Uploaded Oct 2, 2014
The years after the original shorts, Alan explains to a friend of his what happened to his old computer, blue screened and fried thanks to the Chosen One. His friend asks if it could happen again, and despite Alan's claim that it won't, his newest stick figure comes to life while he's out doing laundry, and stumbles upon a website of stick figures fighting. Befriending them, the five quickly cause mischief on Alan's computer, only for him to come back, and immediately end the four stick figure's process, much to his stick figure's despair.
Just as he's about to get rid of his own creation, its name is revealed to be "The Second Coming", also known as the Chosen One's Return. Despite his attempts, the Second Coming defies it, and decides to ruin Alan's social life on Facebook before going on a rampage across his computer and even his phone, before revealing his art skill and creating animations to destroy Alan's computer after destroying his mouse cursor. Despite Becker's hesitance in deleting it, as he is revealed to be a terrible artist, he does so, and traps the Second Coming. Just as he's about to be deleted, the Second Coming begs him to stop. Realizing he can talk, Alan convinces the Second Coming to work for him, and brings back his friends by refreshing the website they originated from. Five months later, the Second Coming now lives a happy life working for Alan as artist while playing with his friends during his free time.
Tropes:
- Aesop Amnesia: Despite the issues in the previous episodes being started by a stick figure going rogue, the Animator is still animating one in the intro. Downplayed in that he says in the chat that it had been three years since the last incident, making it not implausible that he'd assume it was safe to let his guard down.
- Badass Normal: Unlike previous iterations of the Chosen One, the Second Coming does not appear to have any superpowers.
- Breaking Old Trends: Unlike the previous installments where either the animator and stick figures remain enemies to the end, both sides came to a compromise, ending the battle peacefully.
- Call-Back: To the first Animator vs. Animation. The final battle happened in the Flash editor, only the roles are reversed, as it was the Second Coming who lassoed the animator before forming a plasma gun.
- Came Back Strong: After the Animator's cursor gets destroyed, he navigates to his mouse properties and selects a bigger and tougher cursor so that it won't happen again.
- Continuity Nod: The Second Coming is apparently the Chosen One's Return, according to the Task Manager.
- Dark Reprise: When the Animator is about to delete all of the Second Coming's animations, only to hesitate when he realizes they're far better than his own, the Background Music is a sad reprise of the theme music.
- Defeat Means Friendship: In the end, the animator finally defeats the Second Coming, and he and the Second Coming become an animation team (though, this is only after the animator revives his friends).
- Death Is Cheap: The deaths of the Second Coming's friends fuels his desire for revenge against the Animator, and he initially refuses to work with him after he's defeated. One simple page refresh later and the Second Coming's friends are back and playing cards as if nothing happened.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: While not doing Pietà Plagiarism, Green, the last of Second Coming's friends, "dies" in Second Coming's arms as they hug each other.
- Distant Finale: Well, if a handful of months is considered "distant". Nevertheless, Noogai's figure drawing skills have improved dramatically thanks to Second Coming teaching him how to draw better.
- Drop What You Are Doing: Noogai drops his clothes basket full of laundry that needs to be folded when he sees The Second Coming and his stick figure friends jumping all around his browser and desktop.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: Noogai finally makes peace with one of his creations.
- Easter Egg: The "Stick Figures Fighting" page that the Second Coming's friends come from actually exists
. - Freeze-Frame Bonus: The Second Coming flashes into the Chosen One from previous installments for mere split-seconds as he resists The Animator's process-ending.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: The Animator notes that it's been three years since his last stick figures broke his computer. This animation came out exactly three years after the previous one.
- Lost in Translation: When the Second Coming goes on a rampage and makes insulting comments on Facebook in Animator vs. Animation IV, he leaves a comment about someone's photograph — "your photography skills are like drinking straws, meaning they suck" — which is a pun on sucking straws with your mouth as well as using the word "suck" as an insult. This joke doesn't translate well in other languages so a many of its foreign subtitles had to change its translation.
- Mass "Oh, Crap!": When the animator walks in on the Second Coming and his friends jumping all over his Facebook profile. The stick figures are panicking because they know they're about to be deleted, and the animator's panicking because the last time this happened his computer got destroyed, and he doesn't want it happening again.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: When he initially finds the stick figures playing around, they're not doing any real damage and he just deletes them out of paranoia. Only after he does this does the Second Coming start fighting back.
- Non-Standard Character Design: The Red, Blue, Green and Yellow stick figures have quite a different style from The Second Coming or any of the previous main Animations (longer limbs and smaller, solid-colored heads), because In-Universe they weren't drawn by the Animator. They were just characters from an unrelated "Stick Figures Fight" flash movie that happened to be open in another tab.
- Pose of Supplication: The Second Coming does this after the animator deletes his friends, and it lasts just before he declares war on the animator's computer in revenge.
- Restrained Revenge: Initially. The Second Coming's friends have all had their tasks ended, so what is his first act of revenge? Liking someone's Facebook post. note
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: The Second Coming's attack on the animator's computer (and then his phone) notably only begins after he deletes the other stick figures he befriended in the open "Stick Figure Fight" window. As a result, he ends said rampage when the animator refreshes the page for his friends to come back.
- Sequel Escalation: The fourth: Another battle against an orange Animation, who has four friends and eventually draws more Animations to dismantle the Animator's Flash interface. The fight even leaves the computer altogether (albeit temporarily), The Second Coming leaping over to the Animator's iPhone via iTunes.
- Soft Reboot: Takes place in the same series as the first three entries, except this time it takes place on a different computer with an updated software and introduces a fresh batch of colorful new characters in place of the old programs which were lost in the third episode's aftermath. This episode plays out similarly to the past three until the animator chooses to spare the Second Coming and they come to a compromise, putting an end to the cycle of the animator having to fight his creations and allowing the new characters to become series mainstays.
- Stylistic Suck: Noogai is apparently a Terrible Artist, telling from the sketches of birds and horses around his work station. The Second Coming helps teach him how to draw anatomy in the Distant Finale.
- Suddenly Speaking: Since this one is viewed from the real world, we hear the animator's voice for the first time.
- Tempting Fate: Downplayed, the episode starts with the animator discussing the events of Part 3 with a friend on Facebook, and noting how it's been three years since then and nothing's happened since. He doesn't specifically say it probably won't, but it's clear he has no reason to believe it will.
- This Is Gonna Suck: The cursor slows down a bit once Alan reads off the Second Coming's file name in the task manager, revealing him to be "the Chosen One's Return", as if Alan is starting to realize that getting rid of him isn't gonna be as simple as ending his task.
- Time Skip: According to the animator in his Facebook chat box, three years have passed since the third installment.
- Trilogy Creep: The third video was originally intended to be the last one, hence why it ended with the Animator's computer being destroyed.
- You Can Talk?: Near the end, when the animator finally has the Second Coming in restraint, the Second Coming makes a Big "NO!" in text, leading to this reaction from the animator.
