The moment I saw that episode, I eagerly awaited for someone to draw something like this. Kudos to the artist; it takes balls to do something like this, and whatever other people may say, I think this is great.
Except, you know, we don’t know for sure how sentient they are. And they weren’t so much “offed” as returned to their natural state, whatever that may be.
@MagnificentTrixie
It’s not the fact that this episode had dark implications that bothers me, it’s the fact that those dark implications are that our supposedly “moral” protagonists were willing to casually slaughter sentient creatures for the sole crime of existing. And not one of them has any problem with committing genocide. And what’s worse is that it was completely unnecessary. There was nothing in the story that suggested this course of action NEEDED to be taken. Yes, they had engaged in disorderly conduct. But what’s stopping them from trying to teach these clones how to behave appropriately in their civilized society? Or, consider this: When there was only one clone, everything was perfectly fine. Things only got out of hand when there was a large number of them. So why not split them up, send one to each town in Equestria to live a long and happy life? There was absolutely no reason for the Mane 6 to kill them. If they wanted to include some sort of genocide, maybe implying that King Sombra had exterminated the Crystal Pegasi and the Crystal Unicorns so the remaining population couldn’t rise up against him, that would be fine with me, because the season opener establishes that Sombra is a villain, and thus shows that him committing mass murder is obviously wrong. But instead, it’s the heroes that are doing it, and it’s presented in a humourous manner, with the clones being offed simply by being distracted. And this is the kind of show that is supposed to teach morals to young kids, huh? The moral I get out of this is “If you have ADHD, you’re too stupid to live.”
