>>40993055>Sci-Twi was going to be the leadNo, Sunset was clearly in that position in Friendship Games and literally nothing was known about her until then.
>b-but she gets wings for no reason in the next movie!Yeah while Sunset was doing 100% of the plot-relevant shit and teaching the rest of the cast how to use their powers. SciTwi is some random human nerd who shows up halfway through the movie series after Sunset and the rest of the group already went through the previous movies' events together.
Sunset is
>a character that both present and played an important role from the beginning>the only pony of the group>the only one with a history of studying magic>the one who unleashed magic into the human world to begin with>the one with the book that lets her message Twilight (with which she writes a traditional S1-2 esque friendship letter at the end of RR)Only a Shimhating brainlet ever thought she wouldn't be the leader after RR. There's no reason SciTwi would replace her other than "b-but she's...le Twilight!"