@Background Pony #C826  

 
So, you’d like to see a story about a hot-tempered, extremely skilled, red-haired wizard-adventurer who threw away a high position in the aristocracy for a small chance at world domination, then traveled into another world, stole an ancient magical artifact, and transformed into a terrifying demon? Preferably someone formidable to look at, associated with horses, wielding magic of fire, darkness, and mind control, and with heraldic colors of red, gold, and black?
 
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Let’s just say that it took a long time in the afterlife for Sunset Shimmer to earn this reincarnation. The Pony of Second Chances is living the biggest second chance in the world.

Yeah, coincidence. It was just meant to convey that she had a lust for power and desire to become an alicorn.

@OptimusPrimevil  
Yeah, it’s most likely a coincidence

@Background Pony #8D0F  
coincidence?

Kinda digging open a six-monthed grave but nobody mentioned the fact that her look in the mirror is similar to Daydream Shimmer’s.

@Background Pony #CDD9  
I hate Reformed Discord, he would have been so much better as a recurring villain like Bill from Gravity Falls.

somepony that could be high school prom queen…

@Background Pony #AE4A  
It’s true, reformed villains are boring. Except for Discord because he’s still a duck.

@Discord94
 
IDW Annual 2013 Equestria Girls comic, The Fall of Sunset Shimmer

Why the hay is there no source for the one picture where I’d need one?

@RIG  
How is he gone for good?

@Background Pony #C01F  
gasp! Practicing her looks for when she’ll rule Equestria? that’s Disney Evil!

@toxicitzi  
But at least she had 3 years of being prom princess to affirm her self esteem.  

ah yes.. how could I forget the most brilliant plan ever concocted? she liked mirror, mirror had secrets, she carelessly went through mirror, lost all her magic and got stuck in it, for what we can assume from the first movie to be years.
 
HAHA! Take THAT Celestia! Now her plans are truly coming to fruition! She may be powerless now, but you’ll send someone out to look out for her! Except, Celestia didn’t do that. Sunset came out herself and stole something, rather, Celestia didn’t seem to care for this pupil and her general stupidity until that happened.
 
and after that, ensue the events of everyone’s favorite, the first EQG movie.

@RaineV1
 
@Background Pony #C01F
 
the friend reveal reminded me too much of ‘fist of the north star’. one character’s MO/actions is waaaay too similar to starlight’s to be just a coincidence (starlight wanted a markless society, souther wanted a society devoid of love. both in their own experiences caused them great pain).

I must be the only one here then because I actually liked her backstory here.
 
@Background Pony #C01F
 
That wasn’t even a Freudian excuse. Just a crappy plot device that doesn’t really mesh well with her character.
 
 
@RaineV1
 
Yes exactly!!! You don’t need a Freudian excuse or anything to be redeemable. If that was the case then Starlights redemption would be the epitome of perfection. I never got why people thought that Freudian excuses are needed to redeem a character.

@Background Pony #C01F  
I wasn’t a fan of that either. I think she would have been better as a well intentioned extremist who didn’t realize how badly she was screwing up until she saw the wasteland future.

@RaineV1  
yeah, starlight trying to have a freudian excuse of “My friend moved away and that made me sad!” kind of ruined her COMPLETELY. Like WTF.

This is far better than the Sunset in the first movie.
 
@RIG  
Any particular reason you think he’s gone for good?
 
>besides the comic only made her worse, it made her look like a power hungry bitch without a single Freudian excuse.
 
As for this, Freudian excuses are way overdone nowadays. You can’t have a power lusting villain without throwing in a one line excuse about their puppy getting kicked. It’s nice having a villain that isn’t bitching about how her mommy wouldn’t give her dessert or whatever other sob-story people want to use.

“Sunset, you shouldn’t be egotistical by saying how you’re full of potential.”
 
{years later}
 
“Twilight, you have so much potential!”

One assumes that this and her movie self aren’t compatible.
 
With some thought, that may not be true.

@Background Pony #C01F  
I don’t think we’ll ever see him again in the show

@Background Pony #DA89  
Does the crappy relationship exists there as well? and he vanished for good in season 5 anyway.

@Background Pony #DA89  
Damnit, when are they going to develop twilight and pony flash’s relationship more?

@Background Pony #DA89  
ha ha!