When are you guys gonna realize that all he did was fall and nearly had the heart right to sombra and the one who saved everyone was a joint effort with Cadance being the one who gets THE MOST credit in the eyes of the populace while Spike did practically nothing.

@The Smiling Pony  
@Background Pony #583E
 
I dunno.  
I used to think that way too, but as anon said, they’re in that sort of situation way too frequently for it to be simple panic. Sure she’s no warrior, but she’s studied under Celestia most of her life and seems to know a lot about most the monsters they find…all the time. And she still chooses to flee everytime, even when she/the others are already cornered.
 
I think she simply knows the limits of her magic better than us.

@The Smiling Pony  
I’m going for the panicked state of mind too, just like a deer in the headlights.

@Background Pony #76BA  
Personally I prefer to think she just panics easily and forgets what she’s capable of, but I guess that works too.

@Background Pony #76BA  
That makes sense, I’ve always imagined that was the most logical way out of a magical grip.

@The Smiling Pony  
I didn’t mean to say Twilight is helpless, just that she isn’t the “goddess” some people expect her to be because of she’s an alicorn, and how many different things she can do.
 
Imo, Twilight not using her magic on the many large beasts they encounter can’t be constantly attributed to power of plot when its that consistent. She used her telekinesis on the Ursa Minor, but only after she had put it sleep. She didn’t even try it against the dragon despite the lives of her friends being in immediate danger (same with the hydra), she ran from the timberwolves without a second thought, and froze with the cragodile.
 
The point is that we can’t say something its a plothole when it happens EVERY time. Chances are her magic simply doesn’t work against larger/stronger creatures and she knows it. Her telekineis, as an exception, probably works so long as the beast in question can’t struggle (hence, she putting it to sleep) since it would most likely break free.

@Itsthinking  
Uhm did you pay attention during the big fight scene? In the background you could see her fry several of those barbershop quartet clones.
 
But yes she definitely got downgraded during the episode. Back in Equestria she possesses at least Rarity’s, Rainbow’s and her own powers from this episode.

@Itsthinking  
Yeah…
 
It was kind of silly. They should have made her some superhero with non-magicy related powers. All the others got a serious upgrade, whereas I’m pretty sure the Masked Matter-Horn was in the same league as normal Trixie, who I take is is “somewhat above average”. I’d expect a comic book superhero based around magic to be at least as impressive as spellcasters that exist/have existed.

@The Smiling Pony  
She barely even did anything once she got a handle on her powers. She was the one who was useless. The best thing she did was freeze the floor, and that barely stopped anyone.

@Background Pony #76BA  
Normal Twi was already godlike. She could have turned the crocodile into an orange or teleported it somewhere else (both things that she could do before ascension). But, power of plot, and Twilight being very intelligent but not smart at all.
 
Either way, I’m pretty sure she was nerfed in the comic world, given she could barely cast a simple snowball.

@The Smiling Pony  
“Goddesses” don’t run away from medium-sized beasts.  
Like Crocodiles or Timberwolves.
 
I still wonder why people think that being an alicorn automatically makes you some kind of overpowered god. Not even Celestia or Luna seem to go too far beyond a “really strong winged unicorn”, and all Twilight seems to have gained with her ascension is the ability to fly and (presumably) an Earth Pony’s connection the earth. It was a symbolical change more than anything, really. Maybe she’ll ge to spread friendship like Cadence does with love though, but in terms of “power”, not even alicorns seem that particulary tough.

But Spike does think little of himself.

@Krek  
That’s what bugs me about this episode: the moral.
 
Spike has gotten more character development throughout the seasons developing from a side character to being one of the mane characters. We already saw he was still useful to Twilight when she had an owl friend in “OWTEW”. Crystal Empire showed us that Twilight loved Spike, and would never throw him out. Even Dragon Quest had half the Mane 6 show their compassion toward him and how they don’t want him to go.
 
While Power Ponies was a good episode overall, the plot had to make Spike a character who doubted himself despite helping on many occasions, (even saving an entire empire!) and was not how he was before. I like the episode, but if the character has to be out of character for the moral to work, then it’s going to be annoying to most people.

@The Smiling Pony  
Nerf Twilight Sparkle! Totally OP, ruins balance.

It’s also kinda amusing how little Spike thinks of himself in the eyes of others when he helped save the Crystal Empire.

Am under the impression in the comic book world they had the same powers as the book heroes, not anything added on top of what they already had. So Spike probably had all the natural abilities of (I assume) a rather useless pony, and Twilight got nerfed from GODDESS to slightly above average unicorn.

@Palinor  
So that’s why she keeps trying to kill me.

Well, their powers there were more or less amped up versions of what they could already do.  
In fact, Twilight was actually kind of depowered.
 
As for his flames, unless it’s paper or something, they won’t do any damage. Twilight took a fireball to the face and just ended up with a manecut.

@Princess♠Molestia  
“…and in further news, The X-Men have been shunned by fans of superhero comics. It has been discovered that natural talents are no longer counted as super-powers, even when compared to those without such powers. Reportedly, Dark Phoenix was not amused.”

Natural abilities don’t count. Sucks for you Spike.
 
Top lel.
 
 
…I wonder if he could have burned Maneiacs hair off?