The idea for my game is this: the main character runs around the screen and there's other AI characters walking around. He walks up to one and presses "enter" and then an animation of him strangling that AI character begins.

Since the AI characters are going to look different from each other (e.g. male female, different hair color, etc.), does this mean you have to make a new strangling animation for EACH AI character, or can you create ONE strangling animation with a generic, blank character movieclip, and (then using code) replace that movieclip with the proper AI movieclip?

Thanks.