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That expression just looks kind of fake to me.
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That seemed odd to me too, but consider this: Twilight might be as talented at magic as Starswirl (another pony with the same general talent), but she’ll never be as good at fashion as Rarity or put on as good of a show as Trixie, or cook up as good of a meal as Mr. Cake. Her talent might be more appealing in a superhero kind of way, but it doesn’t render every other pony’s talent moot.
I dunno if I ever called Twilight Sparkle a mary sue, but I did find it kinda unfair that Twilight’s special talent was anything that could be catagorized under magic, and that no other unicorn ever would have close to the same amount of magical ability and spell variety as her.
Most of the time I knew about the show, Starlight didn’t exist yet, so if Twilight died, disappeared into a black hole or got stuck in Tartarus, either Trixie or Rarity would have had to step their magic game up, or one of the alicorns would fill in for Twilight until she was restored.
To use an anime analogy. Its kinda like how Krillin, Piccolo, and Gohan have to fill in for Goku whenever hes busy being dead.
Something about Mary Sues? Oh yeah. Nobody seemed to mind Twilight being the only pony good with magic, but once she becomes an alicorn, then shes suddenly completely unrelatable :\
SUPER EDIT:
I’m not saying that Starlight is equally or more powerful than Twilight, just that out of all the other unicorns we’ve seen, shes the only one that comes remotely close.
Rewinding/mucking about with time was a hell of an equalizer. And the fight would have been over much faster if Twilight didn’t telegraph her moves so darn much :\
Edited because: Fun!
In hindsight, it was dumb of me to say it was something that was never said. I haven’t exactly read every response ever. Yeah.
There was a bit of a central focus on Twilight ever since episode 1, with her being slightly bit more special among equals. Not exactly Mary Sue material, not when it’s so downplayed. Giving her wings does raise the bar though.
I’d say Starlight Glimmer comes the closest to “self-insert Mary Sue OC befriends the Mane 6” cliche, which still isn’t that close.
Edited because: Dragons can't grow a beard
Sorry but I remember several people calling her a Mary Sue soley because she got wings. In fact there were even people who called her that before that.
But then I remember ssomeone calling Fluttershy a Mary Sue, so it’s hard to take any of this serious.
Double-tripple-quadruple subversion: even though he turns out to be an evil spy, the ponies realize they shouldn’t judge changelings just for being changelings anyway. And then all changelings turn out to be completely evil.
@Background Pony #CD69
Literally no one ever said that. People said it was bad writing/jumping the shark/etc.
Edited because: Welcome to the Edit Zone, from which no sane discussion can escape
No. I don’t find any problems with that. I was just drawing the irony of this being a rehash of No Second Prances.
Remember when people thought she’d be an infallible Mary sue when she grew wings?
Guess the tables have turned to the other obnoxious extreme.
I realize you make your living as being some sort of funny guy, but is there anything bad about Twilight being fallible?
I’m also gonna be generous and assume that Twilight and the rest of her pals were looking for signs of the changelings after defeating them the first time around, and that they were just so sneaky that none of them were found until recently.
But she has darn good reason not to trust him.
Except it’s real, and actually happening. Perhaps none of the news sites you read are reporting it.
Also predictable. I’ve seen it in stories before :D
I figure its 50/50 that will be the ending, or he actually isn’t evil. It kinda depends if he reports back to Queen Chrysalis or not after the episode.
@Background Pony #AD58
@Background Pony #E54E
How about a story where “everyone thinks he’s evil, but he manages to persuade them he’s good after all–except that he really IS evil and is fooling them”?
That sounds alot like one of these stories made-up by right wing nutjobs who want to spread fear and create an us-vs them mentality. Similar to all these “black people only want to rape white women”-stuff from the sixties.
@Anon-a-Miss
Its not just that; its the fact that many european governments have been found to be covering up the amount of crimes committed by Refugees to “avoid persecution” of them, or rationalizing it away by cultural relativism and “that’s their culture”.
basically, situations where, not even counting terrorism, there are crimes committed by the incoming refugees that the public is both being kept in the dark about and unable to seek proper recompasse with the government over because the government doesn’t want to come down on the refugees. (Such as situations where a schoolchild in Canada was choked by a refugee child shouting “Muslims rule the world!” without any punishment of the refugee child simply because he was a refugee)
Do you refer to all these crazy terrorists and spree killer that pop-up everywhere? That’s hard to miss.
If you haven’t been catching the news in Europe recently, it’s better you don’t know.
On MLP? on a show written two years ago and recorded late last year? Unlikely.
might as well flip that shit right now, because you know that’s exactly what it’s gonna be
Weird, we’ve actually had both of those.
One of which was his species’ debut.