“You’re out of your league, Luster…I know every trick Twilight and her friends knew at their peak.”

@Background Pony #7471  
I always really liked Batman Beyond. I think I even like it better than the original Batman animated series :D

Batman beyond is my childhood, had great villians like ink and the joker plus many more. Batman beyond and batman animated series are the best batman series ever in my book, cozyglow reminds me of baby doll

@Ohvist  
Interesting indeed.
 
Got more stuff? Like for Luna or Spike as well? :0

@nightshroud96  
I feel that season 9 should have been seen as the culmination of not only Twilight’s journey, but also as a way to try closing out every single mistake and problem that was directly or indirectly caused by Celestia throughout the series, building upon this with the villains would be Cozy Glow managing to help instill an alternative direction of Friendship with Tirek and Chrysalis by helping them confront aspects of their own past and traumatic experiences caused by former friends and loved ones.  
One of the more interesting plot threads here would be the how and why Chrysalis came to power and why she felt the need to attack Canterlot and her hatred for Starlight Glimmer above all others: in her mind, when Starlight stole her hive from her, it basically served as a death sentence to both her Chosen Beloved and to their Nymph whom she had fought a bloody civil war within her hive to ensure that her child would have a future. It would be seen as a tragedy in multiple parts that Chrysalis’ attitude is used as a mask for her inner turmoil, and her wanting to kill Starlight Glimmer is to avenge the deaths of her lover and her daughter… a lover who it turns out is still alive, and a daughter who wasn’t aware of her relationship with Chrysalis entirely and is pained by nightmares of becoming like the vile Queen Chrysalis. I would have liked to see a moment where Chrysalis ends up attacking The Student Six and manages to beat them only for Ocellus to gather enough courage to stand against the Queen, only to be defeated as well, just before Chrysalis would inevitably deliver the killing blow to the nymph, the queen would hear Ocellus’ name and freeze up in horror at herself: that she was actually fighting against and close to killing her own Daughter whom served as the driving force behind Chrysalis’ actions throughout the entire series: to provide a future where she could be fed (Canterlot Wedding), to avenge her death caused by Starlight Glimmer (To Where and Back Again), to why her Chosen Beloved Pharynx didn’t want to Change (To Change a Changeling) and why both he and Thorax were close to attempting war against the other nations over Ocellus being missing (School Daze). The evolving dynamic that would play out between Chrysalis, Ocellus, Pharynx, and Thorax would itself serve as an interesting parallel to another set of characters storyline that would also unfold.  
Said storyline would stem from Twilight Sparkle and several others wondering exactly who Cozy Glow actually was, to try and find out more information behind what was motivating her after finding out from Luna that Celestia had sentenced the filly to Tartarus and didn’t give a particular reaon behind why when it was too severe of a punishment to inflict upon a powerless filly with no magic of her own. Luna would then say that she trusts Celestia to make the right decisions for the safety of Equestria; but even Luna herself felt wary behind saying this when she recalls how many times Equestria had fallen and suffered because of Celestias’ rash decisions and multiple failures that resulted in all of Twilights’ victories. Luna pursues an elusive paper trail to try and piece together who exactly Cozy Glow is, and along the way she runs across Pharynx who is attempting the same thing. After the fight that happened between Ocellus and Chrysalis, Pharynx managed to find and approach his Beloved, to try and open her heart so that way they could become a family again like they once planned to be so long ago; that Chrysalis is nothing at all like her predecessor who had ordered for Chrysalis to kill her newborn child for the good of the Hive, only for Chrysalis to kill her mother in order to give Ocellus a future. This would serve as a way to help validate the tragic villain theories behind Chrysalis’ actions in attacking Canterlot to help feed her subjects and that there was no other way for her to approach peacefully since the majority of the Hive didn’t really trust her that much after the death of the Queen. Pharynx would ask for Chrysalis to come back with them, that Ocellus needs her mother; to understand the stark difference there is between the Changeling Queen that she fears becoming, and the mother that fought tooth and nail against all odds because of her love for her child. However we are hit with the Tragic Monster angle in that Celestia would never be able to forgive Chrysalis no matter what she does, and that she wouldn’t put it past Celestia to simply use Ocellus as an outlet to vent the frustrations she has for the Queen, posing to Pharynx a simple question: “If a filly can get thrown into Tartarus for simply trying to take away Magic, what chance is there for our family who did far worse to her?” before flying away. Pharynx would now find himself asking a similar question, who exactly is Cozy Glow to deserve being hidden away so deeply without any information on who she actually is.  
In other ways, we are soon treated to more questions than answers presented to us as we see Photo Finish helping Spike develop photos that he had taken, having already taken quite a few pictures over the years, Photo Finish soon seesan interesting one that she has never seen before: instead of the normal Ponyville statue, she was seeing what could be best described as a Pegasus Filly wielding a sword and shield in a dilapidated and run-down Ponyville: a Ponyville that Spike and Twilight had both visited briefly in The Cutie Re-Mark. But what stood out the more and more Spike looked at this statue that he forgot taking a picture of: was that the Filly almost matched the appearance of Cozy Glow.  
Taking the Photographs to be digitally-enhanced in the Human World, we find out that the nameplate on the statue is indeed that of Cozy Glow: an alternate Cozy Glow who ended up dying in battle against King Sombra years ago and was mourned by that timelines’ Princess Celestia. The story deepens further and further with more and more pieces being added to the puzzle such as the inclusion of two more Alicorns fillies that attack Twilight, and Twilight Sparkle is unable to even land a single blow against them with her magic as it is shown that these are Alicorns who have mastered a set of Alicorn abilities and techniques that Celestia never bothered to teach Twilight even after her Ascension…

I was hoping to see cozyglow vs flurryheart, we barely got any flurryheart episodes we don’t know what flurryheart is the princess of

@Background Pony #460F  
Not sure exactly.
 
Would be interesting on what if Luna has to deal with NMM from within and the conflicts that come with it.

@nightshroud96  
I wonder how nightmare moon would get along with chrysalis tirek cozyglow and sombra

@Background Pony #460F  
Its really a waste that Nightmare Moon(the first antagonist the girls fought) didn’t properly appear in season 9.  
Just only in that fear-induced hallicination from Sombra’s spell and that’s it.

@nightshroud96  
We got some comics about that i wished nightmare came back in season 9, i wished alot more villians could of came back in season 9

@Background Pony #460F  
I wished they had an episode touching more on Nightmare Moon and Luna’s potential with her connection to darkness and such.  
(Iirc Faust wanted to touch on the concepts of darkness with Luna but wasn’t able to much I think)

@nightshroud96  
I was sad that they didn’t get a lot of episodes all about them and a episode where they were fillies, we some comics where celestia and luna were kids

@Background Pony #460F  
I’m hoping the season 10 comics would do the Royal Sisters much better justice  
Since honestly I feel like they got a pretty bad sendoff in the finale..

@nightshroud96  
I hope so too, and seeing how season 10 will be about twilight sending her friends to new lands so i think season 10 will introduce new creatures we seen in past comics but properly.. And i hope the villain in season 10 comics will be ok

@Background Pony #460F  
Hopefully the season 10 comics only follow the show and whatever elements from the comics they should just “reintroduce” them. Like with the Deers, they get a different debut.

@nightshroud96  
I believe some of the idw comics are canon and some are not, in ledgends of magic we see possibly 20+ mirrors the lead to different universes

@Background Pony #460F  
I am seriously hoping they retcon that arc to oblivion.  
It messed up the sisters’ significance in finding the Elements to beat Discord and practically made whats most likely their first achievement turn out to been basically a lie in a way. Due to that change in Discord’s backstory
 
And that’s just the tip of the iceburge on how I feel about that arc.

@nightshroud96  
According to the cosmos arc idw comics cosmos used her chaos magic to turn a herb garden into the everfree Forest…but again certain idw comics take place in different universes

@Background Pony #460F  
I think I remember hearing somewhere that Celestia chose to move the capital to Canterlot was due to the Everfree forest went out of control after Nightmare Moon happened.
 
Speaking of season 10, I am hoping it handles the Royal Sisters better.  
Since how they(especially Luna) was handled in the finale left me.. pretty bitter inside.

@nightshroud96  
I hope in season 10 or in ponylife we get some new info on the castle of the two sisters… In the comics we got some info on the pony of shadows

@Background Pony #6080  
Like how there was a story about the Pony of Shadows being remnants of Nightmare Moon’s dark magic after Celestia’s battle with her.  
Instead of touching on that, we got the season 7 finale’s depiction of the Pony of Shadows.
 
Honestly wished they touched more on the POS from the story in Castle Mania.

@nightshroud96  
Yeah, there’s a lot of things in the earlier seasons that had a lot of potential, but never got much or any explanation or exploration.

cool

@Background Pony #7471  
If the writers explored more on what Luna’s dark powers/Nightmare Moon is capable of, I can see NMM might be able to put her enemies to asleep for said fears to happen.  
Or use her misty mane stuff to manifest her enemy’s worst fears like how she made the Shadowbolts.

@Dirty Bit  
“Your renewed faith puts a smile in my heart. What day we forget tonight’s mishap and start over?”