" Every Little Thing She Does" is an episode where Starlight brainwashes her friends sans Twilight to solve friendship problems.Others still saw Starlight taking this mantle as a new and exciting development for Season 6 and beyond. Others saw Starlight as an Expy of Sunset Shimmer, seeing as how Starlight and Sunset have similar character arcs. Some were embittered that Trixie didn't get to fill this role, since she was The Rival to Twilight and already starting her own Heel-Face Turn. Things got extra rough after that, as some felt it was entirely undeserved and makes her into a Wish-Fulfillment fan fiction character. The first episode of Season 6 had Starlight gain a newfound status as Twilight's pupil in friendship, essentially making Starlight an unofficial new addition to the core cast.Depending on who you ask, these attempts were enough to lead Starlight being Rescued from the Scrappy Heap completely, were in the right direction but not enough, gave rise to new issues, tried to fix them from the wrong angle, or simply didn't work at all. Starlight's redemption arc with and stories that involved her, which has improved Starlight's standing to some extent.There was very little overlap between the three groups, and the infighting among bronies between the airings of Seasons 5 and 6 got especially bad. A third group of fans ended up disappointed with Starlight, saying she started out as a realistically-frightening villain, and felt the things shown in the montage (her reconciliation with the members of her town being the big one) were great potential episodes of their own flushed right down the toilet.
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Other fans felt that Starlight was a victim whose motives were understandable, that her redemption fit with the overall theme of Season 5, and that she was appropriately remorseful for her crimes and had the rest of the series to adequately own up to them. Some saw Starlight as Unintentionally Unsympathetic with a poor excuse for a motive, citing other former villains like Princess Luna, Discord, and Sunset Shimmer taking much longer to earn redemption as an explanation for why they felt Starlight's redemption was rushed, since they tried to cause The End of the World as We Know It some way or another as well. In the Season 5 finale "The Cutie Re-Mark", the reason that Starlight hates cutie marks and special talents is revealed to be that Starlight's childhood friend Sunburst got his cutie mark before Starlight did, causing Sunburst to move away from their hometown of Sire's Hollow. In her second appearance, Starlight broke the base even wider with a Heel–Face Turn, and it's where the worst of the fighting truly started.The fact that she was the first major villain to escape punishment in her debut left room for even more divisiveness. Others found Starlight boring compared to prior villains and felt that idiocy was the only reason she lasted as long as she did. Some fans found a comparatively low-stakes villain a breath of fresh air after the old two-parter villain formula was getting predictable and found her methods interesting. She lacked the size and scope of threat that many other Arc Villains did, and her seemingly altruistic motives for her actions painted her as a Visionary Villain. In her first appearance, Starlight was a major break from the prior arc villains.Even though the worst of the vitriol against her would eventually calm down, discussing the finer points of Starlight's Heel–Face Turn remained one of the easiest ways to spark an argument among bronies. Starlight first appeared on Friendship is Magic in Season 5's debut episode " The Cutie Map" as the season's overarching antagonist, eventually pulling a Heel–Face Turn and becoming a main character in Season 5's finale " The Cutie Re-Mark".įrom the day she appeared until the day that MLP Generation 4 ended, Starlight split the fanbase into very vocal camps just bringing up Starlight's name could potentially start an argument. She caused more debates, drama, and Flame Wars amongst bronies than any other character by a long shot. No discussion of Base-Breaking Characters in Generation 4 of My Little Pony would be complete without mentioning Starlight Glimmer, the Base-Breaking Character of Generation 4.
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