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

* [[Cutting the Knot]]: After trying and failing to break [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness|Fluttershy]], {{spoiler|he opts to straight-up hypnotize her}}.

* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: After he gets freed, he steals the only [[MacGuffin|MacGuffins]] that can defeat him, forces the mane cast into a game on his terms, and then, {{spoiler|just in case, separates and manipulates (both verbally and magically) all of them into utter disunity}}. He seems to understand the importance of [[The Power of Friendship]] for the heroines in this show... until he thinks he's already won and gets complacent, anyway.

* [[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]]

* [[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.

* [[Death by Irony|Defeat By Irony]]: {{spoiler|He uses the group's personality flaws and his knowledge that the Elements Of Harmony won't work if their friendship is destroyed to [[Break the Cutie|break them]]. In the end, it's his ''own'' personality flaw—being too prideful to believe they might be an actual threat to him—combined with that knowledge that renders him incapable of realizing the Elements Of Harmony are working for real until it's far too late.}}

** It's also quite ironic that {{spoiler|the first line we actually hear him say is complaining about how making sense is no fun, but it's something that (in his mind) didn't make sense (the [[Fan Nickname|Mane Cast]] repairing their friendship) that spelled his downfall.}}

* [[Emotion Eater]]: It's rather heavily implied the Cutie Mark Crusaders fighting in front of his statue prison (creating discord) gives him enough power to break free.

* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: When he appears in the stained glass windows, he demonstrates a sense of humor and mystery, as well as great knowledge of the Mane Cast.

* [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]]: Despite his [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] and knowledge that the Elements run on [[The Power of Friendship]], he doesn't seem to realize there's more to it than that and just how difficult a bond it is to truly break. {{spoiler|He assumes the [[Power of Friendship]] could never overcome his brainwashing and that the Mane Cast's friendship was destroyed beyond repair. As such, the one thing he hasn't prepared for is the heroines breaking free of it and actually being able to activate the Elements.}}

* [[Evil Counterpart]]:

** To the Elements of Harmony. Both are ''very'' powerful, but where the Elements are fueled by [[The Power of Friendship]] and have thus far only been used for good, Discord has been shown to draw strength from conflict and uses his power to make life miserable for everyone else. In addition, they represent opposite sides of [[Order vs. Chaos]].

* [[Great Gazoo]]: Has some features of a [[Great Gazoo]] ''and'' [[The Fair Folk]] (above). However, he is ''far'' more evil than the typical version of this trope.

* [[Hate Plague]]: One of his abilities.

* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: {{spoiler|He lets them find the Elements Of Harmony, knowing they couldn't use them since he destroyed their friendship and allows them a "free shot" at him, aware it will fail. He tries to repeat this a ''second'' time only to realize too late he's underestimated them.}}

** {{spoiler|He also gets hit with this for turning Applejack into a liar. When she tells him their friendship is back together, Discord doesn't believe her because he thinks she's still lying.}}

* [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]]: He tries this on multiple occasions with the mane six, particularly Twilight Sparkle.

* [[Immortality]]: At least Undying as he states he's at least several eons old.

* [[Jerkass Gods]]: He ''is'' the spirit of chaos and disharmony.

* [[Just Toying with Them]]: Since he's apparently more powerful than anyone else, obviously it would be boring to just use those powers straightforwardly to beat them. It's not like Discord even has any goal other than the same thing in a broader sense with everyone.

* [[Knight of Cerebus]]: Though he has many humorous qualities, there is a ''reason'' Celestia is [[OOC Is Serious Business|serious around him]].

* [[Lack of Empathy]]: His reaction to {{spoiler|Twilight being [[Break the Cutie|completely broken emotionally]] and crossing the [[Despair Event Horizon]]}}? To give a [[Big Yes]] and celebrate. That tells you just about all you need to know about him in this regard.

* [[Large Ham]]: It's John De Lancie playing a much more malicious version of [[Star Trek|Q]] as a cartoon dragon. What more do you need to know?

* [[Laughably Evil]]: He's fun to watch, that's for sure, but he's more like [[The Joker]] in this respect, as it just makes him ''more'' creepy and disturbing.

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: {{spoiler|Has a brief one when Fluttershy doesn't give in to his mind games. He gets angry and just brainwashes her on the spot.}}

** {{spoiler|He pretty much freezes up when he realizes that the [[Oh Crap|Elements Of Harmony have been activated for real]], going from cocky to ''completely terrified''. Considering he pretty much realizes his entire plan was all in vain, it's little surprise.}}

* [[Villain Teleportation]]: Utilizes this often.

* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]