@Background Pony #E63E  
What are you talking about? I don’t care about your opinion. The Storm King Is still dead in the ending credits. And the credits are canon.

@phallen1  
What are you talking about? The Storm King is dead. I mean think the scene of when his eyes glow blue and still move is presumably an animation error. And I agree that the credits scenes are canon to the movie and the franchise. Even though we see a least number of Storm Creatures became reformed. It looks like one of them tries to put the Storm King back together but it was in the wrong order. I guess that one was informed because he was enslaved by one of Canterlot royal Guards. And I agree that after the Storm King died, and Equestria was restored back to normal, the royal guards of Equestria either execute or imprisoned the Storm Minions/Guards/Creatures for their crimes. I believed some of them are locked in Tartarus because I agree that the Storm Creatures are dangerous beasts in the movie.

I kind of want to see what would happen if they tried depetrifying him

@AaronMk  
It probably did as of canon. The credits aren’t meant to be taken seriously. If he’s lucky, he died the moment he shattered to pieces, not after they were returned to flesh.
 
And if anyone thinks his death is too dark: Watch The Little Mermaid, or Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, or Sleeping Beauty, or the animated Beauty and the Beast, or The Swan Princess (any of the first three, the rest aren’t as fun). Watch the freaken pilot episode of G1 of MLP “Rescue at Midnight Castle”, and the four-part episode “The Quest of the Princess Ponies”. I think you’ll be surprised. (But you shouldn’t be if you’ve seen The Crystal Empire) And all those movies I named are rated G
 
And if you ask me, it’d be darker if he really WAS still alive in that state.

@phallen1  
“You know, looking back, it all makes sense. Dream big… live big… love big… fall to your death off a f***ing balcony as a stone statue. Now I know, which is exactly zero percent of the battle, apparently.”

I never stayed for the credits sequence, so I missed this. And here I was thinking when Twilight did the only de-petrifying thing it would have done the same to the Storm King’s body and it would have been a bloody mess on the ground.

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Compare the credits of Puss in Boots, where Humpty falls to his death and smashes to pieces much like the Storm King, and we see his gold yolk. Given that fall there is no way he could have survived, plus his grave is seen in Shrek 3D (which did something similar, the Karaoke Dance Party depicts Farquaad surviving inside Dragon’s stomach, but that segment is non-canon coz in Shrek 3D Farquaad returns as a ghost, and Donkey says “I know I seen you die in the first movie”). Yet, the credits depict him as surviving and wearing a gold costume supposedly after the fall, but with no explanation as to how he could have survived so they’re not meant to be taken seriously either, and everywhere officially counts Humpty “deceased”. (That being said Jack and Jill are probably dead too)
 
I wonder if this might have even been an intentional reference to Humpty?
 
Same goes for the credits of Paper Mario, where Huff N. Puff and the Crystal King appear even though they clearly died at the end of their battles, and Tubba Blubba is separated from his heart even though they reunited, while sometimes acting consistent with Chomps chasing Tutankoopa. Also, if the parade was canon and part of the celebration, it would mean Bowser is celebrating his own defeat.

Or, maybe the reason they depicted him as a living statue in the credits only is to imply that he is comically trying to literally pull himself together (which of course would be impossible in canon).

@neo4812  
Except with Sa’luk, being turned to gold in itself killed him. For the Storm King it was being smashed to pieces AFTER being turned to stone
 
@Ardashir  
Since the credits aren’t meant to be taken seriously, I strongly suspect this happened when Equestria was restored and Derpy and the princesses were turned back from stone. We never do see his pieces again in the actual movie after Twilight saves Tempest. Unless they either vanished the Storm King’s pieces or specifically left them as is, I guess it’s up to our interpretation.
 
Piccolo survived this in DBZ, but only coz his head wasn’t damaged and he could regenerate. Vegeta on the other hand died the same way, the second time.

This reminds of Tybalt from Gnomeo and Juliet where is smashed to pieces but come back in the credit but alive.  
He look more like a zombie gnome though.

Another good example that death in Equestria really is a thing.

You think this is bad?
 
A moment later, after the cameras were turned away, Starlight Glimmer turned him back into living flesh. While he was still like - this.

his “death” reminds me of Sa’luk’s death from Aladdin and the king of thieves, minus the bloodcurdling scream

@Flaming Frets  
“Somehow I realize all of this – the army, the stone grenades, the invasion – is really about Tempest Shadow.”

I mean, seriously, they’re not going to say it’s all right for Applejack’s parents to be dead but not the Storm King

If they wanted him to still be alive, they’d have made his eyes move in the actual film itself. Perhaps they only changed this scene to not make it seem like the Storm Creatures were morbidly playing around with his corpse, in case some did take the credits seriously. (Because PG movies can get away with killing family members of the hero, and he’s hardly the first villain to die in FiM. Nor is Sombra the first villain to die in My Little Pony as a whole)

Even though his eyes moved in the credits, in the actual film they were turned to stone with the rest of him, so they cannot be canon. (Furthermore, his head’s in one piece here, but it was in two pieces in the film scene) I’m not the only one who thinks they’re not meant to be taken seriously, either.
 
If they wanted to give the illusion his fate was less dark, they failed because being alive in that state would be worse than death.
 
I’ll say, despite the scene in the credits, he is dead in canon. Besides, who really believes the Queen of the Hippos is real?

“Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You ever have one of those moments where you think, “How the Tartarus did I get here?”
 
(“Baba O’ Riley” plays in the background)
 
“Geez, what happened to me? I was ruling Equestria. Had a cheery new palace. I mean, this place had an omelet bar. A straight up omelet bar! And now look, I get turned to stone, thanks to my former intern getting in the way of one of my petrification grenades, and I’m falling off the balcony, about to shatter into a million pieces. (sighs) You know, come to think of it, my whole life has been a series of ‘what the buck’ moments.”

@Atomic  
This version doesn’t have the glowing blue eyes in the final version, so they must of changed it by some higher authority, just like how the author of “FIENDship Is Magic #1” had to clarify his intent that Princess Amore wasn’t dead by adding an extra narration.

He’s not dead. He just wishes he were dead. This is far far worse than mere death.

If he’s still alive in this form, which is implied since his eyes move, that just makes it all the more horrifying

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