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Champions of Equestria

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One Special Talent  
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@TexasUberAlles  
The other two races also have wide-spectrum marks, and the ingenuity to MAKE their marks fit whatever they intend to do.
 
Rarity got her mark finding gems, and putting them on dresses, but she has a large number of really great talents, too. And that’s just one.
 
I still think this comic and its line of logic is demeaning and insulting.
TexasUberAlles
Duck - If report count was a score, he'd have the biggest score
A Really Hyper Artist - 500+ images under their artist tag
Cutest Little Devil - Celebrated the 14th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Rainbow Rocks 10th Anniversary: Aria Blaze - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of EQG Rainbow Rocks!
Celestial Glory - Helped others get their OC into the 2024 Derpibooru Collab.
Nightmare in the Moon - Had their OC in the 2024 Derpibooru Collab.
Pixel Perfection - I still call her Lightning Bolt
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).

@Background Pony #CA36  
It’s kinda obvious that nopony in general can do a thing as well as somepony who has a cutie mark talent for that thing, but Earth Ponies tend to have special talents that relate to entire categories of activities rather than the specific focus that Unicorns and Pegasi tend to get; it’s not that they “can’t also do all those things”, it’s that it usually takes an Earth Pony to do all those things that well. It makes perfect sense given the establishment of Earth Tribe as being the agricultural backbone of Equestria, since any kind of agriculture requires mastery of a myriad of different skills, and the very nature of cutie mark magic makes specialists of most Ponies. Twilight, for example, is so unusual in having a Mage special talent that we’ve essentially only ever seen one other “magic in general” Unicorn in the show.
Background Pony #1514
I never liked this comic.
 
I mean, she’s implying that the others can’t also do all those things if it’s not their talent.
 
Which is stupid, and contradictory to canon.
 
ALL ponies are amazing, and this comic (and others similar to it) feel like they are missing some big things…
 
Doesn’t help that some of the ones that play the racism card for laughs often fall flat.
sal129

Is anyone else reminded of the Lord of the rings what with the elves being inmortal and humans having the so called gift of death.
TexasUberAlles
Duck - If report count was a score, he'd have the biggest score
A Really Hyper Artist - 500+ images under their artist tag
Cutest Little Devil - Celebrated the 14th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Rainbow Rocks 10th Anniversary: Aria Blaze - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of EQG Rainbow Rocks!
Celestial Glory - Helped others get their OC into the 2024 Derpibooru Collab.
Nightmare in the Moon - Had their OC in the 2024 Derpibooru Collab.
Pixel Perfection - I still call her Lightning Bolt
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).

@Clopitor_the_Hydrogenous  
Big Mac got the Fancy Mathematics skillset in the family, but he can’t make his own butter like Applejack can.
 
…I could perhaps have worded that better.
 
@Align  
When Daisy gets pumped up, she can spit small metal balls really fast, Roseluck is a time traveler and can control Timber Wolves (but only the bad ones), and Lily is quietly constructing a functional recursive anti-magic field generator cannon underneath City Hall so she can knock Cloudsdale out of the sky, because she’s an electrothaumatic engineering genius but also kind of a racist.
Justy
Duck - Some ugly ducklings stay that way

Feel-good mudpony logic. Kinda reminds me of the 3rd world.
 
“Our GDP might suck ass, an eccentric warlord might rule over every aspect of our lives, drug abuse, violent crime and ethnic cleansing are commonplace, but hey, we can make colorful beads and shit! UNIQUE CULTURE!!!11”
Background Pony #7FCA
Clopitor, it’s not AJ’s fault Granny’s hip replacement was so expensive. Or Mayor Mare keeps raising taxes.