Bow

* Current (II)
* Current (Ghost)

**Bow**, labeled **The Forgotten**, is a female character and a (former) main antagonist on *Inanimate Insanity*. She debuted in "The Snowdown" starring in a commercial for chairs, and unexpectedly joined the game in "Double Digit Desert". In "Journey Through Memory Lane (Part 2)", Bow was killed off the show permanently, unrecoverable by MePhone4, and thus, did not make a return for *Inanimate Insanity II*, turning into a ghost living in Purgatory Mansion in the episode "Let Er' R.I.P.". She was voiced by Taylor Grodin.

## Appearance

In Journey Through Memory Lane/Part 2, after escaping her box, her body is now pale and her sides are now ragged.

After becoming a ghost, she is now semi-transparent and her legs have been replaced with a ghost tail.

## Personality

Introduced as a random saleswoman for chairs, Bow is an enthusiastic yet stubborn attention-seeker with a hankering for stardom. Her persistence for attention earned her a spot on the show, much to MePhone4's chagrin. With her unexpected start up, Bow showcased her rather ditzy characteristics, particularly her exuberant spirit and lack of general intelligence.

Bow might resemble a valley girl archetype, saying "like" and "totally", wearing makeup, and texting on her phone constantly. Additionally, Bow is quite simpleminded and usually misinterprets others' words, most often MePhone4's. Disregarding her intelligence, Bow is a kind and sympathetic contestant who will always run to the aid of her friend Marshmallow. She is, however, an exceptionally aggressive player who often does better than others at challenges. Fan takes note of these behaviors and helps Test Tube program them into Bot, though Bot is significantly friendlier and less aggressive.

When locked up in a box after her elimination, Bow's isolation caused her to manifest a feral and ferocious state. She eventually grows strong enough to break free of her box and attacks others in "Journey Through Memory Lane", and almost attacks Marshmallow.

She is eventually cured of her feral state with the re-introduction of a chair, though she immediately loses interest. Her violent state is brought out one last time in order to take down MePhone5, leading to her permanent death.

After her death and conversion to a ghost, Bow's desire for attention becomes destructive for herself and her best friend Marshmallow. She takes upon cruel actions, such as possessing, manipulating, and lying to others, in order to boost her personal outlook. Bow believes that being on the show boosts the quality and perception of characters and, in turn, gives them a better chance to be friends with players such as Marshmallow. Without the show, she claims, she is nothing.

### Chairs

Bow has become notorious for her obsession with chairs. The self-known chair enthusiast would constantly advertise her chairs in almost every sentence, even if it didn't pertain to whatever conversation was occurring. She would even go as far as advertising chairs in "The Snowdown" and telling viewers that voting for her to join the show would earn them a chair.

Bow's obsession with chairs appears to also have granted her the ability the power to call upon them at random times. She uses them with shockingly experienced levels, as seen in "Inanimate Smackdown" when she defeats Apple in the arena with a chair. However, chairs can also be seen as her weakness, most notably in "The Great Escape", as they cause her to lose the "MePhone Says" challenge.

However, after she recovered from her violent and demented state, Bow realized that chairs were "so last year", and ended her obsession by smashing her chair into the bleachers. Additionally, in "Let Er' R.I.P.", Bow destroys a chair in Purgatory Mansion, potentially for the same reason. She seems to have shifted her obsession of chairs to an obsession with her own ghost tail.

## Powers And Abilities

* **Enhanced Durability:** Bow can seemingly survive multiple hits from The Fist Thingy which can launch contestants all the way to Idiotic Island.
* **Chair Utilization:** Bow is seemingly able to spawn chairs out of nowhere, and even wield them as weapons as seen in "Inanimate Smackdown".

### As a Ghost

* **Levitation:** As a ghost, Bow is able to fly or levitate in the air.
* **Possession:** In "Let Er' R.I.P.", Bow is able to possess inanimate objects, like tables or chairs, as well as contestants like Apple and Baseball and control them. In "Kick the Bucket", it is revealed that Bow controls them using marionette-like strings. Any actions used or words said by Bow will transfer to the character possessed. If she is distracted, however, the possession will end.
* **Invisibility***:* Bow is able to turn herself invisible and not be seen by other characters.
* **Intangibility:** Bow is able to pass through walls and other objects with ease.
* **Sound Shockwave:** Bow can produce loud sound waves by roaring, strong enough to send Microphone hurdling out of Purgatory Mansion.
* **Size Manipulation:** Bow can grow or shrink to different sizes, as seen when roaring at Microphone.
* **Telekinesis:** In "Snow Bow", Bow is able to levitate snowballs without touching them.

* **Teleportation:** Bow can seemingly teleport around Purgatory Mansion.

## Trivia

* Bow is the only contestant who visibly has eyelashes.
	+ She, however, was missing her eyelashes once she became insane, but regained them after becoming a ghost.
	+ She is first object show character with eyelashes.
	+ Bot used to have them as well until their redesign, leaving **Bow** again as the only character with eyelashes.
* Including Bot, Bow is the shortest and smallest character.
	+ Her size was revealed to be 2 inches tall by Apple. Though this could be invalid, as Apple could've been being sarcastic, merely estimated her size, or stated an incorrect size.
* Bow is the only non-contestant and non-recommended character to be put up for voting.
	+ She is also the only non-contestant and non-recommended character to win a contest.
* Bow, Apple, and Dough are the only three contestants to join a season late.
* Bow was the only character to have never appeared in an intro.
	+ This would apply to Apple and Dough, however, both of them were added to the *Inanimate Insanity II* intro.
* Bow has shown slight skill in using the lasso, though apparently not enough to capture others in "The Great Escape".
* Bow is the second character to appear in a commercial, after Cheesy.
	+ This makes Bow the first and only female to appear in a commercial.
* Bow was hit approximately 5 times by the Fist Thingy in "Double Digit Desert", making this the record for the amount of Fist Thingy punches in one episode.
	+ She also holds the record for being hit the most by the Fist Thingy with 8 punches.
* Bow's voice is based on Shane Dawson's impression of Paris Hilton, as confirmed by TheTGrodz in the Inanimate Insanity Secrets video.
* Bow was confirmed in TheTGrodz's Inanimate Insanity Secrets that she was originally going to be yellow.
* Due to her shape, viewers commonly misidentify that Bow is a piece of candy.
* Bow is one of the two characters that have won only one challenge in *Inanimate Insanity* (S1), the other being Paper.
* Bow and Dough are the only contestants who have died permanently on the show, though only in Season 2.
* Bow made a cameo in Object Universe Episode 11, revealing that Ice Cream is actually eggs.
* In the "Tri Your Best", an invention is seen on the shelf of Test Tube's lab called the "Bow-in-nator". It is unknown what this machine does, but fans speculate it might bring Bow back to life. Since it’s shaped like Bow, it’s possible that it could be a prototype of Bot.
* Bow is the only female character to be voiced by Taylor Grodin.
* From October 20th, 2017, to October 31st, 2017, Bow took over the AnimationEpic twitter account.
* In October 2015, Bow took over this wiki.
* According to her Instagram, she might check out this wiki. It is unknown if this is canon or not.
* Bow has an Instagram account, where she posted the photo taken of Marshmallow in "Let Er' R.I.P.".
* Due to her being a ghost, her body was not buried.
* In Breaking the Ice, a picture was hung in Hotel OJ in memory of Bow.
* Bow is the only character so far to appear in a scene from *Inanimate Insanity Invitational* without being a contestant in there.
* She makes a brief cameo at around 12:09 in the Modern Objects episode Diggin' Up Trouble, though it is unknown whether this was intentional or not.
* She is one of four characters to begin with Bo-, the others being Bomb, Bot, and Box.

## Deaths

* Journey Through Memory Lane: Kills MePhone5, making him explode. That also led to Bow's funeral.

## Gallery

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**Members:** Balloon (c) • Pickle • Taco • OJ • **Bow** • Pepper • Bomb • Salt • Marshmallow