History Fanfic / PinkiePiesFourthWallVarietyShow

* TookALevelInBadass: Pretty much every character to appear takes a few levels in the Special, but [[BadassNormal Coffee Swirl]] takes the cake. He starts by blasting ghosts with a salt-loaded blunderbuss (that he stole from an undead pirate), and ends with being the only vanilla mortal to fight against [[{{Satan}}Morning Star]]. And he actually fought the latter one-on-one for a short time.

* DoNotTauntCthulhu: The CMC end up taunting [[{{Satan}} Morning Star]], resulting in him sending them to a BadFuture of ''Fanfic/MyLittleBalladeer'' were [[BigBad Thorn won.]]

* SummonBiggerFish: Sweetie Belle ends up summoning [[ClockRoaches the Blank Wolf]] to take out [[Fanfic/MyLittleBalladeer Thorn]].

* DoNotTauntCthulhu: The CMC end up taunting [[{{Satan}} Morning Star]], resulting in him sending them to a BadFuture of ''Fanfic/MyLittleBalladeer'' were [[BigBad Thorn won.]] However, the Crusaders manage to win and [[VillainousBreakdown Morning Star doesn't take it well.]]

* WalkingArsenal: Ispita, who more or less brings her entire shop's worth of cursed objects to bare during her fight.

** Also from the Special: a shrunken [[CatPeople Katrina]] begging the monsterfied CMCs not to eat her. Later, she begs Twilight not to give her to the fillies.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Pony POV Chrysalis]], [[CompleteMonster of all ponies]], gets this [[http://alexwarlorn.deviantart.com/art/Pinkie-Pie-4th-Wall-Break-VarietyShow-Special-Prt4-470794025 in the chapter]] where the Hordes of Tartarus invade Ponyville. [[TakingYouWithMe She destroys herself in an attempt at destroying]] [[{{Satan}} Morning Star]] and saving her former 'friend' [[MoralityPet Sweetie Belle]] from him. It only half works [[spoiler:by saving Sweetie]].

10. [[http://alexwarlorn.deviantart.com/art/Pinkie-Pie-s-4th-Wall-Breaking-Variety-Show-epi-10-484083868 Pinkie Pie's 4th Wall Breaking Variety Show Episode 10]]: The most recent chapter. It starts with Pinkie wanting to throw a party for Maud. But then a small army of [[MarySue Sues]] show up. Gilda returns, several of the ponies end up inside pony-suits and are nearly consumed by them, a rogue draconequs shows up along with her army of contract-slaves, we get a look into a world where Shining Armor became the Element of Loyalty after Rainbow Dash ad Gilda were turned into the Spa Ponies, [[UpToEleven and it all just snowballs from there]]. Even Pinkie Pie seems to be getting tired of it all.

* Badass Boast: 2 in particular are notable, episode 10.

And a more heroic one from Rarity.

* GenderBender: When the hordes of Tartarus attack Ponyville, the witch Hydia turns Shining Armor into a mare. In the next story, first Shiny and then Big Mac end up inside the Rarity-costume from episode 1.

* [[JerkassGods Jerkass Shadows-who-Make]]: Definitely Twilight Sparkle's attitude towards certain writers for the series. Only Nightmare Eclipse was ever able to act on that anger, however.

* AntagonistInMourning: PlayedForLaughs near the end of Special, with Applebloom lamenting that Katrina had been sent back to Tartarus, even saying she'll miss "that tiny cat-lady". Note that Katrina had (accidentally) cause the Crusaders to change into monsters, and that the CMC later caught a ''shrunken'' Katrina, who thought they wanted to ''eat her''.

* EpicFail: In the Special, Shining Armor gets a special gun from Pandora and fires a bunch of blasts at a nearby villain... only for every shot to miss despite the villain in question literally being right in front of him.

* AssKicksYou: Referenced a few times in Special: first when a dragon-ized Fluttercruel/shy considers sitting on a defeated Reeka as a CoupDeGrace (who herself had been turned into a dragon, reverting to human form by the end of their fight); then by Twilight, mentally snarking that if in regards to some villains Trixie shrank and captured try to escape, she'll sit on them. Neither actually ''does'' this, though.

* AssKicksYou: Referenced a few times in Special: first by a dragon-ized Fluttercruel/shy as a CoupDeGrace for a defeated Reeka (who herself had been turned into a dragon, reverting to human form by the end of their fight); then by Twilight in regards to some shrunken villains Trixie captures if they try to escape. Neither actually ''does'' this, though.

* ButtMonkey: [[CatPerson Katrina]] in Special. Before by the story's end, she's been chased around by the monsterfied CMC, shrunken to the size of a mouse by her own spell, almost eaten by Opalesence, ''captured'' by the Monster!CMCs as she begged not to be eaten, stepped on by Draggle, chased around AGAIN by a reformed Crunch, AND kept in a jar and used as a prop/sideshow by an Alicornifed Trixie. And all of this happens BEFORE she gets sent back to Tartarus!

** [[spoiler:Lady Babylon/Ispita begs Maud not to hold her to be hit by the reality rewrite Red Gala and Big Mac existing at the same time caused, which would make that version of her a seperate entity altogether.]]

** The What-If Machine is itself a ShoutOut, originating from ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}.''

* VillainsWantMercy: Happens to [[{{Satan}} Morning Star]] in the Variety Show Special. After being beaten by his sisters Luna and Celestia (and about half the cast) he begs them [[SealedEvilInACan not to send him back to Havoc]]. When they seem to consider, [[ISurrenderSuckers he tries to kill them both]] -- only to be stopped and slain by [[CanisMajor Applewolf]].

* [[OneManArmy One Alicorn Army]]: [[{{Satan}} Morning Star]] takes on both his sisters and three(!) [[ScaledUp turned into dragons]] ponies AND [[OurDragonsAreDifferent greed-growth Spike]] [[UpToEleven and]] [[BadassNormal Coffee Swirl]] and [[CanisMajor Applewolf]] [[BeyondTheImpossible all at once]]. And for most of the fight he's winning.

* AttractiveBentGender: Happens to both Shining Armor and Big Mac in episode 10, with both ending up looking like Rarity, and poor Shiny getting turned into [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Nightmare Rarity] to boot. Counting all his appearances, Shining Armor's [[RunningGag spent more time as a mare than a stallion]] in this show!

* EvilMakesYouUgly: Happens to [[spoiler:Queen Chrysalis]] after she [[LikeABadassOutOfHell escapes Tartarus]] in the Variety Show Special. She tries shapeshifting and finds to her disgust that she can only take on hideous and twisted forms. Even her [[OneWingedAngel original form]] looks horrific.