Talk:Episodes, films, and shorts/@comment-26973802-20140119042025/@comment-26973802-20140208214046

I'm pretty sure Chrysalis was exclusive to G4, I probably would've come across information on it sooner or later. Not that G1 villains don't get as dark as Chrysalis (Tirek).

As to my "no new villains" theory...

Basically, the black vines in Princess Twilight Sparkle showed us they're unable to come up with any new villains. Or should I say unwilling, as far as two-parters go because they did give us one very good one-shot villain who would have been a good substitute for the vines. I think they lost confidence after reception to Sombra (due to lack of screentime and dialog but he was perfect otherwise) and Sunset Shimmer (due to being less evil and more of an ambitious jerk). They could have had some new villain damage the Tree of Harmony with magic, causing the Everfree Forest invasion and forcing the Mane 6 to return the Elements to them to start the key arc. Maybe this would have created black vines (as opposed to Discord creating them as the cause of it) and facehuggers.

Anyway, I think they're done with villain characters for two-parters, Sombra was like the "grand finale" unless you count Sunset Shimmer's demon form. Those black vines were dangerous and menacing, and did get a spectacular death, and even got a few points from me for some of them turning into facehuggers, but were they really the best they could do?