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Kriegs
#30591
1 year ago
Twilight Sparkle vs. the Twilight sparkle.

No contest.
Anonymous
#30594
1 year ago
the other is a pony that can
teleport
rock a baby space bear to sleep
use telekinesis
turn rocks into top hats
create AMAZING wings
go super-saiyan
turn into rapidash
and CREATE FUCKING MUSTACHES
Anonymous
#30595
1 year ago
oh i see what u did there.
Anonymous
#30613
1 year ago
If we get down to brass tacks, Twilight Sparkle would sound like a Mary Sue style character to the average, cynical reader, but in the context of the innocence of My Little Pony she manages to work despite this. We just accept her unique powers as a legitimate part of who she is rather than the wankery of creating some superpowered proxy.
MyLittleJosieph
#30666
1 year ago
Twilight Sparkle (the pony :P) redeemed both the words "Twilight" and "Sparkle" for me! ^_^
Anonymous
#30761
1 year ago
^True dat.
Anonymous
#30776
1 year ago
We'll we still had Mima (touhou) with her Twilight Spark, but Twilight Sparkle (pony) is undoing the damage caused to those 2 words
Anonymous
#30785
1 year ago
And one of them is also smokin' hot.

Hint: It ain't Edward.
Kriegs
#30922
1 year ago
^^^^^ Twilight isn't really a Mary Sue, she just happens to wield the biggest magical stick in the team. She's socially awkward, clumsy, a bit of a control freak, prone to hilarious breakdowns and tactical misjudgment when under stress...

If she were a Mary Sue, she'd never not have the spotlight and never not be in the right. As-is, she has a well-defined niche without overshadowing the rest of the mane six. Compare Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings--on paper he should be able to solve the whole business himself, but it's abundantly clear reading or watching the story he's just an important member of the team, not the black hole drawing the plot to him.

Contrast Elminster, who's a Gandalf who actually does solve the whole thing himself except when he feels like foisting it on low-level adventurers for chuckles, whose girlfriend is the goddess of magic who is so absurdly hot she doesn't even get fat when pregnant. Also contrast Edward, who in spite of being a creepy stalker as well as a bloodsucking menace 2 society, is never in the wrong and the center of the "heroine's" universe.
Anonymous
#30928
1 year ago
Anon6: 0.o
Anonymous
#31015
1 year ago
i agree with anon #6
Anonymous
#31326
1 year ago
@ Kriegs. This is probably one of the things I love most about the fandom, well constructed arguments.

Also, Twilight (The Book) is terrible.
Anonymous
#31348
1 year ago
Assuming that every character having special powers or being friends with some royal figure is Mary Sue is like saying that Bible is satanistic because it has Satan and devils.
Anonymous
#31364
1 year ago
One is a faggot, the other is the pony.
Anonymous
#31627
1 year ago
ccc
Anonymous
#31641
1 year ago
They're Edward and Twilight.
Edward and Twilight.
One is a pony,
the other is a blight.
There's a sparkle they both share,
similarities end there.
They're Edward, they're Edward and Twi-light light light light light light light light light!
Anonymous
#32333
1 year ago
One similarity for both of them:

HATERS GONNA HATE.
Anonymous
#45323
1 year ago
^FAGGOTS GONNA......FAG, I DON'T KNOW

fucking shut up already god damn it
Anonymous
#96875
1 year ago
If only FiM was made before Twilight the world would be a much better place.
Anonymous
#202637
1 year ago
anon #14, when people hate on Twilight it's sometimes for petty reasons (I don't *really* care if vampires sparkle, whatevs). But it's usually that we're upset that the protagonist is a dangerously unhealthy role model for kids, to the point of extolling the virtues of having a domineering stalker of a boyfriend and being a helpless, weak-willed crazy person. There's also the creepy ultraconservative religious overtones to the whole thing - like the author knew it would be rejected if told straight, so she hid it under a story about hot dudes who take their shirts off.

I like good romance. I like good fantasy stories. But Twilight is neither, and it's got reprehensible morals to boot. For these reasons I'm glad Twilight Sparkle has come along to redeem both words for us. =P
Anonymous
#285316
1 year ago
Wait, I thought Bella was the Mary Sue. And Edward was just an asshole.
Anonymous
#623612
8 months ago
That other guy is secretly a pony.

And TWILIGHT SPARKLE pony is totally a Mary Sue.
Anonymous
#887507
6 months ago
I agree (with bias) that Twilight is superior in practically every way to Edward, but, as a brony fan of the book series Twilight, I think there's something to say for highly idealized characters. No one (whose opinion matters) has ever complained that Michelangelo's David or the Venus de Milo are just too perfect. No scholar with respect for the Baroque period will say that Bernini's Ecstasy of S. Teresa is too melodramatic or that the moral message behind the sculpture is too obtuse. Today's culture is far more diverse than it ever has been, so, obviously, there will be criticism just as there is with any well known piece of art or literature, but I personally find it pointless to waste energy expressing my dislike for something that clearly doesn't target my demographic.

That said, I laughed very hard when I saw this. It's even more funny to me BECAUSE I'm a fan of the book series. I appreciate the intelligent comments I read here as well.
YouCloppinToFoalsBro
#887559
6 months ago
^ I think it's more that the "highly idealized characters" in Twilight are idealized for things that are, ultimately, creepy and reprehensible.
Anonymous
#887672
6 months ago
^ I getcha. When I think about Edward though, I don't think of him as 'creepy' as much as I think that he's a victim of his own circumstances trying (and for the most part succeeding) at making the best of things.