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For his counterpart from Inanimate Insanity, see Nickel (Inanimate Insanity).
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Nickel is a male contestant in Battle for Dream Island Again, IDFB, Battle for BFDI, and Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two.

In Battle for Dream Island, Nickel was one of the 30 recommended characters that had a chance to join the show in "The Reveal". The votes for the debut were revealed in "Reveal Novum" and he only got 43 votes which was not enough to join, placing him 3rd to join the season.

In Battle for Dream Island Again, Nickel joined the season with 892 votes, being placed 2nd to join the season. Nickel competed on Team No-Name until "Get in the Van" when he switched to W.O.A.H. Bunch however in "Taste the Sweetness" he then switched to The Beautiful Face Devotion Institute, and switched back to W.O.A.H. Bunch in "Lots of Mud". In "PointyPointyPointy ♫", he teamed up in a duo with Tennis Ball, and in "Spore Day", he teamed up in a trio with Book and Pin, named The Stars.

In IDFB, Nickel is currently free due to not being eliminated before "Intruder Alert".

In Battle for BFDI, Nickel competed on Beep until the split in "The Escape from Four" where he left the show to compete on Two's show.

In Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two, Nickel competed on Just Not until "Oneirophobe's Nightmare" where he was eliminated with 14,392 votes, originally placing 28th overall. However, due to Liy and Pencil joining TPOT in "Category One", he ended placing 30th overall.

Appearance[]

Nickel appears to be a nickel. His main body is gray/silver, and his shading is slate. His original BFDI design was a gray recolor of Coiny's asset.

Changes[]

BFDI 12/BFDI 14

  • Nickel is named "Quarter".
  • Quarter's outlines are loosely drawn.
  • Quarter is a recolor of Coiny.

BFDI 15

  • Quarter has arms.
  • Quarter's shine is a lighter shade of gray.

BFDI 17

  • Quarter is renamed "Dime".
  • Dime has a more purplish tint.
  • Dime loses one of his legs.

BFDI 17 (Debut)

  • Dime is renamed "Nickel".
  • Nickel regains one of his legs.

BFDIA 1-4 (When not talking or playing a major role)

  • Nickel is now armless.
  • When everyone tells Pin to switch, Nickel's outlines are neater.
  • During the contest, he regains his loosely drawn outlines.

BFDIA 4-5

  • Nickel regains his neater outlines.

BFDIA 6-8

  • Nickel's shade gains a more purplish tint.

BFDIA 8-9

  • Nickel is now covered by pink paint.

BFDIA 9 - BFDIA 15

  • Nickel is now grey again.

BFDIA 15 - IDFB

  • Nickel has a hole in his body.

BFB 1-6

  • Nickel has a new asset/character design, possibly to distinguish him from his original Inanimate Insanity counterpart.
  • Nickel now has a shade on his top and bottom (possibly representing an engraving).
  • Nickel has a more greenish tint.
  • Nickel's shines are simplified.

BFB 6-14

  • Nickel is orange.

BFB 16+

  • Nickel is grey again.

Personality[]

Over the series, Nickel has had various changes made to his character.

BFDI[]

Nickel (had other names at the time, along with a set of arms which were prosthetic arms according to the video titled "TWO OF THEM!? - BFDI X Inanimate Insanity 2023 Event"), had one goal: to become the new Coiny of the cast. He could be considered arrogant, as he "knew he was going to win".

BFDIA[]

Nickel is generally a pessimist, as stated by Pin, while also being one of the more rational and levelheaded characters in the season. He more often than not has a bored expression whenever onscreen. In post hiatus BFDIA, Nickel seems to be much more happy-go-lucky than he was previously, perhaps his more modern personality seeping into the writing of his character. However, he only says one of his iconic nonsensical phrases in "Well Rested", so it seems as if he hasn't gotten accustomed to doing this frequently yet.

IDFB[]

Despite his limited screentime, Nickel demonstrates empathy by comparing Pin’s loss of color to a personal loss he imagines experiencing, even though he has always been grey. This shows his effort to connect with others emotionally by drawing from his own experiences to better understand their situations.

BFB[]

Nickel seems to be far more erratic than in previous seasons, sometimes spouting nonsensical sayings and phrases. He also cannot easily tell when someone's being sarcastic. However, Nickel becomes more cynical and unamused after "This Episode Is About Basketball", believing that they won't be able to win challenges and is less friendly and excitable than he was previously. Despite this, he can still be shown having fun, such as when telling Woody to "tongue it" in "Return of the Rocket Ship".

TPOT[]

Nickel retains his happier personality, even returning to his erratic phrases, though he can still get easily frustrated when pushed, like when dealing with the Singing Narrator.

Official Character Guide biography[]

Nickel is a worrier and doesn't often believe in himself. He often suggests giving up, and he is always complaining about how hard things are. Interestingly, he was once the exact opposite, always saying "I just know I'M going to win!" He once believed he would become "the new Coiny", but that dream has since faded.

Due to economic inflation, Nickel is currently worth six cents, and he is forecasted to hit seven in just a few years.

You Don't Say! Nickel has a way with words! Some of his favorites are:

  • Dab it, my boyonocerus!
  • Oobily goobily weezer beezers!
  • Holy roly poly crawling in my guacamole!

Abilities[]

  • Money Explosion: If Nickel is too close to Coiny, not only will a black vortex appear in the middle of them, but the vortex will also blast coins and dollars up into the air. This happened in "The Long-lost Yoyle City", where Pin pushed him into Coiny, causing them to create a money-blasting portal.
  • Blinding/Burning Light via Teeth: Although only available with Tennis Ball's brushing, Nickel's teeth were so shiny that whenever he smiled wide, the targeted character would burn to ashes around his targeted radius.

Coverage[]

Appearances[]

Battle for Dream Island[]

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Nickel in Battle for Dream Island. His arms were prosthetic arms which he doesn't wear anymore because of reasons.

In "A Leg Up in the Race", he is named Quarter and was recommended by BlockyCuzco. He can be seen burning in the stinger.

In "Half a Loaf Is Better Than None", Nickel runs into a vat of hydrochloric acid to get the Announcer's marbles.

In "Vomitaco", a picture of Nickel appears when the Announcer reveals that the cake is a bunch of nickels.

In "Bowling, Now with Explosions!", he holds a sign that says: "To do list: Kick Blocky Cuzco's Nickel!!" He is then trapped in a metal box that sets on fire in the stinger.

In his joining audition in "The Reveal", he says, with an uncharacteristically deeper voice, that he is the "New Coiny" and holds a sign saying, "To do list: Replace Coiny".

In "Reveal Novum", when there are only 15 recommended characters remaining, Nickel boasts that they're going to win. However, he only gets the third most votes to join and is sent to the LOL.

In "Return of the Hang Glider", Nickel watches the final Cake at Stake.

Battle for Dream Island Again[]

Nickel in BFDIA 1

Nickel in Battle for Dream Island Again

At the beginning of "Yeah, Who? I Wanna Know", Nickel is confirmed to join BFDIA, getting 892 votes, the second most votes out of all the contestants, only exceeded by Rocky (with 1,008 votes). Nickel originally goes with the new contestants, but shortly afterward switches to the team with season 1 competitors. In the screen montage, Nickel's favorite screen is a happy face. He also tells Pin to switch teams, and she does end up switching. His team of 19 easily beats the other team in the tug of war challenge.

In "Get Digging", numerous clones of Nickel laugh at W.O.A.H. Bunch as they walk to Cake at Stake. When Match asks if her bowl is big enough for the contest, Nickel replies "Nowhere near, but mine is!", but his bowl is still too small, and an even bigger bowl designed by Golf Ball is used instead. Later, Nickel digs underground after Fries demands him to find the ingredients underground.

In "Insectophobe's Nightmare 3", Nickel's team lost the last episode, so they all walk to Cake at Stake. After seeing the multiple Coinies, Pins, and Teardrops, Nickel asks "Where are these guys coming from? This is getting out of control!"

Nickel doesn't receive the prize, however, he is not eliminated either, as he gets the 10th slice of cake. After Dora is eliminated, they do the next challenge, in which they have to destroy the most bugs. Nickel comes up with an idea to use Bomby to kill the bugs. Gelatin and Firey agree and go with Nickel's plan. Firey ignites Bomby, Bomby explodes, and they win the challenge.

Nickel in BFDIA 4

In "Zeeky Boogy Doog", Nickel is first seen when Puffball Speaker Box asks him to get Gelatin, Book, Tennis Ball, and Firey off of the Eiffel Tower. He declares it to be too long and far away up, so Pin gets them off the tower instead. Nickel tells Pin to stop shaking the tower because all four of them already fell off the tower and Pin is shaking it for no reason.

Nickel later asks Gelatin if he has more anti-poison, which Gelatin answers by telling him that he only has enough anti-poison to revive one person. Nickel tells him that Teardrop should be revived since she has to spin the prize wheel. Gelatin gives him the syringe with anti-poison and he uses it on Teardrop, who later eats him. Later in the episode, Nickel is revived with the brand new recovery center, thanks to Gelatin. Nickel then revives Yellow Face.

During the challenge, Nickel participates in Golf Ball's plan. He says a few minor things throughout the challenge portion, but in the end, they lose when Coiny throws Bomby in the incinerator, and Nickel is put up for elimination along with everyone on Team No-Name.

In "Get in the Van", Nickel is recovered by Leafy and Bubble. Nickel's team faces Cake at Stake once again. When Firey Speaker Box tells Team No-Name that the cake is Donut's corpse chopped in pieces for everyone, Nickel comments on how it is "kind of gross". The Speaker Box says that Donut was recovered, but Nickel informs the Speaker that he meant the cake was gross, not the fact that Donut is dead. Firey Speaker Box scolds Nickel for not being thankful. Nickel, however, is safe from elimination, only getting 145 dislikes, which is the 3rd least of everybody. He receives a piece of Donut's corpse.

Once the elimination is over, Pin asks Nickel to join W.O.A.H. Bunch, but Nickel points out that Coiny is on her team. Coiny then tells Pin that if he and Nickel get close together, "bad things happen". Pin disregards this and forces Nickel onto her team. When the race to Yoyleland begins, Coiny realizes they're the only team walking, and Nickel asks what else they could do. Nickel also notices that the other two teams are way ahead of them.

In "No More Snow!", after his team reaches the Evil Forest, still just on foot, Nickel says they should probably give up. Pin tells him to stop being pessimistic. Later, they get out of the snow and Nickel happily yells the episode title. His team then falls into the Evil Canyon. Nickel tells Spongy to let them use his body to survive the spikes, saying he'd die either way. Thanks to Coiny, they get to use Spongy's body to save themselves. Nickel then calls Needle "Needy" in order to get slapped out of the canyon. Realizing there was no way to save Needle, Nickel suggests killing and recovering her when they catch up to FreeSmart, which they do. However, once they catch up with what's left of FreeSmart, they learn the HPRC was crushed. The Firey Speaker Box arrives and gives them an HPHPRCC, which they must crank in order to make a HPRC. After hearing how long it could take, Nickel sarcastically responds "Oh great, how fun. I've been reduced to a cranking slave." In the stinger, Nickel tells Match to put out the fire on her head since they're in a forest.

In "It's a Monster", Nickel spends most of the beginning arguing with Match while cranking the HPHPRCC. When they learn that it will either self-destruct or disappear, Nickel says he's feeling lazy and will take his chances. Luckily it disappears. He also celebrates when FreeSmart leaves after they recover their teammates. Later, Nickel tells the team that simply walking to Yoyle Mountain will take a very long time. The rest of the team agrees and decides to threaten Puffball into flying them there, but this plan results in Nickel and his team getting frozen and left behind.

In "The Long-lost Yoyle City", Pin pushes Nickel into Coiny. The scene between them starts to morph, and the characters around them become extremely distorted in appearance, and money begins to shoot out of a portal. During the race to Yoyle Mountain, Nickel doesn't say anything or do much besides cooperating in the contest, which they place 2nd in.

Nickel in BFDIA 6

In "Well Rested", Nickel continues falling with everyone from the summit of Yoyle Mountain. Nickel and Bomby play a prank on Book and Coiny before they eventually hit the ground. For the challenge, the contestants must find a building to sleep in. Nickel assumes that since they're the largest team, they deserve the largest building. Nickel leads his team to an abandoned Aerospace Manufacturing Plant, which he claims is the largest building in Yoyle City. However, as they are all about to fall asleep, a cloud forms inside the building, due to it being large enough to sustain weather systems. Luckily the team uses a dehumidifier to shrink the cloud. Unfortunately, the FreeSmart Supervan crashes into it, and eventually starts turning it, because of the weight. Everyone tries to pull it back in place, but their efforts fail. Both teams now are on opposite ends of the balanced dehumidifier and start fighting. Evil Leafy eventually appears to their location and puts both teams at a stalemate on the dehumidifier (which is now dunking each team as Evil Leafy teleports to them). Ice Cube gets her team the win, and W.O.A.H. Bunch is put up for elimination.

In "Intruder Alert", it's revealed that Nickel and Coiny were taken by Firey Speaker Box and placed next to each other to create a money portal. They are later both brought back to their team via a magnet. When Bomby's color changes to purple as his prize, Nickel calls him a cute little Yoyleberry, though Bomby doesn't like this name. He is revealed to be one of the first two safe shortly after, cheering as he receives his cake. During the challenge, he asks Spongy and Needle what to do, and likes the latter's idea of using material from the plant to create a chamber. Once they get rid of the water in the plant, Nickel leads the team on making the chamber, telling them to add dangerous things such as handcuffs, crushers, chainsaws and pictures of Flower's face. He says he wants the chamber to be as brutal as possible since Firey Speaker Box wanted it to be secure. However, he is then asked by Spongy on what if he was eliminated. Nickel thinks of the torture if that was to happen, but decides he would have deserved the punishment if he got eliminated and orders them to double the crushers. In the episode's stinger, all of W.O.A.H. Bunch eat some red chili peppers, but since they previously drank Bomby's gunpowder fluid, with Nickel explicitly saying the combination doesn't feel good, they all explode.

In "Meaty", Nickel and the rest of the team are recovered via the Eiffel Tower's Hand Powered Recovery Center. When he sees Yellow Face push Bomby off the tower, he begins to scold him, but upon seeing the explosion is helping them in the challenge, he changes to complimenting him. He later asks Puffball Speaker Box on if there was a recovery center and if he could use it to recover Bomby. He tries to, but isn't strong enough to crank it, so he works together with Spongy to recover Bomby, which they do many times as he's repeatedly thrown off the tower. When Book and Ice Cube bend the tower to cover it in pink paint, some of the contestants get painted in pink, Nickel included. Despite W.O.A.H. Bunch covering most of the tower in purple paint, Puffball Speaker Box sees it as yellow due to her sunglasses and believes the team didn't get any of their color's paint on the tower. Nickel argues, saying that there's purple paint right in front of her eyes, further annoyed when PBSB just responds with how they don't have eyes. W.O.A.H. Bunch is put up for elimination.

Nickel in BFDIA 9

In "Catch These Hands", Nickel is first seen trying to scrub off his pink paint, angry that it won't come off, though does see the appeal after looking at "Strawberry Milk Cube." He's knocked over by Ruby who wants to try tasting the strawberry milk, and when she finds out it it doesn't taste like it, Nickel explains it's paint and tells her brain to rest in peace before walking off. When the elimination starts, Puffball Speaker Box is confused at the new Cake At Stake intro and asks who Lewis is, to which Nickel simply responds, "lottery winner." Needle is scared about being eliminated and asks Nickel how he handles it, but he's also scared. Yellow Face has a printer which prints Win Tokens, though Nickel doesn't know what they are. After Needle explains it to him, he excitedly asks Yellow Face for a token, but gets declined, partly for being pink. Later, Needle suggests to Nickel that they could get a Win Token from Yellow Face, but Nickel says the "bigot" wouldn't lend them any. The two of them are revealed to be safe next, to which Nickel is relieved they didn't need tokens. He triumphantly says he won't be corroding and wishes Spongy the best before flying off in a paper plane.

After the elimination, a paint thinning machine ordered by Nickel arrives, and he and everyone else uses it to remove their pink paint. He wonders who shipped it since he ordered it from Yellow Face's store, even though Yellow Face just died. He thanks Bomby for volunteering to go in the trash compactor since he was panicking he'd be first. Nickel's able to guess Bomby's charade of a sweater, but because he guessed this, he and Bomby swap places. Realizing what just happened, Nickel starts yelling, though no one on the outside can hear him. He gestures Evil Leafy by angrily stepping back and forth, and Spongy guesses correctly, releasing Nickel who is happy to be out. He laughs with the rest of his team about all their impressions, up until he's brought back in and has the charade prompt of "Nonexisty." Nickel, not even knowing what he looks like, tries to channel his inner nonexistent self and does nothing. The rest of the team doesn't understand this, even thinking Nickel didn't understand the game, and eventually Nickel is crushed by the compactor.

Nickel later appears in Hell, coming in with Pin and Fries, asking if Pencil if they know what's going on. He thinks Pencil also not knowing is "sorrowful news" and then tries warning her about the high combustion level. Pencil doesn't understand this at first, but does after she catches on fire, and the two congratulate themselves on their clear communication. He later explains to Pin in verbose that they all got sent to Hell by being crushed by the trash compactors.

Nickel in BFDIA 10

In "Taste the Sweetness", Nickel and rest of the contestants still in Hell are seen swimming through the lava in attempt to escape, before they are recovered by the HPRC in Yoyleland. All of W.O.A.H. Bunch's members switch to Ice Cube's team due to her beautiful face, with Nickel encouraging Pin to switch by reciting his first line in the season "Pin, you should switch!" When Puffball Speaker Box asks what the team's name is, Nickel and Coiny both start saying (in verbose) how they joined due to Icy's face. Since they're next to each other, a distortion is seen while this happens. During the challenge, Nickel is assigned the role of marketing, along with Needle and Pencil.

While going to the top of the roof, he asks Needle why she brought the bowl of Ice Cube's remains. He agrees with Pencil to making the sign as flashy as possible but is suspicious with her calling him "American 5-cent Denomination" (the name to which he was referred to in Hell, which no one seemingly had any memory of). Needle just passes this off as Nickel having two names because he's adopted. He is later seen drawing posters and putting them on the wall (albeit all over each other) and on Fries' dead body from "Meaty." When Pencil gets the crowd to chant, Nickel tells them to make it a remix. After getting no response from this other than an angry look from Pencil, he changes the request to a dubstep remix, which happens. Despite their efforts, The Beautiful Face Devotion Institute lose the challenge and are up for elimination.

In "Lots of Mud", Nickel says he's fine walking to the elimination area as long as no one heckles him, which ends up happening as thousands of Fries clones laugh at the losing team. When Pin receives her prize for being safe, it hits Nickel instead, who is then worried about being in the bottom five. He is then revealed to be safe. When it's the bottom 2 between Ice Cube and Spongy, the screen cuts to FreeSmart hoping Ice Cube is safe, and then cuts to Nickel, who initially says he's not Spongy's ally before halfheartedly hoping Spongy's safe. After the elimination, most of TBFDI leaves Ice Cube's team for her ugly face, with Nickel thinking her open aperture was gross. The open aperture ends up being part of the full name of the reformed W.O.A.H. Bunch. When Fries returns and asks what he missed, Nickel tells him Spongy was eliminated and that the teams are back. When Flower announces her challenge, Nickel calls her "Daisy" and protests, saying they choose challenges by spinning a wheel. This grants him a slap from Needle for calling her Daisy and also as a way for him to stop angering Flower. After Flower throws the keys to her petals in the lake, Nickel quickly dives down there, being the only one on the team (besides Pin) without a snorkel. Because of this, he starts drowning, stopped by Bomby lending him his own snorkel. Nickel then tastes some of the fish food being poured down the snorkel by Vegemite and Black and White Cookie, disgusted by how the "air" tastes. Nickel returns the snorkel to Bomby once he starts to drown, but ends up on the verge of drowning himself again later. He and Bomby try sharing one snorkel and both breathing through it, but this doesn't work and they both drown.

Tennis Ball in BFDIA 12

In "Insectophobe's Nightmare 4", Nickel lies to Ruby about liking Freesmart to avoid getting chosen to be reduced in size by the shrink ray. During team switching, he begs Freesmart to pick him to join their team during team switching, but Pencil rejects him and chooses Needle instead. When the bugs become the host, Bomby is able to understand them. Nickel was surprised by this, saying he didn't know Bomby spoke bug-ese, but seconds later a bunch of bugs crawled into his mouth and start speaking for him. Bomby tells him bug-ese isn't hard and that he's picking it up so fast. Bomby spins the wheel to choose the next contest, which landed on Bug-filled Dodgeball Insanity, and Nickel spits out the bugs and says he loves that game.

The bugs in question head in Book's direction, killing her. Nickel asks how they win, and Needle responds saying that the last team alive will be up for elimination. As Tennis Ball is showing Fries a picture of the latter and Jack in the woods together, Nickel walks by and makes a Jack and Jelly Fries joke, to which Fries laughs at. Chaos erupts in the clothing store, so Nickel hides in Tennis ball's recovery centre and uses Pin's point to gain access. Tennis Ball gets mad at at this, however, and sucks up all of the bugs using the fumigator backpack and unleashes them into the recovery centre. Screams from inside the recovery centre can be heard, until he eventually dies, becoming the second person to do so. His team ends up losing the challenge, and is up for elimination.

In "Well, Look Who It Is!", Nickel is recovered by Ruby, but accidentally stabbed by Pin's point. Ruby asks if they should also recover Yellow Face, but Nickel reminds her that he's eliminated. Ruby adds that he's dead, so they agree to recover him anyway. Upon recovery, the BFDIA contestants take turns carrying him to the WTF, and laugh at the eliminated contestants for losing before departing.

Nickel in BFDIA 13

On their way back, they come across a loop-de-loop, so they wear the Super-Stick Shoes So-Ha that Tennis Ball refurbished. Nickel comments that the loop-de-loop is scary and isn't sure if he can do it. Fries reassures him that it's easy before demonstrating. He reaches the top, but all his fries fall out, so he quickly goes to the bottom and catches them safely. Nickel compliments his save and follows in his footsteps.

In "PointyPointyPointy ♫," everyone is gathered for Cake at Stake. When the bugs speak in their language, Nickel can't understand them, so Golf Ball uses her Yoyle-straw to translate Bugese into English. Nickel is amazed as the bugs start talking in English, but he is soon hushed by Poison Bottle, leaving him puzzled since they were the ones who bought tickets to watch the event.

During the likes announcement, it's revealed that Pin received the most, earning her the prize of regaining her face and size, along with a State-of-the-Art Mech Suit. As Pin levitates and transforms back to her nearly normal self, WOAH Bunch, including Nickel, start chanting, "Pin shall rise!" followed by "Return of the WOAH!" Pin is thrilled to have her face and size restored, though she briefly thinks her face might be on the wrong side. Nickel sarcastically remarks that perhaps Pin can get her brain back too. Bomby then presses a button to adjust Pin's face so it faces the rest of the group, and the WOAH Bunchers celebrate her triumphant return.

In the dislikes segment, Nickel finds himself in the bottom four alongside Bomby, Fries and Golf Ball. The bugs reveal that the lead in dislikes switched between them multiple times and that each of them received at least 10,000 dislikes. The bugs label them as "repulsive dislike magnets," which bothers Fries, who points out the irony of being called repulsive. Nickel, in contrast, says he wouldn't describe his hosts as repulsive. Nickel is eventually announced as safe with 10,749 dislikes and receives a poisoned instrument, noting that "kindness wins again."

Nickel with Tennis Ball in BFDIA 14

For the next challenge, the contestants are instructed to form pairs. With Golf Ball eliminated, Tennis Ball is uncertain about who to team up with. Nickel steps up and offers to be his partner, pointing out that they share the same shape and limbs. Although Tennis Ball is hesitant, he eventually agrees. Nickel then hugs Tennis Ball and says he feels so appreciated right now.

The BFDIA contestants are transported by the LOLers to the base of the spiral for the challenge. Taco explains that the teams must navigate through five different islands, each featuring its own mini-contest, before reaching the bunk bed at the top to win immunity. Bottle adds that the last duo to do so will be sleep-deprived and put up for elimination. Nickel notices this means only two people will face elimination, highlighting how unusually small that number is, but they proceed with the contest anyway.

As everyone heads towards the first island, Tennis Ball becomes anxious about falling behind and starts aggressively shaking Nickel. Nickel tells him to stop, noting that he's not surprised by Tennis Ball’s concern since they are the only ones without arms. Suddenly, Tennis Ball has an idea and spits into a jar, claiming he's invented "metal-to-fuzz-glue." He applies it to himself and then attaches Nickel to him. Nickel asks what he's doing, and Tennis Ball explains that by combining their efforts, they now have four limbs. Nickel cheers, and with their newfound advantage, Tennis Ball quickly climbs the vines leading to the first island.

Upon arriving at the first island, Tennis Ball constructs an oil rig designed to extract as much cherry filling as possible, which they plan to use for their jetpack to advance to the next island. Nickel gives Tennis Ball a high five but feels guilty for not knowing how to contribute. Tennis Ball suggests that Nickel could help by using the Yoyle-straw to suck the pollution out of the air. Nickel tries this, but it makes him cough. Just then, the oil rig completes its extraction of the cherry filling, and the duo gets ready to move on to the next island. Donut points out that they are now in first place and congratulates them on the win.

Nickel in BFDIA 14

On the next island, Nickel comments on the picturesque setting and notices a bucketload of anti-poison. Tennis Ball inquires about who is hosting the island, and just then, Dora appears. Dora advises them to take a pillow, which confuses Nickel, who questions how Dora can host an island when she usually eats them. Tennis Ball quickly tries to hush him, but it’s too late. Dora realizes there’s an island right in front of her and attempts to eat it, but is unable to because she’s in the LOL. Nickel jokes that she must have the munchies.

Dora sighs and announces the challenge: contestants must eat a detectable island to advance. Nickel expresses his dislike for the sound of that challenge. At that moment, Bomby and Fries arrive. Nickel asks Fries about Bomby, and Fries explains that Bomby is experiencing a sugar crash.

Tennis Ball attempts several times to feed Nickel parts of the island but is unsuccessful. Nickel then suggests that Tennis Ball should eat an island, but Tennis Ball explains that he can’t because he’s allergic to minerals, according to his doctor. Instead, Tennis Ball decides to cook and season the island to make it more appetizing for Nickel. Although Nickel hesitates, he eventually tries it but immediately spits it out due to the terrible chemically aftertaste. Tennis Ball insists that Nickel should just stomach it, forcing the island into Nickel’s mouth while stating that vegetables are good for him and that grass is technically a vegetable.

Suddenly, Needle and a deceased Pencil, approach the island. Needle quickly uses the anti-poison to bring Pencil back to life, and Pencil immediately starts eating an island as soon as she recovers. Nickel recognizes this as a side effect of the anti-poison, which Needle finds unusual.

Tennis Ball continues trying to feed Nickel an island, but Nickel spits it out, complaining about the bad taste. Tennis Ball suggests that the taste might be due to the gunk in Nickel's mouth and begins brushing his teeth. After a while, Nickel asks if Tennis Ball is still brushing, to which Tennis Ball responds that he’s only 2% of the way there.

Evil Leafy then arrives, prompting Nickel to urgently ask if his teeth are clean yet. Tennis Ball replies that they are almost clean and expresses frustration with the brush not being fast enough. At that moment, Toilet Brush falls, inspiring Tennis Ball to use it for quicker cleaning. The plan proves effective, and Nickel's teeth are soon much cleaner. Tennis Ball then feeds Nickel the island just before Evil Leafy starts chasing them. The duo rushes to the gate and uses the waterfall to advance before it’s too late.

When Nickel and Tennis Ball arrive at Teardrop's island, Tennis Ball is immediately squashed to death by Bomby and Fries, forcing Nickel to go back and recover him. Tennis Ball warns Bomby and Fries not to kill him again, so Fries, respecting his wishes, kills Nickel instead. Tennis Ball then has to recover Nickel.

The duo grab onto Bomby and Fries, and they soar toward Match's island, but Bomby, annoyed, throws them off. They plummet toward the beginning, but Tennis Ball's bounciness sends them back to Teardrop's island. Nickel jokingly calls him "jiggle boy," but Tennis Ball tells him not to call him that.

On the fourth island, Teardrop directs Nickel and Tennis Ball to her cousin Blooddrop, who is being annoyed by Bob-Omb. Nickel concludes that she wants them to quiet Bob-Omb, and Teardrop confirms. The duo approach Bob-Omb and Blooddrop, and Nickel gives them a bright smile, blinding Bob-Omb and causing them to disintegrate.

Nickel and Tennis Ball's safe icon

Blooddrop expresses gratitude and rewards them with wings, which they use to ascend to the next island. Once there, they quickly start building. Nickel asks Tennis Ball if he's sad about Golf Ball being gone. Tennis Ball admits that he is but notes that her absence gives him more space to focus on improving his building skills. With their raft complete, they ride it up the volcano and head towards Puffball's island. Nickel picks up a bedtime story and steps onto the platform to perform his lullaby. Tennis Ball, eager to help, begins singing too, but Nickel slaps him, frustrated that his singing wasn't lullaby-like. Despite this, their combined efforts send the other contestants to sleep, so Puffball lets them advance. The platform lifts them to the bunk beds, and Nickel lets Tennis Ball get in first, saying he earned it. Tennis Ball cheers, dedicating the moment to Golf Ball before getting into bed, securing their immunity and becoming the first duo to do so.

In "Spore Day", Nickel is first seen reminding Book and Ruby that they are up for elimination, and has Tennis Ball change Ruby's icon whenever one of her sisters appear in her place. He is given the teardrop cake along with the other seven safe contestants at Cake at Stake. At the beginning of the challenge, Nickel attempts to fit inside the birdhouse to look inside it, but is unable to and is taunted by Firey Jr. for it.

Nickel initially plans to team with his fellow W.O.A.H. Bunch members, but is told off by Pin due to three members already being on the corresponding mats. He then teams up with Tennis Ball and Fries, but is divided from them and put on The Stars with Pin and Book. After Book wanders off to talk with her fellow FreeSmart members, Nickel brings her back over to The Stars. His team decides to steal the shrink ray from The Hearts, but as Pin and Book argue on how they don't want to steal from their friends, Nickel suggests stealing it from Fries, which they agree to. Nickel walks over, and Fries punches a square hole into him offscreen.

After learning the whereabouts of one of the shrink rays from an illustration of Golf Ball in Book's pages, Nickel climbs the tree it is located at, but drops the shrink ray when Amethyst collides with him as she falls. Nickel falls onto the tree stem, which gets stuck in his hole, but gets freed when he is accidentally shrunk and snaps the top of the tree. While observing a water droplet, Tennis Ball sucks up the water in a dropper and deposits it onto Nickel, putting him inside the droplet. He tries to get Book's attention so he can be regrown, but fails to do so.

As more contestants get shrunk to his size, Nickel swims away from lead paint that came off the birdhouse, and he believes its interior can protect them from it. He ends up swimming towards the birdhouse and gets poisoned, but is revived by Tennis Ball's antidote. As everyone passes the blame for the shrinkage on each other, Fries tries to use him to prevent himself from getting shrunk further, only for a shrink laser to pass through Nickel's hole and hit him.

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Nickel is shrunk further by Pencil, and gets caught up in a fight that leads to everyone getting shrunk down to an atomic size. As The Hearts remove lead protons and hit opponents with them, Needle tries to block the hit but a proton passes through Nickel's hole, and Nickel himself is poisoned by all of The Hearts throwing several lead protons at him. He is put up for elimination.

IDFB[]

In "Welcome Back", he talks to Pin and notices that she lost her color. He says that her losing her color is like him losing his color, but she is confused as Nickel has always been grey. Pin then explains to Nickel how Golf Ball took her color and used it to give her a new set of limbs, and Nickel isn't seen for the rest of the episode.

Battle for BFDI[]

Nickel in BFB 1

Nickel in Battle for BFDI

In "Getting Teardrop to Talk", Leafy asks Nickel, Cloudy, Gaty, and 8-Ball if they want to be friends with her. Nickel quickly agrees to this. He is also surprised when Cloudy reveals that he has thirty-seven favorite numbers. When picking the teams, Leafy picks Nickel, along with Woody, Cloudy, and Rocky to be on hers as she believes they need assistance. When deciding on the team name, he agrees that the team name, which was just a bunch of whispering until it was called Beep, was perfect. When Cloudy is trying to bring the basket to X, Nickel points out that there's a big distance between the two.

In "Lick Your Way to Freedom", he becomes worried after being told that Four won't like that Roboty is missing. Nickel gets back to licking the jawbreaker until he notices Rocky doesn't have a job yet. After Balloony makes him vomit all over the jawbreaker, claiming that the "salt and vinegar" will speed up the process, Nickel is hesitant to lick it again and is fine with his job being changed. His new job is to get Woody to scream so he can reveal his tongue so Leafy can grab it to lick the jawbreaker. Woody later screams again upon seeing Roboty get crushed. Leafy thinks Nickel made this happen, but he says it wasn't him. However, Woody's tongue quickly goes back into his mouth and Nickel struggles to get him to scream again. Beep loses the challenge, but Four says that the "voters aren't safe". Relieved that they aren't last to finish, Nickel tells Woody to dab. Their celebration ends once Four and X tell them that it was a joke and one of them would be eliminated next episode. In the episode's stinger, Nickel tells David to stop licking the jawbreaker as they've already lost. Unfortunately, doing this leaves Taco stuck in the jawbreaker.

In "Why Would You Do This on a Swingset", after hearing Four singing, Nickel states that Cake at Stake is starting. He is then slapped by him because he said it wrong. When Balloony is being confronted by Four about knowing about EXIT, Nickel asks how many votes they got as a distraction. Nickel is the second safe and receives an earth as a prize. Because of this, he believes he is worth six cents. When Leafy, David, and Roboty are in the bottom three, he says it's down to nature, man, and machine. He thinks the team could do without the machine before being asked by Cloudy what a man is. Nickel refers to David as a man, much to Cloudy's disgust. During the challenge, the tactic that Free Food uses surprises him.

In "Today's Very Special Episode", Nickel notices that the cake they're making for Four is made out of Rocky's vomit. He says that it's gross, but he's actually referring to the cake and how it had no sprinkles, which he adds. They place 4th.

Nickel in BFB 5

In "Fortunate Ben", during the challenge, Nickel is drawing and nearly loses his paper. When the plane starts malfunctioning, Balloony makes a fake compliment on David's piloting, but Nickel doesn't get that it's sarcasm until Cloudy tells him. When they start falling due to weight on the plane, it takes him a few seconds to realize that his teammates' worries that they're falling isn't sarcasm. Nickel suggests for them to aim the plane for the cliff to delay the impact, but is told by the others they'd be first to hit the ground and lose the challenge if they did. Despite their efforts, they end up hitting the cliff and are up for elimination.

In "Four Goes Too Far", Nickel is the second safe at Cake at Stake again and is turned orange as a prize. Upon hearing that David and Roboty are non-objects, he asks if Four is implying that he's just an object. Four thinks this is criticism and is about to zap him until A Better Name Than That multiply him using Donut and X, much to Nickel's relief. Nickel is one of the characters to get the Twinkle of Contagion but lose it quickly while the characters are arranged in the shape of a heart.

In "The Liar Ball You Don't Want", Nickel can be seen playing with the poppers with the other characters. He then looks at Loser, surprised that he lied. Nickel also leaves the Cake at Stake area when Donut tells everyone to clear the area.

Nickel during the contest in BFB 9

In "This Episode Is About Basketball", after seeing Puffball eat the cakes meant for Foldy and Bell, Nickel says for her to leave some for him. She throws up what's left of the cake, which is followed by him thanking her. During the challenge, Nickel thinks they should just give up after seeing Woody scared to throw the ball. When it's down to Beep and Death P.A.C.T. to finish the challenge and the members of Death P.A.C.T. start throwing balls, Nickel thinks they've lost. He is happy to see that Woody landed a ball in the basket, however, Beep still loses because Death P.A.C.T. threw multiple balls into their baskets, while Beep only threw one. Nickel is shocked to hear they had to throw more than one ball. Nickel is told by X to pay more attention to the challenge rules next time, but he says his rules were kind of hard to follow.

In "Enter the Exit", during Cake at Stake, X excitedly asks if Beep is sitting. Nickel monotonously replies with yes. He is the third safe. When it's between Rocky and David, X asks if they are scared, with Nickel replying that he is a little bored.

In "Get to the Top in 500 Steps", when Leafy rejoins the game, Nickel, along with the rest of Beep, back away from her.

In "What Do You Think of Roleplay?", Nickel attempts to scare Woody with a fork to figure out if he is the impostor or not. Balloony yells at him to not to stab Woody, to which Nickel replies he wasn't going to, but now they know he's real since he screamed in response. Balloony ignores this and still attempts to wrestle the fork from Nickel. They slip and the fork flies in the air and lands on Balloony, popping him. In response, "Rocky" exclaims that the popping was loud. Due to Rocky never talking, Nickel immediately points out Rocky as the impostor.

In "Return of the Rocket Ship", Nickel falls with the rest of Beep into the hole iance dug. Later, he agrees that Balloony is an airhead. When Woody's plan to use Rocky's acid to dig is successful, Nickel tells Woody to "tongue it".

Nickel in BFB 14

In "Don't Dig Straight Down", Nickel is glad that Rocky's vomit got them out of that dungeon and says it's just smooth sailing from here. Balloony disagrees with Nickel and Nickel asks what he meant. He then realizes that they are about to land on Rocky's acid. Cloudy is scared that they will disintegrate, but Nickel does not know why he feels that way and points out he can fly, now that his bandages are gone. Cloudy realizes it and Nickel tells others to grab onto Cloudy.

Later, when Nickel sees Naily failing, he isn't concerned about her. Instead, he asks about the heat and notices the lava above them and tells Cloudy to turn around. When they are trapped, Cloudy says they need to get Rocky to barf more acid, to which Balloony replied that his stomach is empty. Nickel then jokingly suggests that Rocky needs a refill. Balloony misinterprets it and assumes Nickel volunteered to be eaten by Rocky. Nickel tries to correct Balloony, but gets eaten by Rocky anyway.

In "The Escape from Four", Nickel is recovered by Four. He is later seen walking with the other contestants to inspect Four as he struggles to suck up Spongy. Nickel leaves Four's show to join TPOT after seeing Two turn the sun into a spike ball to hit Four with.

Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two[]

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Nickel in Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two

In "You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?", when Two is atop the building, they tell Nickel to get everyone up for Cake at Stake, but Nickel can't hear them. When on the building, he asks them why they're doing Cake at Stake before being reminded about the debut. During the final three with Winner, Price Tag and Nonexisty, Nickel says he can only see two, to which Two takes as compliment to themself.

Before the team picking, he asks about how many teams there'll be. Book chooses Nickel onto her team since they both cranked the HPHPRCC in "It's a Monster", with the latter saying it sucked. Nickel's confident that their name will be good until it becomes Just Not. During the challenge, he follows his team into the elevator. On the way up, it gets stuck due to Snowball prying the doors open. Thanks to Snowball and Basketball, the elevator gets fixed and they end up being the fourth team to reach the top. He's later seen yelling at Two with other contestants for not projecting their voice.

In "The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life", Nickel is first seen walking to the elevator to make use of their remaining free time before the intro. During the challenge, Nickel, Price Tag, and Cake suspect Tree of wanting to knock down their stack. He instead intends to steal their blocks, and does so with little resistance. The three then decide they should defend their stake in case someone else tries doing the same thing, but Price Tag ends leaving immediately afterwards. Later, Nickel, Cake, and Book discuss where most of their teammates went. When the challenge is almost over, Nickel and Cake attempt to defend their stack from Remote but she kicks it down. Bomby and Book manage to stack up six blocks just in time, so their team is safe.

In "Getting Puffball To Think About Rollercoasters", Pillow suggests they shred Book for the attraction, which Nickel agrees and states that he loves creating anagrams. Cake suggests that they use a pile of stuff, which confuses Nickel. Price Tag explains that Cake was talking about prizes people can get at the park, making Nickel realize and compliment the idea. He then tells his team to go to the hotel to find gadgets that could work for prizes. Inside the building, Bomby finds random items which he calls "garbage", which Nickel says to not call it that because it is amazing. Naily tells Nickel that Bomby told him it was literal garbage, which causes Nickel to tell her "Value is in the eye of the beholder, Naily!" Pillow asks if he's truly saying that, or if it's because he's a nickel, which Nickel responds that it's a bit of both. Nickel asks his team if they heard Two's announcement so they can hurry up and grab the garbage. Nickel's team gets a 3/10 for their attraction, for the prizes having a value.

In "Gardening Zero", Nickel meets up with some of his teammates and asks what they're doing. Pillow says she's teaching Cake and Book how to play Yoyle Chess. Nickel asks why they have to do it on top of the rollercoaster. Before Pillow can answer, she notices a car coming and grabs everyone and takes them to safety. Except for Nickel, who gets hit by the rollercoaster and is sent flying because he questioned the rules of Yoyle Chess. He lands next to Two, who uses him to purchase gum from a gumball machine. Nickel's team is sent to the desert for the challenge. Nickel interrupts his team as they are still playing Yoyle Chess instead of helping with keeping their Funny Plant alive. Everyone decides to split up and find water across the desert. Nickel finds Water Bottle inside a mobile home and pours some of their sparkling water on the plant. When everyone notices that Cake is still missing, Nickel becomes concerned as realizes that nobody told Cake to avoid the ancient Yellow Face skeleton. Cake ends up arriving back with water from said skeleton and pours it on the plant. The cursed water kills the plant, so Just Not is up for elimination.

Nickel in TPOT 5

In "Fishes and Dishes", Nickel is the 4th contestant safe in Cake at Stake with 2,970 votes. During the challenge, Cake suggests that they should dive into the canal by falling into it from a great distance. Nickel criticizes the idea as they have no scientists on their team or any way of getting up so high, and that all they have are some items from the canal. Pillow manipulates the definition of gravity and uses said items as an infinite staircase to fly, to Nickel’s shock. Nickel then tells his team to follow Pillow's lead. Along the way, Puffball and Fries show up to interfere. Puffball bites onto Nickel and doesn't let go as Nickel begs for help. Pillow ignites Bomby and throws him at Puffball. Puffball let's go of Nickel to move out of the way, but the explosion causes Nickel to fall back to the ground, wishing his team luck on his way down. His team is safe when Pillow returns one of the plates to Two. In "The Great Goikian Bake-Off", Nickel is seen playing a game of Goiky Dragon's with the rest of Just Not. He was given the role as the thief, but eventually ends up dying in the game with the rest of the team due to Pillow exploding Bomby. Nickel then shows frustration to Pillow, telling her that just because she is their fighter, doesn't mean she gets to overrule everyone else and that she should let Bomby play. Shortly after, it is shown that Just Not was small, and are playing the board game inside of Tree's head. He is then shaken out of Tree's head with the rest of Just Not. Golf Ball guesses that they want to return to regular size. Two spawns in and brings them back to regular size.

Nickel in TPOT 6

For the challenge, Nickel's team decides to slay a dragon and serve it to Two. In the beginning of the challenge, Nickel compliments how their team gets an own narrative singer to accompany them for their journey to slay the dragon. Much to Nickel's dismay the voice calls them brave heroes besides Nickel. Although as the challenge progresses even further, the team notices and gets tired of listening to the voice and going down unnecessary paths. Nickel asks why they are listening to the voice as it's just wasting their own time. Shortly after, Nickel starts to get angrier with the narrative singing voice and gives them a last chance as they go down the scarier path.

Eventually after a while, Nickel grows tired with the narrator singing after it tells them to jump on some spikes. He angrily shouts against it and tells them that the team are doing the journey their own way. Nickel asks Book to use her Goiky Map, and notices they are close to the dragon. The dragon suddenly shows up. Although the team was encouraged to fight it, Nickel stops Pillow from exploding Bomby with a match, and pushes her into the fire, giving her several burn marks. He then tells Bomby that he trusts him and allows Bomby to stop the dragon from choking. The team decides that Cake's remains and the chocolate ball is suitable enough for Two's dish. Two gives Just Not a 3/10. Despite the low score, Just Not is safe. In the stinger, Nickel gets zapped by X after attempting to steal their food.

In "The Seven Wonders of Goiky", Nickel's team decides to trade items with the other teams, hoping to end up with what they need to fix the rollercoaster. First, they trade a block for wires from The Strongest Team on Earth. Just Not then ends up at the Balance Beam, where they offer to trade the wires for Team8s' broken mirror. They leave behind the broken mirror for The S! and take their glass panel. They end up at the World's Largest Oven, where they trade the glass panel for Tree's decapitated body. They arrive at the canal to trade Tree's dead body to Teardrop in exchange for the Dream Island gates. Lastly, Just Not ends up with the "missing rollercoaster piece" after trading away the gates to Are You Okay. Due to it being rigged by Puffball and Golf Ball, it explodes and absolutely destroys the rollercoaster, leading to Just Not being up for elimination.

In "Balancing P.A.C.T.", Nickel is first seen at Cake at Stake where he is the third contestant safe with 5997 votes. During the challenge, Nickel is upset with the thought of possibly losing again and he asks his teammates for strategies. After Pillow gives her idea, Nickel is seen hanging upside down below the balance beam with the rest of his team except Pillow. Later, Needle tries to get Just Not off the Balance Beam, slapping Nickel. Bomby and Book attempt to fight off Needle but both fail. Price Tag and Nickel run away from Needle until Yellow Face comes to save them, Nickel thanks Yellow Face but when he says that he wasn't thinking of calling Yellow Face "heroic, strong and brilliant" he is thrown off the balance beam. Price Tag manages to stay on the balance beam so Just Not is safe.

In "Outbreak At Stake", Just Not runs off after Barf Bag and Pen turn into zombies, Nickel is later seen over video call inside Gelatin's Steakhouse but he struggles to communicate with Two due to the bad reception, because of this he asks Two to repeat the challenge since he didn't hear it the first time. While Two is explaining the challenge the connection is breaking up and Pillow interprets that the challenge is to kill her teammates making Book and Nickel back away from her. Later, when Book is negotiating with Just Not on how the challenge couldn't possibly be to kill each other, the lights go out and Nickel disappears. Later, Nickel calls Book over and tells her that the stress was just too much for him and that he found a bed that he could sleep on, as he lies down on the bed he grabs a pillow to rest his head on as he sleeps. Nickel gets frightened when he realized that he accidentally picked up his teammate Pillow, Pillow picks Nickel up and slams his face into the bed frame multiple times, killing him. Nickel remains dead for the rest of the episode and Just Not loses the challenge, leaving Nickel to be up for elimination.

Nickel in TPOT 10

In "Oneirophobe's Nightmare", Nickel is recovered along with the rest of Just Not, in which he tells Pillow to stay back. He then argues with the group of contestants. After that, he goes to Cake at Stake. He continues to be angry at Pillow before she is revealed safe, saying that he hopes it's her that leaves. Once it's revealed that he's in the bottom two, he panics, asking why he's not safe when Pillow is. He's eliminated with 14,392 votes, and before leaving, he starts the intro. He then states he was the last Beep representative, and to get Pillow out, as he is sent away, placing 28th.

Relationships[]

Main article: Nickel/Relationships

Votes[]

Season 1
Episode Votes
18 43 (to join)
Season 2
Episode Votes
1 892 (joined BFDIA)
3 207 likes, 131 dislikes
5a 273 likes, 145 dislikes
7 21,272 likes, 6,833 dislikes
9 18,960 likes, 4,415 dislikes
11 19,337 likes, 7,515 dislikes
14 15,265 likes, 10,749 dislikes
Season 4
Episode Votes
3 826
6 1,090
10 2,131
Season 5
Episode Votes
5 2,970
8 5,997
10 14,392 (eliminated)
Total votes
Elimination Prize Save Total
33,835 75,314 23,359 133,443

Deaths[]

  1. "Half a Loaf Is Better Than None": Walks into a vat of hydrochloric acid.
  2. "Bowling, Now with Explosions!": May have burned to death while trapped in a large metal box.
  3. "Reveal Novum": Is crushed in the LOL by the sun.
  4. "Zeeky Boogy Doog":
    1. Eaten by Teardrop.
    2. Dies in Bomby's explosion.
  5. "Intruder Alert": Explodes after eating chili peppers mixed with gunpowder mix.
  6. "Catch These Hands": Crushed in a trash compactor.
  7. "Lots of Mud": Drowns along with Bomby.
  8. "Insectophobe's Nightmare 4": Killed by Tennis Ball.
  9. "PointyPointyPointy ♫": Crushed by Bomby with the Springy Shoes.
  10. "Don't Dig Straight Down": Eaten by Rocky.
  11. "Getting Puffball To Think About Rollercoasters": Crushed by blocks.
  12. "The Great Goikian Bake-Off": Zapped by X (debatable).
  13. "Outbreak At Stake": Pummeled to death by Pillow.

Non-canon deaths:

  1. "Last BFDI": Turns into Coiny when Fries' fries fall on him.
  2. "If Among Us Was a BFDI Challenge": Sucked into Black Hole.
  3. "UNREAL BFDI — Thanks for 1 Billion Views!": Turns into Naily when he combines with Scissors.

Kills[]

Total kills : 5

Character Number of times killed Episodes
Balloony 1 "What Do You Think of Roleplay?"
Bomby 1 "Lots of Mud"
Book 2 "Zeeky Boogy Doog" (along with Tennis Ball, Golf Ball, Puffball, Firey, Ruby, Ice Cube, Match, Spongy, Rocky and Pin)

"Insectophobe's Nightmare 4"

Bob-omb 1 "PointyPointyPointy ♫"

Trivia[]

Comparisons[]

  • Nickel is one of the few contestants who are a form of currency, the others are Coiny and Ruby.
    • He is also the only currency character who's armless and has a name that doesn't end in y.
  • Nickel is one of the four contestants who received a change in limbs after already debuting as a potential contestant (in Nickel's case, he lost his arms in BFDIA 1). The other three are Tree, Fanny, and Lightning.
    • He is also the only non-Death P.A.C.T. Again member to do this, and is the only one who didn’t start out limbless.
  • Nickel, Saw and Grassy are the only characters whose body assets had a significant overhaul in BFB.
  • Nickel and Bomby share a few similarities:
    • They were the two most voted recommended characters who failed to debut in BFDI 18.
    • They were the two most voted recommended characters to join BFDIA.
    • They were on the only two teams in BFB that lost three times, Team Ice Cube! and Beep.
    • They both competed on 5 teams and were together in 4 of them.
    • They were eliminated back to back in TPOT.
    • In "Don't Dig Straight Down", they were the only contestants whose deaths weren’t caused by getting completely scorched in lava. Although Bomby's fuse was exposed to the lava.
      • If this fact is considered, Nickel is the only contestant whose death during that episode had nothing to do with lava.
  • Nickel is the first character to have their inanimate counterparts be used for Cake at Stake (which was used in BFDI 15). The second was Salt Lamp, where their inanimate counterpart was used in the "How Loe Can You Grow?" Cake at Stake.
  • Nickel is one of the contestants who have canonically entered The Underworld in "Catch These Hands", along with Pencil, Fries, Spongy, Pin, Golf Ball and Tennis Ball.
  • He is one out of two newbies whose voice actors weren't the Huang Twins or a Text To Speech, the other is Gelatin.

Competition[]

  • Nickel got into season two with the second-highest number of votes: 892. The only competitor to beat him was Rocky, with 1,008 votes.
    • This makes Nickel the most voted newbie to join BFDIA.
  • Nickel is the only armless contestant, with legs, who debuted competitively in BFDIA.
    • If Leafy, Bubble, and Flower had been present, Nickel would've been the only armless newbie in the season.
  • From BFDIA 11 and onwards, Nickel is the only armless character on W.O.A.H Bunch.
  • Nickel is the only BFDIA newbie on Beep.
  • Nickel and Cake are the only two contestants in BFB to receive the same number of votes at an elimination, with 826 votes each.
  • Nickel is the only member of Beep in TPOT who doesn't compete on The S!.
  • As of "Gardening Zero", Nickel has gone the longest out of the Beep contestants without getting voted off.
    • However, if Nickel gets eliminated before the finale in BFDIA, than Cloudy will have actually gone the longest, chronologically.
  • As of Rocky's elimination in "Balancing P.A.C.T.", Nickel is the highest-ranking Beep contestant in TPOT.
  • Nickel being eliminated in "Oneirophobe's Nightmare" makes team Beep completely dissolved.
  • In TPOT, Nickel currently holds the record for the most amount of votes to stay when eliminated at 14,392.
  • Nickel, Pie, and Foldy are the only TPOT contestants who were voted off in episodes where only one character was eliminated, while there were still teams.
  • Nickel is one of the five contestants who always compete on the worst performing teams in every season they're in. The others are Bomby, Woody, Spongy, and Naily.
    • W.O.A.H. Bunch and Team-No Name are tied for the most losses in BFDIA, at five each. The Beautiful Face Devotion Institute is also the only team in the entire series to never have a single win.
    • Beep had lost three times, being tied for the most losses in pre-split BFB (along with Team Ice Cube!).
    • Just Not was the only TPOT team that lost four times.

General[]

  • Nickel is similar to the character of the same name from the object show Inanimate Insanity, and both characters are voiced by Adam Katz.
    • In the BFDI universe, it is confirmed that Nickel is not the same character, but in the II universe, there are contradictions on if they are the same or not.[1]
  • Nickel's favorite screen, as seen in "Yeah, Who? I Wanna Know", is a smiley face.
  • In "Get in the Van", Coiny said that when he and Nickel get close to each other, "bad things" happen. When Pin made Nickel stand next to Coiny, the area around them started to blur, proving that what Coiny stated was true.
    • As seen in "The Long-lost Yoyle City", when he and Coiny are near each other, a portal is formed and various coins and dollar bills explode out of the portal.
  • In "Welcome Back", he says that Pin lost her color just like him. This could mean that he used to be a coin and then lost his color to make him look like a nickel.
    • It could also be seen as a reference to how he said he would be the new Coiny.
  • Nickel has a different, much deeper voice in "The Reveal".
  • He is the first character to have a line not spoken by either Michael or Cary Huang, as he is voiced by Adam Katz. This is also a reference to Nickel from Inanimate Insanity.
    • Nickel is voiced by Adam Katz, who also voices Nickel from Inanimate Insanity.
  • Nickel has been eaten by contestants twice, those being Teardrop and Rocky.
  • One of Nickel's catchphrases, that being 'Holy roly poly crawling in guacamole', is likely a reference to episode twelve of Inanimate Insanity, in which the subtitles say the exact same thing.
  • Satomi had confirmed that Nickel is one of her least favorite characters, and the reason Beep kept losing was because she hoped that he would get voted out. She then states that she regrets it and it won't happen again.[2]
    • Ironically, Nickel would end up becoming Satomi's favorite character for a brief time during TPOT 1's production before she later revealed her favorite being Saw again.[3]
    • Even more ironic, in Nickel's BFB asset, you can see handwritten text saying "Satomi is best girl".[4]
  • Despite being a five-cent coin, it is revealed that Nickel is actually worth six cents in "Why Would You Do This on a Swingset" and Battle for Dream Island: Official Character Guide.
    • The only accurate calculation between the two is the Official Character Guide, as US$0.06 in August 2019 (the month when the book was published) equals US$0.05 of buying power in February 2011 (Nickel's first appearance in BFDI is in "Half a Loaf Is Better Than None", which released February 1, 2011).
  • Nickel is the first recommended character to be voiced by (one of) their recommender(s). The second is Pan Flute.
    • This almost happened with Marker, but was later scrapped.
  • Nickel is a relative of Yellow Face, according to a joke in "Well Rested" and "Taste the Sweetness".
  • Every contestant before “Oneirophobe's Nightmare” that was told "value is in the eye of the beholder" by Nickel was coincidentally eliminated in a later episode.
  • In "Well Rested" and "Taste the Sweetness", Needle says that Nickel is adopted, which proves that some objects actually have families as Nickel does have a mom and dad.

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See also[]

References[]

  1. For example, in II season 1, their Nickel is said to be the one at Cake at Stake in episode 16 of BFDI. However, a blog post by a previous crew member suggests that they are not the same character.
  2. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCasKvuIk59T7SUJr60auxqg/community?lc=UgydFJ7UaWe9qQhBxel4AaABAg.9Ykya-oVA6W9Yl7XOnUN9v&lb=UgkxYDsIMkrR9D_e1oHlXKzp6N4en6IiWJmr
  3. Commonlplusratio
  4. https://www.reddit.com/r/BattleForDreamIsland/comments/15i83bm/just_went_into_nickels_asset_and_found_this/

BFDI possible debutants
8-BallBalloonyBarf BagBasketballBellBombyBookClockCloudyDavidDoraEggyEvil LeafyFannyFriesGrassyMarkerNailyNickelNonexistyPiePillowRemoteRobot FlowerRobotyRubySawTacoTreeTV
The Beautiful Face Devotion Institute
TheBFDI(Team)

BFDIA 11: BombyBookCoinyGolf BallIce CubeNeedleNickelPencilPinRubySpongyTennis Ball
Eliminated: SpongyIce CubeGolf BallRuby

Team No-Name
Team No-Name logo (new)
BFDIA 14: Tennis Ball

Eliminated: DoraTeardropMatchPuffballRockyFireyYellow FaceGelatinSpongyIce CubeGolf BallRuby
Switched: BombyBookFireyFriesIce CubeNeedleNickelPencilRockyRubySpongyTeardropYellow Face

W.O.A.H. Bunch
NewWBLogo
BFDIA 12: BombyCoinyNickelPin

Eliminated: DonutTeardropRockyYellow FaceSpongy
Switched: NeedleSpongy

People in IDFB
FreeSmart: BookBubbleIce CubePencilRuby

Free characters: BombyCoinyEvil LeafyFireyFlowerFriesGelatinGolf BallLeafyNeedleNickelPinRockySpongyTennis BallWoodyYellow Face

Beep
Screen Shot 2017-11-04 at 10.57.17 PM
Stayed after the split: BalloonyLeafyWoody

Switched to TPOT: CloudyNickelRocky
Eliminated before the split:RobotyDavid

Just Not
Justnot

TPOT 12: BookPillowPrice Tag
Eliminated: NailyCakeNickelBomby


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