YMMV / My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW) Issue 23

• Hilarious in Hindsight: Rainbow Dash calling out everypony over how Easily Forgiven Cassie was for nearly destroying the town for the sake of her friends, only for Dash to wind up in the exact same position in "Tanks for the Memories". May overlap with Harsher in Hindsight.
• It's Short, So It Sucks!: Many feel the real reason the Kelpie got off so absurdly easily is because there wasn't enough pages left in the story to deal with her better. While being Easily Forgiven was common enough on the show, it did a good enough job at portraying antagonists sympathetically enough that it usually worked, with problem cases like Discord and Sunset Shimmer getting a second chance. The Kelpie didn't get what made it work on the show.
• Never Live It Down: Poor Twilight Sparkle, her forgiving Cassie has earned unending ridicule in the "Twilight Justifies Evil" meme, no matter that such forgiveness was always part of her character^note  Everypony in A Canterlot Wedding, Trixie in Magic Duel, Sunset Shimmer in Equestria Girls, Discord in Twilight's Kingdom AND the day was often saved when all other hope was lost because of it. Now, it's a joke.
• The Scrappy: Cassie the Kelpie, starting from how overpowered her ability to brainwash all of Ponyville (including the Mane 6) was, and ending with her getting away scots-free once "defeated" and she explained her motives, without getting called out for not doing so sooner. That she debuted around the same time as the Dazzlings, similarly antagonistic water horses who had the same, but weaker, powers, and who proved more likable in spite of (or because of) their being eviler, made Cassie come off as shallow and undeserving of how well off the story put her.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Many readers wound up agreeing with Rainbow Dash's objection to how Easily Forgiven Cassie the Kelpie was, since her "helping her friends" involved brainwashing the town into nearly destroying itself without showing remorse for or explaining why she didn't just ask for their help.

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