History YMMV / Chains

* AuthorsSavingThrow: The reveal that Celestia [[spoiler:actually does fund anti-slavery movements and cells on top of playing the LongGame waiting for the right time to assassinate Prime Minister Surachi]] comes off as this after the overwhelmingly negative response to her handling of the issues listed under UnintentionallyUnsympathetic.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The horrible ways some pony slave owners are shown to treat their slaves and Celestia's gross incompetence has caused a lot of readers to either give up on the story altogether, or just continue reading in the hopes of Celestia and all of ponykind getting a real punishment for their actions. Some readers even expressed a desire for the Equestrians to be enslaved as a form of LaserGuidedKarma.

* FridgeLogic: [[spoiler: If the whole enslavement situation came about because two humans ate a pony]], how are there still Griffons or Diamond Dogs around in Equus? Griffons are the mythological arch-enemy of horses; and chapter 15 states they are [[ForeverWar locked in a ceaseless state of on-again-off-again warfare]]. The Diamond Dogs are shown in-canon to be [[MadeASlave perfectly willing to pull the same bullshit the ponies are]].
** For that matter, why haven't the windigoes shown up to feed off the humans' misery/hatred?

* WoobieSpecies: Humanity as a whole has become this.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: The reveal that Celestia [[spoiler:actually does fund anti-slavery movements and cells]] comes off as this after the overwhelmingly negative response to her handling of the issues listed under UnintentionallyUnsympathetic.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The horrible ways some pony slave owners are shown to treat their slaves and Celestia's gross incompetence has caused a lot of readers to either give up on the story altogether, or just continue reading in the hopes of Celestia and all of ponykind getting a real punishment for her actions. Some readers even expressed the desire for the Equestrians to be enslaved as a form of LaserGuidedKarma.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The horrible ways some pony slave owners are shown to treat their slaves and Celestia's gross incompetence has caused a lot of readers to either give up on the story altogether, or just continue reading in the hopes of Celestia getting a real punishment for her actions. Some readers even expressed the desire for the Equestrians to be enslaved as a form of LaserGuidedKarma.

** For that matter, why haven't the windigoes shown up to feed off the human's misery/hatred?

* TheWoobie: Chains, naturally.

* FridgeLogic: [[spoiler: If the whole enslavement situation came about because two humans ate a pony]], how are there still Griffons or Diamond Dogs around in Equus? Griffons are the mythological arch-enemy of horses; and chapter 15 states they are [[ForeverWar locked in a ceaseless state of on-again-off-again warfare,]]. The Diamond Dogs are shown in-canon to be [[MadeASlave perfectly willing to pull the same bullshit the ponies are]].

* FridgeLogic: [[spoiler: If the whole enslavement situation came about because two humans ate a pony]], how are there still Griffons or Diamond Dogs around in Equus? Griffons are the mythological arch-enemy of horses; and {{Fanon}} states they are [[ForeverWar locked in a ceaseless state of on-again-off-again warfare,]] and the Diamond Dogs are shown in-canon to be [[MadeASlave perfectly willing to pull the same bullshit the ponies are]].

* FridgeLogic: [[spoiler: If the whole enslavement situation came about because two humans ate a pony]], how are there still Griffons or Diamond Dogs around in Equus? Griffons are the mythological arch-enemy of horses; and {{Fanon}} states they are [[ForeverWar locked in a ceaceless state of on-again-off-again warfare,]] and the Diamond Dogs are shown in-canon to be [[MadeASlave perfectly willing to pull the same bullshit the ponies are]].

* FridgeLogic: [[spoiler: If the whole enslavement situation came about because two humans ate a pony]], how are there still Griffons or Diamond Dogs around in Equus? Griffons are the mythological arch-enemy of horses; and {{Fanon}} states they are [[ForeverWar locked in a ceaceless state of on-again-off-again warfare,]] and the Diamond Dogs shown in-canon to be [[MadeASlave perfectly willing to pull the same bullshit the ponies are]].

* FridgeLogic: [[spoiler: If the whole enslavement situation came about because two humans ate a pony]], how are there still Griffons or Diamond Dogs around in Equus? Griffons are the mythological arch-enemy of horses; and {{Fanon}} states they are in a ceaceless state of on-again-off-again warfare, and the Diamond Dogs shown in-canon to be [[MadeASlave perfectly willing to pull the same bullshit the ponies are]].

* FridgeLogic: [[spoiler: If the whole enslavement situation came about because two humans ate a pony]], how are there still Griffons or Diamond Dogs around in Equus? Griffons are the mythological arch-enemy of horses, and the Diamond Dogs shown in-canon to be [[MadeASlave perfectly willing to pull the same bullshit the ponies are]].

* FridgeLogic: [[spoiler: if the current situation is because two humans ate a pony]], how are there still Griffons or Diamond Dogs; one race the mythological arch-enemy of horses, the other shown in-canon to be [[MadeASlave perfectly willing to pull the same bullshit the ponies are]]?

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Celestia. While she clearly did not enjoy turning then humans into a SlaveRace for the ponies, her rather weak attempts to justify her decision to Luna as well as the fact that she refuses to just overturn slavery overnight have made her come off like a weak and incompetent leader easily manipulated by her {{Evil Chancellor}}s to many a reader.