History Characters / FriendshipIsMagicDangerousCreatures

* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: Or conflict, in their case. It's implied at the end of their debut that they will continue to exist as long as ponies are still able to feel hatred and anger, and if those conflicts reach the point that they were over a thousand years ago, [[ParanoiaFuel the Windigos will come back...]] And we see in "The Ending of the End" ''[[spoiler:that they do]]''.

* TheCameo: In the season 8 finale, "School Raze", [[spoiler:They later show up as prisoners of Tartarus]].

* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: They seemingly ''burn to death''. It's not that graphic, but it's still pretty unnerving. Albeit it seems more likely they were simply driven away.

[[folder:The Chimera]]

A ferocious monster living in a fire geyser swamp, the chimera menaces those who cross its hunting grounds -- including Apple Bloom, who unknowingly went into the beast's territory while trying to prove to her sister that she’s mature enough to handle herself on her own.

* AscendedToCarnivorism: The goat head, which seems just as eager to devour Apple Bloom as the tiger and snake heads.

* TheCameo: [[spoiler:She later shows up as a prisoner of Tartarus in the season 8 finale, "School Raze".]]
* ClassicalChimera: She sports the typical assortment of animal features, with the exception of its lion parts being replaced by a saber-toothed tiger. This is exploited in [[spoiler:"[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E25SchoolRazePart1 School Raze]]" when the main characters borrow the inherent magic of the fantastical creatures within Tartarus to escape it, temporarily disassembling the chimera sisters into a saber-toothed tiger, a goat and a snake until Equestria's magic is restored]].
* ChildEater: Tries to eat Apple Bloom.

* StutterStop: Curiously, the snake head also has a habit of drawing out the beginnings of words that don't begin with S, which manifests as a stutter.

* NiceHat: The Smooze is particularly dashing in its top hat.

Season 9 reveals that many monsters can trace their origins to the final BigBad Grogar. He implies he created most of the monsters to ravage ancient Equestria and King Sombra himself calls Grogar the "Father of Monsters."

* FlyingBooks: In Twilight's dream, who being the bibliophile that she is is dreaming about reading, the Tantabus turns her books into leathery-winged book-bats to attack her. Notably, unlike most examples, these don't use their covers as wings -- rather, they sprout catlike wings from their sides and use those to fly.

* TypicalCartoonAnimalColors: Adult cragadiles are gray-green, while the infant seen in "The Last Crusade" is a more saturated leaf green.

* TypicalCartoonAnimalColors: Its scales are a deep, saturated green, with a lighter shade on its underbelly.

* BreathWeapon: The fire lizard is a reptile similar to a gecko, but able to spit small gouts of fire.

While not a creature in the strictest sense, poison joke is one of the many native dangers of the Everfree Forest alongside its more active natives. Seemingly harmless at first glance, its fields of pretty blue flowers are quite dangerous to pass through -- physical contact with the plants saddles people with wickedly humorous and humiliating ailments.

[[folder:Parasprites]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Behold the face of evil.]]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E10SwarmOfTheCentury Swarm of the Century]]"

Adorable, colorful and spherical insect-like creatures with ravenous appetites that reproduce asexually. The parasprites came to Ponyville when Fluttershy brought one home as a pet and soon bred out of control, forming a swarm that threatened to eat all the food in Ponyville.

[[folder:Flash Bees]]
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Blue-and yellow swarming insects native to the Hayseed Swamp, flash bees are immune to the effects of swamp fever, and their honey can be used as a cure for the disease. However, actually ''getting'' that honey is complicated by both the bees' highly aggressive natures and their electrified stingers, as both Meadowbrook and Fluttershy found out.

* ExtremeOmnivore: In one scene, one of the orthros' heads is seen happily munching on its chain after having snapped it in half.

** An InUniverse example is also present in the form of their rarity: winterchillas are, according to Discord, also supposed to be extremely rare, but he loudly announces that he's seen one the moment he's finished saying that. Given that this is [[RealityWarper Discord]], it's possible that he created it then and there.

* TurtleIsland: A land-bound version -- a Turtle ''Hill'', in a sense; he's big enough for a small grove of trees to be growing on his back.

* NoNameGiven: He's never referred to by name in the show, only being described as "the dragon", even though dragons canonically have their own personal names. He has been referred to by the fans as "Basil". However, a clip show episode "Deep Tissue Memories" reveals the name to be "Razer".

** Winterchillas are supposed to be extremely quick, and thus very difficult to chase down and catch. This never comes into play in the episode -- Rainbow quickly zooms over to and retrieves the first one she sees, which stays in her hoof until it transforms, and no running or chasing is seen.
** An InUniverse example is also present in the form of their rarity: winterchillas are, according to Discord, also supposed to be extremely rare, but he loudly announces that he's seen one the moment he's finished saying that.

* FogOfDoom: The original form of the Tantabus, described as blue smoke. At first its small, but by the time it reaches the shared dream, it has become a huge cloud of star-filled darkness.

* DressingAsTheEnemy: This turns out to be the trick to getting past them and to their honey. Meadowbrook and, later, Fluttershy observed that the male bees are much less aggressive around the queen. Thanks to its blue and yellow stripes and the feathers at its base, Meadowbrook's mask turned out to resemble the colors and ruff of the queen bee closely enough to calm the flash bees down and allow its wearer to retrieve their honey.

* ScaryStingingSwarm: Flash Bees combine all the qualities that make swarms of real-life bees as frightening as they are -- the constant droning noise, an extremely aggressive and territorial nature, sharp and painful stings and the sheer numbers they can put into each attack -- with the delightful addition of their ability to charge their stings with electricity. They aren't even rendered individually when swarming -- the whole swarm is a single, blue-and-yellow, electrically charged mass attacking as a single entity.

* ExtremeOmnivore: He's far from picky about his food; early in the episode he eats whole trees, and later on he devours a large pile of garbage, bags and all.

* NoNameGiven: With the exception of Cerberus, [[AllThereInTheScript Manny Roar]], [[WordOfGod Snowbutt McTwinkles]] and Mr. Tortoise-Snap. Even the parasprites who are briefly taken in as pets don't get named.

!!Christmas Special

[[folder:The Winterchilla/Winterzilla]]
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[[caption-width-right:290:The winterchilla [[labelnote:The winterzilla]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zilla_9.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->'''Debut:''' ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyBestGiftEver''

A small, adorable and very speedy rodent that Rainbow Dash tracks down on Discord's advice to give to Fluttershy as a Hearth's Warming present. As it turns out, however, winterchillas undergo a very dramatic transformation after sunset...

* RealityWarper: Within the dream realm, it's capable of warming anything besides dreaming people themselves into something out of a nightmare, turning animals, objects and entire houses into monsters with a touch. By the end of the episode, the heroes have to prevent it from escaping into reality and becoming this in truth, as if it were to enter the waking world it would be capable of twisting and corrupting it like it does dreams.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Compared to a lot of antagonists in this show they are more serious, more frightening, and have nothing remotely redeeming about them. They do not speak, but utter ghostly wails, and in keeping with the wendigo myths their sole concern is to feed, never satisfied.

* TheEndOrIsIt: They are seemingly incinerated by the friendship powered spell the union between the tribes causes. [[spoiler:Although the end implies that they or more of their species are still out there. That being said, they meet their definite end in "The Ending of the End - Part 2".]]

* VileVillainSaccharineShow: While when it comes to outright malevolence they're not on the level of Sombra or the Changelings, they're still freaking scary for this show. They turned the original pony homelands into a frozen wasteland in "Hearth's Warming Eve" and would have done the same to Equestria in the in-universe story in "A Hearth's Warming Tail".

* StutterStop: Curiously, the snake head also has a habbit of drawing out the begginings of words that don't begin with S, which manifests as a stutter.

* PunBasedCreature: Several creatures are based on literal interpretations of real-life animals' names.g poisonous it causes people who touch it to undergo maliciously humorous transformations.

* PunnyName: They're timberwolves made of ''actual timber''.

* PunnyName: ''Wind''igos cause blizzards.

* PunnyName: A mix of "crag", as in a rugged outcrop of stone, and crocodile.

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