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| 2 | !![[center: [- [[Characters/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Main Index]] -]]][[center: [- '''[[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicTheManeCast The Main Cast:]]''' [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicTwilightSparkle Twilight Sparkle]], [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicFluttershy Fluttershy]], [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicRarity Rarity]], [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicApplejack Applejack]], [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicRainbowDash Rainbow Dash]], [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicPinkiePie Pinkie Pie]], [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicSpike Spike]], [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicStarlightGlimmer Starlight Glimmer]], [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicTheCutieMarkCrusaders the Cutie Mark Crusaders]]-]]] [[center: [- '''Supporting Cast:''' [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicThePrincesses The Princesses]] ([[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicPrincessCelestia Princess Celestia]], [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicPrincessLuna Princess Luna]]), [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicManeFamilyMembers Mane Family Members]], [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicSchoolOfFriendship the School of Friendship]], [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicSupportingCastPonyville Ponyville]], [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicSupportingCastOtherLocations Other Locations]], [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicAnimalCompanions Animal Companions]]-]]] [[center: [-'''Antagonists:''' [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicMajorVillains Major Villains]] ([[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicQueenChrysalis Queen Chrysalis]], [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicKingSombra King Sombra]], [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicLordTirek Lord Tirek]], [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicCozyGlow Cozy Glow]]), [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicDangerousCreatures Dangerous Creatures]], [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicJerksAndBullies Jerks and Bullies]], [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicRedeemed Redeemed Antagonists]] ([[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicDiscord Discord]])-]]] [[center: [- '''World of Equestria:''' [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicRaces Races]], [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicHistoricalFigures Historical Figures]], [[Characters/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017 the 2017 Movie]], [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]], [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicToylineExclusive Toyline Exclusive]], [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicMiscellaneous Miscellaneous]]-]]] [[center: [-'''Minor Characters:''' [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicOneShots One-Shots]], [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicOthers Other Characters]], [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicBackgroundPonies Background Ponies]] ([[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicBackgroundPoniesCommonPonies Common Background Ponies]], [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicBackgroundPoniesSpecialPonies Special Background Ponies]], '''Other Background Ponies''')-]]] [[center: [- '''Equestria Girls:''' [[Characters/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsHeroines Heroines]] ([[Characters/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsSunsetShimmer Sunset Shimmer]]), [[Characters/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsVillains Villains]], [[Characters/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsSupportingCast Supporting Cast]] -] ]] |
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| 5 | !!Other Background Ponies |
| 6 | There is a whole stable of other background ponies who recur throughout the series. These ponies aren't quite as common, tropable, or popular as the above ponies, or we simply haven't gotten around to giving them their own entries. Some of them, too, have made their marks on the fanbase, if not to the extent of the more prominent. |
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| 8 | To see a comprehensive list of most ponies (background and otherwise) from the show, go to the [[http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_ponies Friendship Is Magic Wiki]]. |
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| 11 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 13 | [[folder:Other ponies and their tropes]] |
| 14 | * AllThereInTheManual: |
| 15 | ** [[AllThereInTheScript Apple Stars]]'s [[http://www.hasbro.com/common/productimages/en_CA/627353535056900b105dff72ac6a9b16/4A63293B50569047F58E8C9F5F43A9FA.jpg collector card]] reveals that she "loves to spend time talking with her friends!" |
| 16 | ** [[AllThereInTheScript Banana Fluff]]'s collector card reveals that she "collects pretty gems to make jewelry!" |
| 17 | ** [[AllThereInTheScript Berry Dreams]]'s collector card reveals that she "loves playing games with her friends in the park!" |
| 18 | ** [[AllThereInTheScript Comet Tail]]'s collector card reveals that he "runs so fast that he looks like a shooting star!" |
| 19 | ** [[AllThereInTheScript Helia]]'s [[http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/File:Helia,_Marathon_Mare_card_MLP_CCG.jpg collector card]] from the Crystal Games expansion set to the CCG reveals that Thunderlane "once saw her fly for five hours straight without taking a break or breaking a sweat". |
| 20 | ** [[AllThereInTheScript High Spirits]]' collectible card says that "sometimes [she] can get so excited that she can't stand still. And by 'sometimes' I mean ALL the times'. |
| 21 | ** [[AllThereInTheScript Lilac Links]]'s collector card reveals that she "always wears a good luck charm!" |
| 22 | ** [[AllThereInTheScript Lucky Star]]'s [[http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/File:Lucky_Star,_Charming_Cheerer_card_MLP_CCG.jpg card]] says that "her school's hoofball team won every game she cheered at". |
| 23 | ** [[AllThereInTheScript Sunny Rays]]'s [[http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-FGlqxG2eQyI/T9yeZdse24I/AAAAAAAADLA/u5L1rryWCcs/s1600/IMG_0189.jpg brushable toy's box]] and her [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TEP_F4eFuXA/T16NUGBwQ3I/AAAAAAAAia4/fqJYeVIa77w/s1600/3.jpg collector cards]] reveal that she "has a lot of bright ideas. Her friends can always count on her to help them solve problems!" |
| 24 | ** [[AllThereInTheScript Twilight Sky]]'s [[http://mylittlewiki.org/wiki/File:W4_Twilight_Sky_Card.jpg collector]] [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pNOqQQl3OVE/UHTPxWgtfKI/AAAAAAAA79Q/lQEc_Vky4tU/s1600/18+(Twilight+Sky).jpg cards]] reveal that he "loves to play guessing games with friends!" |
| 25 | ** [[AllThereInTheScript Tropical Storm]](one of several Derpy {{palette swap}}s in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E11WinterWrapUp "Winter Wrap Up"]])'s [[http://mylittlewiki.org/wiki/File:Wave9TropicalStorm.jpg molded toy]] reveals her eye color. |
| 26 | ** The [[UsefulNotes/IOSGames iOS app]] ''[[http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/my-little-pony-ruckus-reader/id498464830?mt=8 Ruckus Reader]]'''s storybook ''Rarity Loves Fashion'' reveals that "South Pole" (one of the large Canterlot unicorn stallions from [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E26TheBestNightEver "The Best Night Ever"]]) is a movie star who Rarity made clothes for. |
| 27 | ** [[http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=348772588505163 Unfinished]] [[http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=351605684888520 screenshots]] (one of them higher-res than the show itself) from [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E26ACanterlotWeddingPart2 "A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2"]] posted by Creator/TheHub's Website/{{Facebook}} [[http://www.facebook.com/hubtvnetwork page]] show the twelve hornblowing unicorns much less obscured by magic auras, making the eight who've only appeared as those hornblowers more clearly visible. |
| 28 | ** [[AllThereInTheScript Ace Point]] the Tennis Pony's cutie mark is always hidden under his shorts, but apparently it's [[http://comments.deviantart.com/1/203045153/1936520237 "balls"]], [[http://comments.deviantart.com/1/203045153/1936521289 "TENNNIS [sic] balls."]] |
| 29 | * AlliterativeName: [[AllThereInTheScript Lilac Links]], [[AllThereInTheScript Lyrica Lilac]], [[AllThereInTheScript Parcel Post]], [[AllThereInTheScript Pursey Pink]], [[AllThereInTheScript Silver Spanner]] and Silverspeed. |
| 30 | * AscendedExtra: |
| 31 | ** "Chocolate Sun" (one of the large Canterlot unicorn stallions from [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E26TheBestNightEver "The Best Night Ever"]] and [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E9SweetAndElite "Sweet and Elite"]]) is [[http://www.hasbro.com/common/assets/Flash/Creative/dad2af6e1c4311ddbd0b0800200c9a66/0f6b55af5056900b1013cd724a8d4018/assetsuitcase/characters/MLP_CharV_Stallion.swf included]] in the ''[[http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/en_US/play/details.cfm?R=0F6B55AF-5056-900B-1013-CD724A8D4018:en_US Card Creator]]'' game on Hasbro and Creator/TheHub's websites. |
| 32 | ** [[AllThereInTheScript Sunny Rays]] is included in the ''Pony Wedding'' brushables (with art that matches her in-show appearance in design if not in color) as well as the Waves 5 & 8 Blind Bags. Not bad for a pony who only appears at the beginning of [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E8LookBeforeYouSleep one episode]]! |
| 33 | ** [[AllThereInTheScript Berry Dreams]] from [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E13FallWeatherFriends "Fall Weather Friends"]], [[AllThereInTheScript Lilac Links]] from [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E18TheShowStoppers "The Show Stoppers"]], [[AllThereInTheScript Banana Fluff]] from [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E5SisterhoovesSocial "Sisterhooves Social"]], and [[AllThereInTheScript Apple Stars]] from [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E18AFriendInDeed "A Friend in Deed"]] all have molded toys in Blind Bag Wave 7, and [[AllThereInTheScript Tropical Storm]] from [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E11WinterWrapUp "Winter Wrap Up"]] is also getting a molded toy. Note that these five ponies have only appeared in one shot each. |
| 34 | ** On a different note, [[AllThereInTheScript Twilight Sky]] has two different molded toys as an earth pony despite his pegasus version being much more common in-show than his Earth pony version--out of the four episodes he appears in ([[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E20GreenIsntYourColor "Green Isn't Your Color"]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E13HearthsWarmingEve "Hearth's Warming Eve"]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E22HurricaneFluttershy "Hurricane Fluttershy"]], and [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E12GamesPoniesPlay "Games Ponies Play"]]), he's only an Earth pony for some shots during the first of those episodes. |
| 35 | ** [[AllThereInTheScript Purple Wave]], whose sole appearance so far was in Rarity's ImagineSpot from ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E3TheTicketMaster The Ticket Master]]'', has a molded figure and collector's card in Blind Bag Wave 11. |
| 36 | ** [[AllThereInTheScript Honey Rays]], a one-shot Sassaflash palette swap on the weather team in ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E11WinterWrapUp Winter Wrap-Up]]'', has been featured in the [[http://www.mlpmerch.com/2014/09/image-found-of-honey-rays-charm-wings.html Cutie Mark Magic Charm Wings]] brushable line, and before that,the ninth wave of blind bags. |
| 37 | ** Along with the aforementioned Berry Dreams, the other two Iron Pony cheerleaders from [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E13FallWeatherFriends "Fall Weather Friends"]], [[AllThereInTheScript Charged Up and Lucky Star]], have also recieved collectible cards. |
| 38 | ** [[AllThereInTheScript Sunshine Petals]], the flower vendor from "Rarity Takes Manehattan", has a brushable doll in the [[http://www.mlpmerch.com/2015/06/ponymania-friendship-blossom-collection.html Ponymania Friendship Blossom]] box set. |
| 39 | * BadassAdorable: During one shot in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E15TheSuperSpeedyCiderSqueezy6000 "The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000"]], one earth pony mare (who makes multiple other appearances, but without her cutie mark visible and/or without any cutie mark) is shown with a ''hammer & lightning'' cutie mark, which inspired her fandom nickname "Mjölna" (after Thor's hammer Mjölnir), though it's replaced with a sandwich cutie mark in the very next shot. |
| 40 | * CanonImmigrant: A number of background ponies appeared in the toys before debuting in the show. One group -- Cherry Spices, Electric Sky, Magnet Bolt, Barber Groomsby and a few others -- were originally slated to be used in Season 1 in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E6BoastBusters Boast Busters]]", but were cut before airing and remained toyline exclusive for several seasons. Cherry Spices appeared in the Season 4 episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E24EquestriaGames Equestria Games]]", as well as Issue 9 of the IDW comics, most of the others only made their on-screen debuts in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E25TheCutieRemarkPart1 The Cutie Re-Mark]]" at the end of Season 5, and Groomsby only made it on-screen in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E4OnYourMarks On Your Marks]]", in Season 6. |
| 41 | * CastHerd: While early seasons tended to reuse the same set of background pony designs for every major location, only changing a few details or accessories for thematic purposes -- for instance, the Ponyville background ponies reappearing in Appleloosa with cowboy hats and bonnets and in Canterlot with fancy clothing, or just the pegasi designs being used to populate Cloudsdale -- later seasons have tended to assign other locations their own sets of background designs that only appear in association with them; to date, Las Pegasus, Somnambula and the Friendship School all have their own specific sets of recurring background ponies. |
| 42 | %%* CoolHelmet: The mares depicted in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFQJ8QAPm34 this]] [[Creator/TheHub Hub]] commercial.%%ZCE |
| 43 | * CoolShades: |
| 44 | ** Madden, the Best Young Flyer Competition announcer from [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E16SonicRainboom "Sonic Rainboom"]]. |
| 45 | ** Three of the four ponies in the out-of-control carriage during [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E8TheMysteriousMareDoWell "The Mysterious Mare Do Well"]]. |
| 46 | ** One of the two ValleyGirl ponies from [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E19PuttingYourHoofDown "Putting Your Hoof Down"]]. |
| 47 | * CreatorCameo: Director Jayson Thiessen is the voice of Ponyville Hospital's security guard Night Watch from [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E16ReadItAndWeep "Read It and Weep"]] and of the teacher Professor Bill Neigh from [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E1TheCrystalEmpirePart1 "The Crystal Empire - Part 1"]]. |
| 48 | * {{Expy}}: A stallion who appears in the background of one shot during [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E26ACanterlotWeddingPart2 "A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2"]] has drawn comparisons to Franchise/HarryPotter and/or [[VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo Kenji Setou]], though he's much more likely to be based on the former than the latter (if either). |
| 49 | * GenderFlip: [[AllThereInTheScript Comet Tail]] is a stallion, while his G3 counterpart is a mare. |
| 50 | * HighClassGlass: Caesar, one of the recurring "high society" ponies, sports a monocle and top hat. |
| 51 | * LargeHamAnnouncer: |
| 52 | ** Madden, the announcer of the Best Young Flyer Competition from [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E16SonicRainboom "Sonic Rainboom"]]. |
| 53 | ** The [[TheVoice unseen]] announcer of the Wonderbolts Derby from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E9SweetAndElite "Sweet and Elite"]]. |
| 54 | * LittleMissBadass: Archer's cutie mark is a bow and arrow which would imply her special talent is ''archery''. Moreso when you consider that they don't even have fingers with which to pull back the strong (or even nock the arrow). And unlike Fire Chief, she's an Earth Pony so no magic for this little filly! |
| 55 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: |
| 56 | ** The announcer pegasus from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E16SonicRainboom Sonic Rainboom]]", resembles John Madden. |
| 57 | ** The stage manager pegasus from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E16SonicRainboom Sonic Rainboom]]", who later appears as a unicorn with a different cutie mark in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E19PuttingYourHoofDown Putting Your Hoof Down]]", resembles Lucille Ball. |
| 58 | * {{Paparazzi}}: Appear in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E20GreenIsntYourColor "Green Isn't Your Color"]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E26TheBestNightEver "The Best Night Ever"]], and [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E8TheMysteriousMareDoWell "The Mysterious Mare Do Well"]]. |
| 59 | * RainbowLite: Several pegasi have three-colored rainbow cutie marks, typically with a red stripe, a yellow one and a blue or purple one. Examples include "Roy G. Bow"[=/=]"Spectrum" (purple/orange/yellow), "Q. T. Prism" (blue/orange/yellow) from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E11WinterWrapUp Winter Wrap Up]]" and [[AllThereInTheScript Prism Glider]] (purple/orange/yellow) from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E22HurricaneFluttershy Hurricane Fluttershy]]". One of the students from Twilight's post-Season 8 school has a cutie mark of a rainbow with red, orange, yellow, lime and sky-blue stripes. |
| 60 | * ShipTease: |
| 61 | ** "Ponet" is heavily implied to be with Lightning Bolt in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E17HeartsAndHoovesDay "Hearts and Hooves Day"]]. |
| 62 | ** "Strawberry Cream" is heavily implied to be with Golden Harvest in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E17HeartsAndHoovesDay "Hearts and Hooves Day"]], though the shot before that shows her with Caramel instead (however, an even earlier shot shows Caramel with [[AllThereInTheScript Sassaflash]]). |
| 63 | ** "Silver Script" is heavily implied to be with Parasol in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E17HeartsAndHoovesDay "Hearts and Hooves Day"]], though in later seasons he appears to be [[AmbiguouslyBi in a relationship with Star Bright]]. |
| 64 | * StellarName: Several ponies are named after celestial objects and phenomena, such as Blue Moon, Dark Moon, Comet Tail and Lucky Star. |
| 65 | * SuddenlyVoiced: Helia gets a speaking role at the beginning of "Rainbow Falls". This role was scripted as Blossomforth, which she is a PaletteSwap of, but the latter pony was relegated to the background and remained voiceless. |
| 66 | %%* ValleyGirl: "Surf" and "Turf" from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E19PuttingYourHoofDown Putting Your Hoof Down]]".%%ZCE |
| 67 | * TheVoice: The Wonderbolts Derby announcer from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E9SweetAndElite Sweet and Elite]]". |
| 68 | * WingedUnicorn: It's not unheard of for mixups with Flash models to turn background characters into alicorns. |
| 69 | ** The most notable example would be the construction worker "Rivet", who in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E5GranniesGoneWild Grannies Gone Wild]]" appears as an alicorn for a scene several seconds long and while dominating the foreground -- unlike most "background alicorns", which usually appear in blink-and-you'll miss it snapshots and well in the background -- and then reappears in the background of a following shot, still with wings and horn and alongside another construction worker who was also turned into an alicorn. |
| 70 | ** More minor examples include one of the townsponies stampeding towards the cutie mark vault in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E2TheCutieMapPart2 The Cutie Map]]" and one of Twilight's students in a crowd shot in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E22WhatLiesBeneath What Lies Beneath]]". |
| 71 | * WrenchWench: During one shot in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E15TheSuperSpeedyCiderSqueezy6000 "The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000"]], unicorn mare Silver Spanner (who makes multiple other appearances, but without her cutie mark visible) has a wrench cutie mark. |
| 72 | %%* YouthfulFreckles: [[AllThereInTheScript Helia]], the Blossomforth PaletteSwap from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E22HurricaneFluttershy Hurricane Fluttershy]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E2TheCrystalEmpirePart2 The Crystal Empire - Part 2]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E5MagicDuel Magic Duel]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E9AppleFamilyReunion Apple Family Reunion]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E10RainbowFalls Rainbow Falls]]", and "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E24EquestriaGames Equestria Games]]".%%ZCE -- youthful how? |
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| 75 | |
| 76 | !!Non-Pony Background Extras |
| 77 | These characters act and are used just like background ponies except for the simple fact that they're not ponies. Some of the hoofed species on this list currently fall into FurryConfusion territory seeing as many of them are seemingly treated as any other domesticated animal yet at the same time can talk with the ponies or act in a rather civilized manner. |
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| 79 | [[folder:Non-Ponies List]] |
| 80 | !!The Cattle |
| 81 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cows.png]] |
| 82 | ->''"Oh my! Begging your pardon, Applejack, but Mooriella here saw one of those nasty snakes. And it just gave us all the willies, dontcha know."'' |
| 83 | ->--'''Daisy Jo''', explaining what caused their stampede in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E4ApplebuckSeason "Applebuck Season"]] |
| 84 | |
| 85 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E4ApplebuckSeason Applebuck Season]]" |
| 86 | |
| 87 | The cows from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E4ApplebuckSeason Applebuck Season]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E6BoastBusters Boast Busters]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E18AFriendInDeed A Friend in Deed]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E4OneBadApple One Bad Apple]]", and "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E6SleeplessInPonyville Sleepless in Ponyville]]" produce Ponyville's daily supply of fresh milk, but they get spooked by snakes easily. The oxen from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E17HeartsAndHoovesDay Hearts and Hooves Day]]" and "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E9AppleFamilyReunion Apple Family Reunion]]" pull carts. |
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| 89 | * AnimalStampede: The cow herd is introduced stampeding ''en masse'' towards Ponyville, causing a mass panic among the townsponies as the thundering herd bears down on the village. As Daisy Jo explains once Applejack manages to divert the stampede away from the town, one of the cows had spotted a snake and this sent the herd into a panicked stampede. |
| 90 | * FurryConfusion: They live on farms and are corralled and milked in the same exact way as real-life cows... except that they can speak, and by all indications they're just as intelligent as the other ungulates who run their farms, which the show portrays as unambiguously intelligent human-like people. |
| 91 | * NationalStereotypes: Their Wisconsin mannerisms and thick accents mark them as a play on the stereotypical association of the U.S. state in question with the milch cattle farms and the dairy industry. |
| 92 | * NoNameGiven: With the exception of Mooriella and Daisy Jo. |
| 93 | * VerbalTic: Daisy Jo tends to end her sentences with "dontcha know". |
| 94 | |
| 95 | !!The Mule |
| 96 | [[quoteright:195:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mule____none_taken_by_cobaltwinterborn_d5eqevx_3.png]] |
| 97 | ->''"None taken."'' |
| 98 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E4ApplebuckSeason Applebuck Season]]" |
| 99 | ->'''Voiced by:''' James "Wootie" Wootton[[note]]according to [[http://www.ponychan.net/chan/arch/res/6286.html#6442 this]] post by Jayson Thiessen and [[http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=201211133281617&id=216767748385467 this]] post by James "Wootie" Wootton[[/note]] |
| 100 | |
| 101 | A polite and friendly fellow who isn't easily offended. He appears in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E4ApplebuckSeason Applebuck Season]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E22HurricaneFluttershy Hurricane Fluttershy]]" and "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E4OneBadApple One Bad Apple]]". |
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| 103 | * CoolShades: He wears a pair in "One Bad Apple". |
| 104 | * CreatorCameo: His one line (used in both "Applebuck Season" and "Hurricane Fluttershy") was provided by one of the show's co-directors. |
| 105 | * NoNameGiven: He's never referred to by name by other characters, and he's simply listed as "mule" in the credits. |
| 106 | * PresentCompanyExcluded: In the first two seasons, there's a minor running gag of the characters using the word "mule" in a derogatory sense like we would in real life... before realizing that an actual mule is in hearing and apologizing. |
| 107 | ** This happens for the first time in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E4ApplebuckSeason Applebuck Season]]": |
| 108 | --->'''Twilight Sparkle:''' ''[concerning her friend Applejack]'' That pony is as stubborn as a mule!\ |
| 109 | '''Mule:''' [snort]\ |
| 110 | '''Twilight Sparkle:''' No offense.\ |
| 111 | '''Mule:''' None taken. |
| 112 | ** Done again in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E22HurricaneFluttershy Hurricane Fluttershy]]": |
| 113 | --->'''Rainbow Dash:''' Be cool, or be a mule! No offense.\ |
| 114 | '''Mule:''' None taken. |
| 115 | ** Subverted in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E4OneBadApple One Bad Apple]]" -- the same set-up as before is used where a pony, Diamond Tiara, refers to Babs Seed as being "too cool for mule" and the mule hears and takes notice. However, unlike the previous two times, Diamond Tiara does not apologize or even appear to notice -- [[TheBully which is admittedly perfectly in-character for her]]. |
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| 117 | !!The Sheep |
| 118 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sheep_fim.png]] |
| 119 | ->''"You coulda just asked."'' |
| 120 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E5SisterhoovesSocial Sisterhooves Social]]" |
| 121 | |
| 122 | Woolly animals that come in different colors. "Sisterhooves Social" shows a flock of white and black sheep presumably kept at Sweet Apple Acres for their wool. "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E21DragonQuest Dragon Quest]]" shows a few wild black sheep up in the snowy mountains, one of whom lets Spike hitch a ride on him. In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E11PartyPooped Party Pooped]]", another flock halts Pinkie's train by loitering on the tracks. |
| 123 | |
| 124 | [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E1TheCrystalEmpirePart1 "The Crystal Empire - Part 1"]], [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E2TheCrystalEmpirePart2 "The Crystal Empire - Part 2"]], and [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E12GamesPoniesPlay "Games Ponies Play"]] show some tiny ewes of various colors in the Crystal Empire. |
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| 126 | * AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: The Crystal Empire's tiny ewes, whose wool comes in pink, lilac and cyan pastel colors, and with teal and lilac skin. |
| 127 | * EyesOutOfSight: The black sheep's wool hangs over their foreheads, completely obscuring their eyes. |
| 128 | * FurryConfusion: |
| 129 | ** The regular sheep are as intelligent as the ponies and the other intelligent species in the show -- at the very least they're capable of speech -- but unlike the other species who are unambiguously portrayed as civilized people, they are shown living like regular sheep do, as livestock on farms... except they're just as intelligent as the farmers in this instance. |
| 130 | ** In regards to the Crystal Empire's tiny ewes, however, it's not clear whether they're this trope or they're actually just animals. |
| 131 | * HappinessInSlavery: When Applejack and Apple Bloom corral them, the sheep complain about being chased in and of itself rather than being chased into a pen. |
| 132 | * HorseOfADifferentColor: In "Dragon Quest", Spike climbs up a steep snowy mountainside on the back of a passing ram. |
| 133 | |
| 134 | !!The Animal Contestants |
| 135 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pet_finalists.png]] |
| 136 | [[caption-width-right:350:The four finalists]] |
| 137 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E7MayTheBestPetWin May the Best Pet Win!]]" |
| 138 | |
| 139 | A group of twelve flying animals -- a hummingbird, an owl, a male and a female mallard, a monarch butterfly, a peregrine falcon, a bald eagle, a toucan, a ladybug, a wasp, a flamingo and a bat -- who compete to be Rainbow's pet when she decides she wants an animal companion of her own. To do this, she puts them through a series of trials to test their speed, agility, guts, style, coolness, awesomeness and radicalness, culminating in four finalists racing her through Ghastly Gorge. |
| 140 | ---- |
| 141 | * FeatherFingers: Many of the birds use their wings in much the same way as fingered hands, such as the eagle using its wings to knit a sweater or the duck using his to hold a hat and cane. This is most visible when the falcon shakes "hands" with Tank at the end, its primary feathers folding to grip Tank's foreleg like four fingers and a thumb. |
| 142 | * GracefulLoser: The falcon technically won the race through Ghastly Gorge that was meant to determine which of the four finalists would be Rainbow's pet. When Rainbow chooses Tank instead by virtue of the tortoise having been the only animal to actually notice she was in trouble and stay behind to help her, the falcon accepts his disqualification with dignity, shaking "hands" with Tank in congratulations before leaving. |
| 143 | * ImpossibleShadowPuppets: For the TalentContest, the wasp decides to do shadow puppets despite lacking fingers, and somehow manages to do a galleon in full sail. |
| 144 | * KnowWhenToFoldEm: The ladybug is the first of the contenders to drop out when Rainbow warns them during the lineup to bow out now if they don't think their up for it, before they humiliate themselves before their peers. The ladybug evidently feels it isn't, and sheepishly leaves before the first trial. |
| 145 | * NobleBirdOfPrey: Since Rainbow Dash is looking for the coolest possible pet, and since she naturally enough requires one capable of flight, several feature. The most notable ones are a falcon, an eagle ("both quite regal", as described by Fluttershy) and an owl that advance to the finals thanks to being mighty, majestic and dignified creatures. The falcon is even a GracefulLoser. |
| 146 | * TheOwlKnowingOne: During the style contest, which takes the form of a photo shoot with Dash, the owl goes for a bookish and learned aesthetic. While the other animals mostly go for sporty and dynamic styles, the owl's picture shows it and Dash posing in sweaters and bowties, with Rainbow's mane slicked back and the owl standing on a pile of books. |
| 147 | * RealMenWearPink: Watch as the bold and majestic eagle... knits Rainbow Dash a sweater? |
| 148 | |
| 149 | !!The Goats |
| 150 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tie_munching_goat_s2e19.png]] |
| 151 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E19PuttingYourHoofDown Putting Your Hoof Down]]" |
| 152 | |
| 153 | One shows up as a pet at Fluttershy's cottage in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E7MayTheBestPetWin May the Best Pet Win!]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E13MagicalMysteryCure Magical Mystery Cure]]" and "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E1PrincessTwilightSparklePart1 Princess Twilight Sparkle, part 1]]", and two others appear as Iron Will's assistants in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E19PuttingYourHoofDown Putting Your Hoof Down]]" and "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E21OnceUponAZeppelin Once Upon a Zeppelin]]". They invoke FurryConfusion more than other creatures, since they don't talk and other goats are treated as pets, but Iron Will's are able to operate electric devices and wear ties. |
| 154 | ---- |
| 155 | * AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: Iron Will's assistants wear ties (one red and one blue), name tags, microphone headpieces and nothing else, matching Iron Will's own black tie and headpiece. |
| 156 | * AnimalEyes: Goats have horizontal pupils, a rarity among most animals, and a fact carried into the design of MLP's goat characters. |
| 157 | * ExtremeOmnigoat: Iron Will's goats can be seen in "Putting Your Hoof Down" munching on each other's neckties and, at one point, Pinkie's tail. In "Once Upon a Zeppelin", when Iron Will and one of the goats are reclining on deck chairs and drinking from hollowed pineapples, the goat just takes a large bite out of the pineapple instead. |
| 158 | * FurryConfusion: They don't talk, but wear clothing, use furniture and seem to employed by Iron Will, and display a fairly high degree of intelligence. It doesn't help that other episodes show goats as animals in Fluttershy's menagerie. |
| 159 | * IntelligibleUnintelligible: They only make braying noises, but Iron Will seems to understand them just fine. |
| 160 | * NoNameGiven: Iron Will's assistants are not referred by name in either episode they appear in, and since they don't talk they're not named in the credits either. |
| 161 | * TheUnintelligible: They can only bleat, but they're understood by Iron Will anyway. |
| 162 | |
| 163 | !!Equestria Games Griffon Team |
| 164 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/equestria_games_griffons.png]] |
| 165 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E10RainbowFalls Rainbow Falls]]" |
| 166 | |
| 167 | A set of nameless griffons who competed in the Rainbow Falls relay team qualifying round, and later appear in the Games proper in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E24EquestriaGames Equestria Games]]". |
| 168 | ---- |
| 169 | * AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Ponies don't have a monopoly on strangely colored beings. One of the griffons on the team is colored pink and maroon, another is solid purple and third is cyan with teal head and wing feathers. |
| 170 | * OurGryphonsAreDifferent: They're the only non-ponies in the relay competition, and some are also much more brightly colored than griffons tend to be in fiction. |
| 171 | * PaletteSwap: The two male griffons in the team use Gustav le Grand's model, one recolored brown and the other purple. The four female griffons use slightly modified variants of Gilda's model with different head feathers (one model has two tufts sticking out from the temples, the other has a backward-pointing crest in the middle of the forehead), each recolored twice. |
| 172 | * TheVoiceless: None of them have any spoken lines in either of their episodes. |
| 173 | |
| 174 | !!The Background Monsters |
| 175 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E9PinkieApplePie Pinkie Apple Pie]]" (horned creature, buck-toothed flying creature)\ |
| 176 | "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E19TradeYa Trade Ya!]]" (fish monster, large-mouthed flying creature, many-eyed flying creature)\ |
| 177 | "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E7MakeNewFriendsButKeepDiscord Make New Friends but Keep Discord]]" (birdlike creature) |
| 178 | |
| 179 | A collection of monsters and weird creatures that turn up whenever the show needs bizarre, nonspecific monsters to populate a strange location, such as the Scariest Cave in Equestria, a beast seller's menagerie, Discord's dimension or the pit of Tartarus. |
| 180 | ---- |
| 181 | * ArmlessBiped: The birdlike creature isn't seen to possess front limbs, instead only having a pair of long legs. |
| 182 | * ExtraEyes: Several creature types have multiple eyes -- the horned beast has three in a fan-like arrangement, the fish creature has a central eye and two more on stalks, and the red flying creature has multiple eyes arranged in a cone shape around the top of its head. |
| 183 | * EyeOnAStalk: In addition to a single central eye, the fish creature has two smaller ones at the end of long stalks. |
| 184 | * OurMonstersAreWeird: They're bizarre, anatomically improbably monsters with exaggerated or supernumerary body parts, and are only found in the most alien and outlandish environments. |
| 185 | * PaletteSwap: Some of them are occasionally recolored to add greater variety to their appearance -- a greenish-cyan version of the buck-toothed flying creature appears in "Make New Friends but Keep Discord", while "School Raze" includes a teal variant of the horned creature, a light grey variant of the buck-toothed flying creature, a navy blue variant of the fish creature, and a brown variant of the large-mouthed flying creature, in addition to ones in their normal colors. |
| 186 | * SealedEvilInACan: In "School Raze", several are seen locked in cages in Tartarus. |
| 187 | |
| 188 | !!The Feelings Forum leader |
| 189 | [[quoteright:222:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hippieling.png]] |
| 190 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E19ToChangeAChangeling To Change a Changeling]]" |
| 191 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Ellen-Ray Hennessy |
| 192 | |
| 193 | A mint green changeling who wears rather hippie-ish robes. As the name implies, they run the Feelings Forum, a place where the post-reformation changelings go to air their issues and grievances. |
| 194 | ---- |
| 195 | * AmbiguousGender: They're not referred to as male or female or called by any pronoun in the episode itself, their voice doesn't have a particularly masculine or feminine timbre, and their clothing is by and large gender-neutral. |
| 196 | * NewAgeRetroHippie: They talk a lot about feelings, sharing and the importance of "affirming" each other. They also dress in stereotypical clothing, such as the robes and the flower headband. |
| 197 | * NoNameGiven: The feelings forum leader is not referred to by any name in the episode, and is listed in the credits as simply Group Leader. |
| 198 | * NotSoAboveItAll: Despite running the peaceful feelings forum for the purpose of solving problems in a calm and nonaggressive manner, they get upset upon being ignored, and angrily shout at the other changelings to leave after having had enough of them talking over each other. |
| 199 | |
| 200 | !!Other Animals |
| 201 | |
| 202 | These are the other creatures that inhabit Equestria. They are mostly non-sapient, but [[FurryConfusion they display some behavior that suggests otherwise]]. Most of Ponyville's animals appear to be under the care of Fluttershy. They can also be potential companions for ponies. |
| 203 | ---- |
| 204 | * AmbiguousGender: Any of the ones who aren't referred to as "he" or "she", and that don't belong to species such as mallard ducks with obvious sexual dimorphism, as their lack of voice or personality makes it impossible to determine their gender. |
| 205 | * AscendedExtra: |
| 206 | ** The bow-wearing bunny from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E7Dragonshy Dragonshy]]" makes multiple appearances in the toys, pretty much [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute taking the place of]] Angel Bunny. |
| 207 | ** The owl from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E7MayTheBestPetWin May the Best Pet Win!]]" ''might'' be the same one from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E17StareMaster Stare Master]]". It at least appears to be the same kind, and no other owls of that kind have appeared in the series. |
| 208 | ** The bat from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E7MayTheBestPetWin May the Best Pet Win!]]" ''might'' be one of the same ones from [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E11WinterWrapUp "Winter Wrap Up"]]. It's at least the same kind. |
| 209 | * CanonImmigrant: A few of the animals who were originally just toys have gone on to appear in the animated segments of toy commercials (though they still haven't appeared in the actual show): the mouse from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTY3zJaA2Dc this]] commercial and the hedgehog, butterfly, and chipmunks from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPSY9QLNRY0 this]] commercial. |
| 210 | * FurryConfusion: In general, the show's avoidance of humans or human-like beings means that all characters are either {{Civilized Animal}}s or mythological creatures used in the same manner. While some patterns exist as to which creatures are treated as people and which as animals, exceptions are far from rare -- for instance, ungulates are usually intelligent beings, but deer and giraffes are just animals. Further confusion stems from the fact that all of the "regular" animals are still near the level of sapience as their owners, or at least display the typical high level of awareness and intelligence that cartoon animals often do, but otherwise behave like wild animals, wearing no clothing, using no tools and living in dens and nests in the wilderness or under the care of pony owners. Further, even some creatures that talk, like cows and sheep, live in farms like real-life livestock while ponies live in houses. Generally speaking, it can be difficult to tell whether any given creature is a person or an animal until it opens its mouth and either speaks or makes animal noises. |
| 211 | * MessyPig: Several live at Sweet Apple Acres, where they are fed kitchen scraps and bruised apples and live in a mud wallow. |
| 212 | * MisplacedWildlife: This is mitigated by the show being set both in a fictional world and in a highly magical and fantastical setting, but it remains pretty strange to see toucans, spider monkeys and sea lions as staples of the background fauna in Equestria's general mild-temperate continental climate. |
| 213 | * NobleBirdOfPrey: The roles the bald eagles get used for often fit these birds' usual stereotypes. One appears in the "Your Heart Is in Two Places" song in "Surf and/or Turf" when Sweetie Belle is trying to convince Terramar to live on Mount Aris, citing the fact that "the eagles are regal" as one of the the mountain's attractive characteristics as an eagle swoops down to perch on her hoof. |
| 214 | * NoNameGiven: With the exception of Elizabeak from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E17StareMaster Stare Master]]", Hummingway and possibly Mr. Mousey from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E22ABirdInTheHoof A Bird in the Hoof]]", Little Piggington from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E10SpikeAtYourService Spike at Your Service]]", Mr. Beaverty Beaverton from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E11KeepCalmAndFlutterOn Keep Calm and Flutter On]]" and Constance from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E12FlutterBrutter Flutter Brutter]]", none of the background animals are ever given a name. |
| 215 | * PaletteSwap: Many of the animals are recolors of a single model used for multiple members of species. |
| 216 | ** The bats are all recolored either grey or brown, and the white mice used in most instances are sometimes recolored grey instead. |
| 217 | ** The turtles use the same model Tank does, with their shells recolored with different shades and patterns. |
| 218 | ** The basic white chickens are recolored brown and golden-brown when more than one is in the same scene. |
| 219 | %%* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: A number of them.%%ZCE |
| 220 | * SolidClouds: Most flying animals, including birds and flying insects, can walk on clouds as if they were solid, if pillowy, objects. |
| 221 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: The bow-wearing bunny from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E7Dragonshy Dragonshy]]" accompanies the ''[[http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/en_US/shop/details.cfm?guid=BD8EC61C-5056-900B-10FE-8E772C2D2D20 Fluttershy]]'' and ''[[http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/en_US/shop/details.cfm?guid=833D8694-5056-900B-10BF-00BE03B9DEA5 Fashion Style Fluttershy]]'' toys, similarly to Angel Bunny. |
| 222 | * TertiarySexualCharacteristics: One bunny seen at the beginning of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E7Dragonshy Dragonshy]]" and in the toys wears a large bow, and is seen again in "Filly Vanilly" alongside another identical rabbit wearing a bowtie instead. |
| 223 | * YouDontLookLikeYou: In the toys and their art, the bow-wearing bunny from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E7Dragonshy Dragonshy]]" looks less like Angel Bunny than in the show. |
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