History Characters / AnimatorVsAnimation

* NonStandardCharacterDesign: He looks similar to how Alan draws his stick figures, but on closer inspection, his head is animated frame by frame. [[spoiler:Just like how victim was.]]

** [[spoiler:Subverted at the end of "Wanted".]]

* [[ContemporaryCaveman Contemporary Cave Painting]]: The painted stickman, despite being clearly a prehistoric cave painting, appears fully acclimated to being in the vague {{Cyberspace}} setting of the shorts and operates his own hoverbike and it's mounted weapons without trouble.

* BreakoutCharacter: Went from another [[VillainOfTheWeek Stick Figure of the Week]] to TheHero of the entire franchise.

* ShoutOut: One of them comes from the classic Stickman vs. Door gif.

[[folder:The boss (Animation vs. Animator VI)]]

* NotSoAboveItAll
** In the Actual Short ''Clicks Per Second'', he joins the Stick Gang in pushing the limits of the Click Speed Test, ending with the page actually exploding.
** In the [=AvA=] Short ''Wanted'', his response to the Stick Gang starting a sparring match on his animation software is to join in by drawing and throwing a rock at the Second Coming, followed by typing a "XD" emoticon.

* ArtShift: All of them are drawn in different styles from cave paintings to pixel art to modern vector lines.

* NonStandardCharacterDesign: He looks similar to how Alan draws his stick figures, but on closer inspection, his head is animated frame by frame.

* ArtShift: All of them are drawn in different styles from very dated pixel art to modern vector lines.

* PowerUpLetdown: [[ZigzaggedTrope Zigzagged]]. While the Master Block is indisputably more powerful, it lacks the Command Block's ability to directly manipulate the values of players and mobs. With a Command Block, King is able to immediately eliminate mobs (or eradicate their AI) and kinetically manipulate other characters, both of which he uses to great effect to win battles outright with no resistance, but he shows no similar powers with the Master Block. On the other hand however, the Master Block can spawn and manipulate any block or item from Minecraft far more effectively than the Command Block ever could, and has several unique abilities of its own, such as conferring [[NighInvulnerable Creative Mode's]] invincibility to the wielder, granting the ability to [[EvilKnockoff spawn dopplegangers]] under the King's command, and [[EnergyWeapon energy]] [[WaveMotionGun blasts]]. FridgeBrilliance comes in when you remember that in ''Minecraft'', you can't simply find the Command Block in the Creative Mode menu. You'll need to use commands to summon one.

[[folder:The Chosen One's pursuers (Animation vs. Animator VI)]]

!Video Game Characters
[[folder:Ethan]]
!!Ethan
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The main character of [=HeartGold/SoulSilver=], and functionally, Second Coming's rival.

* AntiVillain: He mistakenly thinks Second Coming did steal a Pokémon, and all of their interactions are colored by that interaction; you can't particularly blame him for treating the stick poorly.
* BigBad: Of ''Animation vs. Pokémon''.
* GracefulLoser: After Ho-Oh is beaten, he acknowledges defeat and admits that a stick figure can be a master.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He breaks the rules of his own world by going and collecting Pokemon by himself without Alan's intervention (he was the chosen player character). In the end, he essentially [[WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph goes Turbo]] to fight Second Coming.
* {{Jerkass}}: Ethan is more like Silver in Animation vs Pokémon. He is a prick to Second Coming and says how stick figures can't be trainers. One thing he does is take away Totodile after he and Lyra attack him for "stealing."
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He does acknowledge defeat after Ho-Oh is taken down by Second Coming's team. He also has a Crobat in his team, which requires high friendship to evolve.
** JerkassHasAPoint: While he did take back and keep Totodile after attacking Second Coming with his and Lyra's Pokémon, Second Coming did take a Pokémon from Elm without permission, just like Silver would. Although Second Coming did try to give it back, it had already bonded with him and refused to go back.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: He sends out Ho-Oh when the rest of his Pokémon are unable to keep up with Second Coming's team. When Ho-Oh is defeated, he tells Meganium to hold off.

[[folder:The Second Coming's Pokémon]]
!!Second Coming's Pokémon
[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Pokémon that Second Coming befriended while travelling through Johto]]. His party consists of:
* Totodile → Croconaw → Feraligatr: Stolen from Professor Elm's lab; reclaimed by Ethan, only to rejoin Second Coming when they caught up.
* Pidgey → Pidgeotto → Pidgeot: Caught in the first patch of tall grass Second Coming could find.
* Mareep → Flaffy → Ampharos: Was following Second Coming when the team noticed her and invited her to join.
* Heracross: Was drowning in the water off a bridge when Second Coming and team passed; Totodile brought him back to dry land.
* Slugma → Magcargo: Was being forced into water by some Youngsters with fishing rods when Second Coming and team passed. Heracross threw ''them'' in the water instead.
* Oddish → Gloom → Bellossom: Was being chased by a Farfetch'd when their path crossed Second Coming's. Mareep gave the Farfetch'd a shock to drive it off.

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Heracross, Slugma, and Oddish were all in danger when Second Coming's Pokémon helped them out, thus joining his team.
* BigDamnHeroes: Feraligatr gets held off by Ethan's Meagnium while he confronts Second Coming. When Ho-Oh has Second Coming and the rest of the team trapped under a rockfall, Feraligatr manages to break out and get Ho-Oh from behind, saving Second Coming and turning the tide.
* IncrediblyObviousTail: Mareep started off not-so-subtly following Second Coming and his team, pretending to be grazing whenever they turned around. Second Coming just invited her along.
* SacrificialLion: Bellossom gets knocked out during the fight with Ethan, pushing Second Coming and the others to [[LetsGetDangerous get dangerous]]. [[SubvertedTrope Once the fight ends, he pops her a Max Revive]] before they head back to the Pokémon League.
* TwoGirlsToATeam: If the [[FreezeFrameBonus cutscenes of Second Coming fighting the Johto Gym leaders]] are taken to account, then Ampharos and Bellosom are the only members who are female while the rest are male.

[[folder:Mario (''Super Mario Bros.'')]]
!!Mario (''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros'')
The first Mario encountered and the one to start the conflict after the Second Coming starts messing with his game..

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: [[spoiler:He stops fighting the stickfigures after Second Coming apologizes by giving him a Super Mushroom]].
* BigBad: Of ''Animation vs. Super Mario Bros''.
* CollisionDamage: Per the rules of the Mario platformers, contact with others causes him damage. [[PoorCommunicationKills The fight starts when Second Coming tries to shake his hand]].
* EnemySummoner: By picking up the games selections and shaking them like a cereal box, baddies, pipes, and power ups come out.
* HotBlooded: The most eager to fight out of the Marios and the one defeated last.
* MookMaker: He brings the enemies from his games into the computer by picking them up and shaking them.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: He's the smallest of the Marios and can lift a game that's 10 times his size.

[[folder:Mario (''Super Mario Bros. 2'')]]
!!Mario (''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'')
A Mario drawn into the fight by the first one. He usually attacks with turnips.

* GrievousHarmWithABody: His preferred way of attacking when he isn't hurling turnips at the stickfigures.
* MagicCarpet: He has one. [[spoiler: Yellow bonds with him over it]].

[[folder:Mario (''Super Mario Bros. 3'')]]
!!Mario (''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'')
A Mario drawn into the fight by the first one. He is in the raccoon form by default and attacks with his tail.

* PowerUp: He uses the Fire Flower, the Raccoon Leaf, and the Tanooki Suit. [[spoiler: He shares the latter with Red]].
* TailSlap: His preferred way of attacking.
* TakenForGranite: Briefly turns into a statue to deflect Red's attacks. [[spoiler: Red bonds with him over that ability.]]

[[folder:Herobrine]]
The antagonist of ''Animation vs. Minecraft'' who took control of Red's body in order to take control of the Master Block for itself.

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* BackForTheFinale: [[spoiler:He fights alongside the good side against King in the Season 3 finale]].
* BackFromTheDead: After the original Minecraft icon is trashed, he dies upon evacuating from Red's body, but at some point he respawns in a different world where he hosts a Monster School.
* BadassTeacher: King ends up on Herobrine's hitlist for threatening his students. He actually gives King a good fight until King figures out how to counter his ZergRush of Steve Clones.
* BigBad: Of ''Animation vs. Minecraft'' through taking control of Red's body and forcing the other stick figures on a quest to defeat him.
* TheBusCameBack: Reappears in "Monster School". WordOfGod even confirms that this is the same one.
* DemonicPossession: He took control of Red's body when he got ahold of the Master Block.
* HaveWeMet: In "Monster School" he notices that Red looks familiar, but dismisses the thought and forces him to attend his class.
* NonGivingUpSchoolGuy: Downplayed. He comes through the Nether portal to retrieve his runaway students during "The King", but as soon as Skellington explains what's going on, he casts that aside to fight off King.
%%* OhCrap: Has a minor one when [[spoiler:King finds out how to defeat his Steves.]]
* StylisticSuck: In "Monster School" some of his animations are purposefully lazy, such as using a single tween to move, or shrinking out of existence instead of teleporting. WordOfGod states that this is done as a reference to the original monster school, which had lackluster animation.
* TranquilFury: The seconds-long stare he gives towards what's happening below him after Skellington explains what's going on coupled with the slow zoom-in, as well as his brutal fighting techniques and spiteful glare he gives King before he's absorbed into the Dual-Block all but spell out he's '''severely''' pissed off that his students are in lethal amounts of danger.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Possesses Red in ''Animation vs. Minecraft'' as its main antagonist and dies at the end of the video, never to be mentioned again. [[TheBusCameBack Until Monster School]]...

[[folder:Red's pigs]]
!!Red's pigs
Red's pets of choice. The first one appeared in "Potions"; originally a normal harmless pig, it gained powers after drinking Blue's potions. Another was later used to demonstrate his device in "Redstone Academy". A third was used to defeat the Orbs in "Lucky Blocks". A different pig was spawned in "The Piglin War" to find Blue, becoming a consistent character throughout Season 3.

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* AscendedExtra: Originally just a one-episode gag in Season 1, two of them appear in Season 2, and Season 3 has a pig that is actually part of the main cast.
* BigDamnHeroes:
** The pig in "Lucky Blocks" is equipped by with full diamond gear and a pair of wings, then motivated by carrots to deal with the orb-possessed stick figures.
** The pig in Season 3 saves the stick figures from the Witch moments before they are burned to death.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Red's pigs are normally harmless mobs he keeps as pets, but upon drinking or being splashed with potions, they become nigh-invulnerable juggernauts capable of defeating every threat.
* HourOfPower: The powers that the pigs gain from the potions only last for a brief period. While the potion effects last, they're pretty much unstoppable; the first pig was able to fend off all five stick figures, and the pig in Season 3 single-handedly defeated the witch that had left the sticks helpless. However, once the potions wear off, they're back to being harmless Minecraft mobs, with the first pig falling to its death [[spoiler:and the pig of Season 3 getting pork-napped by Purple]].
* MonsterOfTheWeek: The first pig serves as the antagonist of "Potions".
* NoOntologicalInertia: [[spoiler:After Purple manages to take their Master Block through the Nether portal in ''The Ultimate Weapon'', Red's Pig fades away along with most of the Fighting Stick Figures' inventory.]] [[spoiler:Fortunately, it turns out to be NotQuiteDead when all of the absorbed mobs are released from the Master Blocks]].
* TheNoseKnows: The pig in Season 3 is used to track down Blue by [[TheyHaveTheScent scent]], and it proves itself to be a ScarilyCompetentTracker to boot.
* OncePerEpisode: You can expect to see a pig superpowered by drinking tons of potions at least once per season.
* RecurringCharacter: It is by far the most common spawn Red has used.
* RedeemingReplacement: The first pig went on a power trip and attacked the stick figures, while the ones spawned later on stayed loyal and were even intentionally enhanced by them to defeat the enemy.
* ScarilyCompetentTracker: The pig in Season 3 manages to follow Blue's scent through a Nether portal and four different Nether biomes, despite Blue having been riding a Hoglin and surrounded by Piglins for the vast majority of the trip.
* StarterVillain: The pig from "Potions" is the first antagonistic character introduced in the ''[=AvM=] Shorts'', and unlike the other antagonists, it only has temporary strength, which caused its death when they ran out.
* SummonBiggerFish: Once the Lucky Block managed to possess all the stick figures, Red last act is to summon a pig, which the others enhance with potions and other equipment to defeat it.

[[folder:''[=AvM=] Shorts'' - Season 1]]
!!Villagers
Villagers that live in the town Purple has created.

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Along with the Second Coming, Red and Yellow, they come for Blue and Green's assistance]].
* EveryManHasHisPrice: The prison guard was bribed with materials by Blue and Green to let them go.

!!The Ender Dragon
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The dragon inhabiting the End that Purple enlists Blue and Green's help to fight.

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[BadassNormal This guy shows how deadly even a normal stick can be]].]]

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[[caption-width-right:105:[[BadassNormal This guy shows how deadly even a normal stick can be]].]]

* BadassinDistress: [[spoiler: At the end of "Wanted"]].

* TheFaceless: In-universe, we only ever see his hands--drawing, typing, picking up keys and laundry or just the back of his head, but not his face. (Out of universe, Alan talks directly to the camera on each outro.)

* EliteMooks: Each of them are far smarter and more powerful than a normal member of their species. The Creeper can put itself back together after exploding, and the undead mobs don't burn in the sun. A bit of an {{exaggerated|Trope}} example where a [[BossInMooksClothing literal]] ''Wither'' [[BossInMooksClothing is being taught in this school.]]

!!Windows Movie Maker

* WhipItGood: Uses its reel as a whip.

!!iTunes
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