My name is Mok, thanks a lot…

One of the quirkiest stories I’ve read. It’s like if Discord is portrayed in as negative an image as possible, and the ending makes it clear that Lighting Rod can’t be anything but Discord in disguise, he and the light tower just disappeared. Zipp was right to be very skeptical about the whole thing. If it is Discord, what are his motives in telling the Mane 5 such an outrageous story that they will assume the worst about him? If Celestia knew about “the Mirror of Mayhem”, she would never have allowed the reformation of Discord. And Twilight would have found this out sooner or later.
Here it is angled so that Discord from G4 was nothing more than an amoral villain who didn’t care about all the deaths and suffering caused by a mirror that in itself violates the G4 lore. Because it is said that Discord broke out of the petrification by taking up residence in the mirror. Then it must mean that this is not just a test of the Mane 5, he also demonstrated the fatal consequences of magic. Still, it seems that the mirror did not contain chaos magic, but something far more deadly. An entire village of hundreds of ponies, Candlebright Cove, was wiped out.
Celestia would have beheaded Discord without the slightest hesitation, and we know from the IDW comics and S1-S3 that he was not an amoral being who had wandered the world and met many, but also that he did not care about the consequences of his actions as he regarded beings as playthings. For him, chaos with living victims was the very ideal. Not death, suffering and mayhem. The writers in G4 knew where the boundaries were when they created Discord. Here in this comic, Discord had broken all boundaries. And thus deserved nothing but the severest punishment.
As the Lighting Rod disappeared without a trace when Zipp pointed out at the end how improbable the whole situation is, it must mean that the story is fake, and that the remains of the mirror were given away as part of his plan. Which involves seeing if the Mane 5 can live up to the legacy of his departed friends.
When the fake Grogar appears in S9, he had the same thick eyebrows as Discord - and so does Lighting Rod.”

Kinda not surprised that Discord is still around, but I love that he is.

@Red-Supernova
I dunno if he’ll be presented as evil exactly, but this sure does look like they’re setting him up for a Superman-comes-unhinged-and-breaks-the-world-after-Lois-gets-killed storyline and the thrust of the plot will be helping him come to terms with it and accept that the world has to be allowed to move on.

I can definitely see the backstory here being that Discord lost his mind with grief after Fluttershy died– maybe after trying to use his powers to resurrect her and getting a Pet Sematary version instead– and he made the whole world forget itself in an attempt to make himself forget. That broken horn could have been a result of burning himself out and breaking his own power in the process, or he might have broken it off himself in penance after realizing what he’d done, to make sure he could never do it again.

If I saw a giant long haired beast looking at me from behind, I’d start running too

Chances are he’s hiding in his own little abode keeping Fluttershy’s sanctuary intact but not doing anything else. It wouldn’t fit for the new 5 to fully “revert him” into the fun loving character he was in G4.

It would also be insanely stupid if there was “someone more powerful than him” since we established multiple times that isn’t possible, so his horn being broken might be self inflicted.

And here I thought everyone from G4 were all long dead in G5. Also, I’m not surprised if Discord isn’t evil here.

@Embracethechaos
im with u, he’s a total dilf
he has a scary look here that makes him attractive in a way for me. So rugged

@Embracethechaos
Yes

Am I the only one who thinks he looks hot as shit? 👀💦

LOL get bonked, anyone who didn’t have the spoiler tags up, I guess.

There, fixed it for you.

“Oh, you ponies are just the most fun I’ve had in eons.”

Why does Discord look like Andross from Star Fox in this shot?

Old Man Discord?

I would love it if the comic book has a passage revealing that Discord currently gets by running a limo service at Zephyr Heights.

@Jacalope
When it releases we’ll see it. Cause technically the fanart I saw of Old Man Discord had his left horn intact.

And I’m the only who design my meme with the broken horn.

@Background Pony #186A
Yes, his horn is broken and in issue 2’s cover we can see the broken piece.

Is Discord’s left horn broken? I can see a bit of his right horn but I can’t see his left one.

Damn, they gave him that 80s dark wizard cut…

@IV’s
Gen 5 not pain. Gen 5 good. Old man Discord looks hella cool.

Old maaan Discord!

Those that don’t become vengeful old men:

Gen 5 pain. This is sad but I wonder how cool old man discord will be

@Background Pony #7901
A vengeful old man?

@Background Pony #7901
“Why did you make me do this?! You’re trying to unite the races so that you can watch more of them die?! Think, Sunny!”

Perhaps Discord’s just bitter, wondering what the point of him turning (mostly) good was, if, at the end of it all, ponies turned against each other… and he lost the descendants of the first friend he had in a long time…