Your thoughts on Spike being a Dog

[FluttershyForever 15]

I know! I hate how they put a word limit on this thing.

 

Yes, actually, Applejack would look better in overalls, now that you mention it.

[RockinRarity 1,605]

Spike was awesome in this movie. As a dog, he was definitely better than expected.

 

Honestly, after Equestria Girls and The Crystal Empire, I am convinced that Meghan McCarthy writes Spike the best. Hands down.

[Zygen 6,065]

I thought spike was about the game generally overall, although he did seem to have a nice consistently good character overall throughout the movie.

 

So i liked him, even if he didn't change much internally just external.

 

Plus, with his name and him being in the real world, a dog is the perfect choice i think.

[Azrael the alicorn 72]

His attitude was simple perfect. He was smart, funny and all.

There is one problem: Despite the fact that they give him a good attitude, they ruined everything by making him a dog. I don't give a damn if he is cute or not. They turn him in a dog just to use him for lame jokes when they could actually turn him into human.

Thinking of Spike like a animal is a sin when he is like a little brother for Twilight.

And how people are so easy to forgive this just because of his attitude is a sin.

[True Rarity 1,239]

Well, I used to hate the idea, but actually, I couldn't think of Spike any other way. When you first look at him, you think, "WHAT?!?!" and jump to conclusions about the whole thing. Maybe I felt better after I figured out he could still talk, and that he wasn't supposed to go through the portal in the first place. I mean, if he was supposed to go and he couldn't talk, what would be the point of his presence?

[~Silver Essence~ 2,621]

At first everyone seemed to hate the concept of him being a dog.

 

In my opinion, it's alright, nothing bad, in fact, I say he looks kind of adorable. 

[FluttershyForever 15]

I love it! Spike as a dog was the best idea ever. His name being Spike really fit him as a dog; I couldn't see him as any other pet.

 

He is totally adorable.

[CT-1138 3,180]

I thought it was incredibly demeaning. The show always portrays the two having a sibling relationship, but EqG just makes him out to be some pet.

[Dusknight Haze 161]

I thought it was incredibly demeaning. The show always portrays the two having a sibling relationship, but EqG just makes him out to be some pet.

 

1. This is actually the only valid takedown of his being a dog I've seen so far.

 

2. While I agree with you, I still allege that Spike is probably the best written character in EqG so him being a dog doesn't really bother me at all. 

[Sunny Fox 5,934]

I personally don't see much of a problem with Spike being a dog. He couldn't remain a dragon when travelling to the alternate world, and he is after all, a different species from the ponies. Which means it wouldn't make sense for him to also become human, so they went with a dog. As for it being "demeaning," Spike never seemed to care, and it got him cuteness points with Human!Rarity. Besides, he looks good as a dog. Don't take it so seriously.

[The Handmaid 19]

Before watching the movie I thought Spike was going to be another human like Twilight or Fluttershy, but when I found out he was going to be a dog I was actually a bit disappointed.

 

I guess it did make sense though considering that he wasn't a pony and all the ponies were humans. But does that make him equivalent to just a pet though?

 

Overall, I think they could of had something better than just a dog. Maybe even just him being a little brother to Twilight?

Edited September 9, 2013 by The Handmaid

[Sunny 24]

I wanted him to be a lizard D: You know, Gummy? I have a lizard, but she is named Tyra like t-rex and not Spike, but dragons is lizards, right? Or birds, if they have wings? Are pegagus birds?

 

However, I wanted him to be a lizard.

[kirbyboi 587]

I don't mind spike being a dog, I think it fit him very well!

 

But that would also be cool if he were a human. I mean in a way him, Appleloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo are technically the same age I'm guessing. So if he were human it'd be cute to see them all together :3

 

But I mean as a dog he's cool too! I actually liked it, it was fun, adorable, and just fit him well.

[Virulence 254]

Seeing spike as a dog was really cool. (In my opinion he is better in dog form.) I'm not a spike fan, but he looked great as a dog, just saying.

[MLPFanatic34 3,234]

Isn't it safe to say Spike is sort of a dog in Ponyville, I mean laying in a dog like bed as seen in beginning of Equestria Girls and some episodes of MLP, as for him being a dog, I was expecting it lol, what I wonder is what would happen if you put a bigger dragon through the portal or those teenage dragons that Spike meets, what would they be?

[Sunny 24]

Isn't it safe to say Spike is sort of a dog in Ponyville, I mean laying in a dog like bed as seen in beginning of Equestria Girls and some episodes of MLP, as for him being a dog, I was expecting it lol, what I wonder is what would happen if you put a bigger dragon through the portal or those teenage dragons that Spike meets, what would they be?

 

They would be giraffes, of course!

 

Or polar bears. Gem-eating polar bears in fancy colors. Fluttershy perhaps could take care of them, she have a good hand with the bears in Ponyville.

[Sunny Fox 5,934]

Isn't it safe to say Spike is sort of a dog in Ponyville, I mean laying in a dog like bed as seen in beginning of Equestria Girls and some episodes of MLP, as for him being a dog, I was expecting it lol, what I wonder is what would happen if you put a bigger dragon through the portal or those teenage dragons that Spike meets, what would they be?

There's also the way he acts in "Secret of My Excess". When visiting the pediatrician pony, he got angry at being treated like a baby pony, but he responded positively when Vet Bluemane treated him like a dog.

Edited September 10, 2013 by Full Spectrum

[King Sejong 858]

   Personally I laughed so hard I almost gave myself a hernia, I thought it was so funny, as I did not expect to see Spike as a dog. Spike did make quite a good canine, after all it was still him only in a different form, still the main thing Spike as a dog did for me was create non stop laughter and provided some good jokes in my head.

[TheSupremeLeaderOfChaos 1,189]

I never did understand why people got so angry about Spike being a dog. I couldn't imagine him as anything else! Dogs are man's best friend, and Spike's Twilight's #1 Assistant! It works perfectly!

[Fading Light 1]

He looked really... uh, cute. Though, as Twilight said they are from another world, Spike was able to say that he was a ginormous fire breathing dragon. I didn't like that scene.

[CT-1138 3,180]

I never did understand why people got so angry about Spike being a dog. I couldn't imagine him as anything else! Dogs are man's best friend, and Spike's Twilight's #1 Assistant! It works perfectly!

Huh, I honestly never thought of it that way. It does make a lot of sense for Spike to be a dig in thaf sense, now that you mention it.

[Winona the Dog 1,981]

I don't really get why why people are saying Spike Dog is better than Spike Dragon when they are the same exact person.

 

It's not like Spike got a personality change though I think this is the first time Spike 's character was written by Megan McCarthy. She did an excellent job too compared to some of the other writers.

[DokiLoki 518]

I think Spike as a dog is awesome but I personally think if he was still a dragon in the human world, I guess everyone will probably freak out which will turn into a mob of chaos and that's one thing I'll like to see. Wait a minute, then if dogs entered Equestria then wouldn't it be filled with dragons?

[Misterian 118]

I never did understand why people got so angry about Spike being a dog. I couldn't imagine him as anything else! Dogs are man's best friend, and Spike's Twilight's #1 Assistant! It works perfectly!

Well, having finally watched the movie well around a month ago, I guess the reason the whole 'Spike as a dog' thing got the backlash it did was because they were taking it way too seriously.

 

granted, I also used to be in the same crowd with those that didn't like that choice, but I cooled off when it occurred to me that the writers likely didn't mean for Spike to be considered downgraded or bellow the rest of the cast as a dog, this was quite evident with Spike still being able to talk and still possessing the same intelligence he had as a dragon.

 

That combined with how he's helped Twilight several times throughout the movie makes it quite evident to me that the movie itself doesn't consider Spike downgraded as a dog.

 

And while I still want Meghan McCarthy to explain her choice to make Spike a dog over making him human, the clear bottom line of it is this; the movie didn't take making Spike a dog seriously, so why should we?

[uml4mj4m 133]

Meh.

 

A dragon shouldn't be a cat.

 

He was pretty adorable in the actual movie.

 

Too bad that he doesn't breath fire.

 

 

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