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FREEMY LITTLE PONY: FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC PART 1 EBOOK Andy Price,Katie Cook | 52 pages | 27 Aug 2013 | Idea & Design Works | 9781613776285 | English | San Diego, United States "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic" The Beginning of the End - Part 1 (TV Episode ) - IMDb This is a list of characters from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magican animated television series based on the My Little Pony toyline created by American toy manufacturer and multimedia company Hasbro. The series features characters and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Part 1 developed by Lauren Faustwho 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,in the United States and concluded on October 12, 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 seriesa Gameloft My Little Pony video gamea children's book series, a theatrical film adaptationand a spin-off film series titled My Little Pony: Equestria Girlswhere several Friendship is Magic characters are re-envisioned as humans in a high school setting. Hasbro initially hired Faust to create a pitch bible for the show, allowing her to get additional help with conceptualization. With the chance to work on My Little Ponyone of her favorite childhood toys, [3] she hoped to prove that "cartoons for girls don't have to be a My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Part 1 of smooshy, cutesy-wootsy, goody-two-shoeness". My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic focuses on six core pony characters, identified My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Part 1 the "Mane Six", [6] 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" [7] used to defend Equestria against powerful threats. A seventh main character, Spike, acts as foil to the Mane Six in terms of personality. Each pony character was designed to represent a different element and positive aspect of friendship—honesty Applejackkindness Fluttershylaughter Pinkie Piegenerosity Rarityand loyalty Rainbow Dash — which come together to form the sixth element of "magic" Twilight Sparkle. Twilight Sparkle is the central protagonist of the show. Her cutie mark, a six-pointed star, represents her talent for magic and her love for books and knowledgeand the five smaller stars indicates that her destiny is intertwined with her friends. Twilight is depicted in the first three seasons as a purple unicorn with a pink-streaked indigo mane, and as a winged unicorn called an "alicorn" after season three's thirteenth and final episode, "Magical Mystery Cure". Twilight is the most intellectual member of the Mane Six who leads them during their adventures and helps resolve her friends' differences. Twilight's most defining character trait is her humility. She My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Part 1 a natural-born leader, an intelligent and dutiful scholar, wise beyond her years, with an avid love of learning and scientific discoveries. Her skills in magic rival that of Star Swirl the Bearded, having already mastered various advanced spells before her ascension to alicornhood. She is also prone to suffer from nervous breakdowns when confronted with difficult problems or things beyond her understanding, though she gradually overcomes this habit in the final season. Twilight detests her assignment in the two-part series premiere, owing her reclusiveness to her obsession with books, but comes to form strong friendships with the rest of the Mane Six, which she realizes is key to harnessing the Elements of Harmony. She resides with her assistant Spike and pet owl Owlowiscious in Ponyville's Golden Oak Library, where she also serves as town librarian. At the end of season four, Twilight becomes the Princess of Friendship, and she starts spreading friendship across Equestria with her friends. In season nine, Twilight prepares to become the new ruler of Equestria before Princess Celestia and Princess Luna's retirement. At the end of the show, Twilight is crowned the new ruler of Equestria and she establishes the Council of Friendship to maintain her relationship with her friends over the years. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Part 1 is a purple baby dragon with green spines. Spike was orphaned as an egg and hatched by a young Twilight Sparkle as part of her entrance exam for Celestia's academy; he is raised among Twilight's family as her adopted younger brother. Spike fulfills the role of Twilight's "number one assistant" to which he is named so for his loyalty and skill at helping Twilight solve problems and learn lessons. He also has a crush on Rarity, an insatiable appetite for sparkly gems, and the ability to send letters via his fiery dragon breath. In season eight's eleventh episode "Molt Down", he gains wings after going through molting. At the end of the show, he becomes Twilight's royal adviser. Spike acts as a foil to Twilight and her friends in terms of personality, size and shape which "provides plenty of opportunity for exploring this difference in storylines". Faust envisioned the character as "the sensitive little boy who has a lot of sisters and just seems to get along better with girls". What beyond being Twilight's assistant is his role in this world? I think he really reflects how everybody feels at some point in their life". Applejack is an orange, hard-working earth pony with blonde hair. Her cutie mark, a My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Part 1 of apples, represents her talent for agriculture and her love for her family. She is characterized as a "farm gal" who sports a cowboy hat and lasso and speaks with a Southern accent. She works as an apple farmer at the Sweet Apple Acres orchard in Ponyville, using her strength to "buck" apples out of trees. Applejack is honest, courageous, forthright and the most "down-to-earth" of the Mane Six; being a trustworthy friend who is optimistic and has good judgement. She is also "too eager to please" and has a stubborn persona, with several episodes focused on her interaction with the Flim-Flam Brothers who exploit her vulnerabilities, or focusing on her taking up a "herculean task". Author Begin says that her apple-themed cutie mark "not only represents her name but also My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Part 1 a symbol of the down-home simplicity found in a classic and common fruit". Rainbow Dash is a blue, tomboyish pegasus with a rainbow-colored mane and tail. Her cutie mark, a rainbow-colored lightning bolt with a cloud, represents her talent for speed and her obsession with adventure. Her goal at the beginning of the series is to join her "heroes", the elite Wonderbolts aerobatic team. In season three's seventh episode, "Wonderbolts Academy", she joins the Wonderbolts as a trainee. Later, in season four's twenty-first episode, "Testing Testing 1, 2, 3", she becomes a reservist, and in season six's seventh episode, "Newbie Dash", she becomes a full-time member. She helps other pegasi manage the weather around Ponyville and spends her time practicing flight maneuvers such as the "Sonic Rainboom", a rainbow- colored sonic boom ; it is shown in season one's twenty-third episode " The Cutie Mark Chronicles " that Rainbow Dash's first Sonic Rainboom as a filly caused a chain of events that produced the Mane Six's cutie marks. She lives with a propeller-fitted pet tortoise named Tank in a floating condominium of clouds called the Cloudominium, which is sparingly seen in the show because she "doesn't sit still for very long", according to director Jim Miller. Faust struggled My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Part 1 find a suitable aspect for Rainbow Dash's Element of Harmony, seeing the character My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Part 1 "self-absorbed and rather irresponsible". She eventually settled on the Element of Loyalty because it "brought out [Rainbow Dash's] positive traits". Pinkie Pie full name Pinkamena Diane Pie is a pink hyperactive earth pony. Her cutie mark, a trio of balloons, represents her talent for spreading hope and joy, and her desire to entertain her friends. She is a party planner at Sugarcube Corner, a bakery and confectionery store that resembles a gingerbread houseand owns a toothless pet alligator named Gummy. A comic relief character who was raised on a "dreary rock farm", Pinkie is defined as a "hard worker" motivated in seeing people she loves smile and relieving them of stress, by randomly throwing parties and acting as outlandish as possible; but has a lack of confidence and a fear of being rejected by others. Pinkie is a source of much of the series' humor, and several of the show's "wacky gags" are kept exclusive to her running gags include breaking the fourth wall and "appearing suddenly in unexpected places ", as well as an ability to predict future events through various body reactions, which she calls the "Pinkie Sense". While Pinkie appears to be the naive party animal of the group, she also displays admirable skill in science and engineering. In "Swarm of the Century", she devised a technical solution to Ponyville's infestation problems in a scenario where magic had failed, and built a flying machine to keep up with Rainbow Dash in the episode "Griffon the Brush Off". In early episodes, Faust worked to depict Pinkie as a "free spirit" to address concerns of the character being My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Part 1 as too "hyper" and "ditzy".