Impious@1389091 said:
Not according to Season 2, faggart. The writers turned Dash into the group buttmonkey that nopony has faith in.

She was awesome in Hurricane Fluttershy, though. That needs to be how Dash is portrayed all ofthefuckingtime.

Impious@1389144 said:
111

Season 1 painted RD in a generally positive light. She was still a stuck-up braggart, but a LIKEABLE stuck-up braggart. In the first three quarters of Season 2 RD was portrayed as a very much unlikeable arrogant cunt and was made into comedic relief at her expense. For whatever reason.

sigh@1389154 said:
(insert Merriwether comment here)

Impious@1389180 said:
172

Blame the non-serial nature of the show.

It's why Fluttershy is CONSTANTLY fucking learning how to be assertive and confident. how many fucking times

ugh

sigh@1389196 said:
@Anon183
How so? She did kind of make the worst episode of the show, and that episode starred Dash.

Honestly, the mistakes she made were SO EASILY CORRECTABLE, but nope, we got what we got.

ProfessorOfHoers@1389213 said:
Well, there's no accounting for taste but most agree that MMW was one of the all time worst, but again, it's a matter of opinion.

Impious@1389212 said:

The only one of the Mane 6 who gets any sort of permanent characterization is Rarity. But she's best Mane 6 pony anyways.

Impious@1389260 said:
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Look at it less from a "fanon versus canon" pov and more of a "This episode is riddled with plotholes, undoes several episodes worth of characterization, and generally just sucks horribly."

It's awful. And just a few tiny tweaks could have made it okay.

I guess Twilight and friends don't have enough faith in Rainbow Dash, element of loyalty itself, to just ask her to stop, and instead feel the need to publicly humiliate her constantly and make her feel like garbage in order to teach her a lesson about friendship.

Seriously, do you understand how horrible that episode is?

sigh@1389277 said:
Whomever thinks that the others set up those disasters are a bunch of blithering idiots, and RD is most definitely NOT my waifu (that honor goes to PP).

My problems stem much more with the fact that not only did Dash's flaws get blown WAY out of proportion, but the others didn't even once legitimately try to talk to her about her bragging (which let's be honest here, she kind of deserved, seeing as how she had just recently saved lives) before immediately jumping into a convoluted scheme seemingly designed to psychologically torment Dash, seeing as how anyone who knows her would know how she would react to them showing her up and then shoving it in her face.

Anonymous@1389309 said:

She saved one life, and her bragging got in the way of saving lives. If mare do well didn't show up, that carriage would of careen of the cliff, those construction worker would of been crushed etc. If anything, the mane 6 saved her reputation because you know what's bad? Ponies dying because you were to busy yelling out your catch phrase.

Impious@1389313 said:
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That's just the thing though. They should have asked instead of jumping immediately into a sheme designed to make RD feel horrible about herself. If that's supposed to be a friendship lesson then god damn I would never want to be friends with the Mane 6. It just demonstrated an overall lack of faith and a disturbing eagerness to harm those they care about.

I don't like the way my friend is behaving. I'm going to go behind his back and destroy his reputation, that ought to teach him to be humble. Right, awesome moral, that.

sigh@1389340 said:
It wasn't until after Mare Do Well came on to the scene that her bragging started messing herself up.

Impious@1389365 said:
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I imagine she was starting to fuck up because she felt so damn insecure at that point. Here is her reputation being destroyed by the minute, and Rainbow Dash is the kind of person that HAS to look good because they're secretly desperately low on self-esteem, and as a result she was more preoccupied with looking good than saving lives. A darker aspect of her personality, but it wouldn't have surfaced if her friends had decided not to be assholes to her.

And really, if you save lives, you're entitled to a bit of showboating.

sigh@1389389 said:

Impious@1389380 said:

sigh@1389404 said:
@Anon395
That's because Twilight is not the kind of pony to go looking for attention on herself. Dash craves attention. Your logic is faulty and therefore must be destroyed.

sigh@1389427 said:
Also, Pinkie painted the apples too, and then AJ laughed along with them. Your logic is faulty and therefore must be destroyed.

sigh@1389419 said:
Nobody here said that Dash WAS'NT an idiot, we're just saying that her friends were also being massive douchebags because of a little deserved showboating.

Impious@1389462 said:
My jimmies are so unrustled I make Morgan Freeman look like a raging PCP addict.

But anon, you keep dodging the subject of the morality of their actions. We can talk about Rainbow Dash all we want, but it doesn't change the fact that her friends were assholes that episode.

I maintain that they should have at least tried to ask her to tone it down. Probably wouldn't have accomplished anything, but at least then their actions would have been justified. RD wasn't technically doing anything wrong. If Superman decides to be a showboating asshole, is he suddenly in the wrong? He's still saving lives isn't he?

Admit it, this episode sucked.

Urban Dictionary said:
A Waifu, in contrast to a harem, is the love between one man and his one and only Waifu. You treat your Waifu with the utmost respect and courtesy and most refuse to even fap to their beloved, seeing the act as an insult to the non-existent woman they have committed themselves to.

sigh@1389481 said:

Also, destroying reputation can take years to undo in real life, replacing a few apples is as easy as either washing them or just taking them off of another tree, of which AJ has hundreds if not thousands.

Saint_Braeburn@1389487 said:
@Anon436

That time Pinkie Pie talked her out of pranking Fluttershy.

ProfessorOfHoers@1389490 said:
And then even in Season 2 where she was almost talked into getting a hooficure.

sigh@1389517 said:
Honestly, debating this is starting to remind me of that one guy on the forums I visit that hates Lesson Zero. He states that Twilight showed no signs of being as crazy as she was in previous episodes, despite the rest of us giving him repeated examples that showed him he was wrong.

sigh@1389523 said:
@Anon503
Who said it was the entire orchard? The scene showed shows no signs that it was anything but the few trees in AJ's line of sight.

ProfessorOfHoers@1389529 said:
^It shows that she's open to suggestion, even towards things she might normally find undesirable. She trusted Rarity enough to ALMOST give it a shot but then was overcome with fear.

Saint_Braeburn@1389536 said:
@Anon522

You said give 1 example, so I gave 1 example.

sigh@1389532 said:
@Anon522
Fluttershy was to blame for that one, not only was the violence unnecessary but she DID owe Dash a favor.

sigh@1389542 said:
Also, seriously? I've already stated that Dash is not my waifu, and you lobbing accusations isn't making you nor your case look any better.

sigh@1389555 said:
I'm pretty sure I didn't dodge your point about the apples. Besides, if Dash and Pinkie could paint all those apples in bright colors in the time AJ went in and out of her house, then I'm sure it would be just as easy to undo the "damage".

sigh@1389572 said:
Fluttershy was already shown to have overcome her fear of dragons in Dragonshy, and besides, she's scared of EVERYTHING. Coddling her and keeping her from confronting at least a few of those fears would cause more harm than good.

sigh@1389579 said:
@Impious
But I wanna keep pretending! He's helping me kill time while there's nothing else to do!

Zancrow@1389591 said:

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Zancrow@1389603 said:
@593
Fuck, forgot that little detail....
Well, she doesn't look like 14!!!!

Saint_Braeburn@1389611 said:
Okay, so if I understand correctly, we're arguing whether Rainbow Dash is a charming scamp with a knack for tomfoolery or a danger to society.

Is that correct?

Zancrow@1389613 said:
@599
Yeah, there is. I thought this was the one. Apparently not.

Anonymous@1389632 said:

Jack-o-Lantern@1389629 said:

getteremperor3@1389630 said:

Impious@1389656 said:
GIF WAR since anon never really supported his opinion because he's an idiot

sigh@1389662 said:
Anyway, Anon got me away from my original point.

Merriwether made Dash 5X her original arrogance and jerkiness, and then tried to compensate by making all of her friends into douchebags that make Dash screw herself over by showing her up at every turn, just because she was showing off a little.

THAT WAS OLD CTENO AND SHE IS TOO A FUCKING PONY!

Impious@1389678 said:
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Correction. I said I went to go get food. I am now snacking like a fatty, despite not being a fatty.

This whole argument was pointless though. But I imagine that was the intention.

Jack-o-Lantern@1389679 said:
@Anon647

THAT WAS OLD CTENO AND SHE IS TOO A FUCKING PONY!

sigh@1389685 said:
But I don't stockpile gifs! Useless arguments are all I have!

DaxRattler@1389699 said:
Could not be Fucked reading the whole thread so I have no idea if this is even on topic anymore but I did see the words Waifu thread so here is my contribution.

yeah I know your jelly

Impious@1389707 said:
Yeah, OP is definitely bonering for Dash something serious.

My waifu? "Waifu" is such a ridiculous sentiment, but if I had to choose... I'd kill Hoers in a gladiatorial death match and take Celestia as my own.

Jack-o-Lantern@1389771 said:
@Imp
That would be unnecessary as we are all in Molestia's harem.

whether we like or not