Characters

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Characters are the NPCs and the player character in the Baldi's Basics series, which can be students, school faculty, and other entities in the Schoolhouse or Super Schoolhouse alike. While almost all of the characters are obstacles to challenge or get away from, Baldi is the only hostile character who possesses the ability to end the game by catching the player themselves in the whole series.

Description

The original cast of characters from left to right: Arts and Crafters, Playtime, 1st Prize, Baldi, It's a Bully, Principal of the Thing, Gotta Sweep, and Cloudy Copter.

All of the non-player characters are designed as 2D sprites (non-plus), similar to the items and environment objects. For the game's weird bizarre purpose, the characters lack stylistic unity. The characters' sprites are scanned with CGI models, flash animation or 2D drawings, and realistic photography. To fit the game's nostalgia themes, most of them are edited with a dithering effect and a lot of size reduction.

List

Protagonist

Main article: The player

The player is the only playable character and the main protagonist in the Baldi's Basics series.

Schoolhouse/Super Schoolhouse characters

Name	Image	Official description*
Baldi		Great teacher due to his incredible hearing abilities! He can not only tell where any sound came from, but who made it too!
Playtime		Despite her poor eyesight and short memory, she's always looking for a playmate! "Let's play!"
Arts and Crafters		Shy, and tries to be avoided. Doesn't like being looked at, and gets jealous at people with more notebooks than him.
It's a Bully		Here at here school, we believe every good school needs a good bully! That's why we have this kid!
Principal of the Thing		"If I see anyone breaking the school rules, I'll make sure justice is served! It tastes good and fills my tummy!"
1st Prize		Won 1st Prize at the Science Fair! Loves hugging people, rushing towards anyone it sees. Sadly, it turns super slowly.
Gotta Sweep		What do you do when the school opens in 7 hours and you haven't hired a janitor? Hire a broom! It sweeps everything!
Cloudy Copter		A cloud who loves being a cloud doing cloudy things. Floats around and blows strong winds down halls.
Chalkles		Some kid drew this face and next thing you know it's floating around, laughing and making mischief.
Beans		Tries to impress others by blowing bubble gum bubbles, but usually just ends up spitting them out.
Mrs. Pomp		Hops around in her high-heeled shoe inviting students to her class. Make sure you're not late! Or else!
The Test		If you want to keep an eye on anyone, look no further than this fella! Don't forget where you last spotted him!
Dr. Reflex		A cheap doctor who employs a unique reflex testing method to diagnose students. Don't leave until the test is finished!

Corrupted/Glitched characters

Null is a mysterious character who appears completely different out of all characters in the game. Being one of the corrupted files hidden in the game, he is aware of the game, breaking the fourth wall by telling the player to destroy the game before it is too late. In Baldi's Basics Birthday Bash, there are other glitched entities called Baldloons. In the glitched school, Purple, blue, green, and orange Baldloons appear floating aimlessly while a swarm of buzzing red ones will constantly follow the player but do no harm. Plus, when entering the hidden room after Baldloon puzzle is solved, a corrupted texture of a Baldi-like character called DSCI_0000 will appear randomly on the walls.

In Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered, Null in NULL Style, and a lone red Baldloon in Glitch Style (an alternative version of NULL Style after beating the former) can cause a game over after coming contact with them, and they will glitch the school increasingly before crashing the game. Red Baldloons in the glitched school will remove tiles of the building after touching them.

Null

Baldloon (Red)

DSCI_0000

Easter egg characters

Minor characters that appear hidden in secret locations as Easter eggs. They lack their overall personal behavior functions as they take a very small role in the game. These include 0th Prize, PlaceFace, Me, Bladder and Crazy Baby.

0th Prize

PlaceFace

Me

Bladder

Crazy Baby, as seen in Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered trailer.

Johnny

Main article: Johnny

Johnny is the shopkeeper of the store. He will greet the player upon entering the store in between floors. He will offer filled maps, items, and characters to expel. The player has to earn You Thought Points to purchase things in the store.

Johnny

Trivia

General

• The idea of characters appearing as 3D models, drawings, or photo-cropped may be based on the Cartoon Network animation series The Amazing World of Gumball where it also has a lack of stylistic unity on characters.
• All 3D-model characters (Baldi, It's a Bully, 1st Prize, Mrs. Pomp, The Test, PlaceFace, Cloudy Copter, and Johnny seen from the elevator) are made in a 1999 3D-modeling and animation program called Anim8or.
• All 2D-drawn characters are made in GIMP (Chalkles and Johnny), Paint.NET (Beans), and Microsoft Paint (Playtime).
• Animals are the only characters that are made in pixels.
• Principal of the Thing and The Test are the only characters that are not really seen without the dithering effect.
• All NPCs cannot look through windows, so they cannot see the player through them. There is a poster in the Schoolhouse that explains this. However, the player can see them through windows.
  • Null/the red Baldloon are the only characters who can see the player through windows, and will always break through the windows to ensure a shortcut.

Baldi's Basics Plus

• Sometimes, NPCs can enter a room without opening a standard door or pass through the swinging door. This is especially common when they are faster than the player's running speed.
• Since V0.3, all characters are faster than in prior versions because the aforementioned version increases the overall speed of the game.

Baldi's Basics Classic/Birthday Bash

• There is a Doppler effect where the characters' voice lines randomly change pitch and are distorted. For instance, it commonly happens with Gotta Sweep when sweeping characters.

Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered

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  DSCI_0000, Me, and Crazy Baby are featured in the conspiracy board.

Gallery

Notes for new NPC state machine system.