spoiler Season 6 Finale Plot Revealed

[NeonCobalt 256]

So can should we just call this team "My Little Suicide Squad"? It has a ring to it.

[FlareGun45 2,221]

Alot of people are thinking Gabby's coming back in the finale, and I'm not gonna stop you from believing that. If the Griffons are coming back, because of their alliance with Equestria, then I think we'll see Gabby again; but if Starlight's actually getting just a small group, I don't think Gabby is one of them.

 

I do LOVE Gabby! But she's part of the CMC arc, not Starlight or Spike's arcs. The CMCs have their own separate arc in the series and they have since season 1. So if we're gonna see Gabby again playing a major role, it's gonna be a future CMC episode.

 

Unless of course the CMCs are gonna be part of Starlight's group, in that case, bring on Gabby!

Edited September 10, 2016 by MegaSean45

[Sonic5421 428]

When I heard this was Starlight episode I was very worried. Not because I don't like Starlight because I do like her. It was because I was worried that the idea I had for the finale was not going to be what I had thought it would be and all the setup I thought I was seeing was not actually there.

 

My original idea for the season finale was that Flurry Heart gets foalnapped by the changelings, most likely at night so the mane 6 and possibly Starlight will be tasked with saving her. However they don't know where the Changeling Kingdom is but Thorax dose so he leads them there. The mane 6 do their thing, save the day and live happily ever after.

 

So when I saw this synopsis and saw I was wrong I became so happy you cannot imagine and that's because the synopsis is better than what I expected. If I am to read this correctly apparently the mane 6 have been defeated by this mystery villain and Starlight and the B-team have to save the day. It's an episode a lot of us have wanted to see and I'm overjoyed that its finally happening. 

 

I know what I'm about to say here may be construed as controversial but I just want to get this off my chest. I think any person thinking of dismissing this episode because they still view Starlight as the spawn of satin for some reason really just needs to be quiet. The time to hate Starlight has passed, it really has. Everyone hates her because she altered the fate of Equestria and threatened the life of everyone.

 

So did Discord but we all forgave him and love him 

So did Luna as Nightmare Moon but we forgave her and LOVE her

 

"But Starlight's reason for it all was terrible!" I will agree it was but I don't think we should still hold that against her. It's almost a whole season and we need to accept her and the fact that shes here to stay.

 

I believe this team will be constructed of Starlight, Trixie, Sunburst, Thorax, Ember, Spike and or possibly Gabby

 

As for the villain I think it will obviously be Chrysalis. The word RETURN is a big giveaway that it will be someone we have seen before.

 

So with all those predictions and stuff out of the way I want to end off with my new idea for this episode.

 

I still think Flurry Heart will get foalnapped and the mane 6 will travel to the Changeling Kingdom to save her but instead of winning they lose/get captured by the changelings. Maybe Thorax led the mane 6 to the Changeling Kingdom and comes back with the news of what happened to them which prompts Starlight to from this B team and try to save the day. Or something of that nature.

 

If my prediction turns out to be correct this could be my favorite season finale, mainly for the fact that Queen Chrysalis has a high chance of coming back and shes my favorite villain. The only thing I don't want to happen is they *sigh* reform her. 

 

I'm also taking a big guess that it is Chrysalis making her return to seek vengeance for her past defeat in A Canterlot Wedding and she'll be the one to subdue the Mane Six so Starlight has to round up a team to save them and at the same time, save Equestria as well when Chrysalis then makes her move for Cadance, Shining Armor, and Flurry Heart, if not the entire Royal Family with Celestia and Luna as well.

[immblueversion 331]

I know what I'm about to say here may be construed as controversial but I just want to get this off my chest. I think any person thinking of dismissing this episode because they still view Starlight as the spawn of satin for some reason really just needs to be quiet. The time to hate Starlight has passed, it really has. Everyone hates her because she altered the fate of Equestria and threatened the life of everyone.

 

So did Discord but we all forgave him and love him 

So did Luna as Nightmare Moon but we forgave her and LOVE her

 

"But Starlight's reason for it all was terrible!" I will agree it was but I don't think we should still hold that against her. It's almost a whole season and we need to accept her and the fact that shes here to stay.

 

The S6 premiere really helped me get past the initial problems I had with Starlight's backstory, if only for its implications by showing us Sunburst's perspective. Let's suppose for a moment that Starlight didn't contact him because she felt she couldn't muster up the courage to do so. Given her blindness to her own incredible talent, it's natural to believe she was the kind of person who'd put her faith in someone to do what she failed at; that's what she'd normally ask of Sunburst when she had problems with magic. To her, Sunburst was the better pony now, so he would've been more "qualified" to write back to her, rather than the other way around. That is, assuming he still thought of her as a friend after getting all swept away by the awesomeness of his cutie mark.

 

And Sunburst probably would've, had he not started struggling in school. We know that Sunburst had big aspirations when he signed up for Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns, only to have them dashed because he lacked the proper skills to apply his knowledge. Judging from his tiny house tucked away in some back alley in a faraway city, you can tell he probably wanted to disappear from the world. How could he possibly face his loved ones after letting himself down to them like that? It's possible he felt they'd be better off forgetting him.

 

But to Starlight, his silence only confirmed her greatest fear: he moved on from his past life, and from her. And it was all because of the cutie mark that took him away from her.

 

While a fair bit of what I've just written is mostly just my headcanon, it's that kind of nuance that helped lend a good deal of credibility to Starlight's whole situation. Now I can look back on Starlight and say she's not nearly as big a letdown as many people pinned her for. I've enjoyed a good deal of her screentime this season, and I'm more than looking forward to how the finale plays out.

[cuteycindyhoney 13,324]

Why would Starlight add a child in her squad?

Why not? Diamond Tiara was reformed by friendship too.

[Allen 1,389]

Yes! I'm very excited about the sixth season finale!  I can't believe that Starlight Glimmer has an (unexpected) team/squad and alliances without the mane 6, so that's inevitable. Without the mane 6's help, how can you defend Equestria? You must have Princess Twilight Sparkle's (including Princess Celestia's, Princess Luna's, and Princess Cadence's) help because saving Equestria is important! I expect Trixie can join Starlight Glimmer since they're friends together as in the sixth episode of the sixth season "No Second Prances".

[Number62 1,264]

At least since Haber has been at the helm. Even though McCarthy showered Twilight with glory all throughout her two-parters, she at least had the courtesy to give the mane five an opportunity to do something worthwhile, even if they were relegated to a B-plot. 

 

Now the mane five are about as useful to two-parters as Celestia is. They're barely even B-plot worthy. They're only present for the sake of filling space. 

 

The "mane six" have not saved the day in what seems like a really long time. Lately, it's just been Twilight and a few other non-main characters.  

 

I doubt McCarthy treated the Mane 5 much better. Twilight did the heavy-lifting in "The Return of Harmony", the mane 5 were useless in "A Canterlot Wedding", and the 5 were also useless in "Twilight's Kingdom" except to help blast Tirek. I suppose they were useful enough in "The Crystal Empire" and "Princess Twilight Sparkle". Also, I don't know when exactly Haber started taking over, so I don't know whether who deserves more credit for the season 5 starter.

[Megas 27,971]

I doubt McCarthy treated the Mane 5 much better. Twilight did the heavy-lifting in "The Return of Harmony", the mane 5 were useless in "A Canterlot Wedding", and the 5 were also useless in "Twilight's Kingdom" except to help blast Tirek. I suppose they were useful enough in "The Crystal Empire" and "Princess Twilight Sparkle". Also, I don't know when exactly Haber started taking over, so I don't know whether who deserves more credit for the season 5 starter.

That was Larson for the S5 opener. Haber reduced the Mane5 to cameos in Remark

[Babyyoshi309 1,829]

So the mane five will be shafted for the third two-parter in a row? What a shocker....

 

In fact, the only surprise there is that Twilight will presumably be getting the shaft as well. Otherwise, this seems like yet another standard two-parter formula, which like the normal episodes, is simply becoming stale at this point: 

 

Big bad villain? Check. 

Equestria in life-threatening peril....again? Check. 

Princesses unable to do anything about the situation? Check.

Twilight Starlight doing the most to save the day? Check. 

 

Oh, on the contrary, the formula never gets stale. 

 

Though seriously, why do people think it is stale already? The last episode to use the formula was the season 4 finale, which by the way was one of the best episodes of the entire show. So I do not get why people say that... 

 

 

Even if it did, I would much rather have a million of that formula than another episode with the Flurry Heart formula! 

Alot of people are thinking Gabby's coming back in the finale, and I'm not gonna stop you from believing that. If the Griffons are coming back, because of their alliance with Equestria, then I think we'll see Gabby again; but if Starlight's actually getting just a small group, I don't think Gabby is one of them.

 

I do LOVE Gabby! But she's part of the CMC arc, not Starlight or Spike's arcs. The CMCs have their own separate arc in the series and they have since season 1. So if we're gonna see Gabby again playing a major role, it's gonna be a future CMC episode.

 

Unless of course the CMCs are gonna be part of Starlight's group, in that case, bring on Gabby!

 

Besides, if they do get a Griffon, I think it would be Gilda. 

Edited September 11, 2016 by Babyyoshi309

[Thrond 3,265]

Oh, on the contrary, the formula never gets stale. 

 

Though seriously, why do people think it is stale already? The last episode to use the formula was the season 4 finale, which by the way was one of the best episodes of the entire show. So I do not get why people say that... 

The part that really gets to me is situating the entire plot around the threat of a big villain. Both "Twilight's Kingdom" and even "The Cutie Re-Mark" made some attempt to link this big threat to character development, but the massive scale of these two-parters is no longer impressive, and I don't feel like the "Equestria's greatest threat" formula has anything new to offer. Remember "Slice of Life?" One of the gags in that actually parodied how pedestrian monstrous villains have become at this point. "Twilight's Kingdom" offered intensity and action we hadn't seen before in the show; by comparison, "The Cutie Re-Mark" just felt par for the course, with almost nothing fresh to offer until its controversial ending. The season premieres are always so much more adventurous, and I'm really starting to wish the finales would try something really different rather than shoving some minor running theme into a yet another collection of action scenes. I don't know why the season which gave us "The Crystalling," "The Saddle Row Review," and "The Times They Are a Changeling" would play it so safe with this particular episode.  

 

Hopefully it's at least fun. 

 

Even if it did, I would much rather have a million of that formula than another episode with the Flurry Heart formula! 

I don't understand what so many people seem to have against the season 6 premiere. I adored it. 

[SaburoDaimando 1,196]

Something else I wanna add.  Ever since I learned of the finale, I actually picture not just how the Mane 6 gets defeated this time around, but also how they are imprisoned.

 

What do you suppose happens to them?

 

a) Petrified?

Imprisoned, carbonite-style?

c) Trapped inside Gemstones?

d) Turned into a different object?

 

Man.  The suspense is killing me.

[Babyyoshi309 1,829]

The part that really gets to me is situating the entire plot around the threat of a big villain. Both "Twilight's Kingdom" and even "The Cutie Re-Mark" made some attempt to link this big threat to character development, but the massive scale of these two-parters is no longer impressive, and I don't feel like the "Equestria's greatest threat" formula has anything new to offer. Remember "Slice of Life?" One of the gags in that actually parodied how pedestrian monstrous villains have become at this point. "Twilight's Kingdom" offered intensity and action we hadn't seen before in the show; by comparison, "The Cutie Re-Mark" just felt par for the course, with almost nothing fresh to offer until its controversial ending. The season premieres are always so much more adventurous, and I'm really starting to wish the finales would try something really different rather than shoving some minor running theme into a yet another collection of action scenes. I don't know why the season which gave us "The Crystalling," "The Saddle Row Review," and "The Times They Are a Changeling" would play it so safe with this particular episode.  

 

Hopefully it's at least fun. 

 

I don't understand what so many people seem to have against the season 6 premiere. I adored it. 

 

I guess it is just a difference of opinion. I would much rather have action scenes in the finale, that way it makes the finales different from all the other episodes. We both have our opinions though! 

[Brianna Changeling 131]

This looks awesome! Well, I'm a big Starlight fan, so maybe I'm a little biased there. But I could see this being one of her best appearances yet!

 

As for the unlikely heroes by Starlight's side, here are my predictions:

- Spike

- Trixie

- Thorax

- Sunburst

- Ember

- Discord

Much plot.

Such theory.

Many unlikely heroes.

Wow.

[Aurora Glimmer 494]

Seriously, this finale will be her big opportunity to prove her as a genuine character and definitely her LAST CHANCE to win the crowd (her haters and even her fan), just like Sunset did. The outcomes must be drastic, not fucking around, just push forward to the new status quo, this not the first time they do something called controversy since Magical Mystery Cure. I dont know who is the villain, but I hope It shouldnt be any villain that we know,I want new villain. Josh Haber, don't you dare to screw around, you took away my favorite villain of the whole show, and now, you must give me a great protagonist in return or else, QUIT, stop writing any 2-parters EVER.

I'll be pleased if this season's finale makes up for the lackluster ending to last season's finale.

 

It suddenly occurs to me that this could actually be Starlight's last hurrah in the show. I still have my doubts about her becoming a permanent cast member since almost nothing about her or the way she's been handled makes me feel as though she was ever meant to be around for the long run. 

I've always felt as though the decision to redeem Starlight Glimmer was made at the eleventh hour. Between her lackluster backstory, the hasty redemption through montage and the fact she's barely played a role in Season 6, her redemption feels like it was a Hasbro mandate rather than something the writers wanted to do.

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I've always felt as though the decision to redeem Starlight Glimmer was made at the eleventh hour. Between her lackluster backstory, the hasty redemption through montage and the fact she's barely played a role in Season 6, her redemption feels like it was a Hasbro mandate rather than something the writers wanted to do.

Castle, Rainbow Power, Alicorns... Yeah...   Hasbro demand them ALL   Nothing surprising, still the same situation, but nothing they did until now that i did not tolerate. The Castle is the best Christmas Tree, so it's ok. Rainbow Power is rarely used, it didnt hurt my eyes, so it's ok. Alicorn Twilight, no problems, i dont care about ss3 drama and shit. 

Everything would fall into place, I believe Hasbro/THX can do it... somehow    

[Thrond 3,265]

I've always felt as though the decision to redeem Starlight Glimmer was made at the eleventh hour. Between her lackluster backstory, the hasty redemption through montage and the fact she's barely played a role in Season 6, her redemption feels like it was a Hasbro mandate rather than something the writers wanted to do.

I feel it's too thematically clear to be studio mandated (although, then again, the writers tried to make Twilicorn poignant, and we all know whose idea that was), but I highly doubt this is where they were planning to take her character from the start, if only because the season 5 premiere seems to be taking her in more or less the opposite direction. I've also heard they don't have the best schedule with Starlight's VA, which again gives the impression that it was a relatively late decision. 

[Aurora Glimmer 494]

I feel it's too thematically clear to be studio mandated (although, then again, the writers tried to make Twilicorn poignant, and we all know whose idea that was), but I highly doubt this is where they were planning to take her character from the start, if only because the season 5 premiere seems to be taking her in more or less the opposite direction. I've also heard they don't have the best schedule with Starlight's VA, which again gives the impression that it was a relatively late decision. 

What do you mean by this, exactly?

[Unlikeable Pony 2,700]

At least since Haber has been at the helm. Even though McCarthy showered Twilight with glory all throughout her two-parters, she at least had the courtesy to give the mane five an opportunity to do something worthwhile, even if they were relegated to a B-plot. 

 

Now the mane five are about as useful to two-parters as Celestia is. They're barely even B-plot worthy. They're only present for the sake of filling space. 

 

The "mane six" have not saved the day in what seems like a really long time. Lately, it's just been Twilight and a few other non-main characters.  

At the very least, LOE seems to have reversed things a little... so I have hope that maybe they're starting to get the message about things and this S6 finale is an outlier :/

 

Otherwise, I seriously fear for future seasons.

[SBaby 660]

They could get away with this if they say the mane six are going to wherever they're going to be in the movie while all this is happening.  Then they could just have the events of the movie happen at the same time as the Season 6 finale (mind you, I still have a really bad feeling about the movie).

 

 

At the very least, LOE seems to have reversed things a little... so I have hope that maybe they're starting to get the message about things and this S6 finale is an outlier :/

 

Otherwise, I seriously fear for future seasons.

 

This is why I would never let Hasbro put me in charge of the show, unless they gave me complete creative control over the series.

Edited September 14, 2016 by SBaby

[Odd Ball 231]

It's starting to annoy me that a lot of people are complaining about the season finale not focusing on the characters we see in almost every episode rather than be excited that it focuses on characters we only see in a small number of episodes get a chance to shine.

 

So my guess is that the mane six are going to wherever they're going to be in the movie while all this is happening. So it could mean the events of the movie happen at the same time as the Season 6 finale.

Highly unlikely, they're probably gonna get kidnapped. Edited September 14, 2016 by Odd Ball

[Unlikeable Pony 2,700]

It's starting to annoy me that a lot of people are complaining about the season finale not focusing on the characters we see in almost every episode rather than be excited that it focuses on characters we only see in a small number of episodes get a chance to shine.

 

Highly unlikely, they're probably gonna get kidnapped.

 

the fact that the other 5 have been delegated to Cameos in the past 2 two parters and were generally shoved into a corner for most all two parters in favor of twilight kind of means that alot of us *are not* of the mind that we've gotten to see plenty of the other 5.

 

There's been very few Two parters focusing on the other 5 to a significant degree (GOOD LORD, was The cutie mark map a breath of fresh air for that reason), so having a THIRD two parter without the other 5 rubs alot of us the wrong way.

[Megas 27,971]

It's starting to annoy me that a lot of people are complaining about the season finale not focusing on the characters we see in almost every episode rather than be excited that it focuses on characters we only see in a small number of episodes get a chance to shine.

Because we totally get to see the remane 5 shine in two parters

 

The biggest complaint for the longest time with two parters, like Unlikeable said, is that the remane 5 are always getting the shaft in these things. The last finale reduced them to cameos. Now once again, they're gonna be sidelined, along with Twilight, in favor of a character that the show has already had trouble and doing a weak job of getting people to care about or warm up too. And I have a bad feeling her "unlikely team" is gonna consist of a bunch of brony bait characters. I'm already expecting Trixie at this point

[Crypty Scribbles 5,800]

Ooooo!!!11oneone

 

This is amazing! It causes even more questions than it answers.

 

[Steve Piranha 29,480]

It's starting to annoy me that a lot of people are complaining about the season finale not focusing on the characters we see in almost every episode rather than be excited that it focuses on characters we only see in a small number of episodes get a chance to shine.

 

Highly unlikely, they're probably gonna get kidnapped.

Because people have been expecting the rest of the Mane6 to have a bigger impact on these plots and not just Twi. Still, having other characters do the work is also a fresh air

 

Because we totally get to see the remane 5 shine in two parters

 

The biggest complaint for the longest time with two parters, like Unlikeable said, is that the remane 5 are always getting the shaft in these things. The last finale reduced them to cameos. Now once again, they're gonna be sidelined, along with Twilight, in favor of a character that the show has already had trouble and doing a weak job of getting people to care about or warm up too. And I have a bad feeling her "unlikely team" is gonna consist of a bunch of brony bait characters. I'm already expecting Trixie at this point

And DERP , Coco Pommel, Moeh Poneh .... OOOOOOHHHHHHHHH this is so much fun to speculate 

[Thrond 3,265]

What do you mean by this, exactly?

In "The Cutie Map," it seems (to me at least) that Starlight Glimmer might not sincerely believe in her ideology, given that she retained her own cutie mark and became indignant when the rest of the village questioned that.

It's starting to annoy me that a lot of people are complaining about the season finale not focusing on the characters we see in almost every episode rather than be excited that it focuses on characters we only see in a small number of episodes get a chance to shine.

I no longer feel that two-partners are inherently more interesting than individual episodes, particularly given that their usual action focus is par for the course at this point, and that this particular one has promised no distinguishing features aside from its different heroes.