@Background Pony #4904  
Pretty much. And yet, for some reason, he’s still one of my favourite villains in the show.
 
Also, I agree, Chrysalis really was the best part of that comic, especially that goofy face she makes in the background when the princesses are turned to stone.  

@Flufux
 
About IDW, I see your points but despite that still kinda enjoyed and I think the first half of the story was pretty good (for me because it had Chrysalis in it). But I agree that like he changed his mind in the last second, that was felt forced (especially that ponies were still attacking at him at that point)
 
For me, his portrayal felt like this.
 
Season 3: Not much characterization, practically smiling big dark cloud, vaporized without mercy.
 
IDW comics: Hey, we have this not much-used villain. He is dead anyway so do with him what you want. We are not gonna use him in the future.
 
Season 9: Fine we need some scapegoat to show that Grogar means business. Hey, what about that cloud from season 3. We can kill him. Also, we can give him a new voice, so that’s practically a new personality, right?

@Background Pony #4904  
Season 3: evil guy who wants to enslave ponies who doesn’t talk much and has a deep voice.
 
season 9: evil guy who wants to enslave ponies, but now likes to talk a lot and has a different voice.
 
IDW: a puppet for a bunch of evil shadow ponies who wants to release them because he thinks it’s his purpose in life, but is talked out of it and then suddenly becomes a good guy.
 
Given that he didn’t have much characterisation when he first appeared, his portrayal since is kinda all over the place as everyone had their own ideas of who this guys is supposed to be.

@Flufux  
So we have a kind of three different Sombra. One from S3, one from The Siege of the Crystal Empire, one from S9 premiere.

@TheSultanAkbar  
Fair enough, though you may want to check your wording in the future so people don’t assume the wrong things.
 
 
@Background Pony #75FA  
To be fair, if everything that ever happened in the show previously was considered canon to the rest of it, then Applejack was capable of levitating things. Remember this scene from Ticket Master?  

 
However, that episode was done so soon in the show’s production that it could be chalked up to Early Instalment Weirdness, and similar minor plot holes like Scootaloo mentioning Lightning Dust in one episode then acting like she’d heard of her in another was simply way too minor to be an issue.
 
However, having one of the show’s major villains be revealed to be a puppet of a bunch of mysterious shadow monsters (who were never mentioned or alluded to in the show proper) who created him for the express purpose of releasing them from their imprisonment under the Crystal Empire (which he never bothered to do in the show despite taking over the Empire no less than three times), only for him to, after a little speech from his childhood friend (who also never showed up in the show proper) later choose not to release them which suddenly turned the ‘unicorn with a heart as black as night’ who turned an entire city of innocent ponies into slaves and took pleasure in their suffering…into becoming a nice guy again and all is forgiven…except not really since in the actual show he showed up being just as evil as he was the last time we saw him in the actual show with no one acting surprised that the guy who miraculously turned good last time is now evil again…it really makes it clear that the show and the idw comics were writing two very different characters, and that, at the very least ‘The Siege of the Crystal Empire’ arc doesn’t synch up with the cartoon at all.

@Flufux  

 
can only blame yourself for reading it as much.  
Also the show itself is just as dubious for its own canon due to staff and writers not having enough time to study past episodes, it’s not just the comics, both share an equal amount of continuity flaws.

@Flufux  
…ok I never intended to sound like that.

@TheSultanAkbar  
There’s nothing wrong with your theory. I’m just pointing out that it is just a theory, and your statement made it seem as if you claimed that it was an obvious fact when it, in fact, isn’t. That’s all.

@Background Pony #75FA  
Thanks.

@Flufux  
…why should I care, lol. Show’s over anyway. There is no harm in my theory. Is there any information about show Sombra? Any background or backstory? Thought so.

@TheSultanAkbar
 

 
Yeah…except for the fact that fan theories don’t count as facts. If anything, it’s comics Sombra who’s the fake given that the IDW comics are dubious canon at best…especially when the show contradicts them.

@TheSultanAkbar  

 
I was hoping that was the one you were mentioning! And completely 100% undoubtedly agreed!

Shit. I worded that like an idiot.  
S9 Sombra is a fake, real Sombra, the one who grew up in the Empire is alive and with Hope, and all the vilains have been taken out.

@Background Pony #75FA  
S9 Sombra

@TheSultanAkbar  

 
which sombra?

HA! She got hers. And you know what? That Sombra was a fake Sombra anyway, so everyone wins!!

@Phoenixflambe  
Wow, that was terrible.

@overthemaginot  
Ok, I take my point back, you are probably right. Chrysalis would need a little bit of luck on her side to defeat Sombra. I guess in terms of raw power Sombra would manage to overpower Chrysalis since he defeated both princesses (although he caught them off guard) while Chrysalis struggled with Luna alone.
 
About Sombra in that episode, yeah I agree with you, I also get feeling that writers just didn’t know what exactly to do with Sombra so he kinda just end up as a scapegoat for boosting Twilight confidence.

And Sombra died before her imprisonment, and Radiant died of a broken heart. The End.

@Background Pony #4904  
Because the writers for that episode didn’t know what they were doing. The leaks proved that a lot of the people working on that episode hadn’t even watched the season 3 premiere - they didn’t even know what the Crystal Heart was. That’s why Sombra’s so…horrifically done wrong.
 
 
@Background Pony #4904  
Maybe, but he can just turn into a shadow and dodge just as easy. In fact, he can still use that magic-disabling thing while in his cloud form, which is quite big. All he needs to do is just turn into huge mist and trap Chrysalis in it and then disable her magic. The size of the mist means she’s unlikely to be able to dodge the attack in time, considering it’ll probably be quick for him to do that and her reaction time may not be as fast as that. But it depends if they know each other and each other’s abilities beforehand. Sombra could work out her abilities seeing as she’s obviously a changeling but would Chrysalis know his? Equestria is unlikely to share information with her after all.

@Background Pony #93A5  
What do you mean ‘nope’?

@Flufux  
Nope.

@Background Pony #4904  
That spell most likely needed to actually hit her for it to work, and at that point she’d managed to deflect his attacks before they even touched her.

@Flufux  
Oh, sure. But what about that part when he was dueling with Twilight one-on-one? It could be an instant win if he used it then, but I guess that would too effective.

@Background Pony #4904
 

 
Likely because he didn’t consider them worth the effort since he thought it’d be impossible for them to defeat him without the elements of harmony.