History Fanfic / AHairyProblem

** MenstrualMenace: Later in the story [[spoiler: Applejack actually has to go though "the joys of marehood"]] and [[spoiler: her werewolf pheromones end up causing every dog in town to chase her]].

* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:Queen Faust]]
* AwesomePersonnelCarrier: subverted with the CMC's "car" which is anything but awesome and causes the events of the fic to occur through its crash.

** Possibly something similar to organ donations? Or what happens to the bodies of executed criminals?

* EatsBabies: At one point, Applejack momentarily thinks that eating the Cake Twins; Pound Cake and Pumpkin Cake, would make for a great dessert. She then snaps back to reality and orders a chocolate cake to avoid an awkward moment.
** She has a similar moment when sneaking around the Cutie Mark Crusaders as a wolf to avoid detection so she can change back into her pony form. She even imagines Scootaloo as a chicken once.

* [[spoiler: GenerationXerox: Applejack looks strikingly similar to Fair Vista, [[BigBad Stable Loam]]'s mate, because she is a direct descendant. This is also why Applejack didn't become a mindless wolf: Fair Vista's genes were immune to the lobotomy that the lycanthropy usually causes, and Apple inherited that from her.]]

* {{Homage}}: The setting of the last scene in chapter 4 is a reference to Ride/TheTwilightZoneTowerOfTerror ride at Disney parks.
* MyParentsAreDead: Generally, it's accepted in the fandom that the Apple Family parents died years ago, but here the cause of their deaths are attributed to [[spoiler: a werewolf attack]]
** In Chapter 17, it's revealed that [[spoiler: the parents were attacked by a werewolf Celestia thinks was Sable Loam, but they survived and are said to have become werewolves themselves. Somehow this ties into the mysterious circumstances of how they simply went into the woods one winter night and were found the next morning having apparently died in a fight with something.]]

* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: [[spoiler:In order for Applejack to break the werewolf curse on herself, she has to kill Sable Loam. In the end, she gladly does so.]]
** [[spoiler:Subverted: As revealed in the sequel, killing Sable Loam only put her lycanthropy in regression, which was re-activated when touched by dark magic.]]
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: the werewolf in this case is a pony/wolf rather than the usual full-wolf.
* PainfulTransformation: [[spoiler: Applejack's first change into her wolf-like form.]] [[spoiler: As well as Apple Bloom's in the sequel.]]
* PredatoryBusiness: Subverted. Rich's Barnyard Bargains would appear to be this, but its owner Filthy Rich is described as not wanting to drive every small business in town into bankruptcy. Rich's main competition; Stallmart, on the other hand...

** A new pony in town, Sandalwood, is a deliberate AlternateUniverse version of DJ Martinez from ''Fanfic/AllAmericanGirl''.
*** This makes the AffectionateParody reference of [[spoiler: Rarity and Sandalwood getting along "fabulously"]] even more wrong in context.
*** Other characters from this story also get mentioned when their names show up in minor places (I.E. in a hotel guestbook).

** The latest book in the Daring Do novel series is ''Daring Do and the [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater Philosopher's Legacy]]''
** The three main characters of ''Fanfic/TheGoldenArmor'' make a brief appearance in a restaurant setting, and later end up [[spoiler: saving Applejack from making a bad situation worse]] where one of the trio is thanked by name.
** One of the new restaurants in Ponyville is called [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim The Bannered Mare]]
** Iron Will's "hunting" gear bears more than a passing resemblance to [[VideoGame/SplinterCell Sam Fisher's usual look]]
** Pinkie once mentions getting rid of timberwolves by [[LetsPlay/{{Boatmurdered}} pulling a lever and flooding the area with lava, then wondering if that only works on elephants]]. Twilight yells at Pinkie, asking of she looks like a VideoGame/{{dwarf|Fortress}}.
** The narrator on Fluttershy's documentary on trees keeps repeating [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus "the Larch".]]

* TheQuietOne: Somewhat subverted with Big Mac. While in some cases he's just as quiet as he is in the show, at other times he's saying more words in one sitting than the combined total of every line he's ever said in the show thus far.
* WhatHaveIBecome: The reaction some of the original werewolves have when the full repercussions of their condition become apparent.

* {{Homage}}: The setting of the last scene in chapter 4 is a reference to the "Series/TwilightZone: Tower of Terror" ride at Disney parks.

* PainfulTransformation: [[spoiler: Applejack's first change into her wolf-like form. As well as Apple Bloom's in the sequel.]]

** Pinkie once mentions getting rid of timberwolves by [[LetsPlay/{{Boatmurdered}} pulling a lever and flooding the area with lava, then wondering if that only works on elephants]]. Twilight yells at Pinkie, asking of she looks like a {{dwarf|Fortress}}.

** MenstrualMenace: Later in the story [[spoiler: Applejack actually has to go though "the joys of marehood"]] and [[spoiler: her werewolf hormones end up causing every dog in town to chase her]].

** Pinkie once mentions getting rid of timberwolves by [[LetsPlay/{{Boatmurdered}} pulling a lever and flooding the area with lava]], then wondering if that only works on elephants. Twilight yells at Pinkie, asking of she looks like a {{dwarf|Fortress}}.

* EverythingsWorseWithWolves: And you thought ''timber wolves'' were bad....

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** [[spoiler:Apple Bloom goes through the same transformation in the sequel, this time the perspective is from her friends.]]

** [[spoiler:Raspberry Beryl is a direct descendent of [[BigBad King Sombra]], down to using dark magic.]]

** [[spoiler:Subverted: Killing Sable Loam seems to have only put her lycanthropy in regression, which was re-activated when touched by dark magic.]]

The story now has a sequel: ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/124884/a-hairier-problem-rise-of-the-furball A Hairier Problem: Rise of the Furball]]''.

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Fair Vista in the sequel.]]

* BringMyBrownPants: When [[spoiler: Raspberry Beryl]] freezes everyone, it mentions that Prince Blueblood has a look of someone who has urine backed up. When [[spoiler:she]] blasts him and breaks the paralysis spell, he did indeed, uh, relieve himself.

** Apple Bloom goes through the same transformation in the sequel, this time the perspective is from her friends.

!This fanfic and it's sequel contains examples of:

!This fanfic contains examples of:

* PainfulTransformation: [[spoiler: Applejack's first change into her wolf-like form.]]