Talk:My Little Pony Equestria Girls/@comment-5980957-20130625193053/@comment-6680512-20130625231734

I think the reason why the villains have been lacking is Hasbro doesn't like the FiM villains, because they think that little girls will be too scared to watch them be evil and do evil things, and they can't be scary if they're nice and good. So they're telling the writers "make these bad guys nice, so we can sell toys of them."

If that were true, then Hasbro's freaking stupid. They're okay with the Decepticons doing horrible things to the Autobots (and the humans to a lesser extent), but we can't enjoy some MLP villains doing evil misdeeds and giving the Mane Six and their allies trouble by presenting them with a big challenge for them to overcome? I'm okay with the slice of life episodes, but whenever a major villain shows up, I want him/her to be awesome, well-written, and pose a serious threat, as well as having a satisfying defeat that makes sense. What I don't want, are villains with no depth, barely put up a fight, and they are defeated too easily. Also, I don't want the villain be killed off or have them repent for their crimes, unless there is a very good reason why said villain needs to die/repent for their crimes. Or heck, why can't the show have a recurring major villain? That could give rise to more interesting plot arcs within the show, like they're plotting something big. Really big. Or it gives them enough time to plot revenge and strike again, having learned from their previous mistakes (if they even bothered to do so).

Or maybe we shouldn't obsess too much over the villains. The show's called Friendship is Magic, not MLP Heroes vs Villains. Not every episode is going to be about the Mane Six fighting the Villain/Monster of the Week. But when the show does have an villain or antagonist of some sort, we tend to expect something a bit more out of the usual slice of life buisness the show's accustomed to.