@Badumsquish  
Yeah, that happens a lot.  
If Spike hadn’t went with them to the Crystal Empire in The Crystal Empire, then they would’ve been in some serious trouble.

@Jarkes  
I think her biggest flaw is how shortsighted and careless she can be. You really see that in School Daze. On a whim she decides to open a school in spite of not having the slightest clue of how run a school or teach a class, and she has the place built and students registered before she even knows there’s a governing body that has to approve the school. I mean, just look at how many times she’s succeeded on sheer dumb luck alone XD

@Jarkes  
Twilight was fairly asocial before moving to Ponyville, and even for a little bit after, albeit to a lesser extent, and she McFreakin’ lost it the first time she went a week without a new friendship report.

@Badumsquish
 
And Fluttershy can be very passive-aggressive at times (even before her more recent development).
 
Twilight… um… She screws up spells a lot?

@Background Pony #0101  
Yeah, I really like how the show does it. The main characters have all these flaws but it’s not enough to make them bad people, and even the kind of “bad” ponies like Zephyr, Lightning Dust, Flim and Flam, Suri, and etc are given a pretty fair shake with their flaws and are at least tolerated before it comes to a point where the main characters get fed up and call them out for it :D

@Badumsquish  
Yeah, flawed characters tend to be more interesting than flawless characters.  
Like how, on the opposite end of the spectrum, Fluttershy was initially too kind, to the point that she could be easily taken advantage of and take in individuals (like Zephyr) who need a good boot in the rear to get going, then let them laze around indefinitely.

@DragonBoi471  
I like that, how they don’t totally embody their element. Like Rainbow Dash turns her back on some friends, Pinkie Pie goes through like depression attacks, Rarity can be super greedy, etc etc. Makes for more developed characters I think :D

@Deserter
 
“when applejack didn’t tell me rainbow dash and fluttershy were there to catch me, she let me think I was falling to my doom just to prove I trusted her. she represents the element of honesty!”  
“when rainbow dash agreed to abandon us all after she tied off the rope bridge, she was just uh…

@FlonnesIkramant  
“And you, Applejack, shall become the element of honesty, for–”  
“I’m guessin’ that time Ah’d learnt keepin’ your lies straight’s more trouble than it’s worth, right?”  
“…Sure.”

@Deserter  
She’s such a bad liar that she became the element of honesty.

@DragonBoi471  
To be fair, she’s a very bad liar.

@redweasel  

 
And yet she was the one chosen to wield the Element of Honesty back in S1 (Ironic, isn’t it?).

@Badumsquish  
I don’t think she’d go out her way to screw the others over either, but if, y’know, she can make herself complete over-powered and give the others a very minor case of severe mana drain, then hey, she’d make up to them when she’s the running the gig.  
Or hell, you could have them willingly give Mean Twi their magic because that’s the only way they’d be able to take down whoever’s standing in their way.

@Badumsquish
 
well, mean applejack sure seemed convinced that lying was good! they all had a lot of preexisting knowledge. my point was that whatever failed to copy over in mean applejack, it couldn’t have been applejack’s tendancy to always tell the truth, because she doesn’t. the real applejack lies, a lot.

@redweasel  
I mostly mean how Mean Applejack was only alive for like 45 minutes so she never got a chance to learn lying was bad XD
 
@Deserter  
I can basically see her being a totally self-centered Twilight, yeah. She knows the power of friendship and teamwork but is only in it for herself; she wouldn’t necessarily go out of her way to screw teammates over when she was done with them, but she’s certainly not going to bother doing anything for them unless it benefits her too :D

@Background Pony #E546  
Careful, you don’t wanna cut yourself with all that edge.

@Background Pony #E546  
you guys are stupid and sadistic

@Background Pony #0101  
the real one would get a boot to the face. this one gets a chance to screw off unscathed!

@Background Pony #E546  
I would agree with you if this were the normal RD, but this one’s not so bad as the real one, this one just wants some love and affection.

@íaqwsy  
it’s dumb, it’s a low quality bootleg, it’s going to leave trash all over the place, and it’s wet

@Background Pony #E546  
Why?

dammit, this wet piece of trash is following me. screw off, worthless horse

@Badumsquish  
I was also thinking of something like Evil Twilight pulling a Tirek/Tree of Harmony and absorbing the magic of the other Mean 5 and turning into not!Midnight Sparkle and that’s basically as far ahead as I thought.
 
Y’know, instead of relying on their strengths to make up for her shortcomings and vice-versa like Twilight does she takes them for herself instead.

@Badumsquish
 

so… I guess the most recent episode happened before that?
 
“there’s nothin’ to be scare—”  
“we’re plum tickled to meet y’all!”  
“these kirin are quieter than an apple blossom on snowfall!”  
“uh oh. I feel a sneeze comin’ on!”

@redweasel  
She was a liar once until she learned lying was bad :D
 
@Deserter  
Honestly, Mean Twilight being in league with Cozy Glow would have been AWESOME :D