History Characters / FriendshipIsMagicDangerousCreatures

* CatSmile: It smiles this way after giving Discord an affectionate smooch.

* WouldHitAGirl: He beats up Pinkie Pie off-screen and blows Rainbow Dash out of his cave. He very likely would have done further damage had Fluttershy not intervened.

* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: In their first appearance, the Timberwolves were animated like the other characters, i.e., in Flash. In "Spike at Your Service", [[http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=91229&view=findpost&p=2215211 they are rendered using CGI,]] making them stand out from the rest of the Flash animation on the show, but then return to being animated in Flash when they combine to form a big Timberwolf.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: In "A Matter of Principals", Discord's "substitute" teachers are Iron Will, Cranky Doodle Donkey... and an inanimate dragonsneeze tree.
-->'''Starlight Glimmer:''' You hired a ''tree'' as a teacher?\\
'''Discord:''' Its schedule was free.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: WordOfGod [[http://comments.deviantart.com/4/13171989/2500087605 has]] [[http://comments.deviantart.com/4/13171989/2500613624 used]] "windigos" but the closed captions use the "Wendigo" spelling.

[[caption-width-right:300:Its [[JustForPun bark]] is worse than its bite.[[labelnote:The "King" Timberwolf]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/king_timberwolf_by_erccre147_d5rdzoy.png[[/labelnote]]]]

* MixAndMatchCritters: Many of them, including manticores (lions with bat wings and scorpion tails), chimeras (body and head of a tiger, plus a goat head and a snake for a tail), flyders (spiders with fly wings) and biteacudas (fish with bat wings).

* TheSwarm: Generally, when small, arthropod-like creatures show up, they're very likely to attack in huge swarms, like the parasprites, twittermites, flash bees and flyders.

[[folder:Flyders]]

* TheCameo: It's not immediately obvious, but the creatures buzzing around the gates of Tartarus in "School Raze" are in fact flyders, and the swarms bothering Applejack in "Sounds of Silence" strongly resemble them as well. A flyder hive also makes a brief appearance in "Daring Doubt".
* MisplacedWildlife: An in-universe example; in "Campfire Tales", Applejack mentions that flyders are native to the Luna Bay area[[note]] in the northwest corner of Equestria in the official map[[/note]], and don't usually travel so far from their home. She suggests that they may simply have been drawn to the camp site by the group's food.

* StockBeehive: In "Daring Doubt", a swarm of flyders appears inhabiting a grey variant of the classic donut-stack beehive with a single large opening in its middle, albeit draped with spiderwebs.

* MixAndMatchCritters: The [[http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/mlp/images/4/4c/Slingtail_S6E5.png/revision/latest?cb=20160417185008 slingtail]], a type of creature which resides in the Dragon Lands, looks like a cross between a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratopsia ceratopsian]] and an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankylosauria ankylosaur]], with [[NonMammalianHair fur]] covering its back.

* MakeMeWannaShout: In its "zilla" form its roar outright blows away a magic shield Twilight makes.

* PunnyName: In both forms -- the name of their day form is a pun on "winter" and "chinchilla", while that of their night form is a pun on "winter" and "Godzilla".

[[folder:Yetis]]
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E11PartyPooped Party Pooped]]"

Aggressive, apelike beasts that live in the snowy mountains around Yakyakistan.

* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: White-furred beasts that live in caves in the northern mountains around a Tibet-like country. Unlike the usual simian depictions, these ones look as much like bears as they do like apes. Notably, this calls back to the belief that sightings of sasquatches and similar creatures are misidentified sightings of bears rearing up on their hind legs. While not named in their debut episode, "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E18DungeonsAndDiscords Dungeons & Discords]]" explicitly identifies them as yetis.
* CloseCallHaircut: When Pinkie encounters and is attacked by the yeti, it swipes at her with its claws and slices off part of her mane.
* TheDarknessGazesBack: In "Party Pooped", the first seen of the yeti are its eyes standing out clearly and alone in the pitch darkness of its cave.
* InformedAttribute: Although in "Dungeons & Discords" Pinkie describes the yeti she encountered as "pony-eating", it's never actually shown trying to eat her or responding beyond the aggression of any animal whose den was invaded by another creature.
* MightyRoar: The yeti's first reaction to Pinkie entering its cave is to roar at her with enough force to blow her mane back from her face.
* SealedEvilInACan: As shown on the season 8 finale, "School Raze", [[spoiler:a yeti was captured and imprisoned within Tartarus at some unseen point]].

[[folder:The Tantabus]]
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E13DoPrincessesDreamOfMagicSheep Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep?]]"

A mysterious force that appears to be made of nightmares, it is more like a phenomenon than an actual character. It was contained within Luna's dreams to prevent it from growing stronger. It grows stronger with every dream it infects and seeks to enter, and infect, the real world with its nightmares.

* NightmareWeaver: Is rampaging through the dream realm causing nightmares. [[spoiler:As it turns out, Luna ''made'' it to do this to her.]]

* YourWorstNightmare: Its MO. Within an individual pony's dream, the Tantabus quickly changes the dream into something that terrifies that pony more than anything else. [[spoiler:That's what Luna made it to do to her.]]

* AluminumChristmasTrees: While it's much bigger and more brightly colored than the real deal, the Maulwurf is based on the very real [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star-nosed_mole star-nosed mole]].

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs:
** The [[http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/mlp/images/4/4c/Slingtail_S6E5.png/revision/latest?cb=20160417185008 slingtail]], a type of creature which resides in the Dragon lands, looks like a cross between a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratopsia ceratopsian]] and an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankylosauria ankylosaur]], whith [[NonMammalianHair fur]] covering its back.
** The ColdOpening of "The Fault in our Cutie Marks" also has a filly named Petunia Paleo discovering the fossil remains of a "spiny-backed ponysaurus", which is, apparently, a dinosaur/pony hybrid.

* CelestialBody: They provide the current page picture. The Ursa Major is a bit unusual in that it is a deep purple, instead of the standard indigo, black or blue.

* MinorlyMentionedMythsAndMonsters: Orthros, Kerberos' lesser-known little brother, is ''very'' rarely seen outside of works that specialize in Greek mythology.

* MinorlyMentionedMythsAndMonsters: Creatures from Aztec mythology aren't seen very often in modern fiction, and the Cipactli rarely appears outside of either specialized works or ones that include a particularly large diversity of mythical entities.

* MinorlyMentionedMythsAndMonsters: It's generally present only in works which specialize in including a great depth of Greco-Roman monsters.

* TurtlePower: Mr. Tortoise-Snap is large enough to have several trees and hillocks on top of his shell, and can eat a whole apple tree after uprooting it with his prehensile tongue.

Ursa Majors are titanic beasts with fearsome reputations that the magician Trixie claimed to be able to defeat so as to gain popularity... which resulted in two colts luring a real Ursa to town for Trixie to defeat. Turns out they had the wrong animal -- the building-sized monster they found was an Ursa ''Minor'', a baby. Adult Majors are much, ''much'' bigger.

They don't pose as much threat as the {{Big Bad}}s, nor do they actively seek to conquer or destroy Equestria and ponykind (though for some of them their behaviors could have that consequence), but they still pose a threat. They are not (''usually'') actively malicious or villainous, but are instead dangerous fauna, strange creatures and forces of nature.

[[folder:The Chimera Sisters]]

* EldritchAbomination: In a sense, they are very much this. The Minor is a huge blue EnergyBeing bear that is easily bigger than a house. Its parent, the Major, is a purple, fanged and even larger monster than the Minor, and there are strong implications that the Minor is still an infant. They don't even look like regular animals so much as pieces of the night sky in the shape of bears.