Here's some known content from the fourth issue (also, some other miscellaneous comic-related edits)
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==Development==
==Development==
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While on-screen she is only introduced as "queen of the changelings", she is named '''Chrysalis''' in the episode's script
{{cite web|url=http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=86386&view=findpost&p=2051779|author=Layout artist "Nayuki"|title=The Allspark Forums – A Canterlot Wedding|date=2012-04-21|accessdate=2012-04-21}}
and iTunes and Netflix summaries, as well as in [[merchandise]], including trading cards and the comic book series.
{{cite web|url=http://comments.deviantart.com/1/328373698/2763208386|title=Comment on The news has broken! MLP #1 stars...|author=Andy Price|date=2012-09-29|accessdate=2012-10-01}}
{{cite web|url=http://comicbookcritic.net/2012/09/24/idw-publishing-december-2012-solicitations/|title=IDW Publishing December 2012 Solicits|work=Comic Book Critic|date=2012-09-24|accessdate=2012-09-29}}
The episode's script describes her as "QUEEN CHRYSALIS, a GANGLY BLACK PEGACORN with a gnarled black horn."
{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/MMeghanMcCarthy/status/195885265523441664|author=Meghan McCarthy|title=Meghan McCarthy's answer to a question on Twitter|date=2012-04-27|accessdate=2012-08-21}}
{{cite web|url=http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/08/interview-with-rebecca-dart-queen.html|title=Interview with Rebecca Dart - Queen Chrysalis Designer|work=Equestria Daily|date=2012-08-20|accessdate=2012-08-21}}
She and the other changelings were designed by Rebecca Dart, the main character designer for season two.
{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/goldenrusset/status/194912414049894400|author=Showrunner Jayson Thiessen|title=Twitter shoutout to R. Dart|date=2012-04-24|accessdate=2012-04-25}}
Rebecca was inspired by the work of manga artists [[wikipedia:Junko Mizuno|Junko Mizuno]] and [[wikipedia:Hideshi Hino|Hideshi Hino]] after reading the name "Chrysalis", and "figured she should be insect-like."
{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/R_Dart/status/195899514614333440|author=Rebecca Dart|title=Rebecca Dart's answer to a question on Twitter|date=2012-04-27|accessdate=2012-04-28}}
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While on-screen she is only introduced as "queen of the changelings", she is named '''Chrysalis''' in the episode's script
{{cite web|url=http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=86386&view=findpost&p=2051779|author=Layout artist "Nayuki"|title=The Allspark Forums – A Canterlot Wedding|date=2012-04-21|accessdate=2012-04-21}}
and iTunes and Netflix summaries, as well as in [[merchandise]], including trading cards and the comic book series.
{{cite web|url=http://comments.deviantart.com/1/328373698/2763208386|title=Comment on The news has broken! MLP #1 stars...|author=Andy Price|date=2012-09-29|accessdate=2012-10-01}}
{{cite web|url=http://comicbookcritic.net/2012/09/24/idw-publishing-december-2012-solicitations/|title=IDW Publishing December 2012 Solicits|work=Comic Book Critic|date=2012-09-24|accessdate=2012-09-29}}
The episode's script describes her as "QUEEN CHRYSALIS, a GANGLY BLACK PEGACORN with a gnarled black horn."
{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/MMeghanMcCarthy/status/195885265523441664|author=Meghan McCarthy|title=Meghan McCarthy's answer to a question on Twitter|date=2012-04-27|accessdate=2012-08-21}}
{{cite web|url=http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/08/interview-with-rebecca-dart-queen.html|title=Interview with Rebecca Dart - Queen Chrysalis Designer|work=Equestria Daily|date=2012-08-20|accessdate=2012-08-21}}
She and the other changelings were designed by Rebecca Dart, the main character designer for season two.
{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/goldenrusset/status/194912414049894400|author=Showrunner Jayson Thiessen|title=Twitter shoutout to R. Dart|date=2012-04-24|accessdate=2012-04-25}}
Rebecca was inspired by the work of manga artists [[wikipedia:Junko Mizuno|Junko Mizuno]] and [[wikipedia:Hideshi Hino|Hideshi Hino]] after reading the name "Chrysalis", and "figured she should be insect-like."
{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/R_Dart/status/195899514614333440|author=Rebecca Dart|title=Rebecca Dart's answer to a question on Twitter|date=2012-04-27|accessdate=2012-04-28}}
==Depiction in the series==
==Depiction in the series==
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==Depiction in comics==
==Depiction in comics==
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Queen Chrysalis is the main antagonist through the first four-issue story arc of the [[My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (comics)|comic book]] series,
which takes place after the second season of [[My Little Pony Friendship is Magic|the show]].
{{cite web|url=http://www.theouthousers.com/index.php/news/118158-cincinnati-comic-expo-interview-katie-cook.html|title=Cincinnati Comic Expo Interview: Katie Cook|accessdate=2012-09-29}}
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Queen Chrysalis is the main antagonist through the first four-issue story arc of the [[My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (comics)|comic book]] series,
which takes place after the second season of [[My Little Pony Friendship is Magic|the show]].
{{cite web|url=http://www.theouthousers.com/index.php/news/118158-cincinnati-comic-expo-interview-katie-cook.html|title=Cincinnati Comic Expo Interview: Katie Cook|accessdate=2012-09-29}}
Her name is established to be Queen Chrysalis in the story arc's subtitle ''The Return of Queen Chrysalis'' and when it is mentioned by Fluttershy in the first issue.
In a flashback shown in the third issue, it is shown that she did not catch herself in midair, but survived her fall. She was weakened from the fall so she and her minions recovered their strength by feeding off the love of the catlike residents of the town they landed in, transforming it into the Changeling Kingdom. Still not powerful enough to invade Equestria, she decides to absorb Twilight's magic when the Secretariat Comet flies by.
In a flashback shown in the third issue, it is shown that she did not catch herself in midair, but survived her fall. She was weakened from the fall so she and her minions recovered their strength by feeding off the love of the catlike residents of the town they landed in, transforming it into the Changeling Kingdom. Still not powerful enough to invade Equestria, she decides to absorb Twilight's magic when the Secretariat Comet flies by.
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In the first issue, the changelings take over Ponyville by imprisoning all its inhabitants except the Mane 6 in cocoons, and taking their place. The Mane Six defeat them and rescue all the ponies except the Cutie Mark Crusaders, whom Chrysalis has imprisoned in her kingdom and tells the Mane Six to go to the kingdom. It is also established that she is beginning to grow tired of the Cutie Mark Crusaders wishes for the Mane 6 to retrieve them quickly before she loses her mind. Her name is established to be Queen Chrysalis when it is mentioned by Fluttershy, as well as in the subtitle of the comic, ''The Return of Queen Chrysalis''.
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In the first issue, the changelings take over Ponyville by imprisoning all its inhabitants except the Mane Six in cocoons, and taking their place. The Mane Six defeat them and rescue all the ponies except the Cutie Mark Crusaders, whom Chrysalis has imprisoned in her kingdom and tells the Mane Six to go to the kingdom. It is also established that she is beginning to grow tired of the Cutie Mark Crusaders wishes for the Mane Six to retrieve them quickly before she loses her mind.
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In the second issue, the ponies set off to rescue their friends from "Chrysalis kingdom".
Chrysalis sends changelings to cause a cave-in that separates the ponies into pairs, and changelings imitate them to make them argue amongst themselves, much to Chrysalis's amusement, although she is still annoyed by the Cutie Mark Crusaders.
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In the second issue, the Mane Six have set off to rescue the Cutie Mark Crusaders from the Changeling Kingdom. Chrysalis sends changelings to cause a cave-in that separates the ponies into pairs, and changelings imitate them to make them argue amongst themselves, much to Chrysalis's amusement, although she is still annoyed by the Cutie Mark Crusaders.
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In the third issue, Chrysalis reveals her plan to destroy Twilight after draining her magic and have her changelings feast on the others when their emotions are at its peak. Although the ponies get back together after escaping vicious predators, Chrysalis states that she saw it only as an entertaining bonus to see them turn against each other for a while.
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In the third issue, Chrysalis reveals her plan to destroy Twilight after draining her magic and have her changelings feast on the others when their emotions are at its peak. Although the ponies get back together after escaping vicious predators, Chrysalis states that she saw it only as an entertaining bonus to see them turn against each other for a while.
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A page of the fourth issue, reused as the issue's [[:File:Comic issue 4 Dynamic Forces cover.jpg|Dynamic Forces exclusive Cover RE]], shows Chrysalis fighting Twilight while the rest of the Mane Six are imprisoned in a cocoon with the Cutie Mark Crusaders.
==Merchandise==
==Merchandise==