Stick to the Future: A TGSW Story

Stick to the Future: a TGSW Story is a webisodic series on TikTok filmed by Wade Rininger. It is the fourth installment in the Whiteboard Saga, as well as a direct follow-up to the Great Stickmen War 3: True Colors, and is split into a two-part story.

## Plot

### Part I

In a pocket dimension set between space and time, a trio of time-travelers, created by @jackanimates2021 and led by Jack Warp, have organized a rescue mission to save Jack's older sister Eva from the Priestess of Time, a being made of all the potentially bad outcomes of the Great Stickmen War trilogy. They fail to defeat the Priestess, and Jack is thrown into a time set after the events of the third series, where Black and Orange try to build a shed. Orange accidentally causes the shed to collapse, prompting Black to dismiss him out of frustration.

Jack approaches a saddened Orange and sends him to January 9th, 2009, the time in which Jack and his team are hiding out from the Priestess. Apparently, during Jack's absence, Jack's demolition expert Waylan Volt and tech specialist Kevin "Code" Stopwatch have both managed to rescue Eva. Jack sends Orange on his first mission to correct a moment in the timeline, with Eva supervising, where Black and the Immortals were supposed to search for the other stick figures. Orange slips up, but remains unnoticed as his mishap fixes the timeline.

Convinced that Orange is ready, Jack sends himself, Orange, and his team back to the Priestess' pocket dimension. Orange provides a distraction for the Priestess' minions in order for Jack and his team to progress through the caverns. However, Orange accidentally blows his cover and tries to take on the minions alone, but is overwhelmed by the Priestess. Jack, Waylan, Code, and Eva try to help him out, but they are also beaten down.

Waylan and Code sacrifice themselves while holding off the horde of minions, but Orange, Jack, and Eva are defeated, and the Priestess proceeds to forcibly shred the timeline, creating alternate realities resulting in different outcomes from the mainstream timeline. The last three survivors, as well as the Animator, helplessly watch as the timeline continues to split apart, setting up the events of the TGSW anthology series "Let's Say..."

### LET’S SAY...

The series consists of ten episodes, two of which build up to the same story. Below, they are all listed in order of release.

* In the first Great Stickman War, Maroon (frog) was killed by one of the Supreme Leader’s robots. In this timeline, Maroon died in his stead, making himself into a vengeful rogue vigilante determined to wipe out automation.
* In the first Great Stickmen War, the Supreme Leader tried to kidnap Pink, but failed and was destroyed by Black. In this timeline, he succeeded, turning her into a cyborg working under his influence.
* In the second Great Stickmen War, the Immortals found Black living alone in his cliffside house and brought him in to take on Zorento. In this timeline, they instead found Black and the other stick figures turned into ravenous zombies, forcing them to train themselves into becoming zombie hunters.
* In the second Great Stickmen War, Horox took Zorento down and stole his gauntlet, starting a war that he would eventually lose. In this timeline, Zorento was one step ahead of him, snapping the traitor’s neck. This version of Zorento would eventually find a way to rejuvenate himself and become a more positive-thinking being.
* In the second Great Stickmen War, Pink and Maroon became cage fighters, donning their Magenta and Burgundy monikers before facing Zorento or Horox. In this timeline, they are instead a romantic couple, having gotten together after Black had abandoned them.
* In the third Great Stickmen War, Burgundy fell at the hands of Maroon when trying to control her mind. In this timeline, Burgundy kills the other stick figures and allows a regretful Maroon to see what she had done.
* In the first Great Stickmen War, Black, Maroon, and Maroon (frog) brought the stick figures back to life with the sword after they were erased from existence by the Supreme Leader’s robot army. In this timeline, they are unable to find the sword, and instead, Black and Maroon fall in love with each other.
* In the third Great Stickmen War, Burgundy injects herself with the blood transfusion, turning herself into a multicolored behemoth. In this timeline, Black injects himself with the transfusion to overpower Burgundy.

### Part II

Orange, Jack, and Eva render themselves unable to fix the timeline by hiding out in the year 2123. While Jack and Eva observe the timeline constantly branching, Orange watches a whiteboard rendition of Back to the Future, sparking the idea of making a time-traveling car. After they hook up their time-travel gear to one of the cars at an age-old car dealership, they all travel to July 29th, 2021, where the Animator delivers a checklist of the various alternate versions of past stick figures and guest characters.

Orange, Jack, and Eva travel between alternate timelines to recruit these people, with the cyborg Pink and her robot comrade Dave trying to pursue them, only for them to be forced into cooperation upon being brought in their hideout time. During that time, Jack loses his time displacement watch in the scuffle into her time, where the alternate Supreme Leader finds it. This triggers cyborg Pink’s kill drive, making her attempt to kill the vigilante Maroon (frog), but he, Orange, Jack, and Dave shut her down, freeing her from the Supreme Leader’s influence.

The Supreme Leader, now equipped with Jack’s watch, arrives to battle this amalgamation of heroes and anti-heroes, and is later joined by the Priestess of Time, who had recruited an alternate version of Horox, who apparently succeeded in stealing all the souls in the multiverse and became an anarchist in a different timeline, and engages in a battle with Burgundy. The combined army of the Supreme Leader’s robots, Horox pawns, and the Priestess’ minions are easily toppled by the heroes, prompting her to take over the Animator’s mind and bear the form of a bedlam bastion, inspired by a design by @psychogreen.

Zorento steals the part of the Priestess’ soul taking over the Animator’s mind and convinces him to come up with something that can stop her before she kills Orange, Jack, and Eva; as a result, the Animator revives Jack and Eva’s teammates Code and Waylan, who try to contain the Priestess in a totalitarian voidspace, where time is both still and flowing all at once, serving as an inter-dimensional prison, but Orange, Jack, and Eva are pulled in with her, where Jack refers to her as “Teal.” Orange tries to fight her using Jack’s watch, but to no success.

Despite the seemingly hopeless situation, Orange proceeds to bravely stand against the Priestess. The voidspace’s effects begin to affect the Priestess, and Jack sends Orange and Eva out of the voidspace by summoning the time-traveling car, while the Animator fixes the timeline himself. Jack destroys the bastion, sacrificing himself and eliminating the Priestess. Behind Orange and Eva escaping, the voidspace closes, completely destroying everything in it, leaving the pair in tears.

Twenty days after Orange left the mainstream timeline, Orange is returned home, where he learns from Eva that “Teal” was a nickname given to her by her family, as it was her mother’s favorite color. He gives his farewells to her before they leave to return to their homeworld. Orange reunites with Black and his stick figure friends and is introduced to the new colored stick figures, one of them being Teal, whom Orange immediately falls in love with upon connecting her name with Eva’s nickname.

In the end, Orange and Teal watch the night sky while sitting in a car similar to the one he remade into a time machine. With Teal resting her head on his shoulder, Orange finds his story is complete.

## Cast (via archival voice-over audio)

* Ethan Nestor-Darling, Jorma Taccone, Phil Harris, Mike Myers, George Wyner, Tye Sheridan, Drake Bell, Tom Holland, Seth McFarlane, Gary Sinise, Roger Craig Smith, David Spade, Tobey Maguire, Bill Murray, Robin Williams, and Chris Pratt as Orange
* Kevin Conroy, George Newbern, Aymee Garcia, Oscar Isaac, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Elijah Wood, Adam Driver, Rick Moranis, Sylvester Stallone, Alfred Molina, Roger Craig Smith, Jason Bateman, Dee Bradley Baker, and Michael Rooker as Jack Warp
* Jeffrey Combs, Stefán Karl Stefánsson, John Lithgow, Julianne Moore, Ian McDiarmid, Topher Grace, Naomie Harris, J.K. Simmons, Shohreh Augdashloo, and Jonathan Hyde as the Priestess of Time
* Mark Fischbach, Oscar Isaac, and Harrison Ford as Black
* Ian McDiarmid, Thomas Haden Church, and Woody Harrelson as Horox
* Daisy Ridley, Jamie Foxx, and Colleen O’Shaughnessey as Eva Warp
* Mark Strong as Waylan Volt
* George Newbern, Harold Ramis, Sir Ian McKellen, Bill Murray, and Dan Aykroyd as Kevin "Code" Stopwatch
* Jeffrey Wright (uncredited), Mark Rylance, Josh Peck, J.K. Simmons, and Ernie Hudson as the Animator
* Chuck Norris as Zuse
* Sam Denby (@your\_narrator), Hugo Weaving, Tom Selleck, and Brian Tee as Maroon (frog)
* Jennifer Aniston (uncredited), Tobey Maguire (uncredited), Topher Grace (uncredited), Willem Dafoe, Mykelti Williamson, Natalie Portman, Donna Murphy, and Tom Hardy as Maroon
* Karen Gillan (uncredited), Courtney Cox (uncredited), Tom Hanks, Eartha Kitt, Carrie Fisher, Lucy Liu, and Rosario Dawson as Pink
* Mike Pollock and Alfred Molina as Zorento
* Lee Pace (uncredited) and Patrick Warburton as Dave
* Ross Marquand (uncredited), Jonathan Freeman, Alfred Molina, and Corey Burton as the Supreme Leader
* Matt LeBlanc (uncredited) as Lime
* Matthew Perry (uncredited) as Yellow

## Trivia

Audio from the Injustice 2 video game, an episode of Lazytown, a video from the now-defunct YouTube channel Unus Annus, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Ghostbusters, the Jungle Book, Shrek, Kingsman: the Golden Circle, the Lords of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring, Star Wars: the Rise of Skywalker, Marvel Studios' Avengers: Infinity War, and "I Found a Reason" by Cat Power were used for several scenes in Stick to the Future: Part I.

Audio from “Cry Me a River” by Julie London, Spaceballs, Ready Player One, the Expendables 2, Drake & Josh, Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: No Way Home, an episode of Family Guy, Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Age of Ultron, Forrest Gump, an episode of Sonic Boom, Spider-Man 3, the Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach video game, the Emperor’s New Groove, V for Vendetta, Star Wars: the Force Awakens, Spider-Man 2, Aladdin, Zootopia, an episode of Magnum P.I., an episode of Star Wars: Visions, Justice League Dark: Apokolips War, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, an episode of Star Wars: the Bad Batch, Invincible, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, “Live Like Legends” by Ruelle, Jumanji, Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2, a cover of “Take Me Home, Country Roads” by Peter Hollens, and “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell were used for several scenes in Stick to the Future: Part II.