History Characters / FriendshipIsMagicThePrincesses

* CulturedBadass: As shown in, "Between Dark and Dawn," in Season 9, She takes Celestia offscreen to go see a performance of the opera, "Ponygliacci," an Equestrian parallel and reference to the opera {{Theatre/Pagliacci}}.

* CulturedBadass: As shown in, "Between Dark and Dawn," in Season 9, She takes Celestia offscreen to go see a performance of the opera, "Ponygliacci," an Equestrian parallel and reference to the opera ''Theatre/Pagliacci''.

* {{Socialite}}: {{Averted|Trope}}. She prefers more casual reunions and is so bored by the biggest and most important social event in the country that she is ecstatic when the core group ''trashes her ball room'' because it livens things up. She prefers the casual reunion in the small donut shop with her student and friends.
** Comes up again when the biggest and most important social event in the country happens again, and she decides to invite Discord purely because his mere presence guarantees something crazy will happen to liven things up, while she still acts like his efforts ruined the event for her, the Mane Six, the Crusaders, and everypony else. At least until she spills the truth to Twilight with how she really felt about his attendance.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NicoleOliver

* WillfullyWeak: She seldom if ever uses her full power.

* UnmovingPlaid: The colors of her mane and tail wave... just not in the same way that the mane and tail ''themselves'' move. It might have something to do with her being a PhysicalGod.
* WhatTheHellHero: Gets three of these during the ''Reflections'' comic-arc [[spoiler: first from Star Swirl during the flashback for using the dimensional mirror behind his back despite the dangers of doing so, and then two from Luna in the present; first about disappearing without telling anypony and then when she found out Celestia tried to alleviate her loneliness following Luna's banishment with one from an alternate universe.]]

** In the pilot episode, she allows her sister, Luna, to be her co-ruler again.

** This happens so often that [[spoiler:the dream version of [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Daybreaker]] mocks her for this in Season 7, implying that Celestia could do so much more if she stopped holding back for the sake of others]].

* FrickinLaserBeams: While ThePowerOfLove is her specialty, she also knows straight-up offensive spells.

* FrickinLaserBeams: Many of her magical surges manifest as firing these off.

* BadassFamily: They’re both royalty and members of a extremely rare and powerful race. They’re also all related in some way:

** [[DownplayedTrope Twilight doesn’t have any direct relation to Celestia and Luna,]] but she is their adoptive niece’s sister-in-law.
** Flurry Heart is Cadance’s daughter and Twilight’s niece.

* BadassFamily: The rulers of a rare, extremely powerful race, are all related in some way:

* BabysitterFriendship: She was Twilight's foal-sitter, and described as "the greatest foalsitter in the history of foalsitters." The two eventually become sisters-in-law through Cadence's marriage to Shining Armor.

'''Singing by:''' Kazumi Evans ("Twilight's Kingdom"), Aloma Steele (Seasons 6-9)

** Luna's name means "moon" in multiple languages, and is the scientific name of the moon when it's necesarry to distinguish between it and other moons (similar to the sun being called Sol).

** Luna's name means "moon" in multiple languages.

* BadDreams: In spite of the fact that one of her royal duties is to help others with these, she is not immune to them herself:
** Originally invoked with the Tantabus, which she created to give herself nightmares every day, as atonement for her time as Nightmare Moon. It was destroyed after escaping Luna's dreams (and threatening Equestria) leaving her with pleasant dreams for a time.
** She has a nightmare again, during the events of "A Royal Problem", where the foals who missed out on a field trip because she couldn't hold her smile start closing in on her while chanting at her about how her smile can't be real because it's too big followed by her teeth falling out. In this case, her sister, who had taken over her duties as princess of the night for the day, comes and rescues her because Luna's powers no longer work in the dreamworld.

* {{Adorkable}}:
** In the flashback sequences of the "Reflections" comic arc; upon meeting the Mirror World King Sombra, Celestia becomes completely tongue tied by his good looks, then later reflexively spits coffee in his face when he calls her a "rare gem."
** In the show proper, she starts excitedly prancing around and practically fangirling when Twilight announces that she is going to be organizing a play for her. In fact, the entirety of "Horse Play" is just full of moments where Celestia is adorably dorky.
** "Between Dark and Dawn" is another episode full of a dorky Celestia.

* {{Adorkable}}:
** When she starts moving out of her old princess mode, Luna is macabre yet cute and a bit nerdy, much like a character escaped from a Creator/TimBurton movie. Even ''in'' her old princess mode, she can be endearingly awkward, if loud.
** Looking closely at the wedding reception near the end of "A Canterlot Wedding – Part 2" shows her rocking out to the music in the background.
** When she and Celestia finally take a holiday in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E13BetweenDarkAndDawn Between Dark and Dawn]]", her first choice of activity is to go to the post office and excitedly stamp a postcard to her sister... who's standing right next to her.

* {{Adorkable}}:
** In the IDW comics, during the arc showing her and Shining Armor in high school.
** In "Three's a Crowd", she seems just as excited about the "Star Swirl the Bearded" exhibit as Twilight does.

Co-ruler of Equestria. According to the CreationMyth, she governs both the sun and the moon, though she originally commanded "merely" the former and only assumed control of the latter after a disagreement with her sister. However, since said sister's return, she has passed the reigns of the moon back to Luna. A white-winged unicorn with a {{multicolored| hair}}, [[MagicHair ethereal mane]], she is noticeably taller and more slender than her subjects.

* BadBadActing: In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E7HorsePlay Horse Play]]", she proves to be a terrible actress, alternating between over-acting and under-acting: she starts out whispering at a barely audible level, overcompensates by going into the ear-bustlingly loud Royal Canterlot Voice, can't work through a choreography to save her life and has seemingly no ability to suspend disbelief whatsoever. She can't even play ''charades''.

* DamselInDistress: Despite being a {{Physical God}}dess, in the course of the series she's been captured five times: [[spoiler:by Nightmare Moon ([[AmbiguousSituation maybe]]), Queen Chrysalis, the Plunder Vines (along with Luna), Tirek (along with Luna and Cadance), and then Chrysalis again (along with Luna, Cadance, Shining Armor, Flurry Heart, and the Mane Six).]]

* DamselInDistress: [[spoiler:In the Season 4 premiere, she ends up being captured by Discord's plunder vines off-camera with her big sister, only to be saved by Twilight at the end of the two-parter. It happens again in the Season 4 finale, when she is imprisoned by Lord Tirek with Celestia and Cadance. Then in the Season 6 finale, she is kidnapped along with Celestia, Cadance, Shining Armor, Flurry Heart, and the Mane Six. However, she does manage to send out an S.O.S. to Starlight Glimmer before being restrained.]]

* DamselInDistress: [[spoiler:Queen Chrysalis imprisons her under Canterlot until she's rescued by Twilight Sparkle. However, once freed, she shows she can handle herself pretty damn well. She also ends up in this position again when imprisoned by Lord Tirek in the Season 4 finale, ''Twilight's Kingdom'', along with the Royal Sisters. Then in the Season 6 finale, ''To Where and Back Again'', she is kidnapped by Chrysalis again, along with her husband, daughter, the Royal Sisters, and the Mane Six.]]

** Celestia’s name derives from “celestial.” This means “relating to the sky” which references her job of raising the sun.
** Luna’s name means “moon” in multiple languages.
** Cadance’s full name, in English, roughly translates to “My Love Cadance.” This references how she can spread love wherever she goes.

*** In the series premiere, she brought peace between the princesses of the day and night...what is one of the phases between day and night called? Twilight.
** Flurry Heart was named because she caused a ''flurry'' after breaking the Crystal ''Heart.''

*** Her name relates to stars, which is associated with magic. This also represents her title as Princess of Friendship, because, well, [[Tagline friendship is magic!]]

*** Her name relates to stars, which is associated with magic.