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| 10 | !![[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]], '''Other Characters''', [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicBackgroundPonies Background Ponies]] ([[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicBackgroundPoniesCommonPonies Common Background Ponies]], [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicBackgroundPoniesSpecialPonies Special Background Ponies]], [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicBackgroundPoniesOthers Other Background Ponies]])-]]] [[center: [- '''Equestria Girls:''' [[Characters/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsHeroines Heroines]] ([[Characters/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsSunsetShimmer Sunset Shimmer]]), [[Characters/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsVillains Villains]], [[Characters/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsSupportingCast Supporting Cast]] -] ]] |
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| 13 | This page contains characters that don't fit into any of the character pages such as {{Posthumous Character}}s, {{Famous Ancestor}}s, {{Unknown Character}}s, InUniverse [[ShowWithinAShow fictional characters]], [[CollectiveIdentity Collective Identities]], {{Companion Cube}}s and more. |
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| 16 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 17 | |
| 18 | !!Ancestors |
| 19 | |
| 20 | [[PosthumousCharacter Long-dead]] ([[NotQuiteDead presumably]]) [[FamousAncestor relatives of various characters]] or rather just characters from the past who are not necessarily historical figures. |
| 21 | |
| 22 | [[folder:The Smith Family]] |
| 23 | See [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicManeFamilyMembers Mane Family Members]]. |
| 24 | [[/folder]] |
| 25 | |
| 26 | [[folder:Stinkin' Rich]] |
| 27 | [[quoteright:201:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/stinkin_rich.png]] |
| 28 | ->'''Granny Smith:''' Matter of fact, the first thing he ever sold was my Zap Apple Jam! |
| 29 | |
| 30 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E11FamilyAppreciationDay Family Appreciation Day]]" |
| 31 | |
| 32 | An earth pony stallion, grandfather of Filthy Rich and great-grandfather of Diamond Tiara. |
| 33 | ---- |
| 34 | * EmbarrassingFirstName: Stinkin is much worse than Filthy, the name of his grandson, so he probably got picked on for it much like his grandson. |
| 35 | * FamilyThemeNaming: Alongside his grandson, he establishes a tradition in his debut episode of Filthy Rich's family members having names consisting of "Rich" preceded by a generally pejorative adjective. |
| 36 | * IdenticalGrandson: His grandson Filthy Rich. The only physical differences between the two are their height -- Stinkin' was taller and had longer legs -- and mane color -- Filthy has a dark gray mane instead of Stinkin's dark brown. Beyond physical appearances, their names are almost synonymous and they even parallel each other's clothing, with Filthy's blue jacket front and red tie mirroring Stinkin's blue denim overalls and red pocket handkerchief. Overall, Stinkin' Rich largely looks like a lankier, poorer take on his grandchild. |
| 37 | * PosthumousCharacter: He's presumably deceased by the time of the show, although he's mentioned in "When the Apple Lies" as still alive by the time Applejack and Big Macintosh were teens. |
| 38 | * SelfMadeMan: He started off poor, but became rich by selling Granny Smith's Zap Apple Jam. |
| 39 | [[/folder]] |
| 40 | |
| 41 | [[folder:Grub Hooffield and Piles [=McColt=]]] |
| 42 | [[quoteright:777:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/captura_de_tela_2023_11_19_163630.png]] |
| 43 | |
| 44 | ->'''Debut:'''"[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E23TheHooffieldsAndMccolts The Hooffields and Mccolts]]" |
| 45 | |
| 46 | The ancestors of the Hooffield and [=McColt=] families. They were the first to arrive to the Smokey Mountain valley and wanted to preserve it while taking care of the animals. Their disagreement on how to do it soon escalated to sabotage and eventually the feud their descendants still fight. |
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| 48 | * ConstructionIsAwesome: Piles [=McColt's=] talent was in construction and building, which was passed to the rest of his family. |
| 49 | * EatDirtCheap: Grub ate a hoofful of dirt to test if the ground was fertile and apparently enjoyed it. |
| 50 | * EscalatingWar: First they have a disagreement on how to best preserve the valley, then subtly sabotage each other, followed by outright doing so until finally they had started a feud that lasted generations. |
| 51 | * GreenThumb: Grub Hooffield's talent was farming, which was passed to the rest of his clan. |
| 52 | * OrangeBlueContrast: Just like their descendants, Grub had a warm colored coat, and a curly mane, beard and tail, while Piles had a cool colored coat, and a straight mane, beard and tail. |
| 53 | [[/folder]] |
| 54 | |
| 55 | !!Story Characters |
| 56 | |
| 57 | Fictional characters who appear in {{Ghost Stor|y}}ies, fairytales and other in-universe yarns and legends. |
| 58 | |
| 59 | [[folder:The Olden Pony]] |
| 60 | [[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/olden_8.png]] |
| 61 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E6SleeplessInPonyville Sleepless in Ponyville]]" |
| 62 | |
| 63 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TabithaStGermain |
| 64 | |
| 65 | A creepy old mare from a ghost story where she hunts ponies while searching for her missing horseshoe. She only appears in Scootaloo's nightmares after the latter hears the story. |
| 66 | ---- |
| 67 | * BlackCloak: A somewhat tattered one at that for the spookiness. |
| 68 | * ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: When she first appears in Scootaloo's nightmare she's an entirely black silhouette in the shadowy forest, only her one open eye remaining colored and visible. |
| 69 | * MadnessMantra: "Who's got my rusty horseshoe...?", repeated over and over ''ad nauseam''. |
| 70 | * NightmareFuel: InUniverse for Scootaloo, the Olden Pony features prominently in the young filly's nightmares after she hears her ghost story. |
| 71 | * NotEvilJustMisunderstood: While creepy, all she wants is her missing horseshoe. Returning it will result in a "thank you" and her leaving contented. Of course, that was just in Scootaloo's dream after conquering her fears. If the Olden Pony is an established Equestrian folk tale figure, she might still be thoroughly evil in the commonly told stories. |
| 72 | %%* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname |
| 73 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: Adding to how ominous she looks, her scleras are bright red. |
| 74 | [[/folder]] |
| 75 | |
| 76 | [[folder:The Headless Horse]] |
| 77 | [[quoteright:276:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/headless_horse.png]] |
| 78 | ->'''First Mentioned:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E8LookBeforeYouSleep Look Before You Sleep]]"\ |
| 79 | '''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E6SleeplessInPonyville Sleepless in Ponyville]]" |
| 80 | |
| 81 | A headless monster from a ghost story based on [[Literature/TheLegendOfSleepyHollow the Headless Horseman]]. It only appears in a ghost story told by Twilight and then later during Scootaloo's nightmares after she hears the story from Rainbow Dash. |
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| 83 | * AmbiguousGender: Always referred to as an "it" (though Scootaloo's nightmare gives it a body that seems to match Princess Luna's). |
| 84 | * ContinuityNod: The story of the Headless Horse was first told in "Look Before You Sleep" and was told again, with more relevance, in "Sleepless in Ponyville". |
| 85 | * {{Expy}}: Of [[Literature/TheLegendOfSleepyHollow the Headless Horseman]], with the "man" part dropped for a WorldOfFunnyAnimals. |
| 86 | * FridgeLogic: InUniverse; Applejack questions how it can move without a head, or where its brain is. |
| 87 | * HeadlessHorseman: It's a parody of the old ghost story -- since there are no humans in the show's world, the "man" part of "headless horseman" is dropped, resulting in a ghost story about a headless equine told by ponies around campfires. |
| 88 | * NightmareFuel: InUniverse, for Scootaloo, the Headless Horse features prominently in her nightmares after she hears the ghost story where it stars. |
| 89 | %%* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname |
| 90 | [[/folder]] |
| 91 | |
| 92 | [[folder:Scales]] |
| 93 | [[quoteright:227:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/large_39.png]] |
| 94 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E15TheHearthsWarmingClub The Hearth's Warming Club]]" |
| 95 | |
| 96 | A dragoness who features in a popular dragon story that Smolder tells the other students. In her tale, she's originally a poor young dragon living alone in the wilderness, until the Dragon Lord invited her to the dragon lands to feast in comfort in his lair... which Scales promptly repaid by stealing the Bloodstone Scepter, taking the title of Dragon Lord for herself and banishing her benefactor to the wilderness. |
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| 98 | * DeliberateValuesDissonance: Her story is about a poor and lonely dragon who becomes Dragon Lord... by taking advantage of the kindness and generosity of the previous Dragon Lord, stealing his scepter, and then banishing him from the Dragon Lands. As Smolder explains, dragons like stories about "weak, kind creatures getting defeated." [[NiceGirl Ocellus]] thinks this story is horrible. |
| 99 | * TheFarmerAndTheViper: The Dragon Lord rescues Scales when she is living in the wilderness by herself, brings her to the dragon lands and feeds her a feast of delicious gems... and Scales repays him by stealing his scepter, taking his title and banishing him to the wilderness. Dragons value this sort of behavior. |
| 100 | * KarmaHoudini: She acts in a stunningly treacherous, backstabbing manner entirely out of greed and thanklessness, and she ends the story as a powerful Dragon Lord gloating in her victory. |
| 101 | * SacredHospitality: Averted. She'd give Creator/DanteAlighieri a heart attack. |
| 102 | * TakingAdvantageOfGenerosity: The theme of the story. |
| 103 | * UngratefulBastard: She repays the Dragon Lord's kindness and generosity with greed-driven betrayal and exile. |
| 104 | [[/folder]] |
| 105 | |
| 106 | [[folder:The Great Seedling]] |
| 107 | [[quoteright:260:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_great_seedling.png]] |
| 108 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E10GoingToSeed Going to Seed]]" |
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| 110 | A mysterious figure from Apple Family tradition, which possesses the power to make apple trees flower and fruit continuously and will greatly bless any farm that manages to catch it. |
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| 112 | * CropCircles: It leaves intricate arabesque patterns of apples in its wake. |
| 113 | * GreenThumb: It can make apple trees continuously yield fruit. |
| 114 | * TheMarvelousDeer: The creature in Goldie Delicious' story is a deer-like entity with tree branches for antlers and the ability to make plants grow where it walks, and the supposed Great Seedling that the Apple sisters encounter resembles a large, cervine figure with tree branches instead of antlers. |
| 115 | * MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's left ambiguous whether the Great Seedling really exists -- it mostly seems like it's just a tradition boosted by Goldie's storytelling and [[spoiler:Big Mac's fortuitous sleep-harvesting]], but at the end it turns out that ''something'' was arranging the carrots in arabesques even though nobody had worked the carrot field yet. |
| 116 | * OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious: It plays the role of a cryptid within the show's world, ticking off most of the category's boxes -- mysterious nature, highly elusive and difficult to catch or observe, ambiguously real and prone to causing divisive opinions regarding whether it actually exists or not. |
| 117 | * {{Planimal}}: It seems to be at least partly plant-based, given the tree branches it has instead of antlers and how the figure in Goldie's tale has flowers and leaves sprouting from its pelt. |
| 118 | [[/folder]] |
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| 120 | !!''Power Ponies'' Characters |
| 121 | Characters who appear in the ''Power Ponies'' [[ShowWithinAShow comics]] Spike reads. The Power Ponies are a group of superheroes who fight to protect the city of [[CityOfAdventure Maretropolis]] from villains, criminals, and other evildoers. Spike and the Mane Six are temporarily [[TrappedInTVLand dragged into an enchanted issue of the comic]], taking on roles from the story and facing a villain who they must defeat [[WinToExit in order to escape]]. |
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| 123 | The actual Power Ponies only appear in the IDW MLP Annual 2014 comic. They match the pony types that played them in the episode (except that Masked Matter-horn is a unicorn, not an alicorn), but are [[AdaptationDyeJob different colors]] and don't get along as well as the Mane Six. Also, Humdrum is an earth pony colt instead of a baby dragon. |
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| 125 | [[folder:Masked Matter-horn]] |
| 126 | [[quoteright:204:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mmh.png]] |
| 127 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E6PowerPonies Power Ponies]]" |
| 128 | |
| 129 | A unicorn[[note]]as confirmed by the [[https://derpicdn.net/img/2014/6/18/656113/large.jpeg cover]] of the My Little Pony 2014 Annual[[/note]] who can fire all sorts of energy beams from her horn. Twilight Sparkle fills this role when trapped in the ''Power Ponies'' comic. |
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| 131 | * AlliterativeName: '''M'''asked '''M'''atter-horn |
| 132 | * DubNameChange: The Italian dub refers to her as Magicornia Mascherata, meaning "Masked Magicorn". |
| 133 | * {{Expy}}: Toward [[ComicBook/XMen Iceman]]. |
| 134 | * AnIcePerson: She can fire a freeze ray from her horn. |
| 135 | * TheLeader: The leader of the Power Ponies. |
| 136 | * NotSoAboveItAll: The loudest voice for teamwork in the annual story, but it's shown repeatedly that her own ego is just as much a problem as that of the others. |
| 137 | * PlayingWithFire: She can fire heat beams. |
| 138 | * PunnyName: "Matterhorn" is the name of one of the highest mountains in the Alps. Here, it's to indicate her horn can create matter. |
| 139 | [[/folder]] |
| 140 | |
| 141 | [[folder:Filli-second]] |
| 142 | [[quoteright:209:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fili_second.png]] |
| 143 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E6PowerPonies Power Ponies]]" |
| 144 | |
| 145 | An earth pony capable of running at extreme SuperSpeed. Pinkie Pie fills this role when trapped in the ''Power Ponies'' comic. |
| 146 | ---- |
| 147 | * AllergicToRoutine: She gets very bored very easily. |
| 148 | * DubNameChange: The Italian dub refers to her as Millisecond. |
| 149 | * ColorfulContrails: When moving in SuperSpeed, she trails a pink-and-magenta streak superimposed with a white lightning bolt. |
| 150 | * {{Expy}}: For Franchise/TheFlash. |
| 151 | * PunnyName: It's a cross between "filly" and "millisecond", as in [[SuperSpeed the amount of time it takes her to travel halfway across Maretropolis]]. |
| 152 | * SuperSpeed: She can travel sixty-five blocks ''and back'' in '''half a second'''. |
| 153 | [[/folder]] |
| 154 | |
| 155 | [[folder:Zapp]] |
| 156 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zapp.png]] |
| 157 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E6PowerPonies Power Ponies]]" |
| 158 | |
| 159 | A pegasus who can control the forces of nature with her necklace. Rainbow Dash fills this role when trapped in the ''Power Ponies'' comic. |
| 160 | ---- |
| 161 | * AmuletOfConcentratedAwesome: She gets her weather abilities from a lighting bolt-shaped necklace, which allows her to command the weather. |
| 162 | * BlowYouAway: She can create tornados. |
| 163 | * DubNameChange: The Italian dub refers to her as Lampo, meaning "Flash". |
| 164 | * {{Expy}}: For [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]]. |
| 165 | * LargeHam: As expected of a Thor Expy, she can be very boisterous. |
| 166 | * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: According to a trading card, Zapp is actually a princess of a tribe far from Maretropolis. She intends to go back to rule someday, but remains in the city to be a Power Pony. |
| 167 | * ShockAndAwe: Her WeatherManipulation focuses particularly on creating thunderbolts, something referenced by both her name and her lighting-shaped amulet. |
| 168 | * SpockSpeak: In the annual, she is given a very eloquent yet boisterous speech pattern, further cementing her parallels with Thor and Storm. |
| 169 | * WeatherManipulation: Her superpower. She can control atmospheric phenomena through her amulet, up to creating tornadoes and lighting bolts. |
| 170 | [[/folder]] |
| 171 | |
| 172 | [[folder:Radiance]] |
| 173 | [[quoteright:243:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/radiance_3.png]] |
| 174 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E6PowerPonies Power Ponies]]" |
| 175 | |
| 176 | A unicorn who wears a magic bracelet that can make anything from her imagination appear. Rarity fills this role when trapped in the ''Power Ponies'' comic. |
| 177 | ---- |
| 178 | * AmuletOfConcentratedAwesome: Gets her power from a gemstone bracelet. |
| 179 | * DubNameChange: The Italian dub refers to her as Raggio di Luce, meaning "Ray of Light". |
| 180 | * {{Expy}}: Toward [[Franchise/GreenLantern Star Sapphire]]. |
| 181 | * GadgeteerGenius: Rather unexpectedly, when the Power Ponies need to rebuild the machine that took their powers, it's Radiance who does all the work. Many of her constructs also seem to have a mechanical or construction theme. |
| 182 | * ImaginationBasedSuperpower: She can create constructs of purple force shaped as everything needed for the situation at hand. Rarity's creations all had a "girly"/"stylish" aspect; Radiance in the comic seems to go with mechanical-based objects supplemented by lots of bows. |
| 183 | [[/folder]] |
| 184 | |
| 185 | [[folder:Mistress Mare-vellous]] |
| 186 | [[quoteright:188:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mmv.png]] |
| 187 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E6PowerPonies Power Ponies]]" |
| 188 | |
| 189 | An earth pony who wields a magic lasso that follows her every will. Applejack fills this role when trapped in the ''Power Ponies'' comic. |
| 190 | ---- |
| 191 | * AlliterativeName: '''M'''istress '''M'''are-vellous |
| 192 | * BattleBoomerang: Her "hoofarangs", which latch onto other ponies' hooves and stop them in their tracks. |
| 193 | * EmpathicWeapon: She's psychically connected to her lasso, which moves wherever and however she wants it to. |
| 194 | %%* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition. |
| 195 | * {{Expy}}: Towards Franchise/WonderWoman (her name and lasso). |
| 196 | * KnowsTheRopes: Mistress Mare-velous owns a magical lasso that responds to her mental commands. |
| 197 | * TheLancer: She spends a lot of the 2014 annual story clashing with Masked Matter-horn over the leadership role. She also has abilities almost directly counter to hers. |
| 198 | * LeaderWannabe: She clearly lacks respect for Masked Matter-horn, and actually takes charge several times (much to Matter-horn's displeasure). |
| 199 | * PerpetualFrowner: The 2014 annual gives her a constantly angry face that wouldn't look out of place on a NinetiesAntiHero. |
| 200 | * PunnyName: A cross between "mare" and "marvelous". |
| 201 | [[/folder]] |
| 202 | |
| 203 | [[folder:Saddle Rager]] |
| 204 | [[quoteright:270:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/saddle_rager1.png]] |
| 205 | [[caption-width-right:270:When calm[[labelnote:When angry]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/saddle_rager2.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 206 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E6PowerPonies Power Ponies]]" |
| 207 | |
| 208 | A pegasus who transforms into a powerful monster when she loses her temper. Fluttershy fills this role when trapped in the ''Power Ponies'' comic. |
| 209 | ---- |
| 210 | * AttackReflector: The beam from the Mane-iac's superweapon just bounces back off her. |
| 211 | %%* BrawnHilda: The animators pulled no punches in designing transformed Saddle Rager.%%ZCE |
| 212 | * ChewingTheScenery: Figuratively and literally when she [[HulkingOut Hulks Out]] -- she hams her anger up with little restraint, and literally takes bites out of the Mane-iac's machinery at points. |
| 213 | * DubNameChange: The Italian dub refers to her as Furia Alata, meaning "Winged Fury". |
| 214 | * {{Expy}}: Of the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]], copying his powers and nature almost exactly. |
| 215 | * HulkingOut: Her main power. When she's genuinely angry, she transforms into a furious, hulking mass of muscle a good three times her usual height and goes on a furious rampage towards whoever it was that ticked off in the first place. |
| 216 | * PowerMakesYourVoiceDeep: Her voice is much deeper when she's hulked out. |
| 217 | * SuperStrength: Once Hulked Out, of course. She utterly trashes the Mane-iac's superweapon, tearing off metal like it is wet cardboard. |
| 218 | * YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry: As the Mane-iac learns first-hand, doing something pointlessly mean, cruel and petty in front of her -- like harming a small animal because it was in the way -- leads to her turning into a mountain of muscle and flying into an unrestrained, unstoppable fury with you as its target. |
| 219 | [[/folder]] |
| 220 | |
| 221 | [[folder:Humdrum]] |
| 222 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/humdrum.png]] |
| 223 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E6PowerPonies Power Ponies]]" |
| 224 | |
| 225 | The Power Ponies' bumbling and not-very-useful sidekick. Spike plays this role when trapped in the ''Power Ponies'' comic. |
| 226 | ---- |
| 227 | * AdaptationSpeciesChange: Spike, a dragon, plays the role of Humdrum but the [[ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW 2014 annual]] shows that Humdrum was actually a pony. Then again, the true appearances of the Power Ponies had never been shown until then. |
| 228 | * AintTooProudToBeg: After The Mane-iac captures the Power Ponies with her Hairspray Ray of Doom and seems like she is going to use it on him next when she holds it up to him, he shields himself and screams "Don't spray!" in terror. She doesn't use it on him, but only because she feels [[NotWorthKilling he isn't worth it]]. |
| 229 | * CapeSnag: His cape gets snagged a lot, causing it to be a hindrance. When he attempts to sneak away after quietly stealing the Electro-Orb from Mane-iac while her back is turned, he ends up tripping over his own cape, alerting Mane-iac and allowing her to take it back. |
| 230 | * DubNameChange: The Italian dub refers to him as Imbranat, derived form "imbranato", meaning an incompetent or stupid person. |
| 231 | * {{Expy}}: Of Burt Ward's Robin from the '60s ''Series/{{Batman|1966}}'' series. |
| 232 | * TheHeart: His basic role among the Power Ponies. He always teaches the Power Ponies that if they work as a team, [[ThePowerOfFriendship they can achieve anything.]] |
| 233 | * LetsGetDangerous: He might be PluckyComicRelief and continually mess up, but he saves all the Power Ponies when they are captured by the Mane-iac, and also manages to capture a large number of her mooks at the same time. |
| 234 | * TheLoad: He's "totally useless", according to Spike. Subverted in the annual comics, wherein it's shown that while he has no powers, he's still important to the Power Ponies because [[TheHeart he always reminds them of their strength as a team]]. |
| 235 | * TheMillstone: He ended up telling the Mane-iac about the Electro-Orb by accident, putting her EvilPlan into motion. He also fails to successfully steal it back from Mane-iac, leading her to mockingly thank him for his help. |
| 236 | * OnlySaneMan: His real role seems to be this, as in both the episode and the annual he ends up saving the day by convincing the heroes to [[LetsGetDangerous get it together]]. |
| 237 | * PluckyComicRelief: The main reason why he's included in the comic. |
| 238 | -->'''Spike:''' Humdrum ''never'' stops the villain. He's just there for comic relief. |
| 239 | * TheScrappy: He is this to Spike in-universe. Spike constantly talks down about him and how useless he is to the Power Ponies, since he constantly [[TheMillstone ruins things for them]] and never stops the villain himself, and is horrified when he ends up playing the role of Humdrum in the comic world. |
| 240 | * {{Sidekick}}: For the Power Ponies, and not a very useful one at that. |
| 241 | * SuperheroesWearCapes: He's the only member of the team to wear a cape... and occasionally trips on it. |
| 242 | [[/folder]] |
| 243 | |
| 244 | [[folder:The Mane-iac]] |
| 245 | [[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mlp_maneiac_4928.png]] |
| 246 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E6PowerPonies Power Ponies]]" |
| 247 | |
| 248 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/EllenKennedy |
| 249 | |
| 250 | A flamboyant supervillain and the Power Ponies' ArchEnemy, the Mane-iac was the owner of a hair-care product company who suffered an unfortunate accident at her own shampoo factory, giving her mane strange powers while also [[LaughingMad driving her totally insane]]. She plots to destroy Maretropolis using the mysterious [[MacGuffin Electro-Orb]]. |
| 251 | ---- |
| 252 | * ArchEnemy: For the Power Ponies. |
| 253 | * AwesomeButImpractical: Her Hairspray Ray of Doom is capable of paralyzing the Power Ponies and neutralizing their powers. But it is so large that The Mane-iac needs to carry it herself with her mane tentacles or have it set up with some mobile stairs so her henchponies can use it. The effects also aren't permanent, only lasting for a few minutes before wearing off. She at least takes steps to compensate this by having one of her henchponies use a timer to spray the Power Ponies with another dose every time the previous one starts to wear off. Finally, it is shown to work on other ponies as well, even ones without powers, so when Humdrum knocks it over when saving the Power Ponies, it causes several of her own henchponies to get sprayed and paralyzed themselves. |
| 254 | * BondVillainStupidity: Rather than outright kill the Power Ponies once they're at her mercy, she instead sets up a DeathTrap and turns a blind eye to their "useless" sidekick Humdrum. That said, at least she's still savvy enough to try and ensure that the Power Ponies stay paralyzed during the process. |
| 255 | * CompositeCharacter: She takes elements from several villains. Like [[Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls Sedusa]], she has PrehensileHair and an overall hair theme. Like [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Doctor Octopus]], she's a MadScientist with superpowered appendages. And she's very reminiscent of [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]], from her insanity to her green hair to her incessant EvilLaughter to her origin (see FromNobodyToNightmare below). |
| 256 | * CurtainsMatchTheWindow: After her accident, both her irises and her mane become green. |
| 257 | * DidntSeeThatComing: After dismissing Humdrum as a non-threat to her plans due to his lack of powers, and boasting that with the Power Ponies captured nothing can stop her, she is surprised when Humdrum manages to sneak into her lair and free the Power Ponies and simultaneously capture a large portion of her own mooks. |
| 258 | * DubNameChange: The Italian dub calls her Crinimal, a pun on "crine", the Italian term for a horse's mane, and "criminal". |
| 259 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: She seems to genuinely believe that the only reason the Power Ponies keep someone as useless as Humdrum around is because they feel sorry for him. |
| 260 | -->'''Mane-iac:''' Humdrum? Little guy? No superpowers whatsoever? ''[laughs]'' He's utterly useless! Puh-lease. Everypony knows you just keep him around because you ''[condescending tone]'' [[BabyTalk feel sowwy for him. Wah. Wah.]]\ |
| 261 | '''Masked Matter-horn:''' Maybe in your world. But in our world, [[VerbalBackspace Spike— uh, Humdrum]] always comes through when we need him! Always!\ |
| 262 | '''Mane-iac:''' ''[laughs]'' I see dementia must be a side-effect of prolonged exposure to the Hairspray Ray of Doom. |
| 263 | * EvilIsHammy: You can tell she ''loves'' being an over-the-top supervillain. |
| 264 | * EvilGloating: She wouldn't be an over-the-top supervillain without an over-the-top monologue about her EvilPlan. |
| 265 | * EvilLaugh: All the time. |
| 266 | * FoeRomanceSubtext: Some of her taunting towards Humdrum comes off as her ''flirting'' with him. |
| 267 | ** When he ends up accidentally helping her evil plans, like failing to get the orb away from her, she "thanks" him for his help. |
| 268 | ** He is the only hero she doesn't paralyze with the Hairspray Ray of Doom, and briefly [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace tickles him under the chin with her mane]] after teasing him with it for a moment, even giving him a seductive half-lidded eye look. |
| 269 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: She was once an ordinary yet power-mad pony who owned a shampoo factory until [[FreakLabAccident she fell into a vat of chemicals]] that was then [[LightningCanDoAnything electrified]]. When she emerged, she was physically and mentally transformed. |
| 270 | * GigglingVillain: She can pull off a full on evil laugh when pressed, but most of the time just giggles constantly. |
| 271 | * GreenAndMean: Her prehensile hair is green. |
| 272 | * HoistByHerOwnPetard: She is defeated by her own doomsday weapon. Trying to blast Saddle Rager with it in a panic simply has it [[AttackReflector reflect off of her]] and zap her instead. After being affected by it, her own mane wraps around her, ensnaring her like a straitjacket, and leaving her helpless. |
| 273 | * HurricaneOfPuns: Yeah, the word "mane" loses its [[HypocriticalHumor maneing]] after a while. |
| 274 | * TheHyena: Her reaction to her plans being ruined, being affected by her own weapon and her hair going out of control? Bouncing around on the floor with a huge grin on her face, cackling madly. |
| 275 | * KickTheDog: |
| 276 | ** She loves reminding Humdrum of his uselessness, save [[TheMillstone when he unintentionally helps her evil plans]]. |
| 277 | ** When aiming her doomsday weapon at Saddle Rager, a tiny firefly gets in the way of her shot and she flicks it out of the way, apparently causing it great harm. This ends up being her undoing, since this cruel act caused Saddle Rager to HulkOut and destroy her doomsday weapon. |
| 278 | * LargeHam: Gives ''Discord'' a run for his money. |
| 279 | * LaughablyEvil: She is an intentionally over-the-top and [[PokeThePoodle not particularly threatening]] villain intended as a homage to various similarly campy comic villains in old comics. |
| 280 | * LaughingMad: Her transformation caused her to go completely insane. |
| 281 | * {{Mooks}}: Has plenty of henchponies, all of them hairdressing-themed. |
| 282 | * MundaneUtility: She at one point uses her PrehensileHair as a lounge chair to [[SlouchOfVillainy kick back and relax]]. |
| 283 | * NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: She uses her mane to tickle Humdrum under the chin while he is cowering in fear of her and begging her not to paralyze him, while mockingly calling the idea "pointless". |
| 284 | * NotWorthKilling: After using her Hairspray Ray of Doom to paralyze and capture the Power Ponies, she leaves Humdrum alone with it, laughing at the idea of using it on him. Though she does ''look'' like she is going to use it for a moment, she pulls it away from him when he begs her not to, perhaps simply wanting to laugh at his reaction to it. |
| 285 | -->'''Humdrum:''' Don't spray!\ |
| 286 | '''Mane-iac''' (''laughing at him'') Oh, Humdrum, why in all of Maretropolis would I use the Hairspray Ray of Doom on ''you''? (''[[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace tickles his chin]] while her voice turns condescending'') Rather pointless, don't you think? |
| 287 | * OhCrap: She is visibly startled when Saddle Rager transforms into her monster form, and frantically presses the controls on her doomsday weapon to try to blast her. |
| 288 | * PokeThePoodle: Her doomsday plan is to... ruin the mane of everyone in the entire city? Okay then. |
| 289 | * PrehensileHair: Her superpower. |
| 290 | * PungeonMaster: Except her puns revolve around "mane", leading to some repetitiveness. |
| 291 | * PurpleIsPowerful: Her costume is primarily purple. |
| 292 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: After her accident, her pupils turn red. |
| 293 | * SlouchOfVillainy: When the Mane Six are struggling to use the powers of the Power Ponies for the first time she just kicks back and watches them defeat themselves with an amused smile, even [[MundaneUtility using her mane as a lounge chair]]. |
| 294 | * SupervillainLair: Her operations are based in a shampoo factory, presumably the one that she used to own. In ''VideoGame/MyLittlePonyGameloft'', it's designated as her "Home". |
| 295 | * SurroundedByIdiots: How she feels about her hencponies. When Humdrum frees the Power Ponies and they go on a rampage around her lair, she is reduced to barking orders at them as they fail to catch the Power Ponies, yelling "Idiots!" at them in frustration. |
| 296 | * VillainBall: She captures the Mane Six, but thinks Spike is too "useless" to worry about, even [[KickTheDog ridiculing him]] about how harmless and pathetic he is. [[LetsGetDangerous He soon proves her wrong]]. |
| 297 | * VillainousBreakdown: She has two in the climax against the Power Ponies. When Humdrum frees them and they go on a rampage in her lair, she is loses all of her composure and is reduced to barking orders at her hencponies and calling them [[SurroundedByIdiots idiots]] as they are beaten. Then, when she is blasted by her own doomsday weapon, she loses control of her mane, screaming "MY MANE!" as it wraps around her whole body, entrapping her like a straitjacket. Trapped by her own hair, defeated and helpless, all she can do is [[LaughingMad laugh insanely]] while hoping in place. |
| 298 | [[/folder]] |
| 299 | |
| 300 | !!''A Hearth's Warming Tale'' Characters |
| 301 | * UniversalAdaptorCast: Each of the characters in the story, with the exception of Professor Flintheart, is played by one of the regular main characters: Starlight takes the role of Scrooge, Rainbow plays a very loose take on Bob Cracthit, and Applejack, Pinkie Pie and Princess Luna fill the roles of the three spirits. Meanwhile Rarity and Fluttershy appear as the apparent hosts of the Hearth's Warming Party featured in story, named Merry and Flutterholly. |
| 302 | |
| 303 | [[folder:Snowfall Frost]] |
| 304 | [[quoteright:241:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/starlight_glimmer___glare_from_snowfall_frost_by_caliazian_da86dcz_7.png]] |
| 305 | |
| 306 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E8AHearthsWarmingTail A Hearth's Warming Tail]]" |
| 307 | |
| 308 | The protagonist of ''A Hearth's Warming Tale''. A mare who only cared about how to make Equestria a better place. She saw Hearth's Warming as an obstacle and distraction to her work. She eventually chose to cast a spell that would make ponies all over Equestria forget of the existence of Hearth's Warming forever. She soon learned the error of her ways and turned over a new leaf, now being the most charitable of ponies during Hearth's Warming from that day on. Portrayed in-universe by Starlight Glimmer. |
| 309 | ---- |
| 310 | * AdaptationalBadass: Unlike the Grinch (who only could steal Christmas equipment) and Scrooge (who was a regular elderly man), Snowfall Frost is extremely skilled and possesses very powerful magic. She also has the capacity to erase Hearth's Warming Eve completely, and comes very close to doing so. |
| 311 | * AdaptationalVillainy: Zig-zagged. While the original Scrooge was certainly not a nice guy at all (until his eventual CharacterDevelopment), he was merely a cold jerk who just didn't want anything to do with Christmas. Snowfall, however, actively tries to destroy Hearth's Warming Eve with dangerous magic. She is, however, [[AdaptationalNiceGuy nicer than him]], and her reason for doing so is that she [[WellIntentionedExtremist believes it would benefit Equestria]], unlike Scrooge's initial disregard for others. |
| 312 | * AntiVillain: Snowfall honestly believes that her spell making everypony forget about the holiday would make Equestria better. |
| 313 | * ArbitrarySkepticism: Snowfall doesn't believe the Windigos exist, despite all the other crazy stuff that exists in Equestria, including the spirits. |
| 314 | * BenevolentBoss: She treats her assistant, Snowdash, very well, at least by Scrooge {{Expy}} standards. She gets even better after her HeelFaceTurn. |
| 315 | * BreakTheCutie: [[UsedToBeASweetKid As a filly]], she loved Hearth's Warming Eve and spending it with her friends. After Professor Flintheart's cruel words to her, however, she shunned her friends and devoted her time to studying powerful magic. She even momentarily regrets it, as she sheds tears at one point. |
| 316 | * CompositeCharacter: Of [[Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas the Grinch]] and [[Literature/AChristmasCarol Ebenezer Scrooge]]. She is disgusted with the holiday and plans to get rid of it so no-one will celebrate it ever again, but undergoes a HeelFaceTurn after being visited by three ghosts who show her the error of her ways. |
| 317 | * EvilIsPetty: More misguided than evil, but she still nearly manages to bring about the end of Equestria ''just because she doesn't like Hearth's Warming Eve.'' |
| 318 | * TheGrinch: She is absolutely disgusted with the holiday that she goes as far as to make it ''disappear'' forever, thinking it would make Equestria better. Boy, is she wrong... |
| 319 | * HeelFaceTurn: Just like [[Literature/AChristmasCarol Scrooge]] and [[Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas the Grinch]], Snowfall undergoes one after seeing the error of her ways. |
| 320 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She isn't really a bad pony, and even before her HeelFaceTurn took the three Spirits visiting her unwelcome and interrupting her spell well. |
| 321 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Or rather, "My Celestia, What Was I Going to Do?!" as the Spirit of Hearth's Warming Yet to Come shows Snowfall what will happen if she goes through with her spell: The Windigos grow out of control and blanket all of Equestria in eternal winter to the point of causing an ice age. |
| 322 | * ObliviouslyEvil: Snowfall honestly thought that her spell would make Equestria better, believing the Windigos to be nothing more than a filly's tale and not realizing the threat they actually pose. |
| 323 | * PurpleIsPowerful: Snowfall is a powerful unicorn wizard; in addition to having Starlight's usual light-purple coat, her vest and top hat are purple too. |
| 324 | * ScareEmStraight: After being shown the consequence of going through with her spell, she opens her heart to the holiday and changes for the better. |
| 325 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: She loved the holiday before Flintheart got to her. |
| 326 | * VillainSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25QfedqeafQ "Say Goodbye to the Holiday"]] exposits on her views on Heart's Warming as a pointless holiday and how she plans to remove it. |
| 327 | [[/folder]] |
| 328 | |
| 329 | [[folder:The Three Spirits of Hearth's Warming]] |
| 330 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E8AHearthsWarmingTail A Hearth's Warming Tail]]" |
| 331 | |
| 332 | Three spirits that act as [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Hippomorphic Personifications]] of Hearth's Warming in ''A Hearth's Warming Tale''. Known as the Spirits of Hearth's Warming Past, Presents and Yet to Come, they show Snowfall the error of her way by each showing her (in order) how she became cynic in her past, how the ponies of her current time enjoy the festivities and the horrible result of her intended spell to erase Hearth's Warming forever in the future. Portrayed in-universe by Applejack, Pinkie Pie and Princess Luna, respectively. |
| 333 | ---- |
| 334 | !!Collectively |
| 335 | * {{Expy}}: Of the [[Literature/AChristmasCarol Spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come]], of course. |
| 336 | * MusicalExposition: They deliver the bulk of their exposition, and of their lesson to Snowfall, through song numbers. |
| 337 | * OurSpiritsAreDifferent: Aside from being [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Hippomorphic Personifications]] of a holiday, each Spirit has characteristics different from the others. Past is the only Spirit that is transparent and monochrome gray like a classic ghost. Presents is seen in a physical state and interacts with background ponies. Yet to Come is the tallest and most foreboding figure. |
| 338 | * PowersThatBe: As Past explains, Snowfall Frost attempting to cast a spell erasing Hearth's Warming Eve attracted the attention of "powerful forces". She stays vague on the exact nature of these forces, however. |
| 339 | -->'''Spirit of Hearth's Warming Past:''' You don't think a spell like that would get by without some powerful forces noticin'? You got our attention, Snowfall Frost. |
| 340 | * RealityWarper: All three spirits have the power to alter their surroundings in some way to fulfill their mission. Past can fly, control physical objects by telekinesis, drag Snowfall with her into a PensieveFlashback and make a pine tree de-age to a sapling. Presents materializes gifts all over the place and apparently heals a young infirm colt of his lameness to allow him to tap-dance; she also uses OffscreenTeleportation and leans very heavily on the fourth wall (but that's usual for Pinkie Pie). Yet to Come creates illusions to demonstrate her point. |
| 341 | * RuleOfSymbolism: The ponies chosen to represent the Spirits of Hearth's Warming Past, Presents, and Yet to Come. Past, represented by the honest Applejack, shows Snowfall the truth of her past and how it led to her current views on Hearth's Warming; Presents, represented by the party pony Pinkie Pie, shows Snowfall the importance of parties and spending time with friends during the holiday; Yet to Come, represented by Princess Luna, formerly Nightmare Moon and still a literal mare of the night, shows Snowfall the potential, nightmarish future if the spell to erase Hearth's Warming is completed. |
| 342 | * SillyRabbitCynicismIsForLosers: The first two Spirits, especially Presents, teach Snowfall that she is wrong for thinking that Hearth Warming is just a silly excuse for candy and presents, and encourage her to see the value in friendship and joy behind the candy and presents. |
| 343 | * WhatTheHellHero: Not said directly, but the Spirits of Hearth's Warming Presents and Yet to Come tell Snowfall off for her plan to erase Heath's Warming Eve. The former talks about all the fun she's missing and how the holiday itself is part of "making Equestria a better place". The later straight-up condemns her for her action that will result in an EndlessWinter. |
| 344 | |
| 345 | !!Spirit of Hearth's Warming Past |
| 346 | [[quoteright:270:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/large_91.png]] |
| 347 | |
| 348 | The first spirit, who takes Snowfall Frost to visit her past to show her the choices that set her on her current path. She's played by Applejack. |
| 349 | ---- |
| 350 | * CompositeCharacter: Since there is no Jacob Marley equivalent in the story, Past gives Snowfall the initial warning that Marley' ghost does in ''Literature/AChristmasCarol''. |
| 351 | * GhostlyChill: Snowfall shivers violently when the immaterial Spirit of Hearth's Warming Past walks through her. |
| 352 | * {{Intangibility}}: Being a transparent classic-type ghost, she is largely immaterial. Snowfall's hoof goes right through her; later on, Past literally walks right through Snowfall, causing her to shiver. |
| 353 | * MonochromeApparition: She is uniformly colored in shades of semi-transparent light gray. |
| 354 | * NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Taken to extremes by her intangibility -- she casually walks right through Snowfall while she's talking. |
| 355 | |
| 356 | !!Spirit of Hearth's Warming Presents |
| 357 | [[quoteright:218:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/large_2_05.png]] |
| 358 | |
| 359 | The second spirit, who comes to show Snowfall the value and meaning of gifts and giving to others. She's played by Pinkie Pie. |
| 360 | ---- |
| 361 | * FriendlyGhost: Presents is the happiest and friendliest of the three, her unreservedly jovial attitude towards Snowfall contrasting with Past's gentle scolding and Yet to Come's stern doomsaying. Being portrayed by Pinkie Pie is an added bonus. |
| 362 | * GoodFeelsGood: She encourages the idea of giving gifts to others, and remarks that doing so feels so sweet. |
| 363 | * IncomingHam: "SNOWFALL FROST! '''It is I''', ''the Spirit of Hearth's Warming Presents!''" While bursting out of a giant gift box to boot. Of course, she's portrayed by Pinkie Pie, so a hammy entrance is a given. |
| 364 | * OffscreenTeleportation: Predictable since the character is portrayed by Pinkie Pie. Presents disappears after sliding down a pile of gift boxes and pops out of another box moments later. She also uses bursts of SuperSpeed for pretty much the same effect. |
| 365 | * ShoutOut: Presents appears to be modeled specifically after the characterization of the Ghost of Christmas Present in the Ira David Wood theater adaptation of ''Literature/AChristmasCarol''. |
| 366 | * ThatRemindsMeOfASong: Just like her in-universe portrayer, Presents has [[MySignificanceSenseIsTingling her sense going off]], and says it means that a song is coming up. |
| 367 | |
| 368 | !!Spirit of Hearth's Warming Yet to Come |
| 369 | [[quoteright:270:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/spirit_of_hearth_s_warming_yet_to_come_by_magister39_da2l8cm_6.png]] |
| 370 | |
| 371 | The third and final spirit, who comes to show Snowfall the dire consequences her actions will have. She's played by Princess Luna. |
| 372 | ---- |
| 373 | * AnthropomorphicZigZag: Luna, as the Spirit of Hearth's Warming Yet to Come, appears to be standing on her hind legs the entire time. That said her body under the cloak also seems to be shaped if on all fours, despite her forelegs obviously not touching the ground. This helps add to intended confusion on if she even has hind legs and if her cloak is part of her body, which itself is further aided by its colors and pattern matching Luna's down to the black spots on her flank, as well as her wings appearing to grow right from it. |
| 374 | * BadFuture: She shows Snowfall an Equestria blanketed by an EndlessWinter caused by the Windigos after Hearth's Warming was forgotten. |
| 375 | * BlackCloak: Her dress of choice. The bottom of it constantly flows back into itself, and as it sports Luna's coat color and black markings, as well as her wings sprouting from it, it's hard to tell whether it's an actual garment or is ''part of her body''. |
| 376 | * DarkIsNotEvil: The Spirit of Hearth's Warming Yet to Come is a dark and imposing figure with a booming voice. Her looks and scary presence could easily make plenty of straight villains envious. Yet her purpose is entirely [[TheSacredDarkness benevolent]], aiming at discouraging Snowfall Frost to cast the spell by showing her the dire consequences that would result. She's simply not afraid of using ScareEmStraight as a tactic. |
| 377 | * {{Disneyfication}}: Unlike the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, who simply stood silent and imposing, directing Scrooge through a possible future if he didn't change his ways, the Spirit of Hearth's Warming Yet to Come [[CharacterExaggeration speaks with a booming voice and sings a song]] about what would become of Equestria if Snowfall completed her spell. This makes the spirit's message easier for small children to understand and is less likely to give them nightmares of silent shadows. |
| 378 | * DramaticWind: From the moment Luna as the Spirit of Hearth's Warming Yet to Come opens her wings, frigid winds and snow blow all over the frozen landscape of the future Equestria. This doesn't stop for all of her song, and even gets worse when the Windigos appear. |
| 379 | * FantasticLightSource: Yet to Come is cloaked in darkness until the moment she lights up her horn. |
| 380 | * FogFeet: The bottom of her cloak seems to be ghostly and immaterial, with wisps of smoke curling into themselves constantly, mixing the same colors as Luna's usual mane. |
| 381 | * GhostlyGlide: She doesn't walk or fly, but instead creepily glides around in her long coat. |
| 382 | * GlowingEyes: Yet to Come initially appears as a completely dark figure, but with glowing white eyes to show she means business. |
| 383 | * TheGrimReaper: She evokes this just like the Ghost of Christmas she is an expy of, being dressed in a cloak and abnormally tall. |
| 384 | * PowerEchoes: She's the most imposing and scary of all three spirits. Naturally, she has a booming voice that echoes a lot. |
| 385 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: She wastes no time in letting Snowfall Frost know that her selfishness and hard-heartedness will doom Equestria if she continues down the path she's on, and shows her the consequences as well. |
| 386 | [[/folder]] |
| 387 | |
| 388 | [[folder:Professor Flintheart]] |
| 389 | [[quoteright:247:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/snape_pony_4.png]] |
| 390 | [[caption-width-right:247:[[Franchise/HarryPotter 10 points]] [[MemeticMutation from Gryffindor!]]]] |
| 391 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E8AHearthsWarmingTail A Hearth's Warming Tail]]" |
| 392 | |
| 393 | ->'''Voiced by:''' William Samples |
| 394 | |
| 395 | A cruel unicorn teacher from Snowfall Frost's past. He is responsible for Snowfall's dislike of Hearth's Warming by berating her time-wasting on the holiday and to focus her time on the betterment of Equestria. Notably the only named character in the story (even including many in the background) that isn't portrayed by someone Twilight knows. |
| 396 | ---- |
| 397 | * DarkIsEvil: His mane and coat are in dark colors and dresses in black and gray. Yep, this guy is evil. |
| 398 | * EvilTeacher: Cruelly berates Snowfall for wasting her time celebrating Hearth's Warming when she should spend it working towards the betterment of Equestria. |
| 399 | * {{Expy}}: Of [[Franchise/HarryPotter Severus Snape]], indubitably. He looks like a ponified Snape, and is a strict and stern teacher of magic, shaping the mind of a young unicorn for the worst. |
| 400 | * TheGrinch: Holds Hearth's Warming Eve and all its trappings in withering contempt to an even greater degree than adult Snowfall, although no explanation's given to why ''he'' acts this way. |
| 401 | * {{Jerkass}}: Professor Flintheart. Telling a little filly the tale of Hearth's Warming Eve is "just a story" while crushing the ornaments she's putting up is just as cruel as telling a human kid there's no Santa Claus while tossing the Christmas stockings in the trash. |
| 402 | * {{Leitmotif}}: Professor Flintheart has a grim and serious tune playing anytime he's talking, which pauses when young Snowfall is answering him. |
| 403 | * MeaningfulName: He has a heart of stone (cruel personality, lack of interest in holidays and a no-nonsense attitude), literally. |
| 404 | * SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: The main lesson he teaches Snowfall and the one she has followed ever since, is that Hearth's Warming and everything related to it, such as friendship, is a waste of time that would be better spent studying. |
| 405 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: He tells Snowfall to work towards the betterment of Equestria. Too bad she took that lesson to heart and tries to make Hearth's Warming disappear, dooming Equestria in the process. |
| 406 | * VillainousLegacy: Professor Flintheart serves as CynicismCatalyst to Snowfall losing her interest in Hearth's Warming as a filly. |
| 407 | [[/folder]] |
| 408 | |
| 409 | [[folder:Snow Dash]] |
| 410 | [[quoteright:228:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rainbow_dash___snowdash_by_cheezedoodle96_da2lkv3.png]] |
| 411 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E8AHearthsWarmingTail A Hearth's Warming Tail]]" |
| 412 | |
| 413 | Snowfall Frost's assistant who helps her around her house. She was eventually let off early to enjoy the holiday and is later seen celebrating alongside her friends. She is portrayed in-universe by Rainbow Dash. |
| 414 | ---- |
| 415 | * CrosscastRole: Possibly, InUniverse -- as with Rainbow Dash's previous role in the "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E13HearthsWarmingEve Hearth's Warming Eve]]" pageant (as Commander Hurricane), it [[AmbiguousGender isn't entirely clear]] whether Snow Dash is supposed to be male or female. |
| 416 | * {{Expy}}: Of [[Literature/AChristmasCarol Bob Cratchit]], as in being the assistant of the protagonist, although she is actually treated well by her boss and is not shown to have a family. |
| 417 | * SarcasmBlind: When Snowfall sarcastically tells Snow Dash she should take Hearth's Warming Eve off, Snow Dash rushes out the door before she can even finish. |
| 418 | * ServileSnarker: Snow Dash is described as Snowfall's "loyal assistant," but she isn't above getting in a jab at her boss about Hearth's Warming. |
| 419 | -->'''Snowfall Frost:''' Those foolish ponies were ringing those blasted bells outside the window and I lost my concentration!\ |
| 420 | '''Snow Dash:''' Whoa, ponies actually enjoying Hearth's Warming Eve. Where did they get ''that'' crazy idea? |
| 421 | [[/folder]] |
| 422 | |
| 423 | !!''Ogres & Oubliettes'' Characters |
| 424 | A number of characters, [=NPCs=] and PlayerCharacters alike, who make up the cast of Spike and Big Mac's ''Ogres & Oubliettes'' session, later brought to life by Discord's magic. |
| 425 | |
| 426 | [[folder:Player Characters]] |
| 427 | [[quoteright:324:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/garbuckle_mcbiggun_and_wuzz_victorious_s6e17.png]] |
| 428 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E18DungeonsAndDiscords Dungeons & Discords]]" |
| 429 | |
| 430 | Spike, Big Mac and later Discord's in-game avatars: the sorcerer Garbunkle the Magician; [=Sir McBiggen=], a black knight who defected from his king after the latter allied with the Squizard; and the archer Captain Wuzz. They reappear in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E10TheBreakUpBreakdown The Break Up Breakdown]]". |
| 431 | ---- |
| 432 | * TheArchmage: Garbunkle is a famous, powerful and high-level enchanter with very high skill points, treated by others with the utmost respect. |
| 433 | * BlackKnight: [=Sir McBiggen=]'s character class is a knight in black armor because he abandoned his king. This is dishonorable, even if it was because the king allied with an EvilSorcerer. |
| 434 | * DefectorFromDecadence: [=Sir McBiggen=] abandoned his king after the latter allied with the Squizard. |
| 435 | * FlatCharacter: Besides some short intros for Garbunkle and [=Sir McBiggen=] early on, they're not given much or any characterization themselves, effectively being just extensions of Spike and Big Mac's characters. Captain Wuzz doesn't even get that much, being just Discord in a costume. |
| 436 | * MagicStaff: Garbunkle carries one with a tip shaped like a hand holding a bead between thumb and forefinger. |
| 437 | * PermaStubble: [=Sir McBiggen=] has a prominent 5-o'clock-shadow. |
| 438 | * ShoutOut: Captain Wuzz's clothing and hair are very reminiscent of [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Legolas']]. |
| 439 | * {{Transflormation}}: A partial example rather than a full-body transformation. In "Dungeons & Discords", Discord/Captain Wuzz attempts to transform a guard into a parsnip and, on flubbing the roll to do so, instead transforms his own hand into a cluster of finger-like parsnips. In all of Captain Wuzz's subsequent appearances, his his left hand remains the root vegetable he turned it into, albeit a fully movable one. |
| 440 | * WizardClassic: Garbunkle wears and carries the standard wizard robes, hat, staff and beard. |
| 441 | [[/folder]] |
| 442 | |
| 443 | [[folder:The Squizard]] |
| 444 | [[quoteright:196:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/squizard.jpeg]] |
| 445 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E18DungeonsAndDiscords Dungeons & Discords]]" |
| 446 | |
| 447 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Peter New |
| 448 | |
| 449 | An evil squid wizard who is besieging the last free city in Spiketopia and has kidnapped the beautiful unicorn princess "Shmarity". Defeating him is the goal of Spike and Big Mac's ''O&O'' campaign. |
| 450 | ---- |
| 451 | * AndNowYouMustMarryMe: He plans to make Princess Shmarity his bride once the heroes are defeated. |
| 452 | * DemBones: A horde of skeleton ponies seems to make up the bulk of his forces. |
| 453 | * EvilSorcerer: An evil wizard who seeks to conquer Spiketopia by means of his magic and his undead {{mooks}}. |
| 454 | * MagicWand: He wields two of the kind with a star at the end, one in each of his main tentacles. |
| 455 | * {{Necromancer}}: Seems to be this, as all of his minions are animated skeletons. |
| 456 | * PaperPeople: The Squizard and his minions are represented as drawings on rectangles of paper on the tabletop; even once animated by Discord and life-sized, they are still moving drawings over flat cardboard. |
| 457 | * RobeAndWizardHat: He's not wearing anything else, but at least the Squizard has the traditional pointy hat, a cape and a MysticalHighCollar to show what his trade is. |
| 458 | * ShotInTheAss: The second time that Discord transports himself, Spike and Big Macintosh into the game world, he and Spike defeat the Squizard by shooting him in the rear with Discord's arrow, which had been set on fire by Spike's magic. |
| 459 | * TentacledTerror: He is an evil squid ''wizard''. |
| 460 | [[/folder]] |
| 461 | |
| 462 | [[folder:Skellinore]] |
| 463 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/captain_wuzz_introducing_skellinore_s8e10.png]] |
| 464 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E10TheBreakUpBreakdown The Break Up Break Down]]" |
| 465 | |
| 466 | A level 18 bone warrior in the Squizard's armies. Discord tries to set up Big Mac with her to distract him from his belief that his girlfriend is planning to break up with him. It doesn't work. |
| 467 | ---- |
| 468 | * AttractiveZombie: An in-universe fantasy example. Discord/Captain Wuzz presents her as a suitable partner for Big Mac/Sir [=McBiggun=], and at the end of the episode Spike expresses continued interest in her. |
| 469 | * BlushSticker: She briefly sports two oval-shaped, pink blush spots on her "cheeks" when getting introduced to Big Mac... despite being a skeleton with no flesh, blood vessels or blood. |
| 470 | * DemBones: She's a bone warrior, one of the hordes of animated skeletons used by as soldiers and minions by the Squizard. Some humor is derived from the anatomical realities of her state of being. |
| 471 | -->'''Big Macintosh:''' She used to do this thing where her- her nose would wrinkle when she laughed. Right there, in that hole where your nose used to be. |
| 472 | * PaperPeople: Like the rest of the characters in ''Ogres & Oubliettes'', she's an animated drawing on a large piece of cardboard. |
| 473 | * PunchClockVillain: According to Discord, she's only working for the Squizard in order to "pay off skeleton student loan debts". |
| 474 | * PunnyName: Her name is a pun on the word "skeleton" and the women's name "Elinore". |
| 475 | * VisualPun: Skellinore is quite literally a FlatCharacter. |
| 476 | * TheVoiceless: She has no spoken lines, and for that matter makes no sounds at all, throughout her brief appearance. She largely makes up for this by emoting very expressively. |
| 477 | [[/folder]] |
| 478 | |
| 479 | !!Bogus and Imaginary Characters |
| 480 | They are sort of like fictional characters, though they're not as straightforward or your typical example of one because their identity and "existence" was fabricated by someone or [[CollectiveIdentity a group of someones]] to pose as a real (InUniverse) individual or a group of individuals, or are otherwise figments of other ponies' imaginations and dreams. |
| 481 | |
| 482 | [[folder:The Shadowbolts]] |
| 483 | [[quoteright:314:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/large_4_5.png]] |
| 484 | |
| 485 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E2ElementsOfHarmony Friendship is Magic, part 2]]" |
| 486 | |
| 487 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TabithaStGermain (Female Shadowbolt) |
| 488 | |
| 489 | A trio of pegasus ponies (one female and two males) who look exactly like the Wonderbolts but with a darker-themed uniform. They appeared out of nowhere to tempt Rainbow Dash into leaving her group and join them. |
| 490 | ---- |
| 491 | * CollectiveIdentity: The Shadowbolts are actually Nightmare Moon shapeshifted and split into three ponies. |
| 492 | * ContinuityNod: We see the Shadowbolt uniform again in the episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E4LunaEclipsed Luna Eclipsed]]" as Rainbow Dash's [[YouMeanXmas Nightmare Night]] costume. |
| 493 | * EvilCounterpart: In their debt episode, they're played up as being this to the Wonderbolts, largely through their attempts to separate Rainbow from the other characters and wearing what would later turn out to be a dark variation of the Wonderbolt uniforms. In practice, the fact that they were only around for one scene and didn't do much beyond boasting about their flying abilities means they didn't really have the chance of narratively establishing themselves as this. |
| 494 | * HiveMind: The Shadowbolts are in fact Nightmare Moon separated into three bodies, but still acting as a singular being. |
| 495 | * HomeBase: In ''VideoGame/MyLittlePonyGameloft'', the Shadowbolts have a Ponyville House named The Shadowbolts' Hut. |
| 496 | * OneShotCharacter: They are only in the second half of the series pilot. |
| 497 | * OpposingSportsTeam: In the 2013 Annual comic, set in the ''Equestria Girls'' world, the Shadowbolts become a rival soccer team to Rainbow Dash's Wondercolts. |
| 498 | * VoiceForTheVoiceless: The female Shadowbolt speaks for the group. We never hear the other two speak. |
| 499 | [[/folder]] |
| 500 | |
| 501 | [[folder:The Mysterious Mare-Do-Well]] |
| 502 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Mare_Do_Well_by_vectorvector_3795.png]] |
| 503 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E8TheMysteriousMareDoWell The Mysterious Mare Do Well]]" |
| 504 | |
| 505 | A mysterious masked heroine and supposed rival of Rainbow Dash as Ponyville's hero. She is able to stop runaway carriages, predict when danger will occur, patch up dams with her magic and even fly. It turns out that she's actually Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Twilight and Fluttershy donning a costume designed by Rarity in a ploy to try to break Rainbow Dash's heroism-inflated ego. |
| 506 | ---- |
| 507 | * TheAce: She's a mysterious super-heroine superior to Rainbow Dash and with the super strength of an Earth pony, the magic of a Unicorn, the wings of a Pegasus, the ability to predict the future, and near the end, seemingly teleport or be in two places at once. In reality, she isn't ONE at all. It was Applejack, Twilight, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie wearing identical costumes and taking turns whenever their individual abilities would be handy. |
| 508 | * AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Fills this role in regards to Rainbow Dash. It was invoked by her friends to "take her down a peg". |
| 509 | * BadassCape: There was some justification behind it, since it hides the lack of wings on a non-Pegasus. |
| 510 | * CoatHatMask: The sum total of her costume and for good reason. The coat hides the lack of wings on a non-Pegasus, the hat the lack of a horn on a non-Unicorn, and the mask hides identity. |
| 511 | * CollectiveIdentity: Mare Do Well is actually the rest of [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicTheManeCast the Mane Six ponies]], except for Rarity (though she did take part indirectly as the designer of Mare Do Well's costume), posing as a masked super hero. |
| 512 | * ColorCodedWizardry: Her magic aura is the same red-violet color as those of Twilight Sparkle and her family as well as [[AllThereInTheScript Amethyst Star]] ([[DependingOnTheArtist when Amethyst Star's magic aura isn't pink]]). And for good reason, since Twilight's the only unicorn who played her. |
| 513 | * CompressedHair: Both her mane and her tail are completely hidden in her costume. {{Justified}}, like the rest of her CostumeTropes. |
| 514 | * TheCowl: Her costume and mysterious demeanor certainly invokes this trope since her identity is hidden and she appears and disappears out of nowhere. |
| 515 | * DarkIsNotEvil: Much like certain other caped crusaders, she's out to protect Ponyville despite her dark outfit and usually serious expression. |
| 516 | * DubNameChange: |
| 517 | ** In the Japanese dub, she is called "Dark Mare". |
| 518 | ** The Italian dub refers to her as Misteriosa Cuoredoro, meaning "Mysterious Heart-of-Gold". |
| 519 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: Possibly her being a WingedUnicorn (albeit only in appearance) is one to the fact that Twilight would later become an actual one, especially since Twilight's magenta magic aura is usually fairly unique to her, and Mare Do Well was shown to have wings shortly after using the same magenta magic. |
| 520 | * HomeBase: In ''VideoGame/MyLittlePonyGameloft'', MDW's "Home" in Ponyville is "Mare Do Well's Hideout". |
| 521 | * OneShotCharacter: Only appears in "The Mysterious Mare Do Well". |
| 522 | * PurpleIsPowerful: The primary color of her suit, which indeed makes her look cool. |
| 523 | * SuperheroesWearCapes: Justified; the cape hides the wings. |
| 524 | %%* SuperheroesWearTights: |
| 525 | * TheVoiceless: She never says a single word. Totally justified since she was Applejack, Twilight, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy in disguise and the voice would have given them away. Also used to reinforce her modest and humble nature. |
| 526 | * WingedUnicorn: Appears to be one due to unicorn Twilight and pegasus Fluttershy being among the ponies who played her. |
| 527 | [[/folder]] |
| 528 | |
| 529 | [[folder:Gabby Gums]] |
| 530 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E23PonyvilleConfidential Ponyville Confidential]]" |
| 531 | |
| 532 | An unseen informant for the "Foal Free Press" (a school newspaper) who reports personal and/or confidential information to the public without the pony's consent. |
| 533 | ---- |
| 534 | %%* AtrociousAlias: Gabby Gums? Really? |
| 535 | * BlatantLies: "[Twilight] Was a Canterlot Snob", "Rainbow Dash: speed demon or super softie?", "The Cakes are splitting up". |
| 536 | * CollectiveIdentity: Gabby Gums is actually [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicTheCutieMarkCrusaders the Cutie Mark Crusaders]]. |
| 537 | * EtTuBrute: When Gabby Gums's identity is revealed, the ponies of Ponyvile don't take it well. |
| 538 | [[/folder]] |
| 539 | |
| 540 | [[folder:Orchard Blossom]] |
| 541 | [[quoteright:149:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sissy_mac_2_by_jeatz_axl_d9c4p381.png]] |
| 542 | %%[[caption-width-right:149:some caption text]] |
| 543 | ->'''Sweetie Belle:''' That's Big Mac in a dress. |
| 544 | |
| 545 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E18BrotherhoovesSocial Brotherhooves Social]]" |
| 546 | |
| 547 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Peter New |
| 548 | |
| 549 | An Apple cousin from out of town who fills in for Applejack during the Sisterhooves Social... Actually Big Macintosh in a dress. |
| 550 | ---- |
| 551 | * BigBeautifulWoman: One of the judges is rather taken with her, at least. |
| 552 | * BrawnHilda: She very literally tears through the obstacle course to win for Applebloom. |
| 553 | * PaperThinDisguise: Almost every other pony in the episode -- including the CMC, Rainbow Dash and all but one of the judges -- catches on that "Orchard Blossom" is Big Mac in a wig and a dress as soon as they meet. The judges still let them compete because they don't feel it's an issue that Apple Bloom is competing alongside her brother, so their own realization doesn't come into play until the end of the episode. |
| 554 | * SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: She speaks in drawn-out sentences littered with fancy words, a complete contrast to Big Mac's usual "eeyup/nope" routine. |
| 555 | * SouthernBelle: She speaks with a pronounced Southern drawl, and presents the personality of a refined lady from the rural upper class. |
| 556 | [[/folder]] |
| 557 | |
| 558 | [[folder:Crystal Hoof]] |
| 559 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/crystalhoof.jpg]] |
| 560 | |
| 561 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E17TheTimesTheyAreAChangeling The Times They Are a Changeling]]"\ |
| 562 | '''Voiced by:''' Kyle Rideout |
| 563 | |
| 564 | A crystal pony whom Spike introduces to Twilight and Cadance as his new friend, though he is actually the disguised form of the traitorous changeling Thorax, with intentions of fitting in with ponies. |
| 565 | ---- |
| 566 | * InnocentBlueEyes: He has vivid, yet adorable blue eyes that [[CurtainsMatchTheWindow match]] his mane. |
| 567 | * MagneticHero: He forms bonds with the other crystal ponies (including the royal guards) quite easily, and alicorn foal Flurry Heart quickly develops affection for him. |
| 568 | * NervousWreck: He's ''very'' nervous and sweating when Spike introduces him to Twilight. |
| 569 | * OneShotCharacter: He never appears again after his debut. |
| 570 | * RememberTheNewGuy: {{Invoked}}. As part of Spike's fake story for Crystal Hoof, to hide the fact that he's Thorax in disguise, he claims that the two of them have been pen pals ever since the Equestria Games. Twilight buys it. |
| 571 | [[/folder]] |
| 572 | |
| 573 | [[folder:Impossibly Rich]] |
| 574 | [[quoteright:259:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/large_4_98.png]] |
| 575 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E20VivaLasPegasus Viva Las Pegasus]]" |
| 576 | |
| 577 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AndreaLibman |
| 578 | |
| 579 | The matriarch of the Rich family, visiting Las Pegasus and aiming at buying some of the entertainment complexes. In reality, Fluttershy in disguise as part of Flim and Flam's plan to trick Gladmane. |
| 580 | ---- |
| 581 | * ContinuityNod: The Rich family, which includes Filthy Rich, Spoiled Rich and Diamond Tiara, has already been established as among the wealthiest earth ponies. |
| 582 | * ElectiveUnintelligible: Impossibly Rich only whispers to Flam, who then reports her words. It's on purpose, since Fluttershy's meek voice would be easily recognizable. She also probably wouldn't be comfortable trying to bluff Gladmane, unlike a conpony like Flam. |
| 583 | * ImpersonationExclusiveCharacter: The Riches are an established family in the show, and Gladmane and the resort-goers all react to her as if she were someone real and well-known, but the real Impossibly Rich is never seen -- only Fluttershy in her disguise. |
| 584 | * MockMillionaire: Flim and Flam paint her as the matriarch of the Rich family, able to buy out any entertainment complex in Las Pegasus. |
| 585 | * PowerHair: This mane style is most fitting for a rich and powerful mare of importance. |
| 586 | * ThemeNaming: She follows the naming model of other members of the Rich family, like Filthy Rich and Spoiled Rich. We don't know if a real Impossibly Rich does exist, though. |
| 587 | * WigDressAccent: Fluttershy's disguise consists of a green wig, a feather boa, a dress that conceals her wings, sunglasses, and speaking in whispers. Her coat color is still recognizable, though, and Gladmane isn't fooled. |
| 588 | [[/folder]] |
| 589 | |
| 590 | [[folder:Daybreaker]] |
| 591 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/daybreaker_1.png]] |
| 592 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E10ARoyalProblem A Royal Problem]]" |
| 593 | |
| 594 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NicoleOliver |
| 595 | |
| 596 | The hypothetical counterpart of Nightmare Moon, Daybreaker is the evil alter ego Princess Celestia could become should she be consumed and twisted by evil like her sister, Luna. She only appears in Starlight Glimmer's dreams after she finds the royal sisters in the middle of a feud, and forms as a manifestation of Starlight's fears about what a continuing feud might lead to. |
| 597 | |
| 598 | For the ''Alternate'' version of Daybreaker; see Characters/FriendshipIsMagicExpandedUniverse. |
| 599 | ---- |
| 600 | * AxCrazy: Subtle, due to the tone of the show, but it's still clear that she would have not hesitated to kill anypony who stands in her way, even flat out saying that she should have snuffed Nightmare Moon out instead of just banishing her. |
| 601 | * BewareTheSuperman: Imagine the most powerful pony in Equestria realizing she could do anything she wanted, and nopony would be able to stop her. That's Daybreaker. Fortunately, the real Celestia is far too principled to let that come to pass. |
| 602 | * BlackEyesOfCrazy: She has dark red sclera close to this effect. |
| 603 | * BreathWeapon: Among her fiery attacks is a searing breath of flames she uses on Nightmare Moon. |
| 604 | * CainAndAbel: She and Nightmare Moon are both the Cain to each other's Abel, attempting to kill one another. |
| 605 | * TheCameo: She appears briefly when King Sombra makes Twilight see her worst nightmare in the Season 9 premiere. |
| 606 | * DreamPeople: Daybreaker only exists in Starlight's anxiety and guilt-induced nightmare of making the royal sisters' fight even worse, but she is also completely aware of Celestia when she temporarily gains Luna's DreamWalker powers, and speaks as though Celestia has the potential to become her in real life. |
| 607 | ** Strangely, Luna is also aware of Daybreaker, and Celestia states she will never let her exist "again", though what this indicates is unknown. |
| 608 | ** If one takes the comic series as canon, [[Recap/MyLittlePonyLegendsOfMagicAnnual2018 the 2018 Annual]] of ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyLegendsOfMagic'' implies that Celestia has always had the potential to become Daybreaker, similarly to how Luna always have had the potential to become Nightmare Moon, and that these personalities could be brought to the fore if the appropriate sister were to turn to evil. In this case, Daybreaker would have been known and present ''in potentia'' from the beginning, but never actually existed as something more than a potential future and a nightmare in Celestia's mind. |
| 609 | * EarlyBirdCameo: Downplayed since Daybreaker hadn't been thought up yet, and she's certainly not as far gone as Daybreaker, but in the ''Reflections'' arc of the comics, Celestia reacts to Luna being hurt by turning into a demonic, burning version of herself. |
| 610 | * EvilCounterpart: To Celestia, of course, having none of her benevolence, kindness, or humility, and using the full extent of her magic to subjugate and rule all of Equestria by herself. |
| 611 | * EvilIsBurningHot: She has FlamingHair (tail included) and can control fire, powers she uses to hurt and destroy. When she sits on her throne, she fills the entire hall with pillars of flame. |
| 612 | * EvilIsHammy: Much like Nightmare Moon, Daybreaker wholeheartedly embraces EvilLaughter and over-the-top showing during her appearance, lacking any of Celestia's grace and dignity. During their duel, she even puts Nightmare Moon to shame as she spends most of it laughing and mocking her opponent while Nightmare Moon trades her usual ham for cold anger. |
| 613 | * EvilVersusEvil: Much of her appearance has her locked in a battle with Nightmare Moon when she's not belittling Celestia. |
| 614 | * FangsAreEvil: Like Nightmare Moon she has pronounced fangs, something Celestia lacks. |
| 615 | * FlamingHair: Her mane and tail are made of bright yellow flames that burn constantly (except when making an EmergingFromTheShadows entrance). |
| 616 | * {{Foil}}: Being Celestia's version of Luna's EvilCounterpart, she is Nightmare Moon's opposite in every villainous sense. Besides the light-versus-dark visual contrast, they have diametrically opposite motivations for their evil acts: [[DrivenByEnvy Luna was twisted into Nightmare Moon by feelings of neglect, jealousy and lack of appreciation]], whereas Daybreaker is motivated entirely by an overblown sense of self-satisfaction: in essence, Nightmare Moon fell from grace for having ''too little'' self-esteem and being over-reliant on others for validation, whereas Daybreaker's theoretical fall came from having, if anything, ''too much'' self-esteem and choosing to rely on no-one. Their attitudes in their duel are also in stark contrast: Nightmare Moon is constantly scowling and angry, while Daybreaker's emotive range seems fixed on evil laughs and manic grins. |
| 617 | * EvilMeScaresMe: To say that Celestia was a bit uncomfortable facing her nightmare reflection would be an understatement. |
| 618 | * HellishHorse: Besides being a nightmare in the literal sense, Daybreaker has a much stronger demonic motif than Nightmare Moon did, including plumes of living flames for her mane and tail and eyes with yellow irises and burnt-red sclerae. |
| 619 | * HellishPupils: She has slitted pupils similar to Nightmare Moon's, though hers are jagged. |
| 620 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Her goal is to become Equestria's one and only ruler, and anyone who stands in her way is to be disposed of. |
| 621 | * LightIsNotGood: She is still pure white and has control over Equestria's main source of light and warmth, but she is anything but the same kind and gentle ruler as Celestia. |
| 622 | * PlayingWithFire: Daybreaker is ''literally'' on fire and attacks using gigantic pillars of fire and explosions. |
| 623 | * ThePowerOfTheSun: Her fiery abilities stem from Celestia's control of the sun, and she can produce a solar flare that incinerates everything around her. |
| 624 | * {{Pride}}: Apart from being entirely self-centered, she is also supremely confident in knowing she's more powerful than any other pony, and describes herself as better, stronger, and prettier than Celestia. |
| 625 | * PsychopathicManchild: She's well over a millennia-old and acts like a spoiled brat. |
| 626 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: Her dark red sclera gives this effect. |
| 627 | * RedOniBlueOni: The opposite way from the princesses: Nightmare Moon is cold and pragmatic, while Daybreaker is DrunkOnTheDarkSide and gleeful in the destruction she wreaks. |
| 628 | * ShadowArchetype: She embodies Celestia's negative attributes and turns them up, namely her casual hubris and lack of appreciation for her younger sister. |
| 629 | * SnarkyVillainEarnestHero: Compared to Celestia, who's usually very sincere and doesn't employ a lot of snark or sarcasm, Daybreaker enjoys poking fun at her sister and snarking about her chosen aesthetic. |
| 630 | -->'''Daybreaker:''' ''[addressing Nightmare Moon]'' So much black. We get it, you're sad. |
| 631 | * SpikesOfVillainy: In contrast to Nightmare Moon's armor, which largely consists of swooping curves and rounded edges, Daybreaker's armor is all sharp points and spikes. This even carries into their body designs; Nightmare Moon has round wings whose feathers lie together to form an unbroken, leaf-like outline, while Daybreaker's wings are pointed and their feathers spread out to form a zig-zagging, jagged outline. Nightmare Moon's mane is a circular swirling nebula, while Daybreaker's is a plume of fire flicking out around the edges. |
| 632 | * SuperPoweredEvilSide: As Luna has Nightmare Moon, Celestia has Daybreaker, which is Celestia using all of her power without caring who gets hurt, and arrogantly believing herself to not need anyone's help. Instead of jealousy, it draws on Celestia's desire for absolute and unchecked authority where she would never have to rationalize her decisions before acting. |
| 633 | * TheUnfettered: Whereas Celestia intentionally keeps her power in check for fear of what it might do, Daybreaker doesn't hold back, unleashing her full power on anyone who crosses her. |
| 634 | * WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: As she describes herself, she is what Celestia could become if she were to realize she had the power to do whatever she wanted and nopony would be able to stop her. |
| 635 | [[/folder]] |
| 636 | |
| 637 | [[folder:Crackle Cosette]] |
| 638 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/crackle_cosette.png]] |
| 639 | ->''"Forgive me?"'' |
| 640 | |
| 641 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E13TheMean6 The Mean 6]]"\ |
| 642 | '''Voiced by:''' Creator/KathleenBarr |
| 643 | |
| 644 | A unicorn mare photographer who takes pictures of the Main Six before a camping trip of theirs, but it becomes apparent that she is hiding a dark secret. In reality, she is a disguised Queen Chrysalis, meant to trick the Mane Six and stir up hatred between the three pony tribes. |
| 645 | ---- |
| 646 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: She's a GenkiGirl unicorn who turns out to be the disguised form of one of the show's most dangerous and cruel villains. |
| 647 | * EmeraldPower: She has green eyes that mask her true identity as the powerful Queen Chrysalis. |
| 648 | * FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: While not as cute as Cozy Glow, she's a pretty mare nonetheless, but is actually a disguised Queen Chrysalis, who assumes her identity for nefarious purposes. |
| 649 | * FantasticRacism: She hates pegasi and earth ponies, to the point of trying to get her fellow unicorns to turn on them. |
| 650 | * FluffyTheTerrible: "Crackle Cosette" is a fairly pleasant name for somepony who seeks to tear apart the three pony tribes. |
| 651 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: Her cutie mark gives hints of her true nature. First of all, it's a bug, and she's the changeling queen. Also, [[https://derpibooru.org/images/1757192 it isn't a ladybug as you would believe at first glance]], but an Asian Lady Beetle, the fake ladybug -- in other words, she's not what she pretends to be. |
| 652 | * GivenNameReveal: Her name isn't revealed until her second appearance, "The Summer Sun Setback". |
| 653 | * IrrationalHatred: She appears to hate Starlight Glimmer for no reason, rudely ignoring her despite having never met her before and being angry at the prospect of taking her picture. |
| 654 | * ManipulativeBitch: Her entire existence is built on being this, and she admittedly pulls this off on the Mane Six and her fellow unicorns quite well. |
| 655 | * NiceGirl: She's very kind and energetic, showing respect towards the Main Six when meeting them in Twilight's castle and taking pictures of them. |
| 656 | * StealthPun: She is a photographer with a ladybug cutie mark, which would make her a shutterbug. |
| 657 | * VocalDissonance: In each of her appearances, her voice is noticeably different: |
| 658 | ** In "The Mean 6", she has a light, sweet-sounding voice. |
| 659 | ** In "The Summer Sun Setback", her voice is deeper and more haughty. |
| 660 | ** In the ColdOpen of "The Ending of the End - Part 1", it sounds similar to Trixie's voice. |
| 661 | [[/folder]] |
| 662 | |
| 663 | [[folder:Plainity and Eyepatch]] |
| 664 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/large1_1.png]] |
| 665 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E16FriendshipUniversity Friendship University]]" |
| 666 | |
| 667 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TabithaStGermain (Plainity) and Creator/TaraStrong (Eyepatch) |
| 668 | |
| 669 | A unicorn and alicorn duo who come to the Flim-Flam Brothers' Friendship University in Las Pegasus, and Plainity becomes Flam's star student. They are actually Rarity and Twilight in disguise who are infiltrating the school to find the brothers' secret. |
| 670 | ---- |
| 671 | * PaperThinDisguise: |
| 672 | ** Subverted with Rarity's choice of clothes: they don't cover her well, but no-one even recognizes her, not even Flam. |
| 673 | ** Exaggerated with Twilight, whose "disguise" consists of nothing but an eye-patch and a sticky note over her cutie mark, not even bothering to hide being an alicorn (of which only 5 are known to exist). The Flim-Flam Brothers see right through it. |
| 674 | [[/folder]] |
| 675 | |
| 676 | [[folder:Apple Chord]] |
| 677 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/apple_chord.png]] |
| 678 | ->''"Mah love is like a barrel / A barrel full of hay!"'' |
| 679 | |
| 680 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E4SparklesSeven Sparkle's Seven]]" |
| 681 | |
| 682 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AshleighBall |
| 683 | |
| 684 | A traveling country musician who gave up her career to be with her family. She is actually an alter ego made up by Applejack to help Twilight win the Sibling Supreme. |
| 685 | ---- |
| 686 | * ActorAllusion: She is a direct reference to her voice actress, who is also the lead singer for the band Music/HeyOcean. |
| 687 | [[/folder]] |
| 688 | |
| 689 | !!Inanimate Objects |
| 690 | Inanimate objects that other characters have treated like a living individual; a CompanionCube if you will. |
| 691 | ---- |
| 692 | * CompanionCube: They're plants, dolls and lumps of inanimate matter, but other characters give them names, talk to them, ask them questions, "feed" them, tuck them into bed and generally treat them like they would a living pet or another person. |
| 693 | |
| 694 | [[folder:Bloomberg]] |
| 695 | [[quoteright:213:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1139978__safe_solo_screencap_tree_overabarrel_appletree_bloomberg.png]] |
| 696 | ->'''Rarity:''' Applejack! Were you reading a bedtime story to... an apple tree?\ |
| 697 | '''Applejack:''' Heh... uh... well, ya know, being replanted in a whole new place is very upsettin' for a tree... an' Bloomberg here is one of my favorites. |
| 698 | |
| 699 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel Over a Barrel]]" |
| 700 | |
| 701 | An apple tree Applejack and co. are going to deliver to Appleloosa. Bloomberg was her favorite apple tree and takes care of "him" with much love and care that she even tucked him in a bed and read bed time stories to him, much to Rarity's (and possibly the other's) dismay. |
| 702 | ---- |
| 703 | * ICallItVera: AJ calls it Bloomberg. |
| 704 | * NonStandardCharacterDesign: Bloomberg is drawn in a much more detailed style than the other apple trees in the show. It has a fuller and more "realistic" crown instead of the stylized apple-shaped crowns other apple trees have, its canopy has visible leaf outlines instead of being a uniform light green, and it has more and more detailed apples and a more detailed bark texture than other apple trees. This is most visible once it's replanted in Appleloosa's orchard, standing out rather sharply amidst the other, more generic trees. |
| 705 | * OneShotCharacter: It only appears in "Over a Barrel". |
| 706 | [[/folder]] |
| 707 | |
| 708 | [[folder:Gummy's "Guests"]] |
| 709 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pinkie_pies_new_friends_s1e25.png]] |
| 710 | ->'''Pinkie Pie:''' Thank you all so much for coming! It means so much to Gummy. |
| 711 | |
| 712 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E25PartyOfOne Party of One]]" |
| 713 | |
| 714 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AndreaLibman (all of them in different accents) |
| 715 | |
| 716 | A bunch of random objects whom Pinkie Pie talks to during Gummy's "after birthday party" as a replacement for her friends. Pinkie Pie also gives them names (along with accented voices); they are Mister Turnip (a metal bucket with a bunch of turnips inside), Rocky (made up of three consecutively smaller rocks piled on top of each other), Sir Lints-a-lot (a rather large lump of lint), and Madame le Flour (a big sack of flour). All of them wearing party hats. |
| 717 | ---- |
| 718 | * CrossDressingVoices: InUniverse. A number of them are supposed to be male, but Pinkie is providing the voices for all of them |
| 719 | * IAmVeryBritish: Sir Lints-a-lot, who by name is clearly intended to be some sort of pseudo-British aristocrat, "speaks" in an exaggerated high-class British accent, kind of like Rarity. |
| 720 | * ImaginaryFriend: To Pinkie Pie. They even move on their own in Pinkie Pie's head/imagination, although in the real world it's actually her making them move. |
| 721 | * JustAStupidAccent: Most of them have accents to make them sound foreign but they still speak in English. |
| 722 | * ALizardNamedLiz: A bunch of turnips in a bucket named Mr. Turnip, a pile of rocks called Rocky, a big lump of lint by the name of Sir Lintsalot and a sack of flour named Madame le Flour. Not the most original names there ever were. |
| 723 | * OneShotCharacter: Their only appearance in the show is in "Party of One", though they return in ''[[ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendsForever Friends Forever]]'' #7. |
| 724 | * PunnyName: |
| 725 | ** Sir Lints-a-lot's name is a pun on Lancelot and the lint he's made out of. |
| 726 | ** Rocky's, combined with his pseudo-Creator/SylvesterStallone accent, is one of [[Franchise/{{Rocky}} the movie of the same name]], in which Stallone acted in the lead role. |
| 727 | * ReplacementGoldfish: Pinkie uses them as replacements for the friends that, she thinks, left her. |
| 728 | * SimpletonVoice: Mister Turnip has a low and slow voice. |
| 729 | * ShoutOut: |
| 730 | ** The episode title could be referring to ''Theatre/DinnerForOne'', which also includes a scene with someone walking around a table and faking the voices of the absent guests. |
| 731 | ** The pile of rocks is called "Franchise/{{Rocky}}", and Pinkie Pie voices him in the manner of a Creator/SylvesterStallone impression. |
| 732 | * TalkingToThemself: After a while in the party scene we start to see them moving by themselves and talking back to Pinkie. The scene suddenly cuts and we see that Pinkie Pie is doing the voices for them. |
| 733 | * ThisIsUnforgivable: They don't think Pinkie should forgive the others for having a party without her. |
| 734 | -->'''Pinkie Pie''': Well, it was pretty rude...\ |
| 735 | '''Madame le Flour''': Pretty rude?! ''(slams her "hand" on the table)'' It was downright ''despicable!'' |
| 736 | * ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: At the "party", at first it can be clearly seen that Pinkie is using her hooves to move them around when they "talk". Then, as she becomes more convinced that her friends are jerks for having a party without her, they appear to start moving on their own. |
| 737 | * UnexplainedAccent: Not sure where Pinkie Pie's ideas for their accents come from, seeing that this isn't Earth... but then again Apple Bloom spoke in French once and Pinkie is more insane than usual in this episode. |
| 738 | * {{Ventriloquism}}: So convincing that Rainbow Dash falls for it for a short while when Rocky "confronts" her. |
| 739 | * VoiceForTheVoiceless: Pinkie Pie does the voices for all of them. Especially when Rocky "confronts" Rainbow Dash (which is actually due to Pinkie Pie under the table manipulating him and talking for him). |
| 740 | [[/folder]] |
| 741 | |
| 742 | [[folder:Tom]] |
| 743 | [[quoteright:185:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/large_4_96.png]] |
| 744 | ->'''Rarity:''' Forget it, Twilight. I know what you're up to. The second I go in, you'll have your little minion Spike come and take Tom! |
| 745 | |
| 746 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E1TheReturnOfHarmonyPart1 The Return of Harmony - Part 1]]" |
| 747 | |
| 748 | When Discord was driving the main characters apart, he tempted Rarity with a vision of an enormous, flawless diamond shining out of a rock. Rarity couldn't resist the temptation and vigorously dug it out by hoof, failing to realize that her gem was nothing more than a rock that Discord has caused her to perceive as a diamond. She from then on carries it on her back or pushes it around with disregard to its immense weight, greedily guarding it from the others with intense paranoia. To her it looks just like that, a giant diamond, but to others it's nothing more than a large boulder. |
| 749 | ---- |
| 750 | * AllNaturalGemPolish: Of '''massive''' proportions. It comes out as a perfectly shiny, faceted, flawless diamond the size of a small car after Rarity rips it out of a boulder with her bare hooves. It was later revealed to be just a giant boulder with an illusion spell cast on it. |
| 751 | * {{Greed}}: This is what "he" was intended to evoke in Rarity's mind. Until the spell was broken it worked just fine, with Rarity single-mindedly obsessing over her precious "treasure" and driving away her friends out of conviction that they would steal her diamond. |
| 752 | * LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: Rarity's word-for-word reaction once the spell is broken, complete with and Applejack-induced call back a short while later.) |
| 753 | * OneShotCharacter: It only appears in "The Return of Harmony -- Part 2". |
| 754 | * ShatteringTheIllusion: Twilight and co. manage to break the spell, making Rarity see that the precious thing she though she was carrying truly is really just a worthless builder. |
| 755 | * {{Tuckerization}}: Named after Tom Sales, one of the show's storyboard artists. |
| 756 | [[/folder]] |
| 757 | |
| 758 | [[folder:Smarty Pants]] |
| 759 | [[quoteright:150:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/smartypants.png]] |
| 760 | ->'''Twilight:''' This is Smarty Pants. She was mine when I was your age, and now I want to give her to you! |
| 761 | |
| 762 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero Lesson Zero]]" |
| 763 | |
| 764 | Twilight Sparkle's old and raggedy childhood doll. "She" is a grey donkey rag doll with buttons for eyes (the other eye almost looks like it will fall off any second). She wears a pair of polka-dotted pants (thus the "pants" part of her name) and also includes a notebook and a quill (thus the "smarty" part of her name) for, as Twilight puts it, "when you want to pretend she's doing her homework!" She uses the doll in a desperate attempt to write a lesson for Princess Celestia by casting a "Want-It Need-It" spell on it. [[GoneHorriblyRight It goes as well as anyone might have guessed]]. Smarty Pants is currently in the possession of Big Macintosh. |
| 765 | ---- |
| 766 | * AppleOfDiscord: Twilight tries to use the doll as one of these by casting a spell on it to make people desperately desire it, in order to make them fight over it and give a friendship-related problem to solve and learn a lesson from. [[GoneHorriblyRight It works all too well]] once the entire town descends in a pitched brawl over it. |
| 767 | * AscendedExtra: She eventually got her own molded toy. |
| 768 | * BitingTheHandHumor: Twilight Sparkle's description of her old Miss Smartypants doll and its accompanying accessories could be seen as a TakeThat at the ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' toys themselves, which perhaps explains why Big Macintosh is [[PeripheryDemographic the one who really loves the toy]]. |
| 769 | * CreepyDoll: In large part due to Twilight's obsessive attempts to get the CMC to fight over Smarty Pants and her manic expression while doing it, the doll itself comes off as more unsettling than endearing in the scenes it first appears in. |
| 770 | * DubNameChange: She's called Oshare-Pants-kun ("Stylish Pants") in the Japanese dub. |
| 771 | * IncrediblyLameFun: The accessories she comes with are a notebook and quill so that you can "pretend she's doing her homework". Needless to say, the CMC are not sold on this. |
| 772 | * OneShotCharacter: "She" only appears in "Lesson Zero". |
| 773 | * StealthPun: [[DontExplainTheJoke Smarty Pants is a donkey]]. A ''smart ass'', if you will. |
| 774 | [[/folder]] |
| 775 | |
| 776 | [[folder:Boulder]] |
| 777 | [[quoteright:216:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/boulders_clipart_vector_3.png]] |
| 778 | |
| 779 | ->'''Maud:''' It's a rock. ''[{{beat}}]'' His name is Boulder. |
| 780 | |
| 781 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E18MaudPie Maud Pie]]" |
| 782 | |
| 783 | A small rock that Pinkie's sister Maud Pie introduces as her pet. They sometimes play hide-and-seek together; Boulder usually hides in her pocket. |
| 784 | ---- |
| 785 | * BigEater: It's just a tiny pebble, but Boulder apparently devours an entire sandwich in a few moments. |
| 786 | * FunnyBackgroundEvent: |
| 787 | ** At the picnic, Maud takes a few bites of her sandwich, and then sets it down, and pushes Boulder her pet rock at it. The scene briefly switches to closeups where AJ offers Maud a muffin, but by the time the shot pulls back, the sandwich is gone and Boulder is all alone on the picnic blanket. |
| 788 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E21Hearthbreakers Hearthbreakers]]", Boulder can also be seen at a corner of the dinner table with its own tiny bowl of StoneSoup. |
| 789 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E24UncommonBond Uncommon Bond]]", when Maud and Sunburst are talking by the Mirror Pool, Boulder is lying besides her. The focus cuts away from Maud for a moment... and when it returns to her, there are now ''two'' Boulders in a puddle of water next to her. |
| 790 | * IronicName: Boulder. It's a tiny pebble. |
| 791 | * MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Despite being shown as nothing more than a ordinary rock, Boulder has had many moments where he is seemingly alive such as wanting to get a post card for his cousin or "wandering off" to hang out with other rocks. |
| 792 | * MightyLumberjack: Played for laughs. When Maud asks Boulder if they should leave Ghastly Gorge, Boulder is on a tree stump wearing a knit cap next to an ax and a cord of chopped wood. |
| 793 | * OlderThanTheyLook: Maud reveals that Boulder is 2000 years old, but according to her, he doesn't look a day over 600. |
| 794 | * SnipeHunt: One of the games Maud plays alongside the main characters in her debut is "Camouflage", where the object is finding Boulder in a field of similar grey rocks. It was in Maud's pocket all the time. |
| 795 | [[/folder]] |
| 796 | |
| 797 | [[folder:Boneless]] |
| 798 | [[quoteright:302:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/large_92.png]] |
| 799 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E12PinkiePride Pinkie Pride]]" |
| 800 | |
| 801 | Cheese Sandwich's rubber chicken companion, which he later gifts to Pinkie. |
| 802 | ---- |
| 803 | * PlotCoupon: At the end of "Pinkie Pride", Boneless turns out to be one of the tokens each of the main six characters receives after learning a lesson about friendship, which in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E26TwilightsKingdomPart2 Twilight's Kingdom – Part 2]]" are transformed into the six keys necessary to open the crystal box. Boneless, specifically, is transformed into the key of Laughter. |
| 804 | * ReplacementGoldfish: Immediately after giving Boneless to Pinkie Pie, Cheese whips out a new rubber chicken named Boneless Two and continues on his way. By the time of the GrandFinale, [[spoiler:they're on Boneless ''Six'']]. |
| 805 | * ShoutOut: Boneless isn't the first "boneless chicken" named Boneless to appear in a cartoon: its name is reminiscent of the character Boneless Chicken from ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken''. |
| 806 | [[/folder]] |
| 807 | |
| 808 | [[folder:Twiggy]] |
| 809 | [[quoteright:255:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mudbriar_this_is_my_pet_s8e3.png]] |
| 810 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E3TheMaudCouple The Maud Couple]]" |
| 811 | |
| 812 | Mudbriar's pet stick. |
| 813 | ---- |
| 814 | * CargoShip: InUniverse. Maud and Mudbriar appear to think Twiggy and Boulder make a cute couple -- at the very least, they're seen chaperoning a date between them in the [[ValentinesDayEpisode Hearts and Hooves Day episode]] "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E10TheBreakupBreakDown The Break Up Break Down]]". |
| 815 | * ALizardNamedLiz: A twig named Twiggy. Not the most imaginative name for a small stick. |
| 816 | [[/folder]] |
| 817 | |
| 818 | [[folder:Phyllis]] |
| 819 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/phyllis_the_plant.png]] |
| 820 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E20AHorseShoeIn A Horse Shoe-In]]" |
| 821 | |
| 822 | A philodendron that Starlight keeps in her office at the School of Friendship. |
| 823 | ---- |
| 824 | * BilingualBonus: In classical Greek, "philodendron" translates as "love tree" or "friendship tree" -- ''phileos'' can refer to several types of affection depending on context -- making it a rather clever choice of houseplant for a staff member at a school of friendship. |
| 825 | * ALizardNamedLiz: "Phyllis" has the same opening syllable as "philodendron". |
| 826 | * RunningGag: Phyllis is involved in two throughout "A Horse Shoe-In" through Starlight voicing her worries to it and taking the plant's silence as replies and it constantly being put in peril by Trixie, ultimately getting trashed in the end. |
| 827 | * TalkingToPlants: Starlight spends a good deal of "A Horse Shoe-In" talking to a philodendron and acting as it replies to her. |
| 828 | [[/folder]] |
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