Web Animation / Vs Whitty Fire Fight

"To me, it sounds like the best opportunity to settle things then."

VS Whitty Fire Fight is a three-part set of animations made by Chino's Animated, serving as a retelling of the storyline of Vs Whitty with a lot more action involved throughout. The first two parts focus on Boyfriend and Girlfriend's bout with Whitty, while the third part is more focused on Updike, and Whitty settling a personal grudge with him. Fellow bbpanzu characters Carol and Sunday also get in on the action in the latter half.

A compilation video of all three of the animation's parts can be found here. The series was also converted into a playable mod that can be downloaded here.

Song List:

Part 1:

• Lo-Fight
• Overhead

Part 2:

• Ballistic

Part 3:

• Remorse (Updike vs. Boyfriend)
• Accelerant (Updike vs. Whitty and Sunday)
• Fading (Updike vs. Whitty)

This series contains the following tropes:

• Action Girl: Girlfriend and Sunday both qualify towards this, each pulling out the same stops as Boyfriend when the time calls for it.
• Adaptational Badass: Multiple examples are around, courtesy of this series being focused more on action that plain ol' rapping.
  • Whitty, aside from literally being a bomb person and having some vague reality screwery going on when going ballistic, can actually play with fire, blasting Boyfriend with bolts of fire and creating a literal flame shield. He also has flame blasters in the shape of his own head, a "shrapnel" ability that eventually results in him and Boyfriend playing hot potato, and his Ballistic form seems to be more outright destructive.
  • Boyfriend is probably the biggest case of this trope here, as his new "echo" ability means he no longer gets carried by Girlfriend's demonic powers and, based on interpretation, having a Reset Button on hand if he ever loses. This especially helps him get a good edge when fighting Chara in a separate video.
  • Carol is shown channeling her angel form from Hellchart Carol, actually showing off what it can do in a fight against a bunch of Greater Good robots.
  • Sunday gets a shotgun and is generally pretty good at using it while blasting more bots.
  • Updike is more of a downplayed example, even more so than Carol. While he is relatively handy with a handgun, if his attempted use of one is to go by, he mostly relies on the Greater Good's various machines to fight the main crew. His sole special ability is his "unmasking light", which isn't even all too usable in combat.
• Adaptational Sympathy: While Updike is still the overall Big Bad of the story for running the Greater Good, it turns out he doesn't like doing his job, genuinely not wanting to hurt anybody. Thankfully for him, Whitty understands this, and he even saves Updike when he's blown out of his building. In response, Updike decides to shut down the Greater Good, knowing he wasn't up for the role of protecting anybody.
  • This applies to Whitty himself too, as he's able to come out of his shell more upon interacting with Carol. This helps give him the opportunity to get Updike to stand down, and killing him wasn't even what he intended unless he failed to reason with him. Fortunately, it doesn't come to that, since he succeeded in saving him right before a Fatal Fall killed him.
  • Even Boyfriend and Girlfriend themselves go through this, as while they still remain the fearless fools they are in canon, the minute Whitty goes ballistic, they immediately change tactics to calm him down before he explodes. And after they're captured by Updike, and Whitty, Carol and Sunday arrive to rescue them, they also try to get Updike to stand down after warping him away from the action for a moment. While they don't succeed in this, Whitty does.
• Adapted Out: While "Lo-Fight" still happens, it's skipped in the animation due to not much actually going on aside from the normal rap-battle.
• Alien Blood: Word of God on Updike is that his blood is blue, which is shown in Part 3 when he and Whitty land on the ground after falling out of the building.
• Boss Remix: During Part 2, the version of Ballistic used is not the original, but instead a B3 remix that captures the intense battle going on throughout.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: Whitty had wanted to find peace for a while against Updike's constant hunting for him, and throughout Part 3, he makes convincing Updike to stand down a big priority, and he even succeeds, forgiving his former enemy for his misdeeds.
• Embarrassing Nickname: Subverted in that, while Whitty's real name remains as Whitmore, he actually prefers being called Whitty, as he mentions during the series' ending.
• Fire, Ice, Lightning: In the animations, Boyfriend uses both fire and ice powers during his battle against Whitty, Girlfriend switching him to ice in order to literally cool down Whitty. He doesn't use lightning at all, however, but he does use it in a short sequel animation where he and the others (sans Sunday) battle the IRIS-controlled Hex to give the robot time to regain his body.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Once again, Whitty and Carol have this dynamic during their interactions with one another. In the ending, Carol even asks Whitty out for lunch, mainly so she could finish what she was going to say earlier on. With or without their shipping involved, they still bond well all throughout Part 3.
• Join or Die: After noting the presence of the Corruption inside Boyfriend, Updike refuses to let him and Girlfriend leave his facility, proposing to them to either join him to help neutralise threats (Whitty included), or get terminated on the spot. Boyfriend accepts this as a challenge, and thankfully, Whitty, Carol and Sunday show up before Updike can fire.
• Mythology Gag: This is abound quite a bit in these animations.
  • Part 3 contains three of these towards Friday Night Funkin': Corruption very close together.
    • During the mind segment at the beginning of "Remorse", Boyfriend visibly acts with distress upon seeing the Lemon Demon, and Evil BF's face can be briefly seen right before the Tankman scene appears.
    • At the "ECHO" segment, the face is seen again inside Boyfriend, also making itself more visible once he catches on to Updike's inner feelings.
    • Finally, Updike brings it up himself that the hostile "corruption entity" was inside Boyfriend, and that it was cursed upon him by a monster a short while ago.
  • It also contains two towards the Vs Hex Mod.
    • During his talk with Carol before the final sequence, Whitty mentions that he's only had one friend before meeting Carol and Sunday, that being a robot.
    • In the ending to Part 3, Boyfriend proposes that he and Girlfriend go to the park. No points for guessing who they're going to meet there.
• Non-Action Big Bad: While Updike is still the main antagonistic force throughout the series, he never fights on his own merit. The only time he gets to scrap is while skating away from Whitty, and even then, his robots and their laser beams do most of the work. Updike himself has no combat ability whatsoever, and would've died from getting blasted out of the Greater Good HQ if not for Whitty catching him.
• Power Copying: Boyfriend's greatest asset by far throughout the series is his "echo" ability, which allows him to copy the abilities of his opponent. He copies (or "echoes") Whitty's fire powers and, during the sequel animation, the hacked Hex's electric attacks throughout. The fire powers echoed from Whitty are turned into ice powers by Girlfriend before Ballistic.
• Product Placement: Out-of-universe AND in-universe example. At the beginning of Part 3, Chino advertises his official Crowdmade merch for fans to purchase. During this, the camera pans out to show Sunday trying to skip that exact advert while watching videos on their phone. This is Adapted Out in the compilation video.
• Suddenly Speaking: Throughout Part 1, everyone is silent in voice aside from voice bytes. From Part 2 onwards, though, aside from Boyfriend, everyone else is fully voice-acted. Carol and Sunday get this in Part 3 after not talking (outside of captions) in Part 2's stinger. This isn't changed in the compilation.
• The Unintelligible: Downplayed. While Boyfriend still talks in his usual way, subtitles in the dialogue from Part 2 onwards are able to translate what he's saying.
• Wingding Eyes: Boyfriend shows these in the form of the base game's arrows when he powers up further during his final fight against Whitty.