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Hot take, unpopular opinion

If My Little Pony could have been much better if it wasn't a kid's show. Can we all agree that a lot of potential was wasted and many fan works are better than the canon? Fall of the Crystal Empire and Lullaby for a Princess are much better than any episode about the royal sisters. Luna's dark powers were never actually explored, the best that we get was "Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep?" (a great episode by the way). We could have more violent fights, delicate themes and it could be more openly queer (yes, I know we have canon queer characters/shipps). I wanted to see Discord's origins, what his relationship with Tirek was and how years of being turned to stone affected his mental health, or how a thousand years of social isolation in the Moon affected Luna.

That's all.

Nightmare Moon and Discord make me giggle so much, not only because they're my favorite MLP characters and because this show was my childhood's support and joy, but also because both ressemble two of my favorite characters.

Nightmare Moon was inspired by Maleficent, two of her most iconic lines are inspired in two of Maleficen't most iconic lines, same as her first entrance and escape.

Discord isn't inspired on Erik, but he reminds me of him so much. The chaotic personality, the middle-aged man voice, the "deformed" appearance and his adorable relantionship with Fluttershy (aka Christine coded), it's all so (Leroux) Erik. Fluttercord is Eristine in another universe, to be fair.