….well they were kind of correct.

@TexasUberAlles  
I think I saw someone on Youtube guess that Grogar was Discord, but they also thought that it was because he was still secretly evil rather than him preparing a test for Twilight.
 
Me? I had no idea that that he was Discord, but I definitively knew the true villains of the finale would be the trio instead of him.

Meh. I’d-a been more impressed if OP had called Grogar’s true identity, which surely someone must have, given that there were definitely people wondering why Sombra got brought back without his horn being involved.

Well you were sorta right

@Background Pony #A135
 
@mjangelvortex
 
But that’s not what happened. What actually happens is arguably worse.

And that’s why the finale is horrible.

@PurpleWonderPower  
@Vivace  
@Potato Candy  
@AC97  
OP is right.
 

 
I’m tempted to put the “OP is a Wizard” or the “OP is Psychic” tag on this. At the very least, maybe the “OP is Right” tag.

I think you fucking called it.

Well wouldn’t you know it. This seems like exactly what’s going to happen. Who the heck knew?

Better idea, Grogar is defeated and the remaining three baddies finally embrace one another as friends. During another one of Twilight’s redemption speeches, Chrysalis, Tirek and Cozy gain their own powers because of their friendship and it proves to be just as strong as Twilight’s bond with her friends. With this new power, they give the Mane Six and their allies a proper beatdown. It’s one kind of friendship versus another.

Unlikely.

@PurpleWonderPower
 
As a bit of a (possible) counterpoint…
 

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If this is exactly what it looks like, Chrysalis doing this of her own free will… she’s trying to murder Spike. I’d guess this wouldn’t be happening in the first stage of the battle, so this very well could be intended to be her crossing the Moral Event Horizon. I’m not at all sure she’s getting redeemed, at least.

Plot-twist: Twilight learn the sad truth about her reformed bad bad guys

Another plot twist: the opposite actually happens

@Potato Candy  
I didn’t say anything about reforming Grogar or letting them defeat him. Rather I’d see it more likely they’d try, fail, and then the Mane Six would have to beat Grogar anyway. No redemptions at all is what I think is more likely.

Highly doubt it. They had a hint of an epiphany about friendship, and to reform a dude like Grogar and not reform Cozy Glow would be criminal. And since the Legion are a team now, reformation will either be all of them or none of them, so if Cozy does, the rest of them will. And Grogar’s way too grumpy and boring to be a villain who deserves reformation, and they had that friendship epiphany, so between them, it’ll definitely be the Legion.

@Background Pony #022A  
Exactly!

Then the whole season would make no sense.

@Background Pony #3135  
But reforming GROGAR? At least those three had moments in Frenemies that forshadowed friendship, and they came so close to accepting it. Tell me ONE thing Grogar did that made him seem redeemable.
 
Besides, Grogar being overthrown by the trio just seems like a dumb idea. He was built up as a mysterious, powerful foe. To undo that in the finale will not only make his inclusion in the show mean nothing, but also would come out of nowhere. There is no reason why 3 idiots who barely even know how to use the bell would outsmart an ancient villain who has been setting up his plan for an entire millennium and was the original owner of the bell.

@Potato Candy  
But can we really believe that those three COULD reform? I’m not so sure. Although I really want an origin story for Cozy Glow because how the hell a filly became so evil I don’t even understand.

I was thought of “course Frogs will be the final villain”, but Frenemies made it more unpredictable what will happen, just wait and see.

NO! That would suck more than anything. Grogar reforming and not the trio who came this close to accepting friendship? Crap!