in my opionon the shadow pony couldn't be star sworld the bearded becuse,it says star sworld tryed to help and protect equestrians but  as we could see discord had the power to turn good pony's bad so for all we know discord could have used that power do turn star sworld bad or the opposite of his personallitly like in the episode ehre he turned the main 6 agenst thair elements  and talking about the main 6, will it become the main 7 in bokth worlds i am talking about in cantorlot and equestria i say this becuse in rainbow rocks it seems sunset shimmer is new in the main 6(or 7)

also with the main 6 (or 7)in the mlp show it is shown the one pony (forgot her name) is a bew part of the main 6


I KNEW IT I EVEN COMMENTED ON THE OTHER EPISODE


O.M.G Maybe  it's Sunset Shimmer or one  of the  Sirens or king Sombra but not star swirled  because he is discord


is tirek coz'tirek's uppears he had a hat and yellow eyes.The six friends banish tirek


AAAARGH I AM SO STUPID!!! My OC is shadow Lightning is to fourth a shadow. After watching this O-O I AM FREAKING SHADOW PONY


Dude watch season 6 + it might be Star Swirl The Beared's Ghost


first fide other ponys who could be the shadow Pony and then if there's is nobody then point fingers at Starworld


at the end of the show it was pinkie pie shown in a black cloak of some sort so it was pinkie and when pinkie is involved nothing makes sense

+LPS Gaming 12345 watchs the episode to find out the shadow ponies idenitity

yeah nothing makes sense with pinkie ._.


Ariana is right sombra does mean shadow in Spanish! Then again could possibly be Star Swirl because of the hat and yellow eyes, buuuuuuuut it could also NOT be.

But it could also be the weak Tirek but he DOESN'T have Yellow eyes and what about the hat he a pesent cloth on and it didn't show hos horn tips!


wait sombras horn !!!!!!!! (never got destroded)


well it might have been sunset simmer and because she was wearing bkack


Ok cool idea it makes sense because star swirls a bearded was before sombra yeah if my comment is not good it's because I'm only 9 years old


truo grany Smith would have fogotn about that because in one episode she forgot which way to go and went in the wrang way unles it was so tarafiing it stuck in her memory!


star swirl or however u spell it I don't actually care about my spelling ok any way he cant be the shadow pony because star swirl de bearded has...A HORN... and the shadow pony does not.              case closed lol     :)


THE SHADOWPONY OK IT IS SOME OF NIGHTMAREMOON


Duh!!!!!!!!! Not ALL of starswerled was turned in2 discord. star swearled SHADOW left starswearled/discord and was tured evil by nightmare! Then, it stayed in the casle!!!! (Since star swearled had no freinds, he brout his shado 2 life, just so the shado would B his BFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)


Um no and discord was never star swerl the bearded ✂🎅🏼


Star Swirl the berdid must be the shadow pony if not weir is he.


I can not wait to go back to ponyvill my name in ponyvill is prinsess cadens


Lol! Rainbow dash said: no pony knnowws!!! In the piolet, now appeal jack said it!!


wait... who in the world is star swirl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Akane-San i couldnt of been tirek becuse he would of seen twilight and new a fort princess egsists


Bro your mic makes it sound like your in my room

Creepy...


guys cqlm down its obviously star swirl the bearded


ok ,thats a posebilety .Butt maybe its all rong the shadow pony may be another villan coming soon.even that maigtht be trexy butt also it maigtht be starscwirldthe bird butt it maight be the dark magic of the alicorn amulat.


season FOUR AND FIVE four CADENCES EVIL SIDE FIVE TWLIGHTS EVIL SIDE


i think that it is princess Luna s spirit????? I don't know if it is true


it mite be criselest of the cutie re mark


(I came up whith that the moment the vid ended!!!!!!!!!!)


she doesn't have a hat or glowing eyes <br>😒how would you know that starlight glimer

she doesn't have a hat or glowing eyes
😒how would you know that starlight glimer


season 4 was tired so yeah  how do I know watch Netflix  dum dums

HI IM ON MY POPS LAPTOP STOP BEING MEAN YOUR THE DUB DUB  POOOP YOUR POOOP


it is starlight glamour old bff couse in seson six he he acts weard when she asks have any thing happend to you and he sead no weard  he  hase a hat to and he is a wizzard


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But when I checked my reply befor I posted it said pIe after I put Pie

Pinkie pIe? it isn't pie with a capital I


We can say that starswirl(no idea how to write it) Is a little like a jedi knight. he wanted to stay on the good side so badly that he turned evil after he died. He definitely died, and he was a powerful unicorn, so he used a magic to seperate his soul from his body, and was the shadow pony. His soul still was powerfull, but he wasn't able to perform magic. so he passed his magic on to sombra, who was defeatet and after this he turned discord evil. ny convincing him to do what he was destined for. And finally passed his dark magc to Luna wanted to grow powerful enough to resist her sister. or convinced her too, to do was she was was planning. does this make any sense any longer?


As of s5 ep13, we have an interesting update: the Tantabus was a portion of Nightmare Moon's darkness not destroyed by her purification, so maybe it split off before her banishment, and only just recently came back to haunt her. And the Tantabus is an embodiment of fear, similar to Sombra, so maybe it was still floating around in the old castle where Nightmare Moon was banished, as decided to spook the visiting ponies, but then followed them back home at the end of the escapade to check up on Nightmare Moon (or so it thinks). It mostly fits together, right?


Maybe after defeating Nightmare Moon, a piece of her essence, ( Example: Tantabus. ) escaped to form a small shadow pony who took the appearance of Star Swirl's shadow, and horrible things happened, and it got turned into a legend, and it probably lives at the Castle of Two Sisters for the rest of eternity. It didn't know that NM turned good again, so it still haunts the castle of two sisters.


During your clip of granny in the forest I saw the timber wolves. Maybe the shadow was only a timber wolf in the castle, don't worry I has evidence. Their ears are pointed which solves for the hat and every timber wolf has yellow eyes with that exact shape. I'm not sure tho so just take it in as an idea. And there are many wolves in the forest but unlike other wolves they have no alpha YET to seen. Or is that shadow the timber wolf alpha that rules over the alpha.but I'm not completely sure. It is just a theory. But just take it in and find more evidence for it if you think it is a good idea.


Okay, so. First of all, before Sombra gets banished, Starswirl could have been working on that unfinished spell that Twilight accidentally invoked in the episode in which she turns into an alicorn. Maybe while he was working on the spell, he was trying to use that spell with Dark Magic. Before he could, however, Celestia and Luna caught him. They tried to banish him, but he invoked a spell that caused him to change form instead, this turning him into Discord. He fled into the Everfree or the mountains to master his new found powers over chaos, and came back to ruin Equestria. Only then, as Discord, was he successfully turned to stone using the Elements. I mean, this could be a possibility. I know you made this vid a while back, but there is the hope that you'll look back and do a sequel to this video based on my theory. I won't know until it happens. Oh well. But hey, this could be the answer to why Star Swirl wasn't able to finish the spell.


Personally, i do not think it was star-swirl because several ponies have yellow eyes and wore a witch hat. i think it was him because, when Celestia said that star-swirl did not understand friend ship, he could not finish his spell. maybe Celestia mentioned this to him and he went psychotic. The shadow could have been a mere trace of the anger and resentment he felt. that seems to be a common theme running within the show.


Maybe instead of Star Swirl just downright becoming Discord like his soul got pulled apart, yin and yang so to speak. The 'bad' in him became Discord while the 'good' got stuck in some shadowy limbo. Just a thought off the top of my head of course. I wait for canon to confirm anything


it could be discord still because he can "being trapped in stone doesn't keep me from hearing every word celestial says" so what if he had enough magic that he could get out of stone for a while but in a different form that or starswirl is just a character to keep the plot moving


for the love of celestia. Its obviously lunas evil power, but manifested in a weaker, pony form. Not necessarily looking like her, just manifested into a new form. Like Sauron during the beginning of the 3rd age after Isildur took the ring.


I think discord's or starswirl's evil side was a shadow, that supports mine and your theory of the enitites of the Sirens taking over the bodies of Senata, Adagio and Aria, so when starswirl used the swirl to supposivley make him Discord, the evil took over, and when he was banished, the entity escaped.


Well Tirek was the shadow pony (he was not really a pony because we saw in the show he was weak and kangaroo like until he became strong by taking all pony's magic) well we know he has yellow eyes and when he was weak he was wearing a cloak so that's my theory.


It actually makes sense but maybe it's more than that. What if Starswirl the Bearded was possessed/infused with Nightmare Moon's magic. Or maybe the magic that used Princess Luna's jealousy took over Starswirl and then, corrupted by evil, used this new magic to CREATE Nightmare Moon, hoping to transfer the Magic to himself, much like Sunset Shimmer did with the Element of Magic?


i think the shadow pony is one of the dark rulers of equestria who was ruling equestria before Spring,Winter,Summer and Fall(or autumn).The first king of equestria was king Shining Sun(or the originaly,King Harmonius).The king married on Shining moon,which means Celestia and Luna are hereditary descendants of king Shining Sun and queen Shining moon.I'm not sure about is this true on 100% but all of this facts told me my friend which is kind of like know Loran Faust.Actually he told me that there was a secret order which helped king Shining Sun with capturing Equestria.He don't really know what is that secret order or who was ruling the equestria before King Shining Sun,he was trying to ask Loran Faust in bronycon,but she didn't answer him.She just tell my friend that princess Spring,Winter,Summer and Fall born from Queen Shining Moon and King Shining Sun.So the shadow pony can be the one of dark rulers of equestria who was ruling it before king  comes.Well,i don't think that was a Star Swirl the Bearded because the Star Swirl was the Witch and Alchemist of the King Shining Sun.I don't really know true that or not because the friend told me about that.Which is very big brony.


I do think that the shadow pony is Star Swirled the Bearded, then Star Swirled turned into Discord. Also because Star Swirled has great magic so does Discord. All Discord had to do was Chanel the magic into dark magic. 😀


Castle Mane-ia is actually a reference to a video game series, Castlevania. The Shadow Pony is supposed to be Dracula, or the pony equivalent of Dracula. Nightmare Moon is the equivalent of the actual Vlad Tapes Dracula, or better known as Vlad the Impaler. The Shadow Pony is the myth part, where Dracula was supposed to be a vampire. Except just like Nightmare Moon, he was a straight out blood thirsty maniac.

Vlad Tapes Dracula is historical fact. Lord Dracula as a vampire is fiction.
Nightmare Moon is historical fact in MLP. The Shadow Pony is fiction.

 See the connection yet? Oh yes and lets not forget that when night fell on the Castle, the dark magic took the form of the Shadow Pony. Gee, just like how Dracula couldn't come out during daytime? How could anyone miss this?

Also the Shadow Pony depicted in Castle Mane-ia, was just Pinkie Pie the entire time.


One head canon said that there was an evil the convinced luna to be evil so maybe they were the shadow pony. Or pony's. Also in the first two episodes of my little pony luna created "the Shadow Bolts" and maybe the pints that made her evil helped her along the way so they might be the shadow pony


i think star swirl helped celie banish luna. part of nightmare magic overtook him and the last known place of tia and luna are the castle of the two sisters. i think this means he is just looking for his old friends. the journal of the two sisters show that they were friends but ends after the sisters earn their cutie marks.


ya I agree with the star swirled because on the my little pony app ( the update was a while ago ) Star swirled was on the cover once you enter the game but his face was ya know shadow colored and his yellow eyes were glowing


If u look carefully at the shadows, the two pony's are princess or prince! The bigger shadow pony has a yellow aura around it's horns like celestial. The smaller pony's white. But I dont think the two princesses could be in Sromba's age of time. What about their parents, the two princesses are sister after all. Maybe after defending Sromba the parents told their children.


If it is star swirl then maybe he is going to try to communicate with Twilight and the others to help them with another evil that might come. But the shadow at the end had an evil grin so I'm going to stick with my other theory because there also is one of the new episodes where luna created a smoke monster and at the end it went back with her but didn't some slip out? Maybe there's more than the little monster and maybe that is going to be another villain in season 5


Maybe discord tried to have a little fun in his almost original form! That way starswirl could be discord and the shadow pony.


I know who is the shadow pony he appeared in season four episode 3 he is tirek he has a brother who betrayed him and before sombra first attacked the crystal empire it was tirek who first tried to attack all of equestria he was defeated by the two sisters and he was locked up in a place I forgot guarded by a three headed furious dog wearing a spike collar and spike wristband which the dog was brown he escaped that place and appeared in season four episode 3 castle mania he was the one with yellow demonic eyes wearing a dark torn hood with sweater thing and he started attacking the whole equestria in the last episode of season four he first showed up getting ponies there magic there cutie marks he caught two of the ponies before discord caught him and tirek offered discord a trade its power for tirek exchange that tirek will give him more power stronger than friendship he lied to discord about when discord caught him before they got a trade he was wearing the same thing the shadow pony wore in season four episode 3 castle mania same as yellow eyes plus he was the SHADOW PONY 🌫😈(it's just a sigh lol)


do you remember those shreads that where left behind when night mare moon was blasted..<br> well here's my theory I thing nmm is reconstructing herself over time as sombra did in the comics so that's my theory.

do you remember those shreads that where left behind when night mare moon was blasted..
 well here's my theory I thing nmm is reconstructing herself over time as sombra did in the comics so that's my theory.


What if it was a hoodie? Zicora had a hoodie as shown in the first episode


The shadow isn't really  a pony...... it's a mentor! Well Tirek has yellow eyes the cloak he wears has a simmalar hood to the shadow pony's so called "hat" So wouldn't Tirek be the "shadow pony"?


well maybe it is one of the shadow bolts because they are "shadow" bolts and they wear yellow glasses and he/she was wearing a cape to hide his/her face


It is possible that the shadow pony is a remnant of star swirl the bearded and when he was turned into discord that remnant went to the castle of the two sisters


It still could of been Starswirl because what if that was his soul/spirit?


I stil think it's zecora the had the same eye's (shape and color) and the hood matches perfectly


I do not think its Tirek or Star Swirl or Pinkie. I think it is Zacora!


we all know tirek because he was the powerfulest of all villans in equestria


Is there a video I can watch about how Granny Smith got her name? I mean, we know she wasn't always a granny so is it just because it's apple related? I don't know I want to see a video!


I think it's small Luna 😳 J.k. It's definitely star swirl the bearded <br>Just a thought you should do a video on pinky pie LOL!!!

I think it's small Luna 😳 J.k. It's definitely star swirl the bearded
Just a thought you should do a video on pinky pie LOL!!!


Hang on! Shadow Pony? Did Treyarch just think of the Shadow Man or did they get some inspiration?


Dude, when the shadow appears the thing on its head is not a hat its a hood for example if it was a hat the legs in the position of idk flying or walking would show so basically the shadow pony is in a hood witch is not stars world to me but its my opinion not a fact

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no because  you  can see a bit of the colar raising up on the shadows cape a lot alike to Trixie's cape so it cant be star swirled the bearded


the shadow pony could be part of star bead swirl it could  be a darker part of him


Could be queen chrysalis taking the form of star swirls a bearded


maybe when star swirl turned  in to discort  he lost his unicorn powers and they the turned into to a shadow and got stuck in the castle of the two sisters and was never found and got some bran new crazier powers after he turned into discort ( hey I know I did this by many years late but can u do a vid on my thoughts if u think they are good ? )


Maybe star swirled created Discord. And discord drained star swirled magic and turned him to shadow.😱


the shadow pony can be star swirl but even though the eyes r yellow they look completely diferent


My theory is that when discord isn't with anypony we is the shadow pony because he also has yellow eyes and he's not a pony so he fits perfectly please share this in a video!


yeah,StarSwirl the bearded was one of the first ponies and he is suspicious: -/


Sunset is the shadow pony because EG's first movie was in season 4, right? Anyways, I think I am truly accurate because Sunset wears a black cloak and tries to be as sneaky as possible, like shadows in the pony world. Sometimes I don't even see the shadows under some ponies... And one of those error victims in Sunset Shimmer. I looked close at my TV and saw.... no shadow... This error occured when Sunset was swapping the crown with the faker crown. Yet, The magic in My Past Is Not Today seems suspicious.... Why does she grow wings and why does she pony up? She must be an alicorn and that is suspicious, what did Sunset do to become Princess Sunset Shimmer? Well, I got nothing.


i think it was nightmare moon, Storyline: Princess luna turns into nightmare moon right? well, after nightmare moon was banished, her head was bacically a shape on the moon, right? well, some remains were still in equestria, and it was shadow, the shape of her head on the moon, that was her SHADOW and when she was released, it created THE SHADOW PONY DUN DUN DUNNNN, BUT star swirl's magic was still on equestria, thus, creating his shape, and it has haunted ponies for centuries.

i think it was nightmare moon, Storyline: Princess luna turns into nightmare moon right? well, after nightmare moon was banished, her head was bacically a shape on the moon, right? well, some remains were still in equestria, and it was shadow, the shape of her head on the moon, that was her *SHADOW* and when she was released, it created *_THE SHADOW PONY_* DUN DUN DUNNNN, BUT star swirl's magic was still on equestria, thus, creating his shape, and it has haunted ponies for centuries.


Ok is anyone still not fully convinced it was Tirek? Seriously. The hoods are too different


I think!! I think!!.. I THINK, THAT SOMBRA ISN'T DEAD, CUZ REMEMBER HIS "DEATH" A HORN COULD BE SEEN AT THAT SCENE (Ik it rhymes) AND WE ALL KNOW WHAT HAPPENS TO A HORN OF HIS, REMEMBER WHEN THE BARRIER WAS CASTED, AND A HORN FELL.. I THINK IT WAS A TELEPORTER/REVIVER STUFF, SO I DONT THINK HE IS DEAD. SORRY FOR CAPS AND IDK IF MY THEORY IS REAL..


Noooooo! Never! Because star swirl is a great and nice and good magician.


although the video said it was a pony which the evidence says but it could be an animal similar to ponies like discord


it should be tirek he is the villain in season 4 and was banished in prison


I think that the shadow pony is TIREK when he was really weak and in the season final princess Celestia reveals that TIREK has escaped prison


(is you haven't watched season 4 don't read this)maybe it's Chrysalis, she can change into other ponys and she has magic.


I am just making something up but I just want to know can shape shift if he could he might be the shadow pony since his eyes are yellow.


I think star swirl bearded is the shadow pony


what if star swril did the spell to him self and then reversed it


star swirlled the beared proaby was the shaowdo because all the clues match


I think in my theory that it could be trek!


the vilian in season 4 is tirek am I right


The shadow pony is the pony I made up named shadow pony in a fan fiction.


It is star swirl he had dark magic too he turned evil and got vanished but now all magic went with him the princess sisters used the shadow magic I know just because


But queen crysalis returned from season4 to season 5 which led to twilight spark or some thing but then twilight sparkle made the other twilight spark or some thing. But didn't star swirl died?


it makes sense for this being tirek but I think it was zecora


Here's something: Discord has yellow eyes.


the shadow pony is't actually a pony iv'e seen these clues before it is a creature for sure. this shadow creature is tirek for real!!!


well just like MKody said it has the witch hat like trixie but also has it like star swirl....


Right now by that analysis the shadow pony is Startlight. Kappa


If it was pinkie how did we see her before we saw a shadow


it makes sense for this being tirek but I think it was zecora😐


no idea how to explain this but what if it's not anything we've seen so far, but an ansester of something or someone, let's send us back to, where is eqestrea ?, maybe if we can get more information about their experiences and past we can figure out something?!


In that episode they find out the pony was Pinkie pie.


my thery is it mabye terek because he came in season five and we got no backstory exept when he was in the place the major princesses were sent


as you said it might be starswirl the bearded  because yellow eyes check weird hat check banished check I mean who else??????


it makes sense for this being tirek but I think it was zecora👶


it not bad but what about discord he has the beard like star swirl and all of star swirls spells he could of messed up and turned into discord but he mite of found out how to turn back into star swirl but then he got banished because there was of been evil magic in him and he was banished because he used that evil magic.  the end this was a headcanon.


i think it really was star swirl pony thing shadow


Um.... Wasn't Star Swirl A Nice Guy? I Mean, I Thought He Helped I Think It Wouldn't Be Right If HE Was The Shadow Pony ... :P (just logic ppl)


remember, in the episode Luna eclipsed about night mare night, Luna enters and looks just like.... the shadow pony!!!!! ohhhhhhoooooo...


applejack said when nightmaremoon was vanished not with all of her shadows


why do people think it was Tirek. it clearly isn't.


It wasn't pinkie. Right at the end  a shadow apears.


+ doesn't terek have yellow eyes and the "whitch hat" looked simaler to the hood on zecora  and weak tereks hood right SO IT HAS TO BE TEREK!


Would be funny if it would be Shadowcorn...


No because star swril was never in the show . And maby he stad in there when night mare moon  was fighting with celestea and so she made night marmoon busy so she wont care aboat star swril.


Sombra is the shadow pony, his mane looks like a hat and Princess Luna ,,distroy" Sombra, if you don't belive me watch ,,The Fale Of The Crystal Empire''


Sombra its shadow in portugaise and spanish and brazilian


I think star swirl did a spell and turn into DISCORD(tan tan tuuun)😁


Is star swirl  bearded  the. Shadow pony?

Is star swirl  bearded  the. Shadow pony?


Or maybe it could have been Tirek, since, he has yellow eyes as well, and his cloak really looked like witch hat as well (Ofcourse when he was weak!) So I'm pretty sure, it was Tirek or, Sombra XD :-)

@Daniel Antony<br>It can't be Luna, because Luna has blue eyes not yellow.

@Daniel Antony
It can't be Luna, because Luna has blue eyes not yellow.

@Dark light i think it's Luna.Because she like... you know.want to make main six happy,so she decided to scare them(because they like it.It's fun).But... i have one other theory two.It might be just reference to the Dark Ages(fanfiction,tale,rumor).

@Daniel Antony<br>Ok, who do you think it is though?

@Daniel Antony
Ok, who do you think it is though?

@Dark light okay.There's no need to apologize

@Dark light listen.Shadow pony had BIG EYES.Tirek doesn't have big eyes.

@Daniel Antony<br>the pupil of the eyes are still yellow and no I am not colour blind.

@Daniel Antony
the pupil of the eyes are still yellow and no I am not colour blind.

@Dark light do you even see differents between BIG and SMALL??? Are you colorblind person(or daltonian) of size side?

@Dark light Tirek's eye rolls are small.

+Daniel Antony He does have yellow eyes, not red.

+Sakura Hime (かわいい) he had RED eyes,not yellow.


it good be the left over spirit of star swirl [the good part]


Omg!! The first who was banished was... Darn what is his name!? The one guy defeated when twilight got her castle!

The name was Tirek, but your theory broken,Tirek has RED eyes


................................................ WELL then. I had never thought about who the pony of shadows was. but yah, discord, star swirl, AND tirek all make a lot of sense to me.


made it was the pony who made the alicorn amulet


no it was nt in the end of the episode it showed that the shadow pony was PINKIE PIE really<br>i saw

no it was nt in the end of the episode it showed that the shadow pony was PINKIE PIE really
i saw


i think hmmm lets see starswirl or tirek or starligt glimmer


wait a minute wait a minute what!!! its discord it has to be discard you know he's the magic of KFC can make that happen looks exactly like that


its tereck u know the escaped from tartaris


check out the song children of the night and you will get the answer


Nope ur wrong xD starlight glimmer is like no lol.


Umm <b>runs away screaming</b> it's star swirly l...l mean swirl

Umm *runs away screaming* it's star swirly l...l mean swirl


no I think  that  the  shadow  pony  is some ponyelse


the shadow pony might be discord but he's a pony because he's star swirl. So he might have the ability to change form but he doesn't tell any pony in case they hate him more or start to hate star swirl?!?!?!?


It was Tirek....

But season 5's is Starlight Glimmer again.. I think....

@FireWolfGoddess Shadow pony is Legend From "DARK AGES" Tirek wasn't even borned in Dark Ages.Because his father-Vorak,Was young in that times.I mean... adult man.Not old man like now.Tirek borned 100 years before disappearance of Starswirl the Bearded.

@FireWolfGoddess tirek had Small and circle eyes.And Shadow pony had Big and rectangle eyes.Shadow pony is old mares tale.Maybe even legend.Tirek is not tale or legend.


Well, in the episode after that, Tirek was the villain. He was too weak to be in a real form when he escaped, so he had to be a shadow.

+Randy Robertson it can't be sunset shimmer she has red eyes

+Randy Robertson yes and with the same cape as when she stole twilight's crown!!!!

+Randy Robertson what in the world she will do in princesse's castle if they pissed of with twilight?

@Girl of mysteries She came back once. Maybe she has been spying on TLS for some time?

No it weren't if she was in the human dimension.


hmm i think starlight glimmer .... tommorrow


@orhan koçak Yes.Star Swirl was Witch and Alchemist of King Harmonius Second(or originaly Hercek melandsa).

+orhan koçak Star Swirl is not on side of Dark creatures.


chrisalis maybe because her black  skin kinda blends in maybe😳

+wadestown4 she can change them to yellow

+wadestown4 it was a guess it doesn't matter what I think

+Trevor Sims but DOES she have yellow eyes? think about that


wach the full video it pinke pie playing a pranck


alright, how often do i have to repeat myself: King Sombra used dark magic. as in necromancy, as in "i just put my sould in my staff/wand/crown/cape/cockring/horn and whoever touches it next gets to be my new host". i mean, this is so incredibly obvious, every fantasy fan should know that.<br>and besides, im gonna add some dark mystery surrounding Princess Twilight Sparkle to my project. the working title is The Shadow of Magic. a tale not so different from the story of Nightmare Moon, but a little bit more mysterious and with more ghost story potential.

alright, how often do i have to repeat myself: King Sombra used dark magic. as in necromancy, as in "i just put my sould in my staff/wand/crown/cape/cockring/horn and whoever touches it next gets to be my new host". i mean, this is so incredibly obvious, every fantasy fan should know that.
and besides, im gonna add some dark mystery surrounding Princess Twilight Sparkle to my project. the working title is The Shadow of Magic. a tale not so different from the story of Nightmare Moon, but a little bit more mysterious and with more ghost story potential.


It would make a lot of sense for Starswirl to be the shadow pony. In a comic, Starswirl was shown to live or be a common visitor to the Royal Sister's castle. It would make sense he would come back as a spirit or SHADOW to defend the castle from robbers and demolition ponies and others who may cause damage to the castle after death. I think he may have also built the Organ to the Outside for the same purpose: to scare away intruders to get them to stay away and give them a push to get away.


I think I've got it, in the most recent episode of MLP we met the Tantabus, which Luna hints she created as Nightmare Moon, it is a shadowy figure so it lines up with the shadow thing and also was created by Nightmare Moon.


this might be dumb, but i think that star swirl wasnt always good. with all that power, parts of him were evil, so he used his magic to get rid of it. but it wasnt powerful enough to destroy it, creating the pony of shadows


a good theory, yes-but...
you see the yellow eyes that are seen at the end of the episode are indeed very similar to zecoras but i think you dismissed her to quickly as in the first episode we saw zecora twilight said they came from a far away land. this says that zecora is probably not the only zebra around... sooooooo, what if zecora has family that she left behind in this unknown place lets just say it is africa. this shadow pony then could not be a pony at all, it now being a zebra with glowing yellow eyes, this could be a member of zecoras family that prehaps studies witchcraft like zecora studies voodoo. sooooo...... baisicaly,
im saying that this is a member of zecoras family from someplace far away, that studies witchcraft not voodoo and this seems a pretty good guess because well yellow eyes check and wizard hat check. so its not a shadow pony its a shadow zebra!


I believe that it was part of princess luna's evil magic since if I remember back to Ep 1 season 1 they defeated her in that castle.:)


My idea- Apple jack said "when nightmare moon was vanished to the moon not all of her evil spirt was taken with her" so I believe it was tantabus considering that's the only thing relatable to nightmare moon I believe. The last episode kinda revealed that tantabus was basically a part of Luna or night mare moon. I don't think star swirl is the shadow pony because he wasn't "evil" at least we don't think so. Either that or it's just something that was used for plot. It's a little kids show after all


The shadow is not wearing a witch hat, it simply is wearing a cloak. Look back to all the ponies wearing cloaks, such as zecora, and you can see the shadow clearly.


I think it is impossible because star swirl in pony history was known to do good. But the pony of shadows could be friendly<br>


the reason apple jack thought it was nightmare moon is because she had a guard who thought the same and joined nightmares transformation, but when nightmare was banished she was banished to, but not the same way, after she saw Luna get banished she confronted celestia, Celestia not seeing her as a threat turned her into a Shadow what celestia didn't realize as she left her old home, was that all she did was make her stronger while also giving her a set back....when Luna was turned back her guard was angered, and now she wants her revenge, she will bring nightmare moon back.

second theory, when Luna was banished, her nightmare side escaped and hid away in the castle collecting shadows, and causing nightmares, she then feeds off the nightmares negativity and grows strong enough to release Luna but decided to hide that she was releasing Luna she decided to hide her magic inside the four stars, when Luna was released she then took her back as a host body and tried to take over again, when the elements nearly struck her she escaped the host body(Luna) and became a shadow once more, and sin e then has been spying on the mane six from the shadows, observing there weaknesses by throwing obstacles at them(first discord then sobra, and then starlight glimmer) slowly plotting her revenge for season 6!!!!!!

The End!  😸😝


Actually this star swirl theory has a major thing going for it. This is seen in one of the comic books (sorry I forgot which one) where star swril created the portal (as in equestria girls) and we see his abandoned secret room in the show. I think that star swirl is not discord (bronynotion theory) but star swirl after the  disappearance of said unicorn. Please comment with holes in my theory or the number of comic.


Wait, OK, so it could be Star Swirl the Bearded... But let's think about this. The way the 'Shadow Pony' looks at us... Star Swirl the Bearded was never evil was he? If he was, this is still a great theory. I just don't know if it works. I agree with FrostTheFox, it could could be Tirek!


possibly star swirl was split into two parts by the magic, the physical part was altered by chaos into discord while his essence turned to shadow and became the shadow pony.


The shadow pony is most likely Tirel, the hat is his hood he had in the beginning of the episode, and the eyes are, well, his eyes


i remember reading that NMM was a separate pony that lived on the moon and could only come to earth if she possess a pony and that pony was Luna because of the bitterness she felt from her sister so maybe the shadow is NMM this is a theory plz don't hate me just kindly reply your opinion plz


Well my theory is that the shadow pony could either be discord,starswirl,or it could even be tirek he could have been the shadow "pony" when he was still to weak to do anything.


i have a theory that all unicorn magic is stored in their horns, and if you look at the first scene The Brony Notion showed us, sombra's horn was not destroyed. So his MAGIC survived. new theory: his magic gained consciousness and it is the shadow. is that a good theory? i think it is.


Can't we just accept that it is some of the shadow from nightmare moon? The "witch hat" could have been the flowing hair deformed since it is SOME of nightmare SOME


So according to the timeline... tirek was banished to tartarus before sombra to the ice, and discord to stone and luna to the moon.


well, it actually could be starswirl...because he was the most powerfull pony, plus...celestia and luna might not have been born when he created the elements of harmony...so maybe he used them to creat something evil...the pony of shadows!


What if it was starswirl and when he "disappeared" it was a failed spell that turned him to a shadow? Idk just a thought


maybe that shadow was the shadow who held the magic but he wanted to be seen so he tried to make Luna make it night all the time so they could be seen in all shadows everywhere.


It might be discord: it links up that star swirled is discord and discord is the shadow pony. How do I know? In my guide book from seasons 1 - 3 it stated that nightmare moon's original name was discord

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It could be... One of the sirens (see rainbow rocks, twilight told their story.) starswirl banished them to another world. He died before nightmare (moon) and probably before discord. That means it could have been a siren.


But we all must remember that magic red bull guy right if we can find out when he was banished then we can see who the shadow pony is and is the shadow pony bad or good that could lead us to bull guy or star swirl or Sombra but could we be missing a key link to the alicorns of the past


I bet they put their magic together and made a powerful tipe of magic that fuzes with the elaments of harmeny and make a more powerful  tip of magical ability to stop the most    dark magic of all


well maybe granny smith was thinking of another story. and Star swirl being banished before discord would mean you owe ilovekimpossiblealot 10 bucks. and maybe the shadow pony was Tia and Luna's father's ghost and he really is good and just misunderstood, like the changeling queen was just a mother, maybe the shadow pony was just a father. and since Tia and Tuna were most likely teens when their father passed away, he was never banished he just died before the bad ponies came. and 1 more thing, there was no light bulbs in the castle, and my memory might just be cloudy but i'm pretty sure i didn't see a fire stick or any pony doing a light spell in the room where the shadow pony was, so if my theory was right then i have one more thing to say, ghosts glow like once i was in a urgent care clinic and there was a van outside that said Joe's coffin sellers so i asked a nurse about it and she said someone died in the clinic, then i had to go to the bathroom, witch was two floors up so i walked up the stairs because i get sick in elevators and when i got to the 3rd floor i was the only one in the hall and i saw a glowing figure then i went back down the stairs and i knew it was not a guards flashlight because 1. it was day time 2. considering i was at the start of the hallway and if it were a flashlight the light would hit the door and 3. it felt really cold like 50 degrees cold, but in the waiting room the thermostat said it was 83 and i knew the coldest the thermostat can go was 60


In this video Granny Smith can be right because it looks like Princess Luna in the cloak. In Luna Escaped she is wearing a cloak that looks exactly like that shadow.


My theory is that the shadow pony was Queen Chrysalis in the form of Starswirl the bearded after she was defeated by Cadence and Shining Armor in a Canterlot Wedding so she can plan her revenge


Maybe it could be a mixture of people. Star swirled beard,Trixie, and the zebra.


Yea I agree with these people I have recently thought yesterday that it was Tirek (I think you spell it) (be honest) Because me and my sister were watching this episode yesterday (because we have roku3 so we can watch any episode) and I thought it was Tirek because they both have yellow eyes, and a cloak and he might've not known that the 4th Princess was there because his shadow was never anywhere where Twilight was. He then shows up a few episodes after the castle one and says that the magic should've been his a long time ago which I would think meaning he meant the time before (it was either Discord or Sombra I don't remember which came first from the timeline) had arrived.


The Pony of Shadows could be The Necrabus from ''Do princesses Dream of Magical Sheep''


I believe it is zecora. She could be looking for a book that she does not have in her library like twilit. Also the clock zecora wears and the eyes = shadow pony.


The pony in the first episode of S5 is the villain in this season. It was most likely her getting her revenge on twilight and her friends! Just a guess¿


I just realized, maybe Star-Swirl the bearded, after he was banished into shadowy-ness he reformed into Discord. For REASONS, of course.


The shadow pony is in season 5 <br>the tantupus is the shadow pony its a part of nightmare moon and it feeds off luna's guilt, therefor turning equestria into a living nightmare. In the end it turns into a giant pony. so there we go, Hasbro said it all

The shadow pony is in season 5
the tantupus is the shadow pony its a part of nightmare moon and it feeds off luna's guilt, therefor turning equestria into a living nightmare. In the end it turns into a giant pony. so there we go, Hasbro said it all


i think the shadow pony is disord because he can change into a bird and stuff so he could turn into a pony maybe because as star swirl the bearded did not come back it couldof been discord or flash sentry because he does have yellow eyes just like discord


you mean like a ghost? According to ink rose's head cannon: star swirled the bearded died of old age
My Theory: ghost take the form of evil when they die
Another theory of mine: he went into the shadows but some of him remained on the light side for example: rainbow rocks
So star swirled's ghost was banished because the two sisters were more powerful so
Conclusion:star swirled's ghost is the shadow pony

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wait what if luna didn't become nightmare moon an her own? Maybe what turned her evil escaped before she was banished? Remember the shadow bolts? The person who possibly turned luna evil most likely gave her some magic the eyes on the shadow bolts were like the shadow ponies.


May be Discord found out a spell that can make him Star swirl the beard


I have 2 options Tirek banished somewhere and guarded or ... Queen Chrysalst Just a therory but how does Celstia know Queen Chrysalist


First I don't think star swirl was banished. I think something was messed up when he banished somepony... Or some sirens... Think about it the sirens could have gotten him under control enough to where they were banished along with him... I know it's stupid and makes no sense...


I think the pony of shadows is no one we know maybe it's a new character :)


the dark magic had probably hit star swirl making him the shadow ponie and tries to get revenge against Luna!


Celestine Luna probably combined their own magic together to defeat king Sombra


starswirl the bearded is a good theory, but what if the shadow pony is a new villain and the writers are trying to give us bronies and pegasisters a hint?

Like Nyx Maybe? i mean  we all  know that Mlp has mythical creatures in it, so why not Nyx? is there already an episode about Nyx? Or was that Crisalis? (i dont know how to spell her name)


Maybe Zecora decided to have a late night stroll 😊


I think Star Swirl the Bearded is Discord but I still want to know who the shadow pony is.


what if the shadow pony was Star Swirl's leftover shadow form after turning into discord


I think it could be the deepest darkest parts of starswirl the bearded


Tirek.why?he appeared in season 4.plus he is a g1 villain.<br>And the fact that he got banished to tartarus on the same way the mane six banished him by using the chest of magic.sooooo,anyone likes my idea?

Tirek.why?he appeared in season 4.plus he is a g1 villain.
And the fact that he got banished to tartarus on the same way the mane six banished him by using the chest of magic.sooooo,anyone likes my idea?


Maybe it can be StarSwirrle because maybe he went mad with power and couldn't control it and went all crazy and stuff. Idk i can be wrong!


If it isn't tirek wait remember season 5 ep 13 remember the tantipus it was shown in pony form and was a remnant of nightmare moon. But, however would not be the shadow pony because of it being wavy and it didn't escape yet. But, who's to say Luna didn't create others like it . Possibly it was so strong it erased luna's memory of the occurrence. Hmmm...


Before they banished sombra starswirl the bearded dissapeared so they found discord and discord is starswirl


Star swirl trained sombre . He was a earth pony


I haven't always thought as Discord being Star Swirl, but there is a a good chance. here is a theory I have:

When Star Swirl wasn't able to finish the spell that Twilight completed he got upset that he didn't get his... let's call it, reward (wings). You clearly hear Princess Celestia say "Not even like a great unicorn like Star Swirl the Bearded was not able to do." What am I hinting? Star Swirl got upset of this, so he made himself Discord in order to get revenge and cause chaos.
There are many problems with this theory because Discord was around before Luna and Celestia got into power.

I don't know, what do you guys think?

You need to read my season 1 - 3 book it explains all

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it makes sense it was star swirl because I'm pretty sure  he banished tirek sorry if I'm wrong


Well this is a very complicated one. Firts if Discord is Starswirl the bearded who is the shadow pony then? Well, the spirit of the nightmare moon or whatever is it cant have a SHADOW. That means it gone to a body. But wich  body?


i think i agree with frostfox whatever, but another amazing candidate would probably be teirexs brother. maybe he had gone evil from seeing his brother sent to tarturus. also, i think another candidate would be starlight glimmer.

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I think star swirl is the pony of shadows but I'm pretty sure not just pretty sure I am sure for certain that star swirl was not discord.


Everyone says that It's Tirek, but then he would know about Twilcorn.


Or what if theres a new villan or trixies gotten a hold of more dark magic


The Pony of Shadows is an Umbrum or Shadow pony. Who is it we don't know.


In my opinion star swirl is the shadow pony because I think he was Luna 's teacher


Maybay it is zakora cause in one episode she has yellow eyes and a hoodie


like an evil version of trixie and zecora with a manticores voice minion?


I think he is the shadow pony because when this evil thing came and took ponies cutiemark and magic he went to the princess's and wanted their magic but they gave it to twilight so he didn't got what he wanted and put them into Luna's and celestia old castle


Srry spoiler alert but the shadow pony is the thing Luna created from the end of season 5 even though this goes agents the time line


Woah, that could be true, oh I hope star swirl is the shadow pony. I mean the evidence is really clear...sort of. Maybe in a future episode, the main 6 get to meet star swirl for the first time, but that would kinda make everybody think "oh so discord isn't star swirl"...but yeah

+Kawaii “Apparently Beautiful” Eyes  yeah i have.


and since star knew time magic he was powerfull also harrypotter hulcruxes let me get to the point


Wait... Shadow pony might've been Starswirl...


Shadow Pony is, Tirek! We all know now! :DD


I think Trixie and starswirled the bearded are related


OMG what if sombra is possibly A brother of Celestia and Luna, he seems to have a lot of power.( A similarity to Luna and Celestia ) He could be a prince, and just like Luna, he could have wanted more power but once he got defeated couldn't turn into his pony form again or he did but was banished to a FAR off land  by Celestia (or something like that)


Yeah but in the new movie mlp friendship games there is a twilight we have the main 6 at equestria so we would have a twilight in equestria except in season 1 ep 2 she didn't know the power of friendship so it's like season 1 ep 2 but at canter lot high and the crystal empire could be crystal prep


It's a demon in the form of Star Swirl!!!  D:


The shadow pony is pinkie pie. I finished the episode. She is playing an organ with a hood on.


Ok, so we do see this pattern of the villains going in order but, we have not seen star swirl yet so could there be another villan, the shadows pony who takes form in someone else who wasn't banished. I mean what if the shadow pony wAsnt banished? What if that's just where it lives?

+Emily BallerinaBling yea, what if the shadow is its own villan?


Maybe tricksy could be star swirl's sister


Now that you mention it Star Swirl does have the Same shade of yellow as the certain pony but who knows maybe there will a plot twist

I've read almost every single comment some say tirek some say discord some say sombra some say star swirled some say pinkie AND EVEN SOME SAY GOLDEN FREDDY

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Of course he is the shadow pony.<br>If not, who?

Of course he is the shadow pony.
If not, who?


I think that discord turns back to star swirl at night and at day he's discord


It looks light starswirl the bearded but theres no bells on the hat, and trixies hat point is down not up, soo anyone know what this means?


Granny Smith could just be trying to scary apple jack


It is Zecora how would she get to the everfree forest maybe she used to be evil and then converted into good but maybe she was faking and waiting to get her revenge on princess Celestia


Well The Dazzlings had hoods on But Trixie had Returned With the alcorn Pented and also have a dark cap on too but Luna in luna's Eclipse was having a cap and hood but I had watched almost all episodes so I know. But My theory is a good one Still what about the winter spirit horse's Things they are look like a shadow kind of. So Not Triek Because he was in Jail, Totally Not King Sombra cause he is dead And not discord because he has Redeem by fluttershy, Of coruse Not Luna well maybe And not sunset or The Dazzlings so it got to be zecora,winter spirit horse's things, Trixi. but At the end of the episode pinkie pie was the shadow pony so is pinkie pie it? WELL NO! she is the mane 6 she ever do that to her friends right. Star Swirl Maybe it But he is a Nice Unicorn Elder so he possible Dead by now. So reply me if you think I have a right track on this... this is for the owner of this video also I love this videos k. More information for My little pony


Your theory maybe correct,but when you say that the shadow pony doesn't look like luna at all that made me think.If the tantumas doesn't look like luna than how come it still haunts her? You also said that lunas jealousy of her sister made her turn to nightmare moon,but in lunas dreams it shows that the tantamus made her turn. So what made me think is that maybe lunas jealousy was so strong it turned into something else and her jealousy known as the tantamus took her over. In the video showing that apple jack said that all of nightmare moons dark magic was not  banished with her. So maybe the shadow pony is actually some of lunas jealousy left over. And that it can take form of any thing it wants like a changling. The changlings are infact evil as well so maybe the shadow pony is the thing that made chrystalas! That would explain why suddenly queen chrystlas came.I mean like princess celestia didn't defeat queen chrystlas before and she just stayed down low until she had enough power to build her army and take over the world and stuff. But how did queen chrystlas get her power? That's when I think that teric is the shadow pony. I mean if he was weak than where would he stay when he couldn't be caught? The castle of the two sisters has a evil vibe coming off it so that would make it feel like home. That's when I come to the thought that shadow pony is all of the villans shadows or evil.

no, the tantamus didn't make her turn, luna CREATED the tantamus to remind her of the evil things she did when she turned into nightmare moon. it says that in the episode


THE SHADOW WAS PRICESS LUNA AND CELESTIA. BECUSE THE MANE I KNOW IT


Good theory but discord couldnt be star swirl cause celestia said star swirl never got to make that spell work that means that star swirl couldnt turn into discord... But do you think that the next villan could be the .... SIRENS! cause the princesess didnt fight them! Star swirl did! And where ever they got that necklaces they can get them again ..... Right? Can u tell me what app u use please......


Omg what if star swirl the bearded cast a spell on him self &it backfired!??!


made he finds a way to charger his look back


+FrostThe Fox yeah you're right I think it might be Tirek


the shadow pony is star swireled the beade nightmare moon/ luna or trixie


what if the shadow pony is night shade like what rainbow dash encounter in s1 ep2.<br>she met 3 ponies called the shadow bolts maybe the shadow pony was her.

what if the shadow pony is night shade like what rainbow dash encounter in s1 ep2.
she met 3 ponies called the shadow bolts maybe the shadow pony was her.


probably zecora  with  a  cloak  and glowing  eyes


it is not a witch hat it is a cloak hood...


It was discord when he first appeared but he was weak in a form of a pony

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a guess could be a 3 sister that you where thinking about


Maybe but star swirl was important once like all of the other banishments and we need to remember so bra was linked to star swirl yup so maybe it's something to do with star swirl and somber as evil horn spell something to do with a dark spirit or something


wait i think its tirek because he has yellow eyes  and he could of stolen the hat then wore it then he could be the pony...... = maybe not a pony maybe a um... thing? ANYWAY he could be the thing and then he could of sneeked into the thing cause its ended the thing WITH the image so i think that its tirek


Actually you just forgot Crysalis. in granny smith's story, it shows monsters....They had holes in them. Hmm..... :p


its acttualy true!!!! starswirl IS the pony of shadows!!!!!


NO IT IS TIREK!IT IS TIREK BECAUSE HE RETURNS AT THE SECOND TO LAST EP (twilight's kingdom part 1)


I thought pinkie was reveled as the shadow


I believe that it is tirek because of his cloak and eyes.

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I have an idea star swirl the bearded has a bell on his hat but in the shadow well no little ball on the tip of hat but it can't be Trixie because s


EXACTLY it has to be tirek everything follows up like that and that about all we can say about it ITS TIREK


It's not starswirled the bearded because he's a good guy not bad and twilight  finished his spell on the same episode when she becomes a princess so its got to be somepony else


TRIXIE!!!! um... is that how you spell her name?


Starswirl the Bearded. cough Writer's Convenience cough

Starswirl the Bearded. *cough* Writer's Convenience *cough*


I think that starswell is triksy andsiter


then it was turned to shadow like sombra


maybe the  cutie mark crusaders dressed up as the mysterious mare do well to scare the mane six


i think that the shadow pony is luna because if u think about it when luna was in the dark her eyes glowed yellow!!<br>like if u agree

i think that the shadow pony is luna because if u think about it when luna was in the dark her eyes glowed yellow!!
like if u agree


It think shadow pony is Starlight Glimmer on season5 because she banished and maybe she'll return?


The Brony Notion Do You Notice The Ya Know The Pink IN The Beam?


frost that is not tierek its maybe his minion? or something


The big bad villain of season four was Tirek

So just because there is a timeline doesn't mean it's connected

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what if grant smif legend dous exist but that power combine with some other time of power llike sombras and he is using that power to make himself available to take a body foarm


yeah, but what about the shadowpony that haunts Luna's drams, they could have recreated them selves and joined together

Not possible because : the shadow bolts were nightmare moon a.k.a. princess Luna and nightmare moon was defeated and was turned back into Luna

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+Aubrey King but it's a good possibly that one of the shadowbolts recreated itself as a shadow after the pilot episode to spy on Princess Twilight and her friends while they were inside the palace

your forgetting that the shadowbolts were just an Aerial team made by nightmare moon to get rainbow dash to leave her friends in the pilot episode


Well in my world. Sunset shimmer are A shadow Calling So... thats dont make any sense:DDD


hhmm well it could be star swirled but why would he be there and you would see his beard


o my gosh o my gosh! starsworld the birded(dont know how to spell  that) might be right!


you missed a villan you missed queen chrysalis you dope

Yep true but the princesses have never met chrysalis

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I don't  think the shadow  pony would be Terik because he was banished back to Tarturus.

Look at its about time AND that episode you will be proved wrong

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Look at Starrypelt Productions' comment. I think it's Tirek now that I've read it. :3


waht if star swirl is discord he sacrifised him self to become the lord of caos pe sids he created ecrstrea/the world


wait wait its stars swirl cause in nightmare night princess twilight sparkle wore his outfit!


thatbis will inpossible tirex did not wear hat!and its in season5!its will be........idk


omg this is my first time watching u how u find pony creatore O:


MABYE ITS NIGHTMARE MOON ? ITS NOT LUNA CAUSE NIGHTMARE MOON IS A FORCE I DONT WHY IM. TYPING IN ALL CAPS


what about that thing that luna punushes herself with? ;)


Your making this based on ink rose's theory

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there is no way it was starswirl, because after the death of Celestia and Luna 's parents they left their home in the everfree forest and arrived in equestria where starswirl took them in and built a palace in their honer


I think Zecora went and stole trixies hat and she was the shadow pony. And I think is NOT star swirl because I think I didn't saw his beard in the shadow. (BEWARE it's an I THINK. Ok)

Sorry, I think my little pony is now my little TIREK! Lol. Because TIREK took over equestria and now he rules equestria! (And he also changed the show's name! It's now my little TIREK!) lol :3


Crissi is a villain :/ why you no say crissi :'(


what about tat creepy voice in bloom n gloom


It can be aj apple jack or maybe if she was she would of tryed to scare rainbow and it can be nightmare moon in a different form or it can be cryliss in a different form... Or it can be celestia testing twilight for something... And I'm 9 year old it can't be tereik he was locked up then

I say it's probably Queen Chrysalis in a different form. After all she was given dark magic by the chaos springer during the time of starswirl the bearded


wait i just thought of somthing wont your channel hafto end after the finally };


NO SHADOW PONY only a stupid animal called ''Tirek''yea i knowthis video is old but,<br>I HAD TO COMMENT

NO SHADOW PONY only a stupid animal called ''Tirek''yea i knowthis video is old but,
I HAD TO COMMENT


Wow that was a long journey through the past comments

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hy I'm killer kitty and my readjustment is wwwwaaaaatttt :0


so tired I hate him I sled it wrong whyyyyyyyyý


oh oops I commented the star swirl thing on the last vid but i didnt know of this vid xD and this vid is old


maby it drum roll plx  twilight  remember that she had that costume of star swirl even she love's books

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The theory of Star Swirl being the Shadow Pony makes sense. The Shadow Pony so far has only been seen in the Castle of the Two Sisters, and Star Swirl definitely has connections to the two sisters, so it makes sense why he would be there. It also makes sense why he was in that particular spot, since he was the first to explore the Canterlot Caves, and therefore probably knew the sisters long before the city of Canterlot was founded. And it also makes sense in relation to the episode. Star Swirl was a famous magician, and he appeared <b>in a castle belonging to an old friend, which is filled with books about magic, on an occasion when the pupil of said friend was looking for a book about magic</b>. And frankly, I don't think Discord is what's left of Star Swirl, since there is so much evidence of the Shadow Pony being Star Swirl, and he can't be two different beings at once. And also, Granny Smith mentions seeing the Shadow Pony as a filly, long before Discord was freed from his stony prison. So he couldn't physically or magically be in both places at once.

The theory of Star Swirl being the Shadow Pony makes sense. The Shadow Pony so far has only been seen in the Castle of the Two Sisters, and Star Swirl definitely has connections to the two sisters, so it makes sense why he would be there. It also makes sense why he was in that particular spot, since he was the first to explore the Canterlot Caves, and therefore probably knew the sisters long before the city of Canterlot was founded. And it also makes sense in relation to the episode. Star Swirl was a famous magician, and he appeared *in a castle belonging to an old friend, which is filled with books about magic, on an occasion when the pupil of said friend was looking for a book about magic*. And frankly, I don't think Discord is what's left of Star Swirl, since there is so much evidence of the Shadow Pony being Star Swirl, and he can't be two different beings at once. And also, Granny Smith mentions seeing the Shadow Pony as a filly, long before Discord was freed from his stony prison. So he couldn't physically or magically be in both places at once.


I'd originally thought, after Season 4 ended, that Tirek was the shadow "pony." However, I then realized that in the finale, he didn't know who Twilight was. If he was skulking around the castle where she was spending so much of her time, he probably would have known who she was.


It could very well be Sombra because in part of the Crystal Empire, part of his horn is broken off inside the force field and that grows into a crystal that helps him get into the force field. When the blast from the crystal heart hit Sombra is broke him into tiny little pieces but his horn remained intact. He could regenerate from his horn and is weak now so he has to live in the shadows again. This is a good possibility but who knows for sure.


That is a very intriguing theory. However mine goes a bit like this...

The shadow pony or as Granny Smith said, "The Pony of Shadows", is in fact Star Swirled The Bearded. Reasons as to why I believe this is true- Pointy hat... Check. Yellow eyes... Check. Long beard.... No. But if you look into The Journal Of the Two Sisters, Celestia's 13th entry states that Star Swirls time travel spell was also an aging spell causing his beard to decrease in size and him to get significantly younger. Yet his spell was still not perfect. With that in mind lets get down to the actual theory.

Star Swirl was in fact the great wizard/unicorn we all know him as. When he preformed his spell for the first time he grew younger. Still not perfected he continued to work at it until he was sure he had it right. When he had thought he had gotten it right, presumably around the time Discord started ruling ponies in chaos, he had used the spell and came back. Realizing he had not taken away the aging factor of the spell he abandoned his work on it. He soon grew angry with himself for not finishing the spell and started working on a new spell. A spell that could turn any pony into an evil entity. He perfected it and used it on himself thus turning him into  an evil force that had terrorized Canterlot. (That evil force is yet to be known). Celestia and Luna defeated him permanently...or so they think. Heartbroken from the loss of her dear friend, Celestia cast a spell on everypony, erasing their memory of his evil form. But, before they had defeated him, Star Swirl cast a spell removing some of the evil, and turning it into the Shadow Pony. (Later Luna uses the same spell Star Swirl creates turning her into Nightmare Moon. She found it one day in their old castle.)

This theory is yet to be perfected. So don't go and trash it. Now I know Granny Smiths story states that it's left over evil from Nightmare Moon. I believe that Granny is an old mare who has forgotten pieces of her story and filled it with Nightmare Moons evil or she was never sure and just always said it was Nightmare Moon.

Bright Spike out.


Alright, look I understand that there is some misunderstanding with all of this...The shadow pony points to Luna (aka nightmare moon) All the clues point up to Luna. Just think about it the ruler of the night. Wouldn't that mean she controls everything in the night such as shadows. Celestina had a bright place to work in. Luna had a dark and misunderstood place to work in. And isn't Nightmare moon a so called shadow ? I think Luna could be the shadow pony.


Ok this makes perfect sense. Star swirl died before sombra was banished. That means he could be the shadow pony. Explination? Star swirl was watching over his apprintance after his death and saw he used dark magic. In the video we saw him in a library so possibly he could be ridding all dark magic books and any pony who had used dark magic so another empire wasn't destroyed by it.


I think its Sambra because  in the crystal empire episode you saw that when the crystal heart was returned and destroyed Sambar's body but the only thing you saw that wasn't destroyed was his horn so maybe some of his lifefors could still be alive.


It could still be King Sombra because the show does show Sombra's horn flying somewhere and when the tip of his horn came off because of the force field Cadence created his "shadow" did get to the other side a jack things up for Twilight <br>.

It could still be King Sombra because the show does show Sombra's horn flying somewhere and when the tip of his horn came off because of the force field Cadence created his "shadow" did get to the other side a jack things up for Twilight
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i have been wondering why many people say star swirl was "banished" by celestia and luna, he is a good pony after all. he defeated all the enemies and dangers from the past so why would he be banished?


season 5 trailer has starswirl the bearded so my personal theory is it was in fact not someone who was banished, but someone who dissapeared without anyone knowing even where he might have gone. i think the shadow pony is starswirl


I disagree. If you read the myth of nightmare moon the stars will aid her escape, I thought about other my little pony myths including a one about Luna and Tia's parent's and it said that their dad was the king of the stars. I also think that their dad is the part of the evil left inside of her, so I think the shadow pony is Luna's dad.🐎


well,in twilight's castle part 1 we see that terek has YELLOW eyes and in castle mania, we also see YELLOW eyes at the end of the episode.So terek was the shadow pony,wait, terek isn't a pony he's a centar and he is a magical/evil centar wanting revenge on luna and celestia


the Shadow pony could very well be Star Swirl the Bearded and am in support of that theory, but I don't think that he could be Discord even though there is enough evidence to support that theory i.e. his beard.


OMG! I think i've figured it out! I was re-watching the first episodes when they found the elements of harmony. When Nightmare moon creates the Shadowbolts they're eyes glow yellow! http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130105214523/mlp/images/6/6f/Shadowbolt_bright_eyes_S1E02.png
Could it be that one of the shadowbolts escaped and now roams the castle? It would make sense the shadow pony being a shadowbolt! What would you guys think?


i believe that it was sombra because if you were paying attention part of his horn fell off and affected the land because he could still control the horn and when he exploded the horn survived.


Well, season 4's villain is Tirek. I don't think Tirek would of done that. When Granny Smith said leftover magic, could the shadow pony be a minion of some sort?


Here's a question... WHY WONT SNOWDROP BE REFERENCED IN MY LITTLE PONY! I know Hasbro doesn't put OC's in MLP but can't they let that one slide? after all, the Snowdrop video did teach mean people (and Ponies) an important lesson!


how about this theorie:
star swirl casted his spell, spliting his good and his evil side apart
the good side took the form of a spirit and the bad side became discord
The royal pony sisters build a castle at star swirl´s old home (explains why he is in the castle)


Tirek. It just makes sense. I mean season 1 the mane villian was nightmare moon season 2 was discord then season  3  king sombra season 4 tirek. So what about season 5? Starlight perhaps?


Star Swirl the Bearded could have been banished but created a spell to escape and never wrote it in any of his books. Later, he turned into Discord and etc.


That would make a lot of sense from the Starswirl has yellow eyes and the wich hat but he banished the sirens so that would mean he is a good guy and not a bad guy but like Luna he could got corrupt with a dark Spirit to be a bad guy


wow i just thought of something. so if the shadow pony is star swirl and he was banished or something before sombra then he would of been in s4. and i think it was in s4 that twilight turned into a alicorn when she fixed star swirls spell in magical mistury cure. so even though he didnt show up in the episode he still was like in it.


you should watch

Ink Roses theorys and headcannons for stuff,pretty awesome!


I think one of the shadow bolts is the shadow pony, I mean it all lines up, the yellow eyes, the scaryness, and they were created by night mere moon who should be the shadow pony but the yellow do not mach up , so a shadow bolt is  the one and only shadow pony


Who is the shadow pony?
Well I'm not sure but if the castle was in the Everfree forest Its gonna be someone in the Everfree forest like Zecora
If you try to watch the episode Bridle Gossip
When Zecora glanced at Twilight's way
Her eyes were yellow or however you call it
And also Zecora lives in the Everfree forest
You never know


I think it is Sombra. The shadow pony could be his ghost and he decided to go to the castle of the two sisters to live alone


I think grainy smith story is right, think about it when Luna was banished may be the parts that made Luna evil or nightmare moon must have had it`s own body and it was a shadow when they saw Luna jealous like she wanted it to be princes that shadow pony might have fed on her jealousy so that mad her nightmare moon and when the main six defeated her, the parts must have went back to the castle week and when the six went to the castle he/her might have saw jealousy and might be getting stronger.


Tirek makes sence bc in the part 1 of when he appered he had a hood that was in that shape of a hat AND had the creppy yellow eyes


What if Star Swirl the Bearded is the shadow pony BUT it's a piece of his magic left over from his death. Like, magic doesn't just evaporate.


I really don't think it was Star Swirl the Bearded because he was not a villian and he wasn't banished but he did banish other ponies! I think it was Tirek because his shadow in season 4 episode 25 resembled the pony of shadows but of course he is not a pony!!


What's with everyones obsession with Discord being Starswirl the Bearded? Until someone on the staff confirms this to be true any 'evidence' or 'compelling theories' is just speculation.


the shadow pony looked evil and starswirl wasn't evil, it could have been a nightmare force which made luna turn bad


Could you please do a video on how nightmare moon  is somehow related to the queen of the changelings


Sambra could of changed his own shape of his shadow


Maybe its star swirl after he passed away and his spirit is still trying to protect the castle from evil or stuff. Is that a possibility brony notion?


If it really IS Starswirl, and he was a long time ago KINDA meaning he's dead, maybe it's his soul?


I think that discord is Star Swirl, but when he turned into Discord, the spirit of Star Swirl left his body.


What if...<br>Star swirl the bearded had a twin brother who was banished as a shadow and stays in the castles of the two sisters

What if...
Star swirl the bearded had a twin brother who was banished as a shadow and stays in the castles of the two sisters


so on 0:41 it shows that terek was banished before sombra and that he was banished back to tartarus and locked in a cage. Also brony notion could u make a video about terek if u do that would be great, thanks


Well I am not sure but I think that it might be Tartarus taking form of the shadow pony<br>


Yellow eyes? Granny Smith's history?<br>Yup, it's definitely a timber wolf with a Wizard Hat.

Yellow eyes? Granny Smith's history?
Yup, it's definitely a timber wolf with a Wizard Hat.


I believe that in aquestrya high royalty alicorns ( celestia and Luna) are horses. Why? Because they are much taller.


maybe the shadow pony is just something that was used as a thing in ONE episode


maybe it was a shadow of nightmare moon BUT it said a "not all of it went with her" so maybe it was nightmare moon or luna because luna stayed behind probably and didnt go with nightmare moon only the darkness went into the moon


int eh next video, can you explain why you think discord was once star swirl the bearded because, its not like discord it going to banish the sirens if they almost destroyed twilight and her friends, and if discord only WAS star swirl the bearded, why would he have given his power to the pony/horse that is now star swirl the bearded. also, twilight looks up to him, yet its obvious that she does not like discord and only flutter shy does. why? If you can, in honor of me,and i will be changing my user to missstrongwolf, make a video about it please. and thank you!


I actually think that the shadow pony is what corrupted luna (aka my favorite pony)


something said that nightmare moon was taken over by the nightmare forces and her jealousy became stronger so maybe the shadow pony is the some of the nightmare forces left in equestria


I'm a big fan but swirl bearded the shadow pony I know he has a witch hat but what about the bells on his hat? Wouldn't it show the shadow of the bells? All the other things make sense but what about the shadows of the bells?!?


the shadow pony was Terik from the later series due to the fact that in the beginning of Twighlights kingdom it shows how he wore a cloak just like the shadow and he has yellow eyes also I believe he stayed in the castle until he gained more strength enough to steal more magic I mean it all makes sense to me

@Summa Trick Haka But consider this, he might've not seen Twilight. He was at the end of the episode and didn't appear through the middle. Also, if he's a shadow "pony" he would be in the shadows, making his vision bad as he wouldn't see light.

But, due to new evidence, it can't because Tirek would've known about Twilight being an alicorn. Which in the finale is said that he only knew about the first 3. So that leaves Discord and StarSwirl. Which due to new theories could potentially be the same person.


well i cant say yes or no he is a wizard he has yellow eyes he lives in a old haunted castle plus he is in a horror story so it could mean a yes.


Well thats nice to think about...But the shadowPony couldnt be starSwirl.If you look,then the hat isnt the same.Its like trixies,So it`d have to be trixie.Or a new villan.


If u think about it if star swirl is discord than it would be impossible for him to be the shadow pony because he would be in the form of discord and not his pony form


The Shadow pony is what's left of Starswirl after his transformation into discord. Maybe?


It was Pinkie Pie wearing a hood while walking inside the castle, playing the organ.


What if the shadow pony might be a pony we don't know! It might be true and It might be false. We all have our theories.


what if starswirl created discord as another form of himself?


Ok, I admit I didn't catch the spanish name thing. I thought they'd got it from the word Somber.


I think he was right it was Star Swirl The Bearded.


I think that Zecorora is the shadow pony because trixies cape is way too small and her eyes are not yellow and Zecora was probrably waring her coat and her yellow eyes


He is the shadow pony  he go killed by discord but he was to strong so tia tried to heal him she could not so he turned into shadows that's where Luna went crazy and turned into night mare  moon


It could be the changing queen or a changling


season 4 villain: Treck<br>season 5 villain:  Starlight  Gilmer

season 4 villain: Treck
season 5 villain:  Starlight  Gilmer


Star swirl the bearded!! Probz used to live there with luna and Tia and as every great unicorn/allicorn had a dark side!!


If Tirek was there
why?
and why didn't he know of Prinzess Twilight if he was there?


the season fanalie for seson 4 is terek who was baneshed before sombra


I think its star swirl because of the nightmare moon thing what if the magic the evil magic got into a good pony like Star Swirl transforming him into the shadow pony. Also transforming Star Swirl evil


I think your right but granny is right to star swirl was working there at the time when Luna got vanished to the moon the dark magic had to go some where so it transfers it self to star swirl and he became evil when Luna came back she was not as strong as the old self so the elements of harmony tuck her down because star swirl still had most of the magic he saw Luna be defeated by the main six and traveled to the future to destroy the main six to get revenge on Luna

Hope you like my theory


I think that some leftover magic from nightmare moon infected some powerful ponie


But then tirek  would have seen twilight but in the season 4 finally tirek didn't know twilight existed.


what about the three dragons that were banished to the human world and made the opposite of friendship


I just thought all of the 'shadow' people are in one thing. The shadows look the same. WHO KNOWS!!??!!??!!??!!


Starswirl is the shadow pony because Starswirl know level 10000 spells


Actualy the pony of shadows cam after luna was banesh that means that the pony of shadows should be infront of night mear moon


Pinkie pie because she said "I saw flutter shy and rarity walking in so I just followed them" easy answer


I think 2 sister using light magic of sun and moon to turning sombra into shadow


Maybe luna because she is the princess of the night and maybe the shadows retreat to her and when a certain moon is  cast she turns into the shadow pony in secret?


brony notion u are wrong star swirl the bearded is discord and using that switching spell it turned his body into discord, so it couldn't be star swirl the bearded and second u have gotta watch the season finally of season 4


It may be a new pony we'v never seen before...
or one of the OLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...elements of harmony!!!*

*but who?!?!


think its zecora in Bridle gossip she is wearing the same hood as the shadow pony and shes also mysterious,like the shadow pony.


I think that nightmare moon is the shadow pony.


Everybody is assuming that the shadow pony has a hat ... We didnt even see a hat! And who would wear a hat with a hood on!? And its a freakin shadow of something we didnt even saw. Its not litterally a shadow pony. it could be a donkey or something the size of a pony.. Hint tirek is the size of a pony when he was weak.. Hint 2 he has glowing yellow eyes and wearing a hood 3 celestia mentioned that tirek had escaped during the cerberus' apearance and that episode happened in season 2 long before the appearance of the pony of shadows.. And for those whos saying it cannot be tirek becouse if tirek was the pony of shadows. tirek would have seen twilight already as the fourth allicorn princess .. Well he didnt see twilight ok! He was just startled by their noise becouse he is infact hiding on the castle becouse he is too vurnerable in his current state and he cant take the risk of being cought and celestia being aware of his presence.. And one more thing as we can see on the shadow he is facing on the wall he didnt look at the mane 6 at all..


i think it is just Luna's dark magic be cause according   to granny Smiths legend the shadow was the body of the shadow pony cause if it was the shadow of a pony than the eyes wouldn't be there but i cant explain the witch hat


Star swerl was corrupted as Luna and took the form of discord


I, truly think and KNOW that star swirl is dead...... And he could've died somewhere in the evergreen forest.


Do you think that starswirl the bearded and sombra were at the same time period alife?


Everybody's assuming that the shadow pony is wearing a hat. we didn't even see a hat! and who wears a hat with a hood on?!  and besides its a shadow of something we didn't even saw. its not literally a shadow pony or something, it could be anything! it could be a donkey or anything with the size of a pony. well here's a hint for you.. Tirek is something the size of a pony when he was weak. hint 2 he had a bright yellow eyes and wears a hood as he was first shown. 3 Celestia mentioned that Tirek escaped during the appearance of the Cerberus and that episode happened during season 2 long before the appearance of the pony of shadows. and for those who's saying that Tirek cant be the pony of shadows because if Tirek was the pony of shadow then he would have seen twilight already as the fourth alicorn princess... well he didn't saw twilight OK! he was just startled by their noise because the main reason why he was really there because he is  in fact hiding on the castle because he is too vulnerable in his current condition and he cannot  take the risk of being caught or being revealed from his escape. his presence must remain hidden until he had gathered enough magic to defeat Celestia. and one more thing as we can see on the shadow he is facing the wall he didn't look at the mane six at all..


The "shadow pony" is tirek I realized this when watching silver quill's after the fact if castle mane-ia


Yes because in ur vid about when twilight goes to the future it's called is clover the clever twilight????? Well if she goes back in time to star swerle then it could be star swerl watching what twilight learnt but princess celestial is watching over her like she said in the mistury cure then maybe princess celesta and star swerl have a connection


So much Fanservice in the current season. I hope the S5 finale tells the truth about Starswirl the Bearded.


Maybe it's stars works spirit that's the shadow pony


I think that maybe granny smith legend could be right it could be the dark magic of nightmare moon cause in the first season of mlp nightmare moon  became a purple smoke it could be some of that purple smoke


Why Luna looked older thousand years ago?


It is Star Swirl the Bearded! The hat. The eyes. For Pete sake star swirls eyes are yellow! Ian I the only one who noticed that?


Ok ok so they are cleaning in the same  castle where they defeated nightmare moon. And if you watched the episode when they defeated her it shows little crusts coming off of her. Maybe they created the shadow pony! After all, that is what granny smith said to A.J. I mean they were pretty big.


REMEMBER THE SHADOW PONT IN THERE WAS PINKIE PIE. PAY ATTENTION, or as my stepo dad says TAY APPENTION.


I am kind of confused I thought in the end of the episode pinke pie was the shadow pony doing all the crazy things and she could have had a hat on her or taken it off and the eye thing well we all now pinke probable can do that to I might be rong but it could mean something


Maybe star swirl abearded was still in there with luna's magic and then he became the shadow pony ok by


STAR SWIRL IS THE SHADOW PONY...I haven't watched the whole video yet so I decided to comment


Maybe the dark magic that night mare moon had formed into that maybe Granny Smith is right check out ink roses story from the battle of Luna and Tia


Wait... <br>I THINK DISCORD AND TRIXE HAD A BABY!

Wait...
I THINK DISCORD AND TRIXE HAD A BABY!


No star swirl is not the shadow pony because he is good <br>


im sticking with that discord is star swirl the bearded


U know u forgot Tirek in sn4 right BronyNation?<br>


King sombra is not dead if u read fiendship is magic book 1 u wil know


Why is he victim he did writed a book about friendship .he's good bro<br>


The shadow pony is nightmare moon because its hinting us she is coming back!
Luna dident banish to the moon night mare moon did 100 ep means she is back 1.because princess Luna is in it 2.because a changling
Was in it 1+2=nightmare moon


it is not star swirl .He passed away   So how can somepony like star swirl be the pony of shadows


That's a good theory BUT I no 4 shore that if the shadow pony WAS Stars swirl a bearded than wouldent celestia or Luna make shore no one even knew who star swirl was?


Maybe it was night mare moon because  the shadow bolts help night mare moon


debunked cause tyrek is the season 4 main threat


Well,, It is not Tirek, because obviously the 'Shadow Pony' has a pony shape and, Tirek, who is not a pony. But It seems that Discord could be.... We know from the 'Tirek Episode' that Discord is able to turn himself into a pony. Unless Tirek has the same magic as Discord, no way is it Tirek. If he was really weak, he still wouldn't be formed as a pony, or walk on all 4 legs. So if I am correct I am guessing Zecora, Or Discord, even though Discord is 3rd, he could still be the 'Shadow Pony'.


Do not worry guys I have important news when I accidentally pressed the wrong button to go to the next episode I saw that it was called the pinky knows how to play the piano and then Rainbow Dash said that she was the shadow pony so you never know!


My thoughts are... Star swirled is him, maybe Luna's transformation was because of him? He used the same spell to turn himself to Discord, used it on her... And the spell creates chaos till Twilight fixed it!

@Courtney Knight oh i know its not tirek but when i wrote that comment i thought it was tirek :) i dont think the shadow pony is anyone, i just think they added it in to make a cliffhanger :-)

Eva Lilly it can't be trek because he was locked up in a really hard prison to get out of plus starswerl just disappeared completely and no one knew where he went so it's defenetly starswerl

@Tayler Tiger its tirek when he was weak


Maybe Queen Chrysalisis,,, ( I spelled that wrong of course)


Oops this is under my brothers name, it went to be under my name Embrald.


Cough cough* tirek

Wait nobody even thought it was a hoodie really


I to believe its Tirek as he's evil and was banished I think a long time ago. And the pattern shows its possible<br>

Yeah but tirek doesn't wear a hat and his hood isn't like that


Hmmm starlight...sunset...the dazzelings...teriek...trixie...starswirll...discord...chrisalys...nightmaremoon...what do theys villans have to cause this


Oh! And I am with TheGalaxy Gal... WHERE IS STAR SWERLE!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!   (Or is it swerl? I spell't it wrong!😜


Maybe but didn't the shadow pony come out at the end and wouldn't he show himself to twilight  are anyone else


The showdow pony is star lord he  gos crazy evil


I think star swirl the beerded mabe got ternd to a shadow


StarSwrild the bearded has the same feachers as the SHADOWPONY...........


how about we look it up in some derpy\twilight voice BOOKS!!!

lol

how about we look it up in some *derpy\twilight voice* BOOKS!!!

lol


Well I think that the shadow pony is pinkie pie if you era thinking why why pinkie pie well look at S3 E3 and you will see why i think it is pinkie pie


oh come on it couldn't be star swirl he's DEAD


Oh also pinke pie is NOT the pony of shadows anyway she was just pretending to be a musicin<br>


Could the shadow pony be the shadow bolts or a piece of nightmare moons dark magic because all nights have shadows or it could be luna spending nights in the castle trying to forgive herself for what she had done and when luna hears someponys coming she runs off causing shadows so ponys call it the shadow pony because luna is the princess of the night

If you read double daring dash there is a evil zebra with red stripes the first time in the book that the zebra gets heard of is in the castle of the two sisters so maybe it could be him

@Pamela Kirwan  i think  the shadow  bolts are  shadow  pony

Could the shadow Pony be the timber wolves

I think the shadow bolts or zecora is the shadow pony


I agree but isn't star swirl ment to be good  and don't twilight look up to him wich could mean eirther twilght is evil and thats why she looks up to him or she has no idea he is evil.


Wait it COULD star breaded ( sorry I have no I idea how to spell it)


great theory, but these are all animation errors that larun faust want eople like you want to figure out! an


Or I could have been tricshie cuz she mybe wants revenge


When Twilight whent and saw lunas past she created dark magic and a ray of dark  magic shined into her the dark magic took over and shd was kept is some kind of jail cring I seen the it in a part in a comic it is posible that a diffrent ray shinned into a diffrent pony whag do u think please coment back


But star swirl well.....DIED soooooooooo no


If he was then wouldn't we see shadows of bells on the hat? And on the Tirek comment, That makes no sense. He escaped tartars with that week. (I think IDK) I'm wondering if it might have been sunset shimmer. Or even a new villain we have yet to meet.

@Derpy Thenerd OR (yes ik WAY to many theory's here but i cant help it) maybe even a bearer of an element of disharmony.


people say its tirek, but i think its someone else. StarSwirl is convincing but still  thats my second thought. And sombra just get rid of him. then Zecora nope not her. Some of nightmare moon?? Throw that out the window. But......Luna yes! From reading the jornal of the two sisters, i know that Luna set up the castle so she could prank people. So maybe she disquesd her self. thats my silly filly thoughts I don't care what i wrote wrong


well the casle was a jient playgrand for the prensessis


The shadow pony or ponies are the ones who convinced Luna into turning into Nightmare Moon as she would go to them because they were the only ones who understood her night and they wanted her to make the night permanent. After the battle between Nightmare Moon and Celestia Nightmare Moon went into the ever free forest (which the shadow ponies live in) to gain more power as Celestia and nightmare moon were gravely weakened.

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WHY ARE THESE BASED ON INK ROSE?! 4 words: YOU HAVE NO PROOF

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I think star stile cud be but I sport the discard/star still theory cheek the trailers and there some proffer  stalls EVAL and RETERNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Mady zekora stolen or borowd trixees hat<br>


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Shadow pony goes to freddy fazbear's pizza and shadow freddy shadow bonnie shadow balloon boy and shadow mario appear their too more and more shadows are being discovered by me


I know who the shadow pony is  star swirl.


So the shodow pony  is zerica.this is the best vid in the cita.

@mk wasabara no its tirek when he was weak


I think its a little kids show and your an old weird guy who makes theories about it


Ok what the heck that makes nooooooooooo sense


i think its slender pony cos hes the only slender withe eyes and weres wirzad HAT


@Ellie Robinson  she was the one with the organ but in the end the shadow of another pony appears, the real shadow pony


In the comic series of My Little Pony some of the evil "magic" that possessed Luna managed to come back to ponyville and kidnapped Rarity to the moon. In reality the so-called-magic was actually just a bunch of moon creatures who thought the only way they could get anyone to like them was by possession. Though I can't remember what happened exactly at the end, I'm pretty sure that the evil creature went back to ponyville and remained hidden... until now?
Honestly, I thought there were more bronies who've read the comic series of My Little Pony (found at Hot Topic), it's really good and they even have one about how Shining Armor and Cadence got together in High School and about how big of a nerd Shining Armor is (cough cough plays dungeons and dragons [something like it] cough cough)

In the comic series of My Little Pony some of the evil "magic" that possessed Luna managed to come back to ponyville and kidnapped Rarity to the moon. In reality the so-called-magic was actually just a bunch of moon creatures who thought the only way they could get anyone to like them was by possession. Though I can't remember what happened exactly at the end, I'm pretty sure that the evil creature went back to ponyville and remained hidden... until now?
Honestly, I thought there were more bronies who've read the comic series of My Little Pony (found at Hot Topic), it's really good and they even have one about how Shining Armor and Cadence got together in High School and about how big of a nerd Shining Armor is (*cough* *cough* plays dungeons and dragons [something like it] *cough* *cough*)


I like the idea. I just have to add as a history student, that a legend can be changed.

It is either some older myth retold again and again (see every classic fairy tale), or the original legend.

Because legends don't apply to facts only, but to tell a story.
Meaning some point might be true, others are just as it is a legend ^^


I personally think that the Shadow Pony was actually the ghost-ish thing of Starswirl the Bearded. I say ghost-ish thing because it may be a ghost, but could be something else. Assuming that Discord is not actually Starswirl, I believe that he is an eternal being, similar to the alicorns, but has simply hidden himself to avoid being followed by modern ponies. Starswirl is simply an observer of history at this point. It is believed that Starswirl was close to the two Sisters, and some even theorize that he made them into the first alicorns. If this is so, it would make sense that he would choose to visit the old castle from time to time, as he remembers. And since he is merely an observer, and the Mane Six are the most interesting beings at this time, the fact that they are visiting the castle would give him an excuse to visit as well. The Shadow Pony never really shows any malicious intent, and the shadow that we can see from him sports a hat, similar to the one that Starswirl is commonly seen wearing, and also has yellow eyes, also similar to Starswirl. Other than this, there is no real evidence to support this, but I believe that it makes more sense than any other pony, unless there is a pony yet to be seen in season 5 that could fit.


I got a theory!

(Everybody groans)

I got it this time. When Nightmare was banished, can we say that the reason why this Shadow Pony looks like Starswirl is because it is a representation of him? Think about it: Nightmare hated Celestia and pushed her away. She probably pushed a lot of ponies away. This leftover magic could be a manifestation of Starswirl because of Nightmare's hatred of the unicorn genius.


Well, it doesn't necessarily have to go against the star swirl the bearded theory. Because we all know what mischief discord gets up to, especially on the ponies. Maybe it was discord/star swirl the bearded?

Or it could be that it is like a shadow of star swirl the bearded, almost like an evil twin but the sane person - a shadow of someone so discord would be the actual star swirl and the shadow pony his shadow.


BAsed on some recent information from the comic, it's possible it was Sombra or at least one of his kind. I would say more but it delves into a major spoiler in Sombra's origin story from the comics.


Could it be that discord IS starswirl but was separated into 2 parts of himself? One being his desire for some sort attention (discord) and the other half with a desire for friends which may have been corrupted by nightmare moon's leftover magic?


since we already know that the pool of mirrors exist, maybe Starswirl was the first pony to discover them, so maybe he needed to get clean in the pool because it doesn't really seem like any pony has showers in their home, but then Starswirl made two of him self. meanwhile, a part of King Sombra's spell spreaded to Starswirl's clone like how magic from a book took over rarity until spike broke the spell, and that was how I think the shadow pony got a beginning.


So the suspects?:
1. King Sombra? Could be since he got turned to shadow. BUT! Remember in "The Crystal Empire" episode, a small piece of King Sombra horn broke of and came into the force field then creation dark magic shards, but when they (so called) "defeated" King Sombra his horn blasted and broke right off his head but it didn't vanish or explode into nothing thus creating a ghost? Of King Sombra or another Shadow form of himself. So it could be him.
2. Star Swirl? Could be, but what doesn't make sense to me is that, is he good or evil? Or is he neither? Because the sirens were evil but he banished them to the human world which is a good act but then in the episode where Twilight becomes an alicorn Princess, Celstia talks about Star Swirl not understanding friendship. So how would it possibly be him? Unless he as unfinished buisness and his ghost (bad) or spirit (good) is just haunting the place or trying to talk to a pony for some help to bring his body back. But then there is this that I really don't understand. What happened to Star Swirl the bearded? It doesn't say in any episode that he died and it doesn't show any sign of life from him? So if he didn't die, what happened? Since the princesses talk about him so much (especially Princess Twilight) there must be a showing of him in S5 maybe? Idk but think about it?

1. Good, evil or neither? (Doesn't say in any episode)
2. Dead or alive? (Doesn't say in any episode)
3. Since there is a duplicate of every single pony, Princess, siren, dragon villian (etc) wouldn't there be another Star Swirl in the human world? Plus another Discord and CADENCE????? Not to mension King Sombra and all other main characters.