This is a question we get asked almost all the time. I feel the best way to explain why Discord’s role isn’t changing to how he is portrayed in “Keep Calm and Flutter On”, I would need to give a bit of insight as to when the story for Journey of the Spark was being written.

Journey of the Spark was first conceived back in November of 2011, around the time that Season 2 was still being aired. By the time that the film’s story was fully finished, Season 3 wasn’t even on television yet, with only a small handful of promotional material being released. But given all the speculation surrounding the upcoming season, I told the team that I wanted to bar using references from Season 3 and onward as I felt that the film would become a slave to the continuity and would never be made.

So essentially, Journey of the Spark became its own story with only the first two seasons serving as sources of inspiration and pieces of continuity found within the film’s story. Any references made to Season 3 and onward are completely coincidental. So while Discord’s character has changed due to the show’s continuity, Journey of the Spark still retains the idea of Discord as an antagonist.