Twilight Sparkle

* Filly
* Unicorn
* Alicorn
* Ruler

Dark phthalo blue with moderate purple, brilliant rose, and pale, light grayish olive streaks (Rainbow Power)

### Eye Color

Moderate violet

**Twilight Sparkle** is the central main character of *My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic*. She is a female Unicorn who transformed into an Alicorn and became a princess in "*Magical Mystery Cure*." She is also the older daughter of Twilight Velvet and Night Light, the younger sister of Shining Armor, the older sister of Starry Night, 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."

Before becoming a princess, she regularly sent 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.

## Bio

### Personality

Twilight is first introduced in the series as being asocial. She politely refuses 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 Celestia tells her to oversee the arrangements of the Summer Sun Celebration in Ponyville and to try and make friends, Twilight is indignant at the latter request. Over the course of 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 liken Moon Dancer's behavior to the way Twilight used to act.

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. She almost passes out when she finds out that the Canterlot Library has a restricted section in* My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Forgotten Friendship*.*

Twilight tries to be rational in unfamiliar situations. During the investigation in "*MMMystery on the Friendship Express*," Twilight tells Pinkie Pie 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 parasprite 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. In "*The Summer Sun Setback*," she puts her whole craziness aside in order to make preparations for the final Summer Sun Celebration and her future role as ruler of Equestria.

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 the short "*Starlight the Hypnotist*," Twilight also displays coccinellidaephobia, an equally irrational fear of ladybugs, stemming from her youth.

In *My Little Pony The Movie*, Twilight rationalizes that outside of Equestria, not every problem can be solved with friendship, especially since a con artist cat almost sells them and they are almost ratted out by a band of parrot pirates. In the underwater kingdom of Seaquestria, she has Pinkie and the rest of her friends act friendly toward the friendless Princess Skystar to serve as a distraction while she attempts to steal the transformation pearl. It is this act that ends up costing the Mane Six's friendship and getting Twilight captured by Tempest Shadow.

## Interests

### Likes

* Friendship
* Books

### Dislikes

* Friendship (formerly)
* Failing Celestia
* Not being able to achieve certain things

## Skills

### Organization

Twilight shows her knack for organization in *"Winter Wrap Up*." When the Winter Wrap Up becomes inefficient and uncoordinated, she organizes the teams and ensures that winter is wrapped up on time. Mayor Mare gives Twilight the official title of "All-Team Organizer." Twilight also uses her organization skills in the episodes *Lesson Zero*," "*Secret of My Excess*," and "*It's About Time*." In the book *The Art of Equestria*, then-supervising director Jayson Thiessen suggests that Twilight has "a touch of OCD".

### Teaching

In the episode *"Twilight Time*," Twilight takes time each week to teach the Cutie Mark Crusaders various skills. She attempts to teach Sweetie Belle to use the telekinetic component of her magic, Apple Bloom how to make botanic growth potions, and Scootaloo how to strip and reassemble various types of scooter and cycle. Twilight is overjoyed when she thinks the other classmates also want to learn new things, but she is disappointed when she finds out that they merely want to spend time with a local celebrity.

Twilight's ability as a teacher is proven in that she succeeds in teaching all three Crusaders the skills she intended to teach them. They all demonstrate a high degree of aptitude at the end of their lessons.

Twilight attempts to teach Rainbow Dash the history of the Wonderbolts, but her methods of study prove futile when Rainbow Dash acts as a class clown in *"Testing Testing 1, 2, 3*." In *"The Cutie Re-Mark - Part 2*," Twilight takes Starlight Glimmer on as a student, and she attempts to give Starlight her first friendship lesson in *"The Crystalling - Part 1*" by sending her to reunite with Sunburst. In the end, Twilight laments about her alleged failure, but Spike renews her resolve.

In the season eight premiere, Twilight opens the School of Friendship in order to teach the magic of friendship to all races and spread it across Equestria and beyond. She serves as the school's headmistress, and she and her friends all serve as teachers. *"In A Horse Shoe-In*," however, she gives both of her roles to Starlight when being assigned to take Princess Celestia and Princess Luna's places as the future leader of Equestria.

In *"The Last Problem*," after being crowned as leader of Equestria, Twilight is put in charge of the School for Gifted Unicorns, and helps her future student Luster Dawn realize the importance of friendship in a similar way to learning it herself from Celestia.

### Magic

Twilight is exceptionally talented at magic. In a flashback in "*The Cutie Mark Chronicles*," Celestia tells Twilight that she has never seen a Unicorn with so much raw ability.

* In "*The Best Night Ever*," she transforms an apple into a carriage and mice into horses.
* In "*Lesson Zero*," she uses a "Want it, need it" spell to make a raggedy old doll desired by anyone who lays eyes on it.
* In "*It's About Time*", Twilight goes back in time to talk to her past self.
* In "*A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2*," she shoots concussive blasts with her horn and uses a spell that reverts a Changeling's disguise.
* In "*Too Many Pinkie Pies*," she accidentally turns a bird and a frog into half-animal, half-orange hybrids while attempting to turn an apple into an orange. In the same episode, she uses her magic to return Pinkie Pie's duplicates to the mirror pool.
* In "*The Crystal Empire - Part 2*," she replicates King Sombra's dark magic to reveal hidden passageways in the Crystal Empire castle.
* She uses protective magic shields in "*The Return of Harmony Part 2*," "*Ponyville Confidential*," "*MMMystery on the Friendship Express*, and "*The Cutie Map - Part 2*."
* Twilight first teleports herself in "*Friendship is Magic - Part 2*." In "*The Ticket Master*," Twilight states that she didn't know her teleportation spell was going to happen after teleporting from an alley in Ponyville to inside the library. In "*Secret of My Excess*," Twilight teleports Spike several times while trying to clean a lipstick mark off his cheek, and accidentally teleports Pinkie Pie from an unknown location to Golden Oak Library while teleporting Spike. In "*Dragon Quest*," Twilight teleports herself and three other characters a considerable distance with great effort.
* In "*Magical Mystery Cure*," she completes an unfinished spell by Star Swirl the Bearded with her knowledge of the Magic of Friendship, leading to her transformation into an Alicorn and a Princess.
* In "*Castle Mane-ia*," Twilight uses a spell to freeze the movement of her four terrified friends running around in a large throne room, without stopping their eyes or mouths from moving. The spell also keeps them aloft in their location, be it in mid-air or in the middle of a movement, effectively preventing their fall. She uses this spell again in "*The Hooffields and McColts*" on the titular families.
* In "*It Ain't Easy Being Breezies*," Twilight uses a spell to turn herself and her friends into Breezies to help the Breezies get home.
* In "*Amending Fences*," Twilight uses a spell to transform herself into a book illustration to try to talk to Moon Dancer.
* In "*The Hooffields and McColts*," Twilight uses a spell to amplify her voice to get the attention of both the Hooffields and the McColts.
* In "*The Mane Attraction*," Twilight uses her horn like a video recorder in order to bust Svengallop.
* In "*Celestial Advice*," Twilight makes simulations of potential outcomes for Starlight.
* In "*A Royal Problem*," Twilight uses a spell to talk to Starlight in Canterlot in the form of a music box ballerina, although Twilight claims to still be in Ponyville.
* In "*Sunset's Backstage Pass*," Twilight uses a magical form of copy-and-paste to copy the text of a scroll onto her magical journal.

As talented as Twilight is, her spells occasionally misfire or fail.

* When she casts a spell on the Parasprites in "*Swarm of the Century*" so they won't eat *food*, they begin to consume items which *aren't food*, and subsequently destroy Ponyville.
* When she tries to assist with Winter Wrap Up by animating a plow with a "come-to-life" spell, she loses control of it and makes a mess.
* In "*The Return of Harmony - Part 1*," she tries to reverse Discord's strange effects with a "fail-safe spell," but it fails.
* In the episode "*Magic Duel*," she has difficulty performing an age spell, which she says is only for "the highest level unicorns."
* In "*Make New Friends but Keep Discord*," Twilight fails to stop the Smooze with her magic.
* In "*The Cutie Re-Mark - Part 1*," Twilight tries to stop Starlight Glimmer from casting a time-travel spell, but the spell she casts bounces off. In the episode's next part, she attempts to cast a spell in self-defense against the Timberwolves, but it doesn't work.
* In *My Little Pony The Movie*, Twilight casts magic against the Storm King's guards, but it bounces off one of their shields and ends up destroying the section of the bridge she and her friends are standing on.

In the first season, Twilight's horn usually glows white or the same hue as her coat, and the objects she is manipulating glow white, lavender, or pink. When she manipulates multiple objects at once, several other colors are used as well, for example in the gem-finding scene in "*A Dog and Pony Show*." Starting with the second season's third episode, Twilight's magic is uniformly depicted using a pink glow, although it is colored white in a flashback in "*The Point of No Return*."

## Trivia

*For this character's tropes, see here.*
* Due to (headcanonically) being born on August 6, her Zodiac sign is Leo.
* Her Element of Harmony is Leadership (or Magic in her origin series).