The UK comics based on the My Little Pony G1 toys use the same characters as the specials, movie, and cartoon, but it's its own continuity and often interprets the characters quite differently, as well as continuing to feature the earlier characters alongside the later ones.
When making changes and additions, be sure the information comes from the comics or the storybooks set in the comicverse. Not everything from the cartoon or toy packaging applies here.
For tropes pertaining to characters as they appear in applicable animated media, see My Little Pony TV Specials and My Little Pony 'n Friends.
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Majesty
The Queen of the ponies, residing in Dream Castle. She is in nearly every story, sometimes giving advice and often taking direct action. She has four golden horseshoes that increase her power. To enemies, she grants mercy to those who deserve it but those who don't have been sentenced to a Fate Worse than Death.
- Authority Equals Asskicking: Queen of the Ponies, and extremely powerful.
- Beware the Nice Ones: She's kind and good to her subjects, and you wouldn't know what she's capable of if you saw her with them. But she's actually immensely powerful and possesses zero mercy for the genuinely evil.
- Big Good: As the ruling Queen of the Ponies, she plays a prominent role in helping and protecting her subjects in nearly every story.
- A Father to His Men: As expected from the Big Good of this sort of story, she's like a mother to her mares. The ponies would do anything for her, as well.
- Good Is Not Soft: She's a good queen to her people and genuinely cares about them, but genuinely evil villains receive no mercy from her.
- The High Queen: She is a benevolent and motherly Queen to her Pony subjects.
- Karmic Death: Some times her punishments are extremely karmic. For example, Wanda the witch turned several of her subjects into inanimate trees. Majesty did the exact same thing to her.
- Rhymes on a Dime: Her strongest spells require her to say a little rhyme.
- Taken for Granite: She has been known to punish evildoers in this manner, turning them to stone or some other inanimate form. Sometimes they explicitly will remain conscious and aware forever.
- Truly Single Parent: To Baby Lucky, who she created with her magic.
- World's Strongest Man: Is far and away the most powerful character in the setting. The only villains to ever outclass her in any way were a group of trolls who were all powerful within their own domain. So she lured them out and turned them to soap suds.
Spike
A small dragon, a baby by dragon standards though his maturity level is about that of the ponies. He is often at Majesty's side; however, he does have dragon friends and relatives he often visits.
- The One Guy: He's the only male character in the non-villainous cast until Lucky comes along.
Baby Lucky
Created entirely with magic by Majesty, he is treated like a son by her and like a brother by Spike. He and Spike play noisy games and go on several adventures together. Though an earth pony, he has impressive magical powers that he usually doesn't know he's using.
- Born Lucky: It's in the name. His cutie mark is a horseshoe.
- Catchphrase: When something good happens for him, he'll say "Who's a lucky boy?" However, once in a while it's not "lucky." There's also "Happy go lucky" (in the same context as "who's a lucky boy." Forgive him for not knowing what the phrase actually means; he's minutes old the first time!) When he says this, it causes a different magical effect to happen, such as bringing toys to life, etc. He doesn't know he's doing it, and no one will tell him, as Majesty feels he's not ready to know.
- Creating Life Is Awesome: Again, Majesty magically conjured him into existence. However, nothing bad comes of this, and he isn't treated as anything less than a full character.
- Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: A bowtie instead of a tail bow marks him as a boy.
- 13 Is Unlucky: Inverted; according to Gypsy, for him thirteen is lucky.
- Winds of Destiny, Change!: Sometimes he brings good luck to those around him, though it's not something he directly controls.
Twilight
A mysterious, powerful unicorn who is rarely seen by day. When she must travel by day, she hides herself in a magical mist. She is greatly trusted by Majesty.
- Make a Wish: She can call on the power of the stars to grant wishes.
- New Powers as the Plot Demands: Really, she can call on the power of the stars to do pretty much anything, making her seem even stronger than Majesty. Sometimes, we get references to "her" stars, and she is able to either create or bring out stars at will.note
- No-Sell: Twilight was once, with no explanation, the only pony not affected by a spell that had turned everyone else into stone. Another time, Majesty sent her to protect Lucky from being bewitched by Will-o'-the-Wisp; Twilight was called on simply because Twilight wouldn't be in any danger from them. Once again, what's a danger to all others isn't to her because… just because.
- Shrinking Violet: The narration frequently tells us that she is very shy, hence the "mystery figure shrouded in mist" routine, though she doesn't really show this quality when she does interact with the others. Someone who'd hide in her own personal fog purely for fear that someone might pass by and say "Hey, Twi, what's up?" wouldn't go to a party, or act much like any other pony when she is approached, but Twilight does, just so long as it's after dark. However, before dark, good luck finding her if you're anyone but Majesty (she does make a rare daylight appearance for a wedding, though).
- Time Master: She once called on the stars to return time to the previous day and have the For Want Of A Nail problem go a different way. (Adding the general mystery surrounding her, she didn't directly influence things to happen differently, like warning someone. They just… did.)
Shady
- Adaptational Superpower Change: In the comics, her sunglasses allow her to see hidden things. In the show, she has no powers of any sort.
- True Sight: Her sunglasses show her many things that others can't see.
Lemon Drop
Ponyland's number one jumper, brave and brash and a bit temperamental.
- Badass Normal: Direct use of magic wasn't just for unicorns in the comics. Lemon Drop is one of few ponies who never does anything magical. She is, however, the best jumper among the ponies, to the point of having competition medals, and going up against creatures with springs for legs and not caring if that obstacles were barbed wire or razor wire.
- Graceful Loser: Despite her pride, when she lost a race due to getting caught up in some stinging nettles, she is gracious to the winner.
- Nobody Calls Me "Chicken"!: The reason she ran the dangerous course: She was dared to; all ponykind didn't hang in the balance or anything.
- Running Gag: Someone was always knocking over the fences she set up to practice jumping. (Hilariously, once, it was Sundance, who, in the show, was the one noted for jumping skills.)
- Serious Business: As you can guess by this point, she takes her position as the best jumper pretty seriously, and unlike any athlete MLP character until FIM Rainbow Dash came along, we really see that she gets her skill by dedication, hard work, and lots of practice. Also, once, the ponies made an obstacle course for the baby ponies to play with; she made some obstacles to her standard, and if you couldn't clear them you usually ended facedown in the mud.
- The Quest: She once had to go on a solo quest to get a MacGuffin out of an evil sorceror's castle (she has to win the sorceror's challenge to get it, and she's not allowed to have help.)
Applejack
She has a love of apples and clumsiness bordering on Walking Disaster Area. Sometimes, though, she shows that there's more to her than meets the eye.
- Big Damn Heroes: She once rescued a group of ponies from an evil wizard all on her own.
- Big Eater: She can never get enough apples. However, sometimes she does pick them (not for herself) or make treats with them.
- The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much: The narration in "Applejack and the Evil Wizard" aka "Applejack's Amazing Adventure" states that she collided with said evil wizard's throne and coincidentally a crevasse opened at that moment into which the wizard fell. The image shows Applejack deliberately kicking him into a preexisting crevasse.
- Cute Clumsy Girl: To the point that you could say knocking things over is her true special talent. The "Who's A Silly Pony" meme you keep hearing? It came from a kids' sing-along song about this Applejack. "Who's a silly pony? You're a silly pony! Who is? You is, Applejack!/Bumping into posts and falling into trenches, who is? You is, Applejack!" (If you know about this one, AJ's moment of falling off the bridge in the show is a typical moment; however, the show taken alone does not establish her as clumsy. Her only accident was crossing a rickety old bridge about which they'd already basically said "this isn't a good idea, but it's the only way across." Comic AJ, on the other hand? Three words: DERPY WITHOUT WINGS.)
- Good Is Not Soft: She semi-famously (semi because the comic isn't widely known, but it's considered pretty epic by those who do know) disposed of the evil wizard mentioned under Big Damn Heroes by kicking him down a deep crevice. (The narration tries to soften it, claiming that the pit just happened to open under the wizard at that point, but this is another case where the narration disagrees with what we see: the panel clearly shows AJ rearing up and sending him to his doom with her front hooves. All that's missing is a cry of "This is Spartaaaaa!")
Cotton Candy
The Ponyland nurse. Her love of eating flowers often gets her into trouble.
- Big Eater: When it comes to flowers, at least. She can often be found with a mouthful of 'em. Once, she wore a dress made with real flowers... but then she got hungry. Another time, a hat with flowers as decoration was halfway gobbled up before Cotton Candy noticed the "hat" part.
- Hidden Depths: The nurse thing. Most of her appearances revolve around her being a "silly pony" to rival Applejack who spends her days being chased out of gardens for indulging her sweet tooth. Then one day Applejack needs saving from a magic spell that can only be cured with certain herbs, and after being the one who learns what to do to save her, she decides to continue learning about medicinal herbs and eventually becomes Ponyland's official nurse. From then on, if somepony is injured or sick, what do you do? Go find Cotton Candy. Don't think this means your flowers are any safer, though.
- Hypocritical Humor: "There goes Applejack, off to the orchard again. You'd think she'd get tired of eating apples!" Says the pony who is seldom seen without a mouthful of flowers. She's immediately called on it.
- The Medic: Is made the Ponyland nurse after learning from the "Princess of Herbs" to cure Applejack in one story, and is occasionally seen in this capacity afterward - even non-ponies will come to her from far away to be healed with her medicinal herbs and plants, which she has a roomful of. She manages not to eat them, apparently.
Moondancer
She is often seen with other night-related characters such as the Sandman and the Man in the Moon. She lights the night and often acts as a guide.
- Disproportionate Retribution: For eating her flowers, she once put a spell on Cotton Candy to make her sleep, long enough for her to be considered missing and for everyone to be worried. (It's a reference to her toy packaging blurb, in which she was going to make her sleep until winter and had to be talked out of it. Now that's cold. But the actual comic doesn't specify how long it would last.)
- Light The Way: Making light at night is her most-used spell, though as with everyone she's had other one-off powers.
Firefly
One of the comic characters who is pretty much the same as her cartoon self, she is quite brave, and loves to perform acrobatic midair stunts.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: When all the ponies were called to the castle, they assumed there was a crisis, and when it turns out that there isn't one, she was disappointed because she had hoped that someone needed her help.
- Gotta Catch 'Em All: one of her mostly-solo adventures had her seeking Majesty's four golden magic horseshoes, which had been stolen. (Curiously, in the cartoon, there was also a story revolving around finding four magic golden horseshoes. Mimic was magically connected to them and would die if they weren't brought back together. They belonged to her ancestor, an ancient legendary unicorn. However, that unicorn looked nothing like Majesty; no Mythology Gag for you.)
- Improbable Piloting Skills: Well, not piloting as it's with her own wings, but it's the same idea. Her midair stunts give gravity (and the fact that a horse's body isn't the most aerodynamic) the finger.
Sunbeam
- Fun Personified: While not quite as wacky as Surprise (who isn't as much of a major character in the comics), she loves planning parties and other such events. To her there's no such thing as the wrong time for a party. She's also organized a large royal wedding at least once.
Masquerade
- Master of Disguise: She is one herself, and makes disguises for anyone else who needs them as well. One time the baby ponies mistake an actual threat for Masquerade playing a trick on them, though.
The Baby Ponies
- Clones Are People, Too: See Truly Single Parent.
- Expy: Pretty much all of them are named "Baby [insert existing adult pony's name here]" and are perfectly identical in personality to their mothers (Baby Firefly does acrobatic aerial moves, Baby Applejack loves apples, Baby Shady's got magic sunglasses that show her stuff, etc.) and with the same cutie marks, only simplified (eg. Baby Applejack has four apples compared to her mother's seven. Depending on the Artist the number can vary for both Applejacks, though, and that goes for all the others.)
- Strong Family Resemblance: Again, see Expy. And as to why, see "Truly Single Parent." Beyond even that is Baby Lickety-Split. Her cousin has the same name and the exact same design, except for a very slightly darker shade of red and a buck tooth to match the new "First Tooth Baby Pony" version of the toy. (In the show, there's only one of her, and the fact that she suddenly had an overbite near the end of the series went uncommented on.)
- Truly Single Parent:
- Baby Firefly and Baby Glory are seen being created from a magic mirror in response to their the original Firefly and Glory's wishes. Presumably the other baby ponies who are exactly like their adult counterparts but smaller were created the same way.
- The non-clone baby ponies fit under this too, as Lucky was created by Majesty and the Newborn Twins were drawn into existence. (However, as one drew the outlines and another traced them to make them sets of twins, and colored and named them, they have two "parents.") The Apple Delight set of "Loving Family Ponies" who pop up in one comic are seemingly the only case of ponies that have a mom and a dad. Though it's naturally never stated, magic being responsible for most new ponies makes a lot of sense given the Lady Land nature of the franchise.
