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Human Characters
Megan Williams
Debut: Rescue at Midnight Castle
Voiced by: Bettina Bush
The primary human protagonist, having been in the role in both the My Little Pony TV Specials and My Little Pony: The Movie (1986) before making the trip to the show. Megan is a farm girl who was accidentally recruited by an overeager Pegasus named Firefly to fight the monstrous Tirac, and regularly returns to Pony Land to help her equine friends.
- Action Girl: Her literal first action in Ponyland is attempting to hammerfist a dragon.
- Adaptational Badass: Her toy version is just a cute little girl in a dress, but cartoon Megan is older and gets into action.
- All There in the Script: The toyline that featured her only listed her as "Megan". The shows and movies would add her surname "Williams".
- Badass Normal: She fights a dragon off, empty handed, in her initial appearance, and assertively negotiates with a troll while he's trying to drop her off a cliff.
- Combat Pragmatist: She kind of has to be, given her opposition and Badass Normal status. Tricking a giant crab into losing his balance, blinding the nigh-omnipotent Lavan for a few precious seconds by dropping a drape on his head...
- Deadpan Snarker: Briefly, though you'd probably snark too if a pink pegasus picked you out of the blue and treated you like The Chosen One just because you said you could ride horses.
- Farm Boy: She lives at a ranch.
- Girliness Upgrade: Sort of. Compared to the pilot she's more feminine and motherly, also the leader of the group. Her appearance is the major change, as it changed from reasonable clothes and colors, to frilly clothes and bright colors.
- Guile Hero: Is quite willing to trick and play dirty against the world threatening calamities she frequently helps fight.
- The Hero: When she appears, she qualifies as she’s the main wielder of the Rainbow of Light and the one who keeps the ponies going when spirits are down.
- Ideal Hero: She’s kind, smart, motherly and friendly.
- Nerves of Steel: Despite all the crazy situations she ends up in, she always keeps a level head. One moment that stands out is when Queen Bumble's army has her at stinger point and she doesn't so much as bat an eye.
- Plucky Girl: Giving up just isn’t in her blood.
- Team Mom: Maybe it's just because she's the only one around most of the time who has thumbs...
- Token Human: Being in a world full of sapient, talking ponies, she stands out due to being a human.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: The tomboy to Molly's
Moe girly girl - Tomboyish Ponytail: She wears a long ponytail behind her head, and she regularly visits the Pony world to help save her Equine friends from multiple villains.
- Vague Age: While she generally appears to be a preteen — old enough to be emotionally mature and independent, but not yet a teenager — her actual age is never given.
- Villain Killer: She kills Tirac, Squirk and Crank, giving her the highest kill count of the heroes.
Molly Williams
Voiced by: Keri Houlihan
Megan's little sister and the youngest of the farmkids. Due to their similar age, she gets on best with the Baby Ponies (and, to a lesser extent, the more childish adult ponies).
- All There in the Script: The toyline that featured her only listed her as "Molly". The shows and movies would add her surname "Williams".
- Annoying Younger Sibling: Especially to Danny, since she and Megan get along fine.
- The Cutie: She's so, so very cute...
- Girlish Pigtails: In contrast to her sister's Tomboyish Ponytail to show that Molly is younger and girlier.
- Kiddy Coveralls: The youngest of the Williams siblings and the one wearing overalls.
- Pink Means Feminine: She wears pink hair ribbons and pink overalls.
- Put on a Bus: The four-parter "The Magic Coins" marks her last appearance.
- Strong Family Resemblance: If Molly had her hair in a single Tomboyish Ponytail, she'd look like a borderline shrunk version of her older sister.
- Team Mom: To the younger ponies.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: The girly-girl to Megan's Team Mom Tomboy
- Vague Age: She appears to be the youngest of her siblings, but her age range isn't otherwise implied or shown outside of "young child".
Danny Williams
Voiced by: Scott Menville
Megan's brother, the middle child of the family.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: To Megan.
- Canon Foreigner: Danny is the only human not to come from the toy line.
- Fiery Redhead: He’s got quite the spirit and his hair is red (despite his sisters both being blonde).
- Hot-Blooded: He’s got a lot of passion.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Sometimes Danny teases his siblings and the ponies. However he comforted Spike when he felt like he didn't belong, and he stood up for Wind Whistler when the other ponies bullied her.
- The One Guy: He and Spike are the two boys much of the time.
- Toyless Toyline Character: He never had a toy and isn't from the toys.
- Vague Age: He is never given a specific age in the show, although his appearance, behavior and level of maturity, combined with the apparent age of his siblings, mostly imply an older child but still years away from being a teenager.
- Volleying Insults: He and Molly tend to get into arguments like this, leaving Megan to break them up.
- Youthful Freckles: He's the only one of his siblings to have freckles, which denote his youthfulness.
Ponies
Earth Ponies
Cupcake
Debut: "The End of Flutter Valley, Part 1"
Voiced by: Russi Taylor
An Earth Pony who specialize in baking.
- Sweet Baker: She's a talented baker and often takes a long time baking to make sure her desserts are perfect.
- Team Mom: Very kindhearted and often helps take care of the baby ponies.
Gingerbread
Voiced by: Sherry Lynn
An exuberant Twinkle-Eye Earth Pony whose favorite food is gingerbread.
- Genki Girl: She's excitable and energetic.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Gingerbread; it's her name and her symbol.
Lickety-Split
Debut: Escape From Catrina
Voiced by: Katie Leigh
An Earth Pony who loves ice cream.
- Ascended Extra: In Escape from Catrina, she was a background pony with only one speaking line. In the cartoon, she became a main character.
- Big Eater: She loves ice cream.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She has a fairly short temper and tends to be rather uncharitable — both Dinah and Woebegone got on her bad side in short order — but she does care about others beneath her rough exterior.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Ice cream.
Magic Star
Voiced by: Jeannie Elias (series) and Ellen Gerstell (movie)
Magic Star is one of Dream Valley's more level-headed natives, and often serves as the ponies' unofficial leader.
- The Ace: There are several characters, but there's very little question as to who their de-facto leader is.
- Badass Normal: She’s an Earth Pony, meaning she’s incapable of using magic or flight, but she’s just as capable of pulling her own weight and even tends to be one of the more sensible ponies.
- Only Sane Woman: Alongside Galaxy and Wind Whistler, she gets the long suffering position of being one of the more sensible ponies who has to keep the others in line and keep them from getting themselves killed.
Posey
Debut: Escape from Catrina
Voiced by: Nancy Cartwright
A shy and retiring Earth Pony who loves to garden.
- Caring Gardener: She cares for her garden and she doesn't like when abything bad happens to her plants.
- Granola Girl: As one might expect, the nature-loving Posey always tries to encourage others to take nature more seriously.
- Nature Lover: She's particularly enamored by the plants she cares for, but gets along well with animals as well.
- Nice Girl: She’s kind and friendly to pretty much everyone, especially her plants.
Scoops
Debut: "The Ice Cream Wars"
Owner of the Satin Slipper Sweet Shoppe.
- One-Shot Character: She only appears in the "Ice Cream Wars", before disappearing for the rest of the show.
- Remember the New Guy?: She only appears in "The Ice Cream Wars", but the First Tooth Baby Ponies are already familiar with her.
- Whatever Happened to the Mouse?: Appears in two scenes in "The Ice Cream Wars", before vanishing for the rest of the show.
Shady
Voiced by: Jill Wayne
A perpetually morose and downbeat pony, Shady has a very low opinion of herself.
- Chronic Self-Deprecation: She has very low self-esteem.
- Cute Clumsy Girl: She tends to fall over and wreck things, much to her shame.
- The Eeyore: She rarely has anything positive to say about a situation or herself.
- Emo Kid: She has qualities of this, given her pessimism and low self-esteem.
- Foil: To Gusty. Shady is very pessimistic, timid, and clumsy, while Gusty is confident, brave, and athletic. These differences are highlighted in "Mish Mash Melee", where the frazzits reverse their personalities and they end up having each other's normal mannerisms.
- I Just Want to Be Special: In "The Glass Princess", she's particularly depressed about her lack of magical tricks, flight, or useful skills, and wishes to have something that makes her special as well.
Sundance
Debut: Escape from Catrina
Voiced by: Laura Dean (movie)
An Earth Pony.
- All There in the Manual: She is Megan's special pony in the toy line. This is showcased in "Escape from Catrina", but not so much in the cartoon, where their only interaction is being ridden by Megan in "Baby, It's Cold Outside".
- Demoted to Extra: She was a main character in "Escape from Catrina", but in the carton she is usually a background character who never speaks.
- The Voiceless: She doesn't have any speaking lines in the cartoon. The out-of-universe reason is because her voice actress from the second special and the movie didn't return and nobody replaced her.
Sweet Stuff
Voiced by: Jeannie Elias (series) and Laurel Page (movie)
A shy Twinkle-Eye Earth Pony.
- Apologises a Lot: Tends to do this, particularly when she's feeling inconvenient.
- Extreme Doormat: She's a bit of a pushover and can get taken advantage of.
- Nice Girl: She is very sweet, kind, and thoughtful.
- Shrinking Violet: She's quite shy and very soft-spoken.
- Wheel o' Feet: When Pluma scares her in "The Ghost of Paradise Estate" while pretending to be a ghost, she briefly gains two of these — one for her front legs and one for her back ones — while running in place before fleeing.
Truly
Debut: "The Ghost of Paradise Estate, Part 1"
Voiced by: Nancy Cartwright
A pony with a southern American accent, Truly is in charge of the nursery and the baby ponies. She can sometimes be snooty and stubborn.
- The Fashionista: She is seen wearing various outfits or accessories in some episodes.
- Southern Belle: She speaks with a southern belle accent, complete with "I do declare".
- Verbal Tic: She often says "really truly", a trait that passed on to My Little Pony Tales' Sweetheart.
Pegasi
Heart Throb
Debut: Escape from Catrina
Voiced by: Katie Leigh
An unabashed romantic who dreams of finding herself a "Prince Charming" to be with some day.
- Ascended Extra: She went from a background character with no speaking lines in Escape from Catrina to a main character in the show.
- The Ditz: Because she's always caught up in her romantic dreams and impulses, she can be kind of goofy.
- Drama Queen: She has her overreacting moments.
- Interspecies Romance: Zigzagged. She reciprocates at first when Prince Charming (a human) flirts with her, but averted in that both of them realise it's kind of awkward and so they mutually call it off.
- Mama Bear: Ah, but she has Hidden Depths. During the Bright Lights arc, she is determined to find and save her daughter after she disappears along with other two fillies.
- Meaningful Name: "Heart Throb" is a hardcore romantic. Who'd have guessed?
- Thinks Like a Romance Novel: What would you expect from someone so in love with the idea of love?
Lofty
Voiced by: Ellen Gerstell (series), Susan Blu (movie)
A Pegasus who likes exploring and can fly very high.
- Mama Bear: In the "Bright Lights" arc, she's determined to save her daughter after being kidnapped nd she confronts Night Shade to give her (and other fillies') shadow back.
Masquerade
Debut: "The Ghost of Paradise Estate, Part 1"
Voiced by: Jeannie Elias
A Twinkle-Eye Pegasus.
- Master of Disguise: She's skilled at making costumes, and uses this talent to her advantage like in "Fugitive Flowers".
North Star
Voiced by: B. J. Ward (series), Cathy Cavadini (movie)
A Pegasus who likes exploring, even if this might get her into danger.
- Bold Explorer: "Through the Trapdoor" begins with her exploring some desolate mountains with Lofty and Paradise and her curiosity gets the better of her when she opens a door that hides the Land of Legends, including a supposedly dangerous monster.
- Fangirl: She becomes a fan of Robin Hood after freeing the archer from the Land of Legends.
- I Am Very British: She has a British accent.
- Lady of Adventure: With her British accent and love of exploration and adventure, she's essentially the Pony Equivalent of one.
Paradise
Voiced by: Susan Blu
A book-loving Pegasus who particularly enjoys telling stories to the other ponies, adults and babies alike.
- Badass Bookworm: She loves reading and can still put up a fight, despite her airheadedness.
- The Ditz: While nowhere near as obvious about it as Fizzy is, she could give her a run for her money any day of the week.
- The Storyteller: Paradise is the pony most interested in stories and legends, has extensive knowledge of these subjects, and appears in several episodes reading or reciting a particular story for the others.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: While in a land of unicorns, dragons, elves, dwarves, and such, she wishes life were a little more like storybooks. Um...
Surprise
Debut: "The End of Flutter Valley, Part 1"
Voiced by: B. J. Ward
A fun-loving, mischievous Pegasus who is constantly running/flying around all over the place. She enjoys making others laugh, playing games, and especially likes playing tricks or otherwise surprising people.
- Catchphrase: "SURPRISE!"
- Fun Personified: She’s like the pony version of a sugar rush.
- Genki Girl: She’s extremely energetic.
- Meaningful Name: She loves surprising her friends by playing pranks and/or just surprising them, hence her name.
- Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: In one episode, she and Danny prevent the theft of the Rainbow of Light — by annoying the would-be thieves into submission.
Twilight
Debut: "Flight to Cloud Castle, Part 1"
- One-Steve Limit: One of the first aversions in the franchise. She shares her name with unicorn Twilight from the first special.
- Remember the New Guy?: She only appears in the "Flight to Cloud Castle" two-parter, before vanishing for the rest of the series, save for a small non-speaking cameo in "Somnambula".
Whizzer
Debut: "The Ghost of Paradise Estate, Part 1"
Voiced by: Jeannie Elias
A speedy Twinkle-Eye Pegasus.
- Motor Mouth: She's the fastest talker as well as the fastest flier, and her words tend to blur into a single stream of sounds.
- Personality Powers: Whizzer, the fastest flier among the ponies, is impatient, prone to rushing into things, easily excited, and easily annoyed when things don't happen fast enough for her liking.
- Speed Demon: She's the fastest of the pegasi, does everything at a rapid pace, and dislikes things happening slowly.
Wind Whistler
Voiced by: Sarah Partridge
The smartest and most logic-driven of the ponies, Wind Whistler's intelligence is useful, but she has problems with alienating her more emotion-driven friends.
- Ascended Extra: In the toyline, she's just another pegasus equivalent in personality to North Star, Lofty, etc. The TV show gives her leading roles in the movie and, later, in numerous episodes, and develops her into the show's deepest and most complex character.
- Curtains Match the Window: She has a pink mane and tail to accompany her pink eyes.
- Depending on the Writer: The most notable instance among the reoccurring ponies. In the toys and British comics, she's The Ditz; in the animated series, she plays The Spock to Fizzy's ditz.
- Did You Think I Can't Feel?: She suffers from this when the other ponies accuse her of being unfeeling for her usual stoicism during "Crunch the Rockdog" when she favors strategy and logic over acting rashly; while she doesn't readily show it, their accusations hurt her deeply.
- Fake Defector: She pretends to betray the other ponies to Crunch and to sympathize with his ruthlessness and lack of empathy, in order to work up to a pretense of offering him Megan as a victim in order to let the latter get close enough to use the Hearstone on him.
- Not So Stoic: In "Crunch the Rockdog", she's shown to feel some bitterness about having a harder time fitting in with the rest of her friends, who keep their distance from her due perceiving her as emotionless and cold.
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: She speaks in a very wordy and loquacious manner to convey her intelligence, which makes it hard for other ponies to understand her at times.
- The Smart Girl: She's the smartest and most rational pony in the cast, and the likeliest one to at least try to think her way around problems.
- The Spock: She values rational thought and logical action over impulsiveness and emotion. Since the rest of the herd is more passionate by nature, they don't agree with her too much. This contrasts her toyline and British comic incarnation, who is The Ditz.
- Spock Speak: She tends to speak in a very technical and verbose manner, describing even simple matters in very complex and technically informative ways that nonetheless often require the others to ask her to repeat herself in simpler terms.
- Team Mom: When Megan isn't available, she shares this role with Magic Star, though she's not as good at it due to her personality clashing with the other ponies'.
- This Is No Time to Panic: In the movie, when the killer trees in the Shadow Forest start attacking, she initially advises against panicking. She's then nearly speared by thrown logs and amends herself to say the now they can panic.
- When She Smiles: She is usually pretty serious and reserved, but whenever she does smile it always looks cute.
Unicorns
Buttons
Voiced by: Susan Blu (series), Sheryl Bernstein (movie)
A Unicorn.
- Genki Girl: Less than Surprise, but still fun-loving.
- Mind over Matter: She has telekinesis.
- Nice Girl: She's level-headed and sweet.
- Only Sane Woman: She's pretty level-headed.
- Ship Tease: With the Big Brother Pony, Slugger, who has a major crush on her.
Fizzy
Voiced by: Katie Leigh
A cheerful but scatterbrained Twinkle-Eye Unicorn who can create bubbles of varying sizes.
- Bubble Gun: She occasionally uses her powers to create dense streams of bubbles to use in this manner.
- Catchphrase: "Well, gosh."
- Cloudcuckoolander: Fizzy is really one of the weirdest ponies in the valley.
- The Ditz: She's the goofiest and most absent-minded of all the ponies.
- Girly Girl: In a franchise known for being female-dominant where even minor characters are more likely to be female than male, she qualifies. Fizzy manages to be the girliest of them all.
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: Her bubble magic doesn't sound like much, but they're surprisingly versatile and consistently useful, as they're often a quick and convenient way of levitating objects, levitating people, and providing impromptu diving gear.
- Playing with Fire: In the UK comics, she prefers fireworks over bubbles.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: The flighty and scatterbrained girly girl to the more practical and focused Wind Whistler. The dynamic is likely the reason why they tend to be grouped together.
Galaxy
Debut: "The Ghost of Paradise Estate, Part 1"
Voiced by: Sherry Lynn
A Twinkle-Eye Unicorn. Galaxy is one of the more intelligent ponies in the show, and serves as the group's magic expert.
- Curtains Match the Window: Her eyes are the same shades of red and pink that dominate her mane.
- The Empath: She's practically Counselor Troi in the form of a magenta, glowing unicorn.
- Light 'em Up: She can generate light with her horn.
- Only Sane Woman: Just about every time bad happens, she's often put into groupings where she's the only one to keep her cool and think things through.
- The Smart Girl: She's not quite on the same level as Wind Whistler, but she's much more level-headed than other ponies and frequently serves as either the voice of reason, the knowledgeable one who informs the others about a new threat or object, or both.
- Surrounded by Idiots: Her lot in life, often being in episodes lacking Magic Star and Wind Whistler and consequently having her be the only one approaching the crisis du jour with the seriousness that's needed. For instance, in "Baby, It's Cold Outside" she's the only pony to be concerned over how it's snowing in the middle of summer, while everyone else waves her concerns off as just her being a party pooper until the rainbow itself freezes solid.
Gusty
Voiced by: Nancy Cartwright
A Unicorn who can call up winds.
- Blow You Away: True to her name, she can conjure up gusts of wind.
- Curtains Match the Window: Downplayed. While her hair is mostly is green to match her green eyes, she has a pink stripe in her mane.
- Depending on the Writer: In American canon she's a Jerkass with a short temper. In the British comics, however, she's rather sweet and gentle, even being a nurse and a guardian to the Baby Ponies.
- Foil: To Shady. Gusty is confident, brave, and athletic, while Shady is very pessimistic, timid, and clumsy. These differences are highlighted in "Mish Mash Melee", where the frazzits reverse their personalities and they end up having each other's normal mannerisms.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's brave and athletic, but can be impatient and stubborn.
- Plot Allergy: She's allergic to pigs, of all things. This turns out to be somewhat of a problem in "The Glass Princess, Part 4", given that their main foe right then is a pig and that constant sneezing makes stealth a touch difficult.
- The Worf Effect: Gusty is the most combat-oriented of the ponies, so in order to show that the villains mean business something bad usually happens to her.
Mimic
Debut: "The Golden Horseshoes, Part 1"
Voiced by: Ellen Gerstell
A sick unicorn who's succumbing to a magical affliction.
- Fading Away: The main symptom of Mimic's magical illness is her growing increasingly translucent and insubstantial.
- Lamarck Was Right: Mimic's illness is a result of being the direct descendant of the Golden Horseshoes' original owner.
- One-Shot Character: Mimic only appears in "The Golden Horseshoes", making no further appearances or cameos in other episodes.
- Remember the New Guy?: She debuts in "The Golden Horseshoes", but is introduced as a familiar character whom the others are already well-acquainted with.
Ribbon
Voiced by: Katie Leigh
A maternal and caring Unicorn pony who takes it upon herself to look after the various Baby Ponies.
- Good Parents: She's caring towards the younger ponies, including her own daughter, whom she helps when she has trouble winking in.
- Team Mom: She manages the nursery.
- Telepathy: She can detect others' thoughts and transmit her own. It can even span dimensions, as when she uses it to warn Megan of Tambelon's approach after becoming trapped there.
Other Ponies
The Baby Ponies
Voiced by: Jill Wayne (Baby Lofty), Katie Leigh (Baby Sundance)
Debut: My Little Pony: The Movie (1986) (Baby Lofty, Baby Sundance), "The End of Flutter Valley, Part 1" (Baby Cuddles), "The Ice Cream Wars" (First Tooth Baby Ponies, Newborn Twins)
The infant ponies, who for the most part resemble miniature versions of their parents. During the interseason gap, they grow into the First Tooth Ponies and are joined by two pairs of newborn twins.
- A Day in the Limelight: The First Tooth ponies get this twice in season two, with "The Ice Cream Wars" and "The Prince and the Ponies".
- Adaptation Species Change: Baby Sniffles and Baby Snookums are unicorns in the toyline. Here, they're portrayed as earth ponies.
- Baby Talk: They talk like this to varying degrees, depending on the specific pony in question. Some, like Baby Heart Throb, speak in fragmented sentences, while another Baby Pony may speak with a childish lisp. Lickety-Split goes back and forth, from perfectly fluent to Hulk Speak (while being intelligent enough to be a main character of multiple stories). The newborn twins don't speak at all, they just make noises.
- Jerkass Realization: In "The Prince and the Ponies", the jealous foals wish all manner of unpleasant fates on the Newborn Twins when said twins are the ones invited to a banquet. The older foals are horrified when it turns out to have been a trap and one of those fates (captivity) comes true.
- Remember the New Guy?: With the exception of Baby Lickety-Split, all the First Tooth Ponies and Newborn Twins are completely different characters from the fillies who were introduced previously.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Most of them look exactly like their parents, only smaller.
- Theme Naming: All of them follow the Baby X name pattern.
The Flutter Ponies
Voiced by: Nancy Cartwright (Honeysuckle and Forget-Me-Not), Russi Taylor (Rosedust, Morning Glory and Peach Blossom)
A group of small, butterfly-winged fairy-ponies who wield powerful magic of their own. Though separate from the pony society and living in their own hidden village, they are often sought out for help against powerful hostile magic.
- Big Damn Heroes:
- In the movie, the Flutter Ponies, led as a battalion by Queen Rosedust, drive back the Smooze just before it engulfs Paradise Estate and everyone in it.
- In "End of Flutter Valley", Honeysuckle returns with the Stonebacks just in time to rescue Megan, Sting, and the Flutterponies with enough time to still save Flutter Valley.
- Bragging Theme Tune: Their song in "Bright Lights" is a long Badass Boast about how powerful their magic is, how they can't be caught or stopped, and how thoroughly they're going to trounce the villains.We are the Flutter Ponies!
Better run and hide!
We can zig and zag and zoom
Up and down and side to side!
We are the Flutter Ponies!
Now you've met your match!
Faster than a lighting bolt!
We're impossible to catch! - Floral Theme Naming: They're all named after flowers. Lily, Honeysuckle, Forget-Me-Not, Morning Glory, and Peach Blossom are named after specific flower types; Rosedust is an odd one out, as her name includes a flower.
- Fragile Speedster: The Flutter Ponies are extremely fast and agile, on top of hitting extremely hard with their Utter Flutter, but are physically weaker and frailer than the other tribes.
- Hidden Elf Village: They make their home in Flutter Valley, a hidden and secluded settlement where they live in deep seclusion.
- The High Queen: Rosedust is the Queen of the Flutter Ponies, and she's a benevolent pony who helps the heroes many times.
- Neutral No Longer: In the movie, they initially prefer to remain hidden away from the world, but decide to help once they realize that Hydia would destroy Flutter Valley.
- Put on a Bus: They make no appearances after "The Return of Tambelon".
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The cynical, cautious Honeysuckle and the optimistic, trusting Morning Glory.
- Squishy Wizard: The Flutter Ponies' Utter Flutter hits like a truck, being one of the most powerful abilities in the series and curbstomping several incredibly powerful threats. However, the Flutter Ponies are shown to be physically frail and not very strong.
- The Voiceless: Lily is the only one without speaking lines.
- Wind from Beneath My Wings: The Utter Flutter takes the form of a large gust of wind created by their collective flapping.
- Worf Had the Flu: They spend most of "End of Flutter Valley" captive and in danger because their wings are covered in honey and thus they can't use their Utter Flutter. It's implied that Bumble and her swarm can't win a straight fight with them, as the Flutter Ponies booted them from the Valley originally. Once their wings are dried and they're capable of fighting back, they proceed to curbstomp Hydia.
Morning Glory
A trusting and adventurous flutter pony, who stumbles across Spike, Baby Lickety-Split and the Grundles after having wandered outside of Flutter Valley and who later befriends the bee Sting after the flutter ponies are captured by Queen Bumble.
- Answering Echo: In the movie, while trapped in a well, she sings her part of "What Good Will Wishing Do?" by echoing Baby Lickety Split, who's bemoaning her own lot.No one's in a fix like I am (I am)
No one has the luck I do (I do)
No one's had the setbacks I have (I have)
Look where life has led me to (Me too!) - Befriending the Enemy: In "The End of Flutter Valley", she tries to befriend Sting in order to get him to free her from the cage she's held in. It doesn't work — he remains loyal to Queen Bumble in the end — but it sets the seeds for his actual redemption once he realizes that Bumble doesn't care about him.
- Character Development: She starts "The End of Flutter Valley" as a Wide-Eyed Idealist who believes that all violence is bad and it is necessary to always see good in others, and by the end of it she becomes an Action Girl who knows how to fight and learns that not everyone can be trusted.
- The Ingenue: She's optimistic, trusting and somewhat naïve, and her desire to seek the good in others and the outside world has both benefited the flutter ponies and brought them trouble.
- Took a Level in Badass: She learns to fight while under influence of Sting "The End of Flutter Valley", culminating in her defending him from Pointer by knocking the latter out.
The Baby Sea Ponies
Voiced by: Nancy Cartwright (Ripple, Sealight), Katie Leigh (Sea Shimmer, Sun Shower), Russi Taylor (Surf Rider), Sherry Lynn (Water Lily)
A group of infant sea ponies who have been left under the care of the ponies of Dream Valley.
- Our Hippocamps Are Different: They're horse-headed seahorses, and serve as the setting's equivalent of mermaids.
- Put on a Bus: They don't appear at all in Season 2.
- Scatting: Shoo-bee-doo, shoo-shoo-bee-doo, shoo-bee-doo, shoo-shoo-bee-doo!
- Stout Strength: They're small and kind of pudgy, but they're a lot stronger than you'd expect.
- Token Aquatic Race: Sea ponies are the only truly aquatic species in the setting — all other creatures based on sea animals are either one-offs, like Squirk and Crank, or live on dry land, like the Crabnasties.
The Princess Ponies
The Princess Ponies, Starburst, Royal Blue, Tiffany, Primrose, Serena and Sparkle, live in the Royal Paradise beyond the Jewel Desert. They're charged with guarding the magic of Ponyland, but spend most of their time bickering about which one of them should be queen (although queen of what isn't all that clear).
- Aerith and Bob: Starburst, Royal Blue, Primrose, Serena, Sparkle, and... Tiffany.
- Authority in Name Only: The Princess Ponies don't actually rule Ponyland, they just possess wands that keep the land's magic in balance. This does nothing to mitigate their delusions of influence.
- Green Thumb: Their wands' powers include the ability to make plants grow.
- Magic Wand: Their magic comes from a set of six star-spangled, star-headed wands that contain the power to control all of Ponyland's natural processes and magic.
- Skewed Priorities: When Lavan orders them thrown into a lava pit, one of the princesses complains that this will ruin her complexion.
- Weather Manipulation: Their wands' powers include the ability to control Ponyland's weather.
The Big Brother Ponies
Debut: "Somnambula, Part 1"
The male counterparts to the little ponies, who spend most of their time racing around the world.
- Distressed Dude: The big brothers, despite starting out as would-be rescuers themselves, are snared by Somnambula's magic and need to themselves be saved by Kyrie, Spike and the baby ponies.
- Shared Unusual Trait: They have a stripe in their mane that is colored differently from the rest of their hair.
- Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: They're distinguished from the female ponies by wearing neckerchiefs instead of tail bows and by having longer fetlock hair.
Others
Spike
Voiced by: Charlie Adler
An infant dragon who was originally a prisoner of Tirac. Even after Megan defeated the monster and his friend Scorpan returned to his own kingdom, he chose to stay with the ponies in Dream Land.
- Adaptational Attractiveness: A noticeable example. In the toys and comics he has bucked teeth and more pronounced ears.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: He's purple in the toys, but pink in the original cartoon. Some cartoons have him as purple though.
- Breakout Character: Spike would go on to become a recurring character in the various incarnations of My Little Pony, and his character in G1 would have a significant impact in the development of his G3 and G4 versions.
- Deadpan Snarker: At times, particularly in "The Magic Coins."
- Era-Specific Personality: He's considerably more snarkish in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. In G3 he's stuffy, British, and generally very unlike his other versions.
- The One Guy: Up until Danny came along, he was the only named male character in the central cast.
- Our Dragons Are Different: In this case, they're small, cute and friendly — traits mostly due to Spike being still an infant — can breathe fire, and are the classic fully reptilian, crocodile-bellied sort of older Western visual media.
Mr. Moochick
Voiced by: Tony Randall
A knowledgeable but scatterminded hermit who lives in the Mushromp. Megan and the ponies frequently seek him out for his magical knowledge, which often proves crucial in dealing with the threat du jour.
- Absent-Minded Professor: The Moochick is wise and very knowledgeable, but also chronically absent-minded and disorganized, and prone to forgetting where he put whatever it is that's needed at the moment.
- Ambiguous Species: It's not clear what he is, precisely — he's obviously no sort of talking animal like most other characters, but his shortness and pointed ears also preclude his being a human. He mostly resembles a gnome or fairytale elf of some kind, but is never identified as such.
- Genius Ditz: He always knows exactly what the ponies need to do to fix whatever apocalypse they're in the middle of now, but he has a terrible memory and a tendency to misplace very important items and tools.
- Wizard Classic: He hits a fair share of the trope's points — he's got the flowing white beard, the cane, the huge hat, the knowledge of obscure and plot-important lore and magic, and the secluded house in the middle of the wilderness.
Habbit
The Moochick's long-suffering rabbit assistant.
- Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: He tempers his boss' absent-mindedness and holds onto crucial items he'd inevitably misplace.
- Partially Civilized Animal: He's clearly more of an assistant than a pet for the Moochick, wears clothes, can operate simple machines and is in many ways more responsible and focused than his boss, but he cannot talk and seems to be a regular rabbit otherwise.
- The Silent Bob: He never speaks out loud, and communicates purely through body languages, pointing, tapping the Moochick's shoulder and a variety of exasperated facial expressions.
- Smart People Play Chess: In the movie, the fact that he's generally smarter than his boss is first shown when he handily beats him in a game of chess played on four boards at once.
- White Bunny: He's an all-white rabbit, complete with pink ears and a pink nose. Notably, in his debut in Rescue at Midnight Castle, he's brown — his all-white appearance was created for the TV series.
- You Don't Look Like You: His appearance in the first special is notably different from how he's depicted in the movie and the rest of the series. There, he has straight ears rather than his later floppy ones, wears clothing, is brown instead of white, is much shorter than the Moochick, and generally looks younger.
The Bushwoolies
Left to right, Wishful, Chumster and Hugster
Voiced by: Alice Payten, Sheryl Bernstein, Nancy Cartwright, Russi Taylor, Charlie Adler and Frank Welker
Round fluffy creatures who roam the valley in large packs. Friendly by nature, they agree with anything anybody says and are among the ponies' recurring allies.
The only named bushwoolies are Wishful, Chumster and Hugster in "The End of Flutter Valley", although a trio with their same designs also appears in "The Glass Princess" and a blue bushwooly with Hugster's general design tends to turn up as a leader figure for the bushwoolies in most of their appearances.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: They're extremely brightly colored even compared to the ponies, coming in highly saturated shades of pink, purple, red, orange, yellow, green and blue. In general, it's highly unlikely for there to be more than one or two bushwoolies of the same shade in any singly shot.
- Cartoon Creature: They're not based on any specific creature, instead resembling walking piles of colorful fuzz or generic plush toys come to life.
- The Dividual: The bushwoolies typically appear in groups of up to a dozen, without individual personalities or names, and are never seen alone. Their tendency to speak quickly and talk over each other also makes it impossible to tell which one is saying any specific thing. For all narrative intents and purposes, they act as a single character that so happens to have several designs on-screen at any given time.
- "The End of Flutter Valley" averts this by giving the three bushwoolies in its story unique names and character traits; however, it doesn't stick in future episodes.
- Lampshaded in "Sweet Stuff and the Treasure Hunt", where they turn out to be the last thing to be found in a scavenger hunt — the clue leading to them describes the item to be found as "Something that is one even when it is many".
- Forgotten Phlebotinum: In "The End of Flutter Valley, Part 3", it turns out that Wishful can somehow make things happen just by wishing them, something he never does again after in the episode or the series — although, granted, it doesn't actually work the one time he tries it.
- Make a Wish: In "The End of Flutter Valley", Wishful claims to be able to make things happen by wishing for them to do so. When he tries to put this in practice, however, it entirely fails to work.
- No Sense of Direction: Due to their excessively agreeable natures, bushwoolies are very poor at finding or giving directions — they'll heartily agree with whatever directions anybody proposes and aren't very good at coming up with good ones themselves, as Spike finds out to his chagrin in "The Quest of the Princess Ponies".Spike: Oh, some shortcut, we've been walking for hours. Okay, let's try again. Which way leads to Dream Valley?
Bushwoolies: This way! That way! Sure! That way! You bet!
Spike: [sigh] - Yes-Man: Their thing is that they'll compulsively agree with the latest thing anyone said in their earshot, leading them to emphatically support both sides of an argument and eagerly supporting each side until the other one says something.
The Grundles
Voiced by: Danny DeVito (Grundle King)
Short, trollish humanoids whose kingdom, Grundleland, was destroyed by the Smooze in the past, forcing them to hide underground. They reappear in "The Return of Tambelon", where a handful of their number are among the few residents of Dream Valley not to have been captured by Grogar.
- All Trolls Are Different: The Grundles are short, ugly but goodhearted humanoids who live underground.
- Beauty Equals Goodness: Subverted. They're initially mistaken for monsters by Baby Lickety-Split and Spike before they explain their good intentions. The Flutter Ponies later try to de-Smooze them, under the assumption that they were turned monstrous by the Smooze, but the Grundles assure them that this is how they've always looked.
- Ethnicity Monarch: Downplayed. The Grundle King is, well, the king of all Grundles... which count five members including him.
- No Name Given: They're never identified by name, and are instead referred to by everyone, including themselves, as "Grundle" or "Grundle King".
- Prone to Tears: The Grundles burst into tears whenever Grundleland is so much as named, as any reminder of how much they miss their lost homeland will open the floodgates. Their king has become extremely careful not actually bring Grundleland in conversation as a result.
- The Remnant: They're the only Grundles left after the witches succeeded in destroying the kingdom they once lived in.
- The Smurfette Principle: Out of the five Grundles seen in the movie, only one is female.
- Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: The female Grundle is distinguished by wearing a dress and having hair.
- Third-Person Person: They always refer to themselves by their species name instead of using pronouns.
- Unusual Euphemism: The king tends to say "aw, Grundlemumf!" in situations where profanity would be expected in a work with a higher rating.
