Talk:Rainbow Dash/@comment-178.232.28.118-20120623140912/@comment-2170890-20120624025158

I guess I should explain further. First off, if your friend is really "exactly like Rainbow Dash in every way except less boastful" then the people who don't like her are the real ones with the problem. You tell her, if they can't see her for who she is, just screw them. They're not important, and support her whenever you can.

On why I personally find Dash to be a likeable character, yes, she's boastful, but that's just her flaw, and all characters have them. I'll admit that her arrogance is the side of her personality I like the least, but at least the show explains it to some extent in that the main reason she boasts isn't to impress others, but to impress herself, which shows that she has potential to get better and not be so arrogant (she's even managed to be less arrogant in later episodes). When I look at Dash, I see a character who is devoted to her friends and would do all she could to protect them, she's someone who would show support to those who needed it. That is why I like her, it makes up for her arrogance.

I always try to look at the good quallities of people be they real or fictional, but it is easier to see the good quallities of fictional characters because we see the sides that the characters that know them don't see. Since we are talking about Dash, I will use arrogant people as an example; when we see someone who is arrogant, all we see is an annoying person who acts like s/he is better than everyone else. What we don't stop and think is why they're like this - maybe they were over praised when they were younger, and can't handle critiscism, or maybe they are insecure about failing, so they act big infront of everyone because they are trying to prove to themselves that they aren't failures (this is what Dash does). Because when we watch them on TV we see what the other characters don't, we see why they are like that, but in real life we have to be more patient and see everyybody for who they really are, and the fact that there is potential in everyone.