History JerkassBall / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic

* "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E16TwentyEightPranksLater 28 Pranks Later]]" opens with Rainbow Dash pranking Fluttershy by pretending to be a monster, leaving her absolutely terrified. This despite the fact that back in "Griffon the Brush-Off", Rainbow specifically refused to prank Fluttershy knowing she's too sensitive to handle it (not to mention whatever prank they were planning back then was probably far more mild than what she pulled in this episode). Some of the other pranks Rainbow Dash plays (such as sneaking a brick into a pony's sandwich, which could easily have caused him real harm) are also much more mean-spirited than what she had previously been shown to be capable of.

This happens on ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' on a regular basis due to the [[AnAesop Aesop]]-centric formula of the show.

* Zecora carries it in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E8JustForSidekicks "Just for Sidekicks"]]. She ominously offers to help Spike at the cost of one of his gems. Spike finds out too little too late that instead of helping him care for the pets of the Mane Six, she's teaching him a lesson on greed and donates the gem to charity. [[BrokenAesop Spike wasn't even motivated by dragon greed]]; he just wanted gems to bake a cake, not unlike a kid mowing lawns for a little extra cash.

* [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero "Lesson Zero"]], where the usually reasonable and fair-natured Twilight Sparkle has an outright SanitySlippage from being tardy in writing a friendship letter, and resorts to causing a problem in order to have material. The other [[FanNickname Mane 6]] bouncing with the ball laugh at her problem and tell her she is overreacting.

* [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E16ATrivialPursuit "A Trivial Pursuit"]] pegs Twilight Sparkle with the ball when she becomes obsessed with winning the Trivia Trot competition and gets paired up with Pinkie Pie. She treats Pinkie like a burden, refusing to let Pinkie answer any questions after getting one wrong (even when the category is cupcakes, on which Pinkie would be Ponyville's resident expert). When they fall behind, Twinight engages in shameless [[RulesLawyer rules lawyering]] to get other contestants disqualified and thin out the competition. She even gets Pinkie Pie disqualified in order to pair up with Sunburst, whom she assumes will make a more valuable partner. Instead, Sunburst steals the Jerkass Ball and runs with it, treating Twilight the same way she had treated Pinkie.

* Zecora carries it in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E8JustForSidekicks "Just for Sidekicks"]]. She ominously offers to help Spike at the cost of one of his gems. Spike finds out too little too late that instead of helping him care for the pets of the Mane Six, she's teaching him a lesson on greed ([[BrokenAesop even though Spike wasn't even motivated by dragon greed]] - he just wanted gems to bake a cake, not unlike a kid mowing lawns for a little extra cash) and donates the gem to charity.

* Zecora carries it in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E8JustForSidekicks Just for Sidekicks]]". She ominously offers to help Spike at the cost of one of his gems. Spike finds out too little too late that instead of helping him care for the pets of the Mane Six, she's teaching him a lesson on greed ([[BrokenAesop even though Spike wasn't even motivated by dragon greed]] - he just wanted gems to bake a cake, not unlike a kid mowing lawns for a little extra cash) and donates the gem to charity.

* "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E9NonCompeteClause Non-Compete Clause]]" gives Applejack and Rainbow Dash joint custody of the Jerkass Ball. Not only are they as obsessed with competing with each other as they were back in "Fall Weather Friends", they can't be bothered to set it aside even when the safety of their students is at stake.
* "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E20TheWashouts The Washouts]]" hits Rainbow Dash with the Jerkass Ball when she objects to Scootaloo taking an interest in the titular stunt team. While she expresses legitimate safety concerns with Scootaloo actually joining the Washouts, she practically admits that she is motivated at least as much by wanting Scootaloo to look up to her and her alone. Rainbow goes so far as to strongly imply that she had been expecting Scootaloo to follow her into the Wonderbolts, despite [[Main/DreamCrushingHandicap being unable to fly]].[[note]]Rainbow Dash comes off as an even bigger jerkass when you consider that back in "Flight to the Finish", she herself helped Scootaloo learn that even if she can't fly, she's still special in other ways. As such, there's no excuse for her to be unaware of Scootaloo's wing situation.[[/note]] Scotaloo also plays with the ball herself when she openly disparages the Wonderbolts to Rainbow Dash's face (knowing full well that becoming one was Rainbow's lifelong dream).
* "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E15TwoFourSixGreaaat 2, 4, 6, Greaaat]]" has Rainbow Dash passionately embrace the Jerkass Ball when she shamelessly walks away from her duties as cheer squad coach, and openly disparages cheerleading in front of the squad (some of whom probably have Rainbow as a teacher, no less). Even when Yona and Ocellus run away crying, she fails to see anything wrong with her behavior until Smolder calls her out.
* "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E16ATrivialPursuit A Trivial Pursuit]]" pegs Twilight Sparkle with the ball when she becomes obsessed with winning the Trivia Trot competition and gets paired up with Pinkie Pie. She treats Pinkie like a burden, refusing to let Pinkie answer any questions after getting one wrong (even when the category is cupcakes, on which Pinkie would be Ponyville's resident expert). When they fall behind, Twinight engages in shameless [[RulesLawyer rules lawyering]] to get other contestants disqualified and thin out the competition. She even gets Pinkie Pie disqualified in order to pair up with Sunburst, whom she assumes will make a more valuable partner. Instead, Sunburst steals the Jerkass Ball and runs with it, treating Twilight the same way she had treated Pinkie.

* In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E19PuttingYourHoofDown "Putting Your Hoof Down"]] Angel treats Fluttershy like crap, forcing her to go to the market so he can eat his favorite foods. Once there [[AdamSmithHatesYourGuts everypony hates her guts]] and tries to take advantage of her. For example, when she tries to purchase the last cherry from one market stall, the seller jacks up the price to 20 bits, but when she refuses, he sells it to another pony for only 2 bits. Tomatoes are now 2 bits rather than the one they were yesterday. Fluttershy gets assertiveness training from a visiting motivational speech -- giving Minotaur named Iron Will, but eventually goes mad with her newfound assertiveness and starts bullying anyone who so much as vaguely inconveniences her. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone She snaps out of it]] when she manages to make her friends cry as a result.

* It's also held by Spike in the episode [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E10SecretOfMyExcess "Secret of My Excess"]], where he ends up being overcome by a dragon's hoarding instinct and starts abusing the fact that it's his birthday to try and get free stuff from people until it eventually gets out of control and [[MakeMyMonsterGrow causes him to become a huge, savage dragon]].
* Zecora carries it in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E8JustForSidekicks Just for Sidekicks]]". She ominously offers to help Spike at the cost of one of his gems. Spike finds out too little too late that instead of helping him care for the pets of the Mane Six, she's teaching him a lesson on greed (even though Spike [[InformedWrongness wasn't even motivated by dragon greed]] - he just wanted gems to bake a cake, not unlike a kid mowing lawns for a little extra cash) and donates the gem to charity.

* "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E16TwentyEightPranksLater 28 Pranks Later]]" opens with Rainbow Dash pranking Fluttershy by pretending to be a monster, leaving her absolutely terrified. This despite the fact that back in "Griffon the Brush-Off", Rainbow specifically refused to prank Fluttershy knowing she's too sensitive to handle it (not to mention whatever prank they were planning back then was probably far more mild than what she pulled in this episode). Some of the other pranks Rainbow Dash plays (such as sneaking a brick into a pony's sandwich, which could easily have caused him real harm) are also much more mean-spirited than what she had previously been shown to be capable of.

* Subverted in the [[UnexpectedlyDarkEpisode infamous]] "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E13TheMean6 The Mean 6]]". The girls decide to go camping in the Everfree Forest to take some time off from the school and end up separated; it is that point they encounter what appears to be their friends acting completely rude, cruel and jerky out of nowhere -- Rarity hoarding Applejack's items, Twilight showing no remorse for Fluttershy, Pinkie calling the trip a "boring, lame, no-fun retreat", Starlight assuming Applejack gave her some gear so she can make fun of her, and so forth. What the girls don't know is these are really EvilDoppelganger lookalikes created by Chrysalis, in an attempt to steal the Elements. In the end, the clones are destroyed by the Tree of Harmony and the girls make up their feud and immediately reconcile, without even being aware that Chrysalis was present.

* Subverted in the infamous "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E13TheMeanSix The Mean 6]]". The girls decide to go camping in the Everfree Forest to take some time off from the school and end up separated; it is that point they encounter what appears to be their friends acting completely rude, cruel and jerky out of nowhere -- Rarity hoarding Applejack's items, Twilight showing no remorse for Fluttershy, Pinkie calling the trip a "boring, lame, no-fun retreat", Starlight assuming Applejack gave her some gear so she can make fun of her, and so forth. What the girls don't know is these are really EvilDoppelganger lookalikes created by Chrysalis, in an attempt to steal the Elements. In the end, the clones are destroyed by the Tree of Harmony and the girls make up their feud and immediately reconcile, without even being aware that Chrysalis was present.

* Subverted in the infamous "Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E13TheMeanSix The Mean 6]]". The girls decide to go camping in the Everfree Forest to take some time off from the school and end up separated; it is that point they encounter what appears to be their friends acting completely rude, cruel and jerky out of nowhere -- Rarity hoarding Applejack's items, Twilight showing no remorse for Fluttershy, Pinkie calling the trip a "boring, lame, no-fun retreat", Starlight assuming Applejack gave her some gear so she can make fun of her, and so forth. What the girls don't know is these are really EvilDoppelganger lookalikes created by Chrysalis, in an attempt to steal the Elements. In the end, the clones are destroyed by the Tree of Harmony and the girls make up their feud and immediately reconcile, without even being aware that Chrysalis was present.

* In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E19PuttingYourHoofDown "Putting Your Hoof Down"]] Angel treats Fluttershy like crap, forcing her to go to the market so he can eat his favorite foods. Once there [[AdamSmithHatesYourGuts everypony hates her guts]] and tries to take advantage of her. For example a cherry costs her 10 bits but when another pony buys another cherry it costs only 2 bits. Tomatoes are now 2 bits rather than the one they were yesterday. Fluttershy gets assertiveness training from a visiting motivational speech -- giving Minotaur named Iron Will, but eventually goes mad with her newfound assertiveness and starts bullying anyone who so much as vaguely inconveniences her. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone She snaps out of it]] when she manages to make her friends cry as a result.

* Zecora carries it in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E8JustForSidekicks Just for Sidekicks]]". She ominously offers to help Spike at the cost of one of his gems. Spike finds out too little too late that instead of helping him care for the pets of the Mane Six, she's teaching him a lesson on greed and donates the gem to charity.

* "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E15TwoFourSixGreaaat 2, 4, 6, Greaaat]]" has Rainbow Dash passionately embrace the Jerkass Ball when she shamelessly walks away from her duties as cheer squad coach, and openly disparages cheerleading in front of the squad (some of whom probably have Rainbow as a teacher, no less). Even when Yona and Ocellus run away crying, she fails to see anything wrong with her behavior until Smolder calls her out.

* In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E3TheTicketMaster "The Ticket Master"]], when Twilight receives a ticket to the Grand Galloping Gala, [[EveryoneChasingYou everypony starts to chase her for it]] [[TrueCompanions including her friends-]] yes, even [[IncorruptiblePurePureness Fluttershy]].

* In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E19PuttingYourHoofDown "Putting Your Hoof Down"]] Angel treats Fluttershy like crap, forcing her to go to the market so he can eat his favorite foods. Once there [[AdamSmithHatesYourGuts everypony hates her guts]] and tries to take advantage of her. For example a cherry costs her 10 bits but when another pony buys another cherry it costs only 2 bits. Tomatoes are now 2 bits rather than the one they were yesterday. Fluttershy gets assertiveness training from a visiting motivational speech-giving Minotaur named Iron Will, but eventually goes mad with her newfound assertiveness and starts bullying anyone who so much as vaguely inconveniences her. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone She snaps out of it]] when she manages to make her friends cry as a result.