Garble

Garble is a red, teenage, male dragon. He is the apparent leader of the gang Spike encounters. He first appeared in Dragon Quest.

Design
Garble is a tall, red dragon. He has white freckles and yellow spikes. His eyes are yellow with purple pupils. He has yellow wings.

Personality
Garble speaks similar to that of an average teenage boy. He acts as a bully to other younger dragons, specifically Spike.

History
He appears as the main antagonist of Dragon Quest and is first seen fighting another dragon with his gang. As Spike confronts the gang, they start mocking him for being such a young dragon. Garble challenges Spike to a belching contest to prove he is not pathetic, but he ends up coughing a letter from Princess Celestia, and Garble throws it in the lava.

He then challenges Spike to tail wrestling. He wrestles “Crackle’s Cousin”, who is really Twilight, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity in disguise. Garble declares Spike the winner after their “wrestle”, and he begins to take back his mocks at Spike and calls him a “real dragon”. Then Garble challenges Spike to tail wrestle with another dragon, one of which has an enormous and dangerous tail. Spike of course loses. Afterwards, he challenges Spike to a game of “King of the Horde”, where he must knock Garble off a pile of gems to be on the top. Other dragons fight their way too, but Garble throws each off to keep his place. Spike accidentally trips Garble over, and he falls off the pile. Spike, after declaring himself the winner, falls off the pile and Garble calls it another fail.

Garble challenges Spike and the other dragons to one last game: Lava Cannonball. He announces whoever makes the biggest splash is the ultimate dragon. He dives first, only to make the second-to-biggest splash. Garble torments Spike for being too afraid to jump off, but he ultimately does. Spike does not make a splash, but impresses Garble for living through the dive, calling him a “tough little dragon”. His gang is also impressed.

For his effort, Garble dubs Spike “rookie dragon”, and he accepts him as one of their own. He gives Spike a noogie as an initiation ritual, and has a party to celebrate Spike’s addition to their horde. Garble says Spike should stay, and learn what he can do as a dragon that he couldn’t do in Ponyville.

Garble offers Spike to go on a dragon raid, where they will steal from a nest of phoenix eggs. They fly to the nest. Garble instructs Spike that he, as a rookie dragon, lures the parents away from the nest. After Spike lures them away, Garble looks inside the nest to find the eggs have already hatched. He tries to take the hatchlings, but fails as they manage to get away. He and two other dragons from his gang chase the hatchlings, and he unintentionally causes an egg to fall from the nest. The phoenix parents find out about Garble’s raid, and they get their hatchlings back. As they are flying back to their nest, Garble tries to stop it, but the phoenix counter-attacked and knocked him and his friends into a tree. They fly back to the nest to find Spike holding the egg Garble knocked down earlier. He is impressed by this, and tells Spike to smash it. Spike refuses, and Garble is angry that he said “no” to him. As he is about to hurt him, Twilight, Rainbow, and Rarity come and threaten the dragons if they try to hurt Spike. Garble and his friends laugh at this, completely unafraid at the ponies’ threat. He asks Spike if these are really his friends, and he proudly answers yes, and even insults him and tells him to back off. Garble is annoyed as Spike runs away from him, so he and his friends chase the ponies, but they get away and they crash into another tree.