Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29275465-20160826234143/@comment-2059440-20160924195303

implied villainy is not counted, Sombra will never be a CM and it is tiring to argue over the literal dead horse.. MLP is a surprisingly dark franchise despite the tendency for people to dismiss it as light and fluffy, Sombra is not the most heinous by any stretch.. it just happens that people fan over Sombra a lot.. in the end, I'm sorry to say, Sombra was simply a Dark Lord and Tyrant.. a typical villain archetype we've seen many times over in fantasy.. he's the Pony version of Sauron and similar beings.

as stand FiM has *no* CMs, not even Lord Tirek - who was the closest we had to a CM.. it seems FiM is not into CMs as they prefer to redeem their antagonists these days or simply have them "edge" on CM.. the main reason is probably because FiM doesn't want to cross the Moral Line one has to go in order to make a villain a CM.. for a CM to happen in FiM a main character would need to be killed or seriously harmed *on-screen* and FiM creators are not likely to risk that for a while.. even G1 Tirek is a tame CM, albeit he managed to retain CM status due to the fact he was (I believe) a relative Game Changer in the fact not many cartoons of that time period went out and made a downright evil villain.. so Tirek stood above the standards of his time.. these days we don't have censorship in our cartoons and it takes a lot more than just being "evil" to be a Game Change, let alone a CM.