2012年11月4日 · To be fair, Luna was being fairly intimidating, and most of the fear that we see towards Luna is after she makes her epic freaky entrance, after she does the royal canterlot voice on them, and after she has her spaz attack and attacked them with demonic spiders, not …

Fluttershy answers the door before slamming it back shut when she mistakes Princess Luna for Nightmare Moon. With some effort, Twilight manages to drag her outside in front of the princess, and after a brief "lesson" conducted mostly by Twilight, Luna hugs a …

2021年11月3日 · Mixing Luna's awkward moments with traditional activities before and after helped the whole thing seem like part of Nightmare Night. Having an adult like Pinkie Pie be just as scared as they were helped it to be okay for the kids to be scared.

2022年9月7日 · Like she said, “it’s fun to be scared”, she might’ve even assumed Luna was intentionally acting scary as part Nightmare Night. But either way, Pinkie didn’t realise that Luna or anyone else was actually taking the stuff about Luna being a cannibal or anything else seriously.

2021年3月18日 · In Luna Eclipsed, the ponies fear is explained as thinking she's nightmare moon (which she looks nothing like, though to be fair, she also doesn't look like she did when this same town celebrated her return in the pilot) and foal's stories about her gobbling ponies up, and thinking her Royal Canterlot voice is angry yelling.

2014年1月16日 · Luna is astonished at this, and realizes that the ponies like to the scared on Nightmare Night. Touched, Luna reinstates Nightmare Night, earning the jubilation of the young ponies.

2016年3月4日 · Unfortunately, Luna takes this a bit too far and turns toy spiders to real spiders, scaring the whole town. She gets pissed off and declares that Nightmare Night is cancelled.

2016年10月16日 · Boo! There’s at least one night of the year when it’s fun to be scared! For our favorite fillies, that’s Nightmare Night!

When the real Luna shows up to the party, she takes offense at everypony being so scared of her, and declares that Nightmare Night is cancelled forever. But the others show Luna that they appreciate her (and aren't scared of her in a bad way), which convinces her to reinstate the holiday by the episode's end.

Once they have left their offerings at the Nightmare Moon statue, Princess Luna makes a dramatic appearance in her dark alter-ego, scaring them yet again. She transforms back into Princess Luna and pops out a set of fake fangs, but is still afraid that Twilight's plan will fail.