History Characters / MyLittlePonyAndFriends

* LargeAndInCharge: The crabnasty leader is around twice the size of his subordinates.
* NoNameGiven: While they're given a collective moniker, they individual crabnasties are never identified by personal names.

* BeePeople: He’s an anthropomorphic bee who led Bumble’s army pre-HeelFaceTurn.

* EyepatchOfPower: There’s an eyepatch on his left eye for some reason and he was Bumble’s chief defender.

* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: A penguin wearing nothing but a crown.

* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: A duck wearing nothing but a very large hat.

* NoPronunciationGuide: There's no official spelling for their name -- "Skree" is simply one possible onomatopoeia for the sound used in the cartoon.

[[folder:Dell Dwellers]]

->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE56TheGoldenHorseshoes1 The Golden Horseshoes, part 1]]"

[[folder:Garth]]
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE58FlightToCloudCastle1 Flight to Cloud Castle, Part 1]]"

A gnome adventurer seeking a flying castle, which holds a maiden he's besotted with.

* DishingOutDirt: As a gnome, he has power over earth and stone. In his episode, he uses this to turn rocks into mud.
* HopelessSuitor: Garth is besotted by Ariel, and goes through a number of perils to wake her and win her hand. When she awakes, however, she has no interest in him -- she wasn't looking for a relationship before she was put to sleep, and she isn't now either.
* OurGnomesAreDifferent: He identifies himself as a gnome, and resembles a child-sized humanoid with pointed ears and magical powers over earth and rock.

[[folder:Ariel]]
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE59FlightToCloudCastle2 Flight to Cloud Castle, Part 2]]"

A maiden held within an enchanted castle, where she sleeps until woken by the kiss of her true love.

* AmbiguousSpecies: Her species isn't extremely clear -- she's mostly human in appearance, but she's also the size of a small child and has pointed ears. She looks a lot like Garth, who is identified as a gnome, but resembles the elves from "The Golden Horseshoes" just as strongly and isn't identified as anything in particular during the episode.
* ForcedSleep: She was placed in an enchanted sleep by her wizard father that can only be broken with TrueLovesKiss, intended to keep her from all suitors but the most dedicated.
* RescueRomance: Zig-zagged, but for the most part subverted. She's thankful enough to Garth for waking her up, but has no interest whatsoever in getting into a relationship with him for it. At the end, she's still not really interested, but doesn't discount it as an option for the future.
* TrueLovesKiss: According to the story, the only thing that can wake her is the kiss of her true love. She herself, however, sees no real reason to fall in love with someone just for doing this, and isn't very enthusiastic about following this trope's usual conclusion once she wakes up.

[[folder:Kyrie]]
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE61Somnambula1 Somnambula, Part 1]]"

A magical canary with an enthralling song, whom Somnambula forces to lure victims for her to drain.

* MindControlMusic: Kyrie's singing is hypnotic, causing all adult ponies who hear it to go into a daze and head towards its source. Somnambula uses it to lure victims to herself.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Somnambula spends most of the episode tormenting Kyrie and forcing her to aid in committing evil acts she doesn't want to do. Eventually, Kyrie is finally pushed past the line, escapes and helps the ponies defeat Somnambula.

[[folder: Mayor Camembert]]

* {{Greed}}: He's fundamentally driven by selfish greed, caring for little beyond treasure, keeping hold of the wealth he already has, and obtaining more.

!!Other Characters

* Characters/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsVillains Villains]]

!Human Characters
[[folder:Megan Williams]]
->'''Debut:''' ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTVSpecials Rescue at Midnight Castle]]''
->'''Voiced by:''' Bettina Bush

The primary human protagonist, having been in the role in both the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTVSpecials'' and ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie1986'' before making the trip to the show. Megan is a farm girl who was accidentally recruited by an overeager Pegasus named Firefly to fight the monstrous Tirac, and regularly returns to Pony Land to help her equine friends.

* ActionGirl: Her ''literal'' first action in Ponyland is attempting to hammerfist a dragon.
* AdaptationalBadass: Her toy version is just a cute little girl in a dress, but cartoon Megan is older and gets into action.
* AllThereInTheScript: The toyline that featured her only listed her as "Megan". The shows and movies would add her surname "Williams".
* BadassNormal: She fights a dragon off, empty handed, in her initial appearance, and assertively negotiates with a troll while he's trying to drop her off a cliff.
* CombatPragmatist: She kind of has to be, given her opposition and BadassNormal status. Tricking a giant crab into losing his balance, blinding the [[PhysicalGod nigh-omnipotent]] Lavan for a few precious seconds by dropping a drape on his head...
* DeadpanSnarker: Briefly, though you'd probably snark too if a pink pegasus picked you out of the blue and treated you like TheChosenOne just because you said you could ride horses.
* FarmBoy: She lives at a ranch.
* GirlinessUpgrade: Sort of. Compared to the pilot she's more feminine and motherly, also the leader of the group. Her appearance is the major change, as it changed from reasonable clothes and colors, to frilly clothes and bright colors.
* GuileHero: Is quite willing to trick and play dirty against the world threatening calamities she frequently helps fight.
* TheHero: When she appears, she qualifies as she’s the main wielder of the Rainbow of Light and the one who keeps the ponies going when spirits are down.
* IdealHero: She’s kind, smart, motherly and friendly.
* NervesOfSteel: Despite all the crazy situations she ends up in, she always keeps a level head. One moment that stands out is when Queen Bumble's army has her at stinger point and she doesn't so much as bat an eye.
* PluckyGirl: Giving up just isn’t in her blood.
* RapunzelHair: She has hair nearly past her waist.
* TeamMom: Maybe it's just because she's the only one around most of the time who has thumbs...
* TokenHuman: Being in a world full of sapient, talking ponies, she stands out due to being a human.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The tomboy to Molly's {{Moe}} girly girl
* TomboyishPonytail: She wears a long ponytail behind her head, and she regularly visits the ''Pony'' world to help save her Equine friends from multiple villains.
* VagueAge: While she generally appears to be a preteen -- old enough to be emotionally mature and independent, but not yet a teenager -- her actual age is never given.

[[folder:Molly Williams]]
->'''Debut:''' ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie1986''
-> '''Voiced by:''' Keri Houlihan

Megan's little sister and the youngest of the farmkids. Due to their similar age, she gets on best with the Baby Ponies (and, to a lesser extent, the more childish adult ponies).

* AllThereInTheScript: The toyline that featured her only listed her as "Molly". The shows and movies would add her surname "Williams".
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Especially to Danny, since she and Megan get along fine.
* TheCutie: She's so, so very cute...
* GirlishPigtails: In contrast to her sister's TomboyishPonytail to show that Molly is younger and girlier.
* MegaTwintails: Those 'tails are BIG.
* PinkIsFeminine: She wears pink hair ribbons ''and'' pink overalls.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: If Molly had her hair in a single TomboyishPonytail, she'd look like a borderline shrunk version of her older sister.
* TeamMom: To the younger ponies.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The girly-girl to Megan's TeamMom Tomboy
* VagueAge: She appears to be the youngest of her siblings, but her age range isn't otherwise implied or shown outside of "young child".

[[folder:Danny Williams]]
->'''Debut:''' ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie1986''
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ScottMenville

Megan's brother, the middle child of the family.

* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: To Megan.
* CanonForeigner: Danny is the only human not to come from the toy line.
* FieryRedhead: He’s got quite the spirit and his hair is red (despite his sisters both being blonde).
* HotBlooded: He’s got a lot of passion.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Sometimes Danny teases his siblings and the ponies. However he comforted Spike when he felt like he didn't belong, and he stood up for Wind Whistler when the other ponies bullied her.
* NiceHat: He wears a white and red baseball cap with a blue visor and a capital 'B' printed on the front.
* TheOneGuy: He and Spike are the two boys much of the time.
* ToylessToylineCharacter: He never had a toy and isn't from the toys.
* VagueAge: He is never given a specific age in the show, although his appearance, behavior and level of maturity, combined with the apparent age of his siblings, mostly imply an older child but still years away from being a teenager.
* VolleyingInsults: He and Molly tend to get into arguments like this, leaving Megan to break them up.
* YouthfulFreckles: He's the only one of his siblings to have freckles, which denote his youthfulness.

!Ponies
[[folder:Magic Star]]
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->'''Debut:''' ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie1986''
->'''Voiced by:''' Jeannie Elias (series) and Ellen Gerstell (movie)

An Earth Pony who serves as the leader of the Dream Valley ponies.

* TheAce: There are LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, but there's very little question as to who their de-facto leader is.
* BadassNormal: She’s an Earth Pony, meaning she’s incapable of using magic or flight, but she’s just as capable of pulling her own weight and even tends to be one of the more sensible ponies.
* OnlySaneWoman: Alongside Galaxy and Wind Whistler, she gets the long suffering position of being one of the more sensible ponies who has to keep the others in line and keep them from getting themselves killed.
* TeamMom: When Megan isn't around.

[[folder:Fizzy]]
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->'''Debut:''' ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie1986''
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KatieLeigh

A cheerful Twinkle-Eye Unicorn who can create bubbles of varying sizes.

* BubbleGun: She occasionally uses her powers to create dense streams of bubbles to use in this manner.
* CatchPhrase: ''"Well, gosh."''
* TheChick: In a franchise known for being female-dominant where even minor characters are more likely to be female than male, she qualifies. Fizzy manages to be the girliest of them all.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Fizzy is really one of the weirdest ponies in the valley.
* TheDitz: She's the goofiest and most absent-minded of all the ponies.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Her bubble magic doesn't sound like much, but they're surprisingly versatile and consistently useful, as they're often a quick and convenient way of levitating objects, levitating people, and providing impromptu diving gear.
* MulticolouredHair: Her mane and tail are divided into red, pink, white and teal locks.
* PlayingWithFire: In the UK comics, she prefers fireworks over bubbles.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The flighty and scatterbrained girly girl to the more practical and focused Wind Whistler. The dynamic is likely the reason why they tend to be grouped together.

[[folder:Wind Whistler]]
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->'''Debut:''' ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie1986''
->'''Voiced by:''' Sarah Partridge

A Pegasus. The smartest and most logic-driven of the ponies, her intelligence is useful, but she has problems with alienating her more emotion-driven friends.

* AscendedExtra: In the toyline, she's just another pegasus equivalent in personality to North Star, Lofty, etc. The TV show gives her leading roles in the movie and, later, in numerous episodes, and develops her into the show's deepest and most complex character.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: She has a pink mane and tail to accompany her pink eyes.
* DependingOnTheWriter: The most notable instance among the reoccurring ponies. In the toys and British comics, she's TheDitz; in the animated series, she plays TheSpock to Fizzy's ditz.
* DidYouThinkICantFeel: She suffers from this when the other ponies accuse her of being unfeeling for her usual stoicism during "Crunch the Rockdog" when she favors strategy and logic over acting rashly; while she doesn't readily show it, their accusations hurt her deeply.
* FakeDefector: She pretends to betray the other ponies to Crunch and to sympathize with his ruthlessness and lack of empathy, in order to work up to a pretense of offering him Megan as a victim in order to let the latter get close enough to use the Hearstone on him.
* NotSoStoic: In "Crunch the Rockdog", she's shown to feel some bitterness about having a harder time fitting in with the rest of her friends, who keep their distance from her due perceiving her as emotionless and cold.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Speaks this way in the TV show to convey her intelligence.
* TheSmartGirl: She's the smartest and most rational pony in the cast, and the likeliest one to at least try to think her way around problems.
* TheSpock: She values rational thought and logical action over impulsiveness and emotion. Since the rest of the herd is more passionate by nature, they don't agree with her too much. This contrasts her toyline and British comic incarnation, who is TheDitz.
* TeamMom: When Megan isn't available, she shares this role with Magic Star, though she's not as good at it due to her personality clashing with the other ponies'.
* ThisIsNoTimeToPanic: In the movie, when the killer trees in the Shadow Forest start attacking, she initially advises against panicking. She's then nearly speared by thrown logs and amends herself to say the ''now'' they can panic.
* WhenSheSmiles: She is usually pretty serious and reserved, but whenever she does smile it always looks cute.

[[folder:Ribbon]]
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->'''Debut:''' ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie1986''
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KatieLeigh

A maternal and caring Unicorn pony who takes it upon herself to look after the various Baby Ponies.

* TeamMom: She manages the nursery.
* {{Telepathy}}: She can detect others' thoughts and transmit her own. It can even span dimensions, as when she uses it to warn Megan of Tambelon's approach after becoming trapped there.

[[folder:Shady]]
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->'''Debut:''' ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie1986''
->'''Voiced by:''' Jill Wayne

An Earth pony.

%%* CoolShades: Her hip symbol.%%Is "cool" how?
* CuteClumsyGirl: She tends to fall over and wreck things, much to her shame.
* TheEeyore: She rarely has anything positive to say about a situation or herself.
* EmoKid: She has qualities of this, given her pessimism and low self-esteem.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: In "The Glass Princess", she's particularly depressed about her lack of magical tricks, flight, or useful skills, and wishes to have something that makes her special as well.

[[folder:Heart Throb]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KatieLeigh

A Pegasus. She's an unabashed romantic who dreams of finding herself a "Prince Charming" to be with some day.

* TheDitz: Because she's always caught up in her romantic dreams and impulses, she can be kind of goofy.
* InterspeciesRomance: Zigzagged. She reciprocates at first when Prince Charming (a human) flirts with her, but averted in that both of them realise it's kind of awkward and so they mutually call it off.
* MamaBear: Ah, but she has HiddenDepths. See the ''Bright Lights'' arc.
* MeaningfulName: "Heart Throb" is a hardcore romantic. [[SarcasmMode Who'd have guessed?]]
* ThinksLikeARomanceNovel: What would you expect from someone so in love with the idea of love?

[[folder:Surprise]]
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE15TheGreatRainbowCaper The Great Rainbow Caper]]"
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/BJWard

A fun-loving, mischievous Pegasus who is constantly running/flying around all over the place. She enjoys making others laugh, playing games, and ''especially'' likes playing tricks or otherwise surprising people.

* CatchPhrase: "SURPRISE!"
* FunPersonified: She’s like the pony version of a sugar rush.
* GenkiGirl: She’s ''extremely'' energetic.
* MeaningfulName: She loves ''surprising'' her friends by playing pranks and/or just surprising them, hence her name.
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: In one episode, she and Danny prevent the theft of the Rainbow of Light -- by annoying the would-be thieves into submission.

[[folder:Gusty]]
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->'''Debut:''' ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie1986''
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NancyCartwright

A Unicorn who can call up winds.

* BlowYouAway: True to her name, she can conjure up gusts of wind.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Downplayed. While her hair is mostly is green to match her green eyes, she has a pink stripe in her mane.
* DependingOnTheWriter: In American canon she's a JerkAss with a short temper. In the British comics, however, she's rather sweet and gentle, even being a nurse and a guardian to the Baby Ponies.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's brave and athletic, but can be impatient and stubborn.
* PlotAllergy: She's allergic to pigs, of all things. This turns out to be somewhat of a problem in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE19TheGlassPrincess4 The Glass Princess, Part 4]]", given that their main foe right then is a pig and that constant sneezing makes stealth a touch difficult.
%%* PluckyGirl
* SkunkStripe: Her mane is mostly green with a single pink streak.
* TheWorfEffect: Gusty is the most combat-oriented of the ponies, so in order to show that the villains mean business something bad usually happens to her.

[[folder:Buttons]]
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->'''Debut:''' ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie1986''
->'''Voiced by:''' Susan Blu (series), Sheryl Bernstein (movie)

A Unicorn.

* GenkiGirl: Less than Surprise, but still fun-loving.
* MindOverMatter: She has telekinesis.
* NiceGirl: She's level-headed and sweet.
* OnlySaneWoman: She's pretty level-headed.
* ShipTease: With the Big Brother Pony, Slugger, who has a major crush on her.

[[folder:Galaxy]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Sherry Lynn

A Twinkle-Eye Unicorn. She's one of the more intelligent ponies in the show, and serves as the group's magic expert.

* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Her eyes are the same shades of red and pink that dominate her mane.
* TheEmpath: She's practically Counselor Troi in the form of a magenta, glowing unicorn.
* MulticolouredHair: Her mane and tail are divided into red, pink and white locks.
* OnlySaneWoman: Just about every time bad happens, she's often put into groupings where she's the only one to keep her cool and things through.
* TheSmartGirl: She's not quite on the same level as Wind Whistler, but she's much more level-headed than other ponies and frequently serves as either the voice of reason, the knowledgeable one who informs the others about a new threat or object, or both.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Her lot in life, often being in episodes lacking Magic Star and Wind Whistler and consequently having her be the only one approaching the crisis ''du jour'' with the seriousness that's needed. For instance, in "Baby, It's Cold Outside" she's the only pony to be concerned over how it's snowing in the middle of summer, while everyone else waves her concerns off as just her being a party pooper until the rainbow itself freezes solid.

[[folder:Cupcake]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Russi Taylor

An Earth Pony who specialize in baking.

* SweetBaker: She's a talented baker and often takes a long time baking to make sure her desserts are perfect.
* TeamMom: Very kindhearted and often helps take care of the baby ponies.

[[folder:Gingerbread]]
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->'''Debut:''' ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie1986''
->'''Voiced by:''' Sherry Lynn

An exuberant Twinkle-Eye Earth Pony whose favorite food is gingerbread.

* GenkiGirl: She's excitable and energetic.
* MulticolouredHair: Her mane and tail are divided into stripes of light blue, navy, lilac and pink.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Gingerbread; it's her name and her symbol.

[[folder:Masquerade]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Jeannie Elias

A Twinkle-Eye Pegasus.

* MasterOfDisguise: She's skilled at making costumes, and uses this talent to her advantage like in "Fugitive Flowers".
* MulticolouredHair: Her mane and tail are divided into stripes of light blue, teal, and two shades of green.

[[folder:Paradise]]
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->'''Debut:''' ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie1986''
->'''Voiced by:''' Susan Blu

A book-loving Pegasus who particularly enjoys telling stories to the other ponies, adults and babies alike.

* BadassBookworm: She loves reading and can still put up a fight, despite her airheadedness.
* TheDitz: While nowhere near as obvious about it as Fizzy is, she could give her a run for her money any day of the week.
* TheStoryteller: Paradise is the pony most interested in stories and legends, has extensive knowledge of these subjects, and appears in several episodes reading or reciting a particular story for the others.
* WrongGenreSavvy: While in a land of unicorns, dragons, elves, dwarves, and such, she wishes life were a little more like storybooks. Um...

[[folder:Whizzer]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Jeannie Elias

A speedy Twinkle-Eye Pegasus.

* MotorMouth: She's the fastest talker as well as the fastest flier, and her words tend to blur into a single stream of sounds.
* MulticolouredHair: Her mane and tail are divided into blue, ice blue, yellow and red locks.

[[folder:Posey]]
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->'''Debut:''' ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTVSpecials Escape from Catrina]]''
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NancyCartwright

A shy and retiring Earth Pony who loves to garden.

* GranolaGirl: As one might expect, the nature-loving Posey always tries to encourage others to take nature more seriously.
* NatureLover: She's particularly enamored by the plants she cares for, but gets along well with animals as well.
* NiceGirl: She’s kind and friendly to pretty much everyone, especially her plants.

[[folder:Lickety-Split]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KatieLeigh

An Earth Pony who loves ice cream.

* BigEater: She loves ice cream.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She has a fairly short temper and tends to be rather uncharitable -- both Dinah and Woebegone got on her bad side in short order -- but she does care about others beneath her rough exterior.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Ice cream.

[[folder:Sweet Stuff]]
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->'''Debut:''' ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie1986''
->'''Voiced by:''' Jeannie Elias (series) and Laurel Page (movie)

A shy Twinkle-Eye Earth Pony.

* ApologisesALot: Tends to do this, particularly when she's feeling inconvenient.
* ExtremeDoormat: She's a bit of a pushover and can get taken advantage of.
* MulticolouredHair: Her mane and tail are divided into pink, purple, and white locks.
* NiceGirl: She is very sweet, kind, and thoughtful.
* ShrinkingViolet: She's quite shy and very soft-spoken.

[[folder:Truly]]
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE41BabyItsColdOutside1 Baby, It's Cold Outside, Part 1]]"
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NancyCartwright

A pony with a southern American accent, Truly is in charge of the nursery and the baby ponies. She can sometimes be snooty and stubborn.

* SouthernBelle: She speaks with a southern belle accent, complete with "I do declare".
* VerbalTic: She often says "really truly", a trait that passed on to ''My Little Pony Tales''[='=] [[NiceGirl Sweetheart]].

[[folder:Mimic]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/EllenGerstell
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE56TheGoldenHorseshoes1 The Golden Horseshoes, Part 1]]"

A sick unicorn who's succumbing to a magical affliction.

* FadingAway: The main symptom of Mimic's magical illness is her growing increasingly translucent and insubstantial.
* LamarckWasRight: Mimic's illness is a result of being the direct descendant of the Golden Horseshoes' original owner.
* OneShotCharacter: Mimic only appears in "The Golden Horseshoes", making no further appearances or cameos in other episodes.
* RememberTheNewGuy: She debuts in "The Golden Horseshoes", but is introduced as a familiar character whom the others are already well-acquainted with.

[[folder:The Baby Ponies]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Jill Wayne (Baby Lofty), Creator/KatieLeigh (Baby Sundance)
->'''Debut:''' ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie1986'' (Baby Lofty, Baby Sundance), "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE1TheEndOfFlutterValley1 The End of Flutter Valley, Part 1]]" (Baby Cuddles)

The infant ponies, who for the most part resemble miniature versions of their parents. During the interseason gap, they grow into the First Tooth Ponies and are joined by two pairs of newborn twins.

* BabyTalk: They talk like this to varying degrees, depending on the specific pony in question. Some, like Baby Heartthrob, speak in fragmented sentences, while another Baby Pony may speak with a childish lisp. Lickety-Split goes back and forth, from perfectly fluent to HulkSpeak (while being intelligent enough to be a main character of multiple stories).
* JerkassRealization: In "The Prince and the Ponies", the jealous foals wish all manner of unpleasant fates on the Newborn Twins when said twins are the ones invited to a banquet. The older foals are horrified when it turns out to have been a trap and one of those fates (captivity) comes true.

[[folder:The Flutter Ponies]]
->'''Debut:''' ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie1986''
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NancyCartwright (Honeysuckle and Forget-Me-Not), Russi Taylor (Rosedust, Morning Glory and Peach Blossom)

A group of small, butterfly-winged fairy-ponies who wield powerful magic of their own. Though separate from the pony society and living in their own hidden village, they are often sought out for help against powerful hostile magic.

* BigDamnHeroes:
** In the movie, the Flutter Ponies, led as a battalion by Queen Rosedust, drive back the Smooze just before it engulfs Paradise Estate and everyone in it.
** In "End of Flutter Valley", Honeysuckle returns with [[TheCavalry the Stonebacks]] just in time to rescue [[spoiler:Megan, Sting, and the Flutterponies with enough time to still save Flutter Valley]].
* BraggingThemeTune: Their song in "Bright Lights" is a long BadassBoast about how powerful their magic is, how they can't be caught or stopped, and how thoroughly they're going to trounce the villains.
-->''We are the Flutter Ponies!''\\
''Better run and hide!''\\
''We can zig and zag and zoom''\\
''Up and down and side to side!''\\
''We are the Flutter Ponies!''\\
''Now you've met your match!''\\
''Faster than a lighting bolt!''\\
''We're impossible to catch!''
* FantasticNamingConvention: They're all named after types of flower.
* FragileSpeedster: The Flutter Ponies are extremely fast and agile, on top of hitting extremely hard with their Utter Flutter, but are physically weaker and frailer than the other tribes.
* HiddenElfVillage: They make their home in Flutter Valley, a hidden and secluded settlement where they live in deep seclusion.
* TheHighQueen: Rosedust is the Queen of the Flutter Ponies, and she's a benevolent pony who helps the heroes many times.
* NeutralNoLonger: In the movie, they initially prefer to remain hidden away from the world, but decide to help once they realize that Hydia would destroy Flutter Valley.
%%* ProperLady: Peach Blossom has these characteristics.
* PutOnABus: They make no appearances after "The Return of Tambelon".
* RedOniBlueOni: The cynical, cautious Honeysuckle and the optimistic, trusting Morning Glory.
* SquishyWizard: The Flutter Ponies' Utter Flutter hits like a truck, being one of the most powerful abilities in the series and curbstomping several incredibly powerful threats. However, the Flutter Ponies are shown to be physically frail and not very strong.
* ThemeNaming: Flower motifs. Honeysuckle, Forget-Me-Not, Morning Glory, and Peach Blossom are all flowers, though Peach Blossom is also named after the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peach_blossom Peach blossom moth]].
* TheVoiceless: Lily is the only one without speaking lines.
* WindFromBeneathMyWings: The Utter Flutter takes the form of a large gust of wind created by their collective flapping.
* WorfHadTheFlu: They spend most of "End of Flutter Valley" captive and in danger because their wings are covered in honey and thus they can't use their Utter Flutter. It's implied that Bumble and her swarm can't win a straight fight with them, as the Flutter Ponies booted them from the Valley originally. Once their wings are dried and they're capable of fighting back, they proceed to curbstomp Hydia.

!!Morning Glory
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A trusting and adventurous flutter pony, who stumbles across Spike, Baby Cuddles and the Grundles after having wandered outside of Flutter Valley and who later befriends the bee Sting after the flutter ponies are captured by Queen Bumble.
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* AnsweringEcho: In the movie, while trapped in a well, she sings her part of "What Good Will Wishing Do?" by echoing Baby Lickety Split, who's bemoaning her own lot.
-->''No one's in a fix like I am (I am)''\\
''No one has the luck I do (I do)''\\
''No one's had the setbacks I have (I have)''\\
''Look where life has led me to (Me too!)''
* BefriendingTheEnemy: In "The End of Flutter Valley", she tries to befriend Sting in order to get him to free her from the cage she's held in. It doesn't work -- he remains loyal to Queen Bumble in the end -- but it sets the seeds for his actual redemption once he realizes that Bumble doesn't care about him.
* CharacterDevelopment: She starts "The End of Flutter Valley" as a WideEyedIdealist who believes that all violence is bad and it is necessary to always see good in others, and by the end of it she becomes an ActionGirl who knows how to fight and learns that not everyone can be trusted.
* TheIngenue: She's optimistic, trusting and somewhat naïve, and her desire to seek the good in others and the outside world has both benefited the flutter ponies and brought them trouble.
* TookALevelInBadass: She learns to fight while under influence of Sting "The End of Flutter Valley", culminating in her defending him from Pointer by knocking the latter out.

[[folder:The Baby Sea Ponies]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NancyCartwright (Ripple, Sealight), Creator/KatieLeigh (Sea Shimmer, Sun Shower), Russi Taylor (Surf Rider), Sherry Lynn (Water Lily)

A group of infant sea ponies who have been left under the care of the ponies of Dream Valley.
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* OurHippocampsAreDifferent: They're horse-headed seahorses, and serve as the setting's equivalent of mermaids.
* PutOnABus: They don't appear at all in Season 2.
* {{Scatting}}: Shoo-bee-doo, shoo-shoo-bee-doo, shoo-bee-doo, shoo-shoo-bee-doo!
* StoutStrength: They're small and kind of pudgy, but they're a lot stronger than you'd expect.
* TokenAquaticRace: Sea ponies are the only truly aquatic species in the setting -- all other creatures based on sea animals are either one-offs, like Squirk and Crank, or live on dry land, like the Crabnasties.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Princess Ponies]]
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE51TheQuestOfThePrincessPonies1 The Quest of the Princess Ponies, Part 1]]"

The Princess Ponies, Starburst, Royal Blue, Tiffany, Primrose, Serena and Sparkle, live in the Royal Paradise beyond the Jewel Desert. They're charged with guarding the magic of Ponyland, but spend most of their time bickering about which one of them should be queen (although queen of ''what'' isn't all that clear).
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* AerithAndBob: Starburst, Royal Blue, Primrose, Serena, Sparkle, and... Tiffany.
* GreenThumb: Their wands' powers include the ability to make plants grow.
* MagicWand: Their magic comes from a set of six star-spangled, star-headed wands that contain the power to control all of Ponyland's natural processes and magic.
* SkewedPriorities: When Lavan orders them thrown into a lava pit, one of the princesses complains that this will ruin her complexion.
* WeatherManipulation: Their wands' powers include the ability to control Ponyland's weather.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Big Brother Ponies]]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE61Somnambula1 Somnambula, Part 1]]"

The male counterparts to the little ponies, who spend most of their time racing around the world.
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* DistressedDude: The big brothers, despite starting out as would-be rescuers themselves, are snared by Somnambula's magic and need to themselves be saved by Kyrie, Spike and the baby ponies.
* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: They're distinguished from the female ponies by wearing neckerchiefs instead of tail bows and by having longer fetlock hair.
[[/folder]]

!Villains

[[folder:The Witches of the Volcano of Gloom]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: Hydia, Draggle and Reeka.]]
->'''Debut:''' ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie1986''
->'''Hydia voiced by:''' Creator/ClorisLeachman (movie) and Creator/TressMacNeille (series)
->'''Reeka voiced by:''' Rhea Perlman (movie) and Jennifer Darling (series)
->'''Draggle voiced by:''' Creator/MadelineKahn (movie) and Jennifer Darling (series)

A family of three evil witches who dwell in a nearby volcano. The matriarch, Hydia, hates the ponies and wants to drive them from the valley. However, to her exasperation, the only help she has are her less-than-competent daughters, Reeka and Draggle. First appearing in TheMovie, they attempt to drown the valley in a grotesque BlobMonster called the Smooze, and afterwards try to take revenge on the Flutter Ponies with assistance from the bees of Bumbleland.
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* AbusiveMom: Hydia treats her daughters like dirt, constantly insults and beats them, and forbids them from calling her "Mama".
* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: They're firmly entrenched in this sort of view, treating happiness, love, sunlight, flowers and the like as horrific and miserable things while relishing wretchedness, wickedness, dankness and more or less anything that could be described as awful. This extends to their taste in food: rotten food and bugs appeal to them, while sugary foods are what the kids get when Hydia wants to ''punish'' them.
* BerserkButton: Hydia hates it when her daughters call her "mom" or "mother".
* BigBad: Hydia in the movie; in "The End of Flutter Valley" she shares the spot with Queen Bumble.
* BigBadDuumvirate: In "The End of Flutter Valley", Hydia shares the role of BigBad with Queen Bumble, with whom she allies in order to stand a better chance of defeating the ponies.
* BigEater: Reeka eats at every opportunity, although her preferred fare consists of worms, leeches and similar things.
* BigThinShortTrio: Reeka is big (mostly in the sense of being fat), Draggle is thin, and Hydia is short.
* ByTheHair:
** Hydia manages to lift both Reeka and Draggle by their hair and throw them out of their house on two separate occasions.
** Characters seem to enjoy doing this to the witches, as the Flume even grabs Draggle by her ponytail in order to shake her off of it and whips her around by it.
* CallingParentsByTheirName: Hydia insists on her daughters calling her by name, and becomes angry whenever they call her "Mama".
* CoDragons: Reeka and Draggle share the role of Hydia's agents and primary minions.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: As a byproduct of their view that BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad, Hydia tends to punish her daughters' failures by forcing them to do things like eat sundaes or donuts.
* EvilMatriarch: Hydia is Reeka and Draggle's mother, [[BerserkButton even though she hates being called such]]. She's also an evil witch who poses a legitimate threat to the heroes.
* ExtremeOmnivore: At first, they come across as willing to eat anything, Reeka especially being fond of snacking on things no sane human would think of putting in their mouth, like live ants or leeches. Subverted later on as we find that things most humans would enjoy eating, like ice cream or donuts, are so disgusting to them that Hydia makes her daughters eat them to punish them.
* FatAndSkinny: Fat, short Reeka and tall, thin, gangly Draggle.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Having been ordered by Hydia to turn the Little Ponies' spring festival "dark, dank, and dreary", Reeka and Draggle decide to do "dank" by diverting a waterfall to flood the picnic grounds. Unfortunately for them, two baby ponies overhear Reeka and Draggle discussing their plans and manage to spray the diverted water back at the witches, causing them to be washed away and crash into a picnic table [[PieInTheFace covered with pies]].
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Draggle, who messes up each and every assignment given to her; Reeka is surprisingly competent.
* IneptMage: Draggle is extremely poor at the actual witchcraft part of being a witch, and can barely cast spells.
* PieInTheFace: Reeka and Draggle's attempt to turn the Ponies' spring picnic "dark, dank and dreary" fails and the two witches end up crashing into a picnic table and pelted with pies. In addition, Reeka picks up one of the ruined pies and sticks it in Draggle's face afterward.
* PokeThePoodle: Early on in the movie Reeka and Draggle attempt to convince Hydia that they aren't do-nothings, but all of their "evil" deeds fall under this, such as frying a worm or pulling wings off a fly.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Reeka and Draggle get one from their mother after their first failed attempt to ruin the ponies' celebration, ranting about how incompetent, inept and useless they are, especially compared to their much more achieved relatives.
* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Being incompetent villainesses, Draggle and Reeka are subjected to most of the physical abuse and slapstick comedy in the movie.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: Reeka and Draggle are often more entertaining than the actual heroes. They remain sympathetic despite being antagonists since they're [[MinionWithAnFInEvil so terrible at being bad]].
* StaircaseTumble: This happens to Reeka and Draggle three times in the movie; the first two times they're thrown out of the house by Hydia, and third time after they get free of the Flume.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Hydia firmly considers her daughters to be a pair of cretins, and doesn't miss any opportunities to remind them of this.
* TalkingToHerself: Reeka and Draggle are both voiced by Jennifer Darling in the show.
* TerribleTrio: Kind of. Reeka and Draggle definitely invoke this image with their displays of less than stellar skill, but their mother Hydia is a real threat.
* TookALevelInBadass: Reeka is more competent than her inept self in the movie, even managing to pull off a few plans on her own.
* UncertainDoom: They're last seen being blown away by the Flutter Ponies, but it's never specified where to or what was done with them.
* TheUnfavorite: Draggle. While both Draggle and Reeka are disappointments to their mother, Draggle is clearly shown to be the least favorite due to her struggles with magic and her greater emotional sensitivity. At one point, Hydia exclaims that "There are plenty of other witches! Why did I have to get Draggle?"
* VillainDecay: Hydia and her daughters prove much less of a threat to the ponies in the show than in the movie, letting the bees do all the work while the Flutter Ponies return and quickly kick them out. Justified as the Smooze is explicitly Hydia's strongest spell, and they still manage to cause a lot of damage.
* VillainousBreakdown: In "The End of Flutter Valley", when the ponies return to Flutter Valley with the Sunstone, seeing her plans crushed at the last moment before victory causes Hydia to break down into fits and have to be carried off by her daughters while crying about how it just isn't fair.
* VillainSong: "We're Witches" in the movie, in which Hydia boasts about the long line of evil spell-casters from which Reek and Draggle are descended, and "Nothing Can Stop the Smooze", where they brag about the power of their destructive creation.
* VileVillainLaughableLackey: Hydia is a wicked and scheming villain, and her minions are her two bumbling daughters with no motivation for villainy and no talent for magic.
* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Hydia often berates her daughters by wishing that they were evil and competent like she wants them to be, often comparing them to their relatives who are accomplished villains.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ahgg]]
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->'''Debut:''' ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie1986''

The witches' giant spider minion, whom they mostly use as heavy muscle and as a guard.
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* {{Cyclops}}: He has a single gigantic eye in the middle of his forehead.
* GiantSpider: He's described as one such beast, and indeed mostly resembles a spider larger than a house, albeit one with a mammalian mouth and tusks and a single vertebrate eye.
* PokemonSpeak: He only ever says a distorted version of his name. This is a somewhat ambiguous case, however, as it boils down to him just screaming "aaahgg!"
* RemovedAchillesHeel: In "The End of Flutter Valley", Hydia gives him a potion that removes his normal weakness to tickling. This becomes an issue for the heroes when they find him guarding the valley entrance and Megan's previous strategy for getting past him -- tickling him his legs -- fails to work.
* WeaksauceWeakness: He's extremely ticklish, and tickling him on his legs can quickly render him helpless.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Smooze]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/smooze_g1.jpg]]
->'''Debut:''' ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie1986''
->'''Voiced by:''' Jon Bauman

A living tide of purple ooze, which causes anyone it touches to become bitter and depressed. It's unleashed by the witches to cover Dream Valley, and seems entirely unstoppable in its advance.
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* AchillesHeel: Its only weakness when it's complete is [[spoiler:Flutterpony magic]], otherwise it lives up to Hydia's claim of being unstoppable.
* BlobMonster: It's a living mass of sludge large enough to cover large tracts of land, and constantly growing and reabsorbing body parts.
* DefeatingTheUndefeatable: The Smooze has an entire VillainSong about how unstoppable it is, and lives up to it, with even the Rainbow of Light being unable to stop it. The Flutter Ponies ultimately prove too much for it, weakening it enough for the Rainbow to finish off.
* EldritchAbomination: The Smooze is a child-friendly one. A fully conscious and self-aware talking ocean of thick purple ooze, with hundreds of constantly moving faces, that is capable of traveling on its own, creating extra limbs whenever it likes, swallowing things whole, and throwing globs of itself at things. The worst of it is, the thing is all but unstoppable and indestructible.
* HatePlague: Anyone splashed with Smooze becomes mean and ill-tempered. Everyone, interestingly, ''except'' Spike -- although he only gets a little bit on his tail.
* TheJuggernaut: The Smooze's only real vulnerability is the Flutter Ponies' magic, and even then it takes the Rainbow of Light to finish it off. Otherwise, it just crashes over everything and everyone in its path without so much as slowing down.
* NighInvulnerable: Outside of the Utter Flutter, absolutely nothing can stop or harm the Smooze -- even the Rainbow of Light only slows it down for a little while.
* UnholyNuke: The Smooze, Hydia's ultimate spell, is a sapient flood capable of wiping out entire kingdoms in a matter of moments and unstoppable by most anything.
* WorfHadTheFlu: The Smooze is deactivated by the Rainbow of Light (though it buries it and a large part of Dream Valley) because it lacked Flume and was thus incomplete. Once it has it, nothing can stop it except the Flutter Ponies.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Queen Bumble]]
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE1TheEndOfFlutterValley1 The End of Flutter Valley, Part 1]]"
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JuneForay

A bloated, arrogant, narcissistic bee queen whose greed leads her to conquer the homeland of the Flutter Ponies in the first story arc, with the aid of the Witches of the Volcano of Gloom.
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* AdiposeRex: She's the queen bee and a huge glutton besides, so, naturally, she's enormously fat.
* BadBoss: She's cruel, temperamental, demanding and narcissistic, and constantly belittles, tosses around, overworks and insults her minions.
* BeePeople: She's an anthropomorphic queen bee leading a large hive of her kind.
* BigBad: She shares this with Hydia in "The End of Flutter Valley", as they scheme to steal the Sunstone and despoil Flutter Valley.
* BigBadDuumvirate: She shares the role of BigBad with Hydia in her episode. The two mostly work independently, but do so under a common plan and with the intention of coordinating their strikes in order to lure the flutter ponies into a trap and share the benefits of taking the Sunstone from Flutter Valley.
* BigEater: Her appetite drives the whole plot of "The End of Flutter Valley"; she's ''such'' a glutton that she forces her hive to expand their territory and give her yet more flowers to eat.
* HeelFaceTurn: At the end of "The End of Flutter Valley", she's convinced to cease hostilities with the Flutter Ponies when [[spoiler:Queen Rosedust points out that they'd be happy to share their valley's flowers if the bees stop trying to enslave them or steal their stone]].
* IncomingHam: "''What's'' going on here? Can't you see I'm ''eating?''"
* ItsAllAboutMe: She's not really ''evil'' so much as incredibly narcissistic. [[spoiler:Even her HeelFaceTurn comes as a result of getting what she wants rather than actually repenting.]]
* LargeAndInCharge: The biggest of all the bees, to further cement her status as their leader. Justified since queen bees are visibly larger than other bees in real life.
* LargeHam: She’s rather loud and boisterous.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: She’s the queen bee and she leads her subjects in getting the Sunstone.
* SelectiveObliviousness: Refuses to believe the Sunstone's burning the flowers until it starts a forest fire.
* VillainousBreakdown: After the Flutter Ponies escape her with the Sunstone, she becomes furious and desperate to regain it.
* VillainousGlutton: She's ravenous for nectar, eating the bees' entire supply of flowers and starting her crusade against the flutter ponies purely out of a desire to have more flowers to eat.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Pointer]]
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE5TheEndOfFlutterValley5 The End of Flutter Valley, Part 5]]"

Queen Bumble's primary henchbee once Sting defects.
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* TheDragon: He's promoted to this after Sting defects. He's nowhere near as good at it as Sting was, thus why Sting offering to return to the role sways Bumble to end hostilities.
* GogglesDoNothing: He's always wearing a pair of goggles for no particular gain or reason.
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: A bee wearing a jacket, a pair of goggles, an aviator cap and absolutely nothing else.
* MookLieutenant: He serves as the leader of Queen Bumble's bees, leading the swarm when Bumble herself doesn't, and visually stands out from the otherwise identical bees.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Squirk]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''You ain't seen nothin' yet!'']]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE12TheGhostOfParadiseEstate2 The Ghost of Paradise Estate, Part 2]]"

An octopus-like monster who ruled Dream Valley long ago, when it lay beneath the waves. He seeks to bring it beneath the sea again, so that he may rule once more.
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* AncientEvil: He's so ancient -- somewhere in the millennia range, although Pluma doesn't recall the actual number -- that Dream Valley was part of the ocean when he ruled over it. Unlike most examples, he didn't become a SealedEvilInACan but instead waited for time to catch up with his archenemy and make him easy prey for him.
* BadBoss: He's ridiculously abusive to his minion Crank, whom he constantly insults and beats.
* CatchPhrase: '''''SHADDUP!''''' (hits Crank)
* TheGreatFlood: He wants to use the flash stone to flood Dream Valley and its surroundings and cover them entirely with water, in order to bring it back under the waves of the sea as it was in his time.
* SeaMonster: He resembles a huge, monstrous octopus, and wishes to drown dream valley to rule a new oceanic realm.
* TimeAbyss: He's very, very old -- Pluma estimates that his reign was several thousand years in the past, and he can afford to wait centuries for his plans to come to fruit as his enemies age into decrepitude because he has all the time he needs to see them through.
* UncertainDoom: It's unclear what actually happens to him and Crank -- the receding floodwaters drag them away into a maelstrom and down a hole, but their actual fate after that is unclear. It's not shown if they died, but they don't return to bother Dream Valley ever again.
* VictoryByEndurance: How he captured Pluma's grandfather, who defeated him originally. Pluma's kind are LongLived, but Squirk is much more so if not [[TheAgeless altogether ageless]], so he just waited until time made his enemy old and weak for him.
* VillainSong: "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet", where he gloats about all the wicked things he'll do once he's back in power.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Crank]]
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE12TheGhostOfParadiseEstate2 The Ghost of Paradise Estate, Part 2]]"

Squirk's lobster minion.
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* BigOlEyebrows: He sports a pair of thick and bushy white brows, made all the more impressive by the fact that lobsters don't normally have hair of any sort.
* ButtMonkey: He's consistently the butt of physical jokes -- throughout the episode, he gets constantly punched around by Squirk, hit by errant flash stone beams, used as a rope in a tug-'o-war for the stone…
* NonMammalianHair: Despite being a crustacean, he sports an impressive moustache and set of eyebrows.
* UncertainDoom: Like Squirk, it's not clear what happened to him after he's swept off by the receding floodwaters beyond the fact that he never returns to Dream Valley.
* VileVillainLaughableLackey: Whereas Squirk is a cruel, powerful, and threatening foe, Crank is a simpering toady who mostly serves the butt of jokes and the target of abuse from both his boss and their foes and subjects.
* YourSizeMayVary: He's generally about half the size of the ponies, but in several shots he's drawn as no larger than a real lobster or as a considerably bigger than Megan and Pluma.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Gizmonks]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Gonk on the left, Glouda on the right.]]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE15TheGreatRainbowCaper The Great Rainbow Caper]]"

A pair of MadScientist monkeys who kidnap Danny and Surprise to hold as ransom in exchange for the Rainbow of Light.
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* MadScientist: They're obsessed with invention and experimentation for their own sake, gleefully creating complex machines for no real reason or gain, and sometimes without even knowing what they do.
* MadScientistLaboratory: Their base is essentially a giant laboratory filled with complicated machines in various states of completion, caged test subjects, and assorted trappings of mad science.
* ManiacMonkeys: A pair of monkeys whose obsession with invention and technical gadgets leads them to cover the Rainbow of Light and to kidnap innocents to hold as hostage for it.
* PityTheKidnapper: After they capture Danny and Surprise to hold hostage, the two end up causing them so much trouble and mischief that by the time Megan and the other ponies get to them the two monkeys are begging them to take the two back.
* PunBasedCreature: They're a pair of MadScientist monkeys obsessed with technology, inventions, and assorted gizmos, and are called the gizmonks.
* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: The only real difference between Gonk and Glouda, besides somewhat different fur colors, is that Glouda has a bow holding her hair back.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Princess Porcina]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:"Look at me!"]]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE16TheGlassPrincess1 The Glass Princess, Part 1]]"
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TressMacNeille

A vain and somewhat scatterbrained porcine sorceress. She inadvertently threatens Dream Valley when she uses her magic cloak to begin transforming ''everything'' into glass so that she can have more mirrored surfaces to admire herself in. Porcina repents when she realizes she's actually hurting people and changes everything back.
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* AdiposeRex: While it's not specifically referenced in the episode, she's noticeably quite corpulent.
* AmuletOfConcentratedAwesome: Her magic is all in the cloak she wears around her neck, and she captures the ponies to reweave it.
* AntiVillain: She's extremely naive and unaware of the full magnitude of what she was actually doing, while being manipulated by her genuinely evil minions.
* BroughtDownToNormal: Her cloak ends up torn in half, removing her powers. She admits it's probably better this way.
* HeelFaceTurn: By the episode's end, she recognizes her foolishness and vanity for what they are and willing changes her ways and helps fix the damage she did.
* HeelRealization: When about to turn Megan and the ponies to glass, Porcina is struck by the fact that her actions, which she never really considered in depth before, have been condemning innocent beings to death for the sake of her vanity, and that it's simply not her right to make such decisions.
* MagicMirror: In addition to a great deal of regular mirrors to admire herself in, she owns a hand mirror that she can use to look at anything happening in the world.
* AMillionIsAStatistic: This is ultimately what drives her HeelFaceTurn. It's one thing for her to turn people to glass by the dozen when they're just images in a mirror and many miles away from her but, as she finds out, when her targets are undeniably living, breathing, scared creatures right in front of her eyes, she simply can't bring herself to decide that they must die.
* PigMan: An anthropomorphic pig.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Her cloak makes her capable of turning all of Ponyland and everyone in it into glass with relative ease.
* VainSorceress: She's quite obsessed with her own personal image.
* VillainSong: "Look at Me!", a song she shares with the Raptorians, where she sings about her vanity and plans to make the whole world admire her.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Raptorians]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:"First I'm going to turn you all into glass, then I'm going to shatter you one by one."]]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE16TheGlassPrincess1 The Glass Princess, Part 1]]"
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/CamClarke, Creator/CharlieAdler and Townsend Coleman

Porcina's birdlike lackeys, the Raptorians prove to be much smarter than their boss, with much more dangerous schemes.
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* BewareTheSillyOnes: Don't be fooled by their comedic antics, these guys are ''nasty'' pieces of work.
* BlindingBangs: The tall raptorian's eyes are always covered by his droopy hair, except for a few moments where he holds it up to see better.
* CoDragons: All three of them serve under Porcina as equals.
* DragonInChief: They do all the heavy lifting and plan to overthrow Porcina, ruling Ponyland themselves.
* EvilerThanThou: They only obey Porcina because they're using her and intend to overthrow her when she's no longer of any use. They're ''much'' worse than she is.
* KarmicDeath: They die the same death they casually condemned others to, and are turned into the same substance they coveted.
* LackOfEmpathy: As Porcina herself points out, they've never felt anything for anyone or anything but themselves.
* MixAndMatchCritters: They're birds with the heads of dogs.
* NoNameGiven: While Shrawk, the head of the group, is named in the episode, the other two are never referred to by name.
* TheStarscream: When Porcina refuses to turn the ponies to glass, they betray her and steal her cloak to use themselves.
* VillainSong: "Look at Me!", a song they sang along with Porcina, where they confide to each other their plans to betray her once they get what they want out of their deal. Their half of "Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave" also has them describe their plans to deceive Porcina for their own ends.
* WouldHurtAChild: They threaten to turn Megan and her group into glass and shatter them all one by one, once they have all interfered too much in their plans.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Knight-Shade]]
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE21BrightLights1 Bright Lights, Part 1]]"
->'''Voiced by:''' Unknown

Erebus' pony minion, Knight-Shade is tasked with using his music to lure ponies for Zeb to drain of shadows. He is not, however, very happy with his situation.
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* BeingEvilSucks: He's shown to have serious self-loathing issues due to what [[spoiler:he's been forced to help Erebus do and turns on him the moment the heroes give him a way to escape]].
* EvilDiva: When introduced, he's a shady pop singer using his fame to lure victims for his boss.
* DealWithTheDevil: He made one with Erebus to be a star, [[spoiler:only to find out too late that the price was to work for Erebus for the rest of his days to lure new victims to him. By then, it was too late and he had become Erebus' slave.]]
* GoodAllAlong: It turns out that he's [[spoiler:basically Erebus' slave, and only works for him because he's being forced to do so]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:He's guilt-ridden over helping Erebus, and hates himself for it, but until the heroes help him he had no way of actually doing anything about it.]]
* NeverAcceptedInHisHometown: He's still remembered and resented in his hometown for having helped Erebus consume everyone's shadows there. The only person left there who doesn't loathe him is [[spoiler:his own mother]].
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His name is variably spelled Night Shade or [[PunnyName Knight Shade]].
* TearsOfRemorse: After being captured by the heroes, he starts crying these as [[spoiler:he admits only helped Erebus because he was forced to]].
* TrappedInVillainy: [[spoiler:He never intended to help Erebus, just get help b.ecoming a musician, and almost instantly tried to quit when he realized Erebus was using him... but Erebus threatened to steal his shadow and leave him with no chance to ever save his home town unless he worked with him. Until the heroes decided to help him, he was pretty much Erebus' slave.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Erebus]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mlp_arabus.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"There's nothing quite like shadows... to brighten up your day!"'']]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE22BrightLights2 Bright Lights, Part 2]]"
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/{{Jim Cummings|1952}}

A shadow-eating cloud demon.
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* AchillesHeel: Erebus is extremely powerful and the heroes largely spend the first encounter with him running away... but actively using his powers rapidly burns through his energy and he needs a constant stream of shadows to sustain it. Megan's plan to beat him exploits this by preventing him from recharging, forcing him to exert himself, and then getting the fast and hard-hitting Flutter Ponies to outmanuever him and then Utter Flutter the shadows out of him.
* BlowYouAway: At full power, he blow powerful winds from his mouth and turn himself into a whirlwind.
* CastFromStamina: All of Erebus' powers are this and the only means he has of recharging is to steal more shadows. Thus, while he's very powerful, prolonged battles aren't his strong suit.
* {{Cumulonemesis}}: A living, roughly humanoid cloud who delights in stealing shadows to power himself and can magically control wind and lightning in battle.
* ElementalEmbodiment: He's an elemental embodiment of smoke and shadows.
* FogFeet: Outside of a single scene where he manifests a foot to kick Zeb, his body tapers into a cloudy tail below the waist.
* OrcusOnHisThrone: Erebus leaves most of his grunt work to Zeb and Knight-Shade while staying at his lair. Justified, as he burns through his power very quickly and thus can't afford to do too much himself.
* PhlebotinumDependence: Erebus is powered up by feeding on shadows, but his power is finite. He needs to constantly feed on shadows or he grows weak.
* ShockAndAwe: At full power, he can shoot thunderbolts from his fingertips.
* UncertainDoom: It's not clear what end he makes -- he's last seen depowered and small enough for Mayor Camembert to pick up with one hand, and nothing is said of his fate afterwards.
* VictoryByEndurance: The ponies escape their first confrontation with him by exploiting this trope. Erebus is ''very'' powerful, but burns through his energy quickly and ''needs'' shadows to maintain it. Megan's plan to ultimately defeat him is to keep him fighting without recharging long enough for him to exhaust himself, something the extremely fast and hard hitting Flutterponies prove very good at.
* VileVillainLaughableLackey: Erebus is a greedy and corrupt cloud wizard who likes to eat pony shadows, thereby removing the happiness from the pony in question, and Zeb is his stupid and lazy zebra aide.
* VillainousGlutton: He's portrayed as having a very literal appetite for the shadows he constantly consumes, commenting on how good he thinks they'll taste and repeatedly demanding that Zeb feed him.
* VillainSong: "There's Nothing Quite Like Shadows", where he and Zeb sing about how much they like stealing shadows and anticipate doing this to the heroes.
* YourSoulIsMine: It's implied his victims' shadows disappearing is merely an outward symptom of Erebus taking something else, implied to be part of their ''soul'' that allows them to feel positive emotions.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Zeb]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mlp_zeb.png]]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE21BrightLights1 Bright Lights, Part 1]]"
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TonyRosato

Erebus' zebra minion. Zeb oversees the capture of shadows, stealing them from people Knight-Shade lures in, before delivering them Erebus.
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* ADogNamedDog: His personal name is simply his species' name with the last two letters lopped off.
* FurryConfusion: "Bright Lights" in general does this a lot, but Zeb is the most notable example -- in a world of otherwise purely non-anthropomorphic equines, his bipedalism, clothes (complete with shoes over his hooves) and handling things with hooves that might as well be hands seriously stick out.
* VileVillainLaughableLackey: Erebus is a greedy and corrupt cloud wizard who likes to eat pony shadows, thereby removing the happiness from the pony in question, and Zeb is his stupid and lazy zebra aide.
* VillainSong: "There's Nothing Quite Like Shadows", where he and Erebus sing about how much they like stealing shadows and anticipate doing this to the heroes.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Grogar]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/grogar_id.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"Today, Dream Valley. Tomorrow, all of Ponyland"]]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE26TheReturnOfTambelon1 The Return of Tambelon, Part 1]]"
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MichaelBell

An EvilSorcerer ram who rules as an unmitigated tyrant over the dark city of Tambelon, alongside which he was banished to the shadow world long ago, but which will soon return into reality. For tropes about his G4 counterpart, see Characters/FriendshipIsMagicHistoricalFigures.
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* AncientEvil: He was imprisoned in the Realm of Darkness 500 years ago, and has since been gathering his strength in order to return to the world.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: His minions are actually pretty competent, and the ponies are completely helpless against his power for most of the serial.
* BadBoss: He's harsh and demanding to Bray, and openly tyrannical and slave-driving towards his troggle soldiers -- which ultimately leads them to rebel against him.
* BreakoutVillain: Next to Tirac, Grogar is one of the most popular and well-known G1 villains out there. Many fans put him in G4 fan works, and in season 9 he finally appears. [[spoiler:Not in the flesh, however.]]
* DimensionLord: He's the ruler of the Realm of Darkness.
* EvilOverlord: He's Tambelon's cruel and tyrannical sorcerer-ruler, and aims to conquer the entire world.
* GruesomeGoat: An evil sorcerer ram who wants to conquer the world.
* HappinessIsMandatory: When his victory is approaching, he makes not taking part in his victory celebration punishable by being banished to another dimension.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Grogar's banishing ritual ultimately proves his undoing. He starts it to banish his prisoners to the Realm of Darkness, but once his magic is taken away he loses the ability to control it and, when it activates at midnight, it overwhelms him and drags him back to his otherworldly prison.
* HeroKiller: Grogar spends most of his serial dishing out {{Curbstomp Battle}}s to ''everyone''.
* KryptoniteFactor: The bell in Tambelon, when rung, will destroy his bell and thus his power, and is about the only way he can lose.
* OhCrap: He has a clear moment of panic when he hears the bell that is his KryptoniteFactor being rung and another when he sees his banishing ritual boil over, before he's overwhelmed by his own magic and banished to the Realm of Darkness.
* SealedEvilInACan: He was imprisoned in the Realm of Darkness along with Tambelon for five hundred years before he manages to return. He's sent back into his prison at the end.
* TakeOverTheWorld: His ultimate goal is to conquer the world. He nearly succeeds.
* VileVillainLaughableLackey: Grogar is fearsome, powerful, cunning and very dangerous. Bray, his chief lackey, is a bumbling and cowardly fool.
* VillainousBreakdown: When the heroes escape at the end, he goes berserk and starts firing lightning at them with intent to kill instead of his capture beams.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Bray]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mlp_bray.png]]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE26TheReturnOfTambelon1 The Return of Tambelon, Part 1]]"
->'''Voiced by''': Creator/FrankWelker

Grogar's donkey henchman.
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* VileVillainLaughableLackey: Grogar is fearsome, powerful, cunning and very dangerous. Bray, his chief lackey, is a bumbling and cowardly fool.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Troggles]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mlp_troggles.png]]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE26TheReturnOfTambelon1 The Return of Tambelon, Part 1]]"

Grogar's trollish minions.
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* BoomStick: They're armed with lances that shoot weaker versions of Grogar's capture beams from their tips.
* FlatJoy: When Grogar forces them to celebrate their victory over Ponyland, they only make half-hearted celebratory sounds.
* HornsOfVillainy: They all wear horned helmets.
* {{Mooks}}: Grogar's army of nameless flunkies, much weaker than he is but useful for enforcing his rule in a widespread way.
* SlaveRace: They were conquered by Grogar long ago, and have been forced to serve him ever since.
* SlaveLiberation: They've been scheming against Grogar ever since he enslaved them, and [[spoiler:in the end join the heroes in rising up against him]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Frazzits]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/frazzits.png]]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE35MishMashMelee Mish Mash Melee]]"

Colorful, teardrop-shaped ectoplasmic creatures kept sealed in a barrel in the dell dwellers' home. When released, their personality-altering effects almost cause disaster until the ponies are able to seal them back in.
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* PaletteSwap: Due to their simply designs, the frazzits all look like one another except recolored red, orange, green, blue or purple.
* PersonalitySwap: The frazzits are able to reverse the personality traits of anybody they "rain" upon.
* SealedEvilInACan: They're kept sealed inside a barrel by the dell dwellers, lest their antics cause disaster. The ponies release them by accident, and have to put them back in their can to set things right.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Flories]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/flories_cute.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Their cute forms]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/flories_evil.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Their true forms]]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE38FugitiveFlowers1 Fugitive Flowers, Part 1]]"

A band of malevolent plant entities who escape from their subterranean prison during the episode "The Fugitive Flowers". In their dormant state, they look like cute, pretty flowers, but they can suck the life out of the ground, killing everything else planted there to grow into hulking monsters. They manipulate Posey and the other ponies into protecting them against their captors, the Crabnasties, and then devour Posey's garden to go on a rampage. Finally, they get imprisoned again.
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* CuteIsEvil: Yeah, see how sweet and pretty these little flower-people are? They're basically [[GreenAesop invasive weeds on magical acid]].
* NoNameGiven: They individual glories are never specifically identified; if they have personal names, they're never used.
* OneWingedAngel: They start out small, cute, and very weak, but once they regain their strength they transform into huge, much more monstrous and much more powerful forms.
* PlantPerson: They're at the far plant end of this, and aside from their humanoid shapes are fully flowers with a plant's needs -- they thrive on water and fertile soil. They also appear to be ''weeds'', specifically, given the way they drain the soil of life as they feed.
* VillainousGlutton: They're driven by gluttony, thinking of little beyond their desire to feet and gorge themselves on water and fertile soil. They care very little about what their hunger hurts as they feed, and will gladly turn fertile lands into sterile wastes to fill their stomachs.
* WalkingWasteland: A more subtle variety; when they feed, they destroy ''everything'' around them, killing huge swathes of plantlife to feed themselves.
* WhatMeasureIsANonCute: They exploit this, playing on how they look cute and innocent whilst in dormant state, in contrast to the uglier (and more intimidatingly named) Crabnasties, to portray themselves as the "good guys". Not that the Crabnasties [[PoorCommunicationKills didn't help them out by accident]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:King Charlatan]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/king_charlatan_3.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:]]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE41BabyItsColdOutside1 Baby, It's Cold Outside, Part 1]]"

A penguin who has the magical ability to launch freezing EyeBeams. Disdaining any being who cannot survive the cold like his penguins can, he attempts to freeze the entire valley to drive away or exterminate anyone who cannot withstand the EndlessWinter, granting his people superiority over all.
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* EvilIsDeathlyCold: His brand of evil is very strongly associated with the cold. He rules in the far north of the world, is served by cold-weather creatures such as penguins and yetis, can emit EyeBeams to freeze people solid, and wants to freeze over the entire world to rule over its glaciated ruins.
* EyeBeams: He can fire icy beams from his eyes that can freeze their targets solid.
* FantasticRacism: He looks down on anyone that isn't a penguin, deeming them weak for their inability to withstand the icy cold.
* FeatheredFiend: He's an evil penguin.
* HeelRealization: When he accidentally freezes his own son, he at first tries to excuse himself by claiming it was Edgar's own fault and he was weak, but then he realizes he loves his son and cries over his son's frozen form, which thaws him out.
* IcePalace: He lives in a castle of ice built in the high arctic, complete with a yeti-guarded ice maze around it and deathtraps featuring giant rolling snowballs and pit traps filled with dry ice SpikesOfDoom.
* AnIcePerson: He fires EyeBeams that can freeze people solid. With the help of a device that amplifies his power, he can unleash an EndlessWinter.
* MisplacedWildlife: A penguin who rules over what is explicitly identified as the far north.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: While it takes a talking to for it to sink in past his attempts to rationalize things, he ultimately has this reaction to accidentally freezing his own son.
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: He claims penguins are the MasterRace, and any creatures who cannot survive the cold are weak and unworthy.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: He has this approach towards morality -- sticking to the laws of ethics is for people who don't dictate them, as far as he's concerned.
-->''When ''you'' are king, you may decide what is and is not right. But ''I'' am king now, and what I say'' '''is law!'''
* SocialDarwinist: He has a fairly straightforward worldview. Cold is good; therefore, creatures that thrive in the cold are strong; therefore, creatures that don't are useless weaklings that need to adapt or die out.
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: He attempts genocide against all other races.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Abominable Snowman]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mlp_g1_yeti.png]]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE41BabyItsColdOutside1 Baby, It's Cold Outside, Part 1]]"

A monstrous yeti in King Charlatan's service. The snowman guards the maze surrounding the king's palace, and attacks the ponies and Megan when they try to cross it.
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* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: A white-furred yeti with pronounced, duckbill-like lips and blue skin around its eyes. It's part of a faction associated with arctic cold, and serves as a guardian monster around its king's palace.
* BeastInTheMaze: It guards the icy labyrinth around King Charlatan's palace, chasing down intruders and pelting them with improvised projectiles.
* ImprovisedWeapon: It attacks the ponies by snapping icicles from the maze's ceiling and throwing them like javelins.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Crunch the Rockdog]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/crunch_the_rockdog.png]]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE43CrunchTheRockdog1 Crunch the Rockdog, Part 1]]"

A monstrous canine earth elemental that despises anything "soft", Crunch goes on a rampage seeking to petrify the entirety of Dream Valley.
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* GuardianEntity: The Mountain King created him to be this for his Heart Stone. Unfortunately, he forgot to give him a heart, resulting in him being a cold rampaging beast.
* HeelFaceTurn: He ultimately turns good. He was evil because he ''literally'' didn't have a heart until the heroes got a piece of the Mountain King's heart to give him one, granting him the sense of empathy and kindness he lacked before.
* LackOfEmpathy: He was created without a heart, and thus has no sense of compassion or empathy. He gets better when given a piece of the Heart Stone to complete him.
* MookMaker: He can create minions in the form of living boulders with rough faces simply by trampling regular rocks.
* RockMonster: He's a giant dog made out of rock.
* TakenForGranite: Everything and everyone he touches turns to stone, and he seeks to petrify every living thing.
* TheSociopath: Crunch is ''literally'' lacking a heart, and thus incapable of feeling empathy, compassion, or any other type of positive emotion. He gets better when he's completed with a piece of the Heart Stone.
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: One by one the DwindlingParty is turned to stone before a giant dog-thing that seeks to destroy them just because it hates anything it considers "soft", which basically means "not as evil as itself".
* VillainSong: "I Hate Soft", where he sings about how much he hates softness of the body and softness of the soul and wishes to see the whole world turned to hard rock.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Crunch's Minions]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bad_rocks.png]]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE43CrunchTheRockdog1 Crunch the Rockdog, Part 1]]"

Living boulders created by Crunch as minions, they essentially serve as the hound's own hunting hounds, chasing down his victims ahead of him.
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* NoNameGiven: No name is ever given to these animated boulders.
* {{Mooks}}: Weaker minions to a major villain, the rolling heads are disposed of fairly easily once the heroes get a bit clever.
* RockMonster: They're living boulders with crude faces.
* UncertainDoom: They're last seen rolling down and on top of Crunch. What happenes to them afterwards, or when all of Crunch's magic is undone, is not stated.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Beezen]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/beezen.png]]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE45TheRevoltOfParadiseEstate1 The Revolt of Paradise Estate, Part 1]]"

An evil wizard who sells the ponies a can of magic paint, which brings their furniture to life, in a bid to steal their home.
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* EvilSorcerer: He's a selfish sorcerer who uses his magic to callously create life and take it away in order to benefit himself, and attempts to run the ponies out of their house to claim it for himself.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He's ultimately defeated when the magic paint he sold the ponies is tipped over his own wand, bringing it to life and turning it against him.
* MagicWand: His power resides in his magic wand. With hit he can shoot magic blasts and perform powerful sorcery, but without it he's helpless.
* UncertainDoom: He's last seen being chased down by his angry and animated wand, and it's not show what happens to him afterwards.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Furniture]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mlp_furniture.png]]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE45TheRevoltOfParadiseEstate1 The Revolt of Paradise Estate, Part 1]]"

The furniture of Paradise Estate, brought to life by Beezen's magic paint. They chase out the ponies after they get fed up with them, but are then enslaved by Beezen and work together with the ponies to retake Paradise Estate.
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* AnimateInanimateObject: The magic paint brings anything it's used on to live, including assorted furniture, household implements, a baby buggy, floorboards, fence posts, the house gate and the like, all of which gain faces, personalities, speech and motion. They cooperate with the ponies at first, but eventually get fed up with them and decide that they can run the household just fine on their own.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: In the climax, Beezen undoes the magic animating each and every last one of them, returning them to their inert, unliving states. The ponies don't remark on this in any way beyond noting with some relief that everything is back to normal, despite having just witnessed what was effectively the mass murder of the people they were fighting side-by-side with minutes before.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Monster]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mlp_the_monster.png]]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE47ThroughTheDoor1 Through the Door, Part 1]]"

The archetypal monster of fairytales, represented here as a dragon in a wig, the Monster is released into Ponyland when the Golden Door is opened, but turns out to not be such a bad guy after all.
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* AntiVillain: He doesn't especially enjoy being a monster, and he lacks much in the way of actual malice, but he antagonizes the heroes and menaces the land because that's the role he's been given.
-->''I was born to be a monster,''\\
''The fates gave me no choice.''\\
''I've got the monster's nose''\\
''And the monster's toes''\\
''And the monster's gravelly voice.''
* BeingEvilSucks: A lifetime of being every story's evil monster hasn't been kind for him -- by the time he meets the ponies, he's cripplingly lonely and profoundly unhappy.
* BreathWeapon: He can breathe fire -- or, strictly speaking, snort it from his nostrils.
* TheDarknessGazesBack: The monster is first seen as a pair of eyes peering from the darkness beyond the Door.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: He resembles a cartoony European dragon with minuscule wings, a long neck and a shock of curly hair. Curiously, he's never actually referred to as a dragon.
* SealedEvilInACan: According to legend, he once terrorized Ponyland before being sealed in the Land of Legends by a wizard.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lavan]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lavan.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:His original form.]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lavan_0.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:His crystallized form.]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JamesEarlJones
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE51TheQuestOfThePrincessPonies1 The Quest of the Princess Ponies, Part 1]]"
->''"I have become the most powerful being on Ponyland!"''

The ruler of the lava demons, Lavan steals the magic of the princess ponies in order to make himself the most powerful being alive. This causes Ponyland's magic to act chaotically and begin breaking down, requiring the heroes to defeat him in order to prevent disaster.
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* BadBoss: He treats his minions terribly, blasting them with magic for every failure or simply if he happens to feel like it, and relishes his power over them.
* BigNo: He lets one out when he sees the Princess Ponies reflect his attack back to him.
* TheDreaded: The Princess Ponies know who he is and, despite their confidence in their power, their reaction to him showing up is to run. The Moochick is also aware of him, and implies he sees him as a great threat as well. Even [[NervesOfSteel Megan]] admits that he has them dead to rights unless they manage to get to the VillainBeatingArtifact.
* EvilOverlord: He relishes being a tyrannical dictator, and treats his lava demon subjects horribly for no other reason than because he can.
* GodhoodSeeker: His goal is to steal the power of the Princess Ponies' wands and become an all-powerful crystal being. He succeeds, and the level of power he obtains proves he wasn't exaggerating and he only loses because he was still learning how to use his new power.
* HandBlast: He can fire beams of heat from his hands. After his transformation, he trades up to powerful rainbow-colored energy beams.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The Princess Ponies use their recharged wands to reflect his own attack back at him, killing him.
* ItsAllAboutMe: His plan will cause a magical cataclysm that will destroy Ponyland? He doesn't care so long as he gets the power he wants.
* TheJuggernaut: Nothing the heroes can throw at him once he goes OneWingedAngel does more than slow him down. He only dies when his own attack is reflected back at him.
* KilledOffForReal: He's destroyed by [[spoiler: the Princess Ponies reflecting his attack back at him]]. This is notable, besides being a surprisingly grim fate for a character in a show based on the ''My Little Pony'' toys, because killing off characters was something very rare in TV cartoons in the 1980s.
* LargeHam: Oh yes, and an enormous one at that. He shouts every word he says, putting relish and emphasis into even the smallest statement and pausing between words to snarl or drawn in breath. James Earl Jones clearly had a blast with this character, with special mention going towards his VillainSong, "Here's to Power", which he sings right after (temporarily) succeeding in gaining the power he wanted from the Ponies' wands. Practically every single line of it consists of him utterly ''devouring'' the scenery.
* LightIsNotGood: His crystal form is white and has rainbow-colored magic, and all in all much nicer looking than his original form. He's one of the single most vile beings in the entire series.
* LiterallyShatteredLives: He gets blown to bits when his attack is reflected back at him.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Upon transforming into his crystal form, he becomes so immensely powerful he risks destroying all of Ponyland by ''existing''.
* PowerIncontinence: It's stated that Lavan was still learning to control his stolen power, and still hadn't mastered it fully by the time he was defeated.
* OhCrap: His reaction when his own attack is reflected back at him.
* OneWingedAngel: He transforms from a lava demon to a crystal being. The change in appearance is only a bonus, however, as what he ''really'' wanted was the gigantic boost in power it came with.
* TheUnfettered: Absolutely nothing will stand between Lavan and the power he wants. Killing innocent people? No problem. His plan will destroy Ponyland? He doesn't care.
* VillainSong: "Here's to Power", in which he sings about how much he loves about holding power for power's sake and giving orders for the sake of bossing people about.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Goblins]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/goblin_sons.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:The brothers.]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/goblin_parents.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:The parents.]]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE56TheGoldenHorseshoes1 The Golden Horseshoes, Part 1]]" (the brothers)\\
"[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE57TheGoldenHorseshoes2 The Golden Horseshoes, Part 2]]" (the parents)

A family of argumentative goblins who own one of the horseshoes the ponies need to heal Mimic.
----
* {{Gonk}}: The goblin siblings are comically ugly -- besides all being short, squat and green, one has broad and frog-like lips, another a projecting beaklike mouth, and the third a stump-like, flat-topped head.
* HornedHumanoid: They all have small horns on their heads. Most have two, but the flat-topped brother has three.
* OurGoblinsAreDifferent: The ones encountered here are large, burly green humanoids who tower over Megan, and tend to be ugly and deformed in various unique ways -- one has horns and flat-topped head, another flabby wide lips, and a third an almost beak-like snout. They live underground and are greedy, hostile and argumentative beings, stealing from others and refusing to ever give anything away.
* SiblingRivalry: The three goblin brothers are constantly fighting, arguing, insulting each other and competing for their mother's attention, much to her grief. As it turns out, this is because the magic horseshoe they stole allows them to hear each other's thoughts, which is what keeps setting off their fights.
* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: The goblin mother, the only female in the group, wears a pink dress and bow, an apron, and low high heels. Her husband wears a sailor outfit.
* TheVoiceless: The father has no voice lines. While his wife and sons are all quite chatty, he never speaks a word on screen.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Castle Guardians]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mlp_castle_defenders.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Their true forms]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/castle_defenders_true.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE58FlightToCloudCastle1 Flight to Cloud Castle, Part 1]]"

A salamander and an undine who guard a flying castle and the maiden who sleeps within it.
----
* AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: The salamander resembles a simple bipedal lizard wearing nothing but a hat.
* AlchemicElementals: A salamander and an undine, one controlling fire and the other water. The rest of the ensemble is absent -- although, notably, they fight against an earth-controlling gnome.
* BalefulPolymorph: They were once two human(oid) men, named Andrew and Ferdinand, who were turned into monsters by Ariel's father and set to guard his daughter. Once she's woken, the spell is lifted from them as well.
* EarFins: The undine has a pair of ridged fins for ears.
* FierySalamander: One of the defenders is a humanoid salamander capable of conjuring fire.
* MakingASplash: The undine can control water, mostly in the form of blasts of it that he shoots at the heroes.
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: One of the defenders is a trident-wielding merman, referred to as an undine, with green skin and finlike ears, who stays in the castle's moat to watch for intruders.
* PlayingWithFire: The salamander in the castle can throw fireballs around and raise up walls of fire with a snap of its fingers.
* ProngsOfPoseidon: The undine wields a trident, which he uses to shoot jets of water.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Somnambula]]
[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/somna1.png]]
[[caption-width-right:310:Her youthful form]]
[[caption-width-right:310:[[labelnote:Her true form]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/somnambula_old.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE61Somnambula1 Somnambula, Part 1]]"

An old sorceress who drains the life-force of living beings through their dreams to retain her youth and power.
----
* AntagonistTitle: She's the Somnambula of her focus two-parter's title.
* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: She tortures her songbird to make it obey her.
* BigNo: She lets one out when Slugger breaks her crystal and returns her stolen youth and magic to her victims.
* EvilOldFolks: Her true form is that of an elderly woman, and she's a black-hearted witch who'd suck the life out of every pony in Ponyland for youth and power.
* HotWitch: Her young form is very beautiful.
* LotusEaterMachine: She uses an illusory circus to lure her victims, presenting each with something that they can't resist partaking and losing track of time in and where they'll keep obliviously playing and fooling around in even as they rapidly age as Somnambula steals their lifeforce.
* ManaDrain: Instead of simply stealing the life and youth from the unicorns like she does from most of her victims, she instead drains away their magic to increase her own magical power.
* MasterOfIllusion: Her powers focus on creating extensive and very lifelike illusions. As her power increases, she eventually becomes able to make her illusions into physical reality.
* NoImmortalInertia: As soon as Somnambula's crystal is broken, she instantly loses her stolen youth and returns to being an old crone.
* NonIndicativeName: " Somnambula" means "sleepwalker", but she isn't associated with sleep or somnambulism in any meaningful way.
* OrcusOnHerThrone: Somnambula largely remains in her lair until the climax. Justified, as her power until then isn't suitable for combat (her only means of keeping the Big Brother Ponies out of her CircusOfFear being a scary looking locked door) and gradually increases as time goes on due to her draining her victims, meaning until then she wasn't strong enough to do much by brute force. Even at her strongest, she's not much of a fighter, largely relying on manifested monsters and chains to defend herself, so it being a last resort is justified.
* RapidAging: Victims of her draining age rapidly while Somnambula herself grows younger.
* RealityWarper: At her strongest, she turn her illusions physical and real, allowing her to essentially conjure whatever she wishes into existence.
* VainSorceress: While she's also after a power up, she's very keen on regaining her youth and beauty. Any time she's in her old, ugly form she keeps her face covered and when her spell is broken reverting her to normal, she runs away covering her face in shame.
* VampiricDraining: She retains her youth by sucking the life out of others, as well as turning unicorns into a LivingBattery to enhance her own power.
* WickedWitch: She's a witch who drains the life out of others to power her magic and keep her young.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Duchess]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/duchess_mlp_g1.png]]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE63ThePrinceAndThePonies The Prince and the Ponies]]"

The crude and ill-mannered ruler of a palace near Paradise Estate, who tries to capture the baby ponies to keep as pets for her spoiled daughter.
----
* AmbiguousSpecies: It's not made clear what species she, and the other humanoids in her episode, belong to. They're chiefly a stand-in for humans, but have pointed ears and aren't much taller than the ponies -- the Duchess herself is shorter than Megan.
* FinalBoss: She's the final threat faced in the series.
* TheUsurper: She had Prince Phillip imprisoned so that she could take over, as she's actually just the palace cook.
* WouldHurtAChild: She has the Newborns kidnapped, chained and used pets. This proves to be her undoing, as Phillip is able to use this deed to shame her guards into turning on her.
[[/folder]]

!Others
[[folder:Spike]]
[[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mlp_g1_spike.png]]
->'''Debut:''' ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTVSpecials Rescue at Midnight Castle]]''
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/CharlieAdler

An infant dragon who was originally a prisoner of Tirac. Even after Megan defeated the monster and his friend Scorpan returned to his own kingdom, he chose to stay with the ponies in Dream Land.
----
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: A noticeable example. In the toys and comics he has bucked teeth and more pronounced ears.
* AdaptationDyeJob: He's purple in the toys, but pink in the original cartoon. Some cartoons have him as purple though.
* BreakoutCharacter: Spike would go on to become a recurring character in the various incarnations of ''My Little Pony'', and his character in G1 would have a significant impact in the development of his G3 and G4 versions.
* DeadpanSnarker: At times, particularly in "The Magic Coins."
* EraSpecificPersonality: He's considerably more snarkish in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. In G3 he's stuffy, British, and generally very unlike his other versions.
* TheOneGuy: Up until Danny came along, he was the only named male character in the central cast.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: In this case, they're small, cute and friendly -- traits mostly due to Spike being still an infant -- can breathe fire, and are the classic fully reptilian, crocodile-bellied sort of older Western visual media.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mr. Moochick]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mlp_moochick_show.png]]
->'''Debut:''' ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTVSpecials Rescue at Midnight Castle]]''
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TonyRandall

A knowledgeable but scatterminded hermit who lives in the Mushromp. Megan and the ponies frequently seek him out for his magical knowledge, which often proves crucial in dealing with the threat ''du jour''.
----
* AbsentMindedProfessor: The Moochick is wise and very knowledgeable, but also chronically absent-minded and disorganized, and prone to forgetting where he put whatever it is that's needed at the moment.
* AmbiguousSpecies: It's not clear what he is, precisely -- he's obviously no sort of talking animal like most other characters, but his shortness and pointed ears also preclude his being a human. He mostly resembles a gnome or fairytale elf of some kind, but is never identified as such.
* GeniusDitz: He always knows exactly what the ponies need to do to fix whatever apocalypse they're in the middle of now, but he has a terrible memory and a tendency to misplace ''very'' important items and tools.
* WizardClassic: He hits a fair share of the trope's points -- he's got the flowing white beard, the cane, the huge hat, the knowledge of obscure and plot-important lore and magic, and the secluded house in the middle of the wilderness.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Habbit]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mlp_habbit_show.png]]
->'''Debut:''' ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTVSpecials Rescue at Midnight Castle]]''

The Moochick's long-suffering rabbit assistant.
----
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: He tempers his boss' absent-mindedness and holds onto crucial items he'd inevitably misplace.
* PartiallyCivilizedAnimal: He's clearly more of an assistant than a pet for the Moochick, wears clothes, can operate simple machines and is in many ways more responsible and focused than his boss, but he cannot talk and seems to be a regular rabbit otherwise.
* TheSilentBob: He never speaks out loud, and communicates purely through body languages, pointing, tapping the Moochick's shoulder and a variety of exasperated facial expressions.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: In the movie, the fact that he's generally smarter than his boss is first shown when he handily beats him in a game of chess played on four boards at once.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: His appearance in the first special is notably different from how he's depicted in the movie and the rest of the series. There, he has straight ears rather than his later floppy ones, wears clothing, is brown instead of white, is much shorter than the Moochick, and generally looks younger.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Bushwoolies]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bushwoolies_1.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Left to right, Whisful, Chumster and Hugster]]
->'''Debut:''' ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTVSpecials Escape from Catrina]]''
->'''Voiced by:''' Alice Payten, Sheryl Bernstein, Nancy Cartwright, Russi Taylor, Charlie Adler and Frank Welker

Round fluffy creatures who roam the valley in large packs. Friendly by nature, they agree with anything anybody says and are among the ponies' recurring allies.

The only named bushwoolies are Whisful, Chumster and Hugster in "The End of Flutter Valley", although a trio with their same designs also appears in "The Glass Princess" and a blue bushwooly with Hugster's general design tends to turn up as a leader figure for the bushwoolies in most of their appearances.
----
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: They're extremely brightly colored even compared to the ponies, coming in highly saturated shades of pink, purple, red, orange, yellow, green and blue. In general, it's highly unlikely for there to be more than one or two bushwoolies of the same shade in any singly shot.
* CartoonCreature: They're not based on any specific creature, instead resembling walking piles of colorful fuzz or generic plush toys come to life.
* TheDividual: The bushwoolies typically appear in groups of up to a dozen, without individual personalities or names, and are never seen alone. Their tendency to speak quickly and talk over each other also makes it impossible to tell which one is saying any specific thing. For all narrative intents and purposes, they act as a single character that so happens to have several designs on-screen at any given time. "The End of Flutter Valley" averts this by giving the three bushwoolies in its story unique names and character traits; it doesn't stick.
* ForgottenPhlebotinum: In "The End of Flutter Valley, Part 3", it turns out that Wishful can somehow make things happen just by wishing them, something he never does again after in the episode or the series -- although, granted, it doesn't actually work the one time he tries it.
* MakeAWish: In "The End of Flutter Valley", Wishful claims to be able to make things happen by wishing for them to do so. When he tries to put this in practice, however, it entirely fails to work.
* NoSenseOfDirection: Due to their excessively agreeable natures, bushwoolies are very poor at finding or giving directions -- they'll heartily agree with whatever directions anybody proposes and aren't very good at coming up with good ones themselves, as Spike finds out to his chagrin in "The Quest of the Princess Ponies".
-->'''Spike:''' Oh, some shortcut, we've been walking for hours. Okay, let's try again. Which way leads to Dream Valley?\\
'''Bushwoolies:''' This way! That way! Sure! That way! You bet!\\
'''Spike:''' [sigh]
* YesMan: Their thing is that they'll compulsively agree with the latest thing anyone said in their earshot, leading them to emphatically support both sides of an argument and eagerly supporting each side until the other one says something.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Flume]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mlp_phlume.png]]
->'''Debut:''' ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie1986''

An aggressive plant that lives on a high mountain. Reeka and Draggle are sent to harvest its sap for the Smooze, much to their chagrin.
----
* ByTheHair: During their fight, it grabs Draggle by her ponytail in order to shake her off of it and whips her around by it.
* ChokeHolds: Draggle holding onto the Flume's midsection has this affect on it, as the first thing it does is shake Draggle off of it before going after Reeka.
* ComedicSpanking: How does the Flume get back at Reeka for stabbing it with a pick? Grabbing a spoon from... somewhere... and spanking her with it. With said spoon magically disappearing later in the scene.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: In order to shake Draggle off of it, the Flume grabs her exposed ponytail and repeatedly rams her head into its bulb before pulling her away from it and slamming her into its midsection and ramming her head into that. It also rams Reeka and Draggle into each other later in the same scene.
* HighPressureBlood: When Reeka stabs its bulb with a pick, its sap starts shooting out from the wound this fashion and sprays out shortly after, with enough force to push back Reeka as she tries to bottle it.
* ManEatingPlant: It's only seen eating a passing insect, but is otherwise mobile, aggressive, capable of roaring, and quite dangerous in a fight.
* NeckLift: After shaking off Draggle, the Flume does this to Reeka and holds her over the cliff it lives on. It does it to her again at the climax of the scene, though in this case it's more or less a neck hold instead of a lift.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: It's not especially clear how its name should be spelled -- "Phlume", "Flume" and "Floom" all get the same sound across -- and no official spelling was ever released during G1's run. ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyGenerations'' eventually settled on "Flume", providing the first official written spelling of the word after thirty-five years.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Grundles]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mlp_grundles.png]]
->'''Debut:''' ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie1986''
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DannyDeVito (Grundle King)

Short, trollish humanoids whose kingdom, Grundleland, was destroyed by the Smooze in the past, forcing them to hide underground.
----
* AllTrollsAreDifferent: The Grundles are short, ugly but goodhearted humanoids who live underground.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Subverted. They're initially mistaken for monsters by Baby Lickety-Split and Spike before they explain their good intentions. The Flutter Ponies later try to de-Smooze them, under the assumption that they were turned monstrous by the Smooze, but the Grundles assure them that this is how they've always looked.
* NoNameGiven: They're never identified by name, and are instead referred to by everyone, including themselves, as "Grundle" or "Grundle King".
* ProneToTears: The Grundles burst into tears whenever Grundleland is so much as named, as any reminder of how much they miss their lost homeland will open the floodgates. Their king has become extremely careful not actually bring Grundleland in conversation as a result.
* TheRemnant: They're the only Grundles left after the witches succeeded in destroying the kingdom they once lived in.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Out of the five Grundles seen in the movie, only one is female.
* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: The female Grundle is distinguished by wearing a dress and having hair.
* ThirdPersonPerson: They always refer to themselves by their species name instead of using pronouns.
* UnusualEuphemism: The king tends to say "aw, Grundlemumf!" in situations where profanity would be expected in a work with a higher rating.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Furbobs]]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE2TheEndOfFlutterValley2 The End of Flutter Valley, Part 2]]"

Cousins of the Bushwoolies. Unlike their relatives, they never agree on anything or with anyone.
----
* CartoonCreature: They're more specifically mammal-like than bushwoolies are, but otherwise resemble colorful, generic plushies more so than any actual creature.
* {{Gonk}}: They're not ''ugly'', but they're decidedly less cute than the Bushwoolies.
* NatureHero: They live in harmony with nature and base their rituals around this.
* NoSenseOfDirection: As a result of both having been constantly relocating their home for an unspecified amount of time and of never agreeing with each other. Even if they can remember where their home is this time, they'll still give wildly contrary directions as a matter of course.
* ToylessToylineCharacter: They don’t have counterparts in the toyline, unlike their relatives.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Stonebacks]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/stonebacks.png]]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE2TheEndOfFlutterValley2 The End of Flutter Valley, Part 2]]"

Armored, armadillo-like creatures with a history of antagonizing the furbobs.
----
* CycleOfRevenge: They had something like this going on with the furbobs. They can't speak and only express themselves with grunts and snorts, making the furbobs to think they were trying to attack them, causing the latters to antagonize the stonebacks and to drive them to actually attack. This has led to the current situation at the show's start, where the two groups have been locked in a cycle of aggression where the stonebacks seek out the furbobs, are insulted, get mad and destroy the furbobs' current home, making the latters fear them more and starting the cycle again.
* FastTunnelling: Zig-zagged. Sometimes, they swiftly push their way through the earth, quickly creating large holes with nothing more than a lightly raised rim to show for the displaced dirt. Sometimes, as when the heroes are trying to get past Ahgg in "The End of Flutter Valley", they dig at a much more realistic slow pace.
* GoodAllAlong: As it turns out, they just wanted to befriend the furbobs all along -- they just couldn't say this because they can't speak.
* TunnelKing: They're prolific diggers and have tunnels stretching beneath much of Dream Valley, and can quickly dig out new ones on demand.
* TheUnintelligible: They cannot speak -- they just make animalistic grunts and noises -- making it very difficult for others to understand them.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sting]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mlp_g1_sting.png]]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE1TheEndOfFlutterValley1 The End of Flutter Valley, Part 1]]"

Queen Bumble's original chief warrior and defender, he objected to her conquest of Flutter Valley and eventually turned against her, defecting to join the ponies.
----
* AcrophobicBird: A variant; he used to fly and wasn't good at it, so he stopped entirely until Morning Glory convinced him to try again.
* BeePeople: He’s an anthropomorphic bee who led Bumble’s army pre-HeelFaceTurn.
* BefriendingTheEnemy: Morning Glory tries to befriend him in order to get him to free her from the cage she's held in. It doesn't work -- he remains loyal to Queen Bumble in the end -- but it sets the seeds for his actual redemption once he realizes that Bumble doesn't care about him.
* TheDragon: He was Queen Bumble's primary second and enforcer before his HeelFaceTurn. This was a major contribution to Bumble losing, as it forced her to rely on the far less competent Pointer.
* EyepatchOfPower: There’s an eyepatch on his left eye for some reason and he was Bumble’s chief defender.
* HeelFaceTurn: Although it takes a bit to kick in, Morning Glory is able to convince him to turn against Queen Bumble. The latter's constant mistreatment of him also helps to push him to this.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: He cements his Heel-Face Turn when Queen Bumble leaves him behind in the burning Bumbleland.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Pluma]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pluma_mlp.png]]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE11TheGhostOfParadiseEstate1 The Ghost of Paradise Estate, Part 1]]"

A shapeshifting bird sent by Squirk to Paradise Estate to retrieve the half of the Flash Stone buried beneath it. She doesn't wish to work for him, but is forced to do so by his holding her grandfather hostage.
----
* ApologeticAttacker: She apologizes profusely for her actions, even as she traps the main characters and destroys their house, as she regrets what she's doing but sees no way to avoid it.
* ButNowIMustGo: After helping the heroes defeat Squirk, she and Ruff announce that they must depart for their own homeland and leave Dream Valley behind.
* FeatherFingers: She uses the ends of her wings as humanlike hands, although her shapeshifting makes it unclear if it's just a cartoon shortcut or if she's actually turning her wings into hands.
* MrExposition: In "The Ghost of Paradise Estate, Part 2", she helpfully exposits at some length -- around a third of the episode's runtime -- about the history of ancient Dream Valley, Squirk's rule, the pennas' arrival, and their history with the monster.
* VerbalTic: When explaining things, she tends to stammer, back up, and generally abort a sentence and try to start a new one several times until someone helps her out.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Like all pennas, she can change her shape at will. Over her episode, she takes on the forms of a ghost, a monstrous bat, a GiantSpider, a living mirror and a living prism.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Grandpa Ruff]]
[[quoteright:280:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/grandpa_ruff_old.png]]
[[caption-width-right:280:In his old age]]
[[caption-width-right:280:[[labelnote:In his youth.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/grandpa_ruff_young.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE11TheGhostOfParadiseEstate1 The Ghost of Paradise Estate, Part 1]]"

Pluma's grandfather. He led the pennas when they settled in ancient Dream Valley and fought Squirk, breaking his magic flash stone. He has now grown old, however, and has been captured by his old foe.
----
* ButNowIMustGo: After helping the heroes defeat Squirk, he and Pluma announce that they must depart for their own homeland and leave Dream Valley behind.
* DistressedDude: When he's introduced in person, he's trapped in a cage in Squirk's lair and held hostage to force his granddaughter to serve the villain, and needs to be rescued by her and the heroes.
* FeatherFingers: He uses the ends of her wings as humanlike hands, although his shapeshifting makes it unclear if it's just a cartoon shortcut or if he's actually turning his wings into hands.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dinah]]
[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mlp_dinah.png]]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE20PonyPuppy Pony Puppy]]"

A huge dog that the baby ponies find in the woods and decide to adopt.
----
* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: Although she's a feral non-sapient animal that cannot talk, she can clearly understand what ponies say to her.
* BigFriendlyDog: She's ''very'' large and cheerfully friendly, although her size and accompanying appetite still cause trouble.
* CanisMajor: She is, at the minimum, the size of a rhinoceros, and she's still only a puppy.
* PetBabyWildAnimal: Outside of having the appearance of a domestic dog, she's a fairly straight example. The ponies find her wandering the woods after being separated from her pack, and the episode ends with her being returned to the wild to be with her kind.
* YourSizeMayVary: Even before her growth spurt, she alters between "just" the size of a rhino to much taller than trees.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Mayor Camembert]]
[[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mayor_camembert.png]]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE21BrightLights1 Bright Lights, Part 1]]"

The mayor of Muensterville, a town of humanoid mice whom Erebus, Zeb and Knight Shade have already passed through. He has the heroes trapped in a giant mousetrap when he mistakes them for accomplices of the bad guys, but releases them once he realizes what's going on and joins them in their quest.
----
* NiceMice: He's well-meaning and concerned for his people, only attacking the heroes when he mistakes them for accomplices of those who harmed his town's children and willingly joining them and putting himself in danger to stop Erebus and Zeb.
* PunnyName: Much like his entire town, he's simply named after a type of cheese, referencing mice's stereotypical eating habits.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Sheriff of Muensterville]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mlp_mouse_sheriff.png]]
[[caption-width-right:250:His appearance when introduced. Don't get used to it.]]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE21BrightLights1 Bright Lights, Part 1]]"

Muensterville's chief policemouse, who joins his mayor in aiding the heroes. His most notable trait is the very noticeable inconsistency of his model, which changes wildly in appearance and outfit between scenes.
----
* NoNameGiven: He's never referred to by name or by title in the episode.
* TheSpeechless: He never speaks a world -- he only makes a sound once, when crying.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: He very noticeably swaps models several times in the episode, going between tall and stout, tall and thin and short and stout and swapping a British policeman uniform for two different sets of lederhosen.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Niblik]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/niblik_the_troll.png]]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE32TheMagicCoins2 The Magic Coins, Part 2]]"

A surly and greedy troll whose help the heroes seek out to undo some dangerous wishes, as these were made with coins from his treasure and only he can reverse them.
----
* {{Greed}}: He's fundamentally driven by selfish greed, caring for little beyond treasure, keeping hold of the wealth he already has, and obtaining more.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: As it turns out, Niblik is actually very lonely, more than he cares to admit, and what he really needed was a friend.
* JerkAss: He's surly, selfish and unpleasant, apparently a common trait for trolls, and makes no attempt to mask his rudeness or his contempt for the heroes.
* OurTrollsAreDifferent: He's an ugly, deformed humanoid a little shorter than Megan, with long arms, a large mouth and heavy brows. He also wields magical powers, and is the only one who can undo wishes made with coins from his treasure.
* PlotAllergy: Niblik is terribly allergic to roses, which very inconveniently for the heroes nixes any value their first treasure, a magic rose, might have for him.
* TrashOfTheTitans: He's too apathetic to clean after himself and his house is repulsively messy, with dust, cobwebs and piles of cans and food scraps lying around everywhere. Megan's wish for him to have a friend consequently creates a neat freak who promptly starts whipping his house into shape, which Niblik admits was a pretty necessary thing.
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[[folder:Dell Dwellers]]
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE35MishMashMelee Mish Mash Melee]]"

Monkey-like creatures who live underground and create and maintain nature.
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* HatOfAuthority: The leader of the dell dwellers is distinguished from the others by the tall top hat he wears.
* ManiacMonkeys: Once the frazzits reverse their personalities, they start to enthusiastically smash and sabotage everything they encounter, having become far more interested in causing havoc for havoc's sake than doing anything productive.
* PaintingTheFrostOnWindows: They're responsible for shaping and maintaining every part of the natural world, from carving and smoothing rounded river rocks to germinating acorns.
* PersonalitySwap: When the frazzits are released, they invert the dell dwellers' personalities and cause them to start messing around with the machinery they tended, gleefully smashing rocks and plants apart where before they carefully molded them into shape.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Woebegone]]
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE36WoeIsMe1 Woe Is Me, Part 1]]"

A sad little hobo with terrible luck following him everywhere. His wanderings lead him to Dream Valley, where the ponies refuse to send him off despite his insistence that he'll only bring them bad luck.
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* AgonyOfTheFeet: Woebegone's foot is injured when the giant alligatorsaur steps on it, and it remains hurt and bandaged for the rest of the episode.
* BornUnlucky: ''Made'' unlucky, in his case, but the trope otherwise applies as normal -- he's cursed with terrible luck, and everything he tries to do inevitably ends in disaster.
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Woebegone's curse is ultimately fueled by his belief in it. As long as he's convinced that he's unlucky, unlucky he shall be.
* {{Curse}}: His bad luck was given to him through a curse, levied by a witch he antagonized as a child.
* CurseEscapeClause: His curse is tied to his feelings of pessimism. If he rejects his belief that he's a no-good jinx and looks at his prospects with genuine optimism, it will fade away.
* FourLeafClover: He found a four-lead clover shortly after he was cursed, and kept it to counteract its effects. It didn't do much good, although he still carries the limp plant in his hat as a sad counterpoint to his sorry lot.
* HurtFootHop: He performs a brief foot-holding dance when the alligatorsaur steps on his foot.
* PersonalRaincloud: The most immediately obvious sign of his curse is a black raincloud always hovering over his head, periodically raining down on him or shooting down bolts of lightning.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: He was goaded into bullying the witch by some friends of his. He didn't really want to, since she'd never done anything to them, but was peer pressured into doing it anyway. Much good it did to him.
* WalkingDisasterArea: His bad luck manifests in a very outward and destructive manner, with everything he interacts with somehow breaking. Trees he touches fall over or catch on fire, bridges he walks on break, roofs he sleeps under collapse, floods and woe gather if he stays in one place too long, and even the ground crumbles under his feet if he tries to stay put.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Witch]]
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE36WoeIsMe1 Woe Is Me, Part 1]]"

An old witch who lives near Woebegone's old village. She was the one who first cursed him with bad luck when he and some friends snuck into her garden and knocked her into her own pot.
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* BullyingADragon: The mess Woebegone finds himself in started when he and two other kids decided to have fun by bullying a known witch and antagonizing her for no reason. This endeavor, unsurprisingly, turned out very badly for them.
* WickedWitch: Played with, but ultimately subverted. She certainly looks the part of the wicked old hag, and Woebegone is at first treated as a hero for spoiling whatever she was doing. However, she's never shown engaging in anything particularly nefarious besides cursing her own attackers, Woebegone himself points out that she never actually did him or his friends any harm, and when Woebegone breaks her curse she arrives to congratulate him and uses her magic to fix the harm the curse did.
* WorldHealingWave: When Woebegone breaks his curse, she appears, congratulates him for learning his lesson, and uses her magic to undo all the harm it caused.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Alligatorsaur]]
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE36WoeIsMe1 Woe Is Me, Part 1]]"

A giant reptile whose village was ruined by Woebegone's bad luck, the alligatorsaur chases him into Ponyland in a rage and right into the ponies' garden.
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* OurDragonsAreDifferent: In practice, it resembles a bipedal, wingless Western dragon more so than any actual crocodile or dinosaur. Nowadays, however, most would say it looks like a spinosaurid.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: A cross between two traditionally unpleasant reptiles, resulting in an angry and brutish beast.
* {{Whateversaurus}}: Its name is a simple addition of the -saurus suffix to a random other animal, and it's depicted as a monstrous tail-dragging pseudo-theropod.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Crabnasties]]
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE38FugitiveFlowers1 Fugitive Flowers, Part 1]]"
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/PeterCullen (Crabnasty captain)

A group of giant crustacean policemen on the hunt for the flories. The ponies initially mistake them for villains and imprison them, but come back for their help when they realize how dangerous their targets are.
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* FlippingHelpless: They're vulnerable to being turned on their backs, as they can't move or right themselves when in this position.
* GiantEnemyCrab: They're crabs the size of trucks, and the ponies initially mistake them for cruel monsters.
* LargeAndInCharge: The crabnasty leader is around twice the size of his subordinates.
* NoNameGiven: While they're given a collective moniker, they individual crabnasties are never identified by personal names.
* PoorCommunicationKills: While a snap judgement over physical appearances did play into things, a big part of what led the ponies to side with the Flories over the Crabnasties was the latter's relentless efforts at ripping a trail of destruction through Dream Valley in an attempt to find the Flories and their refusal to stop and explain who they were and what they were doing.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Squire Alonzo]]
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE40WouldBeDragonslayer Would-Be Dragonslayer]]"

A wandering squire who wants to be a knight. His attempts at heroics, sadly, tend to be sabotaged by his general ineptitude.
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* TheDragonslayer: He first appears trying to slay Spike, reasoning that dragons are wicked being and that laying one low must be a sure path to knighthood. Since Spike is still a baby and a good friend of the ponies', this attempt doesn't go over too well. Spike remains mildly resentful of the whole business for the rest of the episode.
* EasilyForgiven: The ponies forgive him and decide to help in his quest very quickly, considering his recent attempt to behead one of their friends. Spike himself holds a grudge for longer, but he also drops it before the end of the episode.
* IWantSong: "All I Want Is to Be a Knight", where he sings about his dreams of knighthood and the many miserable failures he's encountered in his quest.
* TheSquire: Alonzo is a roving squire and yearns to be a knight, but must first perform a heroic deed.
* SapientSteed: His camel, Panzo, can talk and is as intelligent as his rider.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Prince Edgar]]
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE41BabyItsColdOutside1 Baby, It's Cold Outside, Part 1]]"

King Charlatan's son and heir, Edgar is much kinder and more level-headed than his father, but his limited power and his dad's overbearing personality mean he can't really do anything about it.
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* AntagonisticOffspring: In a heroic variant, he's vocally opposed to his villainous father's plans.
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: A penguin wearing nothing but a crown.
* HumanPopsicle: He catches the brunt of his father's icy powers, which turn him into a chunk of ice.
* TheWisePrince: He's kind, compassionate and very morally-minded, and eager to cooperate with other creatures towards good ends. He'd probably be a very just ruler, if it weren't for his villainous and megalomaniacal father.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sunny]]
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE41BabyItsColdOutside1 Baby, It's Cold Outside, Part 1]]"

Prince Edgar's duck friend, Sunny comes with him to ask for King Charlatan to undo his ice age and gets turned to ice for his troubles.
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* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: A duck wearing nothing but a very large hat.
* HumanPopsicle: He finds himself on the wrong end of King Charlatan's EyeBeams, which turn him into an ice statue for the rest of the episode.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:His Elevated Eminence]]
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE43CrunchTheRockdog1 Crunch the Rockdog, Part 1]]"

His Elevated Eminence, the Mountain King, is the ruler of the Purple Mountains and a sapient mountain peak. He created Crunch to guard the Hearstone, the magical gem that grants him his feelings, but neglected to give Crunch a heart of his own.
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* ActuallyIAmHim: When Megan and the ponies first meet him, they don't realize that the talking mountain is the king they've been looking for and ask for where they can find himself.
-->'''Megan:''' Excuse me, whoever you are, do you know where we can find His Elevated Eminence?\\
'''HEE:''' You're standing on him!
* GeniusLoci: He's a living, sapient mountain, and able to control his internal environment.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Legends]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Top row: Paul Bunyan, Hercules, the genie\\
Middle row: Little John, Prince Charming, Sherazade, a merry man\\
Bottom row: Robin Hood, a princess, Aladdin, Friar Tuck.]]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE47ThroughTheDoor1 Through the Door, Part 1]]"

A collection of fairytale and storybook characters who enter the real world when North Star opens the Golden Door. Among their number are Myth/RobinHood and his Merry Men, Myth/PaulBunyan and Babe the Blue Ox, PrinceCharming, [[Literature/ThousandAndOneNights Sherazade]], Literature/{{Aladdin}} and his genie, and [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Hercules]]. They return to their home at the end of the episode, as the fictional and real worlds need to remain separated.
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* InterspeciesRomance: Prince Charming (a human), flirts with Heart Throb (a pony), who reciprocates. This is chiefly due to Charming having to act out his role as the archetypal romantic lead, while Heart Throb is a hopeless romantic living her lifelong dream. After a while, both of them realize that the situation is awkward and politely call it quits.
* LanternJawOfJustice: Prince Charming, Paul Bunyan and Hercules all sport tremendous, block-shaped chins.
* LiteralGenie: Aladdin's genie turns out be tremendously anal-retentive and focused on the minute details and permutations of each wish. In a twist, this doesn't cause any wishes to backfire because he spends too much time asking for further detail to actually do much. He only gets the degree of specific information he requires to grant a wish when [[TheSpock Wind Whistler]] steps in.
-->'''Lickety-Split:''' I wish the weather was perfect.\\
'''Genie:''' Perfect, hm? Could you be more specific? Temperature? [...] Relative humidity? [...] And I also need to know the prevailing wind speed, and the percentage of the color orange in the sunset!\\
'''Lickety-Split:''' Look, all I want is a perfect day, so what's so difficult about ''that?''\\
'''Genie:''' "What about the ''sky?'' You have your cerulean blue, your robin's egg blue, your..."\\
[scene break]\\
'''Genie:''' ... and what about barometric pressure? Pollen count?
* MasterArcher: Robin Hood is the greatest archer who ever lived, which he demonstrates by SplittingTheArrow twice in succession and by getting a bull's eye with five arrows at once. When the legends start fading, he loses this ability.
* NeatFreak: Hercules turns out to be something of a cleanliness freak, apparently as a holdout from the Augean stables incident, and an obsessive duster.
-->'''Hercules:''' Filthy dirt! Filthy, filthy dirt!
* OurGeniesAreDifferent: Aladdin's genie resembles a large, heavyset human with pointed ears and small fangs, lives in a lamp, and can conjure up anything as long as someone wishes for it.
* PrinceCharming: The namesake royal, who here serves as the archetypal fairytale love interest. Like all other legendary figures, he's a living archetype effectively limited to living out his narrative role, which in his case boils down to professing eternal love and devotion to anything that moves.
* RefugeeFromTVLand: The legendary characters all originate in the Land of Legends, the place where stories and tales play out and archetypes and fictional characters live. They enter the real world when North Star opens the door separating the two worlds, and in the end need to return because their absence is causing their magic to fade, the Land to crumble and storybooks to go blank.
* SplittingTheArrow: When demonstrating his skills in archery, Robin Hood shoots an arrow lengthwise with another and then does the same to the second with a third.
* SuperStrength: Hercules is strong enough to lift buildings. When the legends start fading, his strength fades.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sludge]]
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE51TheQuestOfThePrincessPonies1 The Quest of the Princess Ponies, Part 1]]"

Lavan's main flunky, who eventually turns on his boss on account of Lavan's constant abuse.
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* LivingLava: As a lava demon, he's a rounded, roughly humanoid mass of living molten rock.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Sludge turns on Lavan partly because his boss is violently abusive, and partly because his plans will likely destroy the world with Sludge in it.
-->''"If Lavan destroys Ponyland, I will suffer along with the rest of you. I've suffered enough at Lavan's hands."''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:G'nash]]
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE52TheQuestOfThePrincessPonies2 The Quest of the Princess Ponies, Part 2]]"

An ice orc who lives in Lavan's subterranean realm, G'nash agrees to help the heroes fight against the magmatic tyrant due to his people's long enmity with the lava demons.
----
* AnIcePerson: He's made out of living ice, and can shoot freezing beams.
* {{Cephalothorax}}: His body largely resembles a giant head with stumpy legs and arms.
* HandBlast: He can fire beams of freezing energy from his hands.
* InstantIceJustAddCold: His icy {{Hand Blast}}s can instantly create large icicles and walls and blocks of ice, regardless of their being used in entirely water-free areas.
* OurOrcsAreDifferent: He's an ice orc, a being of living ice that lives underground.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Garth]]
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE58FlightToCloudCastle1 Flight to Cloud Castle, Part 1]]"

A gnome adventurer seeking a flying castle, which holds a maiden he's besotted with.
----
* DishingOutDirt: As a gnome, he has power over earth and stone. In his episode, he uses this to turn rocks into mud.
* HopelessSuitor: Garth is besotted by Ariel, and goes through a number of perils to wake her and win her hand. When she awakes, however, she has no interest in him -- she wasn't looking for a relationship before she was put to sleep, and she isn't now either.
* OurGnomesAreDifferent: He identifies himself as a gnome, and resembles a child-sized humanoid with pointed ears and magical powers over earth and rock.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ariel]]
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE59FlightToCloudCastle2 Flight to Cloud Castle, Part 2]]"

A maiden held within an enchanted castle, where she sleeps until woken by the kiss of her true love.
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* AmbiguousSpecies: Her species isn't extremely clear -- she's mostly human in appearance, but she's also the size of a small child and has pointed ears. She looks a lot like Garth, who is identified as a gnome, but resembles the elves from "The Golden Horseshoes" just as strongly and isn't identified as anything in particular during the episode.
* ForcedSleep: She was placed in an enchanted sleep by her wizard father that can only be broken with TrueLovesKiss, intended to keep her from all suitors but the most dedicated.
* RescueRomance: Zig-zagged, but for the most part subverted. She's thankful enough to Garth for waking her up, but has no interest whatsoever in getting into a relationship with him for it. At the end, she's still not really interested, but doesn't discount it as an option for the future.
* TrueLovesKiss: According to the story, the only thing that can wake her is the kiss of her true love. She herself, however, sees no real reason to fall in love with someone just for doing this, and isn't very enthusiastic about following this trope's usual conclusion once she wakes up.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kyrie]]
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE61Somnambula1 Somnambula, Part 1]]"

A magical canary with an enthralling song, whom Somnambula forces to lure victims for her to drain.
----
* MindControlMusic: Kyrie's singing is hypnotic, causing all adult ponies who hear it to go into a daze and head towards its source. Somnambula uses it to lure victims to herself.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Somnambula spends most of the episode tormenting Kyrie and forcing her to aid in committing evil acts she doesn't want to do. Eventually, Kyrie is finally pushed past the line, escapes and helps the ponies defeat Somnambula.
[[/folder]]

** Characters seem to enjoy doing this to the witches, as the Phlume even grabs Draggle by her ponytail in order to shake her off of it and whips her around by it.

* StaircaseTumble: This happens to Reeka and Draggle three times in the movie; the first two times they're thrown out of the house by Hydia, and third time after they get free of the Phlume.

* ChokeHolds: Draggle holding onto the Phlume's midsection has this affect on it, as the first thing it does is shake Draggle off of it before going after Reeka.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: It's not especially clear how its name should be spelled -- "Phlume", "Flume" and "Floom" all get the same sound across -- and no official spelling was ever been released during G1's run. ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyGenerations'' eventually settled on "Flume", providing the first official written spelling of the word after thirty-five years.

* ComedicSpanking: How does the Phlume get back at Reeka for stabbing it with a Power Pick? Grabbing a spoon from... somewhere... and spanking her with it. With said spoon magically disappearing later in the scene.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: In order to shake Draggle off of it, the Phlume grabs her exposed ponytail and repeatedly rams her head into its bulb before pulling her away from it and slamming her into its midsection and ramming her head into that. It also rams Reeka and Draggle into each other later in the same scene.

* NeckLift: After shaking off Draggle, the Phlume does this to Reeka and holds her over the cliff it lives on. It does it to her again at the climax of the scene, though in this case it's more or less a neck hold instead of a lift.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: It's not especially clear how its name should be spelled -- "Phlume", "Flume" and "Floom" all get the same sound across -- and no official spelling has ever been released. ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyGenerations'' eventually settled on "Flume", providing the first official written spelling of the word after thirty-five years.

[[folder:The Phlume]]

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: It's not especially clear how its name should be spelled -- "Phlume", "Flume" and "Floom" all get the same sound across -- and no official spelling has ever been released.

* OnlySaneMan: Yes. Right alongside Galaxy and Wind Whistler, she gets the long suffering position of being one of the more sensible ponies who has to keep the others in line and keep them from getting themselves killed.

* OnlySaneMan: She's pretty level-headed.

* OnlySaneMan: Oh, yeah. Just about every time bad happens, she's often put into groupings where she's the only one to keep her cool and things through.

* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]: Yes. Right alongside Galaxy and Wind Whistler, she gets the long suffering position of being one of the more sensible ponies who has to keep the others in line and keep them from getting themselves killed.

* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]: Pretty level-headed.

* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]: Oh, yeah. Just about every time bad happens, she's often put into groupings where she's the only one to keep her cool and things through.

* OnlySaneMan: Yes. Right alongside Galaxy and Wind Whistler, she gets the long suffering position of being one of the more sensible ponies who has to keep the others in line and keep them from getting themselves killed.

* OnlySaneMan: Pretty level-headed.

* OnlySaneMan: Oh yeah. Just about every time bad happens, she's often put into groupings where she's the only one to keep her cool and things through.

* {{Expy}}: [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic FiM]] [[GenkiGirl Pinkie Pie's]] personality is based off of her.

* {{Expy}}: ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic FiM]]'' Fluttershy's personality is based off of her.

* {{Expy}}: Spike would go on to become a recurring character in the various incarnations of ''My Little Pony'', and his character in G1 would have a significant impact in the development of his G3 and G4 versions.

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* TheSmartGuy: She's the smartest and most rational pony in the cast, and the likeliest one to at least try to think her way around problems.

* TheSmartGuy: She's not quite on the same level as Wind Whistler, but she's much more level-headed than other ponies and frequently serves as either the voice of reason, the knowledgeable one who informs the others about a new threat or object, or both.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JimCummings

* EnthrallingSiren: Kyrie's singing is hypnotic, causing all adult ponies who hear it to go into a daze and head towards its source. Somnambula uses it to lure victims to herself.

* [[NiceGuy Nice Girl]]: She’s level-headed and sweet.

* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: They're firmly entrenched in this sort of view, treating happiness, love, sunlight, flowers and the like as horrific and miserable things while relishing wretchedness, wickedness, dankness and more or less anything that could be described as awful.

* ExtremeOmnivore: They'll all eat anything, but Reeka is especially fond of snacking on things no sane human would think of putting in their mouth, like live ants or leeches.

* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Hydia often berates her daughters by wishing that they were evil and competent like she wants them to be.