History Fanfic / CupcakesSergeantSprinkles

** In regards to Luna being killed by Pinkie Pie, [[http://www.bunnyrock.com/MyLittlePonyForensicsIsMagic1.pdf one story]] actually draws attention to how difficult it would be for somepony to actually overpower Luna, let alone kill her. Even Twilight Sparkle would have been hard-pressed to do so. [[spoiler:Which leaves only one pony capable of doing so, who just so happens to raise the sun....]]

A Dramatic Reading of the story can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxJyDjKFEtk here]]. A graphic novelization of the story can be found [[http://pinkanon.deviantart.com/gallery/32239742/Cupcakes-Comic here]], and we mean '''graphic'''. The sporking of this story from the continuum by the [[WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum PPC]] can be found [[https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1KmcAgo2JEbSFBr6ZFRHUSp3Ey4gXyi384U90HLipCnE here]], if you'd like to sleep a bit easier tonight.

** There's yet ''another'' version in which [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7510076/1/The-End-of-the-Rainbow we discover]] that Pinkie kills Rainbow Dash because Dash raped Scootaloo. [[EnfantTerrible And Scoots helps Pinkie slaughter Dash]]. Oh yes, just to top off this big bucket o' {{Gorn}}, it turns out that [[CrapsaccharineWorld the Ponies have a peace treaty with the Griffon Kingdom that involves all executed pony criminals being sold to them for meat.]] And Dash's flesh is sold by the Cakes to Gilda!

* BrokenAngel: A few of the {{Alternate Ending}}s have Rainbow Dash survive but end up as this instead.

* OhCrapThereAreFanficsOfUs: Due to its infamous nature and generally how freaky it is, this story has become popular fodder for this, several {{Alternate Ending}}s even making it a fanfic by the characters themselves and a few fanart depicting such reactions as [[http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=§ion=&q=Pinkie+pie+reads+Cupcakes#/d41bb5n this]].

In fact, the fic is so notorious that Equestria Daily deleted its post about it, but there's still an archived version on [[https://equestriadaily.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/story-cupcakes/ its Wordpress site]]. Both the original and grammar-corrected versions can be found there, but ''dear lord'' know what you're getting yourself into.

A Dramatic Reading of the story can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxJyDjKFEtk here]]. A graphic novelization of the story can be found [[http://pinkanon.deviantart.com/gallery/32239742/Cupcakes-Comic here]], and we mean GRAPHIC. The sporking of this story from the continuum by the [[WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum PPC]] can be found [[https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1KmcAgo2JEbSFBr6ZFRHUSp3Ey4gXyi384U90HLipCnE here]], if you'd like to sleep a bit easier tonight.

* AnyoneCanDie: Pinkie has gotten to countless ponies, including, if the above image is anything to believe, '''Princess Luna'''. Yes, the second most powerful pony in all of Equestria, who controls THE NIGHT ITSELF, has been captured, killed, and made into cupcakes by a sugar-hopped, partying earth pony.

* DarkFic: And how! Well-known fanblog "Blog/EquestriaDaily" has many darkfics hosted, which are sorted under the "Grimdark" tag. ''Cupcakes'' is the [[BrokeTheRatingScale only fic]] on the site with the "[[PrecisionFStrike GRIMDARK AS FUCK]]" tag. Unless Equestria Daily ever starts allowing gorefics (Cupcakes was the exception because people kept pestering the site owner about it), it will be the only one with that tag.

%%* EnfantTerrible: [[spoiler:Apple Bloom. Dear Celestia, APPLE BLOOM.]]
%%** And if you're willing to count [[{{Manchild}} Adult Children]], Pinkie Pie herself.

%%* {{Fingore}}

%%* GenuineHumanHide: Pinkie's "dress".

%%* {{Gorn}}: Oh so much.
* GrotesqueCute: It's Pinkie Pie re-enacting Film/{{Hostel}}!

* SceneryGorn: Whether you like it or dislike it, the author is awesome at "show, don't tell." For example, the part where the lights turn on and all those horrific decorations appear isn't done by telling that. Instead…

** This holds true even in sequels and other expansions to Cupcakes. For example in [[spoiler:''My Little Pony: Forensics is Magic'', it is revealed that most of the killings were orchestrated by Princess Celestia, since the body parts of the victims could be used in the creation of Homunculi, who could both replace the victims as well as provide horsepower for farming, which there was a shortage of according to Celestia in her {{Motive Rant}}. Wedge, one of the protagonists is told all of the above by Celestia, who has him at her mercy and is willing to kill him to ensure his silence. Just before she does so, Applebloom, who had been peeking from behind a open door, rushes into the room and shields Wedge with her body. It seems like Applebloom made a HeroicSacrifice, then Celestia refrains from attacking Applebloom...until it's revealed that Wedge is Applebloom's, having helped Pinkie in her killing spree. Celestia lets Applebloom (who has a Cutie Mark of a hacksaw) and the other Cutie Mark Crusaders carry off Wedge to be tortured and killed, with Celestia apparently having plans for using the moon as a place for several secret depopulation camps. The ending does have a {{Hope Spot}} in the form of a Dictaphone that Wedge chucked to Derpy, who carried it to Twilight's house, where it was discovered by Spike.]]

** Pinkie Pie bakes with [[spoiler: her sisters, Apple Bloom, Derpy Hooves, and Babs Seed]] in the [[https://www.quotev.com/story/9010236/Muffins/1 "Muffins Saga"]]. While still in progress, it is very well written, and involves the deaths of the [[spoiler: other Mane Six (sans Pinkie Pie), the other Cutie Mark Crusaders, and numerous other ponies]], and the [[spoiler: mass slaughter of most of Ponyville]].

** Pinkie Pie bakes with her sisters, Apple Bloom, Derpy Hooves, and Babs Seed in the [[Muffins Saga https://www.quotev.com/story/9010236/Muffins/1]]. While still in progress, it involves the deaths of the other Mane Six (sans Pinkie Pie), and the mass slaughter of most of Ponyville.

''Cupcakes'' is a dark and extremely gory fanfic of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' by Sergeant Sprinkles.

* WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief:
** The main reason why this story leaves many a deep mental scar is because the grim atmosphere twists the ties made in the subconscious so much that they become much harder to unravel, allowing traces of the events to become imprinted on the reader's long-term memories.
** The scarring power of this fiction was given an unforeseen increase thanks to a very disturbing coincidence in ''Party Of One'' where Pinkie has a HeroicBSOD and gets in an argument with Rainbow Dash.

** There's yet ''another'' version in which we discover that Pinkie kills Rainbow Dash because Dash raped Scootaloo. [[EnfantTerrible And Scoots helps Pinkie slaughter Dash]]. Oh yes, just to top off this big bucket o' {{Gorn}}, it turns out that [[CrapsaccharineWorld the Ponies have a peace treaty with the Griffon Kingdom that involves all executed pony criminals being sold to them for meat.]] And Dash's flesh is sold by the Cakes to Gilda!

* CreepyPasta: Its infamy has caused CupCakes to become classified as one, though in this case its akin to an honorary creepypasta.

This fic has also caused an ever [[FanVerse growing amount of related fanfictions]] by other authors. Prequels, parodies, and sequels. It even has a (worse?) SpiritualSuccessor called ''Pattycakes''. It used to have a tropes page, but it got locked down. The less said, the better.

* ReminiscingAboutPastVictims: Before the torture begins proper, Pinkie shows Dash the brightly-painted skull of Gilda, detailing how she was a jerk and what Pinkie did to her.

%%* RoomFullOfCrazy

%%* SerialKiller: Pinkie

* AdultFear[=/=]HarmfulToMinors: Twist was apparently one of Pinkie's victims as is Silver Spoon at TheStinger; [[spoiler: Turns out, however, that both of them are Apple Bloom's victims]].

** In regards to Luna being killed by Pinkie Pie, [[http://www.bunnyrock.com/MyLittlePonyForensicsIsMagic1.pdf one story]] actually draws attention to how difficult it would be for somepony to actually overpower Luna, let alone kill her. Even Twilight Sparkle would have been hard-pressed to do so. [[spoiler: Which leaves only one pony capable of doing so, who just so happens to raise the sun....]]

** In one of the animated adaptations, [[spoiler: along with Gilda, other victims are The Great and Powerful Trixie and Angel. As one of the more popular comments notes, "Let's be honest, Angel bunny had it coming..."]]
* AxCrazy: Pinkie Pie [[spoiler: and Apple Bloom.]]

** This holds true even in sequels and other expansions to Cupcakes. For example in [[spoiler: ''My Little Pony: Forensics is Magic'', it is revealed that most of the killings were orchestrated by Princess Celestia, since the body parts of the victims could be used in the creation of Homunculi, who could both replace the victims as well as provide horsepower for farming, which there was a shortage of according to Celestia in her {{Motive Rant}}. Wedge, one of the protagonists is told all of the above by Celestia, who has him at her mercy and is willing to kill him to ensure his silence. Just before she does so, Applebloom, who had been peeking from behind a open door, rushes into the room and shields Wedge with her body. It seems like Applebloom made a HeroicSacrifice, then Celestia refrains from attacking Applebloom...until it's revealed that Wedge is Applebloom's, having helped Pinkie in her killing spree. Celestia lets Applebloom (who has a Cutie Mark of a hacksaw) and the other Cutie Mark Crusaders carry off Wedge to be tortured and killed, with Celestia apparently having plans for using the moon as a place for several secret depopulation camps. The ending does have a {{Hope Spot}} in the form of a Dictaphone that Wedge chucked to Derpy, who carried it to Twilight's house, where it was discovered by Spike.]]

* BlackComedy[=/=]BloodyHilarious: Due to Pinkie's attitude to the whole deal, and how {{Purple Prose}}y the murder is described, some people found it hilarious.

* DeadGuyPuppet: Pinkie does this with [[spoiler: Gilda]]'s skull.

* EnfantTerrible: [[spoiler:Apple Bloom. Dear Celestia, APPLE BLOOM.]]
** And if you're willing to count [[{{Manchild}} Adult Children]], Pinkie Pie herself.

* FlayingAlive: [[spoiler:But not alive for long.]]

* GenuineHumanHide: Pinkie's "dress".
* GigglingVillain: Pinkie.

* HurricaneOfPuns: All of them organ-related.

* ALoveToDismember: and taxidermy.

* PsychopathicWomanchild: Pinkie.

** And a [[Fanfic/TheCupcakeChronicles multi-parter]] where Applejack [[BigDamnHeroes finds her in time]], but the doctors were [[BrokenAngel unable to get her wings back on]], devastating Dash's life and helping her find [[spoiler: the true meaning of her cutie mark]].

** A three-part sequel focusing on Applebloom discovering that [[spoiler: killing ponies is her special talent.]]

** A sequel in which Pinkie Pie [[KillTheCutie kills Fluttershy]], [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7384339/1/Little_Bakery_of_Horrors of all ponies.]] As if that isn't bad enough, Pinkie also [[spoiler: has Gummy eat Angel right in front of Fluttershy.]]
*** Now with a second chapter in which Rarity gets her turn. [[spoiler: [[FromBadToWorse And then it gets worse when]] [[WouldHurtAChild Sweetie Belle comes to see what's been taking her sister so long...]]]]

** The Blog/AskAPony blog 'Question Pinkamena' (which plays Cupcakes for BlackComedy) hinted that in the distant future [[spoiler: Pumpkin and Pound Cake continue the killings, with Pinkie herself becoming a victim after she tried to kill Pound Cake.]]

** [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9885100/1/Killer-Cupcakes And another one in which it's fiction]]... but when Firefly reads about a pony that sounds a whole lot like Cupcake horribly killing a pony that sounds a whole lot like her, nightmares lead to paranoia and paranoia leads to ''Firefly'' becoming the knife-wielding menace. It ends with [[spoiler: no blood drawn, though.]]

* TheStinger: In the original version, Pinkie Pie is about to murder Silver Spoon, only for Apple Bloom to suddenly show up. Silver Spoon is relieved, believing that [[BigDamnHeroes Apple Bloom is there to save her]]. [[spoiler: [[HopeSpot And then it turns out]] that Apple Bloom wanted to kill Silver Spoon herself and has already done in Diamond Tiara; the story ends with [[EnfanteTerrible Apple Bloom]] about to murder Silver Spoon while happily declaring that she's "[[IronicEcho gonna be a blank flank]]"]]. For some reason, the revised version leaves this part out.

* TongueTrauma: Pinkie said that she had [[spoiler: cut out [[AssholeVictim Gilda the Griffin's tongue]] as punishment for mouthing off to her]].

* WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief: The main reason why this story leaves many a deep mental scar is because the grim atmosphere twists the ties made in the subconscious so much that they become much harder to unravel, allowing traces of the events to become imprinted on the reader's long-term memories.

* WhamLine: "Now, you take a nap."

** And for her detractors I.E haters of a certain blue pegasus, Rainbow Dash herself could qualify too. Though she's more of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.

* WhamLine: [[ItWasHisSled The line "Now, you take a nap." was ''supposed'' to be this, but, again, everyone already knew the twist, so they saw a line like this coming a mile away.]]

** And a [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wlDkZDiGhp6W2eaviU0OL-LFWFKRByGrhwWJwEP4G0A/edit?hl=en_US last-minute derail]] in which Dash plays along with her tormentor, lures Twilight Sparkle in by pretending it's some gruesome game, tips her off in time for Twilight to zap Pinkie to sleep - and they discover that [[spoiler:a parasprite is living in Pinkie's head, crushing and poisoning her brain]], and they have to cure her, [[spoiler:but fail]] to rehabilitate the traumatized Pinkie back into the community.

* AnimatedAdaptation: There are many of these on Website/YouTube and Website/{{Newgrounds}}. See TheMusical below for one of them. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43AuJjuxqAw This one]] is rather popular, if only because it's rumored to have been made by a member of the production staff.

An alleged (former) Creator/{{Hasbro}} animator worked on [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43AuJjuxqAw this]] beauty in his spare time. If you need a version to giggle with the ghosties with, this would probably be the one for you, though still easily graphic and on the disturbitude scale of ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' and ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy'' put together.

** This holds true even in sequels and other expansions to Cupcakes. For example in [[spoiler: ''My Little Pony: Forensics is Magic'', it is revealed that most of the killings were orchestrated by Princess Celestia, since the body parts of the victims could be used in the creation of Homunculi, who could both replace the victims as well as provide horsepower for farming, which there was a shortage of according to Celestia in her {{Motive Rant}}. Wedge, one of the protagonists is told all of the above by Celestia, who has him at her mercy and is willing to kill him to ensure his silence. Just before she's does so, Applebloom, who had been peeking form behind a open door, rushes into the room and shields Wedge with her body. It seems like Applebloom made a HeroicSacrifice, then Celestia refrains from attacking Applebloom...until it's revealed that Wedge is Applebloom's, having helped Pinkie in her killing spree. Celestia lets Applebloom (who has the Cutie Mark of a hacksaw) and the other Cutie Mark Crusaders carry off Wedge to be tortured and killed, with Celestia apparently having plans for using the moon as a place for several secret depopulation camps. The ending does have a {{Hope Spot}} in the form of a Dictaphone that Wedge chucked to Derpy, who carried it to Twilight's house, where it was discovered by Spike.]]

* LighterAndSofter: ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/37363/cupcakes-redux Cupcakes Redux]]'', a re-imagining where what Pinkie does is stuff ponies absurdly full of treats. The descriptions can get a bit {{squick}}-y at times, but cartoon physics are in full effect – the worst thing that happens is a massive case of BalloonBelly. In the end, it reads much like one might expect a weird nightmare as it would depicted in the show itself.

** It was [[FanFic/RocketToInsanity just a nightmare]] that Rainbow Dash has... [[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/02/story-rocket-to-insanity.html repeatedly]], driving her insane and causing her to murder Pinkie in delusional self-defence.

* TongueTrauma: Pinkie said that she had [[spoiler: cut out [[AssholeVictim Gilda the Griffin's]] tongue as punishment for mouthing off to her]].

* WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief: The main reason why this story leaves many a deep scars is because the grim atmosphere twists the ties made in the subconscious so much that they become much harder to unravel, allowing traces of the events to become imprinted on the reader's long-term memories.

** And for her detractors I.E haters of a certain blue pegasus, Rainbow Dash herself could qualify too. Though she's more of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. This was written during S1 when Rainbow Dash was a lot less sympathetic too, almost an UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist so she ''definitely'' qualifies.