History WarpThatAesop / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicEpisodes

** A woman in a position of power who ruthlessly enforces her beliefs of equality on other people, expects everyone to follow her way without question, will forcibly try to indoctrinate others, and will punish dissent with abuse, unforgiveness, and exile, is a villainous cultist who needs to be stopped. A woman in a position of power who ruthlessly enforces her beliefs of ''friendship'' on other people, expects everyone to follow her way without question, will forcibly try to indoctrinate others, and will punish dissent with abuse, unforgiveness, and exile, is our lovable morally right purple protagonist.

** Trying to prevent winter is forgivable, and you'll be seen as sympathetic if you do so. Trying to create TheNightThatNeverEnds on the other hand [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon is evil and will get you banished to the moon]]. This is because DarkIsEvil, obviously.

** Trust no one, kids! Not your friends, not your family, not your closest confidant, ''nobody''. ''Everyone'' you know and love is waiting for the right moment to strike, take what you value most of all, and waggle it just out of your reach while mocking you for ever trusting them. Make sure you strike first! Friendship might be magic but it's still [[VideoGame/MetalGearRising kill or be killed, kids. Phnom Penh taught me that]].

** When hungry creatures that are potentially a threat but can totally be reasoned with move in to your habitat unannounced and do their thing, your treatment of them varies. If they are [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E26ACanterlotWeddingPart2 pony-like and capable of speech]], then [[Film/ConanTheBarbarian CRUSH THEM, DRIVE THEM BEFORE YOU, AND HEAR THE LAMENTATION OF THE WOMEN]]. If they're animal-like and not capable of speech, give them a chance and hope everything works out.

** As already shown in ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E7ParentalGlideance Parental Glideance]]'', if someone is well-meaning towards you but is doing something that hurts you and they don't realize it, you should let them be. Trying to stop them from hurting you or calling them out is mean and is being a bad friend.

** Want to liven up an event you find boring? Do you exercise your powers as an undisputed ruler, an event organizer, close friends with one of the other event organizers, and an incredibly popular person to change things up more to your liking? NOPE! Instead invite a barely reformed criminal who has nearly killed people on multiple occasions even after his supposed reformation. Passive-aggressiveness for the win!

--> [[Film/{{Goon}} Let me tell ya somethin', kid. Everybody loves their soldiers until they come home and stop fighting.]]

** When you're struggling to do something within the rules and guidelines set for the safety of yourself and others and your [[PoisonousFriend sociopath buddy]] rolls up and says "screw safety, just do it", you should totally listen. Just like when they say to take drugs and alcohol to cope with problems!

** Someone who eagerly snaps at his partner over something they overheard the partner saying whilst eavesdropping and then won't even let the partner say what they had to say isn't an [[DomesticAbuse emotionally]] [[DestructiveRomance manipulative]] [[BastardBoyfriend asshole]] [[BastardGirlfriend spouse]]: they only got japed by a silly misunderstanding! Keep this in mind the next time you're getting snapped at for no reason by the doofus you met only a few months ago.

** You're in the wrong if you decide to stop associating with the [[BastardGirlfriend manipulative succubus]] who feeds into the feelings she knows you have for her to entice you into doing her job for her, all the while treating you like an indentured servant at best and completely disregarding said feelings.

** Meta example: Go ahead and ignore the past several seasons of character growth if there's a particular story you really want to tell or lesson you really want to teach. It's the final season, may as well have some fun. (May also apply to [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E15TwoFourSixGreaaat 2, 4, 6, Greaaat]]) Bonus points if the lesson you're trying to teach is along the lines of [[UnderminedByReality "sometimes you just can't do what you want"]].

---> '''[[TheSimpsons Bill Clinton:]]''' Thank you, Lisa, for teaching kids everywhere a valuable lesson: If things don't go your way, just keep complaining until your dreams come true.
---> '''Marge:''' That's a pretty lousy lesson

** When a military or law enforcement's first, best, and ''only'' accomplishment is arresting a powerless unarmed prepubescent child after all the foiling was done by others, that's definitely not a red flag that they're [[MilitariesAreUseless absolutely]] [[PoliceAreUseless terrible]] at their jobs and really should be whipped into shape or outright replaced. There's nothing wrong with law or military enforcement that makes [[Franchise/TheSimpsons Chief Wiggum]] look like UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt, after all.

** Meta example: someone who cross-dresses is automatically a Trans Person, even those who have a valid reason to crossdress that has nothing to do with their gender identity.

* Breaking and entering is perfectly acceptable if you want the homeowner to give speech lessons (without payment, even).