History Fanfic / PoniesAndDragons

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Twilight complains about hearing [[OminousLatinChanting dramatic music]] during the three way light saber duel with Starlight, Sunset, and Trixie... [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments then it turns out the sirens were singing in her closet.]]

* HeroicBSOD: After Rainbow Dash has to hear Glimmer talk about how she did things "equally" in games (all four of her characters were the same party class when she played the first ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasy Last Fantasy]]'' game), she calls her out for being one note. Starlight defends that so is Discord, but RD retorts that [[ArmorPiercingResponse "at least Discord is FUNNY!"]] This causes Starlight to burst into tears and run to her room, hiding under her blankets and declaring it to be "New Our Town". [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Twilight steps inside her room, and talks Starlight through things, like how RD still suffers from the experience of losing her cutie mark and that Glimmer doesn't need to give up, nor never speak of her beliefs ever to get along with others.]] She then hugs her through the blankets.

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: After the events of TheMovie, Grubber's punishment for using foals as pony rides until they were exhausted (among other things) is to have to do whatever the foals want. The alternative was [[MamaBear the wrath of their mothers]] so he takes it. Button Mash's punishment of choice? Playing and finishing
''[[VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins Phantoms n' Ghouls]]''.

** Fluttershy's character in ''TabletopGame/TeenagersFromOuterSpace'' can turn into {{EldritchAbomination}}s, but...well, she's still FLUTTERSHY.

--> '''Pinkie Pie:''' "Shh! You want to get us cancelled?!"

--> "Well, at least that's one bad guy who'll never be a pain in the rear again!"

-->'''Silver Spoon''': I guess that makes me a... [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV spoony bard!]]
-->{{Beat}}
-->'''Scootaloo''': ...You made your character a Bard solely so you could make that joke at some point, didn't you?
-->'''Silver Spoon''': Yep!

--> '''Apple Bloom''': Ah think she crashed Princess Twilight.

--> "Uh... Gilzillathulu?"

--> '''Queen Supia:''' ''(Her voice a demonic, buzzing hiss)'' "...And then I learned of your tantrum over the game. [[EvilIsPetty Sending some of your soldiers to harass the poor developers just for NOT making YOU their monster?]] Do you even KNOW size-shifting spells? Have YOU ever caused a tsunami with just the force of your wings? Have YOU ever crushed a mad daimyo's army LITERALLY underhoof?" ''(Licks at her mandibles)'' Do YOU know what kappas taste like when you swallow them whole by the dozens?!"

* SeriousBusiness: A rare ''justified'' example in the "A Game of Dragons" arc. A thousand years in the future, Dragon Lord Ember has unified most of dragon-kind under her rule, and meets with Mina of Dragon Town for a session of any sort of game: tabletops, video games, gambling; anything. The stakes? ''Dragon Town's independece.'' It's made clear that this is the only practical way to settle things without a destructive dragon battle; and Mina losing would [[KnowWhenToFoldEm send a VERY clear message to any dragons who don't want to live under Ember's rule.]]

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The entries from the latter half of Chapters 66 to 68 are an loose adaptation of the 2017 movie instead of the usual fare.

* TemptingFate: Done ''intentionally'' by Applebloom after a game of ''King of Manehatten''. She wonders aloud how long it will take for Discord to turn her and her friends into ''real'' {{Kaiju}} to reenact the rampages in the game...then she looks around the room, as if waiting for something to happen.
--> '''Applebloom:''' "Huh. That usually works."

* TemptingFate: Shining comments, after a nightmare resulting from Cadence's pregnancy, that his child can't be any more trouble out than she is now. Flurry Heart is a handfill either way.

-->AJ nodded. "Eeyup. Darn Tootin'."
-->"Great! What's the name?"
-->"Ah told you the name."
-->Twilight blinked. "Um...No, you didn't."

As of March 2019, it is 90 chapters long and still ongoing.

** Queen Chrysalis [[GoKartingWithBowser is a regular player in the Mane Six and company's games]].

* EvilLawyer: It turns out that Human Tirek is one, and owns a law firm called [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Tartarus & Co]]. Notably, he's one of the ''very few'' people who actually like the human version of Rabia...which didn't stop him from stabbing her in the back the moment it benefited him.

** The Storm King manages to be a legit threat during the events of TheMovie.

** PurplePup is dog Spike

** Glimglam99 is Human Starlight Glimmer, but she uses Equal Rites in World of Horsecraft.
** Readinginthesun is human Sunburst.

** "The Awesomeoids" mentioned above is basically an Equestrian version of ''WesternAnimation/TheInhumanoids''.[[note]]Ironically, the toys didn't sell well due to poor construction, but the mini-series itself was surprisingly complex and dark for a 80s cartoon show.[[/note]]

** Master Babylon is shamelessly copied from ''MakaiKingdom''.
** In chapter 17 they refer to another 'enchanted comic' a la the Power Ponies, only this one is for [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBraveAndTheBold Batmare The Brave And The Bold]].

** While [[spoiler:petrified by during the events of TheMovie]], Cadence starts to lose it a little bit and yells [[WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged ""SHUT UP GHOST OF SOMBRA!"]] at a hallucination of him.

* TooDumbToLive: Discord during a round of [[TabletopGames/TombOfHorrors Tomb of Horrors]]. His own foolishness gets his character killed so many times, that in the end [[ThisIsGonnaSuck he decides to conjure Acererak into the game]]. He didn't learn his lesson and later summons a Werefox into the real world.

As of March 2019, it is over 100 chapters long and still ongoing.

It can be found [[http://alexwarlorn.deviantart.com/art/Ponies-and-Dragons-XLVII-Just-Have-Fun-653479237 here,]] (or [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/287205/ponies-and-dragons-just-have-fun here]]); it's currently on its 85th chapter.

* ArmyOfThievesAndWhores: The explanation for how Chrysalis managed to pull off the events of '[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDWAnnual2017 Guardians of Harmony]]' after [[spoiler:losing her hive to Thorax]]: she managed to get a large portion of the Winter Court (where all the worst of Changeling society, including her, are banished to for various horrible crimes) to join her in her attack.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Twilight complains about hearing [[OminousLatinChanting dramatic music]] during the three way light saber duel with Starlight, Sunset, and Trixie... [[CrowningMomentOfFunny then it turns out the sirens were singing in her closet.]]

* HeroicBSOD: After Rainbow Dash has to hear Glimmer talk about how she did things "equally" in games (all four of her characters were the same party class when she played the first ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasy Last Fantasy]]'' game), she calls her out for being one note. Starlight defends that so is Discord, but RD retorts that [[ArmorPiercingResponse "at least Discord is FUNNY!"]] This causes Starlight to burst into tears and run to her room, hiding under her blankets and declaring it to be "New Our Town". [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Twilight steps inside her room, and talks Starlight through things, like how RD still suffers from the experience of losing her cutie mark and that Glimmer doesn't need to give up, nor never speak of her beliefs ever to get along with others.]] She then hugs her through the blankets.

** Human Sombra wants to make money running his gaming company, but even he didn't like his mother's way of doing things who ran the company before him (and made tortuously dark and sadistic games). Also, when Human!Kabuto, Decepticolt, Goldcap, and Zappityhoof try to convince him to put an extremely dark mechanic into World of Horsecraft (with a hefty price tag), which is intended to be a light hearted game, he fires them and kicks them out of the building.
** During the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017 Storm King's invasion]], he offered a reward for anyone who handed the writer of a ''very'' grimdark game over to him for [[DisproportionateRetribution execution]], one based on a story where the Mane Six become [[Warhammer40K Chaos Demons]]. It's writer, Garble, immediately went into hiding.

It can be found [[http://alexwarlorn.deviantart.com/art/Ponies-and-Dragons-XLVII-Just-Have-Fun-653479237 here,]] (or [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/287205/ponies-and-dragons-just-have-fun here]]); it's currently on its 73rd chapter.

* ButtMonkey: The Doctor is still paying off his karmic debt after running a shameless {{GMPC}}. Vinyl Scratch in particular takes pleasure in giving him a hard time.
** Garble became this after getting assigned to Princess Twilight as '[[AssInAmbassador official Dragonlands ambassador]]'.

* DungeonmastersGirlfriend: In the game run by Dr. Hooves, Rose is a goddess in the game's lore.
** Derpy ''insists'' her character keeps glaring at a statue of her.
* EasilyForgiven: Chrysalis ''expects'' this to be the case between her and Cadence following her endgame from the season six finale. [[SubvertedTrope Cadence's response is to fire a bazooka at her]] and ''no one'' is willing to [[GoKartingWithBowser play with her anymore.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: In [[https://alexwarlorn.deviantart.com/art/Ponies-and-Dragons-XXXI-Just-Have-Fun-625577374 Chapter 31]], Chrysalis of all beings anounces she'll leave the table if they use one particular [[DemondLordsAndArchdevils demon lord in the game]]; one that represents [[WouldHarmAChild abusing and killing children]]. When the Mane Six point out that she nearly killed their little sisters, Chrysalis sniffs and says that was 'politics' and not simply [[ForTheEvulz for sick laughs]].

!!This series contains examples of:

* EveryoneHasStandards: Human Sombra wants to make money running his gaming company, but even he didn't like his mother's way of doing things who ran the company before him (and made tortuously dark and sadistic games). Also, when Human!Kabuto, Decepticolt, Goldcap, and Zappityhoof try to convince him to put an extremely dark mechanic into World of Horsecraft (with a hefty price tag), which is intended to be a light hearted game, he fires them and kicks them out of the building.
** During the [[MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017 Storm King's invasion]], he offered a reward for anyone who handed the writer of a ''very'' grimdark game over to him for [[DisproportionateRetribution execution]], one based on a story where the Mane Six become [[Warhammer40K Chaos Demons]]. It's writer, Garble, immediately went into hiding.

* SpotTheImpostor: A visiting delegation of Diamond Wolves engage in an town-wide version of this as a ''game'', when one of their agents constantly disguises themselves as one of the Mane Six (''without'' permission, or even telling them until the "game" has ''already started''). The agent finally gets cornered in their dreams by Princess Luna...and promptly swears servanthood to Rarity as the result of her being the 'winner' of the game.

* TooDumbToLive: Discord during a round of [[TabletopGames/TombOfHorrors Tomb of Horrors]]. His own foolishness gets his character killed so many times, that in the end [[ThisIsGonnaSuck he decides to conjure Acererak into the game]].

* EvilMatriarch: Human Rabia, who's one of the few human versions of Equestrian villains to be every bit the monster of her Equestrian counterpart, only lacking in sheer power to actually match. So much so Sombra helped lock her up in prison and Ira seems to be the only one of his siblings who holds it against him.

** The latest expansion is Ascension, which has Tirek as the BigBad.

** Discord summons six 'intellect devourers' when the Mane Six don't believe they exist. Apparently, pony thoughts are too sweet for them and it didn't go well. Applejack's dies of starvation to her annoyance, which is implied to just be Discord trolling her. They're currently trapped in Twilight's 'friendship dungeon'. Tempest Shadow and Grubber's apparently are not, however, but Tempest is able to fight them off.

** Sonata sings ''[[ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger Kokoro no Sukima World]]'' as her song in the Sirens' plan to regain their full power, though using autotuning.

* BenevolentAI: The Equestria Girls version of Screwball is an anti-hacker program that human Discord made...and accidentally made become self aware while messing around in a bout of sheer boredom. Given her base programming is to protect World of Horsecraft from hackers and she's generally friendly, she's this trope. She's even the only reason that Dra-Gon is actually defeatable, though she wasn't aware of what she was doing, only that the game was blatantly unfair and needed a rebalance. She later saves an AI Pinkie Pie copy Sci-Twi made from a repeat of the Mirror Pool incident and is simply overjoyed to have another sapient AI to be friends with.

* PleaseKeepYourHatOn: Haust, the Stallion in Yellow and Discord's cousin, who keeps this with his cannon self. Even his equally eldritch family can't help but scream upon seeing his true face!

* VirtualPaperDoll: ''Rainbows and Crystals'' has this as one of its big draws, being a LifeSim and all. The Family Castle even allows players to make families for their character with all the same options.

* BalefulPolymorph: Happens to Garble several times, usually thanks to Disord's magic and Garble's big mouth.
* BenevolentAI: The Equestria Girls version of Screwball is an anti-hacker program that human Discord made...and accidentally made become self aware while messing around in a bout of sheer boredom. Given her base programming is to protect World of Horsecraft from hackers and she's generally friendly, she's this trope.

* BigBadWannabe: Apparently, Celestia and Luna have to deal with a parade of these who think they can beat them every time major threat manages to beat them. They let Discord handle the next set of them after he [[spoiler:got petrified during the Storm King invasion]].

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When Twilight and Co. find out about [[DownerEnding the ending of "The Darkest Dungeon"]], they promptly quit the game for good.