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I actually do not mind Flash, but the majority of the haters are just jealous that twilight got a boyfriend.
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This chain letter shit should have died back in 2012.
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I don't even know.
I don't wanna have nightmares.
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Lucky for him, the FlashLight is dead now. There's no more reason to hate him.
And while the offical ship may be gone, the fan shipping lives on
If only they had cared from the beginning, then maybe Flash could've at least been a good friend to Twilight.
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I haven't watched the episode in full yet, but I saw Flash Sentry's appearance, not that long ago (I'd already seen the reaction to it), and I have to say "Seriously bronies?Β this is what you got so angry about?!"
I wasn't even sure if it was Flash, until he did that look towards Twilight that I had already seen pictured everywhere.Β He was barely noticeable, and didn't affect anything.Β
I know he's not a perfect character, and I can't really defend him, as I have never watched Equestria Girls, but I do think the hate towards him goes too far, especially as most of it seems to be from people who wanted to ship Twilight with somepony else (and if you do, then you still can - it's fanon, do what you want to do).Β I can understand people being put off by him because he is poorly developed (a friend of mine has seen at least the first Equestria Girls movie, and he tells me that Flash was basically written as "the boyfriend", and little to nothing else, which is poor writing when creating a character - even if you create a character to be another character's boyfriend or girlfriend, they need to have something else to them), but when you realize how much the brony fandom devotes itself to creating personalities for ponies who, at the time, showed no personalities whatsoever (i.e. background ponies), then well... at least hate for him being underdeveloped is justified, but I like that some fans have at least tried to make him more of a character.
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Totally deserved. People who say they like brad I believe only do so simply because his mere existence pisses everyone else off (because really he has no actual qualities and if you say he does then you're lying, why? because the movies and show depict NOTHING to back you up.), making them no better then his haters. Resulting in a downward spiral of negativity and hate on all ends, but such is human nature.
Regardless of my actual feeling towards twilight, which is "meh she's main character pone", andΒ not much else. I do not enjoy ships being shoved down my throat via them being depicted in canon, as opposed to people enjoying them as a fan work elsewhere where I do not have to view it.
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Totally deserved, huh? The hateful fandom made him that way...
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Sorry. I know it's been two years since you wrote that comment, and I have nothing against your personal views on Flash Sentry. But I couldn't help it.Β
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Don't you find it just a little bit odd that the show writers had EVERY ample opportunity to make Flash's character less of a love interest and more as a well-rounded supporting character, and yet they chose not to?
When you've already presented someone as a love interest to Twilight in the first movie, you'd think of using him more often after that, right? They could've easily deviated away from that "love at first sight" idea and made his interest in Twilight based more on her challenging his ex-girlfriend Sunset and having Twilight save him at the end.
You're right that the movies and show since then has depicted nothing important about him, or had him do anything remotely useful. Making his presence a sad joke. But why is that?
I just have a really hard time believing the writers did all that on purpose, because they claimed they didn't know what to do with him. My only conclusion is that the bad reception he got from the fandom was just too much. That the fandom literally forced the writers to do nothing with him. That any attempt to make him remotely likeable would result in a horrible backlash.
Not even the people at IDW, who made the Friendship Forever issues, never touched upon the idea of making Flash likeable. They made an effort with Prince Blueblood, but Flash was never given a chance to shine.
I know this sounds crazy, but I just really can't shake the feeling that Flash's character as he was depicted then and currently now, is the direct result of all that fan hatred. If Flash was written as a one-dimensional and self-absorbed bully, it would make sense. Problem is, he's not.Β
And as a result, his pony counterpart, who has literally done nothing bad or even had any visible interest in Twilight, suffers from the actions of his human counterpart.
To say that all that hatred was totally deserved, is basically saying that it's okay to bully someone you barely know just for having the gall to exist.
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Well they've basically repeated the problem anyway with brad 2 in legend of the Everfree, this time as even more of a gary stu. And they try to make Brad relevant again instead of just dropping all of it like in Friendship games, which remains the best EQG movie for that reason in my book.
His pony counterpart, while technically is a different brad, was still tied to the idea of brad in the first place.
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The fact that they even went through all that trouble to make Timber more likable than Flash only adds to the confusion. Timber is proof that writers have no problem writing good romance stories. Flash simply wasn't worth the effort.
And now by taking it all away, Flash has become less hated because he has nothing. At least the music video "Good Vibes" was kind enough to give him some dignity back... Β
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Calling Brad 2 Likeable? you lost me, I hate him just as much as Brad 1. and I hate Brad 1 as much as ever. And wish both of them were removed from EQG altogether.
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I don't like him much either (mostly because he replaced Flash as Sci-Twi's "true" love interest). But the fandom had strangely no trouble embracing him.
Given how much media uproar Flash caused, Timber was oddly enough less despicable than Waifu Stealer Flash "Brad" Sentry (most probably because Sci-Twi wasn't "Princess Twilight")Β
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It's sad that this is true.
I honestly detest this fandom.
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I feel bad for the guy. He's been nothing but wasted and mishandled potential since the start.
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Let's see:
Worst Character Development ever.
Worst Character Stereotype ever.
Terrible Design.
Waifu Stealer.
Shipping Shatterer.
Complete and Utter Moron/Jackass.
But a few reasons.
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WHY DOES EVERYBODY HATE FLASH SENTRY? BUT SERIOUSLY, FLASH IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE GUARDS AND HE HAS FANS. I AM LIKE OTHER BRONIES IN SOME CASES LIKE I HATE GENERATION THREE BUT UNLIKE MOST I THINK LUNA IS WAY OVERRATED AND I LOVE CELESTIA. BUT THIS COMIC IS SORTA MEAN TO FLASH! IF THIS WAS CANON THE PEARSON WHO DESIGNED THIS WOULD BE GETTING A SERIOUS PHONE CALL FROM A SERIOUS BRONIE. HOW WOULD THE FLASH HATERS THAT ARE IN LOVE WITHLUNA FEEL IF LUNA WERE TO BE HATED. DO NOT REPLY TO THIS RUDELY OR I WILL PROUDLY ANNOUNCE HOW I THINK LUNA IS OVERRATED AND I WILL TRY TO EMAIL A MLP WRITER AND ASK IF THEY COULD GET CELESTIA TO GO SOLAR FLARE AND GIVE HER MORE FLAWS THAN LUNA AND GET LUNA MARY SUED.
Sorry, I just don't think FLASH deserves this much hate.
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People dislike Flash because they tried to set Twilight up with some random guy. We all know she is stuck in perpetual spinsterhood.
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Yep. Also, perpetual spinsterhood is the greatest phrase ever.
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Thank you, I made it up myself. And I'm pretty certain all the girls are destined for that fate. Spike might get lucky but that's about it.
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Poor flash, hope he gets some love in season 5
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Let's see:
Worst Character Development ever?
Worst Character Stereotype ever?
Terrible Design?
Waifu Stealer?
Shipping Shatterer?
Complete and Utter Moron/Jackass?
But a few reasons.
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to tell you the truth, i think you mostly hate him because he stole your waifu.
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Don't have a waifu, at least not one of the Mane 6.
Yes, I do dislike the fact that he's a potential 'waifu stealer', but my biggest issue is that he's the stupidly stereo-typed 'Perfect Boyfriend' character that stuff like Barbie and Disney Movies have overdone again and again; so much character potential wasted.
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" I do dislike the fact that he's a potential 'waifu stealer'"
Seriously, what kind of self-respecting brony or pegasister would even mind that?
Whatever the canon shipping, there will always be so criers to complain that "their waifu has been stolen".
No pony is anyone's "waifu", and the cast ship characters as they see fit, and as most of the audience sees fit. Case closed. :-P
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Like I said, that's only a minor reason. I'll admit it, though: when I first saw him in the first Equestria Girls trailer, the only thing I thought and hated him for at the time was the fact he was a potential boyfriend for Twilight. As someone who used to ship Twilight with another character, I immediately felt a huge rage/hatred for the asshole, though back then it was a petty reason, I'll agree with you there.
I still feel a bit of 'threat' toward him and the potential of him 'stealing Twilight', as ridiculous as it is (you can't REALLY blame us; it's only instinctual), but now my one true source of hatred is his complete lack of original characterization, and the fact that he's only a mash-up of every single stupid stereotype of the 'Perfect', Barbie/Twilight Saga-ish Boyfriend. As someone who thinks very highly ofΒ Hasbro's methods of giving such diverse and welcoming characterization to their characters, I'm greatly disappointed that they would stoop down and even hint that she would develop even a simple crush on such a poorly-done character. That, and the fact he was made out to be a complete ASSHOLE in Rainbow Rocks without any remorse afterwards, spell or not, only adds to that (Quick Note: all of my REAL hatred is only directly at the Human Flash, aka 'Brad', so 'Flash Sentry' isn't even a real part of this flame war...but he's a loser to, only because).
Perhaps if he was a more enjoyable character, like the others, I could open up to him, but until that day, he remains my absolute least favorite character in the entire show.
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well, you can't deny that many people in real life are like this.
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That's not true. You're relly mean. I ship Twilight and Flash.
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Poor choice of shipping, then.
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Poor? How so, pray tell? Waifu stealer and shipping shaterer? Pff. Are those even reasons? Like real, decent reasons?
More like foolish, to me.
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Hmmmm....Character Development?
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Not being rude but HATERZ GONNA HATE,BAND EVERYBODY ELSE IS GONNA BLOK DA HATERZ
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