The Funny Badge

*"We shall be called, The Funny Batch! What? I said Funny Batch, not Funny Badge. Can we change it?"
"No."*
―Cori and Four[src]
**The Funny Badge** was one of the eight teams formed during the *Battle for BFLBI* initiative. A joint venture between Kcaj and Dr. Zeon, The Funny Badge was made with the intentions of being their own sinister alliance, until Cori, Bookworm and Wolf decided to participate as members, oblivious to Kcaj's and Zeon's criminal backgrounds. Following Kelcie's divisive death, the members of The Funny Badge went their separate ways, with Zeon and Kcaj plotting to kill as many contestants as possible so they could win The Power of Tanner, while Cori went to try and reason with Silverhawk due to his insane actions. With Kcaj being the last member of the team left standing, he fought Knollad and Joker at the top of Yoyle Mountain, before being brutally murdered by Joker during their final showdown.

## History

### Formation

*"Ha ha ha! So... destroy the sun, huh? Sounds pretty evil... you need a diabolical leader like me!"
"A man of your skills is required for the job."*
―Kcaj and Dr. Zeon[src]

Instructed by Four to create eight teams of eight for the *Battle for BFLBI* initiative, *The Incredible Crew* devoted to create their own team. Kelcie expressed interest in joining the group, but Jack Jabolon told her that their team already had eight. Dr. Zeon then tried to steal A.N.D.R.E. so he could join them, despite his flaws, but Andre refused and slapped Zeon into space and towards their mortal enemy, the sun.

A while later, Zeon returned to Goiky and tried once more to steal Andre for themself, but was attacked by Lerry. Zeon then left alongside their other two creations, Robo-Cort and Tanner2, being followed by Kelcie. The four of them eventually met Kcaj out in an open field. Upon their meeting, Zeon foretold Kcaj of their desires to destroy the sun. Intrigued by this, Kcaj negotiated to form an alliance with Zeon, consisting of them, their creations and Kelcie. Kcaj then brought in Wolf to be part of the crew, believing him to look evil enough. However, Wolf remained confused by what was going on.

Noticing Zeon and the others in the distance, Cori met up with Bookworm and expressed interest in joining them, oblivious to Zeon and Kcaj's sinister nature. When asked why she wanted to join that specific team, Cori said it was because it was full of weirdos, and felt it was suitable for them due to their weird voices. Despite Cori and Bookworm's good alignments, Zeon and Kcaj didn't hesitate to have them part of the team.

With the eight members settled, the team started coming up with ideas for a name. Kcaj expressed interest in naming the team something to fit their theme of villainy, but Cori rejected that ideas, saying that the team name had to be something solid, and not stupid. Zeon and Wolf both suggested they went with a more comedic name, giving Cori the idea to name their team "**The Funny Batch**". However, Four misheard Cori and assigned their team the name of The Funny **Badge** instead, much to Cori's confusion. She asked Four if they could change it to what she wanted, but Four said no.

### Robo-Cort's Attack at Yoyle Mountain

Not long after Silverhawk began the first challenge, Robo-Cort went to Yoyle Mountain and stood in front of the "Summit" flagpole. She was then approached by Joker and The Entire Circus, who fell from the sky and landed behind her, asking if she knew where Knollad was. However, due to Robo-Cort only being programmed to say "Awesome!", a real answer to the question was not provided. Annoyed, The Entire Circus pushed Robo-Cort into the lava pit that was right in front of her, where she started to burn and sink. Presumed by Four to be dead, Robo-Cort was scratched off the Elimination Table.

### Kelcie's Unholy Downfall

*"Oh my God! You killed Kelcie! You idiot! She was the key to all of this!"*
―Jack Jabolon to Wolf[src]

Having separated from the rest of the team, Wolf returned, asking what he had missed. However, while running up towards them, Wolf accidentally collected Kelcie, making her fade away. Jack Jabolon then called Wolf out for killing Kelcie, as both the members of The Funny Badge and *The Incredible Crew* mourned over Kelcie's demise. However, Wolf didn't seem to mind and meowed, leading Jack to snap his head and kill him in an act of vengeance.

### Battling For The Power of Tanner

*"Ah yes, the power we all desire."
"I agree."*
―Dr. Zeon and Kcaj[src]

Annoyed with the show, and confused by the concept of A BFLBI, Tanner decided to take over the show and have the remaining contestants battle for The Power of Tanner instead. Intrigued, the contestants marched off to partake in Tanner's new show. Both Dr. Zeon and Kcaj became the most desperate to have The Power of Tanner more than anyone else, describing it as the power everyone desired.

Meeting up with Tanner, Cori became excited to start the new show, and asked Tanner what the first contest was. However, Tanner was more than happy to continue Silverhawk's no-dying challenge, concerning Cori and Bookworm.

### Assassination of Bookworm

*"NO! BOOKWORM! LET GO OF HIM!"
"Give me everything you have, or I'll gut your friend like a fish."
"What are you talking about? Please, don't hurt Bookworm!"
"Useless!"*
―Cori and Raymond Floyd[src]

Within a forest, Cori and Bookworm discovered Raymond Floyd, hiding behind a tree, sharpening his knife. Cori took notice of Ray's hair, commenting how it reminded her of the good old days. Concerned, Bookworm told Cori that Ray looked dangerous and that they probably shouldn't talk to him. The two were suddenly ambushed by Ray, who grabbed Bookworm from behind. Cori started screaming and demanding Ray to let Bookworm go, but Ray told Cori to give him everything she had, otherwise he would stab Bookworm in the back. However, Cori failed to deliver, leading Ray to easily murder Bookworm, before running off. Cori mourned over the death of Bookworm as she got down towards his dead corpse and yelled, questioning where Silverhawk was.

### Kcaj's Obliteration Operation

*"Ha ha ha! Enough standing around! Time to kill people! Hmmmm, I would go after my pathetic doppelganger, but his team has six other members, hmmmmm... Ah! Ha ha ha! How about The Death P.A.C.T. and the Wild- Whatever. They only have two and three members respectively."*
―Kcaj[src]

Having waited long enough, Kcaj started to target various teams so he could murder their respective members. That way, Kcaj would be capable of climbing up the ranks to win The Power of Tanner. Kcaj prevailed to attack his pathetic doppelganger, but decided not to due to *The Incredible Crew* still having six additional members. Kcaj then decided to murder the remaining members of The Death P.A.C.T. and The Wildhead Nutcats instead, due to them only having three and two members left respectively.

Kcaj harnessed the powers of his terrifying Obliterator Gun and used it to vaporize Shane out of existence, but ceased to kill Ross due to him being protected by Barry's Shield Generator. Kacj then targeted Brian in an open field and wiped him out, isolating John. Kcaj then maniacally laughed at John, giving him an L in the process.

### Collaborations with the Kevin Alliance

*"Truck."*
―Tanner2[src]

Isolated from the rest of his team, Tanner2 was brought on board by the Kevin of *Nerd Or Noob* to join him, *BFLBI* Kevin, Tanner, Bob and Lerry to form their own alliance, with the intentions of starting a farm and surviving. Tanner2 became interested with helping the group and stole the Shrekbusters Truck and brought it back to the farm. Tanner2 later left the group after *Nerd Or Noob* Kevin murdered Lerry for murdering Bob and Tanner, as well as *BFLBI* Kevin.

### Zeon's Electrocution

*"Car...? Red ded...?"
"I failed you, my son. Go... be free... find the car you always dreamed of..."
"Car..."*
―Tanner2 and Zeon[src]

Dr. Zeon found themself glaring at their mortal enemy, the sun, being reminded of the pain and torture he endured by its intense and broad daylight. Zeon prevailed to reunite with Tanner2, but stumbled upon A.N.D.R.E. instead. Zeon felt the need to destroy Andre for betraying them and did so, unplugging his battery and shutting him down for good. Zeon celebrated their victory, but was interrupted as a lightning strike orchestrated by VCM attacked them. Tanner2 approached Zeon to see his creator die right in front of him, a depressing moment for both him and Zeon. Before dying, Zeon liberated Tanner2 from his control, and told him to be free and find the car he always dreamed of.

### Tanner2's Malfunction

*"You."
"Tanner2."
"You?"
"Your car."
"Car? Car? Car? Car? Car?"
"Is out of gas."
"wiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwi"*
―Tanner2 and VCM[src]

Learning that VCM was the one responsible for Zeon's death, Tanner2 went over to confront VCM. However, VCM told Tanner2 that his car was out of gas, making Tanner2 malfunction and have his body parts disjointed, killing him. A while afterwards, James expressed satisfaction that there were no more crazy robots in the competition.

### Robo-Cort's Resurgence

*"I AM CortOrion as CRAFTWORLD!"*
―Robo-Cort[src]

After several hours rotting within Yoyle Mountain's lava pit, Robo-Cort blasted herself out of there and back down to the fields of Goiky, where she announced her return. She then started chasing after the remaining contestants, with the intentions of burning them to crisps. She successfully murdered both Mark and Chris, but was stopped by Cori, who prevailed to fight her. However, Cori failed to take her down, due to Robo-Cort being made out of materials. Robo-Cort then burnt Cori, making her fall on her and back and begin to slowly die.

### Cori's Wisdom

*"You left us for two years to film your magnum opus. We went back in time and defeated your rival. Was that not enough? Why this game show? Why this-? Why do you keep coming back? I know you, Silverhawk. You've spent too much time here. You told me LittleBigPlanet is all you know and, you're scared of starting from scratch, aren't you?"
"That's not true! I already left! I-I didn't come back... it was the tenth anniversary, I had to! I-I'm trying to leave now!"
"By killing all of us? Silver, if you want to leave, just go."*
―Cori to Silverhawk[src]

Approached by Silverhawk, Cori blamed him for the mess that he dragged her and everyone else into, and became frustrated by his attempts to kill everyone so he could leave *LittleBigPlanet* for good after multiple failed attempts. Because of Silverhawk's incapability to move on, Cori suggested that Silverhawk was afraid of starting from scratch, but Silver ensured Cori that wasn't true. Still mad with Silverhawk, Cori advised him that if he wanted to leave, he should just go, before passing away. Due to his interactions with Cori at this time, Silverhawk would eventually adopt the alias of **Silver the Conqueror**.

### Robo-Cort's Destruction

*"Phew! Looks like Robo-Cort's reign of terror is over! Thanks, stranger!"*
―Ross[src]
Shortly after Cori died, Robo-Cort was smashed to pieces by Shrek, ending her reign of terror for good.

### Kcaj's Last Stand

*"Ha ha ha! How cute. Let us meet at the top of Yoyle Mountain for our final battle. Our fight will be legendary..."*
―Kcaj to Knollad and Joker[src]

Seeing Knollad and his doppelganger before him, Kcaj prevailed to attack them with a tree and kill them. However, both Knollad and Jack dodged, before discovering Kcaj, who went towards them, destined to have them killed. Kcaj conjured up a plasmaball and tried to kill Jack with it, but Jack dodged. He returned the favour by firing a plasmaball at him, but Kcaj avoided being hit. He then prevailed to blast another plasmaball at Knollad, in an attempt to kill him, but Jack sacrificed himself to save Knollad. With Jack now dead, the competition advanced to the final eight contestants, one on each team.

Refusing to concede, Kcaj began to murder the last remaining contestants. He vaporized John with an Obliterator Gun, before erasing Kevin from existence, saying that it wasn't Tuesday, but rather Wednesday. Kcaj then challenged the other two remaining contestants, Knollad and Joker, settling on a final showdown at the top of Yoyle Mountain. Kcaj then flew to Yoyle Mountain, where he awaited Knollad and Joker's arrival.

Once Knollad and Joker made it to the top of the mountain, Kcaj began the battle. He jumped into midair and landed towards Knollad. The two started punching each other, before Kcaj was knocked down to the ground. He was then picked up by Joker, who threw him into the mountain's lava pit. However, Kcaj survived, and let out a plasmatic explosion, blasting Knollad and Joker off the side of the mountain. Kcaj liberated himself from the lava pit and continued to punch Knollad whilst falling, before kick-punching him and making him fall to the ground, brutally dying in the process.

Kcaj landed safely on the ground, and rejoiced having successfully killed Knollad. However, Joker didn't take Kcaj's injustice too kindly, and brutally murdered him, ripping his body into pieces and making him bleed his head off. With Joker being the final contestant standing, he won the first challenge, and was rewarded with a Win Token.

## Trivia

* Out of all the *BFLBI* teams, The Funny Badge has the most female members.

## References

1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 *Battle for BFLBI: The Power of Tanner*