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"The Witch" is the 21st episode of Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts, being the second episode of Season 3.
Synopsis[]
This is not your ordinary Minecraft witch.
Plot[]
Blue emerges from the Nether Portal, where he's relieved to be out of the Nether. He turns to The Second Coming, who had just appeared, gesturing to Blue to come closer. As Blue does so, he sees the true identity of the fake Second Coming off-camera and tries to run, but is hit with a potion, and disappears.
The real Second Coming, Green, Red and, Yellow come out of the portal shortly after, where they reunite with who they believe is Blue. Showing that he'd managed to obtain some nether wart, the Stick Figures celebrate and leave. Blue, however, seems hesitant to leave, and stops Red. One at a time, the remaining stick figures go back in the portal, as each stick that went before them takes longer and longer to return. The Second Coming is the last one to enter the portal again. Finding that the other stick figures are nowhere to be seen, The Second Coming confronts Blue, who suddenly begins attacking The Second Coming with a barrage of potions. Fending off the attacks, The Second Coming manages to pin the impersonator to the ground, who then transforms into a witch, whom is the culprit behind the disappearance of his friends. The witch then drinks a potion of invisibility, and disappears. (You can see the potion's spirals as she flees, but TSC is unaware.)
The Second Coming feels hopeless now that the Witch is gone, along with his friends. Red's pig makes haste attempting to comfort The Second Coming, and they set off in search of the other stick figures. As they are searching, with the pig's nose leading the way, they come across a group of llamas. The Heroic Pig sniffs out Yellow, and as The Second Coming walks by, one of them makes llama noises, attempting to communicate their identity as Yellow. The Second Coming nearly celebrates, but he had to test the llama first, telling it to build a redstone contraption to prove whether or not the llama is indeed Yellow (because Yellow is a genius at Redstone Minecraft.) The llama ends up building a contraption that makes an armor stand of Yellow after the llama spits on a target. Satisfied, The Second Coming gives him a yellow tapestry, and the three set off once more.
While crossing the swamp, a salmon jumps on The Second Coming, which he shakes off. They continued, and the salmon landed next to The Second Coming's feet. He was ready to kick it, but the Pig stops him in time. It then sniffs the salmon, and deduces that it is Red. The Second Coming is still skeptical, so he holds some wool with different colors (which are their names) and is surprised when the salmon jumps at the red wool. Now convinced, The Second Coming places Red in a water bucket, and the group continues.
The group soon comes across a zombie, which The Second Coming promptly tries to kill. However, before The Second Coming lands any hits on the zombie, it frantically motions for The Second Coming to stop, and gestures itself to be Green. The Second Coming holds up a block of green wool, and the zombie nods eagerly, confirming that it is Green. As the stick figures trek on, the new member suddenly begins to start attacking the group with a diamond sword in each hand. Confused, the Stick Gang fought back, managing to ensnare his leg. The string looped over a tree, allowing it to be hoisted into the air. As this happens, though, it manages to grab the pig, threatening a sword to its neck and holding it as a hostage. Everyone is hesitant to attack it when the pig's life is at risk. The zombie takes out a potion, revealing itself to be the Witch, tosses it onto the grass below it and creating a portal. The witch drops down through the portal, taking the pig with it.
The Second Coming and the group grew hopeless again, and sat down in defeat. Without Red's pig, they had no way to find Green, Blue, and the Witch. Suddenly, the sugarcane next to The Second Coming nudges him, claiming to be Green. Wary due to the previous attack, The Second Coming demands the sugarcane to prove itself, holding a Note Block above it. The sugar cane then proceeds to play part of Jazzy Note Blocks, proving that it was the true Green this time. Green knows where the Witch is headed, so The Second Coming shovels Green out and continue, this time to search for Witch and the Pig.
At the Witch's hut it is revealed that Blue has been transformed into a piston to harvest nether wart. However, Blue himself does not realize that he is a piston, he merely thinks he is sitting in a blank white place. Nether warts would regularly appear before him, but whenever he tries to grab them, they'd harvest, but he was unable to grab them. Meanwhile, The Second Coming, Red, Green, and Yellow, arrive at the Witch's hut and prepare to attack the witch.
They hear the pig squealing for help. This provokes Red, who attacks first but gets turned into cobblestone. Yellow throws TNT but the witch moves out of the way. Green is able to fight the witch on the roof, despite being sugarcane, Yellow throws more TNT at the Witch, and the Witch continues to fight them back. An explosion from the TNT destroys the blocks surrounding blue, allowing him to perceive his surroundings. He looks for any potions, but the Witch is about to enter the room. The pig warns Blue and Blue dives underwater, finding a brewing stand and a chest full of supplies. He starts making potions with the resources.
The Witch begins to win the fight by turning the rest of the group into useless and yet not immobile blocks. The witch is about to kill Green with a diamond axe, but Blue throws a potion that turns him back into a stick figure. He throws potions at everyone else and they return to normal. They prepare to fight again, but the Witch throws a splash potion of awakening at her brewing stands and supplies, giving them life which provides the Witch with constant potions. Everyone begins fighting, the Witch uses her potions to turn the Sticks into useless objects, and Blue turns the stick figures into powerful mobs.
The Witch grabbed Yellow and turned him into a witch, so no one can tell who's who. The Second Coming asked Red to get the potions, but the real Witch sneakily dropped a Void potion, which transported her to the hut. She ambushed Red and turned him into a redstone block and threw him out. They spilled a chest full of potions. Blue ambushed the Witch and both used potions to turn into various mobs to defeat each other, but in the end, Blue runs out of potions and the sticks are turned into colored dyes. The witch tries to burn them and nearly finishes them off, but suddenly, inside the hut, Red's pig has drunk a bunch of the potions that were spilled from the chest. The pig becomes super-powerful and launches itself at the witch, killing the Witch's moving chest supplies in the process. It begins doing crazy attacks on the Witch. The Witch tries to get away from the pig by using a black hole, but the pig also went through it. The witch also tried to turn the pig into a colored dye, but the pig turns the witch into dye using its own potion against it. He finishes the Witch by giving it a super-powerful punch, sending the Witch far, far away. The pig goes back into the hut, pushes another chest full of potions that turn the dyes back into stick figures. All five of them hug the pig.
Soon, everyone is about to leave the swamp, but they hear a sound. They see Purple, who is collecting blue orchids for no apparent reason. They have a reunion where Purple shows them another Nether Portal that he wants to show them. The Second Coming remembers what happened the last time they went into an adventure: entering through unknown Nether portals, which lead to getting separated; The Second Coming fighting The Killer Bunny; the Fighting Stick Figures escaping from the Drowned; and fighting the Spider King. Red begins to go first but The Second Coming stops him, and tells everyone they should go home. As the five go home, Purple comes out. Red looks back and says they should follow Purple and see what he wants to show them. Everyone agrees except The Second Coming, but he follows everyone to Purple anyway. They go through the portal and the episode ends.
Credits[]
Animators
- terkoiz
- oxob3000
- Ellis02
- Able Rai
- Kursura
- Fav
- Shuriken255
- AJAnims
- hexal
- Activeframe
- Doumaki
- YasHGG
- Sanguinii
- JasonTheBoring
- Marc
- Alex123
- Fox
- Jazzon
Characters[]
Protagonists[]
Antagonists[]
Other characters[]
- Purple
- Cave Spider Colony (flashback)
- Killer Bunny (flashback)
- Evoker (flashback)
- Drowned (flashback)
Trivia[]
- There are no such things as potions of transformation in Minecraft.
- The Heroic Pig's animation before the snout punch is a reference to Saitama from the anime One-Punch Man.
- It is unknown how the Witch knew so much about the stick figures.
- Music by Scott Buckley was added to this short along with Piglin War short when the full Season 3 video was released.
- One of the potion effects Heroic Pig gets is called "Techno Power", a reference to Technoblade, a popular Minecraft YouTuber.
- Additionally, he also gets a potion effect called "Gotta Go Fast", a reference to Sonic the Hedgehog.
- Purple is seen picking blue orchids to remind him of his father, as he is still working to impress his father at this time.
Errors[]
- Most of the Heroic Pig's potion effects are duplicated, whilst having their old textures.
- This similar thing happened in The Raid - AVM Shorts Episode 28.
- The Heroic Pig is missing at the end of the episode.
- This error is fixed in the full Season 3 release.
- However, in that same scene, some different errors appeared in the full Season 3 release: Yellow's feet being seen under the Heroic Pig's front feet, himself not being affected by the portal's glow and not making sound when entering the portal.
- The sound error is fixed in the real time Season 3 release.
- However, in that same scene, some different errors appeared in the full Season 3 release: Yellow's feet being seen under the Heroic Pig's front feet, himself not being affected by the portal's glow and not making sound when entering the portal.
- This error is fixed in the full Season 3 release.
- The portals from the beginning of the episode have the old texture. Also, the portal that is from the Nether has two errors at once: It has the old texture, and its texture is backwards. The portal from the end of the episode also has the old texture.
- These errors are fixed in the full Season 3 release.
Original episode - Portal errors: The portal from the beginning of the episode has the old texture.
Original episode - Portal errors: There are two errors in this shot, when the stick figures go to the swamp. The first error is that the portal has the old texture. The second error is that the portal's texture is backwards.
Original episode - Portal errors: The portal from the end of the episode also has the old texture.
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