Magenta and Burgundy: a TGSW Story

Magenta and Burgundy: a TGSW Story is a webisodic series on TikTok filmed by Wade Rininger. It is the ninth installment in the Whiteboard Saga, and is set between the events of the Great Stickmen War and the Great Stickmen War 2: All Is Unwell, serving as the origin story of Pink and Maroon's fighting monikers Magenta and Burgundy, as introduced in the latter of the two projects.

## Plot

Days after the Supreme Leader is destroyed, a surviving group of his robot minions assemble and arm a chemical weapon, but Black and his group of friends arrive to destroy them. However, they are unable to shut down the weapon, prompting Pink to slash the controls with Black's broken sword, and Maroon to clog the weapon's barrel with Orange's marker. The weapon is busted, and all but Black celebrate at a bar. Black, unsure of his teammates' trustworthiness, announces that because of Pink and Maroon's spontaneous actions, he would leave the team, and advises them to do the same. Only Pink remains at the bar, upset with herself for breaking Black's trust, while Maroon stands at the end of the bar, worried for Pink before going separate ways like the rest of the stick figures.

One year later, Pink, struggling to find the thrill of combat, unexpectedly reunites with Maroon, who had grown a full head of hair and offers her an opportunity to compete at Lady Steele Arena in San Francisco. Pink initially declines, but later accepts when Maroon points out that they can perform together despite their mutual resentment. Upon arriving at the arena, they are nearly attacked by Maroon's longtime enemies, Tango and his gang, but the latter group is fended off by Triple Threat, a trio tag-team of mixed martial arts fighters comprised of the tall and burly Cannon, the delirious Rascal, and British fighter Jack Baxter/Union Jack. The three escort Pink and Maroon inside the arena lobby, where they meet Presley Steele, undefeated and retired MMA fighter and head of the arena, named after her fighting moniker. While attending a brief meeting with Steele, she does not believe they come off as the fighting type, and she requests that they showcase their combat skills in a demonstrative showing.

The pair, mistakenly given the stage names "Magenta" and "Burgundy," are pitted against John Simmons/Deathtrap, who is unfairly equipped with deadly weapons, and are nearly beaten down until Union Jack, Cannon, and Rascal step in to help. With their combined might, Deathtrap is subdued, and Steele adds the two to the fighter roster. During another meeting between Maroon and Steele, Maroon proposes that they begin making further improvements using the Flipopossum technology that was salvaged to build the arena to begin with, and reveals that she had recovered the Supreme Leader's hollowed-out shell, which Maroon had intended to use to begin said improvements. With this newly gained technology in their possession, Steele advises Maroon to lay low about it.

As six months pass, Pink and Maroon continue training and competing under the names "Magenta" and "Burgundy," equipping themselves with new armor, protective gear, and decals, as well as Pink cutting out a mask and Maroon shaving the right side of her head. One day, they arrive at their penthouse after a battle, and Maroon, concerned for Pink's approval, comes out to her as bisexual. Pink approves, and Maroon suddenly kisses her. Pink almost immediately recoils, still unable to let go of Black's abandonment, prompting Maroon to return to the arena. In her office, Steele exchanges a phone call with her assistant Cluster Kozmos, discussing how Pink and Maroon have become tied with her record. Steele, determined to keep her title, decides to salvage the Supreme Leader's corpse into her own means of weaponry, and she is greeted by a frustrated Maroon volunteering to fill the opponent gap in the following day's brawl.

Pink faces off against Maroon in a Death Match, and at the cost of some bruises, she taps into her head upon mentioning the loss of her frog friend. Steele, furious about the Death Match coming to a stop, equips a wrist gauntlet assembled by Kozmos using parts from the Supreme Leader, and she enters the arena herself in her Lady Steele attire. While trying to kill Pink and Maroon, she mentions that she has been watching all of her fighters using surveillance gear to learn how each of them can be exploited. Before she can launch her munitions at them, she is distracted by Union Jack, Cannon, and Rascal, who eventually escape the arena with Pink. Maroon battles Steele alone, and manages to fatally wound her, but Steele ultimately defeats her. While the remaining fighters are all imprisoned by Steele and her security guards, Maroon offers to hunt Pink down in her stead, which Steele reluctantly accepts. Reuniting with Pink and Triple Threat at the penthouse, they all devise a plan to get back into the arena to free the prisoners and expose Steele for her actions, resulting in Maroon suggesting they get inside through the fire exit.

Inside the arena, Cannon and Rascal distract a pair of guards, while the rest are nearly found by Steele and Kozmos before walking off. As Union Jack goes to free the other fighters, Steele eventually spots Pink and Maroon uploading evidence of Steele's sadistic methods on the internet, and she is knocked into the arena by Cannon and Rascal, having disguised themselves as the security guards they were being chased by. As the fighters, joined by the arena commentator and Tango and his gang, take on security, Deathtrap challenges Steele but is slowly beaten before being saved by Union Jack. Equipped with one of Deathtrap's clawed gloves, Union Jack manages to injure Steele, but she proceeds to mortally wound him with her wrist blade. Maroon attacks her once again, but again ends up losing. Pink saves her by sending the Jumbotron crashing down onto Steele. Union Jack succumbs to his wounds and dies in Pink and Maroon's arms. Steele erupts from the Jumbotron wreckage, more furious than ever. Pink sparks the idea of using the chemical weapon against Steele's technology, and she and Maroon escape to the weapon's location. There, they take heavily suppressive fire from Steele, who had apparently followed them there, but her hand is suddenly cut off by Black, destroying her gauntlet in the process.

As Steele is treated and imprisoned by the police, despite Pink's efforts to go back to the life she once had before, Black hesitates and continues to claim her and the other stick figures to be untrustworthy. As a result, Pink chooses to resume her life as an MMA fighter alongside Maroon, much to Black's distaste. The two claim ownership of the arena, which they rename the Union Jack Arena in Jack's memory, with Cannon and Rascal serving as supervisors and competitors. Now a mixed martial arts superstar duo, Pink and Maroon compete against each other in their new competitive show business. Pink arrives at her and Maroon's office to find a package from Black, containing a photo of himself for her to remember him by.

In a post-credits scene set one and a half years later, Maroon meets Zuse, leader of the Immortals, whom she recognizes from childhood events, asking her to help him and his allies combat a villain siphoning souls from all across the multiverse, while in the arena, Pink is approached by Black once again, leading to major events in TGSW2: All Is Unwell.

In another post-credits scene set in the present day, a cybernetically-enhanced Cluster Kozmos is held captive during an interrogation with inhabitants of a planet called Where It All Began, sharing information about him being a bounty hunter doing a job for an unidentified person called the Architect.

## Cast (via archival voice-over audio)

* Priah Ferguson, Renée Zellweger, Owen Wilson, Jenna Elfman, Tobey Maguire, Dave Foley, Brenda Song, Miles Teller, Paul Rudd, Antonio Banderas, Chris Evan, Gwenyth Paltrow, Craig T. Nelson, and Tom Cruise as Pink
* Sadie Sink, Maya Hawke, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Brianna Hildebrand, Ray Magliozzi, Joe Alaskey, LeBron James, Candi Milo, Robert Downey Jr., Wade Rininger, Mike Myers, Daisy Ridley, Cailey Fleming, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Haley Tju, Simu Liu, Christian Slater, Tom Cruise, Matthew Broderick, Salma Hayek-Pinault, David Tennant, Kerry Condon, and Miles Teller as Maroon
* Ray Magliozzi, Mark Fischbach @markiplier, Jeff Goldblum, Jaime Camil, Steve Whitmire, Chris Evans, Sam Worthington, Lewis Tan, and Robert Downey Jr. (uncredited) as Jack Baxter/Union Jack
* Eric Bauza, Frank Oz, Ernie Sabella, and Lawry Lewin as Cannon
* Tom Magliozzi, Paul Julian, Tony Anselmo, Nathan Lane, and Tom Holland as Rascal
* Nathan Fillion, Cedric Joe, Jason Lee, Jeff Bridges, Wade Rininger, John Mulaney, Grey DeLisle, Keith David, Tony Leung, Alan Rickman, Gary Oldman, Steve Buscemi, Florence Pugh, John Simm, Christopher Plummer, Stephen Lang, Joe Taslim, and James Brolin as Presley Steele/Lady Steele
* Randy Savage, Ed Asner, and Larry the Cable Guy as John Simmons/Deathtrap
* Ryan Reynolds as Tango
* Bruce Campbell, Ernie Johnson, LeBron James, and Sean Bishop as Jeff the Commentator
* Joseph Quinn as Black
* Gaten Matarazzo as Orange
* Wade Rininger, Kevin McCann, Frank Oz, and Ben Stiller as Cluster Kozmos

## Trivia

* Audio from "Bones" by Imagine Dragons, an episode of Friday Night Dinner, an episode of Stranger Things, "NO" by Meghan Trainor, Chicago, "You Don't Own Me" by Grace ft. G-Eazy, Deadpool 2, "Confident" by Demi Lovato, Cars 3, "Boss Bitch" by Doja Cat, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Spider-Man, Space Jam: a New Legacy, the Incredibles, Marvel Studios' Iron Man, "Vegas" by Doja Cat, "Americano" by Lady Gaga, "Survivor" by Destiny's Child, Shrek the Third, "Bad Blood" by Taylor Swift, Star Wars: the Force Awakens, Puss in Boots: the Last Wish, a Bug's Life, Independence Day, an episode of Legend of the Three Caballeros, an episode of Amphibia, Marvel Studios' Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, the Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, Top Gun: Maverick, Marvel Studios' Avengers: Endgame, Lego Dimensions, the Lion King, Monsters, Inc., "Cherry Bomb" by the Runaways, an episode of Doctor Who, "Tie My Shoes - Live" by CHANCHO, Up, Avatar, Mortal Kombat (2021), Lightyear, "I Will Survive" by Demi Lovato, "Fight Song" by Rachel Platten, Cars, "Dansez" by Fasion, and the Secret Life of Walter Mitty were used for several scenes in the series.
	+ In fact, most songs listed depicted female empowerment, a theme represented in the series.
* "Magenta and Burgundy" is the first Whiteboard Saga installment to take place between events already shown on TikTok.
* With help from TikTok friend Olivia Grace @livtasticnerd99, this series explores Pink and Maroon's bisexualities, which were first revealed in an episode of Stick to the Future's anthology sub-series LET'S SAY....