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Alliance to the end, right?! |
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—Rain On Your Charade |
Baseball, labeled The Large And In Charge, is a male contestant in Inanimate Insanity and a main protagonist on a pilot episode. He was placed as a member of Team Epic on Inanimate Insanity and is the team captain of The Grand Slams on Inanimate Insanity II. He placed 3rd. He is voiced by Adam Katz.
Despite Paper being eliminated before him, Baseball placed 16th (last) in the first season due to said character rejoining in Double Digit Desert.
Appearance[]
Baseball is a white baseball, with a red stitch like pattern on his sides. He is one of the few armless contestants on the show.
Baseball was initially slightly taller than Nickel. He later grew larger and, compared to Nickel, had similar proportions of a regulation baseball in real life compared to a United States nickel by the time Inanimate Insanity II started. His relatively large size is a signature trait of his.
Changes[]
Pre-Debut: (The Stupid Trailer)
- Baseball's stitches are much more inconsistent and bigger.
Debut:
- Baseball's stitches are smaller.
Early/Mid II1:
- Baseball's stitches are now much thinner.
Late II1:
- Baseball's stitches are now more consistent in pattern and size.
- Baseball is now much larger in size.
Early II2:
- Baseball now has shading on his body.
II2 9:
- Baseball's stitches now have a diamond-like shape.
II2 11:
- Baseball's shading is now consistent and crescent-shaped.
- Baseball's stitches now have an arrow-like shape.
II2 13:
- Baseball now has less stitches.
II2 15:[1]
- Baseball's outline is now grey.
- Baseball's shadow has additionally been adjusted.
- Baseball's has more stitches and they are smaller.
Personality[]
As Baseball did not get too much screen time in the first season of Inanimate Insanity, there is only little to gather about his earlier personality. Baseball was a usually quiet and intelligent player, only retaining a close friendship with Nickel.
Once Baseball entered Inanimate Insanity II, his personality shifted to a rousing and peppy nature.
After becoming the team captain of The Grand Slams, Baseball adopted a trustworthy, courageous, and leader-like personality. Baseball demonstrates a strong loyal spirit with his team and enjoys being the head of the team. Though Baseball usually decides the overall plan for the team, he is often outspoken by players like Soap or Nickel, who may take charge even if Baseball doesn't give them permission.
Baseball cares deeply about his alliance, and commonly puts them ahead of himself. As he is constantly the moral compass of the group, he will shut down any rash decisions made by Nickel. He confronts Suitcase alone and reassures her comfort and position in the alliance after she follows Nickel's orders and faces criticism for losing a challenge.
Baseball is shown to be laid-back, since he didn't care that Knife played with a Dora Doll, stating it is what entertained Knife and kept him sane.
While Baseball usually feels authoritative and confident in his authority, he may panic if faced with a difficult conflict and not be able to handle the situation well. When Suitcase and Nickel begin to fight each other, Baseball becomes nervous and attempts to keep the peace between them, but ultimately lets the conflict lose control.
As the largest contestant, Baseball is a physical powerhouse, exhibiting huge amounts of strength in athletic challenges, particularly those involving legs. However, Baseball has also been shown to be very self-conscious and uncertain about his size. He becomes extremely upset if anyone remarks him as "fat", as he responds by violently kicking Knife into the ocean after he does so.
After Nickel's elimination, Baseball resents Suitcase deeply and has a more cynical, darkened outlook on everything around him, possibly developing paranoia. This is supported as he firmly stated that, he wants to be in an alternate timeline because he finds it meaningless to remain in the current timeline, due to the fact that he thinks "everyone is coming to get him." He also acts rough to Fan, when he calls Baseball a name, he slams the computer onto Fan’s hands.
However, other than indicating paranoia and inflicting harm on a bystander, this quote can highly give insight on how he feels after Suitcase 'betrayed the alliance', which clearly cause him huge distress, as not only did she break the unity of the alliance by eliminating the person closest to him, but she was also in a way important to him and seeing her do all these things and hurting him in the process, must've inflicted a lot of damage to Baseball's emotional state. In "Mine Your Own Business", Baseball seems to shift towards a neutral ground with Suitcase by telling her to never let him hold her back.
Baseball and Suitcase seem to get back on good terms with each other in "Hatching the Plan", Where they have another talk at the dock. Baseball laments on how he wishes there was a way to fix things, with Suitcase telling him it won't just go away and thanking him for trying. Later in the episode, Suitcase is able to convince Baseball to vote for Test Tube after him not trusting Knife's reasoning. At this point, he seems to act a bit closer to how he did around the middle of Season 2, although it is clear he's a bit less trusting of others and is generally a bit more emotional.
Official Site Bio[]
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Baseball is a quiet and intelligent armless player. Though only spending a short amount of time on the show, Baseball has shown to be quite useful with his intelligence and physical abilities. He apparently loves to read, however not enjoying books such as Where Babies Come From and Twilight, though reading them anyways. Baseball has also shown to be self-conscious about his weight, being the widest character. |
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—The Inanimate Insanity Website, 2013 |
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Initially a quiet and introverted contestant, Baseball rose to glory as the bold leader of The Grand Slams. His large size and immense strength make Baseball a force to be reckoned with. Despite his high authority, Baseball worries when situations arise that pose potential threats to his control. Above all, Baseball cares deeply about his friends and is intensely loyal. Those who cross him won’t forget it. |
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—The Inanimate Insanity Website, 2018 |
Coverage[]
Vote Status[]
Season 1 Votes[]
Episode | EP # | Votes | Total Votes | Percentage |
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"The Arena of Death" | 3 | 3 | 6 | 50% |
"Double Digit Desert" | 10 | 35 (to rejoin) | 386 | 9.06% |
Total: | 38 votes |
Season 2 Votes[]
Episode | EP # | Votes | Total Votes | Percentage |
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"Cooking for the Grater Good" | 4 | 99 | 4010 | 2.47% |
"A Kick in the Right Direction" | 5 | 93 | 3853 | 2.41% |
"Theft and Battery" | 8 | 240 | 5688 | 4.21% |
"Rain On Your Charade" | 9 | 194 | 7348 | 2.64% |
"Alternate Reality Show" | 12 | 2 | 8 | 25% |
Total: | 628 votes |
Popularity Poll[]
Votes | Total Votes | Percentage |
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556 (to join) | 22513 | 2.46% |
Trivia[]
- Baseball was the second character ever created for the show.
- Coincidentally, he was the second contestant eliminated from the first season.
- Baseball's gender was undecided when he debuted in The Stupid Trailer.[2]
- Baseball is one of four armless contestants.
- Taco, however, is not included as she was revealed to have arms, making Baseball and his alliance the only armless contestants in Inanimate Insanity.
- Baseball is the widest and tallest contestant.
- Although Paintbrush is typically regarded as the tallest, Baseball stands slightly taller than them.
- Baseball was the first contestant to be confirmed in Inanimate Insanity II.
- In "Ask Adam #3", Adam confirmed that Baseball would be in Inanimate Insanity II if the viewers didn't vote.
- Baseball is one of the only two contestants to never get a single-elimination vote from the viewers in Season 1, the other is Balloon.
- Baseball was the first male contestant to sing in Inanimate Insanity II.
- Baseball has a fear of baseball bats, said by TheTGrodz on TheTGrodz AMA 22. This means he might have hoplophobia, fear of weapons.
- Baseball was on Idiotic Island for the most amount of time.
- Baseball is the lowest ranking contestant in Inanimate Insanity to compete in Inanimate Insanity II.
- He is also the lowest ranking armless contestant from Inanimate Insanity to compete in Inanimate Insanity II.
- After Nickel's elimination in Inanimate Insanity II, he became the highest-ranking armless male character in the season, highly improved from being the lowest-ranking armless male character in the previous season.
- He is also the lowest ranking armless contestant from Inanimate Insanity to compete in Inanimate Insanity II.
- Baseball is the first contestant to be hit by the Fist Thingy.
- This excludes Pencil as she is on another show.
- Baseball appeared in "One-Shot Wonder" from a rendering glitch, making him the only character to appear in a glitch yet not in the episode itself.
- Baseball is the first character to speak in the entire series.
- Inanimate Insanity II marks many firsts for Baseball: Placing higher than 16th, not being the lowest ranking contestant of the season he's competing in, and reaching the merge.
- Baseball is one of four contestants who have reached the Season 2 merge after failing to in Season 1, the other ones being Knife, Lightbulb, and Paintbrush.
- Baseball is one of 7 Season 1 contestants to never change voices, the others being Apple, Knife, Lightbulb, Nickel, Paper and Pickle.
- Baseball is the only character with ties to Inanimate Insanity II's story to not have gotten enough votes to compete on Inanimate Insanity Invitational.
- When his voice actor Adam is voicing him, it’s his completely normal voice.
- If you count Paper's rejoin, Baseball is the first character to ever be eliminated.
- Baseball made an appearance on Episode 4 of Brawl of the Objects, being one of the judges for the singing competition. He was voiced by Adam Katz in the episode as well.
Gallery
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Team Epic |
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Members: Lightbulb (c) • Nickel • Knife • Paintbrush • Baseball • Marshmallow • Paper • Apple |
The Grand Slams |
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Members (as of II Season 2 Episode 15):
Knife • Suitcase |