Crazy Headcanons

@Sjogre  
Teleportation is not exclusively a combat power.
 
As for those magic blasts, as I said above, they’re kinetic bursts instead of some kind of energy. In fact, it’s probably improvised telekinesis. Her telekinesis spell seems to work by projecting kinetic energy into the environment, kinda like how a green lantern ring works. At the wedding, she focused it into a solid beam, as opposed to wrapping it around objects to move them around. So, I suppose it does count as combat magic, but in a “shovels into swords” kind of way.
 
I was talking about stuff like fireball, lightning bolt, acid arrow, etc. My apologies for being unclear.
 
As for the duel, Trixie threw a cart at Twilight, clearly intending to crush her with it.

@Trickquestion  
Teleportation is not exclusively a combat power.  
But it retains combat applications, along with the forcefield. Admittedly, we don’t know how Sombra got past the forcefield when Shining Armor used it, so we don’t know just how useful it would be.
 
We saw Twilight change the properties of the blast on the fly, and I see no reason to believe that they are in any way related to levitation. Most obviously, levitation generates the effect around the object, rather than being connected to the horn, and there’s an easier way to use levitation as a weapon. Also, the first form of the bolt that she used was reflected by a crystal, something that wouldn’t make sense for kinetic force, and even less so with levitation.
 
Why would be kinetic force make it less potent as a weapon? Lead bullets, for reference, use kinetic force.
 
By the same token, we haven’t seen Sombra use even a horn beam. What makes you think that he has weapons beyond his crystal control? If you’re going to bring up his traps, you might as well allow Twilight her utility magic, some of which can be used in a fight. The only pony that we’ve seen use something other than a horn beam was Luna/Nightmare Moon, and she’s more powerful, and likely more experienced, than Sombra.
 
Technically, we also saw Trixie use lightning from a cloud, but she had to summon the cloud first.
 
Trixie threw that cart at some bystanders, not Twilight. Trixie did throw some pies at Twilight, but that was more embarrassing than physically dangerous. The terms of the duel also show that it was non-lethal, so they weren’t trying to injure each other, although embarrassment was okay.

@Sjogre  
I guess we can agree to disagree on the whole horn beam thing.
 
As for Sombra, he has to have some kind of magic capable of ending life, or else all the crystal ponies would have just dogpiled him at some point. I could buy the crystal control thing as his sole power if he had soldiers or minions to fight people for him, but the Crystal Empire was a one stallion show. He had to have some kind of magic capable of killing his enemies, or he wouldn’t have any power in the first.
 
As for Magic Duel, I guess it’s another example of the limits the show is under. It is established that the amulet is has turned Trixie into a total psychopath, seeing as she at one point smashes Applejack into the ground multiple times, with enough force to have shattered bones if cartoon physics into place. The writers created a situation where the amount of violence they can show is radically inappropriate for the situation, but went ahead and did it anyway.
 
Don’t get me wrong, I really do like this show (trust me, I wouldn’t be endlessly bitching if I didn’t) but they really threw away a ton of it’s potential when Lauren’s original idea of an fantasy themed magical girl adventure was canned in favor of slice of life.

Fluttershy makes most of her living money by masterminding heists and taking part of the cut. Nopony ever suspects her because she is very, very careful never to let her associates see her face, and everytime the pony FBI gets close their profilers dismiss her out of hand.

@Trickquestion  
… So, turning up the strength on a horn beam, or impaling people with crystals, or throwing them off of a building with levitation, none of those things can kill people?
 
Not to mention the mind whammy that he used. Why would he need to kill them when he could control them?
 
Lauren’s original idea of an fantasy themed magical girl adventure was canned in favor of slice of life.
 
Didn’t Lauren herself say that it was always supposed to be a combination of adventure and slice of life, like it is now?

@Sjogre  
Yes, but way more in favor of the adventure then the slice of life. For example, the battle against Nightmare Moon was supposed to last all of season 1, with the six traversing the world of eternal night and spending entire episodes earning the elements. That’s why Luna didn’t show up in any season 1 episodes, because they didn’t plan to actually create a characterization for her until season 2.

@Trickquestion  
Do you have any references for that? Because the closest thing that I’ve heard is that they did less adventure episodes because they took more effort to write and they were in a hurry.
 
How would spreading the fight against Nightmare Moon across the entire season work, anyway? Until they beat her, the world would be covered in darkness, which would hinder slice of life activities.
 
I mean, I’d like to know what Nightmare was planning on with her eternal night, but it’s not the kind of thing that you just push into the background.

Successful teleportation isn’t related to how powerful a unicorn’s magic is, but rather their experience.
 
With a little practice, any unicorn can teleport, but attempting too much right off the bat will cause harm. For example, teleporting an inch or two would be no problem, but teleporting a mile or so would cause severe burns or something to that effect.

@GargantuanBass  
We’ve seen five unicorns capable of winking. Two of them were the Royal Sisters, one was using an outside power boost, and the other two were Celestia’s personal students. And in that group, only one of them was even implied to be able to teleport more than a few hundred yards.
 
For whatever reason, any usage of winking is implied to be top-level magic. Kinda ironic, given that it used to be the racial ability.

@Trickquestion  

 
Keep in mind this is still My Little Pony. Hasbro isn’t going to go near Twilight, or any unicorn or alicorn, actually using dangerous/lethal spells.

@Sjogre  
Lauren Faust mentioned it in an interview sometime after leaving the show, and she elaborated a bit on it in one of those posts on that image board website she did the Q&A thing on.
 
@Yetanotherbrony
 
See my post about ratings, adventure, magic girls and all that jazz.

@Sjogre  
uhh
 
is winking some slang for teleportation I don’t know about

@GargantuanBass  
Yes.

@PonyPon  
huh never heard that before

@GargantuanBass  
In G1, Teleportation was called winking out.

@Princess♠Molestia  
>winking  
>characters are horses
 
someone didn’t put much thought into this

@GargantuanBass  
Or too much.

Unicorns are more prone to headaches than the other races.

@Princess♠Molestia  
nice new dp :P

@SeraphimDawn  
This is because a unicorn’s horn is actually a benign brain tumor.

@YetAnotherBrony  
Sunset tried to “Spirit Bomb” Twilight and her human friends.

@SeraphimDawn  
I thought she trying really hard to DESTROY EVERYTHING!!!

Earth is located exactly 120 billion lightyears away from Equestria.

Derpy is the Pony reincarnation of Dio Brando

@gasmaskangel  
So unicorns are like John Travolta? That’s a headcanon just crazy enough to work!