History WMG / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicSpike

The reason he's not seen when he should have been in episodes like "The Last Round-up" or "Read it and Weep"? He was fighting [[JustForPun Doctor Hoofenshmirtz]] [[HeroOfAnotherStory while the mane 6 were off doing their own adventures]].

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[[folder: Spike's Physiology]]

[[WMG: Spike will outlive the Mane Cast and all of the other ponies.]]

** Its possible that he will outlive everyone but Twilight. The series started with just the two of them and will end with just the two of them. Deciding to make friends despite the virtual inevitability that they will wind up losing them may be a lession in friendship in and of itself.

[[WMG: Spike is just a normal, run-of-the-mill dragon with normal fire.]]

* When scrolls are addressed to somepony and then set on fire, they're sent in the most convenient way for the receiving pony to get it -- for Celestia it's her little alcove thing we see at the end of Griffon the Brush Off (not to mention she gets bobarded from above with the scrolls Spike accidental sends), and for Twilight the letters are received through Spike!

[[WMG: Spike is a young [[Manga/DragonBall Eternal Dragon]]]]

* It's possible he may grow up to be an eastern-styled dragon given his lack of wings and affinity for mustaches.

[[WMG: Spike is half pony.]]

* He may be like a dog; his breed was domesticated/brefriended by ponies, and so they're tamer. He also doesn't look much like a full-grown dragon. At all.

[[WMG: Spike will not grow up to be like the dragons we have seen.]]

[[WMG: Spike is some kind of special breed Astropath Dragon]]
Consider this: Spike is visually slightly different from other dragons we've witnessed, he breathes wierd green fire and can send communiques across great distances magically. Perhaps he's a special breed either engineered by Celestia or one that came about by some biza fluke that's specialized into an organic magical telegraph system alá the [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Astropaths.]]

[[WMG: Spike will grow wings.]]

* In "Molt Down", [[spoiler:this is '''Confirmed''']].

[[WMG: Spike is the same type of dragon as Steven Magnet.]]

[[WMG: Spike will gain at least one NewSuperPower.]]

[[WMG: Spike's age.]]
Expanding on the WMG [[WMG/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicManeCharacters about the Mane Six]]. Spike doesn't age like a pony, but his mental age is around that of a 13-15 year old, given that he basically went through puberty in "Secret of My Excess," is visably more mature then the CMC, and is not ''that'' much younger than Twilight.
* Let's do some WMG math here: An early audition script for Apple Bloom list her age as 7. Granted, this probably isn't canon, but let's just say it was. When AJ tells the Crusaders the story of how she got her Cutie Mark, she mentions she was "even younger than y'all." This means AJ was ''at most'' 6 years old when she got hers, and by extention, when the other Mane 6 got theirs and, but further extention, the moment Spike was born. Assuming the Mane 6 are all roughly the same age, that would make him 6 years younger than them. Meaning if they were 18-20 as most of the fandom suspects, he would be 12-14. BUT that's only the minimum. Since Twilight was essentially starting school when she got her Cutie Mark, she could have easily been 5 at the time. Heck, some super-smart kids start school as early as 4, and considering Twilight is pretty much a magical genius she may well fit into that category. TL;DR version: Spike's age could range anywhere from 12-16.
** Spike identifies with teenage dragons in "Dragon Quest," suggesting that he is himself a teen.

[[WMG: Spike will never grow up.]]

[[WMG: Spike '''isn't''' a ''flying'' dragon, he's a ''magic'' dragon.]]

** [[spoiler:Confirmed in Season 8, after hitting "the molt" a.k.a "dragon puberty".]]

[[WMG: Spike can assume his giant dragon form at will, just with the intellect and self control he has now.]]

[[WMG: Spike isn't really a baby dragon; He's in SleepModeSize.]]

[[WMG: Spike's "greedy" adult self wasn't his "natural" adult form.]]

[[WMG: Spike will continue to grow and change throughout the second season]]

[[WMG: Spike's species can only be hatched by magic.]]

[[WMG: Spike '''will''' grow wings.]]

** What I mean is, his look when he was Greedy was simply a malformed (Not formed correctly) version of how he'll look when he's grown up. Now that he isn't greedy anymore, he'll grow up naturally. Meaning that he'll grow up like all the other dragons, with wings. It never said anywhere that dragons only grow up by practicing greed, but only that it accelerates their growth, and turns them into mindless beasts. None of the dragons we've seen act like that. The adults we saw in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E7DragonShy DragonShy]] and [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E24OwlsWellThatEndsWell Owl's Well That Ends well]] could speak English (unlike Greedy spike), and weren’t necessarily greedy, but protective of their hoards. The dragon in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E7DragonShy DragonShy]] was being complimented by Rarity, only to find out she only wanted to steal ''his'' belongings. And the Dragon in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E24OwlsWellThatEndsWell Owl's Well That End's Well]], was simply being territorial. Seeing another dragon in his cave, eating his food would set off his instincts. As for the teenage dragons, they were simply jerks. They weren't greedy at all, and yet it shows that they've grown. Also, Spike's grown since the Cutie Mark Chronicles, and yet didn't do it by being greedy.

** While Adult!Spike was capable of understanding the ponies, and reacted more calmly the dragon from [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E7DragonShy DragonShy]], that dragon could fully speak English along with the dragon in Owl's Well That End's Well. Adult!Spike, couldn't even speak. Which is why I thought that perhaps when Zecora said, “he'll turn into a monster,” that his Greedy form was a more monstrous result of a grown dragon practicing too much greed, which resulted in him losing his ability to talk. The dragon from [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E7DragonShy DragonShy]] was only hostile because a certain Rainbow colored pegasus kicked him and screamed at him to get out, while he was sleeping. I'd be angry too. Besides, since the form in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E10SecretOfMyExcess The Secret of My Excess]] was an accelerated form of a dragon when they practice too much greed, their form would be more monstrous. I feel that a dragon grows up normally, by practicing greed a little bit every day. It takes time, which makes it longer for them to age, but they eventually grow up. They still become greedy, but do are much less than they are through Greed Growth. And so become standard dragons with wings.

[[WMG: Spike's lack of wings is the outward sign of a serious congenital birth defect.]]

[[WMG: The reason that Spike grew up so quickly in "Secret of My Excess" is because...]]

[[WMG: Spike is actually a dinosaur, not a dragon.]]

** Well, he discovered by accident, maybe as a baby, that gemstones give him firebreathing abilities[[note]]Maybe if a pony were brave enough to eat gemstones, the pony would breath fire?[[/note]]. The lave thing is a power that Twilight gave him (through magic) [[CrazyPrepared just in case]].

[[WMG: Spike is part changeling.]]

[[WMG: Spike is [[SuperNotDrowningSkills unable to drown]].]]

[[WMG: Spike was a science experiment, conducted by a yet unseen villain.]]

[[WMG: Spike doesn't have wings because he was born prematurely.]]

[[WMG: Spike really is a runt.]]

[[folder: Spike and Twilight/Spike's hatching]]
[[WMG: The test was a Kobayashi Maru.]]

[[WMG: Spike does not look like a normal dragon because of Twilight.]]

* During Twlight's test there is a poster stuck to the side of the table holding Spike's egg, and the picture on it is of a dragon which could reasonably be - spikes, lack of wings - a older example of whatever Spike's breed is. If we had seen the judges' reaction to Spike, that might have told us what they were expecting and whether he looks the way he should.

[[WMG: Spike's species imprint on the first living thing they see when they hatch.]]

[[WMG: Spike's mom is Twilight]]

[[WMG: Spike was born from a fake egg.]]

[[WMG: One of Twilight's duties is studying Spike.]]

[[WMG: Spike is only with Twilight because she's the one who hatched him.]]

[[WMG: Spike sees Twilight as a sister.]]

* See also [[https://derpicdn.net/img/view/2012/7/3/29393.png this comic.]]

[[WMG: Spike has no parents, and was created by magic.]]

[[WMG: Spike is giving Celestia reports on Twilight's behavior.]]

[[WMG: Twilight Sparkle didn't actually mature Spike to adulthood when she hatched him.]]

[[WMG: The season 5 finale was secretly Spike's ItsAWonderfulPlot.]]

* Well, seeing that, as of the end of Season 6, he's responsible for the installment of three different heads of state (Cadance, Ember and to a lesser extent Thorax), there might be something to this.

[[folder: Spike and Rarity/romantic interests]]
[[WMG: Before he met Rarity, Spike had a crush on Moondancer.]]

[[WMG: Rarity is not Spike's first cross-species crush.]]

[[WMG: Spike will ultimately win over Rarity...]]

[[WMG: Spike's crush on Rarity is just a "crush" and won't grow into anything more.]]

[[WMG: Rarity does want Spike]]

[[WMG: The Fire Ruby that Spike gave to Rarity will become a ChekhovsGun]]

[[WMG: Spike's crush on Rarity started with her cutie mark.]]

[[WMG: Spike and Rarity will have kids.]]

[[WMG: Spike lost interest in Rarity.]]

* {{Jossed}}, as of the episode "Spike At Your Service," he still seems to have a crush on Rarity.

[[folder: Spike's Origins]]
[[WMG: Spike is a hybrid dragon.]]

[[WMG: Spike comes from a far away place where dragons are hunted.]]

[[WMG: Spike being raised by ponies because of a pact between the Dragons and Princess Celestia]]

[[WMG: Spike is the King of Dragons.]]

[[WMG: Spike is a prehistoric dragon.]]

[[WMG: Spike's parents...]]

[[WMG: Celestia fought, and possibly killed, Spike's mother.]]

[[WMG: Spike's species is from a land far, far away from Equestria, possibly Zecora's homeland.]]

[[WMG: Spike is [[HybridMonster Princess Celestia's son]].]]

* Actually, Lauren said that she simply sent the egg out for twilight, to test her and see if she was the element of magic. So it's implied that Celestia had gotten the egg, just to test twilight (where she got it from, is still up for debate). And the whole "fire sending scrolls" thing was simply something she taught to him, it's not because of a bond. Dragons can belch powerful flames, so she used this trait as a way to send and receive scrolls. Though it is true that Celestia ''MAY'' have raised him for some time, making her practically his mom, before pawning him off to twilight. And that even she didn't know much about dragons, let alone see a baby one. So she couldn't have really known any dragons, since her whole reason for raising him, was to learn more about dragons, and how to raise one. Though Lauren said that this concept was never officially added into the show yet, so the writers may change his backstory (and judging by the route dragon quest took, no one is really sure at this point...)

[[WMG: Spike comes from a long line of guardian dragons.]]
Spike comes from a rare breed of dragon who leave their children in the care of other species. The kids will grow up and eventually protect the ones that raised them. This would explain why adult Spike doesn't have wings; it makes him less threatening and more dependent on the species that's raising him and may only grow wings when it's time to breed. Usually they wouldn't leave their young with ponies due to their much shorter life span and they are such push-overs compared to most species. However, they probably make rare exceptions…

[[WMG: Spike is a guinea pig in an experiment to test an indoctrinated dragon's suitability for living in pony culture.]]

[[WMG: Spike's mother is Pinkie Pie.]]

[[WMG: Spike's mother and Celestia were friends.]]

[[WMG: Spike is Equestria's [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons tarrasque]].]]

[[WMG: Spike's parents were nobody.]]

[[folder: Where does he go?]]
[[WMG: Spike is [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb a secret agent]]]]
The reason he's not seen when he should have been in episodes like "The Last Round-up" or "Read it and Weep"? He was fighting [[JustForPun Doctor Hoofenshmirtz]] [[HeroOfAnotherStory while the mane 6 were off doing their own adventures.]]

[[WMG: The reason Spike hasn't been seen much in Season 2 is...]]

[[WMG: Spike has his own friends, who he regularly hangs out with.]]

* It does seem to make sense, since it's shown in The Secret Of My Excess that he has enough friends that he could get tons of gifts from, when he turned greedy. It's shown that he knows a colt called Lickety-Split (similar to the g1 pony from the movie). We've also seen that the cutie mark crusaders have interacted with him before, just offscreen. We probably just don't see him hang out with them much, since he's practically married to his work, and seems to have fun hanging out with the mane 6 much more. Sure it may seem weird to hang out with a sister's friends, but many siblings do that often, and the mane 6 seem to enjoy having him around. They don't seem to be complaining.

[[WMG: Spike hangs out with the CMC off-screen often]]

[[WMG: Spike isn't seen much because he goes to school]]

[[WMG: When Spike's not hanging out with the Mane Six, he's busy managing the library.]]

[[folder: Other]]

[[WMG: Spike is a stealth AudienceSurrogate.]]

[[WMG: Spike is somehow related to ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon''.]]

[[WMG: Spike isn't "Spike's" real name.]]

[[WMG: Spike will be given a male pony friend.]]

[[WMG: Spike has serious species identity issues from being raised among ponies.]]

[[WMG: Hoity Toity and Spike are friends.]]

[[WMG: Spike's singing voice is ridiculously sexy.]]

[[WMG: Spike absorbed some of Discord's power while '[[ClosestThingWeGot borrowing]]' an Element of Harmony.]]
Because in the episode immediately subsequent, he's a bit more aware of the fourth wall than usual, [[spoiler: rolling away backgrounds and flashbacks to say the least]].

[[WMG: Spike will be given a HenshinHero transformation.]]

[[WMG: Spike's magic fax-machine ability isn't natural to his breed of dragon.]]

[[WMG: Spike will be granted his own special Cutie Mark.]]

[[WMG: Spike's adult form will appear again at some point, but in a completely different fashion]]

[[WMG: Spike will be the next bearer of the Elements of Harmony]]

[[WMG: Spike didn't get along with the Dragons from Dragon Quest because they're a different type of dragon]]

[[WMG: Spike will be a Fire Fighter / Emergency Disaster Relief Worker.]]

[[WMG: If they DO have a RuleSixtyThree episode, Female!Spike will have a [[CrossDressingVoices male]] voice actor.]]

[[WMG: Spike is unstable, and is about to snap]]

[[WMG: Spike is the Dragon's soul who inhabits the body of the Dragonborn]]

[[WMG: Spike will have an episode where he asks to be turned into a pony.]]

[[WMG: Spike is suffering from psychological issues where he feels compelled to help people]]

[[WMG: Spike will become a Princess.]]

[[WMG: Spike's middle name is "[[Anime/CowboyBebop Spiegel".]]]]

[[WMG: "Spike At Your Service" actually took place much earlier, chronologically.]]

[[WMG: Princess Celestia planned on Spike wielding the Elements of Harmony together with Twilight Sparkle.]]

[[WMG: Spike was raised on a meat diet.]]

[[WMG: Spike's cutie mark is/would be the design on his collar from WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls.]]

[[WMG: Spike is intended to be the little brother that every little girl wishes they had.]]

[[WMG: Spike is a Franchise/{{Digimon}}.]]

[[WMG: Spike can send mail because Twilight Sparkle is stingy]]

[[WMG: Spike will become Equestria's ambassador]]

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* When scrolls are addressed to somepony and then set on fire, they're sent in the most convenient way for the receiving pony to get it - for Celestia it's her little alcove thing we see at the end of Griffon the Brush Off (not to mention she gets bobarded from above with the scrolls Spike accidental sends), and for Twilight the letters are received through Spike!

Instead he will grow up to be a [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons dragonborn]]. Proof for this theory? His day dream in "Dog and Pony Show", why would he imagine all that armor and stuff if he knew he would grow up to be a normal dragon, wouldn't he have just imagined himself as a dragon destroying the Diamond Dogs? As for the sudden growth in Twilight's flashback, that is just what happens when the embodiment of Magic unleashes her power. Unless of course, ponies turn into plants when they grow old. This also makes Spike/Rarity a lot easier....
* Agreed that baby!Spike growing gigantic in 'Cutie Mark Chronicles' was Twilight's magic going haywire and not showing us what he will look like. Even if he doesn't end up like his Imagine Spot in 'Dog And Pony Show' his appearance suggests he won't look like either the cave-dwelling dragons he's met/been attacked by, or the one in the river.

Consider this: Spike is visually slightly different from other dragons we've witnessed, he breaths wierd green fire and can send communiques across great distances magically. Perhaps he's a special breed either engineered by Celestia or one that came about by some biza fluke that's specialized into an organic magical telegraph system alá the [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Astropaths.]]

* [[spoiler:With Season 8's "Molt Down", '''''[[NothingIsTheSameAnymore IT'S CONFIRMED!]]''''']]

[[WMG: Spike's age]]
Expanding on the WMG [[WMG/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicManeCharacters about The Mane Six]]. Spike doesn't age like a pony, but his mental age is around that of a 13-15 year old, given that he basically went through puberty in "Secret of My Excess," is visably more mature then the CMC, and is not ''that'' much younger than Twilight.

* Jossed. [[spoiler:He finally received wings in Season 8.]]

Much like Luna can turn into Nightmare Moon at will, but not be evil. I say this because…well, why the hay not?

Although at a much slower and controlled pace than what was seen in "Secret Of My Excess". His greed will still be present but controlled and instead of taking things he'll start working to earn them instead which will still allow him to grow rapidly but not nearly as fast as he did on his birthday and the final form will be far less monstrous than that see but less "cuddly" than the form Twilight magicked him into in "The Cutie Mark Chronicles".
* Jossed. As of writing this (partway into Season 7) he still looks the same as he did in Season 1.

"Cutie Mark Chronicles" -- that version of him was created by magic, by twilight. It seems like that was just the newborn version of him, blown up to a larger size. And besides, we didn't even see if that version of him had wings. All we saw was his feet and his head. And as for the picture on the crate his egg was carried in, it was just to show what Twilight was suppose to do with the egg (it simply showed that she was to use magic, to hatch a dragon). As shown in Dragon Quest, ponies know literally nothing about dragons. They probably had no idea what the dragon would've looked like when it hatched. It was just a guess.

* Jossed. All dragons are born wingless -- wings are grown during puberty through a process called the Molt, and Spike grew his own wings when he molted in Season 8.

* Because dinosaurs with draconic abilities[[note]]like breathing fire, eating gemstones, and bathing in lava[[/note]] make more sense than a wingless dragon.

Celestia obtained his egg, after defeating said villain.

[[WMG: Spike doesn't have wings, because he was born prematurely.]]

* Jossed. All dragons are born wingless.

[[folder: Spike and Rarity/Romantic interests]]

[[ComicBook/NewGods Sort of like how Highfather and]] {{ComicBook/Darkseid}} switched sons to prevent war between them.

His egg was given to Princess Celetia for safekeeping. As seen in the previous WMG his egg was never supposed to hatch (dragon's eggs will hatch naturally in their own time, but it takes several years). Spike was essentially born premature. He was eventually passed to Twilight Sparkle because of her great knowledge and the care she took in her studies reflected the level of care she also put into raising Spike. Spike is being groomed to move the Dragons away from their solitary lifestyle and to a more centralized form of government with greater socialization and less fighting amongst one another. Notice that Spike doesn't seem to regard Princess Celestia with much more respect than he would any other Pony and he is one of the few (only?) characters who is shown not bowing to her, this is because he is not one of her subjects, but her equal.
* Jossed. The Dragon Lord isn't a hereditary title, though Spike held the position very briefly.

His cute little purple-and-green egg wasn't fake: it was a fossil. To revive him, Twilight Sparkle unconsciously used the ancient amniomorphic spell- a spell that the mighty Star Swirl himself invented. Effectively, this makes Spike the LastOfHisKind.

Are [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyro Spyro and Cynder.]]

In the Great Dragon Migration we see in the episode "Dragon Quest", we only see ONE other wingless dragon. (the one with the huge tail) The other dragons even point out that he has no wings and question his dragon-hood because of it. Twilight knows his egg was found, but not who found it and where it was found. The lack of wingless dragons at the migration could imply that his species is not native to Equestria, rather, it is a rare species that is found far, far away. Zecora was the only creature in Ponyville who knew ''anything'' about dragons. So, Spike's species is from Zecora's homeland. His egg was stolen by a travelling merchant who hoped to sell it in a faraway place. Somepony found the egg at a market in Canterlot and was unable to identify what type of dragon egg it was. Intrigued, the pony bought the egg and brought it to Celestia in hopes that she or her students could figure it out.

[[WMG: Spike comes from a long line of Guardian dragons]]

* Confirmed. As of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E15TripleThreat Triple Threat]]", he's apparently Equestria's official Friendship Ambassador to the dragons.

[[/folder]]

* [[spoiler:With Season 8's "Molt Down", '''''[[HolyShitQuotient IT'S]] [[NothingIsTheSameAnymore CONFIRMED!]]''''']]

[[WMG: Spike's Age]]

It seems that from "Secret of My Excess", the size of a dragon's greed and hoard completely determine how old a dragon gets. And since Spike will not hoard again…

*

[[WMG: Spike's 'greedy' adult self wasn't his 'natural' adult form.]]
The more angular, 'cool' version of Adult!Spike is an alternate adult form. The 'cuter' form we saw when Twilight accidentally aged him after hatching is the form resulting from natural aging, and is rarer than the greedy form due to the high willpower required to reject the hoarding instinct.

"The Secret of My Excess" -- it shows him growing up, by greed growth. But how do we know that Greed-Growth is the only way he'll grow up? It's most likely a malformed (Not formed correctly), and evil version of how he'll grow up. Now that he's no longer selfish, he may look different when he's older.

[[WMG: The reason that Spike grew up so quickly in Secret of My Excess is because...]]

* That also raises the question of how in hell a dinosaur got there and why it looks nothing like a dinosaur. Besides, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeholornis there's]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallimimus plenty]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microraptor of]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velociraptor dinosaurs]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothronychus with]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citipati wings]].

ShoutOut aside, this fits the meta-narrative. His attempts to learn of his origins in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E21DragonQuest Dragon Quest]]" and "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E24FatherKnowsBeast Father Knows Beast]]" have only yielded disappointment and made him realized his adopted family was his real one. The writers have admitted to not knowing what to do with him and preferring to focus on other characters. He has no important past because there were no plans for him, his importance comes from what he's done at present. His parents are irrelevant.

[[WMG: The test was a Kobayashi Maru.]]
[[UnwinnableTrainingSimulation Spike wasn't supposed to hatch, it was a test to see how students deal with failure.]] The fact that Twilight succeeded made her the protege.

Spike wasn't supposed to hatch, it was a test to see how students deal with failure. The fact that Twilight succeeded made her the protege.

* Combine this with a WMG from the Twilight Sparkle page,her hatching spikes egg was the schools [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/StarTrek?from=Main.StarTrek Kobayashi Maru]] equivalence and to keep it that way they used an unfertilized egg. Twilight's magical blast passed on her own genetic material and caused the egg to hatch, making Spike Twilight's son.

* See also [[http://static4.fjcdn.com/comments/keep+calm+this+happened+afterwards+_cb9a593c68147b77e47c530dc08a65c1.png this comic.]]

[[WMG: The test was a[[Kobayashi Maru]].]]

* Voiced by SteveBlum?

* Perhaps Spike is a type of [[WorldOfWarcraft Cloud Serpent]]? A picture of Gold Cloud Serpent: http://www.deviantart.com/art/Thundering-August-Cloud-Serpent-364887883 . Both are wingless 'dragons' even though Cloud Serpents usually represent types of magic (ie, Wisdom, Harmony, Hope, Darkness, Shadow, Celestial patterns, etc) and when young, they DO look similar to Spike, except they already have large horns and "beards".

*** Twilight said in Winter Wrap Up that Ponyville is at least a few centuries old.

[[WMG: Spike is a young [[DragonBall Eternal Dragon]]]]

[[WMG: Spike will not grow up to be like the dragons we have seen..]]

Although at a much slower and controlled pace than what was seen in "Secret Of My Excess." His greed will still be present but controlled and instead of taking things he'll start working to earn them instead which will still allow him to grow rapidly but not nearly as fast as he did on his birthday and the final form will be far less monstrous than that see but less "cuddly" than the form Twilight magicked him into in "The Cutie Mark Chronicles."

The Secret of My Excess- It shows him growing up, by greed growth. But how do we know that Greed-Growth is the only way he'll grow up? It's most likely a malformed (Not formed correctly), and evil version of how he'll grow up. Now that he's no longer selfish, he may look different when he's older.

Cutie Mark Chronicles- That version of him was created by magic, by twilight. It seems like that was just the newborn version of him, blown up to a larger size. And besides, we didn't even see if that version of him had wings. All we saw was his feet and his head. And as for the picture on the crate his egg was carried in, it was just to show what Twilight was suppose to do with the egg (it simply showed that she was to use magic, to hatch a dragon). As shown in Dragon Quest, ponies know literally nothing about dragons. They probably had no idea what the dragon would've looked like when it hatched. It was just a guess.

[[WMG: Spike being raised by ponies because of a pact between The Dragons and Princess Celestia]]

** In It's About Time, he says that Twilight's adventures give him time to catch up on his sleep.

[[WMG: Spike is somehow related to ''SpyroTheDragon''.]]

Who he refers to as his "brony."

* Confirmed as of [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E21DragonQuest Dragon Quest]].

* A microphone ([[EverythingsBetterWithAnnouncers he does love announcing…]])

* Perhaps Spike is a type of [[WorldOfWarcraft Cloud Serpent?]]. Picture of Gold Cloud Serpent: http://www.deviantart.com/art/Thundering-August-Cloud-Serpent-364887883 . Both are wingless 'dragons' even though Cloud Serpents usually represent types of magic (ie, Wisdom, Harmony, Hope, Darkness, Shadow, Celestial patterns, etc) and when young, they DO look similar to Spike, except they already have large horns and "beards".
** Some, such as Mother of Cloud Serpents, Yu-lon, Element of Wisdom, has a slightly chimeric look. She has fur, like animals, claws that look more like mammal claws, and less scales than you would expect on a true dragon/Cloud Serpent. I think Spike might be some sort of descendant of Yu-lon x Real Cloud Serpent. Yu-lon's own children...are more of a 'wat' since she seems to mate with either a bird or a tiger, to produce even more messed up things.