Trixie

Trixie is a unicorn pony and a traveling magician who appears in Boast Busters and Magic Duel and sometimes seen mistakenly in background scenes. She tends to speak in the third person and refers to herself as, "The Great and Powerful Trixie." Trixie visits Ponyville with her one-mare show, in which she shows off, extremely exaggerates, and boasts about her abilities. The name Trixie is a diminutive form of Beatrix. She is called Trixie Lulamoon in some merchandise.

Development and design
Lauren Faust stated that the premise of the episode Boast Busters called for a boastful unicorn character, who was originally envisioned as male. Writer Chris Savino came up with the current character of Trixie and her habit of speaking in the third person.

Trixie is one of the few ponies, along with Big McIntosh, Night Mare Moon, Granny Smith, Snips, and Snails, to have a single reflection in her eyes; most ponies have two, while foals have three.

Trixie is one of the few ponies, along with Lyra Heartstrings, to have a unique first name not based on words.

Trixie's design and color scheme is used for four background ponies in Bridle Gossip, along with two palette swaps. Another pony with the same design can be seen briefly near the beginning of The Return of Harmony, part 1.

Before season two started airing, Jayson Thiessen, one of the show's directors, said that he liked Trixie and could see potential for another story featuring her. Trixie has been later confirmed to return in person during the show's third season at some point.

Personality
Trixie first appears in Boast Busters, where she assumes a very theatrical personality and speaks dramatically in the third person, posing and setting off fireworks to complete the effect.

"I am The Great and Powerful TRIXIE!"

- Trixie

She is set up as the antagonist to the protagonist Twilight Sparkle. Twilight's positive, helpful, and humble attitude is contrasted by Trixie's over-the-top boasting. Trixie claims to have saved Hoofington from an attack by an ursa major. However, when confronted by an ursa minor, she admits that her tale was fabricated and that even the ursa minor was an opponent far too powerful for her to contain. This is the only point in the episode where she drops her "Great and Powerful Trixie" persona and speaks in the first person. Despite this brief display of honesty and fear, her frequent showboating alienates the other ponies and classifies her as an antagonist of the series.

In her return episode, Magic Duel, her magic is augmented by the Alicorn Amulet, and she uses this power to take revenge on Twilight Sparkle, banish her from Ponyville, and subsequently set herself up as the leader of the town. She shows no qualms about using innocent ponies (Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Snips and Snails) to prove her power, nor does she seem to care when a spell nearly takes out another (Shoeshine). Through the episode, she has the Mayor trapped in a cage, and forces other ponies to do manual labor for her. However, upon removal of the Amulet, and the loss of her power, she suddenly becomes meek. At the end of the episode, she once again drops her persona and speaks in the first person, but only for a few seconds before she refers to herself as the "Great and Apologetic Trixie".

She claims to not "trust wheels."

History
In Boast Busters, Trixie arrives in Ponyville, having been rumored to be "the most magical unicorn in all of Equestria". At her show, Trixie boasts constantly about her great magical abilities. She claims to have vanquished an ursa major, an enormous celestial bear-like creature that normally could never be defeated by just one pony. Only two ponies, Snips and Snails, openly believe Trixie's claims and proclaim her as the most magical and talented pony ever. Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and Applejack take Trixie's challenge to see who is better, only to be humiliated one by one. Twilight Sparkle, who fears that she might lose her friends if she shows off her magic like Trixie, doesn't accept the challenge and runs off. Trixie then proclaims herself victorious, and ends her show.

After the show, Snips and Snails follow Trixie, fawning over her and asking to hear more of her stories until Trixie herself tires of it, and sends them away. Snips refers to her as "The G and PT", shortening her title.

Spike witnesses Snips' and Snails' behavior and is far more skeptical of Trixie's claims, telling them that they should not believe her until she demonstrates a comparable feat in front of them. This leads the pair to seek out an ursa themselves in the Everfree Forest. They draw the ursa minor into Ponyville, believing it to be an ursa major, and ask Trixie to use her magic tricks to defeat it. Her stage magic proves useless, and she admits that she can't defeat an ursa major and never has, and that she fabricated the whole story to make herself look better. This confession is the only time she uses the first person perspective. Twilight then uses her magic to soothe the ursa minor to sleep and gives it a "bottle" of milk constructed from the water tower before sending it back to its cave in the forest.

Trixie is surprised to find out that the monster they faced was actually an ursa minor, the baby version of an ursa major, who was only cranky after being woken up by Snips and Snails. After the explanation, however, Trixie resumes her arrogance, saying that Twilight will never have the same power as her, and once again proclaims herself "Great and Powerful."

Trixie then uses a smokescreen to poorly conceal her exit from town. After it dissipates, she is seen galloping out of Ponyville. Rainbow Dash starts after Trixie, but Twilight stops her, certain that Trixie will someday learn her lesson about bragging on her own.

Multiple Trixies can be seen in the background shots of Ponyville's town square in Dragonshy and The Return of Harmony Part 1, along with clones with different color schemes. She also appears briefly amongst the crowd at the wedding at the end of A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2. However it is possible this could just be a clone with her color scheme.

She is mentioned in Ponyville Confidential as being in the Gabby Gums column of the Foal Free Press which revealed her secrets, but was not elaborated on in the episode.

She makes her second appearance in Magic Duel, returning to Ponyville and wreaking havoc using with her new magic powers (fueled by the Alicorn Amulet), and then confronting Twilight Sparkle challenging her to a duel as revenge. Trixie explains her motive for revenge is because after the time Twilight Sparkle had showed up Trixie when she defeated the ursa minor, Trixie could no longer perform her traveling magic show as other ponies in Equestria mocked and ostracized her for it, and then she had to take a job at Pinkie Pie's family's rock farm to earn her keep, which in the end humiliated her. She proceeds to beat Twilight in the titular duel, and banishes her from Ponyville.

After spending most of the episode terrorizing the town's ponies, Twilight eventually tricks her into removing the Alicorn Amulet, which Rainbow Dash then steals from her. At the end of the episode, Trixie provides fireworks to back Twilight's entertainment provision, then apologizes to her whilst putting on her hat and cape from Boast Busters, explaining that the amulet had corrupted her and she couldn't stop herself from being cruel to everypony. She asks Twilight for forgiveness, which Twilight happily obliges. Following her declaration that she has become the "Great and Apologetic Trixie", she repeats her smokescreen escape, tripping over whilst doing so.

My Little Pony mobile game description
A traveling magician and one-mare show, Trixie likes to show off and exaggerates about her magical abilities.

Other Media
A modified version of Trixie's cutie mark (a purple wand with pixie dust and a yellow star) can be obtained at the end of Adventures in Ponyville.

Merchandise
A toy called Lulamoon, from the Wave 4 of the Mystery Pack My Little Pony set, has the same cutie mark and color scheme (purple eyes, blue coat) as Trixie. The Lulamoon toy was re-released in Blindbags Wave 5, but without the glow in the dark effect and the name was changed to Trixie Lulamoon. According to the cards accompanying the toys, Trixie Lulamoon "has a favorite star" and "likes showing off", respectively. Trixie was later released as a Playful Pony single. She can also be found with a glitter variation cutie mark in the Toys 'R' Us Favorites Collection set.

Quotes
"I hereby challenge you, Ponyvillians: anything you can do, I can do better. Any takers? Anyone? Or is Trixie destined to be the greatest equine who has ever lived!?!"

- Boast Busters

"Huh. You may have vanquished an ursa "minor", but you will never have the amazing, show-stopping ability of the Great and Powerful Trixie!"

- Boast Busters

"Trixie is the highest level unicorn!"

- Magic Duel

"The Great and Powerful Trixie doesn't trust wheels."

- Magic Duel

"Witness, my subjects, graze upon an even greater and powerfuler Trixie!"

- Magic Duel

"Don't you think the Great and Apologetic Trixie is the most magnificent humble pony you have ever seen?"

- Magic Duel

Gallery

 * Trixie image gallery