Talk:The Ending of the End - Part 2/@comment-36711578-20191018133725/@comment-29981995-20191018195112

That's...quite the leap. Even as stupid as he was in season nine, I really doubt Discord would actually brainwash a filly into acting as a villain. Plus, I have to imagine he would have come clean about it during the whole "so, I pretended to be Grogar" thing. Or, for that matter, I imagine his spell would have failed either when the Bewitching Bell drained his magic or when Cozy was hit by the rainbow of light.

We don't know why Cozy Glow was bad, and at this point we may never know. It's a bit disappointing, but it's not entirely surprisng. If you're going off material from the show alone, we also know nothing of the motivations-beyond the oh so tired "power for the sake of power" bit-of King Sombra or the Storm King. We don't know why Discord was such a jerk a 1000ish years ago, or why Neighsay had a problem with non-ponies. Heck, until this episode we didn't know that Tirek's evil apparently derives, at least in part, from feeling like he was a constant disappointment to his father.