Isn’t he technically a guard rather a knight?
 
@Background Pony #0E5D  
I don’t think you’re particularly responsible for things you do after someone hot-wires your brain.
 
 
@ThisGuyHasNoName  
I don’t recall any displays of cowardice. Sure, he gets kicked around like a hackey-sack more often than he’d probably like to think about, but being brave and being successful are two different things.

@Background Pony #587F  
His might upholds the helpless.

So, no one’s replied to my comment yet, eh?

Um, Shining… those words kinda ring hollow given your track record… ^^;

@Background Pony #5F8C  
I’ll say! I mean, at the end of “A Canterlot Wedding, Part 1” after he callously abandoned his own sister, that made me want to punch him in the face, just like what Lance did to that traitorous commander in “Sym-Bionic Titan, Episode 16: Escape from Galaluna” after he accused the former of murdering hostages when they had already been killed by the Mutraddi. Also, Lance tried to warn the King about the impending invasion, but the King refused to believe him, just like how Twilight’s friends and even Princess Celestia did when they turned their backs on her.

Knights were the dark age enforcers. And enforcers maim, kill and destroy. Uphold and destroy ruling classes. Not to mention terrorise the people. If the ruler/s were bad, knights were the worst.

@PonyPon  
And best part is that they fed the nobility stories of their “heroic” acts and since back then nobody would listen to a lowly peasant, the action of these knights weren’t well known only recorded by very few scholars.  
Even now you hear the word knight you think:“guy wearing plate mail; fearsome soldier, yet honorable meaning: he would not hurt innocents.”  
Well these knights were extremely rare, what you would normally find were those that I described: glorified bandits in really good armour.

@Mafioso123  
Oh, that’s just peachy.

Fun fact: historically speaking, knights were absolute dicks often times raping and pillaging villages and since in those times the armor they wore made them extremely hard to kill there were very few ways for the peasants to defend themeselves against them.

@Background Pony #587F  
Not to nitpick or anything, but I don’t think he has a sword.

Shining Armor is a brave pony, never afraid to face a foe overwhelmingly more powerful than he is.
 
I hope that someone would actually help him in a fight for once. And I mean someone like Twilight or Cadance, not some BG guards.
 
I think it would make for a great episode moment: SA is ready to battle another hugely powerful enemy which he stands no chance of defeating alone. Twilight and/or Cadance are flying away but then come into a halt. She/They fly back to SA and say something like “I/We won’t let you face this monster alone” or “We’ll do this together”, then prepare to battle their enemy.

@Background Pony #5F8C  
And you have a horrible grammar. (You´re)

@SquiggyBomb
 
His blade defends the weak.

Uh, Shining armor…no offense but your a horrible knight!

His heart knows only virtue.