Space Ponies | Equestrians | Starfleet Allies | Villains
Just like the show this fanfic is loosely based on, Starfleet Magic has numerous characters. Among these are...
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In General
In General
What generally applies to these characters.
- Flat Character: Most (if not all) characters have little depth to their personalities.
- Forgot About His Powers: The characters frequently seem to forget about their abilities, such as:
- Krysta not using her portals to get the heroes away from danger or to capture the villains.
- Celestia not using her magic to catch the thieves in Raven's backstory.
- Raven not using telekinesis to lift the carriage off of her husband.
- Lightning not simply letting his "extremely tough body" take harmless hits from Principal Celestia.
- Rainbow not continuing to fly after catching Stammadon's box.
- A more jarring example is the Space Ponies never using their Super-Speed (which Mykan himself has claimed would allow them to circle the globe in seconds by walking) when the situation is dire. Such as:
- Saving Twilight from Raven.
- Saving Cadance before a pillar could fall on her.
- Capturing/Subduing an enemy before they can launch an attack.
Starfleet Humans
Starfleet Humans In General
- Hypocrite: Much like their pony counterparts, they do not understand the concept of "practice what you preach".
- They call out Crystal Prep for cheating during the Friendship Games, while they themselves use their superpowers for an unfair advantage.
- Jerk Jock: They sure love rubbing in the victories that their enhanced abilities grant them.
Celesto Grandruler
- Batman Can Breathe in Space: For a moment, his helmet is removed while he is stranded in space so he can be healed. He doesn't die.
- Fiction 500: A retired billionaire astronaut rich enough to own a high school and a good chunk of Mystic Island.
- Parental Substitute: He's this to a number of the Starfleet ponies' human counterparts.
- Retirony: Starpops has him being pulled out of retirement to help with repairs aboard the International Space Station. He ends up drifting into space and almost suffocating, but is saved by a newly-empowered Celestia along with Spike's Majestic Dragon.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: He allows Lightning Dawn to enter Canterlot High despite him possessing no personal records by... well, owning the place. He does this again when he bails Celestia out of prison, and again when lifting Lightning's suspension.
Human Starla Shine
- All Love Is Unrequited: She's in love with Lightning Dawn, but he already has the pony version of Starla back home.
- Badass Bookworm: She mainly studies astronomy, but she's also proficient in martial arts.
- Female Misogynist: One specific example is in the first Starfleet Humans, where she refers to Sunset Shimmer with a sexist term.
- Palette Swap: Much like her pony counterpart, she's more or less an exact copy of Human Rarity.
Human Rhymey (William Stirskewer III)
- Only Known By His Nickname: It's established that Rhymey, which everyone calls him, is only his nickname; his real name is William Stirskewer III.
- Palette Swap: He's just a recolored Flash Sentry with a slightly different hairstyle.
- Preppy Name: His full name is William Stirskewer III, a reference to William Shakespeare.
Human Artie Bristles
- A Day in the Limelight: In Starpops, he solos the Dazzlings.
- Demoted to Satellite Love Interest: A rare male example, his role from Starpops onwards is primarily defined by his attraction to Sunset Shimmer.
- Palette Swap: He's just a recolored Flash Sentry with a slightly different hairstyle.
- Smug Super: He beats up the Sirens alone, and then boasts about how his magic is superior to theirs.
Human Buddy Rose
- Palette Swap: He's just a recolored Flash Sentry with a slightly different hairstyle.
Human Dyno and Mite
- Palette Swap: Both of them are just a recolored Flash Sentry with a slightly different hairstyle.
Human Lightning Dawn
- The Ace: To an absurd degree. He's impossibly smart and athletic, has a cushy teaching job, is an accomplished vigilante, and has female students fawning over his good looks, all under the age of 20.
- Author Avatar: His interactions with the Human Twilight Sparkle match up quite nicely with what Mykan has said about Twilight Sparkle.
- Composite Character: Takes over the role of Abacus Cinch, who is nowhere to be found in Starfleet Events despite it otherwise being a Whole-Plot Reference to Friendship Games.
- Death by Origin Story: His parents were killed in a car crash when a bully threw a beer can into their car which apparently shocked them so much that they ended up sending their car rolling down a hill, where it exploded, claiming their lives.
- Expy: Of Indiana Jones. In fact, the beginning of Starfleet Events, which centers around him, is ripped directly from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
- Improbable Age: Once again, he became a licensed high-school teacher under the age of twenty.
- Jerkass: Acts rude to Human Twilight for disagreeing with his philosophies.
- One-Man Army: Single-handedly beats up the gang responsible for the deaths of his parents.
- Violence Really Is the Answer: His personal creed, and one that he insists on teaching the human Twilight.
Human Celestia
- Adaptational Jerkass: To the point where she bears almost no resemblance to her canon self; never has it been hinted that the canon Celestia was ever this disagreeable.
- Freudian Excuse: Celestia's ill temper is a result of the death of her prized racehorse, a gift from her old friend Celesto.
- Informed Attribute: In My Brave Pony: Starfleet Humans, Principal Celestia is stated to have become tyrannical following the death of her pet horse, Bud, but she is never seen stepping out of line, imposing harsh rules or unfairly punishing anyone.
- Never a Self-Made Woman: She was given the job of principal from Celesto, largely out of pity.
- Rage Breaking Point: When Lightning insults her dead horse, she snaps and tries physically attacking him.
- Satellite Love Interest: To Celesto Grandruler. They've been in love for a long time, but haven't been able to actually get together for various reasons. Essentially, her character arc seems to revolve around rekindling her romance with Celesto.
- Took a Level in Kindness: In Starpops, she becomes much nicer compared to herself in the first Starfleet Humans.
Human Luna
- Never a Self-Made Woman: Celesto gave Luna her job as vice principal as a personal favor.
- You Are in Command Now: After Celestia's firing, Luna takes over as principal.
- You Monster!: After Celestia punches Luna out when she tries to intervene to protect Lightning, Luna calls Celestia a "Monster!"
Sunset Shimmer
- Damsel in Distress: She gets captured by the Dazzlings. Which is a bit embarrassing, because this version of them is pathetic.
- Demoted to Satellite Love Interest: Downplayed. Originally a villain who pulled a Heel–Face Turn, she becomes Artie's girlfriend with not a whole lot of other noteworthy traits to diversify her character. Even when she gets to star in her own fanfic, her relationship to Artie still looms large over her, not helped by the fact that her human counterpart is affiliated with Artie's parents.
- Heel–Face Turn: Due to the first Equestria Girls film still taking place in this continuity, Sunset Shimmer still receives one of these. This also makes her one of the only characters to pull one off without dying or being Put on a Bus immediately afterwards.
- Satellite Love Interest: To Human Artie Bristles. There's not much to her besides her attraction to him.
Human Twilight Sparkle
- Butt-Monkey: Events are continuously contrived so Lightning Dawn will act rude to her.
- Demoted to Extra: She loses most of her plot relevance to Human Lightning and Xaydie.
- Generic Doomsday Villain: Midnight Sparkle loses her Mad Scientist personality and now just wants to gain magical power, rather than trying to understand it.
- Sudden Intelligence: The coma she fell into during the first Starfleet Humans somehow immensely increased her IQ.
Human Applejack
- Demoted to Extra: The most notable thing about her is just how little presence she has in the fanfics, even among the Equestrian Hu Mane Five. She barely even shows up in the first installment until later in the fic!
Human Rarity
- The Fashionista: Her main characterization. Like her pony counterpart, her friends aren't very generous with her for it.
Human Pinkie Pie
- Genki Girl: Retains this trait from canon; she loves parties & sugary sweets in particular.
Human Fluttershy
- Demoted to Satellite Love Interest: Much like her pony counterpart, her entire character revolves around Rhymey's human counterpart.
Human Rainbow Dash
- Always Someone Better: She thinks of herself as the best athlete in the school, but then Lightning Dawn comes along to one-up her.
- Jerk Jock: Thanks to being stripped of her character depth, this is her main trait. She's loud and arrogant, which her friends rarely tolerate, and her many Karmic Butt-Monkey moments are based on this. It's especially bad in Starfleet Events where she was one of the people bragging about how the protagonists using their powers to cheat at the Friendship Games isn't cheating at all, and unlike other instances, she's not called out for it.
- Karmic Butt-Monkey: Is frequently made to be the "Butt-Monkey" part because of her Jerk Jock tendencies being emphasized from canon. In particular, her role in the first installment is entirely to be bested by the protagonist Lightning.
Spike the Dog
- Evil-Detecting Dog: Not necessarily "evil", but he does become particularly on-edge around Lightning and Krysta (who is a robin in the human world), apparently picking up on them being more than meets the eye.
Starfleet Humans Villains
Flash Sentry
- Adaptation Species Change: Human in the source material, a Crystallite in this.
- Adaptational Badass: He is an alien with superpowers who also helps defeat the Demonites.
- Adaptational Villainy: The Equestria Girls films gave no indication of Flash Sentry being anything other than an ordinary human. In Starfleet Humans, he's the son of Empress Sapphira and serves as her Dragon.
- The Dragon: In Starfleet Humans, he serves as this to Sapphira, his mother.
- Human Aliens: He's a Crystallite.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: At the end of Starfleet Humans, he gets reformed by erasing all memories of his past life, suppressing his powers in the process. They resurface in Starpops when he hears about the death of Twilight Sparkle. However, he stays a good guy.
- Redemption Equals Death: The climax of Starpops has him regaining his memories and Crystallite powers and choosing to fight alongside the heroes of his own accord. However, he gets fatally poisoned by Scales during the fight.
Sapphira
- The Assimilator: Her goal is to use a Kill Sat to turn all of Earth's population into her Crystallite servants.
- Big Bad: Of Starfleet Humans.
- Evil Teacher: In the human world, she masquerades as the principal of Crystal High.
- Generic Doomsday Villain: The Crystallites have "vain, greedy conqueror" as their hat, and that's about as much motivation as Sapphira gets.
- One-Winged Angel: Combines with her satellite during the final battle.
The Dazzlings
- Adaptational Wimp: By far the worst case out of all the characters from FiM canon. Basically all of their notable moments were given to the Demonites instead; the Dazzlings spend most of Starpops severely weakened, playing second fiddle to them, and only being a minor nuisance at best. They're also defeated much more easily, as Artie can beat all three of them alone... because his magic is superior to theirs. Adagio gets it the worst, as she isn't even treated as the leader she was in canon.
- Dirty Coward: In the final battle, they are easily beaten, they run away more than once, but when they capture Sunset, they show a lot of sadism.
- Flanderization: Their individual personalities get erased, leaving them as generic and not so villains. It's especially notable with Sonata Dusk, due to the large departure from her canon characterization.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: Most of the time, they are pathetic. However, they manage to outsmart the Demonites by having spare gems that allow them to still fight back after their initial ones are taken. Then they capture and nearly kill Sunset, which helps the Demonites and makes Blaze finally respect them a little.
- Unwitting Pawn: The Demonites use them to gather energy for themselves, then throw them under a bus at the climax.
The Demonites/D-Man Knights
- Big Bad: They serve as the main antagonists of Starpops, with Blaze as their leader.
- Blob Monster: Slick is some kind of slime monster with a defined form.
- Blow You Away: Tempest can make razors from wind.
- Bond Villain Stupidity: Continuously tell Starfleet that they can resurrect each other should one of them fall in battle as long as at least one of them is still alive. If that wasn't enough, it takes a while for the heroes to realize this despite the Demonites telling them this continuously.
- Came Back Strong: If one Demonite is killed, the others can revive him, and make him even stronger. As such, they have to all be destroyed at the same time.
- Character Shilling: Claim to have invented the Magic Music used in-story and use that as an explanation for why they can No-Sell The Dazzlings' magic.
- Color-Coded Characters:
- Blaze - Red
- Boomer - Black, Gray
- Scales - Blue
- Tempest - Yellow
- Slick - Green
- Dishing Out Dirt: Boomer can make and throw rocks.
- Elite Four: Boomer, Scales, Tempest, and Slick all serve Blaze and are equal to each other.
- Eviler than Thou: They pull this on the Dazzlings at their first meeting and climax.
- Evil Is Petty:
- Slick makes a pile of goo appear on Fluttershy's seat when she's about to sit down, messing up her skirt and embarrassing her; he even says that he loves making others miserable.
- Blaze destroys the kitchen's milkshake machine after overhearing Sunset wanting to get a milkshake.
- Expy: Of the Shadow Beasts of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess in the final fight. When one is down, everyone else screeches at once and revives their teammate. They all have to be beaten at once.
- Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: When at Star Camp, they are disguised as humans who are said to be very good-looking. They then proceed to spread a Hate Plague among the campers. This is quite literal in this case, as they are supposed to be demons.
- Five-Man Band: Subverted as, while there are five of them, the rest of the group dynamic is absent except for Blaze being the Big Bad.
- For the Evulz: Their only motivation is to spread destruction for its own sake.
- Gemini Destruction Law: Because the Demonites can revive each other, all members must be killed at the exact same time. Amazingly, the heroes have less difficulty from destroying them all at once and more from actually remembering this little factoid.
- Generic Doomsday Villain: They're not given much in the way of motivation or characterization beyond "group of demons that want to destroy stuff".
- Hero Killer: Scales. His poison kills Flash Sentry.
- Informed Attractiveness: Their human forms are supposedly incredibly handsome, although there is little description of what they look like.
- Light Is Not Good: Tempest can use blinding light.
- Louis Cypher: Hmm, wonder what their band name could mean...
- Missing Reflection: They do not have reflections and do not show up in pictures.
- Our Demons Are Different: They're supposedly demons, but demonstrate almost none of the typical traits; they're somewhat closer to vampires than anything.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: How they didn't get exposed earlier is a mystery. Their band name is "D-Man Knights", they sing about how evil they are and they do random acts of evil in public.
- Playing with Fire: Blaze. His control over fire is remarkable, as he can create from mere illusions of flames for special effects, to fire strong enough to burn down a whole academy.
- Poisonous Person: Scales. His poison can even kill a Crystallite.
- Singing Voice Dissonance: Scales' Sssssnaketalk is absent when he sings. Possibly he trained to hide what would blow the cover of him and his teammates.
- Spear Counterpart: To the Dazzlings, from powers to role all the way down to backstory.The only thing missing is personality... compared to the canon Dazzlings, anyway.
- Sssssnaketalk: Scales talks this way.
- "Super Sentai" Stance: They do this before performing their second Villain Song. Additionally, they say their names while doing so.
- Totally Radical: "D-Man Knights".
- Villain Song: Two. One based on Michael Jackson's Thriller and the other one based on a parody of Lady Gaga's Poker Face. (No, really.)
Xaydie
- Ambiguously Brown: Has brown skin, lives on an island in the Pacific, and was part of a native tribe.
- Big Bad: The main villain of Starfleet Events.
- Fallen Hero: From a well-meaning witch doctor to an evil witch bent on world domination. What triggered the change is not sufficiently explained.
- Generic Doomsday Villain: She wants to Take Over the World... for some reason.
- Grand Theft Me: Her plan involves transferring her spirit into Cadance's body.
- Really 700 Years Old: Through a combination of magic and cybernetic enhancements, Xaydie has managed to survive for several centuries.
- Weather Manipulation: Using a giant Magitek machine built into her lair, Xaydie can control the Earth's weather patterns.
- Witch Doctor: Is one.
Human Fratello
- Action Bomb: Has a Self-Destruct Mechanism built into him by Xaydie to ensure his compliance.
- Cain and Abel: He's forced to play the Cain to Cadance's Abel.
- The Dragon: To Xaydie, albeit unwillingly.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Uses the bomb inside him to destroy Xaydie's lair. Naturally, he doesn't survive.
- Walking Techbane: His presence disables nearby technology, primarily cell phones.
- We Can Rebuild Him: After washing up on the shores of Xaydie's island with severe injuries, the witch doctor decided to turn him into a cyborg lackey.