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

* [[Big Bad]]: For the two part pilot episode.

* [[Dark Is Evil]]

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

{{quote| '''Nightmare Moon:''' You're ''kidding''. You're kidding, right?}}

* [[Gone Horribly Wrong]]: She's essentially Princess Luna turned into an [[Omnicidal Maniac]] out for [[Revenge]].

* [[Good Eyes, Evil Eyes]], [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]] and [[Hellish Pupils]]

* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: According to the [[Creation Myth]], the problem started when she grew jealous of how their subjects went out and enjoyed the daytime but slept through her beautiful nights.

* [[Hellish Horse]]

* [[Hot Goddess]]: For the same reason as Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, considering that Nightmare Moon is their [[Evil Counterpart]].

* [[Large Ham]]

* [[Meaningful Name]]

* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]: When Twilight Sparkle sets off with her new friends to find the Elements of Harmony, they only have a partial idea of what they are looking for. Nightmare Moon's attempts to stop them provide the clues that are needed to figure out the rest of the missing information.

* [[Satan]]: The closest thing ponykind has to one, anyway: a powerful being, fallen from grace and imprisoned, whose return will usher in an era of darkness and evil. Folk legends revolve around her eating foals during Nightmare Night.

* [[Sealed Evil in A Can]]: She was sealed in the Moon for a thousand years as "The Mare in the Moon."

* [[Shadow Archetype]]: For both Celestia and Luna.

* [[Shock and Awe]]: She uses lightning to escape the Summer Sun Celebration in the second episode.

* [[And There Was Much Rejoicing]]: The mane cast are given a big party in Canterlot celebrating his defeat, complete with a stain glass window depicting it.

* [[Anthropomorphic Personification]]: Discord is the spirit of chaos and disharmony.

* [[Beard of Evil]]

* [[Berserk Button]]: {{spoiler|Managing to ''win'' against his mind games. In which case he will promptly [[Mind Control|cheat]] to win.}}

* [[The Fair Folk]]: He doesn't look much like an Old School fairy but he definitely has a lot of their more malevolent features. {{spoiler|Despite possessing [[Reality Warper]] powers, he delights in playing mind games with the ponies as well as manipulating them into his power even though he could just hypnotize them right off the bat. He's also not above ignoring the rules he sets for others or ruthlessly undermining his game to suit his own ends. From a certain point of view, it could even be argued that the Cutie Mark Crusaders were tricked into "inviting" him in by starting a fight in front of him.}}

* [[Fan Nickname]]: DisQord, to further underline the [[Actor Allusion]] aspect of the character.

* [[Fatal Flaw]]: Loves exploiting these in other people to [[Manipulative Bastard|manipulate them.]] {{spoiler|[[Death By Irony|Ironically]] it's his own [[Fatal Flaw]] ... [[Pride|his refusal to take the Mane Cast as a serious threat]] ...that leads to his downfall.}}

* [[Faux Affably Evil]]: Discord treats the ordeal as a "game" and seems good-natured...then we see the absolute joy he takes in performing [[Break the Cutie]] and [[More Than Mind Control]] on the Mane Cast.

* [[God of Evil]]: Well...God of Chaos and Disharmony but a ''much'' more literal example than Nightmare Moon. Not only is he truly evil but [[Reality Warper|his powers]] are far more god-like than hers were and he claims to be several ''eons'' old.

* [[Good Is Boring]]: Pretty much considers harmony and good to be no fun.

** Really; between the wide-open mouth, closed eyes and dramatic pose, he looks like he was originally imprisoned while [[Large Ham|singing opera]].

** [[Tempting Fate]]: If you look closely, when Discord says to the mane six "I'm missing some excellent chaos here." he makes the same pose. He probably did the same thing to Celestia and Luna when they challenged him, and we all know how that turned out.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: The polar opposite of harmony, to be specific.

* [[Mind Screw]]: How he manages to corrupt four of the Elements.

** Most of these creature parts also happen to be from previous threats and antagonists to the Mane Six (the Manticore, the two dragons, Gilda, etc.).

** Even his species name is a combination of "dragon" and "horse". (Presumably "Draconequuscervuscaperleonaquilalacertavespertilioserpens" would have been a bit too long.)

*** Furthermore, said explosion covers the area just behind him in complete darkness, then gradually fades up to normal light.

* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: He carries a pink umbrella. There's also his pink cotton candy clouds.

* [[Rhymes On a Dime]]: Not as often as Zecora, mind you, but loves handing out torturous riddles. He normally sounds far more menacing while doing so as well.

* [[Riddle Me This]]: Varies between this and conventional challenges.

* [[Fangs Are Evil]]

* [[The Fighting Narcissist]]: Albeit a partially rotting one.

* [[Giggling Villain]]

* [[Good Eyes, Evil Eyes]], [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]] and [[Hellish Pupils]]

* [[Hive Queen]]: Popular fanon has her able to send out commands to the Changelings via a [[Hive Mind]].

* [[Horny Devils]]: Her MO pretty much makes her a g-rated succubus. For obvious reasons, no sex is involved, but how she feeds off of Shining Armor definitely brings this to mind.

* [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]]: {{spoiler|As Fake!Cadence, she nuzzles, clings to, and otherwise gets ''really'' close to Shining Armor, a whole lot. Just her keeping up the pretense of being a bride-to-be, right? Well... she also does the same to the mannequin serving as her surrogate groom during her [[Villain Song]] (where there is nobody around to fool) and even indulges in a little privacy invasion towards Shining Armor after she's transformed and revealed herself, though she probably just did it to mock the real Cadence.}}

*** However that's assuming she has the same metabolism as normal ponies. Some animals are adapted to go remarkable periods of time between meals and that's just for normal animals. Given she's capable of feeding off an insubstantial emotion, it's doubtful she processes nourishment in the same way.

* [[Obviously Evil]]: Let's see, [[Dark Is Evil|dark coloring]], [[Fangs Are Evil|fangs]], [[Body Horror|holes everywhere]], [[Lean and Mean|very skinny]], [[Sickly Green Glow|sickly green magic]] [[Good Eyes, Evil Eyes|and eyes]]... and she's a ''[[God Save Us From the Queen|queen]]'' [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|to boot]]!

* [[One-Winged Angel]]: {{spoiler|When she sheds her disguise of Princess Cadence and reveals her true form.}}

* [[Outside Context Villain]]: It seems that no one even knew she ''existed'' besides Cadence{{spoiler|, who probably only knew it from Chrysalis, who kidnapped her.}} She was [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] enough to take full advantage of this fact.

** And not only to Cadence. A tall, slender, winged magic-using ruler who towers over her subjects and wields tremendous power, who displays [[The Chessmaster|Chessmaster]] capabilities and works to give her subjects what they want and need--are we talking about Chrysalis, or ''Celestia''?

* [[Sickly Green Glow]]: The color of her magic.

* [[The Vamp]]: {{spoiler|Poor Shining Armor.}}

* [[Vampire Monarch]]

* [[Fan Nickname]]: The changeling that Pinkie Pie asked to change into her ("Do me! Do me!") is called "Doomie".

* [[Fangs Are Evil]]

* [[Made of Iron]]: Played With. These things can charge at a magic barrier until it shatters, then hit the ground at full force and get right back up. But when it comes to actual fighting, they go down to Fluttershy ''accidentally tripping them'' while cowering in fear.

* [[Monochromatic Eyes]]: Solid icy blue.

* [[Leitmotif]]: Gilda's entrance and [[Establishing Character Moment|establishing character moments]] are backed with hair metal-esque guitar chords.

* [[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.

{{quote| '''Pinkie Pie''': What's a griffon?<br />

'''Rainbow Dash''': She's half eagle, half lion.<br />

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

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

* [[Pet the Dog]]: For all her flaws, she did genuinely care about Dash.

* [[The Prankster]]: Unlike Pinkie and Dash, she has no reservations about scaring others [[It Amused Me|for her own amusement]]. Course as the saying goes, she can dish it out but she can't take it.

* [[Smug Super]]: Doesn't hesitate to boast about her superior skills, regardless of the fact that she isn't as good as she claims.

* [[Stage Magician]]: Her profession, her Cutie Mark is even a [[Magic Wand]]!

* [[Supernatural Is Purple]]: Her clothes are purple to help her image of being a great sorceress. She also has purple eyes.

* [[Third Person Person|Third-Person Pony]]: Only when she wants to emphasize how great and powerful she is. Which is almost always.

* [[Alpha Bitch|Alpha Bitches]]: Diamond Tiara is the bitchy one out of the two, while Silver Spoon is shown to actually be kinder than taken for.

* [[Attention Whore|Attention Horses]]: Diamond Tiara especially.

* [[Cheshire Cat Grin]]: Both fillies do this while teasing the other fillies. Tiara gets a particularly cruel one after Apple Bloom trips at the party.

* [[Colour-Coded for Your Convenience]]: Silver Spoon is the gray one.

* [[Giggling Villain|Giggling Villainesses]]

* [[Glasses Girl|Glasses Filly]]: Silver Spoon.

* [[Hidden Depths]]: For her first couple of appearances, Diamond Tiara is just haughty and vindictive towards her peers but in ''Ponyville Confidential'', she shows she's a very organized and demanding leader that gets things done, albeit still insensitive and snide.

* [[Hidden Heart of Gold]]: Silver Spoon seems to have one as shown in "Family Appreciation Day".

* [[Humble Pie]]: In "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E12 Call of the Cutie|Call of the Cutie]]" and "[[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E6 The Cutie Pox|The Cutie Pox]]". This continues in "[[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E11 Family Appreciation Day|Family Appreciation Day]]", although unlike the previous two times, ''only'' Diamond Tiara got it; Silver Spoon [[Pet the Dog|actually did something nice and didn't get karmic retribution this time]]. Diamond Tiara gets slapped in the face with a dish of [[Humble Pie]] once more in "[[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E23 Ponyville Confidential|Ponyville Confidential]]" (Silver Spoon barely appears in the episode).

* [[Hypocrite]]: Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon have shades of this. [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|They make fun of other ponies for not having a cutie mark]], and yet in their [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E12 Call of the Cutie|debut episode]] Diamond Tiara is having a party for recently receiving hers.

* [[Jerkass]]: Both go out of their way to insult and belittle Apple Bloom and Twist about not having their marks yet instead of having fun at their own party.

** [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]: Silver Spoon has at least shown some kindness in "Family Appreciation Day" where she actually applauds Granny Smith's presentation, while Diamond Tiara still calls her a kooky old lady. It's probably just being around Diamond Tiara that makes her act so mean to others.

** Considering the way Ponyville's school system functions in "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E12 Call of the Cutie|Call of the Cutie]]", it's probably the latter.

* [[Ungrateful Bastard]]: When it's revealed that {{spoiler|she's only rich in the first place}} thanks to Granny Smith, Diamond Tiara still tries to humiliate her and Apple Bloom and shows absolutely no gratitude.

* [[Vocal Evolution]]: Diamond Tiara in a BIG way in "Ponyville Confidential".

* [[When She Smiles]]: Despite Diamond Tiara's bratty behavior, [[Daddy's Girl|she still loves her father]] to the point that his story during Family Appreciation Day is the ''only'' time that she has a genuine and non-mischievous smile on her face, [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|and it's beautiful.]] Provided, of course, it ''was'' really genuine, and not just a face.

* [[Actor Allusion]]: Kathleen Barr playing a [[Jerk Jock]] who makes fun of a main character with a big ego? [[Ed, Edd n Eddy|Sound familiar?]]

* [[Blinding Bangs]]: Hoops (as an adult) and Billy Dumbbell.

* [[Failed a Spot Check]]: In ''Sonic Rainboom'' Dumbbell and Hoops say there's no such thing as the title phenomenon. It is revealed in ''The Cutie Mark Chronicles'' that they were in an impromptu race that {{spoiler|produced one}}.

** Possibly justified considering that they are jerks who probably wouldn't admit being wrong if they didn't have to. Once Princess Celestia herself saw Rainbow Dash do the Sonic Rainboom, there was no way that they or anypony there could deny it anymore.

* [[Evil Smells Bad]]: The Diamond Dogs smell bad, but the Dig Dogs smell ''terrible.''

* [[Greed]]: They don't want gems, they want ''all'' the gems.

* [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]]: They try this when they kidnap Rarity. It ''really'' doesn't work out well for them.

* [[Jerkass|Jerkasses]]: Even before Rarity's done anything annoying, they're ''giggling'' at the thought of making her dig up the gems for them.

* [[Our Trolls Are Different]]: They're basically a fusion of the two types of Kobolds: mining troll and bipedal dog.

* [[Parental Bonus]]: Their name, Diamond Dogs, references a [[David Bowie (Music)|David Bowie]] album from 1974, something a bit out of the intended viewer's interest range. ''[[Periphery Demographic|Un]]''intended viewers may be reminded of the character from ''[[Con Air]]'' or [[Diamond Dogs|an SF novella]] by [[Alastair Reynolds]].

** They sound a lot like [[Lord of the Rings|Gollum]].

* [[Pity the Kidnapper]]: They learn the hard way that Rarity isn't a pony to trifle with.

* [[Shadow Archetype]]: To Rarity. While she is generous, cleanly, and well-spoken, The Diamond Dogs are greedy, filthy, and talk like the cave-dwelling beasts they are.

* [[Smug Snake]]: They're extremely confident that the ponies and a baby dragon won't give them any trouble, despite all evidence to the contrary.

* [[Stock Animal Name|Stock Animal Names]]

* [[Terrible Trio]]: There's a short one (Spot), a large one (Fido), and a tall one (Rover) who serves as the leader.

* [[Tunnel King|Tunnel Kings]]

* [[Uncleanliness Is Next to Ungodliness]]: Justified because they work with dirt all the time

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: The teenage dragons at least, but they looked down at the ponies and possibly all the other races as well.

* [[Fan Nickname]]: The red adult dragon named as "Basil" (after a previous generation dragon with a similar color scheme) and the green adult dragon as "Reginald", from a Youtube caption. As for the teenage dragons, the most popular name (at least in Ponibooru prior to [[Word of God]] revealing his name to be Garble) for the red-scaled leader was Crim as the letters in that [[Fan Nickname]] are the first four letters found in the words "'''Crim'''son" (his scale color) and "'''Crim'''inal" (definitely not a good person).

* [[Gonk]]: Crackle.

* [[Greed]]: It's their racial trait, and a part of their growing up. "[[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E10 Secret of My Excess|Secret of My Excess]]" explained exactly why it is that both dragons encountered up to that point had massive hoards of valuables.

* [[No Name Given]]: With the exception of Crackle and [[All There in The Script|Garble]].

* [[Non Standard Character Design]]:

** The green teenage dragon is wingless, and has a tiny upper body but very large feet and an even larger tail.

* [[Ocular Gushers]]: When Fluttershy yells at him for roaring at her friends after Rainbow Dash kicked him in the face, "Basil" bursts into tears which resembles a rainstorm to the tiny ponies.

* [[Horde of Alien Locusts]]: The Parasprites while not "aliens" in the sense of being extraterrestrial in origin very much fit the other aspects.

* [[Kaiju]]: Many of the monsters are huge beasts.

* [[Multiple Head Case]]: The hydra from "Feeling Pinkie Keen", whose heads clearly have minds of their own.

** Also, Cerberus.

* [[No Name Given]]: With the exception of Cerberus. Even the parasprites who are briefly taken in as pets don't get named.

* [[Planimal]]: The timber wolves.

* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]: The Parasprites. The only one who wasn't taken in by their cuteness was Pinkie Pie. Presumably because she had dealt with them before.

* [[Taken for Granite]]: The cockatrice from "Stare Master" has the ability to do this.

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