Where's my little pony?

The My Little Pony Friendship is Magic franchise features many geographical locations, and takes place primarily in the magical land of Equestria.

Equestria is the main setting of the show. The exact affiliation of most locations with Equestria is not specified. A stylized map of Equestria appears in the series' guidebook, and it encompasses most of the locations below. A more updated version was included in The Art of Equestria. Other locations that appear or are mentioned in the series are also included.

Ponyville is a small town that is the main setting of the Friendship is Magic series and the home of its main characters. Princess Twilight Sparkle's Castle of Friendship is found there at the very end of season four. Ponyville was founded by Earth ponies, but came to be inhabited by Pegasi and unicorns as well.

Canterlot is the capital of Equestria and home to the royal palace of Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. It was also the home of Twilight Sparkle and Spike prior to their relocation to Ponyville. Canterlot is where large events such as the Grand Galloping Gala take place. The name is a reference to Camelot, the home to King Arthur and his "Knights of The Round Table" as well as being a play on the word "canter," a three-beat gait possessed by all horses that is faster than a trot but slower than a gallop.

The Everfree Forest is located outside of Ponyville. The ponies say the forest is not natural and it doesn't work like the rest of Equestria, since plants grow by themselves, animals care for themselves, and the weather changes without the help of ponies. Zecora's hut is located in the forest and it is also home to some strange creatures, including ursas, timberwolves and parasprites. The Tree of Harmony is found far into the forest, in a gorge located near the Castle of the Two Sisters. Fluttershy envisions her banishment from Equestria in the episode A Bird in the Hoof in a place visually matching the Everfree Forest. Spike, feeling abandoned, goes to a place visually matching the Everfree Forest, and not very far from Ponyville, in Owl's Well That Ends Well.

Featured in Griffon the Brush Off,[1] Winter Wrap Up, Too Many Pinkie Pies, Maud Pie, Leap of Faith, Tanks for the Memories, The One Where Pinkie Pie Knows, Triple Threat, and School Daze - Part 1. It is present on the official map of Equestria, under the title of "Saddle L.".

The site for the Running of the Leaves held in the episodes Fall Weather Friends and Tanks for the Memories, where the ponies run through the forest to shake the leaves off the trees. It is also mentioned in A Royal Problem and in chapter 4 of The Stormy Road to Canterlot, and serves as a major setting in the My Little Pony: Spirit of the Forest IDW miniseries. It is present on the official map of Equestria, and on the world overview map in Gameloft's mobile game. The name of the woods is possibly inspired by the white-tailed deer.

Froggy Bottom Bogg is featured in Feeling Pinkie Keen. As the name suggests, it is a swampland consisting of mangroves and bubbling swamp water. Fluttershy relocates some frogs to the bog because of overpopulation. When Pinkie Pie gets an ominous premonition, Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Spike and Pinkie Pie venture to the bog to make sure Fluttershy is okay. They come upon a hydra who chases them to a chasm which they cross in order to escape. In Rainbow Dash and the Daring Do Double Dare, Rainbow Dash swims to the bottom of the bog on a dare. In chapter 1 of The Stormy Road to Canterlot, Tempest Shadow recalls visiting Froggy Bottom Bogg in her youth. The Bogg is present on the official map of Equestria.

Cloudsdale is a city in the sky where the Best Young Flyer competition takes place and where Equestria's weather is made. Only Pegasi live and work there, since non-Pegasus ponies cannot stand on clouds without the aid of magic. It is also the former hometown of both Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy. The Weather Factory is located there. The name is a reference to the Clydesdale, a breed of draft horses.

In​[​dubious – discuss‍​]​ A Dog and Pony Show, The Cutie Mark Chronicles, and The Return of Harmony Part 2. Rockridge is mentioned on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #25 page 1. Rambling Rock Ridge is present on the official map of Equestria.

Appleloosa is featured in the episode Over a Barrel. It is the hometown of Applejack's cousin Braeburn. It is a mostly arid location with a large orchard of apple trees. The Buffalo lands have their own chief and their denizens have a territorial battle with the newly arrived Equestrian settlers of Appleloosa. The name of the town comes from the Appaloosa breed of horse.

Manehattan is a large city featured in The Cutie Mark Chronicles, Rarity Takes Manehattan, Made in Manehattan, and The Gift of the Maud Pie. It is the hometown of Babs Seed and Applejack's Aunt and Uncle Orange. The name is spelled "Manehatten" on the original version of the guidebook map, but spelled "Manehattan" on the updated version of the map. The name is a play on Manhattan Island, a section of New York City.

First mentioned in Pinkie Pie and the Rockin' Ponypalooza Party! Also mentioned by Fluttershy in It Ain't Easy Being Breezies. Later mentioned in the 2017 promotional video The Fresh Princess of Friendship, according to which Pinkie Pie was born and raised here. Mentioned again in Fluttershy Leans In, according to which Lola the sloth originated from here.

Rockville is identified as Pinkie Pie's hometown in the Hearthbreakers storybook adaptation The Reason for the Season. Rocksville is mentioned on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #73 page 5.

A gorge filled with perils, such as a windy cave, bramble bushes and quarray eels. Rainbow Dash held a contest to see who would be her pet there in May the Best Pet Win!. Maud Pie considers moving to the gorge in Rock Solid Friendship. According to Applejack in Shadow Play - Part 2 and Granny Smith in A Trivial Pursuit, the gorge was originally the Ghastly Caverns before a thousand years of erosion turned it into the Ghastly Gorge. In Friendship University, Twilight Sparkle has a Ghastly Gorge postcard. In Road to Friendship, Starlight Glimmer and Trixie pass through the gorge on their way to Saddle Arabia. It is present on the official map of Equestria.

Dodge Junction, sometimes called Dodge City, is an old-western town introduced in the episode The Last Roundup. Like Appleloosa, the town consists mostly of desert but capable of growing cherry trees. The town's name is a reference to Dodge City, Kansas, a town famous in the United States for its role in the wild frontier of the Old West.

The Dragon Lands is a volcanic island region introduced in the season two episode Dragon Quest. It is home to mostly dragons and some phoenixes. It is also featured in the season six episode Gauntlet of Fire, the season seven episode Shadow Play - Part 1, the season eight episode School Daze - Part 2, and the season nine episodes Uprooted, Sweet and Smoky, and The Ending of the End - Part 2. It also appears in a magical simulation in Celestial Advice. It is called Dragon's Lair on the official map.

Featured in Siege of the Crystal Empire; evoqued by Princess Celestia in The Crystal Empire - Part 1 and by Twilight in The Crystalling - Part 1; mentioned in Gameloft's mobile game as where BGE Unnamed Earth Stallion #2 was raised by an adoptive family. It is present on the official map of Equestria.

The Crystal Empire is introduced in season three's premiere episode. Celestia addresses the Crystal Empire as part of Equestria in the episode. In The Ballad of the Crystal Empire, Twilight Sparkle mentions the Crystal Kingdom as part of the Crystal Ponies' history. It is also home to the Crystal Ponies as well as Shining Armor and Princess Cadance, who took over the kingdom after King Sombra was defeated a second time by the Crystal Heart. The book Twilight Sparkle and the Crystal Heart Spell names the Crystal Empire as part of Equestria.[2]

Featured in My Little Pony: Friends Forever Issue #3 and Issue #29; mentioned by Twilight Sparkle and explored by Pinkie Pie in Party Pooped, mentioned and illustrated on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #41 page 12, also mentioned by Rainbow Dash in Top Bolt, explored by Star Swirl the Bearded and Rare Find in Friendship University, and supposedly seen around the Crystal Empire in the episodes The Crystal Empire - Part 2 and Games Ponies Play. It is present on the official map of Equestria. In Dragon Dropped, the Crystal Mountains are said to contain a "Great Gem Crevasse" that is only accessible once a year.

Featured in My Little Pony: Friends Forever Issue #36. Yaket Range is present on the official map of Equestria.

Winsome Falls are composed of multiple rainbow-colored waterfalls. It is the camping destination for Applejack, Apple Bloom, Rarity, Sweetie Belle, Rainbow Dash, and Scootaloo in the episodes Sleepless in Ponyville and Campfire Tales.

The Tenochtitlan Basin is a region located in a remote part of Equestria, mostly marked by trees. It is featured in the episode Daring Don't. Two areas of note here are Daring Do's house and the Fortress of Talacon. The basin shares its name with the ancient Aztec city-state Tenochtitlan.

An Equestrian village that appears in the season four episode of the same name. Like Winsome Falls, it mostly consists of rainbow-colored waterfalls, but also has a handful of dwellings and a training course for holding the Equestria Games tryouts. The village holds an annual Traders Exchange as seen in Trade Ya! Rainbow Falls can also briefly be seen in one of the dimensional rifts opened by Midnight Sparkle in My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Friendship Games. In My Little Pony Best Gift Ever, Rainbow Falls hosts a Hearth's Warming Craft Fair.

Fillydelphia is a largely modern city mentioned in several episodes and featured heavily in My Little Pony: Friends Forever Issue #14. It is home to both ponies and dragons. The city is also present on the official map. Its name is a play on Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Lauren Faust, the show's creator, mentioned in a comment on DeviantArt that she wanted to name the main setting of the show Fillydelphia but ultimately went with Ponyville.

Las Pegasus is first mentioned in It's About Time and physically featured in Viva Las Pegasus. It is a popular vacation and tourist destination with bright lights, large crowds, and various games and activities. It is present on all versions of the official map of Equestria under two different spellings: "Los Pegasus" and "Las Pegasus". The name is a play on Las Vegas according to It's About Time writer M. A. Larson.[3]

Applewood, Coltifornia is featured in My Little Pony: Friends Forever Issue #8, mentioned in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #25, mentioned again in Lyra and Bon Bon and the Mares from S.M.I.L.E., featured again on My Little Pony: The Movie Prequel Issue #1's regular cover, featured yet again in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #66, and also mentioned in Gameloft's mobile game. It is present on the official map of Equestria. The name is a play on Hollywood.

Baltimare is a city mentioned in It's About Time. It is referenced when Rainbow Dash gives a mini-report that a Pegasus just came back from there, and there was no danger. It is shown, without being identified by name, in Pinkie Pride and again in Twilight's Kingdom - Part 2. Mentioned again on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #41 page 12. The Baltimare Flare is mentioned in Viva Las Pegasus. In My Little Pony: Friends Forever Issue #34, Cheese Sandwich and several fillies are abducted from a party in Baltimare by a living house. It is briefly featured in the eighth episode of Baby Flurry Heart's Heartfelt Scrapbook, where it shares its design with Maretropolis. In A Royal Problem, the mayor of Baltimare appears at Canterlot Castle in a heated argument with the mayor of Fillydelphia. In A Royal Problem's locked script, the mayor of Baltimare mentions that Baltimare is where Flash Prance "staged his final resistance against the [dragon] horde". The city is present on the official map of Equestria, and on the world overview map in Gameloft's mobile game. Its name is a play on the real life city called Baltimore.

Mentioned in the episode Apple Family Reunion by Apple Bloom while she is rattling off town names where Apple family members live. It is shown on a map, without being identified by name, in Pinkie Pride and again in Twilight's Kingdom - Part 2. In Shadow Play - Part 2, it is shown in the present day when the Pony of Shadows rises to power again. It is present on the official map of Equestria.

The Well of Shade, also called the Well of Shadows, is an underground cistern located beneath the Hollow Shades. It is featured in Shadow Play - Part 2 as the site of Stygian's past transformation into the Pony of Shadows and present confrontation with the Pillars of Old Equestria and their allies. On My Little Pony: Nightmare Knights Issue #4 pages 4-5, it is mentioned and appears in Stygian's dream. It is similar to Basilica Cistern in Turkey.

Mentioned in the episode Apple Family Reunion by Apple Bloom while she is rattling off town names. It is shown, without being identified by name, in Pinkie Pride and again in Twilight's Kingdom - Part 2. Mentioned in The Stormy Road to Canterlot. It is present on the official map of Equestria.

Mentioned in the episode Apple Family Reunion by Apple Bloom while she is rattling off town names and in Shadow Play - Part 1. It is shown, without being identified by name, in Pinkie Pride and again in Twilight's Kingdom - Part 2. Featured in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #38 and Issue #39. In Princess Twilight Sparkle and the Forgotten Books of Autumn, Twilight Sparkle travels to Bales, which is noted as being among the foothills of Foal Mountain. It is present on the official map of Equestria, and on the world overview map in Gameloft's mobile game.

Bales is a legendary town near Canterlot that is home to many books mentioned in the chapter books Fluttershy and the Fine Furry Friends Fair and Princess Twilight Sparkle and the Forgotten Books of Autumn. It is initially thought to be mythical until Twilight and Spike discover its existence. The city name is possibly a reference to the country Wales in the United Kingdom.

Ponhenge[note 1] is a magical rock formation located at the base of Foal Mountain and featured in the season seven finale Shadow Play; it also appears in Stygian's My Little Pony: Nightmare Knights Issue #4 page 3 dream. It is the site from which Stygian tried to replicate the Pillars of Old Equestria's artifacts and the Pillars first banished the Pony of Shadows to limbo. Its name is a play on Stonehenge.

Mentioned in the episode Apple Family Reunion by Apple Bloom while she is rattling off town names. It is shown, without being identified by name, in Pinkie Pride and again in Twilight's Kingdom - Part 2. It is present on the official map of Equestria.

Shown, without being identified by name, in Pinkie Pride and again in Twilight's Kingdom - Part 2. Mentioned in Daring Do and the Eternal Flower. Featured in The Hooffields and McColts as the home of the Hooffield and McColt families. In Princess Luna and the Festival of the Winter Moon, Princess Luna is revealed to have first met Echo and Nocturn in the mountains. It is present on the official map of Equestria, and on the world overview map in Gameloft's mobile game. It is featured in My Little Pony: Cutie Map Quest A Punch-Out & Play Activity Book, according to which "The Smokey Mountains are two majestic peaks near Equestria's western shore. Between them lies a luscious valley where lots of critters live and play. Two pony families live on the mountains, the Hooffields and the McColts." Their name is a reference to the Great Smoky Mountains.

Shown, without being identified by name, in Daring Don't, and again in Pinkie Pride and Twilight's Kingdom - Part 2. Featured in A Dragon's Bounty.[4]​[​specify​]​ Mentioned by Rainbow Dash in Top Bolt and again in The Perfect Pear as the location to which Grand Pear and the Pear family moved in order to expand their family business some time before the series' present day. It is briefly featured in the eighth episode of Baby Flurry Heart's Heartfelt Scrapbook. It is also mentioned on Enterplay collectible card game α #31 R, a card of Full Steam, again in My Little Pony: Friends Forever Issue #34, and yet again in The Stormy Road to Canterlot. It is present on the official map of Equestria, and on the world overview map in Gameloft's mobile game. The name is a play on Vancouver. At the San Diego Comic-Con "Hasbro My Little Pony" panel on July 20, 2018, it was (mis)identified​[​specify​]​ as Princess Cadance's birthplace.

Featured but unnamed in Three's A Crowd; Discord calls it "a hill at the very edge of Equestria", which together with the official map of Equestria narrows down its placement to either the San Palomino Desert or the Badlands. Featured and named in Friendship University; Star Swirl the Bearded writes on a Hill Top postcard to Twilight Sparkle.

Shown, without being identified by name, in Pinkie Pride and again in Twilight's Kingdom - Part 2. Featured in Daring Do and the Forbidden City of Clouds. Mentioned on Enterplay collectible card game Absolute Discord #7 C and #ƒ5, cards of Cheese Sandwich, again on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #41 page 12, and yet again in The Stormy Road to Canterlot. It is present on the official map of Equestria.

Either this location or the Badlands is shown on a horizon far from Canterlot in A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2 and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #3 page 2 panel 1 and/or includes Hill Top.

Shown, without being identified by name, in Pinkie Pride and again in Twilight's Kingdom - Part 2. Featured in My Little Pony: Friends Forever Issue #31, Tails of Equestria, and The Curse of the Statuettes. Mentioned in My Little Pony The Movie. It is present on the official map of Equestria.

Either this location or the San Palomino Desert is shown on a horizon far from Canterlot in A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2 and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #3 page 2 panel 1 and/or includes Hill Top.

Featured in The Curse of the Statuettes.

Featured in The Curse of the Statuettes and The Festival of Lights.

An underground forest containing the Agari's home city Agarica detailed in The Festival of Lights and The Bestiary of Equestria.​[​specify​]​

Featured in The Curse of the Statuettes.

Featured in The Curse of the Statuettes.

Featured in The Curse of the Statuettes.

Featured in The Curse of the Statuettes.

Featured in The Curse of the Statuettes.

Featured in The Curse of the Statuettes.

Shown, without being identified by name, in Pinkie Pride and again in Twilight's Kingdom - Part 2. Featured in Daring Do and the Forbidden City of Clouds and A Dragon's Bounty.[4]​[​specify​]​ Mentioned on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #41 page 12. In My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #65. Unicorn Range is present on the official map of Equestria.

In the episode It Ain't Easy Being Breezies, Fluttershy says that the Breezies gather pollen from "western Equestria". An artificial breeze transports them in the episode, and they go through Ponyville, then a snowy place, then an arid one, and up to a cave above a canyon river and near a waterfall. An ephemeral portal in this cave leads to the Breezies' home: a minuscule town built among the mushrooms around a pond. Enterplay trading card series 3 #F2, a card of Seabreeze, and the official guidebook My Little Pony: The Elements of Harmony Volume II both list the location as "Breezie Village".

The Flame Geyser Swamp is a foggy swamp with flame geysers featured in Somepony to Watch Over Me and Road to Friendship. Apple Bloom travels through here during a pie delivery and encounters a chimera that Applejack saves her from.

Tartarus is first mentioned in It's About Time as a place where ancient, evil creatures are imprisoned, guarded by the three-headed dog Cerberus. The location is mentioned again in Twilight's Kingdom - Part 1, where Lord Tirek is stated to have been confined there for the attempted theft of Equestria's magic, but escaped during the events of the former episode. In Twilight's Kingdom - Part 2, Tartarus makes its first appearance when Tirek conjures a portal to banish Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, and Princess Cadance there in revenge for his own imprisonment; and later when Twilight Sparkle and her friends return Tirek to Tartarus and free the princesses. It is also mentioned on My Little Pony: Friends Forever Issue #14 page 11, in Slice of Life when Sweetie Drops says the bugbear attacking Ponyville originally escaped from there, on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #34 page 1, in a flashback in Celestial Advice when Celestia gets worried that Twilight might get pulled into Tartarus if she sends her off to Ponyville, and in My Little Pony: Legends of Magic Issue #11. In School Raze - Part 1, the Mane Six and Spike visit Tartarus when the magic in Equestria starts to disappear and they suspect Tirek to be the cause. In Part 2, the Mane Six and Spike escape from Tartarus only to find out they are too late to stop Cozy Glow. At the end of the episode, as punishment for her actions against Equestria, Cozy is sentenced to imprisonment within Tartarus. In The Beginning of the End - Part 1, Tirek and Cozy are freed from their imprisonment by Grogar when he magically transports them out of their cages. In My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #82, Tartarus is mentioned and its entrance is seen on page 18. Tartarus is based on the location of the same name in Greek mythology, being a deep, dark pit beneath the underworld where the wicked are condemned to eternal suffering. In It's About Time, Twilight Sparkle irregularly pronounces the name Tartarus as  /tɑrˈtɑrəs/ (tar-TAR-es), while it is pronounced in its traditional form as  /ˈtɑrtərəs/ (TAR-tar-us) in later episodes.

Featured briefly without identification in Twilight's Kingdom - Part 2, briefly with identification in the eighth episode of Baby Flurry Heart's Heartfelt Scrapbook, and prominently with identification in Once Upon a Zeppelin. Twilight Velvet goes barrel-jumping here during a free family zeppelin cruise. It is present on the official map of Equestria. Its name is a play on Niagara Falls.

This village, founded by Starlight Glimmer, is inhabited by various ponies, initially cutie unmarked and with rather insincere smiles. The village is visited by the Mane 6 in the season premiere of season five when the Castle of Friendship's Cutie Map points them to this location.

Discovery's VITAC captioning for The Break Up Break Down sometimes reinterprets Sugar Belle's name as Sugarville.

Sire's Hollow[note 2] is Starlight Glimmer and Sunburst's old hometown first featured in The Cutie Re-Mark - Part 2. It also appears in The Crystalling - Part 1 and The Parent Map. Starlight's father Firelight is the head of the town's Preservation Society, and Sunburst's mother Stellar Flare is the head of its Development Committee. It is named similarly to Stars Hollow, the fictional setting of Gilmore Girls.[10]

Seaward Shoals,[11] also called Silver Shoals by show staff[12] and in The Beginning of the End - Part 1 and The Last Problem, is a coastal town featured in P.P.O.V. (Pony Point of View), from which Applejack, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity embark on their cruise. It also briefly appears in Friendship University and The Point of No Return. Princesses Celestia and Luna later move to it after they retire in The Last Problem. Its various buildings are perched on stilts raised above the hilly coastline. Although not explicitly stated to be of Seaward Shoals, the flag flying from their vessel's mast is similar to the real-life flag of British Columbia, the province where My Little Pony's DHX Media Vancouver animation studio is located.

Princess Celestia and Princess Luna's retirement home, introduced in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #98. As with Maretime Bay, "Maretime" is a pun on "maritime".

Stratusburg is the hometown of Sky Stinger and Vapor Trail, mentioned in the season six episode Top Bolt. According to Vapor Trail, Sky Stinger was voted Stratusburg's most promising flyer while she was voted best sneeze. The city's name is derived from stratus clouds and possibly the French city of Strasbourg.

Somnambula is a desert village in Southern Equestria where the season seven episode Daring Done? takes place. It is named after the legendary pony of the same name. The village is first mentioned in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #53, also appears in My Little Pony: Legends of Magic Issue #5 and Issue #10, is mentioned again in Beyond Equestria: Rainbow Dash Rights the Ship, and appears again in Road to Friendship.

A bayou village featured in A Health of Information, briefly featured in A Rockhoof and a Hard Place, and Hayseed Junction in Growing Up is Hard to Do. It is the home village of Mage Meadowbrook. It is present on the official map of Equestria, which spells its name as "Hayseed Swamps" or "Haysead Swamps".

A remote mountain range featured in Sounds of Silence, it is the home of the Kirin, including Autumn Blaze. Applejack and Fluttershy are sent here by the Cutie Map to solve a friendship problem among the Kirin.

In My Little Pony Best Gift Ever, Pistachio self-deprecatingly identifies himself as being "from Nowhere, Equestria."

Introduced in My Little Pony Best Gift Ever as the family acorn farm of Oak Nut, Butternut, and Pistachio.

A retirement community for senior ponies. Twilight and Spike visit in search of Dusty Pages during The Point of No Return.

A mountain covered in heavy winds featured in Frenemies and on the official map of Equestria. According to Discord, Gusty the Great stole Grogar's Bewitching Bell and hid it in a magically-protected cave at the top of this mountain. Cozy Glow, Lord Tirek, and Queen Chrysalis work together to climb the mountain and retrieve the Bell. The mountain and its name are a play on Mount Everest.

A small town featured in My Little Pony: Rainbow Roadtrip. Called "the end of the rainbow", it was initially an idyllic place which celebrated a Rainbow Festival every year. For a time, the town and its inhabitants lost their colors after the inhabitants lost their sense of hope.

Trottingham is mentioned in Stare Master, where Rarity is making 20 gold-lined gowns for ponies there, and later mentioned in Luna Eclipsed, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #15, Simple Ways, My Little Pony: FIENDship is Magic Issue #3, and Crusaders of the Lost Mark. Its residents include Pipsqueak before a move, Queen Trottingham in a story, and Sassy Saddles before a move. On the official map, it is located in the Griffish Isles east of Equestria. It is also mentioned on Enterplay trading card series 2 #46, a card of Sir Lintsalot. It is probably a portmanteau of 'Nottingham', an English city, and 'trot', a jogging speed for horses.

Featured in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #2. It is present on the official map of Equestria.

Shown on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #2 pages 1 and 22 and featured in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #25 and Issue #26.

Shown on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #2 page 22, mentioned on The Fall of Sunset Shimmer page 5, My Little Pony: Friends Forever Issue #8 page 20, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #41 page 12, and My Little Pony: Friends Forever Issue #38 page 4, and appears in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #67. Its name is a play on New Orleans, Louisiana.

Shown on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #2 page 22 and mentioned on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #41 page 12.

On My Little Pony: Friends Forever Issue #6 pages 2-3, the Green Mountains are depicted on a map showing the route from Ponyville to Dimondia and mentioned by Rainbow Dash.

On My Little Pony: Friends Forever Issue #6 pages 2-3, Toomba Forest is depicted on a map showing the route from Ponyville to Dimondia and mentioned by Rainbow Dash.

Featured in My Little Pony: Friends Forever Issue #6 and mentioned on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #21 page 1 when Trixie is being introduced prior to her magic act.

Briefly featured in My Little Pony: Friends Forever Issue #8 and My Little Pony: Legends of Magic Issue #6 and shown on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #65 page 3. Its name is a play on Salt Lake City, Utah.

Mentioned on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #1 cover F, briefly featured in My Little Pony: Friends Forever Issue #8, mentioned again on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #34 page 1 and Issue #41 page 12, and briefly featured again in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #65. Its name is a play on Seattle, Washington.

Mentioned on My Little Pony Micro-Series Issue #3 page 3, shown on My Little Pony: Friends Forever Issue #8 page 22, mentioned again on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #25 page 2, Issue #34 page 4, and Issue #41 page 12, and appears in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #67. Its name is a play on Chicago, Illinois.

Monacolt is a coastal city featured in Princess Celestia and the Summer of Royal Waves and mentioned in Princess Twilight Sparkle and the Forgotten Books of Autumn, The Festival of Lights, and The Bestiary of Equestria. It is ruled by Duchess Diamond Waves and home to the Monacolt Magic Academy. Its name is a play on Monaco.

Featured in My Little Pony: Friends Forever Issue #31. It is present on the official map of Equestria.

Featured in My Little Pony: Legends of Magic Issue #6. Mage Meadowbrook stops here during her travels across Equestria, and she saves its population from a terrible epidemic.

Briefly featured in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #65. Its name is a play on Toledo.

Mentioned on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #20 page 3 and Issue #41 page 12 and appears in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #67. Its name is a play on Honolulu.

Featured at the beginning of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #82. Not Ponyville, according to Toni Kuusisto; scripted as "another town".[13]

Briefly featured in My Little Pony: Feats of Friendship. The homeland of the Thracian pony tribe, ruled by King Diomedes. Swift Foot and her older sisters live here. It is named after the real-life region of Southern Europe.

Featured in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #83. Its name is a play on Scotland.

Mentioned in The Last Crusade and featured at the beginning of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #93. Scootaloo's parents Snap Shutter and Mane Allgood take on a new job assignment there, and a train runs between there and Ponyville once per month. Its name is a play on Sri Lanka.

Maretime Bay is the main setting of My Little Pony: A New Generation and various storybooks and software and the home of all Earth ponies, including main characters Sunny Starscout and Hitch Trailblazer. It is a coastal city with a lighthouse where Sunny lives, a tram system, a cinema, and the Canterlogic factory building owned and managed by Phyllis Cloverleaf. Multiple "anti-unicorn" traps are built into the city streets. As with Maretime Manor, "Maretime" is a pun on "maritime".

In My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale, Sunny's lighthouse is renovated into the Crystal Brighthouse in the short A Home to Share, while Pipp Petals opens a musical hair salon in Welcome to Mane Melody. An art museum called the Hoouvre and a rope-climbing course are featured in The Unboxing of Izzy.

In the film's concept art, Maretime Bay was originally Ponyville, and it had a wall around the city to keep unicorns and Pegasi out and a rainbow factory, where Sunny worked.

Zephyr Heights is the home of all Pegasi, including Pipp Petals and Zipp Storm, in My Little Pony: A New Generation. It is a technologically advanced metropolis that rests on the peak of a tall mountain, with multiple skyscrapers, a castle where Pipp, Zipp, and their mother Queen Haven live, sprawling shopping centers, and an abandoned hot-air balloon station through which Earth ponies and unicorns used to visit the city. Much of the city is connected through computer networks and smartphones.

In the film's concept art, Zephyr Heights was originally Cloudsdale.

Bridlewood is the home of all unicorns, including Izzy Moonbow, in My Little Pony: A New Generation. It is a small town located in the middle of a large forest, with unicorn dwellings and other structures built directly into the trees and crystals growing out of the ground. The Crystal Tea Room, a local dining establishment, is run by Alphabittle. In contrast to the Earth ponies and Pegasi, the town has far less advanced technology; the primary piece of tech featured is powered by two armadillos in hamster wheels.

In the film's concept art, Bridlewood was originally located in the Everfree Forest.

Prancing Point is a cliff peak, located within hiking distance of Maretime Bay. Sunny Starscout and her friends take a trip there in the My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale episode Sunny-Day Dinners.

Equestria's dark castle owned by Opaline. It is situated on the side of a cliff; My Little Pony: Meet the Ponies of Maretime Bay Equestria-maps Opaline's Dark Castle northwest from Maretime Bay and west from Bridlewood. The interior is first seen in the My Little Pony: Make Your Mark special, with the outside being revealed in the series.

A few regions take part in the Equestria Games. Among these participants there are flags of Dodge Junction (also seen in The Last Roundup), the Griffon Kingdom (called as such in My Little Pony Micro-Series Issue #5 and My Little Pony: Friends Forever Issue #26), the Crystal Empire, Cloudsdale, Appleloosa (also seen in Over a Barrel), Ponyville, and unspecified others.

Hoofington is a location mentioned by Trixie in Boast Busters as the site of her made-up battle with an ursa. The suffix -ington is derived from old English for "town". The name is quite similar to that of a political news website, The Huffington Post, and many cities named Huntington, the biggest being Huntington, New York.

Mentioned in Magic Duel, My Little Pony: Friends Forever Issue #32, My Little Pony The Movie, and Road to Friendship, Princess Celestia arrives in Ponyville with two representatives from this region in the earlier episode, Ahuizotl mentions remembering the scheme Dr. Caballeron pulled in Saddle Arabia, S04E26 Unnamed Earth Mare #1 exclaims to Apple Cobbler that "Everypony from Manehattan to Saddle Arabia is" in Canterlot for the Friendship Festival in the film, and Saddle Arabian unicorn Hoo'Far states that Saddle Arabia has "many fans" of Trixie in the later episode. The name is a play on the real life desert region kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Mentioned in the episode Games Ponies Play by Ms. Peachbottom. In the episode, she tells Shining Armor that she is "just an ordinary wild mustang from Mustangia". The name 'Mustangia' is a play on the word 'mustang', a breed of wild horses.

Mentioned in the episode Three's A Crowd by Princess Cadance. The "caverns of Maretania" are said to be a place explored by Star Swirl the Bearded. The name is a play on Mauritania.

The duke and duchess of Maretonia appear in attendance of the Equestria Games in the episode of the same name. They appear again in Twilight's Kingdom - Part 1 and visit the Crystal Empire for a summit with Celestia, Luna, and Cadance. Maretonia is also mentioned in Princess Celestia and the Summer of Royal Waves and by Cadance and Shining Armor in The One Where Pinkie Pie Knows. The name is a play on such names as Macedonia, or Estonia.

Mentioned in Appleoosa's Most Wanted.

Mentioned in Appleoosa's Most Wanted.

Mentioned in Slice of Life. Steven Magnet states that Cranky Doodle Donkey once saved him from this location.

A delegate from Whinnyapolis appears in Princess Spike. A tourist couple from Whinnyapolis appears in Spice Up Your Life. The name of the city also appears on signs on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #1 cover F, Issue #20 page 3, and Issue #34 page 3. The name is a play on the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Mentioned by Discord in Dungeons & Discords, mentioned again in Mage Meadowbrook's story in My Little Pony: Legends of Magic Issue #6, and also mentioned in Gameloft's mobile game. It is implied to be a tropical beach location with "sand like powdered sugar". The name is a play on the real-life Venezuelan city of Puerto Cabello and "caballo", the Spanish word for horse. It may also be a play on resort locations such as Puerto Rico and Puerto Vallarta.

Mentioned by Applejack during her and Rarity's accounts in P.P.O.V. (Pony Point of View).

Mentioned in Twilight Sparkle and the Crystal Heart Spell and on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #1 cover F, Issue #20 page 3, and Issue #41 page 12. Its names are plays on San Francisco.

Mentioned in Twilight Sparkle and the Crystal Heart Spell. Its name is a play on New York.

Mentioned in Twilight Sparkle and the Crystal Heart Spell. Mythica University is mentioned in Rainbow Dash and the Daring Do Double Dare, Starlight Glimmer and the Secret Suite, and Princess Twilight Sparkle and the Forgotten Books of Autumn. Its name is a play on Ithaca.

Mentioned on The Fall of Sunset Shimmer page 5 on a book cover and in the Ponyville Mysteries series of chapter books as the original hometown of Lilymoon and her family. Its name is a play on Transylvania.

Mentioned in Rarity and the Curious Case of Charity. Its name is a play on New Mexico.

Mentioned in Daring Do and the Marked Thief of Marapore.

Mentioned in Daring Do and the Marked Thief of Marapore. Its name is a play on the real life Yucatán Peninsula.

Mentioned in Daring Do and the Marked Thief of Marapore. Their name is a play on the real life Galapagos Islands.

Mentioned in Daring Do and the Marked Thief of Marapore. Its name is a play on the real life Tlatelolco.

Mentioned in Daring Do and the Eternal Flower. The site where the legendary Mooncurve the Cunning is said to have found the Eternal Flower. It is also where Gallant True found the two Everleaves.

Mentioned on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #25 page 1. Its name is a play on the real life Turkey.

Mentioned on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #26 page 22.

Mentioned on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #26 page 22.

Mentioned in the IDW comics' Siege of the Crystal Empire.

Mentioned in the "About the Author" bio of Ponyville Mysteries chapter books "author" Penumbra Quill as where she originally grew up. Rebecca Dart earlier stated regarding "Tropical Dream", "She is supposed to be a representative of Calihoofornia or some such place."[14] Its name is a play on California.

Mentioned in Gameloft's mobile game during the "Trot Secret" group quest.

According to Jim Miller, an equivalent of Australia in Equestria would be called "AusTAILia."[15] Rhona Rees earlier called Rolling Thunder Aussie/Australian.[16]

A location mentioned the Gameloft's mobile game during "The Pony Whisperer" event where Ponish is not the primary spoken language. It is home to a character named "Spooky Dignitary" in the game. Its name is a play on Germany.

Most locations in the television series and associated media aren't specified whether they're part of Equestria or not. Some information in the show sometimes vaguely references areas outside Equestria, and even though Equestria is a kingdom it encompasses other kingdoms within it, which creates further ambiguity. The founding and naming of Equestria itself is depicted in the episode Hearth's Warming Eve. These elements, and some stylistic elements, create the impression of other geographical locations:

Maretropolis is a fictional city featured in the season four episode Power Ponies and the My Little Pony Annual 2014 comic. It is a large urban setting with many skyscrapers; it shares its design with Baltimare. The Lilac Sky Airship flies overhead. Buildings featured or mentioned in the city include the Maretropolis Museum, which houses the Electro-Orb that the Mane-iac steals; an abandoned shampoo factory that serves as the Mane-iac's top secret headquarters; a bakery sixty-five blocks away from the factory; the Power Ponies' headquarters; and Balkham Asylum, where the city's most dangerous criminals are jailed. Other features seen on the street are a mailbox and a pretzel stand. Its name is a play on the DC Comics fictional city of Metropolis.

The homeland of Lord Tirek and his brother Scorpan, mentioned in Twilight's Kingdom - Part 1 and featured in My Little Pony: FIENDship is Magic Issue #2.

Griffonstone is a city populated by griffons. It has a rich history centered around an ancient treasure called the Idol of Boreas. The Griffon Kingdom is mentioned in the My Little Pony Micro-Series Issue #5, by Pinkie Pie, and My Little Pony: Friends Forever Issue #26. The official map reads "Yonder to Griffons →" near its right – eastern – edge.

Yakyakistan is the yak kingdom featured in the episode Party Pooped exteriorly, in My Little Pony: Friends Forever Issue #26 exteriorly and interiorly, in the eighth episode of Baby Flurry Heart's Heartfelt Scrapbook exteriorly, in Not Asking for Trouble exteriorly and interiorly, in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #55, in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #56, in Yakity-Sax exteriorly and interiorly, in My Little Pony Best Gift Ever, and in My Little Pony: Nightmare Knights Issue #2. It is also briefly seen in Uprooted and The Ending of the End - Part 2. Twilight Sparkle mentions it is located north of the Crystal Empire, in a snowy region ruled by the yak Prince Rutherford, which had previously closed off its borders to Equestria for "hundreds" of moons. Pinkie Pie travels within an afternoon to the gates of Yakyakistan, but she slides off an icy cliff all the way back to Ponyville. Prince Blueblood, Shining Armor, and some royal guards visit Yakyakistan for a diplomatic mission to set up a trade agreement between it and the Crystal Empire. It is first mentioned on Enterplay collectible card game Absolute Discord #7 C and #ƒ5, cards of Cheese Sandwich, and later mentioned in Dungeons & Discords as the site of an overnight goodwill tour hosted by Princess Celestia. In My Little Pony: Friends Forever Issue #24, yaks represent Yakyakistan in a Boffyball game against Griffonstone, and in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #89 Twilight adds Yakyakistan to an outdated map of Equestria.

Chaosville is Discord's realm and residence. It is first seen in Make New Friends but Keep Discord and first named as such in Discord and the Ponyville Players Dramarama. It is also mentioned in Celestial Advice and The Maud Couple, and featured in Discordant Harmony, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #57, Ponyville Mysteries: Cursed Crusaders, the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #75-78 story arc Cosmos, and briefly seen in The Last Problem.

Two location designs have been referred to as "the Changeling Kingdom", without specifying whether they are different locations like Rainbow Dash's Cloudominium or one redesigned location like Zecora's Hut.

The temporary Changeling Kingdom appears in the IDW comics' My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issues #1-4 The Return of Queen Chrysalis and My Little Pony: FIENDship is Magic Issue #5 The Many Tales of Queen Chrysalis and is mentioned in Baby Flurry Heart's Heartfelt Scrapbook Ep. 1 The Royal Wedding. Following A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2, Queen Chrysalis and other changelings are knocked far south from Equestria to "Wuvy-Dovey Smoochy Land", which they conquer and transform into their new center of operations. Here, they are defeated by Twilight Sparkle and are imprisoned within the castle, from which they eventually escape and flee.

The current Changeling Kingdom is alluded to in The Times They Are A Changeling and appears in To Where and Back Again - Part 1, in To Where and Back Again - Part 2, and in Gameloft's mobile game. Here, Chrysalis is dethroned and Thorax succeeds her as changeling leader; it also appears in a magical simulation in Celestial Advice.

In To Change a Changeling, with Chrysalis's throne destroyed, the kingdom's plants have started to regrow, though this has attracted maulwurfs. A new throne for Thorax is made out of trees and vines, and the changelings have adopted several new activities including theatre, dancing, and arts and crafts. Fluttershy visits the Changeling Kingdom briefly in School Daze - Part 2. Changelings celebrate Hearth's Warming at the Changeling Kingdom in The Hearth's Warming Club and again in My Little Pony Best Gift Ever. The kingdom is briefly seen again in Uprooted and The Ending of the End - Part 2.

A desert featured in My Little Pony The Movie and named in Gameloft's mobile game and in The Official Movie Sourcebook. It is located to the south of Equestria's Forbidden Jungle. The Mane Six travel through it on their way to Klugetown.

Klugetown, pronounced in Father Knows Beast as /ˈkluːdʒtaʊn/ KLOOJ-town by Pinkie Pie and /ˈkluːʒtaʊn/ KLOOZH-town by Sludge, is a diversely-populated desert town featured in My Little Pony The Movie, The Stormy Road to Canterlot, My Little Pony: The Movie Prequel, Gameloft's mobile game, The Official Movie Sourcebook, in Capper's My Little Pony: Nightmare Knights Issue #4 page 1 dream, and in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #76. It is also one of various listings on a My Little Pony The Movie A5 Notebook. The My Little Pony: The Movie Look and Find book describes it as "a place where everything has its price." It is similar to Pompton Lakes' former Klugetown Shopping Center both in name and in association with sales.

In My Little Pony: The Movie Prequel Issue #1 page 1, Klugetown is mapped within Abyssinia, but on the film's official website, in Gameloft's mobile game, and in The Official Movie Sourcebook, it is mapped within the Bone Dry Desert.

It is also indirectly referenced by Rarity in School Daze - Part 1 as "that horrid town where we were almost sold" when it is added to the Cutie Map. Klugetown is also referenced by name in Father Knows Beast, and in the bio for Mean Applejack in Gameloft's mobile game.

It received another mention in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #96, while Capper recaps his past.

Mount Aris is featured in My Little Pony The Movie and in The Official Movie Sourcebook as the location of the Hippogriff Kingdom. It is south of the Badlands, and near Klugetown. Mount Aris also appears in Surf and/or Turf and Uprooted, and is illustrated in The Hearth's Warming Club, Father Knows Beast, and Between Dark and Dawn.

The capital of the Hippogriff kingdom in My Little Pony The Movie and The Stormy Road to Canterlot, located atop Mount Aris. When Tempest Shadow infiltrates the city in an attempt to steal a magical pearl from Queen Novo, the city is destroyed in a battle between the Hippogriffs and the Storm King's forces, and it is abandoned when the Hippogriffs teleport into hiding. In the film, Twilight and her friends travel to the ruined city in search of the Hippogriffs. Hippogriffia also appears in Surf and/or Turf, restored to its former glory.

The current home of the Hippogriffs/seaponies in My Little Pony The Movie and in The Official Movie Sourcebook, to which they fled after their original home of Hippogriffia was destroyed by the Storm King's forces. It is ruled by Queen Novo. Seaquestria also appears in Surf and/or Turf, as an illustration in Silverstream's story in The Hearth's Warming Club, The Ending of the End - Part 2, and the chapter book Beyond Equestria: Fluttershy Balances the Scales.

A beach near Mount Aris featured, but unnamed, in My Little Pony The Movie. The Mane Six wash up on its shores after being banished from Seaquestria, and it is where Tempest Shadow captures Twilight Sparkle. It is named in Gameloft's mobile game and in The Official Movie Sourcebook.

Appears in Sludge's story in Father Knows Beast, stated to be "a prison world of dragon hunters".

An archipelago of five islands featured in Daring Do and the Eternal Flower. The largest island, Octave, is home to the Grotto of the Moon, a hidden garden where the Eternal Flower blooms.

In the episode Three's A Crowd, Discord asks for pastries from Abyssinia in the song Glass of Water. On My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #43 page 1, Rarity mentions that the kingdom of Abyssinia is "strangely litigious." In My Little Pony: The Movie Prequel Issue #1, Abyssinia is shown to include Catskills, Henry, Klugetown, Litterbox Ridge, Panthera, Siam, and Tabbytown; Strife mentions on page 3 that the Storm King's armada has conquered all of Abyssinia but the capital, Panthera, which they begin to invade on page 5. Abyssinia is also mentioned on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #61 page 18, in Gameloft's mobile game, throughout My Little Pony: Ponyville Mysteries Issue #5, indirectly on My Little Pony: Nightmare Knights Issue #2 page 8, and on a map on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #89 page 5. In IDW comics' "Season 10", Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy lead an expedition to Abyssinia. In My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #99, Marble Pie gets accepted to the University of Abyssinia. In My Little Pony: Classics Reimagined – Little Fillies Issue #1, Abyssinia is depicted as being at war with Caninia.

Abyssinia's capital, introduced in My Little Pony: The Movie Prequel Issue #1. Also featured in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #96 and Issue #97. It is inhabited by anthropomorphic talking cats, such as Capper and Chummer; at least one pony appears here as well, though the pony in question, September, also appears in numerous other settings. It is ruled by the tyrannical and magic-hating King Meowmeow until his removal from power at the end of Issue #97.

An impoverished city featured in The Stormy Road to Canterlot, inhabited by various creatures. Tempest Shadow briefly lives here during her youth.

An area of hills containing the Bleak Valley featured in The Stormy Road to Canterlot. Tempest Shadow meets the Storm King for the first time here.

A location mentioned by the Storm King in The Stormy Road to Canterlot.

A location mentioned in Beyond Equestria: Rainbow Dash Rights the Ship and featured in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #100 as the birthplace of Captain Celaeno and her fellow parrots. It is ruled by King Thaumas and Queen Ozomene, their son Prince Aello, and their daughter Ocypete, all of whom also serve as four of the six Elements of Love.

A region of Ornithia, between the base of the mountains and the summit, that is occupied by parrots. Mentioned in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #89 and Issue #100.

A large mountain in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #61 where the Convocation of Creatures is held.

Featured in the first story arc of the IDW comics' "Season 10". Farasi is a coastal region faraway from Equestria, occupied by zebras, abada, and kelpies, and it is Zecora's original homeland. Its name is the Swahili word for "horse".

Casabronco is a port town in Farasi. Applejack and her friends arrive in Farasi by making port here in Cranky Doodle Donkey's ship. Its name is a play on Casablanca.

Zebrat is the capital city of Farasi. It is the hometown of Zecora, her childhood friends, and Prince Abraxas.

Featured in My Little Pony Annual 2021. Caninia is a faraway kingdom of Diamond Dogs initially ruled by Queen Katherina Proudpaws. It was later split into two, and one half was ruled by Katherina and the other half by her sister Jennino Lanternlight. Further later, it becomes one kingdom again and is ruled by Katherina, Jennino, and their sisters Moonbeam Twinkletail, Ambrosia Muffinbuns, Fiona Floppyears, and Indiana Embereyes. In My Little Pony: Classics Reimagined – Little Fillies Issue #1, Caninia is depicted as being at war with Abyssinia.

An island nation, place of origin for the Knights of Harmony and five of the Trees of Harmony. Mentioned in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #100 and depicted in flashbacks in Issue #102.

Located east of Equestia. Analogous to the real world Atlantic Ocean.

Mentioned in Daring Do and the Marked Thief of Marapore.

Located north of Griffonstone.

Located in Baltimare. Traveled to in My Little Pirate: Friendship Ahoy. Also appears in Daring Do and the Marked Thief of Marapore and is mentioned in Daring Do and the Eternal Flower, Daring Do and the Forbidden City of Clouds, Fluttershy and the Fine Furry Friends Fair, and Princess Celestia and the Summer of Royal Waves. Analogous to Chesapeake Bay and named after several North American locations.

Located northwest of Vanhoover. Mentioned in Campfire Tales. Analogous to the real world Gulf of Alaska.

Located west of Equestria and split between the North Luna Ocean and South Luna Ocean. In The Bestiary of Equestria.​[​specify​]​ Analogous to the real world Pacific Ocean.

Featured in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #98. Inhabited by the kraken.

Celestial objects are a recurring theme in the show and associated media.

The show starts with the story of the two regal sisters, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. The narration says "the eldest used her unicorn powers to raise the sun at dawn. The younger brought out the moon to begin the night."

When Luna refuses to lower the moon, she was banished in the moon by Celestia.

The sun is also a character.

In My Little Pony: FIENDship is Magic Issue #4, the moon is inhabited by nyx, creatures who shape the dreams of sleeping ponies and dispel their nightmares. Under the guise of friendship, Nightmare Moon learns how to control and enter dreams from the nyx and later transforms them into the Nightmare Forces.

The My Little Pony Equestria Girls series feature a human world, also called the Equestria Girls World,[20] populated by multicolored humans. In Equestria Girls, Twilight Sparkle and Spike travel by means of a magic mirror to the human world, where there are many human counterparts to the characters that appear in the television series. Most of the film takes place in Canterlot High School, the surrounding city, a coffee shop similar to Sugarcube Corner, and a clothing shop similar to Carousel Boutique.

In Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks and its animated shorts, more locations are featured: a music store, an animal shelter where Fluttershy works, Applejack's house, the Flim Flam Brothers' Everything-Under-the-Sun Emporium, a cafe where the Dazzlings first appear, Pinkie Pie's house, and an amphitheater that serves as the venue for the final round of the Battle of the Bands.

Equestria Girls: Friendship Games introduces Canterlot High's rival school Crystal Prep Academy, which human Twilight attends. Equestria Girls: Legend of Everfree introduces Camp Everfree. In the Equestria Girls Holiday Special comic, Rarity's house is briefly featured.

Limbo between realms is featured in My Little Pony Equestria Girls and also appears in IDW comics. Limbo between Equestria and the human world appears as a vortex—traveled through by Twilight Sparkle and Spike—in Equestria Girls and its screenplay novelization Equestria Girls: Through the Mirror and is featured—used as a trap for the Mane 7 by Juniper Montage—in Equestria Girls: Mirror Magic;[21][22][23] limbo between Equestria and alternate Equestria appears as a vortex—traveled through by the seven main characters—in Friendship is Magic Issue #18. Limbo between Maretropolis and a human world appears as a vortex—traveled through by the Mane-iac—in Return of the Mane-iac. In the season seven finale Shadow Play, Star Swirl the Bearded and the Pillars of Old Equestria trapped the Pony of Shadows and themselves in limbo for a thousand years before being released in present day. In Forgotten Friendship limbo appears again as a vortex that Sunset Shimmer travels through between the human world and Equestria.

In My Little Pony: Pony Life season two, the Mane 6 visit "another dimension where they will meet some truly wild new friends."[19]

The Reflections story arc features an alternate Equestria initially ruled by a benevolent King Sombra. The arc also briefly features other alternate dimensions, including one in which dinosaurs possess cutie marks.

In My Little Pony: Legends of Magic Issue #1, a young Princess Luna opens a portal to another dimension and gets abducted by its inhabitants. In the Legends of Magic Annual 2018 comic, both Celestia and Luna are captured and taken back to the same world, which is revealed to be an alternate Equestria ruled by the Pony of Shadows. My Little Pony: Nightmare Knights later features this alternate dimension as home to an interdimensional casino, which is run by Princess Eris. According to Jeremy Whitley, this world and Equestria (Reflections storyline) are separate.[24]

My Little Pony: The Manga – A Day in the Life of Equestria features a number of alternate worlds.[25] These include an Equestria inhabited by cookie-craving zombies, one filled with multiple versions of Rarity, and several others.​[​specify​]​

The Haunting of Equestria features an alternate Equestria known as the Shadow Realm, which is ruled over by Luna's evil counterpart Princess Argent. After losing to her 1000 years previously, her sister Princess Solar leads a resistance force known as the Hooves of Light.[26][27]

Enterplay trading card series 4 card #F26 gives Nightmare Star the description "While visiting alternate worlds, Star Swirl the Bearded found one where Celestia ruled Equestria in eternal day as the terrifying Nightmare Star. He destroyed the mirror to that world and never told a single pony about it."[28]

Maps of Equestria and other locations in the series are featured in the series, comics, and merchandise.

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is an animated children's television series based on the fourth incarnation of Hasbro's My Little Pony franchise. The series follows a studious unicorn (later an alicorn) pony named Twilight Sparkle (Tara Strong) and her friends, Applejack (Ashleigh Ball), Rarity (Tabitha St. Germain), Fluttershy (Andrea Libman), Rainbow Dash (Ball), Pinkie Pie (Libman), and her dragon assistant Spike (Cathy Weseluck). They travel on adventures and help others around Equestria, solving problems with their friendships.

Animated in Flash, the series aired on Discovery Family (formerly The Hub) from October 10, 2010, to October 12, 2019. Hasbro selected animator Lauren Faust as creative director and executive producer. Faust created deeper characters and adventurous settings, seeking a show resembling how she had played with her toys and incorporating fantasy elements. However, due to hectic production schedules and a lack of creative control, she left the series during its second season.

Friendship Is Magic became one of the highest-rated productions in The Hub's history. Despite its target demographic of young girls, the series attracted an unexpectedly large following of older viewers, mainly adult men, who call themselves "bronies". The series gave Hasbro new merchandising opportunities. A spin-off franchise (My Little Pony: Equestria Girls) was launched in 2013, and ran alongside the series for six years. A feature-length film adaptation based on the television series, My Little Pony: The Movie, was released in October 2017 in the United States. My Little Pony: Pony Life, a spin-off comedy series, premiered on Discovery Family in November 2020.

In the kingdom of Equestria, its three species of ponies—earth ponies, pegasi, and unicorns—live harmoniously. Twilight Sparkle, a studious unicorn, travels to Ponyville to learn about friendship at the urging of Equestria's ruler (and her mentor) Princess Celestia. Twilight and Spike, her dragon assistant, become close friends with five other ponies: Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie Pie. The ponies discover that they represent different facets of friendship, with magical artifacts known as Elements of Harmony. They have adventures and help others in and around Equestria, solving problems in their friendships.

Hasbro has produced several incarnations of the My Little Pony franchise, often called "generations" by the toy line's collectors.[10][11] With many brands, including My Little Pony, the company uses a multi-generational plan.[12] The Transformers film (2007) inspired Hasbro, since it helped to increase sales of the Transformers toy line; the company wanted to retool the My Little Pony franchise to appeal to the young-girl demographic.[7] According to Margaret Loesch, CEO of The Hub, revisiting properties which had been successful was an important decision; it was somewhat influenced by the network's programming executives, several of whom were fans of the shows.[13] According to Hasbro senior vice president Linda Steiner, the company "intended to have the show appeal to a larger demographic"; the network was trying to create shows that parents and children would watch together.[14] Central themes Hasbro sought for the show included friendship and cooperation, determined from market research in how girls played with toys.[15]

Animator and writer Lauren Faust approached Hasbro to develop "Galaxy Girls", her girls'-toy property, into an animated series.[16] Faust, who had worked on Cartoon Network's The Powerpuff Girls (1998–2005) and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (2004–2009), had unsuccessfully pitched animation aimed at girls for years.[17] When Faust approached Lisa Licht of Hasbro Studios, Licht was uninterested but showed Faust the My Little Pony special Princess Promenade (2006). Licht thought that Faust's style was suitable for that line, and asked her to consider "some ideas [on] where to take a new version of the franchise".[7][16][18]

Faust was initially hired by Hasbro to create a pitch bible for the show, enabling her to get additional help with ideas.[7] She was "extremely skeptical" about taking the job, because she thought that shows based on girls' toys were dull.[17] Although My Little Pony was one of her favorite childhood toys,[16] Faust was disappointed by the television shows; the characters "just had endless tea parties, giggled over nothing and defeated villains by either sharing with them or crying". With the chance to work on My Little Pony, she hoped to prove that "cartoons for girls don't have to be a puddle of smooshy, cutesy-wootsy, goody-two-shoeness" like the original series.[17] Faust incorporated many elements contradicting stereotypes of girls – diverse personalities, the message that friends can differ and remain friends, and the idea that girls should not be limited by what others say – into the design of the characters and the series.[17] Elements of the characters' personalities and the show's settings were based on her childhood imagination of the ponies' adventures, inspired by shows such as Transformers (1984–1987) and G.I. Joe (1983–1986) which her brothers watched.[19] According to Faust, she was making Friendship Is Magic "for [herself] as an eight-year-old".[20] Faust wanted the characters to be relatable, using "icons of girliness" (such as a waif or a bookworm) to broaden their appeal to a young female audience.[21]

Using her childhood as a guide, she imagined the three types of ponies—unicorns, pegasi, and earth ponies—with different cultures and living in different places. Faust pictured the unicorns in the mountains, the pegasi in the clouds, and the earth ponies on the ground.[22] She envisioned them as realistic horses who ate hay, lived in barns, pulled carts, wore saddles, and picked up objects with their mouths.[23]

Faust said that Hasbro's positive response to non-traditional elements inspired her as she gave the company more ideas for the show. Although she pitched a balance of adventure and relationship stories, she de-emphasized adventures and focused on exchanges between characters for pragmatic reasons. The show incorporated creatures intended to frighten children, such as dragons and hydras, but emphasized friendships among the characters which were leavened with humor. When the series was approved, Faust had developed three full scripts.[7]

Faust drew concept sketches, several of which appeared on her fyre-fly DeviantArt page. They included ideas about how she envisioned the original series' ponies – Applejack, the cowgirl; Firefly, the "badass"; the bubbly, enthusiastic Surprise; Posey, the kind, shy pony who loved other animals; and Sparkler, the fashion artist – which inspired this series' main cast.[24][25][26] Hasbro approved the show with Faust as executive producer,[27] and asked her to complete the pitch bible. She hired Martin Ansolabehere and Paul Rudish, with whom she had worked on other animated shows. Faust credited Rudish with inspiring Nightmare Moon, a villain who appears in the premiere episode "Friendship Is Magic", and the pegasus ponies' control of the weather; she then imagined the ponies as stewards of their world who made weather happen, flowers grow, and animals thrive.[28] She also consulted her husband Craig McCracken, creator of The Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. In six weeks, Faust sketched over 40 pages of "the universe that had existed in her 8-year-old mind".[29]

The visual collaboration brought a unique style to Friendship Is Magic. Pennsylvania Dutch design, steampunk fantasy art, European fairy tales, and Bavarian folk art influenced the original pony world.[22] Designing the settings, Faust sent photos to artist Dave Dunnet. Ponyville was based on German cottages, with a fairy-tale quality and equine elements such as horseshoe-shaped archways, hay bales, and troughs.[30][31] Canterlot was based on castles and cathedrals, giving it a European feel;[32] its location on a mountain and its purple-and-gold palette conveyed royalty and aspiration.[33] Fantasy inspired elements of the series which were modified to suit its setting, story, and target audience.[34] After seeing the initial version of the pitch bible, Hasbro requested more character designs and hired Dunnet and Lynne Naylor to refine the background and characters.[7]

After the pitch bible was completed, Hasbro and Faust evaluated animation studios. Studio B Productions (renamed DHX Media on September 8, 2010)[35] worked on Macromedia Flash-based animations and shows featuring animals. Faust felt that the studio would be a good fit, and agreed that Jayson Thiessen should direct. Faust, Thiessen, and James Wootton (who later became a director) presented a two-minute pitch to Hasbro, which approved the production. Faust estimated the time between being asked to develop the show and its approval at about one year.[7] The foundation of the series took roughly two years.[23]

Faust's initial writing staff at Hasbro Studios included several with whom she had worked on other shows and were approved by Hasbro, such as Amy Keating Rogers, Cindy Morrow, Meghan McCarthy, Chris Savino, Charlotte Fullerton, M.A. Larson, and Dave Polsky.[7] McCarthy accepted Faust's invitation due to her dedication.[36] Composer William Anderson presented a blind audition to Hasbro for Friendship Is Magic; the company admired his incidental music, and selected him.[37]

After the first season's finale aired, Faust announced that she had stepped down as executive producer to become consulting producer. Her involvement in the second season consisted primarily of story concepts and scripts, and she left after that season.[38] In an interview with New York magazine, Faust said that her reasons for leaving were a combination of hectic production schedules and a lack of creative control.[39] McCracken said that Faust's departure was due to its being a toy company-driven show, and there was "still some frustration" with being unable to bring some of her ideas to the screen.[40]

Initially scheduled to work on its fifth season, McCarthy gave up most of her work on the series to write My Little Pony: The Movie (2017).[41] After Thiessen also left to work on the film, Jim Miller became supervising director; Denny Lu, who had led the animation, replaced Miller as director. During season six, layout supervisor Tim Stuby was also appointed as a director to assist Miller and Lu.[42]

Writing began with the premise and "getting a nugget of a story to build upon" at Hasbro.[43] Faust and Rob Renzetti conceived broad plots for each episode, and held a brainstorming session with each episode's writer to flesh out scenes and dialogue. They worked with the writer to finalize the script and provide basic storyboard instructions. Hasbro was involved throughout the process, laying down concepts for incorporation into the show. Examples included Celestia as a princess instead of a queen; a fashion-focused pony; and toy sets in the story, such as Rarity's boutique.[7][17] Hasbro sometimes asked for a setting, allowing Faust and her team to create its visual style and basing a toy set (such as the Ponyville schoolhouse) on it. As Faust adhered to the educational and informational standards which Hasbro required of the show, she found creating situations more difficult; having a character call another an "egghead" was "treading a very delicate line", and a character's cheating was "worrisome to some".[7] When DHX Media went into the design phase of an episode, scripts were finalized.[43] Each episode generally included a moral or life lesson, chosen to "cross a broad spectrum of personal experiences" and not just aimed at children.[14] Because intellectual-property issues had caused Hasbro to lose some rights to the original pony names, the show included a mix of original characters from the toy line and new characters developed for the show.[16]

Hasbro and Faust planned for episodes to be 11 minutes long before the series was approved, and Faust observed the limit in "The Ticket Master" (her first full-length script). Faust preferred 22-minute episodes, however, and Hasbro eventually agreed. Scripts were written around the episode runtime, and Miller said that most editing removed supplementary dialogue and action.[42] Initial production stages were tight, requiring a schedule twice as fast as Faust had previously experienced. Communication between the Los Angeles writing offices and the animation studio in Vancouver was frequently remote. The two teams sometimes held "writer's summits" to propose ideas for characters and situations, at which the animation team provided suggestions on visuals, body language, and characterization.[7] Larson said that his writing often used "ridiculous shorthand" for conciseness, and he referred to other works.[44]

The series' background music and songs were composed by William Kevin Anderson and Daniel Ingram, respectively.[37][45] The production team identified parts of each episode where they wanted music cues, allowing Anderson to provide the music.[7] The score was composed after each episode's initial animation, and was reviewed by Hasbro.[43] Ingram worked with Anderson's compositions to create songs which meshed with the background music and fleshed out the show's fantasy setting.[46] Ingram's songs usually began with a piano and a basic melody. The creative team received the song and provided input; background voices and instrumentation were then layered before the lead singer's vocals.[47] Writers sometimes suggested lyrics and overall musical themes, including two songs written by Amy Keating Rogers.[48] Music composition substantially preceded the broadcast of an episode; songs for the series' third season, which began airing in November 2012, were composed in 2011.[46] Ingram thought the songs from previous My Little Pony shows were "a little bit dated", and decided to bring more-modern work to the Friendship Is Magic series.[49] Changes included songs with more emotional depth than those typical of children's animation, which could also be enjoyed outside the episode.[49] Ingram said that his songs had become "bigger and more epic, more Broadway and more cinematic over time",[45] and Hasbro endorsed the effort to try "something groundbreaking for daytime television".[46] "Putting it Together" from the musical Sunday in the Park with George inspired "The Art of the Dress" in the first-season episode "Suited for Success", and "At The Gala" from the first-season finale was based on Into the Woods.[45][50][51] A musical number in "The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000" paid homage to "Ya Got Trouble" from The Music Man.[45]

Voice casting and production was handled by Voicebox Productions,[52] with Terry Klassen the series' voice director. Faust, Thiessen, and others participated in selecting voice actors, with Hasbro giving final approval.[7] Tara Strong was cast as Twilight Sparkle after Faust, who had worked with her on The Powerpuff Girls, asked her to help pitch the show by voicing Twilight, Pinkie Pie and "Applejack [or] Rainbow Dash". After Faust heard Strong as Twilight, she knew she wanted her for the role.[53] When Cathy Weseluck auditioned for Spike, she envisioned him as a baby with a high voice. The director later told her to "boy him up a bit", "chang[ing] everything".[48]

The series was recorded in Vancouver.[54] Voice work was done after writing and before animation, with the animators providing direction. According to Andrea Libman (the voices of Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie), this approach enabled the actors to play the characters without limitations; Libman said that she was allowed be as exaggerated as she wanted without the animators stopping her.[55] The actors received songs before recording, and practiced them at home.[56] The songs were recorded with the dialogue.[57]

Completed scripts were sent to Studio B for pre-production and animation with Macromedia Flash Professional 8. Thiessen's production team was allowed to select key personnel, subject to Hasbro approval; one of those selected was art director Ridd Sorensen. The Studio B team storyboarded the provided scripts, incorporating direction and creating scenes which the writers believed were impossible to animaten.[58] The DHX Media team went through the storyboard and design process, recorded dialogue, and created a storyboard animatic from the voice recordings.[59] The animators then prepared key-character poses, layout, background art, and other major elements. These versions were sent back to the production team in Los Angeles for review by Hasbro with suggestions from the writers.[58] Hasbro also received rough black-and-white drawings, colored and finalized character and prop designs, and animatics and a rough cut.[59] Thiessen credited much of the technical expertise to Wooton, who created Flash programs to optimize the placement and posing of the pony characters and other elements; this simplified the work needed from other animators.[58] The ponies' manes and tails are generally fixed shapes, animated by bending and stretching them in curves; this gave them movement without the need to animate individual hairs.[16]

According to Timothy Packford of DHX Media, storyboarding action scenes was difficult because the stories' important points might be lost; storyboarding and intent needed to be clear. Episodes with large amounts of dialogue could "sort of slog and grind because there's so much talking".[59] A crucial point was to keep the shots interesting, with a good flow of one into another, and action sequences tended to have more cuts than dialogue.[59] The storyboard artists and animators also added unscripted background characters to populate the world. According to McCarthy, many fandom acknowledgements, pop-culture references or other Easter eggs were added by the studio.[60] Filipino animation studio Top Draw also worked on the animations.[61][62]

Each of the main characters had distinctive expressions and mannerisms, and shared general ones. According to the DHX Media team, they "avoid[ed] certain expressions if it [went] outside [the ponies'] personality".[63] The creative team interpreted each character's personality as mannerisms, facial expressions, props, and home environment;[63] Twilight's purple color signified royalty and mystical awareness, and her hard, angular edges personified her as tidy.[64] Other examples include Rainbow Dash's rainbow hair, representing her ability to cause a Sonic Rainboom;[65][e] Fluttershy's hair, indicating her bounciness, gentleness, and optimism;[67] Applejack's cutie mark,[f] symbolizing her simplicity;[69] Pinkie Pie's shape (similar to a bubble, balloon, or cloud), reflecting her cheerfulness and buoyancy;[70] and Spike's design, embodying his difference from the ponies.[71]

The director and supervising director managed half of the episodes each, working together on two-part episodes, and the supervising director oversaw all episodes.[42] Faust estimated the time to complete one episode at one year. The team simultaneously worked on various stages of all 26 first-season episodes; when the second season was approved, that number rose temporarily to 32. Episodes were originally aired about one month after completion, with the timeframe becoming six to eight weeks by the sixth season.[7][42] According to Thiessen, they had pushed to start work on the second season as soon as the first was completed to prevent staff turnover.[58]

Female friendship is a central theme of the series.[72] Faust said that its deeper message is that friendship means being oneself and accepting others.[29] According to Ethan Lewis of Den of Geek, the show often "takes on very morally complicated situations [...] that don't seem to have easy answers as opposed to very cut and dried children's messages".[73] Lewis added that the series taught lessons about friendship which some adults would be unable to comprehend.[73] The A.V. Club's Emily St. James compared Friendship Is Magic to "an owner's manual to being a kind person". St. James said that making friends could be difficult for children; the series broke it down to its most basic aspects, demonstrating the importance of a few friendly gestures.[74] Den of Geek writer Alana Joli Abott cited the celebration of differences, faith, and inclusion as prominent themes.[75]

Megan Crouse described the series for Den of Geek as "'serious' fantasy", drawing comparisons to The Lord of the Rings and The Sword in the Stone.[1] According to Crouse, Friendship Is Magic's consistency and system of magic made it work well as a fantasy story.[1] The Cut's Lisa Miller said that the series could be compared to almost any children's fairy tale or fantasy story.[29] Faust said that mythology and the fantasy genre influenced all of Friendship Is Magic.[76]

Several writers have called the show's setting a matriarchy.[77][78][79] In the OpenEdition.org journal Transatlantica, Isabelle Licari-Guillaume wrote that the series counters sexist portrayals which are common in media for children.[80] Lewis considered the characters some of television's "best representations" of females, neither stereotypically feminine nor masculine.[73] In the analysis Orienting Feminism, Kevin Fletcher wrote: "Friendship is Magic exhibits a feminist sensibility rather than an individualistic post-feminist one."[81] Fletcher added that by focusing on the value of community, the series abstains from post-feminism.[81] A study by Christian Valiente and Xeno Rasmusson which sampled 13 episodes found that the series has characters in circumstances which dispute gender stereotypes; females often play primary, active roles in positions of authority.[82] Valiente and Rasmusson said that although some male characters have abilities and authority, the series focuses on females often shown in positions of strength and leadership while maintaining traditional feminine traits. According to Valiente and Rasmusson, gender is "[no]thing more than an aesthetic story element" in Friendship Is Magic.[83]

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, which is targeted at girls aged 4–7,[84] was one of several animated shows which aired on The Hub (a retooling of Discovery Kids owned by Discovery Communications).[85] The network was rebranded Discovery Family on October 13, 2014.[9][86][87] Each episode is about 22 minutes long.[88]

Friendship Is Magic premiered on October 10, 2010.[85] In March 2011, less than two months before the season finale aired, the series was renewed for a second season which aired from September 17, 2011, to April 21, 2012.[3][89] A month before the second season ended, the series was renewed for a third season[3][90] which premiered on November 10, 2012, and ended on February 16, 2013.[3] One month later, The Hub renewed the show for a fourth season to air during the 2013–2014 television season.[91] On May 7, 2014, the series was renewed for a fifth season.[92][93] On August 4–8, 2014, The Hub aired "My Little Pony Mega Mare-a-thon": a 50-hour marathon of every episode from the first four seasons of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and specials from the toy line's third generation.[94][95] The fifth season premiered on April 4, 2015, and ended on November 28, 2015.[3] A month before the prior season's airing, Discovery Family renewed the series for a sixth season which was broadcast from March 26 to October 22, 2016.[3][96] In October 2016, the show was renewed for a seventh season[97] which aired from April 15 to October 28, 2017.[3] An eighth season was broadcast from March 24 to October 6, 2018.[3][98] Discovery Family announced the ninth and final season on March 8, 2019, which premiered on April 6 of that year.[3][99] Before its finale, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic — A Decade of Pony (a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the series) was aired on October 11, 2019.[100] The 90-minute finale was broadcast the following day.[3][101]

With several other Hasbro properties, Friendship Is Magic was added to Netflix on April 1, 2012, in the United States.[102] In 2015, the series and several other shows based on Hasbro properties were planned to be dropped from the streaming service.[103][104] However, Hasbro and Netflix later decided to keep the shows on the latter.[105] Friendship Is Magic was intended to be removed in August 2018; a few seasons were dropped before they were brought back.[106] The series is set to be removed from Netflix on January 31, 2022.[107] In 2011, Celebration at Canterlot (a two-episode DVD) was available at Target stores with toys from the franchise.[108]

Shout! Factory has the DVD rights for the series in Region 1. Twenty-three five-episode DVDs and three six-episode DVDs have been released.[109] The series' first seven seasons have been released in DVD box sets.[110] United Kingdom-based Clear Vision has the publishing rights in Region 2 (which includes most of Western Europe and the Middle East),[111][112] but the company entered administration in December 2013.[113] Madman Entertainment has the Region 4 DVD and digital-download rights.[114]

Friendship Is Magic has been praised for its animation style, stories, characterization, and exploration of feminism.[115] Rotten Tomatoes reports that 100 percent of 10 critics gave the show's first season a positive review, with an average score of 8/10. According to the website's critical consensus, "Smart and sweet, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic's [sic] proves that children's entertainment can be fun for adults, too."[116]

Critics responded positively to the series' characters, messages, and morals. A review by Emily Ashby on Common Sense Media, an organization focusing on the parenting aspect of children's media, emphasized the show's themes of loyalty, friendliness, friendship, tolerance, and respect.[117] Den of Geek's Anna Dobbie appreciated the ponies' different personalities (which she believed worked well to achieve stability) and the series' focus on self-discovery and acceptance;[118] According to Screen Rant writer Carly Olsen, the show develops both its major and minor characters well.[119] Jamie Spain similarly applauded the show's elements of growth, learning, and social skills on BuzzFeed, which she considered uncommon in children's television.[120] The characters, messages, and morals have been called "super cool",[68] relatable,[29] "absolutely genuine",[121] inspiring, positive, and enjoyable.[122] Kathleen Richter of Ms., however, disagreed with the praise; she wrote that Friendship Is Magic promoted sexism, racism, and heteronormativity, saying that Rainbow Dash's character encouraged the stereotype that "all feminists are angry, tomboyish lesbians" and criticizing other aspects.[123] Faust responded to these claims, stating that although Rainbow Dash is a tomboy, her sexual orientation is never identified; Richter's assumption that tomboys become lesbians is "extremely unfair to both straight and lesbian tomboys".[17]

The series' visual designs and references have also been praised. St. James found the show "blessed with great looking characters and brightly colored backgrounds",[68] and IndieWire's Liza Shannon Miller and Hanh Hguyen and Entertainment Weekly's Hillary Busis credited its style and homages as contributing factors to the show's position as a pop-culture phenomenon.[124] Lewis agreed, highlighting the series' "vintage" style and "geek references".[73] For Wired, Matt Morgan wrote that the Easter eggs deepened the viewing experience.[125] Ashby and Amid Amidi (writing for Cartoon Brew) expressed concerns with the show's embedded marketing. Ashby warned parents to be wary of the effect Friendship Is Magic could have on their children's wants;[117] Amidi believed that assigning a talent like Faust to a toy-centered show was part of a trend focusing on profitable animation genres (such as toy tie-ins) to deal with a fragmented viewing audience, "an admission of defeat for the entire movement [of creator-driven animation]", and a "white flag-waving moment for the TV animation industry".[126]

Friendship Is Magic was included on a number of best-of lists. TV Guide (top sixty), IndieWire (forty-fifth), and Rotten Tomatoes (sixty-fourth) listed it as one of the top animated series of all time,[127][128][129] and readers of Television Without Pity voted it the best animated show on television.[130] IndieWire ranked it the twentieth-best animated series of the 21st century.[131] Other rankings are Time Out's list of best kids' shows (twenty-fourth) and Paste's list of best Netflix children's shows (eighth).[132][133]

Friendship Is Magic premiered with an average viewership of 1.4 million per month, increasing to 4 million per month by the end of its first season[134] (the highest-rated Hasbro show at the time).[125] Advertising Age reported that the series' audience doubled between its first and second seasons.[135] According to Vox, its peak years were 2012 to 2014.[136] In March 2013, The Hub reported that the series had triple- and quadruple-digit-percent year-to-year growth.[137] In September of that year, it was the second most-watched show on The Hub for girls ages 2–11 and women ages 18–49.[138] A month later, Friendship Is Magic was one of the most co-viewed television series and the best-performing show on The Hub (with Littlest Pet Shop).[139] In the first quarter of 2014, the show had an American viewership of over 12 million.[29] Ratings began to decline after that year.[136]

Despite Hasbro's target demographic of young girls and their parents,[160][161] My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic became a cultural and Internet phenomenon with male fans between the ages of 13 and 35 during the 2010s.[162][163] The Internet response has been traced to cartoon and animation fans on 4chan[160] responding to Amidi's essay on the show and current animation trends.[126][164] As a result of the 4chan discussion, interest in the show spread throughout the Internet and inspired a fan base, creative works, fan sites, and conventions.[162] Male fans adopted the name "brony" (a portmanteau of "bro" and "pony") to describe themselves.[165][166] The term "pegasister" (a portmanteau of "pegasus" and "sister") was later adopted to refer to older female fans of the show.[160] The older fan base surprised Hasbro and staff members involved with the series,[45][162][167][168] who appreciated the fandom by adding acknowledgements to fans in the show and toys.[16] Bronies were a meme early in the series, but their Internet popularity gradually faded as the show continued.[169]

Friendship Is Magic is associated with the 2010 relaunch of the My Little Pony toy line of figurines and play sets.[160] Due in part to older fans, Hasbro saw My Little Pony as a "lifestyle" brand with over 200 licenses in 15 categories of products which included clothing, housewares, and digital media. The brand grossed over US$650 million in retail sales in 2013,[170] and US$1 billion in 2014[171][172] and 2016.[173]

The series gave Hasbro several opportunities for spin-offs and other works. The company released games such as My Little Pony: Twilight Sparkle, Teacher for a Day, a video game by Gameloft, and a collectible card game.[174][175][176] In 2012, IDW Publishing began releasing monthly My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic comics; the series ended in September 2021.[177] The comics were replaced by My Little Pony: Generations the following month.[178] A crossover comic of Friendship Is Magic and Transformers was released in 2020 and 2021.[179][180] Hasbro observed from the brony fandom that some fan-produced art was a humanized version of the show's characters, and was inspired to develop the My Little Pony: Equestria Girls spin-off series of movies and shorts which ran with Friendship Is Magic for six years.[181] My Little Pony: The Movie was released on October 6, 2017, in the United States.[182] Hasbro and Discovery Family announced a subsequent animated series, My Little Pony: Pony Life. The series, based on the same characters (with most of the voice actors returning), has a new animation style and depicts more stories about mundane experiences.[183]

After the show's finale aired, Hasbro began working on a fifth generation which began with the feature film My Little Pony: A New Generation.[184][185] Like Friendship Is Magic, it is set in Equestria because the production team wanted to further explore the fourth generation's lore and world-building. The fifth generation is set in after the events of the fourth, focusing on different ponies and unexplored parts of Equestria; this gave Hasbro the opportunity to include Easter eggs of the previous generations.[185] The film was released on Netflix in September 2021 to positive reviews;[186] it will be followed by a television series which will be released on the streaming service in 2022.[187]

Note: Rainbow Dash's story in the Order and Chaos Saga doesn't follow the main plot of Season 4, Season 5, Season 6, Season 7, Season 8 and Season 9 of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Rainbow Dash is a female pegasus. She maintains the weather and clears the skies in Ponyville. As a huge fan of the Wonderbolts, she dreams of one day joining their elite flying group. Rainbow Dash has a pet tortoise named Tank, whom she chooses out of Fluttershy's offered animals. She represents the element of loyalty. She later marries Soarin and has a son named Gust.

The most notable trait of Rainbow Dash is her loyalty. She is willing to do anything for her friends or to protect them. She is even willing to drop her dreams to save them or help them.

She is also very competitive, much like Applejack. In fact, the two are always competing with each other to see who is the best.

Rainbow Dash displays confidence in herself and her physical abilities in multiple times, however, her self-confidence can sometimes get over her head, what leads her to brag about herself. This clearly annoys her friends in some occasions.

She is also brash, as she tends to making fun of others when they are in situations she think is hilarious or uncool.

Another of her traits it's her mischievousness. She enjoys prank her friends, sometimes with Pinkie Pie.

Rainbow Dash discovers her love of reading with the Daring Do books. At first, she though reading was to "egg-heads" like Twilight, but when she started reading her first Daring Do book, she becames an avid fan.

Rainbow Dash is very skilled in flying. In fact, she is considered as being the best flyer in all Equestria. This fact also leads her to be very athletic in other physical activities.

If she flies in a certain speed, she can create an aerobatic maneuver called "sonic rainboom" which is characterized by a vibrantly-colored ring that expands from the point of the sonic rainboom's occurrence accompanied by a shockwave and a rainbow wake trailing behind it.

To defeat the Sirens, Twilight and her friends received from Melody a power that was activated by their best potential.

He is Rainbow Dash's father and the two seem to have a close father-daughter relationship, as it was him who trained Rainbow Dash.

He is Rainbow Dash's son with Soarin. She loves him very much and has a great pride on him, as he has the potential to be a great flier like her and Soarin. Despite her wishes to have her son to follow her hoofsteps as a great flyer, Rainbow Dash values her son's happiness above what she wants for him, as she supported him when he told her he loved ice dancing more than flying.

Thunderlane was Rainbow Dash's pair in the Autumn Equinox Ball, but it's unknown what kind of relationship they had. It's revealed they are just friends.

Rainbow Dash always had a crush on Soarin and he eventually developed also a crush on her. She is asked by him to go on a date with him, what she accepts. It seems they are on a relationship. They eventually get marry and have a son name Gust.

When Twilight receives Cadance's invitation to take some vacations in the Crystal Empire, Twilight invites Applejack to go with her, but she refuses, as she had to prepare everything for the rain that was coming.

After some days, she, along with Spike, Applejack and Fluttershy, goes to the Crystal Empire, where she finds out that Twilight is in love with Blue Swords and, along with the others, encourages her to confess what she feels about him. She also goes to the masked ball in the Crystal Empire to celebrate Shining and Cadance's first marriage anniversary, going disguised as a griffin.

Rainbow Dash also becomes excited when she and the others discover that Twilight slept with Blue. Also, after Shining had discovered Twilight and Blue were dating, she and the others write a letter to Blue to ask him for help because Twilight was depressed for her fight with Shining.

While Twilight is touring Cherry around Ponyville, Rainbow Dash arrives to ask Twilight if the new book of Daring Do had already arrived, meeting then Cherry Blossom. After Twilight said yes, Rainbow Dash impatiently goes to her library, what makes Twilight let Cherry alone for some moments, while she goes after her.

Rainbow Dash then discover Bloom is from another dimention, after hearing her conversation with the Lord of Order. She then promises her to keep her secret until she is prepare to reveal it.

Rainbow Dash helps Cherry in trying to return to her home world by using her element.

In "Sky's Arrival", after knowing Sky is in Equestria, Rainbow Dash helps her friends to do everything do save Cherry and Big Mac's relationship. Suspecting the Lord of Order maybe involved, the six use the Elements of Harmony to invoke him. The Lord of Order denies being involved and quickly realize that had his brother's hand. He says to the mares the can't do anything, but they can, using the Elements of Harmony to retrieve Sky to the Order side, so he can return him to his world.

In "Unexpected Reunion", Cherry finally reunites, to her shock, with Sky. Having running from him, she goes to the library and tells to her friends that Sky is in Ponyville and Cherry realizes that they already knew, something that upset her, but she calmed down once they say to her they will help her.

In "Easy", Rainbow Dash starts her mission to make Sky's loyaty appear. During Pinkie Pie's party for Sky, Rainbow Dash tries to make Sky miss his family and his friends. It seems she was succeeding, however the darkness inside Sky was to strong and made him explode, yelling to the mares he didn't need their help.

In "The Gifts of Harmony", Rainbow Dash and her friends invoke the Lord of Order again and he tells them about the power inside of each element. He says to Rainbow Dash her element had the power to let her have access to anypony memory, something Rainbow is not very thrilled with. Being the last to use her gift in Sky, Rainbow becomes very surprised by seeing Sky laughing with Pinkie Pie. She then uses her gift to access Sky's memories and make him remember every happy memory he had lived with his family and friend and, even with the Lord of Chaos' interference, she is able to make him find his loyalty.

In "Apple Wedding", Rainbow Dash meets Cherry's family and friends, where she starts a very good friendship with Aisha, due to their similar personalities and their love for races.

Rainbow Dash performs a sonic rainboom to the wedding and is also one of Twilight's bridesmaids.

Rainbow Dash and the others are reunited with Twilight and Blue when they return to Ponyville. She also meets Heartbeat, but knowing her as Blue's "cousin", as he and Twilight were told by Princess Celestia to keep her true identity in secret. However, she ends up discovering who Heartbeat really was after she had lost the control over her powers.

After Twilight had discovered where Heartbeat's star seed is, Rainbow Dash and the others go along to the Oasis of the Heart to help retrieve the red star seed. After recovering her star seed, Heartbeat give them the locations of the other star seeds and, for not waste time, they decided to split up and so Rainbow Dash and Applejack go after the purple star seed.

In order to find Purple Smoke's star seed, Rainbow Dash and Applejack adventure themselves in Hayseed Swamps, where they meet with Discord who tells them where the star seed is. When they approach it, the star seed's defenses make Applejack and Rainbow Dash's talents against them, making the pegasus be attacked by the sludge, as her flying abilities were her talent. However, Applejack is able to use this defense to get the star seed. Unfortunately, the dark ponies are able to get it, but when they prepare to finish Applejack and Rainbow Dash, they are rescued by Discord.

With four of the six star seeds, all the group, along with Heartbeat, go to the Light Kingdom to protect the Jewel of Life, one of the pieces to the restore of the kingdom and to try to release Heartbeat’s brothers and sisters whose star seeds were with them. While in the Great Hall, the Lord of Chaos appears, along with Fire Punch, and after getting the other star seeds from Heartbeat, he turns Rainbow Dash and the others into their dark selves. Rainbow Dash is turned back after Twilight defeat the Lord of Chaos. She then witness how the Light Kingdom awakens from its stone sleep.

Rainbow Dash, along with the others, attends the Grand Galloping Gala in "The Power of the Key of Tartarus".

In "The Krylock's Venom", she helps in containing and saving ponies who were mutated by Krylock's venon that there were in Pinkie Pie's cupcakes.

In "The Predators of the Night", she helps fighting agains Shadow Claw and his pack of pony-wolfs.

In "Entering in Heartbeat's Dreams", she and her friends go to the Light Kingdom to celebrate the Recovery Day. When Oogie Boogie traps Heartbeat in a great nightmare, Rainbow Dash and her friends try to retain calm in the celebration, while Luna and Blue go save Heartbeat and Twilight and the Generals go stabilize the Diamond Heart.

In "The Revenge of the Trix", she whiteness how Cherry Blossom is kidnaped by her old foes in her home world.

In "The Return of the Sirens", it's revealed Rainbow Dash formed a band and invited her friends to join in. She plays the guitar and is the lead singer and song writer. During the chapter where they have to deal with the Sirens, she is seen frequently arguing with her friends due to her belief she is the most important member of the band and not wanting to share the spotlight with them and also unwilling to use Fluttershy's songs. When they are trapped under the stage by Trixie and her band, she and her friends bring all of this to the great arguing, until Twilight stops all of them and remind them creating disharmony in the group was always the Dazzlings' plan and Rainbow Dash ends up making peace with her friends and together, with Melody's help, they are able to defeat the Sirens.

In "Arbor, the King of Trees", Rainbow Dash struggle to keep Arbor's plans from invading Ponyville, along with the others and then with Twilight, Blue and Discord. When Heartbeat appears to get help, since the other Generals were captured by Arbor, she and her friends go face Arbor and try to use the Elements of Harmony on him, but he is able to trap them with his roots. Fortunately, Leaf Mane appears and is able to convince Arbor to stop what he was doing, showing him that plants and animals can live in harmony. But Kitsune appears and is able to destroy Leaf Mane's matrix, weakening her even more and also weakening Arbor. But Shadow Claw appears and defeat him. Arbor, in order to save the power of the matrix, asks the bearers of the Elements of Harmony to transfer the matrix's power to him, so he can turn into the new matrix of Nature. They do it and save the power of the matrix.

In "A Queen a Little Off", Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy are captured by Fire Punch and used by the Queen of Hearts to stop Purple Smoke from removing her heart and to allow her to get his. They are freed and taken by Golden Paladin and Twilight to the Light Kingdom, where they go then back to Ponyville.

In "The Prison-Book", Rainbow Dasg is seen fighting Chrysalis with her friends, including Twilight, and using the Elements of Harmony to defeat her.

In "Cold Loneliness", Rainbow Dash is helping preparing Star's first birthday party. She becomes very preoccupied with her friends after knowing what is happening in Equestria with the arrival of the Snow Queen.

In "The Seventh General of the Light Kingdom", Rainbow Dash continues in the Light Kingdom when Perfect Scales starts to get all the special lights. Rainbow Dash, along with the others, goes with Twilight, Star Knight and Heartbeat to the Diamond Domain to hide from Scale. When Scale appears, he puts Rainbow Dash and the others out of game by binding them to a diamond with vines and then putting them asleep.

In "Epilogue - Heartbeat's Special Gift", Rainbow Dash attends Star Knight's birthday party.

In "The Most Happiest Moment of a Mare", Rainbow Dash attends Fluttershy and Thunder Night's wedding, serving as Fluttershy's best mare.

In "The Birth", Rainbow Dash goes inform Thunder Night about the fact Fluttershy is in labor.

In "Racing for the Mark", Rainbow Dash announces to the school foals that she is organizing a race at the Great Ponyville Fair to the young pegasi, in a way to compensate for the fair of the last year and to make them create new friendships with the other racers. When the time of the race arrives and she doesn't see Scootaloo at the starting line, she gets worried, but when she arrives, Rainbow gets relieved. She becomes very happy when Scootaloo wins and gets her Cutie Mark.

In "A Date Between Wonderbolts", Rainbow Dash is able to become an oficial Wonderbolt. After that, Soarin asks her to go on a date with him, what she nervously accepts. Back to Ponyville, she tells to her friends about the date and Rarity helps her to prepare herself for the date. However, her father arrives to congratulate her and, when he knows about the date, she tells him Soarin maybe the right stallion for her. When Soarin comes to take her, Rainbow Dash gets to know that her father trained Soarin and so he accepts the relationship between Rainbow and Soarin and they go to their date.

In "Spike... the Pony?", she attends Rarity and Shadow Claw's wedding with Soarin.

In "Gloomy News", it's revealed that she got married with Soarin and that they had a son together, Gust. She then goes visit Twilight with her son and Twilight confess to her and the others about her worries about her son. She is also present when Celestia tells the news about Chrysalis' eggs and Medusa.

In "An Holiday in Ponyville", it's revealed she and Soarin had a show in Las Pegasus with the Wonderbolts when Twilight and her family arrive to Ponyville to spend the holidays, being that the reaseon why they didn't go the party Pinkie Pie organized to welcome the royal family. At the Heart's Warming Eve, she and her family come to watch the pangeant of Ponyville.

In "The Demon Fox's Cloat", she attends Star's birthday party, but is put asleep by Leaf Mane's sleeping spores.

In “The Dark Song of Adagio Dazzle”, it’s revealed that Rainbow Dash and Soarin created an academy to young pegasi in order to improve their flying skills and find young promises to the Wonderbolts. Rainbow and Soarin also goes to watch the tryouts for the Three Great Fairies Preparatory Academy flying derby main team.

In “The Capture of Five-Tails”, Rainbow Dash and Soarin meet Twilight and Blue, where they discuss about the race. Later she gives some last-minute advice to her team before the race. Rainbow becomes a little disappointed for her team losing, but feels honored for giving the trophy to the winning team.

In “Assault on the Light Kingdom”, Rainbow Dash is with the other mares, talking, and gets to know that Shining and Cadance are expecting a new baby when the General of Chaos invades the Light Kingdom with his dark ponies. She fights the dark ponies with Soarin, where, in “Twilight’s Determination”, the two spars with two dark ponies with undulated eyes, before being saved by Moonlight who uses her supersonic scream against the gytrash that one of the dark ponies uses against the pegasi couple.

In “Star Knight VS General of Chaos”, she survives the destruction of the citadel of the Light Kingdom with Soarin, reuniting with Shining. Later, after being convinced by his sister to not interfere in the battle between Star and the General of Chaos, Shining asks Rainbow and Soarin to find the others and tell them that.

In “The Rage That Consumes the Heart”, Shining sends Rainbow and Soarin to go tell the others to evacuate due to Star’s transformation in Nine-Tails and to tell Thunder Night what happened to his daughter.

In “The Lord of Order’s Motivation”, she witness Gleaming treating Moonlight and then welcomes Star after his victory over the General of Chaos, celebrating it.

In “The Regent’s Decision”, Spitfire sends Rainbow and Soarin watch over Canterlot and Ponyville in the sky for the eventuality of Featherwing attack.

In "The War Begins", Rainbow Dash is appointed to the Fifth Unit, that is led by Gael.

In "The Secret of the Reincarnation Curse", Gael sends her, along with Soarin, to backup Obsidan Blade's unit.

In "The Bloody Swordsponies", Rainbow Dash fights against Petal Sprout's clones. She is able to recognize the changelings' wing sound.

In "The Medical Unit in Danger", once night falls, Rainbow Dash has a wing a little dislocated causing her pain but is too stubborn to get medical attention, opting instead to remain in watching duty.

In "Reinforcements Arrive", Rainbow Dash is fighting the clones when one of Star's clones appears to help.

In "The Alliance Assemble", Rainbow Dash arrives with the rest of the Alliance to help Star, Hawthorn, Shining and Blue.

In "The Ties That Bind", Rainbow Dash, along with Soarin, helps Hawthorn to go stop Ten-Tails from using the Tailed Beast Bomb.

In "Grandfather VS Grandson", she, along with others, put themselves in front of Star to protect him while he is recovering.

In "Counterattack", Rainbow Dash participated on the fight against Ten-Tails' minions.

In "The Ten-Tails' Jinchuriki", Rainbow Dash and Applejack smiled before Twilight's speech.

In "The Two Halves of an All", Rainbow Dash cheered for Star.

In "The Tree of Dreams", she is able to dodge the Divine Tree's roots, but Soarin is not that successful and has many of his energy absorbed.

In "Pursuing Hope", Rainbow Dash gets relieved when Soarin recovers. The two then rejoin the fight.

In "Star Shield", she helps Star defeat Grogar, joining others in hitting Grogar with one of Star's Spiraling Star.

In "The Eternal Nightmare Curse", she is put under the effect of the Eternal Nightmare Curse.

In "The Fall of the General of Chaos", it is shown that her dream is her becomming the fastest flyer of all Pony Reality.

In "The End of the War", she is released from the Eternal Nightmare Curse.

In "The Story of Tambelon", Rainbow Dash is summoned, along with the other users of the Elements of Harmony, by Twilight to discuss the subject about Tambelon.

In "Getting on Board of the Destiny’s Bounty", Rainbow Dash and her friends (what also includes Moonlight Sonnet) go to Las Pegasus, so they can get a way to go to Tambelon.

In "The Trap of the Siren", after defeating Allegro and releasing the males from her control, Rainbow Das and her friends use the power of the Elements of Harmony to purify the wild energy, healing both the island and Allegro. After that, she and the others continued their journey.

In "An Island With an Hairy Mystery", while the repairs are being hold on the ship, Rainbow Dash goes with Applejack and Boyle, goes after food. When they are doing it, they are attacked by Quintaped, what forces them to run to the ship. After Star arrives and saves them, they then return to their journey.

In "A Changeling Can Change", Rainbow Dash and the others meet Thorax and are convinced to accept him by Moonlight and Star.

In "Arriving to Tambelon", after getting into Tambelon, Rainbow Dash and the others use the Elements of Harmony to defeat an evil pony-creature.

In "The Stone Army", Rainbow Dash and the others meet Applejack's father, Jonagold Apple, and, when he is taking them to a safe place, they are attacked by stone ponies. Despite having the power of the Elements of Harmony, Scarlet Burn harms Applejack, preventing them from using it. Fortunately, they are saved by Star who uses the lava nature to defeat the stone army and Scarlet Burn.

In "The Curse of Tambelon", Rainbow Dash meets Applejack's mother and then she listens her and Jonagold tell how they ended up in Tambelon.

In "The Mysterious Generals", Rainbow Dash has a meeting with Blue and her friends to talk about the mysterious light ponies. Later, they help Star dealing with Light Fire and her stone ponies and, after defeating her, she meets Time Turner, the General of Time, and Bright Night, the General of Portals.

In "The Unicorn With the Broken Horn", she attends to a meeting with the others to talk about Time Turner and Bright Night and if they should try to become friends with them. Later, she, Star, Blue and Twilight are able to save Fluttershy and Moonlight from Crystal Frost, witnessing then Time Turner destroys her with the Chronosphere, revealing to be the second talisman.

In "The Diamond Sword", Rainbow Dash helps Jonagold and Buttercup with the chores along with the others. When Wild Pollen appears to them, she summons more plants that allows her to subjugate them all until Blue, charged with power, destroys the plants and uses the Diamond Sword to defeat the witch.

In "The Dormant General", Rainbow Dash and the others hear, Blue, Time Turner and Bright Night tell about their mission.

In "Hurt Spirit", Rainbow Dash and her friends go to the castle to defeat the Dark Mistress.

In "Infinite Labyrinth", after being involved by darkness, Shadow Velvet convinces Rainbow to give up helping Twilight with the promisse of turning her even greater than what she was at that moment. Then, Blue, Time Turner and Brght Night were able to break in and destroy the witches for good and free Rainbow Dash and the others.

In "The Plan is Enacted", Rainbow Dash then split up with Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Fluttershy and Applejack to find Tempest and Moonlight. While they were climbing the central tower of the castle, they all were caught by the shock of the Smooze's releasement.

In "A Tempestuous Will", Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie have their souls taken and absorved by the Dark Mistress, but they are saved and returned to their bodies by Tempest. When their spirits were returned, Twilight happily hugged them, glad that they were alright.

In "The Awakening of the General of Destruction", she and the others joined Twilight and Star on their attack against the Dark Mistress using the power of their elements. Eventually, they run out of power and fell to the towers where Blue, Time Turner and Bright Night were. They saw Twilight went to the inside of the Smooze and the awakening of the General of Destruction.

In "The Power of the Original Light", when it seems everything is lost, Rainbow Dash and the others watch Twilight ascend from the Smoozer and restore the damages caused by the Smooze.

In "Back to Freedom", with the mission now completed, she returned home.

In "Lord of the Rink", Rainbow Dash and Soarin, after knowing how good their son was at ice hockey, decide to come watch him training. During the training, after some encouragement from Scootaloo, Gust confess to them his love for ice dancing. Despite Gust's fear, Rainbow Dash and Soarin accepted it pretty well, saying as long Gust was happy, they were happy. They then saw Gust performing at the recital with Midnight.

In "A Bad Feeling", Rainbow Dash witnesses as the Pony of Shadows appears during the party outside of Golden Oak Library.

In "The Pony of Shadows", Rainbow Dash and the others help Twilight fighting the Pony of Shadows, using with her the Elements of Harmony. However, the Pony of Shadows was able to negate the magic with the Elements of Chaos, using them to turn the six friends into stone, along with their respective elements.

In "Breaking the Stone", Rainbow Dash and her friends are freed from their stone prison by Star and his friends, Blue and Star Swirl.

In "The Tale of Stygian", Rainbow Dash watches Star Swirl as he tells everyone about his plan to stop the Pony of Shadows and later the Tree of Crisis revealing to everyone the location of the Pony of Shadows.

In "Facing the Darkness", after talking about the plan to defeat the Pony of Shadows, she and the others go confront the Pony of Shadows at Arimaspi's territory. When they are about to banish him to the Limbo, Star is able to perceive Stygian and Rainbow Dash and the others help him pull Stygian out of the Shadow, all while sending it to the Limbo.

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