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Published: 2012-12-15 20:08:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 62066; Favourites: 1067; Downloads: 488
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Rainbow Dash must have forgot, In the heat of the moment, that only Pegasus can be on clouds.Anyway the semester is over and now that I’ve heartily failed my finals I can focus on pony. Well maybe.
Korean Translation: [link]
IMPORTANT NOTE: the following describes
He is a well cool dude who deserves undying love from you, like he has from me, because he did the vector of the cloud in the third and fourth panel. You can find is utterly magnificent whirly cloud here: [link] or here [link] without his help failure would have been assured. In addition to the whirly cloud I must commend him for his snide comments and wonderful reviews of my comics, which are featured on my page alongside my newest piece.
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-Whirly Cloud: [link] or [link] by the best doctor around
- Background: Day Sky: [link]
-Dash Diving: [link]
- Rainbow Dash Vector - The Horror...: [link]
- Request: Twilight falling: [link]
- Mas Applejack: [link]
- Fluttershy - WHAT?!: [link]
- Pinkie Pie "Tripping": [link]
-Rarity Pulling: [link]
- Another Alpine Scene: [link]
-my mind is full of [...]: [link]
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Pretty sure the message was she compacted the clouds so tightly that it was more like a pillow, rather than regular clouds guys...
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no.... twilight planned on going to a building MADE OUT of clouds. she cast the cloud walking spell on her and her friends beforehand.
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I'm finding it pretty strange that people don't get it... I mean, it's pretty obvious.
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Yeah, I was thinking this is what should have happened. In answer to the thought that Twilight cast the cloud walking spell, how did Rainbow dash know that? Why would she even assume that? It makes no sense. The others had no communication with her until after the incident was over. I calling BS (Bad Script) writing on the part of Merriwether Williams.
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Fluttershy was caught by butterflies after a 500+ meter fall, Twilight was propelled 30+ meters from a bog bubble, and Applejack sent Rainbow Dash flying off her see-saw having only jumped down about a story height.
Makes no sense? How long have you been here?
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Although there have been cartoony moments in the show they made it very clear in the episode "sonic rainboom" that the clouds acted differently than other physics in the show. It was inconsistent with the established canon set in earlier episodes which has been a staple for MW in her script writing. It's like a so-so fanfic plot device.
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I would have to second that notion, sadly. Although, I felt like the rest of the episode was pretty solid.
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Well, we know she can carry four ponies and fly at the same time.
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During that part of the episode I kept thinking, "Uh, Fluttershy you can fly on your own you know."
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I'd say Twilight cast on them before castoff. I didn't even mean to do that.
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I thought that rainbow dash was "compressing" the clouds so that it would catch them, cause she could have simply just gotten a cloud if that was the case...
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I'm guessing Twilight used her "cloud-walking" spell before they left ponyville.
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i know... that should hav happened too
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I assumed that Dash gathered enough clouds in a small space to increase the density enough to hold the others
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Lol, that is back in the Best Flyers competition episode, or more in your case, the cloud is not dense enough to support their weight.
I can already picture how this bad ending looks like and no need to go into details due to the "Tragic" category.
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I just assumed Twilight cast her "walk on clouds" spell again like she did in Sonic Rainboom before they got there.
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But how was Rainbow Dash supposed to know that?
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Because Twilight told her about that spell the last time they visited Cloudsdale. Dash probably HOPED that she cast that spell again.
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I'm not going to bother arguing this anymore.
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Oh no, the gang is falling to their death! Wait a minute... Fluttershy, what's your excuse?
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OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, YOU'RE RIGHT, YOU'RE TOTTALY RIGHT
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I didn't even catch that O_o. For the sake up my sanity, I will go with the cloud density theory...
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My theory is that she made the cloud dense enough to stop their fall. Which also explains why the cloud burst. Still great comic!
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As everyone else has mentioned, cloud-walking spell.
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Oh, I love me some dark humor.
Also, what happened to Rarity's head in the second-to-last panel?!
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I wondered this during the actual episode. I figured either Rainbow managed to supercompress them to make them dense enough so as to be effectively solid, or Twilight cast the cloudwalk spell before they left as a safety measure.
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I was thinking of that too, how the heck?
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Hahaha! That's what I was thinking at first! But some of the other commenters made a good point. Perhaps Twilight cast a Cloud Walking spell on them before they left? It certainly could work, seeing as she did that off screen for "Sonic Rainboom" as well. Unfortunately, that leaves the idea open that "How did RD know they had a Cloud Walking spell on?"
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She didn't. She absolutely counted on Twi using the spell. although, had she really failed to catch everypony, Twi would have levitated the whole bunch or teleported all of them to nearby water or something.
either way, with both Twi and RD, two most overpowered normal ponies in recent Equestria, I couldn't see them actually plummeting.
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I just thought that it was like being suspended in a super dense liquid and then being bounced back.
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Teh, it might as well convert to a liquid state. :/
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To be fair, she made them high density clouds and then bounced them off right away, but yeah... MERRIWEATHER!!!!!!!
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...nope. cloud walking spell. check Sonic Rainboom if you forgot or haven't watched it already.
Twilight, being the OCD over prepared pony she is, is very unlikely to overlook the most important thing a non-pegasus pony should consider when visiting pegasi places : to be able to walk on clouds.
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Then WTF was the point of Dash working so hard to compress the cloud. It was compressed in size by 4x and even changed color as it was compressed.
Image of cloud being condensed by a crap load: [link]
If they could walk on clouds Dash would just move one cloud under them and they would be it. (In fact compressing the cloud would have been risky because its a smaller target to land on.)
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contingency plan, in case the cloud isn't dense enough to stop their fall. but she REALLY was counting on that spell. Without the spell, It doesn't matter if the cloud has the density of mercury, it won't stop anypony from falling through it.
but yea even without compressing the cloud she could have caught them all no problem. she probably was just being rainbow dash. you know how she likes to spin around clouds and perform elaborate tricks.
but that's just my opinion.
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This is exactly what I thought when I saw them bounce off the cloud. Really, MLP? One of the few bits of lore which you keep fairly constant throughout the series, and you go and let Merriweather Williams destroy it. Ah well, at least we got this great comic out of it.
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Reddit post explaining it, Dash condensed the cloud: [link]
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I dare you to try to bounce off of a condensed cloud of water vapor, regardless of density. It can't be denser than water, which ponies sink in, as Mephitinae said. It's not a huge deal, but it is funny.
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>I dare you to try to bounce off of a condensed cloud of water vapor, regardless of density.
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This is the universe where winged horses can walk on clouds, and where clouds don't move on their own. I think these clouds might be special. I assume these are magic clouds which allow pegasi to walk on them because pegasi are lighter, so a dense magic cloud could hold a slightly denser earth pony.
And actually, even if they were normal clouds, if you condensed them enough it would form a pool of water in the air. If the pool of water was being held aloft by Dash, if you fell into the floating pool it would break your fall
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I always figured cloud-walking was inherent magic. After all, Twilight's cloud-walking spell was magic, not just making ponies lighter. All ponies have their own sort of magic, remember.
Still, I'll yield that physics clearly work differently in Equestria.
And even if it was a pool of water they wouldn't bounce in standard physics world P:
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Congrats, you got the joke. Yes, she condensed the cloud.
But ponies have already been shown sinking in water (which is like 10.000 times denser than any cloud)
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