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* NowThatsUsingYourTeeth: Completely {{justified}} since, as ponies, they have no hands with which to manipulate objects.

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* NowThatsUsingYourTeeth: Completely {{justified}} {{justified|Trope}} since, as ponies, they have no hands with which to manipulate objects.



* PoliceAreUseless: {{Justified}} in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon Season 1's opening two-parter]] where Nightmare Moon blasts three Royal Pegasus Guards with lightning.

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* PoliceAreUseless: {{Justified}} {{Justified|Trope}} in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon Season 1's opening two-parter]] where Nightmare Moon blasts three Royal Pegasus Guards with lightning.
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* NeverSayDie: Pinkie Pie's swear from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E20GreenIsntYourColor Green Isn't Your Color]]" starts with "Cross my heart and hope to ''fly''...". It's worth noting, though, that death isn't a completely taboo subject for the show - in another episode, Twilight vows to find a way to help with the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E11WinterWrapUp Winter Wrap Up]] "even if it kills me".

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* NeverSayDie: The series most often substitutes "kill" with "destroy" whenever a character is making a threat. Beyond that, Pinkie Pie's swear from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E20GreenIsntYourColor Green Isn't Your Color]]" starts with "Cross my heart and hope to ''fly''...". It's worth noting, though, that death isn't a completely taboo subject for the show - in another episode, Twilight vows to find a way to help with the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E11WinterWrapUp Winter Wrap Up]] "even if it kills me".
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* TheMomVoice:
** Princess Celestia, over a thousand years old, is well capable of doing the "Mom" voice, particularly with her students, and former students. This is shown time and again in her dealings with Twilight Sparkle, such as when she calls out Twilight for causing chaos in Ponyville after she couldn't come up with a friendship lesson to write about. On the nurturing side of things, she reassures Twilight that she's not laughing at her when Twilight is having trouble deciding what to do with Starlight for assignment after she's saved Equestria, saying she had a similar predicament when she first sent Twilight to Ponyville at the start of the series.
** Fluttershy can use the "Mom" voice. She demonstrates this in "Dragonshy" when she lectures the huge Dragon for attacking her friends. Very "Mom-like" is her use of "You're bigger than her and you should know better." She also demonstrates this while protecting the Cutie Mark Crusaders from the cockatrice, telling them to get behind her, then sternly ''scolding the cockatrice, as it is actively turning her to stone'', and ''threatening to inform on it to it's own mother''! What's more, she actually wins, [[BeyondTheImpossible shattering the stone that had formed around her by sheer force of will.]]
---> '''Fluttershy:''' You! Just who do you think you are going around turning others into stone? You should be ashamed of yourself. I have a good mind to find your mother and tell her what you've been up to, young man. Now you go over there, and turn Elizabeak and my friend Twilight back to normal, and don't ever let me catch you doing this again! '''Do you understand me?'''
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* MotionParallax: The animation is not done in traditional cels but rendered by an old version of UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash. Yet, it's still capable of being programmed to generate motion parallax and other non-CG 3D effects that prevent the middle- and backgrounds from looking flat.
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* MassiveMultiplayerScam: In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E16TwentyEightPranksLater "28 Pranks Later"]], Pinkie Pie gets the whole town to help her pull a huge prank on Rainbow Dash by making her believe that they all became zombies from the joke cookies she gave out.
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* PowderGag: In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E12BabyCakes "Baby Cakes"]], when Pinkie Pie is doing a dance to try to get the Cake twins (month-old babies) to stop crying, she bumps into a cabinet, knocking a sack of flour over her. Later, when Pinkie Pie herself cries due to being frustrated with being a BadlyBatteredBabysitter, the twins deliberately spill flour on themselves to cheer her up.
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* NonVoyageParty: In "Party of One", Pinkie misapprehends the other ponies blowing off her after-birthday party for Gummy and after seeing them sneak around, avoid her, [[RuleOfThree and give her obvious, feeble lies]] to explain why they can't come to Gummy's afterparty, jumps to the conclusion that they no longer want to be her friends. This upsets her greatly, and she's surprised when her friends explain that the truth is they were throwing her a surprise birthday party.
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* NowWhichOneWasThatVoice: For the first two seasons, only the voice actors for the Mane 6, Spike, The Cutie Mark Crusaders and Princess Celestia were credited, with a total of eleven actors including [[NonSingingVoice the singing voices]]. However, by the time Season 3 came in, this effect started to fade, and later, when additional voice actors for the aforementioned two seasons were confirmed by WordOfGod, faded completely.
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* LandOfOneCity: While Equestria is depicted as a fairly large country containing multiple distinct cities, all other species live within isolated self-governing settlements. The changelings and yaks are the most straightforward examples, being single large settlements with its own rulership, with the caveat that the former live in a giant hive and the latter in just a village; the Crystal Empire is that in name only, as it otherwise conists of a single city in the middle of a frozen waste; the griffons lack a formal government, but most live in the run-down city of Griffonstone; and the hippogriffs/seaponies technicaly have two cities, Mount Aris and the UnderwaterCity of Seaquestria in the flooded caves below it, but these function as two halves of a single city and share their government and most of their population.

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* LandOfOneCity: While Equestria is depicted as a fairly large country containing multiple distinct cities, all other species live within isolated self-governing settlements. The changelings changelings, kirin and yaks are the most straightforward examples, being single large settlements with its own rulership, with the caveat that the former live in a giant hive and the latter in two are just a village; villages; the Crystal Empire is that in name only, as it otherwise conists of a single city in the middle of a frozen waste; the griffons lack a formal government, but most live in the run-down city of Griffonstone; and the hippogriffs/seaponies technicaly have two cities, Mount Aris and the UnderwaterCity of Seaquestria in the flooded caves below it, but these function as two halves of a single city and share their government and most of their population.
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* LandOfOneCity: While Equestria is depicted as a fairly large country containing multiple distinct cities, all other species live within isolated self-governing settlements. The changelings and yaks are the most straightforward examples, being single large settlements with its own rulership, with the caveat that the former live in a giant hive and the latter in just a village; the griffons lack a formal government, but most live in the run-down city of Griffonstone; and the hippogriffs/seaponies technicaly have two cities, Mount Aris and the Underwater City of Seaquestria in the flooded caves below it, but these function as two halves of a single city and share their government and most of their population.

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* LandOfOneCity: While Equestria is depicted as a fairly large country containing multiple distinct cities, all other species live within isolated self-governing settlements. The changelings and yaks are the most straightforward examples, being single large settlements with its own rulership, with the caveat that the former live in a giant hive and the latter in just a village; the Crystal Empire is that in name only, as it otherwise conists of a single city in the middle of a frozen waste; the griffons lack a formal government, but most live in the run-down city of Griffonstone; and the hippogriffs/seaponies technicaly have two cities, Mount Aris and the Underwater City UnderwaterCity of Seaquestria in the flooded caves below it, but these function as two halves of a single city and share their government and most of their population. population.
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* LandOfOneCity: While Equestria is depicted as a fairly large country containing multiple distinct cities, all other species live within isolated self-governing settlements. The changelings and yaks are the most straightforward examples, being single large settlements with its own rulership, with the caveat that the former live in a giant hive and the latter in just a village; the griffons lack a formal government, but most live in the run-down city of Griffonstone; and the hippogriffs/seaponies technicaly have two cities, Mount Aris and the Underwater City of Seaquestria in the flooded caves below it, but these function as two halves of a single city and share their government and most of their population.
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* PeekABangs: The bully boys at [[FloatingContinent Cloudsdale]] to some degree, and young Fluttershy to the max. Even grown-up Fluttershy still does it from time to time when she is especially shy.
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* PottyEmergency: There's a sequence in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E14TheLastRoundup The Last Roundup]]" where Pinkie has to [[AWorldwidePunomenon pee like a racehorse]].

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* PottyEmergency: There's a sequence in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E14TheLastRoundup The Last Roundup]]" where Pinkie has to [[AWorldwidePunomenon pee like a racehorse]].racehorse.
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* MassiveMultiplayerScam: In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E16TwentyEightPranksLater "28 Pranks Later"]], Pinkie Pie gets the whole town to help her pull a huge prank on Rainbow Dash by making her believe that they all became zombies from the joke cookies she gave out.
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* PainfulPersona: Princess Celestia, the [[GodEmperor God Empress]] of Ponyville, is revealed to be one of these in later seasons. As the BigGood of her world and a symbol of hope, she ''constantly'' feels pressure to be polite, diplomatic, and kind to everyone she meets, to the point where a single moment without smiling can lead to serious repercussions. The episode [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E10ARoyalProblem "A Royal Problem"]] explores the trope in depth when Celestia and her sister Luna, the Princess of the Night, [[InAnotherMansShoes swap places]] for one day; Luna learns all about Celestia's burdens and how perpetually frustrated she feels--especially at not being able to express those frustrations to anyone. Add in the fact that Celestia is also compelled to be WillfullyWeak because she's terrified of the depths of her own strength and you have one miserable pony.
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** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero Lesson Zero]]", when Pinkie's rolling with laughter at Twilight's {{Super OCD}}, she's outside the quilt and in front of Twi. When Twilight turns around to talk to Applejack, Pinkie has somehow moved behind AJ and the rest of the Mane Cast, near the opposite edge of the quilt. Not that this is in any way unusual for her...

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** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero Lesson Zero]]", when Pinkie's rolling with laughter at Twilight's {{Super OCD}}, ObsessivelyOrganized tendencies, she's outside the quilt and in front of Twi. When Twilight turns around to talk to Applejack, Pinkie has somehow moved behind AJ and the rest of the Mane Cast, near the opposite edge of the quilt. Not that this is in any way unusual for her...
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** Twilight Sparkle has NoSocialSkills, is [[AgentScully extremely logical]], and has [[SuperOCD an obsession]] [[ControlFreak with control]]; so much so that any chaotic situation is almost guaranteed to give her a HeroicBSOD. But even so, she is a highly intelligent and kind natured character that nearly always puts her focus on good intentions, making her an efficient leader.

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** Twilight Sparkle has NoSocialSkills, is [[AgentScully extremely logical]], and has [[SuperOCD an obsession]] obsession [[ControlFreak with control]]; so much so that any chaotic situation is almost guaranteed to give her a HeroicBSOD. But even so, she is a highly intelligent and kind natured character that nearly always puts her focus on good intentions, making her an efficient leader.

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