Talk:Magical Mystery Cure/@comment-15617-20130220033951/@comment-15617-20130220055806

When it comes to Destiny, again, I'm trying to think of the term in the simple confines of the show; you are right in that, even if the cutie-mark represents someone's way to happiness, that their life may not be perfect, nor does it mean it's impossible to get a cutie-mark that means trouble for everyone else...here's the thing though:

Have we ever seen such a cutie-mark? A mark representing that someone's destiny is to do something malevolent? If things really are as clear-cut and simple as I have made it out to be, then it presents a terrible danger if someone's cutie-mark is something malevolent, because it would mean someone's road to happiness lies in them creating pain for everyone else; how do you work with that? You can't

Villainous figures? Almost all of the "villains" (and mind you, I apply that term only to those who deserve it - Discord and Chrysalis) that we've seen don't have cutie-marks! If we go beyond villains who have caused mayhem and destruction, to the one-shot antagonists who we meet as soon as they leave, the same applies....Trixie's a showmare who's faults were her own, the same for Flim and Flam; Gilda is a griffon...

We've never seen a cutie-mark that explicitly is malevolent, and I'm not surprised why given that it would mean the pony's road to happiness is hurt for everyone else; I doubt the canon would ever portray marks in such a fashion.