What happens after houses are smashed up in ponyville

[Stardust 646]

When houses get smashed up in ya know ponyville who is in charge of fixing it.

Is it up to the owner and friends to rebuild it. Or does the town take care of it, the princess? Or is it a community thing and everyone chips in to help. Or is there an official role. Is there insurance? Haha

Edited August 14, 2020 by flurry

[Sunset Rose 254]

That's a trope that I have always wondered about in tons of media. Especially in superhero comic books and cartoons- the city is destroyed in some horrible attack or in a fight between the hero and the villain and in the next episode the craters are all gone, the buildings are rebuilt and the population is just going about its day like normal. I don't think we're supposed to think about it, but I can't help it either. It breaks my immersion a little too often.

[SharpWit 2,879]

For superheroes we have Batman and Ironman paying for everything I think. Batman does it via access to Bruce Wayne's credit card and influence over the city of Gotham and elsewhere. In Avengers, Age of Ultron, Tony asks how quickly he can purchase a building site right before destroying it in an attempt to incapicate the Hulk.

We don't have any obvious choices for the billionaire superhero role in MLP, but I would imagine that there's a construction firm present in Ponyville, and they're paid via an amusing array of insurance coverage. I'm reminded of Earl Sinclair from the 90s puppet/animotronic sitcom, Dinosaurs, where his meteor insurance didn't cover the damage of his roof and TV because upon entering the atmosphere it's considered a meteorite. Larger scale damage or any requests put in by Twilight are probably directed to the Royal Treasury.

[Splashee 28,601]

The background artists job is to make sure all buildings are restored for a new episode  they once got help from Derpy, but it was controversial

[Evil Pink One 13,554]

Didnt the "the amazing world of gumball" already tackled this topic.

[Fluttershutter 3,025]

Knowing ponies it's probably a community thing.

[ExplosionMare 23,057]

The just have a rebuilding party like they did for AppleJack’s barn

[Goat-kun 2,531]

Here's the red pill: Harmony resets everything. That's why background ponies are such ungrateful pricks. They're constantly being reset to their pre-tragedy settings

 

Here's the blue pill: some powerful unicorn whips out their horn and magically fixes everything.

[Jesse Terrence 2,971]

40 minutes ago, Goat-kun said:

Here's the red pill: Harmony resets everything. That's why background ponies are such ungrateful pricks. They're constantly being reset to their pre-tragedy settings

 

 

 

Here's the blue pill: some powerful unicorn whips out their horn and magically fixes everything.

 

Red pill sounds about right

[Splashee 28,601]

Did some houses get smashed, when?

I only remember the library being destroy by Sir Tirek

[Evil Pink One 13,554]

Don't forget the playground

[Stardust 646]

Or the damage when spike grew big and rampaged

[Sepul-Coloratura 765]

If you live in Ponyville, every insurance companies in Equestria would refuse to sell.

What ended up happening was that after hundreds of reconstructions and complaints from Ponyville, Princess Celestia and Luna unofficially crowned the head construction worker in ponyville as the new alicorn prince of reconstruction.

What he does all day is rebuilding collapsed houses from Ponyville from various incidents, and he is busier and useful than all the princesses combined.

Edited August 16, 2020 by Sepul-Coloratura