You can say multiverse theory explains any inconsistency, that doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.

@Fummy: Or considering that Twilight’s a filly in one depiction, the two Moondancers are literally two different ponies.

Or, she changed her mane style. or the comic depiction is artistic licence.

@CaptainGrumpy  
Nice use of smith remember bowties and fez’s are cool everypony/everyone!

@TexasUberAlles  
I did have a canonicity drama tag up but someone removed it
 

 
Oh well, canonicity drama is still drama

@lunafan22  
So that explains why the EqG Fluttershy has eyeshadow. The clone also has eyeshadow.

20goddamn15 is more than half done, and this many people still don’t know what the friggin’ word canon means.  

Wait, OP is a duck? How?! Posting a theory that says “Comics & Show aren’t one same canon, and can be seen as alternate continuation” is being a duck? Sorry but the comic hating is going of the rails.  
Sure, we got some of THE WORST material recently, but instead of giving them a chance, you’re going “axe them completely.”  
Want to see how many of the “comic haters” begin crying when they get cancelled. Like “Oh why they cut them off?! I remember how fun the Nightmarish arc was!” or “BRING THE COMICS BACK!”

canonicity drama in the comments should be used WAY more

see, comics aren’t Canon what I tell ya

@Background Pony #48AB  
Bronies intentionally causing drama?
 
 
What? Naaaaw.

@cheezedoodle  
I don’t understand their motivation.  
their burning hatred is so intense I don’t think it can be explained by a simple “the comics broke my headcanon”  
Did a MLP comic brutally murder their father or so?  
It almost feels like a cheap excuse to troll and willingly cause drama.

girls change appearance all the time.  
and in a world filled with magic, breaking physics and other weird stuff, I’m sure that changing a coat color is doable. (as referenced by Twilight herself in episode 1)  
same girl, different look  
case closed

@Tragiclady
 
There’s a number of users here that make a hobby of shitting on the comics, just ignore them and pony on.

And no one even goes for the “name’s the same” explanation, here?

@Marvelous TK
 
@poniesFTW  
What I’m trying to say is that the left is what Moondancer would have looked like.
 
I’m not saying anything about the comics. I’m not saying anything about timeline splitting.
 
I’m just trying to say that, had Twilight went to her party, she wouldn’t look like a hipster.

@Tragiclady
 
@Tragiclady  
I completely agree to the multiverse theory plus the comics are good so it’s easy to go by the multiverse so then everyone is happy and can enjoy everything the series has to offer

Meh. Just think of the comics as an AU. Kinda like how Marvel had the ongoing main universe and ultimate universe. The show is the Maneverse and the comics are… Whateververse.

@Psyga315  
You can’t disregard age in that theory because this took place years before the party. The timeline split would have happened long after the Sunset comic, ergo the theory is basically nonsense.
 
 
@RektPony  
That’s a stupid argument. Using stock background ponies to fill a scene has no bearing on canon. Sometimes the same pony is used multiple times in a fill. It means nothing. What we’re talking about right now isn’t stock background stuff, it’s named characters with front-and-center roles. That’s an entirely different breed of inconsistency, because it’s one that affects something.
 
 
@Tragiclady  
I’m not talking down on the comics, just that this theory makes absolutely no sense in either canon, show or comic. It’s just… wrong. In every way.

The Multiverse Theory can prove everything,even that the show writers decided to not follow the comics.Your theory is flawed.Coulda,woulda shouda.

Nope. Comics aren’t canon, that’s all.

Why are people so mad about the comics? And the multiverse theory sounds great.
 
All that artwork where Pinkie Pie is a psycho murderer/cupcakes happened, I consider that multiverse or alternate continuity too.
 
And just because you don’t like the comics dosen’t mean nobody else is allowed to enjoy them :C

There have been more inconsitencies that this, it doesn’t make comics non canon. Is just inconcistency, S1 had Twilight as a filly when Lyra and Minuette were adult. If we are going to take such details into consideration then ENTIRE S1 is not canon anymore

What I’m trying to say is that the different appearences are what would have happened had Twilight decided to go to the party.
 
Not age.
 
Not canonicty.
 
Just what could have caused different hairstyle changes.

wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong
 
moondancer and twilight are the same age in the show
 
but this is during filly twilight age with an adult moondancer (+ the rest of their group who are also twilight’s age in the show)
 
so this has no bearing on anything and is just completely wrong, stop trying to shoehorn the comic into the show even where it is physically impossible for them to be related