TCB in canon · 11:44pm Jun 17th, 2015
Since the start of Season Five, many TCB fans/haters have noticed that Starshine Glimmer's 'equalisation' plan bares more than a passing resemblance to the main plot of TCB, only with no humans involved.
On that thread, I've been noticing bits and pieces of TCB lore scattered throughout the FIM comic books. Given that the comics obviously never aired on TV and their torrents can be hard to find, I thought it reasonable to assume that the majority of FIM fans didn't know about them. So I thought I'd share!
The Conversion Bureau has three consistent elements: the Barrier, the antagonist Celestia, and the 'equalisation' plot. Funnily enough, all three of these things are canon.
First up, the Barrier.
In Friends Forever #2, the CMC ask Discord for help getting their cutie marks. Because there's no way that could go wrong, right?
Yeah, Discord ends up creating a bubble reality that begins to expand and threatens to crush Ponyville. Sound familiar?
Now for part two, antagonist Celestia. But Sora, you say Celestia is, like, the responsible adult in a show full of children! How could she be the antagonist?! Well to tell you the truth, she can't without some seriously convincing writing.
Or, alternate universe shenanigans...
Yes ladies and gentlecolts, Evilestia is an official character now. The main comic line spends volumes 17 to 20 describing the first AU mirror (the one from Equestria Girls being retconed to being the second... or maybe even further down the line?). This one leads to the traditional 'mirror universe', one where the good ponies are evil and the evil ponies are good.
Interestingly for Spectrumverse fans, Celestia has no qualms about attacking evil, wannabe multiverse-conquering versions of herself.
(This pic is also very interesting to me, because it means the fire tackle I made up for Celestia is also canon. Who knew?)
If you put those comics together with the first two episodes of season five, it is now entirely possible to write a Conversion Bureau story using nothing but canon elements.
Well, except for the ability to travel to the human world and turn humans into ponies, that's still OH WAIT.
So if (pre-redemption) Starlight Glimmer somehow got her hooves on both magic mirrors, a TCB story could logically follow from purely canon elements. (Adding Discord's Barrier is optional.)
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Of course, the villains in the hypothetical story would be just that: villains. No moral high ground here. And all the heroes from canon would have our backs, starting with Sunset Shimmer and her magic diary.
So... anybody feel like writing that?
Makes sense somewhat. Though the mirror thing would only be a temporary transformation due to I'm guessing native univese species thing and temporal/spacial differences between worlds. That sort of thing would also explain stuff like humans into pokemon for PMD. Anyway Since Equestrians and other species become whatever their counterpart are on Equestrian Earth, the reverse could be true too technically with logic. At least when the Magic Mirror Portal is involved.
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If Starlight Glimmer can repurpose Starswirl's Causal Loop Spell (which flies in the face of a Reletavistic Universe implied by the persistence of Alternate Timelines and the existence of Inertial Frames of Reference) into an actual Wormhole Spell (connecting two points in Spacetime via portals), I imagine she can tinker with his Mirror Portals (Higher-Dimensional Stablized Wormholes, with Automated Transfiguration).
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True.