"The Showdown" is the 8th episode of the Animator vs. Animation Series, also being the 4th and final episode of Animator vs. Animation Season 2. It showcases an epic showdown fight between The Dark Lord and The Chosen One.

guzzu, the lead action director for the episode, teased the combat scene by providing a short animatic on YouTube on February 11th, 2020. On June 13th of the same year, Becker announced in AVM Shorts Episode 18 that the scheduled release for it is sometime during the summer. It instead released on the 24th of October.

Synopsis

The epic final match between The Chosen One and The Dark Lord.

Plot

After his battle with the ViraBot, The Chosen One flies back to his world, trailed by The Second Coming and company. Exiting the IP barrier, he flies down to a shack near a cliffside, while the Stick Gang fall into the nearby bay. Landing down and opening the door inside, he sees The Dark Lord, having survived his punch from their last fight. Before TDL could react, he is immediately punched and thrown through the wall of the house and knocked back. An unrelenting TCO, angered by his former friend's actions, quickly goes on the offensive and punches him into the cliffside. TDL lands on an outcropping safely and launches a fireball in the direction of TCO, destroying a portion of the cliff. As he flies back to the house, his path is cut off by an immense laser beam and he is promptly struck by another one, both fired by TCO. TCO flies at TDL, kicks him near the water level, and flies upwards, and TDL retaliates with consecutive fireballs, but misses. Both combatants enter the water and TCO flies forward, punching his opponent out of the water and into a side of the cliff. As a stunned TDL watches, TCO hovers menacingly over the water before charging at him.

Elsewhere, the Stick Gang manages to climb out of the water and arrives near TDL's shack. Hearing a splash of water, they poke their heads over the cliff to see TCO and TDL fight. After a few seconds, they walk over to TDL's shack, with Red slamming open the door. Inside, while Yellow and Blue look down and see more inactive ViraBots, Red and Green look at a computer on a desk and see the portals on-screen are activated and linked to an unknown location. Red sees a black and red wristband and plays around with it. A slip leads him to accidentally pressing a button and opening the hatch doors. Meanwhile, TCO manages to grab TDL and attempts to laser him, but TDL pushes TCO's upwards, causing the beam to harmlessly fire into the sky. Unaware of the open portals, their fight carries them in. They arrive in a YouTube video of The Showdown, with both fighters pausing and unpausing the video at certain moments to injure their adversary.

They then fly out again and land in a Twitter page, where TCO lands on the bottom and TDL kicks him down and through the website. They land at the front page of Reddit, destroying a post and causing another to increase in upvotes. TCO grabs TDL and pushes him into another portal, into the search page of Google. TDL quickly uses the site to his advantage by typing "do a..." and uses the barrel roll easter egg to knock TCO away. They land at a Twitch stream and TDL uses the rapidly updating chat to injure TCO, before he is knocked away and lands on the Wikipedia Globe. TCO punches his enemy into the globe, destroying it, and they land in a Discord server. TCO scrolls upwards, causing the profile's pictures to hit and stun TDL, before using his laser vision to knock him back into their world. TDL stops his momentum from the attack and launches a fireball, which hits TCO as he flies out of the portal. Stunned and hurtling, he is grabbed by TDL and punched into the water below.

Satisfied, TDL flies back to his house. Seeing the immensely powerful being flying towards them, the Stick Gang hides in the nick of time. TDL enters and closes the portals. Thinking he is unseen, he attaches the band Red was playing with to his wrist, causing his eyes to glow and a black and red beam of energy to shoot into the sky, momentarily darkening the world. TCO recovers but sees the beam and grows uncertain. TDL, now more powerful, flies towards his opponent, eager to end the fight. TCO tries to attack but is knocked back by a flurry of kicks and punches. He attempts to use his laser, but the beam is now ineffective against TDL, who promptly knocks his head back and throws him away. TCO lands safely but is met by huge red spines, similar to the ViraBot's. He gets impaled by one but is otherwise unaffected and rips it out, using it to knock back the other spines flying towards him. TDL knocks TCO out of the water and then strikes him with multiple spines in the chest, before punching him back into the water and diving down to continue his assault. Inside the house, The Second Coming, Red, Blue and Green are panicking, seeing their savior overwhelmed by the new threat.

Yellow takes charge of the situation and hacks into TDL's system. The Second Coming notices the cursor and thinks of a plan involving noogai. noogai, cleaning up his computer after TDL's battle, suddenly sees an urgent message pleading for help. He thinks nothing of it and continues to clean up when another pops up, this time with an image of TCO. He then gets a User Control Account message from Yellow, originating from "The Dark Lord's console", mentioning TCO's need for assistance. After clicking "Yes", a program called Animator Combat Tool opens up, and with Yellow's assistance and knowledge, the portals in the cliffside open and create a giant cursor, mapping noogai's cursor's movements onto it. Seeing the cursor move, The Second Coming congratulates Yellow for his quick thinking.

TDL, having knocked TCO into the water again, turns around and is shocked by the appearance of the cursor. Before he can react, he is grabbed and shoved into the cliffside. TCO enters the fray and he and noogai attack TDL. Pinning him against the cursor and trying to burn him alive, TDL grabs his opponent and activates a corrosive blade, thrusting it into his chest. TCO falls into the water and TDL attempts to kill him but is intervened by the cursor blocking his path. He is pulled upwards by the cursor, which disappears when it exits the Animator Combat Tool window. noogai right clicks and a Windows menu knocks TDL into the water, before he flies back up and stabs the mouse cursor. TCO flies up to help and the battle becomes a mess of flying rocks, lasers, blades, and corrosive orbs. TDL, angered at loss of the upper hand, clones his wristband onto his other hand and summons his army of ViraBots to help him. The swarm overwhelms the cursor, which is unable to react to the ViraBots. TCO tries to burn them and knock them away but is grabbed by TDL and violently thrown into the cliffside. TDL then stabs his corrosive blade into the cursor, which splits into four blades on the other side, and he and his ViraBots delete the cursor and crash the program, removing the cursor from the fight. With the cursor gone, TSC's friends panic, when they see him running out to help TCO. TDL shifts his focus to TCO, pinning him down. Just as TDL is about to charge in for an attack, TSC gets between them and tries to stop the fight. TDL, surprised, tells his ViraBots to move and ignites his left blade, seemingly with the intent to finish TSC himself, when the he is interrupted by the arrival of the Fighting Stick Figures.

Red tries to attack but stunned by TDL's immense speed, knocked to the ground and impaled. He weakly tries to get up but dissolves into nothing. Angered, his friends try to avenge him but are completely outmatched by TDL. One by one, Green, Blue and Yellow are killed, TSC knocked down and TCO rendered helpless by the swarm of ViraBots. TSC sees the dire situation but is suddenly stabbed from the back by TDL, seen but unable to be helped by TCO. TSC falls to his knees but isn't dissolving. Confused, TDL raises his blade into the air to speed up the process quicker. TSC still does not dissolve, and he hits TDL's face with his arm. Angered and impatient, TDL slams him into the ground and stabs him again but is stunned by him surviving and weakly trying to hit him again. Now extremely aggravated, TDL throws him into the sky, rapidly slashing and slicing him up, before slamming him into the cliff and impaling him one last time. Satisfied, TDL flies up and surveys the outcome of the battle: TSC's beaten, unmoving body, the extreme damage to the landscape, and TCO's helplessness. TDL opens the portals to the internet sites and orders the ViraBots to leave TCO and enter them. TCO is unable to intervene.

As the ViraBots pass by TSC's body, his wounds are healed and he disappears. The ViraBots nearly make it to the portals but are suddenly destroyed. TDL sees this and senses TSC appear behind him, but is too shocked to react or even turn around. He is thus punched down to the water and caught above the surface, before being punched a significant distance away. TDL manages to gather himself and summons the rest of the swarm to attack back, but TSC destroys them without even moving. TDL then punches TSC into the cliffside before making an attempt to escape. TSC quickly recovers, and telekinetically hurls a boulder across the lake at TDL. TSC then flies at TDL, kicking and punching him rapidly. TDL then sees a bright green light shine from the eyes of his opponent but is too weak to intervene. He can only watch as TSC ignites his eyes and blasts him with a beam of laser and electricity, before being dragged across the landscape. TSC increases the intensity before splitting a hill, engulfing the entire area in a massive explosion and defeating TDL. With the threat now gone, TSC flies down to the computer and using his newfound power to revive the Fighting Stick Figures and the cursor, before collapsing in exhaustion. The cursor gently takes his body to the Fighting Stick Figures. TSC wakes up and is surprised by his friends still being alive. He then rubs the tears in his eyes before being enveloped in a group hug. TCO, similarly to how the Stick Gang reacted to his powers, is stunned by what he just witnessed and bows down to TSC. Unaware of what he did, TSC shrugs at his friends and TCO looks up in astonishment. The cursor then arrives to take them back home, and they hop on and wave goodbye to TCO.

Characters

Protagonists

• Alan Becker

• The Chosen One

• Stick Gang

  • The Second Coming

  • Fighting Stick Figures

    • Red

    • Yellow

    • Blue

    • Green

Antagonists

• The Dark Lord

• ViraBots

Other Characters

• Cave Spider Queen (on a video thumbnail)

• Insane Pig (on a video thumbnail)

• Ender Dragon (on a video thumbnail)

• The Killer Bunny (on a video thumbnail)

• YouTube (on a video thumbnail)

• Facebook Emoji Group (on a video thumbnail)

• Mario (on a video thumbnail)

• Purple (on a video thumbnail)

• Villagers (on a video thumbnail)

• DJ Welch (cameo, debut)