That's more or less what I had in mind, actually; a more predictable variant of green handwavium devised by some of the nuttier bronies, who are then utterly shocked when R. Princess Celestia tells them they're a bunch of genocidal lunatics.
Remember, there's nothing in the Genre Directive forbidding us to have genuinely terrifying villains. We're just not allowed to let them win, and strongly discouraged from letting them cause mass civilian casualties.
Remember, there's nothing in the Genre Directive forbidding us to have genuinely terrifying villains. We're just not allowed to let them win, and strongly discouraged from letting them cause mass civilian casualties.