I'd say she got a little carried away with the chance to live her lifelong dream. Even Dashie hasn't gotten this lucky yet, apart from her one chance in Sonic Rainboom, and Rarity got days of upper-class hobnobbing. Well, now she's got a nice list of connections for her business too.

Pagetopper!

edited 2nd Jan '12 11:14:02 AM by AceOfScarabs

@Storyyeller: Hmmm, I'd say a little bit yes. I mean, she doesn't behave jerkishly to her friends' faces ever, but she does conciously ignore them and lie to them in favor of her social advancement. She also hurt Opal. (Please don't be mad, I fully understand her dilemma).

Also, I know it was several pages ago, but people were wondering why Twilight was confusedly looking at Trixie several times during Turnabout Storm. It's because Trixie suddenly switched into saying "I" for the first time. O_o

(EDIT: Oh NONONOOO, someone opened the floodgates, Trixie is called a Complete Monster in the YMMV GAHHH)

edited 2nd Jan '12 11:18:58 AM by FellDeedsAwake

Hey, what happened to your illeism?

Sweetie WAS a major inconvenience though. Losing your patience with someone who continuously ruins (as far as she and us the audience knows) your work does not make you a jerk

Seriously, could someone remove those

edited 2nd Jan '12 11:20:58 AM by gingerninja666

I think part of the issue was that Rarity basically didn't care what Sweetie thought - all of her advice, her offers and so forth were based around the idea that the nicest thing she could do was to teach Sweetie to be more like Rarity.

And that's pretty jerkish.

Ah, thanks. That makes sense.

Is Trixie really a monster for thinking that Rainbow Dash did it? That by extension implies that every single prosecutor with the exception of late career Edgeworth and Klavier is a Complete Monster

I don't get what you mean. Sweetie WAS being a hinderance at every turn,

Well, when it comes to Manfred...

edited 2nd Jan '12 11:29:32 AM by gingerninja666

It's not the hindrance that's the big issue, it's Rarity's assumption that being like Rarity is the best thing ever and that helping people be more like Rarity is good.

I suspect Trixie doesn't actually care, and she's only doing this to target Twilight.

my hand was off alignment.

edited 2nd Jan '12 11:49:45 AM by AceOfScarabs

but Sweetie HAS shown a desire to be more like her sister in the past. Remember Show Stoppers?

edited 2nd Jan '12 11:39:23 AM by gingerninja666

auapwxt?

Show Stoppers. And I've never thought of it like that. Sweetie Belle does want to be more like Rarity. She just doesn't want to put the effort in.

edited 2nd Jan '12 11:35:22 AM by Badwolfwho

Is it Aztec? MAYAN!? Has the apocalypse started already!?

The "Justification" is that Trixie is only doing this to spite Twilight. GODDAMMIT, when will people learn that "Jerk" doesn't equal "Complete Monster" under any sort of logic!?!

I'm really not sure what the problem here is. "This pony needs to be more like me" is stunningly arrogant even if that pony has in past shown admiration for you.

Rarity's fatal flaw isn't greed, it's her ego. It leads to her greed since such a beautiful rock gem is obviously meant for Rarity. It leads to her narcissism kick in Sonic Rainboom. It leads to her treating Sweetie Belle like any steps away from her being Rarity mk 2 (rather than, say, Sweetie Belle mk 1) are BAD and WRONG and must be STOPPED. It leads to her belittling Applejack in LBYS since Rarity would want to keep things clean and pretty thus anyone who wouldn't is not like Rarity and that's BAD and WRONG too.

edited 2nd Jan '12 11:36:26 AM by CountDorku

To be fair it was Twilight's house Applejack was messing up. It's only polite to be tidy in somebody else's home.

@Ace You may have accidently typed that second word with your face there...

And now it is fixed so this post is now invalid.

edited 2nd Jan '12 11:59:42 AM by Cookoo

What I'm saying is, she didn't seem like a jerk to me in Siterhooves. IMO, BOTH parties were in the wrong, and both of them were acting realistically based on the circumstances

edited 2nd Jan '12 11:41:28 AM by gingerninja666

She was also complaining about it when they had a job to take down branches and Rarity was putting them back up because they made the streets so untidy.

Behaving realistically =/= not being a jerk.

edited 2nd Jan '12 11:45:00 AM by CountDorku

If Rarity was being a jerk then so was Sweetie.

Point.

Both of them could have handled the situation better, but I'm willing to give Sweetie a little leeway in her behavior because as a child, she doesn't exactly have a grasp of how to resolve the situation an adult should.

Wow, you're right! Trixie does slip into the first person after AB's reveal. I never noticed.

Exactly. Rarity gets more criticism because she's expected to know better.

@ Ace: Even if Trixie's motives are suspect she never lies or tampers with evidence/testimony. I wouldn't say it's a Moral Event Horizon or that she's a Complete Monster. She's even hurt that some child she's never met before doesn't like her.

edited 2nd Jan '12 11:58:13 AM by Badwolfwho

I think Rarity was in the wrong more than Sweetiebell in Sisterhooves Social. The thing is, children tend to learn from experience what they are and aren't aloud to do. Through out the opening, Rarity was berating her sister for making a mess of things. As such, Sweetie figured that cleaning Rarity's room would be a good thing.

Trixie is being a jerk, but only in insults and showing theose photos (I do want to know what they were...). While her motivevation is likely vengence, she is only doing her job. I don't think she would break the law to do so.

edited 2nd Jan '12 12:02:44 PM by Cookoo