Capper

Capper is a male anthropomorphic cat who appears as a supporting character in My Little Pony The Movie. He also appears in the IDW comics and the season nine episodes Between Dark and Dawn and The Last Problem. He is a Klugetown con artist and former aristocrat from Abyssinia. He is called Capper Dapperpaws in some merchandise.
==Development and design==
Concept art for Capper dated October 2015 in the art book The Art of My Little Pony: The Movie shows him going through various design iterations, including a black-footed ferret, a Siberian Husky, and a honey badger. According to the film's art director Rebecca Dart, Capper was originally going to be an anthropomorphic fox with a scorpion tail named "Mendax" (the Latin word for "liar"). Concept art dated March 7, 2016 shows that he was also called "Tybalt" at one point.
==Depiction in My Little Pony The Movie==
 Capper appears in My Little Pony The Movie as one of the film's new supporting characters. He first appears curiously noticing the Mane Six when they enter Klugetown. When the ponies attract too much attention from the Klugetowners, Capper scares them off by claiming the ponies are infected with the fictional pastelus coloritis. He then offers, through song, to serve as the ponies' guide and protector across Klugetown on their way to find the "Queen of the Hippos", but he secretly makes plans to sell them to crime boss Verko in order to settle his debt.
Capper charms Twilight Sparkle's friends, and Rarity surprises him with a generous gesture as thanks for helping them. Twilight learns that the "Hippos" they seek are actually the Hippogriffs and that Capper was less than truthful with them. Before Capper can escort the ponies to the Hippogriffs' location, Verko appears, exposing Capper's true dishonest intentions. After the Mane Six escape from Tempest Shadow on a departing airship, Tempest takes Capper prisoner and demands to know where they're going, Capper, remembering Rarity's earlier generosity, points Tempest toward Black Skull Island in the opposite direction.
When Capper's deception is later revealed, Tempest punishes him—as well as Captain Celaeno and her pirate crew for harboring the Mane Six in secret—by destroying their airship and stranding them on Basalt Beach.
 Later, after Twilight is captured by Tempest and taken back to Canterlot, Capper appears before Twilight's friends and offers to help them save her, along with Captain Celaeno's crew and Princess Skystar. In order to sneak into the city, Capper poses as a chef delivering a congratulatory cake to the Storm King that the pirates and Skystar hide inside, and the rest of the Mane Six pose as Capper's prisoners. Though they successfully infiltrate the heavily guarded city, their facade is soon exposed, and they are forced to fight their way past the Storm King's forces. At one point, Capper works with Rarity to tie up some Storm Guards with a giant ribbon, and later uses Spike as a flamethrower to fend off more Storm Guards.
When the Storm King creates a twister to rip the city apart, Capper helps Twilight's friends break through with Pinkie Pie's party cannon. After the Storm King is defeated, Capper joins his new friends in celebrating at the Friendship Festival, and Rarity presents him with a new cape and top hat.
==Depiction in the series==
 In the season nine episode Between Dark and Dawn, Capper makes a cameo appearance during the song Lotta Little Things.
In The Last Problem, Capper attends Twilight Sparkle's coronation ceremony. He also briefly appears in Rarity's group shot during The Magic of Friendship Grows.
==Other depictions==
===IDW comics===
 Capper, minus his red coat, appears on pages 5 and 11 of My Little Pony: The Movie Prequel Issue #1, where his hometown of Panthera, Abyssinia is invaded by the Storm King and his minions. Capper, alongside his friend Chummer, also appears on page 16 witnessing the Storm King's ship get pillaged by a gang of pirate parrots.
In Issue #2, Capper and Chummer stow away on one of the Storm King's ships and end up being dragged along during the sky pirates' attack. Celaeno offers to let them join her pirate crew, and they accept. When the Storm King catches up to them, Capper and Chummer hijack one of the empty airships and make their own getaway.
Capper's origin story serves as the basis of Issue #3. After their escape from the Storm King in Issue #2, Capper and Chummer's airship crashes in the desert. They eventually find their way to Klugetown, where they scam and pickpocket for money and food. While Chummer is content with this lifestyle, Capper dreams of leaving the life of a thief behind one day. Their thievery soon draws the attention of Verko, and they decide to sell him the Misfortune Malachite in exchange for an airship to leave Klugetown.
However, Chummer, unwilling to give up the life of a thief, betrays both Capper and Verko and tries to leave with the airship and the Malachite. When Capper attempts to stop him, the airship is accidentally set on fire. As Chummer abandons Capper in Klugetown and departs on the burning airship, Capper dons a red coat and renounces his friendship with Chummer.
 Capper also appears in the series helping Princess Luna, Stygian, Tempest Shadow, and Trixie pull off a heist in Princess Eris' casino. Luna and Stygian find him working as a self-help speaker at Flim and Flam's resort in Las Pegasus. Capper agrees to work with them after hearing they're planning to steal something, and quits working at the resort (to Flim and Flam's dismay).
When Eris discovers the team's presence, she traps Capper in his worst nightmare (a recreation of the day the Storm King's forces invaded his home), and offers to "save" him, in return for his loyalty. Capper agrees, but is later revealed to have been deceiving Eris, switching the orb containing Princess Luna's powers with a fake, thereby setting Eris up for defeat. After he and the rest of the group return home, they agree to never speak of their mission to anyone else.
In the - story arc Cosmos, Capper helps Pinkie Pie and Big McIntosh obtain one of the Andalusian stars in Klugetown. He later attempts to steal the gathered stars from the villain Cosmos—who has possessed the bodies of Twilight, Celestia, and Luna—but is captured along with Pinkie, Applejack, and the Cutie Mark Crusaders and transformed into a kitten by her. He is freed and reverted back to normal after Cosmos' defeat and awarded a medal for helping save Equestria.
In the "Season 10" comics, Capper travels to his homeland of Abyssinia with Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Trixie, and Discord. In , the team arrives to the Abyssinian capital of Panthera, where Capper reveals to Trixie his past as a street thief, working alongside Chummer and several others. When the team is arrested by police for bringing magic into the city, Capper tries to convince King Meowmeow to de-outlaw magic and fails, resulting in the group's imprisonment. They are soon liberated by Capper's old friends and taken to safety in the tunnels beneath the city, where Capper reunites with Chummer. In , Capper reconciles with Chummer, and the two groups work together to undermine King Meowmeow's regime. Along the way, they discover the Abyssinian Tree of Harmony and Elements of Harmony (later known as "Purpose"), with Capper becoming the Abyssinian element of generosity. Together with his old friends, Capper returns magic to Abyssinia, and King Meowmeow is deposed.
In , Capper is among those whom Spike writes to in order to request aid against the Knights of Harmony. In , Capper and his fellow Elements of Purpose arrive during the Mane Six's fight against the Knights to help evacuate Canterlot as it crumbles and defeat the Knights' leader Danu. He also agrees to join Twilight Sparkle's alliance of nations.
In My Little Pony: Classics Reimagined - Valentine's Day Special, Romeo & Juliet, Capper appears as a member of the Montagues.
===Software===
====My Little Pony (mobile game)====
Capper is a character in Gameloft's mobile game. His in-game description states, "Purportedly, Klugetown's most trustworthy cat. (A self-proclaimed title -- we'll leave it at that.)" The game's limited-time story centered around him and Captain Celaeno is based on the events of the movie, but diverts into another series of events where he, Captain Celaeno, and her crew escape the destruction of the latter's ship and lead the people of Klugetown to revolt against Verko.
He is available as a limited-time prize.
===Hasbro.com description===
 Capper, a smooth-talking (and singing) con-artist, was once a swanky aristocrat living the high-life with pride and dignity. After a deal gone wrong with the Storm King left Capper penniless and in a lifelong debt, he now relies on his wit and charm to make ends meet. Though he may seem cunning, Capper's crimes aren't driven by malice.
===My Little Pony Friendship Club description===
Capper, a smooth-talking (and singing) con-artist, was once a swanky aristocrat living the high-life with pride and dignity. That is, until Storm King came into power. A deal gone wrong turned Capper's threads on fleek into colorless rags, leaving Capper penniless and in a lifelong debt with the Storm King. To make ends meet, he relies on his wit and charm, distracting unsuspecting victims from his quick hands and swift tail. Capper's crimes aren't driven by malice. At his core, he feels a deep insecurity at his fall from grace, and believes his appearance dictates his status.
===The Art of My Little Pony The Movie description===
CAPPER, a smooth-talking (and singing) con-artist, was once a swanky aristocrat living the high life with pride and dignity. That is, until the Storm King came into power. A deal gone wrong left Capper penniless and in lifelong debt with the Storm King. To make ends meet, he relies on his wit and charm, distracting unsuspecting victims from his quick hands and swift tail. Capper's crimes aren't driven by malice. At his core, he feels a deep insecurity at his fall from grace, and believes his appearance dictates his status.
===Tails of Equestria: The Official Movie Sourcebook description===
Capper is an alley cat who has spent quite a bit of time in and around Klugetown. He had rightfully earned a reputation as a skilled con-artist from his past dealings, and as such made no friend of the various gangs and organizations he dealt with.
During Princess Twilight's adventure, however, Capper turned from con-artist to hero and is now one of the most friendly and trustworthy citizens in all of Klugetown. In particular, since returning to his home after the Storm King was defeated, he has been acting as a friendly face to new ponies arriving from Equestria. He teaches them how to take care of themselves, and keeps an eye out in case any newcomers get into trouble with the locals.
He still has a lick of his old trickster persona in him though, and in conversation he's known for running circles around those who are underprepared. He's certainly not malicious, and never intends to do harm, but he'll still pull off a trick or two if he's given the opportunity. Some things never change!
==Merchandise==
Capper has at least one toy released as a tie-in for My Little Pony The Movie: a molded figure packaged with a brushable Rarity figure in the My Little Pony The Movie Styling Friends set. The toy's packaging identifies Capper as "Capper Dapperpaws".
Capper appears as one of the urban characters of Klugetown in Tails of Equestria: The Official Movie Sourcebook, a game supplement for River Horse Games' My Little Pony: Tails of Equestria.
==Personality==
 Capper is portrayed as smooth-talking, streetwise, and opportunistic, able to charm and trick others with his charismatic personality and quick wit. He initially sees the Mane Six as a means to settle his debt with Verko, but after Rarity's show of generosity, he chooses to help them by throwing Tempest off their trail in spite of the risk to himself. Capper also demonstrates heroism and loyalty by joining Twilight's friends in their campaign to rescue her and free Canterlot from the Storm King's iron grip.
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