Shout Out / Progress

• "Luna vs. Baseball":
  • The scene where Grey Marex steps up to bat features a subtle reference to "Casey at the Bat"
  • When Applejack doesn't recognize her until after her glasses are broken, she asks, "How could you be fooled by a pair of glasses?"
  • Luna's "TO THE MOON" imagine spot is likely one to a certain fan video.
• Luna's speech when getting a room with Sundance in "Luna vs. Lodging 1" is extremely reminiscent of when The 11th Doctor was getting a flat in "The Lodger."
  • The scene at the Baseball game where she attempts to give a badass boast in response to a simple statement of team pride is also based on that same episode.
• One of the stallions Hoyden suggests as a possible boyfriend for Luna is named Thistle, is rather depressed, and lives in a tent made of sticks.
• In "Luna vs Ponyville, Part 1: Television", where the first show that Luna watches on Pinkie's television is a pony version of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, and after changing the channel and trying to find it, she apparently stumbles across a horror movie known as Cupcakes (Sergeant Sprinkles).
• In "Luna vs Ponyville, Part 2", Luna finds a copy of the pony equivalent of Twilight, which is apparently a good deal... racier.
• Also, "AHA! Gentlecolts! You will always remember this as the day you almost caught Captain Sethisto-!"
• Also Hoyden's cutie mark, which is a skull with a pair of crutches. His job is testing very dangerous safety equipment.
• Angel has read Luna's book.
• "Luna vs. Ponyville, Part 7":
  • Luna breaks up a fight between a giant ape and a T. Rex.
  • Luna's Badass Boast to said giant ape and T. Rex is similar to one done by the Eleventh Doctor in his first episode.
  • The Rex monster is a nod to Rex from the original My Little Pony cartoon's second TV special.
  • The Cutie Mark Crusaders crash to the rescue in a familiar pose.
• At the end of "Luna versus The Heat", Celestia does the infamous Horatio Caine Glasses Pull.
• Apparently, Priness Celestia mothered a whole group of famous horses, as she explains to Luna in "Luna Versus the Facts of Life." Where to begin? Let's see, Starchild, Shadowfax, Arion, Hengroen, Epona, Widow Maker...
• In "Luna vs. Storytelling", the old movie Sundance is watching is a pony version of It Happened One Night. There are also references made to Fallout: Equestria, Kamarena, and the Smooze.
• "Luna vs Ponyville 9" gets a massive one for Warhammer 40,000... by Pinkie Pie's parents, who bust out heavy weapons and shout about exterminating "xenos" in the name of God-Queen Celestia when they think their farm house is under attack by dragons. Apparently, it runs in the family.
• In "Ponies in Space 2", we meet pony versions of Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman. Also, Luna's description of the God-Alpha of the Diamond Dogs sounds a lot like Crunch the Rock Dog, and after Blueblood gets scared out of joining the program, Luna quotes Still Alive.
• "Ponies in Space 3":
  • Cheerilee's tour group gets caught in "Situation 18", a training scenario that involves the possibility of hostile, crab-like aliens on the moon.
  • Luna mentions her plan for a fusion-driven starship to deal with killer space monkeys and killer space tigers, the latter of which they'd teach a lesson with their fusion drives...
• "Luna vs. The Dreamlands 2" has a lot of shoutouts to Inception, primarily in the accelerated time the deeper you go into the Dreamlands and the abrupt transitions between dreams.
• In "Ponies in Space 4", Sundance brings up the possibility of teleporting rockets around the launch pad, and Luna replies that they're not going to try that "after what happened with the cat." Also, Rarity thinks painting Luna's design for a giant robot red will make it go three times faster.
• "Luna vs. Vigilantism":
  • The chapter opens with Luna reading a Batpony comic (which appears to be inspired by The Killing Joke).
  • Luna (as Mare-Do-Well) performs a dead ringer for the entrance of Darkwing Duck.
  • Luna's checklist contains elements from famous superheroes. Let's see, Love Interest as a reporter, with a bald archenemy, an origin story that is either vague or multiple choice, cool car and toys...
• "Well then! Someday, the citizens of this city will not have their toys delivered with their meals, and will instead look up to me with a cry of 'Help us!' and I shall reply, 'No! Petition the manager instead!'"
• And prior to that, when pondering things for Luna to do? Sundance suggests charity boxing. Maybe she's read (or, likely, hadn't read) 'Of Packages and Punches''.
• Even the Recursive Fanfiction does this!
  • All of the guards Celestia tries to hook up with Luna in "Luna vs. Threesomes" are named after male porn stars.
  • In the side story Celestia vs. Time, reference is made to Trope's Library of Literary Tools, and two guards discuss the likelihood of an alternate universe where everypony has their gender swapped male for female and visa-versa.

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