History Recap / AnimatorVsAnimationAVMShortsEpisode30TheKing

** Also for the ''Minecraft'' series as a whole: The very first ''Minecraft'' episode has The Second Coming take the Minecraft icon out of the taskbar and ''The King'' ends with him putting it back.
* BrickJoke: Blue ''finally'' gets his Nether Wart, after the one entire season of portal hopping shenanigans. The Piglin Child also hands him some Warped Fungus, still erroneously thinking Blue likes it after his DiscreetDiningDisposal in the first episode.

* HelplessWindowDeath: As the glitching and collapsing Minecraft emulator pulls his son in, the most King can do is helplessly bang on the sealed doors

* FreezeFrameBonus: [[https://youtu.be/Sp2nxlrQ89w?t=554 When King opens up a book of Minecraft mysteries]], some of the pages that appear for a brief moment are direct references to the many adventures and encounters of the main stick figures have seen, with the book containing a picture of a [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/AnimatorVsAnimationAVMShortsEpisode11Skyblock sky block platform]] and text containing information about "[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/AnimatorVsAnimationAVMShortsEpisode23TitanRavager jumbo ravagers]]".

* ForcedToWatch: As the glitching and collapsing Minecraft emulator pulls his son in, the most King can do is [[HelplessWindowDeath helplessly bang on the sealed doors]].

Meanwhile, Second Coming and his friends try to stop the staff to no avail until Second Coming remembers the time when he pulled out a Master Block from a Nether Portal, reversing its effects. With the knowledge in hand, the Stick Gang race to their own Nether Portal to Alan's computer.

* CallBack: [[Recap/AnimatorVsAnimationAnimationVsMinecraft Herobrine possesses Red again]], but this time while on the heroes' side.

* EvilVsEvil: Herobrine, the BigBad of the original "Animation Vs. Minecraft" video, fights off King, the BigBad of AVM Shorts Season 3, for a good while during the episode. He later possesses Red again in order to save himself.

* BrickJoke: Blue ''finally'' gets his Nether Wart, after the one entire season of portal hopping shenanigans.

* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:It's largely unknown if King decided to become a ParentalSubstitute to Purple, or if Purple was actually Kings' Son all along; [[UnexplainedRecovery having managed to escape from the destroyed Minecraft Server at some point]] but at the cost of being turned purple and suffering from LaserGuidedAmnesia.]]

* ForcedToWatch: As the glitching and collapsing Minecraft emulator pulls his son in, the most King can do is helplessly bang on the sealed doors.

** While the stick figures are resistant to the Minecraft icons' dark energy due to not being native to Minecraft, it's strong enough to cause them to temporarily glitch if they're blasted at for long enough.

* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** When King strangles the Minecraft exhibit worker, the worker is shown still breathing afterwards, implying that King stopped before he went too far and killed them despite losing his son. It foreshadows that while King is committing evil acts, he hasn't quite gone past the MoralEventHorizon just yet.
** The thumbnail for the video shows Yellow holding a diamond sword instead of the Lapis Lazuli Command Block staff that was created in "The Raid". Turns out King destroyed it to get back the Dual-Block Staff from Purple.

Back in reality, Second Coming, with assistance from his friends and some Piglins, manages to pull out the two Master Blocks from Alan's Nether Portal, reversing the destruction caused and splitting the two Blocks. As everyone reunites with their friends, a remorseful King fixes a Command Block to his staff, brings back the Titan Ravager's family and hands his weapon and crown to Yellow and Red's pig respectively. With the battle over, everyone goes their separate ways with Purple leaving with King, the Warden joining Herobrine and Second Coming and Red placing back Alan and alexcrafter28's Blocks back where they came from.

* AntagonistTitle: Courtesy of King, whose an AntiVillain WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds.

* ZergRush: Herobrine uses an army of Steve Clones to take on King. It works pretty well until King figures out how to absorb the clones into the Dual-Block.

* EverybodyLives: In the end everyone is alive including King, who had a HeelRealization, Red's pig, which respawned once the Master Block's were send back to Alan's computer, and the other two Titan Ravagers, who King ressurected.

** The thumbnail for the video shows Yellow holding a diamond sword instead of the lapis lazuli command block staff that was created in "The Raid". Turns out King destroyed it to get back the Dual-Block Staff from Purple.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When King strangles the Minecraft exhibit worker, the worker is shown still breathing afterwards, implying that King stopped before he went too far and killed them despite losing his son. It foreshadows that while King is committing evil acts, he hasn't quite gone past the MoralEventHorizon just yet.

Some time later, Blue holds a feast for his friends, serving Nether Warts among the dishes, the Warden excels at Herobrine's school, the Titan Ravagers and Villagers driving away a witch and King and Purple bonding over the playground where King once played with his son.

Back in reality, Second Coming, with assistance from his friends and some Piglins, manages to pull out the two Master Blocks from Alan's Nether Portal, reversing the destruction caused and splitting the two Blocks. As everyone reunites with their friends, a remorseful King fixes a Command Block to his staff, brings back the Titan Ravager's family and hands his weapon and crown to Yellow and Red's pig respectively. With the battle over, everyone goes their separate ways with Purple leaving with King, the Warden joining Herobrine and Second Coming and Red placing back Alan and alexcrafter's Blocks back where they came from.

King unleashes the full power of the two Master Blocks to strengthen the black hole, destroying the surrounding Nether portals and the worlds outside each portal. He manages to throw everyone to the curb until Purple tries to stand up to his destructive beams. Seeing Purple begin to suffer from its effects, King sees the similarities between his son and Purple getting caught in similar incidents involving the game and rushes to the stick figure to save him.

In a flashback, King had a little son whom he loved dearly. One day, the two went to a fair where the son stumbled across a ''Minecraft'' simulator. Eager to try it out, the son enters the game and all seems well, until an alarm is sounded; the game is starting to corrupt. The workers and King try to bail him out of the simulation to no avail, and can only watch as the simulation falls apart, taking the son with it. Grief turns to anger as King takes it out on the workers. Time passes and King develops a way to get his revenge; he researches all about ''Minecraft'' and its workings to formulate a plan to destroy it, making a staff to help him in his goals. However, the staff cannot fully utilize its power, and requires a Master Block to function properly.

In a vision, King enters a house where he sees a drawing of ''Minecraft'''s icon destroying his son. He sees a drawing of himself beating up the block, harming its inhabitants and begs his drawn self to stop when he suddenly breaks the wall, revealing a lonely Purple.

''[work in progress]''

* [[WorldWreckingWave World-Wrecking]]/[[WorldHealingWave Healing Wave]]: Both zig-zagged.
** The World-Wrecking effect that destroys Minecraft starts out as an overhead vortex that starts pulling objects upward (if it absorbs a Nether Portal, anything near the paired portal also gets sucked in). It transitions into a [[AdvancingWallOfDoom proper wave of light that gradually sweeps through the Nether]], which is joined by other waves coming from other directions that eventually meet at Alan's portal.
** The World-Healing effect that restores Minecraft retracts the waves of light that previously wiped out the Nether, causing the blocks to reappear. Some start out still in disarray, but gradually recoalesce into their old structures. A large stream of light emnates from Alan's portal, restoring large structures and previously absorbed Nether Portals. It also restores and sends through streams of mobs/items that were on the other side of those portals. Mobs and sticks that were in the Nether are launched out directly on the ground (without damaging them). When the Minecraft Game Icons finally split, the beam dissipates and spits King, his staff, and Purple out of the Nether portal.

* AntagonistTitle: Courtesy of King, before his HeelFaceTurn.