Despite Mykan claiming that his stories teach more valuable lessons than MLP
, all of them have the underlying tone of hypocrisy.
- Most of these stories supposedly try to teach Twilight that she needs to stop "forcing her opinions on" other people... which doesn't work since the characters she's "forcing her opinions on" force their own opinions on her and anyone who disagrees with them.
- Terra is always told her bad past and desire to have a normal life don't excuse how she treated Beast Boy. Meanwhile, Beast Boy and other characters in this series can act far worse, but their pasts and motives will always be met with sympathy and be viewed as understandable reasons for their actions.
- Beast Boy in Equestria is a particularly egregious case. Despite containing the same "Friendship can't solve everything" message that all the other stories do, Beast Boy is only able to defeat the villain Changeling through the Power of Friendship. The ONLY reason Mykan says it fails is because Beast Boy dies at the end but his death wasn't connected to his friendship with the others AT ALL. END OF ENDS has the exact same problem.
- In both Beast Boy in Equestria and The End of Ends, Terra is given nothing but scorn for choosing to live a life away from a possible significant other for everyone's good. In Love Doesn't Work That Way, however, Strings is given nothing but sympathy for the exact same thing.
- One of the lessons of Pride and Punishment is that there is more than one way of doing or getting something and you should accept these ways as valid options, even if they aren't the most common way. The one who's supposed to learn this lesson is Ath Lita, who forced Talon Ted to get an acting degree when he wanted to pursue his dreams without one. However, Talon himself refuses to accept any way of achieving his dream of becoming an actor other than his own way (and mentions that he scoffed at those who did get degrees to become actors). This is despite the fact that said way wasn't working as he got rejected by every audition he went to. He's potrayed as being in the right for this.
- One of the messages of Amending Hearth's Warming is apparently "Think of others"... except Helper Soul, the character we're supposed to see as in the right, is a gigantic Jerkass who thinks only of himself.
- The primary lesson of Darkness of Dimensions seems to be that you shouldn't meddle in the natural order of things, otherwise, certain catastrophe will result. This is apparently shown when the Dark Angels destroy the multiverse after Twilight tries to help them but the Aesop is broken by the fact that the Dark Angels chose to annihilate everything; it's not like they're obliged to follow the laws of physics, such as when a wave results from a landslide falling into a body of water. The Aesop becomes further broken when time travel is used to prevent the Dark Angels from coming into existence; thus, meddling in the "natural order" saves the day.
- The lessons in Hearths Warming Carol involve "Actions have consequences" and "Sometimes in life, we all must own up to our mistakes", which the protagonists of every single story of the series adamantly refuse to learn.
- The lessons of Write in the Head are that you cannot force your opinions onto others and that just because someone is different than you doesn't give you the right to treat them differently. This is demonstrated by Stone's writing being viewed poorly by ponies because it doesn't fit with their preferences. However, Stone himself thinks other ponies are wrong for enjoying stories he doesn't and so he insults them and attacks them with his nightmares for it. Treating them badly because they have different opinions than him.
- Twilight in Therapy tries to teach that you shouldn't help people when help is neither wanted nor needed. The problem is that it doesn't define when it's wanted or needed; after all, a person could have a serious addiction yet still think they don't need help. Even worse, in one of the examples where Twilight's help is seen as unwelcome, she saves someone from suicide, which is another case where a person thinks they don't need help, while they do.
