Not to be confused with the character.
The Warden is the 26th episode of the Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts series, being the 7th episode of Season 3.
Unofficial Synopsis[]
The Second Coming is being hunted down by something... dangerous. Can he escape and survive the beast?
Plot[]
After falling down a deep hole, The Second Coming gets up and notices that he's in a Dripstone Cave, and that he's next to a Sculk Sensor. He thinks of a plan by using blocks to tower out of the cave, but then he remembers that the Minecraft Game Icon that he possesses got lost in the previous fight against King Orange. The Second Coming puts his hands on his hips, making the Sculk Sensor croak. He hits the ground multiple times and finds out that they detect vibrations. Without blocks to climb, The Second Coming tries to climb up the walls of the cave and up to the hole, but to no avail, he only feels exhausted halfway through, and falls all the back to the cave floor. Meanwhile, a mysterious figure is limping in the background.
The Second Coming climbs the cave walls a few more times, but fails. Frustrated, he walks back to where he fell into the cave. The Sculk Sensor croaks again as he sits, which made The Second Coming so mad he accidentally destroys it in a fit of rage.
At that very moment, the figure in the background suddenly lit up with blue light. The Second Coming stops and looks at it with uneasiness. Then it roars, revealing to be a Warden and begins chasing The Second Coming, terrifying him so badly that he runs all the way to a Ancient City. There, The Second Coming manages to hide behind a pillar for some time. He looks left and right, and slowly tiptoes out, only to find out the Warden vanished somehow, while The Second Coming was sneaking, the Warden emerged from a huge patch of sculk blocks and walks around. Realizing that the Warden is blind but can hear vibrations, The Second Coming begins to walk backwards very slowly but his foot accidentally hits a Sculk Shrieker, alerting the Warden. The Warden roars and begins chasing him.
While he's running, The Second Coming finds a building to hide in from the Warden, and discovers a chest in the Ancient City. Knowing that the Warden is blind, The Second Coming sneaks past it and opens it, hoping that it contains weapons and blocks, but the chest made a noise as it opened and The Second Coming panicked. The Warden quickly finds The Second Coming inside the building, and chases him again. The Second Coming throws a candle to lure the Warden away, and is able to loot the chest of its materials. The Warden hears the vibration and chases The Second Coming.
After getting far away from the Warden, The Second Coming finds quickly that his new items, a stick, a book, a candle, and an enchanted golden apple, are not enough to enable his escape. When the Warden closes in on him, he distracts the Warden again by throwing the Enchanted Golden Apple away from him. He then tries to use the items to mine Deepslate blocks, but it releases noise, alerting the Warden. In desperation, The Second Coming slides into a narrow tunnel to get out of the reach of the Warden.
The Second Coming sighs in relief. But the Warden begins destroying the blocks to get to The Second Coming. Panicked, The Second Coming goes further inside the tunnel, and finds out it's a dead end. He tries to use the book to mine through, and then stopped, wondering what's inside the book. He reads the book and suddenly knows what to do. He creates a makeshift flute with a candle and a stick by using the stick to make the candle hollow, a hole on the outside, then sticking the stick into one end. Meanwhile, the Warden bashes his way into the dead end and roars. With no time, The Second Coming plays some music, which incapacitates the Warden. As he plays along, the book that he's using turns out to be a music book, with music that he's playing to the Warden. The Warden suddenly has a flashback of when the Ancient City was inhabited by Villagers, as well as the Warden itself, being a former guardian. Now that The Second Coming has stopped the Warden from killing him, he slowly tries to leave, but the Warden stops him and thanks him for reminding it who it was before. The Second Coming then plays a flute version of Pigstep, forming the music into a picture story: There is a tyrant who is incredibly strong, and The Warden must aid The Second Coming. The Warden agrees to aid The Second Coming; as they were about to leave the cave, the Warden jumps super high and climbs out of the cave into the Nether Portal.
Back in the Nether, King Orange climbs out of the ruined bastion after being knocked unconscious with his fight against The Second Coming. He, too, remembers that his Minecraft Game Icon got lost in the previous fight, and decides to escape the scene and get the Minecraft Game Icon. Just then, the Warden and The Second Coming emerge, and prevents King Orange from escaping. King Orange leaps over them but now, with The Second Coming's help, the Warden grabs King Orange and flings him back to the throne room. The Warden charges at him and King Orange barely dodges the Warden's swift attack. The Second Coming helps the Warden sense King Orange and the Warden throws a heavy blow at King Orange, and the fight continues. Just as the Warden makes his finishing blow, King Orange grabs a gold block nearby and places it into his specter, stopping the Warden from destroying him. With the gold block on his staff, it grants King Orange renewed strength and he's able to briefly fight back against the Warden . But with the Warden's strength and The Second Coming's combat skills syncing, they knocked the staff out of King Orange's hands and punched him over the bastion.
But just as King Orange gets up, he sees the Minecraft Game Icon that got lost previously, The Second Coming quickly grabs King Orange's staff and together he and the Warden went to finish off King Orange... only to see King Orange hovering ominously over them, the Minecraft Game Icon stolen from ALANSPC in his hand.
Credits[]
Animators
- Alan Becker
- Able Rai
- terkoiz
- Shuriken255
- Sanguinii
- Fox
- hexal
- glob
- JasontheBoring
- Kayal
- oxob3000
- Doumaki
Sound Design
- Pepper
- Alexander Saramov
Music
- Scott Buckley
Backgrounds
- Avenoire
- WingSun
Characters[]
Protagonists[]
- The Second Coming
- Warden (debut)
Antagonists[]
Other characters[]
- Villagers (flashback)
Gallery[]
Errors[]
- In this episode, both times lava appears, although it is unanimated. In the full Season 3 release, the lava animation in the scene where the Warden sends King Orange flying is fixed, but the other scene in the beginning of the fight remains unfixed.
- In the scene where the Warden sends King Orange flying, the nether portals leading to Monster School and the Deep Dark are missing. Both portals were added in the previously section of the "Monster School" episode.
- In the full Season 3 release, the Monster School portal was added, but it was only partially exposed because the camera was moved slightly downwards, and King Orange's flying animation was changed.
- Time errors: King Orange's flying pose is different when the camera zooms out, which means the first few frames show King Orange having different versions of the flying pose in the zoomed in camera. The punching poses for The Second Coming and the Warden are also early when the camera zooms out.
All versions - Time errors: King Orange's flying pose is normal when the camera is zoomed in, and The Second Coming and the Warden do their punch pose later.
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Trivia[]
- This is the first animation since their debut to not feature any of the Fighting Stick Figures.
- Before this episode was uploaded, there was a poll on YouTube about whether this episode or a new animation called Animation vs. Arcade Games should come first. This is due to the episode being published at the time before the real in-game Warden was released. The only latest information for the Warden is on the Minecraft Live 2021, which is the inspiration for the Warden in AVM Shorts. The "I want to see the Warden episode ASAP" option received more votes than "Do the other video first so that we can see a more accurate Warden", so this episode was uploaded before Animation vs. Arcade Games.
- The Youtooz ad and the "Previously..." segment at the start of the video as well as the credits and Youtooz ad at the end were later removed, however they can still be viewed here.