| “ | Let's get this storm started! Ooh, hey, that's good. I should trademark that. | „ |
| ~ The Storm King's most famous quote. |
| “ | The Storm King: Who cares about your dinky little unicorn horn?! Tempest Shadow: But... we had an agreement! The Storm King: Get with the program! I USED you! It's kinda what I do. |
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| ~ The Storm King revealing to Tempest that he lied about restoring her horn before attempting to kill her - his infamous quote. |
The Storm King is the main antagonist of the 2017 animated film My Little Pony: The Movie, based on the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic series, the posthumous overarching antagonist of My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Spring Breakdown and a posthumous antagonist in the rest of the series. He is the former master of both Tempest Shadow and Grubber and one of Twilight Sparkle's archenemies.
He was voiced by Liev Schreiber, who also voiced Kingpin in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
In General[]
- He shows no care or concern for anyone, not even his own generals or minions, as seen in the climax of the film, where he created a powerful storm that swepted away his Storm Guards and when he betrayed Tempest and tried to kill her.
- Despite not appearing for a majority of the film, his actions and motivations makes it clear that he is a power hungry warlord who wants to rule the entire world.
Background[]
- It is presumed that he took over many lands beyond Equestria.
- Destroyed many kingdoms, including Capper's hometown and the kingdom of Hippogriffs.
- Enslaving people, including Captain Celaeno and her crew.
- He manipulates his army, including Tempest Shadow and Grubber, to get whatever he wants. In the comics, he even presents himself as a benevolent leader in order to win their trust.
- In the comics, the Storm King confesses to having no interest in "ruling" anyone; he just likes to terrorize, pillage and destroy any civilization he comes across, as well as collect magical items to empower himself.
My Little Pony: The Movie[]
- He invaded Canterlot and ruined the Friendship Festival.
- His attack on Canterlot was the catalyst towards Twilight trying to steal the Pearl of Transformation from Queen Novo, which sparked the fight between her and Pinkie Pie.
- He threatened to kill Tempest if he did not capture Twilight before he arrives.
- He painfully absorbed the magic from all four princesses by using Staff of Sacanas. including Twilight's
- He blasted Twilight out of his cage just to test his newly acquired powers.
- Created a massive tornado to destroy Canterlot. While he likely didn't anticipate that the tornado could suck everyone there, he nearly killed Twilight's friends and other allies.
- Callously and sadistically betrayed Tempest Shadow by revealing his true nature before he could kill her as she outlived her usefulness, thus leading to her true redemption.
- After Twilight saved Tempest, he tried to finish both of them before he was intercepted by Mane Six.
- Tried to get the Staff of Sacanas back before Twilight does.
- Attempted to turn Twilight and her friends into stone by throwing an obsidian sphere at them to prevent everything from being returned back to normal.
- This betrayal led himself getting his well-deserved karma as Tempest getting revenge on him for betraying her and refused to fix her horn by sacrificing herself to turned both of them into stone before he fell and shattered into pieces while Tempest was rescued and turned back to normal.
- In the comic adaptation, he was immediately panicked when Tempest sacrificed herself to turn both into statues and pathetically begging her that he's changing his mind. It's clearly, he does this out of fear rather than genuine remorse or change of heart.
My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Spring Breakdown[]
- He is indirectly responsible for the conflicts of the entire special, with his leftover storm magic having seeped into the human world and nearly getting the cruise ship the Humane Seven were on destroyed.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- His worst action of attempting to destroy Canterlot with a massive tornado relies on Fridge Horror as it's never confirmed that anyone died, and while The Storm King did intend to destroy Canterlot, nothing indicates that Twilight's friends and other allies would die. Without this, he doesn't meet the baseline standard for PE as the rest of his crimes amount to generic conquering and attempted murder, and his role in causing the conflict in Equestria Girls: Spring Breakdown is too indirect and arguably unintentional.
- While Cosmos (who comes from a possibly different canon), The Tantabus and Midnight Sparkle aren't a fair comparassion as they are much more powerful, he arguably fails the Heinous Standards to King Sombra who only had enough power to put up a fight on both Celestia and Luna and despite getting an army whenever he could, he didn't need one to conquer other lands, while the Storm King had the power of the four alicorns combined once he absorbed their magic and Tempest Shadow even stated to be as powerful as 100 armies, something King Sombra never had access to.
- Despite being taken seriously as a threat for most of the time, he has comedic moments in almost every scene he appears and some that detract from his villainy such as his conversation with Tempest Shadow, detesting cute as it doesn't go with his "big bad powerful magic guy" thing, playing with the sun and moon after gaining the power of the alicorn princesses and constantly making funny faces. It's not too helping that Tempest Shadow was taken much more seriously than him despite her being less heinous than him and even she and Twilight don't take him too seriously at first until he betrayed Tempest Shadow.
Trivia[]
- He is the only MLP Near Pure Evil villains who appears in the movies.
- He's alongside King Sombra one of the two My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Near Pure Evils to die, and while Queen Chrysalis was turned into stone nothing confirms she died.
- However, unlike King Sombra who was intentionally killed by the Crystal Ponies the first time and by the Mane Six the second time, the Storm King's death was mostly caused by himself.
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