History Characters / MyLittlePonyAndFriends

* RememberTheNewGuy: She debuts in "The Golden Horseshoes", but is introduced as a familiar character whom the others are already well-acquainted with,

* MasterOfIllusion: Her powers are initially limited to creating lifelike illusions. As her power increases, she eventually upgrades to being able to make her illusions physical reality.

[[caption-width-right:310:Yes, she was a human in G1]]

* AntagonistTitle: Is the Somnambula of her focus two-parter's title.
* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Flat out tortures her song bird to make the poor thing comply.
* BigNo: When Slugger breaks her crystal and returns her stolen youth and magic to her victims.
* CircusOfFear: Uses one to lure in her victims.
* EvilOldFolks: Her true form is 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.

* MasterOfIllusion: Her powers are initially this, but as her power increases she eventually upgrades to a degree of being a low level RealityWarper.

* RapidAging: Victims of her draining age rapidly while Somnambula herself grows younger
* RealityWarper: At her strongest she's a low level one.

* TheUsurper: She had Prince Phillip imprisoned so she could take over, as she's actually just the palace cook.
* WouldHurtAChild: Has the Newborns kidnapped and used as toys or pets.

* NoNameGiven: While they're given a collective moniker, they individual Crabnasties are never identified by personal names.

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* MakingASplash: Some unicorns have PsychicPowers, others have ElementalPowers. Fizzy's water-based powers usually show up as a BubbleGun.

* MakingASplash: The undine can control water, mostly in the form of blasts of it shot at the heroes.

[[folder:Somnambula]]
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[[caption-width-right:310:Yes, she was a human in G1]]

An old sorceress who drains the life-force of living beings through their dreams to retain her youth and power.

* AchillesHeel: They're vulnerable to being turned on their backs, as they can't move or right themselves when in this position.

* NoNameGiven: They're never identified by name.

->'''Voiced by:''' Ellen Gerstell

[[folder:Somnambula]]
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[[caption-width-right:310:Yes, she was a human in G1]]

An old sorceress who drains the life-force of living beings through their dreams to retain her youth and power.

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 Tirek, and regularly returns to Pony Land to help her equine friends.

Arabus' 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.

* BeingEvilSucks: He's shown to have serious self-loathing issues due to what [[spoiler:he's been forced to help Arabus do and turns on him the moment the heroes give him a way to escape]].

* DealWithTheDevil: He made one with Arabus to be a star, [[spoiler:only to find out too late what the price was. By then, it was too late and he had become Arabus's slave.]]
* GoodAllAlong: It turns out that he's [[spoiler:basically Arabus's slave, and only works for him because he's being forced to do so]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:He's guilt-ridden over helping Arabus, 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 Arabus consume everyone's shadows there. The only person left there who doesn't loathe him is [[spoiler:his own mother]].

* TearsOfRemorse: After being captured by the heroes, he starts crying these as [[spoiler:he admits only helped Arabus because he was forced to]].
* TrappedInVillainy: [[spoiler:He never intended to help Arabus, just get help b.ecoming a musician, and almost instantly tried to quit when he realized Arabus was using him... but Arabus 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 Arabus's slave.]]

[[folder:Arabus]]

* AchillesHeel: Arabus 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.

* CastFromStamina: All of Arabus' 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.

* OrcusOnHisThrone: Arabus 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: Arabus is powered up by feeding on shadows, but his power is finite. He needs to constantly feed on shadows or he grows weak.

* VictoryByEndurance: The ponies escape their first confrontation with him by exploiting this trope. Arabus 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: Arabus 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.

* YourSoulIsMine: It's implied his victims' shadows disappearing is merely an outward symptom of Arabus taking something else, implied to be part of their ''soul'' that allows them to feel positive emotions.

Arabus' zebra minion. Zeb oversees the capture of shadows, stealing them from people Knight-Shade lures in, before delivering them Arabus.

* VileVillainLaughableLackey: Arabus 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 Arabus sing about how much they like stealing shadows and anticipate doing this to the heroes.

* BreakoutVillain: Next to Tirek, 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.]]

An infant dragon who was originally a prisoner of Tirek. 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.

The mayor of Muensterville, a town of humanoid mice whom Arabus, 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 Arabus and Zeb.

* MindOverMatter: She had telekinesis.

* SquashyWizard: 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.

[[caption-width-right:350:"I have become the most powerful being on Ponyland!"]]

* BadBoss: He treats his minions terribly, and ''relishes'' his power over them.
* BigNo: Let's one out when he sees the Princess Ponies return his attack to sender.
* TheDreaded: The Princess Ponies know who he is, and despite their confidence in their power, their reaction to him showing up is to ''run''. Moochick is also aware of him, and implies he sees him as a gigantic threat as well. At one point ''[[NervesOfSteel Megan]]'' admits he has them dead to rights unless they manage to get to the VillainBeatingArtifact.
* EvilOverlord: The man ''relishes'' in being a tyrannical dictator, and treats his Lava Demon subjects horribly for no other reason than he ''can''.
* GodhoodSeeker: His goal is to steal the Princess Ponies' wands' power and become an all powerful crystal being. He succeeds, and the level of power he obtains proves he wasn't exaggerating and he only really loses due to still learning how to use his new power at the time.
* HandBlast: Can fire beams of heat from his hands. After his transformation, he trades up to powerful rainbow colored energy beams.

* TheJuggernaut: While not to Grogar's degree, next to nothing the heroes throw at Lavan once he goes OneWingedAngel does more than slow him down. He only dies when his own attack is reflected back at him.
* KilledOffForReal: Was blown to bits.
* LargeHam: Oh yes, and an enormous one at that. 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 colored 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.
* NoNonsenseNemesis: He's notably one of the few G1 villains who is very much willing to just flat out kill the heroes whenever the possibility arises. As soon as the Princess Ponies refuse to help him absorb their wands' power, he orders them thrown into lava. While he ''does'' merely have them imprisoned when they escape and he captures them, he does so because he's in the middle of going OneWingedAngel at the time and needs to complete it. After he's done, every time he confronts them afterwards, he's explicitly trying to kill them and when his minions can't find them.

* 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.

* VillainSong: "Here's to Power".

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/CamClarke, Creator/CharlieAdler and Creator/TownsendcColeman

* BreakoutVillain: Next to Tirek, 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]]

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

* 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.

* ImprobableAimingSkills: Robin Hood is the greatest archer who ever lived, which he demonstrates by shooting an arrow lengthwise with another arrow and then doing the same to the second with a third and by getting a bull's eye with five arrows at once. When the legends start fading, he loses this ability.

* TheDragon: He was Queen Bumble's primary second and enforcer before his HeelFaceTurn.

* 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.

* 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.

* ItsAllAboutMe: She's not really ''evil'' so much as incredibly narcissistic.

* BreakoutVillain: Next to Tirek, 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.