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1	* AscendedFanfic: Well, more like Ascended Fangame, but Administrivia/TropesAreFlexible. Started life as a just-for-fun ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic My Little Pony]]'' fangame, and evolved into a unique brawler that secured a commercial release and has the actual creator of ''Friendship Is Magic'' on its team. The six launch characters are also all {{Expies}} of ''My Little Pony'''s main characters.
2	* ChannelHop: Them's Fightin' Herds originally had Humble Bundle as a publisher, but in December 1, 2021, Mane 6 ended the partnership and self published until January 20, 2022, where they were acquired by Modus Games.
3	* ColbertBump: Despite the game's long development history while being playable around as early as February 2018, the game itself never became mainstream, having only a niche following composed of ''VideoGame/MyLittlePonyFightingIsMagic'' players and fans along with the occasional brand promotion until its side tournament debut in EVO 2019. A bigger push to mainstream came with the announcement of it being picked as an official game for EVO 2020 over ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' which pretty much disintegrated its obscurity in the FightingGame community.
4	* DevelopmentGag:
5	** One joke that's been carried over from the days of ''VideoGame/MyLittlePonyFightingIsMagic'' is the "Tennis Shoe" PaletteSwap (a garish combination of yellow, cyan and magenta).
6	** Fred's name is a nod to both ''Fighting is Magic'' and the C&D that Mane Six received from Hasbro regarding any reference to ''Franchise/MyLittlePony''.
7	* DevelopmentHell:
8	** A slight one, but it took over 2 and a half years after ''VideoGame/MyLittlePonyFightingIsMagic'' was [[ScrewedByTheLawyers C&Ded]] to officially announce the crowdfund campaign for ''Them's Fightin' Herds''.
9	** Even when it was finally released on February 2018, the story mode was unplayable due technical difficulties and its version number even showed that it's less than one, effectively labelling it as an unfinished released product (that's why this example's here). And then the TroubledProduction comes in...
10	** These recurring problems lead to Aaron Stavely being brought in as the new production manager to get things back on track, but the team has ended up continuing to miss deadlines for features such as the additional pixel lobbies and the Salt Mines 2.0.
11	* DivorcedInstallment: A necessity due to a [[ScrewedByTheLawyers C&D]] by {{Creator/Hasbro}} -- Creator/LaurenFaust[='s=] new character designs have nothing to do with ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Friendship is Magic]]'' at all.
12	* FakeBrit: Alexa Kahn and Creator/KeithFerguson, both Americans, as Oleander and Fred, respectively.
13	* FakeNationality: Since the voice actors are all American and Canadian while all the characters except Arizona are not, most of them qualify. Aside from the {{Fake Brit}}s and FakeScot mentioned here, the Scandinavian Velvet and Chinese Tianhuo are voiced by the Americans Tia Ballard and Kay Bess, respectively.
14	* FakeScot: Pom as portrayed by the Texas born Allie Moreno.
15	* NoDubForYou: The "Localization" section of [[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/574980/view/3096788858039215834 the post announcing Mane6's acquisition by Modus Games]] states that they currently have no plans to dub the game's English voice acting into other languages, though they do plan on implementing subtitles for voiced mid-battle dialogue (specifically character intros and outros) so that it can be better understood by non-anglophone audiences.
16	* ReferencedBy: Velvet, Oleander, Tianhuo, Paprika, Pom, and Shanty all appear in the [[VideoGame/HeartsOfIron HOI4]] mod ''VideoGame/EquestriaAtWar'' as leaders and/or generals and Arizona is referenced in an event.
17	* ShrugOfGod: Poor Lauren Faust receives a lot of questions about the lore when they are streaming the game, some of them being sometimes ''really'' specific (such as how much the characters weigh and how many planets are there in the game's solar system). The answer is almost always the same: ''"I don't know, I am still making the story, I didn't think of that yet."''
18	* TroubledProduction: The June 2018 update on the main website revealed that there are real-life issues affecting the production crew resulting in slow or even non-existent updates. And slow the updates were: after a few monthly updates, [=Mane6=] stopped giving updates completely. It took up until December 2018 until the next content update (which added intro and victory poses and voicelines, as well as casual matchmaking). Fans were definitely worried during that time. Aaron Stavely was eventually brought on as the new production manager precisely to remedy this, which seems to have been successful so far. However, publisher Modius Games fired most of the [=Mane6=] dev team in November 2023, leading to many promised features--such as the overwhelming majority of the story mode--being scrapped and the game left in an incomplete state.
19	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
20	** [[VideoGame/MyLittlePonyFightingIsMagic The original game]] (at least with Ponies), due to Hasbro's cease and desist, which would have been {{freeware}} and released a few years earlier. Also a case of the opposite, since the original game was made using the less sophisticated Fighter Maker 2000 engine, which would result in a less polished game.
21	** Velvet was originally meant to be an {{expy}} of Rainbow Dash, not Rarity, according to comments made by the developers during an early livestream. Lauren Faust envisioned her as a Christmas-styled, flying reindeer, to match Rainbow Dash's aerial battle style. However, the developers found Velvet to be a better fit for Rarity's replacement instead.
22	** When trying to decide on the PunBasedTitle, one of the early suggestions was the even punnier "E-I-E-I-OW!", though it was rejected for being too focused on DownOnTheFarm, rather than ungulates in general.
23	** When the team were coming up with the names for the characters, one of Arizona's suggested names was Dakota. The reason they didn't go with it was because it was also a human name, but it did inspire her final name.
24	** More for ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Friendship is Magic]]''. During one of the pre-alpha TFH streams where Faust had participated by asking and answering fan questions about the game, she mentioned that, had she known about the Longma (the horse-dragon species that Tianhuo is a part of) while working on ''Friendship is Magic'', she would have based Discord on one, instead of making him a combination of various other creatures.
25	** Velvet was originally meant to have a mechanic where her Magic recharged faster when she was further away from her opponent, to emphasize her role as a LongRangeFighter, with the justification that her opponent's body heat was interfering with her ice magic. This was later dropped due to being too restricting, and her magic always recharges at the fastest rate.
26	** The game was planned to make its EVO debut at EVO Online on 2020, but the controversy surrounding co-founder and CEO Joey Cuellar led to the dev team pulling the game from the lineup.
27	** [[https://youtu.be/SHhejm2ZxNo?t=1097 An early version of Tianhuo's Level 3 Super]] has a different final blow, where Tian flies "away" from the screen, pursuing her opponent after launching them with her CrissCrossAttack, finishing with a massive, supernova-like explosion. In [[https://youtu.be/hUhgGF0rlGo?t=76 the final version]], she instead flies "towards" the screen (directly transitioning from the CrissCrossAttack by having the "camera" turn) while the opponent is caught in an explosion shaped like the Chinese character '天' (sky/heaven).
28	** Arizona's VariableMix style [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2PhpyZBjao was originally Western-style music, with trumpets and acoustic guitar]], instead of Southern Rock.
29	** Story Mode was meant to have multiple chapters expanding upon the stories of each of the main six characters, with a special bonus chapter for Shanty. However, the scope of the project and the game's transfer between different publishers put Story Mode's future in doubt. On November 22, 2023, [=Mane6=] announced that active development on the game would cease after the release of the final two DLC characters, leaving only Arizona's chapter produced.
30	* WordOfGod: [=Mane6=]'s Discord server provides some extra lore about the game's world, including why ungulates use salt blocks (which are refined) instead of salt from anywhere else, such as the oceans.
31	* WorkingTitle: ''Stampede''. It is still used in the game as a "Let's Fight!" equivalent at the beginning of a match.

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