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Here is one of my captioned images of the screencaps for both Queen Opaline and Emperor Grogar (yes, I call him Emperor Grogar because he was mentioned in Season 9 to be “Emperor of All He Saw!”). Who do you all think would be a great final baddie for Sunny and her friends to face down in G5? Would it be the new villain Queen Opaline, who is responsible for the events that lead up to G5? Or would it be a bigger bad Grogar, who is responsible for the events that lead up to G4!? LOL! Both are promising! But I think they should bring back the real Grogar (and not a fake one this time)! That would’ve been cool! :) I love the character of Grogar, but I really hate how he was utilized in G4. I just hope the real deal will reappear in G5. Maybe Opaline summons him and they temporarily team up!? Who knows! LOL! Maybe both of them should be final endgame villains, like Azula and Ozai were in Avatar: The Last Airbender! But what do you all think!? Leave your comments down below!
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Aelvir

@Starless
Except there is no evidence to suggest any of that. And if that was the case then Luna would’ve instead said instead of it being beyond her understanding she would’ve said “where she and Celestia come from was only where such a thing was possible” or something to that effect.
And also if there was an ancient Alicorn race that ponies would be born as, that doesn’t make sense considering before Celestia and Luna unicorns raised the sun & moon, why weren’t natural born Alicorns there?
Also do keep in mind that using Equestria as a specific region has never been consistent. Originally it was used to refer to the whole world but also as the name of Celestia’s kingdom, so when someone says “this has never been seen before in Equestria before”, that can either mean the whole world or just her kingdom. But it likely was intended to mean the former for dramatic effect.
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@Aelvir
It’s beyond their understanding that an Equestrian pony would be born an Alicorn, but Celestia and Luna likely weren’t from Equestria and could possibly be from a different race entirely. There could have been another alicorn race which Celestia and Luna came from (a race that likely disappeared long before FiM) and didn’t expect that two ponies not from the ancient alicorn race could have given birth to a natural born alicorn. Regardless, it was never confirmed that Celestia and Luna weren’t born alicorns.
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Aelvir

@Starless
Rewatch The Crystalling. Celestia and Luna themselves say that not just that the birth of an Alicorn is something Equestria has never seen, but Luna states, and I quote “It is beyond even our understanding.” How would it be beyond their understanding if they were born Alicorns. That makes no sense. If they were born Alicorns, Luna would never have said an Alicorn birth is beyond her understanding. The only hint they would have been born outside of Equestria is G5’s mention of Skyros, which doesn’t have any basis from G4 whatsoever and is canonically dubious.
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the C&L were not born as Alicorns.
It’s only been said that nopony except Flurry Heart was born an Alicorn in Equestria. Nothing confirms Celestia and Luna weren’t born Alicorns or were from Equestria.
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Aelvir

@Starless
Probably because so many people don’t pay attention in the episodes. People to this day still forget that unicorns raised the sun & moon before C&L and the C&L were not born as Alicorns.
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@Background Pony #DEB7
Yeah I don’t remember anyone suspecting that Grogar and Discord were the same, just that he wasn’t going to be the final villain. Season 9 would have been better if either the real Grogar was the final villain or if Grogar didn’t appear at all.
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Aelvir

@Starless
Really? Only in retrospect? The first 2 episodes of Season 9 literally have Discord literally fake an injury and friendship speech to boost Twilight’s confidence and gets offended when it didn’t work (Also Grogar states his goal is to get rid of Twilight Sparkle. Twilight never met Grogar, let alone seen him, so that’s already suspicious). That’s already more than enough reason to be suspicious of discord. We knew Discord isn’t the type of person to move on from it (Even if he acts like it). The previous season literally had Discord hold a grudge because he wasn’t invited to the school and terrorized it, even when his body was banished by Starlight. The S9E17 has Discord clearly acting stranger than usual.
There was enough of hinting that Discord was behind it considering the first 2 episodes literally point to Discord wanting Twilight to be more confident in herself. But I’ve also noticed that a lot of viewers of the show tend to not pay attention (such as theorizing how the sun & moon were raised before C&L despite that being answered in the beginning of the play in the first Hearth’s Warming episode) and give the impression that information need to be outright stated to them in the show instead of something more subtle or context clues.
And if we’re going to talk about worse plot twist in history? I wouldn’t say worst in history but probably the worst (imo) for MLP was the cutie mark reveal for the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Retconned all three of their talents out of nowhere with the excuse that their talents are all the same: helping people find their cutie marks. There was no build-up to it and it came absolutely out of nowhere. Meanwhile their actual talents never show up again. While Sweetie Belle does still sing, it’s only in unison with Apple Bloom and Scootaloo. Scootaloo doesn’t show off her talent on her scooter, she just mostly rides it normally now. And Apple Bloom’s talent had been dropped way before that (Made in Manehatten was a missed opportunity to revisit it). It almost entirely removes their individuality because of that, and until that point the only ponies that share the same cutie marks are siblings like Flim & Flam. They’re not related to each other so that cop-out made no sense. While helping people find their cutie mark is a viable talent to their characters, the issue is that it’s not a talent that makes up who they are as a person.
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@Starless
Maybe him being Discord wasn’t obvious But it was that He was not going to be the final villain. Especially when we got to frenemies.
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Worst plot twist in history? It was so obvious since S8 if anyone bothered paying attention to discord, it was quite clear he was up to something.
Only in retrospect. It wasn’t obvious back when season 9 first aired.
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Aelvir

Grogar would’ve never had a point in either series. Grogar was mainly just a G1 nod and he was obviously just Discord in disguise because Grogar has never had any beef with Twilight and probably isn’t even aware of her existence. G5 would be even less. Would be no less than a twist villain coming out of nowhere with no clever buildup.
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Aelvir

@Starless
Worst plot twist in history? It was so obvious since S8 if anyone bothered paying attention to discord, it was quite clear he was up to something. That plot twist didn’t ruin anything and season 9 was fine except for the final episode which was clearly rushed. Season 9 still gave us Sparkle’s Seven, Between Dark and Dawn, and The Last Laugh. People overexaggerate how bad Season 9 is. While it was not the strongest season, I’d argue Season 1 was just as weak (looking at you Ticket Master)
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@Background Pony #E71A
Honestly if Grogar does return as the final boss of G5 then I’ll forgive Hasbro for ruining season 9 and G4 as a whole with the worst plot twist in history. I don’t care anymore but it would be nice to see an awful company redeem themselves (well, sort of).
That’s what we’re all hoping for since Grogar’s bell was seen in the G5 movie.
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@Background Pony #E71A
Honestly if Grogar does return as the final boss of G5 then I’ll forgive Hasbro for ruining season 9 and G4 as a whole with the worst plot twist in history. I don’t care anymore but it would be nice to see an awful company redeem themselves (well, sort of).
Background Pony #E71A
@fimsp92
Yeah I don’t like how so many villains are just easily forgiven after everything they’ve done. They should tell kids that some villains are so evil and have committed crimes so horrible that they don’t deserve a chance at redemption (including Cozy Glow), or at least say that some villains are beyond redemption and will never accept friendship no matter what (also Cozy Glow).
Grogar will never get a redemption, he would most likely rather die than be forgiven and a “good” sheep. The S10 of G4 may have given him the same place as the god of evil, Hanbi in Mesopotamia, whose crimes and evil were so great, that believers of the god mythology did not mention his name and tremble at his presence. According to wiki, Hanbi was part of the Akkadian theology - which was part of the background for the development of the religious belief in Judaism and Christianity. If this interpretation is valid, it means that Grogar as the lord of fear and terror is so evil, that there is no hope for the “emperor who rules all he sees”.
So Grogar will get an endgame at the end of G5 with no way to return should he show up. And maybe only an entire world’s combined magic of friendship, hope, and love through Sunny (and the entire Ponykind of past, present, and future) can defeat and wipe him out forever. Grogar will go out with a bang that will reverberate throughout the MLP Ponyverse.
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@fimsp92
Yeah I don’t like how so many villains are just easily forgiven after everything they’ve done. They should tell kids that some villains are so evil and have committed crimes so horrible that they don’t deserve a chance at redemption (including Cozy Glow), or at least say that some villains are beyond redemption and will never accept friendship no matter what (also Cozy Glow).
Background Pony #2F82
@Background Pony #2F82
I don’t think Grogar’s bell fell into the ocean. Sunny’s lighthouse fell away from the ocean and landed on the ground, so Grogar’s Bell is clearly still there and not in the ocean. Maybe Sunny put it away again somewhere after the lighthouse got rebuilt?
Yes, the lighthouse fell away from the ocean. Otherwise, Sunny and Izzy would both be swimming in the ocean by then.
Since the bell clearly never fell into the ocean at the end of the G5 movie then there’s still a chance that Grogar will return again in G5 later.
Do not know. But the impact was so violent that the lighthouse almost fell apart, and most of the interior has not been seen since then. It is possible that Grogar’s bell may have been stored away, but for the sake of drama it may end up in the sea if the G5 writers twist it.
There is an imperceptible, very vague hint that Argyle’s death, which has not been explained until now, can be linked to the bell. Maybe Argyle fell ill with an unexplained illness because he might have been on the verge of discovering something important.
And we don’t know what Hologram-Twilight thinks what Opaline risks letting out if she were to open something unidentified, but it can be seen that she was more afraid of this than of Opaline taking all the magic. What is so much more dangerous than an evil alicorn who wants to take control of all magic and make herself the ruler of the Ponykind?
And the monsters from G4 are completely gone, where have they gone? If Grogar is there, they cannot be gone - he is the father of the monsters and their ruler. It is as if they were banished and sealed away. Could it be what Twilight had done when she had all the magic as she was supposed to shut down all the magic, banish all monsters including Grogar to an unknown location that Opaline could risk opening? And from what Hologram-Twilight said, it doesn’t look like Opaline could be privy to what’s behind the door.
We can then hope that when the last episode in C4 ends so the first season ends, we will find out if Grogar is The Big Bad of the G5. From S10 in G4 (IDW) there are indications that he has the same role as the evil god of the Sumerian civilization in Mesopotamia, Hanbi - the ruler of evil, the leader of evil forces, the controller of chaos and the creator of monsters. One of the few TRUE evil gods in human mythology of gods from around the world. Even the Devil is not in the same league.
Background Pony #4F92
@Background Pony #2F82
I just noticed that the newly rebuilt Lighthouse has a basement full of moving boxes. Maybe Sunny just moved Grogar’s bell into one of those boxes? It’s possible that may be where the bell went after the G5 movie ended.
Watch the ep. where Misty comers Sparky to get his dragon fire and you’ll notice many moving boxes in the basement where they were. The bell may be stored away into one of those boxes.
Background Pony #4F92
@Background Pony #2F82
I don’t think Grogar’s bell fell into the ocean. Sunny’s lighthouse fell away from the ocean and landed on the ground, so Grogar’s Bell is clearly still there and not in the ocean. Maybe Sunny put it away again somewhere after the lighthouse got rebuilt?
Yes, the lighthouse fell away from the ocean. Otherwise, Sunny and Izzy would both be swimming in the ocean by then.
Since the bell clearly never fell into the ocean at the end of the G5 movie then there’s still a chance that Grogar will return again in G5 later.