Should Gabby have sought out Glim?

[ManaMinori 4,145]

I mean, I don't really care for Starlight Gutter, but she does know a thing or two about taking cutie marks away and leaving new ones in their place....whose to say- if she could give a new cutie mark to a pony, that it would the CMC could've let it slip about her, for Gabby to see her and what she could do?

[ParadoxicalOutcome 44]

I don't think anyone other than the Mane 6, Trixie, Sunburst and the ponies who live in [insert Town Name Here] know what she did. Even if there were ponies who knew about her... exploits, "Hey, there's a pony who used to rip ponies' cutie marks off, maybe she knows a thing or two" wouldn't be much of a motivation to seek her out.

[Castle Bleck 19,379]

Starlight can't give a Mark, only remove it (and the "=" fake Mark is merely the byproduct) -- and even then, it'll just return to its owner if she doesn't have a jar or something to put it in.

Edited September 11, 2016 by A.V.

[ManaMinori 4,145]

Starlight can't give a Mark, only remove it -- and even then, it'll just return to its owner if she doesn't have a jar or something to put it in.

so how did the equal mark show on their flank if SG didn't GIVE it to them?

[Castle Bleck 19,379]

so how did the equal mark show on their flank if SG didn't GIVE it to them?

 

Automatic byproduct of the removal spell.

[Mesme Rize 15,686]

so how did the equal mark show on their flank if SG didn't GIVE it to them?

 

https://youtu.be/sVgVB3qsySQ?t=16

 

Things like these just happen.

[Foxy Socks 2,600]

I mean, I don't really care for Starlight Glimglim,

 

Fixed

 

She wouldn't make sense to help in it, since the others couldn't do it. I love Glimglim but she wouldn't fit. What would she do that the others can't?

[Jeric 46,860]

so how did the equal mark show on their flank if SG didn't GIVE it to them?

Considering that pony spells tend to be studied like Science, I would think that they have specific rules that apply. Sort of like balancing an equation, something has to exist in the cutie marks place as it becomes inherent tied to their existence. A straight up removal spell would be crazy ass dangerous as we have seen before in continuity. Since Starlight didn't way ponies in such a state, she would have had to find a loophole to ensure she didn't remove a ponies magic.

 

With a replacement cutie mark, Starlight balanced the equation.

 

Yes, yes I did that purpose ... and I don't feel the least bit bad about it!

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 41,730]

I would consider it a crime at this point to even attempt something like that. Starlight tampering with Cutie Marks (she can do that because reasons after all) has only result in problems and thus, I think she should refrain from doing that anymore. If she was smart, she would have refused anyways.

[Marimo 555]

They addressed this in the episode. They didn't bring up Starlight, but Twilight specifically says that using magic to get cutie marks never works, so of course they wouldn't go to Starlight for a spell right after they agreed with her that they shouldn't use magic.

 

And Starlight giving equal signs just seems like a side effect of removing the original. She only talked about it as a spell, singular and she never has to cast a second spell on the pony. So even that probably wouldn't even do anything to Gabby since she doesn't have a cutie mark to take away in the first place. Not to mention that spell hurts the reason why Gabby wanted a cutie mark, to give herself purpose. when all that spell does is limit and repress what you can do instead of highlighting a specific thing or goal.

Edited September 12, 2016 by Marimo

[LyricaDreamy 43]

Then Starlight would want to have a talk with Gabby's relative about giving her plastic surgery

[Number62 1,258]

It's doubtful that anyone outside of that small community and the Mane 6 knew about Starlight's activities. Just remember that none of the Mane 6 bothered to tell the other alicorns that a powerful unicorn tried to enslave that community and remove their cutie marks.

[Cwanky 17,602]

For starters, Starlight's claim to fame, or infamy better yet, was enslaving an entire town to her will and ridding them of their cutie marks. Outside of that, her deeds good and bad aren't particularly well known.

 

Gabby wasn't exactly just looking for an expert on cutie marks. She was looking for people that helped others AND could help her get a cutie mark. Starlight isn't exactly known for helping others, not yet anyways. 

[Justin_Case001 4,903]

Starlight's spell was a talent suppressant.  She can't create talents or give marks.  Gabby wanted to find her place in the world.  There's no spell for that.  Though it would have been interesting if Gabby approached Starlight and been told that.

[Crypty Scribbles 5,312]

Well, we know that Starlight's spell can steal cutiemarks, but there's no proves that she can stick it on someone's else butt.

 

But I guess Starlight is mighty wizard and really skilled in such kind of magick, so she could invent proper spell.

 

[cmarston1 5,959]

Starlight can only remove Cutie Marks, not create ones. But if the show proved that wrong, than she would be even more OP than she already is.

[snowflame 189]

I do not think she would have succeed but she should have been asked by CMC or at least mentioned by Twilight. I do not know why the show has her living in Ponyville when she is not allowed to interact with anypony. She could live in Crystal Empire and the season would be the same.

[Luminance 2,186]

No. We don't really need an excuse for Starlight to appear again just so she can do something she was entirely against since her redemption.

[Vlazamal 338]

No. We don't really need an excuse for Starlight to appear again just so she can do something she was entirely against since her redemption.

Cognitive dissonance makes a great aspect of an episode.