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its cause dispite his power he wasn’t a very good character.

i dont get why everyone is mocking him, before celestia beat him he had the entire empire, he was obvisouly a force to reckon with, and now just because he wasnt at full power from the get go everyone says “oh wow he sucks”

I mean for pitys sake. They make a meme out of the GAK commercials instead of the actual episode, let alone out of the villians (unlike with discord and chrysalis). What does THAT tell you?

@RIG
 
Thing is, “For the Evulz” Can work… IF DONE RIGHT. This… was not.  
Usually, FTE is used more or less for filler villans (like in Fist of the North Star for pretty much all the villians except for the main ones), but Sombra wasn’t SUPPOSED to be a filler villian.  
Secondly, if they were trying to go that route, they should have forgone the whole “he was a unicorn king at one time” route and just made him an outside mysterious force/a “The” villian (like The Nothing, The Nightbringer, The Great Deceiver, Etc.) Instead they built him up as something at the beginning and somewhat during the episodes but it never really went anywhere.
 
Also, even for the evulz characters have SOME underlying reasons/storys for them. The formentioned FOTNS villians? They’re either raiders that came to be as the result of the nuclear apocolypse and found the idea of killing/stealing others for their meal a little too enjoyable and/or they’re just batshit insane because of it (Zeed), or they’re underlings of a bigger, more developed characters (The Jacks for Shin, Most of Ken-Oh’s generals, Souther’s Holy soldiers, etc.) That let the idea of power get to their head and are not quite right in the head to begin with.
 
A lot of the other time though, For The Evulz is just code word for “too lazy to give develop the character/bad storywriting.”

They all sucked except for Discord. I hate the villains on this show.

I’m going to have to agree with Ryla. Sombra’s got no character at all. Nightmare Moon was a vengeful, take-over-the-world type, Discord was playful and sadistic, the Windigos were natural predators, and Chrysalis was smart and conspiring, if a little arrogant. Sombra doesn’t seem to have anything resembling a personality besides being pure evil, and we don’t get a very good backstory to explain why. He’s a monster played as a normal villain, which doesn’t work out too well in the end.

Dark Crystals maybethe source of his power… I mean, they’re not just “Dark Crystal” and Shining’s horn it’s proof of that

@rylasasin  
there are characters that are evil just becauase they can

The biggest problem with Sombra isn’t his powers, they got that right. the real problem with him was the lack of character and/or development.
 
All his character development was shoved into a 10 second flashback (the enslavement part, etc.) and for the rest of the episode up until about 3 minutes at the end he’s basically just shoved into the background and turned into “that object that’s out there threating to invade in order to keep the plot moving.” Which would have been fine if it was building up to something, but even that fell flat.  
All that build up at the beginning painting him as this evil enslaving tyrant that took the royal sisters to bring down the first time, and all that time trying to keep him out cause he’ll take over again, and what do we get for it? We get no banter, no confrontation, no epic showdown, no REASON or explanation of how a presumably normal unicorn acquired such power and turned to evil, just “oh take the heart and put it in the correct place before he gets ahold of it and then he’ll die”.
 
Basically his real problem is that he has about as much personality (and actually the same mechanics when it comes right down to it) as Smooze did in G1.
 
Except in G1 this sort of lack of character development was pretty par the course. Nowadays, well… not so much.

sombre has a great voice if he didn’t say ‘crystal’ in incomplete two word sentences.

Enslaves crystal empire? Twice? (almost)

King Sombra sort of reminds me of Hosenki in Inuyasha
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNlOcYdtEkE&feature=relmfu

With all the shit he’s been getting I’m starting to feel sorry for the poor guy.

He did enslave all those ponies. It wasn’t really touched upon.
 
@441TheSecond  
Uh… I already forgot it :/

This is wrong, you should correct it.  
“Is a being made of evil and hatred”  
“Enslaved a kingdom for centuries”
 
Also, King Sombra has the most badass voice and don’t you forget it.

Sombra enslaved an empire. An Empire which reflects hatred and fear across ALL of Equestria.
 
They couldn’t even touch him. He had ingenious traps set up over the palace. An alarm system on the heart itself. If Spike had actually listened to Twi then he would have WON without a fight.

Seeing Sombra blow to chunks was awesome

Sombra has the most everlasting on all of the villains. so FUCK you ponypon.

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Chrysalis didn’t enslave shit, but Sombra did. A siege on a kingdom for 10 minutes =/= enslavement.

at least his back story was kinda cool. and with everything he had in his castle kinda show that he is at some degree an evil master mind. the odds were just really stacked against him.

i don’t know that horn at the end seemed suspicious to me. he did show how he regenerates and he did regenerate. maybe he’ll be back. beside he is just a regular unicorn after all. feels like he got sucker punched.

Needs more Gak.

That’s true actually. He’s just a normal(ish) unicorn but ended up having the second most drastic and longest lasting impact of any of the villains.