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Pen with his bros.
This article is about the relationships and interactions between Pen and other characters.
Pen is very optimistic and usually acts much nicer towards others compared to his friends, who were usually the only characters he enjoyed being around in BFDI. In BFB, he's a lot more outgoing and even manages to expand his friend group after joining a team away from Blocky and Eraser.
Announcer[]
In "Are You Smarter Than a Snowball?", he and Blocky have their scores set to zero when the Announcer catches them cheating.
In "Bridge Crossing", Pen asks the Announcer if the TLC is an object.
In "Power of Three", Pen asks the Announcer if one of the three islands they have to compete through is Dream Island.
In "Cycle of Life", Pen tells the "Announcer Thing" that the Squishy Cherries solved the puzzles from last episode and were freed. When the Announcer says there will be no elimination, Pen says he liked it when there was elimination.
In "Insectophobe's Nightmare", Pen asks the "Awkward Speaker Cube" what he meant when he said two people would be eliminated. When the Announcer clarifies, Pen says "Sounds good, Unusual Talking Rectangle!".
In "Crybaby!", Pen says "Aw, seriously?" when the Announcer says they need another tiebreaker.
In "Lofty", when the Announcer asks if they want to see a magic trick, Pen says he loves magic tricks and to do it.
In "Vomitaco", Pen complains when the cake for Cake at Stake is nickels instead of an actual cake.
In "Reveal Novum", Pen is surprised to find out that the Announcer can hear everything they say in the TLC.
In "Return of the Hang Glider", Pen screams when the Announcer reveals that he sold Dream Island.
Barf Bag[]
In "Getting Puffball To Think About Rollercoasters", Pen, Eggy, and Barf Bag are running away from the falling blocks together.
Bell[]
In "Four Goes Too Far", Bell is seemingly offended when Pen attempts to get Free Food to look at him in order to contract the Twinkle of Contagion, inadvertently calling the team gullible.
Black Hole[]
In "Getting Teardrop to Talk", Pen asks Black Hole what they are supposed to do in the contest. Pen tries to give Black Hole a high five after winning the challenge.
In "Why Would You Do This on a Swingset", Pen is pushed into Black Hole by a fork Gelatin threw at him.
In "Today's Very Special Episode", Pen tries to ask Black Hole if he could help with the challenge, but Tree interrupts him before proceeding to do the same. Once Pillow takes up the responsibility of blocking the forks, Pen, along with others, run to Black Hole for help and ask him if he can suck up the forks.
In "This Episode Is About Basketball", Pen tries to use Black Hole to win the contest by throwing balls at him; this does nothing.
In "The Four is Lava", Pen, along with Bottle and Remote, repeatedly chant for Black Hole to swing them back to Four's mouth every time they get pushed off.
Having been on the same team together, in "The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life", Pen takes advantage of Black Hole's passive nature by threatening his life, in order for Black Hole to stop sucking up all of his team's blocks. This leaves Black Hole to disown Pen, shaming him for viewing death as "just a game".
Blocky[]
- Main article: Blocky, Eraser and Pen
Bottle[]
In "Lick Your Way to Freedom", Pen is confused when Bottle says their jawbreaker is empty and corrects her by saying that Foldy is inside.
In "Today's Very Special Episode", they both get Black Hole to suck up the forks.
In "What Do You Think of Roleplay?", Pen doesn't seem to mind Bottle being shattered by Taco.
In "The Four is Lava", Pen, Bottle, and Remote play around with Four's mouth by repeatedly sticking their arms out of it.
Bubble[]
In "Sweet Tooth", Pen tries to defend Blocky at his elimination by saying that he only killed two people, Bubble being one of them.
In "Lofty", when Bubble says her balloon string doesn't feel right, Pen tries to help her out by saying she has to pull tighter but ends up accidentally popping her in the process.
In "Return of the Hang Glider", Pen gasps when Flower pops Bubble after she has destroyed every recovery center.
In "Four Goes Too Far", Bubble and Match give him the Twinkle.
Coiny[]
In "Sweet Tooth", short on one cent to buy a strawberry cake from Leafy, Eraser asks if Coiny is considered a penny for them to use. Pen then forcibly grabs Coiny to buy the cake.
In "Puzzling Mysteries", Coiny refers to Pen as Eraser's friend.
In "Insectophobe's Nightmare 2", Coiny agrees with Pen, stating that he can hear footsteps outside the TLC.
In "Return of the Hang Glider", Pen complains about Dream Island being sold, and that everyone spent two years battling for it. Coiny then tells Pen that two years is nothing.
In "Welcome Back", Coiny lists Pen as one of "[his] boys" whom they should free from the TLC.
David[]
While they've never interacted, Pen says that he remember David from season 1 in "Gardening Zero"
Eggy[]
In "Getting Puffball To Think About Rollercoasters", Pen, Eggy, and Barf Bag are running away from the falling blocks together.
Eraser[]
- Main article: Eraser and Pen
Firey[]
In "Power of Three", Pen is concerned for Firey when he falls into the water, though it may have been mostly because it resulted in them being in dead last for some time. The two seem to get along well enough for the rest of the contest.
In "Vomitaco", Pen is upset when Firey's taco is liked more than his, because it results in him being in the danger zone.
In "Return of the Hang Glider", Pen thanks Firey when he lets him, Blocky, Eraser, and Snowball into Dream Island.
Flower[]
Due to Flower's early elimination, and her rejoining after Pen's elimination in BFDI, they've rarely interacted.
The only times they interacted was in "Return of the Hang Glider", when Pen asks if Flower has stopped destroying the recovery centers, to which Flower replies "nope". After all the recovery centers are destroyed, Pen questions if Flower knows the damage she has done. When she pops Bubble, he asks her if she really wants to do this.
Foldy[]
In "Lick Your Way to Freedom", Pen pulls her out of the jawbreaker.
Four[]
In "Fortunate Ben", Four calls Pen's drawing a blasphemous abomination. Pen tells Four he drew that and to be nice. When Pen says he'd rather be screeched than never draw again, Four screeches him. Later, Four tells him he got the least votes and Pen says "Yay".
In "Return of the Rocket Ship", Pen tells Four that five is greater than four to get him to open his mouth.
Fries[]
In "You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?", when Pen questions what Eraser means by saying Blocky left them, Fries clarifies that he meant that Blocky went to stay with Four to battle for A BFB.
Gelatin[]
In "Getting Teardrop To Talk", Gelatin refuses to have Pen on his team due to Pen being two hundred vigintillion dollars in debt.
In "Why Would You Do This on a Swingset", Pen is killed by Gelatin when he throws a fork at him.
Golf Ball[]
In "Lofty", Pen doesn't want Golf Ball on his team because he thinks she sounds like a boy even though she's a girl and "that's just wrong".
In "Reveal Novum", when Golf Ball asks Blocky how they'll escape, Pen suggests that all of the eliminated contestants just push against one side of the TLC; that way they can just walk right out.
In "Return of the Hang Glider", when Pen says they have to get Dream Island back, Golf Ball says, "According to my imagination, 99.8% of all islands are destroyed within 2 hours of being sold."
In "Yeah, Who? I Wanna Know", Golf Ball asks Pen which way they should go in order to get Leafy.
In "You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?", when Pen wants to be called Death P.A.C.T. Again, Golf Ball tells him they already have that name and that they should be something else.
In "The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life", when Golf Ball says their stack has no structural integrity, Pen tells her to help if she's so good at stacking.
In "Getting Puffball To Think About Rollercoasters", Pen asks Golf Ball what they should do with the brain wave. Golf Ball says to push upload to spawn their rollercoaster before pushing the button herself.
In "Gardening Zero", Pen is surprised by the size of the Davids in Davidland, to which Golf Ball explains to him that in fact, most Davids are that size and the David they saw way back then was simply a smaller variant of the species. After Golf Ball makes it clear that they shouldn't provoke the Davids, Pen almost does so accidentally, making Golf Ball call Tennis Ball to cover his mouth.
In "Fishes and Dishes", when Pen expresses that their robotic fish monster is gone, Golf Ball says there's no time to dwell and that they'll have to use Basketball's breathable bubbles. Later, when Golf Ball is still ranting about Basketball stealing her invention, Pen says they should try to be grateful for what they have, but Golf Ball doesn't listen and bounces her bubble into him. Pen retaliates by bouncing back into her, to which Golf Ball furiously states that he crossed a line. Tennis Ball interferes and hits Pen's bubble, which causes the three of them to get stuck as they repeatedly bounce into each other.
Later, as the three are still stuck, Golf Ball tells Tennis Ball that Pen's goofing off is causing them to pay the price. Pen retorts that Golf Ball bumped into him first and then asks why she's even the team leader, adding he think he'd do a good job if he was in charge. Golf Ball says she'd slap him, but the bubbles are already doing that. Despite their arguing, Pen is still in shock when she and Tennis Ball get eaten by a Fish Monster.
In "The Great Goikian Bake-Off", Pen is used a sword by Golf Ball in order to fight Four. During the challenge, Golf Ball tells Pen and Eraser to stick their hands into the crack to retrieve the Dream Berry. Pen says there's way their hands will fit in the crack and pulls out Golf Ball Shrink-O-Tron. Golf Ball tries to warn him that it can't bring them back to normal size but he doesn't listen and shrinks everyone. Later, Pen tells Golf Ball that she shouldn't exclude Puffball anymore.
In "The Seven Wonders of Goiky", Pen tells Golf Ball that she should take a step back from the challenge for once.
Ice Cube[]
In "Take the Plunge: Part 1", Pen is knocked off the balance beam by Ice Cube.
In "Take the Plunge: Part 2", when Ice Cube tries to break through the finish line, Pen's cap pushes her in the opposite direction.
In "Sweet Tooth", Pen tries to defend Blocky at his elimination by saying that he only killed two people, Ice Cube being one of them.
In "The Glistening", he votes Ice Cube to be eliminated because of the heat in the TLC.
Leafy[]
In "Sweet Tooth", Pen and Eraser buy cakes from Leafy. They are angered when they hear her say she'll give Woody some cake for free.
In "Power of Three", they give each other annoyed looks after the Announcer gives the rules for the contest. At the end of the episode, Pen is surprised that they are still flying through the air; Leafy asks "Are we going up or down now?"
In "Puzzling Mysteries", Pen shows Eraser and Leafy that he can spin a basketball on his hand.
In "Lofty", his balloon got popped by Leafy.
In "Vomitaco", Pen asks Leafy why she made a large taco. Leafy replies so she could lend some to someone if they need help. Pen says that he "got himself a servant," which angers Leafy, causing her to charge Pen a large amount of money for the taco. Leafy is infuriated when Pen actually has the money to pay. Later in the episode, Pen gets less points because he cheated.
In "Bowling, Now with Explosions!", as puppets, Pen hangs out with Leafy and Pencil with inanimate versions of themselves.
In "Return of the Hang Glider", Pen votes for Leafy to win Dream Island.
He, along with some other contestants, chases Leafy in the beginning of "Yeah, Who? I Wanna Know".
Liy[]
In "Fortunate Ben", Pen simply watches Liy as she rants to her team. When she flips her switch, Pen says she's done that before. When she flips her entire face, Pen says "What the flip!"
Marker[]
In "Four Goes Too Far", Pen offers Marker some "very tossable dirt" in order to get Marker to look at him. He eventually gives Marker the Twinkle.
In "Fishes and Dishes", Pen was kicked by Marker who assists in helping Tree to steal their plates.
Match[]
In "Bridge Crossing", Match asks where Golf Ball is since she fell in the gorge too. Pen tells her that golf balls sink.
In "Return of the Hang Glider", when Match celebrates surviving the UFO crash, Pen tells her that she killed someone else with their massive machine.
In "Four Goes Too Far", Match and Bubble give him the Twinkle.
Pencil[]
- Main article: Pencil and Pen
Pie[]
In "Getting Teardrop to Talk", Pen high fives Pie when they win the contest.
In "Fortunate Ben", Pie asks "Ben" what his fortune says.
In "This Episode Is About Basketball", Pie says there's an easy solution to winning the challenge and Pen realizes she meant Black Hole. When Tree proves to be useless, Pen, Pillow, and Pie work together to throw as many balls as they can before they lose.
In "Return of the Rocket Ship", when Pie realizes that they shouldn’t be waving their arms and should be caring about Pillow’s death, Pen happily says that he’s glad she finally woke up to the realization, despite also arm waving.
In "You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?", when Pen starts to decide he'd rather move to another team, Pie asks him if wants to continue preventing death with them, unless he's a murderer. Pen clarifies he isn't a murderer and Pie then says that when he joined the team, he pledged to prevent death with them. Pen doesn't remember this as he only joined the team by default. Pie also notices that Pen hasn't even prevented a single death, which makes Pen ultimately leave the team.
Pillow[]
In "Getting Teardrop to Talk", Pen high fives Pillow when they win the contest.
In "Today's Very Special Episode", Pen tries to talk Pillow out of blocking the forks alone by saying it only takes one person to get Black Hole.
In "Four Goes Too Far", they work together with Remote to get the liar ball into a goal.
In "This Episode Is About Basketball", when Tree proves to be useless, Pen, Pillow, and Pie work together to throw as many balls as they can before they lose.
In "Return of the Rocket Ship", when Black Hole reminds his team that Pillow died, Pen waves his arms in response, meaning he doesn’t care. Later, he ends up realizing they should be caring and gets his team into Four’s mouth to save Pillow.
Pin[]
In "Take the Plunge: Part 2", Pen is excited to be used as an oar when Pin is holding both him and Pencil.
In "Are You Smarter Than a Snowball?", Pin gives Pen her Key Lime Pie.
In "Power of Three", when the Announcer tells Pin that she isn't smart because she scored a C- on the test, Pen says "Ooooo burn!". Pen says that Pin has to get out or else he or Eraser will go to the TLC.
In "Reveal Novum", Pen suggests that all of the eliminated contestants just push against one side of the TLC so they can just walk right out. Pin says the plan sounds good but they'll all have to work together.
In "Gardening Hero", "The Glistening", "Insectophobe's Nightmare 2", and "Return of the Hang Glider", Pen can be seen standing on Pin.
Puffball[]
In "The Great Goikian Bake-Off", when Pen's team is stuck at a small size and is at risk of getting crushed by chocolate balls, Pen tells Golf Ball that should stop excluding Puffball.
In "The Seven Wonders of Goiky", Pen can be seen gawking at Puffball as she flies while rotating. Later, he tells Puffball that she should take a break from the challenge.
Remote[]
In "Getting Teardrop to Talk", when Pen is the only one that is not in a team, Remote picks him to join Death P.A.C.T..
In "The Liar Ball You Don't Want", Pen shows concern for Remote when she is being mind controlled.
In "The Four is Lava", Pen, Bottle, and Remote play around with Four's mouth by repeatedly sticking their arms out of it.
Robot Flower[]
In "The Seven Wonders of Goiky", Pen pushes Robot Flower aside to say that he'd use limitless power to do cool stunts.
Rocky[]
In "Lofty", Pen chooses Rocky on his team over Golf Ball.
In "Getting Teardrop to Talk", Pen trips over Rocky.
Rubber Spatula[]
In "You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?", when Rubber Spatula feels that nobody likes them, Pen says not to look at it that way, since over a 100 people still thought they were the best choice. Pen then places TV down, with a list of Rubber Spatula's voters, so that they could thank each one.
Snowball[]
In "Take the Plunge: Part 1", they can be seen standing together with Blocky and Eraser.
In "Crybaby!" Pen wants Snowball on his team, saying that he's awesome.
In "Half a Loaf Is Better Than None", Pen, Eraser, and Blocky cheer for Snowball to rejoin.
In "Return of the Hang Glider", Pen is in a group with Snowball, Blocky, and Eraser when they ask Firey if they can go on Dream Island.
In "Yeah, Who? I Wanna Know", Pen tells Snowball, Blocky, and Eraser to look at the BFDIA results.
In "Balancing P.A.C.T.", Pen fights Snowball while trying to get to Teardrop. After performing a risky move with the help of Tennis Ball, they both manage to get him off the balance beam.
Spongy[]
In "Bowling, Now with Explosions!", Pen asks Spongy what happened to him when he's blue.
Taco[]
In "What Do You Think of Roleplay?", Pen doesn't seem to have a problem with Taco killing off Bottle, unlike most of his teammates.
Teardrop[]
In "The Seven Wonders of Goiky", Pen laughs at Teardrop with Eraser. He is then rained on by her when she takes the form of a cloud.
Tennis Ball[]
In "Return of the Hang Glider", Tennis Ball tells Pen to face the fact that they aren't getting Dream Island back.
In "The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life", Tennis Ball congratulates Pen after stopping Black Hole sucking their blocks up. Later, Tennis Ball gets obliterated by a laser and Pen is very concerned for him, before dying himself.
In "Gardening Zero", after learning that he shouldn't provoke the Davids, Pen almost does so accidentally until Tennis Ball covers his mouth, as per Golf Ball's request.
In "Fishes and Dishes", when Pen bumps his bubble into Golf Ball's, Tennis Ball immediately rushes to her defense and tells Pen not to hit Golf Ball and bumps into him. This causes the three to get stuck as they start to infinitely bouncing into each other. Later, Tennis Ball tells Pen to stop. Surprised, Pen retorts that he hasn't been in control for the past eighty bounces. Later, Pen is shocked to see Tennis Ball and Golf Ball eaten by a fish monster.
In "The Seven Wonders of Goiky", Pen refers to Tennis Ball as a third "bro" as he asks him what they should do for the challenge.
In "Balancing P.A.C.T.", Pen tells Tennis Ball that he can hang with him and the rest of Are You Okay to do the challenge after Golf Ball ditches him to sabotage with Puffball. Multiple times throughout the episode, Pen compliments Tennis Ball on how smart and cool he is, and at one point worked alongside Tennis Ball and trusting him enough to go along with his plan to take down Snowball.
Tree[]
In "Today's Very Special Episode", Tree scolds Pen for asking Black Hole every time to help them win a challenge. In the same episode, Tree and Pen huddle together for comfort as Four judges A Better Name Than That's drawing. When Four is judging the drawing, Tree puts his hand on Pen's shoulder. Pen takes Tree's hand off his shoulder, but after Four makes a shocked reaction towards the drawing, he puts his hand back on his shoulder.
In "This Episode is About Basketball", Pen scolds Tree for not being a good thrower. When Tree tries to throw a ball, it falls right on the ground, which makes Pen say "fantastic" sarcastically.
In "Return of the Rocket Ship", Pen tells Tree to step aside to open Four's mouth.
In "The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life", having been former teammates, Pen and Tree share a few awkward glances at each other as Tree recovers Bottle.
Two[]
In "The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life", Pen tells Two that Eraser is dead and that they have to recover him. Two says he's expecting a delivery to arrive, and it ends up crushing Pen to death. The delivery is a recovery center which Two uses to recover Pen. Two apologizes and helps Pen up to show him the new recovery center.
In "Fishes and Dishes", Pen says he likes the pool and asks where it came from. Two says it was one of their plant revival ideas. Pen asks if it worked and Two says it did not, as the funny plant exploded in the pool.
TV[]
In "You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?", Pen places TV next to Rubber Spatula so that he can list off Rubber Spatula's voters.
In "Getting Puffball To Think About Rollercoasters", Pen chants TV's name for his tutorial on making chairs. Pen further adds that TV will go down for a legend for being "above and beyond" and because he didn't do "the basic thing".
In "The Great Goikian Bake-Off", Pen pushes TV in the direction of the nearest Dream Berry.
In "The Seven Wonders of Goiky", Pen leans on TV as he tells Golf Ball that she should sit out of the challenge. When Pen points out that they're in Southern Goiky and couldn't get to the hotel fast enough, TV says he can drive everyone there.
Woody[]
In "Take the Plunge: Part 1", Pen cringes when he hears Woody's scream.
In "Sweet Tooth", Pen and Eraser get angry when Leafy says she'll give Woody cake for free.
X[]
In "Today's Very Special Episode", X says that Pen's drawing is the worst one yet. Later when X says that Death P.A.C.T. is not really a death pact, Pen yells "It's an acronym!"
In "Fortunate Ben", X tells Pen he's a disgrace to the art community and should never draw again; Pen says he'd rather take the screech. X points out how Pen is the first lowest-voted contestant whose name doesn't start with a B, so Pen corrects X by saying his real name is Ben.
In "X Marks the Spot", Pen gasps when X is taken away by the Have Cots.
In "The Great Goikian Bake-Off", Pen is zapped by X.
Recommended characters[]
In "Today's Very Special Episode", Pen's drawing is booed by numerous recommended characters.
Everyone[]
In "The Escape from Four", Pen helps pull the eliminated contestants out of Four.
Teams[]
Another Name[]
In "Lofty" and "A Leg Up in the Race", Pen laughs at Another Name when they walk to the Cake at Stake area.
Free Food[]
In "Four Goes Too Far", Pen tries to pass the Twinkle onto their team and manages to give it to Marker.
A Better Name Than That[]
In "The Liar Ball You Don't Want", he helps his team push the liar ball towards A Better Name Than That's goal.
In "Don't Dig Straight Down", Pen thanks A Better Name Than That for the emerald that gets their team safe.
Death P.A.C.T (Again)[]
In "You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?", Pen doesn't leave his former team on the best note. After getting berated by Pie for wanting to quit, he leaves, referring to the group as haters. After everyone begins naming their teams, Pen does seem to really like the name "Death P.A.C.T. Again", saying it's awesome and he wants his team to have that name as well.