Scootaloo Dash

Scootaloo  is a female school-age Pegasus pony. She first appears in Friendship is Magic, part 1 and is properly introduced in Call of the Cutie. Scootaloo and her friends, Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle form the Cutie Mark Crusaders, a club devoted to helping ponies earn their cutie marks. She is a talented scooter driver. She idolizes Rainbow Dash and develops a sisterly bond with her in Sleepless in Ponyville. Lauren Fausthas stated that Scootaloo and Rainbow Dash are not related. [4]

DevelopmentEdit
Scootaloo is based on the Generation 3 Earth pony of the same name, who has a pink and purple mane and tail (occasionally ponytails in the Core 7 serials) and a butterfly cutie mark. However, her color scheme is based on that of Sparkleworks, another Generation 3 Earth pony. Scootaloo is also Cheerilee's younger sister in Generation 3; in Generation 4, Scootaloo and Cheerilee have no indicated familial relationship, and Cheerilee has a twin sister named Cherry Blossom.

Scootaloo's cutie mark in merchandise and promotional material is the same as her G3/G3.5 counterpart's, and was chosen by layout artist Kat Stenson prior to her work on the show.[5]

According to Lauren Faust, Scootaloo was "originally conceived as getting in a lot of schoolyard fights over being picked on for not flying."[6]

Personality
Scootaloo was hoping for an action-packed story instead of a mushy one. Scootaloo is energetic and tomboyish. She complains about having to listen to "sappy" and "namby-pamby" stories in  The Cutie Mark Chronicles. However, like the other Crusaders, she finds  Big McIntosh  and  Cheerilee 's romance charming in  Hearts and Hooves Day. Although brash and spunky, she is skittish and self-conscious in  Sleepless in Ponyville. ===Admiration of Rainbow Dash === A sisterly hug between Scootaloo and Rainbow Dash. In  The Cutie Mark Chronicles, Scootaloo calls  Rainbow Dash  "the coolest pony in Ponyville" and is eager to hear about how she got her cutie mark. In  Owl's Well That Ends Well, Scootaloo volunteers to be Rainbow Dash's assistant after hearing her praise  Spike  for his hard work as  Twilight Sparkle 's own assistant. Scootaloo tries to get Rainbow Dash's favor by throwing away an apple core for her. Scootaloo chairs the "Official Rainbow Dash Fan Club" in  The Mysterious Mare Do Well. She wears a rainbow-colored wig and attempts, along with  Snips, to find a word to sum up Rainbow Dash's virtues.

In Sleepless in Ponyville, Scootaloo reveals her fear of rejection by Rainbow Dash during a camping trip. Rainbow Dash agrees to become an older sister figure to Scootaloo.

Role as a Cutie Mark Crusader

 * Main article: Cutie Mark Crusaders

Scootaloo and the other Cutie Mark Crusaders. Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, and Apple Bloom form a club called the Cutie Mark Crusaders to discover their talents and earn their cutie marks.

Scootaloo and Apple Bloom can be stubborn on a few occasions. In Stare Master, they argue over how to call a chicken, even arguing over whether their special talent is arguing. In The Return of Harmony Part 1, Apple Bloom and Scootaloo get into a fight over the meaning of the word "discord" during a school field trip.

Flying and scooting
Scootaloo's wings barely able to carry her weight. Scootaloo still hasn't been able to master flying. In  Ponyville Confidential, she flaps her wings to no avail when she falls out of a tree. Despite her limited flying skills, she is able to masterfully use her wings for propulsion and various stunts on her scooter. Scootaloo performs various skating tricks in  The Show Stoppers, such as jumping off a ramp over an awe-struck crowd, doing a 360 and a tailwhip, and passing her scooter underneath a branch while she jumps over the branch and back onto her scooter. In The Show Stoppers and  The Cutie Mark Chronicles, she uses her wings to pull loaded wagons with little trouble. Scootaloo hovers along the ground while talking about  Rainbow Dash  in  The Cutie Mark Chronicles. By  One Bad Apple, Scootaloo shows some improvement in her capabilities and can hover slightly higher and for a longer period of time than in previous episodes.

There is a running gag throughout the series that the other members of the Cutie Mark Crusaders tend to tease Scootaloo by referring to her as a type of flightless bird: A chicken in Stare Master, and a dodo in The Return of Harmony Part 1. Scootaloo tends to react rather defensively to this.

Flight to the Finish heavily centers in on Scootaloo's inability to fly. She becomes obsessed with her difficulties flying, and feels that it makes her unqualified to represent the Pegasi of Ponyville in the flag-carrying ceremony for the Equestria Games. She specifically identifies her relatively small wings compared to her body size as the cause of her inability, something she admits is unusual for a Pegasus her age, and expresses her fear that they will never grow and she will never be able to fly. However Rainbow Dash tells Scootaloo that this is not as important as she thinks and that, regardless of whether she'll fly or not, she's still special in her own way. Scootaloo is thus inspired to tow her two friends to the Crystal Empire using her wing-propelled scooter, and they are chosen to represent Ponyville as its flag carriers. In Bloom & Gloom, when Scootaloo discovers she is still dreaming, she flies around the clubhouse perfectly. In Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep?, she flies in a dream once again, giving herself giant wings.

One of Lauren Faust's security personnel in BronyCon 2012 stated that in his conversations with Faust she said Scootaloo was originally intended to be handicapped and would never be able to learn to fly; he said Faust conceived a story that would have played out over three episodes throughout the first two seasons, in which Scootaloo learns that her worth is defined by her talents and not by what she cannot do.[7]  Earlier, Faust stated that there is "no reason" Scootaloo can't fly and that "she just hasn't figured it out yet".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7">[8]

Musical talents
<p class="caption" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)!important;">Scootaloo singing while playing the piano. In  The Show Stoppers , Scootaloo plays the piano while struggling to compose lyrics for the talent show. She is a skilled dancer and shows a knack for choreography. However, she fails to realize her aptitude for dancing and opts to sing a "wicked rock ballad" in an off-key manner. In Hearts and Hooves Day, she sings one line in  The Perfect Stallion. She also sings in the song  Babs Seed  in  One Bad Apple. Later in the episode, she plays the drums during  Babs Seed 's initiation into the Cutie Mark Crusaders. She also sings  Hearts Strong as Horses  in  Flight to the Finish. ====Mechanical skills ==== <p class="caption" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)!important;">Scootaloo excited about her new "cutie mark." In  One Bad Apple, Scootaloo displays a moderate talent for mechanical construction when building the Crusaders' golden apple float. In  Twilight Time, Scootaloo learns to assemble and ride a unicycle. She later applies this skill by disassembling and reassembling  Pipsqueak 's scooter. ==Depiction in filmsEdit==

My Little Pony Equestria Girls
<p class="caption" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)!important;">Rainbow Dash flying with Scootaloo on her back. In  My Little Pony Equestria Girls, the human Scootaloo is seen with her fellow CMCs running past Twilight when she looks around the school. She and the rest of the CMCs appear in Canterlot High's library. They listen to their music video on one of the library's computers, until Cheerilee confiscates the speaker. When one of the video's comments is "Funniest thing I've ever seen", she and the other CMCs believe that they should try comedy. They run off and don't pay attention to Twilight's warning about the video comment.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;font-size:14px;line-height:22px;">They later appear in the cafeteria during the Equestria Girls song, and at the Fall Formal, where Rainbow Dash (granted wings by the element of magic) carries Scootaloo over the dance floor.

My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks
<p style="font-size:14px;line-height:22px;">Despite appearing with her fellow Crusaders, Scootaloo does not have any speaking lines. She briefly argues with Octavia Melody.

Music to My Ears
<p style="font-size:14px;line-height:22px;">Scootaloo and the rest of the human Crusaders are seen passing by DJ Pon-3 on the street while she listens to dubstep on her headphones.

Shake Your Tail
<p style="font-size:14px;line-height:22px;">Scootaloo briefly appears among a crowd of Canterlot High School students during the Rainbooms' performance of Shake Your Tail.

Perfect Day for Fun
<p style="font-size:14px;line-height:22px;">Scootaloo dances with Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle during the Rainbooms' concert and poses for a smartphone photo.

My Past is Not Today
<p style="font-size:14px;line-height:22px;">Scootaloo briefly appears in the animated short alongside Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and other Canterlot High School students, rejecting the reformed Sunset Shimmer during the second verse.

My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Friendship Games
<p style="font-size:14px;line-height:22px;">Scootaloo appears in My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Friendship Games. She is seen in the audience cheering with the other Crusaders.