Setting guesses, Main Character guesses, Secondary Character guesses, Villain guesses, Minor Character guesses, Future Stories guesses, Jossed guesses, Confirmed guesses My Little Pony: The Movie (2017), My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW), My Little Pony: Equestria Girls
These guesses were confirmed to be false.
- Megan even had a little sister, Molly...
- Jossed, Word of God states that "Luna and Celestia have no siblings.", Megan and Molly have a brother.
- Their brother died in the aforementioned sugarapocalypse. Which is what caused Megan to be willing the use the Rainbow of Light make such major changes.
- Jossed, Word of God states that "Luna and Celestia have no siblings.", Megan and Molly have a brother.
- Megan's world change also converted the Princess Ponies magic wands into the Elements of Harmony. Thereby, guaranteeing that even if someone like Lavan go a hold of them again they would be unable to use them.
- It's a Sugar Bowl library. Everybody probably follows the honor system and don't need a dedicated librarian. It was Pinkie Pie who looked up the Elements book, after all.
- She also knew the exact page to turn to to find the flight spell. If Pinkie can read, I doubt there's much of a literacy problem in Ponyville...
- Well, it's not like anypony except the unicorns can write. Probably, ponies of sufficient means can hire scribes (either unicorns or magical creatures with thumbs, like baby dragons) to write letters and keep records.
- Jossed: Non-unicorns can and do write. With their mouths.
- And it is adorable.
- Jossed: Non-unicorns can and do write. With their mouths.
- Now that we've seen a pony school, rampant illiteracy seems unlikely. Still, it wouldn't kill Ponyvillians to patronize their local library now and again.
- Maybe the public school system is a new development (at least in rural areas like Ponyville, since 80's Cheerilee was photographed in front of what looks like a high school locker room)? It seems like all the students are in the same class, there's only one teacher, and the school is a single room. Apple Bloom is young enough to take advantage of the free schooling while Applejack, who is a little older, apparently never learned any "fancy mathematics".
- It might be somewhat new, but it is at least old enough for Applejack and Rainbow Dash to have been enrolled, since they were the "Last" and "First" respectively in their "class" to get their cutie marks. Applejack also mentions that Big Macintosh Granny Smith were the last in their classes to get cutie marks, implying that there was school back when Granny Smith was around Applebloom's age.
- Except that Rainbow Dash is explicitly stated to be from Cloudsdale, the main Pegasus city. It would be far more likely for a place like that to have a history of decent schooling, compared to a backwater like Ponyville. Also, "Read It And Weep" proves that Dash is quite literate.
- Only it's Twilight's house now.
- Just the upper loft.
- And it's not like she wouldn't let you in and lend you books.
- Maybe the public school system is a new development (at least in rural areas like Ponyville, since 80's Cheerilee was photographed in front of what looks like a high school locker room)? It seems like all the students are in the same class, there's only one teacher, and the school is a single room. Apple Bloom is young enough to take advantage of the free schooling while Applejack, who is a little older, apparently never learned any "fancy mathematics".
- Most of the show is based around Twilight and her friends going out and having wild, amazing adventures (or at least interesting adventures.) What part of that sounds like waiting around in a library while ponies come in and browse, occasionally checking out a book or two? I'm not saying it doesn't happen, just saying that that's not what the show's focus is, so it probably doesn't show it.
- To be fair, this is aimed at a young audience who might not all be able to read yet. Maybe fourth-wall breaker Pinkie Pie realizes this so she slapped labels onto everything.
- Probably the real reason why you very rarely see written text in this show (one exception being the "WELCOME PRINCESS CELEST" banner in "Swarm of the Century") is to make it easier for the show to be dubbed into foreign languages.
- In-universe, the pictures on signs all seem rather stylized and decorative. It may just be a matter of aesthetic: ponies prefer to use pictures when possible because it looks nicer than text. Letters are used only when needed.
- Better explanation: Picture labels are used instead of text to compensate for the fact that Earth and Pegasus ponies are incapable of manipulating a writing utensil well enough to write on something as small as a product label.
- Isn't horse vision worse than human vision? It could be that the signs are easier to recognize from a distance.
- Big Macintosh and maybe Applejack were raised by Granny Smith; Big Mac and AJ are responsible for Apple Bloom
- Rarity is responsible for Sweetie Belle.
- Lauren Faust has stated that Sweetie Belle doesn't live with Rarity. She didn't say where Sweetie Belle DOES live, though...
- Sweetie Belle lives with her parents. We meet them in Episode 31.
- Lauren Faust has stated that Sweetie Belle doesn't live with Rarity. She didn't say where Sweetie Belle DOES live, though...
- Rainbow Dash maybe is this for Scootaloo as cousin or family friend.
- Jossed. Scootaloo wants this, but Rainbow Dash is not responsible for Scootaloo whatsoever. We still don't know who is.
- This may be true for dragons, because baby dragon Spike is living with unicorn Twilight (maybe she or even Celestia have parent role to him).
- Twilight hatched Spike during her audition for magic school. It is heavily implied, though, that Celestia is ultimately responsible for him.
- Twilight probably was raised by Celestia (their relations look like mother-daughter stuff)
- Jossed. Turns out, Twilight does have parents. (Although that doesn't mean that they can't actually be her foster parents, that idea is still out in the open)
- This may have roots in Equestria Myths as Celestia could serve parent role for her younger sister Luna (and failing at that)
- Berry Punch should be called Over-Protective Parent Substitute Pony
- This theory might be Jossed as of "Cutie Mark Chronicles", where we see Twilight and Pinkie Pie's parents.
- Definitely Jossed for Twilight, as we meet her older brother and their parents appear in Canterlot during important episodes. Pinkie, on the other hand, is an Unreliable Narrator, so we have no idea whether anything she says is true.
This would explain a lot: her affinity for magic, Celestia's weird focus on her out of all the other ponies, the color of her coat (purple) and her cutie mark (stars); even her new name reflects her status as the coming night.
- Jossed as of "Cutie Mark Chronicles" – Twilight's just a ridiculously talented unicorn that Celestia saw a lot of potential in.
- A lot of potential, plus the Element of Magic. The only other time we've seen Twilight go white-eyes was when she befriended Nightmare Moon.
- It's not entirely jossed. There's still the possibility that she really IS Twilight's mother, and her parents were just foster parents.
- It's a possibility, yes, but less of one now that we know Twilight has an older brother, and both of them look like at least one of their parents.
- Jossed by Word of God.
- And now by canon – In the episode "Sleepless In Ponyville" Scootaloo wishes that Rainbow Dash was her sister, which meant she wasn't already.
- Jossed. In one episode, she had to ask another pony to get her rope.
- Jossed. Although the shift in tone from adventure to slice-of-life did mean her role as Twi's second mentor wasn't needed, she still puts in at least one appearance or more per season. She appeared three times in Season 2, and once in Season 3.
- Also, Hasbro has made a toy of her, complete with mohawk.
- What the future holds is hard to say, but it seems the zebra's here to stay.
- See: the Fanfic Past Sins.
- Jossed. Nightmare Moon was beaten the first time around and didn't appear again.
- But wasn't Nightmare Moon banished to the moon the same year (1000 years ago) that Celestia and Luna imprisoned Discord? Moony's reign would have to have lasted the rest of that year, at most.
- No, or at least there is no reason to think that. The show implies that Celestia and Luna reigned together for a long time after defeating Discord before Luna's rebellion.
- They are rounding the numbers. While keeping count of Luna's banishment served a purpose, the imprisonment of Discord did not, so, say, Discord was taken care of 1179 years ago, that comes simply as "a thousand years" ago
- Again, though, there is nothing in the show that states how much time passed between Celestia and Luna's defeat of Discord and Luna's rebellion against Celestia. It could easily have been many thousands of years, or even millions.
- Though neither Celestia nor Luna mention how long Discord was imprisoned for, Discord himself does.
Discord: "You ponies are just the most fun I've had in eons"- Technically, we don't know whether Discord meant he hadn't had any fun, period, in eons (on account of being a statue) or whether he is simply that old himself and the main cast was just that entertaining.
- Jossed. The actual encounter between Nightmare Moon and Celestia was shown in a flashback in "Princess Twilight Sparkle Part 1" and "Part 2". The whole thing, between Luna refusing to end the night and becoming Nightmare Moon and Celestia banishing her to the moon, couldn't have lasted more than fifteen minutes.
Has it always been like this? And, if yes, why is the Everfree Forest so different? We know that there has been an ancient conflict between Day and Night, and for a long while (days? months? YEARS?) the sun didn't rise. This has undoubtedly wrecked havoc on the ecosystem. The banishment of Nightmare Moon / Princess Luna has certainly upset the natural balance even more.
A theory could be that Equestria, despite the appearances, is, technically, a post-apocalyptic world. Nature and its cycles have been more or less destroyed by Luna's rebellion and its aftermath. So now the ponies have to work hard to keep everything running smoothly. If the ponies ever stopped doing things like artificially creating weather, or doing season wrap-up festivals, then Equestria would quickly turn into a desert wasteland.
The Everfree Forest, for some reason or another (Likely the presence there of the Elements of Harmony), wasn't touched by the devastation. We can assume that neither were far away lands whose existance (and habitability) is implied by the presence of Zecora. Or perhaps there other species (like zebras) perform the maintenance that in Equestria is the ponies' job.
- Alternatively, it's a post-apocalyptic world cased by Discord's reign of terror ruining the envirnoment with unending chaos.
- Jossed, Hearth's Warming Eve establishes that Equestria in its founding and whatever land the ponies migrated from functioned the same way.
- Only it was not adjacent. Ponies had to cross at least one river and one chasm to get to the castle, and there were many other places on their way there.
- It's within a few hours' walk, no more than 20 miles (and probably a lot less). That's really close in geographic terms.
- How do we know it was only a few hours' walk? There were no watches or clocks visible in the episode, so the only way to tell time would have been by movement of the heavenly bodies. Except they weren't moving, because Nightmare Moon had stopped the heavens from turning! So the journey to the old palace might have lasted days, only the episode cut all the boring scenes of the companions foraging for food or camping for sleep periods.
- It's within a few hours' walk, no more than 20 miles (and probably a lot less). That's really close in geographic terms.
- Jossed. Ponyville did not exist a thousand years ago. It might not even have existed a hundred years ago (it depends on how old Granny Smith is).
- Maybe Twilight went crazy in Lesson Zero because this past part of Ponyville rubbed off on her?
- Jossed. Ponyville was founded by the Apple Family as what amounted to a trading post.
- Makes sense. In "Winter Wrap-Up", Twilight said Ponyville was an Earth Pony town.
- Jossed. Ponyville was founded relatively recently (hundreds of years ago, within Granny Smith's lifespan, or both).
- Jossed. In "Baby Cakes", Mrs Cake gives birth to twins.
- Perhaps Pinkie was the child they couldn't have until advances in fertility magic/technology advanced to the point where they could. Multiple births are pretty common with invitro-fertilization.
- Alternatively, the twins were officially adopted while Pinkie is their live-in tenant that they treat as part of the family.
- Jossed. Mr Cake makes it quite clear the twins are not adopted. Though it does not invalidate the possibility that they needed fertility treatments.
- Jossed. Rainbow Dash called her "Derpy" in "The Last Roundup".
- Un-Jossed. Complaints from parents caused Hasbro to go back and censor the episode to remove Derpy's name. She has been nameless ever since (in fact, she put in no appearances at all from episodes 53 to 64).
- Not necessarily from parents (and she did appear in episodes 54, 55, and 57).
- Un-Jossed. Complaints from parents caused Hasbro to go back and censor the episode to remove Derpy's name. She has been nameless ever since (in fact, she put in no appearances at all from episodes 53 to 64).
- Jossed; Princess Luna and Twilight showed up as separate ponies in Luna Eclipsed.
- Jossed – she did live in the clouds as a filly, and discovered her love of animals completely by accident.
- However, she might have still been born on land and lived there for a little while before her family took her to live with them up in the clouds.
- It's still Jossed. She said she had never seen the ground before, so she's lived in Cloudsdale her whole life.
- No. Not necessarily Jossed. We don't know what happened to Fluttershy after she discovered the ground. Given how awful everyone in Cloudsdale (except RD) was to her, and the fact that nopony saw her fall (or cared if they did see), it's perfectly logical that she may have decided to stay in Ponyville, and at that point might have been taken in by somepony.
- She kinda already have. Consider that the rock farm seemed like a pretty boring and bleak place, and yet Grandma Pie taught how to laugh to make the scary go away(I.E. Discord, whatever it is)
- Jossed in "Return of Harmony"
- Jossed: Winona showed up again in Episode 32 and Episode 63/64 at the very least.
- Jossed. Rainbow Dash's pet is a tortoise, just like in the toyline (well, one of her toys anyway). His name is Tank.
- Jossed. "Hearth's Warming Eve" showed all of the Mane 6 perfectly capable of holding their own on a stage (even Fluttershy!).
It doesn't make sense to anyone else right now, but just as the Sonic Rainboom was not a one episode, throwaway plotline, this isn't, either. As more details are revealed, the events she described will have somehow "made" Equestria, even if logically the principality had to exist centuries before Pinkie was born.
- Maybe it has something to do with Doctor Whooves? You know, Time Travel and stuff...
- Or maybe the story of her cutie mark is so closely related the the Equestrian creation myth that, due to her nature, she mixed up the two.
- It fits into the fourth wall breaking idea. Why? *deep breath* Well, had there not been a sonic rainboom, Pinkie wouldn't have learned to party and more importantly the mane 6 wouldn't have gotten their cutie marks which means they wouldn't have gotten into situations that lead them to be where they were in the first episode so they wouldn't have become the elements of harmony, meaning the first episode wouldn't have been made and therefore the entire series wouldn't have been made meaning no Pinkie, no Elements, no Equestria, so it really was how Equestria was made. It all fits! Now... I need to find a trombone...
- Take a good look at the ponies in the illustrations at the beginning of Episode 1. Don't they all look a bit familiar...?
Nope! It was just Pinkie Pie being Pinkie Pie (apparently she can carry two or more trains of thought at the same time, but loses track once in awhile). That's a useful talent, but this guess is still Jossed.
- Doesn't seem like it'd be "funny" enough for him. Unless he thinks a pony version of the Donner Party is funny.
- There's also the fact that they can be used as weapons.
- Or it's part of the inherent subtle magics of the Earth Ponies.
- Jossed. The apples are definitely prone to bruising. These bruised apples are fed to the pigs.
- Jossed twice over. First, Sweetie Belle does not live with Rarity. Second, in "Sisterhooves Social" we actually get to meet their parents, and they're quite nice, although they're very salt-of-the-earth (which clashes terribly with Rarity's sensibilities).
- Maybe the two episodes are actually episodes 1 & 2 of the third season, produced early like "The Return of Harmony" 2-parter was.
- More information: "There is an answer with a great intuition about the real meaning of it, but no one has answeered it correctly yet." And it's definitely referring to the end of season 2, even though Italy splits the episodes into Two Shorts.
- Update: It's not a 3-parter, just the ending of the second season. "And still, no correct answers. Try to think out of YOUR box."
- Most are agreeing that the last word is "characters". Where do we go from that?
- The third word could be "main", referring to "main characters". Maybe it's "More *r** main characters"?
- And now that we've seen the first images of Princess Cadence and Shining Armor toys, the answer has been revealed ("toys from this characters").
- Unlikely. RD is the most short-tempered of the mane six, and is easily annoyed and/or frustrated by the rest of the mane six at any given time, but doesn't seem to dislike any of them (If anything, she is exasperated more often by Pinkie). Several scenes wouldn't make sense if she didn't like Fluttershy, the best example being the opening of "The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000". RD is desperate to get some cider, and not only goes out of her way to get Fluttershy to take some cider with her, but also lets Fluttershy take the place before her, hardly something she would do if she disliked her. She also humored Fluttershy in "May the best win" by letting Tank participate, despite disliking him at first. They are like any normal group of friends, and find each other quirks and flaws exasperating once in a while (AJ vs Rarity or Dash, anypony vs Pinkie).
- As of Hurricane Fluttershy, this theory is jossed.
- She has legs in her official t-shirt.
- Actually, you can indeed see a bit of the line of her thigh behind her turntables.
- The prototype of her upcoming toy has legs, as the final product most likely will.
- Jossed by a clip from "A Canterlot Wedding - Part 1" or "A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2" included in a Hub commercial.
- Further Jossed in "Magical Mystery Cure", where we finally get to see her away from her turntable.
- She apparently also speaks Polish. Maybe English is the only language she can't speak?
- Jossed. She speaks English in the final episode of season 2.
- Jossed! By and large, Luna was very well-received in her return appearance.
- Jossed. Season 4 will start Fall 2013 at the earliest.
- You: But how the hay did they use it on NMM if she was a corrupt Luna?
- Jossed. Later flashbacks show Luna and Celestia wielding the Elements alone, three to each of them.
The non-cutie marked fillies may start to feel that the cutiemarked pony no longer really "fits" into the Cutie Mark Crusaders and the strain it will put in their friendship and sense of belonging. But they'll see that, while it was their lack of cutie makers that made them friends, it is not what has to keep them friends and they should keep friends for who they are and because they enjoy their company.
Or maybe that one with the cutie mark is going to become a bit "flaunty" and the story will focus on that. But this moral has been done already in "Boast Busters" and "Sonic Rainboom".
- Sadly, Jossed.
- Jossed.
- Unlikely (he said two weeks before hand), but Word of God is that season 2 WILL be introducing some villains.
- Jossed.
- Corollary: The only one not in such a dress would be Doctor Whoof, who will be wearing a Fez and a bowtie to the Gala, claiming that he really doesn't care about fashion, and his outfit is cool.
- Jossed
- Word of God says that an upcoming song in season 1 has a "pretty epic" song (featuring a 20-person choir) in which every lead pony gets a solo. Since this description doesn't match any of the songs in the episodes following the interview, the song in question must be in "The Best Night Ever", since it's the only season 1 episode left.
- The intro of the official game Discover the Difference features the beginning of an instrumental Theme Tune Extended, raising the possiblilty of a full Theme Tune Extended existing.
- Related, Winter Wrap up is chronologically the last episode this season. The ending with Twilight certainly seems like a nice summary of her personal development.
- Rainbow actually says "awesome holidays," though the GGG could be one of them. And the winter solstice thing is certainly possible, since the letter from Celestia at the beginning of The Ticket Master says that the GGG is going to be held on "the 21st." But all five fantasy sequences in Ticket Master take place during the day, so the GGG would have to at least start well before nightfall.
- Maybe it's like Hanukkah where it's spread over several days and the 21st is either when it starts, or the end which is the/highlight of the entire thing.
- Judging by the lack of snow, I'm calling this Jossed.
- Actually, from as early as The Ticket Master it wouldn't make any sense for the GGG to be in the winter, as Fluttershy says that it's the one night out of the year when all the flowers in the garden are in bloom, sounds more like a springtime festival than a winter one.
- Lauren Faust has stated that Luna will not come back until season 2. Since the Gala is the first season finale, that means Luna won't be attending. Cue the fanfics and art regarding how she's going to feel about that.
- And now we've seen that it definitely didn't happen. Jossed.
- Jossed, no more Nightmare Moon in the first season.
- That or because Celestia and Luna are responsible for raising the sun and moon respectively the Equestrian Empire will fall and a literal Dark Age will be upon them all.
- I sincerely doubt that Celestia (who's been handling both for a long time) would forget about that. She'd probably take off, handle it, then get back to being just another pony.
- As a little in-joke, the princesses' civilian identities will recycle old pony names such as "Star Catcher" and "Moon Dancer".
- Didn't happen.
- Jossed, along with many other guesses on the subject.
- Woawh, fastest Joss ever.
- And now it's even more jossed (if that's even possible) since he's revealed exactly what's going on.
- Were you expecting a normal episode? TOO BAD, INSANE TWILIGHT TIME. Also featuring barn nuking and snapping bear necks.
- Well, certainly didn't establish the absence of friendship reports for the rest of the series, but it certainly paved the way for less.
- Princess Celestia: From this day forth, I would like you all to report to me your findings on the magic of friendship, when, and only when, you happen to discover them.
- So in a way, the episode did serve the purpose of freeing the writers from having to put friendship aesop in every episode?
- I got the distinct impression that future aesops won't be delivered by just Twilight Sparkle alone. All of them will be able to deliver them as well, and between the six (or seven if you include Spike), there's certainly enough for many kinds of friendship reports from all the mane characters.
- I see friendship reports are still in the show, even without Twilight Sparkle delivering the letter.
- Alright, people, on the downbeat...
- Sweetie Belle does not get her cutie mark, so this is already jossed.
- There's still hope for the other 2...maybe...
- Applebloom had the Cutie Pox, so no official cutie mark.
- There's still hope for the other 2...maybe...
- Bad Grammar aside, this is jossed.
- Spike does write the Friendship Report without Twilight in "Sisterhooves Social", but we don't see how or when he was called.
- However, Twilight had an important role in "The Cutie Pox".
- ...involving Twist?
- Episode Seven was May The Best Pet Win, there was a plot twist that allowed Rainbow Dash to get a Tortoise... but No pony named Twist.
- Several Pinkie songs - and one did cause them to cry, but not "Smile Smile Smile"
- While the Gala part is still up in the air, at least part of the first episode of Season 2 is confirmed to happen in Canterlot.
- Part of the episode took place at Celestia's courtyard, but the rest took place in Ponyville. It also took place some time after the gala.
- And maybe there might be a reference to the Cereal's, Seth's and Phoe's OC ponies.
- The expanded synopsis has confirmed that the gossip column is in a newspaper (specifically, a school newspaper) but no word on what the newspaper is called.
- Screenshot #56◊ from Hasbro's Web Game My Little Pony Friendship Express Train™ Puzzle Adventure possibly Josses this, if it is indeed from this episode.
- And now a Hub commercial has come out, clearly showing the paper's title as three short words (with the first word appearing to be "Foal"). Not 100% Jossed yet, but just about.
- A new clip from the aforementioned game confirms that the paper is called the Foal Free Press, so that half of the guess is now Jossed.
- The expanded synopsis has confirmed that the gossip column is in a newspaper (specifically, a school newspaper) but no word on what the newspaper is called.
- She will be rather cynical with a bit of shyness and have no understanding of modern Equestrian life, who try not to get involved with twilight and her friends.
- Luna a main character? No...
- Also building on the theory below about season two starting with the main cast in Canterlot, he will be introduced as being a pony who is forced to keep an eye on them in case they cause more trouble. (Maybe being the son of a guard pony at the castle, who wants to keep an eye on them but can't.)
- Also building on one of the meta guess examples where there will be a lesson about letting go of friends; in the season two finale he'll be forced to leave the group for some reason, maybe because the higher ups are finally convinced that they won't cause anymore trouble, or due to some important business that will force him to go away for sometime. Could be a bit of a Tear Jerker if they show that he doesn't want to leave them anymore, maybe shedding a single tear as he's taken away.
- Would also get bonus points if he's voiced by Crispin Freeman through some miracle.
- If the above thought is true about him being tasked with keeping an eye on the main cast, some of the aesops could be in the form of him submitting reports to his boss/father about what he learned from the gang.
- Also building on one of the meta guess examples where there will be a lesson about letting go of friends; in the season two finale he'll be forced to leave the group for some reason, maybe because the higher ups are finally convinced that they won't cause anymore trouble, or due to some important business that will force him to go away for sometime. Could be a bit of a Tear Jerker if they show that he doesn't want to leave them anymore, maybe shedding a single tear as he's taken away.
- It's possible that he'll be introduced as the science and technology pony (maybe running a fix-it shop) as a counterpoint to all the magic in Ponyville and Canterlot and to be The Smart Guy in a way that's different from Twilight. He may also be used in an attempt to give Spike a male friend to relate to and have the two of them bounce snarky dialogue off one another about the general strangeness of Ponyville and its residents as well as the obvious "Women be Different from Men, Yo" jokes.
- A male technological genius who likes being around females and driveby snarking whatever strikes his fancy. Yeah, I'll roll with that...
Pony Stark: The truth is...I am Iron Mane. *DUNNN DUNNN DUNDUN DUN* - You know, a new recurring male wouldn't necessarily have to be there just to offset the feminine tones of the series; who says he can't just be regarded as an ordinary friend and equal by the mane cast? There could even be some lesson in there about how boys and girls can play together without having to regard one another differently. Given how progressive the show's been thus far, it's not impossible. Plus it wouldn't necessarily conflict with the above suggestion of a Gadgeteer Genius pony, which would be an admittedly cool addition to the setting.
- Another idea is that soon after his introduction two or more of the Mane cast will start competing with each other for his affection while he would very much rather stay just friends. Through the course of this they would find out that even though they like him, they don't have very much in the way of common interests (him being a bit more laid-back and possibly something of a geek) and eventually call off their pursuit of him (which he suddenly finds insulting). The lesson being that boys and girls can be friends without any kind of romance or Ship Tease involved.
- Also he could be the first Pony we see who doesn't live at his job as a lesson that people are more than what they do for a living.
- I think if they do add another guy to the group he won't quite be a mane character. He'll show up frequently and be involved when he does, but he won't be in every episode and won't be added to the opening credits. Reasons for this can include already having a rather large cast, having to work him naturally into the story rather than shoving him there for the sake of having another male character, and also to test the waters to see how fans both young and old react to him and if he fits in well probably wait until a third season (Hopefully!) to move him into the Mane cast.
- If a male character is added to the cast, I'd rather he be just as intelligent and introverted as Twilight. In fact, make him another one of Celestia's personal projects, making them god-siblings. The intellectual Sibling Rivalry would make an interesting counterpoint to the normal Mane Six antics.
- Honestly, though, isn't this Spike's role, essentially? Although I can see them adding another male character just to have someone Spike can talk to when none of the mane 6 are around.
- They probably will want to keep the species equality, so if they introduce any new characters they will introduce them three at a time.
- They have. It's Pipsqueak. He'll be the first male crusader and the episode where he joins will teach the gender equality lesson.
- It seems like the current setup for the main characters is fine as it is.
After a few episodes of villainy, Luna will then join the remaining mane characters and will wield either the Element of Laughter or the Element of Kindness in Pinkie Pie's/Fluttershy's stead to defeat Nightmare Moon and return whoever to normal.
- If Nightmare Moon (or whatever was behind Luna's transformation) wants a powerful host, Twilight would be the perfect candidate. A "Twilight Moon" with Twillight's Glowing Eyes of Doom would be awesome and frightening at the same time.
- Or, as part of a Bait-and-Switch, whatever possessed Luna will try and trick the Mane Cast and Luna into thinking it wants either Luna or Twilight in order to distract them from its real target Spike, adding the almost unstoppable power of a dragon to its own.
- Sadly, this never happened in Season 2. But since Season 3 is currently in production, we can still dream.
- Or, as part of a Bait-and-Switch, whatever possessed Luna will try and trick the Mane Cast and Luna into thinking it wants either Luna or Twilight in order to distract them from its real target Spike, adding the almost unstoppable power of a dragon to its own.
- Strangely enough, "Luna Eclipsed" showed that Luna is capable of physically transforming into Nightmare Moon on a whim (except for the fangs). She just doesn't like to anymore.
- Unless the villain isn't throughly annoyed of Pinkie's antics. Pinkie isn't really that easy to break. We've only seen one breakdown from her once.
- And that breakdown came from her thinking she'd failed in what is almost literally her only reason for being alive — making those around her happy.
- Pinkie Pie actually is not that easy to break. From what we've seen, as long as she has friends, she's happy and (relatively) stable. The easiest of the Mane Six for villains to break would probably be either Rainbow Dash (provided you could find something faster than her) or Fluttershy (just use evil magic to turn all the critters against her).
- If Discord turns out to represent the thing he's named after, perhaps another villain could be dubbed Fear and Pinkie Pie's element is his Kryptonite Factor. It'd certainly justify trying to get Pinkie Pie out of his way.
When Pinkie Pie goes against her opposite (Element of Despair?) rather than give in, she will cause Despair to undergo a Heel–Face Turn by sheer force of her joy. And it will be the most Manly Tears inducing thing in the show to date.
- Extra points if it involves a Disney Dog Fight between the Elements of Harmony and Elements of Discord/Chaos/Whatever.
- I second that!
- Kara? Wouldn't a name like... "Night Wish" be more appropriate in the Land of No Real Human Names? Only a few outlandish names like Lyra are actual names that apply to their cutie mark or talent (in Rarity's case). But they're a relatively big stretch.
- Well, there is Pony Joe...
- Yeah, but "Pony Joe" is a commoner. It also might just be a nickname he got, based on how coffee can be called a "cup of joe", as doughnut shops typically have coffee, too. Kara is such a random name to pick. Like it's their own name, or their Ponysona's name. And besides, why say the name of the pony? Why not just say she'll be Blueblood's sister and leave it at that?
- Well, there is Pony Joe...
- Looks like this didn't happen at all. Although there was a celebration, and it was a Wedding.
- IIRC, Twilight has written reports even after ep 3. I think
- Twilight as written only one Friendship Report since Episode 3, that was in Luna Eclipsed. Other than that every letter has been from somebody else (somebody because Spike writes one). We've also started seeing episodes without any Friendship reports.
- No, she simply spoke in an older form of French.
- What. No. You lie. They exist, they have to. They're just like Hogwarts; they only exist to those who are worthy. THEY EXISSSSSST. The Sapphire Stone is totally on display in the Canterlot Museum most days, the exhibit is just on tour in Buckshire right now.
- Jossed as of "Daring Don't."
- Surprised by the continuing loyalty of the bronies, and the stable appeal of the show on the Internet, Hasbro will change the format but not the content (half hour, stand alone episodes presume your audience will miss shows and won't be able to literally watch them at any time they please to catch up — and adults who watch the show have shown they can successfully entertain themselves with their own off-canon versions if they disagree with how it was written).
- The thirteen confirmed episodes were already revealed to be 22 minutes each, and two-parters can't add up to the odd number 13, so this guess was Jossed before it was posted.
- What was generally meant here was that there would be thirteen episodes in essence, having twenty-six from a technical standpoint. However, this rebuttal still stands, just if the original post is modified to specify that there would be twenty-six episodes but thirteen major plot lines, it could still apply as an unclosed guess.
- Jossed by the 8-minute preview clip.
- Jossed. The Crystal Ponies really like the fair. Until they find out the Crystal Heart is fake...
- Jossed. They're more... indifferent to the Mane 6 at first, but it's due to a combination of Laser-Guided Amnesia and the only thing they do remember being Sombra's oppressive rule. i.e. they're just really, really depressed. (And who can blame them?)
- Jossed. They deal with the problem before Pinkie could spread that far.
- On the other hand, if they all sing You Gotta Share at once... Equestria. Wide. War. (maybe that's how Fallout: Equestria started?)
- Jossed. They don't sing.
- Jossed. They have to tell each other about their experiences.
- Jossed. They're all the same personality... sort of. The real Pinkie is the only one capable of a full range of emotions; the clones are all Genki Girl all the time.
- Jossed. They're aware that Pinkie magically cloned herself.
- Jossed. No Gilda.
- No explicit one.
- Jossed. Hardly anypony knew about it, including Twilight.
- Jossed - the extended synopsis confirms that the Coronation is during Magical Mystery Cure.
- A Jossed theory draws near. Command?
- Jossed. The title is "Magical Mystery Cure"
- Jossed - the extended synopsis reveals that the cure is invented by Twilight.
- Jossed - the extended synopsis reveals that the cure is invented by Twilight.
- Bonus points if Twilight wound up a princess as a result of the spell.
- Alternatively, Twilight (mistakenly) casts the destiny spell, which makes her into a princess, but also alters the destinies of all her friends.
- Jossed - the extended synopsis confirms that she is made an Alicorn because of the destiny changing spell, but only because she FIXES it, not because her destiny is swapped.
- The episode's writer M.A. Larson didn't recognize that title, though the episode's title may be similar to that title advertised by The Hub, like how they advertised "A Canterlot Wedding - Part 1" and "A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2" as the My Little Pony Royal Wedding. (The episode's title is, or at least was, something odd.)
- Jossed - the title is Magical Mystery Cure.
- Part 1 will be about discovering the Elements for the first time, and how they stopped Discord with them.
- Part 2 will feature the Princesses overthrowing King Sombra.
- Part 3 will show how Luna fell and became Nightmare Moon, and how Celestia was forced, tears and all, to banish her sister to the moon for a thousand years. The end here will be quite a tearjerker.
- Did this screenshot mention a villain named Nocturne or a seventh Element of Harmony? Because "The Origin of Harmony" was a fan's episode idea that people were adding to Wikipedia's list of MLPFiM episodes as the first two episodes of Season 3 (along with a fake third episode titled "A Derp in the Life" and later up to four more fake episodes) back in March 2012.
- (Original poster here.) That's probably where I'm getting it from. Still, it's three blank slate episodes we know nothing about; why are all three secret if the finale is only a two-parter? Aside from that, the post there was in March. Who knows? Season 3 didn't premier until November.
- Way jossed. The finale is only one episode and is not titled Origins of Harmony. As proven above, it was a Wikipedia prank.
- More specifically, my guess is it's a New Years episode. "Spike at your Service" is "possibly episode 9 in broadcast order", and will be aired on December 29th. A week later would put it as close to NYE as they could get.
- Most likely Jossed. Episode eight will be airing after "Keep Calm And Flutter On", which is airing on January 19th.
- Jossed. Seems to have been moved in order because it directly ties into episode 64 ("Games Ponies Play").
- I think that they're going to appear in the "Magic Duel" episode. They're going to be from "Saddle" Arabia (no I'm not making that name up), and watch Twilight show her magic, alongside the Princess.
- Yup, this one is jossed. They did in fact show up at the end of "Magic Duel", a few episodes earlier.
- Jossed, episode aired as normal.
- Jossed, it's an episode about Spike, the CMC, and the pets. Seems we'll have to wait til Season 4 for Rarity to get another episode.
- Perhaps the seeds of this episode will be planted in the episode involving the spoilered text. Like, an exchange of letters over a period of time.
- Most likely Jossed, the released synopsis gives no indication that Gilda will reappear, unless she makes a short cameo.
- Jossed. Had nothing to do with Gilda.
- Jossed. Twilight became a Princess during "Magical Mystery Cure" itself. The CMC are still blank-flanks, and Hasbro did in fact put in an order for 26 more episodes to make Season 4.
- Also jossed with the send-off...They didn't budget it as a sendoff episode, and it was in fact rushed with just the MAIN plot.
- Wrong pony — it's Fluttershy. But apparently Equestrian vampires are very different.
- And how is a pony supposed to hold a pizza slice, let alone take one from many (outside unicorn telekinesis, of course)?
- Not much of an objection when the ponies already deal just fine with cakes and pies.
- Not exactly Jossed, but the My Little Pony Friendship Celebration Collection Set (Toys R Us exclusive) features two ponies called Sweetie Swirl and Firecracker Burst having pizza together. How do they hold their pizza? With plastic rings, of course!
- Now its definitely jossed since Pinkie Pride had several pizzas shown, both in imagine spots and at the party itself.
- Not much of an objection when the ponies already deal just fine with cakes and pies.
On the first guess, Twilight will either become stressed out by her newly-gained princess duties, fearful of never getting to see her friends again, or angst over the possibility that she'll live on forever while they age and die. Thus, she'll decide to relinquish her power and position in exchange for the simple life she once had before. Then, Princess Celestia will reveal that, by choosing her friends over power, she has passed her greatest test, or something to that effect.
For the second guess, the new Big Bad shall be either banished or imprisoned, only to reveal that their true plan was to remove the alicorn power from Twilight, and possibly at least one more alicorn. At this point, either Twilight will happily accept being normal once again, or spend an entire season trying to get her alicorn powers back.
- This one actually predicts the season 4 finale quite well. The Big Bad does want to steal Twilight's alicorn powers, and she does give them up choosing her friends over power.
- Or, alternatively, she becomes so overwhelmed by her negative emotions (e.g. anger, sadness, desperation, anxiety, etc.) that she completely loses her mind as well as all hope in Equestria and transforms into an Omnicidal Maniac hell-bent on destroying Equestria along with its every inhabitant.
- In addition, she will not let anypony or anything try to control her or get in her way; not even the villains.
- Speaking of the villains, Twilight's friends are forced to pull an Enemy Mine with Discord and/or Queen Chrysalis. For the former, they'll point out that he can no longer make anyone miserable if they're dead, and the latter, they'll point out that there won't be any love for her to feed off of.