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A thread to discuss My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and the tie-in media.

All of the usual forum rules apply. In addition, please remember that the thread is discussing a kids' show, and it's primarily focused on the work itself, not the fanfic — in particular, we don't want to see lewdness creeping in.

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I don't know WHAT the Hell happened (I blame shenanigans) but we're going to start from scratch. Post your feels for this awesome show again! Naow!

Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM

fredhot16 Don't want to leave but cannot pretend from Baton Rogue, Louisiana. Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: Too sexy for my shirt
Don't want to leave but cannot pretend
#204151: Feb 14th 2022 at 6:31:51 PM

...Wait, weren't there, like, five My Little Pony: Equestria Girls comics?

The prologue with Sunset and the Humane 5, the Christmas Special, "March Madness" which I never saw and am not totally sure it exists?

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Ferot_Dreadnaught Since: Mar, 2015
#204152: Feb 15th 2022 at 12:31:43 AM

[up]There were four EG comics. The Fall of Sunset Shimmer, the 2013 Annual, the 2014 Holiday Special, and the (real, I own a digital copy) "March Radness". If I'm missing anything blew me know.

MrSeyker Since: Apr, 2011
#204153: Feb 15th 2022 at 3:22:47 AM

Of those, The Fall of Sunset Shimmer is the one that had the most impact as it came bundled with some of the home releases of Equestria Girls and the backstory more or less checks out with all other EQG media.

The one aspect that doesn't work anymore is its interpretation of the Canterlot Five since they became actual characters in Amending Fences and the show's take proved much more popular.

Theriocephalus Amateur Veteran from gimme a map and a moment and I can tell you Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
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#204154: Feb 15th 2022 at 7:52:58 AM

I think NLID is supposed to be about when the fandom flanderizes a character based on one particular incident, even though it is not a major part of their canon characterization.

Correct. That's precisely what that is.

There's a few moments in S1 that sort of qualify - like Party Of One!Pinkie, but that's all I can think of.

I would say that there's also the thing where Starswirl gets treated as the guy who solves all his problems by banishing them into other dimensions without caring about the people living there.

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#204155: Feb 15th 2022 at 7:54:23 AM

Pony sighted at 1:23

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Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
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#204156: Feb 15th 2022 at 9:10:00 AM

wild mass guess Disney is going to buy Hasbro.

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fredhot16 Don't want to leave but cannot pretend from Baton Rogue, Louisiana. Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: Too sexy for my shirt
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#204157: Feb 15th 2022 at 9:12:02 AM

...Have you ever wondered how Discord felt being washed as a statue?

This is your "Went to sleep at four in the morning" thoughts.

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#204159: Feb 16th 2022 at 9:23:30 PM

Yeah, I was about to say — I'd wonder less about his opinion on washing and more about his opinion on pigeons.

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#204160: Feb 17th 2022 at 11:16:41 AM

I noticed Rarity is missing, and also there's a pony that looks suspiciously like a certain mare that shows up in the Zelda series. And the horse on the far right as the screen fades has Trixie's coat, and her mane is Trixie's shade of purple for her clothes, but it's clearly not that pale blue her mane and tail normally are.

Edited by Rytex on Feb 17th 2022 at 1:21:16 PM

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#204161: Feb 19th 2022 at 9:05:11 AM

Post of the Week #3494

Actually...no, I'm pissed off. Really pissed off.

Why does CDRW get banned for that, and Rich Reeders get to carry on after what he did? That's a incompletely unfair and unbalanced outcome.

Can somebody please explain that to me?

No. And we need you to calm down before you suffer the same fate as Ginger and CDRW. Please?

Posted by Sydxelia on Wed, 25th Jul '12 5:54:01 AM - Post #257815 in the old thread

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#204162: Feb 19th 2022 at 10:19:29 AM

oooooh its a drama post of the day

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J79 Since: Jan, 2015
#204163: Feb 19th 2022 at 10:49:40 AM

Considering you dont really see the ponies faces, I get the feeling that they may just be parody/homage characters a la Combat Carl in Toy Story.

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#204164: Feb 22nd 2022 at 12:40:47 PM

this pony related even if its from a different show!Pony saying drama is perfect for this moment

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Ferot_Dreadnaught Since: Mar, 2015
#204165: Feb 22nd 2022 at 10:12:59 PM

YMMV.My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic S 8 E 21 A Rockhoof And A Hard Place

  • Fanon: Fans and reviewers often interpret that Flash Magnus replaced Shining Armor as the Captain of the Royal Guard with the latter being busy in the Crystal Empire despite Twilight clearly stating that he was just the newest drill sergeant.

Does this sound more like Common Knowledge? Or does/can this overlap with Fanon and which is the better fit if so?

Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#204166: Feb 23rd 2022 at 12:50:07 AM

I've never heard of that. I think it is fanon at most, definitely not canon.

To see whether it is just Common Knowledge, we should determine whether or not this idea is used in fafics.

Edited by Redmess on Feb 23rd 2022 at 9:51:03 PM

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Theriocephalus Amateur Veteran from gimme a map and a moment and I can tell you Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
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#204167: Feb 23rd 2022 at 3:10:35 PM

I would call that Fanon. Common Knowledge would require a non-trivial amount of the fandom to think that that's specifically what's going on in-universe, which I can't say I've seen.

Ferot_Dreadnaught Since: Mar, 2015
#204168: Feb 23rd 2022 at 8:33:15 PM

About these entries under NeverLiveItDown.My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic we agreed to cut. Before I take to NLID cleanup for thoughts before removing (like if the fandom moves on from it, how long did the NLID have to be in effect to count), I have these other NLID examples to run by.

  • The Storm King gets called a weak villain by a lot of fans for his final moments, ignoring that he did enslave all of Canterlot and several other nations - even forcing an entire kingdom into hiding because he was too powerful. It's just that a lot of this was done off screen or only done under his command - so it's easy for people to forget that Tempest Shadow did all her cool villainy at his instruction. Plus, at The Climax of the film, he actually wasn’t one to go down so easily, as both Twilight and Tempest, as the latter pulls a Heel–Face Turn, almost die to defeat him.

Not sure if example because I don't know of fan works flanderizing him as inept. Might Memetic Loser fit better? Or is NLID better as he's not treated as loser outside that moment? What's the difference between Memetic Loser and NLID for a loss? Or is that a question for elsewhere?

  • Queen Novo undergoes this for punishing Twilight's friends when the latter acted alone. [[FourthWallMyopia From her perspective]] she welcomed these seven people into her safely guarded home and they reward this by trying to steal from her. What's more is that Twilight makes it look like her friends were trying to distract everyone so she could steal the Pearl. She really does have every right to be annoyed.

I have never seen any works bash or vilify her over this, most seem to outright ignore this incident. Should it be cut and moved to Fourth Wall Myopia which would cover the issue?

Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#204169: Feb 23rd 2022 at 11:04:14 PM

I think for the Storm King, inactive is confused with inept. He is supposed to be a great conqueror, yet we don't see him do that much, and instead the action focuses mainly on his second in command. The story effectively makes his competence as a conqueror an Informed Ability by not showing it to us directly.

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Theriocephalus Amateur Veteran from gimme a map and a moment and I can tell you Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
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#204170: Feb 24th 2022 at 12:22:02 AM

Fourth Wall Myopia is probably the better fit for the Novo example.

Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#204171: Feb 24th 2022 at 3:22:49 AM

Agreed, that would fit better.

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theLibrarian Since: Jul, 2009
#204172: Feb 24th 2022 at 1:03:14 PM

Yeah, the Storm King was definitely a big threat, the issue was that he only showed up a few times and each time showed himself to be an immature moron who only wanted to feel important with none of the actual work that went into making his empire run.

Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#204173: Feb 24th 2022 at 1:15:26 PM

Yeah,t hat's basically what happens when a movie is more interested in fleshing out The Dragon than in the ostensible Big Bad.

The same happened to Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine in the main trilogy.

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theLibrarian Since: Jul, 2009
#204174: Feb 24th 2022 at 2:58:47 PM

And yet Palpatine is still one of the most well-known villains in film.

VeryVileVillian Since: Dec, 2017
#204175: Feb 24th 2022 at 3:15:27 PM

Unlike Storm King, Palpatine still generated some sort of actual threat onscreen by revealing himself to manipulate the Rebels into coming to one place, where he can destroy them. The plot and characters treat him seriosly and he at least generates the presence of a powerful evil overlord.

Storm King only has a final fight and even then, he is only a threat because of magic weapon and even with that he is still defeated in a goofy way, with all his prior screentime adding to him lacking any sort of threatening or malevolent presence, because he never actually does anything himself (as said before, his right hand does everything for him) and presents himself as a buffoon.

Edited by VeryVileVillian on Feb 24th 2022 at 2:16:28 PM


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