How would you feel about a Pegasus or Earth pony villain?

[Carl Poppa 464]

A pegasus villain could easily use their power over the weather to force Equestria into submission to them. I don't know why no one else has mentioned that yet. I really think it would be an interesting thing to see.

[ManaMinori 4,145]

Yeah, like Nightmare muffin posted, unless they do some SERIOUS justification for the earth pony or pegasi's abilities, it'll really seem hard to swallow for alot of fans for the pony in question to have magical abilities even on par with starlight glimmer, and for all her power she's still not really on par with threats like Nightmare moon/Discord/tirek (She had to use the table as a power source for her spell after all).

 

I mean, we have no precedent of any earth ponies possessing any truly threatening magic, with the most we've seen being maud and pinkie punching boulders. which is cool, but its not like they're the incredible hulk and able to tank magical blasts with invulnerability.

The highest level pegasi abilities we've seen, on the other hand, are Zapp from power ponies, which is more believable, but explicitly a comic book character with an artifact (her necklace) to give her her powers.

now, it could work though if they did something like having them be some sort of ancient master of their race who was sealed in time stasis or something and explaining that the ponies in the past had greater magic than those of the present like alot of fantasies use. But past that, you'd generally have to give them an artifact if you want them to be more than a nuisance to somepony like Twilight.

you know, I actually wouldn't mind that, now that you mention ancient races. I would definitely like to see something like an ancient earth or pegasus pony race (long tails, furry hooves) get unfrozen frozen from the arctic near thd Empire, when Equestian global warming strikes, for whatever reason, and just start wrecking stuff with its ancient earth or pegasus powers

[cider float 2,538]

I can definitely see how an earth pony can become a good villain and it would be awesome.

[Unlikeable Pony 2,698]

You know, one thing that could always be used would be having an earth pony with magitek armor or something of that kind. If Human twilight can apparently build a contraption to steal the ELEMENTS OF HARMONY themselves, surely a pony could make armor designed to ignore magic or whatnot.

 

Were it not for starlight having already used that schtick, an equalist type pony that wanted to steal unicorn magic for that reason would have also been good.

 

 

you know, I actually wouldn't mind that, now that you mention ancient races. I would definitely like to see something like an ancient earth or pegasus pony race (long tails, furry hooves) get unfrozen frozen from the arctic near thd Empire, when Equestian global warming strikes, for whatever reason, and just start wrecking stuff with its ancient earth or pegasus powers

Hey, plenty of room in tartarus!