… So she did that… without Luna feeling it?
 
… Okaaaaay…

huh.

aww poor Luna.
 
well if the portal dont work then maybe a rocket might work.

@Starswirl  
it doesn’t matter, what matters is the damn question and that answer answered that question, all this talk over semantics is worthless.

In all fairness, Luna used the word in-universe. The roundabout way Celestia complains about people not listening makes it come across as aimed at the audience, however.

@toxicitzi  
No, it wasn’t. All I wanted to point out is that Celestia shouldn’t be calling ponies out for using supposedly using the wrong word when they actually didn’t. Whether I thought it possible without the Elements has no impact on Celestia’s strawman argument here.

@Starswirl  
actually, your point was, “how did she do X without Y”, in which case, Y are the elements.
 
Even if you’re going to say “sent her” instead of banished her, the moment you bring up the elements is where you imply Celestia banished Nmm, because that’s what the elements did back then. The elements didn’t just send Nmm to the moon and she stayed there on timeout like a good little kid, what they did was more akin to sealing her in the moon.

@toxicitzi  
That wasn’t the point. My point is Princess Celestia argued word choice but failed to note that people weren’t using the wrong word in the first place. It’s like this:
 
“How did you send NNM to the moon without the Elements?”  
“I never said I banished her to the moon, I said I sent her to the moon. Pay attention next time.”

Ok, one of two things will happen her: Either due to the nature of the banish,envy, Luma no longer has power over the moon. Or, she’ll be overcome by grief and literally pull the moon to the surface of the planet, or less drastically suicide.

@Starswirl  
oh really? did they need the elements to go in the mirror universe? if they have portals to alternate realities, I’m willing to believe they can open up rifts to other worlds, or in this case, to the moon.
 
I think the comic did a decent enough job of explaining this, so let me dispell some misconceptions you have here. This plan did not involve banishing anyone In the moon, that was the power of the Elements, restraining a rampant NMM and stripping her of all power, all this plan provided was transportation and locking said portal, which, according to this world’s history in canon and some events in the show (like the aforementioned EqG portal), is not too far fetched to make sense.  
So, in short, this plan didn’t need the Elements like everyone said before, that was just the most common assumption that everyone made and the artist did good to have had an explanation for it, where most would have simply shrugged it off.

I’ve heard of restraining orders, but this is ridiculous.

@MadVillan  
The Monado. I don’t know nor care because it’ll probably come up eventually. X3

@ObliviaTheChangeling
 
@ZORDON
 

@thps48  
Then how was Luna Banished again?

@MadVillan  
Nopony can use the Elements. To Love Alicorn and Crazy Future are set after the ending of Season 4.

When could this have possibly happened? Between the last page and this one Moony got the Elements of Harmony, used them on Luna and reversed the effects?

Ooohohoho. Clever.

@aerion111  
I suppose that it really depends on how the Moon fits into the entire setup. If the moon is considered part of Equestria’s domain, then the first time is imprisonment and the second time is banishment. If it’s considered separate from Equestria despite Luna having control of it, then the reverse is true. I’d say that your statement holds more merit by virtue of the fact that it appears to be Equestrian territory.

@Trilby Pony  

 
Eh, it’s specific enough that it’s still kind of Banishment.  
She’s prevented from going to the moon - if she had the power to go to other planets, she presumably still could.  
It’s just that she only really has the power to go to two physical worlds (+ the dream world), so locking her out of one is much like locking her into another.
 
I’d actually argue that she was imprisoned the FIRST time, and it’s first now that it’s a true banishment.

@PonyPon  
ikr?
 
Luna now shouldn’t be even able to control moon…

Isn’t Reverse Banishment just Imprisonment? You have someone who is in one location, who cannot leave that location to get to another location.

You can’t ban someone from their own celestial body!
 
I mean, I guess you can, but you shouldn’t!

That’s nice, princess, but people were arguing that you couldn’t “send” somepony to the moon without the Elements. You should pay more attention to what they say.

@ObliviaTheChangeling  
I can see this happening sooner or later in this comic when Luna loses her mind because of broken heart

Jesus. XD