Thread:LostGod2000/@comment-25836248-20141231081815/@comment-2059440-20150101195843

Hydia is too 2-dimensional to be a true CM, Captain - she abuses her daughters and is an "evil" character but she is very much a stereotypical "children's show" style villain - she is evil for the sake of it and her actions are along the lines of "Stupid Evil" and "Evil Can't Understand Good".

I'll admit Hydia *could* easily be made into a CM (punishing her daughters for calling her "mother", for example) but she's simply not threatening enough to count as stands.

If she returns, we can see.. also releasing the Smooze falls more into standard villainy of "destroying the heroes" : she's not, for example, willing to chop of a *baby* dragon's head just to keep a slave in-line (on-screen) like Tirek.. she basically wants to make everything "nasty" and "mean".

Smooze itself never killed anything, it was a living tide of hatred but this is a "child-friendly" monster so said hatred is not murderous.. during the Smooze song it causes massive destruction but there is no mention of death or permanent loss of anything (Ponyland, in fact, never recieved lasting scars from the Smooze rampage due to "magic" (and being a children's show at the time) ).