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The Zap Shooter (also called a Zap Ray, a Spaceship Laser Shooter or a Zappy) is a laser gun used by Teardrop in "The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life" to kill some of the other contestants.
In "Meaty", Pencil injected a syringe with pink paint on it to make it shoot pink paint, while in "Catch These Hands", it is revealed to have a switch that contains a grappling hook too.
Appearance[]
The shooter is shown as a blocky purple-colored gun, a smile on it, and a ball that shoots out the lasers.
Something interesting to note is that in BFDIA, its face uses eye and mouth assets, and in TPOT, its face appears drawn on.
Sometimes the face changes expression depending on what optic is being used.
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In "Meaty", while FreeSmart messes around in the exploded ruins of the Aerospace Manufacturing Plant, Book finds the Zap Ray in a pile of rubble and states that she will hang onto it. Later in the episode, in an effort to stop Team No-Name's lead in the challenge, Pencil snatches the Zap Ray from Book and begins firing a barrage of lasers at Team No-Name. Later, Pencil injects paint into the Zap Shooter turning it into a paint gun. She shoots much of the Eiffel Tower with paint and then offers it to Ruby, who begins shooting like crazy, hitting multiple things, including many recommended characters. Ruby later gets disarmed by Team No-Name by being run over.
In "Catch These Hands", Gelatin uses it to recover Tennis Ball and Fries from afar, and uses it as a grappling hook to bring them to the Plains. He also tried this with Golf Ball, but fails because she is glued to a tree in the Yoyle Woodland.
In "Well, Look Who It Is!", Coiny uses it to get himself and Pin out of The Unknown.
While the Zap Shooter's first appearance in-universe is "Meaty", it debuted before the release of that episode, in "The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life", the zap shooter first appears when Robot Flower hands it to Pie, instead of the battery she asked for. When Cloudy takes the pile of Robot Flower's items, he drops the zap shooter, which falls and kills Eraser. At some point, Teardrop must've grabbed it offscreen in order to help her in the challenge. She fires it at Eraser when he knocks her stack of blocks over, and then at Death P.A.C.T. Again's stack. When the team tries to retaliate, Teardrop kills all of their members, except Black Hole, since he's immune to the lasers. The zap ray gets destroyed when Teardrop accidentally gets it and herself sucked into Black Hole.
In "Getting Puffball To Think About Rollercoasters", Robot Flower has a brand-new zap shooter for Teardrop, but before she can hand it to her, Tennis Ball flies into her, causing her to obliterate Teardrop with the shooter. It then falls next to Eraser, who fires it at a window, and the glass shards land on Two's cheesecake. In the challenge, Eraser threatens to zap Teardrop's attraction until she flutters her arms, making him think she doesn't care. Later, after Eraser accidentally helps Teardrop win, he pulls out the zap ray and starts firing at her. As he gives chase, he accidentally obliterates Pen, TV, Fanny, and Team8s' attraction in the process.
In "Outbreak At Stake", Golf Ball is seen using a Zap Shooter on Zombie Pen's cap, but it doesn't disintegrate so she throws it away.
Trivia[]
- Weirdly, in BFDIA 9, the Zap Shooter is purple, it's normal color. But in BFDIA 8, the Zap Ray was infused with pink paint, making it turn pink. According to chronological order, the Zap Shooter should've still been pink.
- There is currently no explanation in-universe for how or why the Zap Shooter turned back to normal, although production-wise since the Zap Shooter's first appearance in TPOT 2 was released before BFDIA was continued, the Zap Shooter's altercation is unaccounted for, but should turn back to normal before BFB 1 in order for this to not affect the timeline. However, in "Catch These Hands", it has turned back to normal without an explanation.
- They are most likely four different Zap Shooters.
- They are the third character to canonically blush, after Cake and Pillow.
- However, they would chronologically be the first, as Cake did not have his current asset until "Well, Look Who It Is!" and Pillow was shown blushing in "What's up Bell's String?".
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