Web Video / What if Steve Talked in Minecraft?

What if Steve Talked in Minecraft? is a parody web series of Minecraft by Press Start to Laugh.

Steve, a resident of a nearby village, is on a quest for revenge when his village is destroyed by the Ender Dragon. Sadly, his journey becomes a lot more complicated when he is suddenly forced to play host to a demonic entity known as "The Wither", who once laid waste to the world before the Ender Dragon destroyed his physical body, leaving his consciousness to wander the Nether. The Wither and Steve work together in their shared desire for vengeance against the Ender Dragon, though Steve soon learns his quest is about to get complicated.

Very, very complicated.

The series began on February 23, 2021 with the first season lasting four episodes. Season 2 began November 20, 2021 and will also last four episodes. The series ended on July 2, 2022 on the Season 2 finale, with no plans for Season 3 as of yet.

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WISTIM contains the following tropes. Viewer discretion is advised.

• Abhorrent Admirer: Jeb, one of the Wither's relatives who lives with his brothers, makes no secret of his attraction to the Ender Dragon. The latter is not amused, less so when she learns Jeb and his siblings are now her and the Wither's fellow "roommates".
• Actually Pretty Funny: Steve finds the Ender Dragon's nickname for the Wither "Withy" to actually be pretty funny.
• Adaptational Name Change: Herobrine is referred to simply as "Hero".
• Admiring the Abomination: Alex is one of Withy's worshippers, primarily because she believes he might have the power to bring her grandfather back to life. That said, she's also a fan of his bloodthirsty carnage in general. In S2E3, she's ecstatic to finally be in the Nether and is in sheer awe of the place, despite literally being hell in all but name.
• Affably Evil: Both the Wither and Ender Dragon act fairly nice and polite at times, and are generally friendly to Steve. They're also some of the vilest beings to walk the planet, with the former having driven the Pegasus race to extinction after going on a Pegasus blood-drinking binge and the latter burning down villages.
• Affectionate Nickname: Though it isn't initially done as a form of friendship, Steve calls the Ender Dragon "Endy" and takes to calling the Wither after the former's own nickname for him, "Withy".
• Always Identical Twins: The Jebs are an absurdly large family of Guardian fish. The only way to tell them apart is their name, and even then, it's nigh impossible to tell who's who. For simplicity's sake, only one of the three Jeb siblings Steve needs to kill to restore the Wither's power to get him and the Ender Dragon out of his head serves as his family's representative, that being Jeb.
  Endy: I can't tell the difference.
  Withy: No one can!
• And I Must Scream:
  • Subverted with Steve's "roommates". The Ender Dragon can resurrect herself through her offspring and is simply using Steve as a convenient host while the Wither can leave once he has sufficient power. All he needs is a new body to inhabit. It's unclear whether the Jebs can also leave Steve via unknown means or is permanently stuck inside his head, but for the most part they're not too concerned about their new habitat.
  • Steve's resurrection through the totem does not bring him back as intended, as while he regains his lucidity, he finds that he has zero control of his body and someone else is in the driver seat and begs the Wither to kill him.
• And the Adventure Continues: The series ends with Steve back where he started with the Wither and Ender Dragon back in his head. Barbara is also playing host to not just the Jebs, but also Ron. Alex decides to postpone killing Steve until he gets the Wither out of his head. Steve, Alex, and Barbara all go their separate ways, the former leaving on another journey to get his "roommates" out of his head.
• Back from the Dead:
  • In The Stinger, Steve is resurrected by the Wither to help combat the threat of the embodiment of Steve's evil.
  • Besides her wanting revenge against Steve for murdering her grandfather, Alex has also been looking for a way to resurrect her grandfather. She became a devout follower of the Wither when she learned he could resurrect the dead, though she also happens to be a fan of his.
• Bad Boss: The Raiders under the Ender Dragon's employ jump ship and choose to serve "Hero", much to her outrage. Apparently, they voted that her habit of telling them to jump off a cliff was a tad too much, courtesy of Ron teaching them democracy.
• Berserk Button:
  • Steve really gets annoyed whenever someone disses his craftsmanship, both because it happens so frequently and also because he's an adventurer—
    Steve: NOT AN ARCHITECT!
  • "Hero" really hates Steve, to the point that he refuses to call him by name and gets agitated when someone says Steve's name in any capacity. Ron and the Ender Dragon likens it to having daddy issues, which isn't too far off the mark since "Hero" was technically born from Steve.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Their habit of eating the winner of a dolphin race aside, the Jebs are far and above the nicest of Steve's roommates. And true to Endy's words, they're the "ultimate evil" as anyone who they inhabit ends up corrupted. Just as Steve and Ron.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Barbara the Cannibal, despite being a follower of the Ender Dragon, is slow on the uptake and likes to take bites out of people. She's also a scarily powerful witch who not only No Sells "Hero", but one-shots him. The aftermath of her blast leaves behind a giant crater in the middle of the village.
• Blatant Lies: When Steve successfully lands the fatal blow on the Ender Dragon, the Wither tells him not to look at the Ender Dragon as she explodes. Steve says he won't look as he's watching her explode. Which causes the Ender Dragon to take up residence inside his head.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: "Hero" has a very strange mind, though this can likely be chalked up to them being Steve's evil given a physical form. His idea of being a hero and ensuring world peace? Kill every living thing on the planet. There can't be any evil if there's no one alive to commit it, right? This is ignoring the fact that "Hero" himself is evil.
• Blood Knight:
  • The Wither and the Ender Dragon, natch. They really love destroying stuff and raising chaos. The former practically drove the Pegasus population to extinction because he got addicted to their blood.
  • Alex from Season 2 really loves killing and stabbing things. Fittingly, she's also a follower of the Wither who both finds the Nether to be awe-inspiring and gleefully recounts the story of how Withy destroyed a village and its inhabitants when they made the mistake of sacrificing a non-virgin to him.
• Book Ends: The first episode starts with Steve near a mountain and in a grassy plain as he gets ready to start his quest for revenge. The last episode ends in that same area, which is where Steve makes the Wither his new body.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday:
  • Subverted. Alex thinks this is what's going on when Steve doesn't know why she wants to kill him, but she just did a bad job of explaining. Once she states that Steve killed her grandfather, Steve connects the dots immediately.
  • In the Season 2 finale, Alex confronts the one who murdered her grandfather. Hero honestly has no idea who she's talking about.
    Hero: For starters, if you're going to blame me for killing someone, you're going to have to be far more specific.
• Call-Back: In S2E1, "Hero", like Steve back in Season 1, has the Ender Dragon living in his head since he made the mistake of watching her body explode, excusing his blunder by saying "Of course I was going to look!" In S1E3, the Wither accuses Steve of watching the Ender Dragon's demise (which is how she wound up in his head), to which Steve replies, "Of course I looked!" since she was exploding in a ball of light.
• Came Back Wrong: While there's already plenty wrong with him, Steve's resurrection through the totem he picked up did not help his sanity. While he's (briefly) alive again, he finds that he cannot control his own body and "something" has hijacked it, that being his own evil impulses. This is subverted in Season 2 where Steve is back to his usual self, albeit apathetic and is initially unwilling to help the Wither fight "Hero" given all the shit he went through in Season 1.
• Chekhov's Gun: During Episode 4, Steve picks up a strange totem, which the Ender Dragon warns him to get rid of as it feels wrong. When the Wither kills Steve the first time at the end of the episode, the totem revives Steve, and in the process amplifies his evil impulses so much it literally takes over his body. This is presumably what gave rise to "Hero" in Season 2, who is stated by the Wither to be Steve's evil personafied.
• Cliffhanger: S2E3 ends with Steve and Alex stumbling upon "Hero" and Ron after having left the cave with the active portal, with Steve's evil embodiment greeting him with faux cheer and saying it's been a while.
• The Corruptor: The old man warns Steve to get the Wither and Ender Dragon out of his head pronto, as the longer they stay in him, the more corrupted he becomes. This comes to pass in Episode 4, where Steve really starts to go through some serious levels of dickery.
  • Season 2 reveals this is not the case. As it turns out, the Ender Dragon was not kidding when she said the Jebs were the ultimate evil, as Word of God supports this and the season shows what happens to Ron after he plays host to the Jebs. It takes Rob nearly a day to go from a dimwitted golem to a passive-aggressive minion who mutters about bashing his boss' face in under his breath (and apparently taught the Raiders democracy offscreen). Recall how long it took Steve's sanity to take a nosedive after the Jebs hopped in his head back in Season and how long he had Withy and Endy before meeting the dolphin-eating fishies.
• Dark Is Evil: Of the Sunday cartoon villain variety, anyway. The Wither and Ender Dragon make no secret how much they love carnage, and both happen to be dark-colored monsters.
• Deadpan Snarker: When your "roommates" are a demonic, skeletal entity, said demonic entity's draconic ex-girlfriend, and a trio of monster fishes, being the Only Sane Man naturally has Steve turn into this. Case in point, when he learns the Ender Dragon and the Wither used to be a thing.
  Steve: Oh God, I've walked into a lover's quarrel. I am so dead.
• Defeat Equals Explosion: The Ender Dragon explodes when she dies. It's a defense mechanism meant to ensure she survives in some way. Anyone who looks at her while she's exploding ends up with Endy's consciousness in their body, as Steve and "Hero" in Season 2 learn the hard way.
• Demonic Possession: Zigzagged. The Wither jumps into Steve when the latter traverses the Nether, but he lacks any sort of power or influence over Steve and doesn't have the means to take over his body since he lost most of his power when his body was destroyed.
• Disproportionate Retribution:
  • Steve's response to his village rejecting his claims of being a hero and being angry at him for leaving town for revenge when they wanted him to stay and help rebuild is to leave in a fit of anger and come back to slaughter his friends and family and set the whole town ablaze. His "roommates" are horrified.
  • In Season 2, the Wither once had an entire village devoted to worshipping him and regularly offered him sacrifices in the form of virgins. When they made the mistake of sacrificing a non-virgin, he destroyed the village outright.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: At first, Steve things the Wither's grudge against the Ender Dragon is because he can't stand there being another entity as evil as him, though the former's comments makes him believe he has some level of respect. When he learns the Ender Dragon is female and dated the Wither, he realizes he's more or less walked into a lover's spat.
• The Dreaded: The Doom God, whoever he is, scares the shit out of the Wither and Ender Dragon. When they mistakingly hear Steve say his name, they start panicking.
• Dumb Muscle: Ron is a golem with incredible brute-like strength as seen after he takes the magical cube into his body. He's also about as smart as a bag of rocks and acts like a child.
• Enemy Mine: Alex despises Steve for killing her grandfather. However, she teams up with him to kill Hero when she learns that the Wither is in his head (she started worshipping the Wither while looking for a way to resurrect her grandfather). She still promises to kill him later, though. At the end of the season, she staves off killing Steve until he can get rid of the Ender Dragon and the Wither in his head. Again.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Played for Laughs...at first. The Ender Dragon becomes very concerned when Steve starts going crazy due to being sleep deprived. She gets even more concerned when he starts turning evil. Conversely, the Wither approves of Steve's descent into villainy, especially when he sets a colorful patch of land ablaze and takes over a residence, implied to have belonged to Raiders, by killing the previous owners. He changes his tune when Steve destroys his hometown and tells the Wither he's going to kill him and take his power for himself.
• Exact Words: The Ender Dragon claimed that the magic cube she stored in a Raider outpost would help "Hero" create the ultimate evil. Or rather what she considers the ultimate evil: the Jebs, whose souls were sealed in the magic cube.
• Face–Heel Turn: In Season 2, the Ender Dragon seemingly betrayed her friends, killing the Jebs and weakening the Wither enough to leave him helpless, thereby giving "Hero" a chance to conquer the world unopposed in exchange for ruling half of it. That said, it's implied that the Ender Dragon is possibly a Fake Defector as she's been leading him on wild goose chases, as his attempts to create the ultimate weapon have all ended in failure thus far, and when she is forced to lead him to something that will create the ultimate evil, it turns out to be what she considers the ultimate evil. The Season 2 finale confirms she's actually working with the Wither and purposely led him on those goose chases to give Steve enough time to prepare.
• Fallen Hero: Steve went on a quest of revenge to defeat the Ender Dragon and succeeded (though the later half of his journey involves him looking for a way to get her and the Wither out). Sadly, having two demonic entities in his head for so long has a negative effect on him to the point he refuses to help the old man who directed him to the Nether when the latter is shipwrecked, and later goes on to destroy his village out of Disproportionate Retribution.
• Find the Cure!: Well, not cure in this instance. When Steve learns he has unwanted "roommates" living inside his head, he's determined to get them out. At first, it's only the Wither, who jumped into Steve when he arrived in the Nether and only partnered with Steve because he wanted revenge on the Ender Dragon. When the Ender Dragon also hops into Steve's head, he has none of it. From Episode 3 onwards, Steve's main objective is to find a way to get his give his "roommates" the boot.
• Fire-Forged Friends: While they would claim otherwise, Steve's "roommates" consider him a dear friend after their journey together, likely due to the fact that they're both living inside his head. Neither the Ender Dragon nor the Wither wants to kill Steve and beg him to regain control of his body when he's consumed by his own evil impulses.
• First-Episode Twist: The first episode of Season 2 establishes near the end that "Hero" is Endy's current host, having made the same mistake Steve did and looked at her while she was exploding. Endy is also conspiring with him under the promise she gets to rule half the world after he kills everyone. This revelation happens after Withy says that the Jebs and Endy died fighting "Hero".
• Five-Second Foreshadowing: In S2E3, Barbara and Wither start acting strangely after Steve and Alex leave the Nether, with Barbara hiding away in the corner and muttering to herself. It isn't until Steve and Alex go topside that they realize why: "Hero" was looking for the same portal they just came out of and they literally just walked right into his lap.
• Freaky Is Cool: Alex is a genuine admirer and worshipper of the Wither, as well as being a general lover of things that involve violence and/or death. She thinks the Nether, a literal hellscape, looks amazing.
• Fusion Dance: When Steve creates the Wither's new body, the latter takes the Jebs and the Ender Dragon with him and combines their power, as he needs all the help he can get if he's going to stop Steve.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Near the end of Season 1, Steve develops this both because he hasn't slept for very long and the corrupting influence of his "roommates". When the Ender Dragon criticizes his decision to kill a mansion's previous owners, he snaps at her.
• Haunted House: The Cube has since developed this reputation following the Time Skip in Season 2, with the locals believing it to have been inhabited by a madman. The Wither admits he's the one who spread the rumor. Steve isn't amused.
• Heroic Comedic Sociopath: What Steve develops into by the end of Season 1. Though by that point he's far from being a heroic character as he's since killed a mansion's previous inhabitants, burned down a colorful patch of land, killed some bunnies, and destroyed his hometown.
• Here We Go Again!: The Season 2 finale ends with Steve back where he started in Season 1, with the Wither and the Ender Dragon back in his head, and is forced to go another adventure to get them back out.
• How Would You Like to Die?: Just as Steve is about to leave a village to go return to the Cube, he's stopped by Alex, who promptly asks him how he would like to die.
• I'm a Humanitarian: Barbara, the Wither's sole remaining worshipper after the Time Skip besides Alex, has a bad tendency to bite things. Including people. She took a bite out of Alex's shoulder and attempts to take a bite out of Steve.
• Immortal Immaturity: "Hero" is virtually unkillable, having been killed dozens of times and always comes back. He is also like a villain from a Sunday cartoon, having a dimwitted Iron Golem for an assistant and has an evil lair, which is outfitted with a trap door meant to kill failures.
• In Love with Your Carnage:
  • The Wither fell in love with the Ender Dragon because she was just as powerful as he was, and shared in his taste for violence. He genuinely fell in love with her too, though sadly she did not reciprocate and destroyed his physical body. In Episode 4, he also voices his approval for Steve's evil deeds until he starts to realize there is something very wrong with him.
  • Alex, the granddaughter of the old man Steve killed back in Season 1, turns out to be a huge fan of the Wither. While traveling with Steve, she gushes over a story about how a village sacrificed a virgin in his name.
• It's All About Me: Steve devolves into this behavior in Episode 4. He believes he's a hero for having killed the Ender Dragon and got revenge for his village and fully expects his village to celebrate his return, only to get angry when they rebuke him and tell him they never asked him to kill the Ender Dragon when they actually wanted him to help them rebuild their home.
• Literal Split Personality: "Hero", as described by the Wither, is Steve's Superpowered Evil Side that came to be as a result of the Whither and Ender Dragon's corrupting influence and the totem Steve stole from a mansion resident. He essentially embodies Steve's desire to be a hero. Problem is, he thinks he needs to kill everyone so there will never be any evil left in the world, while solely ignoring the fact that he himself is evil and flat-out says he wants to rule the world.
• Minion with an F in Evil: If Ron can really be called evil. He's a sentient golem who serves "Hero", but he has a child-like mentality and has a bad habit of killing cute little critters and a goat by accident. Really, the only reason he's evil in any capacity is because of his creator and boss.
• Mistaken Identity: Steve initially thinks Jeb is the Wither, noting how his tone of voice has changed. When Jeb says the Cube looks wonderful (both the Wither and the Ender Dragon repeatedly state the Cube looks awful), Steve realizes Jeb is not the Wither and he now has another "roommate" in his head.
  "Son of a bitch!"
• Mythology Gag: In S2E3, Steve loses a chunk of his thigh, courtesy of Barbara the cannibal. In one of Press Start to Laugh's other works, this is hardly the first time a character he's voiced has lost a chunk out of him, such as his Raft series where Arthur loses a toe or two from Bruce the shark.
• Never My Fault: Steve blames the old man for his current situation, i.e. having the Wither and Ender Dragon in his head. The problem is that, by the Wither's own admission, he was willing to jump into the first creature he saw and Steve happened to be right there, and the Ender Dragon ends up in his body because he witnessed her death when the Whither explicitly told him not to look at the Ender Dragon as she was exploding (granted, he told him this while Endy was exploding, but Steve still chose to ignore him).
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Played for Laughs. While Steve did succeed in killing the Ender Dragon, he also did the one thing the Wither told him not to. As a result, the Ender Dragon is now living inside his head.
  Steve: She was exploding in a giant ball of light, of course I looked!
• No-Gear Level: At the start of Season 2, Steve wakes up in the Nether and finds he has no armor or weapons, and he's surrounded by dozens of things that can potentially kill him. He thankfully re-arms himself with the weapons and armor stashed away near the new Nether Portal the Wither had set up.
• Noodle Incident: At some point in the past, Ron had a brother. Said brother was turned into a metal bucket after he annoyed "Hero" one too many times, though exactly what he did to turn into a bucket is never stated.
• Not Good with Rejection: Let's just say that Steve's reaction to the village chastising his selfish desire for revenge when they wanted him to help rebuild the village was more than a little visceral...
• Not Quite Dead: The Jebs were thought to have been killed by the Ender Dragon, as it was part of her deal with "Hero" so as to weaken the Wither. While she did destroy their bodies, she locked their spirits away inside a magic cube, which she convinces "Hero" into using so as to create the ultimate evil.
• Omnicidal Maniac: "Hero"'s end goal is destroy everything that breathes, as there can't be evil in the world if no one's alive. "Winning by default", as Steve puts it.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: The only way to defeat "Hero" is by having Steve absorb him back into himself. If anyone else kills him, "Hero" will just come back to life. This also goes the other way; "Hero" has to absorb Steve if he wants to be at full power.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Upon learning that Steve hasn't slept in days, the Wither and the Ender Dragon are concerned and strongly advise he go to sleep. Steve doesn't understand why until he starts to see Phantoms roaming the sky, all of which are out for his blood.
  • During his Face–Heel Turn, Steve tells the Wither he's going to kill him and take his powers for himself. The Wither, in response, threatens to pull his Wither Skeletons back so Steve can't get the last skull needed to create his new body...only for Steve to reveal he already has the last skull and could have restored the Wither at any time.
• Only Sane Man: Between the Wither and Ender Dragon, Steve is pretty much the only person between the three of them with any common sense, which unfortunately also makes him the resident Butt-Monkey when the two pick on him. This later extends to Jeb, who is the least bloodthirsty and the first to start worrying over Steve's unhinged behavior.
• Pet the Dog: A minor version, but in Season 2, Ender Dragon calls "Hero" 'lesser Steve'. Keep in mind that in the first season, she never called Steve by his name and instead referred to him as "the human", showing she has come to like him. There's also the fact that, instead of actually killing the Jebs, she destroyed their physical bodies and locked away their souls inside a magic cube. Despite her dislike for them, she was not willing to kill them outright.
• Pyrrhic Victory: Lamsphaded by Steve in Episode 3. Despite having slain the Ender Dragon, she's now floating around inside his head.
  Endy: Oh stop being so petulant just because I charred a few of your friends or family. You got your revenge, didn't you?
  Steve: And yet I still feel like I lost.
• Red Herring: It was originally believed that Steve's "roommates" and the Totem were responsible for his Face–Heel Turn and the creation of "Hero". While the Totem is responsible for his Superpowered Evil Side, neither Withy or Endy are responsible for corrupting him. The Season 2 finale and even Word of God make it clear it was the Jebs who made Steve evil at the end of Season 1.
• Refusal of the Call: After all the shit Steve's gone through during Season 1, he's naturally not keen on getting back into the thick of things, especially since the Wither brought him back without his consent and was content on staying dead. It isn't until he learns from Wither that the Ender Dragon and the Jebs are dead and how big of a threat "Hero" is that he reluctantly decides to fight.
• Revenge:
  • The series is kicked off by Steve going after the Ender Dragon, who destroyed his village. The Wither, also desiring revenge against the Ender Dragon for destroying his body, later joins him.
  • Alex has been chasing after the man who murdered her grandfather fifteen years ago. Said grandfather is the same old man who tried to help Steve throughout his journey, only for Steve to later kill him when he finally went off the deep-end. Alex decides to hold off on her revenge when she learns about "Hero" and that the Wither, who she is a fan of, is in Steve's head, though she makes it clear that she'll kill Steve once everything is said and done.
• Rule of Three: The Wither tells Steve that, in order to remove him from his body, he'll have to boost the former's power by killing three Guardians. All of whom, by the way, jump inside Steve's head after their deaths, though Jeb represents his family and is therefore considered Steve's third "roommate".
• Running Gag:
  • Anytime someone disses Steve's craftsmanship, such as the Cube, expect him to yell "NOT an architect!"
  • Many characters think Steve is evil for forcing a horse to carry him from place to place, claiming he is breaking its well and making it obey him. In Season 2, his defense is that no, he's not evil, he's just lazy and apathetic to what the horse wants.
• Sanity Slippage: As a consequence of having two malevolent entities riding shotgun inside his consciousness, Steve slowly starts going insane. It's Played for Laughs for the most part until the Season 1 finale, where the inclusion of the Jebs accelerates his descent into villainy as he commits cruel acts like setting a forest ablaze and killing animals for little to no reason. By far his worst and vilest acts are murdering the old man from Episode 1 who told him how to enter the Nether and attempted to help him exercise the Ender Dragon and the Wither, and destroying his village when they rebuffed him for seeking revenge when they really wanted him to stay and help them rebuild. Fortunately he gets better in Season 2.
• Sleep Deprivation: With a passenger in his head that snores, Steve naturally has difficulties sleeping. In Episode 3, having Endy do the same thing causes him to go several days without sleep, which also takes a hit on his sanity as he builds a railcart down into a mine for little to no reason. Not helping matters is that he finds himself being attacked by Phantoms, much to the Wither's concern and advises Steve to go to sleep.
• Strike Me Down: When the totem in Steve's hands resurrects him and his evil side takes over his body, he screams for the Wither to kill him as he no longer has any control over his body.
• The Stinger: At the end of Season 1, we get a montage of what Steve's "roommates" are up to after his death...only for the last shot to reveal Steve is alive and no longer corrupted. The Wither explains he revived him because when they killed Steve, they created something that now threatens to destroy the world.
  "It calls itself... "Hero"."
• Time Skip: Shortly after his resurrection, Steve thinks he's only been gone for a few days. The Wither corrects him and says he's been dead for 15 years.
• Token Good Teammate: Of all of Steve's "roommates", Jeb is the most likable (if you ignore his and his siblings' tendency to eat the winners of a Dolphin race) and finds Steve's world rather pleasant in contrast to the Whither and Ender Dragon's belief that it needs more fire and brimstone. He even thinks the Cube is nice! Fittingly, he's the first to voice his worry over Steve's dark behavior when it starts to surface.
• Took a Level in Jerkass:
  • It isn't so bad at first, but as the series goes on, Steve starts acting like an asshole. When he runs into the old man who told him how to reach the Ender Dragon, who was shipwrecked sometime after their first meeting, he refuses to help him solely because he despised the man's cryptic advice. This is because of the Wither and Ender Dragon's influence, and the old man even tells Steve to get them out of his head quickly or he'll be corrupted. And if you thought his refusal to help the old man was a dick move, then you'll consider his callous slaughter of the poor man and the destruction of his village at his own hand to be his absolute low.
  • Ron the Golem starts off as a dimwitted, ditzy, if not kind character who loves animals despite his unfortunate tendency to squish or crush and kill them. When he gets the cube containing the souls of the Jebs put in him, he grows smarter and starts developing a mean streak. Why do that sound familiar?
• Undying Loyalty: The Raiders are devout followers of the Ender Dragon, referring to her as their Scaly Empress. One Raider is so devoted to her that when she tells him to jump off a cliff, he does it with no questions asked. Keep in mind this is after she threatened to charbroil him. In the Season 2 finale, Ron somehow taught them democracy off-screen and they decided she's a Bad Boss and serve "Hero" instead.
• Villain Protagonist: Season 2 routinely switches between Steve and Hero's perspectives, giving Hero's quest for power equal prominence to Steve's quest to destroy him.
• Wham Episode: Season 1 Episode 4. A third of the way into the episode, Steve's behavior gradually grows more and more unhinged as a result of harboring the Wither and Ender Dragon in his head for so long...and culminates in him going through a Face–Heel Turn.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Contrary to Steve's expectations, the people of his village are not happy he killed the Ender Dragon. In fact, they never asked him to go on his quest for vengeance and he ran off without telling anyone and flat-out tell him they couldn't care less. They're more pissed about the fact that he chose vengeance over helping them rebuild. Steve...doesn't take the rejection well. At all.
• Where I Was Born and Razed: After his village bluntly tells him off for running off to kill the Ender Dragon instead of helping them rebuild, Steve later returns, slaughters everyone, and sets the village ablaze.
• You Killed My Father: The reason why Alex wants to kill Steve. The old man Steve killed in Season One was her grandfather.

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