Ask and you shall receive. ❤️

@DarkHooves
 
@Background Pony #23D8  
Speaking of which, the Dazzlings’ defeats were very similar to Lord Tirek’s because 2014 was certainly a year to shine like rainbows that will remind you. But their defeats were very different. Lord Tirek was re-imprisoend back to Tartarus and the Dazzlings were being booed off the stage by their former brainwashed victims for their Ebola croons against the human world and turning the e tire school against each other and against the Rainbooms and turning a friendly competition into a madness “Hate Plague”.

First Principal Cinch, and now Wallflower Blush didn’t transformed by Equestrian magic. Wallflower should have merged with all the good memories of Sunset Shimmer and Sunset’s memories of the human world that she collected out of the Memory Stone into her mind (similar to how Madame and possibly Ripcon transferred Levi Watson’s childhood memories as Aiden Romero into the mind of Levi’s robot imposter clone that’s not identical to him in Power Rangers Ninja Steel) and transformed into a powerful demon with a huge number of alternate personalities with the memories that she collected being transferred into Wallflower’s mind while fighting the Friendship-Powered-Equestria Girls who would defeat Wallflower, destroy the Memory Stone, and revert Wallflower back to normal again and all of the memories that she had stolen went right back into the minds of the entire school of CHS. Would you agree if that would have happened in the climax of Forgotten Friendship?

Yeaaaah bit I still want to see the Dazzlings return. Kaiju-demon-stomper or not.

@Darth Shy  
WHy would he keep his gender a secret, in Mulan it was because women couldn’t fight in the military but Equestria is pretty pro gender equality. Most of Equestria leads in matriarchal societies. Clover use to work for princess platinum for crying out loud.

@Background Pony #170C  
It’s rediculous, arbitrary and inconsistent. There’s a reason magical girl transformations are the same everytime (besides budget). Every transformation past FG has been a gaudy, timefiller, asspull to never be seen again. Just like Rainbow Power.

@DarkHooves  
That was only S4 finale and Rainbow Rocks…  
The rest are magical girls stuff in EG.

Good! Now if only the’ll stop remaking the stupid Rainbow Powers for the mane characters every single conflic we’re golden!

@Ihhh  
Fair enough.

@Darth Sonic  
It didn’t feature any of that either.

@Ihhh  
For what it’s worth.

@Background Pony #F61B  
I mean, Rainbow Lasers DID create Daydream. So still Rainbow Lasers, just with a middleman this time.

@Background Pony #F61B  
Will admit, the Dazzlings’ one did actually kinda fit.

@Cirrus Light  
I don’t recall any rainbow lasers in Friendship Games or Magical Movie Night. The others, okay, fair point, though I will defend the climax of Rainbow Rocks as Rule of Cool. Demon Sunset’s scene could have been great if it was better written, and Gaia Everfree was defeated way too quickly (also those outfits were kinda tacky).

@Vree  
Basically this.
 
I still watch the show. I used to always say “THE PONIES SHALL LAST FOREVER STONE THE HERETICS WHO SAY OTHERWISE!”. But the resolution in the EQGs has been to shoot a friendship beam way too often, not to actually realistically solve an issue.
 
Was it in Rainbow Rocks when they kinda even mocked that when Twi just tried to “friendship beams!” the Dazzlings near the start in a painfully awkward moment?

@Backgroundpony  
In the traditional sense, yes. In the modern sense, no.

@Ihhh
 
@northern haste
 
Is the conflict resolved. Yes  
Did it come unexpected out of nowhere. Yes  
Can the story closed easily. Yes
 
Just because Doomsday devices are usually the catalyst for the story it does not mean it can not be used as a deus ex. It depends on the writing.  
Most people/writers just DON`T want the story to end like: Oh the Character A (hero) going to win, but here is a bomb for Character B (villain). Boom. Hero dead. Go home.
 
You would really have to make the audience root against the hero to not get massive backlash on your book, movie, theaterplay.  
So yes theoretical there is a negative deus ex machina, but I am not aware someone has ever pulled it of successfully.

@Backgroundpony  
pretty sure a deus ex machina need to SAVE the Day in order to be a deus ex machina

@Backgroundpony  
That’s not a deus ex machina.

@Ihhh  
Unless the villain pulls out a doomsday device and it works.
 

@Backgroundpony  
What I meant was, I had trouble parsing your sentences due to your poor grammar. I understand your point about the two senses of the phrase, however I wish you had clarified beforehand. Also, Vree was most likely using the phrase in the modern sense, in which case his use was very erroneous. Deus ex machines, at least in the modern sense, do not apply to villains.

@Ihhh  
That you are argueing that it has no deus ex machina in the tv tropes/modern Sense
 
And I am argueing that it does have a deus ex machina in the Theater history/ Classic Sense

@Backgroundpony  
I cannot understand what you’re trying to say.

@Ihhh  
I am already for getting this bore of an antagonist.
 
Also no often it was the same God that send the Hero on his Journey. So that Power that ended the play was also known before in the Story. “You have proven your Conviction…”
 
Not much different to “Yeah Yeah We her it light them up Ladies.”

@Backgroundpony  
No. A “deud” ex machina has to come out of nowhere, and their abilities were already established. Also, who the hell is moonflower?