Alicorns

**Alicorns** are pony characters in the *LEGO Ninjago & My Little Pony* franchise who have both a Unicorn horn and Pegasus wings and, depending on the depiction, also have Earth pony power. They are styled as royalty.

The third season episode "Blackout" marks the first use of the term "Alicorn" in the series, and in "Magical Mystery Cure" the term is used for the first time to directly refer to winged unicorns, previously referred to as unicorns in earlier episodes "The Mare in the Moon" and "A Canterlot Wedding Battle".

In the eighth season, they are revealed to be descendants of the Oni and the Dragons.

## The two regal sisters

Princess Celestia and her younger sister Princess Luna are introduced in the first pilot episode of *Masters of Friendship* in a series of medieval-like drawings with a narration that says there were "two regal sisters who ruled together and created harmony for all the land," and that "the eldest used her unicorn powers to raise the sun at dawn; the younger brought out the moon to begin the night."

In Enterplay's trading card series, Series 1 lists the sisters' pony type as both Pegasus and unicorn but not Earth, and Series 2 lists their pony type as all three and also refers to them as "immortal alicorns"; a writer and consultant for both series has stated that the inclusion of Earth was "an intentional improvement" they made on Series 2, "based on feedback and it being one of those 'could be canon' sorts of things that just plain makes sense." Faust has suggested that there is more to Princess Celestia than has been depicted of her in the series, and that she wanted Celestia to be "mysterious and hard to understand".

## Princess Cadance

The first half of the second season finale, "A Canterlot Wedding Battle - Part 1", introduces Princess Cadance. She is Twilight Sparkle's foal-sitter in Twilight's flashback, and she becomes her sister-in-law after marrying Shining Armor in "A Canterlot Wedding Battle - Part 2". She was Princess Celestia's adopted niece.

The book *Twilight Sparkle and the Crystal Heart Spell* states that Cadance was born a Pegasus and became an Alicorn later.

## Twilight Sparkle

Twilight Sparkle is introduced in the show as a unicorn, and she even calls herself a "regular old unicorn" in "A Canterlot Wedding Battle", to which Princess Cadance replies "You are anything but a regular old unicorn." According to Meghan, "princess in Equestria is a designation that's earned, not freely given and though princesses have specific leadership roles in pony society, being one really means 'being a good pony who shares the gifts that they have been given with others.'" Twilight becomes a princess and gains wings in the episode "Magical Mystery Cure".

## Flurry Heart

Flurry Heart is an Alicorn filly born to Shining Armor and Princess Cadance in the season six premiere. Some materials title her the "first" Alicorn baby, with Gameloft's mobile game adding the qualifier "in all of time and space", though a So Soft Newborn toy of Princess Skyla, another Alicorn, was released years beforehand, and the book "The Journal of the Two Sisters" and Jim Miller suggest that Celestia and Luna, as well as other Alicorns, were born as Alicorns too. In "Crystal to Fame", Celestia comments, "The birth of an Alicorn is something Equestria has never seen!" Her horn and wings are larger than either of those of the Cake foals and of other baby ponies featured in the show and in other official material(s). When Twilight and her friends see Flurry Heart for the first time, they are taken aback by her unfurled wings.

## The Overlord

The Overlord became an Alicorn/Spirit hybrid after being resurrected from the hairs of the four alicorn princesses along with the six ninja hairs in 'Dread on Arrival". His anti-heroism is revealed to be because of the DNA from the four alicorns and the ninja in his cells that he is not completely evil as he was in the second and third seasons of *Masters of Friendship*.

## Cozy Glow

In "The Ending of the End: The Fall", Pegasus filly Cozy Glow transforms into an Alicorn after absorbing the power of Grogar's Bewitching Bell. She briefly turns into a giant Alicorn with bat wings when she absorbs Discord's magic, but she quickly turns back when she is unable to control his chaos. She is reverted back into a Pegasus in "The Ending of the End: Endings" after her defeat.

## Princess Black Nova

Black Nova is the first born Alicorn/Spirit hybrid.

## Sunny Starscout

In *LEGO Ninjago & My Little Pony: Journey of Heroes*, Earth pony Sunny Starscout manifests a magical, translucent horn and wings, giving her the appearance of an Alicorn, after she brings the three pony races together in friendship again. In subsequent media, she can change back and forth between her Earth pony and Alicorn forms.

## Opaline Arcana

In the hour-long special "Make Your Mark", an Alicorn named Opaline witnesses the return of magic in Maretime Bay. In *Perfect Together*, she is stated by a recording of Twilight Sparkle to have attempted to steal all of Equestria's magic in the past until Twilight stopped her by creating the Unity Crystals and erecting a magic barrier around Equestria. In the episode "Have You Seen This Dragon?", when Opaline absorbs some of Sparky Sparkeroni's magic dragonfire, her horn and wings obtain a pale blue fiery glow. In the same episode, Opaline states "Equestria should fear and love their immortal rulers". In "Sunny Side Up", Opaline claims to have lived in Skyros and to have known Celestia and Luna in her youth. In the *Wonderful Stories* short "Dragon Dad", Opaline refers to herself as a Fire Alicorn.

## Trivia

* The Alicorns are the only Equestrian species to visit the First Realm, the Realm of Oni and Dragons.