Talk:Starlight Glimmer/@comment-30358957-20161218065526/@comment-24245960-20161218163848

To respond to the original post (which wasn't at all about Discord), Starlight is indeed "amongst the most powerful" Unicorns, but she is also still in a fragile stage of learning and has limitations both magical and emotional that we have seen. She has the potential to become an Alicorn someday, but she's going to have to learn a lot more about things other than just magic before that can ever happen.

In response to the resulting comments, first of all the original comment did not contain the trope "Mary Sue" and in fact was phrased to suggest that Starlight has limitations by saying that she is among the most powerful rather than that she is alone the most powerful, so I don't see why the trope was even brought up. Just to start another unnecessary repetitious debate perhaps?

As for Discord, as has been pointed out here we have seen many examples of his limitations. His powers are restricted to a very specific realm and can be countered or even negated if need be. Discord is not overpowered, he's just a master of a form of magic that can be difficult to understand for those who attempt to classify it in some orderly manner.