Weirdly, they seem too similar to be a coincidence, but at the same time it feels like a long shot that it's her. In any case, I guess bringing characters from the comics is fine, as long as the show doesn't actually expect us to have read the comics.
@@Yuli12 That's different, they just created a new character with the same name and similar looks as the Posey from G1, just like G4 did with Tirek, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie etc. If G5 brings a character from G4, it will actually be the same character, since it takes place in the same continuity.
In comics, Radiant Hope was also heavly implied to be in love with Sombra, and he loved her back. He certainly wanted her to be his queen. And umbrums are type of shadow pony like creatures, it was explained in comics Sombra was one of them, and his mother abondend him, makin him grew up with Radaiant in crystal kingdom orphanage. Edit: Maybe it's Sombra's daughter or something making her colors a nod to comics fans?
Bringing Radiant Hope into G5 is a smart idea since she's not well known and the comics are fairly separate from FIM. On a separate note, I think G5's writers should consider using Luster Dawn as a bridge between G4 and G5 since she's an important character, but also sort of a blank slate due to her lack of exposition.
They already brought back old characters with Posey being a gen 1 character with a lot of personality changes if I remember it correctly. The Mane Six also DO exist in G5's lore as real historical figures so I wouldn't be shocked if it was Radiant Hope but with a different story and personality
Radiant Hope seems to fit the trope of a possible villan! But what about Princess Amore being a candidate too? She is a character in the G4 comics and an alicorn who's body was turned to crystal which shattered and parts scattered around the world. Maybe the magic releasing caused her body to come together again and she wants revenge of ponies for taking too long to help her.
that would make the redemption of sombra cannon, which can't happens because that would make the mirror dimension arc canon too! she can't be princess amore by any extend of the imagination... this would stop them? nop, the gen 5 world doenst make any sense, and it can exist in g4 universe no matter how hard they try... it can't exist, so yes it can be her but no expert a satisfactory reason to why is she here~
I feel like she is a new character and maybe somehow responsable of the disappearance of magic all together. I don't think she was the one who took magic away but it is possible it was done in an effort of defining her.
It could be Radiant Hope, or a new character inspired by her story. However, I think they're probably going for a new character. G5 is already tied to G4, and any explicit ties (while a neat idea) would make those ties more obvious and would limit future plot-twists (we'd learn her name sooner rather than later; if it was Radiant Hope, we would immediately know what her deal is). Additionally, the designs aren't a perfect match, and I greatly prefer Radiant Hope's design - the paler purple and minty blue are a better combo.
That is an interesting theory and if she is Radiant Hope here is my question how did she become an alicorn? I have two theories that she could be a corrupt version of Twilight or a student of Twilight.
For my theory: if you read the comic, she became a princess because her future of the crystal heart said so but after hearing sombra is dead because he was vanished by the mane 6. She wanted revenge and wanted to rule equestria just like sombra wanted too (since radiant hope is sombra best friend) so she destroyed the crystal heart and destroyed flurry heart and took her alicorn magic. Then that's where we never saw the crystal empire in the g5 film. (That's just my theory) ❤
@@shimmerlove_mlp I will admit that is an interesting theory. I watched Broney Debates by Brawney Buck and I can't remember which video it was but someone said in the panel that Bridalwood is The Crystal Empire. What do you think of that?
I doubt that it's Twilight, since we already got an idea of what a corrupted Twilight (aka: Midnight Sparkle) would probably look like as a pony, based on her human counterpart in the Equestria Girls series. First, the mystery pony has too different of a color scheme. Also, Midnight has sort of a 'bride of Frankenstein' hairdo going, while mystery pony has a well-kept mane.
Color scheme wise, the mystery alicorn looks similar to what a corrupted version of Radient Hope would look like. Out of all the possibible theories, the villain being Radient Hope seems to have the most evidence. I will wait for the show to give an official explanation on who the mystery alicorn though because the similarities in color scheme could just be a coincidence as well, depending on how aware the current writers are of the G4 lore.
My headcanon is it’s Twilight’s “Nightmare Moon” version. I think Twilight began searching for a way to keep her friends around, and went crazy, creating the crystals to absorb all the magic in Equestria to use to bring back her friends. This fails, and the crystals are separated, and entrusted with certain community members is Zephyr Heights, Maretime Bay, and Bridlewood.
Maybe after that twilight slowly went crazy over time and time and time to the point of becoming dependent on the crystals to keep the magic at control she did not want her friends to leave or nor give up control of equestria at some point was her breaking point or maybe it's her inner fear that came out ? And manifested into it's true form or somepony close to twilight like a student or a friend family member former princess or a new species of alicorns or pony's Who no's
But if it was twilight why is her mane blue and not purple like it usually is cause I'm pretty sure every nightmare version of the ponies look the similar to their good counterparts their manes don't change colour
@@Neo-Queenserenityt2l Imo, it looks to me like it’s white, the blue comes from the lighting in the background. Whose to say that the nightmare transformations don’t just change what the pony looks like, i mean, she certainly has a lot of the same features.
@@Neo-Queenserenityt2l Another thought I had was the throne room we see. From what I can determine, it looks a lot closer to either Canterlot or Twilight’s Castle. I could see some new tyrant taking over Twilight’s castle, but I’d like to see Twilight again lmao
0:36 wait King Sombra... That might explain why everyone moved South and we do not see the Crystal empire no more on the new map among other locations also this might explain why we haven't seen any of the creatures like the Griffin, hippogriffs, changelings and others creatures species
My theory on who the new Villain alicorn could be A descendant of tempest from MLP the movie and the unicorn that was beside the alicorn Villain Reminds me wallflower blush from MLP equestria girls forgotten friendship and in MLP a new generation if you closer at sunny bord at the beginning of MLP a new generation you can see the stone that wallflower blush uses to make everyone forgotten that sunset shimmer was bad to good and that they only remember when sunset shimmer was bad
This would be a cool connection between gen 4 and 5. And maybe they would even take back villains from gen 4. Imagine seeing Queen Chrysalis in this form of animation WHEEEEZE /j
opaline might be the daughter of radiant hope and king sombra because she has her mother's looks and her father's unicorn horn. but that's just my theory.
Since you didn't read the comics, I'll give you a rundown of what's going on. Radiant Hope was introduced in FIENDship is Magic #1, which is a backstory of King Sombra. Sombra was a unicorn kid without memory that was found by the guards of the Crystal Empire. He grew up in an orphanage where other kids excluded him because he wasn't a crystal pony and that's where he met Radiant Hope, who was also excluded because she was talking to imaginary friends. So they grew up together and were inseparable. Then one day they went to see the Crystal Heart and it gave them a vision of the future, where Radiant Hope would become a princess and Sombra would become a creature of darkness, however, Princess Amore, Cadance's ancestor who built the Crystal Empire assured them both that what they saw can still be changed. Soon after that, it turned out that whenever there was a festival that is used to power the Heart, Sombra would get sick, until eventually when he was older his body started coming apart and Radiant Hope healed him, and it's how she got her cutie mark. Eventually, however, she received a letter from Celestia and Luna, inviting her to study under them and Sombra ran away into the Frozen North where he met his mother, a talking red crystal. It reveals to him that Sombra is an umbrum, a pony of shadow, and that she was the one who created him in order to release his siblings that Princess Amore had locked away, and if he doesn't destroy the Crystal Heart it will destroy him. So Sombra goes to steal the Heart only to be confronted by Amore, who confesses she knew from the start who he was, and she left him be, because she believed he could change and not be a monster like his siblings. In rage, Sombra turned Amore into a statue, only for Radiant Hope to witness it, trying to convince him to stop and he instead offered her to join him and be his queen. She refused, and in an act of spite, he shattered Princess Amore. After that, she accepted that her friend had become a monster and left to tell the princesses about it, while Sombra subjugated the Crystal Empire. Before he was banished, as a final act of revenge against her, he made the Crystal Empire disappear, leaving Radiant Hope the only Crystal Pony left in the world. The resolution to this story follows in the 4-parted Siege of the Crystal Empire story, where Crysalis' connection to her is revealed, but that's only because Crysalis is being used as a distraction. And even then SotCE is not canon anymore. So I'm having doubts that this is Radiant Hope.
I think that everyone thinks the alicorn villain is Radiant Hope at this point but there’s just two problems with that number one she’s an comic book character and they almost never include early mlp comic characters in the series and also number two Radiant Hope isn’t an alicorn she’s a unicorn and she wished for nothing but peace unlike this villain who wants to make them all pay and rule all of equestria plus Radiant Hope may have been on her way to becoming an alicorn but she wasn’t one by the end of Queen Amore’s reign nor was she when Sombra first took over the empire and remained a unicorn as far as I know anyway
Wow! Mind blown! I wish I'd been exposed to those comics when they came out! I'll have to give them a look! This seems like an intriguing theory! I hope it turns out to be canon!
Lets add Cozy Glow as a distance relative and Needs "Power of Friendship" thus she need the crystals to work. Or just just a old scrolls between the Frenemies. She tried her magic but it didn't work. Now that the ponies have magic. It makes since that she does.
I hope Gen 5 gets SUPER lore deep in a few seasons. Luster dawn would be an amazing start to that. Though the thing I am most interested in is the Kirin. They were introduced as the 4th pony type, and it seems odd that they haven't been mentioned yet.
Hope certainly looks a lot like this new villan. And if Sombra has been mentioned in the G5 toy line than it could possibly be her! My first thoughts, though, was maybe she was Twilight's apprentice gone bad or maybe even a daughter of Flurry Heart's gone evil, but I doubt that.....and I hope she's not an evil Twilight, that wouldn't make sense... And I'm calling it now! New villan is spying on the mane 5 through that ugly dragon baby! Why else would he happen to be on the beach or be born with wings? And his expressions just ooze evil!!!....Mostly jokes aside, I really don't like that baby dragon >-
Hmm 🤔 It’s certainly an interesting theory. Still a bit early to honestly tell. But I started thinking. What if Twilight wasn’t the only alicorn princess after her rule? Presuming she gave/sacrificed her alicorn powers away.(by THEORY!)Would there be others, Possibly straying away from Twilights original goal of friendship and unity? 🤷♂️
Really doubt she's anyone from g4. Especially Radiant Hope. It's been years since g4 in g5. Radiant Hope never wanted to be an alicorn if it meant her friend suffering a horrible fate. And she'd never turn evil. Also she'd be dead by now.
Given that comic-arc was rendered non-canon (unfortunately), it's possible that it could still be Radiant Hope - and just like Sombra's vision of becoming evil came true, maybe her vision of becoming an alicorn would too. Alicorns have longer lifespans, and it's not like Radiant Hope hadn't *already* spent a thousand years unaging in another dimension.
I think it might be something like with what Dragon Ball did with Broly, taking a non-canon character and making them canon but with a different backstory and characterization.
The umbrum is Sombra. The shadow of Stygian, named Pony of Shadows is another umbrum in MLP. The writers just liked Venom so much they incorporated it in-universe with umbrums.
It's one theory. Mine is that's she was a royal student; most likely Twilight's. She, like Sunset, crossed too many lines and then craved limitless power. Her rebellion could be the reason why the three crystals were separated long ago. But who knows.
OMG! I had completely forgotten about Radiant Hope. I've read the comics with her in it, and if that IS her... This is going to be an interesting ride! 😄
Since the new villain’s name is Opaline I got suspicious and found out what opals symbolized they symbolize LOVE HOPE purity and truth... see where I’m getting at Radiant HOPE and opals symbolize HOPE or in the other guess is we all know alicorns can live for a VERY LONG time and we all know the crystal empire thrives on love and hope Luna,celestia,twilight,discord,chrysalis, king sombra,Trigon, and even grogar have made comments on a certain baby alicorn’s powers suggesting she has a destiny possibly greater then most’s but being the the princess of crystal empire and the niece of the ruler of equestria imagine how much that would hold over her what if SHE BROKE wanting something darker something for HERSELF and got CORRUPTED or something like that
I think its possible but i think i would like it more if it was a desendent of a known character, but it is possible that the main 5 are decendents, so it may be a bit much to have all the main cast be desendents, i Want someone to be, i think that would connect the stories and could cause plot develompents. Like sunny could be related to the apple family or maybe izzy is connected to the sparkles, or even rarity because they are both creative unicorns. I think even if one was related to flurry heart i would be happy. So i think a relitive, I think a relitive of a comic character, as it isnt really a descendent to the show but they arnt entirely original either, so idk. Maybe the plot is too many people were alicorns so ponies were overpowered and they needed a way to nerf them. Idk
My theory is: Princess Twilight but taken over by some form of obsessive evil. We've seen the lengths that Twilight has gone to when it comes to certain tasks or even when she had to step up to be the Princess of Friendship. Being the princess of Friendship would, in my opinion, be heavier than even being ruler of equestia (which I know she got that too in the end which probably didn't help at all). Perhaps the grief of losing her friends caused her to transform since her friend were the ones that got her to where she is as ruler of Equestria. It's possible, maybe she dabbled in Chaos magic and learned through Discord or some other method. We see a lot of different hair changes as well which could be the reason why her hair could turn white. The battle with Teerek(spelling), Princess Luna when she was first cleansed from being Nightmare moon, When they showed an "Evil" Celestia (Dawnbreaker?) and even when Twilight absorbed all the alicorn magic. It's possible depending on the magic and corruption that it has different effects since (magic is unpredictable) in many cases. Just a theory though.
I like to think of the theory it's a corrupted Flurry Heart. If you look closer her horn looks curved and color faded. I know the comics aren't canon, why I say it's a theory, but Sombra was a umbrum turned unicorn, simplistically speaking, and when Sombra turned evil and corrupted his horn curved and faded to red and his coat and mane/tail turned darker. What if somehow, somewhere in the many years before the events of the G5 movie Flurry Heart was corrupted by an Umbrum? It could explain the curved and color faded horn as well as the darker coat color and hair change. Again I know it's not really possible since Umbrum's are only in the comics just like Raditant Hope, but it is in an interesting theory 💙💙💙💙
Radiant hope is one of my favorite characters and im a hardcore fan of the comics, in a way i kinda dont want her to be hope because if anyone has seen the comic series with hope they know how the story ends and it would have no legit context on how she became this villain and a big fact is the comics arent even cannon tho which is a pity because i love radiant hope.
There's might be a 98% possibility of this unknown villain is Radiant Hope. Because their fur, mane and eyes are very similar. I guess Radiant Hope has been included in g5 new series with new mane style.
The question is: What happened to Luster Dawn, Twilight's pupil? Did she become a Princess herself?🤔 I wonder if that's really her, since Alicorns can live a very long time!
@@mylife-23 She's still purple and her hair color could've changed over the years, probably through trauma. Maybe something made her change her mind out friendship, something that made the pony races split up. Plus we don't know if Twilight had another student after her!
I don't get why everyone thinks Luster Dawn became an alicorn and succeeded Twilight just because she was the "top student". Celestia probably had centuries of top students who never became alicorns.
@@moarmy6779 to cover everyone: - luster dawn is pink with a yellow & orange mane. - twilight will not be in it because they confirmed the main 6 is dead. - we don't know if twilight had another student, but again that wasn't mentioned in your first comment. - n if you try to go the starlight glimmer route she never became an alicorn. - it can't be flurry because wrong colors again.
who wanna bet this alicorn is cozy glow as adult she learn how to steal magic from tirek and because of that ancient ponies seal magic in three separate crystals
I swear the explanation your giving I actually read this comic or storyline of hers where she is with sombra. Even if that was several years ago vaguely remember. Huh who would’ve thought 🙂
There was that Princess that was turned to crystal by sombra and shattered. Last heard was Hope was going to rebuild her since revival apperantly was possible. But who knows maybe she lost her mind being fractored for ages.
Tbf isn't it implied she goes to the umbras realm hence how she lives so long? In that time she could have joined Sombra since they're hinted at being in love
It can be twilight, since there are 3 stages of twilight in real life. We have seen the civil twilight happen in the show where twilight was only learning things and doesn’t prioritize friendship and after that the nautical twilight or the first light this is where the magic happened in the mlp friendship is magic. And the last one the astronomical twilight, or the arrival of full darkness and it’s also called the faintest stars emerge. We can see that in the new show the faint stars (crystals or whatsoever) emerged once again forming a powerful friendship although there comes the full darkness of twilight. The new villain is called shadow and shadow is a synonym for twilight. And maybe because of twilight sacrificing her magic to make the crystal before the full darkness takes place her hair color and features changed just like luna in the past. That explains why the villain said something like time to take back what is hers meaning to get the crystal back.
well if ancient is what you want technicly radiant hope is 2000 years old by g5 she is from the crystal empire that puts her in the same period of time of the pilars of equestria
Still dont think its Radiant Hope but i can't deny they look similar. The Umbrum are King Sombras race according to one of the comics, not really sure what they are other then shadow creatures. The Princess in that comic is Amoria (Cadance's cousin? Hence her name Mia Amoria Cadenza), she was the ruler of Crystal empire before Sombra took over (also from what remember she isnt a Alicorn ether, just a LARGE unicorn. She lacks wings), he turned her to stone and shattered the statue to bits, scattering it across god knows where. Although at the end of comic apparently that doesn't kill someone, so the reformed Sombra and Hope go travaling the world in search of the statue bits. Radiant hope isn't a princess she was just invited to Celestia's School for gifted unicorns (for her amazing healing powers presumably). She is also Sombra's only friend as well cus the other crystal ponies didn't want to interact with him cus he was different or something. Shes also the one that told Celestia and Luna about the Crystal Empire and Sombra, something she regents (they where good friends, but sombra turning evil kinda forced them apart) which is where the Umbrums come into play. Basicly their world is how she manages to live for 1000 years till the empire reappears. i forget WHY Chrysalis showed up at the crystal empire (love probably) but even she is scared of Umbrums so the changelings just FLEE. They where probably just Mussel anyway. But thats just from the what the Comics say.
The umbrum was a being of darkness. It clenches onto a piece of negative emotion and uses it to transform and control its host. Luna to nightmare moon and Rarity to nightmare rarity. Most of them are sealed away on the moon however if I remember correctly. The show dropped hints about it a little here and there in G4. I think this pony was possessed by the Umbrum so this is her nightmare form
I feel like she reminds me of a few different ponies. She could be a descendant of either Princess Cadance, Rarity or even Twilight. She reminds me of a combination of the three. We don’t know how many years it’s been since Twilight’s reign so if it’s far enough into the future then it’s safe to say this pony is a descendant of one of the princesses or mane 6 ponies. While I do like Radiant Hope being the villainess I feel like the writers wouldn’t include a comic character into the show. Copy-write infringement and all that because I do not know if the my little pony cartoon writers actually owns the comic exclusive characters.
@@ReesesBees none of them have any real effect on the show. Sure. But if you read them in order with release date and show release date, they make sense and fit in perfectly with the timeline with most of the later ones explaining things in the show better.
Maybe she is Starlight Glimmer? She started off as an antagonist right? Maybe a relative to Cadence? She also looks like she can be related to Izzy. Also, why did the g5 ponies get more human like names?
I remember watching Barbie and the Secret Door where there was this villain who sucked up all the magic of the mermaids, fairies and other mythical creatures to gain power. what if this alicorn did the same thing but with the ponies, and she was the reason why the tribes separated in the first place?
Fact we don't even know what happened to buster Dawn and plus her Dawn does not mean not have the same destiny as Twilight does give me the fact that hurts anymore similar to it's on versus cutie mark it hey it may be herself Pink is pretty similar to purple of course that's just me who knows.
Radiant Hope lived thousands of years before the events of the G5 movie, before Luna's banishment even. Ponies ascend by mastering and connecting to a unique type of magic. Magic ... was gone. For a long time. So an alicorn character would have to have ascended BEFORE all magic was lost. Which in turn would mean that the loss of magic didn't affect an alicorns immortality. Where are Twilight and the other princesses then? Dear lore-respecting writers ...what did you smoke and how exactly is this timeline supposed work?
Unless this mystery Alicorn and the pony known as Radiant hope from the comics have the same kind of cutie mark, there's no telling whether they're the same ponies or not. Are G4 comics even canon in the G5 universe?
i don't think radiant and the villian are the same because the villian looks more pink then purple because the darkness around her makes her look purple but i think shes a pink villian
Weirdly, they seem too similar to be a coincidence, but at the same time it feels like a long shot that it's her. In any case, I guess bringing characters from the comics is fine, as long as the show doesn't actually expect us to have read the comics.
honestly that's what i thought
@@Yuli12 That's different, they just created a new character with the same name and similar looks as the Posey from G1, just like G4 did with Tirek, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie etc. If G5 brings a character from G4, it will actually be the same character, since it takes place in the same continuity.
Maybe it can be like an anime adaption. (Adapt the backstory into G5.)
@@MLPFeverYT There's also the rumours of the return of King Sombra to G5
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In comics, Radiant Hope was also heavly implied to be in love with Sombra, and he loved her back. He certainly wanted her to be his queen. And umbrums are type of shadow pony like creatures, it was explained in comics Sombra was one of them, and his mother abondend him, makin him grew up with Radaiant in crystal kingdom orphanage.
Edit: Maybe it's Sombra's daughter or something making her colors a nod to comics fans?
Bringing Radiant Hope into G5 is a smart idea since she's not well known and the comics are fairly separate from FIM. On a separate note, I think G5's writers should consider using Luster Dawn as a bridge between G4 and G5 since she's an important character, but also sort of a blank slate due to her lack of exposition.
Why can't luster dawn and her friends stop radiant heart?
@@ronaldpagar6513 she could be very much dead or weak af
@@ronaldpagar6513 Definitely a question that would be asked in the show if the creators ever plan to take said route!
@@RaptrRamblings not to mention that is twilight sparkle really did outlive her friends because we saw the ending of the g4
@@Banana_needstherapy make sense but what about luster dawn friends?
I’d like her to be a totally original pony tbh, Radiant Hope’s backstory is very faceted but also complicated…
Still kinda think it might be cozy but grown up version in dark lighting
@@prettymonster7877 Cozy is a pegasus, not an alicorn.
@@thatonewaspatyourpicnic7978 The Grogar bell is for something.
They already brought back old characters with Posey being a gen 1 character with a lot of personality changes if I remember it correctly. The Mane Six also DO exist in G5's lore as real historical figures so I wouldn't be shocked if it was Radiant Hope but with a different story and personality
Radiant Hope seems to fit the trope of a possible villan!
But what about Princess Amore being a candidate too? She is a character in the G4 comics and an alicorn who's body was turned to crystal which shattered and parts scattered around the world.
Maybe the magic releasing caused her body to come together again and she wants revenge of ponies for taking too long to help her.
Wait... crystals separated around the world?
@@the-guy-who-asked princess amore was an unicorn
@@paulo4721 she's just an norm crystal pony unicorn though read the comics
that would make the redemption of sombra cannon, which can't happens because that would make the mirror dimension arc canon too! she can't be princess amore by any extend of the imagination...
this would stop them? nop, the gen 5 world doenst make any sense, and it can exist in g4 universe no matter how hard they try... it can't exist, so yes it can be her but no expert a satisfactory reason to why is she here~
The comics she's from aren't canon, and neither is she.
Everyone: Look, a new alicorn, and she is a villain!!
Me: OMG, this unicorn next to her has a lot of style!
And thats a bad thing, design wise. The villain should look much cooler and more menacing than their sidekicks...
I feel like she is a new character and maybe somehow responsable of the disappearance of magic all together. I don't think she was the one who took magic away but it is possible it was done in an effort of defining her.
It could be Radiant Hope, or a new character inspired by her story. However, I think they're probably going for a new character. G5 is already tied to G4, and any explicit ties (while a neat idea) would make those ties more obvious and would limit future plot-twists (we'd learn her name sooner rather than later; if it was Radiant Hope, we would immediately know what her deal is). Additionally, the designs aren't a perfect match, and I greatly prefer Radiant Hope's design - the paler purple and minty blue are a better combo.
That is an interesting theory and if she is Radiant Hope here is my question how did she become an alicorn? I have two theories that she could be a corrupt version of Twilight or a student of Twilight.
Omg I no Radiant hope
@@gemmabuchanan2380 Do you have any theories?
For my theory: if you read the comic, she became a princess because her future of the crystal heart said so but after hearing sombra is dead because he was vanished by the mane 6. She wanted revenge and wanted to rule equestria just like sombra wanted too (since radiant hope is sombra best friend) so she destroyed the crystal heart and destroyed flurry heart and took her alicorn magic. Then that's where we never saw the crystal empire in the g5 film. (That's just my theory) ❤
@@shimmerlove_mlp I will admit that is an interesting theory. I watched Broney Debates by Brawney Buck and I can't remember which video it was but someone said in the panel that Bridalwood is The Crystal Empire. What do you think of that?
I doubt that it's Twilight, since we already got an idea of what a corrupted Twilight (aka: Midnight Sparkle) would probably look like as a pony, based on her human counterpart in the Equestria Girls series. First, the mystery pony has too different of a color scheme. Also, Midnight has sort of a 'bride of Frankenstein' hairdo going, while mystery pony has a well-kept mane.
Color scheme wise, the mystery alicorn looks similar to what a corrupted version of Radient Hope would look like. Out of all the possibible theories, the villain being Radient Hope seems to have the most evidence.
I will wait for the show to give an official explanation on who the mystery alicorn though because the similarities in color scheme could just be a coincidence as well, depending on how aware the current writers are of the G4 lore.
Just hope the Animation Improves after 5 episodes, The Lightning looks messed up on the villian.
Her name is Opaline now
My headcanon is it’s Twilight’s “Nightmare Moon” version. I think Twilight began searching for a way to keep her friends around, and went crazy, creating the crystals to absorb all the magic in Equestria to use to bring back her friends. This fails, and the crystals are separated, and entrusted with certain community members is Zephyr Heights, Maretime Bay, and Bridlewood.
Maybe after that twilight slowly went crazy over time and time and time to the point of becoming dependent on the crystals to keep the magic at control she did not want her friends to leave or nor give up control of equestria at some point was her breaking point or maybe it's her inner fear that came out ? And manifested into it's true form or somepony close to twilight like a student or a friend family member former princess or a new species of alicorns or pony's
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I agree with this, I thought it could of Twilight Sparkle evil side. I think in equestria girls her name was Midnight Sparkle something like that.
But if it was twilight why is her mane blue and not purple like it usually is cause I'm pretty sure every nightmare version of the ponies look the similar to their good counterparts their manes don't change colour
@@Neo-Queenserenityt2l Imo, it looks to me like it’s white, the blue comes from the lighting in the background. Whose to say that the nightmare transformations don’t just change what the pony looks like, i mean, she certainly has a lot of the same features.
@@Neo-Queenserenityt2l Another thought I had was the throne room we see. From what I can determine, it looks a lot closer to either Canterlot or Twilight’s Castle. I could see some new tyrant taking over Twilight’s castle, but I’d like to see Twilight again lmao
0:36 wait King Sombra... That might explain why everyone moved South and we do not see the Crystal empire no more on the new map among other locations also this might explain why we haven't seen any of the creatures like the Griffin, hippogriffs, changelings and others creatures species
It better NOT be Flurry Heart!
We've called her a demon spawn since season 6. We don't need to make that Canon!
flurry heart is pink so i don't think it'll be her
@@imp-tweekakarainbow_washov8991 maybe a distortion/evil version of her? Nightmare Moon was Black while Luna was blue!
@@ShadyRK9 that is a good point but that required magic didn't it?
@@imp-tweekakarainbow_washov8991 ah... True!
Poor Sombre.... his Fiendship comic made me cry
My theory on who the new Villain alicorn could be
A descendant of tempest from MLP the movie and the unicorn that was beside the alicorn Villain Reminds me wallflower blush from MLP equestria girls forgotten friendship and in MLP a new generation if you closer at sunny bord at the beginning of MLP a new generation you can see the stone that wallflower blush uses to make everyone forgotten that sunset shimmer was bad to good and that they only remember when sunset shimmer was bad
Oooo, I love your theory!
She's Flurry Heart.
Face it, we all knew she was going to turn out evil.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
The time of alicorns is at end, there will only be a council to rule.
This would be a cool connection between gen 4 and 5. And maybe they would even take back villains from gen 4. Imagine seeing Queen Chrysalis in this form of animation WHEEEEZE /j
opaline might be the daughter of radiant hope and king sombra because she has her mother's looks and her father's unicorn horn. but that's just my theory.
Since you didn't read the comics, I'll give you a rundown of what's going on.
Radiant Hope was introduced in FIENDship is Magic #1, which is a backstory of King Sombra. Sombra was a unicorn kid without memory that was found by the guards of the Crystal Empire. He grew up in an orphanage where other kids excluded him because he wasn't a crystal pony and that's where he met Radiant Hope, who was also excluded because she was talking to imaginary friends. So they grew up together and were inseparable. Then one day they went to see the Crystal Heart and it gave them a vision of the future, where Radiant Hope would become a princess and Sombra would become a creature of darkness, however, Princess Amore, Cadance's ancestor who built the Crystal Empire assured them both that what they saw can still be changed. Soon after that, it turned out that whenever there was a festival that is used to power the Heart, Sombra would get sick, until eventually when he was older his body started coming apart and Radiant Hope healed him, and it's how she got her cutie mark. Eventually, however, she received a letter from Celestia and Luna, inviting her to study under them and Sombra ran away into the Frozen North where he met his mother, a talking red crystal. It reveals to him that Sombra is an umbrum, a pony of shadow, and that she was the one who created him in order to release his siblings that Princess Amore had locked away, and if he doesn't destroy the Crystal Heart it will destroy him. So Sombra goes to steal the Heart only to be confronted by Amore, who confesses she knew from the start who he was, and she left him be, because she believed he could change and not be a monster like his siblings. In rage, Sombra turned Amore into a statue, only for Radiant Hope to witness it, trying to convince him to stop and he instead offered her to join him and be his queen. She refused, and in an act of spite, he shattered Princess Amore. After that, she accepted that her friend had become a monster and left to tell the princesses about it, while Sombra subjugated the Crystal Empire. Before he was banished, as a final act of revenge against her, he made the Crystal Empire disappear, leaving Radiant Hope the only Crystal Pony left in the world.
The resolution to this story follows in the 4-parted Siege of the Crystal Empire story, where Crysalis' connection to her is revealed, but that's only because Crysalis is being used as a distraction.
And even then SotCE is not canon anymore.
So I'm having doubts that this is Radiant Hope.
I think that everyone thinks the alicorn villain is Radiant Hope at this point but there’s just two problems with that number one she’s an comic book character and they almost never include early mlp comic characters in the series and also number two Radiant Hope isn’t an alicorn she’s a unicorn and she wished for nothing but peace unlike this villain who wants to make them all pay and rule all of equestria plus Radiant Hope may have been on her way to becoming an alicorn but she wasn’t one by the end of Queen Amore’s reign nor was she when Sombra first took over the empire and remained a unicorn as far as I know anyway
The lighting make sit look like she got lipstick
Right? 🤣
Or a bad tan
Sombra and hope as villains would be cool. Would be cool to have villains that get on.
In the comic she saved king Sombra and she got to be with him to find the princess amore alive.
Wow! Mind blown! I wish I'd been exposed to those comics when they came out! I'll have to give them a look! This seems like an intriguing theory! I hope it turns out to be canon!
Lets add Cozy Glow as a distance relative and Needs "Power of Friendship" thus she need the crystals to work. Or just just a old scrolls between the Frenemies. She tried her magic but it didn't work. Now that the ponies have magic. It makes since that she does.
Im so glad you listened to my idea!! Ive really been wanting to let poeple know about my theory, im so glad you listened and made a video on it!
I said in the video that several people mentioned this to me. I didn't credit everyone because I didn't even quote anyone.
@@MLPFeverYT Sorry about that, i did edit the comment removing the part where i asked for credit! Sorry about that
I hope Gen 5 gets SUPER lore deep in a few seasons. Luster dawn would be an amazing start to that. Though the thing I am most interested in is the Kirin. They were introduced as the 4th pony type, and it seems odd that they haven't been mentioned yet.
This is no doubt, she is the same character! Pay attention to that eyeshadow!
King sombra and her are childhood friends and his love she redeemed him in the comics
Hope certainly looks a lot like this new villan. And if Sombra has been mentioned in the G5 toy line than it could possibly be her!
My first thoughts, though, was maybe she was Twilight's apprentice gone bad or maybe even a daughter of Flurry Heart's gone evil, but I doubt that.....and I hope she's not an evil Twilight, that wouldn't make sense...
And I'm calling it now! New villan is spying on the mane 5 through that ugly dragon baby! Why else would he happen to be on the beach or be born with wings? And his expressions just ooze evil!!!....Mostly jokes aside, I really don't like that baby dragon >-
I don’t like the baby dragon either!!!
Hmm 🤔
It’s certainly an interesting theory. Still a bit early to honestly tell.
But I started thinking. What if Twilight wasn’t the only alicorn princess after her rule? Presuming she gave/sacrificed her alicorn powers away.(by THEORY!)Would there be others, Possibly straying away from Twilights original goal of friendship and unity?
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I recognize her, @MLP Fever from when she used to work alongside Sombra and they both worked together to get rid of Queen Amoré, Cadence's Mom
Really doubt she's anyone from g4. Especially Radiant Hope. It's been years since g4 in g5. Radiant Hope never wanted to be an alicorn if it meant her friend suffering a horrible fate. And she'd never turn evil. Also she'd be dead by now.
Radiant Hope no is canon
@@TS_Tiziano
Your mom isn't canon
Given that comic-arc was rendered non-canon (unfortunately), it's possible that it could still be Radiant Hope - and just like Sombra's vision of becoming evil came true, maybe her vision of becoming an alicorn would too. Alicorns have longer lifespans, and it's not like Radiant Hope hadn't *already* spent a thousand years unaging in another dimension.
Or she could be just an OC who's a strawpony anti-non-ponite. Her backstory will either be "I just hate non-ponies" or "A dragon burned my house down"
I think it might be something like with what Dragon Ball did with Broly, taking a non-canon character and making them canon but with a different backstory and characterization.
I personally didn't even know that something like a mlp comic existed until today 😅
The umbrum is Sombra. The shadow of Stygian, named Pony of Shadows is another umbrum in MLP. The writers just liked Venom so much they incorporated it in-universe with umbrums.
It's one theory. Mine is that's she was a royal student; most likely Twilight's. She, like Sunset, crossed too many lines and then craved limitless power. Her rebellion could be the reason why the three crystals were separated long ago. But who knows.
OMG! I had completely forgotten about Radiant Hope. I've read the comics with her in it, and if that IS her... This is going to be an interesting ride! 😄
Since the new villain’s name is Opaline I got suspicious and found out what opals symbolized they symbolize LOVE HOPE purity and truth... see where I’m getting at Radiant HOPE and opals symbolize HOPE or in the other guess is we all know alicorns can live for a VERY LONG time and we all know the crystal empire thrives on love and hope Luna,celestia,twilight,discord,chrysalis, king sombra,Trigon, and even grogar have made comments on a certain baby alicorn’s powers suggesting she has a destiny possibly greater then most’s but being the the princess of crystal empire and the niece of the ruler of equestria imagine how much that would hold over her what if SHE BROKE wanting something darker something for HERSELF and got CORRUPTED or something like that
I think its possible but i think i would like it more if it was a desendent of a known character, but it is possible that the main 5 are decendents, so it may be a bit much to have all the main cast be desendents, i Want someone to be, i think that would connect the stories and could cause plot develompents. Like sunny could be related to the apple family or maybe izzy is connected to the sparkles, or even rarity because they are both creative unicorns. I think even if one was related to flurry heart i would be happy. So i think a relitive, I think a relitive of a comic character, as it isnt really a descendent to the show but they arnt entirely original either, so idk. Maybe the plot is too many people were alicorns so ponies were overpowered and they needed a way to nerf them. Idk
I think Opaline is a descendant of King Sombra
She also appeared in the Mobile Game as a "friend" of sombra in an alternate universe
My theory is: Princess Twilight but taken over by some form of obsessive evil. We've seen the lengths that Twilight has gone to when it comes to certain tasks or even when she had to step up to be the Princess of Friendship. Being the princess of Friendship would, in my opinion, be heavier than even being ruler of equestia (which I know she got that too in the end which probably didn't help at all). Perhaps the grief of losing her friends caused her to transform since her friend were the ones that got her to where she is as ruler of Equestria. It's possible, maybe she dabbled in Chaos magic and learned through Discord or some other method. We see a lot of different hair changes as well which could be the reason why her hair could turn white. The battle with Teerek(spelling), Princess Luna when she was first cleansed from being Nightmare moon, When they showed an "Evil" Celestia (Dawnbreaker?) and even when Twilight absorbed all the alicorn magic. It's possible depending on the magic and corruption that it has different effects since (magic is unpredictable) in many cases. Just a theory though.
I like to think of the theory it's a corrupted Flurry Heart. If you look closer her horn looks curved and color faded. I know the comics aren't canon, why I say it's a theory, but Sombra was a umbrum turned unicorn, simplistically speaking, and when Sombra turned evil and corrupted his horn curved and faded to red and his coat and mane/tail turned darker. What if somehow, somewhere in the many years before the events of the G5 movie Flurry Heart was corrupted by an Umbrum? It could explain the curved and color faded horn as well as the darker coat color and hair change. Again I know it's not really possible since Umbrum's are only in the comics just like Raditant Hope, but it is in an interesting theory 💙💙💙💙
This would be one of the best written things so far 😅
Villains returns Generation 4 and coming back Generation 5.
Sombra and discord
Dang, and here I was thinking that she looked like an evil Flurry Heart
Radiant hope is one of my favorite characters and im a hardcore fan of the comics, in a way i kinda dont want her to be hope because if anyone has seen the comic series with hope they know how the story ends and it would have no legit context on how she became this villain and a big fact is the comics arent even cannon tho which is a pity because i love radiant hope.
There's might be a 98% possibility of this unknown villain is Radiant Hope. Because their fur, mane and eyes are very similar. I guess Radiant Hope has been included in g5 new series with new mane style.
The new villain looks like a off brand knock off
The umbrum? The umbrum is basically king sombra's species.
The question is: What happened to Luster Dawn, Twilight's pupil? Did she become a Princess herself?🤔 I wonder if that's really her, since Alicorns can live a very long time!
Wrong colors
@@mylife-23 She's still purple and her hair color could've changed over the years, probably through trauma. Maybe something made her change her mind out friendship, something that made the pony races split up. Plus we don't know if Twilight had another student after her!
@@moarmy6779 luster dawn is not the alicorn princess 😐
You never mentioned the idea of " another student " reread your own comment.
I don't get why everyone thinks Luster Dawn became an alicorn and succeeded Twilight just because she was the "top student". Celestia probably had centuries of top students who never became alicorns.
@@moarmy6779 to cover everyone:
- luster dawn is pink with a yellow & orange mane.
- twilight will not be in it because they confirmed the main 6 is dead.
- we don't know if twilight had another student, but again that wasn't mentioned in your first comment.
- n if you try to go the starlight glimmer route she never became an alicorn.
- it can't be flurry because wrong colors again.
1:17 the umbrum are the shadow ponies that Sombra leads
edit: Also on a side note, her mane and coat color are the same as Izzy's
Well, you just delivered the heartbreaking news to Sombra and Celestia shippers. XD
She could be related to the Alcorn sisters Luna and Celestia because she kind of has Luna’s hair color but slightly darker
I feel like it's princess fluffyheart, or even twilight herself, it's hard to say though
who wanna bet this alicorn is cozy glow as adult she learn how to steal magic from tirek and because of that ancient ponies seal magic in three separate crystals
Hiii first. I’m really not sure who this is but I really thought she looked liked Radiant Hope.
Yeah I wonder who she is
Didn’t the G5 director, says the series will be like the comic of mlp friendship is magic. So this character must be in the comics.
I swear the explanation your giving I actually read this comic or storyline of hers where she is with sombra. Even if that was several years ago vaguely remember. Huh who would’ve thought 🙂
I love the art though it's good and Cleo is very amazing person and kind she has a very special talent 😊🥰 and she loves my little pony alot 🥰😊
I'm Not The Only One Who Found That Alicorn Villain Random & Out-of-Nowhere, Right?
There was that Princess that was turned to crystal by sombra and shattered.
Last heard was Hope was going to rebuild her since revival apperantly was possible. But who knows maybe she lost her mind being fractored for ages.
Tbf isn't it implied she goes to the umbras realm hence how she lives so long? In that time she could have joined Sombra since they're hinted at being in love
It can be twilight, since there are 3 stages of twilight in real life. We have seen the civil twilight happen in the show where twilight was only learning things and doesn’t prioritize friendship and after that the nautical twilight or the first light this is where the magic happened in the mlp friendship is magic. And the last one the astronomical twilight, or the arrival of full darkness and it’s also called the faintest stars emerge. We can see that in the new show the faint stars (crystals or whatsoever) emerged once again forming a powerful friendship although there comes the full darkness of twilight. The new villain is called shadow and shadow is a synonym for twilight. And maybe because of twilight sacrificing her magic to make the crystal before the full darkness takes place her hair color and features changed just like luna in the past. That explains why the villain said something like time to take back what is hers meaning to get the crystal back.
I think she’s a former student of twilight
She does look like hope
No no no I think it should be radiant home because it makes perfect sense
Great video!
Her name is Shadows, i believe u can see it in the end credits
Hope in G5 looks like sprout but with a unicorn wig and a paper horn
its actually sprout in drag
well if ancient is what you want technicly radiant hope is 2000 years old by g5 she is from the crystal empire that puts her in the same period of time of the pilars of equestria
also radiant hope is a lot older then twilight and flurry heart and yet flurry heart is for some reason gone so that should not be Radiant hope
It me or does she have some dragon features... Is she half dragon 😳
Still dont think its Radiant Hope but i can't deny they look similar. The Umbrum are King Sombras race according to one of the comics, not really sure what they are other then shadow creatures. The Princess in that comic is Amoria (Cadance's cousin? Hence her name Mia Amoria Cadenza), she was the ruler of Crystal empire before Sombra took over (also from what remember she isnt a Alicorn ether, just a LARGE unicorn. She lacks wings), he turned her to stone and shattered the statue to bits, scattering it across god knows where. Although at the end of comic apparently that doesn't kill someone, so the reformed Sombra and Hope go travaling the world in search of the statue bits.
Radiant hope isn't a princess she was just invited to Celestia's School for gifted unicorns (for her amazing healing powers presumably). She is also Sombra's only friend as well cus the other crystal ponies didn't want to interact with him cus he was different or something. Shes also the one that told Celestia and Luna about the Crystal Empire and Sombra, something she regents (they where good friends, but sombra turning evil kinda forced them apart) which is where the Umbrums come into play. Basicly their world is how she manages to live for 1000 years till the empire reappears.
i forget WHY Chrysalis showed up at the crystal empire (love probably) but even she is scared of Umbrums so the changelings just FLEE. They where probably just Mussel anyway. But thats just from the what the Comics say.
The umbrum was a being of darkness. It clenches onto a piece of negative emotion and uses it to transform and control its host. Luna to nightmare moon and Rarity to nightmare rarity. Most of them are sealed away on the moon however if I remember correctly. The show dropped hints about it a little here and there in G4. I think this pony was possessed by the Umbrum so this is her nightmare form
But one thing what is she the princess off is she a descendant of twilight or the other princess or you might be right she might be related so sombra
I think the alicorn is a manipulative Pony that will take all the magic and try to rule the world (equestia) but she loses ofc
Opaline
I don't know who she is, I only know that I don't like her design, I have no idea what's wrong with him Other characters still look somehow
I feel like she reminds me of a few different ponies. She could be a descendant of either Princess Cadance, Rarity or even Twilight. She reminds me of a combination of the three. We don’t know how many years it’s been since Twilight’s reign so if it’s far enough into the future then it’s safe to say this pony is a descendant of one of the princesses or mane 6 ponies. While I do like Radiant Hope being the villainess I feel like the writers wouldn’t include a comic character into the show. Copy-write infringement and all that because I do not know if the my little pony cartoon writers actually owns the comic exclusive characters.
My theory, hear me out: What if she's Nightmare Rarity? What if all the main six turned Nightmare and that's what caused the giant rift in ponyville?
That's proved to be false in the comics. The main 6 where around when she was around.
The Sombra comics aren't a spin-off tho 😭 also they r realllly good. Please read them
They are; they're not canon to the show.
@@ReesesBees none of them have any real effect on the show. Sure. But if you read them in order with release date and show release date, they make sense and fit in perfectly with the timeline with most of the later ones explaining things in the show better.
Maybe she is Starlight Glimmer? She started off as an antagonist right? Maybe a relative to Cadence? She also looks like she can be related to Izzy. Also, why did the g5 ponies get more human like names?
I remember watching Barbie and the Secret Door where there was this villain who sucked up all the magic of the mermaids, fairies and other mythical creatures to gain power. what if this alicorn did the same thing but with the ponies, and she was the reason why the tribes separated in the first place?
I still think it could be chrysalis
I thought she looked like Luna with her hair dyed
Fact we don't even know what happened to buster Dawn and plus her Dawn does not mean not have the same destiny as Twilight does give me the fact that hurts anymore similar to it's on versus cutie mark it hey it may be herself Pink is pretty similar to purple of course that's just me who knows.
Radiant Hope lived thousands of years before the events of the G5 movie, before Luna's banishment even.
Ponies ascend by mastering and connecting to a unique type of magic. Magic ... was gone. For a long time.
So an alicorn character would have to have ascended BEFORE all magic was lost.
Which in turn would mean that the loss of magic didn't affect an alicorns immortality. Where are Twilight and the other princesses then?
Dear lore-respecting writers ...what did you smoke and how exactly is this timeline supposed work?
Unless this mystery Alicorn and the pony known as Radiant hope from the comics have the same kind of cutie mark, there's no telling whether they're the same ponies or not. Are G4 comics even canon in the G5 universe?
It is princess Luna
Is she like Princess Celestia or something? 🤔
Why would she be?? The heck?!?!
I think she might be Princess Luna
0:45 My *LIKKLE* pony?
Maybe she just wants a cookie 🍪
Carolina hero girl
i don't think radiant and the villian are the same because the villian looks more pink then purple because the darkness around her makes her look purple but i think shes a pink villian
I assume That's probably twilight sparkle and flash sentry's daughter or luster dawn?