Sunset Shimmer Theories? (Spoilers!)

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Ok, so I saw Equestria Girls yesterday and I’m just wondering if anyone has a headcanon/theory as to why Sunset Shimmer after being defeated is suddenly (after being a complete bitch the whole movie) all ‘I’m sorry!’ “I just wanted friends!’. She wanted to RULE Equestria and brainwash everyone, why the change?  
Is this just a weak plot point with the whole ‘defeat means friendship’ device? Or did she really believe that conquering Equestria would get her friends and she’s not thinking lucidly enough to see how ridiculous her plan is (and maybe the EoH ‘purified’ her mind like with Luna in season 1)
 
Am I over-thinking a one time villain?
 
But seriously if anyone has any thoughts on her motives or if she just happens to be messed up in the head, I would love to hear it.
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Maybe just a play to get out of the situation? I think it would have been more like her to try to run to the portal instead of genuinely apologizing, but that wouldn’t be, you know, for kids.
 
Anyone has a theory as to why she was crying before her satan transformation?
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I agree about just wanting to get away from the situation but as for running to the portal it was no option, she would have ended in front of the crystal empire guards with nothing more than regular unicorn magic.
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Not really a theory, but here’s some food for thought;
 
Where is the other Sunset Shimmer?
 
Did Sunset get rid of her and highjack her life?
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Pretty sure that crown did something to her. She was crying during the transformation sequence. Maybe the Element of Magic doesn’t like being on the person not meant to wear it?
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@Itsthinking  
I noticed that too. I was disturbed, I was like “Oh god, is she in pain? This is pretty dark.”  
And then suddenly they’re like human-versions of Luna’s Night Gaurds mixed with Dragons.
 
Anywho, I would really like to see some kind of episode centered around Sunset Shimmer trying to stay good. Like, resisting temptations of being evil and gaining power because she’s trying to turn a new leaf. We all know the chances of this happening are slim-to-none, but if she is more than just a one-off character, I hope she stays reformed. I mean, look at Luna. Now she’s all righty-tighty because of the EoH, so my theory is that Shimmer shares a similar change-of-heart.
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She’s stuck in the human world for at least thirty more moons.
 
Also, under the crown’s power, she actually made it her goal to kill Twilight (well, depending on which cut you got though the original line is clearly animated as “die” and not “dealt with”) rather than “defeat” her.
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Or she’s a sociopath who cannot understand what friendship is. Everything’s a nail when you’re a hammer. Luna was corrupted; she wasn’t inherently evil. Discord created chaos because he found it fun (and out of revenge against Celestia); he was more just, well, chaotic than evil.
 
Shimmer was prepared, as Itsthinking said, to murder Twilight and use an enslaved army of teenagers to assault Equestria–which likely would’ve forced Celestia/Luna/the Royal Guards to use lethal violence to defend the realm. She’s probably a throwaway villain, but she may be the closest MLP has come to a genuinely psychotic one.
 
Not to worry, though. Given all the destruction Shimmer caused, she’ll likely be arrested, convicted of several counts of attempted murder/terrorism, and then put in an asylum for the rest of her life. Good luck convincing the FBI that you’re really a sentient pony from another realm and that a magical crown made you blow up a school, Sunset Shimmer.
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She was Blueblood Old Marefirend. But he dumbed her when she got pregnant, she was so angry she quit working for celestia and sold her child to some derp pegasus, and thus dinky was born
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>Shimmer was prepared, as Itsthinking said, to murder Twilight and use an enslaved army of teenagers to assault Equestria—which likely would’ve forced Celestia/Luna/the Royal Guards to use lethal violence to defend the realm. She’s probably a throwaway villain, but she may be the closest MLP has come to a genuinely psychotic one.  
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That would’ve been an FMA:Conqueror of Shambala scenario.
 
>Not to worry, though. Given all the destruction Shimmer caused, she’ll likely be arrested, convicted of several counts of attempted murder/terrorism, and then put in an asylum for the rest of her life. Good luck convincing the FBI that you’re really a sentient pony from another realm and that a magical crown made you blow up a school, Sunset Shimmer.  
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Exactly my thought when i saw the ending. She might not get into any real troubles, as the “Authorities” probably don’t exist in their version of Murica. In a world where no Pony/Human gives a sh- about attempted murder, collateral damage, and terrorism.
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Apparently there’s an upcoming 8 page comic about her background as Celestia’s student so hopefully it will clear things up about her,
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Maybe
 
Sunset Shimmer had a rather rough fillyhood before studying magic. She originally studied magic for recognition and honor, but things didn’t turn out the way she wanted….and you know the rest…  
Sunset Satan was just a cruel alter ego of Sunset that grew with her frustration, greed , and resentment and became embodied when Sunset wore the crown. When she was defeated by the “Hair 6”’s Rainbow light, the evil was purged.
 
Sort of like Marik Ishtar.
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