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* NotQuiteFlight: Her magic force-fields can do this. Seems to be averted in Season 3 as she is briefly seen floating in the air before [[spoiler:opened the door that King Sombra enchanted to make people see their worsst nightmare.]]
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* NotQuiteFlight: Her magic force-fields can do this. Seems "The Crystal Empire" also shows her suspending herself in midair with magic, similar to be averted in Season 3 as she is briefly what's previously been seen floating in the air before [[spoiler:opened the door that King Sombra enchanted to make people see their worsst nightmare.]]with Pumpkin Cake.
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** CastingAShadow: She imitates Celestia's shadow spell to activate King Sombra's lock.
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* NotQuiteFlight: Her magic force-fields can do this.
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* NotQuiteFlight: Her magic force-fields can do this. Seems to be averted in Season 3 as she is briefly seen floating in the air before [[spoiler:opened the door that King Sombra enchanted to make people see their worsst nightmare.]]
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* WhenSheSmiles: Double Subverted, as Twilight ''does'' smile a decent amount, but when she's genuinely happy it really stands out.
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She\'s not a Winged Unicorn in the show, those plushies haven\'t been released in stores, and that we may never know why she has wings on a random banner. The Hub has jossed the rumor on their twitter
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** Taken to the extreme in "A Canterlot Wedding Part 1" between herself, her brother, Shining Armor, and later on, the other Mane Six and Princess Celestia, right after she straights out accuses Princess Cadence of being evil, [[MadeOutToBeAJerkass thereby causing them to be alienated from her]]. [[PoorCommunicationKills If only if she had explained her better rather than yelling at Cadence]]...
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** Taken to the extreme in "A Canterlot Wedding Part 1" between herself, her brother, Shining Armor, and later on, the other Mane Six and Princess Celestia, right after she straights out accuses Princess Cadence of being evil, [[MadeOutToBeAJerkass thereby causing them to be alienated from her]]. [[PoorCommunicationKills If only if she had explained her better better]] [[WhatAnIdiot rather than yelling at Cadence]]...
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* BreakTheCutie: She got hit with this '''hard''' in both parts of ''Return of Harmony''. [[spoiler:What starts out as the Mane Six finding the Elements of Harmony that can defeat the latest BigBad Discord winds up becoming a twisted game of Discord's design where he separately {{Hate Plague}}s Twilight's TrueCompanions into being their polar opposites which all treat Twilight like dirt. After the search in Discord's maze turned out to be a wild-goose chase, Discord points out [[NiceJobBreakingItHero it was Twilight's idea to go to the maze]] and claimed that her friends' corruption was ''her fault''. When Twilight does figure out where the Elements of Harmony are, her town has already been turned into a WorldGoneMad ruled by Discord where her companions get even more viscous [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything to the point of resembling real-life bullies]]. [[HopeSpot And after finally finding the Elements Of Harmony]], they were revealed to be powerless thanks to Discord's earlier mind manipulation of the others. [[WeUsedToBeFriends The result is all of Twilight's friends leaving her]], making Twilight [[DespairEventHorizon hit rock bottom]] and fall victim to Discord's HatePlague ''without any brainwashing'']]. Even though [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero the next episode]] plays Twilight's [[SanitySlippage nervous breakdown]] [[PlayedForLaughs for laughs]], given all what happened during the last two episodes it's hard not to think the poor girl truly snapped.
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* BreakTheCutie: She got hit with this '''hard''' in both parts of ''Return of Harmony''. [[spoiler:What starts out as the Mane Six finding the Elements of Harmony that can defeat the latest BigBad Discord winds up becoming a twisted game of Discord's design where he separately {{Hate Plague}}s Twilight's TrueCompanions into being their polar opposites which all treat Twilight like dirt. After the search in Discord's maze turned out to be a wild-goose chase, Discord points out [[NiceJobBreakingItHero it was Twilight's idea to go to the maze]] and claimed that her friends' corruption was ''her fault''. When Twilight does figure out where the Elements of Harmony are, her town has already been turned into a WorldGoneMad ruled by Discord where her companions get even more viscous [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything to the point of resembling real-life bullies]]. [[HopeSpot And after finally finding the Elements Of Harmony]], they were revealed to be powerless thanks to Discord's earlier mind manipulation of the others. [[WeUsedToBeFriends [[EtTuBrute The result is all of Twilight's friends leaving her]], making Twilight [[DespairEventHorizon hit rock bottom]] and fall victim to Discord's HatePlague ''without any brainwashing'']]. Even though [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero the next episode]] plays Twilight's [[SanitySlippage nervous breakdown]] [[PlayedForLaughs for laughs]], given all what happened during the last two episodes it's hard not to think the poor girl truly snapped.
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** Taken to the extreme in "A Canterlot Wedding Part 1" between herself, her brother, Shining Armor, and later on, the other Mane Six and Princess Celestia, right after she straights out accuses Princess Cadence of being evil.evil, [[MadeOutToBeAJerkass thereby causing them to be alienated from her]]. [[PoorCommunicationKills If only if she had explained her better rather than yelling at Cadence]]...
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** With her TrueCompanions in the two-parter episode, "The Return Of Harmony". [[spoiler:They all ends up brainwashed by Discord after she and her friends fall into a trap of going into a maze.]]
** Taken to the extreme in "A Canterlot Wedding Part 1" between herself, her brother, Shining Armor, and later on, the other Mane Six and Princess Celestia, right after she straights out accuses Princess Cadence of being evil.
** With her TrueCompanions in the two-parter episode, "The Return Of Harmony". [[spoiler:They all ends up brainwashed by Discord after she and her friends fall into a trap of going into a maze.]]
** Taken to the extreme in "A Canterlot Wedding Part 1" between herself, her brother, Shining Armor, and later on, the other Mane Six and Princess Celestia, right after she straights out accuses Princess Cadence of being evil.
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* BreakTheCutie: She got hit with this '''hard''' in both parts of ''Return of Harmony''. [[spoiler:What starts out as the Mane Six finding the Elements of Harmony that can defeat the latest BigBad Discord winds up becoming a twisted game of Discord's design where he separately {{Hate Plague}}s Twilight's TrueCompanions into being their polar opposites which all treat Twilight like dirt. After the search in Discord's maze turned out to be a wild-goose chase, Discord points out [[NiceJobBreakingItHero it was Twilight's idea to go to the maze]] and claimed that her friends' corruption was ''her fault''. When Twilight does figure out where the Elements of Harmony are, her town has already been turned into a WorldGoneMad ruled by Discord where her companions get even more viscous [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything to the point of resembling real-life bullies]]. [[HopeSpot And after finally finding the Elements Of Harmony]], they were revealed to be powerless thanks to Discord's earlier mind manipulation of the others. The result is all of Twilight's friends leaving her, making Twilight [[DespairEventHorizon hit rock bottom]] and fall victim to Discord's HatePlague ''without any brainwashing''.]] Even though [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero the next episode]] plays Twilight's [[SanitySlippage nervous breakdown]] [[PlayedForLaughs for laughs]], given all what happened during the last two episodes it's hard not to think the poor girl truly snapped.
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* BreakTheCutie: She got hit with this '''hard''' in both parts of ''Return of Harmony''. [[spoiler:What starts out as the Mane Six finding the Elements of Harmony that can defeat the latest BigBad Discord winds up becoming a twisted game of Discord's design where he separately {{Hate Plague}}s Twilight's TrueCompanions into being their polar opposites which all treat Twilight like dirt. After the search in Discord's maze turned out to be a wild-goose chase, Discord points out [[NiceJobBreakingItHero it was Twilight's idea to go to the maze]] and claimed that her friends' corruption was ''her fault''. When Twilight does figure out where the Elements of Harmony are, her town has already been turned into a WorldGoneMad ruled by Discord where her companions get even more viscous [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything to the point of resembling real-life bullies]]. [[HopeSpot And after finally finding the Elements Of Harmony]], they were revealed to be powerless thanks to Discord's earlier mind manipulation of the others. [[WeUsedToBeFriends The result is all of Twilight's friends leaving her, her]], making Twilight [[DespairEventHorizon hit rock bottom]] and fall victim to Discord's HatePlague ''without any brainwashing''.]] brainwashing'']]. Even though [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero the next episode]] plays Twilight's [[SanitySlippage nervous breakdown]] [[PlayedForLaughs for laughs]], given all what happened during the last two episodes it's hard not to think the poor girl truly snapped.
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** {{Deconstructed}} in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero Lesson Zero]]. When she approaches her friends for help on completing her weekly friendship report and they dismiss it as a trivial problem, Twilight believes she is the only one who understands just how dire the situation truly is but the audience clearly sees that it is Twilight who is bottoming out on sanity. Further deconstructed when [[SelfFulfillingProphecy her myopic perspective actually results in disaster]].
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** {{Deconstructed}} {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero Lesson Zero]]. When she approaches her friends for help on completing her weekly friendship report and they dismiss it as a trivial problem, Twilight believes she is the only one who understands just how dire the situation truly is but the audience clearly sees that it is Twilight who is bottoming out on sanity. Further deconstructed when [[SelfFulfillingProphecy her myopic perspective actually results in disaster]].
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* [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone My Celestia, What Have I Done]]: In the first part of Canterlot Wedding, she realized that she made the bride cry, and was afraid that no one was going to forgive her. [[spoiler:But she was right.]]
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* [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone My Celestia, What Have I Done]]: MyGodWhatHaveIDone: In the first part of Canterlot Wedding, she realized that she made the bride cry, and was afraid that no one was going to forgive her. [[spoiler:But she was right.]]
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* [[PalsWithJesus Pals With Alicorns]]: She's the personal apprentice of Celestia and also managed to become a good friend of Luna during the events of "Luna Eclipsed".
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* [[PalsWithJesus Pals With Alicorns]]: PalsWithJesus: She's the personal apprentice of Celestia and also managed to become a good friend of Luna during the events of "Luna Eclipsed".
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The fact that SHE\'S purple might reflect her magicalness, but her eyes don\'t exactly stand out - they\'re just purple because the rest of her is.
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* PurpleEyes: Used to reflect her [[PurpleIsPowerful powerful]] [[SupernaturalIsPurple magic skills]].
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* DefrostingIceQueen: During the pilot towards her friends.
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* DefrostingIceQueen: During Non-romantic example; during the pilot she ultimately warms up towards her new friends.
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** GoodIsNotSoft: She's normally calm, friendly and helpful, [[spoiler:but when Queen Chrysalis gloated that she has her brother, she had no problems trying to fry her with lasers.]]
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** GoodIsNotSoft: She's normally calm, friendly and helpful, [[spoiler:but when Queen Chrysalis gloated that she has her brother, she Twilight had no problems trying to fry her with lasers.her laser-beam attack.]]
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* TheMessiah: She's more cynical and grouchy than the norm, but fills this role in the places that count, moreso than Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie. She's the wielder of the Element of Magic (aka [[TitleDrop Friendship]]), in the two-parter episode, "The Return Of Harmony", she is the only one who didn't get brainwashed by Discord and in "A Canterlot Wedding".
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* TheMessiah: She's more cynical and grouchy than the norm, but fills this role in the places that count, moreso than Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie. She's the wielder of the Element of Magic (aka [[TitleDrop Friendship]]), in the two-parter episode, "The Return Of Harmony", she is the only one who didn't get brainwashed {{Hate Plague}}d by Discord and in "A Canterlot Wedding".Wedding", is able to [[spoiler:see through the fake Cadance because she knew the real Cadance so well.]]
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Square Peg Round Trope. Nothing in the show indicates that she has a rich family. Refrain from stating your fanfiction ideas as facts until the show itself can actually back it up. And she DIDN\'T see through the fake Cadence. If you actually watched the episode, she was fool by the disguise, just like everyone else. She was just acting up because the false Cadence was such a bitch, that Twilight didn\'t want her brother to marry her.
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* TheMessiah: She's more cynical and grouchy than the norm, but fills this role in the places that count, moreso than Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie. She's the wielder of the Element of Magic (aka [[TitleDrop Friendship]]), in the two-parter episode, "The Return Of Harmony", she is the only one who didn't get brainwashed by Discord and in "A Canterlot Wedding", is able to [[spoiler:see through the fake Cadance because she knew the real Cadance.]]
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* TheMessiah: She's more cynical and grouchy than the norm, but fills this role in the places that count, moreso than Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie. She's the wielder of the Element of Magic (aka [[TitleDrop Friendship]]), in the two-parter episode, "The Return Of Harmony", she is the only one who didn't get brainwashed by Discord and in "A Canterlot Wedding", is able to [[spoiler:see through the fake Cadance because she knew the real Cadance.]]Wedding".
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* SpoiledSweet: Having parents who seem to be wealthy aristocrats in Canterlot, as well as her being mentored (and technically raised) in her later childhood years by a ruling monarch/GodOfGood like Princess Celestia certainly counts her as this.
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* StoryBreakerPower: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. She can learn any kind of magic and has amazing strength magic-wise, but her lack of practicing and a reliance on analysis over battle skills can leave her vulnerable. See her example on the trope page to read more.
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* StoryBreakerPower: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. She can learn any kind of magic and has amazing strength magic-wise, but her lack of practicing and a reliance an over-reliance on analysis over battle skills can leave her vulnerable. See her example on the trope page to read more.
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* SupernaturalIsPurple: Her main color is purple and she is a powerful sorceress.
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* SupernaturalIsPurple: Her main color She is mostly purple and she is a powerful sorceress.
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* WingedUnicorn: As depicted by a [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A5VYKeXCAAAaOWb.jpg:orig Hasbro stand]] from Brand Licensing Europe 2012 and by plush toys at a [[http://sphotos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/340535_526570387357208_552358684_o.jpg Funrise office]]. No word on whether or not she'll actually gain Pegasus wings, though.
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* WingedUnicorn: As depicted by a [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A5VYKeXCAAAaOWb.jpg:orig [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pBePNR5xLi0/UH8V2g01zaI/AAAAAAAA8_4/KbJZLBRRvl0/s1600/A5VYKeXCAAAaOWb.jpg+large.jpg Hasbro stand]] from Brand Licensing Europe 2012 and by plush toys at a [[http://sphotos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/340535_526570387357208_552358684_o.jpg Funrise office]]. No word on whether or not she'll actually gain Pegasus wings, though.
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* SlasherSmile: Gets one in "Lesson Zero" when she goes completely off the deep end.
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* SlasherSmile: Gets one in "Lesson Zero" when she [[SanitySlippage goes completely off the deep end.end]].
* SmugSmiler
* SmugSmiler
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* TheMessiah: She's more cynical and grouchy than the norm, but fills this role in the places that count, moreso than Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie. She's the wielder of the Element of Magic (aka [[TitleDrop Friendship]]), in the two-parter episode, "The Return Of Harmony", she is the only one who didn't get brainwashed by Discord and in "A Canterlot Wedding", is able to [[spoiler:see through the fake Candence because she knew the real Candence.]]
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* TheMessiah: She's more cynical and grouchy than the norm, but fills this role in the places that count, moreso than Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie. She's the wielder of the Element of Magic (aka [[TitleDrop Friendship]]), in the two-parter episode, "The Return Of Harmony", she is the only one who didn't get brainwashed by Discord and in "A Canterlot Wedding", is able to [[spoiler:see through the fake Candence Cadance because she knew the real Candence.Cadance.]]
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: In the episode "The Return of Harmony Part 2", Twilight Sparkle battled with Gray Pinkie Pie and Applejack after they stole her book, resulting in a BigBallOfViolence. In ''Owls Well That Ends Well'', she gets ''intense'' when Spike not only destroys one of her books by accident, but lies about it. It seems as if mistreatment of books [[BerserkButton sets off a harsher Berserk Mode]] than even the Friendship-related button she shares with the group.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: In the episode "The Return of Harmony Part 2", Twilight Sparkle battled with Gray Pinkie Pie and Applejack after they stole her book, resulting in a BigBallOfViolence. In ''Owls ''Owl's Well That Ends Well'', she gets ''intense'' when Spike not only destroys one of her books by accident, but lies about it. It seems as if mistreatment of books [[BerserkButton sets off a harsher Berserk Mode]] than even the Friendship-related button she shares with the group.
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* TheMessiah: She's more cynical and grouchy than the norm, but fills this role in the places that count, moreso than Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie. She's the wielder of the Element of Magic (aka [[TitleDrop Friendship]]), in the two-parter episode, "The Return Of Harmony", she is the only one who didn't gets get brainwashed by Discord and in "A Canterlot Wedding", is able to [[spoiler:see through the fake Candence because she knew the real Candence.]]
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* SupernaturalIsPurple: Her main color is purple and is a powerful sorceress.
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* {{Tsundere}}: Type B. She was a NiceGirl around Celestia, Spike and her family, but her newfound friends sets her off.
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** BadassFamily: She is a certified BadassBookworm[=/=]MagicKnight, her brother is the captain of the Royal Guard. As if that wasn't enough, he marries Princess Cadence, a BadassPrincess [[spoiler:who he saves the world with]] and Princess Celestia's niece, making her now part of Celestia and Luna's family too. And if the MythologyGag about her mother being the G1 Twilight is correct, she probably counts too.
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** BadassFamily: She is a certified BadassBookworm[=/=]MagicKnight, her brother is the captain of the Royal Guard. As if that wasn't enough, he marries Princess Cadence, Cadance, a BadassPrincess [[spoiler:who he saves the world with]] and [[AllThereInTheManual Princess Celestia's niece, niece]], making her now part of Celestia and Luna's family too. And if the MythologyGag about her mother [[AllThereInTheScript Twilight Velvet]] being the G1 Twilight is correct, she probably counts too.
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** Part 2 of "A Canterlot Wedding" knocked this out of the park; [[spoiler:she went into a state of UnstoppableRage over the thought of her brother being in danger, firing several beams around the dungeon Chrysalis trapped her in, and was seconds from killing the ''real'' Princess Cadence, thinking it was her imposter.]]
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** Part 2 of "A Canterlot Wedding" knocked this out of the park; [[spoiler:she went into a state of UnstoppableRage over the thought of her brother being in danger, firing several beams around the dungeon Chrysalis trapped her in, and was seconds from killing the ''real'' Princess Cadence, Cadance, thinking it was her imposter.]]
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* OneOfTheBoys: Before the pilot, Twilight had more male friends (Spike and Shining Armor) then girls (the only one being Princess Cadence).
* OneOfTheBoys: Before the pilot, Twilight had more male friends (Spike and Shining Armor) then girls (the only one being Princess Cadence).
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* {{Ojou}}: While not outright stated, it is implied that she came from a very privileged background, even before she met Princess Celestia and became her student. What with having [[AllThereInTheManual The Princess's niece niece]] (who is a princess herself) as a ''foalsitter''.
* OneOfTheBoys: Before the pilot, Twilight had more male friends (Spike and Shining Armor) then girls (the only one being PrincessCadence).Cadance).
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* ProperlyParanoid: [[spoiler:The only one who thinks the behavior of "Princess Cadence" is suspicious. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as none of the others knew Cadence well enough to know her behaviour was unusual.]]
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* ProperlyParanoid: [[spoiler:The only one who thinks the behavior of "Princess Cadence" Cadance" is suspicious. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as none of the others knew Cadence Cadance well enough to know her behaviour was unusual.]]
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* ResignedToTheCall: Played with at the first episode; she's willing to stop Nightmare Moon but when Celestia told Twilight to make friends, she was against it but went along with her orders while expecting her to realize Nightmare Moon is more important.
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** BadassFamily: She is a certified BadassBookworm[=/=]MagicKnight, her brother is the captain of the Royal Guard. As if that wasn't enough, he marries Princess Cadence, a BadassPrincess [[spoiler:who he saves the world with]] and Princess Celestia's niece, making her now part of Celestia and Luna's family too. And if the theory about her mother being the G1 Twilight is correct, she probably counts too.
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** BadassFamily: She is a certified BadassBookworm[=/=]MagicKnight, her brother is the captain of the Royal Guard. As if that wasn't enough, he marries Princess Cadence, a BadassPrincess [[spoiler:who he saves the world with]] and Princess Celestia's niece, making her now part of Celestia and Luna's family too. And if the theory MythologyGag about her mother being the G1 Twilight is correct, she probably counts too.
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** GoodIsNotSoft: She's normally calm and helpful, [[spoiler:but when Queen Chrysalis gloated that she now has her brother, she had no problems trying to fry her with lasers.]]
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** GoodIsNotSoft: She's normally calm calm, friendly and helpful, [[spoiler:but when Queen Chrysalis gloated that she now has her brother, she had no problems trying to fry her with lasers.]]
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* {{Motifs}}: She tends to be associated with stars.stars to [[MeaningfulName go along with her name]].
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** Part 2 of "A Canterlot Wedding" knocked this out of the park; [[spoiler: she [[spoiler:she went into a state of UnstoppableRage over the thought of her brother being in danger, firing several beams around the dungeon Chrysalis trapped her in, and was seconds from killing the ''real'' Princess Cadence, thinking it was her imposter.]]
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* BreakTheCutie: She got hit with this '''hard''' in both parts of ''Return of Harmony''. [[spoiler: What starts out as the Mane Six finding the Elements of Harmony that can defeat the latest BigBad Discord winds up becoming a twisted game of Discord's design where he separately {{Hate Plague}}s Twilight's TrueCompanions into being their polar opposites which all treat Twilight like dirt. After the search in Discord's maze turned out to be a wild-goose chase, Discord points out [[NiceJobBreakingItHero it was Twilight's idea to go to the maze]] and claimed that her friends' corruption was ''her fault''. When Twilight does figure out where the Elements of Harmony are, her town has already been turned into a WorldGoneMad ruled by Discord where her companions get even more viscous [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything to the point of resembling real-life bullies]]. [[HopeSpot And after finally finding the Elements Of Harmony]], they were revealed to be powerless thanks to Discord's earlier mind manipulation of the others. The result is all of Twilight's friends leaving her, making Twilight [[DespairEventHorizon hit rock bottom]] and fall victim to Discord's HatePlague ''without any brainwashing''.]] Even though [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero the next episode]] plays Twilight's [[SanitySlippage nervous breakdown]] [[PlayedForLaughs for laughs]], given all what happened during the last two episodes it's hard not to think the poor girl truly snapped.
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* BreakTheCutie: She got hit with this '''hard''' in both parts of ''Return of Harmony''. [[spoiler: What [[spoiler:What starts out as the Mane Six finding the Elements of Harmony that can defeat the latest BigBad Discord winds up becoming a twisted game of Discord's design where he separately {{Hate Plague}}s Twilight's TrueCompanions into being their polar opposites which all treat Twilight like dirt. After the search in Discord's maze turned out to be a wild-goose chase, Discord points out [[NiceJobBreakingItHero it was Twilight's idea to go to the maze]] and claimed that her friends' corruption was ''her fault''. When Twilight does figure out where the Elements of Harmony are, her town has already been turned into a WorldGoneMad ruled by Discord where her companions get even more viscous [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything to the point of resembling real-life bullies]]. [[HopeSpot And after finally finding the Elements Of Harmony]], they were revealed to be powerless thanks to Discord's earlier mind manipulation of the others. The result is all of Twilight's friends leaving her, making Twilight [[DespairEventHorizon hit rock bottom]] and fall victim to Discord's HatePlague ''without any brainwashing''.]] Even though [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero the next episode]] plays Twilight's [[SanitySlippage nervous breakdown]] [[PlayedForLaughs for laughs]], given all what happened during the last two episodes it's hard not to think the poor girl truly snapped.
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* CareBearStare: [[spoiler: She used {{Telepathy}} to show the memories she had with her friends to cure them of the HatePlague that Discord inflicted on them.]]
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** GoodIsNotSoft: She's normally calm and helpful, [[spoiler: but when Queen Chrysalis gloated that she now has her brother, she had no problems trying to fry her with lasers.]]
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** GoodIsNotSoft: She's normally calm and helpful, [[spoiler: but [[spoiler:but when Queen Chrysalis gloated that she now has her brother, she had no problems trying to fry her with lasers.]]
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* TheMessiah: She's more cynical and grouchy than the norm, but fills this role in the places that count, moreso than Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie. She's the wielder of the Element of Magic (aka [[TitleDrop Friendship]]), in the two-parter episode, "The Return Of Harmony", she is the only one who didn't gets brainwashed by Discord and in "A Canterlot Wedding", is able to [[spoiler: see through the fake Candence because she knew the real Candence.]]
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* TheMessiah: She's more cynical and grouchy than the norm, but fills this role in the places that count, moreso than Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie. She's the wielder of the Element of Magic (aka [[TitleDrop Friendship]]), in the two-parter episode, "The Return Of Harmony", she is the only one who didn't gets brainwashed by Discord and in "A Canterlot Wedding", is able to [[spoiler: see [[spoiler:see through the fake Candence because she knew the real Candence.]]
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* [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone My Celestia, What Have I Done]]: In the first part of Canterlot Wedding, she realized that she made the bride cry, and was afraid that no one was going to forgive her. [[spoiler: But she was right.]]
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* [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone My Celestia, What Have I Done]]: In the first part of Canterlot Wedding, she realized that she made the bride cry, and was afraid that no one was going to forgive her. [[spoiler: But [[spoiler:But she was right.]]
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** {{Lampshade| Hanging}}d by her in the first part of the pilot episode.
--> '''Twilight:''' All the ponies in this town are CRAZY!
--> '''Twilight:''' All the ponies in this town are CRAZY!
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** {{Lampshade| Hanging}}d {{Lampshaded}} by her in the first part of the pilot episode.
--> '''Twilight:''' -->'''Twilight:''' All the ponies in this town are CRAZY!
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* OutOfFocus: In Season 2, at least compared to her role in Season 1. She had only four focus episodes, has been in more of a supporting character in most episodes, and has been missing entirely from three. Quite odd, considering that she's supposed to be the lead protagonist of the mane cast. The writers clearly reveled a bit in not needing to shoehorn her into every story after "Lesson Zero."
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* OutOfFocus: In Season 2, at least compared to her role in Season 1. She had only four focus episodes, has been in more of a supporting character in most episodes, and has been missing entirely from three. Quite odd, considering that she's supposed to be the lead protagonist of the mane cast. The writers clearly reveled a bit in not needing to shoehorn her into every story after "Lesson Zero."Zero".
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** She also showed her physical abilities when she placed fifth in "Fall Weather Friends." Yes, she used AwesomenessByAnalysis to give her an edge, but she needed to be in at least decent shape just to keep up. Plus it was her first race.
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** She also showed her physical abilities when she placed fifth in "Fall Weather Friends." Friends". Yes, she used AwesomenessByAnalysis to give her an edge, but she needed to be in at least decent shape just to keep up. Plus it was her first race.
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* ScheduleFanatic: Most notably seen in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E20ItsAboutTime It's About Time]]," where, at the beginning, she's obsessed about how she's going to make time to make next month's schedule as she didn't leave any room to do so in this month's schedule.
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* ScheduleFanatic: Most notably seen in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E20ItsAboutTime It's About Time]]," Time]]", where, at the beginning, she's obsessed about how she's going to make time to make next month's schedule as she didn't leave any room to do so in this month's schedule.
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* ShutUpHannibal: Done to Nightmare Moon in "Elements of Harmony", with [[spoiler: a blast of HolyHandGrenade]].
** The same thing is done to [[spoiler: Discord]] in "The Return Of Harmony Part 2".
** The same thing is done to [[spoiler: Discord]] in "The Return Of Harmony Part 2".
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* ShutUpHannibal: Done to Nightmare Moon in "Elements of Harmony", with [[spoiler: a [[spoiler:a blast of HolyHandGrenade]].
HolyHandGrenade.]]
** The same thing is done to[[spoiler: Discord]] [[spoiler:Discord]] in "The Return Of Harmony Part 2".
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* StoryBreakerPower: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. She can learn any kind of magic and has amazing strength magic-wise, but her lack of practicing and a reliance on analysis over battle skills can leave her vulnerable. See her example on the trope page to read more.
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* StoryBreakerPower: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. She can learn any kind of magic and has amazing strength magic-wise, but her lack of practicing and a reliance on analysis over battle skills can leave her vulnerable. See her example on the trope page to read more.
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** Since "Secret of My Excess," it has been shown that Twilight is capable of teleporting ''others'' to her and with her. She seems to teleport long-distance in "Dragon Quest", and it also establishes her teleportation is not a StoryBreakerPower because long-distance and group teleportation takes too much energy to do regularly or rapidly.
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** Since "Secret of My Excess," Excess", it has been shown that Twilight is capable of teleporting ''others'' to her and with her. She seems to teleport long-distance in "Dragon Quest", and it also establishes her teleportation is not a StoryBreakerPower because long-distance and group teleportation takes too much energy to do regularly or rapidly.
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* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have A Purple Mane]]
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* SupernaturalIsPurpleSupernaturalIsPurple: Her main color is purple and is a powerful sorceress.
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* TeamMom: Sometimes she takes this role with Spike and the other ponies.
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* TeamMom: TeamDad: Sometimes she takes this role with Spike and the other ponies.
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** LightEmUp: She used her magic to light up a mine.
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** LightEmUp: She used her magic to can light up a mine.
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* OutOfFocus: In Season 2, at least compared to her role in Season 1. She had only four focus episodes, has been in more of a supporting role character in most episodes, and has been missing entirely from three. Quite odd, considering that she's supposed to be the lead protagonist of the mane cast. The writers clearly reveled a bit in not needing to shoehorn her into every story after "Lesson Zero."
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* DitzyGenius: She's so smart that she can name all the stars in the sky, but so ditzy that she needs a reference guide to understand how to throw a slumber party, and doesn't know what a pillow fight is.
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* DitzyGenius: She's so smart that she can name all the stars in the sky, and [[spoiler:recite the square root of 546 to eleven decimal places]], but so ditzy that she needs a reference guide to understand how to throw a slumber party, and doesn't know what a pillow fight is.
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* WingedUnicorn: As depicted by a [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A5VYKeXCAAAaOWb.jpg:orig Hasbro stand]] from Brand Licensing Europe 2012 and by plush toys at a [[http://sphotos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/340535_526570387357208_552358684_o.jpg Funrise office]]. No word on whether or not she'll actually become one, though.
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* WingedUnicorn: As depicted by a [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A5VYKeXCAAAaOWb.jpg:orig Hasbro stand]] from Brand Licensing Europe 2012 and by plush toys at a [[http://sphotos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/340535_526570387357208_552358684_o.jpg Funrise office]]. No word on whether or not she'll actually become one, gain Pegasus wings, though.
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->''"[[IWorkAlone I am her student and I will do my royal duty, but the fate of Equestria does not rest on me making friends]]."''
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[[caption-width-right:204:Our Heroine, in all her {{Adorkable}}ness.]]
-->'''Debut:''' [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon "Friendship Is Magic, Part 1" ("Mare in the Moon")]]
-->Voiced by TaraStrong
-->Singing by RebeccaShoichet
The protagonist of the series, a unicorn from Canterlot who serves as Princess Celestia's apprentice. She's less than thrilled at first about the suggestion that she should try making friends but naturally winds up [[FireForgedFriends giving it a shot]]. She has a natural talent for Magic that goes far beyond what most unicorns are capable of. She's also very intelligent, levelheaded and organized, making her a great unofficial leader for the six. Her neuroses sometimes cause problems though.
* {{Adorkable}}: Whenever genuinely excited about something such as her first slumber party ever, her awkwardness comes into focus. And it is adorable. Dialed UpToEleven during her flashback in "The Cutie Mark Chronicles" and then again immediately afterward.
-->''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpgy21r_dRE&list=FL5A68Xz9vd9pNuUOTW6GeBw=1&feature=plpp_video Yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes!]]''
** And in ''Sweet and Elite'', she dances like such a total nerd it's adorable. Possibly in a ShoutOut to {{Seinfeld}}.
* AgentScully: Tends toward this despite being a purple unicorn who can do magic.
** She justifies this in "Feeling Pinkie Keen" by explaining that true magic as can be done by all unicorns is essentially nothing more than SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic.
** In "It's About Time", she confidently informs her own future self that she is ''not scientifically possible''.
* AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: At the end of most episodes, she writes a letter to Princess Celestia describing the {{Aesop}} she learned this week. [[spoiler:Becomes a ChekhovsGun when after her losing faith thanks to Discord in the season 2 premiere, Celestia sends them all back to break her out of her HeroicBSOD and motivate her to reunite her friends.]]
** As of ''Lesson Zero'', she has been given permission to pass this duty on to pretty much anyone around her that learns AnAesop.
* {{Anti Hero}}ine: In the pilot she was a [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes type II]], being aloof and unsympathetic to her future friends. She [[CharacterDevelopment grew out of it]] but has occasional relapses, such as "Feeling Pinkie Keen" and "Lesson Zero"--after all, [[HumansAreFlawed Ponies Are Flawed]].
* AntiMagic: Her force fields can cancel out other magic.
* AudienceSurrogate: As the central character, to whom Ponyville and its residents are introduced at the same time as to the viewer, she seems to be the intended one.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Twilight places fifth[[hottip:*:out of an unclear but large number of racers (one competitor's number is 82 which suggests that there were at least 82 entrants)]] in the annual Running of the Leaves race despite knowing about racing only from having read books about it.
* {{Badass}}: She is perfectly willing to risk her life for her friends, Equestria, and Princess Celestia, and, with the help of her friends, succeeds.
** BadassBookworm[=/=]MagicKnight: Not only talented at magic but perfectly capable and willing to lead a charge to the point where she's willing to run right at Nightmare Moon though this is actually a feint to teleport past her. She also places 5th in a marathon despite it being her first, using mostly her book-smarts.
** BadassBureaucrat: She manages to take the mess that is the Winter Wrap-Up and make it a smooth and efficient process by administrative expertise and organization. She also organizes her friends during the cider making contest between the Apples and the Flim-Flam brothers, making them so much more efficient than the brothers' machine that they had to turn off ''quality control'' in order to compete.
** BadassFamily: She is a certified BadassBookworm[=/=]MagicKnight, her brother is the captain of the Royal Guard. As if that wasn't enough, he marries Princess Cadence, a BadassPrincess [[spoiler:who he saves the world with]] and Princess Celestia's niece, making her now part of Celestia and Luna's family too. And if the theory about her mother being the G1 Twilight is correct, she probably counts too.
* BarrierWarrior: She can create AntiMagic force-fields that she can move as seen in "Return Of Harmony Part 2" and "Ponyville Confidential". She seems to have gotten that spell from her brother.
* BerserkButton: Has about three: Do not threaten her brother, don't make fun of Princess Celestia, and don't mess with her books.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: In the episode "The Return of Harmony Part 2", Twilight Sparkle battled with Gray Pinkie Pie and Applejack after they stole her book, resulting in a BigBallOfViolence. In ''Owls Well That Ends Well'', she gets ''intense'' when Spike not only destroys one of her books by accident, but lies about it. It seems as if mistreatment of books [[BerserkButton sets off a harsher Berserk Mode]] than even the Friendship-related button she shares with the group.
** Part 2 of "A Canterlot Wedding" knocked this out of the park; [[spoiler: she went into a state of UnstoppableRage over the thought of her brother being in danger, firing several beams around the dungeon Chrysalis trapped her in, and was seconds from killing the ''real'' Princess Cadence, thinking it was her imposter.]]
* BigBrotherWorship: As a filly, she thought of Shining Armor as her best and only friend (at least until she hatched Spike). When she came to Ponyville and made new friends, however, they started to drift apart. [[spoiler:It's also what makes it hard to get others to side with her when she claims that Cadance is evil, since she has been coming off as possessive of her brother for much of "A Canterlot Wedding".]]
* {{Bookworm}}: Her defining characteristic. She is often seen reading a book, always gave Spike books for his birthday to his chagrin, and often brings up something she learned from a book that is relevent to the plot. Also, books are prevelant in all of her flashbacks, and, in the pilot, one pony asks if Twilight does anything but study.
* BreakTheCutie: She got hit with this '''hard''' in both parts of ''Return of Harmony''. [[spoiler: What starts out as the Mane Six finding the Elements of Harmony that can defeat the latest BigBad Discord winds up becoming a twisted game of Discord's design where he separately {{Hate Plague}}s Twilight's TrueCompanions into being their polar opposites which all treat Twilight like dirt. After the search in Discord's maze turned out to be a wild-goose chase, Discord points out [[NiceJobBreakingItHero it was Twilight's idea to go to the maze]] and claimed that her friends' corruption was ''her fault''. When Twilight does figure out where the Elements of Harmony are, her town has already been turned into a WorldGoneMad ruled by Discord where her companions get even more viscous [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything to the point of resembling real-life bullies]]. [[HopeSpot And after finally finding the Elements Of Harmony]], they were revealed to be powerless thanks to Discord's earlier mind manipulation of the others. The result is all of Twilight's friends leaving her, making Twilight [[DespairEventHorizon hit rock bottom]] and fall victim to Discord's HatePlague ''without any brainwashing''.]] Even though [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero the next episode]] plays Twilight's [[SanitySlippage nervous breakdown]] [[PlayedForLaughs for laughs]], given all what happened during the last two episodes it's hard not to think the poor girl truly snapped.
* BreakTheHaughty: A LighterAndSofter version; she starts as an IneffectualLoner who believes she simply doesn't have ''time'' for friendship and is convinced that Celestia will ''naturally'' listen to her concerns. Then Celestia seemingly blows her off, sends her off to run some mundane errands and expects her to actually try and make friends in a town where she thinks she's the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Pony]]...
* BurningWithAnger: Sometimes does it such as in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E15FeelingPinkieKeen Feeling Pinkie Keen]]".
* ButtMonkey: Shares this role with Spike.
** IronButtMonkey: But as shown in "Feeling Pinkie Keen", she can take a lot of damage and still keep on going.
* CareBearStare: [[spoiler: She used {{Telepathy}} to show the memories she had with her friends to cure them of the HatePlague that Discord inflicted on them.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: During the two-part pilot, she started out as a bit of an asocial jerk who wouldn't be caught dead working with others. Over the course of that episode, she learns the value of friendship, and she is now almost always seen working with or helping her friends. Her original attitude ''sometimes'' re-surfaces, though.
** TookALevelInKindness
* CheatedAngle: Twilight's pink SkunkStripe switches which side of her mane it's on from shot to shot.
* TheChewToy[=/=]HumiliationConga[=/=]SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Expect her to be on the receiving end of a ''lot'' of accidents as soon she starts questioning facts, attempts to fit in or figure out things, such as in "Winter Wrap Up" and especially "Feeling Pinkie Keen", AND "Lesson Zero".
** Her ChewToy status [[PlayedForDrama is played for major drama]] in "The Return of Harmony, Part 2".
* ChildProdigy: Even as a filly, Twilight was unusually adept at learning new spells. In the PowerIncontinence scene referenced below, Princess Celestia - ''a [[PhysicalGod physical goddess]]'' - says she has never seen so much raw talent for magic in a pony before.
* CityMouse: The pilot and a few Season One episodes revolve around Twilight getting acquainted with Ponyville and its traditions, with varied success.
* TheCityVsTheCountry: Her initial plot arc is a LighterAndSofter version of this. She's sent from Canterlot to Ponyville in part to prepare for a celebration held there but is also told to make friends while there. She resents having to do this and focuses on work instead but by the end of the pilot, she's warmed up to her newfound friends and wishes to stay with them.[[hottip:*:Of course it did take the resurrection of an ancient SealedEvilInACan to actually make her understand that.]]
* CloudCuckooLandersMinder: While most characters play this to Pinkie Pie, Twilight is her most prominent foil.
* ColorCodedCharacters[=/=]ColorMotif: Her name is Twilight so naturally she's purple.
* ColorCodedWizardry: Her horn and objects affected by her magic glow when she uses it. It was at first a light purple that matched the color of her coat but it is now a red-violet color that matches the center of her Cutie Mark and her mane's SkunkStripe. Her mother and big brother have the same red-violet magic aura, so it may run in the family.
* TheComicallySerious: Big time. Anytime she attempts to look dignified and intellectual, expect it to be ruined by some other ponies' antics or her own hidden goofiness.
* ControlFreak: Though not overbearing per se, her over attention to detail and occasional irritance with her friends leads her to be insistant on her own direction of things. She can also be quite a nagger, something Spike knows all too well.
* CoolCar: The Twilight Sparkle RC Car from the ''Pony Wedding'' toys.
* CoolCrown: Unlike the other five Elements of Harmony (which are necklaces), her Element of Magic is a "[[BuffySpeak big crown thingy]]."
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow
* CuteAndPsycho: Twilight is generally rational and calm, but when she gets upset... [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAkSwmhp2sg it won't end well.]]
* CuteBookworm
* [[HotLibrarian Cute Librarian]]: She takes up management of the Golden Oaks Library in addition to living inside of it. She fits the personality type of HotLibrarian, but is more cute than hot.
* DeadpanSnarker: Perhaps more frequently than any other character in the show.
-->'''Twilight:''' Now tell me; what exactly have you actually ''seen'' [[MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold Zecora]] do?\\
'''Rainbow Dash:''' Well...once a month she comes into Ponyville.\\
'''Twilight:''' [[SarcasmMode Ooh.]]\\
'''Rarity:''' Then, she ''lurks'' by the ''stores''.\\
'''Twilight:''' [[SarcasmMode Oh my.]]\\
'''Fluttershy:''' And then...she digs at the ground...\\
'''Twilight:''' [[SarcasmMode Good]] ''[[RuleOfThree gracious.]]''
* DefrostingIceQueen: During the pilot towards her friends.
* {{Determinator}}: When she wants to do something, she'll keep trying no matter what. For better or worse.
* DitzyGenius
* ElementalPowers: She has non-weaponized versions:
** BlowYouAway: She can create a strong gust of wind.
** LightEmUp: She used her magic to light up a mine.
** PlayingWithFire: She can spark a candle.
* EquippableAlly: She's been used ''as'' a machine gun in fights.
* {{Expy}}: Of G1 Twilight. The cartoon even ([[MythologyGag jokingly]]) implies that Twilight Sparkle is the daughter of the original Twilight. Her coloring also resembles that of Twilight Twinkle from G3.
* FailedASpotCheck: A recurring flaw with Twilight, who while very intelligent, has a very one track mind when set upon a task, which sometimes leads her to miss important but blatant points (both [[ComicallyMissingThePoint comically]] and [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint dramatically]]) or [[InnocentlyInsensitive act hasty or insensitive]].
* FlatEarthAtheist: Doesn't believe in many of the weird things that happen in Ponyville despite the fact that she uses magic (which she claims is different from other "Mumbo Jumbo") and is the personal student of a PhysicalGoddess.
* ForgottenPhlebotinum: She fails to use her teleportation for most of the first season, starting after "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E4ApplebuckSeason Applebuck Season]]". Averted in Season 2 which has her putting it to regular use.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Melancholic: introverted, organized and [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero high expectations]].
* FrickinLaserBeams: One of her offensive spells is a beam of destructive magic.
* FriendlessBackground: In the first episode, it's shown that "she's more interested in books than friends." Some hints later on show it might not have been quite that simple. In "Look before You Sleep", she reveals she's "always" wanted to have a slumber party. In any case, as seen in the first episode, her studies were certainly getting in the way of having a social life, even if she might have wished for one when not occupied with something else interesting as in that episode.
* FunnyAfro: Twilight temporarily has one after Rainbow Dash messes up her mane in the first episode.
* TheGift: Her special talent is magic itself, thus she can learn any type of magic.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Seems to be a side effect when she uses especially powerful magic, such as her PowerIncontinence episode in her {{flashback}} in "The Cutie Mark Chronicles" and any time she uses the Elements of Harmony.
* GoodIsNotNice: While she was more than willing to save Equestria at the start of the series, she starts out as very asocial and aloof towards others outside of Celestia, Spike, and her family, but she becomes much nicer towards others after the second episode, [[CharacterDevelopment evolving]] into more of the lines of...
** GoodIsNotSoft: She's normally calm and helpful, [[spoiler: but when Queen Chrysalis gloated that she now has her brother, she had no problems trying to fry her with lasers.]]
* GrumpyBear: At times, while she's not pessimistic in general, she is rather cynical and non nonsense in personality, and has a rather grouchy temper if riled up enough. She can switch between cynical and naively optimistic at the blink of an eye however.
* GuileHero: She can be this at times.
* TheHero: She's the supposed main character of the series, but, as mentioned above, she isn't more likely to be the protagonist of a single episode than the other five (in fact, she became almost a SupportingProtagonist in season 2 due to being somewhat OutOfFocus).
* HeroicBSOD: When the stress of the parasprite invasion finally gets to her and her tortured psyche (briefly) snaps.
** Has an even bigger one in "The Return of Harmony, Pt. 2" when [[spoiler:she crosses the DespairEventHorizon]].
** And has an even more ''psychotic'' one over the course of "Lesson Zero".
* HiddenDepths: Despite her history of not socializing by choice, she reveals in "Look Before You Sleep" that she's dreamed about throwing the perfect slumber party and is innocently enthusiastic about getting the chance to try her very first one. This being Twilight, she even has a guide to ensure she does everything by the book.
%% Mod Note: Twilight does not have a Hime Cut. Her hair style is only two lengths and she lacks the needed ear tails. Do not add the trope back.
* {{Humble Hero}}ine: Wants nothing to do with being associated with the greatness of her deeds. Rather she wants to be viewed as an ordinary unicorn unlike her ShadowArchetype [[Characters/{{FriendshipIsMagic-Antagonists}} Trixie]] and her {{foil}} Rainbow Dash.
** Granted, as much as she tries to keep her ego under check, she [[AcquiredSituationalNarcissism sometimes can't resist acting haughty]] due to her role as Celestia's apprentice and very often considering herself the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Mare]]. See {{Pride}} below.
* ICantDance: ''Sweet and Elite'' shows us that dancing is one of the many social activities she's yet to master though she doesn't really seem to care.
** [[{{Seinfeld}} Sweet fancy Moses.]]
* IChooseToStay: By the end of the two-part pilot, she decides to stay in Ponyville with her new friends.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: [[DefiedTrope Defied]] at first; she doesn't want friends when she first comes to Ponyville and it isn't until they help her defeat Nightmare Moon that she realizes how much she really needs them.
* IWorkAlone: Her attitude during the pilot but after her CharacterDevelopment she prefers working with others.
* ImageSong: The ThemeTuneExtended (included as a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4By8YHOnILo sing-along]] on the DVD ''The Friendship Express'', and partially included elsewhere) can be seen as one for Twilight.
* IncrediblyLameFun: A bookworm through and through, Twilight considers re-shelving library books or "a crazy weekend of studying" the height of entertainment.
** Her favorite toy growing up was "Smarty Pants", an ugly pony doll with accessories so you can pretend she is ''studying''. Not only does she think this was a great toy, she thinks it was ''so'' great that offering it to some young fillies will naturally cause them to fight over it.
* IneffectualLoner: Other ponies make clear efforts to reach out to her before the plot kicks off but she blows them off.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Twilight can be rather condescending and arrogant about her intelligence over the others at times, and frequently badgers others over tasks, however it's revealed she has brought herself up with [[SuperOCD very high standards]] to upkeep and is absolutely terrified of disappointing peers or friends (especially Princess Celestia). She had a ''complete mental breakdown'' when she was out of schedule for even one single task.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Justified because Twilight doesn't have a lot of experience with dealing with ponies yet. But she doesn't realize her feelings are necessarily feelings anypony else will share, and she doesn't realize her point-blank bluntness hurts feelings.
** When she was [[SanitySlippage losing her grip]] in "Lesson Zero", it didn't even occur to her that anypony else would think that her Smartypants doll, that comes with accessories for ''doing homework'', wasn't a great toy.
** In "Secret of My Excess", Twilight is embarrassed to realize that the books she's given Spike for his birthday every year were [[GiftGivingGaffe not really appreciated as birthday presents by]] the little dragon.
** In the episode "Baby Cakes", she offers to help Pinkie Pie babysit the Cake Twins because she states Pinkie can't handle the job alone, and offends Pinkie in the process.
** Also in the episode "The Last Roundup", when the mail pony shows up at Applejack's surprise party and thinks that the party was for him because it was his birthday, Twilight takes Applejack's message from him and slams the door in his face without a second thought. Luckily for the mail pony, Pinkie gives him a slice of cake for his birthday.
* InsufferableGenius: Light example. She is the most intelligent of the main cast and ([[NotSoAboveItAll often]]) shows a lot more common sense. Her neurotics can be irritating the others however and she can be a bit smug and prideful if over aware of her logic. Not to mention being an apt DeadpanSnarker.
* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: She's very smart even as a child, but at that age she didn't care that much about making new friends.
* JackOfAllTrades: She can learn any type of magic, but she doesn't specialize in any discipline.
* TheKirk: She's generally at the balance between being emotional and logical, hence why she's the unofficial leader of the six.
* TheLeader: Leadership is one of Twilight's main secondary abilities, thanks to her organizational skills and levelheadedness. She serves as a Type I and Type II leader for her group of friends, and even for the whole town of Ponyville at times.
* LightIsGood[=/=]DarkIsNotEvil: Her first name is Twilight but she can use magic to create light like most unicorns and she's a decent girl most of the time.
* LoonyFriendsImproveYourPersonality: She's made a better person of sorts when forced to make new (some definitely bizarre) friends. As far as she's concerned, friendship really ''is'' magic.
* LovableNerd
* MadnessMakeover: Trope picture despite being the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Pony]] most of the time.
* MagicalGirl
** CuteWitch
** MagicalGirlWarrior: When she's fighting, she qualifies as this.
* MagicLibrarian
* MamaBear: She is willing to stand up to dragons whenever Spike is in danger.
* MeaningfulName: In the first two episodes, Twilight eventually brings peace to the two ponies representing night and day. "Twilight" is the time when night and day briefly intersect. Additionally the book on the Elements of Harmony talks about a "spark" needed to ignite their power; this ends up being Twilight '''Spark'''le.
** In a physical and literal standpoint; She is purple, which is usually the perceived color of a twilight sky (the middle part where day and night intersect) and she has stars for a cutie mark, which represents the few stars that you might see during this time period.
* TheMessiah: She's more cynical and grouchy than the norm, but fills this role in the places that count, moreso than Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie. She's the wielder of the Element of Magic (aka [[TitleDrop Friendship]]), in the two-parter episode, "The Return Of Harmony", she is the only one who didn't gets brainwashed by Discord and in "A Canterlot Wedding", is able to [[spoiler: see through the fake Candence because she knew the real Candence.]]
* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: Her antics caused by her perfectionism and SuperOCD sometimes gets the better of her, causing her to abuse her magic and making the situation ends in disaster.
* MindOverMatter: And a particularly strong telekinetic too. She can simultaneously levitate a humongous bear ''and'' a huge water tower.
* {{Motifs}}: She tends to be associated with stars.
** SymbolMotifClothing: Her dress for the Grand Galloping Gala is decorated with stars and has a star around her chest at the Canterlot Wedding.
* [[MrViceGuy Ms. Vice Girl]]: Normally even-tempered, but Twilight does sometimes have problems with being grouchy and dismissive when something's bugging her. She also has an insensitive streak.
* MulticoloredHair: Purple with pink streaks.
* [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone My Celestia, What Have I Done]]: In the first part of Canterlot Wedding, she realized that she made the bride cry, and was afraid that no one was going to forgive her. [[spoiler: But she was right.]]
** Quoted in "Lesson Zero" after her "Want It Need It" [[GoneHorriblyRight drives everyone into a brainwashed frenzy]].
* NerdsLoveToughSchoolwork
* NervousWreck: When her neurotics reach their worst.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Justified as she is almost always studying and learning new things (magical and otherwise). She can improvise spells as well, though this does not always work out so well.
* NiceGirl: Whenever she's not in GrumpyBear mode.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** Her attempt to use magic to stop the Parasprites from eating all the food in town just causes them to start eating the ''town'' instead.
** When she tries to use magic to clear a field during the Winter Wrap-Up, it results in the plow going out of control and causing the part of the field already plowed to be covered up again.
** In "The Return Of Harmony Part 2", [[spoiler:she quickly figures out Discord's riddle...or so she thinks. It turns out she took it too literally and as a consequence, she leads her TrueCompanions on a wild goose chase that results in all of them getting [[BreakTheCutie broken]] and {{Brainwashed}} by Discord.]]
** In "Lesson Zero", she decides if she can't find a friendship problem to solve, she'll make one to solve. Cue the whole town fighting over her old Smartypants doll she enchanted with a "[[AppleOfDiscord Want It, Need It]]" spell she isn't able to disenchant.
* NoSocialSkills: Because of her solitary life, she starts out like this.
** She returns to form in "Look Before You Sleep", running her first slumber party straight out of the book to ensure success. And it works, sort of.
** Even later on she still has a bit of this. In "Baby Cakes" she casually tells Pinkie Pie that she ''knew'' Pinkie wouldn't be up to babysitting the twins by herself and completely fails to pick up on the fact that Pinkie is offended by this statement.
* NotQuiteFlight: Her magic force-fields can do this.
* ObsessedAreTheListMakers: Most notably her slumber party and in "Lesson Zero". It comes in handy in "Winter Wrap-Up" as she's the only pony there who knows how to prioritize.
* OddFriendship: Has one with Pinkie Pie who's a {{foil}} to her.
* OddNameOut: She's the only pony in the Mane Six to have four syllables in her name (Twi-light Spar-kle) instead of three.
** This most likely doesn't actually mean anything though as the characters didn't all have the same names in early development (for example, Pinkie Pie was originally a white Pegasus named "Surprise").
** The names of the rest of the Mane Six were trademarks left over from the G3 series and their names may have intentionally been chosen to have three syllables to make the G3 theme song easier to write ''("Rainbow Dash always dresses in style/Sweetie Belle's magic brings a great big smile....")'' The only ponies in G3's core 7 not to have three-syllable names were Toola Roola and Starsong.
* {{Ojou}}: While not outright stated, it is implied that she came from a very privileged background, even before she met Princess Celestia and became her student. What with having The Princess's niece (who is a princess herself) as a ''foalsitter''.
* OneOfTheBoys: Before the pilot, Twilight's only friends were Spike and Shining Armor, both of which are boys.
* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Pony]]: Generally the voice of reason compared to her friends. Most obvious in the pilot where her first impression of Ponyville comes from [[{{GASP}} Pinkie Pie]]. Made even more obvious in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E24MysteryOnTheFriendshipExpress MMMystery On The Friendship Express]]" when Twilight, relegated as TheWatson to Pinkie's SherlockHolmes role, keeps shooting down Pinkie's ridiculously wild accusations so often that they exchange roles with no argument from Pinkie.
** {{Lampshade| Hanging}}d by her in the first part of the pilot episode.
--> '''Twilight:''' All the ponies in this town are CRAZY!
** {{Inverted|Trope}} during "Look Before You Sleep" where she's so intent on throwing a perfect slumber party that she ''insists'' on consulting a guidebook for everything. {{Justified|Trope}} in that she's never experienced one before and is completely unfamiliar with all of the classic trappings. She doesn't even know what a pillow fight is! She also wonders if a tree falling through her window is part of the procedures but we'll just blame that on the probable concussion.
** {{Exaggerated|Trope}} when all the other ponies were {{Brainwashed}} by Discord.
** {{Deconstructed}} in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero Lesson Zero]]. When she approaches her friends for help on completing her weekly friendship report and they dismiss it as a trivial problem, Twilight believes she is the only one who understands just how dire the situation truly is but the audience clearly sees that it is Twilight who is bottoming out on sanity. Further deconstructed when [[SelfFulfillingProphecy her myopic perspective actually results in disaster]].
*** Like every other character with so much as a speck of sanity over the others, the show seems ''very'' fond of displaying her own flaws and making her [[NotSoAboveItAll do something odd or undignified]] whenever she gets too high a pedestal.
* OutOfFocus: In Season 2, at least compared to her role in Season 1. She had only four focus episodes, has been in more of a supporting role in most episodes, and has been missing entirely from three. Quite odd, considering that she's supposed to be the lead protagonist of the mane cast. The writers clearly reveled a bit in not needing to shoehorn her into every story after "Lesson Zero."
* [[PalsWithJesus Pals With Alicorns]]: She's the personal apprentice of Celestia and also managed to become a good friend of Luna during the events of "Luna Eclipsed".
* ParentalSubstitute: Can be seen as a mother or sister figure to Spike... especially knowing that she hatched him as part of passing the entrance exam at her school and also following the events in "Owl's Well That Ends Well".
** PlatonicLifePartners[=/=]PromotionToParent: With Spike because of the above.
** The parental skills are further supported by her remarks to Pinkie in "Baby Cakes". She seems to know well what babies need.
* PersonalityPowers: You might not think that the bearer of the Element of Magic and one of the most powerful magic users in the show would be a logic-based skeptic, but here magic is logical because [[MagicAIsMagicA it works how you expect it to work]].
* PintsizedPowerhouse: [[SquishyWizard Telekinetically]] anyway.
** WaifFu
* PluckyGirl: At times.
* PowerCopying: Unicorns use magic spells associated with their special skill. Twilight's special skill ''is'' magic, allowing her to learn spells used by almost any other unicorn.
** This is seen directly in "A Dog and Pony Show" when she copies a spell used by Rarity though Rarity did teach her how to do it. She even does it ''better'' than Rarity; while Rarity can only find one deposit of gems at a time, Twilight can reveal them throughout a volume the size of a room.
** She also uses teleportation right after being subjected to it by Nightmare Moon, notably making her the only unicorn capable of it (not counting the princesses of course).
* PowerIncontinence: A flashback reveals that the awakening of Twilight's magic immediately turned her into a immense danger to everyone and herself. Her attempts at using magic to rectify a problem have about a 50% chance of going this way.
* {{Pride}}: Clearly takes a lot of pride in having Celestia as her mentor. However, she's afraid of being seen as ''too'' prideful after witnessing how ponies react to Trixie's bragging.
* ProperlyParanoid: [[spoiler:The only one who thinks the behavior of "Princess Cadence" is suspicious. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as none of the others knew Cadence well enough to know her behaviour was unusual.]]
* [[ProudScholarRaceGuy Proud Scholar Race Girl]]: Unicorns have a reputation as being intelligent magic-users and Twilight takes it UpToEleven since she's the apprentice of Celestia.
* PsychicPowers: Has [[MindOverMatter telekinesis]] like all unicorns, and also has limited {{telepathy}}, as seen in "Swarm of the Century" and "The Return of Harmony".
* PurpleEyes: Used to reflect her [[PurpleIsPowerful powerful]] [[SupernaturalIsPurple magic skills]].
* PurpleIsPowerful: She's a purple unicorn who's one of the most powerful magic users in the show.
* TheRedMage: Twilight's special talent is the ability to learn any magic.
* RedOniBlueOni: She's the Blue Oni to the rest of the Mane Five, except Fluttershy.
* RenownedSelectiveMentor: She was just trying to get into the royal academy. One magic overload later, she's studying directly from Princess Celestia.
* SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining: Twilight's magical skill is off the chart but she's a social misfit and painfully incompetent at basic manual labor.
** Downplayed later on. In the first episode of Season 2, she lifted a huge rock ("Tom") and in the last episode she pushed a mine cart by herself.
** She also showed her physical abilities when she placed fifth in "Fall Weather Friends." Yes, she used AwesomenessByAnalysis to give her an edge, but she needed to be in at least decent shape just to keep up. Plus it was her first race.
* SanitySlippage: Gets hit with this more often than the rest of the mane cast. Particularly in "Lesson Zero" when she was paranoid about not having a friendship problem to solve for herself and ends up creating an AppleOfDiscord with her Smarty Pants doll.
* ScheduleFanatic: Most notably seen in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E20ItsAboutTime It's About Time]]," where, at the beginning, she's obsessed about how she's going to make time to make next month's schedule as she didn't leave any room to do so in this month's schedule.
* SeriousBusiness: Since her teacher is Celestia, aka the ruler of all Equestria herself, Twilight takes her studies very, ''very'' seriously. As seen in "Lesson Zero", the mere idea of failing an assignment and disappointing her teacher (which would surely be cause to send her back to... [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous MAGIC KINDERGARTEN!]]) is stressful enough to unhinge her. Spike and the others tend to lampshade this now and then.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Not to an excess, but she has a more advanced vocabulary and more correct grammar than her friends. This makes her a {{Foil}} to Rainbow Dash and Applejack, both of whom tend towards BuffySpeak, and to Pinkie Pie who is a CloudCuckoolander.
** She does play it completely straight in "Hurricane Fluttershy", complete with Spike providing a LaymansTerms punchline.
* ShutUpHannibal: Done to Nightmare Moon in "Elements of Harmony", with [[spoiler: a blast of HolyHandGrenade]].
** The same thing is done to [[spoiler: Discord]] in "The Return Of Harmony Part 2".
* SkunkStripe: The pink and lighter-purple shades of her mane.
* SlasherSmile: Gets one in "Lesson Zero" when she goes completely off the deep end.
* TheSnarkKnight: She's a lighter example due to being new to maintaining friendships and being generally nicer than other cases of this trope.
* SorcerersApprenticePlot: Sorta. Sometimes she performs amazing feats of power but she often also spectacularly messes up spells and makes everything much worse.
** When she tries to stop [[TheSwarm Parasprites]] from eating all the food in Ponyville, the spell just makes them eat the buildings instead.
** In another instance, enchanting a plow to clean up snow on its own made the plow go out of control, making the mess worse when it ends up causing an avalanche that ruins everyone else's work.
** In "Lesson Zero", Twilight tries to ''create'' a problem she can solve using the "Want It, Need It" spell on a doll which quickly affects every pony in town. The ensuing riot prevents her from disenchanting the doll.
* TheSpock: When not being TheKirk, she takes a very logical and scientific view on the world. She refuses to believe in anything that doesn't seem to make sense.
* SpoiledSweet: Having parents who seem to be wealthy aristocrats in Canterlot, as well as her being mentored (and technically raised) in her later childhood years by a ruling monarch/GodOfGood like Princess Celestia certainly counts her as this.
* SquishyWizard: "Winter Wrap Up" openly displays her being much weaker than an average Earth Pony and rather klutzy with her hooves (unable to ice skate well or construct a bird's nest without the help of magic). Applejack and Rainbow Dash also state she is physically unfit for the race in "Fall Weather Friends". She gets the last laugh by coming in fifth while they tie for last. She seems to have averted this by season 2, however, as she can carry a boulder twice as large as herself, push a minecart, and holds her own against an army of Changelings.
* StellarName: "Twilight" is the time when day and night briefly intersect[[note]]To be more specific, the times between dawn and sunrise and between sunset and dusk.[[/note]]. During this time period, you may see a few stars in the sky. [[CaptainObvious Stars are known to "sparkle"]].
* StoryBreakerPower: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. She can learn any kind of magic and has amazing strength magic-wise, but her lack of practicing and a reliance on analysis over battle skills can leave her vulnerable. See her example on the trope page to read more.
* [[StraightMan Straight Mare]]: Played with; she usually plays this role with Pinkie Pie since she often has to deal with Pinkie's antics, but there are almost as many times where [[TheCloudcuckooLanderWasRight she learns from Pinkie's eccentric but friendly qualities]] as the latter learns from Twilight's logical but blunt ones.
* TheStrategist: Twilight tends to make the plans for the others and is an excellent fighter when she plans out her fights.
* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: Twilight's magic can range from very menial strength to near unlimited depending on what the scenario calls for. While some episodes do at least put a better distinction on what she is capable of (or what strain it has on her), there are definitely scenarios or obstacles that shouldn't really be a problem compared to her power against others.
** The general rule of thumb is that improvised spells and solutions are prone to failure, but spells and ideas that she's thought out and planned beforehand work nearly flawlessly. It fits with her SuperOCD.
* SupernaturalIsPurple
* SuperOCD: On and off; often [[RuleOfFunny whatever happens to be funnier]]. Alternately leaves her library in an unholy strewn mess and then applies neurotic meticulousness rivaling Rarity's in cleaning it.
** When given materials to make a bird's nest in "Winter Wrap Up", in the two seconds it takes the camera to pan away and back, she's already laid out all the ribbons and sticks into neat rows and sorted individual strands of straw by hue.
** "Lesson Zero" shows just how bad this can get.
** She makes checklists for ''everything'' including checklists, to ensure she has everything she needs, to make checklists.
** In "It's About Time", she's shown staying up all night worrying about not having left time in this month's schedule to make a schedule for ''next'' month.
** Season 2 appears to make it consistently 'on', now that she no longer has to be the star.
* SuperpowerLottery: Short of [[PhysicalGod Celestia]] and others like her, Twilight is the single strongest unicorn in the series. For bonus points, she isn't even limited by a specialized discipline, instead having magic itself as her skill. She also seems to be able to use other unicorns' talent-related magic at higher levels than the original user.
** Though the PowerIncontinence mentioned earlier fortunately balances it out, so that she doesn't completely overshadow the rest of the main cast in capability.
* SwissArmySuperpower: Her magic. Sure, spells have some vague rules, but she specializes in every kind of magic and has an enormous amount of raw power. The only story-wise limit for her magic might be that she can't do an outright DeusExMachina.
* TeamMom: Sometimes she takes this role with Spike and the other ponies.
* TeleportersAndTransporters: Unlike previous ''MyLittlePony'' series, she is the only unicorn with the ability to teleport that we've seen so far. Strangely when she teleports Spike with her, he comes out slightly singed. She says she did it by accident in that instance.
** Since "Secret of My Excess," it has been shown that Twilight is capable of teleporting ''others'' to her and with her. She seems to teleport long-distance in "Dragon Quest", and it also establishes her teleportation is not a StoryBreakerPower because long-distance and group teleportation takes too much energy to do regularly or rapidly.
** Rarity dressed Twilight in her [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E11WinterWrapUp "Winter Wrap Up"]] vest by teleporting it onto her.
** TeleportSpam: Twilight has a tendency to warp around quickly when flustered like in "Lesson Zero" when fretting about not submitting a friendship report to Celestia on time.
*** Exaggerated in "Applebuck Season" while dealing with a sleep-deprived Applejack; if AJ takes more than four steps away from her, she'll instantly teleport over rather than simply walk the three feet separating them. To be fair, Twilight was getting increasingly annoyed at the time and likely wasn't thinking straight, though not nearly as much as the above example.
* TemptingFate: Twilight seems to have an unfortunate habit of asking whether things could possibly get worse. They almost always do.
* TimeTravel: She had this as a one-shot power in ''It's About Time''.
* TrueBlueFemininity: Both her Grand Galloping Gala dress and her cape use this trope.
* {{Tsundere}}: Type B. She was a NiceGirl around Celestia, Spike and her family, but her newfound friends sets her off.
* TsurimeEyes: More prominent on her toy.
* TwitchyEye: Gets this in "A Bird in the Hoof" when she panics about Celestia's presence.
** Also in "Swarm Of The Century" for the same reason.
** In "Lesson Zero", worried about letting Celestia down by being late with her Friendship Report, she gets this, twitchy ears, a teeth-grinding slasher smile, ''and'' a mussed up mane due to [[MadnessMakeover really, really losing it]].
* UndyingLoyalty: To Princess Celestia, considering she's "her most loyal and faithful student".
* UnfortunateNames: ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' [[EverythingsBetterWithSparkles Sparkle]].
** [[http://comments.deviantart.com/4/1603670/2216411631 Given Ms. Faust's comments on the matter]], ''may'' have been intentional.
--->'''LaurenFaust''': It passed legal.
* UnskilledButStrong: Actually she's the most magically powerful unicorn in the whole show as is repeatedly pointed out. The "Unskilled" comes from the fact she often only practices a new spell until she can pull it off right in practice '''once''' and then moves on to the next, more difficult spell. This practice severely limits the practical and effective use of her stronger spells in helping her with her day-to-day problems which sometimes comes back to bite her in the [[UnusualEuphemism plot]] when the obstacles she faces require high-level magic and the magic backfires or falters on the field. The 'strong' portion of this trope refers to her magical abilities; she is the physically weakest of the six but can often use her intelligence (or magic) to help in situations where strength isn't an option.
* [[WellDoneSonGuy "Well Done, Student" Girl]]: Her relationship with Princess Celestia has some definite shades of this. Twilight obviously idolizes Celestia and desperately seeks her approval though Celestia's approval is not nearly as conditional as Twilight thinks it is.
* WhenSheSmiles: Double Subverted, as Twilight ''does'' smile a decent amount, but when she's genuinely happy it really stands out.
%% WholesomeCrossdresser is addressed on the Luna Eclipsed page.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: If ''Winter Wrap-up'' is anything to go by, she is terrified of snakes and bats.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Well...she's a young adult but she has been shown to be much more effective at leading than the [[IncrediblyLamePun old gray mayor]] of Ponyville.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatPerks: Like all unicorns, she uses magic for just about everything (where appropriate). And she gets even more perks than most unicorns because she can use any type of magic.
* TheWorfEffect: Despite being a powerful sorceress, she occasionally gets defeated by the MonsterOfTheWeek so that another one of the main characters can defeat it, or fail a spell to make way for someone more powerful like Discord.
* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have A Purple Mane]]
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[[caption-width-right:204:Our Heroine, in all her {{Adorkable}}ness.]]
-->'''Debut:''' [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon "Friendship Is Magic, Part 1" ("Mare in the Moon")]]
-->Voiced by TaraStrong
-->Singing by RebeccaShoichet
The protagonist of the series, a unicorn from Canterlot who serves as Princess Celestia's apprentice. She's less than thrilled at first about the suggestion that she should try making friends but naturally winds up [[FireForgedFriends giving it a shot]]. She has a natural talent for Magic that goes far beyond what most unicorns are capable of. She's also very intelligent, levelheaded and organized, making her a great unofficial leader for the six. Her neuroses sometimes cause problems though.
* {{Adorkable}}: Whenever genuinely excited about something such as her first slumber party ever, her awkwardness comes into focus. And it is adorable. Dialed UpToEleven during her flashback in "The Cutie Mark Chronicles" and then again immediately afterward.
-->''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpgy21r_dRE&list=FL5A68Xz9vd9pNuUOTW6GeBw=1&feature=plpp_video Yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes!]]''
** And in ''Sweet and Elite'', she dances like such a total nerd it's adorable. Possibly in a ShoutOut to {{Seinfeld}}.
* AgentScully: Tends toward this despite being a purple unicorn who can do magic.
** She justifies this in "Feeling Pinkie Keen" by explaining that true magic as can be done by all unicorns is essentially nothing more than SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic.
** In "It's About Time", she confidently informs her own future self that she is ''not scientifically possible''.
* AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: At the end of most episodes, she writes a letter to Princess Celestia describing the {{Aesop}} she learned this week. [[spoiler:Becomes a ChekhovsGun when after her losing faith thanks to Discord in the season 2 premiere, Celestia sends them all back to break her out of her HeroicBSOD and motivate her to reunite her friends.]]
** As of ''Lesson Zero'', she has been given permission to pass this duty on to pretty much anyone around her that learns AnAesop.
* {{Anti Hero}}ine: In the pilot she was a [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes type II]], being aloof and unsympathetic to her future friends. She [[CharacterDevelopment grew out of it]] but has occasional relapses, such as "Feeling Pinkie Keen" and "Lesson Zero"--after all, [[HumansAreFlawed Ponies Are Flawed]].
* AntiMagic: Her force fields can cancel out other magic.
* AudienceSurrogate: As the central character, to whom Ponyville and its residents are introduced at the same time as to the viewer, she seems to be the intended one.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Twilight places fifth[[hottip:*:out of an unclear but large number of racers (one competitor's number is 82 which suggests that there were at least 82 entrants)]] in the annual Running of the Leaves race despite knowing about racing only from having read books about it.
* {{Badass}}: She is perfectly willing to risk her life for her friends, Equestria, and Princess Celestia, and, with the help of her friends, succeeds.
** BadassBookworm[=/=]MagicKnight: Not only talented at magic but perfectly capable and willing to lead a charge to the point where she's willing to run right at Nightmare Moon though this is actually a feint to teleport past her. She also places 5th in a marathon despite it being her first, using mostly her book-smarts.
** BadassBureaucrat: She manages to take the mess that is the Winter Wrap-Up and make it a smooth and efficient process by administrative expertise and organization. She also organizes her friends during the cider making contest between the Apples and the Flim-Flam brothers, making them so much more efficient than the brothers' machine that they had to turn off ''quality control'' in order to compete.
** BadassFamily: She is a certified BadassBookworm[=/=]MagicKnight, her brother is the captain of the Royal Guard. As if that wasn't enough, he marries Princess Cadence, a BadassPrincess [[spoiler:who he saves the world with]] and Princess Celestia's niece, making her now part of Celestia and Luna's family too. And if the theory about her mother being the G1 Twilight is correct, she probably counts too.
* BarrierWarrior: She can create AntiMagic force-fields that she can move as seen in "Return Of Harmony Part 2" and "Ponyville Confidential". She seems to have gotten that spell from her brother.
* BerserkButton: Has about three: Do not threaten her brother, don't make fun of Princess Celestia, and don't mess with her books.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: In the episode "The Return of Harmony Part 2", Twilight Sparkle battled with Gray Pinkie Pie and Applejack after they stole her book, resulting in a BigBallOfViolence. In ''Owls Well That Ends Well'', she gets ''intense'' when Spike not only destroys one of her books by accident, but lies about it. It seems as if mistreatment of books [[BerserkButton sets off a harsher Berserk Mode]] than even the Friendship-related button she shares with the group.
** Part 2 of "A Canterlot Wedding" knocked this out of the park; [[spoiler: she went into a state of UnstoppableRage over the thought of her brother being in danger, firing several beams around the dungeon Chrysalis trapped her in, and was seconds from killing the ''real'' Princess Cadence, thinking it was her imposter.]]
* BigBrotherWorship: As a filly, she thought of Shining Armor as her best and only friend (at least until she hatched Spike). When she came to Ponyville and made new friends, however, they started to drift apart. [[spoiler:It's also what makes it hard to get others to side with her when she claims that Cadance is evil, since she has been coming off as possessive of her brother for much of "A Canterlot Wedding".]]
* {{Bookworm}}: Her defining characteristic. She is often seen reading a book, always gave Spike books for his birthday to his chagrin, and often brings up something she learned from a book that is relevent to the plot. Also, books are prevelant in all of her flashbacks, and, in the pilot, one pony asks if Twilight does anything but study.
* BreakTheCutie: She got hit with this '''hard''' in both parts of ''Return of Harmony''. [[spoiler: What starts out as the Mane Six finding the Elements of Harmony that can defeat the latest BigBad Discord winds up becoming a twisted game of Discord's design where he separately {{Hate Plague}}s Twilight's TrueCompanions into being their polar opposites which all treat Twilight like dirt. After the search in Discord's maze turned out to be a wild-goose chase, Discord points out [[NiceJobBreakingItHero it was Twilight's idea to go to the maze]] and claimed that her friends' corruption was ''her fault''. When Twilight does figure out where the Elements of Harmony are, her town has already been turned into a WorldGoneMad ruled by Discord where her companions get even more viscous [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything to the point of resembling real-life bullies]]. [[HopeSpot And after finally finding the Elements Of Harmony]], they were revealed to be powerless thanks to Discord's earlier mind manipulation of the others. The result is all of Twilight's friends leaving her, making Twilight [[DespairEventHorizon hit rock bottom]] and fall victim to Discord's HatePlague ''without any brainwashing''.]] Even though [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero the next episode]] plays Twilight's [[SanitySlippage nervous breakdown]] [[PlayedForLaughs for laughs]], given all what happened during the last two episodes it's hard not to think the poor girl truly snapped.
* BreakTheHaughty: A LighterAndSofter version; she starts as an IneffectualLoner who believes she simply doesn't have ''time'' for friendship and is convinced that Celestia will ''naturally'' listen to her concerns. Then Celestia seemingly blows her off, sends her off to run some mundane errands and expects her to actually try and make friends in a town where she thinks she's the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Pony]]...
* BurningWithAnger: Sometimes does it such as in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E15FeelingPinkieKeen Feeling Pinkie Keen]]".
* ButtMonkey: Shares this role with Spike.
** IronButtMonkey: But as shown in "Feeling Pinkie Keen", she can take a lot of damage and still keep on going.
* CareBearStare: [[spoiler: She used {{Telepathy}} to show the memories she had with her friends to cure them of the HatePlague that Discord inflicted on them.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: During the two-part pilot, she started out as a bit of an asocial jerk who wouldn't be caught dead working with others. Over the course of that episode, she learns the value of friendship, and she is now almost always seen working with or helping her friends. Her original attitude ''sometimes'' re-surfaces, though.
** TookALevelInKindness
* CheatedAngle: Twilight's pink SkunkStripe switches which side of her mane it's on from shot to shot.
* TheChewToy[=/=]HumiliationConga[=/=]SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Expect her to be on the receiving end of a ''lot'' of accidents as soon she starts questioning facts, attempts to fit in or figure out things, such as in "Winter Wrap Up" and especially "Feeling Pinkie Keen", AND "Lesson Zero".
** Her ChewToy status [[PlayedForDrama is played for major drama]] in "The Return of Harmony, Part 2".
* ChildProdigy: Even as a filly, Twilight was unusually adept at learning new spells. In the PowerIncontinence scene referenced below, Princess Celestia - ''a [[PhysicalGod physical goddess]]'' - says she has never seen so much raw talent for magic in a pony before.
* CityMouse: The pilot and a few Season One episodes revolve around Twilight getting acquainted with Ponyville and its traditions, with varied success.
* TheCityVsTheCountry: Her initial plot arc is a LighterAndSofter version of this. She's sent from Canterlot to Ponyville in part to prepare for a celebration held there but is also told to make friends while there. She resents having to do this and focuses on work instead but by the end of the pilot, she's warmed up to her newfound friends and wishes to stay with them.[[hottip:*:Of course it did take the resurrection of an ancient SealedEvilInACan to actually make her understand that.]]
* CloudCuckooLandersMinder: While most characters play this to Pinkie Pie, Twilight is her most prominent foil.
* ColorCodedCharacters[=/=]ColorMotif: Her name is Twilight so naturally she's purple.
* ColorCodedWizardry: Her horn and objects affected by her magic glow when she uses it. It was at first a light purple that matched the color of her coat but it is now a red-violet color that matches the center of her Cutie Mark and her mane's SkunkStripe. Her mother and big brother have the same red-violet magic aura, so it may run in the family.
* TheComicallySerious: Big time. Anytime she attempts to look dignified and intellectual, expect it to be ruined by some other ponies' antics or her own hidden goofiness.
* ControlFreak: Though not overbearing per se, her over attention to detail and occasional irritance with her friends leads her to be insistant on her own direction of things. She can also be quite a nagger, something Spike knows all too well.
* CoolCar: The Twilight Sparkle RC Car from the ''Pony Wedding'' toys.
* CoolCrown: Unlike the other five Elements of Harmony (which are necklaces), her Element of Magic is a "[[BuffySpeak big crown thingy]]."
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow
* CuteAndPsycho: Twilight is generally rational and calm, but when she gets upset... [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAkSwmhp2sg it won't end well.]]
* CuteBookworm
* [[HotLibrarian Cute Librarian]]: She takes up management of the Golden Oaks Library in addition to living inside of it. She fits the personality type of HotLibrarian, but is more cute than hot.
* DeadpanSnarker: Perhaps more frequently than any other character in the show.
-->'''Twilight:''' Now tell me; what exactly have you actually ''seen'' [[MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold Zecora]] do?\\
'''Rainbow Dash:''' Well...once a month she comes into Ponyville.\\
'''Twilight:''' [[SarcasmMode Ooh.]]\\
'''Rarity:''' Then, she ''lurks'' by the ''stores''.\\
'''Twilight:''' [[SarcasmMode Oh my.]]\\
'''Fluttershy:''' And then...she digs at the ground...\\
'''Twilight:''' [[SarcasmMode Good]] ''[[RuleOfThree gracious.]]''
* DefrostingIceQueen: During the pilot towards her friends.
* {{Determinator}}: When she wants to do something, she'll keep trying no matter what. For better or worse.
* DitzyGenius
* ElementalPowers: She has non-weaponized versions:
** BlowYouAway: She can create a strong gust of wind.
** LightEmUp: She used her magic to light up a mine.
** PlayingWithFire: She can spark a candle.
* EquippableAlly: She's been used ''as'' a machine gun in fights.
* {{Expy}}: Of G1 Twilight. The cartoon even ([[MythologyGag jokingly]]) implies that Twilight Sparkle is the daughter of the original Twilight. Her coloring also resembles that of Twilight Twinkle from G3.
* FailedASpotCheck: A recurring flaw with Twilight, who while very intelligent, has a very one track mind when set upon a task, which sometimes leads her to miss important but blatant points (both [[ComicallyMissingThePoint comically]] and [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint dramatically]]) or [[InnocentlyInsensitive act hasty or insensitive]].
* FlatEarthAtheist: Doesn't believe in many of the weird things that happen in Ponyville despite the fact that she uses magic (which she claims is different from other "Mumbo Jumbo") and is the personal student of a PhysicalGoddess.
* ForgottenPhlebotinum: She fails to use her teleportation for most of the first season, starting after "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E4ApplebuckSeason Applebuck Season]]". Averted in Season 2 which has her putting it to regular use.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Melancholic: introverted, organized and [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero high expectations]].
* FrickinLaserBeams: One of her offensive spells is a beam of destructive magic.
* FriendlessBackground: In the first episode, it's shown that "she's more interested in books than friends." Some hints later on show it might not have been quite that simple. In "Look before You Sleep", she reveals she's "always" wanted to have a slumber party. In any case, as seen in the first episode, her studies were certainly getting in the way of having a social life, even if she might have wished for one when not occupied with something else interesting as in that episode.
* FunnyAfro: Twilight temporarily has one after Rainbow Dash messes up her mane in the first episode.
* TheGift: Her special talent is magic itself, thus she can learn any type of magic.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Seems to be a side effect when she uses especially powerful magic, such as her PowerIncontinence episode in her {{flashback}} in "The Cutie Mark Chronicles" and any time she uses the Elements of Harmony.
* GoodIsNotNice: While she was more than willing to save Equestria at the start of the series, she starts out as very asocial and aloof towards others outside of Celestia, Spike, and her family, but she becomes much nicer towards others after the second episode, [[CharacterDevelopment evolving]] into more of the lines of...
** GoodIsNotSoft: She's normally calm and helpful, [[spoiler: but when Queen Chrysalis gloated that she now has her brother, she had no problems trying to fry her with lasers.]]
* GrumpyBear: At times, while she's not pessimistic in general, she is rather cynical and non nonsense in personality, and has a rather grouchy temper if riled up enough. She can switch between cynical and naively optimistic at the blink of an eye however.
* GuileHero: She can be this at times.
* TheHero: She's the supposed main character of the series, but, as mentioned above, she isn't more likely to be the protagonist of a single episode than the other five (in fact, she became almost a SupportingProtagonist in season 2 due to being somewhat OutOfFocus).
* HeroicBSOD: When the stress of the parasprite invasion finally gets to her and her tortured psyche (briefly) snaps.
** Has an even bigger one in "The Return of Harmony, Pt. 2" when [[spoiler:she crosses the DespairEventHorizon]].
** And has an even more ''psychotic'' one over the course of "Lesson Zero".
* HiddenDepths: Despite her history of not socializing by choice, she reveals in "Look Before You Sleep" that she's dreamed about throwing the perfect slumber party and is innocently enthusiastic about getting the chance to try her very first one. This being Twilight, she even has a guide to ensure she does everything by the book.
%% Mod Note: Twilight does not have a Hime Cut. Her hair style is only two lengths and she lacks the needed ear tails. Do not add the trope back.
* {{Humble Hero}}ine: Wants nothing to do with being associated with the greatness of her deeds. Rather she wants to be viewed as an ordinary unicorn unlike her ShadowArchetype [[Characters/{{FriendshipIsMagic-Antagonists}} Trixie]] and her {{foil}} Rainbow Dash.
** Granted, as much as she tries to keep her ego under check, she [[AcquiredSituationalNarcissism sometimes can't resist acting haughty]] due to her role as Celestia's apprentice and very often considering herself the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Mare]]. See {{Pride}} below.
* ICantDance: ''Sweet and Elite'' shows us that dancing is one of the many social activities she's yet to master though she doesn't really seem to care.
** [[{{Seinfeld}} Sweet fancy Moses.]]
* IChooseToStay: By the end of the two-part pilot, she decides to stay in Ponyville with her new friends.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: [[DefiedTrope Defied]] at first; she doesn't want friends when she first comes to Ponyville and it isn't until they help her defeat Nightmare Moon that she realizes how much she really needs them.
* IWorkAlone: Her attitude during the pilot but after her CharacterDevelopment she prefers working with others.
* ImageSong: The ThemeTuneExtended (included as a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4By8YHOnILo sing-along]] on the DVD ''The Friendship Express'', and partially included elsewhere) can be seen as one for Twilight.
* IncrediblyLameFun: A bookworm through and through, Twilight considers re-shelving library books or "a crazy weekend of studying" the height of entertainment.
** Her favorite toy growing up was "Smarty Pants", an ugly pony doll with accessories so you can pretend she is ''studying''. Not only does she think this was a great toy, she thinks it was ''so'' great that offering it to some young fillies will naturally cause them to fight over it.
* IneffectualLoner: Other ponies make clear efforts to reach out to her before the plot kicks off but she blows them off.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Twilight can be rather condescending and arrogant about her intelligence over the others at times, and frequently badgers others over tasks, however it's revealed she has brought herself up with [[SuperOCD very high standards]] to upkeep and is absolutely terrified of disappointing peers or friends (especially Princess Celestia). She had a ''complete mental breakdown'' when she was out of schedule for even one single task.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Justified because Twilight doesn't have a lot of experience with dealing with ponies yet. But she doesn't realize her feelings are necessarily feelings anypony else will share, and she doesn't realize her point-blank bluntness hurts feelings.
** When she was [[SanitySlippage losing her grip]] in "Lesson Zero", it didn't even occur to her that anypony else would think that her Smartypants doll, that comes with accessories for ''doing homework'', wasn't a great toy.
** In "Secret of My Excess", Twilight is embarrassed to realize that the books she's given Spike for his birthday every year were [[GiftGivingGaffe not really appreciated as birthday presents by]] the little dragon.
** In the episode "Baby Cakes", she offers to help Pinkie Pie babysit the Cake Twins because she states Pinkie can't handle the job alone, and offends Pinkie in the process.
** Also in the episode "The Last Roundup", when the mail pony shows up at Applejack's surprise party and thinks that the party was for him because it was his birthday, Twilight takes Applejack's message from him and slams the door in his face without a second thought. Luckily for the mail pony, Pinkie gives him a slice of cake for his birthday.
* InsufferableGenius: Light example. She is the most intelligent of the main cast and ([[NotSoAboveItAll often]]) shows a lot more common sense. Her neurotics can be irritating the others however and she can be a bit smug and prideful if over aware of her logic. Not to mention being an apt DeadpanSnarker.
* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: She's very smart even as a child, but at that age she didn't care that much about making new friends.
* JackOfAllTrades: She can learn any type of magic, but she doesn't specialize in any discipline.
* TheKirk: She's generally at the balance between being emotional and logical, hence why she's the unofficial leader of the six.
* TheLeader: Leadership is one of Twilight's main secondary abilities, thanks to her organizational skills and levelheadedness. She serves as a Type I and Type II leader for her group of friends, and even for the whole town of Ponyville at times.
* LightIsGood[=/=]DarkIsNotEvil: Her first name is Twilight but she can use magic to create light like most unicorns and she's a decent girl most of the time.
* LoonyFriendsImproveYourPersonality: She's made a better person of sorts when forced to make new (some definitely bizarre) friends. As far as she's concerned, friendship really ''is'' magic.
* LovableNerd
* MadnessMakeover: Trope picture despite being the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Pony]] most of the time.
* MagicalGirl
** CuteWitch
** MagicalGirlWarrior: When she's fighting, she qualifies as this.
* MagicLibrarian
* MamaBear: She is willing to stand up to dragons whenever Spike is in danger.
* MeaningfulName: In the first two episodes, Twilight eventually brings peace to the two ponies representing night and day. "Twilight" is the time when night and day briefly intersect. Additionally the book on the Elements of Harmony talks about a "spark" needed to ignite their power; this ends up being Twilight '''Spark'''le.
** In a physical and literal standpoint; She is purple, which is usually the perceived color of a twilight sky (the middle part where day and night intersect) and she has stars for a cutie mark, which represents the few stars that you might see during this time period.
* TheMessiah: She's more cynical and grouchy than the norm, but fills this role in the places that count, moreso than Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie. She's the wielder of the Element of Magic (aka [[TitleDrop Friendship]]), in the two-parter episode, "The Return Of Harmony", she is the only one who didn't gets brainwashed by Discord and in "A Canterlot Wedding", is able to [[spoiler: see through the fake Candence because she knew the real Candence.]]
* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: Her antics caused by her perfectionism and SuperOCD sometimes gets the better of her, causing her to abuse her magic and making the situation ends in disaster.
* MindOverMatter: And a particularly strong telekinetic too. She can simultaneously levitate a humongous bear ''and'' a huge water tower.
* {{Motifs}}: She tends to be associated with stars.
** SymbolMotifClothing: Her dress for the Grand Galloping Gala is decorated with stars and has a star around her chest at the Canterlot Wedding.
* [[MrViceGuy Ms. Vice Girl]]: Normally even-tempered, but Twilight does sometimes have problems with being grouchy and dismissive when something's bugging her. She also has an insensitive streak.
* MulticoloredHair: Purple with pink streaks.
* [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone My Celestia, What Have I Done]]: In the first part of Canterlot Wedding, she realized that she made the bride cry, and was afraid that no one was going to forgive her. [[spoiler: But she was right.]]
** Quoted in "Lesson Zero" after her "Want It Need It" [[GoneHorriblyRight drives everyone into a brainwashed frenzy]].
* NerdsLoveToughSchoolwork
* NervousWreck: When her neurotics reach their worst.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Justified as she is almost always studying and learning new things (magical and otherwise). She can improvise spells as well, though this does not always work out so well.
* NiceGirl: Whenever she's not in GrumpyBear mode.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** Her attempt to use magic to stop the Parasprites from eating all the food in town just causes them to start eating the ''town'' instead.
** When she tries to use magic to clear a field during the Winter Wrap-Up, it results in the plow going out of control and causing the part of the field already plowed to be covered up again.
** In "The Return Of Harmony Part 2", [[spoiler:she quickly figures out Discord's riddle...or so she thinks. It turns out she took it too literally and as a consequence, she leads her TrueCompanions on a wild goose chase that results in all of them getting [[BreakTheCutie broken]] and {{Brainwashed}} by Discord.]]
** In "Lesson Zero", she decides if she can't find a friendship problem to solve, she'll make one to solve. Cue the whole town fighting over her old Smartypants doll she enchanted with a "[[AppleOfDiscord Want It, Need It]]" spell she isn't able to disenchant.
* NoSocialSkills: Because of her solitary life, she starts out like this.
** She returns to form in "Look Before You Sleep", running her first slumber party straight out of the book to ensure success. And it works, sort of.
** Even later on she still has a bit of this. In "Baby Cakes" she casually tells Pinkie Pie that she ''knew'' Pinkie wouldn't be up to babysitting the twins by herself and completely fails to pick up on the fact that Pinkie is offended by this statement.
* NotQuiteFlight: Her magic force-fields can do this.
* ObsessedAreTheListMakers: Most notably her slumber party and in "Lesson Zero". It comes in handy in "Winter Wrap-Up" as she's the only pony there who knows how to prioritize.
* OddFriendship: Has one with Pinkie Pie who's a {{foil}} to her.
* OddNameOut: She's the only pony in the Mane Six to have four syllables in her name (Twi-light Spar-kle) instead of three.
** This most likely doesn't actually mean anything though as the characters didn't all have the same names in early development (for example, Pinkie Pie was originally a white Pegasus named "Surprise").
** The names of the rest of the Mane Six were trademarks left over from the G3 series and their names may have intentionally been chosen to have three syllables to make the G3 theme song easier to write ''("Rainbow Dash always dresses in style/Sweetie Belle's magic brings a great big smile....")'' The only ponies in G3's core 7 not to have three-syllable names were Toola Roola and Starsong.
* {{Ojou}}: While not outright stated, it is implied that she came from a very privileged background, even before she met Princess Celestia and became her student. What with having The Princess's niece (who is a princess herself) as a ''foalsitter''.
* OneOfTheBoys: Before the pilot, Twilight's only friends were Spike and Shining Armor, both of which are boys.
* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Pony]]: Generally the voice of reason compared to her friends. Most obvious in the pilot where her first impression of Ponyville comes from [[{{GASP}} Pinkie Pie]]. Made even more obvious in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E24MysteryOnTheFriendshipExpress MMMystery On The Friendship Express]]" when Twilight, relegated as TheWatson to Pinkie's SherlockHolmes role, keeps shooting down Pinkie's ridiculously wild accusations so often that they exchange roles with no argument from Pinkie.
** {{Lampshade| Hanging}}d by her in the first part of the pilot episode.
--> '''Twilight:''' All the ponies in this town are CRAZY!
** {{Inverted|Trope}} during "Look Before You Sleep" where she's so intent on throwing a perfect slumber party that she ''insists'' on consulting a guidebook for everything. {{Justified|Trope}} in that she's never experienced one before and is completely unfamiliar with all of the classic trappings. She doesn't even know what a pillow fight is! She also wonders if a tree falling through her window is part of the procedures but we'll just blame that on the probable concussion.
** {{Exaggerated|Trope}} when all the other ponies were {{Brainwashed}} by Discord.
** {{Deconstructed}} in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero Lesson Zero]]. When she approaches her friends for help on completing her weekly friendship report and they dismiss it as a trivial problem, Twilight believes she is the only one who understands just how dire the situation truly is but the audience clearly sees that it is Twilight who is bottoming out on sanity. Further deconstructed when [[SelfFulfillingProphecy her myopic perspective actually results in disaster]].
*** Like every other character with so much as a speck of sanity over the others, the show seems ''very'' fond of displaying her own flaws and making her [[NotSoAboveItAll do something odd or undignified]] whenever she gets too high a pedestal.
* OutOfFocus: In Season 2, at least compared to her role in Season 1. She had only four focus episodes, has been in more of a supporting role in most episodes, and has been missing entirely from three. Quite odd, considering that she's supposed to be the lead protagonist of the mane cast. The writers clearly reveled a bit in not needing to shoehorn her into every story after "Lesson Zero."
* [[PalsWithJesus Pals With Alicorns]]: She's the personal apprentice of Celestia and also managed to become a good friend of Luna during the events of "Luna Eclipsed".
* ParentalSubstitute: Can be seen as a mother or sister figure to Spike... especially knowing that she hatched him as part of passing the entrance exam at her school and also following the events in "Owl's Well That Ends Well".
** PlatonicLifePartners[=/=]PromotionToParent: With Spike because of the above.
** The parental skills are further supported by her remarks to Pinkie in "Baby Cakes". She seems to know well what babies need.
* PersonalityPowers: You might not think that the bearer of the Element of Magic and one of the most powerful magic users in the show would be a logic-based skeptic, but here magic is logical because [[MagicAIsMagicA it works how you expect it to work]].
* PintsizedPowerhouse: [[SquishyWizard Telekinetically]] anyway.
** WaifFu
* PluckyGirl: At times.
* PowerCopying: Unicorns use magic spells associated with their special skill. Twilight's special skill ''is'' magic, allowing her to learn spells used by almost any other unicorn.
** This is seen directly in "A Dog and Pony Show" when she copies a spell used by Rarity though Rarity did teach her how to do it. She even does it ''better'' than Rarity; while Rarity can only find one deposit of gems at a time, Twilight can reveal them throughout a volume the size of a room.
** She also uses teleportation right after being subjected to it by Nightmare Moon, notably making her the only unicorn capable of it (not counting the princesses of course).
* PowerIncontinence: A flashback reveals that the awakening of Twilight's magic immediately turned her into a immense danger to everyone and herself. Her attempts at using magic to rectify a problem have about a 50% chance of going this way.
* {{Pride}}: Clearly takes a lot of pride in having Celestia as her mentor. However, she's afraid of being seen as ''too'' prideful after witnessing how ponies react to Trixie's bragging.
* ProperlyParanoid: [[spoiler:The only one who thinks the behavior of "Princess Cadence" is suspicious. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as none of the others knew Cadence well enough to know her behaviour was unusual.]]
* [[ProudScholarRaceGuy Proud Scholar Race Girl]]: Unicorns have a reputation as being intelligent magic-users and Twilight takes it UpToEleven since she's the apprentice of Celestia.
* PsychicPowers: Has [[MindOverMatter telekinesis]] like all unicorns, and also has limited {{telepathy}}, as seen in "Swarm of the Century" and "The Return of Harmony".
* PurpleEyes: Used to reflect her [[PurpleIsPowerful powerful]] [[SupernaturalIsPurple magic skills]].
* PurpleIsPowerful: She's a purple unicorn who's one of the most powerful magic users in the show.
* TheRedMage: Twilight's special talent is the ability to learn any magic.
* RedOniBlueOni: She's the Blue Oni to the rest of the Mane Five, except Fluttershy.
* RenownedSelectiveMentor: She was just trying to get into the royal academy. One magic overload later, she's studying directly from Princess Celestia.
* SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining: Twilight's magical skill is off the chart but she's a social misfit and painfully incompetent at basic manual labor.
** Downplayed later on. In the first episode of Season 2, she lifted a huge rock ("Tom") and in the last episode she pushed a mine cart by herself.
** She also showed her physical abilities when she placed fifth in "Fall Weather Friends." Yes, she used AwesomenessByAnalysis to give her an edge, but she needed to be in at least decent shape just to keep up. Plus it was her first race.
* SanitySlippage: Gets hit with this more often than the rest of the mane cast. Particularly in "Lesson Zero" when she was paranoid about not having a friendship problem to solve for herself and ends up creating an AppleOfDiscord with her Smarty Pants doll.
* ScheduleFanatic: Most notably seen in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E20ItsAboutTime It's About Time]]," where, at the beginning, she's obsessed about how she's going to make time to make next month's schedule as she didn't leave any room to do so in this month's schedule.
* SeriousBusiness: Since her teacher is Celestia, aka the ruler of all Equestria herself, Twilight takes her studies very, ''very'' seriously. As seen in "Lesson Zero", the mere idea of failing an assignment and disappointing her teacher (which would surely be cause to send her back to... [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous MAGIC KINDERGARTEN!]]) is stressful enough to unhinge her. Spike and the others tend to lampshade this now and then.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Not to an excess, but she has a more advanced vocabulary and more correct grammar than her friends. This makes her a {{Foil}} to Rainbow Dash and Applejack, both of whom tend towards BuffySpeak, and to Pinkie Pie who is a CloudCuckoolander.
** She does play it completely straight in "Hurricane Fluttershy", complete with Spike providing a LaymansTerms punchline.
* ShutUpHannibal: Done to Nightmare Moon in "Elements of Harmony", with [[spoiler: a blast of HolyHandGrenade]].
** The same thing is done to [[spoiler: Discord]] in "The Return Of Harmony Part 2".
* SkunkStripe: The pink and lighter-purple shades of her mane.
* SlasherSmile: Gets one in "Lesson Zero" when she goes completely off the deep end.
* TheSnarkKnight: She's a lighter example due to being new to maintaining friendships and being generally nicer than other cases of this trope.
* SorcerersApprenticePlot: Sorta. Sometimes she performs amazing feats of power but she often also spectacularly messes up spells and makes everything much worse.
** When she tries to stop [[TheSwarm Parasprites]] from eating all the food in Ponyville, the spell just makes them eat the buildings instead.
** In another instance, enchanting a plow to clean up snow on its own made the plow go out of control, making the mess worse when it ends up causing an avalanche that ruins everyone else's work.
** In "Lesson Zero", Twilight tries to ''create'' a problem she can solve using the "Want It, Need It" spell on a doll which quickly affects every pony in town. The ensuing riot prevents her from disenchanting the doll.
* TheSpock: When not being TheKirk, she takes a very logical and scientific view on the world. She refuses to believe in anything that doesn't seem to make sense.
* SpoiledSweet: Having parents who seem to be wealthy aristocrats in Canterlot, as well as her being mentored (and technically raised) in her later childhood years by a ruling monarch/GodOfGood like Princess Celestia certainly counts her as this.
* SquishyWizard: "Winter Wrap Up" openly displays her being much weaker than an average Earth Pony and rather klutzy with her hooves (unable to ice skate well or construct a bird's nest without the help of magic). Applejack and Rainbow Dash also state she is physically unfit for the race in "Fall Weather Friends". She gets the last laugh by coming in fifth while they tie for last. She seems to have averted this by season 2, however, as she can carry a boulder twice as large as herself, push a minecart, and holds her own against an army of Changelings.
* StellarName: "Twilight" is the time when day and night briefly intersect[[note]]To be more specific, the times between dawn and sunrise and between sunset and dusk.[[/note]]. During this time period, you may see a few stars in the sky. [[CaptainObvious Stars are known to "sparkle"]].
* StoryBreakerPower: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. She can learn any kind of magic and has amazing strength magic-wise, but her lack of practicing and a reliance on analysis over battle skills can leave her vulnerable. See her example on the trope page to read more.
* [[StraightMan Straight Mare]]: Played with; she usually plays this role with Pinkie Pie since she often has to deal with Pinkie's antics, but there are almost as many times where [[TheCloudcuckooLanderWasRight she learns from Pinkie's eccentric but friendly qualities]] as the latter learns from Twilight's logical but blunt ones.
* TheStrategist: Twilight tends to make the plans for the others and is an excellent fighter when she plans out her fights.
* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: Twilight's magic can range from very menial strength to near unlimited depending on what the scenario calls for. While some episodes do at least put a better distinction on what she is capable of (or what strain it has on her), there are definitely scenarios or obstacles that shouldn't really be a problem compared to her power against others.
** The general rule of thumb is that improvised spells and solutions are prone to failure, but spells and ideas that she's thought out and planned beforehand work nearly flawlessly. It fits with her SuperOCD.
* SupernaturalIsPurple
* SuperOCD: On and off; often [[RuleOfFunny whatever happens to be funnier]]. Alternately leaves her library in an unholy strewn mess and then applies neurotic meticulousness rivaling Rarity's in cleaning it.
** When given materials to make a bird's nest in "Winter Wrap Up", in the two seconds it takes the camera to pan away and back, she's already laid out all the ribbons and sticks into neat rows and sorted individual strands of straw by hue.
** "Lesson Zero" shows just how bad this can get.
** She makes checklists for ''everything'' including checklists, to ensure she has everything she needs, to make checklists.
** In "It's About Time", she's shown staying up all night worrying about not having left time in this month's schedule to make a schedule for ''next'' month.
** Season 2 appears to make it consistently 'on', now that she no longer has to be the star.
* SuperpowerLottery: Short of [[PhysicalGod Celestia]] and others like her, Twilight is the single strongest unicorn in the series. For bonus points, she isn't even limited by a specialized discipline, instead having magic itself as her skill. She also seems to be able to use other unicorns' talent-related magic at higher levels than the original user.
** Though the PowerIncontinence mentioned earlier fortunately balances it out, so that she doesn't completely overshadow the rest of the main cast in capability.
* SwissArmySuperpower: Her magic. Sure, spells have some vague rules, but she specializes in every kind of magic and has an enormous amount of raw power. The only story-wise limit for her magic might be that she can't do an outright DeusExMachina.
* TeamMom: Sometimes she takes this role with Spike and the other ponies.
* TeleportersAndTransporters: Unlike previous ''MyLittlePony'' series, she is the only unicorn with the ability to teleport that we've seen so far. Strangely when she teleports Spike with her, he comes out slightly singed. She says she did it by accident in that instance.
** Since "Secret of My Excess," it has been shown that Twilight is capable of teleporting ''others'' to her and with her. She seems to teleport long-distance in "Dragon Quest", and it also establishes her teleportation is not a StoryBreakerPower because long-distance and group teleportation takes too much energy to do regularly or rapidly.
** Rarity dressed Twilight in her [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E11WinterWrapUp "Winter Wrap Up"]] vest by teleporting it onto her.
** TeleportSpam: Twilight has a tendency to warp around quickly when flustered like in "Lesson Zero" when fretting about not submitting a friendship report to Celestia on time.
*** Exaggerated in "Applebuck Season" while dealing with a sleep-deprived Applejack; if AJ takes more than four steps away from her, she'll instantly teleport over rather than simply walk the three feet separating them. To be fair, Twilight was getting increasingly annoyed at the time and likely wasn't thinking straight, though not nearly as much as the above example.
* TemptingFate: Twilight seems to have an unfortunate habit of asking whether things could possibly get worse. They almost always do.
* TimeTravel: She had this as a one-shot power in ''It's About Time''.
* TrueBlueFemininity: Both her Grand Galloping Gala dress and her cape use this trope.
* {{Tsundere}}: Type B. She was a NiceGirl around Celestia, Spike and her family, but her newfound friends sets her off.
* TsurimeEyes: More prominent on her toy.
* TwitchyEye: Gets this in "A Bird in the Hoof" when she panics about Celestia's presence.
** Also in "Swarm Of The Century" for the same reason.
** In "Lesson Zero", worried about letting Celestia down by being late with her Friendship Report, she gets this, twitchy ears, a teeth-grinding slasher smile, ''and'' a mussed up mane due to [[MadnessMakeover really, really losing it]].
* UndyingLoyalty: To Princess Celestia, considering she's "her most loyal and faithful student".
* UnfortunateNames: ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' [[EverythingsBetterWithSparkles Sparkle]].
** [[http://comments.deviantart.com/4/1603670/2216411631 Given Ms. Faust's comments on the matter]], ''may'' have been intentional.
--->'''LaurenFaust''': It passed legal.
* UnskilledButStrong: Actually she's the most magically powerful unicorn in the whole show as is repeatedly pointed out. The "Unskilled" comes from the fact she often only practices a new spell until she can pull it off right in practice '''once''' and then moves on to the next, more difficult spell. This practice severely limits the practical and effective use of her stronger spells in helping her with her day-to-day problems which sometimes comes back to bite her in the [[UnusualEuphemism plot]] when the obstacles she faces require high-level magic and the magic backfires or falters on the field. The 'strong' portion of this trope refers to her magical abilities; she is the physically weakest of the six but can often use her intelligence (or magic) to help in situations where strength isn't an option.
* [[WellDoneSonGuy "Well Done, Student" Girl]]: Her relationship with Princess Celestia has some definite shades of this. Twilight obviously idolizes Celestia and desperately seeks her approval though Celestia's approval is not nearly as conditional as Twilight thinks it is.
* WhenSheSmiles: Double Subverted, as Twilight ''does'' smile a decent amount, but when she's genuinely happy it really stands out.
%% WholesomeCrossdresser is addressed on the Luna Eclipsed page.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: If ''Winter Wrap-up'' is anything to go by, she is terrified of snakes and bats.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Well...she's a young adult but she has been shown to be much more effective at leading than the [[IncrediblyLamePun old gray mayor]] of Ponyville.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatPerks: Like all unicorns, she uses magic for just about everything (where appropriate). And she gets even more perks than most unicorns because she can use any type of magic.
* TheWorfEffect: Despite being a powerful sorceress, she occasionally gets defeated by the MonsterOfTheWeek so that another one of the main characters can defeat it, or fail a spell to make way for someone more powerful like Discord.
* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have A Purple Mane]]
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