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* Rarity, an [[Neutral Evil|Evil]] Rogue
* Fluttershy, a [[Neutral Good|Good]] Druid
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''[[Friendship is Dragons]]'' reached 1000 strips on December 16, 2017, making it one of [[Webcomics Long Runners]].
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* [[All There in the Manual]]: In-universe: the GM sent Dash's player a ten-page email explaining her character. She barely skimmed enough to pick up the term 'weatherpony', and misunderstood that as being a forecaster instead of weather control.
* [[Alternative Character Interpretation]]: The players' takes on their respective ponies.
* [[Backstory]]: All the characters have some backstory, Applejack most of all.
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* [[Friend to All Living Things]]: Fluttershy, naturally. She is very enthusiastic about it as well, going from soft-spoken to gushing when asked to describe her character's special talent.
* [[Forgot I Could Fly|Forgot You Could Fly]]: Dash keeps reminding everyone that she and 'the Druid' can fly. Including the Druid.
* [[Fundamentally Female Cast]]: All the PCs are implied to be female. The gender of the DM is canonically unknown, though guest comics frequently depict the DM as female; more specifically, they depict her as [[Lauren Faust]].▼
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Applejack's player is exceedingly so, both when it comes to common game cliches and dealing with the [[Game Master]]. Rarity is also pretty savvy, and Twilight's savviness is more focused on story cliches than gameplay mechanics.
* [[Gold Digger]]: Rarity's ultimate goal is to marry into nobility.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Twilight and her player suffer one in the first arc when {{spoiler|Nightmare Moon shatters the Elements}}.
* [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath]]: Rainbow's player, after a long period of roleplaying, decided to spice things up by attacking Twilight.
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]:
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* [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]: {{spoiler|Nightmare Moon was intended to be this.}}▼
** The GM, again, sets up a battle situation where the players are supposed to be confused as to who are the PCs and who are changelings. [http://friendshipisdragons.thecomicseries.com/comics/1480 In the first combat round shown in the comic], the only person confused is the GM.
* [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]:
** Discord, in his first appearance.
* [[Hulk Speak]]: Rainbow Dash forces the Shadowbolts to reduce their [[Leave Your Quest Test|offer]] to this. She's ''really'' sick of all the speeches.
{{quote|'''Shadowbolt:''' We, Shadowbolts. You, captain. ...Accept?
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'''Twilight:''' BOTH! }}
* [[I Shall Taunt You]]: {{spoiler|Dash tries to goad the Shadowbolts into showing aggression so she can attack.}}
▲* [[Fundamentally Female Cast]]: All the PCs are implied to be female. The gender of the DM is canonically unknown, though guest comics frequently depict the DM as female; more specifically, they depict her as [[Lauren Faust]].
* [[Info Dump]]: Fluttershy's gushing over Spike leads to him relating how dragons first came to Equestria. Most of it is off-panel, though, with the reader only getting to hear the lead-in and tail end.
* [[Intermission]]: ''Friendship is Dragons'' runs intermissions after every plot arc, featuring fan-contributed strips. As of April 2021, they're up to 14 intermissions in over 1500 strips total.
* [[Jerkass Realization]]: Sort of. [http://friendshipisdragons.thecomicseries.com/comics/109 Twilight's player realizes that] she'd been playing like a [[Munchkin]] after seeing [[Crossover|Luke]] [[One Piece: Grand Line 3 Point 5|and Cory]] serve out ridiculous character ideas. Applejack's player reassures her that she's not as bad as them.
* [[Large Ham]]: Rarity's player busts out the ham when she realizes {{spoiler|what Twilight's trying to do with the Elements of Harmony}}.
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** The CMC's make a darn good attempt at this in objection to Fluttershy's request to find her rabbits; they accuse her of being evil instead and attack her. {{spoiler|This turns out to be a very bad idea; see [[Total Party Kill]], [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies]] and [[Oh Crap]].}}
* [[Oh Crap]]: The CMC's reaction to realising that {{spoiler|the quest giver they just attacked was a 15th level druid.}}
* [[Peer Pressure Makes You Evil]]: Or at least creepy.
{{quote|'''GM''': Even from the beginning, the smiles were in no way magically induced. Just gool ol' psychological self-inflicted peer pressure.
'''Applejack''': Why does that sound... kinda worse?
'''GM''': Because it's a thing that can actually happen.
|''[[Friendship Is Dragons]]'', page 1904 - [https://friendshipisdragons.thecomicseries.com/comics/1904 "Happy Facade"]}}
* [[Player Archetypes]]:
** [[The Roleplayer]]: Played with through Applejack: her player created an extensive history for her, including [[The Clan|the Apple Clan]] and Sweet Apple Acres. However, this was at least partly so that she could exploit the advantages they provided. Rarity and Fluttershy are straighter examples.
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