History WMG / MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls

* Jossed. In North America, the movie screened without leading promos.[[note]] This is because Hasbro didn't circulate it via the standard Hollywood method; they instead used a distribution service that essentially rents out single rooms of cinemas for single showings. Although this method is most common for independent films that ''don't'' get picked up by a major studio, it has been known to happen with cartoons: {{Disney}} does this with its less-popular Creator/StudioGhibli films (like ''Tales From Earthsea'' or ''The Wind Rises'') that they are contractually-obligated to screen in cinemas but don't want to drop tens of millions of dollars on traditional distribution. Creator/{{Funimation}} does it with their theatrical movies as well.[[/note]] EQG was DirectToDVD (or just aired on TV) everywhere else.

The idea being similar to {{Ponyo}}, where the more of the elements they use, the more pony-like they become and thus risk blowing their already rather flimsy cover. Thus we get a clever little tie-in to the ideas of the original.

[[WMG: There will be a crossover at some point with LittlestPetShop.]]

[[WMG: The Changeling Kingdom is in this world is modeled as a real life aggressive nation, the likes of North Korea.]]

[[WMG: The [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Pony Universe]] and the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls EQG Universe]] has a similiar Situation as what is found in [[spoiler: KevinAndKell]]]]

And they have a whirlwind InterspeciesRomance which leads to him going back to Equestria with her and becoming a pony. Hey, that should make it popular with [[FurryFandom some fans]].

** Unlikely, as she is also attracted, or seems to have been attracted— however briefly— to the pony counterpart of Flash. However aside from two brief cameos since, one in the show and once in the comic, and only once out of those two is Twilight anywhere near him, there is no indication that this interest lasted. However she is positively ''giddy'' when she finds out Human!Flash was asking about her. So it may be more a case that Twilight became attracted to Flash due in part to him having [[BecauseYouWereKindToMe helped her out repeatedly]] during the film, including pretty much her first few minutes in the school, or else she, like Spike, is completely without care for someone's species. This actually makes a certain amount of sense, when you consider that aside from Spike's crush on Rarity, there are hints that Discord was interested in Celestia in the finale to Season 4 and she certainly didn't seem to object when he gave her those flowers. We also know that Minotaurs are some form of pony hybrid in the show, so InterspeciesRomance probably isn't a taboo in Equestria. So Twilight probably was genuinely attracted to him on her own, rather than any kind of 'instinct' built into her new body. After all, had that been the case, she would have immediately known how to be human, instead of being so awkward in the new body she found herself in. Plus, the Hot Guy and Nerdy Girl trope may also fit here, since Flash is the typical good looking guy, and who happens to be the lead in a band, while Twilight is the typical Hot Nerd girl, with an emphasis on the nerd part. Add in her being consistently {{Adorkable}}, which would and ''did' continue to increase his interest in her, and his willingness to overlook that and...yeah. This happened more or less on it's own in universe. The fact that he was around might be something of a convenient coincidence but everything else was down to them.

Above here is a different troper assuming that when Celestia said that the Magic Mirror portal only opens once every thirty Moons for three days at a time, it means two and a half years. Leaving aside the fact that Earth's moon cycle is '''''not''''' 30 days (it's ~29½, 30 of which translates to 885 days, one calendar month less than people assume), there's still one question left unasked – Has there ever been ''any indication whatsoever'' that Equestria's moon cycle (or the EQG-verse's) is anything like Earth's? Considering that the moon over Equestria seems to always be full, does it even ''have'' a moon cycle as we would know it?

* Mostly Jossed. [[spoiler:There is no magic in the human world, and only through the crown/Element of Magic does it actually occur. That said, the implications of the simple aspect of friendship and restoring the friendship that the human versions of her friends had lost because of Sunset is all there.]]

It'll be an epic genre reconstruction of high school dramas, and every dinky high school trope, cliché and stereotype.
from what I understand from the second trailer, the importance of the high school dance is justified. which gives off the impression they know what they are doing.
* Confirmed on the latter: it does little to deconstruct the typical high school drama.
** Instead of a reconstruction, it actually plays it almost [[ClicheStorm painfully straight]].

** Unlikely, as she is also attracted, or seems to be— however briefly— to the pony counterpart of Flash. However aside from two brief cameos since, one in the show and once in the comic, and only once out of those two is Twilight anywhere near him, there is no indication that this interest lasted. However she is positively ''giddy'' when she finds out Human!Flash was asking about her. So it may be more a case that Twilight became attracted to Flash due in part to him [[BecauseYouWereKindToMe helped her out repeatedly]] during the film, or else she, like Spike, is completely without care for someone's species. This actually makes a certain amount of sense, when you consider that aside from Spike's crush on Rarity, there are hints that Discord was interested in Celestia in the finale to Season 4 and she certainly didn't seem to object when he gave her those flowers. We also know that Minotaurs are some form of pony hybrid in the show, so InterspeciesRomance probably isn't a taboo in Equestria. So Twilight probably was genuinely attracted to him on her own, rather than any kind of 'instinct' built into her new body. After all, had that been the case, she would have immediately known how to be human, instead of being so awkward in the new body she found herself in. Plus, the Hot Guy and Nerdy Girl trope may also fit here, since Flash is the typical good looking guy, and who happens to be the lead in a band, while Twilight is the typical Hot Nerd girl, with an emphasis on the nerd part. Add in her being consistently {{Adorkable}}, which would and ''did' continue to increase his interest in her, and his willingness to overlook that and...yeah. This happened more or less on it's own in universe. The fact that he was around might be something of a convenient coincidence but everything else was down to them.

** Unlikely, as she is also attracted, or seems to be— however briefly— to the pony counterpart of Flash. However aside from two brief cameos since, one in the show and once in the comic, and only once out of those two is Twilight anywhere near him, there is no indication that this interest lasted. However she is positively ''giddy'' when she finds out Human!Flash was asking about her. So it may be more a case that Twilight became attracted to Flash due in part to him [[BecauseYouWereKindToMe helped her out repeatedly]] during the film, or else she, like Spike, is completely without care for someone's species. This actually makes a certain amount of sense, when you consider that aside from Spike's crush on Rarity, there are hints that Discord was interested in Celestia in the finale to Season 4 and she certainly didn't seem to object when he gave her those flowers. We also know that Minotaurs are some form of pony hybrid in the show, so InterspeciesRomance probably isn't a taboo in Equestria. So Twilight probably was genuinely attracted to him on her own, rather than any kind of 'instinct' built into her new body. After all, had that been the case, she would have immediately known how to be human, instead of being so awkward in the new body she found herself in. Plus, the Hot Guy and Nerdy Girl trope may also fit here, since Flash is the typical good looking guy, and who happens to be the lead in a band, while Twilight is the typical Hot Nerd girl, with an emphasis on the nerd part. Add in her being consistently {{Adorkable}}, which would and ''did' continue to increase his interest in her, and his willingness to overlook that and...yeah. This happened more or less on it's own in universe. The fact that he was around might be something of a ConvenientCoincidence but everything else was down to them.

** Unlikely, as she is also attracted, or seems to be— however briefly— to the pony counterpart of Flash. However aside from two brief cameos since, one in the show and once in the comic, and only once out of those two is Twilight anywhere near him, there is no indication that this interest lasted. However she is positively ''giddy'' when she finds out Human!Flash was asking about her. So it may be more a case that Twilight became attracted to Flash due in part to him [[BecauseYouWereKindToMe helped her out repeatedly]] during the film, or else she, like Spike, is completely without care for someone's species. This actually makes a certain amount of sense, when you consider that aside from Spike's crush on Rarity, there are hints that Discord was interested in Celestia in the finale to Season 4 and she certainly didn't seem to object when he gave her those flowers. We also know that Minotaurs are some form of pony hybrid in the show, so InterspeciesRomance probably isn't a taboo in Equestria. So Twilight probably was genuinely attracted to him on her own, rather than any kind of 'instinct' built into her new body. After all, had that been the case, she would have immediately known how to be human, instead of being so awkward in the new body she found herself in. Plus, the Hot Guy and Nerdy Girl trope may also fit here, since Flash is the typical good looking guy, and who happens to be the lead in a band, while Twilight is the typical Hot Nerd girl, with an emphasis on the nerd part. Add in her being consistently {{Adorkable}}, which would and ''did' continue to increase his interest in her, and his willingness toi overlook that and/...yeah. This happened more or less on it's own in universe. The fact that he was around might be something of a ConvenientCoincidence but everything else was down to them.

** Unlikely, as she is also attracted, or seems to be— however briefly— to the pony counterpart of Flash. However aside from two brief cameos since, one in the show and once in the comic, and only once out of those two is Twilight anywhere near him, there is no indication that this interest lasted. However she is positively ''giddy'' when she finds out Human!Flash was asking about her. So it may be more a case that Twilight became attracted to Flash due in part to him [[BecauseYouWereKindToMe helped her out repeatedly]] during the film, or else she, like Spike, is completely without care for someone's species. This actually makes a certain amount of sense, when you consider that aside from Spike's crush on Rarity, there are hints that Discord was interested in Celestia in the finale to Season 4 and she certainly didn't seem to object when he gave her those flowers. We also know that Minotaurs are some form of pony hybrid in the show, so InterspeciesRomance probably isn't a taboo in Equestria. So Twilight probably was genuinely attracted to him on her own, rather than any kind of 'instinct' built into her new body. After all, had that been the case, she would have immediately known how to be human, instead of being so awkward in the new body she found herself in. Plus, the HotGuyNerdyGirl trope may also fit here, since Flash is the typical good looking guy, and who happens to be the lead in a band, while Twilight is the typical HotNerd girl, with an emphasis on the nerd part.

It's the most likely explanation as to why the normally serious Twilight Sparkle would crush of Flash Sentry despite the InterspeciesRomance implications: being put not just in a human body, but the body of a human teenage girl has seriously affected her judgement. Since so little is known about the exact process leading to the pony-to-human transformation (was is it a built-in property of the mirror, or one of the whole world?) it could just as well be an unintended side effect, or an actual feature to allow better mingling in the new world (since the portal only open for 3 days every 30 moons, ending up stuck for a long time is quite likely).

It's the most likely explanation as to why the normally serious Twilight Sparkle would crush of Flash Sentry despite the InterspeciesRomance implications: being put not just in a human body, but the body of a human teenage girl has seriously affected her judgement. Since so little is known about the exact process leading to the pony-to-human transformation (was is it a built-in property of the mirror, or one of the whole world?) it could just as well be an unintended aftereffect, or an actual feature to allow better mingling in the new world (since the portal only open for 3 days every 30 moons, ending up stuck for a long time is quite likely.)

[[WMG: The book Sunset uses to communicated with Twilight in ''Rainbow Rocks'' is how Sunset knew Twilight's crown would be ripe for the taking in the first movie]]
We see in ''Rainbow Rocks'' that Sunset Shimmer had a books she used to communicate with Princess Celestia. It was a two-way book, so Celestia could also write to her. If Celestia loved Sunset as much as the first movie implied, it is likely Celestia would regularly write to her and try to convince her to come home. It is likely Celestia wrote about how she would be visiting the Crystal Empire and told Sunset about the goings on in Equestria, such as Twilight's ascension. All Sunset would have to do is calculate when the portal would open and then make her move.

* Also Jossed because Shining Armor does not appear at all in the Season 4 premier. In fact, IIRC he doesn't appear in Season 4 at all except for during the episode "Equestria Games".

* [[spoiler:In the "Story of Sunset Shimmer", [[http://derpibooru.org/379257 here,]] you can see a demonic figure in the magic mirror that freaks out Sunset Shimmer. The demon then possibly decided to possess her when Sunset got her crown, but even after Sunset was defeated, the demon was waiting for the right time to appear in front of Sunset to reveal her true identity.]]

* [[spoiler:In the "Story of Sunset Shimmer", http://derpibooru.org/379257?scope=scpe90087ae08f365dc5a7b318cf4e32411706b0d5ea you can see a demonic figure in the magic mirror that freaks out Sunset Shimmer. The demon then possibly decided to possess her when Sunset got her crown, but even after Sunset was defeated, the demon was waiting for the right time to appear in front of Sunset to reveal her true identity.]]

[[WMG: Sunset Shimmer had been in Equestria for at least a few hours before stealing Twilight's (her) crown.]]
How else would she have known about the situation? If we assume that the mirror only opens once every 2½

* Many of the promotional material seems to suggest something completely different than what we actually saw, and the movie seems almost like it went through a sloppy editing job or had a very rushed script. (Brad, Sunset shimmer, the conflict with Twilight being framed for trashing the gym being solved within minutes...) There's probably some kind of data on WhatCouldHaveBeen out there but we haven't been able to see it yet for some reason.

** It could also be that putting the mirror there was Celestia's idea, reasoning that if Sunset popped out of the mirror unexpectedly, better she be met by a Princess who ''hadn't'' banished her, and could possibly talk her down.
*** This probably would have worked… but unfortunately, Sunset had the awful timing to show up when Celestia ''and'' Luna '''''and''''' the newly-ascended Twilight were all in town together.