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The appropriate reactions to seeing your peers getting blasted and popping like balloons left and right would be:
"PANIC!" and "RUNNING AWAY SCREAMING".


Heck, Twilight was even far too trigger-happy blasting Pinkies left and right, even if they were just reacting to somepony making a ruckus right next to them.

Srsly, someone starts talking right next to you, wouldn't you turn around? And what if Pinkie Pie had to, say, sneeze?
I could easily imagine one of the clones in front of her spontanously deciding to do a dance routine and shoving her tail right in Pinkie's face, tickling her nose... aaaand ZAP.

Geez, Twilight, why didn't you - oh I dunno - use some of that PAINT to just MARK the clones?

But here's the real scary part that really bothered me. Proceed with caution, you have been warned.

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In the episode, we briefly got to know Pinkie's first clone. In those few minutes, after her first initial bursts of "fun! fun! fun!", she clearly displayed her ability of rational thought and emotion. Just look at this scene, then play it back-to-back with this part. Tell me you don't feel sorry for her.


The only thing Pinkie's clones clearly lacked was life-experience. Running around, breaking things and causing havoc ... They simply didn't know any better.

...The episode ended with Twilight blasting about 40 completely innocent ponies to Luna-knows-where. Not out of malicious intent, or an out-of-character behavior, but because she and everypony else was too focussed on solving a "problem", and apparently did not even treat them as actual ponies, as seen when Dash just dumped the "original" Pinkie into the others. [link]


I know, the episode stated she was going to "send them back" to the Mirror Pond, but that's not what it looked like when watching those poor Pinkies violently exploding by the dozen, and what does "sending them back" even actually mean?

It's not like they even existed before Pinkie went to the pond and spoke the lines "[...] solemnly sweared not to be scared, at the prospect of being doubly mared!"
Banishment as the best-case scenario. And then, what it's even like on "the other side"? What are the living conditions? How much space is there, even? So they're not only banished to the other side of a mirror, but imprissoned in a cave in the place they've been banished to?

Geez, talk about Twilight being a hypocrit.



...Well, that's what I'd say if Twilight had any idea about what she had even done here at all. Which she doesn't. Heck, nopony even thought about it.

Instead, everypony in town - including Rarity and Fluttershy (!!) - literally crowded on Twilight right in front of the library, demanding her to deal with the crisis despite her not being responsible. [link]
Twilight, under pressure and too focussed on "solving the problem", doesn't give it a second thought what she's actually dealing with... and ZAP, ZAP, ZAAAP.


Literally, that was the darkest ending to an episode I've ever seen.
And that says a lot for an episode with ~40 happily bouncing pink ponies.

I mean, I was literally sitting there at the end of the episode thinking to myself "... yeah, Pinkie learned a valuable lesson about friendship, that's nice, but I want to know WHAT THE HAY HAPPENED TO THE THREE DOZEN INNOCENT PONIES THAT TWILIGHT JUST ZAPPED?!"



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This needs a happier ending. Or rather, a continuation to "make things right".

Which is why I'm writing a "continuation" of "Too Many Pinkie Pies".

"Pinkieviduality"

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A few snapshots from the life of "Tie-Pie", the Pinkie adopted by HareTrinity. Awwwww.


And January3rd's Pinkie also found a good home, where she can cuddle with plenty of pony-plushies.