My views on OP ponies? · 3:59pm Sep 17th, 2015
My views on OP ponies?
I personally don't mind the ponies being overpowered, as long as they behave in character in such a fan fiction.
Say for example Princess Celestia power's are being exaggerated far beyond the canon show's limit. But if Celestia is still the same pony from the show, loveable and kind and wouldn't dream of sentencing an entire sapient species into oblivion, then I have no real problem with her.
She's OP, but still the Celestia (and other ponies) I know and love. Along with all her overpowered, yet not big bully ponies. A overpowered pony you could hug without fear of being killed or being treated like dirt.
If however, Celestia and the OP Ponies are anything like the most infamous misanthropic fan fiction in this fandom (you know the ones I mean) I tend to dislike them quite a lot. For not only are they very out of character, but the 'good ponies' have just become the 'bad guys'. The 'killing all humans' just puts the cherry on top of my dislike for them.
What are your thoughts? Do you dislike overpowered ponies? Like overpowered ponies? Or what?
I agree with this, as long as they remain in character.
I tend to dislike OP ponies and any OP-OC in general unless the narrative is just-freaking-great. I don't think OP characters should be shied away from, but handled differently.
OP characters have unique challenges which extends beyond the "Gary/Mary Stu" stereotype. From what I've learned so far about a badass normal and a OP badass, both as heroes, is that well shit what else did you expect? Hero charges in and either fails, wins, or draw (the definitions of which are situation, contextual and defined by that character and author). Celestia, Luna, Discord, Twilight, (possibly Cadance, haven't seen her do much), and who ever else canon and headcanon. Pulling off a OP character can be harder than a non-OP OC so that's why the narrative must be handled with extra special care to accommodate and successfully incorporate a OP-OC.
Heck, my human OC is OP and I have some people taking shots at him for being a badass edgelord and even a club devoted to using his edgyness against him in pranks. Every once in a while he's mocked, in jest, for being OP. He accidentally made an indestructible 5x4" holographic map and people are pissed because they can't get rid of it and neither can he. Great job, hero!
Oh, but it gets better! He keeps forgetting to stop making those maps! What-ho-how the hell can he forget? So as payback, they just troll the fuck out of him because he can take it.
There's so much you can do with an OP-OC than a non-OP OC. Some areas will require more skill than normal to pull off, some areas will be unaffected. But the sort of spin you take using a OP-OC can have unintended consequences that you wouldn't have been able to see unless you have experiences or knowledge which open up the door to possibilities. It forces you to think outside the box.
This is what I believe. If I'm wrong then I'm wrong.