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First-Age Villains
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Floral Mantises
In General
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Like the Flo'rezz, they possess one, albeit a more understandable moral framework thanks to being much more comprehensible than the Flo'rezz Infestations' strange plant hive-minds.
- Death World: It's implied that they came from the same biome as the Flo'rezz, which may explain how they came to their mentality and worldview.
- Guilt-Free Extermination War: Like the Flo'rezz, the Paradise Empire and its allies had to wage war against them after the destruction of the Flo'rezz Infestation as they intended to do the same to them. The Floral Mantids fought to the bitter end alongside their Queen Paeonia, neither giving quarter nor accepting any, resulting in this trope.
- Had to Be Sharp: It is implied Paeonia and her Floral Mantises were from the same biome as the Flo'rezz, which in the Codexverse are a Botanical Abomination plant species which nearly infest and overran a tenth of Equus' landmasses. It is believed based on their Life Drinker characteristics that they were originally meant to serve an ecological balance against the Flo'rezz, keeping them contained, which is supported by the fact that the Floral Mantises dropped their hostility with the Paradise Empire and everyone else to fight against the Flo'rezz when they expanded too far and threatened the existence of all life on Equus. Given the horrors they had to deal with at home, it comes to no surprise that they developed their merciless and darwinistic mentalities.
- Life Drinker: Like their queen, the Floral Mantises are a race of 'Energy Vampires' which drains all nutrients and mana from the lands they settle down in. This and hints that they came from the same biomes as the Flo'rezz suggests they serve as a form of ecological check containing their growth and spread.
- Not Quite Dead: While the Floral Mantises were exterminated down to the Queen, it is believed that one clutch of eggs were saved and preserved by Megann, the Rainbow Empress in her mercy. If that's the case, their whereabouts are currently unknown.
- The Social Darwinist: Their entire race's culture is implied to have similar views with their Queen Paeonia, due to where they came from and what they often have to deal with. This combined with their natural characteristics unfortunately made coexistence near-impossible and led to a Guilt-Free Extermination War that ended with their destruction.
- Walking Wasteland: As a result of their status as 'Energy Vampires', any land the Floral Mantises conquer and dominate would be gradually reduced to desolate, lifeless wastelands with all which could sustain life drained by their very presence to sustain their population.
- Villainous Legacy: The Floral Mantids are descended from one of the many predatory/vampiric races provolved/uplifted by Traasena, the Queen Predator — a member of the Adversai and a Titan/Antecendent Equine deity of Predation, Vampirism, Assimilation, Evolution and Supremacy — and by her own admission
one of her greatest recent success, impressed by their devotion to their creed and their Defiant to the End Last Stand against the Paradise Empire and their allies, regretting that she wasn't there to test them by predating upon them herself and get them to prove themselves as worthy to her in person.
Queen Paeonia, the Defiler of Paradise
Character: Villainous
Alignment: Neutral Evil
Type: Invasive Species, Social Darwinist, Predatory Insect, Mimic, Walking Wasteland, Energy Vampire
Faction: The Floral Mantises
Queen Paeonia (her entry here
) is the leader of the Floral Mantids, a ruthless, manipulative and dangerous villainess who in life believed firmly in the 'Survival of the Fittest', influencing her to trample on the weak and expect to be trampled upon in turn by stronger creatures.- Defiant to the End: She, like her people, fought to the bitter end against the Paradise Ponies and their allies, giving no quarter and accepting none in return as per their beliefs.
- Enemy Mine: Seeing the threat the Flo'rezz poise, when the 'Flo'rezz Infestation' threatened to overrun Equus they set aside their conflict with the Paradise Ponies and Craanaasti to fight them, only breaking their alliance and resuming their conflict after the Flo'rezz are permanently dealt with.
- Insect Queen: The Floral Mantises are a race of enormous sapient mantises with mean streaks a mile wide, and Paeonia is their queen.
- Life Drinker: Like the other Floral Mantises, Paeonia is this.
- Manipulative Bastard: Paeonia is a Consummate Liar who along with her Floral Mantises managed to trick the Paradise Ponies into believing they were harmless refugees fleeing from persecution and got them to capture and imprison the Craanaasti (the Crab Nasties) hunting them instead, not revealing their true nature as a race of dangerous insectoid 'energy vampires' until it was almost too late.
- Might Makes Right: Firmly believes that only the strong survive and thrive in this world and have every right to trample upon those who are weaker. To her credit, she is no hypocrite, believing this apply to even herself and her people and does not begrudge it if others prove themselves stronger than they are and do the same unto them.
- The Social Darwinist: Queen Paeonia believes the world is one where the strong are those who survive and thrive and those who proved themselves strong have the right to trample over the weak and take what they want. Naturally, Paeonia believes her people the Floral Mantises are the strongest on Equus, having no empathy for other races and seeing them at best to be exploited and at worst exterminated as rivals and prey. That being said, she is no hypocrite, applying this trope to herself and others, respecting those whose strength is proven to rival or even surpass her and her race, and went out no regrets or ill will against those who overcome and destroyed them, fighting with all the strength she had to the very end.
- Villainous Valour: Paeonia is a manipulative and dangerous social darwinist of the highest order to cares nothing for other lifeforms except for her Floral Mantises, but she had been shown to be no hypocrite regarding her beliefs. In a rare show of respect for the strength of Megann and the Paradise Ponies, Paeonia gave them time to recover from the Guilt-Free Extermination War with the Flo'rezz before trying to conquer and consume them again. It costs her and the Floral Mantises their existences, but she went out with no regrets, and she holds no ill will against Megann and the Paradise Ponies for destroying their people and killing her at the end of their final conflict, believing it to be natural (as they intend to do unto them as well), and seeing them as worthy victors who had proven their strength in having overcome her and her people. She also went out fighting like the rest of her people, giving no quarter and accepting none.
Hydianites
- See their page here.
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Abaddon, the King of Lost Paradise
Classification: TBA
Portfolio: TBA
Rank: TBA
- Civilization Destroyer: He considers being this a game and has apparently destroyed multiple ones in the past. He may have been at least partially involved in the end of the First Age.
- Greater-Scope Villain: He's the Hydianites' god and chose to do so as a "game".
- Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can: Realizing the Paradise Ponies had no means of destroying him at the time, Wind Whistler used the Rainbow of Light to seal him inside herself, banking on her control of her emotions and willpower being able to keep him there. She managed to do so for three Ages and he only escaped due to outside interference.
- Worf Had the Flu: While it's likely the multiple harmonic artifacts pointed at him would've been enough, spending three Ages trapped inside Wind Whistler in her divine realm with none of his domains to draw power from weakened him heavily, making the fight with him significantly easier.
Awful Orc
Leader of a band of plundering Orcs and the first villain faced by the original Pyro and Sparks.
- The Brute: Larger than most other orcs and even stronger than he looked (and he LOOKED pretty strong to begin with).
- Dumb Muscle: Downplayed. While not as smart as the other villains in Pyro I's rogues' gallery, he could be surprisingly clever about certain things in addition to his obvious strength.
- Expy: Of Gnasty Gnorc from the classic Spyro series.
- I Take Offense to That Last One: Downplayed. While he got visibly upset about being called "simple" and having his threat downplayed, it was being called "ugly" that made him the maddest.
- Large and in Charge: Awful Orc was physically larger than most of his minions.
- Mook Maker: Had learned a spell that can transform gems into minions.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: While not as dumb as many dragons made him out to be (he was smart enough to learn some useful magic spells on his own, have minions well-equipped for fighting dragons just in case any dragons managed to escape his crystal statue spell and plan out some surprisingly clever raids), he still tended to get overlooked in comparison to the other villains in Pyro's rogues' gallery (especially Snipto).
- Secondary Color Nemesis: Awful Orc had green skin and orange armor.
- Starter Villain: The first major villain battled by Pyro I and Sparks I.
- Taken for Granite: Well, taken for crystal anyway, but he DID have a spell that could turn dragons into crystal statues.
Captain "Red Flag" Morganeer
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Demon Lord Tirek, the First Enemy
Character: Villainous
Alignment: Neutral Evil
Type: Archdemon, Evil Overlord, Corrupter, Dark Lord
Faction: Midnight Empire, Himself
"Oh Rainbow of Darkness the darkness sends! Now begins the night that never ends!"
- Back from the Dead: He's resurrected by Lord Tirek of the Fourth Age, forming a Villain Team-Up.
- The Remnant: He's noted as being the last of the Imperium Era's loose ends surviving into the First Age.
The Flo'rezz
"We had only wanted to live."
— First, last and only comprehensible message ever received from the Flo'rezz Infestation, prior to the destruction of the last living bud.
— First, last and only comprehensible message
ever received from the Flo'rezz Infestation, prior to the destruction of the last living bud.- Adaptational Abomination: In G1 MLP canon, the Flories are simply fugitive sapient flowers more dangerous and villainous than they look. In the Codexverse, the Flo'rezz Infestation is instead a species of virulent, ravenous, horrific parasitic plants which infects hosts with its spores, grows in and all over them and turns them into "infested mobile platforms" and fertilizers for expansion and growth of its incomprehensible hive-minds, and at the height of their existence overran a tenth of the entire planet.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: One of the reasons why the conflict against them became a war of extermination with no quarter given is because while they are known to be intelligent, even sapient, all attempts to communicate with them and discern some sort of understandable motive for their actions had failed due to the sheer alienness of the the Flo'rezz's plant-based hive-minds. The one time anyone understood them was when Megann, the Rainbow Empress was about to personally destroy the last living bud of the species and only by Megann's sister Mollia Wilms, the Worldspeaker and Archdruidess of the Paradise Empire.
- Botanical Abomination: What the Flo'rezz are depicted as in the Codexverse, in contrast to their canonical Flories selves. They a species of parasitic plants which infests and zombifies their unlucky hosts with their spores and twists them into nightmarish plant-animal horrors that spread their infection and eventually become fertilizers for more growth as part of their life-cycles. They overran entire kingdoms and turned entire populations into Planimal zombies, and a Guilt-Free Extermination War had to be fought to beat them back and destroy them by an alliance of races and kingdoms back in the First Age.
- Historical Villain Downgrade: Almost all portrayals of the Flo'rezz in later Ages downplay their menace as the accounts that survive were either dismissed as too unreal or considered too horrific to be fully portrayed. This is where the readers both in-universe and out- get the Flories' depiction seen in MLP G1 media where they're merely fugitive sapient flowers more dangerous and villainous than they look on the run from the Crabnasties' police.
- Obliviously Evil: The sheer alienness of the Flo'rezz' mind made it difficult to determine, but the implication from their comprehensible last words — assuming Mollia the archdruidess interpreted it correctly — seemed to show that they legitimately don't know all the destruction and suffering they were causing in their growth and infestations, or why the other races are trying to eliminate them all. It's ultimately up to debate whether they are truly evil or simply incomprehensible.
- Villainous Legacy: Although the Flo'rezz are long-destroyed, some incomplete remnants of their species or their less-dangerous relatives are implied to have survived to later Ages. One drabble depicts Flytrap, an anti-heroic Captain Ersatz of Marvel's Venom who got his Lovecraftian Superpower set from fusing with a mass of sapient/sentient plant matter apparently derived from the Flo'rezz. One of the Lost Ones to be featured from the "Lost Ones Incursions" arc is apparently descended from them as well.
- Zombie Apocalypse: What the Flo'rezz is implied to cause via "infestation", being a virulent parasitic plant species.
Grogar I, the Shadow King of Tambelon
- His entry here
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Mystic Queen
The villainous ruler of a forgotten realm where dragons once thrived and the third major villain battled by Pyro I and his friends
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Subverted; she definitely oppressed an entire empire and tried to kill more than 150 hatchlings to achieve immortality, but she DID NOT recruit Treasure Chest (the Moneybags Expy).
- Bad Boss: Had a tendency to treat her minions as test subjects or worse.
- Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: Of the "Extremely sick sense of humor" variant.
- Evil Sorcerer: VERY definitely so.
- Expy: Of the Sorceress from the third Spyro game.
- God Save Us from the Queen!: She ruled her realm in a very cruel manner, making her subjects suffer for completely absurd reasons.
- I Lied: Was not entirely forthcoming to her much-abused minion Rhianca regarding her true motives for stealing those dragon eggs, and only callously revealed to Rhianca after she succeeded in her task that her intent was to life-drain all the eggs (which would kill them) to enhance her power and grant herself immortality. This bites her in the tail when it turned Rhianca against her and caused her to join Pyro's side.
- Immortality Seeker: The reason she masterminded the theft of 150 dragon eggs that were very close to hatching.
- Life Drain: Has this ability and planned to do this on 150 unhatched dragon eggs to imbue herself the
- It's Personal: Definitely the most personal villain in Pyro I's rogues' gallery given she was going to drain the combined lifeforce of essentially 150 potential younger siblings for the hero
- Laser-Guided Karma: Her treatment of Rhianca and reveal of her full intent to drain the combined lifespans of all the hatchlings led to Rhianca joining Pyro's side in time to foil her scheme.
- Knight of Cerebus: While not without her darkly comedic quirks, she was the most dangerous and most serious villain Pyro I ever fought
- Make My Monster Grow: She definitely wasn't against using her powerful magic to upgrade and super-size her minions.
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: She WAS trying to increase her realm's waning magic — but only enough to gain the energy needed to do a lifeforce drain spell and grant herself immortality and greatly increased power.
- Primary-Color Champion: Inverted. She had blue skin and wore red robes and a golden Elizabethan collar, but she was very much a villainess.
- Reptiles Are Abhorrent: She was a sapient alligator, and very certainly devoid of any morals.
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Red Beard
Queen Bumble
Character: Villainous/Neutral
Alignment: Neutral Evil/True Neutral
Type: Queen, Insectoid, Evil Overlord, Glutton
Faction: Bumbleland/Dream Kingdom/Paradise Empire (Nominally)
"Your queen demands her rightful feast!"
Queen Bumble (read her entry here
) is the former queen of Bumbleland.- Bee People: She was the queen of a whole race of them.
- Dragged Off to Hell: Bumble never meaningfully changed as a person, and thus never repented or felt remorse for her actions. As such, she was condemned to a Hellrealm after her death where she remains to this day.
- Even Evil Has Standards: She may be a hedonist, but she doesn't commit sadism for the sake of it, only if she can profit from it.
- Fatal Flaw: Gluttony. Her only real motivation for doing anything is her desire to benefit herself. It caused her to become a horrible ruler and a premature death by her poor eating habits.
- Insect Queen: She was the queen of a species of Bee People.
- It's All About Me: Only did anything bad or good, if she thought it benefitted her.
- Reformed, but Not Tamed: She may have become an ally to the dream kingdom, but only because they gave her what she wanted and she never really changed her ways.
- Spoiled Brat: She was raised from birth by her mother in the lap of luxury, leading her to become a very horrible ruler for her hive when she grew up.
- Stout Strength: Despite her gluttony and laziness, she is actually very strong.
- Too Dumb to Live: Repeatedly ignored warnings about her unhealthy eating habits, which killed her.
- Villain Teamup: She teamed up with Hydia for revenge against the pones and to claim the Sunstone.
- Villainous Glutton: Deconstructed. Her unhealthy eating habits guaranteed her an early death.
Queen Primrose Willow
- Family-Unfriendly Death: Lovely Wing ultimately killed her by stabbing her to death with the bone spurs that Mute Swans have on their wings.
- Inevitable Mutual Betrayal: She and Red Beard both knew when forming their Villain Team-Up that one of them would inevitably betray the other, and accepted that.
- One-Winged Angel: She had the power to transform into a monstrous owl.
- Wicked Stepmother: She's the stepmother of Lovely Wing and Beautiful Wing, and is a Wicked Witch who made their lives a nightmare.
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Snipto
An evil dinosaur sorcerer who was the original Pyro's most persistent enemy.
- Arch-Enemy: To Pyro I, being the dragon hero's most frequent enemy.
- Berserk Button: Dragons in general were this as Snipto was part of a race of sapient dinosaurs who were badly bullied by especially jerkish dragons for being "weaker distant cousins.
- Create Your Own Villain: Was a victim of this trope as it was the dragons' bullying that led to him becoming a villain.
- Determinator: The very fact he was the ONLY villain in Pyro's rogues' gallery to fight him more than twice is a pretty clear indication that giving up wasn't something he did easily OR often.
- Evil Sorcerer: He trained himself to become this in order to gain the power to fight dragons on more equal footing.
- Expy: Of Ripto from the classic Spyro series.
- Freudian Excuse: It can not be stated enough that he probably would not have become a villain if it wasn't for the bullying he and his kind had taken from their dragon cousins.
- Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: While the bullying he took from the dragons was certainly brutal, it does not even come close to justifying his actions.
- Motive Decay: Downplayed as he still strongly disliked dragons in general, but his hatred of Pyro had grown enough to where he was willing to temporarily work with another dragon who hated Pyro as much as he did.
- The Napoleon: He was a fairly short sapient dinosaur.
- Omnicidal Maniac: His ultimate goal is the extinction of the dragon race.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: His hatred of Pyro I being strong enough to convince him to work WITH Valefor (a dragon) certainly qualifies as this.
- Secondary Color Nemesis: Snipto was orange skinned and wore a purple cloak with matching robes.
Squirk, the Emperor of Dark Waters
Character: Villainous
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Type: Evil Overlord, Tyrant, Sea Monster, Artifact User
Faction: Himself, the Dark Water Empire
"My dark waters shall roil and drown the lands above!"
Emperor Squirk (his entry here
) is an ancient, tyrannical sea monster who tried taking the world by flooding it for his Dark Water empire.- And I Must Scream: Megan sealed him away in the depths of the Tellus where he'd remain for thousands of years before finally dying of old age.
- Asshole Victim: His ultimate fate — being sealed away and left to slowly die in his prison — was horrible, but he was such a sadistic monster that he undoubtedly deserved it.
- The Dreaded: Thanks to the Flashstone, he had power rivalling Discord and was widely considered his analogue in the First Age given his disposition.
- Killed Off for Real: He was rediscovered dead in the Second Age after thousands of years imprisoned in ice, with his frozen corpse found in the Second Age.
- Villainous Legacy: Though dead, his villainy had left behind a considerable shadow, not all of it bad: a clone of him was created using DNA extracted from his deceased flesh which turned out benevolent and heroic.
