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Artificial stick figures are stick figures that come to life directly in the animation program, either intentionally or unintentionally. They, unlike natural stick figures, do not need to be uploaded to a website, and only need to be given a title, or "level", before creation, which means they can either be similar or inferior in strength to natural stick figures or have superpowers and be vastly more powerful than them. This level appears to be determined by the artificial stick figure's name: The more powerful the name, the more powerful the resulting stick figure will be.
They can also be programmed with missions, which is also done by giving them names. Another thing that influences an artificial stick figure's goals and personalities appears to be the purpose for which they were created. So for instance, an artificial stick created in a fun game of Hangman will be friendly and playful, while another stick created for the purpose of being tortured for fun will go to any lengths to fight back.
Appearance[]
Their appearances vary; it depends on how their creator drew them.[1] There are some specific styles that we have seen, such as the ‘hollow-heads’, which were the first to appear, and were created by noogai3, and are victim, The Chosen One, The Dark Lord and The Second Coming, with the only exception being the Cartoon Figure.
Throughout Season 1, all artificial stick figures were crudely drawn and their head shapes were inconsistent in size, along with their heights. After Season 2, they all had consistent head shapes, along with consistent heights.
Notable Members[]
victim (original form)[]
victim was the first artificial stick figure to be seen on-screen, and the first creation of noogai3. He is the only stick figure of his kind to have no known superpowers, but instead is extremely intelligent and resourceful, being able to use his environment to his advantage and very easily adapt to the situation while barely having to think, being able to come up with ideas on the spot.
He was created by noogai3 so that he could torture him for his own amusement, not realizing that victim is sentient and simply wants to live. Angered by his creator's very abusive behavior towards him, victim showed no fear in retaliating against Alan's cursor and trying to defend himself against the more powerful entity. Despite being at a disadvantage, victim's resourcefulness proved to be his greatest strength and after learning to clone himself using the Flash library, victim managed to switch the tables and take the upper hand over his creator. However, before him and his clones could strike, Alan simply closed the Flash program without saving, ending the battle prematurely and presumably ending victim's short existence.
However, he was later revived (and then destroyed again) multiple times, before eventually managing to escape to the Outernet using a rocket, where he, using his natural gift for leadership, alongside a new ally, succeeding in heading up his own organization that originally served as a repair company, but later broadened and now includes the research and production of very sophisticated technology, but mostly centered around animation tools.
Eventually, Mitsi, his close partner, was killed during the Newgrounds rampage at the hands of The Chosen One and The Dark Lord, his successors. After years of grieving, he eventually learned that Alan and The Chosen One are connected, reviving his desire to achieve revenge.
victim then placed a bounty on his successor for him to be captured and brought to him, using a group of mercenaries to accomplish this.
H4CK3R (victim's evolution)[]
H4CK3R is the evolution and upgraded form of victim. H4CK3R was born when victim and Agent visited the site of The Showdown (The Chosen One was there too, albeit paused) and accessed The Dark Lord's console, using it to bring noogai3 back to the Outernet. victim created a large black rectangle using the rectangle tool from Adobe flash, that was used to display a projection from a Rocket Corp. hoverbike. The projection displayed a window with a large red arrow pointing at the centre. At the centre stood victim, who was hidden as the window was the same colour as he is. The projection had a large fake gif of Yellow, who is shown pointing at the arrow. There was text above, saying "Right click on this spot". noogai3 right clicks the spot, and the text above changes to display "Select "Rename".
noogai3 selects "Rename Symbol", and a tab pops up displaying victim's name. The text changes once more to display "Copy + Paste this: "HACKER". victims waves at Agent to change it, and Agent changes "HACKER" to "H4CK3R". This change is to make H4CK3R more powerful as it is in leetspeak. noogai3 copies the text, and hesitates to paste after reading "victim". Agent creates a 10 second countdown and displays a gif of Yellow panicking. noogai3 thinks Yellow is in trouble, so he renames victim to H4CK3R. The Second Coming reacts to this change, but is not present at the site. H4CK3R is struck by lightning and gains powers. He grabs noogai3's cursor and slams it into the terrain below. He then grabs the paused Chosen One and brings him close. He selects the cursor once more and uses it to rename The Chosen One to "NO ONE", stripping him of his powers. He then lets go of the Chosen One, letting him plummet to the water below.
H4CK3R then fires a beam at noogai3's computer from the Outernet, which displays pop ups on his computer. One in particular, labeled "hello.exe" displays the following text:
"i'm coming home. did you miss me?[sic]"
noogai3's computer glitches and reverts back to the Windows XP version, as H4CK3R arrives to the computer. He battles noogai3, deleting all of his valuable pictures. noogai3 panics and plugs out his computer, showering H4CK3R in darkness and disconnecting him from the internet. H4CK3R sits down and sulks to himself, and hears clapping in the distance. The Dark Lord shows up and tells H4CK3R he can revive Mitsi if he joins him. H4CK3R agrees to join him, and they shake hands.
The Chosen One[]
The Chosen One is the second stick figure to be created by noogai3 and the first one to have powers. He was created on the same day victim escaped, possibly right after when Alan realized he couldn't recreate victim since he now existed beyond his computer. As such, Alan decided to grant his new creation the highest power level he could think of in order to get a real challenge. Unfortunately, Alan underestimated the ferocity of The Chosen One due to him being a naturally destructive being who only seems to care about using his powers to destroy his creator's computer and attack anything he considered an enemy.
Despite his superpowers, The Chosen One has proven to be fallible due to the Avast Antivirus succeeding in containing him and allowing Alan to tame the stick figure, using him as a slave for no other reason than as a pop-up blocker in order to allow his creator to surf the internet without disturbances. However, five years after his enslavement, The Chosen One saw a chance for escape upon seeing a link to a website that opposes the idea of "stick slavery" and provides the stick figure with a chance for freedom but Alan uses his powers against him to destroy his ticket of escape.
Enraged, he attacked the cursor and tricked Alan into accidentally freeing him, allowing The Chosen One to unleash his revenge against Alan for his years of abuse and enslavement. After realizing his desktop icons couldn't stop The Chosen One, his creator decided to fight fire with fire by creating another stick figure, The Dark Lord, who had powers that rivaled The Chosen One and gave him the directive of destroying The Chosen One. This caused a fight to break out until The Chosen One revealed to The Dark Lord that Alan didn't see him as any less expendable than The Chosen One, angering him and causing him to team up against his common enemy, destroying Alan's computer with a blue screen of death and frying the motherboard.[2]
Originally, The Chosen One was thought to have perished in the explosion, but instead managed to escape into the Internet with The Dark Lord at the last second, where they began a seven-year reign of destruction across every game and/or website they could find. However, over time The Chosen One began to see the errors of his ways and especially noticed how The Dark Lord only seemed to further become obsessed with destruction purely for fun, causing a gradual rift to form between them. Ultimately, this caused The Chosen One to fall back into conflict with his old enemy and barely succeed in stopping him from destroying everything using his new tools, the ViraBots, with unexpected help from Alan, other stick figures and most of all, his own successor: The Second Coming.
Although he was successful in stopping The Dark Lord and saving the world of stick figures, The Chosen One's troubles had yet to end due to a group of mercenaries coming after him years later due to a bounty being placed on The Chosen One by a mysterious organization. He was left on the run by the mercenaries thanks to the technological weapons gifted to them by the organization that allowed them to neutralize The Chosen One's powers and make him weak enough for capture; this caused The Chosen One to remember how he received unexpected help from The Second Coming in stopping The Dark Lord and realized he needed that power again due to his own powers being blocked by the glitch-like weaponry at the mercenaries' disposal.
The Chosen One managed to make his way back to Alan's computer where he found The Second Coming and pleaded with him for help, all while trying to make him remember his hidden powers that he used to stop The Dark Lord but unfortunately, The Second Coming had no awareness of these powers nor the means to activate them. Regardless, The Chosen One took his successor back with him and tried to have him fight off the mercenaries, which he almost succeeded in due to the pencil icon he took from Alan, only for the mercenary boss "Agent" to personally intervene and use his pausing power on both stick figures, capturing him and delivering him to the private organization owned by victim.
victim fought him in The Box afterwards, eventually subduing him and interrogating him on the location of Alan. The Chosen One refused to give up any information, so victim used the memory scanner on him. victim eventually found out that Yellow was responsible for sending him to the location of "The Showdown".
After being renamed to H4CK3R, he forced Alan to right-click on The Chosen One, before renaming him to "NO ONE". He tried to fly, only to fall into the water and struggle to stay afloat.
The Dark Lord[]
The Dark Lord is the third stick figure that was created by noogai3, with the sole purpose of destroying The Chosen One. Originally, he was loyal to his creator and dedicated to his mission of destroying The Chosen One, rallying the rest of Alan's desktop icons together against his enemy. Unfortunately for him, The Chosen One proved to be a difficult adversary despite being heavily outnumbered. He was able to trap The Dark Lord inside of Minesweeper, which distracted him long enough for The Chosen One to deal with the icons and back The Dark Lord into a corner.
Being left weakened, The Dark Lord became fearful due to having no way of defending himself but to their surprise, The Chosen One instead urged him to fight back against his creator upon realizing that Alan wasn't concerned whether or not he survived despite doing everything that was ordered of him and being loyal to his apathetic creator. This betrayal enraged The Dark Lord so much that he overpowered the urge to complete his mission and abandoned it in favor of teaming up with The Chosen One to destroy Alan's computer in retribution for his suffering; which they succeeded in doing but not before they escaped seconds before its total destruction, resulting in a blue screen of death and Alan's computer being left irreversibly broken.
After escaping, the two superpowers began to destroy every single website, game and stick figure community they could find over the course of the next 7 years. During this time, The Dark Lord began to see the fun in senseless destruction and grew to relish in becoming powerful. This led to him designing a powerful virus known as ViraBot, with the intention of spreading this virus across the global network in order to destroy the entire stick figure society as he knew it. However, The Chosen One disagreed with his idea and this ultimately led to the two once again falling back into conflict over this disagreement on what his purpose was.
Despite having been temporarily beaten by his adversary, The Dark Lord retreated to his secret warehouse while The Chosen One chased after the ViraBot he sent to destroy Alan's new computer as a test run, but this failed due to The Chosen One's intervention and he made his way back to the Outernet to finish the fight against The Dark Lord who was initially at a disadvantage against their enemy but had planned for this outcome and created weaponized virus bands that enhanced his powers enough to allow him to gain the upper hand against The Chosen One. Once Alan's cursor came to The Chosen One's aid, he decided to unleash all of the ViraBots he created to once again secure the advantage.
The Dark Lord was prepared to end the fight before The Chosen One could regain a footing against him, but was surprised by The Second Coming getting in between them, defending The Chosen One against The Dark Lord along with his friends. Despite this, The Dark Lord didn't consider him a proper threat and could easily dispose of the latter four even when they teamed up against him, causing their code to erode due to the virus-like nature of his blades. However, when he tried the same on The Second Coming, he was shocked to realize that he had some form of resistance against the virus power similar to The Chosen One. This angered The Dark Lord enough to lash out against The Second Coming and make very deep gashes in an attempt to keep him down.
This proved to be a mistake on The Dark Lord's part because the combination of the immense physical and emotional trauma acted a catalyst to awaken something with The Second Coming, granting him a strange green energy that acted as an antivirus and unlocked The Second Coming's full potential. The difference in power was immediately the opposite of what it once was, with The Dark Lord being unable to do any damage to the awakened Second Coming and all of his ViraBots being destroyed effortlessly. Realizing the danger The Second Coming held, The Dark Lord tried to retreat but failed due to The Second Coming's hyperspeed and emitting an ultrapowerful green laser that blasted The Dark Lord into the horizon and ended his plans for destruction, with him being reduced to broken fragments and left lifeless in the crater.
Eventually, a few of the ViraBots that escaped and survived the wrath of The Second Coming were able to locate the remains of their creator and used their virus nature to mend to their creator and fill in the missing parts that were lost in his fight against the orange stick figure. This not only resulted in him reviving, but caused his dark wristbands to merge with him and become part of his arms, thus making him a virus hybrid himself and causing him to evolve to a more powerful form.
Despite being resurrected by his loyal creations, The Dark Lord was rendered weak and raw in his new form as he was forced to hide in order to adjust to his new power. During this time, one of his ViraBots learned of Rocket Co, which was making wanted posters of The Chosen One, which surprised the red stick figure. Following the ViraBot, he would secretly discover the corporation as it was beginning to rebuild itself under the supervision of victim, whose motivation was rekindled after he learned that his partner, Mitsi's demise was the result of The Chosen One and Alan's cursor. Eventually, The Dark Lord figured out that victim was also another of Alan's creations and he secretly disguised a ViraBot as a security camera in order to spy on victim as he learned to adapt to his new form.
Almost five years after being defeated, The Dark Lord had returned to his former power and more than ever before as he witnessed victim and his mercenaries not only capture The Chosen One, but also the very same stick figure that killed him five years ago: The Second Coming. Upon seeing victim trick Alan into renaming himself to "H4CK3R" and then The Chosen One to "NO ONE" out of spite for Mitsi, he saw the newly empowered stick figure return to Alan's computer to finally finish his vendetta.
It was then that The Dark Lord finally made his move by following H4CK3R to their creator's computer alongside his ViraBot. After seeing H4CK3R destroy all of Alan's work over the years and the computer being unplugged out of fear of Alan losing everything, he applauded his "older brother" for his actions and revealed himself and his new powers. Despite H4CK3R's initial disgust upon being reminded of how Mitsi died, The Dark Lord than showcased that he also had the power to grant new life to Mitsi.
Shocked by this revelation, The Dark Lord used his fused wristband to hold out his hand to make an alliance with a new partner. Viewing his options and now having nothing left to lose, H4CK3R powered his binary particles around his hand and extended it out to The Dark Lord's, as their two powers seem to revolve around each other...
The Second Coming[]
The Second Coming is the fourth stick figure that Alan created three years after his old computer was destroyed. He is the leader of the Stick Gang. However, instead of immediately retaliating against his creator or trying to destroy his computer, chose to pretend he was inanimate after being created in order to trick his creator so he could roam around the computer in secret and immediately came across the Stickfights website where he met the Fighting Stick Figures, a group of four Internet Stick Figures named Blue, Green, Yellow and Red, who spent all of their time fighting each other. The Second Coming befriended the Fighting Stick Figures and showed them how to exit their website. The five sticks had a great time playing on ALANSPC until Alan returned with the laundry and happened to spot them.
Alan deleted the Fighting Stick Figures, and tried deleting The Second Coming, only for his creation to prove to be too resistant to be deleted. The Second Coming tried getting vengeance for his friends by ruining Alan's social life on FaceBook and then sneaking into his phone, where he caused mayhem (including almost dialing the emergency number, 911).
Upon returning to the computer, The Second Coming made a laser gun with animation tools and shot Alan's cursor, deleting it. While Alan made a new cursor, The Second Coming made his own drawings which was coincidentally the same as Alan's failed drawings . Alan was about to delete them, but seeing how much better they were compared to his made him reconsider. However, when a drawing punched his cursor so hard the entire computer started shaking, he quickly deleted them.
The Second Coming, who dropped to the ground when his wings got deleted, was caged in a box and squeezed in tight. As Alan moved in closer, The Second Coming begged for mercy. The two of them reached an agreement after Alan revived Red, Yellow, Green, and Blue, and The Second Coming went to work with him as a co-animator. Nowadays, the five stick figures live freely and peacefully on Alan's computer.
Four years after The Second Coming's birth (and the havoc he attempted to wreak), a virus was discovered in Alan's computer. After attempting to destroy it, the virus came out of its "shell" and attempted to destroy the computer. Alan and the Stick Gang attempted to fight back, but it proved useless until the return of The Chosen One, who destroyed it with a great amount of effort. Once The Chosen One left the computer through a portal he generated via the computer's WiFi button, the Stick Gang followed suit. The portal led to the Outernet, where The Chosen One would settle their conflict once and for all while the Stick Gang just fell out of the portal and into the water. When the Stick Gang saw who The Chosen One was fighting, they tried as hard as they could to assist him, going as far as to find a way to allow noogai to fight The Dark Lord in the Outernet. Both noogai and The Chosen One were overwhelmed by The Dark Lord and his ViraBot army, however. When The Chosen One was cornered by the ViraBots on a ledge and The Dark Lord was about to finish him off, the Stick Gang intervened. However, even when The Dark Lord called off the ViraBots (except for the ones pinning The Chosen One to the ground), the Stick Gang was still completely overwhelmed by him. One by one, the Fighting Stick Figures were killed off and The Second Coming almost was as well.
However, The Second Coming is revealed to have some sort of virus resistance. Despite his relentless attempts to kill The Second Coming, he just would not die. After a brutal beatdown, The Dark Lord believes himself to have won and directs his ViraBot to the Internet to destroy it once and for all.
This is the first and currently only time The Second Coming reveals his true potential, likely because of the intense physical and emotional trauma he had to endure in that single minute. Within the span of another minute, the power gap between The Second Coming and The Dark Lord is revealed to be enormous, with the former completely overpowering the latter and his ViraBot army with virtually no opposition, with his defeat imminent in no more than 90 seconds. After The Dark Lord's defeat, The Second Coming revived all of his fallen friends, including Alan's cursor before falling completely unconscious. When he awoke on the ledge, he was clearly extremely confused but still relieved to see his friends alive, suggesting that The Second Coming has no knowledge of his powers. This is furthered by The Chosen One bowing down to The Second Coming, to the latter's bafflement. The Chosen One himself is also baffled, but does not get a chance to explain due to the Stick Gang returning to Alan's computer prematurely.
Five years after The Dark Lord's defeat, The Second Coming was sparring with his friends when The Chosen One came to him, begging for help against the Mercenaries. He tried to get The Second Coming to use his powers, but The Second Coming had no memory of them. Not willing to take no for an answer, The Chosen One grabbed him and took him to the Outernet, the Fighting Stick Figures following them.
The Chosen One told his successor to attack the Mercenaries, but again, The Second Coming refused, probably knowing he is outmatched against them. The Chosen One forced him to, but after he got attacked, The Chosen One tried rescuing him, but he was ultimately unsuccessful and eventually, the two of them were caught, paused by Agent, and taken to the building of Rocket Co..
Once there, The Second Coming was imprisoned, but was let out to use the Pencil Tool when Rocket Co. Worker Clones were unable to figure out how it worked. The Second Coming was brought in to use it, and successfully drew an eel. He was then tasked with drawing a bird, but the eel, seeing it was about to get erased, panicked and banged against the confines of its force field. It was eventually erased, but seeing the damage it caused, victim's workers took the orange stick figure back to his cell.
As he was being escorted back, The Second Coming happened to glance at a screen showing The Chosen One's memories, which revealed to him his secret powers. He looked at his hands in shock and horror, now fully realizing what he is capable of, before promptly being put into lockdown, steel walls enclosing around him. He was last seen banging against the walls in defiance, but to no avail.
He then tried several ways of reactivating his power, none of which worked, before imagining his friends telling him how to activate it. He chose the way that imaginary Blue suggested, choosing to meditate. He was briefly seen again sensing victim being renamed to H4CK3R.
Races[]
- Hollow-Heads (like The Second Coming)
- Simplistic (non-canon; like Tutorial Blue)
- Hybrids (non-canon; like Tutorial Purple)
- The Gallows (like Hangman)
- Toons (like the Cartoon Figure)
Trivia[]
- It's unknown if artificial stick figures age differently from other stick figures races such as the natural stick figures or if they even age at all, as both The Chosen One and The Second Coming appear to stay the same no matter how many years pass, such as the five year gap between the events of Animator vs. Animation Season 2 and Animator vs. Animation Season 3.
- The only person to have been able to create artificial stick figures in the series is noogai3. It is unknown if other animators have the ability to make stick figures come to life with turning them into a symbol.
- programmer021 not being concerned by the presence of The Chosen One, supposedly one of the most powerful characters in the Animator vs. Animation Franchise, implies that he may be able to bring stick figures to life, however.
- The Second Coming can also make artificial stick figures, likely tied to his powers.
- Various reaction thumbnails often depict artificial stick figures with a different head shape and with feet despite them lacking feet in the episode. This is mainly noticeable in Animator vs. Animation 4’s reaction thumbnail.
- In “Hacker”, it’s revealed that when an artificial stick figure is retitled, they still keep their old memories and they’re not rewritten, as victim after being retitled still keeps his memories of wanting to get revenge on noogai3 and The Chosen One, along with The Chosen One’s first instincts of being unpaused and unselected by H4CK3R were to fly, but due to being retitled, he is unable to.
- The aforementioned episode also may imply that no matter how the word is spelt, it will still have the same effect on the stick figure’s level, as victim gestures to Agent to change the word “HACKER” to “H4CK3R”, which would imply that if he was named “HACKER” he’d still have the same power level as “H4CK3R”. The name “H4CK3R” could be significantly stronger than “HACKER” too.
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References[]
- ↑ Although this is likely true, there is no confirmed evidence for this as noogai3 and The Second Coming are the only artificial stick figure creators that we've ever seen.
- ↑ When Alan speaks to Darren Schwartz in Animator vs. Animation 4, he says "blue screen of death, fried my motherboard".