spoiler Top ten favorite villain/antagonist reformation

[Peter16373 103]

So since there are enough villains that are reformed now I figured we could make a list of favorite ways a villain/antagonist reformed, and a list of favorite reformed villains. Also beware there are spoilers for the comics here. Now here's mine.

Top 10 Favorite Way a Villain/Antagonist was Reformed:

 

10. EQG Twilight Sparkle aka. Sci-Twi (To start off the list lets begin with Sci-Twi she was initially a side antagonist in the movie Friendship Games that became the main threat after going out of control with the magic she stole from Sunset and the others that turned her into Midnight Sparkle. She was reformed after being defeated in a magical beam struggle against Sunset Shimmer's new form Daydream Shimmer after she was distracted by Spike the Dog.)

 

9. Princess Luna (Lets be honest here there technically aren't anymore good reformed villains/antagonists at the bottom of this list most are just shot by Rainbow or defeated. However the one thing that makes Luna stand out compared to the other shot by rainbow villains is that even after getting reformed she still decides to punish herself by creating the Tantabus to prevent her from ever becoming evil again. Although in the end Twilight and her friends did convince her forgive and to stop punishing herself.)

 

8. Changelings (The only group of antagonist on this list. They were initially dark shape shifting bug ponies, but after Spike became friends with Thorax which led to an adventure of reformed villains/antagonists they changed from dark bugs to colorful rainbow bugs. After finding out they can just share the love inside of them to no longer feel hungry. Some believe it's stupid how they all decided to reform, but I guess it's because Thorax became a king and they act like a hive mind plus they didn't really want to stay hungry anymore.)

 

7. Gilda (One of the first antagonist that has appeared in a normal episode of my little pony. She was a griffon that was rude even when Pinkie Pie threw a party for her. She wasn't seen again until Season 5 where she saved Rainbow Dash after Pinkie Pie convinced her they were still friends.)

 

6. Diamond Tiara (The only character on the list that is still a foal. She started off as a bully for the Cutie Mark Crusaders before they got their cutie mark with a terrible mother that basically told her to act and be superior because of their status as rich ponies. However this all changed when the CMC's convinced her to do what she wants and be the pony she wants to be. Now a reformed antagonist who has became a friend of the CMCs.)

 

5. Trixie Lulamoon (The Great and Powerful Trixie was a antagonist who was basically jealous of Twilight's talent. She didn't really start to reformed until her second appearance in the show. It was finally in her third appearance in Season 6 after she became friends with Starlight that she was truly reformed. She felt sorry for hurting Starlight's feelings as a friend to the point where her bottled up emotions came pouring out, right before she almost committed suicide.)

 

4. King Sombra (This is pretty much a villain reformation that was really hated in the comics for no apparent reason. Seriously Sombra literally has one of the best backstory' that I've read and his motivations were also pretty good. But when it came to his reformation I don't know why everybody says it's just like Starlight Glimmer's terrible, however I personally think it was awesome. He was reformed after his foalhood friend Radiant Hope told him it is possible to deny the destiny to become evil that he saw in the Crystal Heart as she denied her destiny to become a princess. Which led to him betraying his race that used him since childhood and almost getting sealed along with them until Hope and the four princesses saved him and turned him into a real unicorn.)

 

3. Starlight Glimmer (To be honest I never knew what was the hate for Starlight's reformation. Almost everybody says she was instant reformed in a one minute montage when Sunset needed a movie to reform. But literally none of this is true. Let's see here when Sunset reformed everybody allowed her to have a second movie to show her reformation, but when it comes to Starlight the moment Season 5 ends everybody just starts to hate her without giving her a chance in Season 6. Not to mention she was the first villain to ever be convinced to stop.)

 

2. Sunset Shimmer (Some may think she was reformed right after getting blasted by a magical rainbow laser beam, but this isn't true. In the Rainbow Rocks she pretty much had the entire movie dedicated to her reformation. Since everybody also knows this I'll just keep it short and simple.)

 

Honorable Mention: Gloriosa Daisy (Not really a villain or antagonist.)

 

1. Discord (Let's be honest here who didn't see this coming. I guess this is also pretty self-explanatory. He was pretty much one of the best reformed villains in the whole series. He was reformed after becoming afraid of losing Fluttershy as a friend. Although his true reformation didn't really come around until after Season 4.)

 

Now for my Favorite Reformed Villains/Antagonists:

10. Gloriosa Daisy

9. King Sombra

8. Diamond Tiara

7. Thorax

6. Sci-Twi

5. Trixie Lulamoon

4. Discord

3. Sunset Shimmer

2. Starlight Glimmer

1. Princess Luna

[Castle Bleck 19,379]

2. I doubt the Harmony power just brainwashed her into turning good; when she was transforming into Demon Shimmer, she looked quite shocked/traumatized -- therefore, I think she simply got a necessary wake-up call to start reforming.

[cmarston1 5,959]

Despite how many characters have been reformed and a main theme of the show is friendship and forgiveness, character reformation is not one of the show's highlights.

In fact, there are only a few characters, that I actually really liked their reformations anyway, so don't expect me to give a top 10.

 

The only ones that I actually like had to be:

 

Sunset Shimmer for being an actual surprise and managing to take a character I didn't care for much originally, and make her into one of my all time favorite fictional characters.

Having her be hated by the entire school and not even all that close to the high 5, and having her struggling to prove to both the entire school body and her supposed friends, as well as herself that she has changed as a person, made her into a sympathetic underdog that had to really work for forgiveness through her blood, sweat, and tears, and so when the moment comes when she steps up and helps saves the day, I feel like she has really earned it.

And the events of Friendship Games having Sunset's arc coming full circle by having her finally understand friendship to the point where she was able to teach someone of it's importance and show someone an other way, similar to how princess Twilight did to her at the end of the first movie.

 

Sci Twi's reformation really benefits from helping out with what I talked about about above, and managed to be a nice parallel to the events of the first movie, that made it one of my favorite scenes from both FIM and EQG.

 

Gilda ironically enough being a character who was meant to show that their are some people in your life that shouldn't be or whatever, has one of the most easy to believe reformations to come out of the show.

She wasn't evil, she didn't spend 5 seasons being a bully, and was only really an everyday Jerk who had a past friendship with Rainbow Dash.

So when she finally returned and reconciled with her old friend, it was pretty easy to accept it.

 

Discord unlike others managed to get an entire episode dedicated to his own reformation, which while I guess you could say was a bit rushed, feels like a 10 episode arc compared to some of the other reformations (Starlight Glimmer's super rushed montage at the end of the season 5 finale for instance)

Plus I really like how they had him relapse in the season 4 finale, and had him truly reform by the end of the episode.

 

and Diamond Tiara while it did feel a bit rushed, like most of the reformations, was the last reformation that was actually able to surprise me.

I never expected it to happen which was a plus, I really enjoyed both of her songs, and she totally reminded me of Pacifica from Gravity Falls.

Edited March 4, 2017 by cmarston1

[Hierok 11,832]

Discord for sure. Not only he is is a great character, he has three episodes for him to be reformed too.

 

I didn't like the changelings and Starlights reformation because there was not enough time.

 

Sunsets on the other hoof is a reformation I really like because she had been evil and it traumatized her being her goal.

[Zachary 5,521]

1. Discord

2. Starlight Glimmer

3. Sunset Shimmer

4. Trixie

5. Thorax

6. Changelings

7. Sci-Twi

8. Gilda

9. Gloriosa Daisy

10. Diamond Tiara

 

Replaced King Sombra with Gilda.

Edited March 8, 2017 by Zachary

[Hierok 11,832]

1. Discord

2. Starlight Glimmer

3. Sunset Shimmer

4. Trixie

5. Thorax

6. Changelings

7. Sci-Twi

8. King Sombra

9. Gloriosa Daisy

10. Diamond Tiara

King Sombra? Do you mean in the comic?

[Rick Sanchez 75]

i only have three because the other reformations did not interest me :^(

1) sunset shimmer ( she was written to be purposefully unlikeable at first but my God did i love her and only love her more after her satisfying reformation in the movie)

2) luna (overrated but since i like her, it's whatever. her backstory is my favorite, and the events that trigger her reformation are cool too)

3) gilda (simple character, simple reformation but i was left with a good feeling)

 

i hated discords reformation as it felt too soft for me? too... anticlimactic for such a great character? i don't know how to communicate this well LOL you get it

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for mlp?

 

i wouldn't say top ten.

• Discord
• Thorax only
• Sunset shimmer
• Trixie
• Gilda 
• princess luna (eh neutral)

That's all and in no particular order.

[Zachary 5,521]

King Sombra? Do you mean in the comic?

Doh, I didn't read the Comics, I'll change it.

[Hierok 11,832]

Doh, I didn't read the Comics, I'll change it.

I suggest you do. Siege of the North is pretty good and the fiendship is magic too. The other comics I didn't read or didn't like.

Edited March 8, 2017 by Hierok