Chief Thunderhooves

Chief Thunderhooves is the leader of the buffalo herd in the episode Over a Barrel.

Personality
Chief Thunderhooves seems to be rather long-winded, judging by how many fathers he listed, and is very traditional. He is also very determined and strong, with a fierce sense of honor. He has a powerful temper and is seen losing control of himself several times. Still he warned the Appleloosans of his intentions before leading his tribe to fight them and was at least willing to negotiate.

History
According to him, the herd had claimed the stampeding grounds for generations (since the days of his father, and the father before him, and so on). But recently, the residents of Appleloosa took over the land, planting a apple tree orchard without their consent, and soon disrupted their traditional running. He sent his group to intercept a new tree that was on its way to the land that was robbed from them, as a warning for them to remove the orchard. When Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie learned of this, they let their friends and town pony Braeburn know of the situation. However, the town needed the trees' apples to survive in the desert. Pinkie Pie tried singing about sharing to solve the problem, but it failed (the chief claiming it the "worst performance he had ever seen").

Fed up with demanding the trees to be removed, he led his tribe to attack the orchard and the town of Appleloosa. But the attack ended with he was brought down by a stray apple pie. When he tasted the delicacy, he was so amazed by it that he came up with a suitable compromise. He allowed the townsponies to keep the orchard while having a road made through it for the herd to continue their stampeding, and the buffaloes would be able to have more of the delicious pies.

Relationships
Rainbow Dash - After a somewhat rocky start, her open support of the buffalo cause won her respect from Chief Thunderhooves, and he was seen asking her for advice on the eve of battle.

Little Strongheart - Despite her size and youth, Little Strongheart often serves as Chief Thunderhooves's representative, and seems to be the only person capable of calming him down when he gets in a temper. Just before the battle, she almost got him to order his tribe to stand down, and might have succeeded if not for Pinkie Pie.

Pinkie Pie - Chief Thunderhooves serious nature does not appear to leave him much time for Pinkie, her singing goading him to anger twice during the episode.

Spike - Spike mentions that the buffalo respect dragons, which would likely include Chief Thunderhooves.

Chief Thunderhooves