Rainbow Dash

Rainbow Dash (voiced by Ashleigh Ball) is a Pegasus pony with a sky-blue body, magenta eyes, a rainbow lightning bolt cutie mark, and a rainbow-striped mane and tail. She is very brave and bold. She is also very tomboyish and dislikes girly stuff. She thinks reading is for "eggheads" like Twilight until the episode Read It & Weep. She is fast and works with the other Pegasi to move clouds to control the weather. Her lifelong dream is to join the Wonderbolts, Equestria's aerobatic flight team, and she has been accepted into their training program and selected as cadet team leader. Rainbow's signature move is the Sonic Rainboom, in which she flies fast enough to break the sound barrier, creating a sonic boom and a rainbow-hued shock wave. She works as head of the weather team in Ponyville. The Cutie Mark Chronicles reveals that when she performed this move for the first time, she earned her Cutie Mark and set in motion a chain of events that allowed the other five main characters to earn theirs as well. She represents The Element Of Loyalty. In May The Best Pet Win!, she gains a pet tortoise named Tank, who she thinks would make a terrible pet until he saves her from an avalanche in Ghastly Gorge. She also equips him with a helicopter rotor to enable him to fly to keep up with her.