Discussion Characters / FriendshipIsMagicTheCutieMarkCrusaders

I am insecure. By a side, based in the canon about cutie marks, this change is permanent. By other side, this change was not spoiled by far by the opening and, if i am not mistaken, was not spoiled by the merchandise either. And this page is not one of the "unmarked spoilers" variant.

I seem to recall adding an unspoiled out image of alicorn Twilight after the start of season 4, by which point it could be considered such common knowledge that it wasn't worth spoiling out.

Perhaps the image could be spoiled out until then?

Let's start the search for worthy images; what's available might effect how we handle spoilers.

Shall we start an image picking thread?

And besides, since the marks have been known for quite some time now, they no longer qualify as spoilers.

DJ Pon3 and Lyra have toys, and toy names do fall under All There in the Manual since they're just background ponies in a Merchandise-Driven show. Mayor Mare and Octavia got their names put into the trading cards, which comes with descriptions of the characters. Time Turner's job as the town's time-keeper and the Mayor's assistant falls under All There in the Manual cause that information comes from the cards. Toys and Cards about My Little Pony.

This is a recipe for popcorn that has some old fanart attached to it for some reason. They may very well change it if someone goes "Wait, this cute CMC pic has cutie marks on it!"

I'm not saying its not official. Of course its official, its from The Hub's website. I'm saying its not a "manual" that contains relevant information regarding the characters. Its not Expanded Universe, Word of God, Word of St. Paul, script notes...its a popcorn recipe.

I hate to bring in extremely unlikely hypothetical situations, but if The Hub's website (or another official website) released a PDF using fanart showing an unnamed character wearing a "hello, my name is" nametag, that'd make the name on it that character's name (as long as that character remained unnamed in more-official stuff), right? This is similar to that, but with cutie marks instead of names.

I'll admit this is an odd situation, but look at the All There in the Manual page, specifically the Western Animation folder. Do you see any food recipes cited as examples?

The PDF file has next-to-nothing to do with My Little Pony or Littlest Pet Shop other than including art work and the name of some of the snacks. Its meant for parents to make snacks for their kids, not to learn about ponies.

Lets not forget that in the show itself we have background fillies with revolving door cutie marks.

I feel we shouldn't rely on unlikely hypothetical situations, but lets say we were dealing with Transformers: Prime here. The recipes were exactly the same except with Transformers and GI Joe characters. Included in the PDF file is some fanart of Soundwave with a guitar. Prime!Soundwave has no guitar in the show, comics, and shows no musical interests (his alt-mode isn't even a cassette player anymore, its a predator drone!), but the guy who made the fanart now works on the show. Would you add that Soundwave owns a guitar on the Transformers Prime character page as an example of All There in the Manual?

I have a feeling the Transformer editors on This Wiki would disagree.

If you honestly feel its important to point out the recipes picture, then find a trope that somehow better fits this situation or make a note of it somewhere. Popcorn recipes are not examples of All There in the Manual.

Well, I see the All There in the Manual page mentioning a calendar that listed Scooby-Doo characters' ages; calendars are probably about as distantly related as recipes.

That hypothetical Transformers: Prime guitar example doesn't exactly work, since that fanart just shows Soundwave playing the guitar rather than specifying who owns the guitar.

But my point about calendars and recipes doesn't really matter now, because I think I have found a better-fitting trope than All There in the Manual: Side-Story Bonus Art (though that trope would belong on MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic.Tropes Q To S rather than on this character page). Should I go ahead and use that trope?

My point with the Transformers example was that Prime!Soundwave has never been shown in the vicinity of a guitar and thus its assumed he doesn't own or spend his spare time jamming. Animated!Soundwave, however....

But yeah, Side-Story Bonus Art is much better for this as we're talking about a piece of artwork that could fall under the description of "official fanart". Didn't know we had that one, is that a new trope? If I'm reading it correctly, we could also throw in stuff like Sibsy's Wild Fire drawings under that trope.

A fanfic needs to be written based off of that troper cutie mark quote thing at the top of the page here!

The correct term is a voice crack. Unsure if there's a trope for it.