@Millennial Dan
 
Not really, no.

@poneponi  
You need to settle down kid, Flash is way too important to ya.

@Background Pony #2A6A
 
You’re judging popularity using the amount derpibooru pictures.
 
Oh my fucking Jesus. LOL.

@SentryBronyPlatinum  
He’s almost as popular as Zecora after all
 
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@poneponi  
They could make more toys out of him, like one where he’s ponied up with wings and pony ears.

@SentryBronyPlatinum
 
Source?  
As far as I know, he’s getting completely scrapped into a nonexistant role.

Thankfully he’ll have a bigger role in the next movie, because he has his fans.

@Millennial Dan
 
Not really.

@Pagan  
Truth.

@poneponi  
It’s okay I forgive you.

@Pagan
 
Sorry for expressing my opinion about a topic.

@poneponi  
low quality bait.

Flash is still and always will be a terrible character.  
Even Hasbro gave up on him. He has no role, and could be declared dead without anyone noticing.
 
I mean, seriously. He only got 15-25 seconds of dialogue in the last movie.
 
He’s basically scrapped now, to be honest, and that’s fantastic! C:

@Bloody_rain  
The kind of characterization you’re talking about would require more focus on Flash than the light supporting role he has filled so far would allow. If he were a major character, rather than someone who mostly just rounds out the ensemble (just as Trixie and Vinyl do), that might be more of a problem.
 
Incidentally, I like the fact that Twilight would be interested in someone like him. People put her on such a ridiculously high pedestal that they think no ordinary person can “deserve” her or something, but a humble person is not bothered by such nonsense.
 
To your final statement, I say that I’ve always disputed the notion that Twilight is the show’s “main character.” That has never been the case for any other character in the My Little Pony franchise, and it wasn’t the initial intent with G4 either. Faust said she had envisioned the show to be an ensemble comedy of sorts, not just the Twilight Sparkle show. I think the story suffers by creating too much distinction between Twilight and her friends.

@Millennial Dan  
Flash is certainly shown to be around, doing things, but do they actually inform us of anything relating to his character? I would say, no. They inform us of character traits, but do little in establishing actual characterization. This is what I mean when I say that his characterization is poor.
 
Of course, by now the point is quite moot, since the movies have shifted him into a less pivotal role, to the point where he’s pretty much been relegated to the background (hence the point of the very image that we’re commenting on). So, there’s no longer any major reason to be concerned over him at all, one way or the other.
 
As for Twilight herself, I don’t subscribe to the notion that the writers are overly obsessed with her. That she tends to be more pivotal than most other characters is to be expected since she’s the main character of the story, so of course more things that happen are going to revolve around her. Whether or not people wish for something different will vary, of course, but I like Twilight myself, so I’m quite fine with it.

@Millennial Dan  

 
This.

@Bloody_rain  
You just cited in instance in which he wasn’t “fretting over our purple Equestrian princess”. (Pun not intended?)  
And not just in the short. In Friendship Games, as in the others movies, you can see that he’s always around, doing normal student things, because that is exactly what he is; a normal student. He competed in the Battle of the Bands and the Friendship Games, not because Twilight was involved, but because he wanted to and was qualified to do so. And because magical hypnosis.
 
Perhaps most importantly, it is worth noting that the writers themselves are apparently obsessed with Twilight. As a consequence, most of the ways in which a supporting character like him can be expected to interact with the plot will inevitably include her much of the time. This is less a weakness of his character in particular than it is a problem with the overall writing quality.

@Bloody_rain  
He’s a satellite character, he was invented that way with only purpose to circle around Twilight, so I’m not expecting any miracles at his development in the future.

@Sub Hoofer  

QFT

I feel as though those who are zeroing in on the “emotional” aspect are a little off-base. Flash’s character has problems, with this I agree, but saying that it has everything to do with his range of emotions isn’t quite putting a finger on the crux of them. It’s entirely possible for a character to show plenty of emotion while still having poor characterization, and vice-versa.
 
The best way to sum up his problems, I feel, is that we barely see anything of him that doesn’t also have something to do with Twilight. In nearly every single action or line of dialogue he has, he’s either talking to Twilight, doing something for Twilight, or talking to somebody else about Twilight. Lending itself to good depth of characterization, this ain’t.
 
If the writer’s aim is to flesh him out more, then what we need is more scenes like his appearance in the “A Banner Day” short, having him do things that don’t involve fretting over our purple Equestrian princess. Until that happens, he’ll remain as little more than “that nice guy who plays guitar and spends a lot of time crushing on Twilight.”

@Millennial Dan  
Trolling? I would never.

@Sub Hoofer  
What kind of trolling is this. Quit wasting people’s time.

@Background Pony #2A6A  

 
Good for you, you just might be one of the good ones then.

@Pagan  
The mods know exactly who I am and always did.