Characters / The Silverscale Arena Season Two Second Placers

These are the characters who managed to make it all the way to second place. A notable thing about this group is that unlike last season, not all of them are an antagonist or an antagonistic force to the winners of their respective episodes.

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Aethrus

Artist: ImaginaryDragon
Submitted by: Penny-College Cat
Appearances: Episode 13

Bagan

See his page here.

Lightning Dawn

Universe: My Brave Pony: Starfleet Magic
Submitted by: Eboness the Eternal (Episode 15), A Fan (Episode 35)
Appearances: Episode 15 | Welcome to United Equestria | Episode 35

The commander of Starfleet. A dedicated protector of United Equestria, his pride and confidence in his superiority over every opponent is shattered many times over the course of the series, both in the Arena and outside of it.

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• Attack! Attack! Attack!: The strategy he gives to his team for dealing with the crystalized Mokushiroku is to, like with all enemies they've fought, group up, and hit it until it dies. This gets a nasty Deconstruction in this case, as focusing on destroying him first over evacuating the citizens of Horn Kong and refusing to let Fluttershy try to calm him down leads to a lot of casualties that could have been prevented.
• Blind Obedience: Like most Space Ponies, he is completely devoted to Celesto and Starfleet’s ideals, to the point of attacking the Equestrians on his team when they try using tactics that go against Starfleet protocol to stop Mokushiroku.
• Breaking Old Trends: He is the first second placer to NOT be either the main antagonist or act as an antagonistic force to the winner, though he did intend to fight Richard once he was done dealing with HADES, having sensed evil in him.
• Breakthe Haughty: From his upbringing he was raised to believe that Starfleet is all that matters and that everyone else is inferior to the Space Ponies. But when he gets beaten by HADES, he takes the loss very personally. In "Welcome To United Equestria", when the crystal core of Mokushiroku attacks Horn Kong, he seeks to use it as a way to redeem himself and forces everyone into following his strategy of attacking it, only for it to horribly backfire on him when Mokushiroku awakens and ends up being way stronger than everyone thought. By the end of the story, his sanity seems to begin falling apart.
• Boom, Headshot!: His death from Max Force, the bullet going through his visor and into his skull in "Episode 35".
• Character Catchphrase: He exclaims “Galloping Galaxies!” whenever he gets shocked by something.
• A Day in the Limelight: He gets a segment focusing on his personal life in the second chapter of "Welcome To United Equestria".
• Defeat Equals Explosion: When he loses to HADES and Mokushiroku, a massive explosion soon follows to signify his defeat.
• Expy: His Enticorn form takes such heavy inspiration from Alien X that Darwin comments on it when Lighting Dawn transforms into it to fight HADES.

  Darwin: Oh, no! A Ben 10 rip-off! I knew that series was going downhill, but this is terrifying!

• Failure Hero: Even though he is the leader of Starfleet, his track record in the episodes he partakes in are dismal. While he easily destroys all of the robots he fights and puts up a good fight against HADES, he ultimately loses to him. His efforts to stop Mokushiroku results in the monster getting away, Horn Kong getting completely leveled, and most of his team getting maimed or even killed. And he gets drugged early into the 35th Arena, rendering him unable to do much before he's killed again.
• Fatal Flaw: What causes his biggest failures are his arrogance and pride. Having been raised in a society that deemed every other species as inferior to them and leads the Starfleet team, it makes him believe that he can defeat anyone that tries to attack him and his people, thus lacking much strategy outside of constantly attacking. But when he loses to HADES, he takes it so personally that he hears his voice mocking him about how he's not good enough while he's training. And when the crystallized core of Mokushiroku attacks Horn Kong, he forces everyone into doing his strategy, not wanting his 'redemption' to be ruined. This just makes everything worse, as Mokushiroku ends up being much more powerful than his team anticipated and utterly thrashes them all, even killing two of them. Following this fiasco, he swears revenge on Mokushiroku and continues to train, hoping to show he's not weak and a failure.
• Forced Addiction: During the 35th Arena, he gets several syringes stabbed into him full of drugs by Mr. Big's intern with the intent being that he would want/have to take more of it, lest he would have to deal with the horrific hallucinations caused by the fear toxins in them.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: When things don’t seem to be going his way or people try doing things against what he ordered, his temper flares up.
• Heroic BSoD: He falls to his knees after Dyno and Myte are killed, unable to handle the horror of the disaster the fight with Mokushiroku has become.
• Implausible Deniability: When Celesto tells him to explain what happened at Horn Kong at Discord's trial, he completely lies and minimizes the severity of the damages that were caused during the fight with Mokushiroku, including how there were no maimings and that Dyno and Myte are 'just sleeping somewhere else'. Artie, whose hands got crushed by the creature and is at the trial, tries to point out his broken hands, only to get a foot stomped on by Starla to shut him up.
• Jerkass to One: While he thinks of all Equestrians as inferior to a Space Pony, he treats Pinkie Pie with the most disdain as her personality completely clashes with the culture of the Space Ponies as a whole.
• Lethal Joke Character: He was chosen to participate in "Episode 15", where the theme for the contestants was Joke Characters. However, his inclusion was based more on the poor quality of the work he's from rather than how incompetent he is. As a result, he's one of the strongest and most capable contestants of the episode, easily destroying most of the threats he faces, and manages to last up until the big fight with HADES.
• My God, What Have I Done?: When he uses the Uniforce to obliterate the Brazil flag and AMONGUS when confronted by them, he pants in horror at what he did since he broke Grand Ruler Celesto’s rule of using it only as a Finishing Move instead of right out the gate. He’s able to quickly compose himself back since he rationalizes that he didn't use it on the Big Bad he's searching for, so it's all good in his eyes.
• My Way or the Highway: When attempting to deal with the crystalized core of Mokushiroku, he forces the Equestrians to follow the same old strategy of attacking it, scolding them for not wanting to follow it and even throwing Rainbow Dash into a building when she tries to rescue civilians. Even when Fluttershy's attempts of calming Mokushiroku down seems to be working and urges them to give her more time, Lightning has Rhymey brainwash her into standing down while Lightning and the other Space Ponies unleash their ultimate attacks onto it.
• My Kung-Fu Is Stronger Than Yours: He constantly trains himself to get stronger in the event an enemy comes to attack United Equestria, which Celesto said could happen any minute. This puts a strain on his marriage with Starla since he neglects to spend much time with her to focus on his training.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: While all the Space Ponies are responsible for the Horn Kong incident going as badly as it did, much of the blame falls on him, as he's the leader of the team. It mostly comes down to prioritizing constantly attacking the crystal core of Mokushiroku over rescuing civilians and overriding Fluttershy's attempts to calm the creature down by having Rhymey brainwash her into standing down, leading to a lot of injuries and deaths that could have been prevented.
• No Body Left Behind: When HADES' Mortis Spark beam strikes where Lightning is located, nothing is left of him or the surrounding area.
• Not Worth Killing: At Discord's trial, he deems that Discord shouldn't be killed since he isn't as powerful as before, and should serve 100 life sentences for the crimes he committed while under Titan's control.
• Only Sane Man: He is the only rational member of his team in his debut episode.
• Percussive Therapy: Following his defeat at the hands of HADES, he destroys many training dummies made to look like him during training. And following the even bigger loss he took fighting Mokushiroku, he destroys a part of the Everfree Forest while vowing revenge against the kaiju.
• Smug Super: He frequently boasts about the power of Starfleet, and he (usually) has the strength to back it up.
• Sucksessor: To the deceased Twilight Sparkle. As if most of the negative tropes weren't an indicator of that, him being one of the major reasons the fight against Mokushiroku went so horribly is pretty much the cherry on top.
• Surrounded by Idiots: His general feelings about the contestants that he was stuck with in "Episode 15", to the point that he complained about it to Celesto after being revived. He's not entirely wrong to have this opinion.
• Team Killer: When he gets confronted by his teammate AMONGUS and the Brazil flag who want to kill him, he uses the Uniforce to obliterate them both.
• This Cannot Be!: When Twilight seemingly shows up while everyone’s fighting Mokushiroku, all he can say is "You...but...you're dead..."
• Twitchy Eye: While in a state of drug-fueled bliss, an eye twitches to indicate that something is wrong with him.
• Undying Loyalty: To Grand Ruler Celesto. Heck, during the 35th Arena, his greatest fear manifests as Celesto deeming him a failure. It doesn't help that Celesto is basically his adoptive father.
• Winged Unicorn: Like all Space Ponies, he has both wings and a horn.
• The Worf Barrage: When he attempts to use the Uniforce to destroy HADES and Mokushiroku, they either do no damage or they counter it with a more powerful beam than his.
• The Worf Effect: In his first two appearances, he gets thrashed by the main villain as a way to show how powerful they are, with his defeat becoming imminent when he resorts to transforming into his Enticorn form.
• Worf Had the Flu: He gets drugged by Mr. Big’s intern early into "Episode 35", rendering him unable to think coherently for the remainder of the episode.
• Would Hit a Girl: He throws Rainbow Dash into a building and slaps Fluttershy when they try to do something that goes against his strategy of stopping Mokushiroku. He also killed Numbuh 3, but that was unintentional.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: He expects things to play out exactly as Strictly Formula as it goes in his series, getting frustrated when things don't seem to follow the format. He also thinks that Mokushiroku can be beaten with the same strategy his team used on every other threat they faced. He gets proven VERY wrong in that regard.

Cell

Universe: Dragon Ball
Submitted by: Vexon (Episode 7), Theodore Esbin (Episode 16), Wolfe O Donnell (Episode 21), Faiya Fatalis (Episode 22), Baskerra Hellmane (Episodes 23 & 24), A Fan (Episode 27)
Appearances: Episode 7 | Episode 16 | Episode 21^note in his "Imperfect" form | Episodes 22-24 | Episode 27^note in his "Semi-Perfect" form

General Yunan

Universe: Amphibia
Submitted by: Ruby the dragon
Appearances: Episode 17

Jenna

Universe: Balto
Submitted by: Baskerra Hellmane (Episode 5), Sissy Gracy (Episode 16), Lowell Chevalier (Episode 18)
Appearances: Episode 5 | Episode 16 | Episode 18

Shao Kahn

Universe: Mortal Kombat
Submitted by: Vexon (Episode 7), A Fan (Episode 19)
Appearances: Episode 7 | Episode 19

Twilight Sparkle

Universe: My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
Submitted by: A Fan
Appearances: Welcome To United Equestria^note as one of Mokushiroku's illusions | Episode 20

Crypto

Universe: Destroy All Humans!
Submitted by: Baskerra Hellmane
Appearances: Episode 21

Tiamat

Universe: Dungeons & Dragons
Submitted by: Ruby the dragon
Appearances: Episode 8 | Episode 22 | Episode 24

Frieza

Universe: Dragon Ball
Submitted by: Baskerra Hellmane (Episode 23), Silveikd (Episode 24)
Appearances: Episodes 23 & 24

The galactic tyrant of the Dragon Ball universe, and is one of the most feared and powerful characters in the franchise. When he makes his appearances in the Arenas, it doesn't take long for the other contestants to know just how much of a threat he is to them, if they survive that is.

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• Ax-Crazy: While he hides most of his insane tendencies under a veil of politeness, it doesn't take long for his utterly sadistic side to come out in battle.
• Back for the Finale: He was chosen to return for "Episode 24", the last Arena of the second season.
• Barehanded Blade Block: When Guts swings his sword to slice through Frieza's Death Beams, Frieza catches his sword with his hands.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: What ultimately causes his downfall in "Episode 24" is him wishing to become a few centimeters taller with the mini Dragon Balls. Unlike the regular Dragon Balls, the wishes from these come with a drawback. In his case, the wish leaves him unable to use his other forms until he adjusts to his new body. This leaves him without an easy way to kill Heart, who manages to survive long enough for his plan to work and ultimately defeat the tyrant.
• Big Bad: The final villain of the last two Arenas of the second season.
• Big "WHAT?!": He yells one out when the shockwaves from Heart punching the ground dispels his Death Ball.
• Bond One-Liner: He delivers the most painfully obvious one one could think of after killing the Queen Chess Piece:

  King to Queen. Checkmate. I win.

• Cain and Abel: In the final match of Episode 23, he becomes the Cain to his brother Cooler's Abel by crushing his skull with his foot.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: He kills his hired gun Blitzø BEFORE they managed to kill Heart first, since only one person can win the Arena and he didn't want to share the spotlight with anybody else. This bites him in the ass when Heart ends up being more durable than he thought.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: When someone is forced to fight him, in intends to make them suffer as much as possible. In the final match of "Episode 23", he admits to Bagan, his last challenger, that he views him as a toy for him to break.

  Let me make it clear. You’re not just my final opponent. You’re my plaything. One I intend to play with...before you shatter before me.

• Curb-Stomp Battle: Most fights involving him have him being on the giving end of these.
• Drama-Preserving Handicap: In order for any of the remaining contestants after Chapter 3 of "Episode 24" to have a remote sliver of a chance of actually stopping him, he ends up making a wish with the mini–Dragon Balls that deprives him of his two most powerful forms. Doesn't stop him from being a powerful enemy, though.
• The Dreaded: After he massacres a good chunk of the remaining contestants in "Episode 24", the ones who survived spend most of their remaining time trying their damndest to avoid him at all times.
• Fantastic Racism: In "Episode 23" when Broly is teleported down for his first match, he admits to his brother that he thinks all Saiyans look the same to him, just with different hair colors.
  • When Heart questions why he killed Blitzø even though he was helping him, he explains that aside from only one person being allowed to win, he didn't want to share the spotlight with a "lowborn" like him.
• Grievous Harm with a Body: In "Episode 24" Golden Frieza grabs Cammy by the leg and tosses her into Ken, where they're knocked into the hurricane. He also uses Blitzø as a flail late into the third chapter.
• Invincible Villain: In both episodes he's in, he proves himself to be in an entire league of his own over almost everyone else. In his matches in "Episode 23", he easily decimates almost every opponent he faces, especially after he transforms into his Black Form. And in the next episode, he manages to slaughter nearly the entire remaining cast while they can't do anything to him in his Golden Form. Out of the two winners that actually managed to defeat him, Bagan and Heart, it was a clear struggle for them, and only the former actually beat him in a fair fight. The latter, even with Frieza losing access to his most powerful forms from a wish backfiring on him, had to use the elements of the environment to actually finish him off.
• Involuntary Dance: He, along with Racheal Saleigh and Ankha, are forced into a Jackass stunt where they're forced to tap dance while the floor is electrocuting them in "Episode 24".
• Mundane Wish: After getting his lackey Blitzø to gather all the mini-Dragon Balls and Shenron is summoned, he finally gets to be able to make the wish to make himself 5 centimeters taller. Seems he never forgot that desire from a while back.
• Neck Lift: When Racheal manages to land a hit on Golden Frieza, he retaliates by grabbing Rachael by the neck with his tail, throwing her into the air, and firing several Death Beams into her.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: In his fight with Heart, he makes a comment about destroying the hero's planet once he finds it after killing him. But after Heart is able to defeat him, he remembered what Frieza had said and uses his wish to make it so Frieza can’t find his world, meaning that the tyrant unintentionally denied himself a chance for revenge.
• No Body Left Behind: In both episodes he's in, when he's killed, his body gets completely disintegrated; In "Episode 23" it's by Bagan's Absolute Exterminus Finale attack, while in "Episode 24" it’s by getting launched into the barrier.
• One-Man Army: He fought in a tournament consisting of other examples of this trope, and easily slaughters almost all those he fought. And when he fights all the remaining contestants by himself in his Golden Form, only 11 are able to escape with their lives while he doesn’t have a scratch on him.
• One-Winged Angel: Once he transforms into either his Golden or Black forms, next to nobody can actually do anything to stop him.
• Parrying Bullets: When Curly Brace fires bullets at him after he just killed Jenny Wakeman, he deflects the bullets with his tail and redirects them back to her, crippling her.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Despite his short stature, he is an EXTREMELY powerful being who outclasses most characters seen in the series with how strong he is.
• Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: After Ch'rell nullifies several of his abilities before their fight begins, Frieza makes sure to let Ch'rell know he's not going to let him get away with this.

  If you think taking away a couple of my abilities will ensure your safety, you loathsome octopus, you clearly don't know me. I am your emperor! I am Lord Frieza! And you are going to PAY for this humiliation!

  • Frieza gets another one in his second match when Alastor treats their fight like another one of his shows, moments before turning into Black Frieza:
    Remember your show? It won't even be as long as an ADVERT.
  • After Golden Frieza kills Mora, Jenny, and indirectly Ankha, he taunts the remaining contestants by asking them one chilling question:
    Let's play a game everybody. Who can stand up to me before you crumble before the despair that is...Golden Frieza?
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Just before he kills Guts, he delivers a Blasphemous Boast about how pointless it was to attack him with a sword:

  A most impressive weapon...but useless against one on par with the very GODS!

• Punch Catch: During his fight with Ch’rell, as the Utrom is punching his face, he catches one of his fists, and crushes it into scrap.
• Purple Is Powerful: Was chosen to participate in Episode 23 as he fit the theming of that episode, and he comes very close to winning it. In "Episode 24" he slaughters many of the contestants and had to receive a Drama-Preserving Handicap just so anyone else can remotely stand a chance against him.
• Returning Big Bad: He comes back to be the main antagonist in "Episode 24" after being the antagonist of the last episode.
• Sadist: He thrives on making anyone who tries to fight him suffer for as long as possible before finally killing them. Best exemplified during his massacre of the cast in in "Episode 24", where he floats down and delivers a No Holds Barred Beat Down onto anyone who's still alive, despite clearly showing that he could easily kill them instantly.
• Say My Name: His last words in "Episode 24" are him damning Heart’s name as he’s launched into the barrier and is killed.
• Smug Super: He is unbelievably arrogant, but has way more than enough power to back it up.
• Super Mode: Has two of them: His Golden Form, and his even more powerful Black Form. He skips straight to the latter in "Episode 23" in his fight with El Hermano and Alastor, and he stays in that form for the remainder of his matches. In "Episode 24" he uses the former to slaughter a good chunk of the remaining contestants in chapter 3 and to demonstrate how utterly outclassed everyone else is compared to him.
• Team Killer: In both episodes he participates in, he kills his only remaining 'teammate' that he had left:
  • In Episode 23, during the final match, he kills his brother Cooler by stomping down on his head.
  • In "Episode 24", he blows up Mewtwo when she blazes through and dispels his Death Ball trying to get to and stop him.
• Theme Music Powerup: in Frieza's fight with Ch'rell, his theme from Dragon Ball Xenoverse plays as he easily deals with the Utrom.
  • Once his match with Alastor and El Hermano truly starts, Maximum the Hormone's F plays as Frieza transforms into his Black Form and lays waste to them.
  • Frieza also has his theme from Dragon Ball Fighter Z plays as he quickly kills the Queen Chess Piece and Guts.
  • When Golden Frieza begins his slaughter of the contestants in Episode 24, it's accompanied by his theme in Dragon Ball Kai, "Only a Chilling Elegy".
• Token Evil Teammate: He serves this role to his team in "Episode 24".
• Twitchy Eye: When Ch'rell begins his match with Frieza by using his Power Nullifier abilities on him, he boasts that it demonstrates his superiority over lower lifeforms. Frieza has an eye twitch in response, finding it to be an insult to him.
  • It happens again when he finds out that the wish he made with the mini-Dragon Balls cost him the use of his Golden and Black forms until he adjusts to his new body.
• Villainous Breakdown: When Frieza begins to lose his fights with the eventual winners, he begins to scream and rant about how he won't let them get away with this and uses any ability he can in desperation to try and kill them.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Once it comes down to just him, Blitzø, and Heart near the end of "Episode 24", Frieza knows that only one person can win the Arena and believes that Blitzø has served his purpose, so Frieza disposes of him first.