Intros

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“	Wait, we already played that. Didn't we?	”
	— Announcer, "Sweet Tooth" and "Gardening Hero"

An intro is a part (normally at the beginning or middle) of an episode in which the theme song plays. Intros and their theme songs have been altered over the course of the series.

Storyboards[]

There is a panel in BFDI 1's storyboard books that says "Intro".

Battle for Dream Island[]

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In BFDI, the intro starts with all the contestants (except David after "Reveal Novum") standing in the plains, with most of them facing the camera. The camera then pans to Dream Island, as the BFDI logo appears. It then cuts to black and shows the credits.

In "Sweet Tooth", the intro begins to play for a second time in the episode, before the Announcer cuts it off, remembering they had already played it. This also happened during "Gardening Hero", but Leafy insists that the Announcer play it again for good measure, which he does.

Music: "bass 8ths sample.wav" by beatloaf (Originally from Freesound).

Battle for Dream Island Again[]

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In BFDIA, the intro is identical to the BFDI intro, except the landscape is a different shade, grass blades are spread uniformly instead of being clustered under each contestant, and Dream Island is now gone (because Leafy stole it), and the music is in a slightly higher pitch than the BFDI intro. The logo appears like normal, but now in yellow, orange, and black. and instead of cutting to black, the word "again" appears below the logo and the credits fade in.

BFDIA 5b does not have an intro likely due to it being a video game rather than an episode. However, it does have a title screen featuring FreeSmart.

Battle for Nothing variant[]

A modified version of the intro was shown in "Zeeky Boogy Doog", where it read "Battle for Nothing" simply replacing the words "Dream Island" in the logo with the word "Nothing" instead and with 5 exclamation points replacing the word "again". The only difference in terms of visuals (besides the logo) is Pin's angry facial expression.

Yoyleland variant[]

The intro is updated in "Well Rested" to change the location to Yoyleland. Everyone's assets were also updated to match IDFB. Since then, it has only been used when the contest or scene takes place in Yoyleland.

But Flower's Doing It variant[]

In "Lots of Mud", a variation of the normal intro for BFDIA appears. As Flower is now hosting, the intro reads "But Flower's Doing It" with two exclamation points, similar to "Battle for Nothing". In contrast to the "Battle for Nothing" intro's lack of noticeable visual changes, however, this intro is updated to match the status of the contestants as of the episode:

Bomby is purple.
Fries has two missing fries.
Pin is completely featureless.
Tennis Ball is dead.
All of the eliminated contestants are not seen.

Instead of a view of the Goiky Canal, Flower's head is seen in the background, smiling widely. The intro text, colored pink and yellow, now reads "But Flower's Doing It!!". The credits now credit her, rhetorically asking "Isn't she beautiful?".

Shattered! variant[]

In "Shattered!", when the contestants get into their respective positions on the same intro's grounds, the regular intro plays, except with a view of the Glass Road visible in the background.

The music is the same for every variant.

Music: "bass 8ths sample.wav" by beatloaf, but pitched up 2 semitones from G to A.

IDFB[]

In IDFB, the intro starts with a vertical scroll of the contestants outside of the LOL against a white background, changing between 1-3 different expressions. It shows their names below them. It then shows the contestants who are still inside the LOL represent by gray and blue rectangular borders around it. The shot changes to the original layout, with the contestants standing in the foreground before the camera pans into the background, now showing Yoyle City instead, with the IDFB logo appearing. The theme song is a remix of the original theme.

'IDFB Theme" from the Battle For BFDI album.

Music: Dadaaa, remix of bass 8ths sample.wav. (Confirmed by Cary Huang)

Battle for BFDI/BFB[]

In BFB, the intro begins with Four pointing up in a gray void. The camera then moves quickly down a line of the contestants, who are organized by color, ending at Marker and Pen. It does not show any dark blue, purple, gray, pink, or red characters. The camera then zooms out to show the contestants, including those not shown in the line, now on an unknown, monochromatic landscape, with Four standing in the background. It then cuts to the logo, with a picture of Four and X, and the text "Battle for B.F.D.I." or "Battle for B.F.B." emerging from it.

In "Getting Teardrop to Talk," the intro starts with cinematic shots of the current events, reflecting Black Hole coming down to Earth to comply Flower's request as well as the chaos that ensues. An animation of Four holding Black Hole and crushing him down to a smaller size is shown, subsequently cutting to a cinematic shot of Four holding his fist up before transitioning to the main part of the intro with a poorly drawn Four. Subsequent episodes don't play this section of the intro, starting at the part where Four is poorly drawn. The intro starts after a character's limb is in the same position that Four's hand is in at the beginning of the intro (including most quotes they say before the intro plays).

Shortened Version Of The BFB Theme

Battle for Nothing variant[]

In "Enter the Exit", a Battle for Nothing intro plays. The following changes happen; they reflect the characters' appearances as of BFB 10:

Four is missing.
The remaining members of Beep are orange.
Tree and a fortune cookie are inside Bottle.
Woody is dented.
Cloudy and Bomby are covered in tape.
Saw is missing her handle.
Contestants that are eliminated or dead are absent.
X is frowning due to Four being missing.
X's leg is tilted to form an "N".
A dashed outline of Four's body can be seen.
The title reads "Battle for Nothing" instead of "Battle for B.F.D.I.".

This intro is a reference to the other Battle for Nothing intro from "Zeeky Boogy Doog", down to the part where Yellow Face says that they're just battling for nothing.

Goofs[]

Start[]

Spongy doesn’t have legs (Fixed in BFB 3 but reverted in BFB 4)

Tree is missing (Fixed in BFB 3)

End[]

Pillow and Lightning don’t have arms

Robot Flower doesn't have limbs (Fixed in BFB 3)

Battle for BFB variant[]

In "X Marks the Spot", a new modified shorter intro plays concurrently to the event when TPOT was introduced.

Profily variant[]

In "The Hidden Contestant" and "Uprooting Everything", a new intro with Profily plays.

In "Uprooting Everything", the landscape changes from The Pillary Ruins to the Northern Desert. Profily is also in a different pose.

In "B.F.B. = Back From Beginning", the landscape is still the Northern Desert, but the Announcer and Purple Face can be seen near Four's bus.

In "SOS (Save Our Show)", Four was removed from the intro, and the landscape got changed, with the cactuses replaced with ones shaped after Four, and the last part of the intro changed, with Four replaced with the Announcer and X frowning. The Announcer has two platforms for X's feet, and is holding up a sign with the letter "F" on it. "Chapter Complete" uses the same intro, but the Announcer is at the start where Four normally is, and X's pose at the end is changed slightly.

Music of Four's 3D hand

Contestants in order:[]

An asterisk (*) denotes appearance in both pre-split and post-split BFB.

Music: "- MUSIC OF FOUR'S 3D HAND -"

Intro starters[]

Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two[]

The Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two intro was animated by COAL BONES, alongside the music.^[1] Ricktoons also made some animations and Amor Boretto colored and rendered the intro; however, due to technical problems with his computer being unable to save the file properly, the file was damaged 21 times in the process, causing TPOT 1 to be delayed.^[2] In Last One Standing, the intro was revamped with smoother animation now made by Michael Huang. ^[3]

The intro starts whenever a character yells out a word or sentence in a particular note (A4^[4]), which slowly rises (D5^[5]), before the screen fades to Two raising their hand in the air making a 2 symbol, then goes to high five and fist bumps Winner. Ice Cube and Cloudy (and now Teardrop as of The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life) appear in a watery transition. Some of that water lands on Fanny, making her scream in anger (Liy is now next to her as of Category One). Clock then shows up for a split second, alongside Gaty. Needle appears, upside down, along with Pen. Book appears (In the smooth version, Book encloses Needle and Pen), and Foldy flies out of one of her pages. Bottle is hit by Foldy, which turns into Nickel, while Tree and Grassy are playing tetherball. Grassy then throws the ball with so much force that the ball crashes into Tree's face. The camera then zooms out to reveal TV, Golf Ball, Tennis Ball and Remote watching TV's screen. Golf Ball presses (kicks) Remote, causing Tennis Ball to be dismayed and Remote to be angry. Black Hole appears out of nowhere on the screen, and Golf Ball kicks (presses) Remote again, and the screen turns static. Then, the camera zooms in, which proceeds to Yellow Face cooking Eggy. Lightning appears happily flying across the screen. Barf Bag is seen talking to Bomby whose fuse is lit up thanks to Lightning, but when it runs out, Pie explodes. Donut appears, while Snowball and Basketball are angrily glaring at each other, suggesting that they are rivals now. Coiny high fives Snowball and jumps on top of Basketball, and he then grabs Bell's string (which Pencil is already on, albeit lower down, as of Category One). Rocky, Pin and Fries are in front of a grotato plant. Rocky bites onto to the plant, and it sprouts into the air. Cake, Naily, and Price Tag are launched into the air as a result. As Rocky continues rising on the growing plant, Robot Flower is looking at her reflection, which turns out to be Saw. A pentagon appears, showing that Eraser is using Saw now, and he cuts the pentagon into a triangle and a quadrilateral, in reference to "Getting Teardrop to Talk". Pillow puts the triangle on her head while riding Puffball and knocks Marker off a cliff. Marker lands with the rest of the cast on top of Two, while the camera zooms out in BFDI style. The original BFDI intro audio plays for a moment in the background, when zooming out on Two, when they make the 2 symbol with their hand, and the BFDI:TPOT logo appears.

TPOT intro music (Gibberish!!)

TPOT intro Music (Gibberish!! (FourestMix)

In "The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life", there are a few updates made to the intro. Winner's arm is now shaded, Teardrop is added (seen during the water transition part in the animated sequence and the cast scene), Remote's face is now properly white, Yellow Face's outline is a lot more messy and wiggles, Eggy watches Lightning pass by them, Pie's explosion is blue, Donut turns around and frowns after the screen goes through his hole, movement is added on Cake, Naily and Price Tag, and more shines are added on Saw. There are a few other tiny details, like Rocky's legs being updated to be behind the grotato plant, a dot by Coiny being removed, or Bell's string connecting bit being colored in correctly.

The intro starts whenever a character yells out a word or sentence, and as their voice's pitch becomes higher, the screen fades to Two making the V hand gesture.

EXITor variant[]

In "Out Of The Blue", a unique intro featuring the Exitors is shown in which clips of the Exitors' appearances in TPOT episodes play to an acoustic version of the TPOT opening theme.

In "Category One", the intro is once again updated to include Liy and Pencil.

The Shift variant[]

In "Seasonal Shift", due to the rift in time and space, Two is replaced with the Cheese Orb and Marker is now green. It returns mostly to normal in "The Power of Four", however Marker still remains green.

BFB 31 variant[]

In "BFB 31", another new modified intro plays in the style of BFB. The following changes happen; they reflect the characters' appearances as of TPOT 17:

Winner, Price Tag and Profily are added in. Out of them, Winner and Profily show up in both the starting line and in the landscape, while Price Tag only appears in the landscape.
Marker is now green. However, his spot in the line doesn't change.
One can also be seen in the background on a hill before the title screen.
X and Four's legs form "TPOT" instead of "BFB".
The title "Battle for B.F.D.I." changes into "The Power of Two" after one second.

Alone variant[]

This intro is the shortest intro ever with only a screen having One zoomed out in the distance before revealing the title which is the third time a BFDI episode have a title name.

Music: "Gibberish!!" by COAL BONES.^[1]

Intro starters[]

Battle for Dream Island Elsewhere[]

The intro for Battle for Dream Island Elsewhere was animated by Pancaiks&Butter.

The intro is a variant of the original BFDI intro where it shows the 12 contestants in scattered positions across the intro island. The logo appears like normal, but now in orange and green and with shadings. The 'elsewhere' does a shake as it appears.

BFDIE Intro Music

Music: "bass 8ths sample.wav" by beatloaf, but pitched down 2 semitones from G to F.

Battle for Permission to Meet Ten[]

The intro for Battle for Permission to Meet Ten was animated by FusionAnimations.

The intro starts off with solid-color silhouettes of all of the contestants, with the host, Four, appearing at the end of the contestants. An arrow shoots out from them and hits Nine, causing them to fall to the ground. As they fall, they pass Seven and X, who are sitting on some clouds. The 2 of them notice Nine falling and are surprised. On the ground, Five and Six are on a seesaw, when Nine falls on Five, causing Six to get launched into the air. They then land on the ground as the rest of the contestants appear, with the title appearing above them. Everything goes black and white as the contestants disappear, with Ten appearing at the end of the intro before it fades to black.

BFPTM10 Intro Music

Extended

Trivia[]

Not only do Rocky, Golf Ball, Needle, Tennis Ball, Coiny, Pin, Ice Cube, and Pencil appear in every intro, but they are also the only characters who are always seen standing on the landscape for each intro before the camera pans (or in BFB's case, transitions) to the title of the show.
BFDIA 1 played the intro the latest into the video (percentage-wise).
Fanny is the only person in the TLC to be moving in the IDFB intro since her blades are spinning.
- Firey is the only one outside the TLC with a moving asset.
Spongy only has 2 poses in the IDFB intro. Evil Leafy only has 1.
A reverbed version of IDFB's intro music, Dadaaa, played before the season's release, at the end of Vote Yoylecake.
BFDIA, BFB, and TPOT's intros are currently the only intros with modified versions.
BFB's intro is played after a character makes a pose similar to the one that Four does in the intro.
- The contestants who have started the BFB intro are: Snowball, Spongy, Grassy, Bomby, Barf Bag, Coiny, Stapy, Liy, Eraser, Saw, Firey, Loser, Flower, Lollipop, Teardrop, Gelatin, Profily, and Leafy.
  - Snowball is the first contestant to start the intro to BFB.
  - Spongy is the only armless contestant to start the intro.
  - Grassy is both the first BFB newcomer and recommended character to start the intro.
  - Barf Bag is both the first female to start the intro and contestant to do it multiple times, having done it twice. Flower (partly) and Teardrop would later be the second and third contestants to start the intro twice.
  - Stapy is the first eliminated contestant to start the intro.
  - Leafy is the last contestant to start the intro to BFB.
Several mistakes and errors can be seen in the early Battle for BFDI intro:
- Even though Tree is green, and is shown on the landscape between Tennis Ball and Gelatin, he does not show up in the line of characters until BFB 3.
- Spongy is missing his legs in the first part of the intro. This was later fixed in BFB 3, but was reversed in BFB 4.
- Lightning and Pillow didn't have arms when all of the contestants are shown at once until the intro in BFB 3.
- Until BFB 4, Robot Flower doesn't have a body.
- TV is missing his legs during the line of characters, but was fixed in BFB 3.
The flash file for BFB 3's intro can be found here. It used to be in BFB 3 flash files, but it was mysteriously deleted.
Everyone after Marker in the lineup has rough finishes to their limbs and facial features out of everyone else in the intro.
X's legs and Four (Announcer in BFB 29 and 30) form "BFB" at the end of the BFB intro. In the "Battle for Nothing" one-time intro, X's left foot is bent, making it spell "BFN" instead.
Starting with BFB 13, the intro got updated with Saw's old handle being replaced with her new pink handle.
In BFB 14, the intro gets another update with Dora's hairstyle being replaced with her new ponytail hairstyle.
In BFB 17, there was a new intro featuring the contestants that were still in BFB. The landscape has also changed to match that of the Pillary Ruins.
In the BFB post-split intro:
- Because Flower is at the end of the line, she's the only contestant who retains her previous pose from the pre-split intro.
- In BFB 17, Lollipop, Ruby, Blocky and Flower are missing, this was fixed by the next episode.
- In BFB 18 and onwards, The background is fully blue and the "BFB" letters at the end glow for a moment when fading out.
- In BFB 26, Profily is in the intro and is placed in the proper color order.
- Teardrop, Bubble, Lollipop, and Profily are the only characters who are animated during the intro.
  - Profily is also the only character to be animated in the landscape shot.
- In BFB 27, the intro was once again updated. This time, there’s an animation error where Loser goes too fast, causing Taco to overlap him for a split second.
- Loser, Firey, Woody, Gelatin, and Leafy are now further apart.
- Profily has a new waving pose to fit the BFB style, and is no longer animated in the landscape shot.
- The landscape part is now the desert, making it the 3rd time it's been changed.
- In BFB 28, the Announcer, Purple Face, and Four's Bus are all added in the landscape shot.
- In BFB 29, Four is absent and the World's Largest Oven is added to the landscape shot.
- In BFB 30, the Announcer replaces Four as the first character shown in the intro.
"Chapter Complete" marks the first and only time where the intro starts without anyone raising their arm (or leg) as the Announcer simply turns to the screen.

All the TPOT contestants (except Teardrop, Pencil and Liy)
In the TPOT intro:
- TPOT's intro is played after any character says a prolonged word: "Two" (TPOT 1, 6, 12), "wait" (TPOT 2), "cheesecake" (TPOT 3), "rich" (TPOT 4), "plates" (TPOT 5), "stop" (TPOT 7), "arms" (TPOT 8), "now" (TPOT 9), "help" (TPOT 10), "escape" (TPOT 11), “that" (TPOT 13), "again" (TPOT 14), "ha" (TPOT 15), "hide" (TPOT 16), "mine" (TPOT 17), and "burns" (TPOT 19).
  - These words may create a message of some kind.
- TPOT's intro has been started by: Two (TPOT 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 12), Four (TPOT 6, 16), Basketball (TPOT 7), Donut (TPOT 8), Golf Ball (TPOT 9), Nickel (TPOT 10), Pencil (TPOT 11), Gaty (TPOT 13), Fries (TPOT 14), Cheese Orb (TPOT 15), and Bottle (TPOT 17)
  - As of TPOT 16, the only characters to have initiated the intro more than once have been hosts, being Two and Four, whereas the contestants have had no repeats.
- Close to the ending of the intro for TPOT, the original bass guitar sample from the first season of BFDI can be heard. During this moment, the visuals also reference the original intro.
- Remote's facial details are black instead of white. This was later fixed in "The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life".
- In the final shot:
  - On TV's screen is a teapot (for "TPOT").
  - Price Tag's face reads "P:2" (for "Power of Two").
  - The time on Clock's face is 2:00 (for "Power of Two").
  - Winner's hand is holding up a hand signal that represents both a "2" (for "Power of Two") and a "victory" (because they're Winner).
  - Donut is doing his same pose from "Yeah, Who? I Wanna Know" and prior episodes.
aimkid, known for her Lemon Demon fan music videos, was originally considered to animate the TPOT intro. However, she declined due to being in a bad state of her life.
The TPOT intro is the first time a program other than Adobe Animate was used to animate BFDI since "The Liar Ball You Don't Want", the software being Blender.
Pie is the only contestant to die in an intro.
Basketball is the first contestant to start the intro of TPOT.
- Much like Snowball in BFB, she is also the first ball to start the intro.
Until TPOT 11, only circular contestants have started the intro other than Four and Two.
The TPOT intro is referenced in the BFDIA episode, "Meaty". Where in one scene, Firey yells "Curse you, Tennis Ball!". It even uses the same camera zoom effect that is used to start the intro. It is also referenced again in BFDIA, in the episode "Well, Look Who It Is!". When Flower's heart monitor flatlines, the pitch gets higher, the screen zooms in and fades to white, and the first bit of the TPOT intro music plays before Firey interrupts and says "Wrong season." before the actual BFDIA intro plays.
Coal bones posted on Twitter an image of notes of the TPOT intro they made while making the intro^[1] and there are details worth mentioning:
- According to Coal bones, Snowball was originally supposed to appear along with Ice Cube and Cloudy, this makes sense since he's a water-based specimen just like them.
  - That space was later reused for Teardrop when she debuted in "The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life"
- Yellow Face was originally supposed in one of his ads on TV's screen after Black Hole.
- The transition from Pie's explosion and Basketball and Snowball's segment was originally supposed to be a chunk of Pie.
  - Donut, instead of doing that transition, would have been with Bomby and Barf Bag on the previous segment.
From Category One to Alone, nearly every episode included a new intro.
- Out Of The Blue: An intro themed exclusively on the EXITors.
- Category One: Liy and Pencil were added to the intro.
- Seasonal Shift: Marker is green and the Cheese Orb is the host.
- The Power Of Four: Two is now the host again while Marker remains green.
- BFB 31: A variant of the BFB intro including Winner, Price Tag, and Profily
- Last One Standing: The TPOT 16-17 intro but interpolated to 24fps.
- Alone: An entirely new intro exclusively for the episode.
- The trend could continue for BFDI:TPOT 21, as no intro has portrayed Tree as purple so far.
- The only episodes to reuse a previous intro from this period are What's Up Bell's String? (from The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life), I SAID CAREFUL!!! (from Category One), and Bottle For Dream Island (from The Power Of Four).