Stick figures are humanoid digital beings that comprise about half of the characters in the Animator vs. Animation franchise. They are known for their thin, simplistic bodies and their lack of facial features and verbal communication.
As a species, stick figures are separated into many unique races.
Overview
Color palette of the stick figures in the AvA franchise.
Stick figures are virtual stickmen that exist across and are capable of jumping between different forms of digital media, most notably on computers and in the Outernet but can also exist in games such as Pokémon or Minecraft and even inside of smartphones.
They are most well known for their very simplistic yet charming forms but also due to usually lacking verbal communication, somewhat communicating telepathically[1]. They usually also lack facial features. However, hand-drawn stick figures such as The Dark Lord and The Second Coming can manifest "eyes" when utilizing their powers and the latter can even talk through text-speech, albeit rarely and usually only to communicate with his creator, Alan. The Chosen One also once manifested a mouth like Pac-Man's, with which he ate the text on one of noogai3's essays before firing the letters back out of his mouth like machine gun bullets.
Most of them seem to live in a virtual universe known as the Outernet, which is a subspace in the Internet. It is where The Chosen One and The Dark Lord went to after escaping Alan's computer and causing destruction across numerous websites and also where notable stick figures such as Purple and King Orange originated from and currently inhabit.
However, not all stick figures inhabit the Outernet. The Second Coming and the Fighting Stick Figures all live on Alan's computer and in the latter's home website. Despite this, they have been able to travel to the Outernet and other websites/games through the use of dimensional cracks created by The Chosen One when he saved them from a Virabot sent by The Dark Lord or using Nether Portals to access the many different realms of Minecraft. They can also travel between devices via programs such as email, online games or Dropbox.
For the most part, stick figures seem to be inherently good and aren't particularly known for being evil, with rare exceptions such as The Dark Lord who grew corrupted by power lust over the years and how The Chosen One was initially a destructive being after being created by Alan but later mellowed down over the years. Others such as Purple and King Orange grew to become violent and anger-filled due to their sad backstories, with the loss of Purple's mother and the abandonment of his father or with King Orange having lost his son due to a fatal error during a Minecraft simulation, but both of them were able to change their ways due to the actions of The Second Coming and friends, ending their quests for retribution and returning them to the lives they once had, together.
All Known Stick Figure Races
Artificial stick figures
One of the two dominant stick figure races in the franchise, the other being the Natural stick figures. They are the only known artificial race of stick figures that don't reproduce nor come from a website, but instead are created by human animators. They are well known for their hollow ring-shaped heads and unique names, given to them by their creators. So far, only five of them are known to exist in the series, with them all having the same creator, with their age in order from oldest to youngest being victim, The Chosen One, The Dark Lord, The Second Coming, Purple, Dark Blue, Pink, and Hangman.
Natural stick figures
Natural stick figures, the main race of stick figures in the Outernet.
One of the two dominant stick figure races in the franchise, the other being the Artificial stick figures. They are the most occuring natural race of stick figures that live within the Outernet, where they number anywhere from the thousands to potentially billions. They are well known for solid perfectly circular-shaped heads and are named after their color. Among them, the most notable ones are the Fighting Stick Figures, King Orange and Gold.
Pivot stick figures
Known for being significantly tall compared to other races and their higher framerate that allows them to move more smoothly. The only known member of this race is the mercenary leader, Agent.
Pixelated stick figures
They are well recognized by their pixel-like forms and are natural shapeshifters, capable of transforming their body into very bizzare shapes such as making their head into a turret, creating weapons for themselves such as swords, and being able to move their limbs in a comical and unreallistic fashion such as a swarm of flurry punches that seem very fast. The only known member of this race is the mercenary, Ballista.
Painted stick figures
Very bizzarely-shaped stick figures resembling that of caveman paintings, given their very rough apperances and are always moving, even when standing still. They seem to have a natural affinity for pre-modern weaponry such as bows and arrows or spears, similar to how hunter-and-gatherers would hunt their prey. Similarly to the Pixelated stick figures, they also possess some form of shapeshifting as they can increase their muscle mass to become more beastial and savage. The only known member of this race is the mercenary, Primal.
Sign stick figures
Among the different races of stick figures, these ones are very unusual as they resemble the pictogram-styled stickmin found on warning signs such as crosswalks, bathrooms and danger signals. Unlike most other stick figures, they move in a very blocky and seemingly unnatural manner while also moving at a lower framerate. They are supposedly flat and have their heads physically separate from the rest of their body but are capable of powerful abilities. The only ones known member of this race is the mercenary, Hazard and AIM.
Outline stick figures
One of the stick figure races living in the Outernet and the first one outside of the Natural stick figures to be seen in mass. They are stick figures with thin, black outlines and color-filled heads but unlike their colorful cousins, they are all seen wearing hats or other accessories such as flowers on their heads while moving at a slightly quicker framerate. So far, they have only been encountered by the Fighting Stick Figures after exiting the forest and making their way into town, looking for any information about the mysterious "rocket organization" that the Mercenaries took The Chosen One and The Second Coming to after capturing them.
Powers & Abilities
Stick figures are very diverse when it comes to their physical abilities and fighting intellect or knowledge of programming and other forms of entertainment like games and artistry. Ultimately, the abilities of Stick Figures seem to depend on their race and backgrounds.
Natural stick figures are naturally not as powerful or intelligent as their synthetic counterparts but vastly outnumber them in terms of population due to their rarity. It has been shown that they are capable of becoming powerful combatants such as Yellow, Blue, Green and Red who are naturally advanced fighters and are known as the "Fighting Stick Figures" due to hailing from Stickfights.com, a website about stick figures constantly fighting each other. However, other stick figures like Purple are capable of rivaling them due to his rough past with his father and wanting to prove his worth to the parent who abandoned him and his mother.
Their physical abilities and intelligence can also be dependent on their age, as seen with King Orange who is a fully matured stick figure as opposed to Purple and the others who range from adolescence to young adult, due to being significantly taller and more physically capable despite being less knowledgeable in basic self-defense and combat. However, his naturally greater physical strength is able to make up for this as he proved to be able to fend off The Second Coming's friends and Minecraft allies in order to retrieve his staff and the game icon from Purple; he also displayed a much higher intelligence than the others in terms of general relativity relating to vortexes and black holes and the mechanics of Minecraft, which rivals The Dark Lord's understanding of programming and computer science.
Artificial stick figures are naturally more powerful and intelligent than their internet counterparts, as with The Chosen One and The Dark Lord who were both very cunning immediately following their creation and possessed innate superpowers according to the power levels assigned to them at the moment of conception, such as being able to fly, laser eyes, create energy balls and control over natural elements such as fire, lightning, ice and wind.
However, this power and intelligence appears to be dependent on said levels granted to them by their creators, with other hand-drawn stick figures such as Victim and The Second Coming not appearing to possess the same powers or knowledge as their superpowered brethren. They do seem to make up for this due to being more creative and artistic, as the two both used their surroundings to their advantage to fight against their creators, with victim being able to use weapons and drawing tools to deflect Alan's attacks and The Second Coming create a beam gun from different animation tools and also bring his own drawings to life in order to help him wreck the computer.
Regardless of these differences, a hand-drawn stick figures' powers aren't always straightforward as shown in the case of The Second Coming; despite initially appearing to have no superpowers, after seeing his friends be deleted by Alan, for a few moments he manifested power identical to his predecessor, The Chosen One, likely due to his own title being "The Chosen One's Return". It was once again shown by in much greater clarity when he witnessed his friends be deleted again, this time by The Dark Lord and being viciously beaten and slashed by the virus-bands which seemed to have awoken a dormant power within him that greatly outclassed both his predecessors and granted him the powers of an anti-virus which allowed him to repel the Virabots with no effort at all and completely decimate The Dark Lord, even with his powers enhanced, from his raw speed and power alone before defeating the evil stick figure with a green energy blast that cut through the earth and destroyed a mountain.
His greatest abilities seem to lie in this anti-virus power that allowed him to reverse the effects of the virus bands that The Dark Lord used to delete his friends, able to bring the Fighting Stick Figures back to life despite nothing having been left of them, making him the most powerful stick figure in the entire series but at the catch of The Second Coming himself not being able to consciously control this power at will or being fully aware of what he is actually capable of when pushed to his breaking point, as he didn't seem to remember resurrecting his friends and confused at why The Chosen One would bow to him, believing him to be the more powerful one despite the reverse being true.
It should also be noted that stick figures' powers may be amplified by their file extension, The Second Coming being naturally more powerful because of his .exe extension, when compared to The Chosen One's (presumably) .fla file, with .dll and such being the most powerful, potentially allowing stick figures to fully control the computer they are in. But this shouldn't be taken as fact because this is a theory, and it was made 17 minutes ago at the time of writing this.
Known stick figures
Artificial stick figures
- victim
- The Chosen One
- The Dark Lord ?
- Kickstarter Video Stickfigure †
- Stick Gang
- Dark Blue ?
- Pink †
- Purple
- Corn Dog Guy
- Tutorial Black ?
- Tutorial Blue ?
- Tutorial Purple ?
- Tutorial Green ?
- Hangman ?
Natural stick figures
sticksfight.com
Outernet
- Developers ?
- Cerulean ?
- Dark Green ?
- Zaffre ?
- King Orange
- Gold †
- victim's Workers
- Original Workers ?
Unknown
Trivia
- Despite the stick figure species being mainly categorized into one of two races, there also exists a minority of other stick figures and stickmen on websites such as Stickpage showing different kinds of stick figures with unique traits not present among the majority of them, such as being multicolored or even having facial features and the ability to communicate verbally.
- Most known stick figures are confirmed to be male, with Pink and Mitsi being the only two stick figures confirmed to be female.
External Links
- Stick Figures on the Heroes Wiki
- Stick Figures on the Villains Wiki