My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Headscratchers: Difference between revisions

*** [[MST3K Mantra|Don't think too hard about it.]]

**** Who sais they are given their names at birth? The parents coud wait a year or two and name the baby pony based on what they like, or how they act, or how they look, or a particular family tradition of names.

**** It's always been that way with a [[Meaningful Name]]. If they're given at birth and predict the character's future, they don't make sense (unless ''actual'' magical fortune telling is involved). They're just a joke that make for easy foreshadowing. And that's coming from a troper who usually ''hates'' handwaving something with "don't think too hard about it."

** As for the magic thing, I always thought of it as how a musician knows music. Depending on what genre they play, and what instrument they use, there are some songs that they just ''know'', but any good musician can pick up some sheet music and play along, no matter what the song is(well, any musician who's actually been trained. There are plenty of talented musicians out there who can't read music). So, most unicorns only ever learn and memorize the spells they use consistently, but those with magical training can cast from a book. Twilight's just good at memorizing and casting spells.

** Cutie marks are permanent, so they're probably tattooed on the ponies, too.

** They don't seem to have very much fur anyway. The cutie mark likely grows from a similarly marked patch of skin.

* So sometimes we see the ponies wearing shoes. Okay, fine. Buuut, sometimes they're wearing HUMAN shoes. Like, with the big space sticking out in front where the (human) feet go. Why would ponies make shoes like that for themselves? I imagine they wouldn't fit right, making it hard to move around in them.