Editing My Little Pony (section)

==My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (2010-2019)==

[[File:Ashlands_Timeline.png|350px|thumb|Who says ponies can't be grimdark?]]

Spoilers, obviously.

===History===

In the ultra-distant past, King Grogar invented countless monsters who took whatever they wanted and destroyed the rest. He's called the Father of Monsters, and it's implied he created dragons, manticores, windigos, and other horrors. 

In the distant but not quite as distant past, the three tribes of ponies ([[Horse|earth ponies]], [[Pegasus|pegasi]], and [[Unicorn|unicorns]]) live in their own nations. They aren't quite at war, but they all hate each other. A terrible winter storm blows in, freezing and starving them and worsening relations. So all three tribes set out to find a new home. Turns out the winter storm was caused by creatures called windigos (not to be confused with [[Wendigo|Wendigos]]), who feed on hatred and are repelled by friendship. So the three tribes become friends and drive the windigos away, and found a new country called Equestria.

[[File:Slaanesh_by_baklaher-d7dvohn.jpg|300px|thumb|left|Princess Celestia's true form. She Who Thirsts even fits the color scheme, more or less...the background is dark after the bright green grass and blue sky fade away as more [[Daemonette|colorful creatures]] arrive...]] 
Two immortal god-princesses are crowned rulers of this new nation: Princess Celestia, who rules the sun, and Princess Luna, who rules the moon. Shortly thereafter, Equestria is menaced by a variety of threats: the Sirens and the Pony of Shadows are two of the biggest threats, though it's a dangerous world and there's the occasional pissed off dragon or cruel sphinx. The banishment of the Pony of Shadows leads to the creation of Equestria's most powerful magical artifacts: The '''Elements of Harmony'''. These are the win button in Equestria; not even the most powerful reality warpers are immune to these things.

Several more threats menace Equestria, and the princesses fight them all off with the Elements of Harmony: Discord, Tirek, and King Sombra most notably, but it seems likely there were more. This culminates in MLP's own version of the [[Horus Heresy]]: the corruption of Princess Luna into Nightmare Moon, and her subsequent [https://sonichu.com/cwcki/The_Moon banishment to the moon] (which is clearly stolen from the TRUE AND HONEST story of the fate of Sylvana in the classic webcomic [[Chris-chan|<i>Sonichu</i>]], just like the unicorn sacrifices totes are stolen from the psyker sacrifices in 40K.)

The show starts a thousand years after Nightmare Moon's banishment. An upper-class shut-in nerd named Twilight Sparkle is sent to a rural backwater town to make friends. Despite initial misgivings, she makes them, and six ponies reactivate the Elements of Harmony and become their new bearers.

Most of the show is about these six ponies' everyday problems and how they're resolved, but season premieres and finales often are heavier on the lore and adventure. This culminated with the defeat of several villains by turning them into stone statues, and with Twilight becoming the next princess after Celestia and Luna retire for [[Skub|whatever the hell went on]].

And then, years later, the magic was lost and the three pony races went back to fighting each other. Another nerd had to start all over again, getting her own Elements of Harmony against [[Magnus the Red|some red tyrant]].

===Races===
Ponies, obviously. Unicorns, earth ponies, and pegasi make up the vast majority of pony races. Earth ponies are natural farmers, and provide almost all of Equestria's food and lumber. Pegasi can move clouds around, and are in charge of the weather. Unicorns once raised and lowered the sun, [[Grimdark|but that required 10 of the tribe's young men and women to give up their magic for life, every day]] (sounds <s>[[Golden Throne|awfully familiar]]</s>totally <s>stolen</s><em>it's not stolen it's all Hasbro</em> from 40K) Since Celestia and Luna took on the burden of raising and lowering the sun, the unicorns' niche hasn't been as clear. One might say their role is to advance the study of magic and technology, though a lot of them don't have magic beyond telekinesis.

A few of the notable other races are described below: 

* '''[[Griffon|Griffons]]''' - Greedy, selfish creatures. Were once a proud warrior race, now they live in straw shacks and [[Blood Ravens|grab every bit they can]]. Currently allied with ponies.
* '''Buffalo''' - Pretty much the setting's Native American equivalent. Share territory with ponies.
* '''Crystal Ponies''' - A kind of pony that lives in the Crystal Empire. Have translucent skin and polygonal pupils.
* '''[[Dragons]]''' - Pretty close to D&D's dragons, but not as evil. One of them falling asleep near Equestria is a major threat, as their snores produce unbreathable smog. Currently allied with ponies.
* '''Changelings''' - Love-eating shapeshifters. Think [[Succubus|succubi]] and [[Doppelganger|dopplegangers]] rolled into one. Went through a civil war, most of them mutated to be non-parasitic. Currently allied with ponies, aside from their rogue queen Chrysalis.
* '''Yaks''' - [[Barbarian|Rugged, Tibetan culture based around smashing things that aren't perfect.]] Currently allied with ponies.
* '''Hippogriffs''' - A race of pony-birds/pony-fish (they can switch between these forms) who were once hiding from a villain known as the Storm King. Currently allied with ponies.
* '''Breezies''' - [[Fey|Tiny butterfly-ponies who live in a magical land only accessible through special portals.]]

===Other Setting Tidbits===

[[File:Seekers of Slaanesh.jpg|350px|thumb|Applejack's true form as a Steed of Slaanesh.]]The show's tech level is very weird. Guards carry spears while videogames and LED screens exist. The simplest explanation is that as Equestria has never fought a real war, there hasn't been a necessity to innovate better weaponry, and thanks to a reasonable prevalence of magic, it's often easier to rely on the fact that 1/3 of the population can use their forehead as a gun. Though they do apparently know what tanks are, so make of that what you will. (It could be referring to a <i>water</i> tank, or it could just be the creators not fully thinking through the implications of everything.) 

Magic is an everyday thing at a low level, with roughly 1/3 of the population being basic casters and the other 2/3 having passive magic. Powerful spellcasters are very rare, with Twilight Sparkle and Starlight Glimmer the two most notable ones.

Being attacked by monsters has become an everyday thing for the town of Ponyville, as they border the Everfree Forest. Everfree is a very strange place to the ponies, where nothing works as it should: the clouds move on their own, for example.

Around puberty, every pony figures out their special talent, which is represented as a mark on their butt. There was a [[Communism|cult of equality]] that removed ponies' cutie marks.