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1''Ponies and Dragons'' is an ongoing RoundRobin ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic series by Alex Warlorn (of ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'' fame). It comprises numerous "sessions", split up into separate vignettes, about the show's cast playing various tabletop games. [[MundaneMadeAwesome Things tend to get a little more epic than a simple board game night, though.]]
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3It is unconnected canonically with any of the author's other series.
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5It can be found [[https://www.deviantart.com/alexwarlorn/art/Ponies-and-Dragons-Just-Have-Fun-551454730 here]] or [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/287205/ponies-and-dragons-just-have-fun here]].
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7As of November 2020, it is 106 chapters long and still ongoing.
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9!!''Ponies and Dragons'' provides examples of:
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11* AbusiveParents:
12** Human!Rabia is an awful human being to the point her children (with Ira as the sole exception) seem all too happy she's in prison. She apparently tried to ''force'' Sombra not to marry Hope as well, and still treats her daughter-in-law like crap.
13** Human!Storm King is the human Tempest Shadow's legal guardian. While details are sparse, he's a morally bankrupt LoanShark and doesn't seem to be all that concerned by her [[AnArmAndALeg missing right arm from the elbow down]].
14* AllegedlyFreeGame: A number of games made by the company the human version of Sombra runs are apparently this. To note, Cutie Marks were only added to a game because they could be monetized in the form of allowing people to make their own or 'reroll' if they didn't like the one they got. Though to be fair, Sombra's not ''quite'' a CorruptCorporateExecutive.
15* AllOfThem: Apparently during the events of the season 6 finale, Sunburst was left keeping [[spoiler:the Changelings impersonating the royal family of the Empire]] busy without exposing himself. When asked how many ways he had to come up with to do this, this trope is his response.
16* AlternateSelf: In addition to the known ''Equestria Girls'' counterparts, we meet several others:
17** Human Sombra is the CEO of a videogame company and HappilyMarried to Radiant Hope, while Chrysalis is his VP and Discord is his chief game developer. All three are far better people than their Equestrian counterparts. Rabia used to run the company, but was ultimately arrested for undisclosed, but implied to be terrible, crimes.
18** Human Gilda is a friend of Human Rainbow Dash who works at a junk yard.
19** Dog Ember and Torch are Human Gilda's dogs, while Dog Garble is a stray. Ember ends up being given sapience eventually.
20** Human Tirek is a corrupt lawyer.
21** Human Storm King is a ruthless landshark and Tempest's legal guardian.
22** Human Novo is the principal of another school.
23** Human Kabuto, Decepticolt, Goldcap, and Zappityhoof are former game designers for Sombra's company who were fired for various reasons. [[spoiler:The latter three later become hackers to try and get revenge.]]
24* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Subverted big time with the Changelings. While evil ones do exist, including Chrysalis, they're largely no more evil than ponies. Queen Supia is, while vicious at times, benevolent, Queen Cicada's hive just hangs out underground feeding on ambient love for 17 years before emerging to throw a gigantic party, and their [[MonsterProgenitor Mother Goddess]] Empress Rosedust/Blackrose is a sweetheart (so long as you're not [[BerserkButton Discord]]). And of course there's the canon example of Thorax.
25* AlwaysSomeoneBetter:
26** The giants learn this the hard way, when Flurry Heart [[IncredibleShrinkingMan makes them all the size of toys]] during their outrage-fueled siege of the Crystal Empire.
27** The Changeling Emperor is reminded that Discord is not to be trifled with, and that if Princess Luna can't look into your dreams, then she isn't trying.
28* AnArmAndALeg: Human!Tempest Shadow lost her right arm below the elbow in a bear attack.
29* AndYouThoughtItWasAGame: Gilda invokes this, using Equestria's new computers bought from the human world to play ''VideoGame/SimCity''... while asking someone online for advice on playing on expert mode. Except Gilda is now queen of Griffinstone and she's using experience in the game for help in running her new kingdom, and she's unwittingly asking advice from Celestia. Celestia drops hints she knows exactly what's going on, and enjoys mentoring future rivals.
30* AmoralAttorney:
31** 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.
32** Dra-Gon is also part of Ponythulhu's law firm, but whether his amorality as a villain carries over to it or not is unclear.
33* ArmyOfThievesAndWhores: The explanation for how Chrysalis managed to pull off the events of "[[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.
34* ArtificialLimbs: Human!Tempest Shadow has an artificial right arm from the elbow down after losing it to a bear attack.
35* ArtistDisillusionment: InUniverse, Night Gale suffered this after learning her early books were being lampooned and felt she was the butt of a joke that only she wasn't in on. She eventually found the courage to learn and improve.
36* AssInAmbassador: Garble [[{{Jerkass}} of all dragons]] gets officially sent to Ponyville by Ember as a diplomat. Unofficially, she just wants someone else to deal with him for a while.
37* AssKicksYou:
38** Applejack's giant pony warrior character in ''March of the Giants'' slips on some ice and lands her flank on an evil baron, [[KarmicDeath flattening him instantly]] to everypony's amusement. AJ even gets a [[BondOneLiner nice quip]] immediately afterward.
39** Gizmo mentions a newspaper joking about [[Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries Queen Tiamat]] accidentally sitting on ''a city'' she'd gotten for her birthday. It's unclear whether this ''actually'' happened, or was just made up by the paper.
40* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever:
41** The Mane Six all play as giant equines in ''March of the Giants''. Their characters even have a rampage through an evil pony baron's castle, ''[[SquashedFlat literally]]'' [[CurbStompBattle crushing any opposition]] from the tiny {{Mooks}} with some lucky dice rolls. (And one NOT so lucky roll on Applejack's part, that leads to a KarmicDeath for said evil baron via AssKicksYou.)
42** The Cutie Mark Crusaders (and some friends) get in on the action with a game of "King of Manehatten", where they play various {{Kaiju}} battling to conquer the city.[[note]]A ShoutOut to the real board game ''King of Tokyo''[[/note]]. And later, a REAL instance of this, with a titanic, hornet-like Changeling Queen named Supia...who scares the bejesus out of Chrysalis, who banned the game in her Hive in a fit of petty rage. [[spoiler:It turns out later that Supia is her sister and her mother can grow gigantic at will as well.]]
43** The Wonderbolts play a ''Monsterpocalypse''-like game, while musing over how HumongousMecha ARE somewhat practical for fighting giant monsters.
44** Then there was the time where there was a fight for Spike's love between a greed-grown Ember, Mina, and Rarity (who had been turned into a dragon).
45** Not so much "Attack", but both Ember and Mina have grown up to be ''titanic'' dragonessses in the "Game of Dragons" arc, set a thousand years in the future.
46*** Though in Ember's case, there ''are'' some hints that she's been in a few fights since she reached her current size/age...
47** The human versions of Rainbow Dash and Gilda ''think'' they can do this in [[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft "World of Horsecraft"]] by exploiting a glitch in a growth potion item. Their characters ''do'' become giant-sized, but [[EpicFail move painfully slowly, and harmlessly clip through some low-level players they try to step on.]]
48** Gerulf, a gigantic "Grand Griffon" the size of an airship, has now joined the party as of 28.2.
49** In 33.7, we're introduced to a whole new cast of Royal Giants, including the ''abosolutely huge'' Seismos; who's pretty much a giant pony-Spartan. The group later ''lays siege to the Crystal Empire'' due to some...unflattering stereotypes of giants Shining and his buddies put in the March of the Giants module.
50** Chrysalis's older sister Supia is kaiju-sized. Their mother Blackrose can ''also'' choose to grow to giant size at will.
51* AttractiveBentGender:
52** [[JerkassGenie Discord]] helps Twilight, Rarity, and Applejack out with understanding "Guys' Night" by [[Rule63 turning them into handsome stallions]]. It's just annoying at first. Then Dash arrives and jokingly hits on them. And Discord uses his Infinity Die again, which summons a 'wandering monster'. [[TheVamp Sweetcream Scoops]].
53** Then in a later chapter, Big Mac, Spike, and Shining Armor get turned into mares by [[JerkassGenie Discord]] for "Girls' Night". Discord even turns himself female, proclaiming himself to be [[MythologyGag Eris]].
54* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: Gilda is ambushed and dragged back to Griffinstone to be crowned queen after Twilight proves that she's genetically part Griffinstone's lost royal family. She suffers nightmares of her free life being over. Luna appears and explains why Gabby, Gallus, etc, can't take up the mantle, Gilda resolves to become queen on her terms.
55* AWinnerIsYou: Parodied by human Fleet Foot when preparing for her turn in the ring against the other girls who find human Big Mac attractive.
56* BadassAdorable: Flurry Heart, who was causing Chrysalis trouble ''before being born''. After being born, she's beaten up two Changeling infiltrators. Of course, [[BadlyBatteredBabysitter this makes things hard on most babysitters.]]
57* BadlyBatteredBabysitter: First Trixie and then the Dazzlings get 'rewarded' with a chance to babysit Flurry Heart. It ends very badly both times.
58* 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. However, she helps Wallflower against Sunset because she's a living thing and thus, unlike normal computer programs, vulnerable to the Memory Stone and thus capable of being manipulated by her.
59* BerserkButton:
60** Discord is this for Empress Blackrose and one of the few things that can genuinely enrage her because [[spoiler:she's the Hearts and Hooves Day Princess and he was the one who orchestrated the whole thing, resulting in her and her subjects being cursed to become the Changelings in the first place. She's been spending thousands of years planning to take her revenge, and Discord's reaction implies she very well could, but ultimately relents due to being assured he'd reformed.]]
61** Actually managing to ''hurt'' him is one for Dra-Gon.
62* BewareTheNiceOnes:
63** Queen Supia is pretty nice and benevolent, but her speech to Chrysalis implies ticking her off is a bad idea.
64** Chrysalis [[spoiler:and Supia]]'s mother, Empress Blackrose, is kind and sweet, but is the Changelings' Mother Goddess and thus extremely powerful. Chrysalis implies her 'GameFace' is far more terrifying than her already frightening looks. When genuinely angry, she scares ''Discord'' [[spoiler:in part because she'd been preparing for thousands of years to get revenge on him for what he did to her, but relents due to his redemption.]]
65** Fluttershy's TFOS character, the shapeshifter Mane Agery, is easily one of the most overpowered in the group, largely because she has free rein to turn into any species from her homeworld (all of which are [[Creator/HPLovecraft Lovecraftian]] monstrosities). The only reason Twilight lets her get away with it is because... she's Fluttershy.
66* 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, normally without any clue how said major threat managed to pull it off in the first place. As the two are still {{Physical God}}s, they're more than capable of handling themselves. They let Discord handle the next set of them after he [[spoiler:got petrified during the Storm King invasion]].
67* BlackSheep: Chrysalis seems to be this, as her mother is disappointed in her evil ways and she states all her siblings besides [[spoiler:Queen Supia]] would try to kill her if they were in the same room for five minutes.
68* BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce: Garble makes this in an effort to win a chili-eating contest that he put together as a scam to put a new hoard together. The stuff makes Grubber breathe fire and sends him to the hospital, causes the caged [[EldritchAbomination Intellect Devourers]] and [[TheUndead Poncererak the Demilich]] to beg for mercy just from the ''smell'', has to be served in [[BeyondTheImpossible bowls made from the same material as space shuttle re-entry tiles]] -- and he ''still'' loses.
69* BornLucky: Clover, as in ''Tales''. During the joint O&O/D&D game, despite her indecisiveness personality making her character a complete mismatch, she gets max starting stats out of ''pure luck'' of the dice roll. She then consistently gets the best gear Shining Armor had on his loot table. And while playing a 'Ponymon' game lent to her, manages to get a shiny ''female'' starter by sheer random luck.
70* BossRush: The Chrysalis boss fight in "World of Hoofcraft" turns out to include one of these using her shapeshifting powers.
71* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Shining Armor almost says the trope name word for word about Discord arranging a O&O game with ponies from another universe being almost causal for them by this point.
72* ButtMonkey:
73** 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.
74** Garble became this after getting assigned to Princess Twilight as '[[AssInAmbassador official Dragonlands ambassador]]'.
75* CallingTheOldManOut: When Tiamat brings Smolder's mind into her spirit realm, and asks Smolder, the one dragon Tiamat considers to have lived among ponies and not become "corrupted" by them, and asks what villain has driven her dragons away, convinced there is a conspiracy replacing rulers of other creatures with those obedient to Equestria. Smolder says it's Tiamat. Then the other gods show up and ask if Tiamat really wants a war... Tiamat deep down doesn't.
76* CanonImmigrant: Due to the RoundRobin nature of the story, several characters are brought in from other fiction. This includes several characters from the ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'' (both canon and LooseCanon) despite not being set in the same universe, Chrysalis' daughters, and her mother.
77* CardCarryingVillain:
78** Chrysalis is very much this, even singing a version of [[WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder "I'm the Bad Guy"]] to Starlight when Starlight tries to reform her. The rest of the LegionOfDoom are of a similar mindset.
79** There's also Hydia, who is used as the BigBad for an RPG. 8-Bit's lawyer visited the real Hydia (in Tartarus where she's stuck in a cocoon and unable to harm anyone in the SugarBowl around her) to get her permission, and her response is that she's fine with it so long as she's 'irredeemably evil' in the game.
80** Mina the dragon strongly disagrees with this, and insists that properly written villains need motivations that make sense.
81* CatapultNightmare: Shining suffers one induced by Cadence's WackyCravings, where Cadence ''tries to EAT Spike.'' He's appropriately horrified.
82* CharacterDevelopment: A surprising amount for [[RoundRobin this kind of story]]:
83** Twilight goes from going nuts every time her game goes off course, to learning to roll with it.
84** Starlight Glimmer learns to lighten up a bit, and balance out sharing her beliefs with those she knows would take offense.
85** Instead of freaking out (externally anyway) like she did in canon, Trixie is considerably more courageous and motivated during the events of the season 6 finale, as she's already close friends with them.
86* TheChessmaster: Several characters qualify.
87** Twilight is one, both figuratively and literally. Thanks to her keen and organized mind, she can counter her opponent's every move simply by working out the possible outcomes of every move.
88** Trixie works in a different way, having mastered the ability to think outside the box. She relies on unexpected gambits, loophole abuse, dirty tricks, and even manipulating her opponents, as well as cheating if she can get away with it.
89* ColorFailure: While playing an [[TabletopGame/{{Toon}} Animania]] game enhanced by Discord's power, Rarity (who's a swan at the time, but dyed [[ItMakesSenseInContext pink by tomato juice]]) gets hit by Zephyr Breeze's (who's currently a Pepe Le Pew style SmellySkunk) stench. This is her reaction, in reference to when the same thing happened to a dog in Pepe's cartoons.
90* 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]]''.
91* CreatorBreakdown: An InUniverse example with Button Mash. He creates some steam-powered mech-suits for a ''Skies of Equestria'' campaign, but when he finds out about Twilight's dislike of [[GameBreaker Game Breakers]] off-screen, he tearfully apologizes to her for "wrecking" the game and runs off in tears. Thankfully, Twilight convinces him otherwise.
92* CrisisCrossover: PlayedForLaughs: three Discords from {{Alternate Universe}}s bring the Prime Mane Seven, Gilda, Trixie, Sunset Shimmer, and the Sirens and their Nightmare Moon twins (though they've ultimately defeated Nightmare Moon) and Mirror Universe counterparts to a room outside reality for the grand purpose of...[[MundaneMadeAwesome a multiversal gaming tournament.]]
93* {{Crossover}}: Discord summons the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTales Tales 7]] for a game in the Interdimensional Game Room.
94* CuddleBug: Chrysalis describes her mother, Empress Blackrose, as 'a hugger'. The first thing she does upon being introduced into the story is to give Chrysalis a motherly bear hug. Later, when introduced to [[spoiler:King]] Thorax, she does the same thing due to CutenessProximity. This also applies to her human world counterpart.
95* CutLexLuthorACheck: The Flim Flam Brothers manage to replicate the World Mirror by [[spoiler:capturing one of the rifts Midnight Sparkle opened]]...and use it to con the Yaks in a team up with their human selves. Twilight is dumbfounded two ponies so brilliant would waste their time on scamming others.
96* DarkIsNotEvil:
97** Turns out Chrysalis is an exception when it comes to Changeling Queens, as both her mother and sisters are much more benevolent than she is.
98** Fluttershy's character in ''TabletopGame/TeenagersFromOuterSpace'' can turn into {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, but...well, she's still FLUTTERSHY.
99** Human!Sombra is as intimidating as his pony counterpart is, and even has his ingame self be Pony!Sombra...but he's an HonestCorporateExecutive and pretty overall fair boss.
100* DePower: After they manage to regain their power and nearly destroy the world, Sunset has herself, both Twilights, and Pony!Starlight turn them into normal sea ponies and strip them of what magic they had in the EG World, turning them into normal girls for all intents and purposes.
101* DidNotThinkThisThrough:
102** Discord brings multiple monsters out of game world to the real one, all without ever thinking through the consequences of doing so or how dangerous they might be.
103** Nor did he learn his lesson. In later chapters, he summons some cryptids from Earth like TheMothman and TheFlatwoodsMonster to play ''Crystals and Rainbows'' with him and Fluttershy; and then he summons a D&D [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent Werevixen]] who almost conquers the town!...Then to try and fix ''that'' problem, turns the Mane Six into benevolent werebeasts, which while stalling her can't really ''stop'' her.
104* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: The Humane Cast and company manage to defeat Dra-Gon, an {{Expy}} of Dagon the Sirens summoned. Literally, given the same harmonic energy Alicorn they summoned to beat the Sirens punches him [[HurlItIntoTheSun into the sun.]]
105* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu:
106** Queen Chrysalis [[GoKartingWithBowser is a regular player in the Mane Six and company's games]] until the events of the Season Six finale.
107** Chrysalis' mother, the Changeling's Mother Goddess Empress Blackrose/Rosedust, also drops in for a few games. Much to [[MyBelovedSmother her daughter's annoyance.]]
108** Discord frequently plays, though is rarely the GM for [[KillerGM obvious reasons]].
109** During her pregnancy with Flurry Heart, Cadence requests a game with Chrysalis and Sombra (despite Sombra being dead). [[spoiler:An alternate, reformed version of him ends up attending.]]
110** The Mother's Day O&O game Shining Armor and Cadence set up in the Empire eventually comes to include Queen Chrysalis, Queen Supia, and Empress Blackrose on one team and Queen Tiamat, Ex-Dragon Lord Torch, and Master Babylon as another.
111** Another Changeling Queen, Cicada, plays with the mane six...while she and her hive emerge from their 17 years feeding off ambient love to throw a massive party.
112** Empress Blackrose/Rosedust shows up again to play a game with the Cutie Mark Crusaders...and a cutaway to Appleoosa reveals a mysterious stallion heavily implied to be the [[spoiler: King/Emperor/Father of all Changelings]] playing poker with the locals.
113* DiplomaticImpunity: Chrysalis has diplomatic immunity due to being queen of a sovereign kingdom, so long as she doesn't do anything too evil. Doesn't stop her from abusing it. She loses it following the events of the season 6 finale, both because of what she attempted [[spoiler:and because Thorax overthrew her, so her 'kingdom' consists of a handful of changelings and her children.]] Even if that wasn't the case, her hive is no longer sovereign due to her mother, the Changeling Empress, reluctantly declaring her an exiled criminal.
114* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength:
115** [[spoiler:Thorax]] is unaware of how powerful he's become since [[spoiler:becoming a ''cured'' Changeling King.]] He's just himself while [[spoiler:''both'' courts are in awe of how powerful he appears to them. He's put in a test of strength against a Changeling King renowned for his NighInvulnerable armor. He ends up blowing said king across Blackrose's kingdom and knocking him unconscious with several cracks in his armor. Thorax is as shocked as anyone else.]]
116** Flurry Heart, being a baby, has no clue how [[SuperstrongChild freakishly strong she actually is]]. This has been to the heroes advantage a few times when she manhandles bad guys.
117* 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.
118* 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]]. Her mother also banishes her, if reluctantly.
119* EpicFail:
120** Trixie and the Cutie Mark Crusaders tend to suffer these in their games. [[RunningGag Very often.]]
121** A flash-forward in one chapter reveals that even after ''a thousand years'', PRINCESS Applejack STILL can't play majhong.
122** Trixie suffers a [[HumiliationConga long string of these]] when trying to take down a villain called [[ThatOneBoss Archduke Villainous Vile]]. Her gradual breakdown and increasingly insane tactics need to be seen to be believed.
123** The Mane Six's attempt to stop Zephyr Breeze from chasing Rainbow in [[TabletopGame/{{Toon}} Animania]] (the former playing the part of WesternAnimation/PepeLePew and the latter Penelope, species included) ends this way. Zephyr's [[SmellySkunk stench]] knocks Applejack, Pinkie Pie, and Twilight out and incapacitates Rarity, all without Zephyr ever even ''realizing'' they're trying to stop him.
124* EvenEvilHasStandards:
125** In [[https://alexwarlorn.deviantart.com/art/Ponies-and-Dragons-XXXI-Just-Have-Fun-625577374 Chapter 31]], Chrysalis of all beings announces she'll leave the table if they use one particular [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils 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]].
126** Later, the [[EvilCounterpart Mean Six]] are disgusted by F.A.T.A.L, burning the board game within five minutes of trying to play it.
127* EveryoneHasStandards:
128** 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.
129** 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 [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Chaos Demons]]. Its writer, Garble, immediately went into hiding.
130* EvilCounterPart: Inverted after a sense. The Dragon Sage appointed by Bahamut with the Riptide Staff is the counterpart to the Dragon Lord, meant to guide rather than rule for the Dragon Town Dragons.
131* EvilerThanThou: Chrysalis' reaction to Starlight calling her old self evil is to mock her and sing [[WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder 'I'm the Bad Guy']], pointing out Chrysalis is a monstrous conqueror who's destroyed kingdoms.
132* EvilIsEasy: Human Discord's expansion for ''[[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft World Of Horsecraft]]'' with himself as the BigBad has this for the 'Discorded' path. Given it's DISCORD (even his less evil human self) [[spoiler:and said path is based of the No Mercy Run of {{VideoGame/Undertale}}]], can you guess how it turns out?
133* 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. Her World of Horsecraft self is naturally the same.
134* ExpansionPack: World of Horsecraft has had two so far with a third coming up:
135** Reins of Chaos, which introduced a storyline with Discord as the BigBad and also introduced Griffins and Zebras as playable classes.
136** Wrath of the Crystal King, which introduced King Sombra's storyline, as well as Yaks and Crystal Wolves as playable characters.
137** The latest expansion is Ascension, which has Tirek as the BigBad with a large number of G1 villains as his minions. It also adds Deer, Dragons, and Thestrals to the game as well as their starting locations.
138* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: During the ''TabletopGame/TeenagersFromOuterSpace'' game, Applejack tried playing the strict and authoritative class president with the job of keeping the others in check and obeying the school rules. Predictably, it didn't work, and since she gets dragged along on their hijinks all the time instead, she spends just as much time in detention.
139* {{Fainting}}: Rarity, as in canon, does this quite a bit.
140* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Besides all the Equestrian versions of real tabletop games, we also get Queen Supia's "Neighponese" origins, and a reference to the AncientGrome-flavored Tarus Peninsula; whose giant inhabitants sport togas and bronze hoplite armor.
141* FissionMailed: One entry begins with [[spoiler:Grogar and his LegionOfDoom taking over Equestria and having already won...only for Button to realize it it's a 'flashforward' and one of these, and thus he can prevent it with the help of his future self.]]
142* ForcedTransformation:
143** Garble is transformed several times, usually thanks to Discord's magic and Garble's big mouth.
144** This is used as a penalty in a game show, although it's not as bad as it could be: while the losers all get transformed into things, it's temporary, they agreed in advance, and the victims had some say over what they get turned into.
145* ForWantOfANail: It's implied the biggest difference between Human Sombra and Pony Sombra other than species is Human Sombra sided with Radiant Hope against Rabia while Pony Sombra did the opposite.
146* FreakOut: The human world Ember (Gilda's pet dog) has a minor one after being [[UpliftedAnimal made sapient]] and being very confused by everything she's experiencing, including seeing red and green for the first time.
147* {{Foreshadowing}}: Twilight complains about hearing [[OminousLatinChanting dramatic music]] during the three way light saber duel with Starlight, Sunset, and Trixie... then it turns out the sirens were singing in her closet.
148* FormulaBreakingEpisode: The entries from the latter half of Chapters 66 to the former half of 69 are a loose adaptation of the 2017 movie instead of the usual fare.
149* FurryConfusion: When Rainbow Dash first sees a picture of a panda, she remarks that Fluttershy would love to have one as a pet. Trixie points out that they're actually civilized and sophisticated people, and not considered to be animals.
150* FusionDance: Discord and an alternate universe version of Accord (who's the dominant personality and LawfulGood by his own admission) perform the TropeNamer to become Disaccord, Spirit of Neutrality...[[MundaneUtility to be joint game master of an O&O game for their universes' mane sixes.]] This turns out to have been a bad idea because their completely polar opposite personalities make a boring, TrueNeutral person and once the timer runs out, they refuse to do it again.
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152* GoodBadBugs: InUniverse: An in-universe example. Human!Rainbow Dash and H!Gilda discover an exploit in "World of Horsecraft" that allows a growth potion item's effects to go to insane levels if multiple potions are used at once. Their characters [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever get big enough to tower over the map]], much to the pair's delight...but when they try to step on some low-level players, the game can't quite handle their characters being that big, and they move slow as molasses and harmlessly clip through much of the scenery. Their glitch-fueled "rampage" becomes a comedy show for their would-be victims.
153
154* GentleGiant:
155** Queen Supia, apart from her (rather terrifying) TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Chrysalis, is quite benevolent and pleasant...and also a {{Kaiju}}-sized Changeling Queen. That said, her aforementioned speech hints that [[BewareTheNiceOnes Supia is NOT some-ling to mess with]] if one values their neck...
156*** It's later revealed that Supia has two daughters, who are also giants...one of whom is a cheerful ''lawyer'' and advertises herself as the "''literally'' biggest lawyer on the planet". The other daughter is far more serious-minded, but WordOfGod is that both inherited their mother's benevolence.
157** While not ''as'' huge, both Supia and her daughter's human world counterparts are huge and no less benevolent than their pony counterparts.
158** Whimsy Weatherbe appears during one session, now an adult and so massive she has to play through the window by flicking the dice with the tip of her claw. She's still a nice dragon and a friend of Mina's.
159** The human world Torch is a huge bulldog, but seems to be a pretty chill sort.
160* GilliganCut: Done rather frequently. Some examples:
161** The Mane 6 are talking about what they'd do if they became Alicorns and princesses. Applejack says that they'd never catch her becoming a Princess.
162--> '''1000 Years Later (of course)'''
163--> "Princess Pinkie Pie (Thalia), Princess Fluttershy (Gaia), Princess Rarity (Lucia), Princess Twilight (Amicitia), Princess Rainbow Dash (Fidelitas), all stood grinning at Princess Applejack (Vertias). It was so silent you could hear a pin drop."
164-->'''Princess Applejack (Veritas)''': Shut it!
165** In another segment, the Mane 6 are going through an enchanted comic run based off of the [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Pony Rangers]], and Spike has ended up as the robotic assistant character primarily for comic relief.
166-->'''Spike''': I'm beginning to wonder if I ticked off the guy who makes these things years ago and he's been getting his revenge on me ever since by subtly altering the spell on every issue so that whenever it detects me entering one it always gives me the least heroic role.
167-->(cut to the comic shop owner viewing their progress on a screen)
168-->'''Comic Shop Owner''': Aw, crud, he's on to me.
169** Then there's Shining Armor, after a CatapultNightmare brought on by Cadence's WackyCravings.
170--> '''Shining Armor:''' "Whatever comes after once they're out of Cadence, can't be worse than this..."
171--> (cut to Derpy on a visit to the Crystal Empire, as she makes a storm cloud rumble ominously)
172* {{GMPC}}:
173** When hosting a game for his friends, Doctor Whooves has a Time Lord in game who is this... [[LaserGuidedKarma until Vinyl kills said character and drops him down a well before he can regenerate, after everyone was fed up at being reduced to extras in-game.]]
174** Human Chrysalis and some personal players (including her sons) are presently the only ones allowed to use Changeling class avatars in ''World of Horsecraft'', with it being explicitly said they're too overpowered for players to us. This does eventually change with nerfs in place.
175** The hacker during the hacker StoryArc [[spoiler:(Decepticolt, Zappityhoof, and Gold Cap)]] eventually hacks one into ''World of Horsecraft'' and goes on a PlayerKilling rampage with it. The humane six eventually defeat it [[GondorCallsForAid with a lot of help.]]
176** It turns out Human Sombra has his own PC with all the best gear and spells, being the CEO of the company making the game. [[spoiler:This comes in handy when the Sirens' endgame kicks in and he can use those in the real world to fight back against their created Sirens.]]
177* GoKartingWithBowser: Many instances of this. Chrysalis gaming with Shining and Cadence (until she gets herself banned); Cabelleron joining Daring Do and the Mane Six for a game...even Pinkie Pie and Scorpan playing with Tirek (Not that he had much of a choice, but still...)!
178* GondorCallsForAid: When faced with the hacker's overpowered hacked player character in ''World of Horsecraft'', the Humane Six call in ''everyone'' they can to defeat it.
179* GreenAroundTheGills: Rainbow Dash, Applejack, and Twilight all have this reaction to getting a nose full of Zephyr Breeze while he's currently a WesternAnimation/PepeLePew style skunk during their Discord enhanced [[TabletopGame/{{Toon}} Animania]] game, in reference to the exaggerated reactions to his stench in his cartoons. It later happens to a ''dragon''.
180* HappilyMarried: Human Sombra and Radiant Hope are married sweethearts and very happy together. In fact, it seems a major difference between Human Sombra and his pony self is he chose life with his love over obeying his EvilMatriarch.
181* HeelFaceBrainwashing: Having her cutie mark taken by Starlight actually made Suri ''nicer'' than before. Overlaps with SplitPersonality below.
182* HeelFaceTurn:
183** [[spoiler:Spoiled Rich]] ends up having one after discovering [[spoiler:Diamond Tiara put a ton of work into a homemade RPG she'd just verbally torn apart...and made a thinly veiled {{Expy}} of her the BigBad, causing her to [[HeelRealization finally realize how Diamond really sees her.]]]]
184** Subverted with the Sirens, who ''seem'' to have become harmless, even if they're still antagonistic...but where just biding their time to launch their big come back and be a threat again.
185* 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". 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.
186* HiddenDepths:
187** Trixie turns out to be a master mahjong player, having learned while traveling Chineigh as a filly, earning the nickname Kokushi Muso (thirteen orphans, a very difficult claw to get). She learned from ''dragons'', one of which is Mina's grandfather Master Babylon, an ancient and gigantic dragon who seems to rival Torch in status. Trixie calls him uncle. Twilight is naturally shocked to learn this.
188** Applejack, as well as her siblings, has a natural affinity for numbers and can do advanced math in her head. She also at one point sets up a freeform game based on Jungian psychology.
189* HoldTheLine: Shining Armor attacks [[TheDragon Tempest Shadow]] during the Storm King's invasion of Canterlot and fights her. As it turns out, he wasn't intending to actually ''beat'' her (though he would have had reinforcements not shown up and wouldn't have been upset at that outcome), but to hold her off long enough for his friends to arrange a mass teleport to [[PapaWolf get Flurry Heart]] and as many civilians as they could out of Canterlot.
190* HypocriticalHumor: Rarity is appalled when Gilda's rendition of the Awesomeoids ends with 'Buy our action figures!', saying such a thing is "shameful".
191---> '''Pinkie Pie:''' "Shh! You want to get us cancelled?!"
192** The Royal Giants' moral outrage over a stereotype-laden giant villain in ''March of the Giants'' is rather ironic, considering most of them (''especially'' Seismos) actually HAVE gone on rampages and eaten smaller beings. Shining Armor [[DeadpanSnarker rather bluntly]] lampshades this.
193* IncrediblyLamePun: When Applejack's giant pony warrior character in "March of the Giants" slips on some ice and ends up [[AssKicksYou sitting on an evil pony baron, squishing him flat]], she has this remark:
194---> "Well, at least that's one bad guy who'll never be a pain in the rear again!"
195** Doubles as a BondOneLiner.
196** In another segment, Silver Spoon is playing a session as a Bard with some of the other fillies and colts, and when she sings to distract some monsters, the monsters beat up her character because they're extremely sensitive to loud noise.
197--->'''Silver Spoon''': I guess that makes me a... [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV spoony bard!]]
198--->{{Beat}}
199--->'''Scootaloo''': ...You made your character a Bard solely so you could make that joke at some point, didn't you?
200--->'''Silver Spoon''': Yep!
201* InherentlyFunnyWords: Rainbow Dash and [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTales Patch]] feel this way about the other universe's term for Cutie Marks (the Tales cast call them Rump Designs, which was what Hasbro called them from G1 to G3) to the point of rolling on the floor laughing.
202* InstantAIJustAddWater: The human world Screwball is an anti-hacker program human Discord created. Discord somehow ended up causing her to become self-aware while screwing around in a fit of sheer boredom. By his own admission, he has absolutely no clue how that happened. Sci-Twi apparently accidentally made a bunch of AI Pinkie Pie clones, unaware they were sapient. Screwball rescues the last one and they become best friends.
203* IThinkYouBrokeHim: Diamond Tiara manages to logical pick apart one of Twilight's settings. This is the result.
204---> '''Apple Bloom''': Ah think she crashed Princess Twilight.
205* ItsPersonal: Empress Blackrose is ''not'' fond of Discord, to the point he's her BerserkButton. [[spoiler:This is because she was the Hearts and Hooves Day Princess and Discord caused that incident, resulting in her and her people being cursed into the Changelings.]] While she has yet to forgive him, she at least tolerates him due to his redemption, but makes it ''very'' clear if he steps out of line, she wouldn't hesitate to try and kill him.
206* IWarnedYou: Ponythulhu does the 'I told you so' version when Dra-Gon (still blackened, sizzling, and on fire from being punched into the sun) arrives back at their law firm, presumably about his attempt to TakeOverTheWorld.
207* TheJeeves: Prince Blueblood's personal valet, Sleeves. Other than the ability to vanish into the background and reappear when he's needed, his full set of highly-priced capabilities have yet to be shown.
208* KillerGameMaster:
209** Poor Wallflower has the misfortune of running into one, and the Memory Stone merely reveals him as such. She ends up decking him in the end.
210** Discord isn't allowed to GM because he often turns into this.
211* KnightOfCerebus:
212** Human Sombra's mother Rabia. While she's currently in prison and thus can't be an active antagonist, she's not only genuinely evil but the tone becomes pretty dark whenever she is mentioned.
213** [[spoiler:The true Grogar is this as well.]]
214* KnockingOnHeathensDoor: Pipsqueak and Buttons show up at Octavia and Vinyl's shared house at the same time, both asking if they've heard the good news of Princess Luna/Equality.
215* LeeroyJenkins:
216** Rainbow Dash is prone to this, predictably. Her TFOS character in particular takes advantage of the game's "no death" rule to ignore any fatal consequences... with the result that she gets knocked out a lot instead.
217** Patch apparently has the same problem, which her friends are aware of.
218* LeftHanging: There are a few arcs/sections that seem to end on a cliffhanger, but aren't picked up on. Thankfully it's not a big deal with the additions being largely self-contained, and the loose continuity.
219* LighterAndSofter: ''Crystals and Rainbows Generations 3.5'' is this InUniverse. Its saccharine nature makes it a handy recovery tool for the Mane Six after they have to endure a series of depressing "Grimdark" games, the biggest offenders being [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 War Horse 40 Carrots]] and ''FATAL''.
220* LikeFatherUnlikeSon:
221** Rarity's canonical example with her folks is still at play.
222** Chrysalis' mother Empress Blackrose is a kind, friendly Changeling and CuddleBug in sharp contrast to her sociopathic daughter.
223** It turns out Rainbow Dash's mother is [[{{Fashionista}} G3 Rainbow Dash]]. Rarity wonders if somehow she and Rainbow were swapped at birth.
224* LiteralGenie: Mistaking a brawl of ponies turned dragons as one of her own kind (including Big mac, Rainbow Dash,, Applejack, etc) Ember uses the Bloodstone scepter to tell them to be proud dragons, and not do anything that'll cause trouble... the 'proud dragons' part sadly gives Tiamat a telepathic open to make them dragons on the inside...making the goddess of ponies herself lose her ability to sense their presence.
225* LiteralSplitPersonality: Buttons and Suri Polomare become this after they use the Mirror Pool. However, they can still feel each other's pain, and Twilight is ''not at all'' happy about them/her pulling this stunt.
226** {{Synchronization}}: Button and Suri having forms separate from each other, but still able to feel each other's pain implies they aren't two separate beings, but still two sides of the same pony.
227* LoanShark: The human version of the Storm King is a particularly nasty one and Human Sombra even calls him such.
228* LoopHoleAbuse: Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo use the dragon potion to keep RD's adaption of Scootaloo legal when Scoot's parents FINALLY show up (after fighting a LITERAL ancient Pegasopolis custody battle).
229* MesACrowd: Discord decides to play a game with Fluttershy by creating bodies for her many personas. Discord does it to Zephyr to to play "Arcana: the Convergance", and combine they decidedly don't go according to plan.
230* MetronomicManMashing: Done by ''Flurry Heart'' to a Changeling attempting to kidnap her, thanks to her Earth Pony aspect. She does it to Trixie when [[BadlyBatteredBabysitter the showmare babysat her]], and then a third time to a Changeling who tried to assassinate Thorax.
231* MirrorMatch: When three Discords bring their universes together for a multiversal gaming tournament, the Sirens from the Nightmare Moon Wins timeline, who still have their powers, try to cast a spell on the group, only for their MirrorUniverse counterparts, the Muse Sisters, step in to counter them. Because they have the exact same power set, they simply stop fighting when it becomes apparent their attacks simply cancel each other out.
232* MirrorUniverse:
233** The Reflections universe appears a few times.
234** A different mirror universe is later shown where the inversion is along the Lawful/Chaotic spectrum. For example, Discord is the prime personality in the main universe with Accord being his split personality, while his MirrorUniverse counterpart has Accord as ''his'' prime personality with Discord as his split personality. The prime mane six use the Elements of Harmony/Rainbow Powers while their counterparts use the Elements of Chaos/Stormbow Powers. Comically enough, Fluttershy is identical because she was already NeutralGood to begin with.
235* MistakenForRacist: Happens to the Mane Six, especially poor Rarity, [[RunningGag quite often]]. She almost gets sued over it by a Diamond Dog lawyer at one point, and the Changelings have been offended by their depiction as [[AlwaysChaoticEvil horrid remorseless monsters]]. [[HypocriticalHumor They got even by developing a line of game modules where you save hapless little Changelings from the "evil" Mane Six.]]
236* MookFaceTurn: While "Face Turn" is debatable, it's revealed that Chrysalis actually sent some of her changelings to Our Town to scope it out, but they returned equalized, saying how all Changelings should be equal. [[KickTheDog Chrysalis wouldn't let them out of a set of cocoons until they gave up on those ideas...]] [[ItsAllAboutMe She'd never let herself be equal to her subjects.]]
237* MoonLogicPuzzle: Twilight faces one of these in a point and click adventure game... and the ending is the most trolling, ShootTheShaggyDog ending you can imagine. Not really surprising that she torches her computer almost immediately.
238* MoreThanMindControl:
239** It turns out the Sirens were using the natural [[MusicalWorldHypothesis Heart Song]] nature of Equestria to nudge the groups along in order to feed themselves--via OminousLatinChanting, no less!--since they no longer can use their magic to feed.
240** Their major attempted takeover involved exploiting human nature in hyper competitive games to make the players act as they wanted. While they DID begin using their magic when they regained it, for the most part, it was just using how people tend to act in those games against them.
241* {{Munchkin}}: Gilda's character in ''TabletopGame/TeenagersFromOuterSpace'' is a cross between the [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger Lavos]] and the ''WesternAnimation/{{Inhumanoids}}'' (she even sings a version of their theme song). However, Twilight handles her surprising well, even having Trixie's character (a sun in pony form) have a brawl with Gilda's when the latter first appears.
242** This becomes more obvious when Gilda is put on the spot when Twilight politely asks for the name of Gilda's character. Her response?
243---> "Uh... Gilzillathulu?"
244** Ironically, since Gilda bothered to explain what her character LOOKED LIKE, Twilight realized she hadn't done so with the other players all this time.
245* MundaneMadeAwesome:
246** In a meta sense. Who knew the cast of ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic FiM]]'' just relaxing with some board games could be ''so darn entertaining?''
247** In-universe, there is a {{TabletopGame/Go}} played by (Ex-) Dragon Lord Scorch and Master Babylon--two dragons the size of ''small mountains'', who use huge boulders as game pieces. Their casual game and friendly trash-talk is treated like an tense standoff/battle by a crowd of smaller dragons watching them.
248** Gilda ''[[PhysicalGod becomes the griffon equivalent of an Alicorn]]'' in a flash-forward to a thousand years in the future...for making a strawberry-topped cheesecake for the gods of Griffonkind as proof of her worthiness. She even wears her chef outfit like holy/royal regalia.
249** Three Discords invoking a CrisisCrossover between three separate universes...to have a gaming tournament.
250** The short hacker StoryArc ends with the hacker [[spoiler:actually Decepticolt, Zappityhoof, and Gold Cap]] hacking an overpowered GMPC into World Of Horsecraft and going on a PlayerKilling rampage. The Crystalsoft crew treat this with all the seriousness of a spy movie, and it ends with the Humane Seven [[GondorCallsForAid getting together an army or players]] to defeat them in a BigBadassBattleSequence.
251* MundaneUtility:
252** Discord and several of his alternate universe selves made a interdimensional room between universes...to play games between alternate versions of the mane six in.
253** Discord and Accord (who's from a universe where he and Discord's roles were reversed and he's the dominant personality) perform a FusionDance into Disaccord...to be joint game master for an O&O game.
254* MurderTheHypotenuse:
255** Or at least Brutally Beat Up The Hypotenuse. Cheerilee, Marble Pie, Tealove, Sweetcream Scoops, Fleet Foot, and Princess Luna all engage in a massive melee for who has the right to be Big Mac's mare friend.
256** Mina of Dragon Town, Dragon Lord Ember, and Rarity (using a polymorph spell to become a dragon herself) begin a three way tug of war in greed growth giant forms to fight over poor Spike.
257** A non-romantic version happens at the same time with Trixie, Starlight, and Sunset engage in a three way lightsaber duel (pilfered from Shining Armor's collection) over who has the right to be Twilight's apprentice.
258** An in-universe version of ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'' is eventually introduced.
259* MythologyGag:
260** Crystals and Rainbows 3.5 is basically the G3 My Little Pony series as a game. A human world video game is also based off of it.
261** Rainbow Dash's mother is G3 Rainbow Dash, called Rainbow Dash Sr.
262* NoAntagonist:
263** Chrysalis ''tries'' to be the villain at times, but ultimately is more of a nuisance. [[FridgeBrilliance Well, if she pulled off something evil, then she'd get banned from game night...]] Which is ''exactly'' what happens when she ''does'' launch her endgame from the show.
264** The Sirens also make an effort, but due to having [[DePower lost their powers]], they're not capable of doing much most of the time. They eventually manage to become a threat again, however. Their Nightmare Moon Wins timeline counterparts also make an attempt because they still have their powers, but their MirrorUniverse counterparts, the Muse Sisters, [[MirrorMatch shut that down before it can go anywhere.]]
265** A hacker starts causing trouble in Crystalsoft's games, being about the closest thing to an antagonist the story has had. It turns out [[spoiler:it's Decepticolt, Zappityhoof, and Gold Cap seeking revenge for being fired]].
266** Averted for The Storm King who manages to be a legit threat during the events of TheMovie.
267** [[spoiler:The true Grogar and his LegionOfDoom eventually become this, as in canon.]]
268* NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught: Trixie believes that this applied to Mahjong. Applejack does not agree.
269* NoJustNoReaction: This is the mane six's response to ''FATAL'' and ''[[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Warhorse 40 Carrots]]''. Given that the girls ''themselves'' and their friends and family are all put in the starring roles of both games (the first being an ''insanely'' sexist role playing game, and the other being...Warhammer with ponies.) The first one they just throw in the garbage. (An act repeated by Shining Armor's friends when they get a hold of it). And the second one they [[KillItWithFire burn]].... [[NoKillLikeOverkill twice...]] Then it comes back a third time, though the creator claims he reworked the narrative to be less depressing.
270* NonIdleRich: The human world version of Empress Blackrose is the founder of a massive company, but made her children work for a living rather than just live off their wealth.
271* NotSoHarmlessVillain: The Sirens manage to regain their power, stronger than before, becoming serious threats once again.
272* OfficialCouple: As of session 23.6, [[spoiler: Starlight and Sunburst.]]
273* OffTheRails: The storylines and themes of some games...aren't always followed to the letter, much to the resident Game Master's annoyance/humiliation. And it's always done ''firmly'' within the game's own rules, without cheating!
274** Shining Armor's [[VideoGame/XCom XCOM]] -like alien war RPG? The girls basically ''throw the hard military themes out the window'' and convert the aliens with Equestrian pop culture! Poor Shining was left face-down on the table by the end.
275** Later, Twilight [[GameMaster GM]]s a SteamPunk Sky-Pirate RPG in a [[BalkanizeMe balkanized Equestria]], ready for a swashbuckling adventure...only for Rarity to hijack the storyline, ultimately [[TheMagicComesBack kicking off a magical Renaissance]] and becoming ''Queen'' of a reunited Equestria. (Effectively destroying the game's technology-dominated setting, AND snuffing out its entire backstory.) Twilight was NOT amused.
276** And THEN we have Twilight (visiting the ''Equestria Girls'' world), utterly ''demolishing'' a squad of human soldier characters, led by Human!Shining Armor, with fantasy creatures....in a game ''all about'' MugglesDoItBetter, no less!
277** The Crusaders call in Button Mash to do this while playing ''[[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 War Horse 40 Carrots]]''. He manages to purify the corrupted Mane Six and [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu blow up the]] EldritchAbomination that corrupted them, all within the game's rules. Garble flips the table and storms out in a RageQuit.
278** While playing a game about playing as gods trying to care for their worshipers, an actual EldritchAbomination hijacks it to try and break into the universe.
279* OminousLatinChanting: Twilight hears this during the epic fight between Trixie, Starlight and Sunset over who gets to be her student. It's soon revealed that the Sirens were using it as a[[MusicalWorldHypothesis Heart Song]] to get everypony a little bit more crazy over what they already wanted.
280* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Session 40.9 reveals one such embarrassment for Supia--she apparently went on some attempted conquests of her own back in the day, only to be routinely bested by a [[HistoricalInJoke Diamond Dog admiral and his fleet of armored turtle ships]]. She even got shot in the rump by a full broadside of cannonballs!
281** Applejack thinks this will happen to her character in ''March of the Giants'', after a bungled saving roll causes an AssKicksYou demise for an evil baron and his knights.
282* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent:
283** In one game, Rainbow Dash pours Werebear blood into the water supply of a group of Orc. As Werebears are Neutral Good by nature, this forces them to help ponies. Unfortunately, someone ''also'' poured Werewolf blood into a town's water supply, so now they have those to deal with.
284** A game with the Crystal Prep group ends up having ''werecars'' as the villains.
285** Discord releases an O&O Werevixen into the real world, and it results in her going on a rampage, brainwashing and turning stallions and foals respectively. Discord's plan for fighting her involves turning Rarity into a MirrorUniverse Werevixen, who is ChaoticGood to fight the Werevixen. When that's not enough, he turns Twilight into a Wereowl, Applejack into a Weredog, Pinkie Pie into a Weremonkey, Rainbow Dash into a MirrorUniverse Werecheetah, and Fluttershy into a Wereskunk. This doesn't actually solve the problem, so they have Zecora cure them.
286** Discord later makes a ''game'' out of this for the Mane Six to play, using the same species.
287* OverrideCommand: Turns out the Enchanted Comics actually have one to end the story at any point. Spike just never looked at the page it was on the first time to realize it. Because they actually know it now, the comics become a common game for the group.
288* PapaWolf: During the Storm King's invasion, Shining Armor fights [[TheDragon Tempest Shadow]] and manages to nearly beat her before having to fall back because reinforcements are coming. Turns out he did it to prevent her from finding Flurry Heart before he and his friends could arrange a mass teleport to get her and as many other civilians as they could out of Canterlot.
289* PersonaNonGrata: Empress Blackrose banishes Chrysalis from her and her other daughters' lands following the events of the season 6 finale. Several other countries also make it clear Chrysalis is ''not'' welcome there as well.
290* PintSizedPowerHouse: Flurry Heart was causing Chrysalis trouble ''before she was born'' due to this trope. After she's born, she manhandles several changeling assassins.
291* PhysicalGod: Several are mentioned besides the Alicorns, including [[Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries Queen Tiamat]], the Griffon god Boreas, and Chrysalis' [[MyBelovedSmother mother]], Empress Blackrose/Rosedust.
292* PlayerArchetypes:
293** Tirek manages to be a Power Gamer in Crystals and Rainbows Generation 3.5 (A game based off of [[SugarBowl MLP Generation 3]])! This was ''supposed'' to be therapy to get Tirek to learn to be nice with Pinkie Pie as the game master, but Tirek manages to (WITHOUT cheating) turn the it into a power gaming experience! Pinkie Pie begins to suffer more than Tirek at these sessions. Pinkie Pie eventually calls in Scorpan to try and balance them out, but Tirek proves how determined he is by bouncing back from being forced to play with his "back stabbing" brother.
294* PleaseKeepYourHatOn: Haust, the Stallion in Yellow and Discord's cousin, who keeps this with his canon self. Even his equally eldritch family can't help but scream upon seeing his true face!
295* RageQuit: Smolder gets so fed up with the rest of her group ruining her plans as the GM of an O&O game that she [[RocksFallEveryoneDies drops dragons immune to everything but magic (which they don't have) on them to kill their party]]. Shining calls her on it, especially given she wasn't actually doing a bad job otherwise.
296* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The cast's characters in ''TabletopGame/TeenagersFromOuterSpace'', ''so very much:''
297** Pinkie is Hungry, an alien ExtremeOmnivore who comes to Equestria seeking new recipes for her race of gourmands. Said race is also on its ''fifth'' homeworld, due to ''eating'' the previous four.
298** Rarity is Disco Diva, whose race has a disco obsession as their [[PlanetOfHats hat]], complete with speaking entirely in JiveTurkey and wearing incredibly gaudy 70s fashion.
299** Fluttershy is Agery, a VoluntaryShapeshifter out to study other world's biology. She can only transform into creatures from her homeworld....which are ALL [[EldritchAbomination terrifying monsters straight out of Lovecraft]]. Agery apparently [[NightmareFetishist doesn't get why everyone else is terrified of creatures she finds adorable]].
300** Trixie is Bright Light, quite literally a ''star'' in pony form.
301** Discord is...[[TheTeamNormal a completely normal Equestrian pony]], complete with a plus-three to "being very boring".
302* RealityBreakingParadox: While in an Enchanted Comic, Scootaloo wonders what would happen if [[WebComic/OnePunchMan One Punch Mare]] (who can beat anyone in one punch if she wants to) [[UnstoppableForceMeetsImmovableObject punches]] ComicBook/TheTick (who is so NighInvulnerable that he can survive a black hole), so Diamond (who's playing the former) and Silver (who's playing the latter) decide to try it. Apparently it causes the universe to implode from the paradox.
303** Due to the variety of characters forming any party, ''every'' party normally ends up with this.
304* ReformedButNotTamed: Tiamat after they manage to reason with her. She doesn't apologize, but she removes her psychic influence from the dragonified ponies.
305* {{Reincarnation}}: Pinkie Pie drops hints that Twilight is the reincarnation of Minty from G3. Early on, after having her campaign derailed a little TOO much, Pinkie Pie puts her through some LighterAndSofter therapy via ''Crystals and Rainbows 3.5'' where she regresses to her past life. The Mane Six later use the game from whenever any of the games they try out turn out to be too depressing.
306* RelationshipUpgrade: [[spoiler: Starlight and Sunburst]] become a couple in part 23.6.
307* TheRemnant: As it turns out ''Suri Polomare'' is this for the Equalized Ponies. Before her reformation, Starlight Glimmer equalized Suri when [[UngratefulBastard she tried to steal her wallet after Starlight bought her food at a diner.]] But her brainwashed self is so NICE, that the doctors mistake her normal personality for the fake persona.
308* RocksFallEveryoneDies: Smolder ends up doing this during an O&O game, dropping multiple dragons that are ''immune'' to anything but magic on the group in a RageQuit because they'd been more or less trying to ruin what she'd been trying to do. Shining Armor, the teacher of the tabletop gaming class at the School of Friendship, chastises her for doing so. He notes, however, she was actually a ''good'' GM for most of it, if a little rough around the edges (which is to be expected, as it was her first time playing).
309* RunningGag: Trixie and the Cuitie Mark Crusaders [[EpicFail suffering some sort of disaster]] during their games, due to everything from bad dice rolls to [[DidNotThinkThisThrough making ill-advised moves]].
310** ''How'' epic are these fails? Trixie once ''caused the end of the world in-game'' with an overcharged spell during the FinalBoss. Everypony present was [[StunnedSilence shocked beyond words.]]
311* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
312** When Twilight and Co. find out about [[DownerEnding the ending of "The Darkest Dungeon"]], they promptly quit the game for good.
313** Shining Armor pulls one and runs off to Ponyville for a while when Cadence's WackyCravings inspire her to run horrible games with her archenemies.
314** Cinch, who after being forced to quietly leave her post by Cadence and Shining Armor or have her blackmailing Sci-Twi and enabling her being bullied, goes to work at Crystalsoft...and then the Sirens' EvilPlan happens. Fed up with the magical stuff, she promptly runs for it and flees to Mexico.
315* ScreenName: Everyone has one on World of Horsecraft:
316** [=PurplePup=] is dog Spike
317** [=FaithfulStudent=] is human Twilight
318** [=BBBFF=] is human Shining Armor
319** Crystal_Prince is Pony Shining Armor
320** [=RisingSun=] is Sunset Shimmer
321** D@r1ng-d0 is Rainbow Dash
322** REAL_Princess is pony Twilight Sparkle
323** Honest Apple is Applejack.
324** Flutter Nice is human Fluttershy.
325** Orchard Blossom is Big Mac.
326** I'm A Banana is the Equestrian Discord.
327** Fairest of Them All is pony Chrysalis (Discord having tricked her into playing with him).
328** Dark Lord of All is the Equestrian Tirek (Discord tricked him into playing with him).
329** Luna, the ''Equestrian'' one, is Moonlight.
330** Wild_Muzac is Lemon Zest's.
331** Ultimate_Princess was the hacker's for their hacked, overpowered character.
332** [=Glimglam99=] is Human Starlight Glimmer, but she uses Equal Rites in World of Horsecraft.
333** Readinginthesun is Human Sunburst.
334** R0xx-star-queen is Human Gilda.
335** [=PinkSugarExplosion=] is Pinkie Pie.
336** Blackest_Flame is Garble.
337** Noneofyourbusiness! is equestrian Gilda (she didn't understand what the character creation was asking her at the time).
338** Rarity is [[ShapedLikeItself Rarity]].
339* SelfDeprecation:
340** Alex Warlorn has posted a couple of sessions poking fun at his own ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries.''
341** Human Discord (a game developer) made ''himself'' the BigBad of an expansion of ''World of Horsecraft'', and the EarnYourBadEnding route ends with [[spoiler:the heroes killing Discord and usurping him.]] The Equestrian Discord is not amused when he finds out, but says {{Touche}} when he finds out it was done by himself. Sombra and Chrysalis (who work at the same company) do the same with ''their'' ingame selves.
342* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Seeing the changelings, and other creatures having their leaders replaced with those who are friendly with Equestria or completely changing their cultural identity, Tiamat chooses to push back, by using her telepathic link on ponies currently in dragon form, and entices them with their own thoughts and insecurities to become dragons for real. As Film and Flam's dragon potion continues to sell, the remaining ponies grow increasingly afraid of where this is going... Implying the very conflict Tiamat feared.
343* 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 independence.'' 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.]]
344* ShipperOnDeck: Cadance sends Sunburst on a 3-week vacation to Ponyville so that she can ship him and Starlight together.
345-->'''Twilight''': (thinking) [[OhNoNotAgain Damn it, Cadance, not again.]]
346* ShoutOut: Many of the games are this for various series.
347** Pinkie references the [[Fanfic/OldManHenderson Henderson Scale of Plot Derailment]] regarding Trixie's previously mentioned game-world-destroying spell.
348** There is also a subplot about [[Fanfic/WolfInPonysClothing wolves wearing pony-costumes making trouble for Rarity at one point]].
349** At another point, Sunset Shimmer, Starlight Glimmer, and Trixie [[Franchise/StarWars duel with lightsabers to see who becomes Twilight's new apprentice]]. It ends when Twilight learns that [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks the Dazzlings]] are behind it all.
350** Queen Supia's name comes from the original Japanese name for [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Beedrill]].
351** "The Awesomeoids" mentioned above is basically an Equestrian version of ''WesternAnimation/{{Inhumanoids}}''.[[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]]
352** The MirrorUniverse versions of the Sirens are called [[Fanfic/TheBridge the Muse Sisters.]]
353** Master Babylon is shamelessly copied from ''Makai Kingdom''.
354** In chapter 17 they refer to another 'enchanted comic' a la the Power Ponies, only this one is for [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold Batmare The Brave And The Bold]].
355** Prince Blueblood has a personal valet named [[Literature/JeevesAndWooster Sleeves]].
356** Several games involving Derpy involve [[WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged a Muffin Button]]. And quite frequently [[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney shout outs to a certain series of courtroom games.]]
357** 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.
358* SilentSnarker: Vinyl Scratch, most definitely.
359* SimulationGame: The human world's version of 'Rainbows and Crystals' is a life sim (in the world of magical ponies of course) with exploration, construction elements, and RPG elements.
360* SixthRanger: Starlight Glimmer, as in canon. In several games, her character is this for the group.
361* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Human!Big Mac says this in response to Human!AJ's question about so many girls being interested in him.
362* SplitPersonality: Suri Polomare develops this after she has her cutie mark restored, since unlike the other equalized ponies, she had a chance to define herself ''without'' Starlight lording over her. Her equalized personality starts calling herself Buttons (which turns out to be Suri's birth name, further complicating things). The two DO NOT like each other.
363* SmellySkunk:
364** When the group plays a ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' style game with Discord making it real, Zephyr Breeze and Fluttershy end up being skunks. Unfortunately for Rainbow Dash, Zephyr Breeze is the 'stinky 24/7' WesternAnimation/PepeLePew style skunk and she's playing the part of Penelope Pussycat (and unfortunately for the mane six, who have about as much success as anyone else in the cartoons who tried to interfere with Pepe's chase when they try). Fluttershy is of the 'only stinks when she's startled' type, which unfortunately for the Mane Six, happens rather promptly.
365** One is living in human Gilda's junkyard, which has been giving her trouble and sprayed the Equestria Girls version of Ember (Gilda's dog) multiple times. Fluttershy gets it out and it ends up spraying the EG Garble and his crew.
366** When he needs Werebeasts to fight a Werevixen and her army, Discord turns Fluttershy into a Wereskunk, and she ends up spraying several Werevixen converts and brainwashed slaves when startled. Discord forgot to write 'Wereskunk spray is cured when they're cured' into his homebrew, so they're still skunked afterwards, and Discord is forced to clean them all off by hand as punishment for causing the whole mess.
367** During their crossover game, Bright Eyes's Druid gets a skunk to help them deal with an encampment of Orcs while Fluttershy's Druid shapeshifts into another one. The resulting trap gets the whole encampment sprayed and weakens them enough for the party to take out.
368* SpannerInTheWorks: EG Screwball (a sapient anti-hacker/balance checking AI Human Discord created and accidentally caused to become self-aware) is one of the main reasons Adagio's plan doesn't go one hundred percent perfect, as she tampers with the game being used to give the heroes a fighting chance (though doesn't understand it's more than a game). Justified, as only Discord is aware of Screwball being a sapient AI.
369* 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. This becomes a RunningGag with them.
370* StrongerSibling: [[spoiler:Queen Supia turns out to be Chrysalis' elder sister, and is a powerful {{Kaiju}} (due to her father apparently making a DealWithTheDevil with some Yokai. Of course unlike Chrysalis, Supia is benevolent.]]
371* SuperStrongChild: Flurry Heart, due to being an Alicorn and thus having Earth Pony abilities.
372* SureLetsGoWithThat: Fairly uncommon in most games since Twilight can be a stickler for rules, but happens a lot in the ''TFOS'' game. Twilight is running that game in no small part to "indulge her inner Pinkie" and have an excuse to play loose with the rules.
373* SwissCheeseSecurity: Twilight comes to this realization regarding the Mirror Portal, after BUTTON MASH manages to sneak into the Human World.
374* TakeThat:
375** A gypsy mare curses Shining Armor to give his firstborn foal a stupid name. Sometime later, cue the birth of ''Flurry Heart''.
376** When Twilight first brings out ''Skies of Equestria'',[[note]]The Steampunk RPG mentioned above,[[/note]] Rarity wonders if a setting all about machines and technology will be a sore spot for Applejack. AJ finds this ridiculous, saying that just because she's a ''traditionalist'' does NOT make her a tech-hating Luddite.
377* {{Telepathy}}: Tiamat it turns out has this with ALL dragons. Spike says he just tunes her out.
378* TemptingFate:
379** 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.
380---> '''Applebloom:''' "Huh. That usually works."
381** The [=CMCs=] also did this when they though their bad luck with board games was over, and decided to play 'fill the barn' at an actual barn... it ends as well as you expect.
382** 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.
383** In Chapter 70, the mares celebrate Nightmare Night by watching horror movies Sunset sent from the EQG world in the tradition of Halloween. After getting understandably unnerved by a scene where a giant spider goes after horses in a corral, they decided to watch another film to get their mind off that scene. However, it's safe to say Sunset didn't translate the titles before sending the films to them. The chosen film's title? International Cuisine -- 'Viande de Cheval'[[note]]Which is French for ''horse meat''.[[/note]]
384--->Ten minutes later the DVD was trampled underhoof, Fluttershy was in a faint, Dash looked to be in shock, Applejack was trying to revive Rarity (who sprang away screaming to wash her mouth out), Tempest and Starlight had both turned green and raced off to find a bucket to puke into, Pinkie's eyes were swirling as she moaned something about 'that lousy fanfic again', and Twilight was busily writing a note to Sunset.
385
386--->"...And once again, Sunset, before sending us these things, make sure you read the title!"
387* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: Those turned into dragons thanks to Flim and Flam's potion begin to feel draconic instincts, but more often than not can learn to handle them ... then Tiamat decides to use her telepathy to make them 'true' dragons. Dragonified Cheerilee even assigns a paper asking 'what ways is being a dragon better than being a pony?' as just one example of them looking for ways to encourage converts without having to resort to force. Diamond Tiara becomes a dragon whelp just to spite her parents.
388* ThePowerOfLove: In a warped way... after Big Mac and Sugar Belle use the dragon potion and are influenced by Tiamat, Big Mac shows no interest in the rest of his herd. Cheerilee buys the biggest and strongest version of the Dragon Potion Flim and Flam have to become a towering dragon amazon ... Marble Pie smashed a boulder to show as an Earth Pony, she can handle being with a dragon just fine is not a 'weak' pony.
389* ThereAreNoTherapists: Subverted, MOST of Equestria got professional help when Discord struck... but ''Gilda'', having moved to Griffinstone, never got any help, and so was still suffering from PTSD from Discord making her as smart as a wild animal and letting her try to eat her ponies (her natural prey). When Gilda begins to have nightmares, and Discord then tries to get chummy by placing a paw on her shoulder, Gilda freaks out and suffers a flash back and claws him across the face. Discord finally takes the hint, later apologizing to Gilda, who has by now gotten professional help.
390* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill:
391** Starlight Glimmer dropped Suri Polomare's cutie mark jar in the middle of the ocean, rather than put it in the vault at Our Town.
392** Almost said word-for-word by Gilda, after she pulls an [[StuffBlowingUp insanely]] [[MoreDakka violent and brutal]] assault on the heads an [[TheEmpire evil government]] in a game about rebellion. She even remarks that her plan was ''tame'' by griffon standards, and that some griffons she knows from back home would have gone even further over the top.
393* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: [[spoiler:Chrysalis' daughter Imago throws a temper tantrum when Thorax overthrows her mother...because ''she'' was 'supposed' to be the one to do that.]]
394* TheStarscream: Chrysalis' daughter Imago is constantly trying to overthrow her. Thankfully for Chrysalis, she's ''really'' bad at it. She doesn't take it well when [[spoiler:Thorax overthrows her instead.]]
395* TheSwearJar: Maternity sets one up for Grubber during his punishment (being forced to do whatever Ponyville's foals tell him to do). Given he's forced to play ''[[VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins Phantoms n' Ghouls]]'' by Button Mash, he fills up half of it in no time. [[ClusterFBomb Then all the way]] when he gets to the game's infamous [[FakeLongevity trick of making you have to beat it a second time on a higher difficulty]].
396* ThisIsGonnaSuck:
397** Rainbow Dash has this reaction to realizing their ''[[TabletopGame/{{Toon}} Animania]]'' game, enhanced by Discord's magic, is going to be a ''WesternAnimation/PepeLePew'' cartoon, with [[AbhorrentAdmirer Zephyr Breeze]] as Pepe, and her as Penelope Pussycat.
398** Twilight, in the same game, has this reaction when she loses a roll and Zephyr's stench flicks the clothespin of her nose, the smell knocking her out soon after.
399** Dra-Gon has this reaction when the giant harmonic energy Alicorn the Humane Cast summoned punches him with seemingly no effect only for Adagio to reveal it's due to 'damage calculation lag.'
400* TooDumbToLive: Discord during a round of [[TabletopGame/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.
401* TooSpicyForYogSothoth:
402** Button's personality is so overwhelmingly ''nice'' that it ends up turning '''Chrysalis''' temporarily equalized when the mane six call her in to "fix" Suri's SplitPersonality problem.
403** A Changeling tried to brainwash Snails. Due to his empty-mindedness, it 'got lost' in his mind.
404** 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 thoughts apparently are not, however, but Tempest is able to fight them off.
405** In another chapter Garble ''attempts'' this with some homemade dragon chili to win a contest he put together (as a scam to make himself rich off the entry fees), only to fail when [[BigGood Princess Celestia]] likes his chili. Enough so that she pays off the prize money for the entire contest in gratitude.
406* TotalPartyKill:
407** Happens to the Mane Six in a round of a tabletop version of ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'', during their fight against [[ThatOneBoss The Hag]]. They later realize they ''could'' have won, and lost only due to their own ignorance of the game mechanics.
408** Dra-Gon ''tries'' to do this, but the EG world Screwball nerfed him beforehand because of how unfair that'd be.
409* TrueArtIsAngsty: InUniverse: Zephyr Breeze suggests as much when he pitches some game remake ideas to 8-Bit and his friends; all of which have [[DownerEnding less]] [[RocksFallEveryoneDies than]] [[CruelTwistEnding happy]] endings. They ''fire him out of a cannon'' in disgust.
410* TrueFinalBoss: Several.
411** The World of Horsecraft's Reign of Chaos expansion has one where if enough people completed the Chaos Route, Discord goes OneWingedAngel rather than just a normal fight.
412** The Wrath of the Crystal King expansion has Rabia as the unlockable final boss, who's accessed through a side quest with Radiant Hope, replacing Sombra who's the normal FinalBoss.
413* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: To fix Granny Smith's hip, Discord retcons the Apple family to be were-dragons (with only AJ aware of the retcon). This opens the door to the entire dragon potion fiasco... eventually Discord undoes it and fixes Granny Smith's hip another way.
414* UpliftedAnimal: As in canon, the human world Spike is a dog granted sapience by Equestria magic. He convinces the group to do the same to the human world Ember (Gilda's pet dog) so he can have a canine friend like him. The human world Garble (a stray dog) ''wants'' to become this, but Spike stops him from doing so.
415** Then in [[https://alexwarlorn.deviantart.com/art/Ponies-and-Dragons-LXXX-Just-Have-Fun-743381831 Chapter 80]], after Dragon!Garble goes through the Mirror Gate and gets returned by Sunset and her friends and a visiting Dragon Lord Ember, stray magic does uplift Dog!Garble.
416* VillainousBreakdown:
417** As in canon, Chrysalis tries to launch her attack from the season six finale. After it fails [[spoiler:leaving her with 13 drones and her kids living in a cave]] and her no longer being welcome at the gaming table, she [[SanitySlippage doesn't take it well.]]
418** The hacker from the short hacker StoryArc [[spoiler:(Decepticolt, Zappityhoof, and Gold Cap)]] has one when the human six and the massive army of players they assembled manage to fight back and ultimately kill their overpowered hacked World of Horsecraft character.
419* VillainousRescue: Tiamat wants Flim and Flam to be dragons due to their unfiltered greed and their help with the dragon potion. Discord claims they're 'taken'... because they're destined to became the twin Draconequi of temptation.
420* VillainSong:
421** Chrysalis sings a version of '[[WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder 'I'm the Bad Guy']], gloating about how much worse she was than Starlight when Starlight tries to reach out to her.
422** She later sings a version of "[[WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride My Lullaby]]" as she prepares her endgame.
423** Sonata sings ''[[Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger Kokoro no Sukima World]]'' as her song in the Sirens' plan to regain their full power, though using autotuning.
424** Aria takes the next turn, and ironically [[spoiler:sings Tempest Shadow's own VillainSong from TheMovie, with the intent of getting a huge payoff from her human self.]]
425** Adagio's song is a version "[[Film/HocusPocus I'll Put A Spell On You]]". As with its use in the movie, it's weaponized to get the people present to sing along with a chant to put some of the finishing touches on their endgame spell.
426* VirtualPaperDoll: ''Rainbows and Crystals'' has this as one of its big draws, being a LifeSimulationGame and all. The Family Castle even allows players to make families for their character with all the same options.
427* WackyCravings: Cadence in Session 16, due to being pregnant with Flurry Heart. It's bad enough that Shining has to organize a nationwide cooking contest in the Crystal Empire just to make enough bizarre food for her.
428** It even goes beyond food into gaming--at one point she demands an RPG session with ''King Sombra and Queen Chrysalis!''
429* WaterSourceTampering: Rainbow Dash does this to a clan of Orcs in a game with Werebear blood, turning them all into NeutralGood Werebears.
430* WhenHeSmiles: Coffee Swirl, who is TheCynic to an extreme degree, turns out to have one time of the year he's actually ''happy'': Hearth's Warming. Fluttershy is so happy to see him actually ''smiling'' for the first time since she met him, she tells Rainbow Dash not to ruin his fun by calling him in.
431* WhosOnFirst: Applejack pulls this in chapter 8, with the name of her HumongousMecha in-game.
432--->AJ nodded. "Eeyup. Darn Tootin'."
433--->"Great! What's the name?"
434--->"Ah told you the name."
435--->Twilight blinked. "Um...No, you didn't."
436* WorldOfBadass: Hinted at in the thousand-year flash-forwards, where Alicornhood has become a lot more common: Even ''Derpy'' has ascended; the Mane Six and Trixie are also confirmed alicorns, with Shining Armor's ascension heavily hinted at. Meanwhile, Gilda's become the griffin equivalent of an alicorn.
437* YouCannotKillAnIdea: Starlight's "equality" ideology lives on in Buttons, who (thankfully) is FAR less fanatical about convincing others of it than Starlight was pre-reformation.
438* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: The Migrant Dragons consider the Dragon Town dragons traitors for abandoning the Dragon Lord... naturally the Dragon Town dragons consider their cousins to be uncouth savages.
439* ZanyCartoon: This is the point of [[TabletopGame/{{Toon}} Animania]], complete with the only real rule being RuleOfFunny.

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