Main Index The Main Cast: Twilight Sparkle, Fluttershy, Rarity, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Spike, Starlight Glimmer, the Cutie Mark Crusaders Supporting Cast: The Princesses, Mane Family Members, the School of Friendship, Ponyville, Other Locations, Animal Companions Antagonists: Major Villains (Queen Chrysalis), Dangerous Creatures, Jerks and Bullies, Redeemed Antagonists (Discord) World of Equestria: Races, Historical Figures, the 2017 Movie, Expanded Universe (IDW Series), Toyline Exclusive, Miscellaneous Minor Characters: One-Shots, Other Characters, Background Ponies (Common Background Ponies, Special Background Ponies, Other Background Ponies) Equestria Girls: Heroines (Sunset Shimmer), Villains, Supporting Cast
Friendship Is Magic has a huge Expanded Universe. The IDW comics are the main source of EU Canon, but Hasbro has released some chapter books as well. This page is for all the little Canon Foreigners that show up here and there.
Characters from the spin-off Equestria Girls have their own subpages.
IDW Comics

Again, the main source of Expanded Universe canon is IDW's comic books, so it's introduced a few new characters. It's even introduced a couple of new races!
Characters currently listed in the series they debuted in first.
Main Series
Micro Series

Twilight Sparkle's favorite author, she wrote the One-Hit Wonder Canter in the Sky before going into obscurity. She currently works at the Royal Archives, where Twilight helps her for a few days after injuring her leg.
- Canon Discontinuity: "Daring Don't" etablishes A.K. Yearling as Twilight's favorite author. Then again this could be before she knew about A.K and even then she could still be one of her favorite authors.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Starts out quite rude and callous to Twilight but she warms up to her over time seeing that she has a love of books.
- Grumpy Old Man: A rare female example of this trope.
- Punny Name: She's jaded alright with her outlook on life. But the name also is a pun on J. D. Salinger, a famous recluse author that the story is inspired by.
- Tough Act to Follow: She's an In-Universe example. Part of the reason she went into hiding is because her first novel was so successful that she didn't know if she could ever top it.Jade: You know, I wasn't a lot older than you when my book was published. It was a big hit. Too big. You don't know what it's like being that great out of the gate. And having to live up to that a second time.
- We Used to Be Friends: Princess Celestia reveals that she used to be friends with her before Jade's success, though thanks to Twilight that friendship seems to be renewed.

Mischievous little creatures that feed on negative emotions, one pair set up a dark cloud over Ponyville and cause problems for Rainbow Dash in her spotlight comic. Though their names aren't given in the comic proper, the writer Ryan Lindsay stated
he had named them Big Boy and Runt.
- Emotion Eater: They feed on sadness, hatred, and other sorts of negativity. Positive emotions, on the other hoof, defeat them.
- Goggles Do Nothing: One of them wears a pair of goggles and quotes the trope when they're defeated by the happiness Rainbow Dash caused with her Sonic Double Rainboom.
- Good Hurts Evil: They can only be defeated by positive emotions.
- In the Hood: The slightly larger one wears a hoodie.
- Nothing Can Stop Us Now!: Begins to feel this way after Rainbow repeated attempts to stop them fail. They even come to enjoy her attempts because her desperation feeds them. This bites them in the butt when Rainbow goes for the Sonic Double Rainboom and they do nothing to attempt to stop her.


A group of ponies lead by Wheat Grass and Flax Seed who own a farm outside of Ponyville and make all-natural health & beauty products. In Rarity's spotlight comic, she spends a few days there to relax after answering an ad for a new "wellness center". Hilarity Ensues.
- Cordon Bleugh Chef: Wheat Grass' "crazy healthy food" is just plain, normal regular food. It looks and tastes weird because she's just a terrible cook.
- Hunk: Tempeh is quite the manly pony and popular with the mares, even Rarity is quite smitten with him when they first meet. Too bad he's a tad single minded...
- Land Poor: Flax Seed and Wheat Grass own the land where their communal farm is built, but they don't have much money and when Rarity meets them, they are about to lose their home because of a debt they have no way possible to pay.
- Meaningful Name: All four named ones — Flax Seed, Wheat Grass, Tofu, and Tempeh — are names of foodstuffs that would be considered part of a natural lifestyle. Even more so with Tempeh's fascination with soy, as the food tempeh is a soy-based product. This latter aspect also alludes to the fact that Tempeh and Tofu — both soy-based products — are brothers.
- New-Age Retro Hippie: All of them.
- Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: They don't like money and try to charge as low as they can for their fantastic beauty products, which is the root of their financial difficulties.
- Thousand-Yard Stare: This is Flax Seed's default expression, since he's always stoned out of his mind.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Tempeh. Soy. The guy will give you 8 hours of the entire history of soy without you even asking.
- Verbal Tic: Flax Seed constantly says "like" every other word... even when being chased by bees!

A Caustic Critic stallion in Canterlot that appears to be one of the judges at Princess Celestia's Extreme Art Contest. He is overly harsh, as indicated by his cutie mark, a hatchet taken to a painting canvas.
- Beatnik: He dresses in a beret, a black scarf, and rectangular glasses, along with a trim goatee and moustache. He may not speak beat, but certainly derives from the beat culture.
- Caustic Critic: He only has negative things to say about all the entries he sees — at least until Celestia comments positively on Fluttershy's, and then he's quick to change his tune.
- Ironic Name: He pans art much more than he praises it.
- Meaningful Name: As an art critic, he is appraising of art, but giving it a pass most of the time (panning it).
- Punny Name: His name could also be read as "Praise or Pan" which is ultimately what any critic will do.
- Opinion Flip-Flop: He promptly changes his mind on Fluttershy's work as soon as Celestia express admiration for it.

Equestria's silliest star and Pinkie Pie's idol, Ponyacci is an old, famous clown who's forgotten more things about comedy than most ponies ever learn. After a long, tiring but happy career of clowning and spreading happiness, he must accept he has become too old to perform and it's time to retire.
- Cartoon Juggling: One of his many skills.
- Cool Old Guy: This old stallion can give Pinkie Pie a run for her money and she absolutely idolizes him for that.
- For Happiness: All he wants to do in life is make ponies laugh.
- Intergenerational Friendship: With Pinkie Pie at the end of the story.
- The Last Dance: His show in Ponyville was meant to be his last one and he certainly goes out with a bang. Though Pinkie convinces him that while he can leave the spotlight, there's not reason he can't pass on his skills to others. Allowing him to keep making other happy as he always has.
- The Mentor: After he gives Pinkie Pie some constructive criticism on her own clowning, she suggests he become a teacher. He opens a clowning school in Ponyville, extremely happy that he can pass his special talent onto a new generation of clowns. Twilight asks Pinkie why she doesn't sign up for the school herself, to which she replies she's already learned a lot from Ponyacci.
- One-Man Band: His skills can top even Pinkie Pie's.
- Sad Clown: Much to the surprise of Pinkie Pie. However, he's not sad because he's a clown, he's sad because his old age is forcing him to give up clowning and as a result on making others laugh.
- Shout-Out: To Pagliacci. His first (out of costume) appearance even references the famous joke: Pinkie Pie sees him looking sad, and tells him that Ponyacci could probably cheer him up.
- Stepford Smiler: When he's performing. He eventually gets better.

A mimicker that can take the shape of anything except ponies, who befriends the CMC. Her default form appears to be a large, filly-sized blue gem with eyes; the blue eyes appear on any other object that she copies.
- Ambiguous Gender: It's brought up that the girls don't know if Imp really is a "she", or even has a gender being a shapeshifting rock, but they settle on referring to Imp as a girl.
- In-Series Nickname: The Mimicker is given the name "Imp" based on the species' scientific name, Globulus Improbulus.
- Starfish Language: Her only dialogue appears as musical notes.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Her race can take the shape of anything except ponies.


An old friend of Princess Celestia and a professor at the princess' School for Gifted Unicorns. Though an important part of Celestia's past, she has grown senile and has become the target of much gossip.
- Be Yourself: Whether she's aware or not of what most think of her currently, it's likely she doesn't care. She is who she is and is comfortable with that. Celestia uses this as part of a Batman Gambit to show the others why she's still fit to be a teacher.
- Eccentric Mentor: Shows all the signs of being this when she was younger. Celestia attempts to prove that she's still this, even as her senility becomes less and less of an act.
- Eye Scream: Took a rather nasty hit to the left eye during the war against the shadows. She didn't lose it and could still see out of it, but wouldn't be able to fully open it for the rest of her life.
- Never Mess with Granny: Her mind might be mostly gone, but she's still willing to go into battle alongside Celestia and kick massive amounts of pastry butt (with an Offhand Backhand no less).
- Scars Are Forever: She received a scar on her left eye during the siege of Canterlot which never fully healed.
- I Was Quite a Looker: Her damaged left eye is really the only flaw on an otherwise beautiful young mare.
- Retired Badass: She aided Princess Celestia to fight off a siege of Canterlot and can still pull off some impressive magic.

A group of creatures Spike purchases from a comic book so he can have a pet. Initially very tiny, Spike finds a way to make them grow, but soon get out of hand.
- But Now I Must Go: They choose to leave to seek further enlightenment in the world after Spike and the library taught them everything they know.
- Expy: Of Sea Monkeys, small crustaceans that were advertised in ads of comic books.
- Uplifted Animal: Over the course of the story, they go from tiny specks in an aquarium to a sapient race thanks to the various magic formulas Spike taught them and later Spike's own teachings.

Princess Celestia's Royal Scheduling Advisor that helps Princess Luna keep on track when she takes over for the day. Has since appeared in other comics as a general royal aide to the princesses.
- Beleaguered Assistant:
- Takes on this role to Luna, trying to keep her on-task and on-time as Luna grows increasingly bored and distracted by the duties she's attending. Presumably he averts it with the more serious and responsible Celestia.
- In the final issue of the Friends Forever series, he ends up having to put up with both Celestia and Luna's bickering. Not helped when Crystal Ball ends up tampering with the spell that was meant to temporarily take away their powers and causes their squabbling to intensify.
- The Cameo: Shows up during the start of the Reflections arc helping Luna keep up the ruse that Celestia was still around.
- Meaningful Name: "kibitz" is a verb that has two meanings: to give unhelpful and/or unwanted advice, and to informally chat and gossip. The former certainly fits his role while he's helping Luna, the latter ends up being more ironic since he's incredibly formal and stuffy.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Per Word of God
, part of Kibitz's personality is based on Tim Gunn. - Obsessively Organized: Maybe not as bad as Twilight, but clearly becomes uncomfortable with going off the schedule. At one point, he is forced to leave Luna alone when he realizes he has the wrong color of highlighter for an upcoming meeting.
- Straight Man: Remains steadfast in his duties no matter how reckless Luna gets.
- Trickster Mentor: Comes off this way at the end of the Luna Micro story when Celestia teases that he could've went easier on Luna. He counters that a princess has to be ready for any type of responsibility thrown at them. Sure enough, this did indeed come into play during the "Reflections" arc when Luna had to take over for Celestia when she went missing.

An opossum that Luna adopts as her pet.
Friends Forever

One of the competitors in the dessert-making contest Pinkie enters into in order to re-open her restaurant.
- Alliterative Name: Toffee Truffle.
- Don't You Dare Pity Me!: In a more friendly version of this, she catches on that Pinkie and AJ are trying to deliberately lose so that she can win. She requests however they do it fair and square in the spirit of competition.

A very competitive pony who is denied entry into the desert-making contest when Applejack accidentally takes her spot.
- Disproportionate Retribution: After being denied entry into the contest, she comes back with a frosting projecting gun intend on freezing everyone in frosting.
- Getting the Boot: Marine gets this twice on her attempts to discredit Applejack from security. She is bucked by two guards at the same time (meaning that she is getting kicked by four hooves) and that both guards were unicorns that could have used their magic to remove her from the place in a more dignified manner. It's no wonder why she got insane by the climax of the story.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Marine Sandwich gets "frozen" in her own icing when her gun explodes.
- In the Hood: Introduced wearing a red hood. Though it could be the curtain that AJ ran into while trying to deliver Granny Smith's pie.
- Jerkass Has a Point: As unhinged as she is, she does have every right to be upset with Applejack taking her place (albeit accidentally), as she did earn the spot that Applejack took. The fact that Applejack tried to sabotage herself, which was also going to affect Marine's credibility as a chef, and that she keeps getting humiliated with every attempt to prove her claims, only makes it worse for her mental health.
- Mad Artist: She's a "food performance artist" who seems to be a bit unhinged. She goes berserk when she thinks Applejack deliberately impersonated her, and at the climax attacks the contest with a frosting gun.
- Mistaken For An Impostor: She keep trying to claim she's the real Marine Sandwich but is constantly thrown out of the building each time.
- Palette Swap: Take Fluttershy and swap out all the yellows and pinks for lots and lots of gray and you've got Marine Sandwich.
- Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises: Her reaction when she realizes her frosting gun is about to explode. It's literally frozen on her face afterwards.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Is repeatedly humiliated and denied her rightful spot due to circumstances beyond her control, finally snapping and seeking revenge on everypony involved.

The other contestants of the competitions — Summer Van Der Hoof and Blade Sparxx — and the judges, which include a griffon named Vermouth Roux, a buffalo name Big Angie and an unnamed pony.
- The Big Guy: Angie who even shields her fellow judges when Marine attacks the competition.
- The Comically Serious: Vermouth Roux is extraordinarily stiff and straight-laced, alternatively haughtily disapproving of the silliness around her and taking very strange things at face value.
- Expy: Blade Sparxx is pretty much Guy Fieri. While the judges are obviously a female version of Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul, and a female version of Randy Jackson.
- The Fashionista: Summer who basically cooks what "exclusive" to her which is basically what's popular. It winds up backfiring when the final round they're told to present their favorite dessert and she has a breakdown because she doesn't really have one.
- No Name Given: The pony judge. Her
Fan Nickname is Sangria Sizzle. - Playing with Fire: Blade Sparxx's solution to cooking: Add more fire! It comes in handy when Pinkie and Tuffle need a light for Pinkie's party cannon against Marine.

A mare that Flim and Flam both took a liking to, causing the two of them to fight.
- The Cameo: Shows up in Issue 33.
- Did Not Get the Girl: The brothers fought over her so much that she dumped the both of them.
- Expy: Of Marian from The Music Man. Her design resembles Marian's actress, Shirley Jones, from the film of the musical, and when the Flim Flam brothers explain their time with her it's pretty much a ponified version of the Music Man with two Harold Hills instead of one.
- Love Triangle: Flim and Flam fight over her.

A filly at Junior Flyers Camp whom Rainbow Dash takes a particular liking to.
- Motor Mouth: She talks so much that her speech balloons have a noticeably smaller font than anyone else's.
- Shrinking Violet: She's very shy, and she was the first foal to burst into tears because of Spitfire's Drill Sergeant Nasty routine.

Two unicorn detectives investigating the mysterious fires in Fillydelphia.
- Deadpan Snarker: Hard Case, even at the princess of night, he doesn't let up on the snark. By The Book likewise gets in a little quip as well
- Good Cop/Bad Cop: Pretty much their dynamic. By the Book is usually the more reasonable and rational of the pair while Hard Case is blunt and cynical.
- Pet the Dog: Hard Case initially admits he doesn't apologize after Spike cracks the case and proves no dragons were in involved in the random fires through Phillydelpha. But then he goes on and hugs Spike, admitting he was wrong.
- Seen It All: When Luna defends Spike's investigating Dragon Town instead of the police. Hard Case predicts that Spike just ran into a girl who convinces him that the culprit behind the fires isn't a dragon but with no solid proof to back it up. Sure enough, Spike arrives, tell them his theory and that he got it from Mina but has no proof to his claim.

A young female adult dragon that runs a comic book store in the Dragontown part of Fillydelphia, who helps Spike recognize the tensions between the dragons and ponies in the town.
- Ascended Fanboy: Clearly has a thing for Princess Luna as well as other villains and characters, and shipping them. (If anything, an Expy of the brony fandom). And then she gets to actually meet Luna as a sign of appreciation for helping to mend relations between ponies and dragons.
- The Bus Came Back: She makes a return appearance (as an adult) in a short story found in the main comic's 10th Anniversary special edition of Issue #1.
- The Cavalry: When Spike needs help putting out a fire to a street caused by a Fire Snail and rescuing the ponies still sleeping. She rallies her fellow dragons to come to the rescue.
- My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Calls out Spike for thinking all dragons are evil based off the few he met, pointing out that there are pony bad guys to.

A young filly that Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon employ to help in a scavenger hunt against the CMC
- Expy: Of Velma from Scooby-Doo. If it wasn't for the name, she'd pretty much be a pony version of her.
- Kid Detective: The main reason she was picked was due to her detective skills which helped during the hunt.
- Punny Name: Named after Nancy Drew of course.
- Token Good Teammate: Naturally to Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, in fact she isn't at all mean, got along well with the CMC and Twilight. Even Silver Spoon enjoys her company.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: In the final leg of the hunt, she trips and falls. Tiara, more focused on beating the CMC, leaves her behind and forces Silver Spoon to do the same.

A pegasus pony that attended flight camp with Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy. Currently lives in Phillydelphia, where she is part of their weather patrol team.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: in the mobile game, her eyes are a light red-pink color, as opposed to completely black.
- The Bully: When she was young.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Took till the end of the story to prove it.
- Delinquent Hair: Her mane is dyed green and blue with black highlights.
- Gang of Bullies: She is seen with several other ponies in Fluttershy's flashback.
- Non-Standard Character Design: She has piercings, wild black make-up, and her mane and wings are dyed. Also, while the other ponies have visible eye colors, Cirrus's eyes are completely black.
- School Yard Bully All Grown Up: Fluttershy suspects her to be this. Ultimately subverted. Cirrus apologizes for bullying her all those years ago and presents Fluttershy with an award for her various accomplishments since moving to Ponyville.
- Spikes of Villainy: She wears a collar and bands around her legs covered in spikes.

One of Equestria's top fashion magazine editors. She's heard enough about Rarity's success to come to Ponyville and see her joint wedding gown-and-catering services that she's set up with the cakes. Her assistant, Bright Bridle, is never too far behind.
- Beleaguered Assistant: Her assistant, Bright Bridle. pretty much has to put up with her every whim. Practically a Yes-Man.
- Expy: She's an even more explicit caricature of Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour than Photo Finish was. People only thought she's based on Lady Gaga because of Small Reference Pools.
- The Fashionista: Another in a long line of ponies that covers fashion in Equestria.

A journalist who Applejack and Fluttershy run into while trying to enjoy a camping trip, who claims their spot is the living grounds of a mythical beast called the Pigasus.
- Accidental Public Confession: She thinks Applejack and Fluttershy are trying to horn in on her story and rants to them that she was the one who came up with the Pigasus myth. However she does it right in view of the rest of the public.
- Alliterative Name: Nosy News.
- Cassandra Truth: She reveals she made up the story about the Pigasus in the hopes of drawing in crowds and getting a story. Ironically there really is such a creature.
- Chased by Angry Natives: After her lie is exposed to a crowd of creature seekers, she's forced to run when they come after her. They still managed to catch her regardless.
- Intrepid Reporter: Very determined to get her stories even if she has to make them up.
- Jerkass: Very aloof and especially loves to try to humiliate Applejack, who's trying to get the crowd off Fluttershy and her's camping ground.

Three unicorns who managed to steal Rainbow Dash's wings in the hopes of using them in a potion to make themselves Alicorns.
- Dramatically Missing the Point: They think Twilight got her wings by stealing it from a Pegasus, not realizing she earned the right to be an alicorn. What's more, even if they do make the potion and drink it, it'll just grant them wings, and not turn them into true alicorns like they want.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: After they're defeated, they think Twilight is being "haughty" for preventing them from getting wings. Twilight shoots back that 1) their attempt to become alicorns by stealing a pegasus' wings wasn't right to begin with and it was her duty to stop them as a princess regardless; 2) she earned the right to be a princess and their methods wouldn't have made them true alicorns at all; and 3) they were robbing from her friend, Rainbow Dash.
- Laser-Guided Karma: They stole Dash's wings, so Twilight punishes them in kind by taking away their magic... if only temporarily.
- Terrible Trio: Indeed, they're a trio of villainous ponies.
- Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: The first straight-up villainous character from the Lighter and Softer spin-off. They're willing to steal a pegasus's limbs and livelihood just so they can fly (essentially Organ Theft) and have no qualms about attacking a princess in the process, either.
- Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Goldcap and Zappityhoof are one thing. But Decepticolt? Really?

A young filly that attends the Gala sleepover. She recently received her Cutie Mark, but its shape, a skull head, has gotten her ridiculed.
- All of the Other Reindeer: Her cutie mark has gotten her ridiculed and as such she has low self esteem.
- Body Horror: While her power is a useful talent, it is rather disturbing being able to showcase someone's bones out in the open. Even Luna feels uncomfortable when Thestra does it to stop the Mirrorca, although she encourages her to put it to good use to help others.
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: She doesn't really see much use for her magic. But when encountering the Mirrorca, her power stripped it of its mirror coating and allowed Luna to take it out.
- Ocular Gushers: Cries waterfalls when Luna and the CMC find her due to being scared after getting lost in the castle.
- X-Ray Vision: What her talent is. It allows her magic to view a pony's bones and comes in handy against the Mirrorca.

Two fillies that attend the Gala sleepover. Give Thestra no end of grief for her cutie mark.
- The Bully: Pretty much what they are to Thestra: messing up her crafts, making her fall down during a tightrope exercise and mocking her Cutie Mark.
- Jerkass: The two give Thestra no end of grief through the start of the sleepover and make her fall down on purpose during a team activity just to make her look bad.
- Karma Houdini: We don't see them get punished on screen, though the CMC gave Thestra a list of pranks to pull on them if they continue giving her trouble.
- Kids Are Cruel: Big time.

Maud Pie's rival in rock science and studies.
- Arch-Enemy: Maud proclaims her as such, usually always taking credit for Maud's finds.
- Cheaters Never Prosper: Buys up tickets to a blimp to keep Maud from using it and cuts the rope to a bridge over a cavern to prevent Maud from following. Neither help her win in the end.
- Expy: Of Belloq. She even quotes the "There is nothing you possess that I cannot take away" line.
- Girl Posse: Had two nameless and voiceless mares that follow her around.
- Ironic Echo: Claims she has some something Maud doesn't: Passion. These words are thrown right back in her face when Rarity and Maud beat her to the crystal cave.
- Near-Villain Victory: She almost reached the caves before Maud did, but Maud manages to find a shortcut through a tunnel and Rarity and her get to the cave just seconds before Treasure does.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here!: After seeing that Maud beat her to the crystal cave. She proclaims she's giving up archeology and going back to law school.

A crow that helped the buffalo by going to the sun and bring them fire to produce spring. However in doing so, her feathers turned black and she lost her voice. Regardless, her feathers are needed to help bring about spring which is why the buffalo summoned Dash to help them.
- Dark Is Not Evil: In the current day she looks like a big crow, but she's just as friendly as she was in the past.
- Giant Flyer: She's a crow-like bird with the wingspan of a small sailplane.
- Mythical Motifs: It's based on a fake myth that was mistakenly attributed to the Lenape by non-native authors.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: She helped out the buffalo but at the cost of her losing her voice and her feathers turning black due to having to balance her speed when bringing back the sun fire to the buffalo through the freezing cold.
- Really 700 Years Old: Just as old as Celestia and Luna if not more so and still kicking in the present day.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Dash was supposed to give her a tribute from the buffalo in exchange for some of her feathers, but she lost it during the journey with Little Brave Heart. When Dash meets her and explains what happened, she only asks for a bit of Dash's hair.
- Sadly Mythtaken: Its story is taken almost verbatim from an alleged legend of the Lenape people, which actually originates in a 1989 book by a white author, possible losely based on "The First Fire", a story of the Cherokee people.

An earth pony who works with a traveling stage show.
- Cowgirl: Looks the part considering she's part of a wild west show.
- Legacy Character: She's not the first pony to bear the name "Calamity Mane" as Cherry likewise bore the title years ago. Though if that's her real name or not is never revealed.
- Nice Girl: Very kind and didn't even get mad when she overhears that Bull shouldn't have replace Cherry since she know Bull isn't saying it out of animosity toward her.

The leader of a traveling stage show that bears his name, and a former associate of Cherry Jubilee.
- A Father to His Men: Calamity mentions that he's like a father to her.
- Poor Communication Kills: He was in love with Cherry and asked to marry her, but a miscommunication between the two drove them apart and they still assume the other abandoned them in the present time. They eventually square things out when fate forces his troupe to stop at her cherry ranch.

A sentient house that's been kidnapping random ponies.
- Genius Loci: Some residual magic allowed it to sprout legs and move on its own.
- Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: Turns out, the reason it's taking ponies is because it misses its previous owners who raised a family within it and eventually passed away. As such it's attracted to people that love parties, since those were the most precious times it shared with its family. Pinkie and Cheese manage to convince it that it can continue to pick up ponies that love parties, but of their own volition, and that it has to let them leave of their own free will.

A pegasus bar owner of an outpost on the Yaket Mountain Range near Mt. Everhoof.
- Bad Guy Bar: Seems to run one but it's mostly due to several species either in need of shelter from the snow, running away from something or gruff folks doing deliveries for him. Otherwise he's pretty friendly and apparently doesn't discriminate since one of his patrons is a changeling.
- Flying Postman: Not him, but his outpost serves as this for them as it does delivery services for rare plants used in medicine.
- Nice Guy: Pretty friendly colt all around and seems to respect all species, even worrying about the welfare of his flyer - i.e: Soarin - when he came flying in too fast in a blizzard.
Fiendship is Magic

A filly crystal unicorn that befriends a young Sombra while he stayed at an orphanage. The two considered themselves quirky outcasts from the other colts and fillies, and developed a special friendship through the years. When Sombra becomes afflicted with a strange condition that painfully paralyzes his body on the annual day of the Crystal Faire, Radiant Hope stays with him, and in one case, uses her magic to prevent Sombra from turning into his shadow form. This gives her her cutie mark resembling a caduceus, reflecting that her powerful magic is able to restore nearly any aliment a pony can suffer, and leads her on a path towards becoming a Princess of Equestria. When Sombra finally turns evil, she attempts to warn Princesses Celestia and Luna, and she is outside of the Crystal Empire when Sombra causes the Empire to disappear. In the main series Siege of the Crystal Empire, Radiant Hope enlists the questionable help of other villains to help her restore Sombra to his corporeal self with her magic.
- All-Loving Heroine: She still wanted to help Sombra, despite him banishing her home for one thousand years and trying to release the Umbrum.
- Anti-Villain: Not evil, but she is pretty naive and The Unfettered when it comes to her goal.
- The Apprentice: She studied under Princess Celestia over a thousand years before Sunset Shimmer or Twilight Sparkle.
- Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: Her role in stopping Sombra (revealed to be an equinoid abomination) and the Umbrum caused her to lose everything she loved. It's so bad that her reappearance has her revive Sombra to take her actions back, putting everything in jeopardy.
- Childhood Friend Romance: She was friends with Sombra back when they were foals, and that friendship changed into something more when both reached adulthood.
- Cruel Mercy: Receives this from Sombra, who cared for her too much to harm her, instead arranged for the Crystal Empire to disappear in part to make her spend the rest of her days without her home and people as revenge for her role in his defeat.
- Defector from Decadence: An oddly villainous example. She reveals that the Crystal Heart stated she was meant to be a Princess. But she gave it up to be with Sombra.
- Didn't Think This Through: Her entire plan in the Siege of the Crystal Empire arc via recruiting villainous characters, one of which is Queen Chrysalis, and promising them Equestria all for the sake of restoring Sombra and freeing the Umbrum and backstab at least Chrysalis. Not only was this a completely risky move as Chrysalis likely wouldn't have honored their agreement and there was no guarantee Radiant - without the Umbrum - could stop her (keep in mind that in the past, Chrysalis - despite her complacent, Villain Ball moments - had fooled the entirety of Canterlot (save Twilight), beat Celestia in a fight, and - in the final "FIENDship" comic - outwitted Twilight to escape her prison). But the whole plot was completely unnecessary since, as Cadance points out, Cadance was willing to listen to her if Radiant had simply talked to her which could've ended the conflict more peacefully.
- The Extremist Was Right: While her methods left much to be desired, her goal to redeem Sombra, which everyone in and out of universe deemed insane, actually succeeds.
- Fallen Hero: Becomes one in Siege of the Crystal Empire, manipulating several known antagonists (including none other than Queen Chrysalis) into helping her steal the Crystal Heart - making her a traitor to her people - so Sombra can return.
- Fatal Flaw: Her naive nature was what kickstarted everything. Also presumably not trusting the others (though she may have a reason for that.)
- Healing Hands: Well, healing horn. Her special talent appears to be able to cure nearly any aliment that a pony might come down with, including being able to prevent the impact the Crystal Heart had on trying to destroy Sombra. It's the first time we've seen anyone being able to do such a thing.
- Healing Magic Is the Hardest: She is the first character we've seen in MLP with explicit healing magic and capabilities beyond just making brews or medicine. It's implied that real healing magic such as hers is pretty rare. However, she is very good at it, enough to where she was Princess material.
- The Heavy: Of Siege of the Crystal Empire. Rabia and the Umbrum are the ultimate villains of the Arc, but she sets the plot into motion by assembling the Legion of Doom and orchestrating the titular siege of the Crystal Empire.
- History Repeats: The first known student of Princess Celestia who would leave her mentor's side to follow her own path, over a thousand years before Sunset Shimmer did the same.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Subverted. On the one hoof, she does ally with several characters that ranges from shady to malicious (except for Iron Will), especially Chrysalis, to get Sombra back. On the other hoof, said army was just one massive distraction for her real plan and given that virtually all of them are bad to various degrees, it does mean there is little issue in using them as pawns. If nothing else, she definitely planned to backstab Chrysalis. And while the Umbrum seem like a race of Obviously Evil beings, Rabia (their queen) did spend a thousand years convincing Radiant Hope otherwise (including altering their forms, and given that she's Sombra's mother, she's definitely skilled at manipulating.
- Last of Her Kind: Becomes the last Crystal Pony by end of Somba's story in Fiendship Is Magic. Subverted when the Crystal Empire returned.
- Love Makes You Dumb: Her actions in The Siege of the Crystal Empire are guided by her affection for Sombra, which lead to some severe results.
- Manic Pixie Dream Girl: She was a rather eccentric girl with a very strong imagination, but full of laughter, life and a desire to have fun. Lampshaded in that she does mention of dreaming of manic pixies.
- Morality Pet: She is this to King Sombra. He gets annoyed with her, but cannot bring himself to hurt her and very much threatened to crush Chrysalis if she tried anything against Radiant Hope. When Twilight Sparkle tries to hit him, but she takes it instead, he was clearly enraged and released the Umbrum, while he was hesitant before.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Realizes this when the Umbrum reveal their true nature and that she's been unwittingly helping them. After Sombra unleashes them and they take over the empire, she's less then pleased that she'll be the princess to a bunch of monsters. Luckily her words get through to Sombra who proceeds to re-seal them.
- A Pupil of Mine Until She Turned to Evil: Radiant Hope was a student of Celestia and on her way to become an alicorn, until she turned away to instead search for a way to help Sombra. That said she's less evil and more misguided.
- Screw Destiny: Radiant is one of about two characters to express this view (the other being Rainbow Dash). She was aware from a fairly young age that her destiny was to become a princess, yet she never reached alicornhood. Not because she was kept from it, but because she actively decided that saving Sombra mattered more to her than her destiny did.
- Shadow Archetype: Designed to be to Twilight. Both are powerful purple unicorns whom are so prodigious in their field that they were considered worthy enough to be princesses and deeply care about their friends. However, the writers talked about how Twilight has never truly been in a position where she had to choose between morals and her friends (bar some very questionable decision-making moments in the comics). Radiant meanwhile watched the gradual breakdown and Face–Heel Turn of her best friend, all for some admittingly understandable reasons. Radiant chooses him over conventional morality and being The Unfettered, does whatever it takes for him.
- Skilled, but Naive: An interesting example and potentially subverted. She is quite powerful and skillful in healing magic (being the only explicit healer we've seen and strong enough to be considered Princess-material.) However, she is quite naive and unfettered with her approach. A lot of problems arise from her naivety and may have been easier resolved if she listened more. At the same time, she has little reason to trust the Princesses and may believe they wouldn't understand (given her background, she has a point in not trusting them.) And while she did recruit an army of various villainous and shady individuals (and Iron Will), it's clear she is only using them as a distraction (and given that it's an army of miscreants, she has no real reason to care for their well-being, allowing her to focus on her goal) and even planned to backstab Chrysalis. So perhaps she is not as naive as she seems.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: Her being this to Sombra doesn't end well. Subverted at the end of the Siege of the Crystal Empire arc where she finally gets to be with Sombra after he's revived as a normal pony.
- Stupid Sacrifice: Takes the bullet for Sombra from an enraged Twilight...when Sombra just shrugged off another beam of comparable strength and is far stronger and more durable than she is, meaning all her actions did was make Sombra mad enough to release the Umbrum.
- The Unfettered: Came off as this when it comes to freeing the Umbrum and reviving Sombra. She's willing to promise three ponies a chance to dispose of ponies she's never even met, betray her homeland, stab the Princesses in the back, and sell out Equestria to Queen Chrysalis (though she was gonna backstab her so clearly not that unfettered.) if it accomplishes her goals and shows next to no regret for any of it until seeing the Umbrum's true nature.
- Unwitting Pawn: To the Umbrum. Rabia spent the last thousand years convincing they were Not Evil, Just Misunderstood. Given that Sombra went through the same thing, it explains why Radiant Hope would fall for it.
- White Mage: Her special talent is incredibly powerful healing magic.

A Crystal unicorn that rules the Crystal Empire at the time of King Sombra's rise to power. According to the Journal, her special talent was triggered on discovering the Crystal Heart, leading Princesses Celestia and Luna to have her in charge of the Crystal Empire to protect it. She plays a major role King Sombra's story in the Expanded Universe My Little Pony: FIENDship Is Magic comic.
- Adaptational Intelligence: In contrast to her Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! moments in The Journal of the Two Sisters and FIENDship is Magic #1, the Guardians of Harmony arc reveals she once pulled a Good Counterpart version of King Sombra's Crazy-Prepared-ness and hid away a MacGuffin stockpile that can only be reached by passing an illusionary Secret Test of Character. Because of this, Shining Armor manages to acquire a potion that proves crucial in repelling yet another Changeling invasion.
- All-Loving Hero: She has a heart filled with love and compassion, so much so that she has the special talent that allowed her to activate the Crystal Heart. To say nothing of her knowing Sombra was an Umbrum agent all along but still allowing him to live in her kingdom, as she trusted he could be made to accept good. Unfortunately, being all-loving doesn't make her especially wise.
- Ambiguously Related:
Word of God is that she's related to Cadance, though how is unclear since there's no mention of Amore having children. Her name is also Cadance's middle name (Mi Amore Cadenza), and Radiant Hope remarks on the similarity, but it's ultimately never stated directly in any story. Worth noting is that Amore is a unicorn, while Cadance is a pegasus by birth. The comic Rise of Cadance clarifies that Princess Cadance is a descendant of Princess Amore. - Broken Pedestal: Became this to Sombra, who cements his Face–Heel Turn by leaving her literally broken. Radiant Hope seems to follow once she learns of her mistake and it's implied that it was this that led to Radiant Hope not trusting the other Princesses.
- Hero of Another Story: Like Celestia and Luna, she had her own adventures before becoming ruler.
- Literally Shattered Lives: Sombra shatters her into pieces to cement his place as usurper-king, though he implies she could potentially pull herself back together and come back to life in the future.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: A habit of hers, having spectacularly screwed up in each of her appearances. In The Journal of the Two Sisters it's revealed the crystal heart was from the hoard of a sleeping dragon, who was subsequently rather unhappy when he woke up and required Celestia to smooth things over. In Fiendship is Magic #1 she knew all along what Sombra really was, but trusted that he could be swayed to embrace his inner potential for good. A brilliant idea and all, but she did absolutely nothing to convince him of that, instead leaving him to go through massive suffering as a colt. The result is Sombra embracing evil and Radiant Hope reviving him 1000 years later once she "learns" about her actions. That mistake threatened the Crystal Empire three times over.
- Screw Destiny: Advocates to Sombra that he can do this to his fate to turn evil. Unfortunately, his anger that she did nothing to help him in his ongoing torment is the last straw before he embraces it.
- Taken for Granite: Well, crystal, specifically. Sombra petrifies her in order to seize her throne.
- Unicorn: An extremely tall and slender one, somewhat like Princess Celestia but without wings or an ethereal mane.
- Walking Spoiler: Because of the precise role she plays in the Sombra's Origins Episode, it's nearly impossible to detail her tropes without giving out key information away.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Sombra calls her out for knowing the reasons for his suffering yet leaving doing nothing to help him.
- Winged Unicorn: Averted. Despite the expectations one may have due to Princesses Celestia, Luna, Cadance and Twilight Sparkle, Princess Amore was only a unicorn. She still has an alicorn-like build, though.

A crystal pony who ran the Crystal Heart Foal Center where Sombra grew up a thousand years ago.
- Good Counterpart: To Rabia, Sombra's actual mother. While Rabia is a monster who treats Sombra like nothing but a tool to free the umbrum, Chestnut is a loving and charitable mare who ran an orphanage and showed the children under her care nothing but love.
- Good Parents: Strictly speaking she was Sombra's caretaker but was the mare who raised him with love and patience. When he fell sick for reasons no doctor could ascertain she stayed with him for as long as she could and was besides herself with relief when he recovered.
- Odd Name Out: She's a crystal pony but her name doesn't draw from any precious minerals like the rest of her race.
- Orphanage of Love: Outside of some bullying from the other foals, the Crystal Heart Foal Center she ran was one as Sombra got all the love and care he would’ve needed as a young colt and Chestnut herself is shown to be nothing but loving.
- Uncertain Doom: She could still be alive in the present due to the Crystal Empire being shifted out of existence for a thousand years, but she doesn't appear after Sombra's fall so it's an open question.

An implicitly outcast elderly centaur mage and hermit who tutored Tirek in the dark arts.
- Affably Evil: He genuinely seemed to care for Tirek as his protege and was shocked by his betrayal.
- Asshole Victim: Tirek pulls a You Have Outlived Your Usefulness on him and leaves him for dead. Considering that he abducted an innocent unicorn for cruel magical experimentation this may very well be the only good thing Tirek’s ever done.
- Black Magic: He is an Evil Sorcerer, so naturally he practices this and it's implied to be what made him an outcast. He tutored Tirek in the same magic.
- Evil Mentor: Tirek at least learned the Mana Drain spell from him and presumably a lot more as well.
- Evil Old Folks: He appeared to be much older than King Vorak.
- A Lighter Shade of Black: Both he and Tirek were evil sorcerers who wanted to drain magic from others to make themselves more powerful. Unlike Tirek however, Sendak seemed to actually care for his allies and appeared to appreciate Tirek as an apprentice. As a result he was shocked at his betrayal.
- Mana Drain: Pioneered this ability and taught it to Tirek.
- Posthumous Character: Quite possibly. While it appears that centaurs do have very long lifespans (assuming Tartarus did not give Tirek enhanced longevity) Sendak already appeared to be very old when Tirek was just a boy.
- Predecessor Villain: To Tirek.
- Shout-Out: Named after Maurice Sendak, the author of Where the Wild Things Are.
- Villainous Legacy: Tirek's motive and actions in Twilight's Kingdom all trace back to him, by which time he may no longer exist.
- White Hair, Black Heart: Like Tirek he has white hair but is also emphatically evil.

Tirek and Scorpan's parents and the former rulers of his kingdom. King Vorak is a centaur while Queen Haydon is a gargoyle.
- Canon Immigrant: King Vorak is name-dropped when Discord mocks Tirek as having daddy issues.
- Cute Monster Girl: Queen Haydon is more of a cute monster woman given her age and attractive appearance.
- Dark Is Not Evil: They were both fearsome looking like Tirek himself but actually benevolent souls and wise leaders.
- Gender Equals Breed: Averted. They have two children, one centaur and one gargoyle, but those children are both male.
- The Good King: They ruled their land kindly and well, seeking only peace with Equestria.
- Good Parents: Fairly reasonable and tried to raise their sons well. Scorpan took after them and made friends with ponies; but Tirek was just a bad seed swayed by the magic Sendak taught him.
- Interspecies Romance: Vorak, a centaur is Happily Married to Haydon, a gargoyle.
- Oh, Crap!: King Vorak and Queen Haydon aren’t pleased upon learning Sendak kidnapped a unicorn from Equestria.
- Properly Paranoid: King Vorak had Tirek spied on and tried to limit him for fear he would abuse his power. In light of what Tirek became...
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Vorak averts the Genre Blindness many leaders in the series display, being willing to use spies (and pretty decent ones at that) in order to make sure his oldest progeny who demonstrates borderline sociopathic tendencies can't learn enough to fully act on them. Furthermore, once Sendak risked an incident with Equestria he immediately orders him punished and personally sees that relations are fixed.
- Small Role, Big Impact: King Vorak gets a single mention by Discord in the Grand Series Finale revealing their role in Tirek's Freudian Excuse (which Tirek himself denies). This caused Tirek's actions in "Twilight's Kingdom" which resulted in many changes to the series (Discord's genuine Heel–Face Turn, Twilight Sparkle becoming the Princess of Friendship, the creation of the Cutie Map leading to Starlight Glimmer's Heel–Face Turn and leading to the Changelings’ Heel–Race Turn). In "The Ending of the End — Part 2", Tirek's reaction to Discord bringing up his issues with his father enabled Discord to risk his life to free everyone, turning things around after the Darkest Hour and redeeming Discord after unwittingly endangering Equestria, proving he changed despite his mistakes.
- Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Played with. Vorak is far from ugly (and, in fact, looks pretty good for an older fellow), but still looks quite gruff in comparison to the absolutely lovely Haydon.
- The Un-Reveal: At the end of the issue, Tirek vows that he will one day overthrow his father before setting off to steal magic from Equestria. It is never revealed if Tirek was successful or not or what happened to them. In the series finale, when Discord mentions Vorak, he does so in the present tense, implying that Vorak may still be alive.
Movie Prequel

A living stormcloud who serves as the Storm King's second-in-command, although he has interests of his own.
- Cumulonemesis: A living, cloud-like creature who serves as the Big Bad's treacherous second-in-command.
- The Dragon: He's the Storm King's second-in-command and the main organizer of his military enterprises.
- Dragon with an Agenda: Unbeknownst to the Storm King, Strife plans to betray and abandon him as soon as his master's plans no longer align with his own. Whatever those plans may be, however, the Storm King punishes him before he can make good on them.
- Et Tu, Brute?: Despite going on about avoiding friendships to avoid being betrayed, the Storm King is still shocked and angered when Strife gives him away to the pirates — friendship or not, he still gave Strife his trust.
- Number Two: To the Storm King, until his betrayal of the latter.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: He's last seen being hurled off the Storm King's ship, which given that he's essentially a floating cloud he likely survived. As he does not appear and is not mentioned in the movie, his eventual fate is left unclear.

Capper's childhood friend and fellow street urchin in their native Abyssinia. Chummer and Capper stow away on an airship during the Storm King's invasion of their home, which is later captured by pirates and re-seized by the Storm King. In the confusion, the two friends remain stranded in the deserts near Klugetown, far from home.
- The Artful Dodger: He and Capper were street orphans in Abyssinia and managed to thrive on stealing from street vendors. Chummer is perfectly happy with the idea of doing this for the rest of his life, to the point where he abandons his best friend just for suggesting they settle down somewhere for once.
- The Atoner: When he reunites with Capper during the "Abyssinians" story arc, Chummer reveals that he returned home in hopes of making amends with his old friend. But when he saw what King Meowmeow was doing to their people, he set out to help form La Résistance against him, believing it was what Capper would do.
- Cat Folk: He's a humanoid, digitigrade tabby cat.
- Embodiment of Virtue: After going through a change of heart and reaffirming his commitments to his friends, past and present, he becomes the bearer of the Abyssinian Element of Loyalty.
- Et Tu, Brute?: Capper is rightfully devastated when Chummer, his closest friend and companion, betrays and abandons him.
- Eyepatch of Power: Chummer is shown with one when he returns for the "Abyssinians" arc. A flashback shows that Chummer still had both his eyes after the crash meaning he more than likely got the eyepatch during his time in La Résistance.
- Heel Realization: Following the airship crash, the injured Chummer was rescued and nursed back to health by Pepper and Salty, two Diamond Dogs. This experience helped Chummer to realize that not everyone does something in hopes of getting something in return, and led him to regret betraying his old friend.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Soon after betraying Capper, Chummer loses "their" airship and is forced to leave with nothing — just like how he left Capper.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: After the airship crash, a trail of pawprints can be seen leading away from the wreckage of his crashed airship after he ditched Capper. As this is the last seen of him, it's unknown whether or not he survived in the desert long enough to find civilization. The "Abyssinians" arc reveals what became of him afterwards.
- What Would X Do?: Chummer states that after returning to Abyssinia, he decided to help their old friends in their crusade against King Meowmeow, believing it was what Capper would do.

An earth pony traveler that meets and befriends Tempest in the lands south of Equestria.
- Hold Your Hippogriffs: Played with — after years spent away from Equestria, he's gotten so used to using regular terms like "anybody" that he has to consciously correct himself and switch to using "anypony" when chatting with Tempest.
- Lantern Jaw of Justice: sports a very large cleft that wouldn't be fittingly out-of-place in a Western.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: He's last seen as he helps distract the Storm King's forces long enough for Tempest to escape. While Tempest herself doesn't get very far before running into the Storm King, it's never shown or discussed if Rambler was captured or managed to escape himself.
Legends of Magic

The no-nonsense leader of the Mighty Helm and Rockhoof's commanding officer.
- Amazonian Beauty: She has a larger and more powerful physique than other mares (and even many stallions), but she is attractive.
- Bifauxnen: To the point where she could even be mistaken for a Hunk.
- The Captain: She commands the Mighty Helm, and does a pretty good job of it. It’s her admonishment that convinces Rockhoof to get it together, and she easily keeps up with him on the trip up the mountain.

An old, glum wizard that Somnambula finds sitting by himself at the end of the giant snake's gut, wallowing in depression due to having accidentally created said giant snake in the first place.
- Deadpan Snarker: As part of his role as a cynical foil to Somnambula, he gets a few dry zingers to complement her cheerful forthrightness.Somnambula: Oh, there you are. Hey, you look like a wizard!
Old Wizard: Wow, it's not just you necklace, you are bright. - Foil: To Somnambula. He's cynical and ill tempered where she's bubbly and upbeat. Further, his defeatist attitude and desire to simply wallow in his guilt rather than try to fix his predicament contrast Somnambula's much more proactive attitude, as well as reinforcing her stories' message about not giving up on hope.
- My God, What Have I Done?: His reaction to having accidentally created a giant snake while trying to rid himself of a pest. He considers himself an old fool and failure, and wants to be left in the snake's gut to feel sorry for himself. He seems to get over his depression by the end, when Somnambula figures out how to shrink the snake back down and rescues the ponies trapped in its gut.
- Robe and Wizard Hat: The hat is brimless, and both it and the robe are decorated with an unusual eye motif in addition to the more traditional stars, but otherwise a typical example.
- Wizard Beard: He has a long, wispy white beard sprouting from his chin.
- Wizard Classic: He wears a robe and a conical (but brimless) hat, both decorated with eye and star motifs, and a long beard. His flashback when he tells Somnambula where the snake came from also shows a preference for studying magic and potions in seclusion.

An alternate version of the Pony of Shadows, from a world whose events are slightly ahead of the prime universe.
- Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: He succeeded where his prime counterpart failed in destroying the Pillars before they imprisoned him. Though it is later revealed that Princess Eris hid Star Swirl's spellbook, putting a serious dent in that plan.
- The Bad Guy Wins: A version of the Pony of Shadows who succeeded in taking over Equestria.
- The Beastmaster: He has complete control over the fauna of his dimension.
- The Corrupter: He attempted to kidnap a young Celestia and Luna, and twist them into becoming Daybreaker and Nightmare Moon. While the Pillars foil this attempt, he later succeeds with other versions of the Princesses.
- The Dark Side Will Make You Forget: This version has been the Pony of Shadows for so long that he's forgotten who he once was. It takes meeting his Alternate Self and hearing his name to jog his memory.
- Eviler than Thou:
- He imprisoned Princess Eris in Star Swirl's spellbook, using her as a Living Battery to enhance his own powers.
- He was ultimately betrayed by Daybreaker, and destroyed.
- Evil Plan: He intends to use Celestia and Luna's power to help him conquer all realities.
- Green and Mean: This alternate Pony of Shadows has green highlights in lieu of the grey ones of the main universe's version.
- Hero Killer: He wiped out his world's versions of the Pillars.
- The Man Behind the Man: It was he who sent the shadow creatures to kidnap Princess Luna in the first Legends of Magic issue.
Nightmare Knights

Discord's "cousin" and the lord of chaos of an alternate reality, who has far more destructive tastes than Discord ever did. She runs the "Chaos Casino" where various villains gather from alternate realities. Eris steals Princess Luna's magic and enslaves an alternate version of Daybreaker, intent on selling both to the highest bidder.
- Asshole Victim: Daybreaker seemingly kills her at the end of the arc, but considering her actions, it's hard to feel sorry for her.
- Bad Guy Bar: She runs a casino that only allows villains to enter.
- Big Bad: Of the Nightmare Knights mini-series.
- Break the Haughty: Over the course of the final battle, Eris goes from the haughty Lord of Chaos to terrified, powerless, and begging on her knees for Luna's mercy. Thankfully, Luna doesn't want to hurt her. But Daybreaker does.
- Chicken Joke: Tempest Shadow attempts to taunt Eris with one of these, but Eris hits back with a threat.Tempest Shadow: Why did the chicken cross—
Princess Eris: You know, I've heard this one before, but the real question I want the answer to is—why did the pony cross the chicken? - Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Inverted, Eris has Chronic Getting Backstabbed Disorder. Every ally she's made has eventually betrayed her, stretching all the way into her backstory. To be far she's smug, unpleasant and naïve, which makes it pretty irresistible.
- Curb-Stomp Cushion: Suffers a pretty one sided and undignified defeat, but to her credit she holds off Daybreaker easily, and even holds her own when Tempest, Stygian and Trixie join in. If Capper hadn't chosen that moment to backstab her, she might have won.
- Dirty Coward: She begs for mercy and lies that the Pony of Shadows hurt her in an attempt to elicit sympathy when she's defeated.
- Dream Weaver: Stealing Luna's magic grants her this ability, which she uses to imprison Capper and Stygian in their own worst nightmares.
- Eviler than Thou: Eris looks down on her "cousin" Discord's antics, believing chaos is better used to spread destruction rather than playing pranks and making it rain chocolate milk. Ironically, she's ultimately dealt with much easier than him once her Staff and Luna's magic are no longer hers.
- Evil Gloating: Eris is a little too fond to this, to Tempest's annoyance.
- For the Evulz: Eris stole the journal of her world's Star Swirl the Bearded, preventing the Pillars from imprisoning the Pony of Shadows, in order to ensure the chaos he inflicted would continue.
- Implausible Deniability: After being overpowered, Eris claims that she's only the way she is because she went mad during the years she'd spent imprisoned by the Pony of Shadows. This excuse ignores the fact that she intentionally arranged for the Pony of Shadows to continue his initial reign of terror, all for her own amusement.
- Killed Off for Real: Implied. Daybreaker blasts her out of the castle and into the distance with a blast of fiery energy, and there is no indication that she survived.
- Laser-Guided Karma: After allowing for the alternate Pony of Shadows to continue his reign of terror for her own amusement, Eris was imprisoned by him, who used her power to enhance his own.
- Living Battery: The alternate Pony of Shadows used Star Swirl's spell book to turn Eris into one of these when she refused to help him conquer their Equestria.
- Miles Gloriosus: For all her bluster and view of being superior to Discord, she's ultimately this. Once she loses Luna's stolen power and the Staff, she's revealed to be nowhere near as powerful as her cousin is, and while decently good at deception, is nowhere near as good at manipulation or breaking the heroes. She promptly breaks down like a coward and begs for mercy.
- Mind Rape: When the captive Tempest Shadow refuses to answer Eris's questions, Eris forces her to relive the day she lost her horn, with Tempest's childhood friends replaced by her current teammates, and Eris in place of the Ursa Minor.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: Not to the same extent as Discord; she has a humanoid avian body (similar to Captain Celaeno) with bat-like wings and ram horns.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!: Eris locking up Trixie in the same room as Tempest and Daybreaker proves instrumental for her defeat: Trixie creates an illusion of Daybreaker's Shock Collar to replace the one Tempest broke, allowing Daybreaker and the rest to get close enough to Eris without attracting her suspicion.
- Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: She may have the same kind of Reality Warping capabilities of her "Cousin"; however most of it stems from her using the Staff and having it taken away from her shows just how out of depth she really is.
- Reality Warper: Much like Discord, she can manifest objects out of thin air, alter the form of matter, and create illusions. However, she appears to be much weaker than him in terms of her actual power, as without her staff or Luna's stolen power she's no match at all for Daybreaker or Luna, while Discord exceeds both by a huge margin.
- Smug Snake: She almost makes the cut, but despite being pretty powerful and cunning she's eventually done in by her unpleasant personality, arrogance and tendency to underestimate her foes. She even tops it off by proving a Dirty Coward in defeat.
- Squishy Wizard: Eris' abilities are not to laugh at; but take away her Staff, and release Daybreaker from her service...
- The Starscream: The Pony of Shadows had the captive Eris create a special collar that would allow him total control over Daybreaker. Eris instead used the collar to make Daybreaker her servant, and together, they destroyed the Pony of Shadows.
- Super Gullible: As Daybreaker points out, for someone so practiced in deception, she is very bad at recognizing it, never suspecting that Capper had only pretended to side with her in order to a switch the orb containing Luna's magic with a fake.

An alternate version of Celestia who was fully corrupted by the Pony of Shadows alongside her sister Luna, who became in turn permanently became Nightmare Moon. Eventually she was captured and forced under the control of Eris, becoming a security guard at her casino.
For information on the dream version of Daybreaker, see Friendship Is Magic: Others.
- Alternate Self: Essentially she's a version of Celestia from a world where the Pillars couldn't defeat the Pony of Shadows and she, along with Luna, were the ones that got corrupted.
- Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: Daybreaker gets the honor of taking out Eris.
- Black Eyes of Crazy: She has dark red sclera close to this effect.
- Cain and Abel: She's the Cain to her version of Luna. Even as Nightmare Moon, Luna managed to shake off the Pony of Shadows' control of her and turned against him. However, rather than join her sister in defeating him, Daybreaker turned on and killed Nightmare Moon to be the Pony of Shadows' only successor.
- The Dark Side Will Make You Forget: She has no memories of her time as Celestia or the fact that her sister used to be Luna.
- Demoted to Dragon: Under Eris' control, Daybreaker is forced to become a security guard at her casino.
- Dragon Ascendant: Daybreaker takes over the Casino after killing Eris.
- Enemy Mine: After her collar is broken, she willingly teams up with the Nightmare Knights to usurp Eris. She lets the heroes leave when they're done, but makes it clear that she's not intending on reforming.
- Evil Counterpart: To Celestia, being a version of her from a universe where she's a villain.
- Evil Is Burning Hot: She has power over fire.
- Evil Versus Evil: In the past, the alternate Nightmare Moon attempted to betray the Pony of Shadows, only for Daybreaker to fight and kill her. She eventually shares this distinction with Eris as well.
- Fangs Are Evil: She's always seen sporting fangs in her mouth.
- Flaming Hair: Her hair is a massive flame of fire.
- Identity Amnesia: It seems that whatever the Pony of Shadows did to her, it resulted in Daybreaker having no memory of her past as Celestia.
- Might Makes Right: Essentially the reason she takes out Nightmare Moon since, due to serving under the Pony of Shadows, this implanted this belief in her, thus believing her weak. It's also the reason she doesn't accept Luna's offer as well.
- Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Daybreaker kills Eris the moment she gets the chance after being her unwilling servant for most of the arc.
- Playing with Fire: Daybreaker's main power.
- The Power of the Sun: Daybreaker's powers are fully restored upon defeating Eris, signified by the sun rising over the landscape.Daybreaker: "Do you now that collar kept me from accessing the power to control the sun? It takes a little while to raise it when you haven't done it in centuries, but it's dawn now."
- Redemption Rejection: Daybreaker refuses Luna's offer to reform and rule honestly, instead electing to take over the castle Eris left behind.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Since she's in the Daybreaker persona permanently, she constantly has red eyes.
- Replacement Goldfish: Daybreaker reveals she was just trying to fill the void left by her dead sister Nightmare Moon with Luna. She eventually realizes that Luna is not the mare she knew, and rejects her attempt to play on their familial relationship.
- Shock Collar: Eris forces her to wear one of these; one which inflicts painful electric shocks upon her when she acts against Eris's orders. The moment it's destroyed, she immediately unleashes her wrath upon Eris.
- Superpowered Evil Side: Is this for Celestia.

A version of Twilight Sparkle who is seen performing at Eris's casino. She quickly develops a rivalry with Trixie.
- Alternate Self: Of the mainstream Twilight Sparkle.
- Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better: She and Trixie quickly decide to compete to see who is the most "great and powerful".
- Evil Is Hammy: Like the pre-reformation Trixie, she has a very high strung and volatile personality.
- Large Ham: One more thing she has in common with Trixie; She likes to announce how great she is for all to hear.
- No, You: Invoked during the argument between her and Trixie.Trixie: Nobody is as skilled as the Great and Powerful Trixie!
Twily: Hey! Stop stealing my thing! I'm the Great and Powerful Twily!
Trixie: That sounds ridiculous!
Twily: You're ridiculous! - Shout-Out: It is indicated that she might be the same Anti-Twilight from the Mirrorverse Arc, as upon meeting Trixie, she briefly mistakes her for the one from her world, referring to her as Princess Trixie. The Mirrorverse version of Trixie is in turn shown to be the Princess of Humility.
- Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman: Rather than being an alicorn princess, she is a unicorn stage magician (like Trixie). Considering it's implied she came from the Mirrorverse, that's not surprising really.
Feats of Friendship

An earth pony transfer student at the School of Friendship who joins the Young Six in their very first sporting event.
- Accidental Hero: In the second issue of Feats of Friendship, Swift Foot ends up unintentionally winning the first event for her team while running from a wild Orthrus.
- Arc Villain: Of the Feats of Friendship arc.
- Becoming the Mask: Ultimately comes to understand friendship and help the Young Six in the events. After which she heads home to the spread the message of friendship and prepare to fight those those that go against her newfound friends.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She comes off as nice and friendly, but is actually rotten underneath.
- Blank White Eyes: Swift Foot displays these at the end of the issue, while contacting her father.
- But Now I Must Go: She silently leaves after seeing the Young Six win their sporting events, feeling she isn't worthy to be there after what she's done and heading off back to her home to spread what she's learned, knowing very well her father likely won't be happy with her abandoning her race's teachings.
- Condescending Compassion: Swift Foot uses this to drive a wedge between the Young Six, claiming that the cultures of the non-pony members aren't given the proper respect, and that Sandbar is being forced to put his friends ahead of himself.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To Cozy Glow. Both are ponies who are students at the School of Friendship, display Fantastic Racism towards non-ponies and are secretly evil. However, while Cozy was a filly, Swift Foot is a teenager. Also unlike Cozy Glow, Swift Foot actually begins to see the error of her ways. Likewise, where Cozy Glow's past is never revealed, we learn Swift Foot's origins.
- False Friend: She pretends to befriend the Young Six, then manipulates them by playing on their differences.
- Fangs Are Evil: At the end of the first issue, she displays a pair of fangs while contacting her father.
- Fantastic Racism: Swift Foot doesn't think much of non-pony species, dismissing the rest of the Young Six in their first meeting to talk to Sandbar.
- Head-Turning Beauty: Sandbar develops a crush on her at first sight.
- Heel–Face Turn: After seeing the Young Six reconcile from the argument that she caused, she realizes that friendship can be a genuine thing and abandons her mission.
- Manipulative Bitch: She subtly causes discord between the Young Six by pointing out flaws in their races which in turn causes misunderstandings and arguments.
- The Mole: Infiltrated the School of Friendship on orders from her father to sow distrust between the students before a sporting event event, to show all of Equestria how frail friendship is.
- Tears of Remorse: She weeps when the Young Six once again offer her their friendship, regretting everything she did to them.
- What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: Swift Foot was raised in environment that saw friendship as a weakness and the whole purpose of her mission was to try to showcase this notion at a sporting event featuring various creatures. However when she actually experiences it for herself, she has a hard time understanding it and how it can be overcome given enough effort on both sides since it goes against what she was always told. By the third issue, despite successfully turning the Young Six against each other, she begins to question if what she did and what she was taught was/are really in the right and, after seeing the Young Six overcome their squabbles, decides that her former teachings are bunk.

The leader of an ancient race of earth ponies known as Thracians, who consider friendship to be a weakness.
- Ambiguously Related: Thrace was an earth pony, but the general aesthetics of both him and the culture he founded bears a much stronger resemblance to the pre-Equestrian pegasi than the earth ponies, as both Thrace and the Pegasi draw on ancient Greece as inspiration. What connection existed between them, if any, was is never explained, though the fact that he apparently knew commander Hurricane (along with other founders of Equestria) would imply there was at least some cultural exchange.
- Egopolis: A variant; rather than naming a city after himself, he used his name for his entire race.
- It's All About Me: If the name didn't give it away, the guy was pretty self-centered. Not only did he name his race after himself (which even Swift Foot states was self-indulgent of him), but he based his teachings on how friendship is a weakness because he himself didn't like it.
- Remember the New Guy?: He was a contemporary of Equestria's founders and apparently met them at the first Hearths Warming Eve shortly after they drove off the windigos, but Equestrian chronicles don't mention him at all and he doesn't appear outside of Feats of Friendship.
- Unreliable Narrator: According to him, he was left out of the three tribes' moment of friendship. Since we have only his side of the story to go on, this may not be exactly what happened.
- Villainous Legacy: His dislike of friendship is passed down to and motivates his descendent Diomedes.
- Virtue Is Weakness: He considered friendship to be a "vile lie", and a "weakness", beliefs he passed down to his descendents.

The new king of Thrace, who also considers friendship a weakness.
- Abusive Parents: Appears to be this; when Swift Foot realizes she's late, she fears his wrath. And when he responds to Swift Foot's surprise at being chosen for the mission (which he takes as a refusal) with anger, she bows down in terror.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He is convinced that sabotaging the Feats of Friendship will destroy Equestria's belief in friendship itself, leaving them ripe for conquest.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Of the Feats of Friendship arc; he's the one who ultimately decided to infiltrate Equestria, but remains away from the country himself and his daughter Swift Foot serves as the story's Big Bad.
- Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: The original King Diomedes was a mythical Thracian ruler famed for keeping four ferocious, man-eating horses which Herakles had to tame as one of his labors. Incidentally, the names of these horses match fairly well with those of this Diomedes' four daughters — Deinos ("the Terrible", Terri Belle), Xanthos ("the Yellow", Blonn Di), Lampon ("the Shining", Shining Light) and Podargos ("the Swift", Swift Foot).
Generations

The daughters of Reeka and Draggle and granddaughters of Hydia, the witches from Generation 1. When their mothers go away for a monthly excursion, they leave the two alone to watch over Gloom Volcano while also giving them a list of chores, one of which is to take revenge on the ponies for their losses against them.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: They have skin colors that look more in line with humans in Equestria Girls.
- Bad Boss: As usual for girls brought up only on evil, they're not very kind to their creations, often belittling them for not trying hard enough and threatening to turn them back to Smooze if they don't do their tasks. After reforming, they apologize to the S'monies and give them their blessing to stay at the School of Friendship.
- Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: Like their mothers, they were raised to despise all things good and nice, practically mocking Starlight's letter that Trench gives them.
- Catchphrase: "Flippin' fireballs," shared between them.
- I Choose to Stay: They decide to stay in Equestria and explore to find a new home, choosing not to return to the volcano.
- Cute Witch: At least in relations to their mothers who were very Gonk when they were younger. Grackle and Dyre are far from their looks.
- Didn't Think This Through:
- It's clear from the beginning that they don't have a concrete plan to enact discord on the ponies, and are just making things up on the fly by simply making the S'monies and having them infiltrate the school.
- This lack of foresight bites them again when they travel to Ponyville to attack the ponies directly. Not only have the ponies never seen humans before (as they don't exist in the main G4 universe), but they're also corrupted by the Smooze, leading to them relentlessly beating the witches up and forcing them to flee.
- Fat and Skinny: Like their mothers, they share these body types, albeit not as extreme. Grackle is the more chubby of the pair while Dyre is more slim.
- Flaming Hair: Grackle's hair flows like flames when using intense magic or when enraged. It becomes flames outright during her Motive Rant in Issue 5.
- Heel–Face Turn: Their visit to Equestria leads to this, when they witness firsthand what it was they were really destroying. While Dyre helps free ponies from the cursed decorations, Grackle teams up with Twilight to eliminate the Smooze for good, resolving to be free from her family's past and never using her magic to cause harm again.
- Heel Realization: They both have this when walking through Ponyville, seeing various activities of its citizens that their actions ruined and realizing that it is actually a nice place, inhabited by creatures they can relate with — making them suddenly feel bad for everything they've done.
- Incendiary Exponent: Grackle quite literally explodes with anger any time she gets pissed.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: Despite their talk of enjoying being witches and causing havoc, in truth the two just want to get out of exile and hang out with others like normal teenagers.
- Misplaced Retribution: They want to get even with the ponies but end up targeting the G4 ponies, who've never even met them or their mothers let alone have any humanoids in their dimension, rather then the ones in their world. This does get brought up in the second issue when Grackle questions if they should target ponies in another dimension. But Dyre shrugs it off that their mothers just said to take revenge on ponies but didn't necessarily say which ones. Both figuring as long as they get revenge on ponies in general like their moms wanted, it's fine either way. Issue 5 implies it wasn't even the ponies keeping them in the volcano but their parents.
- Mommy's Little Villain: They relish in the chance to get even with the ponies for their mothers' humiliation, hoping to make their mothers proud. They're nowhere near as fond with their parents as they'd openly admit.
- My God, What Have I Done?: When they see the Smooze magic in action during the Bestie Festie, they're horrified at how utterly ruthless and frightening it is as it either wraps up or possesses the ponies around it, especially when it calls them out on stating that this is what they wanted and intends to feed on the rest of Equestria. The pair quickly renounce it with Grackle combining her magic with the ponies Rainbow magic to help dispell it.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Their disguise to get into the Bestie Festie is a giant, gaudy unicorn costume that's twice as tall as any of the ponies. The Smooze attacks the party before anyone notices.
- Power Floats: The two are seen using their powers to float a bit while milling around their home.
- Power Incontinence: Grackle is shown in issue 3 not to have a full grasp of her powers if she's angry, causing it to surge when she finds out the G4 ponies are (inadvertently) trying to spoil their plans. Ironically, she seems to have a better grasp on her magic when using it for good instead of evil.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Grackle is the red, eager to jump at a chance to prove herself, very emotional, and can't stand it when things don't go to plan, often losing control of her power when she gets mad. Dyre is the blue, rational minded, keeps her cool despite setbacks and does her best to calm her cousin down when her anger gets the better of her.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: Inherited from their mothers and grandmother is the curse that prevents them from using magic outside of the volcano. Notably, while their mothers frequently leave the volcano to find ways to break the curse, Grackle and Dyre are forced to stay behind, with dialog implying they've never left the volcano before. The final issue implies this was entirely their mothers' doing, and had they actually let them leave, the ponies would've accepted them.
- Spikes of Villainy: Dyre has some spikes embedded on her jacket shoulders.
- Villain No Longer Idle: For the first four issues, they command the S'monies from their lair while the two of them either do their chores or just lounge around the house while waiting on reports from them. It isn't until Issue 4 they realize if the S'monies magic works in Equestria, which is made from their magic, then that means their powers will work in that realm too. Thus they decide to go personally handle the G4 ponies themselves.
- Villainous Legacy: Their evil grandmother Hydia is long gone, leaving it up to them to carry on her legacy of antagonizing the ponies.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: They frequently bicker with and insult each other, yet they are undoubtedly good friends, very loyal to each other and never bearing any ill will for any jibes. This doubles as an early hint of their eventual Heel–Face Turn.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Despite being treated cruelly by their mothers and repeatedly mocked for their supposed ineptitude, they still try to appease them and earn their respect. In the climax, however, Grackle finally realizes that not only their mothers simply do not care about them, but their approval isn't really of any worth to begin with. She vows to never use her magic to hurt others again and ends up befriending ponies, who have shown her much more kindness and understanding that her and Dyre's mothers ever did.

Grackle and Dyre's rat familiar.
- Dimensional Traveler: He can "tunnel" between dimensions, allowing him to travel between the G1 and G4 universes at will.
- Familiar: Part pet, part familiar to the girls whose up for doing their bidding.
- Iron Butt-Monkey:
- Nearly gets trampled on while exploring the School of Friendship, slips on a banana peel and has a statue of Starswirl fall on him.
- In Issue 4, he gets mauled by Opal and barely limps away all bruised and bandaged up.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!: For some reason he keeps Goblin Fur on him. So when Opal attacks him, she plucks it off of him and returns back to Rarity where the Mane 6, Starlight and G1 ponies are trying to brainstorm a way to counter the Smooze magic. Fluttershy takes the fur out of Opal's mouth, North Star points out what it is and how it smells like sulfur, and this gives Twilight the idea to use crystals to amplify their Elements of Harmoy power since the sulfur smell reminds her of volcanos and that sulfur gas can be condensed into crystal. And indeed the amplified power counters the Smooze magic.
- Shoo Out the Clowns: Aside from a cutaway graphic, he's completely absent from Issue 5, where the story's tone becomes more serious.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Pizza. He eats all the pizza the girls had made for themselves and Gackle promises him more if he complete his tasks.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Due to his complete absense in Issue 5, it's unknown if he stayed with Grackle and Dyre when they left to travel Equestria, or if he stayed behind at the volcano.
- You Dirty Rat!: He's a rat, largely to keep in line with the Wicked Witch motif of the girls.

A trio of pony creations of Grackle and Dyre, made from their magic and Smooze sent into the G4 world to enact the witches' plans. They are Violet Shiver, Black Belle and Shadow Storm.
- Anti-Magic: Like both versions of the Smooze, the S'monies are completely impervious to magic. Nothing in the G4 universe can affect them or their magic, forcing the Mane Six to go to the G1 universe to hopefully find a way to fight them.
- Artificial Human: They were created by molding the ingredients to make the Smooze, Grackle's magic, and pizza dough (yes, really) into a trio of artificial ponies.
- Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: They despise anything to do with friendship and look absolutely repulsed when having to do interactions that involve as such. Putting on a Stepford Smiler when doing so to keep up their act. Not surprising as they were made by witches who likewise have this mindset.
- Becoming the Mask: By Issue #4, they start to become a little too invested in their roles as they try to enact the witches' plans. Granted they still wish to cause chaos but let down their defenses and accept some of the goodwill from their students.
- Berserk Button: Black Belle develops one, completely freaking out if any of her students are in danger.
- I Choose to Stay: After being purified, they decide to stay as teachers at the School of Friendship, with Grackle and Dyre's blessing.
- The Corruptor: After becoming teachers at the School of Friendship, they intentionally teach meanspirited "lessons" to the students intended to spread discord and disharmony. By Issue 3, Ocellus and Silverstream (usually the sweetest of the students) are openly mocking Fluttershy's class and insulting their teacher.
- Demonic Possession: In the final issue, Violet Shiver is possessed by the Smooze through the streamers she created.
- Ear Notch: Black Belle on her left ear. Her introduction artwork has the notch on her right ear instead, but switches to the correct side in Issue 2.
- Even Evil Has Standards: For as much malice and chaos as they bring, they draw the line at hurting children. Black Belle especially, who intervenes when the Smooze attempts to kill Ocellus and Yona.
- Exotic Eye Designs: Shadow Storm's eyes have grey sclerae and white irises.
- Frame-Up: In Issue 2, Black Belle destroys the Hay Burger restaurant, and implicates the staff of the neighboring bowling alley in the destruction.
- Got Volunteered: In Issue 3, the S'monies need to find out more about the party the ponies are planning. Black Belle forces Violet Shiver to infiltrate it, to her chagrin.Black Belle: (Pushing Violet Shiver forward) Thank you for your noble sacrifice.
- Heel–Face Turn: Cracks in their resolve to be evil gradually form as they befriend the ponies and students, and it's solidified in Issue 5, when Grackle and Twilight Sparkle eliminate the Smooze from them.
- Heel Realization: In Issue 5, After Violet Shiver finds a "best friends" shirt Pinkie made for her, she sadly acknowledges that she doesn't deserve it.
- An Ice Person: Violet Shiver is shown to have power over ice which she uses to create premature frost to cover Sweet Apple Acres, causing the family to argue with each other on getting the weather wrong.
- Last-Second Word Swap: While touring the school, Shadow Storm starts to ask where the lava is and corrects himself just after saying this to ask about the library instead.Shadow Storm: Where's the lava? Brary. The library. Which is what we have at Hayward. To study volcanoes. Because of all the... lava.
- Mark of the Beast: Each of the three Smooze-made ponies has an unusual trait that sets them apart from natural ones — Shadow Storm's eyes have grey sclerae and white irises, Violet Shiver has jagged, lighter markings on her hooves, and Black Belle has a lightning bolt-shaped horn and black splotches around her eyes and hooves.
- Mind Control: Shadow Storm has mind control powers, first shown when he uses it on the Wonderbolts to undermine Spitfire's authority and embarrass her at a stunt show.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!: Violet Shiver using magic to make the streamers for the Bestie Festie alerts Twilight of the dark magic she possesses, leading her, Pinkie and Zecora to discovering the Smooze within and its origins. This in turn leads to the main six visiting the G1 dimension and teaming up with the Dream Valley ponies to develop a plan to stop the Smooze for good.
- Non-Standard Character Design: Each of them has a different physical feature not seen on other ponies in the series before.
- Obviously Evil: Their bizarre appearances, off-putting mannerisms, and a habit of cackling are fairly straightforward indicators of their villainous natures. However, despite being a bit put off by them, the G4 heroines don't give it much thought when first meeting them.
- Person of Mass Destruction: They're powerful enough to casually level buildings and cover all of Sweet Apple Acres in a snowstorm.
- Phony Degree: They claim they're professors from Hayvard majoring in Pony Relations. Starlight takes them at their word.
- Poke the Poodle: Their initial plan is to teach classes that have the students unknowingly cause mean pranks, largely because Grackle and Dyre don't really have much of a plan to enact at the time. Once they actually do, their actions become a lot more malicious and destructive.
- Punny Name: A combination of the words "Smooze" and "Pony". It also sounds like "phony" as well.
- Redemption Earns Life: Despite the Smooze being used to make them, the rainbow blast used to destroy the Smooze doesn't kill them. Twilight notes that this likely meant there was good in them all along.
- Tears of Remorse: Violet Shiver sheds these in Issue 5 after receiving Pinkie's gift for the festival, believing she doesn't deserve kindness.
- Toxic Friend Influence: Their "lessons" at the School of Friendship turn many of their students into brutal bullies, to Starlight's horror.
- What Is This Feeling?: In Issue 2, when Pinkie compliments Violet Shiver's streamers, the latter is both surprised and flattered, and starts to have fun in spite of herself.

Not to be confused for Discord's friend, this Smooze is a new incarnation of the G1 Smooze, with its ingredients used as part of the creation of the S'monies.
- Adaptational Badass: While it loses the giant purple mass it had previously, it makes up for it by not only making ponies more corrupt and evil by its power, but it is far more powerful than before (it's completely unfazed by the combined rainbow power — admittedly though, this was after said power was nerfed by Twilight so it wouldn't hurt possessed ponies) and able to possess ponies directly.
- Adaptational Villainy: It is far more malicious than its G1 counterpart, actively plotting Equestria's downfall.
- Black Eyes of Evil: Violet Shiver has these when the Smooze fully possesses her body.
- Combat Tentacles: The streamers it possesses become this in the final fight.
- Conflict Killer: The Smooze gaining sentience and proving far more malicious than the witches had intended completely kills the conflict between them and the ponies.
- Dragon Ascendant: Once it's given a vessel and can express its sentience on its own, it quickly takes the role of the comic's Big Bad, usurping both the witches and the S'monies.
- Dystopia Justifies the Means: As noted by Twilight after being possessed by it, it wants to destroy magic, friendships, and community, and won't stop until it's all wiped out.
- Evil Sounds Deep: It has a deeper, more menacing voice than the ponies it possesses, portrayed in the comic as a dark green speech bubble with white text when Twilight channels it. As it becomes more malicious and powerful, it changes to a black bubble with red text.
- For the Evulz: It wants to spread hate, chaos and disharmony all over Equestria just because it can't be stopped.
- Grand Theft Me: Its new ability is being able to take over a pony's body and mind. Twilight is briefly possessed in Issue 3, and Violet Shiver in Issue 5.The Smooze: TWILIGHT SPARKLE ISN'T HERE ANYMORE.
- Hate Plague: Like its original counterpart, those who come into contact it turn mean and ill-tempered. Unlike the original, it doesn't have its ooze body, instead possessing the streamers made by Violet Shiver and spreading like vines throughout Ponyville. And the hate is even more potent, with ponies getting extremely violent towards each other and their surroundings.
- It Can Think: While the G1 Smooze was self-aware, it hardly thought or acted on its own accord, mindlessly flooding the world in its goo. This Smooze is plotting Ponyville and all of Equestria's destruction entirely on its own, and is able to speak freely when fully possessing a pony.
- Killed Off for Real: It's finally killed for good when Grackle and Twilight use their combined magic against it.
- Mark of the Beast: Those who are corrupted by it have dark green or black vine-like marking on their body.
- Meaningful Echo: During the final fight, it refers to Grackle and Dyre as "uniquely ungifted", the same petty insult used by their mothers in Issue 2. Seeing their mothers' abuse reflect in their own creation leads to the witches finally uniting with the ponies and taking it down.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: It's quickly proven to be incredibly powerful; while the rainbow blast combining the G1 Rainbow of Light and G4 Elements of Harmony can clear its corruption from ponies, it can't permanently destroy it. While possessing Violet Shiver, it's become so powerful that a direct blast from the rainbows does nothing to it.
- No-Sell: In the final chapter, it yawns after being hit by the combined rainbow powers (though it's probably because said powers were previously watered down so they would cure possessed ponies of Smooze, rather than annihilate them along with it).
- Would Hurt a Child: It attempts to kill Ocellus and Yona, but is interfered by Black Belle.

Owl-like creatures brought to the school by Fluttershy for a class. They're very docile, as long as they're not scared.
- Killer Rabbit: The look like cute owl-like critters, but when disturbed by loud noises they reveal they have mouths full of fangs and xenomorph-like tongues and spew out what Fluttershy refers to as "projectile defense".
- Mix-and-Match Critters: They resemble owls with fox ears and tails.
- Nested Mouths: A shriek-yowl's beak contains a tentacle-like tongue with its own set of toothy jaws.
- Noodle Incident: It's neither shown nor explained precisely what their "projectile defense" is or does, beyond it being very sticky and ruining Applejack's hat.
- Phlegmings: When they're shown shrieking in anger, the tops and bottom of their beaks are connected by long strings of saliva.
- Toothy Bird: They mostly resemble owls, but their beaks are lined with sharp teeth.

A group of ponies who defeated the Smooze a long time ago.
- Advertised Extra: The G1 cast is heavily advertised for the event but none of them appear at all until the final page of the third issue. They don't even get speaking roles until the fourth book of a five book event.
- I Choose to Stay: They decide to stay in Equestria and explore for a while, wanting to see the world.
- Continuity Nod: They mention the events of the movie to the Mane Six.
- Expy: North Star believes the Elements of Harmony are this to the Rainbow of Light, specifically calling the Rainbow of Light their ancestor.
- Got Volunteered: In Issue 5, Twilight has Minty and Lickety-Split be the test subjects for her demonstration on how the Smooze works and how their spell will defeat it. The two look... less then thrilled to do it, indicating they drew the short straw in volunteering.Minty: Come to an alternate universe, they said. It'll be fun, they said.
- Non-Standard Character Design: The G1 ponies are modeled after their home series rather than being adapted into the G4 art style. Most notable is Minty who despite having a G1 toy is based on her G3 counterpart.
Rise of Cadance
- Good Parents: She was one of the ponies who raised Cadance in her village.
A Wicked Witch that used an an amulet to drain the love from the Earth Pony village that adopted Cadance. Cadance confronted and defeated her with The Power of Love.
- Artifact of Doom: The source of her power was an amulet similar to the Alicorn Amulet.
- The Ghost: Is only mentioned in a flashback and does not make any sort of present day appearance in the book.
- Green-Eyed Monster: She lived alone and was jealous of the nearby earth pony village for the love they had for each other.
- Hate Plague: Caused one for the earth pony village nearby.
- Unseen No More: She makes a physical appearance in My Little Pony: Rise of Cadance.
- Revenge: She wants revenge on Ponykind for an unspecified incident involving her dragon children.
- Small Role, Big Impact: They only show up for a few panels, but serves as the catalyst for Cadance becoming an alicorn.
- Talking the Monster to Death: Cadance convinces Liebe to cease her attack on Canterlot, explaining it won't alleviate her pain and would only generate further hatred. Liebe agrees with Cadance, as she empathizes with her and understands her pain.
Misc.
For Sweet Cream Scoops, Sugar Grape, Cherry Spices, Barber Groomsby, Tealove, and Bumblesweet, see the Toyline Exclusive page.
- Captain Ersatz: Quite a few of them are Pony versions of characters from... anything and everything.
- The first issue gives us The Blues Brothers from Saturday Night Live, Thomas Magnum from Magnum, P.I., Matthew Bennell from Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and Earl Hickey from My Name Is Earl appear.
- Issue #5 gives us pony versions of Sailor Moon & Sailor Jupiter and Mabel Pines, the later even gets a name: Maybelle.
- Sailors Moon and Jupiter aren't the only ones with pony versions, Issue #8 gives us ponified versions of Mars, Mercury and Venus and the Micro series gets ponified versions Chibi Moon, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto (also in its 8th issue)
- There's also the notably recurring Observer who appears in the very first issue and then make recurring appearances in other issues.
- More examples can be found here
- Creator Cameo:
- An Earth pony version of artist Andy Price appears, accompanied by a unicorn version of his wife Alice, and by their cats Sam, Spooky, Tabitha, Boris, Bela, and Mina.
- A unicorn version of writer Katie Cook appears, later accompanied by a mule version of her husband Ryan.
- Sibsy's variant cover for the Rainbow Dash issue of the Micro-Series has the Original Character of her then-coworker on the show Raven Molisee (Snowdrop), as well as her then-current boyfriend (and popular fan-musician) Andy "MandoPony" Stein.
- Sibsy's OC Wild Fire pops up in the background now and then.
- Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: A Pegasus mare described by artist Andy Price as "a shout-out to original MLP Firefly from the ponies 'established 1982'" appears. The page doesn't show her eye color, but her coat color, mane and tail color, cutie mark, and tail bow all match G1 Firefly's. If it really is G4 Firefly, this marks her first appearance in a My Little Pony work since The '80s!note
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Since the bases of the Captain Ersatz ponies mentioned above were played by live-action actors, they're also partly modeled after Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Tom Selleck, Donald Sutherland, and Jason Lee, respectively.
- Andy Price's Applejack variant cover for Issue #1, has Vinyl Scratch in the background. In her record collection? "The Hoof Beats".
- Recurring Extra: Andy Price, the massive Fringe fan that he is, has made sure to slip in an "Observer" pony in every issue he's worked on thus far.
- Unknown Character: Everything we know about Applejack's great uncle Honeycrisp is that he was a lumberjack. He was only mentioned once in Issue #3, and never seen.
The Manga
Characters from the manga adaption.

An earth pony and resident of Ponyville. She's definitely not a space pony.
- Alien Among Us: What Pinkie Pie believes she is, and eventually the Cutie Mark Crusaders think the same.
- Conqueror from the Future: She's working with one. However, she genuinely doesn't believe he's evil, he's just using unorthodox methods to make a better future.
- Evil Counterpart: Of Derpy Hooves. Both girls are the competent sidekicks of a Time Pony, but while Derpy helps Doctor Hooves to protect the Multiverse, Star Dancer helps her Master to take over it, no matter how many rules of nature he has to break in order to achieve his goal. Pinkie Pie called her out on this, and Star Dancer still couldn't see anything wrong about her master's actions, or about her own involvement with them.
- Expy: Possibly of Stardancer, a G1 pony, down to having very similar cutie marks.
- Faux Affably Evil: The Cutie Mark Crusaders suspect her of this when they see just how nice she is around town. Turns out she isn't, she's just a regular Nice Girl. However, Scootaloo insisting on her behaving so nice and normal to cover a secret isn't entirely wrong.
- Fish out of Temporal Water: She's from the future, and is studying the ponies and Ponyville of the past on behalf of a mysterious "Master".
- Horrible Judge of Character: She seems completely unaware that the "Master" pony she works for is evil, seeing his Evil Laugh as him just being really happy. Lampshaded by Doctor Hooves in volume 2.
- Longer-Than-Life Sentence: She suggests her prison sentence for helping Professor What is likely between 2-3 million years, which she calls a "light sentence". Thanks to being broken out, she never serves the full term.
- Red Herring: She makes a lot of them, deliberately to lead others to suspect she's a space pony, and not from the future.
- Red Herring Mole: The Cutie Mark Crusaders suspect her of being The Mole for space ponies, planning on attacking Ponyville. But as it turns out, space ponies aren't real. Future ponies are.
- Weirdness Magnet: A seemingly ordinary earth pony that Pinkie Pie passionately believes is from outer space.

- Debut: Vol. 1 (in silhouette), Vol. 2
- Absent-Minded Professor: For all of his brilliance in manipulating time and space, his ego keeps him from noticing his own mistakes. This includes failing to carry a two in his calculations for the day loop, leading to the loop happening a day earlier than expected and Pinkie Pie's memory is unaffected.
- Arch-Enemy: To a Doctor Hooves from another dimension. Though with how they squabble, he comes off more as a Sitcom Arch-Nemesis.
- Arc Villain: Of the manga series.
- Badass Longcoat: Sports one, with a high collar.
- Beard of Evil: Sports a long goatee, similar to Sunburst.
- Benevolent Boss: Possibly; he went out of his way to rescue Star Dancer from time jail at the end of volume 2 rather than acquire a new underling.
- Big "NO!": When Pinkie rejects his offer and pulls the switch, undoing his loop and returning Equestria to normal.
- Bond Villain Stupidity: Rather than immediately imprison Pinkie Pie, he lets her listen to his Motive Rant and argument with Doctor Hooves. However, he does realize his mistake and attempts to capture her moments later.
- Chained Heat: Doctor Hooves cuffs them together deliberately when they get stranded in time, to force him to help get back to the lab.
- Conqueror from the Future: He's a time traveler who can traverse alternate realities and is trying to take over Equestria.
- Cynicism Catalyst: Losing a science fair project against a young Doctor Hooves is what started his path of darkness.
- Evil Plan: Harness the energy of ponies for his war machine to take over Equestria.
- Expy: Of The Master from Doctor Who. By contrast, his real name is Professor What.
- It's Personal: His feud with Doctor Hooves is what drives him to commit evil.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: For all of his haughtiness, he does go out of his way to free Star Dancer from time jail.
- Powered by a Forsaken Child: His war machine is powered by the fervent energy of ponies, so he creates a calculation to force Equestria to loop a cake festival day over and over, so it can harness their energy. This backfires when he gets the calculation wrong, making the loop happen on the less energetic day before, meaning the process would take a really long time.
- Villainous Widow's Peak: Sports one, much like his inspiration.
- Debut: Vol. 1
- Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: The Apple Family are a group of regular if not strong (in the case of Big Mac and Applejack) farm ponies. In the manga they are all a badass family of ninja warriors.
- Badass Adorable: Apple Bloom.
- Debut: Vol. 2
- Ancient Egypt: Or rather Mesoponytamia. It sure looks like Egypt, though.
- Greater-Scope Paragon: Downplayed. His orb was supposed to be a sum of Mesoponytamia's knowledge for future generations. Unfortunately, Pinkie, dressed as a goddess, convinced him to only scribble "Look out behind you, Pinkie!"
- Debut: Vol. 3
- Palette Swap: As Rarity points out, her design in the fashion contest is the same as Rarity's but with the colors inverted.
- Those Two Guys: She's always accompanied by a pair of mares.
- Debut: Vol. 3
- Brought to You by the Letter "S": Similar to Mare Do Well, Spyke's cape is held together by a brooch with the letter "S" on it.
- Expy: Of Batman and Robin.
- My Nayme Is: The name of Spike's super hero alter ego is his regular name with a Y in place of I.Pinkie Pie: That's not how you spell "Spike" silly!Spyke: Th-the "Y" makes look cool. Okay?!
- We Used to Be Friends: The two used to be partners who worked together but they had a falling out over their methods of crime fighting. Somber Twilight wanted Spyke to follow her every command while the latter wanted to do things his own way. The two ultimately make up after they help Pinkie Pie get the Element of Laughter back.
- Debut: Vol. 3
- Expy: Of The Joker.
- Karma Houdini: She doesn't suffer any sort of comeuppance for her crimes and is last seen squirting a seltzer bottle in somepony's face.
- Laughing Mad: Anypony who gets hit by one of her pies starts to laugh uncontrollably.
- Debut: Vol. 3
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Main timeline Applejack bucks the dark matter tree causing the Apple Lord to be buried underneath his own apples.
- One-Winged Angel: Eating one of the dark matter apples grants the Apple Lord a gigantic power boost.
- Shout-Out: He's a ponifed Dio Brando.
Novels/Storybooks
Characters from storybooks.

Princess Celestia's cousin, ruler of the underwater city of Aquastria from picture book Under the Sparkling Sea.
- All There in the Manual: The dust jacket of the Under The Sparkling Sea book mentions that both Princess Celestia and King Leo sit on the "Cosmic Council", but this isn't elaborated on anywhere.
- Meaningful Name: Given his cousins' connection with certain Luminaries, someone had the Western Zodiac in mind when writing the story.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: King Leo is a mer-lion, a lion-like head and a fish-like body. How he's related to Celestia isn't known.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Allows Rainbow Dash to take Arrow's place after he tears his fin.
A sister and brother pair of seaponies.
The fastest Mer-Mare in the Sparkling Sea. At first she was cold towards the Equestrian Ponies and Spike, but later on she warmed up to them, especially Rainbow Dash
- Defrosting Ice Queen: After being saved by Rainbow Dash from a rockslide, she warms up to her.

A bashful Narwhal who lives in the seagrass beds of Aquastria. He is friends with the sea creatures there and was befriended by Twilight, Spike and Fluttershy.
- Big Damn Heroes: He manages to save Arrow with his horn as the hapless sea pony was about to get sucked into a whirlpool after tearing his fin.
- Friend to All Living Things: He's almost the Aquastrian equivalent of Fluttershy.
- Shrinking Violet: Although he is a bit quicker to come out of his shell.
The Sparkling Sea is home to some unusual lifeforms, many of which resemble a cross between a land animal and a sea animal.
- Bunnies for Cuteness: Sort of. The Crabbit is a mixture of a rabbit and a crab.
- Giant Flyer: The Manta-hawks. They serve as transport to the Sparkling Sea. Though they're more like giant swimmers.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: Nearly all of the named creatures. Manta-hawks (manta ray and hawk), Crabbits (crab and rabbit), Jellyflies (jellyfish and butterfly) and Star-mice (sea stars and mice).
- Our Mermaids Are Different: The Water-Weasel looks like a weasel with a fish-like body. The Fox-Fin is a fish with a fox-like head.
Braze is a villainous zebra who tries to steal the Half-Gilded Horseshoe from Rainbow Dash.
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Evidently, not even zebras are exempt from this. Braze is described as having flame-like red, orange, and yellow stripes as opposed to white and black.
- Meaningful Name: His name is the word "zebra" with its letters rearranged. "Braze" also means "to burn or temper in fire", befitting of his powers.
- Odd Name Out: On a meta level; He's the only zebra in the My Little Pony franchise whose name does not start with a "Z".
- Playing with Fire: He has pyromantic abilities, and is able to create ropes made of fire. He can also apparently control how hot they are, since he can tie up ponies with said ropes without burning them to death.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: He has blood-red eyes.
A unicorn new to the fashion world who is apprenticing under Rarity's tutelage. Idolized Rarity to the point where she starts to imitate her.
- Does Not Like Spam: She detests Bedazzle berry tarts, but she hides that fact from Rarity, since Rarity loves them. Rarity is quick to figure this out.
- Fangirl: A huge one of Rarity who takes it too far.
- Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: While she loves fashion and, in general, likes many of the same things Rarity does, she also has a tomboyish side, wanting to join Rainbow Dash in a cannon ball contest and wanting to learn how to apple buck from Applejack (and got the hang of it pretty quickly, according to Applejack). However, she tries to hide this side so she can impress Rarity.
- Identical Stranger: Charity happens to look a lot like Rarity, save for having a mint green mane. Even her cutie mark appears to be very similar to Rarity's (three blue gems shaped like hearts instead of diamonds). It reaches the point where, after dying her mane, she gets mistaken for Rarity when she delivers Rarity's chorus outfits.
- Irritation Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery: She already looks similar to Rarity and is a huge fan, but she takes it further throughout the course of the book, dying her hair and trying to mimic Rarity's speech patterns.
- No Sense of Personal Space: Rarity has to give her errands just so she can actually get some breathing room for a change.
Magazine Stories
There have been several short stories & comics found in various little girls' magazines. They all use copy-and-paste stock art and the writing, to put it lightly, is not up to the same standards as the show & IDW comics. Their canonical relevance is debatable and next to nothing, but for the sake of completion here are the characters that appear exclusively in them.
A stallion appears in one (Scanlated as No Way Too Far) from Panini's German My Little Pony magazine.
- Palette Swap: He's a recolor of Big Macintosh to the point of wearing a recolor of Big Mac's horse collar.
Four pegasi appear in Apple Blooms großes Abenteuer (Scanlated as Apple Bloom's Big Adventure) from Panini's German My Little Pony magazine.
Eight mares appear in one (Scanlated as A Bright Idea) from Panini's German My Little Pony magazine.
- Curtains Match the Window: The Applejack Palette Swap.
- Palette Swap: Two of them are recolors of Pinkie Pie and Applejack, respectively.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: The unicorn, for the cerise-eyed version of Lyra Heartstrings.
Two unicorn mares appear in Les surprises de l'amitié/Das Überraschungsfest from Panini's French and German My Little Pony magazines.

A four-year-old cousin of Princess Celestia's (and presumably Princess Luna's) who appears in one from Panini's French My Little Pony magazine.
- Ambiguous Gender: Appears to be female but has a male name. Is the only Alicorn we've seen with visible hooves and is either one of the few female ponies with visible hooves or the only male alicorn.
- Artistic Age: Is a Rainbow Dash Palette Swap despite being so young.
- The Baby of the Bunch: Until Flurry Heart was introduced, Léon was the youngest Alicorn in canon and he's rather adorable.
- The Cutie: Of the Alicorns shown in canon, he's the youngest. He's also very adorable-looking due to his age.
- The One Guy: Across all forms of media, comics, and books licensed by DHX or Hasbro; Léon is the only confirmed and named alicorn colt.
- Palette Swap: Of Rainbow Dash with a horn.
- Uncanny Family Resemblance: Basically looks like Prince Blueblood as a Pegasus unicorn Palette Swap of Rainbow Dash. Léon and Blueblood even have the same cutie mark!
- Winged Unicorn: He's an alicorn.
