Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3542887-20170717225144/@comment-366087-20170719073420

It *might* have been… had it been in any way an actual character. But people's UNREALIZED fears do not a character make.

Let's take, for example, *Midnight Sparkle*. She was an actual character in Friendship Games. (Sci)Twilight Sparkle actually turned into her. She's not here because SciTwi was Possessed/Brainwashed and "Midnight Sparkle" did not exist for even 5 minutes.

Then we "see" Midnight again in Legend of Everfree but ONLY as SciTwi's FEAR that she might slip back into her. An *almost realized* yet still NOT Realized fear. So she STILL does not qualify to be here.

If a character fears they might do something, even if they dream about doing it, BUT DO NOT DO IT, that fear is unrealized and therefore not a villain.

Parents can say "the X will git ya" to scare their kids into being good, but if X is made up and never actually appears, then X is not a character. Not even a Fictional Fictional one.