Discussion Fanfic / MyLittleUnicorn

Perhaps the article's name should be changed from "My Little Unicorn" to "My Brave Pony: Starfleet Magic". The former was used only for the first iteration of the first "season" after all. May I get some thoughts on this please?

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• Moral Myopia: The summary of the whole "fanfic": if Starfleet does morally questionable acts, it's cheered upon and never acknowledged (except for Ace Ray and Brass Bolt), if Titan or the others does morally questionable acts, they deem them immediately evil.

reading Moral Myopia, if the history not acknowledges the myopia, this is Protagonist Centered Morality but put this again is an edit war. Beyond this, this is not too specific( our own morality is"morally questionable" to thousands of other moralities)

I've been removing a bunch of stuff because it's clearly against the way the tropes are supposed to be used. I'll make a list here for reference.

Overall, I think the lesson is that if you start putting in examples only to complain how much it sucks, you end up with bad examples that are not actually examples. I've seen that several times. I may have been guilty of it in the past myself, even though I'm generally very good at avoiding Square Peg Round Trope. See also Complaining About Shows You Dont Like.

I may sound critical. Please don't take it personally. I just try to explain my case and get slightly irritated after going on for a while.

• Alternate Universe: Because the author hated FiM's universe too much to use anything from it. At least until it crosses over with the FiM universe about three-quarters through. They are even merged into one kingdom at the end. Also, Starfleet Humans takes place in the same alternate universe that Equestria Girls took place in.
  • Mykan has gone on record as saying that Season 4 of FiM onward is non-canon in the Starfleet universe. This is because he started the series after Season 2 and doesn't want to rewrite large parts of earlier stories to fit the more recent episodes.

The trope Alternate Universe is about the "mirror universe" or "travel to another dimension" kind of stuff that's on this page discussed under the entry for The Multiverse. The way it's used here seems to use it in a meta sense, like Alternative Continuity. I reworked the entry to be about Alternative Continuity, though that ended up being a bit messy because the lines between the same and alternative continuity seemed to become a bit fuzzy and I couldn't set it all straight based on just the information given here. I also changed this in the main description of the work.

• The Chosen Many: Lightning and Celesto are the only two alicorns that can use the Uniforce... besides Cerise, a one-shot character from My Brave Pony: Star Fleet Magic II. Oh, and Raven can do it too.

Trope: "A superpowered individual discovers an organization of similarly powered individuals." The example here says nothing about an organisation. This sounds more like complaining about the plot again.

• Completely Missing The Point:
  • The author thinks that friendship is magic in the sense that it is an actual force to fight, similar to a Kamehameha, instead of just a positive virtue.
    • In all honesty, that's not entirely wrong in the show of origin, as the Elements of Harmony can best be described as high-grade weaponized friendship. So yeah, friendship is magic and it can blast your face off.
    • The author also believes that if you use friendship, you are not allowed to throw a punch. That using friendship is the exact same thing as pacifism.
  • For being a revenge/hate fic, the sequel actually shows Twilight and her friends to be more competent in general than Lightning and Starfleet.

In-universe examples only. That's why it's called Comically Missing the Point now. Also, part was Conversation On The Main Page.

Under Disproportionate Retribution:

• The author wrote the entire fanfic, which insults bronies as being losers who dare to believe in positive things, because one single brony made fun of him.
  • He makes Cadance suffer just because he does not like the fact that, in the show, she got happily married.
    • Cadance gets more heat in Starfleet Magic IV over the wedding.

In-universe examples only for that trope.

• Department of Redundancy Department: A particularly infamous example is in the Ace Ray chapter of My Brave Pony: Star Fleet Magic III, where Penny states "I'm not just a doctor of medicine and psychology. I know a thing or two about science", not realizing that both medicine and psychology are sciences.

That's not saying the same thing repeatedly, it's a more complicated case of saying something new in a way that unknowingly overlaps with the old thing while still giving new information. A bit borderline maybe, but I don't see why a questionable example should be kept unless as an excuse to complain more.

• Moral Myopia: The summary of the whole "fanfic": if Starfleet does morally questionable acts, it's cheered upon and never acknowledged (except for Ace Ray), if Titan or the others does morally questionable acts, they deem them immediately evil.

Kept the text but put it under Protagonist-Centered Morality, because Moral Myopia implies the author is consciously showing them as hypocrites. See the very first sentence (besides the quote) on the Moral Myopia page.

• The Power of Hate: Pretty much what gave birth to this story. The author appears to be a big fan of it.

Seems to be talking about the author only, in which case it's not really an example but more hyperbole to complain with (and anyway Square Peg Round Trope because the hate doesn't seem to have given him any real strength as he just created something that sucked), and even if it is actually about the story, it's a Zero Context Example.

• Revenge Fic: As stated by the author:
  "I do not like FIM at all... in fact I hate it and wish it were never made... and it makes me angry with all its lies and falsehoods about friendship being magic and the true salvation. Not to mention all the horrid emotional pains it brings me. So…I create this to bash at it."

This describes Hate Fic — Revenge Fic being against some character, not work — so I removed this trope but moved the text under Hate Fic, which was already there with no details.

• The Smurfette Principle: Up To Eleven. According to Word of God, the population of Unicornicopia consists mostly of males. While the story has at least five female winged unicorns in it, only Starla (who is mostly there as the Love Interest) and Dementia have any form of slight significance to the overall plot.

Rather than being an extreme example of the principle (which is not what Up To Eleven means anyway, see below), the work does not go far enough to qualify. If you read, again, the very first sentence of the trope description, it says there must be exactly one female in the cast (or per group, it says later), so "there are at least five but only two count" doesn't count. Also, the description of the example seems to ignore the fact, stated elsewhere, that several female characters from MLP:FIM show up.

• Super Sentai: One of the main inspirations for the author. The unicorns fight their enemies like Power Rangers, minus the giant robots.

That doesn't make "Super Sentai" a trope appearing in this work, like putting it on the list implies. I even thought that maybe it was the name of a trope after all rather than a work, based on its being where it was and the description not actually contradicting that. But it links to a work.

Up To Eleven: Not used as a trope, but referred to both under In Name Only and The Smurfette Principle. I removed both references before realising The Smurfette Principle should be removed altogether. Up To Eleven was being used, as it often is, just to say "like, really totally much so," whereas it has an actual meaning that doesn't fit this at all. (I've contemplated proposing a TV Tropes trope called "Totally Extreme to the Max" to discuss how certain tropes like Up To Eleven and Beyond the Impossible attract that kind of use just by their names.)

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I'm not so sure about the "Hypocrite" entry...it goes a lot into the author's feelings/thoughts, not what goes on in the fanfic. Though I DO see that it has quite a bit of relevance to the fanfic itself (such as his motivation for writing it in the first place). Should it still be allowed?

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Hey. So, not entirely sure if this is relevant or not, but I checked the author's deviantart page with the links (How the hell is there four seasons and two movies, if I can be a little biased), and in the case of My Brave Unicorn 3, only the first four episodes are up there. I just want to make sure, is it just my computer that's not letting me see them?

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Mykan finally removed his "fanfics" in Deviant Art.

http://dakari-king-mykan.deviantart.com/

http://anti-spammer-theft.deviantart.com/

That's a good thing right?

If this truly Needs Wiki Magic Love then I shall brave the elements and weather the storm in order to add necessary things such as a character sheet and a list of tropes for the remake and sequel. Anypony looking to help?

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Are comments on the author allowed? Because this kinda reminds me of sonichu. The author is kinda like chris-chan, only less depraved and more deluded.

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Am I the only one who thinks this guy might just be trolling the audience

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Mykan is at it again. Story 3 is being made. [1]

Star Fleet Magic has been took down, then reuploaded. Fix the dead link

TK 22, thanks for restoring the page after the random troll attack. I appreciate it.

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