Cut character

A list of **characters** that ended up scrapped during development or removed in the *Baldi's Basics* series.

## List

### Pencil Boy

While developing *Baldi's Basics Classic* before releasing, there is a scrapped character referred to as "**Pencil Boy**", described as a little kid who would have come towards the player and stabbed them with pencils. If Principal of the Thing saw this happening, then he would be brought to detention, as evident by his unused quote, "*No stabbing people with pencils in the halls!*". mystman12 scrapped Pencil Boy upon realizing how annoying he could be for players.

Pencil Boy is based on a story from when mystman12 was young, and was visiting the dentist. While he was waiting in the waiting room, a small child supposedly stabbed him with a pencil multiple times. Due to his mother's absence at the time, nothing was done about it. It is unknown how far Pencil Boy was developed before being scrapped, and it is also unclear if his sprite was based on a 3D model, drawing, or photo-crop. mystman12 has said that if he had put Pencil Boy in the game, he thought it would have made the game much funnier.

Pencil Boy has little to no chance of being included in *Baldi's Basics Plus*. mystman12 has confirmed that he still doesn't have any good ideas for Pencil Boy's AI.

### Tutorial tape recorder

In the first version of *Baldi's Basics Classic*, the noise the tape recorder or pay phone made was a voice giving tutorials. It is a male voice that occasionally stutters when speaking, giving the player some advice on what some NPCs do from the tape player. In the next update, it was entirely replaced by a buzzing noise. According to mystman12 in the second *Baldi's Basics Classic* Lost Bits video, this character was removed because nobody was listening to what the tapes said and that it was not very obvious that it was distracting Baldi.

### Gorilla

There is a reference to a **gorilla** in the code of the farm field trip since *Baldi's Basics Plus* V0.3.2 that never got implemented.

### TimTom

*Main article: Comic-exclusive character#TimTom*
**TimTom** is a character from the *Baldimore* comic series, first appearing in the *Ice Block* comic, where TimTom throws a ball at Baldi's head.

He was intended to appear in *Baldi's Basics Plus*, but it was cancelled due to an unknown reason.

## Trivia

* `PlaceFace`, who was first used as a test character during the game's production, used to be entirely cut before the V1.1 update of *Field Trip demo*, where he was added as an Easter egg. He was later added in *Baldi's Basics Classic* V1.4.1 within the `TestRoom`.
* The tutorial tape recorder might have been inspired by Phone Guy from the *Five Nights at Freddy's* franchise, as they both provide tutorials and character guides from recorded messages, both are presumably men, and they both occasionally stutter.

## References

1. ↑ "*The "stabbing people with pencils in the halls" thing was actually from, um, I was actually going to do a character... I think I was gonna call him just like "Pencil Boy" or something... oh. Oh. Okay. This isn't good enough. And basically what it was gonna be was this character, this little kid who would basically come to you and start stabbing you with pencils, and if the Principal saw it, then he would get rid of him, and that's how you would get rid of him.*" - Livestream archive 48:31-48:56
2. ↑ "*Nope. Fun fact, that was never an intended item; the original idea was to have a character who would stab you with pencils, and only the principal could get rid of him. I decided not to add the character though because I realized it would be pretty annoying.*" - mystman12's Kickstarter comment
3. ↑ "*But it's actually based on a true story... um... quite a long time ago. I was really young. I was at the dentist, just in the waiting room, because my mom was getting something done, and... oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Whew! Anyways, I was in the waiting room, there was this kid, and I was just, you know, I just wanted to play with the-the trains, you know, they had like, Thomas the Tank Engine trains set up in there. But this kid, he had a bunch of pencils, and he just kept coming up to me and, like, stabbing me with his pencils. And I-I didn't know what to do, I went into the-the room and was, you know, telling my mom, but... oh. What? Gotta Sweep didn't take care of you? Oh my gosh. Okay. But yeah, basically like, I-I just remember, like, nobody ever did anything, and I was getting stabbed with pencils the whole time.*" - Livestream archive 48:56-49:41
4. ↑ "*I would, uh... think it'd pretty-be pretty hilarious if that kid ended up playing the-my game, \*clears throat\* and even more hilarious if I had put Pencil Boy in.*" - Livestream archive 49:58-50.08
5. ↑ "*Probably not, I still haven't thought of any good ideas for Pencil Boy gameplay wise, and I never actually had any plans for a parrot in the original game (That sound in the game was just an old recording I made years ago that I put in the game for testing).*" - mystman12's Twitter DM
6. ↑ "*There are two main reasons why I removed the tutorial tapes. One reason was that I noticed that people who were playing the game back in that very first version, they weren't really paying attention to what was being said in the tapes, they just kind of keep playing the game but they didn't seem like they were actually really listening or learning from the tapes. The other reason was because the tapes even in that point in the game were still used to distract Baldi, but having just kind of, you know, audio someone talking didn't really make that clear, so that's why I replaced the tape with a tone, it just made it a bit more obvious that it was doing something to Baldi.*" - Baldi's Basics Classic LOST BITS (ft. The Developer!) | Unused Content [TetraBitGaming] 5:00-5:33