# The Twilight Sparkle Scepter After a November 2013 episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic aired, brony fans fixated on a brief prop the villain Discord hands the protagonist: a gold scepter topped with Twilight Sparkle's own sheepish grinning head. Within hours, 4chan's /mlp/ board was flooded with photoshops, kicking off one of the show's quickest fandom crazes. ## Origin The scepter appeared in "Princess Twilight Sparkle Part 2," the second half of the Season 4 premiere of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, which first aired on November 23rd, 2013[3]. Threads about the episode started on 4chan's /mlp/ (pony) board the same night, and within a few hours a screencap thread had singled out the scepter as the standout detail[2]. A dedicated thread about the scepter went up shortly after, and photoshops began appearing almost immediately[3]. Storyboard artist Sabrina Alberghetti, who animated the scene, acknowledged the overnight craze the next day. She posted a face-swapped edit of Twilight and the scepter to Twitter with the caption "So apparently this is a thing now? You guys are nuts," and later commented on a DeviantART vector of the scepter confirming she had animated the sequence[7]. - **Platform:** 4chan /mlp/ (origin) / Tumblr and Reddit (viral spread) - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 2013 ## Overview The Twilight Sparkle Scepter, also known as theTwilicane, is a prop from Season 4 Episode 2 of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, a gold cane topped with a miniature model of Twilight Sparkle's own head wearing a goofy, sheepish grin[1]. The scepter appears on screen for only a few seconds when the villain Discord gives it to Twilight along with a royal cape to mock her new princess status, but the absurd design made it an instant target for fan edits[3]. The format runs almost entirely off the inherent silliness of the object. Fans ran with the royal cane framing, posing Twilight as a smug monarch brandishing her own head on a stick. First-wave edits included image macros, vectors, 3D-modeled renders in Garry's Mod and Team Fortress 2, and face-swapped photoshops where other characters got the Twilicane treatment[5]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is The Twilight Sparkle Scepter? It is a gold scepter topped with a miniature Twilight Sparkle head wearing a sheepish grin, a prop from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic that became a fandom meme, also known as theTwilicane[3]. ### Where did The Twilight Sparkle Scepter come from? It appeared in Season 4 Episode 2 of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, which aired on November 23rd, 2013; 4chan's /mlp/ board picked it up within hours[2]. ### What does The Twilight Sparkle Scepter mean? In the show, Discord hands it to Twilight to mock her new princess status; in the fandom, it is an absurdist running gag about Twilight parading around with her own grinning head on a stick[1]. ### How do you use The Twilight Sparkle Scepter? Fans typically photoshop the scepter into unrelated screencaps, pose Twilight with it in royal or smug contexts, or render it as a 3D model in sandbox games like Garry's Mod and Team Fortress 2[5]. ### Is The Twilight Sparkle Scepter still popular? It peaked in the days after the episode aired in late November 2013, and is now considered a classic brony meme catalogued under Derpibooru's "twilight scepter" tag[3]. ## References 1. [https://www.equestriadaily.com/2013/11/twilights-scepter-tumblr-and-garrys-mod.html]() 2. [https://archive.heinessen.com/mlp/thread/S14680432#p14681471]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-twilight-sparkle-scepter]() 4. [https://www.reddit.com/r/mylittlepony/comments/1rem1b/twilight_cane/]() 5. [https://derpibooru.org/480603]() 6. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noC-6AO4S1g]() 7. [https://comments.deviantart.com/1/415530553/3285414620]() 8. [http://asktwilightscepter.tumblr.com/]() 9. [https://mlpforums.com/topic/79368-twilight-scepter/]() 10. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jUPgkzEjac]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/the-twilight-sparkle-scepter Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library