@Background Pony #03DA  
Yeah it’s weird. I guess it’s because human isn’t as cute a word as pony. You’d think Twilight would have asked what she was at somepoint though. Sunset should be reporting about humans and their culture for ponies. Instead she just does whatever when she could be the bridge between worlds.

@pelcogo  

 
Well they don’t.  
It’s just the fandom that refers to them as such. Not even the staff/crew call the girls humans

WHy do the human counterparts still have pony names? I can accept they all have technicolor skin cause that’s just a thing that spans both universes but everything still operates by a pony pun. I don’t think anyone ever even refers to them as human.

Wallflower and Fluttershy stare at each other
 
Wallflower: Riley Yost.
 
Human Fluttershy: Savannah Roberts.
 
Wallflower: Now that we got the formal introductions out of the way…what was with, well, everything two weeks ago.
 
Human Fluttershy: Sunset finally sorted it out. It’s…a rather long and complicated story. There’s this person called Linkara-
 
Wallflower: Linkara?
 
Human Fluttershy:…Lewis Lovhaug. Anyway, Linkara…Lewis…he used to be a powerful being, something akin to an Equestrian alicorn. But then, something terrible happened involving a powerful demon lord known as the Lord of Terror. Linkara died, his universe died…and then Linkara was reborn, and his universe with him. Only with several differences from before. One of them is that Linkara is no longer a god-like being. Now, he’s just a wizard.
 
Wallflower: So, what happened to me?
 
Human Fluttershy: A backup plan. Linkara inserted a copy of his memories into you.
 
Wallflower: A backup plan for what?
 
Human Fluttershy: The Lord of Terror destroyed Linkara’s old universe with the Infinity Gauntlet, a powerful weapon in a shape of a golden glove that is powered by six gems of unlimited power known as the Infinity Stones…the Tesseract, the Orb, the Aether, the Eye of Agamotto, the Odinforce, and the Starbrand. Althought the Lord of Terror was killed by Princess Luna, someone, somewhere, managed to collect all six Infinity Stones and assemble the Infinity Gauntlet. That someone…whoever he is…is offering the Infinity Gauntlet in the Contest of Champions. It’s pretty much the Friendship Games, only between contestants of different universes rather than from different schools. Only one contestant per universe may enter.
 
Wallflower: And Linkara entered the contest to keep the Infinity Gauntlet from falling into the wrong hands. Is there anything we can do to help?
 
Human Fluttershy: Offering help to Linkara is never a wise idea. Besides, how would we even reach Linkara’s universe?  
The only we can do is hope that Linkara wins.

IMO They should have characters who’s names are ironic like a Veterinarian named Butcher

@Kolbjorn  
Or when they get married.

@Gyroido  
we know that Mrs Cake name used to be Chiffon Swirl and later she changed it to Cup Cake, so maybe the ponies change their names to match their cutie mark/special talent

@Background Pony #56E0
 
The parents knew what they had.

Well, at least their parents didn’t name them “Spoiled Milk”

@GrapefruitFace  
Bottom left could’ve ended up a lot worse if not for Smurfette.

@CaptainGrumpy  
That one doesn’t count, the trait came before the name. (She probably was born pink after all.)

@Cheeses  
Pinkie pie wouldn’t like that you said that.

@Twi_Clown  
Trixie = Parents could have been magicians and/or they thought it was a cute name.  
Rainbow Dash = Really obvious why she’s called that, not prophetic at all.  
Applejack = She gets a pass because it’s fairly obvious she’d be called something apples related, then go into apple buisness. Family business explains this one.  
Shining Armour = Yeah, this one is moderately prophetic.  
Photo Finish = Yep, prophetic as well.  
Cake Family = Family business. Same situation as Applejack so it gets a pass.  
Scootaloo = Her name could have made her look into scooters, so she gets a pass.  
Filthy Rich = Super arrogant parents whom he inherited all his money from. A bit prophetic, but can be explained.  
Quibble Pants = Could be coincidence he ended up being critical, but otherwise it’s prophetic.  
Dragon Lord is obvious.
 
It definitely is a pet peeve of mine when character’s names dictate their cutie mark (or vice versa), or when OC’s do the same, as it makes pretty much zero sense. Fluttershy is the worst of the core six in terms of naming, but it dictated her primary emotion and not her cutie mark.

@Twi_Clown  
Pinkie Pie - pink

@Cheeses  
Objection, no name is better than Fizzlepop Berrytwist.

Trixie-Stage magician who likes magic tricks.  
Rainbow Dash-Fliying speedster with rainbow mane.  
Applejack-Apples (Actually all the apple family qualifies)  
Shining Armor-Shield magic  
Photo Finish-Photgrapher  
Cake family-Cake (Just like the Apples)  
Scootaloo-Somehow her unknowown parents/guardians thought she would like the scooter  
Filthy Rich-He’s f***king rich  
Quibble Pants-His parents always thought he speak nonsense  
The flower trio-Flowers  
Dragon Lord Torch-Gee, a firebreathing dragon, I didn’t see that coming.

…true

Maybe it works like injun names?

Could be worse…  

Every name is better than Fizzlepop Berrytwist in my opinion

It’s almost like this franchise has silly names