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{{NT|the character, [[Death of the Endless]]}}

Given the child-friendly nature of the series, one may not expect '''death''' to be a major concept in the brands history. However, mortality and death have been recurring concepts throughout the series, since the early days, typically ranging from from ambiguous deaths to the very few on-screen deaths.

 

Unlike most toyetic series, deaths in ''My Little Pony'' usually are not done for marketing reasons, or at least not overtly so (death of a character usually translates into a new, more favorable character or the chance for the dead character to return with a new form, and thus a new toy) but is often done for backstory or dramatic purposes. Most deaths in the series are implied only, but there have also been instances of characters exclaiming phrases that mentions words like death, dead, kill, etc. There have also been instances of villains threatening to murder others, but these are relatively rare.

 

===Generation 1===

====''My Little Pony'' cartoon====

* Near the end of the second half, Tirac tries to enact the eternal night by unleashing the [[Rainbow of Darkness]] upon the world, but his darkness is countered by the light. In doing so, Tirac dies, causing all his dark country to cease to be.

 

In "[[Applejack's Amazing Adventure]]", she struck the [[Jewel Throne]] with such force that it cracked opened and opened a crack that went as far as the "ends of the earth", causing the [[Jewel Wizard]] to fall down it and presumably die.

 

[[King Sombra]] has, according to various accounts, suffered death on multiple occasions. His defeat by [[Princess Celestia]] and [[Princess Luna]] left him as a disembodied shadow, in which form he spent a millennium in captivity. Shortly after his escape, the [[Crystal Heart]] restored his body, shortly before it channeled the light and love of the [[Crystal Pony|Crystal Ponies]] to shatter him. {{FIM|Grogar}}-or so [[Grogar (Discord)|he claimed]]-later apparently restored Sombra to life, but this too was brief.

 

In {{C|FIM|2|''The Return of Queen Chrysalis'' - Part II}}, a map is shown depicting two graveyards.

 

In "[[The Fall of Sunset Shimmer]]", several books containing implied death contents were shown, such as the [[Haunting of Hill Horse]], [[Condestoga Cannibalism]], [[Infamous Cemeteries of Equestria]], [[Soylent Green Recipes]], etc.

 

In an alternate dimension, [[Stygian (Corrupted Universe)|Stygian]] proclaimed that [[Flash Magnus]] and [[Rockhoof]] both died, with Rockhoof having an accident in his towns volcano. He also claimed that he killed his universes [[Starswirl the Bearded]]{{Storylink|Legends of Magic Annual 2018}} [[Daybreaker]] later revealed that she and Stygian had killed [[Nightmare Moon (Eris' dimension)|Nightmare Moon]] after she rebelled against the Pony of Shadows.{{Storylink|Nightmare Knights issue 4|Nightmare Knights #4}}

 

Though never explicitly stated, [[Princess Eris]]'s entire motivation is to destroy the world from the inside by causing the most destructive of chaos, which would undoubtedly cost at least some ponies their lives.{{Storylink|Nightmare Knights issue 1|Nightmare Knights #1}}

 

==Suicide==

==See also==

* [[Cannibalism]]

* [[Ghosts]]

* [[Zombies]]