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== Twilight Sparkle is an intern for some sort of government agency. ==
She receives direct correspondence with higher government, is well studied in a variety of magic, to the point of being an elite "mage." She is sent on direct assignment, and she is ordered to make strong connections out in a backwater country town. If a government agent ever needed to lay low, a town like that would be a haven. She somehow has knowledge of magic that can temporarily alter and change a cutie mark, which is a highly personal marking that could be used to positively identify individuals. Knowledge of such magic would not be so odd if it weren't for the strong personal connections to a cutie mark; nopony would EVER want to change their cutie mark unless they had a direct need to. she has an almost adept skill in teleportation, which no other unicorn has been observed doing, and she is likely highly educated, having taken the equivalent to some level of college education at a prestigious university. She has the credentials, the skills, the connections, and the orders.
* 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.
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** 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.
* Actually, I would think she has Nonverbal Learning Disorder (NLD) rather than Aspergers. Growing up in a household where my dad and brother were diagnosed with it, it seems more plausible. As the troper above says, she's more of a reclusive nerd than anything else, which fits more with NLD than Aspergers. People with NLD are very vocal with their knowledge, which isn't necessarily subject specific. They also are likely to become agoraphobic and appear more "difficult" than anything else.
== Twilight Sparkle likes Applejack and Fluttershy more than she likes Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, or Rarity. ==
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* '''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]].
* The group literally represents [[Power Trio]] of [[Beauty, Brains, and Brawn]] to a tee, which is why the three work so well together. The other three can be matched in the same way (Pinkie, Rarity, and Rainbow, respectively) but have their own traits that skew these far enough to be effective.
== Twilight Sparkle controlled the stars that aided in Nightmare Moon's escape. ==
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* 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.
** perhaps it was more of a latent ability, inherited by one of her parents(personally, this troper thinks by her mom, go see the WMG about her mom)
* 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.
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** 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.
** Where does the relationship between a parent's and a child's cutie mark come in??? Firstly, what evidence is there before S2E5, and then in S2E5, Rarity's dad has hoofballs for his cutie mark, and her mom has the Eiffel tower.
== Twilight Sparkle's Progeny will be ''extremely'' important for Ponykind in the future. ==
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== Twilight's teleportation has latent time travel effects. ==
In ''The Ticket Master'', when Twilight is chased by the mob of earnest ponies, it is roughly mid to late afternoon. When she teleports spontaneously, she arrives in her library at night time. Granted she had no direct control over that teleport, so this could mean two things:
* 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>
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== Twilight Sparkle is [[Immortality|immortal]]. ==
Specifically, [[Healing Factor|Type III]]. Come on, you saw how much punishment she took in [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1
* 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".
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== Twilight Sparkle is an epileptic. ==
In Cutie Mark Chronicles, Twilight Sparkle went on the magic rampage in response to some energy flux produced by the sonic rainboom. This flux worked similar to flashing lights for a sufferer of Epilepsy, causing her to use magic uncontrollably while convulsing in air and levitating. Princess Celestia may have used magic to force the haywire synapses to calm down.
== Twilight's unusually high magical ability is based entirely on that one event in ''The Cutie Mark Chronicles''. ==
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* 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.
*** And perhaps the reason is that the dragon egg was unfertilized... and the only way for Twilight to hatch it was to magically infuse it with her own genetic material. Twilight isn't Spike's mother. She's his FATHER. (Why do you think he doesn't have wings, and while most dragon breath just burns, freezes, or melts, his teleports things--while one of Twilight's near-reflexive magical abilities is teleportation??)
== Twilight Sparkle was adopted. ==
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*** 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!
== In [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2
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.
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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.
== Twilight has a psychotic [[Split Personality]]. ==
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.
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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.
== Twilight’s special talent is not manipulating magic, her talent is CREATING magic. ==
She's utilizing an instinctive ability for magical fusion to create possibly unlimited amounts of mystic energy using her unicorn magic as a base fodder/catalyst. A lot like nuclear fusion, only instead of fusing atomic nuclei she's fusing unicorn magic, and instead of releasing nuclear energy Twilight is releasing/creating pure magic.
Usually Twilight only uses her horn in this process, a habit that limits the initial amount of conversion that can take place and also helps in focusing the new magical energy. This is due to her training in unicorn magic and belief that she is merely manipulating her own latent energies, she is not aware that she is making her own magic.
While using just her horn is an ingrained habit, it is by no means necessary. She can, and has on at least on occasion, used her entire body as a focus for magic making. During the episode "Feeling Pinkie Keen" Twilight battles with, and eventually admits the limits of, traditional logic. At the climax of this struggle between reason and the Pinkie Sense, Twilight becomes enraged and levitates a few feet into the air before exploding into white hot flame.
This is the result of unintentionally using her whole body as a magic fusion focus without immediately expending said energy into a spell; the energy was released in a blast of light/heat/and acoustic energy which lifted her off the ground and momentarily transformed her into living torch. Thankfully, Twilight calmed down quite quickly and her trust in traditional logic shut down the full body reaction almost as soon as it started.
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.
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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?]]
* It is possible that probabilities were not in any way altered, this just the only permutation that result in the time loop breaking. Consider time lines
(1)Disaster
(2) Twilight Decides to go back in time
(3) Twilight back in time and prevents disaster
This spawns a new time line
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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.
== Twilight is severely mentally unstable, and is a danger to everypony. ==
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.
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* Her brother is Captain of the Royal Guard.
** As an addendum, said brother said his dress uniform belonged to their uncle, suggesting a tradition.
** I agree with this, but I would suggest that far from having been knighted only a few generations ago (knighthood is not hereditary), they are actually very high-ranking members of the nobility (probably dukes, but certainly no lower than marquesses), and have been since time immemorial. The reason that they do not seem stuck up or excessively formal is that they are not status-conscious. That is, they are so confident of their place and rank that they feel no need to put on airs. Their attitude is that, howsoever they act, that's just how a duke's family is supposed to act.
== Despite the introduction of Shining Armor, Twilight still sees Spike as her little brother ==
Based on dialogue from previous episodes, it's implied that Spike and Twilight always had a strong bond:
** Owl's Well that ends Well he was afraid that Twilight didn't love him anymore. Showing that he really cares about her opinion, and would do anything to please her. Which shows that they must have some kind of affection for each other. It also shows that he loves his job as Twilight's assistant, and won't let anyone take away his job. Also, Twilight was the only one that went looking for him after he ran away, and the only pony (with some help from the owl) that saved him from the dragon. She also says that no one could ever take his place.
And that knew each other ever since they met:
** Secret Of My Excess mentions how for every birthday he had, Twilight was the only one that gave him a gift. Sure he only got a book, and he didn't seem to thrilled about it, but that proves that these two stuck by each other.
*** 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.
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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.
* An alternate theory that could also be accepted is: [[Word of God]] suggested that Celestia took to the initial raising of Spike, given the general lack of pony knowledge on dragon raising, only giving her to Twilight as an assistant when both were mature enough for it. Hence, the Twi/Spike relationship - prior to being sent off to Ponyville - would be more formal, and becoming more sibling as they both learned to adjust to Ponyville. This would also be consistent that leaving Shining (whom she still probably saw every day while at Canterlot), her relationship with Spike would be upgraded to the sibling nature to make up for not being around Shining.
In case you're still skeptical here:
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* "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.
** So, Confirmed or Jossed?
== Fluttershy's... episode during "The Best Night Ever" is Twilight Sparkle's fault. ==
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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).
* Not looking good for this one considering her burst of speed in ''The Return of Harmony, Pt 2''.
* 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.
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== Fluttershy has gone Meme [[In-Universe]]. ==
A (albeit briefly) famous model at a high society event had an epic breakdown, you don't think it'll spread like Parasprites?
* Wouldn't they all be pretty well-known in-universe by this point? Aren't they the heroes who saved Equestria from Nightmare Moon and the sleeping dragon? Isn't Twilight Sparkle the prized pupil of the Princess? Might not the story of the Ursa Minor have spread beyond Ponyville by this point also? And isn't Rainbow Dash the winner of a major flying competition and the only pony in living memory to have ever performed a sonic rainboom, an event visible and audible for hundreds of miles?
* 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?"
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== Fluttershy wasn't just protecting her friends in "Dragonshy"; she was also protecting the dragon. ==
Twilight Sparkle is perhaps the most powerful wizard in Equestria; only the two [[Physical God|princesses]] are clearly more powerful. Largely because of the nature of the show; we have never seen Twilight uncase the full power of her magic with deadly intent, but if it had come to a fight with that dragon, Twilight probably would have killed it, although there would have been a very real chance that some of the other ponies might not have survived. Now, we know that Fluttershy is a [[Friend to All Living Things|Friend To]] ''[[Friend to All Living Things|All]]'' [[Friend to All Living Things|Living Things]]; she's not going to stand by and let one of her closest friends kill a another living creature, especially not a sapient, sentient one like a dragon, any more than she would stand by and let that dragon kill her friends. As for why Fluttershy never said anything about this to the dragon is that, one, dragons are very proud, and saying anything that might have sounded like a threat might have backfired, and, two, she knew that there was a chance she might fail, and if it did come to a fight, she didn't want the dragon to know just how powerful Twilight was, so as not to forewarn him.
** 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. ==
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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.
** Going even further, Rainbow and Fluttershy were sparring partners in flight school.
== Fluttershy's [[Shadow Archetype]] will be an expy of [[Tiny Toon Adventures|Elmyra Duff.]] ==
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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.
* Well, Fluttershy took some asparagus, and since Aspergers and asparagus have the same root (I'm not making this up, they both come from the latin word for spear) Fluttershy must obviously be an aspie. To be serious, she does present a pretty good case, but there are several times where she shows a little bit too much sensitivity to other ponies/Spike's feelings, though this can be explained by saying that she learned these skills the hard way, and abuse she suffered related to her having Aspergers could have made her become such a doormat and taught her to be hypersensitive to the feelings of others in certain situations. Even though she shows some socially empathetic depth at times there is enough other times where it is clear that she really has no idea what other ponies are feeling and she is just trying extra hard to not offend anypony.
== Fluttershy's kindness is actually a veil she wears to hide her true nature. ==
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* [[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.
** Jossed by science. People who suffer from Asperger's tend to be ''more'' empathetic than most, but they often don't exhibit he nonverbal cues thereof, leading to the illusion that they're sociopathic.
* A bitch? Maybe. A [[Complete Monster|Monster]]? I doubt it.
* 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.
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{{quote|'''Rarity''': Did you use...(scary music plays in background)...''the stare'' on her?
'''Fluttershy''': Oh no! I wouldn't! I couldn't! I don't really have any control over when that happens! I-it just happens! }}
The way they're talking about it, and the way Rarity trembles at even mentioning it, it's as if she were asking 'You didn't beat her, did you?'; clearly, the stare is painful for its victims.
* 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.
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== Fluttershy planned to have Rainbow Dash and Tank together from the very beginning. ==
She was very insistent on having the tortoise as one of the options. As one of her oldest known friends, Fluttershy knows how Rainbow Dash behaves and that underneath that bravado lies a sensitive side that will do anything for a friend once a bond is made. Likewise, she is able to understand the feelings of animals and she probably knew that the tortoise wanted a friend as well. Fluttershy simply put two and two together and figured that Rainbow Dash and the tortoise would eventually become a very good fit.
== Fluttershy is a faster flier than Rainbow Dash. ==
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** 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.
** It wasn't Friendship (at least, in the sense that Fluttershy was doing this to help RBD directly): she only got to her top speed when Twilight reminded her that if she lost RBD, Ponyville would remain Discorded forever, hence yet another situation where the safety of her friends drives her to unusual actions. Furthermore, even if we're talking a Discorded RBD, she was fleeing to initially save "Cloudsdale" and then subsequently for her own life; there's no reason she'd not be breaking her top speed to do so.
*** 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.
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** 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.
* A possible case of [[Unreliable Narrator]] and [[Rule of Funny]], but in the opening of "Cutie Mark Chronicles" when Scootaloo is hinting at going to see RBD about her cutie mark story, she has trouble getting the other two to see this. Scoots puts up "the coolest pony", and Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle offer up their respective sisters; then Scoots talks about the bravest pony, prompting both to suggest Pinkie Pie (which is essentially true). Then Scoots suggests the fastest pony from Cloudsdale, and both AB and SB put out "Fluttershy". They may know something that Scootaloo would purposely be oblivious to (given that RBD's her hero), and a "fact" that has never been discussed because there's no need to discuss it that otherwise all the other ponies happen to know about.
* Further supported at the beginning of [[Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000]], when Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy are flying to Sweet Apple Acres, Fluttershy is seen flying just as fast as Rainbow in the scene with the bunny. Before that, she's seen flying with no visible effort, while talking to Rainbow.
== Fluttershy is a [[Physical God|Physical Goddess]] on par with Celestia ==
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** 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.
** Another possibility is that Gilda has a crush on Rainbow Dash, but never said anything. That also expalins why she hates Pinkie Pie so much: She thinks Her and Rainbow are in a relationship and naturally wouldn't be happy with it. This also explains why Gilda looks down on everypony but Rainbow.
* 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.
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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.
** This was [[Jossed]]; Rainbow Dash was shown, as a young child, to be female. Her bullies referred to her as female, she looked and sounded female, and she isn't that manly.
* Spike is voiced by [[Cathy Weseluck]] [[Cross-Dressing Voices|(that is, a woman)]].
* She doesn't need to be a trans mare or trans stallion to be as aggressive as she is. I think she may just be more of a "boss mare" type pony.
== Rainbow Dash has a monochromatic sibling. ==
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== Rainbow Dash had a [[Les Yay|serious crush]] on Fluttershy back in [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|summer flight camp]]. ==
We know that Fluttershy is considered [[Even the Girls Want Her|supermodel-level beautiful]] by Equestrian standards. Might not that have been why Dash was so motivated to come to Fluttershy's defense in the flashback in "The Cutie Mark Chronicles"? Also, consider the language Dash uses when describing the incident: "I stood alone against all odds to defend Fluttershy's honor." "Defend Fluttershy's honor"? That's the language of courtly love, the sort of thing that a knight might say when describing fighting a duel to defend his lady-love.
* 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.
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== 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.
* As of the season 2 finale Rainbow Dash is capable of busting out Sonic Rainbooms at will, while flying straight up.
== 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.)
** No, not really, because the drag caused by an entire hot-air balloon would be much greater. Compare running while towing, say, 300 pounds of weight on a wheeled cart versus running with a fully opened parachute behind you.
*** 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?
**** When flying, the easiest way to go faster is to fly downward, trading altitude for speed; having more weight on her doesn't really prevent Dash from doing that; having a buoyant hot-air balloon attached to her does make that a lot harder for Fluttershy.
**** 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.
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== Rainbow will attempt to write Daring Do Fanfiction. ==
Whether or not it's any good is up to anyone right now...
== Rainbow Dash will get a "very special somepony." ==
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== Rainbow Dash is the last descendant of an ancient race of special Pegasus. ==
These Pegasus are now mostly extinct. They were more powerful than other Pegasus, Rainbow colored and the only ones ever capable of creating the Sonic Rainboom. As they all do, the Rainbow Pegasus mingled with other ponies. Over the centuries after the last pure Rainbow Pegasus passed, the race was forgotten, but the Sonic Rainboom was legend because no Pegasus alive could do it. Along comes this plucky little rainbow-colored filly who's Rainbow Pegasus genes have completely resurfaced.
== The Wonderbolts would accept Rainbow Dash into their ranks, but they don't want her to lose heart. ==
The Wonderbolts do not accept her, not because of her not being good enough, but with her own good in mind. They like Rainbow Dash enough, but they know that joining them is her dream, and if they take away her dream but letting her fulfill it, they take away her drive and spirit. The Wonderbolts want Rainbow Dash to still have something to shoot for, still have a dream, which is the real reason they don't accept her.
== The reason Rainbow Dash often takes naps during the day is because she works more often than any of the others. ==
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== Applejack is a robot. ==
* She was obviously made by other ponies for manual farm labor that no one else wants to do. That's why she's the element of honesty. Unless programmed to, a robot is basically incapable of lying. The episode where she was "tired" was obviously a malfunction in her processor that made her work and work at the expense of rest, which even a robot needs because most machines need to replenish their fuel reserves somehow. I'm guessing that AJ is solar powered and needs to "sleep" out in the sun to recharge her batteries.
== Applejack is immortal. ==
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*** 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.
* [http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Kazumi-Evans Keep in mind Rarity has a song actress]
** She can't do an accent? Then again, people often lose their accents when singing.
* Rarity mainly lacked her accent as a Filly, when at that age your accent should more-or-less be set. She also looses her accent ''way'' too much to not be intentional.
* 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.
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== Rarity was originally a human who somehow ended up in Equestria and got transformed into a unicorn. Sweetie Belle is her sister by adoption. ==
Consider these facts. Rarity and Sweetie Bell have different accents. In "Suited for Success" Rarity wonders what ponies are supposed to wallow in. And, in "Best Night Ever" she's the only one who cares that they're getting dressed when Spike wants to come in.
* 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.
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== Rarity only uses her first name for [[Just for Pun|branding]] purposes. ==
Rarity's surname is Belle, but she only goes by Rarity, and never Rarity Belle, because she is trying to become a famous fashion designer, and, like many designers, artists, and celebrities, only uses her first name.
* 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.
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== Rarity uses her gem-finding ability to stay financially solvent. ==
Because no one wears clothes except for special occasions, and she lives in a very small town instead of, say, Canterlot, where you could actually thrive as a fashion designer. When the cash gets lows, she just digs up some more gems and sells them to a jeweler. Easy Money.
== Rarity will end up with Fancy Pants (assuming Fleur's not his wife) or with a prince ==
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== 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?
* Unlikely, she did pretty well in [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2
== Rarity is really Sweetie Belle's mother. ==
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** 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.
** In fact, the only of the mane six who DOESN'T own their own home or business is Pinkie.
== The Mane Cast ==
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* 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.
*** Look again; nothing she says in the entire episode is actually untrue, she's just selective with the truth. Not only that, Pinkie Pie clearly had the hardest time believing her excuse (which wasn't even technically a lie, and also quite in-character for Pinkie Pie, since she conversely buys Rainbow Dash's and Fluttershy's "house-sitting for a vacationing bear" excuse without a second thought) if the intense stare-downs are any indication; Applejack came very close to cracking.
* 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*
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== Princess Celestia will eventually grant titles of nobility to the mane cast in recognition of their services to the crown. ==
Applejack will receive the title of [http://www.orangepippin.com/apples/lady-williams Lady Williams] ([[wikipedia:Braeburn|Lady Hamilton]] would just be creepy).
== The Mane Six are sisters. ==
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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.
* I could think of a couple of Dash examples. Dash attempting to cheat in Fall Weather Friends, her being the ONLY pony not to immediately decline the ticket (But instead gloat about it, since she's the only one left) in The Ticket Master, her constantly trying to get away from Pinkie Pie at the beginning of Griffon the Brush Off, the "picking up the trash" line from Owl's Well That Ends Well, not listening to the Appaloosa side of the argument in Over a Barrel, or finding a way to get out of Gummy's after-birthday party in Party of One. There's a good reason for the latter two, but much like the Applejack answer above, she was still disloyal in a way.
== The Aesop of "Luna Eclipsed" will help Twilight realize she can be more open and relaxed around Princess Celestia. ==
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** 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?
** It would also explain Twilight's admiration of Star Swirl the Bearded. She remembers being taught by him on some level.
== When performed by the Elements of Harmony, the Pageant became more than just a symbol of on-going Equestrian unity ==
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== 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...
* Mind you, she did eventually relent, and she wasn't behind every misfortune that came Dash's way (she had no way of knowing about the Flim Flam Brothers).
== Alternate theory on the Element of Magic. (Borrowed from [[Friendship Is Dragons]]) ==
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== Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy are sisters ==
* Rather than a romantic couple, as some have speculated, Dash and Fluttershy are actually sisters. It's why RD stuck up for Fluttershy at flight school, why she insisted that Fluttershy was her number one flier, why she was so enthused to see Fluttershy unhurt after the incident with the Changelings. In fact, it may well have been her desire to look out for her sister that caused Rainbow Dash to leave Cloudsdale and move to Ponyville. After discovering her talent for helping animals, Fluttershy saw no need for staying in Cloudsdale. Rainbow Dash could have stayed and worked more on her flying to fulfill her dream to join the Wonderbolts. But her Loyalty to her sister drove her to move to Ponyville as well.
* Kind of the opposite of the usual older-younger sibling dynamic then? Considering how much taller Fluttershy was as a filly.
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