Talk:Starlight Glimmer/@comment-26002711-20151123095505/@comment-10390252-20151123101429

@Choong,

In the origianl Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, the Green Ranger was a mind-controlled villain created to be the ultimate weapon of evil to use against the other Rangers. He was arguably stronger than the other six put together. Ultimately, the Green Ranger's human host broke free of the evil control over his mind and he ultimately became a hero and, as the White Ranger, the leader of the team before the actors and actresses got to old and Saban decided to reboot the show (something they do with distressing regularity).

I suspect that Integer is proposing is that Starlight will become part of the main cast as a heroic character and may ultimately become part of the primary character group. Personally, I doubt that. Sixth Rangers, as the trope is known, are always big writing risks to take. They can turn into a Scrappy and dangerously (and often fatally) destabilise the show and its writing.

Personally, if The Powers That Be want a new heroic character, I would hope that they use the established and fan-beloved Sunset Shimmer rather than create a completely new character and impose her into the Mane cast. Introducing and establishing a whole new character would suck up episodes and could end up undermining the established cast (as the writers would need to give us a reason to care about this new character). It would be clumsy writing, even clumsier strategic writing and would threaten the future of the show (IMO at least).