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    Starlight Glimmer

No discussion of Base-Breaking Characters in Generation 4 of My Piffling Pony would exist complete without mentioning Starlight Glimmer, the Base-Breaking Character of Generation 4. She caused more debates, drama, and Flame Wars amongst bronies than whatever other graphic symbol past a long shot. Starlight offset appeared on Friendship is Magic in Flavor v's debut episode "The Cutie Map" every bit the flavour's overarching antagonist, eventually pulling a Heel–Face Plow and becoming a main character in Flavour 5'southward finale "The Cutie Re-Mark".

From the day she appeared until the mean solar day that MLP Generation 4 concluded, Starlight split the fanbase into very vocal camps; merely bringing up Starlight'due south name could potentially start an argument. Even though the worst of the vitriol confronting her would somewhen at-home downward, discussing the finer points of Starlight'due south Heel–Face Plow remained one of the easiest ways to spark an argument amid bronies.

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• In her commencement advent, Starlight was a major break from the prior arc villains. She lacked the size and scope of threat that many other Arc Villains did, and her seemingly altruistic motives for her actions painted her as a Visionary Villain. Some fans establish a comparatively low-stakes villain a breath of fresh air after the one-time two-parter villain formula was getting anticipated and establish her methods interesting. Others plant Starlight boring compared to prior villains and felt that idiocy was the simply reason she lasted as long as she did. The fact that she was the first major villain to escape punishment in her debut left room for even more divisiveness.
• In her 2d appearance, Starlight broke the base of operations even wider with a Heel–Face Plow, and it's where the worst of the fighting truly started. In the Season 5 finale "The Cutie Re-Mark", the reason that Starlight hates cutie marks and special talents is revealed to be that Starlight'due south childhood friend Sunburst got his cutie marker before Starlight did, causing Sunburst to move abroad from their hometown of Sire's Hollow. Some saw Starlight as Unintentionally Unsympathetic with a poor excuse for a motive, citing other former villains like Princess Luna, Discord, and Sunset Shimmer taking much longer to earn redemption as an explanation for why they felt Starlight's redemption was rushed, since they tried to cause The Stop of the World as We Know It some way or another also. Other fans felt that Starlight was a victim whose motives were understandable, that her redemption fit with the overall theme of Flavour 5, and that she was appropriately remorseful for her crimes and had the residuum of the series to adequately own upwards to them. A third group of fans ended upwards disappointed with Starlight, maxim she started out as a realistically-frightening villain, and felt the things shown in the montage (her reconciliation with the members of her boondocks beingness the large one) were not bad potential episodes of their own flushed right down the toilet. There was very little overlap between the three groups, and the infighting among bronies betwixt the airings of Seasons v and 6 got especially bad.
• The first episode of Flavour 6 had Starlight gain a newfound status as Twilight'due south educatee in friendship, essentially making Starlight an unofficial new addition to the cadre cast. Things got extra rough after that, as some felt it was entirely undeserved and makes her into a Wish-Fulfillment fan fiction character. Some were embittered that Trixie didn't get to fill this role, since she was The Rival to Twilight and already starting her own Heel-Face Turn. Others saw Starlight equally an Expy of Dusk Shimmer, seeing as how Starlight and Sunset accept similar character arcs. Others still saw Starlight taking this pall as a new and exciting development for Flavour 6 and beyond.
• "Every Little Thing She Does" is an episode where Starlight brainwashes her friends sans Twilight to solve friendship problems. This threw even more divisive opinions Starlight's fashion. Some pounced on this, proverb this negates Starlight being Rescued from the Scrappy Heap and that she'll exist a Karma Houdini due to the season finale relying on her saving Equestria. A shrinking vocal minority doesn't heed it, challenge that Twilight did this in "Lesson Nil" to the point of getting an entire boondocks brawling and had to be bailed out by her friends. Others felt that "two wrongs practice not make it right", I.Eastward., someone else doing a bad affair again shouldn't get special handling for it, and are quick to point out that while Twilight did do that, she was a national hero who had proven her heroism and skillful intentions time and time again, not a recently reformed criminal who had spent a lifetime of doing wrong and was already given far more than elbowroom and forgiveness than she deserved. The other side comes back and contends that Starlight had legitimately good intentions as well, and she but messed up and is good sit-in of graphic symbol flaws she as a real student, still needs to work on. Not only that, but they also bespeak out Starlight took responsibleness and really had to work to earn forgiveness from the others, negating her Karma Houdini status.
• Starlight being shown to be very practiced at complex magic from her introduction, and during "Every Fiddling Thing She Does," was treated by some people as a good setup for her knowing how to combine several spells to achieve the furnishings of Listen Control afterwards, and a good way to show her confidence/reliance on her magic to solve her problems in contrast to her poor social skills. For some people, Starlight standing to be able to pull increasingly more powerful spells that were previously considered impossible to practise unremarkably, which are otherwise considered very powerful for the setting or which mimic other ponies (even in-universe fictional superheroes') special talents is making these ponies abilities, talents and uniqueness seem redundant, while making her own arsenal of abilities seem even more special and absurdly powerful for seemingly no detail reason and that Social Anxiety isn't large enough of a character flaw to balance it all out.
• When the synopsis for "To Where and Back Again" was revealed, Starlight became even more of a base of operations breaker when it was revealed she would be taking center phase to rescue the Mane 6 from "the return of Equestria's greatest threat". Some were excited at the prospect of the "unlikely squad of heroes" she is to get together, equating information technology to a pony Suicide Team and feel this is a perfect finale to her season-wide character arc and will cement her condition as reformed and absolved of what she did as a villain. Others feel that having a fourth premiere/finale centering around her is simply too much, specially considering "The Cutie Re-Mark" was focused entirely on her and Twilight Sparkle with the rest of the cast getting scrap parts at best and how much prominence she has already been given in Flavour six along with her getting to take the main character slot for an unabridged two-part finale above the official main characters simply reeks of favoritism. Of course, the rift only got worse when the plot essentially involves the entire cast, that is all the royalty and the Mane Six, being thoroughly Worfed without caption: some are quick to concord that not showing information technology and/or it happening was a Necessary Weasel to devote time to the actual plot, with others feeling it validates complaints that the narative is shilling Starlight Glimmer by weakening or making other characters await worse.
• Starlight Glimmer's existence has created a simmering inner fan rivalry between her and Sunset Shimmer. It started somewhere around Starlight'due south introduction when Sunset fans became very song nigh Starlight, mostly claiming her to exist a lousy replacement who "stole" Sunset's role equally 6th Ranger in the show, while the other side argues that Sunset Shimmer has only appeared in the Equestria Girls movies and never in the show proper, therefore making it impossible for her role to be actually "stolen", even if her character arc and personality makes her wait similar a Suspiciously Similar Substitute. Then somewhere along the line the Starlight campsite adopted their oppositions habit of bringing up the other character out of the blueish and comparing them, which usually leads to the more diehard fans of the ii trying to downplay their own champion's past or recent transgressions, while trying to demonize the other. The constant dorsum and along has atomic number 82 to calls of Hypocrisy, biased morals and insufferable self-righteousness beingness thrown all effectually the lath and the aforementioned arguments being repeated over and over once more, leaving both sides embittered towards one another, and the people who happen to savor both characters (or who don't but give a damn almost either) tired of the amount vitrol that mentioning one or the other tin can bring when discussing the testify.
  • ... which segways nicely into her appearance in the Equestria Girls specials, which sparked an explosion of cheers from one side of the fandom who are happy to come across her EQG design and a character they like finally actualization alongside the Rainbooms. Of class, this sparked an explosion from the other side of the fanbase who are fearing she's going to replace or overshadow Sunset Shimmer, or are but embittered because of how much prominence she'due south already been given in the principal series.
  • The argument that Sunset doesn't actually exist considering she'due south never appeared or been mentioned in the main series, which means that Starlight "wins" by default by virtue of being a canon grapheme, is oft thrown around by the more violent anti-Sunset or anti-Equestria Girls oversupply. It'southward notable that a lot of these people don't actually like Starlight either, only they hate Sunset and Equestria Girls in general more and don't want them "infecting" the master show.
• The writers' decision to brand Starlight merely appear in episodes she'southward the focus of. Some feel it'due south fine and helps non force her into places she doesn't vest, others find it jarring and denies her more chances to bear witness her character and feel similar part of the prove, and of course her sizeable hatedom is thankful for information technology because they already feel she's been given far too much exposure and prominence this flavor and feel it's a breath of fresh air and a render to normalcy. Of course, that hasn't stopped Starlight from making a Cameo in "Spice Up Your Life" and "Top Commodities", then there'south that also.
  • Starting with Season 7, the writers started to give Starlight non-cameo appearances outside her ain friendship lessons, only not as the primary attraction of the story. In addition to possibly helping her fit in to the testify overall, this can also been as an effort to placate complaints that usually whenever Starlight is present in a story, she tends to hog the spotlight away from everyone else. Of class, this is also a double-edged sword since it ways even more than Starlight than ever, much to the chagrin of her sizeable hatedom.
• Because the teasers for "Celestial Communication" suggested that the show would finally say bye to Starlight, the fact that it ultimately didn't so that has re-ignited the whole discussion across the community.
• Later Starlight's Heel–Face Turn, the staff tried to perform some impairment command with the stories that involve her, which has improved Starlight'south standing to some extent. Depending on who you enquire, these attempts were enough to lead Starlight being Rescued from the Scrappy Heap completely, were in the correct direction but not plenty, gave rising to new issues, tried to gear up them from the incorrect angle, or merely didn't work at all.

    Main Characters

• Rainbow Nuance. The base of operations is split between those who think she'south a Jerkass due to her airs and constant boasting, and those who think she actually has the skills to keep up with her boasts. She's on many fans' "best pony" lists, simply also on just every bit many "worst pony" lists. The trend of Scootabuse (artwork of Rainbow abusing Scootaloo), Rainbow Factory, Pony.MOV, Friendship Is Witchcraft, and other fanworks that exaggerate Rainbow'south attitude into outright villainy have not helped, despite being non-canon. Many early Flavour 2 episodes which were written before she Took a Level in Kindness and focused more on her competitive drive, which only increased her hatedom. Rainbow's status as the Element of Loyalty has as well been chosen into question, as episodes such as "The Last Roundup", "Iii'south a Crowd" and "A Canterlot Wedding – Function 1" involve her showing no remorse or having her suffer no event for ignoring her friends. She's hated in "Trade Ya!" for the unspeakably heinous crime of accidentally trading her friend abroad for a volume, with very few fans realizing she didn't sympathise what had happened until it was (virtually) too belatedly. That said, Rainbow'south also had a few episodes where she'southward shown genuine loyalty, such as when she was willing to quit the Wonderbolts (giving up her lifelong dream in the process) if it meant that her friends were put in danger. This graphic symbol development seemed to have worked, as Flavor 5 onward mellowed her out quite a bit without actually impacting her drive and desire to be the best, which turned down the base-breaking. Earlier she becomes 1 of if non the most controversial of the mane 6 in after seasons.
• Little finger Pie. Many love her for beingness a Fun Personified pony whose driving purpose in life is to make others happy, and detect her hyperactivity and fourth-wall breaking antics hilarious. Others hate her for being Innocently Insensitive and getting abroad with it, existence office of the nearly controversial aesops of the series (Such as "Swarm of the Century", "Feeling Pinkie Smashing", "A Friend In Deed", and "Yakity-Sax"), and notice her irritating. This is not helped past the fact she is one of the well-nigh inconsistently characterized main characters in the serial, ranging from very mature but still Pinkie-like portrayals such every bit in "The Terminal Laugh", to episodes where she seems to take no tact at all, with few centre points.
• Fluttershy. Some fans thought that she was a precious Shrinking Violet who was the go-to grapheme for the bear witness's wholesome moments. Others went through Hype Backlash when information technology comes to her cuteness, and found her passiveness and cowardice irritating rather than endearing. Fluttershy'due south willingness to stand up up for herself and/or her friends also varies, depending on the episode. Whenever she does something incorrect (like hurting her friends' feelings), she's speedily forgiven, yet when whatever of Fluttershy's friends hurt her, they speedily become targets of unrelenting hate. This was seen with Fluttershy's pet Angel in "Putting Your Hoof Down" and Little finger Pie in "Filli Vanilli", who both got reamed by bronies as evil monsters. Her cemented Character Development in regard to assertiveness in the after seasons likewise caused some backlash, splitting the base betwixt those who thought Fluttershy's development made her a more dynamic character and those who felt it made her 1-note.
• Twilight Sparkle got a ton of divisive opinions thrown her way afterward she became a princess at the terminate of the third season. Some fans love Twilight and think of her as a dorky Badass Bookworm who deserves to be the show's main protagonist. Others see her as overpowered with the writers fawning over her and making her flaws told rather than shown. Even ignoring the issue of her being an alicorn princess entirely, Twilight all the same gets some flak for having the majority of the testify's more dramatic moments focused on her. This has led some bronies to accuse Twilight of stealing the spotlight, especially in the 2-function episodes, despite beingness the main character.
• While the bulk of fans liked Applejack just fine, she broke the base for the amount of Grapheme Focus she got; Applejack was simultaneously accused of getting too much screen fourth dimension and non enough screen fourth dimension. The Apple family as a whole were considered a Spotlight-Stealing Squad by those who felt Applejack got too much focus, especially in Season 3 where AJ is the only character to announced in every episode of the season. Some fans got tired of the extra focus Applejack got for the final few years, not helped by later episodes with AJ in a leading or major supporting role getting more than divisive reception. On the other side, there was something of a running joke in the brony fandom that Applejack was a "background pony" because of how little focus she got early on, with her few appearances relegating her to a modest part or a tangential advent to the episode's plot. This acquired those who liked Applejack to need that she get more screentime, and only quieted down in one case she finally did in later seasons. This left Applejack'southward reception without a lot of heart ground until a happy medium was plant.
• Rarity got striking with this pretty hard in the earlier seasons. Many people perceived Rarity as dim, shallow, arrogant and useless — a typical Rich Bowwow, the very stereotype Rarity was designed to subvert. Simply equally many claimed that Rarity'due south focus more on her wear as art made her much more than dynamic, and that her generous nature meant that the accusations of beingness a Rich Bitch were undeserved. As Rarity was given more than time to develop, fans eventually warmed up to her, though others were uncomfortable with her upstaging other characters (similar Rainbow Dash in "Sonic Rainboom" and Twilight in "Sweetness and Aristocracy"). Finally, Rarity'south status as a self-admitted Drama Queen who turns into a Large Ham whenever things get wrong made her either funny or annoying, with not much overlap.
• A lot of bronies were immediately taken with Fasten, who was apace adopted as the Audience Surrogate of the bandage, apparently considering he's The 1 Guy. Some of the tension may exist due to the fact that he's written every bit more of a comedic sidekick. While some fans admire him for his Butt-Monkey status, others don't appreciate how oft he is used for Comic Relief, often claiming They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character. It hasn't helped that he is shown to have some amazing abilities, like swimming in lava and fire jiff that can melt locks or stadium-sized pieces of ice, Hidden Depths, and a rather mysterious backstory. Many episodes with him as the central character are frequently disregarded due to him acting like a complete moron, while episodes where he isn't the focus usually have him as The Reliable One. Other fans abhor him existence The Chew Toy, referring to the slapstick he goes through as "Spikeabuse" and feeling that the sheer amount of it he'southward subjected to is unfunny at all-time and downright mean-spirited at worst. Fifty-fifty series writer Josh Haber said on Twitter that the gag of using Spike in physical comedy had overstayed its welcome. However, many fans are in understanding that Season 6 finally gave him some practiced spotlight episodes, and his development in Seasons seven and 8 got him Rescued from the Scrappy Heap in the optics of most.

    Supporting Characters

• Fans are divided on the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Are they a fair departure from the Mane Bandage or are they given besides much exposure? Also, their arroyo to getting their cutie marks has been divided always since their talents are hinted at in "The Prove Stoppers". Their divisiveness has increased with each season with fans getting tired of them getting denied their cutie marks and not being immune to grow upward. Nevertheless, with them finally getting their cutie marks in Flavor v's "Crusaders of the Lost Mark", fans are almost unanimous in believing that it was a skilful affair. The rift became over whether they should have gotten their cutie marks sooner, and with fans split over whether their talent of helping others discover their destiny was a good and creative thought or a cop-out that tossed out established abilities that had been built up since season 1 as potential special talents.
• Of all the royal princesses, Princess Celestia is probably the most divisive character of the show. Many fans found her boring, uninteresting, and weak which invoked the three common meme trends (Trollestia, Molestia, and Tyrantlestia) in fanart, fanfiction, threads, etc., while others establish her to be the most deep character of the series. While at that place hasn't been much backstory given to her in the prove itself, the IDW comics do expand on her graphic symbol quite a bit, making her The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask. Her actions in the Reflection Arc of the comic series also show that she was almost blindly impulsive and selfish in her younger days. This has lead to a split up that made some fans question how much Celestia deserves to exist the ruler of Equestria, while others say that her condition as The Atoner makes her far more interesting.
• Princess Cadance. Fans either like her personality and overall character or dislike her for her banal characterization and lack of development on the show. And there are as well some who are to this day still bothered that she was introduced into the show as an alicorn without caption. They feel that her alicorn status diminishes the monumental presence of both Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, equally well as takes a lot of the affect out of Twilight's ascension into alicorndom. Other times she is disliked for entirely different reasons.
• Fans are every bit divisive on Cadance'due south married man, Shining Armor. In his first appearance, fans either accepted him for existence Twilight's Cool Large Bro or weren't pleased that he was introduced as such without any explanation. His Badass Disuse has besides been questioned with each appearance later on, especially because his status as helm of the Royal Guard. While some fans defend that he tin't crush every Big Bad, opponents cite his uselessness as wasted potential. His crying at least One time a Season sure isn't helping his case.
• Shining Armor and Princess Cadence's foal, Flurry Eye, divided the fandom fifty-fifty earlier the flavor started:
  • The foal is an alicorn. Fans who don't similar this feel it invokes even more Uniqueness Decay for alicorns. There are now five in the testify and to brand matters worse, such births are now catechism, lessening the accomplishment that Twilight and Cadency earned their ascensions. Fans who don't mind it claim Shining Armor and Princess Cadence take the genetics to produce such offspring, and Celestia and Luna were as well born every bit such.
  • Her appearance. Since Art Evolution has apparently set in and babe ponies now seem to all accept large watery eyes rather than the solid optics they used to, fans have been separate into a Fatal 4-Fashion. Some similar the new look claiming the old one was creepy, some like the old wait claiming it was cuter, some are just biting that they inverse it at all, and of course some just don't care either way. Somehow Babyjack passed with piddling fanfare, just this one? Nope.
  • Her name. Some appreciate the proper noun, some wish they had stuck with the name Skyla that was given to a previous alicorn princess foal toy, and some just wish they hadn't picked a name that sounds only a fiddling also much similar Product Placement for a certain fast-food concatenation.
• Spitfire, due to her actions in both Wonderbolts Academy and especially Rainbow Falls. There are some parts of the fanbase who demonize and/or laugh at Spitfire and make Soarin a full Woobie who has since been saved past the true honey of Rainbow Dash. Though for RD haters, they demonize them both and take Soarin fall for a very kind OC. Look on the comments of any pony video featuring Spitfire and for every "Spitfire is awesome!" comment you run across, there'll be a "Spitfire is a complete and utter douchebag." or "Soarin is the simply skilful Wonderbolt." annotate. It's gotten to the point where Spitfire has quickly become 1 of the almost divisive characters in the show and is on par with Rainbow for both one of the most liked and most hated ponies.
• Owlowiscious. Fans are divided whether he's a cool and funny character who needs more appearances or a Replacement Scrappy to Spike'due south place. Fasten fans were also put off by how much better Twilight seemed to treat him (in contrast to how Spike tends to be treated) and experience that Spike was fully justified in feeling jealous and angry. Even so, "Just for Sidekicks", where he acts more friendly toward Fasten, may have redeemed him for some.
• Even Large Macintosh isn't safety. Fans have quarreled over two Flavour 5 episodes where he was given feminine characteristics, namely the Princess Macintosh scene in "Exercise Princesses Dream of Magical Sheep?" and his crossdressing in "Brotherhooves Social". Fans who defend these accept said he has had this characterization since "Lesson Zero" where he obsessed over Twilight's old Smarty Pants doll even after he was taken out of his trance. Detractors have seen this uprising as chickification of the cast's almost prominent stallion at best and insensitive to transgender people or cross-dressers at worst.
• Limestone Pie, i of Pinkie'southward sisters, is a minor example of this. While she's mostly beloved for having a Pilus-Trigger Temper with a softer side, certain fans retrieve she is way too much of a bitch to be properly enjoyed.
• Fluttershy'due south brother Zephyr Breeze is a manipulative wiggle with crippling fear of failure, sure, and no one'south really supposed to similar him until the end, just the fandom's a little split over whether he'southward funny enough to justify it or if he's only an annoyance and spoiled the episode. Because how true to life his situation was, this likewise made a few fans cringe.
  • Some unemployed people who still live at home related to the grapheme, while others thought that the show was trying to paint them as lazy assholes who are just trying to take advantage of relatives.
• Despite only appearing in the Ponyville Mysteries volume "Riddle of the Rusty Horseshoe" thus far, Scootaloo'southward aunts have already get two of the most controversial characters in the entire franchise, possibly even more so than Flash Sentry and Starlight Glimmer. In the volume, Aunt Holiday and Aunt Lofty are heavily implied to be lesbians, with Holiday giving Lofty an affectionate kiss on the forehead and calling her "love". Some fans loved the idea of a potentially canon lesbian couple and hoped they made their fashion into the bear witness proper (which they eventually did), pointing out the large amounts of Ho Yay that Friendship is Magic has and the fact that several other children'southward shows in The New '10s accept included LGBT characters without whatever issues. Others believe the inclusion of a lesbian couple is a bad idea for a franchise that has largely avoided political themes, and fashion too risky considering the prove arrogance in countries that condemn homosexuality. Then there'due south the affair of whether the evidence did it properly, with Aunt Holiday and Aunt Lofty coming beyond equally either authentic or stereotypical. Mike Vogel'south confirmation that Aunt Holiday and Aunt Lofty are in fact a couple only added fuel to the burn.
• The yaks. Their entire race is boisterous and short-tempered, more than than a little stupid, and they have a big arrogant streak in regards to how all yak things are the best, better than the things of other races, and they volition loudly and proudly allow everyone know how much better yaks are than them. Either y'all find their schtick hilarious or you find it annoying.
• Either Mudbriar is funny because of his bluntness, or annoying considering of his tendency to over-correct everything. The testify's coiffure seem to be fully enlightened this would happen, as it'south made articulate that even after learning her lesson Pinkie isn't fully on board with him.
• The Pupil/Young Six. They were either seen as good characters that flesh out the world, or a Spotlight-Stealing Squad that took focus away from the Mane Six.
  • Subsequently the show ended, there was debate if the Pupil Six were underutilized. Most of the episodes that feature them focused on them as a collective, or have one of them tag along with a chief character with the latter as the focus of the story. Outside of "She's All Yak" for Yona, none of the Student Six got A 24-hour interval in the Limelight that focused just on them. What focus they got was mostly done in episodes that featured all six of them. On one hand, this caused a group of fans to say that the Young Vi never got enough evolution to justify their beingness, or say that they needed more screen time to mankind them out. On the other hand, some fans think the Young Six were utilized just fine since they were meant as groundwork characters and never intended to supersede the main bandage, or that they had plenty moments past their introduction to still brand them dynamic characters. Either way, bringing upwardly the Student Six's part in Friendship is Magic is sure to crusade some grumbling.

    Antagonists

• Trixie. She's either liked or disliked for beingness a pompous, big-headed showmare. Those who defend her claim she'southward defined by those traits and it'south how stage magicians like her brand a living. On the other manus, she's an obnoxious wiggle who thinks she's better than anypony else, and deliberately uses her talents to publicly humiliate and belittle other ponies for laughs. Fans accept somewhat became more accepting after her 2d advent where she apologizes to the citizens of Ponyville for the style she acted nether the Alicorn Amulet.
• Among the villains, King Sombra is generally the well-nigh controversial ane. Sombra ended up getting this treatment the most intense of every antagonist thanks to diverse details about the graphic symbol that kept irresolute, depending on both who was writing him and the medium he was being written for.
  • While many fans call back Sombra did not get enough screen time to be an interesting character in his debut, and detest the fact that he hardly says a word during his two episodes, others fence that while it is true he does non do much during the episode, the few things he DOES practice have a big enough affect on their ain. He has since been seen in a much more favorable low-cal and garnered a lot more than love as of the Season 5 finale, with many fans agreeing his Bad Time to come sequence every bit the coolest one.
  • The Fiendship is Magic story most Sombra ended upward painting him in a far different light. In that story, he was presented equally The Woobie who tried to be skilful, simply couldn't because he was Made of Evil, and ended upwards turning to villainy when no one would give him a hazard. This label was seen equally either a good backstory for a character who badly needed some label, or a cheap way to garner sympathy for a bad guy who didn't deserve it. It didn't help that, due to the Loose Canon of the comics, the story ended upwardly being Retconned by the show itself in Sombra's final advent.
  • Sombra'south terminal appearance on the bear witness was the Flavor 9 two-role opener, "The Beginning of the End". In that story, Sombra was far more than talkative, big-headed, and openly villainous. This contrasted quite a fleck with his previous characterization every bit The Chessmaster who was Crazy-Prepared for anything that could exist thrown at him. Too, his voice actor was replaced, which farther highlighted the changes. Which of the two characterizations for Sombra was the amend 1 was the field of study of fan debate for some time.
• Upon his introduction, Discord was immediately adored by the fan base for his whimsical villainy, trickster personality and mish-mosh appearance. Being voiced by John de Lancie helped his crusade tremendously. And then in "Keep At-home and Flutter on", his second appearance, he underwent the makings of a Heel–Confront Plough. This split up his fans betwixt those who welcomed it, expecting him to fight alongside the mane cast and those who thought he was better equally a villain, thinking such reformation was rushed at best and forced at worse. Every advent after that has been equally divisive, with some questioning whether or not his crossing over was genuine (especially considering his actions in "Twilight'southward Kingdom"). His Reformed, but Not Tamed nature oft either makes him considered one of the best reformations in the series or 1 of the worst. A number of later appearances, such as "What Most Discord?" and "A Matter of Principals" added fuel to the fire by having him deliberately antagonize the heroes, only for the writing to portray him as the wronged party. Some saw this as a good case of Gray-and-Gray Morality, while others saw it equally the writing going out of its way to make him more than sympathetic than he deserved. He so tops himself in the Season 9 finale, with the reveal that he was posing as Grogar throughout the flavor and using the other villains equally pawns in a scheme to boost Twilight's confidence. This quickly cemented him as one of the most polarizing characters, as the fanbase was divide between those who felt that it was in-graphic symbol for him and that he fairly made upwardly for what he did, and those who felt that it undermined all of his character development throughout the show, and that he was too easily forgiven for putting all of Equestria in danger. He has nevertheless proven himself to be popular plenty to get a supporting role in Pony Life. His relationship with Fluttershy is generally well-received. At that place are those hoping for his return in G5, only also those who aren't.
• Diamond Tiara. At 1 point, she was ane of the bear witness's least liked characters with a minority fan base. While she was disliked for constantly picking on the Cutie Marking Crusaders for no apparent reason, her defenders claimed that she wasn't as bad as any of the show'south major villains. Then came "Crusaders of the Lost Mark" where it was finally explored why she bullied the Crusaders and even became their friends by the episode's terminate. In response to her reformation, fans either finally respected the grapheme or idea it was Freudian Excuse that was an even worse Donkey Pull than Babs Seed's (mentioned beneath).
• Silver Spoon. Fans were divided on whether or not she had her own free will from Diamond Tiara and her Pet the Domestic dog moment in "Family Appreciation 24-hour interval" amplified that thought. Critics withal pointed out "1 Bad Apple" and "Flying to the Finish" where she acted merely every bit bad, if non worse, than Diamond. Then in "Crusaders of the Lost Mark", Silver Spoon gained the respect of her haters when she finally told off Diamond for bullying the Crusaders. By the episode's end, she and Diamond became friends with them.
• Babs Seed. Her Freudian Excuse for bullying the crusaders (she was likewise a bullying victim in her hometown of Manehattan) has been mixed. Some fans feel the fashion she was treated dorsum at home was bad plenty while others call up the crusaders should accept given her comeuppance for information technology. Babs appears in one more episode in Flavor 3, then is virtually unheard from until Season five'southward "Bloom and Gloom" where she unceremoniously got her cutie marking, dividing the fan base even farther.
• The changelings' new appearance at the finish of To Where And Back Again acquired one hell of a fatal-three-fashion between fans. Some admire the new design feeling it's a wonderful Call-Back / Shout-Out to the Flutterponies and that information technology reflects their no longer "corrupted" way of life. Others find the designs to be hideous with gaudy features and nauseating colour schemes that match the absolute worst OCs the fandom has to offer, with that joke was made within an 60 minutes of this revelation and others describing Thorax's new appearance as a "gay fairy moose". The tertiary group feels it completely negates the ponies' acceptance of Thorax despite his appearance and the prior existing "Don't guess A Book past information technology's cover" lesson inherent to both prior stories involving them, and felt information technology would have made their Heel–Face up Plough far more valid if they didn't have to modify their appearance to be seen as "good".
• Storm Shadow. She has plenty of fans who adore her for her no-nonsense personality, her backstory, her musical number and her voice work courtesy of Emily Blunt. Only many others find her decision to turn evil and help the Storm King subjugate her own kind because she lost two friends every bit a child to exist a Freudian Excuse just as bad as, if not worse than, Starlight Glimmer. These same people deride Tempest for not even trying to make new friends or come across a dr. nearly her broken horn, especially with previous episodes showing that Equestrians accept spells to go on unstable magic under command. Coupled with the fact that she was yet another villain to be redeemed and forgiven for her crimes against Equestria.
• The Storm Rex. Compared to how much screen time Discord, Chrysalis and Tirek got in their two-parter episode debuts, many bronies institute the Storm King underwhelming due to how footling screen time he had in a feature-length movie and how dumb he was when compared to Tempest. But he has his fair share of fans who discover his straight-up villainy and comedic personality a breath of fresh air afterwards watching multiple redemptions in the show. These fans take pointed out that he still managed to conquer many lands outside Equestria (a feat in which the show's villains, while potentially globe threatening, had not been known to accomplish) while his detractors refute that he however goofed around with the Princesses' magic similar a toy and was defeated very easily.
• Chancellor Neighsay got this status near immediately up in his introduction. He's shown to be a xenophobic, speceist, substantially decadent politician. People think his proficient intentions help give a good excuse for his beliefs, or those who recollect he's essentially a total on villain whose no better than those he opposes. His reformation in the season viii finale is likewise divisive.
• Cozy Glow is a divisive villain. You either find her a genuinely compelling villain who's incredibly smart and manipulative, or you remember she's an abrasive character with a firm grasp on Didn't Retrieve This Through. Some detect her being sent to Tartarus at the end of Season 8 a welcome pause from villains being Easily Forgiven and she showed no remorse for her crimes, while others thought a child existence punished then harshly after others much older than her were granted leniency gave away some troubling implications about the Equestrian justice organization (in the sense that they were willing to give adults 2nd chances merely not children and that they apparently didn't have any other prison besides Tartarus). In the example of her inclusion in Grogar's Legion of Doom, some felt that she didn't deserve to be included given she's just a child and/or isn't threatening enough, whereas others claim her crimes make her more than worthy of being included and/or enjoy her dynamic with Tirek and Chrysalis. Her last penalization has resulted in another hotly debated topic, for the verbal aforementioned reasons as her imprisonment in Tartarus, with the added implication that it'll exist permanent.
• Grogar. A bulk of the fanbase were ecstatic about Friendship Is Magic bringing back some other classic G1 villain. And many others honey him for how powerful he is even without his bong, his preference for planning ahead and the fact that unlike the other villains, he knows not to underestimate the Mane Half-dozen and has some idea of what makes them formidable. But he has his share of detractors who detect him to be a wearisome villain with a bland personality who spends more time planning than actually doing annihilation. Some accept even admitted to preferring the Storm King over him, claiming he at least had an enjoyable personality. Even more so since information technology turns out the real Grogar never actually showed upwards, and the 1 we saw was just Discord in disguise.

Equestria Girls

• Flash Sentry. When he was introduced, the fandom erupted due to Twilight developing a vanquish on him. Some jumped on what was possibly the starting time canon pairing of the Mane 6 while others argued that MLP had washed just fine without romance and didn't need it now. It didn't help that Flash barely did annihilation in his debut. This caused haters to charge Flash of being a Flat Character or a Marty Stu, while fans accuse the haters of being upset that Flash stole their 'waifu'. Fighting further continued with fans wanting Wink to come back and be more developed, while haters wanted Flash gone altogether. The writers manifestly noticed the controversy Flash has caused, and steadily moved him farther into the background every bit the series went on.invoked
  • Wink got a fiddling bit of evolution in My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Fable of Everfree, where Flash recognizes that he's obsessing over Princess Twilight, and sees that he needs to move on and stop trying to win the affections of Man Twilight. Whether this scrap of Grapheme Development caused Flash to exist Rescued from the Scrappy Heap or was ineffective Character Shilling is a affair of fence.
• Sunset Shimmer, as her fanbase tended to come mitt in hand with fans of the Equestria Girls spin-off, which was a divisive aspect of the franchise in its ain right. Some fans loved her character arc and development, enjoying the we got to follow a Big Bad'due south redemption arc and transformation into a hero. Others found her a boring Evil Counterpart character, and to nonetheless be a banal character afterwards she loses what little villainous border she had. Another point of contention concerned demands to see her cameo in the main series or even permanently bring together the Mane Six, versus wanting to encounter her kept contained to the films for various reasons. The improver of Starlight Glimmer to the bandage in Flavor six but added fuel to the fire, with some of Dusk's supporters seeing Starlight as a pale copy of Sunset that got the position Dusk should have.

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