History FanFic / EquestriaAHistoryRevealed

* UsefulNotes/ExtendedAnalogy: Loose Change uses this all the time to explain her theories, tying together two unrelated things and using it as proof of their relation to each other.

->"With the help of secret sources and Larry who lives in a box behind the donut shop, I have pieced together a history that no pony had dared to even think of."

* ExtendedAnalogy: Loose Change uses this all the time to explain her theories, tying together two unrelated things and using it as proof of their relation to each other.

** Of course, in actuality, if the references are to be taken at face-value, the Celestia propaganda was absurd within itself, with praise such as [[ShoutOut "Celestia is love, Celestia is life."]]

* BrickJoke: Certain jokes make a come back eventually as the essay goes on.

-->Not to be confused with FanFic/ABriefHistoryOfEquestria

** Of course, in actuality, if the references are to be taken at face-value, the Celestia propaganda was absurd within itself, with praise such as "Celestia is love, Celestia is life."

** It becomes a problem when Loose Change seems to ignore most legitimate historical sources in favor of the words of her friend [[and crush]].

* LovePotion: According to Loose Change, this was used by [[spoiler:Discord en masse to cause the downfall of the Equinus Republic, cumulating in a giant orgy from the ponies in parliament. It is meant to be taken as {{Squick}} and with as much questionable validity as it sounds.]]

* SidetrackedByTheAnalogy: Happens multiple times in the story.

* SmallNameBigEgo: Loose Change sees herself as a better historian than any other pony, despite still being a student at the University of Canterlot. Although apparently she sold some of her previous essays as books, but [[spoiler: they're obviously not doing to well, given Loose Change has to blatantly advertise them in-essay.]]

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Invoked by Loose Change when she states her biography of King Sombra was not at all copied off from Ponipedia.

* [[invoked]] TheyJustDidntCare: Loose Change has a very lax approach to essay writing, getting drunk towards the end of Chapter 3, not wanting to write any more praise for Princess Celestia, and instead, inserting her self-authored haikus in their place, and literally admitting to lying to her professor and cursing him in-text (while he is supposedly marking it).
* TimeTravelTenseTrouble: Due to Loose Change's take on time travel, and method for dealing with the Starswirl inconsistency, this tends to happen a bit in Chapter 4.
* TheMockbuster: Talonzania's sources seem to be guilty of this.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: Subverted. Loose Change doesn't believe this at all, and actually takes the real world's message of the show as a part of Celestia's "pro-friendship agenda". This is problematic as most of the major conflicts in the show are solved by friendship. But she finds another way to [[InsaneTrollLogic interpret this instead]].
* TheRemake: Loose Change calls Equestria under Celestia a remake, and goes into a reviewer style rant as a result of getting her [[SidetrackedByTheAnalogy analogies mixed up]].

* TooDumbToFool: Used to explain how the Earth Ponies didn't fall for Celestia's lies like the pegasi, because they were mostly amazed by the fact they had working outhouses. Subverted in the sense that the narrator plays it up as a sign of their superiority.
** Loose Change seems to think she subverts this trope by seeing the clues of conspiracy that she thinks Celestia hides in history. But most of the time she's just [[InsaneTrollLogic overanalyzing]].
* UnreliableNarrator: Loose Change is without a doubt, one of the most unreliable narrators to ever be featured in a fanfiction. Her tendency to present her conspiracies as fact is both disorienting and highly amusing as well.
** It is possible to get a glimpse of actual Equestrian history through her eyes, wading through the enormous fallacies and insane overanalysis she makes.
* ViewersAreMorons: She certainly believes the readers are morons, and that it is her duty by writing this essay to "enlighten them". She also directly calls them stupid a couple of times in the essay too.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Discord is an example of such, at least according to Loose Change. Whether he actually can be seen as one is [[UnreliableNarrator up to debate]].

* [[invoked]] WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs?: Subverted. Though many of Loose Change's observations seem to be so farfetched that drugs must have been a factor, other than the few chapters where she does get drunk, her conclusions are usually the product of her own mind.
** [[spoiler: Actually, it is revealed much later on that she borrows some of Crazy Larry's pills. She thinks they're pills to make you smarter though.]]

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Apparently Celestia had this up the wazoo during the Classical period. There was so much universal praise for her that it caused Loose Change to replace sections of her essay with her haikus, just because she had enough of referencing the pro-Celestia sources.

* ItMakesSenseInContext: [[spoiler: The Equinus Republic fell due to the ponies of government having a great big orgy.]] [[TropeNamer It makes sense in context.]]
** Most of the conclusions reached by Loose Change, without context, are extremely absurd. Of course, with her jumps in logic and insane overanalysis, even with context, it doesn't help matters too much.
* JustIgnoreIt: Sometimes the narrator tends to ignore blatant facts when they don't support her point. At her worst she references it, and crosses out the offending text with a strikethrough.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Loose Change considers herself a mecca of academic knowledge when in actuality, most of her knowledge comes from a crazed hobo and her conspiracy rattled mind.

** [[spoiler: Partially subverted in that as is seen by the text, in history and in biology, it seems as though Earth Ponies are actually slightly inferior. But it's not like data ever stopped Loose Change's logic before.]]

* MixedMetaphor: Loose Change directly [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the fact that she mixed up one of her metaphors. Not that she cares too much mind you.
* {{Narcissist}}: Perceives herself to be the best historical essay writer alive. Loose Change is very self-centered and seems to care mostly about herself.
* NoTrueScotsman: The narrator thinks she is the only legitimate historical essay writer, and dismisses all of the works of real pony historians as false. She even calls herself the sole true historian in Equestria at one point.

* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: Played straight in the essay's abstract and several times throughout the essay. Though given the essay is about conspiracy theories, it is somewhat justified. Subverted later on in the author reveals [[spoiler:she's been making up most of her essay as she goes along]]. It's okay though, [[FalseReassurance she crossed it out.]]
* OutWithABang: Literally, in regards to the [[spoiler: mass orgy that caused the downfall of the Equinus Republic]]. The author even makes a pun about it.
* PlayedForLaughs: Most of Loose Change's logic and pride are played for laughs. However, as the story continues, it seems as though even certain elements of Equestrian history are naturally funny, and as such, invoke this trope too.
* ProductPlacement: In a Stealth Pun as stealthy as getting hit by a truck, Loose Change invokes this trope with the word "Hot Topic", which is of course followed by a tiny "Buy MLP Shirts Today!" Directly referenced in the bibliography as [[spoiler:a message paid by the Hot Topic corporation.]]

* RevengeFic: Even through all of Loose Change's blatant hate and bias against Celestia and her regime, what is presented clearly demonstrates that Celestia was more than competent in ruling the nation than Loose Change would have you believe. It gets to the point where it seems that some chapters and facts were simply written to get some comeuppance against Celestia, even though it never works.

* SecretPolice: Loose Change fears the dreaded Fallacy Police. Apparently they're watching her, waiting for her to slip up. Good thing for her, Loose Change reasons that [[spoiler: she's [[BlatantLies had no faults in logic in her essay so far]] so she should be fine.]]
** In-universe, Celestia's original secret police were used to silence possible dissent. For some reason, they were named the Celestia Watermelon Friendship Surprise. Of course, this title alone casts doubt into its validity.

* SexSells: With regards to the [[spoiler: fall of the Equinus Republic]], Loose Change's reasoning behind why Celestia had to keep such an event quiet was that if [[spoiler: ponies realized that democracy led to sexy orgies, that would totally support it, or at least pay bits for it.]]

* [[invoked]]EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: Everything is a symbol. Even certain word choice from ancient sources.

** The narrator of course, is a great example of FantasticRacism, and goes as far to put down the other races while raising Earth ponies up on a pedestal whenever possible.
*** She also seems to have an irrational hatred of immigrants and griffins.

* HitlerAteSugar: Invoked in a way. Loose Change reasons that the act of baking a cake cannot be explained. [[spoiler: She also reasons that dark magic cannot be explained. Therefore, cake must be a representation of dark magic.]]

* {{Infodump}}: As a historical academic episode, this is prone to occur. Of course, given Loose Change's strange ways of thinking, the accuracy of this infodump is very sketchy.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Loose Change has this in spades. Often used throughout the text to explain what logically should not make sense.

* [[CrazyHomelessPeople Crazy Homeless Horse]]: Crazy Larry. It's even in his name.
* [[invoked]] CriticalResearchFailure: Loose Change fulfills this trope in spades. The few times she does do any research, she blatantly ignores what is stated in favour of her own opinions, going as far as to cross out sections of quotes that [[BiasSteamroller don't agree with her view]].

* [[invoked]]EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: Everything is a symbol. Even certain word choice from ancient sources. She spent three paragraphs analyzing the meaning behind the inclusion of the word hellfire before concluding that [[spoiler: it meant an evil fire.]]

* FridgeBrilliance: Occurs occasionally by the real-life author, who inserts jokes that can be easily missed on a first skim through.
--> "[Discord] tackled the economic problems of the nation by switching the national currency from bank notes to pure air. Under his regime, Equestria had literally never been richer. Of course, while this most likely led to mild inflation, such a thing would be [[StealthPun expected from air]]."

* BlatantLies: Used numerous times in her essay, from purposefully misciting sources, to her ridiculously implausible theories[[spoiler: which at one point, she does admit that she was making stuff up as she goes along. She unfortunately doesn't see the problem in this.]]

* CaptainObvious: Many obvious things are sometime restated in-text or even in the bibliography.
* ChewbaccaDefense: Used very often early on, especially in Chapter 4, in which the narrator attempts to confuse you so much with similar terms and insane logic that the reader just has the accept the confusion and move on, despite it not making a lick of sense.
* CircularReasoning: Direcly [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Loose Change in which, after using circular reasoning to get out of a logical inconsistency, she states that ignoring that, she reached a new shape of thought, one without a point.
** It gets lampshaded even further when she says to make a 360° back to the original point of the paragraph.

* AliensAreBastards: Apparently, aliens were behind the [[spoiler:creation of Discord. According to Loose Change, aliens are very kinky.]]

* AnalogyBackfire: Happens at least once every few chapters, where the narrator gets SidetrackedByTheAnalogy.
* AncientConspiracy: In the very first chapter, Loose Change says the entirety of the Equestrian conspiracy stretches to Pre-Equestrian times to the present day.

** Most of Loose Change's theories seem to fit into this, only occasionally having evidence [[spoiler:often as a result of overanalyzing or her jumping to conclusions]] to justify her claims. Directly [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] when Loose Changer herself states an explanation she provided seemed rather [[AssPull asspullish]]. She doesn't fix it though.

* BenevolentConspiracy: Loose Change's insane conspiracy ramblings aside, it is hinted that she discovers some inkling of truth behind the truth of the regime and alicornification in Chapters 11 and 12. However, the subtext behind the conspiracy clearly implies its purpose was for the greater good of Equestria.

* BlackAndGrayMorality: The Equinus Republic is a clear example of this, choosing to [[spoiler: send their vocal critics to Tartarus, ignore the increasing monster raids, and reject the pleas of the starving population to instead focus on their upcoming Equestrian Games.]]
** Loose Change is just as equally guilty of this, as she seems to agree with the Equinus Republic's logic most of the time.
** For some reason, the Republic [[spoiler:abolished penalties for homicidal evisceration, taking only 10 minutes to reach that conclusion.]] Why they decided to do this, it's never revealed.

* FunWithAcronyms: The real-life author tends to do this sometimes. Not all of them seem to have meanings, such as the Celestia WaterMelon Friendship Surprise, but others, such as the United Royal Indomitable National Equestrian forces have obviously been carefully crafted together.

** In-universe, Celestia's original secret police were used to silence possible dissent. For some reason, they were named the "Celestia WaterMelon Friendship Surprise". Of course, this title alone casts doubt into its validity.

* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: Everything is a symbol. Even certain word choice from ancient sources. She spent three paragraphs analyzing the meaning behind the inclusion of the word hellfire before concluding that [[spoiler: it meant an evil fire.]]

* RuleOfSymbolism: Everything is a symbol. Even certain word choice from ancient sources. She spent three paragraphs analyzing the meaning behind the inclusion of the word hellfire before concluding that [[spoiler: it meant an evil fire.]]
** The fact that she can find and actively searches for meaning behind everything ties in with her Conspiracy Theorist nature. It also makes for a very entertaining essay.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Loose Change's conclusions often possess this heavily in subtext. It's really got to be seen to be believed.

* SecretPolice: Loose Change fears the dreaded Fallacy Police. Apparently they're watching her, waiting for her to slip up. Good thing for her, Loose Change reasons that [[spoiler: she's [[BlatantLies had no faults in logic in her essay so far]] so she should be fine.

* SexSells: With regards to the [[spoiler: fall of the Equinus Republic]], Loose Change's reasoning behind why Celestia had to keep such an event quiet was that if [[spoilers: ponies realized that democracy led to sexy orgies, that would totally support it, or at least pay bits for it.]]

* ItMakesSenseInContext: [[spoiler: The Equinus Republic fell due to the ponies of government having a great big orgy. [[TropeNamer It makes sense in context.]]

* ThePowerofFriendship: Subverted. Loose Change doesn't believe this at all, and actually takes the real world's message of the show as a part of Celestia's "pro-friendship agenda". This is problematic as most of the major conflicts in the show are solved by friendship. But she finds another way to [[InsaneTrollLogic interpret this instead]].

* [[TheManBehindTheMan The Horse Behind the Horse]]:

* TalkativeLoon:
* TemporalParadox:
* TheConspiracy:

* TooCleverByHalf:

* [[invoked]] WhatDoYouMeanItsNotDidactic?:

* WhoWouldWantToWatchUs: