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Why does Apple Bloom act so surprised when she found out (in Call of the Cutie) that she wasn't the only one without a Cutie Mark (Blank Flank)?post-14037-0-59775800-1367175752_thumb.jpg

Apple Bloom-*GASP* You don't have your Cutie Marks either?!?, I thought I was the only one?

Scootaloo-We thought WE were the only TWO.

 

 

In the first episode Friendship Is Magic, Part 1 They are clearly shown right next to each other huddling

under what seems like a curtain/drapes... right? Did they randomly get amnesia right after Nightmare Moon's introduction? Were they all traumatized that they erased it from their minds? Are not all episodes canon with each other or when they want to be?post-14037-0-22384500-1367175334_thumb.jpg

How is it possible that they wouldn't notice something that "important" before Nightmare Moon showed up?

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I always assumed it was simply an animation error, and that the animator of the scene instinctively put the CMC together, forgetting that they hadn't met yet.

 

In a more in-universe answer, maybe we can just assume that in the panic of the moment, they all huddled up with other the first other fillies of their same age they could find, without having formally met yet or being aware of their connection. Yeah, that'll do ;)

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My thought is that kids often think they're the "only" one when it comes to something they consider shameful, regardless of the abundance of evidence staring them right in the face.

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time passed from the pilot to the first CMC episode, a whole bunch of kids probably got their cutie marks in that span (at least Twist)

 

really Apple Bloom never cared about her cutie mark until Diamond Tiara started being a jerkass

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Looking around for ponies without cutie marks is probably a bad idea if you're being attacked by an evil villain xP Maybe they just coincidentally huddled up together in fear, then split up and ran away somewhere else. Or maybe Call of the Cutie was the time before Friendship is Magic and they already knew each other, it could of been an episode just to introduce the CMC and the other fillies.

 


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Actually, that can be explained in two ways depending on how you see it.

First, that was on the pilot, and as we all know, pilots tend to be over the edge and are usually just to test out the waters.

Secondly, maybe that was an error, cause I believe reading about this, and the writers said this was an error.

Either way, hope it helps.

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Honestly, I just see it as a minor oversight by the animators, who probably didn't know what the writers had in mind (if anything) for those characters at that point. The first episode was, after all, essentially just a pilot. Rarely do pilot episodes accurately portray how everything's going to be once a show officially gets green-lighted.

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I think that because of the shock and fear they had really never taken a chance to look at each others flank and proably just ended up together because they where younger or in a class together or something.

 

Also it's a common thought to think your the only one, so that could be it aswell.

 

My theory is they didn't know each other yet and where simply coincidently there together and didn't first think in fear to look at each others flanks :P.( that would be a bit strange Id think.)

 

If that's not something along the case then it's an error and doesn't make sense, maybe the animators forgot they where not suppose to meet yet or something, or it's some kind of miscommunication between the multiple writers.


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Okay, bare with me.

Notice how the CMC's flanks are covered up party with the curtain? That's because the show didn't want to reveal their cutiemarks yet.

WHAT??? How can they already have their cutiemarks, you may ask, and not in the next few billion episodes.

When Scootaloo is able to fly, and Sweetie Bell can do magic, Sweetie takes them all back in time, figuring out that that is their talents. Trying to stop events and preventing things from happening. they all have  marks like Dr.Whooves. Of course when they try to prevent Nightmare Moon from ever taking over the town she overpowers them. That's how they all know each other then, and not later on. It was really just the future versions of themselves.

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