Starlight Glimmer

*For the background character across the Equestria Girls film lineup, see Starlight Fitzgerald.*

## Starlight Glimmer

* Pony
* Human Outfit
* Crystal Prep (Masked)
* Masked Human 1
* Masked Human 2
* Masked Human 3
* Masked Human 4
* Gloves

## Background Information

### Featured Films

My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Mirror Magic (formerly)
My Little Pony: The Movie (cameo)
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls and Sofia The First – Crystal Prep High Rocks!
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls and Sofia The First – The Journey Continues
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls and Sofia The First – Princess Clio the Magnificent!
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls and Sofia The First – The Race to Equestria
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls and Jake and the Never Land Pirates - The Quest for Equestria
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls and Jake and the Never Land Pirates - Prince Jacob Wilde
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls and Jake and the Never Land Pirates - Lemon Zest Rules
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls and Jake and the Never Land Pirates - A Swashbuckling Vacation (mentioned)
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls and Jake and the Never Land Pirates - Malaysia's Most Wanted
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls and Jake and the Never Land Pirates - Queen Lyla Grace
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls and Jake and the Never Land Pirates - Princess Ella Sofie
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls and Jake and the Never Land Pirates - Sherlock Brianna Motte

### Voiced by

Kelly Sheridan (no longer)
Sophia Lillis (currently)

## Character Information

### Appearance

Pale, light grayish heliotrope mane, curly moderate purple, lighter purple and pale light mane, grayish aquamarine moderate persian blue eyes (Pony Form), Long, curly hair, light turquoise long sleeved shirt and leggings, violet gloves, mask, skirt and shoes (Human form)

### Relatives

Sunburst (husband)
Luster Dawn (daughter)
Terramar (nephew)
Sunset Shimmer (cousin)

**Starlight Marie Nicole Glimmer**, more widely known in German as **Sternenlicht**, is a female unicorn pony and recurring character, initially an antagonist in the The Cutie Map - Part 1, The Cutie Map - Part 2, The Cutie Re-Mark - Part 1 and The Cutie Re-Mark - Part 2, later the reformed version from season 6 onwards in the TV show My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. From The Cutie Re-Mark - Part 2 to Celestial Advice, she is Twilight Sparkle's student in the ways of friendship. As of A Horse Shoe-In, she is the principal of the School of Friendship. Her human form appears across the Equestria Girls film lineup.

## Portrayers

Kelly Sheridan previously played both Indigo Zap and Starlight Glimmer, but from Crystal Prep High Rocks onwards, Sophia Lillis plays Starlight and Charlize Theron plays Indigo Zap.

## Appearance

#### Pony

Starlight has a pale, light grayish heliotrope mane, a curly moderate purple mane with lighter purple and pale light, grayish aquamarine highlights, and has moderate persian blue eyes. Her cutie mark is of a purple and white star with two blue glimmering streams.

#### Human

Starlight has a long, curly hair. She wears a light turquoise long sleeved shirt and leggings and violet gloves, mask, skirt and shoes with her cutie mark on her skirt and shoes.

## Depiction In Friendship Is Magic

#### Season 5

Starlight Glimmer first appears in The Cutie Map - Part 1 and The Cutie Map - Part 2 as the founder and leader of a mysterious village in which every resident has given up his or her cutie mark.

As the leader of this village, Starlight has the philosophy that "true friendship" comes from being equal—no more or less talented than another—and that having special talents of any kind only leads to disharmony. To this end, Starlight uses a magical artifact called the Staff of Sameness to remove her followers' cutie marks and replace them with equal signs.

When Twilight Sparkle and her friends arrive at the village, Starlight Glimmer sees this as an opportunity to spread her message of equality to all of Equestria. She leads the Mane 6 to a vault of cutie marks outside the village, where she takes their cutie marks from them with the Staff of Sameness and tries to convert them over to her way of thinking. Fluttershy, the only one among Twilight's friends who appears to convert, spies on Starlight and discovers that her own equal sign cutie mark is actually makeup.

Using a bucket filled with water, Fluttershy and her friends expose Starlight's secret to her followers. It is also revealed that the Staff of Sameness's ability to remove cutie marks is Starlight's own magic and that the staff is an ordinary piece of wood. She attempts to leave with the Mane 6's cutie marks but is thwarted by her former followers. Having lost her followers' faith, Starlight retreats from the village and escapes to parts unknown.

In Amending Fences, Starlight hides her face behind a menu in the café scene. In What About Discord?, she spies on the Mane 6 and Discord with binoculars from a bush in the park scene.

Starlight returns in The Cutie Re-Mark - Part 1 and The Cutie Re-Mark - Part 2. She uses a time spell created by Star Swirl the Bearded to travel back in time to the day Rainbow Dash performed her first sonic rainboom. When she prevents Rainbow from performing the rainboom, she changes Equestria's history, and she takes steps to ensure that Twilight and Spike failed to stop her from doing so.

As Starlight and Twilight continues to fight, Starlight creates numerous alternate futures in which Equestria falls into ruin. Twilight brings Starlight with her to one future in order to show her the terrible consequences of her actions, but Starlight refuses to accept the truth. When Twilight asks why Starlight acts this way, Starlight reveals that when she was a filly, her best friend Sunburst earned his cutie mark and left for Canterlot, leaving a little Starlight without a friend and with a fear of losing potential future friends. After bargaining with Twilight, Starlight decides to allow the rainboom to occur, restoring the present day.

Realizing the error of her ways, Starlight accepts whatever punishment that Twilight and her friends give her. Instead of punishing her, however, Twilight and her friends decide to teach Starlight about the magic of friendship and Starlight feels reinvigorated with new life.

#### Season 6

In The Crystalling - Part 1 and The Crystalling - Part 2, Starlight has taken up residence in the Castle of Friendship as Twilight Sparkle's pupil, and Twilight presents her with her first friendship lesson: reuniting with her old friend Sunburst. Due to her past actions, Starlight is very nervous about seeing Sunburst again. When the two finally reunite again, their dialogue is mostly awkward stuttering.

After a failed reunion, Starlight is convinced that Sunburst no longer wants to be her friend. However, when she approaches him later and discovers that he did not become an important wizard like she believed, Starlight learns that they both have their own histories of shame. The two then help Twilight and her friends prevent the Crystal Empire from an eternal winter.

With their friendship rekindled, Starlight and Sunburst say goodbye on much friendlier terms and promise to keep in touch.

Starlight returns in No Second Prances after several attempts to make friends in Ponyville end in failure, so Starlight meets and befriends Trixie. When Twilight expresses skepticism in their relationship, Starlight feels that Twilight doesn't trust her to make her own friends. However, when Trixie admits that she became friends with Starlight partly to one-up Twilight, Starlight is emotionally hurt. With Twilight's help, Starlight makes amends with Trixie and helps her in her magic show.

In A Hearth's Warming Tail, Starlight is unenthusiastic about celebrating Hearth's Warming Eve and considers it no different from any other day. However, after Twilight reads her the story "A Hearth's Warming Tale", Starlight gains a new appreciation for the holiday.