"Parkour" is the 22nd episode of the Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts series, being the 3rd installment of Season 3.
Synopsis[]
Nothing bad ever happens in a friendly parkour competition, right?
Plot[]
When the Stick Gang and the Heroic Pig come through the Nether portal, they find themselves facing a basic Parkour Course. Purple shows the group how to do parkour. Red goes first without failing, but when Yellow attempts to finish it, he fell down, When they think he's dead, the others (except for Purple) see Yellow fall from the sky back onto the starting block. Purple laughs so hard that he rolls around on the ground, then he reveals that, when you fail and fall down, you automatically teleport back to the start of the parkour. Excited, the other stick figures completed the parkour course, but the Heroic Pig cannot cross over, so Purple brings it to the other side using his Elytra and fireworks.
The stick figures and the pig follow Purple to another parkour course, teleporting there using a beacon, which has a timer. They all race over the parkour and finish quickly, but Green was the fastest and Yellow was the slowest. Purple said that they would have to win 3 times to win the parkour competition.
At first, the stick figures had fun, completing courses while at the same time trying to beat each other. Each time one stick figure wins until they're all tied with 2 wins.
This is a list of each parkour course and (in some cases) their reactions to the wins, as well as their strategies towards winning.
After this, Purple places a purple glass(?) block on the next beacon before letting them in, allowing them into the final parkour course. (Mathematically, it has to be the final course, as the present score between all the members of the Stick Gang is 2
-2-2-2-2, meaning that whoever wins the next course gets the trophy.)
When they enter the final parkour course, Purple does something different: he lets the stick figures go one at a time around every five seconds. At a certain point of the parkour course, every time one of the stick figures take a path, the path automatically switches to another path, and the next stick figure has no idea the path has been switched.
Red completed his parkour course, and a Piglin Brute gives him a trophy. Red rejoiced, thinking he won the competition. Meanwhile Green sees Purple fly above him holding the pig but thinks he will land at the end. He, too, rejoiced when another Piglin Brute gave him a trophy.
Blue, Yellow, and The Second Coming also completed their courses and each got their trophy from a Piglin Brute, which makes them each think they've won. Green asks the Piglin Brute where Purple is, but it says that it "doesn't know". What Green and the others doesn't realize is that Purple flew out of the parkour course with the Heroic Pig. The Piglin Brutes on each course block the entrance to the beacons, which is the exit. All 5 stick figures slowly realized that the entire course is a trap, and tried to leave, but the Piglin Brutes blocked their exits. This made the stick figures desperate and used weapons to fight the Brutes. Meanwhile, Purple and the Heroic pig fly over to a bastion, where Purple hands the Heroic pig over to a Brute. The Heroic Pig got scared and begin squealing for Purple as the Brute takes him to a cell.
Purple then walks up to the main planning room, and there, in a shocking twist, he bows down to a new stick figure of the series, King Orange. Both head into the planning center. Purple begins to check off the parts of their plan that he completed: set The Second Coming and the Fighting Stick Figures up by bringing them to the parkour course, have them do parkour, and then trapping the Stick Gang in separate areas. King Orange nods, then puts a map on the wall, he takes out his staff with a command block attached to it, and begins animating the rest of the plan. While that's happening, all 5 stick figures have managed to escape the piglin brutes, but land in a parkour loop while the piglins are chasing them. However, Green manages to escape the parkour course by building upwards and mining into the ceiling.
Once out of the parkour course (which is in the Nether), Green uses his fishing rod as a grappling hook, swinging across the Nether and onto the bastion. He infiltrates the bastion and witnesses King Orange's horrifying plan: Once The Second Coming and the Fighting Stick Figures are trapped, Purple will fly to their computer home base, ALANSPC, and take their Minecraft Game Icon. King Orange shows Purple the power of the Icon, such as block control and turning into a giant stick figure. Once Purple gets the Icon, he will fly back to the bastion and give it King Orange. King Orange will throw away the command block he has on the staff and replace it with Minecraft Game Icon, granting him destructive superpowers. Green was shocked by what he saw and leaves the bastion. Purple marvels at the plan he's about to do.
Just then, two Piglin Brutes gave King Orange surveillance evidence that Green had escaped. Out of blind rage, King Orange ruthlessly removes one of the brute's A.I. with a command block staff, rendering the Brute lifeless and unable to move. He orders the other scared Piglin Brute to rally up the Brute forces and guard the parkour course, before he orders Purple to follow along with the plan. (Side note: knowing that the other stick figures will escape as well, he went to lure Blue and Yellow back into the bastion in the next episode,) Before Purple could leave the bastion, however, he's ambushed by Green, who confronts him about the whole setup. Purple tries to act cool, even pointing that there's something behind Green. Green, unamused and still angry, slowly approaches Purple. The latter desperately attempts to fly off, but the former anchors him down with his fishing rod. The two had a skirmish, and just as Green held down Purple, King Orange grabs Green with his staff using a ForceHold command, holding him in the air. He gestures to Purple to leave the bastion, and Purple then flies off.
The Second Coming figured out how to use beacons to teleport the Piglin Brute back and used it to combine another beacon, warping space. He ended up in Red's parkour course, and the two reunited. Then they went to keep the Piglin Brute chasing Red at bay.
Yellow falls down while being chased by the Piglin Brute. Just then, he notices a purple "repeat" command block that teleports him back to the starting point. He respawns, knocks the Piglin Brute off, deletes the command set in the repeating command block, and jumps down. He meets Blue and the two reunite.
Red and The Second Coming used separate beacons to delete the Piglin Brute out of existence. They try to get to their friends by combining their beacons with a third beacons, but they warped space not to other places in their worlds, but to an unknown desert in another Minecraft world. Their beacons get deleted in the process.
Yellow and Blue deleted another repeat command in another repeat block. After Yellow and Blue jumped down from the parkour course, they land in the middle of a bastion full of Piglin brutes. They manage to escape the hordes of Piglin brutes by going through a nether portal.
Near the end of the episode, King Orange is last seen locking Green in a dungeon, electrifying the bars, then leaves. Green tries to escape but he gets electrocuted. The pig oinks to him sadly, Green sits down, hopeless, and the episode ends.
Credits[]
Animators:
- oxob3000
- terkoiz
- Kayal
- Fox
- Activeframe
- Ellis02
- Kursura
- hexal
- YasHGG
- Shuriken255
- CoreAdro
- JasonTheBoring
- AJAnims
- Doumaki
- Able Rai
- Fav
Sound Design:
- Alexander Samarov
- Amir
- Pepper
- Egor
- BluEWanimz
Commands:
- Onnowhere
Backgrounds:
- WingSun
- Shuriken255
Music:
- Scott Buckley
Characters[]
Protagonists[]
Antagonists[]
- Purple
- King Orange (debut)
- Piglin Brutes (debut)
Other characters[]
Trivia[]
- This is the first episode that is longer than the Animation vs. Minecraft, with The King being longer than both.
- When each of the members of the Stick Gang did their respective courses after Purple split them apart, they all finished with the exact same time: One minute and 59.29 seconds (1:59.29).
- In this sense, no one won the Parkour race. Instead it ended in a perfect five-way tie.
- Green probably had the best shot to win. As he was progressing through the course, he paused right before the finish line when he saw Purple flying over him carrying the Heroic Pig. This cost him a precious few seconds, and the win outright.
- This is the first episode to have background music from Animation vs Minecraft.
Gallery[]
Errors[]
- The portals from both the beginning of the episode and when Yellow and Blue enter the village portal, have their old textures.
- These errors are fixed in the full Season 3 release.
Original episode - Portal errors: The portal from the beginning of the episode has its old texture.
Original episode - Portal errors: The portal that Yellow and Blue used to enter it has its old texture.
- There is a video showing Purple taking the Minecraft Game Icon. In that video, he has a hollow head.
All versions - Video errors: When Purple gets the Minecraft Game Icon, he has a hollow head.
- After the video shows Purple flying back to the bastion and giving King Orange the block, King Orange also has a hollow head and an outlined crown.
- This error is fixed in the full Season 3 release.
All versions - Video errors: King Orange is making another video, but while he is making himself in the video, he has a hollow head.
- In a scene where King Orange throws Green into prison, there are extra blackstone bricks in the far right of the screen.
- This error is fixed in the real time Season 3 release.
Original episode + Full series - Prison errors: The prison room is supposed to be smaller, like in the scene where the camera zooms out of the prison room.
- When King Orange places iron bars to prevent Green from getting out of his jail cell, the iron bars play stone sound effects instead of iron bar sound effects.