Quotes / All Girls Like Ponies

"Honored? Strolling around a town infested with candy colored equines... Yeah, maybe I'd feel honored if I was... Oh, I dunno, a five year old girl!"

— Phoenix Wright on the "honor" of being a Token Human in Ponyville, Turnabout Storm

Blossom: A pony!
Buttercup: [pointing at Rainbow Dash's cutie mark] Check out this tattoo!
Bubbles: [jumping on Rainbow Dash] Weeeeee!
Blossom: [grabbing Rainbow Dash's wing] She has wings!
Buttercup: Did you see the way she fought?
Bubbles: [still jumping on Rainbow Dash] Weeeeee!
[Beat]
Rainbow Dash: Hey, cut it out!
Girls: She can talk?!
Bubbles: Let's keep her!
[Beat; Rainbow Dash flies away]
Blossom: No rush, girls. Let's give her a head start...

— Double Rainboom

"For whatever reason, girls tend to have a thing for horses. Why in the heck do they have such love for big, smelly animals who leave giant poo everywhere? Why horses and not the Proboscis Monkey?"

— VideoPort review of The Saddle Club, a series that runs on this trope.

Horsey! <Beat> What? I can like horses. I can like... things.

— Senna, the Redeemer, reacting to Hecarim, the Shadow of War of all things

On the one hand, this description of a horse makes no sense. On the other hand, it also neatly establishes the Black as the mythic creature he is. He is not so much a horse as he is a collection of inchoate adolescent yearnings given form. He is everything that teenaged Walter Farley would have dreamed up for himself, and be honest with me: probably a lot like your childhood imaginings of the perfect horse, too.

— A review of The Black Stallion

Don this gorgeous Kirin armor and canter through the wilderness, living out your wildest equine fantasies.

— Monster Hunter: World, description of Kirin armor set

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