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The Smooze is a gargantuan purple slime-monster and the secondary antagonist of My Little Pony: The Movie from the first generation of My Little Pony, a minor, non-antagonistic character in MLP's fourth generation Friendship is Magic and one of the overarching antagonists (alongside Hydia) of the crossover comic MLP: Generations.
He was voiced by Jon Bauman.
Biography
Generation 1
The Smooze is a genuinely terrifying being, especially giving the setting it was in - with the ability to grow to gargantuan sizes it spread across all of Ponyland (the original Ponyville) and buried anything (living or not) in its path completely ruining the land and turning once paradise-like fields and castles into barren wastelands. It also threw chunks of itself around that when attached to living beings turned them "mean" and "grumpy" (which despite the childish language is actually a more dangerous threat than one might think as removing living creatures' ability to care about each other can lead to apathy and despair (also without the ability to care for other beings, with people often developing sociopathic tendencies).
The Smooze was semi-sentient, able to form hands and faces but only able to express rage and malice. This is shown with animalistic roars and grunts (as well as limited speech (see trivia). The ponies were originally powerless to stop the beast after the witch Hydia released it. Even the Rainbow being ultimately overwhelmed by the Smooze's power.
Yet just as the Smooze seemed ready to devour the last bit of Ponyland not corrupted by its presence, the Flutter Ponies arrived - using their magic they managed to cast the Smooze away and undo its evil before the now released Rainbow of Light lifts the mass of slime into the air and dumps it back into the volcano it came from along with Hydia and her two daughters.
Generation 4 (Friendship is Magic)
Smooze returned in the series and first appeared in the episode of the fifth season called "Make New Friends but Keep Discord", though he was a vastly different character there.
Powers and Abilities
Even without the Flume and remaining unfinished, the Smooze boasted immense destructive power and size, consuming entire mountain ranges and causing ripples on the earth marking its arrival. Anything that was struck or touched by its goo (with the exception of Spike who only had a small bit of Smooze on his tail) became bitter and grumpy. When its initial rampage stopped, most of the Smooze's ooze became hard and downright impenetrable according to Wind Whistler, making the land it had consumed impossible to recover (up until the Flutter Ponies cleaned up Dream Valley).
Hydia and the ooze itself both claimed nothing could stop the Smooze, however by the end of the movie Hydia reveals that she lied about this, so it's unknown if there are other things that could've stopped the Smooze aside from the Flutter Ponies.
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Trivia
- The Smooze is often compared to the Shoggoths from the Cthulhu Mythos and Hedorah from the Godzilla series.
- The Smooze, despite being the secondary villain, is arguably one of (if not the) the most powerful villains the Ponies ever faced and was able to overpower the same Rainbow that destroyed the previous antagonist, Tirac - however it was no match for the magic of the Flutter Ponies.
- The Smooze was seen to have limited intelligence beyond simple rage as it arrogantly states "you can't stop me!" and "don't even try!" during its introductory song (it is also shown as taking delight in terrorizing the animals of Ponyland).
- The Smooze is also the inspiration to Pokémon characters: Grimer and Muk.
- The Smooze was voiced by Jon Bauman, who also voiced Iggy from the Hanna-Barbera movie "The Jetsons meet the Flintstones".
- The Smooze is one of the original villains to be killed, others being Tirac and Lavan.
- The Smooze have an interesting similarities with "horned horror" insects from Perry Rhodan science fiction series; they are tiny purple creatures with limited intellect, moving in enormous masses, covering and devouring anything on their path (including mountains) & leaving the barren surface covered by hardening ooze.
