Talk:Hurricane Fluttershy/@comment-74.12.16.111-20120326231422/@comment-4936351-20120328040753

@MJNSEIFER

What about in Mysterious Mare Do-Well? Aside from what one could say about Rainbow Dash's arrogance getting well beyond even her characterization..... (Especially when it doesn't fit logically with the humility she experienced in May the Best Pet Win, only one episode earlier) there were several other characters that behaved unnaturally for the sake of pushing the plot to have mare do-well.

Namely Applejack. The episode all through the first act would cut to her and Twilight frustrated in some way about Rainbow Dash's latest feat of arrogance. This itself is perfectly natural, and even plays back to the previous episode where they essentially did the same thing when Rainbow was starting her little pet competition. In both episodes they knew the solution to Rainbow's morality lesson, but the difference here is that they actually tried to do something in Mare Do-Well, and that is where her character took an unnatural, unexplained, and unjustified turn.

Applejack is a very proud, outspoken citizen of Ponyville. She is renown as a hard worker, willing to help anypony in need, and is a proven hero. She has often called Rainbow Dash out when she does things like this. The fact that she's 120% overloading the arrogance would give her more motivation to knock Rainbow down a notch. Not to sneak around talking behind her back, and then scheming something contrived like Mare Do-Well.

And then the whole scene at the beginning of act 3 in Sugarcube Corner... Has the mane 6 ever acted that immature, where they are essentially snarking at Rainbow's boasting by boasting about themselves after brooding for it in act 1? Sure one could say that it's because they are trying to get Rainbow to be humbled... But that is actually pretty cold. Since Rainbow only identifies Mare Do-Well as an enemy and not a friend, she is less inclined to see humility, but rather be antagonized, as we saw later.

If it was them without the mask, then Rainbow would be more willing to get the point, at least much better than that cop out ending where they had to spell out the lesson to Rainbow. Of course, then Merriwether wouldn't had been able to make her Darkwing Duck reference. Characters and continuity should be before clever references.