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* '''Size-Shifting''': Discord can vary in size from very large to being small enough to fit in a pony's ear.
 
* '''Size-Shifting''': Discord can vary in size from very large to being small enough to fit in a pony's ear.
 
* '''Shape-Shifting''': Discord has taken many odd forms, some of which defy physics or parody characters.
 
* '''Shape-Shifting''': Discord has taken many odd forms, some of which defy physics or parody characters.
* '''Gesturify''': Sometimes, Discord has to require the use of snapping his fingers whenever it comes to most of the reality distorting powers he owns by far; otherwise, they would not function correctly as he expects them to. This is a sub-power that comes with his magic in general.
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* '''Gesturify''': Sometimes, Discord requires the use of snapping his fingers whenever it comes to most of the reality distorting powers he owns by far; otherwise, they would not function correctly as he expects them to. This is a sub-power that comes with his magic in general.
 
* '''Probability Alteration / Logic Control''': Discord can make extremely unlikely events occur within his vicinity and alter the laws of logic to his whim.
 
* '''Probability Alteration / Logic Control''': Discord can make extremely unlikely events occur within his vicinity and alter the laws of logic to his whim.
 
* '''Telekinesis''': Discord has enough telekinetic skill to lift the entire [[Mane Six]] up magically.
 
* '''Telekinesis''': Discord has enough telekinetic skill to lift the entire [[Mane Six]] up magically.

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Hero Overview


Make sense? Oh, what fun is there in making sense?
~ Discord's famous phrase

Discord is a recurring character in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. He is one of Twilight Sparkle's best friends.

Personality

Discord talking and tricking Rainbow Dash S2E1

Discord telling Rainbow Dash a riddle

Discord basically has the traits of a typical on-and-off hero.

He is a mischievous, sneaky, wacky trickster who effortlessly pulls pranks on his targets through the use of his powerful magic, illusions, and hypnotism; however, he has learned to consider his victims' feelings more though. He has a sense of showmanship and drama, preferring to be playful towards his victims before getting down to business. He laughs and amuses himself with his magical mischief, hardly at the cost of others. Fortunately, after having had his fun, he will switch it back to normal. He will also gladly spread fun chaos to anypony he can to create happiness and cheer in Ponyville.

Discord laughing it up S02E02

Discord spreading chaos in Ponyville

In his first appearance in "The Return of Harmony Part 1 and 2," Discord breaks free from his stone imprisonment, takes the Elements of Harmony, and turns the ponies against each other, making Twilight miserable and depressed; in the end, he was overpowered and turned back to stone by the Mane Six. In "Keep Calm and Flutter On," upon Princess Celestia's request, Discord was released from his stone imprisonment by the Mane Six to give him a chance to behave himself. He has begun to mellow out after meeting Fluttershy and admitting he has never had a real friend before, preferring to remain best friends with the ponies instead of thrive in total mischief and will aid them from time to time.

Discord --these past three days-- S5E22

Discord's true good side

While a thoughtful, goodhearted friend, he can sometimes be a braggart, arrogant, selfish, cocky, self-centered, stubborn, overconfident, and a bit of a liar. Despite having a fondness for chaos and mischief, he can become easily annoyed if things do not go his way.

Being a symbol of chaos, he dislikes order, cleanliness, and predictability. However, he has taken orders before, as well as cleaning up (i.e. taking a shower) and has been somewhat predictable at times. In "Discordant Harmony," Fluttershy states she is pretty sure Discord hates gravity; however, he is aware of the necessity of gravity and actually likes it (as long as he can cause mischief). Overall, he will indulge in these things, despite his chaotic persona.

Ironically, he has a habit of telling bad or unfunny jokes. This is demonstrated in his comedy act in "Make New Friends but Keep Discord" and when he tries to distract a group of changelings guards in "To Where and Back Again - Part 2."

He also despises being given the nickname "Dipcord."

He uses less contractions in his vocabulary oftentimes, giving him a somewhat sophisticated, charismatic, archaic tone to his status as a "chaos god".

Fluttershy and Discord laughing upside-down S7E12

Discord laughing with Fluttershy

Overall, following the first past episodes, Discord has revealed himself to be a good person at heart.

Appearance

Discord is a draconequus. He has the head of a pony (even though his head is more goat than pony). He has a deer antler, goat horn, goat fang, goatee, and mane. He has a right lion paw, a left eagle claw, a right light purple bat wing, a left light blue pegasus wing, a right light green lizard foot, and a left deer antler.

Reception

Discord received positive feedback from fans and others and was one of the most loved main characters of the series.

Powers and Abilities

As an embodiment of chaos and mischief, Discord is borderline omnipotent. He has manifested a number of abilities and skills over the course of the series – abilities he has shown so far include:

  • Hybrid Physiology: As a draconequus, Discord has a body made of different parts of animals and creatures.
  • Nigh Omnipotence: The source of Discord's reality warping abilities and among other powers, is the power to be near the pinnacle of omnipotence, which makes him the most powerful character in the series. He would may also flawlessly restore anything to its original state, possess a complete (or almost complete) and utter collection of powers, heal or fix anything without fail, or even control space-time or cosmic elements at will if given the proposition.
  • Chaos Magic: Discord can alter reality in many ways and control the laws of nature and the physics of the world with his magic.
  • Reality Restoration: Discord can restore reality to its original state. Whichever is more efficient, this can count as a power to balance his reality affecting magic or a counteractive ability to use against other reality warpers.
  • Size-Shifting: Discord can vary in size from very large to being small enough to fit in a pony's ear.
  • Shape-Shifting: Discord has taken many odd forms, some of which defy physics or parody characters.
  • Gesturify: Sometimes, Discord requires the use of snapping his fingers whenever it comes to most of the reality distorting powers he owns by far; otherwise, they would not function correctly as he expects them to. This is a sub-power that comes with his magic in general.
  • Probability Alteration / Logic Control: Discord can make extremely unlikely events occur within his vicinity and alter the laws of logic to his whim.
  • Telekinesis: Discord has enough telekinetic skill to lift the entire Mane Six up magically.
  • Hypnotic Magic: Discord can corrupt others and is skilled at hypnotic magic. He can even outright take control of somepony's mind, though he prefers not to.
  • Telepathy / Vast Knowledge: In "The Return of Harmony," Discord somehow knew the Mane Six's names, strengths, and weaknesses without ever having met them before. He also knew about Twilight's princess coronation and the "Winter Wrap Up Song," despite not being there, and he knew how Twilight felt about her role as princess. However, he did not predict that Tirek would betray him, so he is not omniscient nor even semi omniscient. As well, he tends to forget some things as he still is not perfect, despite his powers. He has even seen the Cutie Mark Crusaders before, though he has never really met or interacted with them and therefore does not know who they are.
  • Fourth Wall Awareness: Discord seems to be aware he is in a cartoon, even though he does not explain he does. He has even referred to others as "secondary characters."
  • Teleportation: Discord can teleport from one place to another. He can also teleport a creature or an object to him as well. He can also make objects disappear out of thin air. As well, he can use this to teleport across alternate dimensions, such as his own personal dimension and the real world of "Ogres and Oubliettes."
  • Creation: Discord is skilled with creation magic – he can create creatures, objects, and plants at will.
  • Levitation: Discord can float in the air.
  • Flight: Discord can fly by using his wings. He can also achieve a supersonic flight similar to Rainbow Dash's.
  • Replication: Discord can make copies of anypony and anything, including himself.
  • Animation: Discord can bring any inanimate object to life.
  • Appendage Generation: Discord can grow extra body parts.
  • Anatomical Liberation: Discord can make parts of his body come apart and is able to move them while detached so. He also used this to remove Celestia's tail without her noticing, though he did put her tail back on afterwards.
  • Object Possession: Discord can possess inanimate objects. He can also appear magically in various objects.
  • Transmogrification: Discord can alter the appearance of creatures and objects, such as giving rabbits deer legs, making a squirrel and a rabbit large and hulking, and turning apples into oranges and oranges into apples.
  • Matter Ingestion: Discord can consume matter, such as glass, a painting, and a tea cup.
  • Portal Creation: Discord can open portals to different dimensions by using his eagle claw to cut through the fabric of reality.
  • Disease Generation: Discord can infect others with diseases and illnesses.
  • Blue Flame Generation: Discord can generate blue flames.
  • Smoke Generation: Discord can display creating amount of smoke to cover a background.
  • Color Alteration: Discord can fade others' colors, including his own.
  • Thought Manifestation: Discord can show his thoughts by using clouds of smoke.
  • Enhanced Strength: Discord is deceptively strong, enough so to take a tree out of the ground and taking a big rock out of the ground with just one arm.
  • Enhanced Hearing: Discord can hear from far away.
  • Weather Magic: Discord can control the weather by making rain clouds go crazy, causing thunderstorms or creating cotton candy chocolate rain clouds.
  • Animal Control: Discord can control the animals' behavior by making them go wild unnaturally.
  • Daytime Control: Discord can control celestial objects at will to bring about daytime or nighttime.
  • Gravity Control: Discord can make things float in the air and make objects lighter or heavier.
  • Time Travel: Discord can project himself and others into events that have occurred in the past.
  • Bubble Imprisonment: Discord can imprison others in magic bubbles, which is a similar trait to Tirek.
  • Prehensile Tail: Discord can use his tail to hold things and can even make his tail tuft into a hand.
  • Cartoon Physics: Discord can use cartoon physics, such as stretching his limbs, deflating like a balloon, moving very fast, turning his mouth upside down, and appearing out of unexpected places.
  • Magic Imbalance Detection: Discord has the natural ability to sense major disturbances in magic, such as magic being stolen or transferred into others.
  • Immortality: Discord is somewhat immortal as he has stayed in his stone prison for thousands of years without dying, even though he will die eventually. He is also centuries older than Celestia and Luna.
  • Master Trickster: Discord likes to deceive others and have them do his bidding without even realizing it. However, there have been times where he gets caught tricking them.
  • Old Prime: Despite his age, Discord is skilled at many things, such as water and ice skating.

Weaknesses

Discord's strengths are many while his weaknesses are very few. Attacking him head-on is usually doomed to fail as he can easily thwart any assault through his reality-warping power. However, he is vulnerable to the Elements of Harmony, which have turned him to stone twice in "The Return of Harmony Part 1 and 2." Using the Elements also dispels all of his magic. In turn, this returns things to their rightful places and shapes.

One important weakness of Discord is himself: He tends to be overconfident and assured of his own invincibility that he will not go all-out against enemies. In addition, his tendency to underestimate opponents means he can be taken by surprise and beaten before having the chance to react. While intelligent, he is not immune to being tricked as in "Twilight's Kingdom Part 1 and 2," he fell for Tirek's proposition to join him and become allies, not suspecting Tirek would betray him in the end. Also, prior to befriending the Mane Six, he secretly always wanted a best friend, which allowed Fluttershy to sway him towards befriending the ponies.

In "Discordant Harmony," it is shown that if Discord exhibits any mundane behavior more than his mischievous persona, he will slowly fade from existence, showing not being chaotic in nature will end up in him being destroyed. Fortunately, Fluttershy manages to make him snap out of it and was returned to his natural mischievous behavior, thus saving his life. This is why he should not avoid his position of what he represents (or at least for a long time). However, what actually happens after fading out remains unknown for the time being.

Episodes and Appearances

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Season 2

Season 3

Season 4

Season 5

Season 6

Season 7

Season 8

Films

Discord Cameo

Discord's cameo in My Little Pony The Movie

Comics

Friendship is Magic

Micro-Series

Friends Forever

FIENDship is Magic

Specials

Trivia

  • Due to his extreme mischief and fondness of chaos, Discord is often thought to be an antagonist. This is definitely not true as the series has revealed that Discord was always just a misunderstood trickster and was never villainous (not even during "The Return of Harmony" or "Keep Calm and Flutter On").
  • Discord is the second character in the series to reveal their true good colors, the first being Nightmare Moon.
  • He is the only being in the series so far who has been proven to be completely immune to Fluttershy's stare. Given that the stare has in the past reduced a full-grown dragon into submission and overpowered the magical stone gaze of a cockatrice, Discord shrugging it off like it was nothing is a testament to his incredible power.
  • He made a cameo appearance in the first ever fan-made My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic episode "Double Rainboom" as a front cover of the book Blossom was reading in the ending credits.
  • He is mentioned in the fan-made My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic mini-film titled My Little Dashie.
  • He can be seen in the Season 4 and 5 intro in Fluttershy's house through the window.
  • He is one of the most powerful characters in the series; the others are Celestia, Luna, Sombra, and Tirek.
  • Discord is similar to Q, another character portrayed by John de Lancie. However, one difference between the two is that Discord was far more mischievous in his first appearance, as well as his usage of less contractions in his daily vocabulary.
  • It is hinted that Discord may have had a troubled childhood.
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