Boderman

boderman (full name: Richard Boderman) is an event nextbot that will hunt down players in nico's nextbots. He can appear in the Boderman Event.
boderman was added on October 15th, 2022, which is when the Overhaul Update took place.
==Overview==
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=== Appearance ===
boderman takes the appearance of a scientist wearing a white coat, a light blue shirt, and brown pants. He has human-like skin and glasses. However, his arms are disproportionately long and end in long claw-like fingers. He has gray hair on both sides of his head. His neck also extends out of the collar of his shirt. He has a dark blue striped red tie, along with an ID card. He also appears to have a green glow and lightning particles surrounding him.
If you get jumpscared by him, his eyes will bulge out of his glasses, and his mouth will open wide. He will also raise his eyebrows up.
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=== Audio ===
boderman's proximity audio emits creepy ambience. It abruptly cuts before looping. While he does have proximity audio, he also has a compilation of voice tracks that he occasionally emits every so often. The voice tracks include him saying long voicelines, him saying "Huh?" curiously, and him screaming. All of said dialogues are distorted in-game.
His jumpscare audio emits a woman screaming in horror. When the Outbreak Update occurred, boderman's proximity audio changed to an audio similar to carmen's audio but slowed down.
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==Origin==
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=== Model ===
boderman comes from an April Fools joke for a multiplayer mod of Half Life known as SVEN: CO-OP. Eventually, someone then ported the model onto the Garry's Mod workshop as a nextbot addon.
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=== Audio ===
While the proximity audio is mostly known as the theme heard in Five Nights at Freddy's 2 when an animatronic is near the office, the proximity audio actually originates from a SoundDogs audio file named "Scary Ambience With Sci-Fi Sirens".
boderman's jumpscare audio is sourced from the 1946 film Great Expectations. The scream can be found here at the timestamp 1:08. The scream was also used in another horror game called "Scary Tic Tac Toe Game".
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==Gameplay==
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=== Special Ability ===
boderman can teleport to a specific spawnpoint whenever he can't find a player, along with lightning strikes occurring.
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=== Strategy ===
boderman's AI is dependent on player's movements; he will track down players whenever spotted, like most nextbots behave. Players can outrun him by bhopping in straight line while running. However, when performing a bhop circle, it is best to time it correctly, as boderman will turn around faster than they could.
If their timing is off, players will most likely die when holding the movement key too much, respond too soon, or bump into objects or a nearby wall.
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==Quotes==
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Quote 	Description
"all hope is lost; survive." 	The oldest description of boderman's event.
"you feel a cascading sense, all hope is lost; survive."	An older description of boderman's event.
"he is everywhere, there is no escape." 	The old description of boderman's event.
"a cascading sense of fear resonates inside of you." 	The current description of boderman's event.
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===Current===
Quote	Caption 	Description
 	...You have no idea what is going on, do you? 	??'s intro line
 	I'd give my right hemisphere for a few hours of sleep.	BODERMAN's outro line
 	
* Guhhhh!
* Ahhhh!
* Ah, it's good to see you.
* Hello.
* Who would have thought you'd still be alive?
* Oh Dear!
* Don't you find this all rather fascinating?
* Ah, Freeman.	When boderman jumps, attacks, or spots the player.
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===Old/Unused===
Quote	Caption 	Description
 	Hold still, this won't hurt a bit.	boderman's unused jumpscare audio
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==Gallery==
==Trivia==
*boderman has had no info or updates of him returning soon.
**As of October 24th, 2023, richard boderman has been rescripted and his 3D model is now back.
*boderman was first announced to come to nico's nextbots on August 10th, 2022, along with nn_russia.
*Fans were quick to point out that boderman somewhat resembles Doctor Kleiner from Half-Life 2 (or the scientist in GMOD) and the appearance of the "Walter" Scientist model from Half-Life.
*For a time in nico's testing, his jumpscare animation would be replaced with a scaled-down version of sanic's. 
**He no longer uses the scaled-down version of sanic's. It was replaced with the 3D jumpscare with his eyes popping out.
*When Jasper (or 1nicopatty) tested boderman's jumpscare, his jumpscare was short, not long.
*boderman is unsurprisingly faster than sanic, as his walkspeed is always set to 75.
* Unfortunately, the model for boderman's event broke, causing more bodermans to spawn and the nextbot to break while he is stuck doing his jumpscare in a loop in the testing servers.
*His animations use the idle animation from the HD Headcrab zombie, and the running animation from the gonome.
*You can actually control boderman right here.
*Strangely enough, when taunts were added, boderman became admin panel exclusive due to problems with the event. The same thing happened to nn_flatgrass because its teleporter would send you back to the backrooms.
** It was the model that was broken. Before this, the model for the event broke a bit, making more clones of boderman spawn in the maps and get stuck in their jumpscare. You can't die from them if you go over them if they are broken and stuck doing their jumpscare in a loop. This may be eventually fixed in a while. Probably the same time as we waited for the nextbot to come for the first time.
** As of the Arcade Update, his model is still broken, and he doesn't go as fast as he used to.
**When the Outbreak update took place, boderman was turned into a 2D Nextbot, and his proximity audio was changed to the same audio as carmen's, but slowed down and low-pitched.
**On May 29th, 2023, the developers fixed every 3D nextbot except for richard boderman because they're rescripting him.
**This implies that the developers are indeed working on him again. However, judging by the fact he is being reworked, it may be a minute until he’s back in the game, possibly as a private-server exclusive.
*** In the latest dev streams, the developers have been recently rescripting him, so it's likely possible that he will return in the next update.
***Holidae stated in the patch notes for Winter Part 1 that richard was going to be re-added in Winter Part 2.
*** He was re-added in the Saint Patrick's Day update.
*boderman now uses the AI that zombies use.
** This might coincide with the fact that richard boderman has a green glow surrounding him.
**However, on an unknown date, the color of richard's glow was changed to yellow.
* In nn_crossroads, there is a mini Boderman in a porta-potty. Check Secrets to see it.
==History==
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