Paper

**Paper**, labeled **The Innocent Psycho**, was a male contestant and a major protagonist on *Inanimate Insanity*. He started on Team Epic and was the first eliminated, then rejoined the show as a member of Team Chickenleg in Double Digit Desert. He didn't compete on *Inanimate Insanity II* but remains in Hotel OJ with his friends. He is voiced by Justin Chapman.

## Appearance

Paper is a square sheet of loose-leaf paper with rounded edges. Much like a regular piece of lined paper, he has seven light blue horizontal lines across his body and one light red vertical line near his left side. Also along his left side are three holes.

## Personality

At the beginning of the series, Paper was a friendly, innocent contestant. This is most clearly seen when he hangs out with Knife and watches Desperate Housewives instead of doing the challenge in A Lemony Lesson. However, his trusting nature and physical weakness made him an easy target, so he was eliminated first.

Despite being the first out, it was clear that his stay on Idiotic Island affected his mental health greatly. In addition to exacerbating his anger issues, he also developed an alternate personality. His alter, Evil Paper, committed acts of violence, such as when he killed OJ in Aquatic Conflict. Later, with OJ's help, Paper figured out that he was triggered by the words "Idiotic Island," and strove to fix his mental health problem. Although Paper expressed remorse for many of Evil Paper's actions, he was still shown to be rather self-centered. The most notable instance of his was when he drank a juice-box instead of giving it to a sick OJ in. However, it seems that he did this due to obliviousness, not malice. When he realized his mistake, he apologized and pledged his allegiance to OJ, and helped him win the challenge in The Tile Divide.

Although he is not much of a leader, Paper seems to be both responsible and good at expressing himself. He is responsible enough to stand in for OJ in the first issue of Inanimate Comics, and is well-spoken enough to represent OJ as his attorney in Everything's A-OJ.

## Coverage

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## Abilities

* Alternate-Forms: Paper gets possessed by an angrier version of himself when Idiotic Island is mentioned.

## Total Votes

 10
 11
 12
 15
 16
 Total

## Trivia

* Paper is one of the eleven pre-Invitational contestants to be eliminated due to other contestants rather than viewer voting. The others are Baseball, OJ, Taco, Balloon (twice), Dough, Suitcase, Nickel (twice), Paintbrush, Fan, and Test Tube.
	+ Paper is the only contestant who was eliminated by eliminated contestants.
	+ Paper and Balloon are the only contestants who have been eliminated twice due to contestant voting.
* Paper is the only pre-Invitational contestant to be on multiple teams in Inanimate Insanity.
	+ Paper is the highest-ranking contestant to originally come from Team Epic.
* Paper is the only contestant on Team Epic to not join Inanimate Insanity II.
	+ Balloon is the inverse of his case since he was the only member of Team Chickenleg to join Season 2.
* Paper was the only contestant to rejoin due to MePhone4 wanting a rejoin.
	+ Though Lightbulb and Suitcase also rejoined, these occasions were due to miscounted votes and a random elimination by OJ, respectively.
	+ This title has since been changed due to the rejoin of Cabby and Blueberry, as MePhone4 was convinced by Walkie-Talkie and was not forced to let her rejoin.
	+ Paper is also the only male to join or rejoin in the middle of the game. The other rejoiners, Lightbulb, Apple, Bow, Cabby, and Suitcase, are all female.
		- This has since been changed due to Blueberry rejoining in Blue Buried
			* This means both the first and last/most recent rejoiners are males.

* Paper has been noted for his similarities to Mike from Total Drama: Revenge Of The Island, because both have alters that are defeated in similar ways.
	+ Paper's arc was planned when he was confirmed to rejoin, which was several months before Total Drama: Revenge of the Island began airing. Paper confronted Evil Paper in an episode that was released several months before Mike confronted his own alters.
* Paper is the first and last contestant to be eliminated before the finale, making him similar to Flower from BFDI.
	+ Also, neither of the two made it into Season 2 of their respective shows.
* In Episode 14, Paper's original design used for the elimination icon, despite the fact that he had an updated idle by then.
* Paper has a connection with pianos, as one crushed him in A Lemony Lesson, he was thrown one when he rejoined in Double Digit Desert, and has Evil Paper crushed by one in Inanimate Smackdown.
* According to The Penultimate Poll, Paper is afraid of dolphins, which he says give him nightmares. This is likely because Knife threw a dolphin at him during the tiebreaker challenge of A Lemony Lesson.
* Paper is disappointed by his inability to swim, as seen in "Seas the Day".
* Paper is the only Season 1 contestant to be on both teams.
* Paper's asset in Season 1, Episode 1 is a clipart image from google.

**Members:** Lightbulb (c) • Nickel • Knife • Paintbrush • Baseball • Marshmallow • **Paper** • Apple