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Dragon Quest (March 17th 2012, 22 minutes)

Summary: Spike joins the Great Dragon Migration to find himself.

The title may be a reference to popular console RPG series, but I can find no connection between the stories.

The Great Dragon Migration takes place only once in a generation. Twilight has been called out before for temporal exaggeration leading to Granny Smith being hundreds of years old, so I don't know how much stock to put into this. However, it is definitely an event meaning that dragons do 'flock' occasionally and move as a group from one territory to another.

And yes, there is such a thing as a butterfly migration. Usually it's species by species, not one big lump of all butterflies. Also, butterflies usually migrate in one direction only, as they simply don't live long enough. It will be the next generation that will migrate back again.

Fluttershy seems to have... well, it's technically not a phobia, as it's a perfectly reasonable fear. It's more that the rest of the Mane 6 have a lack of perfectly reasonable fear. I'm not sure there's a good term for this, as most 'lack of fear' words are positive, and I'm looking for a negative.

A variety of camo hats. Including a WW2 military helmet with netting used to hold silhouette-breaking foliage. The modern versions of that helmet that I have seen have less brim.

Technically, I've seen modern digital camo patterns that are as bright as what Rarity is wearing. But they are meant for urban camo, not for trenches.

And yet Twilight doesn't feel the need to ask Celestia? There should be some record of where Spike's egg came from, even if it was a donation from somewhere else. If nothing else, Celestia would know who to ask. Okay, given that Celestia seems habitually incapable of giving a straight answer, that may not be that productive, but still.

Mountain goats, used as a mode of transport, but it looks like Spike *asked* which means they're intelligent enough to agree. And a donkey running a raft service.

Plus two phoenix. myth logically there's only supposed to be one phoenix, but again there was only one Minotaur and one Pegasus.

'Teenage' dragons. This is showing that the dragons do have a society. It may only kick in once in a while as dragons are normally anti-social. Which would mean that the behavior of these young dragons is not 'teenage' but is simply how dragons treat each other. The adult dragons seem to be studiously ignoring the younger ones.

Dragon breath is different colors, much like unicorn magic auras.

Well, there's one other dragon without wings. They did make an issue out of it previously, so I'm not sure if that's meaningful or not. We don't see that dragon again, and I'm not sure how he is participating in the migration.

Dragons are highly resistant to heat, it seems. Likely this is the equivalent of a 'Polar Bear Swim' and is something used as a challenge rather than a regular pastime.

Out of curiosity, these dragons seem to be presented as typical teenage males, given the voices. Are any of them actually female?

Pretty eggs, really.

Phoenix have a special 'flare' ability that can blind the dragons.

And all that just to smash the egg? If this is the equivalent of a college panty raid, the egg should be displayed as a trophy. Otherwise, eating the egg would be more appropriate.

That's pretty sad that Spike had to add himself into some of those pictures.