Ex-Queen Chrysalis

Ex-Queen Chrysalis (or simply known as Chrysalis) is one of the three most dangerous villains in the entire series and is a main antagonist of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. She appears as the main antagonist in Season 2's two-part finale "A Canterlot Wedding”, Season 6's two-part finale “To Where and Back Again”, the Season 8 episode “The Mean 6", and one of the three main antagonists of Season 9 (alongside Lord Tirek, the magic-absorbing centaur and Cozy Glow, a young Pegasus pony who once tried to drain all the magic from Equestria). She was also featured as the main antagonist in IDW's first comic arc, The Return of Queen Chrysalis, as an antagonist in the ninth comic arc, Siege of the Crystal Empire and was the main antagonist of The Guardians of Harmony in the IDW specials and one of the main antagonists of My Little Pony/Transformers (alongside Megatron). She was the(former)Queen of the Changelings who sought to feed her subjects' hunger for love and later expand her rule across Equestria in the process. She is even now the arch nemesis of the unicorn, Starlight Glimmer, after her defeat in the finale of Season 6, when she was dethroned from the position as the Queen of the Changelings and replaced by her former servant, Thorax. She later becomes a member of the Legion of Doom, consisting of herself, Lord Tirek and Cozy Glow, and was formally led by "Grogar", who was later revealed actually Discord in disguise. After they dispose of Discord and learn of his secret, Queen Chrysalis becomes the de-facto leader of the team until she and her teammates were defeated by the Mane Six and their allies and turned to stone.

Appearance
Queen Chrysalis is a changeling and thus a shapeshifter who is capable of taking many forms. She spends the entirety of “A Canterlot Wedding-Part 1"and the beginning of “A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2" in the form of Princess Cadance. Only the occasional flashes of her own green eyes and the colour of her magic differ from that of Cadance's own. Her bridal gown was also different from Cadence’s. In her true changeling form, she has green-black skin, a set of long, sharp fangs, a pair of insectoid wings, holes in her legs, and no visible cutie-mark like any unevolved changeling. Unlike the rest of her kind, however, she also has dark green eyes with vertical, dragon-like pupils, a twisted and gnarled unicorn horn, a teal mane and a tail, a greenish saddle, bluish-green rib plate, and a small, black crown tipped with blue beads. Interestingly, her eyes have a double pupil: a vertical, dragon-like one within a normal round one. Her voice has a layered quality, as if two people were speaking in sync, and she stands as tall as Celestia. Her limbs and her torso are extremely skinny. In one alternate future created by Starlight Glimmer, Chrysalis disguised herself as Applejack, but with a more messy mane and tail.

While disguised as Crackle Cosette, she appears as a regular unicorn with a olive coat, red mane, green eyes and green magic. She has a cutie-mark in the form of a ladybug standing above three leaves and is usually seen sporting a camera.

After enhancing herself with the Bewitching Bell, the scalera in her eyes become yellowish-green, the tip of her horn constantly glows, her crown becomes a tiara that stretches down to her chin with the black part turning green and two extra beads, her wings grow larger, and she gains green horse shoes and a chest plate.

Personality
Chrysalis is best known for being manipulative, sadistic, arrogant, cruel, cunning and selfish. Being the Changeling Queen, she is easily the most skilled member of her race when it comes to using her powers to manipulate others, convincing everyone except Twilight of her Cadance disguise, despite not even bothering to act like the real one, also using said disguise to turn everyone against Twilight. She enjoys the suffering and misery her actions tend to cause others as well, taking satisfaction in shaming Twilight for being suspicious of her actions and telling her that no one will bother looking for her after trapping her, as well as taunting her friends for ignoring her suspicions until it was too late. However, when she is in a position of strength or has an advantage over her enemies, she will immediately take the opportunity to egotistically boast about herself and her success, which tends to result in her defeat. While her goals are driven by a desire for absolute power and control, she justifies her actions with a more "selfless “desire to provide sustenance for her subjects, who would wither without being nourished by the love of others. However, she is rather small-minded and manipulative in helping her subjects, wanting them to see her as the only thing that capable of sustaining them while completely ignoring alternate methods, like sharing love, that would ensure them better. As such, she openly despises any attempt to convince her minions otherwise, utterly banishing and shaming Thorax for wanting to become friends with ponies. She is ultimately stubborn enough to outright reject the idea of friendship and Starlight's offer to change her ways, instead swearing vengeance upon her for overthrowing her. In the season 8 episode, Mean Six, Chrysalis starts to show signs of insanity, such as bragging her plans to lifeless pictures of the Mane Six and small logs, possibly due to the loneliness she's endured since her hive's uprising. Her madness is more evident in “The Beginning of the End”, where she cackles manically while carving Changeling faces unto stumps to talk to. She also showed fear when she is awed and intimidated by "Grogar", having heard stories of the villain's reign of terror during her childhood, although at one point became amused by his defeat at the hooves of Gusty the Great. At the end of the episode, her laughter, along with that of Cozy Glow and Tirek, is less maniacal and more reluctant. In Frenemies, she is only concerned about her vendetta against Starlight Glimmer and didn't like getting along with Tirek and Cozy Glow until she needed to team up with them. Chrysalis also believes that the magic of Friendship is like a "disease" and that she will not let it "infect” her like it did her kingdom and subjects. Chrysalis along with the Tirek and Cozy Glow then team up deciding to betray the so-called "Grogar". However, she does some brief moments of compassion as shown when she catches Cozy, so she wouldn't get injured. That said, its unknown whether she does care about her allies or she only expressed concern for pragmatic reasons. In the comics, Chrysalis' personality is mostly similar to her depiction in the series, only she is typically seen as being more comedic. She has a tendency to implement cynical humour into her activities, and openly mocks her enemies to comical effect. Her temper is noticeably shortened as well, being unable to remain composure when annoyed by the Cutie Mark Crusaders for several hours. Despite this, she completely crossed the line by seemingly outright murdering one of the citizens of Wuvey-Dovey Smoochy Land in front of the Cutie Mark Crusaders and later threatening to dispose of them, due to having no use for them once the Mane 6 were in the Changeling Kingdom. She is also vain enough to be offended and outraged when Twilight calls her"old".

Powers and Abilities

 * Changeling Biology: As a Changeling, Chrysalis in naturally imbued with various different abilities, including:
 * Shapeshifting: Like other changelings, Chrysalis can take the form of anybody she desires, perfectly mimicking their voices and appearances, even gain their clothing when transforming into them, although her personality and magic colour will still remain the same.
 * Love Draining: Chrysalis can naturally drain the love and affection out of any pony or animal, both feeding her and leaving her victim weak, frail, and, often too weak to even try to attempt to perform magic. Additionally, unlike most Changelings, the love she drains also enhances her own abilities as well, draining Shining Armor's love for Cadance alone making her powerful enough to defeat Celestia. In the comics, Chrysalis' love draining can also expand to magic as well.
 * Enhanced Durability: As shown in both the television and comic continuities, Chrysalis and her Changelings can survive being blasted away thousands of feet and landing directly on the ground. With other characters, it is heavily implied that a fall of said magnitude, if much less, would be fatal, meaning that the Changelings can endure far more punishment than regular ponies. Though it is possible she recovered with her wings in the show, she also survives the explosion of her throne unscathed. It is possible she is completely impervious to any form of damage, though this could also be from becoming powerful after feeding off love.
 * Flight: Thanks, to her insectoid wings, Chrysalis can fly for very long distances without tiring and, as shown in the events of "Frenemies" she can even fly through the magic winds of Mount Everhoof until she approached the top of the mountain and was able to quickly dive into a group of pine trees, showing both incredible flight skills and strength in flight.
 * Magic: Chrysalis possesses some of the most powerful magic in the entire series, rivalling the likes of Princess Celestia, Princess Luna and Twilight Sparkle, all of whom were some of the most powerful ponies in the series. When Tirek absorbed her magic in his second form, he was able to assume his third form which usually took the consumption of many unicorns, pegasi and earth ponies' magic showing that Chrysalis held enough magic to be compared to the magic of hundreds of unicorns, pegasi and earth ponies.
 * Magical Blasts: Chrysalis, like almost all other unicorns and alicorns, can fire extremely powerful magic blasts at her opponents.
 * Pyrokinesis: Chrysalis can summon magic green fire, that is impervious to both water or magic.
 * Mind Control: Chrysalis can influence and control the mind and manipulate and change the thoughts and memories of anyone around her by use of a mind control spell, which she used on Shining Armor, Lyra Heartstrings, Minuette and Twinkleshine.
 * Biological Manipulation: Chrysalis is implied to have the ability to either manipulate her body in ways other than her shapeshifting or have little to no bones, as she can bend her limbs in ways impossible for other ponies, squeeze through impossibly tight spaces and turn her neck a full 360 degrees, much like that of a spider.
 * Intimidation: Chrysalis was capable of intimidating almost all of her entire species into submission and could scare away several shadowy creatures following her on Mount Everhoof.
 * Immortality: In the comics, Chrysalis is stated to have been alive for hundreds, if not thousands of years without showing any signs of aging, making her one of the oldest characters in the series.

Weaknesses
Chrysalis does not always do a good job acting like the pony she is impersonating, as her behavior while disguised as Cadance made Twilight suspicious of her. Chrysalis is also extremely arrogant, which has led to her defeat several times. It is implied that, like other changelings that have not transformed, she grows weaker if she does not feed off love for a long time. Chrysalis seems to sometimes take a long time in coming up with plans, as after her defeat at the end of Season 2,it took her four seasons to return, and afterwards she does not return for revenge until two seasons later, although it is also possibly she may have be greatly weakened by Shining Armour and Cadance's spell and had possibly been preparing for her plan in season 4 or had (judging by her apparent fierce hatred of him) been busy hunting down Thorax, who had fled the kingdom and only returned for a third time with the help of Discord, appearing only in one episode of season 8 and not returning until she was summoned 9 episodes by Discord, although it is speculated that she may have not returned either due to being weakened from her encounter with the Tree of Harmony or because she had been slowly becoming criminally insane. According to Starlight, Chrysalis rules her people mainly through fear and intimidation, which caused them to eventually turn on her, therefore, Chrysalis' own intimidation over her subjects ended in her own downfall.

Coming into Existence
Long ago, before the defeat of the Pony of Shadow, a rotten acorn fell into a magic swamp underneath a cemetery and grew into a carnivorous plant that had never been seen before. This plant fed on insects and the decaying bones of creatures that had fallen into the swamps before. When Star Swirl the Bearded passed through and sensed something sinister about the swamp, he nailed a sign to the plant to warn other passersby to stay away. The nail by which Star Swirl hung his sign formed a crack, from which Chrysalis and the first changelings emerged, having evolved from the bugs consumed the plant they had evolved from to begin their reign of terror.

Encountering the Umbrum
At some point during Chrysalis and her changeling army's early adventures and conquests, she visited the Crystal Empire long before the reign of Princess Amore. The land was chaotic and jagged, the crystals were not finely cut and designed but instead wild and damaged. The empire was inhabited by the Umbrum, dark, horse-like demons on smoke from the Umbrum dimension, a world without light that had enslaved the Empire's population, driving them almost to extinction with the pain and suffering they created. Even Chrysalis was put aback by the sheer cruelty and destructive and wrathful nature of the Umbrum. Chrysalis claimed that the Umbrum burnt the homes and crushed the very dreams of the Crystal Ponies as they rampaged around the ruined cityscape.

Invading and Conquering Realms
One of Chrysalis' earliest conquests was of the Sparkly-Eyed Pegasus City of Timbucktu, ruled over by King Orion. After disguising herself as one of the Timbucktu Royal Guards, who she had sucked the love out of, Chrysalis led her forces to victory and successfully drained the city's inhabitants of love and forcing Orion to flee. Later, she posed as the fiancé of Emperor Incitatus of Trot in the hopes of draining him and his empire of love, though he later expelled her from the city after she was discovered. Despite this, Incitatus still adored her and called her his snookums even though she had told him over and over again that she had only married him to destroy his kingdom from the inside. She and her forces managed to invade the city and conquer it anyway, thanks to them hiding in a enormous wooden statue of Incitatus but Princess Celestia and the Royal Guards of Equestria arrived to contend with them.

Volcanic Imprisonment
Bearing the scars of this conflict, Chrysalis and her forces were imprisoned in a volcano,much to Chrysalis's complaints, saying that she would prefer being trapped in stone as this was somewhere after the defeat of Discord. However the Changeling Queen was able to escape by tricking the Dragon Sergio into releasing her and her army before sending him crashing into the volcanic lava.

First Attempted Takeover of Equestria
Queen Chrysalis first appears impersonating Princess Cadance in A Canterlot Wedding-Part 1,looking and sounding like her but acting different enough to raise Twilight Sparkle's suspicions, though Twilight's friends, Shining Armor, and Princess Celestia are oblivious. When Chrysalis appears before Twilight for the first time, she doesn't recognize Twilight, unsettling her and raising her suspicions. Throughout the wedding preparations, Chrysalis directly or indirectly insults each of Twilight's friends: she throws away the food Applejack offers her after giving insincere praise, she piles demands on Rarity about her and her bridesmaids' dresses, and she compares Pinkie Pie's party to that of a six-year-old's birthday. Her friends passing off this behaviour as wedding stress, Twilight tries to discuss the matter with Shining Armor, only for Chrysalis to interrupt. She drags Shining Armor into another room, where Twilight witnesses her cast a spell on him that makes his eyes roll. At the wedding rehearsal, Twilight accuses Chrysalis of being evil and levies accusations on her, causing Chrysalis to tear up and run away. Shining Armor confronts Twilight and contradicts her accusations, saying "Cadance" is using her magic to heal the migraines he suffers from due to his protection spell. When Twilight's friends abandon her because of her paranoia, Chrysalis returns. She looks down at Twilight compassionately at first, but her eyes glow green as she casts a spell that drags Twilight down into the ground and below, into the tunnels below Canterlot, which she had converted into a prison to hold the real Cadance. In A Canterlot Wedding-Part 2, Chrysalis, still under the guise of Cadance, taunts Twilight through reflections in an underground cavern's crystal walls and tells her that she's using Shining Armor for her own benefit. Twilight shatters the crystals and uncovers a path to the real Cadance, also imprisoned by the changeling queen. A song sequence follows featuring Chrysalis and Cadance singing about the wedding. After outwitting Chrysalis' three bridesmaids who were guarding the caves due to a hypnotic spell, Cadance and Twilight manage to confront Chrysalis right before Princess Celestia weds her to Shining Armor. Princess Cadance proclaims that the impostor is a changeling,a creature that takes the form of those that are loved and gains power by feeding off the love for them. Enraged, the impostor suddenly transforms and introduces herself as queen of the changelings(named Chrysalis in the episode's script but not on-screen).Chrysalis keeps Cadance at bay by threatening to send her back to the caves and explains that she's been feeding on Shining Armor's love for Cadance, weakening his protection spell that keeps the changelings out of Canterlot. Princess Celestia confronts her and attacks her with a magic blast from her horn, but Chrysalis fires back and, thanks to the power of Shining Armor's love, overpowers Celestia and knocks her to the ground, much to the surprise of everyone, including Chrysalis herself. Celestia weakly urges Twilight and her friends to get the Elements of Harmony and use them to defeat the queen. The changelings break through the magical barrier around Canterlot and capture Twilight and her friends, bringing them back to the wedding hall, where Celestia is encased in a chrysalis hanging from the ceiling. The queen sends her subjects to feed and sings a reprise of This Day Aria, distracting her long enough for Twilight to free Cadance. Cadance's magic breaks the spell over Shining Armor and gives him strength. Chrysalis mocks the sentiment, but the power of Shining Armor and Cadance's joint spell repels her and all of the changelings out of Canterlot, flying into the distance over the Badlands on their way to what later becomes the Changeling Kingdom.

Taking Over the Kindcats Kingdom and Planning Revenge
Chrysalis and the changelings were all revealed to have survive the fall after they are blasted away from Canterlot. While Chrysalis was hungry for revenge on Twilight Sparkle she is weakened from either the fall or Shining Armor and Princess Cadance's spell, but she and her minions recover their strength by feeding off the love of the catlike residents of the town they landed in, transforming the town into a temporary base. Still not powerful enough to invade Equestria again, she decides to absorb Twilight's magic when the Secretariat Comet, when their emotions are peaked, flies by.

Second Attempt to Seize Power and Imprisonment
In Issue #1, the Changelings imprisoned the ponies of Ponyville in cocoons and replaced them with changelings, but the Mane 6 defeated the changelings and rescued all the ponies except the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Chrysalis, giving the Mane 6 an communication orb through Spike, reveals that she has the Crusaders trapped in her lair and that they will have three days to rescue them. Chrysalis then ends the transmission upon being interrupted by Scootaloo.

In Issue #2, Chrysalis, watching over the Mane 6, is disappointed by a troll they encounter, remarking that they are "the most idiotic creatures", only for the Crusaders to start annoying her again, afterwards stating that trolls are the "second most idiotic creatures". Chrysalis then sends six Changelings to cause a cave-in when the ponies were traveling under the Appleloosan Mountains, separating them into pairs, then the changelings impersonated the other ponies and each insulted one of the other pairs within earshot, turning them against each other. Chrysalis found this amusing, but the Cutie Mark Crusaders continued to annoy her.

In Issue #3, Chrysalis recounts what happened to her after her defeat in Canterlot, to the Crusaders. Scootaloo questions what happened to the citizens of Wuvey-Dovey Smoochy Land, and Chrysalis tells her, that if they don't shut up, she'll show them. Chrysalis uses the orb to watch over Twilight, and orders several other Changelings to report on the actions of the other ponies. Chrysalis' guards inform her of the status of the others, and the Crusaders begin laughing at how the Mane 6 will eventually reunite and Chrysalis' plan will be foiled. Now enraged, Chrysalis reveals that it wasn't part of her plan to turn the Mane 6 against one another, but an added bonus, explaining that her true intentions are to destroy Twilight after draining her magic, causing her friends' emotions to spike and making them a big meal for the Changelings, and, afterwards, they will go back to Canterlot and take over. Taunting the Crusaders for their innocence, Chrysalis takes one of the citizens of Wuvey-Dovey Smoochy Land and (off screen) violently murders it in front of them. After the Mane 6 get back together, Chrysalis, still bothered by the Crusaders, moans that it will soon be over.

In Issue #4, Chrysalis decided she was done with the Cutie Mark Crusaders and wanted to be rid of them; it is unknown whether it was to banish them, kill them, or use them as food. After the Mane 6 enter the Changeling's castle, Chrysalis tells them to find her behind one of many doors, from which Mola Ram, Pennywise, the twins from The Shining, and the Phantom of the Opera appeared in pony form. Twilight discovers the correct door and Chrysalis asks her and the others the riddle "How is a Pegasus like a writing desk?" While the others are confused, Pinkie Pie answers the riddle by literally not answering it, and Chrysalis opens the door. In her throne room, the Mane 6 confront Chrysalis as she is arguing with the Crusaders, and a battle ensues, with Chrysalis attacking Twilight.

As they battle, Chrysalis tries to monologue about how love is worthless, and, being interrupted constantly, traps the rest of the Mane 6 inside cocoons. Angry and empowered by the Secretariat Comet, Twilight unleashes a powerful magic beam on Chrysalis, destroying everything around her. Deciding to alter her plans, Chrysalis offers to make Twilight her apprentice instead of draining her magic, threatening to harm her friends if she doesn't comply. Twilight reluctantly agrees to Chrysalis' terms and she releases Twilight's friends, only to reimprison them immediately afterwards, revealing that she will still drain Twilight of her love to make her more subservient, and then she will drain her own friends. Twilight and Chrysalis battle again, and, with the encouragement of her friends and the magic of the Secretariat Comet, Twilight singlehandedly overpowers Chrysalis and the Changelings. Chrysalis and her Changelings are then imprisoned in the castle, with Pinkie Pie's costume standing in the doorway, endlessly annoying them with riddles and songs that never end.

Escape and Recollection of the Past
In Issue 5 of FIENDship is Magic, which is in continuity with The Return of Queen Chrysalis, the Mane 6 visit the imprisoned Chrysalis in her castle, which is under guard by royal guards, to make sure that her imprisonment is going according to plan, as she is to receive a thousand-year punishment for her crimes (which includes being banned from cake). By now she is in an extremely weakened state, as she and her minions barely eat any of their food. It is mentioned that a thousand years ago she destroyed the city of Timbucktu and invasion on Trot. As more of her exploits are told and shown, she offers her origin in exchange for the newest Daring Do novel, which Rainbow Dash possesses. When Twilight is about to exchange it, she becomes trapped in the prison by the Changelings as it is revealed that the weakened Chrysalis was a Changeling and the true Chrysalis was hiding and she ambushes Twilight and she explains her origin. She and her subjects then proceed to attack Twilight and before the ponies can stop them, the Changeling overpower them and escape the jail, leaving the defeated ponies and Spike wounded.

Alliance with King Sombra and Siege on the Crystal Empire
In Siege of the Crystal Empire, Issue 34 of the comics, Chrysalis is recruited by Radiant Hope along with the Flim Flam Brothers, Lightning Dust, and Iron Will to attack the Crystal Empire as a diversion to keep every pony out of the castle so Radiant Hope could revive King Sombra. Chrysalis duels Twilight, but is defeated when Rarity blasts Iron Will and his goat into her with a cannon, and is captured with her fellow conspirators.

In Issue 35, once Sombra is revived, he releases Chrysalis and helps her defeat Twilight. Celestia and Luna arrive and fight Sombra and Chrysalis, respectively; when Luna gains the upper hand on Chrysalis, until Sombra turns both princesses to stone.

In Issue 36, when Chrysalis finds out Sombra plans to release the Umbrum, she is against it, having witnessed the Umbrum attacking the Crystal Empire and causing despair, which changelings cannot feed off of, but when Sombra threatens to turn her to stone, she says she'll help him. This was merely to buy her enough time to escape, knowing she and her changelings could be killed by the Umbrum. She taunts the powerless Twilight and throws her out of her cage so she can be attacked by the Umbrum, and then flies with her changelings across the sea to parts unknown, leaving Lightning Dust, Iron Will, and the Flim Flam Brothers behind.

All-Out Attack on Equestria
In The Shadow Bolts, Chrysalis is mentioned to be attacking the Crystal Empire, she sent two of her changelings to distract Rainbow Dash from reaching the Canterlot.

In Big Spike, Chrysalis and her changelings are said to be seen heading for the Mane Six and Spike. After Shining Armor arrives with a potion he'd found in castle of the Crystal Empire. Spike is the only one who knows that the potion is for him but Twilight uses a bit of the potion and armors herself, her friends and Shining Armor and still doesn't listen to Spike. When Chrysalis and her changelings arrive, The Mane Six and Shining Armor battle them but are outnumbered and overpowered by the changelings quickly. When Twilight finally grants Spike's wish to have the potion used on him, he grows into a giant armored dragon and he drives Chrysalis and her changelings away with his dragon breath.

Pact with the Leader of the Decepticons
In the crossover mini-series My Little Pony/Transformers, Chrysalis, in search of changeling allies, casts a spell that accidentally brings the Autobots and Decepticons of the Transformers franchise to Equestria. She forges an alliance with Megatron, the Decepticon leader, soon after.

Alternate Reality
At the end of The Cutie Re-Mark-Part 1,due to both Starlight Glimmer and Twilight altering the timeline, Chrysalis rules over Equestria and everypony becomes paranoid of changelings. She appears in The Cutie Re-Mark-Part 2 under the guise of Applejack, leading an ambush against Zecora's underground resistance.

Recollections by Characters
In The Times They Are A Changeling, Chrysalis appears in the runaway Thorax's flashback, showing multiple changelings under her care in a "nursery hive".

Kidnapping Every Powerful Pony and Being Overthrown
In To Where and Back Again-Part 1, she organizes the systematic capture of every powerful pony in Equestria, including the Mane Six, Spike, the Alicorn princesses, Shining Armor, and Flurry Heart. In To Where and Back Again-Part 2, the dark properties of Chrysalis' throne prevent Starlight Glimmer, Trixie, and Discord, who, alongside Thorax, were seeking to release her prisoners, from using magic within the perimeter of the Changeling Kingdom. When Starlight Glimmer and Thorax eventually make their way to her throne room, Chrysalis lies in wait for them, expressing that Starlight was not even worth the effort to capture. When asked what her ultimate goal is, Chrysalis explains that she wants to feed herself and her hive and rule Equestria in accordance to her own wicked design. When Starlight tries to tell her of a better way to lead the changelings and acquire love, citing Thorax as an example, Chrysalis refuses to listen and tries to absorb the love given to Thorax by the Crystal Ponies. Thorax shares his love with Chrysalis willingly, resulting in a burst of magic that transforms him into a colourful creature filled with love. As the other changelings follow suit, Chrysalis' throne is destroyed, and she is defeated. Starlight tries to help the fallen changeling queen be a better leader to her hive and extends her hoof in friendship, but Chrysalis refuses and swears revenge on Starlight Glimmer before escaping. In Celestial Advice, Chrysalis is mentioned several times. In To Change a Changeling, Starlight Glimmer mentions her a few times and reminds the changelings that they didn't have freedom to make their own decisions under her reign. Chrysalis is also mentioned in Shadow Play-Part 2.

Attempt to Take Control the Elements
Chrysalis (now Ex-Queen Chrysalis) returns in The Mean 6. Disguised as a photographer, she takes the Mane Six's pictures and steals a piece of hair from each of them. Using these ingredients, Chrysalis magically creates artificial clones of the Mane Six in order to control the Elements of Harmony and make a new hive of unicorns, pegasi and earth ponies. However, the clones are disobedient, and the Twilight clone turns the others against Chrysalis. Before the clones can rebel and use the Elements for their own ends, the Tree of Harmony recognizes them as fake and destroys them.

After the Mean Six's destruction, Chrysalis remarks how servants can't be depended on, but ensures that she will have her revenge on Starlight once again and leaves for the deeper areas Everfree Forest and is last seen flying into the moon. In What Lies Beneath, Ocellus unintentionally takes the form of Chrysalis out of fear of becoming just like her.

Joining "Grogar"
Chrysalis appears in The Beginning of the End-Part 1, still craving revenge against Starlight Glimmer and her friends. Chrysalis eventually ended up alone in an isolated forest, her mental state decayed to the point where she addressed pieces of wood with Changeling faces carved on them as though they were alive. She was unexpectedly teleported from this place to an unknown location, where she encountered Tirek and Cozy Glow who had similarly been brought there. When King Sombra appeared, Chrysalis briefly believed him responsible for gathering them, only for the true culprit to appear and announce himself as Grogar. Chrysalis recognized the legendary tyrant, but was also aware of his defeat at the hooves of Gusty the Great, for which she mocked him. Despite this, she bowed to his wishes to try and form an alliance with the other villains, especially after King Sombra's solo attempt to take over Equestria ended with his demise.[3]

Quest for the Bewitching Bell and Plotting Treachery
In Frenemies, Chrysalis, along with Cozy Glow and Tirek, still fail to get along and Chrysalis begins talking to a log are tasked by Grogar with retrieving his Bewitching Bell from the summit of Mt.Everhoof, but she is unable to cooperate with Cozy and Tirek at first. Chrysalis tries to scale the mountain by transforming into various creatures, but she is stopped by the summit's harsh winds. When Chrysalis finally learns to work together with Cozy and Tirek, they successfully retrieve the Bell and decide to use it in their scheme to overthrow Grogar. In The Summer Sun Setback, Chrysalis, along with Lord Tirek and Cozy Glow, infiltrate Canterlot library's forbidden wing to get information in how to activate Grogar's bell and use its magic. She takes part in sabotaging the Summer Sun Celebration by convincing the unicorns organizing the event's firework show to quit while disguised, and she and her fellow villains steal a book from the Canterlot Archives, which they plan to use to learn how to unlock the bell's power.

Conquering Equestria and Final Fate
In The Ending of the End-Part 1, Chrysalis, Cozy Glow, and Tirek successfully sow the seeds of distrust among the three tribes thanks to Chrysalis’s shapeshifting and unlock the power of the Bewitching Bell to make themselves all-powerful and drain Grogar of his magic, revealing him to be Discord in disguise. In their siege upon Equestria, Chrysalis fights, defeats, and captures Starlight Glimmer, and she, Cozy, and Tirek overwhelm Twilight's friends as she escapes. In Part 2, Chrysalis and her fellow villains imprison Twilight's friends and celebrate their victory but fail to reach an agreement regarding what to do with the magic they stole. When Discord insults Tirek, a furious Tirek blasts him with magic,despite Chrysalis's warning; Discord reflects the blast off a crystal rock, and it strikes the cage containing Starlight Glimmer, allowing her to break free, much to Chrysalis outrage and panic. Furious Chrysalis orders the legion to stop and recapture the unicorn, Starlight teleports around the chamber, evading the villains' magic attacks, and releases the other captured ponies from their cages. She, Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, and Discord keep the villains preoccupied while the rest of the Mane Six and Spike escape to find Twilight and is last seen being pelted by rocks by a powerless Discord. After the rest of the Mane Six escape, the 4 fighters are defeated and re-imprisoned and the windigos appear as a result of their creating distrust among ponies, Chrysalis and the other villains face off against the Mane Six, and later an army of their allies (which includes Starlight, Discord, Trixie, Thorax and the Changelings, in a grand final battle. At the end of the battle, Chrysalis is drained of her power, and she and her cohorts are frozen in stone for their crimes. In The Last Problem, a stained glass window depicting Chrysalis, Tirek, and Cozy Glow's defeat appears in Canterlot Castle in future Equestria. They are also pictured in a newspaper in Twilight's flashback. Despite this, as once shown with Discord, even after being defeated and turned to stone does not mean that Chrysalis and her allies are gone forever . . . . ..

Lord Tirek
Chrysalis and Tirek share a strong team relationship, as they learn to rely on each other, but it didn't start off that way. Chrysalis appears to hear about Lord Tirek before they met in the Season 9 premiere and is forced to team up with him and Cozy Glow. At first, she and Tirek are rather hostile toward each other, such as when Tirek tried to steal her magic essence one time and the fact that they bicker a lot. However, she did learn to tolerate him during the events of "Frenemies", and they begin to finally get along over their shared hatred of Twilight and her friends. When they reached the mountain, they can't get past the barrier protecting the entrance to the cave so they can get the Bewitching Bell. After, Cozy suggests to Tirek to borrow Chrysalis's magic to penetrate the shield defending it’s cavern hiding place, Chrysalis assumed this to be a betrayal at first before Cozy explains the real reasoning why he has to take her magic. Chrysalis was genuinely concerned and worried that Tirek will leave both Chrysalis and Cozy behind after he gains her magic. However, Tirek, for the first time in his life, upholds his end of the bargain by returning Chrysalis's magic to her, much to her shock and surprise. It was almost thanks to Tirek's action of honour that almost help Chrysalis realize the importance of teamwork. However, Chrysalis snapped out of it, claiming not to befriend Cozy and Tirek for the sake of not falling to the so called "disease" that is friendship and had "infected" her hive. However, she does hold her pact with her team and came up with a plan to dispose of"Grogar",unlock the Bell's power,and take over Equestria. Tirek suggests that if they win, they will continue to try and destroy each other for whoever takes over Equestria. In"The Ending of the End - Part 1", Chrysalis reveals that the three had decided that,once Equestria is conquered and their enemies defeated, they will all rule their kingdoms alone once more, although it is unknown if she meant to retake the changeling kingdom or divide Equestria into three pieces. She was even forced by Cozy Glow to compliment Tirek and she groans, simply saying “he’s…red”. They also share a brief disagreement on how to deal with the returned Windigos as Chrysalis thinks that she will use the Windigos to her advantage and once Equestria is a frozen wasteland, she will use her magic to defeat the beasts and ponies will hail her as a hero that they will do anything she wants. Tirek considers her plan unwise and suggests they deal with the threat now. In the end, they continue to trust each other and help fight the Mane Six, before they were both defeated.

Cozy Glow
Similar to her relationship with Tirek, she shares a strong one with her fellow teammate Cozy Glow as well. Also, just like Tirek, she and Cozy didn't get along at first as they bicker a few times. She also gets annoyed by her own ego and selfishness, even if Chrysalis also shares this trait as well. However, unlike Tirek, she never heard of Cozy Glow and it is unknown if she questioned the fact that she is just a little filly. But she does learn to cooperate with Cozy, seeing her as a worthy ally. She even saved Cozy before she slipped and almost fell off of Mt. Everhoof, showing rare compassion toward her. It was also Cozy Glow who convinces Chrysalis to come up with an evil plot to turn every pony against each other, and they manage to succeed on it, for a short time anyway.

Starlight Glimmer
Since the events of the Season 6 finale, Chrysalis and Starlight had a very poor relationship to the point that she considers Starlight her arch-nemesis and vows revenge on her. The feeling is mutual with Starlight being disappointed when Chrysalis refused to reform. They share a brief battle in “The Ending of the End - Part 1"before she managed to defeat her thanks to absorbing the real Grogar's magic in the Bewitching Bell. However, Starlight Glimmer managed to be set free and helps take part in the final battle against Chrysalis and her Legion of Doom teammates.

Discord
Chrysalis has admitted in "Frenemies" that she used to admire Discord when he was evil before friendship ruined him. In the Season 6 finale, Queen Chrysalis and her Changelings have captured the leaders of Equestria, which included Fluttershy, which would infuriate Discord at Chrysalis and went with Starlight Glimmer, Trixie,and Thorax to go rescue Fluttershy and the others. However, the Changelings managed to capture Discord and Chrysalis traps him in a cocoon along with Trixie. But Discord managed to escape after Chrysalis was defeated and dethroned from her position, as Queen, swearing vengeance upon Starlight Glimmer and her companions in the process before she went into exile. Since then, Discord and Chrysalis have become fearsome enemies. In the Season 9 finale, she and her fellow villains are surprised when Discord is revealed to be Grogar all along after she and her teammates betray him and took his magic. Chrysalis decides to let Discord go as she considers him not a threat without his magic along with the fact that .However, she was unaware that Discord will warn the others of their plan to attack Equestria, thus ruining the Legion's chances for a surprise attack. But they did manage to beat Twilight and her friends, even defeating Discord as well while Twilight teleports away after her friends urge her to escape. While the ponies were trapped in cages, Discord was in chains and Chrysalis mockingly calls him,"Grogar".The remorseful Discord managed to almost trick Chrysalis into telling her how to use his chaos magic, but Tirek tells her and Cozy that Discord is lying. But after Discord insults Tirek, the Centaur blast him, causing a chain of events that led to Twilight's friends escaping. Later, Discord helps the Princesses turn her and her teammates to stone.

The Mane Six
Queen Chrysalis is one of the biggest enemies to the Mane Six, especially Twilight Sparkle, whom she interacted with the most out of the Mane Six. She sees Twilight Sparkle as a threat to her plans in the Season 2 finale, where she poses as Cadance to "marry" Shining Armor so she can take control of Canterlot and eventually all of Equestria. Twilight is suspicious of her even when she posed as Cadance, mostly due to her different attitude and personality from the real Cadance. Chrysalis soon traps Twilight Sparkle in the caves beneath Canterlot. But before she can go with her evil plan, Cadance and Twilight manage to escape and expose the truth, which included Chrysalis's true identity. Chrysalis has her minions battle the Mane Six, and they manage to successfully capture them and returned to her. Chrysalis taunts Twilight that she is the only one who is suspicious of her behaviour, while the rest of her friends were too caught up in wedding preparations. Soon, Chrysalis and her army are defeated by the combined efforts of Cadance and Shining Armor's love for each other. Later in the series, Chrysalis manages to secretly capture all of the Mane Six, thus making her one of the few villains who managed to beat the Mane Six. However, she is again defeated by Starlight Glimmer, Thorax, and her own hive who turned against her and the Mane Six are free. Now disposed of her position as Queen, she swears vengeance on not only Starlight Glimmer, but on her companions and the Mane Six as well. She later teams up with Lord Tirek and Cozy Glow for the sake of getting revenge on Twilight and her friends and conquer Equestria. She and her fellow villains manage to overwhelm Twilight and her friends. Chrysalis reveals to Twilight that she and her teammates have turned all the pony races against each other. She even taunts Twilight over the fact that fear is stronger than friendship. Twilight’s friends were captured while Twilight escaped. However this time, Chrysalis didn't go after her, telling Tirek that she is no threat. However, once Twilight's friends escape, Chrysalis managed to capture the rest of the prisoners before they deal with the rest. During the fight, Chrysalis almost plucked out Spike's wings to get Twilight and her friends to surrender. Just as they were about to finally defeat them, they were saved by an army of all the allies in Equestria and is eventually defeated.

King Sombra
Chrysalis and Sombra don't interact much, but Chrysalis has heard of him. The only time they met was when Chrysalis aided him into the siege on the crystal empire, as the Sombra she met in the Season 9 premiere, was simply the dark shadow of Sombra after it was resurrected and teleported to Grogar's lair. Chrysalis mistakes Sombra for summoning her and her other fellow villains before "Grogar" shows up to reveal he was the one who brought them. During the scene, Chrysalis stands next to Sombra. Sombra refused to join "Grogar's" newly formed team and left to conquer Equestria on his own. Before "Grogar" forcefully sends him to the Crystal Empire, Sombra boasts to Chrysalis and the others that he alone can defeat those who oppose him, much to Chrysalis's annoyance. However, she did ask about Sombra to"Grogar"later, but"Grogar"reveals Sombra's failure in the crystal ball and warns them that could happen to them also if they doubt his plans. This forces Chrysalis to reluctantly join "Grogar". However, she soon plans with the other villains to betray the Ram. It is possible that despite being annoyed by him and having one scene together, she did admire him.

Pharynx
Little is known of the relationship between Chrysalis and her soldier Pharynx, but it is mentioned that during Chrysalis’ reign Pharynx was the Head of the Changeling Kingdoms Border Patrol, confirming that Chrysalis trusted him at least to some extent during her queenship. It is currently unknown how Chrysalis felt about Pharynx after she was dethroned from power, considering the fact that Pharynx’s own younger brother, Thorax, had replaced her as Ruler and had also been responsible for Chrysalis’ Fall to Power. However, it was revealed in To Change a Changeling, that Pharynx was the only remaining Changeling who had not metamorphosed, retaining his original form and had been one of the rebel changelings still loyal to their traditions and (presumably) Chrysalis. Pharynx was also the only changeling who still held Chrysalis and the so-called, “old ways”, include devouring love from animals, instead of producing love, in high regards. However, after his transformation in the end of To Change a Changeling, Pharynx would cut all ties with Chrysalis and the “Old Ways”. Later during the events of The Ending of the End–Part 2, Pharynx would participate in fighting against Queen Chrysalis, and her allies Lord Tirek and Cozy Glow, alongside the rest of the Changelings after being rallied by Ocellus, therefore showing that he had ended any loyalty or respect for her that he had formally held.

Trivia

 * She is the first major villain in the series to have a song (though the Flim Flam Brothers had a song before her, they were minor villains). She later shares a song with other main antagonists, Lord Tirek and Cozy Glow, in the episode “Frenemies".
 * Chrysalis is one of the main antagonists of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, alongside Lord Tirek, Cozy Glow, and Discord (before his redemption). She is also the third most recurring main antagonist in the series, appearing in 11 episodes.
 * Queen Chrysalis is regarded as the second most evilest and cruel My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic villain, behind King Sombra.
 * In fact, she did come close to crossing the Moral Event Horizon in the Season 9 finale,when she threatened to pluck out Spike's wings, even when he is just a baby dragon, forcing the Mane Six to surrender. After they did, she gives Spike back to Twilight. This could've made Chrysalis the closest G4 ever came to a Pure Evil villain alongside King Sombra, if it weren't for some of her compassion towards the other members of the Legion of Doom. But she did deny the very concept of friendship, treating it as a disease, and is the first to snap out of it when she almost became friends with Tirek and Cozy Glow. Therefore, this shows that she is not completely as evil as King Sombra was before his redemption.
 * Queen Chrysalis is one of the most popular and beloved villains of the series, having many fan art, fanfictions, merchandise, and etc.
 * Queen Chrysalis and her Changelings may be based off of Sinisteeds, dark, horse-like creatures who thrive on feeding off of love and emotion in the novel Gossamer by Lois Lowry.
 * Chrysalis is slightly similar to the Harry Potter antagonist, Lord Voldemort, whose final duel with Harry Potter inspired that of Chrysalis and Celestia. Voldemort's inability to love may be mirrored by Chrysalis's line about "not having any room for love in her heart".
 * Her name was never mentioned in her main episodes "A Canterlot Wedding”, but was given by one of the show's creators and mentioned on the episode's script. She is also named in media such as the Elements of Harmony book. Outside of the title, her name was first mentioned in the comic by Fluttershy, although it is unclear how the ponies know her name, possibly through research, Twilight does not refer to her by name when she mentions "the changeling queen" in the Friendship Journal. In "The Cutie Remark: Part 1", her named was finally mentioned in the show.
 * In both the comics and the series, Fluttershy is the first pony to mention her name. The fiery dome she creates around Twilight looks similar to the one created by Zelda from The Swan Princess 3.
 * One of her voice actors, Kathleen Barr, also voices another villain from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, the Great and Powerful Trixie. She also voiced the minor antagonist Hoops, when he's an adult.
 * Prior to the release of the episode, there was speculation that "Cadance" would turn out to be Trixie in disguise,out for revenge on Twilight.
 * She also does the voice of Roodaka from Bionicle, who is often compared to Chrysalis as the sinister queen of an insectoid race. Her voice is nearly the same.
 * It has been revealed that Queen Chrysalis will appear in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Journey of the Spark (the fan-made movie of the series).
 * Some fans speculate that Queen Chrysalis was once a special breed of pony (possibly a flutterpony from Generation 1) who was cursed to turn into a Changeling.
 * On page 11 of Friends Forever Issue #8, a sign under the Mount Monument observation deck reads “Sign the petition to add Queen Chrysalis to the monument" and bears Chrysalis' fresh signature, which in turn strongly suggests they have since recovered and are back to plotting and causing trouble for Equestria.
 * Queen Chrysalis is one of the four major villains who weren't outcasted before their actual appearing(Nightmare Moon was sent to the moon, Discord was turned into stone, King Sombra was trapped in the ice, Sunset Shimmer went to the human world, the Plunderseeds were held by the Tree of Harmony, Lord Tirek was imprisoned in Tartarus and the Dazzlings were banished to the human world), the other three being Starlight Glimmer, the Storm King, and Cozy Glow
 * In her FIENDship is Magic debut, she becomes the second antagonist that physically attacks Twilight, the first being Tirek.
 * Also, in her FIENDship is Magic comic, she becomes the second villain to appear victorious over the main characters, the first being the human versions of the Flim Flam Brothers.
 * It is unknown what effect the Elements of Harmony would have had on her, whether it would turn her to stone like Discord, whether it would destroy her like the Crystal Heart did to King Sombra on account of being pure evil, or whether, due to her apparent invulnerability, she'd be immune or resistant to it like the Pony of Shadows. It is implied the Elements would destroy King Sombra, although he was faking his death at the time.
 * Seasons 1,3,4,and 7 are the only seasons in which she does not appear.
 * Somehow, she recognizes both Tirek and Sombra when "Grogar" brings them together.It is unknown whether she witnessed their attempts at taking over Equestria in the present (or sent changelings to do so), or whether she was around a thousand years ago before Tirek’s imprisonment (Sombra having been defeated after the Pillar’s (including Starswirl) defeated the Pony of Shadows and vanished. Chrysalis mentions Sombra has "returned"; it is unclear whether she referred to his imprisonment in ice a thousand years ago or his apparent "death" in Season 3, as it is unknown whether or not she had learn’t of Sombra’s redemption.
 * Of all major villains, Chrysalis has had the longest run without reforming, first appearing in Season 2 and has remained unreformed for the remainder of the series. Only Nightmare Moon and Discord appeared before Chrysalis, but Nightmare reformed in the second episode, and Discord reformed a season after his first appearance. The closest Queen Chrysalis ever reformed is in the Season 9 episode "Frenemies", but she realizes and stopped in her tracks, refusing to befriend Lord Tirek and Cozy Glow after working together to get the Bewitching Bell. However, she is still willing to team up with them so she can defeat her enemies and conquer Equestria.
 * In Season 9, Chrysalis, Tirek and Cozy were thought to be secondary antagonists while "Grogar" is the main antagonist in Season 9. However, this all changed in the finale as "Grogar" is revealed to be Discord and thus, Chrysalis and her allies took over as the main villains of the season.
 * Queen Chrysalis, alongside Lord Tirek respectfully, are the third major villains to be the main antagonists of a whole season in Season 9; the others are Starlight Glimmer in Season 5 and Cozy Glow in both Season 8 and 9. This makes all four of them the main villains of a whole season.
 * She is the only villain to serve as the main antagonist in three two-part episodes as Starlight Glimmer, King Sombra, Lord Tirek, and Cozy Glow were each the main villain twice.
 * Chrysalis, Tirek, and Cozy Glow are the final antagonists of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.