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* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' is another good example of an on the surface diverse cast that is nonetheless homogenoushomogeneous, at least in the first five seasons. All of the Mane Six come from different backgrounds and have different (but sometimes overlapping) interests, but they all share common ideals of co-operation and friendliness [[Fantastic Racism|(toward ponies)]]. Only a few [[Token Heroic Orc]] types appeared in the first five seasons, like [[The One Guy|Spike]], [[Reality Warper|Discord]] (post-[[Heel Face Turn]]) and [[Master Chef|Gustave]] [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Le Grand]]. [[Only One Female Mold|They also look very similar apart from being different colours and having wings and/or horns]]. Their [[Rogues Gallery]] is far more varied, including a [[God-Emperor|God Empress-mpress]] [[Winged Unicorn]] with [[Casting a Shadow|the power of Darkness]], a [[Jerkass]] [[Our Griffins Are Different|Griffon]], a group of [[Petting Zoo People|dogmen]] kidnappers, a group of Buffalo that are a [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture|Fantasy Counterpart Culture]] to [[Injun Country|the Native American tribes of the Great Plains]], a [[Mad God]] [[Mix-and-Match Critters|Mix-and-Match Critter]], a group of [[Teens Are Monsters|Teen Delinquent]] [[Our Dragons Are Different|Dragons]], a pair of [[Con Artist]] [[Unicorn]] Brothersbrothers, a race of [[shapeshifting]] [[Insectoid Aliens|insectoid]] [[Emotion Eater|Emotion Eaters]]s led by a [[Hive Queen]], a [[Stoic]] [[Unicorn]] King with [[Casting a Shadow|the power of Darkness]], [[Demon Lords and Archdevils|a demonic]] [[Our Centaurs Are Different|centaur]] and a [[Superpower Lottery|powerful]] female [[unicorn]] obsessed with removing individual identity and [[Power Nullifier|powers]] because she believes [[Utopia Justifies The Means]] due to a Freudian excuse.

**Seasons 5 onwardsand onward startsstart to trend toward Het-H versus Het-V. Several previously villainous characters and races are given [[Heel Face Turn|Heel Face Turns]]s and races previously portrayed as [[Always Chaotic Evil]] are now shown to be [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NotAlwaysEvilnot Notalways Always Evil]so, giving the ponies more non-Pony allies and friends. The villains still remain diverse and mixed to the very end, and the [[Legion of Doom|final villainous trio]] consists of [[Demon Lords and Archdevils|a demonic]] [[Our Centaurs Are Different|centaur]], a [[Hive Queen]] (albeit no longer the leader of a race of insectoids) and a [[Enfant Terrible]] [[Pegasus]].