@Sparrow9612  
If you’re talking about replacing Rainbow Dash, then no thanks.

@Sparrow9612  
No, Spike being revered as a “hero” was a total mistake. How come Spike got all credit for himself despite the bigger roles the other characters have played since the Sombra scenario, like, the rest of Mane Six keeping the Crystal Ponies distracted the whole time while Twilight went to search for the heart? Twilight figured out where the heart was, found the hidden passage to it, made it all the way up to the top of the castle with the help of her magic that allowed her to slide up-side-down in light’s speed… then she did the bravest thing risking herself failing Celestia’s test by forcing Spike to bring the heart instead. Shining Armor saved both Spike and the heart and Cadance was the one who restored the heart at the end.
 
Spike being “potential to be an actually useful Boy King” is never possible, either. That’s nothing fitting for a goofy baby-dragon who’s a simple side-kick and for comic relief since Season 1, y’know.

HAREM KING!!!

Now this is a spike episode i would want to watch.

@Bahamut  
Twilight: Spike! What is best in life?
 
Spike: To hug your enemies,
 
See them eat muffins before you,
 
And to hear the squee from their mares!

@And Brother I Hurt People  
Someone make this a thing!!!

@Wolfjira  
You Win again. :D

take the crown - it’s yours, my son  
I hope ya don’t mind the dents  
I got it on sale at a discount store  
cost me all of seven cents  
SEVEN.

Don’t get all carried away,Spike’s just doing his job as the royal seat and regalia warmer while the real monarch is out on a PR visit to local fast food chains. He solemnly does his duty.

@Background Pony #4D3B  
You got it!
 
Between the time the oceans drank Las Pegasus,
 
and the Rise of the Sons of Tirek,
 
there was an age undreamed of,
 
and unto this Spike, destined to wear the jeweled crown of Canterlot
 
upon a troubled brow, It is I,
 
His chronicler who alone can tell thee of his saga,
 
Let tell you of the days, of high Friendship!

@Sparrow9612
 
He’s also unshakably loyal to Twilight and Celestia. He could easily have become the Bearer of Loyalty if it hadn’t been Rainbow Dash.

@TexasUberAlles
 
Right. We know for certain he’s very intelligent (growing up influenced by Twilight and Celestia would certainly have positive effects), and despite his natural dragon inclinations towards greed and jealousy, he has a good heart.

@Sparrow9612  
Of all the children in the show, he’s definitely the only one with the real potential to be an actually useful Boy King; he is in fact seriously competent and on-the-ball when he’s keeping his own base instincts in check.

I think that if Spike were to end up ruling anyplace, it would probably be the Crystal Empire. If Cadence and Shining were unable to do so, the crystal ponies would have no objection to Spike becoming their king/prince(?), since they revere him as a hero. As long as he had someone to keep him in line and prevent power from going to his head, Spike has the potential to be a good ruler.

“First order of business: Spikequestria formally declares Dinner on the Crystal Empire!”

@And Brother I Hurt People  
That was the first thing to come to my mind too. XD

INSERT BACKGROUND SOUNDTRACK - Its a Hard Life (Queen)

Now all we need is a voiceover from Mako ala Conan the Barbarian.

Princess Spike?

“Well, here I am, Spike the king, king of all the land! Who’d have thought that? ‘But how did I come to this?’, I hear ya say. ‘And who are those strange fellows that surround my throne?’, that you also say. Well, it’s a long story. Come closer, and I’ll tell ya.
 
It all started yesterday, and what a day that was. It’s what I call A Bad Scale Day.”