That’s what worries us, Shining.

you know, in his defense, most soldiers do get their shit rocked by mythical monsters of legends.
 
just take a look how well the extreme Templars from Dragon Age Origins are handling their own problems..
 

 
need I also remind more examples of how ineffective and laughably silly our military is being portrayed in most works of fiction, or should I just stop at this mention of the movie Avatar?

@the metal bronyhead  
*first

@Dr Outback  
will see i’m not feeling the push to male Characters in MLP Season 5 it will always be Mane Six CMC Princesses and only one Spike and Discord shining needs a push to have a better character and Cadence with Shining will be great make something like they have a kid for the fist time

@the metal bronyhead  
I find it funny with the recent outcries of wanting good sex reputation that we have a show where almost all the male characters are goofy or a running joke. Then again kids shows have the same “problem” of side characters in general to be one note. Hopefully this season will focus on other people besides the main cast.

@Jarkes
 
Also it really bothers me that almost nowhere in fiction we see married pairs going on adventures and defeating monsters together. Here we have these two but the shows writers never do much with them. I’d love an episode or two where they for example are sent to some unknown world, have to survive and depend on each other.
 
But no, since they are married their adventures are over. It’s kinda disturbing really.

@Arrowsman
 
Basically, yeah. I’d like to see the show actually acknowledge that Shining and Cadance are married more often since that’s how they were introduced. It seems like after the Crystal Empire two-parter the writers have gone out of their way to avoid giving the two any shared scenes.

I don’t see why everyone gives hard time to SA.
 
He was essential in both Canterlot Wedding (Where he and Cadance sent changelings flying) and Crystal Empire (Where he sent Cadance flying, thus preventing Sombra from getting crystal heart).  
At the beginnning of crystal empire, his mission was, not to defeat Sombra, but to get Twilight and her friends safely into the empire, and he did.
 
The only way he could be more useful is if he singlehandedly defeated both Tirek and Sombra. And that would be pretty stupid. He’d be like Itachi of the show (Ugh).
 
I’d much rather see him in a friendship styled episode like Three’s a crowd, or have an episode with just him Cadance.

@MadBrony  
Hard to belive these bunch of idiots are in charge of protecting the princesses, no wonder females are the dominant sex in Equestria.

@DanielTepesKraus  
Here’s Shining training for a gas attack.  

Bitch please, you and the other guards are a joke.

@DanielTepesKraus  
Not to mention half of the gun is missing, if you compare it to the guy’s who’s posing with it.

@Dr Outback  
I know it’s a kids show anyway

@Jarkes  
To be honest, since there’s cleaning supplies about and there’s no mag in his rifle, he’s probably checking the barrel for crud.
 
It still looks damned bad, though.

@albert19  
Man all the male characters are a Joke.

Also, Shining may have failed against Tirek, but you gotta give him credit: He likely knew he didn’t stand a chance against Tirek, but he went down fighting instead of running.

@DanielTepesKraus
 
@Twilatron217
 
@bAv_DB  
That’s the entire Equestria army.

@DJDerpy2013  
@DanielTepesKraus  
@Jarkes
 
The first guy is actually cleaning his rifle, seeing as both the gas piston and the receiver cover are missing. The gun isn’t going to fire any bullets in that state.
 
Can’t speak for the formal arms handling practices of every military force out there, but yeah I’m pretty certain the second guy is just goofing around and not practicing for a parade.

I really do wonder why the hell the writers are so hesitant about doing anything with this guy after hyping him up as Twilight’s “Best Brother Ever” when we never see the 2 onscreen ever.Twi and his wife have had more chemistry than Shining has had with any character.I think he has had more on screen chemistry with Miss Chickadee.And he didn’t like her at all.
 
@Jarkes  
The second one is obviously goofing around,not too sure about the first one though.He might actually be that dumb.

@Twilatron217  
And another.  

@DanielTepesKraus
 
@Twilatron217
 
I can’t tell if those guys are just goofing off or if they were really that stupid…

@DanielTepesKraus  
And another.  
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Rare photo of Shiny’s training:  

@albert19
 
Honestly, if they DID do something like that for him, I’d prefer it if they just stuck to what we’ve already seen happen, rather than giving him some extra baggage about something we haven’t seen yet.

@Jarkes  
Because that would give him good characterization, and the show won’t go that for the men besides Discord and Spike (and even theirs are pretty wonky).