Talk:Read It and Weep/@comment-26973802-20130121184722/@comment-26973802-20130614042419

Fun bit of trivia: MLP didn't even begin with that stereotype to begin with. Whatever the line of toys was, G1 was pretty hardcore from what I read about its vile villains, many of which are apocalyptic and two of which die in the end (though not as graphically as Sombra even if one turns to a crystal and shatters to pieces). Making My Little Pony one of the few TV cartoons in the 1980s to kill characters off. And I've even seen the Tirek and Lavan episodes, those villains were pretty dark!

Then G2 came along and overshadowed it with the girly stereotype, then G3 continued it, G4 finally departed from it and became best generation with its appeal, humor, moral outlook, animation, and character development