History YMMV / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E6NoSecondPrances

* MisaimedFandom: Fans who dislike Starlight Glimmer feel as though this episode was made to just to make Starlight look good by making every pony in the episode look unfavorable. However, the only character who was the closest of being displayed out-of-character was Mrs. Cake, and it can be understandable since running businesses against competition is very stressful for any business owners. Twilight displaying lack of trustworthiness towards Trixie is not the first time Twilight has sweated under minor and past problems, and Celestia displaying boredom at the party was intended for comedy rather than anything relating to her character. Aside from that, every other character was portrayed as their usual selves in this episode, making Starlight's path to redemption by making a friend quite fair enough.

* DesignatedVillain: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. Twilight Sparkle was willing to give the dangerous and possibly psychotic Starlight Glimmer a chance at redemption but rigidly refuses to drop her personal grudge with the decidedly less villainous Trixie. The episode features Twilight being called out for it several times and gives her a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment when it hits her just how badly she's harming Trixie.

* InformedWrongness: Starlight Glimmer gives Twilight Sparkle flak for not trusting Trixie, and by extension, not trusting her. Thing is, genuinely good pony at heart or not, Starlight is a reforming ex-villain. Prior to her HeelFaceTurn she was dangerous, aggressive, and unhinged, and committed terrible deeds that endangered Equestria, and even post-HeelFaceTurn she struggles with not falling back on abusing her magic to get her way (something that even happens in this episode). And then Trixie is another former villain who also did terrible things, and last time we saw her even if she was apologetic, she never really "reformed", and already came back for revenge against Twilight once before. It's not hard to understand why Twilight would be against the two of them becoming friends.

* InformedWrongness: Starlight Glimmer gives Twilight Sparkle flak for not trusting Trixie, and by extension, not trusting her. Thing is, genuinely good pony at heart or not, Starlight is a reforming ex-villain. Prior to her HeelFaceTurn she was dangerous, aggressive, and unhinged, and committed terrible deeds that endangered Equestria, and even post-HeelFaceTurn she struggles with not falling back on abusing her magic to get her way (something that even happens in this episode). And then Trixie is another former villain who also did terrible things, and last time we saw her even if she was apologetic, she never really "reformed", and already came back for revenge against Twilight once before. It's not hard to understand why Twilight would be against the two of them becoming friends -- Starlight is emotionally volatile and prone to abuse of her (very powerful) magic and Trixie may still hold a grudge against Twilight and Ponyville and has demonstrated the willingness to act upon it. There's a lot of ways them becoming friends could have turned out dangerously.

* ToughActToFollow: When the episode's synopsis was revealed, fans gave it this reaction after [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E5GauntletOfFire the previous one]] established Spike's shining moment and the introduction of a new [[EnsembleDarkhorse popular side character]] to be the sixth season's high points so far. With a notorious fandom BaseBreakingCharacter like ''Trixie'' involved, it had gotten ''much'' tougher. This unfortunately turned out to be the case for some, as the episode turned out to be the first major BrokenBase episode of the season.

* InformedWrongness: Starlight Glimmer gives Twilight Sparkle flak for not trusting Trixie, and by extension, not trusting her. Thing is, genuinely good person at heart or not, Starlight is a reforming ex-villain. Prior to her HeelFaceTurn she was dangerous, aggressive, and unhinged, and committed some of the worst acts any villain in the series has ever done. Even post HeelFaceTurn she still struggles quite a bit with basic concepts of right and wrong. Regardless of how unjustified Twilight Sparkle may be in not trusting Trixie at this point, she has ''every valid reason in the world'' to not wholly trust Starlight.

* CounterpartComparison: Both being past villains who were corrupted further by a magical artifact, Trixie's situation in Ponyville is almost just like Sunset's situation at Canterlot High during ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks Rainbow Rocks]]''.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: Similar to Discord's treatment in Season 4, after complaints that Starlight's redemption was too quick and easy, here we see that she's still struggling to not fall back into her villainous actions. Trixie gets a bit of the same treatment. We also see that Twilight is in general less accepting/trusting of reformed characters who retain a lot of their smug/jerk tendencies; it's not something she reserved for Discord. [[BrokenBase Then on the other hand]], the dark side of this trope rolled around and [[GoneHorriblyRight may have worked ''too well'']], because it created new complaints that this really reflects poorly on the "heroes", making them [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocritical]] at best and [[KnightTemplar judgmental]] at worst. Twilight Sparkle wound up losing ''a ton'' of favor in this episode among fans because of this.

* InformedWrongness: Twilight is supposed to be in the wrong because she doesn't like Trixie and harms her, yet she is absolutely correct that Trixie kicked her out of Ponyville.

* SheReallyCanAct: After Creator/KathleenBarr's previous performances as the {{Large Ham}}s Trixie and Chrysalis, Trixie's deeper characterization here allows her to give the character a larger range of emotion.

** A [[http://wadusher0.deviantart.com/art/Stars-and-Wands-525058017 comic]] drawn a year before season 6 features Trixie becoming friends with Starlight, after the latter gets thrown out of her town.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: Similar to Discord's treatment in Season 4, after complaints that Starlight's redemption was too quick and easy, here we see that she's still struggling to not fall back into her villainous actions. Trixie gets a bit of the same treatment. We also see that Twilight is in general less accepting/trusting of reformed characters who retain a lot of their smug/jerk tendencies; it's not something she reserved for Discord. [[BrokenBase Then on the other hand]], the dark side of this trope rolled around and may have worked ''too well'', because it created new complaints that this really reflects poorly on the "heroes", making them [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocritical]] at best and [[KnightTemplar judgmental]] at worst. Twilight Sparkle wound up losing ''a ton'' of favor in this episode among fans because of this.

* AbandonShipping: For much of the series, Twilight×Trixie (Twixie) was one of the show's most popular ships. However, combination of Twilight's controversial portrayal in this episode and Starlight's growing friendship with Trixie more or less dashed the once popular ship.

** Starlight criticizes Twilight for not trusting her enough to make her own friends, and unfavorably contrasts Twilight with Princess Celestia: "Well, you did say anypony, and I just assumed that you’d trust me to make my own friends the way Princess Celestia trusted ''you''." Yet [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E1CelestialAdvice "Celestial Advice"]] revealed that, before Twilight left for Ponyville, Princess Celestia more-or-less had the rest of the mane six already hoof-picked as Twilight's future friends. And Celestia still worried so much that she waited to send Twilight away until the last possible minute. Celestia ''didn't'' trust Twilight that much. And now Twilight is just unintentionally following in her mentor's hoofsteps.

* ToughActToFollow: When the episode's synopsis was revealed, fans gave it this reaction after [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E5GauntletOfFire the previous one]] established Spike's shining moment and the introduction of a new [[EnsembleDarkhorse popular side character]] to be the sixth season's high points so far. With a notorious fandom BaseBreakingCharacter like ''Trixie'' involved, it had gotten ''much'' tougher. This unfortunately turned out to be the case for some, as the episode turned out to be the first major BrokenBase episode of the season, as you could see above.

* ToughActToFollow: When the episode's synopsis was revealed, fans gave it this reaction after [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E5GauntletOfFire the previous one]] established Spike's shining moment and the introduction of a new [[EnsembleDarkhorse fan favorite character]] to be the sixth season's high points so far. With a notorious fandom BaseBreakingCharacter like ''Trixie'' involved, it had gotten ''much'' tougher. This unfortunately turned out to be the case for some, as the episode turned out to be the first major BrokenBase episode of the season, as you could see above.

* DrivenToSuicide: Trixie when she goes forward with the trick rather than, say, swapping out for a previous routine. If so it was in a "desperate cry for help" sort of way, rather than hoping to succeed. See DeathOfTheAuthor above for more details.

* DrivenToSuicide: Trixie when she goes forward with the trick rather than, say, swapping out for a previous routine. If so it was in a "desperate cry for help" sort of way, rather than hoping to succeed. See DeathOfTheAuthor below for more details.

* HarsherInHindsight: Back in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E1TheCrystallingPart1 the season premiere]], Starlight Glimmer expressed doubt and insecurity over her HeelFaceTurn, and Twilight [[EasilyForgiven easily forgave]] her, quickly dismissing her concerns and making for a heartwarming scene. Now it's not so heartwarming anymore, as it appears that in this episode, Twilight Sparkle ''does'' have her doubts about Starlight when she [[ToxicFriendInfluence befriends Trixie]], who Twilight isn't on good terms with, which [[WhatTheHellHero doesn't go unnoticed by Starlight]]. Ultimately, Twilight's doubts about Trixie are proven to hold some water, but she's able to mend things up quickly between the three of them.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: [[TheStoic Big]] [[SilentBob Mac]] becoming [[MotorMouth incredibly talkative]]? Hilarious! At least, it ''was,'' [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E23WhereTheAppleLies until...]]

* AbandonShipping: For much of the series, the Twilight x Trixie (Twixie) was one of the show's most popular ships. However, combination of Twilight's controversial portrayal in this episode and Starlight's growing friendship with Trixie more or less dashed the once popular ship.

* LesYay: The Starlight x Trixie ship has set sail with full wind after this episode. If you wanted to stretch it, one could even see [[LoveTriangle subtext in their interactions with Twilight]], particularly with Twilight being upset that Starlight stood her up to spend time with Trixie.

-->'''Trixie:''' [[BlatantLies I am not sad at all! I definitely]] ''[[BlatantLies don't]]'' [[BlatantLies feel like my heart is breaking into a million pieces!]]

* AbandonShipping: For much of the series', the Twilight x Trixie (Twixie) was one of the show's most popular ships. A combination of Twilight's controversial portrayal in this episode and Starlight's growing friendship with Trixie more or less dashed the once popular ship.

* AbandonShipping: For much of the series', the Twilight X Trixie (Twixie) was one of the show's most popular ships. A combination of Twilight's controversial portrayal in this episode and Starlight's growing friendship with Trixie more or less dashed the once popular ship.