Why the Twilight/Tirek fight, and not, say, Naruto and Bleach?

I know I've been talking a lot about the Twilight/Tirek fight, but just want to ask a question, and I promise you it'll be quick.

As of right now, Naruto and Bleach are ending, and for all the wrong reasons. I never read much of either manga or watched either anime, but most of the complaints I received centered on the long, slow-paced fights and story-arcs that take too many chapters/episodes to end, the constant over-empowerment of Naruto, Sasuke, Ichigo, and their main-villains, and the disempowerment and sidelining of their many friends. And, every time I look at those complaints, I can't help but think about why the Twilight/Tirek fight was actually successful for the same reasons Naruto and Bleach are failing right now. I mean, when you look at the S4 finale and compare it to Naruto and Bleach, it also hinged on the disempowerment of the Mane Five, and the over-empowerment of Twilight Sparkle.

So why? Why love the Twilight/Tirek fight, when it's almost as problematic and broken as the majority of Naruto and Bleach right now?

 

So, the reason Twilight's fight with Tirek succeeded compared to Naruto and Bleach's fights, is because it only lasted a minute instead of over 26+ episodes. Not only that, but it ended with a draw, and was proof that alicorn magic meant absolutely nothing next to the power of friendship.

You know, I'd like to say that Twilight's fight with Tirek was the moment MLP jumped the shark. Up until the ending, the show deliberately tossed aside everything that made it good in the first place, just to turn into DBZ, Naruto, and Bleach, minus the slow-pace, the dragging, and the repetitiveness.

And, since you liked the Twilight/Tirek fight so ridiculously much, that the power of friendship no longer mattered to you, that you want MLP to just give up on friendship, love, tolerance, all that jazz, just to become nothing but blow-up-the-world fight scenes that sidelines the Mane Five while making Twilight stupidly overpowered.

Also, Tempest Wind, what you described about Naruto also describes One Piece. Like Naruto, Luffy is also the strongest member of his own circle of friends, while at the same time said circle also has weaklings like Nami, Usopp, and Chopper. But at the very least, One Piece ensured that every member of the Straw Hat Pirates, EVEN THE WEAKLINGS, all received just as much attention as Luffy, and that they all had their own resourcefulness in terms of their powers and weapons, even outside of combat. Not only that, but Luffy's powers, even his Haki, are several times more limited than Naruto's and Ichigo's, just so that Eiichiro Oda could emphasize his desire to protect and unite his friends, more so than how much firepower he's packing compared to Naruto and Ichigo.

Naruto, not so much. Now, as a disclaimer, I'm only talking about what I heard from other people's opinions, as I never read much of Naruto or watched the anime version. But based I what I kept hearing, Naruto deliberately sidelines many of the title protagonist's friends and run out of ideas on what to do with them, while Naruto and Sasuke becomes stupidly overpowered and over-utilized. This is in total contrast to my description of One Piece, even post time-skip!

And if One Piece is capable of staying true to its roots, even after the two-year time-skip, then why not My Little Pony, which used to emphasize friendship just as much as One Piece, more so than Naruto and Bleach?

 

I have every right to *****, moan, whine, complain, etc. about it. My Little Pony is dead to me! And not only did Meghan McCarthy kill MLP, but also the bronies themselves! They want MLP to give up its friendship motif to become murder and mass destruction, on the level of Naruto, Bleach, and DBZ!

Remember the Mane Five? Well, screw them, because they're useless and disposable! Let's focus on Twilight and her power levels, and make her blow up the universe to demonstrate all that godlike power! Screw love and friendship, because now it's about whoever can blow up the universe the most, just like Naruto, Bleach, and DBZ!

 

Perhaps.

However, Dragon Ball Z was Dragon Ball Classic jumping the shark, namely by getting rid of all the childlike wonder and naivete to become grimdark and bleak. And, few of the ways Toriyama ensured all that grim-darkness is by sidelining too many of the supporting cast and emphasizing Goku, Vegeta, and their sons not for their personalities or character-development, but rather for their saiyan heritage and all the godlike, destructive power that comes with it. Power of friendship? More like power of mass destruction!

Same for Naruto and Bleach, at least from what I got from other people's opinions. Naruto is all about his nine-tailed fox demon and its destructive, godlike power. Sasuke is all about his cursed mark and its destructive, godlike power, plus his emo problems and his need to kill Itachi, his older brother. And, Ichigo obtained so many power sources, including hollowfication, fullbring powers, and powers of a quincy, that he might as well be more like a walking nuclear bomb than a hero.

As for their respective friends... they practically don't exist!!! Like Akira Toriyama, Kubo and Kishimoto just didn't know what to do with any of them, and so sidelined them and reduced them to extras. In other words, Kubo and Kishimoto were like, "Screw friendship and teamwork! Let's decide how much destructive firepower Naruto, Sasuke, and Ichigo packs, even if it costs us their friends' story-arcs!"

One Piece, at the very least, did not jump the shark the same way as Dragon Ball, Naruto, and Bleach. Even in its current story-arc, One Piece emphasizes friendship more efficiently than DBZ, Naruto, and Bleach. The weakest members of the Straw Hat Pirates (e.g. Nami, Usopp, and Nico Robin) are still capable of themselves and their crew. The strongest members (e.g. Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji), meanwhile, have their powers at an evened out, limited level, so that they wouldn't render their weakest teammates useless.

In other words, One Piece remains true to its roots, unlike Naruto, Bleach, and My Little Pony, which would abandon that whole "power of friendship" motif to become grimdark and edgy.

 

But at the same time, I am not getting that vibe from bronies. Instead, all I see is love for the Twilight/Tirek fight, and hate for the Rainbow Power and Rainbow Castle. As a result, I keep thinking that the bronies, even analysts like Tommy Oliver and Dr. Wolf, want the show to jump the shark, abandon friendship, sideline Twilight's friends and even murder them, and over-empower Twilight, just like with Naruto, Bleach, and DBZ.

 

So what you're trying to say is that my logic about what the bronies liked and didn't like about the Season Four finale was broken, backwards, and illogical. Right?

 

I'm not saying Twilight should murder her friends, even though she might as well do so, anyway, because of how much of a power imbalance there is between her and her friends. Technically, what I'm implying is that, if Meghan McCarthy really wanted to go all the way, she should just murder Twilight's friends to display how useless they are, and that the bronies should like that just because they were accustomed to it in Dragon Ball Z. And, one of the ways she could do that is by letting some overpowered villain violently murder them, like Tirek for example.

Also, this need to hate Rainbow Power and the Rainbow Castle because of their designs and story usage all just reinforce how much bronies deliberately abandoned friendship for the sake of seeing that power imbalance between Twilight and her friends. I mean, they both symbolize Twilight's strong bonds of friendship with her friends, and the way they are still useful to her despite their differences in power! And because you hate those two things, that you now want Twilight's friends to be useless, disposable extras who might as well be murdered, and Twilight to be an overpowered god of destruction on the level of Goku, Ichigo, Naruto, and Sasuke?

 

So you simply hate the Rainbow Power and Rainbow Castle for the designs and story-usage, not the symbolic value.

Well, if that's the case, then what about the symbolic value itself? Why does everyone keep ignoring the symbolic value to both those things, just to focus on superficial aspects?