Twilight Sparkle

Twilight Sparkle is the central main character of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic. She is a female unicorn pony who transforms into an Alicorn and becomes a princess in Magical Mystery Cure. She is also the daughter of Twilight Velvet and Night Light, the younger sister of Shining Armor, sister-in-law to Princess Cadance, and paternal aunt to Flurry Heart.

At the beginning of the series, she and Spike, her best friend and assistant, move from Canterlot to Golden Oak Library in Ponyville to study the magic of friendship, and in Twilight's Kingdom - Part 2, she gains her own castle—the Castle of Friendship—and gains the title "Princess of Friendship". Twilight Sparkle represents the element of magic.

Before becoming a princess, she regularly sends friendship reports to Princess Celestia. In Owl's Well That Ends Well, Twilight adopts a pet owl named Owlowiscious. As of The Last Problem, she is the ruler of Equestria.

Twilight's human counterpart, Sci-Twi, briefly serves as an antagonist in My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Friendship Games.

Description

Appearance

Twilight is a Unicorn (later Alicorn) with light purple fur and an navy blue-colored mane and tail, stylized with rim cuts, and also has two lighter-purple and pink stripes running down both. She also has purple irises and prominent eyelashes, and also, occasionally, thicker eyebrows. She has a moderately-sized horn, which grew in width when she ascended to an Alicorn. Upon her ascension into an Alicorn, Twilight gained wings on her back. In the final episode of the series, Twilight becomes much taller than her friends, excluding a now-adult Spike, who is also now taller than the rest of the group. She wears the fused princess crowns into a crown of her own, wears a necklace and high-heel golden shoes, and has become the same height/size and form of Celestia and Luna. Her mane and tail now have also become longer, as well as moving exactly like the former rulers'.

Personality

Twilight is by default a kind and sweet girl but is very strict and orderly. She holds a very high sense of responsibility (almost bordering on OCD) and values hard work and education. She is also extremely organized, having Spike look over her daily checklists three times over. During her childhood and adolescence living in Canterlot, Twilight started as a bit of a loner, valuing schoolwork and education over friendship and social participation, which led to many disappointments from her acquaintances (save for Spike) when they attempted to invite her to join social gatherings and parties, or generally to have fun. After being sent to Ponyville by Celestia on an assignment of overseeing the upcoming Summer Sun Celebration.

Like Pinkie Pie, she's also known to be optimistic, always having a positive and cheerful attitude when it comes to situations and having fun.

Sociability and friendship

Twilight is first introduced in the series as being social. She politely doesn't want an invitation to Moon Dancer's get-together and later states that she and Spike don't have time for that sort of thing. When Princess Celestia tells to oversee the arrangements of the Summer Sun Celebration in Ponyville and to try and make friends, Twilight is indifferent to the latter request. Throughout the series premiere, however, Twilight comes to accept her new friendships and expresses a desire to stay with her new friends in Ponyville.

In Amending Fences, Twilight returns to Canterlot in an attempt to apologize to her former friends for her past actions. She succeeds with Twinkleshine, Lemon Hearts, and Minuette, but Moon Dancer coldly rebuffs the four mares. Minuette and Twilight compare Moon Dancer's behavior to the way Twilight used to act. Twilight manages to get Moon Dancer to open up and she forgives her for her rejection.

Love of books and knowledge

In Friendship is Magic, part 1, Twinkleshine says Twilight is more interested in books than friends. Even after Twilight becomes good friends with the rest of the main characters, she continues to read and consult books. For example, she confidently joins a marathon after reading several books about running in Fall Weather Friends. She is also very knowledgeable about Equestria's history, as seen in such episodes as Luna Eclipsed and Testing Testing 1, 2, 3.

Rationality

Twilight tries to be rational in unfamiliar situations. During the investigation in MMMystery on the Friendship Express, Twilight tells Pinkie to stop making wild accusations, and they work together to find clues and solve the mystery. However, Twilight can lose her cool under stress. In Swarm of the Century, she hysterically suggests building a replica of Ponyville in less than a minute before Princess Celestia can see the damage done by the parasite infestation. In Lesson Zero, Twilight goes crazy in her attempt to write to Celestia about a friendship problem, to the point of deciding to create a problem herself. In The Crystal Empire - Part 1, she shows a desperate desire to pass a test that Celestia gives her.

Twilight tends to be skeptical of unproven claims, such as her friends' belief that Zecora is an evil enchantress in Bridle Gossip, and Pinkie's "Pinkie Sense" in Feeling Pinkie Keen.

In Party Pooped, Twilight displays an irrational fear of quesadillas.

In My Little Pony The Movie, Twilight believes that Beyond Equestria can never have friendship problems that can be solved since a con artist cat tried to sell them and some parrot pirates nearly ratted them out. In Seaquestria, after Queen Novo refuses to give them the transformation pearl, Twilight secretly lets her friends unknowingly act friendly to Princess Skystar and Queen Novo while she tries to steal the pearl. Her mistake got them banished from Seaquestria and Pinkie and the others chastises Twilight for trying to steal the seaponies' pearl, and Twilight chastises her friends by pointing out that they are no better than her and said that using their regular methods outside of Equestria won't work, as Twilight realized what she just said and regrets it and tries to take it back but Pinkie, who was heartbroken by Twilight's words, walks off and that caused her friends to wrongly separate from her even when she felt sorry for what she just said (after Twilight accidentally yells that she would've been better without friends like them), but they should never have done that because it made Twilight finally getting captured by Tempest Shadow. However after her friends realize their terrible mistake, they return to save her, she apologizes to them and the others apologized too for their foolishness when they should've focused their grudge on the Storm King. Then they all fight against him by trying to get the staff and with Tempest's help they defeated him and Twilight made friends with Tempest and possibly befriends everyone that she never made friends with.

Relationships

Family/Relatives

Twilight Velvet - Mother
Night Light - Father
Shining Armor - Older Brother
Princess Cadence - Sister-in-Law
Flash Sentry - Husband
Flurry Heart - Niece
Lulu Moona - Niece
Princess Chryssa - Niece
Velveagic Sentry - Daughter
Galaxy Swirls - Daughter
Starbreaker - Son
Spicy Cherry Sparkle - Adoptive daughter

Enemies

Queen Chrysalis - Archenemy
King Sombra - Archenemy
Tirek - Archenemy
Storm King - Archenemy
Cozy Glow - former ally, turned Archenemy
Nightmare Moon - Archenemy
Gilda - former enemy turned ally
Trixie Lulamoon - former enemy
Discord - former enemy
Grubber - former enemy turned ally
Chancellor Neighsay - former enemy
Flim and Flam - Enemies
Diamond Dogs - Enemies
Svengallop - Enemy

Powers and Abilities

Child Prodigy: Twilight possessed a hidden magical potential as a filly, which eventually unleashed itself due to the energizing effect of a sonic rainboom.
Enhanced Durability: In My Little Pony The Movie, Twilight Sparkle able to withstand after being blasted out of the cage by the Storm King. Later in Horse Play, Twilight can survive after being caught in the blast from Trixie's gigantic firework, In The Ending of the End: Part 1, Twilight withstand a magic blast from Cozy Glow (as an Alicorn) without injury.
Genuis-Level Intelligence: Twilight is highly intelligent and knowledgeable, able to retain a great deal of information, and use it to her advantage. Twilight and her friends are still smarter than their villianous enemies 10 to 1.
Alicorn Physiology: Twilight is a Unicorn Pony who transforms into an Alicorn and becomes a princess, allowing her both to fly and cast magic, including new levels of power that ordinary Unicorns could never possess.
Magic: Twilight Sparkle is extremely adept at magic, as it's her special talent.
- Spell Casting: Twilight can perform a large number of different magical spells. Twilight can perform other various spells and tricks, she can learn spells simply by watching others perform them.
  - Levitation: Twilight can self-levitate using her telekinesis.
  - Gravity Alteration: Twilight can use a "gravity spell" to change the direction of a gravitational field within a certain area.
  - Magic Beam Emission: She can shoot concussive blasts from her horn.
  - Force-Field: Twilight can create a force-field to protect herself and/or others.
  - Teleportation: Twilight possesses the ability to teleport herself and others.
  - Telekinesis: Twilight's horn usually glows white or a faint shade of magenta and objects assume a glow of white, purple and magenta; when she affects multiple objects at once, several other colors are used as well, allow her to manipulate them.
  - Hair Growth: Twilight Sparkle can make ponies and non-ponies creatures grow mustaches in different styles.
  - Thought Manipulation: Twilight Sparkle was able to use a spell to stop the Parasprites from eating food, as well as a spell to stop the Vampire Fruit Bats from sucking the juice from the apples.
  - Animation: Twilight Sparkle can use a "come to life" spell to make objects come to life.
  - Dowsing: Twilight Sparkle can use a spell to sense and find gems just like Rarity.
  - Memory Restoration: Twilight Sparkle can use a memory spell to restore a Pony's memories.
  - Repairing:
  - Summoning: In Magic Duel, Twilight Sparkle uses a spell to summon a Parasite.
  - Heat Generation: Twilight Sparkle can generate a great amount of heat to melt snow.
  - Water Manipulation: In Magic Duel, Twilight Sparkle can cast a spell to manipulate water by forming water spheres.
  - Smoke Generation: Twilight Sparkle can amount of pink smoke.
  - Immobilization: Twilight Sparkle can use a spell to freeze things in place.
  - Transformation Inducement: Twilight Sparkle can use a spell to turn ponies into other races, in It Ain't Easy Being Breezies, Twilight uses this spell to transform herself and the other Mane Six into Breezies.
  - Illusions:
  - Light Generation: Twilight Sparkle can use her horn to create amount light.
  - Love Inducement: Twilight Sparkle can use a spell to enhance an object which will make Ponies fall in love with female Ponies once seen them.
  - Book Jumping: Twilight Sparkle can enter books.
  - Voice Manipulation: Twilight Sparkle can cast a spell to make her voice echo which will Ponies to heard her from far distances
  - Audio Recording: Twilight Sparkle can use a spell to record things and playback them as images.
  - Crystal Imprisonment: Like Starlight Glimmer, Twilight Sparkle can trap a target in a crystal.
  - Dark Magic: In The Crystal Empire - Part 2, she replicates King Sombra’s dark magic to reveal hidden passageways in the Crystal Empire castle.
Flight: Twilight can fly in the same manner as a Pegasus after she becomes an Alicorn.
Magic Embodiment: Twilight possesses the element of magic.
Crystal Generation
Transmutation: Twilight can transmutate living beings as well as inanimate objects.
Time Travel: Twilight was able to meet her future self in "It's About Time" that her future self warns her of an upcoming event in the near future.
Bind: In "Shadow Play - Part 2" Twilight uses a spell to cast a magic rope to save Stygian from the Pony of Shadows.
Wall Generation: Twilight can create walls from magical energy as a form of barrier.

Voice Actors

Tara Strong - English

Gallery

Main article: Twilight Sparkle/Gallery