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2	* BaseBreakingCharacter: Scootaloo's parents both fall into this, mainly from how they aren't really around for her, unlike her aunts and friends. Those who like them think that they are genuinely loving and realize that they're too busy to be physically there for her. Those who take issue with them say that this excuse falls flat since there have been ''numerous'' times they could've gone to check up on her, and it's only now, ''the last season'', that they take issue with her safety.
3	* DracoInLeatherPants: A weird example. Scootaloo's parents are not evil, but are shown to be neglectful towards Scootlall; never visiting her in like months to possibly even years, and leaving her (a child implied to be under nine years old) completely alone with no caretaker or guardian to speak of. The only time they do appear is when they show up in town to sell the house and force their daughter to move away from her friends and the home she knows without taking into account her well-being. Some fans, however, like to down play their egregious and neglectful actions and instead focus solely only their heroic careers and personalities. To be fair they do show some care for their daughter but not nearly enough to excuse their neglect of her, which even the show seems to gloss over.
4	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Scootaloo's Aunt Holiday and Auntie Lofty for being the first canonically same-sex couple in the entire show (although there's been a lot of ShipTease between certain ponies, they've never been explicitly called a couple).
5	* EpilepticTrees:
6	** Does Scootaloo being half-earth pony have something to do with her not being able to fly?
7	** Have her parents really been away this entire time, or did they make a few quick visits to Ponyville here and there that we just didn't catch?
8	* FanficFuel:
9	** [[UsefulNotes/SriLanka Shire Lanka]] and the details of Scootaloo parent's job assignment there.
10	** Wyverns are canon.
11	** Scootaloo staying at houses of other ponies. For example, imagine her staying with each of the Mane Six.
12	* RonTheDeathEater: Several critics of Scootaloo's parents, who were admittedly a more than bit neglectful, treat them as worse than the AbusiveParent Spoiled Rich or such that Scootaloo would be better off as an orphan. This overlooks they showed enough care and their careers gave such valid reason for their absence Scootaloo held no ill will over it ([[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E7ParentalGlideance despite acknowledging it effected her]]) until this episodes conflict, caused by their desire to protect Scootaloo and [[LockedOutOfTheLoop things they didn't know about]], which they resolved by the end.
13	* SugarWiki/SheReallyCanAct: Not that she wasn't plenty impressive before, but Madaleine Peters really goes above and beyond in this episode, especially with her entirely believable performance of talking while crying.
14	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter:
15	** At the celebration for the CMC, numerous past characters they've helped appear, including Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, Babs Seed, Big Mac and Sugar Belle, Troubleshoes, Gabby, Terramar, Pipsqueak, Tender Taps, Petunia Paleo, Skeedadle, and members of their Cutie Mark Daycamp (who have gotten their cutie marks off-screen since then). However, only Terramar and Skeedadle speak about what the CMC have done for them, with the others reduced to TheVoiceless. Particularly notable for this is Diamond Tiara, as it was the Crusaders helping her pull her HeelFaceTurn that earned them their cutie marks; and that aside, she hasn't had a speaking line and has barely appeared since Crusaders Of The Lost Mark, which was in ''Season Five''.
16	** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E4OneBadApple Babs Seed]] being a family member and the first SixthRanger of the CMC who lives in Manehattan probably would have had some insights to share on living so far away from them. She just gets an unvoiced cameo instead.
17	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Some think that Scootaloo ''should'' have been PutOnABus, as it would have allowed for a moral about long-distance friendships and how friends can stay close even as they grow older and go their separate ways, a particularly poignant idea for the cast and the fandom given that this is the final season. [[note]] It's not like it couldn't have been done given how ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' pulled off something similar with a mini arc about Buster traveling with his father, and the effect it has on others, over 20 years ago. It was temporary, but the effects were still shown. [[/note]]
18	* ToughActToFollow: For "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E22GrowingUpIsHardToDo Growing Up is Hard to Do]]" which was well-liked save for falling short of this one as the final CMC episode, [[ContinuityCavalcade dramatically acknowledging all they did through the series]] while "Growing Up" was originally planned for Season 5.
19	* UnexpectedCharacter:
20	** After spending the whole series avoiding them, Scootaloo's parents appearance caught everyone off-guard as nothing suggested they'd show up here. The official synopsis even called them "unexpected".
21	** Aunt Holiday and Auntie Lofty appearing was a surprise given they debuted [[ExpandedUniverse in supplementary material]] which the show normally [[CanonForeigner steers clear of]] and their [[WordOfGay being a same sex couple]] was thought too controversial to let them be put into the show.
22	* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Shutter Snap and Mane Allgood were supposed to care for Scootaloo despite being away for so long due to work to the point of missing most of her accomplishments. But since we've never seen Scootaloo with caretakers until this episode, and even they're not there full time (as seen in "Flight to the Finish", where there's no guardian in sight, and as stated in the episode due to their living outside of town) and according to the novel they debuted in only recently started, it seemed they effectively [[ParentalAbandonment abandoned her]]. ("Parental Glideance" already confirmed that Scootaloo has confidence issues due to a lack of support at home.) Their worry over [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E2TheBeginningOfTheEndPart2 Sombra's recent attack]] is undermined by the numerous other times the locals have been endangered over the eight previous seasons, the movie, and semi-canon ExpandedUniverse works without their apparent concern. That and when they're first introduced, one of the first things they do is accidentally release a dangerous animal into the Ponyville schoolhouse. This caused many fans, some of whom questioned why they'd have a child if they'd be too busy for them, to think they crossed [[ParentsAsPeople forgivably flawed]] to [[ParentalNeglect straight neglect]]. This assessment is not helped by the fact that they clearly did not leave Scootaloo any sort of proper guardian or caretaker (her aunts visit from time to time, but they live away) despite Scootaloo only being a young child.
23	* TheWoobie: After years of fans wondering where Scootaloo's biological family has been, they're finally introduced, and it turns out none of them live with her full-time; she's been mostly raised by whatever local adults aren't busy. And then Scootaloo's parents accounce their intent to being her along on their next assignment (fearing for her safety after the events of "The Beginning of the End"), taking her away from the ponies who had ''actually'' served as her family.

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