Because of Teamliquid and a thread I saw here roughly a month ago, I now enjoy watching a show for little girls called My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. I couldn’t tell you why I enjoy this show, nor why there are so many others like me. Fortunately, that’s not what I’m here to do. While watching this series, I have noticed that many of the ponies show rather strong parallels with our favourite progamers! I understand that many of you are not familiar with the ponies but if I have done my job right, it shouldn’t matter. :D

Disclaimer: There are going to be My Little Pony (MLP) spoilers in this writeup. If this concerns you, be wary.

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DJ Pon-3 is not a major character

Hot_Bid is secretly not an actual progamer (Shocking, I know)

DJ Pon-3 is very clearly a badass

Hot_Bid is a total boss (and is funny as shit)

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They look very similar

Twilight is very smart and likes to do a lot of research on something before going into it.

ThorZaiN managed to win TSL 3 with a lot of smart, specially prepared strategies.

Twilight was sent to Ponyville by Princess Celestia to meet ponies and learn more about friendship.

ThorZaiN was sent to Mouz where he got better practice partners and could learn more about StarCraft.

Twilight is very modest even though her powers are really great.

ThorZaiN is Swedish (and his powers are really great).

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Trixie is one of the most magical ponies in Equstria!

Naniwa is one of the best Starcraft players

Trixie is a BM asshole (Source)

Naniwa used to be a BM asshole



(Source) Trixie is very cocky

Naniwa is very confident in his skills

Trixie kicked everyones ass until being defeated by Twilight

Naniwa kicked everyones ass until being defeated by Thorzain (That worked out much better than I planned on!

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Applejack is always very honest

iNcontroL always speaks his mind

Applejack likes apples

iNcontroL probably like apples (a lot of apples)

Applejack kicks the apple trees to make the apples fall out



(Source) iNcontroL can pull apple trees out of the ground and run around with them

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(Source) Rainbow Dash is really good at stunt flying (only pony to do sonic rainboom)

IdrA is really good at Starcraft (One of the most consistent GSL players when he was there)

Rainbow Dash seems to crash into a lot of shit

IdrA crashes into mental blockades and loses games he shouldnt (notably at MLG, with HuK and MMA)

Rainbow Dash flies high

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Edit: Mad props to TL member "Bags" for finding this sucker. Sound familiar?

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Fluttershy is very quiet and shy

Tyler is very chill and non-shit-giving



(Source) Fluttershy can flip out and scare even big monsters

Tyler can flip out and show some nerdrage OR flip out and duck up big scary monsters (SeleCT in MLG Columbus).



(Source) Fluttershy is not a tree



(Source) Tyler is also not a tree

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Pinkie Pie talks a lot

Sheth says a lot of things on his stream

Pinkie Pie is very happy

Sheth also seems quite jolly + super well-mannered

Pinkie Pie likes pulling pranks

Sheth has a troll side (Source)

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Rarity is very concerned about beauty



(Source) Day[9] is mad hot

Rarity is very nice and puts the needs of other ponies first

Day[9] is very nice and puts the progression of ESPORTS before himself.

Rarity has pretty strong magic but we dont see a ton of it

Day[9] is probably pretty good at Starcraft but we dont get to see it

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Princess Celestia presides over all of Equestria, serving as the leader of the ponies from a distant land.

BoxeR presides over all of ESPORTS, serving as the Emperor of Starcraft players from a distant land (Korea)

All the ponies know of Princess Celestia and respect her very much.

All the nerds know of BoxeR and respect him very much (even his bullshit all-ins).

Princess Celestia is very powerful but doesn’t show it often.

BoxeR is a very strong player sometimes (TSL series with Sen) but has occasional bursts of awfulness (GSL S2 group with San/Nestea/Ensnare).

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