Zecora said that her potion would only respond to alicorn magic. Twilight used the magic with the purple horn aura.
That’s the first time that that effect was given a name, and the only other time the term was used when Tirek was going after the princesses. In Tirek’s case, that seemed to be a reference to taking the magic from alicorns, rather than a specific technique.
Sombra’s evil was never blamed on, or even really linked to, his usage of alicorn magic.
The princesses usually have their powers referred to as unicorn magic.Contrariwise, the term dark magic has been used twice, first to refer to a trap and later to refer to the mess that Rarity left in Inspiration Manifestation. In neither case was it used to refer to the alicorn magic aura.
I don’t have a problem with the tag dark magic continuing to be used in a different way that the show uses the term, but the specific visual was named alicorn magic and dark magic was shown to be a purely generic term, so there should discussion on the conflict between the official name and the fan name.
That really seems implied/speculation at best.I/We don’t know why they reused the same effect from “The Crystal Empire” for that scene, but for all we know it could’ve been a random visual choice.
But it has the exact same visual effect, so since we are talking about establishing a connection based on the same, it is only fair to mention it.Celestia, Twilight and Sombra all do the same green eyes, purple flow & bubbles with dark flame in “The Crystal Empire”. (Trixie is slightly different with the alicorn amulet, since she’s all red.)
Sombra uses it for the entire episode, but surely you would not qualify Sombra’s magic as “alicorn magic”?
I’m more convinced that what you describe was ALWAYS meant to refer to Sombra’s magic (the same way it is used thorough “The Crystal Empire”, and the magic color (unaccompanied by the eye effects) was later reused.
This is all true, I agree, but I personally think there is no special intention or meaning behind how the show uses these terms. The writers seem to be using them as generic words like we would use “dark magic” in the real world for evil/suspicious magic.As for “unicorn magic” I think that is really more because the term “alicorn” did not come into use until the later seasons.
(It was a fan term originally which was later confirmed/acknowledged as official by the show staff.)
One unclear bg appearance barely qualifies something as “official”.I’d recommend we wait with making that connection until the show actually clearly confirms it.I agree that “dark magic” is just a fan term we randomly picked as the name of the tag, but on the other hand I see no evidence to match “alicorn magic” to it, even just as an alias.
i’d choose ‘stand and carry’ as a root because ‘suspended congress’ sounds quite weird, but there are other tags based upon congress thing, even weirder.
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