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** The Second Coming is riding him like a horse.

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** The Second Coming is riding him like a horse. Also the Second Coming is the one with the flute; if he'd gotten knocked off, he could play it to remind the Warden which one is his ally and get right back on.
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** The Second Coming is riding him like a horse.
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* In "The Warden", how does the titular Warden differentiate The Second Coming from King Orange even if it can't see?
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** Not to mention the flying capabilities and raw power of their attacks heavily implies that it's beyond just the ability to control blocks, it likely changes the user into Creative Mode. And in minecraft that's one step below omnipotence.
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** A new answer is avaible given the events of ''[=AvM=] Shorts'' Season 3; Purple was already working for Orange at the time. He went there to either get the Master Block early and also to get revenge on the Stick Gang. When he saw the Second Coming attacking his crystal(?), he remembered the Parkour Course and realised something; If he wins, the Stick Gang will never trust him again and thus won't follow him through the portal (notice that Purple never tries to kill the Stick Gang, and only tries to beat them in a game; He was never homicidal, just [[EvilIsPetty petty]]). If he loses, he can use CrocodileTears to get their sympathy ([[BatmanGambit knowing that's what they will do]]), fake a HeelFaceTurn and thus make them go through the portal when they cross paths again (he uses the same tactic when he sees them going back home in "The Witch"). While he did abandon the Master Block, it was a sacrifice he had to make for the plan to succeed. In short, Purple was just a ManipulativeBastard.
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Headscratchers is meant to discuss plot holes or chaaracters' ilogical actions. Not ask questions about how the series' universe work that could randomly be answered at any moment if ever. There is no point in asking a question you know no one else can possibly answer other than with a Wild Mass Guess.


* What would happen if Alan refreshed the Stick Fight window with the Fighting Stick Figures away from the computer? Would nothing happen, would they be teleported back to the window, or would new stick figures spawn?
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* What would happen if Alan refreshed the Stick Fight window with the Fighting Stick Figures away from the computer? Would nothing happen, would they be teleported back to the window, or would new stick figures spawn?
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** It's implied that stick figures spontaneously coming to life isn't unheard of in the [=AvA=] universe; everyone Alan talks to about it doesn't question the idea, and Purple and Orange had to come from somewhere (to say nothing of the Fighting Stick Figures). So it's probably just a fact of this universe that random stick figures can do that.
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** It could have been a BatmanGambit. Bare minimum, Purple would know from ''vs. League of Legends'' that the stick gang is very competitive (and this is something we the audience have seen in several [=AvM=] episodes; since Orange knows of the events of the original ''vs Minecraft'', it's possible he also knows this fact), and therefore would be likely to jump at the idea of a parkour race between them, especially one with low stakes once Yellow demonstrates that they can't die from falling into the void. This same competitiveness is probably also why Purple and Orange figured the "first to three wins" was a worthy gamble; if one stick got too far behind, they'd start playing dirtier to catch up, as we see in pretty much every race after the first. This had the added benefit of giving Purple a viable alibi as to why he wanted to stagger them for the tie-breaker race. Sure, the downside was that eventually they'd figure out something was up and try to escape; they weren't gonna wait for their friends forever without worrying. But Purple and Orange clearly didn't anticipate any of them being smart enough to actually break through the obsidian cube and so probably deemed that a non-issue.
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** The Master Block can give you an infinite amount of Command Blocks, and as Herobrine showed, giants that mimic your movement, among many others. And the picture for Orange's plan shows that the Master Block has some unknown, even larger power. A Command Block is powerful, but there's AlwaysABiggerFish.
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* Also in ''Parkour'', why did Orange even need the Master Block in the first place? The command block on his staff can already place (and break) blocks, even blocks in certain shapes such as waterlogged, upside-down stairs or slabs, etc. Not to mention the staff can even [[DeaderThanDead send a mob's AI to limbo]], manipulate an entity's position and amongst all other things command blocks can do.
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* In ''Parkour'', what would've happened if one of the sticks got three wins before the final stage? Would it have ruined Orange's entire plan, or were the stages specifically crafted so that each of the five would win the same number of them? Moreover, why didn't Orange not include the competition aspect and instead just have the stick figures distracted playing infinite parkour courses? That seems like it would have trapped them for far longer...
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** If making an evil destructive stick figure is that easy, then so is making a powerful good stick figure that will stop evil ones. That and most programs, including purely visual ones such as icons can spontaneously become alive and fight the stick figures. It also seems that good stick figures are stronger than evil stick figures by default because the Chosen One had the upper hand on the Dark Lord before he started to wear his dark arm band and activated the army of virabots.

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** If making an evil destructive stick figure is that easy, then so is making a powerful good stick figure that will stop evil ones. That and most programs, including purely visual ones such as shortcut icons can spontaneously become alive and fight the stick figures. It also seems that good stick figures are stronger than evil stick figures by default because the Chosen One had the upper hand on the Dark Lord before he started to wear his dark arm band and activated the army of virabots.
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** It was shown in ''IV'' and ''vs. [=YouTube=]'' that refreshing a page restores everything back to normal. Stick figures such as the Dark Lord can cause chaos as much as they like, but at the end it doesn't change anything and at best just terrifies the programs that went through it.
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* How the hell was the Second Coming even born? Alan's wording suggests it's not the first time he made a stick figure since 2011, he didn't even ''name him''. He literally just popped into existence while Alan was in the middle of drawing. Speaking of, why does he instantly qualify as The Chosen One's Return? Did the Chosen One pull off something off-screen during his adventures with the Dark Lord?
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** A third theory is that the Animator never removed Avast, but instead marked the Animations as "safe" so that Avast would ignore them in future scans with the antivirus. ViraBot was made by the Dark Lord, who was in turn made by the Animator. Since the Dark Lord was the creator of ViraBot and had Noogai as his first target, he may have tailor-made ViraBot to sneak by Avast.

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** A third theory is that the Animator never removed Avast, but instead marked the Animations as "safe" so that Avast would ignore them in future scans with the antivirus. ViraBot [=ViraBot=] was made by the Dark Lord, who was in turn made by the Animator. Since the Dark Lord was the creator of ViraBot [=ViraBot=] and had Noogai as his first target, he may have tailor-made ViraBot [=ViraBot=] to sneak by Avast.Avast. You can even see Avast in ''The Rediscovery'' as The Second Coming scrolls through the Start menu in search of Minecraft.



** Presumably he's out and about doing other stuff for most of them(it'd be unreasonable to think he'd be home on his computer all day every day), and just leaves the computer open for the stick figures to play around in whenever he's gone. As for ''Note Blocks'', maybe the computer is in a workroom separate from his bedroom, so even at volume 100 it was far enough away to not immediately wake him up. Or maybe he's just a ridiculously HeavySleeper. Also, in ''Command Blocks'', the worst that seemed to be happening was an InterfaceScrew, not necessarily physical damage to the computer that Alan, worst case scenario, couldn't fix with a hard reset(though the animations would have still had to explain that mess to him).

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** Presumably he's out and about doing other stuff for most of them(it'd be unreasonable to think he'd be home on his computer all day every day), and just leaves the computer open for the stick figures to play around in whenever he's gone. As for ''Note Blocks'', maybe the computer is in a workroom separate from his bedroom, so even at volume 100 100%, it was far enough away to not immediately wake him up. Or maybe he's just a ridiculously HeavySleeper. Also, in ''Command Blocks'', the worst that seemed to be happening was an InterfaceScrew, not necessarily physical damage to the computer that Alan, worst case worst-case scenario, couldn't fix with a hard reset(though the animations would have still had to explain that mess to him).
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Another AVA theory

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** A third theory is that the Animator never removed Avast, but instead marked the Animations as "safe" so that Avast would ignore them in future scans with the antivirus. ViraBot was made by the Dark Lord, who was in turn made by the Animator. Since the Dark Lord was the creator of ViraBot and had Noogai as his first target, he may have tailor-made ViraBot to sneak by Avast.
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** Out of universe: because then we wouldn't get to see a cool adventure in the updated Nether. In-universe: Blue panicked and wasn't thinking straight. There's evidence of a growing addiction to Nether Wart (he makes a bunch of delicious food while munching on the stuff, and tosses aside his entire meal to eat more Nether Wart) and in his state of mind he just went with his first instincts. It's also worth noting that Yellow is the more technically minded stick figure who's more likely to play with stuff in the game's back end; Blue tends to be pretty conventional.
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! [=AvM=] Shorts
* In ''Piglin War'', why didn't Blue just grab the master Minecraft block and spawn a ton of Nether Wart with Creative Mode?

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! Animator vs. Animation -- "The Virus"
* Where's Avast? Even if it would have been blocked by [=ViraBot=] all the same, in a series not shy about {{Continuity Nod}}s, it's strange to not see it when the Animator was searching for antiviruses on his computer. I get that this is a different computer, but why wouldn't the Animator have redownloaded something that proved capable of stopping his last out-of-control creation?
** Maybe he hadn't redownloaded it because he didn't want to alarm the Second Coming or make him relive any bad memories (that might or might not come from it.) Besides, it is shown that the Animator and the stick figures have stacked quite a high level of trust after the events of 4, and the Animator may not have expected any other threats to be more powerful than something he had named "The Chosen One".
** Another theory on this: He hadn't redownloaded Avast ''because'' it had proved capable of stopping his last out-of-control creation. When he and his ''current'' out-of-control creations (aka the stick figures) are on friendly terms, why would he risk downloading a program that might (and probably ''would'') detect them as viruses, when activated?


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* Where's Avast? Even if it would have been blocked by [=ViraBot=] all the same, in a series not shy about {{Continuity Nod}}s, it's strange to not see it when the Animator was searching for antiviruses on his computer. I get that this is a different computer, but why wouldn't the Animator have redownloaded something that proved capable of stopping his last out-of-control creation?
** Maybe he hadn't redownloaded it because he didn't want to alarm the Second Coming or make him relive any bad memories (that might or might not come from it.) Besides, it is shown that the Animator and the stick figures have stacked quite a high level of trust after the events of 4, and the Animator may not have expected any other threats to be more powerful than something he had named "The Chosen One".
** Another theory on this: He hadn't redownloaded Avast ''because'' it had proved capable of stopping his last out-of-control creation. When he and his ''current'' out-of-control creations (aka the stick figures) are on friendly terms, why would he risk downloading a program that might (and probably ''would'') detect them as viruses, when activated?
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! Animator vs. Animation V
* How the hell does the [=YouTube=] part make sense? With ''Animation vs. [=YouTube=]'' it's at least justified since the video was from a few years ago, but here, it's a video that shows scenes from ''moments ago''.

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*** I'm pretty sure TCO was winning against TDL because his "level" was higher than the one TDL has.

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*** I'm pretty sure It's also possible that TCO was winning against TDL because his "level" was higher than the one TDL has.has.
**** Possibly, but "Chosen One" could be the highest possible power level for "good" stick figure, while "Dark Lord" could be the highest level for "evil" ones since both of their names are common terms for hero and villains. Though the differents power level doesn't stop other stick figures from getting stronger thanks to power boosts and objects.
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*** I'm pretty sure TCO was winning against TDL because his "level" was higher than the one TDL has.
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** If making an evil destructive stick figure is that easy, then so is making a powerful good stick figure that will stop evil ones. That and most programs, including purely visual ones such as icons can spontaneously become alive and fight the stick figures. It also seems that good stick figures are stronger than evil stick figures by default because the Chosen One had the upper hand on the Dark Lord before he started to wear his dark arm band and activated the army of virabots.

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! Animation Vs. [=YouTube=]

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! Animator Vs. Animation -- "The Virus"

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** Humanity has adapted to it. Multiple programs have been programmed to kill a Stick Figure if it ever goes wild. Examples include Clippy and some desktop icons.
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* The obvious answer is RuleOfCool, but if Flash is capable of creating stick figures that can be set to any level, run wild, destroy motherboards, escape into the internet, and wreak havoc there as well, how has the internet not imploded upon itself with people carelessly creating superpowered stick figures (or making them on purpose and giving them destructive commands with malicious intent)?
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** Maybe they needs to sleep too but the situation never ask for it. Orange only sleep because it's necessary for a joke.

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** Maybe The other stick figures sleeps in "Texture Pack" so they needs to can sleep too but the situation never ask asked for it. Orange only sleep because it's necessary for a joke.it before.
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** Maybe they needs to sleep too but the situation never ask for it. Orange only sleep because it's necessary for a joke.
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** Most likely. It's possible that they were doing the contest because, after struggling to defeat Green in the music department, they decided to try defeating him in building. Even if it isn't the very next day, between the two Note Block episodes we can conclude that the fighting stick figures don't give much consideration to Orange needing to sleep, so it's entirely plausible that them keeping him awake with their antics isn't uncommon.
* On a related note, why is Orange the only one of the five to actually need to sleep? I get that he and the other four have different origins but how would that affect this aspect of them?
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* Does ''Build Battle' take place right after ''Note Block Battle''? Because if not, uh... is Orange okay? There's being bored, and then there's being physically unable to stay awake for more than a few seconds after a timer starts.

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* Does ''Build Battle' Battle'' take place right after ''Note Block Battle''? Because if not, uh... is Orange okay? There's being bored, and then there's being physically unable to stay awake for more than a few seconds after a timer starts.

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