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— Camera, "You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?"
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Camera is a character that was up for debut in Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two.
In Battle for BFDI, Camera was one of the 26 recommended characters that had a chance of joining Two's show in "The Escape from Four". The votes for the debut were revealed in the first episode of TPOT.
In Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two, Camera's votes were revealed in "You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?" and she only got 1,124 votes which was not enough to join, placing her 16th to join the season.
Quick Answers
What is the significance of the character Camera in Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two?
What was Camera's ranking based on the votes received in 'The Escape from Four'?
What is the role of the character Camera in the show 'Battle for BFDI'?
Why did Camera not join the show in 'You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?' episode?
Appearance[]
Camera appears to be a digital single-lens reflex video camera, a portable small camera for general photography and film recording. Her body is a dark gray, the zoom lens is a smoky gray, the lens' shine is a light gray, and the recorder is a dark cobalt blue. She has a white face on the front of the lens that shows when she is used to take pictures. Camera has a color screen with three buttons and a control pad equipped on her back, and has a built-in microphone, bluetooth, and connecting to devices such as TV to project footage taken.
Changes[]
BFDI 15
- Camera is named "Snappy"
- Snappy is light gray.
- Snappy has a red circle on her top.
- Snappy has legs.
- Snappy has black facial features.
- Snappy's face is on the side of the camera.
BFDI 16
- Camera is named "Camery".
- Camery is a darker gray.
- Camery's face is on the front of the camera.
BFDI 17
- Camery is renamed to "Camera".
- Camera loses her legs.
- Camera is black.
- Camera has white facial features.
- Camera is about as tall as Grassy (tripod included).
- Camera's face is now on the lens.
IDFB
- Camera is as tall as Ice Cube (tripod included).
BFB
- Camera is significantly downsized to the size of Bracelety or Rocky.
- Her reflection lines are redrawn and more transparent.
Personality[]
Camera is prideful of her capabilities as a camera, and seems to have a dislike towards Clapboard. Camera's ego is however easy to foil, as she is humiliated to learn that they failed to debut TPOT and wanted to be hidden. Camera is also prone to motion sickness and dislike being roughly handled.
Abilities[]
- Bluetooth connectivity: In "Plan Dissolve Adhesive", PDA connects to Camera's bluetooth connection in order to take advantage of their built in microphone and communicate with the remaining failed debuters.
- Printing: In "PointyPointyPointy ♫", Camera prints out the photo taken instantly, appearing out of their mouth.
Coverage[]
- Battle for Dream Island
- "Vomitaco" (does not speak)
- "Bowling, Now with Explosions!" (does not speak)
- "The Reveal" (does not speak)
- "Return of the Hang Glider" (cameo)
- Battle for Dream Island Again
- "Get Digging" (flashback)
- "Get in the Van" (3rd-anniversary tidbit)
- "Well Rested" (does not speak)
- "Intruder Alert" (does not speak)
- "PointyPointyPointy ♫" (does not speak)
- IDFB
- "Welcome Back" (does not speak)
- Battle for BFDI
- "The Liar Ball You Don't Want" (does not speak)
- "Questions Answered" (does not speak)
- "Enter the Exit" (does not speak)
- "The Escape from Four" (does not speak)
- Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two
- Other
- Non-canon appearances
Battle for Dream Island[]
In "Vomitaco", Camera appears as part of the large crowd watching the Cake at Stake for that episode along with the rest of the recommended characters.
In "Bowling, Now with Explosions!", Camera appears as part of the large crowd watching the elimination for that episode along with the rest of the recommended characters. They are walled in by Announcer to keep the Cake at Stake private but was later burned to death in the night scene along with the rest of the recommended characters.
In "The Reveal", Camera appears as part of the large crowd watching the elimination for that episode along with the rest of the recommended characters.
In "Return of the Hang Glider", Camera appeared twice, the first as part of the episode 17 crowd, and once again as a unique recommended character for the episode 25 section.
Battle for Dream Island Again[]
In "Get Digging", Camera made a cameo in Teardrop's flashback.
In "Well Rested", Ruby pulls out Camera when FreeSmart decides to start recording video diaries, with her lens cap still on her, obscuring her face and only recording audio for said video diaries.
In "Intruder Alert", Pencil continues to record the video diary started in the previous episode, still with the lens cap on.
In "PointyPointyPointy ♫", during the Coiny and Pin pair's time on Teardrop's island, Coiny notices a shipwreck which relates to a lengend that Teardrop was a pirate, Coiny wants a photo of himself next to the ship remnants. Pin carries Camera on a selfie stick and backs up into Popcorn by mistake, killing them. Pin then takes a photo of Coiny, but is photobombed by Milk Drop running to hug Pin, printing the processed photo and disappointing Pin.
IDFB[]
In "Welcome Back", Camera appears once again as part of FreeSmart on the Yoyle Needy and is recording video diary day 1127. Pencil finds out that Ruby left the lens cap on it, and for that reason, the video diaries are worthless. It makes its physical appearance when Bubble tells Ruby that she has to remove the lens cap before recording. Camera is also seen next to Bubble and Ruby while they eat the gumdrops they saved. Bubble then violently shakes Camera and says how much she loves green gumdrops and then ate it. Camera once again appears at the zoom out of Book asking Ruby if she left the lens cap on Camera the whole time, and she says "maybe". Pencil replies upset and says that 3 years of video diaries vanished. After the Yoyle Needy zoom in, Camera disappears, it might be possibly a mistake.
Battle for BFDI[]
In "The Liar Ball You Don't Want", Camera made a cameo appearance with Lightning. She was used to take a picture of Donut. She initially was fully zoomed in, until Lightning zoomed out to see Donut.
In "Questions Answered", after the (fake) voting screen comes up, Match destroys it and goes to Donut saying they truly won. Camera, angry, replays the footage of Stapy and Puffball cheating, and as a result, and thanks to Camera, iance is safe from elimination.
In "Enter the Exit", Eraser shows Foldy the footage of Stapy cheating.
Camera does not directly appear in "The Four is Lava", but a recommended character with the same name appeared in the second recommended character crowd during the credits was seen that was a blue recolor of her.
Camera became eligible to become a contestant in "The Power of Two". In her audition, she replays footage from "Welcome Back", only to be interrupted by Clapboard, and stops playing the footage.
Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two[]
In "You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?", Camera is at the Hotel for Cake at Stake. After the eliminations of Conch Shell, Boom Mic, and Clapboard, comments that she will see them in "post production". Camera is eliminated with 1,124 votes along with Blender and Onigiri, where after Camera learns her fate, asks to be hidden due to embarrassment. Blender grabs Camera's lens cap from Onigiri's mouth and puts it on her face before descending into the hotel below. She can later be seen on the fifth floor of the hotel along with 9 Ball, Kitchen Sink, Shampoo, Boom Mic, Leek, and Tape.
In "Plan Dissolve Adhesive", PDA connects to Camera via a Bluetooth connection to utilize their built-in microphone and communicate with the immobilzed failed debuters. It is revealed that Camera was glued to Clapboard's leg. When communication with PDA is cut off, Clapboard shakes their leg with Camera on it, with Camera plaeding to Clapbaord to stop shaking her or else she will get sick.
In "I SAID CAREFUL!!!", Camera is plugged into TV by PDA, causing pain to Camera and asks PDA to watch it, with PDA ignoring Camera by telling her to be quiet. As a prize for Cake at Stake, pictures of each safe contestant are taken by Camera. PDA, Blender, and Rubber Spatula are all seen using Camera to take pictures of the safe players.
In "Seasonal Shift" Camera is being suspended by Rubber Spatula by a wire to hold up the failed debuters wanting to explore the hole that Anchor created, specifically Kitchen Sink, Clapboard, Shopping Cart, and Boom Mic, Leek, Discy, and Scissors. Camera remarks that she is in pain from the stress put on the failed debuters hanging onto her cable and wants it to stop, Kitchen Sink grabs onto Camera and says he's got this, and adjusts Camera's focus to reveal further into the pit, with Camera questioning to Kitchen Sink how it will help them, who replies it helps them see further and doesn't help Camera. After Rubber Spatula fails to hold the cord, it snaps and leaves Camera falling down the hole. It is revealed shortly after the fall that Camera had died, as Leek holds her broken corpse.
Deaths[]
- "Bowling, Now with Explosions!": Likely burned to death while trapped in a large metal box.
- "Seasonal Shift": Died likely due to the impact of the fall created by Rubber Spatula tugging the cord.
Trivia[]
- Camera is one of the 9 characters that appeared in all seasons, the others are Woody and the other 8 contestants that competed in.
- Camera and the Announcer are the only characters to have their interfaces shown.
- Prior to Camera's first speaking role in "You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?", Satomi Hinatsu confirmed that she had a voice in mind for Camera.[2]
- However, it was also confirmed that she was not going to voice her.[3]
- Camera is currently the only recommended character to reappear in IDFB that wasn't able to join the game.
- Camera is the only non-joining recommended character that has appeared in all seasons of BFDI.
- According to Cary in his BFB 7 reaction video, Michael Huang drew Camera's asset.
- When she is used, a faint face can be seen if looked at close enough, though this feature was exclusive to Camera's appearance in "The Liar Ball You Don't Want".
- So far, the characters to have used Camera are Lightning, Pencil, Ruby, Book, Bubble, Match, Eraser, PDA, Blender, and Rubber Spatula.
- Camera's appearance in "The Escape from Four" is the first time her face has been fully animated.
- Camera is one of the few characters who appeared in another character's audition, along with Woody (off-screen), Lightning, Battery, Clapboard, and Onigiri.
- Camera is one of the two TPOT debuters who lack limbs, the other being 9-Ball.
- Camera is one of the two TPOT debuters whose voice actor voices at least one character who is a contestant, the other being Avocado.
- Camera is one of the seven TPOT debuters who had appearances prior to BFB, the others being Battery, 9-Ball, Discy, Nonexisty, Scissors, and Tape.
- Camera is one of the eight TPOT debuters with white facial features, the others being Clapboard, Price Tag, Shopping Cart, Avocado, Anchor, Shampoo, and Snare Drum.
- Camera and Nonexisty (possibly) are the only TPOT debuters who didn't join the season that weren't infected in "Outbreak At Stake".
- Camera is the only TPOT debuter in general who didn't appear in the episode at all, let alone have her name mentioned like Nonexisty.
- Camera appeared multiple times throughout BFDI without being specifically recommended:"
- She is seen in "Well Rested", "Intruder Alert", and "Welcome Back" as FreeSmart's camera for their video diaries. However, Ruby left the lens cap on, obscuring her face from being seen and recording the video diaries.
- She returned in "The Liar Ball You Don't Want" when Donut was hosting Cake at Stake. Lightning pulls her out during the scene to take a picture of Donut.
- She appears again in "Questions Answered", Match uses footage from Camera as proof that Free Food cheated.
- Camera is used by Pin in "PointyPointyPointy ♫".
- Camera appears in The Tidepool in the Uber-Evolved mode as a level 91 creature. In them, Camera loses her tripod and is named "Camera of Joy".
- Out of all of the failed debuters, Camera took the longest amount of time to reappear in a TPOT episode after "You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?", not appearing until "I SAID CAREFUL!!!", or 1,399 days.
- If "Plan Dissolve Adhesive" is counted, then the time between Camera's TPOT appearances would be 1,310 days.
- Camera was originally depcited with a deeper, masculine voice by Kenzie Bryant in "You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?" similar to Cake. From "Plan Dissolve Adhesive" onward, Camera is depicted with a higher feminine voice similar to Taco.
- According to Sam in the Htwins Central Discord server, Camera and Tape were both supposed to have a role in breaking the timeline in "Seasonal Shift", but it was scrapped due to making the episode so long[4]
References[]
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| TPOT possible debutants |
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| 9-Ball • Anchor • Avocado • Battery • Blender • Boom Mic • Camera • Clapboard • Conch Shell • Discy • Income Tax Return Document • Kitchen Sink • Leek • Nonexisty • Onigiri • PDA • Rubber Spatula • Salt Lamp • Scissors • Shampoo • Shopping Cart • Snare Drum • Tape • VHSy |