Hasbro couldnt go one g3 pony without them having pink in their color scheme.
Also, “watching the fireworks display”…I am SURE that was intentional.

@when she felt her wings unfold

@tm2dragon  
The relationship between the movie villain’s henchpony and the G4 Fizzy Pop has been speculated about for over a month. The cutie mark link seems to have come through fanart based on charadreemurr’s tumblr post which links her back to G1’s movie-themed Caramel Crunch via G4 Fizzy Pop.
 
Slowpoke here claims no credit for any of this. mathprofbrony mentioned a likeness to the G3 Fizzy Pop in one of my comic uploads which got my attention, and I looked into a firework link that sounded very backcardish via My Little Wiki. The MLW photo dates from 2013, and I don’t suspect them of fiddling with times for giggles.
 
So there’s more than one thread to this really. I think the G3 pony has the closest appearance, but other ponies do too (consider G1 Sherbet (UK: Sorbet Surprise)). Spoiling the movie joke it’s just that Tempest Shadow the fearsome outsider horse needed a very generic sweet-and-ponyish original name, for a funny contrast with her earlier edgelord bullshit. Incidentally, the etymologies of “fizzy” and “fizzle” are surprisingly scatological, and the words are related but not the same. But a “fizzlepop” seems merely a firework-related pun. So none of this is exactly proven, but it’s close enough for me.

@tm2dragon  
Not even the first movie villain who turns nice at the end to be nearly but not exactly named after a G3 pony, remember? (Sunshimmer=Sunset Shimmer.)

@tm2dragon  
Can confirm from sellers that this is not fake, this is actually her name, color, and her bio on the back of her toy case.
 
See it here.

This can’t be a real thing, can it? I refuse to believe nobody caught this sooner. O_O Is this the real deal, or are we being trolled by somebody with photoshop?

This is too much of a coincidence.

Fizzlepop Berry Twist was based on… Fizzy Pop???  

Headcanon accepted.