History WMG / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicSpike

[[Literature/EarthseaTrilogy Dragons never reveal]] their [[IKnowYourTrueName True Name.]] So Spike is a nickname of sorts. If anyone does know his real name, Twilight might.

[[WMG: Spike is [[PhineasAndFerb a secret agent]]]]

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

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

[[WMG: Spike will become a pawn, for a future BigBad]]
One day, Spike will have finally had enough of his ButtMonkey status and runoff. There, someone will tell him they understand what it's like to be TheChewToy and offer him a way out, causing the little dragon to make a FaceHeelTurn and betray his friends. And which point, Twilight (and friends) will try to talk him down , only for them to get a long over due TheReasonYouSuck speech. From here, Spike will inevitably make a HeelFaceTurn and possibly finish off the BigBad himself. Then, he can either go back to the Mane Six, or if the writers feel like mixing things up a bit, he could decide it's best to find his own way: after making up with his friends.

One day, Spike will have finally had enough of his ButtMonkey status and runoff. There, someone will tell him they understand what it's like to be TheChewToy and offer him a way out. And after his HeelFaceTurn, Twilight will try to talk him down , only for her (and friends) to get a long over due TheReasonYouSuck speech.

One day, Spike will have finally had enough of his ButtMonkey status and runoff. There, someone will tell him they understand what it's like to be a CosmicChewToy and offer him a way out. And after his HeelFaceTurn, Twilight will try to talk him down , only for her (and friends) to get a long over due ReasonYouSuck speech.

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

Instead he will grow up to be a [[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....

Isn't it obvious? We've seen his Champion form (a bigger dragon) and a drawing of his Mega form (a knight), so there must be a cyborg dragon in between.

[[WMG: Despite the introduction of Shining Armor, Spike and Twilight are still like brother-sister]]
Based on dialogue from previous episodes, it's implied that Spike and Twilight always had a strong bond:

* Owl's Well that ends Well he was afraid that Twilight didn't love him anymore. Showing that he really cares about her opinion, and would do anything to please her. Which shows that they must have some kind of affection for each other. It also shows that he loves his job as Twilight's assistant, and won't let anyone take away his job. Also, Twilight was the only one that went looking for him after he ran away, and the only pony (with some help from the owl) that saved him from the dragon. She also says that no one could ever take his place.

And that knew each other ever since they met:

* Secret Of My Excess mentions how for every birthday he had, Twilight was the only one that gave him a gift. Sure he only got a book, and he didn't seem to thrilled about it, but that proves that these two stuck by each other.
** Another small example would be, when Twilight takes him to the pony doctor. She takes him there, as if he were just any normal filly or colt. She didn't even consider that because he's different, that they he may be treated differently. That alone seems touching.

* Dragon Quest: In the end, when spike says the ponies are like family to him, they all, including Twilight, give him a hug, showing that they feel the same way. And the picture of baby Spike with Twilight in the final scene from Dragon Quest, implies that she did know him [[http://th04.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2012/077/0/9/twilight_and_spike_by_andy18-d4t6utv.png from the moment he was hatched]].


Now, as for Shining Armor, look at it from Twilight's perspective. Spike is her loyal friend. He's always willing to help her out when she really needs it, and was there for her when she first arrived in Ponyville, and has lived with her ever since. But that's the thing. She sees him everyday.

For Shining Armor it was different. He was someone that she could look up to. He was a mentor to her, and her very first friend. He taught her things like how to fly a kite, and helped her with her magic. Spike wouldn't be able to do this. Not only would he be a baby, but '''in the flashbacks, Twilight didn't have her cutie mark yet. So he didn't exist yet!''' Shining Armor was probably her only friend ''before'' she became Celestia's pupil, and thus also before she met Spike. Twilight mentioned they drifted apart, and that's probably the point in time when the drifting happened - when Twilight became Celestia's pupil. And also, she said she hasn't seen him ''since'' she moved to Ponyville. she misses him. The song is meant to add more depth to that. It was to let the audience know what their relationship was. For spike, we already know what their relationship is. Just watch Owl's Well That End's Well, and Dragon Quest. It pretty much shows that they're like family to each other. He's like her l.b.b.f.f (little brother best friend), and those episode worked fine without a song because we didn't need them.

* An alternate theory that could also be accepted is: WordOfGod suggested that Celestia took to the initial raising of Spike, given the general lack of pony knowledge on dragon raising, only giving her to Twilight as an assistant when both were mature enough for it. Hence, the Twi/Spike relationship - prior to being sent off to Ponyville - would be more formal, and becoming more sibling as they both learned to adjust to Ponyville. This would also be consistent that leaving Shining (whom she still probably saw every day while at Canterlot), her relationship with Spike would be upgraded to the sibling nature to make up for not being around Shining.

In case you're still skeptical here:
->'''Spike''':[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWtsIXa80xQ&feature=plcp&context=C441a251VDvjVQa1PpcFNxOGpjnqbu5iT84Pz2KuaPGF-KuWKoBCc%3D You're more than friends. You're my family]]

She loves her brother like a friend.
She loves Spike like a brother.

* ...Why would having an older brother interfere with her treating Spike like her brother? It is possible to have more than one brother, and love all your siblings as family.

** ...Since when was Spike's last name Sparkle? Heck, since when was Sparkle Twilight Sparkle's surname? For all we know, her surname is actually Twilight, or maybe Armor. And since when has Spike even maybe been adopted by Twilight?

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[[WMG: Spike's mother is Pinkie Pie.]]
I'm surprised no one noticed that when Pinkie Pie lays an egg when dressed like a chicken, it looks ''just like'' the egg Spike was born! She used TimeTravel or something to put him in the past.

[[WMG: Spike's mother and Celestia were friends.]]
But then, Spike's mother died, and her last wish was for Celestia to raise Spike.

** So that's why she only sent two tickets when she obviously had more.

[[WMG: When Spike's not hanging out with the Mane Six, he's busy managing the library.]]
Since we rarely see Twilight acting like a librarian, and it seems unreasonable to close the library every single time Twilight goes out/is away on business. He's certainly competent enough.

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[[WMG: Spike lost interest in Rarity.]]
At the end of "A Canterlot Wedding Part 2" we see him dancing with her sister, Sweetie Belle. Maybe he decided that being with someone closer to his age would be a tad less [[{{Squick}} squicky]]?
* At weddings the ring bearer, which is Spike, dances with the flower girl, which was Sweetie Belle (well, one of them anyway)
** Does this mean that he also [[ShipTease danced with Apple Bloom and Scootaloo?]]
*** Probably
* During The Cutie Pox incident when Twilight gets Rarity's hairstyle Spike fawns over her and completely disregards Rarity, who's standing right there! Guess he just REALLY liked her mane...
* Might also have something to do with Rarity treating him like a "cute little boy", instead of an equal lover, in Dragon Quest. Spike... didn't really appreciate her compliments in that episode. Perhaps with this "awkward aunt" act Rarity is trying to slightly shake off Spike's adorable, but potentially troublesome crush.
* {{Jossed}}, as of the episode "Spike At Your Service," he still seems to have a crush on Rarity.

[[WMG: Despite the introduction of Shining Armor, Spike and Twilight are still like brother-sister]]
Based on dialogue from previous episodes, it's implied that Spike and Twilight always had a strong bond:

* Owl's Well that ends Well he was afraid that Twilight didn't love him anymore. Showing that he really cares about her opinion, and would do anything to please her. Which shows that they must have some kind of affection for each other. It also shows that he loves his job as Twilight's assistant, and won't let anyone take away his job. Also, Twilight was the only one that went looking for him after he ran away, and the only pony (with some help from the owl) that saved him from the dragon. She also says that no one could ever take his place.

And that knew each other ever since they met:

* Secret Of My Excess mentions how for every birthday he had, Twilight was the only one that gave him a gift. Sure he only got a book, and he didn't seem to thrilled about it, but that proves that these two stuck by each other.
** Another small example would be, when Twilight takes him to the pony doctor. She takes him there, as if he were just any normal filly or colt. She didn't even consider that because he's different, that they he may be treated differently. That alone seems touching.

* Dragon Quest: In the end, when spike says the ponies are like family to him, they all, including Twilight, give him a hug, showing that they feel the same way. And the picture of baby Spike with Twilight in the final scene from Dragon Quest, implies that she did know him [[http://th04.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2012/077/0/9/twilight_and_spike_by_andy18-d4t6utv.png from the moment he was hatched]].


Now, as for Shining Armor, look at it from Twilight's perspective. Spike is her loyal friend. He's always willing to help her out when she really needs it, and was there for her when she first arrived in Ponyville, and has lived with her ever since. But that's the thing. She sees him everyday.

For Shining Armor it was different. He was someone that she could look up to. He was a mentor to her, and her very first friend. He taught her things like how to fly a kite, and helped her with her magic. Spike wouldn't be able to do this. Not only would he be a baby, but '''in the flashbacks, Twilight didn't have her cutie mark yet. So he didn't exist yet!''' Shining Armor was probably her only friend ''before'' she became Celestia's pupil, and thus also before she met Spike. Twilight mentioned they drifted apart, and that's probably the point in time when the drifting happened - when Twilight became Celestia's pupil. And also, she said she hasn't seen him ''since'' she moved to Ponyville. she misses him. The song is meant to add more depth to that. It was to let the audience know what their relationship was. For spike, we already know what their relationship is. Just watch Owl's Well That End's Well, and Dragon Quest. It pretty much shows that they're like family to each other. He's like her l.b.b.f.f (little brother best friend), and those episode worked fine without a song because we didn't need them.

* An alternate theory that could also be accepted is: WordOfGod suggested that Celestia took to the initial raising of Spike, given the general lack of pony knowledge on dragon raising, only giving her to Twilight as an assistant when both were mature enough for it. Hence, the Twi/Spike relationship - prior to being sent off to Ponyville - would be more formal, and becoming more sibling as they both learned to adjust to Ponyville. This would also be consistent that leaving Shining (whom she still probably saw every day while at Canterlot), her relationship with Spike would be upgraded to the sibling nature to make up for not being around Shining.

In case you're still skeptical here:
->'''Spike''':[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWtsIXa80xQ&feature=plcp&context=C441a251VDvjVQa1PpcFNxOGpjnqbu5iT84Pz2KuaPGF-KuWKoBCc%3D You're more than friends. You're my family]]

She loves her brother like a friend.
She loves Spike like a brother.

[[WMG: Spike has his own friends, who he regularly hangs out with.]]
Because it would be weird for a guy to always hang around his older sister's friends, and he doesn't get that much screen time. When we don't see him, assume he's with his own friends. I don't know who, so let's just say Snips, Snails, & Big Macintosh.
* 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.
* It's not THAT weird that he hangs with Twilight's friends, whom are his friends, too. My younger brother and I share several common friends. With a friend like Pinkie Pie, he probably at least KNOWS enough ponies who are naive enough to give him stuff for his birthday just because he announces it is. He directly refers to the Mane 6 as his friends.

[[WMG: Spike hangs out with the CMC off-screen often]]
That's why he doesn't get "invited" to anything. He has his own stuff going on.

[[WMG: Spike is giving Celestia reports on Twilight's behavior.]]
With express orders to contact her when it looks like Twilight will do something dangerous. He might not have been doing this since the beginning of the series, but certainly since ''Lesson Zero.'' That's also why Celestia was waiting in the Starswirl section of the archives in ''It's About Time.''

[[WMG: Spike isn't seen much because he goes to school]]
Considering the fact that he's still treated like a child, when twilight and spike moved to Ponyville, he was enrolled in an elementary school, like the one the CMC are in. However, because of his busy schedule, helping in the library,he has to go to school at a different time, which is why we don't see him in class with the CMC. Or perhaps he goes to another school in Ponyville (it's never stated that there's only one school there, and then goes back to the house to do chores. There's also the possibility that Twilight home-schools him, and has him do homework at the treehouse.
* It's possible he goes to the equivalent of a junior-high school, the CMC are in what appears to be an elementary school and he's older than they are.
* Spike having the time to attend school off screen seems unlikely. He has a full time job assisting Twilight, to the point that he doesn't even have weekends off most of the time. It seems more likely that he finished whatever school Equestria requires before he was given the job as Twilight's assistant.
* Assuming that he's been with Twilight full time since he hatched, that means that he probably attended the same classes, or at least the same school, as Twilight did. Take that as you will.

[[WMG: Spike is actually a dinosaur, not a dragon.]]
Thus explaining why he's never going to grow wings.
* Because dinosaurs with draconic abilities[[note]]like breathing fire, eating gemstones, and bathing in lava[[/note]] make more sense than a wingless 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]].
* 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]].

[[WMG: Spike is part changeling.]]
Queen Chrysalis uses green fire to teleport stuff. Spike also uses green fire to teleport stuff. Coincidence? Probably, but where's the fun in that? Shapeshifter ancestry would also help explain why he could grow up and [[BuffySpeak un-grow up]] so quickly.
* The comic book has Chrysalis send something through his flame, making her the only entity besides Celestia to do so. Maybe the process uses changeling magic?

[[WMG: Spike is [[SuperNotDrowningSkills unable to drown]].]]
While we don't really know how well he swims, I would not be surprised at all if Spike was able to stay underwater almost indefinitely.
* The dude's got a bunch of reptilian traits, he can probably swim like a crocodile.

[[WMG: Spike is [[HybridMonster Princess Celestia's son]].]]
Spike and Princess Celestia seem to have some kind of special connection, as they can send scrolls to each other, but Twilight, who's special talent is magic, can't send scrolls to either. Spike's egg was also kept in Canterlot, in Princess Celestia's private school, far from any dragons, raising the question of just who's egg it is. The cart it was kept on had a picture of a wingless dragon, showing that they knew something about what Spike would look like, possibly a drawing of Celestia's old partner. Obviously, his pony traits are recessive. How do a dragon and a pegasus unicorn make a baby? Well, when a [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction horse and dragon]] [[TheTalk love each other very much]]...
* 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...)
** Princess Celestia had been using her egg to test her more promising students because she was unable to hatch it herself. She doesn't know much about dragons because her affair with a dragon was a one night stand, and after he failed to call back, hell if she was going to more dragons for help. The fire mail trick was one of the few dragon abilities that she knew about,[[note]]She was expected her ex to use it to contact her, the deadbeat sack of scales[[/note]] so she taught it to Spike that way she'd always be able to keep in touch with her son.
** Garble's reaction to Spike's fire mail implies that it is a dragon ability, but we've never seen any ponies use it, or seen Spike use it to contact someone other than Celestia, which implies that Celestia is the only pony that can use it, which raises the question of why only she can do it.
*** Actually when you see him belch up a scroll, all the other dragons sound confused. While dragons can belch up flames, they don't seem to send letters with it. Also, Lauren said that he was taught by Celestia to do that letter-sending flame, so he can send to her what twilight learns on friendship. Although she didn't know that, that was what it was for at the time. She mainly taught it to him, having a feeling that one day it would come in handy. So basically, it's a learned skill: how he sends letters, and who to send them to. He's only learned how to send letters to celestia, he's never tried to send letters to anyone else. And celestia seems to be the only one who has strong enough magic to send letters to spike back. But it's mainly for sending letters and replies to twilight, or just spike (sending him his own ticket to the gala, and presumably a letter telling him to come to canterlot for business).

[[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…
* This would, in fact, explain why Celestia won't tell Spike where he's from. If Spike knows, then Twilight will eventually know, and she'll eventually start to question why she's important enough to be an exception. Probably the thing that'll make her suspicious of whatever Celestia has planned for her future.

[[WMG: Spike is a guinea pig in an experiment to test an indoctrinated dragon's suitability for living in pony culture.]]
Mature dragons have been shown to be disruptive ("Dragonshy") if not outright destructive ("Secret of My Excess") to the lives of ponies, while dragons that are prevented from engaging in the hoarding that enables them to mature are kept in a manageable diminutive state. As has been established in "A Bird in the Hoof", Celestia loves all creatures great and small, but as any sane ruler would tell you, the needs of the people come first. Regardless of how Celestia learned of the maturation process of dragons in the first place (Zecora knew of it, so there's no reason Celestia wouldn't as well), if stunting the growth of dragons by civilizing them and subordinating them to capable, trustworthy ponies (such as Twilight) from birth is for the protection of ponykind, then it shall be done.

It has never been officially explained how Celestia obtained the egg Spike was hatched from for Twilight's test in "Cutie Mark Chronicles", so it can safely be speculated that the egg was retrieved (by whatever means necessary) for the purpose of this experiment with the long-term goal of decreasing the threat of dragons to ponies within a few generations. The mature Spike's rampage in "Secret of My Excess" may very well have served to cement the necessity of indoctrinating dragons in the eyes of the citizens by reminding them of the danger that uncivilized dragons pose first-hand.

Spike's eventual rejection of his "dragon-ness" in "Dragon Quest" is fairly solid proof that the experiment is a success; the point is further driven home by Spike proclaiming his intent to teach his adopted phoenix Pee-Wee how to "be a pony". With these developments, it can be assumed that Celestia will be justified in incorporating the hatching of dragon eggs as a regular part of the entrance exams in her School for Gifted Unicorns, thus paving the way for other "ponified" dragons to make their appearance in pony civilizations.

As for how a "ponified" dragon such as Spike is supposed to age over the years if they are not allowed to physically mature, this brings to mind the case of actor Dick Beals, who, due to a glandular issue, retained his childish proportions and voice well into his elderly years. Who is to say that Spike and other dragons in his scenario wouldn't go through a similar process?
* There is one problem with this theory, which is that Celestia never warned Twilight about the effect that hoarding would have on Spike. Since one minor mistake could undo all the work put into raising Spike as well as endangering crowds of ponies, it is unlikely that Celestia knew that detail of dragon growth. Spike being raised as a deliberate attempt to indoctrinate dragons with the pony lifestyle is still plausible, though.

[[WMG: Twilight Sparkle didn't actually mature Spike to adulthood when she hatched him.]]
Rather, Spike matured to that size as a reflexive defensive to the uncontrolled magic she was throwing around. Should Twilight go into another [[SuperPowerMeltDown uncontrolled meltdown]] while standing next to Spike, he'll take a more combat capable form again.

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 specialised into an organic magical telegraph system alá the [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Astropaths.]]

The other dragons we see in the series (excluding [[FanNickname Steven Magnet]]) resemble Spike in many ways, such as the spade tail, the ears/fins on the head, and of course, the spikes that get larger on the head. The only thing that seperates them is the wings. Spike will go through a growth spurt where he grows wings and he needs help learning to fly. He's initially clumsy and this makes him feel embarassed, akward, and ashamed so he runs away. But the Mane Cast finds him and they tell him they still love him and they'll help him fly. The lesson will be that friends help each other through hard times.

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[[WMG: Spike is the same type of dragon as Steven Magnet.]]
There the only two dragons shown without wings.

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

[[WMG: Spike will gain at least one NewSuperPower.]]
The ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaKcPANgSzQ Meet Spike the Dragon]]'' video, released on September 22, 2011, mentions that Spike is "still discovering his dragon powers." Perhaps this will happen in one or more upcoming episodes.
* Well, he finds a way to set off a [[HulkingOut growth spurt]], which is kind of a super power...

[[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.]]
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…
* Zecora's exact words were: "A dragon's heart is prone to greed, a steady diet to make growth speed." Kind of suggests that he does grow naturally. After all, how can you speed up growth if he doesn't grow at all?

[[WMG: Spike '''isn't''' a ''flying'' dragon, he's a ''magic'' dragon.]]
Check it out! He doesn't have wings, didn't grow any during his greed-fueled premature maturity, and doesn't even see himself as getting wings in adulthood (in his rescue Rarity fantasy against the Diamond Dogs). Twilight Sparkle got him in a magic school (where a familiar who can someday learn magic would be helpful), so although there isn't any really solid proof, I'm calling it.
* He might still fly someday, if he learns the right spells for it.

[[WMG: Spike's parents...]]
Are [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyro Spyro and Cynder.]]

[[WMG: Spike's crush on Rarity is just a "crush" and won't grow into anything more.]]
While it's been revealed that Rarity herself knows about Spike's "romantic" feelings for her, it probably won't evolve into an actual relationship. Spike is a youngster of a different species, and Rarity would prefer their relationship to be [[IDontWantToRuinOurFriendship the way it always was]]. This would fit right in with a cartoon about friendship aimed primarily at children.

[[WMG: Rarity does want Spike]]
Rarity will bide her time and test Spike's feelings for her to make sure they're more than just a crush and mold him into the perfect gentleman. If she can then get him to grow to a ''manageable'' size, she'll have the perfect boyfriend. Well, aside from him being a dragon and her being a pony.

[[WMG: Spike can assume his giant dragon form at will, just with the intellect and self control he has now.]]
Much like Luna can turn into Nightmare Moon at will, but not be evil. I say this because…well, why the hay not?

Adding on to that...

[[WMG: Spike isn't really a baby dragon; He's in SleepModeSize.]]
Spike is able to reach adult size in twenty-four hours or less with the proper stimuli, suggesting that he's reached the chronological point of dragon adulthood. Additionally, he didn't have to eat anything to fuel the majority of that growth. The other dragons stay in their larger forms all the time because they don't have friends to remind them of stuff other than greed, or give them a reason to assume the smaller, more vulnerable size.

[[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.
* Spike has a form that looks a lot like the one from Cutie Mark Chronicles for a moment, while he was [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-r4psXUS2M#t=15m50s destroying Sugarcube Corner]]. That seems to imply that Twilight didn't quite turn him all the way into an adult.
* One theory is that rather than his greed causing his maturation it was actually his maturation that caused his greed. For a dragon in the wild there are more rivals and stiffer competition than Spike faces in Ponyville. After one day he was already bigger and stronger than almost anyone else in town and could just take whatever he wanted. After that it all just snowballed and caused his extremely rapid growth and monstrous appearance. Greed is a natural thing for Dragons, it helps them survive since they can eat almost anything, require large amounts of food, and tend to use their hoard as an emergency food supply. Kind of like how a boy starting puberty gets a shot of testosterone and can cause a jump in aggressive tendencies that can become destructive if not properly cared for.

[[WMG: One of Twilight's duties is studying Spike.]]
Secret of My Excess made it painfully clear that nopony native to Equestria knows much about dragons or the dragon lifecycle. Twilight didn't have any books that she could consult, didn't try asking Celestia for help, and went to a pediatrician and a veterinarian as well as Zecora. Additionally, Fluttershy wasn't even aware that dragons could talk before meeting Spike.

As Celestia is too busy to watch Spike full time, as soon as she completed a few preliminary studies to make sure that he wasn't a serious threat, she entrusted him to the care of her most trusted and faithful student for care and observation. Presumably, some of that royal business that Spike returns to Canterlot for is to be examined by Celestia herself.
* That makes a lot of sense. The only one in Ponyville who knew anything about dragons was Zecora, a zebra from a faraway land. We haven't seen another baby dragon in the series yet, which implies that they're VERY rare, and if they're going to be raised by a pony they're not going to be raised by just anypony.

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

[[WMG: The Fire Ruby that Spike gave to Rarity will become a ChekhovsGun]]
Spike mentions that he's been aging the ruby in preparation for eating it. Since he gave it away rather than simply eating it, it will continue to grow and store energy that will later be used to temporarily transform Spike into an adult dragon that is not as monstrous as his "greedy" form but even more powerful. It may even be able to unlock a mysterious seventh Element of Harmony: Love.
* More poetically, it's a symbol of his generosity.
** It's more a symbol of his love for Rarity than his inherent generosity, Spike is a nice guy and all but I doubt he would have given the gem to Applejack or Rainbow Dash if they'd shown any interest in it.
*** Probably, but it is explicitly said that he would only change back with a great act of generosity, which was fulfilled with him remembering how he had given the ruby to Rarity.
*** No it isn't, in fact they have no idea how to change him ''back'', just that they need to try and curb his greed to stop his growth. Remembering how he gave the Fire Ruby to Rarity purged his heart of greed which is why he changed back to his chronological age. They didn't know that would happen.
* It already was a ChekhovsGun inside the episode. It's not likely that the creators will implement that kind of episode-to-episode (or, now, season-to-season) continuity.
* It sort of acted as this in the second IDW comics arc; it helped Spike confirm that Rarity was [[NotHimself not herself]] when she didn't recognize it.

[[WMG: Spike's crush on Rarity started with her cutie mark.]]
Seeing as how he's obsessed with gems (being a dragon and all) Rarity's cutie mark was initially the main reason he developed a crush on her, though that was a subconcious reason. Over time, he did start liking her for other reasons, though.

[[WMG: Spike is only with Twilight because she's the one who hatched him.]]
Dragons must be very rare in Equestria, seeing as how so few ponies know anything about them and we've yet to see a single other baby dragon in the series to date. As such, if a baby dragon were to go into the custody of a pony, it wouldn't be given to just ANY pony. The reason Spike is with Twilight is that she was the one who hatched him, so he has a special emotional bond with her. Not a maternal bond, but still a very strong, unbreakable bond. As a result, Spike was sent to live with her, if partially for his own sake. Without her, he could go into a deep depression, which could also explain why he was so quick to run away the moment he felt "rejected" by her in Owl's Well That Ends Well.

[[WMG: Celestia fought, and possible killed, Spike's mother.]]
Given how protective a dragon is of their horde, they probably don't leave their eggs just lying around. From the reactions of various ponies, dragons are known to go on the occasional rampage, and from the power even a non-combative dragon has displayed, Celestia is one of the few entities that could fight them. So, after a dragon either died or fled, she left her horde behind for Celestia to examine, complete with an egg.

Whether Spike knows about this, and how he would react, are yet unknown.
* With the exception of the teenage dragons, the dragons in MLP haven't been portrayed as being particularly social creatures. If they're strongly based on reptiles, which they at least moderately are, it wouldn't be surprising if they literally did essentially leave their eggs just lying around. A lot of reptiles will lay their eggs in an environment that can support them, and then just leave the young to fend for themselves. This would make sense for territorial and greedy dragons. The teenagers can be explained as a necessary step in the development of a sentient species, and understandable given their territorialness and seeming vast amounts of testosterone.

[[WMG: Spike sees Twilight as a sister.]]
{{Word of|God}} [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B8qXWF1UoiQ/TvAGRk46vOI/AAAAAAAAYhw/BAKapxv7NP4/s1600/1.jpg Faust]] has confirmed, it was Princess Celestia who raised and trained Spike before he ended up living with Twilight Sparkle. However, she felt that they both belonged together seeing as it was Twilight who hatched him. This would explain why during the beginning of winter wrap up he said,"You're not mommy," to Twilight. Because he saw Celestia like a mother figure. But Spike does care about Twilight. Like in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E24OwlsWellThatEndsWell Owl's Well That Ends Well]], when he runs away because he thinks Twilight doesn't love him anymore. He was also going out of his way to frame Twilight's pet owl, who was being favored by the girls at the time. It's like a child being jealous of the new baby, and Spike wanting the attention from his family (twilight). Also, Celestia wouldn't just give a young mare, a kid that she barely knows. Unless they had a special connection. Just like in the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E23TheCutieMarkChronicles The Cutie Mark Chronicles]], it has been confirmed that friends may have a special bond that they may not even know about yet. In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E10SecretOfMyExcess Secret of my Excess]], it was shown that Twilight is the only one who gave Spike presents for his birthday back when they were in Canterlot together. Confirming that they only really had each other when they were little. It should also be noted that in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E12BabyCakes Baby Cakes]], Twilight states that she knows what babies need, in order to be properly taken care of. Now she was only a little filly, but in her spare time, she probably helped Celestia raise Spike, sorta like how a big sister would help the mom take care of the baby.
* The show may change the idea for Spike's background. This idea was by Lauren, and seeing as she sadly, is no longer a major part of making FIM episodes, this may change. She said herself, the show may treat it differently.
** In Creator/CathyWeseluck's [[http://www.alltasteexplosion.com/?p=1933 interview]], she states that Spike does seem to share a big sister-little brother relationship with Twilight (she didn't outwardly say it, but it was heavily implied that she meant Twilight)
* See also [[http://static4.fjcdn.com/comments/keep+calm+this+happened+afterwards+_cb9a593c68147b77e47c530dc08a65c1.png this comic.]]

[[WMG: Spike and Rarity will have kids.]]
Despite their difference in age, Rarity will realize Spike's feelings, and overtime return them. As shown in past episodes, he is a different breed of dragon. And so he'll grow at a different rate (much faster than other dragons), and have different appearance than other dragons too. As time goes by, and he grows older, he and Rarity will decide to have kids. Ponies and dragons can in [[Main/InterspeciesRomance fact breed]]. They can give birth to an animal called a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qilin kirin]]. Kirins are descended from pony/dragon hybrids.
* [[http://nabbiekitty.deviantart.com/art/Gem-Commission-284966362 Here's what their kid would look like]]
* Wouldn't it be a [[Anime/YuGiOh Blue Eyes White Dragon]]? Just think about it. Rarity has blue eyes and a white coat...
* [[http://spyro.wikia.com/wiki/Whirlwind_%28character%29 Alternatively...]]
[[WMG: Spike is [[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...]]
Because he's also a diplomat to dragon lands for Celestia. He hasn't shown up much this season because he hasn't had much TIME to show up.
* Interesting theory, but [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E10SecretOfMyExcess Secret of my Excess]], pretty much proves that ponies don't know anything about dragons. So they probably don't interact with ponies, let alone with a baby dragon raised by ponies. Also, if [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E7DragonShy DragonShy]] and [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E24OwlsWellThatEndsWell Owl's Well That Ends Well]] are anything to go by, it shows that dragons keep to themselves, and live in separate areas. I doubt that they have a form of government. They seem like the kind of species that are loners. I always felt that Twilight was just overloading him with a lot of chores to do. He, being the nice guy he is, would help with no complaints. But this would cut into his time with his friends, and Twilight wouldn't really seem to notice it. she'd be too busy either studying, or going on many adventures with her friends. Eventually she and the others would find out about how lonely he can get at the library, and will attempt to spend more time with him. Which will lead to him being more active in season 3.
** In It's About Time, he says that Twilight's adventures give him time to catch up on his sleep.

[[WMG: Spike has no parents, and was created by magic.]]
Princess Celestia had sensed the Element of Magic in Twilight Sparkle, and so made a change to the entrance exam. Celestia wanted to make the exam more challenging for Twilight, and so picked a challenge that required using a large amount of magic. The new test was bringing something to life. Dragons are tough creatures, due to their thick scales, and thus more resistant to magic. Which would make hatching a dragon, more challenging. However, Celestia knew that dragons are very protective of their babies, and refused to steal a child from its parents. And so, she created a dragon egg with her magic, for Twilight to hatch in the entrance exam. And raised him, with some help from Twilight of course.

[[WMG: Spike's species is from a land far, far away from Equestria, possibly Zecora's homeland.]]
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's species can only be hatched by magic.]]
His species is capable of using magic, and their eggs can only be hatched by use of magic.

[[WMG: Spike '''will''' grow wings.]]
Spike grew up in the show so far through magic and being greedy and selfish. Every other dragon that we've seen so far in the show is greedy and selfish. Who's to say he won't grow up differently and possibly get wings because he's NOT greedy and selfish like every other dragon we've seen?

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.

He's still just a baby dragon. His wings may grow in later. Or maybe he's just a late bloomer.
* So... Growing up differently will make him look like all the other dragons?
** 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.
*** The teenage dragons were acting pretty close to how teen Spike was, if less focused on hoarding. Adult!Spike was capable of understanding the ponies, and reacted more calmly the dragon from [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E7DragonShy DragonShy]], as he only defended himself with minimal force, and only after the Wonderbolts cut his spikes/spines/frills off. He was also talked down without Fluttershy's stare being used on him. We don't know how the two adults obtained their hordes, but all reactions imply that it was the same way that Adult!Spike got his. Finally, accelerating his growth doesn't mean, or even imply, that he would grow up malformed. All evidence points to Spike's growth in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E10SecretOfMyExcess Secret of My Excess]] being sped up, but not taking a different path.
** 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.
*** Why do people assume that adult Spike was incapable of speech? Adult dragons just don't seem to be big on talking. While the Owl's Well dragon spoke without prompting, the Dragonshy dragon had all of two lines, both after Fluttershy stared it into submission, and the adults from Dragon Quest were never even implied to say anything. The first episode in the series also established that dragons speak so rarely that most ponies aren't even aware that they can talk. After he reached full size, Spike just plain didn't have anything to say. Going silent for five minutes doesn't mean that a character has lost the ability to speak.
*** Zecora did say that he would turn into a monster, but every dragon with more than ten seconds of focus has shown some monstrous behavior. The red and green adults' had violent tempers and the teens were, well, [[TeenagersAreMonsters teenagers]]. Even aside from the question of how literal that statement was, an adult dragon being referred to as a monster is hardly strange. A well behaved adult would be the oddity.
*** The teen dragons from Dragon Quest showed worse behavior than Greedy!Spike. Some of the background ones without a speaking role might have been nicer than the foreground ones, but that wasn't really shown. Garble and his gang had wings, but no sign of restraint. That doesn't seem to imply that wings come from good behavior.
*** The wings may not come from good behavior, but just grow in naturally overtime. What I think is that, dragons grow a little bit whenever they are just a little greedy. Or maybe greed isn't involved at all with how a dragon grows, but can accelerate the growth process, but like I said before, ''that'' growth process creates a malformed, adult dragon. All dragons will grow their wings overtime, but for some it takes longer. Spike is simply a late bloomer. Garble teases him about not having wings, because '''he''' can't remember a time he didn't have them. His memories of being a baby, are distant, and long forgotten, and so doesn't remember when he didn't have them.


[[WMG: Spike's lack of wings is the outward sign of a serious congenital birth defect.]]
And he's going to develop serious health problems as he gets older.

What? You were all thinking it, I'm just saying it.
* I think spike is just a late bloomer, or maybe since he's a still baby they'll grow in over time.

[[WMG: The reason that Spike grew up so quickly in Secret of My Excess is because...]]
He usually isn't growing up at all. Because of that, when he started to act true to his dragon nature, his dragon desires and dragon growth spurts all hit at once. If he was acting more dragon like all of the time, he would be growing at a more consistent rate, and would have reached adulthood more gradually.

[[WMG: Spike does not look like a normal dragon because of Twilight.]]
Twilight did know how to hatch an egg, but simply did not have enough brute force at the time. She did not, however, know what a dragon hatchling looked like, and when she did have enough brute force, she just enlarged the embryo form instead.
* 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 is a stealth AudienceSurrogate.]]
Expanding on the [[Fridge/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic fridge entry]] regarding the Gala and Spike's response (he claims not to enjoy such "frilly, frou frou nonsense", yet giggles excitedly when the others are out of earshot), Spike's personality resembles a typical male viewer of the show. He snarks about the characters, doesn't want to be involved in fashion or other girly stuff, and all around feels out of place. Yet it's clear that he has a lot of fun as a whole, and wouldn't have anything any other way.

[[WMG: Spike's species imprint on the first living thing they see when they hatch.]]
In Spike's case, it's possible that he's imprinted onto unicorns, such as his closest friend, Twilight. Hence why he also has a near-obsessive crush on Rarity (another unicorn). He's been wired to see unicorns as potential mates.
* Also, it could be assumed that the first living thing Spike saw was either Twilight or Celestia. Twilight may even be more probable since Celestia is a Unicorn ''Pegasus''.
* As of "Cutie Mark Chronicles", we get confirmation that Twilight probably ''was'' the first creature Spike saw - hell, she was the one who hatched him!

[[WMG: Spike is somehow related to ''SpyroTheDragon''.]]
Ancient ancestor maybe? With the events of the spyro games taking place long after the ponies too, have been wiped out as the humans were before them?

[[WMG: Spike isn't "Spike's" real name.]]
[[Literature/EarthseaTrilogy Dragons never reveal]] their [[IKnowYourTrueName True Name.]] So Spike is a nickname of sorts. If anyone does know his real name, Twilight might.

[[WMG: Spike's mom is Twilight]]
She gave one of her ovum to Celestia who impregnated it with dragon seed and gave the egg to Twilight. Explains why he's purple.
* Or alternatively, he is her natural born child, and the cutie mark story is [[http://www.funnyjunk.com/channel/ponytime/Spike+s+Mother/tNxnGgA a lie to avoid scandal.]]

[[WMG: Spike will be given a male pony friend.]]
Who he refers to as his "brony."

[[WMG: Spike is a hybrid dragon.]]
In the show, we see few different types of dragon species, and it wouldn't be too unreasonable to believe there are a few other different species as well. Spike is a crossbreed between two different dragon species, a huge taboo in the dragon world. Either his egg was abandoned and then picked up by Celestia, or his parents gave him to her so he can grow up in a safe, accepting environment. Had he stayed living with dragons, he would've been tormented constantly for being a hybrid, or perhaps even killed for it.

[[WMG: Before he met Rarity, Spike had a crush on Moondancer.]]

[[WMG: Spike has serious species identity issues from being raised among ponies.]]
He has a crush on a pony, and in his imagine spot, he rescues Rarity as a KNIGHT, a dragon's natural enemy.
* Confirmed as of [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E21DragonQuest Dragon Quest]].

[[WMG: Rarity is not Spike's first cross-species crush.]]
In episode one, Spike was seen carrying a present. When Twilight asked him what it was, he says it was a present for Moon Dancer. A few minutes before, an unnamed pony invites Twilight to a party Moon Dancer was throwing in the palace courtyard. Assuming that renting the palace courtyard isn't something just anypony can do, along with how quickly Spike falls for Rarity, it could imply that Moon Dancer was a noble, and Spike just has a thing for regal ponies (possibly a subconscious reaction because of their access to jewels).
* Alternatively, [[WhereDaWhiteWomenAt Where da White Ponies at?]]

[[WMG: Spike comes from a far away place where dragons are hunted.]]
In this place, dragons are feared and hated. Often they are killed on sight, and while strong, they are too few in numbers to fight back for the long run. Princess Celestia takes in refugees and eggs smuggled into Equestria, but since the journey is long and dangerous and since everyone in that land is out to kill dragons, very few actually make it. Spike's egg was smuggled in by a benevolent pony after all his relatives were killed, which is why he's being raised by ponies.

[[WMG: Spike being raised by ponies because of a pact between The Dragons and Princess Celestia]]
[[TheNewGods Sort of like how Highfather and]] {{Darkseid}} switched sons to prevent war between them.

[[WMG: Hoity Toity and Spike are friends.]]
Hoity Toity watched Rarity's fashion shows as a favor to Spike.

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

[[WMG: Spike was born from a fake egg.]]
Going with UnwinnableTrainingSimulation based WMG in the Twilight Sparkle folder on the Mane Characters page. The egg in Twilight's entrance exam was fake, but Twilight turned it real with magic. Making this an [[AchievementsInIgnorance Achievement In Ignorance]].

[[WMG: Spike's singing voice is ridiculously sexy.]]
He's the only Mane character who hasn't sung yet (well, except in "Equestria Girls", but that doesn't really count), one of his episodes will revolve around how he has a really good singing voice (dubbed by a guy). Possibly in a WholePlotReference to the story of the Nightingale.
* Even if it [[{{Foreshadowing}} does count]].
* Evidence in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag2mFpS4IEg this video]] and [[http://youtu.be/QVUEYlyQVI8 this one]].
* He sang the ''Failure Song'' with Twilight in ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E1TheCrystalEmpirePart1 The Crystal Empire]]''. It wasn't particularly sexy, but if it's any consolation, he ''does'' seem to have some pretty awesome ballet skills.

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 bizare fluke that's specialised into an organic magical telegraph system alá the [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Astropaths.]]