Balloon/Relationships

This article is about the relationships and interactions between Balloon and the other characters.

Balloon has been hated by contestants because of his cunning and manipulative nature, as well as his infamous voice actor's hack incident. Almost all characters distrust Balloon and look at him as a threat. However, once Balloon returned for Inanimate Insanity II, he began to change into a better person and tries to redeem himself with the other players, but there is not much progress for the contestants still believe he is like what he used to be.

Apple
In "Breaking the Ice", Apple displays a very shocked reaction to Balloon's new speaking line.

Status: Neutral

Baseball
Since Baseball was on Team Epic, Balloon did not get to know him very well, especially because of his early elimination, and had no little to interactions in Season 1.

In "Double Digit Desert", Baseball remarks that Balloon will definitely not be rejoining the competition.

In Inanimate Insanity II, Balloon is placed on Baseball's team, The Grand Slams.

In "Marsh on Mars", Balloon volunteers to save Marshmallow for the challenge, but Baseball angrily snaps at him and doesn't want to let him compete. After Suitcase persuades Baseball, he lets Balloon go on the journey.

In "Let Er' R.I.P.", Baseball reluctantly lets Balloon join him and his alliance during the challenge, but Balloon is scared off by Nickel.

In "Mazed and Confused", Balloon joins Baseball's alliance again in the maze and playfully allows Nickel to let Balloon become the team leader. Balloon later accidentally leads the alliance down a dangerous path full of traps and leaves the group after a fight with Nickel, which Baseball struggles to keep a hold of. Baseball sadly notes he could've done something to prevent the fight.

In "Kick the Bucket", Baseball suggests to Nickel to let Suitcase be friends with Balloon. After Balloon fails at the challenge, Baseball votes for Balloon at the elimination.

Status: Friends

Bow
In "Crappy Anniversary", Bow makes reference to Balloon's catchphrase.

In "Let 'Er R.I.P", Bow's ghost remarks Balloon's redeeming revelation as boring, and promptly flies inside of him, inflates him, and pops him.

In "Stranded in Paradise", Balloon is shocked to see Bow back to life.

Status: Neutral

Bomb
Main article: Balloon and Bomb

Bomb and Balloon do have a minor conflict, as Balloon tried to take advantage of him and OJ, through an alliance, until his elimination, where both OJ and Bomb vote Balloon out.

Status: Enemies

Cheesy
In "Marsh on Mars", Balloon asked Cheesy if there was anything he could do to help in the challenge. Cheesy makes a joke about his popularity.

Knife
In "The Arena Of Death", Knife throws Marshmallow and unintentionally pops Balloon.

In "Sugar Rush", after Balloon is eliminated, he lands on Knife and pops.

In "Let 'Er R.I.P.", Knife sarcastically notes how untrustworthy Balloon was in the previous season in order to scare Suitcase.

In "Kick the Bucket", Knife gives Balloon the final ball to throw at the target, pushing him to prove himself. After Balloon fails at the challenge, Knife votes with the majority of his team against Balloon at Elimination Time.

Status: Enemies

Lightbulb
In "A Lemony Lesson", Balloon is angry when Lightbulb gets to choose instead of him.

In "Breaking The Ice", Balloon slaps Lightbulb after she continuously begged to be chosen to compete.

Status: Enemies

Marshmallow
In "The Arena Of Death", Knife throws Marshmallow and unintentionally pops Balloon.

In "The Penultimate Poll", as Marshmallow and Nickel discuss their surprise in how far Taco made it in the season, Balloon constantly adds in his opinion, but the two show their anger towards his interruptions.

In "Marsh on Mars", Balloon was one of those people who wanted to save Marshmallow from space.

In "Tri Your Best", when Marshmallow gets shocked when Box is sinking, Balloon tells her that he's gonna save him.

Status: Enemies (S1), Minor friends (S2)

MePhone4
In "The Crappy Cliff", Balloon is highly shocked when MePhone4 says that he and Lightbulb would get to pick the teams in A Lemony Lesson, Ballon wasn't happy about this.

In "A Lemony Lesson", Balloon demands a prize to MePhone, MePhone asks where his attitude came from, MePhone4 explains to Balloon and Lightbulb about winning the last challenge, when MePhone told Lightbulb that she gets to choose first, Balloon talks to MePhone why she gets to choose first instead of him, MePhone4 tells him if he rememeber that Lightbulb jumped onto the water before him, despite Taco kicking her onto the water.

In "Sugar Rush", when MePhone tells Balloon and his team the elimination has cookies for prizes, Balloon seems to be happy about it, when MePhone admits that he ate all of them, Balloon and the rest of his teams are angry about it, when MePhone sarcastically says that he ate all of the candy corns, Balloon yells at him.

In "Double Digit Desert", when Balloon received the least votes out of everyone to rejoin, MePhone throws an egg at him.

In "Breaking the Ice", Balloon gets confused why MePhone came back, later Balloon disagrees with MePhone about Inanimate Insanity's 2nd anniversary being "cool".

In "Cooking for the Grater Good", when Balloon gets excited about hearing the Elimination Time! (song) for the second time, MePhone reminds him that he's not doing it anymore, Balloon was sad and asks him why, MePhone answers that it sucked.

Nickel
Balloon and Nickel had little to no interactions in Season 1, due to them not being on the same team and having early eliminations.

In "The Penultimate Poll", as Nickel and Marshmallow discuss their surprise in how far Taco made it in the season, Balloon constantly adds in his opinion, but the two show their anger towards his interruptions.

In "Marsh on Mars", after Balloon helped complete the rocket, Nickel is shocked that Balloon actually helped, offending Balloon.

In "A Kick in the Right Direction", Nickel makes a sarcastic remark towards Balloon's trustworthiness, in an attempt to teach Knife sarcasm.

In "Let 'Er R.I.P", Nickel reluctantly lets Balloon join him and his alliance during the challenge. Later Nickel begins to tell a scary story, but both Suitcase and Balloon immediately run off screaming.

In "Mazed and Confused", Nickel shoos away Balloon from the alliance in the maze and sarcastically says he should become team leader, which his alliance allows. Later, Balloon leads the alliance down a dangerous path, Nickel begins blaming Balloon behind his back. Balloon overhears and starts yelling at Nickel, leaving in anger. Nickel later makes fun of Balloon's voice.

In "Kick the Bucket", Nickel at first doesn't trust Balloon in doing anything in this challenge. He reluctantly agreed to let Balloon play the most important part of the team. During elimination, Nickel votes out Balloon.

In Inanimate Insanity Invitational, however, Nickel seems to be slowly warming up to Balloon, as he was willing to work with him to help the team in Stranded in Paradise and the two of them are seen chatting and talking to each other casually in The Shame of the Name.

Status: Frenemies

OJ
Main article: OJ and Balloon.

Status: Friends

Paintbrush
In "Breaking The Ice", Paintbrush pops Balloon twice at the start of each challenge, once with a needle, and the next with a dodge-ball.

Status: Enemies

Paper
In "Double Digit Desert", Paper tells him that Balloon is not rejoining and states that he's the one who is rejoining, after Paper rejoins the game, he jumps down from the Elimination Area and pops Balloon.

Status: Minor Enemies

Pencil
Despite no interactions with her, in The Arena of Death, when Pencil is flinging back to BFDI, she pops him with her point.

Status: Minor enemies

Pepper
In "Sugar Rush", Pepper votes for Balloon at Elimination Time after he votes for Salt.

In "Breaking the Ice", Pepper displays a very shocked reaction to Balloon's new speaking line.

In "Everything's A-OJ", Pepper warns everyone about Balloon and goes into "background mode".

Status: Minor Enemies

Pickle
Main article: Pickle and Balloon

Status: Former arch-enemy, friends

Rocky
In One-Shot Wonder, Ballon almost got tripped by Rocky.

Status: Possible enemies

Salt
Main article: Salt and Balloon

Status: Minor Enemies

Steve Cobs
In Theft and Battery, Steve Cobs pops Balloon after he criticizes his Meeple Watch.

Status: Enemies

Suitcase
Main article: Balloon and Suitcase

Status: Best Friends

Taco
Main article: Taco and Balloon

Taco and Balloon have been enemies from the very start, mostly because Balloon's bossy persona clashed with Taco's randomness and apparent uselessness. Although Balloon has reformed in season 2, he still appears to hate her, as shown in Everything's A-OJ and on his note in Rain On Your Charade.

Status: Great Enemies