Rainbow Dash

## Cutie Mark

### Singing voice:

**Rainbow Dash**, mostly known as **Rainbow** is a female pegasus and main character in *The Magic of Rue Day*. She is the best friend of Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Twilight Sparkle, Rarity, Fluttereshy and Rue Day and a close friend of Spike.Rainbow represents the Element of loyalty.

She is voiced by Ashleigh Ball, who also voices Applejack and Rue Day.

## Physical appearance

Rainbow Dash has red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple mane and tail. She also has a cyan blue color. Her cutie mark is a rainbwo that extends from a cloud and takes the shape of a lightning bolt. She also has pink eyes and six eye lashes on each eye. he also has a pair of feathery pegasus wings. She appears to be about fifteen to seventeen years old.

## Personality

### **Loyalty**

Rainbow Dash proves to be loyal to her friends. Her loyalty to her friends was tested from Nightmare Moon, who disguised herself as three Shadowbolt pegasus  team members. However, Rainbow abandons that oppertunity and remains loyal to her friend. That is when Twilight realizes that Rainbow represents the element of loyalty.

Rainbow Dash's loyalty is tested in The Return of Harmony Part 1. Discord shows Rainbow Dash a vision of Cloudsdale falling apart in her absence, convincing her to abandon her friends in the Canterlot castle maze.

In Rainbow Falls, Rainbow Dash faces choosing between flying with the prestigious Wonderbolts and the Ponyville team at the Equestria Games' flying relay competition. At first she secretly practices with the Wonderbolts, but she finally decides to stay with the Ponyville team.

In The Cutie Re-Mark - Part 2, in an alternate-timeline Equestria ruled by Nightmare Moon, Rainbow Dash is one of her loyal royal guards. She demands that Twilight answer Nightmare Moon's questions.

### **Competitiveness**

Rainbow Dash describes her passion for winning in a flashback in The Cutie Mark Chronicles. She races several times with Gilda, her old friend from Junior Speedster flight camp, in Griffon the Brush Off.

In Fall Weather Friends, Rainbow Dash loses a game of horseshoes to Applejack, and says she hates losing. She then challenges Applejack in the Iron Pony competition. In several rounds, she uses her wings to give herself an unfair advantage. During the Running of the Leaves, Rainbow Dash continues to use underhand tactics even though her wings are tied down. Applejack retaliates with tricks of her own, and both end up tying for last place. They realize that their competitive streaks got the better of them, and apologize to each other and Princess Celestia before amicably running the race again.

In Rainbow Falls, Rainbow Dash comes to the conclusion that even though she loves winning, she loves her friends "waaaaay more."

### Self-confidence

Rainbow Dash displays confidence in herself and her physical abilities in multiple episodes. In Boast Busters, when Applejack and Rarity criticize Trixie for showing off magic tricks and looking down on other ponies, Rainbow Dash adds, "Especially when ya got me around being better than the rest of us."

In Sonic Rainboom, Rainbow Dash is confident about her performance in the upcoming Best Young Flyer Competition until Rarity's magical butterfly wings get a lot of attention and admiration. Despite her insecurities, Rainbow Dash successfully pulls off the sonic rainboom and wins the competition.

In The Mysterious Mare Do Well, Rainbow Dash is venerated by Ponyville after performing heroic deeds around town, one of which being saving Aura from a deserted well. She basks in the attention of the townsfolk and her official fan club (led by Scootaloo) and becomes over-confident in herself. A mysterious cloaked pony starts one-upping Rainbow Dash's feats. Rainbow Dash eventually finds out that the cloaked pony was actually her friends in disguise, teaching her a lesson about keeping her pride in check.

### **Interest of books**

She also has an interest in books like Twilight, since she is the one who introduced Rainbow to books in the first place.

## Voice actors

Rainbow Dash has undying loyalty towards her friends.

## Rivalry/friendship with Applejack

She has a bit of a competition with Applejack, but that doesn't mean that they're not the best of friends and appear to be the closest out of all the ponies in their group. She does once scare her and several others on Nightmare Night ,Equestria's version of Halloween.

Both do care about each other and Rainbow is loyal to Apple as well as their other friends.

They are also both voiced by the same actress, Ashleigh Ball.

## Other Friendships

### Twilight Sparkle

Rainbow meets Twilight at first when she literally crashes into her. Rainbow helps (or at least tries to ) Twilight get wet and dry from her unwanted mudbath. Rainbow, despite all of Twilight Sparkle's doubt on her, wishes to become friends with her finding Twilight a delight. She later helps her from falling of the cliff and remains loyal to Twilight and the rest of her friends when putting the bridge back together.

In season 3 finale, she is delighted to find that Twilight is an alicorn and proclaims her as a "new flying buddy" and tries to teach Twilight and Rue how to use their new wings.

### Rue Day

Rainbow is very calm and sometimes overprotective of with Princess Rue DayDiscord's daughter and Twilight's niece and comes to terms as a family member and a close friend. They are even closer when Rue is given wings and becomes her flying buddy as well, and teaches her how to fly better.

### Discord and Rue

Rainbow has a somewhat friendship with Discord a

## Notes and References

1. ↑ http://www.equestriadaily.com/2015/02/the-struggle-of-dubbing-my-little-pony.html