The Elements of Harmony in other cartoons, comics.

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OK, go to the moment in Episode Two when Nightmare Moon breaks the balls (no pun intended). There are falling shards of crystal and Twilight Sparkle has a look of utter hopelessness in her eyes. At that point, most viewers were thinking, "Oh no, what is she going to do now?" But I wasn't worried. Even though I never watched this cartoon before, I knew exactly how the Mane 6 were going to win.

 

Physical objects can be destroyed, but virtues are intangible qualities good people possess and they will always exist. The closest parallel to the Elements of Harmony I know of are the Digimon Crests which the human children use to power up their Digimon. They represent Courage, Friendship, Love, Knowledge, Sincerity, Reliability, Hope, and Light. Incidentally, Season 2 added a ninth crest, Kindness!

 

Anyway, the kids and their digimon are squaring off against a very powerful bad guy named Apocalymon. To gain an advantage, he rips the crests off of the children and shatters them. Unable to digivolve and fight, the kids and their digimon are defeated. They regroup in the digital world and recount all their adventures together. They talk about how much they've learned and grown during all their time together. It's like a typical anime clipshow, but it's exactly the same thing Twilight does when she rattles off everything she learned about her new friends on their journey to find the Elements. Having fininshed reminiscing, the human kids suddenly realize they don't need the physcial crests because they have the power of the crests inside them. They return to defeat Apocalymon, with ease, and season 1 ends on a happy note.

 

Anyway, I've always liked this concept. Are there any other cartoons, anime, etc. where friendship or virtue themed items are destroyed but the good guys prevail because qualties like kindness, loyalty, etc. are really indestructible?

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Sonic Adventure and its Chaos Emeralds.

Chaos, which is the game's big bad god of destruction, completely absorbs their power, turning them from spectrum-colored gems to dull, dark-gray stones. Heroes start to show good feelings towards each other, explaining that the true power comes from positive emotions, and finally the whole town joins the cheerup, re-charging the gems.

Hell, I've even

a mashup to show how incredibly similiar the game's plot is to S01E02. Or was it the other way around. Edited October 30, 2012 by Sepraxian

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Sonic Adventure and its Chaos Emeralds.

Chaos, which is the game's big bad god of destruction, completely absorbs their power, turning them from spectrum-colored gems to dull, dark-gray stones. Heroes start to show good feelings towards each other, explaining that the true power comes from positive emotions, and finally the whole town joins the cheerup, re-charging the gems.

Hell, I've even

a mashup to show how incredibly similiar the game's plot is to S01E02. Or was it the other way around.

 

That was pretty cool. Maybe I'll do something similar with Digimon and MLP footage in the future.

 

Here's an interesting little crossover I found on Deviantart. http://sailorsun546.deviantart.com/art/MLP-DIGI-Heros-of-Kindness-301132216?offset=5#comments

 

I forgot what the crest of kindness looks like. It's quite possible that the design of Fluttershy's mane is based on it.