The Required Essay is an essay written in Microsoft Word. It is a running joke in which the essay is destroyed in all of its appearances.
The shortcut was first seen in Animator vs. Animation II, which was destroyed with fire by the Chosen One. It was seen again, opened, in Animator vs. Animation III, and it forms one of the battlefields between the Chosen One and noogai3, along with Clippit and The Dark Lord. Its latest appearance was Animation vs. Minecraft, in the Documents folder, along with a backup copy. They were both destroyed in the chaos.
Appearance[]
Animator vs. Animation II[]
One of the first things the Chosen One does after escaping Flash is incinerate the Required Essay.
Animator vs. Animation III[]
In Animator vs. Animation III, the document is accessed by the Chosen One after he escapes his imprisonment as a pop-up blocker and breaks out of Internet Explorer. Once noogai3 finds the Chosen One, the latter starts eating the document text before spitting letters at the cursor. noogai3 fights back with the Tab key until the Chosen One burns the text with his laser vision.
Clippit sees the carnage and offers to help noogai3 kill the stick figure. noogai3 accepts just as the Chosen One starts eating the last paragraph of the essay. After ignoring Clippit's threat, the two engage in combat, noogai3 taking part as well. Clippit creates an ASCII-art sword while the Chosen One forges two spears from an arrows icon. noogai3 creates and ASCII-art gun, and he and Clippit corner the Chosen One, who destroys both weapons with his fire breath.
While the Chosen One and Clippit continue fighting, noogai3 creates a second stick figure in Flash called the Dark Lord and tasks it to destroy the Chosen One. The Dark Lord enters the arena just as the Chosen One defeats Clippit and all of the text is destroyed. The Dark Lord launches a seismic stomp which deploys all the bottom menus. The menus become weapons for both sticks until the Chosen One uses the cursor icon to minimize the window, taking the battle outside.
Animation vs. Minecraft[]
The essay briefly makes an appearance located in the STUFF folder in STORAGE, along with a backup of the document. In an battle with monsters, both documents are destroyed, although they are presumably restored after The Second Coming deletes Minecraft, reversing all the damage to the interface.
Document Content[]
The essay at the start of the battle is written out as follows:
Required Essay |
Trivia[]
- The essay seems to be a persuasive essay aimed at explaining the difficulty in projecting the deep meaning of art as opposed to simply creating a piece that is pleasing to look at.
References[]
- Animator vs. Animation II by Alan Becker
- Animator vs. Animation III by Alan Becker
- Animation vs. Minecraft by Alan Becker
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