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Cozy Glow: “WHAAAAAT?! We were on the same side all this time?!”
 
Chrysalis: “Okay…wasn’t expecting that…”
 
Tirek: “HELL YEAH!”
 
Thorax: “My Queen, I’m sorry for betraying you, but I was following Spike’s orders for the welfare of all changelings!”
 
Grogar: “You’ve been a trustful ally for my cause, all those years, Master Spike.”
 
Spike: “When I’m done with them, those ponies will learn to not accept a snake amongst themselves!”
 
Starlight: “I can’t wait to show you all my plans to broke Twilight’s will! We’ll have so much fun!”
 
Sunset: “I can’t wait! It’s getting harder and harder to fool those idiots on the other side.”
 
Trixie: “Hmph!”
 
Discord: “We two traitors, in the same side… Ironic, isn’t it?”
 
Luna: “…”

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nightshroud96
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).

While the image is pretty crazy, I do have thoughts on what-if Spike snaps and turns on the girls.  
With all the crap he went through, a what-if where some villain uses that to persuade Spike to give in and turn against the heroes.  
I mean, Spike is pretty much like Stygian and Luna in a way. If the girls are not careful, Spike might end up what Stygian and Luna ended up as.
Background Pony #8A0D
Ugg no! I love Sunset Shimmer! She sucked as a villain, glad Rebecca plays a noble and honourable mare.
Dark Dash

Realistically, there are a few possibilities here. Chrysalis, Cozy, and Tirek are all already on the same page, so we can put them off to the side.
 
Starlight I can see her in a position where she betrays Twilight. Looking back, Starlight’s only loyalties to the core group are to Twilight and Spike because they live together. The others hardly interact with her beyond situations where they’re forced together. So if her loyalty to Twilight is a facade, then its not hard to believe that she’d seize an opportunity to be protected by Grogar’s legion of villains in the event that she acts on her ideas of betrayal. To this end though, I wonder if her previous ideals of equality would influence her role in the Legion, or if she’d adopt a new mindset after what she witnessed in one of those alternate timelines.
 
Trixie has no loyalties to the Mane Six, her loyalties are to Starlight. So if Starlight truly was pulling a long-con to betray Twilight, then there’s no doubt Trixie would want to be a part of it.
 
Sunset, for her part, would probably take a liking to Starlight since they can relate to each other and have had positive experiences together in the past. However, Sunset also is probably the most well developed character in the show and I can’t imagine all of it being a facade that she’d put on to bide her time. So I’m not buying it with Sunset.
 
Luna is a tough one to judge, but I could see her betraying her sister again based upon their difficult relationship with each other. Seeing as how they continue to periodically fight with each other, even as they’ve always made up with each other in the end. I can believe that she might engage in an actual battle with Celestia again if she was assured that the others would support her if she needed assistance. Though I also doubt that Luna would submit to Grogar’s rule. So I’d say that I could see her joining the villains here as a means to her own ends.
 
Discord I’m not buying at all because of his dedication to Fluttershy being far too strong to be a lie. I don’t think he’d go along with the others unless he was assured of her safety during the inevitable attack.
 
Thorax is a bit weird here, since I can’t see him willingly working with Chrysalis, and vice versa, because of their history together. On the other hand, if Starlight and Trixie are on board, he might be willing to listen since he’s pretty close to them. So I could see him working as a villain if he’s there with Starlight and Trixie, but it would probably end up leading to a situation where either he or Chrysalis has to go.
 
Spike is completely unbelievable in this scenario because, unless he was mind controlled, I could never see him working against his first and closest friends in the Mane Six. This is a scenario in which I can’t think of a reason as to why he’d even think of doing any of this. Even if Twilight’s safety was assured to him, I can’t imagine him being alright with the others being in danger. I also doubt that Grogar, or any of the other villains for that matter, being alright with letting Twilight or the others being unharmed considering they pose the greatest threat to them.
 
All in all, I can believe Starlight and Trixie without much difficulty, and maybe Luna and Thorax as well depending on if certain conditions present themselves. Sunset and Discord are kind of wild cards at best because I could see them going either way, but probably more toward being heroes than villains because of their experiences. Spike is the one that really throws me off as completely improbable because of how unlikely it’d be for him to be in this position.
 
Other villains not present here, like the Storm King and King Sombra, are kind of null and void because they are both too vain to accept another’s rule for even a few moments.
 
In any case, this is an interesting concept with all of these villains in one room together, and I can enjoy the various possibilities as far as their relationships with each other go. Seeing how some of them interact would be pretty interesting.
Aknes

@AC97  
Oh, that is a good point. I’d wager then that Starlight just has some of the traits, like a lack of empathy in general rather than a specific disorder (at least, not any that I know about)…
 
You’re right about Lightning Dust though, that reckless psycho would have to be to do the things she’s done…rocking pompadour though.
AC97
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@Fwelin
 
Yeah, sociopaths aren’t necessarily evil… and I don’t think Starlight is a sociopath to begin with. It’s way too possible for her to feel shame, even at her worst (a sociopath wouldn’t have done what she did in Uncommon Bond, for instance, period). One of the signs of a sociopath are shallow emotions, which just doesn’t check out with Starlight at all.
 
For someone who quite possibly is a sociopath, Lightning Dust checks out. She can be pleasant to be around, as long as you know what you’re doing. (I would never, ever trust her, until proven otherwise, though)
 
As far as Trixie goes, she was narcissistic enough to blame Twilight for “upstaging her…” by saving everyone’s lives, and sought out a dark magical artifact to exact revenge. She is far more decent than your average person with that trait though, because she did try to take on the Ursa Minor in her debut, she can care about others, and she can be a hero.
Aknes

@Thorned Rose Ninja  
With you on Starlight, and I agree that Spike being evil all along would be silly (now him falling to darkness for one reason or another, abuse or just plain being told the right/wrong things, well…)
Background Pony #4493
@Thorned Rose Ninja  
And then it all turns out to be a lie when it’s revealed that Grogar meddled with Spike’s egg, sent it to Equestria, and had him infiltrate the kingdom as he grew up.
 
Imagine how heartbroken Twilight would be if she learns that her #1 assistant and companion never really cared about her and won’t hesitate to destroy her…
Thorned Rose Ninja
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We’ve already seen Starlight revert to her old ‘mind controlling’ ways in “Every Little Thing She Does” and not learn her lesson about abusing magic in “All Bottled Up” along with Trixie. I love those two episodes because of the hints they give that Starlight really is essentially a sociopath, in my opinion.
 
I would be relieved if Starlight turned out to be faking her redemption. I feel Starlight’s post-Season 5 efforts to “play nice” result in a…bleh…personality given what we know she’s capable of, but that’s really the fault of lazy writing.
 
 
I don’t buy Spike being evil, though. Sure, I’ve seen compilation videos of him as a butt monkey getting knocked around for slapstick purposes (such as used for bucking during the Iron Pony competition). And I get that he’s being intentionally kept ‘greedless’ after “Secret of My Excess”. But I see him as a genuinely nice person who loves his Mane 6 pony family.
Background Pony #3308
@Background Pony #CD0C  
Don’t forget that, Luna and Discord are still don’t like each other very much, due to their past of what happended 1000 years ago.
 
Cozy and Chrysalis won’t gonna like being in the same side with Starlight Glimmer.
 
Discord would hate to see Tirek again.
BiggerNate91
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@Background Pony #B924  
I’m now picturing Spike in Johann’s role…
 
*Legion admires Bewitching Bell*
 
Grogar: “Be careful with that! It’s a very powerful magic weapon!”
 
Spike: “And I nearly risked revealing everything to get it back.” *steps out of the shadows*
Background Pony #E71A
You forgot Stygian.
 
By the way, how will Starlight spread communism with many villains playing along?  
How will Discord spread trumpy chaos?
 
And how will Big Macintosh think if he found Spike and Discord like this?
 
How will Ocellus still thinks about Thorax and five of her best friends? What will she values the most? Please don’t make it too sad.
 
How will Sunburst thinks if he found Starlight and Trixie like this?
 
How will the royal guards think of Queen Luna if they found her here?
 
How will Twilight and other Mane 6 think of Spike and Discord if they found him here?
 
Where are Dr Cabelleron, Ahuzotl, Flam Flam?
 
Sooo many questions about friendships vs betrayal. (Don’t take this too seriously tho, I know this image is a “what if?” joke, like how Starswirl’s fears and doubts of villains redeemability would happen)
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The ONLY characters I can actually buy this with would be if Cozy, Tirek, and Chrysalis temporarily joined with the mane 6 to defeat Grogar.
 
Everyone else, it’s way too late to pull that card.