Applejack

His upper-class family, called the Oranges, live in Manehattan, a logical reference to the famous city of Manhattan.
Although she only has one tail in her mane, in the mobile game she has two.
Despite being born in Sweet Apple Acres, her accent and hat give her the appearance of having been raised in Appleloosa, as only her cousin Braeburn shares those traits with her.
Applejack never lies, but she avoids telling the truth, thus not breaking the Element she represents.
She's the only one who gives her friends affectionate nicknames. For example, she's sometimes called Twilight "My little sugar cube."
In the episode "Call of the Cutie" it is mentioned that she was the last in her class to get her Cutie Mark.
In a Hub Network fan question segment, he said he won his hat by playing apple-biting at the Ponyville fair.
In Rainbow Rocks, in the song Let's Dance! along with the exclusive short film, Analiz Sanchez sings her part in the song with the voice of Rainbow Dash.
In all her outfits in Equestria Girls, she always has a hat of a different color and design.
In the mobile game, in the Sweet Apple Acres update when the game loads, the image shows that Applejack has her mane loose, similar to Rarity's.

From the episode "Spike at Your Service" onward, her friendship with Spike grows stronger, and she begins to care more for him. This is reflected later in "Equestria Girls," when Spike runs toward the portal; she is the only one of the other ponies who tries to stop him. And in "Princess Twilight Sparkle, Part 2," when Spike falls down the stairs, she is the first to help and is the one who appears most concerned for him, demonstrating that she keeps her promise to look out for each other.
Although in the series she is rarely seen without her hat, in any toy of her she is rarely sold with her hat.
Apparently, she had her own club as a young filly, since she gave a house to the Cutie Mark Crusaders.
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Its name is the name of a drink, as are some of its relatives that are based on apples or beverages.
Her character is similar to that of Twilight when it comes to work, as shown in the episode Harvest Season.
She has something in common with Rarity: she wants everything to be perfect for an important event, for example in the episode The Family Reunion Apple worked "hard" so that the relatives would enjoy it.
She is the only one of her friends who has been seen as a baby.
So far she has only starred in three songs, making her the one who has starred in the fewest songs of the six main artists.
In the episode Bats! when she fantasized about dawn apples, her pupils turned into apple-shaped pupils, just like in G.3.5 where ponies had that type of pupils.
He tends to overprotect his sister Apple Bloom, whom he considers a baby, as seen in the episode Somepony to Watch Over Me.

Interesting facts
She is the only one of the six main ponies whose mane can manifest as human hair.
They have the most intelligent character (uses a lot of common sense) in the series; a clear example is in Sleepless in Ponyville, where he criticizes Rainbow Dash's "headless pony" horror story.
His first song was "El Granero Levantar".
Apparently, Applejack is proud to be an Earth pony, which doesn't require being a unicorn or a pegasus.
As a child she had freckles between her eyes, but as a baby and as an adult she did not.
Her freckles disappear very often due to common animation errors.
She is, apparently, the pony Twilight got along with best, followed by Fluttershy.
She is considered one of the best athletes in all of Equestria, along with Rainbow Dash.
She doesn't like others being indebted to her and working for her like slaves.
Applejack inherited her brother's eyes, and Apple Bloom inherited her grandmother's.
He has a great work ethic.
Despite being a farmer, she managed to win the heart of a high-ranking pony, as seen in the episode "Simple Ways."
Applejack bringing Rarity to her senses
Applejack bringing Rarity to her senses

She is the only one of the main characters who doesn't like to wear ornate dresses and who doesn't wear her mane loose.
Despite the above, she is capable of doing it for friends like Rarity.
Applejack is the only one of the 6 main characters whose original design was not changed (Simply by adding the hat).
In his case, his element that he represents (honesty) is held very highly, which causes him to be extremely unable to lie; this can be seen in Fiesta Para Una.

In the episode "The Power Ponies," she is Mistress Mare-velous. Her power in this episode is a rope that she can control with her mind, allowing her to perform tricks without putting herself at risk. However, she also fights using her physical strength. This power is related to that of Wonder Woman from DC Comics, but she also uses gadgets like Batman.

Family
The Apple family
The Apple family

Bright Mac (father)
Pear butter (mother)
Big Macintosh (Brother)
Apple Blossom (Sister)
Grandmother Smith (Paternal Grandmother)
Grand Pear (Maternal Grandfather)
Apple strudel (Uncle)
Mr. Orange (Uncle)
Mrs. Orange (Aunt)
Babs Seed (Prima)
Apple Rose (Distant Grandmother)
Braeburn (Cousin)

Spike: Applejack gets along quite well with Spike and has proven to be a close friend to him. She has always shown more concern for Spike than the other ponies. This can be seen in the following episodes: In "Out West," when Spike returns from the buffalo herd, Applejack is visibly happy that he is alright, even hugging him for a few seconds. In another episode, "Spike at Your Command," she risked her life to save him and was willing to let him get stuck so that he would be safe. Their friendship has grown considerably since the first season; she treats him with great affection, and they can be seen together in several episodes.
Apple Bloom: Applejack has an enviable relationship with her younger sister, Apple Bloom. Applejack is a very well-rounded pony, and due to the death of her parents, she had to learn to be responsible at a young age, so she sometimes treats Apple Bloom like her own daughter. She can be a bit overprotective of her at times, as seen in the episode "Looks Aren't Everything," but they also spend a lot of time having fun together, as seen in "Sisterhood of Hooves." Applejack is always willing to help and advise Apple Bloom, making them an inseparable pair of sisters.
Trenderhoof: In the episode "Simple Ways," he falls in love with Applejack and calls her "the pony of his dreams." He tries to move to a "nearby farm" (referring to Sweet Apple Acres) and stop traveling all over Equestria to settle down, but Applejack refuses, which disappoints him. Later in the same episode, he follows Applejack while she tries to evade him.

Rarity: The two often argue, mainly due to Applejack's rudeness, practicality, and lack of style, while Applejack considers Rarity conceited, capricious, and arrogant. After several "extreme" situations, they learned to tolerate each other and form a relationship, though they still criticize one another. In the episode "Magic Duel," Applejack comforts Rarity when she is in shock over the dress Trixie had put her in, which suggests that they both care for each other.
Applejack and her friends.
Applejack and her friends.

Fluttershy: Applejack shares a very tolerant attitude with Fluttershy, which makes them get along very well and often seen together, as they respect each other's personalities, as seen in "The Sleeping Dragon." Applejack shows a lot of understanding towards Fluttershy and is always trying to help her, even when the other ponies get impatient with her. Their relationship sometimes resembles that of a mother and daughter, even though Applejack is younger than Fluttershy. Their friendship is further strengthened in "Bats!", despite Applejack initially disagreeing with Fluttershy, and she is ultimately willing to sacrifice her enormous, juicy apple to win back her friend.

Relationships with some characters
Twilight Sparkle: Both share a character based on good manners and honesty, which leads them to be very close. Although they possess very different abilities (Twilight in magic and Applejack in physical prowess), they have mutual respect. Applejack was the first pony Twilight trusted after arriving in Ponyville.
Rainbow Dash: Despite having similar personalities, both are competitive in sports, to the point where an innocent game of horseshoes leads to a rivalry that culminates in a race (which they both finish in last place). But despite everything, the two get along quite well.
Pinkie Pie: Perhaps Applejack is the pony who is most tolerant of Pinkie and doesn't find her annoying like Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash do. She's grown accustomed to her eccentricities and her unique way of seeing life, especially her "Sixth Sense," and defends her for it. In the episode "The Last Roundup," Applejack was initially patient with Pinkie's constant talking, but there comes a point when Applejack gets exasperated and asks her friends to make Pinkie be quiet. Since the episode "Pinkie Apple Pie," it's been suggested that they might be distant cousins, although this isn't explicitly stated in the episode. Despite this, Applejack considers Pinkie a true Apple at heart.

His parents
Applejack's parents, Pear Butter and Bright Macintosh, were mentioned in the episode "Crusaders of the Lost Mark." The episode "The Perfect Match" tells the story of how they met and fell in love despite belonging to feuding families. They also appear in a flashback to Applejack's childhood in the episode "The Great Sapling."

History
She was born and raised on Sweet Apple Acres farm, but she didn't want to live on a farm. She longed for a more sophisticated life like that of her aunt and uncle, the Oranges of Manehattan. She left home at a very young age for the city. When she arrived, she was warmly welcomed by her aunt and uncle, but it was difficult for her to adjust to her new life, and she terribly missed her old home. When she looked out her window, a rainbow pointed toward Ponyville, her home, and that's when she decided what to do: return. And so, later on, she would work and live in Ponyville.

Ponyville
Throughout the series, Applejack tells Twilight Sparkle about how things are done in Ponyville. She's annoyed by Twilight for using magic in "Winter Wrap Up," and tells her, "That's not how we do things around here, especially on my farm." She explains to Twilight in "Pinkie's Predictions" that "those of us who have lived in Ponyville forever have learned over time that if things start to get shaky, you should listen."

Beauty brand
Applejack's beauty brand
Applejack's beauty brand

In "Call of the Cutie," Applejack tells her sister Apple Bloom that she was the last in her class to get her Cutie Mark, something that seems to be common in the family. In "Friendship Chronicles," she tells the Cutie Mark Crusaders the story of how she got her Cutie Mark. It begins with a young Applejack leaving the farm to live with her upper-class relatives, the Oranges, in the big city called Manehattan (a play on words based on the real-world city of Manhattan). However, once she arrives, she finds it difficult to fit in and ends up missing home terribly. The rainbow trail left by Rainbow Dash's Sonic Rainboom leads her back home to the farm. Once there, she realizes that she truly belongs there, and she finally gets her Cutie Mark.

Music
Applejack playing the violin in .
Applejack playing the violin in A Canterlot Wedding, Part 2.

In the two-part episode "A Canterlot Wedding," Applejack is shown in a photograph playing the violin, and in "The Plague of the Century," Pinkie Pie borrows Applejack's harmonica, implying that Applejack also plays it. In the fourth-season episode "Pinkie Apple Pie," Applejack plays the banjo during the song "Apple at Heart." It's clear that Applejack enjoys country music and displays considerable skill in playing it. Her voice (in the original version) is characterized as being somewhat deep but sweet, and she can also sing elegant melodies (in the Rarity style) as can be seen in What My Cutie Mark Tells Me where, while performing Rarity's job, she achieves a perfect note in the verse: Surely it's my destiny, for it's what my cutie mark tells me. And at the end of the song, Rarity says "Surely it's my destiny, for it's what my cutie mark tells me." Fluttershy: "Surely it's my destiny, for it's what my cutie mark tells me." She reaches a perfect note singing in a more elegant style.

Herding
Harvesting apples in .
Harvesting apples in the opening.

She's a very good shepherd, and she's Twilight's first choice when looking for a way to slow down the Parasprites by getting them out of Ponyville in "The Plague of the Century." She manages to stop a holiday stampede in the episode "Harvest Season" with only the help of her sheepdog, Winona. She also helps, along with other family members, to slow down all the Pinkies in "Too Many Pinkie Pies."

Apple harvest
His apple-picking skills, achieved by kicking the apples with his hind legs, are magnificent. Even when extremely sleep-deprived, he was usually able to knock all the apples off a tree with a single kick while leaving the tree seemingly unharmed in Harvest Season. In comparison, the residents of Appleloosa only knock down a few apples per kick in the episode Out West.

Music
Applejack playing the violin in .
Applejack playing the violin in A Canterlot Wedding, Part 2.

Kitchen
Applejack is described by Pinkie Pie as "one of the best bakers ever" in Harvest Season. Even so, she is shown creating various types of food and desserts, using apples as the main ingredient, and sets up a food stand in The Best Night Ever. She has an entrepreneurial mindset, using her time at the Grand Galloping Gala to set up the stand and use the money earned to benefit her family. In an earlier episode, The Ticket Master, Applejack describes to Twilight how she wants to set up a food stand at the Gala to raise money to replace Granny Smith's old hip. Princess Celestia entrusts Applejack with the food in A Canterlot Wedding, and when she makes her desserts and gives one to Twilight to try, Twilight's attitude instantly changes, revealing Applejack's great skill with food.

Skills
Athletics and strength
Applejack possesses extraordinary athletic abilities. She is strong and very agile. She and Rainbow Dash often argue about who is more athletic, as seen in the Iron Pony Competition in "Fall Friends," where their various athletic feats draw a considerable crowd. She is also very skilled with a lasso, demonstrating her lacing skills in "Harvest Season," "The Show-Offs," "A Hard Night," "Fall Friends," and "Harmony Returns, Part 2."

In The Mysterious Mare Do Well, Applejack refers to her left and right hind legs as "Mc. Strong Hooves" and "McGee Kicks" respectively.

Pride
In "A Difficult Night," she swallows her pride when she and Rarity ruin Twilight Sparkle's pajamas, and in "Fall Friends," she allows herself to be dishonest just to win the competition against Rainbow Dash. In both situations, she eventually swallows her pride and is the first to apologize. She is quick to argue with Rainbow Dash in "Out West" when the situation becomes tense between the Appleloosa and the buffalo. In "Harvest Season," she shows great resilience when offered help; she tries to pretend she's working perfectly, but she's actually exhausted from trying to manage the entire apple orchard on her own. Her tiredness is evident by the time she finally accepts her friends' help. In "Bats!", Applejack clashes with Fluttershy over how to deal with a plague of vampire fruit bats. When her methods lead to Fluttershy turning into a bat herself, Applejack soon relents, giving the bats a portion of the vampire fruit orchard and apologizing.

Honesty
Applejack represents the Element of Harmony of Honesty. Twilight Sparkle deduces this in "Friendship is Magic, Part 2," explaining that Applejack demonstrated her honesty when facing her challenges against Nightmare Moon. Applejack finds it very difficult to go against her natural honesty in "Party of One," when she has to lie about why she can't go to Gummy's post-birthday party. She sweats and smiles nervously when questioned by Pinkie Pie, even though she has the most believable excuse: going apple picking.

Pride
In "A Difficult Night," she swallows her pride when she and Rarity ruin Twilight Sparkle's pajamas, and in "Fall Friends," she allows herself to be dishonest just to win the competition against Rainbow Dash. In both situations, she eventually swallows her pride and is the first to apologize. She is quick to argue with Rainbow Dash in "Out West" when the situation becomes tense between the Appleloosa and the buffalo. In "Harvest Season," she shows great resilience when offered help; she tries to pretend she's working perfectly, but she's actually exhausted from trying to manage the entire apple orchard on her own. Her tiredness is evident by the time she finally accepts her friends' help. In "Bats!", Applejack clashes with Fluttershy over how to deal with a plague of vampire fruit bats. When her methods lead to Fluttershy turning into a bat herself, Applejack soon relents, giving the bats a portion of the vampire fruit orchard and apologizing.

Honesty
Applejack represents the Element of Harmony of Honesty. Twilight Sparkle deduces this in "Friendship is Magic, Part 2," explaining that Applejack demonstrated her honesty when facing her challenges against Nightmare Moon. Applejack finds it very difficult to go against her natural honesty in "Party of One," when she has to lie about why she can't go to Gummy's post-birthday party. She sweats and smiles nervously when questioned by Pinkie Pie, even though she has the most believable excuse: going apple picking.

Applejack dislikes things that are too "ornate," such as the heavily detailed dresses in "Dressed for Success." However, in a flashback scene in "Friendship Chronicles," Applejack describes how she tried to be a fancy pony for a while as a filly, but ultimately decided to return to the farm after realizing it wasn't for her and that she missed home terribly. When Apple Bloom starts speaking French in "The Cutie Pox," Applejack expresses her shock to Twilight, saying that she's "speaking properly." She is almost always seen wearing a light brown Stetson hat, which she usually takes off before going to sleep, and is the only one of the six main characters to keep her mane and tail tied back in a ponytail. Applejack takes great pride in her hat and generally won't go anywhere without it. In the episode "A Canterlot Wedding, Part 2," she rushes to put her hat on over her tiara while Rarity is busy crying tears of joy. During the episode "The Mysterious Mare Do Well," she's the only pony to keep her hat when Rainbow Dash realizes that it was really her and her friends who were the heroines. Also, on the many occasions when she's had a dress made, she has a version of her hat. Even the dress chosen and made by Rarity in "Dressed for Success" had a hat, though it wasn't her only one... Applejack also has more than one hat, as shown in "Magic Duel" because Big Macintosh, Apple Bloom, Granny Smith, and she are all wearing copies of the hat at the same time.

Peculiarities of the countryside
Applejack speaks with a typical Southern accent, similar to the accent of the Missouri Ozarks, an area with many apple orchards, which is reflected in the Latin American Spanish dub as a "cowboy accent." Throughout the series, she affectionately refers to her friends as "sugar cubes" on several occasions.

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Applejack competing in Fall Friends
She shows no problem with getting dirty or messy, much to Rarity's annoyance when they have a slumber party in "A Hard Night." Applejack said in "Like Dogs and Ponies," "I'm used to getting up and dusting myself off, but Rarity wouldn't touch mud unless it was for a face mask." A rare exception is seen in "The Bird's Adventure," when she resists starting to eat at lunch for Princess Celestia because she doesn't know which dish is "appropriate" to eat first.

Applejack isn't particularly offended by Rarity's opinion of the Sisterhood of the Hooves, where she calls the competition held on the Apple farm "ordinary." Applejack simply tells Sweetie Belle that her older sister Rarity finds everything ordinary, but that she'll be visiting sometime. She kindly offers Rarity advice on how to compromise and get along better with Sweetie Belle, which Rarity gratefully accepts.

His success in preventing the stampede.
Applejack is a very reliable and hardworking pony, though sometimes she can be quite stubborn about doing things on her own, which often leads her into situations she can't easily handle alone. In Harvest Season, she's tasked with the annual apple harvest by herself. Big Macintosh calmly expresses his concern about her picking hundreds of apples by herself, but Applejack sharply shuts him down and stops his "complicated math," deciding to continue anyway while still finding time to help her friends with various tasks. After diverting a stampede headed toward Ponyville, she receives a trophy without much fanfare and returns to her apple harvest, becoming dangerously exhausted, repeatedly refusing Twilight's many offers of help. She eventually faints upon seeing the number of apple trees she still has to pick, and finally swallows her pride and accepts her friends' help. It's shown in "The Super Speedy Apple Juicer 6000" that she truly learned this lesson, as she immediately received offers from her friends to help her family in the competition. In "The Apple Family Reunion," when Granny Smith gives Applejack the job of organizing the reunion, she's determined to do as many activities as possible so they can create lots of good memories. However, despite her good intentions, Applejack gets too caught up in her planning to realize that the most important thing about the reunion is bonding with her family. Eventually, she learns her lesson and brings the family back together to rebuild the demolished barn.

Representation in the series
Self-confidence
I'm your sister, Applejack. Remember? The most loyal of friends and the most trusted of ponies.
Applejack, arguing with Big Macintosh.

Appearance
Applejack is a light orange Earth Pony with green eyes. Her mane is blonde, with a slightly curled streak and the rest tied in a red ponytail. Her tail is also held in a red ponytail holder. She wears a tan cowboy hat at all times. Her cutie mark is three red apples with green stems.

Production and Development
Applejack sketch
Applejack concept designed in 2008 by Lauren Faust.
Applejack is the only pony retained from her original Generation 1 (G1) version in the My Little Pony animated series. This is because Hasbro failed to secure the copyrights for the characters created during those years, resulting in their loss. Consequently, Lauren Faust and her creative team could only reuse Applejack and Spike, choosing to keep their original color scheme over the Generation 3 (3G) scheme. During BronyCon 2012, voice actress Ashleigh Ball cited country music singers Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton as inspiration for Applejack's voice and dialect. She shares some personality traits with the G1 pony Starlight.

Name
Applejack in Spanish means "Apple Brandy." Applejack is also the name of a strong alcoholic beverage made from apples. In the episode "Looks Aren't Everything," the poison joke causes Applejack to shrink. This prompts Spike to call her "Applemini," pronounced the same as "appletini," an apple-flavored alcoholic cocktail. Applejack is the first pony to have her name shortened in the series. In "Harvest Season," Twilight calls her "AJ," a nickname later used by Spike in "The Show-Off," Big Macintosh in "Winter Wrap Up," Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash in "The Roundup," and Pinkie Pie in "The MMMistery on the Friendship Train."

Applejack is an Earth Pony and one of the main characters in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. She lives and works at Sweet Apple Acres with her grandmother, her older brother Big Macintosh, her younger sister Apple Bloom, and her dog Winona. She represents the Element of Honesty.

Applejack is reliable and loyal, always willing to help someone in need, but she finds it very difficult to admit that she needs help herself, as shown in the episode "Harvest Season." She is a source of support and protection for Apple Bloom and her friends. She works at Sweet Apple Acres primarily as an apple picker, though she also occasionally harvests carrots and corn for the farm.

General
Race:
Land
Gender:
Female
Occupation:
Farmer
Teacher of Honesty at the School of Friendship (Season 8)
More information
Eyes:
Gradient from dark sap green to moderate sap green
Mane/Tail:
Pale gold, light grayish
Leather:
Gamboge brilliant
Freckles:
White
Accent:
Northern
Nicknames:
AJ, Applemini,
Parents:
Bright Mac (father, deceased)
Pear Butter (mother, deceased)
Big Macintosh (older brother)
Apple Bloom (younger sister)
Grandma Smith (paternal grandmother)
Grand Pear (maternal grandfather)
Braeburn (cousin)
Babs Seed (cousin)
The Apple Family
Pinkie Pie (Possible Cousin) Maud Pie (Character) (Possible Cousin)
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Voice (Latin):
Claudia Motta
Maggie Vera
Giset Blanco
Voice (Spanish):
Ariadna Jiménez
Anna Orra