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📅 Updated:2024-10-21
🕒 Created:2011-05-13
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Description

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is the fourth iteration of Hasbro Inc.'s My Little Pony toy line and media franchise, which included an animated series that ran for nine seasons from October 2010 to October 2019, a theatrical film, two hour long specials, and a series of animated shorts; as well as a series of spin off movies.
Friendship is Magic follows the daily lives and adventures of a cast of predominantly female equine characters in the magical land of Equestria. The show saw unexpectedly high ratings, developing a large fanbase outside of the historical My Little Pony target demographic of 6-10 year old girls, and becoming a pop culture phenomenon. For a time, this popularity was a subject of significant internet discussion and controversy.
Important Note: This tag should not be applied to any fan characters or fan content, including alternate interpretations of canon characters such as Fallout Equestria
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Official Art Style/Canon Form

  • Pony characters drawn in the official style of the show, or similar to it should almost always be tagged as feral, even when standing upright or sitting in a "human-like" way
  • Pony characters loosely based on the canon proportions/style may also be tagged as semi-anthro in some cases, if their anatomy is altered (eg. with an upright posture along with the addition of humanoid shoulders, hips, and/or torso, while still having hooves instead of hands and feet)

Anthrofied

List of Characters

Note: Outside of the Major Characters section, this is an incomplete list, see here for a full list of all Friendship is Magic characters or This external list of ponies
Major characters
Characters that are the focus throughout all, or multiple seasons of the series. With few exceptions, every episode will "star" at least one of characters below.
The "Mane Six"
The cast of six pony protagonists that the series primarily revolves around, "mane six" is a popular pun-based fan nickname for the cast:
Other Major Characters
    • Spike, Twilight's "pet" dragon and assistant, who effectively acts as a little brother to Twilight
    • Starlight Glimmer, the recurring "big bad" antagonist of season 5, is reformed and becomes a major character in season 6 on
The Cutie Mark Crusaders (CMC)
A trio of filly ponies that star in multiple episodes across the series, regularly acting as a "second cast"
    • Apple Bloom, Applejack's younger sister
    • Scootaloo, nobody's younger sister, although Rainbow Dash often acts as her surrogate big sister
    • Sweetie Belle, Rarity's younger sister
The "Young Six"
Six students of Twilight Sparkle's Friendship School, which star in multiple episodes during seasons 8 and 9
Recurring Secondary Characters
"Supporting Characters" that make frequent appearances throughout the series, and across multiple seasons. They may serve a major role in the plot of several episodes, either as the major antagonist, or as the deuteragonist to one or more of the major character(s), in some instances, they may act as the protagonist of a single episode. They are also mentioned or make frequent background/minor appearances in episodes that they are not a major part of.
Alicorn Princesses
  • Princess Celestia Twilight Sparkle's mentor, and monarch of Equestria (a title shared with her sister), controls the sun
  • Princess Luna monarch of Equestria, sister of Princess Celestia, controls the moon
    • Nightmare Moon her "evil state" seen at the beginning of the Friendship is Magic series
  • Princess Cadance, ruler of the Crystal Empire, wife of Shining Armor, and Twilight Sparkle's sister-in-law, "princess of love"
Reformed Antagonists
  • Discord, God of Chaos and mix-match species draconequus, villain in season two; later reformed, becomes a recurring character, befriends Fluttershy
  • Trixie / Trixie Lulamoon, traveling stage magician, an antagonist in season 1, and villain in season 3, becomes a recurring character in season 6, and befriends Starlight Glimmer
Recurring Antagonists
  • Queen Chrysalis, the shapeshifting Changeling queen, villain of the season 2 and season 6 finales, appears in season 8, and is one of the recurring major antagonists in season 9
    • Shutter Bug, Chrysalis' pony disguise, only seen in season 8 episode 13
  • Cozy Glow, a scheming filly pegasus, first appears in season 8, one of the major recurring antagonists in season 9
  • Lord Tirek, a centaur who absorbs magic, villain of the season 4 finale, one of the major recurring antagonists in season 9
  • King Sombra, an evil unicorn, former king of the Crystal Empire, villain of the season 3 premiere, briefly reappears in season 5, and antagonist of the season nine premiere
Other Recurring Characters
  • Apple Family
  • Princess Ember, dragoness, ruler of the Dragon Lands
  • Shining Armor, Canterlot guard captain, Twilight Sparkle's brother, husband to Princess Cadance
    • Flurry Heart, infant daughter of Shining Armor and Princess Cadance
  • Thorax, a "good changeling", first appearing at the beginning of season 6, and becomes leader of the changelings in the finale of the same season
  • Zecora, a herbalist zebra that lives in a hut outside of Ponyville
  • Maud Pie, Pinkie Pie's monotone voiced, geologist sister
Minor characters
"Minor characters" includes characters who may have recurring speaking roles, and interact with main/secondary characters, but have little screen time, or impact on the plot of the episodes they feature in.
This section also includes characters who act as a "low level" antagonist, or characters whose relationship to a major character or personal problem is the main conflict in one or two episodes.
  • Babs Seed, a cousin to the Apple family
  • Braeburn, cousin to the Apple family
  • Cheerilee Ponyville elementary teacher, teaches the CMC
  • Diamond Tiara, classmate of CMC and town rich girl, almost always appears with...
  • Gilda, gryphon, (former?) friend of Rainbow Dash
  • Sunset Shimmer, unicorn/human, main villain of first Equestria Girls movie and protagonist of subsequent Equestria Girls films, only makes a very brief appearance in season 9 of Friendship is Magic
  • Moondancer, antisocial recluse, first mentioned in the premiere episode of the series, later appears in season 5
  • Pipsqueak, classmate of the CMC
Pets
  • Angel, Fluttershy's thoroughly evil rabbit
  • Gummy, Pinkie Pie's toothless alligator
  • Opalescence, Rarity's cat
  • Owlowiscious, Twilight Sparkle's owl
  • Tank, Rainbow Dash's turtle and/or tortoise
  • Winona, the Apple family's collie
Background Characters
Characters which appear throughout the series in the background of scenes, often in crowd shots, and sometimes briefly interacting with or reacting to the main characters - where they may have a very minor speaking role (one or two lines). Unlike "minor characters" background characters are rarely ever referred to by name by other characters, and rarely have more than a few seconds of screen time outside of the background.
While there are dozens of unnamed and named background characters (usually only officially given names through merchandise); the set of background characters below have names and personalities that mostly, or entirely originated from the fandom, are frequently depicted in fan art, and are especially notable for having their fandom provided names and characterizations canonized in the season five episode Slice of Life:
  • Derpy Hooves, a clumsy, scatterbrained cross-eyed pegasus, also officially named as "Muffins", and "Ditzy Doo", works as a "mailmare"
  • Doctor Whooves, a pony with a resemblance to the Tenth Doctor, appears to be an inventor and scientist
  • Lyra Heartstrings, excitable Ponyville resident, often used for background gags, often seen alongside her best friend...
  • Bon Bon, also named as Sweetie Drops, a secret agent, usually seen alongside Lyra Heartstrings, her "subtly" implied girlfriend (and later wife)
  • Octavia, professional cello player, classical music aficionado, roommates with Vinyl Scratch
  • Vinyl Scratch, or her stage name DJ-P0N-3, mute electronic music loving DJ, roommates with Octavia

Species of Friendship is Magic

Friendship is Magic includes a vast selection of real world animals, anthropomorphic characters, and a variety of mythological creatures from various cultures including, but not limited to dragons, gryphons, and hippogriffs. The following only lists varieties of ponies, and species unique to My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic:
Ponies
The dominant species of Equestria, and the majority of the cast:
  • Pony
    • Earth pony - a "basic" pony, without wings or a horn
    • Unicorn - a horned pony, able to use magic, which is most often in the form of telekinesis; teleportation, conjuring objects, and other spells using unicorn magic are also shown
    • Pegasus - a winged pony, able to fly, sometimes at unnatural speed (fast enough to break the sound barrier); also capable of walking on clouds, and manipulating the weather
    • Alicorn - a pony with both wings and a horn, considered beings of exceptional magical power, alicorns in FiM are usually royalty, with the title of princess
    • Bat pony - ponies with bat ears, bat wings, fangs and slit pupils
Unique to Friendship is Magic
The following are original species of the Friendship is Magic world:

Locations in Friendship is Magic

See also

My Little Pony franchise
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