Discord

Discord

Discord is an antagonist who appears in "The Return of Harmony". He was created and designed by My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic developer Lauren Faust, who received design advice for the character from her husband, Craig McCracken. Faust drew inspiration from various Greek mythological creatures such as chimeras and manticores for his design to depict him as a non-harmonious being. Classified as a draconequus, meaning "dragon-horse", Discord is visually a chimera-like creature with an equine head and a serpentine body composed of multiple different animal parts: a lion's right foreleg; an eagle's left claw; a lizard's right hind leg; a goat's left hind leg; a mismatched deer's antler and goat's horn; two mismatched bat and bird's wings; and a dragon's tail. He also has a black mane down his neck; yellow eyes with red, asymmetrically sized pupils; large, bushy eyebrows; an enlarged fang; a snake's tongue; and a goatee.

Discord is voiced by John de Lancie in all his appearances. Faust based Discord's mannerisms on Q, an omnipotent trickster character portrayed by de Lancie in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and other related products. The production team initially planned on casting a sound-alike of de Lancie for the part; they were later surprised to find that de Lancie himself was available. Alterations to the character's mannerisms were subsequently made to provide more allusion to de Lancie's previous role, such as a flash of light when Discord would appear or disappear.

Discord is first introduced as the main antagonist of the two-part second season episode "The Return of Harmony". He ruled Equestria in "an eternal state of unrest and unhappiness" from an unspecified time before Princess Luna's transformation into Nightmare Moon until Princess Celestia and Luna use the Elements of Harmony to turn him to stone. By the start of the episode, Discord escapes his imprisonment due to the sisters relinquishing control of the Elements to Twilight Sparkle and her five friends during the series' pilot, and throws Equestria into chaos again. Stealing and hiding the Elements, Discord forces Twilight and her friends to search for them separately in a hedge maze, where he uses his magic and trickery to hypnotize each of Twilight's friends into behaving opposite of their normal personalities. Despite eventually finding the Elements in her library home in Ponyville, Twilight is alienated from her brainwashed friends, which renders the Elements powerless. Discord claims rulership of Equestria, dubbing Ponyville the "chaos capital of the world". He is later confronted again by Twilight and her friends after Celestia returns all of Twilight's letters on friendship written thus far, which spurs Twilight to use a memory spell to break Discord's control of her friends. Using the Elements, the six friends imprison Discord again.

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