| 1 | Part of [[Fanfic/TheInfiniteLoops The Infinite Loops Project]]. |
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| 3 | Twilight Sparkle went to Ponyville, redeemed Nightmare Moon, defeated Discord, fought the Changelings, and became an Alicorn Princess. Some time after that, she found herself back before any of that had happened. Again, and again, and again... Then her friends began to join her on occasion, which helped with the variety a bit. Now she, as well as over two dozen of her friends, fellows, and in some cases erstwhile antagonists are doing the same thing - as well as other worlds, worlds that none of them could have imagined. Friends have been made, horizons broadened... and plenty of fun had along the way. |
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| 5 | ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic My Little Pony]]'' was not one of the first-activated settings, nor was it one even considered in the initial genesis of the Loops. However, it has become particularly important to the revival version of the Infinite Loops as presented by Saphroneth and those provoked by him, largely because it is the MLP Loops which originally got Spacebattles involved. |
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| 7 | The MLP Loopers tend to be good friends, partly because this is the series' name and a core part of their setting, and partly because it is distinct from the original Innortal iteration of the Loops. As such, the theme of the MLP Loops could be said to be "don't be unkind" - though this is a goal in-universe and not one which is met every time - and that the Pony Loopers have a tendency to want to help the admins, rather than seeing them as obstacles. Apart from that, the main feature of the MLP Loops is sheer scale owing to their long-standing nature and the general popularity of the setting. (That and how they're mostly ponies.) |
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| 9 | Aside from revitalizing the Infinite Loops project, the MLP Loops have also provided the strong backbone for the revival and as such have had a very considerable impact. Several other Loops settings got their genesis via a crossover with the MLP Loops, as did a number of Loopers, and more than one Anchor originated in a Loop written originally under the aegis of the MLP Loops. |
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| 11 | The MLP Loops can be found [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/98568/mlp-time-loops here]] and [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9216685/1/MLP-Loops here.]] The thread is so long it's been broken into parts: [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/mlp-time-loops.257060/ 1]] [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/mlp-time-loops-thread-2.268673/ 2]] [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/mlp-time-loops-thread-3.274575/ 3]] [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/mlp-loops-thread-4.280859/ 4]] [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/mlp-time-loops-thread-5.284904/ 5]] [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/mlp-loops-thread-6.290209/ 6]] [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/mlp-loops-thread-7.295919/ 7]] [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/mlp-time-loops-thread-8.300235/ 8]] [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/mlp-loops-thread-9.306018/ 9]] [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-mlp-loops-season-10.794023/ 10]] |
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| 13 | !!''The MLP Loops'' provide examples of: |
| 14 | * AcidRefluxNightmare: |
| 15 | ** Variant in 136.6, where it's not food that causes it - instead, Twilight remembers why it's a bad idea to watch ''Film/TheGodfather'' right before bed. |
| 16 | ** In 143.5, Rainbow Dash ''thinks'' she's in one of these (it's really a prank by Spike) when she sees a werewolfified reflection of herself in the mirror, and promptly swears off eating Manexican food before bed. |
| 17 | * ActuallyPrettyFunny: In one Loop, Princess Celestia woke up to find Nightmare Moon standing over her, and was almost immediately on the receiving end of a "Royal Canterlot Belly Zerbert". At the time, she reacted by spending the day chasing her sister around the castle yelling death threats; in a later Loop, she admits to Twilight that upon reflection, she does find it amusing. |
| 18 | * AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Retroactively in the case of Trixie and Chrysalis. In cartoon canon, they never met until the end of Season 6, when Trixie was part of the team that entered Chrysalis' hive to rescue the Mane Six and the royal family. In the Loops, they've been dating since before the expansions into Season 4 and beyond started. |
| 19 | * AnAesop: Chapter 149's message is this - sometimes, you ''can't'' solve every problem you come across... but it's always worth it to ''try''. Even if you can't fix it, you can make it even the smallest bit better. When [[Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei Naoki Kashima/The Demi-Fiend]] snapped and was possessed by his ShadowArchetype, and went on a mindless and destructive rampage, the ponies tried to help him and bring him back to his senses with the Elements of Harmony... but they ''failed'', due to the problem being too [[EnemyWithin deep-seated and closely connected]] to Naoki to be subdued or dealt with so easily. Some problems ''can't'' be solved in the span of a single Loop, or by using the PowerOfFriendship. [[DeconReconSwitch However,]] once Naoki came to his senses many Loops later, he remembered how they and other Loopers like them never gave up and took the easy way out by killing him in his berserk state, and fought to bring him to his senses instead to ''help him''. In spite of [[CrapsackWorld all the horrors, betrayals, and darkness]] of his Loop, the fact that the ponies never gave up in ''trying'' to help reminded him that [[RestoredMyFaithInHumanity there are some worlds worth fighting for.]] |
| 20 | * 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. |
| 21 | * AllLovingHero: There is enough love in Fluttershy's heart to feed an entire colony of Changelings. |
| 22 | * ArrangedMarriage: |
| 23 | ** Were a thing in 177.21. Applejack was with someone she thought might have been a pony version of Thorin Oakenshield (but didn't know whether he was Awake or not), Fluttershy was with Caramel, Rainbow Dash with her old bully Hoops, Octavia with Prince Blueblood, and Twilight was with Flash Sentry. |
| 24 | ** In Loop 202.12, Filthy Rich's marriage to Spoiled Milk was an arranged one, but Filthy wound up having a one-night stand with Applejack, whom he admitted was the one he really wanted to marry, after being told. [[spoiler:She got pregnant, and Diamond Tiara - who was subsequently raised by Filthy and Spoiled, though with the promise that if she found out about her birth mom and wanted to rejoin her, she could - was the result.]] |
| 25 | * TheAtoner: |
| 26 | ** 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. |
| 27 | ** 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. |
| 28 | * 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. |
| 29 | * AttentionDeficitOohShiny: One version of Twilight actually has ADD. She decides to go along with it. |
| 30 | * AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: |
| 31 | ** 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. |
| 32 | ** In one Loop, a lot of the minor alicorns deliberately ascend for ridiculously minor things like eating a lot of muffins. At first [=unAwake=] Celestia gives them each a full coronation, but she calls it quits after Ivory Scroll apparently ascended by choking on a paper clip. It was all a gambit to get Celestia to stop forcing alicorns to have responsibility. |
| 33 | ** In the "daughters loops" (where the Cutie Mark Crusaders are Twilight's alicorn daughters), she quickly dumps the responsibility on them so she can have fun studying elsewhere. 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. |
| 34 | ** One snippet mentions Twilight has, on occasion, played havoc with her coronation, including in one instance singing a modified version of "Modern Major General". |
| 35 | * BadassBureaucrat: Mayor Mare demonstrates her mastery of the Art of the Regulation by derailing the planned destruction of Equestria by the Vogons. [[spoiler:It results in her ascending to alicornhood.]] |
| 36 | * BadassFingersnap: [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/98568/128/mlp-time-loops/mlp-loops-122 Story 122.11]] references it. |
| 37 | -->Chaos Legion had [an insignia of] a hand poised to snap. This was universally agreed to be a bad sign. |
| 38 | * BadPowersGoodPeople: 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. |
| 39 | * BaitAndSwitch: PlayedForDrama in ''Conversion Contact''. It is initially played off as yet another Conversion Bureau variant that [[VideoGame/FateGrandOrder Chaldea]] stumbled into somehow. [[spoiler:[[FromBadToWorse It later turns out to be a]] '''[[FromBadToWorse far]]''' [[FromBadToWorse more dangerous Lostbelt.]]]] |
| 40 | * TheBartender: Big Mac, after he opens his looping bar. |
| 41 | * BattleDiscretionShot: Loop 186.15 has a recently-ascended (as in, she's now a Higher Griffon, her species' equivalent to an Alicorn) Gilda face Nightmare Moon. After Gilda calls out the Celestial Brush, the entire fight is summed up as "Ten extremely violent minutes later, a dazed Luna was being led away by Mac and Berry Punch". |
| 42 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler:In ''Conversion Contact'', Starlight Glimmer ponders on the {{Irony}} that the one time Cutie Marks turned out to be evil, it's in a Conversion Bureau-inspired doomed timeline created by a goddess that uses them as brainwashing tools.]] |
| 43 | * BecomingTheCostume: The Halloween chapters (released between Loops 34 and 35) use this, as everyone transforms into the characters they were dressed as thanks to Discord. It also leads to the souls of Private Pansy, Clover the Clever, and Smart Cookie sticking around as pseudo-Loopers, soul-bound to the Crusaders. |
| 44 | * 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. |
| 45 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Equestrians have named their loop a sanctuary loop, and they ''mean'' it. |
| 46 | * BigYes: Leman, when [[spoiler:Nyx agrees to marry him]]. |
| 47 | * BillBillJunkBill: Used on a few occasions. |
| 48 | ** In Loop 162.29, Fluttershy is going through her mail. |
| 49 | --->"Ad, Ad, Ad, Bill, Bill, Ad, Ad, Bill, Bill, Court Summons for Angel, Restraining Order for Angel, Business Card for Angel...." |
| 50 | ** Then she ''eats'' the card after it turns out to be from [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz]], who's recruiting for an evil organization. |
| 51 | ** In Loop 179.21, by Discord when going through a stack of mail he's delivering, trying to find a letter for Fluttershy: |
| 52 | --->"Bill, bill, eviction notice, bill, bill, bill, coupon for Sugar Cube Corner, bill, bill, invitation to the Grand Galloping Gala, bill, bill, bill, bill, ah here we go! One letter to Fluttershy from Derpy Whooves." |
| 53 | ** In Loop 198.2, by Twilight when going through her mail: |
| 54 | --->"Bills, junk, junk, zoning warning, death threats... Ah. Fluttershy! You have a letter!" |
| 55 | ** In Loop 202.18, by Vinyl Scratch when going through a chest that holds part of her sunglasses collection (she finally finds [[Webcomic/SchlockMercenary Kevyn Andrayson]]'s sunglasses in the ''second'' chest she looks in): |
| 56 | --->"My normal sunglasses, [[Manga/{{Bleach}} Renji Abarai]]'s style of sunglasses, yellow sunglasses from [[Manga/{{Hellsing}} Alucard]], yellow sunglasses from [[Manga/{{Trigun}} Vash]], triangle shades, [[ComicBook/XMen Cyclops-style visor]]... when did I pick that up? Ooh, authentic [[Film/TheBluesBrothers Blues Brothers]] sunglasses!" ... "[[Series/CSIMiami Horatio Caine]]'s sunglasses that he gave me... nope... nope... not that one... drat, it doesn't look like they're in this chest." |
| 57 | * BodyDouble: One Loop explains how ''Equestria Girls'' Rainbow Dash can manage every sports team at Canterlot High in addition to all those other activities - substitute Rainbow Dashes who dress and act like her. |
| 58 | * BreakTheBadass: Sometimes, very rarely, the ponies can have nightmarish Loops. |
| 59 | * BreatherEpisode: The Equestria loops function as this for every guest Looper. They take this duty ''very'' seriously. |
| 60 | * BrickJoke: Discord does a ''literal'' one when he shoots a brick up into the sky in front of Twilight and Rarity and he muses on when it'll come down. Some time later (in fact, approximately 183 Loops later for Twilight, 34 for Rarity, and 11 for Discord) as the two ponies and Spike are enjoying an outdoor meal, an object shoots down from the sky and creates an explosion and crater when it hits the ground. It's the brick and Twilight is massively annoyed by how this trope was in play. |
| 61 | * BrownNote: Staring at Pinkie Pie's anti-A.I. program makes Apple Bloom physically ill. |
| 62 | * {{Calvinball}}: Discord's "Chaos"[[note]](you were expecting a different name?)[[/note]] card/board game. The rules are completely made up and the points don't mean anything. There's also a sci-fi expansion set for ''Star Trek'' Loops, and even more expansions when he gets the inspiration (including after he met Calvin himself and learned about the trope namer). |
| 63 | -->'''Apple Bloom:''' I could swear I had a different set of cards five minutes ago. |
| 64 | * ChainsawGood: |
| 65 | ** Loop 96.6 has Spike finding the Necronomicon in the Castle of the Two Pony Sisters. Apparently, this is not the first time this has happened, and the last time it did, he ended up with a dragonfire chainsaw gauntlet, which he says "was pretty awesome". |
| 66 | ** In Sunset's first Loop meeting Leman Russ, she used a chainsaw to break Tirek's captives out of his prison. It made enough of an impression that she got pardoned for her earlier crimes. |
| 67 | ** As noted in 133.7, Trixie owns a prop chainsaw that she uses for the "saw a pony in half" trick. Chrysalis freaked out when Trixie tried to do it without telling her it was fake. (And when Snips and Snails tried to reproduce it with a real one.) |
| 68 | ** Subverted when Twilight tries to use a chainsaw to open the Cutie Map and analyze it. She ends up with a Loop Crash that sends her to G3. |
| 69 | ** Pinkie ''collects'' chainsaws. During the "Gravity Falls: Friendship is Magic" arc, she tries to add the beaver-chainsaw to it, but gets distracted when the Gobblewonker shows up. She later tries to use a pink flaming chainsaw against a ghost. Rainbow Dash also uses a chainsaw later on for a different incident. |
| 70 | * 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. |
| 71 | * 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. |
| 72 | * TheChessmaster: |
| 73 | ** 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. |
| 74 | ** 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. |
| 75 | * 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. |
| 76 | * ContemplatingYourHands: In Loop 63.3 (and Dragons Loops 9.16), a visiting Eragon and Saphira tried one of Berry Punch's drinks. It made Eragon decide to see if he could make a volcano erupt, while Saphira didn't stop him because of this trope. In her own words, "I was too busy examining my own claws in minute detail." |
| 77 | * CostumeCopycat: 203.15 features an offscreen variant - after Princess Luna became Nightmare Moonpie and banished herself to the moon so she could practice her baking in peace (since Celestia kept swiping the food before Luna could taste it herself), Celestia appointed alicorn versions of Soarin' (or "Soaralicious"; Equestria had a disco/pie theme that Loop) and Spitfire ("Pie Spitter") as leaders of Equestria and moved to the sun, intending to wait there until her sister had returned. Pie Spitter later adapted the Nightmare Moonpie identity out of a desire for power (and, apparently, a dislike of pies) and was banished to the moon, setting her up as a villain for the future. This results in some minor confusion when Soaralicious is expecting his sister's return and sends Twilight "Sparkle Child" Sparkle to Ponyville in preparation, only for the ''original'' Nightmare Moonpie to return instead. Fortunately, she's rather friendly, sharing her food with everypony while declaring that "THE MOONPIES SHALL LAST FOREVER!" and, once Soaralicious shows up, explaining the differences between she and Pie Spitter. |
| 78 | * 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. |
| 79 | ** 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.) |
| 80 | --->"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." |
| 81 | ** 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's 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 it's 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]] |
| 82 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Pinkie Pie. |
| 83 | ** Loop 102.3 give reasons of why baseline [[spoiler:Ditzy/Derpy/Bright Eyes]] is also one. |
| 84 | --->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. |
| 85 | * 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. |
| 86 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: A non-looping Blueblood attempted a palace coup against a united front of Celestia, Luna, Discord, Cadance, Chrysalis, Sombra, Princess Twilight, Shining Armor (ascended to Alicorn), and Spike (as an advanced great wyrm Emperor of the Dragons). |
| 87 | -->'''Twilight Sparkle:''' You just tried to assassinate ''eight deities'' and a ''Greater Dragon''!\ |
| 88 | '''Blueblood (armed only with a knife):''' Errr... parlay? |
| 89 | * ADogAteMyHomework: Loop 201.14 has an unAwake Apple Bloom tearfully and truthfully inform her teacher that (an also unAwake) "Discord ate my homework, Miss Cheerilee." Cheerilee, full of righteous anger on behalf of her student, proceeds to terrify him into redoing the homework for her (with Fluttershy supervising), and then some, as punishment. |
| 90 | * DoNotTauntCthulhu: Scootaloo, while there's usually not much that can threaten an experienced Looper, it's still a bad idea to go into a ''Franchise/FinalDestination'' loop, scream "Buck Death!" at the sky, and then deliberately start kicking rubber balls near death traps. |
| 91 | -->'''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! |
| 92 | ** 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''. |
| 93 | ** Scootaloo got her vengeance, 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 ''Final Destination'' loop. She responds by taunting Cthulhu. |
| 94 | * {{Doorstopper}}: As of November 2020, the ''Friendship is Magic'' Loops have 215 chapters published and 2,389,518 words written. |
| 95 | * DramaticIrony: In the ''Conversion Contact'' loop, Starlight Glimmer mistakenly assumes that she is in a fused loop with ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}''. [[spoiler:She is actually in a Conversion Bureau-inspired Lostbelt.]] |
| 96 | * 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. |
| 97 | * 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. |
| 98 | * DrunkOnMilk: |
| 99 | ** In Loop 69.5, changelings can get drunk from feeding on love. Judging by Twilight's reaction, this is not the first time this has happened. |
| 100 | ** Loop 195.4 mentions that Prince Blueblood, taking part in a non-alcoholic drinking contest, got plastered on three cans of diet soda. |
| 101 | * 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. |
| 102 | ** 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. |
| 103 | *** Along something of the same lines: When Lemon Rush and Shining Armor had a "Brothers" loop after the former's ascension, they were careful to act only as advisors and guardians against extraordinary threats, and not allow themselves to be made into rulers or put up on a pedestal. They also avoided any necessity for Lunar time-outs. These two facts may or may not be actually connected, but they are both true nonetheless. |
| 104 | ** Fluttershy is actually a ZigZaggedTrope where this is concerned. She did go crazy and get banished, but she went crazy because while dealing with Discord he gave her a case of MoodWhiplash that made her genuinely dangerous and the banishment was an ''accidental'' result of Twilight using the Elements of Harmony to cure her. So she does follow the pattern but only because of outside influence, unlike the others who went nuts on their own. |
| 105 | ** 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. |
| 106 | ** 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]] |
| 107 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Some of the early loops had the ponies pretending to be villains for kicks. This trait largely dropped off after Big Macintosh started looping, with the explanation that seeing Twilight doing this spooked him bad enough not to tell her he was Looping. |
| 108 | * EdibleBludgeon: In one Loop, Twilight comes into Mac's bar sporting a huge grin after having beaten a robotic Tirek with a six-foot party sub. Even the ever-stoic Mac gets a laugh out of that one. (Word of the Loop's author is that it's a ShoutOut to the Webcomic/{{Insecticomics}}.) |
| 109 | * ElaborateUndergroundBase: |
| 110 | ** 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. |
| 111 | ** Apple Bloom also has the capability to install a large scale workshop/aircraft hangar under one of the hills on the Sweet Apple Acres farmstead. |
| 112 | ** While not quite reaching "elaborate" scale, Rarity has started putting a modest Materials Science lab under Carousel Boutique. |
| 113 | * EvenTheGuysWantHim: Turning the Tables Shining Armor is mentioned to have a few male fans. |
| 114 | * 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. |
| 115 | * ExactWords: |
| 116 | ** One Loop, Twilight decides to follow Celestia's edict to "make some friends" literally. She quickly runs into problems with her experimental golems. |
| 117 | ** The Maud'dib's answer to what's in her box? ''Pain.'' After all, Equestrian dentists aren't that great. Twilight concedes the point. |
| 118 | * 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). |
| 119 | * FakingTheDead: Loop 189.8 has Princess Celestia faking her death (with Twilight's help) and going on vacation with Sunset on the human side of the Crystal Mirror. |
| 120 | * FireForgedFriends: How Apple Bloom and Diamond Tiara reconcile. Leads to the latter Looping and joining the [=CMC=]. |
| 121 | * 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. |
| 122 | ** 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. |
| 123 | * {{Flanderization}}: |
| 124 | ** 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. |
| 125 | ** 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. Noadays, 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. |
| 126 | *** It's stated that this is one of the manifestations of Sakura Syndrome, a psychological disorder caused when the Looper starts ignoring the consequences of their actions because "the world will just reset anyway". So some personality traits get suppressed or become less prominent, while some become... ''more.'' |
| 127 | * FlatWhat: Used on multiple occasions, usually in reaction to something gone very, very strange. |
| 128 | ** One case is in Loop 69.17, where Cadance has gotten a letter she got from a random Changeling drone, asking her "What is love? P.S.: Don't hurt me no more." When she reads it to Shining Armor, he reacts the same way. |
| 129 | * 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. |
| 130 | * ForWantOfANail: One Loop shows what happens when Rainbow Dash is mature and sensible and just decides to wait for A.K. Yearling to publish her next book. [[spoiler:Azuihotl wins... and kills himself and Daring in the process, leaving only a massive area of scorched wasteland behind.]] |
| 131 | * 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. |
| 132 | * 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. |
| 133 | ** Cadence attempts this after learning that Rarity and Spike had a "simpler" wedding without her - but Rarity notes that it doesn't really work when you've had a dozen or even hundreds of names over the course of the Loops. |
| 134 | * GiantFootOfStomping: One snip has Nightmare Moon trampled by the Statue of Harmony, animated by the Crusaders. |
| 135 | * TheGlomp: Has appeared a few times. |
| 136 | ** In 50.12, Cheerilee is on the receiving end from the Crusaders when they're cheering her up. |
| 137 | --->'''"CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS GROUP GLOMP YAY!"''' |
| 138 | ** In 151.22, Twilight answers the door and gets glomped across the room by a giant blue pillbug (actually a disguised Discord) yelling "HUGS! HUGS FOR EVERYPONY!" |
| 139 | ** In 178.11, Scootaloo manages to glomp every single Looper in Mac's bar (at least 30 of them) all at once. |
| 140 | * GodzillaThreshold: Some foreign Loopers that are particularly disruptive get a trip to the moon. |
| 141 | ** Jadis of ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' is the only shown time Twilight has resorted to lethal force, due to her possessing the [[DepopulationBomb Deplorable Word]]. |
| 142 | ** 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. |
| 143 | ** 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]]. |
| 144 | ** [[spoiler:After Jadis, "Celestia" of the ''Conversion Contact'' loop earns herself the death penalty due to being a Lostbelt King Goddess and Beast of Humanity capable of going toe to toe with an Awake Twilight Sparkle.]] |
| 145 | * GoneHorriblyRight: One Loop has General Iroh stop Nightmare Moon with tea. Really good tea. Perhaps maybe ''too'' good, since all Luna can do is stand there talking about how good it is. |
| 146 | * GoneHorriblyWrong: An un-Awake version of Discord discordianises Rincewind. As it turns out, a discorded Rincewind is very violent, and incredibly good with magic. |
| 147 | * 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. |
| 148 | * GratuitousPrincess: Many princesses. In this case, Alicorn Princesses, and two princes. 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 his internalized ascension, which lets him stay an Earth pony while using his hooves to do unicorn and pegasus magic, or shift to an internalized alicorn pegasus form where he has wings and can use them to do unicorn and Earth pony magic. There's also Silver Spoon and Gilda, who ascend into a Draconequus and a Higher Griffin, respectively. Of the pony Loopers who awoke before the Crisis Across Infinite Loops, only Cheerilee has yet to formally ascend to alicornhood]]. |
| 149 | * 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]]. |
| 150 | * HalloweenEpisode: The 2-part, 9-author collaboration Nightmare Night loop published between compilations 34 and 35. |
| 151 | * HardToLightFire: Twilight makes use of this as a self-imposed challenge in Loop 113.6. Having been ordered to "burn things", she deliberately picks things that would be hard to set on fire, like a cloud house, grass that's under a foot of snow, and an entire river. (And not the polluted one that self-ignites every other spring.) |
| 152 | * HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday?: |
| 153 | ** Twilight has to tell everyone that she is straight on three different occasions. |
| 154 | ** Both Rainbow Dash and Daring Do say that they are straight after a misunderstanding. |
| 155 | * 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. |
| 156 | * 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. |
| 157 | ** 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. |
| 158 | * HeroicBSOD: Twilight after the [[MemeticMolester "Mol]][[NotHerself estia"]] loop. |
| 159 | * HeroicVow: Equestria's offer to be a sanctuary loop to any looper willing to accept it. |
| 160 | * 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. |
| 161 | * HonestAdvisor: Gilda, both Awake and unAwake, has been hired by Equestria's royal family to serve in this role more than once. As she puts it, "how often do you get hired to tell your employer when she's being a pain?" |
| 162 | * HopeSpot: At one point, it looks like Sci-Twi has started Looping. Then it turns out it's just a prank of Trixie's and Chrysalis. Sunset goes into UnstoppableRage, banishing their asses to Mars for it. |
| 163 | * HorrifyingTheHorror: |
| 164 | ** 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. |
| 165 | --->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. |
| 166 | ** It's gotten to the point that other Loops have revealed there's now a ''support group'' for beings that Pinkie's terrified. |
| 167 | * HouseInspection: In the first "Daughters" loop, Twilight Sparkle is Queen of Equestria, while the Cutie Mark Crusaders are her daughters. She leaves them alone for a thousand years while she goes off doing science, and they create a {{utopia}} based largely around the WildTeenParty. They only remember she's coming ''back'' at the last minute, and have to clean up a thousand years of parties in a day. |
| 168 | -->'''Princess Diamond Tiara:''' In just a few hours, Queen Twilight Sparkle will return to Equestria. She is a threat to our way of life.\ |
| 169 | '''Rarity:''' Define threat?\ |
| 170 | '''Princess Nyx:''' She doesn't approve of noisy, fun, all-night parties.\ |
| 171 | '''Pinkie:''' ''[gasps]'' |
| 172 | * 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''). |
| 173 | * IllTakeTwoBeersToo: Happens in Loop 12.6 when Twilight, having had to deal with politics earlier, pulls two bottles of cider out of her Pocket, asks her brother if he wants one, and then pulls out a ''third'' bottle and hands it him when he says yes. |
| 174 | * ImmortalityField: Peppermint Pylons, first featured in ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/98568/117/mlp-time-loops/mlp-loops-111 Story 111.2]]'': |
| 175 | -->I got one of Pinkie's video game pylons active. So even if [Death] gets me, I'll just happily respawn as long as the pylon remains on." |
| 176 | * ImprovisedWeapon: In one Loop, a robotic Tirek shows up at the Golden Oak Library and demands Twilight's magic. She grabs an object off a nearby table... and kicks his aft with a sandwich. (Specifically, a six-foot party sub left over from a celebration that Pinkie had thrown the day before.) |
| 177 | * 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. |
| 178 | * INeedAFreakingDrink: Standard reaction to bad Loops is to find Big Macintosh or Berry Punch and get drunk. Even Sleipnir joins in on one occasion. |
| 179 | * 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. |
| 180 | * InterruptedIntimacy: |
| 181 | ** 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). |
| 182 | ** A later Loop implies that Applejack walked in on Apple Bloom in a similar manner... but subverted when it turns out she ''really'' walked in on the younger filly constructing a nuclear reactor in her bedroom. |
| 183 | * InterspeciesRomance: [[spoiler:Spike and Rarity, Trixie and Chrysalis, Berry Punch and Discord.]] |
| 184 | ** Technically [[spoiler:Nyx and Leman Russ]], given that in their separate native loops, she's a pony and he's a human. |
| 185 | * {{Jerkass}}: One version of Sombra replacing Twilight is completely abusive towards Spike. Twilight gets revenge in her own way - haunting him until he starts acting better. |
| 186 | -->'''Sombra:''' ''(after finding Twilight hovering above his bed)'' What do you want?\ |
| 187 | '''Twilight:''' ''(thinks about her response)'' [[MeaningfulEcho Boooooooookkssss]]... |
| 188 | * 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".]] |
| 189 | * KlingonPromotion: |
| 190 | ** A version of Blueblood tries this in one Loop, noting that so long as he kills everyone (i.e: Twilight, Shining Armor, Cadance, Spike, Celestia and Luna) in the "right order", he'll become king. Twilight's reaction to break down laughing at his sheer stupidity. |
| 191 | ** How the Griffins are shown to work, though it has certain checks built in so it isn't a perpetual brawl. |
| 192 | * LaserGuidedKarma: In a fused loop with ''VideoGame/Persona2'' the ponies used the [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve Rumor Curse]] to play pranks on each other, despite Tatsuya and Maya's warnings to be careful. One wrong rumor later and the loop destabilizes and crashes. |
| 193 | * 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. |
| 194 | * LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: A standing rule among the Loopers appears to be "don't talk about [[Fanfic/TheConversionBureau Conversion Bureau]] loops". |
| 195 | ** 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. |
| 196 | * LiteralMetaphor: 191.9 had "eating your own words" be taken literally. Rainbow wastes no time in making a pun, Pinkie ends up with a mountain of edible words, Celestia has very few, which she interpreted as a [[YouAreFat request for a diet]], Luna has massive words, and Discord's words fight back. |
| 197 | * LoopholeAbuse: |
| 198 | ** 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. |
| 199 | ** The CMC, Diamond Tiara, and Silver Spoon tend to this when playing ''Battleship'' with real ships. |
| 200 | ** 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. |
| 201 | * 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. |
| 202 | * TheMafia: A version appears in Loop 121.17, and members show up at Mac's bar, the leader claiming Mac is taking away business from the other bars (implied to be ones that the lead intruder controls) around and thus needs to be shut down (and suggesting that he would normally try a ProtectionRacket, but he's making an exception). A non-Looping Octavia, who's visiting with Vinyl, promptly reveals herself to be a former mafia princess and shoots down (harmlessly, due to a mini-Pinkie-Pylon) the intruders. Then Mac himself shows how threatening he can be, and the gangsters decide to back off. |
| 203 | * MajorGeneralSong: Loop 53.3. Also winks at BohemianParody in the stinger. |
| 204 | * 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. |
| 205 | * ManipulativeBastard: [=CelestAI=]'s attempts at this just don't work on Twilight or Big Macintosh. |
| 206 | * MarriedToTheJob: Literally in 108.19 - Cadance, who was both Unawake and Best Mare, has photos of Shining Armor in a tuxedo and his guard armor in a wedding dress. And he ''still'' didn't tell Twilight he was getting married. |
| 207 | * 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]]. |
| 208 | * MeetYourEarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Eventually Chrysalis learns about her un-Looping self marrying Sombra all those times, and is disturbed by the notion. |
| 209 | * MultipleChoicePast: |
| 210 | ** 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.]] |
| 211 | ** 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. |
| 212 | ** Diamond Tiara's mother, unseen up until Series 5, used to change between alive / dead / absent / mad / being Screwball. Diamond is not remotely taken with having Spoiled Rich as her baseline. |
| 213 | ** Scootaloo's family varied a great deal as well. Eventually, it settled down so that her paternal aunt Holiday and Holiday's marefriend Lofty became her recurring caretakers due to her parents being preoccupied by work. |
| 214 | * 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. |
| 215 | ** 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''. |
| 216 | * NerdsLoveToughSchoolwork: Twilight, as in Baseline. This is why she hates Eiken so much, as seen in Loop 45.14 - she thought being in high school would be fun, but people kept interrupting her for various reasons, and she just couldn't get them to leave her alone. |
| 217 | * NoManOfWomanBorn: Loop 69.1 revolves around this - [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings the Witch-King of Angmar]], who cannot be killed by any man, is confronted by a whole slew of Loopers who either aren't men (because they're women), aren't men ''[[GenderBender right now]]'', or are any of a number of non-human species. Twilight Sparkle herself is the first in the last category, nonchalantly saying "Not even human," when she reveals herself. Despite knowing he has no chance, the Witch-King charges them anyway because Sauron had forbidden him from retreating. |
| 218 | * NonProtagonistResolver: |
| 219 | ** Loop 193.7 is set during ''Legend of Everfree'', and Sunset is preparing to act when the human ''Bulk Biceps'', a non-Looper, suddenly steps up and talks Gloriosa/Gaia Everfree down, pointing out that if she keeps them there, she's keeping them away from their families. Sunset's surprised by this, but happy with the results. |
| 220 | ** Loop 215.8, "The Friendship Games Take a Turn For the Strange", has the human Shining Armor and Dean Cadance, neither of whom are Looping, reveal themselves as Kamen Riders and step in to fight Abacus Cinch during the final event of the Friendship Games when it turns out she's actually the Swallowtail Fangire/Bishop from ''Series/KamenRiderKiva'' and is trying to use the energies from Sci-Twi (actually a Mikasa Glitch-ed Twilight from Equestria)'s magic-gathering device to revive her master, the Bat Fangire. |
| 221 | * NonSequiturThud: A common consequence of Trixie's StuffBlowingUp incidents. |
| 222 | -->"Trixie would like fries with that," the blue unicorn muttered, and fell over. |
| 223 | * NoodleIncident: |
| 224 | ** How Twilight first met and became friends with [[Franchise/LyricalNanoha Nanoha]]. We only know they experimented on "practical applications on Nanoha's [[StuffBlowingUp Magic of]] [[DefeatMeansFriendship Friendship]]" and the result was Twilight getting into a G3.5 loop as a result. |
| 225 | ** Apparently at some point Twilight had an encounter with a tyrannical version of Queen Majesty, from G2. It obviously didn't go very well. |
| 226 | ** 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. |
| 227 | ** Mention is made of a "great sponge cake migration of 947"[[note]](doubling as a ShoutOut to two of Ray Stantz's comments in the first ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'' film)[[/note]] 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. |
| 228 | ** Ivory Scroll Looped into ''Series/RedDwarf'' once. She ''really'' doesn't want to talk about it. |
| 229 | * NoodleImplements: Par for the course in a series that references as many loop incidents as it actually depicts. For example, from Loop 30.4: |
| 230 | -->Nightmare Moon had been vanquished with a zebra potion, two pry bars and several metric tons of fruitcake. |
| 231 | * NoSell: |
| 232 | ** 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. |
| 233 | ** Big Macintosh manages to lock [=CelestAI=] out, blocking her accessing his information even after what's implied to be several hundred tries. |
| 234 | * NothingIsScarier: Twilight's encounter with Mad Queen Majesty has never been fleshed out. Given what the original Majesty could do, though, the implications are... pretty damn horrific. |
| 235 | * NotSoDifferentRemark: |
| 236 | ** Sunset admits to an un-Awake version of Nightmare Moon that she used to be like her. |
| 237 | ** One Loop points out to Sunset that by brainwashing humans en-masse and forcing them into bodies not their own, her baseline self wasn't much different from a Conversion Bureau. Shimmer is utterly disgusted by this, and more-so when she's given an Element of Harmony for it. Said Element is later handed over to her other Loopers to be destroyed. |
| 238 | * 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)]]. |
| 239 | * OffTheRails: Like most Loopers, the characters have been known to do this for their Baseline. |
| 240 | ** Loop 119.6 is a bar loop where the locals and some visitors talk about the most epic ways they derailed a ''different'' Baseline. Examples include a ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' Loop where Spike exposes the villains' plot early, Apple Bloom and Twilight capturing the aliens who set up Literature/{{Gor}} and making it impossible for them to interfere while the pair basically fixed everything that was wrong with the setting, and Vinyl Scratch completely fixing ''VideoGame/{{Aquaria}}'' by getting some of the locals to channel Harmony magic against the game's BigBad very early on. |
| 241 | * 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]]. |
| 242 | * {{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. |
| 243 | * OnceDoneNeverForgotten: |
| 244 | ** 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 known as "potato acid" to all the loopers. |
| 245 | --->'''Apple Bloom:''' Ah've never made acid outta' potatoes before.\ |
| 246 | '''Applejack:''' ONE TIME! [[LampshadeHanging Y'all are never gonna let me live that down, are ya?]] |
| 247 | ** Shining Armor's baseline event of forgetting to tell Twilight he was getting married, to the point where his actually ''remembering'' (as in Loop 155.10) leaves Twilight rather surprised. And in 189.8, when Celestia's FakingTheDead and Twilight is the executor of her SillyWill, she leaves him a [[Radio/TheFrantics boot to the head]] for it. It even applies to those times when Cadance ''isn't'' the bride - in 108.19, he literally married to his job, and Twilight didn't find out until afterward. |
| 248 | * OneWordVocabulary: {{Exaggerated}} with Loop 210.9, which involves the aftermath of Twilight Sparkle accidentally overwriting everyone's speech patterns with the first half of her name. This is only explained after a conversation that consists entirely of the word "Twilight". |
| 249 | * 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. |
| 250 | * ParanoiaGambit: Every Looper does this at one point or another, it seems, just to break up the flow. Extra bonus points go to Discord who, in one of his earliest loops, became very helpful and friendly, leading Celestia and Luna to go mad wondering when the other horseshoe would drop. |
| 251 | * ParentalMarriageVeto: Brought up in Loop 48.3, where Big Macintosh is Replacing [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Bruce Banner]]. Shortly before the Gamma Bomb incident, Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, who didn't approve of Banner in comics canon even ''before'' he became the Hulk (and isn't Looping, making him unable to distinguish between Banner and anyone Replacing him in the Loop), warns Mac with "Don't even think for a moment that I'll let you marry my daughter." This being Mac (who is notoriously not interested in romance when Awake at this point) and not Banner, Ross' warning doesn't bother him in the slightest. |
| 252 | * PieInTheFace: In Loop 56.17, Twilight organizes a {{Bowdlerize}}d version of the [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus "Upper Class Twit of the Year" competition]]. In the staged version from the Hub, the last event has competitors shooting themselves in the head, but since this would be for real and Twilight doesn't think that sort of thing is funny, she changes it to the competitors hitting themselves in the face with a pie. |
| 253 | * PokeThePoodle: |
| 254 | ** Early on, the Equestria Loopers would occasionally play villain. Most of them weren't very good at it. Rainbow Dash's antics mainly consisted of irritating everyone, while one of Twilight's was just building a book fort. The nadir was Shining Armor and Cadence, whose evil deeds was just abducting the other and disappearing for long, long stretches of time. The others didn't think this activity even merited thwarting, and that it was best to just let them be alone. |
| 255 | ** One snippet has Shining Armor worried Flurry Heart might grow up to be resentful of her name, and get revenge on them. Immediately after he and Cadence decide not to tempt fate, it cuts to Shining being served some awful coffee in a shop by an adult Flurry Heart (having apparently time-travelled back ''solely'' to do so). |
| 256 | ** Loop 181.6 has Derpy plotting to do evil by... paying more than the normal price for the last bunch of grapes at a stand, and then walking away ''without accepting the change''. Neither of these acts is actually ''remotely'' evil, yet she laughs evilly at the thought of doing so and acts like they're the worst thing anyone could do. |
| 257 | * PoorCommunicationKills: During a Fused Loop with ''Anime/KillLaKill''. If Sunset would have only Pinged to see anyone Awake instead of assuming Ryuko had Sakura Syndrome, she wouldn't have been mistaken for an assassin, fight the Honnouji Academy Elite (who in this loop includes [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Mako]] [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Mankanshoku]] in their ranks) and face-off against both Ryuko and Satsuki. |
| 258 | * PornStash: Zeus hid one of these in Sleipnir's Yggdrasil terminal, creating a Loop featuring an Equestria embodying clopfic and noted above under CrapsackWorld. On the upside, clearing it out led to fixing things so much that the expansions began. |
| 259 | * ProsceniumReveal: Loop 64.5 starts with the Bearers (and Trixie in place of Twilight) facing Discord, using their powers to summon a costumed Twilight as "Princess Harmony"... and then she breaks character out of frustration, revealing they're shooting a movie and that she thinks this version of the script is stupid, demanding to edit the dialogue so it sounds like something they'd actually say. |
| 260 | * {{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.]]]] |
| 261 | ** In the baseline, no matter what Twilight does, her library always gets destroyed during Tirek's rampage. She's ''not'' happy about that. |
| 262 | * ReadingYourRights: In one Loop, at the end of the Friendship Games, a cop who looks like an adult version of Fluttershy arrests Abacus Cinch for abusing her authority (bullying Twilight into participation in the Games and then into using the magic she'd gained). Then she comes back and recites a deliberately inaccurate version of the MirandaRights to Spike ("Spike the dog? You have the right to remain adorable. Anything you say can and will result in you getting your chin tickled."). It's justified in that she wasn't ''actually'' intending to arrest him or announcing an intent to interrogate him - she just wanted to lighten the mood and reassure Sci-Twi that she wasn't going to be in trouble for her actions. |
| 263 | * 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. |
| 264 | * RecursiveFanfiction: Loops include variations of ''Fanfic/PastSins'', the ''[[Fanfic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse Lunaverse]]'' and ''Another Kind of Magic'' among others. |
| 265 | ** 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. |
| 266 | ** In later chapters, the ponies have started encountering [=CelestAI=], from ''Friendship is Optimal''. They're disgusted and horrified by it. |
| 267 | ** And of course, there's ''Fanfic/TheConversionBureau'', but [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain we don't talk about those]]. |
| 268 | * RelatedInTheAdaptation: This can happen a lot due to variant Loops (such as one where Mrs. Cake was a distant relative of the Pie family). Scootaloo in particular has been related (by blood or adoption) to every single one of her fellow Equestrian Loopers, and a few Loopers from other Branches. There are also recurring Loops where Photo Finish is Rainbow Dash's mother, though these seem to have reduced considerably since the "Parental Glidance" expansion. |
| 269 | * RelationshipUpgrade: In Loop 160.12, [[spoiler:after Leman and Nyx reconcile from their previous argument and temporary breakup, Leman proposes, and Nyx accepts]]. |
| 270 | * RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: |
| 271 | -->'''Silver Spoon:''' What do ''you'' all want?\ |
| 272 | '''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.\ |
| 273 | '''Apple Bloom:''' Not an army. Ah'd be fine with a small squad o' twelve, Ah'm not greedy.\ |
| 274 | '''Silver Spoon:''' ...what? |
| 275 | * 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]]. |
| 276 | * RunningGag: Many. Often they take the form of many short segments with different takes on the same scenario, separated by other segments. |
| 277 | ** Applejack trying various means of getting Trenderhoof to lose interest in her right off the bat. Some work better than others. |
| 278 | ** 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: |
| 279 | --->"Did somepony start a running gag without me? That's not nice." |
| 280 | ** Luna coming up with bizarre ways to make her entrance in place of a Nightmare Moon attack. |
| 281 | ** 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.) |
| 282 | ** 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]]. |
| 283 | ** Twilight trying and failing to prevent Tirek from destroying her library. |
| 284 | ** Cadance being obsessed with matchmaking [[spoiler:which it turns out she's been faking for a long time]]. |
| 285 | ** Trixie and her... ''fondness'' for explosions. |
| 286 | ** Trixie trying to tell a story about thermite, just to be interrupted by Gilda. |
| 287 | ** [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]] [[ShoutOut cannot simply]] [[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing walk into Equestria.]] So every time he shows up in a Fused Loop, he makes sure to make a BigEntrance. |
| 288 | ** Since 161.7, there's been a minor gag associating Cadance with pizza. |
| 289 | * 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]]. |
| 290 | ** 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, and 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). |
| 291 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: |
| 292 | ** 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. |
| 293 | ** 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. |
| 294 | ** 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. |
| 295 | ** In one Loop Pinkie Pie is Replaced by Dolores Umbridge, Twilight's response? |
| 296 | --->'''Twilight:''' I prefer Eiken to this ''(aims exceeding powerful spell at the sun)'' Birch this Loop. I'm ''done'' |
| 297 | * 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. |
| 298 | * ShoutOut: |
| 299 | ** Rule One of Bureau Loops is ''[[Film/FightClub do not talk about the Bureau Loops]]''. |
| 300 | ** 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 ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' where she completely ''annihilated'' him. |
| 301 | ** During a Loop in which a handful of characters Looped in as furniture (or in one case, a pair of shutters), ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy2005'' is referenced: |
| 302 | --->'''Rarity''': Twilight?\ |
| 303 | '''Twilight''': Yes, Rarity?\ |
| 304 | '''Rarity''': I think I'm a sofa.\ |
| 305 | '''Twilight''' (pause): I know how you feel. |
| 306 | ** Maud's first major appearance in the Loops is a prolonged shout out to ''Literature/{{Dune}}''. Her name is a pranking word... |
| 307 | ** [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Iroh]] manages to subdue Nightmare Moon with [[Webcomic/GirlGenius Mechanicsburg Spark Roast]]-level tea. |
| 308 | ** Loop 88.2 is one to a scene in the ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "Window of Opportunity" - Sunset's using the mirror portal (on the Canterlot High side) to play golf, just as Jack O'Neill did with the Stargate, and their lines are almost exactly the same. |
| 309 | ** When the evil version of Apple Bloom unveils herself, a confused Pinkie Pie asks, among other things, how many stops it is 'till [[Radio/ImSorryIHaventAClue Mornington Crescent]] (seven over kumquat, apparently). |
| 310 | * 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.]] |
| 311 | * SillyWill: Loop 189.8 has Princess Celestia fake her death and leave one of these, which Twilight (who's in the know) is the one to read. It's also a direct ShoutOut to [[Radio/TheFrantics the "Muldoon's Will" skit]], as Celestia leaves a boot to the head each to Luna, King Sombra, Shining Armor, and Tirek... and a 21 Party Cannon Salute to the head for Prince Blueblood. Unusually for this trope, the will also has some heartwarming bequests: Luna's boot comes with a note that Celestia has long since forgiven her for her past wrongdoings, and this was her wake-up call to forgive herself. She's also left a message that Celestia has always loved her, even in Luna's darkest moments. A similar message is left for Sunset Shimmer (who is not present at the will-reading; she and Celestia are vacationing on the human side of the Crystal Mirror). |
| 312 | * SingingInTheShower: During the Great Elevator Saga, when the Mane Six's elevator opens up on floor 5, they find Tirek singing in the shower (specifically, Pat Benetar's "Shadows of the Night"). He freaks out when he realizes he's being watched. |
| 313 | * SitcomArchnemesis: The occasional snip has Starscream and Rainbow Dash just deciding to make each other's lives hell for no real reason. |
| 314 | * SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace: Spoofed during Spike and Rarity's wedding, when Sleipnir and Celestia (respectively) sing the following lines: |
| 315 | -->''if there's one who opposes this...'' |
| 316 | -->''... stand up so I can send you to the moon!'' |
| 317 | * StarKilling: |
| 318 | ** Referenced. When [[Series/StargateSG1 Samantha Carter]] loops into Equestria, she is confused that Celestia is giving her a DeathGlare... until Sam realizes she's the princess of the sun. |
| 319 | --->'''Sam:''' You blow up ''one'' sun and they never let you forget it. |
| 320 | ** Not that Celestia has much of a leg to stand on. She crashed her loop at least once by doing experiments on the sun. She died too fast to be sure exactly what happened, but presumably it exploded. |
| 321 | ** It's also brought up during a game of "I Never", when Celestia says that "I have never intentionally blown up a star." Apple Bloom drinks while grumbling about how "You loop as Carter onetime..." |
| 322 | * StatusQuoIsGod: On occasion, Twilight attempts to earn a ''different'' Cutie Mark than her starburst design. It ''never works.'' |
| 323 | ** 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. |
| 324 | ** No matter how hard the Crusaders try, they never get a Cutie Mark that lasts through the resets. |
| 325 | * 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. |
| 326 | * StoryArc: A few of the longer loops are broken up into segments spread out over multiple loop collections. |
| 327 | * StuffBlowingUp: Standard Operating Procedure for Awake!Trixie after her ascension. The Awake iterations of the [=CMC=] membership also have their share of such events. |
| 328 | -->'''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. |
| 329 | ** 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): |
| 330 | --->'''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! |
| 331 | ** 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. |
| 332 | ** Upon discovering xenomorphs, the seaponies nuked the colony from orbit, and then - just 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. |
| 333 | ** 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. |
| 334 | --->'''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. |
| 335 | * 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. |
| 336 | * SuperPoweredEvilSide: Almost every alicorn has one. Twilight Lampshades this. |
| 337 | -->"Congratulations on joining the alicorn club, it helps if you've thought of your evil self beforehand." |
| 338 | * SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: In Loop 59.11 (also Dragons Loops 4.9), a number of Looping dragons and dragonriders (including Spike and Rarity) end up in Berk. While there, Hiccup and Toothless make bets on a few things; Toothless has won a lot of money off Hiccup, and when asked what he even needs it for, makes the following response: |
| 339 | -->''I have my reasons. And I am totally not saving up for a Jacuzzi.'' |
| 340 | ** In one Loop Twilight invokes this trope when she told everypony that she totally wasn't a Changeling and that she totally knew all those things about Ponies and wasn't looking up what mammal means. In the next Loop she told everyone that she wasn't an Aperture Science Hydraulorobotic Pony Device. It was true both times, nobody believed her. |
| 341 | * TakeOverTheWorld: Pinkie can in fact do this, with parties. Twilight insists that no-one need know how. |
| 342 | * TalkingInYourSleep: In one loop, a filly version of Ivory Scroll/Mayor Mare suddenly yells "[[{{Spoonerism}} Sellow fitizens! Er, I mean fellow citizens!]]" in her sleep. Twilight, her mother this Loop, just blinks in surprise and wonders what Ivory was dreaming about to make her say that. |
| 343 | * TeacherStudentRomance: The idea of a romantic relationship between Twilight and Princess Celestia has been discussed more than once, but always firmly subverted. Specific cases include: |
| 344 | ** In 69.14, an unAwake Celestia is in love with Twilight, but Twilight turns her down due to viewing Celestia as a second mother, and also being either straight or asexual. Besides that, Twilight's in a time loop, so from her perspective this Celestia would die before any serious relationship would occur. |
| 345 | ** In Loop 194.5. Twilight again states that she normally views Celestia as a second mother to her, and as such she finds the idea of a romantic relationship between herself and Princess Celestia (who, long before either of them was Awake, had promised to officiate Twilight's eventual wedding, but said it in a way that sounded like a proposal) to be odd. |
| 346 | * ThatsNoMoon: Inverted in Loop 96.8, when a Star Destroyer captain mistakes Equestria's moon for a space station. Darth Vader, having Awoken just a few minutes before, can't help but reverse the usual line. |
| 347 | -->Vader reached out with the Force, and what he sensed both shocked and amused him. Barely able to keep the amusement out of his voice, he rumbled, "That's no space station. That's a moon." |
| 348 | * 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. |
| 349 | * 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.) |
| 350 | * TropeCodifier: Innortal may have started the Loops, but this series does more exploring of the rules. |
| 351 | * TwentyOneGunSalute: In Loop 189.8, in Princess Celestia's SillyWill, one of her heirs is Prince Blueblood, who is left a 21-''party cannon'' salute... to the head, resulting in his getting bombarded with confetti, streamers, balloons, and a few boots. He's dazed afterward, but unharmed. (The will also explains that this is punishment for his various hedonistic acts, including his shabby treatment of Rarity at the last Grand Galloping Gala.) |
| 352 | * UndergroundRailroad: In the Slavequestria loop, it's mentioned the in-Loop version of Pinkie Pie was running the Underground Railroad into Griffon Territory before the group Awoke in that loop. |
| 353 | * UnusualEuphemism: Due to Celestia's request that others not swear by her or Luna, they tend to use "Chlorophyll!" and other botanical terms as curses instead. For non-botanical curses, Gilda was once heard to use "Oh, fiddlesticks and fish-fur." |
| 354 | * 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. |
| 355 | * UpperClassTwit: |
| 356 | ** 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. |
| 357 | ** In 56.17, Twilight gathers several ponies fitting this category so they can compete in a suitably modified [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus "Upper Class Twit of the Year" competition]]. |
| 358 | * WalkingTechbane: Apparently a not-uncommon facet of ''Equestria Girls'' Ditzy, which Sunset exploits at one point to stop the events of ''Friendship Games'' before things can go wrong, just by using Ditzy's natural niceness and curiosity. The minute she touches Twilight's doohickey, it instantly and completely dies. Problem solved. |
| 359 | * WeddingEpisode: The multi-contributor, 2-parter published between compilations 50 and 51, covering the wedding of [[spoiler:Spike and Rarity]]. |
| 360 | * WhamEpisode: |
| 361 | ** Loop 45.11. Everything's going fine, Twilight's planning some antics for later, and then '''*CRACK*'''. The Crash happens. |
| 362 | ** Loop 214.1, which kicks off when Twilight, who's preparing for Luna's return, gets a letter from Starlight Glimmer... who's Awake, marking the first new Looper that Equestria's gotten since Lyra's self-triggered crash. And then the next wham comes when Twilight gets a note from Sleipnir informing her of what would become known as the Crisis Across Infinite Loops, wherein potentially ''anyone'', including villains, could Awaken... and the only way to stop it is to kill anyone they don't want Looping. [[spoiler:Thankfully, though Equestria ''does'' get two new Loopers out of it, they're both friends - Thorax of the changelings, and the human Flash Sentry.]] |
| 363 | * WhatDidIDoLastNight: |
| 364 | ** 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). |
| 365 | ** 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.]] |
| 366 | * WhenTreesAttack: In one Loop, the Golden Oak Library came to life and kicked Tirek's plot back to Tartarus. Rainbow Dash got pictures, which she later shares with Twilight. |
| 367 | * WhosOnFirst: In Loop 143.25, Twilight pulls this on Rainbow Dash by asking her to find a book for her - ''In Plain Sight''. Rainbow Dash is not amused when she catches on. |
| 368 | * 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. |
| 369 | ** 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. |
| 370 | ** 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. |
| 371 | * WifeHusbandry: Suspected to be the case, but ultimately averted, in Loop 194.5 - before they Awoke, Celestia had promised a six-year-old Twilight that she would officiate Twilight's eventual wedding when she was ready, but had said it in a manner that sounded like she was proposing. They clear up the misunderstanding after both are Awake. Twilight herself notes that she considers such a relationship odd, since she normally views Celestia as a second mother to her. |
| 372 | * 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 1,000-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. |
| 373 | * WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing: In Loop 70.13, Discord lets an unAwake Celestia know that he's out, and he's got lots of new ideas for chaos... then proceeds to do nothing, letting Celestia and Luna's own paranoia about him do all the work of causing chaos. |
| 374 | * WithCatlikeTread: As with the trope namer, Loop 56.1 features a parody of this - the Mane Six and Celestia sneak through Canterlot Castle to retrieve the Elements from the vault they're in; they, Luna (who is elsewhere in the castle), and the guards all sing the song as they're doing so, but the guards make no effort to stop them, which Celestia guesses is due to the narrative causality of the Heartsong. |
| 375 | * YouAreInCommandNow: |
| 376 | ** There is one loop where Celestia Awakens moments after banishing Nightmare Moon to the moon. She then exiles the rest of Equestria to the moon, land and ponies and all, effectively forcing Nightmare Moon to be in charge again while she spends the next thousand years surfing. |
| 377 | ** In one loop, Celestia puts the Elements in charge of the country less than a minute (Twilight timed it) after she Awakens so that she can have a vacation. She doesn't bother checking if any of them are Awake first, resulting in Fluttershy and Rarity fainting and Applejack only slightly better. |
| 378 | * 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''. |
| 379 | ** Alternately, one loop where the library was made Twilight-Proof worked. Then it wasn't ''her'' library. Simply moving, however, does not work. |
| 380 | * YourHeadASplode: Happens to Twilight (two times) after she gets an explanation of how the Pinkie Sense works. |
| 381 | ** It happens to the Doctor (many times), when they looped as Daleks and decided to be benevolent. He just couldn't handle the shock. |
| 382 | * 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. |
| 383 | * {{Zonk}}: During the Great Elevator Saga, one floor opens on the current US version of ''Series/LetsMakeADeal'' (not named or specified as such, but the narration and dialogue point to this), where "an avuncular voice [...] from nowhere" announces the Mane Six as a Zonk prize. |
| 384 | -->'''Voice:''' ... six technicolor ponies! Yes, these ponies will clash with every single item in your home! Useful for carrying very small parcels, testing for color blindness, and inducing diabetic shock. This ZONK prize is worth: absolutely nothing!\ |
| 385 | '''Rarity''' (to her friends): I don't know which is more mortifying, darlings, ... being given away as a prize on a game show... or being a BOOBY PRIZE on a game show. |
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