Rainbow Dash first appears in Friendship is Magic, part 1, where she accidentally crashes into Twilight Sparkle sending her into a mud puddle. They briefly get to know each other, arco iris Dash tells Twilight about her adoration for The Wonderbolts, and Dash later joins Twilight and the other ponies in Friendship is Magic, part 2 on the quest for the Elements of Harmony. Just as the ponies are about to reach the castillo where the Elements are located, Nightmare Moon takes the form of The Shadowbolts, doppelgangers of arco iris Dash's personal heroes, The Wonderbolts. They solicit arco iris Dash into joining their ranks and abandoning her companions, but arco iris Dash remains loyal to her friends and declines their offer, which earns her the element of loyalty.
Dash's loyalty is put to the test in The Return of Harmony Part 1 and Part 2. She and her friends have to solve Discord's riddle and play por his rules to regain the Elements. During their mission, Dash falls victim to Discord's manipulation after he tells her that her inicial will crumble without her, and shows her a vision of Cloudsdale crumbling. Under Discord's influence, she abandons her friends to "save" a nube she believes to be Cloudsdale. Right before aguardiente de manzana, applejack spots Dash flying away, Twilight Sparkle reassures herself por saying Dash won't let them down, but then watches in disbelief as Dash speeds off. Discord reveals himself and informs other ponies that they have been disqualified, as one of his rules stated that if one of the ponies leaves, the game is over.
The following episode, when Twilight sets about finding her friends to undo what Discord had done to them with a "memory spell", arco iris Dash dismisses Twilight's plight with "loyalty shmoyalty". Since she won't come close enough to Twilight for the spell to be performed, the ponies must combine their efforts to catch her and bring her to the ground. Her first words after her corruption is undone is "How's Ponyville? Where are the Elements? Did we stop Discord?" With Dash por their side again, the ponies wield the Elements of Harmony and defeat Discord with their magic.
arco iris Dash is the last of the main ponies to have a pet introduced in the series, only gaining her pet, Tank the tortoise, in the episode May the Best Pet Win! in the segundo season. While at first Dash looks down on Tank for not being as fast, agile, o "awesome" as her other prospective pets, she eventually picks him over the others for his loyalty: while all the other prospective pets hurried to the finish line and ignored Dash's calls for help, Tank rescues her por releasing her trapped wing from under a boulder. He carries her all the way to the finish line, and secures his place as her pet for being the only competitor that crossed the finish line with her, as she specified before the race.
Brashness and apparent laziness
arco iris Dash is very confident in her abilities, which is often construed por others as laziness. When Twilight Sparkle first meets Dash, she has none of her nube cleanup work done, and lies idly on a cloud, and puts off her work. Despite her apparent laziness, she performed her duty in "ten segundos flat", leaving Twilight wide-eyed at the sight. She languishes about in Griffon the Brush Off, The Cutie Pox, and Swarm of the Century, but springs into action in the last when she's needed to help deal with the parasprite infestation, and leaves off for duty when she's needed in the first. She is the leader of the weather team in Winter envolver, abrigo Up and she volunteers to go on important missions with her friends, so despite her apparent laziness she is a hard-working, contributing pony.
She proudly says in Boast Busters that she's better than the rest of the ponies, but laughs it off when aguardiente de manzana, applejack gives her a scornful look. She and aguardiente de manzana, applejack deride Twilight Sparkle in Fall Weather friends for being an "egghead" and not having any experience with running outside of what she read in her book. However, both of them admire her magic in Boast Busters and tell her they're proud of her.
arco iris Dash doesn't hide her annoyance at her friends' behavior. On the ponies' expedition in Dragonshy, arco iris Dash is short with Fluttershy throughout their journey, and in Sonic Rainboom she becomes so frustrated with Fluttershy's meek cheering that she does a pratfall. She begrudgingly lets Rarity give her a makeover in Swarm of the Century, and keeps an annoyed frown on her face in the process. When Twilight Sparkle tries to convince Rarity in Suited For Success that she's not a laughing stock, arco iris Dash rudely quips "she kind-of is". Like the other ponies' dresses, the dress she asked Rarity to make her is over the top, and it even includes a casco styled much like the one worn por The Rocketeer. However, she wears the dress Rarity originally designed for her with a smile on her face when Rarity is dado a segundo chance to redeem herself.
In Sonic Rainboom, her conversation with the bully pegasi implies she may have been kicked out of flight school for being lazy.
"It needs to be about 20% cooler."
— arco iris Dash, referring to her dress for the Gala
Competitiveness and athleticism
"And the only thing I liked más than flying fast...was winning!"
Dash describes her passion for winning in a flashback in The Cutie Mark Chronicles, and challenges other characters to competitions throughout the show. She races several times with her old friend Gilda in Griffon the Brush Off, and challenges aguardiente de manzana, applejack in a series of athletic competitions in Fall Weather Friends.
Despite arco iris Dash's competitiveness and confidence, she reacts poorly to failure, o even the possibility of failure. She gets upset over losing a simple game of horseshoes to Applejack, stating that she "hates losing". During the Iron poni, pony Competition, she resorts to using her wings in many of the contests, which aguardiente de manzana, applejack regards as cheating since she does not have wings herself. During the ensuing Running of the Leaves, she continues using underhanded tactics with her wings tied behind her back, and Applejack, fed up with what she considers to be foul play, returns it in kind. por the end of the episode, the duo's brawl ends up landing them in last place, leading them to apologize to each other.
arco iris Dash initially displays overwhelming bravado about her performance in the Best Young Flyer competition in Sonic Rainboom; however, when a winged Rarity arrives to redirect everypony's attention to herself, arco iris reveals she's terrified of making a fool of herself as she loses her cool, almost refuses to perform and messes up several of her routines.
She stages a competition for her potential pets in May the Best Pet Win!, which consists of tests of speed, agility, "guts", "coolness", "awesomeness", "radicalness", and a final race against her.
Mischievousness
In an effort to make the royal guards break their silence, arco iris Dash tries silly faces.
arco iris Dash tries to spook her friends when they venture into the Everfree Forest for the first time, claiming that no poni, pony has ever made it back out of the forest. Her reputation as a prankster is established in Griffon the Brush Off, where she and Pinkie Pie prank various ponies, and is further enforced in A Bird in the Hoof, when she tries to make the royal guards laugh.
She plays several pranks on her friend Gilda in Griffon the Brush Off, which were set up for Gilda's party but are not specifically aimed at her. For the majority of the time when Gilda is visiting Ponyville, arco iris Dash is unaware that the griffon is being callous and rude to the other ponies, but the pranks at the party get the best of Gilda, and she loses her temper in front of arco iris Dash. After witnessing this side of her personality, she calls her out on her behavior and sends her on her way. Dash uses a nube to create thunder and lightning to scare Spike in Griffon the Brush Off, as a prank. She does the same to Pinkie Pie and various other ponies in Luna Eclipsed while dressed as a Shadowbolt, laughing at the ponies she frightens. She tells Twilight Sparkle that "this is the best night of the año for pranks" and that "it's all in good fun". She then hurries off to scare another group of ponies, which she continues doing until Princess Luna decides to declare payback for all of the trouble she'd caused that night.
Skills
Flying and weather manipulation
The "rainblow dry".
arco iris Dash is a very accomplished flier, being fast and agile in the air. She speaks of her impressive and flashy aerial acrobatic maneuvers in The Ticket Master, which include: the "rainblow dry", which she uses to clean up Twilight Sparkle in the first episode; the "super speed strut"; the "fantastic filly flash"; and the"buccaneer blaze", which involve strutting while flying, a nose-dive and recovery that create a flash, and the creation of multiple bolts of lightning, respectively.
The seta nube from Lesson Zero.
She uses her flying skill to help aguardiente de manzana, applejack demolish a granero in Lesson Zero. She tears through the structure from all directions, and eventually dives into it from a great height, creating a colorful seta nube and a shock-wave greatly resembling the sonic rainboom that sends the rubble of the former granero flying onto Twilight and Applejack. This is the first stage of Twilight's mane getting messed up. Dash wears goggles throughout the destruction.
Agility!
She demonstrates her flight skills in May the Best Pet Win! to her potential pets: she zips straight up into the sky; flies to a far-away colina leaving a trail of rainbow-colored flames behind her; maneuvers in quick 90-degree turns between the pets while leaving a vertical rainbow-colored wake behind her; and swirls around a nube to create a poni, pony nube sculpture. Later in the episode she holds a final race to decide which pet she'll choose, and performs dangerous stunts like flying through giant bramble patches and dodging the bites of gigantic quarray eels.
arco iris Dash uses her weather-manipulation abilities several times. She clears the skies of Ponyville "in ten segundos flat" in the first episode, dispersing the clouds por kicking them. She leads water droplets out of a nube in Boast Busters, and creates a arco iris above her when the droplets splash against her. She teams up with other pegasus ponies in Winter envolver, abrigo Up to create a whirlwind that sucks away clouds and snow from Ponyville, and she creates a tornado to vacuum the parasprites in Swarm of the Century.
arco iris Dash's most venerated mover is the sonic rainboom, first depicted in the aptly-titled episode Sonic Rainboom. This is the segundo time in her life that she has performed the trick, the first being depicted in a later episode, The Cutie Mark Chronicles. Even though several ponies witness the sonic rainboom in The Cutie Mark Chronicles, the very same ponies consider the maneuver a myth in Sonic Rainboom. Near the end, Princess Celestia also admits that she is the best flier in Equestria.
History
Cutie mark
Dash, as a filly, in a pegasus race
arco iris Dash mentions in Call of the Cutie that she was the first in her class to get her cutie mark. She tells the Cutie Mark Crusaders in The Cutie Mark Chronicles the story of how she got her cutie mark. Her story is set in Junior Speedsters flight camp, where she defends Fluttershy from a pair of bullies, who refer to arco iris Dash as "Rainbow Crash". One of the bullies already have their cutie marks, but Dash and Fluttershy do not. Dash challenges the two bullies to a flying pegasus race, and in the ensuing contest she discovers her passion for speed and for "winning", in her words. Going through the race course, she performs her very first sonic rainboom, not only gaining her own cutie mark, but also inadvertently setting in motion the events that would cause Fluttershy and her future Ponyville friends to gain their own cutie marks. The Sonic Rainboom had then been known as her signature move.
The Cutie Mark Crusaders
Despite earning her cutie mark in an endeavor that came naturally to her, arco iris Dash advises manzana, apple Bloom to try out many different activities to gain her cutie mark in Call of the Cutie, leading the filly and her friends to pursue their cutie marks in the wrong avenues. When coaching manzana, apple Bloom in Call of the Cutie, arco iris Dash dons a sports headband, a whistle, and later a martial arts uniform with a black cinturón, correa when manzana, apple Bloom tries karate.
Scootaloo, the pegasus poni, pony of the Cutie Mark Crusaders, idolizes arco iris Dash. While manzana, apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle are the younger sisters of two ponies from the main cast, aguardiente de manzana, applejack and Rarity, respectively, Scootaloo is not related to arco iris Dash,[1] and "Rainbow Dash isn't the kind of character who would treat a younger sibling as well as younger siblings are expected to be treated in MLP".[2] arco iris Dash affectionately calls Scootaloo "squirt" in Owl's Well That Ends Well and The Mysterious Mare Do Well, and appears alongside Rarity and aguardiente de manzana, applejack to congratulate the Cutie Mark Crusaders for their performance during The mostrar Stoppers.
Ponyville
arco iris Dash manages the weather in Ponyville. She keeps the skies free of clouds for the Summer Sun Celebration, and apparently, unless the weekly rainfall is scheduled for that día of course, makes sure that Ponyville has nice weather, although in the opening of brida Gossip, Spike states that she rarely gets up early in the morning to get a start on it. She lives in a cloud-house near Ponyville, which has the same diseño elements as her hometown.
arco iris Dash is one of several ponies badgering Twilight for the extra ticket to the Grand Galloping Gala, in The Ticket Master. Her reason is a chance to audition for The Wonderbolts who would presumably perform there. She persists, even when Twilight calls her out on it, and when all her other friends say they don't need the ticket. The Wonderbolts do appear at the Gala in The Best Night Ever, although their performance is not shown, and they are only seen mingling with the guests in a VIP section.
Residence
arco iris Dash's inicial is shown in Griffon the Brush Off. She lives in a white cloud-house hanging low to the ground somewhere near Ponyville. It features classical columns and rainbow-colored streams and waterfalls. In Dragonshy, arco iris Dash uses one of these streams to make rainbow-colored facepaint. Her inicial is shown again in Party of One, with a slightly different diseño from the first.
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Dash's inicial in Griffon the Brush Off
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Dash's home, in Party of One
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Sonic rainboom
Main article: Sonic rainboom (event)
Filly arco iris Dash performs a sonic rainboom for the first time.
arco iris Dash practicing for a sonic rainboom.
arco iris Dash tries to perform a sonic rainboom once again in the episode Sonic Rainboom, this time in an effort to win the Best Young Fliers Competition. Fluttershy confides to her friends that arco iris Dash was unable to perform the mover in her many practice trials.
Nonetheless, arco iris Dash heads to Cloudsdale to participate in the competition, accompanied por Fluttershy as moral support. Much to their surprise, their wingless friends have decided to follow them with the aid of Twilight's cloud-walking spell, easing Rainbow's fears. However, Twilight had also dado Rarity beautiful wings, which led her to steal the spotlight. As a result, arco iris Dash loses her nerve and tries to delay her performance, but as the competition draws to a close, she decides that she perform anyway.
Dash messes up the fist two rounds of her performance, hitting an obstacle and accidentally sends a nube hurtling in the direction of Princess Celestia. Due to time constraints, Rarity performs alongside arco iris Dash, and delivers her grand finale, which involves flying up to the the sun and beaming her wings. However, her fragile wings, made of gossamer and morning dew, burst into flames, sending her plummeting towards the earth. The Wonderbolts try to save her, but Rarity kicks them on accident due to her falling down, and they are knocked out. arco iris Dash finally notices the goings-on and accelerates towards the plummeting ponies, saving both Rarity and the Wonderbolts and performing a sonic rainboom in the process. Rarity is incredibly grateful that Dash saved her life, and apologizes to her friend not minding her anxiety. arco iris Dash is crowned the winner of the competition and leaves off to spend the día with her heroes, The Wonderbolts.
The Sonic Rainboom couldn't be achieved at first in her trial runs with Fluttershy, because she only had one-hoof forward, instead of two , like how she completed the trick in Cloudsdale.
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Hasbro.com description
Capable and athletic, arco iris Dash lives for adventure! When any problem should arise that involves traveling to distant lands o dealing with a magical, mysterious beast, arco iris is the first to volunteer! Valiente and bold, anypony who has ever seen this rainbow-haired Pegasus in the air has been left in jaw-dropped awe of her speed, agility, and, well, her confidence. She's quite positive she's the fastest pegasus poni, pony alive, and truth be told, she probably is. Yes, she's a bit proud, and a bit mischievous, and often lazy for somepony obsessed with speed, but when the chips are down, and danger is a-brewing, arco iris Dash always, always comes through, proving time and time again that she is a true hero!
Hubworld description
arco iris Dash lives for adventure! Whenever there's a problem that involves danger, distant lands, and mysterious beasts, she's the first to help. She's bold. She's brave. She's also a bit proud and mischievous -- but wouldn't tu be too if tu were the fastest Pegasus around?
Teacher for a día description
arco iris Dash is her name and adventure is her game! A true hero, this rainbow-haired pegasus poni, pony is as fast as they come, flying through the air with jaw-dropping speed! Athletic, Valiente and confident, she is also a bit mischievous - and always first on the scene wherever danger is at hand. Whether traveling to distant lands o taking on mystery and magic, this pretty poni, pony is ready to fasten her seatbelt for the adventure of a lifetime!
My Little poni, pony magazine description
Sporty
Athletic
Adventurous
This little poni, pony lives for adventure! arco iris Dash is the first to volunteer for a dangerous task, the fasted poni, pony in Ponyville and a true poni, pony hero! arco iris Dash first appears in Friendship is Magic, part 1, where she accidentally crashes into Twilight Sparkle sending her into a mud puddle. They briefly get to know each other, arco iris Dash tells Twilight about her adoration for The Wonderbolts, and Dash later joins Twilight and the other ponies in Friendship is Magic, part 2 on the quest for the Elements of Harmony. Just as the ponies are about to reach the castillo where the Elements are located, Nightmare Moon takes the form of The Shadowbolts, doppelgangers of arco iris Dash's personal heroes, The Wonderbolts. They solicit arco iris Dash into joining their ranks and abandoning her companions, but arco iris Dash remains loyal to her friends and declines their offer, which earns her the element of loyalty.
Dash's loyalty is put to the test in The Return of Harmony Part 1 and Part 2. She and her friends have to solve Discord's riddle and play por his rules to regain the Elements. During their mission, Dash falls victim to Discord's manipulation after he tells her that her inicial will crumble without her, and shows her a vision of Cloudsdale crumbling. Under Discord's influence, she abandons her friends to "save" a nube she believes to be Cloudsdale. Right before aguardiente de manzana, applejack spots Dash flying away, Twilight Sparkle reassures herself por saying Dash won't let them down, but then watches in disbelief as Dash speeds off. Discord reveals himself and informs other ponies that they have been disqualified, as one of his rules stated that if one of the ponies leaves, the game is over.
The following episode, when Twilight sets about finding her friends to undo what Discord had done to them with a "memory spell", arco iris Dash dismisses Twilight's plight with "loyalty shmoyalty". Since she won't come close enough to Twilight for the spell to be performed, the ponies must combine their efforts to catch her and bring her to the ground. Her first words after her corruption is undone is "How's Ponyville? Where are the Elements? Did we stop Discord?" With Dash por their side again, the ponies wield the Elements of Harmony and defeat Discord with their magic.
arco iris Dash is the last of the main ponies to have a pet introduced in the series, only gaining her pet, Tank the tortoise, in the episode May the Best Pet Win! in the segundo season. While at first Dash looks down on Tank for not being as fast, agile, o "awesome" as her other prospective pets, she eventually picks him over the others for his loyalty: while all the other prospective pets hurried to the finish line and ignored Dash's calls for help, Tank rescues her por releasing her trapped wing from under a boulder. He carries her all the way to the finish line, and secures his place as her pet for being the only competitor that crossed the finish line with her, as she specified before the race.
Brashness and apparent laziness
arco iris Dash is very confident in her abilities, which is often construed por others as laziness. When Twilight Sparkle first meets Dash, she has none of her nube cleanup work done, and lies idly on a cloud, and puts off her work. Despite her apparent laziness, she performed her duty in "ten segundos flat", leaving Twilight wide-eyed at the sight. She languishes about in Griffon the Brush Off, The Cutie Pox, and Swarm of the Century, but springs into action in the last when she's needed to help deal with the parasprite infestation, and leaves off for duty when she's needed in the first. She is the leader of the weather team in Winter envolver, abrigo Up and she volunteers to go on important missions with her friends, so despite her apparent laziness she is a hard-working, contributing pony.
She proudly says in Boast Busters that she's better than the rest of the ponies, but laughs it off when aguardiente de manzana, applejack gives her a scornful look. She and aguardiente de manzana, applejack deride Twilight Sparkle in Fall Weather friends for being an "egghead" and not having any experience with running outside of what she read in her book. However, both of them admire her magic in Boast Busters and tell her they're proud of her.
arco iris Dash doesn't hide her annoyance at her friends' behavior. On the ponies' expedition in Dragonshy, arco iris Dash is short with Fluttershy throughout their journey, and in Sonic Rainboom she becomes so frustrated with Fluttershy's meek cheering that she does a pratfall. She begrudgingly lets Rarity give her a makeover in Swarm of the Century, and keeps an annoyed frown on her face in the process. When Twilight Sparkle tries to convince Rarity in Suited For Success that she's not a laughing stock, arco iris Dash rudely quips "she kind-of is". Like the other ponies' dresses, the dress she asked Rarity to make her is over the top, and it even includes a casco styled much like the one worn por The Rocketeer. However, she wears the dress Rarity originally designed for her with a smile on her face when Rarity is dado a segundo chance to redeem herself.
In Sonic Rainboom, her conversation with the bully pegasi implies she may have been kicked out of flight school for being lazy.
"It needs to be about 20% cooler."
— arco iris Dash, referring to her dress for the Gala
Competitiveness and athleticism
"And the only thing I liked más than flying fast...was winning!"
Dash describes her passion for winning in a flashback in The Cutie Mark Chronicles, and challenges other characters to competitions throughout the show. She races several times with her old friend Gilda in Griffon the Brush Off, and challenges aguardiente de manzana, applejack in a series of athletic competitions in Fall Weather Friends.
Despite arco iris Dash's competitiveness and confidence, she reacts poorly to failure, o even the possibility of failure. She gets upset over losing a simple game of horseshoes to Applejack, stating that she "hates losing". During the Iron poni, pony Competition, she resorts to using her wings in many of the contests, which aguardiente de manzana, applejack regards as cheating since she does not have wings herself. During the ensuing Running of the Leaves, she continues using underhanded tactics with her wings tied behind her back, and Applejack, fed up with what she considers to be foul play, returns it in kind. por the end of the episode, the duo's brawl ends up landing them in last place, leading them to apologize to each other.
arco iris Dash initially displays overwhelming bravado about her performance in the Best Young Flyer competition in Sonic Rainboom; however, when a winged Rarity arrives to redirect everypony's attention to herself, arco iris reveals she's terrified of making a fool of herself as she loses her cool, almost refuses to perform and messes up several of her routines.
She stages a competition for her potential pets in May the Best Pet Win!, which consists of tests of speed, agility, "guts", "coolness", "awesomeness", "radicalness", and a final race against her.
Mischievousness
In an effort to make the royal guards break their silence, arco iris Dash tries silly faces.
arco iris Dash tries to spook her friends when they venture into the Everfree Forest for the first time, claiming that no poni, pony has ever made it back out of the forest. Her reputation as a prankster is established in Griffon the Brush Off, where she and Pinkie Pie prank various ponies, and is further enforced in A Bird in the Hoof, when she tries to make the royal guards laugh.
She plays several pranks on her friend Gilda in Griffon the Brush Off, which were set up for Gilda's party but are not specifically aimed at her. For the majority of the time when Gilda is visiting Ponyville, arco iris Dash is unaware that the griffon is being callous and rude to the other ponies, but the pranks at the party get the best of Gilda, and she loses her temper in front of arco iris Dash. After witnessing this side of her personality, she calls her out on her behavior and sends her on her way. Dash uses a nube to create thunder and lightning to scare Spike in Griffon the Brush Off, as a prank. She does the same to Pinkie Pie and various other ponies in Luna Eclipsed while dressed as a Shadowbolt, laughing at the ponies she frightens. She tells Twilight Sparkle that "this is the best night of the año for pranks" and that "it's all in good fun". She then hurries off to scare another group of ponies, which she continues doing until Princess Luna decides to declare payback for all of the trouble she'd caused that night.
Skills
Flying and weather manipulation
The "rainblow dry".
arco iris Dash is a very accomplished flier, being fast and agile in the air. She speaks of her impressive and flashy aerial acrobatic maneuvers in The Ticket Master, which include: the "rainblow dry", which she uses to clean up Twilight Sparkle in the first episode; the "super speed strut"; the "fantastic filly flash"; and the"buccaneer blaze", which involve strutting while flying, a nose-dive and recovery that create a flash, and the creation of multiple bolts of lightning, respectively.
The seta nube from Lesson Zero.
She uses her flying skill to help aguardiente de manzana, applejack demolish a granero in Lesson Zero. She tears through the structure from all directions, and eventually dives into it from a great height, creating a colorful seta nube and a shock-wave greatly resembling the sonic rainboom that sends the rubble of the former granero flying onto Twilight and Applejack. This is the first stage of Twilight's mane getting messed up. Dash wears goggles throughout the destruction.
Agility!
She demonstrates her flight skills in May the Best Pet Win! to her potential pets: she zips straight up into the sky; flies to a far-away colina leaving a trail of rainbow-colored flames behind her; maneuvers in quick 90-degree turns between the pets while leaving a vertical rainbow-colored wake behind her; and swirls around a nube to create a poni, pony nube sculpture. Later in the episode she holds a final race to decide which pet she'll choose, and performs dangerous stunts like flying through giant bramble patches and dodging the bites of gigantic quarray eels.
arco iris Dash uses her weather-manipulation abilities several times. She clears the skies of Ponyville "in ten segundos flat" in the first episode, dispersing the clouds por kicking them. She leads water droplets out of a nube in Boast Busters, and creates a arco iris above her when the droplets splash against her. She teams up with other pegasus ponies in Winter envolver, abrigo Up to create a whirlwind that sucks away clouds and snow from Ponyville, and she creates a tornado to vacuum the parasprites in Swarm of the Century.
arco iris Dash's most venerated mover is the sonic rainboom, first depicted in the aptly-titled episode Sonic Rainboom. This is the segundo time in her life that she has performed the trick, the first being depicted in a later episode, The Cutie Mark Chronicles. Even though several ponies witness the sonic rainboom in The Cutie Mark Chronicles, the very same ponies consider the maneuver a myth in Sonic Rainboom. Near the end, Princess Celestia also admits that she is the best flier in Equestria.
History
Cutie mark
Dash, as a filly, in a pegasus race
arco iris Dash mentions in Call of the Cutie that she was the first in her class to get her cutie mark. She tells the Cutie Mark Crusaders in The Cutie Mark Chronicles the story of how she got her cutie mark. Her story is set in Junior Speedsters flight camp, where she defends Fluttershy from a pair of bullies, who refer to arco iris Dash as "Rainbow Crash". One of the bullies already have their cutie marks, but Dash and Fluttershy do not. Dash challenges the two bullies to a flying pegasus race, and in the ensuing contest she discovers her passion for speed and for "winning", in her words. Going through the race course, she performs her very first sonic rainboom, not only gaining her own cutie mark, but also inadvertently setting in motion the events that would cause Fluttershy and her future Ponyville friends to gain their own cutie marks. The Sonic Rainboom had then been known as her signature move.
The Cutie Mark Crusaders
Despite earning her cutie mark in an endeavor that came naturally to her, arco iris Dash advises manzana, apple Bloom to try out many different activities to gain her cutie mark in Call of the Cutie, leading the filly and her friends to pursue their cutie marks in the wrong avenues. When coaching manzana, apple Bloom in Call of the Cutie, arco iris Dash dons a sports headband, a whistle, and later a martial arts uniform with a black cinturón, correa when manzana, apple Bloom tries karate.
Scootaloo, the pegasus poni, pony of the Cutie Mark Crusaders, idolizes arco iris Dash. While manzana, apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle are the younger sisters of two ponies from the main cast, aguardiente de manzana, applejack and Rarity, respectively, Scootaloo is not related to arco iris Dash,[1] and "Rainbow Dash isn't the kind of character who would treat a younger sibling as well as younger siblings are expected to be treated in MLP".[2] arco iris Dash affectionately calls Scootaloo "squirt" in Owl's Well That Ends Well and The Mysterious Mare Do Well, and appears alongside Rarity and aguardiente de manzana, applejack to congratulate the Cutie Mark Crusaders for their performance during The mostrar Stoppers.
Ponyville
arco iris Dash manages the weather in Ponyville. She keeps the skies free of clouds for the Summer Sun Celebration, and apparently, unless the weekly rainfall is scheduled for that día of course, makes sure that Ponyville has nice weather, although in the opening of brida Gossip, Spike states that she rarely gets up early in the morning to get a start on it. She lives in a cloud-house near Ponyville, which has the same diseño elements as her hometown.
arco iris Dash is one of several ponies badgering Twilight for the extra ticket to the Grand Galloping Gala, in The Ticket Master. Her reason is a chance to audition for The Wonderbolts who would presumably perform there. She persists, even when Twilight calls her out on it, and when all her other friends say they don't need the ticket. The Wonderbolts do appear at the Gala in The Best Night Ever, although their performance is not shown, and they are only seen mingling with the guests in a VIP section.
Residence
arco iris Dash's inicial is shown in Griffon the Brush Off. She lives in a white cloud-house hanging low to the ground somewhere near Ponyville. It features classical columns and rainbow-colored streams and waterfalls. In Dragonshy, arco iris Dash uses one of these streams to make rainbow-colored facepaint. Her inicial is shown again in Party of One, with a slightly different diseño from the first.
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Main article: Sonic rainboom (event)
Filly arco iris Dash performs a sonic rainboom for the first time.
arco iris Dash practicing for a sonic rainboom.
arco iris Dash tries to perform a sonic rainboom once again in the episode Sonic Rainboom, this time in an effort to win the Best Young Fliers Competition. Fluttershy confides to her friends that arco iris Dash was unable to perform the mover in her many practice trials.
Nonetheless, arco iris Dash heads to Cloudsdale to participate in the competition, accompanied por Fluttershy as moral support. Much to their surprise, their wingless friends have decided to follow them with the aid of Twilight's cloud-walking spell, easing Rainbow's fears. However, Twilight had also dado Rarity beautiful wings, which led her to steal the spotlight. As a result, arco iris Dash loses her nerve and tries to delay her performance, but as the competition draws to a close, she decides that she perform anyway.
Dash messes up the fist two rounds of her performance, hitting an obstacle and accidentally sends a nube hurtling in the direction of Princess Celestia. Due to time constraints, Rarity performs alongside arco iris Dash, and delivers her grand finale, which involves flying up to the the sun and beaming her wings. However, her fragile wings, made of gossamer and morning dew, burst into flames, sending her plummeting towards the earth. The Wonderbolts try to save her, but Rarity kicks them on accident due to her falling down, and they are knocked out. arco iris Dash finally notices the goings-on and accelerates towards the plummeting ponies, saving both Rarity and the Wonderbolts and performing a sonic rainboom in the process. Rarity is incredibly grateful that Dash saved her life, and apologizes to her friend not minding her anxiety. arco iris Dash is crowned the winner of the competition and leaves off to spend the día with her heroes, The Wonderbolts.
The Sonic Rainboom couldn't be achieved at first in her trial runs with Fluttershy, because she only had one-hoof forward, instead of two , like how she completed the trick in Cloudsdale.
Other depictionsEdit
Hasbro.com description
Capable and athletic, arco iris Dash lives for adventure! When any problem should arise that involves traveling to distant lands o dealing with a magical, mysterious beast, arco iris is the first to volunteer! Valiente and bold, anypony who has ever seen this rainbow-haired Pegasus in the air has been left in jaw-dropped awe of her speed, agility, and, well, her confidence. She's quite positive she's the fastest pegasus poni, pony alive, and truth be told, she probably is. Yes, she's a bit proud, and a bit mischievous, and often lazy for somepony obsessed with speed, but when the chips are down, and danger is a-brewing, arco iris Dash always, always comes through, proving time and time again that she is a true hero!
Hubworld description
arco iris Dash lives for adventure! Whenever there's a problem that involves danger, distant lands, and mysterious beasts, she's the first to help. She's bold. She's brave. She's also a bit proud and mischievous -- but wouldn't tu be too if tu were the fastest Pegasus around?
Teacher for a día description
arco iris Dash is her name and adventure is her game! A true hero, this rainbow-haired pegasus poni, pony is as fast as they come, flying through the air with jaw-dropping speed! Athletic, Valiente and confident, she is also a bit mischievous - and always first on the scene wherever danger is at hand. Whether traveling to distant lands o taking on mystery and magic, this pretty poni, pony is ready to fasten her seatbelt for the adventure of a lifetime!
My Little poni, pony magazine description
Sporty
Athletic
Adventurous
This little poni, pony lives for adventure! arco iris Dash is the first to volunteer for a dangerous task, the fasted poni, pony in Ponyville and a true poni, pony hero!
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Dash's loyalty is put to the test in The Return of Harmony Part 1 and Part 2. She and her friends have to solve Discord's riddle and play por his rules to regain the Elements. During their mission, Dash falls victim to Discord's manipulation after he tells her that her inicial will crumble without her, and shows her a vision of Cloudsdale crumbling. Under Discord's influence, she abandons her friends to "save" a nube she believes to be Cloudsdale. Right before aguardiente de manzana, applejack spots Dash flying away, Twilight Sparkle reassures herself por saying Dash won't let them down, but then watches in disbelief as Dash speeds off. Discord reveals himself and informs other ponies that they have been disqualified, as one of his rules stated that if one of the ponies leaves, the game is over.
The following episode, when Twilight sets about finding her friends to undo what Discord had done to them with a "memory spell", arco iris Dash dismisses Twilight's plight with "loyalty shmoyalty". Since she won't come close enough to Twilight for the spell to be performed, the ponies must combine their efforts to catch her and bring her to the ground. Her first words after her corruption is undone is "How's Ponyville? Where are the Elements? Did we stop Discord?" With Dash por their side again, the ponies wield the Elements of Harmony and defeat Discord with their magic.
arco iris Dash is the last of the main ponies to have a pet introduced in the series, only gaining her pet, Tank the tortoise, in the episode May the Best Pet Win! in the segundo season. While at first Dash looks down on Tank for not being as fast, agile, o "awesome" as her other prospective pets, she eventually picks him over the others for his loyalty: while all the other prospective pets hurried to the finish line and ignored Dash's calls for help, Tank rescues her por releasing her trapped wing from under a boulder. He carries her all the way to the finish line, and secures his place as her pet for being the only competitor that crossed the finish line with her, as she specified before the race.
Brashness and apparent laziness
arco iris Dash is very confident in her abilities, which is often construed por others as laziness. When Twilight Sparkle first meets Dash, she has none of her nube cleanup work done, and lies idly on a cloud, and puts off her work. Despite her apparent laziness, she performed her duty in "ten segundos flat", leaving Twilight wide-eyed at the sight. She languishes about in Griffon the Brush Off, The Cutie Pox, and Swarm of the Century, but springs into action in the last when she's needed to help deal with the parasprite infestation, and leaves off for duty when she's needed in the first. She is the leader of the weather team in Winter envolver, abrigo Up and she volunteers to go on important missions with her friends, so despite her apparent laziness she is a hard-working, contributing pony.
She proudly says in Boast Busters that she's better than the rest of the ponies, but laughs it off when aguardiente de manzana, applejack gives her a scornful look. She and aguardiente de manzana, applejack deride Twilight Sparkle in Fall Weather friends for being an "egghead" and not having any experience with running outside of what she read in her book. However, both of them admire her magic in Boast Busters and tell her they're proud of her.
arco iris Dash doesn't hide her annoyance at her friends' behavior. On the ponies' expedition in Dragonshy, arco iris Dash is short with Fluttershy throughout their journey, and in Sonic Rainboom she becomes so frustrated with Fluttershy's meek cheering that she does a pratfall. She begrudgingly lets Rarity give her a makeover in Swarm of the Century, and keeps an annoyed frown on her face in the process. When Twilight Sparkle tries to convince Rarity in Suited For Success that she's not a laughing stock, arco iris Dash rudely quips "she kind-of is". Like the other ponies' dresses, the dress she asked Rarity to make her is over the top, and it even includes a casco styled much like the one worn por The Rocketeer. However, she wears the dress Rarity originally designed for her with a smile on her face when Rarity is dado a segundo chance to redeem herself.
In Sonic Rainboom, her conversation with the bully pegasi implies she may have been kicked out of flight school for being lazy.
"It needs to be about 20% cooler."
— arco iris Dash, referring to her dress for the Gala
Competitiveness and athleticism
"And the only thing I liked más than flying fast...was winning!"
Dash describes her passion for winning in a flashback in The Cutie Mark Chronicles, and challenges other characters to competitions throughout the show. She races several times with her old friend Gilda in Griffon the Brush Off, and challenges aguardiente de manzana, applejack in a series of athletic competitions in Fall Weather Friends.
Despite arco iris Dash's competitiveness and confidence, she reacts poorly to failure, o even the possibility of failure. She gets upset over losing a simple game of horseshoes to Applejack, stating that she "hates losing". During the Iron poni, pony Competition, she resorts to using her wings in many of the contests, which aguardiente de manzana, applejack regards as cheating since she does not have wings herself. During the ensuing Running of the Leaves, she continues using underhanded tactics with her wings tied behind her back, and Applejack, fed up with what she considers to be foul play, returns it in kind. por the end of the episode, the duo's brawl ends up landing them in last place, leading them to apologize to each other.
arco iris Dash initially displays overwhelming bravado about her performance in the Best Young Flyer competition in Sonic Rainboom; however, when a winged Rarity arrives to redirect everypony's attention to herself, arco iris reveals she's terrified of making a fool of herself as she loses her cool, almost refuses to perform and messes up several of her routines.
She stages a competition for her potential pets in May the Best Pet Win!, which consists of tests of speed, agility, "guts", "coolness", "awesomeness", "radicalness", and a final race against her.
Mischievousness
In an effort to make the royal guards break their silence, arco iris Dash tries silly faces.
arco iris Dash tries to spook her friends when they venture into the Everfree Forest for the first time, claiming that no poni, pony has ever made it back out of the forest. Her reputation as a prankster is established in Griffon the Brush Off, where she and Pinkie Pie prank various ponies, and is further enforced in A Bird in the Hoof, when she tries to make the royal guards laugh.
She plays several pranks on her friend Gilda in Griffon the Brush Off, which were set up for Gilda's party but are not specifically aimed at her. For the majority of the time when Gilda is visiting Ponyville, arco iris Dash is unaware that the griffon is being callous and rude to the other ponies, but the pranks at the party get the best of Gilda, and she loses her temper in front of arco iris Dash. After witnessing this side of her personality, she calls her out on her behavior and sends her on her way. Dash uses a nube to create thunder and lightning to scare Spike in Griffon the Brush Off, as a prank. She does the same to Pinkie Pie and various other ponies in Luna Eclipsed while dressed as a Shadowbolt, laughing at the ponies she frightens. She tells Twilight Sparkle that "this is the best night of the año for pranks" and that "it's all in good fun". She then hurries off to scare another group of ponies, which she continues doing until Princess Luna decides to declare payback for all of the trouble she'd caused that night.
Skills
Flying and weather manipulation
The "rainblow dry".
arco iris Dash is a very accomplished flier, being fast and agile in the air. She speaks of her impressive and flashy aerial acrobatic maneuvers in The Ticket Master, which include: the "rainblow dry", which she uses to clean up Twilight Sparkle in the first episode; the "super speed strut"; the "fantastic filly flash"; and the"buccaneer blaze", which involve strutting while flying, a nose-dive and recovery that create a flash, and the creation of multiple bolts of lightning, respectively.
The seta nube from Lesson Zero.
She uses her flying skill to help aguardiente de manzana, applejack demolish a granero in Lesson Zero. She tears through the structure from all directions, and eventually dives into it from a great height, creating a colorful seta nube and a shock-wave greatly resembling the sonic rainboom that sends the rubble of the former granero flying onto Twilight and Applejack. This is the first stage of Twilight's mane getting messed up. Dash wears goggles throughout the destruction.
Agility!
She demonstrates her flight skills in May the Best Pet Win! to her potential pets: she zips straight up into the sky; flies to a far-away colina leaving a trail of rainbow-colored flames behind her; maneuvers in quick 90-degree turns between the pets while leaving a vertical rainbow-colored wake behind her; and swirls around a nube to create a poni, pony nube sculpture. Later in the episode she holds a final race to decide which pet she'll choose, and performs dangerous stunts like flying through giant bramble patches and dodging the bites of gigantic quarray eels.
arco iris Dash uses her weather-manipulation abilities several times. She clears the skies of Ponyville "in ten segundos flat" in the first episode, dispersing the clouds por kicking them. She leads water droplets out of a nube in Boast Busters, and creates a arco iris above her when the droplets splash against her. She teams up with other pegasus ponies in Winter envolver, abrigo Up to create a whirlwind that sucks away clouds and snow from Ponyville, and she creates a tornado to vacuum the parasprites in Swarm of the Century.
arco iris Dash's most venerated mover is the sonic rainboom, first depicted in the aptly-titled episode Sonic Rainboom. This is the segundo time in her life that she has performed the trick, the first being depicted in a later episode, The Cutie Mark Chronicles. Even though several ponies witness the sonic rainboom in The Cutie Mark Chronicles, the very same ponies consider the maneuver a myth in Sonic Rainboom. Near the end, Princess Celestia also admits that she is the best flier in Equestria.
History
Cutie mark
Dash, as a filly, in a pegasus race
arco iris Dash mentions in Call of the Cutie that she was the first in her class to get her cutie mark. She tells the Cutie Mark Crusaders in The Cutie Mark Chronicles the story of how she got her cutie mark. Her story is set in Junior Speedsters flight camp, where she defends Fluttershy from a pair of bullies, who refer to arco iris Dash as "Rainbow Crash". One of the bullies already have their cutie marks, but Dash and Fluttershy do not. Dash challenges the two bullies to a flying pegasus race, and in the ensuing contest she discovers her passion for speed and for "winning", in her words. Going through the race course, she performs her very first sonic rainboom, not only gaining her own cutie mark, but also inadvertently setting in motion the events that would cause Fluttershy and her future Ponyville friends to gain their own cutie marks. The Sonic Rainboom had then been known as her signature move.
The Cutie Mark Crusaders
Despite earning her cutie mark in an endeavor that came naturally to her, arco iris Dash advises manzana, apple Bloom to try out many different activities to gain her cutie mark in Call of the Cutie, leading the filly and her friends to pursue their cutie marks in the wrong avenues. When coaching manzana, apple Bloom in Call of the Cutie, arco iris Dash dons a sports headband, a whistle, and later a martial arts uniform with a black cinturón, correa when manzana, apple Bloom tries karate.
Scootaloo, the pegasus poni, pony of the Cutie Mark Crusaders, idolizes arco iris Dash. While manzana, apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle are the younger sisters of two ponies from the main cast, aguardiente de manzana, applejack and Rarity, respectively, Scootaloo is not related to arco iris Dash,[1] and "Rainbow Dash isn't the kind of character who would treat a younger sibling as well as younger siblings are expected to be treated in MLP".[2] arco iris Dash affectionately calls Scootaloo "squirt" in Owl's Well That Ends Well and The Mysterious Mare Do Well, and appears alongside Rarity and aguardiente de manzana, applejack to congratulate the Cutie Mark Crusaders for their performance during The mostrar Stoppers.
Ponyville
arco iris Dash manages the weather in Ponyville. She keeps the skies free of clouds for the Summer Sun Celebration, and apparently, unless the weekly rainfall is scheduled for that día of course, makes sure that Ponyville has nice weather, although in the opening of brida Gossip, Spike states that she rarely gets up early in the morning to get a start on it. She lives in a cloud-house near Ponyville, which has the same diseño elements as her hometown.
arco iris Dash is one of several ponies badgering Twilight for the extra ticket to the Grand Galloping Gala, in The Ticket Master. Her reason is a chance to audition for The Wonderbolts who would presumably perform there. She persists, even when Twilight calls her out on it, and when all her other friends say they don't need the ticket. The Wonderbolts do appear at the Gala in The Best Night Ever, although their performance is not shown, and they are only seen mingling with the guests in a VIP section.
Residence
arco iris Dash's inicial is shown in Griffon the Brush Off. She lives in a white cloud-house hanging low to the ground somewhere near Ponyville. It features classical columns and rainbow-colored streams and waterfalls. In Dragonshy, arco iris Dash uses one of these streams to make rainbow-colored facepaint. Her inicial is shown again in Party of One, with a slightly different diseño from the first.
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Dash's inicial in Griffon the Brush Off
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Dash's home, in Party of One
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Sonic rainboom
Main article: Sonic rainboom (event)
Filly arco iris Dash performs a sonic rainboom for the first time.
arco iris Dash practicing for a sonic rainboom.
arco iris Dash tries to perform a sonic rainboom once again in the episode Sonic Rainboom, this time in an effort to win the Best Young Fliers Competition. Fluttershy confides to her friends that arco iris Dash was unable to perform the mover in her many practice trials.
Nonetheless, arco iris Dash heads to Cloudsdale to participate in the competition, accompanied por Fluttershy as moral support. Much to their surprise, their wingless friends have decided to follow them with the aid of Twilight's cloud-walking spell, easing Rainbow's fears. However, Twilight had also dado Rarity beautiful wings, which led her to steal the spotlight. As a result, arco iris Dash loses her nerve and tries to delay her performance, but as the competition draws to a close, she decides that she perform anyway.
Dash messes up the fist two rounds of her performance, hitting an obstacle and accidentally sends a nube hurtling in the direction of Princess Celestia. Due to time constraints, Rarity performs alongside arco iris Dash, and delivers her grand finale, which involves flying up to the the sun and beaming her wings. However, her fragile wings, made of gossamer and morning dew, burst into flames, sending her plummeting towards the earth. The Wonderbolts try to save her, but Rarity kicks them on accident due to her falling down, and they are knocked out. arco iris Dash finally notices the goings-on and accelerates towards the plummeting ponies, saving both Rarity and the Wonderbolts and performing a sonic rainboom in the process. Rarity is incredibly grateful that Dash saved her life, and apologizes to her friend not minding her anxiety. arco iris Dash is crowned the winner of the competition and leaves off to spend the día with her heroes, The Wonderbolts.
The Sonic Rainboom couldn't be achieved at first in her trial runs with Fluttershy, because she only had one-hoof forward, instead of two , like how she completed the trick in Cloudsdale.
Other depictionsEdit
Hasbro.com description
Capable and athletic, arco iris Dash lives for adventure! When any problem should arise that involves traveling to distant lands o dealing with a magical, mysterious beast, arco iris is the first to volunteer! Valiente and bold, anypony who has ever seen this rainbow-haired Pegasus in the air has been left in jaw-dropped awe of her speed, agility, and, well, her confidence. She's quite positive she's the fastest pegasus poni, pony alive, and truth be told, she probably is. Yes, she's a bit proud, and a bit mischievous, and often lazy for somepony obsessed with speed, but when the chips are down, and danger is a-brewing, arco iris Dash always, always comes through, proving time and time again that she is a true hero!
Hubworld description
arco iris Dash lives for adventure! Whenever there's a problem that involves danger, distant lands, and mysterious beasts, she's the first to help. She's bold. She's brave. She's also a bit proud and mischievous -- but wouldn't tu be too if tu were the fastest Pegasus around?
Teacher for a día description
arco iris Dash is her name and adventure is her game! A true hero, this rainbow-haired pegasus poni, pony is as fast as they come, flying through the air with jaw-dropping speed! Athletic, Valiente and confident, she is also a bit mischievous - and always first on the scene wherever danger is at hand. Whether traveling to distant lands o taking on mystery and magic, this pretty poni, pony is ready to fasten her seatbelt for the adventure of a lifetime!
My Little poni, pony magazine description
Sporty
Athletic
Adventurous
This little poni, pony lives for adventure! arco iris Dash is the first to volunteer for a dangerous task, the fasted poni, pony in Ponyville and a true poni, pony hero! arco iris Dash first appears in Friendship is Magic, part 1, where she accidentally crashes into Twilight Sparkle sending her into a mud puddle. They briefly get to know each other, arco iris Dash tells Twilight about her adoration for The Wonderbolts, and Dash later joins Twilight and the other ponies in Friendship is Magic, part 2 on the quest for the Elements of Harmony. Just as the ponies are about to reach the castillo where the Elements are located, Nightmare Moon takes the form of The Shadowbolts, doppelgangers of arco iris Dash's personal heroes, The Wonderbolts. They solicit arco iris Dash into joining their ranks and abandoning her companions, but arco iris Dash remains loyal to her friends and declines their offer, which earns her the element of loyalty.
Dash's loyalty is put to the test in The Return of Harmony Part 1 and Part 2. She and her friends have to solve Discord's riddle and play por his rules to regain the Elements. During their mission, Dash falls victim to Discord's manipulation after he tells her that her inicial will crumble without her, and shows her a vision of Cloudsdale crumbling. Under Discord's influence, she abandons her friends to "save" a nube she believes to be Cloudsdale. Right before aguardiente de manzana, applejack spots Dash flying away, Twilight Sparkle reassures herself por saying Dash won't let them down, but then watches in disbelief as Dash speeds off. Discord reveals himself and informs other ponies that they have been disqualified, as one of his rules stated that if one of the ponies leaves, the game is over.
The following episode, when Twilight sets about finding her friends to undo what Discord had done to them with a "memory spell", arco iris Dash dismisses Twilight's plight with "loyalty shmoyalty". Since she won't come close enough to Twilight for the spell to be performed, the ponies must combine their efforts to catch her and bring her to the ground. Her first words after her corruption is undone is "How's Ponyville? Where are the Elements? Did we stop Discord?" With Dash por their side again, the ponies wield the Elements of Harmony and defeat Discord with their magic.
arco iris Dash is the last of the main ponies to have a pet introduced in the series, only gaining her pet, Tank the tortoise, in the episode May the Best Pet Win! in the segundo season. While at first Dash looks down on Tank for not being as fast, agile, o "awesome" as her other prospective pets, she eventually picks him over the others for his loyalty: while all the other prospective pets hurried to the finish line and ignored Dash's calls for help, Tank rescues her por releasing her trapped wing from under a boulder. He carries her all the way to the finish line, and secures his place as her pet for being the only competitor that crossed the finish line with her, as she specified before the race.
Brashness and apparent laziness
arco iris Dash is very confident in her abilities, which is often construed por others as laziness. When Twilight Sparkle first meets Dash, she has none of her nube cleanup work done, and lies idly on a cloud, and puts off her work. Despite her apparent laziness, she performed her duty in "ten segundos flat", leaving Twilight wide-eyed at the sight. She languishes about in Griffon the Brush Off, The Cutie Pox, and Swarm of the Century, but springs into action in the last when she's needed to help deal with the parasprite infestation, and leaves off for duty when she's needed in the first. She is the leader of the weather team in Winter envolver, abrigo Up and she volunteers to go on important missions with her friends, so despite her apparent laziness she is a hard-working, contributing pony.
She proudly says in Boast Busters that she's better than the rest of the ponies, but laughs it off when aguardiente de manzana, applejack gives her a scornful look. She and aguardiente de manzana, applejack deride Twilight Sparkle in Fall Weather friends for being an "egghead" and not having any experience with running outside of what she read in her book. However, both of them admire her magic in Boast Busters and tell her they're proud of her.
arco iris Dash doesn't hide her annoyance at her friends' behavior. On the ponies' expedition in Dragonshy, arco iris Dash is short with Fluttershy throughout their journey, and in Sonic Rainboom she becomes so frustrated with Fluttershy's meek cheering that she does a pratfall. She begrudgingly lets Rarity give her a makeover in Swarm of the Century, and keeps an annoyed frown on her face in the process. When Twilight Sparkle tries to convince Rarity in Suited For Success that she's not a laughing stock, arco iris Dash rudely quips "she kind-of is". Like the other ponies' dresses, the dress she asked Rarity to make her is over the top, and it even includes a casco styled much like the one worn por The Rocketeer. However, she wears the dress Rarity originally designed for her with a smile on her face when Rarity is dado a segundo chance to redeem herself.
In Sonic Rainboom, her conversation with the bully pegasi implies she may have been kicked out of flight school for being lazy.
"It needs to be about 20% cooler."
— arco iris Dash, referring to her dress for the Gala
Competitiveness and athleticism
"And the only thing I liked más than flying fast...was winning!"
Dash describes her passion for winning in a flashback in The Cutie Mark Chronicles, and challenges other characters to competitions throughout the show. She races several times with her old friend Gilda in Griffon the Brush Off, and challenges aguardiente de manzana, applejack in a series of athletic competitions in Fall Weather Friends.
Despite arco iris Dash's competitiveness and confidence, she reacts poorly to failure, o even the possibility of failure. She gets upset over losing a simple game of horseshoes to Applejack, stating that she "hates losing". During the Iron poni, pony Competition, she resorts to using her wings in many of the contests, which aguardiente de manzana, applejack regards as cheating since she does not have wings herself. During the ensuing Running of the Leaves, she continues using underhanded tactics with her wings tied behind her back, and Applejack, fed up with what she considers to be foul play, returns it in kind. por the end of the episode, the duo's brawl ends up landing them in last place, leading them to apologize to each other.
arco iris Dash initially displays overwhelming bravado about her performance in the Best Young Flyer competition in Sonic Rainboom; however, when a winged Rarity arrives to redirect everypony's attention to herself, arco iris reveals she's terrified of making a fool of herself as she loses her cool, almost refuses to perform and messes up several of her routines.
She stages a competition for her potential pets in May the Best Pet Win!, which consists of tests of speed, agility, "guts", "coolness", "awesomeness", "radicalness", and a final race against her.
Mischievousness
In an effort to make the royal guards break their silence, arco iris Dash tries silly faces.
arco iris Dash tries to spook her friends when they venture into the Everfree Forest for the first time, claiming that no poni, pony has ever made it back out of the forest. Her reputation as a prankster is established in Griffon the Brush Off, where she and Pinkie Pie prank various ponies, and is further enforced in A Bird in the Hoof, when she tries to make the royal guards laugh.
She plays several pranks on her friend Gilda in Griffon the Brush Off, which were set up for Gilda's party but are not specifically aimed at her. For the majority of the time when Gilda is visiting Ponyville, arco iris Dash is unaware that the griffon is being callous and rude to the other ponies, but the pranks at the party get the best of Gilda, and she loses her temper in front of arco iris Dash. After witnessing this side of her personality, she calls her out on her behavior and sends her on her way. Dash uses a nube to create thunder and lightning to scare Spike in Griffon the Brush Off, as a prank. She does the same to Pinkie Pie and various other ponies in Luna Eclipsed while dressed as a Shadowbolt, laughing at the ponies she frightens. She tells Twilight Sparkle that "this is the best night of the año for pranks" and that "it's all in good fun". She then hurries off to scare another group of ponies, which she continues doing until Princess Luna decides to declare payback for all of the trouble she'd caused that night.
Skills
Flying and weather manipulation
The "rainblow dry".
arco iris Dash is a very accomplished flier, being fast and agile in the air. She speaks of her impressive and flashy aerial acrobatic maneuvers in The Ticket Master, which include: the "rainblow dry", which she uses to clean up Twilight Sparkle in the first episode; the "super speed strut"; the "fantastic filly flash"; and the"buccaneer blaze", which involve strutting while flying, a nose-dive and recovery that create a flash, and the creation of multiple bolts of lightning, respectively.
The seta nube from Lesson Zero.
She uses her flying skill to help aguardiente de manzana, applejack demolish a granero in Lesson Zero. She tears through the structure from all directions, and eventually dives into it from a great height, creating a colorful seta nube and a shock-wave greatly resembling the sonic rainboom that sends the rubble of the former granero flying onto Twilight and Applejack. This is the first stage of Twilight's mane getting messed up. Dash wears goggles throughout the destruction.
Agility!
She demonstrates her flight skills in May the Best Pet Win! to her potential pets: she zips straight up into the sky; flies to a far-away colina leaving a trail of rainbow-colored flames behind her; maneuvers in quick 90-degree turns between the pets while leaving a vertical rainbow-colored wake behind her; and swirls around a nube to create a poni, pony nube sculpture. Later in the episode she holds a final race to decide which pet she'll choose, and performs dangerous stunts like flying through giant bramble patches and dodging the bites of gigantic quarray eels.
arco iris Dash uses her weather-manipulation abilities several times. She clears the skies of Ponyville "in ten segundos flat" in the first episode, dispersing the clouds por kicking them. She leads water droplets out of a nube in Boast Busters, and creates a arco iris above her when the droplets splash against her. She teams up with other pegasus ponies in Winter envolver, abrigo Up to create a whirlwind that sucks away clouds and snow from Ponyville, and she creates a tornado to vacuum the parasprites in Swarm of the Century.
arco iris Dash's most venerated mover is the sonic rainboom, first depicted in the aptly-titled episode Sonic Rainboom. This is the segundo time in her life that she has performed the trick, the first being depicted in a later episode, The Cutie Mark Chronicles. Even though several ponies witness the sonic rainboom in The Cutie Mark Chronicles, the very same ponies consider the maneuver a myth in Sonic Rainboom. Near the end, Princess Celestia also admits that she is the best flier in Equestria.
History
Cutie mark
Dash, as a filly, in a pegasus race
arco iris Dash mentions in Call of the Cutie that she was the first in her class to get her cutie mark. She tells the Cutie Mark Crusaders in The Cutie Mark Chronicles the story of how she got her cutie mark. Her story is set in Junior Speedsters flight camp, where she defends Fluttershy from a pair of bullies, who refer to arco iris Dash as "Rainbow Crash". One of the bullies already have their cutie marks, but Dash and Fluttershy do not. Dash challenges the two bullies to a flying pegasus race, and in the ensuing contest she discovers her passion for speed and for "winning", in her words. Going through the race course, she performs her very first sonic rainboom, not only gaining her own cutie mark, but also inadvertently setting in motion the events that would cause Fluttershy and her future Ponyville friends to gain their own cutie marks. The Sonic Rainboom had then been known as her signature move.
The Cutie Mark Crusaders
Despite earning her cutie mark in an endeavor that came naturally to her, arco iris Dash advises manzana, apple Bloom to try out many different activities to gain her cutie mark in Call of the Cutie, leading the filly and her friends to pursue their cutie marks in the wrong avenues. When coaching manzana, apple Bloom in Call of the Cutie, arco iris Dash dons a sports headband, a whistle, and later a martial arts uniform with a black cinturón, correa when manzana, apple Bloom tries karate.
Scootaloo, the pegasus poni, pony of the Cutie Mark Crusaders, idolizes arco iris Dash. While manzana, apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle are the younger sisters of two ponies from the main cast, aguardiente de manzana, applejack and Rarity, respectively, Scootaloo is not related to arco iris Dash,[1] and "Rainbow Dash isn't the kind of character who would treat a younger sibling as well as younger siblings are expected to be treated in MLP".[2] arco iris Dash affectionately calls Scootaloo "squirt" in Owl's Well That Ends Well and The Mysterious Mare Do Well, and appears alongside Rarity and aguardiente de manzana, applejack to congratulate the Cutie Mark Crusaders for their performance during The mostrar Stoppers.
Ponyville
arco iris Dash manages the weather in Ponyville. She keeps the skies free of clouds for the Summer Sun Celebration, and apparently, unless the weekly rainfall is scheduled for that día of course, makes sure that Ponyville has nice weather, although in the opening of brida Gossip, Spike states that she rarely gets up early in the morning to get a start on it. She lives in a cloud-house near Ponyville, which has the same diseño elements as her hometown.
arco iris Dash is one of several ponies badgering Twilight for the extra ticket to the Grand Galloping Gala, in The Ticket Master. Her reason is a chance to audition for The Wonderbolts who would presumably perform there. She persists, even when Twilight calls her out on it, and when all her other friends say they don't need the ticket. The Wonderbolts do appear at the Gala in The Best Night Ever, although their performance is not shown, and they are only seen mingling with the guests in a VIP section.
Residence
arco iris Dash's inicial is shown in Griffon the Brush Off. She lives in a white cloud-house hanging low to the ground somewhere near Ponyville. It features classical columns and rainbow-colored streams and waterfalls. In Dragonshy, arco iris Dash uses one of these streams to make rainbow-colored facepaint. Her inicial is shown again in Party of One, with a slightly different diseño from the first.
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Dash's inicial in Griffon the Brush Off
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Dash's home, in Party of One
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Sonic rainboom
Main article: Sonic rainboom (event)
Filly arco iris Dash performs a sonic rainboom for the first time.
arco iris Dash practicing for a sonic rainboom.
arco iris Dash tries to perform a sonic rainboom once again in the episode Sonic Rainboom, this time in an effort to win the Best Young Fliers Competition. Fluttershy confides to her friends that arco iris Dash was unable to perform the mover in her many practice trials.
Nonetheless, arco iris Dash heads to Cloudsdale to participate in the competition, accompanied por Fluttershy as moral support. Much to their surprise, their wingless friends have decided to follow them with the aid of Twilight's cloud-walking spell, easing Rainbow's fears. However, Twilight had also dado Rarity beautiful wings, which led her to steal the spotlight. As a result, arco iris Dash loses her nerve and tries to delay her performance, but as the competition draws to a close, she decides that she perform anyway.
Dash messes up the fist two rounds of her performance, hitting an obstacle and accidentally sends a nube hurtling in the direction of Princess Celestia. Due to time constraints, Rarity performs alongside arco iris Dash, and delivers her grand finale, which involves flying up to the the sun and beaming her wings. However, her fragile wings, made of gossamer and morning dew, burst into flames, sending her plummeting towards the earth. The Wonderbolts try to save her, but Rarity kicks them on accident due to her falling down, and they are knocked out. arco iris Dash finally notices the goings-on and accelerates towards the plummeting ponies, saving both Rarity and the Wonderbolts and performing a sonic rainboom in the process. Rarity is incredibly grateful that Dash saved her life, and apologizes to her friend not minding her anxiety. arco iris Dash is crowned the winner of the competition and leaves off to spend the día with her heroes, The Wonderbolts.
The Sonic Rainboom couldn't be achieved at first in her trial runs with Fluttershy, because she only had one-hoof forward, instead of two , like how she completed the trick in Cloudsdale.
Other depictionsEdit
Hasbro.com description
Capable and athletic, arco iris Dash lives for adventure! When any problem should arise that involves traveling to distant lands o dealing with a magical, mysterious beast, arco iris is the first to volunteer! Valiente and bold, anypony who has ever seen this rainbow-haired Pegasus in the air has been left in jaw-dropped awe of her speed, agility, and, well, her confidence. She's quite positive she's the fastest pegasus poni, pony alive, and truth be told, she probably is. Yes, she's a bit proud, and a bit mischievous, and often lazy for somepony obsessed with speed, but when the chips are down, and danger is a-brewing, arco iris Dash always, always comes through, proving time and time again that she is a true hero!
Hubworld description
arco iris Dash lives for adventure! Whenever there's a problem that involves danger, distant lands, and mysterious beasts, she's the first to help. She's bold. She's brave. She's also a bit proud and mischievous -- but wouldn't tu be too if tu were the fastest Pegasus around?
Teacher for a día description
arco iris Dash is her name and adventure is her game! A true hero, this rainbow-haired pegasus poni, pony is as fast as they come, flying through the air with jaw-dropping speed! Athletic, Valiente and confident, she is also a bit mischievous - and always first on the scene wherever danger is at hand. Whether traveling to distant lands o taking on mystery and magic, this pretty poni, pony is ready to fasten her seatbelt for the adventure of a lifetime!
My Little poni, pony magazine description
Sporty
Athletic
Adventurous
This little poni, pony lives for adventure! arco iris Dash is the first to volunteer for a dangerous task, the fasted poni, pony in Ponyville and a true poni, pony hero!
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