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| “ | mission.The_Dark_Lord = destroy(The_Chosen_One); | „ |
| ~ The Dark Lord's only purpose before he went rogue. |
| “ | he somehow figured out how to get my stick figure on his side so they teamed up and... destroyed my computer |
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| ~ The Animator to his friend, talking about the Dark Lord's fall to villainy. |
The Dark Lord is the main antagonist of the Animator vs. Animation franchise.
He is a stick figure created by the Animator on October 2nd, 2011, with the intent of destroying the Chosen One, but ended up joining the latter in causing relentless destruction across the Internet. However, the Dark Lord's ruthlessness increased to the point that he created an army of computer viruses to destroy every computer possible, horrifying even the Chosen One and motivating him to stop his younger brother, becoming one of the Stick Gang's strongest and vilest opponents.
Despite his death at the hands of the Second Coming, he would be resurrected by his own creations. Taking notice of Rocket Corp and its leader's plans, the Dark Lord would spy on them before offering a team-up with Victim/H4CK3R in exchange for allegedly bringing back his deceased lover, Mitsi.
He is the evil counterpart, younger brother and former best friend-turned-second archenemy of the Chosen One.
Appearance[]
The Dark Lord is a red stick figure of above-average height with a hollow head. In the climax of "The Showdown", he dons the Wristband of Power: a black wristband with red highlights on his right arm and later transforms one of his blades into a second wristband for his left arm.
After his defeat at the hands of the Second Coming, the liquified Wristband of Power fused with the Dark Lord's broken and mutilated body, becoming an inseparable part of him. Now, whenever he uses his corruptive powers, the tip of his hand gains a darker shade and he starts emitting black goo from the limb. Accordng to the storyboards for "Hacker", the black-and-red liquid is actually the Dark Lord's own blood.
Personality[]
When first created, The Dark Lord was shown to be intelligent, but he was created for one thing and one thing only - Destroy the Chosen One. He somehow instantly got many programs on his side, but it was most likely due to the fact that the programs wanted revenge. He was extremely skilled and powerful in battles. Despite the name, he was created as a somewhat-heroic stick figure, meant to stop a rampaging, evil one that, ironically, had a name that is more common among heroes (although he can only be considered "heroic" due to being the lesser evil in the conflict, as the Animator wasn't a saint either). However, after seeing that the Animator never cared about him and that he was simply playing Solitaire while he almost died, the Dark Lord befriended the Chosen One to get rid of the Animator, and ultimately succeeded and even escaped, destroying the Animator's computer.
Unfortunately though, as soon as he was free, The Dark Lord quickly lost his redeeming qualities and became a remorseless mass murderer who destroyed countless websites and killed many people, even other stick figures. While the Chosen One eventually realized they are going too far, the Dark Lord simply caused chaos without having second thoughts. Similar to Victim, The Dark Lord retained his hatred of the Animator several years after his escape, deciding to send his first Virabot prototype into Alan's PC just to spite him.
He is extremely determined, self-centered, and can even be somewhat manipulative, as it's implied that his "friendship" with The Chosen One was rather toxic if not outright fake. Such as when he guilt-tripped the latter into destroying his Minecraft build, never noticed him growing horrified at his actions, tried to kill him at their first real disagreement, and according to the Patreon, happened to design his wristband to make him resistant to lasers. He also convinces H4CK3R to form a deal with him under the premise that he can revive his wife Mitsi, while it is possible his attack was the direct cause of her death.
Despite being ax-crazy, this doesn't effect the dark lord's competence, as he was aware of what websites had the most users (YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, Wikipedia, Discord, Google, and Twitch) and planned to make those the first targets of his Virabot army, all of which he designed by himself in his free time. "The Showdown" characterized The Dark Lord as someone who switches up his persona whenever the situation calls for it, such as when the stick gang arrived to stop him, he quickly went from the cold, dedicated, nemesis he was towards Chosen One and the Animator during their fight back to the murder-happy psychopath he generally is while killing them, simply because he knew that they couldn't actually harm him.
Throughout his entire life, he feared only one thing: Death. In all three moments when he can actually die, he stops being a destructive murderer and cowers in fear or tries to escape. This is especially unique for him, as most other characters - The Chosen One, King Orange or Herobrine - showed far more bravery in life-or-death scenarios, making him stand out as a coward in comparison.
Overall, The Dark Lord is a remorseless, thrill-seeking psychopath who enjoyed nothing more than causing as much destruction as possible.
Powers and Abilities[]
Normal[]
- Self-awareness - The Dark Lord knows he's a computer program.
- Internet travel - The Dark Lord can travel across Internet websites with no issue.
- Pyrokinesis - Compared to the Chosen One's army of powers, the Dark Lord is limited to fire: he can shoot fire, breath fire, and launch gigantic fireballs. Despite this very limited skillset, he's still strong enough to go toe-to-toe with the Chosen One.
- Genius-level intellect / Inventive and programming abilities - The Dark Lord is an extremely intelligent individual, on the level of Yellow, Victim and King Orange, being able to create an army of highly advanced computer viruses and a wristband that makes him stronger.
- Expert martial artist - Self-explanatory; the Dark Lord is an extremely skilled fighter far beyond even the Stick Gang.
- Superhuman strength, speed and reflexes - The Dark Lord is far faster and stronger than any normal stick figure.
- Extreme durability - The Dark Lord knows how to take a hit: he's taken dozens of hits from both the Chosen One and the Animator, and quickly recovers from them all. While the ViraBots get one-shot by the Second Coming's superpowered hits, the Dark Lord tanks numerous punches from him. It's even possible he survived the mountain explosion at the end of "The Showdown".
- Swimming skills - The Dark Lord has been briefly shown to swim.
Wristband of Power[]
In "The Showdown", the Dark Lord puts on the Wristband of Power, whose title is rather self-explanatory, and later clones it onto his second arm. Its abilities are as follows:
- Dark energy manipulation - The Dark Lord is capable of manipulate dark energy in all ways, using the energy for his attacks and creating miniature replicates of anything he wants.
- Enhanced speed - The Dark Lord is even faster than he already was, easily outspeeding the Chosen One.
- Flight - While he previously needed to shoot out fire from his hands to fly, with the wristbands the Dark Lord has the natural ability to float.
- Immunity to laser beams - The Dark Lord is immune to laser beams with the wristband, easily gliding over the Chosen One's beams.
- Control over the ViraBots - Upon cloning the wristband, the Dark Lord had complete control of the ViraBots.
- Vira-blades - The Dark Lord could spawn massive, black-and-red blades from his hands when having the wristband, which could hurt even the Chosen One and erased anything that doesn't have erasure-immunity. He can also spawn more than one from one hand if he needs to.
- Vira-spikes - Like the ViraBots, the Dark Lord can make red spikes appear from thin air that erase anything they touch.
- Lasers - While used only twice, very briefly with the screen not focusing on it, the Dark Lord can shoot out pitch black lasers from his eyes. They are stronger than the Chosen One's, and appear more unstable, moving more rapidly.
- Dark energy orbs - The Dark Lord can shoot out black orbs from his hands that erase anything they touch.
Post-Resurrection[]
After being revived by the ViraBots, the Dark Lord gains several bonus abilities, including:
- Computer virus physiology - Thanks to the help of the remaining ViraBots, the two Wristbands of Power fused with the Dark Lord's body, changing his physiology and turning him into a virus.
- Body liquification - With his new body, he can now partially liquify his arms into a black liquid with red accents, which he can then manipulate into complex shapes and return to his body at will. During this the portion of his body that was liquified appears blackened, though he can shift this area around at will.
- Blood manipulation: As revealed in storyboards for "Hacker", the liquid/"goo" the Dark Lord controls is actually his own blood.
Kill Count[]
Confirmed Victims[]
- Yahoo! Messenger - Briefly seen flying into his and the Chosen One's white void near the end of Animator vs. Animation 3.
- Clippy - Last shown being alive, although defeated by the Chosen One, meaning he was killed off-screen when the Animator's computer was destroyed.
- My Computer - Killed when the computer was destroyed.
- Countless Internet citizens - The Dark Lord and the Chosen One, particularly during the Newgrounds raid, claimed many victims during their seven-year-old rampage, including stick figures.
- Countless Minecraft mobs - During the Minecraft Beta world discovery, the Dark Lord killed a cow with a fire blast and three sheeps (alongside TCO) in the Overworld (with other possibly victims as he continued to bomb around), and slaughtered numerous counts of ghasts and zombie pigmen in the Nether.
- Fighting Stick Figures - All four of them were stabbed with a wristband spike and disintegrated afterwards, before being revived minutes later.
Implied Victims[]
- Orbit - Assuming he wasn't killed by the Chosen One beforehand and simply knocked out, then he perished alongside the computer.
- Windows Movie Maker - Assuming he wasn't killed by the Chosen One beforehand and simply knocked out, then he perished alongside the computer.
- Google Chrome - Assuming he wasn't killed by the Chosen One beforehand and simply knocked out, then he perished alongside the computer.
- iTunes - Assuming he wasn't killed by the Chosen One beforehand and simply knocked out, then he perished alongside the computer.
- Internet Explorer - Assuming he wasn't killed by the Chosen One beforehand and simply knocked out, then he perished alongside the computer.
- Skype - Assuming he wasn't killed by the Chosen One beforehand and simply knocked out, then he perished alongside the computer.
- Mitsi - While the narrative paints the Chosen One as her killer, some pieces of evidence imply it was actually the Dark Lord, such as the fact that his fireballs explode on impact while TCO's don't, and the former suspiciously knowing not only about Mitsi but also exactly how she died.
Trivia[]
- The Dark Lord is very similar to King Orange as both are the main antagonists of an entire season that didn't start out as horrible people, were planning an omnicide and have an army of minions at their disposal (the ViraBots for the Dark Lord and both the Piglin Brutes and the Dark Mobs for King Orange). The main difference between them is that King Orange was an Average Joe with a tragic past who managed to redeem himself and lived as a result, while the Dark Lord was an all-powerful (fallen) minion of the villainous Animator who lacked sympathetic qualities and stayed a villain, presumably dying in the process (although this wasn't confirmed).
- The Dark Lord had planned to send at least 9 ViraBots to each continent besides Antarctica. To be precise, he tried to send out two to North America, one to South America, one to Africa, one to Europe, three to Asia, and one to Australia.
- There were also three unknown circles on the map: One in Russia, one in China, and one between France and Great Britain.
- However, looking at the way the Dark Lord drew the blueprint, it's implied the ViraBot he sends to Alan was supposed to in some way connected to six of the eight remaining ViraBots, implying it could have created them, with two of them (the ones in India and China) seemingly being launched by the Dark Lord himself.
- Additionally, the same ViraBot that got launched to Alan was in some way connected to all three unknown circles.
- The ViraBot that was launched to Alan was called Virus-0, while the one send out to Australia was composed of random gibberish along the lines of "XNTXFC0-2-WP" (possibly WIP or VIP?).
- He also planned to send out an army of ViraBots to YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, Google, Twitch, Wikipedia and Discord.
- The Dark Lord used to be one of the more popular options for the true identity of the Second Coming's Doppelganger before it was revealed to be a witch.
- When asked about the Dark Lord's fate on Patreon, Alan Becker replied with "I'm still deciding lol", showing that the Dark Lord's fate isn't even decided, and he could come back in the future.
- Similarly, when Alan was asked about the Dark Lord's return in Season 3, he said that "anything's possible".
- During the 30 Million Subscribers Q&A, Alan confirmed that he made up his mind and the Dark Lord will appear in a future episode. However, he has not specified if he will appear in the present or a flashback.
- With the release of Hacker - Animator vs. Animation 12, the Dark Lord made his proper return as confirmed to be alive.
- The Dark Lord shows ViraBot's powers to the Chosen One by stabbing a globe with one of the virus' blades. While this could be simply the Dark Lord showing his creations powers on a random object, it could also be the Dark Lord showing his plans to attack every computer in the entire world, if not outright destroy it, with the ViraBots.
- The Animator is the one who truly caused the Dark Lord to fall into villainy, all because he created him to kill the Chosen One while he was chilling by playing Solitaire instead of helping him fight the Chosen One. While it doesn't justify his crimes, this callous act influenced the Dark Lord's personality and his obsession with revenge in the first place.
- The Dark Lord is considered an evil counterpart to the Chosen One since both were created by the Animator and were forced to fight each other before they teamed up to destroy his computer and escape. However, the Dark Lord stayed evil while the Chosen One redeemed himself. He serves as what the Chosen One could've become if he let his hatred over the Animator gets the best of him and never realized how many people he hurt.
- The Dark Lord also made a minor cameo in the Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts episode "The Ultimate Weapon", a picture of him being seen when alexcrafter28 uses Google to search up Red and the Second Coming.
- While his age was never confirmed, it can be presumed the Dark Lord is a young adult as he's slightly taller than the Stick Gang and Purple, who are teenagers, but shorter than King Orange and Navy, who are old enough to have children.
- Alan Becker later confirmed the Stick Gang is composed of teenagers/young adults, placing them in their late teens to early 20s. This could potentially make the Dark Lord in his mid-to-late 20s.
- It's unknown why the Chosen One is wanted by Rocket Corp but the Dark Lord isn't. As his existence is completely dismissed when searching through the Chosen One's memories, everyone focusing on either the Second Coming's powers or the Animator, it's likely he's dead or just not relevant to the plot of Season 3.
- This is cleared up in Victim - Animator vs. Animation 11. When Victim watched Agent's memories, Mitsi is shown dying to a fireball before the Chosen One flies down, all while the Dark Lord was not seen. This caused Victim to form a furious vendetta against the Chosen One for killing his wife while remaining unaware of the Dark Lord's existence.
- As the Wristband of Power gives the Dark Lord laser immunity, it's possible he was always planning to betray the Chosen One or was expecting him to switch sides.
- It's heavily likely his actions resulted in Navy abusing Purple in a misguided attempt to toughen him up, which would make him the overarching antagonist of the Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts.
- The Dark Lord got the 6th place in the 2024 popularity poll, beaten out only by Red, Green, the Chosen One, Corn Dog Guy and the Second Coming. He later received 4th place in the 2025 popularity poll, beaten out by TCO, CDG and TSC.
- According to the AvG Reaction video to the second poll, the Dark Lord doesn't need to eat but does anyway, specifically meat.
External Links[]
- The Dark Lord on the Pure Evil Wiki
- The Dark Lord on the Antagonists Wiki
- The Dark Lord on the Animator vs. Animation Wiki
