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Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts

A later AvM short will involve the Stick Figures protecting Purple's old village from Pillagers.

Since Alan has gone out of his way to do an episode surrounding the Aquatic Update, it's not much of a stretch to assume that we'll eventually explore the Village and Pillage update. And we already have a village to work with. Perhaps once everyone finally gets home and has time to recover, they begin to wonder how their Villager friends are doing and decide to pay them a visit, only to find them being pillaged and end up having to defend them. Also, one of the stick figures will ride a Ravager because Rule of Cool. (Hey, they figured out how to ride a Ghast.)

We've already seen the campfire added in that update which could be hinting at something like this.

• Jossed by a hair. A village is protected, and Yellow and Blue ride their own (Titan) Ravager. However, the village isn’t Purple's.

All of the portals in the cluster of them shown at the end of "Villagers" all lead to the same world, just different parts of it.

This would explain how The Second Coming and the Fighting Stick Figures managed to run into each other at the end of "The Dolphin Kingdom", despite them having gone through different portals before ending up there.

Herobrine will return.

Seeing as Minecraft was re-installed into the computer, it's likely that Herobrine came back with it. He never possessed any of the Stick Gang because he knew how it turned out. However, he did create the Nether Portal in the second half of Season 1 and the Lucky Blocks, hoping to kill the Stick Gang as revenge. Otherwise, we can only assume that the Nether Portal and the Lucky Blocks just... started existing for no reason.

If this theory is true, then Herobrine is the Greater-Scope Villain of the first two seasons of the AvM Shorts and may be the Big Bad of one of the upcoming seasons.

• Confirmed! Sort of. He returns in the Monster School episode but doesn't seem to recognize Red at all, nor does he have an antagonistic role. It could have been a different Herobrine altogether.
  • Well, Word of God says that it's the same Herobrine. He probably forgot the ordeal in Animation vs. Minecraft.

The Zombie Piglin that tried to kill the Piglin Child is the same Zombie Piglin as the one who popped out of the lava.

During "The Piglin War", two Zombie Piglins try to kill the Piglin Child. Thankfully, they're saved by the Piglin Leader at the very last minute. The Leader kills one of the two Piglins, but the other one's fate remains unknown. Well, seeing as the remaining Zombie Piglin was perfectly fine with killing a child, who says he isn't the same Zombie Piglin who, after walking into lava, popped out of it in an attempt to kill the Piglin Child for the second time?

By the end of Season 3, every member of the Stick Gang will have befriended a monster.

The Second Coming befriended the Warden in its titular episode, Red befriended an Enderman, a Spider, and a Skeleton in "Monster School". Blue and Yellow returned to the village from "Titan Ravager", so maybe they'll end up befriending such a Ravager; likely the one King Orange didn't zap that might want payback for what happened to its friends. As for Green, maybe he'll befriend a different more figurative kind of monster—Purple, who he chased after at the end of |The Ultimate Weapon".

• Confirmed for the Ravager!
• Confirmed all the way: TSC befriends the Warden, Red makes friends with the Yellow Team, Yellow and Blue tame the Titan Ravager and Green influences Purple to pull a Heel–Face Turn.

Yellow is going to revive the Ravager Family.

The Ravagers were deleted with a Command Block from King Orange's Staff, Blue and Yellow is going to find a way to revive them so they can aid against Orange.

• We only saw King Orange zap two out of the three, the third (presumably the one they originally fed) being unaccounted for. Maybe that'll be the one Blue and Yellow befriend with the promise of revenge against the one that killed its family. Though considering Yellow took a Command Block with him, reviving the others for the same purpose isn't off the table.
• Semi-Confirmed. Yellow does not revive the other two, but he does get the one that King Orange did not kill to help them.
• And later partly jossed: King is the one to revive them.

A future Season 3 episode will reference the popular Pixelmon mod.

Concerned for the Second Coming's safety, Alan could send his Pokemon team from Animation vs. Pokemon into the Nether after him, whereupon they come across and assist him in the fight against King Orange.

• Ethan would have a cameo, warning the Pokemon that if they die outside their game, they could die permanently.
• Jossed for Season 3 specifically, but might happen in a future season.

The Lucky Block will return in Season 3

It will then be used inside of King Orange's staff to counter the Game Icon.

• Semi-confirmed. It didn't return in Season 3 outside of a minor cameo in The King, but did return in Season 4 in Lucky Block Staff.

The other two Ravagers were the mate and child of the one King Orange did not kill

It would explain why the surviving one is wallowing in its cave when Yellow encounters it.

Herobrine is secretly the Big Bad and is working with King Orange

It's possible that Herobrine did indeed recognize Red and has been using his Monster School as a distraction from his true goals of regaining his power and exacting revenge on the stick figures. He is worshipped by King Orange, having given him his power and the command block to carry out his bidding. If King Orange fails, Herobrine will be forced to step in himself and get his hands dirty one final time.

• Jossed. They didn't know eachother before "The King", upon which they tried to kill eachother.

The event from Ep.6 was what killed King's son

When the Minecraft Simulator booth starts to malfunction in Episode 30, the blocks in the Minecraft world briefly shift into random blocks, the same as when the command block goes haywire in Episode 6. Furthermore, right after the fatal error occurs, a No Signal text shows up on the screen- one similar to that of Episode 6 when the Second Coming restarts Alan's PC.

• Unlikely, given how it screws with the timeline: Gold died after the Nether Update, which was announced in 2019 and only released the next year, while "Command Blocks" happened in 2018 as confirmed via the calendar date, a year or two before Gold's death.

The vision King sees after being destroyed by the Dual Block's beam was actually his son reaching out to him.

With King in limbo after his failed attempt to save Purple, Gold was able to reach out from the afterlife to show King he'd gone too far. King breaking through to where Purple was in the same scene was Gold essentially giving the green light for his father to move on and find happiness with a new family.

Similarly, Pink was trying to comfort Purple after his own defeat.

In the In Real Time version of Season 3, we see pink petals falling around Purple almost as soon as he sits down. If Purple was also in limbo (likely given that King is able to make it to him later), Pink could have been trying to reach out to comfort him as best she could, like she often did when she was alive. The petals become more frequent as King hugs Purple, possibly meaning Pink is happy that Purple has a new loving parent with both her and her husband out of the picture.

The Hooded Stick Figure will return.

He's a very enigmatic individual who somehow has access to a Command Block. It's obvious that he is a goldmine for potential story arcs, and Alan is probably aware of this.

Animator vs. Animation V

When the Animator got a new computer after the events of III, he transplanted his old hard drive into the new computer.

This would explain how The Chosen One was able to return at the end of "The Virus".

• Jossed. The Chosen One returned through entering Alan's computer, to which he had access to through his new home in the Outernet.

After he defeats the Virus, the Chosen One will turn on the Animator.

His appearance is more than just a Deus ex Machina—he's been trying to find a way to return to exact revenge ever since the Animator recovered from his last onslaught (which could also explain why The Second Coming flickered between himself and The Chosen One in IV), and it was just convenient timing. When he sees ViraBot, he only sees him as competition, not an enemy to be destroyed for the Animator's sake, and that's the only reason he moves to attack. Once he's defeated ViraBot (which will also release the captured stick figures), he'll attack the computer himself. When the others try to fight him, he'll elaborate on what the Animator did to him. How this ends could go one of two ways.

1. The stick figures will give him a Shut Up, Hannibal! about how the Animator has since changed, and proceed to kick the Chosen One's rear.
2. The others will begin to doubt the Animator's intentions and potentially leave him all alone in the fight against his old adversary. If this happens, and the Animator wins through any means other than making peace with The Chosen One, his relationship with the other animations will remain strained in future episodes.

Should the latter happen, the Animator might (somehow, since he has no mouse cursor nor any means to get a new one) fire up a speech-to-text program to plead with the other stick figures and maybe even attempt to apologize to The Chosen One. Whether or not this works on either party is a coin toss.

• Jossed: after ViraBot is defeated, the Chosen One and Alan exchange a respectful nod before the Chosen One leaves peacefully.

The Chosen One will pull a Heroic Sacrifice.

ViraBot will prove so powerful, the only way to stop it will be a complete scorched-earth format-and-reinstall. While Alan would likely have backups of all of his files to minimize the losses, the stick figures would still be vulnerable. To get around this, Alan will have them all flee to his smartphone, which was shown to be accessible to the stick figures in IV, and have them hide out there while he formats his computer. However, left unchecked, ViraBot will be able to follow them. To prevent this, The Chosen One, who we learned was seeking Alan's forgiveness for his stunts in III, will stay back to hold off ViraBot so everyone else can escape safely, going down with ViraBot during the format.

• Jossed. The Chosen One wins, quite handily, in fact, with no Heroic Sacrifice required.

ViraBot is actually the Dark Lord.

Not only is it red like the Dark Lord, but it would be explained that since his appearance in AVA III, he had somehow been corrupted and transformed into his present form. This is also why the Chosen One came to fight ViraBot.

• Jossed, but you were in the ballpark. It was actually created by him.

The next AvA short will be the Chosen One enlisting the help of the Second Coming and the fighting stick figures to take down the Dark Lord.

While it's currently unclear if the Chosen One is aware that the others followed him(he made no gesture to invite them to do so, and he's gone for a few seconds before they follow), odds are high that his next task will be to take down the Dark Lord again; the latter has proven too dangerous to be left unchecked.

However, in the time it took for the Chosen One to corner and destroy ViraBot, the Dark Lord will have either created more or something even worse, and the Chosen One will find himself overpowered this time, requiring the others to intervene as backup.

For bonus points, their assistance could be in the form of gear and skills related to their stints in Minecraft and/or League of Legends, implying cross-continuity between the series. The latter is more likely, since AvM is its own series whereas "Animation vs. League of Legends" is a standalone animation barring taking place after "AvA IV".

• Cross-continuity has already been implied between vs. Minecraft and vs. League of Legends at the very least; the stick fighters remember who Purple is – complete with flashbacks – from their Minecraft adventures. If vs. League of Legends is in continuity with the main animations, then logically vs. Minecraft is too. This of course makes no claims either way about how their adventure with The Chosen One will unfold.
• Although the Stick Gang did go help the Chosen One, he wasn't even aware that they came with him until the Second Coming blocked the Chosen One from the ViraBots.

The Dark Lord managed to create multiple ViraBots and send them out while The Chosen One was busy fighting the currently-launched ViraBot

Version 1: Before the events of the shorts, The Dark Lord already created multiple ViraBots, explaining why there were a few of them on that blueprint. While The Chosen One went after the already-launched ViraBot, The Dark Lord recovered and send out the remaining ViraBots. "The Showdown" will focus on TCO beating the shit out of TDL while TSC and his friends try to find a way to stop the ViraBots.

• Partially confirmed: The Dark Lord made an army of ViraBots but didn't send any of them out.
• TSC and his friends didn't focus on the ViraBots until the very end when a superpowered TSC killed them, only because they were a threat to the Internet and TSC himself.

Version 2: The ViraBot that was launched by The Dark Lord was supposed to create another more ViraBots. This explains why on the blueprint, its connected to the remaining ViraBots... except one in India. The Dark Lord was thinking about the option of The Chosen One turning against him or some other entity killing the ViraBot, so he prepared himself for that and made a ViraBot completely independent from the one he send out to Alan. While TCO went out to destroy the ViraBot, TDL recovered and send out his backup ViraBot. "The Showdown" will focus on TSC and friends coming after the ViraBot while TDL and TCO have a showdown.

• OP here, two ViraBots were independent from the destroyed one, now that I look on the blueprint. You can just make the excuse that The Dark Lord made two backup ViraBots.
• Jossed.

The ViraBot swarm in "The Showdown" wasn't considered ready for launch at the time this took place.

That's why they had such a hard time taking down the Animator compared to the solo ViraBot in "The Virus". However, once they managed to do that and neutralize the Chosen One, the Dark Lord decided they were ready after all, hence why he tries to send them out at the end.

• I think they were so weak is because Alan used the "Animator Combat Tool", which basically made the cursor more powerful, or just made a reflection of the cursor in the... I dunno how to call it, center of the Internet?
  • My guess is that since ViraBots are made to be computer viruses, they are more powerful in the environement they are supposed to infect -that is, a computer. This is why the lone virabot in Alan's computer displayed various powers such as duplicating itself, teleportation via files and massive form made of program parts which the swarm didn't show: they weren't in a place where they could actually use all those powers.

Animator vs. Animation VI

The Boss is Victim.

The mysterious grey stickman leading the organization in “Wanted” resembles one of Alan’s creations. Most likely he would want revenge on the very person who used him for a punching bag and since he didn’t have amazing superpowers like The Chosen One, he had to gather enough manpower and resources to see his plans through. Including hiring mercenaries from other art styles to bring his tormentors down.

• This is strongly implied to be the case. In his room you can see the Flash eraser and paintbrush hung up on the wall like a sword and shield, other flash tools in frames, a bunch of keyframes and a Windows XP PC. All of which are clear references to the first Animator vs Animation.
• If you look even closer during the boss' reveal, you'll see that his hollow head is actually animated frame-by-frame, something that Victim shares with in the first Animator vs Animation.
  • The Chosen One's head was also animated that way back then. Art Evolution of course changed that for modern appearances of the character, but it does demonstrate that this alone makes for shaky evidence; after all, if the Chosen One and Dark Lord can be animated in the modern style despite predating it, why can't Victim? On top of that, the Boss is apparently a dark gray while Victim was the same shade of black as the Chosen One. This doesn't prove that the Boss is not Victim, in fact there's plenty of surrounding scenery to suggest he very probably is, but the character's appearance is just different enough that he may be someone else entirely.
• Officially confirmed as of the second episode. His file is clearly listed as "victim".

If the above is true, Victim is trying to unlock the same power as his successors.

Victim is a clear outlier in terms of power level compared to other Alan-drawn Stick Figures. The Chosen One has flaming hands he can use as rockets to fly, laser eyes, ice powers, and the ability to summon thunderstorms; The Dark Lord is a few steps down, but still has super strength, fireballs, the same flaming hands that double as rockets, and possibly Super-Toughness if he survived the Second Coming's onslaught (Alan did say he was still deciding on that); The Second Coming takes a bit more rigamarole to unlock his powers, but once he does, he's shown to have regeneration, flight (without needing rocket hands like the other two), teleportation, telekinesis, and the same laser eyes as the Chosen One but much more powerful.

Compared to all of that, Victim is a Badass Normal at best; everything he did to try to fight back was improvising with various tools from the flash interface rather than any powers of his own. Since we know the Chosen One and the Dark Lord caused chaos throughout the internet for several years before the ViraBot fiasco, if Victim really was out there this whole time, then he's undoubtedly heard of them; so similar in appearance in origin to him, yet so different in terms of abilities. He could be interested in the Chosen One because he wants to study his powers and figure out how to obtain them himself.

The Mercenaries were all victims of the Chosen One and the Dark Lord rampaging through the internet years ago.

Their Non-Standard Character Designs indicate that they are not natives of the Stick World; one of them is confirmed to be from the old "Stickman vs Door" video. Since we saw several examples of characters, many of them various kinds of stick figures, being terrified of the Chosen One's and the Dark Lord's onslaught, their native games/videos/pages/whatever could have been targets at some point. So when Victim put out the bounty on the Chosen One's head, they took the job not just for any payout, but to get revenge on the Chosen One for the suffering he caused them.

The mercenaries, their boss, and the organization itself are the good guys.

They seem like the type of folks who are dedicated in fighting and containing chaos to protect the public given the destructive nature and history of The Chosen One with wanted posters throughout the stick figure city. The wanted posters allow the residents to contact and report to the organization about The Chosen One by featuring the logo of the organization. They'll appear as the antagonist but not necessarily villains and they'll work together with our heroes against a common destructive enemy.

• Pretty much Jossed, at least for Victim: He only captured the Chosen One for his personal revenge plans against Alan, and not because TCO is a criminal.

Assuming the boss is Victim, he survived literally because the original Animator vs. Animation video exists on Newgrounds.

It’s unlikely to have been the YouTube video, as those don’t generally seem to come to life the way Flash animations and video games apparently do in this universe, and we know Newgrounds exists in the universe of this series. Therefore, the original Victim was indeed killed, but some version of him survived because Alan uploaded an animation showing the whole world what happened to him as a Flash video file.

This may also suggest the possibility that there is a second Dark Lord and at least three Chosen Ones counting the one that we know from V. The fates of the other iterations, if they exist, would be unknown, with the distinct possibility that they simply never chose to escape their Flash videos.

One way or another, Victim believes that the Second Coming is in the same category as him.

When the mercenaries are about to finish off the Second Coming, the leader gets some sort of call from the boss and tells them all to stand down, eventually capturing the Second Coming and bringing him back to base alongside the Chosen One. The implication is that, at some point during the fight, one of them informed the boss of this new complication of a stick figure similar to the Chosen One, but colored orange and with no powers apart from a magic pencil. In response, Victim told them to bring this new stick figure back too. This could have one of two explanations, depending on whether or not Victim knows anything about the Second Coming and his latent powers.

1. If Victim doesn't know about that, then he might believe that the Second Coming is just as powerless as he is, and might be planning to offer the Second Coming powers of his own if he helps him crack the secret behind the Chosen One's powers.

2. If Victim does somehow know about that, then he might suspect that he has his own latent powers similar to the Second Coming, and wants to study the latter's abilities to try to determine what it will take to unlock his own. (Though this would raise the question as to why the Second Coming wasn't the first target, instead of just a lucky bonus.)

The Boss is not Victim, but someone else’s escaped stick figure.

There’s no way around the fact that the Boss is dark gray rather than black like Alan’s first two stick characters, but unless Victim took a paint bucket to himself and changed his color slightly or lighting is affecting him differently from other sticks for some reason, the Boss came from someone else’s Flash or Animate program entirely and has no connection to Alan at all – or if he does, it's through someone Alan had interacted with in a previous entry, and thus no direct connection. Surely, Alan is far from the only person in the world to draw stick figures that way. He might even also be named “victim”, given how names have worked in the original trilogy.

• Jossed. This victim has a clear vendetta against Alan Becker in particular, making it very unlikely he was drawn by anyone else.

The Fighting Stick Figures' skills in Animator vs. Animation VI will be a lot similar to their skills in Minecraft with their Minecraft counterparts absent

Animation vs. Minecraft is by far one of Alan's most prominent series in his channel and we very well know our four favourite stick figures by their Minecraft skills. Since the main video series doesn't focus on video games, its clear their abilities will be transmitted from Minecraft over to the stick figure world possibly from infiltrating the organization itself to rescue The Second Coming in Animator vs. Animation VI.

• Blue's expertise is gardening and potions so his ability in VI will be established when he and his friends explore the organization's building learning what the organization does, how they study, and how they experiment possibly reminiscent to that of the SCP Foundation as new recruits or spies. His skills would stem from experimenting with multiple potions and many plants as a scientist, maybe even controlling the flora around him.
• Red has mastery over animals and monsters with many of them as their allies. So he'll explore the prison cells to find The Second Coming and The Chosen One only to discover a beast/monster that was captured and experimented on by the organization so he'll befriend it in helping freeing TSC and TCO fighting off many guards and the mercenaries itself similar to how Yellow befriended the Titan Ravager in the fight against King Orange.
• Green is skilled in music and architecture and is the Second Coming's closest friend so his abilities/weapons in VI would be reminiscent to that of "Agent's" toolkit that can animate multiple weapons among many others and he'll obtain it from stealing the organization's weapons room. His musical ability would be from taming the aforementioned monster Red discovered using Green's musical instrument just like how TSC tamed The Warden.
• Yellow is the genius in redstone so he would be the technician and hacker of the group being the one to create all the weapons and gadgets to counter the mercenaries. His capability of using a command block means he'll be the one to find The Second Coming and The Chosen One's cell by hacking into the schematics of the organization's building. Heck, he could be the one to discover the history of the organization by looking through their computer files.

The Boss is one of Victim's clones

Maybe one of the clones escaped before the Animator clicked the close button on the window, and he's now seeking revenge against the Animator.

• Second half is confirmed at least, as victim basically tries to torture information about Alan out of the Chosen One.

victim survived because the original AvA is on YouTube In-Universe.

vs. YouTube established that the very first video of the series is an in-universe video. At the time, it was just a cute easter egg to pay tribute to how this massive series started; but perhaps that version of victim was able to break out of that video to try taking revenge against the one that made it. Possibly after seeing Green and the Second Coming outside and realizing that a world outside of that video not only exists but is accessable.

By the end of the season, the Second Coming will have more voluntary control over his powers, but they'd still come at a cost.

You can hear the Second Coming thinking "I did that?!" when he sees the Chosen One's memory of him shooting laser beams at the Dark Lord, and the fact that the goons immediately seal up his jail cell likely confirmed in his head that yes that was him.

The episode ends with his friends being knocked out and one of them captured (and the others will likely be captured later if they try to interfere), and it's clear that victim is seeking revenge against Alan who is also the Second Coming's friend. If victim tries to get information about Alan out of the Fighting Stick Figures the same way he did against the Chosen One, he's gonna learn the hard way that threatening his friends is the fastest way to get the Second Coming angry enough at you to unlock that 11th-Hour Superpower.

The difference is that the Second Coming will see it coming this time, and so will have finer control of it and won't forget about it once it's over. Narratively speaking, there'd still have to be some drawback to using them, lest the Second Coming break every subsequent encounter in two. Given his Post-Victory Collapse the first time around, one potential reason to not use them carelessly could be that every usage risks sending him into a Heroic RRoD and deleting himself, with that risk increasing the more often he uses them and how much of them he uses each time. While a heavy enough threat (on par with the Dark Lord's Near-Villain Victory) might be worth that risk, for lesser threats his friends would likely dissuade him from risking his life where another way to end the conflict would be less dangerous.

Victim survived deletion because he was in the trash file

Files usually get relocated to the trash bin before they're permanently deleted, do it makes sense that victim would end up there instead of the infinity of nothingness. In the trash file, he might have had to endure the other sticks have fun and make friends while being stuck in the trash file, unable to get out. This could give him all the more reason to have a vendetta against the Chosen one, the Dark Lord, and all the other sticks. They were able to roam free, while he was not.

• Unlikely, given his deletion wasn't what is usually meant by the term on Windows; he was simply not saved in the first place. Alan didn't keep him in any capacity back in the original short. Not saving any of your work typically doesn't send the file to your recycle bin, because there usually isn't a file to send there. There are exceptions with some applications, but Adobe Flash 17 years ago probably wasn't one of them.

Purple will appear in Animator vs. Animation VI.

Purple is the only stick figure not apart of the main cast to have appeared in more than one series, appearing in League of Legends after his debut in the first season of Animation vs. Minecraft. He's also appeared in a short that was clearly set up for the start of Animator vs. Animation VI, with the Chosen One's wanted poster appearing in the background. And since the shorts have shown that he and the rest of the cast are on good terms, it wouldn't be unheard of him trying to help them.

As for what his role will be, he might help the group hide in the stick figure world, since he clearly lives there and would be able to make a safe space for them while they recuperate, maybe even trying to help them get back to Alan.

• Probably with former-King Orange.

At least one of the Mercenaries is more than he lets on.

Let's be honest: In a Big Bad Duumvirate of five villains, it would be lame if only one, Victim, was unique and the remaining four all had the same "for the money"/"TCO destroyed my home" excuse. Additionally, it would be thematically fitting that the guy named Victim ends up, well, a victim of someone else, the same way TCO ultimately turned good and TDL ultimately became Beyond Redemption. Logically, it would make the most sense for Agent to be that "special" mercenary, but it could easily be any of them.

Agent is The Man in Front of the Man.

Going off the above, Agent is the most likely choice: He's been given the most focus out of anyone, appearing on even more thumbnails then Victim himself and the other mercenaries, is the most "special" of the four mercs, and has the same toolbar Victim's workers have, implying he's more than just a hired gun.

Additionally, Agent might have been the one to bring back Victim, assuming he really died and had to be resurrected and didn't just trick Alan into believing he's gone. It would certainly explain why Victim trusts Agent with protecting him inside the Box. That said, Agent's many parallels to Alan might be a foreshadowing that, just like Alan, he ultimately sees Victim like dirt; and when time will come, he'll kill him and move on with his plans as the true Big Bad of VI.

Animation vs. Math

Animation vs. Math' ' takes place during the events of Animator vs. Animation IV''

One thing no one ever considers is how drawn stick figures function very well both physically and mentally because when they're created they immediately have knowledge of certain things like basic communication, art, and writing. So what if the math world doesn't exist within the world of Animator vs. Animation but within TSC's mind when he was being drawn as part of his development?

TSC doing math could actually be him learning math, TSC fighting Euler's Identity is his first moment of fighting, and the portal at the ending could be entering a new dimension of learning such as art and macgyvering or him coming to life into Alan Becker's computer. In other words, Animation vs. Math could be TSC's origin story.

All four of Alan's stick figures originated in this math universe.

As mentioned on the Fridge Brilliance page, the Second Coming represents math meeting visuals in the form of frames per second, but why would this be unique to the Second Coming? Would the same logic not apply to other stick figures? Perhaps this world is where most human-made stick figures begin their existence, before their creators make them into a Symbol (which is the point where Alan's first three stick figures came to life).

The Second Coming's predecessors were pretty much violent on sight, so if they also spawned here, they probably immediately tried throwing hands with Euler's Identity as soon as he started moving, explaining why he's immediately fearful and hostile towards the Second Coming. In addition, the Second Coming was the only one of Alan's stick figures that wasn't made a Symbol; perhaps that dimensional portal or whatever Euler's Identity did with that sum was what allowed the Second Coming to bypass that step, while the others just vanished as soon as Alan clicked "OK".

Characters

Purple

Purple (the mysterious stick figure seen at the end of "The Nether") is related to the Endermen.

Purple is their colour, and the Endermen haven't really been touched on in the series so far. Purple (the stick figure) comes from The End, and has a task for The Second Coming and his crew: defeating the Enderdragon.

• At the end of "Villagers", he sends Blue and Green through an End Portal, so there might be something to this theory.
• Partially confirmed: While no connection is made between Purple and the Endermen (though he is aware of how to avoid provoking them), he enlists Blue and Green's help in fighting the Ender Dragon. However, all he wants is the Dragon Egg, and when he gets it without actually killing the Ender Dragon, it ends badly for him.
• Jossed. Purple has no connection to the End or the Endermen. Everything he did, including going after the Ender Dragon egg, was to find and prove himself to his father who left him and his now deceased mother.

Purple is actually very lonely.

Purple could be like the Second Coming (Orange), a stick figure gaining sentience and getting peace with his creator, but he didn't meet other stick figures like the Second Coming. This causes him to become very lonely and caused him to create a village with Minecraft. The reason he was afraid of Blue and Green was that he is afraid that they are going to take the last kind of companionship from him and that they are going to ignore him since they didn't need him anymore.

• Possibly Jossed, otherwise he might not have been so willing to abandon his new friends in favor of the dragon egg.
  • Ultimately confirmed, Purple's motive was just to find someone that will be proud of him; especially his father.

Purple spawned the Wither to bail out the others at the tail end of "Cave Spider Roller Coaster."

Wanting to make amends for the events of "The End" and vs. League of Legends, but not wanting his assistance to be attributed to him, he spawned the Wither and sent it through the last portal he heard the others went through. He seems to spend a lot of time in the Nether, so it's not inconceivable that he'd have the Wither Skulls to do this. Also note that the Wither completely ignores the Second Coming and his friends.

• This is rather unlikely considering the fact vs. League of Legends happened after "Cave Spider Roller Coaster" which also shows that the other were stuck in other Minecraft worlds until that episode.

Purple's origin will be revealed in an AvA short

His origin will be:

• Created by the same animator like the others, but forgotten due to him not liking the apple computer.
• One of the many stick figures left homeless by the Chosen One's and the Dark Lord's rampage.
• Created by a different animator who knows of the other animator.
• A fifth fighting stick figure who was supposed to be on the same site as the four other ones, but was scrapped for one reason or another.

All of these have been Jossed with the release of "Note Block Universe" - an AvM episode - which revealed Purple's origin and backstory.

Purple isn't purple.

In the Animator vs. Animation Card Game, one of the characters is "Purple?", a black stick figure painting himself purple. This was actually showing Purple's origin: A black stick figure that for whatever reason painted itself purple. His origins will be the central point of Season 2 of the AvA Shorts, also known as Animator vs. Animation VI.

• Jossed. AvM Shorts Episode 29 shows that he was born purple to a blue and pink stickman (stickbeing?) couple.
• Additionally, I couldn't find any evidence of such a card being part of the card game. You sure that wasn't a hoax?

Purple is victim.

Practically the same thing as above, but Purple is made more important: He's the original stick figure, victim. Just so it will be cooler and more dramatic, with Alan meeting his first creation.

• How does painting himself changes his shape?
  • He could just paint his face purple. The paintbrush he uses in the card game seems to be from Paint (or at least a program similiar to it), so he could just use that one option to make his face purple.
    • The problem isn't the fact that Purple has a filled head while Victim does not, Alan drawn Stick Figures generally have different looking limbs than other stick figures and they don't have the same height and Alan's stick figures does not have perfectly round head which are also bigger than other stick figures.
• Jossed. AvM Shorts Episode 29 shows that he was born purple and with a filled in head.
  • Additionally, Victim would later return as very clearly his own being, and the "Purple?" card is likely a hoax.

Purple is responsible for the army of Nether Portals at the end of "The End".

He already goes to the Nether quite often and the portal he goes through at the end of "The Nether" is next to the army of portals, so he might have created them.

Purple was created by Alan a long time ago.

The color purple is associated with Alan a lot, especially in another gaming channel he has with his friend DJ. What if Alan made Purple long ago (around the time of I and II back when he was kind of sadistic towards his stick figures) as a character to project on? It could explain Purple's loneliness and willingness to betray the FSF in the AvM Shorts. The reason Purple's head is different could be that they were created in a website like the FSF instead of animated or hand-drawn like Victim, TCO, TDL, and TSC.

• Jossed

Purple will be Killed Off for Real by King Orange.

To cement King Orange's status as a Knight of Cerebus (even the Dark Lord couldn't kill off someone for real) and because Purple can't keep going through the Heel–Face Revolving Door forever - The Stick Gang is full of nice guys, but they aren't stupid - They will ultimately realise he's way too willing to betray them to be trusted, and will leave him behind, especially that now, he seems at his absolute worst. And given that Alan isn't the biggest fan of not revealing what happens to characters, he has to come up with an ending to Purple's story, and Alan has been also shown willing to kill off stick figures if he has to (victim is still dead, TCO and TDL were both dead until the Shorts, and while the latter's state isn't confirmed, him being dead is not off the table).

• Jossed. Purple does briefly die, but he gets resurrected and becomes a Family of Choice with King Orange.

Purple and the other stickfigures will have an Enemy Mine against King Orange.

We have seen King Orange's mistreatment towards Purple in "The Ultimate Weapon". A Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal will play out once.

• Confirmed. Purple makes a Heel–Face Turn at the end of "Note Block Universe" and punches King.

If Purple survives, his next Heel–Face Turn will stick.

When King Orange gets a hold of the Game Icon, it has a black aura. When the Second Coming gets his own, it has a white aura. Odds are there's a Dark Is Evil and Light Is Good motif going on.

When Purple holds the Game Icon, it has a white aura, which by this logic could imply a good heart behind the manipulation.

• The dark aura of Alan's Game Icon is a result of King's staff corrupting it, rather than any symbolism.
• Confirmed as of "Note Block Universe".

Purple saw King as a Parental Substitute.

"Note Block Universe" establishes Purple's Dark and Troubled Past—One parent was abusive^note I know it's implied that the father was the abusive one because they're pretty blatantly colored as such, but since Stick Figure gender is kinda wonky and the colors could just as easily be because Pink+Blue=Purple, I'm using gender neutral terms for both parents until Alan blatantly confirms which was which. The point is the same regardless., and eventually walked out of Purple's life when Purple failed to fight back. The remaining parent, who had tried to protect Purple, eventually passed away. Purple is then seen reaching out to the absent parent, and the subsequent sequence implies that everything he did was to live up to that parent's standards.

There's one shot during this sequence that is particularly interesting—King sitting atop the highest pillar after Purple is knocked to the bottom following the events of "The End", so that when Purple looks up, he's looking at King the same amount as he's looking at the giant visage of the absent parent. Given what we know about King (which admittedly isn't much but none of it is good), it would not be out of the question for him to approach Purple and offer a caring hand (undoubtedly a fake one but Purple couldn't have known that at the time) during one of Purple's more vulnerable moments, driving Purple to win his approval the same way he desperately tried to win his parent's; only to be crushed and blindsided when King turned his back on him the same way, rendering every horrible thing he did for naught.

• Likely confirmed as of "The King", as there aren't any other reasons why Purple would be so quick to accept King as his new father.

Dark Blue came from a Stick Figures Fight website (different from the one the Fighting Stick Figures we know and love came from), video, or game; Pink did not.

This would explain why Dark Blue put so much emphasis on fighting and being strong, why Pink disagreed with this philosophy so strongly, and why Purple (who from this logic would only be half-fighter) couldn't keep up with the former's standards.

Purple is seeking to enact revenge on Dark Blue.

It seems that Purple perceives a power imbalance between himself and Dark Blue, exemplified by the heights the former has to scale to reach the latter, who meanwhile looms over Purple’s pitiful progress. Rather than wanting to prove himself by reaching Dark Blue’s standards, Purple might instead wish to confront and defeat Dark Blue (maybe proving how he’s “grown” during Dark Blue’s absence?). From this, Purple’s attempts to climb and subsequent setbacks can be interpreted as him grasping for power (to possibly use against Dark Blue).

• While Purple and Dark Blue start on level ground (in the black space land thing), Dark Blue easily rises to show a (perceived) divide in power between the two. To meet Dark Blue, Purple must climb and gain power.
• Although we still don’t know how Purple comes to rule over the villages on the Mac, he very easily climbs on them albeit not gaining much height, showing how little power his kingship holds.
• Purple’s next climb has him use Blue and Green (presented as somewhat powerful as they’ve already ascended some) to obtain the dragon egg. However, Dark Blue remains a massive and untouchable figure in the face of Purple’s achievement, showing his eventual failure (in having to return the egg). Purple also loses his crown, illustrating his further loss of what power he did have. (Pure speculation: If Purple was able to keep the egg, he would raise and train the dragon and thus be more powerful.)
• After being grounded, Purple is at first outpaced by TSC and the FSF, climbing to power towards Dark Blue, before seeing King already standing at the top, who offers power in Purple’s climb. Purple then uses the FSF and TSC to ascend, notably stealing the Game Icon from Red (presented as being more powerful from the events in AvM) only to be held down by Green. Hanging on the edge with the Game Icon, Purple is now similarly sized to King and Dark Blue which bridges the gap between their power (along with placing Dark Blue in a reachable position). Unfortunately, it ends with Purple tumbling back down as King takes what power he offered back.

Heavy unlikely, as the commentary during the reaction video leans more into Purple wanting to impress Dark Blue.

If Purple was still aiming to prove to Dark Blue how strong he'd gotten, it wouldn't have worked.

• The village he ruled over looks like a normal village with small tweaks apart from the palace, implying he took something pre-existing and just claimed it as his own rather than building it from the ground up.
• He only got the Dragon Egg with Green and Blue's help.
• On his own he couldn't even beat a round of League of Legends. (Not that that's easy, but Dark Blue would likely hold that against Purple.)
• He was relying on King to get the power of the Game Icon.

Dark Blue would have still looked down on him for being dependent on others to accomplish anything and not being strong enough to do anything on his own. This emphasis on independence would also add another layer to why Dark Blue took issue with Pink nurturing and supporting Purple—by Dark Blue's standards, Purple shouldn't have needed any support.

King's son became Purple.

• Save Files and Worlds in most single-player games that are "Deleted" aren't actually completely deleted. These worlds are actually "Unoccupied" and the data that makes up those save files cannot actually be recovered by the one that originally made them. The World still exists inside of the internet cloud, but it cannot be normally re-accessed again. Since King's son was a stick figure instead of an in-game mob of Minecraft; he wasn't essentially erased, but rather Trapped in Another World and could have possibly found a way out of the file and back into the internet again if given the time and resources to accomplish it. However, the process of doing so along with the psychological trauma Gold would have faced could have given him Laser-Guided Amnesia to make him think that his father had left him, on top of changing his physical color into purple.
• Jossed; Alan explicitly said "[King's son] is dead" during the reaction video for Ep 30. Purple is his own person.

The initial confrontation between Green and Purple was already enough to give Purple second thoughts.

In the Season 3 In Real Time video, Purple is shown circling the tower Green is trapped in for quite a while before finally heading out to find the Game Icon. While the AvG reaction gives the Hand Wave that Purple was just lost as to why it took him so long to get to Alan's Desktop, it still takes him a while before he finally asks the Piglins for directions. Plus he's shown with a lodestone compass, presumably pointing towards that portal, which should have solved the problem on its own.

When Green ambushes Purple in "Parkour", it's clear that Green isn't convinced that Purple is completely bad; his body language is more "Et Tu, Brute?" than full blown anger, and despite having diamond swords in his inventory, he only uses his fishing rod to try to stop Purple from flying away rather than try to seriously harm him. While this exchange lacks audible dialog (and the pictograms used in "Lush Caves" and "Titan Ravager"), any implied "Why did you do this? I thought we were friends!" could have been enough to make Purple pause. King Orange's intervention gets Purple back on task, but he's still left with a crisis of conscience to work through before he can continue his mission. Were it not for that intervention, it's possible Green could have talked Purple into a Heel–Face Turn right there.

The Second Coming's Doppelganger

(All of these were jossed. It was a witch.)

The Second Coming's Doppelganger is Herobrine.

Based on the theory that Herobrine is alive (explained in the "Other" folder). He used the Second Coming's "skin".

• Jossed.

The Second Coming's Doppelganger is The Dark Lord.

Based on the "The Dark Lord is still alive" theory: They look the same but one is red, and one is orange. If the "Purple?" card from the card game holds up, then he could have just painted himself orange.

• Jossed.

The Second Coming's Doppelganger is an illusion created by an Illusioner.

If it is a Minecraft mob, the Illusioner seems the most plausible.

• Jossed, but you were close: It's instead a Witch.

The Second Coming's Doppelganger is Purple.

He wants to take over the Village yet again. He painted himself to look like TSC to gain the villagers' trust. Assuming the "Purple isn't purple" theory holds up, he already did that once before.

• How does painting himself changes his shape?
  • To be fair, it's only his head, and it was explained in the "Purple is victim" theory in Purple's tab.
• Jossed.

The Second Coming's Doppelganger is one of his other keyframes.

At the start of AVA IV, the Animator is shown making a stick figure animation using who would become the Second Coming - but he uses onion skinning to keep track of the animation via keyframes. He turns onion skinning off before the Second Coming shows signs of movement, but who's to say the orange stick figures on the other keyframes (3 total) didn't gain sentience like the one we've followed through IV and the AVM shorts?

• Jossed.

King Orange

King Orange is Herobrine.

Why else would he show Purple the events of Animation vs. Minecraft? He wants to regain his previous form and powers.

• Jossed. They're seperate entities and their first interaction is to fight.

King Orange's goal is to Take Over the World.

And getting the Game Icon is a way to achieve this.

• Jossed. His goal was to destroy Minecraft for taking his son from him.

King Orange is a Omnicidal Maniac.

Originally, King Orange was supposed to be light purple. However, that was dropped to avoid making any Thanos jokes. And while having the same color should create Thanos jokes (this is the Internet, after all), just this one small detail that they both share shouldn't create so many of them that Alan purposefully tried to avoid it. However, a mix of light purple and Omnicidal Maniac? The Internet would go wild. Alan was aware of this, and thus purposefully changed the color of his new character to make sure this won't happen.

• Heavily likely as of "The Ultimate Weapon".
• Confirmed by "The King".

The next AvM Shorts episode will explain more about King's origins.

On Twitter, Alan announced that he will use one of his fan's desktop screens for a future episode. The Animator's desktop won't change and Purple's computer has been shown already, so unless Alan decided to pull a random computer uninhabited by one of the stick figures, it only makes sense that King Orange will come from this computer.

• Half-jossed so far. The whole desktop thing was part of encountering a Minecraft gamer.
• Partially confirmed, as there is an episode about King's origins, but it has nothing to do with any PC.

King Orange is gonna be around for much longer than Season 3, possibly appearing outside of the AvM Shorts.

Because Alan never leaves stick figures as one-time things in the franchise (except Victim, but even then he made a cameo in vs. YouTube and returned as the Arc Villain of VI). Even Purple ultimately managed to escape the AvM Shorts and appear in vs. League of Legends.

• Confirmed! King appears in Ice Skating, though that is a short not even a minute long rather than a full-fledged episode.

King Orange wants to revive Herobrine.

The other reason as to why he's shown Purple the events of vs. Minecraft.

• Jossed. His goal was to destroy Minecraft for taking his son from him.

Orange has Fantastic Racism towards anything that isn't a fellow stick figure.

Note that Purple is his Morality Pet while he only wants to imprison the Stick Gang, while he doesn't care at all and is willing to kill anyone else.

• Jossed, he's willing to go after stick figures too.
• That said, he probably has Fantastic Racism towards Minecraft mobs given his personal beef with the game.

King Orange is Purple's father.

King Orange appears heavily alongside Purple's father when Purple sings about him. The two seem to be almost always associated with each other during the song. It would make sense if, rather than King Orange being a stand-in, he himself is Purple's father after acquiring some unknown power, possibly the command block, which transformed him. It would further explain why Purple is so loyal to him, he wants to impress his father and rule alongside him.

• Jossed, but he does end up as a father figure to Purple, something the latter wanted.

King Orange was trapped in, and wants out of the Nether

In the AvA setting, nether portals seem to have been turned into inter-desktop portals. Combine this with the fact that he needs another computer's Game Icon. In all likelihood, King Orange has been trapped in his Nether and wants out, hence his focus on blowing the roof off of it.

• Jossed. He simply has his headquarters there.
• King Orange has been shown leaving the Nether as early as "Titan Ravager", his second ever appearance, so this theory never had legs to stand on anyway.

King Orange initially wanted to find a way to bring his son back, but years of guilt and grief slowly twisted his mind, and consequently his motivations.

• Jossed, kind of. His plan was to destroy Minecraft in revenge for a simulation game gone wrong which took his son from him.

Miscellanous

Future Videos

There will be an Animation vs. Undertale.

Alan teased the possibility on one of his community posts on YouTube.

If Alan does a #TeamSeas Plug video, Red will be in the spotlight.

Blue being the star of the #TeamTrees plug made sense because he was the plant lover of the group. No stick in particular has an affinity for water, but the biggest issue with trash in the ocean is the effect is has on aquatic fauna; Animals are Red's turf, so he'd probably be the one to care the most about this.

• Jossed; Blue is once again the one who can use dollars to do magic, in this case make trash vanish.

There will eventually be a video called "Animator vs. Animator''.

The premise of the video will be that Alan enters a drawing contest. As the contest goes on, he and his opponent/opponents get on each other's nerves. This is eventually goes out onto a large fight scene on the computer. Alan would be helped out by the stick figures, while his opponent will have a helper of their own in some way or form.

There is gonna be an Animation vs. Chess episode in the future.

• The stick figures are going inside a chess videogame and fight the pieces.

Unsorted

The Animator wanted the Second Coming to enter his game and have fun in "Animation vs Pokemon"

Unless you're a Let's Player, you likely don't have a USB charging cable for your portable system of choice, as they usually come with cables that only connect to a wall outlet(the Switch notwithstanding, but the system used here is a DS Lite). The Animator also learned in AvA IV that stick figures are perfectly capable of travelling to other devices from the computer via USB. There's no way he didn't see this as a possibility, so either this was intended, or he grabbed on to the Idiot Ball for a second.

The Second Coming... isn't.

In AvA IV and to a lesser extent in vs. YouTube, we were led to believe Orange was literally a reincarnation of the Chosen One we saw in II and III. That all changes when the original Chosen One returns in the AvA Shorts. There may indeed be some part of Orange that is the Chosen One... but if the Chosen One is still alive, then what does that make Orange?

• Jossed so, so very hard. "The Showdown" reveals he has all the Chosen One's powers and then some, he just needed a Traumatic Superpower Awakening to be able to tap into them.
  • OP here: I'm not so sure it's Jossed. For all intents and purposes, Orange has always been the new Chosen One since he was introduced, but if the original is still alive, that seems to be mutually exclusive with any notion of reincarnation, which is... kind of what a "second coming" is all about, latent superpowers or not. So again, if the original Chosen One is still alive, what does that make Orange? It could be an issue with semantics, perhaps, but nonetheless...
  • "The Showdown" does not joss anything because the Second Coming does not have the Chosen One's powers despite what people say.

The Second Coming isn't supposed to be a reincarnation of the Chosen One, but was supposed to foreshow the Chosen One's return and redemption.

The Second Coming is "The Chosen One's Return", yet it's proven that the Chosen One is alive. Then, look at this - The Second Coming becomes friends with the Animator, and it implies that the Chosen One will return. The Chosen One protects the Animator, making peace with him or outright becoming friends. All during his Second Coming.

• Half-confirmed, half-jossed? The Chosen One does return, but only to protect Alan's PC from ViraBot. Once ViraBot is defeated, he leaves with no further fanfare; though he and Alan exchange a respectful nod before he does, indicating that they've forgiven each other. However, the Second Coming does live up to being "The Chosen One's Return" in "The Showdown", as he taps into the same powers the Chosen One has.
  • The Second Coming does not have the Chosen One's powers despite what people say.

The Animator will eventually download an emulator and a Pokémon Heart Gold ROM for the Second Coming to use.

In order to play the game himself, he'll have to reset the Second Coming's progress. Even if he doesn't care about anyone else in the game, he knows full well that deleting anyone the Second Coming cares about will not end well for him. To alleviate this issue, he'll get a ROM of the game and allow the Second Coming to backup his progress, Pokémon friends and all, to his computer. The denizens of the game might take issue with this with that "Anti-Piracy Mode", but if the alternative is Cessation of Existence, they won't be able to argue very much. Some might even follow suit.

The Animator isn't the only one drawing stick figures that come to life.

On two separate occasions, AvA II and AvA III, the Animator talks to others about what happened with his stick figures, and they respond with zero disbelief. Plus, a side-ad in AvA III, implies that stick figures being enslaved isn't uncommon. The strong implication is that living stick figure animations are a known phenomenon.

This would explain where Purple came from if he wasn't drawn by the Animator, on top of the fact that it's never stated that he created the "SticksFight" website (in universe, anyway).

• The site in III practically confirms this to be the case.

Animation vs. YouTube isn't canon.

I mean, the Minecraft logo appears on the taskbar, where it's made clear in every other entry that it isn't there. Also, it implies Alan recorded the first Animator vs. Animation.

• It could just be Out of Order, canonically taking place before Animation vs. Minecraft. As for why Animator vs. Animation is a Youtube video in-universe: We see the Creator animating a stick figure in the beginning of AvA IV, so he could be making stick figure videos in-universe as well and decided to commit his antics with Victim to digital paper. (In fact, this could be why he decided to try his luck with The Chosen One: that video did so well he decided to make another stick figure to butt heads with to make another video out of, only to overshoot.)
  • That would be impossible because it said 2015 at the bottom of AvM and 2017 at the bottom of AvY, unless the Animator has a problem with his computer's date.
• Also, by that logic, "The Showdown" isn't canon because its own video appears within itself.
  • This was before "The Showdown" came out.

The Dark Lord is still alive.

The laser eyes dragged him to a mountain, which exploded, which means he's dead, right? Well, look at the video closely. The laser eyes hit the mountain, but then they go a little bit further. My theory is that the Dark Lord was blased into the distance, and didn't die in the explosion. He will return one day.

• Alan did say that he's still deciding whether or not the Dark Lord is alive.

There will be a White stick figure.

Alan has for a while had a gaming channel with his friend DJ called Animators VS Games where, on thumbnails, they would feature our mascots the Fighting Stick Figures, the Second Coming and Purple. However, there would sometimes be an Orange stick figure, looking just like the FSF and Purple, on them. And wouldn't you know it, "Parkour" introduced a stick figure which looks just like that. All but one of the Undertale thumbnails featured a white stick figure in them. Conclusion? Unless this is a coincidence, we will get White as a character pretty soon, possibly in Animation vs. Undertale.

Superpowers are specific to any stick figure drawn a certain way or originating in a certain program.

The only stick figures we've seen with inherent powers are The Chosen One, The Dark Lord, and The Second Coming. What do all of them have in common that the other stick figures (The Fighting Stick Figures, Purple, and Orange; the latter only has power from their command block staff) lack? Alan drew them all himself in Flash, whereas the others originated from elsewhere in the internet. They also have a different appearance from the others, having large transparent heads vs the others' small solid-colored heads. This could very well be False Cause Fallacy, but that's what connects the Flying Brick characters we've seen so far and separates them from the ones relying on outside power-ups.

• It's most likely related to their names. The Chosen One and The Dark Lord are both powerful names and thus they both have major powers. The Second Coming is an enigma as the Animator didn't name him and he just came into existence from nothing, but seeing as he's stated to be "The Chosen One's Return" and he's called the Second Coming, it might have something to do with him. The FSF are literally just named "StickFigure(Color)", giving them nothing but the basic stick-skills such as intelligence, strength and agility. Purple's clones in vs. LOL are named simply "purpleclone", suggesting that Purple's name is simply that - Purple. Orange is currently an enigma but he's most likely similar to FSF and Purple.

The Second Coming's powers were kept only as an ultimate last resort and do not regenerate.

This would explain why they are never used at any other point. In Animator vs. Animation IV, he just was created and is still learning not only about the world, but also himself. In Animation vs. Minecraft and Animation vs. YouTube, the stakes of the final battles aren't very high or strenuous, and he probably still doesn't know he has these powers. At some offscreen point, he does learn of these powers but keeps them held back.

When ViraBot first attacks, The Second Coming has a variety of skills and weapons to aid him. When he gets trapped, he can't assume the gestures to awaken the powers. The Chosen One holds his own quite well against one ViraBot, so The Second Coming doesn't use them. It is only when his allies are defeated and the ViraBots prepare to invade that he decides enough is enough, pulls the cork, and unleashes these powers at full strength on the army and the Dark Lord. Because they don't regenerate, he can't use them again.

• If his powers doesn't "regenerate" (assuming it's a weird way to say they can only be used once), how could The Second Coming even have learned he had them before he used them in Animator vs. Animation V? How can you possibily learn that you have laser eyes if you never shooted lasers from your eyes before?
  • AvA IV confirms TSC is a program and therefore has code. Animation vs. Arcade Games shows that Yellow has knowledge of more complicated mechanics than just Command Blocks and Redstone. It's possible that some hints exist in TSC's code for these powers. It also explains why these powers are not re-used, as modifying a running program has a risk of corrupting or crashing it, which means TSC's powers can't be made infinite by just altering his code (as TSC is always running).

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