History Characters / FriendshipIsMagicJerksAndBullies

* WouldHitAGirl: They have no problem pushing and knocking Rainbow Dash around during the race. A JustifiedTrope, considering she is not afraid to take them on.

* WouldHitAGirl: They have no problem with hitting Rarity in order to make her find jewels for them or getting the jump on her friends to use them as workhorses.

* WouldHitAGirl: Iron Will tosses Rarity and Pinkie Pie aside (into the mud in the case of the latter) and is willing to threaten to beat up Fluttershy if she doesn't pay him his fee -- although this was probably just boisterous bluster for effect.

* {{Blackmail}}: In "Friendship University", they catch Twilight sneaking into their office and take a picture of her, threatening to release to the public (and ruin her reputation) if she doesn't stop investigating them.

** In "Friendship University". After using {{Blackmail}} to threaten Twilight to stop investigating their school, Flim and Flam are themselves blackmailed into revealing the truth about their scam.

** In "Friendship University", they mock Twilight and her school, and gleefully blackmail her. But when the tables are turned, they quickly descend to pleading with Twilight not to expose them, and meekly agreeing with Star Swirl's order to close the University and refund their students.

* VillainousFriendship: They ''are'' brothers after all. For as greedy and materialistic as they are, the pair never seem to quarrel over their profits and happily share and share alike. The one time they're on the outs with each other, they're all too happy to get back together once the matter's settled.
* VillainExitStageLeft: In both their appearances, they flee Ponyville once the jig is up.

* EvilSoundsDeep: Mean Twilight's voice is significantly more raspy than her good counterpart, Tara Strong shifting into the voice she usually uses when voices male characters on some occasions.

* {{Greed}}: One of the {{Fatal Flaw}}s -- their obsession with securing as much wealth for themselves as possible at every turn has hampered them more than anything else.

* AnimalJingoism: In "the Last Problem", it is mentioned [[spoiler:by future Spike that making peace between the Diamond Dogs and the Abyssinians (a race of anthropomorphic cats) "wasn't easy"]].

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: While they made some appearances in ExpandedUniverse materials, they have never appeared in the show again after their debut appearance. [[spoiler:They do get a mention in "The Last Problem", though.]]

* AllTrollsAreDifferent: They're basically a fusion of the two types of Kobolds: mining troll and bipedal dog.

** When Scootaloo starts a fan club for her and the Washouts, she seems friendly to Scootaloo at first and even invites her to join the team. [[spoiler:But once Lightning tries to make Scootaloo do an incredibly dangerous stunt that Scootaloo is clearly not comfortable with, Lightning threatens Scootaloo to go through with it on the grounds she would disappoint Lightning and get "impeached" as the president of Lightning's fanclub.]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/VincentTong[[note]]according to [[https://twitter.com/TrevorDevall/status/270976711196303360 this]] tweet by Creator/TrevorDevall[[/note]]; Creator/TakehitoKoyasu (Japanese)

->'''Jet Set voiced by:''' Peter New; Creator/EduardoGarza (Latin American Spanish); Yoshiyuki Shimozuma (Japanese)\\
'''Upper Crust voiced by:''' Creator/AshleighBall; Ikumi Nakagami (Japanese)

->'''Flim voiced by:''' Creator/SamuelVincent[[note]]both according to [[https://twitter.com/#!/goldenrusset/status/163536672032702464 this tweet by Jayson Thiessen]][[/note]]; Creator/WataruTakagi (Japanese)\\
'''Flam voiced by:''' Creator/ScottMcNeil[[note]]both according to [[https://twitter.com/#!/goldenrusset/status/163536672032702464 this tweet by Jayson Thiessen]][[/note]]; Yōhei Tadano [Season 2], Hiroki Katō [Season 4-onwards] (Japanese)

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TrevorDevall[[note]]according to [[http://www.alltasteexplosion.com/?p=2858 this]] interview with Creator/TrevorDevall[[/note]]; Creator/AkioOhtsuka (Japanese)

* OrgyOfEvidence: He plants a piece of Rainbow Dash's mane he cut from her to the envelope with the forged letter and made his voice sound as a raspy female similar to Rainbow Dash while ordering a cake to frame her.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/VincentTong[[note]]according to [[https://twitter.com/TrevorDevall/status/270976711196303360 this]] tweet by Creator/TrevorDevall[[/note]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Peter New (Jet Set) and Creator/AshleighBall (Upper Crust)

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SamuelVincent (Flim), Creator/ScottMcNeil (Flam)[[note]]both according to [[https://twitter.com/#!/goldenrusset/status/163536672032702464 this tweet by Jayson Thiessen]][[/note]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TrevorDevall[[note]]according to [[http://www.alltasteexplosion.com/?p=2858 this]] interview with Creator/TrevorDevall[[/note]]

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: One of his lessons is this trope -- ''take confidence by taking charge!''

* AxCrazy: They are all pretty crazy but Mean Rarity and Mean Fluttershy are probably the most insane.