Shooting Star

Shooting Star is a male background Earth pony with a white coat, light blue mane, tail, and eyes, and a cutie mark of a dark blue Orion constellation. He is unnamed in the show, but he is named in merchandise.

Design
Shooting Star has the same tail style as "Sir Pony Moore", and as a unicorn sometimes also has the same mane style as Neon Lights.

Depiction in the series
Shooting Star appears in The Best Night Ever as an Earth pony, in Sweet and Elite as both an Earth pony and a unicorn, in Hearth's Warming Eve as a unicorn, in The Last Roundup as a unicorn, in A Canterlot Wedding - Part 1 as an Earth pony, in A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2 as both an Earth pony and a unicorn, during The Failure Song in The Crystal Empire - Part 1, in One Bad Apple as a unicorn, in Magical Mystery Cure, Princess Twilight Sparkle - Part 1, Power Ponies, Rarity Takes Manehattan, and Simple Ways as an Earth pony, in Trade Ya! as a unicorn, in Equestria Games as both an Earth pony and a unicorn, and in Twilight's Kingdom - Part 1 as both an Earth pony and a unicorn and in its recap at the beginning of Twilight's Kingdom - Part 2 as an Earth pony. During the scene in which he shakes Twilight Sparkle's hoof forcefully at the Grand Galloping Gala and struts off to the ballroom, he's larger than usual.

Appearances
Times are approximate.

Merchandise
Shooting Star is named on his Enterplay collectible card game Canterlot Nights expansion set card, which features him as an Earth pony and lists the quote "Oh, you already heard that one? What about the time I went around the world in 78 days? No, not 80 days, that was the other guy!"

Quotes
"Oh, you already heard that one? What about the time I went around the world in 78 days? No, not 80 days, that was the other guy!"

- Enterplay collectible card game Canterlot Nights #22 C card of Shooting Star