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'''Rainbow Dash''': So, great and powerful Trixie. What makes you think you're so awesome anyway?
'''Trixie''': Why, only the great and powerful Trixie has magic strong enough to vanquish the dreaded Ursa Major! }}
** It's important to remember that Rarity, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash were talking ''to each other'' -- while standing at the very back of the crowd, no less -- about Trixie's act, and were not actually heckling Trixie. People are allowed to have opinions about a show and share it with their friends. The only reason Trixie heard them talking at all is because Rainbow Dash forgot to use her indoor voice, but given that this is Rainbow Dash we are talking about here we can be entirely certain that it was an accident. If Rainbow Dash was deliberately intending to confront Trixie from the beginning, she'd have rushed the stage and yelled it out at the top of her lungs.
* New troper to this argument, but Twilight herself seemed to feel her friends weren't being entirely fair to Trixie. She was afraid that if she did what Spike urged her, and bested Trixie with her magic, that they would then think of Twilight herself as showing off. If she thought they were being reasonable, why was she worried about that?
** At first, yes. Then Applejack explained to her that they were less bothered by the talent than by the public boastfulness. Somehow, Twilight got it into her head that any public demonstration of her powers, especially to upstage someone (even a show-off like Trixie) would be tantamount to showing off herself, and so she became shy about it until the Ursa came into town. Being seen getting up on stage and "showing off with her magic tricks" seemed to her to be what her friends disliked. Rainbow Dash does make it clear at the end that Twilight got the wrong end of the stick: "Magic's got nothing to do with it. Trixie's just a loudmouth."
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*** In this Troper's opinion, Trixie lodged herself clearly into "bad guy" territory with lying about having defeated an Ursa Major, and using that lie to win approval she didn't earn. The rest could be excused as just being overly boastful, but Trixie's guilty of outright "fraud." I'm not talking about the fireworks or the other tricks; I'm talking about the fact that Trixie's lie is exactly the same as if I told a woman I beat up a live bear single-handedly (when I never did) in order to make myself seem more attractive so I could talk the woman into having sexual intercourse with me. "Fraud" is when you knowingly misrepresent reality in order to gain a selfish advantage. Trixie having lied about defeating an Ursa Major to make more money than she was capable of earning with her own true skill clearly falls into that category.
* Why does everyone love Trixie so much? She seems to be written to be deliberately unpleasant, she doesn't learn her lesson at the end or show any good or likeable qualities at all, and she doesn't even get any funny lines.
== 1.07 Dragonshy ==
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