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Its safe to assume they do. Even though the illustrations seem to suggest that many ponies lack hooves, while others like the stock horse pony types like Big MacIntosh clearly do, they are there apparently. And yes for the umpteenth time ponies and other equines in Equestria can indeed wield objects with their forehooves without the assistance of magic or any other supportive means.

Or you know its just animators being animators. Deliberately ambiguous and/or lazy for the sake of it. I'm just glad its not like Winnie the Pooh. They're about as grade school redneck as you can get.

Silly mortal concepts like war and death don't just magically disappear. But let's allow the writers of Supernatural to elaborate on what I said earlier: The things the Horseman represent in pestilence, famine and war are like forces of natures and are states that humans experience all the time. So it isn't as though when Lucifer comes on the scene he brings these monsters with him that are unleashed that we haven't been experiencing the effects of throughout history. It's more that he gathers them to him. – Sera Gamble, Supernatural: The Official Companion Season 5 You simply can't destroy a concept, only perhaps what it represents. This is what effectively makes Discord truly immortal, unlike the Princesses. You can't "destroy" discord, not unless you can alter reality and the laws of reality perhaps. Discord is the personification of well...discord. Also as far as we're concerned, Equestria still is subject to the Four Horsemen's influence like anyone else, just not in a concentrated potent form. People still argue and fight whether trivially as with Applejack vs Rainbow Dash or Rarity or in bigger conflicts like in Over a Barrel or A Canterlot Wedding. They're still prone to disease and forces and enemies like King Sombra and Chrysalis trying to subdue and influence others. They still rely heavily upon one another for food and have basic and personal desires like we do too, especially seen with the Cutie Mark Crusaders and all the Mane 6. And yes even the looming force of Death presides over Equestria like anywhere else, balancing out life everywhere and briefly hinted by the funeral and coffin in Hearts and Hooves Day. As far as the elements are concerned, you're spot on. As long as anyONE is capable of loyalty, laughter, honesty, kindness, generosity and the magic of friendship they can't be destroyed. Bear in mind that it was Spike who helped save Crystal Empire and not the Mane 6 so I don't think you have to be a pony to wield the elements.

This is basically what PIPA, SOPA, and all their incarnations have been trying to do. A large part of why the fandom has been able to do what it has is Lauren Faust embracing the periphery fandom aka brownies. Also YouTube selling out.

OMG Fluttershy's a bloodthirsty carnivore! ROOOARR!!!! Well aside from that particular scene and a few others, MLP: FIM is known for its very "kid friendly" themes, which include a lack of blood, swearing, and obviously overtly blatant sex themes among other things. Unfortunately its neither consistent nor reasonable at times, considering their censoring of Derpy, questionable episode morals and role models, and equally overt and blatant examples of racism and bigotry that sadly have far reaching implications or aren't sufficiently addressed. Vegetarianism is one of those interesting areas that drew my attention. Not just ponies it seems, but also other sentient creatures seem to avoid the consumption of meat. Dragons might very likely consume meat, but the show successfully dodges that bullet by showing that the likes of Spike have a fond taste for gems and minerals. The show even manages to successfully avoid the discussion of alcohol by having ponies get drunk off salt instead: I guess that's the Equestrian version of the Salty Spitoon. Ponies of course are by no means pure herbivores. Not counting meat, they've consistently been shown to consume eggs and dairy products, among other things. A lot of fanfiction writers seem to gloss over this point, which boggles me. Apparently its so shockingly wrong for Twilight and co to realize that humans or any other species or society like Griffons kill and eat meat. Yet its perfectly fine for the ponies that they apparently round up certain animals and exploit them for their own gain, including food production. Let's just see the wiki's analysis of how Fluttershy, the Element of Kindness, treats her chickens: Domesticated chickens are seen for the first time in the episode Fall Weather Friends. Applejack and Rainbow Dash needed to escort a few baby chickens through the mud pile to the other side as one of the tasks of Iron Pony competition. In Applejack's case, they run away because too much mud was splattering on them, whereas Rainbow Dash safely carried them while protecting the chickens from mud with her wings. These farmland birds play a more prominent role in Stare Master. When they refused to go to chicken coop for sleep, Fluttershy "convinced" them to do so with her stare. Yes, kindness my ass, pardon my Equestrian. That's nothing short of coercion and duress to some otherwise helpless chickens. I'm not trying to be a bleeding hippie here, but that's not only rather hypocritical of the Element of Kindness, also considering she's supposed to be good with animals, but its a bit inconsistent with the show's vegan animal friendly theme. Of course if that were just all there was to vegetarianism on the show that would be the end of that controversy. But unfortunately it isn't. You also have characters like Daisy Jo the intelligent talking cow: And they're being rounded up, herded and ignored as if they were just slaves farm animals. Then of course you have questionable scenes like this: I'm not even stepping into the territory of mules, yet but really. I don't know who I'm angrier at for this sanctimonious duplicity, the ponies for consistently behaving like they live in a racially pure bubble, or Hasbro and the writers who make the ponies preach morals like friendship, kindness and understanding, tolerance and then pull of stuff like this and crass mule jokes (let's not forget this is from the same show that also tries to teach about race and stereotyping in society). It would be one thing to treat farm animals like "farm animals" for example, if they were portrayed as such. Its a whole different concept and standard though when those same animals can talk and interact intelligibly. Believe me too when I say I'm being critical. I am a big Applejack fan and yet despite that I find many of her interactions with other characters and species questionable. Coming from a show that seems so strongly concerned about promoting its image and "values" at times there really is a lotta horse shit that's smeared our ways at times. So much for promoting vegeterianism.

Not too old to still be liking pie apparently. If he ever came to our world, I'd gladly take him to chow down at the local Marie Calendars.

Seriously. A lot of these people don't even watch the show or base their judgment of the show off of a few minutes or even seconds of what they saw or heard. Give something a chance even if you might not initially like it. If I can put up with the Call of Duty and Modern Warfare gearheads and Family Guy then you should be able to put up with MLP: FIM. No one's asking them to embrace or love the show, let alone like it. Just stop being such flaming haters. This is how wars begin. Oh the stupidity of humans at times.

Why my dear fellow the same way that Lyra holds a drink. All kidding aside though, we really do have to suspend logic for a moment, at least that of the human world. Aside from the fact that magic exists in the realm that Equestria's in, equines and other sentient creatures are capable of speech and advanced society, we also have to consider that equine anatomy is not compatible to equine anatomy as we know it. That's considering the fact that ponies in MLP, FIM can bend their limbs in ways far beyond what ponies in our world could do. But just looking at the Royal Guards I think its pretty definitive that ponies, and very possibly other sentient creatures are capable of grasping objects with their forelimbs alone. Notice there the Royal Guards hold the spears in their forehooves, without the aid of any additional limbs, handles, or magic. Based upon that and numerous other canon examples, it should be safe to say that ponies can wield an object like a sword with their forelimbs alone.

Upon revisiting this subject I myself had a profound revelation. The Sonic Rainboom itself wasn't necessarily what brought the Mane 6 together. It may have very well just been a consequence. While Fluttershy herself may not have been the direct cause of the events playing out she played a significant role alongside Rainbow Dash. Had Rainbow never intervened or met a person like Fluttershy, the whole concept of a Sonic Rainboom may never have played out the way it did, and she could have very well become a bully like the other pegasi and Gilda. Fluttershy's inherent kindness and sensitivity, which led to others bullying her, prompted the loyalty of a friend like Rainbow to stand up for Fluttershy. The rainboom helped inspire happiness and joy in Pinkie Pie that later spreads beyond Ponyville, make Applejack realize what she honestly and sincerely desires, allows Rarity to realize and spread her generosity and hospitality, and helps awaken the magic in Twilight that leads her to find her friends. Really I'm not sure the writers even realized it when they wrote Cutie Mark Chronicles, but the overall theme is in the title of the show itself My Little Pony, Friendship is Magic. I guess it should be expected that the poster mare of the show had key roles to play along with the one character that singelhandedly subdued a Dragon, Manticore, Cerberus and Discord: They make such a handsome couple.

A unicorn that isn't good with magic or prefers hands on manual labour. We've seen this with Fluttershy and Pinkie as being very unique. IIt'd be great to see that approach with a unicorn. What can I say? I love contrast and FIM does a great job highlighting those traits.