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So yeah. I do frequent the interwebs, and a few people have challenged my lineup for which classes I picked for which ponies. I decided to do these as a sort of rebuttle.
 
FLUTTERMEDIC PROBLEMS:  
Okay, one thing any good Medic knows is this; your job is to run around, healing people to build up an uber charge, in the thick of battle. You only run away when you are outgunned; an Engineer who has wandered away from his nest, an exposed sniper, a spy… enemies like this you can probably take. You have weapons; when you have them, logic notes that it is intended you use them, if sparingly. The Ubercharge is an important factor of the Medic - the longer you keep your allies alive, the more they can kill. Kritzkrieg is particularly designed to aid in the killing part of that equation.
 
The common argument FOR Fluttermedic is ‘Fluttershy wouldn’t hurt anypony.’ My response is that if she wouldn’t, she probably wouldn’t be in these war games. If Fluttershy was to live up to the projected idea people have for her, she would most likely spend her entire time in the base, wasting uber charges to aid in escape, only healing team mates who manage to run away from the fight and probably would have an easier time just reaching the locker.
 
Basically, she’d be that medic you votekick for being a newb.
 
Medics, if played right, are tools of destruction as much as healing.

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@Deserter  
Yes, but we also must assume the Medic does much the same himself, after all, while his discovery of the healing formula was accidental, he was quick to refine and harness it and build the medi guns. He may have more wiggle room than the Engineer, but it doesn’t mean he isn’t very precise and specific in how he does things; just look at the drawing board in Sound of Medicine.
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@Background Pony #9AB4  
But the thing is everything the Medic did was simply because he figured it out in a completely unrelated experiment.
 
The Engineer, in the other hand, follows blueprints right down to the punctuation. Sounds familiar?
Background Pony #AEDE
@Deserter  
I definitely think Twilight could be a good engineer, but I think the Medic fits better because his buffs and ubers resemble magic spells, he can make barriers that defend allies and shock enemies in mann vs machine, and in medieval mode he’s not an absolute joke.
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@Background Pony #9AB4  
And the engineer has 11 doctorates, yet people choose the pony who thinks “1/A lot = No” is advanced mathematics.
 
Seriously, Twilight should be Engi, if we’re going with the “Slightly unhinged, yet brilliant” thing.
Background Pony #AEDE
@Deserter  
True, but the question isn’t perfection, just the closest match that can be achieved. Remember, Medic learned how to outsmart boolet.
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@YetAnotherBrony  
We’re talking about a guy who talks to his guns and his food, a guy who chopped his hand off to replace it with a mechanical prosthesis, and a guy who learned to break the laws of physics just so could get in fights, among others, I don’t think having a perfect personality match is much of a concern at this point.
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@Background Pony #9AB4
 
Plus, Twilight has a “mad scientist basement” (even strapping Pinkie into one of the machines), and the Medic has stated an interest in learning magic (the Merasmus fight).
 
In just about any other game, yes, Fluttershy would be the healer. But in Team Fortress 2, it just doesn’t work.
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@Background Pony #D7A9  
Learn to speak better, because my response might be jumbled up trying to figure out what you’re saying.  
I don’t think Fluttershy is a stellar vet, to be fair. She knows enough to set a broken bone and offer home remedies, but when she gets her hooves on Philomena she doesn’t research the animal or anything. She even tapes feathers onto her. Ponyville does have an actual vet, so we can assume Fluttershy isn’t one herself.  
And the Medic has allies to defend him because he’s on the front lines, getting shot at, and usually being the first one you want to kill because his ubercharges will utterly mess you up. The Sniper doesn’t need anyone because if he’s smart, he remains hidden, runs away when he’s spotted, and camp in places that are hard to reach.
 
I have no idea why Twilight couldn’t be a medic. Medicine is a science. Twilight is an intellectual. She arrives to help the nurses during the Baked Bads incident. She is the first to look into finding a cure for the group’s poison joke affliction. She even plays psychologist for Rainbow Dash in lesson zero. Truth be told, Twilight probably knows more about medicine than Fluttershy even in series.
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@YetAnotherBrony  
well my friend, it is foolish to say that sniper not has, stressful work because first: to be a sniper already does a desired target, ie comparing the stress medic who has other mercenaries in his defense the sniper not have anyone, to act fast and accurately alone, Is your brand, third: fluttershy, whenever the situation this chaos she wants to stay close to her friends, and precision, caution, is not something she tenha. I think she would miss more shots than acertalos, tremendo.twilight can be a scientist, a mistress of knowledge, but this does not make qualified on the battlefield to be a medical, just watch the episodes and see how it acted quickly and accurately, as well as forest where she this alone, not to mention that it is, efficient, polite and cautious, and fluttershy in my view is that doctor of animals a biologist,healing animals and they know well as they are as medic, know the human being
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I don’t like FlutterMedic for this reason (she’d go out and kill if it meant saving her friends), but Medic is a RIDICULOUSLY high-stress class, since everybody, friend or foe, is watching you constantly, either to get healed or to shut down your powerful Ubercharge. Fluttershy would crack like an egg.
 
She’s much better suited to staying out of the front-lines altogether, perhaps as a Sniper.
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@Background Pony  
I don’t think he’s saying she shouldn’t be Medic because she isn’t violent. I think he’s stating that her lack-of-violence is no grounds to pick a class because there is no such thing as a none-violent class in TF2. Keeping this in mind, the Medic runs out into danger and gets shot at a lot.
 
Basically, I think he’s saying that she’s more likely to pick a class where she doesn’t run around with a big bullseye on her back for everypony to see.
Background Pony #C5ED
by this ridiculous argument she shouldn’t even be in tf2. Much too aggressive and violent. And suddenly it all falls apart because none of these characters should be there killing each other. So instead of taking nitpicking pieces of canon about them as examples you should maybe focus on the overall character tropes they fill and find the ones that fit them best that was as well as aesthetically. When you do that, where else does fluttershy go but as a medic? You’re comics are trying to hard to force in the point and end up no actually being entertaining for the jokes they’re trying to make, and in the end it all just looks way too silly.
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@Align  
I don’t thing the argument is that she shouldn’t be Medic because she wouldn’t hurt anyone, but rather that the argument she should be Medic because she wouldn’t hurt anyone holds no water.
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Actually, the Medic is beyond psychopath… he basically deboned a patient for laughs, while keeping him alive (that’s how he lost his medical license, after all).  
He’s a medical genius, way beyond his time, but he’s criminally insane.
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Fluttershy has the personality to be a medic, but not THE Medic. Remember, this medic is a jovial psychopath who operates on people without gloves or anesthetic, and created the medi-gun by accident. There really isn’t anyone in MLP that lines up to him very well, actually.