The Great Stickmen War 4: Era of the Changer

The Great Stickmen War 4: Era of the Changer is a webisodic series on TikTok filmed by Wade Rininger. It is the fifth installment in the Whiteboard Saga, as well as the first installment in the Great Stickmen War sequel trilogy.

## Plot

In another corner of TikTok, a black sludge-like creature called the Changer is sent off-world through a door by a dog named Sparks, an anthropomorphic lightning bolt named L.B., a pair of miniature men named Peter and Glenn, a rabbit named Bucky, and a cloud named Cloud, unknowingly banishing him to the Whiteboard. There, Black notices the Changer entering the atmosphere, mistaking him for a shooting star, and stumbles upon Maroon’s (frog) burial site on the way there, where he encounters the Changer face-to-face. During a scuffle, the Changer turns Black into multiple assorted objects, leaves him in the dust as a teddy bear, and disguises himself as Black to trick his wife Pink, eventually prompting her to kiss him.

Black tries to navigate his way back home, spontaneously transforming into things against his own will, but finds Orange and acquires his help in learning to control what he can turn into. After dropping Black off at his and Pink’s house, the Changer, who was disguised as Orange that entire time, turns into Black to throw an unsuspecting Pink off their home’s cliffside as a toaster, sending her plummeting to the water below. Black, who sees this, comes to her rescue by turning into a lobster to hold onto the rocks and Pink’s cord, holding her inches above the water.

After the Changer reveals his disguise as Orange and Black, Black engages in a brawl with the Changer, both turning into numerous things to fight one another. Black manages to neutralize the Changer and threatens to kill him for what he did to Pink, but Pink stops him, reminding him that they do not kill their enemies out of anguish. With Pink’s back turned, the Changer tries to subdue her, but fails, instead turning her into a dog. The Changer then runs off, with Black and Pink chasing after him while also rescuing the other stick figures, who were also apparently turned into random stuff by the Changer as well.

The pursuit fails, and Black instead finds Sparks, who has arrived in the Whiteboard after regretting his actions earlier. He and his crew bring the stick figures to their hideout and explain why the Changer was sent here to begin with; the Changer became overly power-hungry, bringing Sparks, his former best friend, to remove him from his world and into theirs. Sparks reveals that they might know how to turn the stick figures back to normal; by focusing on what they want the most. Most of the stick figures are cured before the Animator arrives. However, he turns out to be the Changer in disguise when the real Animator arrives, and the Changer-Animator hybrid attacks the stick figures and Sparks’ friends.

Holding onto the edge of a cliff by his claw, claw machine Blue lets himself and his allies fall, and he carries them back up in his cured stick-figure form, where he wanted his friends to be free of the Changer-Animator’s reach. Sparks, Bucky, and the Animator attack the Changer, but Black leaps off the cliff, taking the Changer with him and sparking a rematch. This time, Black is more furious about the Changer’s doings, and starts to beat him down more aggressively than before. Just before he can impale the Changer as a sword, Pink, back in her stick-figure form, stops him, wanting him to not kill out of anguish like she said earlier.

Black realizes his actions and stands down before the Changer fatally wounds Pink by stabbing her with his arm. Returning to his stick-figure form, wanting to protect his wife, a cured Black finally kills the Changer out of mercy. In the end, Sparks and his friends return to their world, and Pink, recovering from her injury, shares a kiss with Black.

## Cast (via archival voice-over audio)

* Tom Hanks, Jonah Hill, James Earl Jones, and Tom Holland as Black
* Marisa Tomei and Elizabeth Olsen as Pink
* Hudson Thawes and Tobey Maguire as Orange
* Danai Gurira as Maroon
* Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Tim Allen, Tom Holland, Paul Bettany, Will Ferrell, Jack Nicholson, and Willem DaFoe as the Changer
* Mark Fischbach, Kevin Costner, Paul Bettany, and Michael Keaton as Sparks
* Seán McLoughlin and Paul Rudd as Bucky
* Mark Ruffalo as Light Brown
* Tim Allen as Blue
* Don Rickles as Purple
* John Ratzenberger as Green
* Wallace Shawn as Light Blue
* Jim Varney as Red
* Michael Keaton as the Animator

## Trivia

Audio from Marvel Studios' Avengers: Infinity War, "Levitating" by Dua Lipa, Toy Story, “Duel of the Fates” by John Williams and the London Symphony Orchestra, Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: Homecoming, a cover of Ozzy Osbourne’s “Crazy Train” by Joseph William Morgan, an episode of Marvel Studios’ WandaVision, “I Get Around” by the Beach Boys, “Bad” by Michael Jackson, Sonic the Hedgehog, Megamind, the Fortnite Chapter 2: Season 6 trailer, Field of Dreams, an episode of Marvel Studios’ What If...?, the Incredibles, Spider-Man, “Shake Your Groove Thing” by Peaches & Herb, “Insane” by Black Gryph0n and Baasik, Toy Story 2, Batman (1989), Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: No Way Home, a mashup of “Party Rock Anthem” by LMFAO and “Viva la Vida” by Coldplay, and “We Didn’t Start the Fire” by Billy Joel were used for several scenes in the series.