My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Tropes H to P

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Twilight Sparkle: AJ, I think you're beating a dead... (camera zooms out to reveal Applejack's been trying to buck apples off a dead tree) ...tree.

    • Played with during an aversion in the same episode:

Twilight Sparkle: Ugh. That pony is as stubborn as a mule. (turns and sees a mule next to her) No offense...
Mule: None taken.

Rarity: You talk about it [Her tree, Bloomberg] as if it's your baby or something.
Applejack: Who're you calling a baby?! Bloomberg's no baby! *Nuzzles her tree* Don't let widdle Warity make you all saddy-waddy! Bloomberg's a big and strong apple tree. Yes he is!

    • Also, in "Green Isn't Your Color" Spike gets mad at Twilight for telling someone about his crush on Rarity...while he's wearing a fanboyish t-shirt with her picture on, making his crush pretty darn obvious.
    • Lesson Zero has Rarity, who often performs cartoonishly overdone displays of despair at minor problems, call Twilight a drama queen. Cue the others glaring at her and subsequent Hypocrisy Nod.
    • In "May The Best Pet Win," Rainbow Dash tells the tortoise competing to be her pet, "This isn't a game, you know!" She immediately tells the rest of the prospective pets, "These games will determine which one of you has the most important qualities I'm looking for in a pet."

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  • "I Am" Song: Pinkie Pie's "Smile Song" from "A Friend In Deed".
  • Imagine Spot:
  • Fundamentally Female Cast: With a few exceptions, almost all recurring characters are female.
    • Even the extras are predominantly female.
      • There are only seven significant recurring male characters; Spike, Big Macintosh, Snips and Snails, Joe, Mr. Carrot Cake and his son Pound Cake. There are more significant background ponies than that.
  • I Need to Go Iron My Dog: "I think I hear my laundry calling."
    • In another situation, "I'm powerful late for... something."
    • Applejack "looking" at the time when her wrist is completely empty.
      • Rainbow Dash drawing a wristwatch onto her foreleg to look at the time. (Her and Fluttershy's excuse for avoiding Pinkie Pie's party, which was the most ridiculous, was the one that Pinkie Pie chose to believe.)
    • From Rarity: "I have to go, to do the thing, with the stuff, you know..."
  • In Name Only:
    • Most of the main characters have names taken from the previous My Little Pony cartoon, but that's just out of convenience. Lauren Faust primarily based the mane cast's personalities on how she used to play with her own My Little Pony toys as a kid -- toys that weren't even of the same characters except for Applejack. She also used the ponies from the G1 cartoon as inspiration. See 'Composite Character' for more information.
    • Also goes for many background ponies, both those that have been given a name in the show and those that only have Fan Nicknames.
  • Insistent Terminology: In "May the Best Pet Win!" everypony keeps on calling the Tortoise a Turtle, and Fluttershy is always quick to correct them.
  • Interspecies Romance:
    • Mules and donkeys have appeared in various episodes, which leads to the conclusion that ponies can have babies with donkeys.
    • Also, Spike the dragon's one-sided crush on Rarity the unicorn. Fortunately, with the show's Y rating, we can rest assured that we will be spared the mental imagery of their unholy offspring.
    • One of The Hub's Royal Wedding bumpers gives Spike a crush on Tori Spelling.
  • Ironic Echo: Played with. During "Sonic Rainboom", Fluttershy says to Rainbow Dash (who's suffering a bad case of stage fright) that there's nothing to feel nervous about facing a crowd of ponies who will watch, criticize and judge each and every of her moves. Later, during "Green Isn't Your Color" Photo Finish gives Fluttershy a similar speech when the nervous pegasus is about to begin her first modeling pass.
  • Istanbul (Not Constantinople): Strangely averted by characters making references to our Earth -- Twilight calling Spike "Casanova" and "Romeo"; Spike wanting a "Fu Manchu beard" in "Boast Busters"; and "Suited For Success" with French haute couture, Dutch apple pie, and constellations as seen from Earth including Sagittarius, Orion, and Canis Major -- as well as the Ursas Major and Minor.
    • Characters have spoken in familiar languages and accents (French, German, Italian, Brooklyn, etc.).
  • "I Want" Song: Played straight with Twilight's verses in "Winter Wrap-Up"; played with in "At the Gala" in an Almost There-ish way in that the ponies are singing about what they want with the anticipation that it's going to happen soon, not in some distant future.
  • I Warned You: Nearly every episode in which Twilight isn't the main focus has her basically lampshading the Aesop partway through the story. Plot Induced Stupidity is essentially the only reason she lacks this kind of foresight in her own episodes.

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  • Jerkass: Throughout the first two seasons, the manes have encountered their fair share of them.
    • Gilda from Griffon the Brush Off.
    • Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara. The latter moreso.
    • Prince Blueblood turns out to be nothing more than "the plot".
    • Discord, a hilarious Reality Warper who loves having fun with mind warping and an Expy of Q.
    • The Flim Flam Brothers from "Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000". They take this trope to such an extreme that, by the end of the episode, the entire populace of Ponyville runs them out of town.
    • The teenage dragons Spike encounters during Dragon Quest. They bully Spike and want to eat the Phoenix eggs.
  • Jerkass Ball: A large premise in most episodes (often combined with Idiot Ball). Expect the main dilemma of most stories to be caused by one of the ponies acting arrogant, self centered or even borderline insane. Every character bounces this at least once in the series (usually in their limelight episodes).
  • Jerk Jock: The three male pegasi who bully Rainbow Dash in Cloudsdale. Their cutie marks are a dumbbell, three basketballs, and three American footballs.
    • Rainbow Dash herself and Applejack are milder examples of Jerk Jocks when they laugh at Twilight for entering the Running of the Leaves.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Rainbow Dash is this the majority of time otherwise however, egotistical and aggressive, but loyal and altrustic to her friends. Do not bully them.
    • Rarity can be considered a mild example, she's vain and greedy at times, but it is heavily outweighed by her genorosity and empathetic moments.
    • Fluttershy's pet rabbit, Angel Bunny. He comes off as an abrasive spoiled child at times but he's shown that he really does care about his owner.
  • Justified Trope: Revealing the source of a seemingly hard-to-justify trope is often used as a punchline.

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  • Kafka Komedy: The Cutie Mark Crusaders are a Lighter and Softer variation of this.
  • Kaiju: A few. A sea monster, three dragons, two giant bears, a hydra. Fortunately, Talking the Monster to Death is sometimes an option.
  • Kick the Dog: The Villain Song "This Day Aria". "Though I do not love the groom/In my heart there is no room/Still I do want him to be all miiine!" Ouch.
  • Killer Rabbit: Angel is a light-hearted take on one. The Parasprites too -- especially when they start trying to eat Ponyville.
  • Knockout Gas: In "Mmmystery on the Friendship Express", Pinkie gives explanations for how culprits could have committed a crime, all of which parodying movies. One of these involves her getting knocked out by gas.
  • Know Your Vines: In "Bridle Gossip", the mane six walk through a patch of bright blue flowers to stop Apple Bloom following Zecora. The next morning they wake with embarrassing changes, such as Pinkie's swollen tongue, that they blame Zecora for. Eventually it is revealed that the flowers were 'poison joke' and the effects were pranks. Played by the plant.
  • Kubrick Stare: Pinkie Pie give a surprisingly chilling one in Party of One.

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  • Ladies and Germs: The brilliant line "Fillies and gentlecolts."
  • Lady and Knight: Princess Cadance and Shining Armor are literally a bright lady and white knight.
  • Large and In Charge: For no obvious reason, everyone who's claimed to be an absolute ruler has towered over their subjects. Princess Celestia and Luna are closer in size to horses, Discord is tall enough to look Celestia in the eye, and Queen Chrysalis is about as tall as Celestia, despite the changelings being the same size as the little ponies.
  • Large Ham: Various characters have their hammy moments, from Rarity, [1] to "The Great And Powerful Trixie" to Photo Finish, but perhaps the hammiest of them all is Princess Luna, especially in Luna Eclipsed, where her hammy tendencies go so far that it only makes it all the more difficult to convince the other ponies that she's no longer evil.
  • Leitmotif: Crop up every now and then.
    • Fluttershy's is a slow, instrumental version of the main theme.
    • Pinkie has a cute, bubbly, ditzy one you can hear when she's skipping up to Rainbow Dash in "Griffon the Brush-Off", shortly before Gilda shows up for the first time.
    • Photo Finish has one.
    • Rainbow Dash has a little tone with a bass line.
    • Opalescence has a short but very distinct harpsichord leitmotif.
    • Applejack has a banjo play for her in "Sisterhooves Social" when she gives Rarity sisterhood advice, and in "The Last Roundup" when speaking to the citizens of Ponyville about the rodeo.
  • Let's Mock the Monsters: Pinkie's "Giggle At The Ghosties" song is all about this.

Rarity: What is that smell?
Diamond Dog: Smell?
Rarity: Ah. Mystery solved. It's your breath.

  • Lethal Chef: Applejack, who is otherwise one of the best cooks in town, becomes one in "Applebuck Season" when under the effects of overworking and (heavily implied) sleep deprivation.
    • It's entirely possible that Pinkie Pie is one, what with Mr. and Mrs. Cake being uncertain about leaving the shop in her hands(hooves) without an experienced baker to help her, the fact that she's a poor judge of taste (she has no problem eating cupcakes that are badly burnt or covered in hot sauce), and the wrapped candies and bestickèd lollipops she tosses into Apple Bloom's cupcakes.
      • She seems to have gotten a lot better by the end of the season, though she still does some questionable things (like letting Gummy swim in the punch bowl).
    • Speaking of which, there's also Apple Bloom's short-lived attempt at baking from "Call of the Cutie".
    • Sweetie Belle is currently the reigning champion--she somehow is able to burn juice and makes toast that has to be served in a bowl. It looks like burnt pudding.
  • Lightning Can Do Anything: It topples trees, strikes down royal guardsponies, does massive damage to town halls, gives Spike the hiccups, and is a handy general-purpose fright prank.
  • Loads and Loads of Characters: Although the mane cast is just six characters, the show has shown many characters in the first season, as seen here.
  • The Lost Woods: Everfree Forest.
  • Loud Gulp: Many times.
  • Love At First Sight: Spike falls in love with Rarity the moment he sees her. However his crush seems to be only shown occasionally, probably due to the preference of certain writers. For example, in "Ticket Master", he doesn't seem to feel anything for her at all and doesn't react when Rarity talks about her love-destiny "Him." In "Boast Busters", he wants to impress her with a mustache (and beard, for some reason), in "A Dog and Pony Show", he fantasizes about rescuing her from the Diamond Dogs, and he's practically all over her in "Green Isn't Your Color".
  • Lull Destruction: In the Italian dub at least. The characters are a bit more "vocal" than in English: Lyra Heartstrings shouts out "Ciao!...oh?" in the first episode and other characters seem to growl where there were just silent glares before. Oddly, the dragon in "Dragonshy" has the original "dog whimper" and an Italian "dubbed whimper" at the same time when it was being scolded by Fluttershy.

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  • Made of Good: The Elements of Harmony are made of positive qualities of friends, while the Fire of Friendship is made of friendship.
  • Mad Libs Dialogue: Treehouse TV's flash game Magical Moments Storybook and the iOS game Twilight Sparkle: Teacher for a Day both have this.
  • Magic A Is Magic A: Curses or hexes "artificially" conjured by potions and incantations don't work and aren't real magic, at least according to someone who should know. Real magic is inborn, as in the case of unicorn magic, and by extrapolation perhaps other things such as the pegasus ability to walk on clouds, the process that creates Cutie Marks, the ability of certain plants to cause bizarre and rather extreme physical effects and of others to cure them, and/or Pinkie Sense. Still, magic is studied, and unicorns at least sometimes need spells, which can be read from a book, implying they involve some kind of procedure to be performed, which would have to be mental since they indeed involve no external incantations or acts.
    • Pinkie Sense is supposed to be an aversion, and Twilight Sparkle insists it doesn't make sense (partly because it doesn't work like unicorn magic at all), but it's got its own simple logic: Pinkie Pie gets bodily reaction A, predicting an event of type X will happen soon. And as stated above, it would fit with the "inborn powers" rule.
  • Magical Zebra: Zecora. Somewhat averted in the episode when Ponyville was invaded by parasprites, when Twilight Sparkle asked Zecora how to deal with them, and she ended up being no help whatsoever.
    • Lauren Faust has revealed that in the show's initial planning stages, when there were going to be more adventure-oriented stories, Zecora was actually designed to be an alternate mentor to Twilight.
  • Magitech: According to Word of God, all the technology seen in the series was charmed by the unicorn who made it. Two better examples was the propellor used by Tank, which had an aura on it that looked just like one of a Unicorn, and Flim and Flam powered their cider machine with their magic directly.
  • Masculine Lines Feminine Curves: This shows up in the ponies' facial structure.
  • Master Character Heroines:
    • Twilight Sparkle is an Athena the Father's Daughter.
    • Applejack is a Hera the Matriarch.
    • Pinkie Pie is a Persephone the Maiden.
    • Rainbow Dash is an Artemis the Amazon.
    • Rarity is an Aphrodite the Seductive Muse.
    • Fluttershy is a Demeter the Nurturer.
  • Meaningful Name: Many of the characters are named after their talents and behaviors.
    • The mane cast in particular:
      • Fluttershy for being able to fly[2] and for being... well... shy.
      • This new Rainbow Dash, who has rainbow hair but can also fly really fast.
      • Applejack and family, all named after apple-related stuff. Plus, she gathers apples and makes apple "accessories."
      • Pinkie Pie, who is pink and has an affinity for sweets and desserts.
      • Rarity has an affinity for precious gems and jewelry.
      • Twilight Sparkle solved the conflict between the Sun/Day and Moon/Night deities.
        • And her Cutie mark is magic sparkles. One big sparkle surrounded by five smaller ones, just to drive the point home further.
      • Spike has spikes.
    • Trixie uses her magic to do tricks.
    • Photo Finish is a photographer.
      • It's possible this is a stage name though...
    • Applejack's sophisticated, city-dwelling aunt and uncle, seen in "Cutie Mark Chronicles", are named "Orange," as in the phrase "apples and oranges" (which is used to explain how completely different two given things are).
    • Silver Spoon is a Rich Bitch who doesn't appear to be much good for anything.
    • Scootaloo, who is a demon on her scooter.
    • Princess Celestia, who controls the sun, and her sister Luna, who oversees the moon.
    • Spitfire and Soarin', two members of stunt-flying team the Wonderbolts.
    • Hoity Toity, who ... is.
    • Snips and Snails, two immature young colts who are named after the "what are little boys made of?" rhyme.
    • Cheerilee even lampshades this when explaining to her students how she got her cutie mark, by explaining that she aims to bring cheer and smiles to the little fillies and colts in her care.
    • Derpy Hooves/Ditzy Doo:
      • Ditzy Doo's name comes from a known piloting maneuver called the dipsy-doodle (bear in mind she can fly) and also comes from her ditzy nature (she went north to get birds that migrate south).
      • Derpy Hooves is named for her Derpy expression.
    • Equestria, the name of the land, is derived from "Equus," the genus of the Animal Kingdom containing horses.
    • Discord gives Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
    • Flim Flam brothers are con-men, names being a play on a flimflam or a con.
  • Medieval European Fantasy: Particularly in the style of architecture and technology, but for exceptions, see Schizo-Tech.
  • Medieval Stasis: Averted, apparently. Maybe it's due to changes in production staff or increased budget, but Ponyville and Equestria seem to be advancing technologically:
    • Train travel was rare in Season 1, and the trains were pulled by ponies. By Season 2, trains are self-powered and ubiquitous.
    • In Season 1, the only medical facility seen was "Ponyville Emergency Care", which seemed to be just a big tent. In Season 2, Ponyville had a two-story hospital.
  • The Merch: Lots of officially licensed shirts and other merchandise by Mighty Fine (sold through their own online store WeLoveFine as well as by Hot Topic and 80sTees.com), Zazzle, and FashionPlaytes.
  • Merchandise-Driven: Naturally, but this show deserves special mention for showing how this can have an upside (assuming tons of merchandise for fans to buy doesn't already count as one): The Hub has been really lax about keeping episodes off YouTube and public download sites, since the show itself isn't where the real money is anyway. The full episodes are also posted to their own site six days after airing, though they don't stay up very long.
    • The episode "May the Best Pet Win!" seems to include elements from four different Rainbow Dash toys:
      • The first basic Rainbow Dash toy is accompanied by a squirrel. In the episode, a (flying) squirrel gets several seconds of screen time as Fluttershy shows it off to her...and Rainbow isn't interested.
      • The Riding Along with Rainbow Dash toy is accompanied by a turtle. The episode has a Running Gag in which a tortoise is misidentified as a turtle. Said tortoise eventually becomes Rainbow Dash's pet, Tank. (Word of God says that the episode was conceived and written almost a year before it aired, and the toy was first revealed at around the same time, so there may or may not be a connection here.)
      • Rainbow Dash's photo shoot may have been intended to promote the Fashion Style Rainbow Dash toy.
      • The second basic Rainbow Dash toy is accompanied by a duck. In the episode, the candidates for Rainbow Dash's pet include not one, but two ducks.
    • The Friendship Express Train toy set includes a Pinkie Pie figure. The episode "MMMystery on the Friendship Express" stars Pinkie Pie and is mostly set aboard said Friendship Express Train.
    • The trope is also somewhat inverted; the show's older fanbase has often wished for more show-accurate and age-appropriate merchandise for them, instead of the toy line's intended audience. Hot Topic and several online sites have granted this wish with brony T-shirts and posters which can be seen at cons everywhere during the show's run!
    • A toy set scheduled for release in August 2012 features Shining Armor and Princess Cadance of "A Canterlot Wedding".
  • Mickey Mousing: Notably, every episode has a score composed mostly from scratch rather than relying on library music, although a few cues from previous episodes are sometimes reused. (There's also a specific arrangement of the traditional My Little Pony theme that plays at the end of most, but not all, episodes when Twilight writes her letter to Princess Celestia.) For the use of Standard Snippets, see above under The Jimmy Hart Version.
  • Mid-Atlantic Accent: Rarity speaks in this accent, probably to imply an upperclass background.
  • Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: Not literal worlds, but you'd be amazed how much wide-scale damage the heroes and their neighbors have done. Fluttershy and Twilight caused the town to be eaten by parasprites, Snips and Snails brought in a giant star bear that could have wrecked the town with ease, Twilight mind controlled a sizable portion of the town into fighting over her doll, the CMC practically Mind Raped Big MacIntosh and Cherilee, they pissed off the entire town by exposing/slandering the entire populace, and released the spirit of chaos.
  • Mind Over Matter: Telekinesis is a standard ability for all unicorns; also see Mundane Utility.
    • Pegasi seem to have some kind of "tactile telekinesis", because the vehicles they pull behind them hover instead of dangling straight down from the harness.
    • Not only that, but the wheels even rotate without being in contact with any solid surface.
  • Mood Whiplash:
    • Every time there's a two-part story, the first part ends in a dark cliffhanger... followed by the happy ending tune. It's almost a Running Gag, though there's no evidence it's deliberate.
    • Near the end of episode 17, we go from the Cutie Mark Crusaders playing around in the woods to Fluttershy finding Twilight turned to stone. It gets even more horrifying a few moments later when we see a snail crawling slimily across the surface of Twilight's petrified eyeball.
    • The Season 2 premiere takes it Up to Eleven and beyond in both directions. Start with an argument between the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Move on to cotton-candy clouds raining chocolate milk and corn popping off the stalks. Then we have Discord turning all the mane cast members except Twilight into their polar opposites and tricking them into losing his challenge to find the Elements of Harmony. Just as he gets ready to unleash total chaos on Equestria, cue the happy ending tune.
    • The Season 2 'finale' -- is there an Up To Thirteen? Because it gives us Twilight Sparkle, emotionally crushed, allows her a split-second Hope Shot -- and then, to all appearances, 'banished to the Underworld in a circle of green hellfire'. Cue "Doot doo doo doot doo, Myyyy Little Pony". If they hadn't shown the two parts back to back, the bronies would have rioted.
  • Motor Mouth: Pinkie Pie, full stop. She even needs to stop for air before continuing with her verbal tsunami.
    • Apple Bloom as well, during "Call of the Cutie". She inhaled before releasing her own verbal tsunamis, though.
    • Fluttershy can turn into one of these under the right circumstances (such as when first meeting Spike and when critiquing her first gala dress).
  • Muggles: Earth ponies; they neither have the magical ability of unicorns, nor the flying ability of pegasi. They are said to be stronger and tougher than other ponies, though, and Word of God says they have a "special connection" to the land.
    • Confirmed in "Hearth's Warming Eve"; they are the only ponies capable of growing good crops.
    • Also in "Hearts and Hooves Day", when Big Macintosh is not only capable of towing an entire house behind him with ease, he doesn't even notice it. And he was hopping as he did.
  • Multiple Endings:
    • Hasbro's Web Games Rarity has three different endings, all of which involve the player's pony hanging out with the mane six.
    • Two episodes so far have had online polls prior to their premieres, each listing three endings to the episode and inviting the reader to guess which one is Canon:
  • Mundane Utility: The unicorns use their magic horns for picking up books, straightening papers, and eating sandwiches. Basically, unicorn magic counts as having an extra pair of "hands", which is particularly useful when you don't have hands in the first place.
  • Muscles Are Meaningless: All the ponies seem to possess strength far beyond their size and figure, from earth ponies pulling a five-compartment train at full speed, to pegasi floating a moving car full of anvils, carts, and pianos.
    • In "A Dog and Pony Show", Rarity (one of the relatively weak unicorns) could pull a cart full of diamonds with ease while three Diamond Dogs could barely move it.
    • In "Dragonshy", a montage of the ponies getting ready to confront a dragon features Applejack's much larger brother Big Macintosh lifting a heavy set of saddle-bags onto her back with great effort. She sags under the sudden weight, but easily straightens up and leaps into the air. This may be meant to imply she's stronger than he is ("strong" is certainly a description associated with her) -- but not necessarily, since he does have to lift it with his neck muscles rather than whole body.
      • In "Hearts and Hooves Day", Big Macintosh is shown to be strong enough to tow an entire building, presumably having shorn it clear off its foundation. Likewise, in "Lesson Zero", he was shown to be strong enough to toss an entire mob of ponies--most of the town, in fact--off of him with just a shake of his frame. It's clear that, strong as Applejack is, her brother is stronger still.
    • Slight inconsistency about this is shown in that Twilight Sparkle can't move a plough without magic (unlike the larger stallions), but can carry around a rock several times her volume.
      • This may be a case of Fridge Brilliance considering that the plow was designed for use by earth ponies who are physically stronger and the rock was designed by Discord to be exactly heavy enough to slow Rarity to a crawl without completely incapacitating her. Since Rarity and Twilight are both unicorn ponies, it can be assumed that they are of comparable strength.
    • Partly Truth in Television. Ponies are known for possessing the ability to carry quite heavy loads, even those that match their body weight.
    • Partially averted at the same time. Big Macintosh is actually extremely strong, as shown in Lesson Zero when he launches pretty much everypony in Ponyville off of himself to get at the Smartypants doll.
  • Mythology Gag: See the Shout Outs page for the full list.
  • Mythopoeia: Friendship is Magic has a slowly-growing body of myths and history connected to it, including the story of Nightmare Moon in the pilot, Discord's background from the start of season two, and the founding of Equestria from Hearth's Warming Eve and the iOS app Twilight Sparkle: Teacher for a Day & its Ruckus Reader version Twilight Sparkle's Special Lesson.

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  • Never Say "Die": Pinkie Pie's swear from "Green Isn't Your Color" starts with "Cross my heart and hope to fly..." It's worth noting, though, that death isn't a completely taboo subject for the show - in another episode, Twilight vows to find a way to help with the Winter Wrap-Up "even if it kills me."
    • After losing her last feather, Philomena gasps, collapses limply, gasps once more, drops for seven seconds off a tall statue, spontaneously combusts and ends up as a heap of dust in Fluttershy's hooves. Twilight's summary? "There's been a terrible accident." Philomena's a Phoenix, of course, so she's fine in the end, but even Princess Celestia avoids mentioning the classic death-and-rebirth thing. Apparently a Pony phoenix renews itself by "shedding all of its feathers and bursting into flame." Which is totally not dying.
      • Princess Celestia even calls it "playing a trick," implying the bird is doing it on her own free will.
    • Averted in, of all things, Rarity's dressmaking song from "Suited For Success": "Hook and eye, couldn't you just simply die?"
    • Also averted in Return of Harmony Part 2: After Twilight and co. fail using the Elements of Harmony for the first time Discord says that "harmony in Equestria is officially dead."
    • From way back in Applebuck Season: "AJ, I think you're beating a dead... tree."
    • In "The Cutie Pox", when a large group of ponies are running in fear from the Cutie Pox-afflicted Apple Bloom, it sounds like somepony says "She's going to kill me!"
    • What happens to the three Windigoes when they get consumed by the flame and are never seen again in "Hearth's Warming Eve"? Sure, we hear one at the end of the episode, but it could just be another of their species.
    • In "Hearts and Hooves Day" the Cutie Mark Crusaders have a song sequence in which they criticize various stallions on why they can't be paired with Cheerilee. The point out an elderly pony as being too old. What was this old pony doing? He's a pastor giving the eulogy at a funeral. There's a closed casket clearly next to him.
  • New Game+: Completing Adventures in Ponyville once lets you play as a pegasus. Completing it twice lets you play as a unicorn.
  • Nice Hat: During "Feeling Pinkie Keen", Twilight briefly wears a pith helmet, to go with the naturalist theme.
    • Trixie's hat also counts.
    • In "Dragonshy", Rarity prepares by putting on a military helmet, sees herself in a mirror, goes "eww", and switches to a fancy hat with a similar camo pattern instead. Like many of the other "preparations" the characters make in this scene, this is later absent.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Twilight Sparkle uses her magic to stop the Parasprites from eating all the food in Ponyville. It works, except that the spell makes the Parasprites ignore the food and start eating the TOWN instead.
    • In "Sonic Rainboom" Rarity's mission to provide moral support for Rainbow Dash suddenly turns into Rarity's runaway ego trip that only hastens Dash's collapse into a quivering nervous wreck.
    • In "Over a Barrel", Pinkie Pie tries to settle a territory dispute between settlers and the native buffalo herd by singing about sharing. The sheriff and the buffalo chief finally come to an agreement...that it was the worst performance they'd ever seen. When the buffalo are on the verge of backing down from their threat of a stampede, Pinkie Pie's ill-timed reprisal of the song triggers the chief's Berserk Button.
    • The main ponies' efforts to have the reality of the Gala meet their expectations in "The Best Night Ever" end up wreaking havoc at the Gala itself. It turns out Princess Celestia had hoped this would happen in order to bring some life to the event.
    • Rainbow Dash's advice to Apple Bloom to try as many different things as rapidly as possible in order to find her Cutie Mark got carried over to the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Perhaps if they weren't constantly changing plans they might succeed.
    • In "The Return of Harmony, Part 1" the fight between the Cutie Mark Crusaders may have caused Discord to wake and escape his weakened prison.
    • Twilight's guess Discord's riddle meant the Elements Of Harmony were in the maze was wrong and because of her not thinking the riddle out more carefully, her friends were broken and Mind Raped by Discord for nothing. What's worse, Discord takes great pleasure in rubbing it in her face.
    • Twilight breaks herself in "It's About Time". A battered and broken Twilight from the future appears briefly in the library and tries (unsuccessfully) to warn her past self about some oncoming disaster to take place between now and next Tuesday morning. Present Twilight misses the important part of the message and immediately freaks out, spending all of her time trying to deduce what's about to happen and, if at all possible, prevent it... but nothing really bad actually happens. Twilight finds a spell to go back in time, and tries to warn her past self not to panic -- but in failing to deliver the message, CAUSES her past self to panic.
  • Nopony Poops: Partly averted -- excretion itself isn't mentioned, but in "Winter Wrap Up" Spike compares Twilight's bird nest to an outhouse.
    • In "Fall Weather Friends", Rainbow Dash uses the term "horse apples" in the same sense that primates would use comparable terms. (Horse apples actually do exist; they are a type of inedible fruit.)
      • This may actually be an example of a Stealth Pun, besides the obvious euphemism, "road apple" is a colloquial term for horse manure.
    • In "The Cutie Pox", Twilight mentions "the trots" as she looks through a books of pony ailments.
    • In "Sweet and Elite", one of Rarity's excuses for switching parties is that she needs to go to the "little fillies' room".
    • Averted in "Baby Cakes", as we have two moments in the episode where the babies have to be changed, and it's clear from the green stench what the reason for the changing is.
    • And again in "The Last Roundup," which shows Pinkie in desperate need of a bathroom and depicts the show's first on-camera outhouse.
  • No Celebrities Were Harmed:
    • The super manly tennis player pony seen during "Call of the Cutie" seems to be based on former Tennis player Andre Agassi during his prime.
    • Fashion designer Hoity Toity in "Suited For Success" is based on Karl Lagerfeld.
    • The Best Young Flyer Competition's backstage manager in "Sonic Rainboom" resembles Lucille Ball. The contest's announcer in the same episode is a pegasus version of John Madden.
    • Photo Finish from "Green Isn't Your Color" is a pony version of Vogue magazine editor Anna Wintour.
    • The unicorn mare in "Sweet and Elite" that hangs around Fancy Pants resembles Brigitte Bardot and has a triple fleur-de-lis cutie mark!
    • "The Cutie Pox" shows four stallions at the bowling alley that bear a striking resemblance to Steve Buscemi, Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, and John Turturro from the film "The Big Lebowski"
  • No Indoor Voice: Princess Luna in "Luna Eclipsed". Played for Laughs and cranked Up to Eleven in that, whenever she speaks, it's accompanied by a visual "shout" coming from her mouth and an ominous echo.
  • Non-Indicative First Episode: First two episodes, actually. They're heavily Magical Girl-influenced High Fantasy adventures about preventing the apocalypse, while the rest of the show is mostly slice of life with a little magic thrown in.
  • Non-Standard Character Design: Some ponies in the show have distinct character designs such as Princesses Celestia and Luna, Mr. and Mrs. Cake, and Snips & Snails. Extras with unique designs have also appeared such as the bartender from "Over A Barrel". Then there's the ones that subvert the show's own styling, like the infamous ripped pegasus in "Hurricane Fluttershy".
    • The mane six, if you compare them with the numerous background ponies; the only element they copy from the mane six's designs would have to be Rainbow Dash's hairstyle on the Derpy/Raindrops design, and even that isn't exactly the same as Rainbow Dash. Not to mention that three of the mane six have multicolored hair, very rarely seen on background figures.
  • No OSHA Compliance: Cloudsdale no having any railings seems reasonable, considering only pegausi live there. However, if Scootaloo and Fluttershy are any indication, flying is something that is not learned until significantly later than they learn how to walk, making Cloudsdale a deathtrap for young pegasi.
    • Twilight Sparkle's bedroom is a second-story loft with no railing around it.
  • No Song for the Wicked: Despite songs happening rather often (and not just from Pinkie Pie, though she sings the most), none of the antagonists have had a Villain Song thus far. This is especially strange given that Evil Is Hammy is in full effect for most of them.
    • Finally subverted in season 2, when the Flim Flam Brothers get one.
    • Also in the Season 2 Finale, with Queen Chrysalis' half and reprise of "This Day Aria".
  • Not the Fall That Kills You: Twilight Sparkle falls for quite a while before Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy grab her in mid-air, without any damage, in Part 2 of the pilot.
    • In "Sonic Rainboom" Rarity falls for 50 seconds, which in Earth's gravity and air resistance would be at least a mile. Rainbow Dash accelerates to Mach 1, straight down, before catching her and making an instant 90-degree turn.
    • In "The Cutie Mark Chronicles", after falling from a cloud high in the sky, a young Fluttershy is saved by a swarm of butterflies, just a couple feet above the ground.
      • Considering the other attributes applied to pegasi (walking on clouds, ability to create and change weather, pulling carts and such, etc.) it's possible that they project magic into things that they touch, allowing them to save falling ponies or land on clouds (or clouds of butterflies) without harm.
    • And now it happens yet again in "Secret of My Excess", with Dash and Fluttershy rescuing a falling Rarity and Spike with a torn part of a dress.
  • Novelization:
  • Now That's Using Your Teeth: Completely justified since, as ponies, they have no hands with which to manipulate objects.

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  • Pac-Man Fever: Still Schizo-Tech, but the only video games thave have appeared so far are a stand-up arcade machine (in "Hearts and Hooves Day") and a Retraux 8-bit platformer (in the "Adventure Ponies" promo). The latter case is likely intended as a nostalgic throw-back for the Periphery Demographic, though.
  • Painting the Frost on Windows: In Equestria, ponies are responsible for the rising of the sun and moon, the weather, the changing of the seasons and the survival of animals.
    • This has evidently been going on for so long that the reason the Ponies are so freaked out by Everfree Forest is because nature is getting on along fine by itself there.
      • Only secondary to that are all of the bogs, cliffs, hungry multi-headed monsters, etc. They aren't even mentioned until the group is already inside.
    • In "Sonic Rainboom", it's shown that clouds, snow and rainbows (which are liquid, non-toxic but very spicy) are all made in a factory.
  • Palette Swap
    • A lot of background ponies are palette swapped multiple times to make new background ponies.
      • Sometimes even major characters themselves are palette swapped to make background ponies.
      • The white nurse pony from "Applebuck Season" has a palette swap background pony from the same scene.
      • The two spa owners from "Green Isn't Your Color" have the same character design but with inverted color schemes.
    • The green dragon that appeared in the episode "Owl's Well That Ends Well" is a palette swap of the red dragon in "Dragonshy".
      • This dragon's character design was used once again multiple times in the episode "Dragon Quest".
    • The band that performed on stage [dead link] in the episode "Luna Eclipsed" are actually palette swaps of the band who played on "The Best Night Ever" but are wearing scarecrow costumes.
    • The multicolored parasprite swarm all share the same character design.
  • Pals with Jesus: Twilight Sparkle is the personal student of Princess Celestia and is one of the few ponies who can call herself a friend of Princess Luna, both of whom are Physical Goddesses.
    • Better, she used to have Princess Cadance, who is basically the demigoddess of love, as a personal babysitter-- er, "foalsitter".
  • Paper-Thin Disguise: Fluttershy was able to avoid all her fans in "Green Isn't Your Color" just by hiding her face behind glasses and a fancy hat. Of course, once Twilight accidentally knocked the disguise away, everypony instantly recognized Fluttershy.
    • This actually ends up being Truth in Television, as Hulk Hogan claims in his first autobiography that he actually did this in real life on a challenge from a reporter back when he was in his first run with the WWF (now WWE) as World Champion. He was challenged to prove that people would instantly recognize him on sight after telling said reporter how often he got mobbed by fans. Hogan ended up wearing a coat, hat, and glasses into a crowded street and nobody seemed to notice who he really was. The moment he took them off, however, people flocked to him within moments. While it's doubtful anyone read Hogan's autobiography, the scariest thing about it is that if Hogan's telling the truth, this can happen in real life with actual celebrities, and obviously has, so the writers on this show may have been unintentionally lampshading this.
      • There are more examples. Marilyn Monroe went completely unrecogized in the street at the height of her fame by not wearing make-up and adopting a less sexy walk.
    • In "A Bird in the Hoof", Philomena avoids Twilight and Fluttershy by wearing an obviously fake mustache. Keep in mind that Philomena looks like a plucked chicken in a town populated entirely by ponies.
      • It had to work. The whole bit was a Shout-Out to Benny Hill chase scenes.
    • Subverted in "Party Of One". Pinkie Pie compounds disguises to include Groucho glasses, a square hay bale, and a coat and hat. While this is not a strict paper thin disguise, as you can not see any of Pinkie Pie, it is obviously her to the audience as she would be the only character to wear stuff like that. The disguise seems to work initially when Fluttershy sees her and runs away scared, but the trope becomes subverted when Rainbow Dash doesn't notice the disguise (or recognizing it immediately as something only Pinkie would use) as she says "Hi, Pinkie Pie" in passing.
  • Parental Abandonment: Rampant, although a number of relatives have shown up late in the series without ever being mentioned before. Presumably, some of them exist that we just haven't seen.
    • In "The Cutie Mark Chronicles", we meet Twilight and Pinkie's respective parents, but only in flashbacks. And even then, we can't really be sure that those were really Pinkie's parents. (Of course, if Pinkie is unreliable, then maybe Granny Pie is the one who isn't real...) Twilight's parents show up again at the end of Season 2.
      • Said episode seems to make the point that the mane cast members have parents but are old enough to live on their own. Strangely enough, Applejack has a younger sister but no visible parents, which plays this straight. (Rarity has been confirmed by Word of God to be living on her own, with Sweetie Belle just visiting.)
      • With Rarity's relative age being confirmed, this confirmation works for all of the mane cast, as they are all pretty much the same age (+ or - 1 year). Apple Bloom was probably intentionally left with Big Mac, AJ, and Granny Smith, maybe because they thought Apple Bloom was much better off in Ponyville, and the three Apples at the farm are enough to take care of her. Lauren Faust has mentioned that in her mind, they are probably dead, but since it never came up, the new show runners may still change that.
      • Partially averted in Rarity's case- both of her parents are shown to be alive in "Sisterhooves Social"... before immediately leaving again for a week-long vacation and leaving Rarity babysitting Sweetie Belle.
      • Likewise, sisters Celestia and Luna; particularly noticeable because Celestia is the ruling monarch of Equestria, but still goes by the title of "Princess". Which, technically speaking, merely means that Equestria is a Principality (a nation ruled by a prince or princess, and also a theocracy if Celestia and Luna really are to be considered deities).
        • Word of God is that the sisters were supposed to be queens, but Executive Meddling forced them to make them princesses because apparently young girls equate the word queen with being evil.
          • This gets downright weird when you consider the fact that Celestia has a nephew who is stated by Word of God to be multiple times removed on her mother's side, indicating that Celestia and Luna have parents--but Word of God also states that Celestia does not have parents that outrank her, which (possibly unintentionally) implies that they do exist (or once existed) but aren't in charge any more.
  • Parental Bonus:
    • More like an Older-Fandom Bonus, a brilliant move given that G1 collectors are now old enough to watch the show with their children. There are dozens upon dozens of references to the G1 cartoon throughout.
      • Additionally, some fans have already argued that the core cast of Ponies are rough Expys of the core cast from the G1 cartoon. To wit, Twilight Sparkle is like a combination of Magic Star and Paradise; Applejack, herself a G1 pony, is similar to Gusty with Wind Whistler's Team Mom tendencies; Rainbow Dash could be Firefly's daughter; Pinkie Pie reminds us an awful lot of Fizzie and Surprise; Rarity is essentially a toned-down Heart-throb; and Fluttershy is almost sweeter than Sweet Stuff.
        • Also, this helpful chart [dead link] explains G1 & G4 correlations for both their looks and personalities. A lot of it had to do with Copyright and Trademark issues, but there's more info on the chart.
      • Twilight Sparkle's mom looks a lot like G1 Twilight.
    • In " Dragonshy", Pinkie and Rarity are passing the time playing games of Tic Tac Toe with Pinkie always winning, and Rarity asks for an extension to best of 71. This implies that she just lost best of 69.
    • "Look Before You Sleep" features a book called Slumber 101: All You've Ever Wanted to Know About Slumber Parties (But Were Afraid to Ask), referring to the widely known sex guide Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask).
    • In "Bridle Gossip", Spike nicknames a shrunken Applejack "Appletini." There's also Twilight's affliction of her horn...being flaccid instead of erect on waking up.
    • "Sonic Rainboom" references the stereotype of construction workers making catcalls at female passersby when a group of construction worker pegasi gawk at Rarity's temporary gossamer butterfly wings.
    • "Over a Barrel" had a scene where an old, worn out (and blatantly alcoholic) pony is kicked out from Appleloosa's equivalent of a canteen.
    • "Over a Barrel" also featured one from Fluttershy on the train:

Twilight: [After Spike walks off in a huff] Well that was kinda huffy...
Fluttershy: Huffy the Magic Dragon!

(Everypony laughs)

  • Party of One: Trope Namer, from the episode of the same name.
  • Peek-a-Bangs: The bully boys at Cloudsdale to some degree and young Fluttershy to the max. Even grown up Fluttershy still does it from time to time when she is especially shy.
  • Pegasus
  • Perfectly Cromulent Word: The word "rufus" is used by Sweetie Belle in the German magazine comic Einfach rufus.
  • Pie in the Face: Chief Thunderhooves of the Buffalo herd received one, and it was treated as if he received a gunshot wound. Then he found out it was delicious.
  • Plot Induced Stupidity: Every main character holds the Idiot Ball at some point no exceptions, even ones that would formally know better get turns to be a silly pony (usually in their own limelight episodes due to spotlighting the character's personality flaws).
  • Plot-Relevant Age-Up: Luna to Nightmare Moon, and possibly implied with her sister Celestia as they share similar powers and origins.
    • Luna again in Season 2. Apparently, it took some time for her to recover after being cured by the Elements of Harmony, and now looks much older than before.
  • Police Are Useless: Justified in Season 1's opening two-parter where Nightmare Moon blasts three Royal Pegasus Guards with lightning.
    • A Canterlot Wedding: Canterlot is protected by a magic shield and a small army of Royal Guards who, despite being on high alert, are overrun by Changelings as soon as the shield collapses.
  • Potty Emergency: Pinkie suffers from a short bout of this.
"Oh, Pickles! Hurry up in there!"
Pinkie Pie, slamming franticaly on the outhouse door while doing a Potty Dance.
  • Poor Communication Kills: Pinkie Pie knows the Parasprites are going to cause trouble from the very beginning, but doesn't even try to warn anyone. She just says "Now I need to find a trombone!" and runs off. Works both ways, as her friends just dismissed her behavior as ordinary Pinkie craziness.
    • Let's not forget however, that's still Pinkie Pie we're talking about: her social skills aren't the best in the world, as shown in other episodes, like "Party Of One". As for the others, they were already frustrated by the situation, and since they knew Pinkie Pie weirdness… well, you can do math.
    • Averted in "Green Isn't Your Color", since the plot is driven by deliberate secret-keeping rather than a character's inability to articulate.
    • The entire plot of "A Bird in the Hoof" could have been avoided entirely if Princess Celestia had simply mentioned that Philomena was a phoenix, though the fair share goes to Fluttershy for not asking.
  • The Power of Friendship: That whole "Friendship is Magic" thing? They're not just speaking metaphorically. Although they are also speaking metaphorically. Repeatedly, and at length.
  • The Power of Love: How Queen Chrysalis become stronger by feeding off Shining Armor's love of Cadance. Then she and her changelings get it by their own version of it.
  • Powerpuff Girl Hooves: Though much of the time we see the pony characters manipulating things with either their teeth, wings, or magic, or pushing or rolling objects with their hooves, there are a heck of a lot of times where their hooves function, for the most part, as hands in holding various objects despite the lack of fingers. Word of God has tried to have such cases avoided, but becomes necessary in cases of non-magical ponies talking and trying to gesture with a prop at the same time. Generally done for Rule of Cool or Rule of Funny. Also, not surprising given Faust's resumé.
    • Their backsides also seem to follow this: Applejack has been able to balance an entire bushel of apples on her hindquarters without a thought while walking, and many other ponies are seen carrying large items in a same fashion. Also see Prehensile Hair/Prehensile Tail below.
  • Prehensile Hair: The ponies' tails. It falls under this trope rather than Prehensile Tail because almost the entire length of a horse's tail is hair.
    • Near the beginning of "Mare in the Moon", Twilight Sparkle stiffens her entire tail in a horizontal position so that Spike can bounce off it while hopping down from her back.
    • Nightmare Moon strokes Rarity's cheek with her mane, although it's not so much of actual hair as a cloud of purple energy.
    • Applejack can use her tail to twirl a lasso.
    • In "The Show Stoppers", Sweetie Belle uses her tail to hold a duster.
    • In "Party of One", Rarity uses her tail to carry a box, keeping it entwined within the twists she always wears it on.
    • And Fluttershy slaps Twilight Sparkle with her tail in "The Return of Harmony, Part 1".
    • There are four examples in "The Cutie Pox". First we have Zecora smacking down some plants into a bowl with three whips of her tail. Secondly, we have Apple Bloom with her twirling the "loop-de-hoop" with her tail. Third, Apple Bloom is actually lifting a barbell with her tail. Finally, we have Zecora pulling out the "seeds of truth" from her wares with her tail.
    • In "May The Best Pet Win!", Applejack is able to throw sticks with hers, and Fluttershy's is strong enough to carry Angel Bunny.
  • "Previously On...": "Friendship is Magic, Part 2", "The Return of Harmony Part 2", and "A Canterlot Wedding, Part 2" open this way.
  • Pride: Seems to be a common not-so-Fatal Flaw in Equestria: Twilight Sparkle takes a lot of pride in being Princess Celestia's apprentice, which may factor into her initial "I don't need friends" attitude; Rainbow Dash is a massive braggart; Applejack refuses to accept anyone's offers of help in "Applebuck Season" because she's too stubborn to admit she needs it; and Rarity takes great pride in her sense of fashion, often to the point of self-obsession.
    • Fluttershy seems to be the only who don't have any pride at all.... until The Best Night Ever, where the animals trying to avoid her touched her credibility as animal lover/taker. The result? LOVE ME!!
    • Notably averted for Twilight in "Boast Busters". Twilight Sparkle wants to avoid showing off her powers, since Trixie is doing exactly that and the onlookers are reacting quite negatively to it.
    • Applejack in "The Last Roundup" episode. Her pride (damaged from not placing first in any of the rodeo challenges) drives her to leave Ponyville to try to find another source of income to replace the prize money contributions she had promised to the Mayor.
  • Promotion to Opening Titles: The season 2 opening includes the Cutie Mark Crusaders, Big MacIntosh, and a lot more background ponies (including Derpy).
  • Protagonist-Centered Morality: There are some episodes where we're really meant to side with the Mane Cast when they're being just as big jerks (or even worse) as the antagonists. This is especially prevalent whenever we have snooty, upper-cruft ponies, compared to our lovable protagonists... who proceed to completely ruin the former's social event because they can't be arsed to learn anything about such events, including respecting them enough as to not crash their party.
  • Pstandard Psychic Pstance: Twilight does a hoofed version in the opening sequence of "Secret of My Excess".
  • Public Domain Soundtrack: The music in the show is by-and-large original, but several royalty-free songs are used on occasion: Pinkie's song in "The Best Night Ever" is a rewritten "The Hokey-Pokey", and the race through Ghastly Gorge in "May the Best Pet Win!" is set to "Ride of the Valkyries".
  • Pun-Based Title: Episodes so far include:
  • Punny Name:
    • Fashion photographer Photo Finish (named after a term used in horse racing)
    • Nightmare Moon (also see the Stealth Pun examples).
    • The town of Appleloosa is a play on "Appaloosa," a breed of horse (also see the Edible Theme Naming entry).
    • Likewise, the sky-city of Cloudsdale is a play on the "Clydesdale" breed.
    • Canterlot = Camelot + "Canter"
    • Hoofington = Huffington + "Hoof"
    • Fillydelphia/Phillydelphia = Philadelphia + "Filly"
    • Manehattan = Manhattan + "Mane"
    • Trottingham = Nottingham + "Trot(ting)"
    • Las Pegasus = Las Vegas + "Pegasus"
    • Baltimare = Baltimore + "Mare"
    • San Franciscolt[4] = San Francisco + "Colt"
    • Foaledo[5] = "Foal" + Toledo
    • Whinneapolis[6] = "Whinny" + Minneapolis
    • Manechester[7] = "Mane" + Manchester
    • Seaddle[8] = "Saddle" + Seattle
    • Froggy Bottom Bog is a play on Foggy Bottom, a neighborhood within Washington DC.
    • Twilight's owl friend introduced in "Owl's Well That Ends Well" is named Owloysius (a play on the name "Aloysius").
    • Fluttershy has a hummingbird friend named Hummingway.
    • Spike nicknames the shrunken Applejack "Apple-tini".
    • One of the Wonderbolts is named Soarin'.
    • Fluttershy likes butterflies, and is shy.
    • Not in-show, but fans have taken to "DisQord", after the Star Trek: The Next Generation character of whom he is nearly a Captain Ersatz.
    • In general, it's probably easier to list the characters and locations that are not named by this trope. It helps that Equestrians are nearly always named after some defining characteristic.
  • Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
    • Rarity declaring that "IT. IS. ON!" in both "Boast Busters" and "Look Before You Sleep".
    • As well as Rainbow Dash's repeated claims that the ending of "Sonic Rainboom" was the "BEST. DAY. EVER!"
    • "The NIGHT! Will LAST! FOREVER! Mwuahahahaahahahaaa!"
    • "You do NOT! HURT! MY! FRIENDS!"
    • "THAT! BIG! DUMB! MEANIE!"
    • "Of all the worst things that could happen, this is THE. WORST. POSSIBLE. THING!"
    • "You're, going, to, LOVE MMMEEEEE!"
    • "I! Love! Ev! Ry! THIIIIIIIIING!"
  1. especially in "Suited For Success"
  2. Although not originally--in G3, she was originally a shutterfly and came with a camera
  3. which makes sense if you think about it since real ponies, or most other animals for that matter, look a lot like their kin.
  4. mentioned not in the show itself, but on an officially licensed shirt, Cutie Mark Crusaders Tour
  5. mentioned not in the show itself, but on an officially licensed shirt & art print, Two Nights Only
  6. mentioned not in the show itself, but on an officially licensed shirt & art print, Two Nights Only
  7. mentioned not in the show itself, but on an officially licensed shirt & art print, Two Nights Only
  8. mentioned not in the show itself, but on an officially licensed shirt, Everfree [dead link] Seaddle [dead link]