A list of characters that appear in The Alternate Adventures of the Power Ponies.
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Power Ponies
General
- Character Development: As the group fight crime, they slowly but surely work out some of their flaws and problems in both their hero life and their civilian life.
- Home Base
- Poor Communication Kills: Well, not kills, but there are some aspects of their lives that the Power Ponies (particularly Applejack and Twilight) keep to themselves that end up causing quite a bit of trouble for the team.
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Like in canon.
Twilight Sparkle/Masked Matterhorn
- Dark and Troubled Past
- Gadgeteer Genius: She is owner of her own Research, Inc., after all.
- Research, Inc.: Is the CEO and owner of one called Sparkle Labs. It finances many places in Maretropolis.
Applejack/Mistress Mare-velous
- Bad Liar
- Big Sister Instinct: To Apple Bloom and the team in general, most particularly Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash.
- Brutal Honesty: Like in canon, Applejack doesn't sugarcoat her opinion of things.
- Character Development: As the series goes on she becomes more open to working as part of a team and accepting help from her team-mates. This is most noticeable when interacting with Zapp/Rainbow Dash. By 'The Sirens Song,' they are each others' confidantes.
- Dark and Troubled Past
- Deadpan Snarker
- Doesn't Like Guns
- Don't Think, Feel: Her advice to Zapp to keep from getting overwhelmed by her powers.
- If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: [[spoiler: Demeter
- I Work Alone: Before joining the Power Ponies, she preferred being this, with the occasional reluctant team-up with the Masked Matterhorn.
- The Lancer: To the Masked Matterhorn.
- Team Mom: Second-in-command and it's easy to see why.
- What the Hell, Hero?: In "The Shadow King" arc, she rather harshly chewed out both Zapp and Fili-Second over being late to help her in an incident, causing property damage, and accusing them of not having a true reason for being heroes.
Rainbow Dash/Zapp
- Amulet of Concentrated Awesome
- Oblivious to Love: Had no idea her possessed boss was heavily crushing on her.
- Shock and Awe: Her powers come from the God of Lightning after all.
- Weather Manipulation
Fluttershy/Saddle Rager
- Afraid of Their Own Strength
- Apocalypse Maiden: Discord has been prophesied to be freed from his stone prison by a mortal pony. Despite Demeter's warning and Applejack and Rainbow Dash's attempts to prevent it, Fluttershy eventually (albeit unknowingly) does free him.
- Beware the Quiet Ones: Fluttershy is naturally shy and quiet. But you do not want to make her mad.
- Broken Pedestal: Similar to Rarity meeting with Mane-iac, Fluttershy encountering Discord and realizing he also wanted his Amulet of Chaos to rule the world. Especially the back handed way he did so.
- Cursed with Awesome: Fluttershy at first is too scared of losing control to join the Power Ponies and sees her 'gift' from Discord as a curse. Using it to do good greatly increases her confidence until she no longer wants to be rid of it.
- Obliviously Beautiful
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Fluttershy's eyes turning red is the first sign she's transforming.
Spike/Humdum
- Gadgeteer Genius: In the Longhorn arc, Humdum has his own workshop on his floor in HQ where he can tinker with inventions. Which makes sense as he is raised by Twilight.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Inverted. Spike didn't tell the team that that he had installed trackers on the team's costumes after the Sombra incident. When he revealed this to Pinkie and Rarity in The Pharaoh's Curse arc, they were not amused.
- Mission Control
- What the Hell, Hero?: Rarity and Pinkie Pie were not happy that Spike installed trackers on everpony's costumes (his included) without telling anybody about it.
Allies
Coco Pommel
- Beleaguered Assistant: Yet again to Suri like in canon. Fortunately, she ends up working for Rarity instead when Rarity was promoted. Though Suri has been shown to boss her around when Rarity isn't around, though that has happened at least once in the stories.
- Identity Impersonator: She masquerades as Radiance when Rarity is pony-napped. Using a device called holo-matic (created by Twilight), she sometimes still uses this device when Rarity isn't available at work.
- Instant Expert: Averted. Coco struggles to use Radiance's bracelets at first. It takes her several hours before she can use them well enough to combat the Mane-iac.
- Secret-Keeper: One of the few who know who Radiance is.
- True Companions: With Rarity.
Daring Do
- Hero of Another Story: Like in the show, she is busy in her own adventures as an archaeologist.
- Secret-Keeper: As she was there when Dash first used the lightning bolt's powers, she knows about Rainbow Dash's Super-Empowering even before she becomes Zapp.
- Surpassed the Teacher: She tells Dash at the end of the first arc that she has grown beyond just being Daring's assistant.
- The Chosen Wannabe: Downplayed, but she admits that the reason she originally kept the lightning bolt from Zapp was because she thought it would choose her.
- True Companions: In the end, she is the one to tell Rainbow Dash that Zeus' lightning bolt belongs to her.
Villains
Ahuizotl
- Arch-Enemy: Of Daring Do.
- Mugging the Monster: He kidnaps Fluttershy as a hostage. She smashes his warehouse to rubble.
- Would Hit a Girl: Has no problem fighting Daring and Rainbow, or threatening to kill Fluttershy.
Doctor Caballeron
- Mugging the Monster: He decides to have some 'fun' with Fluttershy after kidnapping her. Too bad he's unaware of her anger-management issues.
Dee Tangler/The Mane-iac
- Bad Boss: Even before she became Mane-iac, Dee Tangler was a rather terrible boss to work under, to say the least.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: While greatly much worped, Mane-iac still remembers and (sorta) values Rarity's friendship.
- Faux Affably Evil: She tried to portray herself as being polite towards her workers, both before and after her transformation but it's pretty clear that her insanity was always there under the surface.
- Secret-Keeper: She figures out that Rarity is Radiance all by herself.
- Mooks: Her initial henchponies consists of her former employees, who are later given barbershop-style costumes as their get-up, courtesy of the kidnapped Rarity.
Sombra
- Tragic Villain: All Sombra wanted to do was to help Radiant Hope to be able to walk again.
The Sirens (Adagio, Aria and Sonata)
- Deal with the Devil: With Circe.
- Mass "Oh, Crap!": When Marevelous and Zapp called upon Demeter and Zeus, some of them were scared, but they kept going. It was when Fluttershy called upon Discord when all of them were well and truly scared.
- Probably had one again when their medallions broke, meaning that now they are forced to work under Circe.
- Perky Female Minion: Sonata in comparison to her sisters.
- Villains Out Shopping: Sonata spends Part Two of the Sirens' Song Arc on a date with Pinkie Pie.
- When You Coming Home, Dad?: They don't have the best relationship with their father Saturn.
Discord
- Adaptational Wimp: Played with. While Discord's personality hasn't changed, here he is not as powerful as he is in the show, as his powers in the mortal world are restricted. He would need an artifact to increase his power in the mortal world. His power is only limitless in his Realm of Chaos. Not that is a bad thing.
- Artifact of Doom: His Amulet of Chaos provides him unlimited control over the mortal realm. Mysteriously, someone gave it to him, but it is unknown as to who did so.
- The Dreaded
- Mad God
- Morality Pet: Similar to canon, Fluttershy is the only pony he cares about. The change in his behavior and attitude when she is in his presence is very noticeable.
- Shapeshifting Lover: Became this to Fluttershy after his arc in order to spend more time with her.
- Two-Person Love Triangle: He is attracted to Saddle Rager's chaotic nature, not knowing that she and Fluttershy are the same. As it happens Fluttershy is also attracted to both him and his alter-ego Delancey, unaware that they are the same person.
- Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Discord implies that he has "caused many fillies to cry" but he is terrified when he thinks he has killed a young Fluttershy. Then again, it's Fluttershy.
The Phoenix/ Sunset Shimmer
- Always Some One Better: As powerful and well-read as the Phoenix is, there is one thing that Masked Matterhorn was able to do that she couldn't. Summon wings from the dark magics.
- Badass Bookworm: She is a very well learned pony. Helps when your enrolled in Celstia's School of Gifted Unicorns, and have Twilight Sparkle as your study partner.
- Compressed Hair: She hides her mane and tail to hide her identity, and she calls out the Masked Matterhorn of not making a better effort of hiding her identity. Though she concedes to the fact that doing so was rather constricting.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: When she possessed the Alicorn Amulet, she manages to easily disarm and defeat the Power Ponies with much ease. And to add insult to injury, she also emotionally manipulates them to be off their guard.
- Evil Former Friend: To Twilight.
- Laughing Mad: Does a maniacal chuckle on Twilight's offer of getting her treatment and them becoming friends again.
- Manipulative Bastard: While she may have been slightly influenced by the Alicorn Amulet, Sunset really managed to emotionally manipulate the Power Ponies to break their guard and humiliate them.
- Mask of Sanity: In her civilian life, Sunset seems fine mentally. But when she gets really mad, she reveals to be capable of great rage.
- Redemption Rejection: Twilight does offer Sunset a chance to redeem herself, but she refuses. Partly because her own reputation would be worse than before.
- Sanity Slippage: Sunset's time in prison has not done wonders for her sanity.
- Villainous Crush: To Twilight Sparkle
- Walking Spoiler: The details about The Phoenix would spoiler both her identity and certain plot points in the series.
- We Can Rule Together: She says this towards Matter-Horn
- Wouldn't Hurt a Child: She seemed pretty incensed seeing Spike on the field, wrongly believing that the Matter Horn purposefully brought him to the field.
Other
Radiant Heart:
- Career-Ending Injury: Downplayed. Even though she technically is still able to do her job, the hospitals wouldn't hire her back because of her injury
Mr. Fetlock
- Butt-Monkey: Though he is a jerk, he does go through a lot with his museum being damaged and or artifacts being damaged or destroyed; being possessed by his pharaoh ancestor, and then cursed by Discord to be his former persona, minus his powers. This despite the fact Discord was told outright that he didn't remember anything.
