Maretime Bay
Home of the earth ponies, Maretime Bay is a peaceful seaside town whose residents are nevertheless living in constant fear of the unicorns and the pegasi, something which the local main business Canterlogic exploited to sell their anti-unicorn/pegasus defense products. After the events of the first movie, a number of pegasi and unicorns begin to move into the town, although relationships between them and the earth ponies aren't always ideal. open/close all folders
General
- Crapola Tech: CanterLogic's protection gear has obviously never been field tested. For one, most of it is for protection from things the earth ponies think the unicorns and pegasi can do, not for things they can actually do. The first time any of it is used in a real "invasion" — that is, Izzy just walking casually into town — the safety tech either does nothing at all or backfires on the citizens. This contrasts with the pegasi having tech analogous to the real world — cell phones, biometric scanners, etc. — that works precisely as it's supposed to. Needless to say, by Chapter 4 the company has been dissolved and the factory is abandoned, and seemingly has been for quite a while.
- The Dictatorship: In A New Generation, after Sunny and Hitch leave, Sprout becomes a rabble-rousing dictator and turns Maretime Bay into a miniature military dictatorship under himself.
- Irony: A company that manufactures defense items against unicorn and pegasi ironically has a name reminiscent of an ancient city primarily inhabited by unicorns.
- No Name Given: The balloon pony is the only CanterLogic model not named by Phyllis during the presentation and the credits only list him by what he is known for. Even the newspaper mentioning his disappearance, as seen during "Angry Mob", doesn't give his name.
- Outside-Context Problem: As the town was originally inhabited solely by earth ponies, its laws are made with their specific abilities and lack thereof in mind. In Make Your Mark, when pegasi and unicorns start moving in, the lack of laws about things non-earth ponies can do causes confusion for Hitch and the residents.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In A New Generation, when Sprout commands the earth ponies against the unicorns and pegasi in the film's climax, several of them turn tail and run away instead, much to his irritation.
- Skeleton Government: The Bay has no authorities other than Sheriff Hitch, who only deals with crime. It's the protagonists who coordinate community efforts and maintain public areas.
- Ungrateful Townsfolk: A good chunk of the populace in "Ali Conned" (including the pegasi and unicorns now living there) continues to see Sunny's activism as "lost causes" despite her being the one responsible for restoring the bonds of friendship between the three pony races. They only bother to pay attention whenever Sunny's in alicorn form and are just as quick to boo her off the podium when she doesn't assume said form when making a speech, much to her grief.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Outside of a quick back cover photograph on a magazine read by Misty and Zipp in "Dragon Dad", the balloon pony has not reappeared even in background shots in either animated series or the comics.
Mane Melody
Jazz Hooves
Voiced by: Samantha Bielanski
An earth pony who works at Mane Melody.- A Day in the Limelight: She's the focus of the TYT episodes "All That Jazz", "Baby Critters Club", and "Jazz Loves Rocky".
- Badly Battered Babysitter: In "Baby Critters Club", she is hired to look after the critters at the Brighthouse while the Mane Five are away. She spends most of the short running around and desperately trying to keep the critters under control.
- Competition Freak: In "Nightmare on Mane Street", she and Rocky get really competitive with each other over finding the Golden Pumpkin hidden somewhere in Maretime Bay.
- Creative Sterility: In "All That Jazz", she confesses that the hooficures she gives ponies are based on an online library of designs, which causes her to panic when she uses them all up. Izzy helps her to gain the creativity to make her own designs.
- Meaningful Name: She's a singer whose name references Jazz music.
- Official Couple: She and Rocky become this in the appropriately titled Tell Your Tale episode "Jazz Hearts Rocky".
- Promoted Fangirl: As revealed in the Pippcast, she was a major fan of Pipp's music before getting her job at Mane Melody.
- Series Continuity Error: In the Pippcast, she states she was a fan of Pipp since childhood despite the tribes being fearful/prejudiced against each other and having no contact in memory. While it would make sense that Jazz's exaggerating, the work never hints if that's the case.
Rocky Riff
Voiced by: Jonathan Tan
A pegasus who works at Mane Melody.- Alliterative Name: Rocky Riff.
- Competition Freak: In "Nightmare on Mane Street", he and Jazz get really competitive with each other over finding the Golden Pumpkin hidden somewhere in Maretime Bay.
- Hidden Depths: "The Manesquerade Ball" shows him to be a fairly skilled DJ.
- Meaningful Name: His first name references the Rock music genre, while his surname is a nod to a guitar riff.
- Official Couple: He and Jazz become this in the appropriately titled Tell Your Tale episode, "Jazz Hearts Rocky".
- Satellite Character: He never shows up without Jazz Hooves or them interacting at least as co-worker, contrasting Jazz who has appeared solo and even had focus episodes.
Original Residents
Phyllis Cloverleaf
Voiced by: Elizabeth Perkins (film), Ruth Marshall (series)
The owner and CEO of CanterLogic, a high-tech company that specializes in protection gear from Unicorns and Pegasus.
- All Part of the Show: She invokes this twice during the CanterLogic expo:
- When Sparkle Chaser, while showing off the "Pega-Periscope Goggles" falls off the runway, she tells the audience this verbatim.
- When Sunny jumps on stage to try and convince the Earth ponies to accept Unicorns and Pegasi, getting caught up in the final demonstration as a result, Phyllis unconvincingly tries to act like everything is going as planned.
- Bait-and-Switch: At first it appears she will be the main villain (or closest to one) of the whole film. Then her son Sprout takes over as the dictator of Maretime Bay and becomes the final antagonist the heroes have to face to reunite the Pony Tribes and return magic to Equestria.
- The Cameo:
- She appears in a photograph with Sprout and later in-person reading a newspaper in "Top Remodel".
- She makes non-speaking appearances in both parts of "Roots of All Evil".
- Caustic Critic: She plays this role in the Tell Your Tale short "Welcome to Mane Melody", threatening to give Pipp's salon a review negative enough to get it closed down if she's not 100% satisfied with Pipp's work (and proudly claims to have done the same thing to many former businesses).
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Whether or not she believed in what she preached about unicorns and pegasi (she actually does), she still profited from these prejudices by marketing and selling anti-Unicorn/Pegasi defense products to the residents of Maretime Bay — products which are at best defective and useless in their actual purpose and at worst more dangerous to the user than the unicorns and pegasi they were meant to defend earth ponies from. She later lets Sprout commandeer the factory and turn it into a No OSHA Compliance nightmare, with workers constantly at risk of being crushed, falling from high places, and being injured by their own equipment. It's hardly any surprise to learn later that the company was disbanded with the HQ building later reformed into Canterlot Studios.
- Everyone Has Standards: She's happy to foment fear against other pony breeds to sell her defense products to the local population, but she has no desire to actually attack anyone and start a war, and tries to rein in her son when he attempts just that.
- Foil: Phyillis is one for Argyle in terms of parenting. While Argyle teaches Sunny about friendship and encourages her to be friends with other creatures, Phyllis teaches Sprout to be fearful of the other pony races and sees befriending them as nonsense.
- Foreshadowing: A minor one, but when Izzy Moonbow visits Maretime Bay and causes a panic, rather than hide inside her own building, Phyllis actually stands out in front of her company with her employees and takes charge of the 'defence' of Maretime Bay, wearing one of the 'anti-mind reading' helmets and coordinating a 'Splat-a-pult' bombardment against Izzy and Sunny. This hints early on that she doesn't just peddle anti-Unicorn/Pegasi racism for craven profit and might actually be sincere in her misbeliefs, as well as hinting the Bait-and-Switch later in the film with her son Sprout.
- Gone Horribly Right: Raising Sprout to hate unicorns and Pegasi and encouraging her son to take charge as temporary sheriff eventually leads him to becoming a rabble-rousing dictator, much to her own consternation.
- Heel–Face Turn: She's the initial representative of racist earth ponies, but she has a change of heart after seeing the destruction Sprout wreaks in the name of those values, even putting herself in front of Sprout and his war machine in a desperate attempt to stop his son's madness. Together with the other two leader figures of the Pony Tribes, she eventually accepts Sunny's message of choosing friendship and unity over fear and division, an act which finally activates the three Pony Crystals and brings magic back to Equestria.
- Heel Realization: She starts one when Sunny reveals the other pony tribes don't have magic, meaning unicorns and pegasi can't do any of the spells or flying that supposedly makes them dangerous. It's cemented when Sprout goes totally overboard in driving the earth ponies into war, and she understands how toxic her beliefs really are.
- Horrible Judge of Character: She didn't have a very high opinion of Argyle, labeling him "trouble" for his beliefs in unity between all ponies.
- Look Behind You: When Sprout asks his mother after magic returns whether he was a good sheriff or not, Phyllis — having nothing good to say to her son after seeing him going mad with power and becoming a full-on dictator who took over the town, hijacked her company's tech and resources to build a giant robot, and tried to start an all-out race war — just distracts him by pointing him to a flying dog and trotting off before he turns his head back, leaving him annoyed and despondent.
- My Beloved Smother: Phyllis is clearly why Sprout is the way he is, what with her constant coddling and anti-unicorn and pegasus rhetoric. She also still essentially talks to and treats him like a baby, trying to stop her (adult) son from going on a racist rampage in his giant war machine by telling him to "put [his] toy away".
- My God, What Have I Done?: She slowly has this realization as her son Sprout goes Drunk with Power and becomes a rabblerousing dictator, all because of her racist teachings and encouragement.
- Not Allowed to Grow Old: She doesn't look a day older after the Time Skip that follows the prologue.
- Out of Focus: After playing a significant role in the movie, Phyllis has only made one speaking appearance since then.
- Parental Substitute: Implied when Hitch leaves Sunny's home with her and Sprout in the prologue, and with no mention of Hitch's own family in the movie or series thus far, well…except when his grandma is introduced in the Christmas special. There remains some wiggle room for debate if Figgy was Hitch's primary caregiver since there's still no mention of any parents.
- Parents as People: She clearly loves her son Sprout and does everything possible to encourage him to succeed in life, but it's clear that her coddling as well as racism for the other pony tribes had detrimentally affected Sprout's character and unintentionally set him off down the destructive path he would go down later in the film.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Her parroting of the racist rhetoric that permeates Maritime Bay towards her son turns him into a power-mad dictator.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: It's revealed that she actually does believe what she preaches about unicorns and pegasi and makes and markets her products to protect earth ponies from them. Seeing how her son took her preachings too far when he became Drunk with Power and goes full-on rabblerousing dictator gives her second thoughts, however.
Sprout Cloverleaf
Voiced by: Ken Jeong (speaking), Alan Schmuckler (singing) (film), Joshua Graham (series, My Little Pony: A Maretime Bay Adventure)
Phyllis' son, Sprout is the deputy sheriff of Maretime Bay. While initially a young stallion with big dreams but not much motivation, things change when Hitch leaves Maretime Bay in pursuit of Sunny and Izzy, leaving him to step into the role as the temporary sheriff of Maretime Bay...
For more information about him visit the villains page.
Argyle Starshine
Voiced by: Michael McKean (film), Robert Tinkler (series)
Sunny's father, a researcher who studies ancient Equestria.
- Big Good: He's responsible for Sunny being who she is, having been a big proponent for friendship between the different kinds of ponies himself, and his legacy after his presumed death plays a huge role in bringing ponies together.
- The Cameo:
- He appears in a photograph with Sunny, Hitch, and Grandma Figgy while the elderly mare showcases her photo album to the Mane Five in Winter Wishday.
- In "Cutie Blossom Bash", he appears in a flashback when Sunny explains how she got her cutie mark.
- Deceased Parents Are the Best: He's the one who inspired and nurtured Sunny's dream of a united Equestria, and it's heavily implied after the Time Skip in the opening act that he's dead.
- Foil: Argyle is one for Phyllis in terms of parenting. While Argyle teaches Sunny about friendship and encourages her to be friends with other creatures, Phyllis teaches Sprout to be fearful of the other pony races and sees befriending them as nonsense.
- Greater-Scope Paragon: It was he who taught Sunny that all ponies can be friends, with the Tell Your Tale short "Starscout Code" revealing that he left a recording for Sunny encouraging her to bring all the tribes together.
- Killed Offscreen: While never outright said, it is heavily implied that Argyle died sometime during the Time Skip from when Sunny was a filly to now. He doesn't appear in person for the rest of the film, and his glasses and brooch are set out on a table next to a framed photo of him. Sunny talks to a picture of him and herself by the front door before heading out for her Canterlogic protest; after it all goes wrong, she sits on a curb wishing he were there. Later in Starscout Code after Sunny finds a recording of her father in which he tells her about the ancient blanket artifacts hidden in Zephyr Heights and Bridlewood, how it will take Sunny's "whole family" to find the other pieces, Sunny points out how she's the only member of her family left. In Sunny Starscout's Book of Adventure and Issue #14 of the comics, Sunny outright says her father has died.
- Memento MacGuffin: Provides two of these for Sunny.
- His journal is filled with his notes and maps, and she adds quite a bit to it as she grows up and always keeps it within easy reach (unless it's taken from her). The image of Twilight Sparkle's cutie mark on the cover is what ultimately leads Zipp to join her quest.
- When Sunny was a filly, he made a wind-up lamp that projected images of ponies all over her bedroom. Sunny later discovers that it contains the third crystal needed to help restore magic to Equestria.
- Shut Up, Hannibal!: Downplayed example, but when Phyllis Cloverleaf accuses him of brainwashing his daughter with his "nonsense", he retorts without raising his voice that it is called "research", and he leaves the brainwashing in Maretime Bay to her.
- Small Role, Big Impact: While he's heavily implied to be dead after the Time Skip, his research into Equestria's true history is why Sunny is such a big pony unification activist, and more directly his idea to have Sunny send out a sort of Message in a Bottle (or, more accurately, a floating lantern) triggers a chain reaction of events that not only bring ponies back together but restores magic to Equestria.
- Sugary Malice: He accuses Phyllis of brainwashing the ponies of Maretime Bay with the same tone one might use to discuss the weather.
Posey Bloom
Voiced by: Kimberly Ann Truong
An earth pony who lives in a cottage on the outskirts of Maretime Bay.
- Adaptational Jerkass: She's generally meaner and sassier than her G1 counterpart.
- A Day in the Limelight: The Tell Your Tale short "Snow Pun Intended" revolves around her struggle to enjoy the snowfall.
- Butt-Monkey: Her appearances often feature her experiencing some kind of misfortune, often related to magic. This reaches its apex in "Nightmare on Mane Street" when Opaline steals her cutie mark.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: While both she and Sprout are Earth Pony antagonists who oppose the unity of the three tribes in some manner, the way they go about it is noticeably different. While Sprout seemed at least partially in it for power, through his rapid rise to "Emperor", Posey never seeks any higher office and instead is mostly content to just complain instead of taking direct action. Posey also displays only minimal Fantastic Racism and doesn't want to go to war with the other tribes, her main issue is with their usage of magic. Unlike Sprout, Posey has a Jerkass Realization and apologizes to the Mane Five at the end.
- Demoted to Extra: After her antagonistic role in the first episode of Make Your Mark, Posey was relegated to background appearances and even in Tell Your Tale, she started appearing much less frequently once Chapter 2 of the former premiered. The fifth chapter changes this around a little, giving her speaking roles in the final two episodes.
- Does Not Like Magic: Due to a belief that the unicorns and pegasi are irresponsible at best, and malicious at worse, she campaigns to have a Ban on Magic for Maretime Bay Day. She changes her tune after gaining magic of her own and also being saved by Sunny's magic.
- Green Thumb: When the earth ponies regain their magic, she's among the first to display it in the form of causing flowers to grow from the pavement.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Given how often her Butt-Monkey status has to do with magical mishaps, it's hard to deny she has some legitimate points regarding magic being unsafe if used improperly. She also criticizes how unfair it is unicorns and pegasi got new powers from magic returning while earth ponies got nothing, which Hitch acknowledges and is shown when she loses a completion because pegasi flight gave them an unfair advantage.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She is often rather sassy and occasionally outright hostile towards others. But she is still willing to apologise once she realises she went too far, and even asks Pipp to perform for Maretime Bay Day.
- Odd Friendship: Mane Smelody reveals that she and Windy are best friends, despite her constant complaints about pegasi.
- Took a Level in Kindness: After the events of the Make Your Mark special, she realizes the errors of her ways and apologizes to everypony for her behavior, even asking Pipp to sing her new song she wrote for Maretime Bay Day and offering to sing along with her. However, as seen in "Neighfever", she still has her jerkish moments.
- Villainy-Free Villain: She is the closest thing to a main antagonist in the Make Your Mark special, however, she never does anything outright villainous. She spends a lot of time making complaints about the use of magic in Maretime Bay, though many of those complaints are legitimate (such as pegasi crashing into other ponies and unicorns being clumsy with their magic) making it a case of Jerkass Has a Point. She also threatens to organize a boycott of Maretime Bay Day if magic is allowed to take place — which is a valid method of protest against the problems she sees. While she does contribute to the destabilisation of magic with her actions, this makes her an Unwitting Instigator of Doom at worst. Notably, she comes nowhere near Sprout's level of antagonism, as she doesn't even want pegasi and unicorns banned from Maretime Bay, only restricted from using their powers.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: The TYT short "Snow Pun Intended" shows her being terrified when she's flying in the Marestream.Posey: I'm an earth pony, not a sky pony, I'm an earth pony, not a sky pony....
Dahlia
Debut: My Little Pony: A New Generation (visual), "Neighfever" (speaking)
Voiced by: Sara Garcia
An earth pony flower vendor.
- Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: She wears a scarf around her neck.
- A Day in the Limelight: After being a background character in the movie, she gets an episode centered around her ("Neighfever") in Tell Your Tale.
- Flowers of Nature: She wears a flower in her mane, fitting her job as a florist.
- Green Thumb: With some guidance from Sunny, she taps into the earth ponies' newly-gained power over plants, creating towering flowers. After this ends in disaster, she discovers that she can change the colors of her flowers by sneezing on them.
- Heroic BSoD: In "Neighfever". First due to the earth ponies' newfound Green Thumb abilities essentially rendering her business unnecessary, then due to her attempts at that harnessing that power engulfing all of Maretime Bay in a cloud of pollen.
- Irony: The Make Your Mark episode "Growing Pains" reveals that she's allergic to gardenias.
- My God, What Have I Done?: She is horrified when the giant plants she creates tip over, showering Maretime Day in a giant cloud of pollen.
- Twitchy Eye: She suffers this in "Neighfever" when nopony wants to buy her flowers.
Rufus
Debut: "Nightmare Roommate"
An earth pony street magician who finds himself out of a market after true magic returns to the world.
- All There in the Script: His name was first revealed in the credits of "Nightmare Roommate".
- Crippling Overspecialization: After magic returns, his tricks are considered obsolete. Izzy spends most of "One Trick Pony" trying to help him find a new job, but his habit of throwing his illusions into things just makes it harder.
- A Day in the Limelight: "One Trick Pony" is about him trying to find his place after the return of magic made everypony lose interest in his magic tricks.
- Didn't Think This Through: He tries to impress Queen Haven by making her crown disappear via sleight of hand. Haven instead thinks he's trying to steal the crown, and calls him a thief.
- Early-Bird Cameo: He first appeared briefly in "Nightmare Roommate", in Hitch's holding cell.
- Green Thumb: He displays the ability to both grow and direct vines, using them to save the falling Glory. He later uses this talent to assist with the backstage systems for Pipp's latest show.
- Hypocrite: In the TYT short "All That Jazz", he claims that any pony of style doesn't copy another. But when he sees the hooficure design Jazz Hooves made for Izzy, he asks for the exact same design.
- Noodle Incident: What he did to get himself arrested is never explained.
- Stage Names: He goes by "Hoofdini" while performing.
Grandma Figgy
Voiced by: Ellen-Ray Hennessy
Hitch's grandmother, who lives in a cottage on the outskirts of Maretime Bay.- The Cameo: She makes brief appearances in "The Cutie Blossom Bash" and "Roots of All Evil Part 2".
- Chekhov's Gunman: She shows the Mane Five a storybook (Fantastical Flurrytales of Wishiehoof), which Zipp takes an interest in and borrows. This book becomes the key to figuring out what's behind the massive snowstorm engulfing Equestria. Figgy herself was alluded to in the finale of Chapter 2 where Hitch is muttering about making her a cake in his sleep.
- Cool Old Lady: In Bridlewoodstock, Hitch reveals that she knows Minty (lead singer of the Dreamlands) personally and used to bake for her.
- Don't Think, Feel: When Sunny goes to her to learn how to make Hitch's favorite holiday treat in the TYT short "Foal Food", Figgy eschews the idea of simply providing her with the recipe and encourages Sunny to "Bake with your heart, not with your hooves."
- Doting Grandparent: Despite Hitch being an adult, Figgy is quick to show him lots of affection.
- Becomes "doting great-grandparent" in "Cutie Blossom Bash," when she looks after Sparky while he's recovering from his run-in with Opaline and the rest of the gang is off in Zephyr Heights.
- Granny Classic: An elderly mare who indulges in such activities as baking and knitting.
- Informed Attribute: Just before the Mane Five arrive at her cottage, Hitch warns them that she is very "particular" about Wishday. She quickly proves that she's just fine with changing things up a little (and tells the others that Hitch is actually the one who's particular about traditions).
- Supreme Chef: Her Winter Wishday cookies are well-loved by the Mane Five, and her key lime pie is good enough to get Minty to reunite the Dreamlands.
The Dreamlands
Debut: Bridlewoodstock
A trio of Earth pony singers, who used to be the most popular band in Maretime Bay. Sunny and Hitch convince them to come out of retirement to be part of the Bridlewoodstock festival. They are Minty, Snuzzle and Bluebelle.
- The Perils of Being the Best: They ask not to be the festival's headliner act because it would place a lot of pressure on them.
- Putting the Band Back Together: Downplayed; the Dreamlands have long since broken up by the time of the special. While Sunny and Hitch are able to convince them to reunite for the festival easily enough, the group have trouble getting back in synch, and fear that they no longer have what it takes to play in the modern world.
New Residents
Windy
Debut: My Little Pony: A New Generation (visual), "Zipp Gets Her Wings" (voice)
Voiced by: Ana Sani
A pegasus from Zephyr Heights who moves to Maretime Bay following the reunification of the three tribes.
- Absurd Phobia: Daisies are apparently her greatest fear — the mere sight of one is enough to get her to hide in a bush. Luckily for her, Izzy is able to help her overcome this.
- Ascended Extra: She only appeared in one shot in A New Generation before becoming a recurring character in Tell Your Tale and Make Your Mark.
- Cowardly Lion: In spite of being skittish enough to be scared of daisies, she continued to try to help Posey even as the void expanded towards them and her own magic was glitching (so she could not fly out if she were to fall in).
- Early-Bird Cameo: She can be seen very briefly in A New Generation during Pipp's concert before getting a formal introduction in Tell Your Tale.
- Given Name Reveal: Zipp casually drops her name in "Zipp's Flight School".
- Odd Friendship: Mane Smelody reveals that she and Posey are best friends, despite the latter's constant complaints about pegasi.
- Scout-Out: She's a member of the Trail Trotters.
Fifi
Debut: "Zipp Gets Her Wings"
Voiced by: Athena Karkanis
An accident-prone pegasus who runs Fifi's Flying Fruit Smoothie Smooth Fruit Delivery Service in Maretime Bay.
The Pippsqueaks
A trio of fillies who idolize Pipp. Seashell is an earth pony, Glory a pegasus, and Peach Fizz a unicorn.
- Damsel in Distress: In "One Trick Pony", Glory is knocked out of the sky, requiring somepony to save her.
- Fangirl: All three are this to Pipp, adoring her music and hanging on her every social media post. Once in a while, Pipp brings them in to help with a plan for this very reason.
- Free-Range Children: Their parents are never seen and they go everywhere on their own. In "Sisters Take Flight", they even went to Zephyr Heights for the royal parade seemingly without any parental supervision.
- Giver of Lame Names: In "Pippsqueaks Forever", Peach Fizz struggles to name her brand of lip glitter, awkwardly calling it "Unicorn-y Morning Breath".
- Heroic Bystander: In "Roots of All Evil - Part 2," Seashell begins to sing a song that Pipp had performed earlier and gets ponies all over Equestria to join in. That display of unity is what ultimately takes down Opaline.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: They show signs of this in "Portrait of a Princess," when Pipp and Zipp need help escaping the cave. Glory and Peach Fizz respectively use wing-power and magic to move some of the good-sized rocks blocking the exit, while Seashell helps grow vines big enough to rip the others away.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: The Pippsqueaks serve as this for The Cutie Mark Crusaders.
Comet
Debut: Secrets of Starlight
Voiced by: Cory Doran
An enthusiastic but clumsy Auroricorn who secretly dreams of seeing the world outside of his village.
- Bizarre Taste in Food: His favorite kind of cocoa is frozen.
- Chekhov's Gun: His clumsiness ends up reminding everypony of the healing properties of the snow in Starlight Ridge, and how it can be used to break Allura's control over the Auroricorns.
- The Klutz: By his own self admission, his hooves always have a habit of not being able to catch up with his head.
- Sixth Ranger: Well, okay, seventh ranger technically, but once Sunny and her friends are about to leave Starlight Ridge, he suddenly decides to speak up about wanting to go back with them as he wants to be able to explore more of the world outside of his village now that Allura has been defeated, and he can be seen joining the others in the Brighthouse during the very last scene on the special.
- Supreme Chef: He's Starlight Ridge's "cocoa specialist", whipping up multiple unusual varieties for ponies to choose from.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Despite joining the Mane Six in Maretime Bay, Comet hasn't appeared so far in the second season of Tell Your Tale.
Non-Pony
Hitch's "squad"
Two birds and a crab who tend to follow Hitch around on his sheriff's rounds.
- Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: One of the birds wears a used sardine tin on his head like a hat.
- Given Name Reveal:
- The Tell Your Tale episode "A Home to Share" reveals the crab's name is "McSnipsalot".
- The sardine tin-wearing bird is revealed to be named "Kenneth" in the Make Your Mark special after Hitch gains the ability to understand animals.
- The "Roots of All Evil Part 1" episode reveals the other seagull's name to be Steven.
- Heel–Face Revolving Door: In A New Generation, they start following Sprout's hateful rhetoric while Hitch is away. This lasts only until Hitch's return, whereupon they promptly return to his side.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: During the "Angry Mob" song, they tip over the Maretime Bay trolley. In "Roots of All Evil Part 1", they throw themselves at Opaline with enough force to knock her back through the portal where she came from.
- Undying Loyalty: They'll follow Hitch no matter what, and act as his deputies around town. Even after joining Sprout's side in the movie, they immediately return to Hitch at first sight. In "Roots of All Evil Part 1", they refuse to leave Hitch despite him telling them to and even throw themselves at Opaline to protect him.
