To be fair, we never saw him as a foal - for all we know, he went through something similar to Scootaloo growing up, requiring extensive training to get to what we saw.
Well yes and No. On one episode where he competes with derpy and rainbowdash, we see that only reason he can fly is, that he has huhe body strenght. It requires him huhe ampunt of fysical movement to fly
IRL it would be impossible for Bulk Biceps (and most other Pegaus poniesi) to fly. Too heavy; wings aren't large enough; etc.). Maybe with larger wings and hollow bones it would be different. So, we have to assume that there is an element of magic involved. That's confirmed when Pegasus ponies lose their ability to fly when Tyrek or some other force drains their magic.
One thing about Derpy(aka Muffintop): when she was young she was the fastest flyer in her class, but because of how fast she would hit clouds and maybe even buildings, she got brain damage and gradually got worse at flying. We see this during one of Rainbow's flashbacks, when she was reminicing about how *she* went from lowest to highest ranked in her class. One of my favourite bits from this flashback is that, even as Derpy's eyes got more and more crossed and she went down in rank, she never lost her smile. ❤
Throughout canon we've seen a hang glider, Tank's propeller, a prosthetic wing, two pedal-powered helicopters, a liquid fuel rocket, and an earth pony aeronaut who got into the Wonderbolts. Even if there is no direct treatment for whatever is stopping Scootaloo from flying normally, she has options.
I always thought she got the wings from her mom, but got earth pony *magic* instead of Pegasus magic. (Pegasi can't fly if they don't have the magic.) Now, that doesn't explain her wings being smaller than usual, but that could be correlated, but not directly caused. She can hover, so... when you think about it, maybe she's just straight up half and half. Smaller wings, lesser pegasus powers. She does also seem pretty strong like an earth pony. The TRUE answer is that... we don't know. Lauren Faust never came up with the reason why.
I thought she couldn't fly because her parents are a mix of an earth pony and a Pegasus? And maybe since her dad's an earth pony , it caused her to have a deformity so her wings didn't develop like other Pegasus
I saw a yt vid about the fact that scootaloo couldn't fly due to her having more of the earth pony magic yet when we see her grow up with the magic flower in season 9 her wings stay small as they don't grow so I'm more curious as into why scootaloo's wings didn't grow when that happened
Or is it due to the fact that she's the only one who has parents who are different pony kinds with her mom is a Pegasus and her dad is an earth pony which could explain why she can't fly but she can walk on the clouds like any Pegasus
@moonbloom2262 maybe the cake twins skipped a bunch of generations and inherited the genetics of their relatives who are Pegasus and Unicorn. I don't understand how genetics works for different types of ponies in this series
Before anyone says that Snap Shutter is an Earth Pony which is why Scootaloo can’t fly and that may it affected her wings is just bogus. First off we've seen Pumpkin Cake and Pound Cake use magic and fly just fine despite both of their parents being Earth Ponies. We even seen Wind Sprint flying with no trouble despite Clear Sky being a Unicorn. Having one parent or both parents being a different type of Pony has nothing to do with affecting the offspring’s magic. Second of all, Scootaloo does indeed have Pegasus magic and she is indeed a Pegasus. While yes, she can’t fly we’ve saw her walk on clouds without problems. If she really is just an Earth Pony with Pegasus wing appendages, then she wouldn’t be able to move her wings at all or walk on clouds. She CAN move her wings, she just can’t get off the ground. So why can’t Scootaloo fly? Well, I theorize that Scootaloo just doesn’t have enough magic in her wings. Yes, Pegasi and Earth Ponies do have magic, while they don’t have horns like Unicorns, Alicorns and Kirins to perform spells, teleportation or telekinesis, their magic performs much differently. Earth Ponies have strength and are connected to nature while Pegasi can fly and walk on clouds. Now granted, that’s not always the case as we can see Fluttershy being good with animals despite being a Pegasus and we seen an Earth Pony such as Mage Meadowbrook and even a Zebra such as Zecora make potions despite not being Unicorns. And we seen when Tirek took away the Ponies’ magic and in G5 where the Unity Crystals have been separated the Pegasi lost their magic which means they cannot fly. Everyone claims that Bulk Biceps can fly despite his tiny wings but I want to make a clarification: The size of the Pegsus’s wings do not matter, as long they have enough magic, they can fly. So yes, even if Scootaloo’s wings didn’t grow with her she should could theoretically fly as long she has enough magic in her wings, but unfortunately she’s one of those Ponies who just doesn’t have enough magic. This doesn’t just happened to Pegasi, it can happen to other type of Ponies which means yes, it also could happen to an Alicorn pony. A Unicorn may not have enough magic to well, perform magic, and an Earth Pony doesn’t enough magic to have physical strength or connect to nature. What I’m saying is the type of Ponies the offspring’s parent(s) are had nothing to do with the offspring not being able to perform their magic properly. Both G4 and G5 have confirmed that magic itself has something to do with it
I feel like too many ponies are insensitive towards Scootaloo, who may have a scarred fillyhood. She had to spend class after class after class, year after year after year, enduring Diara and Silspoon's torments. And it seems like Scooatloo's parents are pretty bad ones. She should've been fostered and gotten the chance to enjoy proper parenting. Derpy certainly has it off better. Imagine if Derpy joined the washouts and by a mixture of luck and supreme effort, none of the stunts are a danger to her. Fluttershy would make a very coordinated Washout, given her skill in buckball. Maybe they can both teach Lightning Dust some humility and help her find her place.
I have somewhat of a headcanon, that could be somewhat logical. Let's look at Bulk Biceps for example. A pony with huge mass, but very small wings. Still able to fly. So my theory is that Scootaloo disability is not really about her wing, but her pegasi magic.The reason why she can't fly is that it is much weaker than in case of most pegasi (she can kind of fly low for a few seconds, which would mean she still has some). The reason for this may be that it can happen completely randomly, or that there is a chance of it happening when having parents of different races (Scoots father seems to be an earth pony).
@ninja-catplaysminecraft who knows if the twins are really the children of the cakes since neither of them have the same skin color as their parents and how the Pegasus and Unicorn in them are so well developed unlike Scootaloo
I feel like wih scoots parent haveing important jobs that her mom wasnt able to teach her to fly she shoud had also been in jr flight school too but ofc she cant fly
Personally, this is a head-canon point here, but my thought would be maybe that Scoot-a-loo has a insanely rare condition that's limited to pure Pegasus ponies ONLY. The only other ponies we see with disabilities, outside of Pegasus, seem to have a backstory on why their disability occurred. It seems limited to Pegasus on not having a backstory to how disabilities occurred. See - there are some ethic groups IRL that can have certain medical issues and/or disabilities limited to their group only. However, some of these conditions also ensure death early on, (like Tay Sacs Disease for Eastern European Jews), and/or cause a much harder life for those who have it. With Sickle Cell Anemia as a basic example of an IRL condition of the latter type mentioned, it's only a condition that exists in people that are African and/or African-American, due to a genetic mutation that's normally beneficial, by preventing Malaria, if you have a single specific gene. Basically, with one copy of the beneficial genetic mutation, the blood cells can change shape to sickle-shape if you get infected with Malaria to stop the disease the getting advanced and killing you. They would go back to their normal shape after a point. However, if you're just unlucky enough to get two copies of that normally beneficial gene, your blood cells are constantly sickle-shaped, causing Sickle-Cell Anemia, which can make you have a lot of medical problem. This can not only cause extreme pain and suffering, but can literally a higher likelihood of bleeding to death. That's why the "cure" to Sickle Cell Anemia would be a Bone Marrow Transplant, and that assumes it works for your entire life and doesn't get rejected by your own body. With this theory in mind, since we see the Cakes' twins, we can make two large presumptions - 1) pony race is determined by genetic factors in the MLP universe (as both Cake parents are Earth Ponies yet their children are a Pegasus and Unicorn, due to a family member or two from the Cakes not just being Earth Ponies), and 2) some outside-the-family's-normal-race ponies might have an advantage over "Pure-breed" ponies counterparts sometimes. I say this, due to just how quickly the Cake Twins pick up basic magic and flight for each one individually. Fluttershy still has some flying trouble, and Rarity is an extremely limited magical talent and doesn't use too many spell types. So, how would we know that most Pegasus ponies that have Scoot-a-loo's might simply normally not survive long enough for their condition to be medically noted? If some Pegasus ponies attempt to fly as babies and literally can't fly due to said rare genetic condition, that could easily up the likelihood of accidental deaths a lot. We do see Fluttershy barely avoid death as a Fillie, herself, via falling so seems likely. Plus, if we include Derpy in this point, it might simply mean pure-blood Pegasus ponies might have a higher rate of conditions compared to other ponies races that are genetic and considered as a disability. It's just likely a "must have two copies of a specific gene" problem.
My theory is that even though she has Pegasus wings, she has more Earth pony magic than Pegasus. This is something I thought of when I was still in season two.
It does not really look like Hasbro will ever reveal exactly why Scootaloo cannot fly. They have moved on to Gen Five MLP. My own personal theory is that Scoots was born with a defect in her wings that does not allow flight magic to reach them. We can see that she cloud walks and can manipulate clouds and steam just fine, so she does have flight magic like any other Pegasus. But a genetic condition that causes a break between her core and wings would prevent flight. Scoots can use her wings just fine to accelerate herself, as seen by her scooter skills, and she has a fine sense of balance and spatial awareness, just like any other Pegasus. The only thing we see that is even close is in the MLP Movie, and with Commander Tempest. Tempest's broken horn still has magic, just nearly uncontrollable. But if you posit that the break was further down the horn to where it emerges from her skull, she would have magic, but totally uncontrollable due to have not enough horn to focus it. And thus the inability to 'use' magic, other than tactile kinesis.
She should have asked Discord to give her the ability to fly like like other Pegasus ponies cause she feels like an outcast among them I mean Rumble is the only Pegasus her age that can fly
Discord CAN do everything including the impossible, even giving a flightless pegasus like Scootaloo the ability to fly, but would Equestria allow such a thing? I know I would.
I have heard a theory that every Pegasus has “spirit wings” that make them able to fly, and since scootaloo has one earth pony parent, she doesn’t have these. Something backing up this theory is that when the pegasi lost their magic, they were unable to fly
That's a good theory🤩 I always told myself that Scootaloo looks like she has radial hypoplasia (I'm not sure if this is the correct one so you can correct me on it). A condition where she can still move her wings But the growth of her wings has completely stopped, even in the adult versions of her she still has baby wings. I always hate when people use the excuse that one of her parents is an Earth pony (Pumpkin & Pound cakes parents are both Earth ponies so I don't even know what they're talking about) as a quick answer to shut anybody up cuz obviously there's something else They're trying to tell us 😑(In some episodes about the CMC they keep giving us more details about her condition). My biggest theory (So do a few people in the comments) is mostly Magic, The way even though Pound Cake is a month old and how disabled Pegasus (as you explain with Derpy) are still able to fly (Also I feel like derpy’s condition is more of her sight, Rainbow Dash says that to be a good flyer you need to know about your surroundings and how to stay steady in the air). And how you can still have Canon of the throwaway gag with buff biceps intensely trying to fly (Again with Rd said just because you'll be able to fly doesn't mean you're good at it, Like how you see buff biceps struggling to fly at first and then Seasons later inside of the Wonderbolt Academy sadly he didn't make it in) But my biggest theory about the magic Is what Princess Celestia said About every pony having Magic And I quote “Lord Tirek has enough magic to steal FLIGHT from Pegasi” And I can't remember which Hearts Warming episode but they narrated that “- with Pegasi's special magic of FLIGHT, they are able to control the weather across Equestria” I feel like ponies have a certain amount of Tolerance of magic inside of their system (Examples of stronger tolerance to Magic: Like How Applejack can be stupidly strong, How Rainbow Dash can be even faster than the Wonderbolts creating the Sonic Rainboom, And how unicorns across history Star Swirl the bearded, can create and discover all types of spells from nature around them) I would talk more about it but I'm sorry I put this giant paragraph in your comic section I would make a video about it if I actually knew how to edit anything…😅
Oki, love the video but saying she never would’ve got a kitty mark if she didn’t meet the girls is a bit lore breaking because there are no ponies that just don’t have kitty marks unless for like some weird special magical reason, she probably would’ve just had a different kitty mark
I might be mistaken (maybe very mistaken), but I think I vaguely remember someone who might have made a brief gag fan video of something a few years back that jokingly suggests that the "real reason" Scootaloo can't fly was because they... When Sunny Starscout became a sort of Alicorn... it had a ripple effect through time and space and somehow unwittingly retroactively took Scootaloo's ability to fly, maybe?
Yea same. I didn’t think that much of it. In fact I thought she said in the show her wings were too small {but I could be wrong} I just thought she’d get the hang of it when she was older
I've been wondering why Scootaloo can't fly too. Pound Cake is only a baby, but he can fly. And, Scootaloo is older than Pound Cake, so, shouldn't she be able to fly too?
If Hasbro wanted a foal who was disabled, a more relatable option would have been the developmental disability known as "Dyslexia", which makes it difficult for someone to read normally, tackling a topic like that would have had a much deeper impact on many children & their parents.
"Dyslexia or dyspraxia, Derpy hooves had signs of both but people like one million mums and the like screamed so loud and Hard Hasbro bowed to the common denominator and chagned Derpy.
All available evidence suggests that Hasbro DIDN'T want a disabled foal. First Lauren Faust claims she "hasn't figured it out yet", then "Flight to the Finish" uses her for what looks like a disability-related moral while explicitly leaving it open as to whether she'll eventually fly, then we see her adult body with foal-size wings but it comes with the caveat "fans are welcome to interpret things how they like".
I don't Remember if u just talked about it or not, but I've got a doubt now. If scootaloo would become an alicorn for some reasons do u think she would be able to fly? That's my only doubt by the way great video as always :)
i mean its ultimately didnt matter. if what julie says here are true, her inability of flying are simbolism witch i have no issue with, because it was always about learn to live with it and overcome it in some way. So even if she somehow gained the ability of fly after she got her cutie mark, i dont think it woud diminish her importance or her achievents as a representation. And i dont belive anyway these "disabilites" are uncureable or unsolveable in a world of magic. See what twi did with Tank to be able to live with dash.
It’s called genetics. The Unicorn gene and the Pegasus gene are both recessive genes. One must be born with two copies of the gene to be a Pegasus or Unicorn. Having a single copy of ether gene will give you a horn or wings, but they will be mostly nonfunctional. One can have a copy of the Unicorn gene and the Pegasus gene, but both will cancel each other out, rendering them an earth pony. For Scootaloo, she has only one copy of the Pegasus gene instead of two. This leads to small wings. She will never successfully fly. As for Bulk Biceps, he carries Saddle Arabian genes as well as a single copy of the Pegasus gene. The reason I say he has some Saddle Arabian in him is because of his hooves. Note how they are different from regular pony hooves. The only type of pony with hooves like his are Saddle Arabians. Bulk suffers from a condition that causes large muscles. It’s those muscles that let him fly. As for the Cake twins, their parents carry both the Pegasus and Unicorn genes, and since they cancel each other out, both are earthlings. Pound got the Pegasus genes while Pumpkin got the unicorn genes. Flurry Heart is an anomaly. Alicornism is believed to be the result of a duplication of the chromosome carrying the recessive genes for Pegasus or Unicorn. If the duplicated chromosome also carries the recessive genes for Pegasus, the foal will be born with both a horn and wings. This means the foal is a winged unicorn, not an Alicorn. It’s like the saying that all ponies are horses, but not all horses are ponies. In order to be an Alicorn, a mutation must happen where in the DNA strand, one helix is Pegasus while the other is unicorn. You will need two copies of this mutation of course. An OC of mine is a winged unicorn due to duplication. She’s a yellow pony with pink and white hair. Her cutie mark is the surface of the moon. She doesn’t have the long legs or body shape of an Alicorn. Flying? Barely. Her backside keeps dangling and she often crashes. Magic? Don’t let her near any spell book unless you have the Princesses on speed dial. She once accidentally turned Twilight Sparkle into a frog, then while trying to fix it, turned Twilight into a cow, and followed it by turning her into a hydra. Twilight begged her to stop. Thankfully, Luna was able to turn Twilight back to normal. Moonstone does have great skill with telekinesis. She can divide her mind and work on three projects at the same time. This helps greatly with her job working at the Carousel Boutique.
Doesn’t she fly in the last episode of my little pony when twilight student is going to different places with twilight and her friends we see her and the rest of the crusaders teaching other younger ponies and other races or am I just imagining that 🤔
Is Scootaloo not being able to fly have something to do with having a mom who is a Pegasus and a dad who is an earth pony that could explain how she could walk on clouds but not fly?
@BrownAutumnSeal maybe the cake twins are lucky that they skipped a bunch of generations and inherited the genetics of their relatives who are Pegasus and Unicorn. I don't understand how genetics works for different types of ponies in this series
The most likely possible reason for why Scootaloo can't fly is because she's a mix between an earth pony and a pegasus. It's theorized that pegasus have much lighter bones than earth ponies. That makes sense, since their body structure is built for them to fly. It actually explains why Scootaloo's wings never developed with the rest of her body. Although the show never explicitly states why Scootaloo can't fly, it's still heavily implied the reason why that is as soon as her parents first appear.
Like what I think about why she can't fly is "One of her parents is a earth pony and the other is a Pegasus." Have you seen any pony else that is half earth pony and half Pegasus? No you haven't. I think that if a pony is half Earth Pony and half Pegasus, one of percent of one parent is much higher amount of DNA. For example if a pony has 90% of Earth Pony and 10% of Pegasus they can't fly because their wings can't lift them up. But for another example is if a pony have 60% of Pegasus and 40% of Earth Pony they can fly but have trouble to do so. That's just a theory.
I thought they were shorter to work like an engine for her scooter. I think she’s accepted her small wings and if she could have bigger wings I don’t know if she’d change.
Could be wrong but i thought it was said somewhere that Lauren said originally she was supposed to be a late bloomer but decided she liked the idea of Scootaloo being disability representation or something like that?
In my own opinion i think that scootaloo struggles with flying because yes she has a pegasus for a mom but has an earthpony dad therefore she has the wings but they werent fully developed as a pegasus with two pegasus parents wings would
I'm thinking it's because of her dad being an earth pony, that even as a fully grown mare, her wings are still smaller than normal. Therefore making it so she can never fly, unless she uses prosthetic wing extensions. That would be cool, that then she could actually fly
Ok so here's the thing. If we take G5 into account here-sorry for those of you who hate it but it's the same universe, When we first meet Zip and Pip They CAN'T FLY EITHER. This is because the Magic that Enabled Pegasi to fly was missing. In The Case of Scootaloo, Her Parents Straight Up Abandoned her. They left her behind with other family members when they went off exploring AS IF SHE WAS A BURDEN to them and their explorer lifestyle. It's like they never wanted a baby in the first place. This will cause a lot of Trauma in a normal Child, but consider a Magical Pegasus Filly. I don't think she has a genetic condition that's keeping her from flying. I think hers is Psychological. She never got the appropriate love and connection from her parents that the Other Ponies got. Her Internal Magic was Broken. The G5 Pegasi couldn't fly BECAUSE the Magic of Friendship and more importantly Love was what seemed to keep them aloft. Sure Pip and Zip were loved by their mom and what not, but it wasn't the natural Magic. it never developed in them just as I don't think it developed in Scootaloo. She Can't fly because she BELIEVES she's broken. she's Traumatized and unloved. More than likely her Aunts feel like they've been,...saddled (Sorry ;) ) with a kid they never should have had to raise, and that will do a number on her too. She's unloved by her family and it prevents her natural magic from manifesting, no flight. No matter how hard or much she wants to fly the Magic isn't in her. Well, at least not until she meets Sweetiebell and Applebloom. I think eventually she will Heal and develop the familial love from her friends and will fly eventually. Particularly since her cutie mark isn't just a lightning bolt but a bolt within the silhouette of a wing. She will fly eventually, but only once she is able to feel the love of the people around her. Her Friendship with the CMC is key to that as per their marks they are meant to be together. She just needs to heal and reconcile with her parents betrayal
Is Scootaloo not being able to fly similar to Tempest Shadow who who can't properly use her magic because of her broken horn? Would those two bond over that?
Ali: The only thing I can think of is she birth defective by an effect or a injury while mother is pregnant, like Finding Nemo that Nemo egg is injured. The mother done something that causes to happen.
@@SunnyandCottoncandy I still think that's just a faulty headcanon pumpkin pie is a pegasus with both earth pony parents yet he flyed a few days after birth its not about biology in a world full of magic
The reason why Scootaloo can't fly is a combination of factors. For example, she's half pegasus and half earth pony, so maybe her earth pony genes overshadowed her pegasus genes, preventing her wings from growing properly. Another reason is that she was never taught to fly properly, neither by her mom nor Rainbow Dash, and she's a dangonit WONDERBOLT for flying out loud!
maybe she just hasn't figured out how to fly yet,in one of the episodes,she gets scared and flies up to a cloud to hang on to,so I belive she just hasn't figured it out quite yet,everyone's different,some people learn faster than others,and some people are slower to learn (like me) I have trouble learning things that should be simple to figure out,my DNA broke off before I was born and reacttched it's self somewhere else,plus I found out when I was a baby there was lead in fucking baby formula back in the 90's,lead can screw your brain up,but yeah,I think scootaloo just has a different learning set than other ponies,no big deal
Well it’s a fantasy world so I like to think as a mare she can fly. Probably not as good as the others. After all didn’t Spike eventually get his own wings?
I think she can't fly BECAUSE her parents left her. That's a lot of emotional WEIGHT to carry around, so much that her emotional weight is too heavy for her to lift off the ground. Only once Scootaloo realizes that her parent's absence is entirely on them, not herself, will she be able to let go of the emotional baggage weighing her down and soar.
We have seen magic that made wings bigger so it seams kinda odd that wasnt done in a way...... And bulk had the frickin smallest wings in Ecuestria..... Might be that she dont have that much pegasus magic!! And what if you actualy need that magic for the wings to grow?? Or shes just a token disabled character..... No real thought about the reasons or souch from the creators? Sometimes there are no real reasons why creators create something but to just fill a quota or souch. Im talking AS someone disabled xD Dont seam like they got her to a doctor or something so even more abusive of her parents than they already are!!!
A world full of magic spells, magic potions, magical artifacts, and in the comics they have mechanical wings attachments, and in RD in a alt time line has a metal wing, they just kept her down just cause a running joke
Makes a video called 'THE TRUE REASON FOR WHY SCOOTALOO CAN’T FLY…' Spends six plus minutes burbling about how Scootaloo can't fly and her parents knew she couldn't, and it might be because of them but it's okay because she never let it stop her... And never actually gets round to an actual reason. I want my 6 and a half minutes back! It's simple. Logically pony DNA has the patterns for all three sub-races, since they can interbreed and produce viable offspring, i.e. they are a single species. Based on that, normally one racial template dominates and suppresses the other two, possibly through one single 'key' sequence that unlocks the whole template. Normally it's determined by the parent sub-race, but not always, as seen with the Cake twins. We don't have enough data to say why, but maybe their ancestry gave them more than one key, and the two earth pony 'keys' failed to connect? Whatever the answer, the idea is that each racial template is normally a disjoint set from the other two, and does not mix to give Mendel style half breeds. With mixed race couples like Scootaloo's parents, you would then normally get a 50% chance of one template or the other. Except for Scootaloo. Possibly because due to their jobs, her parents were exposed to so many novel environmental factors that something broke the normal pattern, possibly affecting her when Allgood was preganat, as i can't see a little thing like preganacy stopping a workaholic like her. While she has both pegaus magic as well as Earth pony magic, as indicated by the fact she can visit cloud houses, her wings are clearly operating on pure Earth pony magic. They are insanely strong, as witness a pegasus sized wing that can flap like a hummingbird's and pull huge loads, but have none of the aerokinesis/gravity/inertial control that a normal pegasus's magic grants it's wings. I have come up with half a dozen ways the problem could be fixed or mitigated, a jacket made of the solidified cloud stuff (which floats on it's own and can carry large weights) being the easiest (it provides the lift and Scootaloo's powerful wings purely provide thrust) being the easiest, and a surfboard made of cloud house construction material being another another, without all the forms of healing magic and other wonders that Equestria has, but no, Lauren Faust wanted a token disabled character and by Celestia she was not going to let anyone make it seem like disabled people were bad by letting her be healed.
I'll admit that it's odd that Scootalo can barely glide when Bulk Biceps (of all Pegasus ponies) can fly perfectly well.
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To be fair, we never saw him as a foal - for all we know, he went through something similar to Scootaloo growing up, requiring extensive training to get to what we saw.
@@Xowolfgirl That also implies that Scootalo has an inability to fully access Pegasus magic.
Well yes and No. On one episode where he competes with derpy and rainbowdash, we see that only reason he can fly is, that he has huhe body strenght. It requires him huhe ampunt of fysical movement to fly
IRL it would be impossible for Bulk Biceps (and most other Pegaus poniesi) to fly. Too heavy; wings aren't large enough; etc.). Maybe with larger wings and hollow bones it would be different. So, we have to assume that there is an element of magic involved. That's confirmed when Pegasus ponies lose their ability to fly when Tyrek or some other force drains their magic.
One thing about Derpy(aka Muffintop): when she was young she was the fastest flyer in her class, but because of how fast she would hit clouds and maybe even buildings, she got brain damage and gradually got worse at flying. We see this during one of Rainbow's flashbacks, when she was reminicing about how *she* went from lowest to highest ranked in her class. One of my favourite bits from this flashback is that, even as Derpy's eyes got more and more crossed and she went down in rank, she never lost her smile. ❤
Throughout canon we've seen a hang glider, Tank's propeller, a prosthetic wing, two pedal-powered helicopters, a liquid fuel rocket, and an earth pony aeronaut who got into the Wonderbolts. Even if there is no direct treatment for whatever is stopping Scootaloo from flying normally, she has options.
I always thought she got the wings from her mom, but got earth pony *magic* instead of Pegasus magic.
(Pegasi can't fly if they don't have the magic.)
Now, that doesn't explain her wings being smaller than usual, but that could be correlated, but not directly caused.
She can hover, so... when you think about it, maybe she's just straight up half and half. Smaller wings, lesser pegasus powers. She does also seem pretty strong like an earth pony.
The TRUE answer is that... we don't know. Lauren Faust never came up with the reason why.
I thought she couldn't fly because her parents are a mix of an earth pony and a Pegasus? And maybe since her dad's an earth pony , it caused her to have a deformity so her wings didn't develop like other Pegasus
That makes a lot more sense than what this whole video explains.
Then we have the Cake twins. One a Pegasus and the other a Unicorn, but both with Earth-pony parents.
That is what I thought 🧐
@@annonymousannonymous9586 no it doesn't,clearly your not remembering poundcake,he can fly despite this
I saw a yt vid about the fact that scootaloo couldn't fly due to her having more of the earth pony magic yet when we see her grow up with the magic flower in season 9 her wings stay small as they don't grow so I'm more curious as into why scootaloo's wings didn't grow when that happened
Maybe Scootaloo can’t fly because she might have been born very premature and was left with a disability
You're right. So many people are born prematurely and have physical disabilities.
Or is it due to the fact that she's the only one who has parents who are different pony kinds with her mom is a Pegasus and her dad is an earth pony which could explain why she can't fly but she can walk on the clouds like any Pegasus
@ Might be, never thought of it that way
@@trexadvent4726The cake twins parents are earth ponies, yet they can still fly and use magic.
@moonbloom2262 maybe the cake twins skipped a bunch of generations and inherited the genetics of their relatives who are Pegasus and Unicorn. I don't understand how genetics works for different types of ponies in this series
Before anyone says that Snap Shutter is an Earth Pony which is why Scootaloo can’t fly and that may it affected her wings is just bogus.
First off we've seen Pumpkin Cake and Pound Cake use magic and fly just fine despite both of their parents being Earth Ponies. We even seen Wind Sprint flying with no trouble despite Clear Sky being a Unicorn. Having one parent or both parents being a different type of Pony has nothing to do with affecting the offspring’s magic.
Second of all, Scootaloo does indeed have Pegasus magic and she is indeed a Pegasus. While yes, she can’t fly we’ve saw her walk on clouds without problems. If she really is just an Earth Pony with Pegasus wing appendages, then she wouldn’t be able to move her wings at all or walk on clouds. She CAN move her wings, she just can’t get off the ground.
So why can’t Scootaloo fly? Well, I theorize that Scootaloo just doesn’t have enough magic in her wings. Yes, Pegasi and Earth Ponies do have magic, while they don’t have horns like Unicorns, Alicorns and Kirins to perform spells, teleportation or telekinesis, their magic performs much differently. Earth Ponies have strength and are connected to nature while Pegasi can fly and walk on clouds. Now granted, that’s not always the case as we can see Fluttershy being good with animals despite being a Pegasus and we seen an Earth Pony such as Mage Meadowbrook and even a Zebra such as Zecora make potions despite not being Unicorns.
And we seen when Tirek took away the Ponies’ magic and in G5 where the Unity Crystals have been separated the Pegasi lost their magic which means they cannot fly. Everyone claims that Bulk Biceps can fly despite his tiny wings but I want to make a clarification:
The size of the Pegsus’s wings do not matter, as long they have enough magic, they can fly. So yes, even if Scootaloo’s wings didn’t grow with her she should could theoretically fly as long she has enough magic in her wings, but unfortunately she’s one of those Ponies who just doesn’t have enough magic.
This doesn’t just happened to Pegasi, it can happen to other type of Ponies which means yes, it also could happen to an Alicorn pony. A Unicorn may not have enough magic to well, perform magic, and an Earth Pony doesn’t enough magic to have physical strength or connect to nature.
What I’m saying is the type of Ponies the offspring’s parent(s) are had nothing to do with the offspring not being able to perform their magic properly. Both G4 and G5 have confirmed that magic itself has something to do with it
This is the best theory I've seen on it.
I feel like too many ponies are insensitive towards Scootaloo, who may have a scarred fillyhood. She had to spend class after class after class, year after year after year, enduring Diara and Silspoon's torments. And it seems like Scooatloo's parents are pretty bad ones. She should've been fostered and gotten the chance to enjoy proper parenting. Derpy certainly has it off better. Imagine if Derpy joined the washouts and by a mixture of luck and supreme effort, none of the stunts are a danger to her. Fluttershy would make a very coordinated Washout, given her skill in buckball. Maybe they can both teach Lightning Dust some humility and help her find her place.
“Fluttershy doesnt fly well” OH GIRL…
I have somewhat of a headcanon, that could be somewhat logical. Let's look at Bulk Biceps for example. A pony with huge mass, but very small wings. Still able to fly. So my theory is that Scootaloo disability is not really about her wing, but her pegasi magic.The reason why she can't fly is that it is much weaker than in case of most pegasi (she can kind of fly low for a few seconds, which would mean she still has some). The reason for this may be that it can happen completely randomly, or that there is a chance of it happening when having parents of different races (Scoots father seems to be an earth pony).
One of reasons I thought she couldn't fly is because her wings are undeveloped due to her Earth pony heritage
But then theres the Cake twins
One a pegasus, the other a unicorn
Their parents both earth ponies
The pegasus twin can already fly
@ninja-catplaysminecraft who knows if the twins are really the children of the cakes since neither of them have the same skin color as their parents and how the Pegasus and Unicorn in them are so well developed unlike Scootaloo
@@trexadvent4726 Twilight's not the same color as either of her parents, she's purple, her parents are blue and grey
@@trexadvent4726pumpkin looks alot like her dad and they mention having a foalshower for them so they are both probably theirs
I feel like wih scoots parent haveing important jobs that her mom wasnt able to teach her to fly she shoud had also been in jr flight school too but ofc she cant fly
@@VivianMcDonald-c8b
🙂 No worries. It's always a good😇 idea💡 to teach pegasus🐴🪽 children to fly
It’s true that she might have some sort of disability as young Pegasus foals can learn to fly by their instincts. But sometimes the mom has to help.
Personally, this is a head-canon point here, but my thought would be maybe that Scoot-a-loo has a insanely rare condition that's limited to pure Pegasus ponies ONLY. The only other ponies we see with disabilities, outside of Pegasus, seem to have a backstory on why their disability occurred. It seems limited to Pegasus on not having a backstory to how disabilities occurred.
See - there are some ethic groups IRL that can have certain medical issues and/or disabilities limited to their group only. However, some of these conditions also ensure death early on, (like Tay Sacs Disease for Eastern European Jews), and/or cause a much harder life for those who have it. With Sickle Cell Anemia as a basic example of an IRL condition of the latter type mentioned, it's only a condition that exists in people that are African and/or African-American, due to a genetic mutation that's normally beneficial, by preventing Malaria, if you have a single specific gene. Basically, with one copy of the beneficial genetic mutation, the blood cells can change shape to sickle-shape if you get infected with Malaria to stop the disease the getting advanced and killing you. They would go back to their normal shape after a point. However, if you're just unlucky enough to get two copies of that normally beneficial gene, your blood cells are constantly sickle-shaped, causing Sickle-Cell Anemia, which can make you have a lot of medical problem. This can not only cause extreme pain and suffering, but can literally a higher likelihood of bleeding to death. That's why the "cure" to Sickle Cell Anemia would be a Bone Marrow Transplant, and that assumes it works for your entire life and doesn't get rejected by your own body.
With this theory in mind, since we see the Cakes' twins, we can make two large presumptions - 1) pony race is determined by genetic factors in the MLP universe (as both Cake parents are Earth Ponies yet their children are a Pegasus and Unicorn, due to a family member or two from the Cakes not just being Earth Ponies), and 2) some outside-the-family's-normal-race ponies might have an advantage over "Pure-breed" ponies counterparts sometimes. I say this, due to just how quickly the Cake Twins pick up basic magic and flight for each one individually. Fluttershy still has some flying trouble, and Rarity is an extremely limited magical talent and doesn't use too many spell types.
So, how would we know that most Pegasus ponies that have Scoot-a-loo's might simply normally not survive long enough for their condition to be medically noted? If some Pegasus ponies attempt to fly as babies and literally can't fly due to said rare genetic condition, that could easily up the likelihood of accidental deaths a lot. We do see Fluttershy barely avoid death as a Fillie, herself, via falling so seems likely. Plus, if we include Derpy in this point, it might simply mean pure-blood Pegasus ponies might have a higher rate of conditions compared to other ponies races that are genetic and considered as a disability. It's just likely a "must have two copies of a specific gene" problem.
My theory is that even though she has Pegasus wings, she has more Earth pony magic than Pegasus. This is something I thought of when I was still in season two.
It does not really look like Hasbro will ever reveal exactly why Scootaloo cannot fly. They have moved on to Gen Five MLP.
My own personal theory is that Scoots was born with a defect in her wings that does not allow flight magic to reach them. We can see that she cloud walks and can manipulate clouds and steam just fine, so she does have flight magic like any other Pegasus. But a genetic condition that causes a break between her core and wings would prevent flight. Scoots can use her wings just fine to accelerate herself, as seen by her scooter skills, and she has a fine sense of balance and spatial awareness, just like any other Pegasus.
The only thing we see that is even close is in the MLP Movie, and with Commander Tempest. Tempest's broken horn still has magic, just nearly uncontrollable. But if you posit that the break was further down the horn to where it emerges from her skull, she would have magic, but totally uncontrollable due to have not enough horn to focus it. And thus the inability to 'use' magic, other than tactile kinesis.
She should have asked Discord to give her the ability to fly like like other Pegasus ponies cause she feels like an outcast among them I mean Rumble is the only Pegasus her age that can fly
@@trexadvent4726
😲 Super🦸♀️-duper surprising
Discord CAN do everything including the impossible, even giving a flightless pegasus like Scootaloo the ability to fly, but would Equestria allow such a thing? I know I would.
Scootaly is not the only pony that is not able to fly because Bulk Biceps have the same wings.
Why don't use a spell to make Scootalo's wings bigger?
I have heard a theory that every Pegasus has “spirit wings” that make them able to fly, and since scootaloo has one earth pony parent, she doesn’t have these. Something backing up this theory is that when the pegasi lost their magic, they were unable to fly
That's a good theory🤩 I always told myself that Scootaloo looks like she has radial hypoplasia (I'm not sure if this is the correct one so you can correct me on it). A condition where she can still move her wings But the growth of her wings has completely stopped, even in the adult versions of her she still has baby wings.
I always hate when people use the excuse that one of her parents is an Earth pony (Pumpkin & Pound cakes parents are both Earth ponies so I don't even know what they're talking about) as a quick answer to shut anybody up cuz obviously there's something else They're trying to tell us 😑(In some episodes about the CMC they keep giving us more details about her condition). My biggest theory (So do a few people in the comments) is mostly Magic, The way even though Pound Cake is a month old and how disabled Pegasus (as you explain with Derpy) are still able to fly (Also I feel like derpy’s condition is more of her sight, Rainbow Dash says that to be a good flyer you need to know about your surroundings and how to stay steady in the air). And how you can still have Canon of the throwaway gag with buff biceps intensely trying to fly (Again with Rd said just because you'll be able to fly doesn't mean you're good at it, Like how you see buff biceps struggling to fly at first and then Seasons later inside of the Wonderbolt Academy sadly he didn't make it in)
But my biggest theory about the magic Is what Princess Celestia said About every pony having Magic And I quote “Lord Tirek has enough magic to steal FLIGHT from Pegasi” And I can't remember which Hearts Warming episode but they narrated that “- with Pegasi's special magic of FLIGHT, they are able to control the weather across Equestria”
I feel like ponies have a certain amount of Tolerance of magic inside of their system (Examples of stronger tolerance to Magic: Like How Applejack can be stupidly strong, How Rainbow Dash can be even faster than the Wonderbolts creating the Sonic Rainboom, And how unicorns across history Star Swirl the bearded, can create and discover all types of spells from nature around them)
I would talk more about it but I'm sorry I put this giant paragraph in your comic section I would make a video about it if I actually knew how to edit anything…😅
Oki, love the video but saying she never would’ve got a kitty mark if she didn’t meet the girls is a bit lore breaking because there are no ponies that just don’t have kitty marks unless for like some weird special magical reason, she probably would’ve just had a different kitty mark
Wdym kitty mark???
@@Youraverageanimalfriend I think they meant Cutie Mark
I might be mistaken (maybe very mistaken), but I think I vaguely remember someone who might have made a brief gag fan video of something a few years back that jokingly suggests that the "real reason" Scootaloo can't fly was because they... When Sunny Starscout became a sort of Alicorn... it had a ripple effect through time and space and somehow unwittingly retroactively took Scootaloo's ability to fly, maybe?
Are you talking about Sawtooth Waves? I came across that video but never watched it.
@BrandonHenderson-n8f It might have been, but I honestly can't remember it was a while ago.
She probably gave up trying as an adult.
I thought it was because her wings was too small
Yea same. I didn’t think that much of it. In fact I thought she said in the show her wings were too small {but I could be wrong} I just thought she’d get the hang of it when she was older
I've been wondering why Scootaloo can't fly too. Pound Cake is only a baby, but he can fly. And, Scootaloo is older than Pound Cake, so, shouldn't she be able to fly too?
If Hasbro wanted a foal who was disabled, a more relatable option would have been the developmental disability known as "Dyslexia", which makes it difficult for someone to read normally, tackling a topic like that would have had a much deeper impact on many children & their parents.
"Dyslexia or dyspraxia, Derpy hooves had signs of both but people like one million mums and the like screamed so loud and Hard Hasbro bowed to the common denominator and chagned Derpy.
All available evidence suggests that Hasbro DIDN'T want a disabled foal. First Lauren Faust claims she "hasn't figured it out yet", then "Flight to the Finish" uses her for what looks like a disability-related moral while explicitly leaving it open as to whether she'll eventually fly, then we see her adult body with foal-size wings but it comes with the caveat "fans are welcome to interpret things how they like".
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@ElisabetaGrosu-e2t
🥺 i still feel sorry for her, with my love❤️ and caring💞, because of having little wings🪽
ngl the first time i saw her parents, I legit thought to myself "IS SHE A WINGED EARTH PONY?!"
the reason why scootalo cant fly is because the writters didnt wanna give her the ability to fly
that's real life reason,we're trying to find a in cartoon universe (in canon) reason,what a cartoon hater
@bgflareon
(All 😲gasping)!
Me: 🥺 Shame on you. The writers✍️ should've gave her the ability of flying in the 1st place
@eeveefennecfox
(All 😲gasping)!
Me: 🥺 Shame on her. The writers✍️ should've gave her the ability of flying in the 1st place
I know right who the hell writes this stuff stupid humans
I don't Remember if u just talked about it or not, but I've got a doubt now. If scootaloo would become an alicorn for some reasons do u think she would be able to fly? That's my only doubt by the way great video as always :)
@MirkaLettera-ny4ek
😲 Super🦸♀️-duper surprising
Absolutely not. The CMC's are not alicorn worthy, but if they were, they'd be the Princesses of either Talent or Destiny.
i mean its ultimately didnt matter. if what julie says here are true, her inability of flying are simbolism witch i have no issue with, because it was always about learn to live with it and overcome it in some way. So even if she somehow gained the ability of fly after she got her cutie mark, i dont think it woud diminish her importance or her achievents as a representation. And i dont belive anyway these "disabilites" are uncureable or unsolveable in a world of magic. See what twi did with Tank to be able to live with dash.
@@karos009
😲 Super🦸♀️-duper surprising
3:17 i thought that was a wing...
It is. There’s a lightning bolt in the wing. All of them have three layers to their mark. Scootaloo have the crest, the wing, and the bolt
It’s called genetics.
The Unicorn gene and the Pegasus gene are both recessive genes. One must be born with two copies of the gene to be a Pegasus or Unicorn. Having a single copy of ether gene will give you a horn or wings, but they will be mostly nonfunctional.
One can have a copy of the Unicorn gene and the Pegasus gene, but both will cancel each other out, rendering them an earth pony.
For Scootaloo, she has only one copy of the Pegasus gene instead of two. This leads to small wings. She will never successfully fly.
As for Bulk Biceps, he carries Saddle Arabian genes as well as a single copy of the Pegasus gene. The reason I say he has some Saddle Arabian in him is because of his hooves. Note how they are different from regular pony hooves. The only type of pony with hooves like his are Saddle Arabians.
Bulk suffers from a condition that causes large muscles. It’s those muscles that let him fly.
As for the Cake twins, their parents carry both the Pegasus and Unicorn genes, and since they cancel each other out, both are earthlings. Pound got the Pegasus genes while Pumpkin got the unicorn genes.
Flurry Heart is an anomaly. Alicornism is believed to be the result of a duplication of the chromosome carrying the recessive genes for Pegasus or Unicorn. If the duplicated chromosome also carries the recessive genes for Pegasus, the foal will be born with both a horn and wings.
This means the foal is a winged unicorn, not an Alicorn. It’s like the saying that all ponies are horses, but not all horses are ponies.
In order to be an Alicorn, a mutation must happen where in the DNA strand, one helix is Pegasus while the other is unicorn. You will need two copies of this mutation of course.
An OC of mine is a winged unicorn due to duplication. She’s a yellow pony with pink and white hair. Her cutie mark is the surface of the moon. She doesn’t have the long legs or body shape of an Alicorn.
Flying? Barely. Her backside keeps dangling and she often crashes.
Magic? Don’t let her near any spell book unless you have the Princesses on speed dial. She once accidentally turned Twilight Sparkle into a frog, then while trying to fix it, turned Twilight into a cow, and followed it by turning her into a hydra. Twilight begged her to stop. Thankfully, Luna was able to turn Twilight back to normal.
Moonstone does have great skill with telekinesis. She can divide her mind and work on three projects at the same time. This helps greatly with her job working at the Carousel Boutique.
Doesn’t she fly in the last episode of my little pony when twilight student is going to different places with twilight and her friends we see her and the rest of the crusaders teaching other younger ponies and other races or am I just imagining that 🤔
The ruling sisters knew about her and her condition and did nothing to help her which they could have trivially done.
Is Scootaloo not being able to fly have something to do with having a mom who is a Pegasus and a dad who is an earth pony that could explain how she could walk on clouds but not fly?
probably not because pound cake can fly fine and has two earth pony parents
@BrownAutumnSeal maybe the cake twins are lucky that they skipped a bunch of generations and inherited the genetics of their relatives who are Pegasus and Unicorn. I don't understand how genetics works for different types of ponies in this series
The most likely possible reason for why Scootaloo can't fly is because she's a mix between an earth pony and a pegasus. It's theorized that pegasus have much lighter bones than earth ponies. That makes sense, since their body structure is built for them to fly. It actually explains why Scootaloo's wings never developed with the rest of her body. Although the show never explicitly states why Scootaloo can't fly, it's still heavily implied the reason why that is as soon as her parents first appear.
Maybe her wings are small?
I heard a theory that scootaloo’s flight magic was saved and given to Sunny Starscout instead.
Like what I think about why she can't fly is "One of her parents is a earth pony and the other is a Pegasus." Have you seen any pony else that is half earth pony and half Pegasus? No you haven't. I think that if a pony is half Earth Pony and half Pegasus, one of percent of one parent is much higher amount of DNA. For example if a pony has 90% of Earth Pony and 10% of Pegasus they can't fly because their wings can't lift them up. But for another example is if a pony have 60% of Pegasus and 40% of Earth Pony they can fly but have trouble to do so. That's just a theory.
I thought they were shorter to work like an engine for her scooter. I think she’s accepted her small wings and if she could have bigger wings I don’t know if she’d change.
Could be wrong but i thought it was said somewhere that Lauren said originally she was supposed to be a late bloomer but decided she liked the idea of Scootaloo being disability representation or something like that?
In my own opinion i think that scootaloo struggles with flying because yes she has a pegasus for a mom but has an earthpony dad therefore she has the wings but they werent fully developed as a pegasus with two pegasus parents wings would
I hope this eventually gets answered.😢
3:19 it’s a wing? Not a light night bult
It’s both
I'm thinking it's because of her dad being an earth pony, that even as a fully grown mare, her wings are still smaller than normal. Therefore making it so she can never fly, unless she uses prosthetic wing extensions. That would be cool, that then she could actually fly
Ok so here's the thing. If we take G5 into account here-sorry for those of you who hate it but it's the same universe, When we first meet Zip and Pip They CAN'T FLY EITHER. This is because the Magic that Enabled Pegasi to fly was missing. In The Case of Scootaloo, Her Parents Straight Up Abandoned her. They left her behind with other family members when they went off exploring AS IF SHE WAS A BURDEN to them and their explorer lifestyle. It's like they never wanted a baby in the first place. This will cause a lot of Trauma in a normal Child, but consider a Magical Pegasus Filly. I don't think she has a genetic condition that's keeping her from flying. I think hers is Psychological. She never got the appropriate love and connection from her parents that the Other Ponies got. Her Internal Magic was Broken. The G5 Pegasi couldn't fly BECAUSE the Magic of Friendship and more importantly Love was what seemed to keep them aloft. Sure Pip and Zip were loved by their mom and what not, but it wasn't the natural Magic. it never developed in them just as I don't think it developed in Scootaloo. She Can't fly because she BELIEVES she's broken. she's Traumatized and unloved. More than likely her Aunts feel like they've been,...saddled (Sorry ;) ) with a kid they never should have had to raise, and that will do a number on her too. She's unloved by her family and it prevents her natural magic from manifesting, no flight. No matter how hard or much she wants to fly the Magic isn't in her. Well, at least not until she meets Sweetiebell and Applebloom. I think eventually she will Heal and develop the familial love from her friends and will fly eventually. Particularly since her cutie mark isn't just a lightning bolt but a bolt within the silhouette of a wing. She will fly eventually, but only once she is able to feel the love of the people around her. Her Friendship with the CMC is key to that as per their marks they are meant to be together. She just needs to heal and reconcile with her parents betrayal
Is Scootaloo not being able to fly similar to Tempest Shadow who who can't properly use her magic because of her broken horn? Would those two bond over that?
@@trexadvent4726
😲 Super🦸♀️-duper surprising.
🥺 They are so alike
Ali: The only thing I can think of is she birth defective by an effect or a injury while mother is pregnant, like Finding Nemo that Nemo egg is injured. The mother done something that causes to happen.
1:29 she doesnt fly brcause shes so young
other pegasi her age go to the flying academy already and in the episode last problem we see her all grown up and her wings are still stunted
No it's bc her parents are a earth pony and other not so she got wings but she can't rlly fly
@@SunnyandCottoncandy I still think that's just a faulty headcanon pumpkin pie is a pegasus with both earth pony parents yet he flyed a few days after birth its not about biology in a world full of magic
I believe it's implied that her wings are deformed so they're not strong enough to lift her even with magic
What about Bulk Biceps? It seems that the only 2 physicaly strong, heavy pegasi we saw both have the same dysability :3
Currently scooters grow up that time he was able to fly
This makes cry a lot about her story
it could just be that the bones in her wings don't move the way they should
The reason why Scootaloo can't fly is a combination of factors. For example, she's half pegasus and half earth pony, so maybe her earth pony genes overshadowed her pegasus genes, preventing her wings from growing properly. Another reason is that she was never taught to fly properly, neither by her mom nor Rainbow Dash, and she's a dangonit WONDERBOLT for flying out loud!
maybe she just hasn't figured out how to fly yet,in one of the episodes,she gets scared and flies up to a cloud to hang on to,so I belive she just hasn't figured it out quite yet,everyone's different,some people learn faster than others,and some people are slower to learn (like me) I have trouble learning things that should be simple to figure out,my DNA broke off before I was born and reacttched it's self somewhere else,plus I found out when I was a baby there was lead in fucking baby formula back in the 90's,lead can screw your brain up,but yeah,I think scootaloo just has a different learning set than other ponies,no big deal
she still has small wings in the finale and isnt shown flying so she probably just cant learn how to with how much she tried
Well it’s a fantasy world so I like to think as a mare she can fly. Probably not as good as the others. After all didn’t Spike eventually get his own wings?
I was thinking that because she’s a half-breed. Half Pegasus,half earth pony, maybe it’s some kind of recessive gene thing.
Her dad is an earth poney so maybe she has to much earth poney in her.
I thought the reason was hoeing suggests too small, but they will grow and should be able to fly when she's older.
I think she can't fly BECAUSE her parents left her. That's a lot of emotional WEIGHT to carry around, so much that her emotional weight is too heavy for her to lift off the ground. Only once Scootaloo realizes that her parent's absence is entirely on them, not herself, will she be able to let go of the emotional baggage weighing her down and soar.
She look like Sunny from my little pony the new generation
Makes more with CMC Cutie Mark Crusaders, Diamond Tiara and her family and Sliver Spoon😀😀😀😀😀😀
Scootaloo is actually disabled
cartoon hater
@ what, how am I a cartoon hater, it’s proven in her grown up form that she still has her tiny wings.
@@sammcfarlane2494
😲"Disabled"? Of flying?
🥺 i still feel sorry for her, with my love❤️ and caring💞, because of having little wings🪽
@@eeveefennecfox
😲"Cartoon hater"?
🥺 i still feel sorry for her, with my love❤️ and caring💞, because of having little wings🪽
Also her mother is a pegesis and her father is a earth pony this can be the reason too
Her moms a pegasus but a Earth pony dad maybe its why earthponys cant fly so she probably got it from her dad
We have seen magic that made wings bigger so it seams kinda odd that wasnt done in a way...... And bulk had the frickin smallest wings in Ecuestria..... Might be that she dont have that much pegasus magic!! And what if you actualy need that magic for the wings to grow?? Or shes just a token disabled character..... No real thought about the reasons or souch from the creators? Sometimes there are no real reasons why creators create something but to just fill a quota or souch. Im talking AS someone disabled xD Dont seam like they got her to a doctor or something so even more abusive of her parents than they already are!!!
If I had to guess why scootaloo can't fly probably because she maybe was never taught?
Interesting Video.
Bru it’s bc her mom is a Pegasus and her dad is the earth pony
Her father is the reason she can’t fly
Fluttershy can fly properly either.
scootaloo could easily fly just look at bulk biceps.
if she actually tried to fly and trained she definitely could.
A world full of magic spells, magic potions, magical artifacts, and in the comics they have mechanical wings attachments, and in RD in a alt time line has a metal wing, they just kept her down just cause a running joke
great video but u dident answer the question it the title
Makes a video called 'THE TRUE REASON FOR WHY SCOOTALOO CAN’T FLY…' Spends six plus minutes burbling about how Scootaloo can't fly and her parents knew she couldn't, and it might be because of them but it's okay because she never let it stop her... And never actually gets round to an actual reason. I want my 6 and a half minutes back!
It's simple. Logically pony DNA has the patterns for all three sub-races, since they can interbreed and produce viable offspring, i.e. they are a single species. Based on that, normally one racial template dominates and suppresses the other two, possibly through one single 'key' sequence that unlocks the whole template. Normally it's determined by the parent sub-race, but not always, as seen with the Cake twins. We don't have enough data to say why, but maybe their ancestry gave them more than one key, and the two earth pony 'keys' failed to connect?
Whatever the answer, the idea is that each racial template is normally a disjoint set from the other two, and does not mix to give Mendel style half breeds. With mixed race couples like Scootaloo's parents, you would then normally get a 50% chance of one template or the other. Except for Scootaloo. Possibly because due to their jobs, her parents were exposed to so many novel environmental factors that something broke the normal pattern, possibly affecting her when Allgood was preganat, as i can't see a little thing like preganacy stopping a workaholic like her.
While she has both pegaus magic as well as Earth pony magic, as indicated by the fact she can visit cloud houses, her wings are clearly operating on pure Earth pony magic. They are insanely strong, as witness a pegasus sized wing that can flap like a hummingbird's and pull huge loads, but have none of the aerokinesis/gravity/inertial control that a normal pegasus's magic grants it's wings.
I have come up with half a dozen ways the problem could be fixed or mitigated, a jacket made of the solidified cloud stuff (which floats on it's own and can carry large weights) being the easiest (it provides the lift and Scootaloo's powerful wings purely provide thrust) being the easiest, and a surfboard made of cloud house construction material being another another, without all the forms of healing magic and other wonders that Equestria has, but no, Lauren Faust wanted a token disabled character and by Celestia she was not going to let anyone make it seem like disabled people were bad by letting her be healed.
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I think because her dad is a pony and pony's can't fly
U havent answer the basic question
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scootaloo cant fly bc she dont have much magic.......pegasi in mlp need magic to fly and she kinda dont have that.........easy explain
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@@hannahlamagna
😍 i love both My Little Pony🦄 generation 4 and 5
So do I. It's my favorite thing to watch next to NHRA drag racing.
Maybe because her dad is a Earth Pony while her mom is a pegasus, Her body may not be as lightweight as other pegasi making her unable to fly