Sunset Shimmer

Sunset Shimmer is a character in My Little Pony: Equestria Girls. Her Playful Ponies toy box says "Sunset Shimmer knows a magical path to faraway adventures! Years ago, she was also a student of Princess Celestia."

Development
Sunset Shimmer resembles the G3 Earth pony Sunshimmer in pony design and name.

On March 19, 2013, Meghan McCarthy was asked "Is Sunset Shimmer going to be a Season 4 storyline? The fact that her backstory seems like a show plot" and responded "Nope." On April 1, 2013, McCarthy wrote as part of an April Fools' Day joke that My Little Pony Friendship is Magic season four episode five would be titled "The Student Becomes the Teacher: The Return of Sunset Shimmer".