Skull

skull is one of the various nextbots that hunts down players in nico's nextbots. It can be found in nn_hotel and arcade mode.
skull was added on March 3rd, 2023, within the Arcade Update.
== Overview==
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=== Appearance ===
It appears to be a 3D disembodied human skull that is constantly spinning counterclockwise with an indexed color/dithering applied, likely noticeable from an early website.
In the Jumpscare/Killfeed icon, skull appears to be wider than a normal version, paused in the first frame of the GIF. The in-game animated image has blue outlines around it. The color of the skull is pale grayish-brown. There is light reflecting on the left side of the skull that some early 90s/2000s CGI renders applied.
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=== Audio ===
The audio sounds like a bunch of bones falling down, with a tension-inducing ambient playing over it. 
The jumpscare sound is a short-sampled audio of the guitar riff.
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==Origin==
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=== Image ===
skull's image is mostly seen in TikTok videos, used as a GIF of a spinning skull. It can mostly be found in videos such as "diabolical transition", "ugly transition", and lots more. The exact origin for this GIF is possibly from GeoCities, as it has been populated on the web for several years. Example: a site about the Maltese population in 2009. Wayback Machine/Internet Archive In TikTok, skull symbolizes there's no going back that shows the end of life or their accomplishment of a specific task. Meaning Behind Spinning Skull by Droid Harvest
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===Audio===
The suggested audio is unknown; it is likely one of the suggestors who made their own using FL Studio. The in-game proximity audio is a bunch of Dry Bones from New Super Mario Bros. tumbling down into parts, and the background music that plays as well is the castle theme music. More specifically, Tower Theme. The audio that was heard came from Mario/Luigi stomp on Dry Bones.
The in-game jumpscare audio is the guitar riff from Bad To The Bone by George Thorogood, released in 1982. Bad to the Bone | Wikipedia The song was famously used in the 1991 film Terminator 2: Judgement Day, and often played over videos of skeletons. It also heard in a Twitter meme, for example. It was used in video memes around mid-2016 on YouTube. The spread begins on late 2020 in TikTok, where it associated with a dog smiling at the camera, and on mid-January 2022, the video was uploaded by a YouTuber "proshitposting", showing a car with hundred skulls attached around its body, playing a modified riff, Bad to the Bone - Know Your Meme article , which titled "bad2thebonebonebonebone". Its jumpscare audio is the same as unfortunate. However, both of these skull nextbots has a different duration, which is a bit shorter than unfortunate. The source for this came from a Roblox sound effect titled "bad to the bone riff", which was created by MrStealYoGirl/@Mr_McNoobian on March 11th, 2022. It was linked from here. The suggested Jumpscare also applies as unknown, which was their own creation.
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==Gallery==
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===General===
File:Skullallimages.png|skull during a blackout (left) and bloodmoon (right) event.
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==Trivia==
* Rattus#1111 suggested the idea #nextbots-suggestions on October 24th, 2022. skull was desired to emit a skeleton walking on the ground sound with spooky music played over for the proximity audio, and the Jumpscare being a bell ring in the background. Noticeably, you can see there are 12 frames on the sprite sheet. 
** When skull was released in the game, it had completely different audio from the suggestion, and there are 24 frames in total.
* Before the Outbreak Update, skull was missing the front-facing frame in the sprite sheet, which consisted of a 23-frame animation.
==History==
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==References==
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