Five Artists Pitch An Alternative G5 My Little Pony

So G5 is coming to an end - how bout a look at what might've been? On this month's episode, we're exploring the world of AUs (alternative universes). A staple of fanfiction, and in light of what's happened since we recorded this back in August, a way of exploring all the things we could've gotten (plus a bunch of stuff Hasbro would never let us see).
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[@Makakaka]

I actually watched the entire thing and thought, 'Holy moly, I need to animate this,' but at the same time, I was like, 'Ah dang, I don't have time to do it'

[@greythegriffon9278]

SCREECHING IN THE COMMENTS I NEED MELODY'S AU TO BE REAL

[@DraftHorses]

hasbro dm me $15,000,000 plus marketing budget so this can be real

[@BeaconSearchlight]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS

[@clairecooper7178]

animatic screech

[@Zwooshification]

I wish horses were real

[@DraftHorses]

god that'd be great

[@DaniBummle]

Yeah😞

[@lauramlpfang4g5]

I love g5 im so mad at hasbro for canceling it early it helped me in a bad spot and is comfort help.

[@luckychaos2997]

Man I love the horse lore

[@BeesOfInk]

Melody's AU sounds awesome!!!

[@rocknrollmandolin]

Truly horses explaining why? Who knows. Horses time express wooo!

[@evilandmaliciouswarwick]

this was epic to watch as my brain required a distraction. everyones ideas are so fun, i love a ponie, especially little ones

[@stardustandflames126]

Peak thumbnail

[@vincenthorn4767]

Dragon misty!!! Awesome concept😮

[@CooperGal24]

So the artist who came up with a MistyDragon!AU...I love the idea, but I'd like to add something to that idea, and this is inspired by a certain character from a video game. What if Alphabittle's wife WAS a dragon species? Remember how there were some fan art of Rarity and Spike's children if they had a family together? Well, I think Alphabittle's wife could've been a dragon pony, from the Eastern villages far away. This dragon mare would've met Alphabittle during one of his trips, and they started to slowly fall in love, way before the events of the next gen movie. However, because of her being dragon, the mare used a special type of magical amulet to change her appearance from dragon to a unicorn. (Just a quick moment to ask, but sealing away the Pegasi and Unicorns' "Magic" because of racism, but the Earth Ponies didn't have any forms of magic until the next gen episodes via "Earth Magic"... Was it a good idea to do that or no, because I'm unsure at this point...) Moving on, Alphabittle and the mare would eventually get married and have Misty, who's born a unicorn/dragon mix, dragon horns and wings, unicorn horn, magic and all. Now let's say that both parents are worried about what'll happen to Misty if the other unicorns finds out about her heritage. Using the magic from the amulet, the mare would create a type of temporary spell on their daughter, to conceal her appearance until she was old enough to learn about her heritage as a dragon/unicorn. Unfortunately, the mother ends up going missing or dying years later, leaving Alphabittle to raise Misty as a single father, with only his wife's magical amulet as his reminder and the only way to change Misty back into her true form. But Misty gets taken by Opaline, and the rest is history up until the AU part. Except for one thing. Along with the powers from Spike and the other dragons, the amulet Alphabittle hade suddenly started to glow, before it flew out of his home and straight towards Misty, where it's magic joined that of the other dragons. Not only giving Misty the powers of the dragons, but also removing the disguise spell and revealing her true form as the dragon/unicorn pony that she is, born from the love of her parents! Misty, the true holder of the Dragon Arcane magic, has been revealed as the Dragon/Unicorn she is born as! As for the inspiration of this idea: It's Whirlwind from Skylanders! And I brought this up because Whirlwind just happens to be a dragon/unicorn hybrid! Skylanders gave us some very unique dragon hybrid characters, like Whirlwind and Sunburn the dragon/phoenix hybrid! I thought this little backstory of Misty would be perfectly understandable with the artist chosing to have Misty as a dragon/unicorn in this AU. I don't know if they liked the backstory I created for their Misty DragoCorn, but it was in my mind after hearing their AU idea!

[@Bird-wz7nx]

Before I watch, Imma hazard a guess based on a thumbnail, but also based on my own G5 theories on scrapped materials- I suspect that we have all these animals with pegasus/unicorn traits, and dragons with weirdly pony traits (and friggin Special Talent magic) because of whatever was supposed to have gone down in some earlier draft. That, perhaps Opaline stole the dragon magic, and Twilight crystalized all pony magic in what was meant to be a temporary measure, and used some of it to save the dragons. (who would, like, die without magic or something idk) This left them transformed into something more ponylike, and this conversion got spun as Equestrian Imperialism, causing a rift between the ponies and other species, who developed a growing fear that they, too, would be ponified. This interspecies strife stirred up the wendigoes, which fed into pony strife, enhanced by the threat of Opaline, and the continued lack of pony magic, as Twilight had it all in the crystals still. She then used them to try to end the Wendigoes, which dispersed so much pony magic that Equestria got saturated with Pony magic and nature started functioning on its own. It caused the animals to get pony features, and interacted with the Tree of Harmony-based buildings to convert the Everfree into a much safer, crtstaline forest. Something something the pony populace increasingly distrusted each other, the Elements broke/got depowered, and the girls had to get Limbo/ded-ed, probably while ensuring Opaline was indisposed. Sparky would be the first non-ponified dragon (with raw dragonfire) to be born, and likely the key to breaking whatever magic had been initially set by the first use of the unity crystals. This makes Opaline's fixation on his fire make sense, when she could have realistically found the dragonlands by now. I think the Pony magic crystals were some temporary thing that was never meant to be permanent They're too dumb to be intentional that way. Perhaps it was meant to replace the elements after aome mishap, sourcing power from all ponies like a Spirit Bomb? But the lore pieces of G5 actually fit nicely, if pony magic started leaking into places it wasn't supposed to, and G5's world was basically an accident spawned from desperate measures. (and if it hadn't been retconned a bajillion times) ...And now to see what the video says and if others thought along the same lines as me. To go with that thumbnail though, I could totally see the unity crystal opening doors between ponies and other creatures, by the logic of what I just had mentioned. "Unity" and all that. But it would definitely need to be done with consent and trust, the desperation that would have surrounded a post-Opaline'd Dragonlands. Edit: Ok, was expecting more theorycrafting than just AU fanfics, but I usually watch theory stuff. Still, that was quite entertaining. Will sub and watch more

[@DeepForestDarling]

all these aus go insanely hard !!

[@_meldrop_]

this is so fucking cool cant wait to watch more of yalls videos!

[@jimmygoodlove1139]

ANIME ANIMATIC PLEASEEEEE edit: ALSO the AU should be called My Little Pony: Friendship is Earned

[@Kocham1bigos]

47:18 my little pony minty is best horse without doubt or debate so we gotta save her

[@RCOLLINS1446]

47:12 - I would like an anime animatic.

[@DomausCharles]

( Son on the mother phone ) I love G5

[@blueblaze7312]

MLP: Flames of Change

[@Kocham1bigos]

33:59 THE G3 PONIES NAME IS SUNNY DAZE NOT SUNNY DAYS!

[@arrrr-1]

Damn this is awesome

[@SpineBones]

I have an oc named Kerfuffle!! :0 They're Fluttershy and Minty's kid Wild Its such a fun word also :>

[@voltrainferno6360]

wait, i though that's an official character name. Or your OC also has the same name?

[@SpineBones]

@@voltrainferno6360 I have an oc with the same name and they're the child of Fluttershy and Minty in my next gen au :> Discord created them with magic as a gift for Flutters And Minty is the background pony, but my version of her who owns an icecream shop :>

[@grazielledalmeida1927]

Anime opening? Yes pls!

[@diegamer2325]

horses!?

[@timsplosion]

Horses!!!

[@diegamer2325]

@@timsplosion horses 👍

[@DomausCharles]

( Son on the mother phone ) Horses!!

[@kingtechnology9350]

Instead of just 3 pony tribes I would make them 3 pony planets earth pony planet, the unicorn planet and pegasus planet! I would also make Queen Haven the main villain instead of Sprout! I would also make the pegasus build their own robots and gadgets and weapons like there's a pegasus version of the Canterlogic factory in Zephyr Heights that sells anti unicorn and earth pony weapons! And the same thing in Bridlewood the unicorns have their own weapons they make out of recycled stuff! I would then have the 3 tribes battle each in other in a war like a galactic Star Wars space battle between the 3 pony planets! In the movie Sprout just crashes his giant robot into the light house we don't really get to see an epic battle like in MLP Season 9 finale! The Roots Of Evil in MYM was closer to an epic battle like Season 9 finale I think the Roots Of Evil did a better story than the movie!

[@akineko1854]

soon

[@thebirdgang2240]

Soon

[@Kocham1bigos]

46:10 hell yeah i am

[@Valosinki]

hoinses

[@SelineGreen]

Hey

[@TailsClock]

G5 was the biggest pile of crap. And I mean that in a good way. It explores a future world and does it so poorly with so many mistakes. Showing how a colorful world can come from even the worst of actions. G5 is the perfect continuation of the episode in Which Starlight ruins the timeline. Creating a version of the world that is so similar, but Twilight never learns the right friendship lessons and goes on to be a bad ruler. I really like the exploration of this doomed timeline, and it becomes more clear that's what we're seeing when you are watching it knowing that there's 1 episode left. It is crap, in that it is fertilizer. I would LOVE to see G4 be given a fanon continuation from the best writers of the fandom, and for us to maybe see some G5 events occur, only to be dealt with the right way instead. I don't hate the G5 Mane 6, as bad as their episodes are. But I do so hate their world, and the lack of care for it all. I'd love to see them rehomed in a good future of G4. Which is why I am excited for this video. G5 now exists as fuel for the imagination! A lesson on what not to do. Making the show darker feels like it's gonna go down the Sonic the Hedgehog route, which is not a good thing. The tonal whiplash of that series with the Shadow having a gun stuff is insane... Then again the Satam show was very dark and that was GREAT! So hey, maybe that path could work. Also nice to hear praise for the movie's strengths, and using Bluey as an example of how to do things right is always good. The movie really did have a lot of charm despite the setting and cliche plot. It's everything after that really did it dirty. keeping the movie canon feels fair, but outside of a dark setting it still seems like more work than it's worth. I'd watch it though. Keeping it canon up to Spike? Wow you're playing on hard mode... Oh. Oh okay that's sort of cool. Still ha many problems but it's COOL. And cathartic... God I hate that this would resonate with me so much. But even if I can't have my win, I'd love to see Misty get hers. Wow... This 3rd one went DARK dark. I still don't think that's the right path but would this have been better than what we got? Hell yes! Now this is a bit more what I expected with the full reimagining. Despite all the name changes, this feels the most G5ish. It's just that the world makes more sense here. Though if you want a story about racism still, then what I don't get is why it keeps being set in the future or an alternate world, when we already know the past 1000 years before G4 was PERFECT for this setting! But also this feels a bit funny that I am now realizing my friend's MLP setting is really dang close to being a G5 AU. It just keeps the extra races in and makes it a more worldly kind of racism, where Ponies being racist among themselves is just not as common, because it distracts from the REAL enemy. I prefer it for it's more sensible difference in cultures, and language, and that each side has their own gods and lore. Also it's pirate theme which instantly makes it superior. A dark racist world really is such an easy one to make good. Even without trying, making a better version of G5 seems like the kind of thing any fan can do.

[@therextwins1086]

I agree G5 kind of sucks😅