Calamity

**Calamity** is a female bean who ate a tube of superglue.

## About

*"In her high school yearbook Calamity was named as the girl most likely to die in a disaster. Her parents built a second house for her to live in, just to keep the disasters at bay. Her cat was kidnapped by a tornado and her pet fish was taken by a rare land-dwelling plague. Despite these disasters, none could predict that it would be her love of all things 'tube-like' that would be Calamity's final hurrah."*

*- Dumb Ways to Die: Crazy Chronicles*

## Appearance

Calamity has an egg or potato-like light brown body which is similar to Numpty's and Pillock's body shape.

## Videos

### Dumb Ways to Die

She eats a tube of superglue which completely paralyzes her and eventually leads to her death.

### Melbourne International Film Festival

Calamity is one of the beans attending the festival. She is sat in front of Stumble and Ninny, to the left of Putz and to the right of Bonehead. Because she is paralyzed, she cannot stare at Hapless when the others do.

### Dumb Ways to Die - Watch out for slippery surfaces

After Dummkopf sneezed and walked away, Calamity slips on his snot and bleeds.

## Games

### Dumb Ways to Die

Calamity can be unlocked for the player's Train Station at the score 2000 in the old version and at the total score of 768800 in the new version. In both versions, she is the 11th character to arrive at the train station, and in the new version, she is the 60th thing that can be unlocked.

#### Stand Firm

The objective is to tilt your device or flatten it to keep Calamity from falling in the glue surrounding her. If you do this successfully, she winks at you. If you lose, she falls forwards or backward, sticks to the glue on the floor, and struggles to get loose to no avail. That animation was added in an update; before this, she would just simply fall on the floor.

#### Glue Screw

Calamity has another game in which the player will have to screw the top of the superglue. If they close the top of the superglue completely, a bunch of flowers will come out of the glue bottle. Otherwise, the glue will get Calamity's frozen again, much to her chagrin.

#### Hearts & Crafts

Calamity has a Valentine game where the player has to trace a heart shape. If done correctly, Calamity will unfold a paper heart chain and feel loved. Otherwise, she'll get frustrated and throw the scissors in the air, which land on her head and results in failure.

### Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games

#### Don't Sneeze

Calamity also appears in a Back-to-School mini-game where the player has to quickly tap the screen to prevent her from sneezing. If done successfully, she sighs in relief, and Phyllis, who acts as a librarian, looks at her unpleasantly. Otherwise, she's thrown out of the classroom, bleeds, and has a book thrown at her, resulting in failure.

#### Save the Bean from Torture

Calamity also appears in a Winter mini-game where Dumbbell has to negotiate with Bard and Prince Dunce in order to stop them from killing her. If he does it correctly, Dumbbell and Calamity jump with excitement; otherwise, Bard kills Calamity.

#### Tap the Safe Drain

Calamity also appears in a clown mini-game where the player has to tap the sewer without any creatures with red eyes. If you choose the right sewer, she will follow the paper boat. Otherwise, she will be slaughtered to death with only her arm left, and the red-eyed creature laughs and fades out, resulting in failure.

### Dumb Ways to Die 3: World Tour

Calamity is significant to the plot in this game, as she accidentally set Dumbville on Fire. The player has to play minigames and earn coins to help repair the town. She can be unlocked when the first house is repaired, although she can also be found in gifts. She is a common character, and her ability is an *Omen*, which is a 10% score multiplier.

### Dumb Ways to Dash!

Calamity can be unlocked in *Dumb Ways to Dash!*, at level 22, before Putz (level 25), and Ninny (level 19).

## Deaths

* Original video, Glue Screw: Ate some superglue, and suffocates on it.
* Stand Firm: Slipped on glue and died after some time. (**Debatable**)
* Hearts and Crafts: Threw scissors into her head and bled out.
* Don't Sneeze: Thrown out the classroom (by Phyllis or a student) and bleeds out.
* Save the Bean from Torture: Killed by Bard.
* Tap the Safe Drain: Is brutally murdered by the Clown.
* Dumb Ways to Die - Watch out for slippery surfaces: Slipped on Dummkopf's snot and bled out.

## Trivia

### Comparisons and Design

* She has barely shown any dancing throughout the video. She just simply tilts from side-to-side with her signature tube of glue in hand. But she has more than Bungle or Clod, who never dance in the video at all.
* She's one of the light brown characters, the others being the bear and the moose (shown in the video and the app respectively)
* She appears in the pause screen in the 1st app.
* She doesn't sing in the chorus despite being there. Neither does Hapless, Dummkopf, Clod, Numskull or Dunce.
* Calamity, Hapless, Dippy, Dimwit, Stupe, Doomed, Numskull, Bungle and Ninny are the females in the original *Dumb Ways to Die* music video.
* In an early storyboard, she was shaped like a capsule, and shattered when she fell over.

### Games

* If you win Stand Firm, she will wink at the player, implying two things: she can move her eyes and the Beans are somewhat self-aware.
	+ She is not the only bean who shows signs of the latter, as Bungle will pull a shirt out of the clothes dryer saying he loves the player of you win his minigame.

* In the success scene of the minigame "The I-Fall Tower" from Dumb Ways to Die (Application), Stumble approaches her on the top of the Eiffel Tower and she shares a croissant with him, having a romantic moment with each other.

* She was initially confirmed as male in the app; during the old tutorial for "Stand Firm", it says "Don't let **him** fall".
	+ However, *Dumb Ways to Die™: Crazy Chronicles Activity Journal* claims that Calamity is female. As a result, this was later changed in an update to the game; now the text reads "Don't let **her** fall". The same goes for Numskull initially being referred to as male in the minigame *Spaceman Splat*, which is now modified correctly as "Guide the astronaut back to **her** helmet!" posterior to the ver. 2.9.0 update.
* Calamity can actually be a real name, although she is most likely named after the noun, which is defined as *an event causing great and often sudden damage or distress; a disaster*.