Line #18 NeverLiveItDown/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic


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6	''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' gets its own page due to the absolutely immense size of the fandom leading to ''many'' instances where the characters become defined by a few random events, a holding of a ball or two, or one-off jokes.
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13	* Derpy Hooves is nothing but this trope. A five-second shot has a pony with FishEyes in the background, and the fans [[MemeticBystander create an entire character based on her]]. She was part of a group interested in having some muffins when they were served to a group of ponies (the word "muffins" matches the lipsynching of at least one, possibly two other ponies), and [[TrademarkFavoriteFood everyone went with it]]; her toys' boxes even frequently feature muffins, and later appearances would list her name as "Muffins" in the credits. She drops [[AmusingInjuries a bunch of things on Twilight]], and she's TheKlutz.
14	* Ever since Sweetie Belle was shown to not understand that "more than I can chew" was a figure of speech, she gained a reputation as TheDitz. While there may be some some merit to this given that her plans tend to backfire, fans tend to ignore the fact that she is shown to be rather perceptive at times, making her ''at worst'' a GeniusDitz.
15	* Fluttershy wanting to be a tree, based on a random night conversation on a train. This received a ContinuityNod in "Hurricane Fluttershy" where she hides inside a tree costume to avoid participating in the local pegasi's efforts to supply Cloudsdale with water.
16	* Fluttershy's SanitySlippage in "The Best Night Ever" forever convinced a large section of fans that she's secretly a {{Yandere}}.
17	* A {{Meme\|ticMutation}} in which Scootaloo is secretly a chicken, based on a short bout of teasing from her friend Apple Bloom.
18	* Pinkie Pie being a sadistic serial killer who may or may not have severe childhood trauma, based on her SanitySlippage in "Party of One", compounded by a [[Fanfic/CupcakesSergeantSprinkles certain infamous fanfic]]. Never mind that in the episode she was, at most, bipolar/manic depressive, which is many times more likely to result in ''self''-harm than any violent tendencies. While Pinkie has certainly been sad before, she's largely remembered for this one time where she temporarily shut herself from everyone else.
19	** This also created the character of "Pinkamena" (based on Pinkie's full name), which is either a vicious alter-ego or a SuperPoweredEvilSide of Pinkie's, based on the same fanfic. Not only does Pinkie never act like this in the show, she [[MisaimedFandom didn't even act this way in the fic it's supposedly based on]]; Pinkie acting her usual cheerful self while doing horrific things was supposed to show how insane she was. Having an evil alter-ego would cheapen the horror. Didn't stop the fans from creating an entire character around it, even though the character never showed up in the show itself or the fic it's supposed to be from.
20	* Celestia is often depicted in fan works as an arbitrary and capricious dictator.
21	** She banished somepony to the moon ''once'' -- a {{Mad God}}dess and SuperPoweredEvilSide of her sister Luna named Nightmare Moon, whose scheme would have killed all life in Equestria had it succeeded. Even then, Celestia only did it with the help of [[EmpathicWeapon the Elements of Harmony]], and in the episode where this banishment is shown, Celestia is clearly torn up by having to [[ShootTheDog banish her own sister to protect her people]]. This doesn't stop numerous fans from depicting Celestia as solving all her problems by banishing them to the moon, and even having her own CatchPhrase ([[WebAnimation/FriendshipIsMagicBitch "TO THE]] [[Series/TheHoneymooners MOOOOOOOOOOOON!]] [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch BEEYETCH!"]]).
22	** Before that, Celestia (and Luna, which no-one seems to remember) turned [[GodOfEvil Discord]] to stone... after he conquered Equestria and turned it into a nightmarish WorldGoneMad. Naturally, this led to depictions of "turn it to stone" being her answer to every problem that can't be solved with "send it to the moon". (Funnily enough, Discord seems to think this In-Universe. "Unlike you, ''I don't turn ponies to stone!''")
23	* Luna herself has been hit with this. Her return in Season 2's "Luna Eclipsed" has her speaking in [[AntiquatedLinguistics fairly accurate archaic English]] and having many outdated customs, all to drive home how utterly out of touch she has been with civilization since her imprisonment as Nightmare Moon. While she's been learning to speak in more modern English and no longer acts in such a hammy way, several fanfictions have portrayed Luna as speaking in nothing but YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe all the time, even struggling with modern vocabulary, and frequently acting like an individual of the middle-ages, even in an increasingly changing modern Equestria. It doesn't help that in the show itself, there are post-season 2 episodes [[DependingOnTheWriter where she can either speak with more modern terms and more frequent contractions or in downright]] SpockSpeak with a few old terms thrown in.
24	* Rainbow Dash said "twenty percent cooler" twice and "ten seconds flat" once throughout the show's run[[note]]In the finale, she does say, "Ten seconds" a second time, but never says, "flat".[[/note]], often seasons apart. To a lot of fans, these might as well be her {{Catch Phrase}}s that she says all the time. The former was finally referenced after four years from its first use in ''Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks'', where she says "twenty percent less cool." And even then, it's not the pony Rainbow, but her human counterpart.
25	* Twilight will ''never'' live down her SanitySlippage in "Lesson Zero". In fairness, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKkA7JJS6bM it was terrifying]]. However, not only did Twilight have some basis for Sanity Slippage in "Swarm of the Century", but she did it again in "It's About Time". She's also had a few smaller breakdowns when she's stressed, and her obsessive-compulsiveness that leads to such slippage is shown to be a recurring character flaw that she routinely works on (such as "Games Ponies Play"). But to look at some fanart, Twilight was a loose cannon just waiting to go off at any moment.
26	* Shining Armor did a FastballSpecial with his wife Cadance exactly once in a life-or-death situation where there was no other option. (And it worked, saving Spike from certain death and the Crystal Empire from enslavement by King Sombra.) Since then, the fandom only knows Shining Armor as "Wife Thrower" (albeit [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome affectionately]]).
27	* Lyra Heartstrings was once seen sitting on her haunches (like a human would) in "Dragonshy". After that, you couldn't swing your arm without hitting a fanfic, music video, comic, or some other fan work depicting Lyra as a human-obsessed fanatic bent on proving humanity's existence in Equestria, gaining hands instead of hooves, or becoming human herself. Lyra wasn't even the only pony to ever sit like that; future episodes depict more ponies sitting in similar ways, and this way of sitting appears to be normal behavior in their world. But Lyra's the only one who ever gets the "obsessed with humanity" treatment.
28	* "A Canterlot Wedding":
29	** Fans will not let Twilight's friends, her brother Shining Armor, and Celestia calling out and ditching her after the accusation scene, with a throwaway apology from Applejack afterwards. This is despite "Cadance" [[{{Bridezilla}} having an alibi for her suspicious behavior]], and Twilight being a jerk about it even before she had a reason to be suspicious, had no proof for her claims, and admitted [[RightForTheWrongReasons she was wrongly paranoid]]. Many exaggerate it as them cutting off ties with Twilight when they were simply leaving her out of the wedding, which would’ve been harmless if not for the unforeseeable Changeling invasion. This also ignores that Shining Armor was implied to be brainwashed by "Cadance", and Twilight's friends [[FourthWallMyopia not knowing of or seeing what the audience and Twilight's saw]], and "Cadance" making offscreen efforts [[PragmaticVillainy to win Twilight's friends' trust]].
30	** Celestia being [[TheWorfEffect easily beaten]] despite it [[WorfHadTheFlu being due to exceptional circumstance]] even the one who beat her was surprised by.
31	* The Season 3 premiere featured King Sombra, a villain who was intended to be a sinister and ominous presence in the vein of [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Sauron]], but whom many fans interpreted as being an ineffective OrcusOnHisThrone. It looked like poor Sombra would never get to redeem himself in the eyes of the fandom, as he is the only villain on the show to actually be ''killed'', rather than [[HeelFaceTurn redeemed]] or [[SealedEvilInACan banished]]. This changed with the season 5 finale, where a BadFuture where he wasn't defeated showed him as a frighteningly competent overlord, leading a brainwashed army capable of fighting the rest of Equestria to a standstill.
32	* Princess Cadance will never live down not inviting Spike -- one of the key figures in saving the very empire she rules -- to the preparations for the Equestria Games. In the episode "Equestria Games", she invited Spike to light the torch at the opening ceremony - and later the fireworks at the closing ceremony, giving up her own place to do so, but many fans still won't let Cadance forget the previous snub. Some fan works even go so far as to depict Cadance as racist against dragons, when she's never shown any hint of such a thing in canon, where she's an AllLovingHero.
33	* Angel Bunny will never live down [[JerkassBall the domestic violence he inflicted on Fluttershy]] in ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E19PuttingYourHoofDown Putting Your Hoof Down]]''. He has never been seen doing this before or since, and has occasionally been shown [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold comforting Fluttershy at her lowest moments,]] but the viewers will forever remember him as "the asshole who slapped Fluttershy and kicked her out of her own house over a cherry", [[RonTheDeathEater and even demonize him in fanfics for this]].
34	* Soarin the Wonderbolt had his first real debut scene in the season one finale "Best Night Ever", where he enthusiastically purchases an apple pie from Applejack. This resulted in many fans flanderizing him into being some kind of pie-addict. Said flanderzation became canon in "Rarity Investigates!" where he's shown sloppily eating a pie.
35	* Applejack's Gen 1 counterpart was made famous for being the subject of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NUgUu2_gBc a song]] in a ''My Little Pony'' cassette tape from the '80s which is about her being a "silly pony".[[note]]This wasn't even part of G1 canon, but just a limited-edition piece of TheMerch.[[/note]] The silly pony trait has been projected onto the Gen 4 Applejack by fans on account of her sleep deprivation and exhaustion in exactly ''one'' episode. Note that the ''Friendship is Magic'' version of Applejack is somewhat accident-prone and goofy, but no more so than nearly every other pony in this slapstick-heavy series.
36	* Rainbow Dash's G3 counterpart is best known for being a fashionista from G3.5, supported by the infamous line "Rainbow Dash always dresses in style" in the ThemeTuneRollCall. G4 Rainbow Dash is shown to be the complete opposite, as a LovableJock with a dislike of dressing in fancy clothes. Any time Rainbow does were a dress, the "always dresses in style" line will be referenced.
37	* Starswirl the Bearded is very often remembered as the guy who deals with villains by banishing them to other dimensions and making them other people's problems to deal with. In canon, this only occurred on one of the three occasions where he dealt with a villain -- he banished the Sirens in this manner, while he locked the Pony of Shadows outside of any dimension or time alongside himself and simply befriended Scorpan -- but very often he remains remembered as the guy whose go-to solution for problems is to dump them in other people's backyards.
38	* Sonata Dusk from ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks Rainbow Rocks]]'' excitedly says "It's Taco Tuesday!" once in the film. The result: nearly every fan art of her including tacos or a reference to them. Her obsession is canonized in ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsSunsetsBackstagePass Sunset's Backstage Pass]]'', where her costume features multiple tacos. One could also swear Sonata Dusk's CatchPhrase was "for realsies", despite saying it a grand total of ''once'' throughout all ''My Little Pony'' media in which she appeared.
39	* Fluttershy was shown as being afraid of her shadow ''once'' in "Dragonshy" (while under immense stress over the fact that she could have to confront a dragon, even), yet it's a common part of her fanon characterization for some reason.
40	* Babs Seed for being TheBully, despite the fact she immediately stopped and apologized once [[FreudianExcuse her reasons]] and the issue were talked out, she protected the Cutie Mark Crusaders from being bullied afterward, and has been shown to be 100% redeemed and repentant in all her ([[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome admittedly limited]]) appearances in the show and comics since.
41	* Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon [[BullyingTheDisabled mocked Scootaloo for her inability to fly]]. Despite having been reformed in Season 5 and Discord and later Starlight Glimmer having been redeemed of far worse, many fans haven't forgiven them for it.
42	* Although Gilda has since then been reformed, a VocalMinority still attack her for yelling at Fluttershy in her debut episode "Griffon The Brush Off".
43	* When the preview to "Flutter Brutter" was released, the PeripheryDemographic got a first glimpse at Zephyr Breeze... and they were ''not'' amused at his characterization. When he turned out to be a lazy, manipulative jerk, they immediately accused the show of painting them as ThisLoserIsYou. The backlash died down after the episode aired where it turns out he's a JerkassWoobie with a crippling fear of failure, but some fans will still remember Zephyr from their first interpretation, even if it doesn't match how he's depicted.
44	* Big Macintosh has a secretly flamboyant feminine side, if his [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E13DoPrincessesDreamOfMagicSheep dreams of being an Alicorn Princess]] and [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E18BrotherhoovesSocial enjoyment of wearing dresses]] are any indication.
45	* Strawberry Sunrise's very first appearance in the show was to proudly express her dislike of apples in front of Applejack. She even insults Applejack when she demands an apology from Strawberry Sunrise.
46	-->"Oh, I'm sorry... that you actually bite into those tasteless, mealyworm-filled things. Ohhh."
47	** What's worse, the whole point to her character was to establish that "having an 'honest opinion' doesn't mean you can go around expressing it and not risk upsetting others", something that ''Applejack was guilty of in the first place'', and which she ''admitted''. Yet fans like to depict her as a rude jerk overall who gets 'deserved' punishments from the morally correct Applejack.
48	* Some fans still hold a burning hatred against Starlight Glimmer for brainwashing the Mane 6 in "Every Little Thing She Does", despite the fact that she apologizes, [[TheAtoner spends the rest of the episode working to earn their forgiveness]], and learns her lesson afterwards.
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52	* Twilight acting LawfulStupid and [[OutOfCharacterMoment refusing to use her magic to help her friends]] in an issue dealing with buffalo in the Wild West, despite her never acting this way in the show. Even later comics where [[CharacterRerailment she's back to normal]], which came off as [[AuthorsSavingThrow deliberate attempts to atone]], are used as examples of how the creators don't care about consistency.
53	* [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDWHolidays2014 The 2014 Equestria Girls Holiday Special]] has easily inspired more fan works on it than any other ''My Little Pony'' comic book, albeit not for the reasons the creators wanted. Many a fan work has been created about this one issue of the comic, and the characters involved in the story have become indelibly linked to its events in the ''Equestria Girls'' fandom.
54	** The Human Cutie Mark Crusaders will never live down their cyberbullying of Sunset Shimmer. The comic's resolution was a OnceDoneNeverForgotten moment -- the Human CMC [[HeelRealization fully own up to and apologize for creating Anon-A-Miss and framing Sunset for it]] over what amounts to [[GreenEyedMonster petty jealousy]]. It was also mentioned that the CMC could never fully take it back, since they couldn't magically delete everything everyone had posted, and they received six months of detention for it. Meanwhile, the fandom saw the Human CMC as being more EasilyForgiven than their pony selves despite [[AdaptationalVillainy being more antagonistic]], despite that detention possibly being the harshest punishment any redeemed villain has received in the franchise. So both the canon ''and'' fanon pull this trope; the fandom just double-downs on it by [[DisproportionateRetribution making their punishments in fan fiction even more severe]].
55	** Some fans also won't let the rest of the Rainbooms live down turning on Sunset Shimmer when she was framed for being Anon-A-Miss, even though the Rainbooms defended Sunset before doing so and ultimately heard her out. Many fics, be they {{Fix Fic}}s or {{Betrayal Fic}}s, paint [[RonTheDeathEater the Rainbooms as being awful people for not believing Sunset]] in spite of the evidence pointing towards her, even if the evidence was fake. The impostor account seems obvious to the audience, but that's because [[DramaticIrony the audience knows things that the characters don't know]]. Also, Sunset's "[[InformedAbility devious manipulation skills]]" in the first movie were just as obvious, and the fact that her attempts were transparently obvious were a major source of mockery towards Sunset Shimmer before she became a BreakoutCharacter.
56	** Sunset Shimmer herself has become known quite a bit for this issue, despite being the victim and forgiving the Human CMC at the end of the story. To see some {{Fix Fic}}s or {{Betrayal Fic}}s tell it, Sunset will never get over being framed for being Anon-A-Miss by the Human CMC or for the Rainbooms betraying her. Even though Sunset [[NotMeThisTime truly was innocent in the cyberbullying]], her reputation still had a long way to go before she was accepted by the rest of Canterlot High School, and Sunset openly admits she can see why people think it was her (even though she maintains that she's innocent). Yet in some fics, Sunset is incredulous that her friends wouldn't believe her (even though the Rainbooms did defend Sunset at first until evidence pointed towards her), [[RonTheDeathEater demonizing the Rainbooms]] while sanctifying Sunset. Some fics even have Sunset be DrivenToSuicide by the accusation, in spite of the fact that she ends the comic in a good place with the Rainbooms. Even fan works that don't revolve around the Anon-A-Miss story have been known to bring it up.
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