Talk:Spike/@comment-5926076-20130502055130/@comment-92.15.140.47-20130503135602

You do raise a point, the ponies are never given an exact age, the mane six could feasibly be as young as 18 to as old as 25, or perhaps even older. Spike is perhaps the loosest and most ambiguous of them all, he is younger than the mane six, that is for sure, but (and people may not agree with me) I don’t see him as young as the CMC, as some fans have. Plus, even through he is not  an adult, he IS growing up. Because as Rarity might say:

Who was the one to save Ponyville from a rampaging dragon (even through it was also him)?

And who fought the Diamond Dogs and called for the cavalry to rescue Rarity?

And who was the one who risked his life to save the Crystal Empire? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUvR2PhElc0

It was all Spike.

People can have their own opinions on Spike but to me, he not all uselss and is a real hero on the show.

Lauren can believe anything she want but to me, I will always see Spike as probably the equivalent of a boy in his early to mid teens.

Brohoof