History WebAnimation / TheStickworld

* GravityMaster: A gravity magician can specialize in altering which way their enemy falls. If a stick figure is forced to fall towards the sky this way, it doesn't last forever, so they'll fall back to their deaths if they can't fly.

* MagicVersusScience: A sidearc of Season 1 goes over an antagonist known as The Scientist, a stickman who considered magicians to be cheaters and created increasingly powerful {{Robot}}s to eliminate them.

''The Stickworld'' is a StickFigureAnimation series started by [[https://www.youtube.com/@Zeruel82Mk2 Zeruel82Mk2]] on November 7, 2013. Of course, before the series was called this, it began with a smaller line of [=FlipaClip=] videos called ''The Cliff'', in which random stick figures would try to jump across a cliff while killing anyone who got in each other's way. This bloodbath eventually leads to something powerful being summoned and needing to be dealt with before it causes too much destruction. ''The Cliff'' itself took inspiration from an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4GPQ8vHqTs earlier animation]] by xefpatterson as far back as July 4, 2006.

* Season 3 is currently ongoing, but spans from episode 25 to episode 37 as of edit.

* AfterTheEnd: As revealed in various backstories, [[spoiler: The One had apparently succeeded in destroying the first Stickworld. The second time The One showed up, the Creator realized what was happening and dismantled the second Stickworld himself whilst moving any survivors to the 3rd and current Stickworld]].

* BlackMagic: The attacks used by Dolph the Dark magician and the other Shadow magicians who work to see The One revived are always colored black. Dolph in particular is able to use magic despite not caring about his family, [[spoiler: which heavily implies that he's relying on ThePowerOfHate to fight instead of ThePowerOfLove that most magicians rely on]].

* LawOfChromaticSuperiority: Most magicians that aren't part of the main cast are drawn in different colors to represent how powerful they are. Beginners are pink, rookies are green, intermediates are yellow, experts are red, masters are blue, legends are purple, myths are gray, and time magicians are cyan. [[spoiler: Balthazar's backstory reveals that this change in color is a side effect of special crystals at a WizardingSchool that make it easier to focus when learning magic]].

* MagicalStarSymbols: One episode of the Obstacle Course series had the stick figures fight a Pentagram magician, whose power is emphasized by the pentagram-shaped aura around him. Pentagram magicians would debut in the Stickworld series proper when two of them challenge Lolph and [[spoiler: Rolph]] to a WizardDuel.

* TheNightThatNeverEnds: Season 3 had Mike and his friends travel to [[spoiler: an entirely different planet where the sunlight was blocked out by the Stickworld. What they [[DramaticIrony didn't know]] was that other people lived on that planet, and were working to see the Stickworld destroyed if it meant saving their own home]].

* OurGiantsAreBigger: The backstories for Balthazar and the First Overseer reveal that [[spoiler: the stick figures of the first Stickworld were several times larger than the second Stickworld's citizens. Notably, Mr. Sheep and his siblings inherited the intelligence, strength, and durability of their parents (stick figures #8 and [[LOL69 #69]]) separately, despite being as small as the second generation of stick figures]].
* ThePowerOfLove: As it turns out, Balthazar became the first magician when he [[spoiler: drew on his desire to protect his sister Ava. After they defeated the First Overseer together, he would go on to teach other stick figures to use magic by telling them to think about those they want to protect]].

* ShatteredWorld: The aftermath of ''The Cliff 6'' has the Stickworld split in half by The One, though [[spoiler: he would put it back together as part of his HeelFaceTurn in ''The Cliff 7'']].

* TimeMaster: Some stick figures are able to become Time Magicians and stop everything that isn't them for several seconds. A variant of this is the Chrono Magician, who can see into the past of wherever they are, even as far back as [[spoiler: previous Stickworlds]].

* MagicalStarSymbols: One episode of the Obstacle Course series had the stick figures fight a Pentagram magician, which was unusually strong compared to a

The Stickworld is a StickFigureAnimation series started by [[https://www.youtube.com/@Zeruel82Mk2 Zeruel82Mk2]] on November 7, 2013. Of course, before the series was called this, it began with a smaller line of [=FlipaClip=] videos called ''The Cliff'', in which random stick figures would try to jump across a cliff while killing anyone who got in each other's way. This bloodbath eventually leads to something powerful being summoned and needing to be dealt with before it causes too much destruction. ''The Cliff'' itself took inspiration from an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4GPQ8vHqTs earlier animation]] by xefpatterson as far back as July 4, 2006.

Set in the same universe is an Obstacle Course series in which a group of Stickmen with varying powers goes through many dungeons, but will always come back from death.

* DeathCourse: Various instances of these are found throughout the Stickworld, usually to protect a MacGuffin necessary for the plot. Eventually an entire spinoff series became dedicated to a group of Stickmen solving these.

* LighterAndSofter: All videos after ''The Cliff 5'' had it so that stickmen do not bleed when wounded or killed, but are simply ReducedToDust.

* TimeMaster: Some stickmen are able to become Time Magicians and stop everything that isn't them for several seconds. A variant of this is the Chrono Magician, who can see into the past of wherever they are, even as far back as [[spoiler: previous Stickworlds]].

* TooDumbToLive: Apparently, stickmen won't stop trying to jump across cliffs because bridges make it too easy. Magicians who learn {{Flight}} don't have this excuse, but will usually run into something that kills them anyway.

* PublicDomainSoundtrack: Practically all of Zeruel82Mk2's videos use copyright-free music that can be found in the audio library at Platform/YouTube.

* LawOfChromaticSuperiority: Most magicians that aren't part of the main cast are drawn in different colors to represent how powerful they are. Beginners are pink, rookies are green, intermediates are yellow, experts are red, masters are blue, legends are purple, myths are gray, and time magicians are cyan.

* ToiletHumor: The Stickworld isn't above being silly in this manner, with instances such as stickmen getting a GroinAttack, or the Obstacle Course series having a Stench magician as a guest for one episode.

* HerdHittingAttack: Force magicians can produce an wave of magic around themselves which can push back enemies, or outright [[InstantDeathRadius destroy them]] if they're too weak.

* SnakesAreSinister: Episodes 11, 12, 14, and 15 have a series of serpentine monsters threaten the protagonists. The fourth one, the Dark Serpent, proves to be so powerful that Lolph decides to [[SummonBiggerFish get the Creator]] to dispose of it.

* AntiMagic: Comes up as a purple field of energy that disables all forms of magic.

* ToiletHumor: The Stickworld isn't above being silly in this manner, with instances such as stickmen getting a GroinAttack, or the Obstacle Course series having a Stink magician as a guest for one episode.