Equestria Girls Makes Zero Sense, Here's Why

My Little Pony's spin-off, Equestria Girls, definitely has a fun concept, reimagining ponies as humans. However, this is not without strange plot holes and inconsistencies between the two worlds. In this video, we'll be going over a few of these weird unexplained questions, and I'll be trying to answer them to the best of my abilities.

Strap in for a lot of overthinking and pointless analysises.

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[geoffreybanditt]

I think it would had mad a lot more sense if the characters in Equestria Girls were college students instead of High School students because going by the age group of the main characters in friendship is magic they were obviously young adults. If the ponies were meant to be teens they would had been shown in the story as high school students just like the cutie mark crusaders being elementary school students.

[elviejomonca]

Short explanation is, Hasbro wanted to compete with Mattel's Monster High; that's why the characters are teenagers in HS instead of adults, that's why they kept their colorful skin, that's why ancient authority figures are reduced to school principals and directors; they wanted to emulate MH as much as possible regardless if it made sense or not within the show's internal logic.

[danielattrell]

Also Sunset Shimmer’s age is confusing. Celestia says she use to be her student, but Twilight didn’t know about her existence until the first movie. Twilight became Celestia’s student when she was a kid.

[charemchavrutah]

I'm pretty sure Spike becoming a dog is more metaphorical or symbolic. It displays his loyalty and closeness to Princess Twilight. He is her #1 Assistant in the same way a dog is a man's best friend.

[thelllleht]

It is not implied that the Mane Six are adults. They are adults. The show even says it.
Filly Dash to adult Twilight on season 5: "You are a full grown pony!"
Applejack to Apple Bloom: "This is grown-up stuff".
Rainbow Dash in The Cart before the Ponies: "And it's probably best keeping all the grown-ups on the sidelines. But... what are we supposed to do now?"
Just look at this conversation between Scootaloo and Twilight in Growing Up is Hard to Do:
Scootaloo: "I'm pretty sure if you wanted to go to the fair, you could."
Twilight Sparkle: "Sure, grown-ups can do a lot of things that foals can't. But there's plenty we can't do either. Like right now, I can't find a single reference to this flower!"
It doesn't make sense for a teenager to be the principal of a school. Twilight is an adult. Equestria Girls defies logic because an adult (pony Twilight) becomes a teenager for the sake of the plot.

[bobmybobbob]

“Would she be born a principal?” absolutely broke me

Now I want the scene where animators somehow make it clear that a baby is a principal, and everyone is losing their minds

[Mis]

How it works is


Pony=human
Everything else:whatever’s convenient for the plot

[nevaeh]

Another thing about the ages; if we're going off the age correlation in the video then what about Sweetie Bell, Scootalo, and Apple Bloom? We see them running around Canterlot High, but in the Pony World they're basically in Elementary School, maybe Middle School if we're being generous. Same thing applies to other characters like Snips, Snails, Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon.

[benjaminallisonii]

Sunset is in her mid to late twenties and goes to high school and she dated Flash, let that sink in...

[twiwss]

the flurry heart as a principal thing made me stop breathing

[vegetafan]

"I guess the writers thought it would be too weird for Human Pinkie to have an actual Alligator as a pet."

Counter arrangement against the writers' decision: . . . IT'S PINKIE PIE!!! NOTHING IS TOO WEIRD WHEN IT INVOLVES HER!!!

[CraftyCopy]

I always had a theory that the mirror world only started to really exist after sunset went into it for the first time, so it took elements from equestria and reconstructed it into what it is now.
it would explain the conundrum with the principles, and maybe ponies just age faster then humans, idk

edit: oh right the Dazzlings... hmmm, actually maybe since Starswirl didn't use the mirror it didn't fully create the world, maybe the Dazzlings were stuck in limbo until somepony entered the world by mirror, I actually really like this theory because honestly I never liked any interpretation of the Dazzlings being 1000's of years old but not aging in the human world, it seems dumb to me.

[lunakingsley.]

Human characters also seem to have some memories of their counterparts as pinkie, the CMC, and Megan seem to react to things you would think they shouldn't be aware of.

[vivixeyl]

Since the Canterlot people are in crystal prep. Why isn't Twilight's old friends there? They couldn't have Sci-Twi not really feel happy with her old friends in crystal prep? That couldn't have been a better idea for the friendship games and would display a good message on how you should let old things go.

[digitalzealot]

Flash sentry is kind of an oddity, too. All of the ponies have the same interests in the human world, except they don't have jobs. (Except apple jack, who seems to still work on a farm). But Flash was a guard in the Crystal Empire, but has a band in the human world, while Shining Armor works (don't know what he was actually doing though)
Idk maybe that means Flash will enter the military soon in the human world? Like, I guess his protective spirit still carries over into the human world since he helps Twilight, but so does everyone else.
Idk maybe pony Flash has musical hobbies that we don't know of, but why not just make him a Crystal Empire musician then??😭😭😭

[gwennukedyou]

discord in the pony world : nooo dont turn me into a marketable plushie !!

discord in equestria girls :

[EduardoMartinez-rsbu]

In my opinion, the reason why EG fails so hard is because
It had a weak foundation
unlike my little pony the show, which since the beginning had clear rules established of how the world works, EG always went with whatever happened and the only explanation ever given to us is that "magic works differently" but we're never explained in depth how exactly it works, which is weird because in the first movie Sunset makes fun of Twilight for not knowing what happens when you bring an element of Harmony into another dimension, but she spends the rest of the saga worried about what magic may do because it works differently and she doesn't understand it
so at the end of the day, while when watching MLP you know what is happening and how it is happening, In EG you just wait for them to explain what's going on because you don't have a clear idea of how things work

[DVEGUM]

about the aging slower in the human world, what if the ponies age the same way real horses do?

[thaipankatima]

I may be biased here, but I do enjoy the Equestria Girls. Probably due to my touch with anime.
Sunset Shimmer was definitely my fav in the whole show. The only gripe I have with the movies and series was the introduction of Flash Sentry.
It was clear that the writers wanted to bring in a love interest for Twilight but they simply tested the waters and went for the 'Will they/Won't they' scenario.
He was hated for being a waifu stealer and such so much of the pony community didn't want him getting involved.
Flash could've been so much more, but they decided to scrap the whole thing.
Other than that, I find the Equestria Girls setting pretty cool.

[knightmachine]

For as much as I love the Equestria Girls Trilogy (so much so that I even saw it several times in four languages), I need to admit that, when it comes to its internal logic regarding the main series; its existence and execution are actually really bizarre.

I gave up a long time ago to try to find a cohesive logic that explains this spin-off, but that doesn't mean that I'll stop loving these movies despite of all of their flaws and plot holes, and I can laugh every time that I notice more of these flaws.

In summary, I have nothing to give to the discussion more than the fact that I loved the video and I totally would love a second part.
Your videos are awesome Eff, keep going.