Cutie Map

*For the premiere episodes of season five, see The Cutie Map - Part 1 and Part 2.*
The **Cutie Map**, often referred to within the series as simply **the Map** or the **Friendship Map**, is a magical map of Equestria that is first featured in The Cutie Map - Part 1. Twilight Sparkle and her friends use the map to solve friendship problems across Equestria.

## Depiction in the series

### Season five[1]

#### **The Cutie Map**

In the two-part season five premiere, the Cutie Map first appears when all of the Mane Six sit on their thrones in the Castle of Friendship throne room. The thrones react to their cutie marks, and a large crystal table appears in the center of the room, upon which the Cutie Map is holographically projected.

From this point onward, the map summons the Mane Six to other locations in Equestria through their cutie marks to solve friendship problems. Depending upon whom the map summons, their cutie marks glow and pulsate, and holographic images of their cutie marks hover over the location in question on the map. The Cutie Map usually stays visible at all times, but in some episodes it reverts to being just a regular circular table when it is not active.

In this two-parter, all of the Mane Six are summoned to Starlight Glimmer's village to free the ponies living there from her despotic views on equality.

#### **The Lost Treasure of Griffonstone**

In The Lost Treasure of Griffonstone, Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash are summoned to the griffon kingdom of Griffonstone to help the griffons rebuild after their loss of the treasured Idol of Boreas.

#### **Made in Manehattan**

In Made in Manehattan, Applejack and Rarity are summoned to the Manehattan borough of Bronclyn to help Coco Pommel restore her neighborhood's sense of community.

#### **The Hooffields and McColts**

In The Hooffields and McColts, Twilight Sparkle and Fluttershy are summoned to the Smokey Mountains to end a years-old feud between the Hooffield and McColt families.

#### **The Cutie Re-Mark**

In the two-part season five finale, Starlight Glimmer uses her magic on the map to activate an altered version of Star Swirl the Bearded's time travel spell. In each of the alternate timelines created by Starlight's actions, the Castle of Friendship disappears, but the Cutie Map remains, its landscape changing depending on events that have taken place in that timeline. Twilight deduces that the map remains in each timeline because of its connection to the Tree of Harmony, making it sense that something is wrong.

### Season six

#### **Spice Up Your Life**

In Spice Up Your Life, Twilight and Starlight use their magic to reactivate the Cutie Map after the events of The Cutie Re-Mark caused it to stop functioning. Once reactivated, the map sends Rarity and Pinkie Pie to Canterlot to help Coriander Cumin and his daughter Saffron Masala save their failing restaurant and tense relationship.

#### **Viva Las Pegasus**

Applejack and Fluttershy are summoned to Las Pegasus to solve three friendship problems at once, one of which is between Flim and Flam and all of which have been orchestrated by the corrupt resort owner Gladmane.

#### **Top Bolt**

In Top Bolt, Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle are summoned to the Wonderbolt Academy to solve a friendship problem between the overconfident academy trainee Sky Stinger and his timid best friend and wingpony Vapor Trail.

### Season seven

#### **Celestial Advice[2]**

In Celestial Advice, Twilight uses the map to consider different places she could send Starlight to.

#### **All Bottled Up[3]**

In All Bottled Up, while attempting to teleport an apple, Trixie accidentally teleports the map. She and Starlight eventually trace it to the Ponyville Day Spa.

#### **A Royal Problem[4]**

In A Royal Problem, Starlight Glimmer is summoned to Canterlot to solve a friendship problem between Princess Celestia and Princess Luna.

#### **Triple Threat**[5]

In Triple Threat, the map calls Spike to solve a friendship problem he inadvertently created himself in Ponyville by showing the shape of his head, since he does not have a cutie mark.

#### **Shadow Play - Part 2[6]**

In Shadow Play - Part 2, the map calls all of the Mane Six to the Hollow Shades.

### Season eight[7]

#### **School Daze - Part 1**[8]

After the Mane Six return from their journey in *My Little Pony The Movie*, they discover the map has expanded beyond Equestria to include different locations, such as Klugetown, the pirate ship, and Mount Aris.

#### **Surf and/or Turf[9]**

In Surf and/or Turf, the map calls the Cutie Mark Crusaders to Mount Aris.

#### **The Parent Map**[10]

In The Parent Map, the map calls Starlight and Sunburst to their old hometown Sire's Hollow to solve a friendship problem involving their parents.

#### **A Matter of Principals**[11]

In A Matter of Principals, Twilight leaves Starlight Glimmer in charge of the School of Friendship when the map calls the Mane Six away on a friendship mission. At the end of the episode, however, it is revealed that Discord sent the Mane Six on a snipe hunt.

#### **Sounds of Silence**

In Sounds of Silence, the map calls Applejack and Fluttershy to the Peaks of Peril.

## Other depictions

### **IDW comics**[12]

In the My Little Pony Annual 2017 comic, the map summons Twilight to a hidden room in the Castle of Friendship, where she discovers the "Armor of Friendship" to use against the changelings.