Talk:Golden Harvest/@comment-70.171.245.141-20111106104953/@comment-5490610-20111106124551

Hoo-boy, your post is literally presented from an in-universe perspective.

You see, the show is a work of fiction, and the toys are depictions of fictional characters, not the characters themselves. While, for example, Cheerilee is depicted with three smiling flowers as her cutie mark on the show, she is depicted with one smiling flower (and some bees?) on her toy.

Works of fiction, and particularly the My Little Pony franchise, frequently have such discrepancies, but that doesn't mean the character depicted is not "the same" character.