Rarity

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* Future
* Unicorn
* Filly
 **Occupation** | Fashion designerShopkeeperSeamstressPony Tones soprano singerSchool of Friendship generosity teacher ("School Daze" onward)Council of Friendship member ("The Last Problem")Template:H:title Summer Mentor Program mentor to Charity Sweetmint (*Rarity and the Curious Case of Charity*)

**Rarity** is a female unicorn pony and one of the main characters of *My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic*. She is Sweetie Belle's older sister and the subject of Spike's long-term crush. Rarity works as both a fashion designer and a seamstress at her own shop in Ponyville, the Carousel Boutique. She has a white Persian cat named Opalescence. She represents the element of generosity.

## Design

Rarity's eye design is less frequently used than most other designs. Lotus Blossom and Aloe share the same eye design as Rarity, including color, shape and design of upper and lower eyelashes. During running sequences, Lemon Hearts has the same eye shape as Rarity as well. In "The Best Night Ever", Rarity puts fake eyelashes on before going to the Grand Galloping Gala. She is seen wearing fake eyelashes again in "MMMystery on the Friendship Express" while being interrogated by Twilight Sparkle.

## Depiction in the Series

### History

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In "Sweet and Elite", Rarity states she was born in Ponyville. During "The Cutie Mark Chronicles", Rarity retells her story of her life as a filly to the Cutie Mark Crusaders. The flashback starts on an outdoor theater near the Ponyville Schoolhouse, where some fillies are practicing for a school play, dressed as various foods. The teacher compliments Rarity on her costume design, but the perfectionist Rarity insists that the dresses don't meet her expectations and tries to create new ones to no avail. Almost immediately, a light ignites in her horn, and it drags Rarity leftward until she stumbles into a very large, geode-like boulder. Rarity, having thought her horn would help her find "[her] destiny", is deeply unsatisfied. Then, Rainbow Dash's sonic rainboom occurs, causing the boulder to split in two, revealing it to be filled with gemstones. Rarity decides to add these to the existing costumes to jazz them up, earning both the admiration of the crowd and her cutie mark.

Rarity is responsible for the décor during the Summer Sun Celebration. When she sees what Rainbow Dash accidentally did to Twilight Sparkle's hair, she is compelled to give the latter a makeover. She also develops a fascination with Twilight when she hears she is from Canterlot. Twilight flees the Carousel Boutique in fear of the thought of Rarity dying her coat a new color.

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Rarity daydreams in "The Ticket Master" about meeting Princess Celestia's dashing "nephew" at the Grand Galloping Gala, with her fantasy culminating in marriage and induction into royalty. Upon attending the Gala in "The Best Night Ever", she spots a stallion, depicted with the same character design as the one in her fantasy, who is identified as Prince Blueblood. Although handsome and initially charming, Blueblood turns out to be conceited, rude, and narrow-minded. He expects Rarity to care for him while doing nothing in return. Rarity tries to be patient with the prince's manner, but his selfish ways finally exhaust her patience when Blueblood uses her as a shield from an incoming cake. She then angrily declares him to be "a royal pain" and splatters frosting all over him.

#### Sweetie Belle

Sweetie Belle is introduced as Rarity's little sister in "Stare Master". Her clumsiness, paired with an insistent willingness to help, tests Rarity's patience and she eventually asks Sweetie Belle to let her work in peace. Sweetie Belle "borrows" important supplies from Rarity in Stare Master and "The Show Stoppers", using her most expensive fabrics to make amateurishly-stitched costumes for her friends. Even though Sweetie's eagerness to help often unintentionally causes messes, she and Rarity truly do love and care for each other. At the end of "Sisterhooves Social", they agree to embrace and love each other's differences and send a letter to Celestia describing how being sisters is mainly about having fun, but that it also requires compromises and work to keep a strong relationship.

In "Sleepless in Ponyville", Sweetie Belle invites Rarity to go on a camping trip with Apple Bloom, Applejack, Scootaloo and Rainbow Dash. Rarity refuses at first, since she does not usually enjoy being around nature, but she reluctantly agrees to go after seeing some disappointed faces made by Sweetie. Though Rarity is not necessarily mean towards Sweetie Belle, she makes her carry all of her luggage on the trip and wait on her after they set up camp. Later, Rarity shows compassion towards Sweetie Belle, such as letting Scootaloo carry her luggage in order to give Sweetie Belle a rest, comforting her when she's frightened by Rainbow Dash's ghost stories, and happily racing with her at the end of the episode.

#### Parents

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In "Sisterhooves Social", Rarity and Sweetie Belle's parents, Hondo Flanks and Cookie Crumbles, make a brief appearance. The two have a mid-American accent and are carefree, with personalities that are vastly different from Rarity's.

#### Opalescence

Rarity has a cat named Opalescence, who is supportive in "Suited For Success". In "Stare Master", however, Rarity seems to have trouble with the cat and asks for Fluttershy's assistance. In "The Best Night Ever", Opalescence scares away the mice that Twilight Sparkle had turned into horses to pull their carriage to the Gala. Opal makes her first season two appearance when Rarity dresses her with her shrunken wool sweater in "Sisterhooves Social". Her next appearance is in "May the Best Pet Win!", where she is shown as one of the trials for Rainbow Dash's potential pets. She appears again in "Sweet and Elite", accompanying Rarity on her trip to Canterlot where she tries to remind Rarity to work on Twilight's new birthday dress when Rarity becomes too caught up in social obligations. When her friends come to her suite at the castle, Rarity quickly douses Opal in water to support her made-up excuse she gave as to why she couldn't make it to Ponyville for Twilight's birthday, much to Opal's dismay.

#### Spike

Spike develops a crush on Rarity the moment he sees her in "Friendship is Magic", calling her "beautiful". He admits to having a crush on Rarity in "Green Isn't Your Color" and is seen wearing a shirt that has a picture of Rarity superimposed on a heart. In "Owl's Well That Ends Well", Rarity calls Spike "simply amazing" and gives him a bow tie laden with jewels.

Spike and Rarity's relationship becomes stronger in later episodes. In "Secret of My Excess", Spike generously gives Rarity a fire ruby that she covets. In gratitude, she kisses him on the cheek and calls him "Spikey-wikey." During Spike's birthday party, they affectionately rub their cheeks together. Later in the episode, when Spike returns to normal after growing into a monstrous dragon and he and Rarity plummet to the ground, Spike very nearly confesses his feelings for her, but Rarity stops him mid-sentence and gives a teary smile at him, and Spike smiles back. After they are rescued by Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash, Rarity calls Spike her hero and kisses him on the cheek again.

Rarity shows a more caring and sensitive side towards Spike in "Dragon Quest" and still calls him "Spikey-wikey." She stands up for him when Applejack, Pinkie Pie, and Rainbow Dash pick on him and when Spike decides to join the dragon migration, Rarity tries to change his mind, telling him that she doesn't want him to get hurt by the other dragons. Later, she even threatens to hurt the older dragons if they harm Spike.

In "Simple Ways", Spike helps Rarity in her attempts to win the heart of Trenderhoof, despite his own feelings for her.

### Personality

#### Love of Beauty

When Rarity meets Twilight Sparkle for the first time, she is busy decorating Ponyville's pavilion for the Summer Sun Celebration. As soon as Rarity turns to look at Twilight, she expresses concern for Twilight's messy mane and practically forces on her the first of many makeovers while the besotted Spike looks on.

Rarity cares for her own beauty as well. She tries to show up Trixie in "Boast Busters" by making herself a dress from Trixie's curtain, but Trixie retaliates by ruining Rarity's mane, making her burst into tears and run away. Rarity is also particular about her cleanliness: she panics while trying to avoid getting muddy in "Look Before You Sleep" and tries to keep herself from getting soaked in the rain to avoid it messing up her mane. This causes some conflict with her friend Applejack, who is, by contrast, not at all bothered about getting muddy or wet. Her fashion consciousness extends even to times of peril: in "Dragonshy", she wears a scarf on the way to the dragon's lair, wondering if she should carry a tiara to match. She indulges in a full spa treatment with Fluttershy in "Green Isn't Your Color" as part of their "weekly get-together", and she puts on eyelash extensions as part of her gala preparations in "The Best Night Ever". In "MMMystery on the Friendship Express", she wears false eyelashes, and in the latter part of the episode, she wears her hair in such a way to prevent this becoming known to her friends, having lost one of them while trying to make her escape from Pinkie Pie.

In "Campfire Tales", Rarity also accentuates the value of inner beauty, as showcased in her story about Mistmane, who gave up her own beauty to save her friend and dedicated her life to spreading beauty across Equestria. When her mane gets ruined in "It Isn't the Mane Thing About You", Rarity falls into a state of depression, but when her friends remind her of all she has accomplished, she brings her own inner beauty to the surface with a brand new look that becomes popular and inspires a new fashion trend.

#### Center of Attention

Rarity expresses admiration of Fluttershy's grace and poise during "Green Isn't Your Color" and implores Fluttershy to model her clothing despite the fact that Fluttershy doesn't enjoy putting herself in front of others and only asks her because Photo Finish is scheduled to come photograph her work. When Rarity loses the spotlight to Fluttershy, she attempts to overcome her envy and remain very supportive of Fluttershy. However, the same could be said of Rainbow Dash and Rarity in "Sonic Rainboom". After Rainbow Dash expresses disappointment that the others would not be able to go to Cloudsdale to cheer her on in the Best Young Flyer competition, Rarity insists that they all find a way to go there and support her, and has Twilight test a spell on her that would allow her to fly in Cloudsdale. Rarity gains a lovely pair of butterfly-like wings thanks to this spell, but she steals the spotlight, showing them off to everyone and even entering the competition herself, sending Rainbow Dash into a nervous breakdown. Rarity eventually falls from the sky after burning her wings from flying too close to the sun, much like Icarus of Greek legend. Rainbow Dash spots Rarity as she falls and flies to save her, performing a sonic rainboom in the process. Rarity later apologizes to Rainbow Dash for her behavior and calls her the greatest flier in Equestria.

#### Mannerisms

Rarity sometimes gets carried away with her attention to detail. In "Look Before You Sleep", she has difficulty tearing herself away from fixing a messy bookcase despite the much bigger problem of a tree that crashed into Twilight Sparkle's bedroom.

Rarity shows herself to be tough and resourceful in dealing with the Diamond Dogs in "A Dog and Pony Show". Even though the others are worried she would panic over how dirty the underground was, Rarity takes control of the situation quite well, manipulating the Diamond Dogs into releasing her and even letting her have several carts full of gems. Rarity's prim ways and aversion to disorder and dirt clashes with Applejack's brashness in "Look Before You Sleep". They bicker throughout the episode about each other's attitude, but they finally unite in the face of adversity when a tree crashes into Twilight's library. They work together and eventually come to enjoy the company of one another, which becomes more apparent in later episodes. In "Over a Barrel", Rarity is baffled at the level of care Applejack bestows on Bloomberg, an apple tree being taken to Appleloosa for planting. Rarity complains that the tree received a private coach; however, Applejack takes this in stride and takes no offense at Rarity's complaints. Rarity later provides Applejack with much-appreciated support in their attempts to protect Appleloosa from a buffalo stampede. Rarity even comes to compliment Applejack's manners when she doesn't charge Rarity for food from her stand at the Grand Galloping Gala in "The Best Night Ever".

#### Generosity

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While Rarity cares about her appearance quite a bit, being averse to stepping in mud or risking getting herself messy, she is not above getting her hooves dirty when it comes to helping her friends or creatures in need. She slices off her own tail to calm down the sea serpent in "Friendship is Magic, part 2", willing to sacrifice her beauty to help restore the distressed serpent's "fabulosity". This action earns her the element of generosity, and later, when she activates the element, her tail is restored.

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Rarity is hypnotized by Discord into believing a large boulder is actually a giant diamond in "The Return of Harmony Part 1". For a short moment she resists the temptation, but soon she becomes brainwashed, obsessively protecting her "diamond" and refusing to let anybody near it, as she becomes possessive and greedy. This continues in "The Return of Harmony Part 2", where she refuses to part with the boulder and names it Tom, while additionally hoarding other items she sees as valuable, such as the jewelry of the Elements of Harmony themselves. After the brainwashing is cured, she throws the boulder away and tells her friends to "never speak of this again" in a hushed but assertive whisper.

In "Sisterhooves Social", Applejack mentions to Rarity that sisterhood is a give-and-take relationship that requires compromise. To this end, Rarity takes part in the Sisterhooves Social with Sweetie Belle while disguised as Applejack.

Rarity's generosity is a major plot point of "Rarity Takes Manehattan". The unscrupulous fashion designer Suri Polomare uses it against her by asking for some of the unique material Rarity made to "accentuate" her own dresses. Instead, Suri uses the material to copy Rarity's designs. Rarity beats Suri in the end, and pledges not to let the experience sour her on being generous in the future.

In *My Little Pony: The Movie*, Rarity extends her generosity to Capper when she fixes up and adds gold buttons to his coat, causing him to reconsider his con artist lifestyle and help her and her friends by throwing Tempest Shadow off their trail.

### Career

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Rarity's work ethic and dedication to her customers is depicted in "Suited For Success". She initially sews dresses of her own design for her friends, but when they're not satisfied with the result, she sews them brand new dresses under their direction. Rarity stresses herself into making a new set of dresses the way her friends want them, going as far as following all their instructions instead of her own instincts. She is unhappy with the results, even though her friends are very satisfied. When these dresses are devastatingly criticized by "the bigwig fashion hotshot" Hoity Toity, she locks herself in her room, lamenting her ruined career; luckily for her, her friends are able to convince Hoity Toity to hold another fashion show, this time with the original dresses.

In the episode "A Dog and Pony Show", the pony pop sensation Sapphire Shores visits Rarity's boutique. She claims that she makes "it a point to know all of the up-and-coming designers", and "Clothes Horse magazine simply raved about [Rarity]."

She designs the wedding dress for Princess Cadance and the bridesmaid dresses for herself and her friends in "A Canterlot Wedding".

In "Rarity Takes Manehattan", Rarity places first at a fashion show hosted by Prim Hemline as part of Manehattan's Fashion Week, despite the machinations of fellow designer Suri Polomare. She manages to wow the crowd with a fashion line made only from fabrics in the Mane Six's hotel room, created with her friends' help in less than a day.

In "For Whom the Sweetie Belle Toils", Rarity regularly designs for Sapphire Shores.

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Twilight Sparkle says in Canterlot Boutique that Rarity designing for Sapphire Shores' Equestria-wide tour led to the opening of Canterlot Carousel. At the end of the episode, Rarity lets her former fashion connoisseur Sassy Saddles manage Canterlot Carousel while she manages Carousel Boutique on the grounds that Sassy Saddles has learned Rarity's entrepreneur ways. Rarity states that her guidelines are only to be applied in Canterlot Carousel.

In "The Gift of the Maud Pie", Rarity expresses her desire to open up a new boutique in Manehattan, which she will call "Rarity For You." The opening of her Manehattan boutique is depicted in flashbacks during "The Saddle Row Review", which turns out to be a huge success despite several obstacles and disasters.

### Skills

#### Magic

As a unicorn, Rarity performs magic. While it may not be up to the standards of Twilight Sparkle, she uses it in connection with making things "fabulous", like gem-finding, dressmaking, and topiary art. She magically attaches her sheared tail hair to Steven Magnet's mustache in "Friendship is Magic", and she also reattaches a large branch to a tree in "Look Before You Sleep" and magically trims its foliage into topiaries. She puts on an impressive light display for the fashion show she holds for Hoity Toity in "Suited For Success". She uses sewing and cutting tools through telekinesis with the precision needed to make her dresses, manipulating multiple items at once.

Rarity also uses her magic to expose underground gems, which is a major plot point in the episode "A Dog and Pony Show". Twilight copies this spell in the same episode; Spike says that Twilight "can copy Rarity's gem-finding spell," and Twilight says that "Rarity showed [her] how she did it a while back." Unlike Twilight, who had to learn it, Rarity's gem-finding ability developed on its own: her story in "The Cutie Mark Chronicles" shows this ability activating by itself without her knowingly casting a spell. This spell does not come up again until "Gauntlet of Fire", in which Rarity and Spike are on a gem hunt in a bat cave.

In "The Beginning of the End", she uses her magic to blast away vines in the Everfree Forest with Twilight. In "The Ending of the End", she creates a hexagonal shield and combines her magic with Spike's fire breath to counter Queen Chrysalis' magic.

#### Close Combat

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Despite Rarity's delicate nature and formal personality, she shows a propensity for brute force. Like the other ponies, Rarity gets into physical conflicts throughout the series: she delivers a kick to the manticore's face in "Friendship is Magic", knocks away Twilight Sparkle with a whip of her flank in "Sonic Rainboom", and delivers a flying kick with a martial arts stance to Applejack with a karate yell in "The Return of Harmony". In "Dragon Quest", she threatens the teenage dragons, viciously telling them that she will "rip [them] to pieces" if they try to hurt Spike. Additionally, she knocks Soarin', Spitfire, and Misty Fly unconscious in mid-air while falling in "Sonic Rainboom", though the kicks were part of her violent thrashing as she fell through the air, and in "Ponyville Confidential", she kicks open the door to her bedroom in order to confront Sweetie Belle. She defeats several changelings using various hoof-to-hoof combat moves in "A Canterlot Wedding".

#### Feminine Charms

Rarity has a talent for charming male ponies to help her and her friends.

In "The Best Night Ever", she talks two stallions, Caramel and Lucky Clover, into pulling the carriage to take her and her friends to the Grand Galloping Gala.

In "Putting Your Hoof Down", she sweet-talks another, Gizmo, into selling her his piece of asparagus, which Fluttershy needs for Angel's salad.

In "Castle Sweet Castle", Rarity convinces Spike to keep Twilight Sparkle from coming back to the Castle of Friendship.

In "Rarity Investigates", Sassy Saddles says that Rarity can sweet talk a filly out of candy after Rarity coaxes Package Deal, a delivery stallion, into making an extra delivery.

## Depiction in *My Little Pony: The Movie*

In *My Little Pony: The Movie*, Rarity is in charge of decorations for the Festival of Friendship in Canterlot. When the city is invaded by the Storm King's forces, led by Tempest Shadow, Rarity and her friends escape to seek out the "Queen of the Hippos", later specified to be Queen Novo of the Hippogriffs, for help. During their journey, they are nearly sold into slavery by Capper, but Rarity's generosity makes him reform, and they are nearly thrown overboard Captain Celaeno's airship. In the underwater kingdom of Seaquestria, Rarity and her friends almost convince Novo to help them save their home from the Storm King, but Twilight Sparkle's attempted theft of Novo's Pearl of Transformation gets them banished from Seaquestria.

Rarity and the rest of the Mane Six have a falling-out with Twilight over her actions, but they—along with other friends they made during their journey—return to Canterlot to rescue her when she gets captured by Tempest. After sneaking into the city and fighting past the Storm King's forces during which she and Capper defeat several Storm Guards by tying them up with fabric, the Mane Six reunite and make amends, and they eventually succeed in defeating the Storm King. In the end, the Friendship Festival resumes, and Rarity and her friends befriend Tempest.

## Depiction in the Comics

An alternate universe version of Rarity appears in the *My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic* Issue #20 "Reflections" mini-comic "Elsewhere in alternate Equestria..." She adopts the wrestling persona **Diamante Elegante** in a tag-team wrestling match with Cheerilee.

In "Ponies of Dark Water", Rarity falls under the influence of a hot spring's dark magic and turns evil. She hides her perceived imperfections behind a cloak and mask, and she believes she is more fit to rule Ponyville than Twilight Sparkle. An alternate universe version of this Rarity appears on *Nightmare Knights* Issue #1 page 12.

In *My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic* Issue #64, Rarity accompanies Fluttershy to Manehattan and discovers that old fashions are making a comeback. Initially worried that her new ideas can't compete, Rarity decides after a talk with Fluttershy to create a fashion line that combines elements of the old and the new.

In *My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic* Issue #82, Rarity is tasked by Princess Celestia to give Cerberus obedience training. In *My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic* Issue #89, Rarity chooses Big McIntosh, Maud Pie, and Mage Meadowbrook to join her on a friendship mission to the hidden kingdom of the Diamond Dogs. In *My Little Pony Annual 2021*, the group arrives in Caninia, having been invited to two separate castles. Upon learning of the feud between the royal sisters, Rarity and her group offers to help them. This leads to the discovery of another Tree of Harmony, with the reconciled sisters being the bearers of Caninia's Elements of Harmony. After the sisters use their newfound magic to save their kingdom, Rarity writes a letter to Twilight informing her of these events.

## Other Depictions

### Hasbro Description

"Rarity could possibly be the most beautiful pony you've ever seen. As she prances down the street, her coat gleaming pure white and her royal purple curls bouncing, everypony's head is turning--- and boy does she love it! A talented fashion-designer, her biggest dream is to one day design for Princess Celestia. At first glance she may seem like a typical [debutante], vain and entitled, but it's simply not so! Generous to a fault, she's believes so badly that the world should be beautiful she's all too eager to simply give away the designs she's worked so hard on and to offer anypony a custom Rarity makeover. And should you make it through one; you'll learn that Rarity's greatest beauty is her heart."

### Hub Network Description

"With her gleaming white coat and royal purple curls, Rarity is the most beautiful unicorn in Ponyville. And she knows it. After all, heads turn when she prances down the street. A talented fashion designer, Rarity loves to give the other ponies makeovers, and her dream is to design for Princess Celestia."

### Teacher for a Day Description

"She dreams of one day designing a beautiful dress for Princess Celestia! Until then, she continues to prance around Ponyville like the belle of the ball."

### *Rarity and the Curious Case of Charity*

In the chapter book *Rarity and the Curious Case of Charity*, when Spike displays infatuation toward Charity Sweetmint and Charity likewise dotes on him, Rarity shows signs of jealousy, especially when Charity addresses him as "Spikey-Wikey".

## Appearances

See also: Character appearances

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## References

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