My crystal slaves....
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The Crystal Empire Part 1 and 2
- King Sombra is one of the more terrifying villains in this show. He appears to be a representation of fear, so this makes sense.
- In-universe: the reaction of the Crystal Pony Twilight talks to when thinking about King Sombra. The way she says she doesn't want to remember King Sombra's reign involved outright slavery. From the general reactions of the Crystal Ponies, they are clearly traumatized by the experience.
- Judging from past villains, it was expected he'd ham it up but he doesn't. He attacks the group as a giant monster made of shadows that becomes an Advancing Wall of Doom, the only noises are his terrifying roars or a few lines spoken in a deep, growling tone.
- One of Sombra's traps involves literal nightmares, trapping the victim in a nightmare that is inescapable unless someone else wakes them up.
- Sombra comes very close to catching Spike and the Crystal Heart. It's not clear what he intended to do to him, but he was licking his lips in anticipation.
- In Twilight's nightmare, one of the mosaics show Sombra's victory, with Twilight hurling down onto crystal spikes that are engulfed by a pit of flames while a truly terrifying depiction of Sombra looks on. He most certainly outdid Discord in the 'horrifying things depicted in stained glass' category.
- Sombra's Evil Laugh. Every other villain tends to have a Large Ham one — and often while holding the Villain Ball. His? A deep, primal chuckle that the whole Empire can hear.
- Pinkie Pie is revealed to own skintight suits of her friends. Fluttershy, for one, is visibly disturbed by this development, especially because Pinkie was wearing a costume of her.
Too Many Pinkie Pies
- Twilight dispatches the Pinkie clones by zapping them with magic that inflates them into bizarre fleshy balloons that then pop into pink sparkles. It's very sudden and freaky, and the real Pinkie was in danger of being transformed by accident.
- One clone turns into G3 Pinkie Pie, which has a jarringly different art style.
Magic Duel
- Trixie has quite the knack for causing Body Horror with her spells in this episode.
- The Alicorn Amulet made Trixie go Drunk on the Dark Side. The idea something like that exists in this world is rather terrifying to say the least and it's sold in a shady shop similar to Borgin and Burkes for anyone with money to buy.
- What's the first thing Trixie does upon exiling Twilight? Why, take over Ponyville and enslave its people, of course! She cuts off Ponyville's connections to the rest of the world, holds the Mayor hostage, and forces the ponies to dance for her and serve her every whim. Then she vows to overthrow Celestia and Luna themselves and take Equestria for her own. Good thing Twilight managed to get that Amulet away from her before she was too far gone.
- Trixie uses a spell that looks like pink lightning on Rainbow Dash... who promptly starts laughing and asks her to stop because it tickles. Trixie is confused, because that spell was supposed to make her writhe in agony. So pain spells not only exist in this world, but Trixie was willing to use one!
Sleepless in Ponyville
- The Headless Horse in Scootaloo's nightmare.
- The nightmare about the Olden Pony, especially when she does a Jump Scare from Rainbow's bed."Who's got my rusty horseshoe?"
Wonderbolts Academy
- The destruction of the Twinkling Balloon and seeing the Mane Cast sans Rainbow Dash screaming in terror as they plummet to their deaths. Made worse by the fact that Rainbow Dash herself was partly responsible for making that tornado that destroyed said balloon.
- Think about it from Dash's perspective: she may be super-competitive, but she wouldn't be able to live with herself if said competitiveness ended up hospitalizing or even killing her best friends. If the worst had happened, more then blaming Lightning Dust for her indifference to reckless endangerment, she'd have blamed herself infinitely more.
Keep Calm and Flutter On
- Discord states that he could hear every word that Celestia said while he was in stone. So does that mean that he was sentient for the past year he was frozen, still thinking while being unable to move? What about the thousand years he was first frozen?
Magical Mystery Cure
- It's disturbing that Twilight can accidentally switch her friends' destinies. Twilight herself definitely thinks so. It's made worse that the others don't remember their former lives, and are resigned to being terrible at what they think they must do. Made even more disturbing since it likely means the five don't remember their families. Whether or not their relatives suffer the same memory alterations is unknown.
- At the end, everybody's back to normal, everyone's happy, a celebration is in order!...then the magic goes apeshit and destroys Twilight, leaving a massive burn mark on the floor.
