History Fridge / TheGreatAlicornHunt

* The Windy City arc is not (just) an author tract. Rather, it is an elaboration of plot points brought up much earlier, before the hunt started. The Crownbreakers express similar fears as Applejack did about the sweeping changes to come in Equestria, but they are much more violent and much less reasonable. Two of the problems the Royal Sisters seek to solve is the illness and frailty brought on by old age, along with any other problem that could prevent their little ponies from fulfilling their full potential and the hospital administrators that drive Hospice Care up the wall are one of the reasons they've had little success so far. Mach One encapsulates this to highlight the questions that weren't asked or answered at the start.

** Second, this version of Twilight has received an extensive explanation regarding what the Elements are, how they work, and what can be done with them. She is also much more willing to question tradition and authority than the canon version.
** Third, Twilight ''knew'' that the version of the spell she received from Celestia was incomplete and non-functional, and would therefore need to be modified.

* A reviewer pointed out the logic in Rarity proving herself to be very skilled at economics. After all she is generous to the point of bearing that element and then becoming of Alicorn of Generosity herself. And yet she still managed a thriving business selling clothes in a town where clothes were rarely worn.
* Bold Lion, an expy of Leonardo da Vinci, being responsible for Malfunziona being imprisoned and ending the MedievalStasis he kept Equestria. He was an inventor, one who had ''many'' inventions. And he probably maintained his records daily like his real life counterpart. Meaning he was the best one equipped to notice what was going on and figure out how Malfunziona's powers work and how to neutralize him using that knowledge.

* In chapter 7, the princesses tricks Shining Amour into participating in the ritual to make him an alicorn - in other words, they perform a dangerous and unnecessary medical experiment on an unwilling subject, something which in RealLife would be ''very'' unethical and illegal.

** And there's the fact that Dash is an ''Alicorn'' and virtually her entire retinue are ''Pegasi'', ''both of which can fly''. None of the ostensible targets of this terror strike could be harmed by it.
* Mach's speech in Chapter 45 argues that all three tribes only tolerate each other, and all communities are set up in a way to subtly exclude the other two races. Specifically, cloud cities, which are deathtraps to non-pegasi. There "used to" be a custom of literally bumping off physically-disabled pegasi foals off the cloud city's "ground" - and they ''still'' don't have any guardrails. Remember Fluttershy's backstory? ''That's why nopony tried to help her when she fell.''
* In chapter 25, a husband and his pregnant (and about to give birth) wife are being menaced by a kappa, with only two cucumbers between them[[note]]Like in the source mythology, kappas will spare you if you give them a cucumber with your name carved into it. This particular kappa was planning on waiting for the wife to give birth and eat whoever's name wasn't carved.[[/note]], and the father prepared to preform a HeroicSacrifice for his wife and unborn child. Later, when the mother-to-be finally gives brith, we learn she was with triplets meaning that, if Sweetie Belle's search party hadn't found them, ''at least one child would still have been eaten''.

* In chapter 48, we see that healthcare in Windy City is more focused on counselling rather than curing, even if the patient can and wants to be cured. Earlier, Mach said he had a wing amputated because it grew wrong. Was the amputation really the only choice or was it because of this mindset? The fact that the hospital administrations care more about their philosophy and disregard patient rights and well-being in favor of this philosophy is unnerving.

* Mach's speech in Chapter 45 argues that all three tribes only tolerate each other, and all comunities are set up in a way to subtly exclude the other two races. Specifically, cloud cities, which are deathtraps to non-pegasi. There "used to" be a custom of literally bumping off disabled pegasi foals-and they ''still'' don't have any guardrails. Remember Fluttershy's backstory? ''That's why nopony tried to help her when she fell.''

RC's hangs a few lampshades on the Cutie Mark Crusaders gaining their reputations as troublemakers and wreckers in fanfiction, by pointing out at the Fridge Logic that they haven't actually done ANYTHING in the official materials that would explain why they are viewed that way by the fandom in chapter 52. Explained in his own words below (in response to someone calling the Ponyvilleans over-dramatic and saying the CMC ascending is tame compared to Pinkie).

* In chapter 48, we see that healthcare in Windy City is more focused on counselling rather than curing, even if the patient can and wants to be cured. Earlier, Mach said he had a wing amputated because it grew wrong. Was the amputation really the only choice or was it because of this mindset? The fact that the hospital administrations care more about their philosophy and disregard patient rights and well being in favor of this philosophy is unnerving.