My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/WMG/Mane Characters: Difference between revisions

Guesses about the Mane Cast (minus Pinkie Pie, but don't worry).

 

 

If you have a guess about something else, then

 

 

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== Twilight Sparkle is an intern for some sort of government agency. ==

* She's not skilled enough; she's still learning her magic, and it takes her a lot of effort to pull feats such as quieting down the Ursa {{spoiler|Minor}} and changing a cutie mark. But perhaps when she grows older, stronger and more skilled, she could qualify.

* From her cutie mark story, Celestia runs a magic school. After Twilight demonstrated that she was really powerful & it would be dangerous if her powers went out of control, Celestia took her in as her personal student.

** If by "government agency," you mean the ruling monarch, then this not only canon, but very obviously so.

 

Not the usual stereotype that is usually portrayed, but she did seem a tad "off" in certain episodes. She has a wealth of knowledge, especially on magic, but at the same time she seems socially naive. In "Look Where You Sleep", she needed a reference guide on how to throw her very first slumber party, and "Boast Busters", she had some trouble predicting other ponies' reactions (She assumed that they would hate her for using magic to show-up Trixie). Perhaps the main reason why she didn't have friends aside from Spike before moving to Ponyville was that she simply didn't "get" other ponies. Keep in mind, she's still fairly confident in what she does and acts fairly normal otherwise, but how much could it be behavior learned through books and lessons rather then actual pony-to-pony interaction?

* As someone with Aspergers, I can vouch for this one, as that's a pretty good description of what it's like to have it.

*** '''2:''' Many of the ''adults'' watching don't understand the disorder enough to explain it themselves.

*** '''3:''' ''No one'' has a problem with Twilight being an aspie. It's half the reason we love her!

** Fluttershy has more towards having Asperger's than just being shy and having a freaky knowledge of sewing. In some of the episodes she definitely has more going on with her than shyness, and considering that its is known that she is older than at least Pinky Pie it seems unlikely that this has do to immaturity. Regarding social empathy, she seems to show this more with animals (including spike) than with other ponies, so I don't think this is a full counter-argument. She is also shown being physically weak for a pegasus, which is often associated with Aspergers, and sometimes her actions seem odd in a non-shy way and sometimes even inconsiderate, even though she is shown to be the most benevolent pony. In some episodes she seems more autistic instead of just being shy than in others, but this may depend on the script writer. Even if she isn't autistic, she defiantly has some complex pyscological problems. Depending on how you interpret Hubworld's description of her it may imply that she is more than just shy. Also I think this is interesting, it seems that "neurotypical" people seem more likely to pick out Twilight Sparkle as the ones with Aspergers (assuming that exactly one of the ponies has the disorder) while people with Asperger's seem more likely to pick out Fluttershy, from what I have seen across the Internets.

* Expanding on the above, I think it's possible that both Twilight Sparkle and Fluttershy both have a case here. Just from the latest episodes alone, TS makes a strong case for herself in "Lesson Zero", and both get a moment or two in "Luna Eclipsed". Twilight Sparkle just is easier to identify (and this is from somebody who has Aspergers), while Fluttershy seems to have something more similar to Avoidant Personality Disorder.

** As someone with APD I can second that Fluttershy shows many of the symptoms and personality quirks.

* Being a troper with Aspergers myself, I think that this is ''possibly'' correct. While I'm not saying Twilight doesn't show any signs of it, she seems to show more signs of simply being a reclusive nerd than anything, thus having almost [[No Social Skills]], which can happen to anyone. To be frank, if anyone in this show has Aspergers, it'd probably be Fluttershy. Hence why I added that as a WMG below, in her section.

 

== Twilight Sparkle likes Applejack and Fluttershy more than she likes Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, or Rarity. ==

* '''Spike may know all about it!''' In "Lesson Zero" he constantly interrupts Twilight's imagine spots by physically interacting with them to push them off stage. He might have seen the whole series of images over her head and said nothing.

* Reiterated in "Hearth's Warming Eve". While the Mane cast are playing their roles as historical figures in Equestria history, their personalities are clearly cutting through, and Twi, AJ, and Fluttershy clearly get along as well, being the [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|blue oni to the reds of the other three]].

 

== Twilight Sparkle controlled the stars that aided in Nightmare Moon's escape. ==

* She said she doesn't know how she does it, not that she didn't know she could. This suggests that teleportation is the one spell Twilight can perform instinctively, much as Rarity can instinctively cast the gem-finding spell while Twilight had to learn it.

** The full conversation says ''nothing'' about her not knowing how, if or why she can use it, it was simply Spike asking her to warn him before teleporting next time, and Twi saying she didn't realize she was going to do it. ''Going to'' not could or how, 'going to'. She simply used a spell she knew she had, knew how to work, and knew what it did, without planning on it while in a fit of panic.

* It could be that she looks at magic the same way a developer looks at software - they know all the basic parts and how to use them, but may not have any idea how to arrange it without seeing how it would work first.

 

** Neither does Twilight's. Hers is a big red 6-point star with sparkles all over it. You must be thinking of Luna.

*** No, he was referring to Twilight's dad, whose cutie mark is a pair of crescent moons.

 

== Twilight Sparkle's Progeny will be ''extremely'' important for Ponykind in the future. ==

 

== Twilight's teleportation has latent time travel effects. ==

* Her teleportation can also, with focus she is currently incapable of, be used as a form of time travel separately from distance.

* The longer distance a teleport is, the more effort it takes and the more time passes between the teleport.<ref> For instance, teleporting short distances as seen in ''Applebuck Season'' yields negligible dilation, perhaps 1*10^-1122 minutes or less per foot. When teleporting longer distances, the dilation compounds, say on the Fibonacci numbers. In which case a mile would be roughly one hour and forty minutes of dilation, meaning if it were 19:30, easily plausible for that daylight in the spring or summer time, it would be 21:10 when she arrived at the library assuming it was exactly one mile away. If it were one mile and one foot... two hours and forty three minutes. It should be noted, however, that the effect could easily be nullified by using multiple jumps in quick succession. The one mile traveled in two jumps rather than one will take less than a second, not counting the pause between the first and second jump.</ref>

 

== Twilight Sparkle is [[Immortality|immortal]]. ==

* They're ''all'' apparently invulnerable. Hell, everyone except Fluttershy was slammed into a rock surface hard enough to crumble it in "Dragonshy", and both Dash and Rarity (as well as the Wonderbolts) survived more than ''1600 Gs of acceleration'' at the climax of "Sonic Rainboom".

 

** This has a bit of [[Fridge Brilliance]] in it as well. They really didn't seem to know that Twilight had a major connection to Celestia, thus they had no reason to try and suck up to her. She realized that at some point, which is why she let them bond with her.

** This Troper managed to peg her as an [http://www.personalitypage.com/html/INTJ_rel.html INTJ] personality type. Any friends she would've had would have been just as bright and nerdy as she was. The reason she didn't have friends in the first episode? The few she had had already left her to her obsession with her studies. The "Friends" section of the page linked above describes it thusly:

 

== Twilight Sparkle is an epileptic. ==

 

== Twilight's unusually high magical ability is based entirely on that one event in ''The Cutie Mark Chronicles''. ==

* This Troper proposes that they were supposed to inflict some degree of magic on the egg, but not actually hatch it, which is why we don't see a bunch of unicorns running around taking care of dragons. Additionally, maybe Celestia had a dragon back in her day.

** That makes sense. The purpose of the test was probably to see what magical methods the prospective student would use to attempt to hatch the egg, how long it would take the prospect to give up, and how the prospect would react to failure.

 

== Twilight Sparkle was adopted. ==

 

== The opposite of Twilight's element is actually Science. ==

 

== Twilight's new spells this season... ==

** But she's the personal pupil of the Princess. Does she even take regular classes? And does she work as a teaching assistant?

*** Given how busy Celestia can be, especially before Luna was restored, it's possible that Twilight's lessons from Celestia wasn't her entire curriculum. Plus, personal pupil or not, Celestia also seems like she'd want Twilight to have a well-rounded education. I mean, she even sent off her student to make friends!

 

Remember when Twilight manifested out of nowhere a mustache on Spike in Boast Busters? She's doing the same here, but she's too preoccupied worrying about her failure to send a letter to Celestia to notice. Those three [[Fourth Wall]] setups Twilight believes as only imagination in her head are really physical manifestations Twilight brought into reality due to a lack of control. Spike may have pushed a CONCRETE backdrop Twilight apparated behind her, rolled a MANIFESTED 3-d movie screen with Twi right behind it, and popped a LITERAL thought bubble that appeared around Twilight’s head with qualities like a water bubble. We've seen Twilight magick before out of fear back in The Cutie Mark Chronicles, when the Sonic Rainboom scared her into completing her exam with [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]; it's possible Spike [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]] may have been a [[Continuity Nod]] to Twilight's unknown magic ability.

* Adding to this: Rarity's couch is actually something similar, she's just simply more aware of it. The cushion she's seen sitting on at the very end is possibly another version of this.

While Twilight was studying under Celestia as a filly, Celestia began to notice similarities between Twilight and Luna. (Mostly the fact that they were socially awkward and rather [[Adorkable]].) They weren't alike enough the fill the loneliness left after Luna's banishment, but enough to allow Twilight and Celestia to bond on a deeper level than most of her previous students. Twilight and Luna don't know, however, because Celestia feels guilty about trying to mentally replace her sister.

* It's possible that Luna knows or at least suspects - when she visited Ponyville in "Luna Eclipsed", Luna's tones with Twi hint at a frustration and sorrow beyond mere displeasure at how the populace treats her now.

 

== Twilight's library turns pink in the spring. ==

For a brief two weeks after Winter Wrap-up, the tree's foliage turns a light shade of pink. Due to being a [[Cherry Blossoms|Cherry Tree]]. Unlikely, but it would be cool if it did.

 

In Lesson Zero, she's seen talking to her reflection in the water, with differing expressions very much akin to [[The Lord of the Rings|Gollum]]. Her darker split showed herself throughout various points in the rest of the episode, we just haven't seen her return yet.

 

When you think about it, how long would it have taken the Parasprites to finish off Ponyville's entire food supply before realising that, in a sense, ''[[I Am a Humanitarian|ponies are also food]]''? They certainly don't seem picky regarding what they eat. By confining them to eat normally inedible matter, Twilight Sparkle may have doomed Ponyville's structures, but she saved its population from being torn apart by an unstoppable, hungry horde.

 

 

 

 

 

The fact remains, however, that every time she uses magic, Twilight is using unicorn magic, which can already manipulate the heavens, to create a power able to affect literally anything she puts her mind to. She’s repeatedly turning the starter key to a bomb that could rewrite reality, or possibly just destroy it.

In the original timeline, wherein Twilight didn't travel back in time, Cerberus couldn't be returned to Tartarus because he drowned in a flood caused by the dam bursting, and Twilight didn't have access to Pinkie's ball stash because Pinkie was off getting a haircut at the time. All of Future Twilight's injuries were from fighting the monsters that escaped from Tartarus, and Celestia told her where to find the time travel spells before she was devoured by monsters. The events we saw in the episode were the new timeline, where Twilight gets the warning from Future Twilight and enacts general readiness protocols, and the timeline warps probability to give Twilight the same injuries so that the [[Stable Time Loop]] is closed properly.

* Or more exactly, Twilight-Prime, who i'm assuming was future Tilight was going to warn her about the whole bad future you proposed there. When Twilight danger proofed Ponyville, she retconned the events of that future thus making her Twilight-Prime and the other Twilights are going to either interperet her message differently or do the exact same thing. [[Mind Screw|Lost yet?]]

(3) Twilight back in time and prevents disaster

This spawns a new time line

At some point, Twilight will transform into Celestia and travel back in time to defeat Discord the first time. She will then rule Equestria until the day she meets her younger self and takes her on as her protege, whom she will train until she is ready to transform and travel back in time, forming a [[Stable Time Loop]]. Peewee is really a young Philomena.

 

She went insane in Lesson Zero because she was stressing out about time and friendship reports. You could say that her insanity there does have some potential for Cutie Mark Failure Insanity Syndrome, if you take on the idea that friendship is a magic of its own. However, in It's About Time, she went insane from trying to prevent a disaster, eventually coming to the crazed decision to ''stop time''. Such an act would condemn everypony to a [[Fate Worse Than Death]], and that had nothing to do with her magic talent being suppressed - in fact, she was planning to use it for her own means. Therefore, whereas everypony else suffers from occasional bouts of Cutie Mark Failure Insanity Syndrome, Twilight doesn't - she's simply insane ''all on her own''. The fact that she's apparently a genius only ups the danger factor.

 

* Her brother is Captain of the Royal Guard.

** As an addendum, said brother said his dress uniform belonged to their uncle, suggesting a tradition.

 

== Despite the introduction of Shining Armor, Twilight still sees Spike as her little brother ==

 

 

 

*** Another small example would be, when Twilight takes him to the pony doctor. She takes him there, as if he were just any normal filly or colt. She didn't even consider that because he's different, that they he may be treated differently. That alone seems touching.

 

For Shining Armor it was different. He was someone that she could look up to. He was a mentor to her, and her very first friend. He taught her things like how to fly a kite, and helped her with her magic. Spike wouldn't be able to do this. Not only would he be a baby, but '''in the flashbacks, Twilight didn't have her cutie mark yet. So he didn't exist yet!''' Shining Armor was probably her only friend ''before'' she became Celestia's pupil, and thus also before she met Spike. Twilight mentioned they drifted apart, and that's probably the point in time when the drifting happened - when Twilight became Celestia's pupil. And also, she said she hasn't seen him ''since'' she moved to Ponyville. she misses him. The song is meant to add more depth to that. It was to let the audience know what their relationship was. For spike, we already know what their relationship is. Just watch Owl's Well That End's Well, and Dragon Quest. It pretty much shows that they're like family to each other. He's like her l.b.b.f.f (little brother best friend), and those episode worked fine without a song because we didn't need them.

 

 

In case you're still skeptical here:

 

She loves her brother like a friend.

* She looks far more like Cadence then she does either of her parents

** Really? I thought her mom looked a lot like one of her previous incarnations.

* The whole "Why is a princess foalsitting her?" issue.

* The unusually powerful magic.

* "Lesson Zero" ''does'' show her being rather... aggressive with a bear. {{spoiler|Okay, she was doing chiropractic therapy, but still!}}

* "Sweet or Elite" finds our sweet Fluttershy staying nice and calm to attract a bevvy of Canterlot birds instead of demanding their love. Lesson learned.

 

== Fluttershy's... episode during "The Best Night Ever" is Twilight Sparkle's fault. ==

While she certainly doesn't appear to have Cerebral Palsy, she does come off as fairly clumsy, and is still somewhat of a poor flyer despite her age. She also seems to not be as physically active as the others are.

* This troper atributes that more of Fluttershy being a "Duck Pony", while she was born a pegasus pony, due her shyness, she almost never left her home (and therefore, almost never exercised her wings, making her quite clumsy in that regard, in contrast with competitive Rainbow Dash, who was far more extroverted and athletic, she already knew how to fly when she entered on the junior flyers academy), and after she discovered the ground she rapidly became more comfortable with it, causing her to depend even less on her wings and more on simply walking (note that apparently she can fly as fast as Twilight can run, and we know Twilight is a pony of the weak nerdy type).

* She's bigger-framed than most pegasi. She's had to bust her little rump to even become ''competent'' at flight, much less actually ''good''.

* Most likely [[Jossed]] by Hurricane Fluttershy: Her trouble seemed to be mostly performance anxiety combined with bullying. I think she only reached 5 wing speed rather than the ~10 the others had, but that may be just from a lack of practice. The other times where she seemed to nearly match Rainbow Dash's speed were in times of necessity. She's probably an average flyer overall, just prone to performance anxiety.

That's why, when she fell from Cloudsdale, the butterflies caught her. They weren't dark matter, she just can walk on them just like clouds.

 

A (albeit briefly) famous model at a high society event had an epic breakdown, you don't think it'll spread like Parasprites?

* Let me rephrase: Flutterrage is a meme in-universe

** Possible, but why? Fluttershy's episode at the Gala was noteworthy to ''us'' because it was so incongruous with what we know of her normal personality, but most of Equestria would have no idea what she's usually like. They would probably say: "Famous fashion model/close associate of powerful courtier turns out to be a primadonna with a nasty temper. So what else is new?"

 

== Fluttershy wasn't just protecting her friends in "Dragonshy"; she was also protecting the dragon. ==

** Doesn't seem very likely considering Twilight was ''just'' able to ''pacify'' a ''baby'' monster about the same size and power as the dragon in the previous episode. Princess Celestia, on the other hand, could take out the dragon no problem, but being the good ruler she is, she probably sent the Mane Six as envoys to try and work out a peaceful solution before resorting to force.

== There is some kind of dark entity in the form of Fluttershy's shadow. ==

** Based on filly!Fluttershy's design, she probably ''is'' supposed to be fairly tall and large-framed as pegasi go. Not really being ''built'' for flight—and being {{spoiler|(at least until more recently)}} neither enough of a jock or an overachiever to overcompensate, or assertive enough to find someone to coach her—could explain why she was such a klutz at it in her youth. And it could also explain her habit of sort of curling in on herself and hiding behind her forelock: She's not ''just'' being a [[Shrinking Violet]], she's also consciously attempting to ''take up less space''.

* I actually think this makes sense, as Fluttershy actually had a fear of flying at one point and overall doesn't seem to enjoy it as much as Rainbow Dash (who is clearly Pegasus to the core) and the fact that her "special talent" that earned her her cutie mark involves a bond with animals, and that kind of connection with nature is usually only found in Earth ponies. I also heard that Fluttershy was originally planned to be an Earth pony.

 

== Fluttershy knows Judo. ==

Because {{spoiler|even on a willing participant}}, how else would she over the shoulder throw a bear? Also this might lead credence to the "Fluttershy is half earth pony" theory.

* As an extension on this, Rainbow Dash indeed knows karate. Her black belt seen in "Call of the Cutie" apparently wasn't just a one-off sight gag if her destruction of Applejack's barn is anything to go by.

 

== Fluttershy's [[Shadow Archetype]] will be an expy of [[Tiny Toon Adventures|Elmyra Duff.]] ==

In Twilight's section, there's a WMG about her having Aspergers, but to me Fluttershy would be the likely candidate for it. I myself have Aspergers, and I find that I am most like Fluttershy out of the mane cast. While Twilight seemingly has [[No Social Skills]], that's probably because she never thought she ''needed'' them in the first place, and spent more time studying than anything. Fluttershy, on the other hand, doesn't seem to have any real reason to have social problems, at least not in canon. She seems to fit the Aspergers traits that I'm familiar with: shyness <ref> admittedly she's shyer than most, but that's probably just for characterization</ref>, troubles with social skills, nervousness, and (though this may just be me) knowing a lot about something others don't expect you to know much, if anything, about. Not to mention the whole [[Beware the Nice Ones]] thing is something I'm pretty familiar with.

* I've noticed this as well. That part in the pilot when she goes from quiet and awkward to constantly talking upon seeing Spike is something I've frequently experienced.

 

== Fluttershy's kindness is actually a veil she wears to hide her true nature. ==

* [[Jossed]]. She's obviously the element of kindness, your point is invalid.

* Debatable, the concept of her having severe Aspergers or Autism as presented above, might lead to a lack of empathy on her part. But even Discord could tell her sense of right is unbreakable without magical interference.

* So being a little annoyed at someone treating you in a condescending manner is grounds for being labeled as a bitch? Demonization much?

** Sir, retarded theories are part of my job.

* So she's like [[Twilight|Jane]]?

Consider how Rarity and Fluttershy talk about it at the beginning of "Stare Master":

'''Fluttershy''': Oh no! I wouldn't! I couldn't! I don't really have any control over when that happens! I-it just happens! }}

* I like to think that The Stare is the equivalent of twisting somebody's arm behind their back. Not too painful, but you're not likely to go anywhere easily. The cockatrice resisted initially, similar to someone who would kick and scream at the person holding them, but the cockatrice eventually gave up. Her will was too great.

** [[Word of God]] is that The Stare is a weaponized form of the attitudes behind the [[Mama Bear]] trope, and it's true that it really only comes out A) when someone is resisting something she knows is good for them, e.g. bedtime for the chickens, or B) when someone she cares about is in danger, e.g. when the dragon was dragoning it up in everyone's grill. So basically what happened to the cockatrice was that it was hit with the utter certainty that it had about ten seconds to stop trying to stone this sweet, adorable, pacifistic pegasus, or else this sweet, adorable, pacifistic pegasus was [[Beware the Nice Ones|going to tear it a structurally superfluous new one]], and it would have nothing to complain about because it attacked the children.

* ''Hurricane Fluttershy'' confirms that the bullying she received was emotionally traumatic and still affects her to this day.

 

And she will be perfectly content with the role.

 

== Fluttershy planned to have Rainbow Dash and Tank together from the very beginning. ==

 

== Fluttershy is a faster flier than Rainbow Dash. ==

** But in "The Mysterious Mare Do Well" she flew past Rainbow effortlessly.

*** Sure. Going in the ''opposite'' direction. Rainbow's own speed would only have been helping her there.

*** Ah, but doing things you normally can't do for the safety of your friends is what [[Power of Friendship]] is all about!

**** Well, again, consider that for several minutes, while loaded as described above, Fluttershy at least matched speed. When she started to drag (putting RBD out of AJ's lasso reach), that's when Twilight spurred her [[Power of Friendship]] into gear, which I accept boosted her speed. But before then -- that's where the gotcha is that suggests Fluttershy can normally fly faster than RBD, but certainly can't sustain that speed.

** Although in that case they were ''trying'' to arrive at the same time. Still, at least it proves Fluttershy isn't a ''weak'' flyer anymore.

*** Interestingly, their poses and expressions show that Fluttershy is uncomfortable and impressed with the speed, while Rainbow is more at her element. It's also weird that they go fast enough for Rainbow Dash to leave a rainbow trail, but Fluttershy doesn't leave one.

 

== Fluttershy is a [[Physical God|Physical Goddess]] on par with Celestia ==

* Known Past: Fluttershy was shown to be bullied in her youth as evidenced by "Cutie Mark Chronicles." While her weak flying could have been a result, one can ask WHY she was a weak flyer growing up. Someone in high-class society wouldn't NEED to fly all over the place and thus had no need to develop the same kind of muscle that most pegasi were expected to have at her age. (On a side note, the animals brushing her off at the Grand Galloping Gala may have brought back memories of the bullying, helping spur along her breakdown.) Fluttershy also somehow knows a lot about sewing despite it having nothing to do with her cutie mark or special talent. Where did she learn this? If she was of Cloudsdale upper-class then she could have gained this knowledge due to spending time having to listen to custom tailors if her parents insisted on her looking nice for major events in the city or even in general.

* Means of living: Just what does Fluttershy do for a living? It's shown she takes care of the animals around Ponyville, yes, but even IF it pays at all the wages given to what amounts to a city park manager or groundskeeper can't possibly afford her weekly trip to the spa with Rarity unless Rarity pays for the both of them. While we know Fluttershy didn't return to Cloudsdale after receiving her cutie mark, there is no reason she wouldn't at least visit her family from time to time. However, there is the possibility of said parents no longer being around at this point, thus there being nothing for her to return to in the first place. Either way, with a high-class background, she either has an inheritance or some sort of allowance.

 

== Fluttershy is left hooved. ==

** However they originally met, we know they were at a flight school together because 'only for Dash' would Gilda recite the chant.

* I'm amazed this wasn't already on here. No one wants to see WMG taken over by pairings (because, let's face it, it could go on for ''pages'') but it's certainly more valid than most ships.

* Going on from that idea, Gilda was bullied at flight school too and her attachment to Rainbow grew from that. She has the same massive chip on her shoulder as Rainbow does only much worse, and is pointlessly aggressive to everyone save for her. Makes me wonder if they didn't have some kind of 'You and me against the world, screw the system, not gonna get us' kind of thing going, and that Rainbow might not have returned the feelings back then out of simple camaderie and desire for affection. The problem is that Rainbow Dash has since acquired some actual [[Character Development]] and realised the whole world ''isn't'' out to get her, and that she doesn't have to project this bitch queen persona to defend herself (within reason, this is Rainbow 'I'm awesome, yay me' Dash). Unfortunately Gilda... hasn't.

* Perhaps Gilda has become so attached to Dash because she is one of the few, perhaps only, pony she's met who isn't intimidated by a big and rather scary-looking (from a pony perspective) griffon. We know Dash would face ''anything'' regardless of what anypony else would think. Trouble is Gilda doesn't know when to back down, has a temper, and doesn't want to share Dash. If so, one has to wonder how Gilda fares amongst her own kind.

 

* [[Jossed]] by A Canterlot Wedding part one and two. Rainbow Dash is able to perform the Sonic Rainboom at will, now. It appears to take very little effort at this point, as well.

 

Which is to say, born physically a stallion but identifying as a mare. She comes across to this troper as less of a tomboy and more like an actual boy, judging by her voice <ref>In spite of her VA being the same as Applejack's</ref> (she sounds like a prepubescent boy, like Spike) and way of movement (she seems to fly and fight more like the way a stallion would). Stallions are also noticeably more aggressive than mares, and Dash is the most aggressive, both physically and socially. Dash may have been born a stallion, but stallion mentality may simply not have felt right to her, whereas interacting with the rest of the mane cast as a mare gives her the social network that feels right. (It's also possible that she's a gelding, but try explaining that to the kids.)

* Considering the main reason for gelding is to make a colt calmer and more manageable (and m-to-f sex changes involve castration) I'd say it's more likely she's a trans'''stallion''' who just started [[Testosterone Poisoning|testosterone]] therapy.

 

== Rainbow Dash has a monochromatic sibling. ==

 

== Rainbow Dash had a [[Les Yay|serious crush]] on Fluttershy back in [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|summer flight camp]]. ==

* I disagree. We've seen how honor is a large thing among pegasi from Hearth's Warming Eve, and one must note that Rainbow Dash is much more respectful than the bullies. She didn't like seeing a meek pegasus get bullied. If anything, Rainbow Dash does like being a heroine.

 

== Rainbow Dash is nowhere near the fastest flier in Equestria. ==

*** I think this is the most likely explanation. Sure, she's fast, but she has little to no experience in ''formation flying'' - only alone. Even in Winter Wrap Up she's seen to be the ''captain,'' but does little flying of her own, just pointing the squads where to go.

* Also, she won the ''Young'' Fliers' Competition. It's possible ponies just don't join the Wonderbolts until they're older.

 

== "Rainbow Dash" isn't her real name / Rainbow Dash is a natural blunette/violette with really girly hair. ==

== Rainbow Dash can only go '''slightly''' faster than the speed of sound, not Mach five, three, or even two. ==

Assuming that the Sonic Rainboom needs to g at least mach 1.7; Rainbow Dash can do tis with diffficulty if she goes straight down. therefore, Rainbow can only go at Mach 1-1.5 speeds regardless of the apearance of the cone.

 

== Rainbow Dash is a faster flyer than Fluttershy, but Fluttershy is more powerful. ==

Just as a Lamborghini is faster than a Mack truck, but the truck is more powerful. Of course, a fully-loaded truck would be able to overtake a sports car that was towing an equal amount of weight, or even a vaguely comparable amount of weight; sports cars just aren't designed for freight hauling. Rainbow Dash has spent years training to maximize her airspeed and racing abilities, whereas Fluttershy is constantly carrying the animals she cares for from one place to another, and is constantly transporting their food, and so forth. As a result, when Fluttershy was chasing Dash in "The Return of Harmony, Part 2", she was able to overtake her despite the fact that Dash was only hauling two ponies while Fluttershy was dragging an entire hot-air balloon; Dash was slowed down much more than Fluttershy was.

* Debatable, as a hot air balloon has to be able to rise by itself, and does so by being lighter than air, so Fluttershy might have only had to deal with drag, while Rainbow Dash had to carry the actual weight of Rarity and Pinkie Pie (and let's not forget that Pinkie Pie might be heavier than she looks, given her fondness for desserts.)

*** So that means Fluttershy had to deal with more drag when moving horizontally, but Rainbow Dash had to work harder just to keep herself in the air due to the extra weight. The question is: which is harder?

**** But there is no sign of Rainbow Dash attempting to do that. If anything, she seems to be trying to climb even higher - which ''would'' be made more difficult with extra weight.

 

* That is my new favourite theory

 

 

== Rainbow Dash is just too young to join the Wonderbolts ==

 

== Rainbow will attempt to write Daring Do Fanfiction. ==

 

== Rainbow Dash will get a "very special somepony." ==

She's so sympathetic to Fluttershy's angst in "Hurricane Fluttershy" partly because of her guilt in being part of what made her so self-conscious in the first place.

* Probably not, or at least not to the same extent as the others. The pegasus race in The Cutie Mark Chronicles started with Rainbow sticking up for her, after all. In fact, she could have been sympathetic toward Fluttershy ''because'' she was always the one who stuck up for her.

 

== Rainbow Dash is the last descendant of an ancient race of special Pegasus. ==

 

 

== The Wonderbolts would accept Rainbow Dash into their ranks, but they don't want her to lose heart. ==

 

 

== The reason Rainbow Dash often takes naps during the day is because she works more often than any of the others. ==

It was because there was a ''free'' buffet inside. Seriously, if you were invited to a very nice party in which there was a free buffet inside, would you pay money for a snack outside? Prince Blueblood was a jerk about it, but none of the guests were really being unreasonable.

 

And Rainbow Dash will snark about being able to sing better.

 

** But Newton never said anything about an apple, that was an example someone made later. Which means...''Applejack doesn't really exist!''

 

* This right here is my favorite Applejack WMG. I really hope it's canon.

 

== Applejack is a robot. ==

 

== Applejack is immortal. ==

*** And now we've seen her parents, her mother sounds like she's from Long Island and her father sounds like he's from Wisconsin

* Highly likely, given that Sweetie Belle doesn't share the accent.

* As I mentioned on the headscratchers page, her friends seem to be aware of this too. In the imagine spots in A Dog and Pony show, it seems the rest of the cast imagine her with a slightly more exaggerated accent than normal, such a caricature suggests they find it a bit silly.

* Well, judging by her parents, this seems pretty much Confirmed.

 

== Rarity was originally a human who somehow ended up in Equestria and got transformed into a unicorn. Sweetie Belle is her sister by adoption. ==

* Do Want an episode about!

* A. She's got a Mid-Atlantic accent, a hybrid of American and British used by people trying to sound "cultured", and she didn't have the accent as a filly. B. She was trying to say "wallow in self-pity" but wasn't exactly in her right mind. C. She's a fashionista.

 

== Rarity only uses her first name for [[Just for Pun|branding]] purposes. ==

* Mh, let's see… most members of the Apple Family have their family name positioned ''before'' their personal name (Apple Jack <ref>Fine. Applejack, but…</ref>, Apple Bloom, etc.). If we assume that this is common practice in Equestria and not just an eccentricity of the Apple family, shouldn't Rarity's full name be Sweetie Rarity?

** There's not really any evidence that this is a common practice in Equestria. It seems to be an eccentricity, as you put it, of the Apple clan to have apple-themed names as family markers rather than a specific family name; after all, many members of the Apple clan, such as Granny Smith, Big Macintosh, Braeburn, Red Gallant, Red Delicious, and Golden Delicious, do not have the word "apple" in their names at all, while Baked Apples has Apples as a last name. The norm seems to be that if there is any kind of surname at all, it is a family name, as with Mr. and Mrs. Cake, or as when Twilight is referred to as "Miss Sparkle" by one of the test administrators in "Cutie Mark Chronicles"; in other words, Equestrian nomenclature typically, although obviously not always, follows modern American norms and expectations.

** Well, in the planning stages of the show, it was originally called Carousel Boutique because, in that plan, Rarity designed and made saddles and bridles like you see on carousel horses. But since they changed that, maybe her last name IS carousel. It sounds good as Sweetie Belle's last name.

* It's possible, but we see a lot of ponies with two names so it's hard to tell which ones are using their full name and which ones are only using first names that happen to have two words.

* That or she hadn't finished it yet/could not for the life of her get it right and was at home being melodramatic as she does. Exactly like with the nest Twilight made in Winter Wrap-Up. Because it was too fantastic to make properly, much like a [[Final Fantasy]] outfit can be to certain people. She just made it too awesome to actually make.

* I'd like to imagine that she designed most of the costumes worn in the episode. She made so many that by the time she finished her own costume, she became tired, fell asleep, and missed the whole event. By the time she awoke, it was morning, but Sweetie Belle left her a bag of candy.

 

== Rarity is an amateur fashion designer. ==

 

== Rarity uses her gem-finding ability to stay financially solvent. ==

 

== Rarity will end up with Fancy Pants (assuming Fleur's not his wife) or with a prince ==

== Rarity is hideously ugly by pony standards. ==

In Green Isn't Your Color she was completely ignored and trampled on while Fluttershy (Who is apparently an absolute stunner by pony standards) got tons of attention. It would also help to explain why she never seems to get famous or successful no matter how hard she tries or how many connections she makes; her looks just aren't good enough to sell her products. And if Spike is known for having very strange taste in food, why not also in ladies?

 

== Rarity is really Sweetie Belle's mother. ==

** Rainbow Dash owns a cloud mansion as a home. She's also the captain of the weather team - now, we don't know what "captain" actually means, but that is not an average job.

** Fluttershy owns the cottage and obviously has some kind of business in order to feed and home literally hundreds of pets. Her actions and the fact that she has stocks of pills in the episode with Celestia's phoenix suggest she may be a vet.

 

== The Mane Cast ==

* Honesty: The wielder of Honesty can't consciously lie, but that doesn't prevent her from misjudging the situation and giving promises she can't keep (like in "Applebuck Season").

** Doubtful, she gave the most convincing lie in "Party of One". Unless you think she sort of botched that lie too.

* Kindness: The downside of Kindness is, of course, indecisiveness and shyness. (Maybe this point needs some further thought.)

** As of "The Best Night Ever", the downside of Fluttershy's Kindness is now proven to be [[Yandere|a strong psychological need to be loved by the beings she cares about]]. *shudder*

== All six of the main ponies run between a little weird and occasionally psychotic. ==

Not to be over analytical, but... here goes nothing. I'll rate them on 1 to 5, based on possible danger.

** I guess it is time to rate her 5, or even, 6. {{spoiler|1=the compilation video of her being mentally unstable is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X9ZRTIAA5g}}

** AND that episode does establish her personal trigger: the fear of disappointing and failing her teacher, Celestia.

 

== Princess Celestia will eventually grant titles of nobility to the mane cast in recognition of their services to the crown. ==

 

== The Mane Six are sisters. ==

In small ways, the mane six betrayed their ideals: Applejack lied to Pinkie in "Party of One", even though it was meant to be a harmless little white lie, she still lied. Likewise, Pinkie became depressed and morose in that same episode, abandoning her ideal of laughter and joy. Fluttershy was unkind to the animals in "Best Night Ever": she wanted them to love her to gratify her own ego, and she was unkind to them when they did not. Rarity has been selfish and self-centered in a couple of small ways, most obviously in "Sonic Rainboom", when she was supposed to be there to cheer on Rainbow Dash, but instead made it all about her. I admit I can't think of a time when Dash was ever disloyal, but the others seem to fit. Even small deviations from the ideals the Elements represent might have rendered them vulnerable to Discord.

* A better Rarity example (for greed rather than vanity) might have been Dragonshy, where she was less concerned about convincing the dragon to move on and more about looting its hoard.

 

== The Aesop of "Luna Eclipsed" will help Twilight realize she can be more open and relaxed around Princess Celestia. ==

** Judging by the banner in the play, Princess Celestia and Luna were both present at the founding. Maybe Celestia recognised them, and that's partly how she knew where Twilight would find her friends/ the other elements?

** Pinkie Pie's offhand comment about "And that's how Equestria was formed"- maybe on some level, she really ''does'' remember?

 

== When performed by the Elements of Harmony, the Pageant became more than just a symbol of on-going Equestrian unity ==

== Rainbow Dash not being able to get her cider? That's Rarity's fault. ==

Rarity said she was going to get vengeance on Dash in the previous episode...

 

The general agreement on how Magic fits in with the other Elements is that it's a [[Title Drop]] - but what if that's not it? The thing is that Friendship is not just one thing. It's many elements coming together that make up a bond between people (or ponies, as the case may be). So how is Magic connected? Well, think about it. The Mane Cast are as different as different can be - a socially awkward nerd, a flamboyant fashionista, a down-to-earth cowfilly, a silly [[Reality Warper]], a shy but kind girl, and a brash athlete. And yet, they all get on, despite the fact that their personalities SHOULD, by all rights, be incompatible. All of these ponies, coming together, getting on... it's just like ''magic''.

 

 

== Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy are sisters ==

* Kind of the opposite of the usual older-younger sibling dynamic then? Considering how much taller Fluttershy was as a filly.

 

== Their "Friendship" Magic is interchangable. ==

 

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