Talk:Episodes, films, and shorts/@comment-25188261-20140716201351/@comment-26973802-20140718040625

G1 has no long running main characters from what I know, aside from the human Megan and the dragon Spike.

G1 opens with Pony Land being attacked by Scorpan, who serves the evil demon centaur Tirek. Scorpan kidnaps two ponies for Tirek, but the super-menacing Tirek tells him he needs four ponies. Meanwhile Firefly (the inspiration for Rainbow Dash's personality) goes to the human world and takes Megan to Pony Land so that she can help defeat Tirek. They find the Rainbow of Darkness while Tirek gets so angry at Scorpan for his repeated failures that he threatens to behead his friend, Spike. Scorpan eventually turns on Tirek and helps the ponies out, but Tirek turns four ponies into demon dragons and makes them pull his chariot. To make a long story short, epic battle that ends with Megan destroying Tirek with the Rainbow of Darkness. Spike hangs out with the ponies afterward.

I don't know much about Grogar but there was one other villain I've seen, Lavan, who steals the six Princess Ponies' wands and uses them to turn into an all-powerful crystal form, while unbalancing the magic of Pony Land. There is an epic battle, he repeatedly tries to kill the Princess Ponies but in the end they destroy him by reflecting his magic back at him. (Aside from the Smooze, Tirek and Lavan are the only villains to die, the rest either turn good, are banished/imprisoned, or, in a few cases, run away) G1 might seem like a light atmosphere but it was the most hardcore TV cartoon of its time.

As for G3, it's got the "little girl show" reputation and possibly the cause of that reputation around the name My Little Pony, although some bronies and/or pegasisters on here like it and say it isn't as bad as the rest of us assume.