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Marrock
#120190
1 year ago
How about... No.
Anonymous
#120191
1 year ago
Did you just say 'no' to Madmax?
Didjargo
#120193
1 year ago
Who's Megan?
Anonymous
#120202
1 year ago
A character from an older pony gen.
Oh-noes
#120203
1 year ago
LOLWUT

inbe4 chick-on-mare 34...
Anonymous
#120204
1 year ago
@Didjargo the idiot human from G1
AdrianBrony
#120205
1 year ago
megan is a character from I think G1... it's well agreed that reintroducing human characters to G4 would not end for the best.
Oh-noes
#120206
1 year ago
^They were all idiots in that cartoon.
Anonymous
#120211
1 year ago
NO!
tits okay!
FrankFronk
#120217
1 year ago
I think if she's that badass now, it should be okay...If only for a moment.
Anonymous
#120250
1 year ago
Firefly: You must help us!
Megan: ...Why?
Firefly: ....You have opposable thumbs...

That's why Megan was introduced in G1. Go watch "Rescue at Midnight Castle" and tell me that's not the reason.
Anonymous
#120297
1 year ago
If she was like this...I might support it...with a lot of author's saving rolls...but what would she do? the mane 6 are badass, but they're badass on normal~ish issues. Megan, as depicted, is badass on monster infestations, which aren't really the shows focus.
Anonymous
#120298
1 year ago
Though, I'd like to see the combat between her and Fluttershy once Shy realizes Megan's killing that nice old titan hellspawn.
Parable
#120315
1 year ago
Now that would be interesting.
PonyRIG
#120423
1 year ago
if they have to add a human in gen 4, IT MUST BE A BOY!
Thaluka
#120462
1 year ago
This looks cool, but hopefully there will never be humans in G4.
Anonymous
#120478
1 year ago
Why do I feel that the original series would have been fairly cool if she was actually like this?
PonyRIG
#120482
1 year ago
@up-anon: because she looks more anime like?
MyLittleJosieph
#120492
1 year ago
No, if they should add a human to the cast, it should be a man...who's just trying to get home. He should also be a lumberjack and learn some important lessons on wildlife conservation issues (not that the logging industry is already making strides in that regard).
Anonymous
#120501
1 year ago
^And get lucky with just about everypony.
MyLittleJosieph
#120511
1 year ago
Nah, he'll be a good family man and the mane cast will stay in character.
Anonymous
#120520
1 year ago
When I saw this pic, I first thought it was supposed to be Relena Peacecraft, from Gundam Wing.
PonyRIG
#120537
1 year ago
no, even better, let's just said that something happened in Equestia that makes all the ponies (even Celestia and Luna) useless (like, they were turned into coins maybe?) and during that time a human boy appears, he don't remember his own name or past, as he explores the place monsters pop out for everywhere, then he find the 6 main ponies coins, they can talk with him and as long he have the coins he can use thier powers to fight the monsters.
Twilight: magic
Rainbow Dash: speed, flying and fist combat
Applejack: guns (she is a cowgirl after all)
Rarity: a magic lance and powers based on minerals
Flutteshy: healing powers, but there is a "flutterage" mode that turn the kid into a berzerker machine of destruction.
Pinkie Pie: Ninja like powers 8katanas include), can break the reality rules.
he boy has his own power too in a form of a sword
....
ok, this sound better for a videogame than for a cartoon...
TBTabby
#120578
1 year ago
Reminiscent of Fables.
MyLittleJosieph
#120621
1 year ago
@ PonyRIG: That seems like too much of a coincidence and rather Mary Sue-ish.
MyLittleJosieph
#120623
1 year ago
Then again, I'm thinking in terms of what could actually happen on the show.
PonyRIG
#120627
1 year ago
@mylittlejosieph: that's why i said "this sound better for a videogame", BTW, at the end he saves Esquestia, but he dies....
LunarKnight
#120645
1 year ago
I'll wager my Two-Ton tunic for your Rainbow Dash Flipcoin!
PonyRIG
#120661
1 year ago
two-ton tunic over fly, speed and hand to hand combat powers? NAH
Anonymous
#120753
1 year ago
PonyRIG...unless he could communicate with the mane 6, and most of the other coins got changed back early, this only sound tangentially related to the show. It sounds a bit more like the cartoon version of Monster Rancher crossed with Ben 10 minus all of the support characters.
Anonymous
#120779
1 year ago
YES, Yes, a thousand times yes, and did I mention FUCK YES.
...
I liked Megan. She was to G1 MLP what Optimus Prime was to G1 Transformers.
Anonymous
#120801
1 year ago
I dunno, Megan looks more like an adversary rather than an ally of the ponies for this
Anonymous
#120958
1 year ago
Twilight has Spike. The role of Lackey with Prehensile Forelimbs is filled.
Anonymous
#121044
1 year ago
'Scuse me, but... NO HUMANS IN EQUESTRIA!
If any new character is to appear, I suggest a male pony as a friend of Twilight's group.
Rogue-kun
#121056
1 year ago
@anon #121044 and one that not stupid or an ass. Save for Spike pretty all the males sufferer from this even Big Mac to an extent, the only thing makes up for it is Spike show up far more often then any of them
PonyRIG
#121092
1 year ago
@anon under my last post: i sure i said "they can talk with him" and again, my idea sounds better for a videogame, not for the show
Anonymous
#121154
1 year ago
Didn't know Penny Gadget will be in the second season
Calbeck
#121621
1 year ago
Extremely well done..but Do Not Want regardless -XD
redweasel
#121636
1 year ago
oh great yet another humanized pony

wait
Anonymous
#122503
1 year ago
YES YES YES, Megan was a total badass in G1.

Stole a review from this guy.

So.
My Little Pony.

*takes a deep breath*

It is without any shame that I admit the following: As a kindergartener, My Little Pony had its place on my cartoon list, next to G.I.Joe, Transformers, and the Care Bears. In retrospect, I realize that this show actually served as my introduction to fantasy, years before I read The Hobbit (or before I knew how to read, period).
So, what is My Little Pony?
Well, it is the most memorable girl-oriented franchise cartoon spawned by the 80s. But, aside from that:
It is the tales of a cast of characters comprised of a few token humans, sentient multi-colored ponies (which includes unicorns and pegasi), a child dragon, and more strange creatures as they try to live the good life in a magical land. Please note that when I say "magical land" (the writers can't seem to agree if it's called Pony Land or Dream Valley. I'm partial to the latter, since the ponies actually seem to be a minority population), I don't mean that in a "oh joy, magic is in the air!" kind of way. Rather, it's more of a Dungeons&Dragons kind of way.
You think I'm kidding? I'm not. Dream Valley is freaking dangerous. This land is always doomed, in a state on semi-constant armageddon.
Seriously...Barely a week can go by without some doomsday disaster threatening to wreck the place. Most episodes involve something threatening to destroy the land/kill the ponies/enslave the ponies/[insert unpleasant fate here]. And the villains? The villains are nightmare fuel, at least for little children. Forget Cobra and the Decepticons, the hardcore bad guys are in My Little Pony.

And so, in this age of YouTube, I figured I'd dip back into this old show.

Rescue from Midnight Castle

I believe this TV special was the first animated appearance of My Little Pony. Regardless, it appears to show up first in the chronology.
The special opens on the pastel ponies frolicking outside while the famous theme song plays. The whole thing is sugary to a level that could cause cavities, but screw this, I write Care Bears fanfiction. My tolerance to sugar is over 9000.
I note that for now, they seem to live in a sort of pink castle. If my memories are correct, that's the last we'll ever see of this building; the show had them living in "Paradise Estate" instead.
Hm. I suppose now might be a good time to point out that the unicorn ponies have magical powers. They all can do short-range teleports, and near as I can tell, every one of them has a minor unique power (ranging from telekinesis to telepathy to creating surprisingly-resilient bubbles).
Firefly is conclusively shown to be a daredevil. Applejack... is either a lesbian, or just doesn't want to let apple sauce go to waste. We all know what the fanficcers will choose to believe.
Well, it's been two solid minutes of cutesiness. Time for the Sugar Apocalypse to begin, in the form of an army of dragons coming down from the sky to kidnap ponies!
...You thought I was kidding when I said this show was hardcore, didn't you?
Cut to Midnight Castle, where we get a look at our villains. Tirac, the Evil Overlord, stays in the shadows for now. Spike, the kid dragon, doesn't fit in very well (mostly by virtue of being pink, cuddly, and kind). Scorpan, whatever the hell he's supposed to be, acts as the Darth Vader to Tirac's Palpatine; you can see he's not all bad by how protective he is of Spike.

Enters Megan, the token human. As the closest thing this show has to a main character, I believe Megan deserves some examination.
When we first meet her (that is, now), Megan appears to be a normal girl (well, a normal girl with her own normal, non-talking pony) from our normal Earth (which raises the question of how connected our world is to Dream Valley. Is the rainbow a dimensional gateway?). But, soon enough, she shall rule Pony Land with an iron fist by virtue of her superior human DNA, demanding worship and obedience from the inferior pony races...
...OK, so she's not actually going to do that. But as a general rule, whenever a crisis rears its ugly head, Megan becomes de facto in charge, by virtue of being the most mature person in the show, and the one least likely to lose her shit when it hits the fan.
She's the semi-pro heroine around here, and that's why Firefly is coming to get her: So that she can save the ponies from their current predicament.
...Though this kinda begs the question of why Firefly was so convinced (correctly) that Megan was hero material. Psychic powers? Old prophecy? Do pony legends claim all humans are like that, and she got lucky? Or did she just see Megan's (non-magical, non-talking, non-sentient) pony in its stable and figured, "if that pony is willing to let her treat her as a pet, she must be one hell of a badass"?

Regardless, Firefly half invites, half shangais Megan into this, and breaks into a song.
Ah, yes. The songs. Was that an 80s thing? It seems like the show can't go 15 minutes without a musical number. Mind you...In my case, I happen to be a huge sucker for songs. It doesn't take a lot of quality to placate me. Throw in a couple of rhymes in The Phantom Menace, and I'll consider it an enjoyable movie. In the case of My Little Pony...I find the songs to be pretty hit-or-miss.

Megan joins the ponies, just in time for Scorpan to strike again. Megan, obviously, is still new at the hero thing...but she gets angry enough to attack a dragon bare-handed. She's learning fast.
Cut back to Midnight Castle, where we finally get to see Tirac's true form. Holy crap. Somebody once said this episode was basically "My Little Pony vs. Satan". That just about sums it up...Then Tirac turns the prisoner ponies into savage dragons under his control. Not cool, dude. Not cool. (We also get to see why he keeps Spike around...He's a hostage to enforce Scorpan's cooperation.)

Once again, an example of how Everything In Dream Valley Can Kill You: A few seconds after Appejack falls into the water (with Megan jumping in to save her. It's in her job description), they get trapped by a giant sea-shell.
Luckily for them, they get rescued by the sea ponies. These guys will never get much characterization, but they do get an easily-recognizable leitmotif.

Well, our heroes meet the Moochik. He's the gnomish, absent-minded professor/wizard... For the rest of the show, he'll be the go-to guy for figuring out the latest magical craziness (and how to stop it). Of course, his senility is a bit of a problem...Thankfully, his long-suffering rabbit assistant is more grounded than he is. (Less thankfully, the rabbit is mute.)
As it turns out, Tirac is planning to use the Rainbow of Darkness (tm) to bring forth the Night that Never Ends. And what better way to prevent that than by introducing our show's new deux ex machina: The Rainbow of Light!

Sea ponies to the rescue again. Move along. Scorpan, finally fed up with Tirac, goes rogue.
Big brutal showdown between Tirac and team good. Megan activates the deus ex machina, and as it turns out, Light > Darkness.
Tirac gets killed by a rainbow. That's gotta sting.
Scorpan is apparently a human royal who got wtfpwned by Tirac in the backstory. Sure, why not.

Roll out the outro, with Megan going back home. Don't worry, she's going to come back to Dream Valley soon enough. Her heroic instincts need the outlet.

So, to sum up Rescue from Midnight Castle:
It's a bit rushed. It would probably have worked better with ten extra minutes. Nevertheless, it's a decent introduction to the setting, and to the insanity therein. Also, it establishes from the get-go that, while My Little Pony may be a girly-girly pink-hearted story, it's a girly-girly pink-hearted horror story. And not in a Twilight kind of way*.

Next up: Escape from Katrina!

http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?489807-Where-I-Watch-My-Little-Pony
Anonymous
#123815
1 year ago
Megan currently resides in a cage in Celestia's dungeon, where Equestria's top scientists study her to reveal her secrets.
New_DCD
#123879
1 year ago
@PonyRIG : Replace "coins" with medals and we have Kamen Rider OOO

TwiBowJack! TwiBowJack, TwiBowJack!
lordpatthethird
#239006
1 year ago
and shes going to kill krastos
ZeldaTheSwordsman
#393724
11 months ago
Cool. While she never wielded a gun or anything like that, Megan actually was pretty badass. She was the contractually-obligated human character, but she made a good showing and wasn't a load. She gets bonus points in my book for daring to try diplomacy when the situation calls for it even when those around her are calling out for retaliation. And she did kill Tirac. By means of the Rainbow of Light, but she was obviously fine with the outcome.
Anonymous
#507474
10 months ago
Sorry, but do not want.
Anonymous
#870708
6 months ago
If Megan was in FiM, they would have either killed Discord or turned him good. None of this pussy turn him to stone stuff.