History Fanfic / RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse

* AllThereInTheManual: Not only has RDD written blog entries explaining some of the aspects of the world (like the differences from the canon!Equestria), the series has also its own group in Website/FimfictionDotNet, where a lot of the world building takes place.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Goes in this direction, though most of the stories published so far still manage to remain within their "Everyone" ratings on Website/FimfictionDotNet. The first exception was ''Helping...Hands?'', due to [[spoiler:Lyra being transformed into a human and naked for the majority of the fic.]] Others have since been pushed a little higher, but generally the universe tries to stay around PG-13 at most.

As of now, the entire series is recieving a live read starting at episode 1 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llfe6b4LZig as seen here]]

* CatchPhrase:
** Corona's "I am the SUN!"
** Trixie still has her normal one, that of calling herself "Great and Powerful."

* GainaxEnding: "In the Heat of the Moment" climaxes with [[spoiler:Trixie and Raindrops deciding to give a relationship a try]]. The epilogue takes place several months later with the two of them on a date that is soon interrupted by a [[spoiler:time-travelling Dinky and Pipsqueak. Subsequent events play out exactly like the ending of the first ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' movie, albeit with a CoolBoat instead of a [=DeLorean=]]].

** ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/30509/Boast-Busted%3A-the-Lost-Tales Boast Busted: The Lost Tales]]'' No story is ever truly whole unto only itself, there are always details and events that go untold. This is one such tale. While searching through the Everfree forest, Twilight Sparkle encounters a musical aquatic trio, but are they really what the claim to be? Not if this unicorn has anything to say on the matter. This story takes place during ''Boast Busted,'' specifically [[spoiler: when Twilight Sparkle goes into the Everfree looking for the Ursa Minor.]]

** ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/27656/The-Night-After The Night After]]'' is the first story set in the Lunaverse not by [=RainbowDoubleDash=]. It takes place after ''Longest Night, Longest Day''. Trixie's house has been destroyed by rioting ponies, so now she must seek out the help of her friends to find a place to stay until her place can be fixed. {{Hilarity ensues}}. It is complete.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: How a dragon becomes Overlord. They have to fight any and all contenders for the title. If they win, and live, they get to be Overlord and all other dragons have to obey them. Of course, since they got there via asskicking, if they start losing a fight, they're kicked to the curb.

** One of her favorite combinations, chili powder in hot chocolate, [[AluminumChristmasTrees is actually mildly popular in real life.]] Hershey's sells pre-mixed cocoa powder with this flavor, and there are candy bars consisting of these two ingredients.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Magic-casting dinosaurs... who are now pretty much extinct, thanks to their own stubborn desire for revenge.

* ShoutOut: Several:
** When drunk, Trixie starts to quote Londo Mollari from ''Series/BabylonFive''. [=RainbowDoubleDash=] is a huge fan of the series.
** Trixie's [[spoiler:and Twilight's]] favorite novel is Don Rocinante of Equestria, an obvious shout-out to Don Quixote and his horse. In ''Longest Night, Longest Day'', to keep herself amused, Trixie sings a few lines of "I, Don Quixote", slightly modified to fit into Equestria (i.e., "I am Don Rocinante" rather than "I am I, Don Quixote").
** When Lyra says that Pinkie Pie is going to throw Trixie a party, Trixie's response is "Why are you saying that like it's synonymous with 'she's going to drag me into a basement and torture me'?", a reference to ''Fanfic/CupcakesSergeantSprinkles''.
** There's a subtle one in the third chapter of ''Boast Busted;; regarding the lack of personal entries or comments in Twilight Sparkle's journal, "not even so innocuous a comment as 'it was sunny today' or [[WebVideo/DragonballAbridged 'I saw a bird; it was pretty.']]"
** In ''Carrot Top of the Line'': "[[Franchise/StarWars Help me Rainbow Dash, you're my only hope!]]". The same reference appears in ''Helping... Hands?'', only this time Trixie to Lyra.
** "Helping... Hands?":
*** When trying to figure out what Trixie turned Lyra into, the two consult a book about strange and exotic creatures called the ''[[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Monster Manual]]''.
*** The two guards stationed at the castle gates are named [[Blog/{{Moonstuck}} Moonlight Smiles and Frolicsome Meadowlark]].
*** Trixie won't be banished. More like chewed out. [[Film/InglouriousBasterds She has been chewed out before.]]
** In ''An Early Reunion'', Luna's majordomo notices items in her chambers that sound suspiciously like [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings the One Ring]], [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk the Ark of the Covenant]], [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom four of the five Sankara Stones]] and [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade the Holy Grail]].
** ''Secret of Andalantis'' makes references to a musical called ''The Legend of [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Epona]]''. Two of the songs mentioned are the [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Serenade of Water and the Bolero of Fire]].
** Pokey Pierce, at one point, claims that "he won't stop until he's [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Pierced the Heavens]]" with his horn. He gets to quote Kamina's memetic {{catchphrase}} in ''The Hero of Oaton''.
** The name of Puissance's noble House, Optiebeurs-Golo, is the name of the horse that, in 1991, established the world record for the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puissance puissance jump]].
** The beginning of [[spoiler: Luna's castigation of the Night Court]] is based off of the scene in Series/IClaudius [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDj8sICxOCs&t=1732 Episode 2]] where Augustus learns of his daughter Julia's whorishness.
** ''Crisis on Two Equestrias'':
*** Each chapter is named after a song with "magic" in its title. This ties in with the plot of the fic being that [[spoiler:the Element of Magic is broken and needs to be fixed]]. Similarly, each chapter of ''The Return of Tambelon'' is named after a Series/BabylonFive episode, though it otherwise doesn't have anything to do with Babylon 5.
*** Mverse Twilight tells Mverse Trixie (who was arrested and had her property destroyed thanks to a misunderstanding thanks to Lverse Trixie) that she can stay with her until she [[Fanfic/GettingBackOnYourHooves gets back on her hooves]].
*** When M!Twilight teleports herself and her companions so that they're falling ''up'', she mentions "[[VideoGame/{{Portal}} thinking with 'porting]]".
** In ''The School Talent Show,'' When Trixie asks if Windowpane is stalking her window he replies that her window is [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons putting his kid through college]].
** ''The Return of Tambelon'':
*** The story features multiple nods to ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII'', including some of Grogar's lines being verbatim copies of Irenicus' to the Bhaalspawn.
*** When the Element Bearers run into Bray, he pretends to be an innocent victim of Grogar's who managed to escape, a la Hans Gruber in ''Film/DieHard''.
** In one chapter of ''Old Friends'', Applebloom has this thought process:
--->''Hey, does this mean I'm helping sell [[WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill apples and apple acc... access... accessthingies]]? Yay! I'm helping my sister! And I should check with Miss Cheerilee what that word is again.''
** In Chapter 3 of ''Old Friends'', the door-connecting spell that results in a ScoobyDoobyDoors incident appropriately came from a book written by Abraca[[Franchise/ScoobyDoo scooby]].
** ''Tales of Ponyville'':
** Raindrops' song in Chapter 1 is a parody of the "Gypsy Bard" song from ''WebVideo/FriendshipIsWitchcraft''.
*** In Chapter 6, Ditzy comes across Pinkie singing a few lines from "Pinkie's Brew".
** In Chapter 4 of "Eye of the Hurricane", Trixie finds out that Lyra ended up buying Iron Will's entire catalog. After spotting a "particularly grayscale book" among the purchases, Trixie asks, [[Blog/{{Moonstuck}} "And when are you going to be weaving baskets underwater?"]]
** ''An Embarrassment in Three Acts'' is the Bearers getting [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender the Ember Island Treatment]]. Trixie even notes the special effects are the only decent part.
** During ''At the Grand Galloping Gala'', Trixie orders the same kind of drink as James Bond in ''Literature/CasinoRoyale''.
** In ''Ocellus' Ordinary Day,'' she has a song scene where she sings a version of the song "Crazy Little Thing Called Love," by Queen, but relating to her (and replacing "Crazy," with "Tasty.")
** When Ocellus starts speaking Protean, the changeling language, it turns out to be [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour Newspeak]].
** One of the citizens in ''Treasure City'' is a pony named Titan Invincibleus Monarch, but [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail "there are some who call [him]... Tim."]]
** In ''For the Mare who has Everything,'' it's mentioned that Greengrass has gotten onto the Series/ParksAndRecreation committee.

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** Comparing their own actions to those of the Tyrant Sun and finding no substantive difference between them has made Ditzy and the other members of the Luna Six finally realize that Corona isn't a monster as they've been raised to believe. She's something far scarier and a damned sight more heartbreaking: A MamaBear [[UpToEleven with the power of a god]].

** ''Longest Night, Longest Day'' proves that while each main story may be ''based'' on the original MLP episode, it does ''not'' have to follow it. [[spoiler:Not only does being beaten by the Elements and Luna's request for her to come back ''not'' redeem Corona, it in fact makes her even ''[[UpToEleven more]]'' insane and hellbent on [[OmnicidalManiac complete destruction then she was before.]]]]

** When Lyra says that Pinkie Pie is going to throw Trixie a party, Trixie's response is "Why are you saying that like it's synonymous with 'she's going to drag me into a basement and torture me'?", a reference to ''Fanfic/{{Cupcakes}}''.

* RapunzelHair: Carrot Top after the poison joke. Her mane and tail instantly tripled in length, then continued to keep growing at about an inch every ten seconds, eventually clocking out at more than twelve feet long. Also, it [[MythologyGag turned green]].