How Applejack Won the War - Animation

A little over a year ago I heard this song for the first time and instantly fell in love with it. I was already a big fan of Sherclop Pones' "Friendship is Witchcraft" series so them releasing a standalone song was a treat!

I ended up listening to HAWTW over and over that day and when my roommate arrived home I mentioned that I might make an animatic. Jackie, ever the enabler said to go for it. A week later I had nothing done, just a doodle of Applejack riding her Appletank. I said something to the effect of, "the doodle more or less got the animatic desire out of my system."

Jackie was having none of that. She told me to make the stupid thing, and that our friend [name redacted] (the NR thing is her actual name, you livestream regulars know her!) said the same.

...ok fiiiiiiiiiine. The animatic got made. An EQD and JHaller shoutout later, I was really blown away by the response and was kind of amazed that anyone watched it at all. I'm kind of a poor doodler so I figured it wasn't going to go over too well.

Then everyone wanted a completed, colored version. Well, exactly one year to the day after the animatic went up, here's How Applejack Won the War in all it's warcrime glory!

Thank you to everyone who made comments/reaction videos to the animatic, it was really fun to see and acted as a huge motivator.

Finally, thank you Sherclop Pones for the wonderful song, your humor is fantastic and I can't wait to see what you guys do next.

My Little Pony (c) Hasbro

[amywatkins]

"Take no prisoners kill them all!" Applejack again

[acethefox]

Everyone: *stressed by the war*
Applejack: *dances with corpse*

[medicolkie]

Applejack has served in all branches of the Equestrian Armed Forces, and ended a war in 4 days. Holy shit.

[humanbean]

Most of the enemies have no cutie marks implying they might be children

[TheKoriKasai]

I love how unstable she is. She was waiting for a reason to kill someone

[kaazledazzle]

This is what Applejack does when she’s off screen

[hailleejordan]

my family must never know what really happens in this fandom

[legendsofequus]

1:48 "White flag; we're not done" is a simple, yet ludicrously evil thing for AJ to say.

[maygel]

Rewatched this after 4 years...
Dear God, I had a dark sense of humor.

Nothing changed.

[edits.]

Applejack: We can sink their battleship


The ship: *Orphan Transport*

[AlexandreBugado]

some time later, they decided to make this canon on a different timeline

[ShiftersMidnightsun]

I mean, you can't really blame AJ. She's the element of honesty, and honestly, she just wants the enemy dead. I mean, really, she can't help herself!

[JennyNicholson]

So good! I love the sight gags and especially the ipod nano among her medals at the end.

[RaindropsBleeding]

I love the last shot where she's leaning against the door and there's not even a building attached to it because she leveled everything.

[newgate-zerohour]

That was a good "Charlie Horse" joke. Love this song and the witty lyrics.

I really like how the story coincides with the FiW story. Rarity is traumatized, Rainbow needs glasses and Fluttershy is enjoying every last bit of it.

[garthdavis]

Whoever did Applejack's voice did an excellent job.

[vegetafan]

Spike:"So how was bootcamp?"
Twilight:"Bootcamp?!" *Curls into the fetal position and has Vietnam flashbacks*
Spike:"Applejack took it too seriously again, didn't she?"

[hats]

There's nothing wrong with a little war crime every now and again.

[kenxiong]

Weirdly enough, the show actually showed us something more realistic in comparison to this animatic of what she does in a war. She actually stays in sweet apple acres, turns her apple farm to an industrial factory, and uses her apples to provide for the war.

[oakenshadow]

Thank goodness this isn't labeled as kids content by Coppa, so comments and playlist are still available. Coppa seams to be attacking a lot of MLP content. The entire "Bride/Daughter of Discord" serieses have both had comments and playlist saving disabled.