Pony POV Series/Tear Jerker: Difference between revisions

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** [http://youtu.be/c3HPDI9Odbc The audio adaptation] takes [[Bad Future|Epilogue's sadness]] [[Up to Eleven]].

** And now someone did a sequel to it. [[Serial Escalation|Everything gets even worse]] [http://ardashir.deviantart.com/favourites/47106860#/d4lrntt as the girls finally recover from what Discord did, only to learn that centuries have passed, everyone they loved is dead, often at their hooves, and they remember this only to die soon after]. [[Super-Powered Evil Side|And oh yes, Twilight Sparkle becomes Nightmare Purgatory]]. [[Bittersweet Ending|Okay, they finally stop Discord]] {{spoiler|and everypony is reborn into their main timeline counterparts thanks to Twilight managing to [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]], Twilight managing to snap out of it before she can fully succumb to the darkness}}, but you WILL be shedding tears.

* The background ponies dealing with the mental trauma of Discord's "fun", as seen in Applejack's Healed chapter. They may be back to normal, but they aren't "better".

* Applejack's heartbreak over her realization that {{spoiler|the children she had in the "Orangejack" universe don't exist because of her choice.}}

** {{spoiler|And unlike the others, she doesn't have the comfort of not knowing it's an illusion. She ''knows'' it's fake, but ''really'' wishes it wasn't. And then there's this line:}}

*** Compare this to [[For the Man Who Has Everything]]. A similar situation, and just as heartwrenching.

* Pretty much everything about Diamond Tiara and her mother Golden Tiara {{spoiler|aka Screwball}}. Especially {{spoiler|Discord's [[Mind Rape]] of Diamond Tiara.}}

** And then in "Mind Games Part 7" when we find out just [[Offing the Offspring|why]] poor Screwball was sent away. {{spoiler|To protect Diamond Tiara from her.}} You will shed more tears for [[Jerkass Woobie|poor Diamond Tiara]] then you ever thought possible.

* [[The Reveal]] about {{spoiler|Scootaloo's [[Parental Abandonment]]...}}

* Applejack reading about Mimic's ''horrific'' death is sad enough, but then she realizes there are tear stains on the paper from where Luna cried while writing the account...

* {{spoiler|Fluttercruel being prepared to fade away into nothingness, fully prepared to die and leave Fluttershy alone... [[It Got Worse|Then realizing]] her well-intentioned last lesson has [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|turned Fluttershy to evil]] and made her into a [[Knight Templar]]. She ends the chapter sinking into darkness as she tries as hard as she can to undo it to no avail.}}

** And now, [http://kyonsylar.deviantart.com/art/The-Birth-of-Nightmare-Whisper-284378445 someone made a comic of it.]

* {{spoiler|In this troper's opinion, when Applejack snaps herself out of Princess Gaia's fantasy and sees all of her friends under the effect of Gaia's mind control -- then realizing how hard it must have been for Twilight to go through the same thing when they were under Discord's influence.}}

** It's even sadder in [http://firedrake368.deviantart.com/art/Request-Princess-Gaia-s-Fog-266715351 picture form.]

* [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Princess]] {{spoiler|[[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|Gaia's]]}} POV in the beginning of "Teacher Teacher". She just sounds so ''unwell'', practically as if she ''knows'' there something wrong with her. And what's more, it's quite genuine-it's her insanity that turns her intentions into something so horrific.

* One of the things Applejack sees when she looks into {{spoiler|the Truth}} is an [[Alternate Ending]] to ''[[Story of the Blanks]]''. {{spoiler|Alternate!Applejack practically tears Everfree Forest apart trying to find Applebloom, and when she finally does, the poor girl is a traumatized zombie pony. Alternate!Applejack's [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|reaction]] is perfectly understandable...}}

** It gets even worse if you pay attention to the blink-and-you'll-miss-it comment in the chapter centered on Luna, where we discover that it was {{spoiler|Nightmare Moon}} who originally cursed and destroyed Sunny Town and its inhabitants. And the town itself? ''[[Gone Horribly Wrong|Was created by Celestia to try to give ponies a perfectly happy life.]]'' [[Fridge Horror|Now think about what Princess Gaia is doing...]]

** Even worse? {{spoiler|Discord planned to [[Yank the Dog's Chain]] with them during Luna's sidestory by breaking the curse for a day or two, allowing them to think their curse was over, only to have it return so he can see the looks on their faces.}}

* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClMeWbsJ7wQ&feature=feedu audio adaptation] of Applejack's Discording. The original was sad enough, but just how broken the voice actor manages to make her sound makes it ''much'' sadder.

** Same goes for the adaptation of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl3BfZQ-RGM&feature=feedu Pinkie Pie's Discording.] It gets especially heart-rending when she reaches the the lines, ''"I ''hate'' laughter! I HATE IT!"'', and we realize just [[Break the Cutie|how utterly shattered]] Pinkie is by Discord's actions.

* {{spoiler|Nightmare Whisper. She's a horrifying monster, to be sure, but from the context of the event, it's also shown that she's ''ashamed'' of what she really looks like. It's almost as if there's enough Fluttershy left to be horrified at what she's become...}}

* {{spoiler|The Mane Cast having to fight their best friend turned Nightmare is just downright heartwrenching. As if that weren't enough, there's this line from Twilight when she thinks of what it was like for Celestia to be in the same position 1000 years prior:}}

** {{spoiler|Also, Rainbow Dash and Rarity feeling like that they have no choice but to use ''lethal'' force against Nightmare Whisper, both of them believing that Fluttershy would rather be dead than seeing what she has become.}}

* {{spoiler|Fluttershy, no longer Nightmare Whisper, still holding on to the pain and suffering of all of Equestria, refusing to let go so that others won't have to feel it. In what is also a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|moment of heartwarming]], Pinkie Pie voluntarily taking up the burden as well, so that Fluttershy does not have to bear it alone. Just imagining what these two are going through is hard enough...}}

* Spitfire revealing how Discord tortured her and the other Wonderbolts. She herself had {{spoiler|visions of the other Wonderbolts, her parents, and her old flight teacher laughing at her and telling her she'd make a better flying clown than a performing Pony.}} On top of this, she also reveals that Fleetfoot got Discorded and brokedown crying when telling her, feeling like [[Mind Rape|Discord violated her.]]

* {{spoiler|Orangejack revealing how Discord [[Mind Raped]] her. He made her drag her children around like ragdolls, treating them like toys and not even realizing she's hurting them. Orangejack even doubted if she was a good parent because of it.}}

* Just before {{spoiler|being turned back into an adult}}, Golden Tiara realizes what will happen to her. She tells Celestia that she doesn't want to go and desperately pleads that she doesn't want to stop understanding, that she wants to see her "little princess" Diamond Tiara and her "prince" husband. Celestia is badly tempted to {{spoiler|let her stay a foal}}, but ultimately decides against it.

* It's not exactly "''official''" but [http://kendell2.deviantart.com/art/Discorded-Ponies-Celestia-Not-Loved-276364923 this] gives us a heartbreaking portrayal of how {{spoiler|Princess Celestia}} was corrupted.

* "Butterflies Celestia" has the reveal that {{spoiler|Celestia is really the G3 Pony Star Catcher, or at least ''remembers'' being her. Not only does this mean she's probably been through what Pinkie was, it also explains that her mother broke the immortality spell on herself by given birth to her, Celestia having to watch her own mother grow old and die right in front of her with ''no idea why'' except it was ''her'' fault for being born. Ouch...}}

* [http://alexwarlorn.deviantart.com/gallery/32848832?offset=24#/d4pxy7j Onyx Tiara's entry] in the "Butterflies" series, detailing how his [[Blithe Spirit|wife]] was gradually [[Break the Cutie|broken down]] by high society snobs.

** The way his [[Fantastic Racism]] colors his commentary is heartbreaking in its own way. To see a stallion consumed by so much ''hatred'' -- let alone one who ''canonically'' is a [[Good Parent]] and anything ''but'' a close-minded [[Jerkass]] -- that he rejects whatever help presents itself, including from Applejack, who ''should have been'' a family friend...!

** Diamond Tiara's POV in the same entry is even worse, and {{spoiler|'''''Screwball's'''''}} drives the knife home.

* The whole "Generation Transition" parts 2 and 3. Especially the song from the third part...

** MINTY! *breaks into tears*

** And after that, {{spoiler|Pinkie coming across a severely wounded, dying Rarity. She tells her [[Let Them Die Happy|everything will be alright and they'll be back having a party with their friends]], even though she knows its a lie.}}

''"Child... You ARE the Gates of Hell!"'' }}

** Good!Discord is promptly consumed by Evil!Discord and reverts back to his true, evil nature, those who were his friends before he returned to his true nature left at a complete loss at what to do about their [[Evil Former Friend]]. His earthly mother? {{spoiler|He exploits her [[Mama Bear]] nature to turn her into his loyal [[Dragon]]. 1000 years later, she finally realizes it has to end, sheds a [[Single Tear]] and, in her mind, helps Celestia and Luna [[Shoot the Dog]].}}

*** Let's be honest; EVERYTHING about Origins belongs here.

* "Mind Games 7" has a series of flashbacks to {{spoiler|when Diamond Tiara's mother went insane}}. Remembering it is enough to {{spoiler|more or less finish breaking Diamond's mind}}.

* And then in "Mind Games 8" Screwball finally recovers her sanity... and [[My God, What Have I Done?|remembers everything she did or tried to do to]] {{spoiler|Diamond Tiara}}. And she is reduced to sobbing hysterically as she begs for somepony, anypony, to tell her that it isn't true. And oh yes, just in case that didn't tear your heart out ''enough'' in that chapter, [[Complete Monster|Discord]] shows Diamond Tiara what would have happened if {{spoiler|she hadn't rummaged around in her mother's jewelery case}}. Basically, her mom got the help she needed; her father never became a [[Fantastic Racism|racist]] [[Conspiracy Theorist|conspiracy nut]]; she and Silver Spoon never became bullies and ended up ''friends'' with the Cutie Mark Crusaders; and DT was just plain ''happy''. [[For Want of a Nail|But no, she made the choice she made, so everyone's life became a total hell]] and it's ALL. HER. FAULT. Or at least that's how Discord set it up to look like from her POV. [[It Got Worse|And the best part?]] [[Super-Powered Evil Side|This little revelation turned Diamond Tiara into a Nightmare!]]

 

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