Starlight Glimmer

Starlight Glimmer is the tritagonist of .
She was first introduced as a villain in the fifth season, until she redeemed herself in the two-part finale episode. She's also one of Pinkie Pie's best friends.
She is voiced by , who is best known for voicing as Barbie Roberts, Ukyo Kuonji from Ranma ½, Sango from Inuyasha series, Diana Lombard from Martin Mystery, & Mammoth Mutt from Krypto the Superdog.
==Personality==
When introduced, Starlight Glimmer is shown to be seemingly benevolent and laid-back, but is revealed to be a vain, hypocritical, selfish, villainous, deceptive, bad-tempered, stubborn, bitter, calculating, and megalomaniacal, individual. She is easily frustrated when things do not work out how she planned. It is not entirely clear whether Starlight truly feels 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. She seems to also think ahead in situations, as when she ordered Double Diamond to bring her the Mane Six's marks so she can personally guard them, and have an escape route under her bed in case if the town would turn on her.
But despite being an expert manipulator, Starlight's arrogance, 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 shown to be quite rude, disrespectful and bad-mannered, 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. When she was cornered or confronted, Starlight is somehow cowardly.
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 keep their cutie marks so to make sure that everypony in Equestria will become miserable, as well as stubbornly thinking that it won't make any difference, even when proven otherwise. When Twilight brings her to the future where her consequences led to this, her bitterness and stubborness prevent herself to see the error of her ways. As Twilight asked her why she acted the way like this, 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 on to Canterlot, making Starlight feel abandoned no matter how much it hurts her when Sunburst abandoned her. Due to her insecurities, she is afraid of making many friends which leads her to fell into her dark side. By extension, it turns her horrendous treatment of the other ponies into her way of angrily lashing out at anypony else with a mindset if she can't be happy, then no one can. When Twilight convinces Starlight to turn over a new leaf, Starlight becomes friendly and kindhearted, as well as remorseful for her actions.
Since then, Starlight has become a nervous unicorn filled with self-doubt and a sensitive attitude, especially if her past is involved, becoming very shy and socially awkward. Despite her redemption, she retains some of her selfish and impulsive nature, such as filling Spike's greatness to stall a meeting with Sunburst, using her magic to make Big McIntosh talk more articulately and hypnotizing the Mane 6 to tackle a bunch of friendship lessons at once. 
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.
==Appearance==
Starlight Glimmer is a unicorn mare with a pinkish-purple coat, purple-blue eyes, and a dark purple mane and tail with lighter purple and mint green streaks. She also 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 and onward, her 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.
When she was a filly, before getting her cutie mark, her mane was like her old one except it was tied with ribbons.
As a human, she has magenta eyeshadow on her eyelids, and wears a magenta beanie hat with small white six-pointed stars on her head, a light green shirt with purple trim, a black vest, gray ripped jeans on her body, black shoes with purple laces on her feet, and a black watch with a purple star in the white center on her left wrist.
==Power and abilities==
Starlight Glimmer is a very powerful unicorn. From her true cutie mark, it can be presumed her special talent is magic. Her signature spell is the ability to drain a pony's talent by stealing their cutie mark, replacing it with an equal sign. However, she needs to keep stolen marks in some kind of container, lest they will return to their former owners.
In No Second Prances, Starlight makes a multi-layered cake in seconds and turns the normally laconic Big McIntosh into a figurative motormouth talking machine. In Every Little Thing She Does, she demonstrates a talent for teleportation, transfiguration, super speed, self-duplication, and mind control. In To Where and Back Again, Starlight demonstrates invisibility to hide herself and Trixie from the Changelings.
In All Bottled Up, Starlight explains that her own magic is tied to her emotions—the stronger she feels, the stronger her magic.
==Episodes and appearances==
Season 6
*The Crystalling
*No Second Prances
*A Hearth's Warming Tail
*Spice Up Your Life (no lines)
*The Times They Are A Changeling
*Every Little Thing She Does
*Top Bolt (no lines)
*To Where and Back Again
Season 7
*Celestial Advice
*All Bottled Up
*Rock Solid Friendship
*Fluttershy Leans In (no lines)
*Hard to Say Anything (mentioned)
*A Royal Problem
*Fame and Misfortune
*Triple Threat
*To Change a Changeling
*It Isn't the Mane Thing About You
*Uncommon Bond
*Shadow Play
Season 8
* School Daze
* The Maud Couple
* Fake It 'Til You Make It (no lines)
* Horse Play
* The Parent Map
* Marks for Effort
* The Mean 6
* A Matter of Principles
* The End in Friend
* Road to Friendship
* Father Knows Beast (no lines)
* School Raze
Season 9
* The Beginning of the End
* Sparkle's Seven
* She's All Yak (cameo)
* Frenemies (cameo)
* Student Counsel
* The Last Crusade (no lines)
* 2, 4, 6, Greaaat (no lines)
* A Trivial Pursuit (mention)
* A Horse Shoe-In
* The Ending of the End/The Last Problem
=== Films ===
*My Little Pony The Movie (cameo)
====Specials====
*My Little Pony Best Gift Ever (cameo)
===Comics===
====Friendship is Magic====
*Ponies of Dark Water (cameo)
*Election
*Chaos Theory
*Wings Over Yakyakistan
*My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #57
*Queen for One Less Day
*Happy Haunts (cameo)
====Friends Forever====
*Friends Forever Issue 35
====Legends of Magic====
*My Little Pony: Legends of Magic Issue #4
*My Little Pony: Legends of Magic Issue #6
====Specials====
*My Little Pony Holiday Special 2017 (cameo)
==Trivia==
*She has a similar color scheme to Aria Blaze and (originally) a similar mane-style to Sonata Dusk.
*To Change a Changeling and Student Council are the only episodes in which Starlight appears without any of the Mane Six.
**She notably shares this distinction with Trixie Lulamoon.
*Despite being redeemed, Starlight still made poor decisions like "mind controlling the Mane 5", "switching the royal sisters cutie marks" and "trading Trixie's wagon without permission". But sometimes she managed to come through with them and some to make up for.
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