Starlight Glimmer

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

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.

However, as of the film Equestria's Taxi Madness, Starlight no longer joins the Mane 10 in order to reunite with her husband Sunburst and her daughter Luster Dawn. As a result, Perri permanently replaces Starlight playing her role as a keyboard player.

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.