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The battle between the yin and yang, seven years in the making.

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Main episodes

    Animator vs. Animation (I) 

    Animator vs. Animation II 
  • The Chosen One escaping from Flash. Not only does he make improvised weapons like his predecessor, he fights back against everything the Animator throes at him, even dodging bullets!
  • The entire fight between AIM and the Chosen One. While it is true TCO was severaly limiting himself by not using his superpowers, and ends the fight the moment he gets serious, it's still impressive the powerless AIM dude could actually put up a fight against one of the series' strongest.
  • Avast! finally capturing the Chosen One by outnumbering him with its numerous thunderbolts.

    Animator vs. Animation III 
  • The Chosen One managing to break out of his imprisonment by making the cursor click on the "Release Pop-Up Blocker" option.
  • Clippy, of all people, holding his own against the Chosen One, with only the Animator backing him up (and only during one part of the fight at that), probably putting up a better fight than all the desktop icons combined. He even survives a direct blast from the Chosen One's fire breath.
  • The Animator forming bullets out of nothing but text, in the spawn of a few seconds. Off Screen Moment Of Awesome, sure, but still.
  • The fight between the Dark Lord and the Chosen One, the latter having finally found his match and a true challenge. First, they begin using the Word program itself to attack each other, only to then start using Solitaire cards when brought onto the dekstop.
  • The massive computer-breaking destruction wrought after the Chosen One and the Dark Lord team up. The Animator finally gets what he deserves when the two stick figures destroy his computer, making sure he won't be able to hurt any creature ever again (until he gets himself a new computer).

    Animator vs. Animation IV 
  • The Second Coming resisting having his task ended and giving a Badass Boast.
    You ended my friends. Now I will end you.
  • The Second Coming does something his predecessors never did; take his rampage out of the computer and into the Animator's smart phone.
  • The Second Coming successfully "killing" the Animator (destroying the cursor), something none of his predecessors managed without destroying the computer wholesale.
  • The Animator's mad keyboard skills when he opens Control Panel and changes his cursor theme.
  • At last, the Animator makes peace with his creations.

Animator vs Animation V

    Ep 1: The Virus 
  • It's the Darkest Hour. Alan has his cursor destroyed and can't create a new one while the stick figures are trapped in webbing. Suddenly, a white portal appears, and the Chosen One appears. After briefly staring at Alan through the monitor, he challenges the ViraBot to a fight and the two charge at each other.

    Ep 2: The Chosen One's Return 
Honestly, this whole episode is just one big moment of awesome!

    Ep 3: The Flashback 

    Ep 4: The Showdown 
  • In order to help the Chosen One defeat the Dark Lord, Yellow contacts the Animator for help and creates a cursor for him to use against the Dark Lord. Also note that the two of them together straight up overpowered the Dark Lord and forced him to unleash his army of ViraBots to regain his advantage.
  • The Darkest Hour has arrived, Red, Yellow, Blue & Green have been deleted, the Animator can't help them, the Second Coming is critically injured and even the Chosen One is so wore down that he can't fight anymore. However the Second Coming soon awakens his own Eleventh-Hour Superpowers and completely destroys the Dark Lord and his army, while also resurrecting his friends.
    • What makes this better is remembering Animator vs. Animation IV and what the Second Coming said when the Animator deleted his friends.
      The Second Coming: You ended my friends. Now I will end you.
    • In that same video, the Task Manager called the Second Coming "The Chosen One's Return". Six years later, we finally learn why.
    • Of note, when the Chosen One defeated the first ViraBot, he really had to work for that victory. Once the Second Coming taps into his latent powers, he defeats an entire swarm of them by more or less just making contact with them.
    • There's also a little bit of respect for the Dark Lord: He got absolutely wrecked, but he did manage to punch the Second Coming straight into a cliff.
    • Another one for the Dark Lord: Despite all this, there is a chance he survived.

Animator vs Animation VI

    Ep 1: Wanted 
  • The Chosen One, while running away from the Mercenaries, manages to defeat their leader by first getting really close to him, then trapping his flying scooter in an iceberg and striking it with thunder.
  • Alan joins the sparring match between the Stick Gang and actually wins the resulting 5-v-1. Granted, they probably weren't going all out against him like they would have if he were actually their antagonist, but after all the times Alan got his cursor handed to him in previous AvA episodes, it's still satisfying to see him win this one.
  • On the villain side, the Mercenaries are practically this personified. Four different animation styles: Vectors, paint brushed, pixels (and from the classic Stickman vs Door animation, no less!), and a safety stickman, and each with their own powers and abilities able to stand ground with the Chosen One and the Second Coming.
    • Special mention goes to "Agent", the sunglasses-wearing leader, who manages to pause both the Chosen One and the Second Coming, leaving them unable to move, defenseless, and easy to capture. This also more or less confirms he was holding back and only toying with them.
  • The Second Coming using the pen tool to sic various drawings on the mercs.
  • The animation for the episode, once again, is a sight to behold.

    Ep 2: The Box 
  • Even though victim has a massive Home Field Advantage that can disable the Chosen One's abilities and power himself up, the Chosen One puts up a valiant fight against him. He even comes close to winning a few times.
  • When the Chosen One is too injured to fight back, victim tries to force him to give information about the Animator. Despite the beating he's received, the Chosen One refuses to tell victim anything about the Animator. Even when the Chosen One has a device attached to his head that shows his memories, he still tries to resist by banging his head on the ground to disrupt the footage.

Standalone episodes

    Animation vs. Minecraft 
  • The final battle, full stop. A Herobrine-possessed Red is approaching the main desktop in his obsidian mecha, and his friends have lost all their armor, all their weapons, and are down to half a heart of health each with no way to restore it. Downer Ending? Nope, they improvise with what equipment and materials they still had and what they learned via experimenting earlier, and win!
    • Special mention goes to the Second Coming taking down the mecha by building and laying a mine track and minecart right under its foot in the span of a few seconds. And then Blue destroying the mecha by dropping two lumps of dirt, planting two trees in said dirt, and using bonemeal on the trees with the result that they instagrow through the mecha and blast it to bits. Again in the span of a few seconds. While said mecha is falling straight towards him. Quicksilver would be proud.

    Animation vs. YouTube 
  • YouTube proves to be a canny foe, using video annotations and rapid-fire switches between different video clips to great effect. YouTube shows himself to be the toughest opponent the Second Coming and Green have faced in their entire lives so far, as they have never been shown so tired after a fight before. Of course, this was before Power Creep stepped in and they met tougher opponents like the Dark Lord or King Orange afterwards, but still points for managing to be a tougher challenge than the Animator or Herobrine.
  • The stick figures finally defeating YouTube by having Green upload himself as a video and break YouTube apart from the inside.

    Animation vs. Pokémon 
  • Sad as it is to see the Second Coming forcibly separated from Totodile, there's Lyra and Ethan giving the Second Coming a Curb-Stomp Battle with Marill and Chikorita. It goes to show that even first-stage Pokémon are quite formidable when transplanted to a setting that is unfamiliar to them.
  • The Second Coming obtaining a full team of Pokémon without having to battle any of them. He essentially took strategies that would have been more likely to work in the Pokémon anime and made them work in the game!
  • The Second Coming's final confrontation against Ethan.
    • It seems that Ethan originally intended to beat up the Second Coming directly with Pokémon attacks, but then the Second Coming's Heracross leaps out of its Pokéball to Take the Bullet, followed by several of the Second Coming's other Pokémon jumping to his defense.
    • After the Second Coming's Bellossom is defeated, the Second Coming gains a Heroic Second Wind, resulting in a fast-paced battle in which both trainers switch between different Pokémon and exchange attacks rapid-fire.
    • Despite Ethan's Meganium attempting to restrain it, Feraligatr bursts into the PC just in time to save the Second Coming and the rest of his team from Ho-oh.
    • Four of the Second Coming's Pokémon launching a Combination Attack that takes out Ho-oh.
    • On the opposing side, Meganium being Defiant to the End by readying a Razor Leaf against the team it just saw take out a legendary, only stopping when Ethan motions for it to stand down.
  • The Second Coming managed to complete the main game of Pokémon HeartGold in the time it took for the Animator to make his lunch.
    • Look at the computer's internal clock when the Animator leaves (12:00), and during his fight with Ethan (12:55). It took the Second Coming less than an hour to reach the Pokémon League. That is some serious speed-running, especially considering he had never played before. (For comparison, the current world record for speedrunning Pokémon Heart Gold took around 20 minutes more to get to the same point, and that player used glitches to get there after only four Gym Leaders whereas the Second Coming fought all eight.)
  • The way the Second Coming reacts to Bellossom being defeated has the implication that this is the first time he's had a Pokémon faint throughout the entire game. Becomes more impressive with the timeframe he beat it in, as the short timespan means he likely didn't devote too much time to Level Grinding.

    Animation vs. Math 
  • Just how they implement the mathematics. As the Second Coming and Euler's identity try and outdo each-other, they keep building more and more complex formulae, meaning stronger and stronger attacks.
  • Euler's identity not only multiplying itself but building a massive mech suit out of formulae while still multiplying.

AvM Shorts

Season 1

    Ep 3: The Roller Coaster 
  • Yellow makes an amazing roller coaster (minus the last jump) despite having just discovered minecarts.

    Ep 4: Potions 
  • Blue becomes a potion master within hours of finding out they exist. He manages to discover and make countless different potions by the time Red walks in.
  • The creation of Super Pig, who utterly trounces the stick figures even after they buff themselves up and is only stopped by the potions wearing off.

    Ep 5: Note Blocks 
  • Green sees the note blocks, taps them a bit, and then launches into an incredible solo. He then immediately knows how to make the note blocks into an entire band.
  • Yellow makes an entire system of automated note blocks according to Green's preferences, only needing Green to give him a sound sample.

    Ep 6: Command Blocks 
  • While this time he has instructions, Yellow still figures out how to bend the command blocks to his will enough to make the results look like straight up magic, although he didn't quite figure out the lightning.

    Ep 7: PvP 
  • The epic battle the teams have with each other, utilizing mobs, redstone, potions, and ender pearls to get every advantage possible.

    Ep 8: The Nether 
  • Green and Blue jump on a Ghast to escape the Nether mobs chasing them. After realizing they can control it with their fishing rods, they then proceed to ride the Ghast like a battle steed and blast the mobs to kingdom come. They finish off the Ghast by making it fire a shot that they bash back in its face.

    Ep 10: The End 
  • Realizing the end crystals heal the Ender Dragon, Blue and Green ride the dragon away from the crystals with Green stabbing her with his sword and Blue shooting her while dangling from the rope on her tail, holding his bow and the rope with the same hand.
  • Another Darkest Hour: Purple has betrayed Blue and Green, and the latter two are about to fall into the void. Suddenly, the Second Coming reaches in from offscreen and grabs them, and the camera pans out to reveal he's attached to a human chain made of him, Red, Yellow, and the Villagers.
  • After Purple swiping the Dragon Egg resulted in the Ender Dragon ravaging the village looking for it, the Villagers make their disapproval of their king very clear. We never see what they do to him, since he's just picked up and carried offscreen, but judging by the body language of a couple of them and the way Purple struggles when he's picked up, it probably won't be pleasant for him.

    Ep 11: SkyBlock 
  • After their adventure in the SkyBlock universe starts off sourly when the only sapling falls off the edge and Red and Green's squabbling knock the chest off, the fighting stick figures realize that they still have full inventories they can use. Next time we see them, they're thriving; a house, a pen, a small garden, even a mob grinder, and that scene ends with them sitting down at a table full of food and chowing down. Too bad things go south after a Creeper blows up their mob grinder.

    Ep 12: TNT Land 
  • After the borderline Downer Ending of the previous short, the stick figures on SkyBlock manage to pull an epic comeback once the sun comes out and starts harming the hostile mobs that took over their structure.
  • The Second Coming managing to survive the Killer Rabbit's death traps.

    Ep 13: The Dolphin Kingdom 
  • While the Fighting Stick Figures make short work of the normal Guardians (which is Awesome in and of itself), they're more hesitant to fight the Elder Guardians. How do they defeat the Elder Guardian that kidnapped the Dolphin Queen? They use sponge blocks to dry out the room, leaving the Elder Guardian helpless as they grab the Dolphin Queen and flee. Crowning Moment of Smarts right there.

    Ep 14: Cave Spider Roller Coaster 
  • The moment they see Yellow disappear, Blue and Green grab their swords and charge after him. They then save everyone by having Green cause a distraction while Blue cures their poisoning.
  • The entire chase scene is one of the most visually stunning set pieces Alan Becker and his team have made so far and is pretty much a three-minute-long Crowning Moment Of Awesome.
    • There's Green and the Second Coming rapidly laying down track to prevent the minecart from falling into a pit à la Wallace & Gromit.
    • The group creating a minecart in midair and jumping onto it.
    • Them fighting the spiders in midair.
    • Best of all, there's the fight scene where the group fights off the spiders while jumping across multiple levels of minecarts. It's incredibly intricate and filled with tons of little details that demand rewatching.
    • Red saves everyone from falling in the lava by summoning chickens to hover them to safety. Heart Is an Awesome Power indeed.
  • A villainous one for the Spider Queen, who effortlesly curb-stomps the entire Stick Gang by herself and would've won if not for a Wither Ex Machina.
    • The surprise appearance of the Wither is pretty awesome in its own right.
    • Bonus points when, years later, it's revealed the Spider Queen both survived and befriended the Wither.

Season 2

    Ep 16: Note Block Battle 
  • Green is so absurdly musically talented, it took an ensemble of three stick figures and a chicken, all on performance-enhancing potions, to compete fairly with him.
  • Green and the chicken band gradually escalate their note block setups, culminating in Green and the chicken utilizing lightning to turn their note blocks into electric guitars.
  • The Second Coming literally crashing the guitar duel between Green and the Chicken and outperforms them by playing so good that lightning strikes and causing a sonic boom leaving everyone speechless. He then goes back to sleep like it was nothing. Equally awesome is that TSC isn't using a potion and is clearly very tired. If he can easily outdo Green while exhausted, just imagine what he could do while wide awake.

    Ep 19: Lucky Blocks 
  • How fast Yellow masters using the Orb before it possesses him, effortlessly conjuring whatever he can imagine.
  • The stick figures manage to hold their own against the Orb even before Yellow starts helping them, and once he did, they might've beaten it if it couldn't multiply. Also, props to the Orb for being nearly able to defeat the entire group with relative ease, only being stopped by being removed from Yellow.
  • The sheer insanity that is Red vs the Orbs. The stick figures in the Lucky Dimension spawn mobs and items with pinpoint accuracy and creativity, holding off the possessed bodies and blocking attacks on Red. And Red manages to fight off everyone with incredible skill even without his friends' interference.
  • The creation of a second Super Pig, this time a heroic one, who defeats the Orb in pursuit of carrots.

Season 3

    Ep 20: The Piglin War 
  • Blue vs. Piglin hunting squad vs. Zombified Piglin horde. After Blue loses his golden helmet, the Piglins chase him towards the Nether fortress. When he gets near, zombified Piglins (aka the Zombie Pigmen that he and Green accidentally aggravated in Ep 8 and spent the rest of the episode running from) come out of the fortress, and Blue is left pinned between the two on the bridge. He resigns himself to the fight, draws his sword... and starts killing the zombieporcine warriors, while keeping the hunting squad at bay without killing them. No Ghasts, no fellow stickmen, just Blue. The stick figures have gained several levels in badass since Season 1. The only reason he ended up falling down is due to the young Piglin needing his help, which left him off-guard.
  • Blue manages to survive in lava for several seconds, even keeping enough focus to hold the Piglin Child up so they would have the best chance to be saved by the Piglins.

    Ep 21: The Witch 
  • The entire gang puts up a good fight against the titular antagonist. Especially when Green, who is transformed into a Sugar Cane, fights her. But the best part comes as a huge Call-Back to the first time the Stick Gang experienced potions. Red's Pig from the previous episode drinks all the potions, gaining every buff in the game once more. Plus some new ones: Techno Power and Gotta Go Fast. The pig then punches the witch (as a purple dye) away.
  • Blue manages to make his own version of the Forced Transformation potion despite having just learned about it, in addition to all the numerous potions he uses in the rest of the fight.
    • He also manages to hold his own against the Witch in a potion-fueled Shapeshifter Showdown, countering everything she could throw at him. He only loses because he runs out of potions.
  • Even if they couldn't beat the Witch on their own, the stick figures give her a run for her money; the Second Coming seeing through her Blue-disguise, them beating her zombie-disguise ambush, and still fighting no matter what she turns them into. It's telling that the only way she cornered them was by turning them into something completely helpless.

    Ep 22: Parkour 
  • Alan's sticks show their ingenuity when dealing with King Orange's Piglin Brutes.
    • The Second Coming realizes that they're still on a parkour platform with emptiness on all sides. He takes a leap of faith... and lands near the last checkpoint, on the other side of the Piglin. When he figures out the endless loop, he seizes the checkpoint beacon and uses it to drop the Piglin into the void, over and over again, until he can use it on another beacon for a teleporting glitch.
    • Green ends up dual-wielding swords vs. the Piglin Brute's dual axes. The moment he has an opening, he climbs the scoreboard and leaps across. When he gets to the long jump, he opens up his inventory and bridges across... then remembers Purple seemingly vanishing into the sky, and starts towering up before power-bashing his pickaxe against the masked obsidian of the parkour zone.
    • Yellow narrowly misses a jump on the ice zone and notices the command block that's causing the checkpoints. Once he passes the Piglin again, he uses his fishing rod to lower himself down, opens up the command block interface, and... clears the command field. Someone's learned his lesson.
  • Green vs. Purple. Purple has an elytra and fireworks, which means flight and speed. Green has a fishing rod, and proves why Minecraft PvPers swear by theirs.

    Ep 23: Titan Ravager 
  • Despite ultimately being unsuccessful, Blue and Yellow deserve kudos for their approach to dealing with the titular mob. The titan being impervious to damage and focusing on getting food, they distract it with meals long enough to make more, which they use to distract it long enough to make more... The end result is a bonemeal-accelerated automatic farm, with the crops being deposited into a dispenser that they fire straight into the Ravager's mouth. If there had just been one Ravager, they would have solved the problem with no violence necessary.
  • The Villagers are anything but helpless bystanders. They try to fight the Titan Ravager as much as they can, and when they see Blue and Yellow struggling to keep up the pace, they work with them to make the automated feeder more efficient, and are able to build the complicated system with only a little direction from the stick figures.
  • When Blue and Yellow hear sounds of chaos, they immediately draw their swords and run towards the source. And when they see the Titan Ravager, they switch to their fishing rods with little thought, the strategy having been gained from their past fights with giant enemies.

    Ep 24: Lush Caves 
  • The Mêlée à Trois shows that even when fighting each other, the Second Coming and Red can still take down an army of hostile mobs without breaking a sweat or even caring about them, to the point where the mobs don't hurt them even once. At one point, a creeper is about to explode behind the Second Coming. He quickly gives it an Offhand Backhand in its blocky chin and it falls over, dead.

    Ep 25: The Ultimate Weapon 
The entire episode is just one big moment of awesome. But, to be more precise...
  • Scott Buckley and Aaron Grooves provided the Awesome Music for the extended fight scene that is two-thirds of this episode. It starts out as the regular Pigstep (courtesy of King Orange actually putting a Pigstep disc in his record player), and gradually gets more and more epic as the fight escalates, until it sounds like the edge of Dancing Mad. Scott has uploaded it here to be enjoyed on its own.
  • King Orange vs. Green, Yellow and Blue. King Orange has a command block that can spawn anything. Green, Blue, and Yellow have swords, bows, fishing rods, and their own skills. And they deliver a Curb Stomp Cushion on King Orange. While the king initially has the upper hand, throwing them around and forcing them to take cover with an absolute army of fireballs and arrows, the trio ultimately manages to counter every unfair command he can throw at them, pin down his staff, and hold him at arrow-point. If it weren't for the untimely loss of their equipment following Purple's theft of the Game Icon, this conflict would have been over.
  • Purple vs. The Second Coming and Red. Since they're actually fighting on a PC again, the fight comes out like a blend of AvA and AvM, with exploitation of desktop interfaces mixed in with the Minecraft equipment, right up to Purple whacking them with the Start menu. Also, Purple has nothing but his own skills, and is outnumbered. While originally beaten down by the Bash Brothers that are TSC and Red, he ultimately manages to get the upper hand and steal the Game Icon.
  • Purple manages to get his hands on the Game Icon and absorbs the Nether portal into it, locking the Second Coming out of the fight (Purple and Red managed to enter the portal before it was absorbed). Who comes to the rescue? alexcrafter28. Second Coming emails himself back to Alex's PC and borrows his Game Icon before returning to Alan's, and briefly practices with Creative ,ode before reforming and re-lighting the Nether portal.
  • Meanwhile, who comes to help Red? Another gunman, this time the baby piglin from "The Piglin War". The kid gives him a ride on its hoglin. What follows is Red vs. Purple, a battle where both sides are constantly in the air, fighting over the Game Icon, and if not for King Orange, Red would have won.
  • The Second Coming vs. King Orange, an absolutely terrifying and awe-inspiring show of Creative Mode. King Orange has experience due to his previous command block, but the Second Coming has the tenacity and quick-thinking that he's shown in the entire series so far. The entire fight is very equal, both having the upper hand only to get it taken away from them after a moment. King Orange throws absolutely everything he can, from his own strength to an armada of attacks, and the Second Coming manages to avoid and counter them all with his traps, smarts, and experience.
  • Meanwhile, Purple sends an entire army of Piglin Brutes at the Fighting Stick Figures. They deliver one of the biggest Curb Stomp Battles of the entire series as they effortlessly slaughter their way through them all, leading to Purple trying to flee. They manage to catch him mid-flight with fishing rods and would have caught him if not for Purple ditching his elytra.

    Ep 26: The Warden 
  • The Second Coming manages to befriend the Warden, the most powerful mob in all of (vanilla) Minecraft!
  • What does the Second Coming do after he and the Warden become friends? He gets the Warden to help him fight King Orange.
  • When the Second Coming and the Warden attack King Orange, it immediately becomes clear that he is horribly outmatched, since he's being attacked by the strongest mob in Minecraft, his staff is empty, and the Second Coming even makes up for the Warden's blindness by providing guidance. King Orange briefly manages to fight back by equipping his staff with a gold block, but the Warden and the Second Coming eventually manage to separate him from his staff. Their victory would have been assured if King Orange hadn't found one of the Game Icons.

    Ep 27: Monster School 
  • Many Monster School fans will agree just about everything is a Crowning Moment of Awesome. After the series spend years being butchered by YouTube Kids Channels into something disgusting and unrecognizable when compared to Willcraft's original ideas, Alan and his team finally bring the series back to its roots, where it's just Herobrine teaching mobs how to properly live the Minecraft life with nothing else.
  • Some of the monsters have incredible stealth skills.
    • Creep, a Creeper, doesn't even do anything AvM worthy, he just walks up and ignites, showing us exactly why Minecraft players panic around his kind.
    • Blaise and Multus - the Blaze and Wither, respectively - just stay back, take aim, and fire. The target is dead without a prayer.note 
      • Blaise even gives Skellington a sassy head nod as if to say "THAT'S how you aim".
    • Witton, the Wither Skeleton, gets so close he decides to wait for the target to realize he's not alone before punching him out in one shot.
    • Zupay just runs up and delivers a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to the target like Red's pigs. He might be weaker than his Willcraft counterpart, but the Baby Zombie Villager can still kick major ass.
    • Cavell, the class' Cave Spider climbs a tree, forms a zipline over the target's head, and takes him out before he knows he's there.
    • Silvester the Silverfish digs into the ground, comes out of the target's crafting table, and smothers him.
    • In Endie's defense, he got to point-blank range unnoticed thanks to his teleportation (in a manner that resembles the Spy from Team Service Announcement no less); if he would've attacked rather than roaring, the target would have been dead.
  • Red manages to bring the monsters on his team from being absolute trash to the one which out performs the rest.
  • After beating the other teams, Red is caught by Cavell and starts being jumped by the other students as revenge. Endie, Skellington and Spider almost ditch him like he commended, but as more students come to beat him up, they realise their wrongdoings and go back to rescue him. By themselves, with zero support and having only learned their skills a few minutes ago, they take down the entire Orange and Green Teams (except the weirdly-absent Multus) in more or less five seconds, and send the Blue Team running, through nothing but teamwork! Bonus points to Endie for holding back, as one of his hands was busy holding Red.
  • Red's team goes through the portal to fight King Orange. They used to be three worst students in the whole class, and look at them now, they're giving the Big Bad of the season trouble despite him having an object that makes him immortal and able to do anything.
    • More specifically, at one point in the fight, King Orange has trapped all the mobs in obsidian and charges at Red and the Second Coming. What does Endie do? Grab the Warden and teleport him right in front of King Orange, resulting in him getting his face pummeled, however briefly.
  • Red puts a Netherite block in the staff and freakin smacks King Orange out of sight.
    • Points to King Orange for instantly recovering from the blow and finding the other Game Icon.

    Ep 28: The Raid 
  • Blue and Yellow end up back at the village from Episode 23, only it's been taken over by Illagers. After being thrown into a cell where the villagers are, the villagers proceed to help Yellow weaponize the command block he took...by forging him his own staff for it. Not just an ordinary one, however, one enchanted and reinforced with lapis.
  • While Yellow is away, Blue rounds up the remaining villagers and hands them swords to train them to fight, culminating in a short Training Montage before waging war to reclaim their home.
  • Remember the Titan Ravager that terrorized the village? Yellow convinces it to save the village and then go fight King Orange by promising it revenge!
  • Credits have to be given to King Orange: He has to take on four stick figures - one of which has a Command Block - and five mobs - two of which are Nigh-Invulnerable brutes, one of whom is gigantic - and does it with little trouble! You can even see the moment where he gets serious and stops holding back: He quickly crushes the Titan Ravager before spawning over a dozen Evil Doppelgangers to distract the heroes. He then merges the two Game Icons into one, and proceeds to spawn yet another black hole.

     Ep 29: Note Block Universe 
  • Green suddenly gaining the ability to speak in Note Block notes when pressured by the villagers.
  • The absolutely gorgeous animation once Purple starts explaining his Dark and Troubled Past and reasons for why he sided with King Orange. Green, in turn, welcomes Purple back with open arms, joining in the nick of time and interrupting King's destruction.
  • Purple knocks King Orange aside with one rocket-powered flying punch and takes the staff. To put this into perspective, the combined efforts of the Second Coming, Red, Blue, Yellow, a Warden, a Skeleton, a Spider, an Enderman, and a Titan Ravager could barely slow King Orange down. Purple accomplished what they couldn't in seconds, even if he did have the element of surprise.

    Ep 30: The King 
  • The sheer lengths that King Orange went through to enact revenge. Most of it borders on String Theory and desperation, but the end results speak for themselves: he managed to take over the Nether, and fast-forward to now, is in the middle of successfully destroying all of Minecraft.
  • After King Orange's backstory has been revealed, we cut to the end of episode 29, where Purple got the staff from King, leaving him stranded in the middle of the veritable army that assembled in an attempt to stop him WITH the staff. Yet somehow, through sheer determination, cunning and combat prowess, he almost manages to get his staff back, only stopped by everyone pinning him down together.
    • And even then, King Orange manages to recover by stealing Yellow's command block staff when he's distracted. He quickly reveals he was holding back in "The Ultimate Weapon" as he curb-stomps his way throughout all the heroes, ultimately reclaiming his Combined Icon staff from Purple.
  • Herobrine enters the Nether to look for his missing students, only to catch Skellington. When ordered to return the school, the skeleton refuses and alarms his teacher of what's happening to Endie and Spider. This kid was given a way to safety and away from the threat of death, but refused because he cared for his friends that much.
  • Of course, what happens immediately afterwards, aka King Orange VS Herobrine. A clash of what amounts to two flavors of Reality Warpers trying to out-reality warp the other in a blitz of mind-bending fighting styles.
    • The first half of the fight is Herobrine managing to easily curb-stomp King Orange - who, mind you, spend the last four episodes doing the curb-stomping - by easily dodging all of his attacks, outnumbering him with his clones, and pummeling him so hard the Nigh-Invulnerable king is actually stunned.
    • When King Orange turns the tides in his favor by absorbing all of the Steve clones into his staff, Herobrine decides to protect himself by possessing Red, and then to even the playing field further, pilots an obsidian stick-mecha in an attempt to take King Orange down through sheer force, in a gigantic callback for the very first Animation vs. Minecraft. That's right. The first AvM villain is facing off against the latest one.
    • In general, the massive respect Herobrine is given. Despite losing, the first half of the fight was massively one-sided in his favor, he's King Orange's strongest opponent, his fight is one of the best ones in the whole series, and he ultimately goes down Defiant to the End by giving his killer a Death Glare. Years after the hype has ended, you still don't to mess with the first and most infamous Minecraft boogeyman.
  • A villainous example for King Orange. He perseveres against everything that was thrown at him, and absorbs every threat back into the Combined Icon one by one until only the Second Coming, the Fighting Stick Figures and Purple are left.
  • A Dying Moment of Awesome has to be given to Skellington and the Warden. While the Ravager, Spider and Endie Face Death with Despair, Skellington keeps shooting at King Orange as he's being absorbed while the Warden saves the Second Coming from sharing the same fate.
  • Purple's Last Stand. Everyone has been blasted by the destructive energy of the Combined Icon Staff and are visibly distorting and were possibly this close to a Cessation of Existence. Purple doesn't care. As a desperate last attempt to stop him, he charges at King Orange, who retaliates by blasting him with the Combined Icon Staff point-blank. Through all of this, Purple continues to struggle against the beam, regardless of the damage being done, or the pain he's undoubtedly feeling. Doubles as a Tear Jerker when you remember that he pretty much lost everything that matters to him, and is likely the reason why he's still trying in the face of sheer hopelessness.
  • After King Orange and Purple die to the black hole, everyone else tries to deactivate the staff. Nothing they do seems to stop it, but TSC remembers that the last time a Game Icon went through a Nether Portal, it undid everything it was responsible for. TSC's idea? Run all the way back through the Nether and send the Combined Icon through the Nether portal leading back to Alan's PC.
    • On their way back, they run into the Piglin family, who are more than willing to help them travel back to their portal. Along the way, more and more of their members are sucked into the black hole, but they keep going anyways for the sake of cataclysmic stakes. Ultimately, all of the piglins are lost to the black hole, but they die as heroes.
    • Our heroes end up having to parkour across the last stretch of land... or rather chunks of land as they are slowly breaking off and getting sucked into the black hole.
    • When the portal is in sight, the landscape is far too chaotic to coherently travel through, so the stick figures pass the staff back and forth between each other as they each find themselves rapidly gaining footholds and then falling into the black hole in rapid succession. All of this happens in dramatic slow-motion. Bonus points for calling back to not only the very first Animation vs Minecraft episode (whose climax played out very similarly to this scene), but also the first episode of Season 3 (they go through the Nether Biomes in the exact reverse order they went through them in the first episode). As a result, they manage to achieve their goal and undo the Combined Icon's effects, recreating Minecraft and bringing back all their lost allies.
  • Compare the Stick Gang's behavior upon returning home between the end of the first season and the end of this episode: At the end of Season 1, the Stick Gang hastily destroyed the Nether Portal that they just went through, not wanting to have another adventure like that ever again. Here, they're much calmer as they're walking back through the portal, having gained an appreciation for exploring other worlds and prioritizing returning the Game Icons to their original locations and the destruction of the portal is not shown.
  • A couple among the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue shots:

Season 4

    Ep 31: Ultimate Minecart Race 
  • With the Command Block Staff, Yellow has created a bigger and more extensive minecart track that puts the one he built in The Roller Coaster to shame.
  • During several portions of the race, Red is the first one to realize ways to get faster than the others with them copying his tactics.
  • In the freefall part, Red takes out the others by slowing them down with chickens. However, while Green and Blue managed to escape, the Second Coming makes use of his chicken to fly above them through propelling himself with fireworks.

    Ep 32: The Chef 
  • When Blue's not busy being a netherwart junkie, he showcases Awesomeness by Analysis by singlehandedly writing a cookbook from the dishes the villager chef wanted. While the other stick figures try to recreate the dishes, Blue's on the sidelines fervently writing down the ingredients and directions down to the last detail.
  • The Chef proves he isn't all so helpless in defending himself. While, yes, the stick figures are addled by hunger, they are are still skilled fighters, and the Chef manages to subdue them all five-on-one.

    Ep 33: Lucky Block Staff 
  • When the main cast is attacked by a Zombified Piglin using a netherrack staff to strike them, Red uses a pickaxe to destroy the incoming blocks before getting close to knock down the piglin. A Call-Back to Animation vs. Minecraft when Green used the same trick on Herobrine when the latter possessed Red.
  • The Orb proves to be a much more cunning, imposing, and resourceful entity than it was the last time it fought the main cast.
    • Despite the Stick Gang managing to block off and destroy the Orb's cogs using chests and webs, it was able to counter a lot of the their staves such as absorbing the potion effects from Blue's brewing stand staff by using the cauldron staff, detected Green's portals by using the sculk sensor staff, deflected Yellow's laserbeam by using the amethyst staff, and bypassed the barrier blocks by creating a quartz staff and using the building's surroundings to take out Yellow.

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