YMMV / Equestria Girls: A Fairly Odd Friendship

• Catharsis Factor: There are several in Camp Learn-A-Torium's Safety Seminar:
  • Sunset and Gilda foiling Crocker's plan sending him tumbling off a balcony, breaking his leg.
  • Gilda personally beating the shit out of Crocker and her goons beating the shit out of Gary and Betty for injuring Timmy.
  • While it wasn't supposed to be a good thing, many people also relished Timmy destroying Gary and Betty's truck in retaliation.
• Character Rerailment: The fic undoes the Flanderization that many Fairly Odd Parents characters suffered.
  • Timmy goes from being a total brat to a kid who makes mistakes but still loves and cares for his family and friends.
  • Cosmo goes from being a complete moron to his earlier depiction as a wacky but still loving and introspective godparent. He has enough emotional intelligence to realize that Sunset isn't the evil villain Adagio made her out to be.
  • Cosmo and Wanda's marriage is more loving again after season 5 played up their crumbling marriage for jokes.
  • Jorgen is back to being a powerful authority figure that enforces the rules and has a love of sadism.
  • Mr. Crocker is an actual threat again as opposed to the incompetent comic relief he became in season 7-10.
  • Vicky is closer to her earlier characterization of being a mean bully rather than an outright psychopath.
  • Trixie Tang returns to her characterization as a Lovable Alpha Bitch who shows a love for geek culture.
  • Mr. and Mrs. Turner goes from being outrageously mean-spirited parents to being somewhat neglectful but still loving parental figures.
• Ensemble Dark Horse
  • The EG version of Gilda has been well-received for being a genuinely caring, albeit crass and snide, mentor, bodyguard, and martial arts instructor to Timmy Turner. Her sympathetic backstory, bravely defending Timmy from threats to his well-being, and her harsh, albeit honest, critique of others give her considerable depth, have all made Gilda a fan favorite and as popular as the Rainbooms in this story.
  • The readers also loved Joanna the Jaguar for being a tough and beloved animal companion to Timmy and protecting him from danger while also giving Timmy some Character Development.
• Jerks Are Worse Than Villains: The Dazzlings in the story are cruel witches who aren't above torturing children. However, several characters earn the audience's hatred even more.
  • Tad and Chad cheating Timmy out of victory during the track tryouts, injuring him, and then buying their way out of trouble made them viscerally hated by everyone else. So much so, the audience rooted for them to suffer karma and were happy when Timmy finally beat them up and sent to Crystal Prep where Cinch won't let them buy their way out of trouble anymore.
  • Gary and Betty are already disliked both in and out of universe for their obnoxious happy-go-lucky nature. When their idiocy injures Timmy under the pretense of teaching him safety, many people were happy to see them beaten up by Gilda's posse. And Timmy later destroying their truck also made them ecstatic.
• Moral Event Horizon: The Dazzlings cross it with aplomb when they beat/torture Timmy near the end of the story in an attempt to force him to use the brainwashed Cosmo and Wanda to grant them wishes. Adagio in particular goes even further beyond the line when she nearly has Trixie killed out of spite right in front of Timmy, and would've succeeded if the Rainbooms hadn't pulled a Big Damn Heroes at the last second.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Timmy destroying Gary and Betty's truck is supposed to be treated as him crossing a line by the Rainbooms. Most readers believed Timmy was in the right, especially since Gary and Betty are incredibly obnoxious characters who made Timmy's life miserable. It doesn't help that while the audience is aware Timmy can't kill people with his magic, the Rainbooms weren't aware of that fact.

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