Sorta. While it doesn't contradict the intended message of "Friendship isn't always the answer," the Jerkass behavior of the Original Characters in the story provides the addendum "... because some people are just assholes that won't even give you a chance to help or befriend them, and bothering with these people for long is a waste of time."
Living without friendship will turn you into a raging jackass that no one likes who has a high chance of dying young.
It is much easier to see Talon Ted as a narcissistic, manipulative sociopath than whatever it is Mykan is trying to portray him as. Considering this is his self-admitted Author Avatar, that's not necessarily a good thing.
Ath-Lita was meant to be seen as an abusive Control Freak who's apathetic to what her brother wants, dismisses his concerns and is borderline psychotic, and even her ambition of making him get a job is to feed her own ego, but a lot of readers saw her more as a concerned little sister who didn't want her brother to waste his life away and whose violent tendencies are more the result of being fed up with Talon's attitude. This got so bad, Mykan tried to revise the story so Lita came off as more unlikable. It didn't change much since Talon is just that unsympathetic.
Due to the way he avoids the romantic advances of mares specifically and the nebulous evidence given of his claimed motives, it's easier to interpret Courier in Love and Disparage as someone who's severely in denial about being gay than a pony cursed to never find love.
Terra gets over all the trauma from being forced to betray her friends and the emotional and physical abuse from Slade pretty easily. Not to mention the trauma of living homeless and starving for weeks. This is in stark contrast to the show's canon, where it's implied this angst was the reason she chose to live a normal school life instead of become a Teen Titan again.
None of the characters who are turned into Dark Angels in Darkness of Dimensions seem to have much of a reaction to being separated from their friends and loved ones and being turned into what are essentially demons.
In Beast Boy in Equestria, despite falling in love with Beast Boy, Fluttershy doesn't seem to care much when he goes back to loving Terra at the climax. While you could write this off as I Want My Beloved to Be Happy, the fact that Fluttershy doesn't seem remotely bothered by Beast Boy not even acknowledging her as he dies and says his last words to Terra seems odd.
Anvilicious: Write of Way delivers the message that you don't necessarily have to be friends with someone to work well with them about as subtly as a rampaging dragon.
Arc Fatigue: DARKNESS OF DIMENSIONS has 4 plotlines. All of them take forever to get to the actual conflict of the story.
Inherit the Sun sticks out here. So, Celestia and Luna are actually fooling every pony into thinking that they raise the sun and moon, and we are never given a reason as to why either. However, this trope really kicks in when one pony, a scientist, figures it out thanks to a pair of special goggles which somehow let him see through illusions and magic, published a paper about it, and is subsequently imprisoned thanks to some really unknown law about it being illegal to criticize Princess Celestia and friendship in general. Oh yeah, how do they learn this? Well, they go back in time using Starswirl the Bearded's time travel spell to the specific date when all this occurred, only, they are unable to interact with anyone because it is just shadow, which is clearly contradicted in canon, and when Celestia raises the sun, Starlight Glimmer somehow figures out that Celestia is just absorbing its power. To say that the entire fic's plot is built on this trope is not inaccurate.
In the final act of Love Doesn't Work That Way, Strings reveals he and Cadance are childhood friends and it's why he's in love with her. Despite the fact that all of the previous interactions with Strings and Cadance never even alluded to the fact they were friends (heck, their first meeting in the fic could fool you into thinking it was the first time they physically met), making it seem like Mykan came up with the backstory at the last minute.
Bill Dollar apparently has heart problems and ends up dying from a heart attack despite the fact this wasn't foreshadowedat all until the chapter where it happens.
In Beast Boy in Equestria out of plain nowhere, Terra is suddenly visited by her Guardian Angel and the Titans' computers suddenly become sapient in order to deliver Mykan's obligatory Author Tract and Exposition Dump. There's no proper explanation given for either.
In Hearth's Warming Eve Carol, Miser Stash is caught for lighting the tree on fire by flicking a cigar at it. Except it's later revealed that the tree catching fire was actually the result of an electrical fault that somehow went unnoticed amidst all the preparation work, just so that Miser can get off scot-free and not have to face any consequences for his jerkish behavior.
Many felt the ending of Darkness of Dimensions where the characters pull a Cosmic Retcon to stop the Dark Angels from existing was this because there was zero build up to the idea. The demon fought as a Final Boss also counts as he had zero build-up.
Courier's entire Motive Rant in Love and Disparage. In short, he was cursed by Queen Chrysalis to never find love or else he will die, the curse can't be lifted without killing him for no in-story reason, and the pony he put a restraining order on was an Alpha Bitch that picked on him in school. None of this had any foreshadowing whatsoever. His suicide by Cadance likewise came out of the blue, and Mykan admitted to only killing him off so abruptly because he wanted Courier to die all along and was nearing his self-imposed word quota.
The entire ending of Write of Way. Stone Heart suddenly getting the idea of writing a self-help book to preach about how friendship is not the way to get ahead in life and that some ponies are incapable of moving on from heartbreak, among other things, and said book somehow becoming a best-seller despite sounding like the mindset of Tempest Shadow prior to her reformation is quite a far-fetched way of giving Stone Heart a happy ending, to say the least.
Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Pride and Punishment has a moment where one of the main characters, Talon Ted, fantasizes about being in a Star Fox-esque adventure with some of members of the Mane Six. And no, this has absolutely nothing to do with the plot.
#10 garnered a lot of morbid curiosity due to Count Logan decapitating Flurry Heart and Mykan only including it so he could spite Princess Cadance and his detractors.
Canon Defilement: Repeat after us. "I GET it, I just don't LIKE it!"
Celestia, Twilight's comforting mentor figure who always does her best to be kind and understanding, is usually depicted as siding against Twilight multiple times with many a story ending with her giving Twilight a "Reason You Suck" Speech.
In Inherit the Sun, it turns out Celestia and Luna can't raise and lower the sun or moon, and it is all just some kind of illusion. This is what Mykan actually believes, despite multiple episodes at this point in canon showing without any doubt that Celestia and Luna do indeed have these powers (including one episode where they pass their powers to Twilight, who is clearly seen using it to act on the sun and the moon).
Stone Heart has a cutie mark for being a bad writer despite the fact you only get cutie marks for things you're good at. Even Troubleshoes eventually realized he was good as a rodeo clown.
Both Needle Stitch and Helper Soul get their cutie marks removed because their former friends helped them get them and they want nothing to do with them anymore. Needle (Or Manny in his new identity) and Helper are still able to do their respective special talents despite the show establishing that if your cutie mark is removed, your talent goes with it.
In Pride and Punishment, the acting industry is supposed to give no chance whatsoever to actors without a degree. Except in real life, this isn't the case, and because of the Cutie Marks, Equestria should be even less strict about that subject than Earth is.
In Darkness of Dimensions, when the universe is rewritten, Beast Boy is never born and it's said that as a result of this, the Titans never became a team. It's said this is because of "Beast Boy's idealism" except that had nothing to do with the forming of the Teen Titans.
Captain Obvious Reveal: You weren't expecting Beast Boy to not be Count Logan this time, were you?
Creator's Pet: All of Mykan's Original Characters are treated as in the right in spite of their actions either being illogical or outright jerkish. Bonus points for Talon Ted and Stone Heart, whom Celestia scolds Twilight for trying to help them instead of calling them out on their deplorable behavior herself. More bonus points go to Helper Soul who Mykan admits is his favorite.
And just like in Starfleet Magic, Spike becomes this sometimes given that the narrative does its best to shoehorn him into the story when he has no reason to be there.
Designated Evil: Helping people who don't want and/or think they don't need help or helping people in a way they don't like is always treated like it's a crime against equinity. A couple of the paragraphs beneath are examples:
Pushing Talon Ted into getting an acting degree is supposed to be terrible for Ath-Lita to do to him, even more than her violent behavior. Thing is, she's not exactly wrong for wanting him to do so, as a degree would boost his chances of getting a career, and Talon Ted's own behavior isn't exactly helping his case.
Trying to stop the Dark Zone from kidnapping people & isolating them from their loved ones is supposed to be a bad thing. Why? Because Twilight's doing it, so she doesn't know what she's doing, therefore it's wrong.
Like in the source fic, Terra rejecting Beast Boy is the catalyst for his transformation into Count Logan. Also like the source fic, it's treated as unfair & cruel to Beast Boy, even though Terra as an individual had every right to say no, especially given how manipulative and petty Beast Boy had been to her.
Designated Hero: Characters intended to be seen as the good guys who are instead interpreted by the audience as unlikable jerks at best and irredeemably cruel villains at worst is to be expected from Mykan.
Garfield Logan in HSM V: Ways of Life:
Another_Brony: He is just a jerk. He reacts with anger towards everything nice anyone may actually do for him and I don't get why Sunset and her friends should even bother helping him. Just because they are the good guys doesn't mean they have to be nice to everyone, especially if the other person obviously does not care for anyone or have one nice bone in its entire body.
He ends up as this earlier in Beast Boy in Equestria. If you've seen any of Mykan's works involving him, this should come as no surprise.
Talon Ted in Pride and Punishment is an ungrateful pony only concerned with his "pride", as well as completely brushing off his own sister no matter how nice she is. He is notable for making things harder for himself just to spite his caring sister. It doesn't help that Mykan has admitted him to be an Author Avatar.
Stone Heart in Write a Wrong is this for the same reasons as Talon Ted. When anyone has a problem with his stories, he brushes them off and pushes them out of his life like an immature brat. He knowingly undermines himself because of his ego, just like Ted. He is even causing nightmares to ponies for merely criticizing him.
The Dark Angels don't interact with anyone or anything even if it could save lives and are willing to declare war just because Twilight got upset that Spike became one of them (incidentally, said war involves destroying everything and everyone)...and we're meant to assume they're heroes (at least initially) because they keep the "Darkness" in check. In practice, they are a Necessary Evil at best.
The Spirits of Hearth's Warming are supposed to be seen as well-meaning spirits who are teaching Twilight an important lesson about not judging others without understanding their backgrounds and reasons first. However, their actions come across more as them cruelly tormenting Twilight and gaslighting her into feeling sorry for Miser Stash despite his jerkish attitude. Not helping is that the vision the Ghost of Hearth's Warming Later shows Twilight (wherein Miser Stash dies in prison and Twilight is exiled and hated for accidentally causing the fire) is one that was impossible to happen, as Miser Stash had already been released when she wakes up and her friends all forgave her, meaning they only showed her it to make her feel bad.
Designated Monkey: A lot of these fics involve Twilight Sparkle and/or Starlight Glimmer failing a friendship problem, and some of these involve Rarity having done something in the past that she wouldn't have done in canon. #4 and #10 also continue the trend of Cadance abuse by having her being the cause of the very conflict and sad ending of #4, and #10 infamously having Count Logan rip off the head of her child Flurry Heart.
Designated Villain: As can be expected from Dakari-King Mykan's works, the characters intended to be the bad guys will most likely be seen by the audience as more sympathetic and reasonable than the so-called heroes.
Ath-Lita is doing what she feels is best for a brother who simply refuses to do anything with his life due to his stuck-up "pride"... and we're supposed to be siding against her? While she does hit him with her bat, his ego, which she tries to save him from, is an even bigger threat to himself than her in practice.
Twilight wants to save Spike from the Dark Angels and stop their dimension from kidnapping others and taking them away from their friends and family...and we're meant to think she's in the wrong for this because she tampers with things she doesn't know.
Ending Fatigue: Darkness of Dimensions somehow managed to have both this and an incredibly abrupt ending. The story takes its sweet time actually getting to the resolution to the main story but then when that resolution comes, it's over pretty quickly.
Ath-Lita for basically coming off as a Cool Big Sis towards Talon Ted (not that he appreciates it). It probably helps that the FIMFiction user/DeviantArtist she's based on, Cherry-Lei, is fairly amicable in real life, and the one thing Ath-Lita can't fully be defended for (the baseball bat) is not something her real life counterpart approves of.
Bill Dollar is probably the only one of Mykan's "failed friendships" that's seen as genuinely sympathetic due to being merely a shut-in instead of a total Jerkass. Doesn't stop readers from finding his sudden death any less Narmful, however.
Similar to what happened to Twilight Sparkle in My Brave Pony: Starfleet Magic, Flurry Heart ends up here due to Count Logan's brutal decapitation of her just for Mykan to spite Flurry's mother, Cadance. Even people who didn't like Flurryended up feeling sorry for her.
TK becomes this in Darkness of Dimensions for calling Davis out on his bullcrap and acting like the Only Sane Man in the Digimon segments.
Esoteric Happy Ending: Pride and Punishment ends with Talon humiliating the Mane 6 and his sister and, after proving you don't need a degree to be a good actor by getting another pony to do it, decides to pursue his acting dream. The way the ending is played off is meant to be seen as Talon Ted inspiring a generation and moving on with his life except Talon is STILL the same stubborn Jerkass he was before and he leaves his sister in tears which is apparently "a fitting punishment for her overbearingness".
Erebus, the leader of the Dark Angels, wears the same cheap black spandex as the rest of the angels, only his ensemble is even worse as he has antlers atop his head and long scarves wrapped around his wrists which just makes you think about how easy it is for him to trip over those.
Count Logan still has his black latex bodysuit with the iconic top hat lifted directly from Count Bleck and frowning mask.
Fight Scene Failure: All the fight scenes in END OF ENDS are poorly done and some involve the villains destroying everything while the heroes just... stand there and watch.
Fridge Logic: Stone Heart is referred to as the worst author in Equestria in a news article, which also states that his books are known to never sell any copies. The latter claim is somewhat suspect, because if he did have such a reputation, you'd expect ponies to buy his books just to riff on or to see if he really is as bad as they say, to say nothing of a potential few that enjoy his work for what it is. Not to mention, how would they know how bad his books are if they don't sell a single copy? It's unknown if piracy exists in Equestria, and if it does, why would the pirates bet on bad books to sell for Bile Fascination?
Beast Boy's counterpart turns out to be named Changeling. One deconstruction of Mykan's work featured Beast Boy, only to reveal that he was actually Thorax — as in, a changeling.
Talon Ted, as he prepares to spite his sister and the Mane Six, has a fantasy where he is a criminal mastermind, surrounded by gangsters who praise him. Another deconstruction of Mykan's work has Talon Ted being an actually smart criminal mastermind who has a lot of connections and people working under him, who also uses his acting skills to appear pathetic and self-disposing. The author of said deconstruction hadn't seen that scene before writing that.
Talon is the name of a Zelda character who is a sloth and has a mean sibling who is supposed to be in the wrong and uses jerkish means, but has a point about Talon's laziness. Sounds familiar?
In Pride and Punishment, Twilight tries to help Talon Ted get past his stubbornness and make him realize how stupid he's being. And we're meant to side against her.
In Love Doesn't Work That Way, Strings is supposed to have a point when he says that he can't force himself to love Sun Rae but the way he words it makes him sound like a jerk who doesn't give a crap about his own best friend while caring only about his feelings towards Cadance. It doesn't help that Mykan has admitted we aren't supposed to be on Sun's side and that he only cares about Strings' well-being, not Sun's.
Bill Dollar is meant to be seen in the wrong for not wanting to reconcile with his family. Except said family was not only distant, but emotionally abusive. Sure, they may have realized their mistake but you can hardly blame him for not wanting anything to do with them and move on with his life.
In Fallout Fashions, we're presumably meant to see Manny Collars/Needle Stitch as being rightfully angry towards Rarity after she took credit for one of his designs. Except Needle GAVE the dress design to Rarity to do whatever she wanted with it and not only did Rarity apologize, she risked a major PR disaster by discontinuing said dress after Needle voiced how upset he was. Needle hates Rarity to the point where he not only banned her from his store but he also changed his identity to Manny Collars and got rid of his cutie mark just because she helped him get it. Overkill much?
In Darkness of Dimensions, Twilight is clearly meant to be seen as in the wrong for wanting to save Spike from his fate as a Dark Angel, considering she literally goes insane over it and it leads to the Dark Angels trying to destroy everything except Spike was taken from Twilight unfairly and since Spike is like a brother to Twilight, it's hard to get too upset at her for understandably wanting her family back.
It Was His Sled: Count Logan is Beast Boy. Just like the original End of Ends, the attempt to hide that fact is not done well at all, and anyone who's already familiar with Mykan's work will be aware of the twist from the get-go.
Most of the bitter protagonists have the same excuse. Stone Heart in his first story, Davis and Beast Boy in all stories, Snapshot, Strings and Helper Soul are all bitter because a woman rejected them. The repetition of that plot is often criticized.
Friendship is Failure #10- (Teen Titans) THE END OF ENDS! has been received negatively for just being a carbon copy of one of Mykan's previous works The End of Ends only with the cast of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic tacked on (it doesn't help that, as many critics noted, you could take the MLP characters out of the story and nothing would change except some scenes that make Count Logan even more despicable). Alleviated as of late, but only because any attempts at an Author's Saving Throw instead become Voodoo Sharks.
A straighter example is Helper Soul, who's basically a mix of several different Mykan OCs' traits.
With the exception of the overall premise, both Beast Boy in Equestria and END OF ENDS have pretty much the same plot points, which are Beast Boy being bitter until Terra comes back to him, even though Beast Boy becomes more evil in the latter case.
The stories involving Stone Heart and Beast Boy suffer from this on similar levels. Stone Heart's stories are disliked because they all feature the same plot of him wanting to write the kinds of stories he wants to, with the only differences being what he writes about, how successful he is at the start, and the adapting out of Stone's former friends from "Writer's Blockade". Beast Boy's stories, meanwhile, all have him encounter the ponies in some way, treat them with hostility, and usually meet his end (becoming an outright villain is optional), and Mykan makes it perfectly clear that this is all that Gar is good for. With such little variety between the stories, many have started believing the stories to be interchangeable, with some detractors lumping all of Mykan's Beast Boys together, because the details are different, but some things are always in common.
Karmic Overkill: Oftentimes, many feel that a lot of characters that are supposed to be in the right (mainly Mykan's preferred characters) give out more punishment than the offending character deserved for their wrongness.
The stories often have Celestia treat Twilight as if she did something horribly wrong when she inevitably fails at the end, even when Twilight was only trying to make things better and her failure wasn't her fault.
Needle Stitch/Manny Collars refuses to forgive Rarity for stealing a dress design from him even though Rarity not only apologized multiple times but risked a PR disaster by discontinuing said dress(Not to mention he gave her the dress design to do with as she pleased in the first place). She even helps get his store more business but Manny/Needle STILL refuses to forgive her.
In Darkness of Dimensions, Kari is put through hell for not being interested in Davis.
In Write in the Head, Stone Heart's motives for attacking ponies with nightmares include: insulting him (even if he insulted them first), enjoying stories he doesn't like or just having a happier life than he does.
As if Count Logan didn't already cross it in his home fic, he crosses it even further with his invasion and destruction of Equestria. He even goes so far as to behead Flurry Heart himself.
Unlike in the original The End of Ends, where they could be somewhat sympathetic due to their Undying Loyalty towards Logan and having their own unique personalities, #10 reduces Logan's minions to relatively generic mass murderers as they revel in slaughtering masses of innocent bystanders and gloating about it to the heroes.
Erebus crosses it when he decides to destroy everything and everyone simply because he feels the Dark Angels aren't being appreciated enough.
Silver Nickle crosses the horizon when she blows up her own headquarters with all of her workers still inside just to spit in Twilight's face for trying to help her. It's not just a spur-of-the-moment thing, either: she had a Self-Destruct Mechanism built into the building, suggesting that she's been wanting to do this all along and was just waiting for an excuse to use it, and she dies completely remorseless.
If Luna Light didn't already cross it by disowning her daughter for making amends with Twilight, she certainly crosses it when she starts attacking Moondancer for confronting her about how she treated her and Twilight.
Nightmare Fuel: Say what you will about Count Logan, but the acts he commits in the tenth story are utterly horrifying to behold. Destroying everything and everyone was bad enough, but he takes the time to decapitate Flurry Heart!.
The MLP sections of Beast Boy in Equestria, End of Ends and Darkness of Dimensions contribute almost nothing to the main plot and are likely only included in the stories so that Mykan could upload these fics to FIMFiction.
Ron the Death Eater: Characters Mykan roots for are subject to this in stories of detractors. Examples include Manny Collars becoming a rapist, or Miser Stash becoming a thief who was only happy when others were miserable, or Talon Ted being a villainous mastermind who only pretends he is stupid. Sometimes the detractors merely take existing traits of these characters up to eleven, like making Strings a full Yandere (he isn't, his love for Cadance just isn't healthy either) or making the nightmares Stone Heart caused accidentally drive someone to suicide.
Count Logan killing Flurry Heart has essentially become the new Cadance miscarriage when it comes to Mykan's works. He even proudly admits that it's the greatest thing he's ever done, since it pissed a lot of people off.
Darkness of Dimensions' infamous abrupt ending which involves reality being rewritten into a much more depressing one.
Changeling from Beast Boy in Equestria makes a LOT of creepy advances towards Raven. Just for added squick, he's mentally an adult while she's a teenager.
Beast Boy kicking Robin in the crotch hard enough to dislocate his phallus and Raven subsequently having to fix it by putting her hands on said phallus is an image that both the story and the reader would have been wholly better off without.
Likewise with him ripping off Flurry Heart's head.
The sex scene between Beast Boy and Terra in Darkness of Dimensions is all kinds of uncomfortable. Especially when you remember these characters are meant to be underage. And then Terra gets pregnant from this. Again, she's underage.
Strawman Has a Point: Let's face it: when you paint the Jerkass of the week as being in the right and have Twilight Sparkle playing the strawman, this is going to be a very common reaction. Several other characters, like Ath-Lita in Pride and Punishment, also call out the problem character in ways that are easy to agree with; anyone would get frustrated with a sibling that refuses to acknowledge all the things you did to help them out of stubborn, misplaced pride and only focuses on your more extreme means when you have enough of their self-destructive attitude. Another example has one of Miser's workers saying that, just because he hates Hearth's Warming, it doesn't mean he should take it out on everyone else, which is correct, even though Miser was put through hell in the past.
They Copied It, So It Sucks!: Helper Soul has been criticized for having the exact same backstory as Master Org and still trying to pass Helper Soul off as a sympathetic character when the entire point of Org's backstory was to show how selfish he was.
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Plenty of people have noted that a lot of these stories have potential as plot ideas but because the author puts spite above good writing, whatever potential the ideas have get squandered in favor of preaching the author's agenda.
A Hearth's Warming Carol could've been about helping Miser Stash get over his hatred of Hearth's Warming, which would've made for a much better Christmas Episode than a butchered retelling of "A Christmas Carol" with Twilight getting called out for absolutely no reason.
Courier's gift/curse could've made him a sympathetic Iron Woobie who puts his happiness on hold to help others find true love if he was written as accepting his condition with dignity and trying to make the best of a bad situation. Instead, what we get is the same "shouty Jerkass that refuses to forgive and forget or stop wallowing in self-pity" character that's been done to death by the series.
In particular, "DARKNESS OF DIMENSIONS" suffers from this on a literally multiversal level. With a plot that revolves around the sudden deaths of Mykan's resident male punching bags keeping the world in balance, and breaking said balance causing The End of the World as We Know It for all worlds, with the only solution being a Cosmic Retcon that leaves several characters either no longer existing or with worse lives than they started out with, it makes for one of the most draining readings of any of his works overall.
Unexpected Character: Titamon, Ogremon's Mega Level form in later Digimon media that were released long after 02 had ended, is jarring to see among any of Mykan's Digimon related antagonists considering Mykan has shown no prior evidence of having much knowledge on later Digimon media, and in the past with other fics he's done for 02, he's resorted to using entirely OC based Mega Level Digimon opponents as opposed to a Mega Level which actually exists at the time of him writing any of these given fics.
Ath-Lita in Pride and Punishment is meant to be seen as overbearing and trying to dominate her brother's life. She instead comes off as a sister who's worried for her brother's well-being and wants him to make something of himself instead of turning himself into a bum. It isn't hard to sympathize with her, especially during her Humiliation Conga and considering said brother is Talon Ted. Granted, she does often beat him. It takes several revisions for her to show clear signs of an abusive Control Freak, which still doesn't make trying to make her brother get a job evil.
Terra once again finds her way here. She's meant to be seen as in the wrong because of dumping Beast Boy in cold blood, but she goes through so much horrible stuff before having to dump Beast Boy (to no fault of Beast Boy, but Slade), and over the course of END OF ENDS, where it is Beast Boy's fault, it's hard NOT to feel sorry for her, especially since a good chunk of that horrible stuff only happens because Beast Boy essentially guilt-tripped her.
Violet in Love and Disparage. She's clearly meant to be unsympathetic because Courier claims that she picked on him back in school, but since then, she has become genuinely regretful of her actions and tried to turn her life around, and Courier put a restraining order on her for just trying to talk to him, never giving her a chance at all.
Strings from Friendship is Failure #4 who lets his life fall into a depressing spiral which hurts his career because he loves Cadance, who he can never be with, and refuses to move on and find someone else, even though he has a perfectly good alternative in the form of his friend Sun Rae who has an obvious crush on him and his life is otherwise perfectly good.
Talon Ted complaining about his "pride" gets tiresome really quickly. There is literally a point near the beginning of the story where he plugs his ears and goes "La la la!" like a child in a conversation with his sister. There's also the fact that he is throwing away job offers because of the aforementioned "pride" when there are no doubt countless others who would kill for even a fraction of what Talon is offered.
Just like in his other fics, Mykan manages to get Beast Boy into this again. His endless whining on how he didn't get the girl and how "no one appreciates him" gets just as annoying as it does in those other fics.
Stone Heart in Writer's Blockade. he's yet another protagonist by Mykan who essentially refuses to let go of the fact that he Did Not Get the Girl. He even comes off a bit creepy towards her as he had been writing her into his stories and didn't understand why she was bothered by this.
Helper Soul gets special mention for dying of wangst about how Night Light got everything he ever wanted and how it's Night's fault he lost his dreams.
Courier's curse to never find true love could've made him more sympathetic if he was able to talk about it with an iota of maturity, rather than throwing tantrums everywhere about how unfair his life is whenever the topic comes up.
Many readers felt bad for Twilight Sparkle, who just wanted to help people and make their lives better and she's rewarded for this by being humiliated and talked down to, even by her own mentor, Celestia. It gets worse for her in END OF ENDS, where her horn gets ripped off preventing her from doing her special talent and she's forced to watch her niece and brother die horribly right in front of her.
Princess Cadance becomes this in Love Doesn't Work That Way and END OF ENDS. In the former, she's this for unknowingly being Strings' unrequited crush and forced to feel bad because he won't move on from her. In the latter, she suffers along with Twilight and is forced to watch her daughter and husband get murdered in front of her.
Sun Rae, from the same chapter as Strings, who fell for someone like Strings, a pony who won't even try to love her back because he's fixated on a foalhood crush that will never be reciprocated.
Terra in the END OF ENDS chapter wanted a normal life away from being a superhero and all the pain and trauma it entailed, but thanks to Beast Boy manipulating her, she becomes wracked with guilt for reasons she really shouldn't be guilty for and ends up being dragged right back into the very life that caused her so much pain.
Rarity in Fallout Fashions did everything she could to make up for her betrayal to her friend Needle/Manny, but he still refuses to forgive her.
Why Would Anyone Take Him Back?: Just like in the original End of Ends, Terra reconciles with Beast Boy before he dies, despite all of the atrocities he committed as Count Logan.
WTH, Costuming Department?: The Dark Angels in Darkness of Dimensions are pretty much guys in cheap black spandex that likely wouldn't be taken seriously as burglars, much less (anti-)villains.
