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If anything, she’s probably learned/changed more then the Mane 6 have. Still, she’s at least been trying to deal with her control-issues, and such.
 
I mean… she started out as a villain. Of course a character that was reformed and undergoes rehabilitation would change more… You’re comparing apples to oranges here.
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If anything, she’s probably learned/changed more then the Mane 6 have. Still, she’s at least been trying to deal with her control-issues, and such.
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Like… this show is about characters fucking up and learning lessons.
Messing up is basically what these characters do. All of them. Not just Starlight. You’re basically asking for Starlight to never make mistakes.
Also, I object to the Discord one. He was endangering the students, and was making it clear that he had absolutely no intention of stopping. The last straw was him heckling her, but she was at the point of revving up her horn even before then. She banished him. She was trying to keep him away from the school because he was being a horrible destructive pest.
With Sunburst, he wasn’t objecting when she cast the spell. He was excited about the spell and wanted to see it, and as soon as he made it clear he was uncomfortable she stopped and undid it.
With the School Neighsay revealed himself to be biased and full of shit as he went to shut it down. Apparently the teachers being unqualified was a major point, yet he says “If you had higher standards for who was admitted, this could have been avoided”, implying that if the students weren’t non-ponies then he wouldn’t be shutting the school down. So he clearly doesn’t CARE about the cast being unqualified. Since even if the students were all ponies the faculty would still be the same.
Seriously, how people can look at No Second Prances (where she messed with Big Mac’s mind the second she met him and was annoyed when AJ implied that was a bad thing) and Every Little Thing (where she literally had to be told she did something wrong) then compare it to All Bottled Up (where she used magic on herself to try and avoid her negative tendencies), Royal Problem (where her own guilt nearly caused psyche scarring and she only used magic after being patient and tried using other methods first), Road to friendship (where she realized what she was doing wrong by herself and immediately trekked back to make it right), and Starlight the Hypnotist (where she asked Twilight if she wanted to try it) and say that she hasn’t learned ANYTHING is ridiculous in my eyes.
Penguin Dragneel
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@Penguin Lagann  
From what I’ve seen, hypnosis is the only instance that has been repeated. I don’t recall Starlight blasting someone with a huge surge of magic or doing an age regression spell being instances of repeating mistakes.
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@Beau Skunky  
I’ve also noticed that some of the reasons that people profess to hate her contradict each other.
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Thanks, in regards to my points, it seems like fans can’t decide if they hate Starlight, because “she’s a perfect flawless karmiac-houdini Mary-Sue,” or a “flawed biotch who does things wrong.”  
Yet, they love other characters for the same reason/s they hate Starlight.
 
I used to hate Starlight too, but I got over it.
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@Beau Skunky  
This.
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@FurriesandFlurries  
She wasn’t. But I wouldn’t do what Starlight did to someone I hate, let alone a friend who wasn’t accommodating enough.
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@Background Pony #0EF0  
Let’s not act like Trixie’s a complete saint here as she was being just as difficult and if I had a guest over, I’d at least try to improvise the accommodations.
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@Diaz
Yet she got her friend’s trailer back in the end so that has to count for something.
 
If my friend pawned off my trailer without my consent for his benefit, even if he got it back I would no longer want to be friends with someone who has even a chance of doing something that low.
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How about you get off your high horse for second and stop trying to put yourself on this “moral highground?”
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@Diaz  
Yet she got her friend’s trailer back in the end so that has to count for something.
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Speaking as an ex-Starlight-hater, In regards to the claims of her being a “annoyingly perfect Mary-Sue,” doesn’t this image actually prove she’s NOT perfect, nor a “Sue?” If anything, Twilight & Sunset are more “Sue-ish” by that standard. So should we hate them instead? Or should we only hate characters that do bad/ignorant things, and have flaws that make them not Sues?  
Which is it? This argument of why we should all hate Starlight honestly contradicts itself.
 
The same could frankly be said of every “reformed” character, and even the good guys/gals. By that logic, we should not just hate her, but Sunset, Discord, Tiara, and even some of the Mane 6, CMC, and such for occasionally doing “dickish” things too.
 
Here’s only a few things every beloved character has done.  
Twilight mind-controlled, not just six ponies, but like 50 just so she’d have something to report on.  
Pinkie Pie made Fluttershy constantly uncomfortable. (Yet told Dashie not to prank her)  
Fluttershy stole Celestia’s pet, insulted her friends after taking Iron Will’s advice too literally, and has occasional outbursts.  
Rainbow Dash tried to sabotage the weather factory out of selfishness, and disrespected her parents.  
Rarity made her little sister cry, and made her friends her work slaves just to win a competition.  
Young Applejack almost got her brother some unnecessary surgery,  
Apple Bloom got upset that her friends wanted to do different things.  
Sweetie Belle almost ruined her sister’s reputation/sanity out of jealousy, and hates Seapony culture.  
Scootaloo easily turned her back on her hero/adopted-big-sister, and the Wonderbolts for a more reckless “cool/edgy” flight group.  
Derpy didn’t pick up the letters she dropped. (The horror!)  
Trixie’s ego is the size of Cleveland.  
Sunset Shimmer acted like an alpha-biotch, broke-up others’ friendships, dated Flash Sentry when she didn’t care about him, stole Twilight’s crown, tried to enslave the whole school, tried to frame Twilight, and messed with powers she shouldn’t have.  
And Discord is Discord.
 
You could write a giant essay of how “horrible” every character is frankly, and how they need to be “better” too.  
Which is better? A boring perfect “Sue” character who never does anything wrong, or a flawed character that still makes mistakes like we all do?
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I didn’t know you could read minds. I did, however, know that you could build straw men.
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That second to last one is by far the worst. The other stuff can be dismissed as not very hurtful since it was done out of ignorance and Discord being a shit head, but what she did to Trixie was extremely personal, deliberate, and direct. No matter what the reason, you don’t sell stuff that isn’t yours, plain and simple. And she doesn’t even care that Trixie was crying. Trixie is supposed to be her closest friend and she showed no contrition for how she so carelessly sold what’s practically her house.
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How mature of you to assume that I’d make separate accounts just for that purpose.