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{{quote|''"The fear of blood tends to create fear of the flesh"''|Silent Hill's tagline}}

The '''Silent Ponyville Chronicles''' series  is a [[Crossover]] between ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' and the ''[[Silent Hill]]'' series by [http://jake-heritagu.deviantart.com/ Jake-Heritagu]. So far the series has stayed away from Silent Hill's mythology and has opted for an approach to each story that is reminiscent of [[Silent Hill 2]]. Can be found [http://silentponyville.deviantart.com/ here.]

The first story starts out with Pinkie Pie waking up from [[Cupcakes|a terrible nightmare]], the worst in a long string of nightmares. Weary after two weeks of almost no rest, and depressed by the content of her nightmares, she seeks help from her friend Twilight Sparkle, hoping that the unicorn's booksmarts and magic can help her. [[Gone Horribly Right|It does.]] After Twilight casts a spell to delve into Pinkie's mind, [[Oh Crap|Pinkie wakes up in a fog filled]] [[This Is Gonna Suck|and dilapidated version of Ponyville]], with no idea of what's going on. With nothing but a cryptic note and [[Amnesia: The Dark Descent|a lantern]] to guide her, Pinkie sets out to learn why she is having her nightmares. Is she able to find the truth? Or does the sinister, twisted version of Ponyville cause her to meet her end?

Each major story in the continuity has multiple endings, paying further homage to the traditions of Silent Hill, although each one has a canon ending where everything turns out for the best. However, that does not prevent the other endings from being Downer Endings on the level of Silent Hill's, enough so even to provoke the fans to start calling the author a [[Fan Nickname|monster]]. One alternate ending to Silent Ponyville 2 even prompted one fan to write a [[Fix Fic]] just because he found it that depressing of an ending.

'''Silent Ponyville Chronology:'''

* ''Silent Ponyville 1''
* ''Too Shy For A Rainbow''
* ''Silent Ponyville 2''
* ''Silent Ponyville: Reunion'' (a story written not by Jake-Heritagu, but by [http://brony17.deviantart.com/ Brony17]. It started as [[Recursive Fanfiction]], but the author [[Ascended Fanon|added it]] to the canon.)
* ''Study of the Mind Delve''
* ''A Rainbow's Surprise''
* ''Silent Ponyville 3'' 
* ''Readable Teaser''
* ''Silent Ponyville 4'' (in Hiatus)

The Silent Ponyville series is a big progenitor of [[Recursive Fanfiction]], with several stories either complete or in progress. A list of the major ones can be found below:

* ''Silent Ponyville: Blood Chronicles.''
* ''Silent Ponyville: Setting Sun.'' (AU sequel to ''Blood Chronicles'')
* ''Silence of Ponyville''.
** ''Silence of Ponyville: The Shop.'' (set during ''Silence of Ponyville'')
* ''Silent Ponyville: Darkness Scoots''.
** ''Silent Ponyville: Catch and Reweave.'' (sequel to ''Darkness Scoots'')
* ''Silent Ponyville: Spooky Song.''
* ''Silent Ponyville: Loving Memory.'' (AU to the original ''Silent Ponyville 2'')
* ''Silent Ponyville: Shattered Memories''. (AU to the 2nd ending of ''Silent Ponyville 1'')

Tropes are separated according whether they are common for the whole Chronicles, part of the main or the side stories. The same trope can still appear in several categories, if they're character relevant or relevant to the respective continuity.

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=== Common tropes for the whole of the ''[[Silent Ponyville Chronicles]]'': ===

*  {{spoiler|[[All Just a Dream]]: No, really the whole Silent Ponyville thing, and monsters included are literally the protagonists' twisted parts of their subconscious, but the dream can [[Killed Off for Real|kill the pony while sleeping]].}}.
* [[Abandoned Hospital]]: Explored in ''Silent Ponyville 2'' and ''Blood Chronicles''.
* [[Alien Geometries]]: Memories of locations tend to disregard their initial positions and move to wherever they're needed- even if that means distorting the fabric of space and time. In ''Silent Ponyville 2'' for example, in the Otherworld Fluttershy falls down a hatch in a house in Ponyville, goes through a tunnel and enters a house that is in Cloudsdale, a pegasus city built in the sky. Justified as her trauma happened in her hometown, not in Ponyville.
** ''Blood Chronicles'' [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this early on when the protagonist remarks to himself that the schoolhouse could only physically contain two classrooms at the most-- only to find it to be a large, public school-sized building on the inside.
* [[Alternative Continuity]]: Due to [[Recursive Fanfiction]], numbers thriving.
* [[Ascended Fanon]]: The ''Silent Ponyville'''s author sometimes adopts details from the side stories into his canon.
* [[Blood Spattered Innocents]]
* [[Body Horror]]: If the monsters in the stories weren't enough of this trope for you, there's also MANY examples of this in the fanart section of the [[Deviant ART]] Group- some are based on monsters from the stories, while others are [[Original Character|original designs]].
* [[Chaos Architecture]]: The protagonists never know if the room they just left or the path they walked will be the same if they turn around and head back.
* [[Dark World]]: Trope says it all.
* [[Drone of Dread]]: The sirens signify impending world-shifts.
* [[Enemy-Detecting Radar]]: All of the noise variety so far.
* [[Epiphanic Prison]]: The Otherworld is this for each character who gets drawn into it. It customizes to their personal most traumatic memories and experiences, trapping the character on several levels while forcing them to face these traumas to move forward. The ultimate epiphany is to let go of their past and negative feelings at which point they wake up.
* [[Psychological Torment Zone]]: Once again, the Other World, as described above.
* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]: A whole freaking ''town''.
* [[Fix Fic]]: While not totally meant as one, Jake's inclusion of both Slenderpony and Cupcakes!Pinkie was a result of reading some shoddy Slenderman fanfics and [[Cupcakes]] respectively.
** The aforementioned alternate alternate ending to Silent Ponyville 2 deserves mention here because Silent Ponyville's main author, Jake, thought it was good enough to make it an [[Ascended Fanon|official alternate ending]] for Silent Ponyville 2, and even declared it canon to the original [[Downer Ending|alternate ending's]] [[Alternate Universe|AU.]]
** Also, the first full-length [[Recursive Fanfiction]] Silent Ponyville story, ''Blood Chronicles,'' was based off of an [[Original Character]] created for the sole purpose of killing The Colt [[Gorn|in two equally disturbing and highly gruesome ways]] in the short side story ''Spilled Blood'' and its alternate perspective [[Mind Screw]] sequel, ''New Bloodstains.''
* [[Foreshadowing]]: Part of the [[Mind Screw|Mindscrew]], another homage to the traditions of Silent Hill.
* [[Genius Loci]]: Much like [[Silent Hill]], it seems highly probable that the memory town itself is sentient somehow- particularly after Study of the Mind Delve confirms that an external force has been changing the spell's effects.
* [[Harmful to Minors]]: The vast majority of the protagonists.
* [[Journey to the Center of the Mind]]: The actual purpose of the Mind Delve Spell is to grant the patient access to all their memories, even the hidden/surpressed, in order reveal traumatic experiences and deal with them. Too bad an alien force hitches it sometimes for hellish rides, manifesting the patient's personal demons and mixing them with the memories. As of ''Silent Ponyville 3'' and in the side stories, however, other ways have been introduced with which the main characters are drawn into Silent Ponyville / the Otherworld in general.
* [[Killed Off for Real]]: When a character dies in the Otherworld they also die in the real world.
* [[Multiple Endings]]: Both completed Silent Ponyville One and Two have several alternate endings, most of them either [[Downer Endings]] or joke endings, with one canon ending that for both stories is the only true "good" ending (though there are arguably two good endings for [[SP 2]]). And the ponies have to really have to [[Earn Your Happy Ending|work for them]]. The same goes for the side stories ''Blood Chronicles'' and ''Darkness Scoots''.
* [[Nightmare Sequence]]: The otherworld sequences, especially Otherworld Sugar Cube Corner. [[Cupcakes|Just guess what this links to.]]
* [[Oh Crap]]: In-universe all the time.
* [[Ominous Fog]]
* [[Posthumous Character]]: While this has not been a confirmed trend for all of the Silent Ponyville stories, both Silent Ponyville and Silent Ponyville 2 revolve around the fate of [[Dead Little Sister|Pinkie's little sister, Bellamina]] and Fluttershy's mother respectively.
* [[Recursive Fanfiction]]: Has developed some rather good ones, such as ''Blood Chronicles'' (Twilight accidentally draws herself and a [[Serial Killer Killer]] / [[Deadly Doctor]] into the cursed town) and ''Darkness Scoots'' (an OC who seems to be the arbiter of the Mind Delve spell is forced into cursing Scootaloo).
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: The Colt in Silent Ponyville 1, Demitri{{spoiler|/Dexter}} in Blood Chronicles, and the unnamed mare from the Ask The Colt tumblr.
** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] repeatedly in the Ask The Colt Tumblr.
* [[Rule of Symbolism]]
* [[Sequel Escalation]]: First fic simply had Pinkie Pie entering the Fog World. Second fic had her, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash together (though not for long). Third one begins with  {{spoiler|the ''Halo of the Sun itself'' manifesting, [[Won't Work On Me|deflecting Celestia's attempt to dispel it]], and manifesting the Fog World ''for everyone''.}}
** Adding to that, due to the Otherworld adapting to its victim's powers, Twilight fights a monster in the second chapter that would have been a boss monster in Pinkie or Fluttershy's Otherworld in terms of strength and agility. And she does so by ''wielding a sword'' with her magic!! The main character using an actual weapon is a first for the original ''Silent Ponyville'' stories.
** The sequel/side-story to ''Blood Chronicles'', ''Setting Sun'', starts with Pinkie in a dream, facing the Colt's spirit who intends to kill her.  {{spoiler|A triangular symbol sucks him in before he can go through with it, which also takes the various foals Pinkie saw in her dream, who are maybe or not other spirits. When waking up, she notices not only she's brandishing the wound the Colt inflicted on her, but also that all of Ponyville is screaming in horrible nightmares. And later the same force kills every prisoner in Canterlot's prison as well as the guards, one of whom the power possesses to overwhelm Celestia and sedate her.}}
* [[Shout-Out]]: To both the fanon concepts of ''Cupcakes'' and ''Slenderpony'' (see [[Fix Fic]] above).
* [[Surreal Horror]]
* [[Trauma Conga Line]] / [[Deus Angst Machina]]: If it didn't happen in the protagonist's past, you can be CERTAIN it will happen in the town, with severity [[Depending on the Writer]].
* [[Troubled Backstory Flashback]]: The town seems to enjoy forcing characters to relive the worst moments of their lives in as much vivid detail as possible.

=== The Main story ''Silent Ponyville'' contains examples of: ===

*  {{spoiler|[[Abusive Parents]]: Oh dear god, Fluttershy. If it's not her mother forcing her incredibly young daughter who doesn't have a concept of death yet into mercy-killing her, then it's her father's attempt at killing her, followed by systematically abusing her and attempting to ruin her life. Unsurprisingly, they're amongst the most hated of the characters in the series, even beyond the Colt, a character who's modus operandi was KILLING AND EATING CHILDREN, [[Cupcakes]] style.}}
**  {{spoiler|Although, to be fair, the Colt does have a few [[Creepy Awesome|redeeming]] [[Affably Evil|characteristics]] that they don't.}}
* [[Actual Pacifist]]: Fluttershy during the whole ''Silent Ponyville 2'' story, she  {{spoiler|never killed a single monster, even if it almost killed her}}. Pinkie Pie almost counts, but she will fight back if she sees no other choice.  {{spoiler|But then again, not really, since she has three known kills, with the possibility of there being several more. It's implied that during [[SP 2]] she would attack her [[Cupcakes]] persona on sight.}}
* [[Adult Fear]]: Lance lost his wife to an incurable sickness.
** Twilight hasn't only to fear for her safety but for Spike's as well, as their first encounter with monsters showed.
* [[All Just a Dream]]: Played straight until ''Silent Ponyville 3''.  {{spoiler|Then the fog rolled into the real Ponyville...}}
* [[Break the Cutie]]: And how. If what happens to Pinkie in 1, and Fluttershy in 2 doesn't qualify, then this troper can't imagine anything that DOES. And from the look of it, 3 is shaping up to do the same to Twilight...
**  {{spoiler|[[Kill the Cutie]]: Prevalent in the '[[Multiple Endings|bad ends]]'. [[Downer Ending|One particular bad end]] in 2 was so soul-crushingly depressing that it prompted the aforementioned [[Fix Fic]], as well as claims of the author being a [[Complete Monster]].}}
* [[Break the Haughty]]: Similarly, Lance in ''Reunion''.
* [[Creepy Doll]]: The headless Mannequin is an enemy in ''Silent Ponyville 2''.
** Lance stumbles into a room full of mannequins. They are scary at first because he didn't see them in the darkness before he lit the room and saw what they are. Still, that they are there at all and in such numbers mean something - especially when you think of the Headless Mannequin in ''Silent Ponyville 2''.
* [[Cutlass Between the Teeth]]:  {{spoiler|Pinkie's crazed Cupcakes!self}} attacks with a butcher knife clenched between her teeth.
** Some of the pony soldier monsters in ''Silent Ponyville 3'' carry and use their swords like this, while others drax axes or spears.
* [[Death Glare]]: Fluttershy's STARE with which she cowed Pinkie Pie's evil (''Cupcakes'' inspired) counterpart Pinkamina. Later she uses it on nurse Soft Cure who was trying again to be an abusive jerk to her. 'Trying' the keyword.
** Fluttershy seems to have gotten the STARE from her father.
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|Did You Just Laugh At Slenderpony?]]: [[SP 1]] has {{spoiler|Pinkie defeating her version of Silent Ponyville with the element of Laughter.}} Fluttershy scolding [[Evil Counterpart|Pinkamina]], causing her to concede defeat in [[SP 2]] also counts. Yes, [[Axe Crazy|THAT]] [[Cupcakes|Pinkamina]].
* [[Drowning Pit]]:  {{spoiler|Fluttershy nearly dies in one after she has stepped down into a cellar, water begins to rise and the way back up is [[Alien Geometries|suddenly much longer than before]]}}.
* [[Enemy-Detecting Radar]]: For Pinkie a radio, for Fluttershy her mother's old musicbox, for Lance in ''Reunion'' a busted pocket watch. Twilight's is a medallion - through which, as a first, a voice seems to speak.
* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]: Twilight's eyes go white as she prepares and executes the killing strike against the monster attacking her.
* [[Infant Immortality]]: Averted in ''Silent Ponyville 1'' when  {{spoiler|filly Bellamina's dies by the Colt's hooves}}.
**  {{spoiler|In ''Silent Ponville 3'' Twilight suffers a horrible vision which averts this trope, showing her Spike dead. She feels it's a warning sign. Unfortunately, she's right as the monsters they encounter nearly kill them both.}}
* [[Kill'Em All]]:  {{spoiler|One ending in ''Silent Ponyville 2'' shows this: Fluttershy, Dash and Pinkie all die if Fluttershy gets killed, because their minds are connected by diving together}}.
* [[Locked Out of the Loop]]: ''Nobody'' whom Twilight ever used the Mind Delve Spell on tells her what they experienced in their dreams. They only order her 'to never use ''that'' spell again', not specifying why it's so bad. She is understandably frustrated.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: ''A Rainbow's Surprise'''s last chapter  {{spoiler|has Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy celebrating their marriage. The chapter's cheerful mood gets dampened by Celestia's omnious closing words. The actual mood whiplash comes, however, in the prologue of ''Silent Ponyville 3''. We see the same scene again from Celestia's point of view before she tries to destroy the dark energy hiding under the town. But not only does she free the source of the Otherworld, it overwhelms her and materializes the Otherworld in the real Ponyville.}}
* [[Memento MacGuffin]]: Fluttershy's warning signal also doubles as this, being her mother's damaged music box from when she was a child. Also included: Fluttershy's doll (a sign of happier times), Pinkie's pink hair (representing her family), and the saddlebag Lance gave his wife (the start of their relationship).
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: ''Silent Ponyville 1'' - Pinkie almost says this word for word after she killed the White Filly. ''Silent Ponyville 3'' - While Twilight doesn't use the words after she killed the monster, her reaction of [[These Hands Have Killed|guilt and grief]] is heartbreakingly similiar to Pinkie's.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]:  {{spoiler|Due to Celestia's interference, she freed the force who creates the Otherworld to manifest for everyone in reality. It also seems to have captured her...}}
* [[Oh Crap]]: In-universe all the time. But the really big one comes with ''Silent Ponyville 3'''s prologue, with  {{spoiler|the ''Halo of the Sun itself'' manifesting, [[Won't Work On Me|deflecting Celestia's attempt to dispel it]], and manifesting the Fog World ''for everyone''.}} Lampshaded by the author.
* [[Old Shame]]: an in-universe example: Study of the Mind Delve reveals Twilight wrote terrible self-insert fanfiction when she was a filly. Celestia is amused.
* [[Ominous Music Box Tune]]: Silent Ponyville 2's equivalent to the radio.
* [[Our Zombies Are Different]]: Type '''O Other''', as in 'not really zombies but close enough'.
** Discussed and lampshaded by Spike and Twilight after fleeing from the pony soldier monsters. Spike believes their the real deal, Twilight points out they don't fit all the traditional characteristics of the zombies they know from stories. She still says they look close enough to zombies.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The scene in Silent Ponyville 2 with  {{spoiler|Rainbow Dash standing in a burning room}} is reminiscent of  {{spoiler|Angela's final fate in Silent Hill 2}}, although both scenes carry different backgrounds and symbolism.
* [[Split Personality Takeover]]:  {{spoiler|If Pinkie dies in the fight against Cupcakes!Pinkamina, Pinkie is gone and the latter overtakes her mind and body}}. It's implied this ending will lead to the story of ''Cupcakes''.
* [[Tomato in the Mirror]]:
** Pinkie:  {{spoiler|Her baby sister Bellamina was killed by a mass murderer killing and eating children. Bellamina didn't trust him, but since Pinkie did, she went along to the 'party'.}}
** Fluttershy:  {{spoiler|Her mother's mind was so far gone due to sickness, she forced her innoncent daughter, who hadn't a concept of death yet, into mercy-killing her. Her father tried then to kill Fluttershy because he believed she had killed his wife without a reason before settling for regularly abusing her.}}
* [[Tragic Keepsake]]: The red ribbon Pinkie Pie finds in the first story she ties into a bow in her hair. And then when she returns to the real world and finds the ribbon gone, she asks for some red ribbon to replace the one she had during her journey through Silent Ponyville. She is still wearing that red ribbon in her hair in the most recent entries to the story, which take place several months after the first.
* {{spoiler|[[Trauma-Induced Amnesia]]: Both Pinkie and Fluttershy}}.
* [[The Un-Reveal]]: We never learn  {{spoiler|what exactly Rainbow Dash's version of the Otherworld looked like, what she faced for monsters and, most of all, what her past was before coming to Ponyville.}}
* [[Video Game Remake]]: Jake, as well as developer Mavro Manitari and whoever else is involved with the project but as of yet unlisted, is in the process of releasing Silent Ponyville 1 as an actual video game. Information about game development, as well as the eventual copy of the the game, can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20130423105527/http://silentponyville.blogspot.com/ here.]

=== The side story ''Silent Ponyville: Blood Chronicles'' contains examples of: ===

*  {{spoiler|[[Acid Pool]]: The room where Dexter is found has one, which Twilight is suspended above, having clearly been tortured, and is later plunged into the acid, killing her. [[Rule of Symbolism|Represents the way Demitri lost his face and his natural fear of acid.]]}}
* [[Afraid of Needles]]: The variation on the classic [[Silent Hill]] Nurse monster plays on this by attacking with a syringe full of acid.
* [[Afraid of Blood]]: Played with- Demitri starts off with a strong [[Blood Lust]] (which he hides from Twilight), but towards the end, his fantasies about how all the blood got there slowly fade, but his feelings on blood are never directly stated.
* [[Alternate Continuity]]
* [[Anti-Hero]] / [[Byronic Hero]]
* [[Asshole Victim]]: Only two of Demitri's victims' identities are ever disclosed- one was  {{spoiler|the stallion who [[You Killed My Father|murdered his parents]] [[Harmful to Minors|right in front of him]] and [[Would Hurt a Child|threw acid in his face]]}}, and the other was [[Complete Monster|The Colt]] from Silent Ponyville 1. Also, Demitri makes it abundantly clear that he only ever kills murderers- although he is very quick to jump at the possibility of a pony being a murderer.
*  {{spoiler|[[The Atoner]]: Demitri, in Ending 4.}}
*  {{spoiler|[[Anvil on Head]]: Game Destroyer, the author's [[Author Avatar]], drops an anvil on the original Silent Ponyville's author's avatar, as "punishment" [[Take That|for the extensive Fluttershy abuse in Silent Ponyville 2]].}}
* [[Auto Cannibalism]]: One of the ways Demitri tortures The Colt in ''New Bloodstains''. [[I Taste Delicious|The Colt is disappointed in his taste]].
* [[Batman Grabs a Gun]]: Demitri at the very start of Blood Chronicles,  {{spoiler|then later, Twilight Sparkle, even though [[Sacrificial Lion|it ends up not doing her much good]].}}
* [[Beneath the Mask]]:  {{spoiler|Depends on how the reader answered the "[[Hidden Purpose Test|Test of Character]]."}}
* [[Black and White Insanity]]
* [[Black and White Morality]]: Played with extensively.
* [[Black Cloak]]: Demitri in Spilled Blood and New Bloodstains, and Hooded Pony in Blood Chronicles.
* [[Black Eyes]]:  {{spoiler|Demitri, RIGHT before a kill.}}
* [[The Blank]]: Almost all of the monsters Demitri [[Incredibly Lame Pun|faces]].  {{spoiler|Slender Mane even shows up for a brief [[The Cameo|cameo in the woods]].}}
* [[Bloodstained-Glass Windows]]:  {{spoiler|Revelation A's setting, for the [[Final Boss]] Battle against [[Let's You and Him Fight|Twilight Sparkle]].}}
* [[Blood Lust]]: Demitri, full throttle.  {{spoiler|Or just Dexter, depending on your interpretation on who/what Dexter is...}}
* [[Cain and Abel]]:  {{spoiler|Demitri's father, Trifecta, and his partner Dark Shade. Exactly how close they were is never made clear, but they were more than likely [[Heterosexual Life Partners]] until circumstances forced the latter to murder the former. This trope is also likely why Dexter, the manifestation of Demitri's dark nature, insisted he was Demitri's brother.}}
*  {{spoiler|[[Came Back Wrong]]: Twilight, in the Bad Endings stemming from "Revelation A".}}
* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]] / [[Convenient Color Change]]: Demitri's eyes change from their normal [[Brown Eyes|brown]] to [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|red]] to [[Black Eyes|black]] as Dexter gains more control over Demitri's actions.  {{spoiler|Also, in Revelation B, Dexter reappears with a contrasting [[Palette Swap]] color scheme.}}
* [[Color Contrast]]: One of the big themes throughout, the most obvious being the many [[Deliberately Monochrome|Black/White]] contrasts, but there are also numerous examples of other contrasting colors, the most predominate being the contrasting of  {{spoiler|green acid contrasting red blood and Twilight's purple coat.}}
* [[Contemplate Our Navels]]
* [[Coup De Grace Cutscene]]: Demitri tends to finish off bosses that can talk by holding them at gunpoint and engaging in a final conversation before delivering a final [[Boom! Headshot!|headshot]] as a [[Finishing Move]].
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Poor Demitri...
*  {{spoiler|[[Dead All Along]] / [[Dying Dream]]: The "Game Over" ending.}}
* [[Deadly Doctor]]:  {{spoiler|The main character Demitri, who was a surgeon before he was "dismissed".}}
* [[Death by Origin Story]]
* [[Death Glare]]: Twilight and Demitri exchange a fair number of these throughout the story.
*  {{spoiler|[[Died in Your Arms Tonight]]: Though not actually touching her at the time, Twilight dies while Demitri holds her with his magic, having caught her to late to save her from her [[Cruel and Unusual Death]].}}
* [[Doesn't Like Guns]]: Oddly enough, Demitri- he frequently wonders aloud to himself why he even brought a gun with him at all, since he NEVER uses them to kill ponies, normally.  {{spoiler|Likely due to how his [[Freudian Excuse|parents died]]. Also, in one of the bad endings, Demitri shoots himself with it.}}
** Also, Twilight herself bears animosity to firearms, but mainly [[Actual Pacifist|due to their association with violence]].
* [[Dr. Jerk]]: Demitri, before he fled the profession after cutting off a patient's face and dismembering their corpse. [[Deadly Doctor|So much for the Hippocratic Oath...]]
* [[Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette]] / [[Raven Hair, Ivory Skin]]: Demitri  {{spoiler|as well as his mother, in the Redemption ending. His father and Dexter's true form in Revelation B both [[Inverted Trope|invert these tropes]].}}
* [[Enemy Within]]:  {{spoiler|What Dexter eventually turns out to be.}}
*  {{spoiler|[[Enemy Without]]: Dexter in the Good Endings stemming from "Revelation B"}}
* [[Evil Orphan]]: Arguably Demitri, despite his being [[Happily Adopted]]
* [[Face Stealer]]: Part of Demitri's MO.
* [[The Faceless]]: The hooded pony that begins stalking Demitri after the battle with Dexter.
*  {{spoiler|[[Fake Memories]]}}
* [[Finishing Stomp]]: Demitri seems particularly fond of these with standard enemies, and is there as a [[Shout-Out]] to [[Silent Hill]]'s traditional gameplay. May be a way of invoking [[Kick Them While They Are Down]] for Demitri without the [[Kick the Dog]] implications.
* [[Fire-Forged Friends]]: Arguably Demitri and Twilight.
* [[Forgiveness]]: [[Deconstructed Trope|Deconstructed]].
* [[Forgiveness Requires Death]]: Revelation B  {{spoiler|has Demitri confront the Hooded Pony that has been tormenting him through the final act and kneel before him, expecting to be killed or receive some sort of punishment. Instead, the Hooded Pony simply lays his hoof on him and a warm feeling comes over him.}}
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Demitri  {{spoiler|himself deconstructs this, realizing Dexter was never responsible for his start of darkness but he decided on his own to give into his urges. Dexter is just the most malevolent part of himself that enjoys tormenting and killing others.}}
* [[Gainax Ending]]: The extremely and deliberately ridiculous "ZOMBIE" [[Multiple Endings|Joke Ending]].
** The other two Joke Endings- "UFO" and "GD"- also could count.
* [[Game Face]]: Demitri takes off his mask to [[Facial Horror|reveal his true face]] to The Colt in New Bloodstains, and  {{spoiler|to Twilight in Revelation A in Blood Chronicles. In both cases, those who see his face [[One-Winged Angel|don't live to tell about it.]]}}
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Demitri, partly due to having gone [[Evil Orphan|extensive psychological assessment]] [[Enfant Terrible|as a child]], and partly due to being a criminal fugitive and knows [[Crazy Prepared|most forms of self-defense in case he were ever to be discovered and pursued.]]
* [[Give Me a Sword]]: Demitri gives Twilight his gun and his [[Enemy-Detecting Radar|pager]] when they decide to [[Let's Split Up, Gang!|split up]] in the hospital.
* [[Happily Adopted]]: Demitri ended up in a happy household that is seen to have genuinely loved and cared for him growing up, encouraging to use his talents productively.
* [[Harsher in Hindsight]] / [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: The story starts off with the protagonist conspiring with prison guards to get "alone time" with a convicted child murderer, whom he brutally murders, setting the later events in motion. One year later, cue [[Silent Hill: Downpour]]...
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]:  {{spoiler|[[Back from the Dead|Both times]]] Dexter dies, Demitri uses the shotgun he took from Dexter to finish him off.}}
* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: Demitri uses a [[Deadly Doctor|surgical scalpel]] as his only melee weapon, and relies on it surprisingly often. [[Justified Trope|Justified]], though, since it was Demitri's [[Weapon of Choice]] as a surgeon-turned-serial killer, and [[Improvised Weapon|no other blade is present throughout the story.]]
* [[Hollywood Acid]]: The "wrapped-up" monsters spray the stuff from their chests, the [[Shout-Out|monster nurses]] attack with [[Cruel and Unusual Death|syringes FILLED WITH ACID]], and the room where Demitri fights Dexter features an [[Acid Pool]].  {{spoiler|All of which allude to how Demitri lost his face.}}
* [[I Owe You My Life]]
* [[Kill'Em All]]:  {{spoiler|Both of the Bad Endings, and the GD Ending.}}
* [[The Killer in Me]]:  {{spoiler|[[Inverted Trope|Inverted.]] Demitri spends the entire time thinking he is fully responsible for his actions, and is shocked to discover that he has an [[Enemy Within|alter-ego]] that was actually doing all the killing.}}
* [[Latex Perfection]]:  {{spoiler|Demitri uses a special chemical to turn the faces of his victims into these kind of masks, and constantly wears one to hide his own [[Facial Horror|horrifically mutilated face]]. Also, Demitri is seen wearing an actual latex example of this trope during a flashback of his last day as a surgeon.}}
* [[Leave Behind a Pistol]]:  {{spoiler|What Dark Shade was afraid Demitri's father would do, and why he killed him and his wife.}}
* [[Leaning on the Furniture]] / [[Rebel Relaxation]]: Demitri does a sitting/lying version of this pose, complete with [[Badass Arm-Fold]]. May also count as [[Slouch of Villainy]].
*  {{spoiler|[[Let's You and Him Fight]]: Revelation A.}}
* [[Man in White]]: Demitri.
* [[The Mole]]: Demitri's father and his fellow officer, [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Dark Shade]].  {{spoiler|Leads to the latter killing the former and his wife.}}
* [[Moral Sociopathy]]
*  {{spoiler|[[Murder the Hypotenuse]]: Why Dexter kills Twilight.}}
* [[Natural Spotlight]]: Draws Demitri's attention to the Test of Character in the classroom, and then later Twilight is found moping in the gym under one.
* [[Never Found the Body]]: It's never said how Demitri deals with the bodies of his victims- except for their faces, which he keeps as masks. The exception is his first victim,  {{spoiler|Dark Shade}}, whom he left in pieces and scattered about the OR.
* [[No Face Under the Mask]]
*  {{spoiler|[[Note to Self:]]: The mad scribblings on the wall reading things like "DO NOT OPEN" were written by a young and very frightened Demitri.}}
*  {{spoiler|[[Not-So-Imaginary Friend]]: Dexter, before being locked deep within Demitri's mind after using Demitri's body to attack and nearly kill a school bully.}}
* [[Not with the Safety On, You Won't]]: Unsurprisingly invoked when Demitri tries to teach Twilight how to use a gun before they decide to split up. Also, it should be noted that the gun in question is a [[Revolvers Are Just Better|revolver]], meaning it [[Did Not Do the Research|probably wouldn't have a safety at all]].
** Except that [[Fridge Brilliance|guns are said to be almost NEVER used in Equestria]], meaning that the ones that WERE made would probably be designed to be as deliberately difficult for an untrained novice to use as possible.
* [[OOC Is Serious Business]]: Twilight's [[Out-of-Character Moment|uncharacteristically emotional behavior]] is [[Lampshade Hanging|noticed]] by Demitri after it dawns on him that he has been [[Not So Stoic|unusually more open]] and [[Loose Lips|less careful with his words]] around Twilight [[Ineffectual Loner|than he would be under normal circumstances]], and begins to suspect that it may be an effect of the town.
** [[Word of God|The author]] has insisted on multiple occasions that this was intentional, which seems to imply that [[Not Himself|the unusual behavior]] of the characters might indeed be the [[Psychological Torment Zone|town's way of playing on]] Demitri's fear of having his [[Dark Secret]] exposed.
* [[Pay Evil Unto Evil]]
* [[Poetic Serial Killer]]: Demitri, particularly in New Bloodstains.
* [[Prophetic Names]]: "Demitri" is a [[Portmanteau]] of "demi", which means "half" or "in two", and the name "Dimitri", which is a derivative name of Demeter, the Greek goddess of harvest. Both duality and "harvesting" (that is, the association between harvest and [[Grim Reaper|Judgement Day/Death themes]]) end up becoming key themes throughout everything Demitri in Demitri's life from his parents' death onwards.
* [[Psychic Surgery]]: [[Justified Trope|Justified]] by the fact that Demitri is a unicorn with magical abilities, though it's mentioned several times that Demitri was considered a god among ponies when it came to surgical operation regardless of magical ability. Lampshaded by The Colt in New Bloodstains when Demitri practices his art on him, successfully managing to [[Body Horror|remove The Colt's own stomach from his chest,]] [[Auto Cannibalism|force him to eat it,]] [[Serial Escalation|and still have time to do a number on his intestines and organs before The Colt finally bleeds out]].
* [[Recursive Fanfiction]]
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] and brutally parodied in the "GD" Joke Ending.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]] / [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]:  {{spoiler|Demitri and Dexter.}}
* [[Red Right Hand]]: Demitri's true face, which he keeps hidden under a mask made from the face of one of his past victims.
* [[Revolvers Are Just Better]]
* [[Scars Are Forever]]: Demitri's true face.
* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]:  {{spoiler|Dexter, who was sealed deep within Demitri's mind through rigorous psychological therapy, though he has a habit of breaking out whenever Demitri is about to kill.}}
* [[Serial Killer Killer]]
* [[Shotguns Are Just Better]]
* [[Shout-Out]]: Several:
** Most obviously, Demitri is [[Dexter|a blood-obsessed]] [[Serial Killer Killer]] [[Dexter|whose parents were killed right in front of him.]] And, in case the reference wasn't blatant enough already, his dark side is even NAMED after [[Dexter]].
** The Lying Figure from [[Silent Hill 2]] appears, except restrained with a plastic-like membrane as opposed to skin and represents different things.
** Dexter, Demitri's [[Alter Ego]], refers to Demitri as his [[Metal Gear Solid|"brother"]]. Also, the second phase of his [[Boss Battle]] has him using a hopping-from-perch-to-perch tactic similar to that of The Fear from [[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]].
** Demitri used to work in Operating Room '''[[Final Destination|18-O]]'''[[Final Destination|R]], and the song "Turn Around, Look At Me" is used to signal the presence of a boss monster.
** Demitri cuts off his victims' faces and occasionally wears them as masks [[Silence of the Lambs|Hannibal Lecter]]-style.
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: ''[[Lyrical Dissonance|"There is someone... Walking behind you... Turn around... look at me..."]]''
* [[Start of Darkness]]
* [[Strapped to An Operating Table]]: Implied to happen to most of Demitri's victims, and his use of a [[Improbable Weapon User|scalpel]] as his [[Weapon of Choice]] suggests at the very least that his victims are always restrained somehow. We see him actually use an operating table for his first kill in a flashback in Blood Chronicles, while the short stories Spilled Blood/New Bloodstains have The Colt strapped to [[Poetic Serial Killer|the very table he himself had used to kill his victims on]].
* [[Take That Me]]:  {{spoiler|Game Destroyer in the GD Ending.}}
* [[This Is Unforgivable!]]: Young Demitri, to Dark Shade.  {{spoiler|Dark Shade responds [[Would Hurt a Child|by throwing a vile of what turned out to be acid in Demitri's face]].}}
* [[Through the Eyes of Madness]] / [[Unreliable Narrator]]: Both ''Spilled Blood'' and ''New Bloodstains'' tell the same story, only from different perspectives. However, since both perspectives are from two equally insane murderers, and the fact that some events change between their recounts, it is impossible to say which story is more reliable.
*  {{spoiler|[[Treachery Cover-Up]]: The truth behind Demitri's parents' deaths was covered up by the police for fear of implicating one of their undercover officers. They even went so far as to insist that Demitri's first mask made it impossible for him to talk in public until the situation had died down entirely.}}
* [[Troubling Unchildlike Behavior]]:  {{spoiler|Demitri is seen in a flashback to have stabbed a bully that threatened him half to death [[Hoist by His Own Petard|with the pocket knife he stole from said bully]] in his school years.}}
*  {{spoiler|[[Two-Faced]]: Demitri, in a rare lateral example; he wears a normal face cut off from one of victims that appears normal, but removing it reveals that his real face is horribly burned beyond recognition.}}
* [[Uh-Oh Eyes]]: Demitri, whose eyes change color as he is about to kill/torture someone, normally from brown to red, but also occasionally to black. His [[Alter Ego]] Dexter is only ever seen with these eyes, and its heavily implied that the eye color change is a sign of his presence affecting Demitri's actions.
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]
* [[Where It All Began]]: Most of the interiors of buildings seem to become places where key events that influenced Demitri's descent into becoming a serial killer took place. The exception is Sugarcube Corner, but it holds significance as the reason Demitri wound up in Ponyville in the first place.
* [[White Mask of Doom]]: Demitri wears one constantly.  {{spoiler|[[Fridge Horror|It's made from the flesh of one of his past victims.]]}}
** Also, apparently he was forced to wear a latex one while working as a [[Deadly Doctor|surgeon.]]
* [[White Shirt of Death]]: Played with a lot. Demitri's white coat is certainly there for the dramatic "blood against white background" effect, but most of the time its his ''victims''' blood, rather than his own.
** Unsurprisingly played straight for the "Game Over" ending.
* [[White Void Room]]: The motel where Demitri's parents were killed, which appears drenched in blood (likely as a [[Shout-Out]] to [[Dexter]]) near the end of story,  {{spoiler|and then again in Ending 4, in pristine condition and where his parents converse with him.}}
*  {{spoiler|[[Would Hurt a Child]]: Dark Shade.}}
* [[Your Head Asplode]]:  {{spoiler|Dexter. Twice if you count his second death in Revelation B.}}

=== The side story ''Silent Ponyville: Setting Sun'' contains examples of: ===

* [[Alternate Continuity]]: It's not only an AU to the original 'Silent Ponyville' series, but also one to ''Blood Chronicles''.
* [[Anyone Can Die]]: Gruesomely hinted at in the prologue: the wounds the ponies suffered in their nightmares carried over into the real world. And then the mysterious force killed both prisoners AND wardens inside the Canterlot prison.
**  {{spoiler|See entry for [[Sacrificial Lion]].}}
* [[Badass Princess]]
* [[Crucified Hero Shot]]: The "Remastered Cover" for the fic drawn by the author himself.
* [[Dark Reprise]]: Pinkie is heard singing one of "Giggle At The Ghostly" in the Basement Otherworld of the Shack in Chapter 7.
*  {{spoiler|[[Destination Defenestration]] / [[Super Window Jump]]: How Applejack commits suicide/[[Never Suicide|is killed]]- the broken glass causes her to bleed to death.}}
* [[The Dreaded]]: The executioner pony that appeared in chapter 2 in a painting makes its entrance in chapter 7. The scythe it held is actually its limb, and its presence alone ''terrifies'' Celestia.
* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]
* [[Forced to Watch]]: What the town itself seems to be doing to Celestia.
*  {{spoiler|[[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]]: Celestia finishes off the Queen Wasp monster by impaling it through her horn, and Rarity is found impaled on a spike in the Otherworld version of the Carousel Boutique.}}
* [[Lured into a Trap]]:  {{spoiler|The entity behind the Otherworld in this universe possessed the dead Captain Lance to come close enough to Celestia to sedate her.}}
* [[Mirror Monster]]: Will happen at some point, as the released scene art shows.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]:  {{spoiler|Pinkie's pleasant dream devolves literally into an inferno when she follows a colt inside a house and down into the burning cellar, seeing various other foals on fire. She grabs the same colt she followed to save at least him, but he changes into ''the Colt'' - the serial killer who killed her sister.}}
* [[Prehensile Hair]]: Applejack uses it to hold her weapon, a [[Hand Cannon|.45]] [[Revolvers Are Just Better|Magnum]],  {{spoiler|which Celestia acquires not too long afterwards, after the [[Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome|rather sudden]] death of its previous owner.}}
* [[Prison]]: The first setting of  {{spoiler|Celestia's Otherworld is an seemingly endless (no matter where she looks, she can't see neither ceiling, bottom or walls), abandoned and dark prison}}.
* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something|Royal Who Actually Does Something]]
* [[Run or Die]] / [[Fear Is the Appropriate Response]]: Despite being afraid, Celestia mostly feels (restrained) disgust/pity for the Otherworld's creatures and killed them to save her life. Come chapter 7 where a monster appears whose presence alone sends her into panic and running away before she even sees it.
*  {{spoiler|[[Sacrificial Lion]]: The third chapter poignantly kills off Applejack soon after she is introduced, and then reveals that the rest of the Apple family are dead as well.}}
**  {{spoiler|Then, later, Rarity is found impaled in the Carousel Boutique, and a [[Apocalyptic Log|letter from Twilight]] found in Rarity's bedroom alludes to the fact that another of the mane 6 may already be dead.}}
* [[Watching Troy Burn]]
* [[Your Mind Makes It Real]]: The wounds Ponyville's residents suffered in their nightmares carried over into the real world. Justified as it wasn't the usual Otherworld they were in.  {{spoiler|This one is reserved for Celestia this time.}}

=== The side stories ''Silence of Ponyville'' and ''Silence of Ponyville: The Shop'' contain examples of: ===

* [[Alternate Continuity]]
* [[Doomed by Canon]]:  {{spoiler|Knick Knack died in ''Silence of Ponyville'' after he entered the Otherworld. ''The Shop'' is showing what he experienced during his time there.}}
* [[Fan Service]]: When Knick sees first the back end of a Vile Mare; but their front makes it into...
** [[Fan Disservice]]
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: [Gr]Annie Smith  {{spoiler|collapses when she realizes that Knick is dead.}}
* [[Killed Off for Real]]:  {{spoiler|Knick Knack. ''The Shop'' shows his travel through the Otherworld and ultimately why he died.}}
* [[Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy]]: Not by much but [Gr]Annie Smith is stubborn, confident and strong from the work on her family's farm; Knick Knack is more soft-spoken and less confident than her.
* [[Off the Rails]]: Knick Knack is the first (main) character in all Silent Ponyville stories so far who has ''broken the rules''. He has ignored both times the obvious, blue door, and broken open a chained entrance whose locks he was supposed to open with numbers he had found before. He literally goes off the pre-given rails made by both the entity behind Silent Ponyville and his own mind.
* [[Panty Shot]]: Knick has a '[[Hello, Nurse!]]' [[Played for Laughs|moment]] when he sees the attractive back end of a filly with panties. She loses then any appeal when she turns around.
* [[Shout-Out]]: ''The Shop'' introduces [[Silent Hill 4|enemy ghosts and many holes which break the laws of space and time]].
** The Nurses from [[Silent Hill 2]] inspired the Vile Mares as of [[Word of God]].

=== The side story ''Darkness Scoots'' and its sequel ''Catch and Reweave'' contain examples of: ===

* [[Artifact of Doom]]: Dream Catcher's Mirror
** [[Magic Mirror]]
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Having lead many others through the nightmares before, Dream Catcher is well familiar with the rules of engagement in place in the otherworld.
*  {{spoiler|[[Infant Immortality]]: Averted in some of the endings of ''Darkness Scoots''.}}
* [[Mirror Monster]]: Not-Dream Catcher (Not-Me)
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Taken to the literal when Dream Catcher breaks the siren.
* [[Offscreen Teleportation]]: Both Not-Dream Catcher and Soul Weaver do this quite frequently.
** [[Villain Teleportation]]
* [[Reality Warper]]: Soul Weaver has displayed the ability to change the scenery around him as he sees fit.
* [[Room Full of Crazy]]: The Hallway of Drawings{{spoiler|, symbolic of all the drawings Dream Catcher did before he lost his sight.}}
* [[Rule of Three]]:  {{spoiler|The Hydra symbolizes Scootaloo's friendship with Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom, with all its hardships. One of its three heads is chopped off, representing Scootaloo's disappearance from Ponyville.}}
** The Character of Dream Catcher has an alter-ego named Soul Weaver, and a doppelganger (Mirror image) whom he calls "Not-Me".
* [[See You in Hell]]: Soul Weaver's line: "Fall into your darkest dream, you pathetic excuse for a pony. I'll be waiting for you when you get there."
** Not-Dream steals this line in Catch and Reweave to use on Dream Catcher.
* [[Shadow Archetype]]: Dream Catcher's feelings towards Soul Weaver and Not-Dream Catcher.
* [[Split Personality]]
** [[Enemy Within]]: Soul Weaver
* [[Torture Cellar]]: Soul Weaver's version of Dream Catcher's Basement.
* [[Weirdness Magnet]]: Dream Catcher and his Dream Walking Ability.

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