Emily the Stirling Engine (seasons 8-10, 12-16)

NOTE: This will only talk about how she was badly butchered during Seasons 8-10 and 12-16.

Emily the Stirling Engine is an anthropomorphic Stirling Single tender engine who works on the Main Line and is a supporting character in the British TV series, Thomas & Friends.

Sadly, she got butchered during Seasons 8-10 and 12-16.

Why She Sucked

 * 1) She was flanderized from being a mature, kind, responsible, and supportive older sister figure in Season 7 into being unnecessarily bossy, impatient, whiny, bratty, rude, naggy, and disrespectful to other engines.
 * 2) Her unlikable moments include:
 * 3) *In "Thomas, Emily and the Snowplough" where she decides to "help" Thomas by constantly nagging him to do his work instead of being supportive and continues to nag him into getting his snowplough fitted instead of telling him that Sir Topham Hatt is the one who needed him to get his snowplough fitted, which makes Thomas ignore her and she refused to apologize for being bossy until the very last minute.
 * 4) *In "As Good as Gordon", after she was given Gordon's job at pulling the express, she was too determined to be like Gordon to the point where she acted severely impatient and rushed to get her work done, only to backfire in her face in the end, that she left the brake coach behind for the express, called Edward a "slow coach", refused to wait for her passengers, and neglected to get water because she couldn't wait for James which made her run out of water and stop in the middle of the track with the express.
 * 5) *In "Emily's Adventure", she acts unnecessarily and unreasonably impolite and impatient to Trevor who was pulling a log off the track, blew steam at some workers without any rhyme, and rudely blows her whistle at Elizabeth and orders her around when she was pushing a fallen water tower off the track.
 * 6) *In "Thomas' Milkshake Muddle", she mocks Thomas by calling him a "slow coach" for puffing slowly despite him telling her that it's safe to go slow, which shows she does not care about the dangers that can potentially happen.
 * 7) *In "Molly's Special Special", she teased Molly for taking empty freight cars which made Molly feel not useful.
 * 8) *In "Emily Knows Best", she gets jealous of Toby when he told her she had to know what to do to be a queen and manipulates Percy into taking her track despite Toby knowing more than her, which made Percy crash into Mavis and making Toby crash as well, meaning she can't take criticism.
 * 9) She believes her actions are "helpful" when they actually make things worse than usual.
 * 10) While it looked liked she changed back to her old personality in Season 11, she reverted to her Season 8-10 persona in only one episode of Season 14 ("Pingy, Pongy, Pick Up"), but got the trait of acting idiotic in Seasons 12-16 whenever she was given an episode role.
 * 11) She could even be a female equivalent of Thomas who is also impatient and a bit rude, except in Emily's case, it's gone too far.
 * 12) She could especially be one to Gordon and James who are also arrogant as well.
 * 13) Her overall behavior made her the stereotypical mean girl.
 * 14) * For example, she doesn't listen to anyone's advice and thinks she knows more than anyone else, which she would know by now.
 * 15) Like Thomas, she is shown to be racist towards diesels. An example is in "Emily and the Special Coaches", where Diesel tells Emily that Gordon is not the only one who's special, she just cuts him off and says "Well there's nothing special about smelly old diesels!"

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) She still has a nice engine design.
 * 2) She was much better and more tolerable in Seasons 7 and 11, respectively.
 * 3) She occasionally has her old persona, like in "Emily's New Route".
 * 4) She massively redeemed herself in Season 17 onwards.
 * 5) She still cares about her friends.
 * 6) She had got her comeuppances in episodes where she is unlikable.
 * 7) Great voice acting by Teresa Gallagher in the UK dub and Jules de Jongh in the US dub.