History Awesome / AnimatorVsAnimation

[[folder:''Animation vs. Minecraft'']]
* The final battle, full stop. A possessed Red is approaching the main desktop in his obsidian mecha, and his friends have lost all their armor, all their weapons, and are down to half a heart of health each with no way to restore it. DownerEnding? Nope, they improvise with what equipment and materials they still had and [[ChekhovsSkill what they learned via experimenting earlier]], ''and win!''
** Special mention goes to Second Coming taking down the mecha by building and laying a mine track and minecart right under its foot in the span of ''a few seconds''. And then Blue destroying the mecha by dropping two lumps of dirt, planting two trees in said dirt, and using bonemeal on the trees with the result that they instagrow through the mecha and blast it to bits. Again in the span of ''a few seconds''. While said mecha is ''falling straight towards him''. Quicksilver would be proud.

[[folder:''Animation vs. [=YouTube=]'']]
* [=YouTube=] proves to be a canny foe, using video annotations and rapid-fire switches between different video clips to great effect. [=YouTube=] shows himself to be the toughest opponent the Second Coming and Green have faced in ''their entire lives'', as they have never been shown so tired after a fight before.
* The stick figures finally defeating [=YouTube=] by having Green upload ''himself'' as a video and break [=YouTube=] apart from the inside.

[[folder:''Animation vs. Pokémon'']]
* Sad as it is to see the Second Coming forcibly separated from Totodile, there's Lyra and Ethan giving the Second Coming a CurbStompBattle with Marill and Chikorita. It goes to show that even first-stage Pokémon are quite formidable when transplanted to a setting that is unfamiliar to them.
* The Second Coming obtaining a full team of Pokémon without having to battle any of them. He essentially took strategies that would have been more likely to work in the ''[[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Pokémon]]'' anime and made them work in the game!
* The Second Coming's final confrontation against Ethan.
** It seems that Ethan originally intended to beat up the Second Coming directly with Pokémon attacks, but then the Second Coming's Heracross leaps out of its Pokéball to [[TakingTheBullet Take the Bullet]], followed by several of the Second Coming's other Pokémon jumping to his defense.
** After the Second Coming's Bellossom is defeated, the Second Coming gains a HeroicSecondWind, resulting in a fast-paced battle in which both trainers switch between different Pokémon and exchange attacks rapid-fire.
** Despite Ethan's Meganium attempting to restrain it, Feraligatr bursts into the PC just in time to save the Second Coming and the rest of his team from Ho-oh.
** Four of the Second Coming's Pokémon launching a CombinationAttack that takes out Ho-oh.
** On the opposing side, Meganium being DefiantToTheEnd by readying a Razor Leaf against the team it just saw take out a legendary, only stopping when Ethan motions for it to stand down.
* The Second Coming managed to complete the main game of ''VideoGame/PokemonHeartGold'' in the time it took for the Animator to make his lunch.
** Look at the computer's internal clock when the Animator leaves (12:00), and during his fight with Ethan (12:55). It took the Second Coming ''less than an hour'' to reach the Pokémon League. That is some serious speed-running, especially considering he had never played before. (For comparison, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD7JXzIuct4 the current world record]] for speedrunning ''Pokémon Heart Gold'' took around 20 minutes more to get to the same point, and that player used glitches to get there after only four Gym Leaders whereas the Second Coming fought all eight.)
* The way the Second Coming reacts to Bellossom being defeated has the implication that this is the ''first time'' he's had a Pokémon faint throughout the entire game. Becomes more impressive with the timeframe he beat it in, as the short timespan means he likely didn't devote too much time to LevelGrinding.

!''[=AvM=]'' Shorts
!!Season 1
[[folder:Ep 3: ''The Roller Coaster'']]
* Yellow makes an amazing roller coaster (minus the last jump) despite having just discovered minecarts.

[[folder:Ep 4: ''Potions'']]
* Blue becomes a potion master within hours of finding out they exist. He manages to discover and make countless different potions by the time Red walks in.
* The creation of Super Pig, who utterly trounces the stick figures even after they buff themselves up and is only stopped by the potions wearing off.

[[folder:Ep 5: ''Note Blocks'']]
* Green sees the note blocks, taps them a bit, and then launches into an incredible solo. He then immediately knows how to make the note blocks into an entire ''band''.
* Yellow makes an entire system of automated note blocks according to Green's preferences, only needing Green to give him a sound sample.

[[folder:Ep 6: ''Command Blocks'']]
* While this time he has instructions, Yellow still figures out how to bend the command blocks to his will enough to make the results look like straight up magic, although he didn't quite figure out the lightning.

[[folder:Ep 7: ''[=PvP=]'']]
* The epic battle the teams have with each other, utilizing mobs, redstone, potions, and ender pearls to get every advantage possible.

[[folder:Ep 8: ''The Nether'']]
* Green and Blue jump on a Ghast to escape the Nether mobs chasing them. After realizing they can control it with their fishing rods, they then proceed to ride the Ghast like a battle steed and blast the mobs to kingdom come. They finish off the Ghast by making it fire a shot that they bash back in its face.

[[folder:Ep 10: ''The End'']]
* Realizing the end crystals heal the Ender Dragon, Blue and Green ''ride'' the dragon away from the crystals with Green stabbing it with his sword and Blue shooting it while dangling from the rope on its tail, holding his bow and the rope with the same hand.
* Another DarkestHour: Purple has betrayed Blue and Green, and the latter two are about to fall into the void. Suddenly, Second Coming reaches in from offscreen and grabs them, and the camera pans out to reveal he's attached to a human chain made of him, Red, Yellow, and several of the Villagers.
* After Purple swiping the Dragon Egg resulted in the Enderdragon ravaging the village looking for it, the Villagers make their disapproval of their king very clear. We never see what they do to him, since he's just picked up and carried offscreen, but judging by the body language of a couple of them and the way Purple struggles when he's picked up, it probably won't be pleasant for him.

[[folder:Ep 11: ''[=SkyBlock=]'']]
* After their adventure in the [=SkyBlock=] universe starts off sourly when the only sapling falls off the edge and Red and Green's squabbling knock the chest off, the fighting stick figures realize that they still have full inventories they can use. Next time we see them, they're thriving; a house, a pen, a small garden, even a mob grinder, and that scene ends with them sitting down at a table full of food and chowing down. Too bad things go south after a Creeper blows up their mob grinder.

[[folder:Ep 12: ''TNT Land'']]
* After the borderline DownerEnding of the previous short, the stick figures on [=SkyBlock=] manage to pull an ''epic'' comeback once the sun comes out and starts harming the hostile mobs that took over their structure.
* The Second Coming managing to survive the KillerRabbit's death traps.

[[folder:Ep 13: ''The Dolphin Kingdom'']]
* While the Fighting Stick Figures make short work of the normal Guardians (which is Awesome in and of itself), they're more hesitant to fight the Elder Guardians. How do they defeat the Elder Guardian that kidnapped the Dolphin Queen? They use sponge blocks to dry out the room, leaving the Elder Guardian helpless as they grab the Dolphin Queen and flee. Crowning Moment of Smarts right there.

[[folder:Ep 14: ''Cave Spider Roller Coaster'']]
* The moment they see Yellow disappear, Blue and Green grab their swords and charge after him. They then save everyone by having Green cause a distraction while Blue cures their poisoning.
* The entire chase scene is one of the most visually stunning set pieces Alan Becker has made so far and is pretty much a three-minute-long Crowning Moment Of Awesome.
** There's Green and Second Coming rapidly laying down track to prevent the minecart from falling into a pit ala WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit.
** The group creating a minecart in midair and jumping onto it.
** Them fighting the spiders ''in midair''.
** Best of all, there's the fight scene where the group fights off the spiders while jumping across multiple levels of minecarts. It's incredibly intricate and filled with tons of little details that demand rewatching.
** Red saves everyone from falling in the lava by summoning ''chickens'' to hover them to safety. HeartIsAnAwesomePower indeed.
** The surprise appearance of The Wither is pretty awesome in its own right.

!!Season 2
[[folder:Ep 16: ''Note Block Battle'']]
* Green is ''so'' absurdly musically talented, it took an ensemble of three stick figures [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext and a chicken]], all on performance-enhancing potions, to compete fairly with him.
* Second Coming literally crashing the guitar duel between Green and the Chicken and outperforms them by playing so good that lightning strikes and causing a sonic boom leaving everyone speechless. He then goes back to sleep like it was nothing. Equally awesome is that Second Coming isn't using a potion and is clearly very tired. If he can easily outdo Green while exhausted, just imagine what he could do while wide awake.

[[folder:Ep 19: ''Lucky Block'']]
* How fast Yellow masters using the Lucky Block Entity before it possesses him, effortlessly conjuring whatever he can imagine.
* The stick figures manage to hold their own against the Lucky Block Entity even before Yellow starts helping them, and once he did, they might've beaten it if it couldn't multiply. Also, props to the Entity for being nearly able to defeat the entire group with relative ease, only being stopped by being removed from Yellow.
* The sheer ''insanity'' that is Red vs the Entity. Those in the Lucky Block spawn mobs and items with pinpoint accuracy and creativity, holding off the possessed bodies and blocking attacks on Red. And Red manages to fight off everyone with incredible skill even without his friends' interference.
* The return of Super Pig, and his effortless defeat of the Entity in pursuit of carrots.

!! Season 3
[[folder:Ep 20: ''The Piglin War'']]
* [[MeleeATrois Blue vs. Piglin hunting squad vs. Zombified Piglin horde]]. After Blue loses his golden helmet, the Piglins chase him towards the Nether fortress. When he gets near, ''zombified'' Piglins (aka the Zombie Pigmen that he and Green accidentally aggravated in Ep 8 and spent the rest of the episode running from) come out of the fortress, and Blue is left pinned between the two on the bridge. He resigns himself to the fight, draws his sword... [[OneManArmy and starts killing the zombieporcine warriors, while keeping the hunting squad at bay without hurting them]]. No Ghasts, no fellow stickmen, just Blue. The stick figures have gained ''several'' [[TookALevelInBadass levels in badass]] since ''[=AvM=]'' Shorts Season 1. The only reason he ended up falling down is due to the young Piglin needing his help, which left him off-guard.
* Blue manages to survive in lava for several seconds, even keeping enough focus to hold the Piglin Child up so they would have the best chance to be saved by the Piglins.

[[folder:Ep 21: ''The Witch'']]
* The entire gang puts up a good fight against the titular antagonist. Especially when Green, [[ItMakesSenseInContext who is transformed into a Sugar Cane]], fights her. But the best part comes as a huge CallBack to the first time the Stick Figures experienced potions. Red's Pig from the previous episode drinks all the potions, gaining every buff in the game once more. Plus some new ones: [[LetsPlay/{{Technoblade}} Techno]] and [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Gotta Go Fast]]. The pig then [[MegatonPunch punches the witch]] (as a purple dye) away.
* Blue manages to make an antidote for the ForcedTransformation potion despite having just learned about it, in addition to all the numerous potions he uses in the rest of the fight.
** He also manages to hold his own against the Witch in a potion-fueled ShapeShifterShowdown, countering everything she could throw at him. He only loses because he runs out of potions.
* Even if they couldn't beat the Witch on their own, the stick figures give her a run for her money; the Second Coming seeing through her Blue-disguise, them beating her zombie-disguise ambush, and still fighting no matter what she turns them into. It's telling that the only way she cornered them was by turning them into something completely helpless.

[[folder:Ep 22: ''Parkour'']]
* Alan's sticks show their ingenuity when dealing with King's Piglin jailers.
** Second Coming realizes that they're still on a parkour platform with emptiness on all sides. He takes a leap of faith... [[ChekhovsGun and lands near the last checkpoint]], on the other side of the Piglin. When he figures out the endless loop, he seizes the checkpoint beacon and uses it to drop the Piglin into the void, over and over again, until he can use it on the other one for a teleporting glitch.
** Green ends up dual-wielding swords vs. the Piglin's dual axes. The moment he has an opening, he climbs the scoreboard and leaps across. When he gets to the long jump, he opens up his inventory and bridges across... then remembers Purple seemingly vanishing into the sky, and starts towering up before power-bashing his pickaxe against the masked obsidian of the parkour zone.
** Yellow narrowly misses a jump on the ice zone and notices the command block that's causing the checkpoints. Once he passes the Piglin again, he uses his fishing rod to lower himself down, [[HereWeGoAgain opens up the command block interface, and]]... [[SubvertedTrope clears the command field]]. Someone's learned his lesson.
* Green vs. Purple. Purple has an elytra and fireworks, which means flight and speed. Green has a fishing rod, and proves why Minecraft [=PvP=]ers swear by theirs.

[[folder:Ep 23: ''Titan Ravager'']]
* Despite ultimately being unsuccessful, Blue and Yellow deserve kudos for their approach to dealing with the titular mob. The titan being impervious to damage and focusing on getting food, they distract it with meals long enough to make more, which they use to distract it long enough to make more... The end result is a bonemeal-accelerated automatic farm, with the crops being deposited into a dispenser that they fire straight into the Ravager's mouth. If there had just been one Ravager, they would have solved the problem with no violence necessary.
* The Villagers are anything but helpless bystanders. They try to fight the Titan Ravager as much as they can, and when they see Blue and Yellow struggling to keep up the pace, they work with them to make the automated feeder more efficient, and are able to build the complicated system with only a little direction from the stick figures.
* When Blue and Yellow hear sounds of chaos, they immediately draw their swords and run towards the source. And when they see the Titan Ravager, they switch to their fishing rods with little thought, the strategy having been gained from their past fights with giant enemies.

[[folder:Ep 24: ''Lush Caves'']]
* The MeleeATrois shows that even when fighting each other, the Second Coming and Red can still take down an army of hostile mobs without breaking a sweat or even caring about them, to the point where the mobs don't hurt them even once. At one point, a creeper is about to explode behind the Second Coming. He quickly gives it an OffhandBackhand in its blocky chin and it falls over, ''[[OneHitKill dead]]''.

[[folder:Ep 25: ''The Ultimate Weapon'']]
The entire episode is just one big moment of awesome. But, to be more precise...
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* Scott Buckley and Aaron Grooves provided the SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic for the extended fight scene that is two-thirds of this episode. It starts out as the regular Pigstep ([[DiegeticSwitch courtesy of King actually putting a Pigstep disc in his record player]]), and gradually gets more and more epic as the fight escalates, until it sounds like the edge of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Dancing Mad]]. Scott has uploaded it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDZK3_c-Vkc here]] to be enjoyed on its own.
* King vs. Green, Yellow and Blue. King has a command block that can spawn ''anything''. Green, Blue, and Yellow have swords, bows, fishing rods, and their own skills. And they deliver a CurbStompBattle on King. While King initially has the upper hand, throwing them around and forcing them to take cover with an absolute army of fireballs and arrows, the trio ultimately manages to counter every unfair command he can throw at them, pin down his staff, and hold him at arrow-point. If it weren't for the untimely loss of their equipment following Purple's theft of the Master Block, this conflict would have been over.
* Purple vs. The Second Coming and Red. Since they're actually fighting on a PC again, the fight comes out like a blend of ''[=AvA=]'' and ''[=AvM=]'', with exploitation of desktop interfaces mixed in with the ''Minecraft'' equipment, right up to Purple whacking them with the Start menu. Also, Purple has nothing but his own skills, and is outnumbered. While originally beaten down by the BashBrothers that are TSC and Red, he ultimately manages to get the upper hand and steal the Master Block.
* Purple manages to get his hands on the Master Block and absorbs the Nether portal into it, locking the Second Coming out of the fight (Purple and Red managed to enter the portal before it was absorbed). Who comes to the rescue? ''[[ChekhovsGunman alexcrafter28]]''. Second Coming emails himself back to Alex's PC and borrows his Master Block before returning to Alan's, and briefly practices with creative mode before reforming and re-lighting the Nether portal.
* Meanwhile, who comes to help Red? Another [[ChekhovsGunman gunman]], this time the baby piglin from "The Piglin War". The kid gives him a ride on its hoglin. What follows is Red vs. Purple. A battle where both sides are constantly in the air, fighting over the Master Block, and if not for King, Red would have won.
* The Second Coming vs. King. An absolutely terrifying and awe-inspiring show of creative mode. King has experience due to his previous command block, but the Second Coming has the tenacity and quick-thinking that he's shown in the entire series so far. The entire fight is very equal, both having the upper hand only to get it taken away from them after a moment. King throws absolutely everything he can, from his own strength to an armada of attacks, and the Second Coming manages to avoid and counter them all with his traps, smarts, and experience.
* Meanwhile, Purple sends an entire army of Piglin Brutes at the Fighting Stick Figures. They deliver one of the biggest {{Curb Stomp Battle}}s of the entire series as they effortlessly slaughter their way through them all, leading to Purple [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere trying to flee.]] They manage to catch him mid-flight with fishing rods and would have caught him if not for Purple ditching his elytra.

[[folder:Ep 26: ''The Warden'']]
* The Second Coming manages to befriend '''the Warden''', the most powerful mob in all of ''Minecraft''!
* What does the Second Coming do after he and the Warden become friends? He gets the Warden to help him fight King.
* When the Second Coming and the Warden attack King, it immediately becomes clear that King is horribly outmatched, since he's being attacked by the strongest mob in ''Minecraft'', his staff is empty, and the Second Coming even makes up for the Warden's blindness by providing guidance. King briefly manages to fight back by equipping his staff with a gold block, but the Warden and the Second Coming eventually manage to separate King from his staff. Their victory would have been assured if King hadn't found one of the Master Blocks.

[[folder:Ep 27: ''Monster School'']]
* Some of the monsters have incredible stealth skills.
** Creeper doesn't even do anything AVM worthy, it just walks up and ignites, showing us exactly why Minecraft players panic around these frickers.
** Blaze and Wither just stay back, take aim, and fire. The target is dead without a prayer.[[note]]Skeleton ''tried'' to do the same thing, but Alan compares it to using one's indominant hand, and one failure just made him panic.[[/note]]
*** Blaze even gives Skeleton a sassy head nod as if to say "THAT'S how you aim".
** Wither Skeleton gets so close he decides to ''wait for the target to realize he's not alone'' before punching him out.
** Baby Zombie just runs up and delivers a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to the target like Red's pigs.
** Cave Spider climbs a tree, forms a zipline over the target's head, and takes him out before he knows it's there.
** Silverfish digs into the ground, comes out of the target's crafting table, and smothers him.
** In Enderman's defense, he got to point-blank range unnoticed (in a manner that resembles the Spy from WebAnimation/TeamServiceAnnouncement no less); if he would've attacked rather than roaring, the target would have been dead.
* Red manages to bring the monsters on his team from being absolute trash to the one which out performs the rest.
** Special mention to the "swimming" section. Since each of the other teams have a flying mob with them, they just fly across the water. Red's solution? [[SinkOrSwimMentor Throw the spider off the ledge to force it to use its webbing to latch onto the other teams]]. It pays off big-time when Spider constantly juggles its team members so they can fight their way through the other teams, all while slinging from one team's flying mob to the next, like he's... er... [[ShapedLikeItself Spider-Man]].
** Near the end of the race, Blaze tries to shoot down Red's team with a volley of fireballs. Skeleton shoots ''every single one'' right out of the air, [[DialogueReversal followed by the same nod Blaze did to him earlier in the episode]]!
* Red's team goes through the portal to fight King. This used to be the worst team, and look at them now, they're giving the BigBad of the season trouble.
* Red puts a Netherite block in the staff and freakin smacks King out of sight.
** Points to King for instantly recovering from the blow and finding the ''other'' Master Block.

[[folder:Ep 28: ''The Raid'']]
* Blue and Yellow end up back at the village from Episode 23, only it's been taken over by Illagers. After being thrown into a cell where the villagers are, the villagers proceed to help Yellow weaponize the command block he took...by forging him ''his own rod'' for it. Not just an ordinary one, however, one enchanted and reinforced with lapis.
* While Yellow is away, Blue rounds up the remaining villagers and hands them swords to train them to fight, culminating in a short TrainingMontage before waging war to reclaim their home.
* Remember the Ravager that terrorized the village? Yellow convinces it to join him with a peace offering of crops, and even takes it with him to the battle against King.

[[folder: Ep 29: ''Note Block Universe'']]
* Green suddenly gaining the ability to speak in Note Block notes when pressured by the villagers.
* The absolutely gorgeous animation once Purple starts giving his reasons for why he sided with King. Green, in turn, welcomes Purple back with open arms, joining in the nick of time and interrupting King's destruction.
* Purple knocks King aside with one rocket-powered flying punch and takes the staff. To put this into perspective, the combined efforts of The Second Coming, Red, Blue, Yellow, a Warden, a Skeleton, a Spider, an Enderman, and a Titan Ravager could barely slow King down. Purple accomplished what they couldn't in seconds.

[[folder:Ep 30: ''The King'']]
* The sheer lengths that King went through to enact revenge. Most of it borders on StringTheory and desperation, but the end results speak for themselves: he managed to take over the Nether, and fast-forward to now, is in the middle of successfully ''destroying all of Minecraft''.
* After King's backstory has been revealed, we cut to the end of episode 29, where Purple got the Dual-Master Block staff from King, leaving him stranded in the middle of the veritable ''army'' that assembled in an attempt to stop him WITH the master block staff. Yet somehow, through sheer determination, cunning and combat prowess, he manages to get his staff back and tilt the odds back in his favor.
* [=Herobrine=] enters the Nether to look for his missing students, and what follows is a clash of what amounts to two flavors of reality-[=warpers=] trying to overwhelm the other in a blitz of mind-bending fighting styles.
* When King starts absorbing Minecraft entities back into the Dual-Master block, [=Herobrine=] decides to protect himself by possessing Red, and then to even the playing field further, pilots an obsidian stick-[=mecha=] in an attempt to take King down through sheer force. That's right. [[CallBack The first AvM villain is facing off against the latest one]].
* A villainous example for King. He perseveres against everything that was thrown at him, and absorbs every threat back into the Dual-Master Block one by one until only The Second Coming, the Fighting Stick Figures and Purple are left.
* Purple's last stand. Everyone has been blasted by the destructive energy of the Dual-Master Block Staff and are visibly distorting and were possibly ''this'' close to a CessationOfExistence. [[{{Determinator}} Purple doesn't care]]. As a desperate last stand, he charges at King, who retaliates by blasting him with the Dual-Master Block Staff point-blank. Through all of this, Purple continues to struggle against the beam, regardless of the damage being done, or the pain he's undoubtedly feeling. Doubles as a TearJerker when you remember that he pretty much lost everything that matters to him, and is likely the reason why he's still trying in the face of sheer hopelessness.
* After King and Purple vanish into the Void, everyone else tries to deactivate the staff. Nothing they do seems to stop it, but TSC remembers that the last time a Master Block went through a nether portal, it undid everything it was responsible for. TSC's idea? Run all the way back through the Nether and send the Master Block through the nether portal leading back to Alan's PC.
** On their way back, they run into the [=piglin=] family, who are more than willing to help them travel back to their portal. Along the way, more and more of their members are lost to the void, but they keep going anyways for the sake of cataclysmic stakes. Ultimately, all of the [=piglins=] are lost to the void.
** Our heroes end up having to parkour across the last stretch of land... or rather chunks of land as they are slowly breaking off and getting sucked into the void.
** When the portal is in sight, the landscape is far too chaotic to coherently travel through, so the stick figures pass the staff back and forth between each other as they each find themselves rapidly gaining footholds and slipping up in rapid succession. All of this happens in dramatic slow-motion. Bonus points for calling back to not only the very first Animation vs Minecraft episode (whose climax played out very similarly to this scene), but also the first episode of Season 3 (they go through the Nether Biomes in the exact reverse order they went through them in the first episode).
* Compare the Stick Gang's behavior upon returning home between the end of the first season and the end of this episode: At the end of Season 1, the Stick Gang hastily destroyed the Nether Portal that they just went through, [[WeAreNotGoingThroughThatAgain not wanting to have another adventure like that ever again]]. Here, they're much calmer as they're walking back through the portal, having gained an appreciation for exploring other worlds, and prioritize returning the game icons to their original locations and the destruction of the portal is not shown.
* A couple among the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue shots:
** The Warden, now a student of Monster School, absolutely OBLITERATES Steve in the stealth challenge. He even knocks Herobrine back a bit, which is an accomplishment given how powerful Herobrine is.
** [[NoKillLikeOverkill The villagers are seen chasing off the Witch with a veritable stampede of Titan Ravagers.]]

!!''[=AvA=]'' Shorts/''Animator vs Animation V''
[[folder:Ep 1: ''The Virus'']]
* It's the DarkestHour. Alan has his cursor destroyed and can't create a new one while the stick figures are trapped in webbing. Suddenly, a white portal appears, and '''''[[TheBusCameBack the]] [[BigDamnHeroes Chosen]] [[TheChosenOne One]]''''' appears.

[[folder:Ep 2: ''The Chosen One's Return'']]
Honestly, this whole episode is just one big HSQ!
* The Chosen One takes several [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beatdowns]] by [=ViraBot=], but manages to regain his strength and fight back every time. Even when he has been attacked by [=ViraBot=]'s TouchOfDeath, he is able to survive.
* Near the end of their fight, [=ViraBot=] forms a massive body out of the broken pieces of Adobe Flash and starts beating up the Chosen One. While he manages to fight back in the end, [[BadassBystander the Second Coming gets bonus points for attempting to punch the giant [=ViraBot=] to help as much as he could]].
* Eventually, [=ViraBot=]'s true body comes out, and the Chosen One sics all of his powers on it [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill to make sure it is completely destroyed]].

[[folder:Ep 3: ''The Flashback'']]
* What does the Chosen One do when the Dark Lord is about to press the button that launches [=Virabot=]? [[MegatonPunch Punch the shit out of him]] to the point that TDL is thrown off-screen! [[TheBadGuyWins The Dark Lord still launched the virus]], but despite the fact it would infect Alan's PC, the Chosen One [[WhatYouAreInTheDark chooses to go there anyways]] and managed to destroy it!

[[folder:Ep 4: ''The Showdown'']]
* In order to help the Chosen One defeat the Dark Lord, Yellow contacts the Animator for help and creates a '''[[MundaneMadeAwesome cursor]]''' for him to use against the Dark Lord. Also note that the two of them together straight up overpowered the Dark Lord and forced him to unleash his army of [=ViraBots=] to regain his advantage.
* The DarkestHour has arrived, Red, Yellow, Blue & Green have been deleted, the Animator can't help them, the Second Coming is critically injured and even the Chosen One is in so much despair that he can't fight anymore. However the Second Coming soon awakens his own [[EleventhHourSuperpower Eleventh-Hour Superpowers]] and completely destroys the Dark Lord and its army, while also resurrecting his friends.
** What makes this better is if you remember from the original Animator Vs Animation 4, when Alan deleted The Second Coming's friends, the latter responded with this:
--> '''The Second Coming''': You ended my friends. Now I will end you.
** In that same video, the Task Manager called the Second Coming "The Chosen One's Return". ''[[BrickJoke Six years later]]'', we finally learn why.
** Of note, when the Chosen One defeated the first [=ViraBot=], he really had to work for that victory. Once the Second Coming taps into his latent powers, he defeats an entire swarm of them in seconds.
** There's also a little bit of respect for the Dark Lord: He got absolutely wrecked, [[CurbStompCushion but he did manage to punch the Second Coming straight into a cliff]].
** Another one for the Dark Lord: Despite all this, there is a chance ''[[ImplacableMan he survived]]''.

!!''[=AVA=]'' Shorts/''Animator vs Animation VI''
[[folder:EP1 ''Wanted'']]
* The new opening is a sight to behold. So much CGI.
* What do Alan and the other stick figures do with their victory? [[spoiler: They have a fun fight with Alan winning]].
[[/folder]]

* Compare the Stick Gang's behavior upon returning home between the end of the first season and the end of this episode: At the end of Season 1, the Stick Gang hastily destroyed the Nether Portal that they just went through, [[WeAreNotGoingThroughThatAgain not wanting to have another adventure like that ever again]]. Here, they're much calmer as they're walking back through the portal and prioritize returning the game icons to their original locations and the destruction of the portal is not shown.

* After King and Purple vanish into the Void, everyone else tries to deactivate the staff. Nothing they do seems to stop it, but TSC remembers that the last time a Master Block went through a nether portal, it undid everything it was responsible for. TCS's idea? Run all the way back through the Nether and send the Master Block through the nether portal leading back to Alan's PC.

** When the portal is in sight, the landscape is far too chaotic to coherently travel through, so the stick figures pass the staff back and forth between each other as they each find themselves rapidly gaining footholds and slipping up in rapid succession. All of this happens in dramatic slow-motion. Bonus points for calling back to the very first Animation vs Minecraft episode, whose climax played out very similarly to this scene.

** The Warden, now a student of Monster School, absolutely OBLITERATES Steve in the stealth challenge.

* Purple's last stand. Everyone has been blasted by the destructive energy of the Dual-Master Block Staff and are visibly distorting and were possibly ''this'' close to a CessationOfExistence. [[Determinator Purple doesn't care]]. As a desperate last stand, he charges at King, who retaliates by blasting him with the Dual-Master Block Staff point-blank. Through all of this, Purple continues to struggle against the beam, regardless of the damage being done, or the pain he's undoubtedly feeling. Doubles as a TearJerker when you remember that he pretty much lost everything that matters to him, and is likely the reason why he's still trying in the face of sheer hopelessness.

* Second Coming literally crashing the guitar duel between Green and the Chicken and outperforms them by playing so good that lightning strikes and causing a sonic boom leaving everyone speechless. He then goes back to sleep like it was nothing.
** Equally awesome is that Second Coming isn't using a potion and is clearly very tired. If he can easily outdo Green while exhausted, just imagine what he could do while wide awake.
* A meta moment for Alan Becker just for animating ''every single individual musical note'' that pops up during the fight, especially with the guitar duel near the end.

* The stick figures manage to hold their own against the Lucky Block Entity even before Yellow starts helping them, and once he did, they might've beaten it if it couldn't multiply.
** Also, props to the Entity for being nearly able to defeat the entire group with relative ease, only being stopped by being removed from Yellow.

** In Enderman's defense, he got to point-blank range unnoticed (in a manner that resembles the Spy from Machinima/TeamServiceAnnouncement no less); if he would've attacked rather than roaring, the target would have been dead.

* Blue manages to make an antidote for the BalefulPolymorph potion despite having just learned about it, in addition to all the numerous potions he uses in the rest of the fight.

* Alan's sticks show their ingenuity when dealing with Orange's Piglin jailers.

* Scott Buckley and Aaron Grooves provided the SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic for the extended fight scene that is two-thirds of this episode. It starts out as the regular Pigstep ([[DiegeticSwitch courtesy of Orange actually putting a Pigstep disc in his record player]]), and gradually gets more and more epic as the fight escalates, until it sounds like the edge of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Dancing Mad]]. Scott has uploaded it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDZK3_c-Vkc here]] to be enjoyed on its own.
* Orange vs. Green, Yellow and Blue. Orange has a command block that can spawn ''anything''. Green, Blue, and Yellow have swords, bows, fishing rods, and their own skills. And they deliver a CurbStompBattle on Orange. While Orange initially has the upper hand, throwing them around and forcing them to take cover with an absolute army of fireballs and arrows, the trio ultimately manages to counter every unfair command he can throw at them, pin down his staff, and hold him at arrow-point. If it weren't for the untimely loss of their equipment following Purple's theft of the Master Block, this conflict would have been over.

* Meanwhile, who comes to help Red? Another [[ChekhovsGunman gunman]], this time the baby piglin from "The Piglin War". The kid gives him a ride on its hoglin. What follows is Red vs. Purple. A battle where both sides are constantly in the air, fighting over the Master Block, and if not for Orange, Red would have won.
* The Second Coming vs. Orange. An absolutely terrifying and awe-inspiring show of creative mode. Orange has experience due to his previous command block, but the Second Coming has the tenacity and quick-thinking that he's shown in the entire series so far. The entire fight is very equal, both having the upper hand only to get it taken away from them after a moment. Orange throws absolutely everything he can, from his own strength to an armada of attacks, and the Second Coming manages to avoid and counter them all with his traps, smarts, and experience.

* What does the Second Coming do after he and the Warden become friends? He gets the Warden to help him fight Orange.
* When the Second Coming and the Warden attack Orange, it immediately becomes clear that Orange is horribly outmatched, since he's being attacked by the strongest mob in ''Minecraft'', his staff is empty, and the Second Coming even makes up for the Warden's blindness by providing guidance. Orange briefly manages to fight back by equipping his staff with a gold block, but the Warden and the Second Coming eventually manage to separate Orange from his staff. Their victory would have been assured if Orange hadn't found one of the Master Blocks.

* Red's team goes through the portal to fight King Orange. This used to be the worst team, and look at them now, they're giving the BigBad of the season trouble.
* Red puts a Netherite block in the staff and freakin smacks King Orange out of sight.
** Points to King Orange for instantly recovering from the blow and finding the ''other'' Master Block.

* Remember the Ravager that terrorized the village? Yellow convinces it to join him with a peace offering of crops, and even takes it with him to the battle against Orange.

* The absolutely gorgeous animation once Purple starts giving his reasons for why he sided with King.

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* The absolutely gorgeous animation once [[spoiler: Purple starts giving his reasons for why he sided with King.]]

* The DarkestHour has arrived, Red, Yellow, Blue & Green have been deleted, the Animator can't help them, the Second Coming is critically injured and even the Chosen One is in so much despair that he can't fight anymore. However the Second Coming soon awakens his own powers and completely destroys the Dark Lord and its army, while also resurrecting his friends.

** Near the end of the race, Blaze tries to shoot down Red's team with a volley of fireballs. Skeleton shoots ''every single one'' right out of the air, [[IronicEcho followed by the same nod Blaze did to him earlier in the episode]]!

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[[folder:Animator Vs. Animation II]]

[[folder:Animator Vs. Animation III]]

[[folder:Animator Vs. Animation IV]]

[[folder:Animation Vs. Minecraft]]

[[folder:Animation Vs. [=YouTube=]]]

[[folder:Animation Vs. Pokémon]]

!AVM Shorts

[[folder:Ep 3: The Roller Coaster]]

[[folder:Ep 4: Potions]]

[[folder:Ep 5: Note Blocks]]

[[folder:Ep 6: Command Blocks]]

[[folder:Ep 7: [=PvP=]]]

[[folder:Ep 8: The Nether]]

[[folder:Ep 10: The End]]

[[folder:Ep 11: [=SkyBlock=]]]

[[folder:Ep 12: TNT Land]]

[[folder:Ep 13: The Dolphin Kingdom]]

[[folder:Ep 14: Cave Spider Roller Coaster]]

[[folder:Ep 16: Note Block Battle]]

[[folder:Ep 19: Lucky Block]]

[[folder:Ep 20: The Piglin War]]
* [[MeleeATrois Blue vs. Piglin hunting squad vs. Zombified Piglin horde]]. After Blue loses his golden helmet, the Piglins chase him towards the Nether fortress. When he gets near, ''zombified'' Piglins (aka the Zombie Pigmen that he and Green accidentally aggravated in Ep 8 and spent the rest of the episode running from) come out of the fortress, and Blue is left pinned between the two on the bridge. He resigns himself to the fight, draws his sword... [[OneManArmy and starts killing the zombieporcine warriors, while keeping the hunting squad at bay without hurting them]]. No Ghasts, no fellow stickmen, just Blue. The stick figures have gained ''several'' [[TookALevelInBadass levels in badass]] since AVM Shorts Season 1. The only reason he ended up falling down is due to the young Piglin needing his help, which left him off-guard.

[[folder:Ep 21: The Witch]]

[[folder:Ep 22: Parkour]]

[[folder:Ep 23: Titan Ravager]]

[[folder:Ep 24: Lush Caves]]

[[folder:Ep 25: The Ultimate Weapon]]

[[folder:Ep 26: The Warden]]

[[folder:Ep 27: Monster School]]

!!AVA Shorts/Animator vs Animation V
[[folder:Ep 1: The Virus]]

[[folder:Ep 2: The Chosen One's Return]]

[[folder:Ep 3: The Flashback]]

[[folder:Ep 4: The Showdown]]

* The moment they see Yellow disappear, Blue and Green grab their swords and charge after him. They then save everyone by have Green cause a distraction while Blue cures their poisoning.

* The final battle, full stop. Possessed!Red is approaching the main desktop in his obsidian mecha, and his friends have lost all their armor, all their weapons, and are down to half a heart of health each with no way to restore it. DownerEnding? Nope, they improvise with what equipment and materials they still had and [[ChekhovsSkill what they learned via experimenting earlier]], ''and win!''

* Green and Blue jump on a Ghast to escape the Nether mobs chasing them. After realizing they can control it with their fishing rods, they then proceed to ride the Ghast like a battle stead and blast the mobs to kingdom come. They finish off the Ghast by making it fire a shot that they bash back in its face.