How did Cerberus escape Tartarus?

[ScarfaceOne 263]

Ok. So in the episode It's About Time. Cerberus manages to escape Tartarus. But how did he do it? Shouldn't he be imprisoned in Tartarus as well? If he guards the gates. Or is it just his stupidity? Will this frequently occur? And will villains similar to Tirek keep escaping Tartarus? Tartarus is supposed to be hell. So why does it have an entrance? Hell, Heaven and Earth are supposed to be seperate from each other and must not merge. And if Cerberus and Tirek came from Hell. Does that mean Tirek was already dead(Unless he is satan?) And that Cerberus is also already dead?

[ChangelingPhilosophy 45]

Cerberus was guarding it, but I think it just got curious or something. And do remember, it's a kid's show. Tartarus has an entrance so that souls and demons and such can enter, and Cerberus was guarding the way out, since not all punishments are eternal. Tartarus is not hell, though many people think it is. Tartarus is from another set of mythology, (I can't remember which) and is meant as a jail, not a resting place a souls. Celestia explained that Tirek escaped when Cerberus left the gates. Tirek could have tricked Cerberus into going someplace else, so he could began his plans for domination. Greek mythology has Cerberus as Hades pet-guardian. One theory is hat MLP has a completely other set of mythology of its own.

[ScarfaceOne 263]

Cerberus was guarding it, but I think it just got curious or something. And do remember, it's a kid's show. Tartarus has an entrance so that souls and demons and such can enter, and Cerberus was guarding the way out, since not all punishments are eternal. Tartarus is not hell, though many people think it is. Tartarus is from another set of mythology, (I can't remember which) and is meant as a jail, not a resting place a souls. Celestia explained that Tirek escaped when Cerberus left the gates. Tirek could have tricked Cerberus into going someplace else, so he could began his plans for domination. Greek mythology has Cerberus as Hades pet-guardian. One theory is hat MLP has a completely other set of mythology of its own.

 

So you mean the greek believe that people who die resurrect? Wierd. And your saying it cannot be hell because it is a kids show? Did Tirek really trick Cerberus? Or did cerberus just wander out by accident?

[M'aiq the Liar 5,804]

Well, he was the chosen guardian of Tartarus. So he was either tricked to leave by a villain yet unseen (as Tirek gave no mention to if he did it, and being a braggart and standard children's show villain I'm certain he would have if he did) or wandered off for unknown reasons. Since he is the guard, he may have the ability to leave at will as his guard function could include tracking down escapees from hell (as he is a "dog" ). So personally, I believe that someone escaped from hell, and Cerberus being the guard went after him/her, allowing others to escape in his absence. 

 

 

 

Or he just got bored.

[IceeBrony 251]

Maybe he just wanted to see Fluttershy

[ChangelingPhilosophy 45]

So you mean the greek believe that people who die resurrect? Wierd. And your saying it cannot be hell because it is a kids show? Did Tirek really trick Cerberus? Or did cerberus just wander out by accident?

I never said people who die resurrect in Greek mythology. And I'm not saying there's no hell because it's a kids show.

 

Souls, monsters, and other things that have done bad things worthy of punishment (not saying all monsters go to Tartarus). And the reason I mentioned that it was a kids show because most of the time a little girl isn't going to care about wether or not why Cerberus did something.

[Snow Frostflame 3,568]

does't Cerberus guard Tartus I don't think he is a prisoner so I think he leaves when ever he desires that or maybe Hasbro knew this would make a good plot two seasons later

[truth is life 76]

So you mean the greek believe that people who die resurrect? Wierd.

Well, sometimes, Greek religion was quite diverse. Certain particularly important or famous heroes were sometimes said to be resurrected and made physically immortal, but it wasn't common or considered a typical outcome. It wasn't really until Christianity came around, with its doctrine of bodily resurrection at the Day of Judgement, that the idea of true resurrection was very common.

 

More often (though still not 100% of the time), life after death was viewed to end in some kind of reincarnation, for example in the myth of Er at the end of Plato's Republic. It has the dead souls of heroes choosing to become animals, animals choosing to become humans, and so on, then drinking of the river of forgetfulness, Lethe, to forget past lives. It's not clear whether he actually believed this, however. Other philosophical schools like the very influential Pythagoreans definitely did, so it was a fairly important belief for a decent subset of Greeks for quite a long while.

[Celli 4,343]

Maybe he saw a ball and decided to chase it

[Malinter 3,064]

easy, he just walked out the gate.

[Sunny Fox 5,952]

Ok. So in the episode It's About Time. Cerberus manages to escape Tartarus. But how did he do it? Shouldn't he be imprisoned in Tartarus as well? If he guards the gates. Or is it just his stupidity? Will this frequently occur? And will villains similar to Tirek keep escaping Tartarus? Tartarus is supposed to be hell. So why does it have an entrance? Hell, Heaven and Earth are supposed to be seperate from each other and must not merge. And if Cerberus and Tirek came from Hell. Does that mean Tirek was already dead(Unless he is satan?) And that Cerberus is also already dead?

Does being the Warden of a prison mean you're locked in with the inmates? Nope. He guards Tartarus, he is not imprisoned in it. Also, the Greek underworld is not the equivalent of hell.

[Justin_Case001 4,908]

He saw Kratos coming and ran for his life.

[Princess Periwinkle 3,775]

Because Equestria is a crazy world full of super evil villains and illogical leadership. I'm pretty sure no one really knows what's going on half the time, including the princesses. This is evidenced by the fact that Twilight & co end up having to do everything themselves. So it stands to reason that Cerberus meandered away from Tartarus, because one was paying attention as usual.

[Bella_Faus 35]

He probably just decided to leave. 

[ScarfaceOne 263]

I've just realized Tartarus is actually a man-made prison. Because Tirek was banished there by Government. Therefore. It is a large, man-made, weakly guarded prison. With only a 3 headed dog as a prison warden. I have not seen staff in there.

[Solid 1,327]

This is something we call plot requirement :3

[ScarfaceOne 263]

I Think that if the even the princesses don't know what's going on(Apart from the ''lost dog poster'') Than that means that the prison is very weakly guarded. So she should send hundreds of guards to be wardens. Discord being chief. And many other monsters being wardens. One Cerberus is not enough.

[Sunny Fox 5,952]

How long has Tartarus been in existence? It's never really been mentioned but it's a good bet that it's over a thousand years. And in all that time, we know of only one time Cerberus has left his post, and we know of only one prisoner escaping. That's a pretty good record for any prison to be able to boast, if you ask me.

[Shenron00 366]

It's more like a dimensional prison than actual Hell. How did he escape? Through the power of

[ShadowPirateX 600]

He just left.

Like JonTron.

[Courageous Thunder Dash 7,824]

Maybe there was an imbalance of some sort, which caused a rip in the dimensions, thus freeing Cerberus. 

[Luna 831 466]

He left and got curious and took off.

[StitchandMLPlover 930]

The creatures in Tartarus are prisoners. They are not dead. Tartarus is bad but it is definitely not a hell in the damned souls sense. Cerberus probably got distracted or someone forgot to feed him so he wondered off, or Tirek lured him away as some people have suggested. I think the princesses are aware but they did extra help which may be why they made Cadence and Twilight into alicorns. Maybe Equestria has grown over time and 2 alicorns are not enough to run the place. Or their cabinet advisers are lazy LOL. The most likely reason is plot requirements so the mane 6 and Twilight are always front and center. I know why writers do this with TV shows so they don't run out of ideas but I don't like that it removes realism and creates weird plot holes. 

[ScarfaceOne 263]

Maybe there was an imbalance of some sort, which caused a rip in the dimensions, thus freeing Cerberus. 

 

No. Cerberus is not another Dimension. It must be a prison of some sort with an entrance.

[Darker 1,352]

Probably Tirek tricked him into escape.

I dunno, because Tirek could have done it sooner.