Trixie hit the nail on the head though. That first episode with her, man, the show really did her dirty xD .

Here’s the problem; Trixie stopped being performer and started being a BULLY.

There are two types of braggers, those who talk the talk and those who walk the walk. AJ, RD, Rarity & Twi can at least walk, and while Trixie being all talk is technically part of her job, she took it too far at several points.

When confronted on her supposed “greatness”Trixie defended herself against Rainbow’s heckling was telling her lie about the Ursa Major, then started calling ponies on stage to humiliate when her audience, ”her entire audience”, didn’t give her a standing ovation after she claimed to be the “best in Ponyville”, with only Snips and Snails praising her.

Yes, they could’ve just walked away… wait, scratch that since Trixie knowingly goaded them onto the challenge, heck she issued the challenge and tried to pick Twilight out of the crowd by technically harassing her first of an attempt to pressure her onstage, and then Applejack stepped up instead. Then, Rarity was perfectly content with not participating and yet Trixie taunted her into participating anyway.

Trixie said “anything you can do I can do better” she was expected to do just that, but she didn’t:

1. She challenged ponies to show off their talents
2. Didn’t actually attempt to out-do them in anything they do, but instead, attempt to publicly humiliate them.

AJ showed off her roping prowess and roped an apple.
Trixie tied her up and stuffed an apple in her mouth.
That’s not doing AJ’s trick better

Dash showed off her flying skills, creating a rainbow.
Trixie attacked her with the rainbow.
Again, not actually doing it better

Rarity gave herself beautiful clothes.
Trixie turned her mane into a sewer rat’s nest.

Once again, that’s not actually doing it better. If she really wanted to turn their own talents against then she’d:

Lasso more apples than AJ.

Actually use RD’s rainbow and have it mimic her stunts while adding a little flair to them via fireworks or something.

Simply use a spell on her own cape to give it more flair or simply made her dress prettier than it already was.

But instead she just cheated by embarrassing them off the stage and back out of her own challenge.

While I understand the whole “traveler spreading tall tales” thing being part of her act, she loses sympathy points because of her “anything you can do I can do better” challenge.

Let’s compare Trixie’s boasting with RD’s, since they’re both have big egos:

The difference is that when RD brags she’ll immediately BACK UP her boasting and actually do what she claims she can do. Yes, RD can be a loudmouth bragger, but if she brags about something, she brags within her own talent range. Trixie however brags outside of it and never owns up to it. Trixie said “anything you can do I can do better”, so she was expected to do just that, but she didn’t.

RD can actually back up her boasts on the spot, and she doesn’t issue any challenges as she knows she’s not capable of owning up to. Sure she’s a bragger, but she’s a bragger that can actually act on any of her boasts. Trixie does not do that, and Rainbow isn’t stupid enough to simply take credit for something she didn’t do. Bragging outside of your skill range will only get you so far until you’re backed into a corner and forced to actually act on those claims, Trixie couldn’t act on them so she cheated her way out and instead just attacked them directly.

Bottom Line: When you boast, it’s better to boast about things you can actually accomplish, and when you challenge someone, you don’t back out of it by embarrassing said challenger, that doesn’t make you better it just makes you look like a pathetic, cowardly, cheater. Trixie’s actions were uncalled for, she simply cheated and attacked her hecklers instead of owning up to her own challenge. If she can’t do that then she’s technically more in the wrong than the Mane three. I’m not saying Trixie deserved to get her home and rep destroyed, but she did need a nice big slice of humble pie herself.

And speaking of “Magic Dual”, Trixie’s so-called “revenge” is totally unwarranted since she aimed that vengeance at the wrong ponies. In her flashback it was the townsfolk who proceeded to mock her after the Ursa incedent, not to mention the fact that she basically attacked Twilight for no good reason since she was the one who saved Trixie’s life but the entire town from the rampaging Ursa when she failed to do anything to remotely damage it. So Trixie had no right to hold anything against her.