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Animator vs. Animation IV
- The ending: After four shorts, the animator and his stick figure, The Second Coming finally make peace, and begin working on animations together. The Second Coming even teaches him new techniques and helps him improve with his drawing and animating.
- The fighting stick figures waving at the Second Coming when the Animator refreshes them as they play their card game.
- Seeing the Second Coming play and have fun with his new friends and not blowing up the computer is just adorable.
- The stick figures playing with the emotes on Facebook. Red pets the crying face, and then he throws it into the paint on the animation program, which cheers it up.
- The main reason for Second Coming's Roaring Rampage of Revenge? The animator ended his friends' tasks, and the orange stick figure was having fun with them.
Animator Vs Animation V
Ep 1: The Virus
- It's nice to see the animator and animations living and helping with each other. Especially when a great threat came, the two of them work together to fight it. Something that was impossible to see in the first three "Animator Vs Animation" videos.
- Second Coming and the Animator even have a special high-five/handshake!
- The first thing the Animator draws, when the virus lunges at them, is a shield to protect Second Coming (followed immediately by a giant scribble "tying up" the virus—the virus just dissolve-bites it in seconds, but it's the thought that counts).
- The way the two of them work together to draw weapons—a hammer, a rocket launcher—suggests they've been at this a while. And when they use the fly swatter, they practically perform a duo attack, with the Second Coming bringing the fly swatter closer and stepping on its handle, while the Animator holds the upper part of it before letting go to flatten the virus.
- When the Second Coming and the other stick figures are in trouble, the Animator drags ViraBot away from them to attack it. Directly with his mouse cursor. Twice. (The second time, his cursor isn't so lucky.) When ViraBot lunges at the Second Coming after hatching and destroying his hammer, the Animator is shown quickly moving his cursor out of the way, implying that he knows (or at least, suspects) that the virus can do damage to it. And yet when his stick figure friends are in danger, he quickly goes out of his way to protect them, even at risk of briefly losing his control of the computer.
- When the virus destroys the Animator's cursor, all the stick figures react with visible alarm that says "Oh no! He's gone!". And let's look at their reactions again; After the Second Coming loses his pencil, the stick figures (including him) are seen evacuating inside the walls, clearly frightened by the virus. But when the Animator gets his cursor destroyed with no way to get it back? After a short stunned silence, they turn to ViraBot in cold anger before (attempting on) giving it a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
Ep 2: The Chosen One's Return
- After the Chosen One has destroyed ViraBot once and for all, he creates a portal so he can leave. However, the Chosen One faces Alan and says farewell to him. If he still hated him, he would've finished what ViraBot started or told the other stick figures of the torture Alan put him through. However, he does neither, suggesting that his grudge has faded (likely from seeing how the Second Coming and his fellow stickmen were able to reform him into a better person). Meanwhile, Alan isn't mad nor fearful towards the Chosen One, and lets the Second Coming and his friends enter the Chosen One's portal from their own will. (You can actually see that just before they enter the portal, they turn to look at the Animator. If Alan said a word of protest or even just looked unsure, they likely would have hesitated.)
Ep 3: The Flashback
- The friendship the Chosen One had with the Dark Lord, after the two wreck Alan's computer and escape. Right before the bluescreen, the Chosen One knocks sense into the Dark Lord while the latter shakes in fear, letting both of them escape into cyberspace. The two high-five each other, and set out to destroy other websites as well... at least, until the Chosen One realizes that they're also hurting the innocents, including many other stick figures. When the Dark Lord attempts to fire Virabot to a certain PC (which succeeds), this friendship makes the Chosen One try to talk him out of it before using brute force.
- The fact that the Chosen One, even after seeing that Virabot has been fired to hit the Animator's PC, quickly decides to chase it down regardless. Even with bad memories of his previous encounters with the Animator, he still chooses to let no one else come to harm because of what his (ex-)friend did.
- Notably, just what caused the Chosen One to save the Animator? Among his flashbacks of the Animator fighting and trashing him around, he gets a flashback of the Animator naming him "The Chosen One" - The Animator is the sole purpose why the Chosen One has those powers in the first place, and in a way, is his dad. That's when the Chosen One performs his Heel–Face Turn and decides to save him.
Ep 4: The Showdown
- Considering their checkered past, the Animator and the Chosen One going full-on Bash Brothers to fight the Dark Lord is a great representation of how they've made peace with one another. And up until the Dark Lord called in his ViraBot army, they were winning.
- The Second Coming runs to stand between the Chosen One and the Dark Lord, despite having just met the former. And moments later, his friends jump down as well.
- Once the battle is won, Second Coming loses his newfound powers and passes out. Alan's mouse comes to his aid and brings him over to his friends. When he comes to, and sees his resurrected friends, his first reaction is to check them over. After that, they all join in and have a Group Hug before Alan's mouse comes down and they leave to go back home.
Animator Vs Animation VI
Ep 1: Wanted
- There's a brief moment during the chase scene in the beginning when some debris shot off by the mercenaries is about to land on a civilian, and the Chosen One risks staying behind a few seconds to destroy it before anyone is hurt.
- The new set of AvA Shorts averts Artifact Title right off the bat: first episode features a battle between Alan and the sticks... just for fun. It's not a PC-destroying clash this time; it's just an Animator and his Animations sparring with each other.
- Once the Chosen One realizes that the Second Coming genuinely does not have access to the powers he'd used to defeat the Dark Lord, he immediately flies back into the line of fire to get the Second Coming out of there and back home. In turn, once he's shot down and put out of commission, the Second Coming stays behind to do what he can to defend him from his attackers.
Ep 2: The Box
- It's obvious that The Chosen One has completely forgiven the Animator, because when victim tries to ask him if he knows anything about the Animator, The Chosen One refuses to say anything about him. This is after victim just subjected The Chosen One to a severe beatdown. Even when victim attaches a device to The Chosen One's head that shows his memories as video footage, the latter tries to stop it by banging his head on the ground.
Special episodes
Animation vs. Minecraft
- After every episode prior has had the main stick figure start off on sour terms from the word go, seeing this episode start with the Second Coming happily skipping across the monitor is refreshingly adorable.
- After being freed from his Demonic Possession, Red becomes horrified and guilt-ridden over attacking his friends. What do his friends do? They are happy to see that he is okay and give him a Group Hug.
- A bit of Fridge Heartwarming in the fact that the Animator doesn't show up at all, but has left his computer up and running for the stick figures to romp around in. Compare this level of trust with him ending their tasks on sight in 4.
- As mentioned on the Fridge page, the Second Coming crafts diamond armor and weapons for everyone else before crafting any for himself. Since he knew he had a finite amount of diamonds, he made sure everyone else was protected before he worried about himself.
Animation vs. YouTube
- During the battle YouTube selects the original Animator Vs. Animation video, and everything calms down as the Second Coming and Green look at the video in wonder. It's a really touching moment of remembering the origins of this series, especially when the Second Coming layers himself over the first drawing of Victim, to Green's amazement.
Animation vs. League of Legends
- Before they are sent into the world of League of Legends, the stickmen are having lots of fun. They watch Alan playing the game, enthusiastically beg him to play again and when he leaves, wear masks made from the champions' portraits to goof around. After fighting for so long, the stickmen are finally having a good time in ages.
- After the Second Coming destroys Purple's tower and claims the victory for his team, he is given a celebratory toss by his friends and they all celebrate in joy. Admit it, you couldn't help but to smile at the occasion. Then, they see Purple sitting in the corner in shame. He was the one who turned his back on his friends to get the Ender Dragon's egg and left them to die, and doomed his village to the Ender Dragon's wrath. But what do the Second Coming and the aforementioned friends do? They forgive him and offer him a chance for redemption. He accepts.
Animation vs. Pokemon
- Upon releasing Totodile, the Second Coming immediately falls in love with him, not even caring when he bites his arm. On the other side of the coin, Totodile clearly isn't eager to leave him when the Second Coming is caught, timidly hiding behind his leg.
- When the policeman demands that the Second Coming return the Totodile, the Second Coming initially moves to hand it over, only to just put the Totodile on the ground, presumably to let him choose whether or not he wanted to return. It's only when the Totodile makes it clear that he wants to stay with him that the Second Coming tries to flee with him.
- The Second Coming is able to get a full team of Pokemon via The Power of Friendship.
- Pidgey is caught in a Pokeball, but doesn't bother to resist; the "successful capture" click is immediate, even though the Pidgey was unweakened.
- The Totodile that the Second Coming took from the lab happily rejoins him once the Second Coming reenters the game.
- Mareep tries to stealthily follow the others, until they catch on and happily invite her to join.
- Heracross is spotted drowning in a lake. Totodile rescues him.
- Slugma is spotted being prodded by some jerks trying to get him to fall into the water. Heracross tosses them into the water.
- Oddish is spotted being chased by a Farfetch'd. Mareep thundershocks the latter to get it to back off.
- Up until the Elite Four, all six are following the Second Coming. It's possible that most of them didn't even have their own Pokeballsnote until the Second Coming was told to withdraw them by the Elite Four gatekeeper (who said only one Pokemon could follow him), making it all the more heartwarming that they stuck around.
- Ethan eventually acknowledges the Second Coming's ability as a legitimate trainer, admitting that he was the one taught the lesson when he thought he'd be teaching the Second Coming one.
Animation vs. Mario
- After a rather rough introduction, the stick figures and the different incarnations of Mario find peace with each other through Mario 3 and Red both liking the Tanuki Suit, Yellow and Mario 2 sharing interest in the magic carpet, the others enjoying the mechanics of the different Super Mario games and finally The Second Coming making peace with the first Mario by giving him Super Mushroom. They then enjoy watching each other play through their makeshift Super Mario Maker level.
Animation vs. Arcade Games
- Even after what Q*bert has done to everyone, everyone forgives him after finding out that he just wanted to take care of his family. Mario is even smiling as he's clapping.
- Second Coming practically squees at the sight of the baby Q*berts.
AvM shorts
Season 1
Ep 7: PvP
- When everyone's grieving Green's death, before he respawns, Yellow can briefly be seen comforting Blue. Also, none of them give The Second Coming any grief for killing him.
Ep 9: Villagers
- When the villagers get lots of resources, they don't stop worshipping Purple like he feared, but instead build him a much better castle. It seems like they really respect him as a leader, even aside from his handouts.
- Also the fact that Purple seems to like Blue and Green by the end.
Ep 10: The End
- After being rescued from falling into the void by the other stick figures and several Villagers, Blue and Green Group Hug Red, Yellow, and the Second Coming. After a few seconds, the Villagers join the hug.
- The Dragon Egg ends up hatching into a Baby Enderdragon!
Ep 11: SkyBlock
- When the Second Coming opts out of going into another portal with the others, there's no attempt on the part of either himself or Green to get the other to come along with their own plans. They just shake hands and calmly part ways to do their own things. Becomes more Heartwarming in Hindsight in the tail end of "The Dolphin Kingdom", where Green is the one to finally break down over how much he misses the Second Coming. Sad as that scene is, the fact that their last meeting went rather amicable means that there was no Parting-Words Regret involved.
- The fact that the Second Coming has a picture of him and all of his friends. Bonus points when you consider the possibility that the Animator made it for him.
- Despite not wanting another chaotic adventure, as soon as the possibility of his friends being in danger crosses his mind, the Second Coming doesn't hesitate to race to the portal where everyone else went.
- When the fighting stick figures are huddled around a campfire after their SkyBlock run goes south, Blue is the only one with any food, a measly two carrots. Despite how hungry he is, he notices that Red and Green are hungrier and decides to give each of them one, leaving nothing for himself.
Ep 13: The Dolphin Kingdom
- While the context is a Tear Jerker, the fact that Green also has a copy of the group photo the Second Coming has is rather cute.
- The episode ends with the whole group reunited at last! Doubly so since the two parties were crying over each other moments before. Once the Fighting Stick Figures see the Second Coming after the latter mines through the wall to meet them, after a few seconds of Stunned Silence, the whole group tackle hugs him before throwing him into the air like they did in "Animations vs League of Legends."
Season 2
Ep 15: Redstone Academy
- Yellow wanting to teach his friends all about redstone.
Ep 19: Lucky Block
- Red visibly squees when his Lucky Block spawns a bunch of cats.
- When Yellow brings the Lucky Block Entity back with him, he uses it to give his friends personalized gifts.
- Red playing with the wolf he got from a Lucky Block.
- When the others send supplies to Red, he quickly realizes it must be them who sent it and gives a 'you are here with me' gesture to the sky, figuring that they're helping him from wherever they are now. The others make the same gesture.
- When Red is about to be possessed, the others do everything the can to interrupt the process. And when they fail, Red's last act is to spawn an animal, having faith that they can use it to keep fighting.
- Once everyone's back in their bodies, Yellow gives the pig a hug and a scratch as the others cheer.
Season 3
Ep 20: The Piglin War
- The Piglin Child in general, who sees Blue as a friend from the get-go and is very supportive and even gave him golden armor so the other Piglins help him in his quest for Nether Wart.
- When Blue is given some warped fungus by the Piglin Child, which he discovers he hates, he puts it in his pocket to make it look like he ate it rather then potentially hurt the kid's feelings.
- When the child thinks Blue ate the first one quickly, they assume that means he's really hungry and gives him more.
- During the battle between the living and zombie Piglins, Blue does his best to not harm the living Piglins even if they try to kill him for being an outsider and he only pushes them away.
- Blue chooses to save the Piglins despite them trying to kill him moments earlier, and them not even knowing he could help. As they ride for the lava, he stays at the rear to cover their escape, even pushing the slowest Strider to help it move faster.
- Blue jumps to save the Piglin Child without any hesitation, despite having no way to protect himself from the lava. As he sinks into the lava, instead of trying to save himself, he focuses on holding the child as high as possible so they have a better chance of being rescued.
- After Blue saves the Piglin Child from death, the Piglin Leader hugs him and sees him as a friend even if he isn't wearing golden armor.
- The Piglins thank the Striders for saving them, with the Piglin Child giving them a bunch of warped fungus, which they appreciate.
- Despite none of the others wearing golden armor, the Piglin Leader decides they're trustworthy because of how affectionate Red's sniffer pig is towards Red and the fact that they know Blue.
- The fact that the Piglin Leader is willing to give them a chance to prove they're friendly instead of just attacking them like they did with Blue at first. Really, this entire episode is a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming.
Ep 21: The Witch
- After the Witch turns invisible and escapes, the Second Coming falls to his knees, but the Pig is here to cheer him up.
- After the Pig gains superpowers, kills the Witch and reverts the Stick Gang back to normal, they all hug it as a reward for saving their lives.
- Purple in general in this episode. The first time we see him, he's peacefully collecting flowers. After seeing the Stick Gang, he drops the flowers and hugs the Second Coming and Green. He's very clearly excited about having them back and that they can see something, which makes him very adorable in this episode.
- When the heroes come to enter the Nether portal, Purple, Red, Green, Yellow and Blue all do the very same gesture with their hands very fast. It's like they have their own language!
- Extremely subverted when "Parkour" comes out and it's revealed the entire thing was just an act to manipulate the Stick Gang.
Ep 22: Parkour
- What causes the trap to fall apart is everyone getting concerned when the others take a long time to arrive at the finish line (due to them being split to arrive at separate finish lines) and wanting to make sure they're OK. And getting understandably peeved when the Piglin Brutes refuse to let them go check.
- There's a small moment when Green confronts Purple at King's castle. Green was earlier shown Dual Wielding swords against the Piglin that had trapped him, so we know he has a weapon, yet he faces Purple with nothing but his fishing rod and his fists. It's clear that, in spite of how Purple betrayed them, Green wants to believe he's not all bad.
Ep 24: Lush Caves
- When the Second Coming has Red at his mercy during their fight, the Second Coming prepares to punch him before noticing how beautiful the Lush Caves they're in is, something he never would have saw if they just went home like he originally wanted. This leads to the two of them making up after their fight, and the Second Coming even gives Red some Glow Berries from a nearby vine to curb his hunger even though earlier it was shown the Second Coming was almost as hungry as Red.
Ep 26: The Warden
- As a last resort to save himself, The Second Coming plays a song from a book he found in a chest. The Warden stops its attack as the song reminds it of the old village that it used to guard. As The Second Coming tries to leave, the Warden grabs him... and gives him a big hug as thanks for playing the song. It makes you wish that the Warden's backstory was official canon.
Ep 27: Monster School
- Despite being constantly bullied by the monsters (which resulted in him getting an F in every lesson), Red decides that he can't let the team he was assigned to lose miserably on the final exam. It goes how you'd expect, the monsters refusing to acknowledge that Red was helping them improve their skills. But Red still helps them regardless.
- It eventually culminates in them leaving Red behind to be beaten up by the other teams. However, as more monsters show up to beat Red up, they have a Jerkass Realization and quickly return and swiftly warded off the other monsters, carrying Red with them to victory. They had no reason to go back for Red, but in the end they realized it wasn't morally worth leaving behind the one who got them that far in the first place.
- After Red's Post-Victory Collapse, the Second Coming rushes to him and they embrace.
Ep 28: The Raid
- The villagers helping out Blue and Yellow, creating a new staff in order to hold the command block.
- Yellow gets help from the Titan Ravager by first feeding it using the command block, then explaining that they want its help against King (who killed its two friends). The Titan Ravager agrees immediately.
- At this point, the Stick Figures have the help of the Warden, an Enderman, Skeleton, and Spider, and a Titan Ravager all who are hostile mobs in the main game.note The Power of Friendship indeed.
Ep 29: Note Block Universe
- After Purple pours his heart out to Green regarding why he did what he did, he seems to believe he's Beyond Redemption. Green shows his disagreement by giving him back his Elytra, and shoving aside the angel and devil visages as if saying that Purple isn't 100% either. He then shows the rest of the stick figures hugging Purple, to say "we'll support you no matter what."
Ep 30: The King
- Seeing King as a loving father taking care of his child, who clearly loves King, really tugs at the heartstrings.
- Herobrine's reasoning for going toe-to-toe with King? His students were in danger. There's even a Freeze-Frame Bonus of him teleporting his students away from the fight without missing a beat.
- Blink and you miss it, but as the Warden is about to be absorbed by the Dual-Block, he throws the Second Coming to safety.
- After Herobrine gets exorcised from Red and is promptly absorbed into the Dual-Block Staff, Purple swoops in and catches him. Later scenes show Purple concerned about Red's well-being and even helps him up before the Stick Gang takes a stand against King.
- Seeing King run to Purple and give him a hug, which Purple returns, showing how they’ve reconciled and become found family (each having briefly appeared in the place of the one who was lost/left). Though Purple only returns the hug when he realizes it’s King and not his father.
- Purple finally got included in a famous Color Gang group hug, just like Green showed he would in Note Block Universe.
- King showing his change of heart by reviving the Titan Ravager's family with the Command Block staff, before giving up that staff to Yellow.
- Purple and King going home together, sitting and gazing at the park where King and his child used to play.
- Red and his pig overjoyed to be reunited, and then Purple putting the crown on the pig; a subtle tribute to Technoblade.
Season 4
Ep 33: Lucky Block Staff
- Just like in Spawn Eggs, Red adores his mix and match abominations.
- When Red has a bit of a Heroic BSoD once everyone is dragged into the Lucky Block World, the Beeper cheers him up by giving him the same flower Red had been giving him.
- When the Ghast mount is attacked by the bees, the Second Coming protects it with a helmet made out of bedrock. The Ghast returns the favor by blasting the Queen Bee that was attacking them.
- Despite being understandably much less than pleased with Red for causing the episode's conflict, the others are still nice enough to give him time to mourn the Beeper that sacrificed itself for the group before putting him in the barrier box.
Other
Animation vs. Trash
- While the adult Grey Stick Figures just stare in shock at Blue's Cast from Money cleanup powers, the children are overjoyed. While it was All Just a Dream, it's sweet to see the Stick Gang setting a good example for the next generation.
- Heck, the premise in general, as well as that of it's precursor Blue's New Superpower, is the Stick Gang taking a stand on the current environmental issues. As funny as it is to watch them force Alan to donate absurd amounts, it's only because they care about the planet and want to help fix it.
- Even better is that these shorts accompany the real Alan donating. That $5100 donation wasn't a joke. Though the $18 million donation understandably was, he still doubled his previous donation in real life.
Actual Shorts
- "My Ghast Friend
" is just 30 seconds of Yellow having fun with his friendly Ghast; flying around on it, taking pictures with it, and having a tickle fight with it. Too bad Blue had to ruin things. - "Spawn Eggs" has Red go a little crazy putting spawn eggs into a spawner, but his body language makes it clear he still adores the resulting Mix-and-Match Critters.
- "Autocorrect" has an easily missed detail where the Stick Gang changes Alan's question to DJ about meeting less often into a statement that they should do so, implying they want to make sure Alan doesn't put too much on his plate.
- "Ice Skating", a Christmas Episode, features Purple and King happily ice skating together while enjoying a couple of cookies made by the former, with Purple cheering King on as King chuckles happily. After all that happened in "The King", it's incredibly sweet to see the two finally enjoying a happy life as a newly found family. Doubly heartwarming when you consider how much King despised Minecraft before, yet here he has zero qualms about entering a Minecraft world to spend time with Purple.
- "Fireworks" shows the Stick Gang calmly watching a fireworks show, with the fireworks showing all the friends they made throughout Season 3, including King and Purple. There's also a blink-and-you-miss-it moment of Yellow using the Command Block staff to give Red a carrot to feed to his pig.
- "The Floor is Lava" ends with some important folders getting knocked into the titular lava. Which one does Alan immediately try to save? "family trip photos", over "IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS" and "Taxes 2023".
- Several moments in "Wipeout" indicate a good amount of Character Development from the Stick Gang when it comes to competitions. The Second Coming catches Green when the latter is about to fall off a wool block into the water; Blue helps Green and the Second Coming get past the redstone pistons; each Stick patiently waits their turn for the slime block pistons, and Green is clearly dismayed when Yellow gets himself launched into the air by a windmill obstacle. Compared to their competitive nature and frequent sabotage in "Parkour", it's sweet to see them actually supporting each other during this race.
- Hearing Alan's child call "Daddy!" at the beginning of "New Wallpaper" is all kinds of adorable. As is the fact that Alan was apparently looking up ways to stop bribing said child on his phone when he was called, showing that he's at least trying to avoid common parenting pitfalls.
- There's a blink and you miss it moment during the Time-Passes Montage in "Bob Is Always There" that shows Purple standing in the original Sticks Fight window, implying that he still visits the Stick Gang every so often.
- There's also a scene where the FSF are giving The Second Coming a large Christmas present, something the latter looks very excited about.
- In "Feel Better", Alan was feeling upset for some reason but the Stick Figures decide to cheer him up with a drawing (pictured above), showing the five of them comforting/hugging Alan. This causes Alan to smile a bit before him and the Stick Figures touch, finger to stub, from their sides of the screen.
- "Piggie Love" shows Red's pig falling in love with another pig and eventually marrying them. This short also confirms the idea of Purple regularly visiting the Stick Gang as he's also in the wedding audience. Green even has his arm over Purple's shoulder, cheering in unison.
- "Rainstorm" revisits the Monster School world, where Red helps the Enderman walk outside on a rainy day by giving him an umbrella (though it gets destroyed by lightning later).
