History Fanfic / ADream

** '''P''onyville '''I'''ndustrial '''N'''uclear '''P'''owerplant. Paid for using the '''B'''ig '''B'''ag '''O''' '''B'''ribe '''B'''its.

** '''L'''ightweight '''I'''nterceptor for '''b'''adass '''b'''ombing.

* NewsParadoy: Cordoba's roadtrip/rampage across Earth and her encounters with various celebrities are covered by TMZ.

* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: Because the current candidate is a red white and blue alicorn with an American-sized manhood and is trying to get elected President in a monarchy. [[spoiler: And when faced with the threat of President Valiant, Celestia closed the loophole allowing ponies to run for the position in the first place]]

* ScareEmStraight: When the CMC decided to be missionaries the first words of their first sermon were, "You're all going to Hell unless you do exactly what we say!" Honestly though, that was the only logical part of the sermon anyway.

* NoodleIncident: We never see exactly what happened in this story's version of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'', but it left Sunset Shimmer [[BrokenBird broken]] for half of season 4.

* TorchesAndPitchforks: Subverted, the played straight. At first, the mob coming after Maud is just a regular angry one. It's only after the group hides at Rarity's house that they start lighting torches.

** Tin Mare's helicopter form continues this tradition of surviving everything quite well.

* WierdnessCensor: None of the residents of the royal palace[[note]] not even Luna[[/note]] questioned it when Celestia randomly left and put Sunset in charge of the government. Even when Sunset left and put Maud in charge, no one noticed. According to Valiant, this is because they would rather believe that Celestia changed her appearance for no reason than believe she left and now someone else is running the government.

* EvenEvilHasStandards. When Trixie, Sunset, Cordoba, and Daring are [[ItMakesSenseInContext surrounded by]] HarryPotter [[ItMakesSenseInContext cosplayers]], Trixie suggests shooting their way out. Cordoba points out that mass-murder of a bunch of unarmed kids would just make them seem like assholes. Instead they trash and loot the place!

** Colombia was perfectly happy to fulfill her role of starting a presidential debate for Valiant, then blowing her brains out when her task was accomplished. Like above, this is because she was programmed to be happy with this state of affairs.

** There was also the time during Keep Calm and Flutter On that multiple characters commented on Valiant's [[UnstoppableRage homicidal rage]] against Discord using the recorder the entire story is apparently told through.

* {{Malaproper}}: Ponies don't always get human expressions quite right.
-->We're going to drink fire and spit moonshine.\\
Opinions are like assholes, everyone is one

* ComedicSociopathy: Thanks to Valiant's actions, the entire world runs on this at this point. In the side story More Dreams there was a character named Lieutenant Dandy Sprite, who got run over by a tank, had all her legs amputated, just for a ForrestGump reference.

* OverlyPreparedGag: Refer to the ForrestGump joke in the ComedicSociopathy entry. There was around three months of setup for that. Also the hella-copter pun below, which was being set up [[UpToEleven nearly half a year]]. Totallynotabrony loves the LongGame.

* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Sir Win is a demon who seems more interested in running his store than normal [[BuffySpeak demon things]]. Though he does have a strong dislike for Bible, a pony literally made from [[TheBible the good book itself.]]

** Someone seems to be trying to turn Coloratura into a cyborg in her sleep.

* KangarooCourt: Maud's "trial" for murder. The entire trial consists of the group running to the town hall to escape an angry mob[[note]]
Who are also after Maud for murder[[/note]], and Maud immediately being found guilty.

* HidingBehindReligion: The Crusaders launched a literal crusade after finding a Bible in a cave. Turns out there are quite a few Ponyville residents willing to kill, maim, and [[SuicideAttack blow themselves up]]. The Crusaders just seemed to give them the perfect excuse.

''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/13723/a-dream A Dream]]'' is a former self insert turned crackfic Human in Equestria story written by [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial totallynotabrony]]. The story chronicles the adventures of human turned earth pony Plymouth Valiant, a [[PatrioticFervor patriotic]], [[TheEngineer robot building]], [[TheAlcoholic tequila growing]], sociopath. The story is taken on an episodic basis coinciding with episodes of ''WesternAnimation//MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', with Valiant's effects on the plot steadily increasing over the seasons. While in the earliest chapters the changes where minimal, just a few snarky comments here and there, things slowly escalated to the events of "Magical Mystery Cure" and beyond, where now some episodes only have a single reference to the original plot.

''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/13723/a-dream A Dream]]'' is a former self insert turned crackfic Human in Equestria story written by [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial totallynotabrony]]. The story chronicles the adventures of human turned earth pony Plymouth Valiant, a [[PatrioticFervor patriotic]], [[TheEngineer robot building]], [[TheAlcoholic tequila growing]], sociopath. The story is taken on an episodic basis coinciding with episodes of MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic, with Valiant's effects on the plot steadily increasing over the seasons. While in the earliest chapters the changes where minimal, just a few snarky comments here and there, things slowly escalated to the events of Magical Mystery Cure and beyond, where now some episodes only have a single reference to the original plot.

* TheEngineer: Valiant, even going to [[ShoutOut borrow]] a speech from [[Teamfortress2 THE]] Engineer.