The dodging pattern is a running gag in the Battle for Dream Island series. It refers to a specific pattern of projectiles that appears multiple times throughout the series.
Occurrences[]
- In "Lofty", Leafy uses the pattern to avoid nails that are thrown at her by Snowball and Eraser.
- In "Gardening Hero", Spongy does the pattern when Firey and Leafy fire lasers at his spaceship.
- In "Get Digging", Leafy uses the pattern again, now avoiding acid spitballs fired by Needle.
- In "Meaty", Fries and Tennis Ball use the pattern to avoid FreeSmart's "paint bullets" with in Fries' new car.
- 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 "The Four is Lava", the pattern gag returns for the first time in seven years (so far, chronologically in 5 years) with Puffball using it to avoid cannonballs fired by Spongy's jet.
- 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.
Trivia[]
- Leafy and Fries are the only characters who did the pattern twice.
- Spongy and the Dragon are the only characters not voiced by Michael Huang who has done the pattern, unless you count Tennis Ball in BFDIA 8 (even though he didn't say anything).
- Leafy and Spongy have both been on the receiving and offending end of this pattern at least once.
- The dodging pattern always had two projectiles at the start except for BFDIA 8 and BFB 15, given 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), Golf Ball and Tennis Ball threw bugs at Fries (BFDIA 12), but Pencil shot paint bullets at Fries and Tennis Ball (BFDIA 8), and 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.
- BFDIA 8 was the first time the dodging pattern was done vertically.
- 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 complete the pattern, as there was an extra bug near the beginning in his instance in Insectophobe's Nightmare 4.
- 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, causing the LOL's inhabitants to gain new bodies.
- The "whoa" exclaimed by the dodging pattern's users is reminiscent of Yellow Face's wonderful noise.
Gallery[]
The dodging pattern in BFDI 11
The dodging pattern in BFDIA 2
The first time the dodging pattern fails.
WOAH-WOP, WOOOOAAAAUUHH. WOAOAOAOOAOAOOEUEEUEOEOEOOEEEWWHHHH.
