Webcomic / And That's How Equestria Was Made!

And That's How Equestria Was Made! is a webcomic made by Fadri, creator of Dragon Mail. The strip is based off My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.

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Contains examples of:

• Alpha Bitch: As in the show, Diamond Tiara.
  • Freudian Excuse: Gilda gives her and Silver Spoon daily mud baths.
• Aluminum Christmas Trees: This comic features a pony Batman. Sounds ridiculous, but when you consider The Mysterious Mare Do Well...
• Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: The multiple choice answers to Celestia’s question in this strip:
  Octavia and Vinyl Scratch have an argument about what musical style is the best one. What must they do to preserve their friendship?
  a) Ask for a third opinion.
  b) Respect each others tastes.
  c) Find new friends.
  d) Kill each other.
  e) Start raving with classical music.
  • Luna's dream guide could be this too.
• Cloudcuckooland: Referenced in the title of this strip.
• Cliffhanger: The Flank Anomaly storyline ended this way due to Fadri leaving the MLP fandom after publishing his last comic in 2016. No new comics have been produced since then.
• Crack Fic: Here.
• The Ditz: Derpy.
• Dream Tropes: Luna discusses these in one strip.
  • Dream Weaver: The fifth one.
  • "Not Wearing Pants" Dream: Bon-Bon. 'I'm not really sure what's the problem with this dream.'
  • Recurring Dreams / Anxiety Dreams: Twilight (in a Call-Back to the Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick example) and Minuette.
• Everyone Is Satan in Hell: invoked This strip has Derpy Hooves' brief replacement applying this to the show. Her reasons start out reasonable, but get more and more ridiculous. It was just an Acid Reflux Nightmare Derpy had from eating a Zap Apple, though
• Flat "What": Rarity's reaction to AJ declaring she's headed to Manehatten to hobnob with all the snobs in "The Flank Anomaly".
• Fur Is Clothing: Parodied.
• Heroic BSoD: Various ponies react this way to losing their cutie marks during "The Flank Anomaly", but one of the worst is Pinkie Pie.
• Hypocritical Humor: Discord here.
• Mistaken Identity: Spike mistakes the Elements of Harmony sea serpent for Rarity.
• Motivation on a Stick: Here.
• Pick a Card: Trixie does this here.
• Prince and Pauper: Here.
• Public Service Announcement: Regarding dental hygiene
• Real Life Writes the Plot: The strips are usually inspired by recent episodes.
• Schedule Slip: Fadri began a story arc to bridge the gap between seasons two and three. Season three is about to begin and we’re only five strips in. He’ll have to continue the story between his usual episode-based strips.
• Shout-Out:
  • To The Powerpuff Girls in the first strip. (May also be a Mythology Gag, as Lauren Faust also worked on that show)
  • The sound effect here is RAINBOW'D!
  • A possible one to The Fairly Oddparents: Channel Chasers in this strip.
  • Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff comes to mind here, even Discord thinks its a little excessive for himself.
• Story Arc: "The Flank Anomaly" deals with everypony in Ponyville suddenly losing their Cutie Marks and the talents that go with them.