He wears silver armor on his legs and neck, a crown with horn-like points on his head, and a red cape that covers his flank. He has sharp teeth with two visible fangs unlike other ponies and red-green when younger-irises, but most often his otherwise white eyes appear green and have a purple mist emanating from them, which disappears both times he is attacked. Unlike regular unicorn horns, which match the pony's coat color and are straight and segmented, Sombra's horn is curved, smooth, sharp at the tip and it gradients from dark gray to red. King Sombra is a dark gray unicorn with a black spiky mane and tail. Meghan McCarthy has said that King Sombra was inspired by Sauron from The Lord of the Rings and is meant to be a dark presence. Jim Miller, the show's storyboard supervisor and King Sombra's voice actor in season three, drew inspiration from the vocals of the Mastodon song 'Crystal Skull' for his performance as King Sombra. A differently-shaded version of the armor around King Sombra's neck is used for the 2012 Design a My Little Pony Finalists poster, as part of Steel Masquerade's armor. 'Sombra' is a Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician word for 'shadow', which comes from the Latin ' umbra'. A tweet by Hasbro's My Little Pony Twitter account spells the name as 'Somber'. The show's story editor, Meghan McCarthy, and another staff member have stated that the character's name is Sombra. In the comics and Gameloft's mobile game, after his defeat at the Crystal Empire, he returns again with help from Radiant Hope and eventually reforms.Ĭoncept art of King Sombra in The Art of Equestria.

However, Sombra tries to take over Equestria by himself and, despite being able to destroy the Tree of Harmony and the Elements of Harmony and conquer both Ponyville and Canterlot, he is defeated again by the Mane Six. In The Beginning of the End - Part 1, Sombra is restored by Grogar to join him in an alliance with other villains so they can conquer Equestria together and defeat Twilight and her friends once and for all. He is defeated by Spike, Princess Cadance, and the Crystal Ponies' use of the Crystal Heart. When the Empire returns, so does Sombra, who attempts to retake it. Before his banishment, King Sombra put a curse on the Crystal Empire which made it vanish into thin air. Princess Celestia tells Twilight Sparkle that he took over the Crystal Empire a thousand years ago but was banished into the frozen north. King Sombra, or simply Sombra, is a male initially- umbrum unicorn, the former tyrannical ruler of the Crystal Empire, and the main antagonist of the season three premiere, the season nine premiere, and the IDW comics' thirteenth story arc and My Little Pony/Transformers II. Zhao GuoQing ( Mandarin Chinese for mainland China, S9E1- S9E2) None ( S3E1, S5E25, FIENDship is Magic Issue 1) King of All Monsters, Sombrero, Emperor Sombra, Sm ( The Periodic Table of My Little Pony) Alternate King Sombra in Friendship is Magic Issue #18īrilliant scarlet with deep scarlet pupilsīlack with moderate cobalt blue streaks (alternate universe)

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