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Anonymous
#455455
10 months ago
Awesome!
Bananagher-Links
#455460
10 months ago
Pretty much, my reaction.
WesternBirds
#455461
10 months ago
Yep. I don't need no grimdark brooding villains in my children's show about cartoon ponies thanks.
Anonymous
#455462
10 months ago
This makes me RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEGGGGG.
Cgeta
#455469
10 months ago
I want Pinkie to be a villain too for once so baaaaaaaaaad!
c4tspajamas
#455472
10 months ago
Discord VS Skywind's daddy? I'll take the Chimera plz
Anonymous
#455473
10 months ago
WesternBirds: I think people forget too often that nothing in My Little Pony is serious and the show is really goofy.

And by people, i mean the type that think you can make a grimdark Fallout story in Equestria and have it be anything other than laughable.

Discord seems like a delight.
d715
#455489
10 months ago
^ This, also those people cealry never played Fallout 2
CrayonPonies
#455491
10 months ago
Discord is actually adorable...
d715
#455502
10 months ago
^ This, also those people cleary never played Fallout 2
Bananagher-Links
#455503
10 months ago
@anon3 actually, it could have some stuff a bit grimdark.
Think about it,
Nightmare Moon wasn't a joke character...
nyxabuse
#455518
10 months ago
Guys, Discord could still be pretty dark. They could give him massive mood swings, between goofy and JESUS CHRIST terrifying.

Think about living by the whims of a mad god.
Anonymous
#455536
10 months ago
Bananagher: The worst thing NMM did (aside from the eternal night thing, which clearly would end life in equestria, except it's a kids show so they cant say "killed all ponies") was make a rock fall, cut off a moustache, and then make trees look scary.

not to mention kidnapping a princess, but i don't think Bowser is really all that serious of a character, now is he?
Tacoworld501
#455541
10 months ago
1st Discord: Actual Villain
Official Discord: Somebody who probably got punished for just being annoying
Drax99
#455546
10 months ago
Lol, from what i saw, everyone hated him, and called him stupid, till they found out it was Q, now everyone loved Discord.
Anonymous
#455551
10 months ago
MY REACTION :D
Anonymous
#455553
10 months ago
also Nightmare Moon wasn't grimdark. Nightmare Moon was just an archetypal villain. "I'm evil because REVENGE!"

Grimdark is some Warhammer 40k shit, except Warhammer 40k's story is ALREADY really silly without adding a bunch of colorful magic ponies who are designed to be adorable.

Discord, on the other hand, we don't know much about. But can i make an educated guess?

Discord may have evil intent, but most of what he does is "i'm evil because evil is fun."

And that's fine. Part of what i like about the character already is he just takes such delight in being a jerk.

He doesn't need a brooding backstory, or to wallow in self-pity, he just needs to fuck around, get beaten, and say "CURSE YOU ELEMENTS OF HARMONY!"

hell, if the show really wanted to make him more interesting, he wouldn't even curse the elements.

But that won't stop fanfic writers from making him out to either be tragic or the ultimate double-satan, i bet.
Anonymous
#455555
10 months ago
I'm reserving my judgement on Discord until after the pilot. I expected him to be... a little more serious. Not grimdark FO:E or Antipodes serious, but just.. not a total goof.
Cgeta
#455565
10 months ago
I expect that he is silly, but still very intelligent.
Like as if he does not have a serious life and is just playing.
But he surely has deeper motifs.
Bananagher-Links
#455566
10 months ago
@Drax99 I never watched Star Trek so I didn't know about Q, but I like this kind of villains who are actually make fun of you.
I don't know how much people really knew anything about Q...
DragonRage
#455577
10 months ago
If it weren't for those two fan pictures of Chimera!Discord that were made before the leak, this would probably be how I felt.

I mean, has anyone saw that one fanpic of Severus Snap from Harry Potter? The one with Canon!Snape on the left, ugly and disfigured and what not, and Fanon!Snape on the right as a ridiculously bishonenesque man with rippling muscles and leather pants?

That's what this reminds me of. Stallion!Discord is Fanon!Snape and Chimera!Discord is Canon!Snape.
Anonymous
#455578
10 months ago
Discord = MLP version of Q.

He's a plot device meant for the characters to rediscover the gist of their friendship.
Kein
#455587
10 months ago
Thank god we have official troll now!
I hope it will drag attention from the Princess and we will get more "normal" art with her.

Also, @Bananagher-Links
Q is the essence of bored, omnipotent mega-troll.
Anonymous
#455597
10 months ago
Cgeta: I'm sure he has some plan. Maybe--i dunno, i'm just spitballing--but maybe he likes causing chaos because of some sort of naturalistic cause: entropy is the way it was before Celestia/Luna, and that's the "natural" way.

But most of the time? He's probably just doing things because being a total douchebag is awesome.

And that's ok with me, because it makes for an entertaining, funny villain. Does he need to also be menacing? I dunno, it's fucking My Little Pony, so probably not.

And if you're stuck on the fact that villains, or characters in general, must be serious to have strong characters, consider this:

what can we gather from the one minute we've seen of Discord? Quite a bit, actually:

-He's utterly confident in his own ability. You can tell by his playful tone that he does not consider the ponies a threat to his plans.

-However, he is still careful enough to not let contingency get in the way, hence why he takes away the ponies advantages in his game.

-He is not against giving his opponents a chance--or rather, he prefers to have some challenge rather than going unopposed. That is why they have the game in the first place. He takes delight in not only succeeding, but succeeding over (even the smallest) odds.

That's all speculation, but look what we can do with only one minute of screen time? Not a bad character already, is he?

Hope i can convert some hayters to lovers, because i think discord is awesome already.
WesternBirds
#455608
10 months ago
@ 553 And people look at NMM's backstory as some deep tragic tale when really it's just a moral lesson for children to not be jealous of others' talents. That's really all it comes down to Luna got jealous of her sister's sun power, bad things happened to her. I suspect Discord will have similar motifs / meanings behind his actions as well theres' always a lesson to be learned in these kind of shows.
nyxabuse
#455609
10 months ago
>hayters
Marry me.
Anonymous
#455690
10 months ago
Why so serious, ponies?
Anonymous
#455782
10 months ago
Switch the 1st and 3rd panels, and you have the right thing.
TBTabby
#455794
10 months ago
Anyone who wants to know how a villain like this can be scary should read "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow," in which Mxyzptlk demonstrates what would happen if he decided to become a serious villain. It ain't pretty.
Captain_Carnation
#455865
10 months ago
^ Alan Moore is a hell of a writer.
PonyRIG
#455885
10 months ago
@TBTabby:...or play Final Fantasy 6.
Anonymous
#455936
10 months ago
I am glad he's not a handsome brooding bad boy stallion
Dark_Horst
#455956
10 months ago
what is this about discord and q i'm hearing? could someone clarify?
tygerbug
#455973
10 months ago
Correct. When you are about Discord, it is Q you're hearing.
Dark_Horst
#455988
10 months ago
also, where do i find this mysterious spoiler clip?
Anonymous
#455994
10 months ago
His voice is done by the guy who plays/played(I haven't watched anything Star Trek related in years) Q on Star Trek TNG.
Zincy
#455998
10 months ago
I love discord! The "Crazy mad-god who does whatever the fuck he wants" is one of my favorite villain and anti-hero characters. And the fact that he is pretty much Q in Equestria makes i all the better! People act like a villain needs to be dark to be effective...I refer you to characters like Kefka, Sheogorath, The Master (from the 10th doctors run), The Joker, the list goes on.

A villain with infinite powers and the mindset of an internet troll terrifies me. Heres a creature that embodies raw chaos, cant be reasoned with or coerced, and has no real motivation outside of "For the evilz". Throw in some violent mood swings and creepy laughing and you have yourself a good villain.
Anonymous
#455999
10 months ago
I've been ninja'd.
Dark_Horst
#456058
10 months ago
so i found the clip. in case anyone else is living under my rock:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIxCOjFx2XE&feature=related
i watched start rek back in the day, and boy, this guy is Q through and through. the voice, the attitude, the abilities, THE FLASHES!
they built something marvellous here.
Drasvin
#456168
10 months ago
@Zincy Well we've seen the creepy, evil laugh.
Anonymous
#456584
10 months ago
He's the anthropomorphic personification of the genuinely sadistic fringe-elements of the fandom, gleefully fucking with Equestria and ponies for teh lulz.

...I honestly couldn't think of a more twisted villain if I tried.
Anonymous
#456665
10 months ago
Heh, when I made this I wasn't expecting it to get onto ponibooru, or to spark this much discussion.

Mission Accomplished!
Kein
#456825
10 months ago
I "fixed" it a bit, in your version there was almost impossible to see alicorn OC >_>
Private_Derpy
#456968
10 months ago
My reaction was the opposite at first. But after watching him in action, Discord has grown on me.
And the season hasn't even premiered yet. O_o
Anonymous
#459285
10 months ago
The funniest part about this is how I have so much more trouble taking the grimpurpleprettyboy seriously than the Kefkaesquechimerainsanelookingmonster >.>
Anonymous
#460013
10 months ago
@Kein Ah, I see, thank you for that then :D
Takashi_0
#624493
8 months ago
EVERYBODY'S SO MAD