Blog / Ask King Sombra

A blog following King Sombra, represented here as flamboyant prettyboy and an incredibly Bad Liar — spending a thousand years frozen solid with no-one but his Superpowered Evil Side for company and being blown to pieces shortly after being freed didn't do his brainpower any favors. After being defeated by Shining Armor and Cadance, Sombra languishes in a narcissistic dreamworld, accompanied by a mare named Coffee Talk, whose soul was trapped along with Sombra's inside his falling horn.

Most of the events of the first quarter of the blog take place while the horn is still falling, but Sombra and Coffee Talk manage to eventually free themselves after a visit from Luna, albeit with Sombra's magic greatly weakened from the damage to his horn, and begin a trek towards civilization. Sombra's end goal is to be King again, but his depowered state forces him to hide his real identity and prevents him from heading straight to the Empire and taking over outright, forcing him to use subterfuge… now if he could just lie worth spit, or keep from getting sidetracked...

The story ended on July 31, 2016.

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Tropes present on the blog:

• 20% More Awesome: The Royal◊ Bitch-o-meter, twice◊ — sorry, I mean, thrice◊ — and the Nice◊-o-Meter◊. Er... being-a-bitch-in-good-way-o-meter counts as bitch or nice?◊. Part IV◊ reveals Sombra's rating amongst the Crystal Ponies. The Royal Bitch-o-meter final countdown◊ after Cadence becomes Brainwashed and Crazy.
• Above Good and Evil: The Elk King is willing to return Sombra's dark powers to him in exchange for his aid, fully aware of what he might do. He brushes off criticisms with this trope.
• Accidental Misnaming: A Running Gag is that Sombra can never remember Coffee Talk's name.◊ He can't remember Sea Breeze and Drizzle's names either.
• Adaptation Distillation: The canon Sombra was a No-Nonsense Nemesis; this version is a complete goof (albeit with hints of a Not-So-Harmless Villain) with a Superpowered Evil Side who sometimes holds the Villain Ball . Additionally, the original used various curses and traps that bordered on Reality Warping territory; this version mostly sticks with basic Casting a Shadow spells.
• Adaptational Villainy: Cadance is a lot more unforgiving than her Nice Girl with Incorruptible Pure Pureness attitude in the show proper may suggest, even openly criticizing Luna and Celestia, her aunts, over their insistence on easily forgiving their enemies and refusing to deal with threats to Equestria in a "permanent" fashion.
• The Ageless: Thanduelk thanks to the Fountain in the Village that was destroyed and Word of God mentions that Sombra's ageless as a side effect of being the host of Buttface.
• All for Nothing: Sombra kicks Uber Sombra out of his mind and finally makes peace with his sins and resolves to better himself... only for Uber Sombra to come right back literally one comic later before possessing Cadence.
• All Just a Dream: Most of the first part is Sombra subconsciously dreaming after he was blown to bits by the Crystal Heart, his mind being trapped in his horn in the process. The only thing that was real was Coffee Talk, whom he absorbed in his shadow form before it happened.
• An Arm and a Leg: Supremus Longhorn is already missing one of his front legs due to a Portal Cut mishap. Uber Sombra takes exception to his attempt to mind control Sombra and rips off one of his back legs as well.
• Art Evolution: Retrospect. It's more obvious with Coffee Talk than Sombra.
• Artificial Limbs: Supremus Longhorn is missing one of his front legs. He uses magic to create a substitute.
• Artistic License – History: The "Sparkle Pony" museum in Yakut. Since the Crystal Empire was always considered a myth they got more than a few of the details wrong◊.
• Atrocious Alias: Sombra's pseudonym that he makes up to avoid telling the other ponies captured by the Crystal Wolves who he really is.
  "I am King Sss... ssssley. Kingsely... Glitter... smile... sparkle... friend."
• The Bad Guy Wins: Seems to start as taking place in a universe where Sombra won, but it turns out he didn't and this was all his hallucination.
• Battle in the Center of the Mind: Ultimately happens between Sombra and Coffee Talk against Sombra's Enemy Within.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Caribbean Splash is probably one of the cheeriest ponies you could meet. Then his best friend/boyfriend is killed during the attempt to escape from the Crystal Wolves. Sombra says that him and the other deaths in the battle don't matter due to Sombra being, to put it nicely, a self-centered D-bag. Splash overhears this and decks Sombra right in the face, hard enough to draw blood, and follows it by giving him a What the Hell, Hero? in a complete rage and trying to beat the hell out of him.
• Beware the Silly Ones: King Sombra might be silly and dimwitted, but the only reason he's not as powerful as he once was is because his horn is damaged. Once it's fixed, he's powerful enough to curbstomp a horde of dragons.
• Bifauxnen: Sea Breeze has been mistaken for a stallion at least once.
• Big Bad: Sombra's Enemy Within, Uber Sombra, who spends the entire story trying to corrupt Sombra into trying to take over the Crystal Empire again and undo any of his progress towards good. After being exorcised from him, the spirit takes advantage of Cadence's rage over Sombra and takes her as his new host.
• Big Bad Wannabe: Supremus Longhorn makes a valiant attempt to become a Big Bad, attempting to use Sombra as a weapon in his plans to overthrow the Princesses and put his beliefs about Earth Ponies and Pegasi into practice, with the help of a Changeling capable of brainwashing. Unfortunately he quickly discovers why it's a bad idea to piss Sombra off when he invokes wrath of Uber Sombra, who promptly rips one of his back legs off.
• Body Surf: After being exorcised from Sombra, Uber Sombra does this into Cadence.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall:
  • Naturally, the characters respond to fan comments. It's a bit zigzaggy on whether other characters realize that this is what they're doing. Also, Sombra is actually able to physically interact with the question boxes; at one point he tries to hide behind them, only to realize they aren't actually real. Also also, at one point the author tries to derail the comic into a shipping fic, so Sombra and Coffee Talk open a portal and give her Author Avatar a Death Glare to make her get back on track.
  • Sombra outright vandalizes the blog title◊ at one point. The title of the page is actually "Fourth walls are for losers"
• Break the Cutie: Coffee Talk by her situation and Sombra's Enemy Within giving her a Breaking Lecture and Caribbean Splash when his best friend Whistler is killed in the fight with Crystal Wolves.
  • Turns out to have been the case with Drizzle: she was sweet, happy kid until the Crystal Wolves kidnapped her and her sister. Her cynical personality is a result of being emotionally broken by what she endured.
• Brought Down to Normal: After being revived, King Sombra's horn is still damaged from being blown to bits and most of his energy was apparently drained. At first this leaves him with only normal unicorn magic instead of his incredibly powerful dark magic from the show. While he gradually regains his power, he's still nowhere near its peak.
• The Caligula: Sombra takes this route instead of how he was depicted in the show. He's pretty much nuts. In fact, most of the occurrences in the blog are simply him hallucinating after his defeat at the hooves of the Mane Six, which reduced him to a horn (Coffee Talk is trapped with him). Except for the ghost monster. That was actually Luna. His Enemy Within, however, is pretty much how he was depicted in the show proper.
• Cast of Snowflakes: As Word of God says 'Yeah, I design all the characters to be completely unique! Well, as unique as ponies and palettes that look good on them can be.'
• Cerebus Retcon: At first it seems like a fairly wacky comedy blog. Then it was revealed that it was all in King Sombra's imagination after he was blown to bits by the Crystal Heart, reducing him to a horn, and Coffee Talk (an innocent mare who'd only gone to the north to report on the Crystal Empire) is there because he absorbed her in his shadow form. And Coffee Talk may be trapped there forever.
  • Drizzle in general with the reveal that her current personality is a result of being kidnapped for months by the Crystal Wolves leaving her an emotionally broken wreck.
  • Sombra being depicted as having a completely different personality than his canon self when it's revealed he's got a Split Personality who is like his canon self, and would murder Coffee Talk on the first chance he gets.
  • Hey, remember Princess Shelf? Sombra's beloved Companion Cube? Turns out she's actually the physical manifestation of Sombra's repressed guilt over murdering the original Crystal Princess. This was Foreshadowed by the fact her wings, horn, and crown were identical to the Crystal Princess'.
• Cerebus Rollercoaster: Rapidly fluctuates between being comical and funny and serious and frightening. Sometimes within scenes of each other.
• Crossover: Serious Rainbow makes an appearance to rescue Sombra and the others from the Crystal Wolf caves. Ask Pun Pony Project did another when they were trying to cross the frozen north.
• Curbstomp Battle: Sombra, with his powers restored, dishes one to a horde of dragons.
  • Pun and Coffee Talk give one to Dominus. Justified, as they were wearing crystal that weakens his magic and without the power Dominus isn't much of a match for two Earth Ponies.
  • Sombra receives one when it turns out the heroes were completely prepared for the event he was still evil.
• Cursed with Awesome: Just as in canon, Sombra was turned to shadow. However, it turns out he just does this to himself whenever he wants.
• The Cynic: Drizzle. She's extremely jaded and cynical, despite being the youngest of the cast. It turns out to be because of the emotional trauma of being kidnapped by the Crystal Wolves for months. She used to be pretty happy pony. This trope is so pronounced that when doing a post were she's genuinely smiling after managing to summon Princess Luna to their aid, one of the tags is "also, it is SO WEIRD DRAWING A SMILING DRIZZLE".
• Deadpan Snarker: Coffee Talk wastes no opportunity to snark at Sombra.
• Death Song: When Whistler is dying, he and Caribbean Splash sing Whistle a Happy Tune from The King and I.
• Deliberate Values Dissonance: According to Sombra, an adult having a blank flank in his day didn't mean you were talentless, just that you still had untapped potential, and they didn't have the luxury to engage in hobbies and talents: there were only limited options available to most ponies, namely either take over the family business, settle down and crank out a few kids or join the guard.
• Deus Exit Machina: The Elements of Harmony aren't available to use against Sombra because the story takes place during Keep Calm and Flutter On, and they're busy reforming Discord.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: Whistler dies while being cradled by Caribbean Splash.
• Dramatic Wind: When the Elkish◊ are introduced. Played for laughs with their king, whose mane is always flowing in a dramatic wind...because he's got someone following him around waving a couple of fans at him.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: After all the crap they went through - the months of being kidnapped and laboring hard for the Wolves, the uprising against those, putting up with misadventures of Sombra and a dangerous journey across the frozen north - Drizzle and Sea Breeze finally get home.
  • Sombra manages to atone for his sins, and because he's believed dead after his Heroic Sacrifice to destroy Uber once and for all, has a fresh start with Coffee Talk, completely purged of Uber's influence, destroying the evil spirit in the process.
• Enemy Within: Sombra's Split Personality, which the tags seem to refer to as Uber Sombra. While the main personality is a selfish jerk and wants to take over the Crystal Empire again, Uber Sombra is the psychotic beast shown in the two-parter.
• Erudite Stoner: Cocoa Chill gives this vibe.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Sombra does not like Uber Sombra, calling him "a butt".
• Evil Is Not a Toy: The Elk King recruits King Sombra to defeat a flight of dragons tormenting his people and restores his power in exchange. He's not too worried about him potentially betraying the Elk. Justified, as the Elk King was well aware of this trope and gave him a temporary boost rather than a permanent one and it wears off after Sombra kills the dragons.
  • Unlike the Elk King, Longhorn isn't quite so savvy, and ends up with another severed leg for his troubles.
• Evil Is Petty: Why is Sombra so mean to the Crystal Ponies? Because they have better hair than him. Also, Sombra's nicknames for Cadance (Cadunce) and Shining Armor (Shining Armdurr).
• Eviler than Thou: Supremus Longhorn is a racist who uses mind control to accomplish his goals. Unfortunately for him, Uber Sombra is an Eldritch Abomination, so Supremus really doesn't stand a hoof.
• Eyes Out of Sight: Cocoa Chill's eyes are always covered by his mane. He doesn't seem to have any problems seeing though.
• Eye Scream: Goodness Gracious Me!
• Face–Heel Turn: Teased, but averted with Freckles. For a little while, it seems that Freckles has mentally snapped and gone on a rampage from not having access to Crystal-Wolf-appropriate diet. Then it turns out that the Crystal Wolf who attacked the Elks was his mother, who had survived the uprising and whom Freckles was willing to take a stand against when she threatened his friends.
• Fallen Hero: Sombra used to be Captain of the Guard in service of the Crystal Empire and personal guardspony of the Crystal Empire Princess.
• False Friend: How Uber Sombra acts when around Sombra.
• Fantastic Racism: Supremus Longhorn seems to be racist against non-unicorns, as he calls Coffee Talk, an Earth Pony, "dirthoof". He's equally racist towards Pegasi (Featherbrains) and thinks that Alicorns are non-equestrians.
• Fastball Special: Coffee Talk and Sombra attempt this against Sombra's Enemy Within, since it worked for Shining Armor and Cadence before.
• Foreshadowing: Princess Shelf had the Crystal Princess' wings, horn, and crown, foreshadowing the fact she was in fact the manifestation of Sombra's repressed guilt over murdering the Crystal Princess.
• Formerly Fat: Drizzle. She lost a lot of weight while being a prisoner of the Crystal Wolves.
• Good Is Not Dumb: Luna may have genuinely hoped and wanted Sombra to reform, but that didn't mean she and the Princesses were foolish enough to not prepare for the event he was still evil.
  • The Elk King knows what he's dealing with in Sombra. While he does restore Sombra's powers in order to let Sombra defeat the dragons plaguing his village, the method he uses doesn't kick in for a while (leaving Sombra unable to go on a rampage while still in the village) and is also temporary, preventing Sombra betraying him after the task was done.
• Good Is Not Nice: Cadence.
• Gory Discretion Shot: We don't see Uber-Sombra rip off Supremus Longhorn's back leg, nor do we see the gory end of said severed leg. Afterwards, his cape covers the wound, although we do see a pool of blood underneath him., but thanks to Word of God magic we see it and know what happened to the leg.
• Heel–Face Turn: Freckles's mother after reuniting with her son.
• Heroic Sacrifice: In order to save Cadance, who had been possessed by Uber-Sombra, Sombra takes him back into himself and lets the Crystal Ponies blast him with the Crystal Heart. It even earns him his cutie mark.
• Hurricane of Puns: Everything about the Elkish. They've got names like Elkrond, Arwelk, Elkolas, Galadrielk and Thranduelk. They live in Rivendelk.
  • Lampshaded by their Prince, who states that they prefer to use their titles instead of names because their names are all "terrible elk puns". He then proceeds to state that his father is 'immortelk'.
• Hypocritical Humor: My coiffure!
• Immortals Fear Death: Thranduelk, as confirmed by Word of God.
• Insistent Terminology: Elkolas is rather insistent that Thranduelk is not immortal, he's immortelk.
• Ironic Name: One of the guards of the crystal empire is named Chatterbox, and he never talks.
• It's All About Me: Sombra's default attitude. He's incredibly self-centered.
• Jekyll & Hyde: Played with. Sombra and Uber Sombra are both villainous, but Sombra's at least is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold who actually cares for his Morality Pet while Uber Sombra is a murderous psychopath who tries to murder Coffee Talk repeatedly just for being Sombra's Morality Pet.
• Jerkass: Sombra, though he does have very rare Jerk with a Heart of Gold moments.
• Killed Off for Real: The second time Sombra is hit with the Crystal Heart, Uber is completely obliterated by it. When Sombra revives months later, Uber's influence has been completely removed and Word of God confirms Uber was destroyed. It's implied the difference this time was Sombra's refusal to allow him to return combined with his redemption.
• Klingon Promotion: How Sombra became king of the Crystal Empire in the first place, according to his "bedtime story".
• Large and in Charge: Averted with Sombra, who's no bigger then the average pony. Surprising, considering he's usually this in Fanon and in the official IDW comics. Played straight with the leader the dragon horde, though.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: Sombra is normally a crazy Cloudcuckoolander. But when he helps Coffee Talk fight his Enemy Within (who actually acts like his canon counterpart) he becomes legitimately serious for the only time so far in the blog, punching said Enemy Within in the face, shutting up its attempt to tell him that he needs it because he's weak by reminding it last time it was in charge, they got blown up by a baby dragon and a 'pretty pink princess', and telling it it will obey him because it needs a willing host and he's the only one it's got.
• Man Behind the Man: It's revealed that the Uber Sombra was responsible for Luna's transformation into Nightmare Moon.
• Manchild: Sombra is incredibly immature and childish, prone to flights of fancy and immature behavior. When Princess Luna tells him to stop acting like a child his response is "You're not my boss!"
• Manipulative Bastard: Uber Sombra has his moments.
  • Supremus Longhorn is decent at it as well.
• Meaningful Name: Is it any surprise Supremus Longhorn is a unicorn supremacist with a long horn?
• Moment Killer: Coffee Talk finds Sombra's old jousting helmet from before he became king and gives it to Sombra. Just as he's about to thank her, and even get her name right for the first, Cocoa Chill interrupts.
• Moment of Weakness: Cadence's anger and rage at Sombra's return is this, allowing Uber Sombra to Body Surf into her after Sombra exorcises him.
• Mood Whiplash: OKAY HEY ENOUGH OF THAT CAN WE TALK ABOUT ME AGAIN?!
• Morality Chain: Shining Armour(and possibly Twilight Sparkle) appears to be the only thing keeping Princess Cadence from becoming a full-blown Knight Templar.
• Morality Pet: Coffee Talk gradually becomes this for Sombra, to the point where he finds her body to return her to it. Her being this is exactly why his Enemy Within wants to kill her.
• Mugging the Monster: When they finally reach the Crystal Empire, two of the guards "express their displeasure" (read: kick and spit on him) to him. This turns out to be a bad idea. Shakes later calls the others out on it.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Sea Breeze has this reaction in her flashback when she realizes that she almost lost her baby sister in the ocean due to not paying attention.
• Nightmare Face: Sombra imitates Bender. It turns out... poorly.
• Not Quite Dead: Turns out Sombra survived getting blown to bits in the season 3 premiere.
  • And now Freckles' mom, Speckles"
• Not So Above It All: Generally Coffee Talk is much more sane and focused than Sombra, but she does have her moments.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: Overall, Sombra's comedic traits can make him seem more like a harmless jerk, but there are still signs that he could be seriously dangerous if he had his full strength. This is later confirmed when he curbstomps a flight of dragons with zero effort after getting his powers back.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Uber Sombra when Coffee Talk calls his bluff.
  • Sea Breeze when Drizzle inflicts some makeover related Laser-Guided Karma on her.
  Sea Breeze: I've made a terrible mistake.
  • Sombra's face pretty much screams Oh Crap! when it turns out that Uber Sombra is not as well-contained as he hoped.
  • Coffee Talk when Sombra goes "screw it", and tries to take over the empire again. It doesn't help that the gift Luna gave her turns out to be useless against him.
• Obviously Evil: Supremus Longhorn's name almost literally screams 'I'm a unicorn supremacist', he has blood-red magic, and generally makes no attempts to hide his Fantastic Racism. It's little wonder that Pun Pony almost instantly made preparations for his Changeling Dragon's attempt to brainwash her.
• One-Winged Angel: Not Sombra, surprisingly, but rather Cadence, after being possessed by Uber Sombra. It looks kind of like a cross between her and Sombra.◊
• Only Sane Man: Or Only Sane Filly as the case may be. Drizzle seems to be the only one to recognize that there's more to "Kingsley Glittersmile Sparklefriend" than he lets on.
• Our Elves Are Different: Our Elks Are Different? The elks Sombra and the others run into are pretty much straight-up parodies of Tolkienesque elves.
• Out-of-Character Alert: Coffee Talk realizes that Sombra's under the control of his Superpowered Evil Side when he actually gets her name right, which she notes the real Sombra would never do. The introduction of Coffee Talk to AKS doesn't count because it was her introduction.
• Pet the Dog: Sombra placing a magical barrier to protect a sleeping Coffee Talk. It's probably the nicest thing he's ever done.
• The Pollyanna: Whistler and Caribbean Splash.◊
• Psychotic Smirk: Princess Cadence... ...At least on the Royal Bitch-O-Meter.
• Punctuated Pounding: Sombra does this to Uber Sombra with a twist: the punctuation is him apologizing for all the evil things he did, with Uber Sombra shrinking and weakening as he does so.
• Punny Name: Later on, Coffee Talk, Sea Breeze and Drizzle encounter Snow Leopards. (that's leopards made of snow).
• Really 700 Years Old: Thanduelk and Sombra, but the latter is more like Really 1000 Years Old.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Luna apparently gave one of these to Cadance indirectly through her interview with Coffee Talk during the Time Skip towards the end of the story, alongside the offscreen one mentioned in Surprisingly Realistic Outcome.
• Red Skies Crossover: Many other Ask a Pony blogs acknowledged the climax by having their characters look north and see the pillar of light involved in it.
• Right Behind Me: Sombra talking about how the ponies that got killed by the Crystal Wolves didn't matter, oblivious to the fact that Caribbean Splash, whose friend was among those, is right behind him.
  • Later on, two crystal ponies mock Sombra in his exhibit, thinking that he's dead. ...Unaware that he is very much alive, right behind them, and well within earshot.
• Running Gag: There are a handful but the biggest one is that Sombra can never get Coffee Talk's name right.
• Russian Reversal: In Soviet Sombradream, crystals eat you.
• Sanity Slippage: Coffee Talk says that being trapped in ice for a thousand years with Uber Sombra has resulted in his current personality.
• Scooby-Dooby Doors: Ask King Sombra has this happen when Sombra and Coffee Talk (the pony he kidnapped to host his talk show) are being chased by a ghost monster that lives in his mines.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After Uber Sombra takes off one of his back legs, Supremus Longhorn teleports back to wherever he came from.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Uber Sombra was trapped in a book before getting freed and possessing Sombra.
• Second Place Is for Losers: Part of Sombra's backstory. He was originally a jouster, but his dissatisfaction with not being the best led him to leave home and join the guard.
  Sombra: If I couldn't be the best why try at all?
• Shared Universe: With the blog the mod created after its conclusion: Equestrian Post.
• Shout-Out: Trot, trot, fashion baby. Move it, work that plot cuh-razy◊.
  • "Don't call me 'Shirley'"
  • The Elkish are an extended shout-out to The Lord of the Rings.
  • He is the one called Sombra-kun.
• Ship Tease: Coffe Talk blushes when she is cought giving Sombra a hug. It's even tagged for it.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: King Sombra's Enemy Within (who actually behaves like Canon!King Sombra) tries to tell him he's weak. Sombra replies by reminding it that the last time it was in control, they got blown up by a baby dragon and a 'pretty pink princess' and that it will listen to him because it needs a willing host and he's its only possible choice.
  • Later, when Uber Sombra suddenly takes control and tries to get rid of Coffee Talk, she makes it perfectly clear she is not having any of his shit.
  • He gets another one later on when Uber Sombra tries to turn him back to evil. He tells him to shut it and throws the amulet allowing Uber Sombra to manifest off a cliff.
• Sickly Green Glow: The real color of Sombra's magic.
• Stupid Evil: When Sombra decides "screw it", and just tries to take over the Crystal Empire again, he finds that the princesses are prepared for such a thing. So what does Uber Sombra do? Why take over Sombra's mind and attack everyone of course! Is it any wonder that Sombra kicked him out of his head after that?
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: No Sombra, you are not getting off easy for leading hundreds of ponies and wolves to their deaths just so you could have a "distraction".
  • Also, Drizzle shows that a young person spending months being kidnapped and held captive by monsters won't come out unscathed.
  • No, Cadance, your aunts are not going to let you off for willingly letting Uber Sombra possess you easily.
• Third-Person Person: ALL Crystal Wolves.
• Time-Passes Montage: When they travel, a page can tell an entire day of travel or 5 pages a entire night of dreams for five characters. This is also quite frequent between arcs.
• Split Personality: Sombra seems to have one, one personality being the bumbling, but still self-centered Caligula, who, while not a good person, is more selfish than evil, and the psychotic, murderous beast he seemed to be in the two-parter.
• Straight Gay: Caribbean Splash and Whistler who were actually a couple.
• Tempting Fate: Happens sometimes.
  King Sombra: The front door disappeared, my slaves are gone, there's a ghost monster in the mines, and now my magic doesn't work! What next?! (Cue said ghost monster coming through the floor directly beside him)
• Time Dissonance: Most of the events of the first arc (Dreamland) take place while the horn that was severed from Sombra's head in the Season 2 premiere is still falling.
  • This is in some extent adverted outside Dreamland where the time passes more normally, until the Dragon arc.
• Tragic Monster: Uber Cadence is revealed to be this before Uber Sombra stops possessing her.
• Vague Age: Freckles is 5... somethings, maybe wolf age or...
• Villain Protagonist: Guess who.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Coffee Talk and Sombra. While Sombra may be largely self-centered, and their current relationship may hinge primarily on Coffee Talk blackmailing Sombra into behaving, he does care about Coffee Talk a little, as he immediately went off in search of her after he was revived, getting himself captured by Crystal Wolves in order to find her.
• Villain Song: Sombra gets a three-part song. It's a ponified parody of “Do You Hear the People Sing” from Les Miserables.
• We Can Rule Together: Before his first defeat, Sombra tried this with Luna. She refused, but this led to her becoming Nightmare Moon.
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • Well, more 'What the Hell, Villain Protagonist?', but Caribbean Splash gives Sombra one after Sombra's actions get his boyfriend killed.
  • When Luna breaks Sombra's horn just seconds after getting it fixed, the asks call her out. Luna apologizes, but Sombra doesn't accept it.
  • Shakes calls out the rest of his squad for driving Sombra to say Then Let Me Be Evil when if they'd actually done their jobs and just escorted him to the princess, none of this would have happened.
  Shakes: Isn't this kind of our fault too? What if he actually was coming back to apologize, like Princess Luna said? And instead of doing our jobs, what did we do? We insulted him. Spat on him. Gave him plenty of reason to snap. And if he has come here to make things right...shouldn't we at least meet him halfway?
• You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious: Calling Coffee Talk by her correct name (see Accidental Misnaming above) is all Sombra needs to do to snap her out of an angry rant and get her to listen to him.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Sombra says that this is what will happen to Uber Sombra if he stops being useful to him.

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