Trivia / My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic S8 E13 "The Mean 6"

• Content Leak: This was one of several unfinished episodes which were compromised by a data breach of DHX Media and leaked to the public in late 2017, months before being completed and having the official air date.
• Recycled Script:
  • This is the second time we’ve been introduced to versions of the Mane Six that act like the opposite of their Element of Harmony. However, we get a much better corrupted Twilight here. Twilight in the season two premiere simply just gave up on her friends. Here, Mean Twilight acts very cunning and reclusive.
  • The Mean Six causes confusion and anger as the Mane Six blames their mean counterparts for each other's actions. A similar thing happened in the comics The Return of Queen Chrysalis, in which Chrysalis's servants also impersonated the Mane Six and caused them to get angry with each other.
• Short Run in Peru: The full episode was released early in Finland in mid-May 2018, and in the UK on June 6th, three days before the US airdate.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The leaked version shows Mean Twilight's Family-Unfriendly Death was even more graphic than what was in the official airing.
  • According to this tweet by Michael Vogel, Spike and Zecora were originally going to book-end the episode with "some iambic pentameter", but it was removed for time.

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