its the principle of the mater twi

I know that dragons are immune to fire.
 
But how come Spike can handle the heat from lava in the show, But not the sun in the desert from the movie?
 
I know that I’m a spike fan and all, But I’m very scared if he dies in the desert. So yeah deserts are not very good at all.

She’s got a point. But really, Twilight? Really?

There has to be an image that takes into consideration Spike’s and dragonkind’s overall invulnerability (to most things, as are dragons in multiple other series’ and mediums), and follows it up with a Sundowner quote:
 

 
(fucking invincibility intensifies)

@BrokenEagle98  
I just noticed your comment, I feel silly.

Guys just because Spike would survive doesn’t make Twilight’s decision right. She obviously forgot that Spike was immune to fire, she thought that if she saved the books that spike would die but she was obviously ok with that.

Twilight, in bird culture, that is considered a dick move.

@BrokenEagle98
 
I was going to comment on this but you took the words right out of my mouth.
 
Also you’re fuck up Twi

I think a lot of people are forgetting that Twilight was in a “shoot from the hip” kind of scenario. These kind of spontaneous moments are usually guided by emotions and reflexes. It’s easy to go back and justify a set of actions as “logical”, but in the spur of the moment, logic usually takes a back seat.
 
There’s also the fact that it shows her debating internally for quite a while, with much emotion, before she finally shouts, “I can’t lose my research!!”. Instead, why didn’t she immediately and calmly say, “Duh, Spike is fireproof, I’d choose my research”. I believe it’s because she wasn’t thinking logically at the time, like some in this thread have claimed. She was just replying reflexively, and only when she realized she was being tested and had time to think did she try to play it off using “logic” in order to try to avoid any repercussions.

How about instead of a fire, there’s a blizzard, which we all know will hurt Spike.

@Ihhh  
That’s not the question you should be asking. Instead, you should be asking these two:
 
First, “why are the readers surprised that Twilight Sparkle would think this through logically rather than emotionally?”
 
And second, “why would the artist think that Spike, who knows Twilight Sparkle better than anyone, would be disappointed that she DID think it through logically rather than emotionally?”

@Background Pony #5FB6  
I doubt smoke will kill him since he produces his own smoke and falling debris from a burning building is only dangerous because it is on fire which makes it difficult to move. So if Spike is ever caught in a burning building he can either walk out like its nothing or wait until it all burns down and crawl out of its ashes.

I think the real question here is, why is Spike in a high chair.  
I mean just because he’s a baby dragon, doesn’t mean he’s an actual baby.

@Ihhh  
I don’t know if you’re still interested, but I wanted to try and explain and hope that a different wording can just help you understand where others of us are comming from:
 
I see it as you’re being like those people who are focusing too much on the details of the scenario, and not the intent.
 
To use a different Choice scenario, The question where there’s a baby on train tracks with a train full of people heading towards it. And you have the choice of either diverting the train, causing it to crash and kiling the people, or letting it continue on, killing the baby.
 
And instead of just focusing on the intent of the question: Choose one or the other. You would be the person who is challenging all of the details. “Why is there a baby on the tracks in the first place? Why can’t the trian stop on it’s own? Why can it be diverted to a crash-course?” Etc.
 
The point isn’t the reality of the situation. You’re meant to ignore the specific details and deal with the scenario in it’s most basic elements. “Choose one or the other.” The scenario “Burning building” Is simply a framework for you to be making the choice.
 
Yes it’s artificial and constructed and has no application in any scenario close to reality. But it’s a Thought excersize. Not meant to be thought through all the way.
 
Hopefully this helped you understand where we are comming from. Sorry if it’s just a mess of words. =/

I got the intent~ Thought it was funny.  
Though I also read into it that Twilight was so flustered over the choice that she wasn’t even taking into account the Dragon = Fire-proof thing when she made her choice. And it was only after when Spike was going “Wow” that she remembered and when saying Dragons were immune to fire she was pretending to have taken it into account at the time when she really wasn’t~
 
Either way, I thought it silly and fun~

@Background Pony #5FB6  
Some days I just feel like absolute shit.

For me, the funniest bit is that look Spike gives Discord, as if he expects Discord to go, “I know, right?”

@Swashbucklist  
Are you the sam Swashbuclist that’s on FIMFiction? If you are, then from your recent comments there I have trouble picturing you as a Spike fan at all, let alone one worried about his portrayal in the series and the fandom.

@Brony_Conundrum  
Thank you for answering my question.

@Background Pony #5FB6  
If the scene went to great lengths to emphasise Spike’s pain and didn’t do so in a comedic over-the-top manner (e.g. Spike screaming bloody murder over a paper cut), then yes.

@Background Pony #5FB6  
The slapstick isn’t the issue for me. Spikeabuse is standard slapstick fare, and the stuff he puts up with is no worse than what the rest of the mane six do. There’s nothing wrong with this comic in my eyes.
 
What I do a problem with is that everyone from the top-ranking staff to the most plebeian fans arbitrarily decide he isn’t important enough to bother with, and constantly advertise his closest friends as a complete group that he is rarely part of. I see it literally everywhere I look.

@Background Pony #5FB6  
I’ve only been here since september. Anyways, it’s over 10 hours past my bedtime, so I can’t stay online much longer.

@Brony_Conundrum  
So, assuming we’re having an actual conversation here instead of name-calling, if there was just one instance, just one, where Spike actually received some physical pain or damage as the result of his being tossed around or hit by one of the other characters, or receiving some sort of concrete, provable damage from the actions of any others, then you feel that the situation he is in would be proven “unfunny?”

@Ihhh  
Don’t quit now! I don’t go to work until noon today! We can endlessly circle this question about the exact traits of a fictional dragon from a cartoon for little girls concerning pastel colored magical horse-like beings like we have been doing for five years now!

@Background Pony #5FB6  
A character doesn’t have to be unsympathetic for abuse towards them to be funny. Look at Morty from Rick and Morty, for example. He gets a fair amount of abuse hurled at him over the course of the show, but it’s funny to watch because he doesn’t scream in pain or anything like that–he just sort of takes it in his stride, and he always gets back up on his feet again. It’s the same deal with Spike, I feel.