Talk:Episodes, films, and shorts/@comment-24699916-20141222193825/@comment-10390252-20141223100824

It is, of course, inevitable that, to boost up the sense of crisis, one or more of the Mane Six will be affected by this 'cutie mark virus', curse or whatever it is.

My gut feeling is that this is something coming from a particularly powerful (or at least learned) unicorn who wants all ponies to be equal and is willing to force them to be so. However, his idea of 'equality' has slipped down the slope to 'mind control' and 'total top-down totalitarian social control'.