Talk:To Where and Back Again: Part 1/@comment-11611755-20160912154725/@comment-1031724-20160914025104

I don't think it's him. We're assuming he had all his power, including the power to suck magic, taken away, and with the cage he can only get out again if someone releases him, and that's assuming his imprisonment in Tartarus is not eternal damnation because Tartarus is hell and they blasted him there.

And if he does return with all his power, he'll be too big a threat, because it took Rainbow Power to beat him last time, and

If nothing else, Tirek is the second most recent villain and it said "one of Equestria's oldest and greatest foes"