Sunset Shimmer Not So Evil

Here is evil Sunset Shimmer in My Little Pony Friendship is Magic: Equestria Girls taking some revenge against Fluttershy for thwarting her plans at Canterlot High. Now Sunset Shimmer leaves her to consider Fluttershy’s mistake.

Fluttershy is a character from the My Little Pony franchise and one of the main characters in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic who appears in Equestria Girls. She first appears in the trailer when Twilight Sparkle is eating at the table. She also appears in the second trailer, carrying Angel the bunny, a red jay, and a “puddy tat” with a blue bow. The human version of Fluttershy has pink eyeshadow, unlike her pony version. Fluttershy is the element of kindness.

In My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, the human Fluttershy is first seen being bullied by Sinset Shimmer. After Twilight sticks up for her, they introduce themselves to each other. Fluttershy acts as shyly as her pony self did when she first met Twilight, and like her pony self, opens up once she sees Spike. Fluttershy tells Twilight that she found her crown outside Canterlot High and took it into Principal Celestia.

She later joins Twilight in the cafeteria at lunch time, explaining how things work at the high school, mentioning all the different cliques and that Sunset Shimmer rules them all. After Twilight is made a fool of by videos of her using the library’s computers (filmed by Snips and Snails at Sunset Shimmer’s behest), Fluttershy comes to help her, alongside the rest of the human mane six. At this point, it is revealed that the five had been driven apart by the machinations of Sunset Shimmer. Fluttershy particularly dislikes Pinkie for ruining her silent auction for the animal shelter by bringing noisemakers. When Twilight shows them that Sunset Shimmer is responsible for everything, they reconcile, and help Twilight become Princess of the Fall Formal.

Sunset Shimmer appears in the film My Little Pony Equestria Girls as the main antagonist. She is a Unicorn pony who steals Twilight Sparkle’s element of magic crown, and in a tussle with Twilight, the crown is thrown into a mirror that acts as a portal to another world, which Sunset goes through to get the crown. In this other world, she is depicted as a human who acts very disrespectful and mean to Twilight when they first encounter each other. Later, she puts on the crown and transforms into a demonic-looking winged humanoid. Once she is defeated by the main characters, she returns to her human form and apologizes for her actions. Afterward, Vice-Principal Luna hands her a masonry trowel.

Sunset Shimmer is the polar opposite of Twilight; cruel, dishonest, arrogant, mean-spirited, cold-hearted, tyrannous, evil, selfish, power-hungry, and a bully.

She uses her severe nature to intimidate others, which causes her to become Princess of the Fall Formal. She has a tendency to cruelly demoralize those who get in her way, such as when she posted humiliating videos of her online and framing Twilight for vandalizing the decorations to Princess of the Fall Formal.

Although, she had a limit to her villainous acts as she lets Spike go unharmed when her henchmen Snips and Snails captured him (as she says it “Oh, Twilight, I am not a monster”).

When she puts on the crown and becomes a demon, she becomes far more sadistic and malevolent, as she hypnotizes the students and student body to become her slaves and almost kills Twilight. When she reverts back to normal, Sunset Shimmer had a total change of heart, as she has became regretful of her actions, and horrified of what she had become. Twilight asks her friends to become friends with Sunset Shimmer, as she never had a friend before. She also accepted her punishment near the end of the film to repair the school from all of the damage she made.

In Rainbow Rocks, Sunset Shimmer is heavily ostricised by her schoolmates for what she did at the Fall Formal. However shea has also become humble and loyal. In the kitchen scene, she provides support for Twilight when she is feeling discouraged.