History WebAnimation / BattleForDreamIsland

** Team Ice Cube in BFB - Ice Cube is not on it. This is Lampshaded multiple times.

The first season began on January 1, 2010, with new episodes every month. It finished on January 1, 2012. A second season, ''Battle For Dream Island Again'' began on June 29, 2012, but suffered serious ScheduleSlip, and has had no new episodes since August 2013, despite Jacknjellify repeatedly stating it will come back. It finally did on September 1st, 2016... as a "third season", ''IDFB'', which was also CutShort after the first episode.

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* AnthropomorphicFood: Many contestants introduced in BFDIA onwards are based on food.[[note]]Cake, Donut, Eggy, Fries, Gelatin, Lollipop and Taco[[/note]]
* BeautifulVoid: The Long-lost Yoyle City is a ''beautifully'' rendered city with no inhabitants.
* BlatantLies: Match and Bubble disguise themselves as trees ''right in front of Firey's replacement speaker box's eyes'' (if it has any). In BFB 18 Bubble Gelatin and Lollipop all try to pretend to be Flower and the worst part is, Firey falls for it.
* BrickJoke: On episode 5a, Book slaps Match because they drove past a library, saying "it's the rule", then mentions that she can reciprocate it if they pass a matchstick factory. In episode 5e, exactly that happens.
* ChekhovsGun: Leafy's map of Goiky helps her win the long jump contest in BFDI Episode 21. At the beginning of BFDIA, [[spoiler:she uses it again when Pin and the others are chasing her]].
* CutShort: After BFDIA was on hiatus for three years, some "deleted scenes" from the nonexistent sixth episode were released before the series was rebooted with IDFB, the third season. IDFB was also cut short with just a single episode before another year-long hiatus and reboot with BFB.
* DecoyProtagonist: In the intro of ''BFDIA'', [[spoiler:Leafy is the center of attention as she runs away from a mob of former contestants. She uses her map to escape to Yoyleland, and Pin rips the map to trap her there.]]
* DeusExMachina: In ''BFDIA'' episode 5e, W.O.A.H. Bunch has only walked three miles and is about to lose. [[spoiler:However, Coiny manages to throw a stick 2,760 miles and hits a button on the [=FreeSmart=] [=SuperVan=], which picks up Needle. The rest of the team clings onto her, and they make it to Yoyleland, climb the mountain, and get second place.]]
** In BFB 8, Saw is the one answering questions for BLEH and she won't stop screaming "EIGHT!", but then one of the questions is "What is the past tense of 'eat'?". The answer is of course "ate", which sounds like "eight", so BLEH is safe.
** In BFB 17, the Have Cots are about to win when they realize they forgot Teardrop, so X goes flying into the Have Nots, giving them the win.
** In BFB 23, Teardrop kills Gelatin and Four happens to hear Gelatin screaming to death and recovers him, and the bars happen to be made of cardboard so the Have Cots win.
* DiabolusExMachina: In BFDI 18 Pencil loses for getting over a hundred points because of budget cuts. In BFDI 20 Firey's spaceship disappears due to budget cuts. Conversely, Team No-Name [[spoiler:loses the challenge when Puffball lets her team get eaten by a giant fish because of her greed for prizes.]] In BFB 25 Leafy and Woody are up for elimination because their totems were given to them by Purple Face.
* {{Eyedscreen}}: Parodied in BFDIA 1. Donut and Pencil stare at each other after [[spoiler:all of the contestants go on one team except for Donut, who is on the other.]] When the camera cuts to Pencil, she morphs it into a vertical rectangle. Cue a montage of the contestants with black backgrounds in different shapes.
* FakeOutOpening:
** BFDIA episode 4 has a "Battle For Nothing" opening when the contestants realize that [[spoiler:Leafy stole Dream Island]] back in the first season.
** BFB episode 10 has a similar "opening" that features all eliminated and dead characters missing, alive characters appearing in their state in the show (like Tree being stuck inside Bottle), Four being missing from the ending, X being sad about it, and the title being "Battle for Nothing". The regular opening is played later in the episode [[spoiler:when Four comes back]].
* GambitRoulette: W.O.A.H. Bunch wins the second challenge by using yoyleberry seeds, which were obtained by literally spinning the prize wheel and landing on the right spot.
* JumpScare:
** In episode two of season two. You ''know'' [[spoiler:Evil Leafy's going to magically jump across the cliff and appear in front of the others]] and it will ''still'' make you jump.
** PlayedForLaughs in BFB 13. Eraser and Fries are waiting for the next contest because Four and X have a blank look on their faces, something they apparently do before an announcement. [[spoiler:Then X suddenly drills through the ground, and the two have shocked expressions.]]
* NiceMeanAndInBetween: Of [=FreeSmart=], Bubble and Ruby are nice, Match and Pencil are mean, and Book and Ice Cube are in-between.
** Also applies to the Blocky/Eraser/Pen trio from Season 1 and pre-split 4. Pen is the nice, Blocky is the mean, and Eraser is the in-between.
** For the Newbie Alliance, Gelatin is nice, Lollipop is mean and Teardrop is in-between.
* NoIndoorVoice: Yellow Face. Whenever he says something, he has to yell it, because sometimes no one can hear him when he speaks normal.
-->"HMM... I SURE DO!"
* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: This is emphasized when two characters fall from a great height; one is caught just above the ground and saved while the other hits the ground and dies.
** In ''BFDIA'' episode 4, a frozen Firey and Tennis Ball are shaken off the Eiffel Tower. Match catches Firey just before he hits the ground, while Tennis Ball shatters as he hits the ground.
** In ''IDFB'' episode 1, Pencil falls off the Yoyle Needy. Book and Ice Cube run down to catch her, while Ruby jumps down the flight of stairs. Book and Ice Cube catch Pencil just before she reaches the ground, while Ruby shatters on impact.
* OcularGushers: In BFDIA 5c, Ruby gains these while she is crying.
* PaperThinDisguise: [[ValleyGirl Match]] and especially [[TheyKilledKennyAgain Bubble]] use Gelatin to disguise themselves as trees to be in the game as members of [=FreeSmart=]. Needless to say, despite the disguises being worn separately, Firey's replacement box fails to see through the disguise. [[spoiler: {{Subverted|Trope}} at the end of the episode, when Match and Bubble are caught after their team wins and Gelatin is nowhere near.]]
** In BFB 18 Flower's merch is used as this for the Have Cots to disguise as Flower and it surprisingly works.
* RealitySubtext: A day in real life is a day in-universe. During the three-year hiatus of BFDIA, the characters settle down in Yoyleland and go about their lives.
* {{Retcon}} and SequelReset: {{Implied|Trope}}. The beginning of BFDIA seems to undo [[spoiler: the last part about Firey saving Leafy, and pretends that the rest of the cast still hates her. BFB 22 later explains why.]]
* SceneryPorn: Yoyle City, rendered in [=3D=].
* SeriousBusiness: Coiny convinces Needle to switch teams in BFDIA episode 3 by threatening to call her "Needy". Three times. In a row. Lampshaded by Fries.
* StockAudioClip: Ice Cube and Needle speak ''entirely'' in recycled lines. Needle stopped doing so in BFDIA 5a, and Ice Cube got a new line in the same episode. But Ice Cube reverted back to recycled lines after that (until BFB 1).
* TakeAThirdOption: [=FreeSmart=]. Why switch to WOAH Bunch like a [[StealthPun bunch]] of other contestants are doing, when you can make your own team instead?
* TimeAbyss: Golf Ball is implied to be this, as she wrote the BFDI Tips and Tricks book ''1 billion years ago''. If not, it's likely TimeTravel. But it could also be a joke.
* TitleDrop: Pretty much every episode in season 2 has one with the title of the episode (except for "[[OddNameOut Insectophobe's Nightmare 3]]"). BFB episodes 4, 17, 20, 22, 23 and TPOT 1 also fall under this.
* TrueCompanions: Teams in BFDI are often treated as, just that, teams, with theirs members acting like VitriolicBestBuds at ''best''. However, come BFDIA 5a, and while W.O.A.H. Bunch attempted to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this trope prior, we get a natural version of this trope in the form of [=FreeSmart=]. TheAlliance from prior had been a little bit on the bureaucratic up until now, but to have a team of every alliance member, real member or substitute, as a RagtagBunchOfMisfits who enjoy their time with each other is just touching. Each members' roles don't hurt, either.
** Pencil: RebelLeader
** Match: TheLancer
** Bubble: TheHeart
** Ruby: BumblingSidekick
** Book: UnfazedEveryman
** Ice Cube: TeamPet
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* RearrangeTheSong: ''IDFB'''s theme turns into a redone version of the original song about halfway through.
* SdrawkcabName: ''IDFB'' is the reverse of ''BFDI''.

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[[folder:Tropes added in BFB]]

See ''WebAnimation/BattleForBFDI'' for tropes.

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[[folder:Tropes added in BFDI: The Power Of Two]]

See ''WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIslandThePowerOfTwo'' for tropes.

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** A few of the recommended characters in 'Vomitaco' are [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Ash and Brock]]. [[Franchise/SuperMario Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, and a poorly-drawn clone of Luigi]] appear in [[ExcitedShowTitle Bowling, Now with Explosions!]]

** David: "Aw, seriously?" -- which is (almost) the only thing he says.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: The characters will slap each other when offended, regardless of gender.

** In BFB 8, after [[spoiler:not knowing the answers to two supposedly easy [[SpeakingSimlish gibberish questions]]]], Bubble is demoted from the alliance by Match to a "bemb", and her reaction was this.

** In BFB 8, after [[spoiler:not knowing the answers to two supposedly easy gibberish questions]], Bubble is demoted from the alliance by Match to a "bemb", and her reaction was this.

TPOT released on January 10th 2021. ''Battle for BFB'' (now with a much smaller cast) wrapped up April 9th, 2021, meaning that the BFDI franchise has finally finished a second season. Only took eleven years.

** Season 4 also has Eternal Algebra Class (or EXIT, as its more commonly referred) which, like Yoyle City, is a 3D renderred environment with 2D animated characters.

* NiceShoes: The Non-Slip Shoes So Ha.

* Eyedscreen: Parodied in BFDIA 1. Donut and Pencil stare at each other after [[spoiler:all of the contestants go on one team except for Donut, who is on the other.]] When the camera cuts to Pencil, she morphs it into a vertical rectangle. Cue a montage of the contestants with black backgrounds in different shapes.

* NoFourthWall: They are very aware they are on a competition show, often calling what is currently going on part of an "episode", rather than a more general term[[note]]i.e. day, week, month, year, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers fortnight]]...[[/note]]. The characters also refer to viewers of the show by name.

''Battle for Dream Island'' is a [[ObjectShows unique animated comedy web series]] created by Flash animators and sibling duo Cary (who later created WebVideo/TenWordsOfWisdom) and Michael Huang, a.k.a. jacknjellify. Inspired by ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Island'' in premise, and ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' in art style and animation style, its enduring popularity led it to become one of the first and most successful of the Object Show style of web animation.

!!This show provides examples of:

* KillEmAll:
** The cold opens of BFDI 13 and 14 have a go at it, with 6 and 8 characters dying respectively.
** [[spoiler: In BFDI 24, everyone but the Announcer and David is eaten by bugs.]]
** In BFB, [[spoiler: episode 14]] sets a new record - by the end of the episode, [[spoiler: only 29 out of 54 contestants are confirmed to be alive.]]
** BFB 27 kills everyone by the end of the challenge except for 4, X, and Teardrop.

* OnlySaneMan: Although the cast are goofy and wacky, there's times where the contestants are level-headed. The examples are Tennis Ball, Fries, Nickel, Gaty, Eraser, Tree, Blocky, Pie, Donut, Black Hole, and a few others.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Throughout all five seasons there are 67 total contestants alone, and that's not even counting the hosts and recommended characters.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent:
** [[http://battlefordreamisland.com/5b Episode 5b]] of the second season is a PlatformGame, compared to the other parts of Episode 5 (And all other episodes in general), which are all regular Flash animations.
** "Welcome Back", the first episode in three years, was quite different, featuring slice-of-life comedy antics instead of challenges, and voting for a character to ''return'' instead of being eliminated. Even the name is different, now known as ''IDFB''.

* ArmlessBiped: Being the one who started the trend in the first place, BFDI is the very first to have armless characters in an object show, best exemplified by the abundant number of them on the show.[[note]]Avocado, Basketball, Cake, Clapboard, Clock, Discy, Eggy, Fanny, Foldy, Gaty, Golf Ball, Ice Cube, Naily, Nickel, Rocky, Price Tag, Salt Lamp, Snare Drum, Spongy, Tape, Tennis Ball, TV and Winner[[/note]] And this doesn't include the variations such as legless[[note]]Lightning and Shopping Cart[[/note]] and limbless[[note]]8-Ball, Announcer, Bell, Black Hole, Camera, Cloudy, Firey Speaker Box, Pin (For the entirety of BFDIA 5), Puffball, Puffball Speaker Box, Purple Face, Roboty and Yellow Face[[/note]] characters.

Okay, so there's this luxurious island. And there are twenty anthropomorphic objects that all want the island for themselves. But only one will get to own it. Who is it? The teardrop? The ice cube? The sponge? The flower? The tennis ball? Or any of the fifteen others?[[note]][[ItWasHisSled It's]] [[spoiler:[[ItWasHisSled Firey]].]] [[spoiler:[[ItWasHisSled Firey]]]] [[ItWasHisSled wins the island.]] [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy There! I just saved you 25 long, boobless episodes]][[/note]] Well, there's only one way to settle this... and it's a reality series, where they will compete in challenges until only one remains.

TPOT released on January 10th 2021. ''Battle for BFB'' (now with a much smaller cast) wrapped up April 9th, 2021, meaning that the BFDI franchise has finally finished a second season. Only took eleven years. [[labelnote:And in case you're curious...]][[spoiler:[[ItWasHisSled Flower]]]] [[ItWasHisSled won the BFB.]] [[/labelnote]]

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Match dyes her hair blue and pretends to be "Blue Match" to try to rejoin the game. [[spoiler:It doesn't work.]]

''Battle for Dream Island'' is a [[ObjectShows unique animated comedy web series]] created by Flash animators and sibling duo Cary (who later created WebVideo/TenWordsOfWisdom) and Michael Huang, a.k.a. jacknjellify. Inspired by ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Island'' in premise, and ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' in art style and animation style. Its enduring popularity led it to become one of the first and most successful of the Object Show style of web animation.

''Battle for Dream Island'' is a [[ObjectShows unique animated comedy web series]] created by Flash animators and sibling duo Cary (who later created WebVideo/TenWordsOfWisdom) and Michael Huang, a.k.a. jacknjellify. Inspired by ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Island'' in premise, and ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' in art style and animation style.