My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Season 11
is a My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic written by TwilightSparkle3562 that takes places after My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Season 10
Official Synopsis Below:
The Magic of Friendship continues in the eleventh season of stories featuring Princess Twilight Sparkle and her friends from Equestria!
Following the return of Equestria's long lost king and queen, the evil Emperor Grogar and his Legion of Doom, with the help of an evil race of transforming robots called Predacons, declare war on Equestria. Now, Twilight and her friends with the help of the transforming robots called Maximals, must navigate their home through uncertain waters while also learning and teaching about the magic of friendship to ponies and creatures like Luster Dawn and her friends.
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Season 11 provides examples of"
- Abusive Parents: Spoiled Rich is shown to have abused Diamond Tiara not only emotionally, but also physically.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the finale, during the attack on Vorak's kingdom, Tirek reunites with Sendak, his former mentor. In Tirek's My Little Pony: FIENDship Is Magic issue, it was shown that Sendak's care for Tirek was one_sided, and Tirek eventually abandoned Sendak during a cave_in. In this fic, the two apparently never had the falling out that they did in canon, as not only does Sendak still care for Tirek, but Tirek cares for Sendak as well.
- Back from the Dead: Almost all of the Predacons and as of episode 7, The Mean Six.
- Beware the Nice Ones: During the finale, Fluttershy tells Cozy that she's about to see her nasty side and begins trying to punch her.
- Big Bad Ensemble: While Grogar is still the overall main villain, Megatron and Mean Twilight have their own objectives.
- Breather Episode: Considering the "War with the Legion" Arc and the majorly emotional Mother's Day-themed episode immediately proceeding it, "the Soup Grouch" could very much be considered this.
- The Bus Came Back: "Of Mice and Mares" includes a plot-important appearance by Sheriff Silverstar, Braeburn, Chief Thunderhooves and Little Strongheart.
- Crossover: With Transformers: Beast Wars
- Darker and Edgier: As with the previous season, while the non-arc episodes are still largely Slice of Life, sensitive subjects are directly addressed (most notably death). In addition, there is a war brewing with Grogar and his Legion.
- "Of Mice and Mares" includes what the characters mistake for an interrupted rape (as well as mentions of a similar previous act) as well as the death of a minor antagonist at the hooves of another minor antagonist.
- Disappeared Dad: In Episode 8, "My Mother, Aurora Glimmer" we learn in a brief scene that Sunburst's Father, Comet Flare, died while Sunburst was very young.
- Downer Ending: The season ends with Vorak's kingdom haven fallen, Scorpan and several soldiers being captured by Grogar's forces, Sendak being brought in to the army of villains, Tirek gaining an increase in power, and Vorak possibly dead.
- Expy: The Soup Grouch (in the episode title of the same name) is very much a ponified version of the Soup Nazi (even being "voiced" by the same guy who played the Soup Nazi in the actual Seinfeld episode).
- Skimmer and Scammer in "Of Mice and Mares" are pretty much MLP-style versions of George and Lenny from "Of Mice and Men" (notably based on the versions from the original novel and movie rather than the Funny Animal versions from the Tex Avery cartoons). It even has an extremely similar ending, with Scammer killing Skimmer
- Freudian Excuse: It's mentioned that Spoiled Rich was abused by her own parents, which caused her to believe it was the proper way to raise children.
- Hypocritical Heartwarming: Tirek's reaction to the reveal that Grogar was planning on attacking and killing his father and brother definitely qualifies as he said that he was planning on doing THAT himself.
- Missing Mom: In Episode 8, "My Mother, Aurora Glimmer," we learn that Starlight Glimmer's mother, Aurora Glimmer, dies of cancer while Starlight was very young.
- My God, What Have I Done?: In the finale, Tirek is shown to feel some level of guilt after (seemingly) killing his father.
- School Bullying Is Harmless: Averted. The pony counterpart of Wallflower Blush makes her debut in Episode Five of this season and, while nobody at the Friendship School actually bullies her, she IS mentioned to be a past victim of bullying at her old school. As with her human counterpart, she deeply loves plants and, in her debut episode, it is mentioned that bullies in her old school used to wreck her garden and left her with some definite issues.
- Shout-Out: "Ugly and the Beast" is, of course, an obvious title reference to "Beauty and the Beast"
- The worms Chrysalis and Tirek dined on during their "special night" in Ugly and the Beast was based quite a bit on the spaghetti scene from "Lady and the Tramp", complete with the song "Bella Notte."
- The Starscream: Mean Twilight Sparkle has begun planning to betray Grogar.
- Start of Darkness: It's revealed that Sombra had a son who was killed by ponies who didn't want the son to become the next ruler of the Crystal Empire. When Princess Amore refused to have them executed, Sombra killed her and decided to take the throne himself in his son's place as a way of avenging him.
- Uncertain Doom: Vorak gets his magic stolen by Tirek and is choked out until his face turns blue and he collapses. It's left uncertain if he died from suffocation or merely passed out.
- Villain Episode: "Ugly and the Beast" is focused entirely on the villains with the only non-villainous characters even making a cameo being Vorak, Scorpan and a disguised Discord.
- Whole-Plot Reference: "The Soup Grouch" is pretty much an MLP-style homage to the classic Seinfeld episode "the Soup Nazi."
- "Of Mice and Mares" is based rather strongly on "Of Mice and Men."
