Talk:My Little Pony Equestria Girls/@comment-26973802-20130627051749

More to the "villain quality" comment that generated like 50 replies:

If King Sombra wasn't such a flat and mysterious character, then he just wouldn't resemble Sauron enough, would he? Because that's who Meghan was going for, and we really needed at least one Sauron villain in a show with so many Lord of the Rings references. And they had him do more than Sauron ever did in the course of the trilogy, and return to physical form. (though I guess Sombra didn't have an army of his own)

Although from what I heard Sunset Shimmer isn't on Chrysalis or Sombra's level, even in demon form when she plans to take over the world with an army of teenagers, but apparently she had more backstory, screentime, and personality than Sombra