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programmer021
programmer021
Debut: Animator vs. Animation II
- all lowercase letters: Their username is in all lowercase letters.
- Ambiguous Gender: It's never made clear what their gender is.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: The video, Animator vs. Animation II, focuses on The Chosen One's fight against AIM. Meanwhile, Alan is focused talking to programmer021 on how to beat The Chosen One. This is how the conversation goes: transcript
- The Ghost: They don't appear at all in II and is only "seen" on the messenger board chatting with Alan.
- His Name Is...: The Animator's programmer friend has knowledge on how to beat the Chosen One but is suddenly cut off from TCO using the messenger board to kill AIM.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: They are only known by their username "programmer021".
- What Were You Thinking?: They are completely shocked by Alan's decision to create a stick figure and name him "The Chosen One".noogai3: i made him the chosen oneprogrammer021: Are you crazy?! That's suicide, man.
alexcrafter28
alexcrafter28
Debut: Lush Caves
His Minecraft avatar.
A Minecraft player who Second Coming and Red encounter in the Lush Caves biome.- all lowercase letters: alexcrafter28's username is in all lowercase letters.
- Back for the Finale: Briefly returns in "The King", if only for Red to give him his Minecraft Icon back.
- The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: In-Universe. After realising he's a real player and thus on a computer, the Second Coming and Red immediately run directly at him while in Minecraft, breaking out of the game window and landing on his desktop. Thankfully, the worst they do is spook him and borrow his email to send themselves to Alan's PC. Later, however, the Second Coming steals Alexcrafter's Minecraft icon after Purple stole Alan Becker's, though this amounts to only a second spook.
- Outside-Context Problem: Inverted, in that he serves as an Outside-Context Solution. This is the first time the sticks have encountered an actual Minecraft player, and he solves their problems twice.
- The Second Coming and Red use his computer to get themselves back home.
- The Second Coming snatches his Minecraft icon away to create a new Nether portal.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He's just a Minecraft player checking out a 1.17 snapshot that holds no relevance in the long run. However, the Second Coming and Red invading his computer to get back home is what led them to encounter Purple. He remains this in "The Ultimate Weapon", appearing for one short scene but managing to give the Second Coming the weapon he needs to defeat Purple and King Orange.
Drawings
The Second Coming's First Drawings
The Second Coming's First Drawings
Debut: Animator vs. Animation IV
- Extreme Omnivore: Both the alligator and the woodpecker are able to eat the broken debris of the drawing program.
- Muscles Are Meaningful: The SC's first drawing which was initially a stick figure is given a muscular build who was then seen lifting up the debris from the destroyed drawing program.
- Satellite Character: They illustrate the Second Coming's ability to draw as well as to compensate from Alan deleting SC's friends.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Their nicely-drawn appearances compared to Alan's drawings is what leads to Alan to have respect and admire the Second Coming resulting in a reconciliation between the two, constructing a long lasting friendship.
- Top-Heavy Guy: The giant has disproportionately shorter legs in stark contrast to its larger head, arms, and torso.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: They only appear for a few seconds wrecking the drawing app before being deleted by Alan.
Bob
Bob
Debut: Bob
- Buried Alive: After becoming fed up with Bob's exasperating and irritating actions against him, Green throws Bob in a deep pit and seals him up. Despite Bob's attempts to break back out, he remains permanently trapped down there.
- Character Title: The name of the Actual Short Bob debuted in is named after him.
- Jerkass to One: Bob enjoys beating up Green and hindering his everyday activities for no particular reason, which causes Green to throw him in a pit and leaving him to be forgotten. Of course, his creator, TSC, wasn't immune to this as well, though only to a lesser extent.
- Rubber Man: Bob can shape his arms in any shape or form he wants, which he uses to infuriate Green during his activities.
- Spiteful Spit: When he's grabbed by the neck by Green, Bob spits his face in contempt before being thrown in a pit.
Computer Programs / Digital Inhabitants
Avast Antivirus
Avast Antivirus
Debut: Animator vs. Animation II
"Caution! A virus has been detected."
An antivirus activated by Alan Becker in order to defeat The Chosen One.- Freeze-Frame Bonus: Many of the files Avast goes through on startup, namely "alanis.dll", "alanisgood.dll", "alanisgoodat.dll" and "alanisgoodatanimation.dll".
- Sealed Badass in a Can: The Chosen One is sealed into a giant chest by Avast Antivirus after being swarmed by lightning bolts which leads to him becoming effectively a slave to Alan.
- Zerg Rush: How Avast Antivirus manages to neutralize The Chosen One; it launches several lightning bolts against TCO that rush and restrain him giving Avast the opportunity to trap him in a chest.
Clippy
Clippit / Clippy
Debut: Animator vs. Animation III
"It looks like you're trying to kill a stick figure. Would you like help?"
An assistant from the animator's first computer that helps him in fighting the Chosen One.- Adaptational Badass: This version of Clippy is not just an annoyance; he's a skilled fighter, able to use Voluntary Shapeshifting to block attacks and twist his body into a tornado for a Spin Attack, wields a sword made of ASCII Art, and was able to keep the Chosen One busy long enough for the animator to draw the Dark Lord.
- Animate Inanimate Object: He is based off of a paper clip hence the name "Clippy".
- Killed Offscreen: Although not seen, he without a doubt goes down with the computer at the end of his only appearance.
- No-Sell: He survives a fire blast from the Chosen One by turning himself into the form of a box.
- Oh, Crap!: Gets this reaction three times in the video. First time when the Chosen One knocks the sword out of his hand, then when the Chosen One burns his sword down, and then when the Chosen One spits a massive pile of letters at him.
- Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: "Hey buddy! I'll kill you if you don't stop that!"
- Spectacular Spinning: At one point he starts spinning to toss the letters at the Chosen One. It backfires on him later when the Chosen One eats letters and fires a massive pile of letters at him.
- Spontaneous Weapon Creation: He uses a speech bubble to create an ASCII art of a sword, then grabs it out of the bubble and starts swinging.
- Tempting Fate: When Clippy gains the upper hand against The Chosen One, he asks him "Any last words punk?" then notices TCO's silence remarking that "nothing comes out of this guy's mouth." Which leads to The Chosen One shooting fire from his mouth.
- Unwanted Assistance: Subverted. He turned out to be really helpful to noogai in fighting the Chosen One.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: He can twist his body into various forms, which he uses to good effect while fighting the Chosen One.
Facebook Emojis
Facebook Emojis
Debut: Animator vs. Animation IV
Left to right (Above): the happy emoji, the silly emoji, the excited emoji, the loving emoji.
Left to right (Below): the laughing emoji, the nervous emoji, the sad emoji, the crying emoji.
A group of emojis from the website Facebook who have befriended and played with the Stick Gang.Left to right (Below): the laughing emoji, the nervous emoji, the sad emoji, the crying emoji.
- Baths Are Fun: Upon seeing the sad and crying emoji, the Stick Gang take them to a pool which is actually a color preview box from Adobe Flash leading to the two emojis to have a cheerful expression when they swim before TSC spins the color slider in a endless loop making the pool more fun. Later, when Red meets the nervous emoji, he takes it to the pool alongside the other emojis.
- Mass "Oh, Crap!": When Alan Becker opens Task Manager and ends Red's life, all of the emojis' expressions quickly change and the majority of them quickly run off to hide behind the Task Manager window as Alan progressively ends the other stick figures' lives. After ending the Fighting Stick Figures, Alan then moves the Task Manager window to see all of the emojis huddled together and jumping in fear as soon as Alan sees all of the emojis before ending their lives.
- Satellite Character: Their presence merely revolves around the Stick Gang being established as friendly stick figures who simply just want to have fun interacting with outsiders and playing around the Facebook website not wanting to cause any death & destruction like The Chosen One & The Dark Lord.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: They only appear in one scene where they play with the Stick Gang in Facebook before their lives were ended by Alan Becker never to be seen again in their debut installment.
Desktop Icons
In General
Not pictured: My Computer & Adobe Photoshop
A group of desktop icons kept on Alan's computer that have come to life and fought with the Chosen One.- Demoted to Extra: After the events of Animator vs. Animation III, All of the icons now remain as background props as well as becoming obsolete. Mozilla Firefox subverts this by appearing in Fox - An Actual Short
- Disney Villain Death: The majority of the icons are defeated by falling off the solitaire windows program.
- Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Given the fact they've debuted in the 2000s, all of the icons have older designs compared to their current appearance in later videos with some having completely drastic designs. Justified as this is a case of Real Life Writes the Plot with computers updating as time goes on.
- Killed Off for Real: They all die at the end of Animator vs. Animation III. Some of them reappear, albeit as cameos.
- Quirky Miniboss Squad: They have a wide arrange of abilities and most of them immediately ally with The Dark Lord to fight The Chosen One before being killed.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: All of the icons are first introduced to attack the Chosen One only to be defeated.
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox
Debut: Animator vs. Animation II
- Breaking the Bonds: It immediately melts the entire Recycle Bin icon when it was trapped inside of there.
- Breath Weapon: It can breathe fire.
- The Bus Came Back: Makes a surprise return in Fox - An Actual Short. Though briefly.
- Defeat Means Explosion: It meets its demise in III when it gets slammed into a minesweeper window, resulting in an explosion over the entire program.
- Fantastic Foxes: It's a digital fiery fox. Or firefox, if you prefer.
- Flying Firepower: It can utilize this after it was kicked down when it seemed it fell to its doom.
- Kill It with Ice: In Animator vs. Animation II, it gets frozen to death by the Chosen One's freezing ability showcasing the first ever moment of the latter using ice attacks.
- Playing with Fire: Befiting it's name, Firefox is capable of breathing fire and spitting fireballs.
- Trash Landing: It falls into the Recycle Bin when it pounced TCO only to be deflected back. It instantly melts the entire bin from the inside.
- Wingding Eyes: It gets X-es for eyes after its death in III.
AIM
AOL Instant Messenger
Debut: Animator vs. Animation II
- Art Attacker: It uses MS Paint paintbrushes as weapons.
- Badass Normal: It's just a stick figure without any unique powers, yet it still can fight back against the Chosen One with objects lying around.
- Glass Weapon: Besides the paintbrushes from the logo of MS Painting, it also uses a glass cup to smash the Chosen One's head.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: In Animator vs. Animation II, it gets blasted by a musical projectile thrown by the Chosen One when it tried to shoot TCO with said projectile. It also gets killed by its own program window.
- Killed Off for Real: It dies twice to the Chosen One. As AIM wasn't featured in any video after III, and then the program was shut down for good in December 2017 in real life, it's safe to say its death is permanent.
- Magic Music: At one point, it uses Windows Media Player to shoot the Chosen One with musical projectiles emitting a soundwave when hit.
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop 7.0
Debut: Animator vs. Animation II
- Beam-O-War: It engages into one with the Chosen One. And loses.
- Cyclops: It has only one eye.
- Defeat Equals Explosion: After the Chosen One takes it out, it emits a wave of energy that knocks over several icons around it.
- Eye Beams: It can fire a laser beam from its eye.
My Computer
My Computer
Debut: Animator vs. Animation II
- Animate Inanimate Object: It's a sentient computer icon… inside a computer.
- Black Bead Eyes: It has two dots as eyes with three lines as the eyebrows and the mouth.
- Deadly Disc: It can fire disks from its system block.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: When My Computer shoots disks at The Chosen One, he deflects them back at into it's computer chassis leaving it immobilized.
- Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: It's able to summon a shield when the Chosen One tries to give it a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
- No-Sell: It protects itself from the Chosen One's fire breath with a firewall.
- Out of Focus: Later episodes remove its sentience altogether, reducing it to merely a prop.
Orbit
Orbit
Debut: Animator vs. Animation III
- Bulletproof Human Shield: It unwillingly becomes this to the Chosen One who's using Orbit to block Chrome's laser beams.
- Extendable Arms: Orbit's capable of extending its arrow arm to attack The Chosen One at a safe distance.
- Grievous Harm with a Body: It falls victim to this when The Chosen One uses Orbit's body to attack Chrome.
- Mirror Character: To Windows Movie Maker. Both characters are desktop icons, have fought The Chosen One using their extendable arm, and have fallen victim to Grievous Harm with a Body before falling off the Solitaire windows program.
Google Chrome
Google Chrome
Debut: Animator vs. Animation III
- Attack Drone: It has the ability to float, is durable to take a couple of hits, and can shoot out lasers from its eye evoking this trope.
- Continuity Cameo: For a long time, Chrome has only ever appeared in its debut appaearance Animator vs. Animation III published way back in 2011 until it made a brief appearance in the short "Bob Is Always There" which was published in 2023.
- Cyber Cyclops: With the blue "core" acting as its eye, and the rest of the icon as its body, it evokes this appearance.
- Energy Weapon: Chrome can fire lasers from its core.
Windows Movie Maker
Windows Movie Maker
Debut: Animator vs. Animation III
- Animate Inanimate Object: It's a sentient movie reel.
- Extendable Arms: Its able to use its film strip to attack The Chosen One.
- Grievous Harm with a Body: Similar to Orbit, WMM falls victim to this not just against Chrome but also against iTunes' hover board.
- Mirror Character: To Orbit. Both are desktop icons, have fought The Chosen One using their extendable arm, and have fallen victim to Grievous Harm with a Body before falling off the Solitaire windows program.
iTunes
iTunes
Debut: Animator vs. Animation II (cameo)
Click here for its appearance in II
- Anthropomorphic Typography: It's a sentient musical notation called a beamed quaver representing music.
- Deadly Disc: Flies on the disk and tries to slice the Chosen One with it.
- Early-Bird Cameo: It appeared in II presumably as a background prop that gets knocked by the Chosen One.
- Hover Board: Its disk allows it to fly around.
- I Can Still Fight!: Even after the Chosen One breaks its disc, it still grabs onto his feet to trip him.
Yahoo! Messenger
Yahoo! Messenger
Debut: Animator vs. Animation III
- Badass Adorable: Downplayed. The closest thing this smiling fellow has done is bite the Chosen One before being thrown in the trash.
- Black Bead Eyes: It has two dots as eyes in contrast to its big detailed smiling mouth.
- Man Bites Man: It bites the Chosen One's hand when the desktop icons gang up on him.
- Oh, Crap!: Its last few moments has it being happy that it got out of the recycle bin... one second later, it realises it's getting sucked into the hole that the two stick figures are making.
- Perpetual Smiler: Downplayed. It's always smiling even when it's willing to fight and bite The Chosen One. Despite that, it will stop smiling when it's in distress.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: This mascot of Yahoo looks pretty cute when smiling.
- Trash Landing: It unwillingly gets thrown into the Recycle Bin when the Chosen One toys with it like a basketball becoming trapped inside.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: It gets trapped inside of the Recycle Bin. Thankfully, it later manages to be free… thanks to the black hole that sucks up everything.
VLC Media Player
VLC Media Player
Debut: Animator vs. Animation III
- A Handful for an Eye: It uses itself to blind the Chosen One.
- Ambiguous Situation: It's uncertain what happened to VLC after it placed itself on The Chosen One's head or even when it "died". It's possible it lost sentience and reverted back into an inanimate object but it's unclear of the circumstances.
- Animate Inanimate Object: It's a living road cone.
Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer
Debut: Animator vs. Animation II (cameo)
Click here for its appearance in II
- All Animals Are Dogs: It gets distracted with the Chosen One playing with Yahoo! Messenger like a ball, similarly to a dog.
- Anthropomorphic Typography: Internet Explorer is a sentient icon represented by a lowercase "E" with a ring around it.
- Early-Bird Cameo: It appears in II presumably as a background prop that gets destroyed by the Chosen One.
- Man Bites Man: It bites the Chosen One's hand when the desktop icons gang up on him.
Skype
Skype
Debut: Animator vs. Animation III
- Anthropomorphic Typography: Skype has an "S" in the center of the blue shape as part of its logo appearance.
- Glass Weapon: It uses a glass cup to knock off The Chosen One.
- Good Old Fisticuffs: In essence, its orbs act as "fists", which it uses against the Chosen One.
