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So it's a bit weird that dog Spike hasn't had one short for himself yet. Summertime Shorts, Better Together, and Choose Your Own Ending! Not one yet! So, while we wait for his short(s) to show up, any of you have any ideas on what he can do? I got a few, but I'll put them in the spoiler thing below, in case you want to share yours first before seeing mine! :D

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I don't know, I was upset that they didn't make Spike a young boy. I think it was degrading to his character to make him an animal still and everyone else got to be human. Poor Spike. : (


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  On 2018-02-01 at 6:34 AM, Momento Mori said:

I don't know, I was upset that they didn't make Spike a young boy. I think it was degrading to his character to make him an animal still and everyone else got to be human. Poor Spike. : (

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Well, if he became a human, then he would have gotten similar time to the Rainbooms, and, well, with the show focusing mostly on female characters (hint: its target audience is small goals), that wouldn't really have worked logically.

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Logically it could have. Just because the target audience is 'little girls' doesn't mean we can't have an active male character. Honestly it makes it a little more realistic. He still could have been helping out the Rainbooms, helping Twilight, setting up the equipment. In fact he would have been much more helpful as a human character.  A cute little roadie! I mean, they already had him able to talk to Twilight, why even make him a dog? Why not a young child? Besides, by this time, the creators already know they have an active male audience, and they should realise and cater to that. Unfortunately for the most part, they do not.

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  On 2018-01-18 at 1:03 AM, Denim&Venom said:

Spike asks SciTwi why he was wearing a lampshade around his neck the day he left the vet's office.

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I would like to see that.

  On 2018-01-18 at 1:14 AM, VG_Addict said:

He meets a stray named Ember.

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That would be cool

Maybe Spike the Dog and Spike the Dragon(who turns into a dog) will meet each other.

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I think dog Spike was a mistake in the long run. I'll just be crude and say "Let him fade out in the back".

He could still be useful in a picnic setting or pet focused episode, but as a dog I see nothing else for him in a highschool environment.

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MLP EG logic: Turns Dragons into dogs, and dogs into... humans???


All of right-thinking humanity is on my side. Sandwiches are meant to be cut in half. You would never, unless under extreme duress or madness cut a hot dog in half. Picture yourself at a ball park, or even at a restaurant, cutting a hot dog and you will feel an instinctive, entire repulsion at the very thought of it. You can get a soup with a half sandwich, but you’d never serve a half hot dog with a soup. It’s the equivalent of cutting a pizza with a knife and fork. Pashman says anything “sandwiched is a sandwich.” He’s using the derivative verb to describe the sandwich, so he is proving the premise with itself; it is a complete logical fallacy. I hope they’ll openly boo him.

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Spike can talk and now has human level of intelligence, or is at least as smart as Spike the dragon who'd able to read and right.  There's a lot to explore here even in the limited setting of the show's format.  For instance if he got lost would he ask someone for directions or be too scared too.  The students at CHS don't seem to find much strange about a talking dog (but as Spike said a talking dog is not really crazy if you go on everything else that is going on),  but I can imagine many others would.  His relationship with Twilight...  Now that he can talk does he take on the role that Spike the dragon does?  That of an assistant/housekeeper/confidant or something else.  When you come right down to it Spike isn't a full dog anymore, but he's not human either.  How long before the essential parts of a dogs life -sleeping, chasing squirrels...- become boring too him?  Will he immerse himself in tv?  The internet?  Books?

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What if Shinning Armor told Twilight and Spike the Dog that he knew Twilight snuck Spike into school back at Crystal Prep, but kept quiet about it because he knew Twilight was having trouble at that school.

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I'll admit that making Spike a dog probably did limit his story possibilities a fair bit, but on the other hand I like dogs and having a dog adjacent to the main cast opens up the door for dog shenanigans. Perhaps if we could get some sort of mini adventure story in there, we could escalate from Spike being a cute lil pupper to him saving a kid who fell down a well or something. That would be nice. 

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  On 2018-04-08 at 1:04 AM, AlexanderThrond said:

I'll admit that making Spike a dog probably did limit his story possibilities a fair bit, but on the other hand I like dogs and having a dog adjacent to the main cast opens up the door for dog shenanigans. Perhaps if we could get some sort of mini adventure story in there, we could escalate from Spike being a cute lil pupper to him saving a kid who fell down a well or something. That would be nice. 

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Sadly compared to what the girls get to do, it would be just.. iffy.
Still restricted Spike's potential badly here.

  On 2018-01-18 at 12:47 AM, FlareGun45 said:

So it's a bit weird that dog Spike hasn't had one short for himself yet. Summertime Shorts, Better Together, and Choose Your Own Ending! Not one yet! So, while we wait for his short(s) to show up, any of you have any ideas on what he can do? I got a few, but I'll put them in the spoiler thing below, in case you want to share yours first before seeing mine! :D

Down here, I made two Better Togethers!

 

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Problem for the second one there, changelings actually get to be humans.
According to that game app, theres a Human Chrysalis there(too bad she didn't appear AT ALL in animated stuff so far).
Meaning changelings would be humans instead of other creatures.

 

  On 2018-02-12 at 6:29 PM, DonMaguz said:

I think dog Spike was a mistake in the long run.

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Big time.  The writers did not think this darn thing through when they thought it was funny to make him a dog like that..

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