small corrections:
0:15 - Luna Eclipsed wasn't the only episode to feature Nightmare Night, I basically completely forgot about Scare Master when making this lol.
16:10 - Accidentally wrote "parasprites" here instead of Breezies for some reason.

Cute and (for lack of a better word) "edgy" will always be a stylistic match made in heaven. No wonder everyone loves batponies so much

Rainbow Dash did not have tufted ears like the rest of the guards in The Cutie Re-Mark, so I think that she was wearing a Bat Pony uniform while most of the others were not.

I wish the bat ponies were brought up like how the Kirin was and the other species.

The only thing I can remember from FiM's haydays is how popular Nyx and Echo was. These two were literally everywhere you go during the height of their popularity

The short fan animation for a "Come Little Children" cover, could tie into the cave pony angle, as the children Luna rescues from neglect are shown residing in caves/underground, and being loyal to her for taking them away from the early cantalot society that was too stretched thin to care for them.

Imo they really missed out not including bat ponies in the School of Friendship- since it's pretty well canon they're a normal part of the pony world and out their mingling and living with ponies daily

I always subscribed to them being a separate species, and I still do. But if Fluttershy can be transformed into a vampire pony via a spell gone wrong, then perhaps Nightmare Moon was powerful enough to convert regular ponies into bat ponies. Maybe the process takes some time which is why RD only possesesses bat wings, but not bat ears or eyes yet.

I looked up bat ponies for some research and I can confirm like 90% of what I saw was that OC named Echo lol

It is important that we get a Nightmare Moon Bat Pony as soon as possible

the flutterbat cliff hanger never getting answered still urks me

I wish the show itself talked more about the bat ponies- could’ve had some really cool episodes about them 🥺

6:44 Oh man. If you think about it, that nightmare moon alternate timeline has the implication that the wings are just part of their uniform.

There’s a second episode on Nightmare Night when Fluttershy dresses as Flutterbat and scares her friends (Scare Master)

I remember having a toy set with luna and the two bat ponies as a kid! Love the memories

Glad to see someone making a video about bat-ponies, I love the species and I agree that there should've been more of them in the canon series. I had hoped we'd see at least one at the end of the show, possibly in the School of Friendship (come on, they featured kirins there at the end, but forgot about bat-ponies!).

I actually never realized that, I watched the Fluttershy episode ofc but I thought Luna's/Nightmare Moon's guards were just wearing armor, let's hope G5 expands on this lore someday

First off I feel like it’s kind of a shame that, there were no Bat Pony side characters in a similar way to like, Trixie, Starlight, Sunburst, Shining Armor, Spitfire, the Cakes, etc. in the show, I feel like such a character would’ve been interesting to see in the show. but anyWho secondly I do also have my own headcanon for for the Bat Ponies, connected to a bigger Hasbro universe crossover series, i’m currently writing in there, they are called Thestrals. (The name taken from a similar bat winged horse species from Harry Potter, I used it as their official name because I personally feel like Bat Ponies sounds more like a nickname then their actual name, also inspired from others who also used that name as well.) And they have quite a long history, but i’ll give all of you a few notes to keep it short and concise. starting up with where they live? They live in a tropical Island chain shaped like a crescent moon and, named ‘Mondakramb Isles’ Mooncrest Isles in old Ponish. though there are also large populations in Equestria as well, they have a fruitarian diets with some insects, though there are many nasty rumors about them drinking the blood of other ponies, they are a distant cousin breed to most ponies and they have a close kinship, with two other sort of outcast breeds the Crystal Ponies and Bicorns, (Ponies with two horns.) And together they are known as the Lunar Herds or ‘the Lesser Herds’ a outdated ethnic slur by the Solar Herds. They have a very tensed history with some of the other ponies, especially unicorns both being the de facto, cultural heads of their respective herds and the most closest to Princess Celestia, and Princess Luna respectfully however, in modern times they have a lot more amiable relationship with some rough spots here and there. then thirdly I’ve also created my own Bat Pony OC, connected to the same aforementioned Hasbro universe crossover series, I call her Jeweler Rouge, she is the Commander of the Lunar Royal Guards, (My version of the Night Guard,) and a friendly rival to and, a close friend of Shining Armor ever since, their royal guard academy days together. She is a fun-loving teasing type, who loves to poke fun at her male counterpart Shining, but she can also be serious at times and acts more professional, especially around the likes of Princess Luna, who she have high respect for and a great fighter of all. So yeah, sorry about the length I have a lot of things to talk about in the topic of bat ponies, and that’s just scratching the surface of my thoughts but i’ll end it here.

The way I understand it Luna created bat ponies from earth ponies with a special passionate, intimate act perhaps a french kiss, which wold make sense since Flutershy became a bat pony seemingly out of an act of passion  to save the vampire fruit bats from starving to death.

One thing I find interesting is the interpretation of Nightmare Moon as having a batwing/feather hybrid configuration, which potentially sets the idea of bat ponies all the way to episode 1.

Its not super common, but iirc is was even seen in some officially licensed metch at some point