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Yeah but they’re never there to deal with the “ants”.
Parasprites? No, sorry.
Ursa Minor? We don’t do night shifts.
Interracial friction? Appleloosa doesn’t fall within our jurisdiction.
Secure the Crystal Empire? Why should we even bother?
Suspected sorceress wandering through Ponyville? We don’t really have time for an investigation.
Timberwolves? Darn Everfree pests wandering into town, well, you better just steer clear.
Cerberus isn’t guarding the gates of hell? Put him on some milk cartons, someone’s bound to get back to us.
They didn’t even do anything about the big ass dragon roosting above Ponyville, either. They never show up or are present for the small stuff, so that leads me to believe they’re reserved for big problems, which they always fail to handle. Or they just know that they’d be no match for the “ants”, either, since they’re good for nothing but cannon fodder against anything stronger than an average-sized housecat.
But do you then get eaten by ants because you’re too busy keeping watch against giants?
I mean just because those episodes shows ‘Giants’ stomping around and flinging guards all over the place, doesn’t mean there isn’t like a myriad ‘ants’ that you have to keep an eye out for as well.
Useless? No, I wouldn’t say so. Outclassed by the episode centric bad guys who only gets defeated when the story allows it? Yeah, but that’s what happens when policemen tries to handcuff the Terminator.
I would hope so, since a Terminator was the impetus for their creation in the first place.
Granted, but when the Terminator shows up every weekend, that institution’s integrity becomes dubious at best.
Just because a policeman can’t handcuff the Terminator doesn’t mean the policeman is categorically useless, just outclassed in that particular engagement.
They certainly must have done stuff through the centuries of Equestrian history that makes keeping them as an institution worthwhile.
Uh, yeah, that’s what I mean. The royal guard is outclassed by every threat every time. They’re good for nothing.
They aren’t meant for the type of happenings that occur in Equestria that makes for entertaining cartoon viewing m’dear.
I mean I don’t think we’re going to have an episode centered around non-magical pony strength villains any time soon now that every single one of the protagonists are confirmed god-tier.
The stronger your characters get, the stronger the opponents.. your average pegasus without deus ex machina rays (elements, friendship speeches, love bombs, Rainbow power) just can’t face up against the stuff that the mane6+friends need to face for any sort of tension to arise.
You’d expect them to win at least once, though, wouldn’t you? They got trashed by the changelings, who really weren’t strong at all, laid out by Nightmare Moon, which is more understandable, wrecked by Spike, which is pretty sad, even in his dragon state, the wonderbolts managed to get knocked out cold in the middle of a performance, not even combat, and during the other 95% of the time that they aren’t failing, they aren’t even there to help. It’s a miracle that Equestria hasn’t been reduced to a crater by the end of the opening credits of every episode.
True.
Except for the changelings. Those … didn’t seem to be much more than standard pony strength, save for Chrysalis, who seemed to stay put in the castle. And those random mook changelings just went right through the city.
On the other hand, I do like them in the comics, where Luna goes off around the Everfree beating stuff up with some guards.
Kind of an unfair assessment when the royal guard are essentially playing the same plot-role of the regular military in most disaster movies.
As in:
The jet pilots might be top-notch, their jets might be deadly, their missiles might be strong, the canons incredibly long ranged.. but.. the other side has Godzilla/Kaiju/UFO/Tripods - They’re never allowed to fight things in their weight class.
Come get your butt handed to you by anything tougher than a pissed-off chihuahua.