Talk:The Crystal Empire - Part 1/@comment-67.175.122.108-20121030220458/@comment-26973802-20121102212149

Yet it isn't too violent to show three ice spirits burning to death, or Fluttershy snapping a bear's neck (even if she didn't kill him or even hurt him, that wasn't revealed until after).

If he stays in shadow form, there aren't a lot of family-unfriendly ways to destroy a cloud of darkness. Especially if he explodes in a rainbow shockwave like Myotismon from Digimon (he was in a very similar shadow form at the time) once hit with the power of either the Elements of Harmony or Crystal Heart, I can really see them doing that.