Cozy Glow is one of the main antagonists of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
She is a female school-age Pegasus pony, who is a former student of Twilight Sparkle's School of Friendship, currently imprisoned in Tartarus. She has a pink coat, light blue mane and tail, scarlet eyes, and a cutie mark of a rook.
Bio[]
Season eight[]
Cozy Glow first appeared in "Marks for Effort" where she was crying outside the Cutie Mark Crusaders' clubhouse. The Crusaders approached her and asked what's wrong. Cozy answers that she is having difficulty with her lessons at the School of Friendship and fears flunking out. The Crusaders, wanting to attend the School of Friendship too, decide to help Cozy with doing her homework and assignments.
The Crusaders teach Cozy how to be friendly while doing nice deeds for Sweetie Drops, Mrs. Cake, and Big Mac. After Cozy gets an "A" on her assignment, the Crusaders assist her further by helping her study for an upcoming friendship exam, during which she learns about the values of friendship represented by the Elements of Harmony. However, Cozy fails the test and runs away, which causes Twilight to accuse them for intentionally bad tutoring out of spite for not being allowed into the School of Friendship themselves.
After Cozy saw what she did to the Crusaders, she decides to go to the school's guidance counselor and confesses that she failed the exam on purpose so that the Crusaders would be allowed to enroll at the School of Friendship. When the truth was revealed, Cozy finally apologized to the Crusaders for what she did to them. Finally, the Crusaders were accepted at the School of Friendship as tutors. Cozy is last seen leaving with her new friends as they set out to tutor more students.
Cozy Glow makes a few background appearances in "A Matter of Principals" and one in "The Hearth's Warming Club" just as Twilight dismisses the students for the holiday break. She appears again in "Friendship University", giving Twilight the flyers that inform her about Friendship U, and later appears after Rarity questions how Flim and Flam could have gotten a hold of the School of Friendship's lesson plans. Cozy also appears waiting in line for Starlight's counselling in Road to Friendship.
In "What Lies Beneath", Cozy stays behind to help Twilight organize the library, when she notices the Young Six having a difficult time studying for a friendship test. She manipulates them into doubting their confidence in their friendships. She offers them her study notes for help. At the end of the episode, the Young Six meet Cozy upon their journey underneath the school, where she learns about the Tree of Harmony's test on their friendship skills. As the Young Six drift off to sleep in exhaustion, Cozy ominously looks at the vent where the Tree of Harmony is hidden.
In School Raze, Cozy's villainous nature is revealed as she manipulates the Mane Six into going to Tartarus, captures Starlight Glimmer, and, with the help of co-conspirator Lord Tirek, steals the school's artifacts to harness their magic and take over Equestria. After Chancellor Neighsay assumes control of the school, Cozy orchestrates a student uprising to take back her position as school headmare. She also locks the Cutie Mark Crusaders in a hall closet when they try to distract her, and she tricks the students into believing the Young Six are trying to destroy the school. Cozy's plans are eventually foiled by the intervention of the Tree of Harmony, causing the magic she stole to return to its rightful owners. Caught between the Young Six, the Mane Six, the school students, the princesses, and the royal guards, Cozy Glow is defeated and sentenced to imprisonment within Tartarus, where she tries to make friends with Tirek.
Season nine[]
In The Beginning of the End, Cozy Glow aggravates Tirek with her continued attempts at friendship until the two are suddenly transported out of their cages by Grogar, who assembles them together with Queen Chrysalis and King Sombra in order to join forces against the Mane Six. Cozy is unfamiliar with Grogar since his name has all but faded into legend, but she is interested in the idea of befriending other villains. Cozy tries to help Tirek and Chrysalis get along, with little success. Upon learning of Sombra's defeat by the Mane Six, Cozy and the others nervously agree to Grogar's terms to avoid meeting the same fate.
In Frenemies, Cozy Glow, along with Chrysalis and Tirek, are tasked by Grogar with retrieving his Bewitching Bell from the summit of Mt. Everhoof, but she is unable to cooperate with Chrysalis and Tirek at first. Cozy tries to gain safe passage up the mountain from the guard Rusty Bucket, but he refuses, and all attempts to go up alone end in failure. When Cozy finally learns to work together with Chrysalis and Tirek, they successfully retrieve the Bell and decide to use it in their scheme to overthrow Grogar.
In The Summer Sun Setback, Cozy Glow, along with Lord Tirek and Queen Chrysalis, decides to infiltrate Canterlot library's forbidden wing to get information on how to activate Grogar's bell and use its magic. She takes part in sabotaging the Summer Sun Celebration by disrupting the event's weather patterns, thus causing a storm, and during the confusion, she and her fellow villains steal a book from the Canterlot Archives, which they plan to use to learn how to unlock the bell's power.
In The Ending of the End, Cozy Glow, Chrysalis, and Tirek successfully unlock the power of the Bewitching Bell to make themselves all-powerful, with Cozy herself turning into an Alicorn. They also drain Grogar of his magic, revealing him to be Discord in disguise. Cozy tricks her comrades into letting her absorb Discord's magic in an attempt to betray them. This fails due to her inability to control his chaos, leaving her no choice but to let it be returned to the Bell. In their siege upon Equestria, Cozy attacks the Mane Six and the Princesses at Canterlot Castle (using the Bell to take Celestia and Luna's magic), and she, Chrysalis, and Tirek overwhelm them as Twilight makes her escape., Cozy and her fellow villains imprison Twilight's friends and celebrate their victory, but fail to reach an agreement regarding what to do with the magic they stole. After the rest of the Mane Six escape and the windigos appear as a result of their creating distrust among ponies, Cozy and the other villains face off against the Mane Six, and later an army of their allies, in a grand final battle. At the end of the battle, Cozy is turned back into a Pegasus, and she and her cohorts are frozen in stone for their crimes.
Personality[]
When she first appeared, Cozy appears to act rather sweet, cute, innocent, and naïve. But it is implied that this is actually a front for a mysterious agenda, which is confirmed in the finale of the eighth season. She constantly displays a supposed fear of failing the class.
In truth, however, Cozy was actually using this cute, kindhearted, and innocent act as a facade to use to hide her true nature: a selfish, manipulative, tyrannical and sociopathic filly who would do anything to get what she wants by any means necessary. She manipulated the staff of the School of Friendship and the CMC to get them to unwittingly play into her hooves, and wanted to take over the School of Friendship, and eventually, Equestria itself with the help of Tirek. She is also a skilled liar and faker, having successfully convinced the CMC that she needed help with her exam, when in fact she had failed it on purpose, and faking remorse when she confesses to having done so.
Unlike all the other villains in the series, who all believed friendship to be a weakness or meaningless, Cozy Glow knows full-well the power of friendship from learning in Twilight's School of Friendship. Unfortunately, she was far too obsessed in the "power" aspect to understand how true friendship worked. Because of this, she believed that the more friends she possessed, the more powerful she was. To this end, she was willing to lie to, betray, hurt, steal from, and/or imprison anypony, even those who were her friends, to become headmare of Twilight's school, as she believed doing so will allow her to gather even more friends, and thus become even more "powerful". Also, she had a low opinion of Twilight and her friends, thinking them to be "ridiculous". She even scoffed at the values of honesty, loyalty, generosity, kindness and laughter, believing she can make more friends without any of them. In the end, she is nothing more than a heartless little brat who thinks nothing of anypony but herself.
Physical Appearance[]
Cozy is a Pegasus filly with a pink coat, auburn eyes, a cyan mane and tail that are both decorated with a white bow, white freckles on either cheek, and a brown rook for a cutie mark.
Trivia[]
- Though not explained or shown, Cozy Glow gave the Flim Flam Brothers a copy of Twilight's book.
- Despite being the season's main antagonist, she didn't show much villainy till the season finale.
- Cozy Glow is one of the few villains in the series to be a pony.
- Cozy Glow is the third antagonist to be a Pegasus, the first being Lightning Dust and the second being Wind Rider. However, Cozy is much more evil, dangerous and had more bigger plans than them. Furthermore, of those three she is the only main villain of a two-part episode.
- Cozy Glow is the first major antagonist to appear in more than one episode.
- In the first half of the season, she serves as the supporting character and a behind-the scenes antagonist before the finale.
- It was never explained if Cozy Glow is an orphan or if she has parents.
- There were hints of Cozy Glow's true nature before it was fully revealed.
- When the Cutie Mark Crusaders offer to help her with her exam in Marks for Effort, she asks them why they would do so if there is nothing in it for them, an early hint that she does not truly understand the concept of altruism.
- In the same episode, when the CMC tell her what the Elements of Harmony are, she shows an evil smile for a brief moment. Also, she guesses that one of the Elements of Harmony is "control", which foreshadows her tyrannical nature.
- Her "cute and sweet" personality is played up to an unrealistic extent, which may clue viewers in that it's a front.
- Starlight Glimmer, who herself used to be a manipulative villain, admits that she finds Cozy's talent for manipulation and planning impressive.
- At the end of What Lies Beneath, she looks ominously at the vent that leads to the Tree of Harmony.
- Her cutie-mark seems to represent chess, like how she manipulated everyone-else like pieces on a board.
- Cozy has proven to be one of the most destructive villains in the series, as she not only nearly ruined Equestria; she also nearly ruined the concept of frienship.
- Despite her imprisonment, Grogor freed Cozy Glow along with Tirek at the beginning of Season 9.
- She is inspired by late child actress Shirley Temple and fictitious TV starlet-turned-criminal Baby Doll from Batman: The Animated Series.
- In the case of the latter, it can be implied that she may actually be much older than she looks.
- She is also similar to Darla Dimple from the animated film Cats Don't Dance.
- Cozy Glow meets Winnie the Pooh and his friends in The School of Hard Knocks but then later becomes their enemy in Pooh's Adventures of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic - School Raze.
- She is voiced by Sunni Westbrook.
- Cozy Glow also appears in the 8th Season of Sonic: Adventures in Equestria, however, this version lacks the canon version's selfish, manipulative, tyrannical and sociopathic tendencies, with her willingling stepping up as the School of Friendship's temporary headmare while the Mane Nine and Team Sonic were off in Tartarus. She went as far as to befriend D-Fekt and several other members of the Freedom Fighters.
- She will appear in Jewel Sparkles' Adventure as a villain.
- Cozy Glow meets Connor Lacey and his team, The Irelanders in The Irelander's Adventures of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic - Marks for Efforts but then later becomes their enemy in The Irelanders' Adventures of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic - School Raze.
- In Ryan's Adventures Series, Cozy Glow is one of Ryan's most hated enemies because he despise her and because she thinks friendship is power so she plans to trap Connor Lacey and his Ireland Guard in Tartarus with Twilight and her friends. She also betray the Shrederette to work for G1 Galvatron.
- She will face the Bubble Guppies in Bubble Guppies' Adventures of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic - School Raze.
- Her enemies are The Mane 6 all of the Lalaloopsies.
- Cozy Glow can be considered a darker reflection, counterpart, and parallel to the following characters:
- Diamond Tiara: Both are young fillies who had a relationship with the Cutie Mark Crusaders (Diamond Tiara was a bully to the Crusaders later turned friend, Cozy Glow was a friend to the Crusaders later turned enemy.) They both also wanted power (Diamond Tiara wanted power by having everyone like her, Cozy Glow wanted power by making everyone her friend.) But while Diamond Tiara had redeeming qualities (such as standing up to her mother when she was harassing the Crusaders) Cozy Glow is far more despicable and dangerous, as she would get rid of anypony who would stand in the way of her plans and would not give up on her plans to make everyone to like her even if it means putting somepony in danger. Thus, Cozy Glow is an example of what Diamond Tiara would have become if she was misguided by the way how friendship works and if she would have let her thirst for power consume her, along with if she never saw the error of her ways.
- Babs Seed: Both put up a facade to hide their true nature (Babs Seed put up the facade of being a bully so she wouldn't be bullied, Cozy Glow put up the facade of being a nice and kind pony so ponies wouldn't find out about her plans) But while Babs would later learn that ponies don't need to put up an act and that they need to just be true to themselves, Cozy Glow would continue to put up her facade, never learning the error of her ways and would be severely punished for it. Therefore, Cozy Glow is an example of what Babs could have become if she hadn't learned to just be true to herself.
- Rumble: Both are pegasus ponies who seize control of different locations (Rumble seizing control of the Cutie Mark Crusaders Cutie Mark Day Camp, Cozy Glow seizing control of Twilight's School of Friendship.) Both were also neglective of something's true meaning (Rumble being neglective of the true meaning of having a cutie mark, Cozy Glow being neglective of the true meaning of friendship) But while Rumble would later learn from his brother that he is capable of other things, Cozy on the other hoof ignores Twilight's teachings of friendship and would continue to try to seize control of places. Cozy Glow serves as an example of what Rumble might've become if he had continued his belief that Cutie Marks can keep ponies from doing more than one thing, along with if he let that belief consume him.
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