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Then I guess Twilight shouldn’t forgive, Trixie, Snips n Snails and Trixie either since they were just as mean to her as Flash was under the spell (If not worse . Since Flash at least didn’t try to sabotage their performance or trap them under the stage.). Also The human 5 and Sunset could’ve just as easily told him what he did, But you know what? THEY DIDN’T! Just saying.
 
Nah, nah, see, there’s a difference with him. The spells influence wasn’t mind control until the end, where the Sirens had fed enough on negative emotion to a point where they could make everyone adore them. Until then, all they were doing was making anyone and everyone a little more aggressive in their behaviour. It’s pretty much a case of Flash was actually thinking everything he said, he was just holding it back, as was everyone else. It’s a competition, they want to win, so they’ll sabotage everyone else.  
Sure, he likely wouldn’t have said it otherwise, but he does, he means it and eventually becomes aware of why he said it.  
Why it’s important for him specifically to nut up and apologise is because, A) Trixie is generally a bitch anyway, so whatever, and B) He’s continuously being thrown into the mix as a prominent character in the EQG world. The main human character not from Equestria that you’d think of besides the mane 7. Whether he’s supposed to be the relationship interest or not is irrelevant, it’s a kids show, and he’s supposed to be the likable human boy character guy that they’ll see more than pretty much everyone else. It’s still a kids show, and while the lesson is weird when some kind of magical Tenacious D style rock off is happening, he’s the one person out of everyone else in that school that should’ve had two extra seconds in that hug scene to say say “Sorry for being a D-bag, I didn’t mean to make you cry.”
 
Of course mid-way through that movie, he practically becomes irrelevant in general, further adding to how uninteresting a character he is, and the writers and such seem to know it since they’d practically given up on him altogether. Yet they’re still just kinda forcing him in there somewhere to be useless. So it really just begs the question, if they’re not going to try and make him likable or interesting, then why bother with him at all?
 
And just to clarify, that’s not me hating on the character, I honestly do kinda like him to an extent. It’s just that he’s kinda… there… Doing nothing interesting, barely even being there as a moral support character… There’s other background humans outshining him at this point.
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@angrybrony  
Do you watch the show/movies with a kaleidoscope or something? People like DJ Pon-3 because she has absolutely no character; they can project whatever they want for her to be.
 
People hate Flash because he’s the way they want him to be (i.e., the green anon that everyone seems to love for some reason). He’s not point-for-point what they wanted; a better version of themselves/OC/favorite HiE story ripoff. They wanted Flash to be them.
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@T-mizzle49
i shouldn’t have to head cannon some one into being interesting
 
Odd, since that has been a (weird) staple of the fandom. That’s been a thing since the start.
 
And considering what a lot of bronies ship Twilight with her brother/sister-in-law/mother/father/niece/friends/princesses/random strangers/cmc and try to play it off as a better pairing, I take these things with a grain of salt.
 
People are just mad that their ship was blown out of the water and are trying to nitpick Flash to death to validate themselves.
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But either way the fact that people are making headcanons about ANY MAIN CHARACTER AT ALL(Not just Flash.) tells me that they think there is something flawed in their characterization in some way shape or form (Even if it’s something very small and not worth getting pissed off over.). You can argue that they can be doing it just for fun. But the same can be said for people who do the same for Flash (Myself included.)
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and yet DJ Pon-3 with no line of dialog is still more important to the story and more likable, so whats flashes excuse?
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i shouldn’t have to head cannon some one into being interesting if they’er in the MAIN FUCKING CAST which flash is.
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@angrybrony  
He’s a main character the same way DJ Pon-3 is. As in, he’s not.
 
And someone beat me to the punch: @T-mizzle49  
@angrybrony
But it’s not their job to characterize a background character either.Yet the fandom does it anyway. So that argument doesn’t hold much water. Also that rule doean’t stop people from coming up with headcanons for main characters (Even ones that don’t even fit in the show.).
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But it’s not their job to characterize a background character either.Yet the fandom does it anyway. So that argument doesn’t hold much water. Also that rule doean’t stop people from coming up with headcanons for main characters (Even ones that don’t even fit in the show.).
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oh shut up. flash isn’t a background character his a main character and its not the viewers job to characterize the main damn characters.
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It really bugs me that we come from a fandom where we can take a character that sits differently and make her into a human obsessed nut, a character with an animation error on her eyes and make her into a muffin obsessed ditz, a DJ that had less than two seconds of screentime and make her a party animal that’s dating that one mare from the gala episode, or that one gaming colt that had us to second cameo and make him Sweetie Belle’s love interest.
 
And yet when one character pops up and ends up being the object of the main characters affections he suddenly “bland” and the bane of the fandom’s existence? The fact that no one even tries to give him a personality like we’ve done with every other background character in the series is what pisses me off.
 
Flash-hate is pointless, hypocritical, and just plain dumb. If people are going to bring lack of character into this then you might as well do the same for every background character that’s gotten less than a few seconds of screentime(and don’t use the 100th episode as an excuse), unless you can come up with a reason that doesn’t involve his character or the fact that he’s Twi’s love interest don’t bother acting like your hatred makes you somehow “above” any other petty hater.
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Then I guess Twilight shouldn’t forgive, Trixie, Snips n Snails and Trixie either since they were just as mean to her as Flash was under the spell (If not worse . Since Flash at least didn’t try to sabotage their performance or trap them under the stage.). Also The human 5 and Sunset could’ve just as easily told him what he did, But you know what? THEY DIDN’T! Just saying.
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>subtly is hard for people to process.  
no it really isn’t, he’s just not well written.
 
@Archives  
did i not just explain why he isn’t liked?
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He was being controlled with magic. You fedora wearing bronies love your hate headcanons, don’t you?
>Muh waifustealer.
It’s been 3 years, get over it.
 
Bro, I couldn’t even begin give a damn about what people hate him for. But its still bad form for a cartoon aimed at children to have a guy be a douche, under the influence or not, then be aware of it, and make no apology for it later.  
Frankly it also sounds a little bad on Twilight’s end for just accepting that as well, regardless of what they may or may not be attempting to do with those two characters.
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@Background Pony #F00D  
Flash could have gotten defined character and people would still be plenty of hate for him simply because he’s not the character they want to be with Twilight.
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@Background Pony #F00D  
they’re just mad cause their cartoon waifu got stolen :^)
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I don’t really care either way about why you dislike Flash’s characterization, I just get really annoyed at people using the time he was a dick to Twilight while under emotional, mental manipulation that caused every single character besides the HuMane 6 (for the most part) to act like dicks. There’s a difference between not liking a character and actively searching for ways to justify your dislike.
 
The main problem with Flash is that there is characterization there - both good and bad - that never gets expanded on and doesn’t ever happen in real extremes so the subtly is hard for people to process.
 
Plus this fandom pretty much attacks and hates any main hetero relationship.
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Any note is better than the deafening silence that is Flash’s cannon characterization.
 
As for overcoming obstacles, I can almost see that. However, wouldn’t a far more satisfying result come from making a beloved character out of your own ideas? And not forcing yourself to redeem a character that quite frankly isn’t worth the effort?
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To me, the crystal five are, at most, one note. I’m not a big fan of them. As for flash, over coming the obstacle of the canon is it’s own reward, and can build the relationship that the show tried to create.
 
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You win this round.
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I’d say secondary, like Zecora, but realistically has about as much presence as a backgrounder, despite being marketed as see above.
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You know, I’d be right there with you, if there was something to salvage. I don’t like EQG, I think all the movies are godawful. However, I like the Sunset, The Dazzlings, and the Crystal Prep girl precisely because of what the fandom has done with their potential. Flash is just… nothing. He has nothing to build on. He might as well be an OC in fan works, except one that already has such negitive connotations attached to him. So why would anyone handicap themselves in such a way?
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but isn’t flash support to be a main character?
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The same could be said about the background characters we love.
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why? at that point he may as well an oc.
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@angrybrony  
That’s why I just ignore the canon version and look at the people do do something with him other than making him a tween-girl’s wet dream.