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List of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic characters

List of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic characters is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand List of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic characters rather than just read about it. In short: This is a list of characters from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, an animated television series based on the My Little Pony toyline created by American toy manufacturer and multimedia company Hasbro. The series features characters and settings developed by Lauren Faust, who sought to create more in-depth characters than the stereotypical "girly" icons used in previous iterations of the franchise.

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Reference excerpt

This is a list of characters from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, an animated television series based on the My Little Pony toyline created by American toy manufacturer and multimedia company Hasbro. The series features characters and settings developed by Lauren Faust, who sought to create more in-depth characters than the stereotypical "girly" icons used in previous iterations of the franchise. The series premiered on October 10, 2010, in the United States and concluded on October 12, 2019. The characters have been generally well-received by television critics and parental groups and are cited as one of the reasons the series' older fans, called "bronies", became attracted to the show. Friendship is Magic characters appear in numerous spin-off franchise media, including a comic book series, a Gameloft My Little Pony video game, a children's book series, a theatrical feature film, and My Little Pony: Pony Life, a reboot focusing on more slice-of-life stories.

Creation and conception Hasbro initially hired Faust to create a pitch bible for the show, allowing her to get additional help with conceptualization. Faust said she was "extremely skeptical" about taking the job at first because she had always found shows based on girls' toys to be boring and unrelatable. She was disappointed that what she thought of the toys at the time was nothing like the animated shows, in which the characters, according to her, "had endless tea parties, giggled over nothing and defeated villains by either sharing with them or crying". With the chance to work on My Little Pony, one of her favorite childhood toys, she hoped to prove that "cartoons for girls don't have to be a puddle of smooshy, cutesy-wootsy, goody-two-shoeness". To do this, she incorporated many elements into the show that subverted stereotypes of girls, such as diverse personalities, character flaws and personality disorders, the message that friends can be different and can get into arguments but still be friends and the idea that girls should not be limited by what others say they can or cannot do. Elements of the characters' personalities and the show's settings were based on her childhood imagination of the ponies' adventures, in part inspired by the animated shows that her brothers would watch while growing up, such as Transformers and G.I. Joe. Faust still aimed for the characters to be "relatable" characters, using stereotypical "icons of girliness" to broaden the appeal of the characters for the young female audience.

Appearances

= Main cast (credited; or speaking appearances in every episode for the season) = Recurring cast (5+ speaking appearances for the season) = Guest cast (1–4 speaking appearances for the season)

Main characters The main characters of Friendship is Magic (FiM) appears in numerous official "Generation 4" spin-off franchise media, including IDW Publishing comic book series, Gameloft My Little Pony video games, a children's book series, a theatrical feature film, and two spinoff television films/television series: My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, a canon within the FiM-universe reimaging of the main characters as humanized magical girl alternative universe versions of themselves; and My Little Pony: Pony Life, a non-canon reboot comedy series featuring chibi (super deformed) versions of the main characters focusing on more slice-of-life stories.

Mane Six

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic focuses on six core pony characters, identified as the "Mane Six", a group of friends who are brought together by the "Elements of Harmony", a set of six mystical jewels and an "unstoppable force of good" used to defend Equestria against powerful threats. The seventh main character, Spike, acts as a foil to the Mane Six in terms of personality and he is the only male member of the team. Starlight is not a part of the Mane Six but redeems herself and becomes a special eighth member of the team. Each pony character was designed to represent a different element and positive aspect of friendship: honesty (Applejack), kindness (Fluttershy), laughter (Pinkie Pie), generosity (Rarity), and loyalty (Rainbow Dash), which come together to form the sixth element of "magic" (Twilight Sparkle).

Twilight Sparkle

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In the classroom: List of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic characters is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Animated characters introduced in 2010, Anthropomorphic animals, Lists of characters in American television animation, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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