The Great Stickmen War

The Great Stickmen War is a webisodic series on TikTok filmed by Wade Rininger. It is the first installment of the Great Stickmen War trilogy, as well as the first installment in the Whiteboard Saga.

## Plot

In the middle of playing along with the trend of TikTokers' downfalls to their addictions during a slowed-down cover of "Murders," Black and his friends are beaten down. Upon getting back up on their feet, they are visited by @flipopossum and several other TikTokers, waging war against the stick figures. Black tries to lead his friends in a last stand, but instead, it leads to them being wiped from existence. Black is left to mourn for his losses, but is bandaged by a maroon stick figure and her frog companion, also named Maroon.

Maroon offers to help bring back Black's friends, and she and Maroon (frog) lead him to the shore, where they swim down to the bottom to find a sword sparkling different colors. Determined to bring back his crew, Black pries the sword out of a rock and creates a beam of ultraviolet light, which restores his friends into existence. Flipopossum and his allies notice this, and Black leads the charge against them once more. Unfortunately, Maroon (frog) tries to take on one of Flipopposum's robots on his own, but is mortally wounded in the aftermath. Black finally destroys the addictions to avenge him, wiping Flipopossum's robots and their allies from existence. The battle is won, and Black, his girlfriend Pink, Maroon, and the others attend Maroon (frog)'s funeral.

Flipopossum's head robot, the Supreme Leader, who is also the leader of what now remains of the robot army, cancels out his allegiance with his allies as he has thought bigger and badder. As he devises a plot to capture the stick figures, Six Arms, a blue six-armed stick figure made by @helluvaboss666, chooses to alert the whiteboard stick figures of the Supreme Leader after he had been betrayed. As a result, Black sends out a recruiting video through TikTok, acquiring help from willing TikTokers and some of their animated characters. Days later, the Supreme Leader personally arrives with his new robot army and knocks down the stick figures, while also capturing Pink and Six Arms. However, Black's recruits arrive to finish the war once and for all.

Throughout the massacre, Black, Maroon, the stick figures, and the recruits combat the robot army, until the Supreme Leader catches Pink once again, forcing Black to crawl through the action and rescue her. The Supreme Leader takes the two to the skies, and throws them down to the ground, but Black, desperate to save both his girlfriend and TikTok itself, overwhelms the Supreme Leader out of anger and love. Before they land on the ground, the Supreme Leader tells Black that all he wanted was to be the "best cartoonist ever," just like Black. Black replies "I'm not the best cartoonist ever. I never was." As a result, Black releases the Robot to send him blowing up on impact with the ground. Black lands safely, but faints out of exhaustion. Black wakes up to his friends and recruits celebrating their victory, as Maroon (frog) watches them from the heavens.

In a concluding TikTok video, Flipopossum, who created the Supreme Leader and his robot army, shares his gratitude with Wade, the whiteboard's animator, thanking him for taking him on the journey that this Great Stickmen War has paved.

## Trivia

Audio from Marvel Studios' Avengers: Age of Ultron, two YouTube videos from the now-defunct Unus Annus channel, Marvel Studios' Avengers: Endgame, Inglorious Bastards, and the source-filmmaker series Red vs. Blue were used for several scenes in the series.

* Wade was actually a massive fan of Unus Annus, claiming to have watched all 366 of their videos before the channel was deleted on November 15, 2020.