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Recap / Animator vs. Animation – AvM Shorts, Episode 25: The Ultimate Weapon

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Uploaded Aug 28, 2021

Summary

Purple tries to play dumb in order to steal the Master Block, but TSC and Red are not fooled, so they impede him with the hope of making him walk away empty-handed. Meanwhile Green tires to escape from his cage, but finds it protected by a strange spell. However, he still manages to escape using a piston to push an ender pearl through the bars, teleporting outside. He then frees the pig and rushes away. Meanwhile, King leads Blue and Yellow to his palace and offers them crowns, thrones and scepters with Command Blocks. Blue tries to refuse, citing the main adventure of Season 1, but King convinces him using nether wart. Luckily, Green quickly arrives and tries to break in, though King tries to stop him using his Command Block to repair the blocks that he breaks. However, Green uses a TNT to blow up the wall and quickly tells everything to his friends. King puts a Pigstep disc in his jukebox and a fight ensues.

The three friends manage to overpower their enemy despite the Command Block, but in that exact moment, Purple manages to steal the Master Block, which starts sucking all items and blocks created by it, included the FSF's weapons and the pig. Purple manages to go through the Nether portal before it disappears and Red follows him while TSC remain stuck in the PC. Red meets the baby piglin again, with an hoglin that offers him help to chase Purple, while King captures the rest of the FSF and puts them in cages. TSC tries to figures out what to do, until he remembers alexcrafter28 and returns to his PC, steals his own Master Block, and gets back to Alan's PC, proceeding to build another Nether portal and fly to King's stronghold. Meanwhile, Purple gives the Master Block to King, who immediately put it on the staff. Purple wants to hold the staff with his master as he promised to him, but King kicks him away then uses the Master Block to create a black hole that starts sucking everything.

Luckily, TSC arrives with alexcrafter28's Master Block and starts fighting King, while Red frees his friends and together they arrive to help TSC. However, they are stopped by Purple, who is still loyal to King and his piglin army. They still manage to slay every enemy, forcing Purple to escape, but the FSF block his elytra using their fishing rods. Purple calls King for help, but he refuses, so he removes the elytra and escape through the Nether with Green chasing him. The black hole grows stronger and Red almost get sucked in, but Red manages to enter a portal instead, finding himself in a mostly empty world. Yellow manages to grab the Command Block and he and Blue escape through the same portal from which they arrive. TSC goes to the black hole to destroy it with alexcrafter28's Master Block, but King tries to stop him, causing the two blocks to generate a shockwave which destroys the black hole and sends the two blocks away, King on the jukebox, kicking the disk out and stopping the music, and TSC through a portal, finding himself in a cave in front of a strange block.

Tropes

  • Acting Unnatural: When Purple sees the Master Block in Alan's PC, he tries to get closer to it while acting overly casual. Red and the Second Coming don't fall for it and keep watch over it, forcing Purple to take it by force.
  • Brick Joke: King throws a Pigstep disc into his music player, which undergoes a Diegetic Switch for the rest of the video (in the form of an enhanced version by Scott Buckley and Aaron Grooves) and plays for the extended fight scene that follows. After the fight scene is over, King lands on the record player, the impact ejecting the disc just as the song ends.
  • Call-Back:
    • When Purple initially arrives at Alan's PC, the first thing he does is go to the toolbar looking for the Minecraft icon. His reaction to not finding it there is similar to Second Coming's reaction in the first AVM Short.
    • Blue is hesitant when King gave him a crown and a throne because he remembers what happened with Purple back in Season 1.
  • Chekhov's Gunman:
    • The young piglin from "The Piglin War" gives Red a lift on a hoglin, allowing Red to catch up to Purple.
    • The Second Coming goes back to alexcrafter's PC to get their Master Block and use it to create a Nether Portal.
  • Cliffhanger: All of the stick figures have been separated: Red was sent into the Monster School world, Blue and Yellow returned to the village from the episode "Titan Ravager" and took King's command block with them, Purple escaped into the Note Block Universe with Green following him, the Second Coming ended up in a Deep Dark biome, while King was knocked out, without his command block or the Master Block. Also, the whereabouts of the Master Blocks are unknown.
  • Dark Is Evil: The Master Block used by King has a black glow, and he mostly uses dark colored blocks such as obsidian.
  • Diegetic Switch: King plays the music disc Mellohi in his throne room while he tries to win over Blue and Yellow. The music is still heard in the scene at Alan's PC. Later, when Green breaks into the throne room and reunites with his friends, King changes the music to Pigstep for his battle against them, as well as the Second Coming and Red's fight against Purple at Alan's PC. At the end of the video, it becomes somewhat of Left the Background Music On when King falls into his throne room and lands beside the jukebox as the music ends, and the disc pops out onto him.
  • Face, Nod, Action: Yellow and Blue nod at each other before going back through the portal from "Titan Ravager" to escape the carnage.
  • Grapes of Luxury: After King convinces Blue to join him with a throne surrouded by Nether Wart, Blue's slouching pose on his throne as he chows down is invocative of this trope.
  • Hope Spot: Green, Blue, and Yellow nearly succeed in defeating King, having separated him from his staff, restrained him with a fishing rod, and having him at bowpoint. Then Purple gets the Master Block, which absorbs all of their equipment, giving King a chance to turn things around.
  • Knuckle Cracking: When Green reveals King's plan to Blue and Yellow, King cracks his neck and shoulder before preparing to fight them.
  • Late-Arrival Spoiler: King, a Hidden Villain in his previous appearances, is on the center of the thumbnail. His role in the story, however, is as spoilery as ever.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: Purple is known for his Chronic Backstabbing Disorder. King ends up betraying him.
  • Light Is Good: The Master Block used by The Second Coming has a white glow, and he mostly uses light colored blocks such as iron.
  • Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: After being abandoned by King, Purple runs away and enters a Nether portal, with Green following him.
  • Source Music: Before King throws down with Blue and Yellow, he throws a music disc into the Jukebox behind him which proceeds to play Pigstep for the entirety of the fight scene. The song even ends as source music when King's unconscious body slams into the Jukebox, ejecting the disc.
  • Rule of Symbolism: During the final moments of the Second Coming and King's fight, they start fighting with quartz and obsidian, as in the yin-yang.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: King ditches Purple once he achieves the power he wanted.
  • We Can Rule Together: King tries to persuade Blue and Yellow into joining him.
  • Yank the Dog's Chain: Just when the gang manages to reunite, they end up getting separated again.

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