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| “ | I don't have a favorite number, I really don't. | ” |
— 8-Ball, on multiple occasions
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8-Ball is a male contestant on Battle for BFDI.
In Battle for Dream Island, 8-Ball was one of the 30 recommended characters that had a chance to join the show in "The Reveal". The votes for the debut were revealed in "Reveal Novum" and he only got 8 votes which was not enough to join, placing him 15th to join the season.
In Battle for Dream Island Again, 8-Ball had the chance to join at the start of the season but he only received 154 votes which wasn't enough, placing 35th to join the season and so he was sent to the Tiny Loser Chamber.
In IDFB, 8-Ball is currently in the Tiny Loser Chamber due to failing to debut in BFDIA. He had a chance to join the season but only received 110 votes[4], which was not enough to rejoin and placed him 22nd to join the season.
In Battle for BFDI, 8-Ball competed on A Better Name Than That until "Questions Answered" where he was eliminated with 4,814 votes, placing 60th overall.
In Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two, 8-Ball was in The E.X.I.T. until his escape in "Out Of The Blue" due to being eliminated before "The Escape from Four". He was up for voting to join the season in "What's Up Bell's String?". He failed to join with 3,609 votes, the least out of all the EXITors, placing him 10th (last place) to join the season. As of Seasonal Shift, 8-Ball is with Firey.
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Appearance[]
8-Ball appears to be a 8 billiard ball, a ball used to play the table game pool.
Changes[]
BFDI 15
- 8-Ball has legs.
- 8-Ball's 8 is towards the right of his side.
- 8-Balls two legs are uneven.
BFDI 17-BFDIA 13
- 8-Ball's 8 is toward the top.
- 8-Ball has a shine gradient toward the top.
- 8-Ball loses his legs.
BFDIA 13+
- 8-Ball's body is a bit brighter.
- 8 Ball's asset is mirrored.
Personality[]
BFB[]
8-Ball always wants everyone to know that he does not have a favorite number, despite his name. He speaks in a bland, monotone tone most of the time, except in "Today's Very Special Episode" where he got emotional and almost started to cry after nearly causing the team to lose. In "Getting Teardrop to Talk", 8-Ball successfully managed the team after Golf Ball's death without being controlling or bossy, leaving the rest of the team to give him the title of team captain in "Lick Your Way to Freedom".
In later episodes, he started telling the team to do the opposite of whatever Golf Ball said, causing the team to almost lose twice. He later said that he was joking and trying to add humor to his team the entire time. 8-Ball's attempts at humor show that he tries to lift the spirit of the team and boost morale with good intentions, though he often comes across as somewhat dim-witted at not seeing the negative effects of his sarcasm. This dry wit is best shown when he manages to sway Bracelety into disliking Loser by using Ice Cube's supposed dislike of the latter.
TPOT[]
His character continues to develop despite not being a competitor, particularly through his experiences as one of the EXIT escapees. His first major role is in "Out Of The Blue," where he, along with Dora and Firey Jr, work together to break free from the EXIT and shield each other from Four. Throughout the episode, 8-Ball forms new friendships and provides unconditional support to his allies. His determination to escape is evident, and he even shows a willingness to sacrifice himself to help the other teams. This highlights his readiness to embrace challenges and stand by his teammates, showcasing his evolving role within the group dynamics.
Official Character Guide biography[]
8-Ball is a pool ball-the black 8 to be exact. Unlike the other balls, he moves by rolling around.
8-Ball will not let people forget that he doesn't have a favorite number. Despite his uninterested tone of voice, he inspired his team to overthrow Golf Ball as its leader. Everyone seems to listen to him whenever he opposes Golf Ball's directions. In fact, Basketball is 8-Ball's closest follower, asking him for guidance during BFB's most tumultuous time.
Did You Know?: 8-Ball has never counted to 9.
Powers and abilities[]
- Strong teeth: 8-Ball's teeth are very strong, as shown when he is able to bite and destroy the jawbreaker holding Golf Ball. However, this could not be true, as in a BFB 2 deleted scene, Blocky steals a VHS from Free Food about breaking jawbreakers, which invloves putting saliva on them in order to complete the task with ease
- Fumes: Whenever 8-balls remains enter someones body, the affected person will emphasize words that sound similar to eight. (other effects are here)
Coverage[]
Appearances[]
- Battle for Dream Island
- "Vomitaco" (cameo)
- "The Reveal"
- "Reveal Novum" (speaks in group)
- "Return of the Hang Glider" (cameo)
- Battle for Dream Island Again
- "Yeah, Who? I Wanna Know" (does not speak coherently)
- "Get in the Van" (3rd-anniversary wheel)
- "No More Snow!" (cameo)
- "Well, Look Who It Is!" (speaks in group)
- "PointyPointyPointy ♫" (does not speak)
- "Spore Day" (does not speak)
- "Respect to the Wicked" (does not speak)
- IDFB
- "Welcome Back" (voting screen)
- Battle for BFDI
- "Getting Teardrop to Talk"
- "Lick Your Way to Freedom"
- "Why Would You Do This on a Swingset"
- "Today's Very Special Episode"
- "Fortunate Ben" (does not speak)
- "Four Goes Too Far"
- "The Liar Ball You Don't Want"
- "Questions Answered" (eliminated)
- "This Episode Is About Basketball" (flashback)
- "Enter the Exit"
- "Get to the Top in 500 Steps"
- "Return of the Rocket Ship" (voting screen only)
- "The Escape from Four"
- Battle for BFB
- "SOS (Save Our Show)" (flashback)
- "Chapter Complete" (imaginary)
- Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two
- "You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?" (stinger, does not speak)
- "Fishes and Dishes" (shown on TV)
- "The Seven Wonders of Goiky" (stinger)
- "Outbreak At Stake" (stinger)
- "Out Of The Blue"
- "What's Up Bell's String?"
- "Category One" (does not speak)
- "I SAID CAREFUL!!!" (stinger, flashback)
- "Seasonal Shift" (stinger, does not speak coherently)
- Non-canon appearances
Battle for Dream Island[]
8-Ball in Battle for Dream Island
In "Vomitaco", 8-Ball appears as a recommended character.
In "The Reveal", 8-Ball has been "handpicked out of hundreds" and has the chance to debut in BFDI. He states that he has no favorite number in his audition.
In "Reveal Novum", 8-Ball coincidentally receives 8 votes and is sent to the LOL.
In "Return of the Hang Glider", 8-Ball can be seen amongst the numerous recommended characters, watching the final Cake at Stake.
Battle for Dream Island Again[]
In "Yeah, Who? I Wanna Know", 8-Ball only gets 154 votes and is sent to the TLC.
In "No More Snow!", 8-Ball, Grassy, and Bell can be seen in the woods as Book and Ruby run away from Evil Leafy. It can be assumed this was retconned, as 8-Ball was seen in the TLC/LOL in his next appearance.
In “Well, Look Who It Is!”, 8-Ball is in the LOL along with all the other failed BFDIA Debuters. 8-Ball along with many other TLCers boos Cake when Cake gets in the way of the menu being shown on TV. After the LOL is flown to Yoyleland due to Pen seeing Pin glitching, the LOL hits a ray from the Enhancement L-Yoy-ser, and 8-Ball’s design is updated (although barely).
In "PointyPointyPointy ♫" and "Spore Day," 8-Ball is shown in the LOL. However, he does not get lines.
In "Respect to the Wicked," 8-Ball does not get lines due to Balloony taping his mouth shut.
IDFB[]
In "Welcome Back", he is given a chance to join the game, along with the other characters in the TLC.
Battle for BFDI[]
8-Ball in Battle for BFDI
In "Getting Teardrop to Talk", he is first seen talking to Gaty, asking her what her favorite number is. When Gaty replies with 3, 8-Ball says he doesn't have a favorite number. He joins A Better Name Than That and helps recruit Golf Ball and Tennis Ball for the team. During the challenge, 8-Ball is used to bring the basket down to the ground according to Golf Ball's plan. He appoints himself as team leader after Blocky kills Golf Ball, and successfully helps the team get the basket to X.
ln "Lick Your Way to Freedom", he bites a jawbreaker, opening it and revealing Golf Ball to be inside, making their team safe. A Better Name Than That appoints him as the new and current team leader, due to Golf Ball not treating Grassy with respect.
In "Why Would You Do This on a Swingset", 8-Ball takes advantage of his place as the team leader and orders his team to do the opposite of whatever Golf Ball says, beginning this spree of sarcasm, much to Golf Ball's dismay.
In "Today's Very Special Episode", 8-Ball once again reverses Golf Ball's instructions, telling the team to waste time on the challenge, which prompts TV to start a countdown to just before the end of the contest. After his team barely passes, 8-Ball suddenly drops his bland voice and apologizes to the team for contradicting Golf Ball's original command to go to work and nearly causing the team to lose. He claims that he had only been saying those things sarcastically, "to add some humor" and lift the team's spirits. Golf Ball seems to forgive him, but the rest of the team continues to ignore her.
In "Four Goes Too Far", Basketball complains about Four being so destructive. She asks 8-Ball what to do about this, but he says Golf Ball has the answer. When Golf Ball tells A Better Name Than That to get on her rocket, 8-Ball begins to tell the team to do the opposite, which causes Golf Ball to get somewhat upset.
In "The Liar Ball You Don't Want", while contestants from 
throw instructions at Tennis Ball, who is trying to control Remote to defend their goals in the challenge, 8-Ball informs them that they are doing their best.
In "Questions Answered", his team is up for elimination. 8-Ball and his team are still seen on the Moon until Donut unites both the Earth and the Moon. In Cake at Stake, he gets the most votes out of his entire team, placing him 60th. 8-Ball is then crushed to death by the Moon, and his fumes are inhaled by Saw, which causes her to shout "Eight!" at random times during the quiz show.
"Yeah, but he lied so we all hate him now."
In "Enter the Exit", Four is recovered and Clock tells him which contestants have died. Four recovers them, 8-Ball included, but Clock then remembers he was eliminated so he gets sucked up by Four. After all the eliminated contestants who weren't yet get sucked up, 8-Ball notices a door. This leads to EXIT. When the first four eliminated contestants wonder why there is a talking jawbreaker, he informs them that it's Loser, leaving the four eliminated contestants in shock. However, he states that because Loser lied, everyone hates him. Bracelety says she still doesn't hate him until 8-Ball says that Ice Cube hates him, changing her mind.
Later, Four announces to the class that one of the eliminated contestants will rejoin the show. Pencil says that she's been dying to get out of the class, followed by 8-Ball and Stapy agreeing, leading to Liy reminding them they've only just gotten there. During his audition to rejoin, 8-Ball says that he shouldn't be in math class because he already knows what the most important number is. He's about to say eight but is then interrupted by Four singing, causing him to say four. He then whispers to the viewers, "times two." However, Four hears this and attacks him.
In "Get to the Top in 500 Steps", 8-Ball only receives 998 votes to rejoin, keeping him in EXIT. When he asks Liy if she's sad she didn't rejoin, Liy points to the door in the back of the classroom and tells him she's found her next adventure.
In "The Escape from Four", 8-Ball tells Pencil that Loser couldn't hear her from inside the Liar Ball, which encourages her to eavesdrop on what he's saying. Later, when Loser breaks free from his Liar Ball, he is glad to see him and said that he loves Loser eight times more than he loves Winner. He is seen cheering for Loser along with Firey Jr. and David as he was building their tower. Unlike the others, 8-Ball isn't able to participate in escaping through Spongy due to his lack of limbs.
Battle for BFB[]
In "Chapter Complete", 8-Ball is first shown cheering for Four. A voice can then be heard asking when Four will come back, and 8-Ball asks Four what it meant by "coming back". Later, 8-Ball tells Four that everyone except them dislikes him, but that he shouldn't worry as he may not have a favorite number but does have a favorite host. When Four says that the contestants don't deserve to have him and can keep the Announcer, 8-Ball says that they wouldn't even care, making Four angry enough to zap 8-Ball, killing him. 8-Ball's body, along with other fake contestants, is then snapped out of existence by Four.
Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two[]
In "You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?", 8-Ball appears briefly in the stinger, watching Liy and Stapy with the other EXITors.
In "Fishes and Dishes," he appears briefly on TV's screen, when Robot Flower greets him.
In "The Seven Wonders of Goiky", 8-Ball manages to escape along with the other EXITors from Four. After walking down the hallway, they notice the mindscape from Four's dimension.
In "Outbreak At Stake," 8-Ball seems to be in a disagreement with the other exitors until Stapy proposes splitting into groups to find an escape. Pencil tasks 8-Ball with journeying into the depths of the fourest alongside Dora and Firey Jr.
In "Out Of The Blue", 8-Ball, Dora, and Firey Jr are wandering through the fourest, with 8-Ball casually mentioning he doesn't have a preferred direction. They soon realize they're going in circles. In frustration, Firey Jr picks up 8-Ball and hurls him at a tree. 8-Ball rebounds off the trunk and lands on Firey Jr, irritating him. Dora takes charge and leads them in a new direction, prompting 8-Ball to shake off the incident and follow along after their previous confusion.
Later, as they continue through the forest, Dora begins chopping down trees. 8-Ball agrees it's a good strategy, suggesting they use the trees for their stack. They cheer her on as she works, with 8-Ball expressing his admiration for her efforts. Suddenly, Four emerges from the ground and snatches 8-Ball, but drops him when Dora uses Firey Jr to burn his hand. Four retaliates by kicking them through the forest, where they crash-land at a nearby shipwreck.
Firey Jr proposes returning to the school, but 8-Ball reminds him that they lack items for their stack. They decide to explore the shipwreck for potential supplies, with Firey Jr staying alert outside.
As 8-Ball and Dora approach the water near the ship, 8-Ball accidentally falls in when Dora gets distracted by a map of an island. He starts to drown, calling for help, and Dora rescues him, apologizing for her earlier mistake. They also discover several treasure chests, hoping to use them for their stack. While retrieving the chests, a large tentacle suddenly grabs Dora, leaving them bewildered. They manage to escape thanks to Firey Jr's assistance, but unfortunately lose the items in the process.
Once they go outside, they are confused as to how high up they are, only to realize that they are being held up by Four in the form of what appears to be a Kraken. 8-Ball, who is starting to doubt that they’ll ever escape, asks Dora to throw him at the sail. She does so, and the force of the ship lands on Four, burning him. As he screams in pain, he throws the shipwreck onto the shore and they all survive. They are initially annoyed that the ship burnt and that they weren’t able to save any items, but Dora luckily did, and 8-Ball congratulates her for her efforts before leaving with the treasure chests.
As they reach the hallway, they stop for a quick break and 8-Ball is glad that they were able to retrieve the stash in one piece, but just then Four arrives, so they quickly leave but end up getting half their stash blasted by him in the process.
Upon arrival, they help to rebuild the stack. After escaping, Four is about to send them back, but they are interrupted by Two, who instead hires them as chefs for the failed debuters. The exitors remain unsatisfied, and when Match experiences a panic attack, Stapy tells her they’ll figure this out, to which 8-Ball nods in agreement. The group notice another show going on and want to participate, so they try to escape through the windows. The episode is then left on a cliffhanger.
In "What's Up Bell's String?", 8-Ball, along with the rest of the exitors, continues attempting to break out of the hotel. Later, at the end of the episode, a piano crashes through the windows, freeing all the exitors. 8-Ball is then given a chance to join TPOT. In his audition, he tells the viewers that if he rejoins, he hopes to make it to the final 8.
In "Category One," 8-Ball is the first EXITor announced to not be joining TPOT, with 3,609 votes. After Match and Roboty are also rejected, they all fly off into the storm screaming.
In "I SAID CAREFUL!!!", 8-Ball, along with Roboty, make a minor appearance in the flashback/stinger when Match gets rejected from joining TPOT. He does not speak.
In "Seasonal Shift" he is seen buried under a pile of sand in the stinger, Firey gets him out of it and they both begin building a boat.
Relationships[]
- Main article: 8-Ball/Relationships
Votes[]
| Episode | Votes |
|---|---|
| 18 | 8 (to join) |
| Episode | Votes |
|---|---|
| 1 | 154 (to join) |
| Episode | Votes |
|---|---|
| 8 | 4,814 (eliminated) |
| 11 | 998 (to rejoin) |
| Episode | Votes |
|---|---|
| 13 | 3,609 (to join) |
| Elimination | Total |
|---|---|
| 4,814 | 9,583 |
Deaths[]
- "Reveal Novum": Crushed by the Sun with the other recommended characters in the LOL.
- "Questions Answered": Crushed by the Moon.
- "Chapter Complete": Fried by eye lasers. (imagined up by Four)
Non-canon deaths:
- "If Among Us Was a BFDI Challenge": Sucked up into Black Hole.
- "UNREAL BFDI — Thanks for 1 Billion Views!": Falls onto Yellow Face, transforming into 9-Ball.
Kills[]
Kills: 1
| Character | Number of times killed | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| Four | 1 | "Four Goes Too Far" (along with A Better Name Than That and Donut) |
Non-canon kills:
- "Happy Birthday, Battle for BFDI!": Devours Cake along with many other contestants.
Trivia[]
Comparisons[]
- 8-Ball, along with Bell, Roboty, Puffball, Yellow Face, Black Hole, and Cloudy are the only contestants to be completely limbless.
- 8-Ball is one of the six contestants who have their names end with the suffix "-ball". The rest are Tennis Ball, Basketball, Snowball, Golf Ball and Puffball.
- He is also the only ball who does not compete in TPOT, due to being eliminated and not escaping from Four in "The Escape from Four".
- 8-Ball is the only contestant with a number in his name.
- He is one of the few contestants to have white facial features rather than the usual black, along with Remote, Cake, Profily, TV, and Price Tag.
- Counting his cameo in "No More Snow!", 8-Ball is one of the few contestants who escaped the TLC while the game was still going, the others are Ice Cube, Bell, Grassy, Evil Leafy, Cloudy, and Lightning.
- He is one out of the three characters to have a special character in their name; the others are 9-Ball and Black & White Cookie.
- He's the only one who is a solid color instead of 2 misc. colors.
- He is one of the 3 characters to have never appeared in a thumbnail, the others being Eggy and Remote.
- This makes him the only male contestant who has never been featured in any thumbnail.
- 8-Ball, along with David, Roboty, and Stapy were in the EXIT for 6 years, 1 month, and 17 days.
Competition[]
- 8-Ball is one of the few contestants who haven't survived an elimination; the others are Bracelety, Dora, and Stapy.
- 8-Ball, Dora, Bracelety, Stapy, Foldy, and Profily are the only contestants who haven't received any prizes at Cake at Stake.
- 8-Ball, Bracelety, Roboty, Stapy, David, and Firey Jr. are the only contestants to have competed on one team only.
- With the other ball characters in TPOT, 8-Ball is the only ball contestant in BFB, despite his elimination.
- He is the lowest ranking member of A Better Name Than That.
- He was eliminated at the lowest percentage of elimination votes in BFB, at 21.66%.
- Spongy was eliminated at an even lower percentage, 6.5%, but in save votes.
- Coincidentally, he got 8 votes in "Reveal Novum".
- He was also eliminated in "Questions Answered", the eighth episode of BFB.
- He also placed 8th out of the members of A Better Name Than That.
- He also got in 8th place of votes to rejoin in "Get to the Top in 500 Steps".
- In "Category One", 8-Ball received the least votes to join TPOT.
- 8-Ball, Stapy, and Bracelety are the only contestants who've been up for elimination once.
- This is because their first elimination was their last, as they were eliminated on their first elimination.
General[]
- 8-Ball is the first contestant in alphabetical order.
- In "Getting Teardrop to Talk", almost all of 8-Ball's lines start with "I don't have a favorite number", referencing his debut audition in "The Reveal".
- He would continue to bring up his lack of a favorite number or reference the number 8 in "Today's Very Special Episode", "Questions Answered", "Enter the Exit", and "The Escape from Four".
- On his worksheet in "Get to the Top in 500 Steps", the question "What is your favorite number?" is answered with "I don't have one."
- He is the only limbless character voiced by Cary Huang.
- 8-Ball is the only character in BFB whose name is separated with a hyphen.
- However, in one of Michael's tweets, there was a character with name separated with a hyphen called Drear-Top.
- In "No More Snow!", he can be seen in the forest with Bell and Grassy.
- 8-Ball has been crushed to death by both the sun and the moon.
- Coincidentally, both his deaths involve being crushed by huge celestial objects.
- These are his only deaths so far.
- Out of the ten current Exitors, 8-Ball is the only one who died at least once in BFB.
- For some reason, 8-ball does not possess an outline, a feat unique to him since he is an actual character, and not a prop, which normally don’t have ones in BFB onward.
- Even more odd is that props throughout BFDI to IDFB usually did have outlines.
- 8-Ball moves by rolling around and is the only character to regularly do this (aside from Pin when she didn't have limbs, Puffball when she was bandaged up, and Yellow Face on a few occasions).
- 8-Ball temporarily acted as the new leader of A Better Name Than That after replacing Golf Ball.
- He would later allow Golf Ball to be in charge again in "Four Goes Too Far".
- In "Getting Teardrop to Talk", when 8-Ball is launched by the trebuchet, he has an old mouth asset, but it only appears briefly.
- 8-Ball claims to not have a favorite number, although he says 8 is the most important number in "Enter the Exit".
- He has very strong jaws, as seen in "Lick Your Way to Freedom" when he bites open a jawbreaker.
- 8-Ball is the only BFB newcomer with an official variation, 9-Ball.
- There is another 8-Ball from Inanimate Insanity who shares the same recommender (TheBombDigiyShis) as him according to the auditions. However, it is said they're supposedly different characters.
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See also[]
References[]
- ↑ Typo, corrected by an annotation prior to removal.
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SXk3QYAXjo&lc=Ugz550RlvVAnScYQLxJ4AaABAg.A1aFoGLgjpMA3HdSTRFlNX
- ↑ [BFB3]
- ↑ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13dUHjWwflvXt2cuW-oGNV29z6XK3KunzWfHPonZoX0M/edit#gid=1397548773
| BFDI possible debutants |
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| 8-Ball • Balloony • Barf Bag • Basketball • Bell • Bomby • Book • Clock • Cloudy • Dora • Eggy • Evil Leafy • Fanny • Fries • Grassy • Marker • Naily • Nickel • Nonexisty • Pie • Pillow • Remote • Robot Flower • Roboty • Ruby • Saw • Taco • Tree • TV |
| IDFB TLC/LOL |
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| BFDI contestants that are permanently eliminated BFDIA contestants that are permanently eliminated BFDI contestants who failed to join BFDIA Recommended characters who failed to join both BFDI and BFDIA |
| A Better Name Than That |
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 Switched to TPOT: Basketball • Golf Ball • Grassy • Robot Flower • Tennis Ball • TV |
| EXIT |
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| Inhabitants: Purple Face • Three
Former: Leafy • Loser • Spongy • Pencil • Bracelety • Liy • Roboty • 8-Ball • Stapy • David • Match • Firey Jr. • Dora • Fourse |