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"Grogar": Where one is weak, another is strong, and thus unified, they are a formidable force! But we shall use their own strategy to defeat them!
Chrysalis: What are you suggesting?
"Grogar": I suggest nothing. I
demand that you join me, and together, Equestria will be ours!
~ Discord (as Grogar) and Chrysalis in The Beginning of the End.
Chrysalis: You know what's stronger than friendship, Twilight? FEAR!
Tirek: Cause when you have to protect yourself, you don't have time for anypony else!
Cozy Glow: Too bad you never taught
that in school!
~ The Legion of Doom to Twilight in The Ending of the End.

The Legion of Doom are a trio of Equestria's greatest villains consisting of Queen Chrysalis, Lord Tirek, and Cozy Glow who each possess grudges against the Mane Six and Starlight Glimmer. They are the main antagonists of the 9th Season of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and the last enemies the Mane Six face in the series. The team was assembled and led by "Grogar" for the purpose of getting revenge and finally defeating the Mane 6 together and taking over Equestria. In reality, this was just Discord in disguise as part of a final trial for Twilight Sparkle before she became ruler of Equestria.

Group History[]

The Beginning of the End[]

In the beginning of the episode, Celestia and Luna call inform Twilight Sparkle, her friends and Discord of their eventual retirement as Equestria's rulers and their decision to make Twilight their successor. While Twilight's friends have full faith in Twilight's capabilities as a ruler, Twilight begins stressing out over the idea of taking responsibility over the kingdom. Annoyed by Twilight's panic attacks, Discord takes his leave from her castle.

Meanwhile, a powerful, mysterious being pulls Cozy Glow and Lord Tirek from Tartarus, snatches Queen Chrysalis from her hiding place, and resurrects King Sombra. This being shows himself as the ram necromancer named "Grogar" who had ruled ancient Equestria as its emperor with his Bewitching Bell and an army of monsters thousands of years ago, until he was defeated by a pony named Gusty the Great and her Unicorn Warriors. "Grogar" claims that he had been building his power over the millennia and has now returned to conquer Equestria once more, but after realizing that the Mane Six always win due to working together as a team, he decides to form a team of his own, promising the other villains that they will rule Equestria at his side together. However, King Sombra rejects the offer, as he doesn't like sharing with others and goes off to take over the Crystal Empire all on his own, which "Grogar" respects. "Grogar" then makes a deal with the former King: If he is able to re-take the Crystal Empire, he will be free, but if he fails, the king will bow to him, or suffer his wrath.

After King Sombra is defeated again by Mane Six, "Grogar" chooses not to resurrect him again, using him as an example of what happens to those who foolishly defy him, with the implication that he will do to the other three if they do not submit to his authority. Threatened by "Grogar's" overwhelming power and seeing how much more powerful Twilight and her friends are now, Tirek, Chrysalis, and Cozy Glow fearfully comply.

Frenemies[]

Having grown tired of the other villains' constant bickering, "Grogar" sends them all on a mission to retrieve his Bewitching Bell, which Gusty hid atop Mount Everhoof. Each of the three villains try to get to the bell on their own, but to no avail. After they bond over their shared hatred of Twilight Sparkle, the three villains work together to retrieve the Bewitching Bell and prove successful. The three villains were almost on the verge of redemption until Chrysalis snaps herself and her allies out of it and convinces them to betray "Grogar".

Returning to "Grogar", the three trick him into thinking that they failed to retrieve it. Though he was furious at their supposed failure, "Grogar" was pleased that the three finally learned to cooperate while unsuspecting of their eventual betrayal. They then start to begin their long plan for revenge on Twilight and the Mane Six.

The Summer Sun Setback[]

Sometime later, "Grogar" leaves the villains to search for a new source of power to use against the Mane Six. Meanwhile, the others planned a raid on Canterlot to find information on how to use the bell.

They manage to sneak into Canterlot, but find that not only has security been increased, but preparations for the Summer Sun festival is underway, making it difficult to sneak past the ponies. However, Chrysalis comes up with a plan to ruin the holiday festival and use the disruption as a distraction to sneak into the castle. Cozy confuses the Pegasi handling the weather, Tirek drains magic from the Earth Ponies to make them think the food was bad, and Chrysalis convinces the Unicorns to quit by playing on their vanity. While the Mane Six and Spike work to take back control over the situation, the villains succeed in infiltrating the castle undetected and grabbing a book from the archives with their teamwork and return back to the lair without the Mane Six or any-pony noticing.

"Grogar" also returns and reveals that he has found something else, and will retrieve it the next day. The three villains decide to master the bell before "Grogar" returns and consider doing what they did at the festival to all of Equestria. Then, after realizing how easy it was for them to turn pony citizens against each other, Chrysalis and Cozy figure out the true source of the Mane Six's power.

The Ending of the End/The Last Problem[]

Tirek: Didn't you all notice something was wrong in Equestria? We've been busy.
Chrysalis: A whisper here, a rumor there…
Tirek: Destroy some crops, cause some damage…
Cozy Glow: Turn pony against pony…
Chrysalis: Until your whole kingdom is on edge, waiting for just one tiny thing to push them over the brink!
Tirek: There's no backup friends or rainbow magic to save you now!
Cozy Glow: Golly, I think it's time for some REDECORATING!
~ The Legion of Doom revealing that they turned the pony races against each other.

Soon after obtaining both Grogar's bell and the book containing the information on how to use it, the three villains begin spreading lies and rumors to each of the pony tribes to turn them against each other and make sure that nobody can help the Mane Six this time. On the day of Princess Twilight Sparkle's coronation as the new ruler of Equestria, they learn that the Bewitching Bell has the power to take magic from others, contain it, and release it onto the user to increase power. After forging a pact to share Equestria after they succeed in conquering it, as they agree to only rule what town they decide alone after they finally get rid of all their sworn enemies, they absorb the ancient magic already inside the bell and becoming more powerful than ever.

"Grogar" returns to his lair with a magic amulet which he intended to use against the Mane Six. However, his former minions betrayed him by using the bell to take away his magic. However, this also reveals that "Grogar" was actually Discord in disguise the whole time, much to the villains' shock. Discord has no magic to teleport or fight back as he manages to escape and the villains prepare their invasion of Equestria.

Back at Canterlot, the Mane Six and Spike express their confusion of why every-pony had become so distrustful of each other. Discord then arrives and regretfully admits what he had done while playing as Grogar. Consequently, both the Mane Six, along with Celestia and Luna, are angry and upset at Discord for his actions along with his foolish planning, even though he explains the good intentions. To make matters worse, Twilight loses confidence in herself, as she now realizes the Mane Six's successes are not their own and that Discord had been setting up challenges for them all along. She also believes that stopping Lord Tirek, Queen Chrysalis and Cozy Glow together will be impossible, since beating each of them before on their own (especially Sombra) was hard and now it will be harder now they’re working together now as a team. However, Celestia and Luna put their faith in Twilight to protect her future Kingdom. The Princess of Friendship, with the support from her friends, then call upon their allies to defend Equestria from the coming attack.

After Cozy Glow tests Discord's magic on herself and then realizes that it is too powerful to control, the villains decide to contain it before heading out to conquer Equestria. With their new power, Tirek fights and easily defeats the Pillars of Equestria, Chrysalis attacks the School of Friendship to fight Starlight Glimmer and after a harsh battle, swiftly overpowers her, while Cozy Glow attacks Canterlot and fights the Mane Six and Spike while having used the Bewitching Bell to absorb Princesses Celestia and Luna's magic. The Mane Six and Spike get the upper hoof on Cozy, using their teamwork to knock her down. Just as they are about to defeat Cozy again, Chrysalis and Tirek arrive to help Cozy Glow.

Twilight shows no fear against her enemies, arguing with and giving them the same confident speech from earlier to tell them they'll never stop until they're defeated, until they laugh at Twilight and reveal the hatred they had spread between the pony races to prevent the Mane 6 from getting the backup they need to use the Magic of Friendship. They destroy half of Canterlot and mock Twilight, claiming that fear is stronger than friendship for how it motivates those to defend themselves, leaving others vulnerable. Instilling fear into Twilight herself, Tirek grabs her by the wings and they all prepare to kill her, only for Rarity to blast a piece of the destroyed castle towards them, saving Twilight's life. The villains angrily try to blast Twilight's friends instead, but Twilight uses another boulder as a shield but they tell Twilight to escape and get help as the villains overwhelm and capture the princesses, Discord and Twilight's friends while Twilight reluctantly and tearfully escapes, not wanting to leave her friends behind but also starts to believe her enemies are right.

The three villains imprison their enemies under the catacombs of Canterlot. Tirek claims they need to find Twilight, claiming that she's still a threat to the group. Despite everything she did in the past Chrysalis foolishly believes they should not go after Twilight since she doesn't believe she's a threat as long as her friends are still imprisoned. The ex-queen of the changelings begins boasting about their victory and later taunts Discord but thanks him, who is chained up for impersonating Grogar. Whilst Tirek and Chrysalis are distracted, Cozy Glow attempts to steal the Alicorns' magic from the bell, only for Tirek to stop her and remind her and Chrysalis that none of them will use the Alicorns' magic without controlling Discord's unstable chaos magic.

Discord "offers" to tell them in exchange for his friends' freedom, with Chrysalis and Cozy Glow being interested but Tirek knows that he will never tell it. After Discord tells him he won’t tell him after he betrayed him before, he mocks Tirek for his parental issues, his insults enrage Tirek as he attempts to blast him, but Discord defended himself from attack with a rock, redirecting it to Starlight's cage, freeing her. Starlight soon frees all the other prisoners, but only the Mane 5 and Spike escape under Celestia's command. The Princesses, Pillars, and Starlight battle the villains whilst Twilight and her friends escape. Unfortunately, however, they are later re-imprisoned due to Discord and the Princesses without their magic and even Starlight the only one with powerful magic wasn't strong enough to beat them.

Once the prisoners are re-captured, the villains go outside to see that the Windigos have returned, as a result of the division between the pony races. Tirek and Cozy Glow intend on neutralizing the Windigos, but Chrysalis sees it as an opportunity to use the harsh weather as a way of destroying Equestria and soon putting the surviving ponies into her debt once she destroys them. Cozy breaks up the argument between Tirek and Chrysalis by alerting them to Twilight and her friends, who have regrouped together and have Twilight regained her senses, seeing that the villains are wrong, feeling truly confident again and are on their way to attack the villains.

The trio appear through a portal, making themselves look confident and confront the Mane 6. Chrysalis taunts the ponies that they can't accept that they were already beaten, but Twilight argues with with the former Changeling queen, telling her that they will never be defeated as long as they never give up and as long as she has her friends behind their back. The two teams end up engaging in a fierce battle. The three villains are then distracted by Twilight, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie Pie, while Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy and Spike get the bell but the Legion of Doom see through the distraction quickly, as Chrysalis only noticed three of the Mane 6 are fighting them. Chrysalis fights Rarity and Spike as they try to blast her, but she desperately blasts back as much as she could while Applejack fights Tirek as she tries to get the bell by her lasso but gets pulled out as Tirek breaks the rope and throws Applejack away. Fluttershy flies by as Cozy catches up and mocks her how she isn't the fastest flyer and blasts her away.

Then, Chrysalis out of desperate fear of losing again and knowing the Mane 6 will never give up, she cowardly orders them to stop and threatens to rip Spike's wings off should they not comply. The Mane 6 quickly surrender the fight to save Spike and give themselves up to their enemies. The villains then prepare to finally defeat and kill Twilight and her friends to get their revenge and have them out of the way to finally take over Equestria once and for all.

Just as Twilight and her friends are about to be destroyed, a force-field suddenly emerges over them, which is soon revealed to be conjured by some of Twilight's friends such as Chancellor Neighsay and Tempest Shadow, who are accompanied by an army of Earth Ponies, unicorns, Pegasi, Changelings, Dragons, Yaks and Griffins as the Young Six had convinced their allies and friends to work together to help the Mane Six. Proving the villains wrong that friendship is stronger than fear, and all thanks to Twilight for inspiring the ponies and creatures to do so. The army of Equestrian creatures are overwhelmed and overpowered by the villains, who knock them all out due to not being well experienced fighting them as the Mane 6 are and continue to charge forward to defeat the Mane 6.

Twilight orders them to stop as she confronts them and finally accepts that the villains are the ones who made a mistake and delivers a speech to them about the Magic of Friendship and that there will always be those who seek the light despite how much darkness there is. The Mane Five, Spike, the Pillars and Young Six join her and their combined magic banishes the Windigos and strips the three villains of their powerful forms, defeating them once again. Proving them wrong once again that friendship is stronger than anything. Completely enraged, Chrysalis foolishly refuses to accept that friendship is stronger than her as she swears revenge on Twilight and that they'll always return until Pinkie Pie takes control of the Bewitching Bell with Discord's magic and drops a giant cupcake on her, Cozy and Tirek.

After they get their magic back from Grogar's bell, Celestia and Luna angrily confront the villains, as they have gone too far this time with Celestia declaring that there is no punishment worthy of all their crimes. However, Discord, wanting to make the villains pay for their betrayal, and likely also wanting to make up for his mistakes, gives Celestia and Luna an idea as they smugly agree. The royal sisters and the Lord of Chaos then charge up their magic and imprison the villains in stone, to make sure they never return harm the Mane 6 or anyone again, marking the defeat of Equestria's greatest villains for good.

Due to their defeats at the end of The Ending of the End, Lord Tirek, Queen Chrysalis, and Cozy Glow do not return as the antagonists of the final part of the 3-part series finale, but are alluded to several times in the episode. A stain glass window in the newly re-built Canterlot castle in the future depicts the villainous trio being overpowered by the Magic of Friendship. During the flashback, the villains are mentioned by Twilight Sparkle to Spike. Twilight mentions that because of the madness that spurned from the final battle against the evil trio for the fate of Equestria, she had forgotten about her coronation as the new ruler of Equestria and the revelation that she would rule Equestria and have to be separated from her Ponyville friends once she returned to Canterlot had come all at once.

The villains also appear on a newspaper article, depicting their battle with the Mane 6 from the second third of the finale as well as their defeated and petrified state.

Trivia[]

  • The Legion of Doom are the only unreformed villains to serve as the main protagonists of an episode (in "Frenemies").
  • According to Jim Miller, Tirek, Chrysalis, and Cozy Glow were never intended to redeem themselves in the final season but to remain evil.
  • It's unknown if they were ever released from their stone imprisonment. Based on what Discord said after they were petrified, it's implied them being turned to stone is permanent.
    • Jim Miller stated that the villainous trio was likely put in the Canterlot Garden where Discord was placed in Season 1. In addition, he also makes a reference to Cozy Glow being in suspended animation, indicating that she and likely the other villains were either asleep or unconscious when they were imprisoned.
    • However, at the end of comic issue #102, Chrysalis's statue begins to crack, implying that she, Tirek, and Cozy Glow may escape imprisonment one day. However, none of the Generation 5 material or official statements have followed up on this so far and the canonicity of the comics is questionable.
  • According to Jim Miller, Tirek, Cozy, and Chrysalis were always intended to be the final antagonists of the series due to their heavy connections to the main characters, which is why Grogar was revealed to be Discord in disguise.
  • In-universe, it is unclear why Discord did not resurrect the Storm King to become part of the Legion as he did Sombra. Out-of-universe, they likely did not want to bring the movie's voice actors back into the show, due to them being too-high budget, although they did recast Sombra.
Villain Similarities in G1 and G4
  • The villains working for "Grogar" (though this was Discord in disguise) in G4 is similar to the Raptorians working for Princess Porcina in G1. Both groups are a trio of villains who planned to use a magical object (Bewitching Bell/Porcina's Magic Cloak) to betray their leaders for their own purposes and are turned to stone/glass in the end.
  • Chrysalis, Tirek, and Cozy are the second main villains in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic franchise who came close to defeating and possibly killing Twilight Sparkle and her friends (the first being the Storm King in My Little Pony: The Movie).
  • The Legion of Doom, alongside the Storm King and King Sombra are the only major villains in the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic franchise that didn't reform, proving themselves to be Equestria's greatest villains to the end.
  • As the villains are being turned to stone, Chrysalis hisses and lashes out towards her enemies (presumably Discord) before being fully petrified, being the only villain of the trio who wants to fight to the end.
  • According to Jim Miller, the Legion of Doom's fate was meant to mirror Discord's first and second defeat.
  • Nightmare Moon, Discord, (due to being the one who pretended to be Grogar) Sunset Shimmer, The Dazzlings, Starlight Glimmer, The Pony of Shadows, The Storm King, Tempest Shadow and Grubber are the only main villains to not be recruited for "Grogar's" team. Due to the Dazzlings losing all their powers and cannot return to Equestria, The Pony of Shadows being separated from Stygian along with the Darkness consuming him being trapped in limbo, The Storm King being turned obsidian stone and being killed in the battle of Canterlot and the other six being reformed at the time.
  • The legion's unofficial team name is a reference to the Legion of Doom.
    • The legion's alternative team name "The Mean 3" is a play on "The Mane 6" the name title given to Twilight and her friends.
    • It could also be a reference to "The Mean Six," the evil counterparts to the Mane 6 created by Queen Chrysalis in the Season 8 episode of the same name.

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Ahgg | Beezen | Catrina | Dragon Gang | Erebus | Flories | Grogar | Hydia | King Charlatan | Lavan | Princess Porcina | Queen Bumble | Raptorians | Reeka & Draggle | Somnambula | Squirk | Tirac

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Hydia | Reeka & Draggle | Smooze | Ahgg

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Apple Bloom's Shadow | Ahuizotl | Arimaspi | Bugbear | Changelings | Chimera | Cockatrice | Daybreaker | Dr. Caballeron | Diamond Dogs | Diamond Tiara | Discord | Dragons (Dragon Lord Torch, Garble & Sludge) | Flim Flam Brothers | Gladmane | Grogar | Hydra | King Sombra | Legion of Doom (Queen Chrysalis, Tirek & Cozy Glow) | Mane-iac | Maulwurf | Mean Six | Nightmare Moon | Parasprites | Pony of Shadows | Puckwudgies | Roc | Sable Spirit | Silver Spoon | Snips and Snails | Sphinx | Starlight Glimmer | Storm King | Svengallop | Tantabus | Tatzlwurm | Tempest Shadow | Timberwolves | Trixie Lulamoon | Vampire Fruit Bats | Windigos | Wind Rider

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Dazzlings (Adagio Dazzle, Aria Blaze & Sonata Dusk) | Juniper Montage | PostCrush (Kiwi Lollipop & Supernova Zap) | Principal Cinch | The Predaplants (The Predaplant-Titan) | Snips and Snails | Sunset Shimmer | Trixie Lulamoon | Vignette Valencia | Wallflower Blush

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Accord | Bad Apple | Changelings | Chupacabra | Cosmos | Cozy Glow | Daybreaker | Dazzlings (Adagio Dazzle, Aria Blaze & Sonata Dusk) | Diamond Tiara | Discord | Dyre | Flim Flam Brothers | Grackle | Grogar | Grootslang | High Heel | King Longhorn | King Meowmeow | King Sombra | Knights of Harmony (Danu, Balor, Morrigan, Taranis, Mannah, & Ceridwen) | Long-Face | Lord Goldstone | Mane-iac | Mirror Pony of Shadows | Nightmare Forces | Nightmare Moon | Nightmare Rarity | Pony of Shadows | Pharaoh Phetlock | Prince Huginn | Princess Celestia | Princess Eris | Pseudocorns | Queen Chrysalis | Rabia | Rough Diamond | S'Monies (Black Belle, Violet Shiver, & Shadow Storm) | Sendak | Shadowbolts | Shadowfall | Shadowfright | Shadowmane | Silver Spoon | Smooze | Smudge | Snips and Snails | Starlight Glimmer | Storm King's army (Storm King, Tempest Shadow, Grubber & Storm Creatures) | Sunset Shimmer | Thrace Ponies (King Diomedes | Terri Belle | Swift Foot) | Tirek | Trench | Trixie Lulamoon | Umbrum | Vampiric Jackalope

My Little Pony: The Movie (2017)
Storm King's army (Storm King | Tempest Shadow | Grubber | Storm Creatures)

Generation 5
My Little Pony: A New Generation
Sprout Cloverleaf

My Little Pony: Make Your Mark
Queen Opaline | Misty Brightdawn | Sprout Cloverleaf | Troggles | Allura | Twitch

Comics
Discord | Fet Lockland | Queen Opaline

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