Dawn-Sunlight

If I could spend an entire day with somepony it would most definitely be Sunset Shimmer. (What does perverted mean? I don't think I want to know so I'm going to ask instead, is this image OK, or should I take it off?)

Sorry if this comes out as more of a rant. The age-old debate. Is Sunset Shimmer better than Starlight Glimmer, or is Starlight Glimmer better than Sunset Shimmer? But, is this even a contest? As far as I'm concerned, Sunset Shimmer is best character period in MLP and Starlight would be hovering around a top 10 worst characters list. Sunset always gets the best stories, songs, you name it. The best MLP movies are Rainbow Rocks, where she gets so much character growth, and Forgotten Friendship, which is her first solo movie(finally! ). But I feel like she doesn't get as much love for her villain time as she should. Have you seen the faces Sunset makes?! She is good at everything she does, and she so deserves at this point to be an alicorn princess. Why Hasbro decided to make Sunset start sharing the spotlight with SCITWI, of all characters, I have no idea. The fact that she is confined to EQG is kind of annoying, too. I think that it's understandable to like Twilight Sparkle a little more than Sunset, but I will never understand the weirdos who think that Sunset Shimmer is a horrible character, or that SciTwi is a better character. Sunset Shimmer is cute, awesome, underrated(mostly villain form for this one, but a little of regular Sunset Shimmer too.) If you actually take the time to look at what Sunset was doing, you realize her plans were BRILLIANT. And it was all without using any violence(excluding the scene at the end with Twilight's crown, and that was only because the rest of the main 5 were going on and on about how great the person who she was trying to beat and who was also a princess, the thing Sunset wanted to be from the start, was and all her other plans had failed, so she was frustrated and kind of desperate)! For instance, she took the time to break up the human 5's friendship because Rarity ran against her for the Princess of the Spring Fling, and she wanted to reassert her dominance, so she tortured Rarity both with her knowing it and not knowing it. This was all in preparation for when the contest actually mattered; she was trying to get rid of any opposition before the fact. Then came her redemption. Sunset suffered consequences(rebuilding the front of the school, which she had destroyed), and also didn't immediately get forgiven by everyone and their grandma. She literally got the best EQG movie yet for her redemption arc, and is a far more funny and enjoyable character than the clone of Twilight(her looks) and Sunset(her arc). If you don't know who I'm referring too, you've been living under a bigger rock than the person who didn't know about the background six until about half a year ago(me). Another thing about Sunset: in Forgotten Friendship(second-best EQG movie), Sunset leaps in front of the memory stone's magic beam to save her friends from losing their memories. This is the character who deserves to be the Princess of Friendship's prodigy, and frankly, even an alicorn herself. She can harness the elements of magic herself and fight a raging she-demon to save everyone else. She can sing a very inspirational song about how your past mistakes do not define you, it's what you do to fix those mistakes and earn forgiveness that counts, and grow phoenix wings from just singing the song with none of her friends even around! Considering Sunset Shimmer is my favorite character, I could go on and on about how great she is, but I should probably say why Starlight is a bad character. Her time as a villain is 1: Requiring everypony else to not have a single functional brain cell in their body in her town, and 2: Requiring the story to be artificially slanted in her favor and for her to have plot armor so she can fight Twilight to a standstill. Than, her redemption arc(which wasn't an arc at all) was very rushed. Her reason for being a villain was because her friend moved away, something that many people have experienced. And this has already been done before, except Apple Bloom, whose friendship with Twist effectively ended when Twist got her cutie mark before Apple Bloom, didn't try to immediately burn down the world. She made new friends. And Starlight suffers absolutely no consequences for her horrible actions, instead being able to stay in the castle and become best friends with the saviors of Equestria, as well as become the Princess of Friendship's prodigy, and is shown no degree of mistrust, not even by the ponies in her own village, who forgive her in less than 30 seconds. She is way more powerful than she should be, and as far as we know, has had absolutely no magic training under somepony like Celestia or anything. She's just special because she's special. Also, here's a link to a website, it's not mine, but I thought it was amazing and it helps my argument about Sunset Shimmer because it shows she wasn't just a cliche villain. Here's the link, https://theentertainmentnut.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/an-animated-dissection-thoughts-on-equestria-girls-sunset-shimmer/, I hope I'm giving credit to the right group or person, but I think this website was made by The Entertainment Nut. At this point, as we are on the 200th episode of MLP, I think it wouldn't be too much to ask that we Sunset fans get to play Where's Sunset? at least once, considering you, Hasbro, did that for a character that was the blandest, worst example of fan-pandering I've ever seen, Muffin. And stop shoving Cunty Mc. Purple into our faces at every two steps like caves in Pokemon do with Zubat, or the people who still think Starlight's an amazingly awful character will never change their minds. If your going to make a clone of the main character and the best character in the series, at least have the decency to make her a good character and not just a bad awful Twilight/Sunset clone. I'm outraged that Hasbro shoves Starlight into the faces of people who watch the show, yet apparently is too scared to put the best character, and a fan-favorite, into a background cameo?! Starlight literally has to have everypony else holding a stupid ball so that she can be the "special hero" who gets to save the day, and she hasn't changed one bit. Her biggest problem was that she really overreacted to every little thing that happened to her, and she didn't stop or change this behavior after becoming "reformed". The main 5 are disorganized? Starlight mind-controls them against their will. The Princesses are fighting and not getting along? Starlight switches their cutie marks and throws the kingdom into chaos. Trixie accidentally teleports the map somewhere else while doing magic practice with Starlight? Starlight decides to not tell Trixie how she feels because she thinks Trixie will not want be her friend anymore, and also thinks that Twilight will be mad at her for eternity and kick her out if she can't find the map. One of the changelings is finding it hard to adjust to a new lifestyle from the one he was raised with? Starlight sets a monster on the hive. Twilight gets her school shut down because she and the rest of the main 5 were terrible teachers and couldn't run the school well? Starlight tells Twilight to completely disregard the rules. Discord is being Discord? Starlight almost murders him, even if it was just by accident. Trixie and Starlight's road trip is experiencing bumpy bumps because Trixie's wagon isn't built for two ponies and a full load of magical artifacts? Starlight shows absolutely no regard for Trixie's things or feelings and simply trades her wagon away, and only comes back when she realizes she can't pull the wagon by herself. Seeing a pattern? These are all things Starlight either has no control over, or are relatively small or silly things, yet she reacts in a very over-reactive way to each one. One last thing. Starlight is constantly moping, and constantly feeling sorry for herself. Hasbro has been doing better with this recently, but because there is no outside force causing conflict, there has to be internal conflict, which amounts to a personality of "I'm very sorry for what I did". Sunset still feels guilty about what she did as a villain, but she's dealing with her problems in a helpful organic way, and the viewer isn't treated to endless rounds of "Oh my gosh, I did something bad! . . How will I ever be forgiven for the bad thing I did? How could I? I must make up for it." Honestly, I like external conflict a lot better than internal conflict, as too much internal conflict can make the character seem very insecure and kind of unlikable, unless there is an outside threat that is intentionally using the main character's internal struggle to their advantage, such as the Dazzlings in Rainbow Rocks. So yeh, that pretty much sums up why Sunset would have been better to have in the MLP world instead of Starlight. Of course, I know many people won't bother to read the whole thing, as the people who agree with me will be jumping up and down, doing their happy dances after the first two sentences, and the people who don't agree with me will be running to the comments section after the first two sentences to yell at me in computer language and give extremely bad reasons that I can easily counter about why my opinion is wrong and why I'm a horrible person for telling them they're wrong and blah blah blah. Although feel free to try and contradict my reasons in a respectful manner and/or try and come up with reasons I'm wrong and we can try and see who makes the better argument. I'm not against hearing other people's opinions, as long as they are well thought-out and nuanced.

@CloudMistDragon: I have heard the news many times, it was stated literally in the trailers. @cuteycindyhoney: The reason I'm doing this on the last season is because I didn't have an account before now, as I'm fairly new to this. Also, I'm glad you were able to follow this episode, but how is someone who has never interacted with the online community going to follow this? @The Historian: I'm not the one who made these character's backstories or the one who decided to put them in the show all in one episode with no build up. I'm just the one who looked at these poorly written characters and wrote my opinions about them in my spare time because I felt like it. @Lady Moonspell: I actually did do research on these ponies to find out what their origins were, thank you very much. I'm sorry if I wasn't clear that these ponies weren't overrated because of the show, but because of the fans, which was my intent. Also, just something that's not related in any way, how come you refer to me as OP? Is it something that is related to being a new pony on this website?

HOW THE @#$% DID HASBRO MANAGE TO DO THIS!?!?! THE ONE RULE OF EQG IS THAT YOU DON"T MESS UP SUNSET SHIMMER SHORTS!!! YOU HAD ONE JOB! *Deep breath in* I don't know how this happened, but Hasbro somehow managed to mess up a short(How to Backstage) with the best character in the whole series starring in it! And we haven't gotten a solo Sunset short yet! This should have been an amazing short, or at least an OK one that I like because it has Best Pony in it! Also, they Need To Stop Doing The. Stupid. YouTube. Shorts. Inside. Of. YouTube. Shorts! The only shorts in this format that worked were Game Stream, Street Chic w/Rarity, and DIY w/Applejack. So, STOP! Please! These aren't enjoyable to watch! It's a telling sign when Pinkie Pie isn't funny and is extremely boring in the YouTube short inside a YouTube short format, but her next short was one of the best in the season because it was funny and enjoyable to watch. EDIT: I made this a while ago and on a rewatch, I realized that the short was actually OK, so please don't take this seriously or just ignore it if you stumble across it.

I don't think DJ Pon-3 is underrated because she doesn't get enough praise, I think she's underrated because most fans prefer Muffin or Dr. Hooves. Dr. Hooves is literally one of the blandest/most selfish ponies in the show. In Slice of Life, he takes Muffin to his house, gets distracted with Muffin, and then when Muffin reminds him of why they were there, he just leaves to go GET HIS SUIT TAILORED! Muffin, however, is not innocent either. Muffin was made popular because... an eye glitch that a FEW people saw. Her character doesn't amount to anything other than she's clumsy, and she likes muffins. Her first appearance was so bad, Hasbro and DHX pulled her from the show entirely. I will admit, every since Slice of Life, her character has been getting better and better, to the point that I was almost starting to think "Hey, maybe she isn't so overrated after all." And then the holiday special came out. And she was back to the way she was in season 1. They ruined her, and now she's back to square 1. Hasbro apparently knows that DJ Pon-3 is better because they made two music videos for her, in one of the EQG shorts(I think it's the one where Fluttershy tries out for coal miner number 2), she was one of the ending choices, and she appears occasionally from time to time to take her deserved spot in the spotlight, for instance, helping the main 7 in Rainbow Rocks defeat the Dazzlings. Muffin is a really bad character. She has no personality, and I dare someone to come up with 5 different things that define her. She's not the blandest or boring-est character ever, and by no means is she the worst character. It's just. . . . the fans. Oh great StarClan, the fans! The reason this piece of "Ooh, look, Hasbro put my favorite character that I like for a really stupid reason up on the screen as that really tiny pixel over there! Take all of my money and time!" is even popular is pretty stupid. Her story is the animators messed up and her eyes went wonky for a few seconds in one scene of the first episode, and a few people who were eagle-eyed looking for bugs pointed this out and BOOM! Muffin was popular. Her NAME is based off some gibberish that may or may not have actually been Muffin's. All of the background ponies have this problem of they aren't really characters that the audience knows, only a percentage has hopped onto the Brony train and looked at memes and fan art online. The only two background ponies I actually like are DJ Pon-3 and Lyra Heartstrings, and the only reason I like Lyra is that she's really sweet and seems like a really nice pony who would have been one of the best characters in the show if she hadn't been planned to only be a background pony. According to Hasbro and the official MLP website, the only background pony who's even a character is DJ Pon-3, so Muffin has absolutely no reason to be as popular as she is, because they ruined her in the holiday special and turned her back into her season 1 self! So overrated. And the worst part is, if Muffin so much as flashes across the screen while flying, her fans will go "Oh my gosh it's best pony!" Why did you ruin her, Hasbro? I was actually starting to consider her to be not overrated and then you made her go through a time travel machine back to her season 1 self and be the most annoying mail pony ever!!! Episode 100 was awful. It was just Hasbro jingling keys(Mainly Muffin, but the rest of the background six definitely are offenders of this too) in front of the Brony's faces. I absolutely refuse to call Muffin "Derpy" when her cannon name is Muffin and not Derpy. Also, yes, I know that it was at one point Derpy but it isn't anymore.

As far as I'm concerned, Sunset Shimmer is best character period in MLP. Sunset always gets the best stories, songs, you name it. The best MLP movies are Rainbow Rocks, where she gets so much character growth, and Forgotten Friendship, which is her first solo movie(finally! ). But I feel like she doesn't get as much love for her villain time as she should. Have you seen the faces Sunset makes?! She is good at everything she does, and she so deserves at this point to be an alicorn princess. Why Hasbro decided to make Sunset start sharing the spotlight with SCITWI, of all characters, I have no idea. The fact that she is confined to EQG is kind of annoying, too. I think that it's understandable to like Twilight Sparkle a little more than Sunset, but I will never understand the weirdos who think that Sunset Shimmer is a horrible character, or that SciTwi is a better character. Sunset Shimmer is cute, awesome, underrated(mostly villain form for this one, but a little of regular Sunset Shimmer too.) If you actually take the time to look at what Sunset was doing, you realize her plans were BRILLIANT. And it was all without using any violence(excluding the scene at the end with Twilight's crown, and that was only because the rest of the main 5 were going on and on about how great the person who she was trying to beat and who was also a princess, the thing Sunset wanted to be from the start, was and all her other plans had failed, so she was frustrated and kind of desperate)! For instance, she took the time to break up the human 5's friendship because Rarity ran against her for the Princess of the Spring Fling, and she wanted to reassert her dominance, so she tortured Rarity both with her knowing it and not knowing it. This was all in preparation for when the contest actually mattered; she was trying to get rid of any opposition before the fact. Then came her redemption. Sunset suffered consequences(rebuilding the front of the school, which she had destroyed), and also didn't immediately get forgiven by everyone and their grandma. She literally got the best EQG movie yet for her redemption arc, and is a far more funny and enjoyable character than the clone of Twilight(her looks) and Sunset(her arc). If you don't know who I'm referring too, you've been living under a bigger rock than the person who didn't know about the background six until about half a year ago(me). Another thing about Sunset: in Forgotten Friendship(second-best EQG movie), Sunset leaps in front of the memory stone's magic beam to save her friends from losing their memories. This is the character who deserves to be the Princess of Friendship's prodigy, and frankly, even an alicorn herself. She can harness the elements of magic herself and fight a raging she-demon to save everyone else. She can sing a very inspirational song about how your past mistakes do not define you, it's what you do to fix those mistakes and earn forgiveness that counts, and grow phoenix wings from just singing the song with none of her friends even around! Sunset is best pony. Want proof? The scene in Forgotten Friendship where she jumps in front of the memory stone and sacrifices her memories for her friends' memories should be proof enough. Sunset was so smart that she was the only person in Canterlot High EVER to make it to the last round of the Academic De-catalog, was Princess Celestia's student, and figured out many of the solutions to the problems happening in the human world(how to defeat the Sirens, why the main 6 were starting to pony up in random places, the source of the magic the main 7 were getting, and how to defeat Midnight Sparkle). Whoever decided the color scheme for her was a GENIUS. Unlike a lot of ponies, her name is actually reflective of her whole appearance, not just her cutie mark, which is a trait I like my made-up ponies to have. All and all, SUNSET SHIMMER IS BEST CHARACTER!