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It's because their story is so honestly depressing that they become the most sympathetic of all the villains, even in spite of most of them really having no redeeming qualities. From the moment they were thrust into the world their options were "disobey Chrysalis and die" or "be Chrysalis' slaves and probably die when she's done with them", and all they wanted was to not be slaves. Their entire existence is basically a desperate struggle to stay alive, which they fail in the end and are killed for while the person responsible for all their wrongdoing and suffering walked free, and nobody cries for them or even knows or cares they existed. Even then, they largely act on impulse and really don't seem to be deliberately doing wrong, instead only deliberately doing things to further getting free. Worse still, even if they lived, they'd be disregarded by the ponies as "just clones", misunderstood, uncared for, and probably face the same fate as the mirror pool clones and a similar "they're not 'real' so they're just a problem that needs to go away" logic. Their story is depressing in an almost poetic way, like something out of Blade Runner, it's fascinating how sad their plight actually was.
[@redweasel](/images/2523668#comment_9446656)
That's another aspect of it, too. The changelings were pretty gleefully evil in their first appearance. Like, cackling with evil satisfaction when they were winning, targeting children and families, and just causing wholesale destruction for the hell of it. They actually went a lot farther in doing evil than the Mean Six :P
[@Wayneponeth](/images/2523668#comment_9446893
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The bribery was a long time ago. I should have added dates to make the context more clear. The whole "I lived bitch" thing is based on this meme :D
Mean Twi is taunting the Mane Six for having survived the Tree of Harmony's attack, but she's not realizing the Mane Six didn't actually know about her in the first place XD
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It's because their story is so honestly depressing that they become the most sympathetic of all the villains, even in spite of most of them really having no redeeming qualities. From the moment they were thrust into the world their options were "disobey Chrysalis and die" or "be Chrysalis' slaves and probably die when she's done with them", and all they wanted was to not be slaves. Their entire existence is basically a desperate struggle to stay alive, which they fail in the end and are killed for while the person responsible for all their wrongdoing and suffering walked free, and nobody cries for them or even knows or cares they existed. Even then, they largely act on impulse and really don't seem to be deliberately doing wrong, instead only deliberately doing things to further getting free. Worse still, even if they lived, they'd be disregarded by the ponies as "just clones", misunderstood, uncared for, and probably face the same fate as the mirror pool clones and a similar "they're not 'real' so they're just a problem that needs to go away" logic. Their story is depressing in an almost poetic way, like something out of Blade Runner, it's fascinating how sad their plight actually was.
[@redweasel](/images/2523668#comment_9446656)
That's another aspect of it, too. The changelings were pretty gleefully evil in their first appearance. Like, cackling with evil satisfaction when they were winning, targeting children and families, and just causing wholesale destruction for the hell of it. They actually went a lot farther in doing evil than the Mean Six :P
[@Wayneponeth](/images/2523668#comment_9446893
The bribery was a long time ago. I should have added dates to make the context more clear. The whole "I lived bitch" thing is based on this meme :D
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Mean Twi is taunting the Mane Six for having survived the Tree of Harmony's attack, but she's not realizing the Mane Six didn't actually know about her in the first place XD