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Jerks & Criminals
General villains of the week encountered throughout the series.
Big Score, Rickashay, and Boulder
A trio of criminals (a Unicorn, Pegasus, and Earth pony respectively) that antagonize Flash Sentry on several occasions.
- Big "NO!": Big Score lets one out when the Super Fleas started leaping on them.
- Brains and Brawn: A trio variation of this trope. Rickashay and Boulder play the Brawn part and Big Score plays the Brain part.
- The Bus Came Back: They appeared in Springer's dream sequence in "The Misadventures of Springer 2: Dreams of a Jakhowl", return as secondary antagonists in the "Iron's Revenge" story arc, Big Score made a small cameo in "Time for a Changeling", they are responsible for one of the bad futures in "The Cutie Re-Mark", and return after escaping the crystal prison in "The Truth Shall Set You Flea".
- Glass Cannon: Rickashay and Boulder may be tough opponents, but one solid hit is enough for them to go down. For example, Flash is able to knock them out during his first fight by tricking Richashay into crashing into a water tank and sending a stream of electricity to a soaked Boulder to shock him.
- Goldfish Poop Gang: They started out relatively threatening when the heroes were still inexperienced. However, by season 8, they don't stand a fighting chance against them and their plot to unleash fleas on the heroes is for a low-stakes heist that wouldn't really be threatening to anyone.
- Hidden Depths: When Score puts on the Headband of Inner Truth, his mental voice tells him that he could've been far wealthier if he pursued a legitimate business, implying that he is self-conscious about living as a criminal by that point.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: In "The Truth Shall Set You Flea", They uses Super Fleas to distract the heroes so they wouldn't stop them from stealing the Headband of Inner Truth. The heroes later use the same Super Fleas on them as payback for tormenting them.
- Laser-Guided Karma: They ends up suffered this in "The Truth Shall Set You Flea" when the heroes unleash the same Super Fleas on them after tormenting them. Big Score receives a bigger dose karma as Twilight put the Headband of Inner Truth (the one thing he was trying to steal) on him and learns his terrifying inner secret that scares him.
- Legacy Character: Big Score is revealed to be the grandson to a completely different Big Score that shows up in Grand Hoof: The Legend Begins as an enemy of Grand Hoof.
- Mooks: They play this role when they are hired by Longhorn.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Two of their major appearances have them in this role.
- Their debut appearance in "Boast Busters" Has them in the role of Villain of the Week for Flash to fight, but him saving Trixie from them has the two of them start a friendship, and clues him in that she is lying about her abilities later in her performance. Trixie also helps him against the three of them later, starting her down a more heroic path much sooner than in canon.
- The three of them act as mooks for Longhorn in "Iron's Revenge", but their actions cause for Flash to use his mysterious powers against them, which begins the story arc of Flash and his friends investigating what those powers are and how to properly control them.
- Terrible Trio: A gang of robbers who prey on ponies weaker than themselves like Trixie.
Shake Shocker
A unicorn that's been a part of a major crime wave and is the first villain to be officially assigned for Flash to handle.
- Beard of Evil: He wears one as part of his Paper-Thin Disguise his return in "The Saddle Row Review."
- Berserk Button: Being insulted. He's initially condescending to Flash, but he quickly loses his temper once Flash begins insulting him, which causes him to destroy everything around him and cause a roof to collapse on himself, leading to his downfall. It is used against him once again when he returns, when Flash gets him to blow his own cover by telling a bank full of ponies about their fight, and making him sound completely stupid to everyone.
- The Bus Came Back: He comes back in "The Saddle Row Review".
- Evil Sounds Raspy: He's a bank robber and speaks with a low, raspy voice.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: When he makes his return in "The Saddle Row Review" he initially wears a fake beard and glasses as a disguise. It completely fails to fool Flash, who instantly recognizes him despite the disguise.
- Shock and Awe: As his name implies, he can manipulate electrical energy to his advantage.
- Villain Respect: During their second fight, Shake Shocker admires Flash's determination, even if said admiration doesn't stop Shocker from still trying to kill him.
Lightning Dust
- Adaptational Villainy: While she was never a good pony to begin with, she’s even more of a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing in this fic than she was in canon.
- Big "WHAT?!": She lets out a loud "WHAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTTT?!?!" that causes the mess hall to literally shake when she sees that she was made a wing pony instead of lead-pony.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Just like in canon, she starts out on good terms with Rainbow Dash, but she makes it clear that she has no interest in making friends. When Rainbow Dash is made lead-pony instead of her, she drops the ‘In Sheep’s Clothing’ part entirely, and becomes openly hostile towards Rainbow Dash, and disobeys every order she gives her to try to one-up her instead.
- Driven by Envy: She spends the remainder of her time in the Wonderbolts Academy trying to one-up Rainbow Dash, to prove that she was more worthy to be lead-pony than Rainbow Dash.
- Lack of Empathy: She doesn’t care that her actions nearly got some ponies killed, and is only upset that she wasn’t made lead-pony.
- Never My Fault: She refuses to take responsibility for the fact that she almost got some ponies killed, and blames it all on Spitfire for not making her lead-pony. She also blames Rainbow for getting kicked out of the academy, vowing to have revenge someday, even though it was clearly her own fault for not only endangering others but also refusing to learn her lesson about teamwork despite facing multiple punishments.
- We Will Meet Again: After Spitfire kicks her out of the Wonderbolt Academy, she swears to Rainbow Dash that she is going to make her pay for this one day.
- You Remind Me of X: Soarin says that the whole reason why Spitfire tried to make her lead-pony at first, was because of how she reminded her of herself.
Banshee and Electra
Two criminals who tried to pull off a heist in the Crystal Empire.
- The Bus Came Back: They were originally just standard villains of the week that only appeared in one chapter in season 3. They end up returning in season 5 during "Retirement", when they are broken out of a prison transfer by a pony named Slushy and help her with her plan to pull a heist in Canterlot. They end up returning in Season 8 during "Flash Magnus".
- Didn't Think This Through: When Electra fights Flash, Rarity, and Pinkie in Canterlot, Pinkie manages to blast her with a party bazooka and get confetti in her mane. When she uses her lightning magic again to blast more of Pinkie's confetti away, the confetti that's already in her mane is ignited by the heat she creates and sets her hair on fire.
- Expy: They are based on Silver Banshee and Livewire from Supergirl (2015).
- Great Escape: They’re broken out of prison by a pony named Slushy, who promised them to pull off the biggest heist in Equestria.
- Logical Weakness: Banshee uses her magic to increase the volume of her voice and create her sonic screams. When Twilight uses a muting spell on her to take away her voice, she is basically powerless since she can't use her sonic screams at all.
- Make Me Wanna Shout: Banshee can make extremely loud noises with her screams, which she uses to disorient her enemies to either allow her to escape, or for Electra to strike down.
- Shock and Awe: Electra specializes in lightning magic.
- Unwitting Pawn: Slushy breaks them out of prison to help her pull a heist in Canterlot, but she ultimately just uses the two of them as a distraction while she attempts to steal the actual target she is after, rather than the vault like she discussed with them.
Longhorn
- Adaptational Badass: He’s much more dangerous than his comic book counterpart, as he’s capable of taking on a Royal Knight.
- Adaptational Villainy: He was always a villain, but where as his comic book counterpart operated within the law, this version of Longhorn is a straight up murderer, and he’s searching for a plant that is said to grant extraordinary strength.
- Blood Knight: His comic book version never killed anyone, but this version is more than willing to look for a good fight, and he’s perfectly willing to kill anyone who gets in his way.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He cannot understand how Iron Core defeated him with love instead of hate.
- The Power of Hate: He tried to tell Iron Core that the only way he was going to defeat him was to muster up as much hatred as he could. Iron Core did try this at first, but then realized that it was actually holding him back, and instead defeated him with his love for Flutterhsy.
- Rogues' Gallery Transplant: His comic counterpart served as an antagonist toward Applejack. Here he is Iron Core's Arch-Enemy due to Longhorn being the killer of his parents. This also extended to Fluttershy due to him taking her hostage against Iron.
- Super Serum: He was searching for a rare plant that grants the user increased strength. He succeeds in getting it, but Iron Core still defeats him when he realizes that his hatred for Longhorn was holding him back, and his love for Fluttershy gave him strength.
Foggy Dreadbeard
A pirate who raids other ships, including the Mighty Leviathan.
- Arch-Enemy: With Tidal Wave. While they have no history with each other, Dreadbeard's occupation as a pirate pushes Tidal's Berserk Button and he ends up becoming his most personal enemy.
- Big "NO!": Lets out one when Tidal unleashes his "Tidal Force" on him, which proves to be the finishing blow.
- Know When to Fold Them: Accepts his arrest with little opposition.
- Pirate: Dreadbeard's occupation.
- Talk Like a Pirate: As is to be expected from one.
Clean Whistle (Spoilers)
Walking Tour's assistant at the Fillydelphia Museum of Art
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Initially seems to be an assuming worker at the museum, but is actually an art thief who is perfectly willing to frame Lightning Blitz and Solid Script for the theft of the Mona Lippanzer.
- Invisibility: Can turn other objects and herself invisible.
- Non-Action Big Bad: She's the main antagonist of "Detective Discord" and, unlike the other antagonists in this series, isn't a physical threat and can only flee when cornered.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After she's been revealed to be the culprit behind the theft of the Mona Lipizanner, she turns herself invisible and tries to flee. Unfortunately for her at least, running away from a Chaos god like Discord isn't a very bright idea, as he just turns the floor into glue to trap her.
Wolf, Lizard, and Gorilla
A group of thieves who make up the Crimson Masquerade Gang, along with Owl/Double Take.
- Cool Mask: They wear masks that correlate with their respective animal name.
- Kick the Dog: Wolf verbally abuses Owl/Double Take on a regular basis, constantly pressing him into conforming into his life of crime. This eventually causes Owl/Double Take to pull a Heel–Face Turn and betray him.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Wolf forced Owl/Double Take to join his gang and kept him in line by constantly reminding him how he saved him from life on the streets. Eventually, Iron Core gets through to Double Take that Wolf does not deserve his loyalty for hanging that over his head forever, and Double Take turns on Wolf. Wolf is then quickly captured by Flash when he tries to escape by abandoning his gang.
- Let's Split Up, Gang!: After being chased, Lizard and Gorilla split up from Wolf and Owl/Double Take to make it harder for them all to be caught. This strategy doesn't work, as the heroes just split up as well and arrest them.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Most of them are only ever called by their codenames, with their real names never revealed. The only exception is Owl, whose real name is revealed to be Double Take, and is the only one to have a Heel–Face Turn.
- Terrible Trio: While Owl/Double Take is remorseful for his crimes and makes a Heel–Face Turn, these three are unrepentant thieves.
- Smurfette Principle: Lizard is the only female out of the group, but no less malicious.
- Wants a Prize for Basic Decency: Wolf saved Double Take from a life on the street, and expects him to repay this act of kindness by joining his criminal gang and giving him his Undying Loyalty, constantly throwing this in his face if he so much as questions him on anything.
Bomber, Shift, Gemini, and Kinetic
A quartet of ponies who use Cutie Markers, a device that allows them to gain a new special talent, but also causes its user to go insane.
- Ax-Crazy: They have gone mad from their use of Cutie Markers and trying to blow up all of Canterlot doesn't exactly earn them sanity points either.
- Freudian Excuse: They were disappointed with their original Cutie Marks and thus used Cutie Markers to give them talents themselves more impressive abilities. Their use of Cutie Markers drove them insane and led them to becoming the criminals they are today.
- I Just Want to Be Special: They all resorted to using Cutie Markers to change their talents because they were all disappointed with what their talents turned out to be and wanted to be remembered for something else. This ends up deconstructed during their fight with Lightning Blitz and his friends. They all point out the flaws in this kind of view, such as the choices they made in their life was what determined their talents, so if they were disappointed in them they have nobody to blame but themselves, and even then they still could have learned other stuff besides the thing they specialize in, as shown when Lighting and his friend all think outside the box and use skills besides what they specialize in to beat them.
- Intangibility: Shift can alter his body's density, allowing him to achieve this power.
- Insane Equals Violent: They're both insane and dangerous. After being arrested, they'll be given treatment for their mental damage and hopefully will curb their violent tendencies.
- Mad Bomber: As his name indicates, Bomber is this.
- Me's a Crowd: Gemini can clone herself numerous times.
- Shadow Archetype: They serve as this to Lightning Blitz and his friends, right down to sharing the same plan of endangering Canterlot.
- Super-Speed: Kinetic has this power.
- Token Female: Gemini is the only mare of the group, which correlates with how Gorgenia is the only mare in Lightning Blitz's group.
Wind Rider
- Adaptational Jerkass: While he's still willing to get Rainbow Dash kicked out of the Wonderbolts to preserve his record, he's much more vocal against her here, where he takes nearly every opportunity to denounce her and Soarin when he defends her. Justified since Soarin's intervention persuades the other Wonderbolts to not immediately accuse Rainbow Dash here, forcing Wind Rider to oppose her more openly to compensate.
- Adaptational Villainy: In addition to accusing Rainbow Dash, he's also had several charges of assault and harassment, though these charges were dropped after his family paid off the victims.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Just like in canon, he seems like a respectful veteran member of the Wonderbolts and was even the one who encouraged Soarin to follow his dream of being one when Soarin was just a kid. But he is still willing to cheat and frame others to preserve his record. His true colors also begin to show a bit sooner before the official reveal by Rarity. When Soarin stands up for Rainbow Dash after he tries framing her, getting the other Wonderbolts to back off and stop automatically assuming she is guilty, Wind Rider tries to take charge and ban Rainbow Dash himself, and when Soarin stands up to him and calls him out on his rude behavior, Wind Rider insults him and his relationship with Rainbow, saying his judgment is impaired due to being "love-struck" over Rainbow and that the only reason she even made it into the reserves is because she's sleeping with Soarin. It is ambiguous if he was always like this and was just able to hide it for years, or if something happened to change him after he trained Soarin.
- Broken Pedestal: When Soarin finds out that he framed Rainbow Dash to protect his record, he loses all respect he once had for him.
- Evil Mentor: Zig-Zagged; he was Soarin’s mentor when Soarin was at the academy training to be a Wonderbolt and encouraged him to keep following his dreams and never give up. After it was discovered that he tried to frame Rainbow Dash to preserve his own record, and potentially did the same thing to other recruits in the past, it is left ambiguous if he was always like that, even while he was training Soarin, or if he changed somewhere along the line.
- Failed a Spot Check: Rarity figured out that he was the one who sent Spitfire a fake letter, because the lock of mane that he used to frame Rainbow Dash was too neatly cut.
- Frame-Up: He tries and fails to get Rainbow Dash expelled from the Wonderbolts so that his record would remain intact.
- Green-Eyed Monster: He framed Rainbow Dash all so that he could keep his record intact, because he feared that she was going to surpass it.
- Once Done, Never Forgotten: Once it’s revealed that he framed Rainbow Dash to protect his record, Spitfire has him removed from the Wonderbolts hall of fame.
- "Success Through Sex" Accusation: In an attempt to protect his record, he accuses Rainbow Dash of only becoming a Wonderbolt by sleeping with Soarin.
- Villain Has a Point: He’s completely right when he tells Soarin that some ponies will not see Rainbow Dash becoming a Wonderbolt as fair because of how he and her are in a relationship, and will accuse Rainbow Dash of being a Gold Digger. Though he mainly said this as part of his Frame-Up against Rainbow, the chapter "Newbie Dash" eventually shows that he did have a point when the Board of Directors share his opinion that Rainbow didn't truly earn her spot in the Wonderbolts legitimately, thinking she was only accepted through favoritism and fraud via Soarin's influence. They need to see Rainbow in action for themselves before realizing they were wrong.
- Was It All a Lie?: Soarin asks him if everything he ever told him was true, or if he was just saying things just to make himself look good.
Slushy
A mysterious pony who broke Banshee and Electra out of prison.
- Great Escape: When Banshee and Electra were being transfered over to the Crystal Empire Prison, she busted them out for a heist in Canterlot.
- Hidden Agenda Villain: She told Banshee and Electra that she needed them to break into the Canterlot Vault. She was actually trying to break into the Canterlot Research Institute, though for what reason is a mystery, as Grand Hoof defeats her before she can acquire what she was looking for.
- Out-Gambitted: She broke out Banshee and Electra and told them they would help her break into the Canterlot Vault. She had them attack different sections of Canterlot to draw attention while the rest of the guard put extra reinforcements on the castle. Her true target though was actually the Canterlot Research Institute, planning to rob it blind while all eyes are on her two distractions and the incorrect target. Grand Hoof sees through her whole plan though, and was waiting for her in the research lab before swiftly defeating her.
- We Need a Distraction: This was what she actually used Banshee and Electra for, so that she could break into the Canterlot Research Institute.
Regal Burst/Dynamo Dazzler
Trixie's father who disowned her after she dropped out of Manehatten Institute for Magical Learning. His real name is Dynamo Dazzler, but he changed it to Regal Burst.
- Abusive Parents: He constantly pushed Trixie to focus on her studies and ignore everything else, even throwing out a birthday present from her uncle because he felt it was worthless and too distracting. His attitude eventually drove both his wife and daughter away, and years later he still feels like Trixie has accomplished nothing, despite even the princesses saying otherwise.
- Berserk Button: Hating the term, "Dad".
- Do Not Call Me "Paul": He told the princesses that he doesn't answer to his former name, Dynamo Dazzler.
- Hate Sink: He's the abusive father of Trixie, forcing her to attend the Manehatten Institute for Magical Learning and being repeatedly disappointed whenever she failed. When she receives a magic set as a gift from her uncle, Jackpot, he throws it away and later tries to destroy it when Trixie fails another magic test. After Trixie leaves and becomes Princess Luna's student, he visits Canterlot to witness her magic abilities, believing that Luna only took her in out of pity and possibly only attending so that he can claim the credit of making Trixie a prodigy. Throughout the meeting, he insults Trixie and denies any responsibility that he failed to teach Trixie how to do magic. When Trixie uses an age spell to prove her magical prowess and make a flower a day younger, Regal is still disappointed in her, even though he can't perform that spell himself. Ultimately, everyone in-universe hates him for his treatment toward Trixie, even the Princesses can't stand him.
- Hypocrite: Even when Trixie successfully uses an age spell to make a flower one day younger, he's still disappointed. Yet, when the Princesses demand for him to do the spell, he leaves in a huff.
- I Have No Son!: He disowned his daughter Trixie after she stood up to him and dropped out of school. When she left him to prove him wrong about her, he only told her she wouldn't last a week. He ignored Trixie's attempt to contact him after she was made Princess Luna's student, until he thought it might be able to benefit himself.
- Insistent Terminology: Preferred to be called "Father" than "Dad".
- Shut Up, Hannibal!: When he still tries to talk down to Trixie and call her a failure, all her friends and the princesses stand up for her, and point out she has already accomplished more than he ever will.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Though he is talented enough to have a job teaching at the Manehatten Institute for Magical Learning, he still thinks way too highly of himself. When he finally responds to his daughter, declaring his intents to meet her and see her progress as Luna's student for himself, he shows up at Canterlot declaring he has an appointment with the princesses. As a matter of fact, he doesn't, and the only reason he isn't thrown out instantly is because Trixie wanted to face him and finally put his influence over her to an end. He also is not impressed with anything Trixie can do, even when it is proven to be more than what he can do himself.
- Stealing the Credit: Trixie accuses him of this as the only reason he suddenly came to visit her in Canterlot and see her progress as Luna's student. She thinks he plans to tell everyone that it was thanks to him that Trixie became Luna's student. Though he denies it, Trixie doesn't believe him since he only ever does stuff to benefit himself.
Hard Sell (Spoilers)
One of the higher ups and the true mastermind of the plot to kidnap Flurry Heart.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He appears to be affable, but his true colors are exposed once he tries to murder Flurry Heart.
- Foreshadowing: When he's introduced, he's suspicious of Hiveena, hinting at his very skeptical behavior that leads him to try to kill Flurry Heart.
- Villainous Breakdown: After being caught, he goes on an angry tirade about how Flurry Heart is a danger to all of Equestria, but no one cares and he's simply dragged off to eventually be tried in court.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Despite his misguided murder attempt on Flurry Heart, he was doing it because he thought he was protecting Equestria, since he feared Flurry Heart would end up going down a dark path and would destroy Equestria.
- Would Hurt a Child: He was willing to stab Flurry Heart while she was sleeping, since he believes the child is too dangerous to wield Alicorn powers.
Hard Sell's Henchpony
A stallion who was hired by Hard Sell to hurt Flurry Heart.
- Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: It's how Hiveena gets him to reveal his part in Hard Sell's plan.
- Bullying a Dragon: He tries to take Ruby hostage so that Hiveena doesn't attack him. Unsurprisingly, she easily escapes his grasp and subdues him.
- Locked Out of the Loop: He knew pretty much nothing about his employer's name, much less his plan for Flurry Heart.
- No Name Given: We never learned about his real name, even Hiveena couldn't get him to reveal his name.
- Shock and Awe: Although he doesn't have any powers, he does have a rune that allows him to shock his enemies.
Hard Hat, Dandy Grandeur, and Wrangler
- Adaptational Jerkass: Hard Hat's rudeness has been cranked up even more here, getting into frequent arguments with Iron over building Fluttershy's reserve and taking the time out of his day to mock Iron for his failed attempts to build it without his help.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: A very minor case. When the trio are fired by Fluttershy for not following her orders, they don't exit as angrily and snootily as they did in canon.
- Dirty Coward: When Hard Hat tries overruling Fluttershy's wishes, Iron intervenes and tells him to stay the original course. Hard Hat is about to argue against this, but Iron just stomps on the ground once to send him scampering back. He only returns to Iron when he tries building Fluttershy's reserve himself, mocking Iron for his hasty decision of firing him.
- Jerkass Has a Point:
- When Fluttershy presents her plan to the trio, Dandy points out that the lack of structures in the sanctuary would make it dangerous if a guest accidentally upset a dangerous animal. In most settings, this would be a valid concern, but it gets Handwaved here.
- Hard Hat is a massive jerk, but he correctly points out the structural errors Iron makes when he tries building a pool, explaining that the rocks used to form the pool can't stand on their own due to the weak soil and that the soil is only getting weaker with Iron's attempts to dig out the ground. Iron can only weakly retort by telling him to shut up and Lightning outright concedes the point to Hard Hat.
- Out of Focus: While Hard Hat and Dandy Grandeur get some additional material, Wrangler doesn't and has the least presence of the trio.
Tragus
A time traveling renegade Changeling from the future.
- Evil Feels Good: He enjoys stealing love over sharing love, and believing that stealing love is how changelings should feed.
- Evil Reactionary: Tragus despises the harmonic relationship between ponies and changelings, believing that the latter shouldn't befriend their food. He even fondly remembers the first time he consumed a filly's love when he was little.
- Out-Gambitted: Tragus traveled back in time to disrupt the peace talks between ponies, changelings, and dragons, and since he was from the future he knew exactly where they would all be and believed he could simply attack everyone but Thorax and Hiveena to change history. But, Flash and the Future Fire Heart realize that they can change a few details about the peace talks, but history won't change as long as none of those events are recorded, allowing them to lure Tragus into a trap while keeping the delegates safe from harm.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Holding xenophobic views, Tragus believes that changelings shouldn't befriend the other races and travels to the past to sabotage their diplomatic relationships with the ponies and dragons.
- Set Wrong What Was Once Made Right: He travels back in time to specifically prevent the peace talks between ponykind, the changelings, and the dragons from succeeding.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He is just a one-shot villain, but his actions end up setting in motion a character arc for Flash that lasts the rest of the main series, with Flash being told about his fate in the future by a future version of Fire Heart who came back to stop Tragus.
- Time-Traveling Jerkass: He travels to the past to purposely ruin negotiations for the Changeling, Dragon, Pony Alliance so that it will restart hostilities between the ponies and changelings.
Muerojo
A pirate who killed Tidal's father.
- Arch-Enemy: To Tidal Wave, since he's the one that killed Tidal's father.
- Automatic Crossbows: He has a crossbow that after it shoots a bolt will magically return and reload after a minute, meaning he will never run out of ammo.
- Big "NO!": He lets one out when Fluttershy rips off his eyepatch, which was the only thing that let him see the future and avoid danger.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: He has done so many horrible things that he doesn't really remember about him killing Tidal's father, Tidal does not take this well.
- Crippling Overspecialization: His Eyepatch of Power gives him the ability to see into the future, but only against things that hurt him, immanent threats. If someone wants to distract him without actually causing him harm then he won't see anything from the future. Once the others realize this weakness, Iron and Tidal manage to distract him long enough for Fluttershy to sneak up on him and rip the eyepatch off.
- Eyepatch of Power: He has a golden one that has an eye shape engraved on the front of it and a ruby in the center. It turns out that it allows the wearer to see a minute into the future whenver they are threatened, allowing Muerojo to avoid danger.
- I Shall Taunt You: He mocks the Royal Knights and Tidal's father throughout their battle, all to make Tidal angry at him so he will get sloppy and easier to dodge.
Iron Will
- Adaptational Late Appearance: While the events of "Putting Your Hoof Down" still happened, they weren't adapted in this series and "Once Upon a Zeppelin" is technically his first direct appearance.
- Disney Villain Death: Defied; at the end of "Once Upon a Zeppelin" when he parachutes away, Flash pulls out his sword and points it at the parachute while declaring he has a shot. Before he can fire though, and send Iron Will plummeting, Twilight snatches the sword from him
- Loophole Abuse: Iron includes Soul as part of his princess-themed attraction, even though she isn't one. He uses her alicorn status to justify her inclusion as a princess and, if that argument fails, Iron states that he could've dropped her out without customer complaint, since she has a low fan following.
- Pragmatic Villainy: After a long day of work, Iron tries pressuring Twilight into a meeting to discuss the next day's events, but Flash intimidates him into letting her rest and see the Northern Stars. Recognizing who the stronger between them is, Iron wisely backs off.
Fangpire
The ruler of Batponies.
- Abusive Parents: Fangpire regularly forces his son Foxhelm to fight his Grand Duels, putting him in death scenarios so that he doesn't have to fight himself.
- Arch-Enemy: To Rogue, since he was the reason Rogue ended up alone with no memories, after originally trying to have him killed, and then kept his family under terrible conditions.
- Dirty Coward: At the Grand Duel, Fangpire substitutes himself with Foxhelm as his contestant, ensuring that he won't have to risk his own skin fighting Rogue.
- Fantastic Racism:
- He holds animosity towards ponies, viewing them as potential oppressors to the thestrals.
- He holds poisoned thestrals like Rogue in even more disdain, viewing them as filth who threaten to spread their disorder to the rest of the cloud.
- The thestral guards apprehension to Rogue potentially being a foreign thestral implies that Fangpire holds xenophobic views as well.
- Hate Sink: He's one of the most despicable villains in the series, being a tyrant who orders the execution of a young Rogue on flimsy justifications, forces Echo to remarry, and has his own son fight battles to the death on his behalf.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: His refusal of letting Echo and Banshee go as he want Banshee to breed multiple generations due of their sonic blast ultimately backfired when they uses their sonic blast ability on him to protect Rogue from him.
- Judge, Jury, and Executioner: Echo outright calls him this trope to describe his absolute authority over the thestrals.
- Laser-Guided Karma: After making Rogue and his family's life a living hell, he got his comeuppance.
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Any possibility of him having good intentions are thrown out the window when Echo found treatments to neutralize Rogue's poison, yet ordered his execution anyways because it was too much of a burden.
- Pet the Dog: Upon pressuring Echo to marry again, he does allow her to pick her own mate, which Echo considers herself lucky to have the chance.
- The Social Darwinist: With the sonic blast trait growing rarer in the thestral population, Fangpire hopes to keep the ability alive by mating their users with other thestrals and passing on the power to their offspring.
- Villain: Exit, Stage Left: After being incapacitated by Foxhelm, he's dragged off and presumably imprisoned.
- Would Hurt a Child:
- He tried to have a young Rogue killed when he became a burden to the cloud due to his venom poisoning him and raising the possibility of spreading his trait to other thestrals.
- Challenging Rogue to a Grand Duel years later, Fangpire pressures him to accept by implicitly threatening his younger brother, Banshee.
The Mean Seven
- Bait-and-Switch: When the logs they were created from are recovered by the Mane Seven, they initially consider whittling a version of themselves from the wood. After a Beat, they all say "NAH!" and throw them into the campfire to cook breakfast in a darkly comedic way.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Mean Flash is a contrast to the alternate universe Evil Flash from the season 5 finale. While the latter was a dangerous and brutal tyrant, Mean Flash is cowardly and meek to the point that he can hardly be considered a villain in his own right.
- Deader than Dead: Beyond them (sans Flash) being turned back into logs by the Tree of Harmony, the real Mane Seven find them to use as firewood, effectively destroying any chance of them returning.
- Dirty Coward: Being the opposite of Flash's Element of Courage, his Mean counterpart is a total coward, even worse than the real Fluttershy. While the rest of the Mean Seven looks for trouble, the fake Flash expresses doubt and fear about stealing the Elements of Harmony or even accessing the Sacred Light, much to Chrysalis' chagrin. When they finally reach the Tree of Harmony, Flash doesn't even try to take his respective element and hides behind a rock while Chrysalis and Mean Twilight fight each other.
- Embodiment of Vice: Each one of them acts as the opposite to the Element of Harmony their real counterpart represents. While the counterparts of the Mane 6 are the same as from canon, Mean Flash represents cowardliness and fear.
- Fate Worse than Death: Mean Flash suffers this at the end of Evil's Uprising. After being recruited by Shroudheart to destroy the real Flash, he is sent off to find something for him. It is revealed to be the mask of Armalum, buried where he and Void were defeated. But it all turns out to be a trick, with Mean Flash becoming absorbed by Armalum and using his hate towards the real Flash to power himself.
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Mean Flash is so cowardly and timid that he can really only be called a villain by association with Chrysalis and Mean Twilight. Even then, he rarely makes substantial contributions to their evil plans, not even attempting to steal the Elements like the rest of the Mean Seven.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: Most of them come off as simply petty and rude bullies and jerks at worst. Mean Fluttershy however, when confronted by the real Flash (who mistakes her for the real Fluttershy being hexed), steals his sword when he won't leave her alone and nearly takes off his head with it, forcing him to use his Shining Guardian form to restrain her.
- Punch-Clock Villain: Unlike the rest of the Mean Seven, Mean Flash isn't malicious on his own and only goes along with Chrysalis and Mean Twilight's plans out of intimidation and seduction by the latter. Once both are out of his life, Mean Flash wonders how he'll settle down in Equestria rather than plot any revenge.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here:
- Within the first few minutes of being created, Mean Flash already tries to bail on Chrysalis' plan to steal the Elements of Harmony, before he is pulled back by Mean Twilight.
- When the rest of the Mean Seven are destroyed by the Tree of Harmony and Chrysalis flies off in a rage, Mean Flash decides to take off as well, heading to an uncertain future of looking like one of the most famous ponies in Equestria.
- Sole Survivor: Mean Flash is the only one to survive "The Mean 7", due to hiding behind a rock while the Elements of Harmony destroyed the others.
- Token Good Teammate: Mean Flash is the least mean of all of them. He isn't rude, or conniving, or go out of his way to cause trouble like the rest of them. His biggest flaw is that he is a Dirty Coward, and only goes along with Mean Twilight's plan to overthrow Chrysalis and take over the world after she seduces him.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: When Mean Flash returns in Evil's Uprising, he is much more willing to work with Shroudheart after learning of his fate in the future and being afraid of death, and he openly states he hates the real Flash Sentry and wants the life he has for himself.
- Unholy Matrimony: Downplayed between Mean Twilight and Mean Flash. On top of being the evil knockoffs of the real Flash and Twilight, who are both in a relationship, Mean Flash agreed to help Mean Twilight in her plan to overthrow Chrysalis and take over the world after she seduced him a bit. However, Mean Flash was shown to be the Token Good Teammate of the group, and Mean Twilight initially threatened him to help her, only to switch to flirting when he responded better to it. Still, Mean Flash was saddened by her destruction, despite knowing the two of them weren't exactly "friends".
- Villainous Friendship: A Downplayed, extremely one-sided example. Mean Flash doesn't exactly consider his fellow counterparts as "friends," but he does care about them as companions. By contrast, the rest of the Mean Seven care not one wit for him, not even Mean Twilight. When the rest of the Mean Seven are taken out by the Tree of Harmony, Mean Flash expresses mourning over their grim fate.
- Your Days Are Numbered: When Mean Flash meets Shroudheart, Shroudheart confirms to him that he will die in less than a year, if not due to the actions of someone else then because the magic that brought him to life will fade away. He says he can ensure Mean Flash lives as long as possible, but he needs to help him with his own plan first. This all turns out to be a trick though, with Shroudheart simply sending him to dig up Armalum's mask, and as soon as he does so the mask is activated by Shroudherat's dying spell, promptly absorbing Mean Flash.
Doctor Biopsy (Spoilers)
A doctor who trained First Aid.
- Arch-Enemy: To First Aid once the truth about his work is revealed.
- Big "NO!": He lets one out when First Aid destroys his lab.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He acts like a caring doctor who treats his patients well, but it turns out that he's an insane doctor who used his patients for his experiments.
- Evil Mentor: To First Aid. Biopsy taught him many things about medicine, but unlike his former apprentice, he has no concern about innocent lives.
- Faking the Dead: After he was arrested and put in prison years ago, he managed to fake his own death by drugging himself to make him seem dead. He woke up in the morgue before they could do an autopsy on him and when no one was looking, he snuck away and disguised himself as a doctor, signing his own death certificate, falsely stating he died via a heart attack and was cremated, before walking right out the door.
- For Science!: He claims that all of his experiments on ponies are to help advance the medical field and that he hopes to one day cure all diseases, pointing out how his research led to him discovering a cure for the Floenia Virus, which saved hundreds or thousands of lives a year after he was imprisoned.
- Hypocrite: He claims that if First Aid stops his research, he’ll be breaking the Hippocratic Oath to do no harm, completely ignoring the fact that he himself is breaking the Oath with his research.
- Knight of Cerebus: A vile character who's willing to torment his patients and even innocent civilians in order to find cures for multiple diseases, and shows no remorse for his action.
- Mad Doctor: He infected ponies with diseases to experiment on them to find cures.
- The Needs of the Many: His justification for infecting ponies with diseases and conducting experiments on them in his lab, is that he’ll save millions of lives.
- Non-Action Guy: He was easily taken out by First Aid without putting up a fight. Even First Aid points out Biopsy's not a fighter like him and, at worst, he would just throw some dangerous chemicals at him.
- Villainous Breakdown: When First seals off his laboratory for good, Biopsy has an outburst, angered that he can no longer carry out his self-righteous crusade.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: He earnestly thinks that he's going to save millions by developing a cure to every illness in the world. Unfortunately, his means are so destructive and short-sighted that First has to stop him.
Abas
A lizard pirate out to plunder the treasures of the late Looter.
- Big "NO!": He lets two of these out when he falls to his death.
- Disney Villain Death: He ends up falling to his death as Looter's tomb collapses on itself.
- The Corrupter: Indirect example, but he nearly causes Tempest to fall back into her obsession with restoring her horn and regaining her magic when she sees him heal himself with the Cup of Restoration. Thankfully though, Tempest remembers Flash's words to her previously and decides to let go of her goal when it nearly costs her friends their lives.
- The Dreaded: According to Celaeno, Abas is feared across the pirating world as a scoundrel who's obsessed with plundering, even by their standards.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: His face is covered with scars, which get healed over when he regenerates his youth.
- Immortality Seeker: Disgusted with the fact that his body is slowing down with age, Abas wants to plunder Looter's treasures for an artifact that will restore his youth.
- Karmic Death: He refuses to listen to Starswirl's warning that Looter's tomb is boobytrapped. It leads to his death when Starswirl turns out to be right and the place self-destructs.
- Killed Off for Real: One of few characters to get killed off.
- Mean Boss: When his airship gets sunk by Celaeno's crew, Abas blames his own men, deriding them as "idiots".
- Meaningless Villain Victory: He ultimately gains his goal of of discovering Looter's treasure and restoring his body to its prime with the Cup of Restoration. However, as he and his men attempt to plunder the tomb of the rest of the treasure, they set off the boobytraps Looter setup before his death, which causes the entire cave to collapse and directly results in his death.
- Reptiles Are Abhorrent: He's a humanoid lizard who is as cruel as he is greedy.
Odin
A type of Cyclops known as an Eye-clops, that can absorb magic through his eye.
- Eye Scream: After Flash figures out his weakness, that he can only absorb and fire magic through his eye and can't do both at once, Flash continuously fires a giant magic ball at him. It is too much for Odin to absorb at once and when he finally gives out he goes temporarily blind.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: He and his gang ultimately provided an opportunity for the new guard recruits Flash was training to come together and overcome their fatal flaws.
Saddleberg (Spoilers)
A famous film director.
- Corrupted Character Copy: He is a dark take on the famous film director Steven Spielberg. Just like Spielberg, Saddleberg is known as one of the greatest filmmakers of his time and changed the way movies were made, However, unlike Spielberg, Saddleberg has slowly fallen from his grace and his reputation has suffered, with him now being willing to go to any extreme to get back his glory.
- Engineered Public Confession: He falls victim to this by Ocellus and Smolder. He sees through their initial attempt to trick him into confessing to sabotaging his own film when he spots a small flaw in Ocellus' disguise and takes the tape recorder and microphone she had hidden on her. But when he is gloating to the two of them and confesses how he did it, they reveal they had a second recording device hidden as a salt shaker, and it was wireless meaning he couldn't steal it.
- Hate Sink: Given how he was sabotaging his own film out of fear for his own reputation, and not caring about how he was potentially ruining the chances of Demo and the rest of the crew, which mostly consisted of newbies, to make it big in the film industry, he is not someone who are meant to like or have sympathy for.
- It's All About Me: He's a narcissist who willing to ruin Demo and the crews' chance in the film industry as he was more worried about his own film career.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: He is clearly based on Steven Spielberg.
Monsters
Creatures that inhabit the wilderness of Equestria.
Manticore
- The Bus Came Back: Another manticore returns in Grand Hoof: The Legend Begins when it's last relevant appearance was in The Element of Courage, the very first story in the series.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: It annihilates nearly all of the orphan colts who try to hunt it down with Grand. However, it ends up on the receiving end of this when the adult ponies arrive and chase it off.
- Paper Tiger: It's capable of killing young foals, but a mob of adult ponies could easily ward it off without suffering a single casualty.
- Took a Level in Badass: The manticore encountered by a young Grand Hoof and the orphans is much deadlier than the one in The Element of Courage, where it succeeds in killing the entire party, barring Grand. Justified because the "hunting party" was only composed of orphaned foals, armed with cleaning supplies and completely inexperienced in fighting.
- Would Hurt a Child: Except for Grand, the manticore slaughters all of the orphans that tried to hunt it down, a significant feat in the series, considering how rare child deaths are.
Speed Stingers
- Achilles' Heel: A whole swarm of these is near unstoppable, but they hate any form of light, which Ponyville exploits to drive them away by destroying every cloud and exposing them to sunlight, forcing them to retreat back to the Everfree Forest.
- Beware My Stinger Tail: Their primary method of attacking is to sting their enemy with a sleeping agent to incapacitate them.
- Lightning Bruiser: They are quite durable and their names don't have the "speed" part for nothing.
- Zerg Rush: A swarm of twenty five to thirty attack Ponyville.
Scorpentine
A dangerous creature that stings Scootaloo, poisoning her.
- Beware My Stinger Tail: It has a tail like a scorpion, and it stings Scootaloo with it, forcing Flash, Rainbow Dash, First Aid, and Heather Bloom to hunt it down and extract its venom.
- The Bus Came Back: It originally appears as a seemingly random creature from the Everfree Forest, with Flash and some others needing to hunt it to gets its venom and save Scootaloo. It returns in the season 2 finale, being used as a guard-dog to keep Cadance, Twilight, and Flash in the caves beneath Canterlot.
- Foreshadowing: First Aid notes it is very big for its size, saying even a fully grown Scorpentine should be no more than 15 inches long. It is revealed at the end of "Into the Forest" that it was magically enlarged by Chrysalis.
- It Can Think: It seems like a mindless creature at first glance, only acting on instinct. When it returns at the end of season 2 though, it shows that it remembers Flash and holds a grudge against him for their last encounter.
- It's Personal: When Chrysalis uses it as a guard-dog beneath Canterlot, it recognizes Flash from their last encounter and allows Cadance and Twilight to pass so it can have its revenge against Flash.
- Killed Off for Real: Gets killed when Flash enters the Theta State and slices it several times.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain:
- Due to it stinging Scootaloo in "Into the Forest", it ultimately becomes the reason that Flash and Scootaloo discover that the two of them are brother and sister, which would have remained unknown to them for who knows how long otherwise.
- It lets Twilight and Cadance pass to fight one-on-one with Flash due to its grudge against him. This lets Twilight and Cadance arrive at the wedding in time to expose Chrysalis.
- Would Hurt a Child: It stings Scootaloo for seemingly no reason, putting her life in danger.
Gremlins
Small bipedal creatures that harass the citizens of Ponyville.
- Beat Them at Their Own Game: When everything else fails to get rid of them, the citizens of Ponyville ultimately beat them by pulling their own pranks on them until the Gremlins all abandon Ponyville out of frustration.
- Bizarre Taste in Food: They consume electrical energy like food, which also allows them to turn invisible. A major thunderstorm in Ponywille was what attracted them there in the first place.
- Irony: They enjoy pulling mean-spirited pranks on others, but they become dispirited when others pull their own pranks on them.
- Know When to Fold Them: Once beaten at their own game, they flee as quickly as possible.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Their pranks on Ponyville ultimately create the event that helps mellow Flash out, who had slowly been becoming much stricter due to trying to be more serious after his defeat and near death against Sombra, and as a result was being meaner to some of his friends for goofing off. Thanks to having to prank the Gremlins back to get rid of them he returns to his old self and apologizes to Pinkie for his behavior.
- The Prankster: An entire race of them!
- Verbal Tic: They are only able to say "Gotcha!" According to Twilight, it is the equivalent of a lion's roar or a cat's purr, and it is actually where the term originated from.
- Villainous Breakdown: Once the residents of Ponyville begin ignoring their pranks, they become irritated, which made it much easier for the ponies to pull their own pranks on them.
Screebit
A seemingly tiny brown-furred creature who can actually grow to humongous proportions.
- Achilles' Heel: Extreme heat won't necessarily harm a large Screebit, but it will cause it to sweat and speed up its metabolism. This weakness is exploited by Fire Heart and used to subdue the Screebit.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: It grows up to three times the size of a regular pony and unintentionally attacks Ponyville.
- Big Eater: It managed to consume two whole crates of lemons and oranges in just its regular form. It only gets worse when it grows giant, with it consuming an entire stand of limes and trying to get at Sugarcube Corner.
- Dumb Muscle: Fluttershy explains that when it grows giant its mind is overpowered in the process, causing it to ignore everything that happens around it and solely focus on its basic instincts of consuming as much citrus as possible and maintain its form for as long as possible.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: It has a defense mechanism that causes it to grow giant when it feels threatened. In this form it is practically indestructible, not even Flash's Shining Guardian form so much as slows it down. Luckily it is still vulnerable to heat in this form, and Heart manages to make it hot enough to sweat out the citrus it consumed and revert to normal.
- Non-Malicious Monster: It doesn't have any ill intent towards ponies. As part of its defense mechanism, it needs to consume citrus to remain large and ward off predators, which incites it to attack Ponyville to only consume more citrusy foods.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Citrusy foods, but notably oranges and lemons.
- Sizeshifter: If it consumes citrus, it can grow in size as part of a defense mechanism to ward off predators.
Pukwudgies
- Adaptational Early Appearance: In canon they didn't appear until the season 8 premiere. They make their first appearance in season 6 here, having wandered into Ponyville from the Everfree Forest.
- Cannon Fodder: The Royal Knights have no problem knocking out a single Pukwudgie, in which Lightning's attacks can even defeat entire groups of them. Unfortunately, this is compensated by their large numbers and when Lightning rescues Spike, he had to retreat instead of fighting all of them.
- Know When to Fold 'Em:
- When Lightning easily defeats a large group of them, the last four of them quickly hightail it outta town and back to the Everfree Forest.
- When Spike encounters one of them in the Everfree Forest, it tries to shoot its pins at him, only for Spike to block it with his helmet. Realizing that its main method of attack is useless, the pukwudgie immediately tries to run away.
- Zerg Rush: Their true strength comes from their large numbers. One or two pukwudgies are no problem, but a large group of them can easily cause trouble. Spike is easily able to capture one with nothing but his make-shift "armor" and a butterfly net, but when he encounters an entire group of them he is quickly overwhelmed and requires rescuing from Lightning.
Drakeladon
A creature said to be a crossbreed between a tatzlworm and a hydra.
- Combat Tentacles: It has multiple tongues that it uses to attack.
- Mighty Glacier: The Royal Knights landed most of their hits on it because it moves incredibly slow, but it can take a lot of hits before it retreats, even managing to survive a pile of rocks landing on it.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: It's a mix between a tatzlwurm and a hydra.
- Multiple Head Case: A given, since it's part hydra.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: As Rogue comes to realize, it stealing his Golden Apples and driving him out of the caves he was in eventually led to him finding his home in Ponyville and his Family of Choice with Applejack. In reality, it didn't drive him from his home, but freed him from his prison.
- Super Spit: It can improvise rocks as a weapon, where the heads fill their mouths with them and spit them out as projectiles.
Loucarcolh
A giant snail-like creature that was believed to be extinct, until one was discovered as being responsible for the missing livestock of New Omniara.
- The Dreaded: This creature is so dangerous that even Snap Shutter and Mane Allgood have an Oh, Crap! moment when they discover it.
- Dumb Muscle: While exceptionally powerful and sturdy, it can be easily tricked, which is exploited by Flash when he tricks it into firing amber at its own whiskers and thus preventing it from shooting any more amber.
- Knight of Cerebus: This is the most dangerous creature seen yet in the series and has slaughtered dozens of animals.
- Super Spit: It can spit out amber to capture its prey and eat them.
Camera Trap's Master
The creator of Camera Trap who lives in another dimension.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: It created Camera Trap to deliver ponies to its home dimension, but after Soul convinces Trap that what he is doing is wrong he turns against his master, freeing the ponies he trapped in its dimension and leaving it vulnerable for Flash to destroy.
- Giant Spider: It's a spider the size of the bus, which makes it a tough opponent against Flash.
- Knight of Cerebus: The chapter it appears in is one of the creepier ones in the series, sending Camera Trap to capture ponies for it to devour and invoking a lot of horrors when foals, including Soul, are about to become its next meal.
- No Body Left Behind: Flash uses Lightbringer to completely disintegrate the spider, leaving it absolutely certain that it was killed.
- No Name Given: It is only known as Camera Trap's Master, with its actual name, assuming it even has one, never revealed.
- Satellite Character: It has no dialogue and solely exists to give a motivation for the more tragic Camera Trap.
Wildren
- Kill It with Fire: All of them are killed when future Heart uses his flame powers to light a methane leak and start a fire that consumes them all.
- The Nose Knows: Since wildren are blind, they rely on navigating their surroundings and finding prey by smell. Flash and future Heart cover themselves in horrible smelling Gaia berries to mask their scent and get past them.
- Rodents of Unusual Size: They look like baby rats, but they are the size of dogs.
- You Dirty Rat!: As if eating ponies aren't bad enough, wildren are also blind and hairless that makes them far uglier than normal rats.
Star Spiders
A group of spiders that live in Sharp Paw's castle.
- The Bad Guy Wins: Downplayed; Luna, Springer, Heart, and Soul fail to drive them out of Sharp's castle, but they sucessfully escape without major injury and decide to let them have it as their new home, since they've lived there for a long time anyway. However, Luna comments that the spiders will eventually migrate to find a new home since they can leave the castle now, indicating that the castle will be reclaimed one day.
- Giant Spider: The average star spiders are the size of Ace and Mira combined, while their leader is as huge as a fully grown pony.
- Projectile Webbing: The star spiders primary form of attack is to fire webs at their opponents.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: They have red eyes, an indicator of their aggressiveness.
Earth Golems
Stony giants who hold possession of the last piece needed to revive Princess Amore.
- Non-Malicious Monster: They're more territorial than actively evil. They hold a remnant of Amore to use as a backscratcher and only become aggressive when they realize it's being stolen. They even become passive again when Ruby creates an improved, replacement backscratcher for them to use.
- Rock Monster: As their name implies, they are made entirely of stone and even have some moss growing off of it.
- Sleepyhead: Earth golems only wake up for one day per month and only for twelve hours before resuming their slumber.
Void's Creations (Spoilers)
General
- Evil Knockoff: They are all evil robotic clones of Royal Knights, sharing their appearance and similar skills to them.
- Taught by Experience: Each one of them improves on something that caused the previous one's downfall, progressively becoming more dangerous.
- After Trial-F was defeated by having its core violently ripped open during the battle, Trial-H noticeably has much tougher armor protecting it, to the point where the only thing strong enough to pierce it is its own weapons.
- After the first two Trials were defeated in close range, Trial-T starts fighting from a distance, preventing anyone from getting too close to protect itself and used magical attacks that could not be used against it. It was ultimately defeated when an enraged Flurry Heart blasted it from a distance, destroying its core in one shot.
- Trial-R continued fighting from a distance, but also managed to use shielding to protect itself from long-distance attacks. It was only defeated by a surprise attack from a vast distance away, getting struck by one of Jaden Chalice's arrows.
- Trial-G stops focusing entierly on Flash, and now has data on all the ones the previous Trials fought as well. It also observed and scanned them as they fought, for a later Trial to use should it fail.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: None of them have survived past their debut appearance.
Mecha-Flash/Trial-F
An evil robotic clone of Flash Sentry.
- Knight of Cerebus: Its presence in "The Trial of Flash Sentry" made the chapter more intense to the point of almost sucking out of Flash's life.
- Mistaken Identity: Starlight Glimmer briefly wonders if it is the evil version of Flash Sentry that she, Twilight, and Spike fought in their time traveling adventure, and that the mechanical parts were "upgrades" he gave himself to survive. Springer shoots the idea down though, stating he couldn't sense any soul inside it.
- Pet the Dog: In its search for Flash Sentry, it barges in on Berryshine and Piña Colada in their home. After staring at the two for a moment it simply leaves them alone to continue its search.
- Silent Antagonist: He doesn't talk compared to other villains, only growl.
- Would Hurt a Child: Has no problems of launching attacks on Heart and Soul.
Mecha-Heather/Trial-H
An evil robotic clone of Heather Bloom.
- Green Thumb: Just like the real Heather, it can use vines as a whip and to lift heavy objects to throw at its targets.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Scootaloo realizes that its claws are the only thing powerful enough to penetrate it, remembering how Flash used one of its claws to decapitate another. Scootaloo uses the decapitated claw to stab its chest and force it open, exposing its power source.
- Made of Iron: Quite literally, it's made of metal and takes quite a pounding from Flash and his family before it goes down. Effectively, the only way to damage it is to turn its own weaponry against itself.
- Silent Antagonist: It lets out a couple of pained screams when it is damaged and ultimately destroyed, but otherwise has no lines of dialogue.
Trial-T
An evil robotic clone of Tidal Wave.
- Eviler than Thou: On its way to Ponyville to attack Flash, it easily takes care of a Timberwolf that tries attacking it.
- In-Series Nickname: Averted. It is not called "Mecha-Tidal" like how the two previous Trials were "Mecha-Flash" and "Mecha-Heather", because now the heroes know what the official names of these robotic clones are and have no reason to nickname them.
Trial-R
An evil robotic clone of Ruby Scarlet.
- Blade Lock: It manages to do this several times with Ruby, showing how competent of a fighter it is.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: It first gets shot with an arrow and then cut to pieces by Ruby.
- Fatal Flaw: While excellent at close-range combat, Trial-R cannot counter any ranged attacks, which Jaden exploits by firing an arrow at it. This disorients the clone long enough for Ruby to destroy it.
Trial-G
An evil robotic clone of Grand Hoof.
- Dishing Out Dirt: Just like Grand's earth magic, it can grab huge chunks of rocks from the ground, either tossing them at enemies or shaping them into weapons.
- Eviler than Thou: While passing through Ghastly Gorge, it is attacked by an eel, only for it to easily defeat it.
- Hero Killer: When it is on its last legs, it manages to fire a stone bullet at Solid Script, with Grand Hoof shoving him out of the way and getting struck in the chest by it himself. Grand loses a lot of blood from this and despite everyone's efforts, his heart stops from the shock of being shot, with him actually dying. Though Script manages to revive him by jump-starting his heart.
Trial-C
An evil robotic clone of Cold Steel.
- The Heavy: As part of Void's partnership with the Pony of Shadows, Trial-C is sent to help the latter in service to its master, doing most of the fighting against the Royal Knights.
- Ludicrous Gibs: When all nine Royal Knights unleash their final attack on it, Trial-C explodes into bits and Flash uses its camera eye to send a message to its creator.
- Tranquil Fury: Though it tries to hide it with a veneer of stoicism, Trial-C is notably enraged when Flash mocks its abilities and doesn't consider it a threat.
