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"My Little Pony, My Trivial Pony, what volition today's take a chance be?

My Niggling Pony, My Lilliputian Pony, volition in that location exist heady sights to see?"

—Theme song for the ads and almost all incarnations.

Long-Running multimedia franchise that started humbly with a big horse doll with a brushable tail and mane made of doll pilus.

Originally created by Bonnie Zacherle, My Fiddling Pony officially started out as a toy line published and developed past Hasbro in 1982, following their 1981 My Pretty Pony toys. The legal stuff was finalized in 1983, which is probably why Hasbro counts information technology equally MLP's birthyear and non 1982. The unlike incarnations of My Little Pony are normally separated into "generations", as classified by collectors, based on the toy line. It is a history of friendships, of cartoons of varying degrees of sweet, of footling girls achieving their dreams and of grown men defying gender roles.

Generation i started humbly with the release of six pony toys in 1982. Very soon, the toy line became a hit of absolutely enormous magnitude, and apace became a highly recognizable office of pop civilisation. To this day, even later on all the relaunches and re-imaginings of the franchise, the original 1980's toys remain what almost people amid the full general population immediately picture when they hear the phrase "My Piffling Pony". The toyline was somewhen followed by ii Tv specials, one in 1984 and another in 1985, and a characteristic-length movie in 1986. A Boob tube serial, My Little Pony 'n Friends, was released later the same yr and ran for two seasons before beingness cancelled in 1987. These cartoons all took place in Dream Valley, part of Ponyland (or Ponyland, role of Dream Valley, or Ponyland, also known as Dream Valley — no 2 writers agreed on this point) where the ponies — with the help of a young girl named Megan – often have to fight off some Monster of the Week. Contrary to what one might expect from a work of fiction based on the sugary sweet toys (and contrary to the perceived image of the franchise that the public seems to agree), these cartoons were mostly based effectually the theme of adventure, and featured some surprisingly dark and lethal villains, peculiarly in the primeval episodes. There were also comics released in the United kingdom that used the aforementioned characters just had their own catechism. The toys themselves frequently had short stories pertaining to the ponies in the box.

In 1992 Hasbro released My Trivial Pony Tales, a Piece of Life series which was set in its ain continuity and ran for a single season. Oft mistakenly referred to equally "G2", information technology's technically still office of G1, even though it has null to practise with the various Dream Valley/Ponyland cartoons. The show took place in a universe pretty much identical to our own with the obvious exception that everyone is a multicolored pony, and focused on things normal kids bargain with. It notably set the tendency of having the main setting exist a town called Ponyville.

Generation ii actually began in 1997 when Hasbro gave the toys a major redesign. The toys were now taller, slender, and more than "horse-similar". The new designs were not well met, and this version simply lasted a twelvemonth in the Usa, though it continued for a few more years in Europe. In addition to being the shortest lived toy line, G2 is notably the only one without an Animated Adaptation, though at that place were comics and a video game.

Hasbro went back to the stockier builds in 2003, marker the starting time of "Generation 3". Instead of a TV series, Hasbro opted to release a series of Direct-to-DVD movies and shorts. The setting is once once again Ponyville, simply this time with a slight fantasy chemical element to it. G3 is known for being the lightest and "pinkest" of all the incarnations. No villains, conflicts are rare, and at that place's, well, lots of pinkish, but it had a certain charm to it. Regardless of the quality of the animated adaptions though, G3 proved to be a well needed fiscal success subsequently the poor reception to G2. In 2007, Hasbro fabricated the controversial determination to reduce the number of characters, in a franchise long known for Loads and Loads of Characters, to seven. This led to a soft reboot which retained the original G3 look and was called "Core 7" by fans. Another soft reboot a year or so subsequently, which fans phone call "G3.5", featured the Core 7 ponies in forms similar to Ponyville plastic molds. The reboot was non well received, and the cartoons in particular were met with criticism. The era finally came to an finish in 2009 afterward the release of Twinkle Wish Adventure of G3.5, and Once Upon a My Little Pony Time which is linked to the Newborn Cuties variant of Core 7. At this betoken most casual observers had written Ponies off, but it wouldn't be the stop of the franchise.

Not by a long shot.

"Generation four" started in 2010 with the release of the Telly serial My Trivial Pony: Friendship is Magic developed by Lauren Faust. The ponies were noticeably redesigned from their decreasingly realistic proportions, sporting big eyes, tiny muzzles, bodies that are proportionally small for their heads, and Moe quirks — but generally considered cute nonetheless. At its core, Friendship Is Magic has the fantasy and adventure elements of G1, the Piece of Life stories of Tales, much of the cast are re-imagined G3 ponies, and episodes typically characteristic life lessons about friendship at the stop of most episodes. Faust developed a new setting called Equestria, a Fantasy Kitchen Sink with its ain mythology and history, with the town of Ponyville existence the habitation of the series' mane half-dozen heroines. Stories range from comedic slice of life to family-friendly adventures. In any example, the cartoon became an unexpected hit with a colossal Periphery Demographic of teens and adults of all genders. Hasbro capitalized on the success of the show by giving Friendship is Magic an Expanded Universe with assorted comics and books. For greater detail, see the Generation four folio. The master show ended in October 2019, only the comic series continued for about two years past that. 2020 too saw the release of My Niggling Pony: Pony Life, sometimes referred to as "Generation 4.5", a Continuity Reboot featuring the same characters but with much more stylized and Super-Plain-featured designs, more than abstract and sometimes cubist-like backgrounds, and a greater focus on absurdist one-act.

"Generation 5" launched in 2021 with a CGI picture show titled My Footling Pony: A New Generation, and will exist followed-upwards by a series of specials and a CGI animated serial throughout 2022 under the "Make Your Mark" banner. The film'southward co-writer, Friendship is Magic and Equestria Girls veteran Gillian Thousand. Berrow, is in charge of developing it. In improver, a series of 2nd animated shorts named Tell Your Tale will be available for streaming on Youtube. Generation 5 is notable for being the beginning incarnation of the show to exist in the aforementioned continuity equally the previous one, although it takes identify so far in the futurity from Friendship is Magic that it's effectively a Soft Reboot.

See also the Spin-Offs Fairy Tails and My Pretty Mermaids, as well equally My Piddling Phony for parodies and pastiches.

An extensive guide to the toy line and a detailed episode guide for all the toys before G3 serial can be found at (naturally) Dream Valley. Etherella'due south Scrapbook has info on the ponies, forth with info on them in the cartoon and comics.

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Adaptations:

    Adaptations

1st Incarnation ('n Friends):

• My Little Pony Television set Specials: These are a pair of half-hour TV pilots that started it all. Fair warning, they are both Darker and Edgier than ane might expect of this field of study thing. In one, the ponies face an Evil Overlord who happens to be the trope namer for The Night That Never Ends, and in the other they face a violent, drug-addicted mage. Aye. Actually.
• My Piddling Pony: The Movie (1986): Afterwards the pilots, we have this. In this movie, a trio of semi-competent witches cover all of Ponyland in the Smooze, a living wave of concrete which blankets the lands. Will the ponies be able to end it? Oh. In that location's also a subplot virtually Infant Lickety-Split and Spike being on the run later they ruin a ballet recital.
• My Niggling Pony 'n Friends: This is a direct sequel to the picture show. This series featured the ponies going up confronting more villains and other life-threatening situations.
• My Picayune Pony: Ii unrelated sets of comics ran throughout G1.
• A number of books unrelated to the comics or cartoons that were based on the toys.
• My Footling Pony Tales: My Piffling Pony meets Slice of Life. Take i. Dissimilar continuity from the previous iv.

2nd Incarnation:

• My Little Pony: Friendship Gardens: A Raising Sim in which you get to heighten a little pony.
• A gear up of comics released merely in Europe.

3rd Incarnation:

• My Little Pony (G3): Direct-to-DVD movies and shorts. My Footling Pony meets Slice of Life. Take 2. Non very well received in general just it has its fans.
• Once Upon a My Niggling Pony Time: The 2 blithe shorts starring the Newborn Cuties (in this case, the babyfied version of Core 7 ponies). Wasn't well received.
• Numerous books seemingly set in a separate continuity from the drawing.
• Several comic books based off the toy catechism.
• A kid'southward stage show starring people dressed in pony costumes.

fourth Incarnation (Friendship is Magic):

My Little Pony (Generation 4): The page for Friendship is Magic in general.

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• My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic: What happens if you inject My Little Pony with fantasy adventure, the usual Slice of Life style, and a dash of Anime Tropes. This time, it was well received on levels far surpassing everyone's wildest imagination.
• My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: What happens if Friendship is Magic is shifted to a loftier school setting in the man globe. Originally controversial, just has grown in reception with fans.
  • My Footling Pony: Equestria Girls: A film featuring Twilight Sparkle as she travels to a world where she is transformed into a human and attends Loftier School with her friends re-imagined every bit humans. Likewise a novelization: Through the Mirror.
  • My Trivial Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks: A sequel to Equestria Girls where a Battle of the Bands takes place. The Rock motif is very reminiscent to another of Hasbro's former properties, Jem.
  • My Fiddling Pony: Equestria Girls – Friendship Games: A sequel to Rainbow Rocks where the school faces some other in the titular friendship games, which include Archery, Motocross, and Roller Derby.
  • My Picayune Pony: Equestria Girls – Legend of Everfree: A sequel to Friendship Games where the class attends Camp Everfree and foreign things start happening.
  • My Fiddling Pony: Equestria Girls – Magical Movie Night: A sequel to Legend of Everfree consisting of three separate stories.
  • My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Forgotten Friendship: A sequel to Magical Movie Night featuring Sunset Shimmer trying to find out why no i remembers her every bit a hero and still believes her to exist a villain.
  • My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rollercoaster of Friendship: A sequel to Forgotten Friendship where Rarity gets a chore at an amusement park and invites her friends, but then they start disappearing.
  • My Picayune Pony: Equestria Girls – Leap Breakdown: A sequel to Rollercoaster of Friendship where the girls become on a cruise for spring break, but observe magic running amok.
  • My Trivial Pony: Equestria Girls – Sunset'south Backstage Pass: A sequel to Spring Breakup where the girls get to a concert, but Dusk Shimmer discovers the day is incessantly repeating itself.
  • My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Holidays Unwrapped: A collection of vi Christmas themed shorts.
• My Petty Pony: The Motion-picture show (2017): A movie based solely on the Television receiver series. While the Equestria Girls Spin-Offs are Direct-to-TV/Direct-to-DVD, this is the series' first actual feature film.
• My Picayune Pony: Best Gift Always: A Christmas themed special based on the TV series.
• My Little Pony: Rainbow Roadtrip: A special based on the TV series where the Mane Six investigate when the town hosting the Rainbow Festival becomes drained of color.
• Risk Ponies!: A Web Game based on Friendship is Magic. A Platform Game washed in 8-bit mode.
• My Lilliputian Pony (Gameloft): An app from Gameloft based on Friendship is Magic.
• My Niggling Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW): A comic series from IDW Publishing that premiered in November of 2012. It has original stories with the aforementioned tone equally the show.
  • My Little Pony Micro Series: A companion serial likewise from IDW that spotlights dissimilar characters from Friendship is Magic. Ran for ten bug from January to Dec 2013.
  • My Piffling Pony: Friends Forever: Another companion series from IDW begun in Jan 2014, focusing on interactions between characters.
  • My Little Pony: FIENDship Is Magic: A companion miniseries from IDW released in 2015, focusing on the origins of the villains.
  • My Piffling Pony: Legends of Magic: Another companion series from IDW begun in April 2017, focusing on exploring the setting backstory.
• A series of chapter books focusing on each of the primary characters. Run across the G4 franchise page for details.
• The Journal of the Two Sisters : A Defictionalization of the diary of Princess Celestia and Luna during the starting time of their reign, along with the diary written past the main characters during flavor iv.
• My Little Pony Collectible Bill of fare Game: A Trading Card Game based off Friendship is Magic.

4th Incarnation and a Half (Pony Life):

• My Little Pony: Pony Life: A Spin-Off of My Piddling Pony: Friendship is Magic using the same characters in a cutesy, mod art style.

fifth Incarnation:

• My Lilliputian Pony: A New Generation: A CGI film. Ready in Equestria'south future afterward it'due south been torn apart by Fantastic Racism, it introduces Sunny Starscout, an optimistic Earth Pony who embarks on an epic adventure with her new friends, including the Unicorn Izzy Moonbow and Hitch Trailblazer. Originally ready for a theatrical release, but the COVID-19 Pandemic forced a modify of plans. It was released on Netflix on September 24, 2021.
• Tell Your Tale, a 2D animated series of 5-infinitesimal shorts for Youtube. Released on April 7th, 2022.
• Make Your Mark, a 3D 44-minute special and an blithe series for Netflix. The special releases on May 26th, 2022, the series proper releases on September 26th, 2022.
• Winter Wishday, a holiday special for Netflix. Releases on November 21st, 2022.
• My Little Pony (2022), a comic series from IDW Publishing set soon after the events of A New Generation. The plot involves the theft of ane of the pony crystals with the Mane Five being lead to Canterlot. Releases on May 25, 2022.
• My Little Pony: A Maretime Bay Risk, a video game developed by Melbot Studios and published by Outright Games, centering around setting up a celebration in Maretime Bay while an unknown effigy tries to spoil the proceedings. Releases on May 27, 2022, for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation iv, Xbox One, and PC with a release for Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 coming in later 2022.

The My Trivial Pony franchise provides examples of:

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• Adapted Out:
  • Over one-half of ponies probably never appear in comics, books, or cartoons due to the huge amount of characters. They accept to shrink them to a core dozen background characters and even fewer major characters. Characters from "oddball" lines such as the Twice every bit Fancy ponies, So Soft ponies, and Sparkle ponies were almost always excluded from adaptations, perhaps due to their unusual looks. This is peculiarly mutual with Friendship Is Magic, which contains a lot of Canon Foreigner cartoon only ponies while toy characters like Firecracker Outburst or Cupcake never even appear in the background (though it could be justified in that it's easier to create a random background character than enquiry toy designs).
  • None of the G1 dragons besides Spike have ever appeared in animated format. They were prominent in the 80s Great britain comics but not elsewhere. This is due to the manner their toys were sold. In the UK, the dragons were sold with the Princess Ponies, but in the United states the Princess Ponies' package companions are the bushwoolies. Although the Princess Ponies were shunned from the animation, the bushwoolies were regulars. Fasten was part of the show because he was sold as part of the Dream Castle playset, which was depicted every bit the ponies' dwelling house before they moved out to Paradise Estate.
  • Similarly, most not-pony characters such as Kingsley or Creamsicle were never adapted.
• Adaptation Expansion: The cartoons and comics expanded from the absolutely fairly detailed toy descriptions, more and so in the primeval incarnation when more information was supplied by said toys.
• All Girls Like Ponies/Absurd Ponies: Well, duh.
• All There in the Manual: The G2 ponies' personalities (G2 as opposed to Tales, which is the second prove only notwithstanding considered function of G1 because it's before the first overhaul of the toyline.) The toy packaging goes farther than whatever other line to tell what the characters are like because it is non supported by a TV show. Even G1 and its longer packaging stories, between describing some adventure and mentioning another pony in hopes you lot'd buy her, sometimes ended up telling you very little about what the pony in your hands is similar. G2 packaging bios may have been shorter, just they were all almost telling you who this pony was as if it were the only take a chance there'd be to do then; because for the nearly part it was. Some ponies appear in the "Friendship Gardens" game, and there was a comic series, in the vein of the G1 comics and merely every bit cracktastic but sadly nowhere near as long-lived.)
• Alphabetical Theme Naming: The franchise's 3 (unrelated) named zebras: Zeb ^note from the G1 My Little Pony 'northward Friends episode "Vivid Lights", Zig Zag ^note from the G1 toy line, and Zecora ^note from My Petty Pony: Friendship is Magic series and toy line.
• Alternate Animal Affection: Mainly only used in the G1 movie and series. The ponies would nuzzle and lick each other for comfort, as real horses do, which can come off nowadays equally a picayune Les Yay since near media would compare that to romantic kisses.
• Amazing Technicolor Wild fauna: Traditionally, the merely colors to not be used for ponies (odd variations bated) are black, brown, and grey. Friendship is Magic is the start to truly incorporate these colors besides, though somewhat limits it to its male ponies, who aren't well-nigh as colorful equally the females.
• American Kirby Is Hardcore: Inverted, when you compare the series to those issued by Takara in Japan in the 80s. The Japanese toys were cuter than the main line and were bipedal.
• Animesque:
  • The G1 telly specials were blithe by Japanese studios, giving them an accidentally animesque look.
  • The design of G3 ponies are essentially G1 designs with an animesque coating.
  • G4'south cartoon and comics are animesque in style more than than grapheme pattern. They take inspiration from Magical Girl works.
• Anthropomorphic Shift: The ponies have never gone total Funny Animal (though G3 was close to it and the Japanese-just Takara ponies are bipedal) only they have gotten more than anthropomorphic with time. Compare early on G1 books and the start special with later G1 works: Early on, the ponies lived in barns instead of sleeping in houses, they licked each other for affection, and they were treated more similar Talking Animals or Partially Civilized Animals than they later would. As G1 progressed, the characters became increasingly humanoid in their personalities and preferences. They too began wearing clothing and were into contemporary culture, but withal they almost never used their hooves as hands. G2 dialed back on their anthropomorphic traits but G3 brought them back even worse. They acted like Civilized Animals and somehow were able to utilise their hooves as hands. Friendship Is Magic is in a centre ground similar to late G1—they have Furry Reminders and rarely move in a humanoid manner (particularly in early episodes) but socially bear in an anthropomorphic fashion.
• Artifact Title: The title really only makes sense for the toys, given that the ponies in the cartoons are not piffling, nor do they vest to anyone. There take been some efforts to justify this, however:
  • G1 sometimes has a villain use the phrase mockingly, and in some episodes it was implied that 'Piffling Pony' was their species name. When compared to horses, the characters are besides rather small (being ponies afterwards all).
  • Friendship is Magic occasionally has characters use the phrase equally a term of affection. Princess Celestia does this the virtually often, and she tends to be the largest person in the room.
• Butt Brand: The existent-life practise of branding horses likely inspired the unique butt-symbols (now called "cutie marks") that each pony has.
• Carnivore Confusion: Certain ponies invoke this. Munchy has hot-dogs on her Cutie Mark and can make hot dogs announced. They're magic hot dogs merely information technology's never specified if they are meat related or not. Horses tin and do occasionally eat meat though. Averted in G4, where the ponies are all explicitly shown to exist vegetarian.
• Breast Insignia: The franchise's trademark cutie marks are peradventure the only instance of hip insignia.
• The Dark Age of Animation: The original drawing was at the tail end of this era, when cartoons were slowing getting better quality, but still seen as disposable entertainment.
• Deadly Ringer: Grogar is one of the franchise'due south biggest and most powerful villains and has a bong serving as the source of his ability, albeit working differently in both of his appearances.
  • In G1, Grogar'south bell is able to generate magic to attack foes with (including being able to trap intruders in cages). Conversely, another bong within Tambelon, when rung, destroys this bong and renders Grogar powerless.
  • In G4, Grogar was banished, and his bell was moved to the peak of a high mountain where no ane could get it. A squad of villains is sent to call back the bell, and information technology is later used in the finale but not by Grogar, who turns out to take been a disguise.
• Depending on the Writer: The UK comics/cardback stories and American cartoon/cardback stories contrasted each other most of the fourth dimension, and then most personas were very different across the body of water. A few cases are:
  • Wind Whistler. In the United kingdom comics she'south a scatter-brained ditz, in the American cartoon she'south The Spock and The Stoic. According to her dorsum carte du jour, the comic personality is truer to her original personality.
  • Lickety-Split/Babe Lickety-Split: In the motion-picture show she introduces herself equally "I'm Lickety-Split, a infant pony" and is called by proper noun with and without the "Baby" prefix. In the show, her Cutie Marker changes between iii and six ice foam cones at times — sometimes from one shot to the side by side — only she doesn't act or get treated like a different character. Most the end, she is drawn with an overbite to match the "Beginning Tooth Baby Pony" toy of her out at the fourth dimension. In the comic, Lickety Carve up is depicted equally Baby Lickety Split's mother equally the toyline intended, and First Tooth Baby Lickety Divide is her near-identical cousin.
• Early on Installment Weirdness:
  • G1 is the just generation to incorporate humans aslope ponies. The books featured random children, the toys had Megan and her picayune sister Molly, and the G1 cartoons added Catechism Foreigner and The 1 Guy Danny (Megan and Molly's brother). Eventually humans were phased out and don't seem to exist in the same universe as the ponies anymore.
  • Anthropomorphic Shift has caused this to occur to ponies early on into G1. Characters never lick each other anymore.
  • Yr One only contained Earth Ponies. Other races weren't introduced until Year 2.
  • The commencement foals such equally Ember and Lucky didn't follow the "Infant [x]" naming conventions and had no parents. Ember doesn't even have a Cutie Mark.
  • G1 was the but gen to feature elaborate lines throughout about of the years. Future gens didn't have gimicky lines like Twinkle-Eyed ponies or Sparkle ponies.
  • Very early on dragons were treated as servants or even pets. Later on they became treated more than on par with ponies and are instead assistants.
• Everything'due south Better with Rainbows:
  • The Ponies' principal weapon is a magical detail chosen the Rainbow of Light. At that place'southward as well a rainbow connecting Ponyland and Megan'southward home.
  • G4 has a great visual shout-out to the Rainbow of Lite whenever the Elements of Harmony are activated. The Equestria Girls movies and the Rainbow Power upgrade in the flavor four finale show that the element-bearers no longer need the actual trinkets to summon information technology if they're in, well, harmony. It still has to be earned, though.
  • Besides, rainbows are actually manufactured in factories in Friendship is Magic, past the Pegasi that control the weather condition. In addition, Rainbow Dash'due south mane is rainbow colored, and leaves behind a streak of rainbow low-cal when she travels from place to place.
• Expy: Characters are often brought over from previous versions (sometimes with slightly changed names), colors are reused often (especially in My Piffling Pony Tales) and Name'south the Aforementioned is very common. However, it isn't quite Transformers: name reuse is quite oft throwing a name that was still trademarked at a new grapheme. (For instance, G3 Rarity is an irresponsible colt and G3 Rainbow Dash is The Fashionista and calls everyone "Darling." FIM Rarity is basically G3 Core seven Rainbow Nuance, while FIM Rainbow Nuance is an athlete whose personality is nothing like her namesake; G1 Firefly and Tales Patch are seen equally her counterparts.) A character is oft neither named or colored like her true counterpart from a past incarnation. All the same, sure archetypes go on turning up. You'll detect your bookworm, your daredevil and prankster, and someone who'south so kindhearted that sometimes being also soft is a problem. She just won't be under the same name or in the same colors.

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• Faint in Shock: In "The Delinquent Rainbow", Rainbow Nuance faints when Rarity says (after skating all around Ponyville and splashing Rainbow Nuance with mud) that she wants to practice it again.

  Rainbow Dash: Again?! (faints)

• Flat Character: Varying characters to various degrees. The toy line bios don't aid, e'er since G2 they've been saying less and less near the characters. The Friendship is Magic cartoon heavily averts this, contributing to its popularity amongst critics. The Friendship is Magic toyline on the other hand tells you lot next to nothing about toy-exclusive ponies.
• Hirsuite Reminder: It's likely unintentional however feral horse bands are generally female with just i or ii stallions and probable several colts. This could explain the lack of males. Adaptations portray the stallions as living separate from the females.
• Generation Xerox: G1 had baby ponies that were expies of developed ponies with "infant" added to the name. They were nigh identical in both pattern and personality and had (somewhat simplified) cutie marks. The main divergence is that they were just a bit smaller. You'd think they were simply the same characters but younger, but they were marketed every bit the daughters of the adult ponies, with a couple of them shown in this role in the drawing. A UK comic gives their origin equally younger versions of the adult ponies, created from a magic mirror, and shows all of them with their adult counterparts much more often.
• Gratuitous Princess:
  • In the eighties, we had the Princess Ponies. In that location was a grand total of 20 princesses released in the toyline, and that's excluding the queens Majesty and Rosedust. And excluding the many, many, many majestic non-pony characters that showed up in the fiction. The early on G3 line held off on Princesses for a few years. And and then, according to the card backs, information technology turned out that every Pony is a Princess. For the curious, this refers a case of Loophole Corruption in ane of the DTV movies — not wanting to exist her friends' ruler just because she found a bloom that was the symbol of function, "Princess" Wysteria ended up coronating everybody and then they'd be equals over again. And everybody means everybody — in the ending of The Princess Promenade it is declared in song "Nosotros're glad that anybody's a princess. That's y'all and you, and yeah it's truthful, that you [pointing at screen] are a princess likewise!"
  • Something*Positive had an interesting take on it...
  • Friendship Is Magic:
    • Princess Celestia, whose title seriously understates her part. She was going to exist a queen, but Hasbro didn't want that considering (according to Lauren Faust) Disney'due south utilise of "queen" has made that title sound evil (an least before Queen Elsa came along, merely Frozen didn't come around until several years afterward Friendship is Magic premiered).
    • The second episode brought usa Princess Luna, who shares the aforementioned sort of powers and responsibilities equally Celestia, and the second season finale gave us Princess Cadance, who... was a bit of a letdown in terms of ability in her debut, when compared to the showtime two. Her part is eventually meliorate defined; every bit The Power of Love personified, she's basically Pony Cupid and when she combines her magic with that of her true beloved, Shining Armor, their power increases exponentially and a major Heart Beat-Down is in society. The third season finale gave us a fourth princess, too.
    • (Stronger with Age is in effect for the princesses. Their newest addition, although a magical prodigy in her own right, is smaller and weaker than the other three; Cadence was also noticeably smaller in flashbacks from almost 15 years ago. Both of the junior princesses have some growing to do earlier they can match the ability of the millennia-old Purple Sisters...)
• Happy Catastrophe Override: The utopian Equestria that Twilight and her friends worked and so difficult to create at the end of Friendship is Magic, with all sorts of creatures living in harmony with ponies, has been destroyed by Fantastic Racism in G5.
• Heel–Face up Plow: Happens with roughly half the villains.
• Improbably Female Bandage: Every bit a brand aimed at girls, there aren't all that many guys around. Only five or and so exist in G2, and there is one male pony ◊ in all of G3, a background pony from the 3.v Twinkle Wish Adventure. G1 has most fifty male ponies (which is naught compared to the number of female ponies) and quite a big number of non-pony male characters, but in bodily animated media, we go i male pony guest star early on on and one episode with the Big Brother Ponies late in the game. Friendship is Magic has at last a larger male-to-female ratio, but however they'll exist mostly background ponies, with Spike and Big Macintosh the only guys who are seen with regularity — even if the fandom's love of Recurring Extras means that to united states of america those background guys are more than crowd filler. Tales averts it entirely, with the primary cast female person but male classmates and two-parent families as secondary characters.
• Invisible Parents: Baby ponies are epidemic but their fathers are about never mentioned. G3 doesn't even accept males yet baby ponies be. Some ponies such as Ember and the G3 infant ponies as well accept no known parents.
• It Will Never Catch On: Franchise creator Bonnie Zacherle'south attempt to pitch the thought was originally met with this response from Hasbro, who felt girls were more into cooking than ponies and had to try multiple times earlier finally making the original figures that started it all.
• Later Installment Weirdness:
  • Mid-way through, G3 ditched the "baby ponies" naming convention that had existed since G1 near the end. The showtime few ponies were "Baby [x]" only somewhen they scrapped the "baby" function,
  • The Core vii reboot of G3 started the tendency of only a few ponies being the primary characters. G4 followed adapt. Though misc. ponies go released, the toyline mainly focuses on the Mane Six. G4 is besides the first line where the cartoons are the master canon. Though the writers still get influenced by Hasbro, the toys are trade for the cartoons instead of the other way effectually.
• Impale 'Em All: Equally of G5, the Mane 6 and nearly Friendship is Magic characters are at present deceased. Spike, Discord, and some other not-pony characters are possible exceptions, nevertheless.
• Manchild: Almost of the ponies are adults, only well-nigh act barely more than mature than the fillies. The maturity levels of the cast go back and forth, as one day information technology'll be virtually Rarity traveling to another city herself to farther her career as one of Equestria's premier fashion designers, and another will take her and Applejack having a sleepover. Only Tales nails downwards how one-time the characters are and has them act like it.
• Long Pants: A variation since they hardly clothing clothes. They do this trope with hooves, with legs being the aforementioned color all the way down to the lesser of their feet. Certain male person ponies in Friendship Is Magic are exceptions yet.
  • Pony Life and A New Generation completely avert this.
• Married Animals: A figurine depicts Celebrity and Moondancer equally husband and wife.
  • The G1 "Loving Family" sets draw a married couple alongside their foal.
  • G4 sits somewhere between Civilized Animate being and Funny Brute. Ponies, and a few other species, take marriage systems in place.
• Merchandise-Driven: No. Kidding. However, FiM is far more contained from toy lines.
• The Millennium Age of Animation
• The Night That Never Ends: More than once, a villain has had eternal night equally the goal. The start TV special, "Escape from Castle Midnight", uses this with Tirac, as did Nightmare Moon in Friendship is Magic as a Mythology Gag.
• No Hugging, No Kissing: In other serial than G3 there's the occasional romance, merely other than that and the occasional mail-hymeneals kiss in G4 and the Happy Families line in G3 it fits this trope. Romance is particularly rare in this franchise due to the Improbably Female Cast. For most of the franchise'south existence, same-sexual activity romances wouldn't wing in a kid's show, and fifty-fifty Friendship is Magic, which aired in The New '10s, has just a few cases in the show'south final flavour (one implied only not outright said, i case of Ascended Fanon involving two background ponies, and one ambiguous case in the bear witness's Distant Finale). At that place's nobody to pair characters with outside Tales for the virtually part; even FIM tends to keep male characters outside Big Macintosh and Spike (who'd like to avert this trope with Rarity, but it's not happening) strictly as oversupply filler. It'south to the betoken that when Hasbro wanted to produce wedding toys, they used Glory and Moondancer, and but referred to Glory with male pronouns on the packaging (she's a daughter in all other media and merch.) Cue the jokes about gay marriage having been legal in Equestria since The '80s. It becomes even more confusing why so many ponies take foals simply the fathers are never mentioned. The G1 comics handwaved this by proverb they're clones, but information technology'south unknown if that explanation is G1 comic-but or non.
• Nonstandard Graphic symbol Pattern:
  • Ember has the honor of being the simply pre-G4 pony without a Cutie Mark. She was the first "baby pony" so she'due south different from time to come ones (for example, she is non called "Baby Ember" and there is no "adult Ember" to go on with her). It's possible that the idea that ponies aren't born with Cutie Marks in G4 is a Mythology Gag to Ember. Versions of Ember with Cutie Marks were released, however they were mail order exclusive and aren't her canon designs.
  • G2 ponies and Dream Beauties are lanky similar horses rather than the more stocky, Shetland pony-esque designs the serial usually has.
• Off-Model: In both the toys (endless regional variations) and the Curiosity Blitheness Studios cartoon (endless animation mistakes; run across Drinking Game below). Though to exist fair, information technology occurs in every version of the franchise.
• I Steve Limit: Utterly nonexistent. Even within the same generations ponies will share a name or have similar names. At that place'due south also baby ponies being named afterward their mothers.
• Our Dragons Are Different:
  • In-verse Spike finds this out in Fasten's Search, where he meets dragons that aren't like him; they're large, dark-green, circular, and mean. In the pilot special Tirac had dragons which were different from Spike, though at the finish, the "Stratadons" and other monsters were transformed dorsum into the harmless animals, ponies, and man they'd once been by the Rainbow of Light.
  • In G1 there were other baby dragons as well Spike, withal they were but ever adapted into the comics. Apparently dragons can also exist pets in G1, and as such Fasten is pet (or at least servant) to Majesty in virtually medias other than the cartoons. (Nevertheless, in the comics he's only as fully sentient, and treated more than as a child than a pet, basically having the same relationship with her that he has with Twilight Sparkle in FIM. G1 Comic Spike besides has other dragon relatives he sometimes visits, whereas every other Fasten is the only dragon around.)
  • In G3, Spike is over 1000 years erstwhile but still looks similar a baby.
• "Pachelbel's Canon" Progression: The famous jingle, though as it'south nigh oft played in 30 second commercials, merely the commencement few notes are heard.
• Pegasus: Pegasi are i of the 3 main pony races.

• Seahorse Steed: No bodily riding was involved, but information technology all the same bears mentioning that the original cartoon got in on the human action too with the Seaponies, their debut involving an infamously trippy musical number.
• Sapient Steed: Well, duh.
• Shout-Out: The idea that unicorns tin teleport was borrowed from Dungeons & Dragons. In the original cartoon, it was something all could do (not so the kickoff specials, where information technology was Twilight'southward thing only.)
• Sudden Name Change: In G1 the flank marks on characters were called "symbols". In G3 this was inverse to "Cutie Marks". It wasn't until G4 that they were given an in-series explanation. In previous generations, ponies just happened to be born with them.
• Sugar Bowl: The setting could not be more magical and happy — normally. And then the Big Bad of the Week shows up...
• Championship Theme Melody: The infamous i, which has undergone endless variations to its lyrics over twenty-v years; plus four other theme songs created for the "Friends" function of My Lilliputian Pony 'n Friends (see below).
• Unicorns: They can utilise magic, simply information technology's not as super-effective every bit you'd recall: most unicorns have one power based on their special talent. In G1, where the Saccharide Basin is always under threat of doom, this falls under When All You Have is a Hammer…, with the amazing power to brand bubbles shown to be more useful than you think.
• What Measure Is a Non-Cute?: Subverted with surprising frequency; dragons, Grundles, Crab Nasties etc.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: The 80s cartoons are typically full of Loads and Loads of Characters that change every episode, leading several major characters to just disappear between installations. It'due south peculiarly noticeable in the airplane pilot to the whole franchise; the ponies there are never seen again in animation, fifty-fifty the ones that only run around and don't speak. Sometimes a main-character pony will have the baby version of her shown once ever, or a main-character infant pony will take the adult version shown once always — if they're really supposed to be mother and daughter, it's clear Social Services Does Not Exist in Dream Valley.
• World of Technicolor Hair: The figures have manes and tails in every color except for the black/dark brown/off-white found in real-world equines. Pink, hot pink, Barbie pink, magenta, fuchsia, lavander, violet, periwinkle ... colors that accept never existed in equine manes or tails pervade the MLP franchise.

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Open Up Your Eyes

Though technically non the Big Bad, Storm Shadow is the Dragon-in-Chief of "My Little Pony: The Movie" and gets the film's large villain song, "Open Your Eyes." "It'due south time abound upward and get wise. Come now, piddling one, open up your eyes."

Example of:
Villain Song

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Source: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/MyLittlePony

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