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[[File:doctor_whooves_and_the_harnis_by_inkwell_pony-d3b0zhr_7431.png|frame| Regeneration can sometimes be a... dodgy process]]
[[File:doctor_whooves_and_the_harnis_by_inkwell_pony-d3b0zhr_7431.png|frame| Regeneration can sometimes be a... dodgy process]]



"Time Lords and Terror" is a crossover fanfic between ''[[Doctor Who]]'' and ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]''.
"Time Lords and Terror" is a crossover fanfic between ''[[Doctor Who]]'' and ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]''.
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* [[Berserk Button]]: Twilight has a couple of these throughout the story.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Twilight has a couple of these throughout the story.
** Typically involving a [[Berserk Button]] called 'The Doctor'.
** Typically involving a [[Berserk Button]] called 'The Doctor'.
* [[But for Me It Was Tuesday]]:
* [[But for Me It Was Tuesday]]:
{{quote|"Ooh...waking up in a strange hospital room, no idea where or when I am, the taste of embalming fluid on my tongue...must be Wednesday."}}
{{quote|"Ooh...waking up in a strange hospital room, no idea where or when I am, the taste of embalming fluid on my tongue...must be Wednesday."}}
* [[Casual Danger Dialogue]]: Twilight Sparkle has this memorable exchange with [[Eldritch Abomination|The]] [[You Cannot Grasp the True Form|S'Müz.]]
* [[Casual Danger Dialogue]]: Twilight Sparkle has this memorable exchange with [[Eldritch Abomination|The]] [[You Cannot Grasp the True Form|S'Müz.]]
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* [[Cute Bruiser]]: Zecora especially gets this during her first encounter with the Carrionites. Applejack and Rainbow Dash also qualify.
* [[Cute Bruiser]]: Zecora especially gets this during her first encounter with the Carrionites. Applejack and Rainbow Dash also qualify.
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: The S’Müz is referred to directly as such.
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: The S’Müz is referred to directly as such.
* [[Flat What]]: There's the requisite 'What? What?! ...What.' from the Doctor when he finds out he's a pony.
* [[Flat What]]: There's the requisite 'What? What?! ...What.' from the Doctor when he finds out he's a pony.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Draggle, the only Carrionite to actually see the S’Müz for the [[Omnicidal Maniac|indiscriminate]] [[Ultimate Evil]] that it is.}}
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Draggle, the only Carrionite to actually see the S’Müz for the [[Omnicidal Maniac|indiscriminate]] [[Ultimate Evil]] that it is.}}
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Zecora. [[Unexplained Recovery|She gets better]].}}
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Zecora. [[Unexplained Recovery|She gets better]].}}
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* [[Nerves of Steel]]: Rarity takes being thrust into a life-or-death adventure surprisingly well.
* [[Nerves of Steel]]: Rarity takes being thrust into a life-or-death adventure surprisingly well.
** Fitting, Rarity has displayed grace under pressure in the show being a fashion designer and all.
** Fitting, Rarity has displayed grace under pressure in the show being a fashion designer and all.
** Arguably all the ponies take being pitched against a Lovecraftian Horror quite well.
** Arguably all the ponies take being pitched against a Lovecraftian Horror quite well.
* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: Twilight and the Doctor get into this situation due to a mishap involving Twilight's Element of Harmony.
* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: Twilight and the Doctor get into this situation due to a mishap involving Twilight's Element of Harmony.
* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]: Twilight gives a horrific one to {{spoiler|Draggle}}, ignoring her frantic pleas to stop. It takes The Doctor's intervention to keep Twilight from killing her.
* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]: Twilight gives a horrific one to {{spoiler|Draggle}}, ignoring her frantic pleas to stop. It takes The Doctor's intervention to keep Twilight from killing her.
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** Pretty safe to assume that every reader pretty much went [[Oh Crap]] {{spoiler|when the '''Doctor''' was [[Killed Mid-Sentence]]. [[Unexplained Recovery|He gets better]], though.}}
** Pretty safe to assume that every reader pretty much went [[Oh Crap]] {{spoiler|when the '''Doctor''' was [[Killed Mid-Sentence]]. [[Unexplained Recovery|He gets better]], though.}}
*** Not to mention a smaller one when learning (through here or the fan fic itself) that {{spoiler|the S’Müz is in simplest terms a [[Eldritch Abomination|Cthulu-Smooze]].}}
*** Not to mention a smaller one when learning (through here or the fan fic itself) that {{spoiler|the S’Müz is in simplest terms a [[Eldritch Abomination|Cthulu-Smooze]].}}
* [[The Ophelia]]: [[Discussed Trope|Discussed]] by Rarity. When her friends show up out of nowhere in a strange blue box with an even stranger stallion to drag her away from the business proposition of a lifetime because Equestria is in terrible danger, her first reaction is to assume that she's simply going insane.
* [[The Ophelia]]: [[Discussed Trope|Discussed]] by Rarity. When her friends show up out of nowhere in a strange blue box with an even stranger stallion to drag her away from the business proposition of a lifetime because Equestria is in terrible danger, her first reaction is to assume that she's simply going insane.
{{quote|"I always thought losing my mind would be a little more... dramatic."}}
{{quote|"I always thought losing my mind would be a little more... dramatic."}}
* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|Really Nine Hundred And Five...ish Years Old]]: The Doctor naturally, much to Twilight's [[Flat What|surprise]].
* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|Really Nine Hundred And Five...ish Years Old]]: The Doctor naturally, much to Twilight's [[Flat What|surprise]].
* [[Reverse Polarity]]: Name-dropped, [[Continuity Nod|natch]]. {{spoiler|Later used to destroy the [[Life Energy]]-gobbling S’Müz by pulling the energy ''back out'' through the Elements of Harmony}}.
* [[Reverse Polarity]]: Name-dropped, [[Continuity Nod|natch]]. {{spoiler|Later used to destroy the [[Life Energy]]-gobbling S’Müz by pulling the energy ''back out'' through the Elements of Harmony}}.
* [[Sequel Hook]]/[[And the Adventure Continues...]]: {{spoiler|After the S’Müz is vanquished and everything's back to something approaching normal, the Doctor offers to take the girls on further adventures in the TARDIS... which they gladly accept once they realize the implications of having access to a time machine.}}
* [[Sequel Hook]]/[[And the Adventure Continues...]]: {{spoiler|After the S’Müz is vanquished and everything's back to something approaching normal, the Doctor offers to take the girls on further adventures in the TARDIS... which they gladly accept once they realize the implications of having access to a time machine.}}
* [[Shout-Out]]: A double whammy for both Whovians and Bronies alike!
* [[Shout-Out]]: A double whammy for both Whovians and Bronies alike!
** The main villains are Carrionites (as seen in [[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S3 E2 The Shakespeare Code|The Shakespeare Code]]), and they're named for the witches from the G1 [[My Little Pony]] movie.
** The main villains are Carrionites (as seen in [[Doctor Who/Recap/NS/S3/E02 The Shakespeare Code|The Shakespeare Code]]), and they're named for the witches from the G1 [[My Little Pony]] movie.
*** The Hervoken are an even more obscure reference. They and their war with the Carrionites originate in the Tenth Doctor novel ''Forever Autumn''.
*** The Hervoken are an even more obscure reference. They and their war with the Carrionites originate in the Tenth Doctor novel ''Forever Autumn''.
** The S’Müz is a [[Darker and Edgier]] take on the Smooze.
** The S’Müz is a [[Darker and Edgier]] take on the Smooze.
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