Night Draft

All trivial matters aside about Lightning Dust, Rainbow is quite a competitive character, if not the most competitive in generation 4 of mlp. Rainbow Dash, clearly saw that Lightning was faster; the only thing she really cares about when she is competitive and she could not handle this as even though she was on her team, she always wants to be the best. Not once has rainbow really shown any interest in being a good sport, Rainbow cheats on the occasions she races AJ and flies instead. All in all she would not let any pony show her up and considering spitfire herself was watching she would definitely want to do better than her own partner so that she is elected captain of the team next time. there were no rules against what Lightning did, she may have appeared reckless but was Rainbow really just jealous of her flying skills? i think so as she proceeds to have a 'bitch' to Spitfire and have her removed. Lightning wasn't a bad character what so ever; as mentioned previously, wonder-bolts is almost a military style academy where the stakes are simple, go hard or go home. No one had died from her actions, it may be only a G rated program but Hasbro had really made her actions out worse then they appeared to be and considering Rainbow had almost killed animals in "May the best pet win", i dont see how much different they are. Ultimately, how can you blame her for her actions and call her a villain when real villains include Sombra etc, which compared from what Sombra did to what Lightning did is nothing. she may have had a really rough upbringing and with no back story as to why she is like she is, we are all fed to believe she has a really horrible soul. Obviously, anypony accusing her of being bad has not done any character analysis on her; how can you judge when you only know the things you see? I personally found Lightning a very good character. After hearing Rainbow state she is the 'best' so many times, for example; "can't settle for less cause I'm the best", i had really grown sick of her boastful nature. Lightning is the one character to bring her down (Rainbow saw her out-flying her) but what happens to her? Rainbow eliminates her by dobbing her in and acts all safe and team orientated to sway the decision in her favour. I'm quite tired of all these Rainbow lovers, yes she may be 'cool' or whatever and she's so-called 'fast' but in reality, she is a self-stating attention whore who only wants to hear everyone kissing her flank.