@Lucia di Lammermoor  

Shining Armor and Spike will not sit idly by when evil a is afoot!

@Keith Mowz  
Too true sadly. I like Spike, so it’s a shame they give him, and Spike fans a bad rep’.
 
@Daneasaur  
Indeed, never expected them to make him this badass.  
Also, I doubt this is going to be his “new role.”

@Beau Skunky  
@Daneasaur  
You can’t win with Spike fanatics.
 
You do anything with him, its spike abuse.  
You don’t do anything with him, he’s being neglected.

@Background Pony #5327  
hate Spike? If anything this is love for spike.

@Background Pony #5327  
Spot the Spike Justice Warrior! :P
 
Seriously, you guys still think Hasbro & DHX hate Spike? Oy vey…

As if they didn’t hate Spike enough, this is new role? Ugh.

@Daneasaur  
That’s awesome!!

@ShootingStarAJM  
It just might.
 
This may be an offshoot, but it could also tie into the next season.
 
Rumor on the wind is that Spike learns to “control his growth”, basically making him able to take on his large form on command, but with a degree of control (hence the royal armor and a pony riding atop him).
 
This would make him more than, well, a glorified prop at times, as well as still be cute.
 
Think along the lines of Joe Fixit.
 
Joe Fixit was the Gray Hulk. Banner would turn into him for various reasons, but when he did, he was still smart, but had an attitude.
 
This would mean that Spike would become MLP’s Hulk, where he may spend his day being the adorable Banner until he is called upon to smash something or deal with something that great strength would be needed for.

Is this gonna happen in the show or something?

@Salamenace
 
I saw another more recent tweet that debunked that whole thing.

@Keith Mowz  
I loved Robin Hood when I was a kid. Funny thing is, it bombed in the box office when it first came out, but became popular on home video, and TV later.

@Beau Skunky  
And the fact that Zootopia is practically gift-wrapped for us. If its a good movie it’ll have a similar effect to the animated Robin Hood as a furry-generating culture piece.

@Darth Sonic  
Rumor has it Disney was upset when the furry fanbase and such were drawing lewd pics of their characters. Though, they’re apparently getting over it, given how edgy they’re making the new Mickey shorts, and such.

@Beau Skunky  
Disney just doesn’t like large, organized fandom. They only tolerate Warsies because they kinda came with the package, and there’s no feasible way of dealing with a fandom that entrenched and frankly vital to their bottom line.

@Salamenace  
I figured as much, but people will still believe it simply ‘cause they want to.
 
Funny thing is, I hear Disney XD cancelled a new “Tron” animated series, out of fear of it gaining an adult brony-like fanbase. If that’s true, how could they not expect that from a show based on a reboot of an ‘80s movie? (Heck alot of adult nerds watch the new TMNT, and such.)  
It also would ironically go against Walt Disney’s ideology on animation, quoting him, “You’re dead if you only aim for children. After all, adults are only kids, grown-up.”

@Darth Sonic
 

 
You can look further at the Tweet here.

@Barhandar  
That’s a lie debunked by show-runners  

 
…‘Cuz, y’know, other showrunners kindasorta disagree. Shoddy merch and lack of promotion are certainly a major part of it, but they’re also a major part of gendered show/toy bullshit in general as well; studios and networks are going to put their biggest promotional pushes and toy design budgets behind franchises and properties they think have the greatest chances of success, and cross-demographic appeal usually misses that mark because it doesn’t fit into the Pink Aisle/Blue Aisle marketing strategy that nearly the entire toy/merch industry adopted harcore in the ’80s/’90s.

@Barhandar  
Link to these statements please?

@Darth Sonic  
Words of showrunners.
 
Also, your logic is based on faulty assumption that SJWs always do broad strokes. They don’t. As I’ve said, they go for easiest target and easiest method of attack, and only usually that’s broad strokes.

@Salamenace  
I’d like to point out that I’m not some SJW here, trying to root out the Misogynerds.
 
I hate their guts. It’s just that these accusations always seemed so focused on CN and DC despite the normal MO of SJWs being the use of broad brushes for whole industries. So I thought there must be a kernel of truth here.
 
What proof do you have that there isn’t?

@Barhandar  
Glad to see someone else not buy into the “more girls watched than boys” spiel.
 
The reality is action cartoons in America can’t survive on ratings alone, and merchandising is what’s needed to fund them. Comedies like Regular Show can get away with this because they’re less expensive to produce. Merch is just a bonus to them. Cartoon Network is at fault with the long hiatuses, not promoting the show, and not rerunning the show enough. If they did air re-runs, it wasn’t on hours where kids could access them.

@Barhandar  
Except this particular argument has never been applied to Marvel (that being, they deliberately chitchatted a successful product because girls will ruin sales long term). The only other company I’ve seen get accused of similar is Cartoon Network.
 
Usually when these types get an argument, they use it on everyone.

@Darth Sonic  
Overrunning, bad toy quality, and greed-based management.
 
And because they, being grown-up bullies, go for easy targets and it was easier to capitalize on the “bought by females and thus cancelled” victimization bullshit than do anything else.

@Barhandar  
Explain why Teen Titan got chitchatted despite huge ratings then?
 
And why this argument was only ever used against DC, despite the usual Feminist/SJW MO of using absurdly broad brushes?