Honestly Rarity was so out of character for that episode, she was as bad as Twilight was with Lesson Zero. Thankfully it was just a one-off and they didn’t make that most of her character afterwards like they did for Twilight.

@Background Pony #99DB
Rarity has not once shown any romantic or sexual attraction to Spike.

@Background Pony #9890
Rarity is a pedo

@Background Pony #623E
Sparity was not canon

@Background Pony #C2E7
But Sweetie loves him

@anonymousboyderpi
Spike became a slave to the ponies, for real

Spike is everyone’s boyfriend!!

Rarity didn’t treated spike like a slave, but took advantage of him multiple times when he was in love with her. And when he stopped having feelings towards her, she tried to get him back. Not because she loves him, but because she needs him just to use him again. I watched how smolder, gabby, thorax and ember interacted with him, and none of them treated him like a servant, but as a best friend. And rarity was only going for the sugar daddies, handsome ponies and even the nobled one, even infront of spike.

How would you feel if the crush who was using u the whole time, decides to date somebody else except for you who gave whole heart to her?

I think spike deserves to be shipped with any friends of his, anyone instead of rarity.

“Spike doesn’t deserve rarity.” Nah, it’s the Rarity that doesn’t deserves spike. Period

Spraity is PEAK SHIPPING

@Background Pony #C2E7
This is the same fandom that shipped characters before they even appeared in the same episode And even when they actually interacted it was because they were shipped

So Spiluna is gaining recognition? Sweet

@Background Pony #C2E7
Shipping in a nutshell

@Background Pony #C2E7
It doesn’t, I just compared the reality to all the shipping done, which is that some folks will “die on a hill” to prove “Spike and Sweetiebelle are 100% going to be together” when the reality is that Spike has never interacted 1 on 1 with Sweetiebelle beyond one two-second-out-of-context loop that they cite as “proof that it’s true”.

And they fail to realize that if this is “100% proof of a ship”, then…

It’s kinda a bucket full of holes when Rarity has interacted more with Fancypants and RD has traded more lines with Soarin than Spike has ever with Sweetiebelle.

>Spike and Sweetie don’t interact much
And when has that stopped anyone?

BRUH is lying to our faces, I have SEEN just how wild and toxic shipping wars can get in MLP G5 its really not any better. So this meme though funny is completely incorrect.Remember these are still the same Bronies from MLP G4

Smolder is probably only at best 3 years older than Spike, but to be honest I DON’T CARE. All I want is for Sparity to be canon I’m okay with Spike being with anyone but I will always push for Sparity.

@Background Pony #C22B
A Matter Of Principals

@Background Pony #C22B
S8E14

@Aelvir
In what episode Stralight nuked Discord?!

IM CRYING- WHY IS HITCH AND OPALINE A THING-

Spike’s maturity fluctuates with the writer of any particular episode. However what is consistent is that he’s assistant to Twilight and is a close relation to Celestia, capable of having access to royalty-only perks, such as a direct line to extremely popular ponies, or even access to things so well guarded that no one has seen them (crown jewels, Celestia’s golden apple tree). Even in later seasons, he’s put in charge of quite important work and has no issue boot-camping Twilight and Starlight when they go off the rails.

It’s partly why fans of Spike often point out that episodes not centering ON him are some of his best written character moments.

@Background Pony #9890
Regardless of Spike’s consent, Rarity does not treat him like a slave. He’s treated more as a helper. If he was treated like a slave, she would be treating him as property or an object. Rarity does the exact opposite of that. She still treats him like a person. It is also made abundantly clear that if Spike ever felt uncomfortable doing something for her, she would have no problem not having him do it.

Again, he wasn’t necessarily treated as a slave boy. Not in the show, nor in that episode. That said, we’re really going to complain about her following Spike being creepy when other characters did much worse, like the CMC deliberately stalking a known criminal, Starlight practically nuking Discord in front of children, Flim & Flam scamming students as well as both slandering and plagiarizing Twilight’s school, Yaks destroying a large amount of Ponyville with no consequences, Starlight having a communism cult village (including children), Starlight constantly abusing filly Rainbow Dash in the Cutie Re-Mark, Prince Rutherford deliberately starving his own people (also including children) just because he’s too prideful to ask for help from the ponies, The wonderbolts constantly calling Rainbow Dash a name she was bullied constantly in her childhood with even though she clearly is uncomfortable about it, Zephyr forcing Spike to do his work for him, Twilight stalking numerous people throughout the series, Apple Bloom having Big Mac crossdress to get into a competition, Spoiled Rich literally grooming Diamond Tiara so be just like her and manipulating her mentally, Trixie almost getting digested by a manticore, Apple Bloom almost getting eaten by a chimera, Rainbow Dash literally trading her friend for a book, Twilight’s very creepy harassment of the CM in Lesson Zero, the CMCs straight-up mess with other people’s relationships several times, Pinkie Pie, the entirety of Over a Barrel, and Zecora scamming Spike’s gem from him to dispose of it?

Also, if I recall correctly, it was stated by Jim Miller that the way Spike was hatched by Twilight when she was a foal always meant that he was much older than a baby and that at the start of the show Spike is essentially 16–22 in pony years, or 10–12 in dragon years. Which 16–22 in pony years is pretty similar to the age of the Mane Six, which have been stated to range from 17–20 years-old in pony years. This would make sense given how many times Twilight just leaves Spike alone at the Golden Oak library and the castle, or leaving him alone with random people.

@Aelvir
Him having no issues doesn’t make it okay to treat him like a slave.

That episode was so wrong on many levels. Rarity wanted to keep her slave boy as well as stalking him creepy. Especially considering she’s an adult, and he’s a child.

@Daneasaur
I don’t really consider her having him carry so many things for her as being treated poorly if Spike has no issue with it.

Dragon Dropped I honest never cared for. But I think it does take her possessiveness off Spike to a comical extreme. It’s not surprising seeing as that episode’s plot is pretty much a cliche in a lot of cartoons. Regardless, that one was never that memorable of an episode aside from “lol marshmelodrama”

@Aelvir
It is instances of her being written poorly and abusing how he always helps her and asks for nothing in return other than her attention or appraisal for what he’s doing. Moments of her doing this include scenes of her and Spike travelling or shopping and rarity, who can use magic to levitate everything, only has a single handbag or small item while Spike is buried under a mountain of boxes. One moment I can think of off the top of my head is Honest Apple:

These however are ACTUALLY tempered with her usually being kind specifically to Spike for these tasks.

However one of the more blatant instances where a writer showed this as being “abusive” was actually Josh Haber’s episodes of Molt Down and Dragon Dropped.
In Molt Down, Rarity wants Spike to help her with some things but is developing a (needlessly weird) bout of deafness due to phoenix feathers, and when she gets her hearing back has seen Spike has not only helped save her but has also entered a new, more mature stage in life, uses him as a coat hanger and has no consideration for what he accomplished that day.

Dragon Dropped goes further showing he gofers for Rarity non stop when he’s not with Twilight and Rarity takes full advantage of this. So much so that when Spike starts to show interest in a balanced friendship with Gabby and stops paying attention to Rarity, Rarity goes off the deep end to intentionally “steal” Spike for herself by (falsely) showing interest in things Spike likes but she has zero interest in before or since, all to get him away from Gabby.

So NORMALLY, no Rarity isn’t abusive to Spike but the josh haber episodes usually have all the characters flanderized to painful extremes with no nuance.