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Pansy: W-W-What is that... thing?
Clover: They must be...
windigos!
Pansy and Cookie Windigos?
Clover: My mentor, Star Swirl the Bearded, taught me about them. They're winter spirits that feed off fighting and hatred. The more hate the spirit feels, the colder things become.
Cookie: Then... this is our fault. We three tribes... we brought this blizzard to our home by fightin' and not trustin' each other. Now it's destroyin' this land, too.
Clover: And now our bodies will become as cold as our hearts... all because we were foolish enough to hate.
~ Clover the Clever, Private Pansy and Smart Cookie discussing about the Windigos.

The Windigos are recurring antagonists of the series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

Nature[]

According to Clover the Clever (the character Twilight Sparkle plays in the Hearth's Warming Eve play), Windigos are Winter spirits that feed on the negative friction between ponies. Long ago, the feud between unicorns, pegasi, and earth ponies gave these spirits great power, which they use to turn the lands into an unlivable frozen wasteland. If an individual's hatred gets violent enough, the Windigos can freeze them alive.

The Windigos look ghost-like and slightly translucent horses with glowing blue eyes. Only three of them are shown in the series though this may not reflect their real numbers.

History[]

Distant Past[]

The Windigos have existed since ancient times. In the age before Equestria was founded, the three pony tribes (unicorns, pegasi and earth ponies) lived apart from one another due to each tribe's hatred and distrust of the other two. This eventually attracted the Windigos, who fed off of their hatred, thus causing their land to be shrouded in an unending blizzard. Because the tribes were unaware of the cause of the blizzard, they continued to distrust each other, and as resources became bare, the distrust escalated into fighting, which made everything even colder.

The ponies then decided to hold a summit to find a solution to their mutual dilemma. The representatives of each tribe were as follows: Princess Platinum, daughter of the unicorn king; Commander Hurricane, supreme leader of Pegasi army; and Chancellor Puddinghead, elected official of the Earth ponies. Though they vowed to settle their differences and discuss the problem accordingly, they all began blaming each other for the disaster and walk out in a huff, not knowing that the Windigos are watch from above. Upon returning home, each of the leaders then decide to leave their frozen land and find a new land for their tribes to live in far away from the other two, taking along a companion: Platinum took her advisor, Clover the Clever; Hurricane took his subordinate, Private Pansy; and Puddinghead took his secretary, Smart Cookie.

Coincidentally, each group end up finding the same land to live in, and upon running into each other, they began fighting again, which then attracted the Windigos to their location. As the new land became covered in ice as well, the six ponies found shelter in a nearby cave. There, the leaders continued to argue about their situation, which caused the ice to cover up the entrance. Despite this, they refused to stop, and their bodies became encased in ice, frozen in their hatred of each other. Their companions huddled and finally noticed the Windigos flying above them. As Clover explained what they were, they all realized that it was their tribes' constant hatred that caused the blizzard. Upon which, even as their bodies freeze too, they decide that no matter how different they are from each other, they were all still ponies. At that moment, Clover unintentionally casted the "Fire of Friendship", which burned away at the Windigos, causing them to vanish.

After the Windigos were dispersed, Clover, Pansy and Smart Cookie told each other stories and sang songs to keep the Fire of Friendship. Eventually, all the ice surrounding them melted away, thus freeing the tribe leaders. After realizing the error of their ways, the leaders finally decided to share their land and live in harmony with each other. And thus, the great pony nation of Equestria was born, and the event that lead to its founding was celebrated in the form of a holiday known as "Hearth's Warming Eve".

Present Day[]

The Windigos were featured throughout the Season 2 episode, Hearth's Warming Eve, where the Mane Six acted out the events that lead to Equestria's founding, playing as the leaders and their companions. The Windigos were seen three times, at the conclusion of the grand summit, in which all the ponies of Equestria get into conflict with each other. The Windigos were first seen looking down from the clouds at the conclusion of the Grand Assembly. Later, they are seen flying through the sky, in which they generate a circle of clouds while They are eventually defeated by "the fire of friendship", a pink flame that takes the shape of a heart which was created in the play when Clover, Smart Cookie, and Pansy become friends.

Although they appear to have been burnt to death, it is implied that they (or other members of their race if there are any) are still around in modern Equestria when one of their distinctive howls is heard through an open window when Rainbow Dash and Applejack start arguing about who has the responsibility of closing it. Interestingly enough, they have never threatened to return during any other arguments in the series (such as Applejack and Rarity in the episode Look Before You Sleep), so the howl may have been simply someone playing the sound effect used to simulate them in the play, as a way of breaking up Rainbow and Applejack's argument.

They also reappeared in Hearth Warming Eve Tail when Twilight read a story on the holiday to Starlight Glimmer to make her see its importance. This caused Snowfall Frost to realize the mistake she was going to make by erase The Hearth's Warming Eve, finally seeing its importance.

In The Ending of the End - Part 2, when Queen Chrysalis, Lord Tirek and Cozy Glow turned the unicorns, pegasi and earth ponies against one another, this allowed the Windigos to return and they began to feed on the animosity between the pony tribes. When the villains noticed them in the sky, Chrysalis and Tirek got into a debate on what they should do with the Windigos; for Chrysalis, once the Windigos make Equestria a frozen wasteland, she and her fellow villains will use their magic to destroy them, which will allow Chrysalis to get the respect of all the creatures of Equestria. As for Tirek, he wanted to get rid of the Windigos immediately as it would be foolish to leave them unchecked. Ultimately, when Twilight Sparkle, her friends, the Pillars, and the Young Six, unleashed the power of Friendship against the villains, this caused the Windigos to dissipate.

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Trivia[]

  • The name "Windigos" are an allusion to the wendigo, a malevolent cannibalistic Algonquian spirit strongly associated with the winter, the North, and coldness, as well as with famine and starvation.
  • Ironically, the Windigoes are responsible for the creation of Equestria, since they forced the pony tribes to leave their original homeland to find a new one, and gave them a reason to put aside their differences and come together.
    • In a similar twist of irony, they also helped defeat the Legion of Doom by reminding the ponies why they work together in the first place.
  • It is unknown what happened to the Windigos in the fifth generation, since they don't appear during the time where the three pony races were separated before the events of the film.

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Generation 1
My Little Pony 'n Friends
Ahgg | Beezen | Catrina | Dragon Gang | Erebus | Flories | Grogar | Hydia | King Charlatan | Lavan | Princess Porcina | Queen Bumble | Raptorians | Reeka & Draggle | Somnambula | Squirk | Tirac

My Little Pony: The Movie (1986)
Hydia | Reeka & Draggle | Smooze | Ahgg

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My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Apple Bloom's Shadow | Ahuizotl | Arimaspi | Bugbear | Changelings | Chimera | Cockatrice | Daybreaker | Dr. Caballeron | Diamond Dogs | Diamond Tiara | Discord | Dragons (Dragon Lord Torch, Garble & Sludge) | Flim Flam Brothers | Gladmane | Grogar | Hydra | King Sombra | Legion of Doom (Queen Chrysalis, Tirek & Cozy Glow) | Mane-iac | Maulwurf | Mean Six | Nightmare Moon | Parasprites | Pony of Shadows | Puckwudgies | Roc | Sable Spirit | Silver Spoon | Snips and Snails | Sphinx | Starlight Glimmer | Storm King | Svengallop | Tantabus | Tatzlwurm | Tempest Shadow | Timberwolves | Trixie Lulamoon | Vampire Fruit Bats | Windigos | Wind Rider

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Dazzlings (Adagio Dazzle, Aria Blaze & Sonata Dusk) | Juniper Montage | PostCrush (Kiwi Lollipop & Supernova Zap) | Principal Cinch | The Predaplants (The Predaplant-Titan) | Snips and Snails | Sunset Shimmer | Trixie Lulamoon | Vignette Valencia | Wallflower Blush

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Accord | Bad Apple | Changelings | Chupacabra | Cosmos | Cozy Glow | Daybreaker | Dazzlings (Adagio Dazzle, Aria Blaze & Sonata Dusk) | Diamond Tiara | Discord | Dyre | Flim Flam Brothers | Grackle | Grogar | Grootslang | High Heel | King Longhorn | King Meowmeow | King Sombra | Knights of Harmony (Danu, Balor, Morrigan, Taranis, Mannah, & Ceridwen) | Long-Face | Lord Goldstone | Mane-iac | Mirror Pony of Shadows | Nightmare Forces | Nightmare Moon | Nightmare Rarity | Pony of Shadows | Pharaoh Phetlock | Prince Huginn | Princess Celestia | Princess Eris | Pseudocorns | Queen Chrysalis | Rabia | Rough Diamond | S'Monies (Black Belle, Violet Shiver, & Shadow Storm) | Sendak | Shadowbolts | Shadowfall | Shadowfright | Shadowmane | Silver Spoon | Smooze | Smudge | Snips and Snails | Starlight Glimmer | Storm King's army (Storm King, Tempest Shadow, Grubber & Storm Creatures) | Sunset Shimmer | Thrace Ponies (King Diomedes | Terri Belle | Swift Foot) | Tirek | Trench | Trixie Lulamoon | Umbrum | Vampiric Jackalope

My Little Pony: The Movie (2017)
Storm King's army (Storm King | Tempest Shadow | Grubber | Storm Creatures)

Generation 5
My Little Pony: A New Generation
Sprout Cloverleaf

My Little Pony: Make Your Mark
Queen Opaline | Misty Brightdawn | Sprout Cloverleaf | Troggles | Allura | Twitch

Comics
Discord | Fet Lockland | Queen Opaline

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