Line #17 NightmareFuel/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017


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7	* Those orbs that [[TakenForGranite turn the Princesses to stone]] apparently don't put you in stasis. As noted below, the Storm King may be conscious in his frozen state (though this is only implied by the credits, which, as noted below, may not be canon), which implies that all three princesses (and Derpy) were fully conscious despite being turned to/encased in stone. (We know that Discord was conscious when ''he'' was a statue, though Twilight wasn't, and both were turned to stone through different means from the obsidian orbs and each other, so it's unclear which method of petrification obsidian orbs are closer to)
8	** Heck, the petrification in general. Cadance tries to block the first of Tempest's Obsidian Orbs with her shield spell, but it burns through and she can't stop the stone from overtaking her and covering her completely, and she's frozen with a horrified expression. Celestia ''instantly'' realizes how bad this is and orders Luna to flee for help from Novo, and is petrified mid-sentence. Luna is horrified, but takes flight, only to be attacked by Tempest while in ''mid-air'' and turned to stone. Only Twilight's telekinesis prevented her from smashing on the ground...which also left Twilight a sitting duck. Luna nearly ''died'' in the first ten minutes of the film, and saving her left Twilight wide open for attack. If not for [[BigDamnHeroes Rainbow Dash's]] [[FreezeFrameBonus last-second rescue]] and Derpy's (attempted) HeroicSacrifice, Twilight would have been turned to stone as well, and [[TheBadGuyWins Tempest would have won immediately]] instead of it being a NearVillainVictory and giving the Mane Six reason to leave Equestria to find help.
9	** When Twilight is brought to the throne room by Tempest, there's a shot from Twilight's perspective of petrified Celestia. You can faintly hear ''an echo of Celestia screaming''. Was it just Twilight's imagination, or was Celestia fully aware of what was going on?
10	* The Storm King's FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: He gets turned to stone, falls off a balcony, and [[LiterallyShatteredLives shatters to pieces]]. Although some might overlook this compared to how graphic it would have been if he ''hadn't'' been turned to stone.
11	** If the credits are to be believed, he's [[NotQuiteDead still alive]], but busy trying to invoke PullingThemselvesTogether. It's up to you to decide whether this lightens things up, or just makes it [[AndIMustScream worse]]. Or if the credits are actually canon, given the inconsistency that his eyes were turned to stone in the film, but are moving in the credits, as well as the Queen of the Hippos.
12	* Remember when Snails and Snips stupidly endangered themselves by entering an Ursa Minor cave but came out relatively unscathed? A young Tempest Shadow wasn't so lucky...
13	* After Twilight unsuccessfully tries to steal the Pearl of Transformation from the hippogriffs, Novo [[TranquilFury tells them that they don't deserve to be one of them]], and turns them back into ponies while they're still deep underwater. The gasping the Mane Six make when they get back to the surface indicates they just barely avoided drowning after losing their Seapony abilities when Novo turned them back to normal.
14	** Heck, they almost drowned the first time had Skystar not intervened at the last second! Seeing Twilight's ImpairmentShot is quite jarring.
15	* One of the merchants in [[WretchedHive Klugetown]] is selling ''unicorn horns'', and asks Twilight if she's in the mood to sell hers. And apparently, slavery is all too common there, as Capper tried to sell them off to pay off a debt. Looks like Tempest isn't the only pony missing a horn... thank Celestia Capper had a HeelFaceTurn, or things could've gotten much darker.
16	** Fluttershy helplessly seeing some of the exotic birds in town being sold in cramped cages borders all too realistically on every animal lovers' worst nightmare.
17	** The Mane 6's brush with the corrupt and lawless nature of Klugetown makes you wonder what happened to any other ponies that had arrived there earlier... either voluntarily or against their will.
18	* Although she retrieves it later on, relieving the viewer Applejack's hat just floating in the water gave off the impression that she ''died'', along with the rest of the Mane Six.
19	* Tempest very nearly ''killing Capper and the pirates.'' Even though they survived, just seeing the airship ''explode in the sky'' is very unsettling, and a TearJerker following how Rainbow Dash had only earlier convinced Celaeno and her crew to let their sails fly again, and now Tempest had almost effectively shattered their lives by destroying their home and livelihood.
20	* Pinkie coming dangerously close to falling to her death all because she tried her usual bouncing on an unsteady rope. Thankfully, Twilight catches her right at the last second.
21	* During the Mane 5's battle to reach Twilight and the Storm King, Pinkie throws cupcakes at one of the Storm King's minions. The pink frosting almost resembles blood, making it look like a massacre. She begins to [[LaughingMad laugh maniacally]] as she turbo-tosses cupcakes at her adversaries, as though she were a complete and utter psychopath.
22	* The Storm King ''finally creating a storm!'' (see page image)
23	--> '''Storm King:''' I'm so totally over the cute pony thing. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis This... ends...]] '''[[PreMortemOneLiner NOW!]]''' ''(proceeds to shoot a bolt of energy into the sky to make a giant thunderstorm, while [[EvilLaugh laughing]] [[LaughingMad maniacally]])''
24	** Special mention goes to how absolutely DrunkWithPower he goes as it happens and Mane 5, Spike, and Capper have to run for cover while several of the Storm King's own {{Mooks}} get blown away. Furthermore, a cyclone that huge could've done some '''[[TrashTheSet SERIOUS]] [[SceneryGorn DAMAGE]]''' to Canterlot!
25	---> '''Rainbow Dash''': You'd have to be flying faster than a speeding pegasus to break through ''that'' wind!
26	* When the Storm King reveals Tempest he never intended to fix her horn, [[YouHaveOutLivedYourUsefulness and only finds her expendable]].
27	--> '''Storm King:''' NOW I TRULY AM THE STORM KING! AND THE ENTIRE WORLD WILL BOW TO MY '''BA-BA-BA-''BOOM'', BABY!!'''
28	--> '''Tempest:''' Yes, yes, you are every bit as powerful as I promised, Sire, now, restore my horn, and I swear to use my magic to serve you!
29	--> '''Storm King:''' ''([[EvilLaugh laughs]])'' [[WhamLine Who cares about your dinky little unicorn horn?!]]
30	--> '''Tempest:''' ''([[EtTuBrute shocked]])'' But... we... we had an agreement!
31	--> '''Storm King:''' Get with the program! [[ILied I]] ''[[ILied used]]'' [[ILied you!]] ''(shrugs)'' [[ButForMeItWasTuesday It's kind of what I do.]] ''(proceeds to attempt to blast her with the staff with a SlasherSmile on his face)''
32	** Just the nonchalant way he admits it is really quite unsettling. It even heavily implies that [[FridgeHorror Tempest wasn’t the first to outlive her usefulness to the Storm King]].
33	* There's just something unsettling about the Storm King's VillainousBreakdown. He goes from LaughablyEvil and AffablyEvil to snarling in rage and moving in a more animalistic way trying to reclaim his Staff before the Mane Six can. Afterwards, he's ''still'' in this mode when he climbs back up and just tries to silently Obsidian Sphere the Mane Six from behind, with his furious snarl transitioning into a SlasherSmile. It can bring to mind Ratigan's VillainousBreakdown, if significantly less brutal.
34	** Even before his breakdown set in, there was still something unsettling about the Storm King. [[MoodSwinger In one moment, he's completely affably evil, but at any moment, he goes through a fit of anger.]]
35	--> '''Storm King:''' "The Storm King" is tracking, well, as intensely intimidating, but you know what? I need to back it up. You know what I need to back it up with? ''[[SuddenlyShouting A STORM! That would be GREAT!]]''
36	** Also the implications of his power. It's only alluded to in the movie, but the prequel comic reveals that he's essentially a conqueror [[ForTheEvulz for fun]], invading kingdom after kingdom without caring for ruling them. In Abyssinia, a trade nation, he conquers the capital easily, plunders the royal treasury, and then leaves, not considering the devastating effect this would have on the nation.
37	** The prequel comics also reveal that the Storm King is strong enough to crush a golden crown to the shape and size of a ring with his bare hands.
38	* The idea of someone like the Storm King wielding the powers of all four alicorns is incredibly unsettling. In the episode Twilight's Kingdom, Twilight, wielding the power of all four alicorns, goes up against Tirek, a centaur who's absorbed the power of ''every pony in Equestria and Discord'', and the battle ends in a stalemate. The combined power of the alicorns are literally equal or greater than every other magical pony in Equestria AND a demigod of chaos, and that power is now in the hands of a man that pretty clearly shows himself as a child playing with things he doesn't understand.
39	* Daniel Ingram [[https://twitter.com/dannyimusic/status/873202226206044160 teased]] approximately 11 seconds of footage showing his orchestra's bassoonists recording for a dark, tense scene in the movie, if the sample playing in the background is any indicator. And from those three short chords alone, he manages to provide one of the most foreboding, bone-chilling themes you will ever hear.
40	* The [[https://derpibooru.org/1524422 prototype concepts of Tempest Shadow]] are jarring to look at because the original intention was to make her a hybrid pony-chimera who resorted to grafting amputated parts onto herself that were taken from other animals.
41	* In the [[https://imgur.com/a/Pc5yc landscape shot of Canterlot]], we see a town on fire from the invasion of the Storm King's forces. Judging from the positioning, that town is very likely ''Ponyville itself''!
42	* Pinkie [[SanitySlippage going insane in the desert]] is enough to make anyone's skin crawl-the bird skull she starts talking to may remind some people of Cupcakes, and then there's the [[BigCreepyCrawlies giant bug]] that crawls across her [[EyeScream open eye.]]

Context NightmareFuel / MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017