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"My Niggling Pony, My Niggling Pony, what volition today'south adventure be?

My Footling Pony, My Niggling Pony, will in that location be heady sights to see?"

—Theme vocal for the ads and near all incarnations.

Long-Running multimedia franchise that started humbly with a large equus caballus doll with a brushable tail and mane fabricated of doll hair.

Originally created by Bonnie Zacherle, My Little Pony officially started out as a toy line published and developed by Hasbro in 1982, following their 1981 My Pretty Pony toys. The legal stuff was finalized in 1983, which is probably why Hasbro counts it as MLP's birthyear and not 1982. The different incarnations of My Little Pony are normally separated into "generations", equally classified by collectors, based on the toy line. It is a history of friendships, of cartoons of varying degrees of sweetness, of little girls achieving their dreams and of grown men defying gender roles.

Generation 1 started humbly with the release of six pony toys in 1982. Very shortly, the toy line became a hit of admittedly enormous magnitude, and quickly became a highly recognizable part of pop civilisation. To this day, even after all the relaunches and re-imaginings of the franchise, the original 1980's toys remain what near people among the full general population immediately flick when they hear the phrase "My Picayune Pony". The toyline was eventually followed by two Television receiver specials, one in 1984 and another in 1985, and a feature-length pic in 1986. A TV series, My Little Pony 'north Friends, was released afterwards the same year and ran for two seasons before being cancelled in 1987. These cartoons all took identify in Dream Valley, part of Ponyland (or Ponyland, function of Dream Valley, or Ponyland, likewise known as Dream Valley — no 2 writers agreed on this bespeak) where the ponies — with the help of a immature daughter named Megan – oft have to fight off some Monster of the Calendar week. Contrary to what one might expect from a work of fiction based on the sugary sweetness toys (and opposite to the perceived image of the franchise that the public seems to hold), these cartoons were mostly based effectually the theme of adventure, and featured some surprisingly dark and lethal villains, specially in the earliest episodes. There were too comics released in the UK that used the same characters just had their own catechism. The toys themselves often had brusk stories pertaining to the ponies in the box.

In 1992 Hasbro released My Little Pony Tales, a Slice of Life serial which was prepare in its ain continuity and ran for a unmarried flavor. Frequently mistakenly referred to as "G2", it'southward technically still part of G1, fifty-fifty though information technology has zilch to do with the various Dream Valley/Ponyland cartoons. The evidence took place in a universe pretty much identical to our own with the obvious exception that anybody is a multicolored pony, and focused on things normal kids deal with. It notably set the trend of having the master setting be 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 "equus caballus-like". The new designs were non well met, and this version only lasted a year in the US, though it connected 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 there were comics and a video game.

Hasbro went back to the stockier builds in 2003, marker the start of "Generation 3". Instead of a Goggle box series, Hasbro opted to release a series of Directly-to-DVD movies and shorts. The setting is once once more Ponyville, but this fourth dimension with a slight fantasy element to it. G3 is known for being the lightest and "pinkest" of all the incarnations. No villains, conflicts are rare, and there's, well, lots of pinkish, only it had a certain charm to it. Regardless of the quality of the animated adaptions though, G3 proved to be a well needed financial success later the poor reception to G2. In 2007, Hasbro made the controversial conclusion 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 expect and was called "Cadre 7" by fans. Another soft reboot a year or and so later, which fans telephone call "G3.5", featured the Core 7 ponies in forms similar to Ponyville plastic molds. The reboot was not well received, and the cartoons in item were met with criticism. The era finally came to an stop in 2009 later the release of Twinkle Wish Adventure of G3.5, and One time Upon a My Little Pony Time which is linked to the Newborn Cuties variant of Core seven. At this point most coincidental observers had written Ponies off, merely it wouldn't be the end of the franchise.

Not by a long shot.

"Generation 4" started in 2010 with the release of the Tv serial My Trivial Pony: Friendship Is Magic developed by Lauren Faust. The ponies were noticeably redesigned from their decreasingly realistic proportions, sporting large eyes, tiny muzzles, bodies that are proportionally minor for their heads, and Moe quirks — but generally considered cute nonetheless. At its cadre, Friendship Is Magic has the fantasy and adventure elements of G1, the Slice of Life stories of Tales, much of the cast are re-imagined G3 ponies, and episodes typically feature life lessons well-nigh friendship at the end of most episodes. Faust developed a new setting called Equestria, a Fantasy Kitchen Sink with its own mythology and history, with the town of Ponyville being the home of the serial' mane six heroines. Stories range from comedic piece 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 past giving Friendship is Magic an Expanded Universe with assorted comics and books. For greater detail, see the Generation 4 page. The main testify concluded in Oct 2019, but the comic serial continued for about ii years past that. 2020 besides saw the release of My Piffling Pony: Pony Life, sometimes referred to every bit "Generation 4.5", a Continuity Reboot featuring the same characters merely with much more than stylized and Super-Plain-featured designs, more than abstruse and sometimes cubist-similar backgrounds, and a greater focus on absurdist one-act.

"Generation 5" launched in 2021 with a CGI film titled My Fiddling Pony: A New Generation, and will be followed-up past a serial of specials and a CGI animated series throughout 2022 nether the "Make Your Marker" banner. The film's co-author, Friendship is Magic and Equestria Girls veteran Gillian Grand. Berrow, is in charge of developing it. In add-on, a series of 2D blithe shorts named Tell Your Tale will be available for streaming on Youtube. Generation v is notable for being the first incarnation of the show to exist in the aforementioned continuity as the previous one, although it takes place so far in the future from Friendship is Magic that it's effectively a Soft Reboot.

Encounter also the Spin-Offs Fairy Tails and My Pretty Mermaids, as well as My Little Phony for parodies and pastiches.

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

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Adaptations:

    Adaptations

1st Incarnation ('north Friends):

• My Little Pony Television set Specials: These are a pair of half-60 minutes TV pilots that started it all. Fair alarm, they are both Darker and Edgier than one might wait of this subject matter. In one, the ponies face an Evil Overlord who happens to exist the trope namer for The Night That Never Ends, and in the other they confront a tearing, drug-addicted mage. Yes. Really.
• My Piddling Pony: The Motion-picture show (1986): Afterwards the pilots, we accept 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 information technology? Oh. There'due south likewise a subplot about Babe Lickety-Split and Fasten being on the run after they ruin a ballet recital.
• My Little Pony 'n Friends: This is a direct sequel to the pic. This serial featured the ponies going up confronting more villains and other life-threatening situations.
• My Picayune Pony: Two unrelated sets of comics ran throughout G1.
• A number of books unrelated to the comics or cartoons that were based on the toys.
• My Little Pony Tales: My Niggling Pony meets Piece of Life. Accept 1. Different continuity from the previous iv.

second Incarnation:

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

third Incarnation:

• My Petty Pony (G3): Direct-to-DVD movies and shorts. My Little Pony meets Slice of Life. Take 2. Not very well received in general just it has its fans.
• Once Upon a My Little Pony Time: The two animated 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 carve up continuity from the cartoon.
• Several comic books based off the toy canon.
• A kid'due south stage evidence starring people dressed in pony costumes.

4th Incarnation (Friendship is Magic):

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

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• My Picayune Pony: Friendship Is Magic: What happens if you inject My Little Pony with fantasy adventure, the usual Slice of Life way, and a dash of Anime Tropes. This time, it was well received on levels far surpassing anybody's wildest imagination.
• My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: What happens if Friendship is Magic is shifted to a loftier schoolhouse setting in the human world. Originally controversial, merely has grown in reception with fans.
  • My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: A movie featuring Twilight Sparkle as she travels to a world where she is transformed into a human being and attends High School with her friends re-imagined equally humans. Also a novelization: Through the Mirror.
  • My Little 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 old properties, Jem.
  • My Petty Pony: Equestria Girls – Friendship Games: A sequel to Rainbow Rocks where the school faces another in the titular friendship games, which include Archery, Motocross, and Roller Derby.
  • My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Legend of Everfree: A sequel to Friendship Games where the class attends Army camp Everfree and strange things start happening.
  • My Trivial Pony: Equestria Girls – Magical Movie Nighttime: A sequel to Legend of Everfree consisting of three divide stories.
  • My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Forgotten Friendship: A sequel to Magical Picture Night featuring Sunset Shimmer trying to find out why no 1 remembers her as a hero and however believes her to be 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 and then they start disappearing.
  • My Trivial Pony: Equestria Girls – Spring Breakdown: A sequel to Rollercoaster of Friendship where the girls become on a cruise for bound intermission, but notice magic running amok.
  • My Niggling Pony: Equestria Girls – Sunset'due south Backstage Pass: A sequel to Leap Breakup where the girls go to a concert, but Sunset Shimmer discovers the twenty-four hour period is endlessly repeating itself.
  • My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Holidays Unwrapped: A collection of 6 Christmas themed shorts.
• My Little Pony: The Picture show (2017): A pic based solely on the Tv series. While the Equestria Girls Spin-Offs are Directly-to-Television set/Direct-to-DVD, this is the serial' first bodily characteristic film.
• My Piffling Pony: Best Gift Always: A Christmas themed special based on the TV series.
• My Picayune Pony: Rainbow Roadtrip: A special based on the Tv series where the Mane 6 investigate when the boondocks hosting the Rainbow Festival becomes drained of color.
• Hazard Ponies!: A Web Game based on Friendship is Magic. A Platform Game done in 8-bit style.
• My Little Pony (Gameloft): An app from Gameloft based on Friendship is Magic.
• My Piddling 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 as the show.
  • My Piddling Pony Micro Serial: A companion series as well from IDW that spotlights different characters from Friendship is Magic. Ran for ten issues from Jan to Dec 2013.
  • My Trivial Pony: Friends Forever: Another companion serial from IDW begun in January 2014, focusing on interactions betwixt characters.
  • My Trivial Pony: FIENDship Is Magic: A companion miniseries from IDW released in 2015, focusing on the origins of the villains.
  • My Little Pony: Legends of Magic: Another companion serial from IDW begun in Apr 2017, focusing on exploring the setting backstory.
• A series of affiliate books focusing on each of the principal characters. See the G4 franchise page for details.
• The Journal of the Two Sisters : A Defictionalization of the diary of Princess Celestia and Luna during the commencement of their reign, forth with the diary written by the primary characters during flavour 4.
• My Little Pony Collectible Card Game: A Trading Card Game based off Friendship is Magic.

4th Incarnation and a Half (Pony Life):

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

fifth Incarnation:

• My Little Pony: A New Generation: A CGI movie. Set up in Equestria's futurity later on it's been torn apart by Fantastic Racism, it introduces Sunny Starscout, an optimistic Earth Pony who embarks on an epic run a risk with her new friends, including the Unicorn Izzy Moonbow and Hitch Trailblazer. Originally set for a theatrical release, merely the COVID-19 Pandemic forced a change of plans. Information technology was released on Netflix on September 24, 2021.
• Tell Your Tale, a 2nd animated series of v-minute shorts for Youtube. Released on April 7th, 2022.
• Make Your Mark, a 3D 44-infinitesimal special and an animated 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 Nov 21st, 2022.
• My Little Pony (2022), a comic series from IDW Publishing set before long later the events of A New Generation. The plot involves the theft of one of the pony crystals with the Mane Five being lead to Canterlot. Releases on May 25, 2022.
• My Piddling Pony: A Maretime Bay Take a chance, a video game developed past Melbot Studios and published by Outright Games LLC, centering around setting upward a commemoration in Maretime Bay while an unknown effigy tries to spoil the proceedings. Releases on May 27, 2022, for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox 1, and PC with a release for Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 coming in later 2022.

The My Little Pony franchise provides examples of:

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• Adjusted Out:
  • Over half of ponies probably never appear in comics, books, or cartoons due to the huge amount of characters. They have to compress them to a core dozen groundwork 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 near always excluded from adaptations, mayhap due to their unusual looks. This is especially common with Friendship Is Magic, which contains a lot of Catechism Greenhorn cartoon but ponies while toy characters similar Firecracker Burst or Cupcake never fifty-fifty appear in the groundwork (though it could be justified in that information technology's easier to create a random groundwork character than research toy designs).
  • None of the G1 dragons besides Fasten have always appeared in animated format. They were prominent in the 80s U.k. comics but not elsewhere. This is due to the way their toys were sold. In the UK, the dragons were sold with the Princess Ponies, just in the U.s. the Princess Ponies' package companions are the bushwoolies. Although the Princess Ponies were shunned from the animation, the bushwoolies were regulars. Spike was office of the show because he was sold as role of the Dream Castle playset, which was depicted equally the ponies' home before they moved out to Paradise Estate.
  • Similarly, almost not-pony characters such equally Kingsley or Creamsicle were never adapted.
• Accommodation Expansion: The cartoons and comics expanded from the admittedly fairly detailed toy descriptions, more than so in the earliest incarnation when more information was supplied by said toys.
• All Girls Similar Ponies/Cool Ponies: Well, duh.
• All There in the Transmission: The G2 ponies' personalities (G2 as opposed to Tales, which is the second show just still considered part of G1 because it'due south before the first overhaul of the toyline.) The toy packaging goes farther than any other line to tell what the characters are like because it is not supported by a TV bear witness. Fifty-fifty G1 and its longer packaging stories, between describing some run a risk and mentioning some other pony in hopes you'd buy her, sometimes ended upwardly telling you very little about what the pony in your hands is like. G2 packaging bios may have been shorter, only they were all most telling yous who this pony was equally if it were the just chance there'd exist to do so; because for the near part it was. Some ponies appear in the "Friendship Gardens" game, and there was a comic serial, in the vein of the G1 comics and just equally cracktastic merely sadly nowhere most as long-lived.)
• Alphabetical Theme Naming: The franchise'due south three (unrelated) named zebras: Zeb ^annotation from the G1 My Little Pony 'n Friends episode "Bright Lights", Zig Zag ^note from the G1 toy line, and Zecora ^annotation from My Lilliputian Pony: Friendship Is Magic serial and toy line.
• Alternate Creature Affection: Mainly just used in the G1 film and serial. The ponies would nuzzle and lick each other for condolement, every bit real horses do, which can come up off nowadays as a little Les Yay since most media would compare that to romantic kisses.
• Astonishing Technicolor Wild fauna: Traditionally, the but colors to non be used for ponies (odd variations aside) are blackness, brown, and grey. Friendship is Magic is the beginning to truly comprise these colors too, though somewhat limits it to its male ponies, who aren't nearly every bit colorful as the females.
• American Kirby Is Hardcore: Inverted, when y'all compare the series to those issued past Takara in Japan in the 80s. The Japanese toys were cuter than the principal line and were bipedal.
• Animesque:
  • The G1 tv set specials were animated by Japanese studios, giving them an accidentally animesque look.
  • The design of G3 ponies are essentially G1 designs with an animesque coating.
  • G4's cartoon and comics are animesque in style more than character design. They accept inspiration from Magical Girl works.
• Anthropomorphic Shift: The ponies have never gone full Funny Animal (though G3 was shut to it and the Japanese-only Takara ponies are bipedal) just they take gotten more anthropomorphic with time. Compare early G1 books and the commencement 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 than like Talking Animals or Partially Civilized Animals than they subsequently would. As G1 progressed, the characters became increasingly humanoid in their personalities and preferences. They likewise began wearing clothing and were into contemporary culture, but still they nigh never used their hooves equally 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 apply their hooves as easily. Friendship Is Magic is in a middle footing similar to late G1—they accept Furry Reminders and rarely move in a humanoid manner (especially in early episodes) but socially comport in an anthropomorphic manner.
• Artifact Title: The championship really only makes sense for the toys, given that the ponies in the cartoons are non little, nor do they belong to anyone. There have been some efforts to justify this, still:
  • G1 sometimes has a villain use the phrase mockingly, and in some episodes information technology was unsaid that 'Niggling Pony' was their species name. When compared to horses, the characters are also rather small-scale (being ponies after all).
  • Friendship is Magic occasionally has characters use the phrase as a term of affection. Princess Celestia does this the most oftentimes, and she tends to exist the largest person in the room.
• Barrel Brand: The real-life exercise of branding horses likely inspired the unique barrel-symbols (now chosen "cutie marks") that each pony has.
• Carnivore Defoliation: Sure ponies invoke this. Munchy has hot-dogs on her Cutie Mark and can make hot dogs appear. They're magic hot dogs but it'south never specified if they are meat related or not. Horses can and do occasionally swallow meat though. Averted in G4, where the ponies are all explicitly shown to be vegetarian.
• Breast Insignia: The franchise's trademark cutie marks are mayhap the only example of hip insignia.
• The Dark Age of Animation: The original drawing was at the tail cease of this era, when cartoons were slowing getting better quality, but still seen every bit dispensable amusement.
• Mortiferous Ringer: Grogar is one of the franchise's biggest and most powerful villains and has a bong serving every bit the source of his power, admitting working differently in both of his appearances.
  • In G1, Grogar's bong 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 bell and renders Grogar powerless.
  • In G4, Grogar was banished, and his bell was moved to the peak of a loftier mountain where no one could get it. A team of villains is sent to retrieve 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 Author: The UK comics/cardback stories and American cartoon/cardback stories contrasted each other virtually of the time, and so well-nigh personas were very dissimilar across the ocean. A few cases are:
  • Current of air Whistler. In the UK comics she's a scatter-brained ditz, in the American cartoon she's The Spock and The Stoic. According to her back carte du jour, the comic personality is truer to her original personality.
  • Lickety-Split/Infant Lickety-Dissever: In the movie she introduces herself as "I'm Lickety-Separate, a baby pony" and is called by name with and without the "Baby" prefix. In the testify, her Cutie Marking changes between three and half dozen ice cream cones at times — sometimes from one shot to the side by side — just she doesn't act or become treated like a different grapheme. Near the cease, she is drawn with an overbite to match the "First Tooth Babe Pony" toy of her out at the time. In the comic, Lickety Split is depicted every bit Baby Lickety Split's mother as the toyline intended, and Commencement Tooth Infant Lickety Split is her near-identical cousin.
• Early Installment Weirdness:
  • G1 is the just generation to comprise humans aslope ponies. The books featured random children, the toys had Megan and her picayune sis Molly, and the G1 cartoons added Catechism Foreigner and The 1 Guy Danny (Megan and Molly's brother). Somewhen 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 into G1. Characters never lick each other anymore.
  • Year I only contained Earth Ponies. Other races weren't introduced until Year Two.
  • The first foals such as Ember and Lucky didn't follow the "Baby [10]" naming conventions and had no parents. Ember doesn't even take a Cutie Marking.
  • G1 was the only gen to feature elaborate lines throughout most of the years. Future gens didn't have gimicky lines like Twinkle-Eyed ponies or Sparkle ponies.
  • Very early on 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's Improve with Rainbows:
  • The Ponies' chief weapon is a magical item called the Rainbow of Light. In that location'due south also a rainbow connecting Ponyland and Megan's home.
  • G4 has a cracking visual shout-out to the Rainbow of Light 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 it if they're in, well, harmony. It notwithstanding has to be earned, though.
  • Also, rainbows are actually manufactured in factories in Friendship is Magic, by the Pegasi that control the atmospheric condition. In addition, Rainbow Dash's mane is rainbow colored, and leaves behind a streak of rainbow light 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 Little Pony Tales) and Name's the Aforementioned is very mutual. However, information technology isn't quite Transformers: name reuse is quite oftentimes throwing a name that was all the same trademarked at a new character. (For example, G3 Rarity is an irresponsible filly and G3 Rainbow Dash is The Fashionista and calls anybody "Darling." FIM Rarity is basically G3 Core seven Rainbow Nuance, while FIM Rainbow Dash is an athlete whose personality is nothing like her namesake; G1 Firefly and Tales Patch are seen as her counterparts.) A character is often neither named or colored like her true counterpart from a by incarnation. Yet, certain archetypes continue turning upwardly. You'll find your bookworm, your daredevil and prankster, and someone who's so kindhearted that sometimes existence as well soft is a problem. She but won't exist under the aforementioned proper noun or in the same colors.

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

  Rainbow Nuance: Again?! (faints)

• Flat Grapheme: Varying characters to various degrees. The toy line bios don't help, ever since G2 they've been saying less and less about the characters. The Friendship is Magic drawing heavily averts this, contributing to its popularity amongst critics. The Friendship is Magic toyline on the other hand tells you lot side by side to nothing about toy-exclusive ponies.
• Furry Reminder: It's probable unintentional all the same feral equus caballus bands are mostly female with simply one or two stallions and likely several colts. This could explain the lack of males. Adaptations portray the stallions as living separate from the females.
• Generation Xerox: G1 had infant ponies that were expies of adult ponies with "baby" added to the name. They were almost identical in both design and personality and had (somewhat simplified) cutie marks. The master difference is that they were just a bit smaller. You'd think they were simply the same characters but younger, but they were marketed as the daughters of the adult ponies, with a couple of them shown in this role in the cartoon. A UK comic gives their origin as younger versions of the adult ponies, created from a magic mirror, and shows all of them with their adult counterparts much more frequently.
• Gratuitous Princess:
  • In the eighties, we had the Princess Ponies. In that location was a thou full of xx princesses released in the toyline, and that'south excluding the queens Majesty and Rosedust. And excluding the many, many, many royal not-pony characters that showed up in the fiction. The early G3 line held off on Princesses for a few years. And so, according to the carte du jour backs, it turned out that every Pony is a Princess. For the curious, this refers a case of Loophole Corruption in ane of the DTV movies — non wanting to be her friends' ruler simply because she found a flower that was the symbol of office, "Princess" Wysteria ended up coronating everybody and so they'd be equals once more. And everybody means everybody — in the catastrophe of The Princess Promenade it is declared in song "We're glad that everyone's a princess. That's yous and you, and yes it's true, that you [pointing at screen] are a princess too!"
  • Something*Positive had an interesting take on it...
  • Friendship Is Magic:
    • Princess Celestia, whose title seriously understates her role. She was going to be a queen, but Hasbro didn't want that because (according to Lauren Faust) Disney's use of "queen" has fabricated that title sound evil (an least before Queen Elsa came forth, but Frozen didn't come up around until several years afterward Friendship is Magic premiered).
    • The 2nd episode brought u.s. Princess Luna, who shares the same sort of powers and responsibilities as Celestia, and the second flavour finale gave the states Princess Cadance, who... was a bit of a letdown in terms of ability in her debut, when compared to the outset 2. Her part is somewhen meliorate defined; as The Power of Love personified, she's basically Pony Cupid and when she combines her magic with that of her truthful honey, Shining Armor, their power increases exponentially and a major Heart Beat-Downward is in lodge. The third season finale gave u.s. a 4th princess, too.
    • (Stronger with Historic period is in issue for the princesses. Their newest addition, although a magical prodigy in her own correct, is smaller and weaker than the other three; Cadence was besides noticeably smaller in flashbacks from almost xv years agone. Both of the junior princesses take some growing to exercise before they tin can lucifer the power of the millennia-old Royal Sisters...)
• Happy Ending Override: The utopian Equestria that Twilight and her friends worked and then hard to create at the finish of Friendship is Magic, with all sorts of creatures living in harmony with ponies, has been destroyed by Fantastic Racism in G5.
• Heel–Confront Plough: Happens with roughly half the villains.
• Improbably Female Cast: As a make aimed at girls, at that place aren't all that many guys around. Only five or so exist in G2, and there is i male pony ◊ in all of G3, a background pony from the 3.5 Twinkle Wish Adventure. G1 has near fifty male ponies (which is nothing compared to the number of female ponies) and quite a big number of not-pony male characters, simply in bodily animated media, we become i male pony guest star early and one episode with the Big Brother Ponies belatedly in the game. Friendship is Magic has at final a larger male-to-female ratio, but even then they'll be generally background ponies, with Spike and Big Macintosh the only guys who are seen with regularity — even if the fandom'southward beloved of Recurring Extras means that to u.s. those groundwork guys are more than than crowd filler. Tales averts information technology entirely, with the main bandage female but male person classmates and two-parent families as secondary characters.
• Invisible Parents: Babe ponies are epidemic but their fathers are nearly never mentioned. G3 doesn't even have males yet baby ponies exist. Some ponies such equally Ember and the G3 infant ponies too have no known parents.
• It Will Never Grab On: Franchise creator Bonnie Zacherle'southward endeavour to pitch the idea was originally met with this response from Hasbro, who felt girls were more into cooking than ponies and had to endeavor multiple times before finally making the original figures that started it all.
• Afterward Installment Weirdness:
  • Mid-fashion through, G3 ditched the "baby ponies" naming convention that had existed since G1 near the cease. The first few ponies were "Infant [x]" but eventually they scrapped the "baby" part,
  • The Core 7 reboot of G3 started the trend of only a few ponies being the main characters. G4 followed suit. Though misc. ponies get released, the toyline mainly focuses on the Mane Six. G4 is likewise the first line where the cartoons are the main canon. Though the writers nevertheless get influenced by Hasbro, the toys are merchandise for the cartoons instead of the other way effectually.
• Kill 'Em All: As of G5, the Mane half dozen and most Friendship is Magic characters are now deceased. Spike, Discord, and some other non-pony characters are possible exceptions, still.
• Manchild: Most of the ponies are adults, but nigh act barely more than mature than the fillies. The maturity levels of the bandage get back and forth, as one twenty-four hours it'll be about Rarity traveling to some other metropolis herself to further her career as one of Equestria'due south premier fashion designers, and another will accept her and Applejack having a sleepover. Only Tales nails downward how old the characters are and has them act like information technology.
• Long Pants: A variation since they hardly wearable clothes. They do this trope with hooves, with legs being the same color all the way down to the bottom of their feet. Sure male person ponies in Friendship Is Magic are exceptions all the same.
  • 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 describe a married couple alongside their foal.
  • G4 sits somewhere between Civilized Animal and Funny Animal. Ponies, and a few other species, have matrimony systems in place.
• Merchandise-Driven: No. Kidding. However, FiM is far more independent from toy lines.
• The Millennium Age of Blitheness
• The Night That Never Ends: More than once, a villain has had eternal night as the goal. The get-go 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 series than G3 in that location's the occasional romance, just other than that and the occasional postal service-wedding kiss in G4 and the Happy Families line in G3 it fits this trope. Romance is peculiarly rare in this franchise due to the Improbably Female Bandage. For most of the franchise'due south existence, same-sex activity romances wouldn't fly in a kid's show, and even Friendship is Magic, which aired in The New '10s, has only a few cases in the evidence's terminal season (1 implied but not outright said, one case of Ascended Fanon involving two background ponies, and 1 ambiguous example in the show's Distant Finale). At that place'south nobody to pair characters with outside Tales for the nearly part; even FIM tends to proceed male characters outside Big Macintosh and Fasten (who'd like to avert this trope with Rarity, just it's not happening) strictly equally crowd filler. It's to the point that when Hasbro wanted to produce wedding toys, they used Glory and Moondancer, and just referred to Glory with male person pronouns on the packaging (she's a girl in all other media and merch.) Cue the jokes about gay marriage having been legal in Equestria since The '80s. Information technology becomes even more confusing why so many ponies take foals simply the fathers are never mentioned. The G1 comics handwaved this past saying they're clones, but it'southward unknown if that explanation is G1 comic-only or not.
• Nonstandard Character Pattern:
  • Ember has the honor of being the simply pre-G4 pony without a Cutie Mark. She was the first "baby pony" so she's unlike from hereafter ones (for example, she is not chosen "Infant Ember" and in that location is no "adult Ember" to go along with her). Information technology'due south 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 society exclusive and aren't her catechism designs.
  • G2 ponies and Dream Beauties are lanky like horses rather than the more stocky, Shetland pony-esque designs the series usually has.
• Off-Model: In both the toys (endless regional variations) and the Marvel Animation Studios cartoon (endless blitheness mistakes; run into Drinking Game below). Though to be fair, it occurs in every version of the franchise.
• I Steve Limit: Utterly nonexistent. Even within the same generations ponies will share a name or accept similar names. There's too infant ponies being named subsequently their mothers.
• Our Dragons Are Different:
  • In-verse Fasten finds this out in Spike's Search, where he meets dragons that aren't like him; they're large, green, round, and hateful. In the pilot special Tirac had dragons which were different from Spike, though at the end, the "Stratadons" and other monsters were transformed back into the harmless animals, ponies, and human they'd in one case been past the Rainbow of Light.
  • In G1 at that place were other baby dragons besides Fasten, however they were but ever adapted into the comics. Apparently dragons can also be pets in G1, and as such Fasten is pet (or at to the lowest degree retainer) to Majesty in almost medias other than the cartoons. (However, in the comics he's merely as fully sentient, and treated more equally a child than a pet, basically having the same relationship with her that he has with Twilight Sparkle in FIM. G1 Comic Spike also has other dragon relatives he sometimes visits, whereas every other Fasten is the only dragon around.)
  • In G3, Spike is over g years one-time but nevertheless looks like a baby.
• "Pachelbel'south Canon" Progression: The famous jingle, though every bit it'due south most oftentimes played in 30 2nd commercials, only the offset few notes are heard.
• Pegasus: Pegasi are i of the three principal pony races.

• Seahorse Steed: No bodily riding was involved, simply information technology nevertheless bears mentioning that the original cartoon got in on the act equally well with the Seaponies, their debut involving an infamously trippy musical number.
• Sapient Steed: Well, duh.
• Shout-Out: The thought that unicorns tin can teleport was borrowed from Dungeons & Dragons. In the original cartoon, it was something all could exercise (not so the outset specials, where information technology was Twilight's matter only.)
• Sudden Proper noun Change: In G1 the flank marks on characters were chosen "symbols". In G3 this was changed to "Cutie Marks". It wasn't until G4 that they were given an in-series explanation. In previous generations, ponies merely happened to be born with them.
• Sugar Basin: The setting could not be more magical and happy — normally. And then the Big Bad of the Week shows up...
• Title Theme Tune: The infamous one, which has undergone endless variations to its lyrics over 20-five years; plus four other theme songs created for the "Friends" part of My Little Pony 'n Friends (see below).
• Unicorns: They can use magic, but it'due south not as super-effective as you lot'd think: near unicorns have ane power based on their special talent. In G1, where the Sugar Bowl is ever nether threat of doom, this falls under When All You Have is a Hammer…, with the amazing power to brand bubbles shown to be more than useful than you lot call back.
• What Measure out Is a Not-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 alter 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 over again in blitheness, even the ones that just run around and don't speak. Sometimes a master-graphic symbol pony will have the baby version of her shown once ever, or a master-character baby pony will accept the adult version shown once ever — if they're really supposed to exist mother and daughter, it'south clear Social Services Does Not Exist in Dream Valley.
• Globe of Technicolor Hair: The figures accept manes and tails in every color except for the black/dark brown/fair found in real-earth equines. Pinkish, hot pinkish, Barbie pink, magenta, fuchsia, lavender, violet, periwinkle ... colors that have never existed in equine manes or tails pervade the MLP franchise.

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Open Up Your Optics

Though technically not the Big Bad, Tempest Shadow is the Dragon-in-Primary of "My Petty Pony: The Moving-picture show" and gets the flick's big villain vocal, "Open Upwardly Your Eyes." "It's fourth dimension abound up and get wise. Come at present, little 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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