Ambiguous Disorder is now Diagnosed by the Audience, and it's a YMMV trope.
Starlight Glimmer has already a fairly long Diagnosed by the Audience entry on YMMV.My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic.
Should Starlight's Tropes be divided into Pre and Post Reformation? It seems a bit odd, you have to admit, to read a large number of tropes referring to her villainous behavior when she's been reformed for three of the four seasons she's been in. She's spent more time as a heroic character now than a villainous one.
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This entry keeps getting deleted from this page with NO EXPLANATION. I won’t add it back because of the fear of an Edit war, but here goes.
Here’s a bulletpoint for the Hypocrite part.
- She also criticizes Trixie on how she doesn't take responsibility for her actions, but Starlight herself did this when she reveled in victimhood and blamed cutie marks for friendship failures and her inability to find new friends after Sunburst left.
So who's up for organizing her tropes into folders like the Mane Six?
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All the other characters that get their own folder (Mane Six, Spike, Sunset) are organized thusly. Make it so.
Before anyone does anything hasty, I thought I should first ask here if we should move her folder back under the Redeemed Antagonist page, since Word of God seems to be she's not a mane character for the time being:
Given that she's stated as living with Twilight, has been added to the opening credits, and is going to feature in more episodes beyond the premiere, I think it's safe to say she's joined the mane cast and give her her own page now.
Are we even completely sure she's gonna be part of the Mane Cast? The implication is there, but I'd rather we place her under Redeemed Antagonist until further notice. This is jumping the gun quite a bit.
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I'm thinking the same thing. As such, I've commented out the page and its references until further notice.
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I'm thinking that an Ambiguous Disorder trope would apply to Starlight, since she has a chronic fear of abandonment and is incredibly sensitive to perceived rejection and criticism. As a whole, Starlight is fairly impulsive, incredibly neurotic, was so traumatized by losing her childhood friend that she became a literal cult leader, almost destroyed the entire universe due to an intense feeling of anger at the Mane Six, seems to dissociate when sufficiently triggered or terrified, has fears that people know about their past and thus are silently judging her, and at least until meeting the Mane Six, and even while being friends with them, her relationships were incredibly unstable and dysfunctional. I'm willing to bet Starlight has borderline personality disorder, or at the very least ranks high on that spectrum. The only symptoms we don't see are identity disturbance, dysphoria, self-harm and suicidality, but only 5 of the 9 traits of BPD need be present for a diagnosis.
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