SilverStarApple

Who are those last few, besides Princess Flurry Heart? Also, you forgot Erroria.

It's possible that she may have a problem. And also the ability to have Spike mine rare gems for free and transport them back to her home, where she can sew them into gem-coated outfits and sell them to rich idiots. All that money at little to no cost would likely add up very quickly.

You can still show your soldiers as competent without needing to get them dunked upon by every villain ever just to make your heroes look competent. These redshirts only seem to exist to be Worfed, and it's never impressive because we know it's coming.

Obviously. I was asking for in-universe explanations, a simple "It needs to be that way because of the writing" is boring. Eeyup. It's not really an anarchy, more of a- Oh. You said it first. Yes, the cities having autonomy isn't anarchy. Celestia and the others rule over Canterlot and the country as a whole, but each town has its own people who rule the place and take responsibility for its day to day decisions. If there's a drought in city Z, that place's ruler gets yelled at, or has a duty to yell at whoever's fault it is, not Celestia. As for militias, seraphs (My browser refuses to accept Cowboy Town Boss as a real word), and other heroes, that's due to Equestria lacking the unnecessary laws forbidding heroism that only exist to make the police the final judge and only controllers of justice, and make them look good because there's nothing to compare them to. We see them getting rekt in the battle. The actual effective fighters are all protagonists and minor characters. I want to say no to this, because this show isn't usually the type to stick a weak male sidekick on a cool female character to make her seem cooler in comparison or whatever. Then again, remember Brotherhooves Social, when Rainbow Dash said to Big Mac "I won't take it easy on you just because you're a stallion"... are males discriminated against in Equestria even more than they are in this world? Are female horses better/faster than males? Is it because herds IRL are often ruled by mares and the matriarchy is strong there? Or does Rainbow Dash just have a subtle female>male prejudice when it comes to physical stuff, due to being a Pegasus and how often the stupid "Females are faster, lighter, and more agile in the air, while males are stronger, have bigger wings, and can fly longer and break through stuff in the air without needing to be zipping around at top speed to do so" thing that keeps showing up in fanfics? Yeah, that makes sense. I know a few people online in the military, and it's more "Do what your boss says and nothing more. Yes, even if you think you can secure the objective better than what your glory-hound idiot boss tells you to do. This is Advance Wars and you are his Infantry, if you move without him telling you to move you will be deleted and replaced with another one".

The royal guards suck, and lose every battle they're in in canon. They canonically lost the capital of the country WHILE ON HIGH ALERT in under an hour, and only won thanks to a Deus Ex Machina boom from Shining Armour and Cadence. And in the War Equestrias, we don't see any canonical royal guards from this world. Ever. Except in the sombra war world, where they're in non-combat military police roles and the real fighters are the protagonists. So... why do the royal guard suck major eggs?

They're either going to make her a vehicle for generic adorable moments, a hollow shell filled with nothing but burbling and being petted... A thing to be kidnapped by Chrysalis, A superpowerful laser-blasting baby, a generic machine of destruction that destroys stuff and is generally a metaphor for how much of a life-changing life-disrupting event giving birth is, Or they'll slowly have her fade into the background while providing a reason why her equally merchandise-driven parents do the same.

Yeah, it has. Also, you're not the only one that'd like seeing Giraffes. I bet they'd be cool. I just hope they don't go the Deer route, Deers suck.

Twilight Sparkle, obviously. Magic is useful on its own, but Time Magic is a whole new level of useful, as is the spell that makes temporary replicas of yourself, and it opens up so many possibilities. Also, having a friend as smart as me (Or smarter) would be awesome.

Only if they added new characters with personalities as good as the mane six. All these "Would you watch a show with stallions?" threads keep missing the point: It's about the characters. We're not tumblrites, we don't give a flying feather about a character's gender, we like this show because it's well-made and has good characters.