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Victim is the 11th episode of the Animator vs. Animation Series, also being the 3rd episode of Animator vs. Animation Season 3.
Synopsis[]
The stick figure that started it all.
Plot[]
On June 3rd, 2006, victim was first made by Alan. Tormented by his cursor, the stick figure valiantly fights back against his creator through an array of tools but is restrained. He prevents himself from being deleted by blocking the cursor's actions and forms copies of himself to fight back against Alan. Together, victim and his copies nearly corner Alan until he exits the Flash Program he created them with, wiping them out.
The next day, victim is recreated by Alan, who realizes he remembers his actions from yesterday but is trapped in a box and thrown aside. Alan then ties victim up and cuts him, killing the stick figure. On June 5th, victim is resurrected and pelted by balls until Alan crushes him to death. June 6th, he is see-sawed into a beam, and 3 days later, victim is drowned in a fish tank, followed another 3 days later by pushed off a tall staircase. In July, victim is blasted by numerous fireworks. August comes dropped bombs, and September follows with victim being struck by a speeding rocket. October and November see him being struck by a truck and punched, before he is slowly erased from existence during December by Alan.
On a fateful March 15th the next year, victim, now so traumatized that he doesn't even dare to run, awaits his torture, but Alan is called to dinner and leaves his laptop idle with victim trapped in a box. When he returned, Alan finds his laptop desktop destroyed, and victim, having built a rocket out of pieces of Flash and collected an array of supplies and tools, travels away from his laptop and escapes. He travels to an HTTP protocol and makes his way into the Internet. After crashing through Yahoo, bouncing off of RuneScape, travelling through MySpace, and bouncing around in 3D PinBall, the rocket lands in the computer of a person named Grace. Grace has produced a Flash animation titled Mitsi, depicting a test animation of a girl dancing in a field. Grace uploads her file into Newgrounds, forcing victim's rocket back into the protocol.
As numerous other files are sent off to be uploaded to Newgrounds, the animations eventually make their way to the Outernet, where they materialize into their corresponding characters. victim's rocket is also transported and forces its way in, in the process turning itself and victim into a grayer shade. Eventually, the rocket successfully penetrates through, causing a large explosion and several new connections to be formed from the Outernet to several sites and computers, including ALANSPC.
The rocket eventually crash lands into a field, and the girl from the Mitsi file also manifests in the world. Mitsi sees the unconscious victim but startles him when she tries to help. victim is frightened by her white appearance but gradually realizes she means him no harm. They struggle to see through the fog, but soon other white figures walk through. victim initially believes them to be numerous cursors and cowers behind Mitsi in intense fear. The sunlight and a gust blows away the fog, allowing them to see they are surrounded by curious people from a village. Mitsi shakes their hands and ushers victim to follow them.
Arriving at their village, Mitsi and victim are kindly welcomed with flower wreaths by the villagers. victim then sees the damage he has caused to their wind vane and inspects what he can do. Before Mitsi and the amazed villagers, victim recreates a propeller with his tools, and with the help of the villagers, the wind vane is fixed as good as new. Celebrating their achievement and victim's powers, the villagers and Mitsi gather around him from a photo.
Over the next several years, photos depict victim and Mitsi's story as they live and work together to help the village thrive, as well as their blossoming love for each other. Occasionally, victim has flashbacks of the torturous cursor who created him but he is able to push aside his fears and move on. On Mitsi's suggestion, the two start a repair store, and through their efforts they are able to found his company, with his fateful rocket now as his logo. The company rapidly grows into a large technological enterprise, Rocket Corps, famed for its success and advancements in technology. It is also at this time that Mitsi and victim would also meet Agent, then a police officer apprehending a criminal. They begin a tight friendship with him as their own love deepens.
In 2011, four years after founding the company, the staff, Mitsi, Agent, and victim put together a party to celebrate their success. As everyone takes to the dance floor, Mitsi and victim hold each other in a swirling dance, only for her to suddenly vanish. victim can only hold her party hat in anxious worry as more people too begin to disappear as well around him, causing everyone to run away in confusion and fear; Agent attempts to protect his friend in the chaos but vanishes as well, his Newgrounds file destroyed by something.
Mitsi appears in the world of Newgrounds and witnesses tremendous devastation around her, all while numerous animations manifest onto the world and run away in fear as well. As she notices tanks and soldiers firing onto something in the air, Agent's file falls nearby and he appears beside her. Agent is supported by Mitsi as she takes him to nearby support, but she turns back to rescue other animations from beneath debris. As she tries to run back to Agent, an explosion rocks the area around them.
Regaining consciousness, Mitsi finds herself trapped beneath heavy debris. Agent tries desperately to reach her but is cut off by a powerful explosion, killing Mitsi. In the flaming aftermath, Agent witnesses the perpetrators of their world's destruction, a black and a red stick figure. The Dark Lord proudly watches the world of Newgrounds in flames and high-fives his companion, The Chosen One. As the two begin to target the survivors, Agent sees several animations jumping into a portal and follows suit, re-entering the Outernet.
The injured Agent makes it back to victim's business headquarters, where a fellow stick figure helps him to the company's Memory Machine. victim watches the memories of the survivors to determine what has happened. He sees his friend and anxiously asks for Mitsi's whereabouts, only to be answered by a sad nod from Agent. victim inserts his friend into the machine, where they watch his memories of his nightmarish experience in Newgrounds. They eventually find his memories of Mitsi's last moments, causing Agent to sob.
victim watches Mitsi die in the explosion and sees her killer, the Chosen One, as he hovers above where she last laid. In 2018, as victim sits by himself in a darkened room, it is entered by Agent and a company employee. Despite his initial refusal, the two reveal to victim a sighting from a bystander of the Chosen One and Alan's cursor as they fight back against the Dark Lord. victims orders the room lights turned on, revealing newspapers, drawings, and clippings of the company he so hardly worked for with Mitsi, reports of the Chosen One, and finally, an illustration of the stick figure and his creator. victim draws a line between them and connects the two as the sources of his anger, grief, and trauma.
To be continued.
Credits[]
Writers[]
- Alan
- @its_me_skim
Project & background lead[]
- @Fabian_Banu
Storyboards[]
- Terkoiz
- @its_me_skim
- / luenfire
Animation[]
- @Fordz
- Terkoiz
- @DonnieBoots
- @smoilysheep4670
- ExcelD
- @Keenlol
- @ARCpersona
- @eds7236
- @tjb7345
- @favfaris4714
- @ichasedacrow2
- @NotSoProishNoob
- @Hexalhaxel
- @Spacedoughnut
- @DaSassyOwl
- @ShadowQrow
- @Ellis02Media
- @kayalartwork
- @SimpleFox1
- @Nemo0501
- Roman Carlos Ng Lok
- @Shuriken255
- @n8sterAnimates
- @ablerai
- @doumaki4501
Backgrounds[]
- iSwimmi
- @Fabian_Banu
- / luenfire
- Double Apple
- Zhaar
- Lorkhatosh
- IMP4HIRE
- @Kyokaz
3D[]
- UnderMineBlox https://undermineblox.webflow.io
Sound design[]
- @dan_loeb
- / e_soundwork
Editor[]
- @dan_loeb
Music[]
- @ScottBuckley
- @LilDeuceDeuce
Line producer[]
- @hatena3608
Production assistant[]
- Sammi Alea
Characters[]
Protagonists[]
- victim
- Mitsi (debut/only appearance)
- Agent
- Original Workers
Antagonists[]
Other characters[]
- victim's Worker
- Corn Dog Guy
- Purple
- Dark Blue
- Pink
- Dark Green
- Cerulean
- Other stick figures
- Many Newgrounds characters
- Alan's mother (debut/only appearance; voice only)
- Grace (debut/only appearance)
- Programs
- The Second Coming (in thumbnail)
- Yellow (in thumbnail)
- Red (in thumbnail; removed)
Trivia[]
- This is the first time the Corn Dog Guy appears outside of the Actual Shorts.
- This is the first time Purple appears in the Animator vs. Animation Series.
- This is the first episode of Season 3 where The Second Coming and the Fighting Stick Figures don't appear at all.
- This is the episode where Mitsi was drawn and was the designer of the Rocket Corp. logo.
- This is the first Season 3 episode that physically features The Dark Lord.
- This episode debunks some theories and presumptions, that being:
- The reason for victim turning gray wasn't because he was deleted, it was because he entered the Outernet through the barrier and desaturated his body.
- victim kidnapped The Chosen One, not because The Chosen One replaced him, but because of his rampage with The Dark Lord back in Animator vs. Animation Season 2 which resulted in Mitsi's death.
- The scene where victim was tortured with fireworks in July may be a reference to America's Independence Day (July 4th), where fireworks are mostly used in America. Though it is not yet confirmed if this was intentional.
Errors[]
- The text "August" turns into the default font in one frame.
- When victim escapes, the Text tool is shown to be left behind in the toolbar, even though in the next shot it is thrown into the rocket with the rest of the tools victim escapes with. In addition, in AvA 9, the Text tool is among the many tools on the wall in victim's office.
- When victim climbed onto the library he drew a line to provide himself with a place to stand. It looked perfectly straight as he was drawing it, but in the next scene, it appears crooked.
- In the original Animator vs. Animation, the line was always crooked.
