Talk:Sunset Shimmer/@comment-15617-20130617053058/@comment-15617-20130619150651

I would agree with the Jason Voorhee's analogy, except that Jason had good presence. Even and especially in the moments where you don't see him, you're terrified of him and what he's capable of.

Princess Celestia explained his backstory a little, and his gaseous head and voice tried to be scary, but it ultimately didn't deliver for me. If we *saw* more of what he is capable of, perhaps I would be frightened, but we never did.

Discord on the other hand is more interesting: for starters, he's the only member thus far of a unique species and destructive kind of magic, he had a large backstory of causing chaos in the past, he had a unique and developed personality and speaking voice by a popular actor, and most important of all, we saw what he is capable of. He completely tore at Ponyville, and it was that chaos that made the victory all the more sweeter in the end.

Sombrero on the other hand, we never saw him say or do much of anything; we were told that he was threatening, and he chased down ponies in the snow, but that was as far as it went. I can understand going for a horror villain with big presence and little actual screen-time, but Ganondorf here just never convinced me.