Pony POV Series/Nightmare Fuel


 * Rarity's first chapter. The other girls get a Journey to the Center of the Mind, or some sort of fantastic element. Rarity gets plain, vanilla PSTD- and you get to experience her fear in first-person!
 * There is this one nightmare she ends up having that is particularly disturbing; Tom crashes into the boutique, bellowing for Rarity to marry him. Rarity begs him to stay away from her but suddenly a cockatrice pops out of one of the bouquets he's holding and turns her to stone. Rarity then stands there, terrified, helpless and immobile as a bunch of rock servants show up and force her into a wedding dress. Tom then excitedly declares that he and his "rock princess" will be together forever...whether she wants it or not. Not only is it scary, but it's also practically dripping with Marital Rape License implications.

"And AJ knew, AJ KNEW, that this was only a TINY PORTION of every pony in Ponyville!"
 * As suprising as it sounds, the audio adaptation is worse. The images, which pull no punches don't help one bit.
 * Angry Pie's attempt to absorb the rest of Pinkie Pie's personality and take over. She doesn't just try to absorb them, she tries to eat them alive!
 * Applejack's reharmonization shows what happened to the ponies of Equestria when Discord took over and their PSTD afterward; some of it (like Dr. Whooves calling himself "Queen of Eagleland" and Photo Finnish streaking and eating her own dresses) are hilarious, but most aren't, like . The following sums the whole sequence up perfectly;
 * Angry Pie's attempt to absorb the rest of Pinkie Pie's personality and take over. She doesn't just try to absorb them, she tries to eat them alive!
 * Applejack's reharmonization shows what happened to the ponies of Equestria when Discord took over and their PSTD afterward; some of it (like Dr. Whooves calling himself "Queen of Eagleland" and Photo Finnish streaking and eating her own dresses) are hilarious, but most aren't, like . The following sums the whole sequence up perfectly;

"Nightmare Granfalloon: Anger is dead-dead-dead! Pinkamena is dead-dead-dead! Bad foalhood memories are dead-dead-dead! Now there's only happy thoughts!"
 * Even the author admits he went too far with this one.
 * Princess  changing   to  . It's like she's taking away their freedom, forcing them to live in her own world, whether they want it or not.
 * Celestia
 * And on that note, how about
 * The worst part?
 * In the latest chapters, Applejack gets to see several truly charming alternate universes including: one in which Rainbow Dash becomes Nightmare Manacle, another one in which the girls conquer Equestria and turn it into a My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic version of Brave New World, complete with reeducation camps where you get mentally and physically transformed into forms the Mane Six find more pleasing. Worst of all, though, is a reality in which Pinkie Pie becomes Nightmare Granfalloon, tries to gouge Applejack's eyes out, turns Ponyville into a Circus of Fear, and makes the ponies under her influence Ax Crazy. Rainbow Dash is then forced to kill her -- at which point Rarity *snaps*, kills Rainbow Dash, tries to kill all of her other friends so that none of them will become Nightmares, and then is killed herself, at Fluttershy's(!) hooves. Yikes!
 * Nightmare Granfalloon deserves special mention for being completely Ax Crazy and scary as all get out. Some readers even admit that she gave them nightmares.
 * Celestia
 * And on that note, how about
 * The worst part?
 * In the latest chapters, Applejack gets to see several truly charming alternate universes including: one in which Rainbow Dash becomes Nightmare Manacle, another one in which the girls conquer Equestria and turn it into a My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic version of Brave New World, complete with reeducation camps where you get mentally and physically transformed into forms the Mane Six find more pleasing. Worst of all, though, is a reality in which Pinkie Pie becomes Nightmare Granfalloon, tries to gouge Applejack's eyes out, turns Ponyville into a Circus of Fear, and makes the ponies under her influence Ax Crazy. Rainbow Dash is then forced to kill her -- at which point Rarity *snaps*, kills Rainbow Dash, tries to kill all of her other friends so that none of them will become Nightmares, and then is killed herself, at Fluttershy's(!) hooves. Yikes!
 * Nightmare Granfalloon deserves special mention for being completely Ax Crazy and scary as all get out. Some readers even admit that she gave them nightmares.
 * Nightmare Granfalloon deserves special mention for being completely Ax Crazy and scary as all get out. Some readers even admit that she gave them nightmares.

"Silver Tongue: Once I get your little head to the taxidermist you'll ALWAYS BE PRETTY!!!!!!"
 * A bit of Fridge Horror about that? Remember that Pinkie's foalhood memories are represented by a baby version of herself...
 * It's not as obvious as the Brave New World universe, but it's certainly pretty dark. Even with Princess Gaia leaving a lot more free will in the process -- Applejack's suggestion that Gaia didn't take in the central POV universe -- it's still very much an assault on agency and personality. May count as an Esoteric Happy Ending for others, though, depending on how much you count being foaled as Mind Rape, as it is shrinking the sum of all evils in Equestria.
 * When he was Discorded, Silver Tongue tried to kill his daughter Silver Spoon with an ax.

"Stallion: You'll make such a wonderful doll. Pretty, silent, and obedient. Don't worry. You'll be pretty forever. I'll wipe away all those painful and annoying memories. They'll be nothing except being a nice little doll for ponies to look at and play with."
 * The effects of Onyx Tiara being Discorded: . As if we needed any more proof Discord is a Complete Monster...
 * And then when the Mane Six defeat Discord he awakens to find himself surrounded by his traumatized servants, one of them a horrified colt, and they all remember everything that happened. EVERYTHING.
 * Entropy. Just Entropy! The entire scene with her is just terrifying.
 * And if a certain Loose Canon story is to be believed,
 * We see later in origin Discord's reign in all its horrifying glory, but one that stands out is his previously mentioned Flutterpony genocide.
 * Dear lord...
 * Made worse by the fact
 * Discord's treatment of Diamond Tiara. He alternates between abusing her verbally and just flat (mundane) out Mind Rape, stringing her along with enough praise to keep her listening to him. What makes this even more terrifying is this is how actual abusers behave!
 * And how can we forget the utterly charming dream dear Diamond Tiara has while sleeping in a Canterlot park? The one where she finds herself alongside thousands of other ponies -- earth ponies, unicorns, pegasi, flutterponies, even sea ponies -- pulling a massive chariot with a gigantic horned serpent in it whipping them all and laughing as he roars, "Cry Havoc!". Word of God is that the scene was based on a similar one from All Dogs Go to Heaven.
 * While Diamond Tiara is in Canterlot she runs into a rather...disturbing Stallion. Who tries to kidnap her and do Celestia knows what to her! The only thing we get about his plans is this:

""Where are you?" "Very. Close. By.""
 * In a later chapter we find out that Filthy Rich's unicorn maid apparently met that same green unicorn. He did... things... to her that left her with a phobia of the color green. She was handling it, but unexpectedly seeing something green could set her panic attacks off. Then come the Day of Discord and guess what Discord made everything look like to her. Though it could have been worse. She could have turned everyone she touched into him, like Filthy/Onyx and his wife.
 * Although things thankfully end well, in the Loose Canon story "Not One of his Kind", seeing was pretty unsettling.
 * The trailer for the audio version of "Reharmonized" manages to take the hilarious "Queen of Eagleland" speech and make it utterly terrifying.
 * In keeping with the tone of "Discorded', the trailer focuses on the darker parts of "Reharmonized", including, among other things,
 * And then there's The Stinger;

""Let me remind you how much your mother really loves you.""
 * In the Mind Games arc, at one point Diamond Tiara experiences a memory of Discord's time as an innocent creature among the ponies, back when he was Shady's son and actually innocent and capable of love. As he's possessing her at the time, she sees some of his memories. She asks him what that was, and Discord goes wild with rage, screaming that it's all nothing and meaningless and she is never to bring that up again. EVER.
 * Also during the Mind Games arc, we get another glimpse of the Epilogue timeline (or a similar enough one) via a nightmare shared by Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo. In it, Traitor Dash kills an adult Scootaloo (who's apparently a Rebel Leader), and Discord decides to "reward" her by creating a play about her victory, and having her attend every single performance. Oh, and a detail that shouldn't be overlooked -- during the fight, Scootaloo runs Traitor Dash through, but she doesn't die because.
 * In Mind Games Part 7 we finally learn what made Filthy Rich send his wife Screwball off to the Bedlam House she occupied until recently (she broke out).  This sends Screwball into an Unstoppable Rage as she screams at her that she's nothing, a mistake, that her husband probably cheated on her to produce such a stupid and worthless foal and that it's time to get rid of this 'failure' and try again. Indeed, she says that to her husband's face, accompanied by a seductive wink, when he finds her   And just how does the little filly learn all this? From Discord, when he tells her:

"Discord: This will only hurt for a second! So be sure to struggle and squirm a whole lot!"
 * "Different From Everypony Else" gives us a depiction of Discord's attack on the insane asylum outside of Ponyville. What he did to the ponies working there, who, despite Onyx's opinion and how Discord depicted the place, are pretty decent ponies, is just absolutely horrifying. And the scene ends with Discord holding down the character who's point of view we're seeing through and preparing to drill into his skull or something equally as horrifying we thankfully don't see (he didn't kill or seriously hurt the guy, but that doesn't change what happened!).


 * Mind Games Part 8.