Holly Dash

Holly Dash is a female background unicorn who appears in Swarm of the Century and in two of IDW's comic book series. She has a light pink coat, a yellow, blue, and purple mane, blue eyes (which are not shown in the episode but are shown in the comics), and a cutie mark of a strawberry. She is not named in the show, but she is named by show staff and in merchandise.

Development and design
Holly Dash is an original character of series animator Holly Giesbrecht and is called by that name by Giesbrecht herself and Sabrina Alberghetti.

Holly Dash is the first original character to appear in the show. She shares her design with "Ballad", shares her mane style and part of her name with Rainbow Dash, and shares her mane style with Daring Do, "Doseydotes", Sugar Grape, and Léon.

Depiction in the series
Holly Dash appears very briefly in Swarm of the Century, galloping through Ponyville as the town is under siege by parasprites.

Depiction in the comics
In IDW's comic series, Holly Dash first appears on page 2 of, seeing the visage of Nightmare Rarity appear on the surface of the moon.

She later appears on page 5 of, attending the royal high tea at Princess Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns and seated across from "Crystal Clear".

Merchandise
Holly Dash is named with a trademark symbol both in the seventh wave of mystery pack toys and collector cards, which states that she "loves to skip, gallop, and run everywhere!", and on her Enterplay collectible card game card α #13 F, which attributes to her and Golden Harvest the respective quotes "This way! No, wait, this way! Come on!" and "Can't we walk? Just this once?"

A Playful Ponies version of Holly Dash has been displayed at the 2014 American International Toy Fair.

Quotes
"This way! No, wait, this way! Come on!"

- Enterplay collectible card game α #13 F card of Holly Dash