Talk:Princess Twilight Sparkle - Part 2/@comment-26973802-20131106053944/@comment-26973802-20131108022311

No I don't want Luna to die. She's my favorite character, and the only time I want characters I like to be killed off are when I like them as villains, and I like Luna as Luna not Nightmare Moon who I consider a separate entity from her.

But that's just it - a lot of my favorite characters die. I'm sure my other favorite, Rainbow Dash, is safe being one of the main characters, but Tigatron and Airazor from Beast Wars, David Palmer and Bill Buchanan from 24, Bobby and Gabriel from Supernatural, and don't get me started on Joss Whedon series.

And I can sense Luna is in danger, because there's more and more speculation she'll become Nightmare Moon in the present out of contempt for Twilight becoming a princess, and if she was bitter and resentful enough to let a second Nightmare Moon persona be created, it shows she really hasn't learned anything from her first transformation and there can't be much hope for her

And King Sombra is dead, Meghan confirmed it, and if he wasn't, then when he returns there can be no permanent defeat for him, best they can do is have Celestia and Luna banish him for another thousand years and let him curse the Crystal Empire again in the process (and I think that's what the princesses wanted to avoid, remember Luna's line about the Crystal Empire "cannot fall again". The mission, although they never said it up front, was finding something that could destroy him forever). Chrysalis was staged in a way so we can presume her dead if we want to, comics aside. And if Nightmare Moon is a separate entity from Luna, then the Mane 6 killed her when they released Luna. (The first Nightmare Moon, that is)

But Luna isn't a main character, is she? She doesn't appear in that many episodes. And if they're somehow still thinking about any little girls who might be watching the show, they can have Luna fade away into sparkles or vanish in a flash of light (in a more family-friendly way than King Sombra), then the younger kids wouldn't catch that she's dead, and they won't miss her because she's not pink.

Don't get me wrong, I want Luna to survive, I want Luna to remain the Luna we knew since her release from Nightmare Moon (and, I guess Luna Eclipsed since we see what Luna is really like in that episode). I want the Nightmare Moon transformation to be set in the past, as the "precious light" line suggests. But I'm not 100% sure I'll get my wish in Princess Twilight as I did in The Crystal Empire. (Although my wish in TCE is that they'd destroy King Sombra, which they did, now my wish for PT is that they'll spare Luna from both death and present day NMM transformation/possession, well, that and that they destroy the main villain again)