@Background Pony #1C38
Because hes their friend and he didn’t mean to do this
He just meant to free Sombra and allow him to brainwash an entire town, and attack the crystal empire including a baby
Then he meant for the other three to attack Twilight at her coronation likely hurting others and the mane six
But you see he was there as a safety net not for the Kingdom but for Twilight and her friends…and he helped undo one of the problems that he himself was responsible for so they’re all good
…oh right and he only undid it because his plan didn’t work out if all went according to plan no harm man nobody has to know…if you’re winning why change
She’s a very precocious child, and could therefore comprehend her own actions. Nothing in canon has implied anything to the contrary. She doesn’t think she’s doing the right thing, nor does she care, and she probably nevee would if she had another chance at life.
It’s like saying Spike is incapable of comprehending what good and evil is, just because he’s a kid. No. They’re both precocious (especially so with Cozy), and therefore possess moral agency.
To everyone saying cozy’s just a kid who didn’t deserve any of this, kids can be psychopaths too. Kid or no, she’s a threat and deserves nothing less than this. Whenever she gets out, even if its 1000 years, she can try the whole friendship thing again. She fails, back to stone she goes. Her age doesn’t excuse what she did and neither does the ‘she only needs a good role model to teach her better’. She was given a chance with some of the best role models in the land. She chose a different way, allying herself with a cadre of bad guys intent on destroying everything. She should be held responsible for her own decisions.
She completely deserves it. Shes like that one kid in school who uses science class to build a bomb. Then after building and using the bomb (becoming an illegitimate alicorn) she tries to build a nuke (trys using discord’s magic.) She absolutely does not deserve to make her own choices. She makes the worse ones.
Cozy and Tirek were originally in prison.
They were set to serve their time.
Obviously they haven’t learnt their lesson, they haven’t been in prison for too long.
They were forcibly taken out to work with Grogar.
They showed a bit of empathy during the Frenemies episode, hinting there was potential.
They no longer want to serve under Grogar. He’s too powerful. They need the bell’s power to be free of him.
They go mad with power, they obviously wasn’t reformed.
Now they’re being pointed with magic after being defeated, and they’re powerless and scared (except chryssi).
The very person who summoned them out of their already set punishment and forced them to be a team is now standing by the protagonist’s side as a hero, zapping them to stone and misery!
@orbsah
They used to what story content was made. Today, that responsibility falls to Allspark, but they are a subsidiary of Hasbro and are meant to represent Hasbro’s interests with storytelling, so I sometimes still refer to them as Hasbro.
Besides, watch any Transformers, or even the comics, EQG, and FiM’s influence with eachother. Hasbro retcons stuff left and right, or just outright ignores things.
@Background Pony #916A
I think Hasbro kinda let DHX do their own ending here. Hasbro usually retcons or forgets about anything that makes it into a show that doesn’t fit their vision of the franchise anyway.
Though yeah, that does seem a bit bad for a kids show, along with her getting oh… casually tossed into hell by Luna in the last season.
But maybe they were going with the idea that because she was a bully, kids would be happy to see it? The kind of stuff Cozy does is a serious problem in our world, and it can make kids lives a living hell.
@CottonTales
Yeah, comics Sombra, not season 9 Sombra. Plus, I thought that Sombra in Season 9 was like, a recreation, and that the OG Sombra was redeemed? Or is that just a theory to keep the comics and show in the same continuity?
Why in the world would you have a child character who is treated this way? By that I mean since this is a children’s show, children will naturally empathize with the child character even if they are bad, especially if they are surrounded by adults. I can’t see parents being okay with this, especially taken out of context. How did Hasbro okay this as an ending?
@HumanGhosts
It is still an open ending, save the epilogue.
In MLP, it is pretty clear that there is only one way to permanently stop a villain. Reformation.
Diamond Tiara, Nightmare Moon, the Changelings, Discord, Sombra, etc…
See I understood your point until you mentioned Sombra unless you’re talking the comics which arent canon in this case hes not reformed