The EQG Crossover series is a webcomic written and drawn by a Deviantart user named Crydius, and a spinoff to his other webcomic series War Chronicles. It can be found here
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The comic focuses on the daily shenanigans at Canterlot High, which is now being attended by various non-MLP characters as well as the regular students. Comics usually focus on Sunset Shimmer and/or Crydius (who, if you haven't guessed, is the Author Avatar). More often than not, Hilarity Ensues.
This comic provides examples of:
- Accidental Innuendo: In-Universe, Crydius has no idea why his girlfriend freaked out when he suggested they “make a little devil of [their] own.” (to oppose Twilight and Sunset's GAMMA)
- Adaptational Heroism: By virtue of being Ordinary High School Students, Crydius (the Big Bad in War Chronicles) and his gang (consisting of Marshall Lee, Lord Dominator, Crona, Chara, and Flowey) get hit with this with Crona in particular being a villain in name only.
- The Alcoholic: Since her default solution to any SunLight debacle is "get drunk", we can presume Dominator is this.
- Artificial Stupidity: As of part 3 of the "GAMMA's magic" arc, GAMMA doesn't seem to know that, if she doesn't want to turn people into frogs, she should stop snapping her fingers, even though she's turned an entire class into frogs at this point.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Pinkie Pie, which ends up being weaponized by Dominator during the Flag Hunt arc.
- Bait-and-Switch: One comic set around Christmas had Human Twilight telling Sunset about how it was the most wonderful time of year...THE EXAM PERIOD!Crydius: Someone tell that girl to shut up. Please.
- Badass Adorable: Eldritch, the cutest lil' unholy chaos spawn you will ever meet.
- Berserk Button:
- For Sunset: If you value your life, DON'T TRY AND HURT HUMAN TWILIGHT. Just ask Rainbow Dash. Or the demonic creature that Sunset managed to skewer with a flagpole.
- As Trixie learns the hard way, Eldritch does not like rude people.
- Rainbow Dash can tolerate overly-sappy couples on her best days. If you bug her too much by being overly-sappy with your significant other in her vicinity, she'll yell at you. Unfortunately, one of the times she did this is was at Tracer and Widowmaker, two teachers and Rainbow Dash gets detention.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Eldritch is a sweet kid, threats to destroy the world notwithstanding. However, if you act rude towards someone, he will gladly remind you which gods were invoked in his creation.
- The Big Damn Kiss: Sunset and Twilight get one during the climax of the Love Advice arc.
- Blood Magic: Crydius uses his own blood in the ritual used to create Eldritch.
- Book Ends: Not counting the epilogue, the Love Advice arc begins and ends with one half of the SunLight couple asking a very reluctant Crydius for advice.
- Bridal Carry: Sunset carries Human Twilight this way after saving her from the demon creature.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: For all her Comedic Sociopathy, Chara is the one who finally gets Sunset to confess her feelings to Human Twilight.
- Butt-Monkey: Rainbow Dash. She's the Only Sane Man surrounded by romantic idiocy, and she tends to bear the brunt of any Amusing Injuries.
- Cannot Spit It Out: A major problem in Sunset and Human Twilight's relationship is Sunset's inability to tell Human Twilight how she feels.
- Rainbow Dash isn't much better with her feelings towards Fluttershy.
- Cast Full of Gay: Aside from Pinkie, who hasn't been paired with anyone yet, each of the Humane Seven has expressed an attraction to another of their members, and there are numerous other same-sex couples around the school. In fact, it would be easier to list the characters that haven't been confirmed as LGBT in some fashion, like Apple Bloom.
- Cerebus Retcon: The fact that the setting is a Massive Multiplayer Crossover with no real explanation was mostly played for comedy until "Meet the Princesses", when Celestia reveals that it's a sign that the damage to the portal to Equestria is starting to seriously affect the world, a side-effect of which is the fact that these characters were brought into said world in the first place.
- Check, Please!: Dominator says this word-for-word after Sunset's drunken antics get out of hand.
- Chekhov's Gun: The third page of the Flag Hunt arc shows Chara sitting next to a seemingly ordinary potted flower. As Rarity discovered later, said flower is Flowey.
- Christmas Episode: "That magical time of year" and "Love Analysis" both take place around or on Christmas.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: In the Dodgeball and Capture the Flag arcs, BLU Soldier from Team Fortress 2 is the head coach with Tracer from Overwatch as his assistant. In the First Year's Dodgeball Arc, Tracer is now the head coach and there's no sign of Soldier.
- Crossover Cameo: The background of the comic is thickly populated by characters taken from dozens of other works.
- As shown here, the Soldier is the gym teacher and Lapis and Peridot are students.
- The school nurse is named Dr. Ziegler, and Tracer is the assistant coach.
- Dipper, as seen here, is a member of the "Shady and most likely Dangerous Books Club". Crydius also regularily casts spells using Journal 2.
- Crydius calls Marceline at one point during the Love Advice arc. She later turns up alongside Marshal as part of a band in The First Date arc.
- The Author Avatar of one of Crydius' real-life friends, MustLoveFrogs, along with one of her Original Characters, makes an appearance during the Love Advice arc.
- Artoria and Mordred show up a few times, the former as a teacher and the latter as their child and a student, and a few books are seen mentioning the Holy Grail Wars. Likewise, Shirou and Rin turn up at Couples Night in The First Date arc.
- Luna Loud is among the girls who want advice from Crydius at the end of the Love Advice arc.
- Luz, Amity, and the Collector are also students, the latter being the "Court Wizard" of the "Knights of the Kids Table".
- Wednesday and Enid are amongst the couples at Couples Night in The First Date. Kim Pines and Knives Chau are part of the combined band at the concert at that same arc.
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- Didn't Think This Through: Crydius, in order to slow down Human Twilight during the Flag Hunt climax, casts a random spell from Journal 2. He only finds out that it's a demonic creature-summoning spell after said creature comes.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Again, Sunset slew a demon creature with a flagpole!
- Dodgeball Is Hell:
- Used in one strip. The Soldier from Team Fortress 2 is the gym coach, and Rainbow Dash gets a bloody nose (and possibly a concussion, especially since she doesn't remember the incident later) after trying to chuck a ball at Human Twilight (thanks to Sunset being a Violently Protective Girlfriend).
- A later arc sees GAMMA and Eldritch play dodgeball with the other freshmen, which leads to the two of them bringing out new superpowered forms. Chaos ensues.
- Forced Transformation: GAMMA accidentally turns Twilight and many other people into frogs during the "GAMMA's magic" arc.
- From Bad to Worse: By the third page of "GAMMA's magic", GAMMA has turned most of the student body into frogs.
- Funny Background Event:
- During the Love Advice arc, while GAMMA tries to give her advice to Sunset, we can see Crydius and Dominator going after Frog and her lover for interfering.
- "The challenges of parenting" has Swiftly stacking up a pile of furniture and sitting on the top while Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash talk, only for it to then collapse and all on top pf Rainbow.
- During the fourth page of The first date, Rainbow and Fluttershy are watching a parody of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (the dialogue says "No, I Am Your Father" "No! That's not tr-! Oh, wait, no, that makes sense...")
- Fun with Acronyms: GAMMA stands for Greatly Advanced Mechanical & Magic-based Android.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: GAMMA gets these when casting a spell after removing her power limiters.
- Godzilla Threshold: GAMMA eventually decides to remove her power limiters in order to turn every frog back to normal. She succeeds–and blows up a chunk of the school in the process.
- Golem: Essentially what Eldritch is.
- Harmless Villain: Eldritch. He wants to bring chaos and destruction to the world, except he's too damn nice to actually be able to pull it off. His Feral and Sagacious personalities are a bit more effective at it, but Ardent is likewise too affable to try and do anything really villainous.
- Heroic BSoD:
- Rainbow suffers one after finding out that Sunset and Twilight somehow created a daughter. GAMMA herself has a literal one later when she meets Pinkie Pie.
- GAMMA has another literal one in "Meet the Princesses" when she sees both Twilights together, nearly leading to a meltdown.
- Humanity Ensues: Thanks to a Macaque's Paw that Chara stole from Crydius after his and Tempest's trip to Equestria, two birds that Fluttershy found and was looking after turn human, effectively becoming her and Rainbow's daughters, after she wished that they could stay with her in the dorms.
- Hypocritical Humor: After a day of dealing with annoyingly cute couples, Rainbow Dash talks with Fluttershy...and they act like a cute couple. She's quick to realize this.
- Important Haircut: Crona and Dominator both get one to further show the bond between them.
- Irony: Eldritch was created by invoking various evil gods, was made to be a being of dark power...and he's probably the sweetest kid you'll ever meet.
- I Want Grandkids: Twilight Velvet, so she's very happy to meet Gamma, regardless of whether she's a gynoid or not. Unfortunately for Shining, she verbally eviscerates him for not being able to work up the courage to confess to Cadence so she can get grandkids from that angle.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Crydius. Despite his reservations, he does sort of try to help Sunset through her problems.
- Lethal Chef:
- Human Twilight's cookies knock out Marshall Lee and Rainbow Dash and cause Crydius to comment "So this is what death tastes like..." Sunset is mysteriously unaffected, with Crydius suggesting that either she has some insane poison resistance or The Power of Love is stronger than he thought it was.
- GAMMA manages to take after her in this regard; when she tries making meatloaf, she somehow makes it sentient. And, unfortunately for her and Eldritch, it gets pissed off relatively easily... Fortunately for them, it goes down pretty easily.
- Magitek: GAMMA. It's in her name!
- Massive Multiplayer Crossover: There are characters from easily over a dozen franchises besides the Equestria Girls base, from Steven Universe to Overwatch to Undertale and more. This is apparently a consequence of the damage to the portal in "Friendship Games" causing other worlds to start leaking into the Equestria Girls reality.
- Mistaken for Romance: Rarity and Applejack, thanks to a prank pulled by Dominator.
- Mood Whiplash:
- Mundane Made Awesome: Fluttershy's Stare vs Chara's Rape Face in an epic staring contest. That is all.
- Noodle Implements: In "Meet the Princesses", it's not explained how 10 feet of copper wire, 6 cans of tomato sauce, a Latin dictionary, and a fire extinguisher will stop GAMMA's meltdown.
- Power Limiter: GAMMA has one in place to keep a leash on her immense magical power. When she removes it, she blows up a chunk of the school, changes a bunch of students-turned-frogs back to normal, and afflicts Crydius and Crona with Ash Face.
- Official Couple: Human Twilight and Sunset, Sweetie Belle and Silver Spoon, Lyra and Bon Bon, Peridot and Lapis Lazuli, and Crydius and Human!Tempest Shadow and Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy.
- Oh, Crap!: Crydius, Crona, and quite possibly the frogs react this way when GAMMA shuts off her power limiters.
- Only Sane Man: When it comes to Sunset and Human Twilight's romance woes, Rainbow Dash and Crydius seem to be this.
- Original Character: Crydius, GAMMA, and Eldritch.
- Power Glows: When GAMMA removes her limiters, her eyes and joints glow bright blue.
- Power Incontinence: Seems to be the focus of the "GAMMA's magic" arc, with GAMMA's inherent magical powers flaring up and turning people into frogs whenever she snaps her fingers.
- Robot Girl: GAMMA, the robot daughter of Human Twilight and Sunset Shimmer.
- Sequel Hook:
- At the end of the "GAMMA's magic" arc, Crydius tells Tempest that he's interested in creating a creature as powerful as her... (albeit, not without a misunderstanding from her about what he said)
- The next Element of Betrayal has Crydius and Tempest talking about Catra getting back together with Adora. Crydius then says they'll have to find someone else worthy to bear the Element and when it comes to betrayal, well, they'll have options as we see Anne, Sasha and Marcy...
- Ship Tease: In an offhand remark, Apple Bloom calls Eldritch "cute".
- Apple Bloom actually gets along better with his Slaanesh-aligned "Ardent" personality (to the point that he takes over from his Khorne-aligned "Feral" persona when the latter tries to attack her), while Eldritch himself gets some with GAMMA after trying some of her food and liking it (he's aligned with Nurgle) in the second, even asking her if she can teach him how she made it, causing her to blush.
- Shout-Out: Crydius' plan to detransform the student body involves dressing Vinyl and Octavia up as princes and making them kiss the bewitched frogs, in a manner similar to a certain fairy tale...
- When creating Eldritch, Crydius invokes the names of the Chaos Gods.
- Surrounded by Idiots: Crydius' attitude at times.
- Take That!: GAMMA is not a fan of the Bayformers movies.
- Tempting Fate:
- Twice during the Flag Hunt arc, Rainbow Dash brags about her incredible speed and agility...and both times she trips over a rock and suffers exaggerated injuries.
- On the third page of the "GAMMA's magic" arc, Crydius claims that nothing surprises him anymore. One Gilligan Cut later, and he's clearly surprised at the fact that GAMMA is trying to corral an unruly bunch of humans-turned-frogs.
- In the first page of the "Calamitous card game" arc, Sunset Shimmer thinks to herself that she's got to keep a close eye on GAMMA and make sure nothing bad happens to her. Cue Apple Bloom running up yelling that something terrible's happened to GAMMA.
- That Came Out Wrong: When Crydius tells his girlfriend about wanting to create a golem with power similar to GAMMA's, the way he initially phrases it makes it sound like he wants to have a child with her.
- The Power of Love: One of the theories created to explain why Human Twilight's cookies don't have an adverse reaction on Sunset.
- True Love's Kiss: What Crydius believes will turn the frogs back into humans. To achieve this, he gets the help of a confused Vinyl Scratch and Octavia.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: At this point, the students of CHS have dealt with so many supernatural creatures and incidents that they barely bat an eye at, say, a demon creature interrupting the annual flag hunt or the fact that Human Twilight and Sunset created a fully sentient robot.
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: What motivated Sunset to concuss one of her friends and slay a demon creature? The fact that they were endangering Twilight.
- Wham Episode: The last page in the Love Advice arc. Crydius has a girlfriend, and it's the human version of Tempest Shadow.
- What Did I Do Last Night?: After a night of getting drunk, Sunset and Human Twilight wake up to find that they somehow created a robot daughter with a fully sentient AI and a plasma cannon.
- You Are Grounded!: At the end of the “GAMMA’s magic” arc, even though everything that happened was an accident, GAMMA is still grounded by her moms for turning people into frogs and blowing up a chunk of the school.
