Character

**Characters** are the NPCs and the player character in the *Baldi's Basics* series, which can be students, school faculty, and other entities in the Schoolhouse or Super Schoolhouse alike. While almost all of the characters are obstacles to challenge or get away from, Baldi is the only hostile character who possesses the ability to end the game by catching the player themselves in the whole series.

## Description

All of the non-player characters are designed as 2D sprites, similar to the items and environment objects. For the game's weird bizarre purpose, the characters lack stylistic unity. The characters' sprites are scanned with CGI models, flash animation or 2D drawings, and realistic photography. To fit the game's nostalgia themes, most of them are edited with a dithering effect and a lot of size reduction.

## List

### Protagonist

*Main article: The player*
**The player** is the only playable character and the main protagonist in the *Baldi's Basics* series.

### Corrupted/Glitched characters

Null is a mysterious character who appears completely different out of all characters in the game. Being one of the corrupted files hidden in the game, he is aware of the game, breaking the fourth wall by telling the player to destroy the game before it is too late. In *Baldi's Basics Birthday Bash*, there are other glitched entities called `Baldloon`s. In the glitched school, Purple, blue, green, and orange `Baldloon`s appear floating aimlessly while a swarm of buzzing red ones will constantly follow the player but do no harm. Plus, when entering the hidden room after `Baldloon` puzzle is solved, a corrupted texture of a Baldi-like character called `DSCI\_0000` will appear randomly on the walls.

In *Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered*, Null in NULL Style, and a lone red `Baldloon` in Glitch Style (an alternative version of NULL Style after beating the former) can cause a game over after coming contact with them, and they will glitch the school increasingly before crashing the game. Red `Baldloon`s in the glitched school will remove tiles of the building.

Null`Baldloon` (Red)`DSCI_0000`
### Easter egg characters

Minor characters that appear hidden in secret locations as Easter eggs. They lack their overall personal behavior functions as they take a very small role in the game. These include `0th Prize`, `PlaceFace`, `Me`, Bladder and Crazy Baby.

`0th Prize``PlaceFace``Me`BladderCrazy Baby, as seen in *Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered* trailer.
### Johnny

*Main article: Johnny*
**Johnny** is the shopkeeper of the store. He will greet the player upon entering the store in between floors. He will offer filled maps, items, and characters to expel. The player has to earn You Thought Points to purchase things in the store.

Johnny
### Animals

*Main article: Animal*
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**Animals** are characters exclusively featured in the farm field trip since V0.3.2.

## Trivia

### General

* The idea of characters appearing as 3D models, drawings, or photo-cropped may be based on the Cartoon Network animation series *The Amazing World of Gumball* where it also has a lack of stylistic unity on characters.
* All 3D-model characters (Baldi, It's a Bully, 1st Prize, Mrs. Pomp, The Test, `PlaceFace`, Cloudy Copter, and Johnny seen from the elevator) are made in a 1999 3D-modeling and animation program called Anim8or.
* All 2D-drawn characters are made in GIMP (Chalkles and Johnny), Paint.NET (Beans), and Microsoft Paint (Playtime).
* Animals are the only characters that are made in pixels.
* Principal of the Thing and The Test are the only characters that are not really seen without the dithering effect.
* There is a Doppler effect where the characters' voice lines randomly change pitch and are distorted. For instance, it commonly happens with Gotta Sweep when sweeping characters. Currently in *Baldi's Basics Plus* and *Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered*, this effect only applies to Gotta Sweep and Arts and Crafters.
* Almost all NPCs do not have eyesight through windows, so they cannot see the player through them. The player can see any NPC by them, however.
	+ Null/the red `Baldloon` in NULL/Glitch Style are only characters who can see the player through the window.

### *Baldi's Basics Plus*

* Sometimes, NPCs can enter a room without opening a standard door or pass through the swinging door. This is especially common when they are faster than the player's running speed.
* Since V0.3, all characters are faster than in prior versions because the aforementioned version increases the overall speed of the game.

### *Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered*

* `DSCI_0000`, `Me`, and Crazy Baby are featured in the conspiracy board.