My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Characters/Antagonists: Difference between revisions

== Nightmare Moon ==

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An evil and wicked creature born from dark magic fueling up Princess Luna's jealously and bitterness. Her desire to create a never-ending night forced Princess Celestia to use The Elements of Harmony to imprison her in the moon, seemingly for eternity. However after one thousand years the stars helped her to escape and this time she attacked first, defeating Celestia off-camera and leaving Equestria stuck on night time. After a short rampage, she was defeated and "purified" of her darkness by Twilight Sparkle and her friends. According to the episode "Luna Eclipsed" Luna {{spoiler|can still transform into Nightmare Moon (though not malevolent) at will.}}

* [[Dark Magical Girl|Dark Magical Mare]]: She is driven to evil by jealousy and eternal loneliness, gets a [[Plot-Relevant Age-Up]] and [[Green-Eyed Monster|green eyes]], dons a [[Evil Costume Switch|goth-esque outfit]] and is promptly [[Sealed Evil in a Can|sealed away for a thousand years]]. When she escapes, she uses her powers to fight the even younger [[Magical Girl]] sent unwittingly to redeem her, who defeats her with [[The Power of Friendship]] and reunites her with her sister.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Among other comments, her reaction to Twilight preparing to charge:

* [[Dirty Coward]]: Continually flees from the ponies and sends her servants to defeat them, is intimidated when confronted by them all at the same time and is greatly afraid in the presence of her sister.

* [[Evil Counterpart]]: For both Celestia and Luna. Her Shadowbolts form is this to the Wonderbolts.

This dopey-looking but deceptively manipulative and sinister Draconequus once ruled Equestria in a reign of terror and chaos until Celestia and Luna discovered the Elements of Harmony and turned him into a statue for what they thought was forever. Over 1000 years later, he is freed again and sets out to prevent the Elements of Harmony from being reunited. Since they are now in the possession of the mane cast, he has to tear the bonds of friendship they have into shreds...and with magical powers beyond those of any other character, it's a challenge he's more than up to…

* [[The Dark Times]]: His rule 1000 years before the time of the show is referred to as a time of endless suffering by Celestia.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]

** A little earlier:

* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: {{spoiler|He sarcastically taunts the Mane Six to "friend me" after they break out of his brainwashing. [[Taken for Granite|Subverted]].}}

** According to the close-captioning he was calling them friendemies.

* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers]]: See [[Berserk Button]] and [[Villainous Breakdown]].

** But then again [[Screw the Rules, I Make Them|he never explicitly states that the rules apply to him in the first place.]]

* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: Discord had been [[Taken for Granite|imprisoned in a stone statue]] by Celestia and Luna since ancient times for the suffering his rule brought everyone in Equestria. The Cutie Mark Crusaders release him by [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|creating discord (fighting) in front of it]], giving him the power to break free from his weakened prison.

** {{spoiler|He's put back in his can at the end of part 2.}}

* [[Shut Up, Kirk]]: Right after Celestia has explained how horrible things used to be thanks to Discord, he reveals himself and they have this little exchange:

'''Discord:''' [chuckling] Did you miss me, Celestia? I missed you. It's quite lonely being encased in stone. But you wouldn't know that, would you ''because I don't turn ponies into stone!'' }}

* [[A Sinister Clue]]: He tends to favor the eagle talon he has for a left arm when snapping or holding things.

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Winter spirits that feed off of hatred and cause deadly blizzards the more powerful they get. They existed before Equestria's founding and were seemingly destroyed when the three tribes united in friendship, trigging a powerful spell that vanquished them.

=== Queen Chrysalis ===

The Queen of the changelings, bug-like pony-shaped creatures that can transform into those that you love. {{spoiler|She masquerades as Princess Cadence during the Season 2 finale in a bid to conquer Equestria.}}

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=== The Changelings ===

As Princess Celestia has her little ponies, Queen Chrysalis has her changelings. They are a race of shapeshifters that feed off of love by taking the shape of your loved ones.

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A griffon and an old friend of Rainbow Dash's from flight camp. Rainbow Dash sees her as a [[Cool Big Sis]] but Gilda thinks she's vastly superior to all the ponies save Dash and enjoys picking on them.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: The name Gilda means "gilded" or "golden". This may not seem like much until you remember the old phrase "All that glitters isn't gold" which actually hits [[Genius Bonus]] territory when you remember that during her entrance, Gilda seemed like a cool and awesome friend, but actually turned out to be a [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]] which proves the phrase "don't judge a book by its cover" completely.

* [[Mix-and-Match Critters]]:

'''Gilda''': And AAAAAALL ''awesome!'' }}

* [[Noisy Nature]]: She can both screech like a red-tailed hawk and roar like a lion.

== "The Great and Powerful" Trixie ==

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[[File:DiamondTiaraAndSilverSpoon_3857.png|frame|link=http://nightmaremoons.deviantart.com/art/Pay-attention-to-us-215402515|The duo laughs at your pathetic attempts on getting a cutie mark.<ref>From left to right: Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara.</ref>]]

[[Spoiled Brat|Spoiled Brats]] who tease Apple Bloom and Twist about [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|not having a Cutie Mark yet]]. During "Call of the Cutie", Diamond Tiara holds a cuteceañera to celebrate recently gaining her mark. Not ''antagonists'' as such, just obnoxious.

*** [[Fridge Brilliance|Looks like there may be a reason for the heart in the spoon handle in her Cutie Mark after all]].

* [[Lack of Empathy]]: Diamond Tiara. The ''only'' compassion she's ever shown is for her father and Silver Spoon, she doesn't seem to give a darn about anypony else at all.

'''Diamond Tiara:''' ''Feelings''?! I don't care about "feelings"! }}

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Diamond Tiara, especially in "Family Appreciation Day".

A group of three muscle-headed Pegasi living in Cloudsdale who used to tease Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy. They later apologized for their teasing after seeing Rainbow Dash's Sonic Rainboom.

** Actually, they were both unconscious when it happened.

* [[Insult Backfire]]

'''Rainbow Dash:''' In history, maybe! }}

* [[Jerkass|Jerkasses]]

The Diamond Dogs, led by Rover, Fido and Spot, are a group of ugly, dirty, greedy and stupid canine-like creatures who live underground and value gems. They ponynap Rarity in an attempt to use her gem-finding skills to obtain more gems.

[[File:Screen_shot_2012-01-28_at_2_16_00_PM_4311.png|frame|They're bringing opportunity to your very community. <ref>Right's Flim, left's Flam, [[Ear Worm|they're the world-famous Flim-Flam Brothers]]!</ref>]]

Flim and Flam are Unicorn brothers and self-proclaimed "traveling sales-ponies nonpareil" who roll into Ponyville one day with their fancy new cider press, the Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000. They end up challenging the Apple clan to a cider-making contest, goading them into wagering the rights to sell cider in Ponyville.

== Dragons ==

'''Green Adult Dragon's Debut:''' [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1 E24 Owls Well That Ends Well|"Owl's Well That Ends Well"]]<br />

'''Other Dragons' Debut:''' [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2 E21 Dragon Quest|"Dragon Quest"]] }}

Over the course of the series, dragons of various sizes, colors, and personalities have appeared, usually playing the role of an antagonist. How bad they are, however, depends on the episode and the dragon(s) in question.