Talk:Nightmare Rarity (story arc)/@comment-26973802-20130530035231

Despite me going by the "comics are non-canon", and therefore thinking NMM was permanently destroyed by the Mane 6...

How do you think Nightmare Moon returned in the comics? (Nightmare Rarity said "you defeated me once before" so she isn't a new manifestation of darkness possessing Rarity, she's the old one)

a.) When the Nightmare Forces gathered energy through the cycle of the new moon, their "second chance" was reviving Nightmare Moon (though in disembodied form), and apparently can only be done once

b.) Nightmare Moon returned as some sort of ghost like Andross or Myotismon

c.) Nightmare Moon wasn't destroyed, just driven out of Luna