History Characters / MyLittlePonyAndFriends

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%%* EyepatchOfPower

%%* BeePeople

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%%* TheHero
%%* IdealHero

%%* PluckyGirl

%%* FieryRedhead
%%* HotBlooded

%%* VolleyingInsults: With Molly.%%ZCE

%%* BadassNormal: And this is why.%%ZCE

%%* CuteClumsyGirl

%%* EmoKid

%%* FunPersonified
%%* GenkiGirl:

%%* NiceGuy

%%* BadassBookworm

%%* NiceGirl

%%* TheVoiceless: Lily.

%%* LargeHam
%%* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething

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%%* ToylessToylineCharacter

An Earth Pony mare who first appearing in the movie, Magic Star is the unquestioned leader of the Dream Valley ponies.

* AscendedExtra: In the toyline, she was just another pegasus equivalent in personality to North Star, Lofty, etc., while the TV show gave her leading roles in numerous episodes (and the BigDamnMovie) and developed her into the show’s deepest and most complex character.

* DependingOnTheWriter: The most notable instance among the reoccurring ponies. In the toys and British comics, she's TheDitz while in the animated series playing TheSpock to Fizzy's ditz.

* TheSmartGuy: Definitely the smartest pony around.
* TheSpock: 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 the personality clash.

* AnsweringEcho: In the movie, Morning Glory, who's trapped in a well, sings her part 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: 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.

* CharacterDevelopment: Morning Glory starts "The End Of Flutter Valley" storyarc 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.

* HiddenElfVillage: Flutter Valley, a hidden and secluded settlement where the Flutter Ponies live in deep seclusion.

* TheIngenue: Morning Glory is 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: Morning Glory under influence of Sting, culminating in her defending him from Pointer by knocking the latter out.

* WorfHadTheFlu: They spend most of "End of Flutter Valley" captive and in danger...but only because their wings are covered in honey and thus they can't use their Utter Flutter. It's heavily 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.
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[[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.

* 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: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).

* 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: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.

* 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.

-->''If Lavan destroys Ponyland, I will suffer along with the rest of you. I've suffered enough at Lavan's hands.

An EvilSorcerer ram who rules as an unmitigated tyrant over the Theatre/{{Brigadoon}} city of Tambelon. For tropes about his G4 counterpart, see Characters/FriendshipIsMagicHistoricalFigures.

* 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 kind has become extremely careful not actually bring Grundleland in conversation as a result.

* BigDamnHeroes: The Flutter Ponies, led as a battalion by Queen Rosedust, drive back the Smooze just before it engulfs Paradise Estate and everyone in it.
%%* BigGood: Queen Rosedust.%%ZCE -- how?

* TimeAbyss: He's very, very old -- Pluma estimates that his reign was somewhere between one and two 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.

* DealWithTheDevil: He made one with Erebus 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 Erebus' slave.]]

* AnthropomorphicZigZag: "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.

->'''Hydia voiced by:''' Creator/TressMacNeille (series) and Creator/ClorisLeachman (movie)
->'''Reeka voiced by:''' Jennifer Darling (series) and Rhea Perlman (movie)
->'''Draggle voiced by:''' Jennifer Darling (series) and Creator/MadelineKahn (movie)

* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: They're extremely brightly colored even compared to the ponies, coming in highly saturated shades of pink, purple, red, orange, yellow and green. In general, it's highly unlikely for there to be more than one or two bushwoolies of the same shade in any singly shot.

* CoolShades: Her hip symbol.

%%* HiddenElfVillage

%%* IneptMage: Draggle.

[[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.

[[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

[[folder:The Stonebacks]]
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->'''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:Sting]]
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->'''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
* 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
* 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:Pluma]]
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->'''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:Grandpa Ruff]]
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[[caption-width-right:280:In his old age]]
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->'''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:Dinah]]
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->'''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: Mayor Camembert]]
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->'''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:The Sheriff of Muensterville]]
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[[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:Niblik]]
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->'''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.

[[folder:Dell Dwellers]]
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE35MishMashMelee Mish Mash Melee]]"

Monkey-like creatures who live underground and create and maintain nature.

* 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: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.

* 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: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.

* 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:The Alligatorsaur]]
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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.

* 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: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.

* 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: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.

* 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: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.

* 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: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.

* 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: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.

* 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: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.

* 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: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.

* 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: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: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.

* 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.
* 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.

* PutOnABus: Don't appear at all in Season 2.

* MulticolouredHair: Her mane and tail are divided into stripes of red, pink, white and teal.

* MulticolouredHair: Red, pink, white and teal.

* MulticolouredHair: Red, pink and white.

* MulticolouredHair: Light blue, teal, and two shades of green.

* MulticolouredHair: Blue, ice blue, yellow and red.

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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 [[ScienceMarchesOn looks like a spinosaurid]].

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: In practice, it resembles a bipedal, wingless Western dragon more so than any actual crocodile or dinosaur. Nowadays, however, most would say it [[PaleontologyMarchesOn looks like a spinosaurid]].

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: In practice, it resembles a bipedal, wingless Western dragon more so than any actual crocodile or dinosaur.

--->'''Spike:''' Oh, some shortcut, we've been walking for hours. Okay, let's try again. Which way leads to Dream Valley?\\

The bushwoolies typically appear in large groups, without individual personalities or names. The only named ones 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 of the bushwoolies in most of their appearances.

%%* {{Shorttank}}

%%* TheStoryteller

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.

%%* NoSenseOfDirection
%%* SmallAnnoyingCreature