Null

:"NULL" redirects here. For the game style, see NULL Style.
Null (alternatively stylized as NULL) is a mysterious corrupted character who later becomes a major antagonist in Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered.
== Description ==
Null appears to be an almost invisible entity in the image. He appears to be nothing more than a T-posing set of photo-realistic clothes, hair, eyebrows, and eyes. He wears blue jeans and a red T-shirt.
In Baldi's Basics Classic and Baldi's Basics Birthday Bash, compared to the other characters, Null seems to have the highest quality sprite in the game with the least amount of dithering added to his appearance. There is also what appears to be a very thin line under where his feet would be.
In Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered, Null went through some slight changes. He is more dithered than he was before, with the line underneath his feet no longer being visible. In addition, his face was slightly altered and some specks and gray lines have been added around him. For his sprite, anti-aliasing is no longer on. In the rare post-NULL Style crash screen, it is revealed that Null has light skin. On the lake, he is also wearing light brown cargo shorts instead of jeans.
== Personality ==
Null breaks the fourth wall, feeling obviously aware of why or how he is in the game. He claims that he is corrupted for classified reasons, in reference to his voice being glitched: His voice from Baldi's Basics Classic sounds as if he is speaking through a radio, and interrupted with loud beeps every few seconds. In Birthday Bash, his glitched-up voice may have gotten worse, inferred from the fact that he coughs a lot, the radio-like static's quality lowered, and a lot of now-even louder electronic noises playing randomly on quick occasions, making his voice much harder to understand, including the fact that his voice seems to have gotten louder.
His main goal is to encourage the player to destroy the game before something terrible happens.
In Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered, probably because the player does not take what Null said seriously, he turns into an aggressive character and wants to end the game like Baldi. However, what happened after that is unknown after disappearing in mystman12's Office.
== Role ==
=== Baldi's Basics Classic ===
Null is only encountered in Story Mode from both endings.
Null's voice is first heard once all 7 Notebooks are collected, interrupting Baldi by yelling "GET OUT WHILE YOU STILL CAN!!!". He is then heard once again during the normal ending screen, when he congratulates the player but informs them to do worse when replaying the game, presumably so they can meet him.
In the alternate ending after answering every question wrong in all 7 notebooks, once the player reaches the last exit, they are transported to a short hallway near Baldi's Office. When spawning, the player is facing a wall with a gray image of Baldi and the text "You won! There's room for improvement though. Go see Baldi in his office for some tips!". The HUD disappears upon entry, making it look like a real screen. Upon entering the room, Null will be seen standing behind a desk with a banana to his right floating above it, accompanied by Baldi with his sprite distorted and stretched out. Null will seem to be surprised by the player's arrival, and warn them to never tell anyone about the game, close it, destroy it, and never play it again. Once he finishes his speech, the game will crash.
=== Baldi's Basics Birthday Bash ===
Null is found in the Principal's office, if the player uses a Teleportation Teleporter, or inputs 53045009 into the You Can Think Pad after the glitched school turns dark.
He is once again surprised by the player's cleverness in finding him but is disappointed that they have not destroyed the game yet. As he is fully aware of the game itself, Null mentions that Birthday Bash is a demo for Baldi's Basics Plus. He warns the player again that something bad will happen if they do not destroy the game in time. After he is done speaking, the game crashes just like in Baldi's Basics Classic.
=== Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered ===
Null appears more in this game than the others.
In Classic Style, exiting the school with all answers wrong will bring the player to a hallway leading to Baldi's Office, which when entering the office, Null will explain the same things as he did in Baldi's Basics Classic.
In Party Style, the player can get two interactions with Null. Unlike in Birthday Bash, using a Dangerous Teleporter in the glitched school is the only way to see Null in this style. Once it is used, they will get sent to the normal school, then head to the Principal's office where Null explains the same things as he did in Birthday Bash, except with slightly differed audio, notable to the volume. However, when the player uses a Dangerous Teleporter after the red s start spawning, Null yells at the player and tells them to stay away from the game, also as to how he told the player to do so. Both of these interactions crash the game once finished.
Null is also found in Baldi's Basement, once the player gets to the shrink machine room. There, Null quotes that he knows why the player continues playing the game to find the lore about it, despite him asking them to stop. After this, the game crashes.
Null's most major appearance is in NULL Style, which is unlocked by completing any style with all Fun Settings (except for the Free Run setting) active at once. Once the first two notebooks have been collected (which can only be done if Null has been encountered in all three main styles), he will begin to chase the player in a similar way to Baldi, but there are a set of differences from him: 
* He does not make any noise while moving.
* Every time the player collects a notebook, he will be attracted to the location where the notebook is.
* He moves around 1.5-2.5 more tiles than Baldi for each interval, where the player can only outrun him with the use of stamina or a BSODA, maybe even the Swinging Door Lock if needed.
* He can open any door for half a second in the hallway when he passes by.
** He always opens doors next to him for 0.5 seconds, giving a hint about his location.
** He might be able to spot the player from behind a window by doing this, and promptly use it as a shortcut.
* He can see the player through windows and break through them to gain a shortcut to the player.
* He may occasionally say something while chasing the player. Very few are context dependent, like his "Hey! Wherever you are I'm gonna find you," line.
* As he moves, the lights around him get darker, giving a hint at his location.
* If he catches the player, a loud sound will play, the school will glitch out (textures changing color, parts of the school rotating and moving, etc) at an increasing intensity, and the game will close.
** This also happens when the player hovers their cursor over the "" button when pressing "" after one or more notebooks were collected or attempting to use the game's debug menu.
* He may also sometimes taunt the player upon catching them saying "Ha haa!".
Once all 7 notebooks are collected and 3 out of 4 exits are reached, his speed will increase immensely and he will run to the Principal's office, but he will not harm them. However, once the player approaches the final exit, Null will be visible and suddenly run towards it and close it before the player can reach it. He will begin to ramble and taunt the player, and objects will appear in front of him which can be thrown at him to begin the boss fight.
* Even if the player reaches the final exit before Null (with the use of BSODA or other means), they will be unable to exit the school as there is an invisible barrier preventing them from doing so.
During the boss fight, he will chase the player at a constant pace (and always know where they are), and occasionally block off certain pathways by creating barriers with random objects. He is able to block off broken windows as well. These barriers despawn after a few seconds. If Null ever somehow barricades himself, he can go through the barrier himself while it's still being blocked. Floating objects will start spawning around the school during this, such as chairs, desks, potted trees and bananas, which can all be thrown at him, increasing his speed and the tempo of the music. More occasionally, he will break through windows to get to the player faster.
After he is hit 10 times, the player will be brought to an empty black hallway connecting to mystman12's Office, in which lies a journal congratulating the player. After reading the journal on the table, Null will appear one final time, calling the contents of the journal lies and yelling at the player, before glitching intensely and disappearing.
After NULL Style is completed for the first time, Null will no longer appear in the game in almost any way, which causes the following changes to the game:
* NULL Style will be replaced with Glitch Style, which is identical to NULL Style except Null is replaced with a red , with a lack of voice lines.
* When all 7 Notebooks are collected in one of the three game modes, his "GET OUT WHILE YOU STILL CAN!!!" scream will be replaced by Baldi saying "Find a way out before I catch you!" after a short pause.
* In the Classic Style normal ending, Null's voice line telling the player to do worse has been removed, leaving the ending screen in silence.
* Null's encounters in the three main styles are replaced with Baldi encounters.
** In the Classic Style secret ending, Baldi gives the player some advice on subtraction, teaching the player about negative numbers.
** In the Party Style secret ending, Baldi lets the player listen to some music he made, as a surprise.
*** If using a Dangerous Teleporter after the red s start spawning, Baldi will still let the player listen to the music he made, instead of a different interaction.
** In the Demo Style, after entering Baldi's Basement, Baldi can be seen in the shrink machine and lets the player help him test it out. However, it fails, and Baldi says the machine still needs a few tweaks.
*** None of these encounters close the game, instead bringing the player back to the menu as normal.
*** It should be noted during these three secret endings that Baldi will not make an attempt to try to harm the player. In fact, he appears quite friendly.
* Secret codes used in the You Can Think Pad to access hidden modes can also now be found in the Baldi encounters and mystman12's office, although defeating Null is not necessary to activate them.
** However, 09241993 does require NULL Style to be unlocked, to activate Debug Mode.
*** The code is only shown after Glitch Style is completed, in the closet of mystman12's Office.
* Null is seen one last time after NULL Style has been completed, when getting a rare fake error screen after a game over. Instead of closing the game, the error screen will glitch out, playing random sounds and becoming dark, after which a photograph of Null by a lake is seen, accompanied with a loud static noise with random "beep" notes playing. The photo will then change along with Null's arms and the rest of his face (as opposed to the regular sprite, where the arms and the other part of the face aren't seen) appearing in front of the screen, glitching and screaming before disappearing. The image then fades out in chunks, with dithering, until the background is completely black (with the exception of a extremely hard to spot in the background), before the game closes.
== Trivia ==
=== General ===
* Null is the first character to be corrupted in the Baldi's Basics series.
* Null is actually an edited image of mystman12 in chroma key, by using GIMP.Q: "Where did you make the image of null?" / A: "It was just a photograph I took, which I then edited with GIMP." - Gmail (question), Gmail (response)
* In the Kickstarter video, Joshua Valent can be seen doing a T-pose in a striking fashion to Null, during a short sequence after mystman12 starts laughing about the "lore".Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning Kickstarter Video - 
** Many people thought Null's origin was Joshua Valent at first because of this. However, easily disproves this, as it resembles more like mystman12 than Joshua. Joshua also seems to wear cargo shorts, in comparison to Null in the photo of the lake.
* When voicing Null, mystman12 used a distorted version of his natural speaking voice while using the audio-editing program Audacity. It was encoded by GSM 6.10 and set the sample rate to 8000 hz while editing the voice. He spoke into a cheap microphone and sets the sample rate to 8000 hz after giving it a lot of harsh clipping effects. It creates a non-sound file with the occasional "BEEP" sounds via raw data by setting the GSM 6.10 and sampling rate to 44100 hz."I recorded them all in Audacity with my mouth up close to a cheap mic, which resulted in very distorted sound. I then used clip distortion to make the recordings even worse! That was the intended sound though so it worked out well. Audacity was the only software I used." - Gmail
** In Baldi's Basics Classic, however, the beep noises instead have the sample rate of 8000 hz.
* mystman12 made the voice line for the "GET OUT WHILE YOU STILL CAN!!!" quote by screaming into his laptop microphone from a few feet away, with some distortion added afterwards."I just used my laptop mic. I think I stood back from it a few feet and screamed as loud as I could! Then I did some editing afterwards, like adding some clipping and other distortion effects." - Gmail
* mystman12 has Null's unedited voice files."I still have all the original, unedited recordings, yeah! I can't share them, but I keep them on-hand just in case I ever need them." - Gmail
* There are feet in Null's unedited image.Q: "Do you have the feet image from null? Like, does it exist?" / A: "Yes, they are in the original image!" - Gmail (question), Gmail (response)
* Red is Null's favorite color.Q: "What is his favorite color?" / A: "Red!" - Gmail (question), Gmail (response)
* It is highly possible that the Zalgo-texted parts of the Classic and Birthday Bash descriptionsBaldi's Basics in Education and Learning by Basically Games | itch.ioBaldi's Basics Birthday Bash by Basically Games | itch.io were written by Null, telling the player to not download them, as he does not want the player to play the game.
* Null's voice is heard at the end of the Kickstarter video, congratulating the player on finishing the video.Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning Kickstarter Video - 
* Null breaks the fourth wall as he tells the player to delete the game. This does not land him into detention despite the fact that one of the school rules is "No fourth wall breaks", as Principal of the Thing is not around at the time. 
** However, Null being found in the Principal's office in Birthday Bash and Party Style of Classic Remastered might imply that he was caught for breaking the fourth wall.
* Null is the first character in the Baldi's Basics series to have been put in the public domain as it is mentioned in the secret message after inserting the password (!IMPORTANT.videogamesarelinks) correctly in https://www.basicallygames.com/nullcanreturntoyouby page."I'm dedicating the “fictional character” "NULL" from the "Baldi's Basics" series to the public domain by marking it with the CC0 1.0 Universal license." - Basically Games I hope this wasn't too hard to solve. However, his in-game sprites, audio files and other assets do not count."This does not include NULL's in-game sprites, audio, dialogue or other assets found in the Baldi's Basics games." - Basically Games I hope this wasn't too hard to solve.
* Null's name used to be at the ending of Baldi's Basics Plus in the fake error screen, it used to say "Please read NULL for more info." from V0.3 to V0.4.2, but in V0.5 it was changed and now it says "Please read [MISSING] for more info".
*Prior to being called Null, his name was known as .
**The first mention of his new name was in the ending of V0.3 of Baldi's Basics Plus, but it was not established as such until the release of Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered, in the speech that Null gives in Baldi's basement.
=== Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered ===
* From the trailer, during the glitching part, Null can be seen in a few brief frames when the scene transitions from the cafeteria to the hallway. He is also mentioned on the chalkboard during the final scene.
* By combining and from the game assets, Null's almost full body will be made.
* In the secret game crash sequence, when Null first appears, he is not wearing his blue jeans. Instead, it looks like he is wearing brown shorts, blending in with the dock on the lake.
* All of the text in the game relating to Null (located in the file) is encrypted using the Unity addon UnityCipher using the password: 'baldi'; this was done to prevent players from instantly datamining Null's dialogue when the game released and spoiling secrets."In regards to Null's captions, you should be able to encrypt modified text strings using the Unity Cipher plugin found here: https://github.com/TakuKobayashi/UnityCipher You can use the key "baldi" to encrypt new strings and it should work fine when you replace encrypted strings in Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered." - Gmail
* mystman12 promised that Baldi would be the only character who could end the game."One rule I've set for myself is to make it so that Baldi is the *only* character who can end your game." - Kickstarter comment However, Null/red are able to end the game. The reason for this could be that said comment was reffering only to Baldi's Basics Plus, where the promise is still fulfilled.
* In NULL Style, when using the Principal Whistle, Null will start darting and dashing across the schoolhouse, making it almost impossible to beat the style this way.
** When blowing the Principal Whistle after getting 3/4 exits, Null will be faster than normal in the bossfight, making it impossible.
* Depending on if the player has "Reduce Flashing" enabled or not, Null will either make the lights in the school flicker or simply go dim.
* If the player can somehow make Null move in the exit boundaries, Null will be able to break through the windows of the exits.
* When the player opens up the pause menu and press the button, unlike other characters, Null still moves, which makes it easy for Null to catch AFK players.
** The pause menu closes right after Null touches the player.
* If Null is spawned in Demo Style, when answering a problem on Baldi's Math Machine, he will stop moving for a few seconds. This is because he takes the same script as Baldi when he is happy.
== Glitches ==
=== Baldi's Basics Classic ===
* In V1.3, the alternate ending was broken. Null was supposed to say his dialogue and then the game was supposed to close afterwards, however, a coding mistake caused the game to close the moment Null started speaking."So in the current version of the game the alternate ending closes the game prematurely. This was due to a simple logic error I made in the code. So to anyone who wants to try and get that ending, you might want to wait for 1.3.1. Again, sorry, should have tested more thoroughly." - mystman12. June 1, 2018. Twitter
== Gallery ==
Filename2.png|The old version of Null's sprite used for Baldi's Basics Classic and Baldi's Basics Birthday Bash. It is in much higher quality with seemingly no dithering, and anti-aliasing on.
N.png|The other half of Null's body as seen in the secret game crash sequence.
Lake0.png|A photograph of Null by a lake, seen in a secret game crash sequence.
Lake1.png|The photograph of the lake without Null.
404 Null.png|Fully red Null without eyes. This sprite was used on the 404 page on basicallygames.com from April 6, 2024 to April 19, 2024. It is titled .
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