@Background Pony #8694  
And the fact its screwing Spike over in the long run.  
Really felt like him being a dog restricts his potential on what he can do in EQG pretty badly. And his involvement too.

@Itsthinking  
Honestly.. that excuse to make him a dog is just.. bleh.  
Just like the whole “Dragons are not the same as ponies thus they aren’t allowed to be humans” reason they used.  
And apparently from what I heard they also went “It will be weird if a little boy was hiding in Twilight’s backpack”.

@Masem  
Really, I am sure Spike could have managed and been able to be there for Twilight if he was a human.  
Twilight could easily say he’s her brother and they usually never separate.  
The scene where Twilight tells the others the truth could have been in a different location. Literally a different location.

I could totally see spike and garble starting a punk band

@Evowizard25  
I know right

Why all this hating on Garble? I mean true he wasn’t introduced the best way but that’s no reason to think he can’t change his ways. Heck I even Thought up one concept. Besides He’s more interesting Than Flash “No Class Jaw so full of Glass” Sentry

For some reason, I’m reminded of him.  
 
GO TO SLEEP, ME!

All this discussion and no talk about the Garble/Twilight possible ship? For shame.

@Trickquestion  
We really need a thumbs up option on this site.

@Itsthinking  
Because the first movie was such a fresh and original take on the American High School setting, so lets throw in a few ancient clichés to make the whole thing more relatable to the masses. It’s not like the first movie played the clichés of the genre in a way so insipid and boring I’m genuinely hoping the sequel ends in a school shooting.

@Trickquestion  
But they’re also very ugly and are hooligans.

@Itsthinking  
Yes, because this universe needed more idiots. Everybody we saw in the first movie was just so freaking smart and rational, we needed to introduce a few dumb characters to try and balance things out.

@Trickquestion  
They’re very dumb and smelly as humans too, soooo…

@Itsthinking  
The show very clearly created them as the archetypical “universally stupid, universally malevolent species of sentient monsters who’s ecological niche is opposing the protagonist.” Out of all the things you could translate to Equestria Girls, they’re pretty far down the list.
 
As for your question, well, the best that would do is not make things worse. And at this point, I really do think “not worse then the original movie” is all this crock of crap is going to be capable of achieving.

@Trickquestion  
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It’s also probably just a gag.
 
My initial question remains: would it make it better if the dragons all appeared as dogs?

@Itsthinking  
Still not a good reason to make him a dog, even more so in light of the revelation that that those subhuman knuckle draggers the Diamond DOGS are now human, like @Background Pony #5E51  
said.

@Trickquestion  
McCarthy does not like to write Twilight without writing Spike and vice versa.

@Itsthinking  
Ok, now that literature class is over, let me loop things around.
 
“It was supposed to be ripping off Wizard of Oz” does not justify dog Spike to me.

@Trickquestion  
Oh, I haven’t read the book that much. I know some of the original lore but can’t recall if the counterpart thing was pushed. I never got why the movie tries to make a big deal out of them, unless they were trying to say it was her dream. Probably was.

@Itsthinking  
I will differ to you on this. I fully admit my only viewing of the work was the well known movie adaptation, so I’ll take your word that it was more of a thing in the book.
 
So we are confirmed that McCarthy hasn’t read Lord of the Rings, but has read The Wizard of Oz.

@Trickquestion  
I think it might have been overdone for Hollywood. They focused too little on her life in Kansas so you didn’t really get that they were counterparts from like the two lines they got.

@Itsthinking  
Right, that part. I don’t know, even if that was a thing in Wizard of Oz, it didn’t really feel like a major theme of the work. A “fuller” Wizard of Oz inspired work, I think at least, would have focused on the whole “Heart, Brains, Courage” dynamic, and how they had them all along thing, which was the entire basis of the movie, then the rather vague idea of counterparts. Still, I concede that I was wrong, and EGs can technically be considered and Oz-inspired movie. Sloppily perhaps, but still technically.

@Trickquestion  
Yeah, most people seem to miss that despite the “and you were there…and you, too” quote.

I was never very keen on dog Spike…but it never bothered me that much either because I could see the reasoning behind that for convenience.
 
But now that it turns out even the fucking diamond dogs get to be humans, Im really start to understand why everyone was so pissed back then. Human diamond dogs are a true kick to the balls, as it really makes it look like a personal thing.

@Masem
 
“If they kept him young, that begs huge questions (to the movie viewer) why an older girl is hanging around with a kid”
 
That could easily be explained by saying he’s her little brother and since both are new at the school, they’re hanging out together until the formalities are over. Twilight didn’t seem to actually go into any classes, so my guess is they all knew she still wasn’t formally registered. Just enough so she could compete for the crown :)
 
I do agree though, that being a dog made it easier for him to be there with her no matter where she went (like a girl’s dressing room), as well as giving her extra credibility for the big reveal, since no matter how crazy your story sounds, having a talking dog always makes it much easier to believe.