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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 

    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) 

    Human Artie Bristles 

    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 
  • 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 

    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 

    Human Rainbow Dash 

    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 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 

    Xaydie 

    Human Fratello 

Alternative Title(s): My Little Unicorn

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