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Fridge Brilliance

MS Word's Clippy suddenly taking a level in badass might seem out of nowhere, if not for the Rule of Cool. However, it could also be considered that Clippy had always known how to fight, probably to the point where it was the only thing he was ever good at, hence how awkward and useless he is at trying to help you in the non-fighting department.
The Second Coming's instant knowledge and speed of crafting in vs. Minecraft may look like it came out of nowhere. However, in the fourth installment, recall that he made a working ray gun out of Flash's tool icons, and he did it rather quickly.
- Other examples, like Blue knowing to get out a brewing stand when he discovered potions, could be attributed to them being able to see the names of the items, and using logic to figure out what they do; something called a crafting table or a brewing stand obviously relates to those things in some way.
In IV, there appears to be an Esoteric Happy Ending going on when you consider the Animator still has to explain that the Facebook shenanigans weren't his fault. On the surface, it seemed doomed to be a Cassandra Truth, and it would be in our world. However, he's talking about what happened in III with a friend completely casually and the friend doesn't show any signs of disbelief. In II, he also chatted with programmer021 asking for help to defeat a stick figure. Combine this with the side-ads about stick figure enslavement in III and it's entirely possible that stick figures coming to life is a semi-regular occurrence, which would make the Animator's alibi more believable. In addition, now that he and the Second Coming are friends, the latter could have just decided to show himself and own up to the deeds.
In Animation vs. Minecraft, after Red's "betrayal", the Second Coming starts crafting armors and weapons. While he does this, he crafts full sets of diamond armor for his friends first, then the pickaxes and swords, and then after creating everything else, he is shown wearing a diamond armor set and holding a sword for himself (which he had crafted off-screen separately while the others had been preparing themselves.) He had probably been cautious of the diamonds running out while crafting, and put everyone else's safety before his own.
In vs. Minecraft, you may wonder how during the ultimate showdown with Red, the others managed to completely plan out perfectly on how to attack him, by predicting his movements. It would have been relatively easier, since his giant obsidian stickman moves block by block.
In "The Rediscovery", everyone maintains the specific interests and skills in Minecraft that they had in vs. Minecraft. Why does Red's schtick appear to be spawning mobs? Because that's what he was doing for most of vs. Minecraft while he was Brainwashed and Crazy; It wasn't until the very end that the others fought him directly—until then they were fighting the hostile mobs he was spawning.
Green was established in the original vs. Minecraft to be a very skilled builder, managing to build a functional windmill as soon as he gets his hands on the Minecraft icon, something which can't be done in vanilla Minecraft without extensive use of command blocks (which don't appear until episode 6 of the AvM series, so he couldn't have used them). With this in mind, despite a rough start, him winning the titular competition in "The Building Contest" becomes a Foregone Conclusion.
In "The Virus", the other four stick figures are first seen trying to beat the heat, complete with Yellow drying his sweat with a handkerchief, and Red trying to cool himself with a fan. How did the Animator and Second Coming notice the virus? The PC's temperature was a whopping 92 degrees Celsius.^note If the stick figures were able to feel the PC's temperature, then of course they would be shown trying to cool themselves from the steaming heat.
In IV, despite the time gap, it still seems risky that Alan is still drawing and animating stick figures. However, considering we later see him struggling with drawing pretty much anything else, let alone animating it, it's possible that he was taking that risk because stick figures are all he can reliably animate.
- Additionally, it seems that, for a stick figure for it to live, their creator needs to make it with the intentions of it being alive, and thus the Animator thought he'd be safe if he had no intentions of making life.
You may have wondered why the fifth and sixth installments are still called Animator vs. Animation, when the battle between Alan and the stick figures is already seemingly over. Except AvA V features the Dark Lord as the Big Bad while AvA VI has victim, meaning the Animator is still fighting his creations, just with the roles being switched (additionally, the Animator had a playfight with the Stick Gang in VI, and victim's right-hand is a stick figure with Animator-like powers).
In vs. Pokémon, the Second Coming swipes a Totodile from Heart Gold, who chooses to remain with him rather than return. This is exactly what happens with the starter that Silver steals in HGSS proper.
- On top of that, Pokemon he picks is weak against Ethan's starter, which not only ties back to how later games have the Nice Guy rival pick the Pokemon that's weak against you but also leaves room for Silver to nab Cyndaquil, the Pokemon that is strong against Chikorita.
Also from vs. Pokémon, no-one bothers to turn in the Second Coming once he returns to the game after the Totodile is taken back. The cop from the beginning only called out the Second Coming for stealing the Totodile, while Ethan is the only one to take issue with the Second Coming's presence in the game. As far as everyone else was concerned, this strange humanoid was catching Pokémon and beating gyms fair and square—they couldn't even be sure the Totodile was the stolen one as it was clearly following willingly—so they let his presence slide.
It makes sense that Blue would be the one who can grow trees literally from dollar bills in Blue's New Superpower^context; he's the one that took a shine to growing plants, including trees, in vs. Minecraft.
"Build Battle" turns the Second Coming's falling asleep in "Building Contest" into a Running Gag, with him falling asleep as the timer's running no matter what he does to keep himself conscious. Considering the events of "Note Blocks" and "Note Block Battle" imply that his friends aren't exactly considerate of letting him sleep through the night, is it any wonder he has trouble staying awake during the day?
- Why are they all awake at 3AM, anyway? It's because the stick figures can't open Minecraft during the day because Alan needs to use the computer, so they do it at night when he isn't using the computer. The Second Coming helps Alan animate, so he needs to be there during the day. Keeping that in mind, it would make sense that TSC is the only stick figure that actually sleeps through the night.
In "Potions", after experimenting with potions, Blue ends up passed out on the floor, with the implication that he's Drunk on Milk. This may seem strange, until you remember that not every potion in existence is necessarily good. It's very possible that he sampled every potion, including the ones that induce negative status effects, and felt the effect of every bad status effect at once as a result.
- "Cave Spider Roller Coaster" had the stick figures rendered unconscious by poison, and only when the debuff was removed did they recover. It is possible that Blue was relatively okay until he sampled a potion of poison or two.
- And he could have possibly completed one of the more difficult challenges (have every potion effect active at once) completed in that process as well! And knowing just how much the stick figures break the Minecraft rules so much, he could also have completed How Did We Get Here? with ease. No wonder Red went to check him out, the notification had alerted anyone that was active during that time.
The Second Coming summoning lightning with his guitar in "Note Block Battle" seems like pure Rule of Cool at first. But when V reveals just how powerful he truly is, you realize that it was actually foreshadowing that the Second Coming wasn't just a Badass Normal. His clairvoyance in "Skyblock" could have been another hint.
The pig in The Witch briefly attacking the titular witch ala Sonic the Hedgehog's Super Smash Bros. Ultimate attack actually makes a bit more sense if you managed to spot the Gotta Go Fast potion buff!
In "Command Blocks", when the various Command Blocks set up start to glitch and send the game (and the computer) out of control due to being struck by stray lightning bolts, the reason why Yellow and Red aren't able to simply just destroy the blocks with their pickaxes is because, in Minecraft, Command Blocks have the same durability and resistances as bedrock in Survival mode, and they can only be removed with other commands or Creative mode.
Alan's Shrug of God when it comes to Purple, saying he just started existing at one point, seems weird and unrealistic (well, for the series' standards)... until you realize that's exactly what happened with the Second Coming. The Animator didn't name him, and he was just one of the few keyframes on a animation he was making, and it's implied he wasn't his first creation since 2011. The Second Coming also just came into existence for no reason. For all we know, something similar happened with Purple. This seems to have been retconned out, as now we know Purple's origins and how he was born.
His other Shrug of God regarding the Dark Lord's fate ("still deciding lol") makes sense when you realize that, outside of Gold and Pink, we've never seen a stick figure die permanently in the series; and between those two, one was wiped from existence while the other had seemingly passed away from natural causes. And they were Internet-born stick figures, while the Alan-drawn stick figures, of which the Dark Lord is one of them, have even actively resisted things that would otherwise be lethal. (The Chosen One surviving ViraBot's onslaught, victim somehow surviving deletion, and the Second Coming surviving several slashes from the Dark Lord where only one was enough to kill a Fighting Stick Figure, even before his 11th-Hour Superpower kicks in.) Killing an Alan-drawn stick figure would probably require a huge amount of power; and if TDL really is dead, this would have some frightening implications about the Second Coming's latent powers.
The Second Coming and Red, using three beacons, managed to teleport from the Nether, which seems to be shared by all computers (or stick figures are just that powerful), into a whole new Minecraft world. This gives another reason for why King Orange has beacons, or why he was living in the Nether in the first place; it's a hub/gateway to all Minecraft dimensions, and we know his intentions towards the game, so even if he can't get the Game Icon he needs a way to travel across the entirety of Minecraft.
In vs. Minecraft, two apples apiece is enough to keep the stick gang full enough to regenerate seven and a half hearts without losing any hunger points, despite apples having a very low saturation value. Being sticks, they're much thinner than Steve and Alex, and so don't need as much food to sustain them. Conversely, once that saturation does run out, their hunger bar drains much faster, going from full to less than half in less than a minute of running and being smacked around (see also "Lush Caves" where there's a blink-and-you-miss-it moment of the Second Coming losing a hunger point just standing there; this doesn't happen in Minecraft proper). Being so much thinner means they have far less reserve energy to go through once they start starving.
- It should also be noted that the stick figures have plenty of endurance when it comes to taking damage, even without armor, and also can't take fall damage unless they fall from an enormous height. This may have to do with them being used to fighting outside of Minecraft.
In the "Titan Ravager" episode, upon re-watch, there was one small detail that was previously missed - the villages were situated in a very expansive plains biome. That particular world might have been made with the Large Biomes setting.
In the Dolphin Kingdom, the tridents that were given to Green, Red, Blue and Yellow clearly weren't enchanted, however it still allows them to use them as if Riptide was on it. If one can recall, there was a bug that caused the enchantment glint to not appear (in the Player's inventory at least) on the trident. This may be a small nod to that little bug.
To quote a comment in a reaction video; "Pigs are commonly used to sniff out and dig up mushrooms, most notably truffles. I imagine that Blue absolutely reeks of Nether Wart, so giving a potion as a sample is actually a perfect job for a pig."
In "The King", after King Orange's son dies when the Minecraft emulator crashes, we see him attack the wall where a Minecraft poster hangs, and then the camera turns to show his son on the other side of the wall still fighting to escape the emulator, implying he never stopped reliving that horrible moment. When does he finally break through that wall? In the process of attacking an image of himself attacking the Minecraft icon and everyone he stepped on in his quest for revenge. On the other side of the wall is Purple grieving his mother's loss. King Orange only broke out of his cycle of grief and found peace once he embraced Purple as a surrogate son.
Red's Dark Horse Victory in "Redstone Academy" makes more sense than you might think. Green and the Second Coming's final builds were only really doable with commands; while impressive, this isn't what Yellow was testing them on. Blue's build meanwhile was relatively simple on the redstone side—he presses one button to push a redstone block to activate dispensers, and that's about it; it was more a demostration of water physics. Red's build showcased the most redstone principles and only redstone, so it makes perfect sense he'd be the winner.
In Animation vs Super Mario Bros. SMB1 Mario takes Collision Damage from The Second Coming the moment the stick figure attempts a handshake, but when we see SMB2 Mario and SMB3 Mario sitting in the same couch as the stick figures after everyone got along with each other they're just fine, and SMB1 Mario himself shortly joins everyone on the couch. It seems that the Marios only take Collision Damage from outside entities if they don't trust them because they see them as "enemies".
The Second Coming's ability to draw animals and items to aid him against the Mercenaries doesn't come completely out of nowhere; his last act against the Animator in AvA IV was drawing people and animals to help him take apart the animation interface. AvA VI just translates that to the Stick World.
In "Animation vs. Math", the Second Coming seems out of place. Except that according to a viewer, he can represent the numerical value that is frames per second. He represents maths meeting visuals.
Why does TSC begin to shrink relative to the apple when he reaches the black hole's singularity in vs. Physics? Perhaps because the black hole is compressing them both… but while the apple is made of particles that can only get so small, the Second Coming is a cartoon and can be compressed much smaller without any particles to get in the way.
While stealing Yellow's staff was still wrong, Red's curiosity in "Lucky Block Staff" over how the staff would work with a Lucky Block despite how poorly their initial attempts went makes sense when you remember their initial tests with Command Blocks, which the staff normally contains, went horribly awry to the point of being sworn off as well. Red likely just assumed that since he wasn't going out of his way to use it for evil, nothing bad would happen- the problem stemmed from how compared to the Command Block, which works off of code that does exactly what the user tells it to do, the Lucky Block is the home of an entity that is inherently unpredictable, chaotic, and thus uncontrollable.
Yellow loans Red his staff for one of his prank attempts, and Blue was presumably the source of the potions for the final attempt. Why would they be willing to help after Red pranked them earlier? Because they tend to be the ones most sour when Green wins anything—just look at "The Building Contest" and "Build Battle". They were probably eager to see Red get one over on Green.
Purple being the one to scheme Red's ultimate prank is fitting due to his Dark and Troubled Past. This is because the prank lulls Green into a false sense of security, it takes a long time to build the plan over time (takes 3 mins and 5 seconds compared to the other pranks), having henchmen help you (Red threw animation potions on the four things you need to make a cake in Minecraft^note) and showing something GRAND to deceive the eye when the real trick is at the end, waiting.

Fridge Horror

At the end of Animation vs Minecraft, Red is guilt-ridden over attacking is friends while he was possessed. Tragic on its own, but think: he remembers attacking them, which probably means he was conscious the entire time he was possessed.
- "Lucky Blocks" shows us what happens when some other entity possesses a stick figure; their spirit/soul/mind/whatever appears in a sort of jail cell, from which they can see the monitor, including their possessed body attacking their friends. Notably, while every stick figure ends up possessed by the time the episode ends, Red is the only one we don't see waking up in that cell; probably because it isn't new for him. While Yellow could find the means to still fight back, with everyone else following suit as they're possessed one by one, Red didn't have that ability in vs Minecraft; all he could do was watch as his body beat up and almost killed his friends.
vs. Youtube shows the original Animator vs. Animation exists as a video in this world. One has to wonder how the stick figures would react if they saw the Animator tried to kill victim for no reason and enslaved the Chosen One as a glorified pop-up blocker.
- The Chosen One is implied to have forgiven Alan in "The Chosen One's Return", as he leaves with little more than a respectful nod. So while they might not be happy to learn about Alan's past transgressions, hopefully they'd understand that he's since had a Heel–Face Turn.
- With victim being confirmed to be alive and malicious, there is a very likely chance of Ascended Fridge Horror happening.
ViraBot is a malevolent virus that heats the computer to 92 degrees Celsius, destroys anything it touches, infects programs, and can basically destroy or at least severely damage any computer it gets into. And if one keeps in mind that every Computer Virus is created by someone for some purpose^notee.g. to get personal information or for profit, the question rises... What in the world created this monstrosity? And why?
- In a world where animated stick figures can come to life, it's possible that ViraBot was indeed created for a more mundane purpose, only to grow beyond its programming and go Off the Rails. This isn't that reassuring, however, considering this leaves the implication that any computer virus in the ''AvA" universe can "mutate" in this fashion.
- For bonus horror, keep in mind that computer viruses can, more often than not, duplicate and spread. How many ViraBots are out there?!
- Fortunately, "The Flashback" answers the first question and puts most of the following Horror to rest; ViraBot was created by the Dark Lord with the sole purpose of pure destruction, and was set to specifically target Alan's computer first and foremost. Since it had minimal offscreen time between launch and attack, odds are low it ever multiplied, so now that the Chosen One vanquished it, we can only hope that's the end of it. However, the episode brings new horror: Last we saw of the Dark Lord, he was simply knocked aside by the Chosen One. What's stopping him from just making more ViraBots, or something worse, if he hasn't already? What's more, even if ViraBot didn't get to multiply before being destroyed, the Dark Lord's room includes a map that shows the first instance of ViraBot branching out into several, implying that it was designed to.
  - This is confirmed in "The Showdown", in where the Dark Lord is planning on sending an army of pre-existing ViraBots to the most accessed websites and social media.
Due to being from SticksFight.com, the Fighting Stick Figures can be revived if they ever get killed or deleted, as revealed in the endings of Animator vs. Animation IV and "PvP". However, TSC is not from the website, and was drawn in Flash. If he ever died, this might mean that he would never come back.
- He's shown sleeping in a Minecraft bed at several points, so hopefully that allowed him to set a respawn point. Alternatively, since he was created in Flash, he could respawn there. However, there's no way to be sure until it happens. Not even several slashes from the Dark Lord, who could One-Hit Kill a Fighting Stick Figure, could kill TSC.
In Animation vs, Pokemon, Ethan makes sure the final battle takes place on the desktop. But since TSC is from that world (as he was created and came to life in Flash), he knows how to fight in it. He could just get out a diamond sword from Minecraft and attack Ethan with it. Or worse yet, the other stick figures, if they chose to intervene, could gang up and beat him up, Pokemon or no Pokemon. Ethan is lucky that TSC both plays fair and would not hurt him that way. But if he battled him normally in Heart Gold, then things might have been fairer.
If the Animator still wants to play through Heart Gold himself, he'll either have to buy another copy of the game, or reset the one he has and undo all of the Second Coming's progress. Should he choose the latter, we can at least hope he'll allow TSC's Pokémon to flee to the computer beforehand.
As mentioned on the Headscratchers page, there may be countless stick figures running around the Internet, destroying everything they see because a human told them to or they turned against their creators and decided to do it because they wanted to.
- Considering Alan Becker somehow didn't notice in several years that The Chosen One and The Dark Lord where alive and causing chaos on the internet, it's possible that stick figures on the loose can't actually cause that much damages.
In "The Showdown", when the Animator joins the fight, the perspective constantly changes between the Animator's point of view (just moving the mouse cursor) and the stick figures' point of view (being horribly beaten up by a giant 3D cursor). Now see every other video again, and try to imagine yourself in the point of view of any stick figure. It won't be pretty.
- Then again, it's clear that the cursor Alan had in that episode was a special one made by Yellow, and usually the cursor is only the size of a stick figure's head. It might not be as bad as what the Dark Lord went through, but it'd still likely hurt and be much scarier than what Alan sees.
King Orange lives in the Nether, and the Witch found Blue in the Nether. King Orange knows a lot about the Stick Gang and even has a video of their adventures, the Witch somehow knew about the Stick Gang and Blue's unusual taste in food, and Purple is encountered in the same world that the Witch lived in. King Orange could have been working with the Witch and planned an Uriah Gambit to get her killed, and Purple was most likely perfectly aware of this.
As shown numerous times, in this universe, stick figures can jump through computer to computer just by using Nether portals (or, more specifically, Nether portals inside the Nether), to the point that the Second Coming and Red managed to encounter a Minecraft gamer. Now, imagine if the Dark Lord, his army of ViraBots, or a pre-Heel–Face Turn Chosen One found out about this, and stumbled upon a computer with Minecraft installed on it, which would be no hard task...
- But there's more to it... First, Red and the Second Coming teleported into the player's world via pointing two beacons into the beam of another beacon, and that player was on singleplayer given that the Open to LAN button wasn't darkened out. It's Fridge Logic how that worked, but it's Paranoia Fuel for those who start thinking about Herobrine.
King Orange lives in the Nether, which so far has been characterized as shared by all stick figures no matter what type of computer they come from. So, for whatever reason, King Orange avoids living in a computer. And then you realize he wants the Game Icon, which is a computer icon, and that while his true plan is still an enigma, it's implied to be something incredibly powerful...
- This is more or less Ascended Fridge Horror: King Orange was planning universal destruction with the Game Icon, and thus stayed in a place that would let him access every corner of Minecraft.
The Second Coming and Red instinctively panic when alexcrafter28's cursor approaches them after they escape from Minecraft onto the desktop. Considering how "The Showdown" depicted the cursor from the perspective of the stick figures, it's very likely they have some lingering trauma from the events of AvA IV.
The Dark Lord's plan of using ViraBots to destroy the computer is nothing but Fridge Horror.
- The consequences would affect the entire world given just how much we need computers in our lives. Games, ways of contacting people, getting money or learning, would have gone to shit if he succeeded in his plans.
- Who said that by invading those seven websites, he wouldn't eventually hit a phone or two? Maybe even consoles or TV's? He could potentially destroy all ways of having access to the Internet, or maybe even the Internet itself, which, mind you, houses countless sapient programs. The Dark Lord wouldn't just murder a ton of people, he would have done a complete genocide, if not worse.
- Hell, computers alone are filled with programs who are very much alive.
- In a complete worst case scenario, the Dark Lord could have destroyed everything: All computers, all phones, all everything as long as the ViraBots can find a way inside it.
- Just imagine the guilt Alan and the Chosen One would have felt when they realized all of this is their fault.
- Practically everyone we've seen in the series would have died, assuming they didn't before the events of the AvA Shorts. Some of them would have deserved it, like Purple or King Orange^note, but there have been many, many others who didn't, such as the FSF.
- Think of your favorite web animation/video, video game, website, whatever, as long as it's on the Internet. The Dark Lord and the ViraBots would have destroyed and killed everything and everyone in it. This is Galeem levels of bad, if not worse, given that for Galeem's attack to reach something, it first must have connections to a franchise that's part of Smash Bros. (This is explained more in depth here.) The Dark Lord and his army? There is nothing stopping them. If it's on the Internet (and name us something that isn't), it's gone.
- And worst of all, this could have been the Dark Lord's intentions all along.
The first two times Green asks about Purple's whereabouts in Note Block Universe, the ones that answer actually show (via musical note pictures) Purple entering and exiting the scene. The third time, when Green asks the Villagers, Green actually makes the image of Purple and the Villagers just confirm that yes, he went that way (note that Green actually has to ask for confirmation on this). When Green does catch up to Purple, the latter is revealed to have also learned to speak Note Block. Green learned that by being pressured by the Villagers who wouldn't let him use his Note Block. Since we're not shown Purple just running through the Village like the previous two scenes (the field and cave), we can probably assume he was stopped by the Villagers like Green was, and was pressured in the same way to learn to speak Note Block before he could keep running. We see at the tail end of Purple's backstory that he's regretting most if not all of his trauma-fueled maliciousness, including how he treated his own Villagers. Taking all of this together, being surrounded and hassled by those Villagers probably did not help his state of mind.
With Flash's death, the SticksFight website is history. If Flash met the same fate in-universe, the Fighting Stick Figures might have lost their ability to respawn.
Are the Chosen One and the Second Coming still conscious while they're paused? While the Second Coming gets unpaused before being locked up, the Chosen One doesn't get this mercy.
- Thankfully Alan has confirmed that they aren't conscious while paused, which is confirmed via Freeze-Frame Bonus in "The Box".
victim's treatment of the Chosen One might not have just been to beat information out of him. Being trapped, depowered, and beaten down is basically what happened to the Chosen One back in AvA II and III. victim could have been trying to bring back memories of how Alan initially treated the Chosen One, in order to make the Chosen One more inclined to sell out Alan.
- Additonally, victim uses the exact same tricks he used in AvA I with nothing new. On top of this meaning he very likely has an Inferiority Superiority Complex and wants to make himself anything but a victim, he is more or less a trauma survivor reliving their worst moment while being in control of it.
Given there was a portal to the Outernet in the Nether, King Orange's black hole likely consumed a huge portion of the city King Orange lived in before the Second Coming undid his actions.
- Similarly, the exact same thing likely happened to Purple's former kingdom, the Dolphin Kingdom, the End, the cave spider colony, and the Lucky Dimension. At least the Spider Queen and the Orb had it coming.
Hilarious as it is to see Green nonchalantly dodge all of Red's attempts to prank him with a cake to the face, he probably developed those reflexes as a result of being the Butt-Monkey of the Actual Shorts series.

Fridge Sadness

The Animator always refers to the Chosen One as a 'he' even after he had destroyed the computer), but in IV, he murmurs out in disbelief "It talks?" when referring to the Second Coming. Knowing that TSC had been brought to life by accident while the Animator had personally named the Chosen One... Ouch. It probably stings the more you think about it. At least they grow to respect each other, becoming pals.
- There are three other possible explanations that are less sad; back when Animator vs. Animation II came out, maybe gender neutral pronouns for living creatures weren't as common and it was more common to use male pronouns by default. The second possibility is that when Alan drew the Chosen One, he imagined him as being male, but since he never intended to make the Second Coming, he has no idea what gender he was and thus settled with a gender neutral one to not make a mistake. The last possibility is that stick figures were meant to have gender in Animator vs. Animation II, but it was retconned and now they are all genderless.
  - With later revelations in future episodes, such as even in-series stick figures calling TCO a male or there being confirmed stick figure genders... yea, the first option is the likeliest.
  - Don’t forget that they would have also worked as a gender-neutral and considering what The Animator was like at the time…
Liking a Facebook post usually means you agree with the person in what they said. This adds a bit of Alternate Character Interpretation to the Second Coming when he likes the "I give up on life" post. Perhaps he too gave up on life, especially since it happens just after his friends die.
- This really makes his message to the Animator while resisting his task ending Harsher in Hindsight. Even though he did overreact and go on a rampage, TSC had every right to be angry with his creator.
At no point in King Orange's plan is there an escape route for him specified. Whether out of apathy for his fate or an active desire to join his son, he was 100% going down with the Minecraft world if he'd succeeded. Even if the Master Block grants Complete Immortality, as mentioned above there's a portal between the Minecraft World and the Outernet; so even if he survived, he'd have nowhere to go.
There's no sign of King Orange's wife/Gold's mother anywhere. At best this means there was a nasty divorce, but more likely—given that even if they were estranged, she'd have some kind of reaction to her son dying—she died herself before the start of the flashback.
Purple knew of King Orange's intentions, and when he is betrayed, he just chooses to run into the Note Block Universe instead of finding the portal to the Outernet; and when he is there, he just wants to be left alone in a desert. Purple crossed the Despair Event Horizon so hard he decided he deserves to die all by himself, and likely waited for King Orange's black hole to reach him.

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