@Megalith
Don't forget "has to be taught that bottling her emotions up is bad three times, learns nothing at all every time".
And that poochie is a blatant attempt to replace Twilight after the writers were banned from fucking with Twilight, possessing many of the same qualities (central character, studious, magically powerful, predisposed to solving problems with mind control), but, because the writers are hacks, in a maligned way, turning her into a blatant mary sue — her only encountering superficial troubles, tearing down everyone else to make her appear better because the writers couldn't write a truly competent character to save their lives, being able to duel THE ALICORN OF MAGIC to a standstill despite absolutely zero justification for her possessing that much power. She has no character growth at all, because, again, as a mary sue she's "already perfect and has no need for improvement", so she continues to behave exact same way after "learning" the "lessons".

@skybrook
>the writers are even more evil than Poochie

@Megalith

it is a mystery

>one of the first things reformed Starlight does with Twilight’s friends is mind control
>the very first assumption towards Pharynx is he is unreformable and attempted to abandon him
>the very first assumption towards Stygian is he is unfairly given no chance to be reformed with the reasoning given that you should never abandon someone and she was not abandoned, Pharynx is not mentioned
>the very first act as student councilor is to convince Twilight to remove all government regulations to keep corruption and government overreach out of schools
>instantly captured by a kindergartner and offers no alternative for her than pony hades
>sells best friend’s mobile home without consent for personal comfort
>once again allows the child and two other villains to be condemned to possibly eternal stasis

I wonder why people tend to see her negative qualities so pronounced.

@Background Pony #C728

To be fair, she didn't know she was making the world worse (and not destroying it) until the very end, when Twilight moralled all over her. And to be fair, it's time travel; nothing changed, so they might as well have just been watching movies of the world getting destroyed. Starlight didn't cause any of those alternate timelines, because they didn't happen.

Getting shoehorned into the cast as a recurring sympathetic character though, that's pretty unforgivably evil.

@Wallbeige
Well, that's a pretty reasonable position.

@Background Pony #C728
I meant she played the role of villian better then the 'reformed' version of her character

Is artist a poochiefag? In canon she used time travel and essentially destroyed the world for petty revenge. Multiple times. She is, in fact, rather worse than Chrysalis or Nightmare Moon, because she is competent enough to succeed. She belongs in the Royal Garden as a statue alongside Tirek. She got cheap forgiveness because the writers had decided to bring her back and shoehorn her into the cast as a recurring sympathetic character, and very shortly turned the series into Glimmer & Pals Adventures. Nothing she has done in any fanwork I have yet read is anywhere near as bad as what she did in canon.

@Wallbeige
That's a bit like saying brain cancer is best cancer because at least it isn't dick cancer.

maybe because season 5 glimmer was best glimmer