Lightning Dust is shown to be a vigorous and highly competitive flyer who loves to test her limits. With her strong attitude, speed, and love for flying, she quickly forms a friendship with Rainbow Dash.
However, because of her competitive spirit, Lightning Dust is also very reckless and shows little concern for anyone who becomes a victim of her actions. This is shown when she ignores Rainbow Dash's injury during a team exercise, and again when she brushes off the fact that her tornado put Rainbow Dash's friends in danger and almost got them killed. She also seems to be the only pony to have a bigger ego than Rainbow Dash.
Lightning Dust's recklessness and utter disregard for the safety of others eventually lead to her team leader status being taken away and given to Rainbow Dash.
In the season eight episode The Washouts, Lightning Dust reappears as the leader and founder of the Washouts, a professional stunt team comprised of fellow ex-Wonderbolts. She and her team members do away with many of the Wonderbolts' safety regulations and perform far more death-defying stunts. Lightning Dust briefly recruits Scootaloo into the Washouts, but Rainbow Dash intervenes before she gets seriously hurt during her debut. When Lightning Dust's hoof gets caught on a rope attached to Scootaloo's stunt rocket as it takes off into the sky, she is dragged along with it and declares that she and Rainbow Dash are "rivals for life".
Trivia[]
- Lightning Dust will become the new enemy of the X-Men in X-Men in Equestria, where he challenges her and Gilda (Griffin) to a cage fight.
- Lightning Dust will become the Horsemen of Death in Power Rangers Harmony Force, and A Dash of Lightning Dust.
- She will appear in Jewel Sparkles' Adventures as a villain.
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