Re: What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thr
You know I had a gruesome thought. Maybe their world needed discord. He was the spirit of chaos, however he didn't just pop out of his statue and start doing what he did. It mentioned that before nightmare moon returned that Celestia ruled for a thousand years in peace. I highly doubt that if there was a thousand years of peace that the norm was for all the villains in the two seasons to be about. Let's see in the two seasons, nightmare moon, ursa attack, dragon attack, parasprites, and invasion by changelings. Call it a stretch, but personally I think Discord's return was more of a there was enough chaos in the world to revive him. If Discord is the personification of disharmony then him being revived was a given.
Think of it as like the Windigos. They didn't destroy the pony's original country just cause. They froze everything cause of all the infighting between the ponies. And if villains that destroy nations were the norm for back then it would make sense for discord to be able to rule all of equestria back then. Back in the sesaon 2 premiere he ruled JUST ponyville in chaos. I don't even want to know what he did back before celestia and luna.
Tl:dr; I guess what I'm getting at is maybe discord in the show is the personification of chaos and as powerful as how much chaos there is rather than the cause of chaos and if so given how equestria was almost taken over by a foreign nation I would not be surprised if he shows up again.
Tl:dr; of Tl:dr; Maybe Discord is only as powerful as how much chaos there is?