- "The Power of Two" redirects here. For the prize of the season, see The Power of Two (prize).
- Not to be confused with Power of Three.
| “ | Now that that's taken care of, we can finally start the battle for, The Power of TwooooooOOOOOO~! | ” |
Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two (BFDI:TPOT), also known as Battle for The Power of Two (BFTPOT) according to Two in "You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?" or simply The Power of Two (TPOT), is the 5th season[1] of the Battle for Dream Island series, with its first 2 episodes directed by Satomi Hinatsu and Pokey and later episodes directed by Sam Thornbury and Cary Huang.
The season is hosted by Two and was announced in "The Escape from Four". The Power of Two consists of 40 contestants from the original Battle for BFDI (plus two recommended character contestants and Teardrop, who competed on her own), while the other 14 contestants continue to battle in Battle for BFB. The prize is Two's power.
The first episode, "You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?", was announced to release on January 9, 2021, according to the stinger in "Uprooting Everything". However, it was delayed a few hours due to glitches of the intro[2] and ended up being released on January 10, 2021.
The intro was made by Elias A. "coal bones", RickToons, and Amor Boretto,[3] and the song played in the TPOT intro is called "Gibberish!!".
If each episode continues the trend of having 2 characters eliminated each, there will be at least 20 episodes.
Overview[]
The official intro to the season.
This season was created following the split of Battle For BFDI, one being the 2nd half of the original season: Battle for BFB and the other being Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two. The 42 contestants were split into 6 teams of 7. At the end of the episode, the viewers can vote one member of each team who to save in the comments section, and have a window of 48 hours after every episodes are released. Teardrop joined the season and competed on her own team in "The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life". Pencil and Liy joined the season and are competing on CloudYAY and Bagged respectively as of "Category One".
Unlike post-split BFB, TPOT features a format similar to the pre-split BFB episodes.[4] The episodes produced for this season have a higher quality in both animation and writing compared to the previous seasons; consequently, they release less frequently, unlike BFB, which tends to have its episodes 3–4 weeks apart.
According to a May 2022 community post on YouTube, Satomi said she and the TPOT crew might work on the shorter and faster episodes starting with TPOT 3 and onwards after TPOT 2. Any new episodes of TPOT would come out a bit more regularly, starting with "Gardening Zero" after TPOT 3.
Satomi and Pokey would write the first two episodes of TPOT before being laid off from Jacknjellify in July 2022; subsequent episodes of TPOT would be written by Sam Thornbury, with the exception of TPOT 4 which was written by Cary Huang. TPOT 11 and 12 however were co-written by Thornbury, Michael Huang, Niall Burns and "YellowAngiru".
TPOT is running concurrently with the 2023 revival of Battle for Dream Island Again, since the release of "Well Rested" on September 1, 2023.[5]
Episodes[]
| # | Episode | Release date |
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| 1 | "You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?" | January 10, 2021 |
| 2 | "The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life" | June 18, 2022 |
| 3 | "Getting Puffball To Think About Rollercoasters" | January 28, 2023 |
| 4 | "Gardening Zero" | March 23, 2023 |
| 5 | "Fishes and Dishes" | May 4, 2023 |
| 6 | "The Great Goikian Bake-Off" | July 9, 2023[note 1] |
| 7 | "The Seven Wonders of Goiky" | September 10, 2023 |
| 8 | "Balancing P.A.C.T." | October 25, 2023 |
| 9 | "Outbreak At Stake" | December 18, 2023 |
| 10 | "Oneirophobe's Nightmare" | March 13, 2024 |
| 11 | "Out Of The Blue" | June 14, 2024 |
| 12 | "What's Up Bell's String?" | July 15, 2024[note 2] |
| 13 | "Category One" | September 14, 2024 |
| 14 | “BFDI:TPOT 14” | TBA |
Characters[]
BFDI:TPOT has 45 contestants competing, with 43 veterans coming from Battle for BFDI, and 2 recommended characters that were up for voting in "The Escape from Four". Winner and Price Tag were chosen, and are 2 of 5 newcomers, the third being Teardrop, who joined in "The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life", after Battle for BFB was over, and the fourth and fifth being Liy and Pencil, who joined in "Category One", after they were up for debut with the other exitors in "What's Up Bell's String". This time, Two is the host instead of Four.
Hosts[]
Contestants[]
| Contestant | Team(s) | Placement | Status | Votes | Stage | ||
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Pie | 
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Eliminated | 45th | 1st Eliminated "The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life" |
4,135 | Pre-Merge |
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Foldy | 
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44th | 2nd Eliminated "Getting Puffball To Think About Rollercoasters" |
5,596 | ||
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Saw | 
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43rd | 3rd Eliminated "Gardening Zero" |
4,127 | ||
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Cloudy | 
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42nd | 4th Eliminated "Gardening Zero" |
2,563 | ||
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Naily | 
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41st | 5th Eliminated "Fishes and Dishes" |
2,286 | ||
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Remote |
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40th | 6th Eliminated "Fishes and Dishes" |
5,027 | ||
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Eggy |
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39th | 7th Eliminated "The Great Goikian Bake-Off" |
2,404 | ||
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Fries | 
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38th | 8th Eliminated "The Great Goikian Bake-Off" |
4,750 | ||
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Clock |
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37th | 9th Eliminated "The Seven Wonders of Goiky" |
2,152 | ||
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Lightning |
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36th | 10th Eliminated "The Seven Wonders of Goiky" |
4,554 | ||
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Cake |
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35th | 11th Eliminated "Balancing P.A.C.T." |
3,193 | ||
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Rocky |
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34th | 12th Eliminated "Balancing P.A.C.T." |
5,175 | ||
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Puffball |
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33rd | 13th Eliminated "Outbreak At Stake" |
6,311 | ||
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Coiny |
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32nd | 14th Eliminated "Outbreak At Stake" |
4,870 | ||
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Teardrop | 
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31st | Debuted "The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life" |
N/A | ||
| 15th Eliminated "Outbreak At Stake" |
N/A (Lost Challenge) | ||||||
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Nickel |
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30th | 16th Eliminated "Oneirophobe's Nightmare" |
14,392 | ||
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Bomby |
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29th | 17th Eliminated "What’s Up Bell’s String?" |
7,769 | ||
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Bell |
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28th | 18th Eliminated "What’s Up Bell’s String?" |
4,106 | ||
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Barf Bag |
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27th | 19th Eliminated "Category One" |
11,048 | |
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Needle |
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26th | 20th Eliminated "Category One" |
13,172 | |
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Basketball |
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Final 25 | |||
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Black Hole |
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Book |
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Bottle |
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Donut |
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Eraser |
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Fanny |
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Gaty |
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Golf Ball |
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Grassy |
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Ice Cube |
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Liy | N/A |
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Marker |
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Pen |
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Pencil | N/A |
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Pillow |
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Pin |
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Price Tag |
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Robot Flower |
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Snowball |
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Tennis Ball |
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Tree |
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TV |
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Winner |
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Yellow Face |
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Failed debuters (sorted alphabetically)[]
TPOT 13[]
Teams[]
Barf Bag, Basketball, Bell, Black Hole, Bomby, Book, Bottle, Cake, Clock, Cloudy, Coiny, Donut, Eggy, Eraser, Fanny, Foldy, Fries, Gaty, Golf Ball, Grassy, Ice Cube, Lightning, Marker, Naily, Needle, Nickel, Pen, Pie, Pillow, Pin, Puffball, Remote, Robot Flower, Rocky, Saw, Snowball, Tennis Ball, Tree, TV, and Yellow Face all join TPOT, thus leaving BFB while Blocky, Balloony, Woody, Lollipop, Taco, Teardrop, Bubble, Flower, Ruby, Gelatin, Firey, Leafy, Loser, and Spongy stay at Battle for BFB instead.
Price Tag and Winner debut. The 42 contestants are then divided into 6 teams of 7.
Pie is eliminated. Teardrop joins the game as a single-member team.
Foldy is eliminated.
Saw and Cloudy are eliminated.
Naily and Remote are eliminated.
Eggy and Fries are eliminated.
Clock and Lightning are eliminated.
Cake and Rocky are eliminated.
Puffball and Coiny are eliminated. Teardrop is eliminated later in the episode, which causes Tear Drop to be disbanded.
Nickel is eliminated.
Bomby and Bell are eliminated.
The remaining contestants are split into four new teams.
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| Barf Bag | Donut | Golf Ball | Pillow | Winner | Yellow Face | |||
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| Black Hole | Fanny | Gaty | Marker | Pin | Tree | |||
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| Book | Eraser | Grassy | Ice Cube | Price Tag | Snowball | |||
  None |
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| Robot Flower | ||||||||
Robot Flower is added onto Death P.A.C.T. Yet Again.
Trivia[]
Logo shown on the end of "The Escape from Four"
- The Power of Two was originally not considered early on, and the contestants that weren't in the final 14 of BFB were going to be permanently killed off and eliminated from the game.[6]
- This is the first season...
- ...to be named directly after its prize, without "battle for" preceding it. It is also called the "Battle for the Power of Two" (or "BFTPOT") by Two in the first episode, right before the intro.
- ...that lacks the letters B, F, D, and I in its abbreviation. (TPOT)
- ...that lacks a former finalist.
- ...that lacks a former rejoiner.
- ...where less than two members of Pencil's Alliance compete, with Pencil being the only one competing in the season (not including Book and Ice Cube due to being alternates, or Needle due to her no longer being associated with Freesmart).
- ...to have the first eliminated contestant not be voiced by Michael Huang as he does not voice Pie.
- ...to have its debut at the beginning instead of the merge.
- ...to have 2 back-to-back debuts, as Winner and Price Tag join in the 1st episode and Teardrop joins in the 2nd episode.
- ...to have a Cake at Stake in its first episode.
- ...where Bubble isn't the first character to be recovered.
- ...to have double eliminations used as a form of voting.
- ...to have 2 teams up for elimination at once on multiple occasions.
- ...to have episodes split into chapters on YouTube.
- …without Donut hosting in a season he was in.
- This is the second season...
- ...to have an announced release date before it started, with IDFB being the first (However, TPOT is the only season where it was known that the premiere would be a new season (as it was expected that BFDIA 6 would come out originally instead of IDFB).
- ...to use votes to save, after Battle for BFB.
- ...to allow another contestant to debut due to someone else being absent; Battle for Dream Island Again was the first.
- ...to have the first words spoken by Michael (as Yellow Face, or Four in a recording) instead of Cary, with BFB being the first.
- ...to have a newbie (a character NOT competing in or hosting BFDI) eliminated first, after Battle for Dream Island Again.
- ...to have a team that has multiple different interpretations for it's name, with TPOT having Bagged and Battle For BFDI having Bleh.
- This is the third season to have a female contestant be the first eliminated, after Battle for Dream Island and Battle for BFDI.
- The acronym TPOT is commonly pronounced as "teapot". The acronym was hinted on March 19, 2020 with a picture of X holding a teapot posted on Jacknjellify's Twitter and community page.
- 4 to the power of 2 equals 16 (), which jokingly refers to the episode number from Battle for BFDI/BFB.
- According to Satomi Hinatsu, Kenzie Bryant came up with the name "TPOT".[7]
- It seems it was also possible that the contestants were able to switch between Battle for BFB and this competition if they wanted to.[4] However, after BFB 17, this idea seems to be scrapped due to no future BFB episodes having any involvement with TPOT contestants. However, Teardrop joined TPOT late, making her the only contestant in both BFB (post-split) and TPOT.
- This season has the 2nd largest cast of contestants at 45, surpassed by BFB's 64.
- X was originally a co-host with Two in TPOT, but he was taken back to BFB in "X Marks the Spot" as a challenge.
- As of TPOT, Pin, Coiny, Ice Cube, Rocky, Tennis Ball, Golf Ball, Teardrop, Pencil and Needle are the only characters who have competed in every season of BFDI (and were outside the TLC and LOL in IDFB).
- This is also the first season to not include Firey and Spongy, although Firey has made cameo appearances in "Balancing P.A.C.T." and "Category One".
- By default, this will be the first season (second chronologically) where Spongy isn't the highest ranking armless contestant.
- This is also the first season to not include Firey and Spongy, although Firey has made cameo appearances in "Balancing P.A.C.T." and "Category One".
- This season has the lowest number of returning Season 1 contestants, at 11.
- Saw, Needle, and Ice Cube are the only contestants to begin the season with design changes from BFB, as...
- ...Saw has her pink handle, which was first shown in "Return of the Rocket Ship".
- ...Needle is CGI, due to eating the Photo Cake that Leafy gave her in "Get to the Top in 500 Steps". She became non-CGI again after being hit by a cake in "The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life".
- ...Ice Cube is tiny, due to getting shrunken down in Four's hot soup in "Return of the Rocket Ship". She became big (normal-sized) again after dying in "The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life".
- It is later revealed that only Saw's design change is permanent and that Ice Cube's and Needle's are just temporary as seen at the end of the TPOT intro.
- David, Dora and Lollipop also still have their design changes, but they aren't competing in TPOT.
- The logo for TPOT uses the "Wolpe Fanfare" font.
- Kenzie Bryant has said that, when selecting the season's roster, the BFB team simply selected the contestants they wanted, leaving the rest for TPOT.[8]
- According to Kenzie Bryant's CuriousCat, when questioned about a nonbinary character in TPOT, she refused to comment further due to "spoilers".[9]
- "You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?" would end up introducing 2 nonbinary characters to the competition, those being Winner and Price Tag.
- In celebration of TPOT's release, #tpot became trending on Twitter with the caption, "A new season of the animated YouTube show Battle for Dream Island, titled the[sic] 'The Power of Two,' will be released".[10]
- Some character poses at the ending sequence of the season's intro are references to the show's name, The Power Of Two:
- Clock's clock hands are in the reading position of 2:00.
- Price Tag's face reads as 'P:2', obviously meaning "Power of Two".
- TV's screen depicts a green version of the Utah teapot, in reference to the show's acronym as pronounced. The Utah teapot is a 3D model commonly used for digital render testing, as well as an in-joke amongst the computer graphics community.
- Winner is holding up 2 fingers.
- The final seconds of the intro reference the intros from Battle for Dream Island, Battle For Dream Island Again, and IDFB.
- This includes the bassline during the mentioned scene, which sounds reminiscent of the music for the intros of the first three seasons.
- So far, this is the only season to have a character's name in it (Two).
- Pin, Rocky, and Fries appear to be standing around a grotato plant in the intro.
- This season's intro is the second one to feature its host(s); the first was BFB.
- This season's intro is the second-longest intro; the first is BFB 1's with 50 seconds (if you count the intro used for the entire season, however, then TPOT's intro is the longest).
- The intro is the first in BFDI's history to feature a death: Pie exploding after coming near a fire on Bomby's fuse.
- Everything involving the EXITors will take place in TPOT, despite the EXIT being in Four, who is in BFB.
- BFDI:TPOT currently has the least hosts out of any season (excluding IDFB) as it only has 1.
- The former BFB contestants who reach the final 15 in TPOT will be the only contestants who successfully surpass their placement in BFB.
- After a character is eliminated, they will be no longer present in the credits in upcoming episodes.
- So far, TPOT is seemingly the only competition season where the Announcer isn't involved in anyway, as BFDIA had him semi-hosting offscreen and BFB had him come back in the post-split.
- This season has the least amount of vote difference percentages on average, with the eliminations after "The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life" usually having less than a 1% difference.
- However, the least amount of vote difference percent overall was in Battle for BFB in "Who Stole Donut's Diary?", which only had a 0.002% difference between the bottom two.
- Naily is the contestant to receive the least votes overall in the season with 2,286. However, Clock received the least votes out of anyone in a single TPOT elimination so far, at 2,152 votes.
- TPOT and Battle for Dream Island Again are the two seasons to gain an International main producer (writer+director) as Australian Sam Thornbury has taken both roles for TPOT since "Getting Puffball To Think About Rollercoasters".
- A Better Name Than That is the only BFB team with all of it's former members that joined The Power of Two still in the game. This includes Tennis Ball, Golf Ball, TV, Basketball, Grassy, and Robot Flower.
- By bracketed letter, the number of times a contestant was eliminated under each are:
Episode Thumbnails[]
Notes[]
References[]
- ↑
- ↑ My TPOT 1 Audio Scenes! - YouTube
- ↑ 🌙 on Twitter: "Go watch TPOT, its out now! I had the opportunity to do some work (coloring) on the intro with @rickkidtoons and @coalbones and I'm so happy with how it turned out!
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 The Secret Behind BFB's Split - YouTube
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- ↑ satomi 💕 on Twitter: "Pokey came up with the name TPOT!"
- ↑ pokey‼️ on Twitter: "why was grassy in tpot? wouldn't he feel bad for four? - @Glowkitten_ — when we were picking who goes where we admittedly weren't thinking about characterization, they kinda just said "i want these ones" and took the ones they wanted for new bfb
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