DJ Pon-3

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DJ Pon-3

## Overview

**DJ Pon-3** ( /ˈdiːdʒeɪ poʊnˈθriː/ `**DEE**-jay pone-**THREE**`)[note 1] is a female unicorn pony disc jockey.

## Appearance

While DJ Pon-3's coat appears white in Suited For Success due to the lighting of the scene, a layout artist on the show noted that the character model's coat color is actually a very pale yellow, specifically the 24-bit hex triplet #FEFDE7.[3] This is more clearly seen in the episodes A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2 and Magical Mystery Cure. Her coat color in the DJ Pinkie Pie game is the same, while her Playful Ponies toy is white. Her eye color is also shown in the episodes A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2, Testing Testing 1, 2, 3, Slice of Life, and A Hearth's Warming Tail to be moderate cerise, the same as that of Rainbow Dash and many other ponies.

DJ Pon-3's cutie mark is the mirror image of two bridged eighth notes. It appears as such on the show, on a trading card, and on websites (all showing the left side of her body),[4] but it appears non-mirrored (when showing the right side of her body) on her toy,[5] on the Season 2 poster, and on websites.[6] In the IDW comics' *My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic* Issue #11 story *neigh anything...*, Shining Armor's flashback shows her getting her cutie mark watching him, Poindexter, 8-bit and Gaffer perform to get the attention of Princess Cadance.

## Story

### Gala arc

DJ Pon-3 first appears in Suited For Success for a brief three-second moment during the opening of Rarity's first fashion show, operating a turntable with her unicorn magic.

### Canterlot Wedding arc

During the post-wedding party in A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2, Pinkie Pie pulls her up from under the turntable and they spin the records. She briefly lifts her glasses, revealing her magenta-colored eyes before placing them back and nodding to the beat.

### A New Beginning arc

During What My Cutie Mark Is Telling Me in Magical Mystery Cure, she appears at Sugarcube Corner as one of the ponies Fluttershy fails to make laugh.

### Twilight's Kingdom arc

She makes a cameo appearance in a crowd shot in Simple Ways. In Testing Testing 1, 2, 3, she is shown providing music during Pinkie Pie's song The rappin' Hist'ry of the Wonderbolts and reveals her magenta-colored eyes again. She makes another brief background appearance near the beginning of Inspiration Manifestation.

### The Cutie Map arc

In Bloom & Gloom, in Sweetie Belle's dream, DJ Pon-3, seated at a table with Octavia Melody and Rarity, watches Sweetie about to sing on stage, but Sweetie sees her cutie mark is a broom and her microphone replaced with a broom. As a result, both DJ Pon-3 and Octavia give her a score of "0", while Rarity gives her a score of "1".

DJ Pon-3 appears in the series' 100th episode Slice of Life. She is first seen listening to hip-hop on her headphones when she leads Dr. Hooves to the bowling alley. In the episode, it is revealed that she is roommates with Octavia Melody. She helps Octavia spice up the music she plays for the wedding. In the original script, she had some speaking lines, but she was made mute at the insistence of Hasbro; originally she and Octavia were not roommates, but this was also requested by Hasbro. [7]

She and Octavia appear during the final group shot in The Cutie Re-Mark - Part 2.

### Return of the Changelings arc

In No Second Prances, DJ Pon-3 is referred to by name when Twilight Sparkle suggests that Starlight Glimmer become friends with her. She later attends Twilight's dinner party at the Castle of Friendship.

She appears in A Hearth's Warming Tail in the story within the story as a musician at Snowdash's party spinning the gramophone alongside violinist Octavia.

In The Saddle Row Review, it is revealed that DJ Pon-3 has her own dance club in Manehattan. In 28 Pranks Later, she briefly appears in a background shot of Ponyville as a "zombie".

### Old Legends and Folklore arc

In Celestial Advice, she plays the music for the party. In It Isn't the Mane Thing About You, she appears next to Octavia at the Ponyville marketplace. In Uncommon Bond, Starlight Glimmer talks to DJ Pon-3 about her friend Sunburst, oblivious to the fact that she is listening to music on her headphones.

### Movie

In *My Little Pony The Movie*, DJ Pon-3 appears providing music during the Friendship Festival, particularly during Songbird Serenade's performance.

### School of Friendship arc

In Fake It 'Til You Make It, DJ Pon-3 is one of the potential ponies Rarity asks to run her Manehattan shop. In Grannies Gone Wild, she hosts a dance club in Las Pegasus.

### Best Gift Ever

In *My Little Pony Best Gift Ever*, DJ Pon-3 makes a cameo appearance listening to her headphones beside Octavia Melody in Ponyville Square during One More Day.

### Struggle for Ponyville arc

In The Beginning of the End - Part 2, DJ Pon-3 appears brainwashed by King Sombra and part of his raid of Canterlot Castle. In She's All Yak, she appears in the reused image of The Cutie Re-Mark - Part 2 during Fit Right In. In A Trivial Pursuit, DJ Pon-3's head appears on Twilight's T-Shirt.

In A Horse Shoe-In, DJ Pon-3 appears during Octavia's concert field trip playing her DJ system as Octavia plays her cello.

### Civil War arc

When the Cutie Mark Crusaders are accused of property damanges, DJ Pon-3 is one of the many ponies who believes they are indeed guilty.

### War for Equestria arc

DJ Pon-3 appears in the paths standing next to Octavia listening to Eren Yeager's message to the subjects of ymir