Talk:Episodes, films, and shorts/@comment-26973802-20150310033927/@comment-26973802-20150310071916

Disney movies have killed much more than just two main villains (about 33 by my count, first being the queen in Snow White and last being King Candy in Wreck-It Ralph), and I think MLP stopped not because it's too "drastic", but because the fans don't want it, expressing either disappointment or denial for the first (and last) two they killed off, the second of which was the least favorite villain, and the first of which was so popular the creators didn't even have the heart to confirm it. Also it's not just the family shows that have stopped - X-Men and Spartacus stopped too (and Spartacus is one of the most violent and mature shows I've seen) and I have a feeling the Marvel Cinematic Universe will stop as well, starting with Ultron.

Tirek doesn't feel like a recent villain because he was almost a year ago, and the next two villains that come after him run off.

How do we know the writers aren't becoming predictable? Equestria Games reused the plot from Sonic Rainboom and Hurricane Fluttershy (which used the least likely pony and the most likely pony, respectively) and they used the same naming scheme for the new villain as Twilight Sparkle and Sunset Shimmer. Who's next, Moonlight Twinkle? And if it wasn't MLP, I'd say the next villain would win, but when it gets to the point where the entire fandom wants a villain to win, the writers will cancel MLP before they do that.

And maybe Discovery Family has something to do with it. Proving to be dimwitted in addition to dull, they revealed her fate in a trailer, just like the trailer for Jupiter Ascending shows the main villain being shot in the head!