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"''[[Cupcakes"]]'' is a dark and extremely gory fanfic of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' by Sergeant Sprinkles.

For those of you who ''don't'' want to be mentally scarred for life, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AbtCTbSWTk this intentional bastardization will basically tell you everything you need to know]. It's also good for if you have read "''[[Cupcakes"]]'' and need some [[Nightmare Retardant]].<ref>The video linked in this paragraph happens to tie in with the continuity of the uploader's [[Abridged Series]], in case you're curious about why the voices are the way they are.</ref>

This fanfic has allegedly hit [[Ascended Meme]] status when one of the (former) animators worked on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43AuJjuxqAw this] beauty in his spare time. If you need a version to giggle with the ghosties with, this would probably be the one for you, though still easily graphic and on the disturbitude scale of ''[[Invader Zim]]'' and ''[[Ren and Stimpy]]'' put together.

There have also been several musical works dedicated to the [[Fan Fiction]]: Including a ''[[Portal 2 (Video Game)|Portal 2]]'' "Want You Gone" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMgByEotGpM cross-over/cover] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20130829115035/http://futret.bandcamp.com/album/cupcakes two] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140218161213/http://tarbyrocks.bandcamp.com/album/something-broke-the-continuing-tale-of-pinkie-pie-ponycide tribute] albums; by [[Futret]] and Tarby, respectively.

There's also a [[Spiritual Successor|spiritual successor]] called ''Sweet Apple Massacre''. ''All'' you need to know about it is that it involves Big Macintosh and the Cutie Mark Crusaders.

This fic has also caused an ever growing amount of related fanfictions by other authors. Prequels-- prequels, parodies, and sequels.

* [[Anyone Can Die]]: Pinkie has gotten to countless ponies, including, if the above image is anything to believe, '''Princess Luna'''. Yes, the second most powerful pony in all of Equestria, who controls THE''the NIGHTnight ITSELFitself'', has been captured, killed, and made into cupcakes by a sugar-hopped, partying earth pony.

* [[AxeAx Crazy]]: Pinkie Pie {{spoiler|and Apple Bloom.}}

* [[Broken Angel]]: A few of the [[Alternate Ending|Alternate Endings]]s have Rainbow Dash survive but end up as this instead.

* [[Characteristic Trope]]: Almost all [[Dark Fic|Dark Fics]]s in this fandom are in some way connected to this story.

* [[Death Byby Irony]]: Rainbow Dash, representing the [[Undying Loyalty|Element of Loyalty to one's friends]], betrayed and murdered by one of them.

* [[Defiant to Thethe End]]: Gilda, to the point where Pinkie Pie shoves a Parasprite down her throat. Unlike Rainbow Dash, Gilda is so badass she badmouths Pinkie Pie until she dies.

* [[Deleted Scene]]: Remember that scene in which Pinkie Pie hammers nails into Rainbow Dash's hooves? [https://web.archive.org/web/20151023051351/http://thebronyshow.net/?page=Episodes&url=episode-25 A little interview] with the author himself tells us [[Groin Attack|that was going to be a bit worse...]]

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Based on the victims we see, this could be interpreted as a [[Revenge Fic]]. However, the worst any of the victims have done is be petty [[Jerkass|Jerkasses]]es. The fake movie trailer has her flip out over not being invited to the Grand Galloping Gala and being snubbed for Gummy's after-birthday party.

** And if you're willing to count [[Adult Child|Adult Children]]ren, Pinkie Pie herself.

* [[Flanderization]]: Although the original story uses a happy, curly-haired pony who behaves upbeat and is called "Pinkie Pie", references to this fan fiction written or drawn ''after'' "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E25 Party of One|Party of One]]" aired will often call her "Pinkamena" instead (during a '"depressed'" part of her childhood she went by her full name of Pinkamena Diane Pie), and represent the character with the straight hair and morose attitude she displayed during that episode.

* [[Grotesque Cute]]: It's Pinkie Pie re-enacting ''[[Hostel]]''!

* [[Hero -Killer]]: Technically, one hero is the killer of another, but still.

* [[Oh Crap, There Are Fanfics of Us]]: Due to its infamous nature and generally how freaky it is, this story has become popular fodder for this, several [[Alternate Ending|Alternate Endings]]s even making it a fanfic by the characters themselves and a few fanart depicting such reactions as [http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=§ion=&q=Pinkie+pie+reads+Cupcakes#/d41bb5n this].

* [[Police Are Useless]]:

{{quote| '''Rainbow Dash:''' Oh ''God'', No.<br />}}

** It was [[All Just a Dream|just a nightmare]]; Pinkie Pie wouldn't really butcher her friends. Not only was it just a dream, [[Heroic BSOD|it horrified Pinkie Pie so much]] that Rainbow Dash had to [[The Light in Thethe Darkness (Fanfic)|reassure her that since she still knew right from wrong]], she wasn't actually insane.

** Twilight [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T_AUDZpDc7g1R_b4cMXVSDf0SN7RTjgiUW4Q3nUZD_g/edit?hl=en&pli=1 found them out] and [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard|backed Pinkie into one of her own murder machines]].

** It's [https://docs.google.com/document/d/15J3O5OuZDfX5yJLl5W-6FPkYdxae095_5Yy5xrS7dsc/edit?hl=en just a fanfic], [[Oh Crap, There Are Fanfics of Us|written by]] [[Beware the Nice Ones|Fluttershy]] after listening to [[Heavy Metal (Music)|Heavy Metal]] music.

** And a [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wlDkZDiGhp6W2eaviU0OL-LFWFKRByGrhwWJwEP4G0A/edit?hl=en_US last-minute derail] in which Dash plays along with her tormentor, lures Twilight Sparkle in by pretending it's some gruesome game, tips her off in time for Twilight to zap Pinkie to sleep - and they discover that {{spoiler|a parasprite is living in Pinkie's head, crushing and poisoning her brain}}, and they have to cure her, {{spoiler|but fail}} to rehabilitate the traumatized Pinkie back into the community.

** It was just a [[Oh Crap, There Are Fanfics of Us|fan fic]] written by Pinkie and Rainbow Dash.

** A [https://web.archive.org/web/20190814160932/https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P_vm04yKMQJbASlC1S0ueBau5_79w_fsm-GsGMAZ6JQ/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1 sequel about how] Pinkie Pie has a [[Split Personality]] and the split personality took control of her.

** And then there's [[Le Petit Four (Fanfic)|Le Petit Four]], a fanfic where Pinkie goes on to [https://docs.google.com/document/d/167ST-8XF3m9Ycswv_olcQAhF9jenQoNqOf4726-nSgY/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1 torture and murder Rarity], who dies begging her, ''"Please... don't do this to my little sister Sweetie Belle."'' [[Pet the Dog|Pinkie happily agrees]] right before eviscerating Rarity, who is ''happy'' to die by that point.

*** This had its own sequel, [[One Last Party Favor (Fanfic)|One Last Party Favor]], where she [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fFM0okDl9iX3473MFhzmmjxf499i4CrAlAD5m_PA-R4/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1 tries to do the same] to Spike and Twilight for knowing too much, but fails.

** Yet another [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209030424/http://explicit.ponyfictionarchive.net/viewstory.php?sid=317&warning=9 sequel] details how Pinkie Pie went on to torture and murder the rest of her friends and display their bodies to Twilight Sparkle. This was all done for some obscure occult purposes at the behest of Celestia that are not fully revealed until one reads the further [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209030428/http://www.ponyfictionarchive.net/viewstory.php?sid=344 nine part sequel] it spawned. Essentially, Twilight and Pinkie Pie's four dead friends [[Horsemen of the Apocalypse|become powerful undead]] and Twilight Sparkle is taken over by [[Demonic Possession|another entity]] and begins to refer to herself as the Twilight Queen. This leads directly to [[Zombie Apocalypse|Equestria being overrun]] by an army of dead ponies, each of whom exhibit the pink pony's personality.

* [[Revenge Fic]]: ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120615201908/http://weirdkevand27.deviantart.com/art/Muffins-208898844 Muffins]'', which has {{spoiler|Derpy Hooves}} [[He Who Fights Monsters|avenging the death of Rainbow Dash]].

** It's also a [[Shout -Out]] to ''[[Dexter]]''.

* [[Shout -Out]]:

** The whole story is pretty much a very grisly retelling of ''[[Sweeney Todd]]'', except with the barbershop removed, Pinkie Pie taking on the roles of both Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o69uXgYQ8iA This has not gone unnoticed by fans].

*** ''[[Better Living Through Science and Ponies (Fanfic)|Better Living Through Science and Ponies]]'': [[Portal (Video Gameseries)|GLaDOS]] tries to convince Pinkie Pie that her friends know she's just a couple steps away from becoming a serial killer and baking them into cupcakes.

*** [[The Party Never Ended (Fanfic)|The Party Never Ended]] has it appear as {{spoiler|a nightmare Pinkie Pie is trapped in at one point}}.

*** [[Progress (Fanfic)|Progress]]: While in Pinkie Pie's apartment, Princess Luna watched a gut-wrenchingly bad and graphic cable television horror movie version of [[Cupcakes (Fanfic)|Cupcakes]] while Pinkie was busy in the kitchen. Luna was then startled by a completely innocent Pinkie, and became temporarily phobic of pastries and the color pink. {{spoiler|She tore the room apart before fleeing, but was [[Easily Forgiven|forgiven]], got over it quickly, and enjoyed Pinkie Pie's company later the same day.}}

*** [http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/06/story-world-of-ponycraft.html World of Ponycraft]: Pinkie interrogates a cultist by telling her a cupcake recipe she [[Leaning Onon the Fourth Wall|read in a fanfic once]].

*** ''[[The Legend of Spyro: aA New Dawn (Fanfic)|The Legend of Spyro a New Dawn]]'' has [[Dimensional Traveller|Delilah]] mention the "[[Noodle Incident|Cupcakes Incident]]" on more than one occasion, which involved this universe and left her [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|deathly afraid of cupcakes]]. Apparently, she at least witnessed at least some of the events of the fanfic itself. It didn't seem to hurt her relationship with the canon version of Pinkie Pie though, who she lists as one of her best friends and is even upset she missed her birthday party. Though in the ''A New Dawn Side Story'', Delilah is seen taking therapy for it.

*** The ''[[Pony POV Series (Fanfic)|Pony POV Series]]'' version of Pinkie Pie tells the readers to stop talking about that "stupid fanfic" when she gets to a point in her introduction where she mentions cupcakes. The scary part is she nearly [[Split Personality Takeover|gets taken over by]] [[Enemy Within|Angry Pie]], who is arguably every bit as psychotic as the ''Cupcakes'' version. This version of Pinkie ''really'' hates this fic. {{spoiler|In one chapter, the cast gets trapped in [[Big Bad|Princess Gaia's]] [[Lotus Eater Machine]]. What is part of Pinkie Pie's fantasy? All copies of this fanfic being burned and a ''computer virus purging it from the internet!''}}

** The fanfic 'Po-Ni-Oh: The Abridged Series' (A ponyfication of [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series (Web Video)|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]) has a shout-out during the soap opera parody in episode 7, where Grandpa shooting Tristan becomes Granny Smith making Derpy into Cupcakes (With Cupcakes capitalized to drive the point home).

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