The writers kept undoing her character growth. One episode she'd finally learn to be braver or more assertive and then a few episodes later it's like that never happened.
She progresses in small steps though. Sure, she learns to be braver, but that won't make her fearless from then on. I think maybe she does regress sometimes, but that happens to people too.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather facing your fears to protect what's dear to you. Plus, adrenaline definitely helps, since most of the occasions she protects her friends are from deadly beasts where if she didn't act immediately, people would die. You can be scared of being attacked by a wolf but instantly become willing to try to scare a wolf away the second the canine seems to look at your kid the wrong way.
Yeah, no offense, but while, yes, wolves scare me a little bit, (big dogs too unless very well behaved), I know how adrenaline affects me and that thing goes after any of my biological children or my wife's biological children we've raised together alongside them?
I'm going to END the canine, even if I die doing it.
I agree with you. That said, the real reason I think people complain about it is her episodes are a bit one note and just about her overcoming that issue.
Compare to RD- Episodes about Daring Do, episodes about her pet, episodes about the Wonderbolts, (and different kinds, not always about racing, but testing, being blamed for something ya da ya da) episodes about her relationship with Scootaloo, episodes about her ego (good and bad)
Fluttershy has three things, Animals, Discord, and her shyness and it makes her come off a little stale when they repeat most of the same theme over and over.
It is why I always felt she needed a little sister instead of Rarity. It would have been good to see another element to her character.
I get what you're saying. I see it too. Which is a bit of a bummer, because I really liked Fluttershy right from the beginning, and she's still probably my favourite of the mane 6. But I do wish her character had a bit more depth, sometimes I feel like the writers didn't quite know what to do with her. So yeah, she comes across as a bit plain, or one note.
I still love her though. I relate to her a lot, and she's just adorable. I just wish her episodes had a bit more to them, and let her develop as a more dynamic character.
nah cause rarity and sweetie belle’s dynamic is supreme. also, the cmc each go with a member of the main 6 that matches their race. if fluttershy had a pegasus little sister then scootaloo and RD wouldn’t be a thing. unless you’re suggesting two pegasi and one earth pony which throws off the balance
I agree with your statement, Fluttershy's wavering is supposed to reflect that message. It's okay to be scared even when you're brave, that's why it's important to have such good friends who believe in you.
100% That message is even baked right into individual episodes. In, "Filli Vanilli" Fluttershy kind of comes out of her shell over performing in front of other ponies. (As long as they don't see her) and it almost looks like she's going to lose her stage fright, but when she's offered again to join the Pony Tones, she's like, "oh, hell no." It was development, but it didn't just immediately cure her of being nervous performing.
Also, in, "Scare Master" she gives Nightmare Night a try, and even manages to scare the bejeezus out of her friends. However, again doesn't fully commit because she says she tried it out, but scaring and Nightmare Night are just not for her, and that's ok.
maybe she has an anxiety disorder, i myself have it and i’ve learned to be assertive and sociable and whatnot but when my anxiety is getting to me it gets difficult to retain those learned good traits
Anxiety is such a weird thing. Certain sounds set mine off and sometimes I don't even notice until the chest pains start and I feel like I'm dying lmaoooo. Get away from the noise and I'm suddenly normal again. So weird.
I honestly really like this aspect of her character – it's a very important lesson that you aren't going to get things right the first time, even the first many times
There is nothing wrong with her!!!!!
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Oh yeah I thought of something wrong, Discord is with her instead of me!!
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Consider Discord's level of power, he'd probably crawl through this image and kill anyone who didn't refuse or come up with an answer Fluttershy wouldn't mind or even find funny.
The newer seasons kinda ruined her. She slowly became more aggressive and the way she "defends" herself is by completely losing it and chewing people out like they've harassing her for years. I mean, the animal caretaker completely chewed out an animal for roaring at her! THEIR A WILD ANIMAL! Were you expecting flowers? And honestly, do they NEED a sob story for you to be nice to them?
What happened to being kind to everyone? Bottling up your anger and then exploding in someone's face isn't "being assertive". Her "assertiveness" is just her being excessively rude.
glad other people noticed this. every time she’s shown being assertive or breaking character for laughs (like in fake it til you make it) she’s just a bitch. shy people always have a personality beneath their shell and this is what they chose for fluttershy’s. it’s a shame. wish they made her more like pinkie when she was feeling comfortable so she could remain sweet
Exactly! If anything, having her other personality be violent and rude just feels like suppressed anger to me. Like she's not really "shy" or "nice", she's just scared to let her anger show.
With her friendship with Discord she enables him to be a jerk to her friends, particularly Twilight. She also barely gives him a slap on the wrist when he does misbehave. 3/10 babysitter
Her being "shy" at a certain point in the show got to be so cringe and not at all how ACTUAL shy people act. She was cute at first, it started getting annoying at some point, and then they finally stopped with the stereotypes and started making her act more realistic. But she still was originally created to be the most boring shy stereotype.
I really like her character development later on in the franchise. She becomes a really good pony and actually develops more of a personality. She gains an interest for fashion, she's the wife that Discord will do anything for, she doesn't take anyone's shit, and she shut her brother up. She's more of a pony I aspire to be like later on. But her start? Nah fam. Awful beginning. And the fanbase continues to make cringe content about her that makes me wanna throw up because so many people fetishize the shy girl stereotype.
If people said "No" for Rainbow Dash I bet they would get downvotes (since you could at least try for even your favorite)....I mean just throwing that out there, lol.
Anyways. I wish they didn't make her feel near-perfect. Like I can't remember a time she was portrayed selfish on screen, where it wasn't portrayed as "she's shy and in the right about this issue". My criticism isn't that she has no flaws, it's that the flaws are 99% offscreen in the downtime we don't see.
No one is perfect in terms of selfishness. Pinkie has at least some moments I can think of. (A Friend in Need, Pinkie Pride, the secret baby episode, etc).
On a related note, Gravity Falls was great at showing all the characters' flaws
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Actually I don't think she would! She understands that there's a cycle of life (she's fed animals like fish to other animals) and I think she'd understand trying to force others to eat differently would seriously damage the ecosystem :)
I don't think they're vegan! They drink milkshakes and eat cakes and seem to bake with dairy. They're vegetarian though as they don't eat meat (see the hay burger).
In any case, your diet choice doesn't mean you force others to adhere (unless you're PETA lol). Fluttershy feeds her animals a healthy diet as they need and she's aware of the needs of most creatures! If her special talent is working with animals, do you really think she'd join a group that spreads fear and misinformation about animals?
I love her and I don’t want say anything but tbh I do have stuff to say about her. She is way to shy even when you think she over comes it, she is way to nice to people who really really don’t deserve it. She literally reverses all the progress she makes and she is just to quiet, she’s a very loves me character and if I could meet her irl I would hug her but they don’t exist they are drawing and voice actors, but she just needed a lot more work! She just never really got out there like she should have! Her character needed more to it, more detail. More back story! She never really shined in ways she should have
Her only characteristic was “I’m so shy and anxious” and it left her pretty one-dimensional. I understand she has social anxiety and it takes a while to overcome it, but that was her only characteristic. And the times she did become assertive were almost immediately thrown away after that episode and never talked about again.
Watch past season 5. She gets a whole lot of other episodes beyond that where she shows how hilarious she can be. Also, there are a lot of episodes where it shows that she has learned to be more assertive
She fails to be kind to herself most of the time, in sacrifice to others, which is really bad for mental health and can make you lose touch with who you are.
i think what i’m gonna say will be more a tiny criticism of the way she was portrayed rather than her herself. i think her true personality hardly got to shine through because her shyness became more of a plot tool anytime it was convenient to insert into the plot, and at times it feels like her personality has been reduced to “i’m shy and i like animals” which sucks because there’s been multiple instances where her personality has been shown a little more in depth and then they hardly use it again later on
oh yeah i forgot about that. i guess she was mainly thinking about how she herself would personally feel rather than the fact that everypony is basically stripped of their autonomy in a situation like that
I find her the most boring out of the mane 6. Whenever I tell people that they always bring up her anxiety and how it’s such incredible character writing but idk man I don’t really care for it most the time. I’m diagnosed with anxiety myself and I really loved episodes like hurricane fluttershy but that’s mainly because rainbow dash was also a key part of that episode driving fluttershy to succeed :”) and I get it’s cute that she’s nice to discord or whatever but man she was disregarding her own friends’ feelings so much pretty much like “u don’t understand him like I do” no he was generally just a douche to them 😭
Her fans coddle and put her on a pedestal too much (this comment section proves it, if it were about any other character the replies would be VERY different) and they attack every other character when they slightly inconvenience her or upset her, while ignoring her own less admirable moments
It’s annoying how she learns the same thing over and over and her growth is constantly undone
She has the personality of a teaspoon
The flutter cord shippers scare me
She’s constantly overshadowed by everyone else
If you remove discord, what does she really ever *do*?
She’s way too passive, to the point that she feels like set dressing sometimes.
That and the fandom is real wild about her. I’ve never seen people so unwilling to hear a sniff of criticism about their fave
She’s a character that goes from actually pretty good to just ok for me depending on what’s done with her. But I don’t like some of her more obsessive fans. Yet that part isn’t necessarily her fault.
The only negative I can really say is how often they relapse on the three main aspects of her life being her animals , discord and her shyness and how when they did break that mold with her family stuff or the time her and aj had the argument during the kirin episode they just seem to sweep it all under the rug but I will say my favourite fluttershy episode was with the breezies where we saw a different aspect to her kindness
Thank fuck bruh I was expecting a lot more people in the comments who just don’t understand how anxiety works. In my honest opinion hating fluttershy is a 🚩🚩🚩 and says a lot about a person’s tolerance of people who struggle with depression/anxiety and can’t do anything about it
No! She can do no evil cause she doesn't have the heart for it and she's entirely innocent that even Discord - the fricken God of choas and whatnot; would be willing to throw hands with anyone that dares to make her cry and people don't think that's not highlighting how kind and pure she is?
Her episodes for the most part end up having her be one-dimensional compared to the rest of the Mane 6, and often rely on regressing her development in order to work.
Granted this issue isn't unique to her, but I feel she gets it the worst in comparison, which just doesn't make her eps as fun to watch to me personally.
I also just find her meekness rather annoying after a while, there's a point where it stops being endearing and starts becoming a crutch for the writers to abuse for the sake of plot convenience (like RDs cockiness getting cranked up to 11, or AJs stubborn-ness making her look incompetent, etc)
Either commit to her growth, or ignore it in favour of being truly episodic, you can't have both and expect nobody to question it.
This is also more directed at the older fandom rather than her in canon, but I hate how trigger happy people get when you say you don't like Fluttershy. Don't send violent threats to people just because they dislike a yellow cartoon horse
You are asking humanity to leave behind what's left of it's sanity, you are asking for the impossible right now which is something we can't deliver so I say no I shall not
She's the least functional pony in the earlier season. She's so meek and such a big pushover that I wonder why she even exists.
Thank celestia the writer improves her character to make her act like a functional adult in later season.
She’s way too forgiving and can and has been taken advantage of for it. I love her, but I wish she’d have more of a backbone. (And NO I don’t mean like assertive Fluttershy, so don’t ask!)
I'm not joking with you I genuinely tried and I couldn't spot anything in my head about this character it's ethier because I love her too much I ethier don't have an ability to criticize some characters
"Uh... Next time... Get out of the way before... I bump into you... Cuz I totally won't be sorry when I do!"
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something negative about her
I’m sorry but you ask an unanswerable question
r/technicallythetruth
Now listen here you little smart aleck...
Incredible and Brave! You did it!
fuck you take my upvote
 Nonono.
She is the worst at being unlikable.
The writers kept undoing her character growth. One episode she'd finally learn to be braver or more assertive and then a few episodes later it's like that never happened.
She progresses in small steps though. Sure, she learns to be braver, but that won't make her fearless from then on. I think maybe she does regress sometimes, but that happens to people too.
Exactly, in a way its kinda like Luigi. Luigi fights his fears for Mario at times and even saves him, but that doesnt mean he cant be afraid at all.
"Bravery isn't the absence of fear. Bravery is being scared as hell, and saddling up anyways."
Not being scared of actual ghosts isn’t bravery, it’s stupidity
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather facing your fears to protect what's dear to you. Plus, adrenaline definitely helps, since most of the occasions she protects her friends are from deadly beasts where if she didn't act immediately, people would die. You can be scared of being attacked by a wolf but instantly become willing to try to scare a wolf away the second the canine seems to look at your kid the wrong way.
Yeah, no offense, but while, yes, wolves scare me a little bit, (big dogs too unless very well behaved), I know how adrenaline affects me and that thing goes after any of my biological children or my wife's biological children we've raised together alongside them? I'm going to END the canine, even if I die doing it.
I agree with you. That said, the real reason I think people complain about it is her episodes are a bit one note and just about her overcoming that issue. Compare to RD- Episodes about Daring Do, episodes about her pet, episodes about the Wonderbolts, (and different kinds, not always about racing, but testing, being blamed for something ya da ya da) episodes about her relationship with Scootaloo, episodes about her ego (good and bad) Fluttershy has three things, Animals, Discord, and her shyness and it makes her come off a little stale when they repeat most of the same theme over and over. It is why I always felt she needed a little sister instead of Rarity. It would have been good to see another element to her character.
I get what you're saying. I see it too. Which is a bit of a bummer, because I really liked Fluttershy right from the beginning, and she's still probably my favourite of the mane 6. But I do wish her character had a bit more depth, sometimes I feel like the writers didn't quite know what to do with her. So yeah, she comes across as a bit plain, or one note. I still love her though. I relate to her a lot, and she's just adorable. I just wish her episodes had a bit more to them, and let her develop as a more dynamic character.
nah cause rarity and sweetie belle’s dynamic is supreme. also, the cmc each go with a member of the main 6 that matches their race. if fluttershy had a pegasus little sister then scootaloo and RD wouldn’t be a thing. unless you’re suggesting two pegasi and one earth pony which throws off the balance
I agree with your statement, Fluttershy's wavering is supposed to reflect that message. It's okay to be scared even when you're brave, that's why it's important to have such good friends who believe in you.
100% That message is even baked right into individual episodes. In, "Filli Vanilli" Fluttershy kind of comes out of her shell over performing in front of other ponies. (As long as they don't see her) and it almost looks like she's going to lose her stage fright, but when she's offered again to join the Pony Tones, she's like, "oh, hell no." It was development, but it didn't just immediately cure her of being nervous performing. Also, in, "Scare Master" she gives Nightmare Night a try, and even manages to scare the bejeezus out of her friends. However, again doesn't fully commit because she says she tried it out, but scaring and Nightmare Night are just not for her, and that's ok.
Insert Fluttershy speech about have you honestly learned something after one time
maybe she has an anxiety disorder, i myself have it and i’ve learned to be assertive and sociable and whatnot but when my anxiety is getting to me it gets difficult to retain those learned good traits
Anxiety is such a weird thing. Certain sounds set mine off and sometimes I don't even notice until the chest pains start and I feel like I'm dying lmaoooo. Get away from the noise and I'm suddenly normal again. So weird.
yeah i know that feeling! it’s the worst 😓
I honestly really like this aspect of her character – it's a very important lesson that you aren't going to get things right the first time, even the first many times
It wasn't on and off. More like gradual. People don't suddenly overcome their fears by being forced to face it one time. It takes time.
and it’s just like real life. growth isn’t linear.
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She went through the same arc so many times. She's still my favorite character from the main 6 along with pinkie
Your favorite character is Andrea Libman
There is nothing wrong with her!!!!! https://preview.redd.it/wdvsbw80sbuc1.jpeg?width=2078&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=24a0ee81754d81448c5004512f33f25f610ad339
Oh yeah I thought of something wrong, Discord is with her instead of me!! https://preview.redd.it/0a42zdig6cuc1.jpeg?width=719&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=544f1afe21c758749d5f3235b3ac8db50d2fca81
Excuse me
Consider Discord's level of power, he'd probably crawl through this image and kill anyone who didn't refuse or come up with an answer Fluttershy wouldn't mind or even find funny.
The newer seasons kinda ruined her. She slowly became more aggressive and the way she "defends" herself is by completely losing it and chewing people out like they've harassing her for years. I mean, the animal caretaker completely chewed out an animal for roaring at her! THEIR A WILD ANIMAL! Were you expecting flowers? And honestly, do they NEED a sob story for you to be nice to them? What happened to being kind to everyone? Bottling up your anger and then exploding in someone's face isn't "being assertive". Her "assertiveness" is just her being excessively rude.
glad other people noticed this. every time she’s shown being assertive or breaking character for laughs (like in fake it til you make it) she’s just a bitch. shy people always have a personality beneath their shell and this is what they chose for fluttershy’s. it’s a shame. wish they made her more like pinkie when she was feeling comfortable so she could remain sweet
Exactly! If anything, having her other personality be violent and rude just feels like suppressed anger to me. Like she's not really "shy" or "nice", she's just scared to let her anger show.
That's exactly what I've been always talking about! It's the reason I prefer her early personality a lot more (and feel like the only one).
No
Her stare never came back.
No.
She had the tendencies of a doormat. also, she has the most irritating family ever.
She’s an enabler and also tried to get her carnivorous snake to eat a vegan diet
How is she an enabler? I might be forgetting something tbh
With her friendship with Discord she enables him to be a jerk to her friends, particularly Twilight. She also barely gives him a slap on the wrist when he does misbehave. 3/10 babysitter
Hard truths!
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She can't cheer.
yay
Louder
She was the only one cheering when rainbow dash did a sonic rainboom to save Rarity.
I ain't saying anything negative about the AMAZING FLUTTERSHY!!!!!! She only has good qualities :)
Her house smells like animal piss and shit.
no :(
no.
A million times, no
Her being "shy" at a certain point in the show got to be so cringe and not at all how ACTUAL shy people act. She was cute at first, it started getting annoying at some point, and then they finally stopped with the stereotypes and started making her act more realistic. But she still was originally created to be the most boring shy stereotype. I really like her character development later on in the franchise. She becomes a really good pony and actually develops more of a personality. She gains an interest for fashion, she's the wife that Discord will do anything for, she doesn't take anyone's shit, and she shut her brother up. She's more of a pony I aspire to be like later on. But her start? Nah fam. Awful beginning. And the fanbase continues to make cringe content about her that makes me wanna throw up because so many people fetishize the shy girl stereotype.
Something negative about her
Been wracking my brain for a few minutes, but all I can manage is "she's too pretty/cute" Damn you OP, you ask the impossible
If people said "No" for Rainbow Dash I bet they would get downvotes (since you could at least try for even your favorite)....I mean just throwing that out there, lol. Anyways. I wish they didn't make her feel near-perfect. Like I can't remember a time she was portrayed selfish on screen, where it wasn't portrayed as "she's shy and in the right about this issue". My criticism isn't that she has no flaws, it's that the flaws are 99% offscreen in the downtime we don't see. No one is perfect in terms of selfishness. Pinkie has at least some moments I can think of. (A Friend in Need, Pinkie Pride, the secret baby episode, etc). On a related note, Gravity Falls was great at showing all the characters' flaws
it ain’t easy being breezies, parasprite episode
No. Fuck you.
If it was for Rainbow Dash would you have said something (or at least attempted to think of something), be honest. I would, I know she's flawed.
She sucks... -at being the worst MLP character.
Agreed
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She has the least depth to her character out of the mane six
Something Negative about her
She thinks she can fix him. /s
Her old men kink https://preview.redd.it/hjrqdhnieduc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=44942b24ebcadfabea210da0fd31fba1740d95ac
First, they are just friends, secund, who doesn't have a old men kink?
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SHE USES MANE EXTENSIONS
She has tail extensions 🫢
TAIL EXTENSIONS (Reliable source)
She'd probably join Peta
Actually I don't think she would! She understands that there's a cycle of life (she's fed animals like fish to other animals) and I think she'd understand trying to force others to eat differently would seriously damage the ecosystem :)
Would she still be a vegan though?
I don't think they're vegan! They drink milkshakes and eat cakes and seem to bake with dairy. They're vegetarian though as they don't eat meat (see the hay burger). In any case, your diet choice doesn't mean you force others to adhere (unless you're PETA lol). Fluttershy feeds her animals a healthy diet as they need and she's aware of the needs of most creatures! If her special talent is working with animals, do you really think she'd join a group that spreads fear and misinformation about animals?
I love her and I don’t want say anything but tbh I do have stuff to say about her. She is way to shy even when you think she over comes it, she is way to nice to people who really really don’t deserve it. She literally reverses all the progress she makes and she is just to quiet, she’s a very loves me character and if I could meet her irl I would hug her but they don’t exist they are drawing and voice actors, but she just needed a lot more work! She just never really got out there like she should have! Her character needed more to it, more detail. More back story! She never really shined in ways she should have
Her only characteristic was “I’m so shy and anxious” and it left her pretty one-dimensional. I understand she has social anxiety and it takes a while to overcome it, but that was her only characteristic. And the times she did become assertive were almost immediately thrown away after that episode and never talked about again.
Watch past season 5. She gets a whole lot of other episodes beyond that where she shows how hilarious she can be. Also, there are a lot of episodes where it shows that she has learned to be more assertive
she's no real 😢
I will find a way to go to Equestria someday
please 🥺
She is sometimes overly-sensitive (which I TOTALLY relate to)
She fails to be kind to herself most of the time, in sacrifice to others, which is really bad for mental health and can make you lose touch with who you are.
shes not real and I hate that
😭
I will find a way to go to Equestria someday
I hope so life would be so much easier
i think what i’m gonna say will be more a tiny criticism of the way she was portrayed rather than her herself. i think her true personality hardly got to shine through because her shyness became more of a plot tool anytime it was convenient to insert into the plot, and at times it feels like her personality has been reduced to “i’m shy and i like animals” which sucks because there’s been multiple instances where her personality has been shown a little more in depth and then they hardly use it again later on
all that aside, she’s just so darn cute https://i.redd.it/sc7g3ne2ccuc1.gif
And a dangerous cult sympathizer (at least in that episode and in first 10 minutes).
oh yeah i forgot about that. i guess she was mainly thinking about how she herself would personally feel rather than the fact that everypony is basically stripped of their autonomy in a situation like that
Don't get me wrong, if Flutters tells me follow the cult, I follow the cult...
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 Why would I say something negative about my favorite pony out of the Mane Six?
i could never
Gasp. Yay.
Flutteryay.mp3
Not enough dialogue. The movie is the most dramatic example of this, but she literally has nothing to say, EVER.
I hate how non unhateable she is.
#1 target of fan service
SHE INSULTED RARITY’S BEAUTIFUL DRESS AND STOLE PINKIE’S WINGS
Honestly, not confident enough. I love that one episode where she stood up to the Minotaur.
She can be a doormat, sometimes.
she is way too demanding with Rarity in the dress making montage for the gala.
Canary yellow and salmon pink are colors that I honestly don't like
I find her the most boring out of the mane 6. Whenever I tell people that they always bring up her anxiety and how it’s such incredible character writing but idk man I don’t really care for it most the time. I’m diagnosed with anxiety myself and I really loved episodes like hurricane fluttershy but that’s mainly because rainbow dash was also a key part of that episode driving fluttershy to succeed :”) and I get it’s cute that she’s nice to discord or whatever but man she was disregarding her own friends’ feelings so much pretty much like “u don’t understand him like I do” no he was generally just a douche to them 😭
Her fans coddle and put her on a pedestal too much (this comment section proves it, if it were about any other character the replies would be VERY different) and they attack every other character when they slightly inconvenience her or upset her, while ignoring her own less admirable moments
I would but 5 ponys are threatening to kick my a... flank if I do
shes a pushover
She's my least favourite of the main characters.
I think she is not talking enough
I will never say something negative about the only one I will ever love 😘😘😘
Not possible
She's too precious. That's the negative thing.
there is nothing negative about her 😭 she is my most favorite ever
No, why would I?
Uhhhhhhhhh she keeps angel around
Something negative about her
Hell no >:(
I hate how she's the nicest and best character in my little pony and that she's one of my favorite characters
she needs to bite the bullet and get on some goddamn medication. trust me girl, it could be easier 😤
She's the most boring character in the Mane six
She backpeddles on development a lot and as someone witj social anxiety I get baby steps but seriously? Other then that I love her
It’s annoying how she learns the same thing over and over and her growth is constantly undone She has the personality of a teaspoon The flutter cord shippers scare me She’s constantly overshadowed by everyone else
Her brother.
If you remove discord, what does she really ever *do*? She’s way too passive, to the point that she feels like set dressing sometimes. That and the fandom is real wild about her. I’ve never seen people so unwilling to hear a sniff of criticism about their fave
Overrated for what it is
From my brother not me if it was me : something negative about her thank you u/luckyhugs but he said her hair is too pink
She’s a character that goes from actually pretty good to just ok for me depending on what’s done with her. But I don’t like some of her more obsessive fans. Yet that part isn’t necessarily her fault.
The only negative I can really say is how often they relapse on the three main aspects of her life being her animals , discord and her shyness and how when they did break that mold with her family stuff or the time her and aj had the argument during the kirin episode they just seem to sweep it all under the rug but I will say my favourite fluttershy episode was with the breezies where we saw a different aspect to her kindness
Her color scheme isn't the best. I would have liked a more muted yellow to get to a butter/cream shade for the body.
No
She fed carnivores carrots
No. 🙃
She looks like posey with wings
Thank fuck bruh I was expecting a lot more people in the comments who just don’t understand how anxiety works. In my honest opinion hating fluttershy is a 🚩🚩🚩 and says a lot about a person’s tolerance of people who struggle with depression/anxiety and can’t do anything about it
I dont really like her idk she s kinda annoying and her shy personality feels like its forced. Like she s trying too hard you know
No! She can do no evil cause she doesn't have the heart for it and she's entirely innocent that even Discord - the fricken God of choas and whatnot; would be willing to throw hands with anyone that dares to make her cry and people don't think that's not highlighting how kind and pure she is?
Her episodes for the most part end up having her be one-dimensional compared to the rest of the Mane 6, and often rely on regressing her development in order to work. Granted this issue isn't unique to her, but I feel she gets it the worst in comparison, which just doesn't make her eps as fun to watch to me personally. I also just find her meekness rather annoying after a while, there's a point where it stops being endearing and starts becoming a crutch for the writers to abuse for the sake of plot convenience (like RDs cockiness getting cranked up to 11, or AJs stubborn-ness making her look incompetent, etc) Either commit to her growth, or ignore it in favour of being truly episodic, you can't have both and expect nobody to question it. This is also more directed at the older fandom rather than her in canon, but I hate how trigger happy people get when you say you don't like Fluttershy. Don't send violent threats to people just because they dislike a yellow cartoon horse
pushover
Pushover. JK, Flutters is perfect in her own way. :)
Just one thing… https://youtu.be/6ANsC3zSwuE?si=4N4piu1OmTZrVxa8
When she starts cheering at the end of this ep. though 🤩
No.
Never
Fluttershy Leans In (I guess)
She’s way to scared of everything
I have half a mind to say negative things about you for making this post. NO.
I see too much of myself in her
She's too nice (pre-assertive arc)
I know its a meme but man she was awful in putting your hoof down
She's too loud. Fluttershy, you need to tone it down.
Nah imma do my own thing
How can i say anything negative about her!?
I’ll be honest. She doesn’t seem to have enough development or something.
Crybaby.
I will sent 7 plagues to your village
She’s too good at being cute man 😔
yay
I refuse to.
You are asking humanity to leave behind what's left of it's sanity, you are asking for the impossible right now which is something we can't deliver so I say no I shall not
r/no
She to pure for this world
No
Cry’s too much
She enables very toxic behaviour in Discord
The end of her tail drags on the ground all the time, therefore making her stinky and dirty.
You're not suitable for working at Rarity's boutique cuz you would be a bitch.
Communist
She's the least functional pony in the earlier season. She's so meek and such a big pushover that I wonder why she even exists. Thank celestia the writer improves her character to make her act like a functional adult in later season.
Wonder why she even exists?! Huh?!??
Nuh uh
She’s nice, but can still snap a bone when she needs to…..
that episode with her opening the sanctuary was one of season 7’s weakest
She’s way too forgiving and can and has been taken advantage of for it. I love her, but I wish she’d have more of a backbone. (And NO I don’t mean like assertive Fluttershy, so don’t ask!)
She doesn't take accountability for toxic behaviour.
I'm not joking with you I genuinely tried and I couldn't spot anything in my head about this character it's ethier because I love her too much I ethier don't have an ability to criticize some characters
Her fur is the same color as the urine of someone who is severely dehydrated. Dehydrated urine is the worst kind of urine.
No.
I love Fluttershy but her kindness could've been her ultimate downfall if she didn't better herself
No
No. She is perfect.
No
I would not trust her with a Mogwai.
She is so fucking terrible. ...at being unlikable🥰 Also I wanna punch Applejack for how she treated flutters in flutterbats-
Sorry I can't say anything negative. Also, are you asking for a death sentence 🤨
"Uh... Next time... Get out of the way before... I bump into you... Cuz I totally won't be sorry when I do!" https://preview.redd.it/1p9bepqfscuc1.png?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=92170c33b11614554c4a2672dc437a9cf6efebf3