History WesternAnimation / MyLittlePonyANewGeneration

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: The forbidden words the unicorns have to do a ritual in response to, in order to ward off the "jinxies", are magic, wing, feather, and [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext mayonnaise]].

* AnAesop:
** Lies are destructive. The dangers of lying and falsehood are presented throughout the film as keeping the three races of ponies divided. The things that each race claims about the other two are outright ridiculous, and don't hold up to even the slightest bit of scrutiny. Once the heroes see that each other race is just like their own and nothing like the lies they were told, they all become friends.
** We're stronger together than we are apart. It's only through uniting together that the heroes manage to save the day and convince everypony that it's worth giving everyone the benefit of the doubt. Meanwhile, the antagonists are people who want to keep everyone separate, even using violence to do it.
** Do not be trapped in isolation by fear of others. This led to the film's current situation.

** Without magic, pegasus wings can only sustain short glides at best; they are too small and weak to give a lift to something as heavy as a pony. [[RoyaltySuperpower The royal family of Zephyr Heights are the only exceptions]], and it's said that they're using magic to fly. [[spoiler:Except, even they can't do it; it's all an elaborate lie using wires and trick lighting to make it ''look like'' they can fly. Their subjects turn on them the moment they realize they were faking it]].

** The first thing the movie establishes is that [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Twilight Sparkle's]] age of harmony for Equestria ultimately [[HappyEndingOverride didn't last]]. Sadly, in reality the good times can't last forever, especially after thousands of years.

** The earth ponies of Maretime Bay are motivated by fear of the unicorns and pegasi more than abject hate, and have zero experience in warfare. When Sunny and Hitch tell them that neither tribe have their magic, most of them are relieved, believing that they now won't have to fight at all. Even after being convinced to continue the attack, when faced with unicorns and pegasi, the earth ponies run from the ponies they've long been afraid of, rather than fight them.

** The first thing the movie establishes that [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Twilight Sparkle's]] age of harmony for Equestria ultimately [[HappyEndingOverride didn't last]]. Sadly, in reality the good times can't last forever, especially after thousands of years.

* AbsoluteXenophobe: Sprout is shown to be '''extremely''' bigoted towards unicorns and pegasi, especially towards the end of the film.

** This isn't the first time either that James Marsden [[Film/SonicTheHedgehog plays a sheriff from a small town who befriends critters]].

** Unicorn horns are longer, sharper, and have ornate markings on them.

* NoNameGiven: The balloon pony is the only one of the gadget models not to be named by Phyllis during the Canterlogic Annual. The credits simply list him as previously described.

** Sunny and her father write a letter calling on unicorns and pegasi to come to Maretime Time, [[spoiler: which is received by the one unicorn in Bridlewood who shares that opinion. That unicorn then accidentally runs into that very same earth pony the moment she wanders into Maretime Bay.]]

* SeriesContinuityError: Despite [[TheMagicGoesAway magic disappearing]] things ''Friendship is Magic'' established as reliant on magic, the sun and moon moving and cutie marks, are still present without explanation. (The creators stated they didn't have an idea for what happened so any future explaination will be after the fact.)

* SeriesContinuityError: Despite [[TheMagicGoesAway magic disappearing]] things ''Friendship is Magic'' established as reliant on magic, the sun and moon moving and cutie marks, are still present without explanation. (The creators stated they didn't have an idea for what happened so any future explaining will be after the fact.

In 2022, the film was followed by ''[[WebAnimation/MyLittlePonyTellYourTale Tell Your Tale]]'', a 2D animated series for Youtube on April 7th, and ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyMakeYourMark Make Your Mark]]'', a Netflix [=CGI=] series starting with 44-minute special on May 26th, followed by a season of 22-minute episodes on September 26th, as well as a Christmas-themed special ''Winter Wishday''on November 21st.

In 2022, the film was followed by ''[[WebAnimation/MyLittlePonyTellYourTale Tell Your Tale]]'', a 2D animated series for Youtube on April 7th, and ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyMakeYourMark Make Your Mark]]'', a 44-minute special for Netflix on May 26th, with an upcoming 23-episode [=CGI=] series also called ''Make Your Mark'' for Netflix on September 26th, as well as a Christmas-themed special ''Winter Wishday'' for Netflix on November 21st.

** One of the major factors that has kept the three tribes divided from one another for so long are the various slanderous misinformation, propaganda, and silly superstitions they have regarding the other tribes. The antagonist, [[spoiler:Deputy Sprout]], uses the fear, anger and hatred for the unicorns and pegasi that came with those lies to take over Maretime Bay as a rabblerousing dictator, nearly going on the war-path against the other two tribes. This is to the horror of not just Sunny Starscout, but also [[spoiler:Sprout's mother, who peddled those very same anti-unicorn and anti-pegasus lies out of genuine misbelief about the other two Tribes and to [[CorruptCorporateExecutive market and sell her rather unsafe unicorn and pegasi defence systems]], all of which her son Sprout believed without question and took UpToEleven in his paranoia and egomania. When she sees how far her son has gone, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone she's horrified]]]].

* AmbiguousSituation:
** It's unclear just how long ago the events of the previous series were, or how things ended up the way that they currently did. All that's known is that ''Friendship is Magic'' was so long ago that most ponies in the modern era now consider the life and times of Princess Twilight and her friends to be a fairy tale.
** [[spoiler: Sunny's wings and horn appearing as [[HardLight ethereal projections]] rather than physical additions to her body make it unclear whether her alicorn form is permanent or some kind of SuperMode.]] [[spoiler:''Make Your Mark'' confirms it's the latter.]]

* TyopOnTheCover: The Maretime Bay movie theater's headlining film uses "Judgement", an unofficial spelling used in the British Isles (where Boulder Studios is based), but Maretime Bay is American in flavor and the film it's mimicking used the American spelling, "Judgment".