| “ | If Luna can turn into Nightmare Moon, you can absolutely turn into me… Daybreaker! The better, prettier and more powerful version of you! | „ |
| ~ Daybreaker to Celestia. |
Daybreaker is a supporting antagonist in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. She is depicted as the evil alter-ego of Princess Celestia, the same as Nightmare Moon being the alter-ego of Princess Luna.
Like her good counterpart, she was voiced by Nicole Oliver, who voiced Dame Devin in Barbie: Princess Charm School, Jean in Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures, Empress Beatrix in the first season of Ninjago: Dragons Rising and the Never Witch in the second season of LEGO DREAMZzz series.
Description[]
Appearance[]
Daybreaker appears almost the same as Celestia: a tall alicorn with a white coat. However, unlike Celestia, both her mane and tail are made of fire. She has yellow eyes with dragon-like pupils and black irises, possesses fangs, and her cutie mark is surrounded by orange and yellow. Also, she wears orange armor on her hooves, chest, wings, and head, with her helmet adorned with a red jewel, and her chest plate has her cutie mark on it.
Personality[]
Daybreaker is incredibly vain about her appearance and abilities, believing herself to be superior to Celestia in every way. She has no qualms about destroying anyone who opposes her, even her own family, and is hellbent on eliminating Luna so she could rule Equestria alone. All of her maniacal laughing is an obvious sign of insanity.
Powers and Abilities[]
It's safe to assume that Daybreaker's powers are the same as Celestia's, but according to herself, Daybreaker's power is even greater. She can fly, shoot powerful magic bolts, and produce immense amounts of fire to incinerate her enemies. She was able to overwhelm Nightmare Moon, a powerful alicorn in her own right.
Television[]
Royal Problem[]
In the episode, Starlight Glimmer is sent by Twilight's map to the royal palace in Canterlot to solve a friendship problem between Princesses Celestia and Luna, who each believe that their own responsibilities are harder than the other's and are unintentionally hurting each other's feelings because of it. To resolve this problem, Starlight uses her magic to switch their cutie marks to experience what it's like in each other's horseshoes. After Luna exhausts herself with Celestia's duties during the day, she retires to her chamber for the evening, and Celestia takes charge of Luna's duties of managing everypony's dreams. Celestia initially believes Luna's job to be easy but then stumbles upon Starlight's nightmare of being unable to solve the Royal Sisters' friendship problem, upon which Nightmare Moon appears. Celestia prepares herself to battle Nightmare Moon but is then stunned to see another evil alicorn similar to herself.
The alicorn reveals herself to be Daybreaker, the dark form of Celestia, and both she and Nightmare Moon represent Starlight's fear of her attempt to solve Royal Sister's crisis, making it even worse. After goading Celestia into giving in to her darker temptations, she begins her fight with Nightmare Moon. Starlight tries to talk them out of it, and Celestia attempts to intervene, but neither of them can stop their quarrel. Celestia then brings Luna from her own nightmare of failing her older sister's duties so that they can stop Daybreaker and Nightmare Moon before Starlight's mind is damaged forever, but Luna is unable to help since she has Celestia's magic. After Celestia tearfully admits that Luna's duties are so difficult out of fear of losing Luna and becoming a monster, Luna admits the same about Celestia's duties, seeing it actually takes hard work to help others. Just then, Daybreaker subdues Nightmare Moon and sets the throne room ablaze. Before she can finish her off, however, Celestia, after being encouraged by Luna, stands in the way of both of their attacks. Daybreaker taunts that Celestia can't bring herself to destroy her since she is everything Celestia wants to be, but Celestia denies this and dispels both her and Nightmare Moon for good, proving Daybreaker wrong that she's more powerful with the help of her sister.
Luna congratulates Celestia for defeating both of their dark selves, and they reconcile. Starlight's cutie mark glows, indicating that her mission is complete.
Cameo[]
Daybreaker made a brief cameo in the Season 9 premiere, The Beginning of the End - Part 1, when King Sombra shows Twilight and her friends their worst nightmares while confronting him at the Crystal Empire.
Comics[]
In Legends of Magic Annual 2018, Celestia and Luna are abducted by Pony of Shadows from an alternate dimension, who seeks to corrupt them into becoming Daybreaker and Nightmare Moon.
In My Little Pony: Nightmare Knights, a Celestia from an alternate universe, corrupted into Daybreaker, is enslaved by Princess Eris and used to lure Princess Luna into a casino. Daybreaker also serves as Eris' head of the security, but breaks free and takes over her position of power and helping Luna and her team defeat her.
Quotes[]
| “ | Celestia: "Don't worry Starlight. I know how to handle Nightmare Moon." Daybreaker: "Yes, but can you handle... ME!?" (evil laughter) |
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| ~ Daybreaker surprising Celestia. |
| “ | Celestia: "This can't be!" Daybreaker: "If Luna can turn into Nightmare Moon, you can absolutely turn into me... Daybreaker! The better, prettier and more powerful version of you!" Celestia: "No! I'll never turn into you!" Daybreaker: "Deep inside, you know how powerful you are. You don't need Luna!" Celestia: "That's not true! Even when we were apart, I knew I needed her!" Daybreaker: *laughter* "Oh, please! You don't need anypony! You can do whatever you want, and all you have to do is get rid of anypony who stands in your way!" |
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| ~ Daybreaker and Celestia arguing. |
| “ | Daybreaker: "I never should have banished you to the moon... I SHOULD HAVE DESTROYED YOU!" Starlight: "No, you can't do that! Day, night! Sun, moon! Equestria needs both of you! Without balance, there's no harmony!" Daybreaker: "Who needs balance when you can have it ALL!?" (laughter) |
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| ~ Starlight failing to reason with Daybreaker. |
| “ | Celestia: "ENOUGH!" Daybreaker: (laughter) "I told you I was more powerful than you!" |
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| ~ Celestia failing to stop Daybreaker. |
| “ | Ugh, so much black. We get it, your sad. You could really use some... SUN!!! | „ |
| ~ Daybreaker before breathing fire on Nightmare Moon. |
| “ | Daybreaker: "YOU CAN'T DESTROY ME! I'M EVERYTHING YOU WANT TO BE!" Celestia: "No, you're not! You are not real! And you will NEVER EXIST AGAIN!" |
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| ~ Celestia defeating Daybreaker. |
Gallery[]
Images[]
_-_Daybreaker-0.jpg "My Little Pony FiM — A Royal Problem (S7E10) - Daybreaker-0.jpg (8 KB)")
Videos[]
Trivia[]
- According to Jim Miller, Daybreaker is a manifestation of Celestia's fear of undergoing the same transformation as Luna.
External Links[]
- Princess Celestia on the Heroes Wiki
