User blog:BrutalBear98/PG Removal: Spike (My Little Pony Friendship is Magic)



Proposing PG Removal of Spike from My Little Pony Friendship is Magic.

What's the work
My Little Pony Friendship is Magic is a children's cartoon created by Hasbro that tells the story of Twilight Sparkle and her five friends, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie, as they solve various problems related to friendship, as well as using the "Elements of Harmony" to defeat whatever villains may threaten their homeworld, Equestria.

Who is he?/What has he done?
Spike is a young dragon who is the loyal companion and assistant of the series' main protagonist, Twilight Sparkle. He is the one responsible for saving the Crystal Empire from King Sombra by protecting the Crystal Heart from him. He is also shown to have a crush on Rarity.

Why he doesn't qualify
While Spike is indeed loyal to Twilight, he can also sometimes let his desire for Twilight's attention or his ego drive him to do morally questionable things. In the season 1 episode "Owl's Well That Ends Well", Spike, after accidentally burning one of Twilight's books with his fire, lies to her and tells her someone else must have checked it out to avoid getting in trouble, and later becomes jealous of the attention that Twilight's pet owl and junior assistant, Owlowiscious, is receiving from her. After Twilight finds out that Spike burned the book earlier and scolds him for lying to her, Spike attempts to get rid of Owlowiscious by using a toy mouse and ketchup to make Twilight think Owlowiscious has killed a mouse. In the season 6 episode "Princess Spike", when Twilight (who has by this point became one of the princesses of Equestria alongside Celestia and Luna) is too sleepy to handle her princess duties and Spike is assigned to make sure she isn't woken, he instead starts making decisions in her place, due to enjoying the authority that comes with being a princess. Also, he tends to have a sardonic attitude towards others, including his friends, and like all dragons in the MLP: FIM universe, he has an innate greed, and in the episode "Secret of my Excess", his greed actually causes him to temporarily turn into a huge dragon who hoarded others' possessions compulsively.

Verdict
While he does learn his lesson at the end in both "Owl's Well That Ends Well" and "Princess Spike", doing such acts for the sake of his ego in the first place, as well as the greed that is inherent to all dragons in the MLP:FIM universe, are flaws that disqualify him from being a PG.