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onebadpunspoilsabunch · 1 month

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Spike and his father have a lot things in common... well, besides looks:

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mediumsizetex · 3 years

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Commission - Burnferno: Warrior From Within by BoskoComicArtist

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tigris-types · 7 years

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Do you think that burnferno is spike's ancestor?

Without knowing more about dragons, its hard to say. It seems like Spike is a wingless dragon and Burnferno is depicted having wings. We don’t know if Spike is a certain type of dragon that remains wingless (and can send messages) or if all dragons are like that and gain wings as they mature.

Although, we dont even know if Burnferno is a folklore hero or a real dragon. So to answer your question anon, at the moment, I am going to say that Burnferno is not Spike's ancestor. At least. Not until we know more about dragons.

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onebadpunspoilsabunch · 4 months

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I believe that Burnferno is Spike's biological father. My reasons:

It's a common thing in this show for "fictional" characters to end up being real (Daring Do characters, the Pony of Shadows, Grogar, Gusty the Great).

Burnferno and Spike share physical similarities (which a kid points out), and are both known for "snappy comebacks".

Spike used to have fantasies of being a hero, so it would be thematically fitting for his father to be the hero from the book he grew up reading.

Idk if this was intentional or not (probably not, since that would be giving those season 8 writers WAY too much credit) but in Father Knows Beast Spike is once again seen shown reading the book Burnferno: Warrior Within, which hasn't been shown since it first appeared in Flurry of Emotions.

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onebadpunspoilsabunch · 7 months

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I'm going to give Twilight Sparkle the benefit of the doubt and assume that sometime between the Season 10 comics and the 30-something timeskip The Last Problem that she (and Celestia, since she gave Twilight the egg in the first place...) made some kind of effort to find out what happened to Spike's parents, and if they're even still alive...

Kind of suspicious that in a world with an unlimited amount of magic spells, none of them used or created a spell to track down someone's blood relatives...

Also, am I the only one who finds it kind of suspicious that Spike was raised to be a servant... because if Spike were a pony instead of a non-pony creature, they would've raised him as an equal! And so he went the first half of his childhood believing that if he couldn't be a servant to anyone, they wouldn't want him anymore... which is not how a family member (let alone a child) should ever feel...

And it was revealed in Sparkle's Seven that Spike believed Twilight's family never saw him as a sibling/son, but instead as a pet...

There's a lot to unpack here...

So I'm choosing to believe that sometime before The Last Problem, they found out what happened to Spike's parents. Too bad we never got to see it, but whatev 🤪

Theory: The book that Spike was reading to the sick children in A Flurry of Emotions, called Burnferno, Warrior From Within is based on a real dragon that is related to Spike, maybe his father. In the episode a child acknowledges that Spike looks similar to Burnferno.

Keep in mind that the same episode, Twilight is reading a book about Grogar and Gusty the Great to the children, who are real people in that world:

Yeah, that's it :p I'm giving Twilight and Celestia the benefit of the doubt that it happened, just offscreen...

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onebadpunspoilsabunch · 4 months

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Burnferno being Spike's dad would've been a much cooler idea. What was the point of Father's Knows Beast?

To troll the audience.

Nah, I'm joking 😂

But it was still stupid. Cause up to that point, they had actually been doing something with Spike's character

Becoming friends with Ember and establishing friendly relations between ponies and dragons

Helping Thorax make friends with ponies, which would eventually cause him to overthrow Chrysalis and free the other Changelings

Learning that he can be called on Cutie Map missions

Introducing Ember and Thorax to each other creating more peace between creatures

Gaining wings

Spike meeting his real parent(s) would've been a good addition to his character arc, so for the life of me I don't understand how they came up with the plot to that episode. Maybe they were afraid of changing the status quo, but that excuse doesn't work because the show has been changing the status quo in much more major ways since season 2.

Fun fact: The same person who wrote Molt Down (where Spike got his wings) also wrote Father Knows Beast.

So the same person who wrote a major development in Spike's character, also wrote, IN THE SAME SEASON, an episode where they teased a major development in Spike's character, only for it to be a big fat waste of time...

I don't get it. Also, didn't the writer think that it would piss people off? Because since the beginning of the show the mystery of where Spike came from has been something many people have been wanting to know. So you tease the audience with something they've been wanting to know for YEARS, only to reveal the entire thing was a lie and a big fat waste of time? I bet they got a lot of angry emails after that episode released...

But on a positive side, at least Sludge isn't Spike's father. Spike deserves a better father...

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