Talk:King Sombra/@comment-11751741-20150412232122/@comment-26973802-20150413225623


 * Nightmare Moon - Because she was Luna corrupted so naturally they had to return her to her original self. Also because her episodes came on before the brony community formed so Hasbro probably wouldn't have so much as allowed a true villain at that point


 * Discord - The Elements of Harmony turned him to stone the first time when their full power was used so why would they do any different the second time? Also they knew how fun he was to have around and considered the possibility of bringing him back, which they did.


 * Queen Chrysalis - She could be dead as she took a fall over a mountain and seemed unable to use her wings. She only survived if you either take the comics as canon (or at least the first arc "The Return of Queen Chrysalis"), or want her to survive and think she's living in exile. I think Meghan wants us to make up our minds with her.


 * Sunset Shimmer - Not evil enough to die in this show. This isn't Star vs. the Forces of Evil, where football players that kidnap the mascots of opposing teams are fair game. Before you mention Fuzzy Slippers, his death was extremely subtle.


 * Lord Tirek - DHX saw how disappointed people were about Sombra's death when they hated him, and they refuse to accept the idea of Chrysalis's death, so it became clear to them that the fandom doesn't want any more villains killed


 * The Dazzlings - Same as Tirek


 * Starlight Glimmer - The fans asked for a recurring villain who never dies, or gets reformed, de-powered, or permanently imprisoned for that matter

King Sombra was killed to give us a definite villain death, likely because the show needed one to measure up to G1, which killed Tirek and Lavan, as well as showing that it is not too prissy to do so (after all, Disney movies are popular among kids and they used to do it all the time, and I'm sorry to say "used to"), as well as him being the most evil villain of the series, rivalled only by Chrysalis and Tirek. He and Chrysalis were the first villains that came after Discord and Nightmare Moon, and I think Chrysalis was intended to be that first villain death, but of course few believed that she was dead, either because they liked her too much or because her fall was staged too similar to Team Rocket, so Meghan was more up front with Sombra.

But now we are past the age where most shows kill their main villains, although a few (like Marvel) are still doing it