Babs looks adorable in that hat and boa.

@Background Pony #2E70  
Lots of things are dangerous. Hell, we’ve seen that magic outside of ones control can be dangerous (see: Young Twilight turning parents into plants and suchlike) so it isn’t hard to imagine that, even without mind-whammy stuff, a magic increasing artifact would warrant a ‘this is dangerous’ warning anyway.
 
The issue is that the Amulet goes far beyond dangerous and into ‘there is no possible way to use this item in any manner that isn’t dangerous’ and that the nature of this danger, insanity inducing, was never mentioned.
 
If this insanity-effect actually was known buy the shopkeeper beforehand then… holy crap man, the mere fact he was still willing to sell it makes him the most moral-less horse ever.

is Trixie like Shawn Spencer?

@PonyPon  
Yeah, the way the entire fandom headcannoned the entire griffon species as bullies kinda felt “off” to me.

@Villain Pony  
I guess it was the simplest way to say “Do not trust this character and by extension, her entire species.”

@Background Pony #5DCB  

 
honestly? That felt forced. Like they wanted us to believe she deserved to have her friendship with RD cut off.

@CronoM  
Remember when Gilda basically tried to kill Pinkie by sending her crashing out of the sky (instead of maybe trying to talk to her first)? Or how she got her kicks out of scaring old women or making someone cry for accidentally bumping into her by roaring in their face?
 
These aren’t actions that can be excused by mere “agitation” (and the latter two even happened after she would have wound down by hanging out with Dash).
 
Gilda was just an asshole.
 
(Just a quick side note, I also disagree that they can’t see shades of grey outside of RD. Pinkie was still legitimately willing to see the best out of Gilda to the end. Fluttershy is always excusing others’ behavior’s. And Dash viewed Trixie the same as everyone else, even in the issue that they were put together in the comics).

@lackey_h  
Exactly; it’s not like anyone tried to tell her it was dangerous.
 
@CronoM  
Yeah, the way she turned away from Pinkie when being introduced should’ve told Pinkie to give her some space, but noooo…

Trixie is such a dear in the comics.

@CronoM  
Oh my god, I just realized.  
Perhaps that was one of the episodes’ points to exist! To have the viewers available to disagree with the main cast and see for themselves!  
I have to think a bit more on this. Thank you!
 
_{And Seabreeze was so cool that literally every word he said was spot on.}

@PonyPon  
Indeed. Its a very similar way of how they overblew Gilda’s experience in Ponyville. Remember that Gilda was initially friendly until Pinkie wouldn’t give her and Dash some private time? Remember when Gilda actually accepted to start over and shake Pinkie’s hand but Pinkie electrocuted her with a buzzer with too much voltage? (2x damage against flying types) The episode takes on an entirely different meaning when you realize Gilda was just agitated and on edge.
 
Trixie and Gilda are characters that were labeled as ‘bad’ because Twilight, AJ, and the others had such a narrow view of what ‘good’ is they don’t see the grey. I am not surprised the first person to bond with Trixie in the comics was Rainbow Dash, because not only were they very similar early on, Dash sees the grey where the others can’t. Seabreeze was a very standoffish person as well, but everyone knows he wasn’t a bad guy, just incredibly agitated.

@soundtea  
The problem is some of her quirks are something the show thinks is perfectly okay…but just aren’t, and they never address it. Twilight’s bookworm and perfectionist quirks are fine and likable, but the others are the exact opposite.
 
Twilight treats Spike more like a servant then a kid brother in more then half the episodes, she is such a cultist that she would sell out her friends and other’s lives for Celestia’s ‘assignments’ especially in the major episodes (ex. Crystal Empire and Twilight’s Kingdom), and she is way above the 1% in all ways imaginable yet she’s never satisfied no matter how perfect her life is.
 
Trixie and reformed Sunset are far more relatable characters. Twilight is just riding the ‘barbie ride’ like a beauty pageant queen…kind of apt since that’s what the Hub DIRECTLY compared Twilight’s coronation to in significance.

@The Smiling Pony  
Total agreement on ‘lack of information on the amulet’. I mean Twilight’s library had what, a grand total of one double page spread in a single book? Add that to the fact that I would expect Twi’s library to be one of the more likely places to find information on crazy artifacts as well as the issue that the common unicorn, like Trixie, probably isn’t going to be allowed into the places more likely to have that info…
 
Yeah. I’ll buy that she had no idea what the amulet really did outside of ‘magical powerup’.

@soundtea  
Well, that’s what Twilight is, and that’s not a good character to feature in a show for kids.

@Background Pony #2E70  
I was with you until “replace that privileged slaveholder”, then you just became stupid.

I can’t fight the feeling they be overblowing her previous “evil” and are begrudgingly forgiving that same imagined amount of evil.

Yeah, this comic is showing exactly why it’s stupid to call Trixie a villain. I mean, it’s obvious she just wanted that amulet so her magic could match Twilight’s, and not for revenge or anything. Really, she ought to replace that privileged slaveholder in the show; her re-introduction episode would even have a ready-made moral, as she forgives the other Mane 6 for what they’ve done to her.

@Background Pony #BACD  
There’s ample literature about the effects of steroids. There was most likely next to nothing known about the amulet and she thought it would just increase her power without any ill effects (other than the sack of gold it cost).
 
But yes, it would’ve made a good premise for a “don’t do drugs / cheat!” episode, if they’d wanted to take it that way.

@The Smiling Pony  
Most people who take steroids don’t intend to hurt anyone in a fit of roid rage. But they are still responsible for taking the steroids in the first place.

@Background Pony #A4E1  
To be fair, her scheming probably didn’t include for hurting anyone, or account for the amulet making her literally insane and evil.

@Ilsor  
well she was scheming just not hurting anyone. se cond time around she definitely was hurting.

@Ilsor  
I can totally see that. After all, this is the same world that added “feasting on children” to the Nightmare Moon mythos.

Dang, after watching One Bad Apple I can see quite a comparison for Babs and AJ for their pity with Trixie. Despite Trixie teasing AJ twice, I can see why AJ has a pity heart on her just like how she felt with Babs.
 
This comic arc is very touching in connection.

@Masem  
Well, the mane6 was heckling her. And it’s not like she was being any worse than Rainbow Dash.

@FSin  
Technically she had a scheme that was meant to emotionally hurt some ponies by her boostful nature (as AJ says). The Ursa was from that scheme running out of hand.