My Little Pony Tales/Characters

Starlight

An aspiring teacher and the most responsible. Pink with curly yellow hair.

• All Love Is Unrequited: Has a crush on Ace, which is normally played as unrequited.
• The Barber: She works with her mother as a Beauty Salon and Ice Cream Shop, so she serves as this one more than one occasion.
• The Bartender: The G-Rated version, serving ice cream and sundaes, from the other half of her mom's shop.
• Blue Eyes
• Mane Of Gold
• Only Sane Pony: She is the de facto team leader most of the time for this reason.
• Teacher's Pet: Though she does have friends, and the fact that Ms. Hackney is her personal adviser is kept secret.
• Team Mom

Sweetheart

A sweet-natured pony who hates to see anyone fight. Has a knack for seeing the good in everyone, including her boyfriend Teddy. White with pink hair.

• Curtains Match the Window
• The Heart
• Meaningful Name
• Nice Girl
• Only Sane Pony: She'll take up this role whenever Starlight slacks off on the job.
• Rose-Maned Pony
• Sadistic Choice: Often forced to choose between Teddy and the rest of her friends.
• Take a Third Option: When the other girls and Teddy refuse to attend her birthday party if the other is coming, she just flat out calls it off tearfully.
• Team Mom: Again, second choice after Starlight when the former is occasionally out-of-sorts.
• Verbal Tic: "Really truly"

Melody

The somewhat self-centered lead singer of the Rockin' Beats. Hot pink with bright blue hair.

• Alpha Bitch
• Blue Eyes
• Curtains Match the Window
• Girl Group: "The Rockin' Beats".
• It's All About Me
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Sometimes it'd take some doing to get the heart of gold part to come out, but she'd always come around...eventually.
• You Gotta Have A Blue Mane

Bright Eyes

The 'smart one' who likes looking at things logically whenever possible. Orange haired and cyan-skinned.

• Be a Whore to Get Your Man: Subverted when Melody tarts her up to get Lancer's attention; it completely backfires, leading to a standard Be Yourself moment.
• Granola Girl
• The Smart Guy
• Twice Shy

Patch

The rough-and-ready tomboy who loves soccer and practical jokes, and wants to join the circus. Peach-colored with dark pink hair.

• Book Dumb: If her grades are anything to go on, though it could be a case of Brilliant but Lazy as she does often show signs are being able to learn and adapt quickly...when it's something she's interested in.
• Class Clown
• Eyes of Gold
• Happily Adopted
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Often the heart of gold wasn't too far beneath the surface, but sometimes her friends would have to force it to the surface.
• The Prankster
• Rose-Maned Pony
• Tomboy
• Why Did It Have To Be Mice?: Implied in one episode, where, in a song about secrets, she admits having almost fainted at the sight of a mouse, despite usually being considered brave.

Clover Bloom

Highly superstitious and gullible, as well as a tremendous klutz and crybaby. Prone to wild swings of fortune. Pink-haired and lilac-skinned.

• Curtains Match the Window
• Dojikko/Cute Clumsy Girl
• The Ditz: Superstitious, scattered brained, and indecisive. No pony in this lot fits the profile better.
• I Just Want to Be Special: She's love to be a star ballerina like her sister, but...
• The Klutz
• Only One Name: The only pony to avert this, as her family's surname was mentioned in "Sister of the Bride".
• Rose-Maned Pony
• The Unfavorite: Her deepest fear, however unfounded, thanks to her sister being a talented and graceful ballerina.
• Winds of Destiny Change

Bon Bon

Loves cooking, food and writing in her diary, and dreams of becoming a fashion model. Has a large family with several younger siblings and at least one older sister. Yellow with purple hair.

• Big Eater
• Curtains Match the Window
• Middle Child Syndrome: Worried about this.
• Purple Eyes
• Supreme Chef
• Sweet Tooth

Ace

An athletic, confident jock, the most popular guy at their school. Gold-skinned with blond hair.

• The Ace: Heck, he's NAMED Ace!
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: Aware of this and Invoked it when giving Lancer an Unnecessary Makeover, only to see it crash and burn. Failed to understand why Lancer just acting normally worked where being a jerk failed.
• All Love Is Unrequited: Despite his fangirls, he's most interested in Melody, who doesn't return his affections.
• Big Man on Campus
• Blue Eyes
• Brad Swaile
• The Charmer: Well aware of his popularity and abuses it to get what he wants, such as flirting with Bon-Bon until he got her lemonade recipe.
• Jerkass/Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Likes to introduce conflict just for the sake of competing, and doesn't always play fair, but can work with the girls if necessary.
• Jerk Jock
• Mane of Gold
• The Manly Man to Lancer's Sensitive Guy
• Toxic Friend Influence: How he ropes Teddy into being his partner in crime. Lancer is also susceptible to this, though more likely to turn on him when he feels he's gone too far.
• White-Maned Pretty Boy

Teddy

An impulsive show-off who acts out to get attention. Secretly sleeps with a teddy bear. Has blue skin and an orange mohawk.

• Blue Eyes
• Cool Shades
• Dark Secret: How he views his teddy bear, as he's afraid the other guys would never let him hear the end of it.
• Fiery Redhead
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold
• Security Blanket
• The Manly Man to Lancer's Sensitive Guy
• Ted Baxter: Likes to show off and boast, but he often isn't as great as he claims to be.
• Tsundere: Only feels comfortable showing his softer side around his girlfriend Sweetheart.

Lancer

Shyer than the other boys and prefers reading to roughhousing. Though the guys can influence him to act up, he frequently sides with the girls, partly to impress his crush, Bright Eyes. Has dark blue skin and crimson hair.

• Blue Eyes
• The Complainer Is Always Wrong: Subverted, as he usually disapproves of Ace's bad behavior and is shown to be completely right in condemning it.
• Fiery Redhead: Subverted, he's the quietest and most polite of the boys.
• The Lancer: Is Ace's Foil and complete opposite, and often calls him out when he does something wrong.
• Lonely Rich Kid: His family is very wealthy, but his parents spend more time traveling than they do with him.
• Nice Guy
• Redundant Romance Attempt: Submitted to an Unnecessary Makeover into a Jerk Jock in order to get Bright Eyes' attention when she already had a crush on him. Successfully made the Relationship Upgrade after choosing to be himself.
• The Sensitive Guy to Ace or Teddy's Manly Man
• Spoiled Sweet
• Twice Shy

Miss Hackney

• Cool Teacher: Not an obvious example, but she definitely has her moments. She is also definitely this to Starlight.
• Crazy Prepared: She records all of her lessons on tape and keeps them in her desk ready for use should she fall ill.
• The Mentor: She serves as this to Starlight, and sometimes to the other ponies.
• Reasonable Authority Figure
• Stern Teacher: Believe it or not, this is actually a part of what makes her a Cool Teacher.

The Mane Sevens' Families

• Flat Character: While they show up frequently, there's not really much to them. In fact, of the whole lot, Clover's father was the one ot receive the most characterization.
• Good Parents: The show did tend to dabble in many, many conventions of children's shows and sitcoms of it's time. It did, however, offer a refreshing take concerning the parents of the girls. They weren't dorky, busy, abusive, embarrassing, evil, overbearing, overprotective, neglectful, only human, absent or dead (excepting only Patch's case for the latter, and she's Happily Adopted), squicky, lost, or even remotely useless. Rather the girls all come from loving and healthy households that offer legitimately good advice and any punishments they dish out are almost always warranted.
• Parental Favoritism: Completely averted. The parents are Good Parents that love their children equally.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Pretty much all the parents shown.
• Starving Artist: Clover's father.