History WesternAnimation / MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017

* BecomingTheMask: Capper becomes this when his coat is generously fixed by Rarity is asked for nothing in return, to the point of deraling the Storm King's army.

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* ContraltoOfDanger: Tempest, who has a deeper and graver voice than the high-pitched voices of the hero ponies.

* BioluminescenceIsCool: In her seapony form, Princess Skystar has a bioluminescent lure on her head resembling that of an AlluringAnglerfish. Queen Novo has three of them, implying that they're the seapony equivalent of a CoolCrown and an indicator of rank. (In their hippogriff form, they become large feathers.) All seaponies in general, including the Mane Six in seapony form, emit a soft glow from their bodies.

** The stained glass window above Celestia and Luna's thrones is based on ''The Starry Night'' by Creator/VincentVanGogh.

* {{Sampling}}: One of the songs on the soundtrack, [[Music/RachelPlatten Rachel Platten's]] "Thank You for Being a Friend", samples from Andrew Gold's song of the same name.

* AnimationLeadTime: The film's script was finalized between Seasons 4 and 5 of the main show but WordOfGod states that it takes place after Season 7. The result is anything introduced after Season 4 is limited to plot-irrelevant cameos (e.g. Starlight Glimmer, Party Favor, the Cutie Mark Crusaders cutie marks) or inexplicably absent (the Pillars of Equestria and the non-pony races they've befriended who'd be expected to react to Equestria invasion or be sought as established allies over the unknown to the heroes [[spoiler:hippogriffs]]).

* TheNoseKnows: Tempest Shadow know that the Mane 6 are not far, simply by smelling a
little hair from Pinkie Pie.

* CreditsGag: The line dancing scene has a female hippo wearing a crown-the queen of the hippos, referring to the ponies originally looking for the queen of the hippos due to Celestia turning to stone mid sentence.

* CreditsGag: The line dancing scene has a female hippo wearing a crown-the queen of the hippos, referring to the ponies originally looking for the queen of the hippos due to Celestia turning to atone mid sentence.

* NoSell: The Storm King's minions carry shields that can reflect magic blasts with ease. The obsidian orbs Tempest and Storm King carry take it UpToEleven in that those exposed to the gas they emit can do nothing to stop the orb's petrifying effects, and even a shield spell can't effectively block the orbs.

* AwesomeMcCoolName:
** Tempest Shadow is a fitting name for the NumberTwo in military, especially if her liege lord is "the Storm King".
** InUniverse: [[spoiler: Fizzlepop Berrytwist]] is, according to Pinkie Pie, [[ItsTheBestWhateverEver "the most awesome name EVER!"]]

* Uzo Aduba as Queen Novo

* InkSuitActor: Music/{{Sia}}'s character, Songbird Serenade, is modeled after her actress's stage persona, complete with BlindingBangs.

* CriticalResearchFailure: InUniverse, despite spending the film wishing to [[PowerParasite steal the powers of the princesses]], the Storm King doesn't seem to have any idea what those powers ''are''. This bites him in the butt when he empowers the Staff of Sacanas, since he doesn't know how to use his stolen powers best.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Twilight thinks that [[spoiler:stealing the Pearl of Transformation is a good idea, but even if she ''doesn't'' get caught, she never considers how her friends, and especially Queen Novo and Princess Skystar will react to it afterwards if they find out, and they most likely would've, and soon. It is a lose-lose proposition either way one looks at it. The Mane Five don't [[WhatTheHellHero hide their overwhelming disapproval]]]].

* AnimationLeadTime: The film's script was finalized between Seasons 4 and 5 of the main show but WordOfGod states that it takes place after Season 7. Judging by the huge number of {{Absentee Actor}}s[[note]]Dragons, Griffins, Changelings, Yaks, Shining Armor along with the Crystal Empire and The Pillars.[[/note]] that could have been more reliable allies instead of a nation that practically didn't exist until then, it shows.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: We've got the Mane Six, Spike, the Princesses, the AllStarCast of new characters, ''and'' a great many characters from the show all appearing in one big epic pony movie. However, Fluttershy and Applejack have somewhat minor roles and many new characters, like Celaeno's crew, don't get any development.

** [[spoiler:After capturing Twilight, Tempest tells her through [[VillainSong song]] that she needs to "open up [her] eyes" and see the world as she does: an unjust, cruel place where you can't rely on anyone, as she absorbs the message of her DarkAndTroubledPast and realizes her PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure. Ultimately, Tempest is the one who has her eyes opened; Twilight saves her life, proving Tempest's philosophy wrong, and inspiring her HeelFaceTurn. The soundtrack even lampshades this by playing a softer version of the score from "Open Up Your Eyes" during that moment.]]

** As a result of all of the [[{{Deconstruction}} real-life applicable consequences]] the Mane Six have faced in their adventure for their usual silliness [[spoiler:(Pinkie Pie attracting unwanted attention, the run-in with Capper, Rainbow Dash's Sonic Rainboom exposing Celaeno's airship to Tempest) Twilight Sparkle becomes convinced that the ponies' ways in ThePowerOfFriendship don't work outside of Equestria, [[IDidWhatIHadToDo and aspires to start playing dirty to get the job done]], as evidenced by using her friends to distract the seaponies while she tries to steal their powerful artifact. Her plan [[NiceJobBreakingItHero backfires]] as it turns out ThePowerOfFriendship actually works both inside and outside of Equestria and Queen Novo ''was'' going to let the Mane Six have the pearl, resulting in her ruining their only certain hope of saving Equestria and then getting abandoned by her friends]].

** Tempest has "Open Up Your Eyes", in which she describes how little she values friendship and believes all of it to be [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids a childish dream Twilight needs to wake up from]].