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Looking at it from a G1 perspective, there were times as a kid where I would go, hrm, interesting rump mark...but it never really bothered me if they didn't match the name of the pony.I think that's only become significant with the advent of G4's 'cutie mark' narrative, but I am not really a fan of trying to bend that to fit G1 ponies, honestly.The official Hasbro term for G1 symbols is rump mark or rump design. Symbol has never been used by Hasbro officially, so far as I know. It was designated by collectors. It was considered more neutral so it stuck.Anything is better than cutie mark mind you.
idk if the original six collector ponies are great examples of this thing since they originally all had the same symbol (Cotton Candy's), didn't they? The switch to different symbols for each of them seems to have happened late into production, I always assumed they didn't think much about it past what would look good with their colours or whatever.