YMMV / MLP Analysis

• Actor Shipping: Shipping in the community toys the line as the analyzers use pony avatars but generally don't use exaggerated personas. One of the more prominent ships was Beatrice the Golden Witch (known as Digibrony at the time) and BronyCurious (now known Tommy Oliver).
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
  • Halfway through Tommy Oliver's review of "Equestria Games", the video suddenly cuts to Beatrice rambling (seemingly drunkenly) in an Australian accent. This goes on for two-and-a-half minutes before it cuts back to Tommy, who picks right back up where he left off. If Beatrice's later videos are any indication, she apparently gets drunk easily.
  • Voice of Reason begins ranting on "Dragon Quest" in his review of it with Buc Brony and they're suddenly hamsters! After those few seconds, it's not brought up again save for a blink-and-you-miss-it message saying, "Just kidding! We love you Aisu!"
• Broken Base: The below-mentioned complaints about the Equestria Games episode. To some fans, these complaints were a sign of entitlement. To others, asking for a plot point that had been foreshadowed since the previous season to be the focus of it's own advertised episode seemed a perfectly reasonable request. It did not help that the episode in question focused on Spike, who was himself a Base-Breaking Character.
• Fan Nickname: Bronycurious occasionally calls Fluttershy "Cheesy Gordita", named after a food item on Taco Bell's menu. The reason he calls her that is, despite being his least favorite character on the show, he doesn't dislike her. Alluding to the fact that even though the cheesy gordita is to him the worst food from Taco Bell, it still oozes quality. Whether or not this is a good comparison is up to you.
• Fan-Preferred Couple:
  • Beatrice and BronyCurious has become quite the fan favorite pairing.
  • ILoveKimPossibleAlot and AntonyC is also quite a favorite among the fans.
  • Eliyora and Acharky.
  • Josh Scorcher and Ink Rose, even though Ink is six years Josh's junior.
    • Later Josh Scorcher and his wife, Aramau.
  • GoldenFox and Keyframe, especially after learning how much GoldenFox supported her.
  • Voice of Reason and SEGASister.
  • Thespio and Midnight Sonata.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • TheAnYPony's video on how one can achieve success on YouTube. In it, he used Beatrice as an example of how one rises to become a successful YouTube celebrity. Cut to season four a few months later, where Beatrice had grown more harsher and critical in her videos, to the point where her opinions on season four of MLP and as well as her new irate and mean-spirited personality had really made people grow to dislike her.
  • In Nightmare Night 2014, we see Baron Tall Tales, an expy of Tommy Oliver's OC who is called the zombified remains of a "long dead" critic. Less than a year later, Tommy would leave the community.
  • ANY heartwarming moment between them and former analyst ToonKriticY2K has become cringeworthy to revisit now after Zak was exposed as a sex offender and pedophile, thus they cut all ties with him.
  • The videos with both Josh Scorcher and Lily Orchard are rather hard to look at after the two of them broke off their friendship in a rather public falling-out.
  • One of Zaid Magenta's ^note He was previously called MisAnthroPony, he changed his name during September 2022. confession videos is called "Fandom", but it comes harder to watch after watching his tirade that he went on in the very next video, "Drama". All because some members from this very Fandom sent Amy Keating Rogers... death threats, simply for not liking how Pinkie Pie was written in "Filli Vanilli"!
    • Similarly Zaid’s anger and disappointment at the fandom for sending death threats rings ironically hollow as in September 2023 it was revealed Zaid had been going on sprees doing exactly that to those who he felt wronged him in the past. With Zaid’s inability to control his anger leading to Zaid being banished from the senate and deleting his own channel.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • One of Josh Scorcher's first complaints of "Appleloosa's Most Wanted" is that he wanted to see the Crusaders get their cutie marks already, and by that point, the fact they haven't done so yet felt like the writers were stalling. Later developments aside, that video was uploaded only two days before the episode aired.
  • In the react for Legend of Everfree, Voice of Reason makes some jokes that make fun of the similarities to Power Rangers once the girls go all out with their powers. In 2019, Hasbro would go on to purchase the right from Saban.
• Launcher of a Thousand Ships:
  • AnY Pony has been shipped with ILoveKimPossibleAlot, HeartSong, PuzzleBrony, Twilight Sparkle, and brony artists like Riquis101, mangaJag, Keyframe, Aisu Roma, and KatrinaHood.
  • GoldenFox as well, although less so compared to AnY Pony. While he's shipped with his real life girlfriend Keyframe, he's bunched up with AnY Pony and Keyframe ala One True Threesome. And then there's Zaid Magenta with Golden and Zaid Magenta due to their friendship.
• Moral Event Horizon: Lethal Aurora crosses it from the beginning by being the first villain to commit on-screen murder, in a manner that is NOT Played for Laughs.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Ink Rose has her own page.
  • The surreal nature of Beatrice's review of "The Return of Harmony" was more than a little creepy.
  • In Josh's review of the Cutie Re-Mark, Ink Rose's expressions at several points are really unsettling. There are moments where she stares at the audience/Josh with eyes that are looking directly into your soul. The cute background music doesn't help these moments either. Ink, stop staring at me! Also, Ink Rose's headcanon on why the last alternate future in that episode was a lifeless wasteland? "Every villain was released, and everything in Equestria is dead!" The implication was already there, but the way she says it sells this quote.
  • Flight of Blight. Thunder Blight herself manages to be pretty menacing and has a genuinely unnerving Leitmotif, but the real Nightmare Fuel is that Lightning Bliss spends most of it fading away into nonexistence and her screaming in pain from it is terrifying. According to Word of God, Blight was originally much worse in the original script to the point some of the things were too uncomfortable for her to go through with.
    Robin: Ok, somebody's gotta stop her, she's killing Blissy!
  • GoldenFox's breakdown in his "Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep" review is both this and a massive Tearjerker.
  • Golden's dark side Crimson Fang invokes this as well. Unlike others with dark sides, such as Thunder Blight, Crimson acts like a surprisingly calm professional with an undertone that can give a sense of something amiss with him. This is made apparent in his introduction episode when criticizing Golden over his behavior with recent episodes.
    Crimson Fang: THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE OF US!
• Portmanteau Couple Name: Here are some the few out of many, many pairings.
  • AnYHood (AnY Pony X KatrinaHood).
  • DigiCurious (Beatrice (known as Digibrony at the time) X Bronycurious).
  • ILoveAntonyCALot (ILoveKimPossibleAlot X Antony C).
  • JoshRose or FireRose (Josh Scorcher / Commander Firebrand X Ink Rose).
  • FireMau (Josh Scorcher / Commander Firebrand X Aramau / the Fiery Secretary).
  • StormBeats (Storm Analysis X Clifford Beats).
  • PostPal (Postscript X Rosepal)
  • GoldenKey (GoldenFox X Keyframe)
    • As mentioned above, Golden's kinda of a Launcher of a Thousand Ships, which consists of GoldenKeyAnY (GoldenFox X Keyframe X AnY Pony) and MisAnthroFox (GoldenFox X Zaid Magenta).
  • SEGAVoice (SEGASister and Voice of Reason)
  • PuzzleBloom (PuzzleBrony X Sweetie Bloom)
  • and many, MANY more.
• Tear Jerker: Has its own page.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: In Winter of 2013, Beatrice revamped her whole image on her YouTube videos where she smokes all the time, even indoors, and even in her redesigned OC. The reality is that she's been smoking since way before becoming a reviewer^note She points out that the seven cans of Mountain Dew she drinks per day are probably much worse for her health than the one or two cigarettes she smokes during that same time-span, and thought she should simply embrace who she is publicly. A vocal group were not pleased. Beatrice's new style of reviewing episodes also came under attack. Beginning with "Twilight Time", she began giving brief explorations of the episodes' themes and relating them to her personal life rather than thoroughly explaining why she thinks an episode is good or bad, like how she did previously and how the majority of her peers do. All of this was largely the result of a combination of Artist Disillusionment, as she had grown tired of the majority of YouTube comments she received focusing on her opinion of an episode rather than the analytical points she brought up and the fact that she doesn't like the majority of the episodes in season 4. She later indicated that she would only be doing this for season 4, and that reviews of other episodes would be done with the same style and OC as before. After season 4 concluded, Beatrice retired from MLP analysis and began focusing on anime.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: Before his voice deepened, Storm Analysis had been mistaken for a female quite a couple of times.

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