoWell The Mysterious Mare Do Well]]" respectively [[ViewerGenderConfusion refer to Rarity and Rainbow Dash as male]]. More recently, Season 3's "Apple Family Reunion" episode synopsis gives the same gender confusion treatment to Applejack.
** Hasbro's website misidentifies the basic brushable [[http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/en_US/shop/details.cfm?R=BE3CDE98-5056-900B-1034-466D8F32E7AD:en_US Cheerilee]] toy's animal friend as a snail, despite the toy's [[http://mylittlewiki.org/wiki/File:CheerileeBackcard.jpg packaging]] correctly identifying it as a ladybug.
** An insert included with Creator/MadmanEntertainment's Australian [=DVDs=] misidentifies [[GodCreatedCanonForeigner toy line exclusive pony]] Ploomette as Pinkie Pie.
** [=80sTees.com's=] [[http://www.80stees.com/products/MLPFIM-Wonderbolts-Shirt.asp two]] [[http://www.80stees.com/products/Wonderbolts-Shirt.asp versions]] of Mighty Fine's ''[[http://www.welovefine.com/product.php?id_product=661 Wonderbolts]]'' [[TheMerch shirt]] have a mistake in their product descriptions misidentifying an [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] Wonderbolt as Fleetfoot, despite both of those Wonderbolts appearing at the same time in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E26TheBestNightEver The Best Night Ever]]". Though to be fair, Fleetfoot is only identified via a FreezeFrameBonus.
** [=ToyWiz.com=] [[http://www.toywiz.com/mlpfimpvcspitfire.html evidently]] [[http://www.toywiz.com/mylittleponypvc3packset.html thinks]] [[http://www.toywiz.com/glindaspitfirerainbowdash.html that]] the [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] "Wonder Bolts pony" is Spitfire, despite both of those Wonderbolts appearing at the same time in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E26TheBestNightEver The Best Night Ever]]".
** A ''New York'' [[http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2012/06/slideshow-the-my-little-pony-hair-color-trend.html slideshow]] misidentified [[http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2012/06/slideshow-the-my-little-pony-hair-color-trend.html#photo=6x00007 Sweetie Belle as Berry Punch]] and [[http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2012/06/slideshow-the-my-little-pony-hair-color-trend.html#photo=7x00006 Apple Bloom as Rose]].
** The infamous "My Little Racist, Homophobic, Smart-Shaming Pony" [[http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2010/12/09/my-little-homophobic-racist-smarts-shaming-pony/ article]] on Ms. Magazine's website, which stated that a pony's coat color were metaphors for race and/or sexual orientation--WordOfGod [[http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2010/12/24/my-little-non-homophobic-non-racist-non-smart-shaming-pony-a-rebuttal/ states]] that they never are or were intended to be--as well as claiming that Twilight Sparkle completely gave up her studies under the princess in favor of a stereotypically girly life in Ponyville. (Not only is life in Ponyville anything ''but'' girly and bland, Twilight's original problem wasn't that she was studying at ''all''; it was that she was studying to the exclusion of anything resembling a social life.) Given the context, it was obvious that she stopped watching at the end of the opening credits.
** [[http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/29/my-little-pony-parodies-katy-perry/ "If you're not 7, there's a good chance that you are unaware of the latest 'My Little Pony' re-boot"]].
** {{NPR}} seems to think that ([[MerchandiseDriven like the previous MLP cartoon]]) [[http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/10/05/141037194/skipping-the-ads-on-tv-get-ready-for-the-shows-that-are-the-ads FiM is just a 30-minute ad]], which makes it obvious that they just assumed "MLP = MerchandiseDriven" and didn't bother to look into it at all.
** A ''Daily Dot'' [[http://www.dailydot.com/business/hasbro-my-little-pony-sherry-bourlon/ article]] treated the fan misconception that Hasbro has no official pony plushies as fact. A then-small number of official (officially licensed, at least) plushies actually do exist, the first few of which were released over a year before the article was published.
* CrapsaccharineWorld: Underneath the idealistic aesthetic in this world filled with adorable marshmallow ponies, Equestria's a pretty dark nation. It's to the point that, as shown in "It's About Time", there's a portal to [[{{Hell}} Tartarus]] just a day's gallop away from Ponyville. Note that the ponies are genuinely nice people in general… it is just that their world happens to contain HORRORS that they must fend off.
** CrapsackWorld: It temporarily became this during "Return of Harmony, Part 2".
* 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".
* CreatorCameo:
** 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 ([[FanNickname Vigilance]]) from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E16ReadItAndWeep Read It and Weep]]", of the big muscle pegasus ([[FanNickname Snowflake]]) in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E22HurricaneFluttershy Hurricane Fluttershy]]", and of the teacher from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E1TheCrystalEmpirePart1 The Crystal Empire - Part 1]]".
** 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.
** The mule in "Applebuck Season" and "Hurricane Fluttershy" is voiced by co-director [[http://www.facebook.com/pages/James-Wootie-Wootton/216767748385467 James "Wootie" Wooton]].
** 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 "Swarm of the Century". Some fans might know said pony better as [[FanNickname Tutti Frutti]].
** 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.
* 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.
* {{Crossover}}:
** [[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 [[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.
** Some of Creator/TheHub's promotional materials feature characters from this show and other Hub shows (often reaching MassiveMultiplayerCrossover levels), including ''The Adventures of Chuck & Friends'', ''Series/{{Batman}}'' ''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=]''.
*** [[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.
*** ''[[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.
*** 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 ''{{Transformers}}''-y (the former game even has said parts together as one of its costume {{Easter Egg}}s, complete with sound effect).
** The [[TheMerch officially licensed merchandise]] has included a couple of crossovers you'd never expect to see on ''MyLittlePony'' merchandise.
*** 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 Whooves]] using portals from ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}''.
*** The shirt ''[[http://www.welovefine.com/product.php?id_product=1429 Derpy 209]]'' shows Derpy Hooves with the ED-209 from ''Film/RoboCop''.
*** "[[http://www.welovefine.com/1033-illusions-trixie.html Tricks]] [[Series/ArrestedDevelopment are what a foal does for money]]."
* 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]]".
* CrushBlush: Spike blushes after receiving a kiss from his crush Rarity.
* CrystalSpiresAndTogas - The Crystal Empire has the look down, but whether they are that magically advanced remains to be seen.
* 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 "Green Isn't Your Color", and when sleeping on the train in "Over a Barrel".
* CuteAndPsycho: Fluttershy currently provides the page quote. Pinkie Pie, Princess Luna and Twilight Sparkle would all probably benefit from a trip to the therapist's couch as well.
* CutenessOverload: The Brony Community constantly joke that they die from Fluttershy's cuteness.
** Similar reactions occur with Sweetie Belle and Baby Applejack
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* DancePartyEnding: These are inevitable when Pinkie Pie is on your team.
** The 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.
* DarkerAndEdgier: This version of MLP goes further in dark themes than G2 and G3.
%% Specifics on the above would be appreciated.
** And within the show, two-parters, such as "Friendship is Magic", [[note]](wherein Nightmare Moon tries to make night last forever; dire when you consider the implications to plants)[[/note]] "The Return of Harmony", [[note]](wherein Discord temporarily manages to spread a fair bit of chaos and damage the main characters' friendships with each other)[[/note]] "A Canterlot Wedding" [[note]](wherein Chrysalis disguises herself as Princess Cadence, then imprisons the actual Cadence in a cave, to marry Shining Armor and use his love to power a changeling invasion)[[/note]] and "The Crystal Empire", [[note]](wherein King Sombra, a tyrant who formerly enslaved said empire, is about to return)[[/note]] involve scenarios much more dire than those of most of the show's episodes. Among those two-parters, though, "Friendship is Magic" is considered milder than the other three.
* DarkIsNotEvil: A recurring theme, lampshaded in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E9BridleGossip Bridle Gossip]] and [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E4LunaEclipsed Luna Eclipsed]].
* 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:
*** Twilight Sparkle: [[PilotEpisode Friendship is Magic]] ([[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon Parts 1]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E2ElementsOfHarmony and 2]]), [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E3TheTicketMaster The Ticket Master]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E6BoastBusters Boast Busters]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E8LookBeforeYouSleep Look Before You Sleep]] (Shared with Applejack and Rarity), [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E9BridleGossip Bridle Gossip]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E10SwarmOfTheCentury Swarm of the Century]] (Shared with Pinkie Pie), [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E11WinterWrapUp Winter Wrap Up]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E15FeelingPinkieKeen Feeling Pinkie Keen]] (Shared with Pinkie Pie), The Return of Harmony [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E1TheReturnOFHarmonyPart1 (Parts 1]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E2TheReturnOfHarmonyPart2 and 2.)]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero Lesson Zero]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E4LunaEclipsed Luna Eclipsed]] (Shared with Princess Luna), [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E20ItsAboutTime It's About Time]], [[SeasonFinale A Canterlot Wedding]] ([[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E25ACanterlotWeddingPart1 Parts 1]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E26ACanterlotWeddingPart2 and 2]]), The Crystal Empire ([[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E1TheCrystalEmpirePart1 Parts 1]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E2TheCrystalEmpirePart2 and 2]]) (Shared with Spike), [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E5MagicDuel Magic Duel]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E12GamesPoniesPlay Games Ponies Play]] (Shared with Rainbow Dash), [[SeasonFinale Magical]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E13MagicalMysteryCure Mystery Cure]]
*** Pinkie Pie: [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E5GriffonTheBrushOff Griffon the Brush Off]] (Shared with Rainbow Dash), [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E10SwarmOfTheCentury Swarm of the Century]] (Shared with Twilight), [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E15FeelingPinkieKeen Feeling Pinkie Keen]] (Shared with 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]]
*** Rainbow Dash: [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E5GriffonTheBrushOff Griffon the Brush Off]] (Shared with Pinkie Pie), [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E13FallWeatherFriends Fall Weather Friends]] (Shared with 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/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E22HurricaneFluttershy Hurricane Fluttershy]] (Shared with Fluttershy), [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMAgicS3E7WonderboltsAcademy Wonderbolts Academy]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E12GamesPoniesPlay Games Ponies Play]] (Shared with Twilight)
*** Fluttershy: [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E7Dragonshy Dragonshy]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E17StareMaster Stare Master]] (Shared with the Cutie Mark Crusaders), [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E20GreenIsntYourColor Green Isn't Your Color]] (Shared with Rarity), [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E22ABirdInTheHoof A Bird in the Hoof]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E19PuttingYourHoofDown Putting Your Hoof Down]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E22HurricaneFluttershy Hurricane Fluttershy]] (shared with Rainbow Dash), [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E11KeepCalmAndFlutterOn Keep Calm And Flutter On]]
*** Rarity: [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E8LookBeforeYouSleep Look Before You Sleep]] (Shared with Twilight and Applejack), [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E14SuitedForSuccess Suited for Success]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E19ADogAndPonyShow A Dog and Pony Show]] (Shared with Spike), [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E20GreenIsntYourColor Green Isn't Your Color]] (Shared with Fluttershy), [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E5SisterhoovesSocial Sisterhooves Social]] (Shared with Sweetie Belle), [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E9SweetAndElite Sweet and Elite]]
*** Applejack: [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E4ApplebuckSeason Applebuck Season]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E8LookBeforeYouSleep Look Before You Sleep]] (Shared with Rarity and Twilight), [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E13FallWeatherFriends Fall Weather Friends]] (Shared with Rainbow Dash), [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E14TheLastRoundup The Last Roundup]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E9AppleFamilyReunion Apple Family Reunion]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMAgicS3E10SpikeAtYourService Spike At Your Service]] (Shared with Spike)
*** [[IncrediblyLamePun Mane]] 6 collectively: [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel Over A Barrel]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E26TheBestNightEver The Best Night Ever]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E13HearthsWarmingEve Hearth's Warming Eve]] (Shared with Spike)
*** Apple Bloom: [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E12CallOfTheCutie Call of the Cutie]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E6TheCutiePox The Cutie Pox]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E11FamilyAppreciationDay Family Appreciation Day]] (Shared with Granny Smith)
*** Scootaloo: [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E6SleeplessInPonyville Sleepless in Ponyville]]
*** Sweetie Belle: [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E5SisterhoovesSocial Sisterhooves Social]] (Shared with Rarity)
*** Cutie Mark Crusaders collectively: [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E17StareMaster Stare Master]] (Shared with Fluttershy), [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E18TheShowStoppers The Show Stoppers]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E23TheCutieMarkChronicles The Cutie Mark Chronicles]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E23PonyvilleConfidential Ponyville Confidential]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E4OneBadApple One Bad Apple]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E8JustForSidekicks Just For Sidekicks]] (Shared with Spike)
*** Spike: [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E19ADogAndPonyShow A Dog and Pony Show]] (Shared with Rarity), [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E24OwlsWellThatEndsWell Owl's Well That Ends Well]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E10SecretOfMyExcess Secret of My Excess]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E13HearthsWarmingEve Hearth's Warming Eve]] (Shared with the [[IncrediblyLamePun mane]] 6), [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E21DragonQuest Dragon Quest]], The Crystal Empire ([[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E1TheCrystalEmpirePart1 Parts 1]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E2TheCrystalEmpirePart2 and 2]]) (Shared with Twilight), [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMAgicS3E10SpikeAtYourService Spike At Your Service]] (Shared with Applejack), [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E8JustForSidekicks Just For Sidekicks]] (Shared with the Cutie Mark Crusaders)
*** Princess Luna: [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E4LunaEclipsed Luna Eclipsed]] (Shared with Twilight Sparkle)
*** Granny Smith: [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E11FamilyAppreciationDay Family Appreciation Day]] (Shared with Apple Bloom)
*** Big [=McIntosh=]: [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E17HeartsAndHoovesDay Hearts And Hooves Day]] (Shared with Cheerilee)
*** Apple Family collectively: [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E15TheSuperSpeedyCiderSqueezy6000 The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000]]
*** Cheerilee: [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E17HeartsAndHoovesDay Hearts And Hooves Day]] (Shared with Big [=McIntosh=])
** 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:
*** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon "Friendship is Magic, part 1"]] for [[AllThereInTheScript Twinkleshine]].
*** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E4ApplebuckSeason "Applebuck Season"]] for the flower trio Daisy/Flower Wishes, Rose/Roseluck and Lily Valley.
*** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E9BridleGossip "Bridle Gossip"]] for the flower trio Daisy/Flower Wishes, Rose/Roseluck and Lily Valley.
*** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E12CallOfTheCutie "Call of the Cutie"]] for [[AllThereInTheScript Time Turner]]/[[AllThereInTheScript Dr. Hooves]].
*** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E20GreenIsntYourColor "Green Isn't Your Color"]] for [[FanNickname Lyrica]] and [[FanNickname Violet]] / [[FanNickname Royal Ribbon]] as well as for [[AllThereInTheScript Bon Bon]].
*** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E6TheCutiePox "The Cutie Pox"]] for the flower trio Daisy/Flower Wishes, Rose/Roseluck and Lily Valley.
*** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E8TheMysteriousMareDoWell "The Mysterious Mare Do Well"]] for [[AllThereInTheScript Amethyst Star]].
*** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E14TheLastRoundup "The Last Roundup"]] for Derpy [[AllThereInTheScript Hooves]].
*** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E15TheSuperSpeedyCiderSqueezy6000 "The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000"]] for Caramel/Chance-A-Lot.
*** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E19PuttingYourHoofDown "Putting Your Hoof Down"]] for [[FanNickname Boxxy Brown]] / [[FanNickname Crafty Crate]] as well as for [[AllThereInTheScript Cherry Berry]].
*** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E25ACanterlotWeddingPart1 "A Canterlot Wedding"]] for [[AllThereInTheScript Twinkleshine, Minuette, and Lyra Heartstrings]].
* DeadpanSnarker: Twilight Sparkle, of course, making various sarcastic remarks and frequently having the snarker's facial expression.
** Spike, Discord, and Rainbow Dash apply as well, but to a lesser extent than Twilight.
%% Discussion of who counts as a Deadpan Snarker and who does not are also available in the following thread: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1331473451059167100&page=7#173
* DeathGlare: Of all ponies, Fluttershy has one. She's used it to stare down a dragon, a cockatrice, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and a few chickens]].
** This helps explain part of her shyness -- she can't really control it and doesn't want to be overbearing.
** 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.
* {{Deconstruction}}: This show does this a lot often.
** "Lesson Zero" deconstructs Twilight Sparkle's OCD problems.
** "The Mysterious Mare Do Well" deconstructs Rainbow Dash's arrogance and pridefulness.
** "Hurricane Fluttershy" deconstructs Fluttershy's issues with her shyness. Also, "Putting Your Hoof Down" deconstructs her role of an ExtremeDoormat.
** "One Bad Apple" deconstructs the issues of bullying.
* DefangedHorrors: Episodes that are meant to be scary usually go for this.
* 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. [[{{Jerkass}} Gilda]], the [[{{Hustler}} Flim-Flam Brothers]] and [[EmotionEater Queen Chrysalis]] left (or were forced out of) town at the end of their episodes, and [[CastingAShadow King Sombra]] was [[LiterallyShatteredLives destroyed]] in his.
** [[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 probably the only recurring antagonists in the series thus far, very little has been done to redeem them.
** [[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.
** [[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.
** 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"]]
*** Referenced by Discord at the climax of ''Return of Harmony pt 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.]]
* DeletedScene:
** From [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E3TheTicketMaster "The Ticket Master"]], a scene of Big [=McIntosh=] reacting to and pulling the new plow during Applejack's ImagineSpot (seen in a since removed video from one of the show's animators) and a scene featuring Mr. Greenhooves (mentioned by the show's art director).
** From [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E4ApplebuckSeason "Applebuck Season"]], Applejack "helping" Rarity too ([[https://twitter.com/KeatingRogers/status/289781476717891585 mentioned]] [[https://twitter.com/KeatingRogers/status/289782745796861953 by]] the episode's writer Amy Keating Rogers).
** From [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E14SuitedForSuccess "Suited For Success"]], a shot of [[AllThereInTheScript Sea Swirl]], [[AllThereInTheScript Lemon Hearts]], [[FanNickname Cloud Kicker]], [[AllThereInTheScript Merry May]], and [[AllThereInTheScript Minuette]] at the beginning of the first fashion show (seen in a since removed video from one of the show's animators).
** From [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E17StareMaster "Stare Master"]], an extra verse to Sweetie Belle's version of the "Hush Now Lullaby" (revealed by the episode's writer Chris Savino).
** From [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E26TheBestNightEver "The Best Night Ever"]], one or more {{Cut Song}}s, including the original version of Pinkie Pie's "Piggy Dance" from [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E12BabyCakes "Baby Cakes"]], longer and to the tune of the "Chicken Dance" (mentioned by [[http://www.facebook.com/dannyimusic/posts/294497797264466 Daniel Ingram]] and [[https://twitter.com/KeatingRogers/status/215148827370467329 Amy]] [[https://twitter.com/KeatingRogers/status/226049307659350016 Keating]] [[https://twitter.com/KeatingRogers/status/226052219731050496 Rogers]]).
** From [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E1TheReturnOfHarmonyPart1 "The Return of Harmony Part 1"]], Applejack saying "Hope everything's ok back in Ponyville. I don't know if Big [=McIntosh=] and Granny Smith have enough butter for all that popcorn" ([[https://twitter.com/M_A_Larson/status/227797496779390976 revealed]] [[https://twitter.com/M_A_Larson/status/227797596767416321 and]] [[https://twitter.com/M_A_Larson/status/227802447253475329 detailed]] by the episode's writer M.A. Larson), Rainbow Dash saying "Get off that cloud and put 'em up! I'm not afraid of you! Come on, Marquess of Queensbury rules! Let's go!" instead of "Get off there and put 'em up! Come on! Let's go!" ([[https://twitter.com/M_A_Larson/status/230773824013086720 revealed]] by the episode's writer M.A. Larson) and from either that episode or [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E2TheReturnOfHarmonyPart2 "The Return of Harmony Part 2"]], Applejack saying "While y'all were gone a pod of whales flew in and handed us the elements" ([[https://twitter.com/M_A_Larson/status/227955833688973312 revealed]] by the episodes' writer M.A. Larson).
*** Rainbow Dash's 'Marquess of Queensbury rules' line would have been significant as an allusion to [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Q]], who used the same line to goad Commander Sisko in an episode of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''.
** From [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E4LunaEclipsed "Luna Eclipsed"]], a scene featuring Rarity giving Princess Luna a makeover ([[http://comments.deviantart.com/4/1603670/2248019348 described]] [[http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=82897&view=findpost&p=1936492 by]] Creator/LaurenFaust and one of the show's layout artists. Luna's unused design can be seen [[http://www.hubworld.com/hubworld/flash/games/GAME_C_MLPCASTLE/assetsuitcase/characters/MLP_CharH_Luna.swf here]]).
** From [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E14TheLastRoundup "The Last Roundup"]], a longer version of the scene featuring Derpy, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen then named Ditzy Doo]], including a {{flashback}} explaining just how she caused so much damage to Ponyville Town Hall ([[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/02/amy-keating-rogers-response-to-derpy.html described]] by the episode's writer Amy Keating Rogers).
** From [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E24MysteryOnTheFriendshipExpress "MMMystery on the Friendship Express"]], [[spoiler:Applejack being one of the culprits]] ([[https://twitter.com/KeatingRogers/status/212625404756901888 mentioned]] [[https://twitter.com/KeatingRogers/status/212628404049149953 and]] [[https://twitter.com/KeatingRogers/status/212631050457841666 described]] by the episode's writer Amy Keating Rogers).
** From [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E3TooManyPinkiePies "Too Many Pinkie Pies"]], some scenes, including a "big scene" for the badger, but no major jokes ([[https://twitter.com/BaloneyBrony/status/269871508241936384 mentioned]] [[https://twitter.com/BaloneyBrony/status/269912038283825153 by]] layout supervisor Tim Stuby).
** From [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E5MagicDuel "Magic Duel"]], a few layout scenes ([[https://twitter.com/hollygjill/status/275037741446737920 mentioned]] by layout artist Holly Giesbrecht) and a scene of Trixie interacting with Mayor Mare ([[https://twitter.com/M_A_Larson/status/283732088258187265 revealed]] by the episode's writer M.A. Larson).
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E23TheCutieMarkChronicles The Cutie Mark Chronicles]]", Rarity says the ponies have been "[=BFFs=] Forever".
** Also, the ''Astronomical Astronomer's Almanac to All Things Astronomy''.
** In episode 10, Fluttershy claims to have "tried begging, and pleading, and beseeching, and asking politely" to control the parasprites.
* 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.)
** 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.
** 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 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...]]
* {{Descriptiveville}}: The ponies all live in Ponyville, as part of the larger equine population of Equestria.
** Also, ''Fillydelphia'', and the Pegasus-only city, Cloudsdale.
** And a lot more. Like the nation ''Equestria''.
* {{Determinator}}: Despite her ShrinkingViolet personality, Fluttershy is definitely shown, time and time again, to have some real tenacity.
** Try not smiling around Pinkie Pie. Let's see how long you last. She'll make you, even if it takes months.
* DeterminedHomesteader: Granny Smith's family founded Ponyville.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Twilight Sparkle leads her [[BandOfBrothers new-found friends]] into battle successfully against Nightmare Moon, a SealedEvilInACan MadGod.
** 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.
** The [[IncrediblyLamePun mane]] Cast eventually manages to do the same.
** The ponies that founded Equestria managed to take out the Windigos, a group of powerful spirits threatening to freeze everything that was feeding on their hatred. As always, this involved blasting it with weaponized [[ThePowerOfFriendship friendship.]]
* DigitalDestruction:
** 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.
** 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.
* 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.
** 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.
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Queen Chrysalis and her army]] in [[spoiler:"[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E26ACanterlotWeddingPart2 A Canterlot Wedding Part 2]]]]" most likely apply. Although many believe they will return, 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]]).
** According to [[ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW the comic]], [[spoiler: they survived and began to plot revenge.]]
** Averted with Twilight in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E2FriendshipIsMagicPart2 Friendship is Magic Part 2]]" and "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E15FeelingPinkieKeen Feeling Pinkie Keen]]", and 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.
* DigitalPiracyIsEvil: {{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.
** 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.
** Strangely, while they seem to be okay with the sharing of the actual episodes, Hasbro has come down HARD on fan parodies such as FriendshipIsWitchcraft.
* DoIReallySoundLikeThat: [[http://youtu.be/rP61SQA-UWw According to this interview]], AndreaLibman, the voice of Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy, isn't very fond of listening to her own voice.
* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Averted with Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity, but played straight by Rainbow Dash, Applejack, and Fluttershy.
** The [[AlternativeForeignThemeSong Japanese dub theme song]] is performed by Suzuko Mimori, the Japanese voice of Pinkie Pie.
* 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.]]
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Didn't expect to see this trope, did you? Completely averted in "A Canterlot Wedding" storyline, where [[spoiler:Shining Armor being tricked and {{Mind Rape}}d into marrying fake-Candace 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.]]
* DownOnTheFarm/[[EverytownAmerica Everytown, Equestria]]/FlyoverCountry: Ponyville tends to be regarded as this, especially in [[ShiningCity Canterlot]].
* 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''.
* DramaticSpotlight: In the songs "Winter Wrap Up" and "Find a Pet".
** Also [[ParodiedTrope parodied]] in "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.
** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E24MysteryOnTheFriendshipExpress Gustave Le Grand]] has a similar lamp on hand for his Eclairs.
* 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 GrumpyBear 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.
* DrunkOnMilk: The episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel Over a Barrel]]" suggests that salt licks are the equivalent of hard liquor.
** We don't know what Twilight thought she was drinking in the pilot, but the scene [[INeedAFreakingDrink pretty much speaks for itself]].
** 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.
* 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.
* DubNameChange: The Japanese version refers to the "Mare on the Moon" as "Moon Pony" or "Tsuki no Pony" a possible reference to the East Asian legend [[http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rabbit "Tsuki no Usagi (Moon Rabbit)"]].
** Sweet Apple Acres is referred to as Sweet Apple Farm.
** The Japanese version also changes the Everfree Forest to "The Forest of No Return".
** The Grand Galloping Gala is simply called "Dance Party" in the Japanese version.
* DudeNotFunny: Spike is an in-universe example. He makes jokes at the most inopportune moments much to the chagrin of his friends.
** 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.]]
* DummiedOut:
** From some of the WebGames:
*** ''[[http://www.hubworld.com/my-little-pony/shows/friendship-is-magic/games/mlp-adventures-in-ponyville Adventures in Ponyville]]'' [[WhatCouldHaveBeen was going to have]] a Fluttershy game, which can be glimpsed [[http://www.hubworld.com/hubworld/flash/games/GAME_A_MLPHUB/assetsuitcase/MishMash.swf here]] and read about [[http://www.hubworld.com/hubworld/flash/games/GAME_A_MLPHUB/assetsuitcase/strings.xml here]].
*** TreehouseTV's [[http://treehousetv.com/kids/games/activity.aspx?ID=1868&showID=121 version]] of ''[[http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/en_US/play/details.cfm?guid=5B309E58-5056-900B-1040-324367303E14 Castle Creator]]'' was originally made for a [[http://hub.promotions.com/canterlot/page.do?page=splash.html Canterlot Castle toy promotion]]. The game was taken down from the promotional site on September 18, 2011, but the game's assets still exist on the promotional site (save for the SWF file of the game itself, which was removed later).
*** TheHub's [[http://www.hubworld.com/my-little-pony/shows/friendship-is-magic/games/game-mylittlepony-castle-creator version]] of ''[[http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/en_US/play/details.cfm?guid=5B309E58-5056-900B-1040-324367303E14 Castle Creator]]'' has an [[http://www.hubworld.com/hubworld/flash/games/GAME_C_MLPCASTLE/assetsuitcase/characters/MLP_CharH_Luna.swf unused file of Luna]], which has been [[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/11/mystery-luna-from-castle-creator.html?showComment=1320220610457#c3030487614541901712 confirmed]] to be a design for a DeletedScene from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E4LunaEclipsed Luna Eclipsed]]".
*** ''[[http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/en_US/play/details.cfm?guid=0F6B55AF-5056-900B-1013-CD724A8D4018 Card Creator]]'' has unused (and in at least one case, updated) Nightmare Night files from ''[[http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/en_US/play/details.cfm?guid=5B309E58-5056-900B-1040-324367303E14 Castle Creator]]''. Also, the winter files that used to be used by the game still exist on Hasbro's site as well as on TheHub's site (even though they were only ever used on Hasbro's site).
*** ''[[http://www.hubworld.com/my-little-pony/shows/friendship-is-magic/games/mlpfim-ponymaker The Fabulous PonyMaker]]'' contains one or two unused head designs.
*** [[http://www.hubworld.com/my-little-pony/shows/friendship-is-magic/games/mlpfim-twilight-sparkle-royal-invitation-designer Both]] [[http://royalwedding.hosting-hasbro.com/invitations.html versions]] of ''Twilight Sparkle's Royal Invitation Designer'' have unused interface files from ''[[http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/en_US/play/details.cfm?guid=0F6B55AF-5056-900B-1013-CD724A8D4018 Card Creator]]''.
*** ''[[http://www.hubworld.com/my-little-pony/shows/friendship-is-magic/games/mlpfim-fluttershy-songbird-chorus Fluttershy's Songbird Chorus]]'' was available before it was linked to (and was slightly different during that time).
*** ''[[http://royalwedding.hosting-hasbro.com/fashion.html Rarity's Bridal Boutique]]'' contains the same one or two unused head designs from ''[[http://www.hubworld.com/my-little-pony/shows/friendship-is-magic/games/mlpfim-ponymaker The Fabulous PonyMaker]]'' as well as unused parts and audio from said game.
*** ''[[http://www.hubworld.com/my-little-pony/shows/friendship-is-magic/games/mlpfim-dj-pinkie-pie DJ Pinkie Pie]]'' has DJ Pon-3's [[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/04/vinyl-scratch-flash-version-eye-colors.html eye]] [[http://www.derpyhoovesnews.com/dj-pon3s-palette-revealed/ color]] hidden under her CoolShades (it would later be shown in nighttime lighting during "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E26ACanterlotWeddingPart2 A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2]]" and in proper lighting [[http://wedding.mylittlepony.com/Pony-Wedding-Music-Game.html on]] Hasbro's ''Pony Wedding'' microsite), and the game's file may have also been available before its page was put up.
*** Though only the first of the [[http://wedding.mylittlepony.com/Pony-Wedding-Quizzes.html quizzes]] on Hasbro's ''Pony Wedding'' microsite could initially be taken, all four quizzes have existed on the microsite since it was put up.
** The [[IOSGames iOS game]] ''[[http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/monopoly-hotels/id479412611?mt=8 Monopoly Hotels]]'' has unfinished coding for an eighth ''My Little Pony'' guest, Princess Celestia.
* DVDCommentary: Creator/ShoutFactory's Amazon exclusive ''[[http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0096W47NO Season 1]]'' 4-DVD set [[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/11/season-1-complete-dvd-review.html has]] audio commentaries on the episodes [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon "Friendship is Magic, part 1"]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E2ElementsOfHarmony "Friendship is Magic, part 2"]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E11WinterWrapUp "Winter Wrap Up"]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E14SuitedForSuccess "Suited For Success"]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E18TheShowStoppers "The Show Stoppers"]], and [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E26TheBestNightEver "The Best Night Ever"]], including people like Hasbro executives Brian Lenard and Robert Fewkes, supervising directors Jayson Thiessen and James "Wootie" Wootton, art director Ridd Sorensen, composer Daniel Ingram, and voice cast members such as Creator/TabithaStGermain, Creator/AndreaLibman, Creator/CathyWeseluck, and Creator/NicoleOliver.
* DynamicEntry: Rainbow Dash does this a lot, from her very first appearance on the show. Pinkie Pie has occasionally been known to do likewise.
** Spike gets a couple on Twilight in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E15FeelingPinkieKeen Feeling Pinkie Keen]]"
* DysfunctionJunction: A light example. Every [[IncrediblyLamePun 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.
-->'''Twilight Sparkle:''' [[{{Foreshadowing}} "All the ponies in this town are CRAZY!"]]
** "The Return Of Harmony" has all of the mane cast (excluding Twilight) go insane AT ONCE.
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