NEW Stick Death Maze (abbreviated as NSDM for short) is a small YouTube series created by phantomisle
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The main core of the series (and it's predecessor) revolves on various colored stick figures going through a Death Course, trying to reach an exit alive and/or further the plot. Viewers are able to choose a color they think will reach the end/survive.
The plot revolves around the stick figures trying to stop various villains like Blue - who planned to gather two Power Spheres to revive Light Blue after the latter got into a scuffle with the others. And then later on, Viridian, the bigger bad, who has control of the green power sphere that controls the entire maze.
At this point, the creator has stopped the present timeline to work on other past stories, like .5 mazes and remakes of the past mazes prior to NSDM that go much deeper into the plot than before.
Has spawned a number of similar works, a notable one including Willimation's series, which initially started small.
Choose the trope you think will win...
- Arc Villain: Blue, a somewhat super-powered color, threatens the rest of the colors in order to get the two power spheres needed to revive Light Blue. Whether they succeeded or not is still unknown, as Maroon, another color with two spheres, quickly barges in, mind-controls Blue, Blue-Grey, and scars Fuchsia to do his bidding, and captures the rest of the prisoners into his body. He is quickly dropped to make way for Viridian, who has control of the Green Sphere that allows him to control the entire maze, summon bosses, and even revive a color at some point.
- Art Evolution: The stick-figures started to express and gesture more, starting from NSDM 8 and improving thereafter. They also received a change in their figure base used starting from NSDM 7 and forward. (NSDM mazes that had a .5 in their number were made after NSDM 8, to keep from confusion.)
- Anyone Can Die: There seems to be no central protagonist, as some of the stick-figures that were setup to have a role were often killed.
- Canon Discontinuity: Most of the old Stick Death Mazes are undergoing remakes, but SDM 2, so far, received the heaviest changes. From the better animation, the plot being considered in making it, to outright removing a flying Black with a superhero cape and the boss no longer destroying the entire maze.
- Death Course: Basically the main course of this series. Traps such as spikes, crushers, guns and more are often littered in the way of the stick-figures in line, and often, only one or a few will manage to survive.
- Oddball in the Series: NSDM 6.5 - Part 1 had no characters die, as well as it all being story-based. This caused a drop in the already-small popularity of the series.
- Power Crystal: The Power Spheres are a bunch of spheres that give users powers that it holds.
