@Background Pony #518F flash? hug? You kid can in twilight’s and sparkle!

I Can Flash Much To Fuck You Easy Young! I Do Can’s Twilight Human!

@Yarrik eh, it probably does. Just not the qualities it says it hates about him.
 
Ever hear of the term ‘offensively bland?’ Refers to something being even worse than something intended as pure offense by the sheer idiocy/mediocrity of it. Most ‘bad games’ rated 4s, Friedman and Salzberg movies, and ‘pothead comedies’ would fall under it.  
That’s where I think his actual biggest failing lies. They gave him enough ‘canon personality’ that you kind of know what he’s like, but didn’t leave off enough to give him the ability to become a background pony, er, human, and garner his own fanon. He really is as uninteresting and generic as everyone thinks he is. And that’s what makes him worse than irritating obviously-intended-to-offend one-shots like Hayseed.  
Nobody likes Hayseed, but he doesn’t have like any sort of hatedom at all. Flash has a lot of people who are like “Eeeeh he’s soooort…of…okayish? and tolerable? I guess?” and then this gigantic hatedom. His very existence as a stock ‘non-character’ is what is so bad.

I sense that this is a massive joke everyone else is in on to make him seem less boring by exploding his status as a generic romantic interest to memetic molester levels.
 
I don’t think the internet hates him as much as it thinks it does. >_>

Merged forward, higher res.

@Max16032  
Not deleted, yet: >>388921 (merged) Soon to be merged into this image, though, I’m sure.

Incidentally, he sounds kinda Spanish. Not much, just enough that it’s there. It’s subtle, but not blatant. It has no bearing on the story, it adds nothing to his character, and it could have been only slightly different if it wasn’t included. Just like Flash.

@Niggoslav_Krawczyk  
Oh, the irony.

@Max16032  
Even worse than Blueblood? :o  
but but that’s…Unpastabowl!

@Max16032  
Honestly, I don’t think he was supposed to be a big deal. We only think he’s so terrible because of all the attention we’re giving him.

This one has been uploaded before, but it seem the last one was deleted so this one could be on the front once more (and reigniting the hate).
 
In a few words, this guy is pretty much dead. He had his chance and Hasbro doesn’t seems to give him another. With so many oppositions, his existance is doomed.
 
This is an all-time low point to me in terms of MLP quality. Behold the absolutely worst character ever created of the MLP Universe.

reasons*

I think you just pointed out the reason why people hate him.

@Background Pony  
I think that the brand is already having a very weak start. I doubt there’ll be a second wave of new dolls models.

If they would make a toy out of him, then maybe they could have made him more interesting, but then again Sunset Shimmer wasn’t all that interesting either.

@Corrderio  
in some ways, it was a major shortime lost. but in longterm impact it’s worthwhile if that’s why he is that way.

I think some people were expecting him to be a big deal. I didn’t. I got exactly what I expected.
 
I wonder how many people created this problem for themselves?

@ForegroundPony  
Ohh. I misinterpreted your comment. In that case, you have my humblest of apologies.

@SquiggyBomb  
Bro… I wasn’t implying he was a good character. I was adding to the pile of overly dreamy character.

@ForegroundPony  
You know who else had a cool car? Sam Witwicky from the Transformers movies. That doesn’t make him a good character.

Also this:  

And when you think about how the writer of EqG tends to treat Twilight, it kind of says something when Flash isn’t taken seriously as a love interest.

@SquiggyBomb  
Again, this is why I feel that they really didn’t want to write for Flash to begin with. They can write romance/deep feelings of friendship. They just didn’t want to write well for him.

@Background Pony  
So did Wall-E for that matter.

Cliched garbage you say? That’s funny, most Disney/Pixar romantic subplots are really good. Even in recent times, Wreck-It Ralph for example had a really good one.