Fallout Equestria



""Oh, my name is Littlepip. Go figure. I was given the name because I was the youngest and the smallest, and even my mother had the good sense not to call me “Pipsqueak.” (Not that I don’t love her, but when a filly’s cutie mark is a glass of hard apple cider...) Anyway, funny how names like that turn out sometimes.

Pleased to meet you. Here is my story...""

- Littlepip

Fallout Equestria is a crossover fanfic between My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic and the Fallout universe.

Set in an alternate future, it follows the story of Littlepip, a rather underwhelming Stable-dwelling unicorn in a post-apocalyptic Equestria. Stuck in the monotony of one of the lowest ranking jobs in the Stable, her life changes when she leaves in search of Velvet Remedy, the Stable's singer idol.

Outside, she must learn to survive in a blasted, poisoned land... And possibly, with the aid of friends made along the way, bring new light into the darkness of the Equestrian Wasteland.

Now complete.

Has a character sheet.

Fallout Equestria contains the following tropes:
"Griffin 1: Where are the rest of you?
 * Action Mom:
 * Eventually
 * After the End: The story is set in a post-apocalyptic Equestria, suffering from the effects of what was effectively a nuclear war. In this case however, it was done with Balefire and megaspells, rather than nuclear missiles.
 * AI Is a Crapshoot: The AI in which killed the population off slowly, trying to make up for a deteriorating water talisman, and to 'preserve pony life'.
 * Alcoholic Parent: Littlepip's mother.
 * Always Chaotic Evil:
 * The Hellhounds. It's suggested a few times by Velvet Remedy that they might actually be a subversion. However, since Velvet suffers from some symptoms of Stupid Good, it should probably be taken with a grain of salt.
 * Chapter 42 reveals that
 * Raiders. Just like in the game, their only purpose is to torture and kill everypony they see For the Evulz.
 * Ammunition Backpack: Battle Saddles in general.
 * Anticlimax: Calamity finds  It shows his growth as a character.
 * Lampshaded by
 * Anti-Hero: Although is the earliest example of this, Steelhooves and  constantly seem to ride the line between this and Well-Intentioned Extremist.
 * Apocalypse How: A Class 2, caused by a similar war to the Fallout series.
 * Apocalyptic Log: Considering the setting, there are a few examples.
 * Stable 24's logs, leading up to the point where everyone gets.
 * Also giving details up to point of its occupants' mass extinction.
 * The logs in Maripony showing the origin of the Goddess.
 * audio records, which show her gradual descent into insanity as she turns to suicide to avoid running into raiders.
 * The crew behind the fanfic's radio play released the play’s prologue, which is the very definition of an Apocalyptic Log. Listen for yourself.
 * Artifact of Doom: The Black Book, a nigh-indestructible compendium of dark zebra magic.
 * Ascended to Carnivorism: Most wasteland ponies have no issues with eating bacon, the village of Arbu survived by exporting radigator meat.
 * Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Many believe that this is what happened to Celestia and Luna after their Heroic Sacrifice, now acting similar to more conventional gods. There's no evidence for it (and many pegasi dismiss it as bunk), but there's not really evidence against it, either.
 * Award Bait Song: One fan wrote a song called Lil Pip that hits just about all the criteria.
 * Audio Adaptation: There is an audiobook project currently underway, with the author's blessing. New chapters are published (and available for download) on the overly-ambitious narrator's youtube page.
 * There is a full radio drama of the fanfic currently underway as well.
 * Batman Gambit:
 * Pulled off quite well when, due to some fast talking, Littlepip has both Gawd and Deadeyes in one room, and each think that she's going to kill the other for them.
 * Red Eye is planning one against.
 * Both of those are blown away by Littlepip's Plan to take down the Goddess.
 * Red Eye's plan to is the best example yet.
 * Big Brother Is Watching: The Ministry of Morale/Pinkie Pie. FOREVER.
 * Big Damn Heroes: The main characters serve as this for many of the wasteland dwellers, saving ponies being chased by raiders or.
 * Cruelly subverted throughout.
 * Big Freaking Gun:
 * Some Battle Saddles are in this vein.
 * The magic cannon that Calamity uses against Topaz is literally bigger than him.
 * Spitfire's Thunder is so big it needs to be packed up and then reassembled before battle.
 * The B.E.L. in Chapter 36 is the equivalent of Fallout's Fatman.
 * Bittersweet Ending:
 * Bloody Murder: A form of dark magic, allowing the wielder to form blood into weapons.
 * Bio Augmentation: The ghoul doctor attempted this with his patients and manticore poison sacs. The Zebra Alchemy perks "Bone-Strengthening Brew" and "Zebra-Augmented Pony" are more benign examples (and notably incompatible with cybernetics).
 * Body Horror: What happened to most of the ghoul doctor's experiments in Chapter 17.
 * Body Surf:
 * Bond One-Liner:
 * Book Ends:
 * Brain Uploading: A possible action with the Crusader Maneframes, put there in case they ever went rogue.
 * Elder Cottage Cheese also tries this, but is stopped by Littlepip.
 * Breaking the Fourth Wall:
 * Breather Episode: Arguably Chapter 32, which takes place mostly in Tenpony Tower and includes Xenith going on a shopping trip, all real action only taking place inside memory orbs and Velvet and Calamity doing... Things.
 * Broke the Rating Scale: Similar to how Cupcakes is the only fic to get the "GRIMDARK AS FUCK" tag on Equestria Daily, Fallout: Equestria is the only fic to get the "LEGENDARY" tag there. It's that good.
 * Buffy-Speak: Littlepip's thoughts on why one of Calamity's plans isn't, because "Plans have...plan stuff".
 * Call Back: The night before the final battle,  lampshades this.
 * The Call Has Bad Reception:
 * Double subverted when
 * Can Not Tell a Lie: Monterey Jack, who would rather confess a crime  than lie.
 * Catapult Nightmare: Diamond Tiara, causing the prisoners to become aware of her existence and therefore indirectly causing her death.
 * Character Blog: Littlepip and Red Eye, both on Tumblr. Warning: Since the answers are based on information directly from the story, up to the most recent chapter, there are many spoilers abound.
 * Chekhov's Gun: An armory's worth. The author has mentioned that this is her favorite literary device to set up. Just to name a few:
 * Littlepip's mother's tendency to alcoholism is mentioned in the prologue and summed up in
 * The magical plasma cannon which is undergoing repair in Chapter 10 comes back in.
 * In Chapter 13, Littlepip decodes a recording left by Trixie that said she was going to help Twilight with an important scientific experiment. In Chapter 29, we learn both what this experiment was and its end result. This one gets bonus points for Littlepip outright stating it's nothing special.
 * The red wagon Velvet Remedy uses in Chapter 18 to pull supplies, is then used to.
 * The is later used by  to gain leverage over Littlepip. After that, it's used to
 * Chekhov's Skill: Littlepip's lock-picking. Significant in the fact that only she seems to be the only one capable of doing it to any sufficient level in the entire wasteland. This is also an example of a Mythology Gag, since the player's character in any of the Fallout games will constantly find supplies that appear to have been locked up since the apocalypse several centuries ago.
 * Cluster F-Bomb: Doctor Glue elevates swearing to an artform.
 * Comic Book Adaptation: Yes, there is.
 * Cooldown Hug:
 * Velvet Remedy gives one of these in Chapter 9. Also doubles as a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming.
 * Littlepip does this to the sea-blue pony in Chapter 17. Before that, she was.
 * Combat Pragmatist: Anyone in the wasteland, given half the chance. Credit goes to Littlepip for.
 * Clarke's Third Law: Magic and technology go hand-in-hand so much it's hard to tell where it one starts and the other ends.
 * Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere: Mint-Als seem to pop up in the most inconvenient of places.
 * Color Coded for Your Convenience: Alicorns come in three colors; blue, purple and green, each with their own unique abilities.
 * Corrupt Corporate Executive:
 * Most of the Ministry of Technology, to the point of.
 * It's not entirely clear whether  was this or a Well-Intentioned Extremist.
 * Crapsack World: Equestria is now a desolate and unforgiving wasteland, with mutated creatures and the like all trying to kill you, and 'Taint' making everything else worse. This is made even crappier when you catch glimpses of what used to be.
 * Crap Saccharine World: The war quickly turned Equestria into this.
 * Cyborg:
 * Red Eye and his dog Winter.
 * The epilogue mentions that.
 * A Date With Rosie Hooves: Littlepip tries to relieve some sexual frustration while sick with a fever. While Velvet is sleeping next to her. Luckily, she doesn't wake up.
 * Darker and Edgier: MUCH more than MLP:FiM (duh)
 * The Canterlot ruins, which borrow elements from the Sierra Madre (Dead Money) reflect this well, as many of the already deadly threats are ramped up to even nastier levels. The original cloud would sap your health; the pink cloud is not only faster but threatens to warp flesh and fuse you to equipment or furniture or the ground. The bomb collars were mostly a puzzle and harmless as long as you turned off the speaker or got out of range; in Canterlot, their necromantic effect mean you start suffering and dying as soon as you get into range, making it all that much harder to get away.
 * Deadly Gas: The Pink Cloud in Canterlot.
 * Death by Irony: The Killing Joke's modus operandi.
 * Death Is Dramatic: Subverted. A primary character's death, while foreshadowed, is abrupt and realistic.
 * Death World: Think of the Equestrian Wasteland as a typical Fallout Wasteland... on steroids. In Fallout, few creatures have energy-based attacks, Super Mutants don't have the ability to generate extremely sturdy protective shields or fly, and Deathclaws aren't adapted enough to qualify as a faction on their own, with enough wit to reverse-engineer firearms for their own uses, plus being able to dig fast enough for it to be a viable combat tactic. Guess what you can find in the now devastated Equestria. There's more, like the almost permanently cloudy weather due to the Enclave, the incurable Taint along with the "vanilla" magical radiation, and much more.
 * Deconstruction Fic:
 * Not much from My Little Pony gets this, but several aspects of the games (and, to some extent, those who play them) are given a good look through this lens. The Party-Time Mintals are an excellent example. A player would merely be annoyed by the stat drop caused by addiction; for Littlepip,.
 * Killing, even in self defense, is intensely deconstructed as well. Both Littlepip and Velvet have extreme difficulty coming to terms with the fact they have to kill to survive, even in self defense, to the point that Littlepip, and Velvet
 * Deliberate Values Dissonance: Littlepip considers the very concept of an eclipse to be blasphemous and obscene. Apparently, Celestia and Luna never had such things occur while they were alive.
 * Despair Event Horizon: Littlepip comes to believe that, rather than simply being born evil, ponies become Raiders after the Wasteland destroys every last shred of hope they have inside them.
 * Dirty Business: How Littlepip sees killing and looting. Though in later chapters, she questions whether it's becoming too normal for her.
 * Do Not Adjust Your Set:
 * Doorstopper: Hoo boy. As of its completion, Fallout: Equestria reached approximately 608,000 words - longer than War and Peace (560,000 words). Fo:E is one of the longest, if not the longest MLP:FiM fanfiction. Forty-five lengthy chapters, not to mention the numerous fanarts, game mods (mostly for Team Fortress 2) and Recursive Fanfiction about it. If you had the time, the paper, and the ink, this would literally be a novel, if not several. The author has identified the points where it should be broken to make either a trilogy or a 5-book series.
 * The Recursive Fanfiction Project Horizons has actually exceeded it in length. And it just recently passed the predicted halfway mark.
 * Dressing as the Enemy: Littlepip does this by accident when wearing raider's armor,.
 * Driven to Suicide:
 * , in one of the Apocalyptic Logs. Chilling.
 * Also,
 * And it was suggested this was the fate of.
 * Dropped a Bridge on Him: death is sudden, unexpected and wholly ignoble. It just comes out of the blue and is over before you register it happened. A fitting reminder of how cheap and pointless death actually is in the Wasteland.
 * Drugs Are Bad: Littlepip's crashes after taking Party-Time Mint-als and addiction to said drugs do not bode well. Especially considering the eventual fate of.
 * Due to the Dead: Averted for the most part. There are weathered skeletons and defiled corpses galore in the Wasteland. Almost none of the pre-war characters receive any sort of burial.
 * Eldritch Abomination: Zebras believe that the stars are an entire race of these, looking to destroy Equestria.  It's strongly implied that there is some truth to this...
 * Elite Mooks:
 * Alicorns. Like Celestia and Luna, they have wings of pegasi and magical horns of unicorns and are pretty darn hard to kill. As long as the shields are up anyway.  Not to mention their powers of cloaking, regenerating, and shooting lightning bolts. And if they've absorbed an especially large dose of radiation, then you'll also be dealing with an Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever.
 * Hellhounds. They are the equestrian equivalent of Deathclaws. Fast, intelligent and able to burrow underground at amazing speeds. Oh, and they know how to use energy weapons.
 * Enemy Civil War: In the epilogue,
 * Everything Trying to Kill You: The Everfree Forest in the show was already a wild, dangerous place populated with D&D monsters. In FO:E it's mutated into a honest-to-Celestia patch of instant death.
 * Evil Weapon:
 * The Exile:
 * Littlepip and Velvet Remedy, who can never come back inside the Stable once they've left.
 * , for daring to descend to Equestria before the rest of his kind are ready for their glorious return, and for following Rainbow Dash and becoming a Dash-ite.
 * , who became the very first Dash-ite.
 * , upon activation of the Single Pegasus Project.
 * Expanded Universe: The author has done a lot of world building, and, due to a large amount of fan interest, has encouraged others to try their hoof at making a story in the Equestrian wasteland. Which some people have actually done and can be read here.
 * Two of these side stories - Project Horizons and Pink Eyes - have grown to the point of getting their own pages.
 * Expecting Someone Taller: The Griffins in Chapter 18:
 * Expecting Someone Taller: The Griffins in Chapter 18:

Littlepip: This is it. Just us.

Griffin 2: Well, this isn't much of a rescue.

Littlepip: Gratitude. Look it up."

"Gaurd: Sorry. But it’s your word against his, and frankly, seeing as you aren’t a citizen, your word doesn’t mean much here."
 * Expy: To be expected, since the story is based off Fallout 3's. Though usually very loosely (ex. Ditzy has already finished the Guide and is over 200 years old).
 * Ditzy Doo to Moria Brown.
 * Tenpony Tower to Tenpenny Tower.
 * DJ PON3 to Three Dog.
 * Mint-als to Mentats, Dash for Jet, among others.
 * Red Eye to Lord Ashur (and, to some degree, President Eden), and Fillydelphia to The Pitt.
 * The Zebra Empire to China.
 * Hellhounds to Deathclaws.
 * Steel Rangers for the Brotherhood of Steel, though they seem to act in their West Coast ideology.
 * Balefire and Megaspell bombs as a stand in for nukes.
 * The Taint (or rather,  seems to be a stand in for FEV.
 * The Alicorns are meant to be the Super Mutants of the universe.
 * The Goddess /  for the Master.
 * The Pegasus Enclave is, well, the Enclave.
 * The Canterlot Ruins for the Sierra Madre. Similarly, Elder Cottage Cheese for Father Elijah.
 * Arbu for Arefu.
 * for Andale.
 * Glyphmark for Big Town.
 * Qarl Death-Hoof for Garl Death-Hand.
 * Making Xenith's former tribe an expy of the Khans, and thus Glyphmark's Angels are an expy of the Great Khans.
 * Maripony for the Mariposa Military Base.
 * Friendship City is a mix of Rivet City and Junktown.
 * Old Appleloosa to Paradise Falls.
 * New Appleloosa to Megaton.
 * Old Olneigh to Old Olney.
 * Colonel Autumn Leaf to Colonel Augustus Autumn.
 * Barkin' Saw to Arkansas.
 * Eye Scream:  to the eye in Chapter 44.
 * Fake Defector:
 * Fake Ultimate Hero: Subverted.
 * Fallen Hero: While we don't get details, Homage has seen many of these throughout Equestria.
 * Fantastic Drug: Despite the obvious downside to most of the drugs (addiction, crashes, overdoses, etc...) Party-Time Mint-als have let Littlepip overcome a whole lot of problems due to the increased clarity of thought. They also
 * Fantastic Nuke: Balefire bombs, of course.
 * Fantastic Racism: People distrust ghouls, expecting them to turn into killing zombies, even the nice ones like . During the war, zebras were almost always represented as monsters in war propaganda.
 * Fate Worse Than Death:
 * The fate of those who survive the ghoul doctor's experiments.
 * Fire-Forged Friends: Littlepip and Calamity. Possibly Velvet Remedy as well.
 * Five Pony Band
 * The Hero: Littlepip, despite her insistence that she's not the leader.
 * The Lancer: Calamity, snarkiness included.
 * The Chick: Velvet Remedy
 * The Big Guy: SteelHooves. Comes with being the most capable fighter and wearing Power Armor on a consistent basis.
 * The Smart Mare: Littlepip, but Xenith is this in different fields.
 * Team Pet: Velvet Remedy's Balefire Phoenix, Pyrelight.
 * The Sixth Ranger: Xenith.
 * Footnote Fever: The end of every chapter includes a little footnote describing LittlePip's current level and/or aquired Perks.
 * Frickin' Laser Beams: Energy weapons, a trait carried over from Fallout.
 * Fridge Brilliance: Velvet Remedy always wanted to be a medical pony. Her cutie mark is a nightingale.
 * Friend or Foe: The E.F.S system on the PipBuck somehow determines the status of all living beings and marks them as either hostile or friendly.
 * From Nobody to Nightmare: The Diamond Dogs, once some of the most pathetic villains around, have been transformed by magical radiation into one of the deadliest and most dreaded threats in the Wasteland.
 * Fusion Fic
 * Gladiator Games: The pit.
 * God Is Dead: Celestia and Luna sacrificed their lives to protect Equestria during the apocalypse. Since the sun and moon now move on their own, (though differently, as eclipses never occurred under their watch) many ponies, especially the pegasi, have turned to atheism. On the other hand, just as many believe that Celestia and Luna ascended and now perform their duties and watch over Equestria from there, similar to more conventional gods. Turns out, if you count uploading your mind while your body dies.
 * God Job: Discussed.
 * Godzilla Threshold: To the Zebras,  meant that if they lost the war then they faced a fate worse than death  . When it looked like that had become inevitable, risking mutual assured destruction with a first strike became the preferable option.
 * Gone Horribly Right: The Goddess was created
 * Gotta Catch Them All: Type C. One of the major plot points for story is for Littlepip to find ponies that represent the Elements of Harmony so that she can activate the
 * Grey and Gray Morality: Similar to Fallout, there aren't any overtly evil or good people. Instead there are mainly people with similar goals, and differing methods. Such as Littlepip and Red Eye (though admittedly Littlpip is A Lighter Shade of Grey in comparison).
 * Guns Akimbo: Battle Saddles. Sort of.
 * Healing Factor: All ghouls and alicorns when exposed to radiation. Later Littlepip herself gains the "Rad Regeneration" perk following exposure to Taint.
 * Heart Is an Awesome Power: Lilpip's only spell is telekinesis, which is the most basic unicorn spell, and she has a significant amount of angst over it. Velvet later points out that she is capable of doing telekinesis better than any other unicorn in existence.
 * Heroic Sacrifice:
 * Big Macintosh. To save Celestia from a Zebra assassin.
 * Celestia and Luna to prevent the Pink Cloud from devastating Equestria..
 * Rarity, teleporting Fluttershy and Angel to safety from the Pink Cloud.
 * Hero with Bad Publicity:
 * Het Is Ew: The Enclave encourage homosexuality among its rank and file as a means of population control, given their limited arable farmland.
 * Platonic Life Partners: Aside from Homage, Littlepip treasures her bond with Calamity above everything else.
 * Hidden Elf Village: Of a sort. When Cloudsdayle was hit with a megaspell at the start of the war, most of the pegasi brought about a permanent cloud cover and built new hidden cities to hide from the zebra forces. The pegasi living up above the clouds maintain that they'll be back to help the world eventually, though 200 years after the war's end they're still in hiding. In Chapter 38,
 * Hit Me Dammit: At the end of Chapter 44,
 * Hive Mind: Littlepip comes to the conclusion that have one when they state they remember her killing them. They also refer to themselves collectively as 'Us'.
 * Hold Your Hippogriffs: Some of the characters swear by/pray to Luna and Celestia. Littlepip comes up with gems like "Luna shitting moon rocks". Really, some of the joy in this story comes from the brilliant color of Littlepip's vocabulary. Including "Stick a horn where Celestia don't shine" and "Solar-flaring orgasms of Celestia".
 * Honor Before Reason: See Can Not Tell a Lie.
 * Hope Spot:
 * Hot Mom: Xenith. Also, surprisingly,
 * How We Got Here
 * Hurricane of Puns: As expected when the source material is half from MLP:FiM.
 * I Am Legion: The alicorns, and by extension the Goddess, who is (at least partly).
 * I Lied: While not quoted outright, Littlepip bluntly lampshades her dishonesty as she turns her gun on  instead of fulfilling her end of their deal.
 * I'm a Ponytarian: The residents of
 * Incest Is Relative:
 * Incompatible Orientation: Littlepip had a crush on Velvet Remedy since she was little. Unfortunately, Velvet is straight.
 * Indy Ploy: Expect these every time you see the words 'Stealth mission,' as well as pain, violence, explosions and more violence.
 * Insane Zebra Logic: Littlepip's first impression of Xenith's philosophy.
 * Invisibility: The blue alicorn's unique ability.
 * Ironic Echo: When littlepip meets again, and accuses him of robbing her:
 * Insane Zebra Logic: Littlepip's first impression of Xenith's philosophy.
 * Invisibility: The blue alicorn's unique ability.
 * Ironic Echo: When littlepip meets again, and accuses him of robbing her:

"Gaurd: Sorry kid. But it’s your word against his. And like I said, your non-citizen word doesn’t mean the dirt on my hoof around here."
 * After he confesses, she finds out that there's a death penalty, and she claims he didn't do it:

""Again with the catwalks-over-factory-floors aesthetic of wartime Equestria," I groused."
 * It Only Works Once: Due to their hive mind, the same trick cannot be used on alicorns more then once.
 * Killed Off for Real:
 * Killer Rabbit: Angel Bunny Took a Level In Badass during the Great War, gaining the title of Doombunny by the Zebra army.
 * Kill Sat: Of a sort..
 * Kirk Summation: Littlepip tries to talk Elder Cottage Cheese out of plugging himself into the Crusader Maneframe.
 * Large Ham:.
 * Laser-Guided Amnesia: The memory orbs work either by copying or completely extracting the victim's memories, meaning they can't look back on them without accessing the orb. At the end of Chapter 31,
 * Legacy Character:
 * DJ PON-3. The current holder of the title being.
 * All of the Element Bearers, particularly
 * is this in part for Twilight Sparkle, for
 * Left Hanging:
 * Light Is Not Good: Littlepip finds other characters who embody the virtues in ways that causes more harm than good. It's explicitly stated by Watcher that the virtues can't do any good without friendship behind them.
 * Loyalty: The mercenary that is loyal to money and contract, but could easily betray co-workers.
 * Honesty: The pony who caused his own death by telling the truth, even when it was not necessary.
 * Laughter: The filly who tried to suppress all negative emotions, turning into a Stepford Smiler.
 * Generosity: The dictator who goes to monstrous lengths to gift Equestria with a future.
 * Magic: The Goddess, absorbing Unicorns and turning them into the powerful Alicorns, stripping away their identity and free will.
 * Kindness: Littlepip herself. At multiple points in the story, she goes to great lengths to save the people living in the wasteland, only to abandon them when the danger has passed. Of course, since it was The Goddess who pointed this out, it could have just been an attempt to unnerve her.
 * Luke, I Am Your Father:
 * Mad Doctor: The ghoul doctor, who tries to.
 * Mad Scientist:
 * Doctor Glue, and he's completely unrepentant about it.
 * Magitek: Balefire bombs, magical energy weapons that shoot lightning/plasma/laser beams, several PipBuck functions, rifles that shoot flammable bullets, and so on.
 * Meaningful Name: As in MLP.
 * Littlepip: Diminutive, and a PipBuck technician.
 * Mythology Gag: Van Buren was going to have a stand-in for the Pipboy called a Lil Pip.
 * Littlepip's Badass Nickname, the Bringer of Light, takes significance later:
 * Velvet Remedy: Remedy as in a medicine or treatment, more appropriate for a healer than a singer.
 * Calamity: Expert markspony. Also many of his plans have a habit of either backfiring spectacularly or having tons of collateral damage.
 * Also a reference to Calamity Jane.
 * Zig Zagged: He bears no obvious similiarity to Calamity, a ghoul in Fallout: New Vegas.
 * SteelHooves: Never takes off his steel armor. Technically his nickname though.
 * His real name,, is oddly similar to his former girlfriend's name. Much to Dash's amusement.
 * Mechanical Horse: Security robots that shoot lightning.
 * Memory Gambit: Littlepip's big plan with Red Eye and the Goddess hinges on her NOT knowing what the plan is.
 * Mind Over Matter: Littlepip's only magic is telekinesis, which all unicorns can do, but the sheer level of her capability is staggering; during The Pit fight, she manages to levitate herself, an ally, a lance and several gallons of toxic goo, the last being stretched out to cloak them from snipers. And then she decides to pick a lock, without tools, by grabbing the tumblers from inside. And succeeds. She's extremely taxed by the feat but it would probably be flat-out impossible for any other pony short of Celestia or Luna. (Admittedly she had spent several traits on this.)
 * Mind Rape:
 * Mix-and-Match Critters: The snake/cat/wasp beasts in.
 * Motive Decay: In-Universe. The Steel Rangers were originally some of the foremost protectors of Equestria. After the nuclear holocaust, many of them began misinterpreting their oath as "protect Equestrian technology, and kill anyone who gets in our way."
 * More Dakka: SteelHooves' armor is equiped with a rocket launcher and a grenade machine-gun. Even with this arsenal, Calamity still considers adding a plasma rifle to the armor.
 * My God, What Have I Done?: Littlepip in Chapter 19 which leads to her flushing away all her Party-Time Mintals.
 * My Greatest Failure:
 * for Littlepip, to the point where she starts obsessing over it.
 * is this for  blames herself for the eventual apocalypse and.
 * Nailed to the Wagon:  She gets tranquilized and transported (in what happens to be a wagon) to the addiction clinic against her will. She doesn't take it well.
 * Naughty Tentacles: Littlepip just barely escapes this fate in Chapter 31.
 * Neigh Theist: Played unusually. While  believes in the divinity of Celestia and Luna and is reverent towards them,   does not agree with
 * Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:.
 * No OSHA Compliance: Lampshaded by Littlepip herself in this quote from Chapter 29 when the Goddess plays a video recording of the incident that created her.
 * No OSHA Compliance: Lampshaded by Littlepip herself in this quote from Chapter 29 when the Goddess plays a video recording of the incident that created her.

"Littlepip:"
 * Not What I Signed on For:
 * Nuclear Nasty: Magical radiation and 'Taint' mutated parasprites, bats, phoenixes and pretty much every other creature out there.
 * Nuclear Option:
 * Once More, with Clarity: The natural result of combining a plot this convoluted and a protagonist with an eidetic memory to give Twilight Sparkle a run for her bits. Littlepip will often recall a seemingly inconsequential throwaway detail in somepony's dialogue, memory, or audio log several chapters down the line to either provide another layer of philosophical reflection, unravel the pre-apocalypse conspiracy, or arm herself in the present. Borders on Continuity Porn.
 * One-Gender Race: The alicorns are all female. Even if they try to assimilate a male, he won't be one anymore by the time the transformation is complete. This is actually bad for them: they plan to become the dominant race in Equestria, which can't be done unless they have a method of reproduction outside of assimilation.
 * As in the game: Super Mutants are all genderless, but seemingly male. (The ones from Vault 87, that is.)
 * Operation: Jealousy: Subverted. While angry at Calamity, Velvet considers doing this with Littlepip. Littlepip immediately rips into her for it, pointing out that Velvet is trying to manipulate someone who has an unrequited crush on her in order to get back at someone else.
 * Opposites Attract: Calamity and Velvet Remedy.
 * Our Ghouls Are Creepier: Just like the Fallout version, some are mindless and feral while some are intelligent and a couple are allies (like Ditzy Doo and .) Though they might actually be undead due to the possibility of necromantic magic in the Balefire bombs.
 * The Paralyzer: Part of the Fallen Caesar style of fighting.
 * Platonic Life Partners: Next to Homage, Calamity is Littlepip's closest friend.
 * The Paralyzer: Part of the Fallen Caesar style of fighting.
 * Platonic Life Partners: Next to Homage, Calamity is Littlepip's closest friend.

"Littlepip: How do you like...[them apples] (Just before sending a bunch of apple grenades down throat)"
 * Posthumous Character:
 * Pretty much the entire cast of My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic. If the war didn't kill them, the two centuries in between the war and the events of the story did. The only known exceptions to this rule are Ditzy Doo,.
 * Powered Armor: All Steel Rangers wear a powered suit. Similar to Fallout power armour.
 * Pre-Mortem One-Liner: A partial one from Littlepip.
 * Powered Armor: All Steel Rangers wear a powered suit. Similar to Fallout power armour.
 * Pre-Mortem One-Liner: A partial one from Littlepip.
 * Powered Armor: All Steel Rangers wear a powered suit. Similar to Fallout power armour.
 * Pre-Mortem One-Liner: A partial one from Littlepip.

"Littlepip: By the Goddesses, could they be any more obvious!"
 * Properly Paranoid: Scootaloo goes to extreme measures to have safe meetings with her friends, thinking the Ministry of Morale may be watching..
 * Punch Clock Villain: While in Shattered Hoof, Littlepip meets some Raiders that aren't raping-and-killing monsters, and are just trying to survive in the wasteland.
 * Punny Name: It's a Friendship is Magic fanfiction. Go figure this will be a good chunk of the cast, of whom cheese shop owner Monterey Jack is only the first.
 * Revolvers Are Just Better: Lil' Macintosh (a scoped revolver) is one of Littlepip's most powerful guns. May be justified, as this one was crafted by,, the head of the Ministry of Wartime Technology AKA Applejack, and would therefore pack quite a punch.
 * Running Gag:
 * Whenever Gawd's name is used in conversation. Ex -- "I'm on a mission from Gawd."
 * Littlepip's obsession with lockpicking and hacking.
 * Calamity's penchant for looting whenever possible.
 * Homage having way too much fun embarrassing Littlepip over the air.
 * The Ministry Mares playfully hitting on Applejack, particularly Rainbow Dash.
 * Littlepip being a toaster repair pony.
 * Every chapter ends up with Littlepip gaining a new perk, which are parodies of Fallout ones. Some examples are:
 * Cherchez La Filly - +10% damage to the same sex and unique dialogue options with certain ponies.
 * Math Wrath – You are able to optimize your PipBuck’s targeting spell logic. S.A.T.S. is now 20% cooler.
 * Mighty Telekinesis (level three) – Your telekinesis is Twilight Sparkle tier. You can handle multiple objects with ease; and with enough focus, you could probably carry around an Ursa Minor!
 * Screw You, Elves: Pegasi have become the elves of the setting, living safely in the clouds and claiming that they'll come down to save Equestria, but never getting around to it. Rainbow Dash, Scootaloo and Calamity (who are pegasi themselves) gave them this treatment, with Calamity doing it every chance he gets.
 * Secret Police: The Ministry of Morale.
 * Shaggy Dog Story:
 * Even more heartbreakingly,
 * She Is Not My Girlfriend: Stated quite emphatically by both Calamity and Velvet Remedy in Stable 29. Littlepip doesn't buy it.

"(It's not as if books can only be read once, after all.)"
 * Also an example of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, as part of the reason they hooked up is because Littlepip thought it was inevitable.
 * Shut UP, Hannibal:
 * Skeletons in the Coat Closet: Nightseer wears the bones of  as armor/trophies. It's ultimately her downfall, as Littlepip telekinetically impales her with them.
 * Slept Through the Apocalypse:
 * Soul Jar: A form of dark zebra magic.
 * The Speechless: Ditzy Doo.
 * Spin Offspring: Velvet Remedy is a direct descendant to Sweetie Belle. While Littlepip is a distant descendant of.
 * Stealth Pun: Her image devastated after the events of "Boast Buster" Trixe is implied to have wound up pulling tricks by a Canterlot Turnpike.
 * Stepford Smiler:
 * Straw Man Has a Point: Red Eye's propeganda includes that all races of pony are equally important. He seems to consider the opposition that earth ponies are the best, which seems laughable. His opposition's points seem to be better than his, and then you realize that.
 * Suicide by Cop:
 * Sugar Apocalypse: This is the world of Friendship is Magic after the equivalent of a nuclear war, after all.
 * Take That: Chapter 11 has a jab at the one-use nature of permanent items.
 * Stepford Smiler:
 * Straw Man Has a Point: Red Eye's propeganda includes that all races of pony are equally important. He seems to consider the opposition that earth ponies are the best, which seems laughable. His opposition's points seem to be better than his, and then you realize that.
 * Suicide by Cop:
 * Sugar Apocalypse: This is the world of Friendship is Magic after the equivalent of a nuclear war, after all.
 * Take That: Chapter 11 has a jab at the one-use nature of permanent items.


 * Take Up My Sword: The world needs six new bearers for the Elements of Harmony so they can . The first prime candidates are , and later  . (Was there ever any doubt?)
 * Near the end,
 * Taking the Bullet: Big Macintosh took a shot meant for Celestia, hence the memorial statue in Ponyville.
 * Telepathy: The green alicorn's unique ability.
 * Teleporters and Transporters: The purple alicorn's unique ability.
 * Thanatos Gambit:.
 * There Is No Kill Like Overkill:
 * The Tape Knew You Would Say That: Littlepip's Memory Gambit as noted above counts on her not watching her own extracted memories until after everything is in place, and has written a letter to herself explicitly telling her this. Naturally, the first thing she does is watch the first one -- and immediately catches an angry earful from herself for being nosy.
 * Pinkie Pie's memory orbs where she addresses Littlepip come close.
 * Title Drop: The epilogue's subtitle is 'Of Forgiveness and Fallout.'
 * Tome of Eldritch Lore: The Black Book.
 * Tough Love: An example in Chapter 19, where Velvet Remedy Littlepip is understandably upset afterwards,.
 * Town with a Dark Secret:
 * Transferable Memory: Memory orbs, they can be used by unicorns or ponies with Recollectors to live another pony's memory. It's a dangerous process, since the user won't be able to perceive their environment during the memory.
 * Training the Peaceful Villagers: Glyphmark receives a fair bit of training and equipment from Littlepip and Co.
 * Twin Telepathy: Gestalt and Mosaic.
 * Unnamed Parent: Littlepip’s mother.
 * Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Littlepip's plan to deal with the Goddess. An interesting example in that Littlepip doesn't know what it is either.
 * Unstoppable Rage:
 * Littlepip goes absolutely kill crazy after finding out the ponies of are cannibals. Leads to a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against every inhabitant there.
 * Not as extreme as Littlepip's, but Velvet Remedy goes trigger happy on a group of raiders who not only  but they also have the gall to
 * Villain Team-Up: Red Eye and the Goddess have such an alliance, though both are plotting behind each other's back. Subverted when
 * We Can Rule Together: Done by Red Eye to Littlepip.
 * Weather Control Machine: It's the reason why Equestria is perpetually cloudy. During the apocalypse, the pegasi that would become the Enclave protected themselves by filling the sky with clouds, making the zebras unable to target their cities.
 * Wham! Episode:
 * Chapter 38.
 * Episode 39 is worse.
 * According to the author, chapters with "The X of the Y" titles (such as Chapter Seventeen: "The Villain of the Piece") are plotted to be "Wham Episodes" which significantly alter the course of the story, although sometimes only obviously so to readers in retrospect.
 * Wham! Line: Chapter 25.
 * What Happened to the Mouse?: In this case, referring to an actual mouse. Littlepip and friends set off a spell that turns the dragon in the Canterlot Royal Treasury (possibly Spike's mother) into a field mouse. They then leave (without even confirming that the spell worked), and later Canterlot is destroyed by the Enclave.
 * What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?:
 * What the Hell, Hero?:
 * DJ-Pon3 calls Littlepip out on this after killing all the inhabitants in.
 * Scootaloo planned to pull off an absolutely epic one to the Ministries and the Princesses themselves.
 * What Would X Do?:
 * SteelHooves basically runs on "What would Applejack do?" This doesn't mean he won't do things he knows Applejack wouldn't approve of. Realizing how much he's strayed, and living up to her legacy becomes a big part of his character development.
 * Later invoked by Littlepip asking herself what the late would do.
 * The Wiki Rule: Here, needs love.
 * World-Healing Wave: The purpose of
 * Written by the Winners: The Enclave approach to history.
 * You Are Not Alone:
 * From Littlepip to, claiming that everyone needs the magic of friendship.
 * You Can't Fight Fate:
 * You Will Be Assimilated: The alicorns and the Goddess.
 * Zero-Approval Gambit: In the story it's referred to as becoming "The Villain of the Piece" -- doing what is right even though everyone will think you're a horrible person for doing it. It's very easy to slip from this into actual villainy, though, if your moral compass is skewed.
 * Scootaloo first uses the phrase to describe her decision to seal the Manehattan Stable before the apocalypse actually happens. If the end doesn't come, everyone will think she imprisoned hundreds of ponies on a whim.
 * ultimately makes a similar decision.
 * Zero-Approval Gambit: In the story it's referred to as becoming "The Villain of the Piece" -- doing what is right even though everyone will think you're a horrible person for doing it. It's very easy to slip from this into actual villainy, though, if your moral compass is skewed.
 * Scootaloo first uses the phrase to describe her decision to seal the Manehattan Stable before the apocalypse actually happens. If the end doesn't come, everyone will think she imprisoned hundreds of ponies on a whim.
 * ultimately makes a similar decision.