Uploaded May 14, 2007
Alan once again draws a stick figure, and titles it "The Chosen One". The Chosen One promptly breaks out and wreaks havoc on Alan's computer. Despite the computer's programs fighting back, The Chosen One beats all of them. Just as he's about to shut down the computer, Alan activates the Avast! antivirus program, and seals him away to be used as a pop-up ad blocker.
Tropes:
- Ambiguous Gender: The AIM icon. While the animator and The Chosen One are referred to as male in the artist description, AIM is never referred to with gendered pronouns.
- An Ice Person: The Chosen One freezes Mozilla Firefox with an ice-cold hand blast.
- Beam-O-War: Both the Adobe Photoshop icon and the Chosen One battle each other with their laser vision and the latter gains the upperhand.
- Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: The files in the Recycle Bin are labeled "crap", "junk", and "crappy junk".
- Crazy-Prepared: Rather than starting from scratch like with victim, the animator prepares for this incident with a library full of weapons, that can all be scripted to aim and fire autonomously. Sadly The Chosen One is too powerful and renders the lot of it useless due to Interface Screw.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus:
- The animator contemplating whether to send the dead AIM icon to "Graveyard" or "Heaven".
- Many of the files Avast! goes through on startup, namely "alanis.dll", "alanisgood.dll", "alanisgoodat.dll" and "alanisgoodatanimation.dll".
- The icons on the start menu mirroring their dead and damaged desktop counterparts.
- The conversation between the animator and the programmer:The Conversation
- Gone Horribly Right: Alan desired to have a fight against his creation with a new challenge and so he created a new stick figure named him the Chosen One for that reason complete with laser vision and fire powers. However, he has a lot trouble dealing with this new stick figure and a distressed Alan messages his friend on what to do.
- High-Speed Missile Dodge: When Alan launches multiple guns at the Chosen One he quickly dodges all of the bullets even dodging a rocket launcher.
- His Name Is...: The animator's programmer friend was just about to reveal how to stop the Chosen One when AIM was killed before he was suddenly cut off by TCO using the AIM window to kill AIM.
- Hoist by His Own Petard
- AIM is killed when The Chosen One smashes him with the open AIM window.
- My Computer shrugs off The Chosen One's attacks, but having his disks thrown back into him makes him lock up.
- Mundane Utility: At the end, the Chosen One is forced to use his powers to destroy pop-up windows for the animator.
- Shock and Awe: The Chosen One burns the Flash 8 icon with a storm cloud's lightning bolt.
- Sealed Badass in a Can: The Chosen One is sealed into a giant chest by Avast Antivirus which leads to him becoming effectively a slave to Alan.
- Serial Escalation: When the animator goes over what to name his new stick figure, he goes through "victim", "killer", "BEAST", and finally stops on "The Chosen One". Fittingly, in the flash game for Animator vs. Animation that was made after the sequel was released, these names served as Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels for playing as the animator.
- Sequel Escalation: The second: A bigger battle against a tougher, fire-breathing stick figure that goes beyond the Flash editor and onto the desktop. The stick figure is also fighting against a couple of desktop icons.
- Updated Re-release:
- This episode was reuploaded in HD on YouTube in 2015.
- In 2019, it was reuploaded again with a live orchestra soundtrack.
- What Were You Thinking?: The programmer's response to animator creating a stick figure called "The Chosen One" is to ask what the animator was thinking when making such a powerful foe.
- Wreathed in Flames: The Chosen One is encircled in fire when he bursts through his restraints.
- Zerg Rush: How The Chosen One is ultimately neutralized; he's rushed by several bolts from Avast! that restrain him so he can be trapped in a chest.
