Talk:Episodes, films, and shorts/@comment-24832535-20140919230242/@comment-26973802-20140921042303

To the villains, excluding movie villains and Plunderseeds:


 * Nightmare Moon was first villain. Nothing too extreme, although she does try to kill the Mane 6 with the cliff this is overlooked as the rest of her tactics involve scaring them off or blocking them, which the Mane 6 easily overcome with their Element of Harmony. Seems like nothing more than Luna corrupted, and is turned back into Luna.


 * Discord is second villain. He is fun to have around with his unique powers, and slightly darker than Nightmare (at first) by turning the Mane 6 against each other. He gets turned to stone. (his eventual redemption comes after Sombra)


 * Queen Chrysalis is darker, manipulating Twilight's friends and mentor into turning against her without even corrupting them while putting Shining Armor under a spell that seems more sinister than Discord. She is the creepiest villain of the first three, begins epic battles, and is presumably killed.


 * King Sombra is even darker, enslaving an entire empire, instilling fear in the crystal ponies, up front trying to kill Spike and licking his lips as he's about to do so, and is up front killed in the end. He's more menacing than Chrysalis too and his moments are as epic as Chrysalis's. He is the most intelligent villain as well. However he often loses points for his lack of screentime and lines.


 * Lord Tirek is just as dark as Sombra, intending to enslave Equestria while creepily sucking out ponies' magic, Dementor style. He doesn't have as creepy an atmosphere as Sombra and Chrysalis, but is still as menacing, and what he lacks in creepiness he makes up for with power and epic battles. He has as much, if not more, screentime as Chrysalis, manipulates a former antagonist, Discord, into joining him, betrays and overpowers him, is the biggest threat Equestria has seen, and his fight with Twilight is the most epic moment in the series. He also has affected the protagonists the most, destroying Twilight's library and sending the other three princesses to hell (if only temporarily). In the end he is blasted to hell.

See what I'm saying? Each villain in the show has been able to top the previous one. (some would argue that Sombra didn't top Chrysalis, but he is still more evil and menacing than her, and the scenes where he does appear are more intense than Chrysalis's scenes, with the exception of her second verse in This Day Aria)