My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic - Image #278,213

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To make a long lasting memorable and enduring character you need to give them a rich back-story, make them someone who your audience can relate to. You must give them a unique and diverse personality filled with distinctive character traits and flaws to make them seem more real. Of course be sure that they experience strong character development over time that allows them to grow as a character. Unless of course your work on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic in which case throwing them in the background for five seconds every now and again works just as good.

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DeadParrot222

Apr 02, 2012 at 05:45PM EDT

But they don't become memorable and enduring instantly.
People usually latch onto the background characters because of an interesting design (Vinyl's hair, Derpy's eyes), or some kind of quirk (Bonbon's voice) and then they create the 'rich back-story' and 'unique character traits' themselves.
We like the background characters not because they are amazing, fully developed personalities, but because they are (mostly) blank slates that are open to interpretation and expansion.

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Jill Moderator

Apr 02, 2012 at 05:26PM EDT

I kinda wish that they would do the above with more of them, though the whole "fan name vs "real name" issue might lose a bunch. Kinda glad that more of the background/ so far single use ponies have their names stated in the episode when they first appear to mitigate this.

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