YMMV / My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (IDW) Issue 25 to 26

• Ass Pull: Because Twilight would end the story then and there otherwise, they came up with a law preventing princesses from acting even against criminals, something never mentioned in every fight Princess Twilight Sparkle has been in, show or comics, before or since. Especially egregious since the "Friendship Ahoy" arc had her outright threatening pirates into helping her friends without hesitation.
• Fan-Disliked Explanation: Twilight Sparkle explains she can't use her Story-Breaker Power to stop the the villains due to a law that princesses can't use their powers against Equestria's citizens even if they were threatening and attacking her friends and others. This was universally despised as horrifically out of character for Twilight, who had/would become the Princess of Friendship by willing to sacrifice the only chance at saving Equestria to save her friends, to be unwilling to do so especially over a law so arbitrary/minor it never came up when Twilight and the Princesses used their powers on others prior. Even those who felt this could have been theoretically valid balked once she used fraud and kidnapping (one of those she supposedly couldn't use her powers against) to trick them into breaking a mere properly law she was willing to use her powers over, making it so morally inconsistent it sunk whatever credibility the law had and left no reason for not just writing Twilight out of this story. Luckily the writers realized how poorly received it was and ignored it since with Twilight not hesitating to use her powers to protect others.
• Fanon Discontinuity: Twilight's characterization has set records for the speed, force, and totality fans have rejected anything from the comics as canon. Not even Fix Fics or Accusation Fic have been willing to touch upon the story.