History Headscratchers / AnimatorVsAnimation

** From what I can tell, they lose hearts when hit with weapons or by mobs from Minecraft itself. Anything outside of that doesn't play by Minecraft's rules when it comes to damage.

** That was the entire point; the Chef Villager was being a TricksterMentor by teaching them that they could learn the recipes themselves instead of him having to hand them over. The stick figures have always been very fast learners (look at how fast they figured out how Minecraft works in the original ''vs. Minecraft''), so this is surprisingly in the realm of possibility for them.

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* Apparently the animator aka Alan isn't the best drawing artist yet he could make an ASCII art (text art) of a fully detailed pistol in just a matter of 10 seconds?

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[[folder: ''Animation vs. [=YouTube=]'']]

[[folder: ''Animation vs. Pokémon'']]

[[folder: ''Animator vs. Animation V'']]

[[folder: ''[=AvM=]'' Shorts]]

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[[folder:General]]
* Where's the Animator gone? I get that he trusts the Second Coming and his friends completely, but he's been absent since ''Animator vs. Animation 4''. It's especially JustForFun/{{egregious}} with the newest videos: ''Note Blocks'' had the stick figures playing music really, really loudly at 4 a.m., with the speakers up to 100, and ''Command Blocks'' would've bricked the computer (again!) if the Second Coming hadn't made it to the Restart button.
** 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 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).
** He must have heard you, because the latest short is ''Animator vs Animation'' once again.
** Perhaps the computer doesn't have to be always on and the stick figures are free to do as they please whenever the animator is AFK and the computer is turned off considering that Alan would've turned off his computer by then.
* Does ''Build Battle'' take place right after ''Note Block Battle''? Because if not, uh... is The Second Coming 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.
** 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 The Second Coming 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?
** The other stick figures sleeps in "Texture Pack" so they can sleep too but the situation never asked for it before.
** SC needs to be awake during the day to help with Alan's animations. The FSF do not.
* 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)?
** 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.
** 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=].
*** It's also possible that TCO was winning against TDL because his "level" was higher than the one TDL 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 different power level doesn't stop other stick figures from getting stronger thanks to power boosts and objects.
** It was shown in ''[=AvA=] 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.

* Apparently the animator aka Alan isn't the best in drawing artist yet he could make an ASCII art (text art) of a fully detailed pistol in just a matter of 10 seconds?

** To be clear, the mercenaries never knew that The Chosen One went high into the sky and into Alan's computer. He obscured their view from using a giant iceberg as well as a giant storm so they'd have no idea where Chosen One went to. As to why TCO didn't hide, he clearly wasn't thinking straight. He immediately assumed that the Second Coming was as naturally capable of superpowers as he was, thinking they were both capable of taking on the mercenaries only knowing that TSC was able to defeat The Dark Lord. There's also the possibility that the Chosen One was on an important mission but his progress was stopped by the organization so he needed to deal with the mercenaries immediately which might explain why TCO took The Second Coming without any foresight.

** It's also possible that the Warden's hearing is so accurate that they can "see" everything purely just by listening to vibrations.

* How many master blocks are there? Because when they take the icon from Alexcrafter's computer, it has the same powers that the main one, suggesting that every icon on every PC hold the same power. But if that's the case, why the Minecraft Mistery book indicate its location as unknown and why the King wants the main one so badly if he could just go on another computer just like TSC does?
* In the first Animations vs Minecraft, Herobrine needed the Master Blovk to create and crontroll the giant ossidian monster. In The King however he can do that and more other thing without the block. So why he needed it in the first place?

* How many master blocks are there? Because when they take the icon from Alexcrafter's computer, it has the same powers that the main one, suggesting that every icon on every PC hold the same power. But if that's the case, why the Minecraft Mistery book indicate its location as unknown and why the King wants the main one so badly if he could just go on another computer just like TSC does?
* In the first Animations vs Minecraft, Herobrine needed the Master Blovk to create and crontroll the giant ossidian monster. In The King however he can do that and more other thing without the block. So why he needed it in the first place?

** 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.

* Spontaneous generation through desire? Maybe they just drew Purple?

** 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.

** A new answer is available 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.

* 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...
** 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.
* 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.
** 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.

* In "The Warden", how does the titular Warden differentiate The Second Coming from King Orange even if it can't see?

* 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?

* In "Note Block Universe", Purple is shown to be the child of a dark blue and pink stickman. This raises a few questions: 1. Do stickmen have gender now? 2. How do they reproduce?

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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.

[[folder: Animation vs. [=YouTube=]]]
* Why does a "Best Videos of [=YouTube=]" playlist have so many ''stock footage'' videos on it? Even supposing that the Animator uses those for animation reference, wouldn't he at least have a separate playlist for them?
* Also, at the end of the video, Second Coming and Green are both seen running for their lives after the others refresh the page and restore Website/YouTube, why couldn't they have just run off the screen when Website/YouTube started attacking them in the first place?
** Maybe they thought Website/YouTube would still be able to attack them, or at least block them from escaping while it had them in its sights. Since the two still had a chance of not being spotted by it this time, they probably took the chance they had and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere got their butts out of the fight while they still could.]]

[[folder:Animation vs. League of Legends]]

** if you watch closely, you can see that Purple is surpised when his creature turn around to attack The Second Coming, meaning that he don't have total control over the creature.

** 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.

[[folder: Animation vs. Pokémon]]

[[folder: 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''.

[[folder: [=AvM=] Shorts]]

** 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.

* Where's the Animator gone? I get that he trusts the Second Coming and his friends completely, but he's been absent since ''Animator vs. Animation 4''. It's especially egregious with the newest videos: ''Note Blocks'' had the stick figures playing music really, really loudly at 4 a.m., with the speakers up to 100, and ''Command Blocks'' would've bricked the computer (again!) if the Second Coming hadn't made it to the Restart button.
** 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).
** He must have heard you, because the latest short is "Animator vs Animation" once again.
* 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.

** 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.

*** 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.
** 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.

! Animator vs. Animation IV

! Animation vs. [=YouTube=]

! Animation vs. League of Legends

! Animation vs. Pokémon

! Animator vs. Animation V

! [=AvM=] Shorts

! General

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