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Based on the toyline, [[My Little Pony]], created by Hasbro. Created in [[The Eighties]], this pair of [[Merchandise -Driven]] half-hour TV specials came with the wide success of the toyline. The first was aired in 1984 and another in 1985.
 
=== ''My Little Pony: Rescue from Midnight Castle/Firefly's Adventure'' ===
 
[[Evil Overlord]] Tirac requires four ponies to use as [[Baleful Polymorph|demons]] to pull his chariot to bring in [[The Night That Never Ends]] in order to [[Take Over the World]]. He sends his henchman [[Anti -Villain|Scorpan]] to carry out the task. The special actually begins with the ponies enjoying themselves in Dream Valley until Scorpan and his subordinates attack. Two ponies are captured in the attack.
In light of the first aassault by Scorpan and his army of [[Our Dragons Are Different|stratodon riders]], the rest of the ponies panic and hide in Dream Castle, pulling up the drawbridge. They fear that anyone can be next. Firefly goes off for help and decides to ask it of the very first human she happens to come across: Megan, a cowgirl who lives at a ranch at the other end of the rainbow. From there, Firefly basically kidnaps Megan to go back to Ponyland with her despite the girl being about ten years old and without a single means of helping them. ...Yeah, Firefly's plan needed [[Understatement|a little]] more thought.
 
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=== The two specials contain examples of: ===
 
* [[Absent -Minded Professor]]: '''The Moochic''', in spades. In fact, he has an entire song dedicated to this.
* [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male]]: Completely averted. Throughout ''Escape from Catrina'', Rep is pushed around, belittled, and even struck by Catrina. The special ''does not'' treat this like it's okay.
* [[Action Girl]]: in ''Midnight Castle'', there are three of them: Megan, Firefly, and Bowtie.
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* [[An Aesop]]: In ''Catrina'': drugs are bad.
* [[Another Dimension]]: Not outright stated, but it is heavily implied that rainbows are passage ways between our mundane Earth and the ponies' [[Magical Land|Ponyland]]. Plus, had Megan lived in the same reality as the ponies, that Firefly could speak and fly would not have come as a surprise to her.
* [[Anti -Villain]]: Scorpan in the first TV special, Rep in the second.
** By the end, he's become an [[Anti -Hero]] ('''Type II''').
* [[Artifact of Doom]]: Tirac's Rainbow of Darkness. Normally is contained into a pouch, where it throbs like a heart and shines with an eerie, creepy glow. Also, Catrina's Witchweed potion, from which she is completely addicted to.
* [[Badass Adorable]]: "Danger is my life!" says Firefly, who later ''kicks a dragon in the face''.
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* [[Even Mooks Have Loved Ones]]: Tirac really ''shouldn't'' have threatened Scorpan with decapitating Spike, since this is what finally made Scorpan rebel against him.
* [[Everybody Laughs Ending]]: The first TV special.
* [[Family -Unfriendly Death]]: Megan's Rainbow of Light tears Tirac apart, almost destroys Midnight Castle (with the good guys still on it) and finally drags Tirac to the sky, where he is killed on a giant ''explosion.''
* [[Fantastic Aesop]]: Also from ''Catrina''. Remember kids, stay off drugs, or else you'll become a [[Shock and Awe|lightning]] spamming giant that tries to enslave pastel-colored hairballs and ponies! After a while, even your long time [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|shapeshifting]] [[Lizard Folk]] enabler will grow tired of you, turn into a bull, and knock you into a pit of the stuff to drown in your own habit!
* [[Five -Man Band]]:
** [[The Hero]]: Megan
** [[The Lancer]]: Firefly
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* [[Genius Ditz]]: The Moochic. He always knows exactly what the ponies need to do to fix whatever apocalypse they're in the middle of now, but he has a terrible memory and a tendency to misplace ''very'' important items and tools.
* [[Girlish Pigtails]]: Bowtie.
* [[G -Rated Drug]]: Witchweed potion. It turns [[Cats Are Mean|Catrina]], who used to be a much nicer [[Petting Zoo Person]], into a [[One -Winged Angel|huge demonic giant]] that shoots lightning out of her eyes. (Certainly, this is a [[Space Whale Aesop|well-documented side-effect]] of real narcotics...)
* [[God Save Us From the Queen]]: Catrina, after her addiction to Witchweed potion drove her insane. After she kicks the habit, she inverts this trope.
* [[Good Hurts Evil]]: It only took a few seconds of struggle for Megan's ''ridiculously tiny'' Rainbow of Light to absorb Tirac's Rainbow of Darkness and ''brutally'' kill him.
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* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Scorpan and Catrina.
* [[Hellish Horse]]: The ponies captured and transformed by Tirac
* [[Hey ItsIt's That Voice]]: In ''Rescue from Midnight Castle'', danger is [[Peter Pan|Firefly's]] life! Also, [[The Odd Couple|Felix Unger]] has a little piece of rainbow.
** In ''Escape from Catrina'', [[The Last Unicorn|Molly Grue]] is addicted to a [[Fantastic Drug]] and ''[[Paul Williams]]'' is tiring of being her enabler.
* [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]]: The Moochic's long-suffering rabbit, Habit, definitely counts.
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* [[Interspecies Romance]]: On the second TV special, we have Catrina (a catwoman) who's boyfriend is a shape-shifting lizard-man named Rep.
* [[Jumped At the Call]]: Megan goes from discovering a talking winged pony in her well to flying off to Ponyland in about three minutes.
* [[Lady Land]]: A staple of the series besides ''Tales'' and ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]''. G3 has no male Ponies actually.
* [[Last Second Chance]]: Catrina is offered this, and she actually accepts it to reform herself.
* [[Lizard Folk]]: Rep.
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* [[Power Source]]: Catrina's power depends of having a constant supply of Witchweed potion. When she is about to run out of it, she completely ''snaps,'' which kickstarts the TV special.
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: On the second TV special we have Rep, who's a pretty decent guy. He's just (initially) too much of a sap to stand up to the power-crazed Catrina.
* [[Recycled Premise]]: The plot of the second special is near identical to the first: [[Big Bad]] wants to kidnap ponies to serve their purposes and they have to be stopped. Oh, and Tirac and Catrina both have [[Anti -Villain]] employees.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Firefly plays Red Oni to everyone else in the special, but especially Medley and Twilight.
* [[Secret Underground Passage]]: Megan and the ponies use one to get into Midnight Castle.
* [[Shout Out]]: The panther statues in Catrina's lair in the second special look almost exactly like Ravage on [[Transformers Generation One]].
* [[Spell My Name With an "S"]]: Is the villain in the first special named Tirac or Tirek? Not even [[This Very Wiki]] can agree on it.
** The later edition (and subsequent 2-part syndication version) of "Escape from Catrina" misspells Catrina's name in the title.
* [[Tagalong Kid]]: Averted with Megan. The ponies are tagging along with her.
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* [[Vile Villain Saccharine Show]]: And how!
* [[Voluntary Shapeshifter]]: Rep, again.
* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: In the first special, an unnamed white pony with a multi-color mane, who is accompanied by a cat, was never named or made into a toy.
* [[Winged Unicorn]]: In ''Escape from Catrina'', a [[Blooper]] causes pegasus Baby Surprise to have a horn for a couple of shots during the song "Let's Not Take A Nap".
* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: Catrina's Witchweed potion gives her immense magical powers at the cost of her morality & sanity.
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