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If I had a nickel for every time I drew a stupid picture that featured Discord quoting Homer Simpson, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it’s happened twice.
Seriously though, you can all picture this exchange happening between these two, right? Tell me I’m not the only one who sees it.

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Andyxdr
Solar Guardian - Refused to surrender in the face of the Lunar rebellion and showed utmost loyalty to the Solar Empire (April Fools 2023).
Cool Crow - "Caw!" An awesome tagger
Magnificent Metadata Maniac - #1 Assistant
Artist -
Preenhub - We all know what you were up to this evening~

Glowin' up!
@Brass Melody
All that is subjective no matter what you say. He did all those things because he thought it was for the greater good. You can’t force anyone to hate what you hate.
CORDZ2000
Solar Hero - Went above and beyond for the Solar Deity, drawing from the power of the sun itself to bring balance to the fight against the Lunar Insurrection (April Fools 2023).

Draconequues Lover zcord
@Background Pony #BCCA
Yes he shouldn’t have done it. But Discord betrayed them in s4 because they didn’t treat him like a friend. In didn’t understand him. Even during the betrayal u can see key moments of remorse. Tirek offered to be his friend and to be able to do what he wants.
It wasn’t designed to fail at all, Infact I think that discord has the most realistic redemption/reformation arc in the entire series. I found discord more interesting as morally gray character slowly learning to be good than a outright mostache twirling villain. There is only one objectively bad episode for discord post reformation and that is matter of principals. Every other episode is discord either trying to help in his own way or messing up but learning a lesson, genuinely apologizing, recognizing his faults and then slightly improving more and more. He learned the value of love, he learned how to ask to be invovled/ different friends for different things, he expanded his friend group and becomes completely genuine in trying to help his friends in his own way in the final season. Heck in EVERY episode in s9 he was trying to help his friends even when he messed up.
Discord saw that Twilight was freaking out about her new role as the ruler of Equestria and went out on a mission to help his friend. Twilight is capable of ruling Equestria which is why he gave them the speech to remind them of their abilities in the s9 premiere, thats partly why he did his plan. Therefore to him there was no true danger in his misguided mind but ultimately good heart. Because to him, he knew she would succeed and in the end gain confidence in herself to be the ruler. Discord did it because he cares alot about Twilight and once he realized his mistake, put himself in harms way to free Starlight so she can free the other prisoners. Then can be seen helping hold off the trio.
Yes his flaws are serious because with his level of power and mindset things are bound to be far more chaotic than with anyone else. Yes he is like a kid in many ways. He is often surprised and has to come to understand what he did wrong at first. Discord is the definition of Rousseau was right. Don’t u remember the Return of Harmony: ‘I never had a friend before’, expecting anyone with no companionship, no parents, no moral guidelines to be a morally upstanding person especially a God of Chaos in a Day or Two who has to keep at least some of his edge or he literally gets punished with disappearing is absurd but I guess to take a page from discord…
what is the fun in making sense?
Background Pony #BCCA
@CORDZ2000
His mistakes are deliberately cruel. For example, I remember in the end of the Season 4 how he betrayed his so-called friends, Twilight and company with Lord Tirek, when Twilight and the rest of the ponies trusted him and thought he was a hope for the new villain in turn. But in the end, Tirek betrayed Discord too, assimilating his magic, and discarding him like nothing. Seriously? Discord is learning how to be a better person and trusting in a villain with clearly hostile intentions while leaving who supposedly are his friend behind? Discord is not that innocent how do you wanna paint him, he’s not like a little child who cannot distinguish the evil from the good. If that were true, then he wouldn’t be so conscious about his actions and the chaos he causes, which is more like a fun party than a real threat for him.
Initially, Discord was functional has a villain because all the cahotic atmoshpere surrounding him and his personality were excellent for a villain who is only looking to cause chaos and destruction only for fun, but at the same time he’s just like an arrogant clown looking for fun, and not a deranged psycho (Because you know, it’s a show for kids) so he was painted as a creature with a crazy nature who’s enterely concious about the damage he’s doing, yet he doesn’t care because all he’s doing is for his own fun. However when the writes thought it was a brillant idea to convert him as an ally, everything fell apart, for the things I said before: His personality and powers were designed for a villain, not for a good friend; I guess even the writers knew that, and it’s probably they were struggling with making Discord as a good character whithout ruining his characteristics, yet it all was in vain. At the end, I think Discord should remanined as a villain. The poor intent of making him an ally was designed to fail since the start.
Discord believed in Twilight’s ability to rule so he tried to make sure that she would believe in herself to do so and therefore would be prepared to take the throne to rule Equestria willing planning to act as a safety net but failed as a safety net due to his establised flaws. (Celestia has done similar throughout the series to a lesser extent)
He gave to the villains a destructive artifact which were owned by Grogar, one of the most dangerous foes from Equestria. If he was so sure about Twilight ruling Equestria, then why giving this artifact to the villains? Why causing more pain, suffering and chaos, if this was consequently a big obstacle for Twilight and her friends in the task of ruling Equestria? And why causing all this if Twilight was already a veteran dealing with villains and she showed her hability to quickly learn about different things? She quickly learned about the friendship, she quickly learned how to control her magic despite of beign an alicorn princess when she were originally a normal unicorn, and even she defended Equestria with her own hooves. In fact, she defeated Discord, she defeated Tirek when Discord betrayed her and the rest of her friends, and she overcame the strange accursed plants growing as a plague in Equestria at the beggining of the Season 4. Twilight is more than capable to ruling Equestria, and even if she’s not 100% qualified yet, she have some years extension to learn since she’s pretty intelligent, despite of how insecure she can be sometimes.
Discord doesn’t have any faith in Twilight. And believing giving her another menance to Equestria was a good idea is ridiculous. If Discord thinks Twilight can’t rule Equestria, sending her another group of villains to combat like she has been doing for years won’t change anything at all. And if Discord truly thinks Twilight can rule Equestria, then why doing all this mess in the first place?
And please, stop trivializing his crimes as simply flaws like everyone else. Discord has flaws, yes, but since you said his nature is chaotic, those flaws are something serious than shouldn’t be just called like that.
CORDZ2000
Solar Hero - Went above and beyond for the Solar Deity, drawing from the power of the sun itself to bring balance to the fight against the Lunar Insurrection (April Fools 2023).

Draconequues Lover zcord
If u take your advice on dwk with discord then your gonna have the most negative interpretation possible. Now this isn’t about whether someone should like discord or not. But more of understanding/different view of his character.
He does the wrong thing most of the time because he’s still learning to be a better person but he grows more and more each time with each mistake. In some ways Discord is a kid who got to do whatever he want for so many years and it isn’t till fluttershy were he has to learn to improve. Anyone who has experienced it such as myself knows how hard it is first hand to become a better person. He tries to help twilight in his own chaotic way. Antiheroes are morally questionable/very flawed characters that aren’t good or evil, a common trait of all antiheroes is being well intentioned but going about it in a moral way that defers from the norm. Also whether someone likes it or not, discordant harmony gave us a reasoning for how he works, its literally in the show. He inherently has a chaotic mindset.
For examples stated here that are made to be make him look selfish but are actually selfless and show his growth
Discord believed in Twilight’s ability to rule so he tried to make sure that she would believe in herself to do so and therefore would be prepared to take the throne to rule Equestria willing planning to act as a safety net but failed as a safety net due to his establised flaws. (Celestia has done similar throughout the series to a lesser extent)
He petrified the trio only after the trio stated that they will always return to harm them/Equestria and refuse to change.
He is trying to get rid of magic, because he personally experienced how it causes division between ponies and is trying to ensure peace in Equestria. (Twilight also got rid of magic)
CORDZ2000
Solar Hero - Went above and beyond for the Solar Deity, drawing from the power of the sun itself to bring balance to the fight against the Lunar Insurrection (April Fools 2023).

Draconequues Lover zcord
That’s subjective.
“Hey I don’t feel like Twilight earned her chance to become the future ruler of the nation despite saving it several times over and even bringing back its own defenders, so I’m going to organize a test behind everyone’s backs and unite three or four of the greatest threats to challenge her and her friends for the right to rule. What could go wrong?”
One two-parter later
“Okay so I nearly wrecked the world once again and drove us to the brink of the olden days when we hated each other. Can I help you petrify these people so we can call us good?”
Flash forward to the G5 comics
“I couldn’t stop screwing with people because I was bored with the peace and now I’m going to destroy the thing that brought back magic because getting rid of magic in this world hasn’t led to major disasters before or anything.”
your either trolling or need to hear a different view not surrounded by the haters
Background Pony #BCCA
@Brass Melody
Reading your arguments, I remember some guy once said all the Discord’s actions are justified because it’s just his nature, implying somehow that make things better. But the flaw with that declaration is, we can assume the Discord’s nature is cahotic and unestable, so, can you tell me how the hell did he magically quit that nature to become more intelligent and rational, to emulate perfectly the arrogant and dangerous Grogar’s personaltiy? This makes Discord EVEN MORE dangerous, because all his magical powers are incredibly superior, but he can use them in an organized way more than only a chaotic way, like in past seasons. This makes me wonder, what if the rest of the villains choosed to remain loyal to Grogar and give him the magic bell? What if Discord had the bell in his hands? Would he destroy the whole Equestria, or even the whole planet just because he was bored? … I’m just suprised how there’s still remain people who think Discord did nothing wrong and the end of the series was perfect.
Brass Melody
Solar Supporter - Fought against the New Lunar Republic rebellion on the side of the Solar Deity (April Fools 2023).
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Wallet After Summer Sale -

Gas Loving Baritone Butt
That’s subjective.
“Hey I don’t feel like Twilight earned her chance to become the future ruler of the nation despite saving it several times over and even bringing back its own defenders, so I’m going to organize a test behind everyone’s backs and unite three or four of the greatest threats to challenge her and her friends for the right to rule. What could go wrong?”
One two-parter later
“Okay so I nearly wrecked the world once again and drove us to the brink of the olden days when we hated each other. Can I help you petrify these people so we can call us good?”
Flash forward to the G5 comics
“I couldn’t stop screwing with people because I was bored with the peace and now I’m going to destroy the thing that brought back magic because getting rid of magic in this world hasn’t led to major disasters before or anything.”
Andyxdr
Solar Guardian - Refused to surrender in the face of the Lunar rebellion and showed utmost loyalty to the Solar Empire (April Fools 2023).
Cool Crow - "Caw!" An awesome tagger
Magnificent Metadata Maniac - #1 Assistant
Artist -
Preenhub - We all know what you were up to this evening~

Glowin' up!
what he did in the last season of FiM completely ruined any chance he had at being considered redeemed.
That’s subjective. Also, not everyone will agree with DWK no matter how much effort he put into his argument. Honestly, a lot of Discord haters themselves don’t strike me as saints.
Brass Melody
Solar Supporter - Fought against the New Lunar Republic rebellion on the side of the Solar Deity (April Fools 2023).
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Wallet After Summer Sale -

Gas Loving Baritone Butt
@Andyxdr
DWK put it better than we can but to make a long story short, despite developing a connection to Fluttershy, he’s learned nothing about the consequences of his meddling and manipulating. He STILL screws with everyone to a detriment, still acts like the smartest guy in the room, still fails to live up to it, and when called out on it, he either leaves to be sad or chokes out an apology if he absolutely must.
And like @Background Pony #8110 said, what he did in the last season of FiM completely ruined any chance he had at being considered redeemed.
Andyxdr
Solar Guardian - Refused to surrender in the face of the Lunar rebellion and showed utmost loyalty to the Solar Empire (April Fools 2023).
Cool Crow - "Caw!" An awesome tagger
Magnificent Metadata Maniac - #1 Assistant
Artist -
Preenhub - We all know what you were up to this evening~

Glowin' up!
@Background Pony #8110
Honestly, if I had to choose between hanging out with you or Discord, I’d hang out with him because you guys are prone to disregarding how turning him back to stone would make his fans feel. Why are you guys so unforgiving? I also feel like your insistence upon turning Discord back to stone has some selfishness in it because of the disregard for his fans I mentioned.
Background Pony #0BD3
The only times Discord was not a literal lower intestine was when he was expressing concern for Fluttershy in distress. Sadly those moments passed quickly and we’re immediately forgotten.