Cozy Glow
Cozy Glow is a fictional character who appears in the fourth incarnation of Hasbro's My Little Pony toyline and media franchise, beginning with My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. She serves as a recurring antagonist throughout the series, first appearing in the eighth season. She is voiced by Sunni Westbrook.
Cozy Glow is depicted as a precocious, manipulative, cunning, and power-hungry anthropomorphic pegasus filly who initially introduces herself as a sweet and helpful student at Twilight Sparkle's School of Friendship, but is later revealed to be a calculating villain who schemes to drain all magic from Equestria in order to rule it herself.
She is characterized by her deceptively sweet demeanor, curly teal mane, and her cutie mark depicting a rook.
Appearances
Fourth ''My Little Pony'' incarnation (2010–2021)
''My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic''
Cozy Glow first appears in the eighth season as a seemingly enthusiastic student at the School of Friendship. She befriends the Young Six while struggling with her friendship assignments. In the season finale "School Raze", Cozy orchestrates a plan to drain all magic from Equestria by secretly corresponding with the imprisoned Lord Tirek. She manipulates events to trap Twilight and her friends in Tartarus and attempts to seize control of the school, believing that by eliminating magic, she can become the "Empress of Friendship". Her scheme is ultimately exposed by the Young Six, who defeat her with help from the Tree of Harmony, and she is subsequently imprisoned in Tartarus.In the ninth season, Cozy forms an alliance with Queen Chrysalis and Tirek to conquer Equestria. In the series finale, they use the magic of the Bewitching Bell to grant themselves immense power, resulting in Cozy becoming an alicorn, and temporarily succeed in overtaking Equestria. However, they are eventually defeated by Twilight and her friends and turned to stone as punishment for their crimes by Celestia, Luna, and Discord.
''Friendship Is Magic'' comic series
Reception and analysis
Rob Clough of Looper described Cozy Glow as believing "that friendship is power" whose ultimate goal is to be an all-powerful Empress of Friendship. Carly Olsen of Screen Rant ranked the episode that featured Cozy Glow's exposure and defeat as the sixth best season finale of Friendship Is Magic. Author Stephanie Borges expressed shock at discovering "something so cute and adorable" could be so "damn evil" and described Cozy Glow as "a pesky little monster".A study analyzing library representation in children's television series observed that Cozy Glow appeared in the School of Friendship library organizing books on shelves as a pretext to spy on her fellow students' conversations.
While the backstory of Cozy Glow was never explored in the show, the brony fandom has developed various headcanons about her origins and motivations.