@Spiked Punch  
If “Opposite” then obviously there is good exceptions… Othervise it’s not opposite from “Good with jerk exceptions”.

I know I may get some shit for saying this but, what if what we’ve seen of dragons so far is really all there is to them as a species? I mean, most people defending the point claim that the dragons they’ve met must be the exception and not the rule but, what if its the opposite? What if dragons in MLP really are all jut a bunch of selfish and greedy assholes?
 
As bad as it sounds, in that case Twilight’s probably done the little guy a favour.

Did someone just say flutterbat was good?

you say that like it’s a bad thing.

@cheezedoodle  
So far, dragons in show was childish (Dragonshy, Dragon Quest). And one feral (or just mad) (owl’s well that ends well).  

My insane theory is: something went wrong when he hatched, and since then he either grow exponentially until he can’t support own weight or stuck as baby dragon.

@Rockslider  
I don’t follow. Who should be blamed if a characater is suddenly acting completely out-of-character, if not the writer?
 
And to steer it back on topic for Background Pony, Spike’s only interactions with dragons in his peer group was in Dragon Quest. They were shown to behave like a typical group of bad-boy teenagers. Are all dragons like that? Or just that group? Since we have so little to go by you can’t really argue for or against the idea that Spike can’t relate to dragons. Maybe there’s plenty of decent dragons out there that he’d relate to just fine.
 
We do know that dragons get greedy, especially as they age. Spike feels that as well but he suppresses it (though I find the idea that dragons grow exponentially fast as they acquire a treasure horde, independently of age, to be absurd).
 
So anyway, insufficient evidence, your honor.

What if the color orange was a goverment conspiracy to convert babies to islam to cover up the death of Tupac? Think about it.

@cheezedoodle  
There is two approaches:  
1) Black Box (Watsonian, in-universe)  
2) White Box (Doylist, out-of-universe)
 
Neither is better, it’s just two different approaches.
 
But I think 2 is easy way out. Why X? Because writer! Why Y? Because writer again!

@cheezedoodle  
They have a point; don’t blame the writers if how you think a character was to be portrayed should have been different.

@cheezedoodle  
SaYS is over-hated IMO, but it in general was a clusterfuck during its production from what I’ve heard. Polsky got better in S4, especially with Spike.
 
Bats! is probably my least favorite episode of S4, and Wonderbolts Academy required heavily on Spitfire being heavy-hoofed and of course Lightning Dust being an asshole.
 
@Background Pony #5465  
Someone writes it.

@Background Pony #5465
 
You don’t think the writers’ biases and tendencies have any bearing on the in-universe fiction?

@Itsthinking
 
Well she wrote Hearth’s Warming Eve, Wonderbolts Academy, and Bats!… So not all bad. Putting Your Hoof Down and Dragon Quest I thought were a little heavy-handed, but not bad.
 
Spike At Your Service though–if there was any real evidence for spikeabuse, that would be it. Premise is fine, characterization of Spike was truly awful. I won’t even mention MMDW. Oh wait I just did.

…Aand discussion already degraded to Out-Universe writer-blaming, instead of In-Universe discussion. That’s academy record.

@PonyPon  
Indeed, at least she seems to have moved on from the series.
 
 
@cheezedoodle  
Same.

There’s a very sweet dragon in Shrek.

@cheezedoodle  
(besides Spike, of course)

Here’s hoping to seeing a not-a-dick dragon in S5.

@Itsthinking  
What a pity.

@cheezedoodle  
To be fair, it was a Merriwether Williams episode and that’s just her writing style.

@cheezedoodle  
Yes. And Spike’s not a jerk like seems to be normal for the rest of his species.

Ehh, I’m not really seeing it.
 
Every dragon he’s run into has been a jerk.

Birds are just feathered lizards.

…it’s not like birds. It’s like puppies. When puppy grow up among kitty siblings and cat-mother, he (dog) sexually attracts to cats.

He would develop more pony traits.  
But blame his parents rendering him incapable of being unable to relate to other dragons.

Not that far off, probably.