History Characters / CodexEquusTribalists

* AssholeVictim: One Scion made the mistake of calling Prince Steel Barricade a "[[CategoryTraitor disgrace]]" for being a pegasus stallion who Ascended and supporting "traitor" pegasi like Fiery Flight. [[LaserGuidedKarma This causes Steel Barricade to snap and savagely beat him up for it]]. Said Scion is considered to be this in-universe by many because of his and his faction's horrible actions, though it's deconstructed in [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome how Steel Barricade's family reacted to the incident]] - his brothers had to pull him away before the situation escalated, and Golden Scepter was [[DisappointedInYou rather disappointed]] in his eleventh son for losing his temper, despite having no love for tribalists in general. The Scion of Hurricane who got beaten up, meanwhile, was put in the hospital and is still recovering from his injuries.

** In one incident, a Scion would insult Golden Scepter's eleventh son, Prince Steel Barricade, by calling him a "[[CategoryTraitor disgrace]]" to the Pegasi tribe for [[DeityOfHumanOrigin Ascending]] and supporting other "traitorous" pegasi such as Fiery Flight, inventor of the Vortex Engine, and those like her. This would prove to be a huge mistake as one of Steel Barricade's {{Berserk Button}}s involves [[EvilReactionary reactionaries]], causing him to ''[[UnstoppableRage snap]]'' and give the Scion a public NoHoldsBarredBeatdown. However, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome it's treated as not okay]] - while many people claimed the Scion [[AssholeVictim had it coming]], Steel Barricade's brothers had to separate the two before things got too bloody, and Golden Scepter was [[DisappointedInYou rather disappointed]] with his son for losing his temper despite having no love for tribalists himself.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The regime's extreme oppression made it so dysfunctional on a social, economic, political and military level that it only staved off its inevitable total collapse due to being allied (technically) to Aarddomeinia it splitted off from and supported by it, while held together by sheer brutality and its unhinged leader's mad will. The moment their patron fell during the Terra Equus Continental War and their leader unexpectedly died from a 'mysterious terminal illness', all these faults, already exasperated by the conflict, causes the state to utterly implode not long afterwards.

* AcceptablePoliticalTargets: A justified in-universe example. Much like the Autorists, the tribalists are treated with contempt and disdain for their horrible actions and beliefs, so naturally, this has caused many heroic-minded individuals to see anything that happens to the tribalists as [[LaserGuidedKarma well-deserved comeuppance]].
** After learning that all three tribalist factions [[EvilVersusEvil got in a fight with Griffon Autorists]] and [[EvilWillFail engineered their own downfalls in the process]], Fluttercruel found it so hilariously pathetic that she would laugh in response.
---> '''Fluttercruel:''' ...This would be hilarious if it weren't so pathetic... oh who am I kidding, it's even more hilarious that way! HAHAHA!
** Subverted with Emperor Golden Scepter. While he's known for being a bitter enemy of both Autorists and tribalists, [[IHatePastMe as he once acted like them in the Imperium era]], Golden Scepter doesn't think it's funny to ridicule them no matter how well-deserved it is. And as the living embodiment of Ponykind, he believes that for every person who willingly gives in to hatred, bigotry, and cruelty, there's always a few people who were simply led astray and thus can be saved and redeemed just as he was.

* FantasticRacism: Deconstructed. The Scions see the other Pony tribes as inferior as well as debased and morally-bankrupt, which justified the pegasi's natural superiority. However, as Midnight Bell pointed out, they come across as little more than bullies who harass anyone without wings, and their beliefs of tribal superiority fall flat as they see those pegasi who either [[DeityOfHumanOrigin become Alicorns]], do something that will make winged creatures "obsolete", or don't agree with them in general as [[CategoryTraitor traitors and disgraces]] to their tribe. It's for this reason that even many pegasi hate the Scions, since they're really horrible people who twist the ideals of Commander Hurricane and their tribe to benefit themselves. Changeling Queen Theraposa hates the Scions with a passion for tarnishing the pegasi of the era she was born in, [[MixedAncestry as her father was a mortal pegasus and a member of the Cloudsdale Royal Legion]], and Prince Steel Barricade of the Terran Empire was ''[[UnstoppableRage enraged]]'' when a Scion called him a "disgrace", to the point where he [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown publicly beat up the Scion]] until his brothers pulled him away. Prince Crimson Star, meanwhile, wants to find the lore of the lost Order of the Weathersmiths before the Scions do because he [[{{Seers}} foresaw]] the Scions getting their hooves on it and using the lore to spread what Crimson Star calls a "deluded, steaming pile of garbage they believe will 'save' the Pegasi", and wants to prevent such a thing from happening.