This is an article about Bow, a contestant in II and a major character in II2. You may be looking for Bot, a contestant in III.
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Bow, labeled The Forgotten (formerly TheDitsyDimwit), was a female contestant on Inanimate Insanity.
First appearing "The Snowdown" starring in a commercial for Chairs, Bow had a surprise chance to join the game in "Double Digit Desert," in which she did alongside Paper. Her quick wit and silliness garnered her a fan favorite status, but was eliminated in "The Tile Divide" with 239 votes and trapped in a box to prevent any further breaches. This caused her to go insane, leading to her untimely death in "Journey Through Memory Lane (Part 2)."
Though chosen to join Inanimate Insanity II, Bow was ineligible to join due to her death, which was later revealed to be permanent. She continued to live in Purgatory Mansion as a ghost as revealed in the episode "Let Er' R.I.P.," where she began to assess her life outside the game.
Bow is a hot pink hair bow with eyelashes, she also has feet and regular arms attached to the bows sides. Her center is round with the bows ends being sharp, similar to a triangle.
After becoming a ghost, she is semi-transparent and her legs have been replaced with a ghost tail.
In a photo from S3E14
As a plushie
Personality[]
Introduced as a random saleswoman for chairs, Bow was an enthusiastic yet stubborn attention-seeker with a hankering for stardom. Her persistence for attention earned her a spot on the show, much to MePhone4's chagrin. With her unexpected start up, Bow showcased her rather ditzy characteristics, particularly her exuberant spirit and lack of general intelligence.
Bow might resemble a valley girl archetype, saying "like" and "totally", wearing makeup, and texting on her phone constantly. Additionally, Bow was quite simpleminded and usually misinterprets others' words, most often MePhone4's. Disregarding her intelligence, Bow was a kind and sympathetic contestant who will always run to the aid of her friend Marshmallow. She is, however, an exceptionally aggressive player who often does better than others at challenges. Fan takes note of these behaviors and helps Test Tube program them into Bot, though Bot was significantly friendlier and less aggressive.
When locked up in a box after her elimination, Bow's isolation caused her to manifest a feral and ferocious state. She eventually grows strong enough to break free of her box and attacks others in "Journey Through Memory Lane", and almost attacks Marshmallow.
She was eventually cured of her feral state with the re-introduction of a chair, though she immediately loses interest. Her violent state was brought out one last time in order to take down MePhone5, leading to her permanent death.
After her death and conversion to a ghost, Bow's desire for attention becomes destructive for herself and her best friend Marshmallow. She takes upon cruel actions, such as possessing, manipulating, and lying to others, in order to boost her personal outlook. Bow believes that being on the show boosts the quality and perception of characters and, in turn, gives them a better chance to be friends with players such as Marshmallow. Without the show, she claims, she was nothing.
Chairs[]
Bow has become notorious for her obsession with chairs. The self-known chair enthusiast would constantly advertise her chairs in almost every sentence, even if it didn't pertain to whatever conversation was occurring. She would even go as far as advertising chairs in "The Snowdown" and telling viewers that voting for her to join the show would earn them a chair.
Bow's obsession with chairs appears to also have granted her the ability the power to call upon them at random times. She uses them with shockingly experienced levels, as seen in "Inanimate Smackdown" when she defeats Apple in the arena with a chair. However, chairs can also be seen as her weakness, most notably in "The Great Escape", as they cause her to lose the "MePhone Says" challenge.
However, after she recovered from her violent and demented state, Bow realized that chairs were "so last year", and ended her obsession by smashing her chair into the bleachers. Additionally, in "Let Er' R.I.P.", Bow destroys a chair in Purgatory Mansion, potentially for the same reason. She seems to have shifted her obsession of chairs to an obsession with her own ghost tail.
Enhanced Durability: Bow can seemingly survive multiple hits from The Fist Thingy which can launch contestants all the way to Idiotic Island.
Chair Utilization: Bow was seemingly able to spawn chairs out of nowhere, and even wield them as weapons as seen in "Inanimate Smackdown".
As a Ghost[]
Levitation: As a ghost, Bow was able to fly or levitate in the air.
Possession: In "Let Er' R.I.P.", Bow was able to possess inanimate objects, like tables or chairs, as well as contestants like Apple and Baseball and control them. In "Kick the Bucket", it was revealed that Bow controls them using marionette-like strings. Any actions used or words said by Bow will transfer to the character possessed. If she was distracted, however, the possession will end. She used this ability on Apple once more in "Through No Choice of Your Own" when she informed Knife and Suitcase to immediately evacuate from Meeple Headquarters to prevent from further torture.
Invisibility: Bow was able to turn herself invisible and not be seen by other characters.
Intangibility: Bow was able to pass through walls and other objects with ease.
Sound Shockwave: Bow can produce loud sound waves by roaring, strong enough to send Microphone hurdling out of Purgatory Mansion.
Size Manipulation: Bow can grow or shrink to different sizes, as seen when roaring at Microphone.
Telekinesis: In "Snow Bow", Bow was able to levitate snowballs without touching them.
Teleportation: Bow can seemingly teleport around Purgatory Mansion.
Bow was the only contestant who visibly has eyelashes.
She, however, was missing her eyelashes once she became insane, but regained them after becoming a ghost.
She was first object show character with eyelashes.
Bot used to have them as well until their redesign, leaving Bow again as the only character with eyelashes.
A character known as Milk (where her only one time appearance was in "Everything's A-OJ") also does have eyelashes, but she doesn't count as she's not a contestant.
Including Bot, Bow was the shortest and smallest character.
Her size was revealed to be 2 inches tall by Apple. Though this could be invalid, as Apple could've been being sarcastic, merely estimating her size, or stating an incorrect size all together.
Bow was the only non-contestant and non-recommended character to be put up for voting.
She was also the only non-contestant and non-recommended character to win a contest.
Bow, Apple, and Dough are the only three contestants to join a season late.
Bow is the only contestant to have never appeared in an intro.
This would apply to Apple and Dough, however, both of them were added to the Inanimate Insanity II intro.
Bow has shown slight skill in using the lasso, though apparently not enough to capture others in "The Great Escape".
Bow was the second character to appear in a commercial, after Cheesy.
This makes Bow the first and only female to appear in a commercial.
Bow was hit approximately 5 times by the Fist Thingy in "Double Digit Desert", making this the record for the amount of Fist Thingy punches in one episode.
She also holds the record for being hit the most by the Fist Thingy with 8 punches.
Bow's voice was based on Shane Dawson's impression of Paris Hilton, as confirmed by TheTGrodz in the Inanimate Insanity Secrets video.
Bow's main music theme throughout her appearances in Season 1 was Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, which was from the ballet "The Nutcracker", written by the composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Bow was confirmed in TheTGrodz's Inanimate Insanity Secrets that she was originally going to be yellow.
Due to her shape, viewers commonly misidentify Bow as a piece of candy.
Bow was one of the two characters that have won only one challenge in Inanimate Insanity (S1), the other being Paper.
Bow, Dough, and Knife are the only contestants who have died permanently on the show, though only in Season 2.
Bow made a cameo in Object Universe Episode 11, revealing that Ice Cream was actually eggs.
In the "Tri Your Best", an invention was seen on the shelf of Test Tube's lab called the "Bow-in-nator". It was unknown what this machine does, but fans speculate it might bring Bow back to life. Since it’s shaped like Bow, it's possible that it could be a prototype of Bot.
Bow was the only female character to be voiced by Taylor Grodin.
From October 20th, 2017, to October 31st, 2017, Bow took over the AnimationEpic twitter account.
In October 2015, Bow took over this wiki.
According to her Instagram, she might check out this wiki. It was unknown if this was canon or not.
Her voice actress, Skyler Lent is also known for hosting the object camp called THE SISTERHOOD.
Bow was the only character so far to appear in a scene from Inanimate Insanity Invitational without being a contestant there.
According to Bot while being interviewed from their Exit Interview, Bow watches adult cartoons in their words "boring", and that have "insensitive jokes" and "naughty words".
Bot's claim could be doubtful and tentative considered according to them, also in their words that it's just a punchline.
Bow as she appears in Modern Objects
She makes a brief cameo at around 12:09 in the Modern Objects episode Diggin' Up Trouble, though it was unknown whether this was intentional or not.
She was one of four characters to begin with Bo-, the others being Bomb, Bot, and Box.
Prior to deciding to include Bot in Inanimate Insanity Invitational, an original pitch would've had Bow using a VR headset to create av virutal hologram of herself to compete in the season, implying that she was going to actually have participation in the season.
Her circle part is actually a hemisphere rather than a sphere.
According to her "Let Er' R.I.P.", she can't leave "Purgatory Mansion" during her explanation to Marshmallow on what the mansion is.
The mystery behind her ghost tail backstory was unsolved to this day, due to several instances where she's interrupted or ignored from whoever listens to it. For example, in "Kick the Bucket", Marshmallow ignores her story just by remembering how much of a positive relationship with her and Apple was before Bow's possession; in "The Reality of the Situation", she was interrupted by Test Tube when she became offended as if she was called as a dead end; Though not canonically in Purgatory PARTY!, she was interrupted by Fan when he asked her again how it's like with Dough as a brother; and both instances from "Through No Choice of Your Own", she gets interrupted once again by Paintbrush when the Pen Signal alarm went off, as well as finally telling her ghost tail story, but all of it was off-screen. Her ghost tail story as unheard of as it is plays off more like a running gag than something important, which it might be unknown at the entirety might be heard of in the future (hypothetically).
But thanks to Box in "Objects in Mirror", she told Suitcase that by making a sprint to escape inside MePhone4, they'll be successfully free from getting trapped inside him. Bow and Dough still kept their souls, but because it was too late for them to run even further before losing their lives entirely. Knife ran to save Marshmallow from becoming a ghost, and in the end he sacrificed himself to save her life. Meaning Knife no longer roams free as a ghost because of Purgatory Mansion.
She has appeared/been mentioned in 45.9% of Inanimate Insanity.
