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Revision as of 23:42, 26 January 2014
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General Memes
- "WELCOME TO THE HERD" [1]
- "CONFOUND THESE PONIES, THEY DRIVE ME TO DRINK!" [2]
- "...in my hooves, on my head, in my saddlebags... in my mouth!" [3]
- SECRET BUTT FUN [4]
- Scary butt fun![5]
- Gyro Bowls. [6]
- "SHOO BE DOO" [7]
- Not so much a meme about the show as about the fandom: It's become something of a tradition among male fans to advertise their gender, age, and (sometimes) occupation in the comments section of the episodes posted on Youtube, often immediately followed by stating the name of a favorite pony or a general, "... and I love this show!"
- A common variation is to comment on one of the earlier, but not the first ten, episodes, stating something along the lines of "why am I still watching this?".
- I am gonna LOVE and TOLERATE the SHIT outta you. [8]
- STOP FAPPING TO HORSES [10]
- Thanks to the infamous "I watch it for the plot" image macro, "plot" has become a popular euphemism for pony rump.
- Pony variations of the DAT ASS meme include DAT PLOT, DAT FLANK, and DAT CUTIE MARK.
- Less popular, but this also makes "plot hole" a valid and stealthy insult.
- And of course, it tends to be combined with Twilight Sparkle's Unfortunate Name, leading to jokes about Twilight having well developed plot etc.
- Fans have copied the Hold Your Hippogriffs instances from the show, and created more of their own. In particular, it is almost required for "anypony", "everypony" and variants to be used amongst fans, even when not referring to the characters.
- "My Little [X]" [13]
- Thank Celestia for Lauren Faust [16]
- "Can you do that? Can you explode twice?!" [17]
- And then nothing sexual happened at all. The end. [18]
- And then everything sexual happened. The end. [19]
- Truth Flower [20]
- In the same vein, there's also a YouTube video of Miles Edgeworth cross-examining Pinkie Pie's "testimony" from the episode in question.
- "They know!" [21]
- "Bedroom eyes", taking a screenshot while a character is blinking their eyes and catching them half-lidded. The result is an expression that looks coy when taken out of context (as the Internet is often eager to do).
- The phrase had become memetic waaay before ponies, mind, but the nature of Flash animation's keyframing makes it particularly easy to abuse in this show.
- A metric ton of reaction images on the whole, but most notably by far the ponyshrug. Began with an innocent Pinkie Pie, and quickly exploded. Ponyshrugs may now be found of nearly the entire cast, as well as of original characters, and even ponified versions of characters from other works.
- A fancomic that was made to look like an official German magazine comic has spawned a couple memes of its own:
- Terry. [22]
- "Around the zebras, never relax!" [23]
- "All my friends are here. And Applejack is here too."
- "[X] IS NOW CANON" [24]
- Tara Strong is best pony. [25]
- Pony hell. [26]
- "IT WAS CHANGELINGS!" [27]
- "Veggie55 brought me here": more of a Real Life Running Gag than anything. With the end of Season 2, the Deviant ART artist Veggie55 has taken to making short comic strips based of scenes from popular tv shows like Father Ted and Family Guy. In the comments section for each, he usually links to the video, which leads to his legion of fans watching it, liking it, and getting the top rated comments, most of them referencing the comic (something which non-bronies would not understand). Exempli gratia.
Crossover Memes
- Crossing Friendship Is Magic with anything and everything has become a meme all of its own. Portal (Better Living Through Science and Ponies and plenty of other fics), Team Fortress 2 (endless Gmod works with both casts), Touhou (crossed with everything anyway), Doctor Who (thanks to the popularity of Doctor Whoof), The Slender Man Mythos, Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt (thanks to Twilight Sparkle and Stocking having similar haircuts and color schemes), Star Trek (thanks to John de Lancie aka Q voicing Discord), Metal Gear[28], and many more. And practically every character ever has been "ponified" at least once.
- Speaking of TF2, the Scout has often been comically paired up/shipped with Rainbow Dash due to his infamous "Rainbows make me cry" meme.
- Some madman went so far as to cross it over with Sins of a Solar Empire, of all things.
- I will see your epic space strategy and raise you the Napoleonic Wars.
- In regards to the ponies on Gmod, there's also EPPALJECK, the name given to the creepy beta version of the Applejack rag-doll. She is Nightmare Fuel incarnate, and pretty much the Friendship is Magic equivalent of Vagineer and Painis Cupcake.
- Objection! Why didn't you testify to the fact that there's three parts of a four-part crossover with Phoenix Wright are currently available on YouTube?
- MAGNETO. [29]
- In an "Evolution of a Scene", made by one of the animators on the show (for both season one and two), at the end there is an animation of pony Magneto at the gala, using the pony statue to take down the Wonderbolts while saying "WELCOME TO DIE!!!"
- Magneighto has even become an official Canon Foreigner by appearing on The Merch, specifically the Magnet Pony shirt and formerly hoodie.
- Spider-Man's a brony [30]
- Congratulations! Your Twilight Sparkle has evolved into Rapidash! [31]
- Kamen Rider Fourze crossovers have begun to take hold, thanks to Gentaro's goal to befriend everyone in his school. LUNA, GRAB MY POMPADOUR!
- It has become somewhat popular to mix "Lesson Zero" with Majoras Mask, due to how the sun moves.
- Celestia Trolls Luna when she plays Mario, but Luna trolls her when Celestia plays Majora's Mask...
- "What is this fun thou speakest of?" "F" is for friends who do stuff together... [32]
- The Engineer is a Spy! [[hottip:explanation: Crossovers between Team Fortress 2 and MLP:FiM are very popular. In these crossovers, Applejack is usually the Engineer and Rarity is usually the Spy. In "Sisterhooves Social", Rarity disguises herself as Applejack by covering herself in mud and wearing Applejack's hat.
- Going with the "Princess Cadence is X" meme below, there's "Cadence is Spy!" [[hottip:explanation: Queen Chrysalis' plan of absorbing Shining Armor's love by posing as Cadence would inevitably lead to comparisons to the Spy
- THIS is what happens when you BUCK a STRANGER in the FLANK! [34]
- Nopony bucks with the Jesus. [35]
- My Little Steampunk [36]
- Daft Pony [37]
- X Y is best Y [38]
- X Y is worst Y [39]
- Jedi ponies [40]
- Rainbow Dash is Daredevil [41]
- LIKE A FAUST! [42]
- A shot of Pinkie Pie waxing to Rainbow Dash about delicious cider looked uncannily like the "X, X Everywhere" meme. Fans pounced.
Website Specific Memes
- Two of Equestria Daily's most well-known moderators, Cereal Velocity and Sethisto, have a serious thing for unicorns. Cereal firmly believes that "Rarity is the best pony!", while Sethisto firmly believes that "Trixie is the best pony"! The unicorn-love extends to their newest blogger Phoe, who runs the Artist Training Grounds and seems to have a serious crush on Lyra Heartstrings. Pretty much every ATG day has at least a few drawings referencing her obsession with Lyra using that day's theme. And now we have this.
- *cue happy theme song* [43]
- Roboshi, Anchors, & yellowtdash are universal constants/fav'd this [44]
- They are typically considered the Ponibooru "mascots", as they are the three most known members of ponibooru.
- They have a tumblr which can be found here. [18]
- Roboshi is credited with being the originator of faving whereas anchors is considered the fastest with a capped record of 2,000+ per day, Yellow is an artist who does the artwork behind the tumblr.
- Faustpony loves her Subway sandwiches. [45]
- And on that note..."Subway -- eat flesh."
- It's not just Lauren; many other canon ponies have been shopped into similar fashions, as well.
- And on that note..."Subway -- eat flesh."
- Ask Tumblrs / "Ask [X]" / "[X] Answers" [46]
- Chubbies/Blobs [47]
- Rainbow Dash Chubby Flyby [48]
- Now with its own TVTropes page!
- Chubbies/Blobs [47]
- "MAKE IT HAPPEN" [49]
- December 9th is National Child Violence Day! [50]
- Nazi Ponies [51]
- Speaking of Nazis, Rarity's line "I didn't know you could burn juice!" is frequently misheard as "I didn't know you could burn Jews!" (Which gets even more bizarre in light of the Jewish Rarity meme...)
- Lilo~[52]
Youtube Memes
- Setting clips of MLP: FiM to audio of other things, the more Hot-Blooded or macho the better: Ponycraft 2, The Elder Scrolls VI: Equestria, Call Of Cutie: Blank Ops, Pony Effect 2, (surely inevitably) 300 Ponies, Friendship Is Magic At World's End, The Rainbow Knight, Lord of the Ponies, Van Sparkle, Inglourious Ponies, P for Pinketta, Pony Rangers Zeo, Space Marene, Twilight Sparkle is Still Alive, My Little Eve: Spaceships are Magic, Fallout: New Canterlot, Pony 2 Assasins of Kings, Fluttershy Island, Soar, KILL SPIKE Vol 1, Tengen Toppa Pony Lagann, Spike Fights The Power, Puella Magi PONY Magica (Complete with Wonderbolt-flavored Morning Rescue), Meet the Ponies, Clash of the Ponies, When the Ponies Cry...
- ...Doctor Pony's Sing Along Blog, Inside Dungeons and Dragons, Pony Jenkins, Ima let you finish Twilight, Pinkie & the Brain, The Trixige, Batmare Begins, Spike Nukem Forever, My Little Serenity, The Hunt for Twilit October, A Clockwork Pink - Equestrian Invitation, Pinkijou, The Rainbow Knight Rises, Mortal Pony Kombat: The Movie... (We're still waiting for My Little Nanoha: Befriending Is Magic, though.)
- On a related note, redoing the openings to other works with a more... equestrian touch. Examples include Pony Bebop, My Little Baccano!, Pony Champloo, Samurai Applejack, Ponysona 3, Ponysona 4, Peach (Bleach), My Little One Piece, Outlaw Pony, and Blaz Brony.
- Edgar Wright, the director for the Scott Pilgrim vs. the World film, posted Spike Pilgrim vs. The World, Trot Fuzz and Attack the Stable on his blog, and on the official Scott Pilgrim vs. The World Film and Attack the Block Facebook pages.
- The official Top Gear blog actually made note of My Little Top Gear: Friendship is Ambitious But Rubbish.
- WeLoveFine is a T-shirt company with lots of Pony based shirts. It had a contest going on for more new pony designs and one of the big images was Lyrical Twilight
- The Pony Polka. [53]
- Even The Hub themselves have parodied a song with Ponified lyrics. This is an advert that airs on TV.
- The fans have had a lot of fun with YouTube's automatic close-captioning generator. Among other things, Spike refuses to convert to Christianity in "Boast Busters" ("I am not going to believe the lord Jesus"), the river serpent from episode 2 is now named "Steven Magnet", and in "The Show Stoppers" Scootaloo wants to "sex that steve guy yes".
- For the second season, the closed captions are responsible for naming the huge rock Rarity is tricked into believing it's a diamond "Dan". When the second episode actually had Rarity name the rock "Tom", the fanon agreed the rock to be called Tom Dan.
- Season 2 ep 2 featured the bizarre auto-caption "Applejack got fucked".
- There's actually an entire Tumblr blog dedicated to capturing the strange and hilarious captions that pop up.
- Applejack and Rarity making spooky noises in "Look Before You Sleep". "Oooooooo!" Now with a music video.
- Dubbing over a character with the voice of a past role of their actors, for example Twilight Sparkle as Princess Clara, Spike as Near, Pinkie singing the Misa song, Chief Thunderhooves complaining about ponies in METAL BOXES, and of course Discord as Q. Checking the Trivia page, this has become a Running Gag in the Hey, It's That Voice! section.
- There's A Pony For That. [54]
- "Are you a spy!?" [55]
- Watching the episodes, dubbed (official or fandubbed) in different languages, in part or in whole. Watch Rarity WHIIINING in Japanese! Or "Flutterguy" in French! How about "Cupcakes" in Russian? (the song, not the gore-tastic fanfic) Or the main theme in Greek? Or Lyra Heartstrings speaking in the official Italian dub. Or "Giggle at the Ghostie" in Polish.
- Speaking of different languages, the Italian opening theme is now known as "the anime intro theme" because of its length (over two minutes) and an Ear Worm-tastic original song that seems to cross language barriers and is appreciated by a lot of non-italian speakers.
- Seductive Ponies [56]
- aeiou [57]
- QUESTIONMARKEXCLAMATIONPOINTQUESTIONMARKEXCLAMATIONPOINTQUESTIONMARKEXCLAMATIONPOINT...
- Seemingly random videos on Youtube will occasionally get a high-voted comment to the effect of "ponies brought me here". Presumably the ponies must have surprisingly varied taste. [58]
- These videos will often have the comment "This video is now about ponies."
- Somewhat related, but pick a Hey Ocean music video. Any Hey Ocean music video. You'll find tons of comments that pretty much amount to "Oh my gosh, it's Applejack/Rainbow Dash!"[59]
- It's now practically routine for someone to shout "Lookout! Incoming Bronies!" whenever a video contains a reference that the latest episode just made.
- *cut to credits* [60]
- My Little Pony with censor bleeps. [61]
- Even the WWE isn't safe. Or at the very least C.M.PUNK isn't.
- And neither is John Cena.
- Brony/Target audience observations [62]
- [Character Name].mp4. Interestingly, all of the Mane Six have at least one moment where their eyes roll around in a daze, usually in response to a sudden shock or blow to the head. For some reason, these scenes have been looped and then set to Parov Stelar's "Catgroove".
- When I'm X [63]
- And somewhat related, X Sauce. [64]
- Hay bacon strips, hay bacon strips, hay bacon strips. [65]
- Apple Bloom's "Buy some apples!" or Fluttershy's Flat Joy "Yay." [66]
- As expected, the ponies get in on Youtube Poop Music Videos. And as is expected of this fandom, they can get pretty elaborate.
- Recently, it's also become quite popular to create separate accounts with the names of the characters and comment on pony videos as they would. They have a tendency to get top comment and often respond in-character.
- How Could This Happen to Ponies? [67]
Character Memes
- It seems that if anypony makes a goofy face on the show, fans will pounce on it. Aside from Derpy Hooves and her Fish Eyes in the first episode, "Applebuck Season" brings us Rainbow Dash's gushing kissy-face (along with the accompanying phrase "So awesome!" and the emoticon "/)^3^(\") and Applejack's various loopy sleep-deprived faces, along with her look of disgust when she mishears the "wheat germ" part of Pinkie Pie's muffin recipe as "wheat worms", and "The Best Night Ever" brings "Flutterage".
- As of Season 2, there has been an abundance of Uncanny Valley-ish expressions whenever a pony's head is looking directly at the camera. Ponibooru calls it the FAIC.
- [X] IS BEST PONY [68]
- "Silly anon, that's not how you spell 'Pinkie Pie!'" [69]
- Another response is "You misspelled Fluttershy."
- "Silly anon, that's not how you spell 'Pinkie Pie!'" [69]
- A few image macros pop up with some of the characters looking at the viewer asking for 'hugs'. Sometimes it can work, when done right.
- Ponies. In. Socks. [70]
- Sweaters are the new socks.
- Minty liked socks before they were cool.[71]
- "Congratulations, X! You're the new Y!" [72]
- CELESTIA, YOU MAGNIFICENT MARE! YOU READ MY LETTERS! [73]
- Good morning, [X]! [74]
- "Lock it under a rock, I'm sure it won't get out." [75]
- Many fans exaggerate this by making it her go-to solution for anything she doesn't like.
- [PONY] found a [VEHICLE] [76]
- Colt versions. [77]
- At least one Youtuber has taken it a step further, not only voice acting as the colts, but changing their dialog to be more male-specific (for example, Elusive designs suits instead of dresses and wants to find a princess rather than a prince charming, to which viewer reception varies). Think The Gender-Flip of Haruhi Suzumiya, only with ponies.
- And this itself has spawned a VA project that seeks to voice the Genderswapped Mane Six to use as a live reading for the story "On A Cross And Arrow" which popularized the Male Cast. The casting call can be found here, the accepted voice list can be found here, a demo of the accepted voices can be heard here and the first episode here.
- This has started slowly to spread to the other background ponies/characters. For example, Eris as a gender-bent Discord.
- At least one Youtuber has taken it a step further, not only voice acting as the colts, but changing their dialog to be more male-specific (for example, Elusive designs suits instead of dresses and wants to find a princess rather than a prince charming, to which viewer reception varies). Think The Gender-Flip of Haruhi Suzumiya, only with ponies.
- Spinning Turntable Ponies [78]
- The trend originated from a popular Vinyl Scratch gif that came from here (the links below the image provides a comic version, a template for the frames, the animated gif, a Youtube video, and a vectorized version).
- [X] Cannon/Bazooka/Launcher [79]
- Party Cannon. [80]
- Wet manes. [81]
- Baby ponies. [82]
- Smooth Cheerilee / Spike Criminal [83]
- Fluffy ponies [84]
- Fluffle Puff [85]
- Fluffy pony drowns [86]
- Fluffy pony abuse [87]
- Now, let it be known that such stories has caused a bit of Creator Backlash from Mixermike662, the creator of Fluffle Puff and the man who popularized the Fluffy Ponies concept to begin with. And by "Creator Backlash", I mean they caused him to disown the fandom.
- Beep beep. I'm a cloud. [88]
- "[CHARACTER NAME]licious" [89]
- Ponytails. [[hottip:explanation:The manes of characters are made in a ponytail style. Possibly made simply because of how silly it looks when you think about it.
The Mane Six
Twlight Sparkle
- Parodies of letters to Princess Celestia, involving Accidental Aesops or snarky comments relevant to the episode or the characters.
(re: "Stare Master") "Dear Princess Celestia, I learned today that you do not f*ck with Fluttershy, ever. Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle." |
- Twilight's attack of Power Incontinence during her flashback in "Cutie Mark Chronicles" has been compared, by various fans, to Dr. Manhattan, Dark Phoenix, the Protoss Archon, the Avatar State, and/or the Quickening.
- The image from "Winter Wrap Up" of Twilight Sparkle hiding in a tree from snakes led to photoshopping Twilight hanging onto... pretty much anything. It's adorable.
- Twiworm. [90]
- Twilight is a lion. [91]
- Twilight's speech in "Applebuck Season" getting interrupted inspired a lot of comparisons to Kanye West at the Video Music Awards. "Yo, Twilight, I'm really happy for you, and I'ma let you finish, but Applejack is the best pony of all time!"
- Oh God, Twilight's about to miss a deadline! RUN! [92]
- "Hi, giirrllss!" [93]
- The face she made immediately before also gave rise to a lot of exploitable images. Not that the episode isn't already full of weird faces otherwise.
- Twilight Snapple/Twilight Psycho [94]
- Pedopony [95].
- My Little Pet Twilight Sparkle [96]
- Twilight Benes. [97]
- Twilightlicious [98]
- The saga continues as the voice actress and her followers attempt to make "Twilightlicious" trending on Twitter.
- Given the reactions (both ways) from her Twitters (typically, stating something along the lines of "Here's a picture of me naked", attached to a tasteful photo of one of the clothes-less characters she voices), Tara's even called out these acts as Twolling.
- The Merch now includes an official Twilightlicious T-shirt.
- The teaser clip for "It's About Time", which featured a time-traveling Twilight wearing a tattered jumpsuit and eyepatch with a disheveled mane, has inspired a LOT of crossovers with various After the End or Bad Future works such as Terminator and Escape From New York.
- Also with Metal Gear Solid, as she looks uncannily similar to Naked Snake.
- Recognition of Twilight Sparkle's voice actress in the video game Lollipop Chainsaw led to numerous people referencing her in Youtube comments and fanart such as this one depicting her as the main character.
- Twilight is now a machine gun inspired by this scene of Pinkie Pie using Twilight as a machine gun.
- Sweatervest [99]
- The image of Filly Twilight looking up from a book to her brother from the "BBBFF" song has sparked alot of pictures such as this
Applejack
- "Liarjack" [100]
- Who's a Silly Pony? Who is, you is, Applejack! [101]
- In The Return Of Harmony: Part II, the shot of a smug Applejack bringing up Rarity's brief fling with "Tom" has been used by fans for various clever one-liners in image macros for different ways to one-up Rarity.
- A minor, but interesting one: fans asking, "What if she decided to embrace sophistication when staying with the Oranges in Manehattan?" The result: Orangejack.
- Applejack's Episode. [102]
- And then the episode was remembered not for Applejack, but for a certain fan favorite background character appearing throughout the opener, and actually talking. At least the following episode mostly focused on AJ, though in the context of her family and, again, being partially upstaged by the characters of the week.
- "Forget you, I can eat ALL these apples!" [103]
- Appletroll [104]
Pinkie Pie
- Everything about Pinkie Pie. Everything.
- "...and then I said 'Oatmeal? Are you crazy?'"[105]
- Pinkie Pie is everywhere.
- "And that's how Equestria was made!" [108]
- Pinkie's "Parasprite Polka" from "Swarm of the Century" is gaining more and more fame.
- Cupcakes [109]
- IT'S BEEN ANIMATED.
- Psycho Pinkie is usually referred to as Pinkamena, if not her full name.
- Cupcakes also seems to be a term for when Pinkie Pie gets furious, in a tamer use of it.
- Francis Pie hates X [110].
- Chocolate rain. [111]
- Pinkie moves away from the mic to break the fourth wall.
- Here is a ponified version.
- Pinkie Pool. [112]
- Chimicherries? Cherrychangas? Ooo! Chimicherrychangas!
- Many of Pinkie's lines as Chancellor Puddinghead have become quite prominent, but one in particular stands out, helped by the adorably ridiculous smile she makes while saying it:
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Rainbow Dash
- X needs to be about/is now 20% cooler. [114]
- TEN. SECONDS. FLAT. [115]
- LIVING THE DREAM! [116]
- Wingboners. [117]
- Often used in conjunction with the infamous POMF =3 meme as the sound effect for said.
- Rainbow Dash's "So... awesome!" face now has an emoticon: /)^3^(\
- Hate detected. Fire the Orbital Friendship Beam. [118]
- Atomic Rainboom [119]
- RAINBOW DASH ALWAYS DRESSES IN STYLE. [120]
- Rainbow Dash has balsa-wood wings. [121]
- Exactly how canon this is has been zig-zagging wildly during Season 2. At first her "Atomic Rainboom" scene (see above) essentially nullified all of them. Later during "May the Best Pet Win!", Dash gets the tip of one wing pinned under a boulder and later has to have it bandaged up after being freed. This either gave the fics some credibility again, or killed them off for good, depending on how you look at it (her wings aren't immune to damage, but she only needed a bandage after a boulder fell on one of them). In "Read it and Weep," she does in fact break a wing, giving the fics credibility again, but again she walks it off in under a week, and while she certainly wasn't happy about the incident she was more grumpy than "traumatized".
- Rainbow Dash dyes her mane [122]
- Even a fanfic was written about it.
- A second fanfic followed, though it's not just Dash's natural color that's being hidden...
- Fans are trying to make a meme out of Rainbow's face in "May the Best Pet Win!" I mean just look at her grin!
- It also overlaps with another meme: "I like turtles.".
- Rainbow Dash unmasking the Mysterious Mare Do Well, finding unexpected results, and reacting somehow (almost identical to the Mass Effect gag with Shepard removing Tali's mask).
- Rainbow Dash plus sunglasses (three times through the first 8 episodes of season 2, as well as in the Fashion Style Rainbow Dash toy, several licensed shirts, and the fanimation Epic Cupcake Time) equals numerous "DEAL WITH IT" memes.
- Ninja Dash [123]
- What's Rainbow Reading? [124]
- Rainbow Dash is a lesbian. [125]
- Ropes. [126]
- CRUSH! KILL! DESTROY! SWAG! [127]
Fluttershy
- The Stare. [128].
- YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE ME! [129]
- Replacing the CSI: Miami "YEEAAAAAHH!" with Fluttershy's "Yay" from the Cold Open of "Sonic Rainboom".
- Fluttertree. [130]
- In the episode "Green isn't Your Color", a shot of a magazine cover featuring a mopey-looking Fluttershy with black streaks in her hair inspired a brief burst of "Emoshy" art.
- Fluttershy is very loud. [131]
- Tying into that, Fluttershy as the Dovahkin is incredibly common.
- Alternatively, she's violent.
- Fluttershy is weak and helpless. [132]
- Fightershy / Flutterninja / Flutterzangief. [133]
- Fluttershy's Hidden Depths. [134]
- Fluttershy crying over Philomena's Disney Death in "A Bird in the Hoof" inspired a string of pics in which she is seen watching a sad or touching scene (like the death of Bambi's mother, the death of Aerith, or the ending of Toy Story 3). A less popular version is where she actually smiles, basically watching anything to make her happy instead (or for those with a cruel sense of humor, something that starts out looking innocent, like the movie adaptation of Watership Down or an episode of Happy Tree Friends).
- Later expanded to manipulated images depicting any character reacting differently to anything, such as Twilight enjoying an educational program like Bill Nye the Science Guy, Applejack being disgusted by a B-movie or reality TV , Rainbow Dash watching an action movie, Spike watching Anime/Sentai/ giant robot or monster shows, or Derpy Hooves watching something downright surreal.
- There briefly existed a variant with Pinkie Pie having phone calls with other characters, such as Jay Sherman, Niko Bellic or Captain Picard.
- Flutterjuice/Juiceboxshy. [135]
- Hey hey hey, stay out of my shed! [136]
- Fluttermat [137]
- Hootershy/Flutterack [138]
- Related to the above, Fluttersweater [139]
- Futashy [140]
- Fluttershy is an honorary Japanese. [141]
Rarity
- Dumb Rock! [142]
- No one must ever know that I am part marshmallow! [143]
- Fridge Brilliance: Their whole family is made of marshmallows! The most common colors for marshmallows are white, followed by pink. Guess what colors the parents are? White and Pink.
- THIIIIIS IIIIIIS WHIIIIINIIIIINNG! [144]
- Rariquest [145]
- Rarity x Tom OTP! [146]
- Prior to part two, the boulder was dubbed "Dan" by fans due to Youtube captions, the same way Steven Magnet was named. When part two aired and Rarity named him Tom, people compromised and decided his name was Tom Dan, and made him a Memetic Badass for good measure.
- "Look Out! Here Comes Tom!" [147]
- <Mundane problem> is the... WORST... POSSIBLE... THING! [148]
- "I'll show you something worthy of Canterlot!" [149]
- Rarity is Jewish. [150]
- Rarity's newspaper reaction. [151]
Spike
- Tailboner. [152]
- Pictures of Spike using his tail for digging from "A Dog And Pony Show" with the caption "I have the weirdest boner right now."
- Spike is quickly becoming identified as a stoner. [153]
- Lame Pickup Line Spike. [154]
- EPIC SAX SPIKE! [155]
- Congratulations, Spike! You're the new Rainbow Dash! [156]
- And then Spike died. [159]
- Spike is the new main character. [160]
- SPIKE WANT! [161]
- Run! It's Spikezilla! [162]
The Cutie Mark Crusaders
- Photoshopping fake cutie marks onto the Cutie Mark Crusaders. (Bonus points if it's the cutie marks belonging to the previous generation versions of the Crusaders.)
- The Sex Pit [163]
- Crusader 4koma/Reaction Crusaders [164]
Apple Bloom
- ONE. DAY. [165]
- Applecopter. [166]
- "My Sister's Speaking [X!]" [167]
- Gangsta Bloom [168]
- Apple Dictionary [169]
- Bunny Bloom [170]
Scootaloo
- Scootabuse [171]
- Scootalove [172]
- Scootachicken [173]
- Pinkie Pie dressing up as a chicken for Nightmare Night spawned a few more jokes about this.
- Scootadodo [174]
Sweetie Belle
- Sweetieabuse. [175]
- Sweetie Poo. [176]
- Sweetie Derelle. [177]
- Sweetie Dictionary [178]
- Dumb Fabric! [179]
- "I, uh, really like her mane..." in response to a fan's OC pony (most of which aren't really that great, due to Sturgeon's Law). The quote comes from Sweetie Belle's original reaction in being forcefully offered a raggedy old doll named "Smarty Pants" by a crazy Twilight.
- Has since expanded to a response to just about anything.
- It's becoming popular to post various images inside Sweetie Belle's thought bubble in "Sisterhooves Social".
- Sweetie Slide/Scootie Belle [180]
- Sweetie Bot [181]
- "OH COME ON!" [182]
The Princesses
Celestia
- Princess Trollestia [185]
- TO THE MOON! [186]
- Taken Up to Eleven in the fanimation Friendship Is Magic Bitch, which also spawned a few more memes:
- There's also a variant which involves being "banished to season 2".
- Princess Molestia [188]
- TO THE MOON! [186]
- "No one mare should have all that power!" [189]
Luna
- "The fun has been doubled!" [190]
- Luna/Abacus OTP [191].
- On September 29, 2011, a leaked picture of an unfinished scene from the episode "Luna Eclipsed", the one with the return of Princess Luna, showed Luna with a sinister grin on her face and a cloak. This single picture caused some ponies to claim that Luna had joined The Dark Side[192] and is now a Sith Lord.
- Along the same lines, the leaked episode synopsis rekindled interest in the "Where My Woona!?" meme, seeing as she's finally making an appearance in the show proper since the whole Nightmare Moon incident.
- "THIS IS THE TRADITIONAL ROYAL CANTERLOT VOICE!!!" [193]
- Others use Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe for the Traditional Royal Canterlot Voice (or combine both aspects).
- PRINCESS CAPSLOCK/CANTERLOCK [194]
- Canon Luna is the best Luna. [195]
- Luna killed my fanfics! [196]
- Redo the fanon! [197]
- Trollestia did it! [198]
- Luna Ducreux [199]
- Luna Dance [200]
- Luna is friggen' useless. [201]
- Gamer Luna. [203]
Cadence/Cadance
- Just roll with it. [204]
Others
- "Who is responsible for subjecting our eyes to these... horrors?" [205]
- Sapphire Shores' reaction to Rarity's latest design in "A Dog and Pony Show" and Pinkie Pie's family having a smile fit in "The Cutie Mark Chronicles" have become parallels to the reaction guys in the fandom.
- Soarin' loves pie [206]
- The Most Interesting Pony In The World [207]
- Madame Jubilee [208]
- Faster, cheaper! [209]
- When you give a minotaur X [210]
- Daring Do cover arts [211]
- YEAH! [212]
- Peepingweight [213]
- Swiss Cheese Legs [214]
Trixie
- Trixie wears her heart on her cloak. [215]
- Rarity is a fashionista cupid. [216]
- Trixie's favorite food is pinecones. [217]
- TrixieYes.mp4 [218]
Discord
- Discord dancing on Twilight's head seems to have swiftly become one. (And now, people can make their own.) It didn't take long for a piece of fananimation showing the real Discord doing that dance, either.
- DisQord. [219]
- Chocolate milk of glass [220]
- Exploding chocolate milk of glass/Combustible Chocolate Milk [221]
Photo Finish
- Photo Finish from "Green Isn't Your Color" is another Fountain of Memes. "It iz time to make... de magicks!"
- Even her X is graceful! [222]
Big Macintosh
- "Eeyup". [223]
- Big Mac x Smarty Pants OTP! [224]
- Big Macintosh is a brony. [225]
- "Big Macintosh gets ALL the mares!" [226]
- This scene from Luna Eclipsed has only served to fuel the fire.
- "is very gentle".
- This scene from Luna Eclipsed has only served to fuel the fire.
- Serious Mac. [227]
Background Pony Memes
- Doctor Whoof/Whooves. [228]
- It also has a followup meme, involving splicing clips from the Doctor Who episode Day Of the Moon into clips of its show. [229]
- While most likely a coincidence, one of the background ponies during the party in "Sweet and Elite" looks suspiciously like the Eleventh Doctor.
- A blue pony with a blonde mane from "The Best Night Ever", "Sweet and Elite", "MMMystery on the Friendship Express", and "A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2" looks like the Fifth Doctor.
- He's speculated to be the Fifth Doctor, the Eleventh Doctor, or the Seventeenth Master [230].
- "Sweet and Elite" also had Pokey Pierce appear with an hourglass cutie mark while wearing a red tailcoat and an ascot, making him look like the Third Doctor.
- There's a blue pegasus with wavy black hair and that cutie mark in "Sonic Rainboom" who appears for a couple of seconds, rather appropriate as it resembles the equally briefly-appearing Eighth Doctor.
- In "The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000" Doctor Whooves turns the sand timer for the competition. In other words, even the writers acknowledge that he should be in control of time.
- "Brushie brushie brushie" [231]
- In Pinchy We Trust. One Wat [232]
- There's a popular trend on YouTube where DJ Pon3's bobbing head animation is synchronized with some Electronic Music, making it look as if she's banging her head to the beat of the music.
- Octavia adds her own spin to the trend by having her playing animation synchronized with a piece of Classical Music, making it look like she's playing the piece herself.
- Bon Bon: Equestria's top voice actress. [233]
- "{{[[[Fan Nickname]] PONY}}] [TOY NAME]" / "[TOY NAME] {{[[[Fan Nickname]] PONY}}]" [234]
- Examples of name combinations are Lyra Heartstrings (which has since become Ascended Fanon), Blues Noteworthy or Noteworthy Blues, Rose's full name being Roseluck and Berryshine "Berry" Punch.
- One that happened afterwards is Trixie--who is named in the show--being officially given the surname Lulamoon in the fifth wave after the fourth wave infamously called her just Lulamoon.
- Octo Octavia/Octotavia [235]
- Crackle is best dragon! [236]
- Background pony copies are actually changelings! [237]
Derpy Hooves
- Derpy Hooves. [238]
- Lauren Faust said in response "she can be Derpy if everyone likes", and she showed up as a delivery pony in "Feeling Pinkie Keen".
- Derpy Hooves became canon in The Last Roundup, having a speaking role with and being called "Derpy" by Rainbow Dash. To say the fans were pleased would be quite the understatement.
- Derpy got corrective eye surgery! [239]
- But apparently it didn't take. [240]
- "I emptied your fridge." [241]
- The animators did a Fandom Nod about this in the episode "Luna Eclipsed", this time involving an apple bobbing tub and a drain. Carrot Top is not amused as usual.
- Ancient Muffins [242]
- Where's Derpy? [243]
- Derpy's plot is iron! [244]
- Derpy Shot First [245]
- "I just don't know what went wrong." [246]
- They changed her voice/eyes, now we shall rage. [247]
- Derpy Drama/Derpygate. [248]
- THEY CHANGED ONE VERSION OF ONE EPISODE! EVERYONE PANIC! [249]
- This character might be considered offensive; expect censorship. [250]
Lyra Heartstrings
- Sitting Lyra. [251]
- Lyra wants hands. [252]
- Seapony Lyra. [253]
- "Ew gay!" [254]
- More recently, "Ew, straight!"
- Lyra teaches about humans [255]
- Multi-purpose, completely non-sexual Lyra plushie [256]
- It even has an Ask a Pony blog!
Original Characters Memes
- Krastos the Glue Maker [257]
- LAUREN FAUST IS BEST PONY. [258]
- Lauren Faust is the only one allowed to have an Alicorn OC. [259]
- I really like her/his... mane? [260]
- I really like her/his mane! [261]
- Coke Pony [262]
Merchandise Memes
- PONY VERBS THE NOUN [263]
- Since there is a toy for it, a few fanarts depict Applejack with a pink pickup truck, always with a cardboard cutout of Twilight Sparkle in the truckbed.
- Naturally, the memetic nature of the Cardboard Cutout made an Alan Wake crossover inevitable.
- EHT'S TWALAHT SPORKLES BAHLEWN [264]
- "No one man should have all that pony!" [265]
- DAMN YOU, HABSRO!! [266]
- PRAISE HABSRO!! [267]
- The Doggie Doo Game. [268]
- Creepily enough, there was already a video mashing up the theme song and another ad for the same game four months prior to the episode.
- "Fanon names are best names." [269]
- "Toy names are best names." [270]
- Some fans take a third option and combine the two, making one or the other a surname, a full name, or a nickname.
- Hasbro has officially made it naming policy in the fifth wave of Blind Bags to combine the names for Lyra Heartstrings and Trixie Lulamoon. PRAISE BE TO HASBRO!!
- "Toy names are best names." [270]
- Star Swirl the Not so Bearded [271]
- Comic shorts in magazines of various languages are a fountain of memes, mostly due to their questionable quality, for example reusing low-quality vectors.
- ↑ Typically said whenever somebody reveals they enjoyed the show. Usually comes with the page pic.
- ↑ Usually accompanied by Template:Media- of a scene in the first episode where Twilight Sparkle pours a bottle of what looks like a an alcoholic drink (but, unfortunately for her, was actually a bottle of hot sauce) into a goblet. They will also drive you to insomnia, worms, stalking, and/or bondage, among other things. The line itself came from an old Chuck Jones cartoon entitled "The Dover Boys".
- ↑ A piece of in-game dialogue that came from one of The Hub's Browser Games called Adventures in Ponyville. The line seems innocent but when taken out of context could mean something else.
- ↑ A meme that doesn't directly relate to My Little Pony, but was inspired instead by a promo for the 2010 Pound Puppies series that used to play over the credits and featured a clip of Niblet the sheepdog saying "Secret, but fun!" Amusingly enough, the promo in question and the episode the clip was taken from both ended up on The Friendship Express DVD.
- ↑ An offshoot of this meme, inspired by Pipsqueak's line in "Luna Eclipse" about Nightmare Night being "scary, but fun". You'll notice they were /very/ careful about how they had him elocute the line.
- ↑ Thanks to a commercial that aired during the first season finale.
- ↑ Originated from the G1 My Little Pony song "Call Upon the Sea Ponies". A nonsensical comment to anything involving sea ponies usually fan work or discussions. Usually another user will post a follow-up comment with the song's second line: "SHOO SHOO BE DOO".
- ↑ The fandom have found themselves conflicted between hating people who don't like the show and the show's overall message of love and tolerance. Compromises were made. Unfortunately, some Bronies do not practice what they claim to preach and will relentlessly insult anyone who enjoys any older incarnation of My Little Pony, or anyone who criticizes Friendship Is Magic. The phrase "Love & Tolerate" was eventually put on an officially licensed shirt (and used in the description of another shirt and hoodie).
- ↑ Unfortunately, it's also becoming a Discredited Meme due to overuse as an answer for everything.
- ↑ A series of videos consisting of Accidental Innuendos that pokes fun at the abundance of Rule 34 of FiM.
- ↑ A variation on the "I can/can't fap to this" and/or the "I find this easy/difficult to masturbate to" memes, clopping being the pony equivalent of masturbation.
- ↑ Originated as a way of trolling bronies, since, in the loosest definition of the term, they are technically part of the Furry Fandom. Now slightly memetic.
- ↑ A word play on the main title where the word "pony" is replaced with another kind of animal or creature. Words other than an animal are usually used in crossovers or practically anything.
- ↑ The show's subtitle led to the creation of this snowclone meme.
- ↑ Another minor snowclone, from a line in the opening theme song "And magic makes it all complete".
- ↑ This is most likely to be the comment of any brony that comes across past generations and actually watches them, or general praise towards Faust for anything, jokingly(?) attaining an almost mythical status.
- ↑ From Spike and Pinkie Pie's speculation on what the "doozy" in "Feeling Pinkie Keen" meant happened to Fluttershy; Spike suggests she might have exploded, and Pinkie follows it up by saying she might have exploded... and then exploded again. Things exploding twice quickly became a Running Gag in the fandom.
- ↑ The traditional response to anything that could be taken as a Double Entendre within the show.
- ↑ A reaction to the above, claiming that said scenario did indeed lead to a sexual encounter
- ↑ Near the end of "The Cutie Pox", Zecora plants "seeds of truth" that require spoken truth to blossom. It quickly became popular to edit in such things as ponies admitting their love/sexuality or lack thereof to one another, characters from other media pitching in (such as Vader's famous line or Scar's murder confession), or a variant of either with the flower humorously failing to blossom, similar to the Liarjack meme below.
- ↑ A common reaction to any time the show appears to be making a Fandom Nod, coincidental or not.
- ↑ Scootaloo's name.
- ↑ King Zebra was the evil mastermind. After putting him to prison, Rainbow Dash comments that zebras can never be trusted, referencing black race stereotypes and treatment. The meme itself is a travestation of "Around the blacks, never relax!"
- ↑ Due to the fandom's tendency to turn the smallest comment or frame of animation into a massive meme, their tendency to think of many of these memes as canon, and the recent surge in some of these memes actually becoming canon, it has become popular to take a screencap of an episode, come up with some far-flung fan theory, and end with "[X] is now canon" where [X] is the topic in question. Example.
- ↑ Twilight's voice actress has recently taken to shamelessly trolling the Internet via her Twitter. Led to "Twilighticious" further down the page. As such it has nothing to do with classifying other species as ponies.
- ↑ Appears to have taken off with this image, frequently referenced for its sheer absurd Narm Charm.
- ↑ In the second season finale "A Canterlot Wedding", the series introduces changelings, evil shapeshifters who feed on love. Since then, changelings have been used to explain, a la Ancient Aliens and conspiracy theories, the various versions of characters appearing within the fandom such as Princess Molestia (which was originally conceptualized as a succubus who copied Princess Celestia's appearance) as an alternative to using the explanation that they came from an alternate reality of some sort, characters acting Out of Character within the show or fan work (especially) such as Cupcakes' Pinkie Pie, and why we see a lot of clones of background ponies in a lot of scenes within the show (or why they seem to have a different characterization and/or voice everytime they are put in a role). It has even been used to explain the changes to Derpy Hooves in The Last Roundup. Basically they are used as an excuse as to why a character or a group of characters doesn't seem and/or feel "right".
- ↑ (thanks to repeated "stealth" sequences in the show: Apple Bloom's sneaking sequence in "Call of the Cutie", Rainbow Dash infiltrating the hospital in "Read It and Weep", Twilight Sparkle leading Spike and Pinkie Pie into the Canterlot Archives while looking remarkably like Snake in "It's About Time")
- ↑ From Bronyville Livestream, while the episode "The Best Night Ever" was being aired, an X Men First Class Commercial Pop-Up featuring Magneto kept popping up in the lower-right corner of the screen. It was widely considered hilarious and led to, for example, the fans blaming him for ruining the Gala.
- ↑ The Spider-Man cartoon from the 60's has already undergone its own Memetic Mutation and a crossing of the memes was inevitable. Fans like to Photoshop Spidey into the show, causing almost as much chaos as Pinkie Pie.
- ↑ When Twilight starts Burning With Anger in "Feeling Pinkie Keen", she turns into a white unicorn with a flaming mane, which looks suspiciously like Rapidash, another white unicorn with a flaming mane.
- ↑ For obvious reasons, Luna asking what fun is in "Luna Eclipsed" is often answered with Spongebob's FUN song.
- ↑ This phrase from the "Pizza Delivery" episode has become popular when applied to Rarity to both when she gets Mind Raped by Discord and when she finds the geode that earns her cutie mark.
- ↑ Thanks to the appearance of ponies resembling The Dude, Walter and Donny in a bowling alley during The Teaser of "The Cutie Pox".
- ↑ Jesus Quintana, too.
- ↑ A popular art trend where FiM is depicted in the Steampunk visual style.
- ↑ Techno-music duo Daft Punk has consistently, through most of their career, appeared wearing helmets fashioned with a robot motif.
- ↑ Originally stemming from the League of Legends fandom, it eventually spread to the bronies. It's typically used as a response to a (normally main/recurring) character from the show exhibiting a one time quirk, such as Beatnik Rarity is best Rarity or Insane Twilight is best Twilight. Then again, some try to classify other species as Y when they are not.
- ↑ The opposite of the above.
- ↑ A recent art trend involving ponies wielding lightsabers, which has led to all manner of Star Wars crossovers.
- ↑ Pinkie Pie called Rainbow a "daredevil" in "Read it and Weep"
- ↑ A play on words melding the already memetic Like A Boss line and the name of the show's creator Lauren Faust.
- ↑ A bit of a Running Gag on This Wiki about the show's tendency to do a Mood Whiplash with the theme song, such as the cliffhanger at the end of the first episode.
- ↑ A Ponibooru joke, there's a group of users named Roboshi, Anchors, & yellowtdash. who have a tendency to favorite everything on the site.
- ↑ During a period where several Rule34 pictures of Lauren Faust's alicorn OC were posted, many pictures were edited with Subway sandwiches replacing... certain body parts. Even now, it is not uncommon to see Lauren's alicorn somehow connected to Subway in fanarts or its logo edited into already existing ones.
- ↑ A series of Tumblr art blog/role play accounts where people can ask a particular character in the show as if the characters themselves are answering them through a Tumblr account. You can find a comprehensive list of these blogs here.
- ↑ A recent offshoot of the meme where ponies are replaced with small hamster-like versions of themselves. It started out with two Ask blogs but soon spread to other existing Ask blogs. Each converting their characters into one of these critters for a single post.
- ↑ Ask Tumblr Blogs will have the Rainbow Dash Chubby fly by their character leaving a rainbow trail behind her. It all started here when Chubby!Pinkie Pie launched her with her mini-party cannon. Since then she has been seen throughout various Ask Tumblrs.
- ↑ A meme on Ponibooru where fans suggest potential pony crossovers.
- ↑ On December 9th, 2011, within a few minutes of each other, Ponibooru saw postings of 1) APPLE.MOV-style Applejack brutally beating Applebloom and 2) Prince Blueblood braining a young colt with a brick. Someone suggested it was Child Violence Day. Someone else then posted a brony "calendar" listing December 9th as such.
- ↑ A trend on Alternate History Dot Com to mix My Little Pony with Nazis. Communists are also a lesser favorite.
- ↑ From Nico Nico Douga. This one started from an attempt to turn the title theme into katakana, hence My Little Pony=Mai.Ritoru.Ponii. A combination of L-R substitution and further compressing the Ritoru turned it into Lilo, also the onomatopoeia for licking, which stuck.
- ↑ The first of six PMVs set to six of "Weird Al" Yankovic's polka medleys (in this case, Polkarama) that quickly went viral after gaining both the approval and the endorsement of no less than "Weird Al" himself. Since then, Weird Al/My Little Pony mash-ups have skyrocketed and Al has even been asked by one of the show's directors to do a guest appearance, presumably as a response to the video.
- ↑ An advert that has been airing on the Hub recently parodying the iPod Touch/iPhone adverts and their 'There's an App for that' slogan. Includes eNay, Angry Mare and Rarity's Secret (Victoria's Secret) to name a few.
- ↑ In "Elements of Harmony", upon learning that Twilight Sparkle knows about Nightmare Moon and the Elements of Harmony, Rainbow Dash interrogates Twilight, ending it with "Are you a spy!?". Videos would take this line (titled after the line or "X Answers Rainbow Dash's question") and have various characters respond such as Applejack, Spike, and the Spy himself.
- ↑ A sexy song plays while a character slowly closes in to the camera with bedroom eyes, the title often written in a way to suggest that the subject has just realized what is happening. Started with Twilight Sparkle and spread to many others, including Trixie, Rainbow Dash, DJ Pon3/Vinyl Scratch, Derpy Hooves, Lyra Heartstrings and Bon Bon, Fluttershy, and Rarity. Trixie's even earned a reaction in comic form.
- ↑ Pronounced "ay-oo". A meme from Moonbase Alpha, as seen and heard in these two YouTube videos (both of which have been remade using ponies).
- ↑ It's about half and half things that popped up as a related video to something more equine and resulted in a curious Youtube Walk, and things linked from a pony forum or fan fiction or something.
- ↑ Hey Ocean's lead female singer Ashleigh Ball is the voice actress for Applejack & Rainbow Dash. And now you know why she does her own singing.
- ↑ Many Youtube Poops of My Little Pony often have a character say something that resolves the plot, or just anything random, followed by a hard cut to normal credits of the show.
- ↑ Taking scenes from the show and replacing choice words with implied naughty language for fun and profit. The two videos that started it all are here and here.
- ↑ On brief clips of the show (most notably from kyrospawn) taken out of context, a comment will often say something along the lines of a reaction a little girl may be having to watching the clip, whereas the second line will have the reaction of a brony watching it, generally around the lines of "OLOLOLOL SEX JOKES".
- ↑ Following from a larger YouTube meme, When I'm Bored, short videos featuring one pony set to "Let Me Hit It" by Sporty-O; eg "When I'm 20% Cooler" for Rainbow Dash or "When I'm Magic" for Twilight Sparkle.
- ↑ A meme rather similar to When I'm X but a bit more simpler set to "Barbra Streisand" by Duck Sauce, where the name comes from. It started with "Pony Sauce" for Twilight and since then has been done with other MLP characters and some that aren't even from MLP such as "Heavy Sauce" for Heavy, "Fox Sauce" for Tails and "Barbra Sauce" for Barbra Streisand of all people.
- ↑ The topper for Pinkie's pie from the "Epic Pie Time" flash animation
- ↑ In-universe censor beeps for several of the Abridged Series or other media
- ↑ A clip of something sad happening to one of the characters leads into the character tearing up. Said reaction is put on a loop and set to the chorus of "Untitled (How Could This Happen to Me?)" by A Simple Plan.
- ↑ A common way of expressing one's favor for a particular character. The omission of the word "the" is intentional. However, often used when [X] isn't a pony at all (like Spike or Gilda), or is a character from a completely different work (like Magneto) which still isn't a pony.
- ↑ Fans naming other ponies as their favorite character tend to attract image macros with this phrase, though there's at least one version where Pinkie admits Fluttershy is her favorite, too.
- ↑ An adorable piece of fan art of Luna wearing socks has spawned all kinds of cute fanart of Luna or another pony in socks, a fanfic, and even an officially licensed shirt.
- ↑ Minty is a g3 pony who collected socks.
- ↑ A play on the original line "Congratulations, Spike! You're the new Rainbow Dash!" Examples include "Congratulations, Pinkie Pie! You're the new Scootaloo!" in response to Pinkie's chicken costume in "Luna Eclipsed" and "Congratulations, Twilight! You're the new Rarity!" in response to Apple Bloom giving Twilight's mane the same style as Rarity's in "The Cutie Pox".
- ↑ Celestia's Batman Gambit for snapping Twilight Sparkle out of Discord's spell was simply to send Twilight copies of all the letters she'd written to Celestia in season 1, about what she'd learned about friendship, knowing that even a mindscrewed Twilight Sparkle would not be able to resist the written word. The quote is a reference to Patton.
- ↑ A series of pieces by this artist depicting various characters shortly after waking up. Other artists have since joined in on the theme.
- ↑ Nightmare Moon and Discord, the two Big Bads of the series so far, were sealed in the moon and turned into a statue respectively, both by Celestia. Fan speculation for Celestia's reason for using essentially the same imprisonment strategy twice usually has someone suggest this was what she was thinking during both instances.
- ↑ Looping animations of one or more characters driving a vehicle at high speed accompanied with a fitting background music. Usually also includes extra elements happening around them as they drive. It started with this one, which features Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy riding a TransAm down the side of a mountain. The car they were driving and the background music (called "Yellow Line") are from an Anime movie called Redline. Many others have followed in its wake. (A collection can be found here.)
- ↑ Genderbends of the Mane Cast, usually created by lowering the pitch on the original voices. In this incarnation, their names become Butterscotch, Applejack, Elusive, Rainbow Blitz, Bubble Berry, and Dusk Shine (and his number one secretary, Barbara). In case you're confused as to who's who, they are male versions of Fluttershy, Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Twilight Sparkle, and Spike.
- ↑ An animated pixel art gif trend where a filly version of a pony is shown riding on a spinning turntable. Most of these can be found here and here.
- ↑ An art trend of ponies wielding large shoulder mounted cannons/bazookas/launchers. Color scheme of the cannon and its ammunition depends on its wielder. Originated from one of a series of FiM themed weapons created by Flamingo1986. One of which was called the "Pinkie Pie Launcher". Other artists later edited Pinkie Pie herself holding the launcher[1] and it soon spread to other characters as well.
- ↑ Shown in the episode "Sweet and Elite" where Pinkie Pie shows it off as to explain how she can set up parties so quickly.
- ↑ Fanart showing characters with their manes drenched and hanging down, inspired by a scene with Rarity in "Sisterhooves Social".
- ↑ In "The Mysterious Mare Do Well", one of Rainbow Dash's heroic deeds was saving a baby pony from falling off a cliff. While (older-looking) babies had previously appeared in the Spinoff Babies toy commercial and toys, this was the first time that any appeared in the show itself. With in-show reference for a baby at hand, the fandom had a field day. And now that "Baby Cakes" has aired, they're having another.
- ↑ A fair number of people have noticed how the Nice Hat Cheerilee gives Spike in "Secret of My Excess" resembles that worn by Michael Jackson in the video for "Smooth Criminal". This has resulted in a few pieces of art depicting either Cheerilee or Spike wearing an outfit that resembles Michael's Moonwalker ensemble and performing the anti-gravity lean.
- ↑ A trending art meme where ponies are drawn with thicker and fluffier fur.
- ↑ The OC that started (or at least popularized) the whole fluffy pony meme. Later became a recurring character in an Original Flavour crossover Ask Tumblr of Dan Vs called "Dan Vs. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" and starred in her own mini-game called "GO FAST".
- ↑ Fanart on a certain image board has inspired a flood of mini-fics about adorable but accident-prone pet fluffy ponies.
- ↑ Said image board has since spawned numerous mini-fics involving rather disturbingly detailed slaughter and mistreatment of fluffy ponies, usually in the form of Disproportionate Retribution for the afformentioned stupidity. The most common form of abuse is the "Sorry Stick", an impromptu spanking device made from a thin rod of wood.
- ↑ A picture of Rainbow Dash pretending to be a cloud, which has inspired several sequels.
- ↑ explanation With the popularity of Twilightlicious, derivatives began popping up such as Flutterlicious, Derpalicious, Lyralicious and Rarilicious
- ↑ Twilight Sparkle with no front legs or tail. Spawned from a (since removed) Blooper on the show's iTunes store.
- ↑ A Nightmare Fuel-inducing Off-Model stock vector of Twilight Sparkle.
- ↑ During the Season 2 episode Lesson Zero, Twilight Sparkle being the organization freak she is, becomes increasingly unstable the further into the day she goes when a letter to Princess Celestia is due for sending. She eventually comes to the conclusion that if she can't find a friend's problem to fix as a friend, then she would have to create one. It doesn't end well.
- ↑ Twilight Sparkle's creepy greeting to the CMC in "Lesson Zero"
- ↑ In "Lesson Zero", Twilight begins to lose her grip on sanity, complete with creepy facial expressions, eventually coming to the point that it looks almost as if she's stalking the CMC.
- ↑ Cranking up the pedo levels of the CMC scene. Frequently stating that she learned from Molestia (see below)
- ↑ A meme in a similar fashion to "Lyra wants hands" (See "Background Pony Memes"). It's about Twilight Sparkle wanting to be qualified as Rainbow Dash's pet. She's usually depicted with a leash to symbolize her "dedication". It came from a line in the episode "May the Best Pet Win" where Rainbow Dash explains to Twilight Sparkle why she can never be qualified to be her pet. Fan art examples so far: [2] [3][4][5] [6] [7] [8] and also some Ask Tumblrs (see "Ask Tumblrs" under "Website Specific Memes") referencing the meme: [9][10]
- ↑ Twilight's bizarre dancing in "Sweet and Elite" has prompted many references to Elaine's similar lack of anything resembling rhythm.
- ↑ Tara Strong (Twilight's VA) puts out a vocal Twitter message, singing I'm T to the W-I-L-I-G-H-T/And ain't no other pony troll it down like me/I'm Twilightlicious! Cue the talented fandom...
- ↑ Whenever Twilight is anthropomorphised, she would almost always be depicted wearing a sweatervest.
- ↑ Applejack, being the Element of Honesty, almost never tells a lie. When corrupted by Discord in "The Return of Harmony", however, she permanently lies, while doing the linked face. Has spawned a crapton of image macros; the captions usually border on Suspiciously Specific Denial.
- ↑ Applejack is one of the rare characters in the series who comes from a previous series, in this case Generation 1 My Little Pony. G1 Applejack was a klutz to the extreme. In a UK My Little Pony audiobook, Applejack was introduced with this song to showcase her clumsy nature. Fans have since taken the song and attached it to scenes where Friendship Is Magic Applejack is being shown as acting weird.
- ↑ Applejack has had one feature episode since the beginning of the show, and a split ticket with a couple episodes, most commonly with Rarity. When the DVD The Friendship Express was revealed to contain an episode titled "The Last Roundup", the fans went nuts. When the episode's synopsis was released, revealing that Applejack was missing and the manes had to find her, the fans were less impressed. When the episode after was confirmed to be a truly Apple-Family-centric episode, the fans perked up again, and when Applejack actually appeared throughout all of The Last Roundup their ire disappeared completely.
- ↑ At a panel at the January 2012 Bronycon, fans convinced guest speaker Ashleigh Ball (the voice of Applejack) to quote the fan animation APPLE.MOV
- ↑ At the end of "The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000", Applejack proudly proclaims that she did not learn anything from the episode in her letter to Celestia. Since that means she never had a reason to send a letter, this led to people claiming that she was trolling Celestia. Her smug "haters gonna hate" trot while narrating said letter, followed by presumably going out to get wasted on cider helps considerably.
- ↑ Pinkie Pie blurts this out following Twilight's Big "Shut Up!" in "The Ticket Master". Posting any image of oatmeal now guarantees a Pinkie Pie reaction image.
- ↑ In "Green Isn't Your Colour", Pinkie ensures that Twilight doesn't break her promise by appearing from nowhere and ominously saying this.
- ↑ In "The Last Roundup", Applejack made a Pinkie Promise to explain everything during breakfast. When the Mane 5 discover she ran before breakfast, Pinkie takes it rather personally.
- ↑ This is how Pinkie Pie ends her cutie mark story in "Cutie Mark Chronicles". While the Cutie Mark Crusaders brush it off as "Pinkie Pie being Pinkie Pie", fans have joked that somehow, someway, Pinkie Pie really is responsible for the creation/foundation of Equestria. Others just joke that Pinkie would end her rendition of the Equestrian Creation Myth with "...and that's how I got my cutie mark!"
- ↑ An incredibly infamous, gore-riddled Fanfic (someone on Equestria Daily compared it to Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni) that has wormed its way into a permanent spot in the collective fandom consciousness. Much like Warhammer 40000 fans and Squad Broken, mentioning "cupcakes" without any context is likely to make some fans suffer horrible flashbacks.
- ↑ Pinkie Pie's discorded version frequently expressed hate for anything related to the scene, much like Francis from Left 4 Dead
- ↑ In the Season 2 premiere, one of the signs of Discord's escape is chocolate rain from cotton-candy clouds. Cue Tay Zonday songs set to MLP footage.
- ↑ There are many parallels between the characters of Deadpool and Pinkie Pie - they're fourth wall breakers, id personified, wild cards, and Motor Mouths.
- ↑ explanation A four panel image based on a scene in A Canterlot Wedding Part 2 in which Pinkie asks one of the changelings, nicknamed "Doomie" thanks to Pinkie's line "Do me! Do me!", to transform into her, though what it transforms into is not exactly the Pinkie she's thinking of.
- ↑ From Rainbow Dash's hilariously vague suggestions for her dress in "Suited for Success", "It just needs to be about 20% cooler."
- ↑ From the pilot, Rainbow Dash claiming she can clear the skies over Ponyville of stray clouds in "Ten seconds flat", and then delivering on that promise.
- ↑ Rainbow Dash, who wants to go to the Grand Galloping Gala so she can show off for the Wonderbolts, says this to Twilight in "The Ticket Master" in an effort to convince Twilight to give her the extra ticket.
- ↑ At the start of Pinkie Pie's stage show in "Over A Barrel", Rainbow Dash's wings are folded, but when PP appears in her show-girl outfit, RD's wings are spread. While it's easily seen as a small animation error or just a reaction of shock, those who have a different idea on what emotions wings express see this scene as a bit more telling. Notably, the Madmax comic came first, and just about anytime Rainbow Dash or another Pegasus has their wings spread, someone will shout "Wingboner!"
- ↑ Rainbow Dash's Sonic Rainboom bearing a resemblance to a rainbow-colored Kill Sat.
- ↑ "Lesson Zero" had Rainbow Dash demolish a barn with a Sonic Rainboom-like move which made a mushroom cloud.
- ↑ A video showing G4 Rainbow Dash reacting to her cutesy, ultra-girly G3.5 incarnation. It inspired similar videos featuring Scootaloo, Cheerilee, Pinkie Pie, and Sweetie Belle, all of whom share names with G3 ponies.
- ↑ The most common source of Hurt Comfort Fic for this fandom is fanfic in which Rainbow Dash breaks her wings (which actually happens in the Canadian live show, though not onstage). It's reached the point where Equestria Daily has jokingly banned this sort of fic outright.
- ↑ A fan art trend where Rainbow Dash is drawn dying her mane rainbow using either a can of rainbow paint or hair dye or bathing in a pool of rainbow such as the ones seen on the episode "Sonic Rainboom".
- ↑ Rainbow slips on her very own stealth suit in order to break into the hospital.
- ↑ Photoshopped pics of Rainbow Dash being offered various books to read, and her reactions to them.
- ↑ The fandom has gone back and forth between Dead Horse Trope and Undead Horse Trope with this accusation more times than anypony cares to count. The fact that she's a Launcher of a Thousand Ships isn't helping.
- ↑ She has a tendency to end up tied with ropes by other characters. Fan often joke about the sexual subtext that comes with it.
- ↑ Pony Dot Mov strikes again, this time with a malfunctioning Robot Me version of Rainbow Dash.
- ↑ Fluttershy's Death Glare in "Stare Master" earned some infamy, with some fans joking she has Haki or a Geass, and contributes to her Memetic Badass reputation
- ↑ Fluttershy's Freak-Out during "The Best Night Ever", the same scene that inspired the "Flutterage" meme, became memetic for being completely unexpected and terrifying.
- ↑ Stems from a conversation in "Over a Barrel" in which Pinkie Pie takes Rainbow Dash's sarcastic remark about Fluttershy being a tree at face value. Combined with Fluttershy's remark "I'd like to be a tree", it sparked a lot of half-joking debate as to whether or not Fluttershy is, in fact, a tree, or simply the pony equivalent of a furry. It also inspired a number of pictures of Fluttershy as a tree, often combined with the phrase "Leaf-ing the dream!" Much later, the Cold Opening of "Hurricane Fluttershy" has a scene in which Rainbow Dash addresses a tree as Fluttershy and said tree turns out to be Fluttershy trying to hide using a tree costume. Even later, WeLoveFine came out with merchandise depicting Fluttershy as a tree or with a tree.
- ↑ Most videos on youtube featuring Fluttershy (usually videos lasting less then 10 seconds) doing something that makes quiet noises (screaming, for example) will almost always have people complaining about how loud the video is, despite the truth being the opposite.
- ↑ In The Return of Harmony Part 1, Discord attempts to get Fluttershy riled up in order to discord her, but Fluttershy instead fullheartedly and quietly agrees with everything he's saying about her, including that she's "weak and helpless", much to the hilarity of the fans who have seen her face dragons and manticores alike, staring down a cockatrice, and many other awesome deeds (most recently, wrestling a bear). Many insist that she has trolled Discord. A few videos on Youtube have Fluttershy saying she's weak and helpless, followed by a montage of her Crowning Moments of Awesome.
- ↑ Fluttershy wrestling with a bear in "Lesson Zero" (even if she was actually giving it a chiropractic massage). It didn't take long for the Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat inspired images and videos to come out
- ↑ In the episode "Suited For Success" Fluttershy rather quickly points out the flaws in Rarity's dress (before quickly reverting to her usual timid self), despite not showing any obvious knowledge about dressmaking previously. This has been reused in fanfics, showing Fluttershy's Hidden Depths about pretty much everything she does, before going shy again and saying something along the lines of "But, you know, however you do it is fine..."
- ↑ Originated in this page of Dash Academy, a fancomic, and popularized by this Ask Tumblr. It's about Fluttershy's liking of juiceboxes. It has since then spread to other ask Tumblrs and fan art.
- ↑ How Fluttershy from Pony Dot Mov ends most of her lines, hinting at her Dark Secret and perhaps a piece of Schmuck Bait.
- ↑ The same as Fluttertree above, but with Fluttershy as a doormat instead. Stems from Rarity's description of Fluttershy's attitude in "Putting Your Hoof Down"
- ↑ Anthropomorphised Fluttershy art tends to depict her with an abundant bustline, for any number of reasons ranging from an interpretation of her motherly instincts and Moe personality to Author Appeal.
- ↑ Anthro-Fluttershy tends to be a Sweater Girl.
- ↑ Drawing Fluttershy as a hermaphrodite.
- ↑ When fansubbed versions of the show began to show up on Nico Nico Douga, Japanese fans decided that Fluttershy's similarity to the Yamato Nadeshiko archetype meant she was honorarily Japanese. Although mostly localized to Japan, a few articles and blogs have brought the meme to the attention of Western fans.
- ↑ Said by Filly Rarity in "The Cutie Mark Chronicles" when her horn leads her to an apparently-ordinary rock.
- ↑ A shot of Rarity reaching towards the camera from "A Dog and Pony Show", with her hooves drawn in a way that they resemble marshmallows, inspired a string of jokes about Rarity actually being a marshmallow, much like "Fluttertree" and "Scootachicken". This, in turn, led to jokes about Rarity's sister Sweetie Belle being a marshmallow too. "Marshmallow pony" was eventually used by WeLoveFine to refer to Rarity in the online description and tags of their Rarity Nouveau art print and shirt.
- ↑ Rarity in "A Dog and Pony Show". The line quoted here is usually the first part to be exaggerated, as seen here.
- ↑ The vector of Rarity being pulled to "her destiny" in "The Cutie Mark Chronicles" has been edited into a variety of images showing poor Rarity getting dragged everywhere, ala BRODYQUEST. It even has its own Ask Tumblr blog.
- ↑ In part 2 of the Season 2 premiere, Rarity continues to haul the rock around that Discord made her think was a ginormous diamond and named it Tom.
- ↑ A scene with Tom hurled out of a window resulted in jokes of him being replaced with anyone else named Tom.
- ↑ Rarity being a hammy drama queen in "Lesson Zero"
- ↑ From "Sweet and Elite", after Rarity gets ridiculed by some upper-class ponies for being "country", she retreats to her suite at Canterlot castle, says this line, and whips up a design for Twilight's new dress. It inspired a meme where Rarity says her line, and is shown to draw something silly, then react to it with delight or disgust as appropriate.
- ↑ Amongst the many drawings of ponies doing Christmas activities, the fans have decided - for unclear reasons, but possibly based on either the accent used by their mother or an old Religious Stereotype about tailors or jewelers being Jewish - to have Rarity and Sweetie Belle celebrate Hanukkah. One Equestria Daily banner even shows them playing dreidel with Pinkie Pie and losing heavily.
- ↑ A three panel image exploitable, based on Rarity reading the school paper in "Ponyville Confidential". The top and bottom shots are of Rarity reading the paper intently, and a shocked reaction, but the order may change to justify the joke around the middle panel. Also has been used as "implied facehoof" reaction images, as at one point, Rarity's look while holding the newspaper is similar to Tommy Lee Jones' character in No Country for Old Men as blunt non-vocal criticism of a stupid idea.
- ↑ The same thing as a wingboner, but for Spike's tail.
- ↑ Similarly to the Bedroom Eyes meme above, the Running Joke of someone pausing a clip of an episode and seeing Spike with an expression of someone with cannabinoid intoxication. That, and his portrayal in later Pony Dot Mov episodes.
- ↑ An image from "Boast Busters" with Spike trying to seduce Rarity with cheesy lines and bad innuendos.
- ↑ The Pony Anthology features a small bit of Spike playing the saxophone, and it was combined with the "Epic Sax Guy" meme from 2010 Eurovision Song Contest.
- ↑ In part 2 of the Season 2 premiere, Rainbow Dash is missing and thus they have no Element of Loyalty. Twilight, who is stressed out and in a hurry, gives Spike the Element of Loyalty necklace and says he's the "new Rainbow Dash".
- ↑ Right after Twilight makes Spike the new Rainbow Dash, he's afraid of what will happen to him once Rainbow Dash finds out. This has led to various images of what would happen when Rainbow Dash finally does confront him on the matter.
- ↑ Spike transformed into a Pegasus has appeared in many fanarts and at least one fanfic, starting from back in season 1. More recent fanart naturally depicts his Pegasus version as a recolor of Rainbow Dash, thanks to the previous meme.
- ↑ Early on in Luna Eclipsed, Rainbow Dash scares Pinkie, Spike and some fillies with her lightning cloud. Spike promptly passes out, and is carried off by Twilight; because of his shaking and drooling, nearly every online chat about the episode will invariably include a "Spike died." comment.
- ↑ Until "Sweet and Elite", Spike had appeared in more episodes of Season 2 than Twilight Sparkle, who was missing from "Sisterhooves Social", and was only one of two characters (the other, humorously enough, being Applejack) to appear in every season 2 episode up to that point. This meme has since become heavily ironic as Spike hasn't appeared on the show reqularly since "Hearth's Warming Eve."
- ↑ In "Secret of My Excess", Spike goes into a rapid growth spurt and displays the infamous dragon greed. As he gets bigger, his speech gradually devolves into yelling "SPIKE WANT!".
- ↑ Also from "Secret of My Excess", Spike's form at his peak size drew a lot of comparisons to the American version of Godzilla.
- ↑ The Crusaders' solution to the problem they caused in Hearts and Hooves Day involved getting Big Macintosh to fall into a deep pit they dug with a matress at the bottom. The fun here comes in the form of shopping in other characters and/or altering the Crusaders' reactions.
- ↑ Also from Hearts and Hooves Day, the Crusader's faces when they're hiding in a bush bears more than a passing resemblance to the Gaijin 4koma/Reaction Guys meme.
- ↑ in "Sisterhooves Social", Apple Bloom lets Sweetie Belle borrow Applejack for the contest, but makes sure she understands it's only temporary. This line made it onto an officially licensed shirt in less than a week after the episode's premiere.
- ↑ In "The Cutie Pox", one of Apple Bloom's loop-de-hoop tricks involves spinning the hoop around her tail fast enough that she takes off like a helicopter.
- ↑ A snowclone spawned from another scene in "The Cutie Pox", where Apple Bloom gets a fleur-de-lis cutie mark that causes her to compulsively speak French, to which a baffled and horrified Applejack remarks "My sister's speakin' Fancy!" This scene inspired a few comics where Apple Bloom is forced to speak in other "languages", such as Chinese, British English, "Internet", Wingdings, and Daedric.
- ↑ The fleur-de-lis is also the gang sign of the 3rd Street Saints. This has not passed the fans by.
- ↑ Like Sweetie Belle before her, in Family Appreciation Day, it's Apple Bloom's turn to be called a dictionary following her lamentations about Granny Smith representing her family on the eponymous day.
- ↑ Apple Bloom wears a rabbit suit in Family Appreciation Day. The fans think it makes her extremely cute.
- ↑ When asked whether Scootaloo is Rainbow Dash's little sister Lauren Faust said no, stating that Dash would not be a good big sister. Some fans took this a little too far, which resulted in various fanarts depicting Rainbow Dash physically abusing Scootaloo, some more gruesome than others. On the other hand, this comic strongly suggests that Rainbow Dash doesn't necesarily need to be the one doing the abusing. It also, however, leads us right into...
- ↑ Formed as a reaction to Scootabuse, consisting of heartwarming fanart and fanfics about Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo. This has, in turn, led to such things as "ScootaBDSM" and other bizarre images.
- ↑ Apple Bloom calling Scootaloo a chicken in "Stare Master" inspired a lot of jokes about Scootaloo being a literal chicken, and even led to officially licensed shirts featuring Scootaloo as a chick and Scootaloo with a chicken (and Winona). This meme is sometimes combined with "Scootabuse", depicting Kentucky Fried Scootaloo and Scootaloo-flavored ramen noodles.
- ↑ And then jokes emerged of Scootaloo being a dodo, after a clip from the season 2 premiere was posted in which Sweetie Belle calls Scootaloo a dodo.
- ↑ In much the same way as Scootabuse, Sweetie Belle isn't immune to being treated badly by her sister. Various fanart depicts her as actually being an illegitimate child of Rarity's by whom she's very embarrassed. She's also depicted as being a ditz and living in a cupboard under the stairs.
- ↑ A far more immature and gross variation of Sweetie abuse. In addition to being a ditz, Sweetie is presented as being incontinent, and uncontrollably defecating in large quantities.
- ↑ Another unflattering depiction of Sweetie Belle being an extremely loud annoying sibling - specifically, a picture of her shouting a long string of capitAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAl A's is used to flag threads with NSFW content. Naturally, it's been photoshopped to look like other characters.
- ↑ Not long after the season 2 premiere aired, Scootaloo's remark "What are you, a dictionary?" inspired pictures of Sweetie Belle as a dictionary.
- ↑ Said by Sweetie Belle in "The Show Stoppers" when a roll of fabric gets away from her. Made into a shirt & hoodie.
- ↑ A scene from Sisterhooves Social where Sweetie slides across the floor using her hind legs. Has subsequently appeared on officially licensed apparel.
- ↑ As re-imagined in the Abridged Series "Friendship Is Witchcraft", Sweetie Belle is actually a robot, given a robotic voice (think a cuter version of G La DOS), and has questionable means to an end.
- ↑ Sweetie Belle's reaction in "Hearts & Hooves Day" when Cheerilee and Big Macintosh fail to hit it off the first time, used in response to an unexpected result of a highly anticipated event (such as the Mass Effect 3 ending).
- ↑ From a popular fan-art of Celestia and Luna as fillies. The meme itself began when a member of Know Your Meme known as C Charmander K, also a known Troper, used the image as his avatar.
- ↑ Based on the season 2 finale's second synopsis "Twilight discovers a dark secret about Cadence right before the wedding". It's an exploitable meme which contains a picture of Princess Cadence to the left, an equal sign in the middle, and a random picture to the right, implying that Cadence is somehow related to the other picture and/or has something to do with her dark secret.
- ↑ Depicting Celestia as a prankster who annoys and messes with her subjects for the lulz is so common it got its own Fan Nickname.
- ↑ A recurring joke whenever a Pony thinks they'll be punished by Celestia, or adding it on like it's a threat to a bird like Philomena, all due to the fact she banished Luna to the moon. It's also considered her go-to solution when things don't work for her.
- ↑ in said fanimation, Princess Celestia asks the ponies who come to complain about her rule if they like bananas, then sends them all to the moon regardless of their answer. Including her sister. The line "do you like MMMMMMM bananas?" has since made it onto an official shirt, Do You Like Bananas?
- ↑ Slightly less common is depicting Celestia as acting HIGHLY inappropriate with Twilight, Luna, and others. She even got her own "ask" blog.
- ↑ Snowclone of "No one man should have all that power" (the refrain from Kanye West's also-memetic "Power"), related to expressing doubt in Celestia's rule. Likely introduced by this fan video's intro - there's also a side-by-side comparison with the original video, for the curious.
- ↑ Luna's exclamation while playing games in Luna Eclipsed lead to snowclones almost immediately.
- ↑ After the fanfiction Progress depicted Luna as obsessed with an abacus for various reasons, it became common for other stories to mention Luna's extreme attachment to "Abby", even in stories that romantically pair her with someone else.
- ↑ ...of the Moon
- ↑ Luna's explanation in Luna Eclipsed for why she speaks in such a loud booming voice. Enough to make CAPTAIN GORDON DEFEEEEEENDER OF EARTH green with envy.
- ↑ The Royal Canterlot Voice has been described as her talking with capslock on, and various jokes about capslock were re-purposed (such as "The Royal Canterlot Voice is cruise control for cool").
- ↑ Said as a form of praise to Luna's first canonical appearance in "Luna Eclipsed", after all the fan work and speculation that had surrounded her canon personality for the whole year prior to that episode.
- ↑ The direct opposite of the above.
- ↑ A call to all fans to redo their fanwork to match Canon Luna. Some, like the comic that started the "BLEEEEH ALFALFA MONSTER" meme, have already been redone in the Traditional Royal Canterlot Voice. The Luna tumblr accounts also immediately adapted it.
- ↑ Fans who really did not expect Luna's behavior in said episode already found a target to jokingly blame it on.
- ↑ Spawned from the Joseph Ducreux meme where famous catch phrases and memes are translated into Old English. This variation replaces Ducreux with Luna herself. Phrases used are often brony memes such as phrases from the show or other brony memes.
- ↑ A gif of happy young Luna dancing to moon-related music on the moon, spawned by an attempt to explain what she did for 1000 years.
- ↑ Luna was conspicuously absent during the battle sequence from A Canterlot Wedding, despite even Celestia engaging in combat. Many a fan took note, and wondered just what she was doing at the time.
- ↑ A few frames of Luna rearing back threateningly got edited into her decking Chrysalis as an alternate ending to A Canterlot Wedding. This being the Internet, she soon moved on to punching various other characters from different shows.
- ↑ Depicting Luna as an avid video game player.
- ↑ After a massive buildup over months and months of wondering how the show would introduce a new winged unicorn to the show's pantheon, it wasn't that big a deal during and after the show aired.
- ↑ From Hoity Toity's reaction to the first batch of dresses in "Suited for Success", this is the standard response to Brain Bleach moments.
- ↑ Soarin' of the Wonderbolts was shown in "The Best Night Ever" (his first, and so far only, speaking or named appearance) to be a Big Eater, and since the food he bought and ate in that episode was a pie, the fandom decided that pie is his Trademark Favorite Food.
- ↑ Fancypants from "Sweet and Elite" impressed a lot of fans by being classy without being stuck-up, earning a number of comparisons to The Most Interesting Man in The World.
- ↑ Cherry Jubilee, from "The Last Roundup" runs a cherry orchard in a western-themed town called Dodge Junction. Her business-attitude, Southern Belle accent, and constant bedroom-eyes have led to her being compared to a brothel madame.
- ↑ The Flim-Flam Brothers shut off the quality control of their machine to make a profit, resulting in a series of minicomics where they turn something into a cheap, mass-produced alternative.
- ↑ Iron Will loves to get down.
- ↑ An art trend where artists make their own cover arts for the fictional Daring Do franchise. Usually comes in two flavors: the usual book cover format and comic book (complete with fake publisher logos, price tag, and a random issue number).
- ↑ The huge muscled, tiny winged white pegasus (Fan Nickname of Roid Rage or Big McLargehooves) popping up to deliver this line with enthusism throughout "Hurricane Fluttershy".
- ↑ Featherweight, a shutterbug pegasus introduced in "Ponyville Confidential" looking through a cellar window or into the spa with camera at the ready, followed by a candid image.
- ↑ The holes in the legs of Queen Chrysalis and the other changelings look like... yeah.
- ↑ Almost every shipping fic with Trixie has one of the Mane Cast salvage and repair her hat and cloak as a romantic gesture. The hat and cloak themselves are usually described as either an inheritance from an adored family member, or things Trixie made herself with her magic when she first started her show, and almost always have some sentimental value for Trixie, regardless if the fic is shipping or not.
- ↑ Tied in with the meme directly above, if the character Trixie is being shipped with isn't Rarity, the one she is being shipped with will have talked Rarity into fixing the hat and cloak for them to give to Trixie.
- ↑ A brony by the name of Bronymike spent quite a lot of time requesting art of Trixie eating pinecones. He got it.
- ↑ A looping animation of Trixie dancing to the song "Fancy Footwork" with the words "WHAT NOW?" on top. It's based on a Homestuck meme known as "WH4T NOW?".
- ↑ Discord was voiced by John de Lancie, who also voiced Q in various Star Trek series, and the character was heavily inspired by Q as well, resulting in this Fan Nickname. Star Trek/MLP mashups were also inevitable following the first episode.
- ↑ Discord filling a glass with chocolate milk, and then drinking the glass.
- ↑ From the same scene, after Discord drinks the glass, he throws away the cylinder of chocolate milk, which explodes offscreen.
- ↑ A snowclone that shows up on videos of Fluttershy doing something cute, funny, or both. Inspired by Photo Finish's "Even her sneezes are graceful!" remark in "Green Isn't Your Color"; thus, it's frequently typed in a bad German Funetik Aksent.
- ↑ Big Macintosh's Catch Phrase is used to reply to pretty much anything, be it in response to Captain Obvious, a sarcastic reply, or genuine agreement.
- ↑ Near the end of Lesson Zero, after everyone reverts to normal from the spell that Twilight Sparkle placed on the Smarty Pants doll, Big Mac notices the discarded doll and takes it for himself.
- ↑ See previous explanation.
- ↑ A popular fan depiction of Big Macintosh as a Memetic Sex God. The phrase is used as a reactionary comment or title to any fan work or discussion depicting him as this.
- ↑ Within hours of the Cider Squeezy episode airing, Mac's unusually stern "Apple Family huddle" has been subjected to exploitable 3-panel comics. Typically it involves him shamelessly depressing the hell out of another character.
- ↑ Another background character, making his first prominent appearance in "Winter Wrap-Up", though he cameos in the pilot, a male pony with brown fur and an hourglass cutie mark who kinda looks like the Tenth Doctor.
- ↑ Specifically, the clip where one of the Silence is recorded saying "You should kill us all on sight", and then turned into a post hypnotic suggestion so people can defeat them. This often gets superimposed on scenes of My Little Pony as a creepy spoof of subliminal messages.
- ↑ The Doctor's rival
- ↑ A Photoshopped pic of background pony Minuette (Fan Nicknamed "Colgate" since her blue and white mane resembles toothpaste) getting her head brushed with a toothbrush inspired a string of similar pictures with other ponies, frequently getting brushed in certain other parts of the anatomy.
- ↑ The catchphrase of the Ask Ruby Pinch tumblr and a response to anything that warrants a Flat What. Sometimes comes with this stamp.
- ↑ Background pony Bon Bon has had speaking parts in five different episodes ("Call of the Cutie", "Green Isn't Your Color", "Lesson Zero", "The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000", and "Putting Your Hoof Down"), each time with a different voice. This has led to some fans joking Bon Bon is actually a talented voice actress who keeps changing the way she sounds in order to keep her skills sharp.
- ↑ Since the release of the blind bag toys that resemble the background ponies, some fans have adopted the toy names as their second names. Be it their surname, first name, or even their secret real name in Carrot Top's case.
- ↑ In a similar vein to sea pony Lyra, an art trend where Octavia is depicted as an "octopus pony". It started out as a simple pun to Octavia's name and its comparison to the word "octopus" and one of the nicknames that is often used by fans: "Octi/Octie/Octy" which is similar in name to Bubble's stuffed octopus. Its inspiration came from a Vocaloid meme where one of the Vocaloid characters (Luka Megurine) is depicted as an octopus head known as "Tako Luka". The art trend was started by John Joseco[11][12]. Other artists soon followed.[13][14][15][16][17]
- ↑ Crackle, a one-shot gag character that looks a lot like Rarity's Paper-Thin Disguise dragon costume, has since become something of a memetic character due to its bizarre appearance.
- ↑ Now that "A Canterlot Wedding" is out, people have designed this as an explanation for "clones" of background characters.
- ↑ One pegasus in the background in episode 1 appeared cockeyed. In short order she was given a Fan Nickname and associated with mail and the postal service. She's also been given an obsession with muffins (based on a dreamy exclamation of "muffin" in "Applebuck Season" which may or may not have been said by her), a unicorn daughter named Dinky, the ability to do anything provided she forgets that it should be impossible, a friendship with another background pony known as "Carrot Top", and a bad habit of raiding Carrot Top's refrigerator ("I emptied your fridge" has become a meme in itself).
- ↑ At the ceremony honouring Twilight and her friends in part 2 of the Season 2 premiere, Derpy/Ditzy is seen in the background without her traditional cockeyed appearance.
- ↑ She can be seen in Lesson Zero being attracted to the enchanted Miss Smartypants. When the spell is broken, she was fighting the Mayor hoof to hoof, derpy eyes and all.
- ↑ A Catch Phrase and Running Gag where Derpy empties the entire contents of somepony else's fridge for varying reasons or even no given reason at all. May or may not be through the consumption of the food inside. Usually Carrot Top's fridge to her annoyance due to the meme's origin.
- ↑ A variation of the Ancient Aliens image macro meme where muffins are the answer to every weird or odd occurrences in the show such as animation errors or plot holes as explained by Derpy Hooves. The image used in the macro originated from a deviantART submission by Equestria-Prevails called "Ancient Humans". Prior to the artwork, a photoshopped version of the Ancient Aliens guy with Derpy's head pasted over his was used.
- ↑ Derpy has appeared in every episode since "The Best Night Ever", and fans have made a habit of pointing her out in the same vein as Where's Waldo. Starting with "Lesson Zero", Derpy's appearances have become a Once Per Episode Running Gag, to the point that The Hub themselves posted on their Face Book and Twitter pages about keeping an eye out for Derpy in "Hearth's Warming Eve" (incidentally making her name even more official than it already was).
- ↑ Derpy's appearance in The Last Roundup. She had her own scene, and in it she plops down onto a floor...and breaks through. Taking Rainbow Dash with her.
- ↑ After being removed from iTunes and skipped in The Hub's reruns, 'The Last Roundup' was re-released with Derpy's name not mentioned, her scenes revoiced, and her wall-eyed expression lessened. Reaction was... mixed.
- ↑ Derpy's first spoken line in The Last Roundup is often quoted whenever somepony makes a mistake. Also often used in a sad context concerning the edit. Sometimes accompanied by the emoticon 9_6
- ↑ In response to the edit, dozens of reaction videos had soon followed depicting frustrated, irritated, and enraged feelings from the fans.
- ↑ A name for all aforementioned memes concerning Derpy's recent controversy. The other name is obviously referencing the infamous Watergate scandal.
- ↑ Fans had interpreted Hasbro's statement(s) to mean that Derpy would only be changed in the iTunes version, as the DVD release still contains the original Derpy. When the fans still kept raging and crying, the backlash meme began.
- ↑ The brief Derpy scare brought on a joke where similar characters will be censored. Including the mental patient barking Pony in "Read It and Weep" and Crackle in "Dragon Quest"
- ↑ One of the background ponies, a mint green unicorn with a lyre cutie mark often engaged in some sort of Funny Background Event, was seen in "Dragonshy" sitting like a human being on a bench, leading to many fanworks and jokes about her wanting to be human, mostly centered around her odd sitting patterns but recently branching into wanting human hands as well. Some officially licensed merchandise has since shown her sitting in the same manner--namely, the Lyra On My Pocket and Friendship Is Coming shirts and the papercraft diorama.
- ↑ Ever since the sitting Lyra, fans have speculated that she might in fact have an obsession with humans (even though there are no humans in Equestria). This ranges from her creepy obsession with hands to mimicking human behavior and ultimately to becoming a human herself.
- ↑ One fanartist has started popularizing a seapony version of Lyra like this one. She's watching you clop clop clop!
- ↑ A pic of Lyra saying this was created as a half-joking response to the overabundance of Les Yay and femslash shipping in the fandom.
- ↑ A new series of pictures featuring Lyra in a classroom giving wildly inaccurate speeches about humanity
- ↑ A sex toy shaped like Lyra was put up for auction. Waves of fanart followed shortly, with characters using the plush and it's, erm, "cavity" as everything from oven mitts to an arrow quiver.
- ↑ During a game-show/interview on NPR, former US president Bill Clinton stated "Krastos the Glue Maker" should be the lead villain on the show. Krastos has started to appear in fan art showing him interacting with the ponies (as well as jokes showing the characters reacting to bottles of glue), drawn as a human with long arms wearing a hat and bib overalls, a bear with a gluepot and hammer, an armored pony, and other designs.
- ↑ After Ms Faust drew her own ponysona the fandom almost immediately accepted her as a new OC, declaring her to be the third alicorn of Equestria, or even Celestia and Luna's parent. Still there's that matter with reclassifying species though.
- ↑ Said in response for Ms. Faust having an alicorn OC as alicorn OCs are normally considered Mary Sues and the arguement is because she is creator, she is allowed to represent herself as an alicorn without it being considered a Mary Sue.
- ↑ Often said in response to seeing someone's OC as a reference to Sweetie Belle's reaction to Twilight's less-than-impressive "Smarty Pants" doll.
- ↑ Another reference, in this case it's to Sweetie Belle's reaction once Twilight brainwashes her into liking the "Smarty Pants" doll. Generally used for cases when someone's OC is actually considered a pretty cool pony design.
- ↑ A anthropomorphic ponyfication of a bottle of Coca-Cola. She is an Earth pony with red hair, a brown transparent glass for a body, and a bottle of coke for a cutie mark. Her inside is hollow and instead is filled with coke. Drawn by various fan artists and made a cameo in Fluffle Puff's game "GO FAST".
- ↑ Some of the boxes that the toys come in have stickers that seem to instruct what the pony does, such as "PONY PULLS THE WAGON". This relatively minor snowclone was the result.
- ↑ A commercial for MLP merchandise gives a rather failed attempt at Applejack's accent.
- ↑ When a particularly thorough merchandise collection is on display in a forum. Reference to Kayne West's "Power" video recreated as the opening to Ponies: The Anthology.
- ↑ Common exclamation of bad news on the pony front, placing the blame on one of the powers that be, or an everyday troll. Referring to when copies of episodes on Youtube were taken down by a copyright claim from Habsro.
- ↑ Inversion of above.
- ↑ A commercial for this game ran during the episode "Sisterhooves Social". This has not escaped the notice of the fans.
- ↑ A belief and phrase uttered by those who refuse to accept the Blind bag toy names as a particular background pony's official name. Reasons include their toy names not being confirmed as canon in the show yet due to the fact that the toy department and the animation studio are working separately from each other, their toy designs, especially the character profile cards that came along with the toys, are too different from their supposed show counterparts to be the same pony, and because they just don't like the toy names in general.
- ↑ The antithesis of the one above. There are in fact those who took a liking on the toy names but this one is usually invoked by others to Troll those who believe that the Fan Nicknames are the only true name.
- ↑ A fusion of the show's depiction of Star Swirl and the toyline's Star Swirl. This fan-made version of Star Swirl is a mare who possesses the color scheme and cutie mark of the toy Star Swirl and sports the unicorn horn, wizard hat and cape of the show's Star Swirl. These are some examples.