Why does derpy have crossed eyes

Thus, her bad eye just dangles, giving the derpy impression, but she can see just fine with her other eye. Must lack some depth perception though. While amusing, if her derpy eyes were from trauma, poor Derpy would be in big trouble.

Such a misalignment from trauma would likely occur after an orbital fracture. Two possibilities - large fracture with displaced orbital fat would eventually lead to enophthalmos or sinking in of the eye or she could have a moderate-sized fracture but with muscle entrapment. If one of the eye muscles gets stuck in a fracture, the tugging would cause unstable blood pressures and the muscle could die off. In the above scenario, Derpy would be getting an orbital CT. I am pretty confident Derpy is not derpy-eyed from trauma because, like thyroid eye disease, she would then be seeing double and have bad headaches.

When ever in need ask Dr. Op about accidents indeed. Heh, thanks. Truth be told, I am studying for the oral part of the boards so I can become board certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology. Derpy's eye condition and its differential is helping me study. I was born with my eyes looking in two different directions as well. I can confirm that you do get used to it, especially when you've had them as long as I have. It does affect my vision, but after a while you learn to sort of "tune out" what you see from one eye, while you focus on what you see with the other.

I can control each eye separately, but only one at a time, so when I move one eye to look at something, the other goes off and does whatever it wants to. My son has a "lazy" eye. A running fan gag with her is that she often does the opposite of a task given to her. For example, if asked to fix up a building, she'll demolish it, while asking to destroy it will result in her building it. This is unintentional on her part of course as Derpy's only trying to help.

Derpy Hooves makes her first appearance. Most notably in the background of the surprise party Pinkie Pie threw, where her signature "derp face" caught fan's attention. Catching the attention of the show's producer, Lauren Faust, a similarly identical pegasus named "Ditzy Doo" played a small part, failing to go lead the southern birds back for the spring, instead flying north.

In a brief scene, Twilight Sparkle ignores Pinkie Pie's ominous pre-cognitive senses that something would fall out of the sky. In return, she has a number of large, clearly heavy objects like pianos and anvils falling on her. This was then shown to have been Derpy's fault, as she was delivering those objects on a truck with other pegasus ponies, and accidentally dropped the load.

This was the only time Derpy was ever seen delivering anything, probably because she was fired. However it was a nod to the fan theory that the bubbles on her cutie mark represent bubble wrap. In the opening scene of this episode, Derpy Hooves finally gets her first speaking role.

Trying to help Rainbow Dash set up decorations for Applejack's farewell as she was going to be sent off for a rodeo competition, Derpy inadvertently ruins town hall instead. Flying backwards into support beam and falling through a wooden floor as Rainbow Dash tries to keep her still, she lives up to her fan supported ditzy behavior.

Unfortunately, this scene was edited out due to a heated controversy over her name being "Derpy" who some people claim was offending to the mentally disabled though that was never the intention , her signature eyes were even realigned and new lines were re-recorded in reruns of the episode.

She was also renamed Ditzy Doo. Despite this very unpopular and unnecessary use of censorship, Derpy Hooves still appeared as her old cross eyed self anyways. Theories have also been speculated how some cameos she's had could even be possible, appearing in flashbacks, as a younger filly and even inside a snow globe in just some of her appearances.

She likewise makes a few more appearances in the comics though usually either as background or brief cameos. However, while bobbing for apples, she accidentally pulls the plug, causing all the water in the bob to go down the drain. She makes a brief cameo in Sisterhooves Social among the crowd listening to Granny Smith 's announcement. In The Cutie Pox , a wall-eyed Pegasus filly with the same color scheme as Derpy appears briefly for one shot in the schoolyard, with most of her body obscured by Apple Bloom and " Princess Erroria ".

A filly who looks like Derpy in The Cutie Pox. Derpy appears briefly in The Mysterious Mare Do Well among the crowd cheering after Rainbow Dash saves the old folks falling on the balcony.

She appears in Sweet and Elite along with many other ponies during a shot in the song Becoming Popular The Pony Everypony Should Know , wearing the same paper bag that was part of her costume in Luna Eclipsed , in addition to a pearl necklace. She rides the train to Canterlot in Hearth's Warming Eve.

Later, she pops out from behind the curtain to wave at the audience before the show. She walks away sad afterwards when Cherry Fizzy stops her. At the end of the episode, she talks in the background with Amethyst Star. She appears frequently throughout the musical sequence The Flim Flam Brothers in the episode The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy , as well as in the crowd watching the competition.

She appears in Hearts and Hooves Day in three village shots, one standing next to " Tornado Bolt " and twice standing next to Dr. Hooves on the bridge. In A Friend in Deed , she appears twice, first flying upside down in the snow globe Pinkie Pie finds in Cranky Doodle Donkey 's things and the second time by a stand in Ponyville square with two other ponies.

In Putting Your Hoof Down , she first appears in the market scene approaching the asparagus stand while bearing muffin-sealed saddlebags, where she reacts to the stall holder's lack of asparagus.

Later, she appears in the crowd at Iron Will 's seminar. Derpy appears quite frequently in Hurricane Fluttershy , which is the episode featuring her longest screen time outside of The Last Roundup. She first appears at the beginning reading a flyer that Rainbow Dash dropped with only one of her eyes, the other looking elsewhere, and again as part of the ponies participating in the Wing Speed testing and she is part of the tornado team led by Rainbow Dash.

Derpy appears again in A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2 at three different times in the crowd of ponies; The first time when Queen Chrysalis talks to Princess Cadance , the second time when she watches the bride enter, and the third time when the wedded pair is about to leave.

Her eyes are derped in her first appearance, normal in her second appearance, and only one of her eyes is clearly visible in her third appearance. She returns in Magical Mystery Cure with five appearances, the first being on a bridge during the opening song, the second being flying through the air with other Pegasi in a "Blue Angels" style formation. Her third appearance is peeking out behind the legs of other ponies and winking to the camera, similar to most of her appearances in season two in which she was a "hidden" Easter egg.

Her last two appearances are at the beginning of Life in Equestria and shortly after the main ponies are walking together to the balcony.

She remains silent throughout the episode and is never referred to by name. Her appearance after such a long near-absence was intentional on the show writers' part to keep her return a surprise. She can be found a few times in Pinkie Pride , first following Cheese Sandwich , helping put up decorations, sticking her face into a chocolate fountain and engaging in a staring contest with Cheese Sandwich 's rubber chicken, Boneless.

She is also seen as a filly in Cheese's flashback song. In Simple Ways and Trade Ya! She's also the first in line to come to Princess Twilight's new castle. In Tanks for the Memories , she moves clouds with other Pegasi in preparation for winter. For both of these, her eyes unintentionally [51] appear straight. Later, she takes the place of the star, since she wears one on her head.

In The Cart Before the Ponies , Derpy participates in the Applewood Derby driving a go-kart made out of a box with an unnamed male colt. She also appears as a filly in a flashback winning first place for Most Creative.

In the cold open of To Where and Back Again - Part 1 , Derpy clumsily delivers an invitation to Starlight from her old village to a party. In Triple Threat , Ember attempts to befriend Derpy by stealing her muffin and rubbing it against a wall.

She sends Big McIntosh 's package to Sugar Belle in the mail but accidentally smudges the receiving address. In School Raze - Part 1 , Derpy delivers mail to the School of Friendship , accidentally smacking into the front of the school before giving the mail to Cozy Glow.

Derpy has her first significant speaking role in The Last Roundup. The scene starts with Rainbow Dash getting the tip of her tail singed by a lightning bolt, coming from a gray storm cloud that Derpy is bouncing on. Dash tells her, "Now, careful, Derpy! Don't want to do any more damage than you've already done", pointing to the broken and crashing roof of the Ponyville town hall.

Derpy replies, "I just don't know what went wrong", and shocks herself from another bolt of lightning from the cloud she's bouncing on. She flies by Rainbow Dash and compliments her work, but bumps into a pillar behind her and sends it hurtling to the ground. Rainbow Dash tries to stop it but she smashes through the floor with the pillar.

Derpy sticks her head in the hole asking if Rainbow Dash is okay and asks if there's anything she can do to help, but Rainbow Dash flies up and tells her to sit there and do nothing. When Derpy sits down in response, the floor below her starts to crack and she falls through, grabbing Rainbow Dash and pulling her down along for the ride. When Mayor Mare gives her speech in honor of Applejack , Derpy sticks out of the hole in the broken floor and cheers for Applejack, but she lets go and falls down once again.

Her eyes are crossed through the majority of the scene. Derpy is voiced by Tabitha St. Germain in both cuts of the episode. Rogers was requested by Faust [56] to rename the pony to "Derpy" as a "tip of the hat" to fans. The episode was removed from iTunes a week after its release and put back up on 24 February , with Derpy's scene altered: a few words are omitted from the dialog, in particular Rainbow Dash does not name Derpy, Derpy's voice is different and more feminine, and Derpy's eyes are not as acutely crossed in a few of the shots in the scene.

An April 14, rerun of the episode on the Hub uses the altered scene, but the closed captions were not adjusted. The decision to alter the character was made by Hasbro or The Hub, in response to emails complaining about the character's portrayal and the word "Derpy", both of which have been taken as offensive to people with disabilities. In the European Spanish version, the voice credits name her "Derpy", although Rainbow Dash doesn't refer to her by name.

In the Hungarian dub, Derpy is voiced by a male voice actor. Derpy has her second speaking role on the show in the episode Slice of Life , in which she accidentally messes up Matilda 's wedding invitations.

She shares the majority of her scenes with Dr. The credits name her as "Muffins" like in some previous materials. The following charts details Derpy's appearances in the show, using approximate times from various videos available online. Duplicates: — two duplicates in the audience, , — on the opposite side of the carpet. Duplicates: — one Derpy standing in the crowd and another flying above it, — two more duplicates standing in the crowd, — three duplicates, — four Derpys in the crowd and one flying, — a version with red hair pushing snow off a roof with a shovel, - a version with short hair and blue eyes singing with the rest of the Pegasi, — a version with white hair flying by with Sprinkle Medley, — a version with violet hair and a version with a purple coat are in the squad behind Rainbow Dash, , — a version with violet hair leads the southern birds, — two duplicates in the crowd, — one duplicate.

Duplicates: — one duplicate in the audience, — one duplicate, , , , — four duplicates watching Rarity spin, — two duplicates, — three duplicates, — one duplicate, , — two duplicates, , Duplicates: — five duplicates in the crowd, — one duplicate, — at least three duplicates, — one duplicate, , , , Duplicates: — one duplicate in the audience, — four duplicates riding the Ferris wheel, — nine orange-haired duplicates in the crowd, — one orange-haired duplicate.

Duplicates: — two duplicates outside the VIP section, — two duplicates in the crowd, — another duplicate. Hooves in the crowd. At her eye appears for two frames during the fade. In an alternate world, her human counterpart appears as a high school student. During the Storm King 's invasion of Canterlot, Tempest Shadow turns the princesses into obsidian statues and Derpy gets caught in the crossfire, turning into a statue instead of Twilight. She is later returned to normal after the princesses' magic is discharged from the Storm King's staff.

Derpy appears in the IDW comics as a minor character. Her makeshift home is shown in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue 10 , shown to be a broken chrysalis with a mailbox designated " D.

Hooves ". On Friendship is Magic Issue 18 page 12, an alternate version of Derpy, wearing glasses, holding a book and with her eyes not derped, is shown in a stained glass window labeled "Wisdom". She also has a line of dialogue in each, but in the latter her speech is muffled.

Of the two panels that she appears in, the first has her appearance modeled from Lauren Faust 's sketch. Derpy is a character in Gameloft's mobile game. As a non-playable character, usually called "the pony in the box", she hides under a box at random locations and gives the player bits and occasionally gems when tapped; the text of quests involving her suggests she is well-liked by the other characters and they will go out of their way to interact with her after she is uncovered.

As a playable character, called "Lazy Fan", she wears her Dr.