Talk:Cutie Mark Crusaders (EG)/@comment-26423071-20160315131855/@comment-5837525-20160315192348

"Earth is still supposed to be Earth"

Except it isn't Earth -- at least not ours. It operates by its own rules and physics just as any other fictional narrative. The Walking Dead has the undead. Marvel and DC Comics have superhumans, metahumans, aliens, etc.

The Earth of Equestria Girls has Cutie Mark Crusaders without cutie marks because, in the context of its own fictional universe, it's acceptable. It has magic, realm-destroying she-demons, and talking animals.

Maybe the simpler explanation is that "cutie mark" means something different in this reality than it does in Equestria.