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* In the Season II episode "Metallic Menace", one of the lessons given is that sometimes it's necessary to kill a living being to save others' lives. The problem is that the monster of this chapter is a non-sapient robot, something that is very much not a living being.
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* One of the main morals of this series is that redemption is not always effective, and the story is supposed to spite canon for being too idealistic. Nevertheless, it momentarily goes in the exact opposite direction by [[spoiler:redeeming '''Tirek''' of all characters, who was never redeemed in canon.]]
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* In Starfleet Humans: Starfleet Events, the subplot with Crystal Prep trying to cheat in the friendship games is supposed to teach the lesson that CheatersNeverProsper. However, this lesson falls flat due to Canterlot High also being guilty of cheating by using Starfleet's technology to develop stronger skills more easily and the only reason they're not considered cheating in universe is because [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality the characters and narrative]] say [[ImplausibleDeniability that it isn't]]. [[UnsportsmanLikeGloating The fact that they rub their ill-gotten victories to the Crystal Prep students' faces]] only makes [[UnintentionallySympathetic Crystal Prep's desire to beat Canterlot High look more justified]]. By the end of the story, the Crystal Prep students apologise for cheating and say they'll train harder to win legitimately next year, but there's no word that Canterlot High will stop using Starfleet's technology to gain an unfair advantage, or that they'll share said technology with Crystal Prep to give them a fair chance at winning.
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* In Starfleet ''Starfleet Humans: Starfleet Events, Events'', the subplot with Crystal Prep trying to cheat in the friendship games Friendship Games is supposed to teach the lesson that CheatersNeverProsper. However, this lesson falls flat due to [[{{Hypocrite}} Canterlot High also being guilty of cheating by using Starfleet's technology to develop stronger skills more easily their Starfleet enhancements]] and the only reason they're not considered cheating in universe is because [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality the characters and narrative]] say [[ImplausibleDeniability that it isn't]]. [[UnsportsmanLikeGloating The fact that they rub their ill-gotten victories to the Crystal Prep students' faces]] only makes [[UnintentionallySympathetic Crystal Prep's desire to beat Canterlot High look more justified]]. By the end of the story, the Crystal Prep students apologise apologize for cheating and say they'll train harder to win legitimately next year, but there's no word that Canterlot High will stop using Starfleet's technology their powers to gain an unfair advantage, or that they'll share said technology powers with Crystal Prep to give them a fair chance at winning.
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Fixing a couple of Chained Sinkholes
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* In Starfleet Humans: Starfleet Events, the subplot with Crystal Prep trying to cheat in the friendship games is supposed to teach the lesson that CheatersNeverProsper. However, this lesson falls flat due to Canterlot High also being guilty of cheating by using Starfleet's technology to develop stronger skills more easily and the only reason they're not considered cheating in universe is because [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality the characters and narrative]] [[ImplausibleDeniability say that it isn't]]. [[UnsportsmanLikeGloating The fact that they rub their ill-gotten victories to the Crystal Prep students' faces]] [[UnintentionallySympathetic only makes Crystal Prep's desire to beat Canterlot High look more justified]]. By the end of the story, the Crystal Prep students apologise for cheating and say they'll train harder to win legitimately next year, but there's no word that Canterlot High will stop using Starfleet's technology to gain an unfair advantage, or that they'll share said technology with Crystal Prep to give them a fair chance at winning.
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* In Starfleet Humans: Starfleet Events, the subplot with Crystal Prep trying to cheat in the friendship games is supposed to teach the lesson that CheatersNeverProsper. However, this lesson falls flat due to Canterlot High also being guilty of cheating by using Starfleet's technology to develop stronger skills more easily and the only reason they're not considered cheating in universe is because [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality the characters and narrative]] say [[ImplausibleDeniability say that it isn't]]. [[UnsportsmanLikeGloating The fact that they rub their ill-gotten victories to the Crystal Prep students' faces]] only makes [[UnintentionallySympathetic only makes Crystal Prep's desire to beat Canterlot High look more justified]]. By the end of the story, the Crystal Prep students apologise for cheating and say they'll train harder to win legitimately next year, but there's no word that Canterlot High will stop using Starfleet's technology to gain an unfair advantage, or that they'll share said technology with Crystal Prep to give them a fair chance at winning.
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* In Starfleet Humans: Starfleet Events, the subplot with Crystal Prep trying to cheat in the friendship games is supposed to teach the lesson that CheatersNeverProsper. However, this lesson falls flat due to Canterlot High also being guilty of cheating by using Starfleet's technology to develop stronger skills more easily and the only reason they're not considered cheating in universe is because [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality the characters and narrative]] [[ImplausibleDeniability say that it isn't]]. [[UnsportsmanLikeGloating The fact that they rub their ill-gotten victories to the Crystal Prep students' faces]] [[UnintentionallySympathetic only makes Crystal Prep's desire to beat Canterlot High look more justified]]. By the end of the story, the Crystal Prep students apologise for cheating and say they'll train harder to win legitimately next year, but there's no word that Canterlot High will stop using Starfleet's technology to gain an unfair advantage, or that they'll share said technology with Crystal Prep to give them a fair chance at winning.
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Now Flame Bait.
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** [[FromBadToWorse But wait, it gets]] ''worse'': [[{{Hypocrite}} this is the same Starfleet]] that [[LawfulStupid initially ignored an abusive teacher because she didn't break any rules]], [[LethallyStupid refused to capture Raven because Grand Ruler said so, even though his wife was in danger and they were in the perfect position to stop her, leading to Twilight's death]], [[BlindObedience didn't try to rescue Starla when Sombra kidnapped her until Grand Ruler greenlighted it]], [[JerkAss mocked anyone who dared question Starfleet's goals and militarism, like Twilight or Starla's dad]], [[IdiotPlot and didn't even bother to change an unfair marriage law that nearly got AJ married to a stranger she hadn't known since she was 11]]. Evidently, the lesson in practice is closer to "[[DoubleStandard blindly trusting people is bad... unless that person is Starfleet, in which case, not blindly trusting them is even worse]]".
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** [[FromBadToWorse But wait, it gets]] ''worse'': [[{{Hypocrite}} this is the same Starfleet]] that [[LawfulStupid initially ignored an abusive teacher because she didn't break any rules]], [[LethallyStupid refused to capture Raven because Grand Ruler said so, even though his wife was in danger and they were in the perfect position to stop her, leading to Twilight's death]], [[BlindObedience didn't try to rescue Starla when Sombra kidnapped her until Grand Ruler greenlighted it]], [[JerkAss mocked anyone who dared question Starfleet's goals and militarism, like Twilight or Starla's dad]], [[IdiotPlot and didn't even bother to change an unfair marriage law that nearly got AJ married to a stranger she hadn't known since she was 11]].11. Evidently, the lesson in practice is closer to "[[DoubleStandard blindly trusting people is bad... unless that person is Starfleet, in which case, not blindly trusting them is even worse]]".
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Not internally broken unless this Grinch Expy was redeemed like their original self.
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* Krysta tries to teach Twilight that friendship can't save all villains... in a story with a villainess based on [[Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas the Grinch]], who was misguided and got easily redeemed by merely seeing that Christmas is about friendship and not materialism. Maybe she should have taught her this message against an actual scumbag.
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Starla just finds Pinkie and Rarity annoying, almost certainly because the author does so too. Please see my edit reason
for when I removed He Man Woman Hater from LD's folder.
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* Starfleet's conflict with [[StrawFeminist Tan Shi]] was supposed to distill the lesson that men and women are now equal, and Tan Shi's beef against men is irrational compared to the [[InformedAttribute supposedly egalitarian]] Starfleet. However, Starfleet has proven multiple times to be more [[NoSympathy dismissive]] of women struggling through bad times than with men[[note]]See: Cadance, Rarity, and Twilight Sparkle.[[/note]], [[DoubleStandard mocks female characters when they try to be polite but praises male characters for similar behavior]], and [[HeManWomanHater Lightning]] in particular has [[DisproportionateRetribution a history of hurting women for petty offenses]], while [[FemaleMisogynist Starla]] joins in with the men to mock other mares like Pinkie and Rarity for being [[TheDitz stupid]] and [[VanityIsFeminine superficial]] respectively, [[{{Hypocrite}} when none of them are much better in either category, if at all. In light of their past behavior, suddenly their disdain for Tan Shi's beliefs starts to ring very hollow.]]
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* Starfleet's conflict with [[StrawFeminist Tan Shi]] was supposed to distill the lesson that men and women are now equal, and Tan Shi's beef against men is irrational compared to the [[InformedAttribute supposedly egalitarian]] Starfleet. However, Starfleet has proven multiple times to be more [[NoSympathy dismissive]] of women struggling through bad times than with men[[note]]See: Cadance, Rarity, and Twilight Sparkle.Sparkle (though this is at least partially due to the author's hatred of them).[[/note]], [[DoubleStandard mocks female characters when they try to be polite but praises male characters for similar behavior]], and [[HeManWomanHater Lightning]] in particular has [[DisproportionateRetribution Lightning in particular has a history of hurting women for petty offenses]], while [[FemaleMisogynist Starla]] Starla joins in with the men to mock other mares like Pinkie and Rarity for being [[TheDitz stupid]] and [[VanityIsFeminine superficial]] respectively, [[{{Hypocrite}} when none of them are much better in either category, if at all. In light of their past behavior, suddenly their disdain for Tan Shi's beliefs starts to ring very hollow.]]
