Which event was the most impactful on the show's development and lore?

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  • DS - 6 years ago

    re: Franzyd
    "where tf is friendship school"
    More like where tf is the return of the Pillars

  • docsane - 6 years ago

    Looking through the options, I had to go with the creation of the map. As important as Twilight's becoming an alicorn was to her, she spent the next whole series still acting like her old unicorn self. She only came into her own with the defeat of Tirek and the tree creating her castle and the map. Once the map appeared, their world expanded radically.

    They found Starlight, traveled to other lands, and generally got up into the business of others they never would have, otherwise. That map changed everything.

  • Franzyd - 6 years ago

    where tf is friendship school

  • Zidders Roofurry - 6 years ago

    Re: DS-"People seem to be vastly overstating the importance of Twilight becoming a princess. Heck, there was a whole song in Twilight's Kingdom about how pointless her being a princess was, since she was just smiling and waving for a whole season."

    Her being relegated to smiling and waving is a direct result of her having been made an alicorn. Because they did this thinking the third would be the last season they painted themselves into a corner. They already had enough issues with Celestia and Luna. How do you cause ponies significant enough issues that they need to work together to solve them when they've got two goddesses for friends? Then they go making Twilight not just smart but powerful, too. They removed a ton of conflict by making her too capable. Just how realistic is it for a society with so many powerful characters to face threats when between them all they have such immense power?

    The alicorn thing was kinda dumb as was making Equestria's deities actual characters instead of legends whose words of advice Twilight read from an old dusty tome.

  • Sam - 6 years ago

    Fermin-Tenava: chest and map were a result of the mane 6 working together. it wasn't all Twilight's work. the reason "why" things happen is because Friendship is Magic, not because she's a princess and princesses get cool things.... sadly the two things get confused

  • Fermin-Tenava - 6 years ago

    I think Twilight's alicornation has been the most important. Without it, she never would have encountered Sunset Shimmer (who went after her crown) and would not have become such a figure of authority. Though she doesn't rule (at least not in any other way than before, as a very important figure in Ponyville), she has now a more official duty and the power to back it up.
    Without her alicornation, the princesses couldn't have used her in their plan against Tirek, and it's highly unlikely, that the chest would have created this castle and the map, and everything would have gone a different route.

  • Yes - 6 years ago

    Twilight's Alicornification obviously

  • DS - 6 years ago

    People seem to be vastly overstating the importance of Twilight becoming a princess. Heck, there was a whole song in Twilight's Kingdom about how pointless her being a princess was, since she was just smiling and waving for a whole season.

  • Frith - 6 years ago

    I think Twilight and her friends would have found the keys, defeated Tirek, got the Map Table and started the friendship school without the accidental alicornication event of the Magical Mystery Cure episode.

  • smp - 6 years ago

    I would vote for Twilight becoming a princess. Lots of things happened since then, she got her own castle with a map that informs her about problems happening around the world, educated a helpful student on friendship and now opened up the school for the creatures all around the world. I would say she really made lots of steps that in are changing the world of Equestria and beyond it's borders.

  • DON - 6 years ago

    Spike gets wings. Oops spoiler!

  • Frith - 6 years ago

    I looked at all the options (apart from "other") and only the return of Nightmare Moon was game changing. Twilight's alicorination changes nothing as she does not rule. Discord's absence would not change life in Ponyville or Equestria. Despite the soothing effect of the Crystal Heart, life goes on in Equestria as if though was no such Empire in the north, same story with the portals to the breezie and high school worlds. The Cutie Map table is a mysterious task master that fixes problems that look like they would have resolved themselves eventually without outside help. The CMC were going to get marked eventually, all foals do. Starlight Glimmer is like Spike Plus, so no real change to the course of Pony Events their either.

    If the education board unicorns are really as speciest as they appear, Twilight's school could become game changing.

  • Surreal - 6 years ago

    I voted "CMC getting their cutie marks" DEFINITELY for sure! It went in my feels when that event happened.

    And whoever made the option "Opening of the portal to the human world,".... you're drunk!

  • DS - 6 years ago

    It's gotta be Nightmare Moon's defeat and the return of Luna.
    1. It brought the mane 6 together and started their friendship
    2. Luna returned from the moon
    3. The elements of harmony bonded with the mane 6
    I don't really see how anything else even comes close.

  • anon - 6 years ago

    There is no human world
    EQG is not canon

  • Sam - 6 years ago

    I voted for Discord because I still think he has the most powerful magic. Mostly used for comedic effect now, he could destroy worlds with his magic. Starlight and Twi fan boys aside, the show really didn't change too much when they came around. Also everyone hates Season 3 when the Season 3 finale is apparently the biggest development? that's odd. I thought everyone hated Season 3! she became a princess, sure.... but not without her friends... never forget that

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