Pony Names for Ponified Characters

A thought occurred to me. Why would ponified characters keep their original universe names? Why not mix it up, name them as they’d be named in MLP-land?
 
To help you out:
 
John Sheridan - Bomb Voyage  
Kuwabara Kazuma - Mulberry Love  
Akemi Homura - Shotclock  
Odysseus - Seasmarts  
Neal Caffrey - Fingerpaints
 
Kinda a cool idea, I figured. XD

I didn’t think I could do much with the Elric saga, but after I came up with my user name, I decided that Melnipony was populated entirely by unicorns, the Young Kingdoms were primarily earth ponies with a few unicorns here and there (especially in Pan Tang), and the pegasi, of course, would be the Winged People of Myyrrhn.
 
Not that anyone else around here has read any of these books, but it amuses me…

@Elric of Melnipony  
Anything which has named so many characters must be popular in some capacity. XD
 
I’m guessing the alicorns were whatever old gods existed in that ’verse?

The alicorns would be the Lords of Law and the Lords of Chaos. Think of the Vorlons and Shadows, only more powerful and without a cease-fire between them. I mean, yeah, they preferred to work through mortals, but they were perfectly willing to clash directly if the opportunity came up.
 
I suppose Discord could be one of the Lords of Chaos, but he would be minor league compared to Elric’s patron god/demon Arioch. And I did once make (again, for my own amusement) an alicorn version of one description of Arioch using the Pony Creator. (Chaos Lords tend to change their appearance a lot.)
 
As you may have guessed, Elric the Technomage was named after Michael Moorcock’s Elric.

@Elric of Melnipony  
So basically they acted through proxies less out of necessity and more out of convenience. Sweet! (Also, I’m guessing from Elric’s affiliation that the forces or Order were a bit less…ambiguous about their antagonism than the Vorlons? XD)
 
I kind of figure in this instance that Discord would kind of be an emissary, the Constable to Arioch’s Dauphin, as it were, and as such works to keep Order from getting too uppity with the proxies.
 
Is that where his classic “quick to anger” line came from as well, or was that LOTR? (Then again, old school fantasy is all over B5, lol.)

I would just keep the universal names because it’s really hard to come up with pony names…

The “quick to anger” line is all Gandalf.
 
In the Elric books (and several related ones) the forces of Law are presented as the good guys and the forces of Chaos are shown to be the bad guys, for the most part. But an important concept that comes up again and again is the need for balance between them. (Sheridan figured that out.) The Cosmic Balance can’t be allowed to swing too far in either direction.
 
In some of Michael Moorcock’s other books, we’re shown that the two sides really are other than (or outside of) good and evil, which is why D&D represents alignments on more than one axis. In one story, wounded and seemingly killed gods from both sides are seen after a huge battle and are described as resembling each other so closely that you really can’t tell who is who…

Mario - Jumping Jack  
George Washington - Purple Heart  
Steven Speilburg - Silver Screen  
Chuck Norris - Roundhouse  
Sonic the Hedgehog - Rainbow Dash

@archestereo  
Sonic the Hedgehog Rainbow Blitz, fixed.

@archestereo  
Sonic the Hedgehog – Blue Blitz

Pony Dawson - Mike Dawson

Amy Rose - Pink Heart  
Blaze the Cat - Purple Flame  
Chaos - Disharmony  
Dr. Eggman - Dr. Bad Egg  
Metal Sonic - Metal Blitz  
Shadow the Hedgehog - Black Dash  
Sonic the Werehog - Wereblue Blitz

@Background Pony  
I would make a point that Wereblue is incorrect but SEGA fucked it up as well.  
DOESN’T MEAN IT’S OKAY THOUGH