Ring Team
I have mixed feelings about Rainbow Dash.
On one hand, I like her in the first seasons and in the MLP film. She’s cocky, but loyal to her friends, kinda like Han Solo after the events of A new hope. On the other hand, I think the writers wrote her being unnecessarily mean in many cases.
For example, many people have said many times that she was horrible in Non-compete Clause, but you can see that attitude in previous seasons, and even films. In Rainbow Rocks, she was selfish and mean, which doesn’t make sense to me. In the first film, Twilight reunited a group of friends that was divided by Sunset Shimmer. By understanding, empathy and comprehension, Rainbow Dash went back to be the friend of the mane 6. So, why does she have to go back to be so antagonistic to her friends in the second film?
I think most of Rainbow Dash’s shenanigans in the later seasons were there because of the positive reactions of Rainbow Rocks regardless of what they think of her in that movie. After Rainbow Rocks came out, we got an episode in season 5 where Rainbow Dash is so desperate to her turtle that she ended up destroying Cloudsdale. In season 7, she gives some cake to her turtle without considering that cake is unhealthy for it, which is ironic considering how she supposes to care about her turtle. And in season 8 she got an episode where she fights against Applejack just for a trophy.
Thankfully, one of her last good episodes, Parental Glideance, shows a Rainbow Dash that is not mean or cruel.
Because of all this, I think having four extreme answers, two of them are “yes” and the other two are “no”, I haven’t clicked on any of these options. I like Rainbow Dash, but I’d be lying if I said that I didn’t see her problems as a character.
On one hand, I like her in the first seasons and in the MLP film. She’s cocky, but loyal to her friends, kinda like Han Solo after the events of A new hope. On the other hand, I think the writers wrote her being unnecessarily mean in many cases.
For example, many people have said many times that she was horrible in Non-compete Clause, but you can see that attitude in previous seasons, and even films. In Rainbow Rocks, she was selfish and mean, which doesn’t make sense to me. In the first film, Twilight reunited a group of friends that was divided by Sunset Shimmer. By understanding, empathy and comprehension, Rainbow Dash went back to be the friend of the mane 6. So, why does she have to go back to be so antagonistic to her friends in the second film?
I think most of Rainbow Dash’s shenanigans in the later seasons were there because of the positive reactions of Rainbow Rocks regardless of what they think of her in that movie. After Rainbow Rocks came out, we got an episode in season 5 where Rainbow Dash is so desperate to her turtle that she ended up destroying Cloudsdale. In season 7, she gives some cake to her turtle without considering that cake is unhealthy for it, which is ironic considering how she supposes to care about her turtle. And in season 8 she got an episode where she fights against Applejack just for a trophy.
Thankfully, one of her last good episodes, Parental Glideance, shows a Rainbow Dash that is not mean or cruel.
Because of all this, I think having four extreme answers, two of them are “yes” and the other two are “no”, I haven’t clicked on any of these options. I like Rainbow Dash, but I’d be lying if I said that I didn’t see her problems as a character.