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List Of Allusions to My Little Pony
The following is a comprehensive of the allusions to previous generations of My Little Pony that can be found in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic which is the fourth generation of the franchise. The allusions used are often very broad, and can range from reuse of names and storylines from previous generations, to visible or in dialogue refferences. MLP:FIM should be viewed as a completly seperate storyline to previous generations (unless stated otherwise by the writers) and the refferences should be viewed as simple homages rather than evidence that all generations share a world. This is a growing list, and will updated as more research develops.

The Original Main Characters
Originally, the six main ponies in Friendship is Magic were planned to be Lauren's own version of her six favorite ponies from the first generation, as some of the episodes were based on her own fanfictions staring them, that were conceived at a young age. The concept failed, due to copyright problems, but the plan was for My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic to feature Twilight, Applejack, Firefly, Posey, Suprise, and Glory as main characters. However, out of the six ponies, only Applejack was able to be reused, with Twilight being given a last name as a compromise. The remaining four ponies, however, had been lost to copyright meaning that they had to replaced with four new ponies, (Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity) all of which shared their names with ponies from the third generation, but Lauren gave them all "pieces of the original ponies' personalities that she liked" while some of their third generation personalities also remained intact, while others were removed.

Many other ponies (that aren't part of the of the main six) also "return" in Friendship is Magic albeit in name only, but serve as a homage to the previous generations. It should be noted, that only the ponies who have been named by Lauren or any of the other writers count as officiall