History Recap / AnimatorVsAnimationAVMShortsEpisode34ThePrank

* SpoilerCover: {{Downplayed}} as it only applies to the reaction video on Alan's other channel ''Animators VS Games'', but the thumbnail basically hints that Purple makes an appearance in the video.

* PieInTheFace: The episode revolves around this trope, albeit with a cake since the only pies in vanilla Minecraft are pumpkin pies.[[note]]Other pies ''do'' canonically exist in the ''[=AvM=]'' universe, as there's one sitting on the Chef's table when the Stick Gang first meets him in ''The Chef'', but Red's final attempt would have made far less sense with something other than the cake's crafting recipe.[[/note]] Red successfully gets a cake in the faces of the Second Coming, Blue, and Yellow, only for Green to dodge the first few attempts with Red upping the ante each time.

* FailureMontage:

* BaitAndSwitch: Red [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this in his final prank by performing actions identical to his previous prank attempts, only that innocent picnic items substitute what would normally be a cake. This is actually a distraction for Red to secretly enchant various objects with a potion which causes them to assist with the prank. Even the giant cake that the enchanted objects and mobs make ends up being this, as Green erroneously assumes that that was the end of that encounter, only for him to run face-first into a normal cake as he attempts to flee.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Some of Red's attempts to prank Green with a cake leads to him getting caked instead. In his last-ditch effort to prank Green, Red ends up getting thrown into his trapped chair where he gets splatted all over by cakes.

* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: After countless failures of trying to get a cake in Green's face, Red comes to Purple for help in how to prank him. Purple manages to cobble together a plan off-screen that only Red sees but not the audience. Obviously, that plan was the one that succeeded in the end.

* Callback: Red puts a block in a Magic Staff, this time a cake, to use its powers as in "Lucky Block Staff" to rapid fire Cakes at Green.

* CombinedEnergyAttack: As the prelude the climax to his Ultimate prank, Red has been secretly enchanting a Cow, a Chicken, Sugarcane, and Wheat. Together, they combine their Ingredients to form a gigantic cake to drop over Green who barely manages to avoid it in time. Unfortunately for him, it left him open for Red to casually splat him in the face with another cake.

* MediumAwareness: Red's situation in communicated to Purple through {{Pictorial Speech Bubble}}s. In response, Purple directly interacts with them, from attempting to use the pictorial cake to splat the pictorial Green (the latter ends up being just as unprankable as the real Green) to rearranging all the pictures to lay out his master plan to Red.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Non-lethal example. Red's final prank has him set up by enchanting a cow, a chicken, a sugar cane, and a wheat crop to control them into helping him with the prank by [[CombinedEnergyAttack combining their resources to create a gigantic cake]] which they attempt to slam down on Green. Green manages to barely dodge, but he's left so terrified of what just happened that he ends up running face first into a regular cake held by Red.

* SpoilerCover: {{Downplayed}} as it only applies to the reaction video on Alan's other channel ''Animators VS Games'', but it basically hints that Purple makes an appearance in the video.

* ThePrankster: Red has become this, pranking Orange, Blue, and Yellow with Cakes to the face. However, Green proves very difficult for him to prank. Thus, he seeks the aid of another Master Prankster such as Purple to get Green with the perfect prank.

* Super-Reflexes: Green's Reflexes have gotten very good over the episodes, borderlining Spidey-Sense, dodging basically every single Cake Red could throw at him, no matter where it is coming from or how it is done.

* CombinationEnergyAttack: As the prelude the climax to his Ultimate prank, Red has been secretly enchanting a Cow, a Chicken, Sugarcane, and Wheat. Together, they combine their Ingredients to form a gigantic cake to drop over Green who barely manages to avoid it in time. Unfortunately for him, it left him open for Red to casually splat him in the face with another cake.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Non-lethal example. Red's final prank has him set up by enchanting a cow, a chicken, a sugar cane, and a wheat crop to control them into helping him with the prank by [[CombinedEnergyAttack combining their resources to create a gigantic cake]] which they attempt to slam down on Green. Green manages to barely dodge, but he's left so terrified of what just happened that he ends up running face first into a regular cake held by Red.

* PieInTheFace: The episode revolves around this trope, albeit with a cake since there are no pies in vanilla Minecraft.[[note]]Pies ''do'' canonically exist in the ''[=AvM=]'' universe, as there's one sitting on the Chef's table when the Stick Gang first meets him in ''The Chef'', but Red's final attempt would have made far less sense with something other than the cake's crafting recipe.[[/note]] Red successfully gets a cake in the faces of the Second Coming, Blue, and Yellow, only for Green to dodge the first few attempts with Red upping the ante each time.

* BaitAndSwitch: Red [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this in his final prank by performing actions identical to his previous prank attempts, only that innocent picnic items substitute what would normally be a cake. This is actually a distraction for Red to secretly enchant various objects with a potion which causes them to assist with the prank.