Baldi

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**Baldi** (also known as **Professor Baldi** ) is the titular main antagonist in *Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning*. Baldi is the teacher of Here School, giving The Protagonist math problems to solve in the notebooks to collect them. After the math problems correctly (or incorrectly), the notebook disappears, storing it into the counter from how many notebooks the player obtained, seen on the top left on the heads-up display. He also owns a bus, original Baldi is a poorly modeled CGI (computer-generated imagery) human figure with long, skinny fingers, a pale body, large red lips, and is bald except for what seems to be a singular hair on his head. He also has a long-sleeved green shirt, blue pants, and light brown shoes. Even though he has no visible ears, the description mentions that Baldi still has an excellent sense of hearing.

Strangely enough, Baldi's facial expression while chasing the player, while heavily dancing

In *Baldi's Basics - Field Trip*, he wears a yellow camping hat and brown backpack as his outfit.

## Personality

Baldi is known for his eerily nonchalant demeanor, and his dangerous personality is not immediately evident. He carries a facade of friendliness and a relaxed demeanor, though it most likely is his default mental state. He warmly greets students in a friendly fashion and uses positive reinforcement when they correctly answer his questions. He loves math and believes everyone else does. His love of math is so strong, other people failing to answer a math question shatters his psyche, and he undergoes a disturbing personality change. His formally talkative and affable nature completely disappears, and he drastically changes into a cold man keen on delivering corporal punishment for the minor mistake. It's also possible that Baldi's mental stability is only seen when people follow what he wants. He slaps his ruler in his hand like some sort of compulsive habit, and slowly but surely chases his quarry, growing faster the angrier he gets. After collecting notebooks, he gives students a chance to leave the school, albeit in a limited time span and laughs at their escape efforts. He also appears happy if players quit, but sad if they choose to stay, suggesting he values privacy. It is unknown if he is a psychopath or sociopath, but given he manages a school, the former is more likely.

## Mechanics

### *Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning*

When the player gets their first problem wrong in the You Can Think! Pad™, his face will become distorted, making him appear to be frowning intensely, and his eyebrows will furrow, making an angry expression. He either says "**I HEAR EVERY DOOR YOU OPEN.**" or "**I GET ANGRIER FOR EVERY PROBLEM YOU GET WRONG.**" If the player gets all 3 questions wrong, he will instead display "**I HEAR MATH THAT BAD**". After getting their first question wrong, Baldi no longer appears on the bottom left-hand corner of the You Can Think! Pad™ for any of the rest of the notebooks. After the protagonist exits the You Can Think Pad™ after getting their first problem wrong, Baldi begins chasing the protagonist through the Schoolhouse making a smacking sound by hitting a ruler on his hand as he moves slowly or quickly.

Baldi is the main threat in the school, as he is the only one in the school that can give the player a game over. Unlike other characters, Baldi's movement is a bit different, only appearing to teleport a short distance towards the player's location every time he makes a “spanking" sound with his ruler. He also has a unique way of finding the player: if one opens a door, Baldi will instantly head for that door, unless either the Noise Phone or Baldi Anti Hearing and Disorienting Tape is used or WD-NoSquee is applied to said door.

Baldi puts three problems in all the notebooks which the player must answer correctly. Otherwise, if the player gets an answer wrong, Baldi's spank intervals become shorter, thus making him move more often. At 2 notebooks, he moves at his slowest speed. At notebook 3-5, he slowly gets faster. Once the player has 6 notebooks, Baldi will move at the same speed as them, and the only way to outrun him is by running. At 7 notebooks, Baldi is a lot faster and he can catch the player even while they're running! The only way to get away from him now is by using a BSoda or if 1st Prize/Gotta Sweep pushes them away from him.

**Note: Every notebook (Except the first one) will always end with an unsolvable problem, concluding that every notebook the protagonist collects always makes Baldi's spank intervals shorter resulting in him moving quicker. This happens to the point where he, at the very least, reaches his lowest max speed which would be 7 times his beginning speed after all the notebooks are collected.**

As much as Baldi chases the player, he can actually lose track of the player if the player uses one of the distracting items or gets far enough from Baldi. Baldi at this point will have no idea where The Protagonist is and will simply go around the school, continuing so until either the player gets back in sight of Baldi or the player opens a door, which Baldi will then be back on track of the player. The Protagonist can use WD-NoSquee to bypass the door mechanic to keep Baldi lost a bit longer.

In the end, if at any point Baldi catches the player, Baldi will shift the players view straight to his face, making a very loud startling noise, (the same as when he reads a corrupted number at the last question of the 2nd to 7th notebooks), then presenting the player with the game over screen: a black screen along with a random item commonly used in schools (or commonly associated with children) in the middle of the black screen. Afterward, the game will reset back to the main menu. If the protagonist was playing in endless mode, on the black screen there will be text on the bottom informing the protagonist how many notebooks they collected in the end.

When Baldi reaches a certain speed he will gradually slow down a bit after a while, making him a bit slower overall and make it possible to find a secret ending which can only be achieved by getting all problems wrong.

In the secret ending, Baldi will be seen inside his Office stretching in maximum size and will barely do anything.

### *Baldi's Basics - Field Trip* Edit

In the demo, Baldi tells the player to gather firewood for the fire. If the player fails the objective, an angry Baldi will spawn in the firewood, and chase them. Similar to the first game, getting caught will lead to a game over.

When Baldi is hostile, the player will hear the same smacking sound and cricket chirps will become deeper in sound. Baldi will still move in the teleporting-ish kind of movement, but will move very fast and will become almost impossible to escape.

Unlike the first game, nothing can slow Baldi down as the plot (forest) lacks any useful items.

## Trivia Edit

* Baldi seems to be the only real staff in the school besides the Principal of the Thing. He seems to only really know math and might have an obsession with it. It's also worth noting that despite the Principal of the Thing being the official principal, Baldi refers to the school as "his" Schoolhouse rather than the Principal of the Thing's Schoolhouse.
	+ It is possible that he owns the schoolhouse with the Principal of the Thing managing it.
* Baldi has a son and a wife as it is confirmed on mystman12's Kickstarter and Twitter in two of his old comics, but he can't say if it could be canon or not.
* Mystman12's first drawings of Baldi were from a comic he made called "Baltimore". [2]
* Prior to update V1.3, if the player gets 12 or more questions wrong, Baldi will go so fast that his ruler sound effect will glitch, and no matter how far away he's from them, he will immediately know where they are (even if they're using the Baldi Anti Hearing and Disorienting Tape item), and he will catch the player in about 3 to 5 seconds (Unless the player gets some luck) It is impossible to escape him once this happens. Now in V1.3, it was fixed and limits only 1-speed amp per notebook.
	+ Also, when the player does this, an image will pop up saying "You Won! There's room for improvement though... Go see Baldi in his office for some tips!" And a secret character will pop up named Filename2.
* Baldi's description in the Principal's Office has a misspelling of 'incredible'. It is spelled as 'increnible' instead. Ah, how Baldi mad it is!
* Originally, Baldi had a blue shirt instead of a green shirt.
* Mystman12 said that he might make it canon for Baldi's last name to be Baldimore after making his Mii for him.[4]
* Baldi moves faster than any character in the game when at his "maximum overdrive", but otherwise, Principal of the Thing is faster than Baldi.
* If the player is not noticed (not in Baldi's line of sight, doesn't collect notebooks or open doors) for two hallway turns, he will start wandering in random directions until he notices the player again.
* Baldi is one of the five characters described in unused audio logs. The others being: Principal of the Thing, Playtime, Arts and Crafters and Gotta Sweep.
* Even though there are no multiplication problems, Baldi still says times in the glitched question.
* Baldi is the only character to have a picture on the Principal's office that doesn't appear in any other place of the game.
* Despite the fact that Baldi breaks the fourth wall by telling the player how to answer questions and use items by using the keyboard and the mouse, he isn't sent to detention by the Principal of the Thing, likely because Baldi's a teacher and not a student.
* According to mystman12's stream, Baldi is 29 years old.
* Baldi, along with Arts and Crafters seems to be the only character not frozen in one pose, as they are both seen making different poses, although Arts and Crafters has two poses.

## Glitches Edit

* Many people think Baldi says "You failed all seven notebooks!" even though Mystman12 himself confirmed it is "found" and not "failed".
* When Baldi gets angry at the player in *Baldi's Basics - Field Trip*, the brim of his hiking cap is strangely absent, possibly due to the smaller size of his sprite.
* When Baldi frowns when the player gets the question wrong for the first time before starting his chase, his lips seem to break.
* If the player goes to any corner in the school, Baldi can't catch them, but they are stuck in place, making the player's only option to walk into him and cause the game to end.
* If the player gets the first answer wrong, and the other two correctly (This can work with the second and third problem too) on the first notebook, Baldi would go at his max speed. It's not lethal, as he still cannot open yellow doors until the Player has gotten two notebooks. Once they do, his speed will go to normal.
* His head seems to be obstructed in the Endless Mode screen.
* When the player leaves the school, Baldi says 'Let's go camping!', but when getting back inside the school and exit again, Baldi says the same phrase. It happens every time.

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