Ben Shapiro

**Ben Shapiro** is the current co-host of Freedom! Island Deluxe, making his debut in Most Wanted after Ryan stopped by the island to return some of the show's contestants. During his debut episode, he replaces TV as co-host and hosted the challenge of Pillow Fight!. He is remarkable for his significantly powerful abilities and bizarre appearance.

## Appearance

Ben Shapiro's appearance is a heavily edited picture of Ben Shapiro in mid-step holding an object. The body is drastically shrunken down while his head is still slightly larger, giving him a very tiny stature. Sometimes this asset is changed for a picture of Ben Shapiro sitting in a chair holding up a microphone. The character originates from a trilogy of FID parody videos by Siptap in which a poorly drawn version of TV replaces Frosted Fricks with Ben Shapiro as host of the show.

From Orange You Glad? to Glacially Paced, Ben Shapiro is briefly charred black by Ronald's fire breath, but this change in appearance is undone by Slave Master Ducky's ricocheted Bullet Bill. Throughout the course of the season, Ben Shapiro also appears to be gradually getting smaller between each episode.

## Personality

From his very first appearance, Ben Shapiro is presented as a mysterious entity with God-like powers. Ben is often rather aggressive with contestants, kicking them around if they defy him. Ben will often attack people for provoking him or failing to meet his demands, even if the failure is out of the person's control. However, Ben is also shown to be very loyal to the host of FID and often gets the show in order when things have gotten off-track. All this combined makes Ben Shapiro a mysterious person who's loyalty should be respected and who's wrath should be feared.

Ben Shapiro's powers are seemingly limitless, as throughout the show he has demonstrated exceptional strength, total indestructibility, lightning powers, and even the ability to fly. The only time Ben Shapiro has been hindered in anyway was when he was trapped in a glacier with George and Communist Bowser, but then after a few years he could easily escape.

Ben Shapiro rarely talks in full sentences or even words, often just communicating with a series of voice clips or yelling "Aaayyyy" in a high pitched voice.

## Coverage

Ben Shapiro first appears in Prepare for Liftoff alongside Siptap, in a mock-PSA for the recent bans in The Bone Zone (at the time) of various drooling idiots that liked FID a little too much. Ben does very little in the PSA beyond making an ominous "aaaaaaaayy" noise whenever he is in focus. He attacks Siptap at the end of the PSA for leaning on him.

Ben makes his official debut as a character in Most Wanted, rising out of the private jet he sold to Ryan. He then proceeds to fix TV with a Ben-Shapiro makeover, and handles the prizes of Loser Who Got The Most Votes Get Kicked Off Of The Show Time. After Edgy Spaghetti points out how Ramen is beloved by the OSCTards, Ben Shapiro decides to take matters into his own hands, and with a strike of lightning, turns Ramen into a human. After the elimination is done, Ben Shapiro stops Hitler from getting away with TV effortlessly, but is told not to by George; resulting in him undoing his attack on Hitler.

In Pillow Fight!, Ben Shapiro first appears to stop Nany from hitting TV with a Wii Remote (because Chrome could not load Rento), sending Nany flying with his own Wii Remote. After pretending to turn Ramen back to his former self and mocking the stupider voters, Ben handles the elimination because of George being upset over less votes. During the elimination, he speaks in full sentences via sentence mixing, and hands out "facts" a la Ryan as prizes. He hosts the challenge for the episode, in which he visually demonstrates that the first half of the contest is to make a pillow fort from Ben Shapiro pillows. After the three teams finish their pillow forts, Ben Shapiro uses a 9/11 joke to demonstrate that the next half of the contest is to knock down the pillow forts of the other teams. After watching the challenge in anticipation, Ben hops over to the losers: The Avster Bros. After Nany attempts to bribe Ben (Calling him Benny, a likely first mistake) with the prospect of joining his "prestigious clan", Ben simply whacks Nany away with the same Wii Remote. During the voting screen, he rants about the short lifespan of sandcastles, as a possible metaphor for the challenge.

***NOTE:*** This act leads to the events of BTNVFO 2.3 THE HALLOWEEN SPECIAL.

In Seeing Stars, Ben Shapiro knocks the original intro out of frame, for AStoneWeeg's custom made intro (surprisingly conjoinment free). Ben's first appearance in the episode has him sitting by TV and creating an infinite loop. During the elimination, Ben uses the power of imagination (Due to George willing the old elimination area out of existence in the previous episode) to crush Avi for forging results, and hands out the tridents. When Nany is eliminated, Ben shrinks him with a thundercloud to remove the Freedom! Shirt from him out of spite. Ben Shapiro doesn't appear until the end of the challenge, where he TCs Waluigi for trying to cheat his way out of losing with a fake star.

In Ascend and Defend, Ben Shapiro is shown to be part of LGR's OSCTard hunting group. He knocks the last OSCTard into the crusher from You're Number One! (knocking over what was left of Quintus in the process). During the elimination, Ben is unhappy with the state of the elimination area (or lack thereof) and sends the losers to a new elimination area of his own design. After LWGTMVGKOOTST, Ben sends away "all of the bad characters" at George's request, and banishes Bad Boy Box to OSC Hell by creating a giant chasm in the middle of the island. He also kicks Bingo Bongo away to try and get him out of George's hair. This attempt proves in vain, and Bingo ends up "winning" the debut. Ben shoots him away with Jake Paul's Merch Cannon. During the contest, Ben grabs George a chair. Once an even larger than usual Avi climbs to the top thanks to a Mega Mushroom, Ben is the only one not blown away by the colossal Avsterbone's yell.

In Same Day Shipping, Ben Shapiro is first seen whacking his TV to display the vote count. He then laughs when George collapses in shock from the low vote count, but quickly moves to find a substitute once Avi's chrome dome ACTUALLY kills him. After a quick threat of annihilation, Verble begrudgingly takes up the role of temporary host. Later on, when asked by Verble how they'll get to Dubai to watch the challenge, Ben Shapiro demonstrates by erecting a buzzer, which causes a pipe-jetpack to sprout underneath the elimination, sending the platform flying into Dubai (and straight through George's door!). Ben does little after this point in the episode.

## Trivia

* Ben Shapiro's signature "Aaayyy" is sampled from an adlib by the later rapper XXXTentacion. Although the original video the sound is taken from is now removed, a soundbite of it is still in Quint's possession. The original asset used for his appearance is also nowhere to be found anymore, as SipTap found it on google images but it is no longer there. The fact that much of Ben Shapiro's original source material is now wiped clean from the internet contributes to his mysterious reputation.