Characters / Codex Equus Coltalia

Here is a list of characters from Coltalia.

To return to the Second-Age Villains' page, click here.

To return to the main character index, click here.

---

The Overdom of Coltalia

Flag of the Overdom (Updated)

The homeland of Velika Volja, aka Overmare, Coltalia was liberated from the Axis Powers and taken over by her and her forces at the end of the Second Great War. In the years to follow it would be transformed from a small nation in the Bulkans into the 'Overdom', a stronghold of advance technology and incredible power under the hegemonic mastermind's brilliant genius and implacable will. It is both a country-size Supervillain Lair worthy of the greatest supervillainess of the Second Age (as well as her own faction of villainous allies and subordinates), and a vision in miniature of the better, 'ordered' world the Visionary Villain want to create upon Taking Over The World. And with Overmare at its helm, Coltalia is a small but mighty powerhouse capable of taking on even the greatest superpowers of Tellus and bring about Overmare's world-changing ambitions and goals to reality.

---

General

• Crapsaccharine World: Life is implied to be very good there, with the absence of poverty, famine, disease, crime and strife thanks to Overmare's brilliance as well as her technological systems and subordinates. It comes at the price of freedom and liberty for its citizens, however, with the demand of unquestioning deference to Overmare's borderline-totalitarian control and laws.
• Diplomatic Impunity: Having taken over Coltatia and turned it into her own nation - which was subsequently recognized as a sovereign nation - Overmare is effectively granted Diplomatic Immunity from any of her crimes on top of a nation-sized base of operation to execute her schemes and conquests the moment she makes it back to her borders, as it would mean that even Metamare cannot touch her without violating the international laws she was sworn to uphold - something which the Overmare was counting on. Even Overmare pointed out the sheer stupidity and timidity of those in power who thought it was a brilliant idea to recognize her country - What do they think she's going to do, leave them alone in exchange?
  Metamare: [Forced to leave Overmare alone] "... Don't think this is over."
  Overmare: [Completely nonchalant] "The Overmare expects nothing less. If you wish to seek blame for this, Metamare, you can direct your rage at the spineless fools who decided to recognize my dominion."
  • The best part is apparently no-pony even considered getting around this by revoking it. Presumably, no-pony dared to try doing that afterwards.
• Egopolis: Strangely enough, Overmare did not rename Coltatia after herself once she took it over. Instead, she called it the 'OVERDOM of Coltatia'. If we go with Overdom meaning 'Overmare's Dominion' in the same way a Kingdom means 'King's Dominion', then her declaration of her country's name is... technically correct.
• Elite Army: Under the Black Barons and their subordinates, the Overdom's military is a highly elite force which emphasizes on Quality over Quantity, with grueling standards and training as well as equipped with more advanced weapons and vehicles to surpass those of the armed forces of the superpowers, to the point it is mentioned mere squads, platoons and companies of Overtroopers are a match for whole companies, regiments and armies of their counterparts across the world and could often defeat enemy forces three to ten times their sizes. Justified in that the Overdom is a small country compare to their neighbours (being the Codexverse counterpart of Croatia and Latveria) and does not have the same amount of resources and manepower to field huge forces, requiring them to maximize each individual component of their small force in order to not only punch far above their weight but actually help Take Over the World for Overmare.
  • Best exemplified when Black Baron III managed to corner Virtuous Seven and their allies during their escape from the Overdom, only to be confronted with the Paragons III group arriving in force to their aid; the Overdom forces, rather than panicking or breaking then-and-there as most Mooks would do, immediately trained their weapons on them, but held their fire and immediately inquire their supreme commander what to do. This shows not only how disciplined, well-trained and courageous they are under Black Baron III's organization, yet also that they are not stupid as they are well-aware of how little chance they stand against the Paragons even with their numbers and firepower. Even so, they would not withdraw without their superior's explicit order to do so, still willing to fight against overwhelming odds for the Overdom if asked of them.
• Expy: To Latveria, Doctor Doom's own kingdom from which he plots world domination in Marvel Comics, which makes sense considering he is essentially Overmare's core inspiration (Along with Magneto and the Ultra-Humanite).
• False Utopia: Overmare wants to Take Over the World because she wants and genuinely believes the world to be better off with her in charge, and on the surface the Overdom under her seemed to show that she may have a point. Of course, as Bright Eyes found out, it involved meticulous management through questionable means that Overmare believes is necessary but few would considered justifiable. People are content and live in comfort, but the readers are left wondering if they are truly happy with the world's greatest supervillain in charge of their lives, and they are most certainly not free. How truly utopian or dystopian the Overdom really is is a matter of much debate in-universe between her supporters and detracters.
• Forbidden Holiday: Most holidays and festivals celebrated in the outside world were banned in Coltatia - with the notable exception of Solsmas as Santa Hooves, on top of being near-impossible to stop from visiting, had been nothing but unconditionally kind to Velika Volja throughout her early life.
• Hack Your Enemy: Subjected Ponyland to this as part of their contribution and participation in the 'Fourth Great War' of 1984-6 against Ponyland on the side of the three other hostile superpowers (Hooviet Union, Chineigha and Gran Coltlumbia) and their blocs, using highly advanced malware and active sensor deception technology to compromise Ponyland's early warning systems and enable the superpowers to send their invasion forces towards Ponyland undetected until they were practically right on top of them.
  NORAD Station: I'm lookin' at fighter jets over I-95! How the hell did they get through?!
• A Hero to His Hometown: Coltatia is heavily implied to be Velika Volja/Overmare's homeland, and from the looks of things, life is good enough under her enlightened dictatorial rule that her subjects and minions are fine with and very loyal to her. Anyone who says otherwise likely don't last very long, of course.
• Kill Sat: The Overdom placed Death Ray beam-firing space satellites up in orbit which Overmare could uplink through her Overarmour to basically blast anypony she wants, anywhere, at her direct command. She uses this to maximum effect during her battle against Void Traveller at the climax of the 'Dark Crystal Conflict'.
• No Communities Were Harmed: Subverted. From what's been shown so far, it is strongly implied that Coltatia is the Codexverse counterpart of Croatia.
• Offscreen Villain Dark Matter: Your answer as to where Overmare gets all those wonderful toys - a whole country she had taken over and turned into a technological powerhouse under her benevolent but iron-hoofed rule.
• Pintsize Powerhouse: Overmare's near-unrivaled genius as well as that of her most capable of subordinates turned a small country in Southeastern Marerope into a dangerous technological powerhouse capable of matching and even overcoming the military/economic superpowers of Tellus in its time.
• Supervillain Lair: Many supervillains of the Second Age have a modest supervillain lair. Overmare proves her credentials as The Ace among them by having a Supervillain COUNTRY.
• Superweapon Surprise: With their advanced and elite armed forces still too small to take on the whole world, many of Overmare's plans for world domination involve building and surprising the world with these as their force-maximizing potential is the only way a smaller force with significantly less resources are able to go toe-to-toe against greater forces.
• Take Over the World: Thanks to being run by a 'Hegemonic Mastermind', the Overdom for all intents and purposes has world domination as its national ideology. And they can do it too, because Overmare is capable enough to actually pull it off.
• Villain World: What Coltatia became after the Overmare took it over and ruled it as her dominion. She intends to add the rest of Equus/Tellus into said dominion if possible, making this trope the natural and inevitable outcome of a successful world domination scheme from her, the world's greatest supervillain. Of course, she would argue that this is not the case, given she doesn't see herself as a villain and would likely make sure it would not be remembered this way if she won.
• We Help the Helpless: Black Baron III's entry implied this is partly the reason why the Overdom enjoy considerable support from many beyond its own borders, as in addition to actually improving the world in many ways whenever they managed to Take Over the World, even during the times they are not they offer aid and support to groups who were marginalized, ignored and persecuted, such as minorities being oppressed by ruling majorities, natives who lost their lands and culture to colonizers and imperialists, smaller nations being bullied and threatened by larger ones, etc. Whether the Coltalians do this out of sincerity or to advance their agendas (or both) may be debatable, though the fact remains the other world powers and forces of justice had failed to do so in their place provided them the opportunity they needed.

Overmare, the Hegemonic Mastermind/Nadzena, the Overempress

Character: Villainous

Alignment: Lawful Evil

'''Type: Hegemonic Mastermind/Sovereign Scientist/Egotistical Despot/Visionary Extremist

Faction: Coltatia, herself, various Supervillain factions and alliances.

"Behold: I give you the OVERMARE! POWER made FORM! WILL made MANIFEST! STAND against me, if you DARE!" (as Overmare)

Widely considered the greatest supervillain of the Second Age, Overmare (her entries here, here, here, and here) is the Arch-Enemy of Metamare, Silversmith and likely the entire world, representing what happens when a pinnacle of mortal potential turns their brilliance to stand apart, over and upon their lessers, regardless of their reasons and motives.

For tropes related to her 'Fifth Age' self, see her respective entry here.

---

• The Ace: Widely considered THE greatest Super Villain of the 'Second Age' and proves her credentials by coming closer than any other super-villain individual and faction in Taking Over The World and posing not just a serious challenge, but a genuine threat to the world's greatest superheroes, such as her arch-enemies Metamare, the Paragon From Beyond and Silversmith, the World's Smartest Pony, as well as others. She had enough pull among the Super Villain community that she could persuade, bribe, threaten and command the fear and respect of entire alliances and factions of supervillains (and form them, too). Global superpowers trembled in fear of her name and her plans for world conquest, and her infamy goes to the point it terrifies those dwelling in other worlds, with at least one belligerent Maretian leader surrendering rather than face Metamare during the final war between Tellus and Mares, on the mere basis that they can't win against some-pony who could regularly defeat the hegemonic mastermind.
• A God I Am Not: Despite seeking divinity itself at various points and even becoming a Reality Warper at several points, Overmare flatly refused to call herself a goddess and refused to be worshipped as one. This is believed to be partly due to being so intellectually brilliant she had challenged and defeated gods in the past without being one herself, and while desiring their power for her own grand ambitions, she like Doctor Doom considered the status as beneath her. Luminiferous noted to Overmare herself though this attitude might make it difficult for her to attain godhood (among her other issues), as ascension requires the ascending mortal/entity to hold onto a 'Dharma' while doing so, and that in part requires a conscious embrace of the concept of divinity.
• Alliterative Name: Before permanently adopting the "Overmare" alias, her birth name was Velika Volja.
• And I Must Scream: She inflicted one upon those whom she finds truly despicable via neural-surgery and cybernetic implants, if she felt more punishment is warranted than merely vaporizing them.
• The Anti-Nihilist: Has shown inclination towards this with her worldview and beliefs. Notably hinted one time when she teamed up with Metamare in a battle against Void Traveler to stop him from blowing up Tellus/Equus with a Doomsday Device made from one of her stolen inventions. Void Traveler trivializes Ponykind and Tellus and tells her, straight to her face, that their race and their world are utterly inconsequential in the grander scheme of things, and it amuses him that Ponykind (As well as the Maretians) that they think all their struggles and squabbles over it all matters. Overmare's response?
  Overmare: "... And that, you pestilent alien abomination, is something the Overmare intends to change."
• Arch-Enemy:
  • Likely the entire superhero community of Equus during the Second Age, given her status, though most notably she serve as this for Metamare, the Paragon from Beyond and Silversmith, the World's Smartest Pony. Especially Silversmith, considering her inspiration...
  • Of the Tales Seven, Bright Eyes in particular has the most animosity for Overmare. While part of this was due to her being Silversmith's student, the other part is Bright Eyes doesn't buy into Overmare's Noble Demon aspects and just views her as a hypocrite who shouldn't ever be glamorized in any way.
• The Bad Guy Wins: Just to remind you why she was considered the greatest supervillain of the Second Age, Patch the Courageous Knight notes that Overmare had in fact succeeded in Taking Over The World multiple times, since she never gives up, and the law of averages meant every now and then she gets lucky and one of her plans worked out. It's just that because the heroes never gives up either, her victories never lasts long, with Patch herself recalling that she and the Virtuous Seven had once helped kick Overmare out of the White House at the end of one time she managed to gain control over Tellus for around three weeks.
• Badass Boast: Like her inspirations, she's bombastically arrogant, with an extremely high opinion of herself, so she dish out these grandiose boasts as often as she could come up with them. But nevertheless, from what we know she can in fact live up to these claims, being THE greatest super-villain of the 'Second Age'. And she won't let you forget it.
  Overmare: "Impossible? IMPUDENT FOOL! The scientific wonders of Overmare SNEERS at the impossible!"
  • Another example when she confronts Genius Builder/Build Rider for the first time in Neighpon, as part of a "The Reason You Suck" Speech against him and making it clear that, to her, he is seemingly outclassed.
  Overmare: "I had broken NATIONS, humbled GODS, and made the HEAVENS itself TREMBLE!"
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Because of the hardship and ostrasization Velika Volja had suffered throughout her life, she notably respects those who had been nothing but unconditionally kind to her.
  • She notably treats Saint Sweetheart with the most respect out of the Seven and tolerated her being let into her lair by Santa Hooves, and was the one who first called her saint. This is because Sweetheart held no malice nor animosity to Overmare even when being held captive by Overmare, something that few people in her life had ever been.
  • The same applies to Santa Hooves, who is unconditionally kind to everyone, even her, and even once brought Sweetheart over to the Overdom on the young saint's request to try and heal her crippled body and scars with her powers. This is the main reason why out of all the holidays from the outside world banned in the Overdom, Solsmas was one of the few exceptions which remained celebrated in Coltalia (It's not like Overmare can stop him from delivering presents and spreading joy to the Overdom anyways).
  • Germane Princess Augustine von Edelberg - better known as Kaiserin, the honourable Noble Demon ex-member and commander of Reichist Germaney's Herrenhelden taskforce - was quite possibly one of the very few Ponies whom Velika Volja could call as a friend back when they were young. While it will not be enough to stop Overmare from going down the path of world-conquering villainy, Overmare notably retained a soft-spot for Kaiserin, not holding it against her for standing in her way with other heroes nor even once fighting for the Reichists (helped by the fact Kaiserin renounced the Reichists as soon as she found out about what atrocities they were committing behind her back).
• Benevolent Boss: While draconian and terrible to those who fail or displease her, if someone proves competent and useful, she tends to be a good boss. It's noted she paid Headmistress extremely well and even sends Mrs. Hackney a 'severence package' after she destroys her Enemy Within, and a drabble shows her sparing Sprayor punishment for failure because he'd proven competent and useful and failed due to enemy competence, not his own incompetence.
• Berserk Button:
  • She hates being reminded of the possibility - or the very idea - that she might be equaled or even surpassed by anypony, or being wrong at anything. She also hates people dismissing her achievements as being Beyond the Impossible, because she is a supergenius and in her mind, anything is possible.
  • Silversmith, deemed the "World's Smartest Pony", manages to bring out torrents of outrage from her simply for being a genius who is smarter and more capable than her. It got to the point where she would curse his name every time she is foiled by him and/or his allies.
    Overmare: (nearly every time he and his allies foil her) SILVERSMITH - !!!
  • Taking and altering her own work without her consent is likely another one, as that time Void Traveler tried to do steal and modify one of her devices into a Doomsday Device. Gods help you if you succeed in doing that and embarrass her in the process.
    Overmare: "NO creature makes a fool of OVERMARE and escape retribution!"
• Beware the Superman: So VERY much this. It's even in her alias. Even her entry stated she is basically what happens when a pinnacle of mortal potential turns their brilliance to stand apart, over and upon their lessers, even for the best of motives.
• Big Ego, Hidden Depths: Behind her haughtiness, arrogance and grandiloquence, Overmare is a prodigy haunted by a Dark and Troubled Past who became a Super Villain bent on world domination because her tragic experiences and raging character flaws made her firmly believe that there is simply no other way to make the world a better place like she once promised her father and herself to do so. At the end of the day, Overmare is a complex figure, her life filled with both tragedy and promise in equal measure, sympathetic in many ways but also unsympathetic for other reasons, empowered but also entrapped by the very traits in her character that made her so capable and dangerous, all of which together made her one of Ponykind's best and worst.
• Bio-Augmentation: Wonder why her young, adult self was healthy and beautiful when she was born a sickly, weak filly because of a cogenital condition? She created and took medicinal formulas created through her advanced knowledge of biology and chemistry which not only allow her to cure or at least suppress her condition, but enhanced her body until it became a pinnacle of physical perfection. When she accidentally marred/crippled herself in a lab accident, she compensated via cybernetics and a primitive power-armour. When she vowed she won't be stopped by even her physical disability, she freaking MEAN it.
• The Chessmaster:
  • Her superior intellect has enabled her to conceive elaborate, complex plans to manipulate events in her favour, making her a supremely dangerous strategist/tactician, organizer and manipulator who could outwit even similarly super-intelligent opponents like Metamare with many a Batman Gambit and Xanatos Gambit, build globe-spanning secret criminal conspiracies, and move dangerous and powerful individuals like Profiteer and Cold Iron like pawns in her schemes. Unfortunately for her, Silversmith, her intellectual superior rival/Arch-Enemy, likes to play poker instead of chess.
  • Like Doctor Doom with Latveria, she arranged to have her Overdom in Coltatia recognized as a sovereign nation some time after taking it over and acquire Diplomatic Immunity out of it, knowing that Metamare and other superheroes can't touch her if she made it back to her borders after her plots are foiled. From the sound of things, even she is surprised it actually worked, considering those who recognized the sovereignty of her dominion as spineless fools.
• Clock King: Because of her incredible intellect, she is capable of running countless calculations in her head, which she had used to predict with near-perfect accuracy when and how long would certain events happen and plan accordingly. Her chronological-precision is rivaled by only a few, notably her main arch-enemies Metamare and Silversmith, former thanks to her trans-equine powers and the latter due to being an intellectual rival matching and even surpassing her.
• Control Freak: Silversmith, Overmare's Arch-Enemy, disparages her as a 'sad, totalitarian control freak' who believes she's entitled to be in charge over the world and Ponykind because she believes her intellectual supremacy makes her better suited at taking them to utopia than leaving them at their own short-sighted, squabbling and self-destructive devices.
• Cool Versus Awesome: Given their inspirations, the conflict between Silversmith and Overmare is basically what happens if you pit Lex Luthor/Tony Stark/Reed Richards against Doctor Doom/Ultra-Humanite/Magneto: It's as spectacular as it sounds. And of course, Overmare is the latter group.
• Cruel Mercy: Because of her hatred for the Reichists, as she told Endsieg at one point and also Dr Kabuto, she considers merely vaporizing them as this and makes it clear she can and would like to do much worse for all the crimes and atrocities the genocidal bastards had committed against her people and the world. Considering that she had personally lobotomized her childhood-bully-turned-Reichist-Collaborator, leaving his consciousness trapped in his own mind for the rest of his life while his body proper is remolded into a perpetually-smiling obedient servant, being vaporized would be merciful in comparison.
• Cynicism Catalyst: A Dark and Troubled Past of ill-treatment by others of her and her father (culminating in his tragic death), personally experiencing and suffering the worst of Equinity through poverty, war and discrimination, and then seeing it happen all over again in a historical downward spiral after having her plan to save the world her way derailed and ruined unintentionally (culminating in her accidentally crippling herself) convinced her to use her incredible genius to Take Over the World through cunning and force. Even when she justified herself to Metamare in their legendary first confrontation, she was filled with such bitterness for Equinity and the world that she could not accept Metamare's assertion that she could had saved the world as a hero (Having already tried that) and rejected Metamare's offer to help her.
  Metamare: You don't have to hurt any-pony to save the world!
  Overmare: Some Ponies... deserve to be hurt. Some Ponies... would have to be sacrificed for a higher cause, no matter what. And some Ponies... are not of any worth at all. That is what the world had taught Velika Volja.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Beneath her incredible ego and indomitable will and drive to pursue world conquest, Overmare is a psychologically broken person. See Start of Darkness for the whole sordid timeline.
• Dare to Be Badass: She of all Ponies gave one to the Tales Seven as they face Queen Dark Crystal in the climax of the 'Dark Crystal Conflict', complementing Metamare's own, but typical of her ego practically has her all but ordering them to not give up and that she fully expects them to beat the Grand Matron of All Witches if they dared to take on and foil her in the past.
  Overmare: YOU GIRLS ESCAPED MY HOOVES AND DARED CHALLENGE THE MIGHTY OVERMARE! IF YOU FALL TO AN INFERIOR BEAST LIKE THIS, I WILL BE PERSONALLY INSULTED!
• Death from Above: By the time of the 'Dark Crystal Conflict', her latest Overarmour can allow her to link up to her Overdom's space weapon platforms to attack her opponents with Death Ray beams from orbit.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: As time goes on, it becomes apparent that Overmare is as much a Deconstruction of Dr. Doom as she is a homage to him. Specifically, the Well-Intentioned Extremist and Noble Demon aspects: despite all her good intentions and attempts to mitigate damage, the fact she's going to extremes to begin with means no matter how much she tries to avoid it, she has directly and indirectly caused countless deaths and untold misery over the years. While she fixes many world problems during her brief reigns, her means of doing so and own character faults mean, inevitably, she causes pain and suffering in equal or greater measure. When called out on it in ways she simply can't ignore (usually by Bright Eyes), Overmare's response implies deep down, she's on some level aware of this, but will never admit it.
• Determinator: Implied from her inspiration and character so far. It takes a special sort of Pony with an indomitable will to be willing to take on a Superman Substitute, a super-intelligent 'Renaissance Pony' and literally the entire world without a shred of fear or hesitation. AND actually have the cred and ability to pose a legitimate threat to them. She will stop at ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to Take Over the World, and anyone and anything that stands in her way is but an obstacle to be removed. Deconstructed, as this same determination is why she'll never actually admit she's wrong.
• Diabolical Mastermind: While she does not consider herself diabolical, her world-conquering goals and means to achieve this make her this trope as a character. Codex Equus even officially classifies her as a 'Hegemonic Mastermind'.
• The Dreaded: She is the greatest supervillain of the Second Age, who took on the likes of Metamare and Silversmith and come closer than many ever had at world domination. Needless to say, EVERY-PONY was afraid of her.
• Dread Zeppelin: One of Overmare's infamous 'Overcraft' family of technically-sophisticated and deadly vehicles is a huge zeppelin called the Neightzsche, which is heavily-armoured and armed with batteries of weapons inside and out, crewed by elite loyal minions, and equipped with various facilities such as storage holds, armouries, barracks, workshops and a lab for her to do research on the fly. It appeared in the legendary first confrontation between Overmare with Metamare and Silversmith, in which Overmare intended to escape Ponyland with a subdued Metamare on board, forcing Silversmith to work with the Ponyland military to intercept it and mount a rescue operation.
• Driven to Villainy: Very much so, a tragic combination of a Dark and Troubled Past, a Humiliation Conga and her own raging character flaws. The worst part was that for a time, she really DID use her incredible genius for good and tried to make the world a better place like her parents wanted. Then her plan to peacefully take charge of the world and lead Ponykind to a golden age got derailed and her disillusionment with Ponykind triggered by a historical downward spiral fully set in, leaving her feeling there is no option to make the world a better place except only by doing it with cunning and force, setting her off the path to attempt world domination.
• Disproportionate Retribution: While she has a whole nation's worth of unresolved psychological issues and raging character flaws that might explain it, the fact remains - her enduring animosity towards Silversmith and her obsession at defeating and humiliating him might had started and snowballed from an incredibly petty slight. Namely, Silversmith once had the tenacity of beating her at chess.
• Due to the Dead: She attended Sweetheart's funeral after she died of old age peacefully and caused no problems, merely wanting to pay her respects due to Sweetheart being unconditionally kind to her.
• Emperor Scientist: Classified as a 'Sovereign Scientist' in-universe, having taken and ruled over Coltatia at some point, and used her brilliant genius to singly turn it into a technological Pintsize Powerhouse so advanced it put most other nations - including the five international SUPERPOWERS of Equus at the time - to shame. And she has no intention of stopping there.
• Enemy Mine:
  • It's implied from the entry and other drabbles that she and Metamare had done this on several occasions to deal with common threats. A drabble demonstrates this with Overmare herself approaching Metamare for a temporary alliance when Void Traveller stole and modify a device she designed into a Doomsday Device for destroying Tellus/Equus. Metamare hopes this would encourage Overmare to leave villainy behind, but Overmare made it clear that, although it's implied she grudgingly respects her, so long as Metamare remains content to be a 'mere attendant' instead of taking charge and fixing the corrupt and chaotic world, it would be inconceivable - to say nothing of Metamare's friendship with Silversmith.
  • She arrived in time to stop Void Traveller from blindsiding the heroes holding back Queen Dark Crystal's doomsday spell and kept him from interfering the entire crisis. She also brought an army of other villains with the same goal.
  • She despise the Reichists so much she's willing to team up with other superheroes like Pony Patriot to take down Reichist super-villains like Endsieg, when not fighting them herself.
  • The birth of Overmonarch causes her to do the unthinkable: form an Enemy Mine with Silversmith.
• Enraged by Idiocy: Overmare has little to no time nor patience for imbeciles and incompetents (real or perceived) who cannot follow her brilliance or perform up to her standards. She holds Cold Iron, the Hollow Mare in contempt, for example, disparaging her as a fool for being willing to lower herself into becoming more a weapon than a Pony, and not bright enough to realize until too late that she's being played like a fiddle by other villains (such as Overmare, incidentally enough). Overmare also banned the Mignons, the Yellow Minions collectively from working for her (despite them REALLY wanting to) because she has no place in her operations for minions who has a tendency of repeatedly and spectacularly screwing things up.
• Escape Pod: Overmare had one on her Dread Zeppelin which she used to make a quick getaway after the first time Metamare and Silversmith defeated her, in the form of a rocket-powered plane conveniently located between the outer and inner hulls, which could be accessed by explosive bolts releasing the plates/panels from a convenient switch that she just happened to be standing right next to.
• Establishing Character Moment: Her cred as the single biggest Arch-Enemy of Metamare (and Silversmith) and as possibly THE greatest supervillain of the Second Age was established in their very first confrontation: in the span of 24 hours, she was the first to hoof Metamare a decisive defeat, among the first to figure out Metamare's powers and her Kryptonite Factor, and was literally moments away from lobotomizing Metamare when Silversmith's Big Damn Heroes rescue attempt interfered. It was heavily implied that no-pony before and few others since had ever managed to come that close, and she would continue to serve as Metamare's and Silversmith's biggest enemy and a global threat in the many years to follow.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She genuinely loved and respected her loving scientist father and the deceased mother she never knew, and her villainy is partly motivated by a desire to live up to their belief that she would one day change the world for the better, and partly motivated by the misfortune that befell them. Her parents are the only times on record that she, The Unfettered evil genius that she is, express anything resembling genuine regret and respect, and she dedicate her achievements and ambition to their memory.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Overmare may be ruthless in pursuit of her goals of world domination and bringing her brand of order to Ponykind, but even she as a supervillainess draws lines that she will not cross.
  • She is fine with making her own or reverse-engineering other people's technology for war and conquest (Her excuse probably being that it's ultimately to END wars once she takes over the world), but using it to DESTROY the world? Killing all Ponies? That completely contradicts] her goals, and this she will not stand. This is especially if some-pony is trying to do that with HER own inventions, in which case she is willing to go as far as to join forces with her Arch-Enemy to stop them. Just note that one time Void Traveller stole her invention to turn into a Doomsday Device to destroy Equus/Tellus with.
    Overmare: It would seem, Metamare, that just this once, I am on your side.
    Metamare: Really?
    Overmare: Yes. You and I have common ground in his defeat: what planet would be left for either of us protect or conquer if he is allowed to destroy it? That aside, NO creature makes a fool of OVERMARE and escape retribution!
  • She holds those who throws away their Equinity for more power or revenge without heed for consequences with contempt, such as Cold Iron, the Hollow Mare. Overmare may look down on most of Ponykind for their various shortcomings, but apparently in her mind, what little worth they possess is still better than nothing. She seem to make a distinction between transcending the weaknesses and failures of Pony nature and become something GREATER than a Pony - which is what she is doing - and lowering oneself to something even LESSER than a Pony, which is what those like Cold Iron did. Makes sense when one considers Overmare wouldn't be trying to conquer the world and remake it in her image if she thinks there isn't anything in Ponykind that is worth saving.
  • She also ABSOLUTELY despises the Reichists, given between her congenital invalidity and being member of a persecuted minority group, she fitted the Reichists' definition of an 'Unterpferd' who they would had enslaved or exterminated, and many of them were killed in the Holocaust. Her country Coltatia (prior to her taking it over) was also under control of a vicious Pro-Reichist collaborator regime for the duration of the Second Great War. In other words, the Reichists made it VERY personal for her and she would had avenged herself on or destroyed them ever chance she got. She would had vaporized Ex-Reichist Mad Scientist super-villain 'Kabuto' were it not for Saint Sweetheart beating her to him and inflicting a punishment even Overmare agree he was more deserving of, and also lobotomized an old childhood bully who threw his lot with them after she caught the bastard.
  • Against what people expected, including Calculous himself, she was furious about Calculous destroying Papal Basilica in Roam to the point of going into Tranquil Fury. Overmare actually has respect and understanding of religion, and thus found the act offensive, on top of being a tactical blunder on Calculous.
• Evil Cripple: Given one of her inspirations as a character is the Ultra-Humanite, she began her villainous career still scarred and crippled by the lab experiment that finally and fully pushed her into her Super Villain status. Of course, it isn't as noticeable nor hinders her that much thanks to her building a 'mechanical armour' with Artificial Limbs to hold her ruined body together. She even still possessed a relatively fair, beautiful face, although it's heavily implied her cheeks, covered by noticeable face-guards extending from a neck-brace, was marred irrevocably. Even beforehoof, she was born with a congenital illness that went a long way in making her who she is.
• Evil Gloating: As expected of a supervillain, Overmare indulges in this occasionally.
  • Every time it appears she has his Arch-Enemy Silversmith on the ropes, she made sure to have him know, apart from how much she had come to hate him, that his imminent defeat and suffering proves that at the end of the day his genius is inferior to her own. It almost always gets turned around.
  • Overmare rubbed it in to the entire world in a hijacked broadcast at the start of the 'Seismic Resonator Crisis' of 1976 that the world had brought the threat of seismic annihilation upon themselves, as it was because the world completely failed to recognize Professor Dai Dee Yao's genius and the world-changing potential of his Seismic Resonator design for decades - and even humiliated and persecuted him in the few occasions they do - that eventually drove him to villainy and work with the supervillains Fa Zhong-Ma and Overmare to make his design a reality, as a weapon of CONQUEST for her and Fa Zhong-Ma instead of a wonder-tool to end the threat of earthquakes once and for all that it could had been. This makes sense for her character when one consider her own past experiences with her own father's persecution.
• Evil Overlord: Various drabbles and inserts suggested at one point she took over Coltatia and turned it into her own personal fiefdom/oversized-Supervillain Lair with herself as this trope. Of course, given she is a Well-Intentioned Extremist Visionary Villain, she likely considers herself more as some benevolent techno-autocrat who can do whatever is necessary to bring order and peace, structure and progression to Ponykind and Tellus.
• Evil Is Petty:
  • While many assumed the reason for her infamous animosity to Silversmith (reciprocated from his end) involved an incident with prototype rockets in 1929, during a famous international scientific/engineering project to build and launch a Pony-crewed rocketship into space, Silversmith himself postulated it actually started and snowballed from a much more simple and petty reason: namely, she grew to despise him for having the audacity to beat her at chess. Bright Eyes tears into her for this, siting this effectively means she's hurt and killed a large number of innocent people for an extremely petty reason.
  • It's noted Overmare is prone to Disproportionate Retribution on anyone who slights her or bruises her ego.
• The Extremist Was Right: It was noted that Overmare, for all her faults, is sincere about making the world a better place and bringing Ponykind to a golden age (kicking and screaming if needed to be), and a lot of problems do ended up getting fixed every time she manages to put herself in charge. It has left some wondering why they fight to stop her from achieving world domination when despite the inconveniences the world might actually be better off from it. However, Bright Eyes strongly disagrees, and points out her ends don't justify the means.
  Patch: Thing is, sometimes I wonder if the world might actually be better off with her in charge. She IS sincere about making the world a utopia as she always said she could - her way, of course, and no ifs or buts allowed - and I remember every time she manages to put herself in charge, she does things like near-completely ending poverty, hunger, war, crime and other problems worldwide, repair the environment and run everything faster and better with her ideas and inventions. So I suppose it could had been a lot worse.
• Expy: Her character's origins, personality and capabilities combines elements of Doctor Doom, Magneto, the Ultra-Humanite and the Brain, leaning heavily towards Doctor Doom as her core inspiration. In-universe, she is considered the inspiration for those characters in Marevel and DC Comics.
• Fallen Hero: For a time as the 'Wonder Genius of Marerope', she actually did do a lot of good in trying to make the world a better place (and in the process win the worldwide acclaim necessary to attain the mandate of world leadership), saving many lives, solving many problems and stopping many threats. Then came 1929, when humiliation and disillusionment combined with her raging character flaws and a Dark and Troubled Past made her give up on trying to be a hero and instead turn into villain.
• Fatal Flaw: For all her capabilities and competence and the sheer threat she posed to the entire world, she also possesses raging flaws originating from her Dark and Troubled Past which hampers as much as they drive her will to power, just like her inspirations.
  • Pride and Ego - enough of both to rival Morning Star himself. While she is infamous for actually being able to live up to her boasts and hype most of the time, she is also enormously haughty and arrogant, unable to accept the possibility that for all her credentials, she could still be rivaled or wrong. More often than not, this causes her to overlook seemingly inconsequential flaws to her plans that would ultimately snatch victory from her just as it seemed to be within her reach. It also makes her rather inflexible: once she's convinced her conclusion is correct, it's very difficult, if not impossible, to convince her otherwise.
  • Wrath - Tying with her egotistical character, she can be VERY vindictive if she found herself personally slighted in some way, developing long-lasting grudges that would see her doing everything possible to avenge herself for those transgressions. After clawing her way back from the misery that is her youth, the first thing she did was to plot spectacular revenge schemes against EVERY-PONY who had made miserable and ruined her and her father's life. When her rival Doctor Silversmith wounded her pride by showing he may be smarter than she is, she developed an Irrational Hatred for him that led to her devoting disproportionate amounts of effort in his humiliation and destruction, even to the detriment of her own plans. A large part of her super-villainy is implied to be motivated by being isolated and looked down upon by other Ponies for her physical weakness early in her life, which together with her promise to her parents to become great led to her desire for world conquest in order to show the world what she's capable of. All this is lampshaded by Bright Eyes, the Scholar of Justice, who calls her out on it.
  • Specifically, her hatred of Silversmith. Clover's prophetic powers outright show that if she were to bury their grudge and work with him, the two of them could create a genuine utopia. Unfortunately, Overmare hates him too much to do that. In addition, it's also the reason no matter what she does, the Majestic Power will always reject her: it can only be used with a desire to aid others and do good because it abides by Might For Right. Because Overmare hates Silversmith so much, the idea of using it to take revenge on him is always in her mind and, along with her other villainous traits, ensures she will never be worthy of it.
• Flat "What": Her utterly stunned response one time when she executed a scheme that involved Intimidus, the Fear Eater - a super-villain who becomes stronger and acquires powers from his foes the more intimidating his opponent is - only to have Silversmith humiliatingly defeat Intimidus by sending Saint Sweetheart, the Loving Peacemaker at him, rendering him powerless and catatonic from sheer proximity of her sheer innate kindness and cuteness. This was noted to be one of the notable occasions that Overmare did not scream out Silversmith's name in fury as she often does when she is foiled by Silversmith and Metamare.
• Flowery Insults: With great Evil Genius comes great sophistication, and that applies to rare occasions where Overmare disparages those she despises or disagrees with, mostly by insulting their lack of intelligence. These range from condemning those who question her achievements as an "IMPUDENT FOOL!" to insulting an egotistical Metabender rival supervillain who believes in the 'Mystical' camp interpretation of Magic as a "Vainglorious TROGLODYTE" over what she perceives to be their superstitious ignorance.
• Foil:
  • To Metamare, and likely one of the biggest reasons why she is the Paragon From Beyond's Arch-Enemy. Both mares want to save the world, and both have the incredible power - intellectual or physical - to pull it off. Yet one desires to do so by coercion and the other by protective guidance. Overmare represents the ever-present temptation for Metamare to simply stop holding back and MAKE the world fall in line to reach utopia, and it shows with Overmare spending as much time trying to get her on her side as she does trying to destroy her for being in her way, a courtesy she doesn't extend to even her other Arch-Enemy Silversmith, the World's Smartest Pony. More than any-pony else, she sees Overmare as a cautionary reminder of what happens if she ever places herself and her will apart, above and upon common Ponykind like she does, even for the noblest of ends.
  • To Silversmith, the World's Smartest Pony, the mutual animosity of which is much more personal. Silversmith hates her not only for repeatedly trying to humiliate/kill him (for what he thinks is a very trivial matter), but also because she reminds him of what happens if he, a similarly egotistical super-genius who is rarely if ever wrong, lets his haughty ego get the best of him like the arrogant self-proclaimed Uberpferd. Her existence drives him to ever be vigilante over his own flaws and to always strive to overcome them and be a better Pony who benefit the world with his brilliance, something which he's doing great so far with his Best Friend Gentle Touch/Metamare's help.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Her Freudian Excuse is legitimately tragic, but several creatures have pointed out inuniverse they don't justify anything Overmare does, and her good intentions do not justify the means she uses. A normal pony whose parents died in one of her plans flat out points out she has subjected many to the same suffering she's endured and doesn't seem to give a second thought about it unless confronted on it.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: From a sickly filly looked down by every-pony to quite possibly the greatest super-villain of the Second Age, capable of making even the greatest superpowers tremble in fear, pose a legitimate threat to the likes of Metamare and Silversmith and come closer than any other supervillain to actually WINNING and Taking Over The World.
• Godzilla Threshold: Overmonarch, the Anthropomorphic Personification of Overmare and her Overdom's malevolent traits, forces her to form an Enemy Mine with Silversmith to stop her. This is because Overmonarch has power comparable to Metamare and is just as smart as Overmare herself, all the while lacking any of Overmare's benevolent traits.
• Good Is Impotent: She had this opinion as part of her justification for her Supervillainy, believing that taking the world over and letting her run things as she see fit is the only way to save it from itself, instead of just saving or protecting the existing world order which she deemed corrupt and chaotic. It may had stemmed from the derailment of her original plan to gain legitimacy peacefully by winning such world-acclaim and recognition through her genius, Ponykind would peacefully/willingly elect her as their world leader and allow her to lead them to a golden age. This was compounded by the global downward spiral in the 1930s which left her disillusioned with Ponykind's collective nature. Cited as the reason why, despite grudgingly respecting Metamare as a Worthy Opponent and a fellow (quite literal) Übermensch, she would likely never do a Heel–Face Turn on her behalf.
  Metamare: [After agreeing to a brief alliance against a common threat] I don't suppose this would mark the beginning of a beautiful friendship?
  Overmare: So long as you remain a mere attendant of this corrupt and chaotic world? Inconceivable.
• Ham-to-Ham Combat: Being an egotistical Large Ham supervillainess, she is well verse and willing to engage in this sort of 'combat' with any hero or rival villain who shares her grandiose personality and expressiveness.
  • She engaged in an epic Ham-to-Ham Combat with Prince Dex/Masked Hopper during their first confrontation, as Dex was raised on his home planet watching pirated Tellusian superhero shows broadcasted through a nearby wormhole, and consequently developed a larger-than-life heroic persona who thinks making grandiose proclamations of justice and heroism is perfectly normal.
  Overmare: And lesser minds say the Overmare is melodramatic.
  • She engaged in one against herself - or rather, a parallel universe version of herself - after they ran into each other and started squabbling over differences and dominance (There can only be ONE Overmare in the Multiverse superior to all others, it would seem). Apparently this happens EVERY TIME she ran into one of her Alternate Universe counterparts, and the heroes usually just sit back and Pass the Popcorn.
  Prime!Patch: ... They've been going at this for awhile.
  Alt!Patch: It's Overmare trying to out-ham Overmare. I'm surprised they haven't devoured Tellus by the sheer amount of scenery they're chewing.
• Humans Are Bastards: She firmly believes this after experiencing an early life of scorn and isolation for her congenital physical weakness as well as witnessing and personally suffering from the horrible consequences of Ponykind's own collective short-sighted, self-destructive ways. This ultimately drove her to use her intellectual superiority to Take Over the World, genuinely believing that Ponykind requires absolute, unquestioned obedience to a being of superior mind and will (HER superior mind and will) in order to achieve greatness and Utopia.
• Humongous Mecha:
  • A drabble revealed that Overmare and her Overdom built one in the form of the Codexverse Ersatz of Mecha-Godzilla, both as a deterrent/defense against Kaiju-sized monsters but also as a weapon for battling superheroes and world domination. Overmare herself would be its first pilot when she used it in a 1974 confrontation against the Paragons, but afterwards the robot, whether piloted or automated, would change hooves/claws/appendages many times and see other engagements against militaries, alien invasions, giant monsters, superheroes and the like with mixed success. Despite being considered Awesome, but Impractical at first, it impressed many Ponies enough to reconsider their opinions of Humongous Mecha weapons platforms and led to many nations and organizations building their own for purposes good or ill.
  Silversmith: Velika, you do realize giant robots this big are usually impractical, right?
  Overmare: [Piloting it] <<YOU DARE PRESUME MERE 'IMPRACTICALITY' IS BEYOND MY GENIUS TO OVERCOME?!>>
  Silversmith: And as usual, you took it as a challenge...
  • The Overdom was also one of the few factions during the Second Age to attempt to build their own Zords and Megazords, piloted by their own groups 'Psycho Rangers' for the more villainous factions, although many of them were mixed successes due to difficulty to inability to tap into the 'Morphing Grid' that permeates the universe's Background Magic Field. Overmare herself could not tap into the field or pilot a Zord due to being well pass the teenage years, as the Morphing Grid could only bond to potential users when they are young and still developing, but she has her own non-Zord/Megazord giant robots to pilot or have others pilot in her stead whenever she needs to go against the Power Rangers or other giant-sized opponents.
• I Gave My Word: She was taught by her father to never go back on a promise, something which became quite an iron-clad code for her. This is much to the detriment of the world since those promises she made to her father and herself is to live up to her parents' hopes for her to become great and change the world for the better. Which she ultimately concluded can only be done through world domination.
• I Shall Taunt You: She has her moments when facing her foes, and like her Arch-Enemy Silversmith often does so to push her enemy into a rage that would cause them to make mistakes and made them vulnerable to be defeated.
  • Against the Reichists - whom she utterly despised because of her heritage and history - she often habitually refer them by the Germane word 'Ratten' - Rats - in a deliberate insult to their beliefs of racial superiority, as they often use the same word (and other derogatory terms) to call those whom they consider inferior and treat like vermin to be exterminated. Needless to say, it works very well in pissing them off.
• Insufferable Genius: She is an incredibly gifted prodigy who practically dominates all other peers in most academic fields and KNOWS it. As revenge for her scientist father's humiliation and undeserved disgrace, she literally challenged an entire university's worth of academics on a week-long intellectual competition with theories, experiments and inventions galore and utterly demolished them at AGE 14. She's so incredibly smart and well-learnt, in fact, that her ego gets blown to the point she haughtily assumed she cannot possibly be wrong and expects every-pony (not entirely without basis) to eventually accept and respect her intellectual superiority (And right to rule) without question. This is partly the reason why she took Silversmith's ability to rival, and even SURPASS her on an intellectual level so badly.
• Irony
  • Velika's father was a humble and kind stallion who wished only to change the world for the better through his intellect and knowledge. Velika herself became an egotistical and domineering Emperor Scientist and self-proclaimed Übermensch who wants to use her own vastly superior intellect and knowledge to Take Over the World, even if she does want to make it better (on her terms) like her father does.
  • Overmare's Start of Darkness is partly caused by the bullying and scorn she received in her youth for being physically inferior 'mistake of nature' that shouldn't had been born by narrow-minded children and adults. Yet when she grew up to become a intellectual juggernaut mentally superior than nearly every other ordinary Pony, she scorned and seek to dominate them in turn for THEIR mental inferiority, believing them to be too wild, pitiful and self-destructive to be left to their own devices.
• Irrational Hatred: For all her cred, Overmare have a major flaw and weakness in the form of her irrational hatred for Silversmith, the World's Smartest Pony, similar to Doctor Doom's Irrational Hatred for Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four. The cause was two-fold: First, when he showed her up in the historical 1929 Spaceshot, he unintentionally derailed her meticulous plan to peacefully assume world leadership and lead Ponykind to a golden age via riding upon an unrivaled record of success. Second, it could be inferred from her backstory that having been constantly bullied and looked down upon by small-minded fools for her physically inadequate nature through all her early life, she basically defined her entire sense of self-worth on her intellectual dominance, and see any challenge to it as a very painful personal affront.
  • On a deeper level, Overmare despises Silversmith and can't stand the idea that Silversmith is actually SMARTER and better than she is because she believes, after everything she went through, if she isn't the uberpferd, she is nothing: a nobody who cannot and have no right to command Ponykind and bring them towards utopia. A failure who does not deserve the greatness her parents had saw in her. For this reason, she would devote as much effort to humiliate and/or destroy Silversmith as she does defeating Metamare and to Take Over the World, even to the detriment of the latter: because Silversmith is an ever-present reminder she is not good enough to be the great person who would change the world and fulfill her and her parents' hopes and dreams, and she bitterly envies Silversmith for possessing that capability to do so where even she could not.
• Just Shoot Him: Believe it or not, she actually tried doing that against Silversmith, twice, without success. Also subjected to this from Silversmith's end, but she found ways to deal with it the same way he dealt with her attempts.
• Large Ham: Just look at her quotes - ALL of it. Her Ego likely would not allow her to be otherwise. While she is capable of being nuanced, even her more softly-spoken speeches come off as Cold Ham.
• Legion of Doom: It is also all but certain given her cred that she might had been a major member if not assembling and/or leading super-villain groups and leagues of her own, like the one she led into battle on the side of the heroes against Queen Dark Crystal at the height of the 'Dark Crystal Conflict'.
• Like Father Unlike Daughter: Velika's father was brilliant as a scientist but also humble and loving. Velika, on the other hoof, is not only even MORE brilliant, but incredibly egotistical and scornful of others who are beneath her. The biggest irony is that despite this, they do genuinely loved and respected each other.
• Loners Are Freaks: Not entirely by her own choice. Because of her congenital illness, she was often kept at home because of frequent illness, and from a young age she was ostracized by both fellow children and even narrow-minded adults for her physical weakness and inferiority. This leads to her diving relentlessly into studying and learning distract her genius mind from her internal resentment and loneliness. When her intellectual brilliance manifested she became even more isolated, since no-pony (until Doctor Silversmith) could equal or even keep up with her. All this contributed significantly in pushing her down the path to supervillainy.
• Ludicrous Precision: Overmare's incredible intellect enables her to measure, plan and execute with extreme precision, often extrapolating and reaching absurdly accurate results from fragmentary information and negligible details acquired with only so much as a glance. Of her two main arch-enemies, Metamare could keep up with her thanks to her super-equine nature, while Silversmith surpasses her due to being smarter than she is.
• Mad Scientist: By her own words, Overmare's scientific wonders SNEERS at the impossible! She made chemicals which could freeze water, medicines that could suppress congenital illnesses and even enhance the body, gadgets that could manipulate magnetism ala Magneto, design gigantic lightning coils powerful enough to zap even Metamare insensate, designed and piloted giant robots, reverse-engineered the 'Morphin' Grid', uplifted animals to sapience and intelligence (guess who created the Brain in this universe?), created TWO Metamagnetic Energy Being Anthropomorphic Personification of everything she and Coltalia represents (though one turned Eviler than Thou), just to name a few.
• Magnetism Manipulation: One of her most prominent, 'signature' tools is a magnetic-manipulator mechanism she invented which runs through her 'Overarmour', with a director projector in a gauntlet, which allows her to project magnetic fields around herself and at a distance, affecting anything with magnetic/metallic qualities. It serves as her main backup weapon to the META-magnetic manipulator systems, with the main advantage of it being not dependent on exotic metamagnetic energies (magic) like Metamare does and being less energy intensive. This allows her to lift metallic/magnetically-affected objects, lift her primarily metal-based 'Overarmour' off the ground, deflect metallic projectiles like bullets and grenades, and even disrupt light and holographic-based illusions (which are electromagnetic phenomenas). It should be noted Meta-wise that one of her character inspirations is Magneto, who besides being a Well-Intentioned Extremist has this power as his signature.
• Man Behind the Man: Being the greatest super-villain of the Second Age, on top of conducting various super-villainous schemes to Take Over the World, she was also responsible for many lesser super-villains and threats emerging as a means to her own ends, whether using or supporting them as knights and pawns in her designs, or outright creating them as an incredible genius Mad Scientist.
  • The first super-hero/villain confrontation between her with Metamare and Silversmith, who would become her arch-nemeses, began with her approaching Metamare's first supervillain foe, Profiteer, and offering to help him recover from his Metamare-induced setbacks and get revenge on the superhero in exchange for aiding in her own plan to subdue Metamare so that she can study/persuade/eliminate her. The Profiteer, finding himself out of his league in her considerably more dangerous/menacing presence, is left wondering throughout the entire venture just what in all the hells did he got himself into.
  • She often got other super-villains such as Intimidus and Cold Iron to work for her either through gratitude, coercion, bribery or persuasion as subordinates or pawns to execute her schemes.
  • She was responsible for outright creating entirely new super-villains and menaces as part of her plots. She was the one who turned the Codexverse version of Alan Turing into the supervillain Calculous (although Calculous was actually grateful for it since he was rescued from a Bitish government which was persecuting him over his sexuality). Overmare also captured Neighjor at one point, studied him and in the process learnt how to tap into the Morphing Grid, making her responsible for creating the first of Codexverse's Psycho Rangers which the Codexverse Power Rangers would face.
• Maternal Death? Blame the Child!: Defied and averted. Despite her mother dying in childbirth, her father never blamed her and continued raising her with love and care as a good parent should. Nevertheless, she would carry the guilt and self-loathing over "killing" her own mother for the rest of her life.
  Overmare: (on her deceased mother) I had taken a life not my own before I even drew my first breath, and it shall be the only one I, the Overmare, shall ever regret to take. She paid the ultimate price to bring Velika Volja into this world - and to be worthy of it is the greatest tribute I can give her in return. Her sacrifice will not be in vain, for I dedicate what I do, what I shall achieve, to her and my father's memory."
• Meaningful Name: Her real name is Velika Volja, which in Croatian means 'Great Will'. She styles herself as an Übermensch philosopher-queen who would bring order to the world and guide it to utopia, and possesses both indomitable willpower and unrivaled intellectual brilliance needed to pull it off.
• Meaningless Villain Victory: Overmare had in fact won before and took over the world multiple times. It just that since heroic forces and global resistance never gives up and always found a way to strike back, all her reigns proved short-lived, with one during the Tales/Virtuous Seven's lifetime lasting only around three weeks before they helped kick her out of the White House where she had set up residence post-initial victory.
• Morality Pet:
  • On some level, Saint Sweetheart, the Loving Peacemaker is this to her. Due to being one of the few people in her life to ever be unconditionally kind and loving to her for no reason other than it was the right thing to do, Sweetheart is one of the few beings Overmare finds no real fault with and is generally kinder and nicer to, having the most respect for her out of all of the Seven. She even attended Sweetheart's funeral when she died of old age peacefully and respectfully, noting if everyone were like her, Overmare would see no reason to rule the world.
  • Sprayor is also this to her, as his genuine Undying Loyalty to her specifically and competence resulted in the two of them striking up a Villainous Friendship. She made sure he was well rewarded for his service, even having a genetically engineered Hoatzin made for him as a pet because no other animal in the world could stand his stench. When he saved her life from Overmonarch and was horribly injured in the process, she saved him back and made sure he could live out the rest of his days comfortably for his service.
  • She's implied to treat her pet magpie, Galileonidus, very well and genuinely care about her. Notably, she gave Galileonidus an entire wildlife sanctuary to rule as her personal kingdom.
• My Greatest Failure: Two for Velika Volja/Overmare: accidentally killing her mother being born to the world and being unable to save her father when he suddenly dropped dead one day from a terminal illness he kept secret so as not to worry her while they were in their Darkest Hour. She blamed herself for their deaths, and her love for them partly contributed to her obsession with living up to their memories and hopes for her by becoming great and saving the world, as she believes if she can't, then their sacrifices for her sake would be All for Nothing. Tragically, it would help drive her into world-dominating villainy.
• My God, What Have I Done?:
  • Velika Volja never got over the fact her birth resulted in her unnamed mother's death, declaring it the only life she ever regret taking. While her father never blamed her and still loved her, Velika Volja never really forgave herself, believing either that she killed her mother by being born, or that her mother had sacrificed herself to bring her to the world. It contributed to her personal belief and conviction that she must become great and fulfill the potential she and her father believed she had to make her death/sacrifice mean something.
  • She grudgingly admitted she made a horrible mistake when she attempted to create a powerful metamagnetic entity personifying herself, Coltalia and everything they represent, and due to the extreme opposites of her character ended up creating her/Coltalia's Evil Counterpart embodiment Overmonarch - the embodiment of all her villainous traits and that of Coltalia without her redeeming qualities - as well as her/Coltalia's Good Counterpart embodiment Overmatriarch, triggering the 'Overmonarch Crisis'. Overmonarch became such a threat between possessing Overmare's intellect, Metamare's level of superpowers and considerable resources she took from Coltalia, Overmare was forced to do the unthinkable and ally with Metamare, Silversmith and Overmatriarch to stop her from taking over the world.
  • It's implied she may have had at least a subconscious one when Bright Eyes and Silversmith show her a montage of every person her grudge on Silversmith has directly or indirectly endangered. If nothing else, it's one of the few times she was genuinely left shaken.
• Nebulous Criminal Conspiracy: What Overmare's early plan to conquer the world took the form of, at least up until 1939: A vast, secret criminal empire that quickly expanded across the globe, quickly devouring or eliminating many other criminal syndicates and secret conspiracies as well as evading or subverting authorities of many nations through meticulous manipulations, insidious schemes and advanced weapons all of her own designs. And this was JUST a preliminary set-up to her actual future bids for world domination by securing the resources, personnel and infrastructure needed to pull them off. The sheer scale of it impressed even the Changeling Summer Court, and it was only due to the unforeseeable and unwitting interference of Metamare, the Paragon From Beyond that force Overmare to expose herself directly to deal with her and pave the way for the uncovering of the conspiracy.
• Never My Fault: One of Overmare's major flaws: she either can't comprehend or refuses to ever accept something is her own fault. When something goes wrong, such as people not bowing down to her when she takes over or her plan spiralling out of control, she always tries to deflect blame to someone else, most often Silversmith. The one time she's ever openly admitted something is her own fault was creating Overmonarch. Bright Eyes would tear into her over this.
• Noble Demon: Deconstructed: Overmare does have standards and genuinely wants to make the world better. However, she's still a ruthless supervillain whose actions have realistically killed a lot of people, directly or indirectly, as while she'll spare those who step aside from fighting her, she doesn't always consider the people caught in the crossfire who never had a chance to. These two sides of her are also constantly clashing inside her, which is what caused the birth of Overmonarch. It's also pointed out her inner circle and minions don't always act with the same standards as her, but as she condones their actions or doesn't reel them in, the people they harm are ultimately on her hooves.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: Overmare is widely considered THE greatest Super Villain of the Second Age precisely because she was this trope, serving as not just a legitimate challenge but one of the single biggest threats to the world's greatest superheroes and to the world as a whole.
• Offscreen Villain Dark Matter: Deconstructed and Reconstructed in the same paragraph. Overmare's initial world domination plan involved a secret Nebulous Criminal Conspiracy with global reach, ever-expanding and absorbing other criminal organizations and conspiracies it encountered, all so she could secure the necessary personnel, resources and infrastructure necessary to advance the next step of her plans for world domination. Other drabbles and omakes hinted that at some point she took over entire countries and run them under her dominion, which doubtlessly provided her all the assets she needs with their economy for her many plans for world domination and destroying her adversaries and rivals. This is all justified in that her superior intellect makes logistics an easy matter to handle where many other villains would had struggled, and contributed to what made her so dangerous among other villains and supervillains during the 'Second Age'.
  • She also designed and/or built many advanced technologies and powerful super-weapons for her world-dominating ambitions, which other renegade and super-villain groups would end up using. One example is helping Professor Dai Dee Yao complete his Earthquake Machine invention and then having her Overdom expand it into a worldwide seismic super-weapon network with the help of a fellow Diabolical Mastermind. Another one is building Codexverse's version of Mecha-Godzilla, which would not only see combat against other superheroes, but also be given or fall into the grasp of other villainous factions for their own use and other conflicts such as with kaijus. Her Overdom also manufactured their own Zord and Megazord copies for The Psycho Rangers to use. With an entire country/wannabe-world-empire under her command, she had enough infrastructure and resources to supply her own conquests and the schemes and attacks of other super-villains, renegade forces, criminal conspiracies and evil geniuses.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Several drabbles show Bright Eyes' view of Overmare isn't that she's a Well-Intentioned Extremist and Noble Demon, but a self-righteous Hypocrite, lashing out at the world for slights both big and small. In Bright Eyes' mind, for all of her proclaimed good intentions, a large portion of Overmare's actions are driven by her pathological need to punish those she feels have slighted her, jealousy over Silversmith, and inability to accept she might be wrong. As a result, Bright Eyes does not like Overmare being glamorized in any way. Several of their confrontations imply the possibility she's this is one of the few things that can genuinely rattle Overmare. The existence of Overmonarch implies on some level, Bright Eyes is right.
• One-Man Industrial Revolution: Both she and her Arch-Enemy Silversmith are this, showcasing just how brilliant her innovative genius and that of her Arch-Enemy are. To note: in the legendary first confrontation between Overmare with Metamare and Silversmith, once they ran out of their initial tools and weapons both super-geniuses jury-rigged and innovated on the spot with whatever materials, parts and tools they could get their hooves on, and in their quest to defeat/destroy each other, it is believed they made scientific/technological leaps-and-bounds on a scale spanning somewhere between 25 years to 25 decades... all in less than 25 MINUTES.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Owing to her immense ego, she is adamant to be the ones who take out her archenemies and would not tolerate any-pony else beating her to it (And being the one to Take Over the World). During the climax of the 'Dark Crystal Conflict' she interrupted Void Traveler's attempt to blindside the heroes as they are busy stopping Queen Dark Crystal's doomsday spell from landing and detonating, declaring outright that she would not allow Void Traveler helping Queen Dark Crystal succeed or take out Metamare.
  Overmare: "No creature shall defeat Metamare unless Overmare is responsible! None shall destroy the world before Overmare may bring order to it!"
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Despite her pride, she outright admits she made a mistake creating Overmonarch and ends up forming an Enemy Mine with Silversmith to stop her, highlighting just how big of a threat Overmonarch is.
• Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions:
  • Holds this attitude, disparaging Profiteer for calling Metamare some sort of 'Magical Space Fairy' when she revealed how she figured out Metamare was drawing power from Tellus' Magical/Metamagnetic energy field and used Cold Iron, an exotic magic-disrupting allotrope of iron to De-power and subdue her. Her entire speech on the matter can be read as a massive, incidental "The Reason You Suck" Speech on all and any form of superstitious mindsets and ways of thinking. It had been stated that among those who can manipulate metamagnetic energies naturally (then called 'Metabenders') or by technological means, she is firmly in the 'Technical' camp and disagreed/bickered greatly with others, like rival super-villain Crimson Warlock, who are the 'Mystic' camp.
  • Justified in that she is a scientist first and foremost, and her interpretation of magic in the light of Codexverse's Science Fantasy setting is technically correct.
  Overmare: "Such crude, superstitious analogies are unsuited for this era. Lesser minds call it 'MAGIC' because they cannot understand it for what it truly is: another form of energy, yet discovered, comprehended and TAMED with the application of science. Even what you call ‘Cold Iron’ in your mystic musings is but a very rare allotrope of the element, one that I had hypothesized will neuter her where all other means had failed! Yet our understanding is still superficial and shallow - thanks to you, however, we now have it within our grasp. I will unravel the secrets of her form and power, and with it, all that are once mere DREAMS shall become attainable REALITY!"
  • Somewhat Deconstructed, as the more esoteric aspects of magic do have power and do work, and while science can explain them, those 'superstitions' have merely been proven true. Silversmith has come to accept it's simply a matter of semantics and doesn't waste his time on it, and is friends with several creatures who do believe in those esoteric aspects, and finds combining his scientific knowledge with their esoteric knowledge works better. It's implied this is one reason Silversmith trumps her: he's willing to seek help from the mystical side and combine their practices with his scientific methods, which Overmare refuses to do.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: Tying with her lesser flaw wrath, Velika is very eager to inflict truly spectacular revenge on any bastard who had ever wronged her and her loved ones, and also on those villains who even she finds absolutely despicable.
  • Krada was a vicious, Barbaric Bully son of a baron from Velika's past who picked on his lessers - including the young and infirm Velika - in her home village and got away with it via being a baron's son. Velika once blinded him for a few days with some powder she mixed up when he and his pack picked on her, but that didn't remotely make him realize the error of his ways. He became even worse when he grew up by becoming a high-ranking pro-Reichist collaborator]of the puppet regime over Coltatia who gleefully helped persecuting 'inferiors' and oppressing the country during the 'Second Great War'. When Overmare took over the country towards the end of the world war, she got her hooves on the son of a bitch. Remembering his vicious bullying and despising everything to do with the Reichists in general, she avenged herself and his victims by surgically lobotomising him, reducing most of him to an obedient, mindless servant and minion while what's left of his former identity and consciousness is trapped in the back of his mind, ensuring that every moment in this state, he would suffer. Overmare left him that way for decades, horrifying Bright Eyes, the Scholar of Justice when she bumped into him while in captivity in the Overdom.
  • Overmare utterly despised the super-villain 'Dr Kabuto', a former Reichist Mad Scientist who horrifically experimented on hapless captives deemed 'Unterpferd' by the Reichists in their death camps, and would have vaporize the bastard the first chance she got. The only reason she didn't when she finally had her chance was because by then his Arch-Enemy, Saint Sweetheart, had already infected him with a Were-creature strain (his own creation, too) which has her morality template, effectively putting a Restraining Bolt on him by making him transform every night into a Wereskunk with a personality that is appalled by his actions and would sabotage all the super-villainy he planned at day, and do good things while at it. Overmare would let Kabuto live after that, as (and only because) she considers this a Fate Worse than Death for him more appropriate than merely disintegrating the bastard.
  Overmare: [To 'Kabuto' in prison] Ever since I have known you, I have wanted to end your miserable existence for the blight you are on the world. But seeing you like this? I am going to let you live. Even I, the Overmare, cannot conceive a greater indignity than this.
• Pet the Dog:
  • It is mentioned in a canonized drabble that out of the Tales Seven, she was most respectful of Saint Sweetheart, the Loving Peacemaker, implicitly because Sweetheart once offered to use the healing powers she acquired at one point to heal her marred and damaged body, as a 'Solsmas' present, believing that the Super Villain deserved love and kindness like every-pony else. She was also the one to first call Sweetheart saint, and a canonized drabble would even reveal that she attended Sweetheart's funeral peacefully and left without incident. Incidentally, Solsmas is one of the few holidays from the outside world that had not been explicitly prohibited by the Overdom of Coltatia, because Santa Hooves, who is also active in that era, had also been nothing but kind to her despite everything she did.
  • Recognizing perhaps Professor Dai Dee Yao's unfortunate plight is similar to what happened to her own father's (as well as respecting his determination to take on an uncaring force of nature and actually coming close to WINNING), she helped him finish his 'Seismic Resonator' invention in exchange for allowing her and her ally Fa Zhong-Ma to use them for Taking Over The World, even letting him do the honours of explaining how it works and demonstrating its power to a terrified world, rubbed it insaid world's faces on his behalf that they have only themselves to blame for ignoring him and now being threatened with seismic annihilation, and in her testament claimed that she would had honoured her promise to Professor Dai that she would give him control of the Seismic Resonator Network to him once they had won. For someone whom she still consider a lesser mind like all those who cannot match her incredibly high intellect and standards, that is a lot of respect. Ironically much more than what the renegade geophysicist had ever received from the world with the exception of Dr Silversmith.
  • She apparently kidnapped/rescued the Pony who is heavily implied to be Codexverse's Expy/Captain Ersatz of Alan Turing from prejudiced persecution by his own country over his sexual orientation, and even repaired/rebuild his damaged and castrated form, earning both his Undying Loyalty and his genius in computer science and other advanced technologies for her cause.
  • While the final defeat of the Headmistress was a loss to her cause, Overmare still apparently honoured both the Headmistress' diligent and loyal service as well as her real personality Mrs Hackney's victory over her evil side. It was rumoured for years afterwards that Overmare sent a missive congratulating Mrs Hackney, thanking her contribution to Overmare's cause while in her Headmistress personality and even sending over a million dollars as severance pay. Mrs Hackney apparently responded by tearing up the letter and immediately donating the entire sum to charity, but Overmare still didn't have to do it nor was Mrs. Hackney ever going to be of use to her.
  • She had a genetically engineered Hoatzin named Noxium made for Sprayor, as no existing animal could stand his smell enough to be his pet. She also made sure he could live out the rest of his days comfortably after he was crippled saving her.
• The Philosopher: Being a peerless titan of intellect who has read and understood the likes of Pony Plato, Machiavelli, Nietzsche and others before age TEN, the Overmare occasionally drifts into this in her monologues and speeches whenever she is challenged by or challenges her opponents on that level. She also styles herself as an Übermensch Philosopher Queen whose unquestioned enlightened rule over the world would lead it and Ponykind to utopia and greatness.
  Metamare: "You are mad."
  Overmare: "You of all Ponies - or not - should know by now, after all the ‘gifted maniacs’ you have fought... That all which separates madness and brilliance are but a thin, imaginary line. I had spent the better part of a decade preparing for that coming day! I aim to succeed, Metamare, where all others had failed or never hope to... If I win - when I win - would it be called madness, then? Or, more appropriately, the Triumph of the Will?"
• Planet Baron: Overmare had occasionally won and achieve world domination, making her this trope by default. However, these victories never last, with her being kicked off her throne by superheroes and other resisting forces, though she does often last long enough to fix a lot of global problems and make the world a better place with her genius like she had vowed to do so, leaving some like Patch to wonder if the world might really be better off with her in charge. Bright Eyes, however, very much disagrees..
• Pragmatic Villainy:
  • While she can let her ego and vindictive nature get in the way, Overmare prefers to avoid needless cruelty in her actions and has an understanding that going too far will destroy her chances to have the world willingly serve her. She also tries to minimize the damage of her actions and give her enemies a chance to surrender.
  • Overmare was absolutely livid after Calculous destroyed the Papal Basilica in Roam. While part of it was finding it offensive, she also viewed it as a complete, short-sighted blunder from a tactical standpoint. While it offered a short term psychological edge, in the long run it'd merely motivate their enemies even more and undermine Overmare's attempts to make the world willingly join her. She was correct.
• Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Thanks to her... rather operatic style, many of her quotes and speeches often have words in BOLD for emphasis.
• Revenge Before Reason: It's noted that her vendetta against Silversmith is standing in the way of two of them from genuinely making a true utopia rather than the False Utopia her Overdom is. Bright Eyes flat out calls her out on this to her face, while Silversmith has Clover use her precognition to confirm it, but Overmare hates Silversmith too much to do so. Even more so said grudge is solely because he's smarter than her.
• Reality Warper: Overmare briefly achieved this status by siphoning away the abilities of the Great Ghostie (A Mister Mxyzptlk-Expy powerful enough to rival Discord at his peak) for herself. This lead to one of her most successful attempts to Take Over the World when she used her newly-acquired powers to depower/disarm the world's superheroes and superpowers in literally seconds and force the powerless world to submit to her will, leaving Metamare and Silversmith and a few assorted allies still able to resist her (in part only because she allowed them to or didn't notice them). To Overmare's disappointment, she soon discovered that Victory Is Boring with her nigh-omnipotence, having neutralized nearly all opposition, solved nearly all problems and created a world-spanning utopia in her image with by mere thoughts, and some believed that her eventual defeat four months later by Metamare and Silversmith, with the Great Ghostie's powers restored and her conquest undone, was partly due to her own subconscious self-sabotage out of a desire to have a meaningful challenge again where she would actually have to earn her victory. This wouldn't stop her from seeking and becoming this again in the years to follow, however, as later events shows.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
  • Delivered one to Genius Builder/Build Rider during their first encounter, calling him out as foolish for thinking, like many other heroes, that he could save the world (or stop her for that matter) with 'cheap tricks and reckless courage', but in the end, compare to her, he is still 'just a Pony'. Of course, being who he is, Genius Builder/Build Rider confidently rebutted her in response.
  Overmare: "You are no different from all the others, believing you can save the world with some cheap tricks and reckless courage. Yet you surpass even the other fools with your audacity, presuming to challenge ME! I had broken NATIONS, humbled GODS, and made the HEAVENS itself TREMBLE. And you, Genius Builder, are still just a mere PONY!"
  • While she didn't delivered it to her face, she reflected her contempt for Cold Iron, the Hollow Mare, when she is confronted by Metamare after it was discovered Overmare provided Cold Iron with a weapon with the intent of using her as an Unwitting Pawn to assassinate Metamare.
  Overmare: "Cold Iron just so happened to be the perfect pawn to that end - Too mighty now for even her own good, yet too simplistic to pursue grander ambitions, or see the strings that others put on her for their shows. Then again, what else could expect of some-pony who would bargain away what little she is worth to begin with for power, more than she even know how to properly utilize, let alone deserve? It reeks the usual short-sighted pettiness so very typical of her kind. I know you pity her for what she has become - more than furious that she tried to kill you - but I would suggest you save it for those more deserving. Why pity a mare so base and foolish, she would rather be a weapon than a Pony?"
  • She delivered an epic one upon Void Traveler after holding him off and defeating him, allowing the heroes a chance to destroy Queen Dark Crystal and save the world without his interference. She laid it out to him that in her eyes, Void Traveler is no different from Dark Crystal, both banal and base 'parodies' of existence with nothing but banal and base motives, and that not only will they never truly win because of this, but no matter what they achieve they are still incomparable to her or the heroes they had faltered against, less real and significant than they ever hope to be.
  Void Traveler: [Critically wounded] Fukanōna... How can she lose? And how can I lose, again?!
  Overmare: [Contemptuously] Because in the end, pitiful fool, you are no different from that abhorrent abomination yourself: A banal and base parody of an existence, driven by only the most banal and base of motives. You sought to destroy and do nothing greater. You do not create, you do not change, you know only how to corrupt and ruin, and all because that is what you think you exist solely to do. I had suffered, fought, built and conquered, because I had truly born and lived! And from what I had observed, experienced and achieved, I know that I am unique, that I am right, and that I have an obligation to set the world down the right path, so it can transcend the likes of what you both embody. I am the Overmare, you cretin, because that is what I choose to be! Compare to I or anyone with worth and will, you are nothing - just as that 'Witch Queen' is nothing in the end!
  Void Traveler: Not this meaningless tripe again...
  Overmare: [Readies to destroy his form] And of course, with the typical foolishness of your kind, you still do not understand. And that, is why you will never triumph...
  Void Traveler: [Defiantly] I WILL RETU - ! [Is disintegrated]
  Overmare: [Turning to leave] No doubt you will, somehow, for such is your irritating prerogative. But know this: even if the Overmare does not destroy you today, if the ones to do so possess even a fraction of the strength, will and cause as I do, then your final defeat and end is inevitable. It is only a question of how long it will take...
  • She delivered one to the entire world after Professor Dai Dee Yao demonstrated his Seismic Resonator, declaring that they had only themselves to blame for being faced seismic annihilation that she, her ally Fa Zhong-Ma and Professor Dai can now unleash by ignoring the geophysicist's genius and even persecuting him until he snapped and threw their lot with them.
• Red Baron: One of her titles is 'the Hegemonic Mastermind', and it's implied from her classification that she codified that kind of character in history and culture of Known History.
• Resigned in Disgrace: As part of her revenge against those who persecuted her and her father in her early life, when she was of age she challenged the professors and peers of the university who rejected her father and his work out of unwarranted skeptism, envious rivalry and sheer spite and utterly humiliated all of them in a highly-publicized week-long intellectual contest, and then as a final cherry on top rejected their offer of a scholarship to her in their desperate attempt to salvage their reputation, noting that they have nothing to offer her and that they have already showed themselves to the world what kind of utter fools they are before her genius and for doubting her father's work - all exactly as she planned to avenge her family and kickstart her reputation as the 'Wonder-Genius of Marerope'. It is noted that afterwards the entire faculty resigned in utter shame and defeat.
• To the Pain: Delivered a chilling declaration to Silversmith that promises a most painful demise at the start of the legendary first battle between Metamare and Silversmith against Overmare. It highlights just how much the enmity she has developed for him has metastasized in the intervening ten years since they last met, all for derailing her original plans for assuming world leadership peacefully and upstaging her as the 'World's Smartest Pony'.
  Overmare: I want you to know, Silversmith, that everything that follows shall be on your head. You and your ally will die, tonight, and as your life ends, in agony, you will know your intellect is only second rate to mine, that it was your insufferable arrogance which brought you both to this predicament!
• Renaissance Man: She's a literal one-pony Renaissance Mare, literally turning a small country in Southern Marerope into a technological wonderland by herself after taking it over.
• Rules Lawyer: In a Shout-Out to a DC/Marvel crossover featuring Superman and Doctor Doom, Overmare does this to stop Metamare from capturing her by pointing out that she had just managed to make it back into the territory of the Overdom of Coltatia, which is recognized as sovereign territory with her as sovereign ruler. That means Metamare is not only trespassing, but risks violating international law trying to apprehend her, and Metamare had sworn to uphold the 'laws of Ponykind'. Metamare had no choice but to back off.
  Metamare: "I don't want to hurt anypony, Overmare. Not even you. But that doesn't mean I couldn't tear that Overarmour off your body to make you come to your senses...!"
  Overmare: "Do NOT presume you can intimidate me, Metamare, with such futile threats. I stand now upon sovereign territory - MY sovereign territory. And here, my WORD is LAW. Had you not declared you would uphold the laws of Ponykind, 'Paragon From Beyond'? Or are those mere empty words to justify your own self-righteousness?"
• Science Hero: She was apparently this during her time as the 'Wonder Genius of Marerope'. Using her intellectual brilliance, she single-hoofedly ended wars, averted famines, cured plagues (she stopped the Codexverse Spanish Flu before it became a pandemic!), solving seemingly impossible problems which saved whole nations from destruction and rescued entire generations from suffering. She even fought a number of Pony/non-Pony menaces, which include a dreaded Strusso-Manegolian warlord with another 'Pinnacle-of-Ponykind' adventurer-scientist called 'Doc Carnage, the Mare of Mysteries'. It all served to make her eventual fall from grace all the more tragic.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: Reichist super-villain Endsieg once taunt her in a confrontation about her tendency towards elaborate death-traps, grand plans, super-weapons and bombastic monologues about her righteousness and ask whether or not she plans to do the same before they fight. Overmare instead immediately starts trying to vaporize him with a Death Ray, declaring him and his fellow Reichists as unworthy to face her brilliance compare to her other foes.
• Start of Darkness: Let's Recap.
  • Young Velika Volja's mother died giving birth to her, something that she continued blaming herself for despite assurances otherwise from her loving father.
  • Growing up, she was plagued by a hereditary sickly condition that left her her physically feeble and weak, turning her into a constant target of bullying from both children and adults alike.
  • Then her father, always a brilliant yet humble stallion, had his scientific career ruined by jealous, petty, and close-minded peers and rivals who scoffed his theories or wanted to benefit themselves at his expense. His public disgrace worsened when he refused to contribute his talents and skills to their country's war effort during the First Great War, causing the local government to brand and persecute him as an unpatriotic traitor.
  • Velika went with her father on the run for many years, hounded by governmental authorities, angry mobs, and deserters and bandits that resulted from their home country's defeat and collapse... culminating in his father suddenly dying from an illness that he kept secret as to not worry his daughter, devastating her.
  • While she does manage to claw her way back to the top in the 1920s, becoming a celebrated and peerless intellectual titan through her own efforts and work, while thoroughly humiliating the so-called academic intellectuals who ruined her father and taking revenge on all others who ever wronged them, Velika would eventually be bested in intellect and skill by Silversmith from Ponyland, subjecting her to a Humiliation Conga that left her with quite a bruise ego.
  • The global downward spiral beginning with Stock Market Crash in 1929 and the Great Depression in the following decade, leading to the rise of warmongering dictatorships and other conflicts and chaos, also greatly disillusioned her to the collective nature of mortal Ponykind, believing Ponykind as a whole to be too wild and destructive to be left to their own devices for their own sake and the sake of Equus.
  • However, the project that she hoped would salvage her damaged reputation and put her back on the rise to power would literally blow up in her face due to a grave oversight in her calculations, horrifically injuring and scarring her once-perfect body. The lab accident would be the final straw for Velika, who would now dedicate her life to dominating and make the world "better", but in her image, no matter what it takes. She would abandon her former identity and life, taking up the alias 'Overmare'.
• Super-Intelligence: Her greatest strength besides her indomitable will, unstoppable drive and incredible skills, and also what made her so incredibly dangerous. From a very young age, her intelligence had shown to surpass that of ordinary Ponies: she corrected an error she spotted in advanced equations on her scientist father's blackboard when she was just three years old. A voracious reader and learner, she went through entire volumes of books on countless academic subjects and had not only read the works of Codexverse Pony Plato, Newton, Machiavelli, Nietzche and others, but also understood them far better than most common Ponies or even average academics could. Before age 14 she could invent gadgets and create medicines incredible enough to not only earn her enormous amounts of money, but restore and even enhance her health and ill constitution. At age 14 she could challenge an entire university's worth of professors and associates at theory, experimentation and innovation and utterly humiliate them. There was little wonder than that she became known as the 'Wonder-Genius of Marerope', a renaissance mare who could revolutionize and advance sciences and innovation by leaps and bounds by herself, and after her fall from grace, use it so effectively for world conquest she became the greatest supervillain of the Second Age. Only Doctor Silversmith of Ponyland, Metamare's best friend, surpasses her enough in intellect to match her wit for wit.
• Surrounded by Idiots: She is a super-genius whose intellectual superiority is literally eclipsed only by one other Pony, so needless to say she inevitably feels that way when combined with her high standards and indefatigable arrogance.
  • She is incredibly frustrated by Metamare's super-villain foe Profiteer's inability to understand the principles behind her plans, even disparaging him for using outdated, superstitious analogies for the methods she used to become the first adversary to hoof Metamare a decisive defeat. Justified in that while he is a ruthless and incredibly dangerous criminal mastermind, he's still not an incredible super-genius like Overmare herself.
  • The desire to avoid this was the main reason why she collectively banned the Mignons, the Yellow Minions from working for her, due to their tendency to spectacularly screw up their masters' plans with their shenanigans. They REALLY wanted to, though.
• Sunk Cost Fallacy: Some of her dialogue suggests that her love for her parents and their loss contributes to her belief that she is great - and that she HAVE to become great - in order for their deaths for her sake to mean something. Her mother died giving birth to her, something she considered to be a Heroic Sacrifice which subconsciously blamed herself for, while her father hid a sickness from her to not worry his daughter even as he tried his best to take care of her in their Darkest Hour until he literally dropped dead one day, before she could had saved him. It could be inferred from this that she felt obligated to fulfill her promises to them to become great and change the world for the better - even if it means she must Take Over the World - because if she failed to worthy of her birth and existence, their sacrifices for her sake would be All for Nothing.
• Take Over the World: She clearly wants to do that, for a (to her) good cause. And she might have very well done it were it not for Metamare, Silversmith and other superheroes and their allies stopping her time and time again.
  • Thanks to her incredible intellect and skills, she's so good at it that Silversmith, her Arch-Enemy and only intellectual superior, estimated that starting from scratch, playing the right cards, she only needed two months and an hour to completely conquer Continental Marerope. And that's at the very beginning of her supervillainy infamy.
  • Also to consider: In the Codexverse, it is repeatedly emphasize that taking over the world is absurdly difficult and virtually every Evil Overlord and Diabolical Mastermind who tried do has either failed miserably or always fall short. Although Overmare still didn't succeed in the end, it is implied that she has come far closer than anyone has any rights to. She managed to nearly become a macro-historical anomaly while being nothing more than an incredibly intelligent and determined Badass Normal / Empowered Badass Normal!
• That Man Is Dead: She considers her former identity as Velika Volja, the Wonder Genius of Marerope to be this after she finally decides to go all-out in Taking Over The World, believing that 'Velika' would never had succeeded and that she must transcend her past Equinity in order to do what must be done to make the world a better place.
• Tin Tyrant: Owing to her characterization and certain quotes and drabbles, she eventually developed a series of 'Overarmour' not unlike Lex Luthor's Warsuits or Doctor Doom's armour in order to go toe-to-toe with the likes of Metamare (and likely necessary). The first version of it debuted in her first battle against Metamare and Silversmith, after she gained a limited understanding of Metamare's superpowers and managed to not only replicate the ones she has at the time, but also through extrapolation from data unleash some of the more advanced powers Metamare would be capable of which she would not develop until later.
• Tragic Hero: Velika Volja, the Wonder Genius was this, sincerely wanting to save the world and bring Ponykind to utopia, believing it is her obligation and wishing to fulfill the hopes of her departed parents who put all their faith in her brilliance. Unfortunately, her Dark and Troubled Past left her with raging character flaws, which combined with other circumstances beyond even her control ultimately doomed her to become a Fallen Hero.
• Tragic Villain: After Velika Volja fell and became not only a Super Villain, but the Super Villain of the Second Age. She is still trying to save the world, but is willing to do so through villainous means after having failed to do so as a hero, believing the world and its people are too flawed to do it any other way.
• Übermensch: Fits it near-perfectly and is literally her freaking ALIAS!
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Velika's loving, humble but brilliant father meant well when he encouraged her in her youth, telling her that she is likely the greatest prodigy the world has ever seen, and that he and her deceased mother believes/knows that she would one day grow up to do great things and change the world for the better. Unfortunately, neither he nor anypony could had anticipated that her relentlessly bullied but incredibly brilliant daughter would ultimately interpret his words as meaning that she is superior to everypony else in every way, and being the Uberpferd has an obligation to Take Over the World by any means necessary so she could turn it into a utopia made in her image, becoming quite literally the greatest supervillain threat of the 'Second Age'. If there is any one positive outcome from this, he at least directed her unstoppable drive, unadulterated ego and unfettered ambitions towards making the world a better place out of a sense of moral obligation.
• Victory Is Boring: Overmare occasionally runs into this problem whenever her campaigns to Take Over the World were too successful, either having achieved all her goals and left wondering what to do next, or achieving victory in a way which she felt was not meaningful due to how easy it was.
  • Many believed during that time she managed to Take Over the World for four months after stealing the powers of the Great Ghostie and becoming a Reality Warper, her loss to Metamare and Silversmith and her conquest being undone was in part due to subconscious self-sabotage, as she apparently found having all-but-won and created the utopia she dreamt of with such contemptible ease and virtually no effective opposition up until the end to be quite unsatisfying after the initial rush of nigh-omnipotence worn off.
• Villainous Friendship: It's noted Sprayor is one of the few people she genuinely considered a friend, due to his Undying Loyalty for her being entirely genuine and his competent service.
• Villain Respect: While Overmare don't have a high opinion of her lessers (except her parents), she does have respect for a few who earned it in her eyes.
  • It's more or less an open secret that she considers Metamare, the Paragon From Beyond a Worthy Opponent, spending as much effort to try and convert her to her cause as she does trying to destroy her for being in her way. A courtesy she doesn't extend to her other Arch-Enemy Silversmith, the World's Smartest Pony, with whom she has a more personal feud.
  • She is known to be respectful to those who had been kind to her in the past and present despite who she is and everything she did. This included as mentioned below Saint Sweetheart of the Tales/Virtuous Seven, who once offered to heal some of the injuries and scars sustained in the accident that finally pushed her over the edge into villainy years back, and also surprisingly enough Santa Hooves, who had been one of the very few beings who had been unconditionally kind to her all her life, which incidentally is also the reason why Solsmas is one of the few holidays not outright banned and still celebrated in her Overdom.
  • She has a history with Fa Zhong-Ma line of eastern diabolical masterminds, both super-villains respecting each other enough that they are willing to closely collaborate together on at least one world domination scheme together in the 1970s.
  • Respects Robot Rider for, while opposing her, being every bit as determined as herself. She also admits in her testament "I, Overmare" that although she considers Black Rider's change of heart foolish, she sees much similarities between her and him, owing to him sharing the same trait of being a Visionary Villain whose ambitions are at least partly motivated by love for their parents, before he fully turned good.
  • She has quite a bit of respect for the Tales/Virtious Seven for managing to escape her clutches and challenging her. Specifically, she respects Sweetheart for offering to heal her scars and wounds and Patch for actually trying to better herself and learn from their mistakes. Of note, she actually encourages them not to give up against Queen Dark Crystal and never doubts their ability to escape her when they're killed and absorbed.
  • She found herself impressed by renegade geophysicist Professor Dai Dee Yao's work to control/defeat the menace of earthquakes, seeing that he is VERY close to actually 'conquer the unconquerable and tame the untameable' and his determination to succeed in that goal, which mirrored her own efforts to defeat Metamare and Take Over the World. This contributed to her decision to help him finish his project (and then use it for her and Fa Zhong-Ma's own ends), even claiming that had they won she would had given him control over the 'Seismic Resonance Network' that they build based on his work as they (or at least SHE) had promised, though that last part is subjected to debate] Professor Dai is, as far as she is concerned, a credit to lesser minds who deserves to be recognized for his unnoticed genius.
• Villain Has a Point:
  • Overmare wanted to Take Over the World because she believes the new order she would establish would had been better suited to run it than leaving it to the short-sighted, small-minded and simply-substandard devices of common Ponykind. From the sheer amount of conflicts, crises and calamities Tellus went through the 'Great Wars Era' (due in large part due to the failings of Ponykind), as well as how well-ran her Overdom is under her rule (stated to be completely free of poverty, famine, disease, crime and strife), readers might be inclined to think that the world really would had been better off had she won. Of course, her willingness to use extreme, questionable means to achieve this utopia (Totalitarian-levels of control, Disproportionate Retribution for dissent and transgressions, among other things) still makes her a villain that must be stopped, because the end result would likely still be bad in its own way.
  • Deconstructed in that it's pointed out several times her villainous actions are actually preventing her from actually making the world the utopia she could make it: she and Silversmith would be able to make a true, lasting utopia if she's reform and work with him, rather than the shortlived false utopias she's made that ultimately are overthrown due to her villainous means of maintaining them.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Downplayed, but it's noted at many points that while the world fears her in general, she had a lot of supporters both in and outside the Overdom, with many who desire peace, prosperity and progress for the whole world in the face of constant calamities and conflicts of the 'Great Wars Era' of the Second Age seeing her and her Overdom as the only ones able to achieve this.
• Visionary Villain: Even officially classified as such in-universe. All her supervillainy is done with the intent of saving the world from itself. If she had to Take Over the World and establish some sort of enlightened technocratic totalitarian One World Order with herself in charge, then so be it.
• We Can Rule Together: Although Metamare has been a constant thorn to her side, she doesn't hate her as much as she does Silversmith. She genuinely sees Metamare as a potential ally who can help her better the world based on her standards, as Metamare is the quintessential example of someone who transcended mortal limits and became like a goddess. However, she is disappointed by the fact that Metamare would rather remain the "steward" of the world instead of using her power, charisma, and resolve to actually change the status quo and save mortal sapientkind from their own worst flaws/vices. As such, while she respects Metamare enough to occasionally team up with her, she would also spend much of her time trying to get rid of her since Metamare is too compassionate to even accept her offers of world domination.
• We Will Meet Again: Inverted with the declaration she made after her first defeat by Metamare and Silversmith, as she actually told Metamare to pray that they don't meet again before she made her escape, since the next time they do 'she might not be so fortunate'. Regarding Silversmith, however, she want Metamare to tell him that their more personal war had only just begun.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: One of her defining traits, from her entry. Despite her villainy, she genuinely wants to make the world a utopia, her desire to conquer it done out of a legitimate belief that it's better off with her in charge. She will bring Ponykind to greatness - but it will be on HER terms and in HER image. And on the rare occasions she actually DID took over the world (for a short time), she actually DOES deliver what she promised, even if it is through villainous, questionable means, such as ending global poverty, hunger, war, crime and other things, repairing the environment and generally improving how everything is managed with her ideas and innovations. This had made even some heroes like Patch, the Courageous Knight wonder if they should even be stopping her. Bright Eyes, however, has the completely opposite opinion of her.
• Who's Laughing Now?: She was scorned and hated for being physically weak and inferior. Once her intellectual superiority developed, she would use it to invoke this on all those who once wronged her and her father and show the world what she's truly capable of. Bright Eyes, the Scholar of Justice of the 'Tales Seven' lampshades this as part of her "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
• Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Zigzagged. Being a No-Nonsense Nemesis most of the time, she actually do try to do that or similar to Metamare and/or (especially) Silversmith when she had the chance or no time for more extravagant methods. The superheroes proved too capable to be neutralized immediately most of the time, assuming she did not hold back to try and get Metamare on her side out of respect for the Paragon From Beyond, or trying to humiliate Silversmith and prove she is smarter and better than he is due to her grudge. Her principles and arrogance also made her unwilling to take easy, mundane solutions which could had net her better results.
  • Best exemplified the one time she became a nigh-omnipotent Reality Warper by stealing the phenomenal powers of Metamare's foe the Great Ghostie (who was apparently as powerful as Discord at his peak). Despite having the power to take out Metamare and Silversmith instantly as she had neutralized virtually all opposition and conquered the world in seconds, she instead let Metamare and Silversmith keep their powers/life. For Metamare, this is due to respecting her enough as an adversary that Overmare wanted her to eventually submit and join her side on her own free will. For Silversmith, despite really wanting to, she refused to kill him partly to not antagonize Metamare at least until she surrenders, but also because of Overmare's own vindictive desire to prove her own superiority over him, leading to her instead reduce him to being her plaything with her powers and putting him through endless number of nigh-unsolvable death-traps and grueling false-realities, hoping to either humiliate him by showing she is smarter than he is or break him and make him admit she is better just to escape. It took four months and some outside help, but this gave Metamare and Silversmith the fighting chance needed to restore the stolen powers back to the Great Ghostie and undo her unchallenged, god-like control over the world.
• Woobie, Conqueror of Worlds: Overmare's supervillainy is the culmination of a Dark and Troubled Past and a Humiliation Conga that left her with nothing left to lose and (in her eyes) no other paths except to dedicate herself entirely to 'fixing the world'... By conquering it.
• World's Smartest Man: Gender-inverted. She assumed herself to be this, and is not entirely unwarranted in her assumptions since she is, in fact, an intellectual colossi who mentally surpassed most Ponies of her Age. Notably, she got her revenge on the university's head and staff who humiliated/sabotaged her father out of petty jealousy by challenging them to best her in intellect and invention, and then beat them so utterly that everyone who opposed her proceeded to retire from their careers in shame. And then she met Silversmith from Ponyland.
  • Becomes a major character point: the fact that she is in fact only the SECOND smartest Pony on Tellus/Equus became the main reason why she developed an Irrational Hatred of and personal feud with Silversmith. Having based her entire sense of self-worth on her intellectual dominance over all others after a life-time of mockery and contempt from others over her physical inadequacies, she took any challenge to her status of this as a massive, very painful personal insult. Silversmith is a walking, breathing, LIVING reminder that she is not this trope, on top of his unintentional derailing of her first plan and taking her status; therefore, he has to go, so that she could reclaim that status and prove to herself, him and the world that she's BETTER.
• Worthy Opponent:
  • She sees Metamare as this, being as willing to try and convert her to her cause as she is willing to destroy her mostly for just being in the way. Metamare's friend and ally Silversmith, on the other hoof...
  • Out of the Four Riders of Neighpon, who had clashed with her on many occasions thanks to Build Rider being Silversmith's protege, she respected Perfect Kingdom/Robot Rider the most, because despite being the most 'normal' of the group, lacking his peers' unique nature, sheer power or advanced intellect, his sheer determination and integrity as a hero reminds and nearly rivals her own.
  Overmare: "Genius Builder has an admirable, if arrogant intellect, and the hybrid has unearthly power, for all his simplicity. Yet you... you are just an average farmer. What do you have to stand against me?"
  PK/RR: "The burning passion in my heart."
  • Considers her treacherous subordinate, Major Ionos as one after he managed to briefly overthrow her as ruler of the Overdom. She got her job back, but decides to spare and keep him around in order to keep herself on her hooftips and not become complacent again.
  Overmare: [To Major Ionos] Overmare must admit, Major Ionos, that you made your play quite well. But now, the time has come for me to retake her rightful domain!
• You Are Too Late: In her very first successful attempt at Taking Over The World (though fortunately she was overthrown within a month), she invoked this trope upon the Paragons, proving one of the credentials which made her the greatest supervillain of the Second Age.
  Overmare: Do it? Metamare, I am not a pulp magazine villain. Do you TRULY think I, OVERMARE, would explain my master-plan to you if there is even the SLIGHTEST possibility of your and your allies affecting the outcome?
  
  ... I did it thirty-five minutes ago.
  • Silversmith would counter-invoke this in the next plan the supervillainess embark upon to conquer the world, showing that both sides learn from their mistakes and would seek to be at least five-steps ahead of each other whenever possible.

Overmare's Inner Circle

General

• Co-Dragons: They're Overmare's most dangerous, competent, and trusted minions, many of which are dangerous supervillains in their own right.
• Had to Be Sharp: Being a member of Overmare's inner circle requires living up to her standards of competence and intelligence, as Overmare will not tolerate stupidity or incompetence.
• Tragic Villain: Many of them experienced terrible tragedies or injustice which drove them into villainy, and have complex and often depressing reasons behind their motives and villainous ways which made them figures of sympathy as they are figures of fear or loathing.

Black Baron

---

• The Ace: Many of the Black Barons, especially the third one, were some of the most skilled soldiers and superb strategists of their era, making them among the most dangerous super-villains. To note: those who worked with the Overdom were expected to be able to keep up with their superior Overmare, who was widely considered the greatest Super Villain of the 'Second Age', and be able to help her complete her grand plans to Take Over the World.
• Blood Knight: All the Black Barons had pursued war and battle throughout their life or career and reveled in it.
• The Dragon: As one of Overmare's inner circle, all of the Black Barons are this to Overmare where military affairs are concerned.
• The Dreaded: Inevitable owing to allegiance to Overmare and being one of her inner circle of subordinates, on top of being one of the most capable fighters and tacticians of their time.
• Humans Are Warriors: Or rather, Pony/Sapients-in-general are warriors. The Black Barons subscribes to this more openly than many others, believing that it is innate nature that helps them survive and thrive in an unforgiving, conflict-prone world and to not pursue and even deny it is folly.
• One-Man Army: On top of being capable strategists and tacticians, the Black Barons are also among some of the strongest and most skilled fighters of their time. Black Baron III was a more notable example on account of being enhanced into a Super-Soldier.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: The Black Barons who served Overmare could not had gotten into their position as head of the Overdom's dreaded military forces if they aren't able to go toe to toe with some of the greatest superheroes in the world and also potential rivals who might want their position and power.
• The Strategist: On top of being among the greatest fighters of their species, they are also brilliant strategists and tacticians who could keep up with and execute the military aspects of their superior Overmare's world domination plans, commanding and coordinating the military forces of the Overdom to that end.
• Suicidal Pacifism: The Black Barons look down upon pacifism and the pursuit of world peace as folly, seeing it as futile attempts to suppress Ponykind's innate drive for conflict at best and self-destructive before the countless threats facing Ponykind within and without at worst. And they are willing to start them for whatever reasons worthwhile or not if it means they can fight in it and drive civilization forward. Saint Sweetheart would strongly disagree, however.
• Super-Soldier: At least one of the Black Barons was apparently this, the third one specifically, having received extensive Bio-Augmentation to enhance her body until combined with her skills, she was effectively a One-Man Army.
• Villainous Legacy: The Black Barons became a lineage of villains who pursued and perpetrated war as part of their villainy, starting from a certain dreaded Strusso-Manegolian warlord and continuing even into the present day. The philosophy left behind by the earliest ones are also subscribed by many both good and evil who accepted the inevitability or even embraced war as innate part of sapient nature.
• War Is Hell: Admits this is likely true, but still see it as necessary and desirable given how important conflict is to Pony/sapient civilization and progress.
• War Is Glorious: That, and/or it's necessary, in the minds of many Black Barons.

Black Baron I

---

• Expy: Of Baron Ugenberg from Iron Storm, who in turn is based on the infamous Roman Von Ungern-Sternberg.
• Evil Overlord: Became the ruler of Manegolia in the aftermath of the 'Strussian Civil War' of 1917-1921 and had plans to go beyond it.
• Evil Plan: Has the mad ambition to build a a new 'Strusso-Manegolian Empire' from his stronghold in Manegolia.
• Irony: He was defeated by Velika back when she was a hero, he now serves her after she became Overmare.
• Proto-Superhero: Proto-Super VILLAIN, on account of his mad ambition. He was foiled by the joint-efforts of TWO actual Proto-Superhero in Velika Volja, the Wonder Genius of Marerope (before she became Overmare) and Doc Carnage, the Mare of Mysteries.

Black Baron II

---

• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: While he didn't show it much, he still care for the family he has left, and part of the reasoning to training and turning his granddaughter into a Super-Soldier was to ensure she would be powerful and tough enough to survive the (in his eyes) Crapsack World she live in. It's implied this is the reason why he became a Super Villain as well (being sanctioned by his government for 'excessive conduct' against the countries of the Axis Powers during the Second Great War in retaliation for the atrocities Reichist Germaney and their allies committed upon Strussia and its fellow allies in the Comintern).
• Pay Evil unto Evil: Apparently did this during the Second Great War for every atrocity the Reichists and their allies did to his homeland. This led to him becoming censured and condemned by his own superiors, which pushed him into becoming a Super Villain later on.
• Renegade Russian: Was a former general of the Hooviet Union who went rogue and became Overmare's subordinate.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Him going on one while a Hooviet general against the Axis Powers for their invasion and atrocities conducted on his homeland and other member nations of the Comintern in Marerope when they counterattacked during the Second Great War contributed to his censure by his own superiors, which contributed to him into becoming a Super Villain.

Black Baron III (AKA Black Baroness)

Character: Villain

Alignment: Lawful Evil

Type: Disillusioned Idealist, Super Soldier, Genius Strategist, Militant Marshal, Blood Knight

Faction: Overdom of Coltalia

"So long as we exist, there will always be war. Even if there would be heroes who would rise to stop them, there would always be villains who would come to start them."

The granddaughter of the second Black Baron and the second one to command Overdom's armed forces on behalf of Overmare, Black Baron III [Her entries here] is one of the most dangerous supervillains of her time, although her motivations beneath her image as a menacingly capable Super-Soldier and militant warmonger are deeper and more tragic than it appears on the surface.

---

• Arch-Enemy: While several notable foes are mentioned, her conflict with Saint Sweetheart of the Virtuous Seven stands out, on account of the Loving Peacemaker being a Foil to her. Black Baron III often attempt to make Sweetheart 'see the light' as she did, but Sweetheart often saw them off, kept true to her beliefs, and even defeat her on occasions, making her among the few who could consistently get under the supervillainess' skin. She also sees the Ackackian Maretians of Mares to be this collectively to her, on account of her tragic backstory.
• Aliens Are Bastards: Downplayed. It's noted that while she like many on Tellus had an understandable antipathy for aliens given all the Alien Invasion events they went through, surviving records suggested it was exaggerated as conclusive proof that not all Aliens Are Bastards was known as early as the late 1960s with the discovery of the civilizations of Venera (Codexverse Venus), most of which went on to become Tellusian Ponykinds' first and closest alien allies, and she also acknowledged that not all Maretians are bastards. She mostly focused her animosity on the brutal Ackackian Maretians who hurt her and Tellus so much.
• Badass Cape: Part of her Super Villain attire has a great black cape which is linked to her Powered Armor and uniform, made up of a smart material which could harden and morph at a thought into a pair of thestral-like wings which operate in conjunction with an in-built jet-gravitic hybrid impeller which grants her the ability to fly.
• BFG: One of her two trademark weapons, besides her Energized Sabre, is a powerful energy Hand Cannon the size of an assault carbine or combat shotgun (but perfectly proportion for her tall and powerful Super-Soldier physique) which fires photonic beams which via exotic physics temporarily assume a physical state with mass - a beam of accelerated Photonic Matter - which allows it to strike with physical as well as thermal energy. The 'Hardlight Destructor', as it is called, is so powerful that an overcharged shot could punch clean through a skyscraper and blow up a hill far outside of city limits. Even Black Baroness humourously hung a Lampshade Hanging about just how big and powerful it is.
  Reichist Supervillain: Ha! Who brings a sword to a gun fight?^note He is referring to her Energized Sabre. The supervillain was armed with a firearm
  Black Baron III: I don't. And mine's bigger.
  Web Warrior II: ... Lady, did you just made a ph - [ZAAAP!] - Holy fewmets!
• Bio-Augmentation: Black Barons III received biological and cybernetic enhancements that, on top of her own skills, turned her into a Super-Soldier One-Man Army and one of the most dangerous Super Villain of her generation.
• Blood Knight: Like all the Black Barons, she had a talent for war and starts them as much to fight in them as it is to further the Overdom's plans as it is to force Ponykind to be stronger and sharper, seeing it as a necessary evil.
• Cool Sword: The Black Barons were apparently known to have one of this as part of their armaments. Black Baron III's sabre was a high-tech energized sabre capable of cutting through vehicle armour and take down even Maretian war robots.^note Sort of - She cut her way through the armour and hull of one after she rammed her own command vehicle at it to topple the giant robot over, and then used it to neutralize the crew and kill the Maretian general commanding it. It's implied that it was reverse-engineered from a relic Power Weapon from the antediluvian Imperium Era which somehow survived to the present day.
• Closet Geek: Downplayed, but she knows enough about videogames to rebut Patch's boast that bosses (like Black Baron III) 'exists to be beaten' when she cornered the escaping Virtuous Seven group, pointing out This Is Reality and that they don't get to 'respawn' or 'reload' their games if they fail to beat her.
• David Versus Goliath: Downplayed, but during the Final Maretian-Tellusian War, Black Baron III took out a commander-grade Maretian War Robot with nothing but a high-tech sabre, though she had to topple it over first by ramming her own heavily-damaged command vehicle at it, then cut her way to the control center and neutralize the crew before they could recover. Played more straight with her battle with the Ackackian Maretian General commanding it, who was in Powered Armor where she presumably was not.
• Decapitation Presentation: A variation. Black Baron III once killed an Ackackian Maretian General during the counter-invasion of Mares by ripping out his spine as part of the finisher, and presented it to her troops and allied forces rushing to their aid after climbing back out of the fallen giant Maretian War Robot where the fight took place. It instantly became an iconic image of the 'Final Maretian-Tellusian War' and her, at least for a time, a war hero respected by the world instead of a feared Super Villain. She kept the spine and the caved skull of the dead Maretian general as a trophy.
• Despair Event Horizon: The lost of nearly all her friends and family to the Maretians left Peaceful Mind teetering on the edge of this, spending her days crying over all she lost or raging at herself in self-loathing at being unable to do anything about it. In the end, she had basically two options remaining: Break, or Hate. She ultimately chose Hate.
• The Dreaded: Even among superheroes and supervillains, she was this, owing to her allegiance to the Overdom and her capabilities as a Super-Soldier Four-Star Badass. Patch noted she was very much in 'the big leagues' among supervillains, and when she cornered them during their escape from the Overdom they were clearly terrified of her mere presence, knowing what she is capable of and what chance they have against her.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • She, like her grandfather Black Baron II, Overmare and many other supervillains, despises the Reichist supervillains of Uberreich and other remnant Reichist forces and factions, despite sharing similar views regarding war, seeing their beliefs in being the Master Race as foolish folly (especially their belief in their 'inherent superiority' would bring them victory) and views them as little more than craven cowards who mass-murder innocents out of hatred and hubris and weaklings who bully those weaker than themselves but fold spectacularly when faced with stronger powers who they provoked out of arrogance, ultimately little more than monsters who can't even live up to their beliefs in their superiority and their claims as ever-victorious warmongers.
  • Black Baroness is implied to have a rule against harming defenceless civilians, especially children, at least directly. She immediately paused a battle with Battle Prince when she realized they had ended up crashing into the studio set of "Mister Believe's Neighbourhood", sheathing her weapons and even apologizing to the cast for the interruption, before demanding Battle Prince to follow her outside and continue the battle elsewhere.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Her fall to villainy was motivated majorly by the loss of her loved ones to a brutal war and her inability to save them due to her powerlessness and pacifism. She also cared deeply for her grandfather, despite not knowing him for much of her early life and afterwards having him put her through hell and back to train her into becoming a soldier and supervillain, knowing that he does this as his own way to protect her and make her strong enough to take on the Crapsack World they believe they live in and do not begrudge him for it, telling him as much how much she understands this and how grateful she is of him for making her who she is today when he apologized for it in his dying moments.
• Evil Makeover: She went from an adolescent Hippie pacifist mare with Bohemian/flowery clothes to a tall (rivalling Battle Prince and Metamare) Super-Soldier Four-Star Badass wearing a Generalissimo's military attire along with a set of Power Armor. Her Cutie Mark, implied to be a dove carrying a branch in its beak flying over a watching Pony's smiling head, is implied to have changed, with her personal Super Villain emblem depicting a bird-of-prey carrying a bullet in its beak flying over a Pony's skull.
• Expy: Comparison could be drawn between a pacifistic Peaceful Mind's transformation into the warmongering Black Baron III with the transformation Chirin of "Ringing Bell" underwent from the adorable little lamb he was to the terrifying black ram he became. Both characters' deeply personal losses drives them to seek to become as strong, if not stronger, than those who inflicted those losses, yet in their determination to overcome monsters, they have in their own way become monsters themselves.
• Face–Heel Turn: It should be noted that she willingly turn her back on her former pacifism and became the third Black Baron in her despair, rage and haplessness over her inability to do anything but watch her friends and family die in a global conflict, something which her grandfather Black Baron II noted in a confrontation with her father. His indoctrination of her to his worldview merely sped things up: she became first the Oversoldier and later his successor as the Black Baron all came ultimately on her own accord.
• Flight: Capable of this, courtesy of her Powered Armor's flight-system, which enables her smart-materials cape to mould and harden into a pair of thestral-like wings, with propulsion provided by 'Jet-gravitic hybrid impellers' built into her armor. Justified in that her opponents often includes superheroes who can fly as well as aerial military units and vehicles.
• Functional Genre Savvy: Knowing that a certain cell of 'Freedom Fighters' who had been able to cause the Hooviets and even the Overdom trouble in New Port City during the Fourth Great War of 1984-6 would not be so easily be 'dealt with' by the Hooviets themselves, Black Baron III would against the Hooviet general's protests dispatch one of the Overdom's finest special forces units to the Hooviet-occupied city to assist in rooting them out. Considering the fact that the Overdom is powerful enough to threaten and actually succeed in Taking Over The World under Overmare and often the only forces who could confound them with any major success are often Superheroes and Supersoldiers, this level of caution and response seemed rather reasonable. Indeed, she considers them a Worthy Opponent because of this and history vindicates the New Port Resistance as one of the most successful resistance groups in Ponyland during the global conflict.
• Four-Star Badass: Being the supreme commander of the Overdom's armed forces, she is this by default, having climbed up the ranks from the very bottom of the Coltalian military at her grandfather's own insistence and earning the right and experience to command by her own merits, while also made to study war in all its aspects and learn every strategy and tactic ever used throughout history (and also develop her own). No sooner had she underwent Bio-Augmentation and assumed her grandfather's place she would reform and reorganize the Overdom's military into an even more potent and effective force, personally leading it into battle many times for Overmare's conquests as well as plans and schemes of her own, commanding her forces' loyalty through her leadership and through her own loyalty to Overmare.
• Frontline General: Being a Blood Knight like her predecessors and an augmented Super-Soldier, she never commands from the safety of a bunker and often leads battles from the front, both in person or in a command vehicle or mecha bristling with weapons, fighting her own battles against the commanders or supersoldiers and super-heroes/villains of the enemy.
• He Who Fights Monsters: Gender-Inverted. In becoming strong enough to Never Be Hurt Again and embracing her grandfather's views in becoming a militant warmonger, Black Baron III had become the very things her younger self had once abhorred and nobly stood against. This is lampshaped by heroes such as Sweetheart, and the tragic/bitter Irony is not lost upon Black Baroness herself.
  Saint Sweetheart: Don't you see?! You have become everything which you once stood against!
  Black Baroness: ... I know.
• Hero Killer: Downplayed in that the actual body-count is apparently kept low, but Black Baron III proved her credentials by single-hoofedly taking down entire teams of superheroes by herself, both during the Fourth Great War and afterwards.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: She is well aware that while she is one of the finest fighters and tacticians/strategists of her time as a Four-Star Badass Super-Soldier, she is not invincible and there are opponents who could outclass her or situations where even she cannot hope to win. When the Paragons came in force to stop her from recapturing the Virtuous Seven and bring them back to the Overdom, she quickly order her forces to stand down and withdraw, knowing despite still outnumbering them she and her troops are still collectively outclassed in strength in the face of Metamare, Silversmith, Paradyne, Battle Prince and others.
• Ironic Name: She was born 'Peaceful Mind', yet ultimately became a Super Villain motivated by war and conflict. It was once more fitting to the young peace-loving mare she once was, but Maretians happened.
• Irony: Who would had thought that a young Hippie who once believe passionately in peace and harmony would become one of the greatest warbringers in the Great Wars Era of the Second Age? Of course, how she got there is rather tragic.
• It's Personal:
  • She developed a strange obsession with Saint Sweetheart, who became one of her archenemies, and often tried to make her 'see the light' with little success, even being beaten by her on occasions, making her one of the few who could legitimately get under her skin.
  • Almost inevitably, considering her past, she really, REALLY, REALLY had it out for the Ackackian Maretians for what they did to most of her friends and family. It's mentioned that the Final Maretian-Tellusian War when Tellus counter-invaded Mares was an absolutely cathartic experience for her as she finally gets to have her revenge against those who had hurt her and Tellus so much, focusing most of her efforts against the Ackackian Stratotechnocracies.
• Lady of War: The third Black Baron is the granddaughter of the second, and no less an unmatched soldier and strategist like her predecessors.
• Martial Arts and Crafts: It is noted as part of her transformation into a Super-Soldier Four-Star Badass Super Villain, her grandfather trained her every single art of war and combat under the sun. This made her one of the most dangerous fighters among supervillains in her time, being a match for even the likes of Battle Prince (an Expy of Wonder Women and the Mighty Thor, both traditionally some of the best fighters among superheroes).
• Motive Rant: Black Baron III delivered one which essentially summed up a significant portion of her and her predecessors' character and beliefs, mostly regarding the inevitability and necessity of conflict for Pony/Sapient nature.
  Black Baron III: Conflict is the crucible of civilization. It is by the relentless competition among groups with incorrigible interests that drives society forward. It is the threat of conquest or extermination that drives bickering factions to mutual cooperation. It is the trial of battle that weeds out the weak and feeble, while steeling the strong and worthy for the trials ahead. History had shown it is war that drove the rise of religions, bureaucracies and empires, and accelerate technological progress. War, more than any other factor in our existence, made us what we are today.
  
  War had been cursed as an evil beyond compare, for all the destruction and death it had caused in this day and age. And perhaps it is... but if so, then it is a NECESSARY evil. Had we not been capable of war, would we had been able to stand against the likes of the Maretians? Or the many other threats that we faced in the last few decades? We may had fought and died for causes both grand and petty, but without the growth it forced upon us, we would had been doomed regardless.
  
  War will always exist, for it is our nature to fight. It is folly to deny what is innate in us, especially since it helps us to survive and thrive. My predecessors realized this, and that is why they pursued war, whatever the reasons may be. If the 'heroes' today sought to end war, then it stands that the world needs 'villains' willing to start them.
• Near-Villain Victory: She cornered and nearly recaptured the Virtuous Seven during their fateful escape from the Overdom after their captivity there, but was stopped from doing so by the Paragons coming in force to rescue them, forcing her and her troops to withdraw rather than facing a battle she knows she can't win.
• Necessarily Evil: The third Black Baron acknowledges war is seen in her time as an evil thing and admits that it is most likely true... but considers it a necessary evil for the world and Ponykind to grow and become strong, and sees her pursuit of it as a villain warranted if there are heroes out there who seeks to end war.
• Never Be Hurt Again: One of her driving motives in finding her grandfather, apart from an answer and meaning to her shattered worldview and her loss, is to become as strong and skilled as he is so she, and the world, would never again suffer the tragedy as she had of losing her friends and family to a brutal war and being powerless to do anything about it. She got her wish.
• One-Man Army: She was this for both normal soldiers and even less-powerful superheroes following her Bio-Augmentation, a Super-Soldier even among Metabeings. To note, during the Fourth Great War she single-hoofedly incapacitated and/or captured entire teams of less capable or experienced superheroes, and in battle against normal troops she could decimate entire regiments without serious issues. It took the likes of supers on the level of the Paragons to legitimately give her trouble, and even in her first engagement against three big leagues superheroes (Battle Prince, Venera Mindseeker and Pony Patriot) she still managed to hold her own for nearly three hours, and it's implied she took on much of the G.I. Colts and the Pony Patriot Corps by herself and still manage to fight her way out even when defeated.
• Pacifism Backfire: Part of her Start of Darkness. Peaceful Mind was an early Hippie who was part of a pacifist commune and a member of Ponyland's Anti-War Movement. Then the Ackackian Maretians invaded in 1961 and she found herself hapless and almost powerless to either defend herself or save her friends and family. The trauma and self-loathing that came with it combined with seeing the Overdom faring all but shattered her peaceful worldview and led to her turning her back on pacifism.
• Powered Armor: She wore one as part of her Super Villain attire, which includes a Badass Cape made of smart materials which could harden and mould into a wings as part of the flight-systems.
• Ramming Always Works: During the 'Final Maretian-Tellusian War', when the Overdom sent an expeditionary force to Mares and made their contributions to the war effort (as well as more villainous agendas), Black Baron III and a portion of their forces were caught in an ambush by a Ackackian Maretian war robot force, during which Black Baron III's command vehicle was damaged, isolated from the rest of the Overdom's forces, and alone with an Ackackian Maretian general's command war robot. Her vehicle has no weapons left to fight back with, but a lot of mass and weight, so she ordered the pilot to immediately charge towards the robot and ram it. It works, scrapping her command tank but toppling the robot over, allowing BBIII to board it, eliminate the crew and kill the general.
• Signature Shot: In-universe, a shot taken of her climbing out of a giant Maretian war robot, holding the skull of the Ackackian Maretian general whom she slain inside by ripping out his spine, battered and covered in blood but roaring with triumph before the arriving Overdom and other Tellusian Pony forces became one of the most iconic scenes of the Maretian-Tellusian Wars and one of the most famous in Known History - a symbol of Tellusian Ponykind's incorrigible defiance against all that seek to conquer and destroy them.
• Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: Once a peace-loving teenager who was part of the anti-war movement, the inability of their struggle to stop wars between Ponykind worldwide and the traumatic loss of her loved ones in a Maretian invasion with her powerless to prevent them in anyway disillusioned her to the point she saw peace as folly and more dangerous than war, and in the process became everything she once hated by becoming her Super Villain grandfather's successor as the Black Baron. She believe Saint Sweetheart, who was like her as she was once, would eventually realize this as well, even arranging things to help her 'see the light', and is often left frustrated when Saint Sweetheart not only held onto her ideals, but also manages to foil her schemes to start war and defeat her on a few occasions.
• The Spartan Way: She was put through grueling physical and martial training regimens under her own grandfather's personal tuition to turn her from an underpowered hapless teenage mare into an adult elite soldier at peak physical condition who knows how to use every weapon and tactic under the Sun, strengthened and steeled both physically and mentally to become a lethal living weapon, soldier and commander under the Overdom's armed forces.
• Start of Darkness: Peaceful Mind was once a peaceloving mare who was traumatised by the loss of most of her friends and family in a Maretian invasion, and in her despair and rage turned her back on her pacifist beliefs and seeked her grandfather, the Super Villain Black Baron II out to become as powerful as he was so she and the world would never experience such a tragedy as she had, which her grandfather obliged.
• Straight Edge Evil: She adamantly insisted that despite being a Hippie in her youth, she never took drugs. And no records suggested that this was not the case afterwards, with no mention of her even using combat stims.
• Superior Successor: Invoked by her grandfather Black Baron II, who is implied to be a Badass Normal or Empowered Badass Normal as a supervillain under Overmare, but ultimately still mortal as anyone else. He as well as his superior Overmare wanted Peaceful Mind/Oversoldier to be better than he is in every way when she finally inherits his mantle, and to that end worked with her and Calculous to design and implement a series of biological and cybernetic Bio-Augmentation to turn her into a Super-Soldier powerful enough to take on top tier superheroes like Battle Prince and be an even greater military commander and soldier than he ever could in strength, speed, skill, sense and strategy. This made Black Baron III one of the most feared and capable supervillains of her time.
• Tank Goodness: Her personal command vehicle during the 'Final Maretian-Tellusian War' is a superheavy multi-turreted monster which could devastate entire companies of Maretian soldiers and war robots by itself even while she commands the wider battle. Rather appropriately, considering her past, she named it Vengeance.
• Tragic Villain: Beneath all her villainy, Black Baron III became who she is after having her pacifist beliefs ground to dust and becoming filled with self-loathing of her own perceived weakness, being Forced to Watch as a brutal Maretian invasion killed nearly all her friends and family and only surviving via violence and good fortune. All this convinced her peace was a naive folly, fit only for a better world which would never come to be, embracing her grandfather's beliefs and desire for war and being remade into a Super Villain herself in the process.
• Trauma Conga Line: The Anti-War movement she was part of ultimately changed nothing and had virtually no success. Then the Ackackian Maretians invaded and massacred the Hippie commune she was in, killing nearly all her friends with her unable to do anything to save them, and she had to kill a Maretian with her bare hooves and by turning his own Death Ray against him. Then she rushed home to make sure everypony's alright... only to find her father crippled, her mother reduced to a charred skeleton, and her siblings taken away by the Ackackian Maretians to an Uncertain Doom, again without her able to do anything about it. Then she saw to her horror the brief unity of Ponykind sundering and the nations of Tellus going back (if not doubling down) on their squabbling, warring ways as if nothing happened. And then she found out her father had lied to her and she was related to a warmongering Super Villain. No one can possibly fault her for being reduced to a grieving, traumatised and self-loathing shell of her former self who ultimately concluded her pacifism was folly and looked for her grandfather so she could cleanse herself of her 'weakness', become as strong as he was and ensure she would Never Be Hurt Again, in the process embracing his militant beliefs and become everything she once opposed.
• War for Fun and Profit: Not really fun per se, for she acknowledges that War Is Hell to some extent. Yet she sees conflict as a necessary evil that keeps Ponykind strong and sharp as well as convenient to her plans and the plans of the Overdom, and goes around starting or supporting them around the world, believing the world would benefit in the long run at an acceptable cost. Being a Blood Knight herself, however, she does not hesitate to fight in them when the chance provides itself.
• War Is Glorious: Or rather, it is necessary, as conflict is inevitable and is what drive Ponykind to survive and thrive in this harsh world, making them willing to cooperate against worse threats, create strong and unified societies, governments and institutions, encourage economic growth and scientific progress, weeding out the weak while steeling the strong for greater struggles. In her eyes, if heroes are always determine to stop conflicts, it is only prudent there would be villains willing to start them.
• We Help the Helpless: While willing to start wars and even fight in them, Black Baroness is noted to often support or side with the weaker side of the struggle, such as persecuted minorities, marginalized natives, weaker nations, etc.. This is partly out of a desire to fight a stronger opponent as well as build up popular support for the Overdom across the world, but it's speculated it may also be a hint of Peaceful Mind's own anti-establishment streak back when she was still a Hippie.
• We Will Meet Again: Black Baron III warns this to the Virtuous Seven after she was narrowly prevented from recapturing and returning the seven heroines to Overmare's custody by the arriving Paragons. Her words would prove prescient.
  Black Baron III: Don’t think this is the end of it. My instincts tell me we will meet again. This battle is yours… but your war – our war - is far from over.
• Worthy Opponent:
  • She respects the G.I. Colts for nearly taking her out during the 'Fourth Great War of 1984-86 in an elaborate ambush, which she barely escaped and decimated her Super Villain and military allies and subordinates.
  • In the same conflict, she considers a faction of Ponyland's La Résistance in New Port City to be this when their attacks manages to inconvenience even the Overdom as they did the Hooviet forces occupying the city - for comparison, the Overdom are such a league above the rest of Tellus' supervillainous factions and superpower nations usually the only ones who could do similarly against them with any measure of lasting success are usually superheroes and supersoldiers. For this reason, she unlike the Hooviet general occupying the city refuses to underestimate them and decides to dispatch elite Overdom special forces to help root them out.
• Would Not Shoot a Civilian: Like Overmare, Black Baroness had a code of honour as a Super Villain, and among these is a refusal to harm noncombatants directly and avoid collateral if she could. This stems from her pre-villain days being a noncombatant victim of war crimes perpetrated by invading Maretians and refusing to sink as low as they or let others suffer as she had. She would enforce this by personally execute her own soldiers or even soldiers from other militaries who would harm civilians in her presence.
• Villain Respect:
  • It seemed even Black Baroness respected Mr. Believe, pausing a battle with Battle Prince when she discovered they have crashed into the set of his "Mister Believe's Neighbourhood" rather than continue and putting them in harm's way, even apologizing for their intrusion before leaving.

Calculous, the Broken Cog

"Yes. I suppose I would feel sorry for what I have become, and for what I have done... if I can still feel as a Pony could. Like everything else, it had been taken from me. And perhaps that is for the best."

---

• Best Served Cold: Although cold and calculating by default, a large part of his villainous motivations had been due to being hurt so much by the hatred and ungratefulness of others. Needless to say, he was inclined to apply this trope against those who wronged his past-self, and he serves them so coldly, in fact, that it horrifies villains and heroes alike. This is a big reason why he is a Super Villain.
  • Calculous developed a very personal enmity for religions and religious beliefs, knowing that the homophobic provisions within the scriptures as well as social-cultural institutions and mindsets established by the Magnean Religions as directly responsible for the bigotry he experienced and the homophobic laws that directly led to his castration and crippling. When an opportunity presented itself, how did Calculous have his revenge? Why, in one instance, nothing short of LEVELING THE PAPAL BASILICA IN ROAM. Overmare points out this is a Fatal Flaw of his, as his inability to differentiate between the ones who destroyed his life and those who are genuinely good people following what King Equus actually wanted causes him to perform tactical blunders.
• Break Them by Talking:
  • He (perhaps unintentionally) did this on Bon Bon, the Faithful Designer of the Virtuous Seven during one of their encounters, when she confronted him on his destruction of the Papal Basilica of the Roamane Magnean Church and firmly insisted that her faith does not stand for the prejudices that led to his Crippling Castration and suffering. He counter-argued by quoting/citing nearly EVERY single passage in the Scriptures that very explicitly condemns sexual deviance of any kind and even implores followers to persecute those who are deviant, all but damning them to an eternity burning in hell no matter what. Then he pointed out that however Bon Bon interprets it, she is caught between the reality that her faith may be inherently prejudiced, that she may have to deviate from her faith to treat others kindly, or that owing to the inconsistency and contradictions, her entire religion may simply be incorrect or false. Bon Bon was left speechless and very shaken by his arguments, and it took some time and effort for her to come up with a solid counter-argument and have her faith restored.
• Captain Ersatz: HEAVILY implied from his mentioned backstory to be none other than Codexverse's version of ALAN TURING.
• Co-Dragons: He's a member of Overmare's inner circle, and thus one of her highest ranked, most dangerous subordinates.
• Cyborg: He was rebuilt as a cyborg by Overmare.
• Despair Event Horizon: According to BrutalityInc, he teeters perpetually on the verge of this. Calculous had became so broken by his experiences - between being castrated and crippled for his past self's sexual orientation and being reduced to a cold and calculating engine of logic even after Overmare rescued him and rebuilt him - that he no longer has a natural survival drive and had more or less lost the will to live. While he wished to repay Overmare for her rescue by helping her Take Over the World and also continue to pursue the advancement of science and technology on his own terms, even both goals are not compelling enough to motivate his continued existence. He was only able to keep going by holding onto an self-admitted Irrational Hatred beneath his emotionless facade, metasizing into an implacable obsession to avenge his suffering on EVERYPONY and EVERYTHING that had hurt him so much and destroyed him - from the Bitish Government/Nation to the bigoted socio-cultural institutions/beliefs - even if it would change nothing and do nothing but cause himself and everyone more suffering. Yet if he doesn't do it, in all likelihood he'll simply shut down and die. This, more than anything else, is why he remains a Super Villain despite perfectly aware of how wrong his actions are or just how futile his vindictive desires are.
• Despair Gambit: Caluclous is a (literally) tortured soul who had already been subjected to this, and due to his present cold, calculating intelligence is capable of inflicting this upon his opponents as part of his and his allies/superior's plans through carefully-calculated conversations and deeds.
  • In an infamous incident, he was assisting another super-villain, Golden Age, and her agents and allies into breaking into the vaults of the Holy See in Roam, but the super-hero groups and military forces of Bitaly are pressing hard into them and risks defeating them before they could accomplish their scheme and escape. In order to buy Golden Age's forces time, Calculous eventually concluded the most tactically prudent course of action is to perform a devastating psychological warfare ploy to demoralize their foes. As it happens, they are at the heart of the Roamane Magnean Church, with the eyes of the whole nation and the world watching the whole clash unfold. He also has a very personal grudge against the socio-cultural institutions/beliefs that led to the castration and crippling of his former self due to his sexual orientation. As a result, Calculous did not hesitate to order his robots to level the entire Papal Basilica, all while the whole world watched in utter shock and horror. It worked so well in fact that Bon Bon, who confronted him over this, mentioned he not only traumatized her grandmother, he broke the faith of a quarter of Bitaly and a tenth of the entire Roamane Magnean Church worldwide in a single stroke. This instantly made Calculous one of the most notorious supervillains on Tellus. It's noted this actually blew up in his face, as once the shock wore off and they bounced back, it just made them more motivated too take him and by extension his allies down.
• The Dreaded: On top of being a highly intelligent and capable supervillain in his own right and working for Overmare, the world's greatest supervillain, Calculous' reputation as one of the most feared Ponies on Tellus was cemented by a number of high-profile actions, notably including the destruction of the Papal Basilica in Roam, which was part-Despair Gambit inflicted upon superheroes and military foes on another Super Villain ally's behalf and part-revenge against the socio-cultural institutions and beliefs that persecuted and ultimately destroyed his past-self because of his sexual orientation.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good:
  • It's implied that he can't comprehend the idea of simply letting go of how someone wronged him and moving on (It's implied though if he do let go, he would simply shut down and die, having nothing left to keep his broken self going without his Irrational Hatred). Bon Bon doing so to him is one of the few times he's actually been apparently rattled by something.
  • While his destruction of the Papal Basilica won him a short term victory, as Overmare pointed out, it was a long term blunder on his part. As Calculous can't differentiate between the false believers who destroyed his life and genuine believers who are truly devoted to the King in Heaven, he couldn't understand that those true believers would bounce back more motivated than ever once the shock wore off. This blew up in his face in the long run.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: His Breaking Lecture to Bon Bon would ultimately backfire on him when, during a later plan, she'd not only rebuke him in a way that actually shook him, but accept her Werefox form and use it to defeat him, foiling his then current plan.
• Irrational Hatred: Openly admits his hatred for the Bitish Isles, for certain prejudiced social-cultural institutions and the world in general over what had been done to him is completely irrational, but held onto it because he had nothing else left to keep him going. This especially applies to his grudge on the Royal Family, who openly despise what their government did to him and Queen Starburst pushed for legal amendments to be passed that would ensure it would never happen to anyone else. He knows they don't deserve it, but as the heads of states and representatives of the country and the government he had turned against he simply can't help but going after them as well. This inspires Bon Bon to forgive him for what he's done so as to not let him have any power over her, which might had actually rattled him.
• It's Personal: Implied with his backstory, as his country, Bitain/Isle of Pony, screwed him over massively despite his contributions to their war effort (which is never acknowledged). And all of it for what? Nothing more than his sexual orientation.
• Master Computer: Calculous' theme, among others, is incredibly advanced computers, with which he contributed to his patron/master Overmare's plans for world domination. He also created and programmed a lot of robots to help him commit his villainy.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Helped his country win the 'Second Great War' but never got his work acknowledged for it, and in fact was persecuted for his sexual orientation. Leads to him to eventually turn on his country (and the world) to work for Overmare, who rescued him from his fate, rebuild him and gave him the credit he deserves. Deconstructed, as the people he's now seeking revenge on had nothing to do with it and will change nothing, something he's called out on and also acknowledged himself.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: His Breaking Lecture to Bon Bon ultimately backfires, as not only does she recover and shake him right back, it causes her to get over her fears her friends will judge her for being a Werefox, and thus be willing to use it in her superhero work as a Super Mode, including against him and his mistress. Her first act upon her doing so was to send him flying through several walls.
• Religion Is Wrong: Held this view with the knowledge that the bigotry and persecution he suffered horribly under because of his sexual orientation is religious in origin, specifically coming from the provisions of the Magnean Faith. Best exemplified by what he did in Roam and apparently to Maredinia, the former where he destroyed the Papal Basilica in a cold Despair Gambit to demoralize the country and heroic forces fighting against villains he's allied with, which shocked and horrified many, and while the latter, a holy site to another Magnean Religion, was apparently devastated in an event which his involvement is rumoured. Overmare points out that this is a Fatal Flaw of his, as he's unable to differentiate between those who destroyed his life and the genuine faithful who would be horrified, and thus makes tactical blunders because he can't understand how the latter would react to his actions.
  • At one point, when confronted by Bon Bon, the Faithful Designer - who is a deeply religious Magnean of the Roamane Magnean Church - over his infamous destruction of the Papal Basilica in Roam, arguing that he can't blame her faith for what happened to him, he directly quoted the relevant passages from the Old/New Scriptures of the Magnean faith which explicitly stated their followers should despise and condemn those who are sexually deviant, and point out that however she interpret them, she would be caught between accepting that her religion hates his existence (thus inherently prejudiced), that being a better person requires her to deviate from scripture (and thus she is not being faithful), or entertain the possibility that her entire religion is false or wrong on account of its inherent contradictions and inconsistencies. Bon Bon was left speechless and shaken by this, needing some time to find a solid counterargument and regain her faith. Bon Bon's counterargument actually may have rattled him, however.
• Revenge Before Reason: Calculous is very intelligent, but his overwhelming need for revenge on those who destroyed his life eclipses even Overmare's. As such, no matter how good he is at planning and calculations, he's ultimately got a huge blindspot that serves as his Fatal Flaw.
• The Spock: Apparently served as this for the Overmare and to an extent the Overdom, a cold and calculating engine of logic like the computers he used to develop and advising/overseeing the operations of the Overdom as well as its various technological/scientific developments.
• Tragic Villain: Calculous was originally a Bitish scientific/technological genius whose pioneering work on computers during the 'Second Great War' helped win it, but his contributions were never acknowledged due to wartime secrecy, and he was even subjected to persecution when his sexual orientation was revealed, eventually leading to him being castrated. Calculous would had committed suicide or die from further bigotry-induced persecution were not for him being kidnapped/rescued and repaired by Overmare. Suffice to say, he was very grateful to Overmare and very resentful of the world over what had been done to him.
• Undying Loyalty: To Overmare, because she rescued him from suicide/death by persecution for his sexuality and acknowledges his genius and contributions to computer science, leading to him serving loyally her cause of world domination (Also partly to get back at it).
• Was Once a Man: From the sound of his quote much of his Equinity was stripped away, between his horrible mistreatment and subsequently being repaired/rebuilt by Overmare.
• We Can Rebuild Him: Was subjected to this after he was kidnapped/rescued by Overmare's forces as his mistreatment left him castrated and crippled.

Femme Fatale

The Headmistress

Character: Villainous

Alignment: Lawful Evil

Type: Evil Teacher, Sadist Teacher, Psyker, Psychic Parasite, Embodiment of Fear

Faction: Overdom of Coltatia, Black Ghost, The Sinful Seven (Founder), Miscellaneous other factions

"Looks like you brats need a little discipline."

The Headmistress (her entry here) is an enigmatic yet efficient and terrifyingly brutal individual who was one of the Overmare's highly valued minions.

---

• Arch-Enemy: Of Starlight, the Diligent Teacher and serve as her Foil, the terrifying Sadist Teacher to Starlight's approachable nurturing teacher.
• Abstract Eater: Being an evil psychic manifestation of Mrs Hackney's fears, she herself feeds on the fear of her students and her host. It also serve as her biggest weakness, as the moment they stop fearing her, she won't be able to sustain her existence.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Capable of inflicting this on her 'students' and foes via Psychic Powers-based brainwashing and hypnotic messaging, and attempted to do this on the Tales/Virtuous Seven on multiple occasions.
• Consummate Professional: While very much enjoys her sadistic treatment of her students, she puts 'work' before 'pleasure' and prioritizes on training and turning her students and recruits into obedient and useful minions and super-villains.
• Demonic Possession: Being what she is, she did this to Mrs. Hackney whenever she is asleep for over twenty years, possessing her body and using Mrs Hackney's own Psychic Powers to commit her supervillainy, with her being completely unawares and thinking all that was just her nightmares/night-terrors.
• The Dreaded: Due to her success rate, personality, and powers, she was nigh universally feared, especially by her students. To note, even other supervillains were scared of her, including Kabuto. This is Invoked as she needs fear to survive.
• Enemy Within: She's this to Mrs. Hackney, being an evil psychic entity created from her nightmares in a clinical trial Gone Horrible Wrong.
• Emotion Eater: As a literal living nightmare, she feeds off fear to grow stronger and sustain her existence. This does her in when the Virtuous Seven realize it and stop fearing her, causing Mrs. Hackney to realize it and let go of the fear that birthed her, destroying her.
• Evil Mentor: Recruited by Overmare to serve as such to her soldiers.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: She went from a figment of a normal school teacher's imagination to an incredibly feared and dangerous supervillain valued by the greatest supervillain of the Age.
• Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: No-pony knew where the heck she came from. Twenty years prior to the Tales/Virtuous Seven becoming heroes, she just appeared one day to offer her services to Overmare and various other villainous and super-villainous factions, proving to be one of the best in the field. This has everything to do with her true origins as an evil psychic manifestation of Mrs Hackney's nightmares, which began at around the same time period when a botched medical treatment unintentionally awakened Mrs Hackney's Psychic Powers.
• Gone Horribly Wrong: She was born from a clinical trial Mrs. Hackney took to try and cure a chronic illness. While it worked, it also awakened her powers as a psyker, which funneled into a nightmare she had and granted it life.
• Hyde Plays Jekyll: Lets Starlight believe that she's Mrs. Hackney to try and get to her once her identity is discovered. Unfortunately for her, Hackney emerges at that moment for real.
• It's Personal: Both her and Starlight's mutual enmity became very personal in more ways than one, between Starlight helping to neutralize one of the Headmistress' 'schools' and Starlight finding her a reprehensible being. The Reveal of her true nature makes it even more so.
• Jekyll & Hyde: The Hyde to Mrs. Hackney's Jekyll.
• Killed Off for Real: She was destroyed by Hackney at the end of their Battle At The Center Of The Mind.
• Legion of Doom: Founded her own super-villain faction in the form of the 'Sinful Seven', composed of the Virtuous/Tales Sevens' various supervillain foes such as War Rock, Fairest Monarch and others as part of her attempts to avenge herself on her Arch-Enemy Starlight.
• One-Winged Angel: She transforms herself into a giant, nightmarish parody of Mrs. Hackney when the Virtuous Seven confront her in a Battle At The Center Of The Mind.
• Pragmatic Villainy: While a sadistic, monstrous entity, she prided herself in her work and put work before 'fun'.
• Psychic Powers: The Headmistress is a Psion/Psychic/Psyker and possesses powers ranging from telekinesis and telepathy to emotion manipulation, mind domination and astral projections, all of which came useful in her job and super-villainy. This has everything to do with her true nature as an evil psychic manifestation of Mrs Hackney's subconscious fears. A canonized drabble reveals that because of this, various benevolent factions/individuals like Dr. Silversmith, Mothryu's Faeries, and a disguised Golden Scepter had to send expertly-trained psychics to help both Mrs. Hackney and the Virtuous/Tales Seven resist the Headmistress' malicious psychic influence.
• Psycho Serum: What created her in the first place: Mrs. Hackney was given an experimental medicine in a clinical trial to cure a chronic illness...which also awakened her Psychic Powers, but due to the medicine being made from Witch Weed, it had some nasty side effects. In this case, her powers channeled into her nightmares and brought them to life. Apparently, while this effect was unique to her, the a derivative of the medicine was commonly used as a power booster by psychic supervillains, but had nasty side-effects.
• Sadist Teacher: Her entire shtick as a super-villain, serving as an instructor and disciplinarian for various villainous clients to mold young recruits into potential loyal and effective supervillains and henchponies, using both Psychic Powers and sadistic methods to terrify them into obedience and effectiveness. This makes her a perfect foil to Starlight, the Diligent Teacher and one of the reasons why they became each others' respective Arch-Enemy.
• Split-Personality Takeover: Hackney's repeated bouts of illness and weakness were actually the Headmistress slowly making her weaker so she'd sleep more often and give the entity more control. The Headmistress would likely have eventually had completely overtaken her if she hadn't been stopped and destroyed.
• The Stoic: Being a Consummate Professional she is, she often maintains a composed and authoritative demeanor even at her most sadistic. she loses that composure when she realizes that Mrs Hackney and the Tales/Virtuous Seven is no longer afraid of her, panicking and raging at the realization that without that fear to feed on she's doomed.
• Tomato in the Mirror: The Headmistress doesn't actually exist conventionally speaking, but is in fact a malevolent and sadistic psychic Enemy Within of the benevolent and nurturing Mrs Hackney, the teacher of the Tales/Virtuous Seven and Starlight's own mentor. She/it was spawned from Mrs Hackney's own awakening Psychic Powers, a botched Metamagnetically-derived medical treatment and her subconscious fears of her students being taken away by supervillains to be converted into new supervillains or minions. This became the key into defeating her as her very existence was dependent on Mrs Hackney holding onto that fear, and when she stopped being afraid of it...
• Villainous Virtues: Diligence and loyalty. For all her monstrous actions and traits, she will follow through her client's wishes to the letter without fail. This was how she got in Overmare's good graces, as dependable followers who faithfully follow your orders and won't betray you are hard to come by.

Red Typhoon, the Atomic Destroyer

Character: Villainous

Alignment: Lawful Evil

Type: Pegasus, Supersoldier, Renegade Hooviet, Generalissimo

Faction: Hooviet Union (former), Overdom (former), Herself

"My destiny is one that was burned into me, body and soul, and I will see it through!"

Red Typhoon, the Atomic Destroyer (Her entry here) was a supervillain from the Hooviet Union with a fiery temperament and beliefs. Originally a normal Pegasus named Scarlet Cloud, her zeal in the Communist ideals of her motherland led her to become a capable if ruthless soldier during the Second Great War, and led to her volunteering to be enhanced with a super-serum which turn her into a Super-Soldier with atomic powers as a counter to Pony Patriot of Ponyland and other superheroes of their superpower rivals. Unfortunately, her overzealous passion eventually became a liability which threatens to start global conflicts, and she was sealed away by her own country. Feeling betrayed and adrift without purpose, Red Typhoon would serve Overmare as a subordinate after being freed from stasis, before going out on her own as a Super Villain. Determined to fulfill the destiny which she believes she was given, the Atomic Destroyer would do whatever it takes to fulfill it for herself if not for her country, no matter how much of the world burns down in the process.

---

• An Arm and a Leg: Red Typhoon lost one of her front legs during her time working with Overmare, rescueing her from a daring raid by a superhero team on her flying carrier during one of the Overdom's global conquest campaigns. Overmare personally crafted her a cybernetic super-proesthetic powered by Red Typhoon's own atomic energies as thanks.
• Arch-Enemy: Sees one in Pony Patriot, which initially landed on her sidekick and successor Ponylander during the time Pony Patriot was frozen. This stem from both being on opposing side of the Twilight Struggle between the superpowers of Tellus, but also a much more personal slight over the perceived embarrassment/humiliation of being rescued by Pony Patriot from a Reichist POW Camp during the Second Great War.
• Artificial Limbs: She was given one to replace one leg she lost saving Overmare, courtesy of the Hegemonic Mastermind herself as thanks. It is powered by her own body's atomic energies and such is its design it is just as powerful and functional as her old enhanced biological one at minimum.
• Atomic Superpower: In addition to the standard enhanced physical attributes, the 'Atomic Fire' Super Serum combined with her Pegasus biology also allows her to generate burning winds from flapping her wings and unleash radioactive flames with her breath.
• Because Destiny Says So: Red Typhoon fervently believed her powers and her destiny that comes with it lies with using the former to bring about World Revolution for Communism. Even after her own superiors turned on her, she still believed it is her destiny to take over the world, even if it's only for herself.
• Determinator: Deconstructed. She will see her destiny through, even if she has to burn much of Tellus to ashes to do so. Her determination eventually made her too dangerous for her superiors as her zeal threatened to start global conflicts and cause great amounts of unnecessary destruction, which later nearly crystallized when she went about her own plans to Take Over the World as an independent Super Villain.
• Dirty Communist: While the Communists in the Codexverse is implied to be much less evil and more functional than in RL, as a Super Villain of Hooviet origins she is naturally this trope. It is uncertain how much of it she still believes in after she was betrayed and subsequently go out on her own.
• Doomsday Device: Her first notable attempt at world domination involves the 'Kaos System', a dismantled nuclear superweapon prototype built by the Hooviet Union early in the Twilight Struggle to catch up with the Federal Republic of Ponyland and other superpowers of Tellus in the nuclear arms race, capable of bombarding entire regions with radioactive flames and reduce them to irradiated desert wastelands. Reassembling it as a satellite weapon with blueprints and critical parts her minions recovered in raids as well as technical expertise she acquired from her time in the Overdom and exchanging/looting Black Ghost organization, she would threaten to bombard the planet with it if they do not submit to her.
• Et Tu, Brute?: Having devoted herself to Communism and the Hooviet Union all her life, she was naturally left angry, bitter and confused over the perceived betrayal by the very causes she fought for (though they have some good justifications for it). She turned her devotion towards Overmare and later her own destiny as a result.
• Expy: Being an enemy of Pony Patriot and Ponylander, she is an Expy for many Dirty Communists supervillains in the rogues gallery of Captain America. Her appearance and initial world-domination plan as an independent Super Villain strongly resembles that of military-oriented 'evil genius' Red Ivan from Evil Genius 2
• The Fundamentalist: Red Typhoon was a volatile fanatic. She was initially loyal to Communism and the Hooviet Union - TOO loyal, in fact, such that her zealotry eventually threaten to do more harm than good and forced her superiors to turn on and put her on ice. Afterwards, her zealotry turned to that of her own supposed destiny, which she is determined to fulfill for herself if not for her motherland.
• Gone Horribly Right: She was everything the Hooviets desired in their Super-Soldier: a passionate soldier who truly believes in Communism and will fight to the death to protect and uphold it. Unfortunately, Red Typhoon turned out to be TOO zealous, with an steadfast belief that it is her destiny to bring about World Revolution, and with her superpowers and charisma proved increasingly too powerful and influential to control. This eventually forced the Hooviets to knock her out and put her on ice before she starts a world-destroying global conflict in her zeal.
• It's Personal: Scarlet Cloud resents the fact that she and her comrades were rescued by a capitalist superhero, Pony Patriot of Ponyland from a Reichist POW Camp during the Second Great War, which she considers a monumental embarrassment and humiliation due to her zealous dedication to Communism and the Hooviet Union. She would carry this enmity with her into her transformation into Red Typhoon and became an enemy of both Ponylander, Pony Patriot's sidekick-turn-successor, and later Pony Patriot herself after the Ponyland superheroine was unfrozen.
• Mood-Swinger: While she is already passionate and zealous beforehoof, the neurological effects of the 'Atomic Fire' Super Serum made her emotions even more volatile and unstable.
• Radiation-Induced Superpowers: The Super Serum which grants her her powers, 'Atomic Fire', contained transatomic isotopes as part of its composition and the enhancement process also involves its transformative effects being catalysed by radiation exposure. Naturally, this made it EXTREMELY dangerous, and several volunteers died horribly before they were able to perfect it and Scarlet Cloud was able to master the powers transforming her to become the Red Typhoon.
• Soviet Superscience: Her enhancement into a Super-Soldier is the product of Soviet Superscience in the form of a nuclear-catalyzed Super Serum.
• Super Serum: Codenamed 'Atomic Fire', the super-serum which enhanced Red Typhoon was created as an answer to Ponyland's own Pony Patriot supersoldier programme which could create Pony Patriot and her fellow Super-Soldier successors and comrades. Due to a mix-up with their intelligence regarding the Manehattan Project, they included a significant amount of radiation and nuclear components in composing and catalysing the enhancement process, which killed quite a few volunteers and candidates before Scarlet Cloud survived and emerged transfigured.
• Super-Soldier: Her powers are given to her as a result of a Hooviet military project to create one to rival Pony Patriot and later her successor Ponylander with greatly enhanced might, speed, durability and regeneration.
• Surrounded by Idiots: Much to Red Typhoon's frustration, the Mooks she hires after leaving the Overdom to go independent proved far less consistent in terms of competence than the ones she was used to in the Overdom, a problem some of her Evil Genius and Super Villain rivals also faced.
• That Mare Is Dead: As far as she and the Hooviet Union is concerned, after her enhancement Scarlet Cloud is no more: From then on, her Super-Soldier codename of 'Red Typhoon' is her only identity.
• The Strategist: She is a capable strategist in her own right as she is a capable soldier and Super-Soldier, being able to mastermind the takeover of an entire country and later coordinate the raiding and reassembling of a nuclear-powered superweapon with which she intended to use to Take Over the World.
• Stuff Blowing Up: In addition to her powers, even before her enhancement Scarlet Cloud/Red Typhoon had a preference for explosive weaponry, frequently use rocket launchers and grenades with precision and abandon.
• Take Over the World: Red Typhoon believed her destiny to be this, whether to facilitate it on behalf of the causes she believed in, or for herself. As a loyal Communist, she started out believing her 'destiny' is to help bring about 'World Revolution' that would bring about a global communist state and doing many things great and terrible as a heroine of the Hooviet Union and the Comintern. After she was betrayed by her own causes, she aided Overmare (who rescued her from her cryogenic stasis) in her campaigns of global conquest, then decided she would take over the world for herself, if not for her country. She would attempt to do so the first time via the Kaos System.
• Tyrant Takes the Helm: She briefly took over an island country with an army of mercenaries for her own ambitions upon going independent as a Super Villain. Unfortunately for her, Hooviet/Comintern superheroes would infiltrate her new nation and sparked a revolution which overthrew her. This left her quite apoplectic and resulted in her taking an even more forceful approach to her next plan, which would be global in scale.
• Uncertain Doom: Records are sketchy as to exactly what happened to her after her attempt to Take Over the World with the 'Kaos System' failed, and many hope that she is long-dead like most other figures from the Second Age. That being said, supervillains like Endsieg had managed to return from the dead under one circumstance or another in recent times, meaning it is not impossible she might suddenly return one day.
• Undying Loyalty: She absolutely and sincerely believed in Communism and was unquestionably loyal to the Hooviet Union, only turning on them after they betrayed her first (though it was necessary since she turned out to be TOO zealous for their own good). After this, her loyalty switched to her rescuer Overmare, serving her for a time and even saving her life, before settling for herself and her supposed destiny. Her passion also makes her quite charismatic, invoking this from her comrades in the Hooviet Union and later her minions.
• The Unfettered: She will fulfill her destiny by Taking Over The World, even if she had to burn down much of it with radioactive flames in the process.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Far from grateful, she greatly resents she and her comrades being rescued by Pony Patriot of Ponyland from a Reichist POW Camp during the Second Great War, considering it a massive embarrassment and humiliation that she would be rescued by a capitalist superhero due her fervent dedication to the Hooviet Union and Communism.
• Villain with Good Publicity: She was a national heroine in the Hooviet Union and the rest of the Communist International, which became problematic when her zealotry starts doing more harm than good for the causes she believes in as she was hugely popular, especially among the troops. This led to her superiors covering up her misdeeds when they turned on and put her on ice.
• Walking Wasteland: Downplayed, but her powers rendered her a radioactive hazard to many in her presence whenever her powers are in use.

Blue Violet/Sprayor

Character: Villainous

Alignment: Lawful Evil/Neutral

Type: Mutant, Enforcer, Meta Pony, Punch Clock Villain

Faction: Overdom of Coltalia, Overmare's Inner Circle

Blue Violet (profile here) is an average Coltalian citizen who would become the supervillain Sprayor and one of Overmare's inner circle.

---

• Anti-Villain: He possesses no real actual malice or sadism. He does his villainy purely out of loyalty to Overmare, goes out of his way to not cause more damage than he needs to, and would likely turn good if his mistress ever did.
• Beware the Silly Ones: His powers are to spray horrible smells. Despite this, he's one of Overmare's most competent and loyal minions.
• Curbstomp Battle: As with the other members of Overmare's inner circle, he's capable of dishing these out:
  • Laughing Long attempted to stop him from carrying out a mission. He effectively two shot her with his spray, the first leaving her coughing and gagging on the ground, the second knocking her out.
• Expy: Of Stinkor, specifically the 2002 version.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: His ability is to spray horrible smells. Despite this, he's extremely competent and effective with it to the point of being a member of Overmare's inner circle.
• Only Sane Man: Of the Inner Circle, he's the only one without a tragic backstory or some kind of psychosis. He's a sane, rational person who serves Overmare out of genuine loyalty. This works to his advantage and is one reason that Overmare likes him as much as she does: he doesn't have anything to distract him and pursues his goals in a pragmatic, competent fashion, no more, no less.
• Pet the Dog: On the receiving end from his idol and her subordinates after proving his worth despite his initial deficiencies and later his unusual powers.
  • Blue Violet tried repeatedly to apply to the Overdom's military without success due to his lack of talent, but kept trying anyways, eventually catching the attention of Black Baron III, who gave him a personal job interview. Seeing his dedication, she agree to give him a place in the Overdom's armed forces if he could hit her even once in a spar. He actually failed, but his absolute refusal to give up and ability to conceive clever unorthodox tactics to try and succeed in his goal impressed Black Baron III to give him a chance anyway, allowing him to serve as a member of the palace guards.
  • Overmare herself, whom he idolized, come to appreciate him after he became a proper Super Villain, seeing that his Undying Loyalty is sincere and valuing both his dedication and reliability, to the point of developing a Villainous Friendship and adding him into her inner circle. Notably, when Sprayor saved her life from an attack by her renegade creation/daughter Overmonarch at a terrible cost to himself, she saved him back, and upon realizing he is crippled beyond repair she ensured he would retire comfortably and remain on good terms with him for the rest of his life. For some-pony as egotistical and with such high standards as Overmare, that is again a lot of respect.
  Overmare: Yes, I am aware of the difficulties involved. But even so, Overmare expects accommodations to be made to ensure he could attend the festivities.
  Event Planner: But pardon Your Supreme Authority, would it not be more expedient to - ?
  Overmare: He. Attends. Sprayor has more than earned it, and Overmare does not forget those who serve her well - just as she does not easily forget those who question her judgement!
  Event Planner: [Cowed] Y-yes, your Supreme Authority!
• Pragmatic Villainy:
  • One reason Overmare likes him so much: he doesn't let himself get distracted from his missions by sadism, grudges, or overreaching. This also leads to him generally causing less collateral damage than most of her minions, as such things do not further his missions.
  • He doesn't tend to go beyond what his mission is actually asking for...because he knows what happens when supervillains overreach and try to overcomplicate their goals with things that are outside of their scope.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Unlike the rest of the Inner Circle, Sprayor has no villainous goals of his own, he simply desires to be Overmare's loyal follower. As a result, when not on his ordered by Overmare, he's merely living his life and living well due to Overmare rewarding his services. One incident saw Metamare crash into his yard during a fight with an unrelated supervillain, he was entirely polite and simply offered her perfume.
• Undying Loyalty: He's devoted to Overmare and exceptionally loyal, something she values along with his competence. It's noted unlike many, this loyalty is to Overmare specifically, not her philosophy or morality. Thus is theorized if she ever changed her ways, he'd follow her without question. Notably, he's so loyal, he reached out from the afterlife when she returned in the Fifth Age so she could make him her Angel and he could continue to serve her.
• Villainous Friendship: His genuine Undying Loyalty to her specifically lead to him being one of the very few people Overmare considers a friend.

Major Ionos

First mentioned in a Drabble, Major Ionos is a member of Overmare's inner circle who was fairly powerful and capable, but is of questionable loyalty. He had the notable distinction of being one of the VERY few people who managed to get one over Overmare by pulling a coup which briefly knocked her out of power.

---

• Applied Phlebotinum: The source of his powers was a 'cosmic jewel' Overmare discovered which energized his cybernetic parts. While it grant him enough strength and toughness to go hoof-to-hoof with big-league superheroes like those in the Paragons and the Protectors, it is also a weakness in that it requires a recharge every 24 hours with machines which only Overmare has access to.
• Arm Cannon: One of his cybernetic gauntlets is armed with an 'Ion Cannon'.
• The Coup: Notable for being one of the few to pull one on Overmare herself and actually succeed. At least for a while.
• Expy: He is based on one of the more competent versions of Starscream from the Transformers franchise.
• Flight: Can fly at hypersonic speeds as a result of his cybernetics.
• Heel–Face Turn: His romantic feelings for Ari Cane Arts/Blue Enchantress, combined with others finding the means to recharge his cosmic jewel power source without having to rely on Overmare and the Overdom, eventually compelled Ionos to fully defect to the heroic side.
• Flying Brick: He could fly at hypersonic speeds and is strong and tough enough to tango with the likes of the Paragons and the Protectors.
• Intangibility: It is mentioned he could turn intangible.
• Love Redeems: Ionos was compelled to rebel against Overmare for several reasons, the most important of which was budding romantic feelings for Ari Cane Arts/Blue Enchantress of the Protectors (who was once an adopted daughter of Overmare herself) which eventually blossomed and caused him to pull a full Heel–Face Turn.
• The Resenter: Grew to resent Overmare, to the point he eventually attempted to overthrow her.
• Restraining Bolt: Overmare included several of these in Ionos' cybernetics in case he betrayed her. Subverted in that Ionos predicted she would and made sure to systematically disable them before launching his coup.
• Super-Soldier: Is described as one, with his cybernetics energized by a 'Cosmic Jewel' which Overmare discovered and grants him all his powers.
• Super-Strength: He is strong enough to stand his ground against the likes of the Paragons and the Protectors, who have members such as Metamare, Battle Prince, and the Monstrosity that also have this as their superpowers.
• The Starscream: He's one of the few to ever plot behind Overmare's back to overthrow her...and succeeded. While she regained her throne, she decided to keep him on her payroll precisely because he's one of the few competent enough to force her to remain on her hooftips so as to not be betrayed and get overthrown again.
• Villain Holds the Leash: While powerful, his cosmic jewel power source needs recharging every 24 hours, and only Overmare has the machines capable of doing so. This may had bred resentment in Ionos which contributed to him trying to overthrow her, and when others outside of the Overdom managed to create an alternative charging source for him, he defected and pull a Heel–Face Turn. It turns out that Overmare installed multiple contingency failsafes and Restraining Bolts in his body...which Ionos made a point to disable under her nose before launching his coup.
• Villain Respect: While furious at being overthrown, Overmare was nevertheless so impressed that Major Ionos actually managed to pull one off successfully against her she decided to spare him.

Galileonidus, the World's Greatest Animal Supervillain

Introduced in this drabble, Galileonidus is Overmare's super intelligent pet magpie who also happens to be a supervillain in her own right.

---

• Arch-Enemy: Has one in Mono/Metadog, the superpowered canine friend of Metamare.
• Evil Overlord: Emulating her master, Galileonidus is the ruler of her own country. In her case an animal sanctuary in Coltalia where she rules over a population of intelligent birds who assists her and her master in her plans.
• Expy: One of her many inspiration is likely Vulture Von Doom, a pet vulture of Doctor Doom which happened to be superintelligent to the point of emulating his owner in becoming a Super Villain.
• Happily Married: Eventually to Noxium, Sprayor's pet Hoatzin, both having genuinely fallen in love with each other. Galileonidus literally took over the Ponyland capitol building for the occasion and had her Arch-Enemy Metadog kidnapped to be part of the audience and witnesses.
• Humongous Mecha: Humongous by HER scale, but she uses a giant mech-scale armed to the teeth to fight normal Pony-sized enemies.
• Intellectual Animal: Galileonidus is superintelligent enough that she's implied to be sapient and could go off on her own Super Villain plans, such as attempting to take over Ponyland.
• Meaningful Name: Galileonidus is a combination of two names: Galileo, the Italian polymath who was attributed as the father of observational astronomy, modern physics, the scientific method, and modern science but was persecuted by the Church for going against their doctrines; and Leonidus, a renowned Spartan king who held back the Persian Empire with 300 Spartans and other allies at the Battle of Thermopylae.
• Super-Intelligence: Despite looking like a humble magpie, Galileonadus is smart enough that it's implied to be sapient and could carry out her own Super Villain schemes.
• Take Over the World: Tried to take over Ponyland herself in her introductory Drabble and aid her master at world domination.

Other Followers

Noxium

The avian companion of Sprayor given to him as a reward for his service, Noxium is a Hoatzin genetically modified to be able to stand Sprayor's foul stench and have intelligence and sapience equaling Ponies.

---

• Happily Married: Eventually to Galileonidus, Overmare's pet magpie, both having genuinely fallen in love with each other. Galileonidus literally took over the Ponyland capitol building for the occasion and had her Arch-Enemy Metadog kidnapped to be part of the audience and witnesses.
• Undying Loyalty: To Sprayor, being made to be and given to Sprayor as his friend by Overmare as a reward for his service.

---