Line #107 Fanfic/PinkiePiesFourthWallVarietyShow


1	''Pinkie Pie's Fourth-Wall Variety Show'' is a non-canon[[note]]ish[[/note]] spin-off/side-story to the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic, the FanFic/PonyPOVSeries. It comprises numerous "episodes", often split into separate parts, and it is written as something of a RoundRobin: Though usually started off by Alex Warlorn and hosted on his deviantart page, entries are mainly made up of scenes fans submit as comments on the story.
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3	Though it references events from the canon of the main fanfic, it is not intended to directly affect the main series, and is somewhat a NonSerialMovie version of a fanfic. Oh, and as you might expect from the title, [[BreakingTheFourthWall it breaks the fourth wall]].
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5	The entries to the Fourth Wall Variety Show serve numerous tasks, including but not limited to: Interaction with the fanbase of the main fanfic, exploring what-ifs, exploring some characterization, roleplaying, parody and [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs occasionally going completely mental]].
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7	Find it [[http://alexwarlorn.deviantart.com/gallery/42867862/Pinkie-Pie-Forth-Wall-Breaking-Variety-Show here]].
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9	It consists of several chapters, some of which get very involved, and which have their own continuity.
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11	1. [[http://alexwarlorn.deviantart.com/art/Pinkie-Pie-s-Fourth-wall-breaking-variety-show-311394234 The First 4th Wall Breaking Variety Show]]: In which Pinkie introduces the concept, [[LatexPerfection various ponies end up costumed as each other]] or even [[BodySwap have their minds transferred between their bodies]], and we learn something of Celestia's one mortal life as a horse. on Earth. Oh yes, and there's a dance contest and the [[Franchise/PowerRangers Pony Rangers]] get introduced.
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13	2. [[http://alexwarlorn.deviantart.com/art/Pinkie-Pie-4th-Wall-Breaker-Variety-Show-Again-329412098 The 4th Wall Breaking Variety Show (Again)]]: Opens with what would have happened if [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Nightmare Whisper]] had [[WouldHurtAChild killed the unborn foals of Equestria]]; WesternAnimation/{{M\|yLittlePonyTVSpecials}}egan shows up for the first time; and [[HilariousInHindsight Twilight Sparkle gets turned into a Nightmare]] and has to flee Fluttercruel (all an illusion, and [[spoiler:released several months before the reveal of the real villain in the Dark World Arc]].
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15	3. [[http://alexwarlorn.deviantart.com/art/Pinkie-Pie-4th-Wall-Breaker-Variety-Show-Yet-Again-351483964 4th Wall Breaking Variety Show Yet Again]]: Megan returns, the ponies battle [[MonsterClown Ponywise the Clown]], [[DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu several of the draconequi drop by for a party]], and oh yes, [[SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum Dark World Twilight goes mad and tries to]] [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou kill the authors and audience]].
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17	4. [[http://alexwarlorn.deviantart.com/art/Pinkie-Pie-s-Surprise-TotallyOrdinary-Variety-Show-362477820 Pinkie Pie's Surprise Totally Ordinary Variety Show]]: In this [[BlatantLies completely normal and non-dangerous]] episode, [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Pinkie Pie's nightmare]], [[MonsterClown Nightmare Granfalloon]], shows up and [[VillainEpisode takes the show over]] and starts turning ponies into Nightmares. Everyone from [[ChildrenAreInnocent the CMC]] to Trixie to [[FromBadToWorse Megan and Luna]] get zapped. Mostly comical (like the [[EvilVersusEvil brawl between Nightmares Mountebank and Moon]], but some darker moments are there.
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19	5. [[http://alexwarlorn.deviantart.com/art/Pinkie-Pie-s-4th-Wall-Breaking-Variety-Show-Plus-371173335 Pinkie Pie's Fourth Wall Breaking Variety Show Plus]][[https://www.deviantart.com/art/Pinkie-Pie-s-4thWall-Breaking-VarietyShow-Plus-2-373504786 and part 2]]: Consisting of two chapter, in this one the [[BadFuture Dark World]] versions of the characters show up and share some anecdotes about life under Discord's rule and get to see some of their long-dead relatives. The Dark Worlders finally decide that the Variety Show is [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth too bizarre even for them]]. Manages to be both sad and heartwarming at several points.
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21	6. [[http://alexwarlorn.deviantart.com/art/Pinkie-Pie-4th-Wall-Breaking-Variety-Show-6-Or-383731722 Pinkie Pie? 4th Wall Breaking Variety Show? Or...]]: Crosses over with the [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie G1 Ponies]], with a younger Celestia, Luna, and [[UsedToBeASweetKid pre-Lord of Chaos Discord]] around. Time Travel (and lunacy) ensues. They meet with [[WickedWitch Hydia, Reeka, and Draggle]] once more as well as with Pinkie Pie, play some pranks on young Celly, Dark World Discord shows up, and we learn that Celestia used to be a big fan of Music/{{The Cure\|Band}}.
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23	7. [[http://alexwarlorn.deviantart.com/art/Pinkie-Pie-s-4thWallBreak-Recursive-fanfic-theater-397311034 Pinkie Pie's 4th Wall Breaking Recursive Fanfic Theater]]: Basically the Mane Six and a few other characters running through all the recursive Pony POV fics, even the bizarre ones. This is a long one,lasting several chapters to cover them all. Also, Applejack gets [[TakenForGranite turned into a golden statue]], Twilight meets her ascended alicorn self, and Pinkie Pie almost goes Nightmare.
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25	8. [[http://alexwarlorn.deviantart.com/art/Pinkie-Pie-4th-Wall-Breaking-Variety-Show-Recovery-445918470 Pinkie Pie's 4th Wall Breaking Variety Show Recovery]]: [[EnsembleDarkhorse The Blank Wolf]] from the Shining Armor arc shows up for the first time and gets turned into a puppy; the Mane Six have to deal with a [[ManEatingPlant Pony Eating Plant]], and both [[KnightTemplar the Harmony Queens]] and [[EvilOverlord Nightmare Mirror]] show up to try and use the show to their own ends. There are also two lengthy side-stories, in one of which [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends Somnambula]] shows up and tries to enslave Ponyville, only to be defeated by Diamond Tiara and Celestia; and another in which the Mane Six tries to find a home for a oddly familiar foal named Midnight. Applejack also befriends the Blank Wolf and several [=OCs=] get permanently dealt with.
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27	9. [[http://alexwarlorn.deviantart.com/art/Pinkie-Pie-s-4th-Wall-Variety-Show-Special-466357721 Pinkie Pie's 4th Wall Variety Show Special]]: The most epic chapter to date, as the hordes of Tartarus break loose and attack Ponyville. This story basically brings back every G1 villain at once, and the ponies are left to fight for their lives. [[WickedWitch Hydia]] and [[TheIllusionist Somnambula]] conjure up both [[HatePlague the Smooze]] AND [[SealedEvilInACan Morning Star]] by sacrificing a helpless Celestia, [[ForcedTransformation the CMC get turned into monsters]], [[ScaledUp Rarity and Fluttershy get turned into dragons]], and then [[FromBadToWorse Chrysalis is restored to life]]. And that's just up to the halfway point.
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29	10. [[http://alexwarlorn.deviantart.com/art/Pinkie-Pie-s-4th-Wall-Breaking-Variety-Show-epi-10-484083868 Pinkie Pie's 4th Wall Breaking Variety Show Episode 10]]: The most recent chapter. It starts with Pinkie wanting to throw a party for Maud. But then a small army of [=OC=] show up. Gilda returns, several of the ponies end up inside pony-suits and are nearly consumed by them, a rogue draconequs shows up along with her army of contract slaves, we get a look into a world where Shining Armor became the Element of Loyalty after Rainbow Dash ad Gilda were turned into the Spa Ponies, and it all just snowballs from there. Even Pinkie Pie seems to be getting tired of it all. [[spoiler: Also the final chapter of the series.]]
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31	There is also a SpinOff called [[http://fav.me/d8pu988 Cutie Mark Crusaders' Journal of the Unexplained]] taking place in the same universe and hosted by the Crusaders as they explore Everfree. It's since concluded.
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34	!! This side-story contains examples of the following tropes:
35	* AdaptationalBadass: Hydia during her appearance, being powerful enough to hold her own in a magic fight with Twilight and Shining Armor at the same time ''before'' she goes OneWingedAngel, and is promoted to a full fledged [[TheBeastmaster Beast Master]] thanks to SummonMagic.
36	--> '''Half-Light Noon''': Well at least we've finally got a boss fight going...
37	--> '''Pinkie Pie''': Yeah, but Hydia seems to have got the [[LampshadeHanging 'obligatory Pony POV Series villain threat boost']].
38	--> '''Half-Light Noon''': [[OhCrap Oh dear...]]
39	* AIIsACrapShoot: The What-If Machine was always this trope to a degree, often showing things that Pinkie didn't want, but it eventually became self aware and gained a mind of its own. Ultimately subverted in that it isn't evil, it's just tired of getting damaged constantly for just doing its job, and Fluttershy convinces it to be good.
40	* AlternateUniverse: The story was always non-canon, but it eventually completely diverges from the main story.
41	* AntagonistInMourning: PlayedForLaughs near the end of Special, with Applebloom lamenting that Katrina had been sent back to Tartarus, even saying she'll miss "that tiny cat-lady". Note that Katrina had (accidentally) cause the Crusaders to change into monsters, and when the monster-CMC later caught a ''shrunken'' Katrina, the latter thought they wanted to ''eat her alive''.
42	* AssKicksYou: Referenced a few times in Special. Notably, not ''actually'' done by either character who brings it up.
43	** When a dragon-ized Fluttercruel/shy defeats Reeka (who herself had been turned into a dragon, the latter reverting to human form by the end of their fight), she considers sitting on her as a CoupDeGrace.
44	** Twilight is next, mentally snarking that if some villains [[spoiler: an alicorn-ized]] Trixie shrank and captured (and is planning to use in her magic show as tiny "assistants") try to escape, she'll sit on them.
45	* AttractiveBentGender: Happens to both Shining Armor and Big Mac in episode 10, with both ending up looking like Rarity, and poor Shiny getting turned into [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Nightmare Rarity]] to boot. Counting all his appearances, Shining Armor's [[RunningGag spent more time as a mare than a stallion]] in this show!
46	* BadassBoast: 2 in particular are notable, episode 10.
47	--> '''Ispita''':"Mortals! Give into your inner beast! Let it loose! Let it roam free wild and free! Society says let it rot away behind bars in the zoo, but I say let it loose upon the world were it belongs! I am the temptation of power! I am lust! I am power's corrupting influence! I am the selfish black heart we all have! I am the devil on your shoulder that tells the angel to be still! I am the force that draws ponies to the Alicorn Amulet, the One Ring, and all the rest! I am the Hyde inside of every Jekyll! I am ISPITA LILITH SET! TEMPTATION UNBOUND!"
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49	** And a more heroic one from Rarity.
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51	--> '''Rarity''':"I AM GENEROSITY IN THE GUISE OF A PONY! I AM FIGHTING FOR MY SISTER! I WILL HOLD THE LINE!" Rarity shouted. "I SHALL NOT LOSE TO SLAVES OF TEMPTATION!"
52	* BigBad: Some episodes have one if they're being more action based.
53	** An alternate Nightmare Granfalloon in the "Ordinary Variety show" [[HostileShowTakeover after taking over the show.]]
54	** The [[KnightTemplar Harmony Queens]] [[BigBadEnsemble and]] an alternate Nightmare Mirror in Recovery.
55	** [[BigBadDuumvirate Hydia and Somnambula]] in Special. Though in the end Somnambula is [[EvilIsNotAToy usurped by]] [[{{Satan}} Morning Star]] after they release him (Hydia's Smooze is considered a 'perfect monster' so Morning Star doesn't see reason to turn on her).
56	** Ten had a number of them. The first was a number of [[ParodySue Sues]], including a CanonSue. After they were defeated, [[JackassGenie Lady Babylon]]/Ispita moved in to take advantage of the aftermath to [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan get them to set her free]], leading to a race to invalidate her DealWithTheDevil and put her back. Finally, the [[AIIsACrapShoot What If Machine]] becomes self aware and takes over the studio to force them to watch it's potential situations in revenge for how it's been treated.
57	* BroadStrokes: The interactive nature and LooseCanon of the story can result in this when it's not {{Retcon}}, CanonDiscontinuity, or NegativeContinuity
58	* ButtMonkey: [[CatFolk Katrina]] in Special. By the story's end, she gets chased around by the monsterfied [=CMC=], shrunken to the size of a mouse [[HoistByHisOwnPetard by her own spell]], almost gets eaten by Opalesence, is briefly ''captured'' by the monster-Crusaders (as she begs them not to eat her, no less), gets stepped on by Draggle, chased around AGAIN by a reformed Crunch, AND kept in a jar and used as a prop/sideshow by an [[spoiler: Alicornifed]] Trixie. And all of this happens BEFORE she gets sent back to Tartarus! [[FridgeLogic And since she ''wasn't'' un-shrunk before that, she'll likely remain tiny forever in the afterlife!]]
59	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Pinkie Pie, of course. And depending on what's being written, potentially anyone.
60	* DealWithTheDevil: Lady Babylon's MO. During her appearance she not only makes one to [[spoiler:separate Big Mac and Red Gala without destroying either of them]] in exchange for [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan releasing her from her prison]], she tries to make them with Shining Armor (getting to teach his first born dark magic in exchange for restoring Athena to existence, which would erase the one who ''now'' has her Light of Existence) and Miss Cheerilee (a day from her life in exchange for a day of the worst luck imaginable for the one who ''caused'' the siutation in the first place). While neither take them, Twilight ultimately has no choice but to accept primary deal, leading to them having to find a way to invalidate it and put her back in her can. Anyone who knows the character shouldn't be surprised by this.
61	* DeityOfHumanOrigin: The Nightmare Special, naturally.
62	** Trixie, during the big Tartarus breakout, temporarily becomes an Alicorn to even the odds, though this is just a glimpse of her true potential.
63	** At the end of 10, [[spoiler:Pinkie Pie becomes an Alicorn with help of Rota Fortuna.]]
64	* DisabilityImmunity: [[{{Satan}} Morning Star]] has the ability to make ponies despair at each and every one of their failures, temporarily discording them. Dash is able to fight it off with her natural loyalty, but [[BadassNormal Coffee Swirl]] just takes them like a stiff breeze since he already suffers from crippling depression and self-loathing.
65	* EatenAlive: Lavan's fate in the Special. He's still in the diamond form he took partway through his story, so Spike starts eating him. To say he doesn’t like this is an understatement.
66	* EldritchLocation: The Fourth Wall Studio. While not dangerous in and off itself, it is basically its own internalized universe where crazy and insane things happen outside the bonds of canon, and nothing inside can directly effect the outside.
67	* EpicFail: In the Special, Shining Armor gets a special gun from Pandora and fires a bunch of blasts at Hydia... only for every shot to miss despite Hydia ''literally being right in front of him''.
68	** Hydia even stops attacking them for a second, out of sheer incredulity.
69	* EvenEvilHasStandards: In one chapter, Nightmare Eclipse and Discord try to argue an insane [[BadFuture Dark World Sparkle]] out of killing all the Shadows-Who-Make and Watch (that is, ''the writers and readers of the story''); and in another, Nightmare Granfalloon refuses to turn [[spoiler:Cupcakes Pinkamena]] into a Nightmare after she's zapped practically everypony else.
70	* EvilMakesYouUgly: Happens to [[spoiler:Queen Chrysalis]] after she [[EscapedFromHell escapes Tartarus]] in the Variety Show Special. She tries shapeshifting and finds to her disgust that she can only take on hideous and twisted forms. Even her [[OneWingedAngel original form]] looks horrific.
71	* FateWorseThanDeath: In episode ten both Gilda and Rainbow Dash see alternate versions of themselves from the 'Red Gala' alternate universe get turned into Earth ponies like Aloe and Lotus, working alongside their cousins at the Spa. [[HeroicBSOD They're both briefly traumatized.]]
72	* ForcedTransformation: Happens on a rather regular basis. The Mane Six in particular seem to spend a lot of time getting turned into everything under the sun.
73	* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: On occasion thanks to the interactive and loose-canon nature of the story. One notable example is [[http://alexwarlorn.deviantart.com/art/Pinkie-Pie-4th-Wall-Break-VarietyShow-Special-Prt6-473571613 right here]] where an angry [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Nightmare Eclipse]] pulls the writers and readers in to make them repair the damage done to an alternate Ponyville by the monsters of Tartarus.
74	* GenderBender: When the hordes of Tartarus attack Ponyville, the witch Hydia turns Shining Armor into a mare. In the next story, first Shiny and then Big Mac end up inside the Rarity-costume from episode 1. Also briefly happens to Photo Finish and Octavia in chapter 10 courtesy of some [[LatexPerfection stallion suits]].
75	* HeelFaceMindscrew: [[spoiler:Ispita/Lady Babylon is caught in a reality rewrite. While the original one still exists, this version of her is rewritten into a benevolent version of herself to fit into the new reality.]]
76	* HeelFaceTurn: In the Variety Show Special, Draggle finally gets the break she never got back in G1 and finally splits with her mother Hydia to become good.
77	** Fluttershy manages to get the What If Machine to calm down and turn good as well after it becomes sapient.
78	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Pony POV Chrysalis]], of all ponies, gets this [[http://alexwarlorn.deviantart.com/art/Pinkie-Pie-4th-Wall-Break-VarietyShow-Special-Prt4-470794025 in the chapter]] where the Hordes of Tartarus invade Ponyville. [[TakingYouWithMe She destroys herself in an attempt at destroying]] [[{{Satan}} Morning Star]] and saving her former 'friend' [[MoralityPet Sweetie Belle]] from him. It only half works [[spoiler:by saving Sweetie]].
79	** And shortly afterwards, [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghosts]] of the [[MoreThanMindControl Love-Poisoned Cheerilee and Big Mac]], Flutterbat, and the Inspiration Manifestation version of Rarity try to stop Morning Star, sacrificing their existences in the process. [[spoiler:Or so it seems.]]
80	* IncredibleShrinkingMan: Several villains suffer this fate in the Special; chief among them Katrina, whose shrinkage was [[HoistByHisOwnPetard inflicted by her own misfired spell]], and was the start of a HumiliationConga that lasted the whole episode.
81	* IronicHell
82	** In the Variety Show Special, this happens to [[BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad Hydia]] after she's defeated by the ponies. She returns to Tartarus and finds her punishment at Havoc's hands -- she gets stuck with the Franchise/CareBears.
83	** In Episode 10, the version of Hell for Chrysalis is ruling a copy of Equestria as the best queen ever...not as a ''good'' queen, the ''best'' queen. Whether she wants to be or not.
84	* [[JerkassGods Jerkass Shadows-who-Make]]: Definitely Twilight Sparkle's attitude towards certain writers for the series. Only Nightmare Eclipse was ever able to act on that anger, however. Pinkie Pie gets annoyed with them once or twice herself.
85	* LatexPerfection: There have been several chapters in which the ponies by one means or another end up costumed in a full-body suit as one of their friends. Mostly played for laughs, like [[http://alexwarlorn.deviantart.com/art/Pinkie-Pie-s-Fourth-wall-breaking-variety-show-311394234 when Applejack and Rainbow Dash ended up looking like Rarity and Fluttershy, and ended up fighting]], but not comical at all when [[http://ardashir.deviantart.com/art/Pinkie-Pie-s-4th-Wall-Breaking-Show-epi-10-Part-3-485502156 in a recent installment]] Big Mac hid inside of [[ItMakesSenseInContext a Rarity-suit possessed by the ghosts of three of the G1 Big Brother Ponies]] and was nearly consumed by it.
86	* LighterAndSofter: Intended to be this compared to the main Pony POV Series in many stories, but thanks to the what-if machine [[PlotDrivenBreakdown not working like Pinkie Pie usually intends]], can also be ''DarkerAndEdgier'' when exploring some {{What If}}s.
87	* LightningCanDoAnything: The What If machine becomes self aware after being struck by lightning. The improbability of this has been lampshaded.
88	* LooseCanon: Though it does share a relatively coherent continuity within itself, the series doesn't really have a fixed canon as a result of being a hybrid of roleplay and interactive/collaborative story, though it doesn't often use NegativeContinuity.
89	* [[OneManArmy One Alicorn Army]]: [[{{Satan}} Morning Star]] takes on both his sisters and three(!) [[ScaledUp turned into dragons]] ponies AND [[OurDragonsAreDifferent greed-growth Spike]] and [[BadassNormal Coffee Swirl]] and [[CanisMajor Applewolf]] all at once. And for most of the fight he's winning.
90	* OneWingedAngel: Hydia [[FusionDance merges with the Smooze]] during the fight with her.
91	** The Mary Sue Big Brothers fuse together into a monster form as well.
92	** Lady Babylon [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan is released from her prison]] and transforms into her true Draconequus form.
93	* PersonaNonGrata: Rarity apparently got banned from a hoofball team she tried to join for trying to give them frilly dresses.
94	* PlotDrivenBreakdown: The What-If Machine is often prone to throwing out everything but what Pinkie Pie wanted it to show.
95	* [[ManEatingPlant Pony-Eating Plant]]: At one point the Mane Six have to deal with a plant that ate both Lotus of the Spa Ponies and Sweetie Belle. [[MoreThanMindControl It then tried mind-controlling them into letting it eat them.]] [[KillItWithFire They promptly roasted it]] The last time we see it is when its [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghost]] is getting carted off to Tartarus with the promise that 'Now you can bite bad ponies who deserve it'. [[EsotericHappyEnding It's quite happy to hear this.]]
96	* RunningGag: So many of them!
97	** Any sort of [[ForcedTransformation transformation]] is likely to end badly...and hilariously...for whoever was changed.
98	*** Relatedly, Shining Armor getting gender-swapped.
99	** Later episodes have usually had at least one montage of the Blank Wolf [[RetGone erasing]] a series of Mary Sues, self-inserts and other unwanted rubbish. Usually involving ''epic'' OhCrap moments from the Wolf's prey just before deletion.
100	* SanitySlippage: In the Recursive Fanfic Theater, Pinkie Pie almost experiences the DespairEventHorizon and becomes [[MonsterClown Nightmare Granfalloon]] before her friends talk her down.
101	* ShoutOut: The What-If Machine tends to be used by readers to reference and ponify other works.
102	** The What-If Machine is itself a ShoutOut, originating from ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}.'' And it's not a copy, it's the ''actual'' What-If Machine that Pinkie Pie got ahold of after it was out. It even throws a brick at its creator's head through a portal with a note telling him he was a bad creator.
103	* ShowWithinAShow: More or less what the What-If Machine does, showing a scene of an AU or What-If story.
104	* SmellySkunk: Hydia turns one into a giant monster during her fight with Shining and Twilight.
105	* TakenForGranite: Happens to Applejack [[NoodleIncident offscreen]] in one entry of the show (though she becomes a golden statues, not a stone one), [[EsotericHappyEnding not that she minds]]. She gets better.
106	** Happened ''twice'' so far in the CMC's show, once with them ending as art treasures thanks to a [[OurMonstersAreDifferent cockatrice]], and once becoming golden statues when they're adventuring with a filly Daring Do.
107	* TheTease: Bareedina, Zecora's sister, is this, though she also uses it as a SecretTestOfCharacter. [[spoiler:Justified, as she's a post HeelFaceMindScrew Ispita.]] Regardless, she's a much more benevolent version than [[TheVamp Sweetcream Scoops]].
108	* TimeyWimeyBall: In part 10 [[spoiler:because Pinkie has now became an alicorn, she has to ensure that the Love cats are created to prevent a time paradox.]]
109	* TookALevelInBadass: Pretty much every character to appear takes a few levels in the Special, but [[BadassNormal Coffee Swirl]] takes the cake. He starts by blasting ghosts with a salt-loaded blunderbuss (that he stole from an undead pirate), and ends with being the only vanilla mortal to fight against [[{{Satan}} Morning Star]]. And he actually fought the latter one-on-one for a short time.
110	* TheVamp: Sweetcream Scoops has shown up twice, and has hit on several stallions, including Big Mac and [[HappilyMarried Shining Armor]]. In front of his ALICORN wife, Cadence.
111	* VillainSong: [[WickedWitch Hydia]] gets one in [[http://alexwarlorn.deviantart.com/art/Pinkie-Pie-s-4th-Wall-Variety-Show-Special-Part-2-468635668 Chapter 2 of the Variety Show special]] as she fights Twilight and Shining Armor [[FromBadToWorse with the help of the Smooze to summon Morning Star]].
112	* VillainsWantMercy: Happens to [[{{Satan}} Morning Star]] in the Variety Show Special. After being beaten by his sisters Luna and Celestia (and about half the cast) he begs them [[SealedEvilInACan not to send him back to Havoc]]. When they seem to consider, [[ISurrenderSuckers he tries to kill them both]] -- only to be stopped and slain by [[CanisMajor Applewolf]].
113	** [[spoiler:Lady Babylon/Ispita begs Maud not to hold her to be hit by the reality rewrite Red Gala and Big Mac existing at the same time caused, which would make that version of her a seperate entity altogether.]]
114	** Also from the Special: a shrunken [[CatPeople Katrina]] begging the monsterfied CMC not to eat her. Later, she begs Twilight not to give her to the fillies.
115	* WalkingArsenal: Ispita, who more or less brings her entire shop's worth of cursed objects to bare during her fight.
116	* WroteTheBook: Ispita claims that trying to find a loophole in her contracts is a waste of time, as she literally ''invented'' loopholes. Luna confirms this is indeed the case.
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119	!!!Cutie Mark Crusaders' Journal of the Unexplained contains examples of the following tropes:
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121	* AssimilationPlot: [[spoiler:Nightmare Instrumentum's ultimate goal.]]
122	* BigBad:
123	** See BigBadDummvirate below.
124	** [[spoiler:[[https://youtu.be/jAabtQZSdlE Carnival Cat]], or an AlternateUniverse version of her,]] is this for the final stretch.
125	* BigBadDuumvirate: The story arc with [[spoiler:Diamond Tiara and Discord as the main characters]] has [[spoiler:Nightmare Cantana (Nightmare Sweetie Belle), Nightmare Velocitas (Nightmare Scootaloo), Nightmare Instrumentum (Nightmare Applebloom), and [[JackassGenie Ispita]]]] as the villains.
126	* BioluminescenceIsCool: The alien ponies the CMC run into glow. They explain most of the lifeforms on their home world do as well, due to long nights and other factors.
127	* BreakTheCutie: Applebloom gets this from an alternate Twilight summoning her inner Shadow. Magic!Applejack helps her through it.
128	* CosmicRetcon: [[spoiler:The newly ascended Applejack gives Sweetie Belle the option to accept the change to the past her prime POV self chose to befriend Button. She does, and as result Button is now their friend and has been on the Everfree Trip with them.]]
129	* CircusOfFear: [[spoiler:Carnival Cat's]] lair is this, as in the song the character came from.
130	* CoolShades: Scootaloo gets a pair [[spoiler:at Carnival Cat's carnival]]. They're extra cool as [[spoiler:they're G1 Shady's magic sunglasses and let her see things no one else can.]]
131	* CutLexLuthorACheck: The CMC [[spoiler:and Twilight]] question why the Flim Flam Brothers are [[ConMan con artists]] when they're smart enough to invent [[spoiler:a functional ''time machine''.]] The CMC decide they're probably just [[BrilliantButLazy lazy]].
132	* DeusExitMachina: Princess Luna and Princess Celestia are on a diplomatic mission to the alien ponies homeworld while the whole [[spoiler:Nightmare CMC]] thing is happening, so [[spoiler:Celestia's only present as an Avatar]].
133	* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu:
134	** The CMC managed to defeat [[Fanfic/MyLittleBalladeer Thorne]] at the height of his power. Granted, they did so by [[SummonBiggerFish summoning the Blank Wolf]], but still counts.
135	** They later defeat [[Franchise/TheSlendermanMythos Slendermane]] by [[spoiler:throwing him through a portal to Dark World, where the now living Smartypants hugs him. Slendermane is [[GoodHurtsEvil vulnerable to a toy truly loved]] in this continuity, and a thousand plus years worth is enough to destroy him]].
136	* DontGoInTheWoods: The ''reason'' the Crusaders got granted ResurrectiveImmortality in the first place.
137	* DoNotTauntCthulhu:
138	** The CMC end up taunting [[{{Satan}} Morning Star]], resulting in him sending them to a BadFuture of ''Fanfic/MyLittleBalladeer'' where [[BigBad Thorne]] [[TheBadGuyWins won]].
139	** The leader of a cult the CMC run into [[spoiler:gets ticked off at Ponythulhu for [[DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu for being a nice guy]] instead of the world ending abomination he was trying to summon and [[BerserkButton knocks away his cookies]]. Ponythulhu [[BewareTheNiceOnes is infuriated by this]] and gives him the horrifying EldritchAbomination [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor he wanted by]] [[DraggedOffToHell dragging him off to his home realm]]]].
140	* DraggedOffToHell:
141	** Morning Star gets dragged back to Tartarus after the CMC drive him into a VillainousBreakdown.
142	** [[spoiler:An enraged Ponythulhu drags a cult leader who made him mad back to him home dimension.]]
143	* EldritchAbomination: The Earthly Kings, entities the Crusaders witness in a potential future. They're living, techno-organic planets that are trying to assimilate Equestria, but are being found back by the utopian society that has evolved there. [[spoiler:Nightmare Instrumentum has a HeelRealization upon realizing her AssimulationPlot is no different from them.]]
144	* EpicFail: The CMC run into a cult attempting to summon an EldritchAbomination. [[spoiler:The cult fails miserably because their first three attempts, [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Bill Cipher]], Nyarlathotrot, and [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slendermane]] [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu had already been defeated or killed]], their fourth attempt [[{{Satan}} Morning Star]] [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere decides to go back to Tartarus rather than deal with the CMC again]], their fifth attempt, Entropy, isn't interested and punches the cult leader in the face, and their finaly attempt, Ponythulhu, is a NiceGuy who drags the cult leader off to his own domain when he ticks him off.]]
145	* EvilIsPetty: Ispita fully admits that [[spoiler:her reasons for helping the Nightmare CMC]] are petty. She doesn't really give a darn
146	* TheFutureWillBeBetter: The CMC end up in the utopian future that's implied to be the most likely to occur.
147	* FusionDance: The CMC find a pair of gems that when put together cause the two ponies who united them to fuse together, separating when the necklace holding the combined gem is removed. Scootaloo and Sweetie's fusion names herself Upbeat, while Sweetie can [[spoiler:fuse with Blanky/Snow Bound to become Wolf Song (though it's stated her unique spiritual nature means this is unique to her)]]. Luna also gives them a third piece that can fuse all three together [[spoiler:which is eventually used by Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, and Button Mash to fuse into Cavalier to even the odds against Ispita]].
148	* GogglesDoSomethingUnusual: Applebloom gets a pair of them from [[spoiler:Alicorn Applejack]] that [[spoiler:let's her focus the truth vision she got from fusing with Nightmare Instrumentum upon defeating her.]]
149	* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Discord and Diamond Tiara did this thanks to Alicorn!Pinkie Pie during the reality split.]]
150	* HumongousMecha: [[spoiler:Nightmare Instrumentum turns her base into one. Discord counters by turning the Crusaders' club house into one.]]
151	* IThinkYouBrokeHim: Said by the What If Machine after the CMC cause Morning Star to have a VillainousBreakdown.
152	-->'''What If Machine''': This unit believes you broke Pony {{Satan}}.
153	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: An alternate Twilight has this when Magic!Applejack forces her to [[HeelRealization realize how horrible her]] FantasticRacism has made her.
154	* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: Averted, Luna specifically tells them they might run into previous versions of themselves created by their ResurrectiveImmortality.
155	** Also averted later when Sweetie runs into a ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' inspired AlternateUniverse version of herself.
156	* NiceJobFixingItVillain: The CMC let [[{{Satan}} Morning Star]] know that by sending them to [[Fanfic/MyLittleBalladeer Thorne's world]], he made it possible for them to save everypony there. Morning Star [[IThinkYouBrokeHim takes it poorly]].
157	* PersonalitySwap: The Crusaders end up accidentally letting the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends Frazzits]] out of their barrel and are subjected to this.
158	* ResurrectiveImmortality: The Crusaders were granted this by Luna and Rota Fortuna: if something bad happens to them in Everfree, they'll just reappear back home just fine. However, unlike most examples their previous incarnations will still exist and they might run into them.
159	* SixthRanger: Button Mash ends up joining them later on with the same ResurrectiveImmortality as them [[spoiler:because Sweetie accepted the time change that her prime universe self chose, meaning he'd retroactively been there the entire time.]]
160	* SmellySkunk: Poor Scootaloo gets sprayed by one at one point.
161	* SummonBiggerFish:
162	** Sweetie Belle ends up summoning [[ClockRoaches the Blank Wolf]] to take out [[Fanfic/MyLittleBalladeer Thorne]].
163	** Diamond Tiara and company's plan to deal with [[spoiler:Nightmare Pixel, a version of Button who went Nightmare]] is to [[spoiler:use the spell Draggle used during the Tartarus escape to turn Trixie into an Alicorn temporarily to turn Button's mother Maternity into an Alicorn so she'll be strong enough to discipline him.]]
164	* TrappedInAnotherWorld: The reason for the Crusaders' first respawn.
165	* VillainSong: [[spoiler:Ispita]] gets two, the first being a version of [[WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven 'Take the Easy Way Out']] attempting to [[spoiler:tempt Discord and Diamond to make a FaceHeelTurn, which they refuse]], and the second being a variant of [[WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder 'I'm the Bad Guy']] as a ShutUpKirk to [[spoiler:Cavalier's (a FusionDance of Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, and Button Mash) attempts to reason with her.]]
166	* VillainousBreakdown: Morning Star loses it when his attempt to send the Crusaders to a BadFuture ends in them actually ''saving it'', being reduced to slamming his head against the wall and shouting profanities.

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