Uploaded Apr 3, 2021
Summary
Purple brings the other stickmen to a parkour course. He shows them the rules: the stick figure who reaches the other side of the parkour obstacle course first receives a point, and the first to get three points wins the game. If someone falls down they will be teleported to the start of the level, and beacons teleport the players to the next levels. The FSF and TSC start competing, while Purple takes the pig with him using his elytra. When every stick figure gets two points, they start the last level, but Purple made them start with a few seconds of distance, so they don't notice that the course is changing, dividing the stick figures. Green notices Purple disappearing with the pig, but ignores this.Eventually, everyone reaches the endings where they find a piglin who gives them a trophy, telling them that they have won. However they start getting suspicious because the others aren't arriving, so they all try to escape. The piglins try to stop them, but they manage to escape and Green remembers what he had saw before, so he uses his blocks to reach the point where Purple had dissappeared, discovering a secret passage to a bastion full of piglin soldiers. He infiltrates the bastion and he finds Purple with a huge orange stick figure, named King, with a crown and a scepter with a Command Block. The two are discussing their plans, and it turns out that they have set the parkour challenge as trap to keep the stick figures busy while Purple reaches Alan's desktop and steals the Master Block (the Minecraft icon), which will give unlimited power when put on King's staff. However a piglin reports Green's escape to King which enrages the monarch, causing him to erase the piglin's AI, then sends Purple to his mission. King then captures Green, putting him in a prison with the pig. Meanwhile, TSC manages to pick up the teleporting beacons and use them to get rid of the piglin, then he combines two of them to teleport to Red's course. The two stick figures then combine the three beacons, teleporting them to a desert. Meanwhile, Yellow instead discovers a Command Block that teleports him every time he falls, so he deactivates it and falls to Blue's course. After they reunite, both Yellow and Blue decide to drop down from the parkour course leading them to fall into the Nether with a group of piglin brutes forcing them to escape through a portal.
Tropes
- Bad Boss: King eradicates the AI of one of his Piglins for revealing that Green has escaped.
- Bait-and-Switch: Purple invites the sticks to a first-to-three-wins parkour warriors bout. After ten courses of the sticks interfering with each other lands them all two wins, Purple insists they stagger themselves on the last course. Which starts editing itself to split them up to different courses.
- Call-Back
- The events of the original Animation vs. Minecraft are used to illustrate King's plan. Specifically, the power Red had when he had the Master Block.
- Yellow ends up interacting with Command Blocks again. Having learned his lesson, he just leaves the command field blank this time.
- Chekhov's Gun: Purple demonstrates early on that falling in the parkour world just warps them back to the last checkpoint. Second Coming exploits this to bypass the Piglin trying to trap him.
- Cliffhanger: Purple is en route to the animator's computer to get the Master Block, Yellow and Blue are on the run, the Second Coming and Red are in a desert, and Green and the pig are imprisoned.
- Death Is Cheap: When everyone first enters the parkour map, Yellow fails to make a jump and falls into the void. Cue Mass "Oh, Crap!" from everyone except Purple until Yellow reappears where they started. Purple falls on the ground laughing at this for a few seconds before throwing himself into the void to establish that yes, this is how it works. Technically subverted by Minecraft rules, as it's not death-and-respawn; Command Blocks are positioned to teleport falling players to their last checkpoint.
- Evil All Along: Purple was never a good guy, and instead working for another stick figure who plans to destroy the world of Minecraft by stealing the Minecraft game icon.
- Evil Plan: King's plan is to get the Master Block to gain ultimate power.
- Large and in Charge: King dwarfs the rest of the stick figures and is the king of a group of piglins.
- Le Parkour: Duh. The short is about the stick figures competing in parkour courses not unlike those seen in Minecraft Championship.
- Mental Shutdown: Upon learning that the stick figures escaped from the parkour trap, King gets so angry that he makes an example out of an innocent piglin by casting the "noAI" command, eliminating it's sapience.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
- Purple has Alan's sticks stagger themselves on the last parkour course. If they hadn't been interfering with each other on all ten courses beforehand, they might have been suspicious of Purple's decision; before the course starts editing itself, the choice looks downright reasonable because of the sheer amount of conflict that preceded it.
- If the Second Coming hadn't gotten the bright idea to break reality by touching beacons together, Yellow would've found him and Red during his escape in addition to Blue, and the four would've all escaped together. Instead, Second Coming ended up bringing Red with him to a desert in the middle of nowhere...
- Reality Warper: The Second Coming soon realizes he can affect the dimension he's in by touching a teleporter to another teleporter, causing the area he's in to glitch out and warp everything randomly. This gets taken further when he and Red touch three teleporters together, causing them both to eventually warp in a completely new world entirely.
- Weaponized Teleportation: The Second Coming utilizes the teleporters between the parkour levels as defense against the Piglin chasing him by picking it up and forcing the piglin to touch it whenever it tries to attack, warping the piglin back to its spawn point every time. The piglin eventually meets its final fate when Second Coming and Red force it to touch two teleporters at once.
- Wham Shot: Purple kneels down before a new orange-colored stick figure.
