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We've seen Sweetie with her parents or at least at her parents house multiple times. In One Bad Apple, after Babs kicks the CMC out of their clubhouse, they have a meeting in Sweetie's room, and we see from the establishing shot that it's not Carousel Boutique but her parent's house, given her dad is outside fishing. In Inspiration Manifestation, Sweetie's with her parents for the Foal and Filly Fair. And Sweetie's standing next to them at the end of A Hearth's Warming Tail.

I think the only parents of a major or main character that could work as a big villain would be either Celestia and Luna's parents, or possibly Spike's.

Except it's not morally grey. It's people unsatisfied that there are still monsters in a world where there are monsters, and their solution is that they need to just revolt against the government and remove the strongest magic users who can defend against monsters. It's like saying your plan to stop crime is to remove the police. What exactly is their alternate solution and why does it actually require to remove the government's top leaders completely, who also do other tasks and not just stop monster attacks, instead of their solution being something that could be implemented with Celestia, Luna, Twilight, and Cadance still in power?

So what, children who are adopted because their biological parents are either dead, didn't want them, or were abusive and forced social services to separate them, those kids can't consider the ones who adopted them as family if they don't share similar enough genes? Blood makes you related, but that's not what makes a family.

Comics did it. #43-45. Twilight declares herself empress and steals other pony’s intelligence to make herself smarter. Rarity wears a cloak and mask and tries to take the throne from Twilight for herself. Applejack becomes a cruel business pony. Rainbow Dash does constant sonic rain booms, causing constant disturbances. Fluttershy controls an army of animals. Pinkie becomes the Joker and plays pranks on everyone.

CMC's got their cutie marks.

Wouldn't the title still give away a pretty big spoiler that Spike has or is getting wings, only now people will know it's not some hypothetical question because it has spoilers tags therefore it must be an actual spoiler? I dunno, he seemed already able to melt a humongous sized ice cloud into water in one burst in Equestria Games.

I dunno, how much does Twilight get paid for being one of the top 4 leaders of the kingdom?

He's Twilight's assistant. I think the point is that she's his superior/employer/boss, whatever you want to call it, since that's the typical relationship an assistant has to the one they're assisting.

I was actually thinking grandfather.

There's no way that wouldn't have been brought up in the writer's summit. And the reason why the box arc was handled that way is because it came down to network and executive demands. The key episodes had to be executed in a way so that they were stand alone and could be watched in any order, not counting the events of the premiere and finale.

When Rarity brought Fluttershy to Rarity for You, she said that the fashion show would be the next day. And by the next time we see her, the fashion show has started. So I guess most of the business for everyone was on that first day, and when the raccoons made it to Ponyville on that second day they had managed to get done or clear up their schedules enough like Twilight in Baby Cakes. And Canterlot is only a bit closer to Manehatten than Ponyville, which isn't taking into account how it would also require climbing up a mountain. Pretty sure raccoons can't get tickets, so they probably had to travel by paw. Plus Rarity would probably only know some basics to talk and understand the raccoons, enough so that they can continue business, but I don't think she understands them enough to understand something a bit more complex and unique like Fluttershy is using multiple personalities to run the shop and they're all mean. So better to chance it on her several other friends understanding. It's a vallery girl accent. That's something that dates back to the 80s.

Similarities in personality has nothing to do with being siblings or related. Heck, all of her siblings are pretty different from each other (Maud is the stoic, Pinkie is the overly happy one, Limestone is the grump, and Marble is the shy wallflower).

For Starlight taking over, it's not a matter of beating the other 5's score since they already had a headstart, but more like how often the focus is on her since her debut. Like if we eliminate the first four seasons, the other 5 and Starlight have both ended up saving all of Equestria twice. But if you also take into account just general focus, Starlight has been a major focus in almost every premier and finale of the show until School Daze (Cutie Map, Cutie Remark, Crystalling, To Where and Back Again, Celestial Advice [albeit as the subject talked about rather than the character herself], and Shadow Play), compared to the others (Cutie Map, Shadow Play, and the movie).

Hasbro clearly wanted to try and set up Twilight. It was right there in the movie how they liked each other and Twilight had an obvious crush. Creative only backed off afterwards, possibly due to all the negative reception it got, and we still had Twilight's Equestria Girls counterpart paired up with Timber Spruce. The timeline with NM's proposed theory doesn't work if you try to fit in Shining and Cadance. Hasbro and DHX decide that they can't pair off the mane six, which leads to them creating Twilight's brother and putting him in a relationship doesn't work if that all comes before they then decide to try and pair off Twilight with someone in Equestria Girls.

First there would need to be some sort of connection between Twilight's school teaching friendship and a non-pony invasion. Like the school doesn't have any of the storm creatures under Storm King's rule, so say the events of the movie happened after the school was founded, and the invasion is unrelated. Heck, of the force that liberated Canterlot, over half of it was non-pony creatures, including a dragon and a hippogriff. Not to mention the reason they were invaded at all was because a pony who didn't have friendship was the one who led the Storm King into attacking Equestria. Even if a rogue group of dragons or changelings attacked, if they were disowned by the official leaders then there's still no actual connection unless there was proof that somehow learning how to make friends was something that was weaponized.

Well no, that theory doesn't really work since they then shipped Twilight with Flash the year after they had Shining and Cadance, so it didn't really start with them. Though I don't think it's meant to be some plan to pair up each mane 6's sibling with someone at all.

Windigos don't seem like the type to have shown enough intelligence to make them redeemable. With the changelings, we at least had Chrysalis so we knew that other changelings might have the ability to talk. With windigos, they're comparable more to timber wolves, just dangerous animals who happen to be drawn to disharmony.

It's been three episodes. And of course they aren't going to stick with the school for all the episodes, just like how we didn't have a key arc covering every episode of season 4, or map episodes for every episode of season 5 and 6. It's to introduce a new element to tell stories, but that doesn't mean they have to make every story about that same thing or even drop older plot points. Even from the show's beginning, it wasn't supposed to be purely adventure or purely slice of life, it's supposed to just be able to tell a mix of stories.

I don't think Maud was dishonest. She legitimately enjoys doing things with Pinkie and doing things that make her happy, even if she doesn't enjoy those things herself (see also the rock candy necklaces they make in her debut episode). Pinkie's just always been oblivious to it because she's always blinded by how much she loves her sister. It's like how she somehow doesn't see any similarities between her and Mudbriar when she's talking about them with Starlight. Mudbriar's a lot more similar in personality to Maud, so it was probably easier for him to get that Maud doesn't like surprise parties. Not to mention his attention to little details and his "technically" habit allows him to understand things better than Pinkie. And the surprise party she didn't have to go to is basically Pinkie gets to still plan and throw a party like she wanted (the other ponies are probably willing to humor Pinkie because hey it's still a party they get to enjoy), and Maud gets to enjoy Pinkie's enjoyment while still having a small, quiet moment with her and Mudbriar.

I think Dank Brony is referring to Magical Mystery Cure, where they were right there when Twilight cast Starswirl's unfinished spell. @The_Dank_Brony If I'm assuming that's the episode you were referring to, Celestia told Twilight to hold onto the elements when they reformed Discord, as a precaution. They also had the Elements at the library in the season 4 opening, though by the end they had to give them up and just try and put their faith in Discord.

Cadance is still just a princess, not an empress, despite leading the Crystal Empire.

It's not really racist just because it was founded by ponies. It only becomes that if they barred non-ponies from entering as students or teachers if they apply.

That's basically the mindset for a lot of racists. Like some people will point out cases where Muslims or black people caused deaths, but then completely overlook or ignore all the cases where white people did the same or even worse, like when there was the Las Vegas shooter who injured hundreds and killed dozens they're more likely to call attention to a Muslim who killed and hurt only a fraction of that and label them a terrorist. Basically it comes down more to group. Even if there are bad individual unicorns, Neighsay still sees the pony race as a whole to be good and friendly. But yaks, dragons, changelings, and griffons have only recently become allies, and the dragons and changelings especially have a long, bad history with ponies. Hippogriffs have been more isolationist, but still he probably wouldn't trust them. So it's more about how he fears the possible enemies without more than the possible enemies within.

Jim Miller has said that Hasbro didn't make up or force them to make Flurry Hearts. She was a creation of the show's staff.