Red Delicious

Red Delicious is a background Earth pony and a member of the Apple family. He has a light yellow coat, a blue mane, blue eyes, and a cutie mark of a large red apple.

Development and design
Red Delicious shares his design and color scheme with Goldengrape, his design and coat and eye colors with "Harry Trotter", shares his design and mane and eye colors with S04E06 Unnamed Earth Stallion #1, his design and mane color with "Cherry Strudel", his design and eye color with "Welch" and sometimes Felix, his design with "Baritone", "Cloudy Haze", Coco Crusoe, "Grape Crush", Noteworthy, S04E08 Unnamed Earth Stallion #8, S04E08 Unnamed Earth Stallion #13, S04E22 Unnamed Earth Stallion #8, and S04E24 Unnamed Earth Stallion #8, his color scheme with "Wisp", his coat, eye, and partial mane colors with "Strike", his coat and eye colors with "Fuzzy Slippers", his tail style or sometimes design with S04E20 Unnamed Earth Stallion #4 and S04E20 Unnamed Earth Stallion #7, his mane and tail style with Cerulean Skies, Prism Glider, Rainbow Blaze, Rainbow Swoop, "Thorn", and Whitewash, his mane style and color sometimes with S04E20 Unnamed Earth Stallion #6, his mane style with S04E08 Unnamed Earth Stallion #2, S01E16 Unnamed Pegasus Stallion #1, Aries, and sometimes S04E20 Unnamed Earth Stallion #5, his tail style and eye color with Comet Tail, Emerald Green, Rare Find, and S04E22 Unnamed Unicorn Stallion #3, and his tail style with "Chocolate Haze", "Klein", "Sterling Silver", Bright Bulb, "Written Script", "Silver Script", and "Stormfeather".

Depiction in the series
Red Delicious first appears in Friendship is Magic, part 1 when Applejack introduces Twilight Sparkle and Spike to him during the Apple family reunion.

He doesn't appear again until Apple Family Reunion, in which he attends the eponymous reunion with other Apple family members and warmly greets Hayseed Turnip Truck. He takes part in the raising of the new barn at Sweet Apple Acres during Raise This Barn and appears in the family photo.

Red Delicious appears briefly during I've Got to Find a Way in Magical Mystery Cure.

In Bloom & Gloom, Red Delicious appears among other ponies fleeing from a swarm of twittermites.

In Three's A Crowd, an otherwise unidentified stallion whose design matches Red Delicious' makes a brief appearance as a security team member during Glass of Water. A pony otherwise identical to both Red Delicious and Goldengrape with a cutie mark different from both of theirs appears during The Super Duper Party Pony in Pinkie Pride and during The rappin' Hist'ry of the Wonderbolts in Testing Testing 1, 2, 3.

Appearances
Times are approximate.

My Little Pony (mobile game)
Red Delicious is a playable character in Gameloft's mobile game, added in the version 2.0 update on October 6, 2014. His in-game description states "Red Delicious is a stallion with a talent for singing. Maybe his golden pipes stem from his Apple family ancestors!"

Promotional material
Red Delicious appears in a promotional image posted by Hasbro's My Little Pony Facebook page on November 10, 2013.

Merchandise
Red Delicious appears on WeLoveFine's fan-designed art prints "All Of Apple Acres" and "Apple Family Portrait". He is also listed on Enterplay trading card series 1 card #59 of 84, Meet the Apple Family!