Talk:Princess Celestia/@comment-24101825-20140813173446/@comment-10390252-20140821133430

Becuase Twilight is very much the main character in the two-parter epic stories, she always has to save the day. That means that Celestia simply can't cut loose for plot reasons.

That said, I'd really, really like an occasion where the villian jumps Celly and gets his flank handed to him. You know, army blown away with a single spell and, when the guards catch up with her, she's throat-lifting him over the drop down from the battlements of Canterlot using her magic and remarking (in that sweet, reasonable tone of hers): "You know what the really sad part of this is? You have no comprehension, even the slightest inkling of just how far you still have to go before you would have even stood a chance!"

Or maybe Luna remarking to Twilight one day about the "terrible, wonderful, blinding, all-ecompasing light of my sister's mercy."