Nickel

Not to be confused with Nick Le or his BFDI counterpart.

**Nickel**, or **The Sarcasm Spasm**, is a male contestant in *Inanimate Insanity* and *Battle for Dream Island* who was placed on Team Epic and a Deuteragonist on the pilot episode. He eventually became the winner of the first season. He returned in *Inanimate Insanity II*, was a member of The Grand Slams and the former central antagonist. He returns again in *Inanimate Insanity Invitational* and was a member of The Sinkers until moving to The New Thinkers. He currently competes for himself in the merge. He is voiced by Adam Katz.

## Personality

Renown for his exceptional taste in sarcasm, Nickel is a critical character who is also snarky, churlish and ill-tempered. Nickel's most identifying trope is his trademark sarcasm, which he uses to convert mean thoughts in his head in order not to come off as rude and disrespectful to others. Though this strategy may not always work, Nickel still considers sarcasm as an art, and himself an artist.

As an armless character, Nickel is unable to accomplish feats as easily as others but is usually determined to try his hardest. At the same time, Nickel expresses a large disinterest in competing in many of MePhone4's challenges and is commonly seen with a grumpy expression when competing.

Although Baseball is the leader of The Grand Slams, Nickel occasionally takes over the initiative and gives out orders to others. However, Nickel's sarcasm and wit make him appear shrewd. As a result, he does not typically work well with others, and may instead make rude and opprobrious comments or insults about them, causing drifts in his relationships.

Nickel is close with his armless alliance, consisting of Baseball and Suitcase, and can be seen working together as a trio in most challenges. Nickel is considerably untrusting, however, as he repeatedly attempts to disassociate his alliance with competitors like Cheesy, and most notably, Balloon, who continues to try to redeem himself. However, Nickel's abrasive and argumentative attitude against Balloon contrasts deeply with Suitcase's open-heart.

Although he appears to be extremely ruthless and doesn't value friendship, Nickel cares about his alliance, as highlighted by Baseball, but has a difficult way of showing it. In "Kick the Bucket", Nickel claims that Balloon was tearing the alliance apart, and wanted to conserve their bond. Much to Nickel's surprise, Suitcase notes that the two rarely even talk to one another, leading to many inner conflicts in the alliance. Despite being quite intolerant, unforgiving, and antipathetic to an extent, Nickel forms a great bond with Baseball, whom he is loyal to.

Upon entering 'Inanimate Insanity Invitational' and being placed on The Sinkers, Nickel once again creates an alliance, this time with Box and, regrettably, Balloon, with whom he still continues to distrust. On the other hand, Nickel begins "listening" to Box and putting his full faith in him and though Nickel does begin to develop a slight friendship with Balloon, they continue to have issues.

Nickel is also shown to enjoy mentoring others about sarcasm. As seen in "A Kick in the Right Direction", Nickel attempts to teach Knife how to use sarcasm, which Knife now uses occasionally as well.

## Appearance

Nickel is a round coin-shaped character with two sides - heads and tails. His body, including his rims, is shiny silver/gray. His face appears on the heads side, and his legs are at the bottom.

## Coverage

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## Trivia

### Comparisons

* Nickel is known to be the first of many things.
	+ He is the first *Inanimate Insanity* character created.
	+ He is the first contestant to receive a cookie.
	+ He is the first one to join his team.
* Nickel is the highest-ranking armless contestant in Season 1, and the lowest ranking armless contestant in Season 2.
* Nickel is one of the only 2 contestants from both Season 1 and Season 2 that never made it to the merge, the other being Balloon.
	+ Additionally, Nickel has been eliminated back-to-back with Balloon in both seasons he participated.
		- As of "I am Chocolate!", He has finally reached the merge of a season along with Balloon.
* Nickel is one of the only contestants to appear in all 3 seasons, the others being Balloon and Paintbrush.
* Nickel, along with Tissues and Trophy, are the only Season 2 contestants to not appear in a Season 2 episode thumbnail.
	+ "The Shame of the Name" from Season 3 marks the first time Nickel has appeared in an episode thumbnail since Journey Through Memory Lane/Part 2.
* Nickel is the only Season 3 contestant with only legs.

### Competition

* Nickel is the only contestant to be eliminated an episode late, due to miscounted votes.
	+ The mistake was corrected the following episode, as the Nickel votes were counted and he was eliminated, while Lightbulb rejoined.
	+ Apple's elimination in Inanimate Insanity II was also delayed, but she was eliminated in the right episode, and this was not due to miscounted votes.
* An infamous running gag with Nickel is that many viewers misspell his name as "Nickle", spawning the creation of the character Nick Le.
	+ For one frame in "Cooking For The Grater Good", his name was misspelled as Nickle right when the names just showed up.
* Nickel has been eliminated with the least amount of votes with 1 vote in "Kick the Bucket", even less than Paper's first elimination in "A Lemony Lesson".
* Nickel is the third contestant in Inanimate Insanity Invitational to turn golden via the Immunity Cookie. (The first and second contestants to do this were Cabby and Silver Spoon)
* Nickel is the only contestant in Inanimate Insanity Invitational to survive two tiebreakers. The first one by additional contestant vote in "Snapshot Showdown", and alongside Balloon in the episode "Spring on the Breakfast!", they both survive just from a random chance.

### General

* A *different Nickel* appears as a contestant in BFDIA, IDFB, BFB and TPOT.
	+ He retains Adam Katz as his voice actor.
	+ Taylor Grodin claims in a Tumblr post that Inanimate Insanity and the BFDI series take place in separate universes, and therefore the Nickels in each show (while they look identical) are in fact separate characters.
* In the Fan's Fantastic Features episode "Nickel For Your Thoughts", it's revealed that Nickel's favorite color is Green.
* In the Inanimate Insanity Short "Waffling About", it's revealed that when he is given Experiment 626, he splits into two nickels; one where the sarcasm can cause shockwaves which strength is based on the receptor's reaction to the sarcasm, and one completely blank and emotionless.
* Nickel was originally planned to receive 4th in the first season, as it was planned to be a contestant vote all the way.
	+ In the change to viewer vote, he was the first eliminated. However, the Misspelled Votes led to the creation of Nick Le. and Lightbulb being eliminated. This mistake would be fixed the following episode, however.
* According to MePhone4, Nickel was his second-least favorite contestant currently competing in Inanimate Insanity Invitational, ranking at number 7.

## Deaths

* Friend or Froze: Crushed flat by the broken wall.

## Gallery

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**Members:** Lightbulb (c) • **Nickel** • Knife • Paintbrush • Baseball • Marshmallow • Paper • Apple

**Members (as of II14):**
Balloon • Suitcase • Trophy

**Eliminated:** **Nickel** • Cheesy • Dough • Baseball (c) • Soap • Box • Knife • Microphone

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