Queen Chrysalis is a scheming, cruel, fierce, and manipulative individual whose primary concerns are gaining power and feeding her changeling subjects. Upon perceiving Twilight Sparkle as a potential threat to her plans, she turns her family and friends against her and enjoys mocking her both during and after Twilight's imprisonment in Canterlot's underground caves. While capable of mimicking Cadance well enough to fool most, she is unable to fool Twilight due to their close bond and her demanding and insincere behavior displayed in A Canterlot Wedding - Part 1.
In To where and Back Again - Part 2, Chrysalis bears resentment toward Thorax for abandoning the hive, considering him a "traitor". She also shows little regard for her subjects, believing that she alone knows what's best for them, and that her leadership is absolute. While boasting about her plan, she relishes the idea of every pony in Equestria doing as she says, showing that she desires control as much as power.
In The Mean 6, Chrysalis is far more deranged and unstable. She talks to the photos she took of Twilight and her friends as if they are the actual ponies themselves, prancing and talking in sing-song as she describes her plan. She also shows deep hatred towards Starlight Glimmer for causing her downfall, planning to use her copies of Twilight and her friends to destroy the real ones while forcing Starlight to watch. In The Beginning of the End - Part 1, she carves the faces of unreformed changelings into pieces of wood and talks to them as if they are her subjects, demonstrating her further loss of sanity. In Frenemies, she is revealed to have kept the piece of wood that was once Mean Twilight, speaking to it as if it is still alive, and clinging tightly to it during the villains' meeting.
In To Where and Back Again - Part 2, Chrysalis bears resentment toward Thorax for abandoning the hive, considering him a "traitor". She also shows little regard for her subjects, believing that she alone knows what's best for them, and that her leadership is absolute. While boasting about her plan, she relishes the idea of every pony in Equestria doing as she says, showing that she desires control as much as power.
Chrysalis is deeply arrogant, thinking lowly of her enemies, and has a habit of becoming complacent when she believes victory is within her grasp. Despite gaining strength from stealing love, she has no concept of its true power, scoffing at the thought that Cadance's love could restore Shining Armor's strength. She also assumed the Mean 6 would obey her commands without question, leaving her unable to see Mean Twilight's betrayal coming. According to Chrysalis, the only reason the Mane Six keep defeating her is because they cheat, further indicating her lack of understanding for the ponies' true strength. And despite being ousted from her position as ruler of the changelings, Chrysalis still continues to refer to herself as a queen.Chrysalis refuses to accept the blame for her own failures, choosing instead to blame her subjects for not living up to her expectations. She also lays the blame for the hive turning on her solely on Starlight, rather than admit her own treatment of her subjects played a major part in it. When Grogar inquires as to how she has always been defeated, she claims it's because her enemies "cheat".
Like Tirek, Chrysalis is visibly awed and intimidated by Grogar, although she briefly expresses amusement at his long-ago defeat at the hooves of Gusty the Great.
In Frenemies, Chrysalis reveals that she doesn't drain all the love out of her victims in one go, instead choosing to save a little for the next day.
In The Ending of the
End, Chrysalis shows little interest in hunting down Twilight after she
escapes the villains' grasp, mocking Tirek for thinking she is still a
threat to them. She shows a similar lack of concern regarding the
appearance of the windigos, even toying with the idea of waiting until
Equestria is a frozen wasteland to vanquish them, believing the ponies
will be so grateful for it they will willingly obey her. Unlike Tirek
and Cozy Glow, Chrysalis remains defiant after they are de-powered,
insisting that friendship cannot defeat them. When the three of them are
turned to stone, Chrysalis, rather than cower like Tirek and Cozy,
attempts one last attack on her enemies.
In The Return of Queen Chrysalis,
Chrysalis takes great pleasure in watching the Mane Six's struggles
from afar, having fun watching them turn against one another, laughing
at Applejack and Rarity's squabbles, and gloating at their perceived
ineptitude. However, she demonstrates a low tolerance for the Cutie Mark
Crusaders' antics and jokes. She shows no remorse in manipulating
innocent creatures to her own ends or resorting to physical violence to
illustrate her evil. In My Little Pony: FIENDship Magic Issue #5,
Chrysalis is portrayed as very devious, able to lure various rulers and
creatures, including Twilight Sparkle, into a trap, and in Siege of the Crystal Empire, she views those she allies with only as tools, abandoning them at any given moment.
Comic artist Andy Price stated on February 28, 2014 that "Chrysalis is beyond villain- she's a monster".
Changelings are a race of creatures in Equestria that first appear in A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2 as the secondary antagonists and the minions of Queen Chrysalis. They also appear in several other episodes and IDW comics.
In the episode, Chrysalis
explains her desire to take over Equestria, saying, "Equestria has more
love than any place I've ever encountered. My fellow changelings will be
able to devour so much of it that we will gain more power than we have
ever dreamed of!" The changelings soon break the magical protective
sphere around Canterlot and terrorize the city and its inhabitants.
When Princess Celestia orders the Mane Six to recover the Elements of
Harmon from a nearby tower, the changelings take the form of the six
ponies and fight them, preventing them from reaching the Elements. They
subsequently take the ponies and Princess Celestia captive. The
changelings and their queen are defeated when Shining Armor and Princess
Cadance's combined magic throws them out of Canterlot at the end of the
episode.
According to merchandise, Kevin appears within a crowd during at least the beginning of Let the Rainbow Remind You in the season four episode Twilight's Kingdom -Part 2. In the season five episode Slice of Life, Kevin appears in the audience at Cranky Doodle Donkey and Matilda's wedding, unintentionally frightening some foals.
In Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep?,
several changelings appear in Rainbow Dash's dream. A changeling
costume is worn by Diamond Mint for Nightmare Night in Scare Master. In The Cutie Re-Mark - Part 2,
due to both Starlight Glimmer and Twilight Sparkle's changes to the
past, the changelings are shown to have successfully taken over
Equestria, leaving only Zecora and a small tribe of ponies to resist
them.
A friendly changeling named Thoraz appears flying in the background over the Crystal Empire at the end of The Crystalling - Part 2 and is befriended by Spike in The Times They Ae A Changeling.
The latter episode also depicts how new changelings are born, in that
they are hatched from eggs in the form of larvae, similar to insects,
and shows that changelings can assume the forms of non-pony creatures,
such as Spike, and inanimate objects, such as rocks.
In the season six finale To Where and Back Again - Part 1,
the changelings silently invade Ponyville, taking the Mane Six's places
and seizing control of the Castle of Friendship. In Part 2, the
changelings serve as Chrysalis' primary means of defense in the
Changeling Kingdom. They pursue Thorax - disguised as Trixie - as he
distracts them with smoke bombs, capture Discord by disguising
themselves as Fluttershy, and ambush Starlight Glimmer in the changeling
castle throne room.
Through Starlight's guidance and Thorax's example, the changelings learn to share love with one another instead of taking it by force. This results in a drastic metamorphosis in which they become colorful, love-filled creatures with the holes in their bodies healed, resulting in Chrysalis' throne being destroyed, and her hostages freed from their cocoons. With Queen Chrysalis dethroned, Thorax becomes the new leader of the changelings.
In Celestial Advice, multiple changelings appear in attendance of Starlight, Discord, Trixie, and Thorax's medal-awarding ceremony, and they appear in one of Twilight's magic simulations, with one of them giving his name as Comicle. In Triple Threat, Thorax tells Spike that there is a renegade group of changelings in the Changeling Kingdom that is still clinging to the hive's previous ways of stealing love.
In To Change a Changeling, the Changeling Kingdom has started growing plants again following Chrysalis' dethronement. Thorax has convinced most of the renegade group of changelings to accept the hive's new ways, with the brief exception of Thorax's older brother Pharynx. The changelings as a whole have also embraced new kingdom activities such as theatre, dancing, arts and crafts, and therapy meetings called the "feelings forum".
In School Daze -Part 1, a shy changeling named Ocellus enrolls as a student at the School of Friendship. In The Hearth's Warming Club, changelings appear celebrating the Hearth's Warming holiday for the first time, but they take Twilight Sparkle's celebration instructions very literally, including "hanging" a tree from a rope, "diving" into a pool of punch, and "building" a fire out of wood and nails. In What Lies Beneath, illusory unreformed changelings appear when Ocellus is forced to face her fears by the Tree of Harmony.
In The Beginning of the End - Part 1, Chrysalis carves the faces of changelings into logs to speak to them. In Uprooted, Ocellus' parents and siblings are briefly seen signing her permission slip. In Between Dark and Dawn, a couple of changelings appear during the song "Lotta Little Things." In A Horse Shoe-In, Ocellus' parents appear at a parent-teacher conference talking to Octiva Melody.
In The Ending of the End -Part 2 the changelings are rallied by Ocellus to help the ponies in the final battle against Queen Chrysalis, Lord Tirek, and Cozy Glow. During the battle, they transform into the Mane Six to throw the villains off. In The Last Problem, some changelings appear in future Canterlot and at Twilight's coronation in flashback.
Flashback footage of Canterlot Wedding - Part 2 with the old-style Changelings bringing the captured Mane Six to Chrysalis in the wedding hall reappears in Harvesting Memories.
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