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Recap / Animator vs Animation AVA Shorts: Episode 3: "The Flashback"

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Uploaded Mar 11, 2019

Flashing back to October 2, 2011, just as the Chosen One and the Dark Lord nuke Alan's computer, they reveal to have escaped the crash thanks to the Chosen One breaking open a portal from Alan's wifi. Now free, the Chosen One and the Dark Lord go on a rampage across the internet for the next 8 years, while the Chosen One begins to soften due to seeing the Dark Lord's growing cruelty. Cut to the present day, and the Chosen One sees the Dark Lord's newest creation; the ViraBot, with the power to delete anything it stabs. Realizing the danger, the Chosen One turns on the Dark Lord and defeats him in a battle but fails to stop its launch. Despite it attacking the program of his creator, he decides to stop it anyways, breaking through the barriers and defeating the virus. Smash cut to now, and the Chosen One goes off to confront the Dark Lord while the others trail behind.


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  • Deus ex Machina: Retroactively Subverts this with regards to the Chosen One's appearance and intervention in "The Virus", showing that he survived the destruction of Alan's last computer by jumping into the internet at the last second, as well as why he chased ViraBot to Alan's computer.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: The Chosen One thinks it's too far to outright have a virus able to vaporize anything it touches, and thus breaks his alliance with the Dark Lord, even if he has to help Alan despite everything that's happened eight years ago.
  • How We Got Here: This episode shows why both ViraBot and the Chosen One arrived in Alan's PC.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: The Chosen One came to regret his alliance with the Dark Lord after seeing all the destruction they've caused together during their eight-year rampage.
  • Shout-Out: While the premise is about stick figures exploring and fighting multiple things from other popular media, the video features the Chosen One and the Dark Lord wreaking havoc upon multiple characters from the internet as cameos.
  • This Is Unforgivable!: After the Dark Lord shows how ViraBot can vaporize anything it touches, the Chosen One realizes that ViraBot will outright kill people and decides that he can longer tolerate the Dark Lord's evil.

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