Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-1705775-20180326070022

it counts as Lovecraftian btw, it is not simply liquid with faces.. it is able to withstand any and all magic used against it (except very specific magic *aka "plot requirement") - if Hasbro didn't make Smooze allergic to tiny flying horses it would literally engulf all of reality and that'd be that.. no magic could stop it, not even the Rainbow of Light (the original form of Elements of Harmony, which is seen as "god force" power.. which fixes almost everything as plot demands).

no one really knows what the heck Smooze is, where it came from or even what it really wants.. in terms of the show it was alien and out of place.. albeit greatly downplayed because MLP is child-friendly and having a Shoggoth rampage around without adding some song / dance to make it less terrifying would be problematic.

even in the reboot Smooze is completely alien and even Discord doesn't really understand it much, the new Smooze didn't even seem to have a weakness at all.. it just got "defeated" because unlike the original Smooze the new one is neutral and just wanted someone to actually treat it well, since everyone kept avoiding it or generally acting unfriendly (the recurring theme of the reboot is always "friendship wins over everything").

it's no Cthulhu or Darkness From The Stars but it certainly isn't able to be fully understood by anyone in its setting. 