The Great Stickmen Horrors: a TGSW Halloween Special

The Great Stickmen Horrors: a TGSW Halloween Special is a webisodic series on TikTok filmed by Wade Rininger. It is the seventh installment in the Whiteboard Saga, and the first of two holiday-themed spinoffs.

## Plot

In the late 1800s, Abraham Van Helsing leads a team of adventurers to battle against Azusa the Demon Queen, commander of a horde of civilians that had been transformed into monsters by a Monstifying Glass, powered by the three Moonstones. Before Azusa can use the Glass to permanently turn the entire world into monsters at full moon, Van Helsing breaks the machine, causing it to instead turn on Azusa and contain her inside a beaker. After saving the civilians, he and his team shut down his manor, hide the Moonstones, and disassemble the Glass.

In the present day, days before Halloween, Black and his friends are invited to a Halloween party outside of the city. Orange is initially hesitant to join in, but eventually decides to ignore his fears, which are usually amplified during the Halloween season. Upon their arrival at the manor turned hotel, Black and his friends are welcomed by hotel manager Sir Renfield and the staff, who recognize them as the heroes that saved the Whiteboard multiple times. At nightfall, the group attends a tour of the hotel, where Renfield shares the hotel’s history, which scares Orange while the rest of the group dismiss these concerns.

On his way to the lobby, Orange overhears Renfield and the staff plotting to restore Azusa and reignite the Glass on Halloween night. He goes to warn his friends, but rather than hear him out, they instead say he’s paranoid. Renfield invites the stick figures to a dinner the following evening, which Orange decides to sit out on. During a toast, Black and the rest of the group are put to sleep by drinking wine that Renfield and the staff had drugged. At the same time, Orange also finds his “paranoia” to be silly, and decides to hang out in the den, where he accidentally triggers and falls into a hidden passageway leading to the basement.

Black and the others wake up in shackles, where they find Renfield and the hotel staff awakening Azusa and powering up the Glass, while Orange meets a group of prisoners (Dandy, Hally, Ro-Bun, and Sajha, the latter of which the stick figures have already met) and uncovers a newer, handheld Glass. Having recovered the Moonstones, Renfield fires the old Glass at his thirteen captives, but is only able to transform seven of them due to a prism maladjustment in the device, thusly sparing Black, Pink, Maroon, Blue, Yellow, and Red, who narrowly escape their now-“monstified” friends with Orange, his newfound friends, and the new Glass in tow.

Unable to leave the hotel grounds, Black and the collaborated teams brainstorm a plan to stop Azusa. Orange suddenly stumbles upon Van Helsing’s tomb, where he finds his monster neutralizer, as well as a fourth Moonstone, which could be used to repower the new Glass. Almost immediately, they are ambushed by Azusa, Renfield, and the staff, who manage to transform Pink, Blue, Yellow, and Red with the old Glass. With the new Glass, Black, Orange, and Maroon are able to revert Pink back to normal, but can only repel the other three with Van Helsing’s monster neutralizer. Ghost Dark Brown manages to steal the new Glass’ Moonstone before they can run away with it.

Azusa and Renfield, whose staff are busy moving the old Glass to the edge of the hotel rooftops, plot to zap the moon with the old Glass as they believe the moon will radiate the Glass’ energy through light. The remaining heroes run short on numbers, but Dandy and his friends use a payphone to contact the direct descendants of those who faced Azusa centuries ago. Black and the team organize a last stand against Azusa to save the Whiteboard before the full moon appears. Using the old Glass, Renfield transforms himself into a werewolf, and the staff into monsters as well, just as Dandy’s friends and their cavalry arrive for battle. Climbing the hotel’s rooftops, Azusa fires the old Glass at the stick figures, successfully transforming Pink and Maroon into monsters after they volunteer to distract her. Black and Orange are once again ambushed by their “monstified” friends, losing the new Glass in the process.

Just as the full moon begins to show, Black is bitten by Vampire Pink and shot by a repowered new Glass, leaving Orange to rush to the old Glass by himself. On the way there, he is attacked by Vampire Black. Orange narrowly escapes and leaps for the old Glass, pressing the reversal button at the same time Vampire Black bites him. The old Glass launches a beam of energy at the moon right at midnight, reverting all monsters back to normal, including the stick figures, the staff, and Renfield; the two latter of which are arrested. As for Azusa, she is once again trapped inside a beaker, and is placed under Dandy and his friends’ custody.

Upon returning home, Black and the stick figures find their old allies trick-or-treating, despite it being early November. The stick figures join in, including Orange, who has gained some renewed bravery after this thrilling adventure.

## Cast (via archival voice-over audio)

* Ben Stiller, Frank Welker, Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Conroy, Sean Astin, and Dominic Monaghan (uncredited) as Black

* Tom Hiddleston, EddieVR, Chris Pratt, Casey Kasem, Martin Jarvis, and Elijah Wood as Orange

* Heather North as Pink

* Chris Pratt as Maroon

* Jim Carrey, Robert de Niro, Sir Ian McKellen, Liam Neeson, Daniel Stern, and Mark Fischbach (@markiplier) as Sir Renfield

* Joe Pesci, Lee Pace, and Andy Serkis as Azusa

* Andy Serkis as Zombie Light Brown

* @your\_narrator as Ro-Bun

* Gaege Gibson (@juicyfruitsnacks) as Hally

## Trivia

Audio from "Monster Mash” by Bobby “Boris” Pickett & the Crypt-Kickers, Mr. Popper’s Penguins, “the Addams Family Theme” by Vic Mizzy, “Haunted Hogs” by Ilmari Hakkola, Meet the Fockers, Marvel Studios’ Thor: Ragnarök, “Hammier Things” by Ilmari Hakkola, National Theatre’s “King Lear” trailer, the “Gremlins” theme by Jerry Goldsmith, the Lego Movie, an episode of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?, “Eggs Files” by Douglas Black Heaton, Rampage, Home Alone 2: Lost In New York, Batman: Arkham Asylum, an episode of Corridor Digital’s Coup Cuts, “Heads Will Roll” by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy, the Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King, “the Munsters Theme” by Jack Marshall, a cover of “the Addams Family Theme” by L’Orchestra Cinematique, and “Disturbia” by Rihanna were used for several scenes in the series.

Sir Renfield was inspired by R. M. Renfield, one of Count Dracula’s closest allies in Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. However, in this story, Renfield is portrayed less as a deranged servant, but someone who is more sane and organized with evil plans.

A hidden Easter egg in Episode 15 shows a mask belonging to an unnamed character designed by Terbonite (@arctic002).