History YMMV / WarHorse

* HoYay: Joey and Topthorn develop a very close friendship which involves ''intimate physical contact.''
** TruthInTelevision with horses. Skin-to-skin contact (backscratching, fly-flicking) is the main way they bond.

* AccidentalInnuendo: "We have a long night of riding ahead."
* {{Anvilicious}}: Did you know WarIsHell?
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
** "Year Turns Round Again".
** And we have John Williams for the film version. What do you expect?

* {{Narm}}: Some of the more dramatic scenes in the play are a bit overwrought, and [[spoiler:Nicholl's death]] can be downright goofy-looking.
** {{Averted}} in the film with a [[spoiler:GoryDiscretionShot -- all we see is a blaze of slow-motion gunfire from the German guns, and then no more Captain Loki.]]

* SignatureScene: For the movie, it's either Joey at the end of the film in the sunset, the attack on the German Trenches, Joey dashing through No Man's Land, Joey getting tangled up and freed from barbed wire or Joey jumping over a British Tank.

* {{Anvilicious}}: Did you know WarIsHell? Of course, SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped...

* {{Narm}}: Some of the more dramatic scenes are a bit overwrought, and [[spoiler:Nicholl's death]] can be downright goofy-looking.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: "Year Turns Round Again".

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGCKS0UW3k0 The puppetry]] in the theatrical adaptation. After about 15 minutes you forget those horses aren't real. And that's not even getting into the amazing scenery or war effects.

* JustHereForGodzilla: Many people watched the film adaptation only because Creator/TomHiddleston starred in it.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Most people recognize Captain Nicholls and Major Stewart as [[Film/{{Thor}} Loki]] and [[Series/{{Sherlock}} Sherlock]] respectively.

* HilariousInHindsight: Creator/TomHiddleston, who plays Captain Nicholls, would later portray Loki in the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse''. In Norse mythology, Loki took the form of a female horse and was impregnated. [[{{Squick}} Yeah...]]
** For bonus points, Tom was asked about his favorite Loki story in Norse mythology at NYCC 2011. He chose this one.

** {{Averted}} in the film with a [[spoiler:GoryDiscretionShot - all we see is a blaze of slow-motion gunfire from the German guns, and then no more Captain Loki.]]

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGCKS0UW3k0 The puppetry]] in the theatrical adaptation. After about 15 minutes you forget those horses aren't real. And that's not even getting into the amazing scenery or war effects.

* JustHereForGodzilla: Many people watched the film adaptation only because TomHiddleston starred in it.

* StopHelpingMe: The sergeant that takes over bidding at the end of the movie ends up antagonizing the French butcher, leading to a bid war that likely would not have happened otherwise and pricing them out.
* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGCKS0UW3k0 The puppetry]] in the theatrical adaptation. After about 15 minutes you forget those horses aren't real. And that's not even getting into the amazing scenery or war effects.

* SoundtrackDissonance: The scene when Joey is forced to pull the gun is set to a [[NightmareFuel truly terrifying]] and discordant DarkReprise of the song that played when he first pulled the plough. The stage play employs this trope really well.

* SoundtrackDissonance: The scene when Joey is forced to pull the gun is set to a [[NightmareFuel nightmarish]] DarkReprise of the song that played when he first pulled the plough. The stage play employs this trope really well.

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGCKS0UW3k0 The puppetry]] in the theatre adaptation. After about 15 minutes you forget those horses aren't real. And that's not even getting into the amazing scenery or war effects.

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The puppetry. After about 15 minutes you forget those horses aren't real. And that's not even getting into the amazing scenery or war effects.

* NightmareFuel: The war scenes, the gas attack in the German Trenches, Joey getting tangled up in barbed wire and the horses jumping over the German Lines in the forest without their riders during the [[spoiler: failed British cavalry charge.]]
** NightmareFuel: In the movie, after Joey finishes getting tangled up in barbed wire and he is lying on the muddy ground, there is a lightning flash and for a single frightening moment, you can see what appears to be a SlasherSmile on his face. It's really a normal horse expression, but it still looks rather scary.
** One production, during a war scene, in dim lighting, the puppeteers ''flung off'' their horse puppet to create the effect of a carcass violently hitting the ground as the puppeteers, dressed accordingly to the time period, take their place a individual corpses of soldiers. The effect is as uncanny as it sounds.

* TearJerker: THE WHOLE THING.