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- For his counterpart from Inanimate Insanity, see Nickel (Inanimate Insanity).
“ | IT'S PILLOW'S FAULT! G-GUYS, G-GET HER OUT! OR ELSE YOU'RE ALL DOOMED! GET HER OUUUUUUUUT! | ” |
— Nickel, "Oneirophobe's Nightmare"
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Nickel is a male contestant on Battle for Dream Island Again, IDFB, Battle for BFDI, and The Power of Two who could have joined the game in "The Reveal" but he placed 3rd in voting with 43 votes and lost to Bomby and David.
In BFDIA, he received the 2nd most votes to join, with 892 (losing to Rocky). He was on Team No-Name and later switched to W.O.A.H. Bunch and then The Beautiful Face Devotion Institute in BFDIA 10. Nickel survived long enough to be in IDFB.
In BFB, Nickel competed on Beep until the split in "The Escape from Four".
In TPOT, Nickel competed on Just Not until he was eliminated in Oneirophobe's Nightmare with 14,392 votes. He placed 28th overall.
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].
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.
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-IDFB
- Nickel regains his neater outlines.
BFDIA 8-BFDIA 9
- Nickel is pink due to being covered by pink paint.
BFB
- Nickel has a new asset/character design.
- 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, making him look a bit like Coiny.
BFB 15+
- Nickel is gray again.
Personality[]
Over the series, Nickel has had various changes made to his character.
In BFDI, Nickel (had other names at the time, along with a set of arms), had one goal: to become the new Coiny of the cast. He could be considered arrogant, as he "knew he was going to win".
In BFDIA, Nickel is generally a pessimist, as stated by Pin, while also being one of the more rational and level headed 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.
In 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
Nickel retains his happier personality in BFDI:TPOT, 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 often doesn't believe in himself. He often suggests giving up, and he is always complaining about how hard things are. Interestingly, he once used to be the exact opposite, always saying "I just know I'M going to win!" He once believed that 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!
Coverage[]
Appearances[]
- Battle for Dream Island
- "A Leg Up in the Race" (does not speak coherently)
- "Half a Loaf Is Better Than None" (does not speak coherently)
- "Vomitaco" (does not speak)
- "Bowling, Now with Explosions!" (does not speak coherently)
- "The Reveal"
- "Reveal Novum"
- "Return of the Hang Glider" (cameo)
- Battle for Dream Island Again
- "Yeah, Who? I Wanna Know"
- "Get Digging"
- "Insectophobe's Nightmare 3"
- "Zeeky Boogy Doog"
- "Get in the Van"
- "No More Snow!"
- "It's a Monster"
- "The Long-lost Yoyle City" (does not speak coherently)
- "Well Rested"
- "Intruder Alert"
- "Meaty"
- "Catch These Hands"
- "Taste the Sweetness"
- IDFB
- Battle for BFDI
- "Getting Teardrop to Talk"
- "Lick Your Way to Freedom"
- "Why Would You Do This on a Swingset"
- "Today's Very Special Episode" (flashback)
- "Fortunate Ben"
- "Four Goes Too Far"
- "The Liar Ball You Don't Want" (does not speak)
- "Questions Answered" (does not speak)
- "This Episode Is About Basketball"
- "Enter the Exit"
- "Get to the Top in 500 Steps" (does not speak)
- "What Do You Think of Roleplay?"
- "Return of the Rocket Ship"
- "Don't Dig Straight Down"
- "The Escape from Four" (speaks in group)
- Battle for BFB
- "SOS (Save Our Show)" (flashback)
- "Chapter Complete" (cameo)
- Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two
- "You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?"
- "The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life"
- "Getting Puffball To Think About Rollercoasters"
- "Gardening Zero"
- "Fishes and Dishes"
- "The Great Goikian Bake-Off"
- "The Seven Wonders of Goiky"
- "Balancing P.A.C.T."
- "Outbreak At Stake"
- "Oneirophobe's Nightmare" (eliminated)
- Non-canon appearances
Battle for Dream Island[]
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[]
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.
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.
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 recieves 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.
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. Realising what just happens, 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 nonexitent 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.
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 (albiet 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.
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[]
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.
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.
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".
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[]
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.
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.
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.
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[]
Episode | Votes |
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18 | 43 (to join) |
Episode | Votes |
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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 |
Episode | Votes |
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3 | 826 |
6 | 1,090 |
10 | 2,131 |
Episode | Votes |
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5 | 2,970 |
8 | 5,997 |
10 | 14,392 |
Elimination | Prize | Save | Total |
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15,571 | 40,712 | 23,359 | 79,442 |
Deaths[]
- "Half a Loaf Is Better Than None": Walks into a vat of hydrochloric acid.
- "Bowling, Now with Explosions!": May have burned to death while trapped in a large metal box.
- "Reveal Novum": Is crushed in the LOL by the sun.
- "Zeeky Boogy Doog":
- "Intruder Alert": Explodes after eating chili peppers mixed with gunpowder mix.
- "Catch These Hands": Crushed to death in the challenge
- "Don't Dig Straight Down": Eaten by Rocky.
- "Getting Puffball To Think About Rollercoasters": Crushed by blocks.
- "The Great Goikian Bake-Off": Zapped by X (debatable).
- "Outbreak At Stake": Pummeled to death by Pillow.
Non-canon deaths:
- "Last BFDI": Turns into Coiny when Fries' fries fall on him.
- "If Among Us Was a BFDI Challenge": Sucked into Black Hole.
- "UNREAL BFDI — Thanks for 1 Billion Views!": Turns into Naily when he combines with Scissors.
Kills[]
Character | Number of times killed | Episodes |
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Balloony | 1 | "What Do You Think of Roleplay?" |
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 4 teams and were together in 3 of them.
- 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.
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.
- Nickel is the only BFDIA character 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 TPOT 4, Nickel has gone the longest out of the Beep contestants without getting voted off.
- As of Rocky's elimination in "Balancing P.A.C.T.", Nickel is the highest ranking Beep contestant in TPOT.
- Nickel being eliminated in TPOT 10 makes team Beep completely dissolved.
- In TPOT, Nickel holds the most amount of votes to stay when eliminated at 14,392 votes beating Puffball’s 6,311 votes.
General[]
- 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]
- 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 only recommended character to be voiced by (one of) their recommender(s).
- 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 that was told "value is in the eye of the beholder" by Nickel was coincidentally eliminated in a later episode.
- Nickel is one of the contestants who have canonically entered Hell in "Catch These Hands", along with Pencil, Fries, Spongy, Pin, Golf Ball and Tennis Ball.
- 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[]
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCasKvuIk59T7SUJr60auxqg/community?lc=UgydFJ7UaWe9qQhBxel4AaABAg.9Ykya-oVA6W9Yl7XOnUN9v&lb=UgkxYDsIMkrR9D_e1oHlXKzp6N4en6IiWJmr
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- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/BattleForDreamIsland/comments/15i83bm/just_went_into_nickels_asset_and_found_this/
BFDI possible debutants |
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8-Ball • Balloony • Barf Bag • Basketball • Bell • Bomby • Book • Clock • Cloudy • David • Dora • Eggy • Evil Leafy • Fanny • Fries • Grassy • Marker • Naily • Nickel • Nonexisty • Pie • Pillow • Remote • Robot Flower • Roboty • Ruby • Saw • Taco • Tree • TV |
The Beautiful Face Devotion Institute |
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Current: Bomby • Book • Coiny • Golf Ball • Ice Cube • Needle • Nickel • Pencil • Pin • Ruby • Spongy • Tennis Ball |
Team No-Name |
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BFDIA 10: Tennis Ball • Golf Ball • Fries
Eliminated: Dora • Teardrop • Match • Puffball • Rocky • Firey • Yellow Face • Gelatin |
W.O.A.H. Bunch |
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BFDIA 10: Bomby • Coiny • Needle • Nickel • Pin • Spongy Eliminated: Donut • Teardrop • Rocky • Yellow Face |
People in IDFB |
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FreeSmart: Book • Bubble • Ice Cube • Pencil • Ruby
Free characters: Bomby • Coiny • Evil Leafy • Firey • Flower • Fries • Gelatin • Golf Ball • Leafy • Needle • Nickel • Pin • Rocky • Spongy • Tennis Ball • Woody • Yellow Face |
Beep |
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BFB 16: Balloony • Cloudy • Nickel • Rocky • Woody Eliminated: • Leafy • Roboty • David • Balloony • Woody |
Just Not |
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Current: Bomby • Book • Pillow • Price Tag |