Talk:Gauntlet of Fire/@comment-27988120-20160316045309

Getting tired of these "Spike gets to be the hero" episodes. We've already seen it a couple times and it didn't make him any better a character. Besides they always involve flanderizing the other ponies just to make him look good. It's painful to watch. The mane 6 are tough, capable, smart heroines, they don't need to be trivilized to being damsels in distress just so Spike can have a moment to be "awesome". It's forced and unneccessary.

Besides if the past episodes didn't make him any more popular (Crystal Empire is considered the worst two-parter, nobody cared about him in Power Ponies and most people hated Equestria Games due to the simple fact that it focused on him), I doubt this will be any different. Just let him be the sarcastic side kick he was in the earliar seasons, he was much more tolerable then. Leave the badass heroics to the ponies.