>My first point of contention is the massive amount of power she pulls out of her ass. Season 8 has been especially glaring in this regard. In a recent episode she beats the bug bear (which I'll remind you that the mane 6 with Alicorn Twi couldn't defeat for literal hours) in a single magic blast. Then, just minutes after this, she defeats discord (who two alicorns couldn't defeat together) in one blast of her horn. As a normal unicorn. I've seen people act like this is somehow an unfair criticism because normal unicorns should have the ability to surpass alicorns. This is also dumb for two reasons: 1. it completely devalues the transformation. Why go through all the effort to become a princess if you can literally train to surpass it? Why become an alicorn at all? then, 2nd, they just say "because she's gifted." That is so silly on so many levels. If this were starswirl, one of the most powerful magic users in history, I could swallow that. But Starlight is just better because she is. Which is a pattern for this character. Unlike Twilight, Starswirl, hell even Rarity, she's done nothing to earn this level of power. She's just a special pony with special powers because she's special.
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>Next is the kid gloves everyone seems to use with her. Discord nearly destroyed the world with chaos and was sentenced to a life in stone. Trixie nearly destroyed ponyvillie with a powerful amulet and was put in exile. Even now characters still hold grudges after the way she treated them. Starlight imprisons and entire town, robs them of their unique talents, nearly destroy's the entire world by altering time and what's her punishment? Nothing. Just oh well I guess if you're sorry we'll forgive you. She majorly screws up multiple times, controlling her friends minds, switches the cutie marks of the two most important figures in Equestria and nobody seems to care. She just apologizes and everyone says "ok starlight, at least you're sorry." It's so annoying. And it's not even that this hasn't happened with other characters, Trixie being a good example. The difference being is that they remember what that character has done and it takes them time to earn trust back. But starlight is a special pony because she's special and thus none of them will hold anything she does against her for more than like a minute at the end of the episode.
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>I'm so tired of people defending her. She is one of the worst characters to date and people will trip over themselves to defend this obviously terrible writing.
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