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So let's win this challenge, the bright way!

—"A Kick in the Right Direction"
Click here to see more of Lightbulb's quotes.

Lightbulb, labeled The Bright Leader, is a female contestant on Inanimate Insanity and Inanimate Insanity II.

Despite being the captain of Team Epic, Lightbulb didn't perform often in team challenges. She was mistakenly eliminated in "The Stacker" with 64 votes, but rejoined in the following episode in place of Nickel, who properly received the most votes. She was re-eliminated in "The Snowdown" with 120 votes, just one more than Pickle.

Lightbulb was the fourth previous contestant chosen to participate in Inanimate Insanity II, once again becoming a team captain, this time for The Bright Lights. She often clashed with Paintbrush due to their differences in leadership, but the two became closer throughout the season; she also allied with Fan and Test Tube. Becoming the last remaining member of The Bright Lights, Lightbulb made it all the way to the final four before being eliminated in "Truth or Flare" due to placing last in the challenge after recognizing she values her connections more than the game.

She is voiced by Michael Bruzzone.

Appearance[]

Lightbulb resembles a incandescent light bulb. Her face appears on her glass bulb. Within her bulb, she has a stem sticking out above her metal sleeve. Lightbulb's arms and legs stick out of her sleeve.

Debut[]

  • She has no shading.
  • All her outlines are black.
  • Her arms protrude from her bulb.
  • In some shots she is shown a filament.

Second[]

  • Her bulb has an orange outline.
  • She now has a stem in the center her bulb with a circle on the top.
  • She has two smaller stems on the sides.

Third[]

  • Her center stem is shorter.
  • Her outlines are smoother and slightly thicker.
  • Her arms now protrude from her sleeve.

Fourth[]

  • She now has shading.
    • Her bulb has a thin highlight at the top.
    • Her sleeve has a shadow on the side.

Fifth[]

  • Her bulb has a shadow.
  • The highlight on her bulb is now oval shaped.
  • The outline on her sleeve is thicker.

Previous[]

  • The outline on her sleeve is now gray.
  • Her bulb shadow is more yellow.

Current[]

  • Her sleeve has shine.
  • Her wires are more pale.
  • Her bulb shadow increased in size.

II & BFDI Meetup (2022)[]

  • Her bulb no longer has a shadow.
  • The highlight on her bulb is now larger.
  • Her sleeve is revamped.

Personality[]

Lightbulb is an enthusiastic, kind of lazy, nitwitted, free-spirited and optimistic character. Lightbulb is greatly known for her goofy and ludicrous attitude, given that when she returned for Inanimate Insanity II, her character had completely changed from the clumsy and dizzy leader of Team Epic to a more comical, almighty, and influential chief and commander of Team Bright Lights. This makes Lightbulb the only character in the series to be captain in multiple seasons of Inanimate Insanity.

Given that Lightbulb's personality is quite erratic and unpredictable, Lightbulb may appear as a smart leader one moment, but then become a goofy couch potato in an instant. She will also often display bizarre thought processes, in one manner, she will believe that standing still throughout an entire challenge will cause her to win. In other challenges, she may come up with a thoughtful idea that may lead her to victory or out of a difficult situation. She can also be seen giving almost everyone various different nicknames, even calling them by the wrong names sometimes.

Lightbulb can be very tyrannical, as she occasionally takes great pride to be in control. She appears almost addicted to leadership, although she has shown to be quite careless of her actions as well. Lightbulb displays her powerful reign while in constant feuds with Paintbrush, as she will use her superiority to make decisions for the team, and even wrongfully send contestants to the Calm Down Corner.

Disregarding her leadership, Lightbulb is a generally kind, caring, and benevolent player with a large love for cookies. Additionally, Lightbulb will eat inedible objects with ease, such as sticks, balls of yarn, metal buckets, and boxes of fish food. Lightbulb is an extrovert and quite attached to the people she cares about. She is almost constantly around people she likes and commonly in a good mood as well. Furthermore, she is in a noticeably low mood after Paintbrush decides they wanted to stop working with her. When upset or agitated, Lightbulb can be even more careless then usual and act recklessly against herself or others, She sometimes claims that she drinks in certain situations, such as when she's depressed or oppressed.

According to the crew, throughout the series, Lightbulb feels more separated and wants everyone to be exactly the same. This is further emphasized in "Alternate Reality Show", wherein an alternate timeline, she finds characters who are alike and feels welcome.

Official Site Bio[]

Lightbulb is the omniscient leader of The Bright Lights. She strives to be the ultimate leader but makes sure to follow The Rules Of Objects Shows. Her love for cookies can cause her to be clumsy here and there, but she will brighten up the way for her teammates... as long as they do what she says.

—Inanimate Insanity Site, 2013

As the almighty leader of the Bright Lights, Lightbulb strives to brighten the mood in the darkest of times. Though her ideas may usually seem a bit dim, Lightbulb is never discouraged for long and will always strive to do what is right, even if her solutions are… rather unconventional. Lightbulb’s combination of quirkiness and authority tends to lead to universal disasters or unexplainable victories.

—Inanimate Insanity Site, 2018

Abilities[]

Lightbulb is known for her unique abilities, such as:

Coverage[]

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Vote Statuses[]

Season 1 Votes[]

Episode EP # Votes Total Votes Percentage
"The Stacker" 5 64 265 24.2%
"War De Guacamole" 6 REJOINED (Nickel was replaced with Lightbulb)
"The Snowdown" 9 120 308 38.9%
Total Number of Season 1 Votes: 197

Season 2 Votes[]

Episode EP # Votes Total Votes Percentage
"Marsh on Mars" 2 122 2498 4.88%
"Tri Your Best" 3 278 3021 7.51%
"Let 'Er R.I.P." 6 494 4211 11.7%
"Everything's A-OJ" 7 393 4300 9.1%
Total Number of Season 2 Votes: 1287
Total Number of Votes Combined: 1484

Popularity Poll[]

Votes Total Votes Percentage
4724 (to join) [note 1] 22513 20.98%

Trivia[]

Competition[]

  • After Test Tube's elimination in "Hatching the Plan", Lightbulb became the highest-placing Bright Lights member in Inanimate Insanity II at 4th place.
  • Lightbulb received the most amount of votes to compete in Inanimate Insanity Invitational at 4,724 votes, however, she was excluded from consideration along with Knife, Baseball, Suitcase, Microphone, and Taco due to their ties to the story of Inanimate Insanity II.
  • Lightbulb is one of four contestants to be eliminated twice in one season, the others being Paper, Suitcase (illegally), and Blueberry.
  • Lightbulb is the lowest-ranked female season one contestant to join Inanimate Insanity II.
    • In contrast, Lightbulb is the highest-ranked female season one contestant in Inanimate Insanity II.
  • Coincidentally, Lightbulb has been eliminated twice in episodes that have two words: the first being "The" and then a word beginning with the letter "S". ("The Stacker", "The Snowdown"). However, "Truth or Flare" broke this pattern.
  • In the original version of "Breaking the Ice", Lightbulb was originally going to win a pie-eating challenge; with dropout Hay Bale, and both become team captain.
  • Lightbulb was the first female contestant chosen to be in the second season.
  • Similar to OJ, Lightbulb didn't speak until Episode 2 of the first season.
  • Lightbulb was first contestant to have an Inanimate Insanity Invitational design while not competing in said season; the others being Suitcase, Paper, Cheesy, and Apple.
  • Lightbulb was a team captain in both seasons she competed in.
  • Lightbulb was among the three characters eliminated in a meetup episode, with the other two being Bot and Baseball.
  • Lightbulb is the first contestant to be voted off by viewer voting. If one doesn't count the accidental elimination, then Nickel was the first one voted off.

General[]

  • So far, Lightbulb has been shattered in 7 episodes. "The Arena Of Death", "One-Shot Wonder", "A New Stage In The Game", "War De Guacamole", "The Snowdown", "Mine Your Own Business" and partially in "Everything's A-OJ".
  • Lightbulb has said "OMGA!" on various occasions. In an episode of "Ask Adam", Adam says that she was supposed to say that it was the new OMG and that they named it after the literal pronunciation of "OMG".
  • Lightbulb is the only object who has been Team Captain twice, as she was team captain of Team Epic and team captain of The Bright Lights.
  • Lightbulb was referred to as male from "The Crappy Cliff" to "The Arena of Death" but as female onward.
    • According to Adam Katz, this was to avoid the imbalance of genders (i.e. having more males than females).
    • This has led to a popular headcanon within the fanbase of the show that she's transgender; said headcanon was also backed up by the fact that she's been canonically referred to as male in previous episodes and as female later on (to balance out S1's gender ratio) and physical drawings made by Adam Katz depicting her holding a transgender flag.
    • Her voice appears to be more masculine mid-way through Season 2.
  • Light bulbs in real life are usually white when off, and yellow when on. However, Lightbulb is yellow when off, and white when on.
  • Lightbulb loves oatmeal raisin cookies and is possibly her favorite food.
  • Lightbulb is the first character to figure out that Paintbrush is non-binary. However, in Marsh on Mars, she uses it/its pronouns to refer to them while talking to Test Tube.
  • She is know to be one of the members of the hit Minecraft SMP "Cheesecraft".
  • Lightbulb is seen to have fast reflexes, in "Let Er' R.I.P" when she doesn't hesitate to block the pumpkin flung at her as a safety prize.
    • The newspaper she reads supports this, as the only legible text reads "READERS OF NEWSPAPERS ARE FOUND TO HAVE EXTREMELY FAST REFLEXES".
  • Lightbulb was the first character in the series to receive a plush.
  • In r/place she was drawn, though was removed and replaced by Goo since he did not take up much vertical space.
  • She is quite oblivious watching horror movies, only getting scared at the jumpscares even if it was obvious it was going to happen.
  • If she were to cry, due to her being electronic, it would zap her and be an "ouchie" according to Justin.
  • She was the only MePhoneX victim not to be completely frozen in fear, making a few attempts to dodge, although she eventually accepted her fate.
  • Lightbulb has divided by zero before, proved in “Alternate Reality Show” when she said “Shoot, did I divide by zero again?”.

Gallery

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Team Epic
Team Epic Logo

Members: Lightbulb (c) • NickelKnifePaintbrushBaseballMarshmallowPaperApple

The Bright Lights
Bright Lights Logo

Members: LightbulbTest TubeFanPaintbrushMarshmallowAppleYin-YangCherriesTissues

References[]

Notes[]

  1. Lightbulb received enough votes in the popularity poll to quality for Inanimate Insanity Invitational, but was exempt due to her still competing in Inanimate Insanity II.
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