Cutie Mark Crusaders

Sweetie Belle:
Hondo Flanks (father)
Cookie Crumbles (mother)
Rarity (older sister)

Scootaloo:Snap Shutter (father)
Mane Allgood (mother)
Holiday (paternal aunt)
Lofty (aunt)

The **Cutie Mark Crusaders** (**CMC** or simply the Crusaders for short) is a club consisting of Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle formed in Call of the Cutie, with Babs Seed joining in One Bad Apple.

## Appearances

Apple Bloom is a yellow earth pony. She is a filly, and she has a red mane and tail and orange eyes. And she wears a big red bow on her head. Her flank was originally blank, but she, along with Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo, earned her cutie mark in "Crusaders of the Lost Mark".

Sweetie Belle is a white unicorn, She has a purple and pink mane and tail, and she has green eyes. Like Apple Bloom and Scootaloo, her flank was blank, but she finally earned her cutie mark in "Crusaders of the Lost Mark".

Scootaloo is a little orange Pegasus filly. She has a purple mane and tail and purple eyes. And she has two small wings on each side. Her flank was blank, like Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle's, but the day of getting her cutie mark finally came in "Crusaders of the Lost Mark". She enjoys scooting on her scooter.

# **Apple Bloom**

Apple Bloom makes her first prominent appearance in Bridle Gossip. At first she huddles in Sugarcube Corner with the other ponies who are hiding from Zecora, an alleged "evil enchantress". Apple Bloom asserts that she isn't actually afraid of Zecora and that she's "not a baby" and doesn't need Applejack's protection.

When Twilight Sparkle tries to reason everyone into talking to Zecora instead of hiding from her, Apple Bloom is the only pony who listens to and agrees with everything Twilight says. To prove that she isn't as immature and timid as Applejack thinks she is, Apple Bloom follows Zecora into the Everfree Forest. Later, when the ponies come to Zecora demanding answers, they find that Apple Bloom has already befriended Zecora and volunteered to help her brew a remedy for poison joke.

In The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000, Apple Bloom is among the few ponies to challenge Flim and Flam's claims that they can produce more, better cider than her family. In Somepony to Watch Over Me, she asserts her independence when Applejack becomes overprotective of her and tries to make a dangerous pie delivery by herself.

Apple Bloom starts her enthusiastic pursuit of a cutie mark in Call of the Cutie, along with Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo. This theme continues in early episodes such as Stare Master, The Show Stoppers, The Cutie Mark Chronicles, and The Cutie Pox. She is very adamant about finding her cutie mark in Call of the Cutie and manages to persuade Twilight Sparkle to try to magically make her cutie mark appear, even though Twilight tells her it's no use. She's very aggressive with her salesmanship in the episode and even tries to pressure Sweetie Drops and Berryshine into buying some apples.

Apple Bloom and her friend Twist are derisively called "blank flanks" by Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara, who invite them to their cute-ceañera to rub it in. Apple Bloom, with Rainbow Dash helping, decides to dedicate herself to getting her cutie mark, but despite her best efforts, she cannot find what she's good at. Her feeling of hopelessness is made even worse when Twist gets her cutie mark before she goes. Later, at the cute-ceañera, she makes friends with fellow blank flanks Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle, who come to her defense when Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara deride her again. The three blank flanks form the Cutie Mark Crusaders, a club whose purpose is finding their hidden talents so they can earn their cutie marks.

Apple Bloom's focus on getting her cutie mark leads her to make a potion out of Zecora's Heart's Desire plant in The Cutie Pox, which causes her to contract the titular disease and sprout multiple cutie marks, forced to do whatever talents the marks represent. In Ponyville Confidential, Apple Bloom convinces her friends to pursue journalism as the means of getting their cutie marks. Her determination carries her as far as damaging the reputation of her siblings for the sake of her goal, although she feels guilt in doing so.

In the season five episode Bloom & Gloom, Apple Bloom starts having anxiety over getting her cutie mark before Princess Luna shows her the dreams Sweetie and Scootaloo are having. Apple Bloom's quest for a cutie mark is eventually realized in Crusaders of the Lost Mark when she and her friends discover their destiny in helping other ponies discover theirs.

In Appleoosa's Most Wanted, Apple Bloom, along with her Crusader friends, is driven to help Trouble Shoes realize his true talent and overcome his reputation of bringing bad luck. It is through helping their bully Diamond Tiara become a better pony that Apple Bloom finally earns her cutie mark and discovers a passion for helping others with their cutie mark-related troubles.

In On Your Marks, Apple Bloom helps Tender Taps overcome his stage fright and get his cutie mark in dancing. In The Fault in Our Cutie Marks, she helps Gabby the griffon realize her own talent in helping others even if she can't ever get a cutie mark. Other ponies that Apple Bloom and her friends have helped include Bulk Biceps, Petunia Paleo, Chipcutter, and Zipporwhill.

Apple Bloom states in Forever Filly, "Helpin' ponies is just about my favorite thing to do." In The Perfect Pear, it is revealed that Apple Bloom inherited her love of helping others realize their special talents from her mother Pear Butter. Apple Bloom's cutie mark has an apple with a heart in it.

# **Sweetie Belle**

True to her name, Sweetie Belle is very kindhearted and innocent. Despite this, she is often mischievous, vain, naive, and impetuous.​ However, Sweetie Belle remains positive and well-meaning in times of crisis, especially if she is responsible. In The Show Stoppers, Apple Bloom describes Sweetie Belle's voice as "totally awesome". When the Crusaders are about to go onstage for their performance, Twilight Sparkle is surprised to learn that Sweetie Belle does not have a singing role. However, Sweetie Belle says that she dislikes the idea of singing in front of a crowd. Sweetie Belle's showmanship and powerful voice overpower those of Fluttershy in Stare Master when Sweetie Belle turns Fluttershy's lullaby into a lively gospel-style song. In Hearts and Hooves Day, she leads the The Perfect Stallion song. In Sleepless in Ponyville, when singing the campfire song *99 Buckets of Oats On the Wall* after Scootaloo suggests it in order to stay awake and avoid having nightmares, she sings terribly. In Bloom & Gloom, she dreams that she is about to sing on stage.

In Crusaders of the Lost Mark, Sweetie Belle receives her cutie mark, which has a star with a musical note in it, reflecting her singing voice.

# **Scootaloo**

Scootaloo is energetic and tomboyish, much like her idol Rainbow Dash. She complains about having to listen to "sappy" and "namby-pamby" stories in The Cutie Mark Chronicles. However, like the other Crusaders, she finds Big McIntosh and Cheerilee's romance charming in Hearts and Hooves Day. Although brash and spunky, she is skittish and self-conscious in Sleepless in Ponyville. But Scootaloo does have a friendly side and a kind, caring and forgiving heart, and she does look up to her fellow crusaders.

Scootaloo still hasn't been able to master flying. In Ponyville Confidential, she flaps her wings to no avail when she falls out of a tree. Despite her limited flying skills, she is able to masterfully use her wings for propulsion and various stunts on her scooter. Scootaloo performs various skating tricks in The Show Stoppers, such as jumping off a ramp over an awe-struck crowd, doing a 360 and a tailwhip, and passing her scooter underneath a branch while she jumps over the branch and back onto her scooter. In The Show Stoppers and The Cutie Mark Chronicles, she uses her wings to pull loaded wagons with little trouble. Scootaloo hovers along the ground while talking about Rainbow Dash in The Cutie Mark Chronicles. By One Bad Apple, Scootaloo shows some improvement in her capabilities and can hover slightly higher and for a longer period of time than in previous episodes.

There is a running gag throughout the series that the other members of the Cutie Mark Crusaders tend to tease Scootaloo by referring to her as a type of flightless bird: A chicken in Stare Master, and a dodo in The Return of Harmony Part 1. Scootaloo tends to react rather defensively to this.

Flight to the Finish heavily centers in on Scootaloo's inability to fly. She becomes obsessed with her difficulties flying, and feels that it makes her unqualified to represent the Pegasi of Ponyville in the flag-carrying ceremony for the Equestria Games. She specifically identifies her relatively small wings compared to her body size as the cause of her inability, something she admits is unusual for a Pegasus her age, and expresses her fear that they will never grow and she will never be able to fly. However Rainbow Dash tells Scootaloo that this is not as important as she thinks and that, regardless of whether she'll fly or not, she's still special in her own way. Scootaloo is thus inspired to tow her two friends to the Crystal Empire using her wing-propelled scooter, and they are chosen to represent Ponyville as its flag carriers. In Bloom & Gloom, when Scootaloo discovers she is still dreaming, she flies around the clubhouse perfectly. In Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep?, she flies in a dream once again, giving herself giant wings.

In On Your Marks, Scootaloo takes up bungee jumping, which she claims to like more than scooting.

In Parental Glideance, with the help of Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo travels to Cloudsdale through the use of her scooter, a giant slingshot and a steep wooden ramp.

After briefly becoming a seapony in Surf and/or Turf, Scootaloo deeply enjoys swimming in the ocean, believing it is what flying must be like.

Despite becoming a full-grown pony thanks to a magical artefact in Growing Up is Hard to Do, Scootaloo never once tries to fly. She still uses her scooter for travelling, but finds it in danger of breaking under the extra weight.

One of Lauren Faust's security personnel in BronyCon 2012 stated that in his conversations with Faust she said Scootaloo was originally intended to be handicapped and would never be able to learn to fly; he said Faust conceived a story that would have played out over three episodes throughout the first two seasons, in which Scootaloo learns that her worth is defined by her talents and not by what she cannot do. Earlier, Faust stated that there is "no reason" Scootaloo can't fly and that "she just hasn't figured it out yet".

Scootaloo's cutie mark has a wing with a lightning bolt in it.

# **Babs Seed**

## Quotes

### **Apple Bloom:**

"*Aren't you gonna stay for brunch?*"
— Friendship is Magic, part 1
"*[under breath] I* am *a big pony!*"
— Bridle Gossip
"*But I don't want one eventually! I want one right now!*"
— Call of the Cutie
"*YOU TOUCH IT, YOU BUY IT! We take cash or credit.*"
— Call of the Cutie
"*I really don't see how that's supposed to make me feel better. It probably means that being last one in your class to get a cutie mark runs in the family. Runs in the family... Runs in the family! Runs in the family! You got apples for your cutie mark... Granny Smith has an apple pie... Big McIntosh has an apple half... My unique talent has something to do with apples! Apples! Apples! Apples!*"
— Call of the Cutie
"*There's a cute-ceañera this afternoon and everypony in my class will be there and they'll all have their cutie marks and I wanna get my cutie mark but I'm no good at sellin' apples but I really wanna go to the party but how can I go to the party if I don't have my cutie mark which my big sister says I'm gonna get eventually but... I want it now!*"
— Call of the Cutie
"*Likely story. Four bits, lady!*"
— Call of the Cutie
"*[inhales] Tiara's Cute-ceañera is today and everypony in my class will be there and they'll all have cutie marks and I wanna get my cutie mark but I'm no good at selling apples or sports or making cupcakes but I wanna go to the party but how can I go to the party if I don't have my cutie mark which Pinkie Pie says I can't just make appear but I need it to appear... right nooooow!*"
— Call of the Cutie
"*How could I've forgotten the time? How could I forgot Pinkie Pie was hosting the party? How could I forgotten it was at Sugarcube Corner?!*"
— Call of the Cutie
"*You don't have cutie marks either? I thought I was the only one.*"
— Meeting Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo in Call of the Cutie
"*I know! We could be Cutie Mark Crusader carpenters!*"
— Stare Master
"*Somepony needs to put this thing out of its misery.*"
— Stare Master
"*How are we gonna find our special talent in our sleep?*"
— Stare Master
"*You're just chicken!*"
— Stare Master
"*Oh, wait, now I know how to call a chicken! Scootaloo! Scoot-scootalooooo!*"
— Stare Master
"*You also forgot how to call a chicken! [blows a raspberry]*"
— Stare Master
"*Maybe that's our special talent. Arguin'!*"
— Stare Master
"*You know, ponies only have four legs.*"
— The Show Stoppers
"*Yeah! Uncouth? [burps] Wait. What's uncouth?*"
— Sisterhooves Social
"*One. Day. Good luck!*"
— Sisterhooves Social
"*Help me!*"
— The Cutie Pox
"*Sacrebleu!! Plus de marque de cutie! Qu'est-ce que c'est?! Je parle français?*"
— The Cutie Pox
"*Wait a minute, let me get this straight. Are you talkin' about my brother?*"
— Hearts and Hooves Day
"*Apple Bloom: When ah tell Applejack-* *Babs Seed: You gonna tell Applejack what?* *Apple Bloom: W-well, y'know, uh...Babs Seed: What're you, a snitch?*"
— One Bad Apple
"*Maybe we'll get our cutie marks in stupidest ideas of all time.*"
— One Bad Apple
"*Well... Applejack and I are supposed to be campin' up at Winsome Falls this weekend. Maybe I could get my big sis to invite Rainbow Dash, and then you could come, too!*"
— Sleepless in Ponyville
"*Applejack, I haven't had any time with Babs! We were so busy with that obstacle course, we didn't even get to talk!*"
— Apple Family Reunion
"*Alright, let's get to it!*"
— Apple Family Reunion
"*But wait! How're we gonna take good care of them without treats for when they're good?*"
— Just for Sidekicks
"*There is no way, no how, we're coming all the way to the Crystal Empire without lookin' around!*"
— Just for Sidekicks
"*Don't make me use this!*"
— Just for Sidekicks
"*Who's got the map? I got the map! M to the A to the yeah, that's right, P Ain't no other pony found a map like me I'm Applel — Uh-oh.*"
— Pinkie Apple Pie
"*I accept your decision.*"
— Somepony to Watch Over Me
"*I must be the only pony in the universe this worried about her cutie mark.*"
— Bloom and Gloom
"*99 Buckets of Oats On the Wall*This can't be happening! *Your extreme awesomeness is backfiring on me!*"
— Brotherhooves Social
"*Well, one thing is for sure. The Cutie Mark Crusaders will never be the same. We'll be better!*"
— On Your Marks
"*Findin' you and learnin' all about Mom and Dad, I feel like I found a piece of me I didn't even know was missin'.*"
— The Perfect Pear
"*I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M GONNA HAVE A SISTER-IN-LAW!*"
— Referring to Sugar Belle, The Big Mac Question

### **Sweetie Belle:**

"*She could be a great scientist, or an amazing artist, or a famous writer. She could even be mayor of Ponyville some day.*"
— Referring to Apple Bloom's potential to get a cutie mark in Call of the Cutie
"*Halt, dangerous creature from the Everfree Forest. I am Sweetie Belle, the creature catcher, and I'm here to catch you!*"
— Stare Master
"*It's not chaos, you dodo!*"
— The Return of Harmony Part 1
"*I really like her mane!*"
— Lesson Zero
"*We're gonna have the bestest time two sisters could ever have!*"
— Sisterhooves Social
"*Oh hello, un-SISTER!*"
— Sisterhooves Social
"*You're making grape juice? Rarity would call the fashion police on me if I got grape juice anywhere near her precious outfits!*"
— Sisterhooves Social
"*Oh, COME ON!*"
— Hearts and Hooves Day
"*I... don't suppose we could borrow that book for a little while, do ya?*"
— Hearts and Hooves Day
"*If we can write a few more of these Gabby Gums columns, we'll earn our cutie marks for sure!*"
— Ponyville Confidential
"*Ooh... why does life have to be so ironic?!*"
— One Bad Apple
"*I'm in crystal heaven!*"
— Just for Sidekicks
"*Relax. I got this.*"
— Twilight Time
"*Is it weird that I feel bad for her?*"
— About Diamond Tiara in Crusaders of the Lost Mark
"*I don't think Rarity would let me travel to the far reaches of Equestria for cutie mark problems.*"
— On Your Marks

### **Scootaloo:**

"*I said, you got a problem with blank flanks?*"
— Call of the Cutie
"*It means she could be great at anything. The possibilities are, like, endless.*"
— Call of the Cutie
"*No matter what we try, we always end up without our cutie marks. And, surprisingly often, covered in tree sap.*"
— The Cutie Mark Chronicles
"*What are you, a dictionary?*"
— The Return of Harmony Part 1 and Family Appreciation Day
"*I'm so, so sorry, Rainbow Dash! I just wanted you to hang out with me and see how cool I was so you'd take me under your wing, teach me everything you know, and become like my big sister!*"
— Sleepless in Ponyville
"*So what if my wings can't get me off the ground?*"
— Flight to the Finish
"*Winners or not, we still have the chance to be awesome!*"
— Equestria Games
"*I don't care if I* ever *get my cutie mark as long as I get to hang out with my best friends.*"
— Crusaders of the Lost Mark
"*And trying new stuff might even make us better at helping them, like how I used my bungee jumping to change the sets!*"
— On Your Marks
"*Growing up, I never thought I'd be the best at anything, because nopony ever told me. But your parents told you over and over again.*"
— Parental Glideance
"*You know, Rainbow Dash was right. Eavesdropping on your own fan club isn't weird at all.*"
— The Washouts