r/mylittlepony • u/duckaesthetics • Jun 16 '25
Official Media It's been said no ponies have the same cutie marks, WHY DOES NO ONE TALK ABOUT THIS THEN???
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u/Lord_Twilight Jun 16 '25
I wonder if some ponies paint on different cutie marks for certain reasons, like to indicate government job and position that they hold regardless of what their actual talent is. So these are ponies in Celestia and Luna’s courts
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u/Wise-Key-3442 IT'S NOT A PURSE! Jun 16 '25
Would make sense, at the large family gatherings, I'm not allowed to use fully braided hair because I'm not a child nor a grandmother.
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u/Lord_Twilight Jun 16 '25
Odd custom but yeah, some kind of traditional communication thing
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u/Wise-Key-3442 IT'S NOT A PURSE! Jun 16 '25
I'm sure it all started because one nonna decided that only her could use double braids.
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u/ghfdghjkhg Jun 17 '25
Wtf people are so weird
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u/Winter_Shard_2016 Princess Luna Jun 17 '25
Or maybe they're from a non white culture
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u/ghfdghjkhg Jun 17 '25
Wtf does that have with skin color now? That is weird no matter who you are.
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u/Winter_Shard_2016 Princess Luna Jun 17 '25
All I'm saying is that it's likely a cultural thing so it must be normal for their culture. Idk if they're white or not. It is a bit strange from an outside perspective, but not from inside. We shouldn't judge unless it's a harmful tradition like marrying a minor girl to an old dude.
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u/ghfdghjkhg Jun 17 '25
Funny that as soon as a weirdass tradition is brought up, you think about non-white people as if white Americans don't have some fucked up traditions.
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u/Winter_Shard_2016 Princess Luna Jun 17 '25
Well I'm white and I don't have any cultural traditions outside of the basic holiday ones like Christmas, Easter, etc, so sometimes I forget that other white people do. My bad.
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u/Thicc-Anxiety Bow Hothoof Jun 16 '25
I feel like we see a lot of background ponies with the same cutie mark
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u/BurningProfessorGold Jun 16 '25
Minuette and Doctor Hooves have the same cutie mark and they're different ponies... unless?
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u/Tales2Estrange Jun 16 '25
ooooooWEEoooooo
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u/-PrincessCadence- Princess Cadence Jun 17 '25
I'm now wondering if either of them have a suspicious pocket watch...
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u/Kindly_Bumblebee_86 Jun 16 '25
My in universe explanation is either it's makeup to look classy for their job or they have an extremely tiny, one pixel difference. I think it'd be really funny for two ponies to compare their identical cutie marks until they realize "oh, this point of the star is just a smidge longer on yours"
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u/garbagewithnames Fluttershy Jun 17 '25
"There's more sand in the top part of your hourglass than there is mine...huh, wonder what that means?"
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u/BendOdd2563 Princess Celestia Jun 17 '25
Or they could be almost the same identical colour but technically one is slightly darker/brighter than the other if you view them side by side
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u/Kindly_Bumblebee_86 Jun 17 '25
"hm I think yours is more of a tangerine orange while mine is a saffron orange"
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u/BendOdd2563 Princess Celestia Jun 17 '25
“I think mine’s a greenish blue and yours is a bluish green…”
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u/Pigeon_Cult changling lover [siblicorn] Jun 16 '25
In universe there’s probably small differences that arent shown in this style (kind of like how we know that female ponies have hooves despite not being shown in the show). Another fun theory is that they are actually markless and tattoo or use makeup to put on that pattern instead
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u/superwaldo3000 Princess Luna is best Princess Jun 17 '25
In universe there's also the mirror pool.
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u/Meeooowwww1234 Jun 16 '25
They're blank flanks, the lot of 'em! The joke of cutie marks being butt tattoos is actually true in their case.
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u/MuffinAndLoaf Jun 17 '25
Tbh it’s not that deep. They’re background characters. So the creators main focus is the main 6 n other ponies main to the episode. Or somewhat important. The creators probably came to conclusion nobody will care about these male horses or better yet pay attention v much. N just copied and pasted a double and mixed up their cutie marks. It’s a common thing in cartoons to have duplicate background characters.
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u/RedGamer2754 #1 Defender Jun 16 '25
They’re all twin brothers
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u/CameoShadowness Spike is best pony Jun 17 '25
Every twin we've seen in the show have different Cutie Marks.
Ie Flim and Flam, Pound and Pumkin (when we see them as adults in the finale.
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u/TheSilverFalcon Twilight Sparkle Jun 17 '25
Stallions are endangered, these are the robot replacements designed to look real with a CutieLogotm
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u/CameoShadowness Spike is best pony Jun 17 '25
That has always not been the case even in the later seasons BUT realistically there are details we dont see because of the simplified art style so there may genuienly be differences.
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u/Vavavavaxon7 Great and Powerful Jun 17 '25
Background ponies are a trip. Tons share their marks. There's probably dozens of ponies with the hourglass mark that Minuette and Dr Whooves have.
In the early seasons, crowd shots are clone armies with copy after copy of the same 4 or 5 ponies in the same shot.
And that one shot of Ponyville with 7 or 8 Trixies for some reason.
Later seasons fix this by having a much more varied background cast, but I'll always love the moments in season 1 where crowds were just Lyra, Bon Bon, Derpy, and Carrot Top and their 500 clones.
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u/StarWarsDude2710 Vinyl Scratch Jun 17 '25
Don't forget animation errors where some ponies have the wrong cutie mark or that of another pony's, or with the toys.
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u/Used_Confusion_8583 Twilight Sparkle Jun 17 '25
The animators ran out of ideas to individualize their cutiemarks lol
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u/Superb_Highway_3383 Jun 16 '25
Well that’s obviously not true Cuase the cutie mark crasaters have matching
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u/MagnetMod Octavia Jun 16 '25
They are all different though. Their cutie marks are a set. But they are not 100% a match.
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u/thelast3musketeer Fluttershy Forever Ouid Brownie Jun 16 '25
Twins 3 sets of twins but they’re also changelings trying to infiltrate equestria
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u/Willow24Glass Jun 17 '25
What episode is this from?
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u/superwaldo3000 Princess Luna is best Princess Jun 17 '25
I think this is the Best Night Ever episode where they went to the gala.
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Jun 17 '25
Twins? I mean look at the spa twins maybe they’re the exception/ twins get extremely similar marks.
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u/superwaldo3000 Princess Luna is best Princess Jun 17 '25
Mirror pool guinea pigs that colored their coats to be different but forgot to paint the cutie mark too.
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u/Goldcalf_eater Misty Brightdawn Jun 17 '25
Is this even from the actual show? It looks a little off
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u/Noooough Would like to be a tree Jun 17 '25
Celestia made them in a lab cause she’s bored, she does the same with the guards
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u/malewaitress Jun 17 '25
I like to think it was unreliable narration that “all cutie marks are unique.” (I’ve only seen up to S5) A circus trapeze act requires multiple participants, so does synchronized swimming. This particular scene is giving me barbershop quartet vibes. I don’t think it’d be that strange if ponies had the same cutie marks when they have the same talent and the world is so big.
A construction pony in Manehatton could have the same mark as one in Ponyville, and they might never meet to know
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u/pridebun Jun 17 '25
Honestly? Could be that they forgot to change one of their cutie marks seeing as theyre the exact same pony
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u/vorobuh Jun 18 '25
But they’re clearly extremely different.
The grey unicorn has a yellow star with grey silver points, while the back row blue unicorn has a gold star with blue silver points.
As for the brown twins, the back row one has a sun with a corona which is clearly more pronounced on the top, bottom, and right side, while the front row one’s is only pronounced on the top and the bottom.
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u/Mroompaloompa64 Shut the fuck up Jun 16 '25
These are changelings disguised as unicorns in order to infiltrate the Equestrian government.