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Not everyone in Equestria lives in harmony with each other. This page is split into two categories: the incredibly powerful beings who threaten Equestria, and ordinary antagonists to the cast.
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{{quote| ''"From this moment forth, the night will last FOREVER! [[Evil Laugh|AHAHAHAHAHAAA]]!!"''}}
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{{quote| Voiced by [[Tabitha St. Germain]]}}
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.}}
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* [[Big Bad]]: For the two part pilot episode.
* [[Dark Is Evil]]
* [[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
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Among other comments, her reaction to Twilight preparing to charge:
{{quote| '''Nightmare Moon:''' You're ''kidding''. You're kidding, right?}}
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* [[The Resenter]]: See above under [[Green-Eyed Monster]].
* [[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
* [[Self-Duplication]]: Combined with [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]. Nightmare Moon transforms into a fictional trio called the Shadowbolts based on Rainbow Dash's idols, the Wonderbolts in order to distract her from helping her friends. However only the female member actually speaks (in Nightmare Moon's voice) so it is also possible that two male members are actually only non-sentient dummies. That or she couldn't make a convincing ''male'' voice for them.
* [[Shadow Archetype]]: For both Celestia and Luna.
* [[Shock and Awe]]: She uses lightning to escape the Summer Sun Celebration in the second episode.
** [[Psycho Electro]]: Which puts her into this category.
* [[Spell My Name
* [[Starter Villain]]: The first real [[Big Bad]] in the series.
* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: A literal case as Nightmare Moon was born from evil magic taking over Luna.
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* [[Achilles Heel]]: His only weakness is the Elements Of Harmony. {{spoiler|In addition, his pride can get the better of his judgement; see [[Fatal Flaw]] below.}}
* [[Actor Allusion]]/[[Expy]]: Discord is basically what you get if [[Star Trek:
** He even has Q's trademark "white flash" and snaps his fingers whenever he's [[Reality Warper|warping reality]].
** [[Word of God]] is that Lauren Faust created the character after a ''[[
** While an allusion to his creator and not his actor; he does have a good bit in common with Him from ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'', which [[Lauren Faust]] also worked on. Both are near omnipotent beings whose method of choice is [[Mind Rape|psychologically breaking]] the heroines and their bonds to one another apart with mind games. At one point, Discord even turns into a butterfly keeping his face to tempt the [[Nice Guy|Nice Girl]] of the group to do as he wants them to, a trick Him used in the episode "All Chalked Up". {{spoiler|His downfall is also due to his [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good|inability to understand the true strength of the characters' bond with each other]] and he [[This Cannot Be!|is completely shocked when his plan is ruined because of it]], something which was Him's greatest weakness.}}
*** Lauren has even said that [[Craig McCracken|Craig]], her husband and [[Powerpuff Girls]] creator, [http://fyre-flye.deviantart.com/#/d4axlhy helped her with Discord's design].
* [[And I Must Scream]]: According to him, he was fully aware of being a statue during his [[Sealed Evil in
** {{spoiler|This presumably happens to him again after being beaten and resealed. Though judging by [[Oh Crap|his expression]], [[Laser-Guided Karma|he's having a much worse experience this time around]].}}
** Nopony seems to think that given Discord's track record, he's just lying about being conscious. It certainly might be part of his [[Evil Plan]] to get the ponies to sow seeds of discord against the princess.
* [[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.
* [[Badass Finger-Snap]]: [[Actor Allusion|Much like]] de Lancie's old role as [[Star Trek:
* [[Beard of Evil]]
* [[Berserk Button]]: {{spoiler|Managing to ''win'' against his mind games. In which case he will promptly [[Mind Control|cheat]] to win.}}
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* [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]]
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Inflicts this on the entire mane cast ''[[For the Evulz|for fun.]]''
* [[Break Them
* [[The Caligula]]: His [[The Dark Times|reign over Equestria]] was a time of madness and suffering, {{spoiler|and he causes incredible mayhem once he takes over again}}
* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: He's the spirit of chaos and disharmony and will proudly tell that to your face.
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** According to the close-captioning he was calling them friendemies.
** Although {{spoiler|[http://twitter.com/#!/johndelancie/status/184176729840033792 he may return], so possibly played straight the second time.}}
* [[Death
** 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.}}
* [[Didn't See That Coming]]: {{spoiler|He plans for pretty much everything...except two things. First, that Celestia will send Twilight Sparkle her letters back, breaking her out of her [[Heroic BSOD]] and pulling her back from the [[Despair Event Horizon]]. And second, that Twilight will somehow free and reunite her friends enough to wield the Elements Of Harmony against him. The first he probably couldn't see coming at all; the second he doesn't even ''consider'' a possibility.}}
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* [[Fan Nickname]]: DisQord, to further underline the [[Actor Allusion]] aspect of the character.
* [[Fashionable Asymmetry]]: See [[Mad Eye]] and [[Mix-and-Match Critters]].
* [[Fatal Flaw]]: Loves exploiting these in other people to [[Manipulative Bastard|manipulate them.]] {{spoiler|[[Death
* [[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.
* [[Fisher King]]: Under his rule, [[World Gone Mad|Equestria is every bit as chaotic and twisted as he is]]. He even spends his time atop a...surprisingly creepy-looking throne after taking over. {{spoiler|The moment he's vanquished, a [[World
* [[Flaw Exploitation]]: His MO for [[Break the Cutie|breaking ponies]]. {{spoiler|He loses thanks to the heroes taking advantage of ''[[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good|his]]'' [[Smug Super|flaws]].}}
* [[For the Evulz]]: His raison d'etre. He's not called "Discord" for nothing.
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* [[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
** {{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.}}
* [[Humiliation Conga]]: {{spoiler|After spending both episodes as a [[Magnificent Bastard]] who considers ([[Break the Cutie|breaking]]) the Mane Cast to be no more than an amusing distraction, he has those same six completely obliterate his entire plan while he realizes too late everything he's been bragging about up to that point in the showdown is ''dead wrong'' and [[Oh Crap|he's now completely screwed due to his own ego]]. Applejack and Twilight pretty much told him this ''to his face'' and he didn't believe them because [[Hoist
* [[Hypnotic Eyes]]
* [[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
* [[Kansas City Shuffle]]: {{spoiler|The hint he gives is "Twists and turns are my master plan, then find the Elements back where you began", causing the Mane Cast to search the maze for them...[[Exact Words|except he never says the Elements are in it]]; it's just a ploy to lure them into his trap.}}
* [[Kick the Dog]]: Throughout both episodes. The best example is in part 2 when he gives a [[Big Yes]]/[[Victory Pose]] after {{spoiler|[[Break the Cutie|realizing he's completely broken Twilight Sparkle.]]}}
* [[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
* [[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.
** He's much like [[The Joker]] [[For the Evulz|in]] [[Chaotic Evil|many]] [[Manipulative Bastard|ways]].
* [[Lean and Mean]]
* [[Leaning
* [[Leitmotif]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6afMTdh8gs Can be heard here]. Similar background music has been used in "[[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E8 Look Before You Sleep|Look Before You Sleep]]" and "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* [[Light Is Not Good]]: Much of his reality warping and teleportation are accompanied by a bright light.
* [[Mad Eye]]: However, it should be noted that even though his head is goatlike, his pupils are round, unlike Iron Will's assistants who have the rectangular pupils typical of goats in [[Real Life]].
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* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: His species name is Draconequus and, while he's more of a chimera, he seems to be at least partly modeled off an eastern dragon, at least his general body shape. His left leg and part of his tail also seem to be those of a dragon.
* [[Pass the Popcorn]]: At the beginning of Part II, he finds the sight of Twilight's bickering friends to be so entertaining that he gets a movie theater seat with a bag of popcorn to properly enjoy the show.
* [[Playing
** [[People Puppets|Pony Puppets]]: If you look at the windows in the Equestrian palace as Princess Celestia talks about Discord, Fluttershy sees one of them with an image of Discord holding ponies up with puppet strings {{spoiler|[[And I Must Scream|screaming over a pit of fire.]]}} Needless to say, Fluttershy's terrified reaction was '''very''' justified and understandable.
* [[Poor Man's Substitute]]: Subverted. They originally intended to do this but someone suggested they get the real John de Lancie instead.
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* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: He carries a pink umbrella. There's also his pink cotton candy clouds.
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]
* [[Rhymes
* [[Riddle Me This]]: Varies between this and conventional challenges.
* [[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.]]
{{quote| "[[Sarcasm Mode|I'm not playing fair? Perhaps we haven't met.]] [[Lampshade Hanging|I'm Discord: spirit of chaos and disharmony. Helloooooooo!]]"}}
* [[Sealed Evil in
** {{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:
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'''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.
* [[Spell My Name
* [[Slasher Smile]]: He briefly sports one when he finally decides to directly engage the newly bonded mane cast with his magic.
* [[The Sociopath]]: He doesn't care who or what he hurts so long as it's entertaining to him. He's also quite sadistic and ''very'' [[Manipulative Bastard|manipulative]].
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* [[This Cannot Be!]]: {{spoiler|His reaction when the Elements Of Harmony are activated after being so certain he's completely broken their friendship.}}
* [[Time Abyss]]: Possibly. All we really know is that he was imprisoned by the Elements of Harmony some time before Nightmare Moon appeared a thousand years ago. He states that he's "eons" old; in astronomy and geology, an eon is half a billion years or more but immortal beings in fiction use the word much more loosely.
* [[Too Clever
** {{spoiler|This is ultimately his downfall. He's so confident he's broken up the Mane Cast, he never considers they'd be able to reunite their friendship enough to use the Elements on him. So he pretty much stands there while they power up, not realizing until it's too late that he's wrong.}}
* [[The Trickster]]: Discord treats his fight with the Mane Cast as a game and enjoys messing with their heads. He even laughs at the shock {{spoiler|[[Brought Down to Normal|taking away their wings and horns]] causes them.}}
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* [[Family-Unfriendly Death]]: They ''burn to death''. It's not that graphic, but it's still pretty unnerving.
* [[Hellish Horse]]
* [[Kill It
* [[Killed Off for Real]]: They are seemingly incinerated by the friendship powered spell the union between the tribes causes.
** {{spoiler|[[Not Quite Dead]]: Although the end implies they or more of their species are still out there.}}
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=== Queen Chrysalis ===
{{quote| ''[[Today X, Tomorrow the World!|"First, we take Canterlot! And then, all of Equestria!"]]''}}
{{quote| '''Debut:''' [[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E25 A Canterlot Wedding Part 1|"A Canterlot]] [[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E26 A Canterlot Wedding Part 2|Wedding"]]<ref>She appears in Part 1 masquerading as Princess Cadence. She makes her full physical debut in Part 2.</ref>}}
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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.}}
* [[All There in
* [[A God I Am|An Alicorn I Am]]: How powerful she is originally is unknown, but after feeding off Shining Armor, she becomes more powerful than Celestia. Notably, she's the first [[Big Bad]] to have not been a god already.
* [[Batman Gambit]]: It's heavily implied that {{spoiler|her taunting Twilight in the caves was one to get her angry enough to ''kill'' Cadence. Thankfully, Cadence managed to prove she was the real one and Twilight was level-headed enough to let her.}}
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* [[Morphic Resonance]]: Even when in a shapeshifted form, she seems to keep her [[Sickly Green Glow]] magic.
* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: She's a magic-wielding, shapeshifting, [[Hive Queen|insect queen]], Alicorn, [[Horny Devils|succubus]] (or as close to one as you can get on this show).
* [[The Not-So-Harmless Punishment]]: Being {{spoiler|literally thrown out of the country}} seems like a light punishment compared to becoming [[Sealed Evil in
** [[Fridge Brilliance]]: Seeing as how she was hurled into what appears to be a barren [[Buffy-Speak|desert-wasteland-type-thing]], she'll probably [[Emotion Eater|starve to death]] from the lack of love to feed on, unless said wasteland is the desert near Appleloosa.
*** 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.
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* [[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.
* [[Playing
** [[Evil Is Burning Hot]]
* [[Power Echoes]]: After assuming her true form.
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* [[Actor Allusion]]: She's pretty much a G-rated version of [[Black Lagoon|Revy]].
* [[Adaptation Name Change]]: [[The Hub]]'s synopsis of "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* [[Aerith and Bob]]
* [[Alliterative Name]]: Although she's never referred to as "Gilda the Griffon" in-universe.
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Trixie [[All There in
* [[Adaptation Name Change]]: At one point, the two parts of her name seemed to be separate names, as everything but the toy line only referred to her as Trixie while the toy line only referred to her as Lulamoon. Hasbro rectified this by having subsequent toys refer to her as Trixie Lulamoon.
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* [[Aerith and Bob]]
* [[All There in the Manual]]: Her [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bVdYm7NWJtI/TtBFQNyv1kI/AAAAAAAAVc4/K7bh-2xDfuY/s1600/3.jpg Wave 4 collector card] reveals that she "has a favourite star!" (Her [http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RViuScZ75ug/T16NNy7pnjI/AAAAAAAAiYw/UMjYSsUEECc/s1600/13.jpg Wave 5 collector card] states that she "likes showing off!" but that much is obvious from her appearance in [[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E6 Boast Busters|"Boast Busters"]].)
* [[All There in
* [[Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better]]: Believes this wholeheartedly, and says so word for word. In practice, though, she didn't ''actually'' outdo anypony, just humiliate them with their own tricks.
* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: Her full name is Trixie Lulamoon, which is a pretty great name for a performer.
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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>]]
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* [[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.
* [[Cool Crown]]: Wears [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Da Editor]]: Following Namby-Pamby's graduation, Diamond Tiara serves as the editor-in-chief of the school newspaper, the ''Foal Free Press'', {{spoiler|until the position is stripped away from her and given to Featherweight}}.
** [[Bad Boss]]: She has no problem {{spoiler|blackmailing the Cutie Mark Crusaders into creating more Gabby Gums stories even though they don't want to because of all the ponies that have been offended by the stories.}}
* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas|Even Bad Fillies Love Their Daddies]]: The one time Diamond Tiara is seen smiling out of (ostensibly) pure happiness is during a business lecture by her father that has put the rest of the class to sleep.
* [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Kids Are Cruel|Foals Are Cruel]]: Two varying degrees. Diamond Tiara shows no pity to anyone, be it students or even the elderly. Silver Spoon on the other hand at least had the decency to applaud to Granny Smith's story (and was the ''first'' pony to applaud).
* [[Giggling Villain|Giggling Villainesses]]
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* [[Hidden Heart of Gold]]: Silver Spoon seems to have one as shown in "Family Appreciation Day".
* [[Hoist By Her Own Petard]]: Their, or at least Diamond Tiara's, attempts to humiliate Apple Bloom and the Cutie Mark Crusaders normally end up backfiring and earning at least Diamond Tiara a [[Humiliation Conga]].
* [[Humble Pie]]: In "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* [[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
** In [[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E6 The Cutie Pox|another episode]], both girls insult Apple Bloom about her cutie mark being [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|hoops]]. Even without Apple Bloom demonstrating how awesome her skills are at using hoops, one has to question what kind of talents one excels at with cutie marks like a tiara and a freaking spoon.
* [[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
*** [[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.
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* [[Skunk Stripe|Skunk Stripes]]: They both have these, but Diamond Tiara's is more noticeable.
* [[Smug Smiler|Smug Smilers]]: It's practically Diamond Tiara's default facial expression.
* [[
** Considering the way Ponyville's school system functions in "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* [[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.
* [[Valley Girl|Valley Fillies]]: Which gets, [[Like Is, Like, a Comma|like]], ''totally'' mocked by Scootaloo.
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{{quote| Voiced by Kathleen Barr ("[[Fan Nickname|Hoops]]") and [[Richard Ian Cox]] ("[[Fan Nickname|Billy Dumbbell]]")}}
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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.
* [[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.
* [[Cross-Dressing Voices]]: Kathleen Barr voices Hoops.
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{{quote| '''Debut:''' [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
{{quote| Voiced by [[Scott McNeil]] ([[All There in
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.
* [[Alliterative Name]]
* [[All There in
* [[Dumb Muscle]]: They're all brute force and zero brains. Their underlings, the Dig Dogs, are even dumber than them.
* [[Evil Smells Bad]]: The Diamond Dogs smell bad, but the Dig Dogs smell ''terrible.''
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* [[No Name Given]]: The Dig Dogs, if they even have individual names.
* [[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 [[
** Their underlings are called the Dig Dogs in a [[Shout-Out]] to the classic arcade game [[Dig Dug]].
** 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.
* [[Shout-Out]]: A reference to the [[
* [[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]]
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* [[Bow Ties Are Cool]]
* [[Brilliant but Lazy]]: The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000 is pretty amazing, so they're obviously talented. They prefer con artistry to hard work, which leads to their failure in Ponyville. Also, they spend most of the competition relaxing and drinking cider, and panic when their machine's default settings aren't good enough.
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: Their style of dress and fast-talking salesman demeanor is reminiscent of Harold Hill from ''[[
* [[The Charmer|The Charmers]]/[[Chick Magnet|Chick Magnets]]: During their song sequence, they managed to make a lot of mares including Rarity swoon.
* [[Color-Coded Wizardry]]: Their magic glow is a unique shade of green.
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* [[Didn't See That Coming]]: When they agreed to let the mane cast help the Apples, they didn't expect Twilight to be able to organize the group to the point it'd make a difference, leading to their downfall.
* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: Before we even see their faces or learn their names, they carelessly wreck the Apple family's fence--symbolizing their lack of regard for other ponies, and the near-disastrous effect their presence will personally impose on Applejack and her family.
* [[Expy]]: Flim's voice sounds like [[Matthew Broderick]] playing Harold Hill in the revival of ''[[
* [[Evil Genius|Evil Geniuses]]: They're highly intelligent, but they completely lack morals when it comes to business practices.
* [[Faux Affably Evil]]: While ''evil'' may be a strong word, they act polite and charismatic, but have absolutely no qualms about driving somepony out of business and taking away their livelihoods for a quick buck.
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* [[Irony]]: They use Granny Smith's pride to goad the Apples into a competition that, without help, they had no chance of winning. It's ultimately their [[Smug Snake|own egos]] that causes them let the Mane Cast help the Apples, which leads to their defeat.
* [[Jerkass|Jerkasses]]: Their [[Kick the Dog]] moment, if not their previous actions, show them to be this.
* [[Villain
* [[Kick the Dog]]: Openly rubbing the fact they won and cost the Apples their farm in their faces, and laughing about it. Comes back to bite them ''fast''.
** Repeatedly breaking Granny Smith's fence for no reason works quite well to deter sympathy from the viewers, as well.
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{{quote| '''Red Adult Dragon's Debut:''' [[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E7 Dragon Shy|"Dragonshy"]]<br />
'''Green Adult Dragon's Debut:''' [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
'''Other Dragons' Debut:''' [[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E21 Dragon Quest|"Dragon Quest"]] }}
{{quote| Voiced by [[Hey Ocean
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.
* [[All There in
* [[Ambiguous Gender]]: Crackle has eyelashes, but "Crackle's cousin" (Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash and Rarity in a dragon costume that also has eyelashes), is assumed to be male by the purple teenage dragon.
** The other dragons might have not noticed the eyelashes on the costume.
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* [[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.
* [[Jerkass|Jerkasses]]: Most of the dragons fall under this, especially the teenage ones.
* [[Law of Chromatic Superiority]]: Among the teenage dragons, the red one ([[All There in
* [[Leitmotif]]: Straight-up rock for the teenage dragons.
* [[Non-Malicious Monster]]: "Basil" was a threat mostly because his snoring was creating a huge cloud of smoke and he refused to leave until Fluttershy scolded him; "Reginald" on the other hand is a territorial [[Jerkass]] that tried to ''kill'' Spike.
* [[No Name Given]]: With the exception of Crackle and [[All There in
* [[Non Standard Character Design]]:
** Crackle has [[Vertebrate
** 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.
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* [[Shadow Archetype]]: The gang of teenage dragons is this to Spike. Unlike the kind, helpful Spike, they're a group of violent, bigoted thugs, showing what Spike might have become had he been raised among dragons
* [[Teens Are Monsters]]: The delinquent dragons from [[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E21 Dragon Quest|"Dragon Quest"]]. The full grown adult dragons only attack when provoked and [[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E10 Secret of My Excess|greed-filled Spike]], while destructive, more or less acted out of instinct. The delinquent dragons are full-on [[Jerkass|Jerkasses]] and love every minute of it whether it's ridiculing baby dragons, their utter disrespect for ponies (even Princess Celestia), kidnapping phoenix chicks, or smashing phoenix eggs.
* [[Vertebrate
* [[Vile Villain Saccharine Show]]: The adult dragons are very territorial, and the teenagers are disturbingly similar to real life gangs of bullies.
* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: They have no problem attempting to attack the ponies, even if they ''are'' female.
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Along with the Ponies are various monsters. Most of them live in The Everfree Forest: an enigmatic place which is apparently free from the control of the rest of Equestria. Some of them are intelligent enough to be reasoned with while others are not. They have served as obstacles for the Ponies from time to time.
* [[Androcles' Lion]]: The manticore in "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* [[Big Eater|Big Eaters]]: The parasprites {{spoiler|who almost completely eat Ponyville.}}
* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]: The Parasprites apparently [[Explosive Breeder|reproduce]] by throwing up and the resulting vomit becomes a new Parasprite. Rarity appeared to be the only one who witnessed this firsthoof much to her disgust.
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* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Cerberus may look scary, but his job is to keep evil beings trapped in Tartarus
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: The Ursa Major {{spoiler|and Minor}}
* [[Everything's Worse
* [[Everything's Worse
* [[Feathered Fiend]]: The cockatrice.
* [[Hell Hound]]: Yes, even here! Cerberus appears as guardian of the Gates of Tartarus.
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