Megamare L4 // Rockmare L4 - (Opening)

Flash version avaible here: http://mrponiator.deviantart.com/art/Megamare-L4-Rockmare-L4-260069904

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Third ponymation, oh my.

I'm somewhat pleased with it, but some of the clips were rather annoying to animate, more or less, and I forgot to add some detail to a couple of places. Oh well!

Megaman X4 is a fun game, but I much prefer X5 and X6 over it if I had to choose, but I'd say X4 at least has the coolest opening. Anyway, yeah, have some Megamare Lyra!... Or Rockmare Lyra if that's your thing.

It first plays the English one, and Japanese one follows right after that.

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Character list with explanations for those not in the know:

Lyra - Mega Man X
Why Lyra? I just happened to remember an old Equestria Daily post where Lyra fights Chill Penguin (Mega Man X1), so I decided to go along with it. Otherwise I'd have probably chosen Twilight, I guess.

Bonbon - Zero
If Lyra is X, then Bonbon is the natural choice, wouldn't you think?

Sheriff Silverstar - General
General has a fancy mustache. Silverstar has a fancy mustache. And they both have a hat. Yeah.

Spitfire, Trixie, Granny Smith - The different divisions of Repliforce
I kind of wanted to have some sort of "air", "magic" and "earth pony"(?) divisions, so I went with who I felt drawing and had a somewhat fitting color scheme. Granny Smith means some serious pies!

Applebloom - Iris
NO, DON'T DIE ON ME APPLEBLOOM! BONBON REALLY DIDN'T PUT THOSE APPLES IN HER BAG!

Braeburn - Colonel
I chose Braeburn for his hat, and it sounded fitting that he'd work under Silverstar. And so I decided to go with Applebloom as her "younger sister", since they're cousins and all.

Fluttershy - Double
Double is innocent looking, but apparently works for Sigma, so yeah. I'm really forcing that Flutterrage on her, am I not?

Nightmare Moon - Sigma
I think Discord might have been fitting for this spot too, but the thing is that Discord is more of a troll and does his stuff for laughs. Nightmare Moon is simply just evil, like Sigma.

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The grand return of useless trivia:
Time taken: About three weeks, only because of University taking quite lot of time
Framerate: 24 frames per second
Total amount of frames: 2185 (~91 seconds)
Tools of trade: Audacity, Adobe Flash CS4, Wacom Intuos 3 A4 Tablet
Total flash crashes: ~Nine times

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Disclaimer:
Megaman X / Rockman X are properties of Capcom.
Japanese title theme for Rockman X4: Makenai Ai ga Kitto aru" by Yukie Nakama.
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is property of Hasbro Inc. and Lauren Faust.
Animation by MrPoniator, the ponifying mister.

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[Zmaster6030]

At 0:35 why are there 6 Granny Smiths, 6 Great and Powerful Trixies and 6 Spitfires?

[MrPoniator]

@Zmaster6030 In the original Mega Man X4 intro we see dozens of reploids with similar colors, representing the different divisions of Repliforce army (ground, air, sea). I thought representing those with Trixie (magic, unicorns), Spitfire (air, pegasus) and Granny Smith (ground, earth pony), because they share similar colors with those reploids.

[DrakeNightwing]

So, let me see if I got this correctly.

Lyra is X

Bonbon is Zero

Fluttershy is Double

Applebloom is Iris

Braeburn is Colonel.

Silverstar is General

with Nightmare Moon being Sigma.

This was done purely off of memory of X4, without having to look at the actual X4 intro.

Did I miss anyone? xD

[MrPoniator]

@DrakeNightwing Check the description and you'll notice that you got it right.

[Sneaky1711]

BonBon: WHAT AM I TOLERATING AND LOVING FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR!!!!!!

[Xidphel]

@MrPoniator No matter. It's awesome nonetheless.

By the way, I probably asked on DA already but any plans on making a BlazBrony Continuum shift 2 opening? I, for some reason, already filled out most of the character sheet. I don't know why since I have little drawing skills and no animation skills to make it happen.

[shadowthenutjob]

great job as always, mrponiator. you've got yourself a fan for life! *cue zelda item music*

textbox: you got a LOYAL FOLLOWER...

...creepy...

[shadowthenutjob]

@Xidphel i know. i just felt like saying that XD as you probably figured out, i'm a huge fan of both megaman and mlp, so... yeah...

[shadowthenutjob]

@Sneaky1711 good lord. Zero's depressed again.

[MrPoniator]

@Xidphel Yeah, it certainly doesn't fill in that slot, but eh, it's not that big of a surprise seeing how I didn't plan out the whole thing that well.

[Xidphel]

@shadowthenutjob Actually, I didn't care about Rock/Megaman X. I'm not talking about Zero and Colonel. Just Bon-Bon and Braeburn, two completely different characters to Zero and Colonel.

[shadowthenutjob]

@Xidphel that's like shipping Colonel to Zero. AKA a no-go.

[shadowthenutjob]

@YourOrdinaryFail something epic enough to give Chuck Norris a run for his money.

[RogueSparkZX]

Epic win right here --> 1:02

[jet4212006]

I couldn't resist.