Spike (My Little Pony)

Untitled — Spike the baby dragon in MLP FiM

Also see: http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Spike

Spike is a young purple and green male dragon from the series My Little Pony Friendship is Magic. He is Twilight Sparkle's faithful and number one assistant and one of the main characters on MLP FiM. His ability to magically deliver scolls to and from the princess named Princess Celestia with his fire-breath feature which is mostly seen at the end of the episodes. Spike is always a helpful dragon in Ponyville. He also has a crush on a female pony fashionista Rarity.

Hatching[]

In Twilight Sparkle's flashback from the episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic called "The Cutie Mark Chronicles", hatching a dragon egg was Twilight Sparkle's main test to be admitted to Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns. Though the young unicorn was stressed because of the judges' high expectations, she still tried her hardest just to complete the test and impress her supervisors, but failed at doing so. Unknowingly, a mysterious explosion had awakened the young unicorn's dormant magic and was able to hatch the dragon egg with ease, though with the sudden increase in power, she had even evolved the young hatchling into a full grown dragon and turn her parents into plants. After witnessing the event, Princess Celestia had told Twilight Sparkle to calm down and had turned everything back to normal, even reverting young Spike to a hatchling and takes the unicorn in as her own protege.

In the season eight episode Molt Down, Spike gains a pair of wings after undergoing a developmental stage for dragons called the "molt".

In the Generation 5 My Little Pony: Make Your Mark episode The Isle of Scaly, Spike reappears as a fully grown dragon and the current Dragon Lord after spending centuries in magical hibernation.

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Spike's appearance is based on his Generation 1 incarnation more than his Generation 3 version, with a few modifications done by Lauren Faust. In G1, he was portrayed as a baby dragon with green spikes, and his body was pink. In his G3 incarnation, he was a 1,000-year old dragon with orange spikes, purple hair, and a blue body. He is the only main character who was taken from G1 other than Applejack.
The 2014 documentary A Brony Tale mentions that Ashleigh Ball, the voice of both Rainbow Dash and Applejack, originally auditioned for Spike.
Dog Spike, as he is in the human world, is not human because, as stated by Meghan McCarthy, "1) It would be weird for Twilight to hide a small boy in her backpack. 2) Dragon through portal doesn’t = same as pony."
Lauren Faust said in an interview that she had to fight for Cathy Weseluck to be the voice of Spike, because Hasbro originally wanted him to sound rather gruff and scratchy, similar to Charlie Adler's interpretation of the character in the G1 movies and TV series.
Spike's crush on Rarity was not planned out from the beginning. When Lauren Faust was writing Rarity's introduction scene in the pilot, she wanted the audience to understand that she's very beautiful even though she is visually very similar to the other ponies, except the style of her mane and her eyes and eyelashes. To let the audience understand that she is beautiful, Faust made Spike become smitten with her, which developed into his crush on Rarity.
Between Hot Minute with Rarity and Molt Down, the concept of Spike having wings was alluded to in Twitter conversation with Cathy Weseluck.