@reversalmushroom  
Or Discord should’ve died and Pinkie takes his powers forever.

@ArcaneEmperor  
I saw someone say the much better idea that Grogar should’ve been a real villain, but if it had to be Discord, then his motivation should’ve been reforming the other villains.

I wish that was the twist in the finale, instead of that stupid crap with Discord.

@reversalmushroom
 
Uh… no it isn’t permanent, the power boost she gets from feeding on love, otherwise, she would’ve been unstoppable from her hive gathering love for her to consume a very long time ago.
 
She’s weaker than her Canterlot Wedding self, because I’m fairly sure that Celestia has significantly more raw power than Twilight does, and Mean Twilight was at best as strong as the original (we don’t know for sure that she is equal, but she probably is).
 
Remember that she had very recently absorbed the love from that ophiotaurus, before Tirek ate her magic, and she specifically commented that she hadn’t “eaten that well in ages,” and that it was “so much love.”
 
Being right below Twilight by default isn’t a bad place to be, in terms of power though.
 
If it was permanent, the boost she gets from feeding on love, you’d think she would’ve stomped Mean Twilight.
 
As for the possible rebuttal of “but Starlight switched their marks, so she’s more powerful along with Twilight,” I think that’s less dependent on being more powerful than the target, and that if Celestia or Luna shielded that spell, it would’ve done absolutely nothing.

@AC97  
Chrysalis is actually still equal to her Canterlot Wedding self. The power boost is permanent. We saw this when she got in a beam struggle with Mean Twilight (who is equal to actual Twilight) and was near equal to her, so she’s alicorn-tier. So since Starlight is equal with Twilight, I think Starlight would take her. Tirek even got massively more powerful after taking her magic. We know her pre-Canterlot Wedding self was much weaker, so if the power boost wasn’t permanent, and she went back down to that, Tirek wouldn’t’ve gotten much bigger and screamed “So much power! Welcome back, baby!”

@AC97  
To be fair, most of the episodes in the season so far are situations where having her appear would basically require shoehorning her in which would be bad writing since it would be putting her in the episode just for the purpose of having her appear.

@reversalmushroom
 
I think she has really been underutilized this season so far too. She desperately needs a few more appearances. I really do hope it isn’t that the writers have gotten sick of her.
 
Regarding S8, I appreciated how The Mean Six had the Mane Six include her on a camping trip, we need more of that kind of thing, don’t we?
 
It’s actually something that I’ve noticed: for all that a few people will say she’s overpowered, the only two-parter villains she could take in a fight on her own are Chrysalis, if she’s not had a lot of love to feed on (like the aforementioned episode with her in it), and Cozy Glow (how many adults couldn’t do that though? Not many) every other villain (including S2 Chrysalis), you can likely think of a scenario where Starlight gets stomped in a one-on-one fight with the villain; hypothetical fight with Chrysalis and Tirek (in his current state) tag-teaming her? I’d feel really bad for her, if something like that’s gonna happen later on.

@AC97  
Yeah, that’s lame. Season 8 and the 9 premiere (I haven’t watched past Frenemies) have treated Starlight pretty badly. 6&7 had her as at least a semi-important character who featured prominently in several episodes, whereas in season 8 and S09E01&2, she’s relegated to the back seat with not much to do. It’s like they lost interest in this character. something I always disliked about her is that the S5 finale made it look like Starlight was gonna be a 7th Mane 6; that’s what everyone wondered, but the writers keep separating her off from them. Almost all of her episodes have her exclusively deal with Twilight, and how many episodes have we gotten of all the Mane 6 going off to do something without her? How many times have we heard Twilight tell her to stay behind and watch the school which Twilight&co. went off to adventure? The S8 finale actually really pissed me off. Literally all the good guys got to do something except her. That’s depressing. Even the CMC got to do something. The CMC. Shining Armor at least got to help drive out the changelings at the end of A Canterlot Wedding. Starlight doesn’t even get to get revenge on Cozy Glow for such humiliation.

@reversalmushroom
 
Because gloating is something stupid villains do.
 
Oh, and can we talk about how Sombra pretty much did what this image macro said, via mind control, and how he got to Starlight without any onscreen effort?

Why is she saying this right in front of Twilight?

oh noes, Glimmy Glams pulled a 180 on Twilight and is going Marik Ishtar on her! :O

Basically her motive in “Radiant Hope will win!”.

@Background Pony #663C  
if we were still in season 6 maybe

@Spinny
 
I only just saw this.
 
But yeah, this would be fucking dumb.

You know, Starlight turning evil again briefly could be a good idea

I am praying for this to happen in the series. I would *** rainbows.

@CaptainGrumpy  
Well, then sorry for assuming your intent.
 
As for the 2nd part, I just dislike seeing people get treated harshly if there’s been a misunderstanding, especially if it’s by the mob. If it actually were me, well, 1, I’d have the guts to post it on my account. You’re talking to the person who uploaded stuff like (warning: all explicit) this, this, and this, but 2, if I did decide to upload it anonymously, and it got a bad reaction, I’d distance myself from it.
 
But I think we’re all missing what’s really the big issue here, which is a JPG, Background Pony #6E32? Really? And that’s another reason ya know it’s not me, ‘cause I wouldn’t upload a fucking JPG if I had the choice.

That would be as big a slap in the face as telling me that none of my choices mattered and the bad guys are now the good guys while I’m tasked with resolving the meta-physical conflict between organics and synthetics.

@reversalmushroom  
I was referring more to the sentence structure and positioning but okay
 
christ you’re getting really defensive on these pictures, almost like you’re the OP or something

@Tavi959  

 
This.

You know I’m right here.  

 
(Crap she heard my plan, quick make up something!!)  

@reversalmushroom  
Starlight has more than shown by this point that what is suggested here is not the case. The people who actually believe this, if they do exist outside of being trolls, are deliberately ignoring evidence to the contrary. Probably in vain hopes that if she turns out to still be evil she’ll be banished to Tartarus and won’t be a member of the cast anymore.
 
What I think is that OP is either a Glimmerfag who liked her better as an angry dictator or a hater that wants her gone. The troll logic is so thick it’s hard to tell the difference. And people who hate her are as obsessed with trying to kill her as some of her fans are about making her the next princess.
 
I like Glimmy like she is. Not a princess, not the main character and not evil. She’s had my vote for best unicorn since her introduction and I wouldn’t change her development one bit.

@CaptainGrumpy  
and what does it have to do with this pic?
 
@reversalmushroom  
like I said, not seriously. I know this show is not that deep

I’m 99 percent sure that this will not be what the series finale is about.

@CaptainGrumpy  
Yes, because someone disliking fans shipping them, being shipped with a specific character, or a joke about them not being friends anymore in the special is totally just as bad.  
@Background Pony #1B54  
Why not? They made Somepony to Watch Over Me, and that’s WAAAY more out of character and worse than this, only real. No, but still, I don’t think they’d actually do this. My point is fuck Somepony to Watch Over Me.  
@northern haste @Background Pony #1ADE @Derpyfan @Tavi959 @Background Pony #1ADE @Chuy Ryu @Soctavia  
I think this is them venting how they wish the show really was and not what they actually think is happening.