Were the pool Pinkies clones or from alternate dimensions?

[ManaMinori 4,149]

Is the Mirror pool in “Too Many Pinkie Pies” really cloning Pinkie, so much as it's extracting Pinkie's from alternate dimensions?

 

The prospect of this theory arose in the episode itself, and in Equestria Girls. Of course, everyone knows that Pinkie constantly breaks the fourth wall, but what happens as Pinkie Pie enters the mirror pool and if the clones are really just that, or alternate Pinkies from other Pony universes lies shrouded in mystery. If the signs are missed by the viewers.....

 

Pinkie Pie, in the episode, repeats her Nana Pinkie's rhyme about the mirror pool. “Where the brambles are thickest, there you will find- upon beyond the most twisted of vines.” Nana Pinkie's story goes on to state: “And into her own reflection she stared, yearning for one whose reflection she shared- and solemly sweared not to be scared at the prospect of being doubly mared”

 

From the rhyme alone, one can assume that Pinkie's grandmother had discovered the mirror pool and used it herself, in order to be able to know how it worked.

 

But as Pinkie uses the pool, the other Pinkie's don't seem to know who the original's friends are- from the fact that they keep messing up and mispronouncing the other mane 5's names (and have the original explain to them who her friends actually are), and ask if this new place they're in is Ponyville. Had they truly been clones, I think that they would've had the same knowledge as the original Pinkie. One point to further back my theory on the mirror pool Pinkie's being from multiple alt. dimensions is that only the original Pinkie Pie actually physically went into the pool to pull out the alternate dimension Pinkie. When further “clones” were created, the process was done by the alternate dimension Pinkies simply staring into the pool rather than diving in and pulling their alternate dimension selves out from whatever wormholes the pool had already opened up with the first Pinkie's passing through it.

 

More proof of them being alternate dimension Pinkies rather than clones comes later in the episode when one of the Pinkie's completely reshapes her face into G3 Pinkie Pie's face.

 

It's likely that as each Pinkie came through the mirror pool from their respective dimensions, they automatically take on the form of the pony that chooses to use it, as they enter the G4 world, but have the ability to reshape their appearance into what they looked like in their original dimension. So it's likely that one of the alternate dimension Pinkie's that were brought into G4's dimension through the pool was also the Equestria Girls Pinkie, for one of the Piinkie's in the crowd in “Too Many Pinkie's” to be able to blow into her hoof and form fingers in the g4 world, and to have the knowledge in EQG about Pinkie's friends- specifically Twilight. (This same particular Pinkie from EQG also seems to have recognized the human Twilight that came into her world, in the movie, though gotten her facts about Spike being a dog on the other side wrong, which is understandable, seeing that the alt. Dimension Pinkies didn't know much about the original Pinkie's friends, when they first came through the mirror pool, and retained the lack of knowledge about the other mane 5 when they went back to their respective worlds). The fact that EQD Pinkie so accurately explains Twilight's situation at the end of the movie could simply be the fact that Pinkies- across all dimensions are psychic (which Pinkies in both MLP: FIM and EQD say they're capable of, on rare occasions. Specifically said: “not usually”)

Edited January 24, 2014 by Nightmare Muffin

[pinkiefan1287 610]

It's an alright idea, but most likely they were all clones. 

 

True, the clones should have the same knowledge as Pinkie, but some clones are just dumb. Pinkie defiantly had clones. Besides not knowing her friends, they lac any restrain. They all went crazy and were all uncontrollable. If they were from different dimensions, they would at least know how to act. 

[Sunny Fox 5,960]

They were not clones, they were duplicates. The word clone was never mentioned in the episode, and quite rightly, since cloning implies some sort of scientific process behind it, whereas duplicate doesn't. I don't think they were from alternate dimensions, though, since the copies acted like some kind of hive mind. If they were just from alternate dimensions, they would have more fully formed and individualized characters.

Edited January 24, 2014 by SolarFox

[Kip the Dip 56]

Oooh, a discussion of Pinkie Pie and parallel universes. I am so there!

"Had they truly been clones, I think that they would've had the same knowledge as the original Pinkie."

That's not exactly how cloning works. It's biologically a duplicate, but the mind is a blank slate. (Not that this is actually "cloning" as defined by medical science in the real world.) Being duplicates, the Pinkies' minds were at least developed up to the point that they were the equivalent of naive children, rather than newborns.

"The original Pinkie Pie actually physically went into the pool to pull out the alternate dimension Pinkie."

I figured that was merely some kind of cool framing. It isn't as if she stays in another universe when all is said and done. The 'original' universe of which we've been watching up until that point would be missing a Pinkie.

"One of the Pinkie's completely reshapes her face into G3 Pinkie Pie's face."

That's just Pinkie's trademark reality-bending eccentricity.

Although since they have already insisted through EqG on the existence of the multiverse, so I like to think there are alternate realities where the previous incarnations of My Little Pony exist.

"Pinkie's that were brought into G4's dimension through the pool was also the Equestria Girls Pinkie"

Wouldn't that one had recognized pony versions of her friends, and not need name lessons? In fact, wouldn't a large number of them have alternate versions of the Mane Six back home? At the very least, some of them (as you've stated) were named "Pinkie Pie".

 

"WHO AM I?!"

 

 

"The fact that EQD Pinkie so accurately explains Twilight's situation at the end of the movie could simply be the fact that Pinkies- across all dimensions are psychic"

Again, this was merely a gag playing off of Pinkie's eccentricity. Of course she had a far-fetched "hunch" that was exactly right.

While your theory has a holes in it, it's cool that you, like Pinkie herself, are thinking outside of the box.

[Scootalove 10,689]

I think they were duplicates, in which they didn't have Pinkie's memories or anything that she remembers or recalls in her life. That is why Pinkie had to teach her duplicates her friends' names and when you think about it if they were from alternate dimensions they would have different personalities.

[NavelColt 22,883]

Clones/Duplicates/Whatever word you want to use. They were all the exact same Pinkie Pie, but they also lost individualism for their personalities the more duplicates were created. The pool is like a big copy machine. Alternate dimension Pinkie's would look and possibly act different than the Pinkie Pie we know, because at least some of them have gone through completely different things than she has.

[Shine 166]

Had they truly been clones, I think that they would've had the same knowledge as the original Pinkie. 

 

No, they would not.  In fact, a true clone would come into the world completely lacking knowledge and have to be taught everything.  Clones are made by replicating an individual's DNA, which only contains physical traits, not knowledge.

 

However, cartoon "clones" usually come out having basic knowledge of the world around them and only have to be taught the specifics, because learning how to walk, talk, eat, etc. is far too complicated to fit into one episode; plus, it might be disturbing for young children.  (not that this episode wasn't disturbing anyway...)

 

Anyway, I don't think the Pinkie Pies were from alternate universes, because if they were, then at least some of them could be expected to know about Pinkie Pie's friends.  Also, your theory about them changing to fit the form of the Pinkie Pie who summoned them doesn't make sense.  Her ability to change her face is just, well...  Pinkie Pie being Pinkie Pie.  She's always been able to do impossible stuff that messes with everypony's heads.  lawl

[Metemponychosis 1,262]

People more eloquent than me already answered, so I'll just support them.

 

I like the way you think, but it over-complicates stuff. They are magical clones. Period. The pool's magic makes them in response to the rhyme, that is like the "spoken component" of a spell.