@Background Pony #BF0E
I agree. Wish there was a song similar to One of Us from The Lion King 2 play round her betrayal.

@Blazewing
Well, Twilight deliberately did what she wasn’t supposed to!

@Blazewing
Well, remember how Simba have broken the Circle of Life in “The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride”? Well, Twilight in this movie have broken the Magic of Friendship.

@Blazewing
Well, at least Twilight won’t be blamed for it anymore.

@SemiJuggalo
Exactly. She suffers from severe tunnel-vision at times, and it wasn’t until A Trivial Pursuit that she finally seemed to realize how much damage that would cause if she didn’t get her act together and make a change.

@Wayneponeth
Yeah, because no group of friends ever argue ever, especially in stressful situations.
And Twilight overreacting?! That has never happened before!

“Why are we arguing?!”
“Because we need to create false tensions and emotions!”

In all the conversations about this scene, i don’t think I’ve seen anyone use the term, Third Act Breakup.

@Blazewing
It seems a lot of people have “issues” with this scene because of reeeeeeeeeeasons, mainly.
These are also the same people who think it’s totally in character for Pinkie Pie to grind ponies into mush and wear their skin or how it’s in character for the mane six to cut off Scootaloo’s legs and laugh or literally any clopfic ever.
So I’m always dubious when anyone in this fandom says anything is OOC.

@Blazewing
Also, Twilight has a history of being driven by desperation to make rash decisions, usually resulting in making things worse.

We all know how infamous this scene is, as well as the scene before it, but I still maintain that this isn’t necessarily ‘out of character’ for Twilight, taking the events of the movie into context.

Think of all the pressure she’s been under. She’s the last princess in Equestria after Celestia, Luna, and Cadance were petrified, is constantly being hunted by Tempest, and she’s desperately trying to find a way to save Equestria with what little information she has. Along the way, she’s going through unfamiliar lands, and all she sees are her friends mingling with creatures whose trustworthiness is unknown, and look where it leads. Capper almost sells them, they’re almost thrown overboard by Celaeno and her crew and could have been given up to Tempest when she boarded, and got turned away by the Queen of the Hippogriffs/Seaponies, the very creatures she had come all that way to get help from.

In her desperation to get where she needed to go and not get caught, she missed seeing all the times when her friends managed to get on the good sides of their new acquaintances. Rarity’s generosity inspired Capper to second-guess himself and try to keep where they were going a secret. Rainbow Dash sparked new life into Celaeno and her crew and inspired them to be pirates again, while being prepared to fight Tempest rather than give up the Mane 6. Pinkie cheered up Skystar in her loneliness and actually managed to impress and please Queen Novo as well, until things went south.

Twilight wasn’t able to witness any of that, and as such, she thought their usual means of befriending others weren’t good enough outside Equestria, and she took matters into her own hooves, unfortunately failing to show trust in her own friends. I’m by no means excusing her actions, and I wish she didn’t try to steal the Pearl, and I especially wish she hadn’t snapped at Pinkie, but it’s obvious from her immediate horror after she did so that she realized she’d gone too far and wanted to take it all back.

Remember, understanding why someone does something isn’t the same as absolving them of what they did.

Sorry for the long comment, but this scene in itself is particularly essay-worthy.