Well, if we're speaking of Tolkien, his languages and mythology are well defined so studying them is kind of justified. But the level of World Building he did is an insane feat and few can match it.

As to the subpages, I've had a mind to prune them for some time. Three separate fridge pages, plus a redirect, seriously?

We even have a section for Pinkie's imaginary friends and other inanimate characters.

good ol' pinkie, doing the impossible again.

anyway, i'm off to do my self-appointed troper duty: add pictures to all the entries on the Recess Characters page.

edited 29th Mar '13 11:32:07 AM by crimsonstorm15

Vriska Serket from Homestuck used to have her own page, but it's since been folded back into the Trolls subpage.

Ooh, cake!

In an unrelated note, my favorite episode from season 2 has to be Ponyville Confidential. It just had so many utterly hilarious moments, like the Cakes' reaction at the new of their divorce and of course, the famous Cakelestia.

My God, I love this series.

@Mio: And that's fine. But I like to treat worlds of fiction as actual places that we're getting glimpses of and can study. If the author is just throwing things in on the fly, that's fine. I can still bask in wonder of the created result.

Also, I'm a fanfic author and want my work to fit in with what's ben established about the setting (except for where I've deviated deliberately).

And yeah, part of me wonders why people are so resistant to the idea. Do people take Celestia being more powerful than them as a personal insult? Are they angry that she might be more powerful than their favourite character? Does ponies being powerful somehow make the show worse in some way?

I've read mny fics where Celestia was clearly much weaker than I imagined her and I had no problem ith that. Neither did I have a problem with reading fics here she was clearly far more powerful than I imagined. Yet when I show whyI think they are at the poer level I imagine, it's treated as a ludicrous claim. Okay, yeah, I'd also call it ludicrous claim if someone called the Pony POV Series power levels canon for example (despite having enjoyed the story), but that's quite a different thing.

EDIT:

True, but I s speaking of fantasy in general, not just Tolkien. After all, Tolkien decided not to call Noldorin "Gnomish" despite his originl plans.

edited 29th Mar '13 11:41:32 AM by Sereg

Would it be alright removing the folders in the character pages and combining tropes from them with other examples in the page to prevent repetition? The pages easily devolve into stating the same thing many times to make the characters seem more impressive then they actually are. You could make a Drinking Game out of how many times the Fluttershy page hypes her up as a badass over the Dragonshy or Discord incidents.

@Sereg: It's not that I'm averse the idea of Celestia being so powerful as much as I just don't see any valid evidence for that being the case. I think Celestia being that strong (still stronger than 99% of the cast though) just doesn't fit the setting as a whole very well.

edited 29th Mar '13 11:52:27 AM by JapaneseTeeth

It looks like Rarity has decided to try a new style.

http://mostlyponyart.deviantart.com/art/Gothic-Rarity-346031647

Meh.

Okay, that I can understand. I mean, a lot f people give Luna the stars, but I think that that's a bit much even if I get why they might think that.

I don't see why. Okay, yeah I would say that I think that the Pony POV Series power level seems a bit much based on what the show has given us (admittedly, there Celestia, Luna, Discord and Cadance are currently limited by being in their mortal avatars and Cadance has lost her memories of how to use her OMGWTFBBQOVERPOWERED powers, but still) thoughI still admit that I can't really say that it's impossible that that's hat we're working with. (Plus it allows some cool stuff. And it's kind of hilliarious to think of Cadance as more powerful than Haruhi).

Apparently I went to bed right before there were Japanese plot mousepads.

My problem is that when I see stuff like Celestia's battle with Chrysalis never escalating past a low-key Beam-O-War or her sustaining not insignificant battle damage in the comics, I can't imagine her being able to do things on such huge scales.

edited 29th Mar '13 12:29:06 PM by PerpetualLurker

I'll sometimes remove examples if I feel they're being shoehorned, but I rarely go on the wiki nowadays.

Re: The Let's Eat Dashie image. I'm disapointed that they didn't use the RD in a pot scene from MMC for the second image.

Didn't G La DOS used to have her own page too? I'm not sure if it's still there.

She does, mainly because her canon capitalization is a wiki word.

Yes. Yes, you are.

This just in. One and one makes two, and two is more than one.

The logical conclusion of Rarity v Giant Crab.

MA BOI

And once gain, such things determine relative, not absolute power. Darksiede being able to hurt Superman doesn't indicate that a random dude off the street could.

A random dude off the street with a magic stick or a chunk of kryptonite could. But that's beside the point.

ah, so this is why Rarity keeps fighting the giant crab

edited 29th Mar '13 12:42:03 PM by Blissey1

@Irish - What if it's a magic stick...made of kryptonite?

He dies of radioation.

@Blissey - Ah...huh.

edited 29th Mar '13 12:42:34 PM by dRoy

I still say the Chrysalis bit had more to do with collateral damage. A goddess of sunfire can hardly cut loose in a room full of bystanders.

edited 29th Mar '13 12:42:30 PM by Pykrete

Then they cancel each other out, and Supes beats the guy up.

Into a pulp! That should make a very good soup.

Doesn't quite explain why she was knocked out by the single beam she was pushing back the last second. Unless we are to assume that despite her phenomenal cosmic powers, she can barely take a hit (relatively).

edited 29th Mar '13 12:46:53 PM by Mio

That too. Vapourising the planet you live on is hardly productive.

It's more powerful than the beam she could produce. Which, assuming I'm right about the Sun, is more than 100 times what's required to blow up the sun. So ... if that's hat you want to call "not taking a hit", fine.

edited 29th Mar '13 12:49:14 PM by Sereg

There is no situation where vaporizing the planet you live on is not productive.