Theorycrafting Where are the Windigos? Ponies seem to now hate each other...

[Sonic Shimmer 4,131]

7 hours ago, Kujamih said:

Shhhh you'll wake the faustists...

[Evil Pink One 13,506]

2 hours ago, Sonic Shimmer said:

Go back ! Go back! Go back to your hole wens you cametthhh!!!

Edited May 11, 2021 by Kujamih

[ziddersroofurry 25]

I honestly hope they don't as these particular characters are a part of indigenous American religion. Their inclusion in G4 was yet another appropriation and misrepresentation of their culture. 

https://www.backstoryradio.org/blog/the-mythology-and-misrepresentation-of-the-windigo/

As much as i love G4 the writers definitely committed cringe now and then when they tried to mimic different human cultures. More often than not it came off as parody which can be used effectively but when it's done in a way that perpetuates misrepresentation of real people's beliefs it's just bad. I hope G5 moves away from trying to emulate existing human society as much and focus on giving ponies their own unique ones. You can still have similar creatures. They just need to put more effort into making those creatures their own. 

Edited May 13, 2021 by ziddersroofurry

[Shady Mist 55]

I heard a rumer that Friendship is Magic and Pony Life exist in this universe, but they exist as a show not actual history of things that happened in the past. That would also make more sense why Sunny has toys, a poster/posters?, pins, a bag, etc. She's a fan.

[Chadbacca 375]

I think they were destroyed for good in the series finale of FiM when Twilight, the rest of the Mane Six + Spike, the Young Six, and the Pillars unleashed that massive rainbow nuke on the Villain Trio, hence why there's no sign of them in G5.

[CypherHoof 26,482]

Well, maybe Starlight Glimmer was REALLY annoyed about them at some point, so worked with Starswirl and Sunburst to craft a spell that wiped them all out.....

[eventyraren 180]

Where was they before the tribs starttid fighting? Remember the windegos did not show up Due to the tribs was fighting, but the other other way round. 

[Evil Pink One 13,506]

There's no magic... So no windigos

[Steve Piranha 29,419]

1 hour ago, Kujamih said:

There's no magic... So no windigos

Considering there’s no magic to the point pegasi must use wires to have the illusion of flying, it suddenly became more logical 

[Ichibi 1]

Maybe somepony (probably a pegasus) defeated them in hoof-to-hoof combat?

[Paleopony 701]

On 2021-04-11 at 6:35 PM, EpicEnergy said:

The synopsis for the movie didn't necessarily say that ponies hate each other. Windigos only appear when ponies are fighting each other and there is much hate, and the synopsis for the movie didn't say ponies hate and fight each other, it only said that there was paranoia and mistrust among the pony races.

That's what I'm thinking.

[Evil Pink One 13,506]

28 minutes ago, Paleopony said:

That's what I'm thinking.

again no magic= no windigos....

IF they returned magic while not fixing the split... windigos might end up coming....

[Splashee 28,563]

Now when I have seen the G5 movie, and don't need to speculate. The windigos should have been there. The whole Equestria world is built about them terrorizing the world if not every pony race unite in friendship.

However, one event is enough to rewrite this plot. And everyone who has seen FIM Season 8 and up knows that things can change in just one episode. If anyone can defeat the windigos, it is the Mane 6, and maybe they were already defeated by them between Season 9 Episode 25 and Episode 26. A long time passed, and still, when G5 started, even Twilight's students could have found ways to remove them. With Josh Haber as a writer, such a plot could have even been removed in one single episode!

 

However, I do want this problem to be well addressed as part of the introduction to G5, instead of just assuming friendship was lost, but technology somehow became a thing? If technology can fix what friendship couldn't, then I don't see the need for magic at all!

[Evil Pink One 13,506]

on a different post I mentioned that activating the windigos did not meet the requirements in gen 5.... except at the later part where 3 pony races is about to go on a fight. where we can see the clouds are getting darker and grim.... hence the windigoes DID show up in gen 5. then when sunny broke up the fight the Light came back and it wasn't dark no more.

[Discord the Amazing 12]

Well from rewatching episodes, powerful forces probably sent them away or worse destroyed them, my reference is the Mean 3

it wouldn’t be surprising because everything that happened in G5 is exactly what they did in G4, they were able to turn pony against pony because it wasn’t hard to do and they said they would also destroy the Windigos to be thankful to them, maybe they somehow escaped and have done this

[mlploverlizzy 291]

Wait yea ur completely right! I havent even noticed this until now 

[Darkness Void 51]

The Windigos mostly feed off of fighting and the hatred that can bring out of hearts. Within the present of Gen5 the 3 races are so far apart they freak out royally bad if they see each other. Since they are so far apart the Windigos have nothing to feed off of as when left alone, the 3 races are happy. Now if Sprout had actually succeed and his group not run off in terror, be a different ending altogether.

 

As for the theory that Gen4 was a TV show...who knows, I am sure in this future their adventures was made into a TV show at some point. But it is just far too early to be sure.

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1 minute ago, Darkness Void said:

As for the theory that Gen4 was a TV show...who knows, I am sure in this future their adventures was made into a TV show at some point. But it is just far too early to be sure.

Sunny's father had collected actual artifacts from the G4 era, so the actual events of G4 are, as was emphasized in the early press releases, in their distant past.

[Ashen Pathfinder 16,161]

I watched a G5/G4 lore vid that addressed this very subject. IIRC, it was speculated that the windigos didn't appear because even though there was serious mistrust between the pony races; the times were actually quite peaceful! This is quite different from the time before the founding of Equestria, as well as the attack by Tirek, Chrysalis, and Cozy Glow.

Of course this likely isn't fool-proof, but there yah go.

[Evil Pink One 13,506]

the windigos did appear in the gen 5 movie

[Brony Number 42 10,069]

I don't consider G5 to be in the same universe as G4. So, for me, those kinds of questions are irrelevant.

[Splashee 28,563]

4 hours ago, Spooky Brony 42 said:

I don't consider G5 to be in the same universe as G4. So, for me, those kinds of questions are irrelevant.

Technically, they are in a 3D universe, so... Yea, works with me!

[Brony Number 42 10,069]

14 minutes ago, Splashee said:

Technically, they are in a 3D universe, so... Yea, works with me!

Like the story Flat Land.

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On 2021-10-23 at 6:21 AM, Kujamih said:

the windigos did appear in the gen 5 movie

When? Where?

[RDDash 19,169]

Maybe, they just don't exist.