Awww…. Trixie :(

@Background Pony #98CB  
In No Second Prances, Trixie herself says that she can’t use actual magic but in All Bottled Up, she’s able to learn transmutation and teleport spells very quickly. I think an ordinary unicorn wouldn’t have accomplished the same thing. This means she has the potential to be good at magic but no one’s ever taught her and she never went to any magic school.

@OverlordScorpion  

 
I agree that the fandom views her the way that you said. I just don’t like it.

I always thought it was unfair how they treated Trixie during her first appearance. Sure, she was boastful, and she did lie about the Ursa, but that’s part of showmareship. I’m glad she’s become a redeemed villain. There is something very sympathetic and adorable about her, Starlight, and Sunset as redeemed villains. It makes them more relatable in some ways than the Mane Six.

@hironakamura  
Well–I always figured Trixie is good at magic, far above average. How many of the unicorns in the audience could manage the illusions she does, the displays of magical fireworks, and do them all at once, all correctly, with the proper timing?
 
Trixie is VERY good at magic.
 
It’s just that Twilight Sparkle is the Pro from Dover, a one-in-a-generation mutant freak powerhouse who had more raw power as a tiny filly than most adult unicorns and who would have self-immolated when her magic began to manifest–and it took a living Goddess to get her magic under control and save her. And then she turned out to be a one-in-a-generation genius with enthusiasm, skill, and–eventually–knowledge and experience to match her raw power. And then she spent, what? ten, fifteen, maybe twenty years as the personal student and protege of that same Goddess. If not for her mental problems–the obsessive-compulsive disorder, the PTSD after the wedding–Twilight Sparkle would be damn close to Mary Sue territory.
 
It’s not a big surprise that Trixie can’t measure up to her in a contest of raw power and ability. Celestia and Luna could best her, but they’re immortal Goddesses. How many others could come close?

@hironakamura  

Uh, are you disagreeing with me, or agreeing?

@OverlordScorpion  

 
That’s actually kinda sad because I like Trixie. I find her very sympathetic. She’s a unicorn that looks like she’s good at magic but is not. She doesn’t have her own town to call home and she lives in a wagon that she pulls around all over the place. Before she met Starlight, I’m not even sure if she had any friends.

@hironakamura  
I think the headcanon that Trixie is insecure and clingy is more-or-less accepted across the fanbase now.

Its funny how people try to trigger each other this way. Friendship doesn’t work like that. Didn’t anyone pay attention when Fluttershy lectured Discord during the gala with Tree Huger and Smooze?

It’s worth noting that time, apparently is not chronologically in-synch from the Human world to the Pony world.

@Sprite  
Meanwhile,

Don’t you do this, man. Don’t you do this to me, man! Not you man, not cool!