If only Spike would find that balance point. That kindness deserves reward! However, if he needs to be mean, then why not be mean to those who really deserve it? Ya gotta prove you’re no pushover – as we seen in Fluttershy’s arc many times, but there is a balance point. With all the abuse Spike got over the years, it’s a wonder he never turned so bitter. Spike’s kindness is not a bad thing, and it’s hard getting over sensitivity. When we look at Spike, we see someone we can count on, and if we met someone like him in real life, what would we do? Treat them how you wanna be treated, or use them and stab them in the back at the last minute because you know they don’t have the guts to come back at you? Usually people start off kind and bitterness is taught, and there are people out there that are usually very kind, but knowing humanity, there are always those jerks that take someone’s kindness for granted and they get away with it. I know realistically, you gotta make the best outta a situation like that, and bad guys get away with it – but he’s got so many connections to the ponies, dragons, and changelings, and who’s to say Sludge won’t do it again to some other orphaned dragon? You got people like Rarity and Sludge who use his kindness for their benefits, and the latter got away with it without any known karma haunting him back. Fluttershy learned to be more assertive, but for some reason, that moral never really stuck with him - he learned that lesson, like, one time at Inspiration Manifestation, and yes, some morals may need to be repeated from time to time, but they just never got back to it. One of the greatest aspects of Spike is how kind and loyal he is but much like Fluttershy, that kindness can be taken advantage over, and THAT is something Spike is a victim to a lot.
In Equestria, dragons are a cultural, not an animal, so I dunno how this makes the rest of them look in the human world. No other dragon character appeared in EG, so let’s see whether or not Ember and Garble are humans or dogs. I’m just assuming, of course, I don’t know for sure if that’s true, but EG just seems to imply it. It makes it seem like the devs saw him as a pet rather than an actual family member. Equestria Girls makes him a PET, like really, that came waaaaay before Sparkle’s Seven. Spike is meant to be the ‘little brother’ of Twilight and Shining Armor, which implies he’s supposed to be the ‘son’ of the Sparkle parents, the brother in-law of Cadance, and the Uncle of Flurry Heart. This doesn’t reflect well with Equestria Girls either. Just because one may say something doesn’t automatically make it true - you need actual proof. He might have a choice NOW, but did he always? You can see that he can sometimes get very annoyed by the tasks Twilight always has him doing, like taking notes in PPOV.ĭoes he even get PAID, with actual bits with the job he does? If his only payment is “food and shelter”, then that’s basically slavery despite what the show might claim.
He may be happy with it, but do we know if he was happy with it by choice at an older age, or was he raised for labor purposes? We don’t know, the show never told us. You’d think that there would be certain red flags going up about an outsider species kid being the errand-boy to the common pony citizens of Equestria.
What really doesn’t help his situation is that before he became Royal Advisor, he was basically Twilight’s errand-boy – something that certain cultures do to immigrants even nowadays. I haven’t seen it happen first-hand, but I’m sure it has happened. I bet if there was a certain kid from outside a culture who fits in better with another culture than their own would have this problem. It’s like saying to someone “you’re this culture, but you act like this culture”. Of course there are those that would actually try to befriend the one kid, but could be convinced otherwise by the rotten fruits that try to spoil the bunch, if you get my metaphor.Īnd you have the dragons who too treat don’t treat him with respect because of his pony-personality. You know how cruel people can be towards others that are different from them (I’m not aiming towards a particular culture), and they’d treat the one different kid with less respect, maybe even bully them, all because they look different.
Like it’s all one-particular cultural group that go to a particular school, and there are very few, if not one, child from a different culture who goes to that school. There are people out there who go through the same thing. But even if he did get accepted, he still struggled with identity problems, and was even considered an outsider to his own species because of his pony-like personality. Of course Spike is a dragon living in a pony world – I’m sure even before the show started, he had such a hard time being accepted to pony society, and Twilight’s the one who kept him safe from all that (yunno how Canterlot is).
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