"Oh, I think I know where this... Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey Stuff is coming from."
— Discord
Timey Wimey is a My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic webcomic drawn by Light262 and written by Lum. The comic was first published on October 31, 2014 and completed on August 12, 2018.
The comic starts with Princess Twilight Sparkle and Spike noticing weird changes in the weather. As she gather her friends to investigate, they find out that the normal course of time has been completely torn apart: elements from the past and future are now mixed together and nothing makes sense anymore. At first, they suspect Discord, but things turn out to be more complicated that they expected. In fact, a mysterious character appears to be the source of all this chaos... who can it be?
The webcomic can be read here
and here.
This My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic webcomic provides examples of:
- Accidental Misnaming: Princess Tempora has trouble remembering everypony's names.
- All of Time at Once: The characters first realize that something weird is going on when the seasonal cycle begins breaking down, resulting in a chaotic overlapping of winter snows, autumn foliage and spring and summer growth, with dead trees dropping fruit and butterflies turning back into chrysalides. As the Time Crash progresses, medieval and far-future ponies begin to appear in Ponyville, culminating in villains from multiple points in canon begin drawn into the present and going at each other in a multi-way battle.
- Always a Bigger Fish: Nightmare Moon threatening the Mane Six, only to find herself attacked by the other major villains like Chrysalis and Tirek.
- Art Shift: During the tornado sequence, the art style makes much greater use of shadows and visual textures, resulting in a much more three-dimensional appearance.
- Big Badass Battle Sequence: Nightmare Moon, Queen Chrysalis, the Changelings, the Shadowbolts, King Sombra and Lord Tirek engage in one with Princess Celestia, Princess Luna and the Royal Guard joining in later.
- Berserk Button: Nightmare Moon snaps when she sees Princess Luna and believes her to be a clone Celestia made to replace her unaware Luna is actually from the present.Nightmare Moon: "I hated you, already, Celestia... I don't know how you created a double of me... But that's just too much! Even Tartarus is nothing compared to... MY... RAGE!!"
- Beam-O-War: Nightmare Moon engages in one with Tirek. She is almost overpowered before Celestia and Luna help her.
- The Cameo:
- The Cutie Mark Crusaders and Olaf make an appearance when Pinkie plays with them in the snow.
- Trixie is seen attached to a balloon on page 82. Silverlay, Alice and Squeaky Pitch from EStories comics: Seeds of Darkness and Find Yourself are also seen attached to balloons.
- Starlight Glimmer is shown to be one of the combatants fighting among the Changelings, Royal Guard and Shadowbolts.
- Demonic Possession: A benevolent example. When the strain of holding all of time together proves too much for Princess Tempora, her body breaks apart and turns to dust. Rarity manages to gather the remains of Tempora's body into a sphere of light which allows Tempora to take over Rarity's body and speak through her.
- Expy: Starswirl the Bearded is presented as one to the 12th Doctor (this was before his official reveal in the show), being an intelligent but grouchy old man. Heck, after the climax, it's shown that he was raised in a small house in a desolated land, much like the Doctor was. Heck, he even had a wolf plushie.
- Evil Versus Evil: Nightmare Moon and the Shadowbolts, Queen Chrysalis and her Changelings, King Sombra and Lord Tirek all fight amongst each other.
- Future Me Scares Me: Discord ends up feeling that way toward his double. It's later reveal to be an inverted example. It was Past Discord (back when he was a villain) fighting Present Discord. However, he is off-put by Present Discord and a Future Discord. They differentiate themsevles with a color-patterned square on their cheek (the villaious/Past Discord has green, dark purple and red, representing the villains; Present Discord has white, blue and pink, resembling Celestia; and Future Discord has lavender, purple and blue, a nod toward Starlight.
- Grumpy Old Man: Starswirl the Bearded was this. Turns out that he had attitude problems even as a kid.
- I Just Want to Have Friends: Princess Tempora's role as a Time Weaver became distracted after witnessing the adventures of Twilight and her friends. She realized her role made her lonely and longing for friendship.
- Lampshade Hanging: (Applejack, after a fall): "I hope this isn't going to become some sort of routine".
- Me's a Crowd: Three versions of Discord appear, presumably from the past, present and future, each wearing tattoos on their faces to differentiate from each other.
- Mythology Gag: Princess Tempora addresses Twilight by the name of Twilight Twinkle, a pony from Generation 3.
- No Name Given: The mysterious Alicorn. Subverted later on, as she is revealed to be named Tempora.
- The Power of Friendship: But of course! The girls use this through Rainbow Power to restore Tempora and give her a different form, allowing them to save all of time.
- Replacement Goldfish: Nightmare Moon believes Celestia did this upon looking at Princess Luna unaware she's actually from the present.
- Shout-Out:
- Page 6 has Discord steal the Element of Magic while wearing a green pointed hat.
- Pinkie says "Winter is Coming" at one point.
- Olaf makes a brief appearance.
- While in Ponyville Rarity notices one pony wearing a scouter while another wears a Daft Punk helmet.
- On Page 37, the shot of Nightmare Moon and Queen Chrysalis locking horns in battle is a homage to a page of Twilight and Chrysalis fighting each other in the fourth issue of the IDW comics.
- After encountering the magical sand tornado for the third time, Pinkie Pie comments she's glad it doesn't contain sharks.
- On page 58, We have this line by Rarity.
- Slasher Smile: All the villains sports these from time to time.
- Super Mode: The Mane Six take on their Rainbow Power forms again.
- Swirly Energy Thingy: The sand vortex that brings the Mane 6 to Tempora.
- That Reminds Me of a Song: Defied, as Rainbow Dash prevents Pinkie from performing a musical number.
- Time Master: Princess Tempora is the weaver of time and controls time itself.
- Title Drop:
- Discord refers to the ongoing Time Crash as "wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff".
- At the end, Pinkie namedrops the title as a suggestion for a book Tempora is about to make.
- Villainous Breakdown: Tirek goes through one when he's being erased from time.
- Wham Episode: All major villains fighting each other in one sequence. Even Nightmare Moon.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Spike disappears from the story after Discord steals the Element of Magic only to return during the epilogue.
- You Are Not Alone:
- This is Nightmare Moon's line after Chrysalis taunts her with fighting her army of Changelings by herself before summoning an army of Shadowbolts by her side.
- Princess Celestia and Twilight say this to Princess Tempora and Nightmare Moon at the same time.
