Talk:Sunset Shimmer/@comment-26973802-20150228171658/@comment-26973802-20150302033519

Sombra wasn't stated to be dead on the wiki because a.) The people who make the trading cards, who aren't involved with the show, speculate that he might return, as well as the book adaptation of Equestria Girls - which has some differences from the actual movie - having Twilight Sparkle, the pony who obsesses over worst case scenarios, say "What if Queen Chrysalis or King Sombra somehow came back?" and b.) Some people on here want to believe he survived. And it was like that with Chrysalis before it was ever announced she would return in the comics.

Chrysalis, I think Meghan left it up to us to decide for ourselves what we think happened with her, but I think when she wrote the episodes she intended to kill Chrysalis off. There's no confirmation but I think so. You can all think what you want with Chrysalis but Sombra is definitely dead. Which doesn't mean he can't appear in flashback, or nightmare, or have a human counterpart in Equestria Girls: Friendship Games. Anything that suggests he is still alive is speculation either in-universe or out-of-universe, but the writer of the episode said that he is dead, and said it casually as if it should have been obvious.

It's because people pretended Chrysalis and Sombra survived (though the comics gave a valid reason to think this with Chrysalis, that began long before they were announced, and immediately after the episode) that Meghan didn't kill off Tirek or the Dazzlings. Even after she was up front with Sombra.

And look, I've given up my headcanons of Nightmare Moon, Demon Sunset, and Tirek, but I'm keeping my headcanon of Chrysalis which is much less out there than the other three, and Sombra isn't even a matter of headcanon, though you can write fanfics of his return if you want. As long as those two can stay dead I don't care what they do with any of the other villains.