Top Marks

Top Marks is a male unicorn pony lecturer with a blue coat, yellowish gray mane and tail, gold eyes, and a cutie mark of a golden laurel wreath. He first appears in The Cutie Mark Chronicles. He is unnamed in the show, and a female version of him is called simply "Amiable Schoolteacher" in some other media, but he is named in merchandise.
==Depiction in the series==
Top Marks first appears in the season one episode The Cutie Mark Chronicles as one of the examiners for filly Twilight Sparkle's magic test. At one point, he yawns due to Twilight taking a long time to complete her test. When Twilight loses control of her magic due to Rainbow Dash's sonic rainboom, Top Marks is caught in Twilight's rampant magic and gets levitated into the air.
In season four, Top Marks appears in Equestria Games as a spectator in the stadium crowd.
In season five, he appears in The Cutie Re-Mark - Part 1 talking with "Crystal Clear" outside the School for Gifted Unicorns.
==Other depictions==
===IDW comics===
On page 5, Top Marks appears at the School for Gifted Unicorns Royal High Tea laughing at a story Gingersnap tells about Inkwell. He appears again at the Royal High Tea on page 16.
===Rarity's Peek Behind the Boutique===
Top Marks appears in episode 3, "Customer Critiques".
===My Little Pony (mobile game)===
Amiable Schoolteacher is a character in Gameloft's mobile game, and acts as a helper during the "Welcome Back Twilight" event. Her bio states, "A bit giggle-prone in awkward situations. Her students think it's endearing, though!"
==Merchandise==
In the Enterplay collectible card game's expansion sets, Top Marks is named on his The Crystal Games #59 U card, which attributes to Twilight Sparkle the quote "Professor Marks's lectures were legendary. He just kept talking in one long, unbroken sentence, moving from topic to topic. It was really quite hypnotic...", and he is mentioned on the Marks in Time #83 R card, which attributes to notes taken by Top Marks during Twilight's entry exam "A disappointing display of magical prowess. It is my opinion that Ms. Sparkle is simply not of the caliber we here at the School for Gifted Unicorns have come to expect."
==Quotes==
==Gallery==
===Season one===
====The Cutie Mark Chronicles====
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Filly Twilight looking at the examiners S1E23.png
Examiners writing on the clipboards S1E23.png
Examiners Examining Filly Twilight S1E23.png
Examiners levitated S1E23.png
Examiners dropped down S1E23.png
===Season four===
====Equestria Games====
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Spike counts to "fourteen thousand" S4E24.png
===Season five===
====The Cutie Re-Mark - Part 1====
School for Gifted Unicorns exterior S5E25.png
Sea Swirl and Lyra Heartstrings gallop to the school S5E25.png
Exam proctors writing disapprovingly S5E25.png
===Miscellaneous===
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Top Marks, Long-winded Lecturer card MLP CCG.jpg
Rarity's fashions being harshly judged RPBB3.png
==See also==
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==References==
de:Top Marks
Category:Background characters
Category:Female characters
Category:Teachers