| "Animator vs. Animation V" redirects here. For the fifth entry in the series, see The Virus - Animator vs. Animation 5. |
| This article is about the second season of the Animator vs. Animation Series. It is not to be confused with Animator vs. Animation 2. |
Animator vs. Animation Season 2, formerly known as AVA Shorts Season 1 and Animator vs. Animation V, is a collection of the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth entries in the Animator vs. Animation Series. The story focuses on the combined forces of the Stick Gang, Alan Becker and The Chosen One facing off against The Dark Lord and his army of ViraBots to prevent him from enacting his siege on the Internet.
Originally airing as a four part mini-series, it was later released altogether as a 30-minute video on December 5th, 2020.
Synopsis[]
Animator vs. Animation 5-8, in one video, with edits for continuity, as well as some new music.
List of Episodes[]
| Image | Title | Synopsis | Air Date |
|---|---|---|---|
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The Virus | A new threat has invaded the computer. | August 19th, 2018 (YouTube) |
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The Chosen One's Return | An old friend shows up to save the day. | October 28th, 2018 (YouTube) |
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The Flashback | The past of The Chosen One and The Dark Lord is revealed. | March 11th, 2019 (YouTube) |
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The Showdown | The epic final match between The Chosen One and The Dark Lord. | October 24th, 2020 (YouTube) |
Plot[]
Episode Five - The Virus[]
| The main article can be found here: The Virus - Animator vs. Animation 5 |
Almost four years have passed since the events of Animator vs. Animation 4, with Alan Becker seen animating a walking flower. Soon after, The Second Coming enters the scene and asks Alan if he needs help, to which Alan replies that he wants it to look more natural. Seeing the rough draft, the orange stick figure creates two temporary stick figures using the pencil tool, one of which controls the frames of the animation so that TSC and the other stick figure can re-animate parts of the walking flower to create a more fluid animation. When TSC finishes, and the two stick figure drawings jump back into the pencil, Alan checks on the animation. Seeing that TSC had fixed the animation, the two celebrate before the computer begins to buzz loudly.
Realizing the computer is overheating at 92°C, Alan checks Task Manager and notices a program called ViraBot overloading the CPU and using up 95% of the computer's memory. After multiple failed attempts at ending the process, TSC and Alan notice an app with a spider-like icon on the desktop called "Virabot.exe" which is the source of the virus taking over the computer's operating system. After failing twice to delete it via the Recycling Bin, TSC asks Alan to draw him a big hammer, which he attacks the app with. TSC's attacks cause the app icon to crack and for a spider-like creature to emerge; the real ViraBot.
TSC tries to hit the ViraBot with his hammer, but it stops the hammer with one leg, before grabbing it and biting it, causing it to dissolve into nothing. The ViraBot then lunges at TSC, who dodges the attack, causing it to instead destroy the walking flower animation. Alan draws thick lines to stop the ViraBot, encasing it in thick scribbles, and when it escapes by telepathically destroying the lines, TSC draws missiles to attack it. Even when the ViraBot uses projectiles to destroy the incoming missiles, TSC and Alan use a large fly swatter drawing to attack it. They begin to draw a rocket launcher, but the ViraBot eats TSC's drawing tool and destroys the drawing. The ViraBot then tries to attack TSC, but Alan grabs it with his mouse cursor and begins bashing it against the side of the computer screen with the Adobe Animate window repeatedly while TSC heads over to sticksfight.com to ask his friends for help.
While TSC is explaining the situation to his friends, the ViraBot appears on top of Google Chrome, causing typical virus website tabs to appear. TSC runs into the house in the sticksfight.com website to hide, but the ViraBot destroys the barrier around the house. The ViraBot lunges towards the stick figures, but Alan grabs it with his mouse cursor and begins hitting it against the side of the computer screen. However, it bites the cursor, dissolving it into nothing. When Alan tries to use settings to get it back, it destroys his search panel. Now, without Alan's help, the Stick Gang begins to physically attack the ViraBot. But once they have it pinned down, but it fights back, gaining the upper hand by trapping Red, Yellow, Green, and Blue in spiderweb on the side of the computer screen. As TSC tries to run and help his friends, he gets his foot trapped in spiderweb, immobilizing him. The ViraBot grows two giant blades as it prepares its virulent assault on the helpless stick figures, but when it lunges at TSC, it is blown away by an explosion.
When the dust clears from the explosion, a portal becomes visible, and all the stick figures are surprised when a black stick figure closely resembling TSC emerges from it. Although the Stick Gang and ViraBot are oblivious to the stick figure's identity, Alan is in silent shock, recognizing it as his previous creation, The Chosen One, whom he had assumed was undone along with his old computer seven years ago. Turning to the virus, TCO readies his fire powers before he and the ViraBot lunge at each other, ending the episode.
Episode Six - The Chosen One's Return[]
| The main article can be found here: The Chosen One's Return - Animator vs. Animation 6 |
The video begins near the end of the previous episode, when the ViraBot lunges at The Second Coming. As it jumps to stab him, the ViraBot is knocked away by a powerful explosion. The source is a portal, surprising everyone. One of Alan's previous creations, The Chosen One, emerges from the portal. He had survived the initial destruction of Alan's computer and has returned. As five surprised stick figures and one shocked animator watch, TCO ignites his fists with flames before he and the ViraBot lunge at each other, beginning the battle.
TCO begins by quickly kicking and punching the ViraBot in succession. Knocked against the computer's border, the ViraBot fires three projectiles at him. TCO weaves through the projectiles and catches another larger one. The ViraBot lunges at TCO and the two engage in a sword fight, before it jumps in the air and begins throwing multiple projectiles at TCO. Though he dodges them initially, TCO is hit by one in the back and, in pain, he lowers his guard. Three more projectiles then strike him. The ViraBot lands behind TCO and grows a large arm blade to finish the fight, but TCO forces the projectiles out of his back, revealing he is immune to its corrosive effects. As the surprised ViraBot tries to slice TCO, it is hit by his laser vision, severing its arm blade. It is forced to the corner, avoiding the laser beams. TCO traps it with both lasers and his pyrokinetic blasts, thinking he's won. However, the virus resorts to digging into the Windows taskbar.
With full access to the computer's windows, the ViraBot attacks TCO with the Google Chrome window. When TCO punches the window and splits it in two, various ViraBot apps and "Access Denied!" Pop-ups begin attacking him., but he burns them with ease. Then, the Adobe Flash and Google Chrome windows begin moving and breaking, trapping him. As he tries in vain to hold back two large pieces from crushing him, the remains of the windows clump together, forming a giant version of ViraBot. Pummeled into submission, the giant virus bites him and continues its assault, slamming him down and beating him further with jagged pieces of the windows. Closest to the giant entity, TSC tries in vain to draw its attention from the weakened TCO. As TCO is seemingly about to be killed, his body ignites, burning and surprising the large ViraBot recreation. He stands up and, in a display of power, his entire body is engulfed in flames, and lightning strikes down around him. With this new strength, he punches down and destroys everything the ViraBot has created. The webs trapping the other stick figures dissolve and the giant Virus begins to crumble down. As this purifying wave hits the computer storage files, the ViraBot pops out, revealing it was hiding there and controlling the computer.
As the ViraBot falls, TCO repeatedly teleports next to it and kicks it around mid-air. After juggling the helpless ViraBot around, TCO flies around the virus, engulfing it in a tornado. TCO then creates a storm cloud above the tornado and begins striking the ViraBot with lightning bolts. Then, TCO blasts him in a wave of fire, before finally, he blasts the virus with his laser vision. As the laser, fire, tornado, and clouds dissolve, TCO floats in the air, drawing energy from the computer into his fist. Once he reaches a certain amount of energy, he punches the ViraBot with all his strength, channeling the collected energy and even parts of the windows into the attack. Then, the ViraBot dissolves into nothing, defeated by TCO.
TCO lands back on the ground, satisfied with his victory. The Stick Gang rushes over to him, and when he turns around to see them, they begin praising him for freeing their home from the ViraBot. Ignoring them, TCO walks back to the internet button on the Taskbar to open the portal back to his dimension. Before entering, he looks at and bows to Alan. Alan returns the gesture and bows back, making peace. TCO jumps back through the portal, seemingly back to his world.
However, the portal remains open, intriguing the Stick Gang, who run over to it. TSC looks into the portal and back at his friends, before they all jump into the portal, ending the episode.
Episode Seven - The Flashback[]
| The main article can be found here: The Flashback - Animator vs. Animation 7 |
The episode begins with a flashback from October 2nd, 2011, during the events of Animator vs. Animation 3, with Alan battling The Chosen One and his newly reformed ally, The Dark Lord. As Alan desperately tries to avoid the two, they fly in a spiral around each other, creating a vortex at their barycenter that would destroy his computer. While Alan tries to save his computer, the two sticks try to escape the destruction.
TCO makes a valiant escape via the WiFi connection and smashes it open, creating a portal to the other parts of the internet. Grabbing TDL, the two jump inside, in the nick of time, as Alan's operating system crashes and displays a Blue Screen of Death. Meanwhile, in the ethernet cable, TDL revels their victory with a celebratory high-five and the two journey into the internet.
After traveling to the internet, the two friends begin a 7-year-long reign of terror, wrecking havoc in websites such as Yahoo, StickPage, Newgrounds, video games such as Angry Birds, and killing countless innocent animations for their own satisfaction. As they invade StickPage, TCO begins to hesitate more and more about what they're doing.
In the present day, TCO walks in on his friend programming on a red insect-like object, then sees its schematics and a map of its intended destinations. TDL notices and happily shows TCO his newest creation, an extremely potent virus he calls ViraBot. He demonstrates its abilities by programming a blade and touching a nearby globe with it, causing it to rapidly dissolve into nothing. While TDL is excited, TCO imagines a future with many of these viruses under command of TDL, and is unsettled. Before TCO can say no, TDL has already assembled the ViraBot and loads it into a cannon, then programs it to fire into a specific computer. As he is about to fire, TCO prevents him and asks him to stop. TDL is confused and tries to push the button again but his indignant friend pushes him aside, adamant. TDL pretends to walk away only to run forward and try again, only to be grabbed by TCO and thrown onto the floor.
On the floor, TDL prepares a ball of energy and launches it at TCO, just barely missing. Angered by his friend's intervention, TDL begins fighting TCO. One of TDL's energy balls flies and misses, though it gives him the opportunity to press the button. TCO races against him and draws energy into his fist, but TDL manages to press the button, sending the ViraBot away. TCO punches TDL into the sky, and prepares to race against the ViraBot, but before flying, notices where the ViraBot's destination was: ALANSPC. He has a moment of recollection and remembers the times he and Alan used to fight. But his sense of mercy overcomes him, remembering Alan as his creator. He ignites his fists and races the ViraBot. The app manages to easily phase through the IP address firewall, but TCO is left behind the barrier.
The ViraBot makes it to Alan's computer and activates, using all the CPU's power and causing it to overheat, to the confusion of Alan and The Second Coming. Meanwhile, TCO uses his laser vision to break through the barrier and travel through the internet tube to ALANSPC, but he is stuck behind ALANSPC's firewall. He sees that he is almost too late, as the ViraBot has managed to trap the Stick Gang in webbing and is preparing to kill them. Initially attempting to use his laser vision to break through the screen, he resorts to summoning energy into a concentrated beam in a final attempt to get into the computer. The beam breaks through, saving TSC by seconds and knocking the ViraBot back. TCO emerges from the portal and engages in combat with the ViraBot.
TCO is traveling through the internet tube back to the Outernet as the Stick Gang are right behind him. The Chosen One disappears into the light, and moments later the Stick Gang do as well, ending the episode.
Episode Eight - The Showdown[]
| The main article can be found here: The Showdown - Animator vs. Animation 8 |
After his battle with the ViraBot, The Chosen One flies back to his world, trailed by The Second Coming and company. Exiting the IP barrier, he flies down to a house near a cliffside, while the Stick Gang fall into the nearby bay. Landing down and opening the door inside, he sees The Dark Lord, having survived his punch from their last fight. Before The Dark Lord could react, he is immediately punched and thrown through the wall of the house and knocked back. The unrelenting Chosen One, angered by his former friend's actions, quickly goes on the offensive and punches him into the cliffside. The Dark Lord lands on an outcropping safely and launches a fireball at his direction, destroying a portion of the cliff. As he flies back to the house, his path is cut off by an immense laser beam and promptly struck by another one. The Chosen One kicks him near the water level and flies upwards, The Dark Lord retaliating back with consecutive fireballs but misses. Both combatants enter the water and The Chosen One flies forward, punching his opponent out of the water and into a side of the cliff. As a stunned The Dark Lord watches, The Chosen One flies menacingly towards him before charging ahead.
Elsewhere, the Stick Gang manages to climb out of the water and arrive near the house. A curious Red looks at seven locked hatches and then opens the door to the house. Inside, they see a computer, while Yellow and Blue look down and see more inactive ViraBots. Red and Green look at the computer and see the portals on-screen are activated and linked to an unknown location. Red sees a black and red wristband and plays around with it. A slip leads him to accidentally opening the hatch doors. Meanwhile, The Chosen One manages to grab The Dark Lord and attempts to laser his opponent, but The Dark Lord pushes his head upwards, causing the beam to harmlessly fire into the sky. Unaware of the open portals, they fly in. They arrive in a YouTube video of The Showdown, with both fighters pausing the video at certain moments to injure their adversary.
They then flew out again and land in a Twitter page. The Chosen One lands on the bottom and The Dark Lord kicks him down and through the website. They land at the front page of Reddit, destroying a post and causing another to increase in upvotes. The Chosen One grabs The Dark Lord and pushes him into another portal, into the search page of Google. The Dark Lord quickly uses the site to his advantage by typing "do a.." and uses the barrel roll easter egg to knock The Chosen One away. They land at a Twitch stream and The Dark Lord uses the rapid wall of message to injure The Chosen One, before he is knocked away and lands into the Wikipedia Globe. The Chosen One punches his enemy into the globe, destroying it, and they land into a Discord server. The Chosen One scrolls upwards, causing the profile's pictures to knock and stun The Dark Lord before using his laser vision to knock him back into their own world. The Dark Lord stops his momentum from the attack and launches a fireball, which hits the unsuspecting Chosen One. Stunned and hurtling, he is grabbed by The Dark Lord and punched into the water below, knocked unconscious.
Satisfied, The Dark Lord flies back to his house. Seeing the immensely powerful being flying towards them, the Stick Gang hide in the nick of time. The Dark Lord enters and closes the portals. Thinking he is unseen, he attached the band to his wrist, causing his eyes to glow and a black and red beam of energy to shoot into the sky, momentarily darkening the world. The Chosen One recovers but sees the beam and grows uncertain. The Dark Lord, now more powerful, flies towards his opponent, eager to end the fight. The Chosen One tries to attack but is knocked back by a flurry of kicks and punches. He attempts to use his laser, but the beam is now ineffective to The Dark Lord, who promptly knocks his head back and throws him away. The Chosen One lands safely but is met by huge red spines, similar to the ViraBot's. He gets hit in the chest but is otherwise unaffected and rips it out, using it to knock back the other spines flying towards him controlled by The Dark Lord. He gets knocked into the sky and is then struck by four spines in the chest, before being punched into the water. He crash lands but The Dark Lord dives down to continue his assault. Inside the house, The Second Coming, Red, Blue and Green are panicking, seeing their saviour overwhelmed by the new threat.
Yellow takes charge of the situation and uses the computer for a plan. The Second Coming notices the cursor and thinks of a plan involving Noogai. Noogai, cleaning up his computer after The Chosen One's battle, suddenly sees an urgent message. He thinks none of it and continues to clean up when another pops up, pleading to help The Chosen One. He then gets a User Control Account message from Yellow, originating from The Dark Lord's console, mentioning The Chosen One's need for assistance. After deciding to click Yes, a program called the Animator Combat Tool opens up, and with Yellow's assistance and knowledge, he is able to enter their world, the portals opening and creating a huge cursor to fight with and control. Seeing the cursor move, The Second Coming congratulates Yellow for his quick thinking.
Unbeknownst to anyone at the time, an employee from Rocket Corp. who was nearby, happened to see the dark energy from The Dark Lord's wristbands and began recording on their video camera. Moving closer to the action from the forest, they manage to catch footage of both The Chosen One and Noogai's cursor before they retreat due to the incoming rubble falling from the battle. They immediately return back to headquarters, where they inform Agent of what he saw. Recognizing the black stick figure, Agent and the employee meet with their boss and show him the footage.
The Dark Lord, having knocked The Chosen One into the water again, turns around and is shocked by the appearance of a cursor. Before he can react, he is grabbed and shoved into the cliffside. The Chosen One enters the fray and he and Noogai attempt to injure The Dark Lord. Pinning him against the cursor and trying to burn him alive, the more durable Dark Lord grabs his opponent and ignites a corrosive, flaming blade, thrusting it into his chest. The Chosen One falls into the water and The Dark Lord attempts to kill him but is intervened by the cursor blocking his path. He is grabbed and pulled upwards but the cursor disappears when it exits the Combat Tool window. Noogai right clicks and a Windows menu knocks The Dark Lord falling back into the water. The Chosen One flies up to help and the battle becomes a mess of flying rocks, lasers, blades and combos from The Chosen One and Noogai. The Dark Lord calls for assistance and summons a huge swarm of ViraBots to help him. The swarm overwhelms the cursor, unable to overpower the greater number of virus. The Chosen One tries to burn and knock them away but is grabbed by The Dark Lord and violently thrown into the cliffside. With the greater number of viruses and The Dark Lord's blade impaling the cursor, they manage to crash the program, removing Noogai's intervention. The computer is now crashed by the virus, causing the Stick Gang to panic, when they see The Second Coming running out to meet The Chosen One for assistance. Given the effort just to kill one, The Chosen One is overwhelmed and pinned down. As The Dark Lord flies in, The Second Coming gets between them and tries to stop the fight. The Dark Lord summons the viruses away to confront the new threat personally and ignites his left blade, when the trio is interrupted by the arrival of the Fighting Stick Figures.
Red tries to attack but stunned by The Dark Lord's immense speed, knocked to the ground and impaled. He weakly tries to get up but dissolves into nothing. Angered, his friends try to avenge him but are completely outmatched by The Dark Lord. One by one, Green, Blue and Yellow are killed, The Second Coming knocked down and The Chosen One attacked by the virus swarm. He sees the dire situation but is suddenly stabbed from the back by The Dark Lord, seen but unable to be helped by a cornered Chosen One. The Second Coming falls to his knees but isn't dissolving. Confused, The Dark Lord slams him into the ground and stabs him again but is stunned by The Second Coming surviving. Angered, the Dark Lord resorts to flying him into the sky, rapidly slashing and stabbing his opponent, slamming The Second Coming into the cliff and impaling him with both his arm blades. Satisfied, The Dark Lord flies up and surveys the outcome of the battle, The Second Coming's unmoving body, the numerous damage to the landscape and The Chosen One too weak to intervene. The Dark Lord opens the portals to 7 internet sites and orders the ViraBots to enter them. The Chosen One witnesses the viruses passing by, unable to intervene.
Suddenly, The Second Coming's body is healed of injuries and disappears. The viruses nearly make it to the portals but are suddenly destroyed. The Dark Lord sees this but is too slow to see The Second Coming appear behind him. He is punched down to the water but is grabbed against and knocked back. The Dark Lord manages to gather himself and summons the swarm to attack back, but swarm crowds The Second Coming but are quickly destroyed. The Second Coming is knocked into the cliffside but quickly recovers, and throws a boulder at The Dark Lord above. The stunned Dark Lord watches The Second Coming fly towards him but can't react to the subsequent volley of kicks and punches, injuring him. He watches a bright green light emitted from the eyes of his opponent but is too weak to intervene. He can only watch as The Second Coming ignites his eyes and blasts him with a beam of laser and electricity, before being dragged across the landscape. The Second Coming increases the intensity before pushing him into a mountain side, destroying his body and engulfing the entire area in a massive explosion. With the threat now gone, The Second Coming flies down to the computer and using his newfound power to revive the Fighting Stick Figures and the cursor, before collapsing in exhaustion. The cursor gently takes his body to his company. The Second Coming wakes up, surprised by the alive Red and friends, rubs the tears in his eyes before being enveloped in a group hug. The Chosen One, similarly to how The Second Coming and gang reacted to his powers, is stunned by what he just witnessed and bows down to a shocked The Second Coming, unaware of what he did. The cursor arrives to take them back but not until they thank The Chosen One, who witnesses them cross the IP barrier back home.
Characters[]
Protagonists[]
Antagonists[]
Other characters[]
- Yahoo! Messenger
- My Computer
- Avast! Antivirus (flashback)
- Red Angry Bird (cameo)
- Chuck (cameo)
- Bomb (cameo)
- Pico (cameo)
- Tankman, Sgt. John Captain (cameo)
- Henry Stickmin (cameo)
- Meat Boy (cameo)
- Hank J. Wimbleton, Avenger design (cameo)
- Cave Spider Queen (on a video thumbnail)
- Insane Pig (on a video thumbnail)
- Ender Dragon (on a video thumbnail)
- The Killer Bunny (on a video thumbnail)
- YouTube (on a video thumbnail)
- Facebook Emoji Group (on a video thumbnail)
- Mario (on a video thumbnail)
- DJ Welch (cameo)
Gallery[]
