The Great Stickmen War 5: Hail All Heroes

The Great Stickmen War 5: Hail All Heroes is a webisodic series on TikTok filmed by Wade Rininger. It is the sixth installment in the Whiteboard Saga, as well as the second installment in the Great Stickmen War sequel trilogy.

## Plot

Eva Warp, Waylan Volt, and Kevin "Code" Stopwatch send their robot friend Ace to the totalitarian voidspace to siphon hyperion molecules left behind by the blown-up Priestess of Time's corpse to charge their phones, but Ace is trapped there when a quartet of mysterious new villains steal their souls. Meanwhile, Black and Pink perform in a romantic musical number before Lime, who now possesses pryokinetic powers, crashes it. After he and Black leave in Pink's car, Ace crashes on top of it via a failsafe, and warns the stick figures of the four villains' potential arrival, prompting Black to call the Immortals for backup. However, the four villains, Jester, Stripes, Sajha, and Yeltneb, arrive sooner than expected, catching the stick figures off guard.

With Jester's flaming teleportation skills, they are dropped off at Order-A1, a high-tech sky base run by the Restrictive Power Agency and its leading representative Sergeant Mick Williams, who, alongside another villain named the Unknown, had sent the villains to capture the stick figures ten days earlier. There, Black finds Snaggle, who was also apparently arrested by the RPA. The Immortals return in their pyramid ship as a result of answering Black's attempted phone call, but unexpectedly cross paths with Sparks and his team, who are on a search party for Snaggle. They and the Immortals find Blue, Green, Red, Yellow, and Ace, who have all evaded capture. Upon realizing the RPA is responsible for arresting Snaggle and sending the villains to capture the stick figures, Ace supercharges the hyperion molecules to trigger an electromagnetic pulse.

As Williams plots to use the technology inside Black's blood transfusion vault to combine the villains' blood and the stick figures' blood, fellow RPA agents Private Ryan and Lieutenant Dan are suspicious of Williams and discreetly steal archive data regarding his starting enlistment. Ace's EMP is launched, shutting down Order-A1's cloaking device and causing a total prison riot while also shorting out the Immortals. Black and his friends escape with Snaggle and the villains, with Ryan and Dan in tow, while Blue restores the Immortals' memories using his electricity powers. The stick figures are all imprisoned by the villains, who all have rebuilt Black and Pink's house into an arena, while Ryan and Dan hide from them. Orange also discovers Eva, Waylan, and Code are also in their custody, with their souls apparently restored.

Williams and the RPA raid the vault alongside the Unknown, salvaging the technology. There, the Unknown exposes Williams' true intentions and tries to kill him using a rewired RPA tactical war drone, but Williams survives, destroying the drone and fatally wounds the Unknown using a broken metal rod before collecting some of his blood. Red, Green, Yellow, and Blue bring in the Animator by moving into his room by a smaller whiteboard. Sparks and his team send out an urgent transmission from the Immortals' ship, inviting others to duet. Ace and the Immortals intercept a team of RPA agents and drones headed for Black's house. Ryan and Dan finally learn that Williams was actually a prisoner of the RPA before rising to power among their ranks. Combating against the villains competitively, the stick figures, Snaggle, Eva, Waylan, and Code struggle to survive their attacks until Williams and the RPA arrive to recapture them and the villains.

During a battle between the heroes, the villains, and the RPA, Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, Ace, the Immortals (now sporting suits made from RPA war drones), and Sparks and his gang arrive to help alongside the Animator, Zorento, Zippy, and an army of old and new characters made by other TikTokers; the villains also side with the heroes, after Maroon had reformed Stripes; Ryan and Dan rebel against the RPA in a fit of glory. Williams, fed up with the madness, injects himself with the transfused blood and quickly overwhelms Black. He engages in a battle against the Animator, Zorento, the Immortals, Waylan, and Natasha Stark, but dismantles all of them, finishing with breaking Natasha's arc reactor and blinding Labyrinth.

Black tries to get the villains to safety, but is brought back into the fight by Williams and the drones. Others try to stop him, but are outmatched by Williams, who ends up destroying what remains of Black's sword. Pink steps in the way to protect Black, but Williams is killed by the Unknown, having returned from the dead with his dark energy, by the same metal bar used to kill him. With the evil portion of the RPA thwarted, the day is won, with the Unknown and the rest of the villains unsure of how to move on, but Black assures them that they will figure it out. As a result, the heroes and villains live together in harmony, while Ace joins the Immortals, Ryan and Dan join Eva, Waylan, and Code, and Orange finally marries Teal. At the same time Maroon marries Green, the stick figures watch a VHS recording of Maroon's [frog] final words before his death four years prior.

Embracing the well-earned peace, Black is visited by Captain Dakota of the RPA, who has arrived to deliver medals as a gift from the RPA in gratitude for defeating Williams. Black and his friends, all wearing their medals, watches as the sun sets, putting the saga to a close... for now.

## Cast (via archival voice-over audio)

* Joe Zieja, Martin Lawrence, Chris Evans, Channing Tatum, Chris Pratt, Mike Myers, Andre Braugher, David Spade, Ben Schwartz, Tom Holland, Tobey Maguire, and Jamie Foxx as Black
* Reba Buhr, Scarlett Johansson, Aubrey Plaza, and Keira Knightley as Pink
* Bryson Baugus, Antonio Banderas, Andy Samberg, and Mark Ruffalo as Orange
* Zazie Beetz and Nicole Sullivan as Maroon
* Alexander Yap, Will Smith, and Kyle McCarley as Lime
* Chris Hemsworth as Blue
* Mark Fischbach as Neon Blue
* Stephanie Sheh as Teal
* Jack Black as Neon Pink
* Eddie Murphy as Neon Yellow
* Robert Downey Jr. as the Maroon Frog
* Robin Williams as the Animator
* Chris Pratt as Zuse and Bucky
* Zoe Saldana and Benedict Cumberbatch as Turbo
* Bradley Cooper and Robert Downey Jr. as Crosshair
* Dave Bautista, Pom Klementieff, and Benedict Cumberbatch as Labyrinth
* Evangeline Lilly and Cody Cameron as Eva "Teal" Warp
* Michael Douglas and John Goodman as Kevin "Code" Stopwatch
* Paul Rudd and Mark Ruffalo as Ace
* Dave Bautista as Sparks
* Jonah Hill as Snaggle
* Pom Klememtieff as Cloud
* Jim Carrey, Michael B. Jordan, Idris Elba, Josh Brolin, Alfred Molina, and Bill Nighy as Sergeant Mick Williams
* Billy Crystal and Hugh Bonneville as Private Ryan
* Lee Majdoub as Lieutenant Dan
* Alice Braga as Captain Dakota
* Sam Rockwell and John DiMaggio as Stripes
* Reno Wilson as Yeltneb
* Pat Carroll as Cileris
* Richard White as Professor Lockhart
* Frank Welker, Mick Wingert, Johnny Depp, and Andrew Garfield as the Unknown
* Keith David as the Deal Maker
* John DiMaggio as Madman
* Ken Page and Scott Hall as the Gamemaster

## Trivia

* Audio from Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man and the Wasp, “Do Ya Wanna Taste It” by Wig Wam, Bad Luck Jack, Bad Boys For Life, Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: No Way Home, Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Infinity War, Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, Transformers: the Last Knight, the LEGO Movie, “the Rubberband Man” by the Spinners, “Something In the Way” by Nirvana, “Duel of the Fates” by John Williams and the London Symphony Orchestra, Sonic the Hedgehog, Monsters, Inc., an episode of Parks and Recreation, a mashup of “E.T.” by Katy Perry and “Industry Baby” by Lil Nas X, an episode of Marvel Studios’ What If…?, Mrs. Doubtfire, Shrek 2, the Bad Guys, Paddington, “HandClap” by Fitz and the Tantrums, an episode of Monkie Kid, an episode of Kim Possible, the Brutal Legend video game, an episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, the Emperor’s New Groove, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Endgame, Soul, and “Magic (feat. Rivers Cuomo)” by B.o.B. were used for several scenes in the series.
* Private Ryan and Lieutenant Dan are characters used in reference to Forrest Gump and Saving Private Ryan, both films featuring characters with the same names and rankings.
* While Natasha Stark is a character under the ownership of Marvel Comics, the character was originally brought to life by fellow TikToker Olivia Grace (@livtasticnerd99), a Marvel fan and TikTok friend of Wade, who inspired the use of Natasha in the story.
* To date, this series has the most TikTok videos in its playlist among all installments of the Whiteboard Saga.