YMMV / My Little Pony Friends Forever Issue 3

• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Celestia explains her All-Powerful Bystander status was so others could learn to handle problems themselves, while showing she was willing to intervene as needed. But practically

every time before and since a threat was dire enough Celestia attempted to intervene, she was defeated before accomplishing anything, making it come off as an excuse to avoid owning up to her fallibility (not intervening before thing grew beyond her ability to handle, failing when she did try to).