History Characters / FriendshipIsMagicAnimalCompanions

* CoolPet: While he does less than most of the other ponies' pets, he's an alligator which is exotic enough to be cool. His entertainment value doesn't hurt his coolness factor either.

* CoolPet: A phoenix, serving as an immortal, magical pet for an immortal, magical princess.

* CoolPet: The coolest of the Mane Cast's pets because he's a phoenix chick.

* ShoutOut: Antoine's attempt to eat Muriel the baby elephant are [[https://derpibooru.org/2090932 a reference]] to ''Literature/TheLittlePrince''. The snake also shares its name with the book's author.

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* EveryoneHasStandards: Angel may be a jerk to Fluttershy on his bad days, but even ''he's'' disgusted when the Cutie Mark Crusaders write mean things about her in the school's gossip column and make her cry.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Angel may be a jerk to Fluttershy on his bad days, but even he's disgusted when the Cutie Mark Crusaders write mean things about her in the school's gossip column.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Geese being kept as guards [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guard_goose is a thing in real life]] -- in fact, there's a rather famous semi-mythical incident where a flock of geese saved Rome from being sacked by honking up a storm exactly in the manner these do.

* DefeatMeansFriendship: She and Tank are now [[OddFriendship friends of a sort]] after Tank outsmarted her and [[TurtlePower withstood her fury]] in his debut episode.

* TurtlePower: [[RunningGag Tortoise to be precise]], but powerful all the same.

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* TypicalCartoonAnimalColors:
** The rabbits are all solid white, brown, grey or black.
** Squirrels are a solid mid-brown, with light bellies.
** Beavers are drawn with white incisors, instead of the orange ones they have in real life.
** The chickens are a clean, solid white; when multiple chickens appear in the same scene, some will be brown or golden-brown instead, but always a solid, unmarked color. They all have bright red combs, and canary yellow chicks.
** The ducks are classic mallards, usually appearing in small family groups -- a grey-bodied male with a bright green head, a solid brown female and two or three bright yellow ducklings. Both males and females are drawn with bright yellow bills, although only male mallards have these in real life.
** Snakes are bright jade or emerald green, with lighter bellies. Sometimes they're dark yellow instead, but only when multiple snakes are present in a single shot.
** Clementine the giraffe is dark yellow with brown spots.
** Sandra the wolf is dark grey on her back, head, nose and upper side of her tail and very light grey on her belly, muzzle, legs and underside of her tail.

* TypicalCartoonAnimalColors: He's dark brown with a lighter tan muzzle and belly, a classic color scheme for bears in Western cartoons.

* TypicalCartoonAnimalColors: He's a bright leaf green, of a shade common in cartoon reptiles and very rare in real ones.

* TypicalCartoonAnimalColors: He's a uniform deep green color, although green is a very uncommon color for tortoises in real life. Unlike most other cartoon tortoises, but like many real life tortoises, his shell is prominently patterned with large spots.

* OnlySaneMan: Among the pets because the others are either hyper, troublesome, snobby, or zoned out. In "Just For Sidekicks" he is the one most evidently trying to co operate with Spike.

* ShesAManInJapan: In the Polish dub, he's referred to as female (perhaps because in Polish "owl" is a noun with a female gender, [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh this isn't the first translation to do so]]).

* EmpathyPet: Tank's loyalty is the other part of what impresses Rainbow Dash (the Element of ''Loyalty''). In just for "Just for Sidekicks" he calls her on her {{Tsundere}} attitude by licking her cheek.

* PintSizedPowerhouse: He could lift a boulder that has to be at least fifteen times bigger than himself.
* PutOnABus: Invoked but defied, "Tanks for the Memories" has him go into hibernation for the winter, burying himself in the dirt, but given the timeframe of the series has never followed a seasonal pattern, it's just for this episode and he's back later in the season.

* PaletteSwap: While most animals only appear in one palette and the songbirds have different models for each color scheme, the rabbits all use the same model colored white, light or dark gray, tan, brown, or black, with the addition of a pair of antlers making jackalopes, while the chickens vary between snowy white, golden brown and brown.

* NiceHat: He wears one while training Fluttershy in the episode "Hurricane Fluttershy".

!!Other Pets and Animal Companions

[[folder:Philomena]]
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[[caption-width-right:280:Philomena's physical appearance throughout most of her episode [[ThePhoenix until her eventual rebirth]].]]
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E22ABirdInTheHoof A Bird in the Hoof]]"

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TabithaStGermain[[note]]according to [[http://efrpresents.everfree.net/2012/07/interview-tabitha-st-germain/ this interview]][[/note]]

Princess Celestia's pet [[ThePhoenix phoenix]]. She initially appeared unwell, so Fluttershy birdnapped her to make her feel better. Of course, she never actually ''needed'' the medical attention on the basis of being a phoenix -- so she made herself the most uncooperative patient ever for the hell of it.

* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Played with, as she acts something like a parrot (minus the mimicry part).
* BackFromTheDead: Like all depictions of phoenixes, she spontaneously catches fire when she dies and rises from the ashes.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: She first appeared in the Season 1 episode "A Bird in the Hoof", where she played a major role and was established as an unusual and noteworthy creature and Princess Celestia's personal pet. Despite several visits to Canterlot and Celestia's palace and living quarters, that was the first and last time she was ever mentioned or shown in the show.
* CoolPet: A phoenix, serving as an immortal, magical pet for an immortal, magical princess.
* TheDogIsAnAlien: She's a prankster and pretends to be a sickly parrot much to Fluttershy's consternation.
* EmpathyPet: Reflects Celestia's more... [[ItAmusedMe mischievous]] side.
* FeatherFingers: Until those feathers drop off as well, leaving what looks like ''actual'' fingers...
* FieryRedhead: Literally, when she's reborn.
* GoodAnimalsEvilAnimals: In a brief cameo in the comics' [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDWIssue17To20 Reflections]] storyline, Philomena's evil mirror counterpart is drawn as resembling a haggard, scrawny vulture, contrasting with the proud, eagle-like appearance of her normal self in the main universe.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: This is why Fluttershy birdnaps her.
* ItAmusedMe: According to Celestia, the reason behind Philomena's melodramatic behaviour is she was having fun with tormenting poor Fluttershy.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She spends the entirety of her debut messing with Fluttershy for her own amusement. After she's reborn, she gives Fluttershy one of her feathers as a thank-you gift.
* MeaningfulName: Philomena comes from the Greek words ''philos'' (friend) and ''menos'' (strength); together meaning "friend of strength".
* NeverSayDie:
** According to Celestia, Philomena "must renew herself".
** When she burns up in front of the Mane Six, Twilight explains to Celestia that "there's been a terrible accident".
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Her extremely dumb and erratic behavior were fake; she was just having fun at Fluttershy and Twilight's expense.
* PaperThinDisguise: She temporarily wears a mustache to evade Twilight and Fluttershy when they are chasing her.
* PerpetualMolt: Justified for once; Philomena losing feathers is taken as a sign she's unwell.
* ThePhoenix: She's a phoenix, a large eagle-like bird with red and yellow plumage. She cyclically ages into a scrawny, wasted-looking form, before catching on fire, burning away to nothing and rejuvenating from her ashes.
* PickyEater: Fluttershy learns this the hard way.
* ThePrankster: Acted like a dramatic, terminally ill soap opera character just to mess with Fluttershy's head. Celestia implies that this isn't the first time Philomena has played a trick on somepony like this.
* ShoutOut: [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets Fluttershy meets Philomena when she's at Death's door; Philomena bursts into flame and dies when her owner isn't there and Fluttershy feels incredibly guilty until Celestia explains the nature of a phoenix.]]
* ShownTheirWork:
** When she's revived as a healthy phoenix, take a look at her beak. If you know anything about birds, it suddenly makes perfect sense that she'd hork up the seed she was given; that's pretty obviously a raptor's beak. To put it another way, Philomena's a carnivore. It gets better if you know enough about the original Greco-Egyptian Phoenix myth: phoenix would feed only on dew/ the waters of the Nile, and so living off water would be the only creatures never to harm another living thing in their lives, not even a plant, and thus live innocent and so could be re-born (note, the earliest Egyptian phoenix myths might have been based on sightings of Flamingos, who sieve algae out of water, live in burning hot deserts and raise their young in salt-flats conditions that would kill most birds from heat-stroke). So you'd not expect a true Phoenix to eat at all.
** Her prankster-ish behavior, though humorously exaggerated, is not too unlike the more mischievous behavior of real life parrots; for instance, her apparent enjoyment in seeing her caretakers getting frustrated.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: "Philomena" is the trademarked spelling used on [[http://theponyartcollection.tumblr.com/post/26391213917/pets-and-spike her trading card]], but her name's also been spelled as "Philomeena" (by Hasbro [[http://www.hasbro.com/common/assets/Image/Printables/dad2af6e1c4311ddbd0b0800200c9a66/92279E335056900B100D5E9629DAE390/922929405056900B10E9B4BF373949BE.pdf here]], [[http://www.facebook.com/questions/389107571106686/ here]], and [[https://twitter.com/MyLittlePony/status/210057194656366592 here]]) and as "Philemena" (in a storyboard for "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E22ABirdInTheHoof A Bird in the Hoof]]").
* ToothyBird: She's shown to have teeth in her beak, although this is only visible in her haggard, pre-rejuvenation form.

[[folder:Peewee]]
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[[caption-width-right:200:Peewee as a hatchling]]
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E21DragonQuest Dragon Quest]]"

A tiny phoenix chick that hatched at the end of "Dragon Quest", well after his parents and siblings were driven away from their nest. Spike found his egg and almost smashed it on orders from the leader of a dragon gang, but decided to take it home with him and raise it. A series of pictures in the ColdOpen of the pet-centric episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E8JustForSidekicks Just for Sidekicks]]" shows that Spike has since returned Peewee to a pair of phoenixes to be properly reared, and he reappears as a wild adult phoenix in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E11MoltDown Molt Down]]".

* AllThereInTheManual: [[http://chimicherrychanga.com/img/tc/44b.jpg His trading card]] refers to him using male pronouns, which reveals that he's a boy.
* AmbiguousGender: Since he only hatched at the end of his debut, it wasn't until the trading cards that his gender was revealed.
* AppropriatedAppellation: A couple of the dragon bullies mocked Spike as looking more like a "Peewee".
* TheBusCameBack: In "Molt Down", five seasons after his departure from the show, he reappears as a full-grown phoenix when Spike goes to visit him while helping Rarity gather phoenix feathers.
* CoolPet: The coolest of the Mane Cast's pets because he's a phoenix chick.
* EggMacGuffin: His egg was the only one not already hatched at the time of the dragon raid. When ordered to smash it, Spike refused because it reminded him of his own origins. After the ordeal was over, Spike took it home to raise it as his own.
* ThePhoenix: He's a phoenix chick, apparently too young to have gone through his first aging, death, fire and rebirth cycle yet.
* PutOnABus: He's returned to his original family offscreen, as shown in "Just for Sidekicks".
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: He's very cute and fluffy as a chick. Too bad we don't get to see much of it since he was reunited with his real parents.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: He was introduced in the last scene of "Dragon Quest" and was PutOnABus in "Just for Sidekicks". He has a brief cameo as a young adult in "Molt Down".

[[folder:The Canterlot Geese]]
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E4SparklesSeven Sparkle's Seven]]"

A flock of extremely ill-tempered geese brought in to boost Canterlot Castle's security, these birds are the final obstacle Twilight's gang needs to overcome in their break-in and remain part of the castle's security in later episodes.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Geese being kept as guards [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guard_goose is a thing in real life]] -- in fact, there's a rather famous semi-mythical incident where a flock of geese saved Rome from being sacked by honking up a storm exactly in the manner these do.
* AttackAnimal: In "The Ending of the End – Part 1", they are directed by Fluttershy into attacking Cozy Glow, and prove quite the distraction.
* DeathGlare: The goose that Luna is seen petting in her RightHandCat moment glares down at everyone else.
* FeatheredFiend: Highly aggressive, ill-tempered birds with painful bites.
* FurryConfusion: They're generally treated as little more than watchdogs, but they're apparently smart enough to organize their own patrols when they catch wind of suspicious activity.
* InformedSpecies: They're barely recognizable as geese, with their flamingo-like pink colors and massive, thick bills full of teeth. Oddly, the show featured more realistic geese in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E5TanksForTheMemories Tanks for the Memories]]".
* RightHandCat: Parodied. At the end of "Sparkle's Seven", Princess Luna strikes the classic evil overlord pose while stroking one of the geese, which for its part is giving the rest of the room the evil eye.
* ToothyBird: They visibly have rounded teeth at the front of their bills, which despite appearances are sharp enough to deliver painful bites.

[[folder:Edith]]
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E11StudentCounsel Student Counsel]]"

A cockatrice that Silverstream tames and befriends to help with her report on dangerous creatures in the Everfree Forest.

* BasiliskAndCockatrice: She's a cockatrice and shares her species' ability to turn other creatures to stone and back, which becomes very convenient when the characters need to de-petrify Mudbriar.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Her purple scales, visually distinct from the green ones every other cockatrice has, help visually distinguish her from the rest of her species and communicate that ''this'' cockatrice is special.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: To differentiate her from other wild cockatrices, Edith stands out in having [[PaletteSwap purple scales]] and a ShonenHair-like style to her red chicken comb.
* TokenHeroicOrc: She is the only friendly cockatrice seen in the series, volunteering to help Silverstream finish her project and returning Mudbriar to normal for everyone, though Silverstream says that ''all'' cockatrices can be friendly if you know how to interact with them.

* BrattyFoodDemand: In "Putting Your Hoof Down", he refuses the sliced cucumbers Fluttershy prepared for him and demands a fancy salad with whipped cream and a cherry on top. When she makes it almost perfectly, but without the cherry (because a rude seller tried to extort her out of 20 bits for the last one and then sold it for 2 bits to somepony else), he throws both her and the salad out the window.

* GenkiGirl: As Spike soon found out, Winona is ''very'' frisky. Just like real Border Collies.

* MeaningfulName: Possibly a coincidence, but "Winona" means "first born daughter", a description that fits Applejack.

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* TypicalCartoonAnimalColors: Real alligators are not that bright of a green. It's made very obvious in "Pinkie Pride" when a scene cuts to Gummy as a real baby alligator, whose hide is a much duller hue. Their tongues are also neither flexible nor forked.

* SnarkyNonhumanSidekick: Snarky Non-Pony Sidekick to Rarity.

* TookALevelInKindness: In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E22HurricaneFluttershy Hurricane Fluttershy]]" Angel is seen comforting Fluttershy, stroking her mane, and [[spoiler:even coaching her with the rest of the critters in her training to fly faster]].

* MamaBear: Well, he's male, but he can still get quite protective of Fluttershy. Scaring her when he's around isn't a good idea; also, he keeps grudge.

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