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''Pleased to meet you. [[This Is My Story|Here is my story...]]"''|'''Littlepip'''}}

 

 

Set in an alternate future, it follows the story of Littlepip, a rather underwhelming Stable-dwelling unicorn in a post-apocalyptic Equestria. Stuck in the monotony of one of the lowest ranking jobs in the Stable, her life changes when she leaves in search of Velvet Remedy, the Stable's singer idol.

Outside, she must learn to survive in a blasted, poisoned land... And possibly, with the aid of friends made along the way, bring new light into the darkness of the Equestrian Wasteland.

 

* [[Action Mom]]: {{spoiler|Xenith and Gawd.}}

** Eventually {{spoiler|Ditzy Doo, by her adoption of Silver Bell.}}

* [[After the End]]: The story is set in a post-apocalyptic Equestria, suffering from the effects of what was effectively a nuclear war. In this case however, it was done with Balefire and megaspells, rather than nuclear missiles.

* [[Alcoholic Parent]]: Littlepip's mother.

** The Hellhounds. It's suggested a few times by Velvet Remedy that they might actually be a subversion. However, since Velvet suffers from some symptoms of [[Stupid Good]], it should probably be taken with a grain of salt.

** Chapter 42 reveals that {{spoiler|Hellhounds believe ponies are this.}}

* [[Ammunition Backpack]]: Battle Saddles in general.

* [[Anticlimax]]: Calamity finds {{spoiler|the confrontation with his father to be nothing like he ever imagined, and in fact it's fairly amicable on Calamity's end.}} It shows his growth as a character.

** Lampshaded by {{spoiler|Red Eye when Littlepip threatens to just shoot him and end his tyranny.}}

* [[Apocalypse How]]: A Class 2, caused by a similar war to the [[Fallout]] series.

* [[Apocalyptic Log]]: Considering the setting, there are a few examples.

** {{spoiler|Diamond Tiara's}} audio records, which show her [[Sanity Slippage|gradual descent into insanity]] as she turns to suicide to [[A Fate Worse Than Death|avoid running into raiders.]]

** The crew behind the fanfic's radio play released the play’s prologue, which is the very definition of an Apocalyptic Log. [http://soundcloud.com/radiohooves/the-voices-of-wartime Listen for yourself.]

* [[Ascended to Carnivorism]]: Most wasteland ponies have no issues with eating bacon, the village of Arbu survived by exporting radigator meat {{spoiler|and took this a step further with their secret tradition of cannibalism}}.

* [[Award Bait Song]]: [[Recursive Fanfiction|One fan wrote]] a song called [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksn91wXHgx8 Lil Pip] that hits just about all the criteria.

* [[Audio Adaptation]]: There is an audiobook project currently underway, with the author's blessing. New chapters are published (and available for download) on the overly-ambitious narrator's [http://www.youtube.com/user/Scorch238 youtube page.]

* [[Body Horror]]: What happened to most of the ghoul doctor's experiments in Chapter 17.

* [[Body Surf]]: {{spoiler|Twilight is able to survive the Goddess' destruction and jump into a nearby alicorn, later coming to Littlepip's rescue. However, since the body was already occupied, Twilight (apparently) dies soon after.}}

* [[Book Ends]]: {{spoiler|I should probably start by explaining a little bit about Pip-Bucks…}}

* [[Brain Uploading]]: A possible action with the Crusader Maneframes, put there in case [[Genre Savvy|they ever went rogue.]]

* [[Breather Episode]]: Arguably Chapter 32, which takes place mostly in Tenpony Tower and includes Xenith going on a shopping trip, all real action only taking place inside memory orbs and Velvet and Calamity doing... [[Coitus Ensues|Things]].

* [[Broke the Rating Scale]]: Similar to how ''Cupcakes'' is the only fic to get the "GRIMDARK AS FUCK" tag on [[Equestria Daily]], ''Fallout: Equestria'' is the only fic to get the "LEGENDARY" tag there. It's that good.

* [[Call Back]]: The night before the final battle, {{spoiler|Spike cajoles Littlepip out of bed to join a festive party much like he had tried centuries beforehand with Twilight Sparkle on the eve of Nightmare Moon's return. Spike}} lampshades this.

* [[The Call Has Bad Reception]]: {{spoiler|Littlepip isn't the [[Chosen One]], and she's not the first band Watcher has tried.}}

** The {{spoiler|[[Fantastic Nuke|Balefire Bomb]] found in Sliver Bell's home}} is later used by {{spoiler|Red Eye}} to gain leverage over Littlepip. After that, it's used to {{spoiler|destroy both the Goddess and the [[Tome of Eldritch Lore|Black Book.]]}}

* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: Littlepip's lock-picking. Significant in the fact that only she seems to be the only one capable of doing it to any sufficient level in the entire wasteland. This is also an example of a [[Mythology Gag]], since the player's character in any of the Fallout games will constantly find supplies that appear to have been locked up since the apocalypse ''several centuries ago''.

* [[Comic Book Adaptation]]: [http://l9obl.deviantart.com/art/Fallout-Equestria-The-Hand-Drawn-Comic-Issue-1-281007729 Yes, there is.]

* [[Cooldown Hug]]:

* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]:

** Most of the Ministry of Technology, to the point of {{spoiler|trying to assassinate Applejack at least once for attempting to rein them in}}.

* [[Crapsack World]]: Equestria is now a desolate and unforgiving wasteland, with mutated creatures and the like all trying to kill you, and 'Taint' making everything else worse. This is made even crappier when you catch glimpses of what used to be.

** [[Crap Saccharine World]]: The war quickly turned Equestria into this.

** Red Eye and his dog Winter.

** The epilogue mentions that {{spoiler|Calamity needed some implants}}.

* [[Deadly Gas]]: The Pink Cloud in Canterlot.

* [[Death Is Dramatic]]: Subverted. A primary character's death, while foreshadowed, is abrupt and realistic.

* [[Death World]]: Think of the Equestrian Wasteland as a typical ''Fallout'' Wasteland... [[Up to Eleven|on steroids]]. In ''Fallout'', few creatures have energy-based attacks, Super Mutants don't have the ability to generate extremely sturdy protective shields or fly, and Deathclaws aren't adapted enough to qualify as a faction on their own, with enough wit to reverse-engineer firearms for their own uses, plus being able to dig fast enough for it to be a viable combat tactic. Guess what you can find in the now devastated Equestria. There's more, like the almost permanently cloudy weather due to the Enclave, the incurable Taint along with the "vanilla" magical radiation, and much more.

* [[Dirty Business]]: How Littlepip sees killing and looting. Though in later chapters, she questions whether it's becoming too normal for her.

* [[Do Not Adjust Your Set]]: {{spoiler|1=The Enclave hijack DJ-PON3's broadcast to announce their return.}}

** The [[Recursive Fanfiction]] [[Fallout Equestria Project Horizons (Fanfic)|Project Horizons]] has actually exceeded it in length. And it just recently passed the predicted halfway mark.

* [[Driven to Suicide]]:

** Also, {{spoiler|Monterey Jack's confession and subsequent execution counts as this.}}

** And it was suggested this was the fate of {{spoiler|Fluttershy, but that was later shown to be incorrect}}.

* [[Drugs Are Bad]]: Littlepip's crashes after taking Party-Time Mint-als and addiction to said drugs do not bode well. Especially considering the eventual fate of {{spoiler|Pinkie Pie}}.

* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: Zebras believe that the stars are an entire race of these, looking to destroy Equestria. {{spoiler|This was part of the reason the zebras were so deadset on winning the war: they believed Luna was their agent, and the events of the war were oddly similar to a prophecy for how the stars would finally kill them.}} It's strongly implied that there is some truth to this... {{spoiler|but it's ultimately subverted. The falling stars were just rocks. Poisonous rocks, yes, but still rocks.}}

* [[Elite Mooks]]:

** Hellhounds. They are the equestrian equivalent of Deathclaws. Fast, intelligent and able to burrow underground at amazing speeds. Oh, and they know how to use energy weapons.

* [[Enemy Civil War]]: In the epilogue, {{spoiler|Red Eye's army splits into various factions that fight one another for control, and the Enclave begins a civil war once the rest of the pegasi find out what their government has been doing to the surface and how much they've been lied to.}}

* [[Evil Weapon]]: {{spoiler|Starmetal weapons are this. They are described as wanting to kill and are capable of obliterating a fully shielded alicorn in a single attack.}}

* [[The Exile]]:

** {{spoiler|Littlepip again}}, upon activation of the Single Pegasus Project.

* [[Expanded Universe]]: The author has done a lot of world building, and, due to a large amount of fan interest, has encouraged others to try their hoof at making a story in the Equestrian wasteland. [http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/06/fallout-equestria-side-stories.html Which some people have actually done and can be read here.]

* [[Expecting Someone Taller]]: The Griffins in Chapter 18:

'''Littlepip:''' Gratitude. Look it up. }}

* [[Expy]]: To be expected, since the story is based off [[Fallout 3]]'s. Though usually very loosely (ex. Ditzy has already finished the Guide and is over 200 years old).

*** The Goddess / {{spoiler|Trixie}} for the Master.

** The Pegasus Enclave is, well, the Enclave.

** Arbu for Arefu. {{spoiler|Subverted.}}

** {{spoiler|Arbu}} for [[I Am a Humanitarian|Andale]].

** {{spoiler|Fluttershy.}}

*** {{spoiler|She gets better.}}

** [[The Hero]]: Littlepip, despite her insistence that she's not the leader.

** [[The Lancer]]: Calamity, snarkiness included.

** [[The Sixth Ranger]]: Xenith.

* [[Footnote Fever]]: The end of every chapter includes a little footnote describing LittlePip's current level and/or aquired Perks.

* [[Fridge Brilliance]]: Velvet Remedy always wanted to be a medical pony. Her cutie mark is a nightingale.

* [[Friend or Foe]]: The E.F.S system on the PipBuck somehow determines the status of all living beings and marks them as either hostile or friendly.

* [[Fusion Fic]]

* [[Gladiator Games]]: The pit.

* [[God Job]]: Discussed. {{spoiler|Red Eye thinks that Equestria can't function without a god, and that ponies will turn to anarchy and cruelty without someone carrying a big stick to watch over them. In other words, a god like Celestia or Luna doesn't just move celestial bodies, they make civilized society possible without the props of violence and slavery. Littlepip disagrees, believing that Equestrians can heal the world through the magic of love and friendship.}}

* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: The Goddess was created {{spoiler|in an attempt to artificially generate alicorns. See [[Hive Mind]] for the results.}}

* [[Gotta Catch Them All]]: Type C. One of the major plot points for story is for Littlepip to find ponies that represent the Elements of Harmony so that she can activate the {{spoiler|Gardens of Equestria and hopefully rid Equestria of all the Taint and radiation.}}

** Celestia and Luna to prevent the Pink Cloud from devastating Equestria. {{spoiler|[[Averted|Celestia survives]]}}.

** Rarity, teleporting Fluttershy and Angel to safety from the Pink Cloud. {{spoiler|[[Soul Jar|Technically,]] she's still alive.}}

* [[Het Is Ew]]: The Enclave encourage homosexuality among its rank and file as a means of population control, given their limited arable farmland.

* [[Platonic Life Partners]]: Aside from Homage, Littlepip treasures her bond with Calamity above everything else. {{spoiler|He's even the last one that she requests to see before activating the Single Pegasus Project.}}

* [[Hot Mom]]: Xenith. Also, surprisingly, {{spoiler|Gawd.}}

* [[How We Got Here]]

* [[I Am Legion]]: The alicorns, and by extension the Goddess, who is (at least partly) {{spoiler|The Great and Powerful Trixie}}.

* [[I Lied]]: While not quoted outright, Littlepip bluntly lampshades her dishonesty as she turns her gun on {{spoiler|Colonel Autumn Leaf}} instead of fulfilling her end of their deal.

* [[Incest Is Relative]]: {{spoiler|When Stable Two was founded, several of the ponies were part of Applejack's family. As years passed and no new additions were made to the gene pool, the inhabitants came dangerously close to inbreeding.}}

* [[Incompatible Orientation]]: Littlepip had a crush on Velvet Remedy since she was little. Unfortunately, Velvet is straight. {{spoiler|Though this was probably for the best, as they're distantly related.}}

* [[Insane Troll Logic|Insane Zebra Logic]]: Littlepip's first impression of Xenith's philosophy.

* [[Invisibility]]: The blue alicorn's unique ability. {{spoiler|Acquired from Trixie.}}

* [[Ironic Echo]]: When littlepip meets {{spoiler|Monterey Jack}} again, and accuses him of robbing her:

** After he confesses, she finds out that there's a death penalty, and she claims he didn't do it:

* [[It Only Works Once]]: Due to their hive mind, the same trick cannot be used on alicorns more then once. {{spoiler|They are also capable of learning said tricks themselves, and once the hive mind is destroyed, they form an alliance with Velvet Remedy because they realize it's a better option than fighting Littlepip, the pony who outwitted and blew up their Goddess.}}

* [[Killed Off for Real]]: {{spoiler|1=SteelHooves}}

* [[Kill Sat]]: Of a sort. {{spoiler|Celestia One - the megaspell in Tenpony Tower - focuses the sun's energy into a devastating beam}}.

* [[Kirk Summation]]: Littlepip tries to talk Elder Cottage Cheese out of plugging himself into the Crusader Maneframe. {{spoiler|It doesn't work, and she resorts to shutting down the entire system instead.}}

* [[Large Ham]]: {{spoiler|The Goddess, aka, the Great and Powerful Trixie}}.

* [[Legacy Character]]:

** DJ PON-3. The current holder of the title being {{spoiler|Homage}}.

** Magic: The Goddess {{spoiler|Trixie}}, absorbing Unicorns and turning them into the powerful Alicorns, stripping away their identity and free will.

** Kindness: Littlepip herself. At multiple points in the story, she goes to great lengths to save the people living in the wasteland, only to abandon them when the danger has passed. Of course, since it was The Goddess who pointed this out, it could have just been an attempt to unnerve her.

* [[Mad Doctor]]: The ghoul doctor, who tries to {{spoiler|create a pony-chimera hybrid capable of resisting the taint, killing many individuals in the process}}.

* [[Mad Scientist]]:

** Doctor Glue, and he's completely unrepentant about it.

** {{spoiler|Twilight Sparkle qualifies as well. While she had very good intentions, she left a lot of collateral damage in her wake, to the point that Spike feels the need to preemptively defend her to Littlepip}}.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: As in MLP.

** Littlepip: Diminutive, and a PipBuck technician.

*** Littlepip's [[Badass Nickname]], the Bringer of Light, takes significance later: {{spoiler|she's convinced that her purpose is to bring the sun back to Equestria.}}

** Velvet Remedy: Remedy as in a medicine or treatment, more appropriate for a healer than a singer.

** {{spoiler|Deadshot}} Calamity: Expert markspony. Also many of his plans have a habit of either backfiring spectacularly or having tons of collateral damage. {{spoiler|And his mother died in childbirth.}}

*** Also a reference to Calamity Jane.

** SteelHooves: Never takes off his steel armor. Technically his nickname though.

*** His real name, {{spoiler|"Applesnack"}}, is oddly similar to his former girlfriend's name. Much to Dash's amusement.

* [[Mind Over Matter]]: Littlepip's only magic is telekinesis, which all unicorns can do, but the sheer level of her capability is staggering; during The Pit fight, she manages to levitate herself, an ally, a lance and ''several gallons of toxic goo'', the last being stretched out to cloak them from snipers. And then she decides to pick a lock, without tools, by grabbing the tumblers from inside. ''And succeeds''. She's extremely taxed by the feat but it would probably be flat-out impossible for any other pony short of Celestia or Luna. (Admittedly she had spent several traits on this.)

* [[Mind Rape]]: {{spoiler|The surviving alicorns under Red Eye attempt this on Littlepip, forcing her to turn her gun on Velvet Remedy. Littlepip manages to break free of their control before she pulls the trigger, however.}}

* [[More Dakka]]: SteelHooves' armor is equiped with a rocket launcher and a grenade machine-gun. Even with this arsenal, Calamity still considers adding a plasma rifle to the armor.

* [[My Greatest Failure]]:

** {{spoiler|Arbu}} for Littlepip, to the point where she starts obsessing over it.

** {{spoiler|Luna's magic academy}} is this for {{spoiler|Princess Celestia. There were three equally good sites for the school, but she picked the one in Crescent Moon Canyon for the sake of a ''joke'' on her sister. Because this allowed for the later massacre as the school was near the Zebra border, escalating the war to the point of no return, Celestia}} blames herself for the eventual apocalypse and {{spoiler|Luna's death}}.

* [[Naughty Tentacles]]: Littlepip ''just barely'' escapes this fate in Chapter 31.

* [[Nay Theist|Neigh Theist]]: Played unusually. While {{spoiler|Littlepip freely}} believes in the divinity of Celestia and Luna and is reverent towards them, {{spoiler|she}} does ''not'' agree with {{spoiler|Red Eye that the Wasteland needs a god to save it, or that it needs a living god to make everypony behave.}}

* [[No OSHA Compliance]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by Littlepip herself in this quote from Chapter 29 when the Goddess plays a video recording of the incident that created her.

** {{spoiler|An unnamed Pegasus Enclave soldier, upon witnessing his squadron leader vaporize a terrified filly.}}

** {{spoiler|Later: the entire crew of an Enclave airship. They cease their bombardment of Friendship City once it becomes clear that the defenders can no longer fight back. Their former allies promptly blow them out of the sky.}}

* [[Nuclear Nasty]]: Magical radiation and 'Taint' mutated parasprites, bats, phoenixes and pretty much every other creature out there.

* [[Nuclear Option]]: {{spoiler|Littlepip kills the Goddess and destroys the Black Book by detonating a megaspell. Note that it was more or less the only option, as both are pretty much invincible otherwise.}}

** As in the game: Super Mutants are all genderless, but seemingly male. (The ones from Vault 87, that is.)

* [[Opposites Attract]]: Calamity and Velvet Remedy.

* [[Our Ghouls Are Creepier]]: Just like the [[Fallout]] version, some are mindless and feral while some are intelligent and a couple are allies (like Ditzy Doo and {{spoiler|1=SteelHooves}}.) Though they might actually be undead due to the possibility of necromantic magic in the Balefire bombs.

* [[The Paralyzer]]: Part of the Fallen Caesar style of fighting.

* [[Platonic Life Partners]]: Next to Homage, Calamity is Littlepip's closest friend. {{spoiler|He's even the last person she asks to see before she activates the Single Pegasus Project.}}

* [[Posthumous Character]]:

** {{spoiler|If you can count being/part of a multi-conscious being 'alive' then Trixie and Twilight Sparkle are also exceptions. Twilight Sparkle survived the destruction of the Goddess by body-jumping into an alicorn, though she apparently died shortly afterwards.}}

** {{spoiler|Rarity is still alive to an extent, having put most of her soul into [[Soul Jar|the 42 figurines of the Ministry Mares.]]}}

** {{spoiler|Celestia is still alive, having downloaded herself into the SPP's Crusader mainframe and turned it into a soul jar.}}

* [[Powered Armor]]: All Steel Rangers wear a powered suit. Similar to [[Fallout]] power armour.

* [[Properly Paranoid]]: Scootaloo goes to extreme measures to have safe meetings with her friends, thinking the Ministry of Morale may be watching. {{spoiler|She's right}}.

* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: While in Shattered Hoof, Littlepip meets some Raiders that aren't raping-and-killing monsters, and are just trying to survive in the wasteland.

** Homage having way too much fun embarrassing Littlepip over the air.

** The Ministry Mares playfully hitting on Applejack, particularly [[Camp Straight|Rainbow Dash.]]

** Every chapter [[Footnote Fever|ends up with Littlepip gaining a new perk]], which are parodies of Fallout ones. Some examples are:

*** ''Cherchez La Filly - +10% damage to the same sex and unique dialogue options with certain ponies.''

*** ''Math Wrath – You are able to optimize your PipBuck’s targeting spell logic. S.A.T.S. is now 20% cooler.''

*** ''Mighty Telekinesis (level three) – Your telekinesis is Twilight Sparkle tier. You can handle multiple objects with ease; and with enough focus, you could probably carry around an Ursa Minor!''

* [[Secret Police]]: The Ministry of Morale.

* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: {{spoiler|Equestria was mere ''weeks'' from decisively winning the war. Twilight Sparkle had cracked the zebras' spell Bypass, enabling her to create impenetrable megaspell shields if she had just a little more time, and had begun testing the alicorn mutation formula the day of the bombings. The only reason the apocalypse started was because they thought Nightmare Moon was going to exterminate them after winning the war and that they seriously had nothing to lose.}}

** Even more heartbreakingly, {{spoiler|Pinkie Pie's strike team was mere ''minutes'' too late breaking into the Four Stars building to stop the megaspell that would destroy Manehattan. Her call to Twilight asking for help with her drug addiction and to repair their friendship was sent minutes after Twilight got bombed in Splendid Valley, and minutes before Pinkie herself was incinerated in the Manehattan blast.}}

* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]]: Stated quite emphatically by both Calamity and Velvet Remedy in Stable 29. Littlepip [[Genre Savvy|doesn't buy it]].

** {{spoiler|Fluttershy (or at least a vision of her) gives one to the Black Book. "Hush now. Quiet now."}}

** {{spoiler|Littlepip delivers a barn burner of one to both Red Eye and ''herself''.}}

* [[Slept Through the Apocalypse]]: {{spoiler|Spike. He feels immense guilt over this, since this left his closest friend Twilight Sparkle to die alone.}}

* [[Soul Jar]]: A form of dark zebra magic.

* [[Stepford Smiler]]: {{spoiler|Silver Bell}}

* [[Straw Man Has a Point]]: Red Eye's propeganda includes that all races of pony are equally important. He seems to consider the opposition that earth ponies are the best, which seems laughable. His opposition's points seem to be better than his, and then you realize that {{spoiler|the pro-earth pony Stable he's from invented cybornetic implants and cured old age with only the tiny population of one Stable}}.

* [[Sugar Apocalypse]]: This ''is'' the world of ''Friendship is Magic'' after the equivalent of a nuclear war, after all.

* [[Take That]]: Chapter 11 has a jab at the one-use nature of permanent items.

* [[Take Up My Sword]]: The world needs six new bearers for the Elements of Harmony so they can {{spoiler|cast a mega-spell that can restore Equestria}}. The first prime candidates are {{spoiler|Ditzy Doo as Laughter and Homage as Honesty}}, and later {{spoiler|Velvet Remedy as Kindness and Calamity as Loyalty}}. ([[The Untwist|Was there ever any doubt?]])

** Near the end, {{spoiler|Lifebloom comments that magic has always come easy to him, and he's never found a spell he couldn't learn: however, the limits to the strength of his magic are far weaker than Littlepip's, much less Twilight Sparkle.}}

* [[Thanatos Gambit]]: {{spoiler|Monterey Jack. By his admission of banditry, and subsequent execution, he forces the responsibility of his children's fate onto the now guilt-ridden Littlepip}}.

* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: {{spoiler|Red Eye poked around a little in confidential Enclave secrets. As a result, the Enclave finally descend and launch a full-scale military invasion to kill Red Eye and anyone else who might also have the information. And since they can't be certain how many people know the information, best to destroy entire cities just to be safe. [[Batman Gambit|This may have been Red Eye's plan all along,]] as their overreaction is destroying the Enclave's claims to be Equestria's saviors.}}

** Pinkie Pie's memory orbs where she addresses Littlepip come close.

* [[Title Drop]]: The epilogue's subtitle is 'Of Forgiveness and Fallout.'

* [[Tome of Eldritch Lore]]: The Black Book.

* [[Tough Love]]: An example in Chapter 19, where Velvet Remedy {{spoiler|shoots Littlepip with a dart gun to paralyze her and then drag her to Doctor Helpinghooves to forcibly put her through the addiction treatment.}} Littlepip is understandably upset afterwards, {{spoiler|though that may be because Velvet's intervention resulted in Montery Jack's death}}.

* [[Transferable Memory]]: Memory orbs, they can be used by unicorns or ponies with Recollectors to live another pony's memory. It's a dangerous process, since the user won't be able to perceive their environment during the memory.

* [[Training the Peaceful Villagers]]: Glyphmark receives a fair bit of training and equipment from Littlepip and Co.

** Littlepip goes absolutely kill crazy after finding out the ponies of {{spoiler|Arbu}} are cannibals. Leads to a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] against every inhabitant there.

** Not as extreme as Littlepip's, but Velvet Remedy goes trigger happy on a group of raiders who not only {{spoiler|tortured and forced a number of young pony children to fight for their amusement, with the added promise of getting their parent's dead bodies back,}} but they also have the gall to {{spoiler|set up their camp at, and defile Fluttershy's cottage, a mare who Velvet looks up to.}}

* [[Weather Control Machine]]: It's the reason why Equestria is perpetually cloudy. During the apocalypse, the pegasi that would become the Enclave protected themselves by filling the sky with clouds, making the zebras unable to target their cities. {{spoiler|It's also the source of the Enclave's power: by using it to grow crops above the clouds and using the perpetual cloud cover to fabricate stories about the surface world, they can maintain their autonomy. If control was ever taken away from them, they would not be able to survive and would be forced to leave the skies and join the rest of the world.}}

** Chapter 38. {{spoiler|The Enclave arrive.}}

** Episode 39 is worse. {{spoiler|Steelhooves dies, Velvet Remedy leaves the group, the Enclave take control of the Wasteland, and the chapter ends on a cliffhanger ending where Ditzy Doo apparently dies. The next chapter reveals that Ditzy survived, but that doesn't detract from the wham, since Ditzy instead pulled off a Sonic Rainboom.}}

** According to the author, chapters with "The X of the Y" titles (such as Chapter Seventeen: "The Villain of the Piece") are plotted to be "Wham Episodes" which [[Nothing Is the Same Anymore|significantly alter]] the course of the story, although sometimes only obviously so to readers in retrospect.

** DJ-Pon3 calls Littlepip out on this after killing all the inhabitants in {{spoiler|Arbu}}.

** {{spoiler|Velvet ''viciously'' calls out Little Pip in chapter 39, outlining every single atrocity she's committed and yet still considers herself a hero.}}

** Scootaloo planned to pull off an absolutely ''epic'' one to the Ministries and the Princesses themselves. {{spoiler|When the Ministries, govenors, and Princesses show up Stable 1, Scootaloo would seal the door and then visciously call them out on the horrific war that has cost so many lives. And since she believes that they don't deserve to have Equestria, even when it recovers, she designed the stable to remain shut ''forever'' until every single one of them died. It doesn't quite work, since most of the ponies never arrive, but ''goddamn'' Scootaloo.}}

** SteelHooves basically runs on "What would Applejack do?" [[Subverted Trope|This doesn't mean he won't do things he knows Applejack wouldn't approve of.]] Realizing how much he's strayed, and living up to her legacy becomes a big part of his character development.

** Later invoked by Littlepip asking herself what the late {{spoiler|1=SteelHooves}} would do.

* [[The Wiki Rule]]: [http://falloutequestria.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout:_Equestria_Wiki Here, needs love.]

* [[You Are Not Alone]]:

** {{spoiler|When the Black Book comes dangerously close to corrupting Littlepip in a dream, Rarity's soul jars take the form of the Mane Six and give Littlepip a [[Mind Hug]].}}

** {{spoiler|Though it's later revealed that Pinkie did act on this knowledge, creating a [[Stable Time Loop]].}}

* [[You Will Be Assimilated]]: The alicorns and the Goddess.

** Scootaloo first uses the phrase to describe her decision to seal the Manehattan Stable before the apocalypse actually happens. If the end doesn't come, everyone will think she imprisoned hundreds of ponies on a whim. {{spoiler|Since it was her idea to run 'experiments' on the Stables before the bombs dropped, public approval wasn't much of an objective. When the bombs ''do'' drop, however, it's a happy coincidence that the Stables were already occupied.}}

** {{spoiler|Littlepip}} ultimately makes a similar decision. {{spoiler|To heal the wasteland, the cloud cover must break, which means destroying pegasus agriculture. Like Scootaloo, Littlepip is forced to choose between the lesser of two evils.}}

 

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