Hitch has too few votes.

@pahom777
>so why make a move now?

She was just a little filly when she got the letter, and by the time she left the Unicorn forest she probably felt she was old enough/ready for a change. She probably got tired of the depressing environment around her and went to Maretime Bay to take a chance on Earth Ponies and make new friends.

I think she does have clear motivation and good reason for adventuring.

Of course Sunny is the best. Such courage and drive. Izzy, on the other hoof, has no clear motivation for suddenly going out on any adventures. She got Sunny’s message a long time ago, so why make a move now? She’s a pure plot device, no pun intended. I’d argue that Pipp’s got more character and purpose than Izzy.

@Modish&ElegantPony
Agree!

I love Pipp but she didn’t get that many moments in the movie. Hyped to see her in the show.

Actually I think that new poll is not asking “your favourite character”, is about “who’s the best character in the movie” instead. I guess fandom may still like Pipp, but sadly she didn’t have big development in the movie, so that’s the poll results.

Were the master race. They got nerfed hard.

@IzzyMoonbow2021
Sunny is pretty much Applejack and Twilight’s soul merged.

Zipp Storm is my personal favorite, Because she has my personality, she’s a tomboy, she has nearly the same personality as Rainbow Dash, and i really love her design, and specially her multi colored wings 😍

Pipp was the least developed, while Hitch was the most developed. What they have in common is that both were the tagalongs of the group.

Well, unicorns are the master race after all

@Background Pony #62C5  
Twilight: Sunny, I may or may not have that result, but I know that- wait a minute did you just become an alicorn already?
 
RD: Yo Zipp, I can’t even do parkour but we have the same thing.
 
Fluttershy: Um… Hitch. We might have in common of animals, but you was a sherriff as well.
 
AJ: Not 1 pony look similar to me, tarnation!

@Background Pony #9F49  
Um, no, just no. No on so many levels. One, I disagree that Hitch is the most developed character in the movie (I consider Sunny to be the most developed, but we all have our opinions). And while I do think that adorable ponies is what the fandom cares about most, I know for a fact that they also care about good writing as well (almost to an unhealthy extent, really).

Considering hitch is the most developed character in the movie its best to say this proves female privilege and that this fandom cares more about “cuteness” than character writing

@Ebalosus  
Honestly, if done successfully, I think this is where G5 could actually improve upon G4. After all, with G4 the creative staff had to make enough episodes to cover all slots of a conventional television season, resulting in a whole lot of filler in each season. With G5 going to a streaming service, they have a lot more flexibility with the layout and structure of each season, which could result in less filler and episodes that better connect with each other, developing a singular story over time while at the same time further developing the existing characters as well as introducing new ones to the series.

Well, at least Hitch is one rank higher now. :P

@Background Pony #62C5
 
That’s my concern too, because as much as I like Zipp now, I don’t want her be witty-retort sports pone. My concerns are allayed a bit due to the structure of what will be the upcoming show, in that it seems to be structured more like a streaming series with a variable number of episodes, rather than the writers needing to come up with enough stories to fill a conventional television season. That, and it seems that the people behind g5 have learned the lessons of what hampered G4’s character structure in the long run, thus the characters should in theory be able to grow organically. We shouldn’t have another case of Fluttershy having to learn to be assertive time and time again, for example.
 
@Enmity1498
 
I think it’s partially that, but also that she was brought into the narrative pretty late (bringing the pegasus crystal to the others in the alley), thus we didn’t really get a lot of time with her in her interactions with the others. From what I can gather, people like her well enough, but not nearly as much as her sister or the others.

Honestly, Izzy and Sunny being the two most popular characters isn’t surprising in any way-Izzy is the biggest meme, after all, and Sunny is the main character of the series (taking the place of Twi, as I have mentioned before). What is surprising, however, is the fact that Hitch and Zipp became more popular than Pipp. My best guess is people in the brony community really didn’t like Pipp’s ‘YouTube Celebrity’ mentality at the beginning of the film, not to mention Hitch and Zipp got a ton of character development in the film itself. Those are my guesses, at least. I could definitely be wrong about that.

Actually surprised Hitch beat Pipp, almost by 3x but I guess she didn’t get to show her personality too much

@Background Pony #3909
 
It’ll take a fair bit of development before Pipp is more than just the shallow likes-and-followers-addicted prima donna, though I have no doubt she’ll evolve and be as nuanced and likable as Rarity.

Rarity: First season of mine went similar, Pipp darling, but I grew popularity later!
 
Pinkie: I maybe the most popular at first like you Izzy, but writers gotta becareful not to flanderize you like what they did to me!!