Shorts Wars: Infinity War

DISCLAIMER: This is an intended parody of Avengers: Infinity War. Don't just complain about me deeming it a rip-off and all that; it is just a parody, and by parody, I mean a non-profit version of Infinity War but with the Shorts Wars ARG instead of the Avengers made solely for fun. Additionally, this is also non-canon, so all of us, including myself, can add anything to this page, even if it contradicts Shorts Wars seasons one and two. Sorry for the somewhat rude way in which I have said this, I just wanted to get the point across.
Shorts Wars: Infinity War is a 2027 crossover film based on the Shorts Wars ARG. Produced by YouTube Shorts, Original Film, ITN Studios, and Jagged Edge Productions and distributed by YouTube, it is a parody of Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and is the second-to-last installment in the Shorts Wars series, expanding to feature many new YouTube Shorts creators and even some full-time YouTubers and characters from some webseries. Directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield and Jonny RaZeR and written by BamBaeYoh and Rhys Harrington, the film features a gargantuan ensemble cast including RaZeR, Danno Cal Drawings, RoyalPear, Joe Caine, Mogswamp, Knsplash, Bundun, RoyalProtoM, Phaleur, cdotkom, BamBaeYoh, PewDiePie, Datchia, Mello Productions, RedJet99, Cryospace, JellyBean, HackedCrusade, Radoukens, SwitchlStop, Gabriecat, LegalEagle, cookingWITHfred, Ryth, Colleen Ballinger, Vannamelon, Saberspark, Chadtronic, James Rolfe, Doug Walker, Rob Walker, Jim Jarosz, Malcolm Ray, Tamara Chambers, Walter Banasiak, Heather Reuz, Aiyanna Wade, InternetMikey, InternetAaron, SimbatheGod, CjDaChamp, phillyonmars, TrueGawd, Erika Henningsen, Stephanie Beatriz, Blake Roman, Amir Talai, Kimiko Glenn, Keith David, Alex Brightman, Krystina Alabado, Jeremy Jordan, Christian Borle, Joel Perez, Lilli Cooper, Daphne Rubin-Vega, James Monroe Iglehart, Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer, Brandon Rogers, Richard Steven Horvitz, Vivian Nixon, Erica Lindbeck, Bryce Pinkham, Barrett Wilbert Weed, Mara Wilson, Aphmau, Elsie Lovelock, Michael Kovach, Nola Klop, Swiblet, Corey Wilder, YXL Salah, Andrea Storm Kaden, Christopher Lloyd, and Markiplier. In the film, the Shorts Wars Resistance, newly accompanied by various third-party YouTubers and webseries characters, attempt to stop the Root of All Evil (Roo for short) and the recently resurrected Dr. Francis Dave from collecting the six powerful Infinity Flutes as part of their joint quest to kill half of all life in the universe and replace them with clones.
The film was announced on December 2, 2023, the same day in which the second season of Shorts Wars began, as Shorts Wars: Infinity War - Part 1 after Jonny RaZer and the other YouTube Shorts creators behind the Shorts Wars ARG watched Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019) before continuing Shorts Wars via Season 2 and enjoyed it deeply. RaZeR eventually announced on February 17, 2024 that he would be directing the film alongside Rhys Frake-Waterfield, who had just recently finished directing Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2, upon announcement that Frake-Waterfield's production company, Jagged Edge Productions, came on board alongside ITN Studios and Original Film to help produce the film, and a month BamBaeYoh and Rhys Harrington signed on to write the script for the film, which saw the Shorts Wars content creators teaming up with full-time YouTubers and webseries characters to fight both the creator of the boss and clones of CloneVPN and a threat much more powerful than that. In 2025, YouTube shortened the title to Shorts Wars: Infinity War. Filming began in July 16, 2026, three years after the release of Shorts Wars Season 1, at Pinewood Atlanta Studios in Fayette County, Georgia, with a massive cast consisting of the returning YouTube Shorts creators and newcomers from YouTube Shorts, full-time YouTubers and their channels, and characters from different webseries, including Christopher Lloyd being cast as Dr. Francis Dave from Shorts Wars Season 2. The production lasted until December 2026, shooting back-to-back with a direct sequel, a parody of Avengers: Endgame of which they titled Shorts Wars: Endgame. Additional filming took place in Scotland, Madagascar, the Downtown Atlanta area, and Lombard, Chicago. With a production budget of $356-400 million, Shorts Wars: Infinity War is one of the most expensive films ever made.
Shorts Wars: Infinity War premiered at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, on May 3, 2027, and was theatrically released in the United States on May 6, as the first part of the Shorts Wars series finale. The film received praise for Kaden and Lloyd's performances and Frake-Waterfield and RaZeR's direction, as the animation, visual effects, action sequences, dark tone, emotional weight, and musical score. It was a major box-office success, being the first film to gross over $2 billion worldwide, breaking numerous box-office records, and becoming the highest-grossing film of 2027 and surpassing Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) as the third highest-grossing film both worldwide and in the United States and Canada. It received a nomination for Best Visual Effects and Best Animation at the 100th Academy Awards, among numerous other accolades. The sequel, Shorts Wars: Endgame, was released in July 2028.
== Plot ==
Having acquired the Power Flute, one of the six Infinity Flutes, from the Garden of Eden, the Root of All Evil herself (Roo for short), her lieutenants Leviathan, Satan, Anubis, Ammit, Loki, and War, Dr. Francis Dave, and the Boss of CloneVPN, accompanied by Clone Riggy and a corrupted Dunbun, intercept the recently rebuilt Hazbin Hotel, shortly following the aftermath of the war between Hell and Heaven. As Roo and Dave extract the Space Flute from the Hotel's sentient catlike key Keekee, The Boss subdues Charlie Morningstar, Clone Riggy overpowers Alastor and Angel Dust, Dunbun kills Husker by impaling him in the chest with an angellic spear, and Anubis kills Vaggie. Lucifer Morningstar, Charlie's father and the devil himself, uses his powers to send Alastor, Angel Dust, Niffty and Cherri Bomb to Earth before being killed by Leviathan. Roo and Dave depart with their armies and reduces the newly rebuilt Hazbin Hotel to ruins once again, thus destroying it permanently.
Alastor, Angel Dust, Niffty and Cherri Bomb crash-land at the Channel Awesome headquarters in Lombard, Chicago, shapeshifting from their sinner forms in Hell to their original human selves from when they were alive. They warn Nostalgia Critic and Santa Christ about Roo and Dave's plan to destroy half of the universe, and they recruit Jonny RaZeR and Joe Caine. Leviathan and Anubis arrive to retrieve the Time Flute from Nostalgia Critic, drawing the attention of InternetMikey and InternetAaron. Leviathan captures Nostalgia Critic, but fails to take the Time Flute due to an enchantment. Jonny, Joe, InternetMikey and InternetAaron sneak aboard Leviathan's spaceship, Alastor, Angel Dust, Niffty and Cherri Bomb contact Danno Cal Drawings and Riggy the Rabbit Monkey, and Santa Christ stays behind to guard the headquarters.
In the baobab forests of Madagascar, Loki, Ammit, War and Dunbun ambush Ryth, Colleen Ballinger, Aphmau and the Angry Video Game Nerd in order to retrieve the Mind Flute, which has been transplanted into Ryth's skull near his brain. Danno, Riggy, Bundun, RoyalProtoM, Datchia, Phaleur, cdotkom, and Mogswamp rescue them and they take shelter with Sundrop, Moondrop, RedJet99, Cryospace, JellyBean, HackedCrusade, Radoukens, SwitchlStop, Gabriecat, Alastor, Angel Dust, Niffty, and Cherri Bomb at the abandoned CloneVPN cloning machine. Ryth offers to sacrifice himself by having Colleen fatally dissect him from his forehead and destroy the Mind Flute to keep Roo, Dave and their armies from retrieving it, but Colleen refuses. Danno suggests they travel to Copper 9, which he believes has the resources to remove the Flute without killing Ryth.
Markiplier, LegalEagle, cookingWITHfred, Saberspark, Chadtronic, SimbatheGod, CjDaChamp, phillyonmars, TrueGawd, YXL Salah, Blitzo, Moxxie, Millie, Loona, Fizzarolli, Stolas, Octavia, and Mrs. Mayberry receive and respond to a distress call from the Hazbin Hotel and rescue Charlie, who surmises that Roo, Dave and their armies are currently going after the Reality Flute, which is in possession of Asmodeus in the Lust Ring. Blitzo and Fizzarolli accompany Charlie to visit the Overlords of Hell, where they, Vox, Valentino, Velvette, Zestial, Carmilla Carmine, and Rosie forge a battleaxe capable of killing Roo and a gauntlet that can undo Dave's clones, including The Boss. At the Lust Ring, Markiplier, LegalEagle, cookingWITHfred, Saberspark, Chadtronic, SimbatheGod, CjDaChamp, phillyonmars, TrueGawd, YXL Salah, Moxxie, Millie, Loona, Stolas, Octavia, and Mrs. Mayberry find Roo with the Reality Flute already in her possession. Roo kidnaps SimbatheGod, her former minion, who reveals that the Soul Flute is in the Underworld in order to save Mello Productions and PewDiePie from torture. In the Underworld, the Flute's keeper, Adam, tells Roo that she can only acquire it by sacrificing someone she loves. Roo reluctantly throws SimbatheGod to her death and slaughters Dr. Francis Dave shortly thereafter, granting her the Soul Flute.
Mello and PewDiePie escape captivity and ask their friends to meet them at Roo's homeworld, Vesuvia. Jonny, Joe, InternetMikey and InternetAaron kill Leviathan and rescue Nostalgia Critic. Landing at Vesuvia, they meet Markiplier, LegalEagle, cookingWITHfred, Saberspark, Chadtronic, CjDaChamp, phillyonmars, TrueGawd, XYL Salah, Moxxie, Millie, Loona, Stolas, Octavia, and Mrs. Mayberry. Nostalgia Critic plays a melody on the Time Flute to view 14,000,605 possible futures, seeing only one in which Roo loses. The group forms a plan to subdue Roo and pulverise the Clone Gauntlet, which she uses to house the Flutes. Roo appears and justifies her plans as necessary to ensure the survival of a world threatened by overpopulation, revealing herself as the root of humanity's downfall in the process. Mello and PewDiePie arrive soon after, and they help the others subdue Roo until they deduce that Roo has killed SimbatheGod. Enraged, Markiplier attacks Roo, allowing her to break the group's hold and overpower them. Jonny is mortally wounded by Roo, but is spared after Nostalgia Critic surrenders the Time Flute to Roo.
On Copper 9, Danno and Riggy reunite with Uzi Doorman before the Tyranny Cult and the CloneVPN Army invade. The heroes, alongside V and a makeshift army consisting of Nostalgia Critic's friends Malcolm, Tamara, Jim, Walter, Heather, and Aiyanna, mount a defense while N works to extract the Mind Flute from Ryth. Alastor, unable to use his full demonic form and powers upon reverting back to his sinner form, fights while using Jonny's leftover Minecraft weapons and armor from the Chicken Burger SMP, and Angel Dust, Niffty and Cherri Bomb, lacking any weapons at all, fight using Riggy's old cartoon weapons. Charlie, Blitzo and Fizzarolli arrive to reinforce the heroes; Satan, Anubis, Ammit, Loki, War, the Boss, Clone Riggy, and Dunbun, the latter of whom redeeming himself after breaking free with his corruption, are killed and both the Tyranny Cult and the CloneVPN Army are routed, but N is unable to complete the extraction of the Mind Flute from Ryth. Roo arrives to acquire the Mind Flute, but before she can do so Colleen snaps it in half. Using the Time Flute, Roo reverses Colleen's actions and rips the repaired Mind Flute from Ryth's skull, killing him. Charlie fatally wounds Roo with a swing from her axe and a strangle from her gauntlet, but Roo activates the completed Clone Gauntlet by snapping her fingers and teleports away.
Half of all life across the universe disintegrates, including Danno, Uzi, V, Fizzarolli, Colleen, Sundrop, RedJet99, Cryospace, Niffty, Millie, Loona, Moxxie, Stolas, Octavia, Mrs. Mayberry, YXL Salah, TrueGawd, phillyonmars, CjDaChamp, Chadtronic, Saberspark, cookingWITHfred, LegalEagle, Markiplier, Nostalgia Critic (who tells Jonny that there was no other way), InternetMikey, and InternetAaron, as well as MrBeast and the Sidemen, although MrBeast is able to transmit an emergency signal before turning to dust. Jonny, Joe, Mello and PewDiePie remain on Vesuvia, while Riggy, Bundun, RoyalProtoM, Phaleur, cdotkom, BamBaeYoh, RoyalPear, Blitzo, Alastor, Angel Dust, Cherri Bomb, JellyBean, HackedCrusade, Radoukens, SwitchlStop, Gabriecat, Moondrop, Knsplash, Vannamelon, and Charlie are left in the middle of a forest. Meanwhile, Roo watches the sunrise on another planet.