The Storm King

**The Storm King** is a male satyr-like creature who appears as the main antagonist in *My Little Pony The Movie*. He is a conqueror of lands beyond Equestria who launches an invasion of Canterlot and seeks the magic of the four Alicorn princesses to take over the world. He is defeated by the Mane Six and his former lieutenant Tempest Shadow, turned to stone, and shattered to pieces.

## Depiction in the film

The Storm King appears in My Little Pony The Movie as the central antagonist. His second-in-command Tempest Shadow, underling Grubber, and army of Storm Creatures are sent to Canterlot as an advance force to occupy the city and secure the magic of the four Alicorn princesses. In his first on-screen appearance, the Storm King communicates with Tempest via potion spell, and he reminds her of the terms of their agreement: deliver to him the princesses' magic and empower his Staff of Sacanas in exchange for restoring her broken horn. Later in the film, Princess Skystar reveals that she, her mother Queen Novo, and the rest of the seaponies used to be Hippogriffs and live atop Mount Aris before the Storm King invaded and forced them to flee underwater. After Twilight Sparkle's capture, the Storm King appears before her and uses the Staff of Sacanas to drain her and the other princesses' magic, granting him massive power and control over the sun and moon. When Twilight's friends come to her rescue, the Storm King uses his newfound power to create a powerful cyclone. Tempest tells him to fulfill his end of their agreement and restore her horn, but he reveals that he was just using her and attacks her. Before the Storm King can destroy Twilight and Tempest, the rest of the Mane Six intervene and knock the Staff of Sacanas out of his hands. As the staff's magic runs out of control, the Storm King and Twilight race to claim it, and they are both swept into the storm. They soon return to solid ground, and the Storm King attempts to turn Twilight and her friends to obsidian stone. Tempest, changed by the Storm King betraying her and Twilight saving her from the storm, jumps in the way, and they are both petrified. The Storm King's body falls off the castle balcony and shatters to pieces.

During the film's end credits, one of the King's Storm Guards assembles his apparently still-sentient body into a hodgepodge of rearranged body parts, which falls apart. Tempest also swings at a piñata bearing the Storm King's likeness, before resorting to using her horn to blast it open.

## Depiction in the series

The Storm King is mentioned by both Twilight Sparkle and Sandbar in School Daze - Part 1, set after the events of *My Little Pony The Movie*.

In Surf and/or Turf, Apple Bloom mentions the King when discussing the story of the Hippogriffs. He is also mentioned by Terramar.

In The Hearth's Warming Club, the Storm King is depicted in Silverstream's story. In What Lies Beneath, illusions of him and his Storm Guards appear as a manifestation of Silverstream's deepest fears. He is mentioned again by Twilight in Father Knows Beast.

## Depiction in *Equestria Girls*

In *My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Spring Breakdown*, the Storm King is mentioned multiple times in the special as his leftover magic causes havoc in the human world.

## Personality

The Storm King is portrayed as an evil and power-hungry tyrant. His demeanor unpredictably shifts between pleasant and cheerful, sardonic and petulant, and cold and ruthless. He displays a cruel and arrogant nature, turning his nose up at the notions of "cuteness" and "friendship", and he is quick to lose his temper when things don't go his way. Despite having been betrayed in the past by one of his own minions, the Storm King himself is deceitful and manipulative, making false promises to restore Tempest Shadow’s horn and then turning his power on her when she is no longer of any use to him.

## Relationships

#### Allies

The Storm King hardly has any allies, since almost all of them he betrayed or they betrayed him. Also, he considers his minions his "servants" and not friends. Here are his former allies.

**Tempest Shadow**: Tempest Shadow was the Storm King's second-in-command and they seemed to have a strong relationship at first, as Tempest was his most trusted lieutenant, to the point where he appoints her as the commander of his army. When the Storm King and Tempest Shadow first met, they made a deal, as Tempest agreed to help him steal the magic of the four Alicorn princesses, while the Storm King promised that once he gained the magic from the princesses, he will use it to restore her broken horn. However, unknown to Tempest at the time, the Storm King was only using Tempest to gain power and he actually betrayed Tempest after he got all the power he wanted with the Staff of Sacanas and uses it to attack her. Thus, this shows that his relationship with Tempest is now all but severed. However, betraying his most trusted ally and attempting to kill her led to his downfall, as Tempest was saved by Twilight Sparkle and this causes her to rethink her life and regret her actions. When the Storm King attempted to turn the Mane Six into Obsidian Stone, Tempest saves them by jumping in front of the Mane Six and turns both Storm King and Tempest into obsidian stone. While Tempest was luckily saved by Twilight and her friends, the petrified Storm King falls off the balcony and shattered into pieces. Despite Tempest's former loyalty, the Storm King never truly cared about Tempest as he only cared about himself, therefore they will now remain as enemies from now on.

**Grubber**: Grubber is one of the Storm King's minions. Though their relationship is not fully shown, the Storm King briefly appoints Grubber as his second-in-command in Issue #1 of the *My Little Pony: The Movie Prequel* comics, after his previous second-in-command, Strife, betrayed him. Due to his dim-witted nature and unintelligence, the Storm King knows he needs a smarter and stronger second-in-command to do his bidding and help him gain the power he wants. Thus, he finds Tempest Shadow and replaces Grubber. In the movie, the Storm King and Grubber barely interacted with each other. The only time they interacted was when the Storm King arrived in Canterlot and enters the Throne Room, where he sees Tempest, Grubber, and the captured princesses (which included Twilight Sparkle in a cage). After Tempest says that she will love to show everyone what she can really do, Storm King asked her what can she actually do. Grubber answers that they will do his bidding before he nervously runs away from the castle. The Storm King agrees with Grubber and that he likes bidding. Grubber and Storm King never interacted again after that but it was shown in both the comic and the movie that Grubber is terrified of the Storm King which is why he acted nervous when Storm King arrived and he ran out of the Throne Room. His fear of Storm King was also shown in the IDW comics. Also in the comics, Storm King calls Grubber too cowardly and spineless to even attempt to betray him. He also calls him weak, useless, and small. This proves that Grubber only follows the Storm King out of fear while Storm King takes delight in that.

**Storm Creatures**: These yeti-like creatures were loyal minions of the Storm King and they helped him succeed in conquering many lands beyond Equestria. In the IDW comics, the Storm King was shown to appreciate the hard work and dedication of the Storm Creatures that he considered offering them a cake. However, he is only saying that due to the fact that the Storm Creatures serve him and do most of the work for him, thus adding to his selfish character. Despite their loyalty to The Storm King, the Storm King does not actually care about them at all, despite saying that he "appreciates" their hard work and dedication. Once he got the Staff of Sacanas, he uses it to create a Tornado, most of his minions were caught and blown away by the storm, revealing how much he didn't care for them whatsoever.

**Strife**: Strife was the Storm King's first second-in-command in the IDW comics, before his betrayal and secretly working with the Parrot Pirates. Tired of the Storm King's constant abuse and his belief that "friends" can betray you, Strife decided to betray the Storm King and side with the Parrot Pirates. The outraged Storm King chased down the Parrot Pirates and briefly appoints the cowardly Grubber as his second-in-command for a short time. The Storm King managed to catch up to the Pirate ship and tosses Strife overboard for his betrayal. It's possible that Strife is indirectly responsible for Storm King to become much more untrustworthy with his minions and becomes traitorous himself when he betrays Tempest in the movie.

#### Enemies

**The Mane Six**: The Mane Six are the Storm King's other enemies along with Tempest, he didn't interact with the group much other than Twilight, since she's the one he needs for his power, but he probably never really heard about about the Mane six before but he probably didn't care anyway, but later met the whole group trying fight back in the final battle and he was super close to almost having the whole Mane Six defeated, but once again defeated by them and a help from Tempest after he betrayed her. He is also proven to be one of the most dangerous and powerful enemies the Mane Six have ever encountered and fight. He only knew about the princesses like Celestia, Luna, Cadance and Twilight Sparkle and all about Equestria and its magic across the land, when Tempest told him about it. He didn't show up at the start, but sent Tempest there to attack for him, as she captured Celestia, Luna and Cadance, turned to stone and Twilight escaped with the help of her friends and went off in a journey to find the Hippogriffs for help but don't know the Storm King was already there and escaped turned into Seaponies. Later Twilght fought with Pinkie because she tried to steal thier pearl and they abandoned her for yelling at Pinkie as Tempest finally captures Twilight when she finally has no help to escape. And after Tempest telling Twilight her backstory she delivers her to the Storm King and steals all her and princesses magic with the Staff of Sacanas,later as Twilight's friends came back to save her and stop the Storm King with the help they got after all, the Storm King tries to get rid of them by making a big windy tornado storm around Canterlot so they can't any closer to stopping him, as he eventually betrays Tempest and Twilight saves her life and the Storm King about to kill the both of them, Pinkie and the others blast themselves up to Canterlot and hitting right into the Storm King as the staff falls right off his claws as the staff loses control, the Mane Six are all reunited and they all work together by holding onto each other flying up to help Twilight grab the staff, but the Storm King gets up in a fit of desprate rage and tries to reclaim his staff back by climbing up the rocks as fast as he can, fighting against the Mane 6 in race to get it, Twilight grabs the staff and he and Twilight get sucked up into the tornado storm and scream, assuming they're both dead, the Mane 5 and Spike mourn for Twilight as she survived and flying back down with the staff as she and her friends get in a group hug, the Storm King climbs up from behind them angry and tries to petrify the Mane Six and Spike to defeat them, take his staff back and have them out of the way once and for all. But Tempest jumps in his way to save the Mane Six petrifying herself along with the Storm King as he falls to his demise petrified shatters to his death, finally defeated by seven ponies and one dragon.

**Princesses Celestia, Luna, and Cadance**: *To Be Written*.

**Queen Novo and her subjects**: *To Be Written*.

**Captain Celaeno and her crew**: *To Be Written*.

**The Abyssinians**: *To Be Written*.

#### Other

**Silverstream**: Silverstream and Storm King were never physically seen on-screen together. However, it was shown that Silverstream was deeply afraid of him and was traumatized by the events that happened when the Storm King attempted to conquer Mount Aris before Queen Novo and her subjects turned into seaponies to hide from the evil tyrant. In the episode "What Lies Beneath", Silverstream sees an illusion of the Storm King and his minions and she thought they were actually there and hides behind a rock. However, Gallus encourages her to stand up to the illusion of the Storm King. Silverstream confronts her deepest fears, telling off the illusion of the Storm King that he is nothing but a big bully with a silly name and a goofy crown. She also angrily tells the shadow that she and her kind will never again be intimidated by him now that he is gone. Thanks to her courage of standing up against her worst fear, the shadows of Storm King and his army disappear, much to the joy of Silverstream and Gallus.

## Trivia

* The Storm King become an enemy of Thomas, The Wild Kratts (Chris, Martin, Aviva Corcovado, Koki and Jimmy Z), Princess Elena, Simba, The Lion Guard, Tom and Jerry Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Yakko, Wakko, Dot, Judy Hopps, Nick Wilde, Top Cat, Scooby Doo, Ben (Song of the Sea), Saoirse, Mickey Mouse and their friends in *Thomas' Adventures of My Little Pony: The Movie (2017).*
* The Storm King join The Rough Gang in the future when he's brought back to life by the Black Cauldron. He also learns to get over Strife's betrayal and understands the importance of dark forces joining together to a common goal with no intentions of betrayal at all.
* The Storm King is best friends with Diesel 10, Sailor John, Queen Chrysalis and Tirek.
* Despite joining The Devious Claw of Evil, The Storm King is absent during the events of *Thomas' Adventures of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic - Season 9,* since he didn't return in the real series due to his death. He'II be resurrected by Diesel 10 again after that and forms partnerships with Chrysalis, Tirek and Cozy Glow despite his hatred for ponies and cute things. The same thing goes to *Thomas' Adventures of My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Spring Breakdown* when Thomas and his friends help Sunset Shimmer, Sci-Twi and Rainbow Dash's human counterpart use the Staff of Sacanas to seal his leftover magic when it creates a storm in the human world during their spring break on a cruise boat.

## Gallery

The Storm King's posterThe Storm King calling Tempest.The Storm King reveals he deceived Tempest.The Storm King is defeated.The Storm King making a cameo in Silverstream's story of the "Three Days of Freedom".Illusion of the Storm King in What Lies BeneathEarly concept design of the Storm King.