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Major antagonists that have fought against the main cast.

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Animator vs. Animation

The Virus Army

The Dark Lord (Spoilers Unmarked!)

The Dark Lord

Debut: Animator vs. Animation III

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^{Click here to see him at the end of Animator vs. Animation V}

The third creation of the Animator, created to fight against the Chosen One to stop his rampage, but they teamed up and escaped into the Internet. He eventually creates the ViraBots to wreak havoc across the entire Internet, which is what leads to the Chosen One turning against him.

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• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: In AvA III, he begs for mercy upon being defeated by the Chosen One. The latter decides to spare his life and they team up.
• Arch-Enemy:
  • To the Chosen One. He was made as his polar opposite and the one that would end his life, and threw away seven years of friendship to continue his evil ways. Justifiably enough, the Chosen One is shown to be pissed off at him in AvA V, and hates him so much he doesn't bother mourning his presumed-death despite the years they spend together.
  • He could've been this to the Second Coming as his most powerful and evil opponent, with secret relations (though both of them seem to be unaware) and a personal hatred once he killed the Fighting Stick Figures that made him the one person that let out TSC's Super Mode onto the world. However, they know eachother so little, with the Dark Lord dealt with so quickly, that he ultimately doesn't meet the cut.
• Asshole Victim: No tears are shed once he gets decimated and likely killed by the Second Coming. Not even his best and only friend of seven years feels bad.
• Ax-Crazy: As soon as he escapes to the Internet, he destroys everything on his path with such ferocity that the Chosen One ends up having a Heel–Face Turn and opposes him once he creates the ViraBots.
• Berserk Button: Given his reaction to the Second Coming surviving his virus-stabs, it's implied the Dark Lord hates it when people refuse to die and have the guts to remain Defiant to the End.
• Big Bad: Of Animator vs. Animation V, having created the ViraBots and caused the Chosen One's Heel–Face Turn in his goal of causing chaos and carnage across the Internet.
• Bigger Stick: In "The Showdown", he is shown to have a wristband that grants him additional attacks and apparently allows him to No-Sell the Chosen One's Eye Beams, giving him a major advantage while dueling the latter.
• Black Eyes of Evil: His laser eyes are a black color, which results in him suddenly gaining visible, pitch-black eyes whenever he charges them up. We only see this once, though.
• Book Ends: He was made to destroy the Chosen One, and he reverts back into this mode in his last day alive (or so we think).
• Born Winner: Purposefully designed to be extremely strong so he could kill the Chosen One. It worked, and he's one of the series' strongest characters. Too bad he's also one of the most cruel.
• Cain and Abel: One could see the hollow-headed stick figures as family with how they share the same creator, with at least one of them being implied to see the Animator as their father. If so, then the Dark Lord is easily the Cain for trying to murder both the Chosen One and the Second Coming.
• Characterization Marches On: "The Flashback" characterized the Dark Lord as more or less a hyperactive Psychopathic Manchild who is really excited to spread worldwide destruction with his creations. "The Showdown", however, changed the Dark Lord into a silent No-Nonsense Nemesis who's dead-set on killing his enemies and shows little emotion. Though to be fair, the Dark Lord suddenly turns very cold once the Chosen One stops him from unleashing the ViraBot, making it possible that the "cheerful maniac" persona is a facade that hid the silent, stoic monster.
• Character Tic: Both times he gains an army of allies, he puts his arms in the air like he was crucified: this is seen both when the desktop icons come to his aid in III, and when the ViraBot army attacks in V.
• Chessmaster Sidekick: Downplayed, but it's shown that while the Chosen One is very fight-focused with few feats of being smart, the Dark Lord is an Evil Genius who can program dozens of computer viruses and a wristband that makes him even stronger.
• Combat Pragmatist: Whether it's sucker-punches while the opponent is distracted, pulling out a Bigger Stick, or outnumbering his opponents with an army, the Dark Lord will use any means necessary to win the fight.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To pretty much every single villain that came before him: he's way too strong for the Stick Gang to fight him, much less defeat him, and he has actual goals which are very, very threatening.
• Create Your Own Hero: Him teaming up with the Chosen One to destroy the Animator's PC caused a chain of events that eventually led to the creation of the Second Coming; the stick figure that would ultimately destroy all his plans and, quite possibly, end his life.
• Crucified Hero Shot: Villainous example. Both when he gets the desktop icons and the ViraBots to join his side, he puts his hands in the air in this way.
• Curb Stomp Cushion: The Second Coming beat the living shit out of him, but he managed to deliver a solid punch that threw his enemy straight into the cliff.
• Dark Is Evil: Though the "dark" part is in his name rather than in his color.
  • Invoked to act as a contrast to the Chosen One, though ends up teaming up with him.
  • Played straight after he escapes into the internet. He wants to infect every computer in the world with viruses, and later gains pitch black, darkness-based powers.
• The Dark Lord: Invoked in his name, but not played straight. He is no ruler of an evil empire, and his army doesn't exist to Take Over the World, but simply destroy anything they can see. Like the Chosen One, his name simply indicates his power level and he's named like that simply to be the black stick figure's equal. To hammer it down, he started of as a Good Counterpart, though that didn't last long.
• The Dog Bites Back: After the Animator let him almost die, the Dark Lord got his revenge by teaming up with the Chosen One to destroy the PC. Years later, he's on the receiving end of this from a superpowered and very angry Second Coming.
• Didn't Think This Through: Unlike the Chosen One, the Dark Lord had no idea what to do upon destroying the Animator's computer, resulting in him losing his shit upon realizing he's stuck in a computer that's set to explode. Unfortunately for us and fortunately for them, the Chosen One somehow knew a way out.
• Dirty Coward: If he realizes that the situation he's currently in can result in him dying, he quickly stops being so badass. Besides begging for mercy in III and then panicking once the computer starts being destroyed, the end of AvA V has him - after fearlessly defeating the Animator and the Chosen One, whom he overpowered with the ViraBots, and the Fighting Stick Figures, absolutely harmless threats - run the hell away from the Second Coming after his 11th-Hour Superpowers have activated.
• The Dragon: To the Animator, at least before being betrayed. He seems to be even with The Chosen One before the latter realizes the former's plans.
• Dragon-in-Chief: Although it's debatable if he's stronger than Alan, he is a lot smarter and crazier than Alan was, being smart enough to create a virus solely to infect every computer around the world with it.
• The Dreaded: Send various Internet citizens running for their lives in the past, and even now the Stick Gang is firmly afraid of him. It's implied even the Chosen One is somewhat shaky about fighting him, at least when he puts on the wristband.
• Drunk with Power: Turns out that the guy is a serious loose cannon once he's no longer under Alan's influence. It's a large part of why the Chosen One ultimately turns against him, as he wants no part of the internet's destruction.
• Dystopia Justifies the Means: He seemingly just wants to plunge the Internet into death-filled chaos as he and his virus army slaughter everyone left and right, destroying entire websites.
• Elemental Motifs: Before putting on the wristband, fire was the only superpower he had.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Implied twice.
  • He's confused when the Chosen One refuses to let him launch a ViraBot.
  • When the Second Coming protects the Chosen One and challenges him to a fight, the Dark Lord stops and just stares at him for a few seconds, implicitly because he's confused that some random stick would choose to put their life on the line.
• Evil Counterpart: Becomes this after the Chosen One pulls a Heel–Face Turn: they were both made and mistreated by the Animator before causing chaos across the Internet, but while the Chosen One began to feel remorse, the Dark Lord just took joy in taking lives and decided to go even further.
• Eviler than Thou: His love for carnage and destruction was so big it terrified even the Chosen One, who caused his fall to evil in the first place, and ultimately resulted in the two breaking their friendship.
• Evil Former Friend: Towards the Chosen One, though the latter himself used to be evil.
• Evil Genius: An Ax-Crazy maniac who seeks nothing but death, but intelligent enough to mass-produce an extremely powerful Computer Virus and a wristband that makes him even stronger.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: Played with, as he didn't start out evil; Alan created him as a counterpart to the Chosen One. Too bad he didn't count on the Dark Lord turning against him. By all means, think twice when naming your creation something like the Dark Lord.
• Face–Heel Turn: As soon as he breaks out of the computer and enters the internet, he decides to attack multiple websites, which becomes so bad that the Chosen One ends up turning when he creates the ViraBots.
• Fatal Flaw: His drive to destroy ultimately seals his fate.
  • The Dark Lord could've peacefully become a Karma Houdini by simply continuing website raids by himself (or with the Chosen One), thus never being stopped by anything, but he decided that wasn't enough and made a virus army to cause even more irreparable destruction across the Internet, thus making the Chosen One decide enough is enough.
  • Similarly, when the Second Coming and his friends challenge him, he could've easily killed them in a second, made the ViraBots do it, or just ignored them as they were harmless. But he decided to waste time toying with them before going all-out against the Second Coming, thus making the orange stick figure pissed off and near-death enough to unlock his Super Mode and destroy everything he had, seemingly including his life.
• Faux Affably Evil: He's incredibly chummy and friendly towards the Chosen One when presenting the ViraBot, but is very quick to decide his "friend" needs to go and spends pretty much the entire fight against the heroes as a silent monster focused only on achieving his goal and killing those who stand in his way.
• Flat Character: We don't get a lot about the Dark Lord besides "he's mad at the Animator for betraying him, is an Evil Genius and skilled fighter, and wants to kill as much as he can For the Evulz".
• Foil: To King Orange, who is his Contrasting Sequel Antagonist. Both had entire universes on their hit list (the world of Minecraft for King Orange; the entirety of the internet for the Dark Lord), but while King Orange was introduced as a villain, was revealed to have a sympathetic motive and eventually found redemption, the Dark Lord started out somewhat-good, became irredeemably corrupt, wanted to destroy the internet for the hell of it and found only his death (probably) at the Second Coming's hands at the end of it all. As a bonus, King Orange has trouble with killing while the Dark Lord very much does not.
• For the Evulz: Seems to be his only real motive.
• Genius Bruiser: One of the smartest and strongest characters at the same time.
• Good Counterpart: All the irony, he was originally this to the Chosen One. It didn't last for long.
• Gone Horribly Right: He was deliberately designed to have powers that could rival the Chosen One's. Sure enough, he became exactly that, but that became a major issue when their roles switched and it's the Dark Lord who needed to be stopped.
• Hated by All: With the ViraBots being mindless beasts rather than sentient beings that can actually show affection towards their master, there seems to be not a single program in the Internet that has anything nice to say about the Dark Lord, with everyone he meets being focused on stopping his plans.
• The Heavy: He pretty much carries all of III the second he's introduced, being as strong as the Chosen One and sending the desktop icons after him.
• Hero Antagonist: Although he is an antagonist in Animator vs. Animation III, he genuinely just wants to protect the computer and kill the threat destroying it. It doesn't last.
• Hero Killer: Kills the Fighting Stick Figures during V, and comes pretty damn close to killing the Second Coming and the Chosen One. Unfortunately for him, it doesn't last long.
• Implacable Man: The Dark Lord is a massive tank, never slowing down and being very capable of putting himself in a dangerous fight against all odds, as shown when he managed to beat back both the Animator and the Chosen One before unleashing his ViraBots on them to defeat them. He also showed no restraint when he kills Red, Yellow, Green and Blue for trying to stop him, and later takes down the Second Coming, though this leads the latter to the Second Coming fighting and defeating him in retaliation. And, due to Alan still deciding his fate, he might have survived all this.
• Invincible Villain: As mentioned above, he is very capable of taking huge hits and not slowing down at the slightest. To be fair, he was purposefully designed to be overpowered. He was only able to be finally defeated when he was caught off guard by a superpowered Second Coming.
• Just Toying with Them: Isn't even remotely trying against the Stick Gang and makes that very clear.
• Karmic Death: After spending years as the most powerful person around who brought fear into others, it's only fitting that the Dark Lord himself meets his end at the hands of someone far stronger than he is, having to run for his life because nothing else would work.
• Kick the Dog: He literally kicks Red's dying body for no reason other than to seemingly provoke his friends into fighting.
• Knight of Cerebus: The majority of the villains have either redeemed themselves, acted in self-defense, or committed the nothing-special crime of attempted murder at best, with not much personality given to them. The Dark Lord, however, is the exact opposite of all the qualities mentioned and makes the entirety of Animator vs. Animation V much darker with his sole appearance, actions and goals. While the majority of the antagonists try to kill only our protagonists, the Dark Lord killed countless across the Internet and ultimately tried to infect and destroy computers around the entire planet, for no other reason than sick amusement. Not to mention that even if for a brief amount of time, the Dark Lord managed to kill all four of the Fighting Stick Figures, some of the series' main characters.
• Late-Arrival Spoiler: Just like with the Chosen One, his survival would have certainly be a huge spoiler if not for the fact that he appears in the thumbnails of the videos, fighting the stick he apparently befriended.
• Made of Iron: It's not that he won't stay down, the bastard seemingly doesn't even have it in him to even be affected by attacks, more or less shrugging off everything thrown at him. The one time he was as much as stunned was when the Second Coming's Super Mode delivered a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to him, and he still recovered fast enough for one last Oh, Crap! before being blasted to kingdom come. The last one seemingly put him down for good.
• The Man Behind the Man: He's the one who created the ViraBot.
• Meaningful Name: He certainly becomes one hell of a dark lord when he kills multiple internet characters and creates viruses to attack computers.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Teams up with the Chosen One once he notices how Alan is ignorant to the fact he's about to get killed.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The Dark Lord? Must be a really cool dude.
• Near-Villain Victory: In "The Showdown", he almost certainly would have succeeded in his goals if the Second Coming hadn't activated 11th-Hour Superpowers.
• No Kill like Overkill: Is defeated by Second Coming's laser eye blast which then takes him to a mountain, which explodes.
• Non-Indicative Name: For name like The Dark Lord, his colors are not very dark and he lacks any powers related to darkness, too. He also isn't the ruler of an evil empire and his home base is at an observatory, faraway from the city instead of a fortress in the center of it. He later lives up to his name by creating his own minions, the ViraBots, all with the plan to kill as much as he can, as well as using a wristband to gain dark powers.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: The Dark Lord has a very strict "kill on sight" policy towards anything that dares cross him. The Chosen One no longer agrees with his plans? He needs to die, no matter how much time they spend as friends, and if he can't be killed then he still needs to be too weak to stop the Dark Lord. The Animator has entered the Outernet with a cursor that's immune to his virus abilities, and TDL is losing the 2v1? Unleash a horde of ViraBots and hope that dozens of viruses are enough to bypass the cursor's Nigh-Invulnerability. Five Muggles stand in your way? Kill one of them to prove a point, and once they don't back down, kill them all one by one. One of them seems invulnerable to your powers? That means he is a threat, and thus you need to make sure he's too weak to fight back. Really, the Dark Lord only lost because of a gigantic Outside-Context Problem not a single soul knew anything about.
• Not Quite Flight: Similarly to the Chosen One, he shoots out fire from his hands to levitate in the air. This disappears when he puts on the Wristband of Power, as he gains actual flight.
• Obviously Evil: Turns himself into this at the climax of AvA V. A red stick figure with black wristbands that has dark, virus powers and controls an army of robotic spiders? Yeah, good luck convincing everyone you're a good guy. Thankfully for the Dark Lord, he's no King Orange and doesn't hide the fact he's a bastard.
• Oh, Crap!: He's The Faceless and mute like everyone else, but it's still not hard to guess what he was feeling when he saw the Second Coming power up his laser eyes. Curiously, this seems to have been retconned out, as both visions of the event in AvA VI (one in TCO's imagination, the other through searching his memories) feature the Second Coming powering up his laser eyes too fast for the Dark Lord to react before he's blasted away.
• Omnicidal Maniac: The first thing he does when getting into the internet? Go around to different websites and kill almost everything in sight, even going so far as to try and infect every single computer with the ViraBots.
• Outside-Context Problem: After spending their whole lives fighting entities that are their equals - or, if not equal, at least beatable - the Stick Gang is suddenly forced to fight what is more or less a Physical God whose so durable he doesn't even flinch from their punches, and so fast he can take them all on once without even remotely trying; and that's before he puts on the wristband that lets him erase their code with one stab, and without even mentioning they now have to protect the world itself instead of just their own lives. Justifiably enough, they're all losing their crap throughout "The Showdown", and the Dark Lord can only be taken down when faced with his own Outside-Context Problem: a superpowered and extremely pissed off Second Coming.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Destroyed entire cities by himself, as shown in flashbacks.
• Playing with Fire: Similarly to the Chosen One, he can use fire attacks. However, unlike his opponent, this seems to be the only thing he can do without his wristbands.
• Pragmatic Villainy: He made no efforts to hunt down the Chosen One when he went after the ViraBot, just using the time he has left to continue his plans, knowing he can't waste the opportunity he was given.
• Psychopathic Manchild: "The Flashback" had him act surprisingly happy and cheerful, with him presenting the ViraBot to the Chosen One looking like a little kid presenting their new toy to their parent. This element of his character was seemingly retconned out, with him being a more stoic No-Nonsense Nemesis in his next - and final - appearance.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: His wristbands in V have this color scheme, being able to produce black blades with red outlines on them. The Dark Lord being red himself enhances the evilness.
• Red Is Violent: Is red and is very aggressive, first to the Chosen One, and then to Alan. This also extends to the rest of the internet, as revealed in Animator vs. Animation V.
• Sadist: Though mostly dead-focused on killing his enemies, he is still eager to play around with those he deems too weak to try against; see his Curb-Stomp Battle against the Stick Gang, where he engages in a normal, if one-sided fist fight instead of just blowing them up.
• Satanic Archetype: A former minion of the godlike ruler of everything that rebelled against his creator, becoming an Omnicidal Maniac leading an army of chaotic and murderous creatures (that resemble spiders, which don't possess a good reputation) while possessing dark powers. Oh, and his name is literally "The Dark Lord".
• Screw Destiny: Was created to defeat the Chosen One, only to end up teaming up with him. When the Chosen One turns on him, they start fighting yet again. Even after beating him, he prioritizes the destruction of the internet instead of killing the Chosen One.
• Shadow Archetype: Fittingly enough, he is essentially who the Chosen One would've been if he lacked his Hidden Heart of Gold and never moved past the Animator's abuse.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: If one would treat the hollow-headed stick figures as a family. The Dark Lord might not have much in common with the Second Coming, but he's a lot closer to both his predecessors.
  • The Chosen One: Both are all-powerful beings made by the Animator that ran on For the Evulz and hatred for their creator, but while the Chosen One was simply chaotic and proved himself to have lines he won't cross, the Dark Lord had nothing holding him back.
  • victim: Both were mistreated by the Animator and became evil as a result, but while the Dark Lord is superpowered and ultimately targets countless innocents in his path of evil, victim is powerless and has his revenge focused on strictly the Animator and whoever else he needs to harm.
• The Sociopath: Has a complete Lack of Empathy and remorse towards any living thing besides himself, including his best and only friend of seven years, can appear rather cheerful when needed, a motive that can be summed down to "because who the hell can stop me", and is the single most cruel character in the entire series. For a computer program, the Dark Lord is surprisingly sociopathic.
• Spell My Name with a "The": His full name is The Dark Lord.
• Starter Villain: A more meta example. He's far from the first villain faced by any of the heroes, but he is the first one to be a genuine, arc-long threat instead of a simple Villain of the Week with no bigger goals beyond killing the Stick Gang. As a result, he is also a much more simple antagonist than his successors, King Orange and Victim, who both have their own reasons for what they're doing.
• Uncertain Doom: He seemingly dies at the end of AvA V, but given his Implacable Man status and Shrug of God, it's possible he survived. The one time the real-life Alan Becker said "[The Dark Lord] is supposed to be dead", he just laughed and didn't answer when asked if he really meant it.
• Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny: Subverted: The "King Orange vs. The Dark Lord" short seems to have been a non-canon video putting the series' two greatest villains in a death battle, but it's revealed at the end it was just Blue and Green playfighting with figurines of the two.
• Ungrateful Bastard: The Chosen One is the one reason why the Dark Lord hasn't died mere minutes after his creation, taking mercy on him. Guess how the Dark Lord rewards him a few years later, when they have an argument.
• Unscrupulous Hero: In Animator vs. Animation III, while he just wants to protect the computer, he is only slightly less destructive than the Chosen One. He stops being one altogether at the end of the episode.
• Vague Age: While the Stick Gang was stated to be 10-13 while King Orange is clearly an adult man who's old enough to have a child around that age, which would put him at youngest in his late 20's (and he's likely closer to 30s or even 40s), we have no idea what kind of age the Dark Lord - as well as the Chosen One - is supposed to be. He's clearly much more mature than the Stick Gang, but he also has a level of childishness that King Orange completely lacks, which could potentially make him a young adult (or in his later teens, as he's not much taller than the Stick Gang). He's technically speaking only 7 years old by the time of AvA V, him being made in 2011 and all, but that's clearly not his actual age.
• Viler New Villain: To everyone before him, being an Omnicidal Maniac who makes Animator vs. Animation V one of the darkest entries in the series.
• Villainous Breakdown:
  • He starts panicking when the original computer is exploding.
  • A minor one, but during AvA V, he gets more and more pissed off when the Second Coming still stays alive despite being stabbed, culminating in throwing him into the air and stabbing him multiple times.
• Villainous Friendship: Had one with the Chosen One. Keyword being "had", as the red stick figure ultimately become so demented even the Chosen One had to stop.
• Villainous Legacy: Years after his defeat and presumed demise, the Chosen One escaped to ALANSPC because he wanted the Second Coming's help to deal with the Mercenaries - not realizing he doesn't have access to his Super Mode and that was a one-time thing - because he saw the orange stick figure use it against the Dark Lord. With it causing a huge butterfly effect, the Dark Lord more or less caused the events of Animator vs. Animation VI.
• Villainous Valor: Ultimately subverted. Sure, he seems extremely brave when confronting the Chosen One or the Animator, but that's because he's confident in defeating them; when faced with a superpowered Second Coming, he loses all bravery and just makes a run for it, on top of past moments similar to this.
• Walking Spoiler: While his survival is a Late-Arrival Spoiler, his role in Animator vs. Animation V is so big explaining it essentially spoils the entire episode.
• We Used to Be Friends: He and the Chosen One were friends, until the former become too much of an Omnicidal Maniac for the Chosen One to keep letting him get away with his acts.
• Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Defied. Despite his sadism and For the Evulz motive, which would make you think he wants to see his victims suffer, if the Dark Lord decides he'll kill someone, it's going to happen. He quickly gets rid of the Fighting Stick Figures and the Animator's cursor, and only doesn't kill the Chosen One and the Second Coming because they're unkillable, at least for him.
• Why Won't You Die?: Despite lacking a face or a voice, you can tell the Second Coming pissed him off by not dying after being stabbed, and still having the will to fight.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: As soon as he's free from Alan's computer, he wreaks havoc across the internet with all of his powers.

ViraBots

ViraBot.exe

Debut: The Virus^note Later merged into Animator vs. Animation V

^{Click here to see the ViraBot Icon}

^{Click here to see the ViraBot's final form}

An army of malicious computer viruses created by the Dark Lord in his quest of Internet-wide destruction.

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• All Webbed Up: They can fire globs of webbing to immobilize their enemies, though only the first one does that.
• Always Chaotic Evil: In sharp contrast to the hostile mobs of Minecraft, that often go through Adaptational Nice Guy, the ViraBots are mindless creatures focused strictly on destroying everything in their path.
• Computer Virus: ViraBot.exe is an executive file program developed and mass produced by the Dark Lord in order to infect every computer and kill as many stick figures as he can.
• Conservation of Ninjutsu: Just one of them is enough to give the Chosen One a hard time, but an entire army gets wiped out in seconds when the Second Coming's powers awaken.
• Crippling Overspecialization: The primary threat they pose are its Touch of Death, deleting anything they bite or pierce with their blades. When they meet someone who can No-Sell said Touch of Death, they're left with little options to fight back.
• Digital Abomination: As expected of computer viruses: They are almost-mindless beasts of destruction that can travel computers, kill anything with a Touch of Death, and hijack entire computers to the point of creating a One-Winged Angel form out of pop-up windows.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: After just one ViraBot was proven to have extreme strength on pair with the Chosen One and took up 1/4th of AvA V, an entire army is anticlimactically decimated in a few seconds at the end of the episode, with the focus going to the Dark Lord.
• Fearless Fool: The only creatures who don't panic and try to save their lives upon seeing the Second Coming's Super Mode, charging at him with no hesitation when ordered to do so. It takes two moments of physical contact and less then ten seconds for all ViraBots to be wiped out.
• Feral Villain: Besides a few hints of sadism, they are mindless idiots who just seek to destroy anything that's not their creator.
• Flechette Storm: They can create blades and spikes that destroy anything they touch.
• Giant Spider: They look like a red spider and are this compared to the animations.
• Hijacked by Ganon: Seemingly an independent threat, they're revealed to be minions of the Dark Lord, a returning character.
• Implacable Man: Virtually nothing can stop them, not even the combined might of the Stick Gang and the Animator. The only one who stands a fighting chance is the Chosen One, and the only one guaranteed to win is the Second Coming in his Super Mode.
• Just Following Orders: They were made to cause destruction, ordered by the Dark Lord, and do what they were made for.
• Late-Arrival Spoiler: The existence of several ViraBots would be a massive spoiler if not for it being on at least two video thumbnails.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: The first ViraBot gives one to the Chosen One in V. It doesn't last for long.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: They try to cripple their enemies as quickly as possible. One also destroys the Second Coming's weapon as soon as it grabs it, and when it deletes the mouse icon of the Animator, it also moves quickly to destroy the start tab so he can't create another one like in Animator vs Animation IV.
• One-Winged Angel: The first ViraBot hijacks ALANSPC and uses broken windows to form a huge body in V.
• Right-Hand Attack Dog: They more or less serve as the Dark Lord's animalistic Co-Dragons.
• Touch of Death: While simply touching it doesn't do much, the ViraBot can actually delete stuff, usually by biting it or piercing it with its knives.
• Villainous Valor: In sharp contrast to their master, they are actually unafraid of anything, though it steers into Fearless Fool territory.

The Organization

In General

The Rocket Insignia

An unknown and mysterious organization that is based within the Outernet that deals with researching technologically based tools and equipment.

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• City with No Name: Building in this case. As of the episode "The Box", the company itself is left unnamed with only the logo of a rocket.
• Company Town: It's mildly implied the town seen in "The Box", with unusually-drawn stick figures, is in some way run or supported by the Organization.
• Early-Bird Cameo: The rocket logo makes a cameo appearance on a television frame in "The King" (when King Orange first saw the Stick Gang) and on a wanted poster of the Chosen One in "Cherry Blossoms" (where Purple walks by with a cherry blossom in the city) before the entity itself would be formally introduced in "Wanted".
• Evil, Inc.: The unassuming type: they seem to be a normal company that sells TVs and other stuff, but are actually experimenting with technology, making powerful weapons and being run by a very evil stick figure with a strong grudge.
• Research, Inc.: They seem to be mostly focused on inspecting various computer and animation tools, at least in private.

The Boss (Spoilers Unmarked!)

victim

Debut: Animator vs. Animation

The first stick figure the Animator has ever made, for the purpose of being toyed with. He was seemingly killed at the end of his debut appearance, but returns 17 years later as the leader of a mysterious organization with the intent of getting back at his creator.

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• all lowercase letters: His name is written in lowercase.
• Ax-Crazy: Implied to be a more composed case of this, with how he brutally tortures the Chosen One for sick amusement and the need to feel stronger.
• Badass Normal: Unlike his successors, victim manages to gain the upper hand against the Animator with only whatever he finds on the desktop instead of via superpowers. Emphasized in "The Box", where he can only match up with the Chosen One through artificially-acquired superpowers gained through his technology, while at the same time weakening the Chosen One's own innate superpowers with them.
• Big Bad: Of Animator vs. Animation VI, having hired the Mercenaries and orchestrated the Chosen One's capture with the intent of finding a way to get revenge on the Animator.
• The Bus Came Back: A seventeen year long bus trip, with only one stop for a brief cameo in vs. YouTube, that finally ends with Animator vs. Animation VI.
• Chair Reveal: Pulls this off by the end of "Wanted".
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Of the Chosen One, in an attempt to get information out of him and seemingly to make victim feel better.
• Combat Pragmatist: victim is this, much more so than his successors. To be fair, Alan created this iteration of the animation specifically for torture (aptly naming it "victim"). It's only natural for this little guy to come up with some dirty tricks to fight back. And when he starts to fight the Chosen One in "The Box", he relies on "Agent" manipulating the titular box to tilt things in his favor and using every advantage he's given to brutalize his foe before interrogating him.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: AvA VI starting mere months after Season 3 of the AvM Shorts finished, victim is setting up to be one to King Orange. Both are powerless stick figures that rely on technology and weapons to have a fighting chance against their opponents, and are on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge after being wronged by someone or something, possessing a Freudian Excuse for their horrible actions. But King Orange is a normal man from the Internet while victim is a Corrupt Corporate Executive made by the Animator, and while one is an Omnicidal Maniac, the other is a relatively local threat.
• Control Freak: Implied to be one, as while fighting the Chosen One he uses a lasso to keep himself in charge and his enemy at his mercy while doing anything to make sure his opponent is playing the defense. Given how victim was created to be helpless and a plaything, it's rather justified that he wants to feel in charge.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: The very much evil leader of a shady organization that seems to experiment on animation tools.
• Cut Lex Luthor a Check: With how successful his company is implied to be, victim has no reason to potentially risk it all by trying to get revenge on the Animator. And yet, he does.
• Dropped After the Pilot: victim was the first ever character, aside from the Animator, to appear in the series' first ever installment Animator vs. Animation [I]. His presence would set the precedent of a stick figure rebelling against their creator. And due to dying at the end, he's in no position to return. This gets subverted where he makes a return in AvA VI, with a much major role now as the Big Bad.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: In his debut appearance, his skin color first appeared as black. Later installments now has him colored as a dark gray stick figure. While the meta reason was to avoid confusion with the Chosen One, it's unknown if there's a lore reason for this change.
• Face–Heel Turn: He was a fairly neutral character in his debut appearance, simply acting in self-defense. His return sees him having become far more violent toward other stick figures, especially his direct successor, the Chosen One, as he seeks to enact some type of vengeance upon Alan, whom had a Heel–Face Turn of his own since we saw victim last.
• Freudian Excuse: An evil bastard who tortures the man for information and leads a shady company, but it's quite clear that he's only like this because of the Animator's treatment of him, and all he wants is revenge.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: victim started off as a simple stick figure meant to be tortured for amusement. Now he's the one overseeing the torture of other stick figures in turn.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Implied to be one for Season 3 of the AvM Shorts, as the TV that showed King Orange Animation vs. Minecraft had the logo of victim's organization on it.
• Hates Their Parent: The Animator is his creator and more-or-less father, and victim despises him.
• He Who Fights Monsters: He is rightfully angry at the Animator for creating him just to be tortured for amusement, but the fact he then starts torturing the Chosen One himself proves he's just as bad as his creator used to be.
• Hidden Villain: His existence was a big spoiler at the end of "Wanted", and although he plays a central role in later episodes, he never enters Late-Arrival Spoiler territory like the Dark Lord or King Orange.
• Iconic Attribute Adoption Moment: Right after his identity is confirmed with a Freeze-Frame Bonus, victim begins using his old weapons and tactics from Animator vs. Animation [I] in "The Box" to confirm that he's back.
• Identical Stranger: He has the exact same appearance as the Chosen One, but they are separate characters with different powers and personalities. This is subverted once victim returns, having turned gray.
• Improvised Weapon User: He uses both a paintbrush and an eraser to fight against the animator. Later, he uses a piece of string to lasso the cursor.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: It's implied victim is aware he's a Badass Normal in a "family" of superpowered beings and despises it. He seemingly created a box just so it could make him superpowered, and then proceeds to brutally torture a superpowered person inside that box, with his choice to use a lasso implying he's trying to feel like he's in control.
• Knows the Ropes: He took the Animator's string that tried to restrain him and turned it into a lasso to subdue the animator's cursor slowing down its movement.
• MacGyvering: He was able to create a bow and arrow by using several of the tools on Adobe Flash.
• Me's a Crowd: He managed to create duplicates of himself multiple times by pulling copies of himself out of the Flash file's library in order to take down the animator. He does it again in "The Box" to subdue The Chosen One.
• Monster Progenitor: The original hollow-headed stick figure.
• Mysterious Past: We know the first few minutes of his life and what he's doing now, but what he was doing in-between that is still a mystery.
• Non-Standard Character Design: He looks similar to how Alan draws his stick figures, but on closer inspection, his head is animated frame by frame. This detail was dropped in "The Box".
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: All of VI is one towards the Animator.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: If one would treat the hollow-headed stick figures as a family, then victim qualifies as one to basically everyone else.
  • The Chosen One: Both were made by the Animator with the purpose of being tormented and toyed with, but victim was meant to be unable to fight back while the Chosen One was made because the Animator was impressed by victim's performance and wanted a bigger challenge. As a result, one is a Badass Normal while the other is superpowered. And while they both hated the Animator, the Chosen One moves past that hatred while victim does not.
  • The Dark Lord: Both were mistreated by the Animator and became evil as a result, but while the Dark Lord is superpowered and ultimately targets countless innocents in his path of evil, victim is powerless and has his revenge focused on strictly the Animator and whoever else he needs to harm.
  • The Second Coming: Both are the Badass Normals of the family who had four allies which were killed by the Animator (victim's clones, TSC's friends) in battle; both are perfect at fist-fighting and using the environment around them for battle, and possess a "Super Mode" of sorts (though TSC's is genuine while victim needs the Box for it). But ultimately, TSC had befriended the Animator while victim hates the guy, and one won their battle while the other lost it.
• Shadow Archetype: Given their similiarites, victim is more or less what the Second Coming would've become if not for the Animator's last-minute change of heart, still trying to gain revenge years later.
• Unexplained Recovery: As of "The Box", with his identity confirmed, it is unclear how he survived being apparently deleted in the original short.
• Unknown Rival: Despises the Animator and wants nothing more than to get revenge on him. Alan doesn't even know this guy's alive.
• Villainous Underdog: Perfectly aware that he is gonna have a tough time fighting the Animator or trying to get information out of the Chosen One. He fixes this with the massive corporation and technology he has.
• Walking Spoiler: The fact victim is still alive is a gigantic spoiler that makes all of AvA VI impossible to talk about. And unlike TDL or King Orange, the fact he received a design change makes a Late-Arrival Spoiler unlikely.
• Weak, but Skilled: He's a very skilled fighter, but a powerless dude who has to fight against Physical Gods. Fortunately for him, he has a box that can fix that.
• You Are What You Hate: victim seeks to get revenge on his creator for torturing him for amusement with animation tools. victim himself ends up torturing a stick figure, seemingly because he can, with the help of a guy with animation tools.

The Mercenaries

The Mercenaries

Debut: Wanted

Clockwise from left: "Agent", "Primal", "Hazard", Ballista

A team of four stick figures of varying art styles and abilities who were hired to hunt down the Chosen One, and then tag along to their employer's plan.

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• The Ace: "Agent" is one of the strongest stick figures seen in the series, carrying an entire set of graphics tools as weapons as well as having innate fighting skills that rival the Chosen One, which is akin to fighting the animator in stick figure form.
• Antagonist Title: If the real life Alan Becker hearting a YouTube comment which says "Agent" VS TSC was essentially an Animator vs. Animation is any indication, "Agent" is meant to be the titular animator in Animator vs. Animation VI.
• Art-Style Clash: All of them are drawn in different styles, from cave paintings to pixel art to modern vector lines.
• Bad People Abuse Animals: None of them have issues with killing eels, sharks, rhinos, birds or snakes. Although it was in self-defense, as they were all created by TSC to fight them off, "Primal" still shows joy in getting to do it.
• Barbarian Hero: Well, Barbarian Villain, but "Primal" is the most beastlike of the group in terms of demeanor and style and prefers to use old-fashioned weapons as opposed to modern weaponry aside from the laser-firing hoverbikes their team uses.
• The Berserker: Ballista is very aggressive while fighting, and his body language makes it clear he's very impatient and pissed off 24/7, for whatever reason.
• BFS: Ballista briefly pulls out a sword that's completely longer than his height with the tip of the sword being as large as his head if not larger. Given how he can shapeshift, it's unknown if he had it in hammerspace or transformed his arm into a giant sword.
• Blood Knight: "Primal" is very happy about getting to fight a rhino.
• Bounty Hunter: With a bounty on the Chosen One's head, these guys are looking to collect.
• Catching Some Z's: When victim is fighting with The Chosen One, "Hazard" is seen generating three letter Z's above his head in a loop. Since he doesn't have a visible face, this implies he's feeling bored about the fight and fell asleep.
• Character Overlap: Ballista comes from the classic Stickman vs. Door animation◊, a work that was made by another creator, sharing a similar large pixel size and likewise using the various attacks he used against the door against his targets such as his machine gun head, finger guns, BFS and Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs.
• Contemporary Caveman: "Primal", 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 its mounted weapons without trouble.
• The Dragon: "Agent" is the leader of the mercenary team who seems to have direct contact with the Boss and controls the Box while he's inside it. If him having the exact same toolbar the Boss' workers have is any indication, he's not a Hired Gun, but an actual employee at the organization.
• Dragon-in-Chief: Downplayed, as the Boss is an active and dangerous threat, but it's seen that "Agent" is much stronger than he is. The Boss is seemingly unwilling to fight outside of the Box, where it's all rigged in his favor, while "Agent" battles - and easily defeats - people outside of it.
• Enigmatic Minion: All of them. We know nothing about their backstories or motives; by all means, they're more mysterious than their boss.
• Establishing Character Moment: "Agent" is first seen as the most competent member of the mercenary team, making his way through the Chosen One's attacks, but still losing when his enemy goes all out. This establishes that, while he is a very dangerous threat, he's Not So Stoic and undefeatable. In a way, it actually mirrors the Chosen One's own Establishing Character Moment.
• Expy: "Agent" in particular seems to be heavily inspired by Agent Smith, with his design reminiscent of the character as well as his rivalry with this series' Chosen One. This did not go unnoticed by DJ during the reaction video on the AVG channel, who outright calls the guy Agent Smith.
• Evil Counterpart: "Agent" seems to be one towards Alan, both being incredibly strong characters who use animation-tools to fight the stick figures. Tellingly, "Agent" toys with the Second Coming and the Chosen One the same way pre-redemption Alan did to his creations.
• Evil Is Bigger: While they fall victim to Your Size May Vary like everyone else, "Agent" and "Primal" are consistently far taller than everyone else, the latter in particular being the tallest stick figure seen so far. Zig-zagged with "Hazard", who is one head taller than TSC in one shot but the same height as the Boss in another (when they both should be the same height via both being the same height as the Chosen One), and fully averted with Ballista.
• Hammerspace: Ballista can pull out two guns and a BFS out of nowhere. Similarly, "Primal" can pull out a spear, bow and unlimited amount of arrows from nowhere, too.
• Hulking Out: "Primal" seems to have the ability to put on even more muscle when enraged to overwhelm his foes, suiting his primitive art style.
• Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Dear god, these guys can't aim for shit. TSC manages to avoid all their gunfire by running around in a circle.
• Knows the Ropes: One of "Agent"'s tools from his wrist gadget contains a cyan-colored lasso which he uses to grab people or objects at a distance such as when he lassoed TSC's leg.
• The Leader: "Agent" is the leader of the group and is usually the one to give the orders when victim isn't present.
• Limited Animation: "Hazard"'s movement deviates completely from other characters. He rarely uses inbetweens in his animations and the majority of his movements are rather stiff.
• Line Boil: "Primal"'s body is animated this way with his body wobbling constantly even he's standing completely still.
• The Men in Black: "Agent" gives off the vibes, being a black stick figure with a white head that wears sunglasses.
• Multishot: When "Primal" uses a bow, he typically shoots three arrows at his opponents all at once, which is what leads to TSC drawing a rhino to protect him from the arrows.
• Mysterious Past: We don't know anything about them, including their backstories.
• The Napoleon: Ballista is the shortest stick figure so far, around a head-or-so shorter than even the Stick Gang (much less the other mercenaries), and has a body language that makes it clear he's rather angry pretty much all the time.
• No Name Given: Aside from Ballista, who was named by his original creator, none of them currently have an official name, which was purposefully done so fans could make their nicknames. "Agent", "Primal" and "Hazard" are simple nicknames we use so we could call them something.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: Zig-zagged with "Agent", who goes from toying with TCO and TSC to effortlessly thrashing the Fighting Stick Figures in seconds. It might be because the former could put up an actual fight, so "Agent" thought it'd be fun to toy with them a bit, though this is unconfirmed.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Each of them have wildly different designs that make them stand out from each other or any other stick figures that exist within the series.
• Not So Above It All: "Agent" is mostly a serious No-Nonsense Nemesis, but he still takes time to sarcastically pet the Chosen One after pausing him.
• Older Than They Look: Ballista is the shortest stick figure seen so far, so you'd expect him to be on the younger side. Nope. As the "Stickman VS Door" animation came out in late 2003, Ballista is the oldest stick figure in the series (with a confirmed date of creation), predating even victim by three years.
• One-Winged Angel: "Primal" can turn into a muscular, much stronger being at the cost of being reduced into animalistic instinct.
• Only Sane Man: "Hazard". While Ballista is a constantly angry Psycho for Hire, "Primal" takes great joy in hunting and killing animals and "Agent" toys with TCO and TSC despite having the power to defeat them in seconds, "Hazard" is simply focused on doing the task at hand and isn't shown to be taking joy in it or toying with the heroes.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Ballista is one of the shortest charaters in the series and capable of kicking major ass.
• Psycho for Hire: Ballista's Slasher Smile and "Primal"'s excitement to kill a rhino make it clear they love their jobs. On a much smaller note, "Agent" also likes to toy with his victims.
• Quirky Miniboss Squad: The Mercenaries work together to capture the Chosen One and eliminate the Second Coming, with each of these strange stick men having their own unique style of animation and combat.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: "Agent" is the strongest of the four and thus the Boss' right hand man, thus leaving the other three as just high-ranked underlings.
• Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: Since he has Super-Speed, Ballista is able to rapidly punch against a shark that Second Coming sicced on him, sending it flying.
• Shock and Awe: "Hazard" summons the electricity hazard symbol to kill a bird that the Second Coming drew to distract him.
• Sinister Shades: "Agent" wears a pair of shades and his role as the leader of his mercenary team and their association with a mysterious organization implies he is quite ruthless.
• Specs of Awesome: "Agent" is the only stick figure in the entire series to wear sunglasses and has proven to be a formidable adversary against both the Chosen One and the Second Coming.
• The Spook: We don't know anything about any of them: what their motives are, what's their backstory, why are they working with victim to begin with, etc.
• Super-Speed: Ballista has the ability to propel himself much faster than his comrades when "Agent" commands him to use it which allows him to have much closer range to shoot The Second Coming making him the first opponent to face TSC's allied drawn animals.
• Super-Strength: "Primal" is able lift up a rhino that the Second Coming drew to keep him at bay when in his One-Winged Angel form.
• Super Wrist-Gadget: "Agent" has a pair of toolbars attached to his arms that he can use to deploy various weaponized graphics tools from.
• Telescoping Staff: One of "Agent"'s tools from his wrist gadget contains a line tool, a rod that he can use to extend the length or size of the rod such as when he expanded it to 120px to try and bash The Second Coming.
• Weapon-Based Characterization: "Primal" uses a bow with arrows and a spear rather than using high-tech guns showcasing his characterization as a primitive fighter.
• The Worf Effect: They're easily able to overpower the Chosen One to the point where his best chance of survival is by running away.
• Your Size May Vary: While the order of tallest to shortest is consistent ("Primal" -> "Agent" -> "Hazard" -> Ballista), the actual height differences between the four change often.

Animation vs. Minecraft / AvM Shorts

Herobrine

Herobrine

Debut: Animation vs. Minecraft

The antagonist of Animation vs. Minecraft, who took control of Red's body in order to steal the Game Icon for himself. He returns years later as the teacher of the Monster School, with a massive change in character.

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• Adaptational Badass: In the original Herobrine creepypasta, all he could do was teleport, make builds, and hack into message boards to remove threads. Meanwhile, the Willcraft Herobrine - while powerful - hasn't shown many impressive feats. This Herobrine is, by all means, far stronger than both of them combined and possibly one of the strongest iterations of the character to date.
• Adaptational Villainy: Started off as this, being explicitly malicious compared to the Ambiguously Evil original Herobrine and the more Punch-Clock Villain Willcraft Herobrine. He eventually evolves to be more like the latter.
• Adaptation Amalgamation: This Herobrine has elements of both the original creepypasta, The Herobrine Mod, and the 2012 Monster School series of videos.
• Affably Evil: A hostile entity that trains weaker hostile entities into being perfect Elite Mooks, but he's actually a rather chill guy as long as you don't piss him off. Really, he's only evil because he trains hostile mobs, and besides that is more of a neutral entity doing his own thing.
• Arch-Enemy: Subverted! Despite Herobrine possessing Red and trying to murder his friends in Animation vs. Minecraft, when they meet again several years later, Red doesn't seem to even care (despite seemingly recognizing and being unnerved by Herobrine), while Herobrine himself completely forgot. Several episodes later, the two team up to fight King Orange, Red lets Herobrine possess him for a second time, and they part ways with no hard feelings, the "Rainstorm" Actual Short proving he even attends the Monster School from time to time.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Builds a giant obsidian mecha during vs. Minecraft, and makes a second one while fighting King Orange.
• Awakening the Sleeping Giant: An entity with godlike strength that spends his time as a high school teacher that doesn't actively antagonize anyone. King Orange made the grand mistake of getting on his bad side, and as a result received a serious asskicking that only stopped when he got a last-second Diabolus ex Machina that just happened to have a way to kill Herobrine.
• Back for the Finale: After seemingly returning for one episode, Herobrine appears out of nowhere in the Season 3 finale to rescue his students.
• Back from the Dead: He was killed when the Game Icon was thrown to the Recycling Bin, but somehow resurrected off-screen. After being killed again by King Orange, the Second Coming resurrects him by managing to undo the Game Icon's damage.
• Badass Teacher: Herobrine might have mellowed out into a neutral entity who just prefers to do his own thing, but he is still an extremely powerful mob who will not hesitate to unleash his power to protect his students. King Orange learns this the hard way.
• Berserk Button: Do not threaten his students in any way. King Orange did, and received the hardest battle of his life.
• Beware the Silly Ones: He's a rather comedic character post-return, but don't take that as a sign he's weak: He is very much not.
• Big Bad: Of Animation vs. Minecraft through taking control of Red's body and forcing the other stick figures on a quest to defeat him.
• The Bus Came Back: Reappears in "Monster School". Word of God even confirms that this is the same one. However...
• Characterization Marches On: Herobrine apparently had massive Character Development and worked on himself completely off-screen: After originally being a Generic Doomsday Villain who just wants the Game Icon's power for no explicable reason, "Monster School" portrays him into a neutral, comedic entity who, instead of having an Evil Plan, spends his time teaching mobs how to be efficient player-killers, and doesn't need a Game Icon to kick serious ass. In fact the combination of this and his Unexplained Recovery made fans think that this was a second, completely seperate Herobrine.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Funnily enough, Season 3 makes him a rather goofy individual whose poor animations seem to be done on purpose, as he's perfectly able to move and teleport in normal means; additionally, he also has some weird rules when it comes to grading, giving Red an F even when he's being sabotaged in front of Herobrine's eyes. He's also quick to adopt new students after barely meeting them, and even when fighting a fellow Reality Warper, he dodges his attacks by more or less dancing.
• Combat Pragmatist: Herobrine will not play fair against his opponents, whether it's creating a giant mecha and stomping the Stick Gang into the ground, or surrounding King Orange with armies of clones, taking him off-guard or getting an innocent involved as his vessel to avoid absorption.
• Defiant to the End: After realising there's no way to escape being absorbed into the staff, Herobrine turns around to King Orange and gives him one last Death Glare.
• Demonic Possession: He took control of Red's body when he got ahold of the Master Block.
• Denser and Wackier: Upon his return, he is a more comedic character who has goofy movement and is a high school teacher. He still knows when to get serious, though.
• Evil Vs Oblivion: Herobrine is the Evil - teaching young mobs into being perfect murderers in their future lives - to King Orange's Oblivion, trying to end all of Minecraft and all.
• Face Death with Despair: In the original AvM, he panicks when slowly dying, until finally dropping dead and turning into smoke. He also panics when King Orange absorbs him, showing his fear of death hasn't quite disappeared, though he goes out in a more dignified way.
• Have We Met?: In "Monster School" he notices that Red looks familiar, but dismisses the thought and forces him to attend his class.
• Inexplicably Awesome: How is he a godlike entity that can clone en masse, fly, teleport himself and others, resurrect mobs, control blocks and effortlessly dodge any attack despite the original AvM implying he needed the Game Icon to be a real threat? We don't get an answer, just roll with it.
• Invisibility: Implied. When Red was about to take the Game Icon from Yellow, he suddenly stops and immediately becomes hostile to his friends. It's revealed that Herobrine was possessing Red the entire time and changing his behavior. Herobrine has never appeared anywhere when Red turned aggressive, suggesting that he was invisible the entire time when the stick figures were playing with the Game Icon.
• Lightning Bruiser: The fastest character we've seen so far and one of the strongest, destroying bedrock with a simple kick.
• Nonchalant Dodge: A Freeze-Frame Bonus "The King" shows that, according to the titular king's book, Herobrine can dodge any attack. Later in the episode, he battles King Orange and we see this statement is completely correct, Herobrine effortlessly dodging the king's attacks. However, because the Game Icon's game object absorption ability isn't a standard attack, it's the one thing that can get him.
• Non-Giving-Up School Guy: 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 Orange.
• Oh, Crap!: A subtle one when he takes a step back and realizes that King Orange has figured out how to assimilate Minecraft entities into his staff. Afterwards, Herobrine notably stops engaging him directly, only sending his Steve clones after him, keeping his distance, and entering Red's body as a last-ditch effort to protect himself.
• Starter Villain: He is the first antagonist of the Animation vs. Minecraft series, and in a more meta sense the whole "post-Animator era" where the Stick Gang becomes the heroes and the Animator is Demoted to Extra.
• Stylistic Suck: 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. Word of God states that this is done as a reference to the original series, which had lackluster animation due to being made in the early 2010s.
• Teleportation: Of himself and others. To show how incredibly fast he is, he doesn't even have to use it during his fight against King Orange, except for when he teleports Endie and Spider to safety.
• Took a Level in Badass: Herobrine apparently hit the gym off-screen, going from a simple possessor who needs the Game Icon to achieve anything, to the strongest entity in the whole game who can kick major ass by himself.
• Tranquil Fury: The seconds-long stare he gives towards what's happening below him after Skellington explains the situation, 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 Combined Icon, all but spell out he's severely pissed off that his students are in lethal amounts of danger.
• Urban Legend of Zelda: In-Universe: After all, he is one of the most famous examples in video game history. In "The King", he can be seen as part of a Minecraft Mysteries book.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Possesses Red in Animation vs. Minecraft as its main antagonist and dies at the end of the video, never to be mentioned again. Until Monster School...
• World's Strongest Man: As King Orange is an outsider who merely borrowed its power, Herobrine is the single strongest entity in all of Minecraft, no contest. He's also up there in the wider Beckerverse.

Purple

Purple

Debut: The Nether

A purple stick figure that was first seen on an Apple computer and is a recurring antagonist throughout the Minecraft spin-off. Starting out as the king of the Apple computer, he eventually becomes a rogue threat before teaming up with King Orange. Known for his selfishness, Purple has befriended and then betrayed the Stick Gang several times, causing a rocky relationship with Green.

Purple's status as an on-and-off enemy comes to an end in Season 3 of the AvM Shorts, where he reveals his backstory as an abused child trying to gain the approval of his distant father, who abandoned his son for not living up to his standards. He is quickly convinced by Green to team up against King Orange, with Purple making it clear it's a permanent redemption.

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• 0% Approval Rating: By the end of "The End", Blue and Green are disgusted by him for his betrayal, and his own villagers revolt against him for putting their village in danger.
• Abusive Parents: His father trained him in a misguided attempt to make him a powerful fighter, but it's quite clear he eventually devolved into this, pushing Purple too hard and causing a rift in his relationship with his wife before finally leaving. To make things worse, his mother's death made Purple think he was the problem and not his father, trying to fix his "mistake" by doing something that would make his father love him again.
• Affably Evil: Zigzagged. When he's not directly fighting you, he's actually a rather Nice Guy who's willing to help out. When he is, he tends to be rather cold and sometimes even fake.
• All for Nothing: Seems to indicate he feels this way after following King Orange, only to be betrayed when he had served his purpose.
• Always Someone Better: Purple couldn't reach his father's standards of what a "good fighter" should be, but that doesn't mean he is helpless in a fight. He manages to take down the Second Coming and Red in a fight at once, all while not even being focused on defeating them, but stealing the Minecraft Game Icon.
• Ambiguous Situation:
  • After Episode 29, it's unknown if Purple actually cared for his Villagers or simply saved them so he won't lose the kingdom that could've given him Dark Blue's approval.
  • Similarly to King Orange, it's unknown what the black void he was trapped in post-death was supposed to be.
• Anti-Villain: Of the Woobie variety. Really, he's just a kid suffering from large self-esteem issues thanks to his father's abuse and abandonment, believing it's his own fault for not meeting Dark Blue's high expectations and trying to "fix" that by putting himself in positions of power, whether it be being a king, having a prized artifact or getting the Game Icon. It got even worse after meeting King Orange, where he's tricked into helping an Omnicidal Maniac out of desperation to make Dark Blue proud. As a result, he throws away every chance to befriend people who'll accept him for who he already is, and he would've ended up alone and hating himself if not for Green being willing to give him a third chance.
• Arch-Enemy: Used to have this relationship with Green, which was best showcased in Season 3 of the AvM Shorts, where Green's character arc revolves around tracking down Purple after he once again betrays the Stick Gang, at first being simply enraged at him, but eventually calming down and just trying to find out why is he doing all this. Upon learning of Purple's Dark and Troubled Past, he forgives him and gives him another chance, resulting in Purple finally stopping the Heel–Face Revolving Door by choosing to stay on the good side.
• The Atoner: Is very ready to call himself a good guy after his final redemption, despite Green making it clear he's neither good or evil, but himself.
• Attention Whore: Wasn't willing to share his kingdom's attention with anyone for any reason. His whole motive is a very sympathetic case of this, trying to gain his dad's attention after he abandoned him.
• Back from the Dead: Briefly killed in the Season 3 finale by King Orange's black hole beam. He's resurrected soon afterwards by the Second Coming undoing the Game Icon's effects.
• Badass Normal: As always with stick figures, he is an expert martial artist despite being a powerless dude.
• Bad Liar: Downplayed; while Purple can be rather good at pretending, he seems to struggle with it when he's caught off-guard. After spending half the episode playing the act of a Nice Guy in "Parkour", where he has everything planned out, he's suddenly very nervous when Green ambushes him later in the episode. A similar thing happens in "The Ultimate Weapon", where he's incredibly bad at acting innocent towards TSC and Red.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: The reason why he accepts Green's final offer at redemption: after both Dark Blue and King Orange left him behind for their own reasons, and the Villagers overthrew him for rather justified reasons, Green is the one person who keeps trying to be his friend, and assures him the other Stick Gang members are willing to forgive him too.
• Being Evil Sucks: Realises this in "Note Block Universe", where years of backstabbing all his friends resulted in him having no one to help him once he's the one backstabbed, on top of crossing numerous lines that made him, in his own eyes, Beyond Redemption. Green disagrees.
• Best Friend: He and Green become this once Purple has his final redemption.
• Beyond Redemption: It's implied Yellow sees him as this in "The Ultimate Weapon", when he stops Green from chasing after him. In "Note Block Universe", it's proven Purple himself thinks of himself as this. Thankfully, both are proven wrong.
• Big Bad: He is the primary opponent in Animation vs. League of Legends.
• Big Bad Wannabe:
  • Genuinely believed he and King Orange could become equals who would share the power of the Minecraft Game Icon Staff. Once King Orange gets what he wants, he quickly proves how mistaken Purple was.
  • Purple's whole character could qualify as a case of this as he constantly tried to make himself look better then he actually was, from being the highly-praised ruler of a kingdom (that was actually a small village and he ran a prison system that enforced his worship), to owning the Dragon Egg that you can only get by defeating the Ender Dragon (his "friends" did everything for him and he ultimately backstabbed them to gain it), to having the power of God Mode alongside his equal (he was firmly said equal's lap dog and did everything for him, and was ultimately thrown out when no longer needed). Knowing his backstory explains a lot about this attitude, as he's purposefully trying to look strong so he could gain Dark Blue's attention when/if they reunite.
• Big Damn Heroes: At the end of "Note Block Universe", Purple surprise-attacks King Orange, knocking the staff out of his hands. In the following episode, he uses the staff to save the Stick Gang from King Orange's minions and tries to undo the black hole, though that fails.
• Big "SHUT UP!": He doesn't actually say it, everyone being mute and all, but it's clearly what he was trying to convey when singing a giant angry face towards Green.
• Blaming the Victim: Was implied to have been doing this to himself. After Pink dies, Purple starts trying to gain the approval of Dark Blue by doing something that would live up to his standards, implying he thinks it's his own fault that his father left the family after not being impressed by Purple's fighting skills.
• Blind Obedience: Implicitly due to King Orange reminding him of his father, Purple has Undying Loyalty towards the king. He briefly hesitates after he's betrayed, but quickly chooses to keep serving his master... only to be betrayed again, which makes him realise the truth.
• Body Horror: Falls victim to this during his Last Stand in the Season 3 finale. Once King Orange has his Heel Realisation, the staff's beam has erased numerous parts of Purple's body, including the top left half of his head.
• Broken Pedestal:
  • King Orange was the one person he was actually loyal to, only to be betrayed two times in the span of five minutes, leading a depressed Purple to quickly leave the Nether. He is then convinced by Green to fight the king, which he does. After King Orange's redemption, the pedestal is more than repaired.
  • A positive example happens with his father, Dark Blue. After spending years trying to earn his approval, Purple eventually realises his father was a selfish bastard not worth his time, and that he should accept the people who love him for who he already is, rather then some imagined, perfect version of him.
• Cerebus Retcon: The reveal of Purple's backstory in Season 3 makes all his past acts in an extremely depressing light: Instead of a rather generic side villain who does the nothing-special act of fighting the heroes, he is a depressed and insecure child who's selfish actions - such as stealing the Dragon Egg or being an egotistical king - are instead him desperately clinging to things that, in his eyes, will make his dad love him.
• Cheerful Child: Whenever he's not actively antagonizing the heroes, it turns out Purple is super friendly, nice, desperate to impress people and generally what you'd expect from the age group he's implied to be. It's eerily similar to how Gold acted before he died, which caused King Orange to subconciously see him as a surrogate son.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Betrayed the Stick Gang a whopping three times before they finally managed to settle which side he'll stay on: The good one.
• Colorful Theme Naming: Like the Fighting Stick Figures, he's named after his own color.
• Combat Pragmatist: In Animation vs. League of Legends, he generates clone files of himself in the game's folder. He also attacks the game program itself to cause glitches, allowing his clones to phase through the other sticks' attacks, and when Second Coming deletes his clones, he eats the files on the game's champions to empower himself.
• Cool Crown: Wears a golden crown to signify his status as king on the Mac. The flashback opener in "The King" reveals he gave it to King Orange sometime between the events of Seasons 1 and 3. By the end of the episode, it's been passed on to Red's pig.
• Crapsaccharine World: His kingdom is this; sure, it looks nice with Purple as a benelovent monarch who gives away things to his subjects, but he seemingly imprisons anyone who tries to steal the attention from him, and the kingdom more or less depends on him due to him getting all the resources.
• Dark and Troubled Past: An abusive father who eventually left him behind with major Daddy Issues and a dead mother.
• Defiant to the End: As King Orange's beam starts evaporating him from existence, Purple still keeps trying to move forward and reach the king.
• Demoted to Dragon: After being the king of a village, Season 3 makes him the right hand of a new, orange stick figure that dwarfs him.
• Despair Event Horizon: Crosses it in "The Ultimate Weapon" once King Orange betrays him, fleeing the Nether to a random desert in the Note Block Universe, trying to isolate himself from everyone else. Green manages to break him out of it.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: After most of the Stick Gang and several hostile mobs fail to keep King Orange from combining the two Game Icons and using their combined power to make a new black hole, Purple flies in and knocks him aside, taking the staff.
• Disappeared Dad: His father Dark Blue eventually abandoned his wife and son after enough arguments. Purple didn't take it well.
• Disc-One Final Boss: You'd think he'd be Season 1's Arc Villain, but he's ultimately a three-episode (technically two-episode due to having less then ten seconds of screentime in "The Nether") bad guy, with the last four episodes being instead focused on one-off antagonists.
• The Dragon: To King Orange, in an attempt to achieve his true goal. He quickly finds out his master finds him extendable.
• Dragon with an Agenda: He doesn't care about King Orange's Omnicidal Maniac intentions, only viewing them as a way of achieving his true goal: doing something that would prove to Dark Blue he's a strong warrior.
• Easily Forgiven:
  • After he left Blue and Green to die and put his village in danger, once the others beat him in a game of League of Legends, they willingly invite him to join for round two, putting him and the Fighting Stick Figures against Second Coming this time.
  • This happens again when Green finds him in the Note Block Universe, after he reveals his backstory and why he did what he did. Mind you, this is after Purple actively helped an Omnicidal Maniac. In general, the very fact the Stick Gang keeps forgiving him after numerous betrayals is frankly surprising.
• Empowered Badass Normal: Briefly gains superpowers after eating the Champion Data in vs. League of Legends. He loses them off-screen.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Purple loved his mother and still does after her death. Without her positive influence, he quickly fell to his insecurities about being abandoned by his father, and began to fight for his love.
• Evil Is Petty: Purple's acts throughout vs. League of Legends imply he wasn't even trying to kill the Stick Gang; he thought beating them in a game of LoL would be enough vengeance. Credit where it's due, it would've likely worked.
• Family of Choice: Ultimately accepts King Orange as a surrogate father and replacement for Dark Blue, though he doesn't forget his late mom Pink.
• The Farmer and the Viper: The Farmer to King Orange's Viper, the latter betraying the former the second he gets his hands on the Game Icon, which he only got thanks to Purple. Thankfully, they manage to forgive each other and become a Family of Choice.
• Fatal Flaw: Purple's biggest flaw turns out to be his "Well Done, Son" Guy attitude. As his Dark Blue was the only family he had left, Purple resorted to extreme measures to get his father's attention, but in the process he drove away people who were willing to accept Purple for who he is, like the villagers he used to rule over and the Stick Gang. He finally realises this in Episode 29 and breaks down, but Green convinces him there's always room for a change of heart.
• Faux Affably Evil: Zigzagged between this and Affably Evil. While he can be rather chummy and friendly to people, he's just as likely to face kindness to achieve his true goals: see him trying to convince TSC and Red he's still on friendly terms with them in "The Ultimate Weapon".
• Flower Motifs: Though mostly as an extension of his mother's own flower motif: starting with "Note Block Universe", Purple has become associated with the pink cherry blossoms.
• Foil: Purple and the villagers living on the Mac serve as a contrast to Stick Gang on the PC. Whereas the PC stick figures all live as equals and are mortified when they accidentally bring great harm to one another, Purple rules over the villagers and will let others come to harm if the alternative is letting a prize get away.
• Freudian Excuse: The reason why he's a backstabbing opportunist is that his father first abused him before leaving him, leaving Purple with major daddy issues and a desire to impress him, believing it's his fault his father left.
• Friendless Background: Implied, given how his mom's death left him with no one but an absent father. It would also justify his desire to have friends.
• Friend-or-Idol Decision: When Blue and Green are in danger of falling into the abyss, Purple has to choose between saving them or getting the dragon egg. He chooses the egg.
• The Good King: He seems to be a good ruler since the villagers love him enough to build a statue of him.
• Green-Eyed Monster: When the villagers started ignoring him in favor of trading with Blue and Green, he has them jailed.
• Hates Being Alone: He's evil because he doesn't want to be alone following his mom's death, trying to do something that would convince his dad to be with him again. He gets his wish after redemption, having both a surrogate dad and five new friends.
• The Heavy: Purple is the character who introduced story arcs into the AvM Shorts and his encounter with Green and Blue is when Season 1 gained an actual plot instead of being just random adventures with close-to-no real continuity.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: First appears as an antagonistic and villainous character, imprisoning Green and Blue simply because the villagers dealed with them, and not him. Then, he redeems himself by being friends with Green and Blue. Then, he abandons them to die so he can get the dragon egg. Then, he saves the village by giving the Ender Dragon the egg. Later, he comes back to get revenge on the main cast after being overthrown by his former subjects, only to befriend them once again. He later shows up to lead the stick gang into a world of parkour, seemingly just trying to let them have fun, only to be revealed that he was manipulating them to be trapped in an endless loop. After that he's betrayed by King Orange (twice), which makes him run into a portal to the Note Block Universe, where Green convinces him to make a third and final Heel–Face Turn to defeat King Orange, Purple making it clear he will never be a villain again.
• Hero Killer: He makes Red's pig vanish into nothingness upon getting the Game Icon. Fortunately, it turns out that the pig was merely absorbed into the block along with other mobs, allowing it to come back after the Second Coming undoes the damage.
• Hidden Depths: His debut arc ended with abandoning the dragon egg he stole to save his village and its inhabitants from being razed by the Ender Dragon, showing that beyond his selfish and manipulative nature there is a shred of desire to do good deep inside him, foreshadowing his desire to be accepted and his ultimate redemption way down the road.
• Humiliation Conga: Poor Purple has it bad with every appearance. After first pathetically trying to gain his people's love and attention, he is ultimately overthrown once he accidentally brings destruction to his kingdom; returning to get revenge on the Stick Gang, he tries to cheat his way through League of Legends, but that plan fails when the Second Coming defeats him. He then joins an Omnicidal Maniac in his plans, only to be betrayed and then betrayed again when he remains loyal, forcing him to flee the Nether. Thankfully for him, this stops following his final redemption.
• I Am a Monster: After finally explaining to Green why he's been betraying the main cast, he admits that he believes himself to be evil.
• Iconic Item: He is the only character in the series seen to wear elytra; he first takes one from the End Ship in "The End", and is shown to still have it when he reappears in Season 3. He finally ditches it in "The Ultimate Weapon" after the Fighting Stick Figures snare it with their fishing rods, and Green pockets it before pursuing him when he flees the fight, later using it to catch up to Purple. Green gives it back preceding Purple's Heel–Face Turn. Purple then loses it during his final charge to stop King Orange, though the Actual Short "Cherry Blossoms" shows he got it back (or got a new pair).
• Implausible Deniability: Even after King Orange smacks him into a building, Purple still maintains his loyalty to the king, even if he briefly had doubts. He accepts the truth the second time it happens.
• Ignored Epiphany: As seen in the In Real Time edition of Season 3, he had a small breakdown upon King Orange's first betrayal in "The Ultimate Weapon". He gets over it, continues working for the king, and finally accepts he's deemed worthless once King Orange refuses to help him against Red, Yellow, Green and Blue.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: On top of seeking his dad's approval, Purple also wants people he can call his friends, which is proven by his desire to have his people's attention, or how he quickly approves the Second Coming's offer in vs. LoL. He gets his wish in the Season 3 finale.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: The ultimate driving motivation behind all of Purple's deeds is causing something that would make Dark Blue come back and be his father again.
• Inexplicably Identical Individuals: For unknown reasons, he looks exactly like the Fighting Stick Figures, despite not coming from the same animation. It's later explained that every Internet-born stick figure looks like this, explaining this.
• It's All About Me: He's really full of himself, considering he prefers glory over becoming the main cast's friend. "Note Block Universe" later shows all of that stems from his father deeming him weak when Purple couldn't be the strong fighter his father wanted. He moves past this in the Season 3 finale.
• It's Personal with the Dragon: The dragon in question. The Stick Gang obviously sees King Orange as a massive threat that needs to be stopped, but they - or, at the bare minimum, Green - carry a bigger grudge against Purple for having broken their trust yet again. In the season finale, they are actually less willing to forgive Purple than King Orange, with them needing Red's pig to be convinced he can be trusted.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Zig-zagged, but ultimately confirmed to be the case. At first he jails Blue and Green after his villagers started ignoring him in favor of Blue and Green. But then once he learns they helped the villagers get enough materials to build a statue of him, he promotes them to kings as well and shows them the portal to End. Seemingly subverted as when Blue and Green end up in danger of falling into the abyss, he prefers to steal an egg. Then later double subverted when it turns out that he sacrifices the egg just to save his village. Season 3 hammers it down that, behind all the betrayal, Purple is a kind-hearted kid who just made the wrong choices trying to appease the wrong person, and he quickly redeems himself once given the offer.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: He started out as a good kid, but became an Attention Whore who imprisons anyone that takes away his fame, intentionally or not. He then became willing to use violent measures and even let people die, before finally teaming up with an Omnicidal Maniac in a last-ditch attempt to earn Dark Blue's approval.
• Kids Are Cruel: The fact he's around the Stick Gang and Gold's ages means he's either this or Teens Are Monsters.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: He returns the dragon egg he stole to the Ender Dragon when he realizes his village is in danger. Later, when he gets betrayed by King Orange, he runs off into the Note Block Universe knowing that everything he did was All for Nothing and resigns to his fate, believing that everyone will see him as a monster.
• Lancer vs. Dragon: Green and Purple have the most personal relationship out of any hero and villain (besides TCO and TDL). One is the Second Coming's best friend and ocassionally rival, the other serves under King Orange. Fittingly enough, Green's storyline in Season 3 is about tracking down Purple and finding out why he is he doing all of this.
• Laser-Guided Karma:
  • He didn't get away with betrayal and putting his own village in danger easily, as his own subjects revolt against him and kick him out.
  • Purple is known for his Chronic Backstabbing Disorder, thus him being left to die by King Orange is nothing but this. He barely manages to get away.
• Laughably Evil: He's not a comedy-focused antagonist, but he has his moments. More in the sense that he can sometimes be so pathetic it loops back to being hilarious. This is mostly about any time he nervously half-asses attempts to look friendly, such as in "Parkour" or "The Ultimate Weapon".
• Leitmotif: Starting from "Note Block Universe", Purple is related to the track "An Emotional Journey", a rather somber track. It first plays when he reveals his backstory to Green, and then a more dramatic remix called "Purple's Last Stand" plays in 'The King" during a rather self-explanatory scene.
• Loving a Shadow: Implied. Purple likes to imagine his father, Dark Blue, as someone who simply had high expectations Purple was too weak to achieve, and that he can be convinced to love his son again if he does something worth being loved. Pouring his heart out to Green - and, later on, finding a true father in King Orange - helps Purple realise his biological father was just a bastard who couldn't be impressed: and if he could, he just was too horrible to be worth the trouble.
• Me's a Crowd: He's able to clone himself in League of Legends by tampering with the game's code.
• Missing Mom: His mother Pink died of unknown causes, implied to be old age or a disease. It's his Start of Darkness, as with her gone he has nothing left but his father, who he first needs to impress.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal:
  • His villagers overthrow him once his incompetence results in several houses being destroyed by the Ender Dragon.
  • While it's also motivated by other factors, such as his remorse for earlier acts, there's no denying Purple is partially fighting King Orange due to his anger at being backstabbed.
• Morality Pet: Ends up being this to King Orange, who drops his original goal of destroying Minecraft in favor of trying to save Purple, after the similarities between Purple slowly dying in the Combined Icon's beam and Gold dying in the corrupted Minecraft emulator become too much to bear.
• Moral Myopia: He betrays the stick gang at every opportunity he gets, but the moment King Orange betrays him, he's clearly distraught, throwing his head down and then running off in despair. It becomes easier to understand why when Purple eventually reveals his backstory.
• My Greatest Failure: It's implied Purple feels this way about not being good enough to meet his father's standards, as that's what caused him to leave the family.
• Omnicidal Maniac: To show how desperate he is to make Dark Blue proud, Purple is willing to help King Orange destroy all of Minecraft, believing that the Game Icon's power will be enough for his father to deem him the strong warrior he always wanted him to be.
• Parental Abandonment: Purple's father abandoned him when he was unable to reach his expectations, and his mother died some time afterward.
• Parental Issues: Purple has major daddy issues due to his father first abusing and then leaving him behind due to not being the expert fighter he was "supposed" to be. Worst of all, when his mother died, Purple started believing that it was his fault for not meeting his father's expectations and tried his hardest to fix that.
• Psychological Projection: It's heavily implied Purple was projecting his father onto King Orange, which is why he remained so loyal to him, even after being betrayed for the first time. Tellingly, they can only become a proper surrogate family when it's proven King is nothing like Dark Blue, being an actually loving father who cares for Purple.
• Purple Is Powerful: He's purple in color, which is commonly associated with royalty, which is only fitting for a king. Even after being overthrown, he's still a capable fighter and The Dragon of King Orange.
• Reformed, but Not Tamed: His final Heel–Face Turn has apparently done nothing to degrade his manipulative nature as his first real action in his return to the mainline shorts is to form a master plan to help Red splat a cake in Green's face (who, notably, is arguably the closest to Purple out of the Stick Gang). That said, this is more or less downplayed, as he was doing a harmless prank rather than something anti-heroic.
• Replacement Goldfish: King Orange sees him a second son after Gold's death due to their similarities. In return, Purple sees him as his new father.
• Rousseau Was Right: Purple is proven time and time again, no matter how many times he betrays the Stick Gang, to be a good person who just commits bad choices due to the abuse he suffered at his father's hands. Ultimately, he manages to turn good once and for all.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: While he was still king of the village on the Apple desktop, he would travel into the Nether to gather materials to give to his subjects. He also pulls his own weight against the Ender Dragon with Blue and Green.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In "The Ultimate Weapon", he flees the fight in dispear when he realizes that King Orange doesn't care about him anymore.
• Sixth Ranger: Joins the main cast at the end of episode 29 to stop King Orange's reign of destruction, and the An Actual Short series shows they still hang out every once in a while.
• Sore Loser: When he loses a game of League of Legends, he's incredibly saddened and just sits in a Troubled Fetal Position.
• Staff of Authority: When he was once king, he used to wield a staff made of wood and stone to show his authority in the village he ruled.
• Start of Darkness: His mother dying is what caused Purple to become amoral, as her death meant Dark Blue was the only family he had left: And to have him, Purple would first need to find a way to make him think Purple's worth his time.
• Troubled Fetal Position: In Animation vs. League of Legends, and then again in "The Witch", and then a third one in "The King".
• Undying Loyalty: To King Orange, which is surprising given his most prominent character trait. Though how much of it was loyalty is called into question when Purple's backstory is revealed. Regardless, once King Orange leaves him behind to die, that loyalty disappears... only to reappear when Purple and King Orange both redeem themselves, becoming a Family of Choice.
• The Unfettered: There are no lines Purple won't cross if he gets to have Dark Blue's love, whether it is imprisoning people, betraying his friends, leaving them to die, trying to kill them personally, betraying his friends, trapping them in endless loops or assisting in The End of the World as We Know It.
• Unwitting Pawn: Was ultimately just used by King Orange, though they manage to fix their relationship and become a Family of Choice.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Was a cheerful momma's boy ready to impress his parents, but his father's abandonment and mother's death turned him into an Attention Whore willing to cross numerous lines to have someone on his side.
• Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: Incredibly downplayed, as Purple isn't a comedy-focused character despite his Laughably Evil moments, but he is still a more "casual" antagonist (as in, fits the tone of the series until his past is revealed) compared to King Orange's Knight of Cerebus.
• Villainous Breakdown: He never has any serious ones, but a few noticeable smaller ones.
  • He gets rather angry at seeing Green and Blue take away the attention of all villagers, briefly trying to fight them before seeing the Villagers build a statue of him.
  • The In Real Time release of Season 3 reveals he had a small one once King Orange smacked him away for the first time, constantly hitting his head as to ask himself "Why would he betray me?" or "What was I thinking trusting him?". He gets over this and decides to stay loyal by siccing the Piglin Brutes on Green, Red, Blue and Yellow.
• Villainous BSoD: Breaks down upon realising his entire life was All for Nothing as he's completely unable to achieve his goal of making Dark Blue proud, feeling remorse for his actions and calling himself a monster.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Even after his final redemption that turns him and Green into Best Friends, Purple is still willing to help Red prank Green.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Purple's goal since the beginning was to earn his father's approval, first by trying to get the dragon egg, then by helping King Orange get the Game Icon in hopes that its power would get his dad's attention.
• Wild Card: Purple has no loyalty to anyone besides "the thing or person that can help me make daddy proud", results in him constantly switching sides and never doing the same thing twice whenever he's an enemy.
• Wham Shot: The first time a new stick figure has been introduced ever since the debut of the Second Coming and the Fighting Stick Figures. In-Universe, he wasn't created by Alan.
• You Remind Me of X: Purple reminded King Orange of his deceased son, which is what convinced the king to have a change of heart.

King Orange (Spoilers Unmarked!)

King^note Not confirmed to be his actual name / King Orange

Debut: Parkour

A mysterious, tall, orange stick figure from the Nether that leads an army of Piglin Brutes and is Purple's new master. The Arc Villain of Season 3, he wants to get his hands on the Minecraft Game Icon to destroy all of Minecraft. However, there is more to him then meets the eye...

As revealed in the season finale "The King", King Orange used to be a normal citizen of an Outernet city before his only child, Gold, tragically died when a Minecraft simulation crashed with him still inside it. Heartbroken, bitter and with nothing left to lose, he has made it his mission to avenge his son's death by destroying Minecraft.

Not to be confused with the other, more heroic Orange.

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• A Day in the Limelight: "The King", the Season 3 finale, features him as the titular Villain Protagonist, exploring his backstory, rise to power and eventual redemption.
• Alas, Poor Villain: He dies when he realises how similar Purple and Gold are, and that he could've had Purple as a surrogate son if he didn't betray him. As he's currently killing him. When Purple is blasted away by his beam, King Orange chases after him and ultimately jumps into the black hole in a desperate attempt to save his life, all while having flashbacks of how he treated Purple like dirt. Thankfully, he manages to be revived and given a second chance.
• Ambiguous Situation:
  • In "Titan Ravager", it is largely unknown if he actually cared about the villagers well-being or saved it out of Pragmatic Villainy in order to gain Blue and Yellow's trust. Given King Orange's real motivations, it's most certainly the latter.
  • The mysterious void he found himself in after death. Was it an afterlife? A vision? Was he actually alive inside the black hole? Who or what was showing it to him, assuming it's not his own subconscious coming to life? We never get an answer, but we know it happened as King Orange and Purple are resurrected mid-hug.
• Anti-Villain: Of the Woobie variety. Behind the backstabbing, opportunistic Omnicidal Maniac who's ready to kill anyone who opposes him lies a man who was heartbroken by seeing his own son die a Cruel and Unusual Death while he's Forced to Watch, and now wants to avenge his death by destroying the thing he deems responsible.
• Ape Shall Not Kill Ape: It's implied that this is the main reason why he doesn't kill stick figures: He spared the Developers despite them causing his son's death, merely knocking them out, and constantly refuses to kill the Stick Gang.
• Arch-Enemy: Considered Minecraft itself to be one, believing it to be sapient and having purposefully killed his son. Part of his redemption is realising that Gold's death was truly just an accident that no one can't be blamed for, and that he was just hurting innocents in a blind quest for nonexistent revenge.
• Arc Villain: Of Season 3 of the AvM Shorts, having masterminded everything besides the Piglins and the Witch in an attempt to destroy the world of Minecraft. The entire second half of the season is about gathering allies to actually stand a chance against this guy.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: He became the ruler of Piglin Brutes by effortlessly breaking into one of their bastions, defeating several of them and proving he can give them unlimited amounts of gold. He wasn't even at his strongest at the time.
• The Atoner: Upon resurrection, he apologizes for his actions, revives the Titan Ravager's family and gives Yellow his staff. He was fully ready to leave without Purple, believing the young boy would want nothing to do with him, but he's proven wrong.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: A villainous example. After a lot of time not even realising it, King Orange eventually finds out he does truly love Purple like a son and can't bring himself to kill the boy, resulting in his redemption.
• Back from the Dead: Throws himself into his black hole in an attempt to rescue Purple, with predictable results. The Second Coming brings him back soon after.
• Badass Cape: At least one piece of merchandise portays him with one, even if he doesn't have one in-canon.
• Bad Boss: King Orange sees all of his underlings, including Purple, as nothing but pawns in his game, and is completely fine with abandoning or even killing them if they serve no further purpose.
• Being Evil Sucks: Has to be spelled out to him, but he eventually realises this: By using everyone around him in an attempt to become an Omnicidal Maniac, he fell deeper and deeper into villainy while also mistreating the one person that could still save him.
• Beneath the Mask: To the heroes, King Orange is an evil madman who betrays everyone he deems no longer useful and seeks to gain godlike powers to cause The End of the World as We Know It. In reality, he is a grieving father who is delivering what he believes to be justice. In fact, the mask goes so deep even King Orange doesn't realise the truth - that he loves Purple like a son - until it's almost too late, having been heavily suppressing it.
• The Berserker: Smart as he may be, King Orange has little to no fighting skills, so in all of his fights he just throws whatever he can at his enemies with brute force in an attempt to get rid of him.
• Bigger Stick: His one is absorbing mobs: Herobrine was his equal if not superior, giving the king a good fight and seemingly winning, but it all comes crashing down once King Orange learns how to absorb mobs into his staff, being firmly on top for the rest of the fight.
• Boss Remix: An orchestral remix of "Pigstep" from vanilla Minecraft plays during his fight against the Second Coming.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: While this is a common recurrence in the Animator vs. Animation universe, King Orange has access to YouTube videos of Alan Becker's stick figures, which is likely how he learned about Yellow and Blue's hobbies and interests.
• Brought Down to Badass: Even when he doesn't have a reality-warping block on his staff, he can tank several hits from the Warden and, through sheer determination and physical skills, almost outmanuever the entire cast anyway. This is somewhat of a Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: No matter how skilled in martial arts they are, you'd have a hard time finding a pre-teen that could beat an adult man in a fight.
• Complete Immortality: Thanks to Creative Mode, the Game Icon makes King Orange completely unkillable and immune to all forms of damage, explaining why he can shrug off massive asskickings. That said, as soon as he drops the Game Icon, he's as mortal as his enemies.
• Conflict Killer: Herobrine was not willing to let Red escape the Monster School, but he drops all of that when he sees King Orange putting his students in there. From there on, the Minecraft legend teams up with the heroes to defeat the king, and once the day is saved he lets Red go peacefully.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To the Dark Lord. Both are the extremely powerful Big Bad of a story-heavy installment whose end goal is reducing everything into nothing, but while the Dark Lord is a For the Evulz, murder-happy madman who was Beyond Redemption, King Orange has a Freudian Excuse for his actions, is more merciful and manages to pull a Heel–Face Turn.
• Cool Crown: Rarely seen without his gold crown, which is actually Purple's, who gave it to King Orange when the latter first establishes his authority to the Piglin army. King Orange gives it back to Purple following his Heel–Face Turn, who then gives it to Red's pig.
• Dark Is Evil: His color is a slightly duller shade of orange than the Second Coming, he primarily uses dark-colored blocks with the Game Icon, and his main throne room is also primarily black and is located in the Nether.
• David vs. Goliath: The Goliath towards both the Second Coming and Herobrine, being a whole head taller than both of them. The fight against TSC is a stalemate, but the fight against Herobrine is unarguably a King Orange victory.
• Death by Irony: Killed by the very black hole he made to destroy Minecraft. He gets better.
• Determinator: His body is Made of Iron, and so is his spirit: King Orange spent at least months researching everything about Minecraft to avenge Gold, made numerous plans (most of them on the spot) to defeat his opponents, and ultimately didn't go down even in a fight. Tellingly, he is the only antagonist so far that wasn't defeated via being beaten in a fight or being befriended (though that would come later), but by giving up so he could focus on something else.
• Disc-One Final Boss: An interesting variant. By all means, King Orange is the last person the Stick Gang faces in Season 3, fittingly for its Arc Villain, but he is not the final opponent faced: having died while there's still ten minutes left for "The King" to end, it's his black hole that instead serves as the non-sapient Final Boss, slowly sucking up the Minecraft world even after its creator's death.
• The Dreaded: The Piglin Brutes are clearly afraid of revealing the news of Green's escape to King Orange, and Purple is afraid when he orders him to continue the plan.
• Easily Forgiven: Neither the sticks or any of the Minecraft residents seem to hold much against him after his redemption, seeing fit to see him return home with Purple. The Second Coming even pulls him up from his Pose of Supplication and shakes his hand to show there are no hard feelings. Although Blue and Yellow do briefly express some lingering resent, but that's before King Orange decides to revive the Titan Ravagers he deleted and giving his staff to Yellow. Mind you, none of them know about King Orange's past and motives, so from their perspective this Dark Lord-level threat just randomly killed himself trying to save the person he was in the middle of killing, and then started apologizing after revival, and they still forgave him.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: All he does is because of his dead son, Gold. He also turns out to care for Purple, though he's been suppressing it so heavily it takes him a while to realise it.
• Evil Genius: Is able to use Command Blocks to his full potential and formerly wielded one on his magic staff.
• Evil Virtues: There are four things that King Orange needed to succeed in his goals, and one that started his fall to villainy.
  • Intelligence. If not for his great knowledge about Minecraft and black holes, King Orange would've never been able to get past sitting in his house, constantly beating up a Minecraft poster in rage while unable to actually do anything about his son's death.
  • Valor. King Orange's bravery is the reason why he managed to get past all his opponents, from simple stick figures to fellow gods such as Herobrine, and ultimately come out on top.
  • Love; King Orange wouldn't even be evil if not for the love he felt for his son, and how it drove him to avenge his death.
  • And the biggest one of them all, determination. No matter how much genius, bravery or love for Gold he had, King Orange would've achieved nothing if he lacked the will to keep going no matter how many setbacks he had.
• Family of Choice: Season 3 ends with King Orange taking in Purple and becoming his surrogate dad, the two managing to move on from Gold and Dark Blue, respectively.
• Fantastic Racism: It's heavily implied he feels this way towards mobs as an extension of his hatred of Minecraft, given how he's ready to make Piglins braindead for failing him compared to his unwillingness to murder a stick figure. Combine these two together, it suddenly makes more sense why he never actually kills the Stick Gang.
• The Farmer and the Viper: The Viper to Purple's Farmer, betraying him the second he gets his hands on the Game Icon, which he only got thanks to Purple. Thankfully, they manage to forgive each other and become a Family of Choice.
• Fatal Flaw:
  • Short-sightedness. He tends to discard anything he deems to have no more use to him. This results in several impedements to his plan, including Yellow and Blue getting ahold of his Command Block after he discarded it and the Titan Ravager that he didn't kill teaming up with them. The only reason that he's able to get away with it as long as he has is that the Game Icon makes him completely unkillable.
    • This shortsightedness extends to his motive for destroying Minecraft from the beginning: He was so distraught at Gold's death that he wanted to destroy all of Minecraft as revenge, not stopping to think about the fact he's harming completely innocent creatures who have done nothing wrong to him (including those who aren't even from Minecraft), and mistreating Purple, the person that could've given him an opportunity to move on. This fact is eventually spelled out to King Orange in a vision he experiences after dying to his own black hole, represented by him beating on a Minecraft block with his son's body, implying he's using his death as an excuse to go after innocents.
  • Ironically enough for an Omnicidal Maniac, unwillingness to pull the trigger. King Orange would've been guaranteed to win if he just decided to kill the Stick Gang instead of putting them in an endless loop, trapping them in cages or trying to recruit Yellow and Blue. Throughout the second half of Season 3, he keeps holding back against the harmless mobs and stick figures that he could effortlessly kill in a second with the immense power the Game Icon grants him. It's implied to be a combination of his Hidden Heart of Gold, believing they're not worth the effort as they cannot actually kill him anyways, and thinking that his endgame will kill them anyway.
    • He mostly moves past this once he meets Herobrine, who proves to be his equal and possess a genuine shot at defeating the king. Once he figures out how to kill him, he immediately guns for it, and decides to also finish off the other mobs while he's at it. "Mostly" because he doesn't do the same to the Stick Gang and Purple.
• Faux Affably Evil: Has no problems pretending kindness to Purple, the villagers, Blue or Yellow. Of course, behind that politeness is an Omnicidal Maniac who's just manipulating them.
• Foil: To the Second Coming. Both are orange stick figures who serve as the leaders of their respective groups, but while the Second Coming cares about his group and considers them as his friends, King Orange seems to only really care about himself and treats Purple and the piglins as expendable lackeys, even killing one of them for simply reporting bad news. It is eventually revealed that King Orange does have others he cared about very deeply, but turned evil after their death, while the Second Coming has the sense to remain on the side of good when his friends are (temporarily) killed. While the Second Coming does try to destroy Alan's PC when the latter (temporarily) deletes his friends, Alan is framed as the "evil" force in that story. In one way, King Orange is essentially who the Second Coming could've been if Alan never resurrected his friends and he went off the deep end.
• Freudian Excuse: King Orange was a good man and father, but when his son died in a Minecraft simulator accident, he decided to destroy the game for revenge. He learns the error of his ways by Season 3's end and pulls a Heel–Face Turn.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: A normal man like any other that, in his desperation to avenge his son's death, created a Magic Staff and gained an artifact powerful enough to make him the biggest threat in Minecraft history.
• Fusion Dance: Once King Orange finally gains possession of two Game Icons and his Magic Staff at the same time, he fuses the two blocks together and puts the fused Combined Icon in his staff.
• Genius Bruiser: An expert quick-learner who learnt everything about one game in the span of a few months, and is stronger than the heroes even without the staff.
• Given Name Reveal: Maybe? When Yellow immobilizes him with a Command Block, the accompanying text reveals his name is King. While this would've been pretty set-in-stone in any other case, Season 4 has the Command Block's text refer to the Second Coming as Orange. Because of this, it's ambiguous if this guy is really called King, or if this is just a title the same way TSC goes by Orange.
• Godhood Seeker: The Game Icon makes him The Omnipotent and unkillable, and that's why he wants to steal it from the Stick Gang.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Has really bad anger issues, having killed a minion from pure anger and his Villainous BSoD consisting of punching a wall in anger and desperation.
• Heel–Face Turn: Gets one as he realizes the similarities between Purple and Gold, trying to save the former from death. Upon having a vision, he realises how badly he screwed up in his quest for revenge, and apologizes as soon as he gets the opportunity.
• Heel Realization: During the final battle, Purple charges directly into the staff's beam in a manner so reminiscent of his son's death that King Orange cannot help but realize that he views Purple like a son, and is about to lose him the same way he lost Gold. He drops the staff and starts to chase Purple. Not long after, he has a vision of a giant version of himself beating the Minecraft Game Icon and numerous innocent mobs and stick figures, making him realise Minecraft is a nonsentient game rather than a malicious entity who intentionally killed his son, while he turned into a monster who's hurting innocent people in his rage. He truly cracks when the giant King Orange starts beating up the Game Icon with Gold's body, which starts flashing into Purple, making him realise he's using his son's death as an excuse to hurt others while mistreating the one he saw as a surrogate son.
• Hero Killer: Becomes one in the Season 3 finale, killing off all of the Stick Gang's allies, including Purple. Thankfully, this doesn't last.
• He Who Fights Monsters: In his attempt to avenge Gold, he ends up attacking the Stick Gang - and killing Purple - with a beam that hurts and glitches them out the exact same way Gold died.
• Hidden Agenda Villain: Played with. It was spelled out since his debut appearance that he's an Omnicidal Maniac, though the animation made it unintentionally ambiguous just what he was trying to do. That said, we never knew his motive behind that until the Season 3 finale.
• Hidden Depths: He actually enjoys listening to music, and has a note block playing a relaxing song in house. He also has a more intense song ready for when he needs to throw hands.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: Was stated by Alan Becker to "have a heart" during the "Monster School" commentary, which is proven in the series finale, being a good man behind the "cruel tyrant" facade.
• Hidden Villain: His existence was a big spoiler for "Parkour" and was originally kept like that for future episodes. That is, until he became a Late-Arrival Spoiler via being at the very center of "The Ultimate Weapon" thumbnail and numerous future ones, with his existence being one of the main points of Season 3's thumbnails and merchandise.
• His Name Really Is "Barkeep": As mentioned above, his real name might or might not be King.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: Has a very unimpressive showing off the Command Block's power in "The Ultimate Weapon", and ultimately gets quickly defeated by Green, Blue and Yellow. In "The King", his Curb-Stomp Battle against several stick figures and mobs proves that he was just holding back because he thought he didn't need to go all out.
• I Control My Minions Through...:
  • False promises. Both the Piglin Brutes and Purple serve King Orange because he promised them something in return (Money and sharing the Game Icon's power, respectively).
  • Fear. It's made clear the Piglin Brutes obey King Orange partially because they're afraid of being killed by him, something he's very capable of, and he also intimidates Purple every once in a while.
• Improvised Weapon: Aside from Command Blocks and the Game Block, King used a block of gold to turn his staff into a magically powered up mace. Word of God states that the staff can draw power from any block placed in it, and it can be assumed that rarer blocks have a stronger effect. Sure enough, once Red puts a Netherite block in the staff, it becomes a weapon that could kill. Season 4 expands on this by showing just how advanced King Orange's staff is.
• Inexplicably Identical Individuals: For unknown reasons, he looks exactly like Purple and the Fighting Stick Figures, only scaled up. The Season 3 finale explains every Internet-born stick figure looks like this.
• Irony: He hates Minecraft because his son was glitched out of existence in a simulation when it crashed and was reduced to nothing. Now, who is King Orange fighting, how does he try to kill the Stick Gang in the season finale, and what does he want to do to Minecraft? He eventually realises this himself, which is one of the main reasons for his Heel–Face Turn.
• I've Come Too Far: Implied, given how it's Purple who reached out to him at the end of Season 3. Apparently, King Orange himself didn't think he deserved a second chance with Purple.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: A familial example rather than a romantic one; While he did view Purple like a son, in the Season 3 finale, he attempts to leave the Nether by himself, seemingly Purple should stick around with the Stick Gang. Purple disagrees, and the two ultimately become a Family of Choice.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Heavily implied to have gone through this instead of a simple "He was good before immediately turning into a world-destroying psycho after his son's death". His vision in Episode 30 shows a monstrous King Orange first beating the Minecraft icon, then some sentient mobs, then the Stick Gang, before using Grievous Harm with a Body on his own son, who starts glitching into Purple. It's likely meant to symbolize that, while King Orange was already evil after Gold's death, the time he spent angry and bitter turned him into a bigger and bigger monster, until he started abusing his Morality Pet and using his son's death as an excuse to go even further. In a more obvious case, he originally spared the developers who accidentally killed his son, but devolved into killing mobs for just standing in his way.
• Karma Houdini: Besides a very brief, self-inflicted death, King Orange is Easily Forgiven and gets away with his actions.
• Knight of Cerebus: One of the darkest villains in the series, especially during Season 3 of the AvM Shorts where his presence gives more layers of drama in comparision to the other antagonists. King Orange is presented as a serious threat who has an actual kill count and is very much dangerous, having an omnicidal goal of destroying the world of Minecraft by obtaining the Game Icon and slowly devouring it with a black hole. He is also almost devoid of any comedic moments, with few exceptions.
• Knight Templar Parent: After his son was killed in a Minecraft simulator Gone Horribly Wrong, King Orange would stop at nothing to destroy Minecraft itself in revenge.
• Large and in Charge: He dwarfs the entire cast, given that all of them are of the same height. He's also the king of a bunch of piglins and Purple himself.
• Late-Arrival Spoiler: His existence was originally a spoiler, but that was negated when he started appearing on nearly every Season 3 thumbnail.
• Leitmotif: A dark remix of Pigstep.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: To give you an idea of how horrible Dark Blue was to Purple, the Omnicidal Maniac Arc Villain is treated by the narrative as the better father and who Purple ultimately ends up with.
• Light Is Not Good: He has a second throne room with mainly white blocks, which he attempts to use to make Yellow and Blue his Co-Dragons.
• Logical Weakness: No matter how strong he is with the Game Icon, he's ultimately just a normal dude without it or his staff. Purple uses that to his advantage.
• Love Redeems: What causes his Heel–Face Turn is the realisation he saw Purple like a son.
• MacGuffin: Episode 26 reveals that the staff itself that he wields is one, having the power to amplify the properties of the block that it holds, Gold blocks and Netherite blocks turning the staff into a powerful bludgeon, and Command Blocks enable it to quickly (but not instantaneously) input commands. Game Icons? Yeah... you shouldn't let King combine those two together. Season 4 has the Stick Gang experiment on it by putting as many blocks on it as they can.
• Made of Iron: Even when he's not wielding a Game Icon, he can surive a punch from a Warden to a black hole blowing up in his face.
• Magic Staff: He formerly wielded a Command Block in his staff, which allowed him to do things like create blocks, erase AI, electrify metal bars, telekinetically lift people and just outright kill things instantly. When he gained possession of the Game Block, it granted him the added ability to create a black hole that would've destroyed the entire Nether if Second Coming hadn't found another one. He ends up losing the Game Icon, leaving his staff empty, but it's soon revealed that he can use any valuable block to power up his staff, offering him a not as powerful but still effective weapon. At the end of "The King", he gives the staff and the Command Block away to Yellow to make up for his evil deeds, and the Season 4 episode "Lucky Block Staff" shows the true extent of the staff's power.
• Make Way for the New Villains: King Orange shows he's far from a normal AvA villain by easily murdering a Piglin Brute for failing him, straight after we've seen Piglin Brutes go toe-to-toe with the Stick Gang.
• The Man Behind the Man: The true mastermind behind Purple's actions in Season 3.
• Manipulative Bastard: Tricks Purple into thinking they'll share the Game Icon's power, the Piglin Brutes into thinking they will be paid, Blue and Yellow into very briefly joining him, and the Titan Ravager Villagers into seeing him as a hero. Suffice to say, King Orange is very good at tricking people.
• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The weird vision he sees in "The King" can be anything from an afterlife to him being somehow alive in the black hole; and that's without getting into just what gave him the vision.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: At the receiving end of one from Purple, after leaving him to die two times.
• Motive Decay: His vision in "The King" implies this happened to him, apparently using Gold's death as an excuse to hurt innocent people who have done nothing wrong, including Purple. When King Orange realises this, he doesn't take it well.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Seeing Purple struggle against the beam of destruction King Orange was firing at him reminded the latter of what happened to his son before he died. This causes him to break out of his obsessive revenge and try to save Purple, all while having memories of abusing and betraying him.
• Near-Villain Victory: He comes so close to destroying all of Minecraft, it's less "almost wins" and more "wins, but it was undone at the last second". By the time the Stick Gang manages to reset the Game Icon's actions, the entirety of Minecraft has been swallowed and they were seconds away from losing the Nether Portal needed to pull it off.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Him betraying Purple is what laid the steps to his redemption and, eventually, the undoing of King Orange's plans. Though to be fair, King's own redemption would mean he doesn't mind.
• Omnicidal Maniac: Wants to destroy the entire world of Minecraft as one big revenge for his son Gold dying in a simulation of it.
• The Omnipotent: With the Game Icon, there is pretty much zero limit to what King Orange can do.
• One-Man Army: The combined might of six stick figures, the Warden, an Enderman, Skeleton, Spider, a Titan Ravager and Herobrine could only slow him down in his pursuit of revenge against Minecraft. He's only stopped when he gives up by trying to save Purple and then dies, letting the Stick Gang have a shot at undoing his actions.
• Orcus on His Throne: He wanted to be this, having Purple do everything while he waits for the Game Icon back in his castle. Unfortunately for him, he's the one doing basically everything for the majority of the season. When all your subjects are either dead or have been betrayed by you, you don't exactly have a choice.
• Outliving One's Offspring: What caused his Start of Darkness was having to watch his child struggle for his life before dying in front of him.
• Papa Wolf: King Orange did everything he could to save his son when the Minecraft simulator started to malfunction. When he failed, he took his rage out on the people running the machine and Minecraft itself.
• Parental Substitute: By the end of Season 3 of the AvM Shorts, King Orange has become the father figure Purple always wanted.
• Person of Mass Destruction: With the Game Icon on his staff, he can launch black holes whenever he feels like it, and even without that he's a dangerous threat.
• Physical God: King Orange is, by all means, a god when he has the Game Icon, with access to Creative Mode making him able to do anything while being unkillable.
• The Power of Hate: Why does he keep going further and further in his plans, to the point of nearly winning? His hatred of Minecraft, and...
• The Power of Love: His love for his son Gold is what made him determined to destroy Minecraft at all costs. And it's ultimately what leads to his redemption, too.
• Power Up Letdown: Zigzagged. While the Game Icon 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 Orange 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 Game Icon. On the other hand however, the Game Icon 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 Creative Mode's invulnerability to the wielder, granting the ability to spawn dopplegangers under the King's command, and energy blasts. Fridge Brilliance 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.
• Protagonist Journey to Villain: The first half of "The King" is showcasing his backstory, Start of Darkness, and how we got to present day, where he's threatening all of Minecraft.
• Redemption Equals Death: Subverted: He's seemingly killed just as he realises his mistakes, but is ultimately resurrected, leading to...
• Redemption Equals Life: In stark contrast to the Dark Lord, King Orange's change of heart means he makes it out of Season 3 alive and with a surrogate son.
• Replacement Goldfish: Purple views him as a new father figure as of "The King", which is rather justified given what an ass his actual father is.
• Revenge Before Reason: What his whole motive amounted to, wanting to avenge Gold before stopping to think that a video game can't possibly be a sapient entity that purposefully killed him.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: King Orange wants to destroy Minecraft itself after his son died when a simulation of the game crashed with him inside.
• Shadow Archetype: King Orange is what the Second Coming could've been if the Fighting Stick Figures were never resurrected, desperately trying to gain revenge on the thing/person that took them from him.
• Start of Darkness: Seeing your own son die in front of you will do that to ya.
• Start X to Stop X: In order to fulfil his goal of destroying Minecraft, King Orange decided to steal the icon for the game itself and use its power to take down the entire game.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: The very fact he's far stronger then the Stick Gang even without his staff. King Orange is very clearly an adult man, while the Stick Gang are constantly presented as being on the younger side; no matter how skilled they might be, a child is no match for an adult.
• Taught by Experience: In Episode 25, he discards the Command Block once he gets the Game Icon, allowing Yellow to use it against him in Episode 28. in Episode 27, he carelessly throws away the gold block in his staff to insert the Game Icon once again, allowing Red to use it against him when Endie catches it. When he regains his staff and both Game Icons, he takes out the netherite block and destroys it with one of the Game Icons. Someone's realised the danger in not disposing of your old gear properly. In Episode 30, a Freeze-Frame Bonus also shows that he deletes Yellow's staff as he reclaims the Command Block.
• Tragic Villain: Behind the cruel Omnicidal Maniac that has no qualms about throwing away people when they're no longer useful, King Orange is a man who loved his son and was traumatized by his death, now trying to kill the thing that took away his one family member.
• Token Adult: While it's unclear exactly how old the rest of the stick figures are, "The King" reveals he's old enough to have a grown kid the same size as the main stick figures, suggesting that he's a middle aged man while the rest of the sticks shown in the season are somewhere between their late teens to early adulthood. Word of God would clarify the Stick Gang is supposed in their tweens/early teens, proving this further more.
• Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny: Subverted: The "King Orange vs. The Dark Lord" short seems to have been a non-canon video putting the series' two greatest villains in a death battle, but it's revealed at the end it was just Blue and Green playfighting with figurines of the two.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Implied. He's extremely durable even without the Game Icons, but has so far only relied on supernatural tools for combat, helplessly begging for his life when Green, Yellow, and Blue temporarily separate him from his staff. In "The King", he manages to fend off all the sticks, several mobs, and Herobrine all on his own with little difficulty, but that's still only with the aid of his staff, which he didn't really use the full potential of in favor of Boring, but Practical attacks. The only moment he's unable to fight back is after his staff is separated from him again (though he does pull off some impressive evasive moves, but only to get his staff back), and only manages an upper hand when he steals Yellow's staff.
• Unwitting Pawn: Implied. The TV that showed him the events of Animation vs. Minecraft features the logo of the Organization on it, implying King Orange and his ambitions were somehow relevant to victim's plans and the king was being used.
• Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: King Orange is a dead-serious Knight of Cerebus while Purple is more lighthearted with ocassional moments of comedy.
• Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: The AvM Shorts are a rather comedic and kid-friendly series about five stick figures having fun with a video game while fighting a few threats who's evil boils down to "they want to hurt the heroes and that's why they're bad". Here is a dead-serious, drama-inducing Omnicidal Maniac who's eventually revealed to be a traumatized father who wants to avenge his dead son: a son who died while a young kid, on-screen, in a horrifying way.
• Viler New Villain: Ultimately subverted.
  • When focused specifically on Animation vs. Minecraft, King Orange definitely seems like this to Season 3's previous antagonists, the Witch and Purple, as well as the bad guys of previous seasons (Killer Bunny, Spider Queen, or the Orb). While they all lack redeeming qualities (excluding Purple) and are purely evil, King Orange is still much worse than them due to being a serious bad guy who threatens the world itself with his intentions. Ultimately though, he is revealed to be a Tragic Villain who manages to have a change of heart, thus ironically making him less evil than his predecessors despite having a more heinous endgame.
  • In a more meta, franchise-wide sense, AvM Shorts Season 3 began shortly after the Grand Finale of Animator vs. Animation V, and thus you'd be forgiven for expecting King Orange to be as bad, if not worse than the Dark Lord so the stakes won't suddenly drop. While they are both Omnicidal Maniacs who are the strongest villains in the franchise, King Orange is proven to be a much more complex character than the purely evil Dark Lord.
• Villain with Good Publicity: He's beloved by the village from "Titan Ravager" when he saves them from the Titan Ravagers trying to eat the villagers. As they never learned he's evil, he presumably stayed this way.
• Villainous Breakdown: After learning of Green's escape, he erases the AI of a Piglin Brute and angrily orders the remaining Piglin and Purple to catch Green and the Game Block respectively.
• Villainous BSoD: Upon his Heel Realisation, he has a rage-fueled one where he constantly punches the wall that is showing him the vision of his villainous actions. When he breaks it, he finds a weeping Purple, who he comforts with a hug.
• Villainous Valor: The guy is by all means no coward: no matter what kind of opponents he faces, including his equals like a Game Icon-powered TSC or Herobrine, King Orange will fight them with all he has and won't back down no matter what. The one exception to his bravery is when he begged Blue for mercy when at gunpoint (bowpoint?), but that's more of an outlier than anything.
• Villain Protagonist: Of "The King", which features him as the central character.
• Villains Want Mercy: His body language makes it clear he's begging Blue not to kill him once he's at his mercy. Curiously, this is the one time he's actually afraid, otherwise fearlessly facing any opponents, thus making it case of either Early-Installment Weirdness or an outlier in his character.
• Walking Spoiler: You can't say a thing about him without revealing the plot of Season 3.
• We Can Rule Together:
  • The last phase of his plan depicts both him and Purple holding the staff with the Game Icon, implying that this was how he won Purple's cooperation. This is confirmed in "The Ultimate Weapon" where Purple tries to get a turn with the staff, only to be blasted away. More details are given in "The King", explaining that Purple was the one who approached him first upon seeing his wanted posters for the Stick Gang, and decided to follow him in his goals. "Note Block Universe" implies King Orange learned of Purple's Dark and Troubled Past off-screen and offered to help him.
  • He gives Blue and Yellow an opportunity to be his Co-Dragons, and they would have taken it if not for Green divulging to them King's true nature.
• Wham Shot: Purple bowing down and showcasing his allegiance to King Orange reveals the true nature of the parkour course: It was a trap the whole time. His introduction in Season 3 is this, since it has been the first time since Purple that we got a new stick figure.
• Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Despite his whole motive being killing thousands of Minecraft creatures, he's doing a really shitty job at it when he actually has to fight one. As early as "Parkour", his debut, his problems could've been solved if he chose killing the Stick Gang instead of imprisoning them, and this trend continues in later episodes. He sorta learns his lesson in "The King", as he's fully ready to kill Minecraft entities even if he's still letting the stick figures live. Alan Becker (the real one, not the in-series animator) implies it's because he's not fully evil.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Why does he attempt to destroy Minecraft? His son got into a fatal accident involving a Minecraft simulation. As a result, he ends up using every trick from the game to destroy it, especially with two all-powerful Game Icons in hand.
• World's Strongest Man: Upon putting the Combined Icon on the staff, he becomes the strongest character in the entire vs. Minecraft spin-off, as well as one of the strongest in the wider Animator vs. Animation franchise.
• Would Hurt a Child: It's heavily implied the Stick Gang and Purple are at oldest teenagers (and stated by Word of God to be around 10-13), and King Orange has no issues fighting them, and even killing them (though he won't if he doesn't have to).
• Xanatos Speed Chess: Starting with "The Ultimate Weapon", the entirety of Season 3 is more or less King Orange making shit up as he goes, with the Stick Gang constantly doing something unexpected or gaining new allies, forcing him to come up with new ways to fight them off.
• You Have Failed Me: For failing to notice Green escaping the Parkour simulation through the cameras, King Orange erases a Piglin Brute's AI and leaves him a mindless husk.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: He makes it blatantly clear he doesn't care about Purple the second he gets the Game Icon. He also discards "weaker" blocks in favor of the ones he prefers more, allowing Yellow and Blue to get their hands on his command block.
• You Killed My Father: Inverted: He wants to destroy Minecraft because he blames it for his son's death. Funnily enough, he was originally supposed to lose his dad.
• You Remind Me of X: The same way he saw Gold in Purple, it's heavily implied Purple saw his father, Dark Blue, in King Orange.
• Your Heart's Desire: He gives Yellow and Blue a throne with a Command Block and a throne with Nether Wart respectively in an attempt to make them his Co-Dragons. It works until Green breaks in and tells them King Orange's true intentions.
• Your Size May Vary: Depending on the shot, he can be either half a head or a whole head taller than the other stick figures.

Standalone Adventures

YouTube

YouTube

Debut: Animation vs. YouTube

"I'm feeling quite angry right now. Hey there, you little stick figures. It's time for you to die, okay?"

The antagonist of Animation vs. YouTube: the sentient avatar of the titular, world-famous video sharing website. He starts attacking both the Second Coming and Green after they start hitting the video when it was loading.

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• Achilles' Heel: He can use videos for battle, but cannot directly interfere with their process. The stick figures exploit this when Green uploads himself as a video and then tears him in two from inside.
• Antagonist Title: Of his one and only appearance.
• Berserk Button: Hitting a video while it buffers will cause him to give you a beatdown. Destroying the fullscreen button? Will make him want to kill you.
• Burning with Anger: He uses a video of a fireplace to express his anger.
• Disproportionate Retribution: His response to stick figures hitting the video when it buffers? Give them an extremely long No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
• Early-Bird Cameo: The site itself makes a brief appearance as an app in Alan's cellphone in AvA IV when Alan is after the Second Coming when the latter escaped through iTunes, though the same can't be said for the sapient avatar.
• Filler Villain: Of Animation vs. YouTube as its only antagonist.
• Giant Hands of Doom: A non video-game example. He uses Like/Dislike buttons as hands, and then forms them from annotation boxes. In the final phase, he forms both.
• I Shall Taunt You: Once he refreshes the page, he taunts Second Coming and Green by dancing and playing music.
• Logical Weakness: The annotation boxes he uses can be gotten rid of by clicking their close buttons in their top right corners, though it's little trouble to create new ones. But if annotations are turned off in the video player, he loses them completely.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Well, not armed, per se, but in the final phase of the fight he uses both the Like/Dislike button hands and hands formed from annotation boxes. He loses the latter when the Second Coming turns annotations off.
• Oh, Crap!: Has one when Green breaks his screen, realising how screwed he is.
• Suddenly Speaking: He doesn't speak throughout the majority of the fight, but when Green accidentally breaks the full-screen button, YouTube uses clips of video dialogue to form his sentences.
• Uncertain Doom: More like "Uncertain Resurrection"; it's unknown if he was brought back when the website was refreshed, as he never appears again.

Ethan

Ethan

Debut: Animation vs. Pokémon

"What makes you think you can just walk into our game? The world doesn’t revolve around stick figures last time I checked."

The main character of HeartGold/SoulSilver and functionally the Second Coming's rival. He's not very happy about a non-Pokémon character messing with the game, and he will make the Second Coming know it.

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• Adaptational Villainy: In the games, Ethan was a simple Heroic Mime. This version of Ethan wasn't too fond of the Second Coming entering his game and attempts to kill him. It was only when the Second Coming beats him in a Pokémon battle that he became impressed with TSC's skills and learned to respect him as a fellow trainer.
• Anti-Villain: He mistakenly thinks the Second Coming stole a Pokémon, and is indeed right that TSC doesn't belong in their game, and all of their interactions are colored by that interaction; you can't particularly blame him for treating the stick poorly. In general, he's less evil and more of a misguided protector.
• Berserk Button: Does not like it when outsiders enter his game, and especially if they try to steal Pokémon.
• Fantastic Racism: Ethan isn't welcoming towards the Second Coming; their first interaction has him tell the stick figure that he doesn't belong in the game "and never will". When they encounter each other at the Elite Four, Ethan quips that "The world doesn't revolve around stick figures, last time [he] checked" and attempts to give the Second Coming a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown using his Pokémon. When the Second Coming's other Pokémon pop out to defend him, Ethan immediately assumes that they too were stolen (even though they all joined willingly). Once the Second Coming defeats him, he gets over it.
• Filler Villain: Of Animation vs. Pokémon, being the Second Coming's rival.
• Graceful Loser: After Ho-Oh is beaten, he acknowledges defeat and admits that a stick figure can be a master.
• Hero of Another Story: The main story of Pokémon HeartGold - involving gaining 8 badges (since he was allowed in the Indigo League), dealing with Team Rocket's shenanigans of bringing back their old boss (as evidenced by him owning a shiny Gyarados), and the summoning of Ho-Oh in Belle Tower - has probably been experienced by this guy, just entirely offscreen.
• Hypocrite: He breaks the rules of his own world by going and collecting Pokémon by himself without Alan's intervention (he was the chosen player character). In the end, he essentially goes Turbo to fight the Second Coming.
• Jerkass: Ethan acts more like his rival Silver in his debut appearance. He is a prick to the 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 and he talks down to him to stay out of their game.
• Jerkass Has a Point: While he did take back and keep Totodile after attacking the Second Coming with his and Lyra's Pokémon, the Second Coming did take a Pokémon from Elm without permission, just like Silver would. Although TSC did try to give it back, it had already bonded with him and refused to go back.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He does acknowledge defeat after Ho-Oh is taken down by the Second Coming's team. He also has a Crobat in his team, which requires high friendship to evolve.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: He sends out Ho-Oh when the rest of his Pokémon are unable to keep up with The Second Coming's team. When Ho-Oh is defeated, he tells Meganium to stand down.
• More Hateable Minor Villain: A Filler Villain that is more dislikeable then the actual Big Bads due to his rude, racist attitude towards the Second Coming.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Considering the fact that he has a full team by the time the Second Coming sees him in the Indigo League, he has quite the adventure with 8 badges under his belt.

Mario (Super Mario Bros.)

Mario (Super Mario Bros.)

Debut: Animation vs. Super Mario Bros.

The first of the three Marios the Second Coming encounters, and the one to start the fight against the Stick Gang after the Second Coming starts messing with his game.

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• Adaptational Jerkass: SMB1 Mario is quite less understanding than his canon counterpart, declaring war on the stick figures when he mistakenly believes that they're evil.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: He stops fighting the stickfigures after the Second Coming apologizes by giving him a Super Mushroom.
• Collision Damage: Per the rules of the Mario platformers, contact with others causes him damage. The fight starts when Second Coming tries to shake his hand.
• Enemy Summoner: By picking up the games selections and shaking them like a cereal box, baddies, pipes, and power ups come out.
• Evil Is Petty: The Second Coming accidentally damaging him is enough for Mario to decide he needs to die, as well as his friends when they get involved.
• Filler Villain: Of Animation vs. Super Mario Bros, having summoned every other threat to defeat the Second Coming.
• Hot-Blooded: The most eager to fight out of the Marios and the one defeated last.
• Mook Maker: He brings the enemies from his games into the computer by picking them up and shaking them.
• The Napoleon: SMB1 Mario spends most of the episode as Small Mario and is the most eager to destroy the stick figures, being the one to send power ups and obstacles to the playing field.
• Poor Communication Kills: Mario declares war on him and the other stick figures by summoning other versions of himself and enemies from other Mario titles from the Animator's Nintendo Switch due to the Second Coming damaging him, as well as accidentally stealing his Mushroom. They stop fighting by the end of it, instead creating a makeshift Super Mario Maker.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: He's the smallest of the Marios and can lift a game that's 10 times his size.
• Sore Loser: While neither side actually "loses" due to everyone deciding to become friends, SMB1 Mario stomps his hat in annoyance when he sees that his allies befriended the stick figures.

Q*bert

Q*bert

Debut: Animation vs. Arcade Games

The titular protagonist of the his game. He is the cause of the arcade game characters and assets getting mixed into each other's games.

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• Adaptational Badass: His main ability in this video is a combination of Kirby's Vacuum Mouth and Hammerspace and he can spit out inhaled items to use them when needed. His whole family shares the ability.
• Anti-Villain: Really, he just wanted to find food for his family. He redeems himself when Yellow offers to help.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Uses Yellow's arcade machine to control several other arcade characters to fight the Stick Gang.
• Easily Forgiven: After discovering that Q*bert had a hungry family, Yellow uses his computer to give them a lifetime supply of Pac-Man fruit and everyone (including the arcade characters he controlled) forgave him.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: All his actions were so that his family could have something to eat.
• Evil Genius: Subverted since he's not actually evil, but he's shown to be proficient at using the objects and enemies that he swallowed to slow down and escape from the stick figures.
• Filler Villain: Of Animation vs. Arcade Games. He's the cause of the arcade game mix-ups, steals the arcade machine emulator and actively antagonizes the stick figures whenever they get near him.
• My Rules Are Not Your Rules: Unlike the stick figures, Q*bert is able to freely escape the games' boundaries.
• Papa Wolf: Was ready to protect his children from Yellow when they arrived.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: He was just trying to find food for his family.

Euler's identity

Euler's identity

Debut: Animation vs. Math

A sentient mathematical concept who inhabits the math dimension and is the antagonist of Animation vs. Math.

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• Anthropomorphic Personification: Euler's identity, which represents the mathmatical concept of... well, Euler's identity. Here, it's depicted as intelligent and self-aware, initially hostile to the Second Coming, growling like a dog at him, but deciding to help him out when he begs for it.
• Anthropomorphic Typography: Euler's identity, who appears to be one of the only sentient pieces of math in its dimension alongside Zeta, Delta, Phi and Aleph, who appear at the end of the episode.
• Anti-Villain: It only antagonizes the Second Coming because the latter refuses to leave it alone. When the Second Coming clears things up, Euler's Identity happily helps him return to his home dimension.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To the previous Animation vs. [x] antagonists; while they provoked the stick figures into fighting back and are clearly the bad guy, Euler's identity was more or less acting in self-defense due to the Second Coming not wanting to leave him alone, thus making it clear he's not evil like his predecessors. Tellingly, he only stops fighting when the Second Coming apologizes, when it's usually the villains having to apologize.
• Filler Villain: Of Animation vs. Math as its only antagonist.
• Humongous Mecha: As its One-Winged Angel form, it builds a mech out of formulae.
• Leave Me Alone!: Not explicitly stated, but it's clearly what it feels towards the Second Coming, who keeps trying to chase it down.
• Me's a Crowd: It has the ability to duplicate itself by transforming into an equation that contains Euler's identity several times.
• One-Winged Angel: Eventually builds a gigantic mecha made out of his clones. It doesn't last very long.
• Portal Door: It can create a door to the world of imaginary numbers by multiplying itself by i.
• Shapeshifter: It's able to transform itself into any mathematical formula which equates to itself. For example, early in the video, it springs out into cos(π) + isin(π) to knock the Second Coming away from it.

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