Nickel (BFDI)

Nickel is a male contestant on Battle for Dream Island Again, IDFB, Battle for BFDI, and The Power of Two who could have joined the game in "The Reveal". He was recommended by 4 users, and 2 other alt accounts of Adam Katz. He placed 3rd in voting with 43 votes and lost to Bomby and David. Nickel is also called Dime (recommended by englishcreamcakes) and Quarter (recommended by BlockyCuzco/SammyShinx).
==Personality==
Nickel is very pessimistic and is known to say random things. He also is sometimes sarcastic and others can’t tell that at times.
==Biography==
Nickel is a worrier and often doesn't believe in himself. He often suggests giving up, and he is always complaining about how hard things are. Interestingly, he once used to be the exact opposite, always saying "I just know I'M going to win!" He once believed that he would become "the new Coiny", but that dream has since faded.
==Trivia==
=== Comparisons ===
* Nickel is one of the few contestants who are a form of currency, the others are Coiny and Ruby.
** He is also the only currency character who's armless and has a name that doesn't end in y.
* Nickel is one of the four contestants who received a change in limbs after already debuting as a potential contestant (in Nickel's case, he lost his arms in BFDIA 1). The other three are Tree, Fanny, and Lightning.
** He is also the only non-Death P.A.C.T. Again member to do this, and is the only one who didn’t start out limbless.
* Nickel, Saw and Grassy are the only characters whose body assets had a significant overhaul in BFB.
* Nickel and Bomby share a few similarities:
** They were the two most voted recommended characters who failed to debut in BFDI 18.
** They were the two most voted recommended characters to join BFDIA.
** They were on the only two teams in BFB that lost three times, Team Ice Cube! and Beep.
** They both competed on 4 teams and were together in 3 of them.
** They’re both on Just Not.
** In "Don't Dig Straight Down", they were the only contestants whose deaths weren’t caused by getting completely scorched in lava. Although Bomby's fuse was exposed to the lava.
*** If this fact is considered, Nickel is the only contestant whose death during that episode had nothing to do with lava.
* Nickel is the first character to have their inanimate counterparts be used for Cake at Stake (which was used in BFDI 15). The second was Salt Lamp, where their inanimate counterpart was used in the "How Loe Can You Grow?" Cake at Stake.
=== Competition ===
* Nickel got into season two with the second-highest number of votes: 892. The only competitor to beat him was Rocky, with 1,008 votes.
** This makes Nickel the most voted newbie to join BFDIA.
* Nickel is the only BFDIA newcomer on Beep.
* Nickel and Cake are the only two contestants in BFB to receive the same number of votes at an elimination, with 826 votes each. Coincidentally, both are on the team Just Not.
* Nickel is the only member of Beep in TPOT who doesn't compete on The S!.
* As of TPOT 4, Nickel has gone the longest out of the Beep contestants without getting voted off.
=== General ===
* Nickel's favorite screen, as seen in "Yeah, Who? I Wanna Know", is a smiley face.
* In "Get in the Van", Coiny said that when he and Nickel get close to each other, "bad things" happen. When Pin made Nickel stand next to Coiny, the area around them started to blur, proving that what Coiny stated was true.
** As seen in "The Long-lost Yoyle City", when he and Coiny are near each other, a portal is formed and various coins and dollar bills explode out of the portal.
* In "Welcome Back", he says that Pin lost her color just like him. This could mean that he used to be a coin and then lost his color to make him look like a nickel.
** It could also be seen as a reference to how he said he would be the new Coiny.
* Nickel has a different, much deeper voice in "The Reveal".
* He is the first character to have a line not spoken by either Michael or Cary Huang, as he is voiced by Adam Katz. This is also a reference to Nickel from Inanimate Insanity.
** Nickel is voiced by Adam Katz, who also voices Nickel from Inanimate Insanity.
* Nickel has been eaten by contestants twice, those being Teardrop and Rocky.
* One of Nickel's catchphrases, that being 'Holy roly poly crawling in guacamole', is likely a reference to episode twelve of Inanimate Insanity, in which the subtitles say the exact same thing.
* Satomi had confirmed that Nickel is one of her least favorite characters, and the reason Beep kept losing was because she hoped that he would get voted out. She then states that she regrets it and it won't happen again.
** Ironically, Nickel would end up becoming Satomi's favorite character for a brief time during TPOT 1's production before she later revealed her favorite being Saw again. 
* Despite being a five-cent coin, it is revealed that Nickel is actually worth six cents in "Why Would You Do This on a Swingset" and Battle for Dream Island: Official Character Guide.
** The only accurate calculation between the two is the Official Character Guide, as US$0.06 in August 2019 (the month when the book was published) equals US$0.05 of buying power in February 2011 (Nickel's first appearance in BFDI is in "Half a Loaf Is Better Than None", which released February 1, 2011).
* Nickel is the only recommended character to be voiced by (one of) their recommender(s).
** This almost happened with Marker, but was later scrapped.
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