Why the fuck was Garble so retarded? All of Equestria fighting the dragons would have ended in genocide of his entire species.
>>27207431
>All of Equestria fighting the dragons would have ended in genocide of his entire species.+ 0 post omitted.
u wot m8? Who'd stop them? Princess "jobber" Celestia?
>>27207586
All of the Mane Six, all of the princesses, all of Equestria's magic AND Discord? No chance.
>>27207586
Celestia would get ripped apart like a paper bag. But the dragons of Equestria are probably a very small group that live outside of their homeland and would probably not stand a chance against all the organized, industrialized little ponies.
Some creatures really are that stupid.
>>27207746
So why did they have trouble removing one dragon from a mountain?
>>27207431
No one ever said the little shit was smart.
>>27207746
>Celestia would get ripped apart like a paper bag
>hasnt read the journal of the two sisters
>>27207586
Discord.
>>27208317
Isn't it basically her fault dragons hated ponies anyway?
>>27208360
*hated
>>27207431
Attacking Equestria without tactics or any well thought out plan is destined to failure in the long run. In the short, they could probably burn down a few settlements and kill a few ponies till an order for Dragon Genocide comes down from on high.
>people talking about genocide and murder when all he wanted to do to get revenge was to take all their pillows and shit
>>27208439
No, that was this guy. Garble wanted to burn it all. The girl dragon in the shot is the one that wanted burping to be a new greeting.
>>27208360
Celestia in general is a stupid cunt.
>Made ponies worship her like a god and reaped in ego even though in reality she is only slightly better than a good Unicorn.
>Took the EoH from the tree and never thought to put them back, even though she built her first castle immediately above it.
>Couldn't befriend Star Swirl because she was an annoying cunt.
>Neglected her Sister for years by hogging the limelight and cause her to go insane and try to murder her
>Had not one, not two, but 3 unicorns who attended her school but ended up becoming friendless NEETs. This includes Twalot. Also Trixie attended the school according to FaustThough it seems Hasjew changed itso she ruined her life too, and Sunburst attending the school indirectly led to Starlight Glimmer turning to communism and destroying the world multiple times, including genocide of all ponies.
>Got beaten by Chrysalis + Shining Armor's 'love' which probably just means his magical talent. Thus Chrysalis was already on par or better than her already since Tirekt needed to drain a ton of ponies to kick her ass.
>Got kidnapped by a bunch of fucking vines.
>FUCKING. VINES.
>Couldn't stop a bunch of clouds even though Pegasi and Unicorns are used to changing the weather at whim.
>Her major claim to fame, raising the celestial bodies, can be done by a couple of Unicorns working together, making her role ultimately pointless.
Also pic related for a daily reminder that Celestia has no friends
>>27207431
Why is there no porn of Garble?
>>27208317
>reading glorified fanfiction
>reading elementary school age books
Good God, this fandom's pathetic.
>>27208487
She did it all on purpose, Celestia can kinda see the future.
>>27208509
>"Glorified fanfiction"
>Written by a show writer, contributed to by Faust
Okay.
>>27208509
>AKR
>fanfic
hows it feel to meme so hard that you insult one of the best writers on the show?
>>27208522
Fags of the Fandom are memes themselves. Its no surprise that he'd try to discredit something relatively official.
>>27208509
>watching a show for little girls
>>27208514
>>27208522
So what? Do you also consider "Tweets" by the staff to be canon? lol
>>27208619
>it was merely an act
>>27208619
You have no idea.
>>27208479
Do we have a name for that dragon? I rather like his design.
>>27208513
>tiafags believe this
This makes me want to write a green for momlestia.
>anon finds out Tia a shit
>Tia doesn't know why anon has been acting so cold to her
>every little thing just pisses you off
"Anon, sweetie, you haven't eaten any of your dinner... you know you can't have any desert until you-"
>"what do you care if I eat, it's not like you spent any time making it. You just get one of your 'subjects' to do it for you!"
>she offers to cook for you, wanting to right whatever wrong she's apparently committed
>but she doesn't know what you know.
>you politely tell her you'd rather eat cat food then anything made by her hooves
>>27208514
>>27208522
Still just above the comics as far as canon goes, still written with six - ten year old girls in mind.
>>27208586
There's a little less shame in something designed with family viewing in mind. Granted not by much, but reading Golden Books tier literature past the age of ten is pretty sad 2bh.
>>27208708
Apparently "Barry?"
>>27208787
>Barry throw up a picture of a pillow.
>Thank Barry.
>>27208513
Do people really believe that Celestia pretends to be retarded for the sake of being some Chessmaster Wizard?
I mean, she saw the threat Tirek presented to Equestria, but she's also the same pony who charged Twilight to take their magic and run without involving her friends - despite knowing full well that her friends have always been the key to overcoming any adversity.
>>27208846
You don't live to be a thousand years old by being stupid, anon.
>>27208307
/thread
>>27208985
>Nopony told her about Sombra till he made his foothold in CE and she and her sister had to step up
>Didn't forsee Discord till he made his foothold in Equestria
>Scorpan had to sell out Tirek before they could respond
>Didn't forsee her sister's resentment transforming her into something that would endanger Equestria
You live for a thousand years by having capable allies who can share your burden and help you deal with shit. Not because of future vision ^:)
>>27208242
Because diplomacy.
>>27209033
[X] rekt
I am a fan of Celestia as a clairvoyant, but I've always thought of it more as the power of prophecy. Y'know, mysterious images, portents, and symbols that are only really understood after the fact. She'd be receiving these visions and doing her level best to interpret them before bad shit goes down, but the best she can usually manage is to do some broad spectrum preparations.
>>27207682
>M6
Other than Twilight, none of them possess any powers. Rainbow Power was a one time boost otherwise they would have used it again by now.
>princesses
They aren't all-powerful. Celestia was helpless on so many occasions. If we bring the Journal into this, then her and Luna couldn't even restrain a single adult dragon and Celestia had to pull a Fluttershy to get him to back down.
>all of Equestria's magic
Dragons got their own powers.
>Discord
He'd be tough but can he handle an entire army? If they were all teen dragons, perhaps; but including the big ones in the fight and I doubt even Discord can contain them all.
>>27209131
The M6 tap into one of the fundamental sources of all magic.
The Princesses real power is calling on the resources of all of Equestria. Soldiers, Mages, Alchemists, Engineers, Allied Monsters, etc.
Dragons have limited powers shown in canon. Long lives, fire immunity, teleportation by burning, fire breath, hard scales. (The wonderbolts shaved Spikes ridges with almost no effort)
Discord single-handedly brought all of Equestria under his torturous control with seemingly little effort. Twice. He is the avatar of pure chaotic magic and has shown the ability to manipulate fundamental forces of the universe as a joke.
tl;autism too strong: Dragons don't stand a chance.
>>27207431
Did you not see those ponies fighting each other in the alternate timeline? They're complete pansies who flail their hooves at the enemy in a desperate attempt to make contact with something. And this was coming from the war-seasoned veterans, too. No form whatsoever.
>>27209033
>Discord and NMM
That shit happened a looooooooong time ago, back when her hair was fucking pink (or at least it was in the intro).
>Sombra and the CK
She already had a contingency plan completely worked up for that eventuality.
>>27209192
This is why the timeline was fucked without the Pastel Rangers and their diplomacy-fu. Dragons would show up loaded for bear and ready to cause some damage, and would end up touring Equestria, taking photos, buying souvenirs, and be back home talking about their new pony friends before they knew what hit 'em. Twilight being able to just walk a bitch into Tartarus and lock him upTirekwas pretty scary too IMHO.
>>27209187
If you're referring to friendship, they lost the laser aspect of that magic. See S4 premiere.
You forgot to mention in the dragon power set that they're also hundreds of times the size of ponies. One of them can take on an army by themselves. And Spikes spurs aren't apart of his scales which are of a different thickness. He then went on to (with limited mental capacity) defeat said Wonderbolts.
Discord single-handedly defeated ponies, the pansies of their world. Just about every other sapient creature that we've seen is physically stronger than ponies and would dominate them in a one-on-one battle.
Discord fighting an army of giant fire-breathing death machines who don't take any shit from anybody is a whole different ball game. Not to mention he was injured by a that giant worm. Who knows what else he is susceptible too.
>>27209192
Oh, that was just for the children watching, anon.
Im waiting for Garble to overthrow Ember and she has to flee to Equestria
Ember is the smallest and weakest dragon outside of Spike
>>27209312
Dragon Law probably forbids that, Anon.
>>27209266
Germs. Discord was defeated by germs. The tiniest of God's creatures.
>>27209323
but bigger is better, and garble is rash enough to do it
Ember may be to much of a percieved "weak reformer"
would make an interesting fanfic
>>27209266
As much as I understand the reasons behind it, you're forgetting their new Super Saijin mode.
Yeah, not trying to say the Wonderbolts are all that, just proving that unarmed pegasi could easily damage a full grown dragon.
Physical strength is a moot argument. Ponies have magic. Potions, Spells, Rituals. An airbomb of poison joke could destroy a whole invading army in one strike. Gryphons are allies if Ponies have coin. Ponies have coin. Diamond Dogs are allies if Ponies have gems. Ponies have gems. Capture and release a Hydra in their midst. Have Flutters ask the manticores and basilisks to aid. Pheonixes led by PeeWee and Philomena. Armies with projectiles and long range spells protected by Shining Armor's impenetrable shield. Dragons can never rest as Luna invades their dreams and foments nightmares. Celestia maintains the Sun behind her armies to light the battlefield and blind the Dragons. Twilight uses time magic to subvert their plans. Hail, and sleet, and snow, and lightning rain down on the dragons mercilessly if they try to go below cloud level. Need I go on?
Discord opened a portal to another dimension on a whim to dispose of somepony mildly annoying to him. He dual wielded the sun and moon while levitating and spinning all of Ponyville while simultaneously wrecking all of Equestria's weather. We've never seen him actually try.
>>27209382
He was shown following Spike's orders though. He was even shown dutifully carrying out his orders even when Spike was no longer around to witness his actions.
Garble may not have any respect for pony culture, but I'm sure he thinks highly of his own people's customs.
>>27209445
there is a breaking point for everything
perhaps a disaster strikes or a controversial application of justice
or an ever larger outsider Dragon other than Garble, it could all be a neat fanfic
>>27209405
Ponies are hung up on morality, so weaponized Poison Joke would quickly be outlawed as a weapon of mass destruction.
>>27209382
Ember is shrewd and stated openly that she knows her only advantage over other dragons is her intelligence. She'll be watching Garble without a doubt. If it looks like he or any other dragon is looking for revolution they're gonna go the way of the Dodo.
>>27209405
I already mentioned that Rainbow Power was a one time power up granted to them by the tree. There have been loads of instances since then where the M6 would have activated their powers if they still had them (Starlight's village, Discord's ball fiasco, Twilight's time traveling, the Crystalling Crisis).
The rest is dealing in hypotheticals. Phoenixes flee from dragons. Chemicals that affect ponies may not effect dragons the same way. Capturing a Hydra is easier said than done. There is no indication that either Griffons or DDs would ally with ponies for a bunch of other hypothetical reasons: fear of dragons, dragons having just as much wealth as Equestria in terms of gold and jewels (it's a food source afterall) and could outbid the ponies for their fealty, or just not caring about the wars of others.
Ponies have virtually no knowledge of dragons because they are so terrified of them that no one ever wants to get close enough to study them. Other than maybe the Urse Major, they are the biggest, baddest apex predators we've ever seen.
Their only real weaknesses that we've seen so far is their laziness and apathy towards anything that doesn't directly affect them. So on that ground, maintaining an organized militia of them would be pretty difficult for any extended period of time. They'd be like the Vikings and just pillage and plunder and raze shit until they got enough gold and fucked back off to whence they came.
>>27208317
But JOTTS contradicts season 6 premiere.
noncanon.
>>27209559
And now that ponies are allied with dragons, what can take them down? Basically nothing. Not only is Twilight a princess, but she's probably the first pony ever to have extended contact with a dragon of any kind, like, as in a dragon raised in the Dragonlands.
>>27209645
Journal never said Luna and Celestia were born alicorns though. Just that they were raised by them.
>>27207682
The only thing you listed there was Discord, who is in fact OP. Take him out and Equestria has a challenge. Because there isnt a ton of combat magic that we've seen and M6 dont have rainbow power anymore.
>>27209671
>And now that ponies are allied with dragons
Stretch. Ember just wont attack them.
>>27209688
Ember isn't going to do anything that Spike wouldn't have done. She owes everything to him. In practice, she's basically a regent for Spike, who only seeks peace with ponies.
Now the zebras are a species that I'm still curious about.
>>27209705
>Now the zebras are a species that I'm still curious about.
Think nigs in Africa.
>>27209688
A non-aggression pact then. At least until trade agreements are opened up and/or Spike woos the Dragon Lord.
>>27209705
Perhaps one of the most obvious things
Is that, at one point, we were kings.
>>27209727
Celestia probably is pleased that this happened the way it did and is "subtly" implying to Twilight that Spike should "show more interest in getting to know Ember" or something.
I mean, he did teach her everything she knows. Why not get a dynasty friendly to Equestria started?
>>27209226
>Back when her hair was pink
Totally made invalid by Twilight's flashback of their fight.
>Sombra
Yeah, that was after the fact that he had not only enslaved their kingdom, but had his own contingency plan to keep it as his by making it disappear once he fell.
Having a plan for its eventual return 1000 years later isn't really all that insightful, and even knowing of its eventual return could have been theorized or made known with research done on the disappearance after the fact.
>>27207431
The episode was retarded. The only dragons participating in it were juvenile at best, when we've seen real adult dragons in earlier seasons who easily keep up with the newly introduced dragon lord in size.
And yeah if the dragons in that episode, and only the dragons in that episode, waged war against all of Equestria they could be in pretty deep trouble. But if real adult dragons were on board for a nation wide barbeque then that could be an issue.
Even Celestia herself, at full power, with Luna assisting and backed by the entire Equestrian military, can't take on a single adult dragon with confidence.
Discord could take them. If he were so inclined. This also depends on circumstance because frankly, if Tirek could overpower Discord in order to drain him then more than just the EoH are a problem for the dude. Still, he could probably manage it.
Rainbow Power might do the job too.
Other than that, dragons would win any square fight against the pony nation. They might still lose on technicality even without Discord or Rainbowy Magics being involved on account of many dragons being so used to being king shit that they honestly don't know how to deal with confrontation from lesser creatures. If ponies put up a good enough front they could literally win by scaring them away without it becoming a physical fight.
That's how it's always worked in the past. Dragons are strong as fuck but they sure spook easy.
>>27209645
>>27209674
Was it confirmed that Celestia and Luna were even born in Equestria, though? All they said in the show was that Equestria had never seen an alicorn birth.
>>27210028
Indeed, the whole wording left things open to interpretation. Of course autists blew their lids off and threw a shitfit anyway. The journal never specifies where they are born, just that they played around Canterlot when they were fillies, they were educated by other alicorns, and that Starswirl approached them one day on the slopes of Canterlot and asked them to become princesses.
>>27207431
I imagine they'd just pull some North Korea shit and never act on their threats.
>>27207682
>all of the princesses
Not an argument:they are completely worthless. All of them.
>all of Equestria's magic
It's_fucking_nothing.jpg
>Discord
I'm pretty sure he'll support chaos that "dragon's war" will bring..
>>27209187
>The M6 tap into one of the fundamental sources of all magic.
>Alchemists
>Allied Monsters
>All of this headcanon.
>>27211000
>Not an argument:they are completely worthless. All of them.
This. Twilight on x4 Alicorn magic barely kept up to Tirek who only lost to friendship ray rainbow power.
>>27209645
>[Source Needed]
if youre talking about celestia and luna, they werent born in equestria. equestria was ruled by the 3 pony races until they arrived, as was said in the journal.
the entire point of the journal was to establish lore. they wouldnt contradict it.
>>27211018
>The M6 tap into one of the fundamental sources of all magic.
Friendship
>Alchemists
Ziggers
>Allied Monsters
reformed bad guys
its not hard to understand
>>27207682
Discord is the only real threat and he would be taken out easily if they took Fluttershy as a hostage.
>>27211202
>Friendship
Not a "fundamental sources of all magic"
>Ziggers
Not a part of Equestria. Also,I'm pretty sure they are witch doctors
>reformed bad guys
>Whole [one] guys
>>27211000
>>Discord
>I'm pretty sure he'll support chaos that "dragon's war" will bring..
Discord will support chaos up until Fluttershy gets hurt. Then, the gloves come off.
>>27211325
>if they took Fluttershy as a hostage
You realize we're talking about dragons, right? They're not the cleverest creatures in the setting. Hostages are a bit too indirect and manipulative for them.
>>27211414
But the damage would be already done.
>>27211432
*But the damage will be already inflicted