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#My little pony princess twilight sparkle evil series#

Sombra appears as they near the city, but Shining Armor arrives and protects them as they race for cover within a magic shield around the city. Twilight travels with her pony friends, as well as Spike, to the arctic where the empire is located. Celestia assigns her student Twilight Sparkle with a test of her ability, and hers alone, to help her brother Prince Shining Armor and his wife Princess Cadance to protect the empire. Now that it has reappeared, Celestia and Luna fear that Sombra will reappear and re-conquer the empire, becoming too powerful for them to defeat again. Previously home to the Crystal Ponies over one thousand years before, the empire had been taken over by the tyrant unicorn King Sombra who enslaved the ponies and threatened to conquer Equestria Celestia and her sister Luna had sealed King Sombra away in ice, but he cursed the empire to vanish as a last effect. Princess Celestia learns of the reappearance of the Crystal Empire. While they enjoyed the story, the emotional disconnect and one-dimensional nature of the villain were cited as detractors. It received mixed to positive reviews from critics.

#My little pony princess twilight sparkle evil series#

On its initial airing, the episode achieved the highest viewership for a Friendship Is Magic premiere and continued a growth in viewership for the series from the previous year. Fearing that the power of the Crystal Ponies could be used for evil, Princess Celestia sends Twilight Sparkle and her friends to help Princess Cadance and Shining Armor to protect the Empire from King Sombra's attack.

The episode centers on the reappearance of the Crystal Empire after previously being cursed over a thousand years ago by its tyrant ruler King Sombra before his banishment. It was written by Meghan McCarthy, and directed by series director James Wootton. Both parts of the episode were first broadcast on The Hub on November 10, 2012. ' The Crystal Empire' is the collective name for the first and second episodes of the third season of the animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic as well as the fifty-third and fifty-fourth episodes of the series overall. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (season 3)