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Wow, that was the first actually well explained reason I've ever heard. Usually it's just along the lines of "He got cake on rarity! He's a marvel level villain for that so we aren't exaggerating anything!" Bravo for that.
My thing is also though a good handful of those fics gave him the most lazy non-motivations for meanness or even if he's realistically canon levels of rude they make everyone else extremely OOC.
Like one in a world where harems are legal Celestia is mad he has one. No he isn't doing anything bad to them, she's just mad he has one or sends him somewhere to be hurt or tortured for a "lesson" in being nicer. In a fic where the princesses disappear and Twilight is doing a bad job at reassuring every pony things are fine even with the Sun and moon are moving on their own suddenly.
At some point when she comes out of hiding in her room for a week to let a few select ponies know things are okay with the planets moving. He tells her she needs to not hide as princess and go calm other town ponies down since their getting paranoid.
She then goes on a rant about how he can't tell her what to do cause she remembers he was rude at that season 1 gala so he knows nothing.
Mini boast here but I've at least given a small hand at helping increase good fics with groups both on FIMfic and DA about positive portrayals of him. I don't mind if he's an antagonist in fics but if the main issue for people is that he's a one-note personality in the show then it shouldn't be that hard to give him more then one-note in your fics/fan art whether he's good or the "bad guy" in it. I genuinely hope the show does that for him in G5 or some future incarnation.
Wow, that was the first actually well explained reason I've ever heard. Usually it's just along the lines of "He got cake on rarity! He's a marvel level villain for that so we aren't exaggerating anything!" Bravo for that.
My thing is also though a good handful of those fics gave him the most lazy non-motivations for meanness or even if he's realistically canon levels of rude they make everyone else extremely OOC.
Like one in a world where harems are legal Celestia is mad he has one. No he isn't doing anything bad to them, she's just mad he has one or sends him somewhere to be hurt or tortured for a "lesson" in being nicer. In a fic where the princesses disappear and Twilight is doing a bad job at reassuring every pony things are fine even with the Sun and moon are moving on their own suddenly.
At some point when she comes out of hiding in her room for a week to let a few select ponies know things are okay with the planets moving. He tells her she needs to not hide as princess and go calm other town ponies down since their getting paranoid.
She then goes on a rant about how he can't tell her what to do cause she remembers he was rude at that season 1 gala so he knows nothing.
Mini boast here but I've at least given a small hand at helping increase good fics with groups both on FIMfic and DA about positive portrayals of him. I don't mind if he's an antagonist in fics but if the main issue for people is that he's a one-note personality in the show then it shouldn't be that hard to give him more then one-note in your fics/fan art whether he's good or the "bad guy" in it. I genuinely hope the show does that for him in G5 or some future incarnation.