Discussion BewareTheNiceOnes / WesternAnimation

• The 2019 Duck Tales show shows this extremely well. In the season 1 finale, Donald fights an army of shadow monsters, including the Gizmoduck armor with nothing but his bare hands and Scrooge's office furniture. And wins.

Someone stashed this over under Comic Books, about how Donald can be nice until pissed off. (I'd go with nice to mildly cranky.)

Since I haven't seen the newer Duck Tales, I have no idea if it's an accurate example. Could someone who knows make a call on that?

Almost none of these is an example, with the obvious exception of the first one:

• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has Fluttershy, the kindest, shyest, most gentle pony in all Equestria... and also the scariest pony in all Equestria. Her Friend to All Living Things ability allows her to pacify everything from an enraged manticore to a gigantic adult dragon with as much ease as she soothes a frightened rabbit (the latter of which she subdued by lecturing it into submission). Her Stare is so powerful it allows her to stare down a cockatrice as it's turning her to stone. Some assertiveness training results in her taking 5000 levels in jerkass, enough to drive Rarity and Pinkie Pie to tears. Her worry over her animal friends causes her to threaten harming Twilight in retaliation. And when the animals near the Grand Galloping Gala don't return her affections, well...
  Fluttershy: You're... going to LOOOOVE MEEEEEE!
  • Normally, Princess Celestia is very calm and collected, and seems to enjoy having a little fun with her subjects now and then. Then we have the first part of "The Return of Harmony", where she smacks the villain with a Shut Up, Hannibal! TWICE, and then tells him point-blank to quit screwing around and answer her questions. He begrudgingly tosses out a riddle and leaves before she can grill him any further.
    • In the season two finale we finally see Celestia fight, complete with Pre-Asskicking One-Liner. True, she loses, but that surprised EVERYONE, including the villian.
    • In the Season 3 opening episode, we see Twilight entering the main room of the Canterlot Castle, only to find a very pissed off Celestia, going as far to practically bring Twilight Sparkle to TEARS!! Granted, it's just Sombra's dark spell, but still... Makes you decide NOT to anger the Demigod in the first place!
  Princess Celestia: It doesn't matter to me, *face turns to Twilight, angered* you FAILED the test, Twilight!
  • Twilight Sparkle is the poster mare for Adorkable and No Social Skills, whose passion for knowledge is only challenged by her desire to be a good friend. She's also the most powerful unicorn in Equestria with an incredible well of magic at her disposal, and is entirely capable of unleashing the hurt on anypony she desires. "Lesson Zero" even shows that she's just as capable of sowing chaos and disharmony as Discord.
  • You'd think that the perpetually cheerful Genki Girl with borderline Reality Warper powers would be an excellent candidate for this trope, but Pinkie Pie repeatedly subverts it. In "Griffon the Brush Off", her reaction to proof that Gilda is a grade-A jerkface is to throw her a party, because she thinks Gilda is just stressed and needs to unwind. In "Party of One", when she thinks her friends have abandoned her she avoids them altogether and throws her own party with various Companion Cubes, in stark contrast to the far more destructive Sanity Slippages of Fluttershy and Twilight. And when Applejack breaks a Pinkie Promise in "The Last Roundup" she breaks out the scary voice, leads a pursuit across the desert, and when she finally catches her she... demands Applejack apologise.
  • Rarity is obsessed with style, grace and glamour, and as the Element of Generosity she is usually willing to help in any way she can. She also doesn't hesitate to kick a manticore in the face or fight a gang of (adolescent) dragons to defend her friends.
  Rarity: Fighting's not really my thing, I'm more into fashion, but I'll rip you to pieces if you touch one scale on his cute little head!

  • And while her fellow unicorn Twilight uses magic to fight, Rarity prefers to pummel her foes with her two front hooves. And still look classy doing it.
  • Princess Cadance (the real one) is a kind and sweet Love Goddess and used to work as a babysitter. However, when she is kidnapped and her husband-to-be is about to marry her evil double, she shows nothing but determination, repeatedly defies the changeling queen (even after said queen defeats Princess Celestia), and then helps deliver the Heart Beatdown that blows the changelings across the continent!
    • Then in the season 3 opener she maintains a field of light and love around the Crystal Empire that manages to keep King Sombra, a unicorn Evil Overlord that took both her aunts to defeat the first time, out for what was likely days. This, combined with his horrific treatment of his subjects, leads to her setting up another love-powered Wave-Motion Gun and telling his subjects Do with Him as You Will. The end result is King Sombra being obliterated.
  • All of the Mane 6 qualify for this if they are forced to fight. A good example is what happened with Discord. He pretty much did everything physically possible (and some things that weren't) to make it personal and generally put them through a living hell. They turn him back to stone with pretty much no hesitation at all.
    • The trend continues with the fight against the Changelings. Every single one of them, even FLUTTERSHY, does surprisingly well against them, in a Crowning Moment Of Awesome fashion no less. Literally the only reason they don't win is because the Big Bad has hundreds of Changelings at her disposal, allowing her to overcome them through sheer force of numbers.

So we have things like "she's nice, but she's still determined" or "she speaks to someone sternly" or "there was an illusion of this character acting nasty."

I'll rewrite this, removing most of it.