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Rainbow Dash is one of the main characters from the My Little Pony: Equestria Girls franchise.
Captain of apparently all of Canterlot High's sports teams, as well as lead guitarist for the Rainbooms. Her magic gives her Super Speed.
In the AWA fics, Rainbow is a student at the AWA Academy.
In the XP4 fics, Rainbow debuted in the XP4 Heroes Coalition - Canterlot High Nightmares.
In the DAMNiverse fics, Rainbow debuted in DAMNiverse! Of Eds and Magic: Equestria Girls.
Appearance[]
Rainbow Dash has a light-blue skintone, a moderate cerise eyes and has a multi-colored waist-length hair akin to a rainbow. She wears a short-sleeve blue jacket over a white shirt a cloud & rainbow-colored lightning symbol, white & magenta skirt over a black skintight shorts, rainbow-colored socks and blue shoes.
Personality[]
Rainbow Dash is very athletic and competitive. She is the captain of every sports team at Canterlot High School, and she effortlessly overtakes Twilight Sparkle in a game of one-on-one. She is also somewhat self-centered, often speaking—and sometimes singing—about her own awesomeness.
In the second film, Rainbow is conceited to the point of frequently calling the Rainbooms her band. However, she humbly steps aside for Twilight to take over lead vocals, and she lets Sunset Shimmer join the band by the end.
Rainbow Dash's strongest trait is her loyalty. She eagerly teams up with Twilight to beat Sunset in the first film, and in the third film, she gives up a victory in the Friendship Games to save Sunset's life. She also able to inspire motivation in others as demonstrated in Friendship Games' CHS Rally Song.
AWA Fanfics[]
Rainbow Dash has a crush on Ben Tennyson.
XP4 Fanfics[]
Rainbow is part of the Heroes Coalitions and is a member of the Rainbooms. She also attends the Vanguard Academy as a student.
XP4 Heroes Coalition - Canterlot High Nightmares[]
In Chapter 1, Rainbow, alongside the rest of the Rainbooms, is mentioned as a group by Flash Sentry alongside her name being named dropped.
In Chapter 2, Rainbow is mentioned throughout the narrative.
In Chapter 3, Rainbow is mentioned by Bright Idea.
In Chapter 4, Rainbow, alongside the rest of the Rainbooms, is mentioned as a group by the members of the Trixie and the Illusions.
In Chapter 5, Rainbow, alongside the rest of the Rainbooms, is mentioned as a group by Micro Chips.
In Chapter 6, Rainbow, alongside the rest of the Rainbooms, are mentioned throughout the narrative.
In Chapter 7, Rainbow, alongside the rest of the Rainbooms, made their presence inside the Sugarcube Corner where everyone are having a party when Flash Sentry and Indigo Zap met up with them and is about to tell them the recent events that occured at Canterlot High School.
In the Epilogue, Rainbow, alongside the rest of the Rainbooms, are seen in the courtyard of the Canterlot High School where they discussed about the recent events during their absence when Indigo Zap arrives and offers them memberships in the Heroes Coalitions to which they accepted. When Eddy Skipper McGee made his presence, she witnessed Eddy flirting with Applejack Smith and when the cowgirl rejected him, Eddy runs away crying.
XP4 Heroes Coalition - Neo-City Diaries[]
In Chapter 41, Rainbow, alongside the rest of the Rainbooms, are being shown around by Indigo Zap in the hallways of the Vanguard Academy and she later shown concern after learning that Indigo had a falling out with the Shadowbolts.
In Chapter 42, Rainbow, alongside the rest of the Rainbooms, are seen walking down the streets of Neo-City when they came across numerous missing posters of Chicken scattered all over then place, much to their disbelief. They later spotted Edwin "Ed" Horace Williams and Trixie Lulamoon entering a cafe, much to their curiosity.
In Chapter 46, Rainbow, alongside the rest of the Rainbooms, are seen in the courtyard of the Vanguard Academy while hanging out on the school's entrance steps. She is present when Denki Kaminari announced that Ash Ketchum had won the Alolan League and took part of cheering their friend's latest achievement.
In Chapter 50, Rainbow is mentioned by Flash Sentry.
In Chapter 51, Rainbow, alongside the rest of the Rainbooms, made their presence inside the music room of the Vanguard Academy where they came across the members of the ScamLords and listened to them perform, much to their awe.
In Chapter 54, Rainbow is mentioned in an exchange between Flash Sentry and Scootaloo.
In Chapter 57, Rainbow, alongside the rest of the Rainbooms and the Shadowbolts, met up with Aria Blaze, Dash Baxter, Indigo Zap and Scott Wallis in the Canterlot Park where the Shadowbolts tried apologizing to Indigo but she refused to accept it which led to her and Sour Sweet getting into a fight. Afterwards, everyone went their separate ways while lamenting what just happened.
In Chapter 58, Rainbow is present inside the AniManga Cafe where she witnessed the performance of Flash Sentry, Marshmello and Pinkie Pie.
In Chapter 59, Rainbow, alongside the rest of the Rainbooms, are mentioned throughout the narrative.
In Chapter 60, Rainbow, alongside the rest of the Rainbooms and Starlight Glimmer, are seen inside the cafeteria of the Vanguard Academy where they made ammends with Adagio Dazzle alongside witnessing Eddy Skipper McGee getting rejected by Adagio. Later that night in the AniManga Cafe, she witnessed Adagio's performance on stage and gave her an applause and afterwards, she took part on stopping Eddy from pouncing on Adagio.
In Chapter 61, Rainbow, alongside the rest of the Rainbooms, are mentioned in an earlier conversation of Cesaro Barbossa, Felipe Ignacio, Kenny Rogers and Wallflower Blush. Later on, she, alongside the rest of the Rainbooms, are seen having a discussion with Edwin "Ed" Horace Williams and Trixie Lulamoon inside the Yearbook Committee Room of the Canterlot High School and after Ed & Trixie left, Felipe and Wallflower made their presence, and eventually witnessed the latter and Sunset Shimmer making ammends with each other.
XP4 Heroes Coalition - Magical Movie Night[]
In Chapter 1, Rainbow, alongside the rest of the Rainbooms and Raya Amanda, are mentioned to have been doing a fund-raiser via car wash in the Canterlot High School. Later that day in the music room at CHS, they met up with Rarity Belle & Raya Amanda and everyone agreed to join the competition. Later that day in the gymnasium, they are assisted by Photo Finish in making a music video when Rarity and Rarity left to get some extra material.
In Chapter 2, Rainbow, alongside the rest of the Rainbooms and Spike, met up with Rarity Belle and Raya Amanda inside the Carousel Boutique where they had discussion about the Shadowbolts copying their concepts.
In Chapter 3, Rainbow, alongside the rest of the Rainbooms and Raya Amanda, met up with the Shadowbolts in the gymnasium of the Canterlot High School where they teamed-up to create a music video. Afterwards, everyone are seen in the Canterlot Mall where they celebrate winning the competition when they came across Flash Sentry and Marshmello with the latter shared his idea of Flash and Pinkie Pie performing a new song is his. After Flash and Marshmello made their leave, everyone then had a serious discussion about Indigo Zap.
In Chapter 4, Rainbow, alongside the rest of the Rainbooms and Spike, are seen visiting the film studio by Canter Zoom. After the director made his leave, they were met up by Brent Dark, Jaune Arc, Marshmello and Wesley Bryans before separating into groups. Later on, Rainbow, alongside Brent Dark and Twilight Sparkle, are seen visiting the village set when Juniper Montage met up with them and decided to show them around. Later that day, Rainbow is present during a filming in the volcano setting when the set suddenly crumbled and afterwards, everyone learned that some props are gone.
In Chapter 5, Rainbow, alongside the rest of the Rainbooms, Brent Dark, Canter Zoom, Jaune Arc, Juniper Montage, Marshmello, Spike and Wesley Bryans, are gathered in the village setting while talking about the missing props. She then took part of investigating the case when she and the rest of the Rainbooms were mistaken for actors by an idiot staff member and during the production, they spotted a strange individual and proceeds to chase after them until they came to a city setting where everyone found themselves caught in the net while she continues to pursue the culprit. She then followed the culprit in a prop room where she found herself locked inside.
In Chapter 6, Rainbow is still trapped inside the props closet but is saved by Marcus "The Kane" McGee and when the rest of the Rainbooms, Brent Dark, Jaune Arc, Marshmello, Spike and Wesley Bryans made their arrival, Marcus left. Afterwards, they met up with Canter Zoom, Chestnut Magnifico and Juniper Montage in another part of the studio where they decided to resume their search. Later on in the village setting, everyone are present when Juniper is exposed as the culprit behind the mess and witnessed her getting kicked out of the studio. Later on, she took part in playing a role of an extra in a Daring Do movie until the shooting is ruined by her over enthusiasm, much to everyone's annoyance.
In Chapter 7, Rainbow, alongside the rest of the Rainbooms, Brent Dark, Jaune Arc, Marshmello and Wesley Bryans, are featured in a local poster of a Daring Do film in a theater inside the Canterlot Mall and alongside the Rainbooms and the Shadowbolts, she is featured in a music video. She, alongside the rest of the Rainbooms, Eddy Skipper McGee, Duncan Nelson, Jake Long and Rex Salazar, are seen gathered in the food court where they witnessed Flash Sentry demonstrating his power and after that, Sunset Shimmer revealed that Princess Twilight Sparkle wants her to come to Equestria.
In Chapter 8, Rainbow, alongside the rest of the Rainbooms, Duncan Nelson, Eddy Skipper McGee, Jake Long and Rex Salazar, arrives in the theater of the Canterlot Mall where they met up with Juniper Montage, they then found themselves suck into the magical mirror and later found themselves trapped inside a white limbo-like void.
In Chapter 9, Rainbow, alongside the rest of the Rainbooms, Duncan Nelson, Eddy Skipper McGee, Jake Long and Rex Salazar, are still inside the magic mirror when Sunset Shimmer is brought to their presence and later witnessed the void cracking to their horror but were later brought back in the Canterlot Mall after Marcus "The Kane" McGee and Starlight Glimmer managed to convince Juniper Montage to make a change to herself. Afterwards, everyone has forgiven Juniper and shared a hearty laughter.
In the Epilogue, Rainbow, alongside the rest of the Rainbooms, Duncan Nelson, Eddy Skipper McGee, Jake Long, Juniper Montage, Marcus "The Kane McGee, Rex Salazar and Starlight Glimmer, are seen hanging out in the courtyard of the Canterlot High School when Sunset Shimmer received a message from Princess Twilight Sparkle that she allows Starlight to stay for a couple of days while Marcus revealed that Juniper is a Blessed.
DreamTheater Intermix: The World Within[]
Rainbow Dash is a student in the City Saints Academy.
Biography[]
In Chapter 8, Rainbow joined Twilight Sparkle and Sunset Shimmer at one table in the dining area of the first floor and had a conversation with them. She then took notice of the arrival of Tenma Daytona Romeoford, Eddward "Edd & Double D" Marion Vicente, Edwin "Ed" Horace Hall, Rolf Von Olsson and Shizuka Kasagi in the room, and later witnessed Eric Cartman demanding the identity of the noise maker to which Shizuka declined.
In Chapter 17, Rainbow, alongside the rest of the Rainbooms, are seen in a playground for that night's patrol where they met up with Sunset Shimmer when Eric Cartman tried to join them but they left him in disgust.
Abilities[]
Her magic gives her Super Speed. Her "ponied form" includes pegasus wings, which she immediately use to fly around from the moment of her very first transformation — with obvious glee to boot. She leaves the "rainbow trail" typical of her pony counterpart behind when flying. By Legend of Everfree, her Magical Girl form also includes crystal wings, and she can fly at Super Speed.
Trivia[]
- Rainbow Dash is captain of apparently all of Canterlot High's sports teams, as well as lead guitarist for the Rainbooms.
- Implied in the Tell-All, Rainbow Dash mentions her biggest fear (besides falling asleep in class) is being "cooped up inside for too long".
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