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- This is kind of a give. Dragons are already known to have much longer lifespans than ponies.
- Link to the Word of God? All I honestly remember is her saying the Mane cast are young adults, whose mentality fluctuates around 12-22, as necessary for the plot. Other than that, while Dragons are long lived, ponies in this setting are shown to be very long lived too: Granny Smith is established as being over 100 years old.
- Where was a number age for Granny Smith given? She helped found Ponyville generations ago, but that isn't a number, and has some consistency issues.
- Twilight said in "Winter Wrap Up" that Ponyville is at least a few centuries old.
- Where was a number age for Granny Smith given? She helped found Ponyville generations ago, but that isn't a number, and has some consistency issues.
- In "Dragonshy," it was mentioned that dragons can sleep for as long as a century at a time. Incidentally, while Spike is called a baby dragon, the show establishes that it's more a reference to size than his age or his place in the dragon life cycle, about which practically nothing is known. He certainly isn't considered an infant by anyone.
- Given that Twilight is now an alicorn, there's a good chance this has now been Jossed, given Celestia's own age.
- Its possible that he will outlive everyone but Twilight. The series started with just the two of them and will end with just the two of them. Deciding to make friends despite the virtual inevitability that they will wind up losing them may be a lesson in friendship in and of itself.
As for the green coloring, Spike's diet is probably unusual due to not being wild. He probably eats a lot of copper coins [them being cheaper than gems] and nibbles on rocks if he needs a snask. Copper sulfide would make green fire in our world.
- When scrolls are addressed to somepony and then set on fire, they're sent in the most convenient way for the receiving pony to get it — for Celestia it's her little alcove thing we see at the end of Griffon the Brush Off (not to mention she gets bombarded from above with the scrolls Spike accidental sends), and for Twilight the letters are received through Spike!
- It's possible he may grow up to be an eastern-style dragon given his lack of wings and affinity for mustaches.
- In "Party of One" it looks like Spike is able to fly (or at least float or levitate) even though he doesn't have wings, another thing usually associated with eastern dragons.
- Maybe his mom was a naturalist who was studying dragons during mating season and she got too close.
- He may be like a dog; his breed was domesticated/befriended by ponies, and so they're tamer. He also doesn't look much like a full-grown dragon. At all.
- In "Dragon Quest" the teenage dragons accuse Spike of being part pony. Granted they're also Jerkass teens.
- Combine this with a WMG from the Twilight Sparkle page,her hatching spikes egg was the schools Kobayashi Maru equivalence and to keep it that way they used an unfertilized egg. Twilight's magical blast passed on her own genetic material and caused the egg to hatch, making Spike Twilight's son.
- Agreed that baby!Spike growing gigantic in "The Cutie Mark Chronicles" was Twilight's magic going haywire and not showing us what he will look like. Even if he doesn't end up like his Imagine Spot in "A Dog And Pony Show" his appearance suggests he won't look like either the cave-dwelling dragons he's met/been attacked by, or the one in the river.
- In "A Dog And Pony Show", Spike's Imagine Spot is likely a result of his being chiefly familiar with pony ideals of heroism and knowing little to nothing about dragons.
This may also explain why his egg was present at Twilight's entry exam, since the ponies use the species, and possibly they need magic to be able to use the messaging talent.
- This could also lead to more screen time for Scootaloo, since she hasn't learned to fly either.
- It could be that culturally speaking getting their wings is the dragon's equivalent of getting their cutie mark, Spike may go through an episode wondering why he hasn't gotten his yet.
- Cutie Mark and/or Flight Ability Crusaders yay!
- It doesn't seem like he will be getting wings both times he is shown as an adult dragon he is wingless, unless the thing about getting wings is the equivalent of getting a cutie mark is true...
- In "Molt Down", this is Confirmed.
- Then again, Steven also lacks legs, is long and serpentine and is fully aquatic, and Spike has no hair, facial or otherwise. I'd say their differences outweigh their similarities.
- Regardless, Spike grew wings in Season 8; being born wingless is the default condition among dragons.
- Well, he finds a way to set off a growth spurt, which is kind of a super power...
- Jossed. Spiked does not develop any specific powers.
- 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 extension, when the other Mane 6 got theirs and, but further extension, 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.
- 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?
- As per exposition in Season 8, "greed-induced bigness" is apparently a completely separate process from normal draconic puberty. Hoarding or no hoarding, there's no indication that Spike won't mature as normal for a dragon.
- He might still fly someday, if he learns the right spells for it.
- Confirmed in Season 8, after hitting "the molt" aka "dragon puberty".
- Jossed. He grows wings in Season 8.
Adding on to that...
- Spike has a form that looks a lot like the one from Cutie Mark Chronicles for a moment, while he was 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.
- This is doubtful for two reasons:
- One, the "knight" form from "A Dog and Pony Show" was a flight of fancy based on Spike's idea of what a hero looks like and, as at that point he didn't know much at all about dragons, doesn't likely map onto how draconic adulthood works. The form in "The Cutie Mark Chronicles" was due to him being transformed by Twilight's out-of-control magic — the same that turned her parents into houseplants — and may or may not necessarily reflect how he will look as an adult.
- Two, as of "Molt Down" it appears that all dragons are born wingless and grow wings during puberty, thus making any wingless adult form inherently suspect.
- Jossed. Spike does not undergo any physical changes in Season 2.
"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.
"The 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 DragonShy and 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 DragonShy was being complimented by Rarity, only to find out she only wanted to steal his belongings. And the Dragon in 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 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 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 DragonShy, that dragon could fully speak English along with the dragon in Owl's Well That Ends 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 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 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, 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.
- 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 DragonShy and 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 DragonShy was being complimented by Rarity, only to find out she only wanted to steal his belongings. And the Dragon in 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.
- Confirmed
- I think spike is just a late bloomer, or maybe since he's a still baby they'll grow in over time.
- Jossed. All dragons are born wingless — wings are grown during puberty through a process called the Molt, and Spike grew his own wings when he molted in Season 8.
- Because dinosaurs with draconic abilities like breathing fire, eating gemstones, and bathing in lava make more sense than a wingless dragon.
- Well, he discovered by accident, maybe as a baby, that gemstones give him fire breathing abilitiesnote . The lava thing is a power that Twilight gave him (through magic) 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, there are plenty of dinosaurs with wings.
- Jossed. He's a dragon and grew wings as part of draconic puberty.
- 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?
- The dude's got a bunch of reptilian traits, he can probably swim like a crocodile.
- Jossed. All dragons are born wingless.
- During Twilight'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.
- 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!
- Or alternatively, he is her natural born child, and the cutie mark story is a lie to avoid scandal.
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.
- 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 Cathy Weseluck's 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 this comic◊.
- Well, seeing that, as of the end of Season 6, he's responsible for the installment of three different heads of state (Cadance, Ember, and to a lesser extent Thorax), there might be something to this.
- Alternatively, Where da White Ponies at?
- 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'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.
- It already was a Chekhov's Gun 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 not herself when she didn't recognize it.
- Here's what their kid would look like
- Wouldn't it be a Blue Eyes White Dragon? Just think about it. Rarity has blue eyes and a white coat...
- Alternatively...
- 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 danced with Apple Bloom and Scootaloo?
- Probably
- Does this mean that he also danced with Apple Bloom and Scootaloo?
- 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.
- Jossed. The Dragon Lord isn't a hereditary title, though Spike held the position very briefly.
- 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.
- Jossed. All dragons are revealed in "Molt Down" to be born wingless and grow wings later, and as there's no other indication that Spike is meaningfully different from typical dragons otherwise and as he's strongly identified with other dragons in following episodes he does appear to be a perfectly regular Equestrian dragon.
- 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 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).
- 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.
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.
- Interesting theory, but 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 DragonShy and 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Sort-of confirmed. As of "Dungeons and Discords", he's been hanging out with Big Mac and Discord, although he doesn't use any specific nicknames for them.
- Confirmed as of "Dragon Quest".
- Even if it does count.
- Evidence in this video and this one.
- He sang the Failure Song with Twilight in The Crystal Empire. It wasn't particularly sexy, but if it's any consolation, he does seem to have some pretty awesome ballet skills.
- Voiced by Steve Blum?
- Well, in the Guardians of Equestria comic, he does temporarily go into "big dragon" form because of a spell. Maybe they'll make it canon in the show sooner or later?
- Or he's been magic'd by Princess Celestia.
- A burst of green fire
- A scroll in engulfed in green flames
- a stylized green dragon
- A dragon's wing
- A microphone (he does love announcing...)
- Alternatively, Spike ATTEMPTS to invoke this growth spurt again to try to help them, but can't because there's no greed in his heart, only a desire to protect the ones he loves. But this will result in him taking on a third, different adult form born from the Power of Love and Power of Friendship it may or may not also involve the Elements of Harmony empowering him.
- Friendship/Magic: He has been Twilight's best friend since he was born, and is the only one who has a direct line with Princess Celestia. Whether if it's his own fire or the parchments that are enchanted is irrelevant: He's the only one who has that magical task.
- Loyalty: "Congratulations, you're the new Rainbow Dash". Plus, like said before, he has been at Twilight's side from birth.
- Generosity: In "Secret of my excess" He managed to suppress his greedy dragon nature by remembering an act of generosity he had towards Rarity.
- Honesty: In "Owls Well that Ends Well" He learns the harm of lying, and often tell the other ponies exactly what he thinks
- Kindness: Spike is always helping out the ponies with one project or another, even if the task is menial, like using his fire-breath to cook cakes and re-heat things and shows great concern for Fluttershy when she's missing in "Feeling Pinkie Keen."
- Laughter: While his sense of humor is less bubbly and more wise-cracking Spike is still a funny guy who often manages to find humor even in bad situations
- Since Spike seems to embody all of the elements of Harmony there may even be a time where he's tasked on taking them all on and combining them with his dragon powers to save Equestria.
- Perhaps Spike is a type of Cloud Serpent? A picture of Gold Cloud Serpent: http://www.deviantart.com/art/Thundering-August-Cloud-Serpent-364887883 . Both are wingless 'dragons' even though Cloud Serpents usually represent types of magic (ie, Wisdom, Harmony, Hope, Darkness, Shadow, Celestial patterns, etc) and when young, they DO look similar to Spike, except they already have large horns and "beards".
- Some, such as Mother of Cloud Serpents, Yu-lon, Element of Wisdom, have a slightly chimeric look. She has fur, like mammals, claws that look more like mammal claws, and less scales than you would expect on a true dragon/Cloud Serpent. I think Spike might be some sort of descendant of Yu-lon x Real Cloud Serpent. Yu-lon's own children... are more of a 'wat' since she seems to mate with either a bird or a tiger, to produce even more messed up things.
And will look like the above image.We've already seen Spike take a diving leap off a cliff into lava and belly flopping on it painfully before sinking into the lava and coming up only slightly stunned from the fall. A feat other young dragons consider extremely though.He's likely very resistant to fire, tough, and if he can figure out a way to use his Letter Sending Fire Breath to work on ponies needing emergency EVAC, would make a geat Fire and Rescue Dragon.
An inversion of how Male!Spike has a female voice actor. Maybe it'll be Charlie Adler, who voiced G1 Spike and has done female voices before.- I actually think that they'll just stick with Cathy Weseluck. Not only is she already a female, but she's done other voice work too.
- But that wouldn't be as entertaining. Gender swapped Spike would probably have a really deep voice, and make fun of male Spike for sounding like a girl.
- Male!Spike "sounds like a girl" because he's still a kid. Young boys are often voice-acted by ladies.
- But that wouldn't be as entertaining. Gender swapped Spike would probably have a really deep voice, and make fun of male Spike for sounding like a girl.
After the events of "Secrets of My Excess" and "Dragon Quest," Spike was scared by his own species destructiveness/assholeness making, him come up with the "dragon code" to avoid greed and live a life of servitude, to avoid greed and never become the dragon he truly is. Spike is becoming more of a doormat than Fluttershy, yet no one notices there is a problem, or knows the alternate is him going Godzilla.
- He could be trying to help people more to curb his greedy side without it being some kind of "psychological compulsion". Just saying.
- ...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?
- For that matter, there's been no real indication that surnames (and by extension middle names) are even a thing in Equestria outside of certain very specific cases. If anything, the show's been implying the exact opposite.
Princess Celestia was planning on two wielders for the Elements of Harmony, the way that she and her sisters wielded them. Spike the dragon, a potential powerhouse with a loyal heart, was raised alongside Twilight Sparkle so that they both would have a strong connection with at least one other person, and so both would know the magic of friendship needed to awaken the Elements.
Then Twilight left him behind without even explaining where she was going or what she was doing. While Celestia was happy that Twilight made more friends, she's still kind of annoyed that Twilight ruined a plan that she'd been working on since Spike was hatched and Twilight got her cutie mark.
- So that's why she only sent two tickets when she obviously had more.
- But in The Ticket Master, he ordered extra-crispy hay fries for himself and actually says he doesn't mind eating grass, though he wishes the cafe they were at served gems. As far as the series has shown, gems are not only his main diet, it's every dragon's normal diet, and there's plenty to go around in Equestria for them to chow down on. And even if their weren't, Spike really can eat grass (or at least cooked grass) without problems, and don't forget the abundance of sweets that he can eat too. It's probably safe to say he's never touched meat in his life, and any other dragon would most likely only do it out of serious starvation or just being a teenage jerk (Though IIRC, Garble never specified what he wanted to do with the chicks beyond taking them when he & his gang couldn't smash the eggs. But even if he really did plan on eating them, that just seems to me more like a rebellious thing than a diet thing).
- Spike eats pony food now, but that doesn't mean that he's eaten it his entire life. As far as gems go, we know that he mostly eats pony food with gems being a treat rather than staple. The teenage dragons considered gems a party food as well, and only one of the adults had a large stash of gems. The other had a variety of valuables in his horde, with gems only being part of jewelry. And only Rarity can find gems easily, with everyone else needed to mine for them, so they aren't super common. The teenage dragons tried to eat the phoenix chicks, the green adult tried to eat Spike, and the ponies have mentioned dragons eating ponies, so the ponies that raised Spike would have reason to believe that he's a carnivore without much reason to believe that he can digest plant matter. Meat is easier to digest than plant matter, after all. Heck, would Celestia even know that dragons eat gems?
So, if he was a pony, his cutie mark would be a heart symbol in a golden circle.
1) He's a baby with Twilight as his sole guardian. (He's a baby, so he can't exert himself too much and is dependent on his older, more mature sibling. Twilight also has the authority and power to discipline him if necessary.)
2) He's Twilight's hard-working assistant. (He's willing to work for you with little fuss.)
3) He's a fairly nice guy who shares a lot of the girls' interests. (Girls would be perfectly willing to hang out with him.)
4) When he does something wrong, he's usually punished fairly quickly for it. He is also frequently the butt of jokes. (An annoying little brother gets karmic retribution. Also, kids can be real brats, so watching Spike suffer is funny.)
5) He's a dragon, a separate and mysterious species. (Boys are weird.)
I'm not trying to say that all kids think this way, or that Spike isn't a good character. I simply think that his underlying fantasy is something kids would find appealing. Also, I think a lot of the weird ways he gets treated make more sense if they're viewed in this light. (Seriously. He sleeps in a dog bed. It's cruel, but you probably wished you could make your brother do that too.)
- Confirmed. As of "Triple Threat", he's apparently Equestria's official Friendship Ambassador to the dragons.