Headscratchers / Rainbow Brite

• Why is Starlite called a "flying horse" when he doesn't fly? Galloping on rainbows is not flying, no matter how you look at it.
  • Krys did point this out during The Star Stealer.
  • Fly can refer to moving fast, e.g. this car really flies, but Starlite is the type to let you think otherwise. Or fly is just a verb for "moving in the air" rather than self-propelled flight.
    • In other words, Starlite being a "flying" horse is just metaphorical.^note Unlike On-X, who is a literal flying horse.
• What the hell is the deal with the San Diego Zoo Adventure?
• What is Tickled Pink's job, really? It's Fanfic Fuel for sure, but the pastel theory, while fanon for years, is still just that and can be explained with animation errors and attempts to make her character design unique. But then again, if she doesn't handle shading, what does she do?
  • Official canon is that Tickled Pink is a girl from Earth (much like Rainbow Brite herself) who wandered into Rainbow Land and was allowed to live there permanently-provided that she assume the role of supervising the labs which process color crystal into star sprinkles. (which is where the female sprites all work, the ones we see mining the caves are apparently the males.) Here's the HuffPost article to prove it.
• Why do the Dark Princess's minions help her try to capture Spectra if they will all die as well? Yes, she might kill them for disobeying her, but they're gonna die anyway if she succeeds, so...
  • It always seemed to me that the Princess and her minions didn't actually believe that capturing Spectra and moving it would doom the galaxy. Possibly they thought that the little dude who told them that was making it up. You see this kind of behavior in real life a lot, people doing blatantly destructive things because they don't take the warnings seriously.

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