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Recap / Animator vs Animation AVA Shorts: Episode 4: "The Showdown"

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Uploaded Oct 24, 2020

Now in the internet, the Chosen One confronts and attacks the Dark Lord before he can launch more of his ViraBots, starting a fight of epic proportions. Meanwhile, as the Second Coming and the other stick figures check out the Dark Lord's base, Red accidentally activates the gates to other parts of the internet, which the Chosen One and the Dark Lord go into and fight all across the internet. The Dark Lord soon gains an upper hand by equipping the tether he built to control the ViraBots, overpowering the Chosen One.

Yellow hacks the Dark Lord's computer, and sends a message to Alan to ask for his help, which he accepts and the Dark Lord's computer creates a mouse for him to use in the fight, leveling the playing field until the Dark Lord awakens the ViraBots, destroying Alan's mouse and overwhelming the Chosen One. Wanting to help, the others decide to help and fight the Dark Lord, only to be quickly crushed by him and everyone but the Second Coming and the Chosen One are deleted by the Dark Lord, as the Second Coming withstands the deletion process, and is then ruthlessly trashed by the Dark Lord. Despite all hope being lost, the Second Coming awakens his Chosen One powers and kills all ViraBots and the Dark Lord. Afterwards, the Second Coming uses his powers to bring back everyone deleted by the Dark Lord, and it ends SC passing out and Alan taking him and the FSF back home as the Second Coming thanks the Chosen One for everything.


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  • 11th-Hour Superpower: After watching his friends die and being beaten to a pulp by the Dark Lord, the Second Coming activates latent powers similar to those of the Chosen One, and uses them to finish off the Dark Lord for good.
  • Awesomeness-Induced Amnesia: After waking from his Post-Victory Collapse, the Second Coming is shocked to see his friends alive, as well as confused to see the Chosen One bowing to him. This implies he remembers nothing of his actions when he was tapping into his 11th-Hour Superpower.
  • Back from the Dead: After defeating the Dark Lord, the Second Coming is able to use his new powers to revive the other stick figures.
  • Bigger Stick: The Chosen One and the Dark Lord are about evenly matched when both are dueling with their inherent powers. After the Dark Lord puts on a wristband that gives him additional attacks and apparently allows him to No-Sell the Chosen One's Eye Beams, however, he becomes too powerful for the Chosen One to fight alone.
  • Bloodless Carnage: Though knocked around a fair bit, the Chosen One sustains no visible injury after being impaled by several spikes that the Dark Lord had summoned. This makes it all the more shocking when the Dark Lord's later assault on the Second Coming leaves gaping wounds.
  • Call-Back:
    • After the Second Coming's 11th-Hour Superpower manages to defeat the Dark Lord once and for all, the Chosen One bows to him much like he and the others bowed to the Chosen One after the latter defeated ViraBot.
    • The Second Coming's new powers in general, given their similarity to the Chosen One's, harkens back to when he was called "The Chosen One's Return" by the Task Manager in AVA IV
  • Chekhov's Gun: Once again, the Stick Figures Fight sticks are deleted by someome who tries to do the same to the odd one out, only to discover what The Second Coming a.k.a. "The Chosen One's Return" can do.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: In contrast to their "death" in AVA IV, where they just poofed out of existence, the Fighting Stick Figures are slowly dissolved into nothingness when struck by the Dark Lord.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: The Dark Lord defeats the second-generation stick figures with little effort, up until the Second Coming activates his 11th-Hour Superpower.
  • Curb Stomp Cushion: The Animator is taken out of the fight by the ViraBot swarm, but it takes a lot more work on their part than it did for the original ViraBot.
  • Darkest Hour: The Dark Lord and his army of ViraBots overpower Alan, the Chosen One, and the Second Coming, and the other stick figures are deleted.
  • Defiant to the End: All of the second-generation stick figures demonstrate this, continuing to weakly flail at the Dark Lord well past the point where the battle is clearly lost.
  • Deus ex Machina: After the Dark Lord kills the Second Coming's friends and is about to kill the Chosen One and leave a harshly wounded Second Coming stomped into a wall, the Second Coming gains super powers out of nowhere, heals himself, curb stomps the Dark Lord and brings his friends back to life. The last one is a bit justified as the Second Coming just hacked the Dark Lord's console instead of using magic.
  • Evil Overlooker: While it's debatable if he's really looking at the heroes as he has no eyes, the official poster has The Dark Lord above The Second Coming and his friends. The same can be said for ViraBot who is in the background and above everyone except the Animator.
  • Freeze-Frame Bonus: In the AvG Reaction, DJ managed to catch his avatar during the Discord scene. What he didn't catch was The Chosen One's avatar.
  • Group Hug: When The Second Coming and his friends are reunited, they hug, overjoyed to be alive.
  • Heroic RRoD: The Second Coming collapses after using his 11th-Hour Superpower to defeat the Dark Lord and revive his friends.
  • Heroic Safe Mode: With the sight of his friends being eviscerated into atoms, the Second One absolutely looses and unlocks some powerful abilities of his own. With them, he is able to wipe out the ViraBots, defeat the Dark Lord, and revive his friends. All in a matter of a few minutes.
  • Hope Spot: Yellow manages to contact the Animator for help in fighting the Dark Lord. Working in unison, the Animator and the Chosen One gain the upper hand against the Dark Lord, but are overwhelmed after the Dark Lord summons his ViraBot army. The viruses crash the program that Yellow had used to bring to the Animator to their location, preventing the Animator from interfering again.
  • Impairment Shot: When The Second Coming wakes up, he blinks awake, seeing his friends hovering above him.
  • Mundane Made Awesome: From the Animator's perspective, the fight looks like a simple (if fast-paced) click-and-drag game that takes up only a small window on his computer screen, but to the stick figures, the battle is of titanic proportions, with the Animator's cursor manifesting as a giant icon that can tear up the landscape.
  • Near-Villain Victory: The Dark Lord almost certainly would have succeeded in his goals if the Second Coming hadn't activated his 11th-Hour Superpower.
  • The Password Is Always "Swordfish": Downplayed; all we know about the password to the Dark Lord's computer is that it's 10 characters long, but the fact that Yellow guessed it first try means that it couldn't have been too complicated or obscure.
  • Post-Victory Collapse: After defeating The Dark Lord and reviving all his friends, The Second Coming loses his superpowered side and collapses in the compound, falling unconscious.
  • Recursive Canon: Somehow, "The Showdown" already exists as a YouTube video within the story, even while the events of the video are taking place.
  • Stacked Characters Poster: The poster mentioned above has The Second Coming, Green, Blue, Yellow and Red in the front, The Chosen One and The Dark Lord above them and visibly larger, and at the top, the Animator with ViraBot behind him.
  • Summon Bigger Fish: Yellow creates a program using the Dark Lord's computer to contact the Animator and allow him to join the fight. It works until the Dark Lord evens the playing field by bringing in his ViraBot army.
  • Taking the Bullet: The Animator uses his cursor to block an attack intended for the Chosen One by the Dark Lord. This doesn't seem to inconvenience the cursor much, and the Dark Lord is only able to lock the Animator out of the fight by crashing Yellow's "Animator Combat Tool" program with his ViraBots.
  • Why Won't You Die?: Unlike the other stick figures, the Second Coming does not dissolve away after being impaled by the Dark Lord's weapon. The Dark Lord settles for brutally slashing him repeatedly instead, taking the Second Coming out of the fight until the Second Coming's 11th-Hour Superpower kicks in.
  • The Worf Effect: In "The Virus", a single ViraBot is capable of holding off the five second-gen stick figures and the animator, and nearly defeats them. Here, an entire army of ViraBots appears as little more than a collective speed bump due to the Chosen One's immense power and the Second Coming's 11th-Hour Superpower.
  • Zerg Rush: The Dark Lord has a whole army of ViraBots at his command, which allows him to turn the tide against the combined onslaught of the Chosen One and the Animator.

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