oh Bucephalus, what have they done to you?

But... he's got his legs trapping the wings! An earth pony would be able to carry him better!

Would that be Bucephalus, or Bucepheletic?

More like Broohaha! I should think

Bucephariffic! ^_^

If Perseus can have one then so can Alexander.

Yeah, but as someone pointed out, he's sitting on the wings. This is either a brilliant strategic move, or dumber than mud...

I'd say brilliant since only disease brought him down.

No one is 100% sure what killed Alexander. It could have been disease, over-indulgence, poison or medical malpractice. According to the latest theory, it was all of the above. Alex got sick from drinking the equivalent of 5 liters of wine every night (Where he put it, I don't know, but he had a personal drinking cup that held about a gallon and, in an evening, he went through two of these.), contracted a fever and was treated with an herb containing a good deal of arsenic. He was not intentionally poisoned, but his body could not stand the strain and he succumbed.

Ah. The Boris Yeltzin approach to getting drunk. Alcohol poisoning then is a strong possibility. I remember hearing that there may have been a disease ravaging avian populations at the same time and that he may have caught it (or maybe they were avian assassins).

Alexander died of bird-flu? Possibly. The popular vote is for arsenic added to an already diseased liver. --Not to mention the fact that this guy was fond of running out into traffic and was wounded in battle five times, including an arrow to the chest which pierced his lung. They party hard, those Macedonians.

At least he led from the front instead of thousands of miles away. I respect that. Perhaps he was reincarnated as George S. Patton.

Well, Patton did claim several incarnations. I don't know if Alexander was one of them. The only one I remember offhand was a "caveman battling for mommoth".

Patton was probably Genghis, Kublai, and Attila.

Actually, he claimed to be a Carthagenian with Hannible's army and Marshal Ney, in service to Napoleon.

I recall hearing a story of him stopping at a field in France and claiming to remember a battle being fought there many, many years before his birth.

It's a scene from the movie starred George C Scott. The closest incident that historians can verify is a letter to Patton's mother, in which he details a French landscape he could swear he'd seen before in a previous life. There is also a story that he entered a French town and the mayor of said town offered to show him around. Patton thanked him, but said it wasn't necessary. He knew the place. He then proceeded to take the mayor on a tour, describing each ancient landmark in some detail.

And when some other general commented that Patton would have made a good field marshal for Napoleon, he responded: "Ah but I did, sir. I did!"

That must have been an embarrassment for that mayor with an American telling him things about his own town!

Nyah. The French have always thought we were crazy. The bigger the general, the more crazy.

Wait, is that Rainbow Dash he's riding? Because their personalities would work so well together.

But that's G3 Rainbow Dash's cutie mark, who had no wings and a different personality from G4, and oh god why do I know so much about MLP?

Because you're an obsessive hobbyist. Don't worry. It'll go away after a while.

Bucephalus Y U SO CUTE!!!!

Effin' EPIC.