Talk:King Sombra/@comment-3220518-20121112212253/@comment-99.163.24.174-20121114140737

Not only that but there is a rule of how to make a good, dark villain all the more threatening: The less seen, the better. We know he's around. We don't see him very often but we can feel his presence and we are kept in suspense. Also, he's a very smart villain, more so than Nightmare Moon who didn't even count on Twilight and her friends nor Discord who didn't think about what would happen if the Mane Six broke free from his control, willingly or through force. Heck, even Chrysalis didn't even once think love, her food source, would be weaponized against her. Sombra seemed like a far more intelligent enemy. He set up booby-traps for anyone who was searching for the Crystal Heart, he made the stairs long so that anyone would just give up out of exhaustion or even die (you can die from heat exhaustion or dehydration), he cut off Shining's magic by clogging up his horn with crystals and through the whole episode, he is biding his time, waiting for Cadence's magic to fade so that he can enter. He's scary because he is an enemy who is calculating and thinks ahead.