Given that a) ponies have canonical superpowers, b) she has ruled a country for over a thousand years, potentially requiring her to deal with all sorts of issues and c) depends on your interpretation of Celestia as a goddess or not, that is an entirely unsubstantiated statement. Especially as we're dealing with a Warhammer human, i.e. 100% baseline with no special physical powers aside from potentially any from magic items.
On top of that, it would imply that no character from a children's show could beat Karl Franz, which is sort of laughable when you consider that encompasses, say, Megatron, Anakin Skywalker, Avatar Aang, the Justice League, Ben Tennyson... Any and all of whom would not have significant difficultly dealing with a non-superpowered human, even a fairly competant one with magic items. Warhammer World, while I have much more time for it than 40K (largely because 1st edition WFRP has an excellent series of adventure modules), is a low-powered game world at the best of times. Karl Franz is not, by any stretch of the imagination, the Emprah. Hell, even Sigmar wasn't.
Warhammer Fantasy is totes underrated. Totes.
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A. Mutated Earth Ponies
B. Subtypes of Ponies
C. Product of extensive mixed marriages between Earth Ponies and Unicorn after founding of Equestria (ALA Elderscrolls Bretons, looks human but have magical affinity).
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Wall-e ponified!
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Eve-pony is pretty cool, but the Wall-e-pony kinda looks odd to me. Probably because they gave him a full head instead of the minimal eyes Wall-e has.
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Ok, so here's a thought.
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Early on, Pinkie says she knows everyone's name in Ponyville. We find this to definitely be true.
However, later on, we see each of the Mane 6 calling a lot of background characters by name, and never seeming to not know someone. That's fine. Other than Twilight, it makes sense, given they've lived there a long time. Even Twilight could have learned everyone's name.
But then, we see situations where it seems like they don't know everyone. In Hurricane Fluttershy, we see a ton of characters treating Fluttershy like crap. Now, given the community nature of the town, one would assume they know her and know how she is. So either a LOT of people in Ponyville are jerks, or the show has given a wrong feeling about the town. This doesn't even go into the fact they should be the most well-known ponies in Equestria after taking out Discord. So everyone SHOULD know them, but even still, they should know at least everyone in Ponyville.
My thought is that these relationships are more "Aquaintences" than "Friends". They may know one other's name and one or two quirks, but they might not be completely familair with each other. Hearing that a pegasus is shy is one thing, but they might not have seen her actually perform so when she gets a 0.5 wingpower that would probably stun a few ponies into giggles.
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She wouldn't want to keep that up, right? Because that would make Spike feel less useful, right? And we don't want that.
Maybe Spike lights the back end like a classical cannon?
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Well, give it a read. You won't regret it. (It is based on S1 canon, so any discrepancy with S2 is forgivable. I think it makes the story stand out all the more.)
I'm read It's Dangerous Business, and while it was pretty good, there were a number of awkward moments in the writing and story. I am currently reading Lost and Found, and have found it really good except for Celestia's portrayal. (Her reasons and actions don't make much logical sense.)
I haven't read any of the ones you've mentioned in this post, though. (I've been meaning to re-visit Heart of Gold someday.)
How about This Platinum Crown and The Powers of Harmony? Both are really good stories, in my opinion. Have they just been around for so long that everyone glazes over them, or did a lot of people avoid reading them because the descriptions kept them away?
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Dangit, none of the links for Heart of Gold, Feathers of Steel will open for me. I get to the EqD page alright, but then it says I don't have permission to read the GoogleDocs... Is this normal, or is my computer just being weird?
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Nevermind on the Heart of Gold, Feathers of Steel Googledocs. By tracking down the author on his fimfiction site, I found that the author has taken leave of the fandom; as a result, I would guess that he took down his GoogleDoc stories, thus resulting in the lack of permission to view a non-existent document.
Bummer.
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Nevermind on the Heart of Gold, Feathers of Steel Googledocs. By tracking down the author on his fimfiction site, I found that the author has taken leave of the fandom; as a result, I would guess that he took down his GoogleDoc stories, thus resulting in the lack of permission to view a non-existent document.
Bummer.
And this is why I am in the habit of saving stuff I like to my harddrive. Ah well; it's the third fic I've seen that this has happened to.
In case anyone cares, Simic pony OC has been a success so far. Thanks for the names, guys. ^^
SiuiS: Whoa man, those are some pretty profound comments on the nature of grimdark. @.@
Which name did you go with? *crosses fingers*
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Nevermind on the Heart of Gold, Feathers of Steel Googledocs. By tracking down the author on his fimfiction site, I found that the author has taken leave of the fandom; as a result, I would guess that he took down his GoogleDoc stories, thus resulting in the lack of permission to view a non-existent document.
Bummer.
Huh, that does suck. Once someone has published something, it feels really crummy when they take it down later. Probably related to the death of the author theory or something, but it's not just theirs anymore.
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Anarion's right on the money here.
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You just highlandered an entire city block into a glass-filled storm by road-runnering down it in your underwear.
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The only comment that comes to mind is ... Shining's "Twily" continues to make me gag. From some other pony it just might be cute, but from him it's just awful. I really could do without him returning at all, but I suppose I'll settle for hoping they somehow magically make him likable
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Also, Dangerous Business is indeed a good fic, but I'll have to look into Platinum Crown. Haven't before now because I simply haven't had time to pick up another doorstopper ponyfic.
Wow, that looked menacing. Fluttershy doing a lot of the talking there too means you know it's scary.
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You know, if he can put up a bubble around Canterlot, surely he can conjure up a quick bubble for himself? Hell, Twilight does it all the time.
Also, he seems to be just as versed at magic overall as she is. He has magic shooting lasers.
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I think horn blasts are probably standard training for the guards, although given the family lineage, Shining and Twilight are both probably way above average in overall power.
As for the shield, lots of potential issues there. He may have just made a bad call in thinking he could blast it and then escape. Or maybe putting up the shield would allow the shadow thing to wrap around it, trapping him until he got tired?
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You just highlandered an entire city block into a glass-filled storm by road-runnering down it in your underwear.
Nevermind on the Heart of Gold, Feathers of Steel Googledocs. By tracking down the author on his fimfiction site, I found that the author has taken leave of the fandom; as a result, I would guess that he took down his GoogleDoc stories, thus resulting in the lack of permission to view a non-existent document.
"Well, the Great and Powerful Trixie can't actually transport you to Equestria... But!
The Great and Powerful Trixie can beat you over the head until you think that's what happened!"
Ponies can't talk, it's actually human voice actors that do it, silly filly.
Well, if you want to be clear about it, those aren't actual ponies -- they're animated drawings made to look like stylized ponies. Real ponies can whinny and nicker and stuff.
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Friendly Ponythread Dirtytabs
To her friends she's a gem
She makes lovely art for them
Pfft, that's just what the ponies that drew the illustrators want you to think.
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"Well, the Great and Powerful Trixie can't actually transport you to Equestria... But!
The Great and Powerful Trixie can beat you over the head until you think that's what happened!"
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Hey, does anyone know of an image of the Mane 6 (and others maybe) as X-Men? Thought about the scene in Cutie Mark Chronicles, where Twilight obviously resembles Storm.
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