Derpy never says "Muffins!"

[DJ MUFF1N D3RP 322]

I understood what you meant Pinkazoid. You were saying that we should basically just let it go and roll with it because its too late to change all the fan art and other material that features Derpy demonstrating her love of muffins. Just go with what you want to believe. If you don't believe in Derpy's muffin love, you go with that, but if you do, that's ok too.

[83awsm 234]

This has more posts than I thought... Page 2 of a debate on whether some guy is right about Derpy saying a word? Sums up everything I’ve seen with over analysis

[RockinRarity 1,605]

Derpy is a ventriloquist.

 

That's my theory and I'm sticking to it.

Edited January 31, 2012 by RockinRarity

[Sheogorath 1,155]

This has more posts than I thought... Page 2 of a debate on whether some guy is right about Derpy saying a word? Sums up everything I’ve seen with over analysis

 

It's not really a debate, it is more along the lines "calm the buck down, nobody cares, ponies like muffins anyway"

 

Why is everypony so mean on this thread? O.o

 

It is not mean, far from it.

It is general disinterest if Derpy really said muffins, she and muffins are fanon creation anyway so this is like attacking Vinyl Scratch's eye color and saying "IT'S NOT REALLY RED BECUZ!"

[FLARE 952]

It still looks like she said it to me O_O

[L-PinkVsD-Pink327 177]

I missed what it was like being on 4chan.

[5guysburgersnfries 216]

EVERYTHING I KNOW IS A LIE! D:

[Sheogorath 1,155]

I missed what it was like being on 4chan.

 

One thread not a board make.

[Evilshy 5,090]

I missed what it was like being on 4chan.

 

This is nothing like 4chan. If this thread was on 4chan, it'd be like:

 

 

holy fuck NOBODY FUCKING CARES

 

u mad bro?

 

who cares? It looks like she's saying muffins

 

But she's not you fucking idiot.

 

YOU CANNOT IMAGINE THE IMMENSITY OF THE FUCK I DO NOT GIVE

 

this thread is fuckin retarded go an hero OP

 

If you closely, you can see her lips moving in a way consistent with the "muh" sound, and then bringing her lips together to form a "f", and then opening and closing in a way that makes the "in" sound. She's saying muffins. I am a lip reader so I know what I'm talking about

 

You can't read the lips of a cartoon character GTFO noob

 

he mad ^

 

whatever she's saying, I'd still let her rape me

 

wtf is this shit?

 

if doubles, she said muffins

 

HOLY SHIT DOUBLES

 

inb4shitstorm

 

Well, it's canon, she said muffins

 

some screencap this shit right now

Edited January 31, 2012 by Evilshy

[Lunatic 1,186]

aaaaaaaaaaaaand no one cared...

 

[ffffff 50]

Guys. Obviously what hapenned was that she said it earlier. It was not one chorus that said 'muffins'. It's a lot of different ponies saying 'muffins' at different times.

 

ALSO:

[Queen Cassie 3,057]

Why is everypony so mean on this thread? O.o

 

I can't speak for others, but the relative acerbity in my post, which is not typical of my posting on forums in general, is simply because this topic really misses the point to Derpy as a fanon character. It's not about her love of muffins being based in canon. It's about the fact that we took what we perceived to be a trait of hers and expanded it into a major aspect of her character. Even if that trait was accorded to her by mistake, it no longer matters, because it's grown far beyond the piece in canon.

 

You can see this with other background ponies and tertiary characters as well. The name of and trait of alcoholism accredited to Berry Punch is all from one little three second scene of her drinking straight out of the punch bowl at a children's party, a bowl that probably didn't even have alcohol in it anyway. But like with Derpy's love of muffins, Berry Punch has grown beyond that initial origin. The fanon associated with her never has anything to do with that origin anymore.

 

Lyra's obsession with humans came from one instance of her sitting in a truly bizarre fashion for a pony that for all we know was an animation error or a simple little "Haha" easter egg never meant as anything more than what we saw. But people took that and transformed it into something so much more than its humble origins, to the point that where the trait came from no longer matters.

 

If the point I'm making still isn't clear, let me put it a different way. The way the fandom has taken background ponies and transformed them into real fleshed out characters, with generally agreed upon traits, personalities, habits, even relationships, is phenomenal in its creativity, just another way this fandom is so unique. Where the basis for these traits and so on come from really doesn't matter, because the characters created as a result are far more than just what we see in canon. Until and unless the fanon creations are directly contradicted by the canon, they live a life of their own free and separate from whatever spin is placed on their origin.