Moonatik
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drank the gender fluid
@PonyPon  
um wat?
 
please explain how the most powerful beings in Equestria plus the ponies who took on entire changeling army couldn’t have beaten the invaders if it weren’t for plot mandated incompetence.
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@GlitchyShadow  
No it couldn’t.
Moonatik
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drank the gender fluid
Nonetheless, you can celebrate Derpy’s bravery if you wish… But we need to have a serious discussion about the utter incompetence of the mane 6, the royal guard and other princesses that day. How did the pony who moves the fucking sun go down so easily? One blast from her horn could’ve taken down every damn airship in sight!
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IDK wth is going on
@GlitchyShadow  
I’d accept that. I don’t really want to believe that if Dash could easily take Twi away, either would have a need to put Derpy or anypony there other than to distract Tempest for a few seconds.
heavenx7

derpy make the ultimate sacrifice!!! in the movie!
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@GlitchyShadow  
@Xaigatomon  
In the comments to >>1554123 (the first fanart of the scene in question, albeit humanized and including a panty shot), MuhJob wrote:
From movie script:
The magic smoke dissipates…
revealing NOT Twilight – but MUFFINS in a party hat!
Stonified when trying to protect Twilight.
Ok, so Derpy actually wanted to save her.
So you have to take MuhJob’s word for it that he consulted the leaked script, but it does seem reasonable.
 
And of course the first reply to his comment was basically, “Nah, I don’t care what the script says, she just accidentally got in the way.”
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@GlitchyShadow  
That’s what someone said on my deviantart I think, but I can’t believe that myself.  
Plus she was looking right at Twilight and deliberately ran in past the guards and straight for her, and the actual frozen state only makes me think it more.
 
Gah, talking about it is so painful DX
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drank the gender fluid
unpopular theory: derpy didn’t know what she was doing and was as confused as everypony as at that invasion, she just so happened to walk into the wrong place at the wrong time.
 
my friend literally fucking shouted at me for saying that
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@Hebbocake  
“No Second Prances”; right. I don’t know that we can conclude they’re friends from that episode, but they’re at least acquaintances.
anonymous_user_08sept20

@Background Pony #A51D  
Don’t know the name, but it’s the one where Starlight wants to be friends with Trixie, but Twilight desperately tries to find a better, less dickish friend for her.
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Twilight once implied they were friends in an episode.
Which episode, if I may ask?
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@Nicolas Dominique  
Ah, I think I must have been thinking about somepony else, sorry! but I like your music hehe
Nicolas Dominique

@Nicolas Dominique
Oh my are you actually the music artist Nicolas Dominique? Foreverfreebrony if I’m not mistaken?
But yes, she totally deserved it indeed X3
 
Yes, but I am just Nicolas, I don’t have anything to deal with Foreverfreebrony :P
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@Nicolas Dominique  
Oh my are you actually the music artist Nicolas Dominique? Foreverfreebrony if I’m not mistaken?  
But yes, she totally deserved it indeed X3
 
@Ekhidna  
@Hebbocake  
Hehe I did definitely imagine Twilight in this scene as she’s hugging her, finishing the thank you speech with “I am proud to have a friend like her!”  
Has to happen X3
anonymous_user_08sept20

@Ekhidna  
Twilight once implied they were friends in an episode.
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LittlePornDog
HERO Derpy!
 
She deserves it more than any other BG pone ^^
Ekhidna
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As a second note I would like to add that from what we’ve seen in the show, Derpy clearly has some sort of personal admiration for Twilight, and the two of them, while may not be full-on friends, do seem to have some sort of familiarity.
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Derpy the hero!
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This needed to be a scene at the end of the movie, even if it was tacked on to the pointy ponies end credits.
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She deserved it!
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@Background Pony #39EC  
True. Better to make things worse for the guards, she is also better at the job then Tom the Rock is.
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Derpy is my life
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