Dodging pattern

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Dodging pattern

Used by

Leafy, Spongy, Puffball, Fries, Tennis Ball, Needle, Book, Dragon, Acid Tennis Ball, Ice Cube, Gelatin, Pencil

First appearance	Last appearance
"Lofty"	"I’m the Main Character" (release date) "Category One" (chronologically)

The dodging pattern is a running gag in the Battle for Dream Island series. It refers to a specific pattern of projectiles that characters weave through to avoid getting hit.

Occurrences[]

Battle for Dream Island[]

In "Lofty", Leafy uses the pattern to dodge nails thrown at her by Snowball and Eraser.
In "Gardening Hero", Spongy uses the pattern to avoid lasers fired at his spaceship by Firey and Leafy.

Battle for Dream Island Again[]

In "Get Digging", Leafy uses the pattern again, this time to avoid acid spitballs fired by Needle.
In "Meaty", Fries and Tennis Ball use the pattern to dodge FreeSmart's paintballs while in Fries' new car. This marks the first time the pattern is used vertically, descending downward, and the first time multiple characters dodge projectiles in this pattern.
In "Insectophobe's Nightmare 4", Fries dodges a pattern of bugs thrown at him by Golf Ball. However, unlike the previous ones, this gets subverted as he ends up colliding with one of the stray bugs in the path that stabs and kills him, marking the first time that someone has failed to dodge projectiles in this pattern.
In "Start the Shift", during the scene where Needle chases Book and Fries, they go through a crowd of recommended characters arranged in the pattern.
In "Airplanes in the Night Sky", Needle begins dodging Fries' rotten fries using the pattern, but it ends halfway through when he runs out of fry chunks to throw.
In "I'm the Main Character", Fries, Pencil, Gelatin, and Ice Cube are all subject to the dodging pattern after Rocky's vomit is flung from Pin's face.

Battle for BFDI[]

In "The Four is Lava", the pattern gag returns for the first time in seven years (so far, chronologically in 4 years) with Puffball using it to avoid cannonballs fired by Spongy's jet.

Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two[]

In "Category One", Pillow aims a pattern of fireballs at the dragon at the roof of the hotel via flamethrower, marking the first appearance of the dodging pattern in TPOT, as well as first time a non-contestant is the one dodging.

BFDI Mini Replicas[]

In "Fight Your Counterpart", Acid Tennis Ball performs the pattern vertically after shooting acid at Tennis Ball and having it reflected off his visor.

Trivia[]

Leafy and Fries are the only characters who did the pattern twice.
In Fries' case, he did the pattern three times, counting his failed attempt.
Leafy, Needle, Spongy, and Fries have all been on the receiving and offending end of this pattern at least once.
Spongy and the Dragon are the only characters not voiced by Michael Huang who have done the pattern, unless Tennis Ball in "Meaty" is counted.
The dodging pattern usually has two projectiles at the start, because there are two people firing the projectiles. This has exceptions, however:
- Eraser and Snowball tried to pop Leafy's balloon with nails (BFDI 11).
- Firey and Leafy shot lasers at Spongy (BFDI 20).
- Needle and Gelatin shot acid spitballs at Leafy (BFDIA 2).
- Pencil shot paint bullets at Fries and Tennis Ball (BFDIA 8)
- Golf Ball and Tennis Ball shot bugs at Fries (BFDIA 12).
- Nobody threw the recommended characters at Book, Fries, or Needle. (BFDIA 17).
- Fries threw fries chunks at Needle (BFDIA 18).
- Spongy fired cannonballs at Puffball by his jet (BFB 15).
In BFDI 11, BFDI 20, BFDIA 8 and BFB 15, Leafy, Spongy, Fries and Puffball respectively had to squish themselves because they couldn't fit in the gap at the end.
"Meaty" was the first time the dodging pattern was done vertically. The second time was "Fight Your Counterpart".
TPOT 13 was the first time a non-object character and a non-contestant performed the dodging pattern.
Fries is the only person who failed to dodge the pattern, as there was an extra bug near the beginning in his instance in "Insectophobe's Nightmare 4".
- He is also the only person who has failed to create the pattern, as he ran out of ammo in "Airplanes in the Night Sky".
In "Well, Look Who It Is!", a complete opposite of the dodging pattern is seen, in which there is only one projectile (a laser shot fired by the Enhancement-L-Yoy-Ser) and Snowball manages to crash the Locker of Losers into it.
The "whoa" exclaimed by the dodging pattern's users is reminiscent of Yellow Face's wonderful noise.
There are total of 280 projectiles in the dodging pattern.
Fries has been involved with the pattern four times in a row.
The gag was used consecutively in "Start the Shift" and "Airplanes in the Night Sky".