Who has the worst episodes?

What character, in your opinion, tends to have the weakest episodes?

Let’s start this thread off right
 
Starlight

Spike, for sure.

@09MurphyM
 
Has he had any good episodes?

Applejack and Fluttershy

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The crusaders and Rainbow Dash.
 
And Applejack recently, unfortunately.

Fluttershy. out of the lesser episodes she has 4 compared to at most 2 for anypony else.
 
And probably Apple Bloom too, if we count the CMC episodes as hers.

Overall I’d say Applejack for being Applejack and Rainbow Dash since it’s normally WB/DD related.

Despite her being one of my fav characters. Applejack.
 
Her strengths don’t generally translates to episodes about her and her needing to be highly flawed

I’d say a tie between Spike and Applejack

In my personal opinion, Rainbow Dash.

Spike. And this comes from a guy who likes the character a lot.

Where do I start? Hmm….Spike, Fluttershy, Applejack, or Starlight Glimmer.
 
Spikes episodes tend to be between horribly boring and sloppily designed, or are just outright atrociously bad altogether. It took the writers SIX SEASONS to make so much as ONE good episode, and to this day, Gauntlet of Fire has been the only good Spike episode to exist.
 
Fluttershy used to be a lot higher on my personal ranking for the main six, but ever since realizing how all but one of her episodes are exactly the same, she has since fallen into dead last. Aside from Flutter Brutter, can you say she has any episodes that aren’t the same ‘she’s too shy to do this one thing, so she has to overcome her shyness to beat it’? Flutter Brutter is the only focus episode she has that DOESN’T continue the trend of her being a one-trick pony, pun intended. You’d think the writers would learn to not have to rely on the exact same gimmick all the time for one character, but if that were the case, Fluttershy’s episodes would’ve been getting substantially different since probably season three.
 
Applejack gets the least amount of screentime overall, so it feels like she has a lot of focus episodes herself, when she really doesn’t. However, the majority of her episodes have to exaggerate her flaws and also include majorly done to death tropes about farmer characters. Either way, they usually arent all that good.
 
Then comes Starlight Glimmer. The majority of her episodes are awful on account of the things that Starlight has to have happen for her to look good at all, most of which involve having to shove entire characters aside and forcefully bask her in the sun, where she doesn’t belong. If she isn’t abusing her magic and causing chaos/ruining lives, she typically doesn’t even have to be involved in the episode at all, serving as a completely meaningless object needed to force the plot along. Every Little Thing She Does is an allegory for the entirety of her career on screen; all previous characters basically get completely annihilated in order for her to look good, her magic defies any level of sense or reason, Twilight has WAY too much blind faith in her to not panic and make a bad problem worse, and ultimately, she gets completely forgiven without even the remotest chance of her learning anything, especially when she does something completely, utterly, inhumane.

Rainbow Dash, Spike and Fluttershy have the worst episodes.

Applejack for sure. I mostly blame rarity.

@Background Pony #ECD0  
Spike for sure. Rainbow Dash too, but maybe I’m just biased because I don’t really like her that much. As for Fluttershy, I think most of hers are good.

@Crystalis  
if you don’t like Rainbow, you should love her episodes. she is always treated poorly. this is mainly because her brash personality needs to be reined in.

@Crystalis  
She only had two/three good episodes: Testing 1,2,3. Stranger than fanfiction and Top Bolt. Well ok, Sonic Rainboom and Read It and Weep.

Spike and Applejack.
 
Most Rainbow Dash episodes are seriously underrated.

@Background Pony #ECD0  
You forgot Wonderbolt Academy, Sleepless In Ponyville, The Lost Treasure Of Griffonstone, May The Best Win! and Daring Don’t as well… And those are technically five good episodes listed, not two/three… :P
 
 
@RainbowDash69  
“She is always treated poorly”… If you mean recently, then perhaps I would agree with that sentiment considering Newbie Dash, 28 Pranks Later, Tanks For The Memories and Daring Done? were recently a thing, but for the earlier episodes (barring The (extremely shitty) Mysterious Mare Do Well)) I’d have to disagree, because I didn’t see her getting treated poorly in Sonic Rainboom, May The Best Pet Win!, Daring Don’t, Read It And Weep, Sleepless In Ponyville, Wonderbolt Academy, Testing Testing 1 2 3 and Stranger Than Fanfiction. “this is mainly because her brash personality needs to be reined in.” By what yardstick are you measuring that by? Are you only saying that because you have a fetish for bondage, or is it out of some deep personal grievance? Because, funnily enough, I don’t think it does. It’s kinda like saying ‘Pinkie Pie is treated poorly, mainly because Pinkie’s deeply extroverted personality needs to be reined in’; it doesn’t.
 
As for the main question, it’s a difficult one to answer, but I’d probably say either Applejack or Fluttershy. Why? Well, I find most of Applejack’s episodes pretty bland and most of Fluttershy’s episodes weak and uninteresting.

@DarkStars  

 
Have you not seen A Health of Information yet?
 
@DarkStars  

 
The end of To Change a Changeling kind of contradicts this. Her being chewed out by Thorax is one of the last things that happens in the episode.

@McNikk  
Nevermind

@McNikk  
Keep in mind, this list of legitimately different Fluttershy focus episodes came before that episode, so that ends up meaning Health of Information gets a pass as far as identical Fluttershy focus episodes.
 
To date, that’s the ONLY time Starlight has been chewed out, and by an equally disgusting, abomination of life for that matter.