History Headscratchers / MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames

* When Sunset tells Twilight that one day everyone will forgive her for the stunts she pulled as [[spoiler: Midnight Sparkle]]... what exactly does Twilight need to be forgiven for? It seems as though it was fairly obvious to basically everyone involved that she only did what she did because Cinch and her Crystal Prep teammates pressured her into doing so. That's more their fault than Twilight's. And it's not as if anybody knew what 'unleashing the magic' was going to do until it was too late, plus Twilight clearly wasn't in her right mind when she [[spoiler: nearly destroyed the human world]], so perhaps she wasn't completely in control of her actions. Why does she need to be forgiven, in that case?

* With the airing of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E25TheCutieRemarkPart1 Cutie]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E26TheCutieRemarkPart2 Re-Mark]]", we know exactly why Princess Twilight couldn't come to CHS' aid this time around, but it also opens up some questions. Throughout "Cutie Re-Mark", we see [[spoiler:present day Equestria changed thanks to Starlight Glimmer's meddling, but when Midnight Sparkle starts spamming portals, Equestria is fine. All of Equestria's various locations are intact, all ponies seem fine (Though weirded by the portals opening up), and no trace of the war or destruction that plagued all the {{Bad Future}}s.]] Outside of DHX wanting to keep the-yet-to-be-released-at-the-time season finale from being spoiled, why does [[spoiler:Equestria]] still look fine despite what happened in the season finale?

*** Why are you assuming that EG takes place in the US. Remember, the production studio is Canadian.

** My interpretation was that Crystal Prep's Twilight fell into one of the portals but was able to muster the magic energy from her device to get out. But during the meantime, she had fallen into the pony world (and, by necessity, had become a pony as well). As she had spent her entire life in a mundane environment with no magic, (relatively) normal laws of physics, no species that talks except humans, and especially no transforming into other creatures, this would be too much for her to comprehend, even more so as someone dedicated to her own world's logic, as that logic has suddenly broken down. So she went crazy from what she saw and wanted to destroy everything because nothing makes sense anymore.

** Except beyond Twilight having been missing while she was dealing with it everything else in the real timeline went on as normal while the time loop was happening. And even if Earth was effected the effect would have been nullified and rendered as if it had never happened once the time loop was fixed. Recall that in the real Equestria all anyone noticed was that Twilight had been missing for a while and that there was a bright flash from her castle. To everyone except Twilight, Starlight and Spike the alternate timelines never happened.

* As I said before, this movie shouldn't have been possible. Earth's history is tied with Pony Twilight's actions and fate, so Starlight's meddling with the timeline should affect Earth as well. There's no logical reason as to Earth is unaffected, since Starlight would have erased the chain of events that led to this movie.

** She might have been thinking like the scientists of old, like Isaac Newton or Archimedes, who would watch the world around them or build things, then observe and take notes. The other thing is that she has always worked alone, either in the classroom, in the lab at her home, or in what seems to be private research rooms at Crystal Prep dedicated for her. This is the first time she's conducted any sort of study involving other people, and [[NoSocialSkills without any social skills]], she just kind of becomes a deer in headlights when things don't happen as she's planned. I think she's also there to test her storage device, with studying the energy it collects as secondary to that (and maybe on her own time).

* For someone so dedicated to science and academia, what did Twilight ''actually'' think she'd learn simply by releasing the magic her device stored? The events of the Games take place in a single day, there's no time, offscreen or not, for her to run any sort of study or research on the magic her device has been stealing. This supposed "study" of magic has been following her magic detector and being helpless as things happen against her will. Then there's seeing what the device has done when opened on accident, she would already have a good idea of why ''not'' to open that thing without proper containment and protection. I get peer pressure and whatnot, but honestly logic should have been screaming in her ear. How was Twilight supposed to do any learning simply by opening Pandora's Box?

** Cinch mentions during the party that Crystal Prep selects its top twelve students to participate in the friendship games, period. Twilight has no major athletic skill, but she's second to none in academics which is why she's counted in that top twelve. Both sides didn't really ''want'' her participating, but as far as the principle's concerned, there's no other choice.

** It's a prep school. Duh.

** Crystal Prep fits just as well as an American private or charter school as it does a British school.

* Are Canterlot High and Crystal Prep Academy supposed to be in the same country? (Taking in count that each one is their only rival in the games) Crystal is clearly based in a British school while Canterlot is based in an American school but Crystal students just arrived by bus, so?

** Principal Cinch's claims of magic are treated as being rediculous. Celestia and Luna wanted to keep magic away from the games entirely because even if it weren't cheating, beyond certain physical tasks it remains speculative at best that wings would be useful but it would clearly be implied as cheating. This is standard in fiction where magic isn't supposed to exist. It is undeniable that in physical contests like the skating and dirt bikes that the wings at the very least couldn't hurt and probably help. It seems unlikely to help with your math, chemistry or even archery.

* Why did Cinch make Twilight participate in the Games in first place? It's not like there was any reason to think she'd be a huge asset.

** It's not that debatable that Twilight was "clearly" not in her right mind. Even if we assume she wasn't in control of herself, there was no way for everybody to know that. Maybe they idn't know her that well, and thought this was her true self that she'd just hid all along.

** Principal Cinch's claims of magic are treated as being rediculous. Celestia and Luna wanted to keep magic away from the games entirely because even if it weren't cheating, beyond certain physical tasks it remains speculative at best that wings would be useful but it would clearly be implied as cheating. This is standard in fiction where magic isn't supposed to exist. It is undeniable that in physical contests like the skating and dirt bikes that the wings at the very least couldn't hurt and probably help. It seems unlikely to help with your math, chemistry or even archery.

* Principal Cinch's claims that Canterlot High is using magic to gain an edge in the Friendship Games are treated as being ridiculous, but are they really? We know that in Equestria, it is magic that give unicorns their powers, pegasi their flight and earth ponies their strength. Could the magic in the human world do something similar, given that it does do things as radical as altering biology (lengthening hair, growing wings and ears), and that's not counting the magic lasers or portals? Sunset herself admits that she doesn't understand how magic works in their world, and her equipment to study it is limited by the fact that she gets it from a high school, so it does leave the possibility that she may not understand what the magic is doing to them. They may not actively realize it, but given what magic can do, their abilities being passively enhanced is not outside the realm of reason.

* Now that it has been confirmed that Equestria Girls is cannon to Friendship is Magic it raises the question of why aren't their worlds where Sunset or the Sirens were victorious? Sure Sunset stole the crown from Twilight but we're never given any reason to believe that she knew what was happening in Equestria so she would have come back regardless and she's got to be at least as likely to take over Equestria as Flim and Flam.
* Principal Cinch's claims that Canterlot High is using magic to gain an edge in the Friendship Games are treated as being ridiculous, but are they really? We know that in Equestria it is magic that give unicorns their powers, pegasi their flight and earth ponies their strength. Could the magic in the human world do something similar, given that it does do things as radical as altering biology (lengthening hair, growing wings and ears) and that's not counting the magic lasers or portals? Sunset herself admits that she doesn't understand how magic works in their world, and her equipment to study it is limited by the fact that she gets it from a high school, so it does leave the possibility that she may not understand what the magic is doing to them. They may not actively realize it, but given what magic can do, their abilities being passively enhanced is not outside the realm of reason.