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Why is Daring Do a recoloured Rainbow Dash?


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Maybe or perhaps it's so hard to believe that these supposed "professionals" can be so amateurish.

Well, if you can do better... you'd be doing it.

 

Having heard firsthand what goes into making an episode I'm prepared to let them do their jobs.

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I think they just used Rainbow Dash as a sort of placehold model for Daring Doo at first. They didn't count on actually making her a character sip they just did some slight changes and then when season 3 came around it was like

 

"uh oh we got to go with what we did before"

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Probably because they wanted us to see RD projected as Daring Do in Read it and Weep(though it helps that she looked like her in on the cover of the book too). 

 

And it also helps that RD's character model is also the base model for other pegasai(Derpy and Raindrops come to mind)

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Originally Daring was metaphor for Rainbow dashes Imagination  and was suppose to be a one shot deal...............

 

But there was such a huge fan response to her.........they decided to include her in the later episodes as an actual character.......

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In the episode "Read It and Weep" they clearly set it up for Daring to look like Dash as a visual metaphor for Dash imagining herself in Daring's place.  There's tons of parallels between the two throughout the episode after all.  

However, I'm pretty sure the writers didn't count on writing "Daring Don't" back when "Read It and Weep" came out.  So when they decided to make Daring Do "real" in the world of Equestria, they were stuck with the design they had.

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On 2015-04-09 at 8:35 PM, The Professor...8D said:

Originally Daring was metaphor for Rainbow dashes Imagination  and was suppose to be a one shot deal...............

 

But there was such a huge fan response to her.........they decided to include her in the later episodes as an actual character.......

That sounds like a good answer!
 

Thinking about it, it's odd that somepony actually was born with the same looks as Rainbow Dash, only in grayscale.

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12 hours ago, Rainbowshine295 said:

Daring was always her inspiration, so she wears her mane like her idol. It's actually Daring's mane that's original.

Rainbow didn't read those books til her incident in the hospital, though. Her mane had been just like Daring Do's before that time. 

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Why is Daring Do a recoloured Rainbow Dash?

 

I think Daring Do is colored the way that she is because Rainbow Dash took every color in the rainbow for her mane. :mlp_icwudt:

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Twilight recommended the Daring Do book series to Rainbow Dash, because she thinks that she and the character from the book are very similar (in personality and appearance). Twilight has read dozens of books, she could have recommended all kinds of books to her. So it's no coincidence that she recommended a book series from which she thinks her friend would enjoy the most. A series that would be the most relatable to Rainbow.

Many ponies are very similar to one another, especially when it comes to background ponies and especially when it comes to their taste in haircuts. Other ponies also have and enjoy the same haircut as the one Twilight or even Fluttershy has. It's common there.

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