Tear Jerker / My Little Pony: FIENDship Is Magic

• During Issue #1, watching the innocent Sombra as a child happily playing with Radiant Hope. Knowing what he will eventually become...
  • Radiant Hope remembering her parents, she's living in an orphanage, a detail that's easy to miss knowing what's going to happen to her.
  • After Sombra crosses the Moral Event Horizon, Hope, the only real friend he'd ever had since childhood runs away from him in tears.
  Radiant Hope: They were right about you all along! You are a monster!
  • When Sombra's screaming about how it wasn't fair of Princess Amore to not tell him she knew his origins, and that no one ever loved him. Sure, at that point he's a crazy megalomaniac, but the crap that led him to it really was unfair.
  • One of the final lines of the issue is Sombra saying he knows that Luna and Celestia will be coming for him to do what they do best; Slay monsters. The young boy who just wanted a normal life with his best friend has fully embraced his heritage and sees himself as nothing but a monster.
• Issue #2 shows Tirek had a genuinely caring family that was trying to stop from falling into evil, and we know it won't be enough...
• Rainbow Rocks portrayed Starswirl's defeat of the Sirens as another of his praise-worthy accomplishments. Issue #3, he viewed it as his greatest failure that he had to had to resort to banishing them despite thinking they could be redeemed. How many other times would his seeming triumphs be met with such regret because he never understood the one magic...
• The Nyx in Issue #4 were an innocent people until Nightmare Moon faked friendship to corrupt them into the Nightmare Forces. Doran had enough of themselves left to regret being fooled and did what she could to oppose Nightmare Moon in secret. How many other Nyx were trapped like such? Reread Issues #5-8 of the main comic series again, Luna facing the Nightmare Forces, the longest lasting legacy of her crimes as Nightmare Moon, it was tough enough for her then, but in light of this...
  • Celestia's greatest nightmare, her failure to save Luna. It's bad enough seeing how it's affecting Celestia now, but she's going to keep living that nightmare for the next 1000 years.
• Issue #5: Despite everything Chrysalis has done, especially to her personally, Twilight Sparkle was still willing believe she could be redeemed, and what does she get for her for this supreme act of mercy? A No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, a questionably truthful recount of Chrysalis' origins just to mock her efforts, and she and the changeling army escaping under her watch. Even Twilight's friends call out how she messed up, all because she tried to be caring.

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