Dear Pegasus Shining Armor Flash Sentry
You are a smelly piece of uninteresting garbage. I've seen roadkill more promising than yourself, you indeterminate dry heave. You don't really do anything, don't have any memorable or unique traits, and somehow a gaggle of ponies still find you fascinating for no reason other than existing. If I ever go chaotic again, my first act will be to actually give you some personality, you wet fart.
Yours sincerely, Discord
In my head cannon, Flash Sentry was the school's pot dealer. It was either that or rewrite the movie and replace him with a Dalek.
In the mlp comics he has a bit of personality. At least that's something.
See, this is what bugs me when people use that as their reason for hating Flash Sentry(I am neutral on the subject), because that description right there, could easily be used for any of the uber popular background ponies-Vinyl Scratch, Octavia, Berry Punch, Dinky, Sparkler, Lyra, Bonbon, Flitter, Cloudchaser, Blossomforth, Cloud Kicker, Caramel, Time Turner, .... You know, all those massively popular background ponies who don't even have lines that everyone loves. All the personalities they have are purely fanon, but somehow they are more acceptable than him??
It baffles me. Heck, he's more defined than any of them(though maybe not much) but apparently it's more acceptable to hate him than it is any of them. At least he spoke(even if he was movie only).
4305609 The thing that sets Flash apart from the background ponies that we the 'fandom' built up with personalities and what not is... Flash Sentry isn't a background pony, dood. He was meant to be a supporting cast, like other supporting characters that have some semblance of a personality such as Bulk Biceps, Spitfire, Mayor Mare, ect.
To compare a character that was supposed to have personality to characters that are there just to be background scenery doesn't seem like a good comparison to me, dood.
EDIT: Darn, the author beat me to it, dood. Sorry to parrot that to you, dood.
4305609 Yeah, but Flash wasn't a background character without dialogue, he was an actual character, or at least that's what Hasbro wants us to believe. He was supposed to have some kind of interesting aspect to him, but instead he's just that one guy they tried to force Twilight to be in a relationship with.
The movie would have been much better if they cut out that "relationship" and had Shimmer prove Twi's innocence to Luna as an attempt to fix her flunkies' screw up with getting the dance canceled.
I don't hate him because he's pointlessly pointless. I hate him because he was supposed to pass as an actual character, and horribly miserably, failed.
Wet fart? What the heck is that?
Technically, the only reason people find him interesting is because he made goo-goo eyes at a main character.
So, sure, he's more an accessory to another character than a real character himself, but that's SOMETHING.
... Although Discorded Flash does sound like fun.