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The Dark Lord

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"The Chosen One's Enemy" redirects here. For the first enemy of The Chosen One, see noogai3.
For his imaginary counterpart, see Imaginary Dark Lord.

“mission.The_Dark_Lord = destroy(The_Chosen_One);”
— noogai3, Animator vs. Animation 3

The Dark Lord[4] (tentatively known and can be described as The Chosen One's enemy[5]), also called TDL, is the main antagonist of the Animator vs. Animation franchise. Being the most dangerous villain in the series, he serves as a major character in Animator vs. Animation Season 1, the main antagonist of Animator vs. Animation Season 2 and the overarching antagonist of Animator vs. Animation Season 3.

The Dark Lord is a red artificial stick figure who was created by Alan Becker for the sole purpose of destroying The Chosen One. The Dark Lord's first name was originally The Chosen One's enemy, but was changed to The Dark Lord before his true creation. He was initially loyal to his creator and the mission imprinted onto him until The Chosen One bested him, where he chose to display mercy to the red stick figure and revealed to him that Alan only saw him as a tool and cared for him no more than he did for The Chosen One.

Angered at being seen as disposable by his creator, The Dark Lord abandoned his mission upon realizing his loyalty was misplaced and instead chose to align himself with The Chosen One as they teamed up to take down their common enemy. They succeeded in destroying Alan's computer by causing it to explode and ultimately resulted in a blue screen of death which was believed by Alan to have taken both stick figures down with it in the process, supposedly ending their existence.

Almost seven years later, it was revealed in "The Flashback" that both The Dark Lord and The Chosen One were able to escape the computer by opening a doorway to the Internet just moments before the computer crashed. From there on, the two became partners in crime and went on a seven-year reign of terror across the Internet. As time went on, The Chosen One would mellow out from this destructive path, with their brief visit into Minecraft particularly teaching him the value in creation over destruction, while The Dark Lord would find the hellish environment of the Nether a further source of thrill-seeking as he embraced in its lava and fiery domain while fighting off its hordes of hostile creatures, thus emboldening his desire for violence.

Eventually, after reaching the Outernet in 2013 and building a home base, he would seek to create the ultimate weapons of chaos in the form of a spider virus named the ViraBot, alongside a wristband that would tap into his hidden, dark power to grant him virus blades. However, this would prove to be the straw that broke the camel's back as The Chosen One couldn't abide by this madness any longer and broke apart from his partner. After chasing after a ViraBot sent to Alan's PC as a test run and destroying it, he would meet the Stick Gang and despite not paying them any mind, was followed back to the Outernet by them where they ultimately worked with him to end The Dark Lord's plans for conquest.

Ultimately, the combined might of the Fighting Stick Figures, Alan Becker and The Chosen One seemed incapable of stopping the empowered Dark Lord and his ViraBot army, until The Second Coming awoke his dormant powers for the first and only time, using his mystical green aura to seemingly destroy all of the ViraBots and The Dark Lord once and for all. This would prove to be The Dark Lord's demise if not for a few surviving ViraBots finding their creator's remains and spent the next five years not only restoring him to his former power, but even enhancing it by fusing him with his Wristband of Power, granting him even more control of the virus power of the Virabots, making him a virus hybrid.

At some point after his resurrection, one of the ViraBots showed him a wanted poster of The Chosen One made by Rocket Corp. After finding the organization, The Dark Lord learned that it was founded by the stick figure that Alan created before him and The Chosen One, named victim. Learning of victim's shared hatred of The Chosen One and their creator, as well as the loss of his lover Mitsi due in part to his attack on Newgrounds years ago, The Dark Lord had one of his ViraBots disguise themself as a camera inside of Rocket Corp. HQ to spy on victim and after he renamed himself to H4CK3R and The Chosen One to NO ONE, watched as he returned to Alan's PC to enact revenge.

It was there that The Dark Lord finally made himself known to his "older brother" by introducing himself and his newfound powers which initially disturbed and offended H4CK3R due to him reminding him of Mitsi's fate. However, The Dark Lord showcased his ability to supposedly give Mitsi new life with his virus powers. With H4CK3R's interest gained, The Dark Lord offered his hand out to his, asking for the two of them to join forces for reasons yet unknown.

Appearance

The Dark Lord is a bright red artificial stick figure who has a hollow and slightly thin head and is above-average height.

In the climax of Animator vs. Animation Season 2, he dons the Wristband of Power that has red highlights on his right arm that can generate triangle-esque blades with unstable bases that have the same colors as the wristband.

Later on in his fight against The Chosen One and a recently 3D printed cursor controlled by noogai3, he morphs a Virablade into an extra wristband on his left arm, now donning two wristbands instead of one.

After his defeat, he was left in pieces, until his ViraBots repaired him, leaving him with multiple cracks on his body which eventually healed. He no longer wears his Wristbands of Power, as they appear to have fused with him, causing his hands to turn black when he uses the wristband's power.

Personality

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The Dark Lord attempting to kill The Chosen One by smashing the font choice window on him.

Upon his creation, The Dark Lord was a single-minded but intelligent entity, only created to destroy The Chosen One. He showed great perseverance and skill during their battles and was courteous to his allies in the form of Alan's desktop apps. The Dark Lord was crafty and refused to back down in the face of perseverance from his opponents, showing he wouldn't stop until he claimed victory. However, upon his defeat at the hands of his opponent, he showed fear due to being ultimately outclassed by, and at the mercy of, The Chosen One. However, after realizing that he was no less expendable to Alan than his counterpart, The Dark Lord became wrathful due to being a simple tool and chose to go against his initial programming by allying with The Chosen One and working together to defy their creator who aimed to oppress and ultimately get rid of them.

After his abandonment and betrayal and joining The Chosen One, The Dark Lord went from the hero of the day to one of the most dangerous and violent beings ever witnessed. He mercilessly destroyed websites and games without a second thought. He lit up with excitement when his ViraBot was complete and about to launched at ALANSPC, likely to get revenge. He felt betrayed by The Chosen One when he tried to stop him from launching the ViraBot. It is shown he still feels anger and hatred towards noogai3, and was furious when he saw The Chosen One fight alongside noogai3. The Dark Lord was also far more sadistic and sinister than The Chosen One, as he shown by his savage slaying of Red, Blue, Yellow and Green, plus his brutal beatdown of The Second Coming.

Powers & Abilities

The Dark Lord, both being named and designed as an opposite to The Chosen One, possesses multiple destructive powers and attributes that make him extremely dangerous and competent. With his smarts alone allowing him to create allies and battle multiple opponents at once, as shown in "The Showdown," The Dark Lord is not someone to be reckoned with, especially with his superhuman qualities and raw powers enhancing him further is at least as powerful as The Chosen One.

However, unlike his predecessor, he appears to lack a variety of elemental powers such as electrokinesis and cryokinesis, which hinders his raw power, causing him to rely on the Wristband of Power for a much needed power boost in the fight against his creator and his predecessor.

Approximately five years after being presumed gone, The Dark Lord is revealed to have been reconstructed by his ViraBots, not only restoring him to his former power, but making him stronger than he was before. This is shown with the Wristbands of Power having fused to him, making him a virus himself and victim/H4CK3R's scanner showing his power level to be off the charts, potentially making him as strong or possibly even stronger than H4CK3R.

Natural Abilities

  • Superhuman Abilities: The Dark Lord has the strength, durability, stamina, speed and agility of a superhuman, these abilities being similar to The Chosen One's own. However, he manages to gain the power of the viruses he created along with an enhancement of his own abilities using a special virus band on his wrist, which gave him greater strength, as he manages to overpower The Chosen One, Alan's cursor and the Stick Gang.
  • Pyrokinesis: The Dark Lord can create and project extremely hot flames, using this ability to wreak havoc in various websites and games like Newgrounds and Angry Birds (both seen in "The Flashback") as well as throwing and launching explosive fireballs as seen during his dual with The Chosen One in "The Showdown." This is referred to as "Pyrokinesis" in "Hacker."
    • Fire Breath: Like his former friend, he can breathe powerful and very hot flames from his mouth, as seen during his and The Chosen One's attack on the game Angry Birds in "The Flashback."
    • Pyrokinetic Flight: The Dark Lord is capable of flight via igniting his fists to create propulsion.
    • Fire Resistance: The Dark Lord is partially immune to fire. This is demonstrated in "Beta," where he falls into lava but emerges only annoyed.
    • Explosive Blast: In "Beta," The Dark Lord is shown releasing a large, powerful explosion that ruptures the terrain around him.
    • Energy Manipulation: With this ability, he can create spheres of destructive energy as a signature attack (only being capable of creating one at a time, though having the ability to rapid-fire them). He is capable of creating energy spheres of various sizes depending on how long he charges them up after creating them. These mostly orange spheres contain varying amounts of explosive energy, depending on how big they are, and they explode upon making contact with any surface, be it a wall, or a stick figure. He can also wield the same energy that The Chosen One uses to enhance his punches and attract objects, with the two of them having used this ability to destroy the Animator's computer.
  • Highly Advanced Intellect: Similar to The Chosen One, The Dark Lord possesses a very high intellect. Immediately following his creation, he instantly showed great knowledge involving fighting as a well-rounded combatant, being able to match his opponent in the beginning and playing Minesweeper on a difficult level with little difficulty. Later, as the years went by following the destruction of Alan's old computer, he began researching into programming and computer science in an attempt to create a highly advanced virus in the form of the ViraBots and his Wristband of Power in an attempt to invade and conquer the global network.
  • Extreme Resistance: The Dark Lord has a surprisingly very strong resistance, where he not only managed to withstand The Chosen One's burning lasers, but also a Minesweeper explosion that killed both AIM and Firefox.

Empowered by the Wristbands of Power

Alongside his ViraBots, The Dark Lord also designed a wristband that grants him the properties of a virus, while also enhancing all of his physical abilities to the point where it can easily create a gap between him and The Chosen One as the black stick figure became unable to fight against him one-on-one with his abilities enhanced by the wristband:

  • Power Enhancement/Vira-Powers: The Dark Lord, upon putting on the wristband in "The Showdown," gains a multitude of abilities, while his own natural powers are enhanced.
    • Dark Energy: An ability is called "Dark Energy" in "Hacker." It likely corresponds to these abilities:
      • ViraBot Control: With the wristband equipped, The Dark Lord had complete control over his ViraBots, being able to command them through simple body gestures and thought, as seen when he orders them to attack The Chosen One and Alan's cursor with an outward sweeping motion from his arms soon after activating them with a tap of his wristband.
      • Vira-Blades: The main weapon of the wristband. These blades are made of the same dark energy as the wristband and possess the same corrosive nature as the other weapons and abilities do. The Dark Lord is able to split a single blade into multiple identical blades.
      • Vira-Spikes: The Dark Lord can summon corrosive spikes just like his ViraBots, although their size cannot be manipulated.
      • Dark Energy Orbs: The Dark Lord can create and throw orbs of dark energy from his hands that, as opposed to his usual energy orbs, have no explosive properties. These can likely cut through matter in the same way the Vira-Blades do.
    • Lasers: Although not present as a natural ability, the wristband gave The Dark Lord the ability to fire laser beams made up of dark energy from his eyes, similar to the Chosen One, but far more unstable than his due to its virus-like nature. However, this is considered a separate ability ("Lasers") from Dark Energy in "Hacker."
      • Laser Vision Immunity: The Dark Lord is granted an extremely high resistance to The Chosen One's laser vision, shown when he uses it as a platform to attack him.
    • Flight: Enhanced with the wristband, he can control the gravity around him and fly much quicker and turn faster than the Chosen One's own flame propulsion-based flight. This is referred to as "Flight [Type 04]" in "Hacker."

Weaknesses

His weakness at this time is beings stronger than himself. When fighting the awakened The Second Coming, the difference in the level of the abilities resulted in him suffering a fatal wound that split his body into pieces, and it took quite a while for his Virabots to revive him.

Fused Wristbands

Following his demise at the hands of The Second Coming, the few remaining ViraBots found his remains and used their virus powers to restore their creator and merged him with his wristbands and their own code to fill in the missing gaps in him to make him whole again, resulting in the wristbands becoming a part of him, not only restoring him and his former power, but making him even more powerful than ever by turning him into an actual virus:

  • Virus: With the assistance of the remaining ViraBots, the two Wristbands of Power were fused with the Dark Lord's body, changing his physiology and essentially turning him into a virus. This likely gives him all the abilities showcased by the Wristband in "The Showdown." but even more powerful with greater control over them.
    • Body Liquification: With his new body composed of virus data, he can now partially liquify his arms into a black liquid virus with red accents, which he can then manipulate into complex shapes (including spikes, spheres, blades and shuriken) and return to his body at will. During this the portion of his body that was liquified appears blackened, though he can shift this area around at will.

Appearances

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Trivia

  • The Dark Lord is ranked as one of the most powerful characters in the Animator vs. Animation metaseries, being able to fight on par with The Chosen One and easily able to defeat the black stick figure after being enhanced with the Wristbands of Power. He is outclassed only by The Second Coming after his dormant power awakens, powerful enough that The Dark Lord couldn't even scratch the orange stick figure even with his enhanced powers and army of ViraBots.
  • The Dark Lord's new powers are “an evolution of his wristbands from The Showdown. They have fused into his hands, allowing him to manipulate dark energy," said by Skim. In the AB Oct Newsletter, a concept art of The Dark Lord's new abilities show him forming spheres, spikes, levitating blades and shuriken from the liquified dark energy.
  • The Dark Lord was initially good/a secondary protagonist (depending on your perspective) in Animator vs. Animation 3, before siding with The Chosen One after his creator left him to die and being persuaded by the former. He becomes the hidden main antagonist in the years after this, before being revealed as the main villain in "The Flashback" and showcased in "The Showdown."
    • Depending on your perspective, he is the first secondary protagonist in the series, despite the fact that his role is not too significant in Animator vs. Animation 3. However, after being betrayed, he has an obvious grudge towards Alan, with this betrayal starting The Dark Lord's turn to evil.
  • Alan Becker thinks The Dark Lord could win against a fully powered King Orange, with his overwhelmingly large ViraBot army being a big factor of the equation.[6]
    • Do note, however, that this was a one-off comment, and Alan has not thought of this debate very much, being vague with his answers in the members-only Discord server on the occasions he has been asked.
  • The Dark Lord was originally supposed to have died in the ending of Animator vs. Animation 3,[7] but was brought back in Animator vs. Animation Season 2. After this, he returned once again in "Hacker".
  • Unlike the other stick figures that Alan has made, noogai3 completely allowed him to escape from Adobe, just to destroy The Chosen One.
  • The Dark Lord is not completely immune to fire and lava.[8]
  • The Dark Lord is the second stick figure with non-neutral color in their design, following AOL Instant Messenger.
  • Before "Beta," an imaginary Dark Lord had been shown inside the Nether three years before.
  • The Dark Lord and Hangman are the only artificial stick figures that weren’t physically nor mentally abused by noogai.
  • The Dark Lord shares the same birthday with The Second Coming, just on different years.
  • Between the time from The Showdown to Hacker, it is shown that the ViraBots survived and resurrected The Dark Lord, granted him new powers as a virus, told him about Rocket Corp. and somehow managed to get back to ALANSPC.
  • The Dark Lord and Hangman are the only canon artificial stick figures to have not wielded a drawing tool.
  • He’s the only character to appear in every episode in Season 3 but not appear physically in every episode.
  • According to H4CK3R's scan, his power level is off the charts, implying that The Dark Lord is one, if not part, of the strongest stick figures in the series.
  • Until Season 3, The Dark Lord’s latest chronological and in release date ordered appearance was “The Ultimate Weapon”, as an image cameo.
  • The Dark Lord is the first stick figure younger than victim to not have any direct predecessors, despite sharing a creator.
  • The Dark Lord is the first stick figure whose program mentions another (The second being The Second Coming).

References

  1. ↑ "packID: StickData.tdl" - Animator Combat Tool, The Showdown
  2. ↑ The Flashback - Animator vs. Animation 7
  3. ↑ Hacker - Animator vs. Animation 12
  4. ↑ Animator vs. Animation 3 (original) The Dark Lord is named.
  5. ↑ Animator vs. Animation 3 (original)
  6. ↑ Reacting To Your ART And ANIMATIONS, And Answering YOUR QUESTIONS | 1 MILLION Subscriber Special
  7. ↑ Help me plan the next animation 2!!
  8. ↑ Animation Vs Minecraft Beta | AvG Reacts

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