How many times have Twilight and friends saved Equestria?

[heavens-champion 1,905]

How many times have the Mane 6 saved Equestria?

[Iam 525]

I'll count only villains that wanted to rush on Equestria and bad situations, where Mane 6 (+ new members of the Squad) appeared:

1 time in Season one
2 times in Season two
1 time in Season three
2 times in Season four
0 to 1 time (because spreading "equalness" wouldn't be so successful I think, especially with the location of Our Town) in Season five
2 times (the darkness flown around Crystal Empire could pour out on the whole Equestria; I count Starlight's squad as well) in Season six
1 time in Season seven.
0 times (so far) in Season eight.

Maybe I overlooked something. Please fix me if necessary. Thanks.

 

[Kevin Tang 2,427]

That nightmare moon thing, the return of the chaos god, sombra the enslaver, that bug queen at the wedding, those kidnapper roots, the magic sucker, that communist pony who made that village and time travel, the return of the bug queen, and the pony of shadow. At least that's what I remember

[BastementSparkle 20,328]

Don't forget they stopped the Storm King too, since the movie is considered canon.

[Hierok 11,832]

1. 1 time. Nightmare Moon
2. 2 times. Discord & Chrysalis
3. 2 times. Sombra & Pinkie Pies
4. 2 times. Tree & Tirek
5. 0 times.
6. 0 times.
7. 1 time. Stygian
8. 0 times.

8 times.

Edited September 12, 2018 by Hierok

[DonMaguz 1,023]

3 hours ago, Hierok said:

1. 1 time. Nightmare Moon
2. 2 times. Discord & Chrysalis
3. 2 times. Sombra & Pinkie Pies
4. 2 times. Tree & Tirek
5. 0 times.
6. 0 times.
7. 1 time. Stygian
8. 0 times.

8 times.

+ Dragonshy: probably Celestia had backup plans, but they did saved Equestria from being clouded by dragon smoke for 100 year (supposedly).

- Too Many Pinkie Pies: they drove Ponyville mad, but they weren't a threat to Equestria.

+ Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep?: prevented the Tantabus to escape the dream realm and make Equestria a living nightmare.

Edit: and the Storm King as @BasementSparkle mentioned.

10 times in my book.

Edited September 12, 2018 by DonMaguz

[Aedandragon 0]

I don’t know about y’all, but I would include their first encounter with Starlight Glimmer, and their second encounter with Trixie. Both of which may not have been a threat to Equestria at the time, but they had plans to be.

[Zestanor 98]

Season 1: Nightmare Moon definitely counts.

Season 2: Discord counts because even though he was mostly messing with Ponyville, he overpowered Celestia and Luna.

They didn’t really defeat Chrysalis; that was Shining and Cadance. Twilight alone saved Cadance, and after that they played a lesser role.

Season 3: For Sombra, it was Spike who saved the day. Him and Shining and Cadance again. Twilight played an important role in finding the Heart, and ultimately the Heart fixed everything, not a character.

In the season 3 finale, it’s true that Twilight is responsible for the problem. Bit she also solved it. Still, she didn’t save Equestria; she “created new magic.” They saved Ponyville, but not Equestria.

So the count is 2 so far.

In the season 4 premiere Discord was playing them all like puppets. My first thought was that if things really got bad, he would have fixed everything eventually. But at that point, his “reformation” was very new and tenuous. I’ll count this one, because it’s not clear that Discord really knew what was going on, or that the sisters could have been saved without the Mane 6’s help. At this point Discord definitely would not have cared to do it himself.

The finale definitely counts. They shoot him with rainbows and lock him up.

Season 5’s premiere is not saving Equestria. The finale might be... though I lean toward no. What was really happening was Starlight was trying to escape to a world where she wouldn’t lose her village, while at the same time antagonizing Twilight. She didn’t plan this terribly well, because Twilight was constantly able to reset the time travel spell, and Starlight never visited the future. Once Twilight convinced her that her master plan was basically garbage, they went back to the main timeline. But from the perspective of the main timeline, nothing happened. It was important because Twilight was stuck in the wrong world, but the fate of Equestria was not yet imperiled by that.

Season 6’s premiere was very important, but it was Sunburst and Starlight who actually saved the day,

Season 6’s finale obviously can’t count.

Season 7’s finale is the first Mane 6 victory in a while.

Season 8’s finale also, and season 9’s premiere.

That’s 7. 

Now consider mid season episodes.

In Dragonshy they make it seem really important. And though someone else could have dealt with the dragon, the Mane 6 took care of the problem,

Magic Duel. Trixie was quite formidable with the Alicorn amulet. And it made her really evil. I think this counts, because she probably would have moved on from Ponyville.

Party Pooped: the Yaks probably would not have succeeded in their war against magic ponies, but the Mane 6 saved Equestria from their attempt.

Do Princesses Dream: Luna causes a serious problem, and the Mane 6 helped her fix it.

The movie counts. The narrator of the movie seems very different from the show,  and so the movie doesn’t quite make sense in the show universe, but since they reference it in season 8, we take it as happening, while recognizing some details are inconsistent.

 

So 12 times.

 

by season

Season 1: Nightmare Moon and the Dragon

Season 2: Discord

Season 3: Trixie

Season 4: the forest and Tirek

Season 5: Yaks and Tantabus

Season 6: none

Season 7: Pony of Shadows, Storm King

Season 8: Cozy Glow

Season 9: Sombra

Edited April 19, 2019 by Zestanor

[MangoFoalix 25,033]

 

People have kept count? I would say enough to warrant them being well known for their deeds.