History ComicBook / MyLittlePonyTheMoviePrequel

* {{Prequel}}: The series as a whole serves as one for the 2017 ''My Little Pony'' movie, in a loose sense of the word.[[note]]Prequels by definition are set before the events of another work, but are typically released ''after'' that story has been work. This comic series predates the movie's release by four months, making it more of a prologue than anything.[[/note]]

[[folder:Issue #4]]

Betrayal

Betrayal

* ArtifactOfDoom: The Misfortune Malachite "Contains great power...but also brings disaster".

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: No surprises with Strife, who offers Celaeno an artifact of doom and turns out to be a turncoat.
* NoHonorAmongThieves: After Celaeno offers positions on her crew to Capper and Chummer, they betray her by fleeing in one of the captured ships with the Misfortune Malachite.
* SacredHospitality: Celaeno feels compelled to offer Capper and Chummer positions on her crew, food, and a bath, since they're stowaways far from home. They take advantage of her generosity.

[[folder:#3: Capper of Abyssinia]]

[[folder:Issue #3]]

After successfully pillaging the Storm King and taking some of their ships, Celaeno and her crew assets the treasure they have collected but come across the Misfortune Malachite. She doesn't trust the magical item and moves to one of the empty ships in their armada to stow it there, but instead comes across Capper and his friend Chummer, who had stowed on board it in Abyssinia. Celaeno doesn't mind their presence and is about to show them hospitality, when suddenly the Storm King's ship arrives and stalls the ship. After dealing with Strife's disloyalty, the Storm King is upset that Celaeno stole his treasure, but makes her an offer she can't refuse, to have her and her crew help with his further raids of the nations of Equestria. Though Celaeno reluctantly agrees, she prevents the Storm King's forces from stopping the airship she had just been on, now piloted by Capper and Chummer, from escaping. Capper and Chummer are unaware that Celaeno had left the Misfortune Malachite in their ship's hull.

* BenevolentBoss: For an evil overlord, the Storm King treats his invasion force amiciably well, planning to throw them a pizza party or a hat-themed holiday out of appreciation for their hard work.

* EtTuBrute: Despite going on about avoiding friendships to avoid being betrayed, the Storm King is still shocked and angered when Strife gives him away to the parrot pirates, because friendship or not, he still gave Strife his trust.

* ShoutOut: The Storm King's advisor is [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII a cloud named "Strife"]].
** One of the cats is modeled after Tom of WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry fame.

After successfully pillaging the Storm King and taking some of their ships, Celaeno and her crew assets the treasure they have collected but come across the Misfortune Malachite. She doesn't trust the magical item and moves to one of the empty ships in their armada to stow it there, but instead come across Capper and his friend Chummer, who had hidden aboard it in Abyssania. Celaeno doesn't mind their presence and is about to show them hospitality, when suddenly the Storm King's ship arrives and stalls the ship. After dealing with Strife's disloyalitym, the Storm King is upset that Celaeno stole his treasure, but makes her an offer she can't refuse, to have her and her crew help with his further raids of the nations of Equestria. Though Celaeno reluctantly agrees, she prevents the Storm King's forces from stopping the airship she had just been on, now piloted by Capper and Chummer, from escaping. Capper and Chummer are unware that Celaeno had left the Misfortune Malachite in their ship's hull.

* ShoutOut: The two minions idly chatting in the beginning are named "Ralph and Sam" after the two obscure WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes characters Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog.

* {{Prequel}}: The series as a whole serves as one for the 2017 ''My Little Pony'' movie, in a loose sense of the word.[[note]]Prequels by definition are set before the events of another work, but are typically released ''after'' that story has been work; this comic series predates the movie's release by four months.[[/note]]

* {{Prequel}}: The series as a whole serves as one for the 2017 ''My Little Pony'' movie, in a loose sense of the word.[[note]]Prequels by definition are set before the events of another story, but are typically released ''after'' that story has been released; this comic series predates the movie's release by four months.[[/note]]

[[folder:Issue #2]]

With a bit of [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall talk to the reader]], the Storm King introduces himself as his army carried by airship lays attack to the realm of Abyssania, a land ruled by a sentient cat race. The army quickly seizes the city, and while most of the citizens flee, one of the cat-people, Capper, sneak into the Storm King's airship.

The Storm King corners the King and Queen of Abyssania, who are ready to turn the kingdom over to him. But the Storm King quickly refuses it, and states his true intent - to rob the kingdom of any magical items and other valuables. He and his army raid the kingdom's vaults, finding among its treasures the Misfortune Malachite, a stone that is said to bring bad luck to anyone that possesses it, according to the king. The Storm King ignores his warning and proceeds to return to his ship with the rest of his wealth.

The Storm King orders his second-in-command, a sentient cloud named Strife, onto their next target. As the Storm King returns to explaining his motives to the reader, the airship is suddenly attacked by an armada of airships piloted by parrot-like pirates. Strife reveals he double crossed the Storm King, giving the route in advance to the parrots so they could intercept the airship and collect all the wealth the Storm King had gathered. With his minions held at sword-point, there's little the Storm King can do except watch as the Strife and the parrots take off with his gains. Needed a new second in command, he grabs the cowardly Grubber, and promotes him to that position, and orders the airship to follow the pirates.

* EvilChancellor: Played with in regards to Strife, a sinister-looking cloud creature who advises the Storm King and clearly has malicious intent, but the Stork King himself is already an {{Affably|Evil}} EvilOverlord.
* PragmaticEvil: The Storm King doesn't want to take over the countries he invades (taxes, politics, bleh...), he quite happily leaves those who surrender to him unharmed, he treats his minions well, he avoids emotional attachments and is especially interested in not only money, but artifacts he can use to increase his power.

''My Little Pony: The Movie Prequel'' is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly what it sounds like]]: a a limited comic book series that serves as a prequel to ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017 My Little Pony: The Movie]]''. It is published by Creator/IDWPublishing, and is written and illustrated by Ted Anderson and Andy Price, respectively. The comic will span four issues, each shedding light on one of the new characters featured in the film: [[BigBad The Storm King]], [[PirateGirl Captain Celaeno]], [[LovableRogue Capper]], and [[TheDragon Tempest Shadow]].

The series was first unveiled in March of 2017, and will begin shipping in June that same year.

[[folder:Issue #2 Celaeno]]

[[folder:Issue #3 Capper]]

[[folder:Issue #4 Tempest Shadow]]

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[[folder:Issue #3]]

[[folder:Issue #4]]

* EvilChancellor: Played with in regards to Strife, a sinister-looking cloud creature who advises the Storm King and clearly has malicious intent, but his boss is already an {{Affably|Evil}} EvilOverlord.

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''My Little Pony: The Movie Prequel'' is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly what it sounds like]]: a a limited comic book series that serves as a prequel to ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017 My Little Pony: The Movie]]''. It is published by Creator/IDWPublishing, and uses the same artists and writers as the other comics in the ''Franchise/MyLittlePonyGeneration4'' franchise. The comic will span four issues, each shedding light on one of the new characters featured in the film: [[BigBad The Storm King]], [[PirateGirl Captain Celaeno]], [[LovableRogue Capper]], and [[TheDragon Tempest Shadow]].

-->Story by Ted Anderson, Art by Andy Price