History Fanfic / TheNegotiationsVerse

** Implied in the ''Choice'' chapter "Indignation Part 2." While Professor Thalmann (who is German) spends most of his conversation with Celestia treating her with calm, icy scorn, he only loses his temper and punches the wall of her glass cell when he brings up that she ordered the destruction of Berlin to punish the German people for the crimes of the Nazis decades earlier.

* HerrDoktor: Professor Alric Thalmann is a brilliant scientist who developed the Thalmann Generators, the anti-magic devices that were instrumental to humanity's victory in the Conversion War. He occasionally drops German words into his speech like "[[ForeignCussWord Scheiße]]" (shit) and "Auf wiedersehen" (goodbye).

* TakingYouWithMe: Combined with BetterToThanBeKilled, Halberd Wings briefly mentions in ''Warfare'' that some humans that got doused with ponification potion would blow themselves up to not just avoid getting forcibly transformed into Newfoals but also kill any pony soldiers in the vicinity as well.

** During the EFF's last stand, Sweetie Drops sends a last radio message to the surviving members to keep fighting until the end, and shoots herself in the head with a revolver rather than be captured and executed by Task Force Centaur.

* TechnologicallyAdvancedFoe: Humanity to Equestria, so much so that the war rapidly became a CurbStompBattle in favor of the former once they developed the means to negate the latter's magical advantages. In the last few months of the war, the ponies tried building weapons like guns, tanks, and battleships to fight the humans on their level, but they're based on designs mankind hasn't used since the 1940s because Equestria doesn't have the materials or technology to make anything more advanced, while humanity has since developed mobile armor that shoots ''[[EnergyWeapon lasers]]'' along with other weapons using [[{{Magitek}} a mixture of magic and technology]].

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: This is what happened to Luna in the Battle of Jerusalem courtesy of MoreDakka. The humans wanted to [[MakeSureHesDead be absolutely certain that she was as dead as dead could be]], as well as [[MakeAnExampleOfThem send a message to Equestria that their goddesses were not invincible]]. What was left of her was stated to resemble ground meat with bits of blue fur and feathers. In both ''Future'' and ''Fallen'', it's stated that it took Celestia over two weeks of repairing Luna's corpse with magic and paying expensive preppers to make it look presentable enough to have a state funeral.