Line #20 NightmareFuel/MyLittlePonyTheMentallyAdvancedSeries


1	* Celestia's appearance in episode 8. With ominous music playing in the background, her [[EvilSoundsDeep deep, threatening]] voice, and Twilight literally ''screaming in terror'' in her head while [[StepfordSmiler smiling]], it's hard not to fear her.
2	** Twilight's [[MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes moment before that]] isn't exactly pretty itself. See the TearJerker page.
3	** The Mentally Advanced version of Celestia is much, ''much'' scarier than her canon counterpart. She's an authoritarian absolute monarch who is viewed as a terrifying god and never suffers even the slightest insubordination, ruling over Equestria with an iron hoof while rarely showing any concern for the ponies beneath her, if at all.
4	* Rainbow Dash Presents: The Haunting Nightmare is this in general. Despite remaining a parody, it ''is'' based on a horror fanfiction and introduces the first KnightOfCerebus for the series. Such moments include:
5	** Twilight's incredibly ominous NightmareSequence.
6	** "Mrs. Buzzy" taking the guise of one of Twilight's old childhood toys, to put her into a LotusEaterMachine and brainwash her into helping torment the others.
7	** The characters wandering around the haunted area.
8	** Applejack and Rarity being chased in the dark by [[EldritchAbomination Smarty Pants]] during his VillainSong.
9	*** If the fact that the two were genuinely scared for their lives wasn't enough, the scene also shows Rarity ''tripping Applejack'' to distract the monster and [[DirtyCoward save her own sorry hide]], only showing regret that her plan didn't work. Rarity has always been a JerkAss who hated Applejack, but now we know that she would actually get someone killed just to save herself.
10	* Yellow Star slowly BrainWashing Twilight into obsessing over her book and coercing her into helping summon...''[[HiddenAgendaVillain something]]." At one point, she casually ''takes off Twilight's horn and puts it on herself'' to become an alicorn, with Twilight raising no objections. And finally, Yellow Star is a pony that only Twilight can see.
11	** The only reason her plan failed was because Twilight accidentally set fire to the barn they were in. [[NothingIsScarier Whatever it was she was trying to do]], Yellow Star [[NearVillainVictory came really close to doing it]]. It's pretty telling that ''Celestia herself'' came to see what happened.
12	** It's heavily implied that not only is the book a representation of Celestia's in-universe childhood[[note]]Complete with an abusive version of Lauren Faust's ponysona as her mother[[/note]] as well as a record of an abusive childhood for Luna, but Yellow Star is Celestia's childhood prediction of the tyrant that she herself would become, just ''even worse''. Her speech to Twilight in the end is a warning filled with FridgeHorror:
13	-->"An author places some of themselves in a book. But the reader withdraws something of their own perception as well. A child believes a lie because they know no better. A grown adult sees the lie because it fails to line up with experience. In this way, a child's story can be so many different experiences. With enough subtext, a thing made for a child becomes an entirely different world to an adult. Keep an open mind...there's no telling when subtext will defeat the facade of a thing."
14	** The book paints a very disturbing picture of how Celestia grew up and how she viewed the world as a child. She was raised as an omnipotent psychopath by her mother, who groomed her for a world where Yellow Star was always on top and made all the rules of the world. She played games with ponies where she made the rules, with Equestria itself as a giant dollhouse and the population as dolls. Today, Celestia is ''still'' doing what she was raised to do. As for their father, he's implied to be an EldritchAbomination with his own plans for the world; not only does he live outside the known universe, but he promises to return when the stars align. Although he disapproves of his wife's abuse of Silver Crescent, Twilight finds a diary page with words scratched out on purpose by Yellow Star. Yellow Star quickly confirms that her mother died shortly afterwards, and believes that her 'father' is a monster pretending to be her father.
15	--> FATHER MADE FUN NEW GAMES\
16	YELLOW STAR CHANGED THE RULES\
17	FATHER MADE RULES FOR YELLOW STAR\
18	PONIES DID NOT BECOME PONIES\
19	MOTHER WENT TO SLEEP
20	** Perhaps the true horror is that Celestia is implied to have realized how evil and psychopathic she was as a child, and realized what her mother turned her into, but believes she can do nothing to stop who she is now.
21	* Rainbow Dash often finds herself in this during her Let's Ramble Over Fallout New Vegas videos. Noteworthy examples are:
22	** She accidentally gets [[spoiler: Veronica and Rex]] killed, after stumbling into a field [[DemonicSpider full of Cazador's.]] This leaves her running around all alone, in a place full of one of the Mojave Wasteland's worst predators on a dark night, like a confused child.

Context NightmareFuel / MyLittlePonyTheMentallyAdvancedSeries