# Discord
Discord is a chaos-loving draconequus villain from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic who debuted in the season two premiere in September 2011. Voiced by John de Lancie, he became a favorite of the brony fandom, spawning remix videos, fan art, and a running joke tying him to de Lancie's Star Trek character Q.
## Overview
Discord is a draconequus, a mismatched pony-dragon hybrid, who shows up as the main antagonist in the second season premiere of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic[1]. He is drawn as a patchwork of animal parts, a snake body with a lion's paw, an eagle's talon, and a single antler, and he uses reality-bending magic to torment the Mane Six for fun. Inside the fandom, the character is instantly recognizable for that chaotic silhouette and for his smug, theatrical delivery.
A big part of the meme is the voice. Discord is played by American actor John de Lancie, best known as the trickster Q from Star Trek: The Next Generation, and supervising director Jayson Thiessen said the character was written with Q in mind[3]. That casting turned Discord into a crossover joke almost immediately, with bronies treating him as a My Little Pony version of Q. He also does a short shuffle-dance in a stained glass window during the episode, and that clip is the raw material for most of the remix videos that came later[5].
## How It Spread
The Discord dance clip was the first thing to blow up. On September 17th, 2011, YouTuber Trizero126 uploaded a version set to David Guetta's On the Dancefloor[5], and the single-serving site Disco Discord launched the same week looping the shuffle to Daft Punk's Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger[7]. Other remixers followed with their own audio swaps, treating the stained-glass shuffle the way earlier bronies had treated DJ P0N-3 clips.
John de Lancie noticed. The day after his episode aired, on September 18th, 2011, he acknowledged the sudden brony attention on Twitter, which the fandom took as a green light to keep going[8]. On September 25th, forum member Headless Horse posted excerpts on MLPonies Forums from a BronyCon interview where Thiessen confirmed the Q inspiration[3]. Three days later, on September 28th, fans edited Q's Wikipedia page to swap in Discord's description before an editor reverted it with the note "Very funny, guys. Real mature"[9].
The character stuck as a fandom fixture through 2012. A Discord papercraft build was posted on the Paperkraft blog on October 22nd, 2011[10], the fanfic Discord's Reign went up on FanFiction.net on October 31st[11], and an animated pixel-art Discord appeared on My Little Brony on May 5th, 2012[2]. By mid-May 2012 a Discord Facebook page had passed 3,100 likes[5].
## How to Use
Most Discord content is either the stained-glass shuffle clip set to a new song, or fan art that leans into the Q comparison by putting him in a Star Trek uniform or dropping Q's catchphrases into pony captions. When people post the shuffle, the common convention is to pick a track with a strong four-on-the-floor beat so the loop syncs cleanly, the way Disco Discord did it with Daft Punk[7].
## Frequently Asked Questions
### What is Discord?
Discord is the draconequus villain introduced in the season two premiere of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, and the brony fandom meme built around him[1].
### Where did Discord come from?
He first surfaced in a leaked clip Wired posted on September 12th, 2011, ahead of the full episode The Return of Harmony airing on September 17th[1].
### What does Discord mean?
In the show, Discord is the former tyrant of Equestria, a chaos god who was sealed in stone by the Elements of Harmony and later broke free[5].
### How do you use Discord?
Bronies typically remix the stained-glass shuffle dance clip with different music tracks or draw crossover fan art tying him to John de Lancie's Star Trek character Q[7].
### Is Discord still popular?
He is a classic brony fandom staple from the peak MLP:FiM era of 2011 to 2012 and is still referenced in pony fan spaces, though the burst of remix videos and Q crossover jokes belongs to that period[3].
## References
1. [https://www.wired.com/2011/09/my-little-pony-clip/]()
2. [http://mylittlebrony.com/]()
3. [http://www.mlponies.com/forums/]()
4. [https://uproxx.com/tv/good-news-bronies-my-little-pony-is-back-and-star-treks-q-is-voicing-the-villain/]()
5. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/discord]()
6. [https://www.deviantart.com/vitoamito]()
7. [http://discodiscord.com/]()
8. [https://twitter.com/johndelancie/status/115508006430711808]()
9. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(Star_Trek)]()
10. [http://www.paperkraft.net/]()
11. [https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7594040/1/Discords-Reign]()
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