Beans

## Office bio

Tries to impress others by blowing bubble gum bubbles, but usually just ends up spitting them out.

**Beans** is a character in *Baldi's Basics Plus* and Demo Style of *Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered*.

## Description

Beans is a 2D-drawn human with a big mouth with a big gaping, toothless, gum-less, toilet-shaped lower jaw, a thin upper lip made as a black line, exposed gums, and five crooked teeth on his upper jaw. He wears a purple and yellow striped propeller beanie cap, hence the name Beans. He has bulging eyes, crooked teeth, floating flat eyebrows, and a massive chin. His arms are short and has four fingers on each hand. He wears a sleeveless bubblegum-pink shirt, deep magenta pants, and dark magenta pointed shoes. His chin appears to have some stubble.

He speaks with a distorted, echoing "mechanical" voice which can almost make all of his quotes difficult to understand what he's actually saying unless the captions are enabled.

As seen in the thumbnail of this video from Padre Snowmizzle, Beans has one black short hair under his cap.

## Personality

Beans likes to "impress" others by blowing out bubble gum bubbles but warns the people to not let an adult see it, meaning that if he does it, he will get detention, but currently in-game, he does not. He also enjoys rhyming, and is apparently very good at it. He is very honorable, being afraid of his bubble gum hitting the player. Also, he seems to have some shame after his bubble gum hits the player or an NPC.

## Artificial intelligence

### Main gameplay

Upon the player coming into his line of sight, Beans will spit a big pink bubble gum wad to them in any location, mostly in the hallways. Beans can only spit bubble gum in a straight line and the direction of bubble gum depends on where the player is. Whoever comes in contact with the gum wad will be caught in the sticky gum and have their movement speed drastically reduced for 10 seconds. Upon getting hit by a gum wad, the player will be vulnerable to pursuing characters, including Baldi, Playtime, Principal of the Thing, etc. The player's inventory is also covered by bubble gum, making it hard to know which item is selected. However, the Safety Scissors can be used to cut off Beans' bubble gum if getting hit by it. It's a Bully, Chalkles, and Beans himself are the only characters who are immune to his bubble gum.

Beans can be helpful on some occasions, as his bubble gum can slow riskier characters (e.g. Baldi and Principal of the Thing) down. The bubble gum can go through open doors and swinging ones, unless if they are locked or (in the case of one-way doors) the gum is on the wrong-way side of one if the door is closed. It can go through Portal Poster as well.

If Beans is heading to or entering the Principal's office to joining the party event, he will not spit bubble gum at the player.

### Other appearances

* In *Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered*, Beans is one of the three characters who exclusively appears in Demo Style, along with Chalkles and Cloudy Copter.
* In *Baldi's Basics Kickstarter Exclusive Demo* and before *Baldi's Basics Plus* V0.1.2, Beans' AI is not majorly different but his sticky gum slows the player down much more than usual and cannot be cut off with Safety Scissors.

## Trivia

### General

* Beans was first made as a character for Padre's *Baldi's Basics* fangame. The concept was done by Malitschek (Jam).
* Beans is around 25 to 30 of an unknown unit of age, most likely years.
	+ Despite this, he is still a student who has been held back for ***that*** long due to him being bad at math.
	+ Beans has dyscalculia, a disability that affects one's ability to comprehend and learn arithmetic. This explains why Beans was held back for many years considering Baldi's school only teaches math. This information was confirmed by Padre Snowmizzle in a Discord chat group when asked if Beans experiences this disorder.
	+ In case Beans is 30 years old, he would be older than Baldi, whose age is confirmed to be 29 years old.
* According to Padre Snowmizzle, he made a 3D model of Beans.
* Beans' "glitchy" voice effect was made by Sony Vegas Pro 13.
* Beans was originally be going to a counterpart of the player. Padre Snowmizzle gave an example for this as Beans would spray BSODA at them.
* One of the lines when his bubble gum hits an NPC, "*Aw, casserole.*", is from Beans' bad memory about casserole.
* The name Beans was derived from the phrase "beans and casserole".

### *Baldi's Basics Plus*

* Beans is the first character not to be designed and one of the five characters not to be voiced by mystman12 (the other four being 1st Prize, Chalkles, Mrs. Pomp, and Johnny) but someone else, who is Padre Snowmizzle.
* Beans's gum is nearly identical to the BSODA spray, although the functionality when touched is different.
* Principal of the Thing scolding Beans for spitting bubble gum was an intended feature, but it is not implemented in the game yet.
* The player is able to avoid Beans' gum if it is shot slightly off center down a hallway.
* In the `Subtitles_En.json` file, there are two captions of nonexistent audios in the game: *\*BUBBLE BLOWING\** and *\*SPLAT\**.
* Beans is one of the few characters that can slow the player's movement (but not completely stop them), in which the Big Ol' Boots will not let the player regain their normal speed.
* When Beans goes to the Principal's office for the party event, his sprite will float in mid-air once he stands idle, but when he spits gum, it will shoot from the same height.
* Beans' bubble gum can go through swinging doors, even if it is closed.
* Even though Beans' bubble gum does not visually stick to certain NPCs like Playtime, it does affect their speed. This can easily be seen when any character is gummed while oriented opposite.
* Prior to V0.3, in the "*Hooka, a-chew, I'mma chewin' mah gun. Booka, a-too, it's tons o'fum... Er, fun!*" caption, the word "gum" was misspelled as "gun".
* Prior to V0.3.6, his gum would not disappear by colliding with a Grappling Hook or Alarm Clock.

### *Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered*

* Beans' bubble gum can work on other Beans. This can be seen when Chaos Mode is activated.

## Glitches

### *Baldi's Basics Plus*

* If any character is in Beans' hitbox, the bubble gum will not hit them.
* If the player uses the Grappling Hook to Beans' bubble gum, the bubble gum will disappear after the Grappling Hook passes through it.
* Beans' gum can hit characters through walls if they are on the other side of a room, and coming close to walls.
* Prior to V0.1.2, if the player activated the captions, when Beans says "*Gum on the loose!*" or "*Oh no!*", the caption used to say: "`Localized text not found`".
* Prior to V0.3, Beans' bubble gum would not hit the player when the interaction icon () appeared on the nearest structures, like the water fountain.
* In V0.3.5, Beans' bubble gum could pass through a window, even if it was not broken.
* Prior to V0.3.6, Beans' bubble gum overlay was still seen when opening an advanced map. In V0.3.5, the bubble gum overlay was only seen inside of the You Can Think Pad.

## Audio

* In-game
* Others

## Gallery

* Image files
* Screenshots
* Merchandise
* Others

Sprites
Beans idling/walking.Beans sprinting.Beans chewing a bubble gum.Beans spitting a bubble gum.
Bubble gum
A bubble gum wad Beans spits.A bubble gum wad overlay on the player's screen.A bubble gum wad hitting the ground by the player or another character.
Other textures
Beans' poster layout in the Principal's office.Ditto, but prior to *Baldi's Basics Plus* V0.3.5.

*Baldi's Basics Plus*
Beans in a classroom with number balloons and Baldi's Math Machine from the *Baldi's Basics Plus* early access screenshot.Beans near the BSODA machine in the current *Baldi's Basics Plus* early access screenshot.
*Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered*
Beans in a hallway.

T-Shirts
Beans in the "Restart, Refresh" classic T-shirt.Ditto, but premium version.Beans in the "Sweepin' Time" classic T-shirt.Ditto, but premium version.
Hoodies
Beans in the "Restart, Refresh" pullover hoodie.Beans in the "Sweepin' Time" pullover hoodie.

Beans' idle in HD quality.Beans sprinting in HD quality.Beans' meme by Padre Snowmizzle.Beans' showcase as seen from an animated GIF image from Basically, Games! Game Jolt post.Peek-a-boo with Beans by Padre Snowmizzle.Ditto, but textless.Beans from the thumbnail of Padre Snowmizzle's "HOW TO BEAT BALDI'S HIDE AND SEEK - Baldi's Basics Plus ENDING" video."Mhm, yes. Life is pain, indeed." by Padre Snowmizzle.Beans in Padre Snowmizzle's art in Twitter on July 27, 2020.Beans' art posted in Padre Snowmizzle's Twitter on May 30, 2021.Boss Beans battle pixel art.Beans' pixel art.Beans on the *Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered* teaser.
## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Q: *baldi's basics logic is just beans spitting a gum at you or at any character (even principal) and not get detention like player or bully does* / A: *That was also going to be an intended feature, but never got implemented*" - Padre Snowmizzle. May 21, 2022. Discord
2. ↑ "*Fun fact, as well: Beans was a character whipped up for a spoof Baldi fangame idea way back when. I would like to give credit where credit is due, though, and say that @malitschek was my main man in the first few iterations of Beans. Without JAM, the concept wouldn't even exist!*" - Padre Snowmizzle. March 15, 2020. Twitter
3. ↑ "*Beans' age is in the ballpark of 25-30.*" - Padre Snowmizzle. August 7, 2020. Twitter
4. ↑ "*He is indeed a student still, just held back for \*that\* long for constantly sucking at math, lol.*" - Padre Snowmizzle. August 8, 2020. Twitter
5. ↑ "*To be quite frank, I had no clue that word remotely existed until you mentioned it but sure, lmao. Beans can do great with English, and to an extend, Drama. But because Baldi's school only teaches math, the dude's screwed*" - Padre Snowmizzle. August 2020. Discord
6. ↑ "*Plus, technically speaking, there does exist a 3D model of Beans made by me :)))*" - Padre Snowmizzle. May 21, 2022. Discord
7. ↑ "Q: *You used voicemod for beans voice?* / A: *Nope. I recorded raw, and all I did was apply his glitchy effect in Sony Vegas Pro 13, of all things. Myst applied the dithering after*" - Padre Snowmizzle. May 21, 2022. Discord
8. ↑ "*Then when it came to actually brainstorming Beans with Myst, originally he'd be what could considered your counterpart: he'd be able to vomit B-soda at YOU*" - Padre Snowmizzle. May 21, 2022. Discord
9. ↑ "*And uh, that very thing he vomited would be casserole, which relates to one of his lines, originally made for that fangame, lol.*" - Padre Snowmizzle. May 21, 2022. Discord
10. ↑ "*Ah, Beans was a result of, "beans and casserole"*" - Padre Snowmizzle. May 21, 2022. Discord
11. ↑ "*In case it ain't obvious enough yet: yep, I made a character for Baldi's Basics. He's the gum-chewing, held-back, skipping spunk we all know and love: Beans. My thanks go out to @mystman12!*" - Padre Snowmizzle. March 15, 2020. Twitter