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| This is an article about Box, a contestant on II2, III, and II4. You may be looking for Bow or Bot, two characters who competed in II1 and III respectively. |
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"Every once in a while, you have a moment of, glorious boldness! You just stood up for what you believed in and saved a whole species! The rush you must've felt! And now, you're dead. Look. Maybe it was worth it, but you paid a price.” |
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| —Box,"Objects in Mirror" | ||
Box is a female contestant on Inanimate Insanity II, Inanimate Insanity Invitational, and Inanimate Insanity IV.
Prior to the first season, Box was one of many box-adjacent contestants subconsciously created by MePhone4 for the show. Following her interview from the host, Box wasn't contacted for a month, which led her to return to the area for an update. She returned to find many more box-like contestants in line, which led her to question why she even wanted to compete in the first place. After running away, she accidentally tripped on a rock, which resulted in her falling and drowning in a nearby lake. MePhone was alerted and fished her up, only to find her as a limbless corpse.
As MePhone wasn't able to fully recover her body, Box competed in Inanimate Insanity II as a basic cardboard box. She was placed on The Grand Slams and got eliminated in "A Kick in the Right Direction", placing 17th overall.
Box competed as a contestant on Inanimate Insanity Invitational as a member of The Sinkers. After holding the most strategic agency on The Sinkers and spearheading the eliminations of Blueberry and Lifering, she was medically evacuated from the game after an accident caused by her team's poor dynamics along with Clover's luck, and did not go to Indefinite Island, not participating in either rejoin challenge. She placed 15th overall.
Box is currently competing in Inanimate Insanity IV as a member of Go Big or Be Last. She is voiced by Aisha Rae.
Personality[]
In Inanimate Insanity II pre-finale and Inanimate Insanity Invitational, Box was not shown to have a personality, since she was not alive. Despite this, other contestants treated Box as if she was sentient, often speaking to and for her or seeing her silence as shy, wise, emotional or rude depending on the situation. In Inanimate Insanity Invitational, Box was seen by Nickel and Balloon as a backstabber since she accidentally voted for them after supposedly allying with them. These completely coincidental incidents made her a powerful ally in Tea Kettle's eyes. It was also seen through the subtitles of some episodes that Box did have a voice, although it was unheard of in the videos. It was inferred by the rest of the cast that Box could talk.
Trophy was the only character to call out the cardboard material's lifelessness, prompting everyone else to defend the inanimate object. Despite that animosity, both teamed up in "The Participation Trophy" where it was also revealed Box idolizes Trophy and "mimics his exercise regimen", using it to swiftly (offscreen to the viewers) navigate the kiddie pool obstacle course, earning Trophy's respect despite both of them also losing to Team Cinnamonfinity.
Even though Box seemingly moved sometimes, it was stated multiple times Box that is not a very good swimmer, sinking rapidly in any body of water and having to be rescued by Lifering and Yin-Yang.
During "Objects in Mirror", Box's true personality was shown. She is on the shy side, to the point where MePhone referred to her as "meekish" in her audition. Box also represses her feelings, leading to her having "everything packed" inside. She claims she does this since it allows her to "always know where everything is", and that expressing her feelings could cause things to get messy. Box is shown to be desensitized to death and the afterlife, remarking how she's been in the afterlife for a while, and shrugging off the claim that everyone had died, asking how they died immediately after. She gets noticeably upset at mainly MePhone4, but also Suitcase, and the other competitors having her corpse on the show, claiming that they were "doing it as a bit." Box also seemed to have trust issues, as she is both quick to apologize and mostly lays low. Outside of her general personality, she also has a sense of humor not everybody can understand; containing sarcasm and deadpanning. Box became aware that MePhone created the contestants before everybody else. She never learned to swim, which lead to her death. Overall, Box is a meekish character, that occasionally takes initiative.
A new aspect of her personality has developed in "Fan the Flames", where she ends up getting blurry vision and the lack of instinct, almost potentially injuring Bonesaw, proving that because of her long-term isolation, she often has trouble knowing what to do and is incompetent to the dangers surrounding her. She does also refuses to talk to anyone about her incompetence given what she almost did to hurt someone, with the given instance of Bonesaw while he was rock-climbing. The only one in her team in Go Big or Be Last to find out about her incompetence and struggle to take initiative was Lifering, giving her advice and lending a notebook and a pen for her to communicate through writing words and sentences in case she refuses to speak as for now.
Appearance[]
Prior to "Objects in Mirror", Box had a simple appearance that accompanied her rather plain and nonexistent personality. She is an ordinary yellow rectangular cardboard box with four sides. A bump-like design runs along Box's sides and splits her into a lighter half above and darker half below. Her top can be opened by two small flaps. In "Objects in Mirror", she was revealed to have a face and limbs.
The inside of Box is completely empty, except for the written word "Box" that MePhone wrote inside Box, which Apple notably misreads as "Taco".
Official Site Bio[]
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Box is a box. |
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| —Inanimate Insanity Site (2013 and 2018) | ||
Coverage[]
Cameos[]
Despite Box's elimination in "A Kick In The Right Direction", Box has appeared multiple times throughout the series in the form of background cameos:
In "Let 'Er R.I.P.", Box appears under one of the tables.
In "Theft and Battery", Box appears three times, once behind a counter as Lightbulb mentions knowing "a guy", once inside a glass showcase as Steve Cobs yells at Soap, and finally on a computer screen as Microphone talks to Steve Cobs.
In "Mazed and Confused", Box can be seen hiding behind bushes when Lightbulb is about to be with Fan as her partner.
In "Hatching the Plan", Box can be seen inside of The Flying Buddy after Fan and Test Tube reunite in the Egg Spaceship.
Vote Status[]
Season 2 Votes[]
| Episode | EP # | Votes | Total Votes | Percentage |
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| "Cooking for the Grater Good" | 4 | 739 | 4010 | 18.42% |
| "A Kick in the Right Direction" | 5 | 1442 | 3851 | 37.44% |
| Total: | 2181 votes | |||
Popularity Poll[]
| Votes | Total Votes | Percentage |
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| 695 (to join) | 22513 | 3.08% |
Season 3 Immunity Votes[]
| Episode | EP # | Votes | Total Votes | Percentage |
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| "Snapshot Showdown" | 3 | 1207 | 7136 | 16.91% |
| Total: | 1207 votes | |||
Trivia[]
- On the official site, Box's biography is intentionally vague, hinting Box's simplicity and mysteriousness before "Objects in Mirror".
- So far in the entire series (unless every spin-off she's featured in is excluded), she has been on the series for 2 seasons and 18 episodes overall, the number of episodes it took to use her corpse, which in retrospect took her 11 years (2013 - 2024) to feature her in her sentient form.
- Box first appeared in the "Roger That" trailer at the end, in the picture with Paintbrush, Yin-Yang, and Baseball, being stood on by Yin-Yang, becoming the fourth contestant revealed in Inanimate Insanity II.
- In AnimationEpic's video "Inanimate Battle 2", Taco was in Box as a joke. It also referred to a scene about what was inside Box in "A Kick in the Right Direction". When Apple opened Box, she thought it said "Taco" inside. However, it turned out to be a misread, since Knife corrected her, with it saying "Box".
- As stated in the description of "The Best of Box", Box was originally never supposed to be a contestant, but she became one when Derek and Adam were laughing at the idea of just making a cardboard box a character. Soon Taylor, Brian, and everyone started to love the idea and think it was hilarious, causing her to become an official contestant.
- As revealed on the new Inanimate Insanity website, she "enjoys transcending time and space."
- The following episodes where Box ended up being sunken down underwater were "Breaking the Ice", "Tri Your Best", "Stranded in Paradise", and "Objects in Mirror", though in a flashback.
- Box is the lowest-placing armless contestant in both Inanimate Insanity II and Inanimate Insanity Invitational. Box is the first limbless contestant to be eliminated in Inanimate Insanity Invitational. This is also makes Box the first ever contestant to never be punched by the Fist Thingy III, due to being medically evacuated.
- But these comparisons are useless since "Objects in Mirror" showed that all of her rankings throughout the show were through her corpse rather than her conscious being.
- In both seasons she participated in, Box was eliminated in the 5th episode.
- Box is the only contestant to participate in both Inanimate Insanity II and Inanimate Insanity Invitational to not make it to the merge in either season.
- Because of this, she is also the only contestant to participate in more than one season and never make it to the merge.
- Box and Blueberry were the only Inanimate Insanity Invitational contestants who did not have a confessional.
- Before "Objects in Mirror", Box only had one line.
- This line was later removed and replaced with birds chirping; this was because when the original line was reversed, it said "You reversed this clip, didn't you motherf****r?" This was removed sometime after early 2021.
- Prior to being confirmed female in "Objects in Mirror", Box was falsely assumed by the other contestants to be male, and was referred to with he/him pronouns.
- This makes her the most misgendered character, with second place being Paintbrush.
- She is one of six characters to begin with Bo-, the others being Bomb, Bot, Boaty, Bow, and Bonesaw.
- In the second comic of Inanimate Comics on the official Inanimate Insanity website (Art Class), Box seems to have a talent in painting, despite her being inanimate at the time.
- Box is one of the very few characters, whom are female and one of their gimmicks is storing items in their storage inventory, which in this case is being stored inside them. The characters qualified to match these traits are Suitcase and Cabby, whom are both winners of a season in the show and have half-complete limbs unlike Box.
- Similarly enough, Box is a variant of Suitcase.
- Somehow, she even said it herself in "Cob Mentality," where she told Bonesaw that she was sort of the blueprint for Suitcase.
- Similarly to Balloon and Nickel, Box was also part of both The Grand Slams and The Sinkers. However, prior to both the second and third season, Balloon and Nickel were on separate teams in Season 1, while Box didn't exist yet until Season 2.
- Box is one of five contestants to have competed in three seasons, the others being Balloon, Lightbulb, Nickel, and Paintbrush.
- She is the only one to not be a Season 1 veteran.
- Box is the only female contestant from Go Big or Be Last in Season 4.
- Box has been in a team with Trophy in The Grand Slams and Lifering in The Sinkers in Seasons 2 and 3 respectively now that she is with both of them as members of Go Big or Be Last in the fourth season of the series.
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References[]
- ↑ Confirmed at timestamp 32:30 at Inanimate Insanity II: The Movie Laemmle Glendale Q&A panel. "It's a good question, I mean, obviously there were characters like Trophy that are like 'He's just a box, like it's not even real,' and everyone's like 'don't talk to him like that' and stuff. Obviously, well, Box is she/her so that also, like, was part of the irony there was they were all, you know, thinking 'he.' They didn't know who Box was, they were all talking to a corpse, so I think it was obviously played up as a bit which Box acknowledges in this episode, like we were playing it all as a bit, 'No, no, I don't think so.' You know, so there's a lot of that humor there." - Adam Katz
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Members: Lifering • Box • Tea Kettle • Blueberry • Nickel • Balloon
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