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  1. I have a different theory instead. What if Pinkie Pie was actually just a being that reincarnated into different universes and was just recalling memories from her previous life? Theory: MLP, EQG and our world exists not only in different dimensions but in different times altogether. What if Pinkie Pie only appeared to have these abilities because she actually lived through it? let's say she lived in our world first. She would hear about the MLP series, watch it, think it's funny and go on with the rest of her life. She then dies (old age) and is reborn in the world of EQG, where she remembers her past life and how she would interact with MLP Twilight. Afterwards she too would eventually age and pass on. Finally, when she comes about the MLP universe she realizes she's being watched by the same audience in her previous previous life. It explains why she acts so kooky around the Mane 6, she knows she's on TV! She also knows what's gonna happen and that also explains why she's practically fearless throughout the series. She places items in hidden locations ahead of time for when she needs them in a scene, she invents the party cannon based on knowledge about historical artillery she read while in Canterlot high school, she pranks alongside Rainbow Dash because she knows the concept of trolling from our universe, etc. Remember, the scene where she goes up to Fluttershy and says, "Your auntie Pinkie Pie has it all taken care of." To which Fluttershy replies, "I'm a year older than you." Pinkie Pie actually believes she's older than Fluttershy not by physical age but by mental age. Remember, Pinkie Pie may act weird but if you think about it hard enough she's eccentric only because she's lived several lifetimes over the course of her existence. She's probably more all-knowing than powerful. Her abilities make her quite capable of knowing things that not even we could comprehend but in a stand off fight she wouldn't have much of an advantage.
  2. I agree, the Snips and Snails of EQG was very inaccurate to their personality. Many of the characters in the show remained the same but why is it that Snips and Snails go from being ignorant colts to arrogant bullies? I always saw the two as naive kiddos with good intentions, but never outright malicious. I just assumed that given their age boost, that somewhere they were bullied a lot by other kids. As a result, they reacted by becoming bullies themselves when they got older. That's just a guess though. The worst part is that this is never explained. Are we to assume that Snips and Snails were just plain evil in the human universe? Or did SS convince them somehow to do whatever she says? Might as well have called them Slap and Stick.
  3. No it wouldn't be the end per say, but I'd be more inclined to believe that Equestria would have a very tough time combating against any future villains. The mane 6 have been involved in all the major threats to ponykind, which makes them somewhat of a national elite police force. Threat comes in, they get called in to respond, threat is neutralized, job well done girls, go home/celebrate. They still are essential to the defense of Equestria though regardless. I honestly thought when I first heard of Sharknado that it was a big joke, that was until I actually saw it. I have never seen such a movie so bad that it's so good, it almost reached "The Room"'s level of silliness. Speaking of sharks, SS turning into a demon was the point where I felt the movie jumped the shark. I was willing to buy alot of things about this movie as it really was created more so as an obligation rather than an actual desire to further the story of MLP, but I kept thinking about funny it would be if other characters used the crown instead. If evil intentions turned you into a demon and good intentions a pony-human hybrid, what if you had a laid back approach? 10 bucks you would turn into the Jeff Lebowski, after all he is the Dude. Oh don't worry, I'm sure the kind fellers at 4Chan can provide that type of content. It is the infamous Rule 34.
  4. Good question, but that would mean Twilight would have been acting pretty out of character (out of her mind crazy) for her to run into a school full of her peers with a gun or any weapon of that sort. Not to mention I doubt Hasbro would allow that to be included for a movie that's rated E for everyone. For one thing, she probably doesn't even know about the concept of firearms since it's a piece of technology never introduced in Equestria, so how would she really know about it in the first place much less know how to fire one? More accurately it would have made more sense for her just to do what SS did to her, steal the crown back and switch it for a fake one. Since she didn't do that or voice reasons why it wasn't a great idea, your point does stand about her just taking the crown and leaving ASAP.
  5. @, True, but for Pinkie Pie to know that means that this legend has been circulating for some time. I doubt that her family member would only tell her and then never mention it again. Some ponies would have been curious enough to have sought it out, assuming that these rumors were passed onto a significant population of ponies (say 1 out of 100 ponies decide to follow up with this rumor). What happened to them? What if some of the ponies weren't unicorns like Pinkie. Did they try to kill their duplicate once they found out that the mirror actually works? Oh Celestia, the horror! As for the duplication replacement idea, yeah it seems farfetch that the duplicate would actively replace you. If you think about it though, say the mane 6 missed a single duplicate (isn't hard to consider since Pinkie has abilities that allows her to teleport to the weirdest locations such as fruit stands and loofah baskets). Said duplicate decides that Ponyville isn't for her and moves elsewhere in Equestria, where nopony knows her, in search of fun. Years later, if duplicate Pinkie dies wouldn't it be freaky to discover in the newspaper that elemental bearer Pinkie Pie is dead only to see her alive and still hanging around Ponyville? I'd probably be scared knowing a copy of myself, bearing the exact identity, existed and did things without my knowledge only to discover "I" apparently made friends or worse, enemies with ponies I don't even know. This episode was fun if you took it at face value, but it did scare me once I realized the implications as I got a drink of water 4 hours later. I watched the episode again to see if I was just reading too deep into it and it just frightened me even more.
  6. I thought this episode was quite scary. The story seemed solid but it just gave me huge cases of fridge horror. List of horrible implications: 1) This mirror pool could have been used multiple times before Pinkie Pie's attempt. It's not like it was incredibly difficult for Pinkie to find and the legend sounds like it's pretty common knowledge. How many times has this pool been used and are the duplicates still alive? Do the duplicates still live in Ponyville or other areas in Equestria? 2) The mirror pool makes immortality possible, in a cloning sense. Ponies and their duplicates can make copies of themselves in case one of them dies or gets incapacitated. Clone can then replace said pony and carry on without others really knowing about it. 3) Pinkie Pie herself. No, I'm not talking about the weird horse face one of her duplicates make. I'm referring to their behavior during paint watching. If Pinkie's duplicates are exactly like her, then it means that she has no sense of self-preservation. Her duplicates literally see each of them slowly get shot out of existence (due to Twilight's magic) and don't bat an eye to that, instead they continue getting distracted and die in what I would imagine a horrible death. Makes you really re-consider Pinkie's giggle at the ghosties scene and really wonder whether Pinkie laughs because she's courageous or that she's completely ignorant. 4) What would happen to Ponyville if all the Pinkies lapsed into depressive, sociopaths? *shudders* 5) With that much paint drying in an enclosed space, wouldn't all the ponies inside be inhaling paint fumes? I'd imagine all of them or at least Twilight, who is standing closest to the paint wall, would be suffering from dizziness, eye irritation, cardiovascular problems, headaches. I've got plenty more on my list, but these are the ones that freaked me out the most.
  7. It's less on the whole bluff and more on the reality of the threat and Twilight's logic. Threat: SS would smash the portal unless Twilight gave her the crown. Reality: Hammer would pass through the portal, probably smashing head first into one of the mane 5 on the other side. Ouch. Bluff: Twilight says her universe would be alright without her. The human universe needs her here to fight SS. Reality: Without her, the elements of harmony would be useless and any foreseeable threat would be met unchallenged, putting Equestria into further jeopardy. Twilight would have been smart enough to realize the futility of the threat first, considering she is the nerdy girl. It's like a rolling derp derp moment. Twilight should have just interrupted with a renegade action, throwing a buttload of muffins at her face! That would have made more sense and it would have been more entertaining. Following your train of thought, The bigger question would be how SS procured a sledge hammer in the first place? I don't think those are common tools you would find in a high school of all places and we saw nothing of construction or renovation going on in the school. That and how she managed to acquire it that fast between the time of Twilight winning the crown and chasing Snip & Snail to the school entrance.
  8. It's been done before in a sense that the mane 6, Twilight included, have been corrupted by a main villain, ie Discord. The only change now is that Twilight is an alicorn, a powerful being with the title of princess. It doesn't change the fact that Twilight can be coerced, bribed, persuaded, and belittled. In many ways she can be corrupted, not that it would be easy. There are multiple ways she could turn to the dark side, it's just whether or not it would be sense to do this again. Discord had already broken her spirit before, turning her into a depressed, self-loathing gray pony. We've already seen Nightmare Moon being the overtly jealous, evil sorceress. What else could you do for a corrupted character?
  9. Well, if I were to think more big picture I would train Pinkie to be able to use her 4th wall abilities and amazing tracking skills to spawn amazing bakery items from cupcakes to thick, hearty breads so that she could personally jump all over the world to feed the hungry, solving world hunger problems. Then in the next phase I use the new found popularity and have her encourage more funding to future MLP episodes and spin-offs so that we could all enjoy and learn the magic of friendship. Then I'd convince to break the forth wall, create a portal to bring all her pony friends over, and find a secluded island in the pacific where we could create a little trading town where people could come party and create a sustainable economy by making it an amazing tourist attraction where people can come and enjoy Pinkie's parties and other events.
  10. It's the internetz, where everypony is free to state their opinions. This is a digital land where trolls exist, flame wars occur every five seconds and where people may take things way too seriously. I like Lauren Faust and I appreciate her works, but at the same time it doesn't hurt to have input from other creative sources. Do I like the newer episodes and movie? not really. Do I still enjoy them just as well? Yeah. One dude posts his opinion and suddenly we lose our crap. Neither one is in the wrong about this. To be honest I'm more concerned about his grammar. "I'm just going to say this, and I mean not offense..." - Adam Bolden I'm sure he meant no offense but yeah, try to at least double check your work before posting something. If you're aiming to burn someone on the internet might as well do it correctly. In fact you don't even need to sound apologetic about it.
  11. Lol, well don't keep us waiting for your reasons. Please inform us why you think Rarity would be paired with PB? I'd like to know, considering I never saw Prince Blueblood make another appearance save for the gala. Rarity wouldn't make a good shipping with Spike because unless there's more to expand on their relationship, Spike's infatuation with Rarity is only in the 'puppy love' stage, hence the physical metaphor of Spike being a dog and Rarity, a human. It's not a mature, passionate love that would make a good example meant for children (IE how someone meets their other, gets to know them, falls in love, and makes that real next step in commitment). If the writers could do it somehow by having Spike truly accept Rarity for all her strengths and flaws then I would say that love could definitely blossom for them. Otherwise, just pair him up with another pony his age whether it's one of the CMC or even a new character. That way there's more to expand on his character development, going from having to get over his crush, to finding somepony else, to learning to know what real love is, etc. There's potential but it just seems that Hasbro or the show's director doesn't want Spike to grow up, at least not that quickly.
  12. Good luck, I hope you get better then. Just make sure your friends are careful about overdoing it, though given by the sounds of it, looks like they've already went too far. Best thing for a cold is bed rest and drinking lots of lukewarm fluids.
  13. Keep in mind a character may appear overpowered if the writers do a bad job of portraying that character. Twilight is very powerful in comparison to other ponies in the MLP universe. That doesn't mean that she is too over powered, it just means that the writers will have to approach her character in a different way in order to show conflict. Remember, regardless of what she has now she is still a pony that suffers from OCD, social awkwardness, fear of rejection/loss, and general anxiety. Trust me, she's got plenty of flaws as well as strengths to her character to make her interesting. If you want to put it into perspective, Celestia, Luna, Discord and possibly fully grown adult dragons are stronger than Twilight in both magic power and finesse. Without her friends, Twilight would lose in a one on one, all out magic battle against any of those mentioned above. One final thing to take note, it seems that if you can injure the horn of a unicorn you could destroy their ability to cast magic. I'm just basing this on the episode of Gabby Gums where Sweetie Belle flicks Rarity's horn in order to cease her magic levitation. It is a possible approach to temporary de-powering her though.
  14. Yeah, I'm guessing there's other factors though to consider. Twilight isn't consistent when it comes to the use of magic, sometimes she's very competent with her spell casting and other times she screws up casting them. Which core are you referring to? I thought the crown was an amplifier and the spell attack from SS the spark. The idea is also banking a lot on Twilight being so natural in magic, which I'm fine with but she has to go through this entire ordeal without any added help save for her human friends, all of which who have no idea on magic. I dunno, it just sounds like Twilight is becoming like a Mary Sue at this point considering she's able to accomplish so much without much to start out with. That and making friends with the human mane 6 and convincing them to help her win the crown within a the span of a day. At this point I'm willing to buy Twilight's amazing magic aptitude over the fact she had to become such close friends that quickly that they would go through all that trouble to help her. Then again everything in this movie is very rushed. On Sunset Shimmer's character, theres too little information on her character apart from the typical alpha bully in the school. No exact reasoning behind her motivations to steal the crown thus far or use the idea of human teenaged army plan. If she ran through the portal as a last minute getaway, I could understand her shoddy planning but it wasn't. She actually planned to go to the other universe from the very beginning. So yeah she could have murdered Twilight or just steal the crown and run away (she had ample opportunity to just switch and teleport out) as far as we know. It's a kids movie though so at least the murder option is out. Assuming Celestia is not omniscient, her flaws would be that she's too soft and kind hearted. In effect she's like a parent, she loves her ponies and wants the best of them but sometimes overlooks somepony's inherent flaws. That also means any potential evil ponies would be able to take advantage of her kindness and exploit that to the max. I'm guessing that's why her judgement was off when Twilight accused fake Cadance of being evil. She just couldn't fathom the thought. However, I just feel that for someone who has the collected knowledge of at least a thousand years, she would at least have the sense to provide adequate security in the castle. Hasn't she experienced attempted assassinations throughout her long life? How come there aren't any counter measures against magic users? Just for somepony who is very experienced, she has a very naive way of handling things. Spike didn't really do much in the movie except be a butt monkey and provide one assist to the game of keep away in the climax. I was kind of mad that he wasn't shown to be more capable than he usually was. Also speaking of characters, why are Snips and Snails working for Sunset? This is never explained. I get that they admired Trixie and wanted to emulate her in some form but the movie makes the two to be outright mean spirited. These two are the ones that should be naive and just child-like in character instead of following SS, taking creepy pictures (I cringed when they did this in the movie) and trashing the dance floor. Supposedly Sunset finding the portal is explained in the MLP comics. I never read it though. I agree that this is a pretty big plothole since it really never was explained in the movie. You could just take it step further and use the portal itself as a plothole. Celestia herself says she has no idea what is on the other side of the portal, which makes it weird to me that she would even allow it to exist, unprotected and unsealed. I mean we could discuss possibilities but again with no explanation any of us could just say she created it, found it, got curious and tested a magic spell, etc. and it wouldn't mean anything because that would beg the question of the existence of other portals. Is it possible she could open up portals to, I dunno, say Ren and Stimpy universe? Monster high? Ben 10? Given that Celestia seemed bored during the conversation with Twilight and how Luna could not discern between an obvious cut and paste photo of Twilight, I'm inclined to say that the two sisters hate their life. I'd take it a step further and say that both Celestia and Luna didn't appear in the climax to stop SS because they were hoping she would blow up the school so they could spare themselves the trouble of running it. Ah well, unless there's a spin off (retconned please), we will never find out.
  15. I'm guessing that teleportation attempt was Twilight having understood the basics of that spell in order for her to be able to cast it and subconsciously rely on her past knowledge to pull through. That, or it was a one in a million fluke. Reason stands is that so far from what we've seen in the shows is that magic manipulation requires a lot studying and practice. Unicorns have their respective private magic schools and universities, Pegasi have their flight camps and academies plus weather training to manipulate clouds, and Earth Ponies have.... school. Given what we know so far, Also keep in mind that while Twilight is a genius/hardworking unicorn, she still has to study the respective spells before she can cast them accurately (examples such as cloud walking spell, giving Rarity artificial wings, etc). So certain spells would be required to learn in order to produce the right effect. That leads me to believe that without other gestures or spells words, the horn requires subtle magic manipulation which requires some sort of memory training. Twilight does have the knowledge of casting spells as a unicorn, but not as a human being. It's like asking Harry Potter to cast magic holding wand between his teeth. I'm sure eventually he'll be able to cast it, but it still takes practice and training that Twilight never received as a human. Otherwise if we went with your reasoning, Twilight would have been able to cast spells as a human regardless of having the crown (amplifier) in the first place because she would have everything (Core, Spark, Knowledge) no matter how 'weak' her core would have been. We don't see that happening though even when she tries initially (couldn't open door with magic). Unless you want to believe that she not only absorbed the blast from SS's magic attack, but also managed to convert it to raw magic for her to use and cast a shield spell within an instant. This is also a lot of explanation for a plot hole. Yeah I can accept that. Celestia does mention that she cannot use the elements herself anymore. Whether or not she is simply lying or telling the truth, for all intents and purposes she cannot utilize the elements. However, she was betting so much on a maybe coming from Twilight in that she had to make 5 other friends who happen to possess the same qualities (genetic and personality) linking them to their respective element and being able to overcome all obstacles to defeat NM. Either the sun princess had amazing foresight or she made one heck of a gamble. I guess she's very hoofdarn lucky then. I think at this point, the whole explanation is coming from a lot of assumptions, which is good but again doesn't change the fact that since the movie or episodes didn't explain it, it still makes it a significant plot hole. I'm sure we could build enough speculative lore but I think we'd be trying to explain this issue until the next nightmare moon festival. On to another thing, doesn't anypony find it weird that Celestia didn't bother covering up the portal or at least putting preventive counter measures so ponies simply don't do exactly what SS did? That was kind of weird to me. Also the fact that Celestia doesn't decide to fix this problem by simply placing the portal where it isn't easily accessible? huh...
  16. I think this may not take off for the sole reason that this would take too much effort on Hasbro's side to gain very little back. If it's free there's no immediate benefit from having to create a new MMO with Oculus Rift compatibility, even if there were ad placements. Hasbro would look at the petition, look at the statements and just dismiss it. My suggestion is to get the licencing agreement from from Hasbro to use their intellectual property. Then have a separate third party developer group create the game. Funding can come from the mlp community via Kick Starter to generate the immediate funds to complete this project and then you can use ad placement as a way to sustain the MMO. That or charge a small monthly membership free to get people to pony it up in the new world. Otherwise, it'll be very difficult to convince any company to do this.
  17. I think it's just the collective works and imaginative creations of a number of people who make out Braeburn as gay. There's generally alot of fanworks turning many characters of any genre or IP into being gay, gender bendered, having eccentric 'tastes', etc. It just so happens that a large number of said works in the mlp community have Braeburn as gay. Not to mention that sexual preferences have never been mentioned or implied in the MLP universe for a good majority of characters, except Twilight thanks to Equestria Girls.
  18. Ok fair enough, if we introduce the magic core theory (energy source + converter = insta-magic!) then that sort of makes sense. I'd even be willing to buy the idea that we could even go by the Harry Potter Universe rules and say that only certain people are capable of magic and the rest are muggles. This would effectively make the human mane 6 all the more special and it wouldn't create more plot holes unless you really wanted to stretch it. The question I would have is if that is the case, given the rules of magic including knowledge of how to use the converter, shouldn't Twilight not know how to use magic in her human form? She spends a lot of screen time faffing about because she has never experienced the use and feel of hands, fingers and toes. She also needs to get used to not having a horn, the usual converter she utilizes to channel magic. How is she able to cast that shield spell so quickly then? Even if we look at the episodes, we see Twilight (super powerful unicorn keep in mind) having to spend at least anywhere from 0.5 to 3 seconds powering up her horn and converting the raw magic to tangible use. Do we just assume the power of friendship created the spell? Or that because she was a super powerful magic user that she can summon a shield without a horn/converter (assuming the crown is just an amplifier)? Even supposedly if Twilight got her hands on a wand, would she know how to use it? Once again, it opens up more questions than answers. I understand you're trying to establish rules for the Equestrian universe, but this movie throws the rules out for a loop. It's good that you're trying to put logic into this though. It's much better than "because it's magic, therefore it doesn't have rules!" kind of argument. ugh. Ok, so wait. Is the crown considered a core, an amplifier or both? I just want to make sure we're on the same page as that. Either way it doesn't explain much about the crown's abilities. If proximity to the crown is an issue, how close does Twilight and her group have to be in order to utilize the crown's powers? In the episodes, we always see the mane 6 wearing the elements in order to use their powers. If Twilight can channel the magic powers from a distance, doesn't this become a plot in and of itself? Also I find it weird that if Sunset Shimmer has an affinity to supposed crown, then why doesn't Celestia? She clearly is the sun goddess and is capable of firing magic white death rays from her horn so why does she not have an affinity? And yes I know she did say in the episodes she wasn't capable of using the elements of harmony but now that we introduced the idea of magic affinity, why can't she at least use the element of magic? It can't be because she's a bad mage or she lacks power, she can lift the freaking sun! She's also the embodiment of good so why not.... my brain hurts. Well the original human Twilight hasn't had the chance to meet the human mane 5, so the idea for a spin off is still out there. Personally I would retcon this before creating the spin off considering there would be continuity plot holes like the portal mirror that opens every 30 days or Sunset Shimmer who is still in the human world despite originally being a pony. Also where's her original human persona? Either option would technically work, either have the elements present in the school somewhere or have the use of the elements have some connection to the magic of friendship. I wouldn't have it connect to Equestria though, again too many plot holes if you were to try and explain that. If it's implied then why did we have the episode of Discord, which required the said embroidery to defeat him? In fact they use that as deterrents to curb his behavior when he is brought back for friendship conditioning courtesy of Fluttershy. Unless we've invoking special rules of cross dimensional loopholes then we're led to believe that the bling bling are more than just representations. In fact I'm more inclined to believe the pieces to be amplifiers, which draws out their power to defeat the evulz, courtesy of Lunas Sorrow. Equestria Girls basically throws a monkey wrench into this logic. I can sort of buy the idea that the other human mane 6 characters brought out the elements from within themselves, but now we have Twilight who already has the crown brought out being able to channel it's magic easily when we can clearly see she is nowhere near wearing said headpiece. So basically my previous post still holds in that either: A ) Twilight doesn't really need the crown if she can channel that energy anyways and that the crown really isn't that important if such were the case (even though it really is in reference to the episodes). Therefore chasing after the crown was pointless. or B ) The crown is an actual magic tool and has no relation to Twilight, therefore Twilight summoning the crown from within is not a symbolic representation of her and that anypony could use it (Sunset Shimmer) rendering Twilight unessential to the mane 6 team. Personally this one is one idea I would not prefer because that makes the elements of harmony not special at all. I will say that for story sake she still had to get the crown anyways if she wanted to keep certain post-villains like Discord in check.
  19. So according to your post the element of magic is essentially an amplifier, which can be wielded and used by anypony not just Twilight. In order for this to work, humans have a certain amount of magic within them in order for the crown to be of any use. That or at least Sunset Shimmer has some magic within her to use the element. That breaks the logic because we're assuming that this world is a parallel human world where magic doesn't exist ergo the humanoids there don't have magic to begin with. Even IF humans had some form of magic in them, the crown wouldn't be able to amplify that much magic from a human being compared to a pony (keeping in mind that Equestria is a world where it is literally saturated in magical energies or at least required to even function given Celestia's sun moving powers). Then again I'm not sure how one measures one's magic power level. My point is that not enough explanation for this still. Now as for the crown, if it was able to recognize Twilight as the better mage wouldn't it have just stopped working? I mean literally in the movie SS just fires a mega blast at Twilight only to have a protective shield spell played out and the mane 6 were all so happy to realize the magic of friendship (their inner magic?) was able to stop the powers of the crown. If the crown had some sort of recognition system in place, why go through all that much trouble? Bah, movie logic! I just thought that Celestia locked the element jewelry pieces so that no one could: A) steal them and hide them (IE Discord's method) B ) tempted to try and sell the pieces (A possible Flim Flam approach, these are the elements of harmony and anypony would have easily recognized them) C) simply misplace them (wouldn't be hard to do, considering this world has diamond dogs that can burrow underground and sky cities) It never occurred to me that anypony could use the element of magic. Otherwise that would render Twilight as unnecessary and then being an element wielder isn't so special anymore. I wonder what that would mean for the other mane characters, yikes. On the idea of Twilight having to get the crown, ok fair enough. It was establish that they did not know Shimmer's motives at the time and that getting the crown was vital. It still kind of irks me though that Celestia didn't try to at least physically seal the mirror (encase the mirror in a large box or at the very least, place the mirror in the basement instead of in a random room in the castle) given how potentially disastrous it could be to have numerous cleaning maids accidentally funneling through to a new world and getting lost. While on the topic of the demoness, if you suddenly transformed into an evil looking creature wouldn't you freak out? I'm surprised SS managed to handle it so well considering she's never used the crown before and given how Twilight doesn't transform like that when she uses the crown I would have at least an inkling suspicion that something was wrong. Spinoff would be a good way to go about it if they wanted to continue this as a series. Though I'd have to ask, wouldn't this just become a modern version of "Doug"? I'm enjoying this discussion. It's fun to talk about something that we both enjoyed watching it enough to debate the flaws. Appreciate it.
  20. @@Dark Horn, Fair enough, I haven't read any of the comics so I'll take a look into it. I'm aware that there's only so much they can do in 25-30 minute cartoon episodes so I understand the use for other mediums like comics or novels to expand the backstories of each character. Still, I'm sure that most villains can be introduced, developed and defeated reasonably well in a cartoon. It's just one of those challenges that story writers face. I did mention Sombra though, albeit it was only a few sentences. Not enough character description about him considering he didn't do much save for just showing up as a gloomy darkness.
  21. HA! That's pretty clever, I never saw thought about that. I was actually leaning towards Discord being a shady government official who is after Canterlot High for it's property. If you think about it, that puts him at odds with Celestia and causes a decent amount of conflict as well. Plus, with all the money and power, he's bound to be somewhat eccentric. I like the horse statue idea though. That sounds much better.
  22. Considering how Sunset never came back with Twilight to the pony universe, she is essentially stuck in Canterlot High for 30 days at least. So my guess is that she learns as much as she can from the main 5 over there then comes back to Equestria. Reason being is that there is literally TWO of her in the human universe. There's no way she could exist there without raising questions about her apparent twin. Also, I don't think anyone much less high schoolers would forgive her for using unknown magical powers, a decent amount of vandalism, and literally mind screwing them into becoming zombies (I know I wouldn't). It doesn't seem like there's much a future for her over there.
  23. Agreed, this movie doesn't need a sequel to try and cover quite a few plot holes. I liked the movie as a whole only because it was a guilty pleasure to see the mane 6 in human forms. Apart from that, a sequel to this story would raise more questions than answers at this point. If anything this movie would make a good prequel, showing more of Sunset's obsession with the mirror and her fall from grace. Her travels through the portal would help establish this movie better and explain a whole lot more. The only downside would be that it wouldn't be following Twilight Sparkle's story, which would make this a spin-off....
  24. True, but where's the fun in that? He could have also just looked back again when he was off screen or maybe he's secretly a ninja who's able to do a covert male gaze? I like the idea of using Rick as his first name, maybe Rick Ninja or Rick Nasty. That way his pony counterpart gets a more fitting name like Slick Ninja or Sick Nasty. I'm surprised no one has pulled out the Rickrolled joke.
  25. Out of all the villains I think Discord should at least be the top number 1 villain out of all of them. Here's my list: 1) Discord 2) Queen Chrysalis 3) Angel Bunny *unofficially 4) Nightmare Moon 5) Sunset Shimmer 6) King Sombra Reasoning: If you think about it, Discord was the only one who actively went against Twilight by attacking the bonds of friendship between the mane 6. He also destroyed their ability to use their elements, set the ponies against one another and caused massive havoc to Ponyville. He was ultimately destroyed due to his hubris and self-proclaimed victory when Twilight managed to unite them again and rainbow blast his body to stone. They also give an extended episode involving him turning over a new leaf and becoming a force of good (not the best way to put it but I'm going by what they said in that episode), which gives him a completed villain arc. I'm hoping we see more of him, even if it's just cameos. Queen Chrysalis attempted a hostile take over via infiltration and invasion, which didn't focus on the mane 6. It was more that the mane 6 happened to be there when it occurred thereby making them high profile targets due to proximity. The changeling does get more screen time and we could get an understanding of her motives and why she targeted Canterlot in the first place. She was only defeated by Shining Armor and Cadance, so in a way she is a good villain but not to the mane 6. A sort of plus and minus depending on how you look at it. Nightmare Moon was the first villain in the pilot episode so I'll give her a pass considering I felt she was just more of a plot device to introduce each of the ponies. She's not very definitive as a character, just that she's been drinking jealousy punch and has a huge vengeance wing boner against Celestia. She did target the mane 6 so ok, props to her. Sunset Shimmer gets at least one up on Sombra only because she actually talks and has somewhat of a loose character arc. She still has alot of gaps and could use alot more exposition behind her character development but she at least has a vague back story, a motive that involves at least Twilight and a chance of redemption. She's still a weak villain but not the worst villain out of the lot. On the other hoof, King Sombra gets a decent backstory but has no lines, no moments of development, essentially no arc. He's not so much a villain, more like a huge obstacle that the ponies have to overcome. Not much to really say about him. Finally, I see Angel Bunny as the unofficial evil villain because he's constantly at end with the other characters. For personality wise he's short tempered, shallow and selfish to a fault. Here's a few things he's done to date: He acts constantly grumpy, tramples Twilight when changed by Discord, beats up Fluttershy when he doesn't get exactly what he wants, and causes mischief with Spike when he knows Spike is supposed to take care of him. Overall, I find Angel Bunny to be the residential minor villain, constantly there to remind you how much you just love to hate him. Also as a side note that Discord gets bonus points for making Angel Bunny on the receiving end of his tail whips. Final Answer to Original Post: No Sunset Shimmer is not the worst villain, but she is underdeveloped and weak. As far as most cartoon villains go she could use a more fleshed out back story and personality.
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