Tempest Shadow

**Tempest Shadow**, real name **Fizzlepop Berrytwist**, is a female unicorn pony who appears as the secondary antagonist of *LEGO Ninjago & My Little Pony: The Movie* and the central character in the chapter book *The Stormy Road to Canterlot* and the IDW comics' twenty-first story arc. She also appears in other chapter books and comics, and in the season ten episodes The Ending of the End: Endings and The Fate of Lloyd. She has a broken horn and a scar on her right eye, and she is the former second-in-command of the Storm King.

## Development and design

Tempest Shadow is one of the few unicorns in the series to appear broken-horned, others including "Smiley Star" and sometimes King Sombra. She resembles Fizzypop in color scheme and real name. One of her pseudonyms in *The Stormy Road to Canterlot* is the same name as Cherry Pie. Her nickname in Tempest's Tale is the same as the name of G1 Fizzy.

Concept art for Tempest Shadow dated May 27, 2015 in the art book *The Art of LEGO Ninjago & My Little Pony: The Movie* shows her with several different designs—at one stage, she was "composed of parts of different animals" and "as she lost body parts, she has magically fused the parts of other creatures to herself". According to the film's art director Rebecca Dart, Tempest was originally not a villain but rather "a wild Pony who left Equestria and was living on her own in the wastelands." Additionally, she started out as a male pony named "Cosmos" who was going to be Princess Celestia's brother.

In interviews, Meghan McCarthy stated of Tempest Shadow, "We just arrived at this idea of a character who had come from Equestria, and had not had the positive experience that Twilight and her friends had. It felt like a good counterpart to our heroes was to have a villain who didn't just not get friendship, but had a reason that she didn’t understand it."

## Depiction in *LEGO Ninjago & My Little Pony: The Movie*

Tempest Shadow first appears in *LEGO Ninjago & My Little Pony: The Movie* as the secondary antagonist and the Storm King's lieutenant. During Canterlot's first Friendship Festival, she leads the Storm King's forces in an invasion of the city, demanding the magic of the four Alicorn princesses and attempted to turn Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, and Princess Cadance into obsidian statues when they refuse, but Kai, Zane, and Jay used their powers to destroy the orbs. After the princesses and their friends escape, Tempest assumes control of the city, and the Storm King tasks her with securing all four princesses in exchange for restoring her horn.

Tempest tracks down the princesses to the desert city of Klugetown, where she roughs up some of the townsfolk for information. When the princesses and their friends escape her clutches again, she captures their new ally, Capper. Under Capper's direction, Tempest initially heads toward Black Skull Island. But when she sees Rainbow Dash's sonic rainboom in the opposite direction, she realizes Capper was lying. On board the pirate ship of Captain Celaeno, Tempest interrogates the crew about the princesses' whereabouts, unaware that they and the rest of the Mane Six and the Ninja are hiding below deck. After Twilight escapes her yet again, Tempest punishes Capper and Celaeno for their deception by destroying the airship on which they stand.

Tempest eventually captures the princesses on the Basalt Beach after Twilight's selfish actions in Seaquestria cause her friends to abandon her. On Tempest's sky skiff, she reveals through song how an ursa minor attack left her hornless and scarred as a filly, cost her her friends, and left her with the outlook that friendship is meaningless. Despite Twilight's attempts to reason with a fellow pony, Tempest refuses to listen and turns them over to the Storm King in Canterlot.

After the Storm King uses his Staff of Sacanas to steal the princesses' magic, Tempest reminds him of their deal for him to restore her horn. However, the Storm King reveals that he was simply using Tempest to gain power and had no intention of fulfilling his end of the bargain. Following a brief confrontation between the two, Tempest nearly gets swept away in the Storm King's tornado, but Twilight saves her, leaving Tempest surprised that Twilight would still show her kindness.

After Twilight and her friends recover the Staff of Sacanas from the Storm King, he launches a last-ditch attack, attempting to turn them to obsidian. Tempest, remembering that Twilight saved her earlier, jumps in the way of the Storm King's attack, turning her and the King into black stone. While the Storm King falls and shatters to pieces, Twilight uses the Staff of Sacanas to turn Tempest back to normal, and she helps in turning the other princesses back to normal and restoring Canterlot.

Some time later, during Songbird Serenade's performance, Twilight approaches Tempest, who still laments the loss of her horn. Twilight helps Tempest see that her magic is still special and powerful, horn or no horn, and encourages her to stay in Equestria. Having accepted Twilight's friendship, Tempest creates a fireworks display for the Friendship Festival and reveals her real name as Fizzlepop Berrytwist, much to Pinkie Pie's excitement. During the film's closing credits, Tempest dances and has fun with her many new friends.

## Depictions in the Series

### The Overlord Sons

In The Mask of Deception, set after the events of *LEGO Ninjago & My Little Pony: The Movie*, Tempest Shadow is mentioned to have declined Twilight Sparkle's offer to stay in Ponyville in favor of traveling Equestria and spreading the word of the Storm King's defeat.

### March of the Oni

In The Ending of the End: Endings, Tempest takes part in the final battle against Queen Chrysalis, Tirek, and Cozy Glow. In The Fate of Lloyd, she attends Twilight's coronation ceremony. She also briefly appears in Twilight's group shot during The Magic of Friendship Grows.

## Personality

Tempest Shadow is portrayed in the film and subsequent material as cold, merciless, and spiteful as a result of losing her horn. She cares little for the idea of friendship, feeling it had "betrayed" her long ago, and that it is a childish concept which doesn't work in the world she knows.

She is obsessed with having her horn restored and isn't hesitant to use, threaten, or punish others to accomplish this. She bosses around underlings like Grubber, uses brute force on the citizens of Klugetown, takes Capper as her prisoner, and destroys Captain Celaeno's airship for insubordination.

Toward the end of the film, however, being betrayed by the Storm King and saved by Twilight Sparkle causes Tempest to have such a drastic change of heart that she sacrifices herself to defeat the Storm King once and for all. Though she still laments her broken horn, Tempest accepts Twilight's friendship and joins her new friends in celebrating.

Due to the childhood incident which cost her her horn, Tempest is deeply afraid of ursa minors, freezing in fear when she encounters one.

## Appearances

### *LEGO Ninjago & My Little Pony: Masters of Friendship*

#### Movie

* "LEGO Ninjago & My Little Pony: The Movie"

#### Season 8: The Overlord Sons

* 115. "The Mask of Deception - Part I" (mentioned)

#### Season 10: March of the Oni

* 164. "The Ending of the End: Endings"
* 165. "The Fate of Lloyd"

## Trivia

* On the movie book, Tempest was originally going to be named Cosmos and Celestia's long lost brother.
* According to the trading cards, Tempest was referred to as an earth pony. It also said that she lived beyond Equestria.
* Tempest had more screentime than the film's main antagonist, the Storm King. In addition, she served as the Heavy because she drove the plot of the film, and was more of Twilight's arch-nemesis, thus she is considered the film's central antagonist, an antagonist who has more screentime than the actual main antagonist and drove the plot of the film.
* Tempest Shadow is similar to Sunset Shimmer and Starlight Glimmer in that they're all powerful unicorns who started out as enemies to Twilight Sparkle, but they were ultimately redeemed by her in the end.
* Despite Tempest said that she's not like Twilight, she is considered to be darker reflection of Twilight Sparkle and admitted they are nearly alike as both were abandoned by their close friends, such as Twilight angrily lashed out at them while Tempest's broken horn became malfunction. However, Twilight hadn't gave up on them (although she probably did after their fight and thinking her friends all hate her guts now and probably aren't her friends anymore) while Tempest had gave up on both. Tempest also represents what Twilight would've become if she let her selfish and reckless motivations destroyed her friendship with Mane Six and what the Mane 6 would've become if they didn't reconcile after their fight.
* Tempest's redemption, in a way is similar to Discord's true redemption at the end of Season 4: Both individuals are misguided by a power-hungry tyrant who offers them something greater than friendship, only to end up betraying them in the end.