Plus side: An addition to the “wallflower gets what’s coming to her” tag.

Minus side: Please remember to not take fiction too seriously. I wanted to avoid confessing this but that sorta caused an associate of mine to get offline for good.

@incredibubbleirishguy22
Care to explain how this is “right” while it wasn’t right for Sunset to get such punishment for her wrongdoings?

Serves her right!

@Thorned Rose Ninja
Wanting to punish those you think got off too easily is EXACTLY what Wallflower did that this is treating as wrong enough to warrant punishment.

If we don’t want such to come off as hypocritical or similarly cause more harm than good, it has to be thought through such we can prove it’s fairly analyzing/judging thing such it’s justice as opposed to blindly lashing out. For example, how would it fair Sunset didn’t get jail time despite having willfully committed wrongs far longer (Sunset was the first time Wallflower acted out of malicious intent, the others were ignorance of how harmful it could be) but Wallflower does here (without the chance/effort at redemption Sunset got)?

Or maybe it would be better to fix this by instead giving Wallflower the sympathetic aspects that was supposed to make her easy forgiveness justified but the work failed to satisfactorily convey.

@Incursor
Hmm. I may be overthinking this, especially the second point, but these are my thoughts.

On the first point, I agree Friendship Games essentially made them vigilantes, which Rainbow called “superheroes” in Spring Breakdown, who have to settle things outside the law. There is no interdimensional authority to settle these matters in the courts of some cosmic bureaucracy.

On the second point, does immigrant status apply to an interdimensional being? Well, I suppose it may in spirit, but does it count if there are presumably no established borders and recognized sovereignty with Sunset’s dimension, or even official recognition of Equestria’s existence? This is like recognizing rights of, say, an angel or astral being as being equivalent to those of a corporeal human being recognized as a citizen of some country. I guess this is the same reasoning as in Asimov’s I, Robot where a robot cannot be prosecuted for killing a human being because robots are technically not considered human beings EDIT and only a human being can be prosecuted for killing another human. Except Sunset and other Equestrians are considered human…in form but not in substance? (And likewise for humans entering the portal to Equestria.)

But I agree it is a bad idea to bring all this up to the authorities. But since without proof they wouldn’t believe them anyway… But then again it would be fairly easy to demonstrate proof… I get the feeling this is like something that would occur in X-Men with anti-mutant legislation alongside talks of universal rights.

Finally, on the third point, I would say Wallflower’s actions are worse by nature. Her actions are still wrong and contrary to good morals by violating natural rights of autonomy, I guess? I imagine they would fall under something akin to “crimes against humanity” or something if her actions were prosecutable. Add other things like Sunset’s mental anguish / pain and suffering, intimidation, the defamation of her character, assault by energy beam, and brainwashing to the list (although Sunset was arguably equally guilty of those herself in Equestria Girls).

What personally bugs me is when villains get off scot-free for their terrible actions. They should have dealt with these things in a more no-nonsense way like they did with the villains of Season 9. Then again, would those same punishments be legally applicable across dimensions? But these crimes were perpetrated on a denizen of Equestria, so… AH! Here I go again…

@Background Pony #68CD
You mean Shadowbolts?

@Incursor
Tell the Racists that there is purple people fighting normal people

In the name of the Canterlot Police, you’re under arrest, Wallflower Blush. You have been high treason for Memory loss of Sunset Shimmer

Uhh… okay?