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* MsFanservice: Downplayed due to the all-ages nature of the franchise, but still present. The three have slow, slinky movements, including a ''lot'' of swinging of their hips; they have melodious voices, and alluring gazes. When telling the group about them, Twilight specifically mentions the legends said the three were beautiful. Being sirens, it all comes with the territory as part of their allure.

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* MsFanservice: Downplayed due to the all-ages nature of the franchise, but still present. The three have melodious voices, alluring gazes, and slow, slinky movements, including a ''lot'' of swinging of their hips; they have melodious voices, and alluring gazes.hips. When telling the group about them, Twilight specifically mentions the legends said the three were beautiful. Being sirens, it all comes with the territory as part of their allure.
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* TheHero: Arguably for ''Rainbow Rocks''. She has a large amount of focus throughout the movie even by the time Twilight returns to Canterlot High, the relation between her and the Dazzlings reaches to a more personal level, and she has character development that ultimately contributes to saving the day.

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* TheHero: Arguably for Rainbow Rocks. She has a large amount of focus throughout the movie even by the time Twilight returns to Canterlot High, the relation between her the Dazzlings reaches to a more personal level, and has character development that ultimately contributes to saving the day.

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* TheHero: Arguably for Rainbow Rocks. ''Rainbow Rocks''. She has a large amount of focus throughout the movie even by the time Twilight returns to Canterlot High, the relation between her and the Dazzlings reaches to a more personal level, and she has character development that ultimately contributes to saving the day.



* ChangingClothesIsAFreeAction: It certainly is for Rarity. For example, all it takes for her is to lean behind a rack of clothes to don the ''Sgt. Pepper'' outfit, and a cut to Applejack talking to change into full Music/DaftPunk gear. See also the first InstantCosplaySurprise below.

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* ChangingClothesIsAFreeAction: It certainly is for Rarity. For example, all it takes for her is to lean behind a rack of clothes to don the ''Sgt. Pepper'' outfit, and a cut to Applejack talking to change into full Music/DaftPunk gear. See also the first InstantCosplaySurprise example below.



* TheDividual: Are essentially one character storywise, and never seen apart.

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* TheDividual: Are essentially one character storywise, and never seen apart.



* EvilLaugh: Downplayed, but Adagio indulges in one at the end of the "Under Our Spell" song. Sonata and Aria ''try'' one earlier, at the gym before the pre-selections, but they just sound like giggling schoolgirls.

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* EvilLaugh: Downplayed, but Adagio indulges in one at the end of the "Under Our Spell" song. Sonata and Aria ''try'' one earlier, at the gym before the pre-selections, a few times themselves, but they just sound like giggling schoolgirls.



* MulticoloredHair: All three of them. Adagio has orange and yellow hair; Aria purple and aqua green; Sonata pale blue and dark blue.

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* MulticoloredHair: All three of them. them.
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* [[OpportunisticBastard Opportunistic Bitch]]: They're (well, mostly just Adagio) quite good at taking advantage of every opportunity they encounter to further their plans.

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* [[OpportunisticBastard Opportunistic Bitch]]: OpportunisticBastard: They're (well, mostly just Adagio) quite good at taking advantage of every opportunity they encounter to further their plans.



* SirensAreMermaids: [[spoiler:Well, mer''horses''.]]

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* SirensAreMermaids: [[spoiler:Well, mer''horses''.mer''horses'', as is the usual paradigm in Equestria.]]


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* GenderBlenderName: Although very feminine herself, Adagio's name is more masculine compared to the other two, since all three are derived from Italian, where masculine words end with an "-o" and feminine words end with an "-a".

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* GenderBlenderName: Although very feminine herself, Adagio's name is more masculine compared to the other two, since all three are derived from Italian, where masculine words end with an "-o" and feminine words end with an "-a".



* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Adagio caresses other students' faces and heads as she's "seducing" them into making the concert into a battle.

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* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Adagio caresses other students' faces and heads as she's "seducing" them into making the concert into a battle. Same thing for Aria and Sonata, with the former appearing behind the smaller students while the latter strokes Flash Sentry's guitar strings.
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* TheHero: Arguably for Rainbow Rocks. She has a large amount of focus throughout the movie even by the time Twilight returns to Canterlot High, the relation between her the Dazzlings reaches to a more personal level, and has character development that ultimately contributes to saving the day.
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* MeaningfulName: She's Twilight Sparkle's EvilCounterpart, so naturally her name is approximately synonymous with "Twilight Sparkle". At the same time, unlike the more neutral "Twilight", "Sunset" specifically invokes her grudge against Princess Celestia, the solar alicorn.

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* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: The teasers and tailers for ''Rainbow Rocks'' show her plenty enough, but the posters and covers for the various [=DVDs=] and music album leave her out even though she plays a major role.

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* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: The teasers and tailers trailers for ''Rainbow Rocks'' show her plenty enough, but the posters and covers for the various [=DVDs=] and music album leave her out even though she plays a major role.



* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Let's face it, ''she's'' the main reason the Dazzlings lost due to the fact that they thought nothing of her. It's her that helps rally (albeit with help from Spike and DJ Pon-3, but still) the Humane Six to combat them and her that gives the band their HeroicSecondWind when the Dazzlings nearly overpowered the heroes in the final battle.]]
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: [[spoiler:Sunset herself, while still a nasty person, still had standards and outright refused to harm Spike. Her demon form, however, is a murderous psychopath who tries to fry Twilight and her friends without a second thought. Sunset's HeelFaceTurn is brought about largely because of how ''horrified'' she is of what she had become (she's actually crying during the transformation).]]

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* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Let's face it, ''she's'' the main reason the Dazzlings lost due to the fact that they thought nothing of her. It's her that helps rally (albeit with help from Spike and DJ Pon-3, but still) the Humane Six to combat them and her that gives the band their HeroicSecondWind when the Dazzlings nearly overpowered overpower the heroes in the final battle.]]
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: [[spoiler:Sunset herself, while still a nasty person, still had yet has standards and outright refused refuses to harm Spike. Her demon form, however, is a murderous psychopath who tries to fry Twilight and her friends without a second thought. Sunset's HeelFaceTurn is brought about largely because of how ''horrified'' she is of what she had become (she's actually crying during the transformation).]]



* LimitedWardrobe: Their everyday clothes for both movies and the shorts are always the same. However, we see them in plenty other outfits, including formal dresses (at the Fall Formal), hula dancer outfits (in "Shake Your Tail!"), nightwears (for the slumber party) and two different sets of costumes for performing as the Rainbooms. Rarity herself leans toward UnlimitedWardrobe with the various extravagant clothes she's seen wearing at one time or the other.

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* LimitedWardrobe: Their everyday clothes for both movies and the shorts are always the same. However, we see them in plenty other outfits, including formal dresses (at the Fall Formal), hula dancer outfits (in "Shake Your Tail!"), nightwears (for the slumber party) and two different sets of costumes for performing as the Rainbooms. Rarity herself leans toward UnlimitedWardrobe with the various extravagant clothes she's seen wearing at one time or the other.



* SigilSpam: Sort of. As humans they don't have cutie marks on their skin (for what we can tell), but those symbols of their pony alternate selves can be found everywhere on their possessions: clothes, boots, hair decs, schoolbags, nightwears, musical instruments, laptops, etc. We've only seen Pinkie Pie's bedroom so far, and unsurprisingly there are balloon motifs on the walls and on her bedcover. (She also seems to have hearts as a secondary motif, like on the pajamas she lends to Twilight.)

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* SigilSpam: Sort of. As humans they don't have cutie marks on their skin (for what we can tell), but those symbols of their pony alternate selves can be found everywhere on their possessions: clothes, boots, hair decs, schoolbags, nightwears, musical instruments, laptops, cell phones, etc. We've only seen Pinkie Pie's bedroom so far, and unsurprisingly there are balloon motifs on the walls and on her bedcover. (She also seems to have hearts as a secondary motif, like on the pajamas she lends to Twilight.)



* SuddenAnatomy: A minor case; the art style normally doesn't depict the characters as having nails, but that doesn't stop Rarity from putting nail polish on herself in a scene of ''Equestria Girls'', and on Fluttershy in a scene of ''Rainbow Rocks''.

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* SuddenAnatomy: A minor case; the art style normally doesn't depict the characters as having visible nails, but that doesn't stop Rarity from putting nail polish on herself in a scene of ''Equestria Girls'', and on Fluttershy in a scene of ''Rainbow Rocks''.


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* UnlimitedWardrobe: Rarity leans toward this with the various extravagant clothes she's seen wearing at one time or the other, although like the others she has a standard outfit.
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* SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan: Whatever they ''actually'' are, they were banished to the other world specifically because it sealed their true power which would otherwise wreak havoc in Equestria. The plan was their powers wouldn't work at all, but unfortunately not.

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* SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan: Whatever they ''actually'' are, they They were banished to the other world specifically because it sealed their true power which would otherwise wreak havoc in Equestria. The plan was their powers wouldn't work at all, but unfortunately not.
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* BreakingSpeech: Adagio and Aria try to do this with Sunset, pointing out that none of the Rainbooms want her in the band, and imply that they're worried her unpopularity will make her a liability. They also deliberately remind Sunset of her past actions, stating that their plan's aren't so different.

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* BreakingSpeech: Adagio and Aria try to do this with Sunset, pointing out that none of the Rainbooms want her in the band, and imply that they're worried her unpopularity will make her a liability. They also deliberately remind Sunset of her past actions, stating that their plan's plans aren't so different.
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** In the sequel they're quite vicious to Sunset Shimmer and instantly turn on the Dazzlings when they're defeated.

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** In the sequel they're quite vicious to Sunset Shimmer and instantly turn on the Dazzlings when they're defeated. Justified to an extent, however, given Sunset's history and the Dazzlings' schemes.
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* VillainHasAPoint: In the film's commentary, the creators note that the thing about their cafeteria songs is that their message is ''right'': people who are talented and special ''do'' deserve recognition and should take pride in who they are for it, and there's nothing wrong with friendly competition. You want to disagree with them because they're just doing it to spread hostility and aggression, but the core message of the song isn't wrong.
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* CompressedHair: The first time we see them, [[http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/File:The_Dazzlings_vocalizing_in_the_corner_booth_EG2.png they're wearing hoodies]]; do not ask how those incredible hairstyles fit into those small hoods.

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* CompressedHair: The first time we see them, [[http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/File:The_Dazzlings_vocalizing_in_the_corner_booth_EG2.png they're wearing hoodies]]; do not ask how those incredible hairstyles fit into those small hoods. [[WordOfGod The creators even reference]] this during the commentary, especially Adagio's.

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* EasilyForgiven: Zigzagged in ''Rainbow Rocks''. On the one hand the Human Five have genuinely forgiven her and accepted her as a friend after seeing that she really has changed and wants to redeem herself, but the rest of the school still clearly hates her and even the Cutie Mark Crusaders seem nervous when she approaches them. However, in the first film Sunset stole a powerful magical element from another dimension and used its power to [[spoiler:transform into a demon and try to brainwash the students into an army to conquer Equestria]]. The rest of the school may not have forgiven her for it, but it remains that she's gotten off very light after what she did.

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* EasilyForgiven: Zigzagged in ''Rainbow Rocks''. On the one hand the Human Five have genuinely forgiven her and accepted her as a friend after seeing that she really has changed and wants to redeem herself, but the rest of the school still clearly hates her and even the Cutie Mark Crusaders seem nervous when she approaches them. However, in the first film Sunset stole a powerful magical element from another dimension and used its power to [[spoiler:transform into a demon and try to brainwash the students into an army to conquer Equestria]]. The rest of the school may not have forgiven her for it, but it remains that she's gotten off very light after what she did.



* TransformationSequence: She gains one at the end of ''Rainbow Rocks'' [[spoiler:to turn into an anthropony form. Notably, the style of the sequence is very close to the one used in the first movie for the Humane Six, rather than the Rainbow-Power-augmented transformations of this movie]].



* GirlGroup: The Rainbooms are the rock band variant; joined by Twilight Sparkle as lead vocalist [[spoiler:and later Sunset Shimmer]].



* SuddenAnatomy: A minor case; the art style normally doesn't depict the characters as having nails, but that doesn't stop Rarity from putting nail polish on herself and Fluttershy in a scene of ''Rainbow Rocks''.

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* SuddenAnatomy: A minor case; the art style normally doesn't depict the characters as having nails, but that doesn't stop Rarity from putting nail polish on herself in a scene of ''Equestria Girls'', and on Fluttershy in a scene of ''Rainbow Rocks''.



* BigOlEyebrows: The design gives male characters bigger eyebrows than females; it's even more noticeable with Flash because of his hair color (and since he has more screen time).

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* BigOlEyebrows: The design gives male characters bigger eyebrows than females; it's even more noticeable with Flash because of his hair color (and haircut, colors, and since he has more screen time).time.



* BlondesAreEvil: Adagio Dazzle has orange/blonde and is the most evil of the trio.

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* BlondesAreEvil: Adagio Dazzle has orange/blonde hair and is the most evil of the trio.



* CallAPegasusAHippogriff: The Dazzlings' true forms are called "Sirens" for their powers, but are physically more like Hippocampi. (in classical mythology the sirens looked more like birds)

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* CallAPegasusAHippogriff: The Dazzlings' true forms are called "Sirens" for their powers, but are physically more like Hippocampi. (in (In classical mythology the sirens looked more like birds)birds.)



* GirlGroup: The Dazzlings are the sexy {{Idol Singer}}s version.



* SmallRoleBigImpact: She's on-screen for less than thirty seconds in a post-credits scene. [[spoiler:But everything her appearance implies is summed up during that time.]]

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* SmallRoleBigImpact: She's on-screen for less than thirty about fifteen seconds in a post-credits scene. [[spoiler:But everything her appearance implies is summed up during that time.]]
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->''"No doubt about it, [[spoiler:Spike]] - there's definitely something strange going on at that school..."''

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->''"No doubt about it, [[spoiler:Spike]] - -- there's definitely something strange going on at that school..."''"''
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* RapunzelHair: As part of their anthropony forms.
* SigilSpam: Sort of. As humans they don't have cutie marks on their skin (for what we can tell), but those symbols of their pony alternate selves can be found everywhere on their possessions: clothes, boots, hair decs, schoolbags, nightwears, musical instruments, laptops, etc. We've only seen Pinkie Pie's bedroom so far, and unsuprisingly there are balloon motifs on the walls and on her bedcover. (She also seems to have hearts as a secondary motif, like on the pajamas she lends to Twilight.)
* SillyWalk: Pinkie Pie sometimes merrily skip around instead of just walking, with a WackySoundEffect, mirroring her pony alter-self pronking gait.

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* RapunzelHair: As part of their anthropony forms.
forms. Their normal hair is pretty long as well.
* SigilSpam: Sort of. As humans they don't have cutie marks on their skin (for what we can tell), but those symbols of their pony alternate selves can be found everywhere on their possessions: clothes, boots, hair decs, schoolbags, nightwears, musical instruments, laptops, etc. We've only seen Pinkie Pie's bedroom so far, and unsuprisingly unsurprisingly there are balloon motifs on the walls and on her bedcover. (She also seems to have hearts as a secondary motif, like on the pajamas she lends to Twilight.)
* SillyWalk: Pinkie Pie sometimes merrily skip skips around instead of just walking, with a WackySoundEffect, mirroring her pony alter-self pronking gait.



* CallAPegasusAHippogriff: The Dazzlings' true forms are called "Sirens" for their powers, but are physically more like Hippocampi.

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* CallAPegasusAHippogriff: The Dazzlings' true forms are called "Sirens" for their powers, but are physically more like Hippocampi. (in classical mythology the sirens looked more like birds)

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* GuardianEntity: [[spoiler:Instead of transforming into their true siren forms, they instead summon them as transluscent spirits from their pendants while retaining their humanoid appearance, giving them this vibe. Most likely, though, it's something similar to AstralProjection.]]

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* GuardianEntity: [[spoiler:Instead of transforming into their true siren forms, they instead summon them as transluscent translucent spirits from their pendants while retaining their humanoid appearance, giving them this vibe. Most likely, though, it's something similar to AstralProjection.]]



* InformedAttractiveness: Twilight says that the legends spoke of the Sirens being beautiful. While their human forms might count, their Equestrian forms are rather monstrous. Even by that world's standards, "beautiful" is not the word that comes to mind. This could be a JustifiedTrope though: since the Sirens want to be loved and worshipped, their music presumably makes onlookers perceive them as beautiful.

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* InformedAttractiveness: Twilight says that the legends spoke of the Sirens being beautiful. While their human forms might count, their Equestrian forms are rather monstrous. Even by that world's standards, "beautiful" is not the word that comes to mind. This could be a JustifiedTrope though: since the Sirens want to be loved and worshipped, worshiped, their music presumably makes onlookers perceive them as beautiful.



* NearVillainVictory: [[spoiler:By the end, they have the entire school under their control and bickering amongst each others and the Rainbooms fighting amongst each other with Twilight and Sunset looking on helplessly locked underneath the stage with no way out. Had not Spike and Vinyl Scratch freed the group and given them a sound system to fight back, the Dazzlings would have won.]]

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* NearVillainVictory: [[spoiler:By the end, they have the entire school under their control and bickering amongst each others and the Rainbooms fighting amongst with each other with while Twilight and Sunset looking look on helplessly helplessly, locked underneath the stage with no way out. Had not Spike and Vinyl Scratch freed the group and given them a sound system to fight back, the Dazzlings would have won.]]


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* TheWatson: Both Aria and Sonata fit into this role, forcing Adagio to describe her plans in great details for the audience's sake, Sonata by being clueless and Aria by being skeptical.
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* BigOlEyebrows: The design gives male characters bigger eyebrows than females; it's even more noticeable with Flash because of his hair color (and since he has more screen time).
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* VillainHasAPoint: In the film's commentary, the creators note that the thing about their cafeteria songs is that their message is ''right'': people who are talented and special ''do'' deserve recognition and should take pride in who they are for it. You want to disagree with them because they're just doing it to spread hostility and aggression, but the core message of the song isn't wrong.

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* VillainHasAPoint: In the film's commentary, the creators note that the thing about their cafeteria songs is that their message is ''right'': people who are talented and special ''do'' deserve recognition and should take pride in who they are for it.it, and there's nothing wrong with friendly competition. You want to disagree with them because they're just doing it to spread hostility and aggression, but the core message of the song isn't wrong.
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Characters that play a major role in the G4 spin-off movie ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'', its sequel ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks Rainbow Rocks]]'' and related media.

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Characters that play a major role in the G4 ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' spin-off movie ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'', its sequel ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks Rainbow Rocks]]'' and related media.
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* ExpressiveEars: Once they gain pony ears, those noticeably fall down during their OhCrap moment.

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* FriendlessBackground: She admits at the end of the movie that she doesn't know anything about friendship, only knowing how to drive others away. The prequel comic shows that ponies did ''try'' to be friends with her, but she thought they were too beneath her and shunned them.
** In the Equestria Girls holiday comic, she tells Applejack that she was always alone on the holidays, both in Equestria and in the Equestria Girls world.

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* FriendlessBackground: She admits at the end of the movie that she doesn't know anything about friendship, only knowing how to drive others away. The prequel comic shows that ponies did ''try'' to be friends with her, but she thought they were too beneath her and shunned them.
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them. In the Equestria Girls ''Equestria Girls'' holiday comic, she tells Applejack that she was always alone on the holidays, both in Equestria and in the Equestria Girls human world.
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->''"When the crown and its power are mine, Twilight Sparkle will be sorry she ever set hoof into this world."''

->'''Debut:''' ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls''

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RebeccaShoichet

Once one of Princess Celestia's most promising students, she eventually went rogue and fled through a magic mirror to another dimension: [[HumanityEnsues the human world]]. Her theft of Princess Twilight's crown (i.e., her Element of Magic) is what kicks off the plot of the film. By the sequel, however, she recognizes the error of her ways and becomes a friend of the Humane Five.

* {{Adorkable}}: Now that she's reformed, in ''Rainbow Rocks'' she looks and acts endearingly awkward at times.
* AlliterativeName: Both her first and last names start with "S".
* AlphaBitch: As a human, she's been the queen of Canterlot High for three years and treats everybody in school as beneath her.
* AmbitionIsEvil: Her desire to become an alicorn princess drove her to villainy when she couldn't make it happen.
* TheAtoner: In ''Rainbow Rocks'' she's repentant for her behavior in the first film and is trying to make an effort to becoming a better person.
* AuraVision: In ''Rainbow Rocks'', she seems to be the only one able to see the green smoke people give off when the Dazzlings feed on them. It's what tips her off that they're using magic in the cafeteria.
* BerserkButton: Her jealousy hits a breaking point when Rarity calls Twilight a real princess.
-->'''Sunset Shimmer:''' Oh, yes. She's so ''very special!''
* BigBad: Of the first ''Equestria Girls'' movie.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Applejack says one of her plots is acting nice and then humiliating the person she "befriends".
* BlondesAreEvil: Part of her mane/hair is blond, anyways, so it fits. Combines this with EvilRedhead. [[spoiler:But only at first.]]
* BreakTheHaughty: Being defeated and forced to face a) just how awful she really was and b) that she really wasn't ready for the Elements basically destroys her arrogance.
* TheCameo:
** She first appeared at the 2013 New York Toy Fair as a pony toy, overshadowed by all the Princess Twilight merch and fan-favorites getting toys.
** Her second appearance as a pony, between the release of the ''Equestria Girls'' trailer and the premiere of the ''Equestria Girls'' movie, is in Creator/{{Gameloft}}'s ''VideoGame/MyLittlePony'' LicensedGame, after being hinted at in [[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=655940021090105 promotional]] [[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=589421427765193 clue]] [[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=589923807714955 images]] [[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=590332691007400 for]] [[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=658100214207419 the]] [[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=591248240915845 game]] posted by official Website/{{Facebook}} pages.
* TheCoatsAreOff: In ''Rainbow Rocks'', she flings her coat off when she [[spoiler:prepares to join the Rainbooms in fighting the Dazzlings.]]
* ColorCodedWizardry: Her magic aura is a greenish teal that matches her eye color.
* CoolMask: Though all the basic brushables in the Crystal Princess Celebration line have masquerade masks, she's to date the only character who's appeared as a pony solely in those waves. Notably her first appearance as a pony toy on display had her wearing it, which concealed the fact of whether she was a earth pony or unicorn until her toy box was revealed.
* CrucifiedHeroShot: In ''Rainbow Rocks'', she takes this pose when she [[spoiler:rises into the air to transform into her anthropony form.]]
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Though how is unknown, she has an awareness of what's been going on in Equestria including the Elements of Harmony. Seeing the five bearers of the Elements minus Twilight in the other world were friends, she went about turning them against each other to foil ThePowerOfFriendship at its source. Unfortunately for her Twilight gets the group to reconcile.
* DarkMagicalGirl: Albeit a good bit more unpleasant than the usual for this trope, given her backstory and magical powers (as a unicorn, at least), this fits.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: [[spoiler:Or at least, Twilight encourages her human friends to invoke this after Sunset repents. And clearly moreso in the sequel as the Humane Five are perhaps her only true friends at CHS despite her attempts at redemption to the rest of the student body.]]
* {{Deuteragonist}}: In ''Rainbow Rocks''. While Twilight is still TheHero and the Rainbooms are the protagonists, the film is just as much about Sunset regaining her confidence and overcoming her self-doubt as it is the Rainbooms fighting the Dazzlings.
* DevilInPlainSight: She a massive jerk and doesn't bother to hide her dislike for anyone, yet still manages to come off as a well-meaning student to the principal and vice-principal.
* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: Sunset takes a few levels in [[spoiler:psycho and [[EvilIsHammy hamminess]] when she finally gets the crown and is transformed by its magic. Prior to it, she was nasty but had ''some'' [[EvenEvilHasStandards standards]] and operated on a more rational level]].
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:She spends most of ''Rainbow Rocks'' being hated by ''everyone'' in the school and being forced to watch from the sidelines as her friends fight and yet, through it all, she tries her very best to shed her old self and try to become as supportive to her friends as possible. This eventually works out by the end when she joins the Rainbooms in defeating the Dazzlings, leading to her bad reputation beginning to dwindle and her staying in touch with Twilight through her book.]]
* EasilyForgiven: Zigzagged in ''Rainbow Rocks''. On the one hand the Human Five have genuinely forgiven her and accepted her as a friend after seeing that she really has changed and wants to redeem herself, but the rest of the school still clearly hates her and even the Cutie Mark Crusaders seem nervous when she approaches them. However, in the first film Sunset stole a powerful magical element from another dimension and used its power to [[spoiler:transform into a demon and try to brainwash the students into an army to conquer Equestria]]. The rest of the school may not have forgiven her for it, but it remains that she's gotten off very light after what she did.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: She has Spike kidnapped in order to lure Twilight to her. However, she balks at the idea of actually hurting him and lets him go as soon as Twilight asks.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Sunset threatens to destroy the portal to Equestria if Twilight doesn't give up her crown, but this fails because Twilight would rather be stuck forever in an alternate reality than give Sunset the power of her element.
* EvilCounterpart: Twilight's second one after Trixie, based on her attitude and her [[AllThereInTheManual backstory]]. [[ThemeNaming Her name is basically an alternate interpretation of Twilight Sparkle]], and they were both students of Princess Celestia. Then it turns out that [[FriendlessBackground she didn't know how to make friends, instead driving everyone away]]. To drive the point home, she is voiced by Rebecca Shoichet, Twilight's singing voice. Her brushable pony toy is in a pair of waves with the rest of the Mane Six with her in Twilight's place, [[{{Irony}} signifying how she drove their alternate selves apart]].\\\
The comic further hammers it in. Much like Twilight at the beginning of the series, Sunset prefers to study over socializing with others (said others even being the same ponies who invite Twilight to Moondancer's party). The difference is that while Twilight is polite and modest when she refuses ("Oh sorry, girls. I got a lot of studying to catch up on."), Sunset's refusal makes her come off as very smug ("I have better things to do than ''socialize''."). When she first sees the magic mirror, she sees herself as an Alicorn Princess in it, whereas Twilight actually becomes one. The same comics also imply that Celestia was grooming her to become a Princess, implying she may have intended ''Sunset Shimmer'' to receive the Element of Magic, not Twilight. But Sunset Shimmer was too selfish and power-hungry and Celestia realized she didn't have the right temperament to be a true princess.
* EvilIsBurningHot: Her sun motif (sunburst cutie mark, red/yellow hair and flame design on boots) serves to parallel Twilight's star theme. [[spoiler:She also gains FlamingHair and fireball magic in her demon form]].
* EvilRedhead: Red with yellow-orange streaks, but she still qualifies.
* {{Expy}}: Her design and name are similar to those of G3 Earth pony Sunshimmer, while her status as an arrogant unicorn who believes herself superior mirrors Trixie, especially since both are presented as {{Evil Counterpart}}s to Twilight. She also takes it upon herself to drive the human counterparts of Twilight's friends apart so they can't unite against her, similar to Discord.
* FatalFlaw:
** Sunset Shimmer's is {{Greed}} and {{Pride}}. When she was still Celestia's star pupil, things didn't progress as quickly as she wanted them to, so she became bitter and angry. She eventually found the magic mirror and disappeared from Equestria. On the other side, she established herself as the AlphaBitch of the school. [[spoiler:Not content with controlling the school, she stole Twilight's crown so she could amass an army of brainwashed teenagers with which to take over Equestria]].
** In the sequel, her [[spoiler:fear to speak up causes numerous problems to grow worse]].
* FieryRedhead: Downplayed. She's ambitious and proud and has a nasty BerserkButton, but avoids being straight HotBlooded.
* {{Foil}}: To Twilight in ''Rainbow Rocks''. They share the burden of everyone having expectations of them and being an outsider to the Humane Five, but while Twilight is busy trying to live up to their expectations and doesn't realize the group's tensions, Sunset deals with people still hating her for her evil ways and recognizes the problems the group faces but avoids confronting them over it.
* FriendlessBackground: She admits at the end of the movie that she doesn't know anything about friendship, only knowing how to drive others away. The prequel comic shows that ponies did ''try'' to be friends with her, but she thought they were too beneath her and shunned them.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Though it's not that they ''dislike'' her, in ''Rainbow Rocks'' there's still tensions between her and the Humane Five. They're friends, but they're still not comfortable around her or her around them. [[spoiler:Come the end of the film this status is thoroughly dispelled.]]
* FullNameBasis: Is on the receiving end of this treatment. Contrary to most other characters with two-part names, Sunset is always referred to by her full name by others, and has no nickname or shortened form of her name that she goes by in lieu of her full name either.
* GoodCostumeSwitch: A downplayed but thematic version, in ''Rainbow Rocks'' she flings her coat off when she [[spoiler:helps the Rainbooms fight the Dazzlings]], also making it clearer she's wearing a different top than her typical sun-emblem one underneath. The loss of the [[EvilWearsBlack black clothing]] makes her look significantly more benevolent than with it. [[spoiler:She also gains an anthropony form in contrast with her demon form in ''Equestria Girls'']]
* GoneHorriblyWrong: It seems to be implied that [[spoiler:[[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity turning into a horrifying demon, enslaving the school and deciding to take over Equestria]] is ''not'' what Sunset originally intended to do with the Element of Magic.]] Come the sequel, she seems to be genuinely horrified of her own actions.
* GreenEyes: Strictly speaking her eyes are "cyan", right between green and blue, but she errs more to the green side with the symbolism of her being a magically empowered antagonist.
* HeelFaceTurn: After [[spoiler:she is defeated in the climax of the first film]], she tearfully admits that she knows nothing about friendship, and accepts the chance to make amends. This lasts into ''Rainbow Rocks'', where she actively tries to overcome her bad reputation, [[spoiler:and even helps the Humane Five defeat the Dazzlings at the end of the film]].
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:Getting turned into a demon by the Element of Magic, only to have that power wrested from her and she get blasted by the PowerOfFriendship,]] truly opens her eyes to how horrible a person she is. ''Rainbow Rocks'' shows that she's learned her lesson, even having Sunset refer to her past self as a "raging she-demon".
* HiddenDepths: [[spoiler:At the end of ''Rainbow Rocks'', she shows she can sing and rock a mean guitar.]]
* HumblePie: [[spoiler:Her defeat at the end of ''Equestria Girls'' leaves her lying broken and begging for forgiveness at the bottom of a crater. By the sequel, her haughty tone has reduced considerably.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: She points out to Twilight Sparkle a couple of times that she doesn't belong in the human world, while ignoring the fact that she ''herself'' is a pony from Equestria.
* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler:After the events of ''Equestria Girls'', she decides to stay in the human world rather than return to Equestria, largely to atone for her actions (and possibly too ashamed to face Celestia again). Celestia even mentions this in the comic during the ''Reflections'' arc.]]
* IJustWantToBeYou: Twilight got everything that Sunset wanted to obtain, and now Sunset aims to take it all from her. The thing is, Twilight earned the honor, Sunset ''feels'' she should have it but obviously was trying to take the easy way to get it.
* InformedAbility: Her ability to manipulate people is not shown explicitly, but the IDW annual comic fleshes out her preparations a bit more.
* InkSuitActor: Her human form bears an uncanny resemblance to her voice actress, Creator/RebeccaShoichet.
* ItsAllAboutMe: She believes she ''deserves'' power and recognition and is willing to call out or stomp out anyone who thinks otherwise.
* {{Jerkass}}: She's prideful, arrogant, and acts stuck up and rude towards her peers. [[spoiler:At least until her HeelFaceTurn]].
* JumpedAtTheCall: It's implied Celestia planned for her to become a Princess once she was ready, but she was too ambitious and power-hungry, and her eagerness to claim the title made her unsuitable.
* KickTheDog:
-->'''Sunset Shimmer:''' (''to Fluttershy'') You really are pathetic! It's no wonder your best friends are all stray animals!
* LightIsNotGood: Bright yellow and her cutie mark is a sun much like her mentor [[BigGood Princess Celestia]]. She's a thief and a jerk. She also has a [[HeavenlyBlue teal aura]].
* MulticoloredHair: Has [[EvilRedhead red]] and [[BlondesAreEvil blond]] stripes in her mane.
* NeverLiveItDown:[[invoked]] The school has not forgotten her previous evil ways, especially the fall formal. Though she's a genuinely better person now, a mere mention of the event brings {{Death Glare}}s beaming down on her from all over the gym. [[RunningGag It doesn't help that her friends end up bringing the incident up by accident throughout the film, since it's an important part of how they became friends (though ''they'' at least realize what they're doing and how much it makes her uncomfortable and apologize).]]
* OneWingedAngel: Close to the climax, [[spoiler:she puts on Twilight's crown and transforms into [[OurDemonsAreDifferent a raging she-demon]] with wings, FlamingHair, BlackEyesOfCrazy, [[PlayingWithFire fire powers]], [[PowerEchoes a booming voice]], and the power to turn others into demons]].
* OrangeBlueContrast: Her color scheme is primarily orange and red with some yellows, contrasting Twilight's lavender, violet and blue.
* OriginsEpisode: An 8-page short story comic from IDW details [[OriginsEpisode her origins in Equestria]]. It was first available in the San Diego Comic Con 2013 version of Issue #9 of the ongoing and will be released to a wider audience in the first issue of the ''My Little Pony'' Annual, which focuses on ''Equestria Girls'' in October 2013. The origin comic was also included with the ''Equestria Girls'' movie in a Walmart exclusive release appropriately named the Sunset Shimmer edition. This version also features a variant cover with yellow, orange, and blue added to the normal cover's purple.
* PetTheDog:
** She literally refuses to hurt Spike, a dog, saying "I'm not a ''monster''!"
** A sure sign she's reformed in the sequel; in her first scene, she helps wipe off Fluttershy's face. Throughout the rest of the film she's shown watching the Rainbooms perform while holding Spike.
* PlotTumor: Writer Meghan [=McCarthy=] said Sunset wasn't very important in earlier versions of ''Rainbow Rocks''. Then while writing the second draft, she realized how important Sunset really was going to end up because she had a character arc to be told. In the final product she's a full {{Deuteragonist}} and seems to have taken Twilight's place as the main heroine of the ''Equestria Girls'' spin-offs.
* PoorCommunicationKills: In the second movie, numerous troubles with the Rainbooms grow worse because Sunset is afraid to speak up and address them, feeling like it isn't her place.
* ThePowerOfTheSun: Implied by her cutie mark, at least, which also helps to further her connection to Princess Celestia. [[spoiler:When she attacks the protagonists at the end, she uses a bright golden fire attack.]]
* PragmaticVillainy: She admonishes Snips and Snails for wrecking the Fall Formal decorations. Not because it's evil -- she'd ordered them to do it, in fact -- but because they overdid it, and in doing so, endangered her plans.
* PstandardPsychicPstance: [[spoiler:When she brainwashes the Canterlot High students into becoming her zombie army.]]
* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: She is Princess Celestia's former pupil, and Twilight Sparkle's predecessor in that role. When Celestia's tutelage did not turn out be [[EvilIsEasy the easy path]], she "turned cruel and dishonest," abandoning her studies and pursuing power in more unsavory ways.
* RageBreakingPoint:
** Sunset snaps after Twilight calls her bluff on destroying the portal to Equestria and the others praise her as a princess.
** After all the shunning she's got during ''Rainbow Rocks'' despite truly trying to make amends, she finally boils over when Trixie [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame compliments Sunset on her tackling Rainbow and calling it a fit of jealousy.]] The outburst is hard enough to make Trixie cower under it.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: As a human, she wears a black jacket and boots to accent her fire theme.
* ReformedButRejected: Even though she [[HeelFaceTurn turns over a new leaf]] at the end of the first movie, most of the students of Canterlot High School continue to hold a grudge against her in ''Rainbow Rocks'', with only the Humane Five willing to stand anywhere near her. [[spoiler:By the end of the film, however, more students have been shown to forgive her.]]
* TheResenter: It's brief, but the way she reacts when Twilight is praised as a princess by her friends, as well her constant insistence that the Element of Magic is ''her crown'', shows that she resents Twilight for achieving everything she could not. Made more apparent by the IDW origin comic, which shows that she desired the same power Twilight earned.
* SatanicArchetype: Rebels against her world's PhysicalGoddess; ambition and pride leads to her falling out of said PhysicalGoddess' favor; and [[spoiler:transforms into a powerful red-skinned demon who wants to launch an all-out war against the PhysicalGoddess]].
* ShadowArchetype:
** A prodigy like Twilight, but lacks Twilight's understanding of friendship, making her unfit to be crowned a princess of Equestria -- [[EvilCannotComprehendGood something she doesn't understand, and won't accept]].
** Less of this in the sequel; she's learned a thing or two about friendship since the first film. She does however gain a shadow herself in the form of Adagio, who is like the old Sunset, but even ''more'' of a {{Jerkass}}, and with far more threatening abilities.
* ShrinkingViolet: Has started to become one by the time of ''Rainbow Rocks'', as the events of the first film ''heavily'' humbled her and left her the victim of hatred from the entire school. As a result she has no friends (or that we see, a social life at all) outside the Humane Five, is uncomfortable being the center of attention, and watches the Rainbooms fall apart without interjecting because she feels it isn't her place to get involved. It's telling that when she shrinks down, she gets slightly knock-kneed and starts rubbing her arm, just like Fluttershy in the last film. [[spoiler:Her CharacterDevelopment has her reverse her descent and get over her fears, stepping into the spotlight in a more positive way than before.]]
* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: She's the main antagonist of the film, an aspirant to the title of Princess, and Twilight Sparkle's dark foil.
* SingleGirlSeeksMostPopularGuy: The only reason she dated Flash was to increase her popularity, which is why in ''Rainbow Rocks'' she tells Rarity not to feel bad for her when she talks about Flash's obvious feelings for Twilight.
* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: The teasers and tailers for ''Rainbow Rocks'' show her plenty enough, but the posters and covers for the various [=DVDs=] and music album leave her out even though she plays a major role.
* SixthRanger: Becomes this to the Humane Six after becoming good. It's in full effect in ''Rainbow Rocks''; she's their friend but is clearly an outsider to the group and isn't fully comfortable around them, or vice-versa. [[spoiler:She finally manages to overcome the mutual awkwardness by the climax of the film.]]
* SmugSmiler: She has a constant grin of superiority at all times... except in a presumably old photo of her [[WhenSheSmiles looking genuinely happy]] when winning a formal crown.
* SmugSuper: She mocks Twilight as an inferior replacement when Twilight doesn't know what effect her Element of Harmony will have on the human world. [[spoiler:Twilight turns this back on her when Sunset proves she doesn't really understand the Elements of Harmony, and thus cannot control their power.]]
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Let's face it, ''she's'' the main reason the Dazzlings lost due to the fact that they thought nothing of her. It's her that helps rally (albeit with help from Spike and DJ Pon-3, but still) the Humane Six to combat them and her that gives the band their HeroicSecondWind when the Dazzlings nearly overpowered the heroes in the final battle.]]
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: [[spoiler:Sunset herself, while still a nasty person, still had standards and outright refused to harm Spike. Her demon form, however, is a murderous psychopath who tries to fry Twilight and her friends without a second thought. Sunset's HeelFaceTurn is brought about largely because of how ''horrified'' she is of what she had become (she's actually crying during the transformation).]]
* TakeOverTheWorld: [[spoiler:During the climax, she reveals her plan is to use the Element of Magic to brainwash the students of Canterlot High and turn them into an army to march through the portal and conquer Equestria.]]
* TeleportersAndTransporters: She shares Twilight's ability to teleport when in unicorn form. In fact, she pulls the same trick on Twilight that Twilight herself used on Nightmare Moon in the pilot.
* TookALevelInKindness: She takes several between the first movie and ''Rainbow Rocks'', though only the Humane Five believe it is genuine. [[spoiler:Although there is a notable moment after she crashes Rainbow Dash's performance when even they seem to doubt her sincerity. The Dazzlings attempt to exploit this and fail.]]
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: Subverted; as a shallow AlphaBitch who is motivated by petty jealousy and acts like a bully, Sunset is a major step down from previous villains and much more in-line with what would be expected from a typical "girl" show. [[spoiler:Played straight when she gets her hands on the Element of Magic, transforms into an absolutely nightmarish demon, and reveals her plan is to brainwash the school's students into an army to invade Equestria.]]
* WhenSheSmiles: As mentioned above, the first photo of her winning the formal crown shows her having a very pretty smile. Now that she has been reformed, we get to see that smile more often in ''Rainbow Rocks''.
* YouAreNotReady: When Sunset Shimmer demands that Princess Celestia make her a princess, Celestia's response is that being a princess must be earned.
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[[folder:The Humane Five]]
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->''"Hey, hey, everybody / We're here to shout / That the magic of friendship / Is what it's all about"''

->'''Debut:''' ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls''

->'''Voiced by:''' [[Music/HeyOcean Ashleigh Ball]] (Applejack and Rainbow Dash), Creator/TabithaStGermain (Rarity), Creator/AndreaLibman (Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie)

The human counterparts of Twilight's friends in Ponyville, collectively known as the Humane Five to differentiate them from their Mane Six counterparts. They were once all close friends, but Sunset Shimmer drove them apart and only a few of them talk to each other now. With Twilight's intervention they reunite to help her defeat Sunset. In ''Rainbow Rocks'' the five have formed a rock band, the Rainbooms.

Most tropes pertaining to their [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicTheManeCast Equestria Prime counterparts]] apply to them as well.

* AlternateSelf: To Twilight's Ponyville friends.
* AppleOfDiscord: They were tight friends once. A few well-worded texts and emails from Sunset Shimmer broke them apart when they each thought the others had turned their backs on them.
* TheBigGuy: Pinkie Pie, wacky event planner who just wants to have fun. Drummer of the Rainbooms.
* ChangingClothesIsAFreeAction: It certainly is for Rarity. For example, all it takes for her is to lean behind a rack of clothes to don the ''Sgt. Pepper'' outfit, and a cut to Applejack talking to change into full Music/DaftPunk gear. See also the first InstantCosplaySurprise below.
* TheChick: Fluttershy, quiet ShrinkingViolet who writes songs. Plays the tambourine.
* CuddleBug: This Pinkie Pie having hands, she's even more touchy-feely than Pony!Pinkie, and enjoys giving {{Bear Hug}}s.
* DarkSkinnedBlond: This version of Applejack looks like she has a healthy tan.
* FiveManBand: They form one, as in this alternate world they haven't met the human counterpart of Twilight and it's just the five of them. Also reflected in their positions in the Rainbooms.
* {{Flanderization}}: We see enough of them to confirm they're pretty much just like the ponies Twilight knows (apart from originating from and being influenced by a setting that's very different from ''Friendship Is Magic''), but they haven't established their own individual characters beyond that and don't have three seasons of CharacterDevelopment to show how they got this way. However, there are ''some'' differences between them and their pony counterparts that show they aren't completely the same. Rainbow Dash is the most blatant example: she hasn't undergone the CharacterDevelopment her pony self has over three seasons, so she's much more arrogant and cocky than fans are used to seeing from Pony!Rainbow.
* GirlinessUpgrade: Beyond the whole humanization thing, putting Rainbow Dash and Applejack in skirts is considered this, despite their overall personalities not having changed much (and the pony versions were known to wear fancy gowns on some occasions). The Rainbooms costumes are also rather showy and girly, but since they're designed by Rarity and conceived for performing before an audience, it's no surprise and entirely justified. The toyline, on the other hand, takes it to a whole new level.
* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: It was already true for the pony character, but even more obvious for human Rarity since she wears clothes all the time. She's the most feminine of the group and her usual skirt and boots are purple, as well as her nightgown and a few other outfits.
* HairDecorations: Rarity and Fluttershy wear hair decs shaped like three diamonds and a butterfly, respectively, mirroring their pony counterparts' cutie marks.
* HammerspaceHair: Being human doesn't stop Pinkie from stashing things in her hair, like a clipboard, a plate of cookies or her drumsticks.
* InstantCosplaySurprise:
** Rarity shows her skill at this in the first movie by putting Twilight into a new dress and a blonde wig in a blink of the eye.
** Pinkie Pie pulls out one in "Shake Your Tail!" by dressing her friends (and herself) as hula dancers in a flurry of flowers. They look rather puzzled after the fact.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Rainbow Dash has to constantly be reminded that the Rainbooms is not just ''her'' band, and one of her songs is just her singing about how awesome she is.
* TheLancer: Applejack, the level-headed rival to Rainbow. Plays the bass guitar.
* TheLeader: Rainbow Dash, headstrong flavor and the most athletic. Lead guitar of the Rainbooms.
* LimitedWardrobe: Their everyday clothes for both movies and the shorts are always the same. However, we see them in plenty other outfits, including formal dresses (at the Fall Formal), hula dancer outfits (in "Shake Your Tail!"), nightwears (for the slumber party) and two different sets of costumes for performing as the Rainbooms. Rarity herself leans toward UnlimitedWardrobe with the various extravagant clothes she's seen wearing at one time or the other.
* LittleBitBeastly: They have pony ears (and wings, in the case of Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy) in promo artwork, and during their Magical Girl transformation.
* MagicalGirl: With the power of the Equestrian magic given to them by the Element of Magic, they can shift into human-pony hybrid forms, gaining pony ears, longer hair tied into ponytails, and for Rainbow and Fluttershy, wings. The novelization also gives Rarity a unicorn horn, but not the actual film. In their transformed state they gain magical powers, though the exact nature of them so far hasn't been nailed down.
* MagicMusic: Once they form a band, the residual Equestrian magic in them manifests through music. [[spoiler:They come to use it fully during the Battle of the Bands against the Dazzlings at the end of ''Rainbow Rocks'', blasting the Sirens' manifestations with showers of cutie marks-shaped sparks through their instruments.]]
* MagicSkirt: All five wear skirts normally. Of course, given the age bracket for the franchise, those skirts conceal everything.
* OnlySixFaces: They all have the same hourglass figure, long legs, scrawny arms and HartmanHips. There is little variation in their faces too. Whereas Rainbow Dash, Applejack, and Pinkie have rounder eyes as ponies, they have Twilight's almond-shaped eyes as humans; and they have exactly the same noses.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Contrary to Twilight's Ponyville friends, this group has a problem being open with each other about their feelings. The group never would have split up if they had actually talked to each other and found out about the emails and texts Sunset sent between them, but apparently never did and just assumed they had been betrayed, and simply avoided each other altogether. Then in ''Rainbow Rocks'' they're annoyed with the behavior of their bandmates in various ways, but keep quiet and grumble to themselves instead of saying something, causing the bitterness to fester and finally erupt in an argument during the climax of the film.
* PowerMakesYourHairGrow: In their anthropony forms their hair grows into a ''very'' long ponytail, reaching past their waists. The pun is very much intended: in ''Rainbow Rocks'' the group repeatedly refers to growing tails when they transform, but they actually mean their hair.
* ThePowerOfRock: Though it's more likely just the genre the showrunners focused on, it seems to be specifically rock music that triggers their transformations.
* RapunzelHair: As part of their anthropony forms.
* SigilSpam: Sort of. As humans they don't have cutie marks on their skin (for what we can tell), but those symbols of their pony alternate selves can be found everywhere on their possessions: clothes, boots, hair decs, schoolbags, nightwears, musical instruments, laptops, etc. We've only seen Pinkie Pie's bedroom so far, and unsuprisingly there are balloon motifs on the walls and on her bedcover. (She also seems to have hearts as a secondary motif, like on the pajamas she lends to Twilight.)
* SillyWalk: Pinkie Pie sometimes merrily skip around instead of just walking, with a WackySoundEffect, mirroring her pony alter-self pronking gait.
* SixthRanger:
** Twilight Sparkle, newcoming outsider. Back-up vocals in the Rainbooms.
** [[spoiler:Sunset Shimmer replaces Twilight in the same role and adds another guitar at the end of the film.]]
* SkirtOverSlacks: Rainbow Dash wears a pair of biker shorts under her skirt.
* TheSmartGuy: Rarity, TheFashionista who designs their outfits. Plays the keytar (since a regular piano was impractical).
* TheSouthpaw: Both versions of Fluttershy seem to favor their left hand/hoof, but it's not surprising that it applies more heavily to human Fluttershy.
* SuddenAnatomy: A minor case; the art style normally doesn't depict the characters as having nails, but that doesn't stop Rarity from putting nail polish on herself and Fluttershy in a scene of ''Rainbow Rocks''.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Rainbow Dash. It's even more obvious than as a pony; here she's a soccer player and wears ModestyShorts under her skirt.
* TouchedByVorlons: Well, touched by magical pretty ponies.... After the events of the first film, they still have some bits of Equestrian magic left in them, causing them to shift into their anthropony forms when they play. [[spoiler:It also makes them immune to the Dazzlings' MindControlMusic, at least until they start breaking apart.]]
* UnusualEars: In their pony forms they have ears on the top of their heads poking through their hair, their human ears apparently vanishing.
* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: How their lifestyle is starting to look if the films really do get their own spin-off show as rumored.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Before they finally talk things out and come together again, the group is still clearly bitter at each other for their perceived betrayals.
* WingedHumanoid: Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy's anthropony forms.
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[[folder:Flash Sentry]]
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->''"We've got to stop running into each other like this!"''

->'''Debut:''' ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls''

->'''Voiced by:''' Vincent Tong

A spiky blue-haired fellow that seems like a nice enough guy. He's a Pegasus Royal Guard in Equestria, while his human counterpart is a guitar player that Twilight befriends during her stay at Canterlot High.

* {{Adorkable}}: He has his moments, like walking right into a door when starting his date with Twilight or asking her friends about her in ''Rainbow Rocks''.
* AllGuitarsAreStratocasters: His instrument is designed as one.
* BoyOfTheWeek: He's effectively this. While he and Twilight don't really have much of a romance to begin with, just a MeetCute or two and a single dance, his pony-self's subsequent appearances in Season 4 and the comics are nothing more than cameos, one of which where he only fleetingly acknowledges Twilight. He gets another chance to be her love interest though in ''Rainbow Rocks''.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy:
** Temporarily, when [[spoiler:Sunset Shimmer hypnotizes him and the rest of the students to be her army in taking over Equestria while she's in OneWingedAngel form. He's the first person to be snapped out of it]].
** Happens again thanks to HatePlague along with the rest of the school, though he spends a much longer time under Dazzlings' control. Because he's normally such a nice guy, his moments are the hardest to stomach, especially when he blows up at Twilight and calls out Sunset when she tries to tackle Rainbow Dash.
* TheCameo: He appears twice in pony form during Season 4 of ''Friendship Is Magic''. He escorts Princess Cadance off of a crystal train (though he doesn't speak) in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E11ThreesACrowd "Three's a Crowd"]], and introduces the Duke and Duchess of Maretonia in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E25TwilightsKingdomPart1 "Twilight's Kingdom - Part 1"]].
* CompetitionFreak: Though everyone in the school gets hit with this through the HatePlague, it seems to have hit him (and Trixie) the most, going from NiceGuy to {{Jerkass}} and taking more and more levels in it as the movie progresses as he tries to push his band into the finals [[spoiler:(and doesn't take it very well when he fails).]]
* CrashIntoHello: A bit of a RunningGag in both movies. He lampshades the trend a couple of times both as a human and a pony.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Blue hair and blue eyes.
* DreamworksFace: His human counterpart does this in his official render, which is at odds with his actual personality.
* FlatCharacter: One of the biggest reproaches the fandom has against him. Between the two movies, he receives very little development beyond generic nice guy and Twilight's love interest.
* InterspeciesRomance: While they're both human at the time, he apparently dated Sunset Shimmer and developed a liking for Twilight Sparkle, both who are normally ponies.
* KickTheDog: He has two separate moments to really capitalize just how much effective the Dazzlings' HatePlague is.
** The first is when he chews out Twilight for choosing to join the Rainbooms when he was working so hard to win the competition.
** The second is when Sunset tackles Rainbow Dash to prevent her from summoning her magic. This leads everyone to believe she's gone back to her old ways and Flash decides to rub it in by saying "Now there's the bad girl we all love to hate!"
* KnightInShiningArmor: As a pony, his job as a royal guard seems to invoke this motif, complete with being a love interest to a princess.
* NiceGuy: He's an all-around nice guy and helps Twilight and her friends a little bit. [[spoiler:This makes his time under the Dazzlings' HatePlague all the more tragic.]]
* RecurringExtra: His pony counterpart has become this outside the ''Equestria Girls'' movies.
** In Luna's [[ComicBook/MyLittlePonyMicroSeries IDW micro-series]] oneshot, while she is checking up on the royal guard.
** He appears in Granny Smith and Flim & Flam issue of ''[[ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendsForever Friends Forever]]''.
** And in the show itself, he's one of Cadence's escorts on the train to Ponyville in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E11ThreesACrowd "Three's a Crowd"]] and announces the arrival of two visiting royals in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E25TwilightsKingdomPart1 "Twilight's Kingdom - Part 1"]].
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Not that he's much of a love interest to begin with. He looks nice, helps Twilight twice, plays a guitar, generally seems to be a NiceGuy, was Sunset Shimmer's ex-boyfriend, and his equine counterpart is a guard in Cadance's castle. And that's all we ever really know about him.
* ShipTease:
** Twilight develops a crush on his human counterpart, but the romance is mostly downplayed to [[ShipTease ship teasing]]. The movie ends with a little ShipTease with Pony!Flash.
** In the first movie it was mentioned he dated Sunset Shimmer, but nothing more is done with this. In the sequel his relationship with Sunset is brought up again when it's clear he still has a crush on Twilight, though Sunset [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial claims she never had feelings for him]].
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: His hair makes him look like he walked out of an anime of some kind, made all the more obvious since he appears to have a relatively normal human skin-tone.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Dazzlings]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:From left to right: Sonata Dusk, Adagio Dazzle, Aria Blaze.]]
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->''"We sing, like, all the time! It's how we get people to do what we want."''

->'''Debut:''' ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks''

->'''Voiced by:''' Kazumi Evans (Adagio Dazzle), Creator/MarykeHendrikse (Sonata Dusk), Madeline Merlo (Sonata Dusk singing), Diana Kaarina (Aria Blaze), Shylo Sharity (Aria Blaze singing)

The main villains of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks'', a trio of EvilDiva Sirens from Equestria. They use MindControlMusic to create hatred and conflict between beings, and [[EmotionEater feed on the negative energy their victims produce in the process]]. They were banished to the human world from Equestria, which heavily weakened their powers and trapped them in human bodies. After witnessing the events of the first film, they arrange for a BattleOfTheBands at Canterlot High in the hopes of finding the source of the magic they felt and using it to regain their full power. They consist of leader Adagio Dazzle and her two cohorts, Sonata Dusk and Aria Blaze.

* EightiesHair: Adagio. ''Look at it''. It's like she just walked out of an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}''!
* AffablyEvil: Sonata's the most friendly, energetic, and silliest of the Dazzlings, and will just as much get in on brainwashing others and feeding off on their hatred as Adagio and Aria.
* AllThereInTheScript: Aria's name is never mentioned in the film, only being listed in the credits and promotional materials and merchandise. Subverted in the film's commentary where it's mentioned more than once.
* AlphaBitch: Adagio comes of as this, being the leader and most abrasive of the three.
* AnimalisticAbomination: In their true forms [[spoiler:they are visually merhorse sirens. Similarly to the Windigos they're extremely powerful, ancient entities that consume hatred and use it to power themselves up, have the ability to warp minds with just their song, and being alien from both an equine and human perspective, looking more like aquatic Windigos than ponies.]]
* AstralProjection: [[spoiler:Their "true forms", unleashed out of their pendants.]]
* AttentionWhore: Part of their motivation is to make people adore them, and it even shows up in the lyrics of "Welcome to the Show".
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Their names are very awesome for a trio of singers.
* {{Badass}}: They prove themselves among the more competent and effective villains of the show, are so powerful they could singlehandedly drive all of Equestria into a frenzy, and in the climax they [[spoiler:manage to resist the group's attacks, and even overpower them.]]
* BadassBoast: Both "Under Our Spell" and "Welcome to the Show" are basically this in song form.
* BadPowersBadPeople: With the ability to use MindControlMusic, and with them being {{Emotion Eater}}s feeding off negativity, is it any surprise they're bad guys? [[spoiler:They even manage to get the Rainbooms to argue, allowing them to twist and absorb ThePowerOfFriendship]].
* BatmanGambit: Their ultimate gambit for getting the magic of the Rainbooms is to not do anything themselves, but give a nudge to others to do what they want. [[spoiler:They make Celestia and Luna declare the Rainbooms the winners in the semi-finals over Trixie, after Trixie gave a much better performance. Trixie is so angry and bitter that, with a bit of coaxing, she locks the group below stage so she can take their place. With the group locked in a room together over several hours, the tensions that have been brewing between them finally reach the surface and they begin arguing, finally falling victims to the Dazzlings and allowing their magic to be absorbed.]]
* BetaBitch: Aria comes off as this, being the second-most abrasive of the three.
* BigBad: Adagio Dazzle is the villain of ''Rainbow Rocks'', with Sonata Dusk and Aria Blaze as her CoDragons.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Compared to Adagio and Aria, Sonata is relatively friendly, but she is still just as evil as the rest of them.
* BlondesAreEvil: Adagio Dazzle has orange/blonde and is the most evil of the trio.
* BreakingSpeech: Adagio and Aria try to do this with Sunset, pointing out that none of the Rainbooms want her in the band, and imply that they're worried her unpopularity will make her a liability. They also deliberately remind Sunset of her past actions, stating that their plan's aren't so different.
* CallAPegasusAHippogriff: The Dazzlings' true forms are called "Sirens" for their powers, but are physically more like Hippocampi.
* ChromaticArrangement: Inverted. Their skin colors are cyan, magenta, and yellow -- the colors opposite red, green, and blue on an RGB color wheel.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Sonata. She's often focused on something other than the trio's EvilPlan (like lunch), although she is level-headed and works along with them when the time calls for it, à la when they're performing a song.
* ColorCodedCharacters: Blue for Sonata, yellow for Adagio, and purple for Aria. [[spoiler:Those colors are reflected by their siren spirit-manifestations in the final battle, assumedly looking like their true forms.]]
* CompressedHair: The first time we see them, [[http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/File:The_Dazzlings_vocalizing_in_the_corner_booth_EG2.png they're wearing hoodies]]; do not ask how those incredible hairstyles fit into those small hoods.
* ContraltoOfDanger: Played straight by Adagio Dazzle and Aria Blaze, but subverted by Sonata Dusk, who has an airheaded ValleyGirl-type voice.
* TheCorrupter: Even when they aren't outright hypnotizing people into fighting, they're coiling around troubled (like Sunset) or begrudged (like Trixie) individuals, whispering hateful speeches into their ears.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Adagio. [[spoiler:The Dazzlings are able to place Principal Celestia and Vice-Principal Luna under their control to prevent the Rainbooms from warning them and are to pull the right strings to make the Rainbooms look bad while continually pushing the other students into further conflict with each other. The constant conflicts the Rainbooms are subjected to, both within the group and from others, eventually leads to them turning on each other, feeding them with greater magic than they've ever had (and her realizing that the Rainbooms had magic was smart too).]]
* DarkMagicalGirl: To hammer it in, they get a TransformationSequence mirroring the Humane Six's.
* DeadpanSnarker: Adagio and especially Aria, who is usually the first to deal with Sonata's antics and will even snark towards Adagio.
* DePower:
** Their banishment was an attempt to do this. While it ''did'' weaken them considerably, it didn't fully work.
** [[spoiler:Shattering their red gems does; without them they have awful singing voices and can't channel their magic, leaving them just ordinary girls.]]
* TheDitz: Sonata Dusk is this by far. She needs to be constantly explained things or reminded of the plan by the two others, or else she'd be completely lost. She also blurts out their true nature when they're supposed to be undercover.
* TheDividual: Are essentially one character storywise, and never seen apart.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Adagio's relationship with her CoDragons is similar to Sunset's relationship with Snips and Snails. When she calls Sonata and Aria idiots, Sunset just kinda stares at them like she's seen it all before. Adagio herself is basically every bit as selfish as Sunset was (to the point that when Sunset sees them dividing the school she's visibly uncomfortable), only she has the magic talent to be terrifying rather than just a bully.
* DumbIsGood: Averted. Sonata is never treated at anything but another evil villain.
* EmotionEater: Similar to the changelings, the Dazzlings grow stronger by feeding on hatred and disharmony (rather than [[ThePowerOfLove love]]), which produces a green mist that they absorb through their red necklaces. The amount of magic in the world seems to influence this power, however; before Equestrian magic is introduced to the human world, their helpings amount to what Aria describes as "fast food" rather than "a meal".
* EnthrallingSiren: This is the basis for their design and they follow many of the tropes that come with being one, including MindControlMusic.
* EvilCounterpart:
** As a band they're this to the Rainbooms, having a heavier and darker style while spreading the opposite message to the Rainbooms' songs about Friendship (and Rainbow Dash). [[spoiler:And like the Rainbooms, once they absorb enough power from their audience with their singing, they transform into hybrid forms between their human and Equestrian bodies.]]
** Adagio herself is basically Sunset from the first movie, only even ''more'' of a {{Jerkass}} and with far more threatening abilities.
** Sonata's ditzy spaciness makes her seem a lot like a villainous version of Pinkie Pie, even having a similar voice. She even similarly pops in and out of the frame in different places when the trio taunts Sunset, and when everyone else finds Snips and Snails' rap awful, Pinkie and Sonata are getting into it.
* {{Evil Diva}}s: They dress like {{Idol Singer}}s just like every other character who appears on stage, yet they have the additional ability to use their MindControlMusic to get others to do their bidding.
* EvilerThanThou: Not only does Adagio prove to be more diabolical than Sunset ever was, she pretty much rubs it in her face that they'll succeed where Sunset failed in the previous movie and mockingly tells her that no-one will remember her actions when they're done with CHS.
* EvilLaugh: Downplayed, but Adagio indulges in one at the end of the "Under Our Spell" song. Sonata and Aria ''try'' one earlier, at the gym before the pre-selections, but they just sound like giggling schoolgirls.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Adagio and Aria have fairly deep voices. Sonata, on the other hand, has a high-pitched voice.
* TheExile: They've been banished from Equestria for spreading disharmony to empower themselves and trying to take over. The human world doesn't possess nearly as much magic power for them to feed on -- until [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Twilight brings Equestrian magic with her in the first film]], that is.
* FacePalm: Sonata Dusk's stupidity inspires this to both her teammates at different points, Adagio primarily.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Adagio gives this vibe off; after getting angry and grabbing Sunset by the arm she gives an extremely fake smile and laugh.
* FingerlessGloves: Adagio wears gloves that leave her fingers bare.
* FormFittingWardrobe: Adagio's normal outfit is a tight-fitting purple jumpsuit, and Aria's outfit is so tight and so form-fitting it might as well be one.
* GenderBlenderName: Although very feminine herself, Adagio's name is more masculine compared to the other two, since all three are derived from Italian, where masculine words end with an "-o" and feminine words end with an "-a".
* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: All three have various tones of purple in their clothes, both the casual ones and the scenic costumes for the final concert -- especially Adagio, for whom it's the whole outfit. They are also quite feminine and alluring, as befitting of sirens. Also plays into PurpleIsPowerful.
* GuardianEntity: [[spoiler:Instead of transforming into their true siren forms, they instead summon them as transluscent spirits from their pendants while retaining their humanoid appearance, giving them this vibe. Most likely, though, it's something similar to AstralProjection.]]
* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler:When they regain their full power, the Dazzlings look similar to the Hybrid forms of the Mane Six, but they have fin-like wings instead. They also summon their more serpentine Siren forms from their gems.]]
* HartmanHips: Their outfits all prominently emphasized their hips, helped by the fact they tend to swing them a lot when they sing.
* HatePlague: Their singing compels the students of Canterlot High School to turn a friendly musical showcase into a hyper-competitive BattleOfTheBands, shattering up the harmony the Humane Six managed to achieve in the first film.
* HumanoidAbomination: They're not human, merely turned into human form like anything else that crosses the worlds. However, unlike Twilight and Sunset, they retain some degree of their magic, and some of their inhuman traits (like glowing green eyes) manifest at times, giving them this vibe. [[spoiler:This effect is amplified when they regain their true power, gaining fin-like wings, glowing red eyes, and fangs.]]
* ImmortalImmaturity: They are apparently thousands of years old, but that doesn't stop them from behaving like immature teenagers (at least Aria and Sonata, while Adagio is much more grounded).
* InformedAttractiveness: Twilight says that the legends spoke of the Sirens being beautiful. While their human forms might count, their Equestrian forms are rather monstrous. Even by that world's standards, "beautiful" is not the word that comes to mind. This could be a JustifiedTrope though: since the Sirens want to be loved and worshipped, their music presumably makes onlookers perceive them as beautiful.
* InTheHood: Before acting out their EvilPlan, the three wear hooded jackets while using their MindControlMusic... and somehow manage to hide [[CompressedHair their impressively gigantic hair]].
* KickTheDog: When Sunset confronts them, they explicitly bring up her past actions and imply that her friends didn't invite her into the band because they don't really care.
* LameComeback: Sonata's specialty.
-->'''Sonata:''' ''[[NoYou You]]'' are the worst!
* MakeMeWannaShout: Adagio's Siren avatar uses it against Twilight, and then Aria's and Sonata's join in to blow away the Rainbooms. The Shout itself sounds like an EtherealChoir.
* ManipulativeBitch: Are this to Trixie; they persuade her to trap the Rainbooms when they were the ones who pulled strings to ensure the Rainbooms got ahead.
* MeaningfulName:
** Adagio, sonata, and aria are all types of musical styling. Adagio is a type of tempo that indicates a song is to be played slowly (fitting most of their songs having a slow, hypnotic beat), a sonata is a musical piece played without vocal accompaniment, and an aria is a vocal piece played without instruments. Note that makes aria and sonata completely opposed styles, and thus Aria and Sonata don't get along.
** On top of that, their band's name (and Adagio's surname) matches their ''modus operandi'' of [[EnthrallingSiren dazzling the whole student body]].
** All of their surnames fit somewhat with their personalities, too: Adagio ''Dazzle'', as mentioned above; Aria ''Blaze'' is the most "in-your-face"; and Sonata ''Dusk''... is dim.
* MegaTwintails: Aria Blaze sports these. It's a wonder [[CompressedHair how she can hide them so well]] under her hoodie.
* MindControlMusic: Their powers are based on this: by singing, they place their victims under a spell that turns their listeners against each other. [[spoiler:As they grow stronger by feeding off the negative energy at Canterlot High, they develop the power of persuasion. This becomes full-blown mind control after feeding on the Rainbooms' negative energy and, by extension, magic.]]
* MixAndMatchCritters: In their true forms, [[spoiler:they mix fish traits with those of horses, as typical of Hippocampi. Not ''pony'' traits, though; there's nothing cute about scaly merhorses with rows of sharp teeth]].
* MsFanservice: Downplayed due to the all-ages nature of the franchise, but still present. The three have slow, slinky movements, including a ''lot'' of swinging of their hips; they have melodious voices, and alluring gazes. When telling the group about them, Twilight specifically mentions the legends said the three were beautiful. Being sirens, it all comes with the territory as part of their allure.
* MulticoloredHair: All three of them. Adagio has orange and yellow hair; Aria purple and aqua green; Sonata pale blue and dark blue.
* NearVillainVictory: [[spoiler:By the end, they have the entire school under their control and bickering amongst each others and the Rainbooms fighting amongst each other with Twilight and Sunset looking on helplessly locked underneath the stage with no way out. Had not Spike and Vinyl Scratch freed the group and given them a sound system to fight back, the Dazzlings would have won.]]
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Adagio caresses other students' faces and heads as she's "seducing" them into making the concert into a battle.
* NotSoDifferent: Adagio is basically Sunset Shimmer from the first movie, only even worse.
* NoYou: Sonata's usual response to Aria's insults.
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:While they remain humanoid, they take on anthropony forms when their true power is awakened. They can also summon projections of their true forms to fight for them.]]
* [[OpportunisticBastard Opportunistic Bitch]]: They're (well, mostly just Adagio) quite good at taking advantage of every opportunity they encounter to further their plans.
* OutsideContextVillain: While enemies like them are expected in Equestria, they're in the ''human'' world, where Sunset is the only villain to ever appear with ''any'' kind of magic before.
* PerkyFemaleMinion: Sonata often lightens the mood with her ditziness.
* PragmaticVillainy: When it came time to announce the finalists for the Battle of Bands, the Dazzlings manipulated Celestia and Luna to have the Rainbooms be in the finals despite performing poorly due to sabotage. They did this so that it would cause an uproar amongst the student body, making them hate the Rainbooms even more and allow the Dazzlings to feed off this hatred. It would also allow them manipulate Trixie to trap the Rainbooms underneath the stage, setting up the final trap that would allow the Dazzlings to feed off the Rainbooms' magic.
* RapunzelHair: All three have impressive heads of hair, Adagio's being the biggest, even before [[spoiler:the transformations add ponytails to them]]. At least they keep them bound.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: They look pretty good considering it was [[spoiler:Star Swirl the Bearded]] who banished them, making them several centuries old at best, more likely over a millennium.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: [[spoiler:Their eyes turn completely red when they regain their power.]]
* SarcasmBlind: Sonata Dusk, notably when Adagio tells them [[SarcasmMode how much she loves being banished in the human world]].
* SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan: Whatever they ''actually'' are, they were banished to the other world specifically because it sealed their true power which would otherwise wreak havoc in Equestria. The plan was their powers wouldn't work at all, but unfortunately not.
* SexyWalk: This is their default mode of walking, and even when standing still they tend to sway in place alluringly.
* ShadowArchetype: Adagio is like Sunset before she reformed, but even ''nastier'' and with actual magic to pursue her ambitions with. Adagio actually points out the similarities during their second confrontation.
* ShesGotLegs: Most notable with Adagio and Aria.
* SigilSpam: Though not immediately obvious unless one is familiar with their merchandise, their cutie marks appear all over their clothing as with the other human characters. Adagio's is the orange gemstones on her belt and shoes, Aria's in the silver star on her belt and in her hair, and Sonata's is the heart with a musical note on her skirt.
* SingingVoiceDissonance: Aria Blaze has a rather gruff voice when speaking, but it's much higher and softer when singing. [[spoiler:This is apparently because they need their red gems to sing]].
* SirensAreMermaids: [[spoiler:Well, mer''horses''.]]
* SlasherSmile:
** Adagio flashes these a ''lot'', most famously when she first senses the Equestrian magic the events of the first film unleashed and realizes what it means for the trio.
** Both Aria and Sonata get to do this too at the end of "Under Our Spell", though they make it look more silly than scary.
* TheSocialDarwinist: Part of their musical message.
-->''You're a star and you should know it\\
Yeah, you rise above the rest\\
It doesn't matter who you hurt\\
If you're just proving you're the best''
* TheSociopath: Adagio is very manipulative, charming, and really doesn't care who she hurts.
* SpikesOfVillainy: Adagio has them on her HairDecorations, belt, anklets, and inexplicably sticking out backwards from the heels of her boots. Sonata has them on her wrist bands. Aria also has pointy star-shaped hair decs.
* TheStarscream: Aria has shades. Though she doesn't outright defy Adagio, she constantly questions her plans and is uncomfortable taking orders from her.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Adagio feels that having the [[BetaBitch abrasive]] Aria and the [[TheDitz ditzy]] Sonata doesn't make her banishment to the human world any more bearable. She practically invokes the trope when talking to Sunset.
-->'''Adagio:''' You'll have to excuse them. They're idiots.
* TakeOverTheWorld: It's implied that they want to absorb the leftover Equestrian magic from the Rainbooms to regain their full power and conquer the world so they can have all the negativity they could ever need, and make everyone adore them.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: They may be working together, but it's clear the three really can't be considered friends. Aria and Sonata particularly seem to annoy each other, and both of them get on Adagio's nerves when they get going at each other.
* UnknownRival: Played with. The Dazzlings and the Rainbooms each know the other is the enemy and the one to defeat, but they each don't ''know'' the other knows, nor do they know the other's plans to defeat them. As a result the two groups spend the film hiding their powers from each other until the climax to avoid blowing their cover until they're ready.
* ValleyGirl: Sonata Dusk has the clothes, the dumbness, and the way of talking of one.
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: Not as dark as some previous villains, but the fact remains they're a trio of {{Emotion Eater}}s who plan to brainwash and enslave all of Canterlot High. [[spoiler:And the rest of the world, once they absorb the magic of the Rainbooms and become strong enough to do it. Also note their anthropony forms, in contrast to the Rainbooms, are decidedly demonic in appearance with leathery, fin-like wings, fangs, and GlowingEyesOfDoom.]] Out of the three, Adagio fits the trope best, as she is a rather competent [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative mastermind]], while Aria mainly just [[DeadpanSnarker snarks]] and Sonata is [[TheDitz just dumb]].
* VillainExitStageLeft: [[spoiler:When their red gems are broken by the Rainbooms, and their voices are suddenly horribly off-key, they run away, and are not seen again for the rest of the movie.]]
* VillainHasAPoint: In the film's commentary, the creators note that the thing about their cafeteria songs is that their message is ''right'': people who are talented and special ''do'' deserve recognition and should take pride in who they are for it. You want to disagree with them because they're just doing it to spread hostility and aggression, but the core message of the song isn't wrong.
* VillainSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwZRfxoog0E "Let's Have a Battle (of the Bands)"]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKhEVBaIVrQ "Under Our Spell"]], and part of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfqhLM_k60c "Welcome to the Show"]], including the opening, the other part being sung by the Rainbooms against them.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Thanks to their singing enthralling the school including staff, everyone loves them and thinks they're delightful girls, and readily agree with anything they say.
* XanatosSpeedChess: They have no set plan when they come to [=CHS=], but they prove good at taking advantage of opportunities as they find them with the ultimate goal of finding the source of the magic they sensed. Such acts include using the school talent competition to begin a BattleOfTheBands so they can regularly sing to the school and keep them under control, and [[spoiler:making Celestia and Luna declare the Rainbooms the winners over Trixie and her band in the semi-finals so they can manipulate Trixie into disposing of the group.]]
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair:
** Aria has purple and aqua green hair.
** Sonata has two-tone blue hair.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Post-Credits Character]]
->'''Debut:''' ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks''

->'''Voiced by:''' [[spoiler:Creator/TaraStrong]]

A character that appears in the TheStinger for ''Rainbow Rocks''. The previously unseen human-verse counterpart of another character originally from Equestria, she's been investigating Canterlot High and is certain there's something odd going on there.

* AlternateSelf: She's the counterpart of a previously established ''Friendship Is Magic'' character, [[spoiler:Twilight Sparkle herself]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: She was hinted at in the first movie. [[spoiler:Human Pinkie did ask Twilight if she had a twin, saying that she had seen a similar person, and it only makes sense that she has a counterpart since all her other friends do.]]
* LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine: Sports one, clearly establishing her as a scientific character. [[spoiler:It, the glasses, and her messy hair help make her look distinct from Princess Twilight-in-Human form.]]
* NerdGlasses: Thick, black-rimmed ones. [[spoiler:Not unlike the glasses Prime!Twilight Sparkle wore in "Lesson Zero".]]
* SmallRoleBigImpact: She's on-screen for less than thirty seconds in a post-credits scene. [[spoiler:But everything her appearance implies is summed up during that time.]]
* TheStinger: Makes her debut at the end of ''Rainbow Rocks''.
* WalkingSpoiler: In case you couldn't tell...
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sunflower]]
->'''Debut:''' ''[[ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW My Little Pony Annual 2013]]''

Applejack's cousin and the main antagonist of the main prequel story featured in the 2013 Annual comic from IDW. She appears to be the older sister of Babs Seed (who herself has been {{Age Lift}}ed to AJ's age).

* AlphaBitch: Was the resident school bitch before Sunset entered the picture. She wasn't quite as bad though, just worrying more about status and what not.
* BreakingSpeech: Delivers a rather nasty one to Fluttershy and AJ how they're pathetic on trying to be their friends. It works for a time till the first Cantorlot High soccer game when Pinkie has Fluttershy volunteer to pass out streamers and she nearly starts insulting her again. Rarity and AJ shuts Babs and her down that time, chastising the both of them for their rude behavior when Fluttershy clearly didn't deserve it.
* CanonForeigner: An odd case since she's the major "not-in-the-movie" character other than Human!Babs. If she is indeed her sister (the comic doesn't outright says this, just that she and Babs are AJ's cousins) this would mean her pony counterpart is the one Pony!Babs mentioned "One Bad Apple".
* HumblePie: Fluttershy notices she has a pet dog in her purse that looks sickly and, being an animal expert, tries to offer some advice on how to care for it. Sunflower insults her instead, however near the end of the story she has to own up to her neglect and takes it to the animal clinic where Fluttershy works.
* JawDrop: After Rarity and AJ chastises her for her behavior and leaves her and Babs to be with Fluttershy and AJ.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Background Students]]
->'''Debut:''' ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls''

What's a high school without students? While a few students at Canterlot High are easily recognizable as the human counterparts of secondary characters, most are new characters. At the beginning they're divided up into different cliques -- the athletes, the dramas, the techies, the eco-kids, the fashionistas, and the rockers. They stick to their own groups because of Sunset Shimmer, but come together later thanks to Twilight Sparkle.

* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: It bears repeating, even when not based on actual pony characters, the CHS students have a wild range of skin tones.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: It's rather common for the various unnamed characters to have eyes and hair colors matching.
* {{Expy}}: Averted; while some of the students have similar color schemes to certain background ponies in ''Friendship Is Magic'' but different eye colors and "cutie marks" on their clothes (one of the athletic girls, for example, looks like a dead ringer for [[FanNickname Cloud Kicker]], but has a soccer ball cutie mark), [[http://derpiboo.ru/images/358985 they weren't based off of background pony designs.]]
* TheFashionista: The group [[FanNickname Normal Norman]] belongs to, and it's implied Rarity hangs out with them a bit (which would make sense) since she sits with them at the start of the cafeteria song.
* KidsAreCruel:
** When they make fun of Twilight when an embarrassing video of her is leaked.
** In the sequel they're quite vicious to Sunset Shimmer and instantly turn on the Dazzlings when they're defeated.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: They have a quite varied range of hair colors, even for those with more human skin-tones.
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