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MePhoneX was a major antagonist in Inanimate Insanity II. He briefly appeared as a minor antagonist in "Hatching the Plan", and subsequently returned as a secondary antagonist in "The Reality of the Situation" and "Through No Choice of Your Own".
As revealed in "Through No Choice of Your Own", two MePhoneX's exist. Toilet remotely controlled the MePhoneX that was deleting the contestants (under the impression that he was helping them) from Steve Cobs' spaceship. The other MePhoneX remained on the ship with Cobs, sacrificing himself to save Cobs after the latter's ship was deleted.
Personality[]
MePhoneX appears to be the most robotic and mechanical MePhone to date, leaving little to analyze towards his lack of emotion. He does act aggressive, as seen in the post-credits scene in "Hatching the Plan". MePhoneX is shown to be loyal and sacrificial, as he saved Steve Cobs from falling, in exchange for his (MePhoneX's) own life.
In "The Reality of the Situation", MePhoneX takes on the role of a mysterious invader, roaming around Hotel OJ and causing the mysterious deaths of numerous contestants, including Pickle, OJ, and Nickel.
In "Through No Choice of Your Own", it was revealed that Toilet was controlling MePhoneX temporarily, as Toilet was tricked by Steve Cobs, who, by using A.D.A.M., convinced Toilet to "practice" his assisting skills while controlling the MePhoneX provided to Toilet, Although this was temporary as once Steve Cobs figured Toilet had stopped the murder spree, he shoved Toilet out of the way, bringing back the Main MePhoneX.
Appearance[]
MePhoneX is a large dark gray rectangular phone. On the left, he has two volume buttons and a ringer switch, and on the right is a power button. He has a large screen on his front, which has a black and red wallpaper. In the center of the screen is a large red X with a smaller bright one inside. He is missing a home button, due to his real life counterpart, the iPhone X, not having it.
The most notable difference about MePhoneX are his robotic arms, hands, and legs. His arms are metallic segmented rectangles and his hands are claws with glowing red pentagons at the base. His claws can produce red electricity. His legs are mostly the same as a regular object character, except that his feet has metallic pads on the bottom, with the same red pentagon at the knees.
On his back, there are two cameras on the left, separated by a flashlight. The Meeple logo is displayed in the middle and glows bright red.
Abilities[]
- Electrokinesis: MePhoneX can generate red electricity using his claw-shaped hands, it's unknown what purpose this ability has, although it is possible that it's just for intimidation.
- Selective Perception: When MePhoneX is in pursuit of someone, only his victim can see them. Nobody else in the vicinity can see MePhoneX while he is attacking. This ability can be turned off, as seen when Toilet was talking to MePad and MePhone4.
- Deletion[2]/Inanimation: MePhoneX can drain life from objects with his screen, removing their faces and limbs, essentially rendering to just assets. This also prevents them from being brought back to life via the MeLife app in MePhone4. This ability deletes the object, with the only way of recovery being to be outrun the red line inside of MeAfterlife.
- Hover: Just like his previous models, MePhoneX can hover and fly around at a determined speeds. This ability was used once, when Toilet was controlling him.
- Intimidation: When MePhoneX is about to attack someone, the victim becomes too terrified that they can't just simply try to outrun him as they freeze up in fear. However this did not work on everyone since only Lightbulb made an attempt to dodge the first deletion attempt.
List of victims[]
- Main article: Life Termination
MePhoneX took the lives of the following characters leaving them as lifeless inanimate objects.
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List of survivors[]
Contestants that were never deleted by MePhoneX in The Reality of the Situation and Through No Choice of Your Own.
Coverage[]
Appearances[]
- Inanimate Insanity II
- "Hatching the Plan"
- "The Reality of the Situation"
- "Through No Choice of Your Own"
- "Objects in Mirror" (credits scene)
In "Hatching The Plan", MePhoneX appears exiting the remains of MePhone4's Sailboat. Toilet mistakes the silhouette of MePhoneX as MePhone4. MePhoneX then begins moving towards Toilet while blaring an alarm, two claws raised menacingly with red electricity, seemingly ready to attack.
In "The Reality of the Situation", MePhoneX appears inside Hotel OJ, draining Pickle's life after he had an argument with Taco, although off-screen. Paper later has a discussion with OJ about how everything was centered around himself, which coincidentally triggered MePhoneX by blaring his alarms in the mind of OJ without anyone else realizing what was happening. He later pursued and deleted his soul in front of Paper and everyone else in the party. He appears once more quickly inanimating Nickel, when he was in the same room with Baseball. He also possibly caused the deletion of Guava and Soap.
In "Through No Choice of Your Own", MePhoneX appears inside the Purgatory Mansion and kills Test Tube. Then he appears inside Hotel OJ and kills Tissues and Yin-Yang. Later in the episode, while Paintbrush and Fan are outside of Purgatory Mansion, MePhoneX kills Fan before attempting and succeeding to kill Lightbulb. After the contestants make a circle around MePhone4 and Microphone presenting Taco, MePhoneX reveals himself to everyone, and flies to MePhone4. It's revealed in a flashback of the events of "Hatching the Plan" that MePhoneX was just being presented to Toilet as an offer by A.D.A.M., B.R.I.A.N., and J.U.S.T.I.N., who bring Toilet into a "training simulator" which turns out to be controlling a version of MePhoneX that appears to the other contestants. Toilet (as MePhoneX) explains that he's just controlling X inside a sailboat, and questions how 4 was acting weird to everyone, and 4 later tells what he was hiding. MePhone4 then asks Toilet to search Knife and Suitcase, but he fails as Steve Cobs realizes that he wasn't killing the contestants, and does it by himself (Cobs). After Toilet unplugs Me, Cobs' sailboat disappears and everyone falls, MePhoneX then grabs Cobs and saves him from falling, in exchange for his (MePhoneX's) own life.
MePhoneX briefly appears in the credits scene in "Objects in Mirror".
Gallery
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Trivia[]
- His behavior and limbs are similar to those of the Micro Managers from The LEGO Movie, the giant cube-shaped robotic antagonists owned by Octan and President Business used to end the LEGO World.
- Coincidentally, both the Inanimate Insanity and The LEGO Movie franchises have major references to the Terminator franchise.
- In the "AnimationEpic 700K Celebration!" livestream, Brian Koch mentions that MePhoneX is not autonomous like the previous models and only depends on who is controlling him, with the only thing that he did purely on his own is saving his creator.
- In the same livestream, it's also mentioned that Cobs actually treats this creation as just a mere sentient-less robot, adding that it was shown in the scene where he simply shoves him to a side and forgets about him after surviving the fall.
- MePhoneX's deleting feature probably comes from Me since Steve Cobs implies that it abuses an exploit in the wire Toilet gave to Test Tube while fixing MePhone4 in "Theft and Battery".
- MePhoneX is the first MePhone to use Roman Numerals to denote his number.
- MePhoneX's name could have been the 10th MePhone (12th in name product order), likely due to the fact that the letter X is 10 in Roman numerals, translating his name to "MePhone10".
- MePhoneX is the first character in the series to have a different type of limb, having robotic legs and arms with claws.
- Additionally, he is the first and currently only Meeple product not to have a face at all.
- MePhoneX's name was confirmed in the Ep. 14 Q&A Livestream[3].
- MePhoneX made a brief appearance in the "FULL RECAP SONG | Inanimate Insanity S2" video.
- When the lyric "Who will be the next one to go?" is sung as MePhoneX appears on screen, it foreshadows what his role would be in the finale of Inanimate Insanity II.
- Like with MePhone3GS, this was his first appearance in any II related media since 2021.
- MePhoneX was first foreshadowed in the @inanimateinsanityfan Tumblr account, where Fan asks to MePhone4 why the admin page of Inanimateinsanity.com was replaced with a bright red X-shaped cross with animated fire in the background.
- This foreshadowing was made before the iPhone X was released.
- The same post also foreshadows the plot twist shown in "The Reality of the Situation", where everyone and everything at Inanimate Island was generated by MePhone4.
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