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YMMV / My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic S9 E15 "2, 4, 6, Greaaat"

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  • Base-Breaking Character:
    • Rainbow Dash stemming from her reluctance to teach cheerleading. There are those who think it works here given how she's more about action and is mainly just aloof. Those against her think that she acted needlessly cruel and callous given that she spent most of the episode trying to get out of teaching the cheerleaders without making the slightest attempt to actually help them, especially in regards to making Ocellus cry. They also feel her behavior goes against continuity given episodes like "Sonic Rainboom" , "Hurricane Fluttershy", and the ending of "Parental Glideance". Yet others think that she was in the right for her behavior and that everyone else calling her out was being cruel to her.
    • Twilight Sparkle from how she forces Rainbow Dash to do an activity she doesn't care for. There are those who think she's being too thoughtless and not thinking about potential consequences. There are also those who think she's pulling a "Celestia Gambit" by playing a more indirect role in helping others out.
  • Informed Wrongness: Rainbow Dash is chewed out by multiple other characters for shirking her duties to the cheer squad to watch the buckball game. However, as Rainbow herself readily admits, she has no knowledge of cheering, has no interest in learning, and doesn't see the point of cheer squads. Twilight's Trickster Mentor act aside, Rainbow makes a very good case for why she should not be put in charge of the squad, so it's hard to blame her when she repeatedly shows no interest and no aptitude in a job she didn't want.
  • One-Scene Wonder: Celestia appears in two scenes at the end of the episode, but she certainly makes an impression.
  • Self-Fanservice: Lighthoof and Shimmy Shake. The fact that they're cheerleaders, have cute and unique designs, are very touchy-feely with each other, and they make numerous exploitable poses, lent them to quickly becoming highly sexualized in the fandom.

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