Starlight Glimmer is one of the recurring characters turned main character and a former antagonist in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. She first served as the main antagonist in the season 5 premiere, The Cutie Map and later reformed in the two-part finale The Cutie Re-Mark. From season 6 onward she becomes a supporting heroic character. In the season 5 premiere to the season 5 finale, she was evil, mean, power-hungry, ruthless, impatient and wicked. For the rest of the series, she is kind-hearted, calm, positive, sweet and confident as well as remorseful, friendlier, and happier.
Appearance[]
Starlight is a beautiful unicorn, with a lavater coat and purple with green lining mane. She has a cutie mark that's the shape of a compass with a swirl line. In Season 5, her mane style was bang cutted straight and flat while the back is long and curled in back. From Season 6 onward, Starlight's mane was changed to a swirl, exposing her big bald spot on her forehead. Her mane style often keeps changing sides. In addition, a piece of her mane on the back is seen hanging on either side.
Personality[]
When introduced, Starlight Glimmer is shown to be seemingly benevolent and laid-back, but was revealed to be a vain, hypocritical, selfish, villainous, deceptive, calculative megalomaniac. She is easily frustrated when things don't work out how she planned. It is not entirely clear whether Starlight truly believes that she is doing the right thing by ridding ponies of their cutie marks and is only keeping her magic because she is the only one who can do so, whether she is actually deriving satisfaction out of the fact that she alone in the town has a special talent, or a bit of both. Based upon how she responds to ponies thinking they are superior to others, it is implied she has an envious side. But despite being an expert manipulator, Starlight's zealot attitude and refusal to believe in any form of friendship other than her own makes her quite gullible herself, as she is tricked by Fluttershy into releasing her, by Party Favor into thinking that he was the only one wishing for his cutie mark back (he claimed this to defend the other free-thinking ponies, Sugar Belle and Night Glider) and by Twilight Sparkle into being distracted, although she claimed she was aware of Fluttershy's ruse. She is also quite disrespectful, even to royalty, as shown when she furiously silences Twilight when she tried to explain how differences can make friendships stronger. In addition, she is somewhat clumsy, something that allowed Fluttershy to discover her secret.
In the season 5 finale, Starlight becomes vindictive and relentless in her attempt to take revenge on Twilight by keeping the Sonic Rainboom that caused the Mane Six to get their cutie marks, as well as stubbornly thinking that it won't make any difference, even when proven otherwise. Starlight is given a sympathetic background as it is revealed that during her childhood, she had a friend named Sunburst who earned his cutie mark and went to Canterlot, making Starlight feel abandoned. When Twilight convinces Starlight to turn over a new leaf, after showing her the alternative Equestria and what friendship truly is, she adopts a remorseful, friendly, and overall happier side, turning her into a more kind-hearted pony.
In the season six premiere, she is portrayed as timid and easily unnerved, especially when it comes to the prospect of reuniting with Sunburst. In the finale, Starlight demonstrates an aversion to being in a leadership role due to her past actions, though she proves to have a natural talent for it and eventually overcomes her fears.
From the season seven premiere and onward, Starlight is more confident and determined but she still needed Twilight's help so she decides not to leave the castle, much to Twilight's delight.
In Rock Solid Friendship, Starlight displays a keen knowledge and interest in kites.
Relationships[]
Starlight Glimmer/Relationships
Trivia[]
- She is the first villain in a two-parter to be, or at least have the appearance of, a regular pony. Nightmare Moon was an alicorn with an ethereal mane, Discord was a draconequus, Queen Chrysalis was a changeling with the appearance of an insectoid alicorn, King Sombra was a demonic unicorn with a shadow form, Lord Tirek was a centaur, and the Dazzlings were sirens. The only other villain who is a regular unicorn is Sunset Shimmer, who appeared in a movie and is mostly seen in human form. Even then, Sunset had a demonic empowered form, while Starlight did not.
- Starlight Glimmer will become Pooh, Ash, Sora and Thomas' enemy in Pooh's Adventures of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic - The Cutie Map, but will reformed in Pooh's Adventures of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic - The Cutie Re-Mark and joins Thomas' Adventures Team at the end of the film.
- Starlight Glimmer will make a cameo appearance in the Post Credits Scene in Team Robot in Pokémon the Movie: Hoopa and the Clash of Ages and will be guest staring in Team Robot's Misadventures Of Thomas & Friends: Tale of the Brave.
- The voice of Kelly Sheridan as Starlight Glimmer shares with her favorite characters by Megan Williams and Barbie Roberts.
- Her voice actress Kelly Sheridan also voices Diana Lombard in Martin Mystery, Praxina and the Queen of Ephedia in LoliRock, Princess Victoria in Barbie: The Princess and the Popstar and Scarlet Witch.
- During Pooh's Adventures of Cars, Starlight Glimmer formed a special friendly brotherly and sisterly relationship with Lightning McQueen.
- The TARDIS Team will befriend her in Doctor Aaron's Mirror Magic Montage.
- Starlight will be one of the main characters in A Series of Crossover Events, where she will travel with a girl named Chloe in order to learn even more about friendship!
- She will appear in Jewel Sparkles' Adventure.
- She will become enemies of Ryan Freestar, Meg Griffin and their friends in Ryan's Adventures of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic - The Cutie Map and reform in Ryan's Adventures of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic - The Cutie Re-Mark.
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