Thread:StrikeForce657/@comment-1031724-20160413015711

Here's a biography about King Sombra to see if he really is as much like Zemo as I got the impression of. As usual there's not much to say

King Sombra is a unicorn whose heart is black as night. He takes over the Crystal Empire (presumably murdering its previous ruler) and enslaves the crystal ponies. Celestia and Luna turn him to shadow and imprison him in ice. (This is briefly shown in flashback and he has no lines here) 1000 years later, he returns and tries to take back the Crystal Empire (which he cursed to disappear until his return). Princess Cadence casts a barrier keeping him out. He chases after the main characters as they race to the Crystal Empire (here he is a cloud of darkness with only his eyes visible). Meanwhile, the mere memory of him brings the crystal ponies pain, strongly implying what a cruel and ruthless dictator he is.

He spends most of the two-part episode waiting outside the barrier for Cadance to run out of magic, for she hasn't slept and barely eats since casting the barrier. When Cadance faints for a few seconds, temporarily lowering the barrier, Sombra's face can be seen in his shadow form, and he tries to enter, but when the barrier reactivates, his horn is amputated, from which it spreads dark crystals through the empire.

Meanwhile, Sombra hid the Crystal Heart - the only weapon that can stop him - inside his castle, where no one would dare to look if he was in power, and rigged it with traps in case he wasn't. First, he set it so his hidden staircase could only be found using dark magic. Then he set a door that, when dark magic is used on it (as one would assume you would have to do), it traps you in your worst nightmare until someone snaps you out of it. Once you use light magic, you enter an endless staircase, and the only way to get by it is to use a gravity spell to slide up the bottom of the staircase. This leads to the Crystal Heart, but the area around it is rigged with an alarm, so when Twilight - the main character - steps on it, Sombra traps her in a barrier of dark crystals that even she, an extremely powerful unicorn, can't teleport out of. This shows that Sombra is both powerful and intelligent.

When Cadance runs out of magic, the barrier decativates and Sombra enters. He notices Spike, the baby dragon, trying to take the Crystal Heart to Cadance, so he rides a dark crystal at him, regaining physical form in the process. Sombra licks his lips as he is about to impale Spike, but Shining Armor throws Cadance and she saves Spike. Then she and the crystal ponies unleash the power of the Crystal Heart and destroy Sombra.

He has five lines:


 * Yes! Crystals!


 * Crystal Heart.


 * My crystal slaves!


 * That is mine!


 * What? No! No! Stop! 