Talk:Newbie Dash/@comment-3183184-20160509133841/@comment-10390252-20160509135125

It's not just the insult - It's the taunt that haunted her childhood. It literally brought back traumatic memories; the phrase 'Trigger Warning' applies here to Rainbow Dash. It wasn't as bad as Fluttershy's perforance anxiety but it was clearly capable of adversely affecting her judgement.

Of course, it is oh-so in character for Rainbow to try to tough it out and change the reality for herself by some extreme means. Maybe if she'd approached Spitfire privately about the significance of that nickname, things might have been different. As it turns out, though, Rainbow has (as is her wont) found her way to defeat this particular demon; she is doing so by reinventing the 'Rainbow Crash' name as being part of her adult identity and bond with the other Wonderbolts rather than an unhappy memory of her childhood.