@herooftime1000  
Having spoken with some people who interrogated/had long sit-downs in prison with folks like drug lords, members of Saddam’s secret police, rapists, and murderers, all of whom were completely unrepentant and 100% delighted with what they’d done – yeah. Some people don’t see or even understand why what they did was ‘wrong’ (note, sample spoilered for being utterly vile) like the drug lord who had the 12-year-old daughter of a man who was going to testify against him kidnapped, raped, and killed before her body was nailed to his front door; he thought the whole thing worthy of a good chuckle. How do you even reach someone like that?

to give credit to this whole thing, it’s likely the only reformed windigo.

@Darth Sonic  
Killing a show doesn’t just mean the show coming to an end. If they are not careful, they will kill the show’s image. So instead of being able to look back at the show fondly, people will look back at how they screwed it up at the end.

@Background Pony #EB74  
the one that escaped their mass execution

@Background Pony #BFF0  
The Pinkie clones aren’t dead. One of them cameoed in The Saddle Row Review.

@Background Pony #817E
 
Unfortunately that probably doesn’t count (like all those poor Pinkie clones).

@Darth Sonic  
murder isn’t murder if they’re not “real” equestrians  
adolf hitler twilight sparkle -tree of harmony

@Hericks  
Considering we only have two seasons left, this sort of comment kinda rings hollow these days.

@Background Pony #817E  
Well, technically six golems, but the point stands.

Also: [SPOILER][LEAK][SEASON8][DISCLAIMER]Tree of Harmony, together with Elements of Harmony, brutally murdered six antagonist ponies. So, no reformation here.

@Background Pony #817E  
I’m aware of that. But people have grouped jerk characters along with the more extreme villains before since they function as antagonists of their respective episodes, just on different scales. Characters like Gilda and Diamond Tiara having a change in heart is still a character having a change in heart even though they’re not evil villains.

I wonder if changeling is hit by Sombra’s Dark Magic, it will mutate into pain-eating monster. And what would they evolve into after they “share their pain”?

@Joshua  
her’s was good, but i’ll always be very partial to discord’s. it was so neat to see an intently unethical “reformation”, where literally the only reason he’s changing is for the sake of one single person, he and everyone around him knows it, but over the course of all this they all actually do find some common ground with one another. they didn’t actually attempt to justify anything, or make him very (if at all) sympathetic; it was just a story where shit just happens with characters.

@mjangelvortex  
Gilda never was a villain, just a jerk and petty criminal. Kinda silly to even put her in the same list.
 
@PonyPon  
Chrysalis concerns me. I don’t give a crap about “reform ’em all” policy, but villain decay is a real problem, and seeing villains that used to be a real menace just reduced to clowning around is just painful and sad.

Why, Santa, why? XD

So is this a Gameloft-only character? Hmm. I guess it would make too much of a shitstorm if it happened in the show.
 
And to the conversation below about reforming villains, I’m gonna share my true thoughts again:  
As long as Chrysalis is redeemed, I don’t care what they do to the other antagonists. The only villains I can see as evil forever are Tirek, Storm King and Principal Cinch.

@DanielTepesKraus  
Luckily, Tempest Shadow was handled MUCH better.

@herooftime1000  
I’m aware of it’s flaws, but it’s one of my favorite movies of 2017.

@wolfnanaki  
yeah, i read the fiendship one. i actually really liked his origin story. that really abrupt and cheap redemption rubbed me the wrong way though. it was a classic case of a non-sympathetic character with a sympathetic past being treated as a sympathetic character.

@Joshua
 
I enjoyed it for what it was, yeah. It had its problems, sure, but it was fun.

@DanielTepesKraus
 
Main Universe!Sombra: in the comics, he’s resurrected by his childhood friend Radiant Hope, and leads a successful takeover of the Crystal Empire. But finding out he’d been manipulated by his own mother and seeing how depressed Radiant Hope had become over everything that had transpired, he powers up the Crystal Heart instead of destroying it, forcing the Umbrum back into their prison and killing himself. A last second intervention by Celestia and Radiant resurrect him, but now as a regular pony. He and Radiant go off on a quest to resurrect Princess Amore, who Sombra had usurped a thousand years ago.
 
Alternate Universe!Sombra: This one was a good king who was stuck at a stalemate with an evil Celestia and Luna. When evil!Celestia executes a plan to merge the two universes and take over both of them, Sombra casts a spell that turns Celestia and Luna good, but in turn becomes evil himself. This one is no longer canon because of the season 7 finale (in this comic arc, Starswirl is still around after Luna’s banishment, which isn’t the case in the show).

@Dustcan  
was that the mirror sombra who was good by default, or the one who reformed when his mary sue girlfriend set his switch from evil to good?

@mjangelvortex
 
There was an AU Sombra that was good but then wasn’t then OG Sombra that came back from the dead and was bad but then wasn’t.
 
At least that reformation was all him though. No rainbow laser brainwashing.

@mjangelvortex  
largely i’m torn 50/50 between not liking how it’s like they felt the need to visually symbolize the “good” ones. it just invalidates the “don’t judge a book by it’s cover” angle of thorax’s previous episodes, and thinking the new designs are utterly terrible.
 
@herooftime1000  

@Joshua  
According to the leaks we are getting a new villain. I won’t be mentioning any names or personalities or anything like that but you’re correct in that regard.
 
There’s also King Sombra. Enslaved many and led them emotionally broken. He didn’t reform and he also died. Granted I’m aware that the comics had a good Sombra but I’m not too well versed in the comics. I heard that specific Sombra wasn’t even the one we’re familiar with and came from an alternate universe (along with alternate versions of the other characters too).