History TheInfiniteLoops / LoopsAToM

* {{BDSM}}: Eren and Armin once tricked Reiner into tying himself up and hanging from the roof by asking him to show them some bondage.
** [[spoiler: Still a better {{BDSM}} story than Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey.]]

* SpacePirates: The Doctor was rather happy to meet [[StarWarsTheCloneWars Hondo Ohnaka during a fused loop]].

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[[folder: My Little Pony Loops]]
* AlphaBitch: Diamond Tiara, pre-characterisation or when she's un-Awake. Twilight also meets another called Sharp Retort during Turning the Tables. After years of experience, Twilight manages to outmanoeuvre Retort quickly, and the mare leaves in a huff.
* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: Sunset Shimmer's exploits are written in the style of a journal, being read by Twilight Sparkle.
* AllLovingHero: There is enough love in Fluttershy's heart to feed an entire colony of Changelings.
* TheAtoner: Chrysalis. Her first loop Awake was the "Slavequestria" loop, where she and a non-Awake Shining Armor were HappilyMarried and helped runaway slaves as part of LaResistance. When the loop reset, Chrysalis was horrified to realize that her actions in the prime timeline had ''not'' been AllJustADream.
** Sunset Shimmer is also this, as after she Awoke, she's dedicated herself to atoning for her sins, swearing never to become like she was in baseline again.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: After Twilight figures out how to trigger Spike's greed-growth (from "Secret of my Excess") as needed, "Spike-zilla" becomes one option for how to deal with more extreme situations encountered in Equestria. Awake!Spike also learns to control his age/size/power-level and can go Kaiju when he feels it to be appropriate.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: One version of Twilight actually has ADD. She decides to go along with it.
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: Often defied. Looping Celestia has enough of an aversion to paperwork that on one occasion she got the Looping Elements confirmed as regents in two minutes flat and fled to the beach.
** Twilight pulled a similar thing... putting the Crusaders in charge. (To their credit, they immediately decided to initiate a golden age so they could have fun and get some college-level partying done while 'mom' wasn't around.)
* BadassBureaucrat: Mayor Mare demonstrates her mastery of the Art of the Regulation by derailing the planned destruction of Equestria by the Vogons.
* TheBartender: Big Mac, after he opens his looping bar.
* BedmateReveal: Non-sexual example - Twilight isn't usually that surprised when she Awakens and finds a small filly cuddled up to her. But when it's somepony other than her adoptive daughter Nyx, her reactions vary and can include general amusement or thoughts on how cute her young companion is.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Equestrians have named their loop a sanctuary loop, and they ''mean'' it.
* BigYes: Leman, when [[spoiler: Nyx agrees to marry him]].
* BreakTheBadass: Sometimes, very rarely, the ponies can have nightmarish Loops.
* BreatherEpisode: The Equestria loops function as this for every guest looper. They take this duty ''very'' seriously.
* BrownNote: Staring at Pinkie Pie's anti-A.I. program makes Apple Bloom physically ill.
* {{Calvinball}}: Discord's "Chaos"[[note]]you were expecting a different name?[[/note]] card/boardgame. The rules are completely made up and the points don't mean anything. There's also a sci-fi expansion set, for Trek Loops.
-->'''Apple Bloom:''' I could swear I had a different set of cards five minutes ago.
* CheshireCatGrin: In an early Loop, the Mane Six offer Discord a choice between the easy way, the hard way, and the angry way. The angry way starts with Fluttershy unleashing one of these. Discord quickly chooses the easy way.
* TheChessmaster:
** After observing a few loops, Big Macintosh starts subtly nudging events -- A quiet word here, a small suggestion there -- to smooth out the more dramatic events of the default Equestria loops: Reduced conflict about the Grand Galloping Gala tickets, smoothly introducing Zecora to Ponyville, suggesting that Twilight coordinate Winter Wrap-up, etc. It takes Twilight quite a while to figure out that not only is he Looping, but is the one responsible for the less stressful loops.
** The Turning the Tables version of Celestia is a Dumbledore-style manipulator. It backfires when Twilight Sparkle Awakes and throws a monkey-wrench in her plans.
* ComesGreatResponsibility: Twilight Sparkle's initial reaction to the loops was to make sure her family and friends stayed safe. This has expanded to making Equestria a designated Safe Loop for ''every'' looper.
* CrapsackWorld: Some of the worst loops. But the worst of the worst is "Slavequestria," a loop where Celestia legalized slavery and allied with Sombra, turning the whole world into a totalitarian hell and her battle with Nightmare Moon into EvilVersusEvil. All the Loopers involved are left traumatized afterwards.
** Scratch that, the (mercifully) largely undescribed Loop caused by a massive collection of porn and viruses bleeding into the Equestria Loop. (The loop wherein it's described starts with Twilight and Sleipnir, the administrator of Equestria, walking into Mac's bar to drown their memories of it.)
-->"Not only was she [Molestia] in charge but she was the pinnacle of what every pony strove to be, the ideal pony in the eyes of her subjects! And Twilight was the only one Awake, the only sane mare in this mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad world. And then this corrupted world painted a target on her by making her the most desirable mare alive to everyone in said world."
** To underline just how horrible this loop was, upon Awakening both Sleipnir and Twilight immediately ran for the gates of Tartarus, fought their way to the lowest levels of Hell, and then ''locked the door to Hell from the inside''. And then Sleipnir called down the ''Apocalypse'' and ''prematurely ended the world''. Let me underline that some more. A Yggdrasil System Administrator -- who is consistently portrayed as one of the most responsible and level-headed of the sysadmins, at that -- chose to '''deliberately crash a Loop'''. How desperate are you when risking further multiverse instability is preferable to actually trying to live in that loop world even for a single day?[[note]]Although its actually Justified: Twilight Sparkle is an Anchor. If she psychologically breaks, her home Loop risks total metaphysical destruction. If Sleipnir judges that trying to live through this Loop has a high probability of destroying Twilight's sanity, then the multiversal damage from a premature Loop crash is necessary cosmic triage.[[/note]]
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Pinkie Pie.
** Loop 102.3 give reasons of why baseline [[spoiler:Ditzy/Derpy/Bright Eyes]] is also one.
-->Lyra soon learned why pegasi were the predominant military arm of the three pony tribes. They were blindingly fast and if they had a little bit of open space to work with, extremely manoeuvrable. Also a pegasus' natural toughness scaled up with how fast they were going, provided they braced themselves during impact. Ironically, that meant that they could plow into the ground at terminal velocity without getting a single scratch, but an uncontrolled tumble at a much slower speed could break bones. None of that knowledge actually helped against Ditzy who, in addition to being able to create wing air blades, tornadoes, and hit with the force of a freight train, could also spit out bubbles that exploded with the force of a grenade, create bubble clones and decoys, and had an evasive flight pattern that could be considered insanely erratic at best. Lyra did remember that even in baseline, the grey pegasus was good enough to be a competitor in both the Young Flyers Competition and in the Equestria Games.
* CursedWithAwesome: Pinkie Pie. She has skills any assassin or fighter would gladly give up most of their limbs to possess, but she only uses said skills to cheer others up. In fact, she ''hates'' it when others are scared of her.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: During a Fused Loop with How To Train Your Dragon, Hiccup declares his intention to "befriend" Discord. The Mane Six tell him that only Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie can do that and so he explains that he's not using the conventional definition of the word, but the one as used in the Nanoha verse. Cue Toothless turning into an Intelligent Device which Hiccup uses to blast Discord with a WaveMotionGun.
* DoNotTauntCthulhu: Scootaloo, while there's usually not much that can threaten an experienced Looper its still a bad idea to go into a FinalDestination loop, scream "Buck Death!" at the sky, and then deliberately start kicking rubber balls near death traps.
-->'''Nyx:''' And then you decided tempting fate wasn't enough. You then went and spit in its face, tried to steal its lunch money, and woo its date!
** The end result was an unlikely series of events that ended up with Nyx going head-first through a wood chipper. Mama Twilight ''was not amused''.
** Scotaloo got her vengence, when she attempted to use a "Nobody dies" device Pinkie Pie had invented, rendering things in cartoon physics. Due to the event? She shut off death for 24 hours in a FinalDestination loop. She responds by taunting Cthulhu.
* DrivenToSuicide: Twilight, in a truly nasty Warhammer 40K Loop, after a month and a half of torture by the Imperium, even when she gave them the information they were after.
* DrowningMySorrows: To help cope with particularly unpleasant loop experiences, Awake-Macintosh usually sets up a bar where traumatized Loopers can start to decompress. Of course, it also serves as a general hangout for Loopers to compare notes and otherwise socialize.
* DrunkWithPower: So far, in almost every "Sisters" loop (where Twilight plus a rotating second ascended pony is in Celestia and Luna's positions), Twilight's co-ruler has this happen to them, resulting in them having to be banished to the moon.
** A notable example is the exception that proves the rule: one of the few "Sisters" loops where Twilight's co-ruler was not banished had said co-ruler [[spoiler: ([[GenderBender Princess]] Macintosh)]] instead work to convince the populace the royal sisters did not actually exist, effectively removing the need to have one sister be out of the public's eye for a thousand years by putting them both out of the public's eye.
** And again with Ditzy, who only gets sent to the moon because of her uncontrolled yet highly destructive magic, which forced Twilight to put her there lest Equestria be run by supremely rich carpenters.
** Justified in-setting when Twilight states that alicornhood has a side effect of amplifying emotional extremes, and that the adjustment period can be... problematic. Once she finally figures this out and via trial-and-error derives some coping strategies for this problem, 'new' alicorns have a much easier time with things (the Cutie Mark Crusaders, for example, have all managed to avoid "lunar time-outs"). [[note]]Celestia and Luna didn't know about it either -- apparently Celestia's and Cadance's personalities were sufficiently Zen enough that they managed to avoid this, so for a long while everypony thought Luna had just had a nervous breakdown/hostile possession instead of succumbing to a condition endemic to alicorns, and the counseling Twilight was undergoing from Cadance for her own OCD tendencies ''prior'' to ascension also inadvertently let her sidestep this problem. It wasn't until ''all five'' of the other Mane Six freaked out each in their own way that Twilight twigged 'wait a minute, this is not a coincidence'.[[/note]]
* ElaborateUndergroundBase:
** At Trixie's insistence, Twilight frequently sets up a major installation under the Library Tree. Features include a modest lecture hall, several conference rooms, and a variety of laboratories for magical and explosives R&D.
** Applebloom also has the capability to install a large scale workshop/aircraft hangar under one of the hills on the Sweet Apple Acres farmstead.
** While not quite reaching "elaborate" scale, Rarity has started putting a modest Materials Science lab under Carousel Boutique.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Turning the Tables Shining Armor is mentioned to have a few male fans.
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: In this case, Alicorn Princesses, and one prince. In addition to the four canon alicorns, there's the rest of the Mane Six, Shining Armor, Trixie, Nyx, [[spoiler:all three Cutie Mark Crusaders plus Diamond Tiara, Berry Punch, Mayor Mare/Ivory Scroll, Zecora, Ditzy/Derpy/Bright Eyes, Lyra, Vinyl, Sunset Shimmer... and one Princess Macintosh loop. Plus Silver Spoon and Gilda, who ascend into a Draconequus and a Higher Griffin, respectively. At this point, of pony Loopers, only Mac and Cheerilee have yet to formally ascend to alicornhood.]]
* EvilerThanThou: In the Mega Pony Loop, Tirek Sunstar mentions he fought (and killed) Mad Queen Majesty. Twilight, who has met Majesty before (and is still disturbed by the version she met), is utterly terrified at the thought of how evil she had to be that ''[[TautologicalTemplar Tirek]]'' was the better option.
* ExactWords: One Loop Twilight decides to follow Celestia's edict to "make some friends" literally. She quickly runs into problems with her experimental golems.
* ExtremeOmnivore: Pinkie once ate ''the moon''. ... albeit after Luna had turned it into brie (the whole "night eternal" thing was to make sure it aged properly).
* FireForgedFriends: How Apple Bloom and Diamond Tiara reconcile. Leads to DT Looping and joining the [=CMC=].
* FixFic: This approach is taken for some of the more head-banger moments in canon, as well as whenever the Loopers end up in variant loops set in certain fanfics. For example, when Twilight Awoke alone in [[FanFic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse the Lunaverse]](albeit a variant, not the real Lunaverse), she not only refused to go along with her counterpart's [[AdaptationalVillainy role]], but set up shaking the other characters out of their JerkAss mindsets and getting them closer to canon.
** The "Diplomancy" Loop can be considered a FixFic for "Boast Busters", as Twilight deliberately defused the situation by preventing Trixie from humiliating the others and engaged her in a challenge of her own, in such a way that Trixie's feelings were spared too, thus befriending her as well as causing her to Awaken later.
* {{Flanderization}}: Cadance got hit with this hard for the longest while, to the point where most of the time she only appeared whenever someone mentioned they were in a relationship with someone, but not married yet. Thankfully, once the readers started to point out how this was the only thing Candace was used for, the [=FiM=] writers caught on and started to bring her more in line with her canon characterization.
** Trixie also got hit with this pretty hard too. Early loops had her as her usual showmare persona, albeit toned down and nowhere near as arrogant, and possessing an interest in pyrotechnics to further increase the awe factor of her shows. Now a days, when she isn't being used with Chrysalis (sometimes even when she is), she mostly appears when a massive explosion has happened (and is usualy the cause), implies she caused the previous loop crash from a massive explosion, or just in general raves about explosions to a near obsessive level.
** CharacterCheck: Used often, especially with Trixie, and other characters who are flanderized, such as Lina Inverse. Trixie, for instance, mentions that she realized she was going a bit too far after a Muppets loop. One of her acts was the exact plan of The Great Gonzo.
* FootnoteFever: Usually reserved for the Author's Notes at the end of the chapter, but one Loop has Rarity visit the Disc, with footnotes naturally following. There are no less than nine footnotes for that snippet, with one having footnotes ''inside a footnote''. One of them is a LampshadeHanging on the series' fondness for these things.
* FromBadToWorse: According to Twilight Sparkle, if an Alicorn spots you during a Harem Comedy Loop, this is what will follow, and whoever the protagonist is will be unable to escape the madness.
* FullNameUltimatum: Twilight uses "Rainbow Miriam Dash!" at least twice (including one Loop where they don't even ''have'' middle names), and "Nyx Moonlight Sparkle" on another occasion.
* GenreSavvy: Spike realises exactly what his un-Awake self would have done during the Equestrian Games during one Loop.
* GodzillaThreshold: Some foreign Loopers that are particularly disruptive get a trip to the moon. And Jadis of ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' is the only shown time Twilight has resorted to lethal force, due to her possessing the [[DepopulationBomb Deplorable Word]].
** Pinkie Pie's antics are usually held in check. However, if sufficiently pushed, Pinkie is allowed to go full "[[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}} Chaos Goddess]] of Parties" on a universe.
** Also, see the note above under CrapsackWorld about the Loop that was so horrible that Sleipnir crashed it by blowing the whole thing up. And then [[INeedAFreakingDrink went to Mac's bar to drink enough to dull the memories of the whole thing]].
* GoneHorriblyWrong: An un-Awake version of Discord discordianises Rincewind. As it turns out, a discorded Rincewind is very violent, and incredibly good with magic.
* GoshDarnitToHeck: One Loop has this applied on a universal scale. Weapons turn into toys and candy, cusses become incredibly bizarre, and the Death Note becomes the ''Hug Note''. However, thanks to Pinkie Pie misusing said note, Twilight learns that one can still be badly hurt.
* GroinAttack: Twilight's first harem comedy Loop begins with Pinkie Pie attempting one of these on "him" with a crowbar. Twilight's instant reaction? [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere Go to the moon and stay there]].
* HalloweenEpisode: The 2-part, 9-author collaboration Nightmare Night loop published between compilations 34 and 35.
* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday?: Twilight has to tell everyone that she is straight on three different occasions.
** Both Rainbow Dash and Daring Do say that they are straight after a misunderstanding.
* HeadbuttingHeroes: In one Loop, Twilight and Rarity get into trouble after fighting an evil witch in sight of Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, who assume that they're Discworld-type unicorns. As it turns out, silver harnesses just bother Rarity because they're slightly tacky.
* HeadPet: Nyx spent a couple of Loops replacing various others, including [[Manga/YuYuHakusho Puu]], [[Anime/TenchiMuyo Ryo-Ohki]] and [[Manga/SailorMoon Diana]]. Her next Loop back in Equestria, she manifested as a rabbit and spent the Loop riding around on Twilight's head, with her permission.
** In a later Loop, Ponyville was home to an entire race of Head Pets: Derpies, an offshoot of the Breezy race, where all of its members looked like miniature versions of Derpy Hooves and fed off the ambient magic in the air (which they made look like muffins before they ate it). Their whole purpose in life was to sit on others' heads and look cute, and sometimes act as lookouts.
* HeroicBSOD: Twilight after the [[MemeticMolester "Mol]][[NotHerself estia"]] loop.
* HeroicVow: Equestria's offer to be a sanctuary loop to any looper willing to accept it.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: The hippocampi - Seaponies - turned from music loving beings who cheerfully help rescue others in distress to... music loving beings who cheerfully help rescue others in distress by using [[MoreDakka Overwhelming Firepower]] and DisproportionateRetribution. They've been in constant battle with horrors from the deep for so long that this became their knee-jerk reaction to everything. It gets to where Applejack starts using "seapony diplomacy" as a euphemism for ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill.
* HorrifyingTheHorror: Pinkie Pie. Full Stop. The moment they hear that Awake!Pinkie Pie is in the universe, just about every loop aware end boss, cosmic horror, and elder being will immediately try to flee.
-->Twilight reflected, as the incomprehensible dimension between space screamed as one and tried to fold in upon itself, that when a pony stares into the abyss the abyss stares back; but when Pinkie Pie stares into the abyss, the abyss closes its eyes, sticks fingers in its ears and shouts, "LALALALALALALALALA," hoping Pinkie goes away.
** It's gotten to the point that other Loops have revealed there's now a ''support group'' for beings that Pinkie's terrified.
* IHatePastMe: Not "hate", but Twilight messes with her past self's head in one Loop, and doesn't always have the best opinion of her baseline self. And Diamond Tiara ''really'' doesn't like her baseline self (at least, prior to developments in ''Crusaders of the Lost Mark'').
* IncrediblyLameFun: Immediately after Sakura is sent to the moon by the Elements of Harmony, Naruto and Sasuke ask what safe and boring things there are available for them to do.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Standard reaction to bad Loops is to find Big Macintosh or Berry Punch and get drunk. Even Sleipnir joins in on one occasion.
* InexplicableTreasureChests: During the Random Loot Arc, the source of these is explained by the Presence of a Stocker, someone who job is to create and leaves the treasure behind.
* InterruptedIntimacy: Loop 44.4 ("...I walked in on [[spoiler:Spike and Rarity]]."): Reactions vary from Squick (Twilight and Sweetie Belle) to confused indifference (Chrysalis) to enthusiastic support (Cadance).
** A later Loop implies that Applejack walked in on Apple Bloom in a similar manner... until it turns out she just walked in on the younger filly constructing a nuclear reactor in her bedroom.
* InterspeciesRomance: [[spoiler:Spike and Rarity, Trixie and Chrysalis, Berry Punch and Discord]]
** Technically [[spoiler: Nyx and Leman Russ]], given that in their separate native loops, she's a pony and he's a human.
* {{Jerkass}}: One version of Sombra replacing Twilight is completely abusive towards Spike. Twilight gets revenge in her own way.
* KeepingSecretsSucks: [[spoiler:The [=CMC=]+Diamond Tiara spend several loops concealing from each other the fact that each had Ascended for fear that the others would feel "left behind".]]
* KlingonPromotion:
** A version of Blueblood tries this in one Loop, noting that so long as he kills everyone (i.e: Twilight, Shining Armor, Cadence, Spike, Celestia and Luna) in the "right order", he'll become king. Twilight's reaction to break down laughing at his sheer stupidity.
** How the Griffins are shown to work, though it has certain checks built in so it isn't a perpetual brawl.
* LevelAte: 120.2 is a completely literal example of this. Not only are the ponies and buildings made of candy, the ground is white sugar. All of this is contained within a gigantic bowl.
** The Everfree promptly subverts this, with its inedible dirt, barely-edible broccoli bushes, and toothpick trees.
* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: A standing rule among the Loopers appears to be "don't talk about [[Fanfic/TheConversionBureau Conversion Bureau]] loops".
** This is Trixie's initial reaction when she and Twilight Awake in [[Fanfic/LifeInManehattan the Manehattanverse]], leaving Trixie as the Element of Laughter. Though she does seem to change her mind when Twilight explains that in her case, it's more like Optimism.
* LoopholeAbuse:
** As an alter-ego of Nightmare Moon/Princess Luna, [[Fanfic/PastSins Nyx]] enters the loops and sidesteps the "no children" restriction to be Twilight's adopted daughter.
** The CMC, Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon tend to this when playing Battleship with real ships.
** It's also how Twilight managed to get Skynet Looping. Hephaestus stuck her in the Terminator Loop, normally a Read-Only universe, and gave her juuuust enough leeway to talk the A.I. down. It worked, gave Skynet an actual soul, and so kicked the Terminator universe into Looping status.
* LovingAShadow: Chrysalis has to struggle with the fact that the Shining Armor she spent her first Awake loop HappilyMarried to no longer exists, and that the looping one is HappilyMarried to Cadance instead.
* MajorGeneralSong: Loop 53.3. Also winks at BohemianParody in the stinger.
* MamaBear: An accident of Discord's gone wrong causes an un-Awake Ditzy to declare her intent to move out of Ponyville and take Dinky with her, rather than she her hurt again. Since Dinky is one of Ruby Pinch's few friends, this encourages Berry Punch to take her own steps to prevent it, by any means necessary. It eventually results in Berry being hospitalised by a pissed-off Ditzy.
* ManipulativeBastard: Celestai's attempts at this just don't work on Twilight or Big Macintosh.
* MeaningfulEcho: [[SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay "I have been, and always shall be, your friend"]] was used in 73.14 and 85.13. It shows two things: [[spoiler: first, Sunset Shimmer started looping and second, the Awake Sunset Shimmer has the memory of the loop Twilight specifically went out of her way to befriend her]].
* MeetYourEarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Eventually Chrysalis learns about her un-Looping self marrying Sombra all those times, and is disturbed by the notion.
* MultipleChoicePast: Lyra, due to a glitch when she first starts Looping, obtains all possible memories every loop. [[spoiler:She ends up with multiple personality disorder due to this.]]
** For several loops, Twilight found out that Derpy/Ditzy/Bright Eyes' unique talent keeps changing: make bubbles, read minds, popping like a bubble (fatally), popping like a bubble (non-fatally), ''matter disintegration''... once she Awoke, she could ''switch'' between all of them.
* MusicalWorldHypothesis: The phenomena is known as "heartsong" and involves Equestria's magic somehow resonating with the singer. Some of the pony Loopers have developed their ability to do this at will, resulting in Pinkie Pie leading Hogwarts into a big song and dance number.
** Hilariously lampshaded by loop 52.12, where Celestia and Twilight have a song and dance number... centered around their angst at not being able to sing and dance ''normally''.
* NeverLiveItDown: InUniverse Example. Applejack's attempt at making an alcoholic beverage out of potatoes. The end result was something that Twilight had to ascend to alicorn status to get her sight back after drinking it caused her to go blind, and quickly became know as 'potato acid' to all the loopers.
--> '''Applebloom:''' Ah've never made acid outta' potatoes before.
--> '''Applejack:''' ONE TIME! [[LampshadeHanging Y'all are never gonna let me live that down, are ya?]]
* NonSequiturThud: A common consequence of Trixie's StuffBlowingUp incidents.
-->“Trixie would like fries with that,” the blue unicorn muttered, and fell over.
* NoodleIncident:
** How Twilight first met and became friends with [[Franchise/LyricalNanoha Nanoha]]. We only know they experimented on "practcal applications on Nanoha's [[StuffBlowingUp Magic of]] [[DefeatMeansFriendship Friendship]]" and the result was Twilight getting into a G3.5 loop as a result.
** Apparently at some point Twilight had an encounter with a tyrannical version of Queen Majesty, from G2. It obviously didn't go very well.
** Trixie would like to tell about the time when she learned how to make thermite, but she keeps getting hushed up. Or stops herself when Gilda shows up, suggesting that she was involved somehow.
** Mention is made of a "great sponge cake migration of 947" that Celestia once witnessed and reacted to. Compared to ''that'' event, her unAwake self fainting from sugar shock due to Nyx's PuppyDogEyes is nothing.
* NoodleImplements: Par for the course in a series that references as many loop incidents as it actually depicts. For example, from Loop 30.4:
-->Nightmare Moon had been vanquished with a zebra potion, two pry bars and several metric tons of fruitcake.
* NoSell:
** While testing her potato acid, which caused Discord to burst into flames, Applejack hands it to Berry Punch. It doesn't do squat to her.
** Big Macintosh manages to lock [=CelestAI=] out, blocking her accessing his information even after what's implied to be several hundred tries.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Whenever you see Pinkie Pie serious, you know it's very important: like when explaining how dangerous can be misusing the Element of Laughter, or giving up on trying to make a party to [[spoiler:Ciaphas Cain[=/=]Candy Cane thus accepting he's terrified of her (to the point of giving him a "Get Out Of Party Free" coupon)]].
* OhNoNotAgain: Twilight's reaction to landing in a G3 or 3.5 loop. While not FateWorseThanDeath territory, she does ''not'' enjoy them. These seem to occur every time the previous loop terminates in an [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt unexpectedly energetic fashion]].
* {{Omniglot}}: Fluttershy eventually realizes that the Bearers of the Element of Kindness (herself, Chrysalis, and Silver Spoon) are able to speak and understand any language.
* PaperThinDisguise: In a Middle-Earth Loop, Applejack Loops in a regular horse. But she can still talk. Any time anyone notices, she borrows a page from [[Literature/{{Discworld}} Gaspode]] and says what a horse would normally do (Whinny, contended ear flick). It works every single time.
* PornStash: Zeus hid one of these in Sleipnir's Yggdrasil terminal, creating a Loop featuring an Equestria embodying clopfic and noted above under CrapsackWorld.
* {{Railroading}}: When the ponies Looped into the ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' setting, every attempt they made to make the world LighterAndSofter ended in failure as they were dragged along TheStationsOfTheCanon, much to their chagrin. They finally succeeded in driving the plot OffTheRails at the Siege of Mechanicsburg... [[spoiler: [[YankTheDogsChain only for Twilight to get struck by a bolt of lightning, prematurely ending the loop.]]]]
** In the baseline, no matter what Twilight does, her library always gets destroyed during Tirek's rampage. She's ''not'' happy about that.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: In one Loop, Rainbow Dash unleashes a truly magnificent one on Spitfire for her hypocritical actions in ''Rainbow Falls'', while pretending to be completely innocent about the whole thing.
* RecursiveFanfiction: Loops include variations of ''Fanfic/PastSins'', the ''[[FanFic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse Lunaverse]]'' and ''Another Kind of Magic'' among others.
** One of Rarity's early Loops was a version of ''The Best Night Ever''. She was upset when Blueblood's CharacterDevelopment in that universe didn't take.
** In later chapters, the ponies have started encountering [=CelestAI=], from ''Friendship is Optimal''. They're disgusted and horrified by it.
** And of course, there's ''FanFic/TheConversionBureau'', but [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain we don't talk about those]].
* RelationshipUpgrade: In Loop 160.12, [[spoiler: after Leman and Nyx reconcile from their previous argument and temporary breakup, Leman proposes, and Nyx accepts.]]
* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder:
-->'''Silver Spoon''': What do ''you'' all want?
-->'''Scootaloo''': Well, I personally want to revolutionize the field of aeronautics and join the Wonderbolts. I'm pretty sure Sweetie here wants to become a pop star, and Apple Bloom wants to build an army of robots to do her bidding.
-->'''Apple Bloom''': Not an army. Ah'd be fine with a small squad o' twelve, Ah'm not greedy.
-->'''Silver Spoon''': ...what?
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: Or equinine. In one early Loop, Chrysalis is a robot operated by [[WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain the Brain]] in order to [[TakeOverTheWorld do what he does every night]].
* RunningGag: Many. Often they take the form of many short segments with different takes on the same scenario, separated by other segments.
** Applejack trying various means of getting Trenderhoof to lose interest in her right off the bat. Some work better than others.
** Rarity and Twilight Waking up in rather bizarre variants, leading Rarity to ask "Twilight, why are we X?" It's gotten to the point where Rarity starts doing it for no reason in order to troll Twilight. And of course, Pinkie lampshades it:
-->"Did somepony start a running gag without me? That's not nice."
** Luna coming up with bizarre ways to make her entrance in place of a Nightmare Moon attack.
** Celestia foisting off her royal duties onto someone else so she can go surfing, usually on the surface of the sun. This culminated in an incident where it took her less than 30 seconds to appoint the Elemental Harmony Gang as regents and flee out of sight... without checking to see if they were Awake first. (Most of them weren't.)
** Twilight asking what Ditzy's cutie mark is (and getting a different response every time)... which was then partially overtaken by scenes proceeding from the one in which [[spoiler:she popped like a soap bubble]].
** Twilight trying and failing to prevent Tirek from destroying her library.
** Cadence being obsessed with matchmaking [[spoiler: which it turns out she's been faking for a long time]].
** Trixie and her... ''fondness'' for explosions.
** Trixie trying to tell a story about thermite, just to be interrupted by Gilda.
** [[LordOfTheRings Darth Vader cannot simply walk into Equestria.]] So every time he shows up in a Fused Loop, he makes sure to make a BigEntrance.
* SanitySlippage: Cadance eventually admits that her love-obsession [[spoiler:was a genuine case of this, a long time ago, but she's gotten better about it.]]
** Pretty much everyone in a Sister Loop (I.e. a Loop where two Loopers awake in Celestia and Luna's roles) tends to go through this, and ends up on the moon. So far only Twilight, Big Macintosh, Ditzy have avoided the insanity part, and only Big Mac has avoided ending up on the moon at all (Twilight got stuck there by accident because of Ditzy).
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Twilight's response to Waking up in an Equestrian version of ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''. She tells Pinkie Pie to go full [[{{TabletopGame/Warhammer40000}} Chaos Goddess]] of Partying on Canterlot, then takes off to go study the moons of the outer planets up close and personal for a year.
** Earlier, this was also her response to waking up as the title character in ''FanFic/TheUnexpectedLoveLifeOfDuskShine'' -- upon realizing that she/he was in a HaremComedy, she/he teleported herself/himself to the moon for the duration of the loop and let Trixie fill in for her/him.
** In an early fused loop with ''VideoGame/MassEffect'', when an Awake Sovereign realizes that Pinkie Pie is present, he quickly turns around and flees the galaxy.
* SharingABody: Some "mini-me" loops add the looper's mind to their unawake incarnation. The second "Princess Vespertine" loop (69.21 et seq.) is one example of this.
* ShoutOut: Rule One of Bureau Loops is ''[[Film/FightClub do not talk about the Bureau Loops]]''.
** During a Fused Loop with Transformers, a ponified Starscream, called Screaming Star, met Rainbow Dash and then [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown proceeded to live up for his name for the next ten minutes]], as a shout out to the ''WebVideo/DeathBattle'' where she completely ''annihilated'' him.
* ShowerOfAwkward: At the start of the Great Elevator Saga, the Mane Six [[ItMakesSenseInContext walk in (or rather, ride in) on Tirek taking a shower as their elevator teleports to random spots all over the multiverse.]]
* StatusQuoIsGod: On occasion, Twilight attempts to earn a ''different'' Cutie Mark than her starburst design. It ''never works.''
** Twilight's attempts to prevent her library from being blown up by Tirek are usually also doomed to failure. And even if she stops him from doing it himself, ''something'' will happen to destroy the library.
** No matter how hard the Crusaders try, they never get a Cutie Mark that lasts through the resets.
* StopWorshippingMe: After most of Equestria's loopers reached approximate parity with her (ascended to alicorn or achieved similar power levels), Celestia asked them to not swear by her name or Luna's. She suggested Trees as a substitute.
** UnusualEuphemism: This has led to the use of "Chlorophyll!" and other botanical terms as curses.
* StoryArc: A few of the longer loops are broken up into segments spread out over multiple loop collections.
* StuffBlowingUp: Standard Operating Procedure for Awake!Trixie after her ascension. The Awake iterations of the [=CMC=] membership also have their share of such events.
-->'''Twilight''' (to Trixie after the latter had been tinkering with nuclear fusion): And next time, stick to chemistry. In fact, if you ever start getting involved in nuclear physics again, I may extract a Pinkie Promise.
** One of the more over-the-top instances of that is pure unleaded NightmareFuel for anyone who knows the actual chemical substances being referred to (seriously, just Google them and be amazed. And freaked out.):
-->'''Twilight:''' You actually tried to dissolve FOOF[[note]]Aka 'dioxygen diflouride'[[/note]] in chlorine trifluoride?!? I had to drop half the lake and fifty tons of sand on it, and it even set fire to ''that'' until it ran out of liquid!
** Loop 118.1 reveals that Trixie can actually ''sense'' when and where an explosion is happening, so that she can see and judge it. Twilight is both impressed and disturbed by this.
** Upon discovering xenomorphs, the seaponies nuked the colony from orbit, and then -- to be sure -- glassed the rest of the planet, used a planet buster to destroy said planet, chucked the largest pieces into the sun, and then right before they left, destroyed the entire sun. All while happily singing.
** Also a characteristic of anything volatile enough to actually intoxicate an Equestrian dragon, given that their digestive systems are built to treat swallowing crushed rocks and magical crystals as easily as digesting applesauce.
-->'''Berry Punch:''' Drink it quickly before the ingredients eat through the magical stabilization. On a scale of one to ten, this thing has a shelf life of nope, it doesn't have a shelf life. And never, ever serve it to a pony – or really, anyone other than a real Equestrian dragon. Otherwise, the customer will explode. Then their remains will explode. Then, whatever is left will require Sparkle to hit it with another entire lake bed before it makes the surrounding area unlivable.
* SupremeChef: or Mixologist. Berry Punch has concocted a combination of volatile chemicals and flavorings that Spike declared to be the best thing he's ever tasted. She's also pretty damn good with regular ethanol-based drinks.
* SuperPoweredEvilSide: Almost every alicorn has one. Twilight Lampshades this.
-->"Congratulations on joining the alicorn club, it helps if you've thought of your evil self beforehand.”
* TakeOverTheWorld: Pinkie can in fact do this, with parties. Twilight insists that no-one need know how.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Lemon Rush and Candy Cane (otherwise known as Leman Russ and Ciaphas Cane)'s reaction to seeing the Cutie Mark Chaos Gods again in Loop 84.20.
* TransformationTrinket: In order to re-ascend, ponies that have achieved alicornhood in previous loops need access to a magical artifact of similar power to the one that catalyzed their initial Ascension. (Most such artifacts are soul-bonded, so this isn't much of an issue, but a few ponies have to use more 'generic' items.)
* TropeCodifier: Innortal may have started the loops, but this series does more exploring of the rules.
* UncannyValley: InUniverse case. As sometimes the loops feature some variations from the usual baseline, it's possible some loops to feature this. Twilight has been visibly affected by two loops this way.
** In one case, Celestia was as kind, caring as loving as usual, but also a slaver who set her mark on all ponies to keep them in control, with the side effect of not allowing them to get their own cutie marks (along with an emotional suppressor designed to stop them getting rebellious, and several nasty tracking spells). Even if [[spoiler:she and her Awake friends had to banish Celestia and Nightmare Moon to the moon]] Twilight still feels she failed Awake!Celestia that loop.
** In the [[NoodleIncident "Molestia"]] loop, Twilight was the target of rape of all many ponies including the non-looping versions of her family and friends. It was enough to give her an HeroicBSOD.
* UnwantedFalseFaith: Ditzy's Sister Loop eventually has a cult dedicated to her, led by a former student of Twilight's. It caused one of the few times the Awake Ditzy has actually been angry.
* UpperClassTwit: Prince Blueblood. How much of a twit he is tends to vary. In one of her early Loops, Rarity struck up a relationship with him, in a FanFic/ThisPlatinumCrown-style universe, only for everything to reset with the next Loop. In Turning the Tables, he turns out to have HiddenDepths.
* WeddingDay: The multi-contributor, 2-parter published between compilations 50 and 51, covering the wedding of [[spoiler:Spike and Rarity]].
* WhamEpisode: Loop 45.11. Everything's going fine, Twilight's planning some antics for later, and then '''*CRACK*'''. The Crash happens.
* WhatDidIDoLastNight: Happens to Mayor Mare in the aftermath of [[spoiler:Spike or Rarity's]] pre-wedding parties (it isn't specified which one she had attended).
** In the loop where the Reserve Element Bearers (Spike, Chrysalis, Trixie, Zecora, Gilda and Berry Punch) fill in for the regular ones, Berry gets volunteered to handle [=UnAwake=] Discord's reforming, which she does via getting them both drunk and waking up cuddled to each other the next morning. [[spoiler: Then it turns out Discord Awoke long enough near the end of the loop to get his memories of this relationship, leading to them being an actual, continuous couple.]]
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: After a particularly traumatizing loop, Applejack developed a fear of seaponies. Twilight eventually makes her spend time with Lyra (a disguised seapony in at least one loop) in order to help her get over it.
** Twilight suspects that whoever or whatever's in charge of the loops invokes this trope intentionally, as she herself was put in increasingly snakey situations until she got over her own fear of snakes.
** Confirmed in later loops where we see that if Sleipnir thinks a Looper is starting down a psychological death spiral, he'll schedule them for a Fused Loop wherever he thinks best suited to snap them out of it.
* WildTeenParty: "Daughters" loops (when the Ascended CMC are the daughters of Queen Twilight) tend to have a mild version of this as the normal Canterlot social scene after the Queen Mother decides to take her 1000-year sabbatical. (There is typically prodigious alcohol consumption along with a heightened culinary scene and active night-life.) Losing track of the years and suddenly realizing that Mom -- or in one case, Dad -- is due to show up produces the expected hilarity.
* YouCantFightFate: No matter what Twilight does, no matter how many precautions she takes, her library gets destroyed when Tirek escapes. Later on, Ditzy proves that the only thing that can avert this sequence of events is the usage of powers explicitly designed to violate ''narrative causality''.
** Alternately, one loop where the library was made Twilight-Proof worked. Then it wasn't HER library. Simply moving, however, does not work.
* YourHeadASplode: Happens to Twilight (two times) after she gets an explanation of how the Pinkie Sense works.
** It happens to The Doctor (many times), when they looped as Daleks and decided to be benevolent. He just couldn't handle the shock.
* ZombieApocalypse: One accidental misspelling resulted in the creation of Zombra, and his horde of zonpies. Twilight quickly gets fed up of it and unleashes a Starlight Breaker on the entire horde.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: In this case, Alicorn Princesses, and one prince. In addition to the four canon alicorns, there's the rest of the Mane Six, Shining Armor, Trixie, Nyx, [[spoiler:all three Cutie Mark Crusaders plus Diamond Tiara, Berry Punch, Mayor Mare/Ivory Scroll, Zecora, Ditzy/Derpy/Bright Eyes... and one Princess Macintosh loop]].

* NoodleIncident: How Twilight first met and became friends with [[Franchise/LyricalNanoha Nanoha]]. We only know they experimented on "practcal applications on Nanoha's [[StuffBlowingUp Magic of]] [[DefeatMeansFriendship Friendship]]" and the result was Twilight getting into a G3.5 loop as a result.

* Hypocrite: Marco points out that Ymir's willingness to protect Historia, while also not being willing to kill Titans in any other situation, strays into this trope.

* HealingFactor: During a loop that started particularly early, Eren was able to work alongside his father to develop a medicine that enabled humans to gain a Titan's regeneration powers. [[TooAwesomeToUse Too bad it didn't ]][[DramaPerservingHandicap take well to Mikasa.]]

** Also, Blues, Rock and Roll can remember parts of the Loop that caused the Crash, along with glimpses of the Anchor That Never Was. This is supposed to be beyond completely impossible.

** RedOniBlueOni: [[TheOptimist Marco]] & [[TheCynic Jean]], [[WiseGuy Sasha]] & [[StraightMan Connie]], [[CloudCuckooLander Hanji]] & [[CloudCuckooLandersMinder Levi]], [[LipstickLesbian Historia]] & [[ButchLesbian Ymir]], [[TeamMom Carla]] & [[TeamDad Hans]].

-->This folder covers Loops from all Dinosaur-based settings, including ''Jurassic Park'', ''The Land Before Time'', ''Dinotopia'', ''Nanosaur'', ''Primal Carnage'', ''Prehistoric Park'', ''A Dinosaur Named Minerva'', and ''Godzilla''.

* YourHeadASplode: Happen to Twilight (two times) after get an explanation of how the Pinkie Sense works.
** It happens to The Doctor, when they looped as Daleks and decided to be benevolent. He just couldn't handle the shock.

* GodzillaThreshold: Some foreign Loopers that are particularly disruptive get a trip to the moon. And Jadis of TheChroniclesOfNarnia is the only shown time Twilight has resorted to lethal force, due to her possessing the [[DepopulationBomb Deplorable Word]].

* IHatePastMe: Not "hate", but Twilight messes with her past self's head in one Loop, and doesn't always have the best opinion of her baseline self.

** After observing a few loops, Big [=McIntosh=] starts subtly nudging events -- A quiet word here, a small suggestion there -- to smooth out the more dramatic events of the default Equestria loops: Reduced conflict about the Grand Galloping Gala tickets, smoothly introducing Zecora to Ponyville, suggesting that Twilight coordinate Winter Wrap-up, etc. It takes Twilight quite a while to figure out that not only is he Looping, but is the one responsible for the less stressful loops.

* DrowningMySorrows: To help cope with particularly unpleasant loop experiences, [=Awake!McIntosh=] usually sets up a bar where traumatized Loopers can start to decompress. Of course, it also serves as a general hangout for Loopers to compare notes and otherwise socialize.

** A notable example is the exception that proves the rule: one of the few "Sisters" loops where Twilight's co-ruler was not banished had said co-ruler [[spoiler: ([[GenderBender Princess]] [=McIntosh=])]] instead work to convince the populace the royal sisters did not actually exist, effectively removing the need to have one sister be out of the public's eye for a thousand years by putting them both out of the public's eye.

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: In this case, Alicorn Princesses, and one prince. In addition to the four canon alicorns, there's the rest of the Mane Six, Shining Armor, Trixie, Nyx, [[spoiler:all three Cutie Mark Crusaders plus Diamond Tiara, Berry Punch, Mayor Mare/Ivory Scroll, Zecora, Ditzy/Derpy/Bright Eyes...and one Princess [=McIntosh=] loop]].

* ProperlyParanoid: ''Something'' happened in [[Manga/AttackOnTitan Shiganshina]] that left Link with a deep, lingering distrust of [[Manga/Naruto Sakura Haruno]].

** [[spoiler: Still a better {{BDSM}} story than Literature/FiftyShadesOfGray.]]

* BeeBeeGun: In one Loop, the Moment was a [[MemeticMutation Deadly Bee Weapon]] instead of a galaxy-destroying superweapon. When the Doctors decided to use it (since it was apparently harmless to Time Lords), they unleashed a swarm of gigantic bees, each as big as a small moon, which managed to [[the emperor of a race that can only feel hatred, daleks!]]
* BreakTheCutie: After Awakening, Clara got all the memories pertaining to Season 8 at once.

* BaddieFlattery: [[spoiler:The Mistress is impressed by David Xanatos.]] And his goatee.
* BeeBeeGun: In one Loop, the Moment was a [[MemeticMutation Deadly Bee Weapon]] instead of a galaxy-destroying superweapon. When the Doctors decided to use it (since it was apparently harmless to Time Lords), they unleashed a swarm of gigantic bees, each as big as a small moon, which managed to [[BeyondTheImpossible scare the Dalek Emperor.]]

** In another Loop, a plan to prevent stars from dying somehow results in the star coming to life. As a sun-sized imitation of Pinkie Pie.

* NoodleIncident: Apparently Pikachu met an un-Awake version of the Doctor once. It involved Daleks and Tentacruel.
** Not to mention the crew of ''Serenity'', given they recognised him.

* YouCantFightFate: No matter what the Doctor does, his eleventh regeneration (The Tenth Doctor) keeps getting fatally zapped by a Dalek. Taken UpToEleven when it turns out it doesn't apply to Daleks. Even in a Bureau Loop, he still gets fatally zapped.
** And even when he ''doesn't'' get zapped, ''[[YankTheDogsChain he still]] [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption regenerates anyway]]'' because of a glitch.

* BeyondTheImpossible: An Awake Shin manages to destroy [=CelestA.I.=] which culminates into the Heat Death of the Universe by simply walking around Equestria Online. This is due to him being a WalkingTechbane.

* MoodWhiplash: Nothing is more apparent than in the ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'' crossover and Ch. 4, where [[spoiler:The Purple Man goes into a creepy MotiveRant and then becomes Springtrap, in the later, Mike finds himself facing something horrific, something [[NothingIsScarier we don't see.]]]]

* MythologyGag: Bonnie the Bunny changes gender much more often than other loopers, thank to the VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys fandom confusing him for a girl repeatedly. ((Foxy also suffered from this, but to a lesser extent.))

* AbnormalAmmo: Sasha's [[Videogame/{{inFamous}} Conduit powers]] give her the power to control potatoes.

* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: Sasha's [[Videogame/{{inFamous}} Conduit powers]] let her get away with this, so long as it's only potatoes.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: One loop ends up running on this, and the clothes are... [[Stripperiffic well...]]
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Xana, being a genderless and friendly computer program, takes up Hange's form for Sasha's comfort. It merely leaves Sasha wondering how [[MutuallyFictional Hange could have shown up in the Code Lyoko universe.]]
* AdaptationalHeroism: Raditz, an insane Saiyan, becomes the hero of mankind when given an endless horde of Titan's to kill.

* AirHugging: [[AvertedTrope Averted quite nicely.]] Eren and Armin are not above hugs.

* ApocalypseWow: Armin witnesses a spiral menace thanks to Anakin experiencing the Mikasa Glitch first hand.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Lelouch comments that Loopers have fallen to despair, confusion, and doing scripted TLC comedies.

* BadFuture: Eren encounters a variant loop where his preloop self was a time traveler, who came back from a future where humanity had all but died out to the Titans. It's also revealed that the time traveler instigated the deaths of Armin and Mikasa's parents to mold all three into the perfect weapon against the Titans, which takes on a disturbing element for Eren when he admits that it would be a fairly sensible fact, considering Mikasa's skills, Armin's brains, and Eren's powers.
* BarrierWarrior: Jean is getting better at using his AT field in combat.

* BeachEpisode: Guest staring Leah Clearwater and the Volturi.

* ColdOpen: Loop 3.12, Sasha's second loop. It doesn't start with any of the ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' Loopers, but with [[WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko Ulrich Stern]] from Code Lyoko. When he and his friends do find Sasha, she's having a HeroicBSOD.
** Loop 5.3 has a similar issue, with Sasha and Connie Awakening in an alley with gun wielding hooligans shouting at them.

* DisproportionateRetribution: During her first encounter with the [[MesACrowd Mikasa Glitch]], Mikasa insults her own scarf. The collective Mikasa horde begin a fight to the death.
** Annie suffers one where, in the immediately prior loop, she killed Eren. Mikasa tracks her unawake self down and beheads her.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In an uncommon situation, most of the original loops can be accredited to the writer KrspaceT/Crossoverpairinglover of the Star Wars loops, who is not the compiler, somewhat mitigated as the writer continues to provide a sizeable amount of AoT loops.

* E=MCHammer: Armin develops the ''perfect looping formula''. It's largely illegible and unrelated garbage, but he assures Eren and Mikasa that it would work. In his defense though, he, and everyone else in the 104th were [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs stoned out of their minds.]]

* FloatingContinent: Eren doesn't understand floating continents, and chocks them up to bad designers.
* FrickinLaserBeams:...[[RealityEnsues Have no effect on Annie when she turns her skin to diamond.]]

* GenkiGirl: [[TheStoic Ymir]] plus [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs something hallucinogenic]] equals happiness!

* Homage: Loop 3.1 is a homage to Evangelion and Power Rangers.
* HomeworldEvacuation: Courtesy of Darth Vader and the Galactic Empire.

* MadeOfIndestructium: Anything compared to Titan's, if made in Minecraft.

* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Loopers end up like this after a while due to a wide range of powers, with the Titan Shifting Eren and Ymir standing out. In addition, Thalassocnus, an Semi-Aquatic Ground Sloth, appears one loop

* NotSoStoic: Levi, when faced with a ''massive'' mural of Hange drawn on the inside of Shiganshina, dismounts his horse, marches over to a nearby wall, and starts trying to [[HeadDesk kill the brain cells responsible for the image.]]
** Levi[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness breaks character]] when he realizes that an Unawake and Mikasa Glitching Hanji Zoe and Hange Zoe (of opposite genders) can produce children.
* OccidentalOtaku: Eren. He likes the culture.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: Glyptodon, Megatherium, Phorusrhacos, and Thalassocnus show up on the extinct end of things during a loop where the Walls are in South America, as well as the Spectacled Bear. Mentioned animals of this nature include Mountain Tapirs, Taruca Deer, Rhea, Winsent, Aurouchs, Tarpan, Wels Catfish, Short Faced Bears, and Chinchillas.

* PunnyName: Levi's name is lampshaded by the Anchors. He destroys their pants in retaliation. [[DontExplainTheJoke Because they're wearing Levies jeans.]]

* RunningGag: Jean and Armin in a loop immediately after strange loops and complain about them: ranging from {{Nextwave}} to MyImmortal.

* Stripperiffic: 12.14's loop seems to invoke this in terms of the girl's clothing. Thankfully, the men rise to the challenge of supplying the girls with proper clothes.

* [[AllAnimeIsNaughtyTentacles Tentacle Monster]]: plus Titan in schoolgirl outfit equals a need for BrainBleach.
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: One loop, one of the Geese from Episode 1 was the Big Bad.

* WhamEpisode: 5.13 starts by showing how Hange's loops usually start, then goes forward to show Levi having some sort of aneurism, [[spoiler: and ends with Levi, having spouted fangs and turned his eyes red, begging for blood.]]
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: In-Universe. Eren, Armin and Mikasa denote the political undertones of Attack on Titan when all Titans get replaced by Mexicans. Apparently, their loop is racist.
** Becomes HilariousInHindsight when the Manga advanced to the point where it was revealed [[spoiler: that the [[MoreThanMindControl Coordinate]] could only control a specific ethnicity of Caucasians,]] meaning that the allegory that the uncontrollable Titans were cast outside the controllable populace.

* WorthIt: Eren's view of anything that pisses of the Volturi.

* YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry: One of Eren's earliest loop is one where he replaces [[TropeNamer Bruce Banner]]. He can still Hulk out.