History WebAnimation / MyLittlePortal

* BoobyTrap: True to ''Portal'' form, [=DISCoRD=]'s test chambers are set up like this, from [[FrickinLaserBeams deadly lasers]] to [[SmashingHallwayTrapsOfDoom giant crushers]].

The first episode was released on July 6, 2012. There are currently seven episodes in total. The series so far can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuUUN65Dt62WoeIRbROGHpMRNgWC-05BC here]].

* ColdOpening: Episode 2 and onwards have been doing this. See TwoLinesDifferentTimes below.

* TwoLinesDifferentTimes: Each ColdOpen from episode 2 onward sheds light on what happened at Equestria Laboratories ten years ago.

* ColdOpening: Episode 2 and onwards have been doing this. See MeanwhileInTheFuture, down below.

* MeanwhileInTheFuture: Each ColdOpen from episode 2 onward sheds light on what happened at Equestria Laboratories ten years ago.

* CerebusSyndrome: ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' [[XMeetsY meets]] ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}''? It's bound to be silly fun... for a few episodes, before we find out [[spoiler:Canterlot was sacked by the changelings and Twilight is being trained to go back down and lead LaResistance]].

* {{Crossover}}: ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' [[XMeetsY meets]] ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}''.

** [=DISCoRD=], [=CELesTIA=], and LUNA each represent a different facet of GLaDOS.

* DecoyProtagonist: Rainbow Dash (a test subject) and Dr. Whooves (a lab researcher) are set up as the protagonists in the first episode. Then RD gets [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]] off-screen by [=DISCoRD=] before the Doctor gets [=CELesTIA=] and LUNA to shut him down, and the focus shifts to Twilight for the rest of the series. Though considering the [[SpoilerOpening opening]], this is hardly surprising.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Episode 5 is ''full'' of this. [[spoiler:Fluttershy has her spine ripped out and is left to bleed out, Shining Armor has his ''heart'' ripped out, Celestia is brutally impaled, Luna is torn apart by Changelings, etc.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:King Sombra]] possessing [[spoiler:Queen Chrisalis]] keeps calling [[spoiler:her]] out on failing PragmaticVillainy forever. But it all falls on deaf ears.

* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: [[spoiler:Queen Chrysalis tore off Twilight's wings while she was grieving over the death of Princess Celestia, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone who she'd just killed by accident]]]].

** [[spoiler:Corrupt robots]] in episode 7.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Christalia is notable for being the only female changeling besides the Queen. [[spoiler:She is the only one who opposes the invasion and is clearly not on the side of evil.]]
* ShipTease: A couple of cases during [[spoiler:the flashback]] in episode 5:

** [[spoiler:Twilight and Luna]] share a couple of oddly drawn-out and tender moments of embrace, once when [[spoiler:Luna catches Twilight after Chrysalis throws her out of a castle window]], and again later when [[spoiler:[[YouShallNotPass Luna insists on holding off the changeling army while Twilight and her friends fly away]]]].

* RedEyesTakeWarning: [=DISCoRD=], more so with his redesign.

The first episode was released on July 6, 2012. There are currently six episodes in total. The series so far can be viewed [[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuUUN65Dt62WoeIRbROGHpMRNgWC-05BC here]].

The first episode was released on July 6, 2012. There are currently five episodes in total. The series so far can be viewed [[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuUUN65Dt62WoeIRbROGHpMRNgWC-05BC here]].

* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Seems to be the case with Queen Chrysalis, who is shown to be possessed by King Sombra in episode 5, altering her appearance and making her immensely more powerful at the expense of constantly [[HearingVoices hearing his voice]] motivating her actions]].

* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:King Sombra]] possessing [[spoiler:Queen Chrisalis]] keeps calling [[spoiler:her]] out on failing PragmaticVillainy forever.

* EyeScream: Rainbow Dash's eyes are replaced with mechanical ones during her transformation into a cyborg--with no implication that she needed replacements after her brutal encounter with [=DISCoRD=].

** Dr. Whooves is one to [[VideoGame/HalfLife Gordon Freeman]].

* BloodierAndGorier: Episode 5, thanks to [[spoiler:the flashback to the fall of Canterlot. Fluttershy is nearly eviscerated, changelings]] are smashed and blown up all over the place, [[spoiler:Chrysalis ''rips out Shining Armor's heart'' and ''snaps off Twilight's wings'' with '''visible bones''', Twilight accidentally ''''gores Celestia to death with her horn'''']]... it earns its foreboding ContentWarning.

* BloodierAndGorier: Episode 5, thanks to [[spoiler:the flashback to the fall of Canterlot. Fluttershy is nearly eviscerated, changelings]] are smashed and blown up all over the place, [[spoiler:Chrysalis ''rips out Shining Armor's heart'' and ''snaps off Twilight's wings'' with '''visible bones''', Twilight accidentally '''gores Celestia to death with her horn''']]... it earns its foreboding ContentWarning.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: [=DISCoRD=], moreso with his redesign.

* DecoyProtagonist: Rainbow Dash (a test subject) and Doctor Whooves (a lab researcher) are set up as the protagonists in the first episode. Then RD gets [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]] off-screen by [=DISCoRD=] before the Doctor gets [=CELesTIA=] and LUNA to shut him down, and the focus shifts to Twilight for the rest of the series. Though considering the [[SpoilerOpening opening]], this is hardly surprising.

** Doctor Whooves is one to [[VideoGame/HalfLife Gordon Freeman]].

* HeelFaceTurn: In episode 5, one of the changelings, Christalia, becomes disillusioned with the war and helps evacuate the city in the form of a pony before she is caught by her own kind.

* [[LastOfHisKind Last of Their Kind]]: [[spoiler:Twilight and Trixie appear to be the only ponies left; everyone else died during "The Fall of Canterlot".]]

* TheMole: In episode 4, Doctor Brown confides with Doctor Whooves that a changeling spy has been discovered within the facility. [[spoiler:As episode 5 suggests, Brown ''is'' the spy]].
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Doctor Brown goes to [[WeCanRebuildHim some extreme lengths]] to save Rainbow Dash from death.
* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: More like a ten-year deactivation (not that it makes much difference to him), but [=DISCoRD=] has this conversation with Doctor Whooves before it happens:

'''Doctor Whooves''': Prepare? For what?\\

* ShadowDiscretionShot: [[spoiler:Chrysalis's murder of Shining Armor.]]

** Doctor Whooves dons a [[VideoGame/HalfLife HEV Suit]] in episode 1.

-->'''Doctor Brown''': I just don't think we're ready to launch the system. We still have to run tests on it.\\
'''Doctor Whooves''': I know, but Cranky says we need it running as soon as possible. Besides, [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong what could go wrong?]]

* BloodierAndGorier: Episode 5, thanks to [[spoiler:the flashback to the fall of Canterlot. Fluttershy is nearly eviscerated, changelings]] are smashed and blown up all over the place, [[spoiler:Chrysalis ''rips out Shining Armor's heart'' and ''snaps off Twilight's wings'' with '''visible bones''']]... it earns its foreboding ContentWarning.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The Pinkie Core accidentally bumps into the BigRedButton labeled "Do Not Press" that reactivates [=DISCoRD=] after his ten-year-long stasis.