Draco in Leather Pants/Western Animation: Difference between revisions

* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' has a few examples, though since [[The Power of Friendship]] and [[Easily Forgiven]] are common tropes in the ''[[My Little Pony]]'' franchise, it's a ''bit'' more understandable:

** Gilda the Griffon from "Griffon the Brush-Off" is an obnoxious bully who thinks all the ponies of Ponyville (except her old friend Rainbow Dash) are "lame-o", and who literally scares Fluttershy to tears at one point. When her true colors are exposed at a party thrown by Pinkie Pie in an effort to get her to lighten up, screaming her head off at her so-called best friend and refusing to take her own medicine, she's quick to turn against Dash for being a "flip-flop" by sticking up for the other ponies, and leaves town in a huff. Fans were quick to portray her as a [[Jerkass Woobie]] wracked with guilt and self-hatred over alienating her oldest and best friend, despite there being little to even hint at such a thing.

** The Great and Powerful Trixie from "Boast Busters" had fans protesting she was just a travelling entertainer (true) whose audience was being unneccessarily mocking and hostile (arguably true), and that she was justified in humiliating Applejack, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash in front of their friends and neighbors, largely ignoring that she's a boastful, lying egomaniac both on- and off-stage. She did seem guilty about her one of her lies indirectly leading to [[Everything's Worse with Bears|an Ursa Minor attacking Ponyville]], but after the threat is dealt with she's right back to being all bluff and bravado.

** Princess Luna resented that Celestia's day received more attention from the ponies than her night, and, literally [[Green-Eyed Monster|consumed with jealousy]], becomes [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Nightmare Moon]] and threatened to enact [[The Night That Never Ends]]. Celestia was forced to [[Sealed Evil in a Can|trap her in the moon in order to stop her]], and when Luna was finally cleansed of [[The Corruption]] she and Celestia reconciled. Despite the fact that ''Luna herself'' resents what she did, numerous fans seem to think that she's a delicate flower who could do no wrong and was turned evil against her will, if not directly because of [[Ron the Death Eater|evil tyrant Celestia]].

*** And then, even amongst the fans that consider Nightmare Moon to be a separate entity (thus absolving Luna of the former's cruel and evil deeds), there's at least [[Past Sins|one very notable example]] where the Nightmare Moon entity itself gets the Leather Pants treatment, and is actually just a misunderstood woobie that needs a hug despite being the source of everything evil that Luna did while under its possession.

** On a more subtle level, the few times [[Memetic Bystander|Bon Bon]] has ever actually done anything on-screen, she was, to be blunt, [[Jerkass|a bitch]]. The fandom tends to ignore that and make her a generally cheerier [[Straight Man|Straight Mare]] to Lyra.

** Discord was [[Vile Villain Saccharine Show|the single worst villain in the series]], plunging Equestria into a [[World Gone Mad]]/[[World of Chaos]] and ''[[Brainwashed|brainwashing]] the Mane Six'' to turn them against each other, [[Manipulative Bastard|ensuring they won't be able to use the Elements of Harmony again him]] (and [[For the Evulz|for his own entertainment]]). Regardless, being a [[Faux Affably Evil]] [[The Trickster|Trickster]] led many fans to depict him as a cheerful prankster who just wants a bit of fun in an [[Painting the Frost on Windows|overly-managed world]], forgetting that he's actually a nasty piece of work.

*** This even happened on a meta level: [[Deviant ART]] user CrappyUnicorn made a series of webcomics detailed their thoughts on Discord's "origin", beginning with Celestia rejecting him as a young mare as part of a [[Freudian Excuse]]... and fans went wild with it. In spite of CrappyUnicorn's insistence that Celestia didn't "make" Discord a chaotic bastard, he already was, ''and'' the story being told from Discord's own point of view (which leaves it open to [[Unreliable Narrator]]), many take Discord's claims at face value.