| Not to be confused with the location. |
Monster School is the 27th episode of the Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts series, being the 8th installment of Season 3.
Synopsis[]
Red can't escape until he passes the final exam.
Plot[]
The camera goes upwards to the portal Red had gone through, passes through it, and we see Red tumbling through the clear air, crashing right through the stone roof of a huge school-like building with weathered copper blocks that display a capital “M” on the front wall (Monster School).
Red crashes into what appears to be a storage room. He walks to the room's door, and looks out through the door's window. Red sees many monsters. Zombee (a zombie), Skellington (a skeleton), Creep (a creeper), Spider (a spider), Cavell (a cave spider), Zupay (a baby zombie villager), Silvester (a silverfish), Mucus (a slime), Maggie (a magma cube), Witton (a Wither Skeleton), Zombieswine (a zombified piglin), Ghist (a ghast), Blaise (a blaze), Endie (an enderman), and Multus (a wither). The mobs stare at Red, but shortly lost interest in him. Herobrine motioned for the mobs to come inside the classroom behind those doors, and they obey.
Herobrine suddenly notices Red, who was the only person left standing in the hallway. Confused, he walks right up to Red and looks at him closely, scratching his head in bafflement, thinking he has seen Red before. Red, however, remembers that Herobrine had possessed his body before back in Animation vs. Minecraft back on December 15, 2015, so he folded his arms, lowered his head, and tried as hard as he could to not look at Herobrine. Herobrine examines Red for a bit longer, but he does not seem to recognize Red in any way. Red tries to run away, but Herobrine uses telekinesis to lift him up and hurls him through the doors. In the classroom, the students all stand or float behind their desks.
Herobrine explains the first lesson: "Sneaking". The mobs and Red get teleported by Herobrine to a dark forest, as Herobrine summons a clone of Steve from himself. Zombee was up first, and he attemped to sneak towards Steve, but Steve turns around and kills him. Next up was Spider, who did a few stretches before jumping towards Steve, but was killed. Creep was the next up, exploding behind Steve and killing him. His body was reassembled and returns to the group. Skellington was next. He tried to attack Steve with arrows, but all of them miss, and he is knocked out. Blaise, Witton and Zupay all succeed. Maggie was next, which prompts Red to run away, only to be teleported back into the air by Herobrine, which angered Endie, Skellington & Spider, and the Maggie is seen jumping back, presumingly succeeded. While Zombieswine was attacking Steve, Red attempts to escape, but is beaten by the mobs. Zombieswine respawned before his head reattached to his body, assuming it had its head cut off by Steve and failed. Mucus is next as he jumped off screen.
Red slowly backs away once more as Mucus jumps back to the group, before Ghist went forwards for her turn. She shot a fireball at Steve, but Steve knocked the fireball back to its sender without even looking at the fireball, as Ghist screamed in pain before dying. The next one up was Cavell, who grabbed Steve and consumed his head. Multus was up next and easily finishes up Steve with a Wither skull. Silvester is then seen digging into the ground before bursting through the crafting table to consume Steve's head. Endie was next, as he teleported around the trees before screaming at Steve, but Steve isn't scared of that, and repeatedly stabs Endie until he dies.
Red is up last, being pushed out by Skellington. Red slowly sneaks over to Steve, only to get tripped by Spider in the middle of his attempt while the rest of the mobs laughed at his misery of getting chased down by Steve. The mobs and Red get teleported back to the classroom, as Herobrine shows out the grades of the respective mobs. Red sees his grade: a solid F. Some of the mobs mocked his poor grade, while Herobrine rearranges everyone into their seats and continues with the next lesson, which was running.
A montage is shown showing Red attempting to try the lessons, but getting tripped and attacked by the mobs. As the rest of the grades finally unveiled, it was revealed that Red had five solid F's in each course. Herobrine then wipes off the grades, before giving the class a final exam race where the class has to use all their skills from the previous lessons to complete the race. Herobrine slides back in slowly to his desk, and rearranged the class back into their desks, before assigning colored headbands to the mobs, in orange, yellow, green and blue.
Shortly after, the teams were teleported onto the starting line by Herobrine. Endie, Skellington, Spider and Red were in the Yellow team, but the first three slumped when they saw the stickman on their team, causing Red to cross his arms and huff.
Red then looks back at the Nether portal all the way up above the school, before he's teleported to a starting line along with the rest of the mobs. Here, Herobrine shows the mobs a golden trophy, before flying to the top of a mountain. After Herobrine puts down the trophy, he cloned himself massively, as the clones flew to their designated places.
The race prepares to start, and once the lights turned green, everyone except Red rushes out all at once, pushing each other down along the way. But Red is seen rubbing his hands together nervously, hoping to run, as he looks up at Herobrine, who falls asleep on top of the mountain. Seeing his chance, Red runs away. He stops for a brief moment, and looks back to the mobs, and he saw his team getting knocked down by the rest of the mobs and ending up in dead last. He then takes off his headband and runs on.
Everyone had to sneak past a group of three Steve clones in the middle of smelting and crafting. The Blue Team had generally little trouble with that, before the Green Team went about their own business, and the three clones respawned. Red sneaks up to the roof and looks at the portal, but then sees his team getting harassed by the Steve clones, so he decides to intervene. With the mobs, they had just got kicked to a lower level of the hill, and a clone was about to finish off Endie with a stab, before a yellow string intervenes, and the camera pans out to reveal Red grabbing the clone's sword. He makes good use of his headband as a lasso, roping in his targets and finishes them easily with a few stabs, before putting his headband on once more.
The next obstacle was five Steve clones armed with iron swords and each had a pair of Elytra to harden the difficulty. Seeing this, Endie pushes Skellington out, and motions for him to shoot down the clones. Skellington nods, as he pulls his bow and shoots multiple arrows, they all miss, before Red tapped Skellington on his shoulder, and turned his bow backwards while he wasn't looking. This time, the Skellington finally hit a shot.
Now boosted with confidence, Skellington shot four more arrows at its targets, each one finding their respective target, as the mobs cheered while sharing high-fives. Red also wanted one, only to get rejected by the mobs. The mobs and Red raced across the bridge, before stopping on the small hill near the second storeroom, where seven Steve clones are guarding said storeroom while armed with iron swords. Endie attempts to scream at them to frighten them, but the Steves were all unfazed. While Endie continued screaming, Red thinks of an idea, and pulls out a feather, and goes up the hill. Endie was still screaming before getting tickled by Red, ticking his aggression which prompted him to actually attack the clones. Red then repeated the same move until all the clones were defeated and did not respawn. He then dropped the feather to the ground which Endie stepped on in disgust, before continuing.
The next obstacle was a massive lake, where all the other teams are seen flying across. As the team panicks, Red grabs Spider and throws him off the platform they're on. Furious, Endie punched Red. The now falling Spider, seeing Ghist, gets an idea, while the camera goes back to Endie, who questions what was Red thinking only to be cut off mid-sentence seeing a cobweb attached to Red's back by Spider, who had attached himself to Ghist as well. Skellington and Endie, seeing their chance to finally get ahead, as they jumped onto Red's back, and swung down to drag down the other teams. After a few brief fights with the other teams, the Yellow team reaches the shore and runs on, while Red had been dragged back by the other mobs, Red was being beaten him up.
The Yellow Team looks back at Red, but Red briefly escaped the scuffle to motion for them to go on before getting beaten up again. By that time, more mobs had started to join the fray. Seeing this, the Yellow Team continues running up the hill. More mobs were continuing to beat Red up, and the three mobs on the hill stopped. By this time, all the other teams had arrived on shore, with Witton giving Red a few more extra punches for good measure, and readies his deadly stone sword, ready to finish off the stick figure. The Yellow Team, finally realizing that none of their progress would have been possible without Red and how they treated him with abuse since the beginning, returned for him as an act of atonement. Skellington shot Witton in the head with an arrow, along with Endie and Spider joining the fight against their rival monsters. A brief scuffle ensues, and Red is rescued from the horde.
After Red and Endie share a nod, the fight continues. The other teams pursue the Yellow Team, but were knocked back or immobilized by the latter. Seeing nothing standing between them and victory, the Yellow Team pulled up the hill, and won the race as the screen fades to black.
A moment later, the Yellow Team is seen on the podium, as Herobrine took out his trophy and gave it to the Yellow Team, which Red took. Red started to whisper about the Nether Portal to the mobs. A few moments later, the sound of a teleport is heard, and Herobrine is shocked to see the Yellow Team disappeared - they have sneaked away and entered into the portal.
Continuing from Episode 26 King Orange, who retrieved one of the Minecraft Game Icon, hovering menacingly over the Warden and The Second Coming. King Orange looks at The Second Coming and demands that The Second Coming give back his staff. When The Second Coming holds on to it, King Orange slowly advances, then charges at them, resuming the fight. Eventually, King Orange traps The Second Coming and the Warden in a mold of Netherite and prepares to replace the Gold with the Minecraft Game Icon inside the staff when a web shoots out and a shadow grabbed the gold block.
Red and his mob friends had arrived at the scene. Endie gives Red the gold block and Red added the gold block to the staff. The Second Coming is happy to see Red; meanwhile, King Orange gets irritated that his staff gets stolen again that he charges at Red, continuing the fight. Red blocks hits from King Orange with the staff, then passes it to Spider, who swings away with it. While King Orange purses Spider, Red attempts to free The Second Coming, only to be tackled down by King Orange, but Enderman frees The Second Coming and the Warden, then shares a high-five with the Warden, to let it know they are friends.
Meanwhile, King Orange takes back his staff, then raises the staff in triumph before Red lassos it using his headband and hit King Orange back. King Orange became even more determined on taking his staff back, and made several failed attempts to get his staff back. He continues fighting everyone and throws Red to the clump of Netherite. Red thought that any block can go in the staff, so Red gets the idea to take out the gold block from the staff and add a Netherite block, which proved to be very heavy after adding it. Red runs at King Orange, and struck him with the staff, sending him flying out into the Nether horizon.
The fighters cheer, but Red lay down on the ground with exhaustion, and The Second Coming and Red share a hug. But the reunion didn't last long; a noise was heard, revealing King Orange holding not one, but both Minecraft Game Icons.
Characters[]
Protagonists[]
- The Second Coming
- Red
- Warden
- Monster School Students (debut)
- Endie (debut)
- Skellington (debut)
- Spider (debut)
Antagonists[]
Other characters[]
- Herobrine
- Monster School Students (debut)
- Steve Clones (debut)
Gallery[]
Errors[]
- When Skellington was revived from the sneaking class after his turn, his arrows that were everywhere didn't go back with him, or anywhere. The arrows just vanished in a instant.
- When the students are teleported to the school after their first class, the order they teleport to the woods and back to the school is different.
All versions - Teleportation errors: When the students are teleported from the woods and to the school, the order of when they teleport and when they arrive are different.
Trivia[]
- The whole video alludes to the original Monster School series by Willcraft, and makes a few subtle references to the original series:
- Skellington has poor aim but excels in cooking, and is good friends with Spider.
- Witton and Zupay excel at combat, referencing both students' enjoyment for fighting in the original.
- Endie does not show any signs of dissociative identity disorder (DID).
- A few days after the episode's release, the main video's thumbnail was swapped with the AVG reaction video, which also happens to Episode 26 to 29.
- As mentioned in the episode's AVG reaction video, Monster School was started in August 2021, which took four months to wait for after Episode 26.
- In said video, Alan said Herobrine was scratching his head at Red as a nod to the original AVM, where Herobrine believes he has seen Red before.
- Red's team was made up of the monsters who bullied him directly in the first lessons once each: Spider tripped him in Lesson 1: Sneaking, Endie punched Red back further in Lesson 2: Running, and Skellington kicked Red in Lesson 3: Acrobatics.
- Herobrine either was oblivious to or does not care about bullying in the Monster School as he made no effort to stop the other monsters from their ill treatment of Red.
- Maggie, Ghist, and Blaise are three out of only five confirmed female characters to appear in the AvM shorts, proceeding Pink and succeeding The Dolphin Queen. The Witch's gender is unconfirmed, though they are also likely female.
- According to Alan, one of the episode's goals was to "Un-Cringe Monster School".
- The "Previously..." segment at the start of the video was later removed, however it can still be viewed here.