History Characters / PonyPOVSeriesTheTiaraFamilyAndFriends

* {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler:Despite saying how meaningless everything is, she let's it slip that she still cares about her mother enough to be afraid of having her plans ruin and what she's done for her 'made meaningless'.]]

* MeaningfulRename: [[spoiler:Her name was changed to "Screwball" during her period of insanity. Once she recovers her sanity along with her full memory, she renames herself "Golden Skates", as she used to love rollerskating, and refused to answer to Golden Tiara out of shame for her actions]].

!!!Silver Spoon/Silver Tray

!!!Diamond Tiara/[[spoiler:Tarnished Rich]]/[[spoiler:Nightmare Nhilis]]

* [[spoiler:CardCarryingVillain: A dark and serious version: as a Nightmare, Discord's convinced her her sole purpose for existing is to be a monster and a villain and she believes she literally has no existence outside of that.]]

* [[spoiler:DealWithTheDevil: Will set Discord free just to make her mother sane again. Though to be fair, she didn't know he was Discord when she made the deal. Whether being the host of his spirit was part of the deal or arranged afterwards isn't clear.]]

* [[spoiler:TheDragon: Becomes this to Discord.]]
** [[spoiler:DragonInChief: Despite being Discord's minion, she's more of a direct threat in the Rumors arc than he was due to him being a OrcusOnHisThrone. Discord implied he might not be able to tell her what to do anymore. Discord steps in during the finale, but personally sees her as his partner, while Diamond still sees herself as a minion.]]
** [[spoiler: DragonAscendant: When Discord's will to fight in the final battle against the heroes becomes lost, Diamond takes his place in the battle. Further made clear when she ''absorbs'' the orphaned spirits of Dark Magic to become Night''mare'', fully planning to force the heroes to either kill her and presumbaly destroy the Dark magic that makes Nightmares, or let her take over.]]
* [[spoiler:DrivenToMadness: Discord has pretty much managed to do this to her, despite being SealedEvilInACan and only able to use words to do it.]]
** [[spoiler: [[FromBadToWorse It's gotten worse.]] She went so insane that she's [[SuperpoweredEvilSide become a Nightmare]].]]
* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide: Says if she got a do-over, she'd have done this to the CMC instead of just being a bully. Given her general motivation, it's not entirely clear if that's a bluff or not.]]

* [[spoiler:EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Even as a Nightmare, she seems to genuinely care about Alula, Tootsie, and Silver Spoon. The irony is she ''becomes'' one to Discord, even if he'll never admit it in a million years.]]
* [[spoiler:EvenEvilHasStandards:]]

* [[spoiler:FreudianExcuse: Puts down those without Cutie Marks to make herself feel better about her own, because the jewelry heist that she earned her Cutie Mark from drove her mother to insanely try to kill her. And of course, her motivations as a Nightmare are due to Discord's manipulations and breaking her.]]
* [[spoiler:[[FromNobodyToNightmare From Nopony to Nightmare]]: Goes from a bully to TheDragon of ''Discord''! In fact, she ultimately usurps him as the final main villain.]]

* HateSink: {{Invoked|Trope}}. [[spoiler:As a Nightmare she WANTS to be this. Though subverted as several ponies refuse to do so.]]

* [[spoiler:MindRape: As a Nightmare, she can do this now. She does this to Silver Spoon in "Character Rerailment" in an attempt to convince her her only purpose in existence is being a monster.]]

* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:Double Subverted. She transforms into a hideous abomination to try and convince the heroes to put her down, but Applejack sees through the facade so she turns back. She then absorbs the Spirits of Dark Magic to become an adult Nightmare and truly represent this trope.]]
* [[spoiler: PsychicLink: The events of the Day of Chaos granted Diamond and Sweetie Belle an empathic link with each other that both eventually become aware of. Discord uses this to make the Bearers hesitant to use the Elements on the duo in fear of what would happen to Sweetie, of course they have ''other'' ways to use them now.]]

* [[spoiler:RippleEffectProofMemory: Begins to notice the chronological divergences from the heart world as she approaches Nightmare status.]]

** [[spoiler:Its hinted it may be InTheBlood, though [[MindRape Discord isn't helping one bit.]]]]

* [[spoiler:SuperpoweredEvilSide: Discord pretty much breaks her spirit so completely that she ends up going ''Nightmare''.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Despite being TheDragon to Discord and being a despair themed Nightmare, even at her worst she mainly wanted to 'free' the world from the Shadows Who Are, and when that fails, she does a number of good deeds in other universes to help other Diamond Tiaras while waiting for the FinalBattle.]]

!!!Filthy Rich/Onyx Tiara

-->Voiced by Louis Badalament

* [[spoiler:TheAtoner: After he overcomes his FantasticRacism and accepts responsibility for his actions causing his wife and daughter's SanitySlippage.]]

* [[spoiler:DespairEventHorizon: Came ''very'' close to crossing this in "Mind Games Part 2" to the point he was at least partially Discorded. The interviewers timely intervention manages to pull him back.]]

* [[FantasticRacism Fantastic Racist]]:

** [[spoiler:As of "Mind Games Part 2", he's no longer one.]]
** [[spoiler:As of the end of Rumors, this particular part of him was {{Ret Gone}}d by Apple Bloom.]]

* [[spoiler:ItsAllMyFault: He blames himself entirely for his wife's insanity.]]
* MeaningfulRename: Though born "Filthy Rich", he prefers the more prestigious-sounding "Onyx Tiara". [[spoiler:Turns out he did this out of ''guilt'' because he failed to stop Golden from going insane and blamed himself.]]

** [[spoiler:Then he realizes he really did do it, and it actually at least partially ''Discorded him'' from depression. However, the interviewers intervene and manage to pull him back. After that the epiphany finally sticks and he changes his ways.]]

* [[spoiler:UnreliableNarrator: In his "Butterflies" entry.]]

!!!Golden Tiara[=/=][[spoiler:Golden Skates[=/=]Screwball]]

* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: When she had her jewellery rearranged on accident by her daughter, she goes utterly nuts to ''put it lightly'' and tries to strangle her to death in a utterly maniacal UnstoppableRage. In the revised time line, she 'only' tried to beat her up.]]

** She didn't let being a mother stop her from staying in shape and being able to kick flank. [[spoiler:Once she regains enough sanity to realize Diamond Tiara is in danger, she ''really'' shows this off in a [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} Sarah Connor]] like fashion.]]

* [[spoiler:TheAtoner: Sure's still ''very'' guilty from her time as mad pony, to the point of refusing to answer to Golden Tiara.]]

* CorruptTheCutie: Struggling to survive in an unforgiving, cutthroat high society turned her into a ControlFreak.

* ForWantOfANail: [[spoiler:Her going insane prevented her from becoming like Spoiled Rich.]]

* [[spoiler:OffingTheOffspring: When she goes insane, she tries to do this to Diamond. She becomes too insane to even remember doing it and [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone does NOT take it well when her sanity and the memory is restored.]]]]

* [[spoiler:MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After Discord restores her sanity, she remembers she tried to kill Diamond and has a rather nasty one of these, including saying this practically word for word. Still feels this in the new timeline, even though Applebloom altered history so she 'only' tried to beat her up.]]

* RightForTheWrongReasons: [[spoiler:She correctly deduces that Diamond Tiara is in Canterlot, but by assuming that if she's in danger and not in Ponyville, she must've been kidnapped. And if she were kidnapped, the kidnappers would take her where they could hide her in plain sight. Diamond Tiara is her little princess, therefore [[InsaneTrollLogic they'd take her to Canterlot because princesses live there.]][[LampshadeHanging The interviewer actually does a]] JawDrop in response to this.]]
** PlayedForDrama when she correctly guesses that her daughter, [[spoiler:Tarnished Rich]], broke into her closet [[spoiler:AND TRIES TO KILL HER FOR THAT (beat her up in the revised timeline).]]

* [[spoiler:SanitySlippage: Went insane due to the pressures put on her by high society life and the ones she imposed on herself. After the Princess Gaia arc, she's ''somewhat'' less insane than before.]]

!!!Shiny Star

* [[spoiler: RapeAsBackstory: Was psychologically and sexually abused by a stallion in Canterlot (maybe). This was erased from history by Apple Bloom.]]

* FriendlessBackground: Other than Diamond Tiara had zero friends before befriending the CMC.

* [[spoiler:SixthRanger: For the Cutie Mark Crusaders.]]

* {{True Companion|s}}: Was genuinely Diamond Tiara's friend and cared for her. Unfortunately, Tiara never realized it until she'd already broken their friendship up herself. [[spoiler:The Cutie Mark Crusaders manage to become this for her afterwards, however.]]

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: After Discord's reign, she was scared of her own glasses and absolutely ''terrified'' of her father. The former she managed to get over, but the latter took a ''long'' time to heal.

!!!Silver Tongue/Silver Axe

* [[FantasticRacism Fantastic Racist]]
** Or not. "Mind Games Pt. 2" reveals he was just playing along in order to keep his long friendship with Onyx Tiara going. [[spoiler:When Onyx, in that chapter, states that he feels he may have been wrong all this time in terms of his opinions of the other races and the Princesses, Silver Tongue is damn-near elated]].

!!!Silver Platter

* [[ChristmasCake Hearth Warming's Eve Cake]]:

!!!Tender Loving Care (TLC)

* [[ActionGirl Action Mare]]: Is Screwball's caretaker, because she was the only one at the asylum able to match her [[spoiler:which is why she was sent to retriever her from Canterlot, only to find she was healed of her insanity.]]

* WarriorTherapist: Literally. She's a nurse at the asylum [[spoiler:Golden Tiara was held at]] and a black belt on par with her.

* SpiritedCompetitor: She loves competition and used to love rollerskating.

* [[spoiler:[[FromNobodyToNightmare From Nopony to Nightmare]]: Goes from a bully to TheDragon of ''Discord''!]]

!!!Diamond Tiara/[[spoiler:Tarnished Rich]]/[[spoiler:Nightmare ???????]]

* [[spoiler:EvenEvilHasStandards: Even as an insane [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Nightmare]] convinced she only exists to be a villain, she can't bring herself to actually kill or attack Silver and ''runs'' when Silver shows her compassion ''despite'' knowing the monster she is now. She also saves her Equestria Girls self from human Discord, not wanting what happened to her to happen to another Diamond Tiara.]]

* DotingParent: Once he gets his act together, he's this to Silver..

* [[spoiler:DealWithTheDevil: Will set Discord free just to make her mother sane again. Though to be fair, she didn't know he was Discord when she made the deal.]]

** [[spoiler:DragonInChief: Despite being Discord's minion, she's more of a direct threat in the Rumors arc than he was due to him being a OrcusOnHisThrone. Discord implied he might not be able to tell her wwhat to do anymore.]]

* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide: Says if she got a do-over, she'd have done this to the CMC instead of just being a bully.]]
* [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas Even Bad Fillies Love Their Parents]]: Loves both her parents [[spoiler:but eventually becomes disillusioned with her father.]] So much so that [[spoiler:she makes a DealWithTheDevil with Discord to cure her mother in exchange for ''freeing him!'']]

* [[spoiler:EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Even as a Nightmare, she seems to genuinely care about Alula, Tootsie, and Silver Spoon.]]
* [[spoiler:EvenEvilHasStandards: Even as an insane [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Nightmare]] convinced she only exists to be a villain, she can't bring herself to actually kill or attack Silver and ''runs'' when Silver shows her compassion ''despite'' knowing the monster she is now.]]

* [[spoiler:FreudianExcuse: Puts down those without Cutie Marks to make herself feel better about her own, because the jewelry heist that she earned her Cutie Mark from drove her mother to insanely try to kill her.]]

* [[spoiler: PsychicLink: The events of the Day of Chaos granted Diamond and Sweetie Belle an empathic link with each other that both eventually become aware of.]]

* [[spoiler:SanitySlippage: Its hinted it may be InTheBlood, though [[MindRape Discord isn't helping one bit.]]]]

* [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior Troubling Unfillylike Behavior]]

* AbusiveParents: Of the emotional type. Shortly after [[spoiler:Golden Tiara goes insane]] he began teaching Diamond that the Earth Ponies were once slaves to the Unicorns and Pegasi, that Alicorns were tyrants who oppressed their subjects and manipulated the truth with their "propaganda", and that "narwhals" and "featherdusters" are ''still'' the oppressive slave drivers they were before the founding of Equestria and are simply waiting for their chance to re-enslave the Earth Ponies. [[spoiler:The Interviewers eventually make him realize what a dick he was]]. Downplayed as he's ''completely'' unaware of the fact he was harming his child with his actions.

* ConspiracyTheorist: Believes that Celestia and Luna are tyrannical rulers who have oppressed the 'naturally superior Earth Ponies' for generations, that cutie marks are 'the mark of Cain'.
** He's also convinced that everyday luxuries such as ''tooth brushes and doorknobs'' are part of a secret narwhal plot.

* [[FantasticRacism Fantastic Racist]]: Against 'featherdusters' (Pegasi) and 'narwhals' (unicorns).

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When he recovered from his Discording and realized [[spoiler:he'd rejected his wife]]. Unfortunately, denial turns this into an IgnoredEpiphany.

* PapaWolf: He's genuinely protective of his daughter. [[spoiler:So much so that when his now insane wife tried to strangle Diamond, Onyx tackled Screwball so hard she went straight through a coach and embedded in the bookshelf behind it.]]

* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: When she had her jewellery rearranged on accident by her daughter, she goes utterly nuts to ''put it lightly'' and tries to strangle her to death in a utterly maniacal UnstoppableRage.]]
* ActionMom: She didn't let being a mother stop her from staying in shape and being able to kick flank. [[spoiler:Once she regains enough sanity to realize Diamond Tiara is in danger, she ''really'' shows this off in a [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} Sarah Connor]] like fashion.]]

* BadassNormal
* BlitheSpirit

* ControlFreak

* [[spoiler:MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After Discord restores her sanity, she remembers she tried to kill Diamond and has a rather nasty one of these, including saying this practically word for word.]]

** PlayedForDrama when she correctly guesses that her daughter, [[spoiler:Tarnished Rich]], broke into her closet [[spoiler:AND TRIES TO KILL HER FOR THAT.]]

* SpiritedCompetitor

* [[spoiler: RapeAsBackstory: Was psychologically and sexually abused by a stallion in Canterlot.]]
* SexEqualsLove: Believed that she could keep Onyx Tiara faithful to Golden Tiara by having sex by proxy for her because she has the exact same coloring as Golden Tiara and Onyx was having sex with a large number of mares as it was and she knew ''she'' wasn't trying to take him from Golden.

* HeelFaceTurn

* ProperLady: what her mother wants her to be.

* DotingParent: Once he gets his act together.

* [[FantasticRacism Fantastic Racist]]
** No longer as of "Mind Games Pt. 2", according to her husband Silver Tongue.
* [[ChristmasCake Hearth Warming's Eve Cake]]: Narrowly avoided becoming this, and talks about how important it is to avoid such a fate. She was also convinced that her husband loved her solely for her looks and would leave her when she lost them.

* StepfordSmiler

!!!TLC

* HoldTheLine: [[spoiler:Held off the much more powerful Gaea Everfree long enough for Sunset and human Twilight to escape the cave as they did in hearth world.]]