What REALLY Happened to Owlowiscious? | MLP Mysteries

Owlowiscious remains as one of My Little Pony's strangest characters, and in this video, I make a guess as to what happened to him.

[memethyst]

i always thought the writers just forgot about him but if there's a photo of him on twilight's dresser then maybe he actually died and she has that in memory of him.... but thats sad and morbid so maybe hes still helping her out in her castle but they just never showed it

[Tadpole_Plyrr]

I once had a dream where Twilight was like “Spike where is owlishious? He just disappeared” and Spike was like “I ate him” and then unhinged his jaw and swallowed him idk

[TheDanteEX]

Characters losing spotlight is definitely one of those things that happens when a show goes on for so long. Fairly Odd Parents basically lost 80% of its supporting cast by its last few seasons. FiM had a habit of adding a bunch of new characters for roles that could be filled by existing characters, but I guess expanding the world isn't a bad thing, even if characters get neglected. It's also worth noting that if Hasbro didn't want focus on a character, the showrunners just simply couldn't do it. Hasbro wasn't interested in telling any more stories about Diamond Tiara which is why she didn't have any role past season 5. An infamous earlier example is Hasbro forcing Lauren to add Pip to the show in Luna Eclipse to have a boy character; and when she pitched ideas on what to do with the character, they weren't interested in using him. So a character was basically added for one episode for no reason; the showrunners found use for him a few seasons later of course, but Lauren was long gone by then.

[tylerharris]

This is a problem MLP had with all the pets in later seasons. Aside from Angel bunny they all just faded from existence. It makes sense, all the other animals had little to no personality and were mostly used for single repeated gags like Owlouicious' "who" and Gummy's dead eye stare. Once the joke got old they no longer had any reason to exist.

[nemo_is_real]

i imagine that owl stays around twilight, but with each home "upgrade" he just started to remain in less-populated, darker areas. also I think he may be dead as of the last episode of the show.

[caffeinatedpossum]

My thought was always just "They either forgot or couldn't find a reason to write him in", but if I had to give an In-Universe reason...

Provided the evidence that Owlicious is only in photos after season 5, it may be safe to assume he died but Great-Horned Owls can live for up to 15 years, in the wild. In captivity they've been seen to live to almost 30, so I have high doubts he perished, even if he was towards the 10+ year mark when he found Twilight.

I think probably following the destruction of the Golden Oak's Library, Twilight gave Owlicious to her parents to take care of him as she feared something like this may happen again and didn't want to put her beloved bird friend in danger!

[MissyMona]

Tbh, I think it's just a stylistic choice. The later season owl is meant to look cute. Since we're seeing Owlowiscious from Spikes perspective him having simple eyes helps phone in the concern of. "What is this owl's motives?" It turns out it's just that it's a helpful owl, but having eyes that aren't cute and readable helps with it. Take Flurry Heart vs the original baby ponies and how different their design is as an example.

[cdandbookshelf]

I always thought Owlowiscious just existed out of the aesthetic of librarians and owls helping with scrolls, but as soon as twilight lost her home, the aesthetic got lost and the writers didn't wanna include him any more.

[Takedinhaa]

i Think the whole point of Twilight's pet was not appearing at all, she describes him as someone who can help her at night, while Spyke is sleeping, and the photo shows thats he's still Twilight's pet in the castle, and if you think about it, none of the pets shows too much, and owloiscious is already introduced as a more reserved pet, a night pet. so i think its part of the character that he doesn't appears but you know he's there. idk, just my opinion

[reallybigshoe]

Him showing up in the photos means the *animators* remember him, not necessarily the writers, I think I heard somewhere that there were a bunch of different writers each season, it's entirely possible owlowiscious was just forgotten about by the the newer writers but the animators or storyboard artists still put him in every now and then. It was probably like 'oh we need a shot of Twilights family photos, who's all of Twilights family again?' And so the storyboarders remind themselves Twilight has a pet and there you go

[ConscriptReporting]

Maybe he just went away to "home"?
Well cause firstly unlike all the other pets, Alowycious (at least that's how I spell his name) is just randomly taken in as Twilight's pet, he was about to go before Twilight asked him to stay for a while. Meaning he just randomly saw a scroll while flying about who knows where to and became Twilight's second assistant. Soo maybe throughout the seasons he just goes back and forth from his original home to Twilight, maybe doing some Owl stuff like hunting and whatever. He is still a wild animal, Twilight just took him in afterall
(Gummy is too but ehhh I'll just leave the guy be)

[puppychan]

I always thought Owlowiscious had unused potential.

I really thought he would turn out to be important in uncovering more lore, like maybe he was Starswirl the Bearded's pet/spirit animal (which would make it interesting why he 'chose' Twilight to be his owner), or even that he had belonged to Princess Luna before she had been banished to the moon, like how Philomena is Princess Celestia's pet.

The way g5 is going I'm pretty sure we will never see him again, but it would be interesting to me if he became like a guide of some sort to Sunny.

[lostpony]

Diamond Tiara was also barely seen after finishing her arc.

[dc]

What happened to owlicious? Same thing that happened to colora, babs seed, and moondancer… they get one episode and maybe a cameo here and there and that’s it lol. Here’s a good example ….remember when Spike and Thorax were friends and interacted with each other? Cause the show didn’t after season 7 lmao

[shadowspector]

They shouldn’t have shown Owlicious in season 5. It made a lot of sense to me to think that after Tirek destroyed Twilight’s home, that Owlicious fled since there wasn’t the treehouse anymore. Twilight’s gesture to Owlicious as he flew away looks a lot like she was saying “don’t go” and would’ve made for a farewell to the character.

Also, I love how Cozy Glow was in your theory lol

[sykeassai]

Maybe the thing here is to actually roll back all the way to his introduction to find the answer. He is Twilight's Night Assistant. He does function in the role of a pet sometimes but his main use is to aid Twilight at night time. Most of the episodes are daytime focused after a certain point, so there simply is not a story we see on screen that has much of a focus at night where "Owlowiscious" would have a reason to be around.

[Jacqueline_Oat]

I just thought of him kinda being like hedwig and just delivering letters to important people, like from other lands. Chances are he could've gone somewhere dangerous like the Dragon lands and could've died. There also could be the idea of him being under some kind of testing due to his differences to other equestrian owls. If you look at the owl in the race for Dash's pet, it has sentient eyes as opposed to the more cartoony eyes that our main boy has.

[zimmerwald]

The additions of background shots like the photos in later seasons, without any attached dialogue/AFX, would not have been done by the writers, but by the storyboarders. And it's weird, because it would have been exactly as much work, and no more an exercise of discretion, for the storyboarders to add him into the background of shots as it was to add photos.

[FirestormDDash]

Well even AJs dog got the boot.

You know, if twi never got wings it would of been cool to have the bird just chill on her back as she walked around most of the time.
And a primary note delivery system for her none magical friends to use to get things to twi.

[fluttershyisnotadoormat]

He just decided that he had enough of all this crazy stuff happening in Ponyville XD