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| Rainbow Dash | |
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| My Little Pony character | |
 Rainbow Dash as she appears in "The Ticket Master" | |
| First appearance | "Friendship Is Magic – Part 1" (2010) |
| Created by | Lauren Faust Mary Jane Begin |
| Based on | Firefly from the My Little Pony toyline's first incarnation |
| Voiced by | |
| In-universe information | |
| Nicknames | Dashie RD Dash Rainbow Crash |
| Species | Pegasus |
| Title | Element of Loyalty |
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| Relatives | Scootaloo (surrogate sister; her #1 fan) |
| My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic |
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Rainbow Dash is a fictional character who appears in the fourth incarnation of Hasbro's My Little Pony toyline and media franchise, beginning with My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (2010–2019). She is a close friend of Twilight Sparkle, serving as a core member of the group of main characters collectively known as the Mane Six. She is voiced by Ashleigh Ball, who also voices Applejack in the series.[1]
Rainbow Dash is depicted as an athletic, confident, and brash anthropomorphic pegasus with a talent for speed and obsession with adventure.[2][3] She works as Ponyville's weather manager and dreams of joining an elite aerial aerobatics team called the Wonderbolts.[4] Rainbow Dash represents the Element of Loyalty in the Elements of Harmony.[5] She lives in a cloud house above Ponyville with her pet tortoise, Tank.[3][6]
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- ^ May, T. (2018). Rainbow Dash: Reading Rainboom!. My Little Pony. United States: Random House Children's Books.
- ^ a b Olsen, Carly (2020-01-08). "My Little Pony: 10 Things You Never Knew About The Ponies". Screen Rant. Archived from the original on 2024-12-07. Retrieved 2025-04-05.
- ^ Valiente, Christian; Rasmusson, Xeno (January 2015). "Bucking the Stereotypes: My Little Pony and Challenges to Traditional Gender Roles". Journal of Psychological Issues in Organizational Culture. 5 (4): 88–97. doi:10.1002/jpoc.21162.
- ^ Cusack, Carole M.; Kosnáč, Pavol (2017). "The development of spirituality in the Brony community". Fiction, Invention and Hyper-reality: From popular culture to religion. New York: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315582283. hdl:1887/3160677. ISBN 978-1-315-58228-3. Archived from the original on September 28, 2022. Retrieved December 17, 2021 – via Taylor & Francis.
- ^ Berrow, G. M. (2019). My Little Pony: Rainbow Dash's Double Dare. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. p. 80. ISBN 9780316455374.