History Headscratchers / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicSeason2Episodes1To13

* Why do people keep making out that Discord is so much worse than a CardCarryingVillain, presumably one with a similar scale of power since otherwise it would be an unfair comparison? I would much rather prefer to have Discord around than a sadist or glutton for control with similar powers, and that's even after accounting for one of my worst phobias being to lose myself. He would ''eventually'' get around to doing mean things t you, but odds are that he would also do a few nice things, and plenty of entertaining (not necessarily for you) but relatively neutral things. I'm quite sure he wouldn't outright kill anyone who didn't go out of their way to prove that they're less interesting and more annoying alive than dead, although even if he did decide to go on a killing spree, it would '''probably''' be almost completely unexpected and statistically less than the average childrens' show villain would do without media content restrictions. Is this an empathy thing, or possibly something to do with my upbringing or philosophies that I'm too close to see (and, I will admit, something others might not notice from a simple paragraph like this)? I'm not saying Discord is ''nice'' (A [[DracoInLeatherPants Draconequus in Leather Pants]], [[IncrediblyLamePun one might say]]), just that it seems incredibly common to consider Discord ''worse'' because of his BlueAndOrangeMorality, and I ''really'' don't understand why.

** Umm... [[IncrediblyLamePun Shellicopter]], anyone?

*** In this show, ponies act a lot more like humans than ponies; they sleep on the beds rather than on the ground, they eat human food and not pony food, etc.. They're really anthropomorphic.

** And this surprises you? This is [[SuperOCD Twilight Sparkle]] we're talking about here; the pony who makes checklists to make checklists on her schedule for the day. It's entirely in character for her to impose pointless, arbitrary deadlines on herself to add more structure to her life.

** What?There was Flying houses, dancing buffaloes and rabbits with deer legs doing stampedes. And I'm supposed to believe there wasn't a mass panic attack from the residents of Ponyville for all that before Discord corrupted them? How can you sleep through that? And anyway this doesn't explain why Discord doesn't corrupt him:why of all Ponyville he was the only one spared?