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* The initial nightmare Flash suffers from the Tantabus during "Do Princess's Dream of Magic Sheep". He watches all of his friends die right in front of him, lightning sticking all the homes in town and turning his friends to dust before his eyes, and he hears their voices taunting him over how he failed them and couldn't save them. Though things take a major MoodWhiplash when his [[AbsurdPhobia true worst fear]] is revealed, it does little to diminish the experience he went through before Luna and Trixie arrive to help.
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* The initial nightmare Flash suffers from the Tantabus during "Do Princess's Dream of Magic Sheep". He watches all of his friends die right in front of him, lightning sticking striking all the homes in town and turning his friends to dust before his eyes, and he hears their voices taunting him over how he failed them and couldn't save them. Though things take a major MoodWhiplash when his [[AbsurdPhobia true worst fear]] is revealed, it does little to diminish the experience he went through before Luna and Trixie arrive to help.
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* ''Lightning Siege'' begins with a VillainOpeningScene, where we get our first glimpse of Overthrow, the main villains of the story. New recruits are put through a DeathCourse with only the survivors joining. There are several descriptions of the ponies that don't make it, including being shot down by arrows, trapped in bear traps, cut by trip line wires, other obstacles like holes filled with spikes, nail covered swinging logs, and even a few landmines, and one pony falling into a lake filled with bite-acudas and being devoured by them. Their final test is being trapped in a cave that slowly starts to fill with gas that fills their lungs and "feels like acid", with all of them panicking and pushing against each other to try to get out of the gas. By the end of this, it is said that they started with fourty ponies, twenty five making it to the final test, and only seventeen survivors.
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* Armalum is a constant source of this throughout Season 9.
** A couple of chapters has him appear at the end after the villains have been defeated and seemingly saves them, only to simply ask them if they hate Flash Sentry. When they say they do, he does ''[[NothingIsScarier something]]'' to them.
** "Frenemies" confirms a few things about him. For one thing, he is ''not'' using Mean Flash as a new host, cause he ''no longer needs a host''. He has been empowered by Shadow's Corrupted Shadow and is literally being powered by [[ThePowerOfHate the hatred that Shadow, Shroudheart, and Mean Flash all felt for Flash Sentry]]. He confirms that he has been draining the hatred others have felt for Flash to power himself, subjecting them to a FateWorseThanDeath, and is saving it for his eventual confrontation with Flash. He also makes contact with the LegionOfDoom, informing them he knows from Shroudheart's memories that their plan will fail, and he agrees to team up with them in the final battle to help them deal with Flash and the other Royal Knights.
** Armalum teams up with the Legion of Doom again in "The Summer Sun Setback", needing their assistance so he can infiltrate the Crystal Penitentiary. After learning of the Rune Gates and how Solid Script made them, Armalum sneaks up on him and knocks him out, before using his powers to learn everything he needs to about the Rune Gates. He also notes how he could easily make Script turn the gates into bombs while he had him under his control, but knew this would be impossible to [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident dismiss this as an accident]] and [[PragmaticVillainy had to be smarter with his sabotage]].
** Armalum reaches the Rune Gate in the castle and manages to successfully infiltrate the Crystal Penitentiary. His first stop is his old teammate Storm Blade. He restores his memories, and Storm thinks he is breaking him out, even telling him where they can probably find the other cultists so he can restore their memories too. But then Armalum says he's not breaking Storm out and his plans to avenge Shadow don't include him, before draining him of his hatred for Flash too, with his screams filling the prison. He then moves on to [[EvilerThanThou every other prisoner Flash helped put away]], including Big Score and his cronies, Electra, Banshee, Shocker, even Doom Raizer and his two remaining minions. Unlike his other victims, we actually see the aftermath for all of these, with them having apparently suffered from RapidAging, like their life was sucked out of them. What's worse is, Armalum implies at the end of the chapter he plans to find the other ex-cultists and restore their memories so he can do the same thing to them too.
** A couple of chapters has him appear at the end after the villains have been defeated and seemingly saves them, only to simply ask them if they hate Flash Sentry. When they say they do, he does ''[[NothingIsScarier something]]'' to them.
** "Frenemies" confirms a few things about him. For one thing, he is ''not'' using Mean Flash as a new host, cause he ''no longer needs a host''. He has been empowered by Shadow's Corrupted Shadow and is literally being powered by [[ThePowerOfHate the hatred that Shadow, Shroudheart, and Mean Flash all felt for Flash Sentry]]. He confirms that he has been draining the hatred others have felt for Flash to power himself, subjecting them to a FateWorseThanDeath, and is saving it for his eventual confrontation with Flash. He also makes contact with the LegionOfDoom, informing them he knows from Shroudheart's memories that their plan will fail, and he agrees to team up with them in the final battle to help them deal with Flash and the other Royal Knights.
** Armalum teams up with the Legion of Doom again in "The Summer Sun Setback", needing their assistance so he can infiltrate the Crystal Penitentiary. After learning of the Rune Gates and how Solid Script made them, Armalum sneaks up on him and knocks him out, before using his powers to learn everything he needs to about the Rune Gates. He also notes how he could easily make Script turn the gates into bombs while he had him under his control, but knew this would be impossible to [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident dismiss this as an accident]] and [[PragmaticVillainy had to be smarter with his sabotage]].
** Armalum reaches the Rune Gate in the castle and manages to successfully infiltrate the Crystal Penitentiary. His first stop is his old teammate Storm Blade. He restores his memories, and Storm thinks he is breaking him out, even telling him where they can probably find the other cultists so he can restore their memories too. But then Armalum says he's not breaking Storm out and his plans to avenge Shadow don't include him, before draining him of his hatred for Flash too, with his screams filling the prison. He then moves on to [[EvilerThanThou every other prisoner Flash helped put away]], including Big Score and his cronies, Electra, Banshee, Shocker, even Doom Raizer and his two remaining minions. Unlike his other victims, we actually see the aftermath for all of these, with them having apparently suffered from RapidAging, like their life was sucked out of them. What's worse is, Armalum implies at the end of the chapter he plans to find the other ex-cultists and restore their memories so he can do the same thing to them too.
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** Shroudheart's assault on The Crystal Empire includes defeating Sombra and Ruby, and [[BrainwashedAndCrazy putting Ruby under his control with one of Sombra's mind-control helmets]]. He later considers turning Amore back to stone, but decides to keep her around so she will be ForcedToWatch what happens to her old kingdom. Finally, after he takes Flurry Heart hostage, he implies that he [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped Cadance back in his own universe]] and claims that her motherhood has only made her more appealing with a sadistic lick of his lips, perhaps implying he is planning to make her into a SexSlave.
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** Shroudheart's assault on The Crystal Empire includes defeating Sombra and Ruby, and [[BrainwashedAndCrazy putting Ruby under his control with one of Sombra's mind-control helmets]]. He later considers turning Amore back to stone, but decides to keep her around so she will be ForcedToWatch what happens to her old kingdom. Finally, after he takes Flurry Heart hostage, he implies that he [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped Cadance back in his own universe]] and claims that her motherhood has only made her more appealing with a sadistic lick of his lips, perhaps implying he is planning to make her into a SexSlave. He pretty much says the same thing to the Mane 6 after he destroys the Elements and Tree of Harmony.
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* Razor Fang is so convinced he is the Jakhowl of the prophecy, the one destined to defeat "the greatest threat the jakhowls ever faced" and lead them into a new golden age, that he refuses to believe he is wrong about any of his beliefs or consider the possibility the prophecy isn't about him. When it seems like the jakhowls and ponies are on the verge of making peace together, Razor refuses to see this as a good thing because he believes the ponies are their enemies who sealed them away, not believing it was actually the Umbrum, and so he murders Sirius and [[FrameUp frames the ponies for it]] as an excuse to [[TyrantTakesTheHelm make himself the new leader]] and declare war on Equestria like he has wanted for so long. He doesn't even realize how waging war would result in his entire tribe being wiped out, or that by doing this [[ProphecyTwist he has made]] ''[[ProphecyTwist himself]]'' [[ProphecyTwist into the threat the prophecy spoke of]].
* The Evil Flash from the Season 5 finale, now going by "Shroudheart", returns in ''Evil's Uprising'' as Sombra's replacement among the villains. And with his return comes a whole slur of nightmare fuel.
** He reveals after he was defeated, instead of being blasted back through time, he was blasted ''outside'' of it, ending up in a dimension where he didn't age, grow hungry, get tired, or do anything except ''exist''. He was left with nothing to do but watch the various universes play out around him, coming into and out of existence with simple choices. It is a lot like his AndIMustScream moment he suffered in Season 5, but this lasted for several millennia according to him. By the time he is free, he claims to now know everything that has happened in every timeline, including the canon one of the main show and several previous generations.
** When he goes to strike out on his own, he recruits Mean Flash into his plan. He reveals in every timeline he saw, Mean Flash always dies, either because his existence was discovered, because the real Flash killed him in self-defense, or because [[YourDaysAreNumbered the magic that brought him to life completely faded]]. With this knowledge, and with Shroudheart promising to help him survive, Mean Flash agrees to join him, while simultaneously declaring his own hatred of the real Flash, wanting to live the life he has for himself.
** Shroudheart's assault on The Crystal Empire includes defeating Sombra and Ruby, and [[BrainwashedAndCrazy putting Ruby under his control with one of Sombra's mind-control helmets]]. He later considers turning Amore back to stone, but decides to keep her around so she will be ForcedToWatch what happens to her old kingdom. Finally, after he takes Flurry Heart hostage, he implies that he [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped Cadance back in his own universe]] and claims that her motherhood has only made her more appealing with a sadistic lick of his lips, perhaps implying he is planning to make her into a SexSlave.
* The Evil Flash from the Season 5 finale, now going by "Shroudheart", returns in ''Evil's Uprising'' as Sombra's replacement among the villains. And with his return comes a whole slur of nightmare fuel.
** He reveals after he was defeated, instead of being blasted back through time, he was blasted ''outside'' of it, ending up in a dimension where he didn't age, grow hungry, get tired, or do anything except ''exist''. He was left with nothing to do but watch the various universes play out around him, coming into and out of existence with simple choices. It is a lot like his AndIMustScream moment he suffered in Season 5, but this lasted for several millennia according to him. By the time he is free, he claims to now know everything that has happened in every timeline, including the canon one of the main show and several previous generations.
** When he goes to strike out on his own, he recruits Mean Flash into his plan. He reveals in every timeline he saw, Mean Flash always dies, either because his existence was discovered, because the real Flash killed him in self-defense, or because [[YourDaysAreNumbered the magic that brought him to life completely faded]]. With this knowledge, and with Shroudheart promising to help him survive, Mean Flash agrees to join him, while simultaneously declaring his own hatred of the real Flash, wanting to live the life he has for himself.
** Shroudheart's assault on The Crystal Empire includes defeating Sombra and Ruby, and [[BrainwashedAndCrazy putting Ruby under his control with one of Sombra's mind-control helmets]]. He later considers turning Amore back to stone, but decides to keep her around so she will be ForcedToWatch what happens to her old kingdom. Finally, after he takes Flurry Heart hostage, he implies that he [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped Cadance back in his own universe]] and claims that her motherhood has only made her more appealing with a sadistic lick of his lips, perhaps implying he is planning to make her into a SexSlave.
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* In "A Returning Storm", Storm Blade makes his return. Unlike the rest of his amnesiac teammates, he did ''not'' turn over a new leaf after losing his memories, and instead actually seems to have gotten ''worse''.
** He has suffered a major case of SanitySlippage. wanting to know who he is and make whoever stole his memories pay, and [[EvilIsPetty anyone who can't give him the answers he seeks he attacks unprovoked]] due to them being "useless to him". He destroyed at least one village in this insane quest.
** When Flash and his team find the aftermath of one of his attacks, Cold investigates a destroyed house. After moving some rocks out of the way, he quickly drops them when he sees what's inside. [[GoryDiscretionShot We don't learn what he saw]], but his reaction and making sure Soul doesn't see implies that it was probably at least one dead body.
** Storm becomes so unhinged that he causes an active volcano to erupt, all just so the heroes will need to [[SadisticChoice choose between chasing him and letting all the villages in the area die or stopping it and letting him escape]].
** He has suffered a major case of SanitySlippage. wanting to know who he is and make whoever stole his memories pay, and [[EvilIsPetty anyone who can't give him the answers he seeks he attacks unprovoked]] due to them being "useless to him". He destroyed at least one village in this insane quest.
** When Flash and his team find the aftermath of one of his attacks, Cold investigates a destroyed house. After moving some rocks out of the way, he quickly drops them when he sees what's inside. [[GoryDiscretionShot We don't learn what he saw]], but his reaction and making sure Soul doesn't see implies that it was probably at least one dead body.
** Storm becomes so unhinged that he causes an active volcano to erupt, all just so the heroes will need to [[SadisticChoice choose between chasing him and letting all the villages in the area die or stopping it and letting him escape]].
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* When Fire Heart removes his bandages in ''School's in Session'', everyone sees that his fur has grown back properly but his hoof now has a long scar. Flash, Twilight, and Spike all recognize it as being the exact same scar as the one his [[FutureBadass future adult self]] had, and this is the most Heart will heal from that injury. This also means that the future that the adult Fire Heart told Flash about, where he sacrifices himself to save everyone, is still happening. [[YourDaysAreNumbered Flash's fateful day is slowly approaching]], and he still doesn't know what he is going to do to change his fate.
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* The AdultFear of Fire Heart and Shining Soul, two young kids, being stuck in the city of Faust by themselves for three years. They don't even know how they got there to begin with, they just woke up one day and found themselves there all alone.
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* The AdultFear of Fire Heart and Shining Soul, two young kids, being stuck in the city of Faust by themselves for three years. They don't even know how they got there to begin with, they just woke up one day and found themselves there all alone.
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* In "The Bug and the Knight", Flurry Heart is [[AdultFear almost kidnapped]] by a mysterious assailant in the middle of the night, with her only being rescued because Thorax and Hiveena just happened to be walking by together and hear the commotion, leaping into action to save her. Then not long after this incident, the one who hired that assailant, Hard Sell, attempts to '''[[WouldHurtAChild murder]]''' Flurry Heart himself, due to believing that she is too dangerous to be kept alive with her powers at her age and could destroy Equestria if she goes down the wrong path. Though the combined efforts of Hiveena and Ruby prevent this, the event reveals to Shining Armor and Cadance that other ponies are also afraid of what their daughter ''could'' become, showing what Flurry will face as she grows up.
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* In "The Bug and the Knight", Flurry Heart is [[AdultFear almost kidnapped]] kidnapped by a mysterious assailant in the middle of the night, with her only being rescued because Thorax and Hiveena just happened to be walking by together and hear the commotion, leaping into action to save her. Then not long after this incident, the one who hired that assailant, Hard Sell, attempts to '''[[WouldHurtAChild murder]]''' Flurry Heart himself, due to believing that she is too dangerous to be kept alive with her powers at her age and could destroy Equestria if she goes down the wrong path. Though the combined efforts of Hiveena and Ruby prevent this, the event reveals to Shining Armor and Cadance that other ponies are also afraid of what their daughter ''could'' become, showing what Flurry will face as she grows up.
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* During the adaptation of "Forgotten Friendship", Human Flash ends up getting kidnapped by Wallflower Blush after she realizes he still has his memories of Sunset being good, and she uses the Memory Stone to make everyone forget about ''him'' too. This is AdultFear, being kidnapped and nobody coming after you since nobody remembers you.
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* During the adaptation of "Forgotten Friendship", Human Flash ends up getting kidnapped by Wallflower Blush after she realizes he still has his memories of Sunset being good, and she uses the Memory Stone to make everyone forget about ''him'' too. This is AdultFear, Imagine being kidnapped and nobody coming after you since nobody remembers you.
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* During "Reinforcements from the Future", a evil rogue changeling from the future travels back in time using a Time Stone to sabatoge the conference the princesses are having with Thorax and Ember. In the future, this conference suceeds and is the start of an alliance between ponies, dragons, and changelings that eventually evolves into a Federation between all creatures and kingdoms, but this one stubborn drone wants to sabatoge all of that so the changeelings can return to their old ways, believing that is what they are meant to be. When Twilight informs everyone of this at the conference, Ember voices how much time travel freaks her out, since they have no idea if they are living in an altered timeline or what the "original" is even suppsoed to be like, and for all she knows she was never meant to be Dragon Lord and it happened [[ButterflyOfDoom because someone went back in time and stepped on a bug]].
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* During "Reinforcements from the Future", a evil rogue changeling from the future travels back in time using a Time Stone to sabatoge sabotage the conference the princesses are having with Thorax and Ember. In the future, this conference suceeds succeeds and is the start of an alliance between ponies, dragons, and changelings that eventually evolves into a Federation between all creatures and kingdoms, but this one stubborn drone wants to sabatoge sabotage all of that so the changeelings changelings can return to their old ways, believing that is what they are meant to be. When Twilight informs everyone of this at the conference, Ember voices how much time travel freaks her out, since they have no idea if they are living in an altered timeline or what the "original" is even suppsoed supposed to be like, and for all she knows she was never meant to be Dragon Lord and it happened [[ButterflyOfDoom because someone went back in time and stepped on a bug]].bug]].
* During the adaptation of "Forgotten Friendship", Human Flash ends up getting kidnapped by Wallflower Blush after she realizes he still has his memories of Sunset being good, and she uses the Memory Stone to make everyone forget about ''him'' too. This is AdultFear, being kidnapped and nobody coming after you since nobody remembers you.
* While Grubber is carrying Ace after he has been petrified by an Obsidian Orb over to where the petrified Derpy and Mira are, he complains about how he is being forced to do this because he isn't higher up on the authority chain due to Void and Armalum showing up and briefly considers breaking Ace into smaller pieces to make it easier on himself. Thankfully he decides not to, but only after Starlight [[AintTooProudToBeg begs him not to hurt him]] and offers to move it for him if it is too much trouble for him, but it is still a [[AdaptationalVillainy pretty dark moment for Grubber]].
* During the adaptation of "Forgotten Friendship", Human Flash ends up getting kidnapped by Wallflower Blush after she realizes he still has his memories of Sunset being good, and she uses the Memory Stone to make everyone forget about ''him'' too. This is AdultFear, being kidnapped and nobody coming after you since nobody remembers you.
* While Grubber is carrying Ace after he has been petrified by an Obsidian Orb over to where the petrified Derpy and Mira are, he complains about how he is being forced to do this because he isn't higher up on the authority chain due to Void and Armalum showing up and briefly considers breaking Ace into smaller pieces to make it easier on himself. Thankfully he decides not to, but only after Starlight [[AintTooProudToBeg begs him not to hurt him]] and offers to move it for him if it is too much trouble for him, but it is still a [[AdaptationalVillainy pretty dark moment for Grubber]].
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* During "Reinforcements from the Future", a evil rogue changeling from the future travels back in time using a Time Stone to sabatoge the conference the princesses are having with Thorax and Ember. In the future, this conference suceeds and is the start of an alliance between ponies, dragons, and changelings that eventually evolves into a Federation between all creatures and kingdoms, but this one stubborn drone wants to sabatoge all of that so the changeelings can return to their old ways, believing that is what they are meant to be. When Twilight informs everyone of this at the conference, Ember voices how much time travel freaks her out, since they have no idea if they are living in an altered timeline or what the "original" is even suppsoed to be like, and for all she knows she was never meant to be Dragon Lord and it happened because [[ButterflyOfDoom because someone went back in time and stepped on a bug]].
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* During "Reinforcements from the Future", a evil rogue changeling from the future travels back in time using a Time Stone to sabatoge the conference the princesses are having with Thorax and Ember. In the future, this conference suceeds and is the start of an alliance between ponies, dragons, and changelings that eventually evolves into a Federation between all creatures and kingdoms, but this one stubborn drone wants to sabatoge all of that so the changeelings can return to their old ways, believing that is what they are meant to be. When Twilight informs everyone of this at the conference, Ember voices how much time travel freaks her out, since they have no idea if they are living in an altered timeline or what the "original" is even suppsoed to be like, and for all she knows she was never meant to be Dragon Lord and it happened because [[ButterflyOfDoom because someone went back in time and stepped on a bug]].
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* During "Reinforcements from the Future", a evil rogue changeling from the future travels back in time using a Time Stone to sabatoge the conference the princesses are having with Thorax and Ember. In the future, this conference suceeds and is the start of an alliance between ponies, dragons, and changelings that eventually evolves into a Federation between all creatures and kingdoms, but this one stubborn drone wants to sabatoge all of that so the changeelings can return to their old ways, believing that is what they are meant to be. When Twilight informs everyone of this at the conference, Ember voices how much time travel freaks her out, since they have no idea if they are living in an altered timeline or what the "original" is even suppsoed to be like, and for all she knows she was never meant to be Dragon Lord and it happened because [[ButterflyOfDoom because someone went back in time and stepped on a bug]].
