Note that some of these guesses were made before it was specified what the movie is.
- It could be Narnia-esque? Time flows super slow in comparison to time spent in Equestria?
- Possibly —- but Narnia also has its own diverse territories and unique populations, which the EG world doesn't seem to have. Also, if time moved slower or quicker than in Equestria, it would be impossible to keep track of the Moon cycles which dictated when the mirror portal would open/close.
- What if time only flows while the mirror is open? So you can go there and come back in 3 days and everything seems normal, but from the EQG side the portal is always open and if you miss your window you come back and suddenly it's 3 years later.
- I like that theory! That would also mean since Twilight modified the portal to always be open, time will start flowing normally in the EG universe — will still be an effective prison?
- Possibly —- but Narnia also has its own diverse territories and unique populations, which the EG world doesn't seem to have. Also, if time moved slower or quicker than in Equestria, it would be impossible to keep track of the Moon cycles which dictated when the mirror portal would open/close.
The only characters unique to the EG world are people who are banished from Equestria. Everyone else is just a reflection of someone who exists in Equestria already.
Whatever change a true Equestrian sets in place, all the reflected EG citizens go along with unquestioningly - even the adults. Sunset Shimmer convinced everyone she was in charge of their school before ever getting Twilight's tiara. When both Twilight and the Sirens started singing their campaigns in the cafeteria, the rest of the school immediately started going along with it - regardless of whether or not magic was involved.
Then, in addition to the song and dance to generate popularity, she also proactively destroyed Sunset's image on a meta-game theory level by trashing the gym, assuming that Sunset would be a more likely suspect, with the plan to "unite the school in its darkest hour" by volunteering to clean up the villain's mess. She was nearly caught, and is about to tearfully confess her guilt to Vice Principal Luna before Flash, who knows of Snips's and Snails's reputation for constantly gathering blackmail material and easily intimidates it out of them after seeing his crush in trouble, bails her out with an example of photo faking so thoughtlessly done that, if you pay attention, confirms Twilight as the one who trashed the gym: Twilight has access for hours before and after the cafeteria scene, since she wasn't actually attending classes (Sunset, presumably, did not have that same opportunity).
The reason Sunset is acting so cheesy when handing over the evidence of Twilight's guilt is because she was so ecstatic that she had lucked into something much much worse than failing at soccer.
- Jossed: Sunset is clearly ordering Snips and Snails to do something with a wicked grin on her face, and we see her gather evidence on the team during a comic. Twilight's reactions to Luna's questioning don't imply guilt
- G2 also had magazine stories.
- The ponies will fight a space-time anomaly while Twilight is moved back and forth between the different worlds by the power of Discord. Just like in the series finale of TNG.
- Sadly this might already be Jossed, not because of a rumored leak but Hasbro did announce that they intend to launch a new My Little Pony IP with the TV Movie, so basically a spin-off. Still, nothing says that Season 4, with 26 episodes, can't handle the Milestone Celebration.
- Now that you've come up with this theory, let's hope the universe does everything it can to keep it from happening.
- Assuming that it's Top Draw Animation's 66-minute "DVD" work◊ for DHX Media, it's still handled by the same studio.
- Looking at the general response from bronies to the recent posters, it seems like its heading in this direction. Few bronies find it appealing.
- Honestly, I see this happening... remember that Bronies are a Periphery Demographic. Bronies technically are not supposed to BE there, let alone have many things Pandering to the Fanbase. But then again, seeing as the comic series seems to be pandering more to the Brony demographic (Because let's face it, how many kids in the show's intended demographic are going to have access to comics? Most stores out here don't even sell comic books targeted at demographics below eleven outside of the kids section, and most grocery stores, magazine racks, and newsstands don't even carry comics that aren't Archie).
- Then again, as a group, bronies are so broad that even something like Equestria Girls might be appealing to at least one subset of bronies. The one thing that bronies have in common is that they're mostly adults or at least "too old" to be watching a pony cartoon and they like animation. Friendship Is Magic was designed to be appealing to both children and their parents, the later which are virtually indistinguishable from most bronies.
- With the first proper trailers beginning to come out, showing that it will have some fantasy elements, and animation and voices by the same cast and crew as My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, general opinion among the bronies seems to be slowly warming towards the movie; Emphasis on 'slowly'
- Jossed. There's a number of shout-outs in the movie (including a couple of Derpy cameos) and the movie is a pretty solid Base Breaker (some liked it, some hated it).
- Half Jossed - A good number of bronies hated it, some even seeing the shout-outs (especially the Derpy cameos) as an attempt to cover up bad writing.
- Broken Base at most. You also do know that Pandering to the Base is not always a bad thing. Besides stuff like Trixie, Derpy, and the Cutie Mark Crusaders aren't just to pander to the fanbase. They're also meant to show that the human world isn't that different from Equestria.
- Half Jossed - A good number of bronies hated it, some even seeing the shout-outs (especially the Derpy cameos) as an attempt to cover up bad writing.
- Jossed HARD.
- Confirmed. It takes place in the exact place that it came out during the series' continuity: in between Seasons 3 and 4. Twilight is an Alicorn, and is still getting used to her new wings and title. However, Season 4 itself never references the movie at all (though pony!Flash Sentry does cameo in two episodes, including speaking in the finale).
- Word of God is it's set before season 4, so this is confirmed: https://twitter.com/MMeghanMcCarthy/status/348921014706659330
- Escapees from Tartarus... possibly descendents of previous MLP generations.
- Typhon, father of all monsters and king of the dragons.
- Some sort of Man Behind the Man for one or more previous villains.
- The Nightmare?
- Krastos the Glue Maker.
- Confirmed. Sunset Shimmer is the villain, so there is a new villain.
That and I want to see them suplex or piledrive something or someone.
- Well, nothing happened in-universe like that, but since Rainbow is stated to be "the captain of practically every team at Canterlot High" you can't say she's NOT on the wrestling team. So, you can claim it confirmed or jossed; whatever floats your boat. You can probably claim RD as part of any team you want, from wrestling to cheer; the only team we know she's on is soccer. AJ, however, is probably too preoccupied with the farm to join any teams.
- The plot is set in motion when Trixie, depressed over her lack of progress in her career, turns Equestria into a High School AU so that she can relive her glory days.
- Ironically, pulling something that level of reality-altering magical manipulation should catapult her into the running Princess-hood.
- Alternatively, Trixie is a wannabe Alpha Bitch. She has the general attitude, but doesn't have the popularity needed for it, as befits her Small Name, Big Ego problems.
- Or, in light of her Heel–Face Turn, she's a Lovable Alpha Bitch.
- Derpy is the school janitor.
- Jossed; she's a student.
- Celestia and Luna are teachers. Celestia is the cool teacher that everyone loves, while Luna is jealous of her success. This eventually causes her to become a power-mad Nightmare Moon. "The detention... shall last... until 5, because that's when the school closes."
- "What, you guys seriously thought I would keep you here forever? Wow. Paranoid much."
- Okay, that's funny.
- Alternatively, Nightmare Moon is a fictional character in-universe. Luna tried to pursue an acting career when she was younger, and her most successful role was a B-Movie horror villain named Nightmare Moon.
- Why this didn't actually happen is a mystery; it would have been so much cooler. However, Luna and Celestia did show off their authority sides in the movie, something that never actually gets shown.
- As another alternative, Nightmare Moon is the result of Luna having an odd form of Dissociative Identity Disorder. She was pronounced cured some unspecified time ago and has since returned to her old job as vice principal.
- All of the above has been Jossed by the fourth movie. It was a Noodle Incident at a summer camp, involving a sundial.
- "What, you guys seriously thought I would keep you here forever? Wow. Paranoid much."
- Discord is the evil principal. Or mayor, if you want to go the route of Buffy.
- Alternatively, he's the slightly-crazed-but-awesome chemistry teacher. Because Discord + potentially combustible chemicals = chaos. (Albeit on a more mundane level.)
Discord: Now class. Can anyone tell me what happens when I drop this pound of sodium into this bucket of water? - Gilda is from another school, is a bad girl, and is hardcore into tattoos and piercings.
- Derpy would be a somewhat popular student in a Fandom Nod.
- And like many popular girls (and Derpy herself), she holds no personality. It fits!
- Probably Jossed since we never see her with anyone else, but she does get what appears to be a love letter which could constitute as a Fandom Nod.
- The "High School" would also have Middle and Elementary divisions and the CMC (including Babs) and perhaps Spike are students.
- Jossed the CMC were aged up to High School freshman, and Spike is a puppy.
- Applejack's family in this universe would operate a horse farm.
- Either Shining Armor or Big McIntosh will be the star quarterback.
- I'd say Shining Armor would be a quarterback, Big mac seems more like a linebacker.
- Pinkie is a cheerleader. (Hey, she has enough energy for it.)
- There will be a "Defense Against the Dark Arts" teacher with King Sombra attached to the back of his head.
- Lyra is obsessed with My Little Pony or unicorns in general.
- In a parallel to "Mare in the Moon", Twilight is a New Transfer Student.
- Twilight becomes princess by becoming the Student Council President.
- Confirmed! But there was no big deal made of her being new; she was treated like any new student would be (which is ironic, considering what her name is a shout out to). Also, Twilight DID become a princess, just not Student Council President. She was Princess of the Fall Formal.
- The Mayor is part of the school faculty, if not the principal).
- Zecora is a transfer student shunned for her different fashion style (and may be black).
- The Wonderbolts are a star track team (or anything athletic-related at least).
- The Wondercolts are the school mascot, so, I'm gonna go with "Confirmed" because that makes them the mascot of all the sports teams.
- Berry Punch will be seen under a hangover and sleeping in classes on occasion.
- Twinkleshine will be the leader of a "popular girl" posse.
- The Changelings are foreign exchange students from an aggressive foreign country, modelled after the real life designated aggressive nations like North Korea.
- The now-Confirmed (as of May 2014) spinoff series aside, nearly everything here is Jossed regarding the movie. None of the series' background ponies appear in the EQG-verse at all.
- Primary & Secondary characters who do appear in both worlds: the Mane Six, the CMC, Spike, Celestia, Luna, Flash Sentry, Big Macintosh, Trixie, Photo Finish, Vinyl Scratch, Derpy. Technically Sunset Shimmer as well.
- Seems to be confirmed by the previews seemingly showing Sunset going One-Winged Angel.
- Confirmed and Jossed. Twilight's magic doesn't work, but there are elements like Sunset's transformation and Spike as a dog speaking, but in comparison to the regular show, where these aspects are taken for granted, they're somewhat out of place in the context of the human world which is otherwise typically normal.
- From 6teen, to Saved by the Bell, this special will parody it brutally!
- Jossed Hard. For better and for worse, EQG plays the tropes pretty straight.
- Jossed. No one is shown to drive, except for Flash, who has an inexplicably Cool Car.
- How the heck is that creepy?
- Partially confirmed but in a more roundabout way. Twilight (and Spike for some reason, who becomes a dog according to the trailer) are the only ones actually from Equestria. The other five girls appear to be analogues from that particular reality.
- Confirmed to a degree. The Human and Pony Mane 6 (outside of Twilight) are different identities though sharing common personalities. However, the two sides never meet.
- in addition to this the anthropomorphized Mane 6 are just the human mane 6 (well 5 plus twilight) who have taped into there element
- Jossed.
- Never shown, ergo jossed.
- Confirmed and/or Jossed depending on character. As some have noted, for most of the characters, they translated pony age to human age - but as ponies mature faster than humans, then in human age they are mostly upperclassmen at school rather than young adults holding their own jobs. But, we have the CMC pushed up in age to be freshmen (as to be in school), and other characters like Big Mac and Photo Finish pushed down in age to also be in school.
- Then there's the fact that Celestia and Luna appear to be adults, and impossible 1000-year-old geriatrics/brains in jars.
- Neither confirmed nor jossed and likely will remain that way for sometime unless a spinoff series is made. Ponies do mature faster than humans which would actually suggest that from a years not maturity standpoint the ages are likely increased not decreased even ignoring that Equestria is clearly still an Agrarian society and it's entirely plausible that teens in that world are treated as full adults, it wasn't that long ago in human(Western) history that the same was true. The CMC may not be aged up, certainly not as much as the above assumes. It's not unheard of for 6th-12th grade to be on a single campus. Rare? Yes but not unheard of or impossible meaning the CMC may be eleven or younger. As for Celestia and Luna it's probably best to leave them out of any equation since it's extremely difficult to get any sort of fix on them but if you want to account for them the easiest answer (for me) is that they are magical in both worlds. Talking Spike, a portal to Equestria and functioning Elements of Harmony suggest that magic is rare not impossible on the other side. It wouldn't shock me at all to learn the two of them are immortals who fake their own deaths/move at regular intervals to keep anybody from catching on.
- The minds or souls of Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity are sealed in the crown.note And Twilight has to retrieve it to bring them back.
- It's an ancient and important artifact for the Crystal Empire and Twilight was in charge of taking care of it.
- It is in fact the very Element of magic that Twilight commands, the most powerful of the Elements, with it gone all the other elements are useless and Equestria susceptible to attack. Plus the element itself might hold some power on its own.
- Confirmed. Sunset Shimmer apears to steal the crown and escape into the human world, with Twilight going after it. Celestia tasks her because without the Element of Magic, the remaining Elements would be unable to protect Equestria.
- The warranty expired.
- Because it's pretty.
- Expanding on this: Sombra was basically an evil version of Fanon!Lyra: obsessed with humans and how he could use them to his own gain.
- Jossed.
- Jossed. (The mirror had been in Canterlot until only recently as per the start of the film, so unlikely Sombra had access to it).
- Confirmed.
- Completely Jossed. All main and minor characters are voiced by the same VA's whether pony or human.
- Jossed. Most done Behind the Black. (Though the traveling through the mirror sequence is pretty good special effects.
- Going by the recent synopsis, the only one who is visiting the new dimension is Twilight while the other human ponies are apparently separate characters.
- Though going by current trailers, this guess seems to be jossed for the most part.
- Jossed for the most point. These are the pony characters as humans.
- Megan gets a statue in the human world.
- The Smooze will be referenced in a Noodle Incident. Apparently someone was playing around in chemistry class...
- High school is PTSD-worthy?
- It's not so much high school itself, but the fact that she's traveling to another dimension. Being native to a Sugar Bowlesque world, where a place like the Everfree Forest is considered weird for having nature manage itself, a world more similar to our world would be much like visiting an Eldritch Location. See also Humans Are Cthulhu and the works of H. P. Lovecraft. There's also the fact that she's spontaneously changing species to something that's very alien to her: Becoming bipedal, gaining hands and feet, fingers and toes. Plus the strange beings inhabiting this dimension bare a very creepy resemblance to her own friends. How is Twilight's mind going to remain unscathed?
- Yes, high School is PTSD Worthy depending on your experience.
- Doesn't really matter, since the movie is officially non-canon with the show.
- Confirmed. At the start, pre-human, Twilight's still coming to grips with her new princess title and one she resents. Her actions in the human world (including becoming Princess of the Fall Formal) help to bolster her spirits and when she returns, she's less reluctant to take up her role.
- Semi-confirmed. It's hinted that the human Twilight and dog Spike are off in a city somewhere while pony-cum-human Twilight is present. But there's no hint that human Twilight traveled the other way to Equestria.
Twilight Prime: Because you needed each other. I could not deprive you of the spark that would ignite within you. Of a friendship that would define you all. A destiny you cannot yet realize.
- Jossed. The thief is Sunset Shimmer, Celestia's previous protege.
- Everyone else will hate it though.
- The trailer show a male that seems going to get close to her.
- Said male character looks and sounds a lot like Shining Armor, though. Even if they aren't literally brother and sister here, they can still have a similar bond.
- Confirmed. Flash Sentry - who exists both as a pegasus guard pony in the Crystal Empire and the human boy that she falls for, are played at a being a possible flirtatious relationship (Twilight blushes and blushes hard in both worlds). That said, Word of God has stated that Flash will not appear in S4, sorta putting an end to any further flirting.
- That last sentence is Jossed. Flash Sentry made two cameos in Season 4, both times doing his job as one of Cadance's guards. He even spoke in the Season 4 finale. In Meghan McCarthy's defense, however, he wasn't specifically written into the script; someone high up on the production staff added him in. Twice. BUT, there was no flirting.
- Tends to be somewhat of a Base Breaker.
- It seems to be a little more than that
- Depends on your outlook. Confirmed for some, jossed for others. It sits in the series like a Merriweather Williams episode does, which is to say, Broken Base.
- Going by current opinions, this looks to be most likely. Many bronies are still skeptical, a few are proclaiming it the end of MLP as they know it, but a noticeable number are becoming genuinely interested and excited for it.
- Confirmed; people either hate it, dislike it but won't vocalise their disdain like those who hate it do, are just "meh" over it, liked it, or loved it. It's Broken Base and it seems pretty evenly split between the camps.
- Jossed. It's the Element of Magic, and needed to complete the set, but otherwise the clock is only set by the timing on the portal.
- Twilight will freak out in a similar way to Lady Amalthea.What have you done to me? I'm a pony! I'm a pony!
- She'll sing a Suspiciously Similar Song to "Now That I'm a Woman".
- She will suffer a case of Becoming the Mask and will want to stay as a human to be with her new boyfriend, which will result in a Bittersweet Ending where she has to say goodbye to him.
- Well, sort of confirmed. She does freak out but not in a shout-out way, and she does choose to stay but not for Flash Sentry specifically, but everyone at Canterlot High. The nicest, simplest and most obvious Shout-Out they could have done, but didn't, was give Twilight and Rarity their cutie marks on their forehead to mark where their horns were when they went all Magical Girl at the end, but they didn't.
- This is a Made-for-TV Movie that's going Direct-to-DVD very soon, and it's not like this movie is getting a huge release. Even if it bombs, it won't leave much of an impact.
- It's released in only certain cinemas - Hasbro is clearly not trying to make a huge box-office profit off of it. It's a Made-for-TV Movie that's going to go Direct-to-DVD elsewhere in the world - they clearly don't care that much.
- Jossed. For a limited release, it apparently did quite well. Well enough, in fact, that Hasbro immediately greenlit a sequel slated to come out Fall 2014, also in cinemas.
- That or something happened to the mirror during his mid-transformation, resulting in his dog form.
- Or, all bipeds in one universe become quadrupeds in the other, and vice-versatile.
- Jossed, in that the only magic originates from the Element of Magic which is from Equestria.
- okay... That's funny.
- Pinkie Pie = Paulina Pettifer (two different individuals)
- Rainbow Dash = Roxy Dodgers (different)
- Applejack = Amelia Jems (different)
- Rarity = Rowellina Beattie (different)
- Fluttershy = Faith Summers (different)
- Sunset Shimmer = Susan Shelby (same individual, with alias)
- unnamed boy = Flash Sentry or Jock Fastflash (presumably only a human, no pony counterpart)
- Faith Summers, as in Faith Lehane + Buffy Summers? Does she still have Angel?
- Jossed, oh thank goodness Jossed so hard. All characters share same names on both sides of the portal.
- Seriously, fans need to stop taking these anonymous 4chan and Reddit "insider" posts at face value. They were wrong on Equestria Girls, they were wrong on Derpy, they were wrong on a significant chunk of Season 4. Need I go on?
- Then again, the trailer seems to show her going One-Winged Angel at some point.
- Likely Jossed. Sunset has her moment but there's a Heel–Face Turn at the end of the all it.
- Confirmed. Snips and Snails go from rude but harmless kids to a Bumbling Henchmen Duo assisting the villain.
- The culprit is Sunset Shimmer, a pony from Equestria who stole the crown and entered the human world with the intent to trap Twilight there. Being Princess Celestia's former student, she has the motive. But there are photographs that seem to imply Sunset was there for a while, and the Crystal Empire reappeared only recently. Either this means it's been some time between the season 3 premiere and the events of the film, or...
- Sunset is a Red Herring. She's still the villain, wanting to take Twilight's place, but she knows no more about the crown than Twilight, and is about as helpless as she is. The real thief is Jock Fastflash/Flash Sentry (see above), who is also a pony who heard about what happened to Sunset, felt bad for her, and came with the crown to free her by taking her place. This could lead to a potential Love Redeems moment for Sunset.
- Jossed by the second trailer. Sunset is seen stealing the crown/Element of Magic, and gets past Twilight using the same teleportation trick Twilight used to get past Nightmare Moon.
- Jossed. Though arguably there is a human Twilight around somewhere, and failing that, Sunset is set up to complete the Mane Human 6 by the end of the movie.
- Human version of Comet Tail.
- An entirely new character who was never a pony, named Jock Fastflash or Flash Sentry
- The human version of Shining Armor and not a love interest.
- One of Sunset Shimmer's minions, but Becoming the Mask.
- Brad
- The human world Twilight Sparkle, since it seems she doesn't exist there.
- The human version of a matching guard pony in Equestria, with one of the names from the second suggestion.
- This last is the confirmed answer: his name - like the guard pony - is Flash Sentry.
- Turns out the mirror can function like a video screen, so they just watch the rest of the movie along with us. Regardless of how good it is, they end up giving it the Mystery Science Theater 3000/RiffTrax treatment.
- Having a high-stakes poker game.
- Fighting off another major threat to Equestria that just happened to attack immeadietly after Twilight and Spike left.
- Fighting crime.
- Dealing with some characters from the EG verse that crossed over into their world.
- Hold a writer's workshop over the unfinished novels of Applejack, Dash and Luna.
- Resurrecting Derpy.
- Jossed pretty much as they just are waiting around for Twilight's return.
- Confirmed. Sunset Shimmer is the one who does the famous "And Your Little Dog, Too!" line.
- Alternatively it will subvert a lot of the cliches present in the trailer. Sunset Shimmer will turn out to be a Lovable Alpha Bitch, "Brad" is the real villain, heavy metal will play at the school dance, etc.
- Jossed. Most high school tropes are played frustratingly straight. Sunset is a pure Alpha Bitch who isn't loveable except to her dozen or so fans. Flash Sentry ("Brad") is just a generic nice guy. Vinyl Scratch was the DJ at the dance (of course) and played electronica.
- Well, somewhat Confirmed. I doubt anyone was expecting Sunset Satan.
- Technically Jossed. She does meet Flash Sentry in Equestria, but he's in the Crystal Empire, and he first appears before she goes to the EQG-verse (though she doesn't realize he is who he is until after she gets back).
- But neither are they just talking ponies. In "MMMystery on the Friendship Express", Twilight pulls out a hair string and Pinkie instantly acknowledges that it's pink. So they can't have dichromatic vision.
- There has never been any indication whatsoever that My Little Ponies don't see the exact same colour spectrum humans do, and plenty of evidence that they do.
- Confirmed, but not the way the header assumes. Twilight does have issues adjusting to being bipedal and not having Unicorn magic. In her song on the subject, she specifically mentions her now-tiny nose.
- Meghan McCarthy didn't say that, Michael Vogel's the one who said "when you see it it will ALL make sense. Promise;-)" – also, while the question he was asked did mention horns, the promo art hasn't had those.
- I think this◊ screenshot confirms it.
- Confirmed. Twilight recovers the crown and then its magic has all six transform to pony-human hybrids (ears, hair that emulates tails, and wings for the flies, but no horns), each with their own Transformation Sequence. The effect is not permanent, but enough to defeat Sunset and put wacky hijinks at the conclusion of the dance.
- Jossed. In North America, the movie screened without leading promos.note EQG was Direct-to-DVD (or just aired on TV) everywhere else.
- The portal to Equestria is on one side of the base of a statue. They show 3 pictures of Sunset Shimmer wearing other crowns. There are 3 other sides to the base of the statue.
- Jossed.
- Trixie does indeed appear in the movie. She even speaks. But, there is no indication whatsoever that she was ever a Big Bad.
- Partially Jossed. Flash Sentry is more a Temporary Love Interest than a Romantic False Lead. Even after this movie, Twilight is NOT half of an Official Couple. On the other hand, Human!Rarity says than Human!Flash Sentry is Sunset's former boyfriend.
- Jossed, sort of. Twilight does develop a bit of a crush on Flash Sentry, and she does bring up this very thing when she leaves the EQG-verse to return to Equestria, but she gets over it pretty quickly, and his human version never learns about Equestria at all.
- So does that make Crackle Moon Moon?
- Jossed. None make an appearance.
- Jossed. Celestia warns about the imbalance of sending any more than Twilight through, there doesn't appear to be any hinderance if there are counterparts or not. (And Twilight's human counterpart is also hinted at).
- On the other hand, we never learn if there was ever a Sunset Shimmer counterpart. Maybe she's wherever the Twilight counterpart went?
- Confirmed, kind of. When the Mane 6 go into Magical Girl mode, they gain horse ears (Twilight, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash get wings) and tail-like hair extensions, but the cutie mark tattoos never happen.
- Possibly confirmed? There's an upcoming wave of EG dolls with a rock band theme to it. They look very 80's.
- Confirmed. Rainbow Rocks is the second EQG movie.
- Jossed. The second trailer clearly shows a statue of a horse at the high school formal (and an oddly realistic one, at that...). Either horses exist, or the concept of them as mythological creatures does.
- Alternatively, it was a Power Limiter. Dragons are really powerful and without magic on the other side, the locals would be completely doomed if a dragon got loose. Please note, this mirror was probably constructed a thousand+ years ago back when modern heavy ordinance didn't exist.
- There's also the fact that Ponies don't understand or know much of anything about dragons at all. It's not unreasonable that the mirror's creator knew even less about dragons than somepony like Luna, who wouldn't know as much about dragons as her sister because she doesn't know Spike at all. It could have been a lack of foresight on whoever created the mirror; anything else that went through the mirror, like a Zebra, a Saddle Arabian, or a Gryphon, would have been rendered as human because that's how the mirror is coded, for lack of a better word. The mirror simply didn't know what to do with a dragon, not recognising one but feeling immense magical power from him (thus knowing he needed to change forms), so it thought quickly and turned him into a dog because Spike was experiencing strong feelings of loyalty.
- Jossed hard. There are a lot of fandom nods in this.
- Neither was the show, yet here we are.
- The appearance of fandom favourites like Vinyl Scratch and Derpy might beg to differ.
- Jossed. Same names on both sides.
- Although no unshoed feet are seen, this WMG is backed up by the usage of the lyric "Stomp your hooves" several times in the second song of the movie by every single student in Canterlot High.
- The lyric references the school mascot, the Wondercolt, since it's talking about showing school pride as well as Twilight winning the crown. They're also in costume as the Wondercolts.
- Jossed by Rainbow Rocks where characters are seen without the big boots... And they have regular human feet.
- Jossed. Pony-turned-human Twilight is not the same as the actual human Twilight (who is said to be in some other city during the movie's events)
- That is, if they can get the rights to the actual song.
- Jossed hard.
- Well, jossed in THAT song, but there is a song called "Equestria Girls" in the movie (mostly known as "Helping Twilight Get the Crown", but in the credits is the title song)
- I think it'd be kind of contrived for a romantic subplot in Equestria Girls to be thwarted by nothing more than a long-distance relationship in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. I agree that the yellow guard pony and the possible-love-interest are likely the same character (their similar appearance and prominent scenes suggest it's not a coincidence, and furthermore the human character's shield insignia would be an appropriate cutie mark for a royal guard), but I think the writers can easily find a better way to keep Equestria Girls story threads from spilling over into My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Season Four.
- He has the same exact armor as Celestia's guards, I don't think he lives in the Crystal Empire.
- Confirmed. Except he is actually one of Cadance's guards, not Celestia's.
- Jossed. Celestia simply is worried about the balance of sending more than one through.
- Jossed.
- Jossed, see above.
- Jossed, she gets back.
- Confirmed, of a sort. Megan herself never appears, but Rarity's disguise for Twilight is to dress her up as Megan, and she was also supposed to be referenced as a former student of the school.
- Mostly Jossed. There is no magic in the human world, and only through the crown/Element of Magic does it occur. However, 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.
- Retoractively confirmed by the second movie. Sunset Shimmer's actions have premanently introduced Equestrian magic into the human world. The Humane Five can shapeshift between human and anthropony forms and the Dazzlings now have enough power to initiate their Evil Plan.
alternatively.........
- Confirmed on the latter: it does little to deconstruct the typical high school drama and Instead of a reconstruction, it plays it almost painfully straight.
- Very interesting theory. I think it would work better if they explained that the two universes evolved together. Or the Pony universe is the Prime universe and the EG universe was an elseworld that spun from Pony World Prime.
- Jossed. Pony Flash and Human Flash are separate identities.
- This is an odd WMG because of how the universe works. No, they are not the same exact entity. I mean, imagine if both Pony!Flash and Human!Flash ran into each other. The resulting instability/paradox would be mind-bending. However, that doesn't prevent "Brad" from being Human!Flash. I mean, it wouldn't be the first time a royal guard fell in love with a bookish purple unicorn.
- A crown appears out of nowhere, and Principal Celestia just decides to give it away at the school dance? he doesn't question the appearance of a new student? Celestia has always been a Trickster Mentor. Twilight was very uncomfortable with being a princess at the beginning, but is much more secure at the end. Maybe that was The Plan all along.
- Jossed. They establish that the fake crown Sunset Shimmer left behind was the one from the human world. Principal Celestia just assumed it was the same crown.
- On the other hand, Principal Celestia's speech to Princess Twilight at the end certainly sounds like she's far more aware of Twilight's insecurities that she should be. Perhaps the two Celestias have talked at some point?
- Possibly Jossed, Twilight bumps into Pony!Flash at the beginning of the film.
- Celestia actually appears to be the gym teacher, since she's wearing a purple tracksuit under her tan blazer, and school districts often require their staff to dress nicer than a tracksuit, particularly a principal, unless they're a gym teacher. However! Iron Will's job as a motivational speaker would make him more fitting of a school counselor, and if you want to go with the gym teacher thing, a counselor is perfectly able to be a coach for a sports team, too, and that does fit him better than a gym teacher because what else are motivational speakers? Life coaches.
- Maybe she teaches psychology. She often displays a higher, deeper knowledge of things.
- Jossed by Legend of Everfree.
Basically, this is just an attempt to rationalize why the students mostly take the movie's final battle completely in stride.
Also, the main superheroes in the setting are humanized versions of the Power Ponies and the Mare-Do-Well, unconnected to the Mane Six.
- She did NOT however, have any knowledge of the supernatural, let alone the importance of the crown.
- Jossed. This is a high school show. Therefore Adults Are Useless.
- 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 What Could Have Been out there but we haven't been able to see it yet for some reason.
- Become the first female president.
Simply put, they live in a different society than we do, thus cannot be gauged by our expected ratios of thin-to-fat, but by those presented in Equestria itself.
- Jossed by Legend of Everfree. It was just a fight over a sundial at a summer camp.
Basically, we really don't know how time or calendar-reckoning works in Equestria, so we can't assume it's equivalent to what we know, even though some of the same terms are used. Thus, fans who state authoritatively that "30 Moons" is 2½ years could easily be flat-out wrong.
What does this matter? Well, fans got angry over this movie and its sequel (mentioned elsewhere) breaking this rule in sending ponies through the portal. However, there is no proof the writers have broken any rules – even the main show is ridiculously vague about how long a "moon" is.
A world with an otherwise human Amazing Technicolor Population full of humans with strange names (e.g. Doug Funnie, Patty Mayonaise, Mosquito "Skeeter" Valentine)? It'd be a shock if Bluffington wasn't down the road from Canterlot High's town.
- She's officially been named Sunset Shimmer.
- Her toy package and possible movie design reveal that she knows a magical path to faraway adventures, is a former student of Celestia and gives a bad girl vibe in human form. It has also become known that Twilight would give chase to a crown thief through a magic mirror to the human world. My guess is that Sunset Shimmer will serve as an Evil Counterpart for Twilight Sparkle, jealous of the alicorn destiny she could not attain.
- Confirmed, Sunset is in the movie, and is the villain!
- Related to this, the crown theft will take place at a masquerade ball in the Crystal Empire, which is why Sunset Shimmer and the other ponies in her box are wearing masks.
- Jossed. Sunset steals it at night from Twilight's bedroom. The masks never appear at all.
- Both Confirmed and Jossed. Celestia heavily implies in the movie that that's what happened. The comic (which is canon), however, showed Sunset escaped into the mirror on her own free will after taking out two of Celestia's guards as they tried to banish her from Canterlot.
- Jossed.
- The names "Sunset Shimmer" and "Twilight Sparkle" are close enough to be synonyms.
- Sunset Shimmer and Twilight Sparkle can both use the teleport spell.
- There are two shots which highlight similarities between the two characters:
- In one shot, a blond wig is held up behind Twilight Sparkle. The wig is exactly the same color and shape as Sunset Shimmer's hair.
- Another shot is a close up of Twilight sparkle's boot. It happens to be the same boot as Sunset Shimmer wears.
- Twilight Sparkle's double does not appear in the movie.
Other evidence is not as convincing, but might strengthen the case:
- Only Twilight Sparkle goes into the mirror world. It's possible that she originally did so because she was chasing after her double.
- Sunset Shimmer and Twilight Sparkle can both use the crown. If the crown was originally only bound to royalty, then it gives a hint as to Sunset's shimmer's original identity.
- Sunset Shimmer ruins the stage. It is possible that she originally looked close enough to Twilight Sparkle to fool people into thinking that Twilight Sparkle did it.
Sunset Shimmer was Celestia's student 1,000 years ago. For one reason or another, Sunset felt she wasn't good enough and ran away. She stumbled upon the Crystal Empire and stepped into the magic mirror that sent her to the "human" world; she also found a magic crown and took it with her because it made her feel better about herself or something. In this new world, Sunset became extremely popular at school and found acceptance as prom queen. However, she let the attention go to her head, and she eventually turned into an Alpha Bitch.
As this charming little high school drama went on, the Crystal Empire was taken over by King Sombra. When he was overthrown by Celestia, who knew not where her former student ran off to and had long since given up on looking for her, King Sombra cursed the empire to vanish for 1,000 years, taking the "human" world with it. Time froze for the world, much like the empire. Then the curse lifted, and time returned to normal like nothing happened. Twilight saved the empire, became a princess, and everyone was happy.
Then the movie happens.
While going through the history records of the empire, it is found that there is supposed to be a magic crown somewhere that is now missing. Celestia concludes it was taken into the world of the magic mirror, and sends Twilight through to retrieve it. Sunset meets Twilight and finds out she's Celestia's new student. She doesn't like the idea of being upstaged, especially by someone who apparently took her place once already. Now that she has acceptance in this new world, she'll do anything to keep it.
- The specifics of the WMG have been Jossed completely. As to the WMG blurb, that all depends. As far as the movie itself is concerned, the villain was full of Remember the New Guy?. Most of the foreshadowing was done outside of the context of the movie.
- However, that outside context (the IDW comics, specifically) does give her the interesting backstory.Here It Is!
- Confirmed, technically. However, her demon form looks nothing like Queen Chrysalis.
- Sort of Jossed. With the Rainbow Rocks promo videos, we finally get to see more of the universe (the commercial area), but there's no reason why it couldn't still be a pocket dimension – around one square mile, probably centered on the school itself.
- Considering what happened to Sunset at the end of the first movie and how she's viewed during at least part of Rainbow Rocks, it's extremely doubtful that she was ever truly the god of that domain. But the world could conceivably have been a product of her subconscious desires… but due to her relative youth at the time, she still created authority figures above her, albeit incompetent ones.
- Jossed, kind of. Sunset's backstory shows that she was a jerk back in Equestria. Yet that photo montage does exist…
- It's possible that Sunset – naturally a nerdy shut-in like Twilight – mellowed out somewhat after being in the EQG-verse awhile, but then slipped back once she realized that she could use her newfound popularity to manipulate everyone.
- Jossed. Sunset stays behind in the Equestria Girls world. She does not appear in Season 4 at all, nor is she even referenced.
- However, that does not necessarily mean she won't ever return to her homeland.
- Another hint is her bio in the My Little Pony app. She's described as "one of the most promising students at Princess Celestia's school for gifted unicorns".
- Confirmed. In Sunset's backstory, she wanted to become a Princess, but Celestia refused. She does consider the crown and Alicorn wings to be hers by right and made it very clear she considers Twilight a usurper.
This also means Sunset will perform a Face–Heel Turn, Spike will be overpowered at one point only to be hit by reset button, Twilight will never age and considering all the Ash's relationships, we can now be sure Twilight and Brad shipping will fail because one or another reason.
- Confirmed, mostly. Sunset does get redeemed in the end (did anyone really expect anything different from this series?). She does appear to have an expanded role in Rainbow Rocks where she does indeed fill Twilight's slot – at least in terms of making the group a sextet; Sunset isn't really a "leader". However, it's also confirmed that Twilight herself returns later on (after MacGyvering the magic mirror to bypass the "30 moons" rule) to fix whatever problem has befallen the EQG-verse.
- "The Fall of Sunset Shimmer" (Sunset's backstory in the official comics) shows that they were both in Canterlot at the same time and are close to the same age – and Cadance was already an Alicorn, which means Celestia already took her in – but we never see the two of them interact. It's not inconceivable, though, and would explain just why that mirror ended up in the Crystal Empire.
- It could also be 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 who could possibly talk her down.
- This plan probably would have worked… but unfortunately, Sunset Shimmer had the awful timing to show up when Celestia and Luna and the newly-ascended Twilight were all in town together. Given Sunset's hangups on Princesshood, that had to hurt.
- It could also be 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 who could possibly talk her down.
- Jossed by Word of God. It was Rarity.
- Jossed. The mirror was one of Celestia's random Magic Artifacts Of Doom and Sunset learned about it by accident. Also, it is heavily implied that every crown Sunset won after her first was due to massive social manipulation. (we're not sure about that first win)
- Though it's never outright stated, the comic series heavily implies that the Equestria Girls mirror was created by Star-Swirl the Bearded, who also made the second mirror seen in the "Reflections" story arc.
- The one seen in Reflections in the IDW comic is stated to be the prototype of the mirror later used in Equestria Girls, which makes one wonder why either Celestia or Starsiwrl had the second one made.
- Though it's never outright stated, the comic series heavily implies that the Equestria Girls mirror was created by Star-Swirl the Bearded, who also made the second mirror seen in the "Reflections" story arc.
- We've seen the efficacy of the Equestrian Royal Guard in A Canterlot Wedding Part 2. Not exactly inspiring confidence.
- The Changelings had several advantages. First of all the ability to fly AND use magic, secondly they also had a MASSIVE numerical advantage, third they were not mindless zombies but actual born-for-battle soldiers, fourth they had speed and surprise on their side (By the time the zombie army gets through the mirror and gets moving, it's not likely that they'll still have the element of surprise. Let alone speed.) and finally they had canterlot surrounded, as opposed to only attacking from one angle and having to worry about door jam/choke point (the mirror exits in what's basically a medium closet, remember?). The changelings knew what they were doing.
- That's assuming that the zombies aren't a case of Didn't See That Coming for Equestria. Considering nobody guessed that Sunset Shimmer was planning to brainwash the school, they probably are and probably have just the same amount of surprise as the changelings. As for wings and magic, remember that Twilight's human version friends were able to adapt quickly to their superpowered forms. Who's to say that the humans that turned into pegasi and unicorns could at least have access to their pony powers, or at least Sunset Shimmer could control them to access them. True the zombies aren't natural born soldiers as the changelings but anything that acts like a zombie doesn't necessarily need to be a soldier to be a threat. As for the door jam/choke point, the mirror was apparently kept in a fair enough big room in the Crystal Empire that could allow at least a large number of zombies to enter and then exit for the next batch. The dimensions of the portal itself don't seem to suggest that people would get stuck if too many entered. As for the changelings knowing what they were doing and Sunset not knowing, that's assuming that she really doesn't know what she is doing. She was afterall Celestia's former student and originally a native of Equestria. She at least might know the limitations of what her former mentor and other ponies. I mean she figured out how to exploit the disunity in the human world and she even figured out that the crown would actually work there despite everything saying differently. If she's that savvy in a foreign world, who's to say that she can be as well in her native one.
- "Surprise?" Canterlot was on high alert. They saw the changelings banging on the shield. Changelings very well may be tough, but the Canterlot guard didn't seem to put up a fight for more than 5 minutes despite the fact that they were fully deployed.
- There's something many people seem to be forgetting. She turns Snips and Snails into DEMONS. It is entirely possible that she planned on doing the same thing with the other students as soon as she has a chance. If she does, they might be an even BIGGER threat than changelings.
- The Changelings had several advantages. First of all the ability to fly AND use magic, secondly they also had a MASSIVE numerical advantage, third they were not mindless zombies but actual born-for-battle soldiers, fourth they had speed and surprise on their side (By the time the zombie army gets through the mirror and gets moving, it's not likely that they'll still have the element of surprise. Let alone speed.) and finally they had canterlot surrounded, as opposed to only attacking from one angle and having to worry about door jam/choke point (the mirror exits in what's basically a medium closet, remember?). The changelings knew what they were doing.
What does this have to do with Twilight Sparkle? Well, Twilight is shown to come from an extremely privileged background, and there's at least a possibility Sunset could have known Shining Armor. Once Sunset found out (somehow) that Twilight had been Ascended in her place, she went berserk due to her mostly-wrong perception that Celestia intentionally sabotaged her in order to groom a pony from a "better" family for Alicornhood instead. Thus Sunset's plan to ruin Celestia's life by ruining Twilight's.
- It's possible she might not have had a choice about the Heel Realization. She got hit with magic powerful enough to remove the evil that corrupted Luna into Nightmare Moon, and powerful enough to turn an embodiment of Chaos into a statue. She pretty much got empathy hammered into her soul. That crying wasn't because she had been defeated. It was a FORCED My God, What Have I Done?.
- In "The Fall of Sunset Shimmer", you can see a demonic figure in the magic mirror that freaks Sunset out. 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.
- For major bonus points on this theory, keep scrolling down.
- Jossed. The first time we see the book in Rainbow Rocks it's acquired a thick layer of dust, indicating that even though Sunset kept the book for whatever reason, she probably hadn't touched it in all the time that she was gone until the Sirens showed up.
- She was able to set up a permanent life in that world. Assuming she was born as a pony, this would require learning all kinds of cultural things as well as learning how to write with her hands - all on her own, without drawing attention to herself by acting as weird as Twilight does.
- Other than Princess Celestia, there doesn't seem to be any pony in Equestria who misses her. She has no family in either world.
- Even after she is reformed, she feels more at home at CHS (a place where everyone hates her) than Canterlot (a place where nobody knows who she is - or at worst remembers her as a brat rather than a raging she-demon - and she has her magic).
There's a theory in the Zelda fandom that Hyrule Historia is mistaken, and the Downfall Timeline is the second half of the Child Timeline; this means that the main sequence of the series' timeline goes Ocarina of Time — Twilight Princess — Four Swords Adventures — A Link to the Past. If that's true, we get an arc of Ganondorf growing into the Triforce (and renouncing his grudge against Hyrule) over the course of three lifetimes:
Ganondorf (I) was powerful and ambitious, capable of becoming almost anything with time; he had potential to be an amazing king... but he grew up in the long, hard-fought Hyrulean Civil War (we know it was raging 10 years before Ocarina of Time, and Ganondorf looks like he's about 30 in Ocarina), and he was on the wrong end of a feud with Darunia, chief of the Gorons, who had the ear of the king of Hyrule. (Wear the Gerudo Mask in Death Mountain in Ocarina, and see what the Gorons, especially Darunia, have to say.) His circumstances would normally have meant that he'd live and die a red link on Wikipedia (Wikiproject Hyrulean Civil War, or maybe an under-edited article from the 1911 Britannica); but he took fortune by the forelock, as the saying once was. As he began a plot to conquer the country, he was arrested and executed on shaky evidence (the audience knows he was guilty as charged, but did the characters?); but the gods gave him the Triforce of Power, allowing him to save his own life. He was sealed in another world, but pulled himself back; when he died at the end of Twilight Princess, he had gone from historical triviality to demigod.
Ganondorf (II) reincarnated in Four Swords Adventures, with his memories of his previous life intact, and with some serious unfinished business with Hyrule. He had a boar's cunning to go with a boar's strength; and he led his followers well, attracting a large, passionately loyal, very competent cult. He laid waste to the world on several occasions, outright winning a time or two and supported by innumerable followers and allies... but all the conquests and struggles in the world couldn't give him inner peace. And so he found his solace in the bottom of a battle, preferring to keep fighting instead of pausing and taking stock of his situation, until he eventually hit an obstacle big enough to kill him. And by the time that happened, he'd put humanity on the road to extinction, although the beast-races who followed him were doing quite well for themselves. (Dog- and pig-Moblins, River Zoras, Lizalfos, and a really iconic Lynel all appear in Friendship is Magic. We haven't seen Goriyas yet, but give them time.)
Sunset Shimmer — that is to say, Ganondorf (III) — was born (or just appeared one day) without her memories; but her habits, instincts, and proclivities were intact, and so was her immense potential, for evil or potentially for good. Her circumstances were very similar to Ganondorf (I)'s; put into the same circumstances, she made the same decisions; but then, at the moment of truth (corresponding to Ganondorf's defeat and transformation in the ruins of his castle, in Ocarina of Time), she asked for mercy instead of doubling down and continuing to fight. Equestria, unlike Hyrule, is a good country to surrender to; but even so, very few people are willing to completely uproot their lives, changing in unknowable ways and becoming someone who they currently aren't. This was an act of immense moral courage — a courage that she hadn't quite had in her previous lives.
It's anyone's guess if the Triforce still exists at this point; but if it does, Sunset could wield it easily enough. And she could certainly rule very competently at this point, although it might not have gone so well to make her a princess earlier in her life.
See also the WMG that Equestria is Hyrule, and the guess above that a demon has been stalking Sunset for a very long time. Evidently we know that demon's name, and some of his biography.
- Uh… what?? You need to stop listening to Friendship Is Witchcraft. They're not as smart as everyone thinks.
- First off, Shining Armor is far from the only MLP character to not appear in the EQG-verse. A number of named characters are absent.These... Second, since the human version of Twilight is gone, why would her big brother be there? He would know something was off about his kid sister the second he saw her. Third, considering that Tropes Are Tools and the whole Meet Cute thing is a really common trope in high-school-themed media, why in the hell would Hasbro have ever thought that putting Twilight's brother in that role made any sense? (it doesn't)
- Umm, Shining Armor doesn't have a human form, so you can't say Flash looks like Shining Armor. As for the similarities, maybe he was indeed supposed to be Shining Armor in the drawing board. However, I don't think Hasbro's decision for making him was purely to abide the cliche to a degree that they had to replace Shining Armor completely. I think it's more of them deciding to use a common trope commonly found in high school dramas in order to appeal toward their target demographic. However based on the movie, it doesn't seem to be completely abiding it. Sure, there's massive Ship Tease with Twilight but there's parts of it that really don't seem to play the trope as straight as other high school dramas. I mean their whole misunderstanding was completely downplayed unlike most high school dramas and they didn't even kiss during the whole thing, a must have if the cliche needs to be played straight.
- I think this would explain the absolute mess of a "romance" he has with Twilight.
- 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 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 Interspecies Romance 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.
Because why the hell not?
- Actually, with Twilight now being able to jump through the portal any time due to the fact that she can open it with the book on her side of the portal, the first half of this WMG is fully possible.
- Maybe, but what PCs? Small ones? That's rather doubtful, considering how WE went, they're likely to start at baby steps. Also, magic and technology together? When you think about it... any sufficently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic...
- Twilight's human counterpart is said to exist in the human world, so naturally, she'll transfer to the Canterlot High as a student. She'll be much like her pony counterpart, although she'll be more adept to a human body, but is still a loner. She'll be weirded out by how friendly and odd the other students are.
- As for why she'll transfer, the video Sunset uploaded to Youtube got around to Twilight's school and pretty much ruined any kind of reputation she may have had to the point where the only option was for her to transfer. This will hit Sunset hard when she finds out and much of the conflict will be trying to make amends with Twilight without letting her know who uploaded the video and why she did it.
- It plays out like a more mature version of Season 1 with Sunset Shimmer learning about friendship from Flash Sentry and the Humane Five. Twilight Sparkle's human counterpart won't show up until later in the series or only as cameos in the city.
- I sincerely hope they don't do that...
- The fact that the magical portal won't work for another two-and-a-half years, presumably. There might be an influx of teenagers into Equestria halfway through season six, assuming someone at Canterlot High remains interested enough in the non-working portal to keep trying it for over two years.
- Jossed. The only punishment Sunset has gotten by the time Rainbow Rocks happens is being justifiably hated by the entire school.
- Simultaneously confirmed and Jossed. Rainbow Rocks began with the Dazzlings noticing the final battle of the first movie and heading for the school to see how they could use it. The whole magical rainbow and roaring thunder were unmistakable, and probably caught on video, too; so why didn't the authorities, the media, etc. respond to it?
- Shades of Anthropology!
- Maybe she was planning on mind controlling ponies on the other side and use the students as a distraction to line her mind control abilities up?
- That assumes that ponies (which have more exposure to magic) don't have a certain level of resistance to this, and don't have means of reversing it. Besides, that pretty much just means that attention will then shift from the zombies to sunset herself.
- After Trixie's hypnotism of Applejack in "Boast Busters", Discord's discording and Twilight's memory spell in "Return Of Harmony", the Want-It-Need-It-Spell from "Lesson Zero", the Love Poison from "Hearts and Hooves Day", Cadance's use of her 'Reignite Love Spell' and Chrysalis's use of Mind Control on Shining Armor and the bridesmaids in "A Canterlot Wedding", Sombra's worst dream spell in "The Crystal Empire", and the Reformation Spell mentioned in "Keep Calm and Flutter On", I would say from this evidence, ponies – or at least Twilight – have not shown any sort of inherent resistance to magical mental influence, especially if said mental influence would be backed by possibly the most powerful artifact in Equestria cast by a personal student of Celestia. While reversing the effects might be an issue, it's hard to keep your attention on the person using the Mind Control magic when you've got a horde of zombies clawing at you. PS: Twilight's Parasprite Alteration Spell might also count because although they're not ponies, they're still subject to the ambient magic of Equestria and the Everfree Forest.
- That assumes that ponies (which have more exposure to magic) don't have a certain level of resistance to this, and don't have means of reversing it. Besides, that pretty much just means that attention will then shift from the zombies to sunset herself.
- Exactly how much military strategy do you think Princess Celestia teaches her personal students before the eighth grade? Sunset Shimmer probably actually thought it would work.
- The first My Little Pony movie had three human villains in the form of witches.
- (Original Poster): Really? Didn't know that. I meant a villain for My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, personally I'd love to see an evil wizard try to to take over Equestria, that or feature a corrupt corporation that wanted to exploit their world for personal gain.
- Nope.
- She doesn't have to conquer the whole country, just the palace.
- The portal leads straight to the palace, with all of the princesses conveniently in residence. Once you've taken the sun and the moon hostage, the rest of the population will have to fall in line.
- She wasn't sending brainwashed high schoolers against Celestia and Luna; she was going to fight them herself. She just needed the mooks to subdue the palace guards and the (element-less) Mane 6.
- Sunset with the crown might have actually been a match for Celestia and Luna.
- Relative power levels are mostly fan speculation, but it took the elements of harmony to take her down, which at least puts her on a level with Discord and Nightmare Moon.
- Don't underestimate the morale value in using brainwashed innocents as shock troops.
- Since Equestria is basically The Good Kingdom, most of the guards would probably balk at using lethal force against innocents, which might give them the edge in subduing the palace.
- Considering how "useful" the royal guards have been in the past, this is plausible.
- For added horror, consider that some of the guards (Flash Sentry and the maine 6 at least) might have had to fight brainwashed alternate versions of themselves.
- Since Equestria is basically The Good Kingdom, most of the guards would probably balk at using lethal force against innocents, which might give them the edge in subduing the palace.
I'm not sure where I got this idea.
With that said, onto the topic at hand. Some people have questioned why Shining Armor didn't appear at the Royal Summit to greet his own sister. Well, its possible that he was alerted of some evil force and is currently on a mission to locate said evil force, who will be the obligatory villain for Season Four's two-part Season Premiere.
- Jossed - The movie is essentially a Bizarro Episode.
- Agree on Jossed but disagree with Bizarro Episode. The movie seems more like the spinoff Dragon Ball movies and specials which don't make sense in canon but don't warrant being called a Bizarro Episode simply because of that.
- Also agree on Jossed but it's simply because in the movie...
Twilight Sparkle: I'm brand new here.
Pinkie Pie: Oooh! I thought you didn't look familiar. Though, now that I'm really lookin' at you... Do you have a twin sister who lives in the city, has a pet dog named Spike that looks just like that one?- This to me suggests that Shining Armor is in the city with Twilight like he is in the normal Friendship Is Magic seasons, so if it was a mistake, they've covered their traces with the plot and writing just fine.
- Agree on Jossed but disagree with Bizarro Episode. The movie seems more like the spinoff Dragon Ball movies and specials which don't make sense in canon but don't warrant being called a Bizarro Episode simply because of that.
- 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 episodes "Equestria Games" and "Twilight's Kingdom, Part 2".
- "I AM MAD SCIENTIST: TWILIGHT SPARKLE. SONOUVABITCH."
- Tying in with the above theory on Sunset remaining in the human world, she will eventually become principal of Canterlot High when Principal Celestia decides to retire, paralleling Princess Twilight succeeding Princess Celestia as ruler of Equestria. Possibly marries Sci-Twi.
- Sci-Twi: Becomes vice-principal of Canterlot High alongside Sunset after Luna retires, mirroring her pony counterpart. Possibly marries Sunset.
- Rainbow Dash: Joined this world's version of the Wonderbolts (an air show here) as an air show pilot. Possibly marries Fluttershy.
- Applejack: Continues to run the farm, married to Rarity.
- Fluttershy: Veterinarian that owns an animal sanctuary. Possibly marries Rainbow Dash.
- Rarity: Beloved fashion designer that owns a boutique, marries Applejack.
- Pinkie Pie: Owns her own bakery with the Rainbooms as regular customers.
- 7th grade: Sunset first enters the human world, enrolls in Canterlot High due to it being a grades 6-12 school.
- 9th grade: Sunset breaks up the Rainbooms' friendship.
- 10th grade:
- September: First movie occurs.
- November: Rainbow Rocks occurs.
- December: My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW) Holidays 2014 occurs.
- January: Friendship Games occurs.
- March: Legend of Everfree occurs.
- April: Magical Movie Night occurs.
- May: Forgotten Friendship occurs.
- June: Rollercoaster of Friendship occurs.
- The Summertime Shorts occur at various points in this school year.
- 11th grade:
- Digital Series occurs at various points in this school year.
- March: Spring Breakdown occurs.
- April: Sunset's Backstage Pass occurs.
- 12th grade:
- Holidays Unwrapped occurs.