History Fanfic / TheConversionBureauNotAlone

* KarmaHoudini: Ultimately subverted in the last chapter. At first it seems like Celestia would get away with destroying several human cities, leaving thousands of people homeless, starting the war that cost the lives of several humans and ponies, and essentially trying to exterminate the human race. When she realizes she's going to lose the war, she [[spoiler:takes Equestria and retreats]]. At the end however, it's revealed that [[spoiler:the combination of losing the war, missing their friends and family members they had to leave behind on earth, and the odd behaviors of the newfoals is causing the ponies to begin questioning her actions and start to lose faith in her, and the gryphon and zebra nations deem her a threat]]. Granted, she'll probably avoid Karma for a while, but not forever.

* KarmaHoudini: Ultimately subverted in the last chapter. At first it seems like Celestia would get away with destroying several human cities, leaving thousands of people homeless, starting the war that cost the lives of several humans and ponies, and essentially trying to exterminate the human race. When she realizes she's going to lose the war, she [[spoiler:takes Equestria and retreats]]. At the end, it's revealed that the combination of losing the war, missing their friends and family members they had to leave behind on earth, and the odd behaviors of the newfoals is causing the ponies to begin questioning her actions and start to lose faith in her, and the gryphon and zebra nations deem her a threat]]. Granted, she'll probably avoid Karma for a while, but not forever.

* WeHaveReserves: One of the main reasons, coupled with HumansAreWarriors and ZergRush, and the already steep cost in the lives of the Royal Guards, why Celestia [[spoiler:chooses to retreat at the end]]: Even if they had ten times the number of Guards they had, the humans still have a pool of about seven billion potential recruits, and could drown them in numbers alone.

->''"I believe in my whole race...in the honesty, courage, intelligence, durability... and goodness of the overwhelming majority of my brothers and sisters everywhere on this planet. I am proud to be a human being. I believe that we have come this far by the skin of our teeth, that we always make it just by the skin of our teeth — but that we will always make it … survive … endure. I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the apes, will endure."''\\
--'''Creator/RobertAHeinlein'''

** The slogan of the Equestrians For Humans is [[Series/{{V}} "Friendship is universal."]]

* DoomedMoralVictor: "The Longest Day" sets up [[spoiler:Lyra and the EFH]] for a lesser version of this: they aren't killed, but [[spoiler:Cheerilee loses her job and they're all effectively exiled from Ponyville]]. In other words, standing up for what they thought was right means they lost just about everything else they held dear.
* DownerEnding: For Equestria. They [[spoiler:are able to make it back safely to their home dimension in one piece, but their military is utterly decimated, and in their hasty retreat, the princesses were forced to leave more than 3000 ponies behind to an uncertain future on Earth. Moreover, the population is revealed to be losing their faith in the princesses, and the gryphon and zebra nations are ''not'' happy to hear about what Celestia tried to do to the humans. The story ultimately closes with the Gryphon Queen writing a letter to Celestia that heavily hints they may even wage war against Equestria (which is exactly what happens in ''Conquer the Stars'').]]

* ExtremeDoormat: The Newfoals. While they can feel annoyed, sad, or frightened, they are almost completely incapable of feeling anger and don't ever assert or stand up for themselves.

* HumblePie: Rainbow Dash initially wanted to go out and fight with the Royal Guard, thinking it would be easy to buck every soldier she found. Then, after she sees them after they come back from South Africa horribly injured and mutilated, she gets to eat a fat slice of this.

* PersonaNonGrata: [[spoiler:Lyra, Cheerilee, Mayor Mare, Zecora, and any other ponies affiliated with the EFH]] are run out of Ponyville.

* RousingSpeech: What U.S. diplomat Ellen Rowe gives after the United Nations General Assembly [[spoiler: declares war on Equestria]]. Several readers also gave their own speeches in the comments section. The author of ''FanFic/FriendsOfASolarEmpire'' and ''Fanfic/AHero'' gave one mixed with a WorldOfCardboardSpeech.

Similar to mainline TCB, the Equestrian landmass appears suddenly in the South Atlantic. While humanity extended welcome to the ponies, there were those who had doubts. These doubts proved founded once the ponies' imperialism came to light, leading humanity to gear up for war. At the same time, there are also those ponies who disagree with the Princesses' actions.

* {{Anticlimax}}: ''Celestia's Answer'' ends with Equestria [[spoiler:vanishing in a bright flash of light, retreating away back to their home dimension]].

*** Plus, it's revealed at the end that Celestia personally transported Equestria to Earth to purposefully assimilate them (instead of doing a simple diplomatic mission as she was entrusted by the rest of Equus.
* CreepySouvenir: In ''The Battle Of South Africa'', [[spoiler:the soldier Pieter]] hacks off a dead unicorn's horn as a trophy. This is ''not'' to be seen as a good thing.

* DoomedMoralVictor: ''The Longest Day'' sets up [[spoiler:Lyra and the EFH]] for a lesser version of this: they haven't died, but [[spoiler:Cheerilee loses her job and they're all effectively exiled from Ponyville]]. In other words, standing up for what they thought was right means they lost just about everything else they held dear.

* EtTuBrute: [[spoiler: Bon-Bon in ''The Longest Day.'']]

* HeelRealization: In ''The Man From Cape Town'', it's hinted that Twilight is beginning to have second thoughts.

* {{Homage}}: The author has said that ''The Battle of South Africa'' was inspired by the Klendathu Drop from ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' (the film, not the book), and to a lesser degree the battle scenes in ''Passchendaele''.

** Like a lot of other things, this is deconstructed - there are sympathetic humans (Andrew, Antonio, Russell, the Humans For Sapient Rights organization) and not-so-sympathetic one (Pietr, some of the bloggers, the HLF) in the story, and there are ponies that do legitimately want to help the humans.
* HumansAreWarriors: Very much so. The Canterlot guard is utterly annihilated by human weapons, and [[spoiler:the gryphons identify themselves with humanity on this basis, and it's because of this that their queen declares Celestia a threat.]]

* IncompatibleOrientation: Andrew and Ice Breaker; Andrew is gay (and not closed off to the possibility of InterspeciesRomance), Ice Breaker is straight and only attracted to mares, thus they remain JustFriends.

* {{Jerkass}}: Some of the bloggers.
** And of course, the ponies ''against'' the humans.
* KarmaHoudini: Ultimately subverted in the last chapter. At first it seems like Celestia would get away with destroying several human cities, leaving thousands of people homeless, starting the war that cost the lives of several humans and ponies, and essentially trying to exterminate the human race. When she realizes she's going to lose the war, she [[spoiler:takes Equestria and retreats]]. At the end, it's revealed that the combination of losing the war, missing their friends and family members they had to leave behind on earth, and the odd behaviors of the newfoals is causing the ponies to begin questioning her actions and start to lose faith in her, and the gryphon and zebra kingdoms identify her as a threat]]. Granted, she'll probably avoid Karma for a while, but not forever.

* NextSundayAD: Takes place in 2017/2018, with no significant differences from the present.

** ''Aftermath, Part I'' delves into why: in essence, [[spoiler:Eddy's original personality was completely ''destroyed'' and overwritten by a new one provided by the potion. However, he retained his memories, basically fooling him into thinking he's the same person who drank it]].

* OmniscientMoralityLicense: Celestia, naturally. [[spoiler:Revoked as of the epilogue.]]
* OneManArmy: Shining Armor actually takes down fifteen tanks by himself.

** {{Jerkass God}}desses: Celestia has said that she stands by [[AssInAmbassador Twilight Sparkle's]] words. It's later revealed that Luna completely agrees with Celestia.
* PoesLaw: This fic is intended to satirize and deconstruct TCB, but some readers have mistaken it for merely being another of that sub-genre.
* PyrrhicVictory: Chapter 18, ''The Battle Of South Africa'' is this [[spoiler: for the humans]]. An artillery detachment and their escort get stuck in the mud and are ambushed by a small number of Royal Guards. An armoured scout rolls in and changes the tide in favour of the humans, but the unicorns possess some of the guns and turn them against their wielders. [[spoiler:By the time more human backup can arrive, the only combatants still standing are two human artillerymen]].
** Later, also the [[spoiler: entire Battle of South Africa and the Battle for the South Atlantic end up as these. With all their newly gained territory reconquered by humanity, Equestria ends up under siege, but at an all in all surprisingly steep price]].
** The whole aftermath of the war for[[spoiler: humanity]] in general - [[spoiler: Equestria has retreated and won't be bothering anyone else, but the troubles are far from over, as South Africa is turning into a facist state and several countries start spending enormous amounts of money (at the cost of healthcare, education and environmental protection) beefing up their military forces and preparing for a war that will never come.]]
* RealityEnsues: This fic takes the essential premise and elements of ''The Conversion Bureau'' and then shows how they would play out realistically. For one thing, the humans aren't exactly happy with the ponies' offensively misanthropic attitudes.

* ScaryDogmaticAliens: TheFundamentalist type. Celestia looks at human culture, instantly deems it barbaric, and creates the ponification potion to offer them the chance to [[YouWillBeAssimilated "uplift"]] themselves into a "better state of being". When the majority of humanity makes it clear they don't want to change, Celestia decides to force them to accept it by expanding the barrier.

* StepfordSmiler: The newfoals. ''Aftermath, Part II'' reveals [[spoiler:even natural-born ponies find them creepy and unsettling]].

* TearfulSmile: Seen in ''Aftermath, Part I'' when [[spoiler:Andrew apologizes to Thunderhead]].
* ThisMeansWar: Humanity's response to Twilight Sparkle's words.

* UncannyValley: InUniverse, it's revealed that [[spoiler:the natural-born ponies find the newfoals unsettling and strange]].
* UnwittingPawn: Twilight, Shining, everypony that helped Celestia. Lampshaded when Shining tells Twilight that the war was inevitable; even though he doesn't know that it was Celestia who purposefully sent Equestria to Earth specifically to destroy the human race.

* WarIsHell: Touched on in ''The Man From Cape Town'', which features a non-soldier helping the soldiers for [[WordOfGod exactly this reason]]: he's from a city destroyed by the Barrier, and hates the ponies with all the passion you'd expect from something like that... but he's still very uncomfortable using weapons and at the end of the chapter, muses on how much more he likes firing at a nonliving barrier than he does the idea of firing at something that can not only shoot back but has a life of its own.
** Expanded in the next chapter, which is basically a skirmish in complete darkness and WorldWarOne-like rain, in which many of the South African artillerymen get stuck in the mud and are then [[BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame cut down by their own weapons by a small number of ambushing unicorns hiding in the dark]]. It involves a lot of frantic running, shooting into the darkness and hiding in thick mud. As well as [[spoiler:corpse looting and mutilation.]]
*** Said word for word by Antonio in ''The Longest Day''.

* WeHaveReserves: One of the main reasons, coupled with HumansAreWarriors and ZergRush, and the already steep cost in the lives of the Royal Guards, why Celestia fled: Even if they had ten times the number of Guards they had, the humans still have a pool of about seven billion potential recruits, and could drown them in numbers alone.
* WhatTheHellHero: At the very end, [[spoiler: the Queen of Gryphus pulls one of these on Celestia, and informs her that her OmniscientMoralityLicense has been revoked.]]
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: As of ''The Longest Day'', [[spoiler:everypony who was part of the EFH has been effectively banished from Ponyville]]. To say nothing of [[spoiler:all the ponies who were left behind when Celestia pulled Equestria out of Earth]].

** Celestia also notes that most of the troops fighting in South Africa are ''not'' humanity's finest soldiers, being poorly trained rookies that were fighting out of their element, and with inferior equipment. If it had been a better trained and equipped fighting force, the price for the ponies might have been far steeper than it already was.

* HeelRealization: In ''The Man From Cape Town'', it's hinted that Twilight is beginning to have second doubts.

** Seemingly averted when Twilight starts to express doubts in private, where, without the influence of her peers, she finally starts to understand some part of ''why'' humanity wasn't so receptive ponification. Sadly, come [[Fanfic/TheConversionBureauConquerTheStars the sequel]], she's ''still'' in denial.

* RousingSpeech: What U.S. diplomat Ellen Rowe gives after the United Nations General Assembly [[spoiler: declares war on Equestria]].
** Several readers also gave their own speeches in the comments section. The author of ''FanFic/FriendsOfASolarEmpire'' and ''Fanfic/AHero'' gave one mixed with a WorldOfCardboardSpeech.

* {{Anticlimax}}: ''Celestia's Answer'' ends with [[spoiler: Equestria just... vanishing]].
* AliensAreBastards: Averted. While ponies like Twilight Sparkle ''definitely'' qualify, there's also ones like [[MeaningfulName Ice Breaker]], Evening Star and Lyra, who do not agree with what Celestia is doing.
* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Shining Armor]] lost both hind legs during the battle of South Africa.

* BittersweetEnding: For Earth. The good news is that [[spoiler:Equestria retreats back to its home dimension and won't be bothering anyone else anytime soon, humanity survives, there is hope for peaceful coexistence with the ponies left on Earth, and it appears Celestia will get her comeuppance.]] The bad news is that [[spoiler: the PER and HLF are still out there and still a threat, many ponies are still being held in internment camps, South Africa is turning into a fascist hellhole, and many countries have begun spending massive amounts of money (at the expense of education and healthcare) on the military and building weapons in preparation for a war that will never come.]]
* BlatantLies: Celestia, in an interview, states that she wants friendship between species. She also states that she's not forcing humanity to accept ponification. If you're familiar with the Conversion Bureau in general, you'd see that neither of these statements are true.
** Confirmed by Luna herself when she says it wasn't Celestia's fault that they rejected her 'perfect solution' for the problems of humanity despite everything she did to make sure they didn't.
*** Plus it's revealed at the end that Celestia personally transported Equestria to Earth to purposefully assimilate them.
* CreepySouvenir: In ''The Battle Of South Africa'', [[spoiler:the soldier Pieter]] hacks off a dead unicorn's horn as a trophy. This is NOT to be seen as a good thing.

* DeconstructionFic: Of ''Fanfic/TheConversionBureau''.
** Humanity reacts appropriately to the ponies' misanthropy, the effects of the expanding Equestrian bubble are further examined, and we have human-sympathizing ponies.

** Pony superiority over humans in battle was also deconstructed, as Rainbow Dash finds out the hard way. She initially wanted to go out to the front lines, "bucking all the humans before they could hit her," but this ambition dies ''very'' quickly once she sees the evacuating Royal Guards, many of whom are wounded badly or are in need of medical attention.

* {{Expy}}: Several elements of the story are borrowed from WorldWarTwo: a nation rapidly gaining power under the control of a self-righteous, bigoted dictator begins expanding into the surrounding world, and eventually crosses the line, bringing a large part of the rest of the world down on it with full military might, and resulting in the internment of suspected spies within the "allies" solely by ethnicity.

* ExtremelyShortTimeSpan: According to Celestia, the Battles of South Africa and the South Atlantic - the events of up to four whole chapters - took place in only two, extremely intense and brutal days.

*** When one pony suggests resorting to violence against humans who want to turn them over to the SAS, he's immediately berated by his colleague for "acting human." This is made even more egregious when compared to Newfoal Thunderhead, who says he cannot think mean things because of the potions, but natural-born ponies clearly can.

** It's pretty heavily hinted that Fluttershy thinks ''they'' were the ones who approached the humans wrong, not that humanity was inherently vile.
*** After Twilight thinks about the effects of the potion, and what they would do to Shining Armor if it could heal him, she finally realizes the ''real'' reason humanity went to war.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Unicorns turning human weapons against their wielders.

** Like a lot of other things, this is deconstructed - there are sympathetic (Andrew, Antonio, Russell, the Humans For Sapient Rights organization) and not-so-sympathetic (Pietr, some of the bloggers, the HLF) humans in the story, and there are ponies that do legitimately want to help the humans.

** Later chapters have Celestia become this as well.

** Seemingly averted when Twilight starts to express doubts in private, where, without the influence of her peers, she finally starts to understand some part of ''why'' humanity isn't so keen on ponification. Sadly, come [[Fanfic/TheConversionBureauConquerTheStars the sequel]], she's ''still'' in denial.

* KarmaHoudini: At first it seems [[spoiler:Celestia is this. She destroyed several human cities, left thousands of people homeless, was directly responsible for the war that cost the lives of several humans and ponies, and essentially tried to exterminate the human race in the process. When she realizes she's going to lose said war, she takes Equestria and runs away, rather than surrender herself to the humans to save her ponies.]] That said, [[spoiler:she's fully aware this means she's abandoning all the ponies who were captured/aren't currently in Equestria, and that about the only thing keeping her from breaking down is the fact she needs to be strong for the survivors]].\\
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Ultimately subverted in the last chapter, [[spoiler: where the combination of losing the war, missing their friends and family members they had to leave behind on earth, and the odd behaviors of the newfoals causes the ponies of Equestria to begin questioning her actions and start to lose faith in her, and the gryphon and zebra kingdoms identify her as a threat.]] Granted, she'll probably avoid Karma for a while, but not forever.

* MugglesDoItBetter: [[spoiler:Rocket artillery beats force field. Machine guns beat Royal Guard armour.]]

** {{Jerkass God}}desses: Celestia has said that she stands by [[AssInAmbassador Twilight Sparkle's]] words. It's later revealed that Luna seems to agree with Celestia.

* TheQuisling: [[spoiler: Bon-Bon sells out the members of the "Equestrians for Humans" despite many of them, particularly Lyra, being her friends.]]
* RealityEnsues: This fic in a nutshell, as applied to the Conversion Bureau subgenre.

** Several readers gave their own speeches in the comments section.
*** The author of [[FanFic/FriendsOfASolarEmpire Friends of a Solar Empire]] and [[Fanfic/AHero A Hero]] gave one mixed with a WorldOfCardboardSpeech.
* ScaryDogmaticAliens: TheFundamentalist type. Instantly Celestia looks at human culture, deems it barbaric, and creates the ponification potion to '[[YouWillBeAssimilated convert]]' humanity into 'better' forms. When humans start rejecting the potion, Celestia tries to eliminate humanity with her barrier.

** Dalek IX has begun work on a fan sequel, found [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/mlp-fim-the-conversion-bureau-conquer-the-stars.237773/ here]]. It now has [[Fanfic/TheConversionBureauConquerTheStars its own tropes page.]]
*** Warwolf has also started a fan sequel, [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/83196/the-shadow-of-ages The Shadow of Ages.]] The two sequels are entirely unrelated though both are set sometime after the end of the original. How long varies. Dalek IX's fic is at least a century or so after the original. Warwolf's...hasn't actually been defined in terms of timeline beyond the fact that it's sometime after Equestria jumped back to its own world.

** Lyra says Celestia could tell ponies [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour two plus two equals five]] and they'd believe it.

* SouthAfricansWithSurfaceToAirMissiles: The author went to quite some lengths to describe the fighting prowess of South African artillery and light armored cavalry, including detailing their names and weapon systems.

* UncannyValley: InUniverse - [[spoiler: the natural-born ponies find the newfoals unsettling and strange]].

* BarrierBustingBlow: It takes ridiculous amounts of dakka, but eventually something (likely a large missile strike) was able to break down the barrier.

* PyrrhicVictory: Chapter 18, ''The Battle Of South Africa'' is this [[spoiler: for the humans]]. An artillery detachment and their escort get stuck in the mud and are ambushed by a small number of Royal Guards. An armoured scout rolls in and changes the tide in favour of the humans, but the unicorns possess some of the guns and turn them against their wielders. By the time more human backup can arrive, [[spoiler: most of the detachment is dead, as are all of the ambushers]].

** Also, a chapter is called ''TheLongestDay''.

* [[spoiler: {{Anticlimax}}]]: ''Celestia's Answer'' ends with [[spoiler: Equestria just... vanishing]].

* [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Scary Dogmatic Ponies]]: TheFundamentalist type. Instantly Celestia looks at human culture, deems it barbaric, and creates the ponification potion to '[[YouWillBeAssimilated convert]]' humanity into 'better' forms. When humans start rejecting the potion, Celestia tries to eliminate humanity with her barrier.

* [[ScrewYouElves Screw You Ponies]]: Humanity as a whole does not take kindly to the ponies' misanthropic and ambiguously genocidal attitudes.

* DownerEnding: For Equestria. They [[spoiler:are able to make it back safely to their home dimension in one piece, but their military is utterly decimated, and in their hasty retreat, the princesses were forced to leave more than 3000 ponies behind to an uncertain future on Earth. Moreover, the population is revealed to be losing their faith in the princesses, and the gryphon and zebra nations are ''not'' happy to hear about what Celestia tried to do to the humans. The story ultimately closes with the Gryphon Queen writing a letter to Celestia that heavily hints they may even wage war against Equestria.]]

* AliensAreBastards: Subverted. While ponies like Twilight Sparkle ''definitely'' qualify, there's also ones like [[MeaningfulName Ice Breaker]], Evening Star and Lyra, who do not agree with what Celestia is doing.

* AssimilationPlot: {{Deconstruct}}s the typical TCB ponification crusade by Celestia.
* AssInAmbassador: Twilight Sparkle ends up offending ''[[UpToEleven the entire human race]]'' and sparking a war between Earth and Equestria.

* DeconstructionFic: Of ''Fanfic/TheConversionBureau''. Humanity reacts appropriately to the ponies' misanthropy, the effects of the expanding Equestrian bubble are further examined, and we have human-sympathizing ponies.

* ColbertBump: This story managed to set up Anti-TCB stories that weren't as heavy-handed as the actual TCB stories, as well as other "humans in Equestria" stories that have GreyAndGreyMorality once it appeared on Spacebattles.

* GoshDangItToHeck: As shown with Thunderhead, the newfoals generally do not like swearing. Thunderhead himself at one point is even able to admit that he's "pissed off" during a tough repair job, but onl;y because he was being pressured into it and he very clearly didn't like using that kind of language.

* HumiliationConga: According to Dalek Ix's fanfic, TheConversionBureauConquerTheStars, the rest of Equestria didn't react too kindly to what Celestia did.

** Seemingly averted when she starts to express doubts in private, where, without the influence of her peers, she finally starts to understand ''why'' humanity isn't so keen on ponification. Sadly, come [[Fanfic/ConversionBureauConquerTheStars]], she's ''still'' in denial.
* IncompatibleOrientation: Andrew and Ice Breaker; Andrew is gay (and xenosexual), Ice Breaker is neither, and so they remain JustFriends.

* [[ScrewYouElves Screw You Ponies]]: Humanity as a whole reacts appropriately to Celestia's ambiguously genocidal attitude.

** There's a pony called QuantumLeap.

* SociopathicSoldier: Pieter, who seems to be a combination of types I and II.
* SouthAfricansWithSurfaceToAirMissiles: The author went to quite some lengths to describe the fighting prowess of South African artillery and light armoured cavalry, including detailing their names and weapon systems.

''[[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/re-upload-tcb-not-alone.248433/ The Conversion Bureau: Not Alone]]'' is a ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic. It is a sometimes heavy-handed new take on ''Fanfic/TheConversionBureau''; while not strictly necessary, reading or at least having knowledge of TCB is '''strongly advised'''.

Similar to mainline TCB, the Equestrian landform appears suddenly in the South Atlantic. While humanity extended welcome to the ponies, there were those who had doubts. These doubts proved founded once the ponies' imperialism came to light, leading humanity to gear up for war. At the same time, there are also those ponies who disagree with the Princesses' actions.

* AuthorTract : Written (from word of god) to "set right" perceived issues with certain other pro-conversion TCB stories. Whether it works is left as an exercise to the individual reader.

** Equestria didn't get out of this scot-free either. Those who believed in unification between humans and ponies are now on the run, with little to suggest that this flight is going to end well. Many of those who battled against the humans are now permanently injured, including Shining Armor. There are doubts going through the minds of each of the Elements, possibly lessening their effectiveness. The Newfoals are proving disruptive by being extremely UncannyValley, if nothing else. And Celestia has just had her moral authority revoked by the queen of the griffins. However, in the end they avoided destruction at the hands of the humans and did manage to get away with minimal casualties.

*** Revealed at the end that Celestia personally transported Equestria to Earth to purposefully assimilate them.
* ColbertBump: This story managed to set up Anti-TCB stories that weren't as heavy-handed as the actual TCB stories, as well as other humans in equestria stories that have GreyAndGreyMorality once it appeared on Spacebattles.

** Pony superiority over humans in battle was also deconstructed, as Rainbow Dash finds out. She initially wanted to go out to the front lines, "Bucking all the humans before they could hit her," but this ambition dies ''very'' quickly once she sees the evacuating Royal Guards, many of whom are wounded badly or are in need of medical attention.
** Humans are also seen more realistically, being neither a race of [[Warhammer40K Khorne-worshiping berserkers]] nor a race of pure innocence, either. There are good humans, bad humans, humans that like ponies, humans that side with the ponies, humans that hate the ponies, those who use the threat of ponies for their own ends... they run the entire spectrum.

** After being questioned about Celestia's border expansion, Twilight simply dismissed those 'silly' human politics and insists they'd all just be better off under Celestia's rule. Saying that simply being [[GodEmperor Goddesses]] is reason enough the Human's should trust their leadership, and why it's fine to accept relinquishing their civil rights.

* GoshDangItToHeck: As shown with Thunderhead, the newfoals also lose their ability to swear.
** Not entirely- when prompted, Thunderhead does admit that he's "Pissed" but he's clearly extremely reluctant and only does so because he's being strongly pressured.

** It's pretty heavily hinted that Fluttershy thinks ''they'' were the ones who approached the humans wrong. Not that humanity was inherently vile.
*** After Twilight thinks about the effects of the potion, and what they would do to Shining if it could heal him, she finally realizes the ''real'' reason humanity went to war.

* HumblePie: Rainbow Dash wanted to go out and fight with the Royal Guard, thinking it would be easy to buck every soldier she found. Then, after she sees them after they come back from South Africa horribly injured and mutilated, she gets to eat a fat slice of this.

* PoesLaw: This fic is intended to satirise and deconstruct TCB, but some readers have mistaken it for merely being another of that sub-genre.

** The whole aftermath of the war for humanity in general - [[spoiler: Equestria has retreated and won't be bothering anyone else, but the troubles are far from over, as South Africa is turning into a facist state and several countries start spending enormous amounts of money (at the cost of healthcare, education and enviromental protection) beefing up their militaries and preparing for a war that will never come.]]

* [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Scary Dogmatic Ponies]]: ala TheFundamentalist type. Instantly Celestia looks at human culture, deems it barbaric, and creates the ponification potion to '[[YouWillBeAssimilated convert]]' Humanity into 'better' forms. When Humans start rejecting the potion, Celestia tries to eliminate humanity with her barrier.

* [[ScrewYouElves Screw You Ponies]]: Humans react appropriately to Celestia's ambiguously genocidal attitude.

* StepfordSmiler: The newfoals. ''Aftermath, Part II'' reveals [[spoiler:even natural-born ponies get creeped out by it]].

* TotalitarianUtilitarian: Celestia is a Type 2. She seems to honestly think ponification would help solve all of humanity's problems but doesn't understand why the humans don't want to give up being what makes them.
* UncannyValley: InUniverse, the reactions of natural ponies to newfoals.

* YouCantGoHomeAgain: As of ''The Longest Day'', [[spoiler:everypony who was part of the EFH has been effectively banished from Ponyville]]. To say nothing of [[spoiler:all the ponies who were left behind when Celestia pulled Equestria out of our world]].

* UrbanFantasy: Very much so. Like the original TCB, it explore what would happen when a HighFantasy world in a MedievalStasis [[CultureClash clashed]] with contemporary RealLife earth.

-''>"I believe in my whole race...in the honesty, courage, intelligence, durability... and goodness of the overwhelming majority of my brothers and sisters everywhere on this planet. I am proud to be a human being. I believe that we have come this far by the skin of our teeth, that we always make it just by the skin of our teeth — but that we will always make it … survive … endure. I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the apes, will endure."''//

->"I believe in my whole race...in the honesty, courage, intelligence, durability... and goodness of the overwhelming majority of my brothers and sisters everywhere on this planet. I am proud to be a human being. I believe that we have come this far by the skin of our teeth, that we always make it just by the skin of our teeth — but that we will always make it … survive … endure. I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the apes, will endure."
-->-- '''Creator/RobertAHeinlein'''

A second fan sequel has been posted to fimfiction.net by another fimfiction author called Warwolf, with Starman's permission, as of February 11, 2013 called ''The Shadow of Ages'', and is also a crossover with another Conversion Bureau fanfic called ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/33423/the-conversion-bureau-the-warriors-way The Conversion Bureau: The Warrior's Way]]'', itself a sequel to Warwolf's story ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/21810/the-shogun-six The Shogun Six]]''. ''The Shadow of Ages'' can be found [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/83196/the-shadow-of-ages here]].

As of January 31, 2013, Starman Ghost decided to delete the story from FimFiction.net, declaring that he refused to write in the Conversion Bureau setting anymore, to the shock of his readers, who did their level best to convince him otherwise. However, readers uploaded the story (with his permission) to other places, including the Spacebattles link above.

** The slogan of the Equestrians For Humans is [[Main/{{V}} "Friendship is universal."]]

* TotalitarianUtilitarian: Celestia is a Type 2. She seems to honestly think ponification would help solve all of humanity's problems but doesn't understand why the humans don't want to give up being what makes them, them.