Talk:Over a Barrel/@comment-1031724-20191208060617/@comment-1031724-20191220230952

For someone evil and vile like Chrysalis, not someone adorable and kind like Fluttershy!

Poison Joke's effects were reversible and relatively harmless, though not something they'd want to keep. Here we're talking about a terminal illness (or worse, depending on whether you're still alive as a tree), which is contagious and seemingly had no cure, and ponies are strongly implied to have died (or been trapped forever) of it before.