Fanfic Cliches You Hate?

[Castle Bleck 19,330]

In addition:

Turning the ponies to complete jerks: Racism/Speciesm/Rape/Slavery

 

Do you want me to hate ponies??

 

That one also correlates with the "heat season" thing I mentioned on page 1.

[Chill Mists (Chilly) 801]

That one also correlates with the "heat season" thing I mentioned on page 1.

What's wrong with heat season? It'd make sense for ponies to reproduce that way since real life ponies do. Lauren stated that Equestrians reproduce via normal mammalian reproduction, so it's entirely possible that they'd go into heat. 

Edited January 29, 2014 by Chill Mists (Chilly)

[Castle Bleck 19,330]

What's wrong with heat season? (...)

 

The fact that said fic most likely turns into an orgy / gang-rape.

 

And when it does, I abruptly click out of there and die inside a little more.

Edited January 29, 2014 by Anti-Villain

[Chill Mists (Chilly) 801]

The fact that most of said fics turn into orgies.

Shouldn't it have been clear that you were reading porn stories?

[Castle Bleck 19,330]

Shouldn't it have been clear that you were reading porn stories?

 

Many of them give no indications in the descriptions.

 

Heck, one MLP/Mario crossover I read on FanFiction.net was rated K (family-friendly), and it ended with... SOMBRA X BOWSER!!!

Edited January 29, 2014 by Anti-Villain

[Megas 27,567]

Humans in Equestria or Human turned ponies

Crappy OCs

Orphan and depressed Scootaloo, make the poor girl happy for once

Canon character X OC, this just comes off as a self insert

Edited January 29, 2014 by Megas75

[Castle Bleck 19,330]

Humans in Equestria or Human turned ponies

Crappy OCs

Orphan and depressed Scootaloo, make the poor girl happy for once

 

Those are my sentiments exactly.

[RainbowDashington 89]

Shipping... The most overdone thing I've seen in my short, dear life. I can't read most fanfics anymore because of shipping (most shippings each have like 100 other stories with that same pairing). Like 99% of them, it's just 

Edited January 29, 2014 by RainbowDashington

[Courageous Thunder Dash 7,824]

1. Trying to be overdramatic

2. Celestia and Luna as tyrants

[Castle Bleck 19,330]

1. Trying to be overdramatic

2. Celestia and Luna as tyrants

 

1. I swear, it's like Tommy Wiseau or someone takes over a lot of these.

2. I've seen some Tyrant!Lunas (Post-NMM!), and they're just as facepalmworthy as the Tyrant!Celestias.

Edited January 29, 2014 by Anti-Villain

[Courageous Thunder Dash 7,824]

@,

 

Yes, a lot of the gorefics tend to be overdramatic, which is why they're most hated.  

[GreyScholar 1,584]

* Any fanfiction that 'labels' Rainbow Dash as a lesbian (which I consider cliche) and wastes time explaining she only likes mares. If you want her paired with one of her friends or another mare that's fine but please don't go with a stereotype.

 

* Any fanfiction involving the idea of the Solar Empire and Lunar Republic, especially Celestia's made out to be the villain and a tyrant.

 

* Any fanfiction that feeds the ideas of Tyrant Celestia or Trollestia, and Molestia if actually used for Celestia.

 

Any fanfiction that involves Discord being a misunderstood good guy, made him friends of Celestia and Luna, or pairs him up with either of them as a couple... expecially Celestia.

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Also I must agree when it comes to having an alicorn OC. There has only been a single exception to this, the only current example of an alicorn OC I actually like and believe was done well.

 

Nyx of Past Sins, partly because technically... she's not in OC. There is actually more to it than that, such as the author successfully selling such a character to me. His explanation for her existence was acceptable to me, unlike most where such a character is related to one of the royal sisters or an alicorn 'just because'.

Edited January 29, 2014 by EquestrianScholar

[Castle Bleck 19,330]

(...)

 

Any fanfiction that involves disk or being a misunderstood good guy, make some friends of Celestia your Luna, or pairs him up with either of them as a couple... expecially Celestia.

(...)

 

 

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"..."

 

"...Oh, for goodness's sake!"

 

 

 

 

 

"...P.S.,

" Edited January 29, 2014 by Anti-Villain

[GreyScholar 1,584]

-pointing out mistake

Sighs, seems when I'm using my phone I always make some sort of mistake or another.

 

I will fix it

Seems there are a number mistakes littering my post.

Edited January 29, 2014 by EquestrianScholar

[Blackcat 205]

4. Human protagonist = Power Nullifier:

 

"Earth has no magic, so that automatically makes my human OC a walking Kryptonite in Equestria."

 

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...So, no neat magical effects on your OC... ever?

 

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Hah, I've actually seen a story that was the direct opposite of this. In it humans were naturally as gifted with magic as unicorns, but earth was totally drained of magical energies. Get one of those humans into Equestria though, and they could be a wizard with effort.

[Imeshovy 19]

One thing that quite annoys me. Making Mane6 shipping with themselves. C'mon, they're just friends. I also have group of close friends. Is it necessary to ship us cuz we're close friends? xD

Equestria is a giant world. There are some stallions that could be shipped with someone from Mane6. You can create an OC and ship him with f.e. Applejack. Shippings like TwiDash, ApplePie are quite... unoriginal and nonsensical for me :V .

I also don't like term "lavender unicorn" used for Twilight Sparkle. But it's just mine little and weird objection ^^.

[Page.Turner 940]

• Coffee Shop AU's
• High School AU's
• Lack of character development (especially if there are more than 3 chapters)
• Chapters that are only 3 paragraphs long
• Alicorn OC's for the sake of being OP
• Usurping Celestia/Luna's thrones
• Utilizing "he/she said" after every piece of dialogue
• Adult blank flanks (I have never seen it done originally or even good)
• Mane Six futa ponies...
• Making any canon pony hyper sexual at all
• Making Spike sexual (he's a BABY dragon!!!!)
• Crossovers. Never liked them D:
• Human turned pony
• The "next generation mane 6" plot
• Unicorns and Earth Ponies with steampunk wings
• Unwarranted shipping (Example: my oc is a pitch black unicorn with crimson red hair and red eyes with no originality! He and Luna are now lovers because she sees within him a wretched soul that she wants to comfort and tame because he's tragic)

Annnnd the list could go on forever.

[Irish Mist 119]

• Psycho character (aka. Cupcakes) I get it, you're crazy, but geez, give us at least a believable reason. 

Text book length descriptions of anything gory or kinky. 

Poor grammar. 

"It was a dark and stormy night." 

Alicorns, alicorns everywhere.

[RED20 289]

One time I saw this fanfiction about Rainbow Dash becoming human, and landing in this dudes backyard. Then he touches her boobs. And that's pretty much it. 

[Castle Bleck 19,330]

One time I saw this fanfiction about Rainbow Dash becoming human, and landing in this dudes backyard. Then he touches her boobs. And that's pretty much it. 

 

Oh, my God, the canon RD's reaction would be High Octane Nightmare Fuel:

 

Edited January 29, 2014 by Anti-Villain

[RainbowDashington 89]

Brilliant thread if I must say so.  

Would having your OC being related to anypony on the show count? I've seen a few stories with Rainbow Dash or Fluttershy have some brother/sister that 'no one ever knew.'

[Moost 164]

All these emo OC's. Especially the ones made in Pony creator on deviant art.

Also anthro just creeps me out.

[Castle Bleck 19,330]

All these emo OC's. Especially the ones made in Pony creator on deviant art.

Also anthro just creeps me out.

 

I've seen approximately 30 Sasuke Uchihas and 20 Darth Mauls so far.

 

Anthro art? Good, good. Anthro fics? ...Not so much...

[Moost 164]

I've seen approximately 30 Sasuke Uchihas and 20 Darth Mauls so far.

 

Anthro art? Good, good. Anthro fics? ...Not so much...

Especially when the anthros have sex. I don't mind generic looking OC's with normal colors etc and ones that actually have a background. But all these horrible emo OCs just make MLP depressing and dark.

[M'aiq the Liar 5,804]

1. Dark edgy pasts, it seems like everyone and their mother had their parents die, their village burned down, and they have some kinda curse.

2. existing for the sole purpose of "interaction" with show characters, I don't mind stories about background pone, but your OC+rainbow dash in some sort of love escapade is not only very common, but not even entertaining to read.

3. universe crossovers, unless it is done VERY well, and seems like it could fit with the shows cannon (ie someone from Faerun void walking into equestria by accident.), they always seem like a hamfisted LOOK I LEIK DOCTUR WHUUU! type crossover. 

4. stories designed to generate "feels", like my little dashy, you could see the ending from the title alone, and the human in the story did not learn anything, nor did he have any character progression. The whole thing felt like some one took a green text story in a feels thread, and made it into a mini movie.