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* GoodScarsEvilScars: He has large scar over his left eye, but he's actually one of the most benevolent characters in the series.
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* UnfitForGreatness: [[spoiler:His origins reveal he thinks of himself as this. Originally a BrattyHalfPint who wanted to be the best Royal Knight ever, his arrogance and overconfidence in himself caused him to foolishly lead several orphan foals to their deaths. After this, Doom Chaser convinced him to make amends by becoming a Royal Guard, but he firmly believed he did not deserve any fame or special rank for his work, refusing multiple promotions unless they were forced on him. He eventually accepts the Celestic Gear offered to him and title of Royal Knight, even if he still believes he is unworthy of them.]]
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* ADayInTheLimelight: He starred in his own story in "Grand Hoof: The Legends Begins."
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* BreakTheHaughty: It was shown in ''Grand Hoof: The Legends Begins'' that he started out as a BrattyHalfPint, constantly boasting of how he is going to be a Royal Knight one day. But then his entire ego is crushed when [[spoiler:he foolishly leads a group of orphans into the woods to hunt down a Manticore, resulting in all of them getting killed and him only surviving thanks to Doom Chaser saving him]]. He ends up traumatized after this and gives up his dream of becoming a Royal Knight, settling for just being a regular Royal Guard and intending to have as low a rank as possible, believing he doesn't deserve anything else.
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* {{Dismotivation}}: When he became a sergeant in the Royal Guard, his performance was impeccable enough to get him recommended for higher ranks, but he refuses each one, believing that he was unworthy of those positions.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Was this to Doom Chaser in his past, even honoring his comrade by naming his son after him.
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* MyGreatestFailure: He feels completely responsible for how his son, Doom Raizer, and grandson, Lightning Blitz, had turned out. He eventually grows out of it, after Lightning Blitz saves his life, and he realizes that Doom Raizer will never own up to his own mistakes.
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** He feels completely responsible for how his son, Doom Raizer, and grandson, Lightning Blitz, had turned out. He eventually grows out of it, after Lightning Blitz saves his life, and he realizes that Doom Raizer will never own up to his ownmistakes.mistakes.
** He's also completely ashamed of [[spoiler:his rash decision to rally a group of orphans to hunt down a manticore during their youth, leading to all of their deaths, except for his own.]] After recognizing his foolishness, Grand pegs down his ego and initially settles on becoming a Royal Guard instead of a Royal Knight, believing that he is unworthy of the latter position. While he gets over this mentality by the present, the incident still drives much of his desire to protect others.
** He feels completely responsible for how his son, Doom Raizer, and grandson, Lightning Blitz, had turned out. He eventually grows out of it, after Lightning Blitz saves his life, and he realizes that Doom Raizer will never own up to his own
** He's also completely ashamed of [[spoiler:his rash decision to rally a group of orphans to hunt down a manticore during their youth, leading to all of their deaths, except for his own.]] After recognizing his foolishness, Grand pegs down his ego and initially settles on becoming a Royal Guard instead of a Royal Knight, believing that he is unworthy of the latter position. While he gets over this mentality by the present, the incident still drives much of his desire to protect others.
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* TheAtoner: He reveals to Flash in ''The Knight of Friendship'', that he became a Royal Knight to atone for his past.
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* SurvivorGuilt: [[spoiler:His origins reveal he accidentally led a group of kids to their deaths, foolishly thinking they could all take on a Manticore. He was the only survivor because he was saved by his friend Doom Chaser, but he spends the next month traumatized and wallowing in misery, believing that it should have just been him who died.]]
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* BadassInDistress: He is captured with Spike and Lightning by Malafear at the end of "The Assault of Ponyville".
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* TheWorfEffect: Despite being more powerful than any guards, They were no match for Changelings and ends up being kidnapped by them.
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* BadassInDistress: Queen Chrysalis kidnapped all of the Royal Knights... ''all of them''.
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* TheWorfEffect: Despite being more powerful than any guards, They were no match for Changelings and ends up being kidnapped by them.
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* LittleNo: She lets one out in "The Bug and the Knight", when she asks Solid Script to use a tracking spell to locate the kidnapper’s employer, upon seeing the spell show the Crystal Empire, and landing on the palace.
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* RapidFireNo: In "The Bug and the Crystal Knight", when she asks Solid Script to use a tracking spell to find the kidnapper’s employer, she watches the spell head up north and practically begs the spell not to land on the Crystal Empire. [[spoiler:It does, which causes her to let out a LittleNo.]]
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* RapidFireNo: In "The Bug and the Crystal Knight", when she asks Solid Script to use a tracking spell to find the kidnapper’s employer, she watches the spell head up north and practically begs the spell not to land on the Crystal Empire. [[spoiler:It does, which causes her to let out a LittleNo.]]
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* FireForgedFriend: She doesn't trust Hiveena and have her and Thorax wearing collars but the event of "The Bug and The Knight" causes her to be more trusting toward Hiveena and removes the collars from her and Thorax.
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* FireForgedFriend: FireForgedFriends: She doesn't trust Hiveena and have her and Thorax wearing collars but the event of "The Bug and The Knight" causes her to be more trusting toward Hiveena and removes the collars from her and Thorax.
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* AccidentalPublicConfession: In "Following the Grand Script", he blurts out about the reason why he didn't like Script at first by saying he hates Rune Magic which Script is an expert on.
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* TragicBigot: The death of Live Wire from the explosion caused by her experimented with Rune Magic causes Grand to despises any Rune Magic users especially Script by threatening him to stay away from Lightning, not wanting to lose his grandson the same way his wife died.
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* TragicBigot: The death of Live Wire from the explosion caused by her experimented experiments with Rune Magic causes Grand to despises any Rune Magic users especially Script by threatening him to stay away from Lightning, not wanting to lose his grandson the same way his wife died.
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* BerserkButton: Script press it when he suggested he was pawning Flash's training onto somepony else and took credit for it. Grand didn't take it well.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: He calls Zephyr Breeze out for being lazy, arrogant and selfish and saying he's only cares about himself and no ponies else.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: He calls Zephyr Breeze out for being lazy, arrogant and selfish and saying he's only cares about himself and no ponies else.gonna to respect him at all if he keep up his laziness.
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* RealMenWearPink: He visits the Ponyville spa and is completely unashamed by it, stating it helps him de-stress.
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* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Ruby was in the Crystal Empire when King Sombra's curse made it disappear, and was thus lost along with it. She returned along with it and has missed a thousand years worth of events, including the disappearance of the Jakhowls and Luna's banishment. Though it is downplayed due to it not really effecting Ruby emotionally, and she happily reunited with her old friend Princess Luna.
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* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Ruby was in the Crystal Empire when King Sombra's curse made it disappear, and was thus lost along with it. She returned along with it and has missed a thousand years worth of events, including the disappearance of the Jakhowls and Luna's banishment. Though it is seems downplayed at first due to it not really effecting Ruby emotionally, and she happily reunited reuniting with her old friend Princess Luna.Luna, she eventually reveals that this did indeed trouble her emotionally, feeling that if she had been there a thousand years ago there is a chance she could have saved the Jakhowls and stopped Luna from becoming Nightmare Moon. She also makes it clear she blames Sombra for all of this.
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An order who serve as the elite soldiers of Equestria. See above for Flash Sentry.
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An order who serve as the elite soldiers of Equestria. See above for Flash Sentry.
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[[folder:Flash Sentry]]
See Flash Sentry in "Mane Characters" page.
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See Flash Sentry in "Mane Characters" page.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: After Flash gains the Theta Mode he begins using it a lot, such as to win training matches against Iron and Springer. Iron tells Flash he relies on it too much, but Flash dismisses it, saying he is learning the best way to use it. Flash realizes Iron was right about him relying too much on it though when he travels to the human world and realizes he can't use the Theta Mode there, but tells Twilight to never tell Iron he said that.
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!! Royal Knights
An order who serve as the elite soldiers of Equestria. See above for Flash Sentry.
[[folder:General]]
* CallingYourAttacks: They all shout their attack moves when using their Celestic Gears.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Most of them have tragic backstories explaining why they chose to become Royal Knights.
* ElementalPowers: Each of them specializes in a different elemental magic.
* EliteArmy: They’re considered above the Royal Guard, and answer directly to the princesses.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Whenever they don't appear with Flash and the others, they are usually off doing their own missions. Iron usually protects Ponyville while Flash is absent, Ruby stays in the Crystal Empire, Cold wanders around a lot due to his investigation of the Cult of Shadow, etc.
* QualityOverQuantity: At the beginning of the series it was stated that only 12 Royal Knights were currently alive, and now there are currently only 9 in the Present. But despite their much smaller numbers compared to the average Royal Guard, they easily dwarf them in terms of abilities and power.
* TakenForGranite: In Nightmare Moon's BadFuture, most of them have been turned to stone, with Flash being the only one to escape this fate.
* ThouShallNotKill: They may be skilled in combat, but they have a general principle of not taking a life.
* TrueCompanions: All of them care for each other and often work together to deal with threats to Equestria.
* TwoGirlsToATeam: Heather Bloom and Ruby Scarlet are the Royal Knights' female members.
* UndyingLoyalty: They are each completely loyal to Equestria and each of the princesses. This is deconstructed in "Rainbow Falls" when Skybreaker explains that a Royal Knight must be loyal to all of Equestria equally and not play favorites to one specific part of it. This would mean leaving one town they want to protect to ensure the safety of another that is in greater danger, even if it means abandoning their hometown, or their friends and family, to ensure the safety of the rest of the country. It also means they are forbidden from competing for any teams in the Equestria Games, since they must remain neutral.
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[[folder:Grand Hoof]]
The leader of the Royal Knights, and Flash’s mentor.
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* TheAtoner: He reveals to Flash in ''The Knight of Friendship'', that he became a Royal Knight to atone for his past.
* ADayInTheLimelight: He will get his own story in "Grand Hoof: The Legends Begins."
* {{Catchphrase}}: Before he goes into battle, he tells his enemies "count up your sins" as a warning, since they'll need to explain them all when they [[ImpliedDeathThreat get to the other side]]. Because Grand is the leader of the Royal Knights, it has led to the others [[BorrowedCatchphrase using the phrase themselves from time to time]].
* CoolOldGuy: He may be much older than the other Royal Knights, but he's much more personable and friendly than most of them.
* DrillSergeantNasty: Puts up this front when meeting new recruits for the Royal Guard.
* DropTheHammer: His Celestic Gear is a hammer.
* AFatherToHisMen: He cares deeply about the knights under his command, including Cold Steel.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: He has large scar over his left eye, but he's actually one of the most benevolent characters in the series.
* TheMentor: He made Flash his apprentice shortly after Flash was taken in by Twilight's family, and taught him everything he knows.
* MomentKiller: He ends up accidentally ruining a moment between Rarity and Lightning Blitz, walking in on the two of them as they are enjoying each other's company and asks to speak with Lightning alone. Downplayed since the two of them aren't annoyed by this and agree to speak again later.
* MyGreatestFailure: He feels completely responsible for how his son, Doom Raizer, and grandson, Lightning Blitz, had turned out. He eventually grows out of it, after Lightning Blitz saves his life, and he realizes that Doom Raizer will never own up to his own mistakes.
* RetiredBadass: He is eventually forced to retire from the Royal Guard due to old age and is honorably discharged by Celestia and Luna. Downplayed since he says even if he is no longer a guard he is still a knight, retaining his leadership over the other knights, joining the Ponyville Defenders as their newest member, and saying he can still give lectures to new guard recruits whenever he is in Canterlot.
* SupportingLeader: He is the leader of the Royal Knights, one of the main forces of good in the series, but he is still only a supporting character while Flash is the main protagonist.
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[[folder:Iron Core]]
A Royal Knight who helps Flash Sentry defend Ponyville.
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* TheBigGuy: He's about the size of Big Mac and one of the most physically tough Royal Knights.
* DishingOutDirt: He specializes in earth magic, notably metal.
* EvolvingWeapon: [[spoiler:His gear gains the ability to change from its regular spear form to a set of armor, complete with spikes that can be shot and a spearhead on his tail that can change into different weapons.]]
* {{Expy}}: He is one for [[Manga/FairyTail Gajeel]].
* FirstKiss: [[spoiler:He and Fluttershy share their first kiss together at the end of "Iron's Revenge" in the Canterlot garden, the same place they first met each other a year ago.]]
* InterspeciesRomance: Iron Core, an earth pony, eventually falls in love with [[spoiler:Fluttershy, a pegasus]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He can seem cold and, at times, abrasive. However, he's still a Royal Knight and deeply cares for those close to him like Fluttershy.
* MorphWeapon: His Celestic Gear, the Piecemaker, can change into any weapon imaginable, such as spears and shields.
* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler:He becomes one with Fluttershy at the end of "Iron's Revenge".]]
* ThePowerOfHate: Longhorn tried to convince him that the only way Iron Core was ever going to defeat him, was to muster up as much hatred as possible. It didn’t work out because...
** ThePowerOfLove: [[spoiler:Iron Core realized that his hatred for Longhorn was holding him back, and he defeated him, not for his hatred for Longhorn, but for his love of Fluttershy.]]
* RevengeBeforeReason: He tried to hunt down Longhorn and his gang by himself, once he got word of his location. [[spoiler:After almost getting himself killed, and Fluttershy taken hostage, he immediately drops it, as he realizes that it was holding him back from defeating Longhorn.]]
* SuperMode: [[spoiler:After realizing that his thirst for revenge against Longhorn was actually holding him back, he decides to stop fighting for revenge and start fighting to protect everyone he loves, like Fluttershy. This causes his Celestic Gear, Piecemaker, to evolve, changing from its standard spear form to a suit of armor.]]
* SupportingLeader: [[spoiler:After becoming an official Royal Knight, he takes over leadership of the Ponyville Defenders, due to now outranking Flash and Lightning. He no longer is this by season 5, due to Flash now being a Royal Knight and taking back his position as leader.]]
* TookALevelInKindness: He starts out as a huge jerk, but after moving to Ponyville he slowly starts to chill out, especially after befriending Fluttershy [[spoiler:and starting a relationship with her]].
* YouKilledMyFather: His reasoning for hunting down Longhorn, was because he murdered his parents.
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[[folder:Skybreaker]]
A Royal Knight who mentored Iron Core.
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* AloneAmongTheCouples, In "A Wild Wild Heartswarming," he attends the celebration at Cloudsdale, where he's the only one to not be in a romantic relationship, besides [[CasanovaWannabe Zephyr Breeze]]. He doesn't seem to mind this, though.
* AnAxeToGrind: His Celestic Gear is an axe. Even his cutie mark features one cutting through a cloud.
* ArtificialLimbs: He has a mechanical right wing.
* BlowYouAway: He specializes in wind magic.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: On top of missing his right wing, he's covered in smaller scars and, while he can be occasionally hostile, he's still a Royal Knight and cares for both civlians and his fellow Royal Knights.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He starts out hostile towards Flash and Springer because the former reminded him of himself when he was younger and more impulsive, while he thought that the latter was unfit to serve with the Royal Knights. As time progresses, he develops more respect for both of them and generally becomes more amicable.
* TheMentor: He was Iron Core's mentor, the same way Grand was Flash's.
* TookALevelInKindness: He warms up to Flash after the Doom Raizer arc.
* YouRemindMeOfX: The reason why he started out hostile towards Flash, was because he reminded him of himself when he was younger. He grows out of it after the Doom Raizer Arc.
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[[folder:First Aid and Heather Bloom]]
A pair of Royal Knights who were old friends of Grand Hoof and visit Flash Sentry in Ponyville.
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* ActionGirl: Heather Bloom is one of the two female Royal Knights.
* AutomaticCrossbows: First Aid's Celestic Gear is a crossbow, which can fire a storm of arrows at once.
* BattleCouple: {{Subverted}}. They aren’t married, but they’re really good at fighting as a team together.
* ChainPain: Heather Bloom's Celestic Gear is a chain with a metal flower head shaped instrument on one end.
* CombatMedic: First Aid can use his magic to heal his allies during fights and he's a competent fighter himself.
* GeniusBruiser: On top of being Royal Knights, they're a doctor and botanist respectively, in which they've managed to discover several cures to diseases.
* GreenThumb: Heather Bloom specializes in plant based magic.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: They're old friends with Grand Hoof and significantly younger than him.
* NiceGuy: Well, girl in Heather's case, but both are amicable to Flash upon meeting him, which contrasts with many of the other Royal Knight's initial underestimation of him.
* PlatonicLifePartners: The two aren’t married, but they travel around together, and care deeply for one another.
* PleaseWakeUp: Heather's parents ended up dying in their sleep after getting sick when she was just a kid, but she was so young she just thought they were just AsleepForDays. When she met First Aid and brought him home to help them, he explained to her they were dead and what that meant, causing her to scream for them to wake up.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: First Aid wears a pair of half moon spectacles and he's a doctor.
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[[folder:Tidal Wave]]
A Royal Knight who is the head of the Equestrian Navy.
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* BerserkButton: He's normally collected, but the mere presence of pirates is enough for him to lose his temper, as shown when he encounters Foggy Dreadbeard and his crew.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He is one of the few Royal Knights with an outwardly friendly attitude from the start, but if he becomes angry then he can be quiet a scary pony, willing to do stuff like cut off someone's oxygen while interrogating them to get the answers he wants.
* CoolBoat: He captains a {{Magitek}} ship called the Mighty Leviathan that can submerge.
* GratuitousSpanish: Speaks Spanish phrases on occasion.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: How he justifies nearly drowning a group of pirates to get information that he needed when Twilight called him out on it.
* MakingASplash: He specializes in water magic.
* NiceGuy: One of the only Royal Knights besides Grand Hoof, First Aid, and Heather Bloom to not show any animosity towards Flash Sentry during their first meeting, which is in stark contrast to Skybreaker's reaction.
* ProngsOfPoseidon: His Celestic Gear is a trident, specifically fitting the first type of this trope.
* YouKilledMyFather: His reasoning for hunting pirates is because his parents were killed by pirates.
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[[folder:Ruby Scarlet]]
A Royal Knight from the Crystal Empire.
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* ActionGirl: Ruby Scarlet is one of the two female Royal Knights.
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: When encountering Sombra for the second time, she's deeply hurt by his FaceHeelTurn and declares that she once loved him at one point. Although initially regretful, Sombra rejects this notion, believing that she's lying to him.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: She suffers from this in the [[BadFuture King Sombra timeline]], and again in [[spoiler:the Evil Flash timeline]].
* CrystalWeapon: Her primary weapon is a crystal shaped sword.
* {{Expy}}: She is one for [[Manga/FairyTail Erza]].
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Ruby was in the Crystal Empire when King Sombra's curse made it disappear, and was thus lost along with it. She returned along with it and has missed a thousand years worth of events, including the disappearance of the Jakhowls and Luna's banishment. Though it is downplayed due to it not really effecting Ruby emotionally, and she happily reunited with her old friend Princess Luna.
* GemstoneAssault: She specializes in crystal magic.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Ruby Scarlet is implied to be this. Unlike Trixie, she enjoys "going out for drinks" with Princess Luna and Trixie's fearful reactions to these occasions indicates that the results are not pretty. It doesn't help that many new drinks were invented in the thousand years that she was gone, making her more eager to drink with Luna.
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: She attempts this when trying to get [[spoiler:Sombra to fight against Armalum's control over his body]].
* ImpliedDeathThreat: She warns Hiveena that if she gives her any reason to believe that she might slip up, she’ll make sure that she never takes the throne from Chrysalis.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Forms one with Trixie. They both get along well since they were both students of Princess Luna.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She initially speaks to Flash in a condescending tone and generally acts cold to others, especially towards those she's suspicious of like Hiveena. However, she's still interested in protecting others and she has opened up more to Flash and Hiveena.
* OriginalCharacter: She replaces Radiant Hope from the comics. Unlike Radiant Hope, she gives up on Sombra once she sees that he has gone too far.
* TookALevelInKindness: She doesn't show much respect for Flash when they first meet, deeming him to be too inexperienced to fight Sombra with her. However, she later becomes impressed with Flash's determination to protect the Crystal Empire and generally becomes much kinder from that point onwards.
* WorfEffect: She is defeated by Dark Mist in the first chapter of ''The Forgotten Darkness'', demonstrating how dangerous he is and why he is the ArchEnemy of Sharp Paw and the Princess Luna.
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[[folder:Cold Steel]]
A Royal Knight who is investigating the Cult of Shadows.
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* BadassInDistress: Discussed briefly in the beginning of ''War of the Lost City''. During the two weeks Flash and his team spent traveling to the City of Faust, Cold at some point fell into a volcano and needed everyone else to save him.
* CynicismCatalyst: He was taken in by a royal guard named Noble Banner. When Noble Banner was sent on a mission to the Badlands, he never came back, which lead to Cold Steel to become the apathetic pony that he is now.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: His village was destroyed by bandits, who killed his parents and almost killed him too, before his magic protected him and [[ChildrenForcedToKill killed the bandits]]. He was forced to survive on his own for years before he was found and helped.
* DefiantToTheEnd: After he is defeated by Shadow Corrupter, he manages just enough strength to tell Shadow that he will never win before collapsing. Downplayed when it is revealed shortly afterwards that [[spoiler:he didn't die and was being healed inside the castle]].
* DefrostingTheIceQueen: He starts warming up to Flash after he helps him save a town from a greedy unicorn named Gold Hoof, which turned out to be the mission that the map had sent Flash out on.
* ElementalWeapon: Given that he can create ice, he usually wields an ice sword in combat.
* {{Foil}}: To Flash Sentry. They both had [[DarkAndTroubledPast bad childhoods]], growing up alone with no family until someone showed them kindness and helped them, and by the end of ''The Knight of Friendship'' [[spoiler:they are both Royal Knights]]. However, despite everything he went through, Flash never lost his optimism and constantly tried to help others, wanting to earn their friendship and protect others so they wouldn't go through what he did. Cold on the other hand suffered a CynicismCatalyst, when Noble Banner, the one who rescued him, never came back from a mission, and he grew to see others around him as [[AMillionIsAStatistic just tools to be used]] having no lives of their own, including himself. Twilight realizes that this contrast between the two is the real reason Grand wanted Cold to be Flash's opponent for Flash's final test, because the two of them are exact opposites of each other.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: Storm Blade claims that they first met when Noble Banner brought Cold to Canterlot and presented him to Grand and the princesses. Cold however can't remember meeting Storm since he was just a kid when it happened, and can't tell if he's telling the truth. It turns out Storm ''was'' lying about having met him previously, but he ''did'' know about Cold because Noble told him all about him.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: He is a Royal Knight and is loyal to all the princesses, including Twilight, but he quickly gets on everyone's bad side with his bad attitude, treating other ponies as tools rather than living beings.
* HeroAntagonist: He is a Royal Knight and is therefore loyal to the princesses and Equestria, but he serves as the main obstacle to Flash finally becoming a Royal Knight in ''The Knight of Friendship''. This is mostly just him acting as an {{invoked}} DesignatedVillain by virtue of being Flash's opponent for his test, but his bad attitude towards Flash and views of only seeing his fellow ponies as tools to be used don't earn him any friends among the group. His TheReasonYouSuckSpeech towards Flash and brutal defeat towards him in their first fight is also what drives him to a HeroicBSOD.
* AnIcePerson: He specializes in ice magic, and he based his fighting style off of Ruby Scarlet’s crystal magic, but modified it to make it his own style.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Out of all the Royal Knights, he's probably the most emotionless and cold of them. He's incredibly harsh to Flash during his trial and has trouble showing compassion or empathy to other. As the series progresses, he reveals a bit more of his softer side and, despite all of his negative qualities, is still dedicated to protecting others.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Grand Hoof concedes that as much of a {{jerkass}} that he is, he was right about Flash not having a reason to join the Royal Knights.
* KnowWhenToFoldThem: [[spoiler:During Flash Sentry’s HeroicRematch with him, Cold Steel forfeits the match, when he realizes that he won’t be able to defeat him while he’s borrowing the power of the Sacred Light.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: {{Downplayed}}: He admires Ruby Scarlet, and is loyal to the princesses. That said, he looks down on ponies who he sees as lost causes, and is adamant that Flash has no right to join the Royal Knights.
* AMillionIsAStatistic: He only views others based on how useful they could be in protecting Equestria. He also doesn’t consider Equestria to be made up of the ponies that live in its borders, as he says: ‘Ponies come and go’. Twilight has to hammer it into his head that without the ponies living in Equestria’s borders, it would be nothing but land.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: He gives one to Flash during their battle, explaining how he has relied too much on others to win his battles, and about how he has no real reason to join the Royal Knights. He ends up on the receiving end of this himself during their rematch, when Flash breaks down the flaws in his view of ponies as tools and seeing Equestria as just the land and not the citizens.
* VaguenessIsComing: He tried to interrogate members of a cult that he was investigating, but all he got out of them was a warning that a shadow is coming to consume the world, and that Flash Sentry may be involved in it.
* WhatTheHellHero: He tears Grand Hoof a new one after he defeats Flash in their battle. Declaring that he disgraced the Royal Knights for making someone as unworthy as Flash his apprentice.
* TheWorfEffect: He gets defeated by Shadow Corruptor, showing that even without the Corrupted Shadow, he’s still a dangerous threat to be reckoned with.
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!! Royal Knights
An order who serve as the elite soldiers of Equestria. See above for Flash Sentry.
[[folder:General]]
* CallingYourAttacks: They all shout their attack moves when using their Celestic Gears.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Most of them have tragic backstories explaining why they chose to become Royal Knights.
* ElementalPowers: Each of them specializes in a different elemental magic.
* EliteArmy: They’re considered above the Royal Guard, and answer directly to the princesses.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Whenever they don't appear with Flash and the others, they are usually off doing their own missions. Iron usually protects Ponyville while Flash is absent, Ruby stays in the Crystal Empire, Cold wanders around a lot due to his investigation of the Cult of Shadow, etc.
* QualityOverQuantity: At the beginning of the series it was stated that only 12 Royal Knights were currently alive, and now there are currently only 9 in the Present. But despite their much smaller numbers compared to the average Royal Guard, they easily dwarf them in terms of abilities and power.
* TakenForGranite: In Nightmare Moon's BadFuture, most of them have been turned to stone, with Flash being the only one to escape this fate.
* ThouShallNotKill: They may be skilled in combat, but they have a general principle of not taking a life.
* TrueCompanions: All of them care for each other and often work together to deal with threats to Equestria.
* TwoGirlsToATeam: Heather Bloom and Ruby Scarlet are the Royal Knights' female members.
* UndyingLoyalty: They are each completely loyal to Equestria and each of the princesses. This is deconstructed in "Rainbow Falls" when Skybreaker explains that a Royal Knight must be loyal to all of Equestria equally and not play favorites to one specific part of it. This would mean leaving one town they want to protect to ensure the safety of another that is in greater danger, even if it means abandoning their hometown, or their friends and family, to ensure the safety of the rest of the country. It also means they are forbidden from competing for any teams in the Equestria Games, since they must remain neutral.
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[[folder:Grand Hoof]]
The leader of the Royal Knights, and Flash’s mentor.
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* TheAtoner: He reveals to Flash in ''The Knight of Friendship'', that he became a Royal Knight to atone for his past.
* ADayInTheLimelight: He will get his own story in "Grand Hoof: The Legends Begins."
* {{Catchphrase}}: Before he goes into battle, he tells his enemies "count up your sins" as a warning, since they'll need to explain them all when they [[ImpliedDeathThreat get to the other side]]. Because Grand is the leader of the Royal Knights, it has led to the others [[BorrowedCatchphrase using the phrase themselves from time to time]].
* CoolOldGuy: He may be much older than the other Royal Knights, but he's much more personable and friendly than most of them.
* DrillSergeantNasty: Puts up this front when meeting new recruits for the Royal Guard.
* DropTheHammer: His Celestic Gear is a hammer.
* AFatherToHisMen: He cares deeply about the knights under his command, including Cold Steel.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: He has large scar over his left eye, but he's actually one of the most benevolent characters in the series.
* TheMentor: He made Flash his apprentice shortly after Flash was taken in by Twilight's family, and taught him everything he knows.
* MomentKiller: He ends up accidentally ruining a moment between Rarity and Lightning Blitz, walking in on the two of them as they are enjoying each other's company and asks to speak with Lightning alone. Downplayed since the two of them aren't annoyed by this and agree to speak again later.
* MyGreatestFailure: He feels completely responsible for how his son, Doom Raizer, and grandson, Lightning Blitz, had turned out. He eventually grows out of it, after Lightning Blitz saves his life, and he realizes that Doom Raizer will never own up to his own mistakes.
* RetiredBadass: He is eventually forced to retire from the Royal Guard due to old age and is honorably discharged by Celestia and Luna. Downplayed since he says even if he is no longer a guard he is still a knight, retaining his leadership over the other knights, joining the Ponyville Defenders as their newest member, and saying he can still give lectures to new guard recruits whenever he is in Canterlot.
* SupportingLeader: He is the leader of the Royal Knights, one of the main forces of good in the series, but he is still only a supporting character while Flash is the main protagonist.
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[[folder:Iron Core]]
A Royal Knight who helps Flash Sentry defend Ponyville.
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* TheBigGuy: He's about the size of Big Mac and one of the most physically tough Royal Knights.
* DishingOutDirt: He specializes in earth magic, notably metal.
* EvolvingWeapon: [[spoiler:His gear gains the ability to change from its regular spear form to a set of armor, complete with spikes that can be shot and a spearhead on his tail that can change into different weapons.]]
* {{Expy}}: He is one for [[Manga/FairyTail Gajeel]].
* FirstKiss: [[spoiler:He and Fluttershy share their first kiss together at the end of "Iron's Revenge" in the Canterlot garden, the same place they first met each other a year ago.]]
* InterspeciesRomance: Iron Core, an earth pony, eventually falls in love with [[spoiler:Fluttershy, a pegasus]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He can seem cold and, at times, abrasive. However, he's still a Royal Knight and deeply cares for those close to him like Fluttershy.
* MorphWeapon: His Celestic Gear, the Piecemaker, can change into any weapon imaginable, such as spears and shields.
* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler:He becomes one with Fluttershy at the end of "Iron's Revenge".]]
* ThePowerOfHate: Longhorn tried to convince him that the only way Iron Core was ever going to defeat him, was to muster up as much hatred as possible. It didn’t work out because...
** ThePowerOfLove: [[spoiler:Iron Core realized that his hatred for Longhorn was holding him back, and he defeated him, not for his hatred for Longhorn, but for his love of Fluttershy.]]
* RevengeBeforeReason: He tried to hunt down Longhorn and his gang by himself, once he got word of his location. [[spoiler:After almost getting himself killed, and Fluttershy taken hostage, he immediately drops it, as he realizes that it was holding him back from defeating Longhorn.]]
* SuperMode: [[spoiler:After realizing that his thirst for revenge against Longhorn was actually holding him back, he decides to stop fighting for revenge and start fighting to protect everyone he loves, like Fluttershy. This causes his Celestic Gear, Piecemaker, to evolve, changing from its standard spear form to a suit of armor.]]
* SupportingLeader: [[spoiler:After becoming an official Royal Knight, he takes over leadership of the Ponyville Defenders, due to now outranking Flash and Lightning. He no longer is this by season 5, due to Flash now being a Royal Knight and taking back his position as leader.]]
* TookALevelInKindness: He starts out as a huge jerk, but after moving to Ponyville he slowly starts to chill out, especially after befriending Fluttershy [[spoiler:and starting a relationship with her]].
* YouKilledMyFather: His reasoning for hunting down Longhorn, was because he murdered his parents.
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[[folder:Skybreaker]]
A Royal Knight who mentored Iron Core.
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* AloneAmongTheCouples, In "A Wild Wild Heartswarming," he attends the celebration at Cloudsdale, where he's the only one to not be in a romantic relationship, besides [[CasanovaWannabe Zephyr Breeze]]. He doesn't seem to mind this, though.
* AnAxeToGrind: His Celestic Gear is an axe. Even his cutie mark features one cutting through a cloud.
* ArtificialLimbs: He has a mechanical right wing.
* BlowYouAway: He specializes in wind magic.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: On top of missing his right wing, he's covered in smaller scars and, while he can be occasionally hostile, he's still a Royal Knight and cares for both civlians and his fellow Royal Knights.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He starts out hostile towards Flash and Springer because the former reminded him of himself when he was younger and more impulsive, while he thought that the latter was unfit to serve with the Royal Knights. As time progresses, he develops more respect for both of them and generally becomes more amicable.
* TheMentor: He was Iron Core's mentor, the same way Grand was Flash's.
* TookALevelInKindness: He warms up to Flash after the Doom Raizer arc.
* YouRemindMeOfX: The reason why he started out hostile towards Flash, was because he reminded him of himself when he was younger. He grows out of it after the Doom Raizer Arc.
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[[folder:First Aid and Heather Bloom]]
A pair of Royal Knights who were old friends of Grand Hoof and visit Flash Sentry in Ponyville.
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* ActionGirl: Heather Bloom is one of the two female Royal Knights.
* AutomaticCrossbows: First Aid's Celestic Gear is a crossbow, which can fire a storm of arrows at once.
* BattleCouple: {{Subverted}}. They aren’t married, but they’re really good at fighting as a team together.
* ChainPain: Heather Bloom's Celestic Gear is a chain with a metal flower head shaped instrument on one end.
* CombatMedic: First Aid can use his magic to heal his allies during fights and he's a competent fighter himself.
* GeniusBruiser: On top of being Royal Knights, they're a doctor and botanist respectively, in which they've managed to discover several cures to diseases.
* GreenThumb: Heather Bloom specializes in plant based magic.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: They're old friends with Grand Hoof and significantly younger than him.
* NiceGuy: Well, girl in Heather's case, but both are amicable to Flash upon meeting him, which contrasts with many of the other Royal Knight's initial underestimation of him.
* PlatonicLifePartners: The two aren’t married, but they travel around together, and care deeply for one another.
* PleaseWakeUp: Heather's parents ended up dying in their sleep after getting sick when she was just a kid, but she was so young she just thought they were just AsleepForDays. When she met First Aid and brought him home to help them, he explained to her they were dead and what that meant, causing her to scream for them to wake up.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: First Aid wears a pair of half moon spectacles and he's a doctor.
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[[folder:Tidal Wave]]
A Royal Knight who is the head of the Equestrian Navy.
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* BerserkButton: He's normally collected, but the mere presence of pirates is enough for him to lose his temper, as shown when he encounters Foggy Dreadbeard and his crew.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He is one of the few Royal Knights with an outwardly friendly attitude from the start, but if he becomes angry then he can be quiet a scary pony, willing to do stuff like cut off someone's oxygen while interrogating them to get the answers he wants.
* CoolBoat: He captains a {{Magitek}} ship called the Mighty Leviathan that can submerge.
* GratuitousSpanish: Speaks Spanish phrases on occasion.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: How he justifies nearly drowning a group of pirates to get information that he needed when Twilight called him out on it.
* MakingASplash: He specializes in water magic.
* NiceGuy: One of the only Royal Knights besides Grand Hoof, First Aid, and Heather Bloom to not show any animosity towards Flash Sentry during their first meeting, which is in stark contrast to Skybreaker's reaction.
* ProngsOfPoseidon: His Celestic Gear is a trident, specifically fitting the first type of this trope.
* YouKilledMyFather: His reasoning for hunting pirates is because his parents were killed by pirates.
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[[folder:Ruby Scarlet]]
A Royal Knight from the Crystal Empire.
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* ActionGirl: Ruby Scarlet is one of the two female Royal Knights.
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: When encountering Sombra for the second time, she's deeply hurt by his FaceHeelTurn and declares that she once loved him at one point. Although initially regretful, Sombra rejects this notion, believing that she's lying to him.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: She suffers from this in the [[BadFuture King Sombra timeline]], and again in [[spoiler:the Evil Flash timeline]].
* CrystalWeapon: Her primary weapon is a crystal shaped sword.
* {{Expy}}: She is one for [[Manga/FairyTail Erza]].
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Ruby was in the Crystal Empire when King Sombra's curse made it disappear, and was thus lost along with it. She returned along with it and has missed a thousand years worth of events, including the disappearance of the Jakhowls and Luna's banishment. Though it is downplayed due to it not really effecting Ruby emotionally, and she happily reunited with her old friend Princess Luna.
* GemstoneAssault: She specializes in crystal magic.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Ruby Scarlet is implied to be this. Unlike Trixie, she enjoys "going out for drinks" with Princess Luna and Trixie's fearful reactions to these occasions indicates that the results are not pretty. It doesn't help that many new drinks were invented in the thousand years that she was gone, making her more eager to drink with Luna.
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: She attempts this when trying to get [[spoiler:Sombra to fight against Armalum's control over his body]].
* ImpliedDeathThreat: She warns Hiveena that if she gives her any reason to believe that she might slip up, she’ll make sure that she never takes the throne from Chrysalis.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Forms one with Trixie. They both get along well since they were both students of Princess Luna.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She initially speaks to Flash in a condescending tone and generally acts cold to others, especially towards those she's suspicious of like Hiveena. However, she's still interested in protecting others and she has opened up more to Flash and Hiveena.
* OriginalCharacter: She replaces Radiant Hope from the comics. Unlike Radiant Hope, she gives up on Sombra once she sees that he has gone too far.
* TookALevelInKindness: She doesn't show much respect for Flash when they first meet, deeming him to be too inexperienced to fight Sombra with her. However, she later becomes impressed with Flash's determination to protect the Crystal Empire and generally becomes much kinder from that point onwards.
* WorfEffect: She is defeated by Dark Mist in the first chapter of ''The Forgotten Darkness'', demonstrating how dangerous he is and why he is the ArchEnemy of Sharp Paw and the Princess Luna.
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[[folder:Cold Steel]]
A Royal Knight who is investigating the Cult of Shadows.
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* BadassInDistress: Discussed briefly in the beginning of ''War of the Lost City''. During the two weeks Flash and his team spent traveling to the City of Faust, Cold at some point fell into a volcano and needed everyone else to save him.
* CynicismCatalyst: He was taken in by a royal guard named Noble Banner. When Noble Banner was sent on a mission to the Badlands, he never came back, which lead to Cold Steel to become the apathetic pony that he is now.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: His village was destroyed by bandits, who killed his parents and almost killed him too, before his magic protected him and [[ChildrenForcedToKill killed the bandits]]. He was forced to survive on his own for years before he was found and helped.
* DefiantToTheEnd: After he is defeated by Shadow Corrupter, he manages just enough strength to tell Shadow that he will never win before collapsing. Downplayed when it is revealed shortly afterwards that [[spoiler:he didn't die and was being healed inside the castle]].
* DefrostingTheIceQueen: He starts warming up to Flash after he helps him save a town from a greedy unicorn named Gold Hoof, which turned out to be the mission that the map had sent Flash out on.
* ElementalWeapon: Given that he can create ice, he usually wields an ice sword in combat.
* {{Foil}}: To Flash Sentry. They both had [[DarkAndTroubledPast bad childhoods]], growing up alone with no family until someone showed them kindness and helped them, and by the end of ''The Knight of Friendship'' [[spoiler:they are both Royal Knights]]. However, despite everything he went through, Flash never lost his optimism and constantly tried to help others, wanting to earn their friendship and protect others so they wouldn't go through what he did. Cold on the other hand suffered a CynicismCatalyst, when Noble Banner, the one who rescued him, never came back from a mission, and he grew to see others around him as [[AMillionIsAStatistic just tools to be used]] having no lives of their own, including himself. Twilight realizes that this contrast between the two is the real reason Grand wanted Cold to be Flash's opponent for Flash's final test, because the two of them are exact opposites of each other.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: Storm Blade claims that they first met when Noble Banner brought Cold to Canterlot and presented him to Grand and the princesses. Cold however can't remember meeting Storm since he was just a kid when it happened, and can't tell if he's telling the truth. It turns out Storm ''was'' lying about having met him previously, but he ''did'' know about Cold because Noble told him all about him.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: He is a Royal Knight and is loyal to all the princesses, including Twilight, but he quickly gets on everyone's bad side with his bad attitude, treating other ponies as tools rather than living beings.
* HeroAntagonist: He is a Royal Knight and is therefore loyal to the princesses and Equestria, but he serves as the main obstacle to Flash finally becoming a Royal Knight in ''The Knight of Friendship''. This is mostly just him acting as an {{invoked}} DesignatedVillain by virtue of being Flash's opponent for his test, but his bad attitude towards Flash and views of only seeing his fellow ponies as tools to be used don't earn him any friends among the group. His TheReasonYouSuckSpeech towards Flash and brutal defeat towards him in their first fight is also what drives him to a HeroicBSOD.
* AnIcePerson: He specializes in ice magic, and he based his fighting style off of Ruby Scarlet’s crystal magic, but modified it to make it his own style.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Out of all the Royal Knights, he's probably the most emotionless and cold of them. He's incredibly harsh to Flash during his trial and has trouble showing compassion or empathy to other. As the series progresses, he reveals a bit more of his softer side and, despite all of his negative qualities, is still dedicated to protecting others.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Grand Hoof concedes that as much of a {{jerkass}} that he is, he was right about Flash not having a reason to join the Royal Knights.
* KnowWhenToFoldThem: [[spoiler:During Flash Sentry’s HeroicRematch with him, Cold Steel forfeits the match, when he realizes that he won’t be able to defeat him while he’s borrowing the power of the Sacred Light.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: {{Downplayed}}: He admires Ruby Scarlet, and is loyal to the princesses. That said, he looks down on ponies who he sees as lost causes, and is adamant that Flash has no right to join the Royal Knights.
* AMillionIsAStatistic: He only views others based on how useful they could be in protecting Equestria. He also doesn’t consider Equestria to be made up of the ponies that live in its borders, as he says: ‘Ponies come and go’. Twilight has to hammer it into his head that without the ponies living in Equestria’s borders, it would be nothing but land.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: He gives one to Flash during their battle, explaining how he has relied too much on others to win his battles, and about how he has no real reason to join the Royal Knights. He ends up on the receiving end of this himself during their rematch, when Flash breaks down the flaws in his view of ponies as tools and seeing Equestria as just the land and not the citizens.
* VaguenessIsComing: He tried to interrogate members of a cult that he was investigating, but all he got out of them was a warning that a shadow is coming to consume the world, and that Flash Sentry may be involved in it.
* WhatTheHellHero: He tears Grand Hoof a new one after he defeats Flash in their battle. Declaring that he disgraced the Royal Knights for making someone as unworthy as Flash his apprentice.
* TheWorfEffect: He gets defeated by Shadow Corruptor, showing that even without the Corrupted Shadow, he’s still a dangerous threat to be reckoned with.
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