

Following the speech, many accused her of plagiarizing portions of Michelle Obama’s 2008 Democratic National Convention speech. On July 18th, 2016, Melania Trump delivered a speech in support of her husband’s candidacy for president at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Republican Strategist Defends Melania Trump's Speech It originated from a tweet by Twilight Sparkle's voice actress, Tara Strong, in which she performs a short rap with the word at the end. Twilightlicious is a slang term in the fandom, used as an attribute to describe something as amazing or awesome. The change triggered a significant rift to develop in the fandom between those who supported and those who opposed it, generating large amounts of derivative media. The Twilight Sparkle Alicorn Controversy was a significant event in the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fandom, centered around Twilight Sparkle becoming an "alicorn", a synthesis of a unicorn and pegasus. Twilicane refers to a golden cane with a caricature of Twilight Sparkle's head on it, introduced in Episode 2 of Season 4 during an exchange between Twilight Sparkle and Discord. The thread generally ends up with her splitting the milk and gesturing the twiface expression. Twilight Spills Chocolate Milk is a /mlp/ board phenomena simulating the chocolate milk threads. It is often photoshopped onto out-of-context images and given captions in the vein of GTFO.

Twiface is an exploitable image fad based around a peculiar face made by Twilight Sparkle for a split second in Episode 10 of Season 1. On August 4th, 2013, MLP Firefly submitted a compilation video titled "Twilight Sparkle Best Moments" featuring the character.Ī canonical humanized variant of Twilight Sparkle was introduced by the film My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, released in 2013, which has since become the most popular depiction of the character in human form. On February 9th, 2013, Youtuber AnimatedJames submitted a video titled "Tails VS Twilight", which has since gained over 10 million views and become one of the most popular videos featuring Twilight Sparkle as a character. As of April 2015, searching DeviantArt for "Twilight Sparkle" returns 190,000 results. SpreadĪn entry for Twilight Sparkle was submitted to the MLP Wiki on December 13th, 2010, which has since been edited over 3000 times. Twilight Sparkle is voiced mainly by veteran voice actress Tara Strong, with additional singing voice acting provided by Rebecca Shoichet. From the season three finale and onwards, she is portrayed as an alicorn after being inducted into the aristocracy of Equestria as a princess. She is sent to Ponyville by Celestia in the first episode, where she meets the other major characters. Throughout the show’s earliest seasons, she is portrayed as the mentoree of Princess Celestia, the co-ruler of Equestria, the main setting of the show. first premiered on October 10th, 2010, introducing the Twilight Sparkle as its main character.
