Taco

**Taco**, labeled **The Liar** (previously **The Randomly Insane One**) the central antagonist of Inanimate Insanity, appearing as the main antagonist of Season 1 and the secondary antagonist of Inanimate Insanity II.

Taco is a round, tan, hard-shelled taco filled with tomatoes and lettuce. She also has a pair of arms in her shell that she can hide at any time.

As of "Mine Your Own Business", her shell was dented after she was hit by a gemory and which is a permanent part of her body.

## Personality

At the start of the series, Taco was known for her silly, goofy, weird, wild, and dumb personality, most notably for shouting random words like "SOUR CREAM" and "SPRINKLES", as well as spitting lemons, unfortunately she lost this ability causing her to lament over it for a short period of time. Taco usually appeared completely oblivious to all conflicts and remained motionless with a sideways smile on her face. Overall, Taco is a peculiar character, as she has a self-proclaimed IQ of 7, listed as having mental problems for unknown reasons by Dictionary, and has been said to speak only French and know a few bit of proper dialect, though this was eventually proven false later on in the show.

Despite her bizarre character, Taco illustrates that she is a fierce and antagonistic competitor throughout many episodes, such as in "A Lemony Lesson", where she instantly wins for her team by spitting up dozens of lemons, and in "Inanimate Smackdown", where she dominates the wrestling challenge. Taco reveals over time many abilities that were previously unknown, such as in "Aquatic Conflict", she casually declares that she has arms, unbeknownst to her friends such as Pickle. She also would occasionally shift into moments of impressive intelligence, such as in "Crappy Anniversary", where she analyzes her percentage of landing in the water, but immediately change back.

This slow shift in Taco's character eventually leads to the grand reveal in "Journey Through Memory Lane (Part 2)", where Taco loses the competition and unravels her true identity in a fit of anger when OJ wins. Taco reveals that she merely played a role and created her stupid persona as part of a plan to gain viewership and not be seen as a threat.

Taco's true identity is vastly different from her outrageous and moronic persona. She is rather intelligent, deceitful, tactful, sensitive, and mischievous, with a hankering for evil. Although her plan to steal the million-dollar prize in *Inanimate Insanity* was thwarted, she continues to pursue the same prize once again in *Inanimate Insanity II*.

Initially hiding in the bushes for the first half of the season, Taco remains as a spectator to the competition in order to find an accomplice. Taco eventually narrows her choice on Microphone, a weaker competitor who is struggling to succeed in challenges but tries very hard. After Taco begins tormenting Microphone in "Rain On Your Charade" by reading through her personal diary, she opens up to Microphone to convince her to join sides with her in order to split the million-dollar prize 50/50 in exchange for help and advice throughout the rest of the competition.

From here, Taco further exhibits her true personality. She has little regard for genuine morals in order to advance in the competition, such as in "Kick the Bucket" where she instructs Microphone to paralyze Balloon with a view to hinder his ability in the challenge and mentions how she enjoys messing with others, but she is also shown to respect Microphone when she was able to manipulate with Balloon within the rules of the game. Taco is also somewhat egotistical and arrogant, as she views Balloon and Suitcase's conflicts as petty and "adorable."

## Powers

Taco is known for her unique powers, such as:

* **Retractable Arms:** In the episode 'Aquatic Conflict', Taco revealed that she has retractable arms. She can withdraw her arms at any time and appear as an armless contestant.
* **Lemon Spitting:** From "A Lemony Lesson" till "The Great Escape", Taco is able to spit lemons as projectiles. She later uses this ability to spit candy at OJ in "Journey Through Memory Lane/Part 2".

## Voice Actors

* Samantha Katz (Season 1)
* Adam Katz (Season 1)
* Alexander Aceland Kent (Rain On Your Charade – Kick The Bucket)
* **Rheagan Rizio** (Alternate Reality Show – present)

## Trivia

* Taco's trademark line "SOUR CREAM!" is said in almost every episode of Season 1.
* Taco has barfed lemons in "A Lemony Lesson", "The Arena of Death", "4Seeing The Future", "Crappy Anniversary", and "Inanimate Smackdown". She lost this ability in "The Great Escape" but shot one last lemon in "Journey Through Memory Lane (Part 2)."
* Taco has been called "useless", when she has actually won challenges in episodes "A Lemony Lesson", "The Arena of Death", "One-Shot Wonder", "4Seeing The Future", "Inanimate Smackdown", and "The Great Escape" (not including when Team Chickenleg won without her help).
* Taco is one of few characters that speaks with an accent that differs from the majority of contestants, the others being The Floor, Suitcase, Silver Spoon, Tea Kettle, and Yin-Yang.
* Taco was originally the smallest character but became the second smallest once Bow joined.
* Taco is the only character who was thought to be armless but possessed arms all along.
	+ She's also the only contestant to have retractable arms.
* Taco is the only contestant on Inanimate Insanity to be featured in all the episodes of season 1.
	+ Taco is also one of few characters to have spoken in almost every episode of season 1, along with MePhone4.
* She is the highest-ranking female competitor.
* Taco is the only female in "The Stupid Trailer."
* Taco and Balloon are tied for being the most hated character on the show by the contestants, having no allies and only making enemies out of everyone.
	+ This is because of her revelation in the finale of her evil plan.
		- Though Balloon made friends in *Inanimate Insanity II*, and Taco made one friend as well, Microphone.
		- On the contrary, Balloon and Taco are enemies with each other.
* In "The Tile Divide", Taco became the last female contestant after Bow's elimination.
* Taco is one of the few two original contestants to have never gone to Idiotic Island. The other one is OJ.
	+ Coincidentally, both of the aforementioned interactions happened in the second season of their respective shows.
* Taco, along with Salt, has the second most voice actor changes throughout the whole series, with 4, behind Pepper, with 5.
* In "Mine Your Own Business", Taco’s shell has broken by a gemory. The crack in her shell remains throughout the entirety of the episode and "Hatching the Plan" and also appears in official merchandise.
* Taco received enough votes to compete in *Inanimate Insanity Invitational*, however, was excluded from consideration along with Lightbulb, Knife, Baseball and Suitcase due to their ties to the story of *Inanimate Insanity II*.
* Taco is the only non-returning contestant to not appear in Inanimate Comics.
* Taco's original appearance and ability is similar to Rocky from BFDI.
* Taco and Silver Spoon are the only contestants to never be eliminated. Taco had only been beaten by OJ while Silver Spoon had never been eliminated.
* A different taco played for BFB.

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