History Characters / BaldisBasicsInEducationAndLearning

* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: While largely looking out for the well-being of his patients, he tends to hammer those who run away.

* RetGone: [[spoiler:He suffers this fate at the very end of the BrutalBonusLevel of Classic Remastered, getting himself wiped clean from the code for his troubles. He gets replaced by a red Baldi "balloon" on subsequent runs of that level, and Baldi replaces him in all the secret endings as a result of his absence, in addition to Baldi's speech after collecting seven notebooks getting modified to remove the "GET OUT WHILE YOU STILL CAN!".]]

* CreepyHighPitchedVoice: He speaks with a distorted, high-pitched voice when roaming the halls, which becomes more reverbed.

* CreepyHighPitchedVoice: He speaks with a distorted, high-pitched voice when roaming the halls.

* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Unlike the rest of the cast, who are 3D-modeled, he's a Claymation-styled character similar to WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit.

* IdiotBall: He still says "No [x] in the halls" even if you are not in the halls, but instead the cafeteria or classrooms, which should not be punishable in that case. He also lets Playtime get away with running. Adverted in the Public Demo and Plus, however, where he doesn't punish the player if they're breaking rules in the playground.

* AxCrazy: Baldi is this in '''every''' sense of the word. If you get just ''[[DisproportionateRetribution one]]'' of his math problems wrong, Baldi will ''[[DisproportionateRetribution chase you down throughout the school with a ruler in his hand and attempt to kill you.]]'' Or just spank you -- it's never been made clear, and a kindergartener would find the latter to be terrifying enough.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Tries to beat or kill you with a ruler or a stick for answering questions wrong or letting a campfire go out.

* LazyBum: Although he's not lazy when teaching a class, but a chalkboard said that Baldi was too lazy to add more subjects from the V1.3 and onwards.

** Baldi can potentially break his ruler as a random event in ''Plus''. While this makes his movements silent, he also becomes incapable of catching you, and must make a detour to get a new ruler before he can begin chasing you again.

* CaptainErsatz: In the strip that he appears in, he is watching [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants "Rag-Tom Floppy Shirt".]]

* GroinAttack: In the comic panel that featured him, Baldi kicks him in the groin after he tests the reflexes in his knee.

* EyeScream: She's said to have poor eyesight and her eyes or whatever the hell's in her eye sockets look '''terrible'''.

* TurnTheOtherCheek: If the principal comes into contact with you and Playtime after you cut her jump rope and didn't actually catch you in the act, she won't tell on you. After her rope is repaired, she will still want to play with you.

* AntiVillain: Unlike Baldi, he's just a PunchClockVillain enforcing the school rules. And the worst he does is put you in ridiculously-short detention (99 seconds at maximum). He can also put It's a Bully in detention for bullying the player as of Update 1.3.

* EyelessFace: He seems to lack eyes. Or maybe because he's a cut-out model of a man, rendered in low-pixel.
* EyeScream: He lacks eyes; however, he does have what appears to be creepy, smudged-out eye sockets.

* IdiotBall: He still says "No [x] in the halls" even if you are not in the halls, but instead the cafeteria or classrooms, which should not be punishable in that case. He also lets Playtime get away with running. Subverted in the Public Demo and Plus, however, where he doesn't punish the player if they're breaking rules in the playground.

* AnimateInanimateObject: It's a sockpuppet.
* AwakenTheSleepingGiant: He spends most of the game as a background character, not having any effect on gameplay and running away when you get close. In ''Classic'', once you collect more notebooks than him, however, he becomes one of the game's biggest threats, chasing you down and teleporting both you and Baldi to the entrance if he reaches you. He still does this in ''Plus'', only now teleporting you to a random part of the facility, and only you.

* TheCollector: It is implied to have 6 notebooks[[note]]Mainly in ''Classic'' or the second floor of ''Plus'', he might instead have 7 in the full game public demo, 4 on the first floor of ''Plus'', and 8 on the third floor of ''Plus''[[/note]], and gets jealous of anybody who has more than that amount.

* EldritchAbomination: Even by this game's standards, he's quite left-field, with an odd design, no dialogue, just BlackSpeech (even more than Baldi's), InsaneTrollLogic motivation, and a RealityWarper-type ability.
* FishEyes: Its googly eyes go in opposite directions, giving it a comical look.
* GreenEyedMonster: It attacks you because it's jealous that you have more notebooks than it does... if you take the description on its poster at face value, at least.

* TheQuietOne: It does not speak, aside from making a loud static noise when it attacks you, and its poster describes it as "shy".
* TheScream: When it attacks you, its sprite changes to a picture of the sockpuppet with its mouth wide open. Combined with the loud static noise that occurs, this gives the impression that Arts and Crafters is screaming at you.

* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. His "design" is a picture of an old Libman broom, but later versions of ''Classic'' and everything else since then (with the exception of a figure) have altered the image to change the colors of the bristles from grey and green to plain black, so as to not have it be 1:1.

* {{Nerf}}: His spawn points were changed in the 1.3 update so he's more likely to force you to take an alternate path and less likely to completely trap you if you don't have any items. Also, the Principal of the Thing can put him in detention for "bullying in the hall". Sometimes he will also despawn out of boredom.

A {{Cyborg}} that likes hugs, and will chase you down to get them.

* FishEyes: His model features this.

* NoNameGiven: We're never told who he is. The only hint in the game we have towards his name is his name in the game files. Subverted in ''Classic Remastered'' where he gives a vague name, that being NULL, since he has no name to call his own.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: While he remains calm and collected most of the way through ''Classic'', ''Birthday Bash'' and ''Classic Remastered'', there are times in the lattermost when he loses this cool demeanour.

* RiddleForTheAges: [[spoiler:With his removal and death, questions still remain unanswered about NULL. Why did he want the player to destroy the game? How did he wind up trapped in it? Was anything he was saying even true?]]

* TakeThat: He's meant to be one towards horror games that focus heavily on lore over gameplay. Although he would probably fit right at home there, ''Baldi's Basic's'' has no lore of any variety, so his presence feels totally offputting.

A kid who likes chewing gum and blowing bubbles to impress others, only to end up spitting them out instead. Appears at random down halls and spits gum wads at you. If they hit, they slow your movement for awhile giving Baldi time to catch up, and likewise can get you sent to detention if the principal catches you covered in gum. However, he can also hit Baldi and cause him to stop moving for a bit.

* SuddenlyShouting: Normally talks in a pleasant and friendly tone. But yells extremely loudly when during her freak out.

* CharacterResemblanceTropes: He resembles Baldi, more so than any other character. This has led a lot of fans to believe that he is [[StrongFamilyResemblance Baldi's son]], though this has not officially been confirmed.

* AuthorAvatar: It's jokingly implied in his hidden cameo appearance during the ending sequence of the 1 Year Birthday Bash update that [=Filename2=] is game creator Micah [=McGonigal=] himself after [[TrappedInTVLand trapping himself in Baldi-Land]].

* TheUnintelligible: The audio for his dialog is heavily distorted and compressed to a ridiculously low bit-depth, making his words nearly impossible to understand. It doesn't help that the electronic sounds often censor out some of his dialog.

* AwakenTheSleepingGiant: He spends most of the game as a background character, not having any effect on gameplay and running away when you get close. in ''Classic'', once you collect more notebooks than him, however, he becomes one of the game's biggest threats, chasing you down and teleporting both you and Baldi to the entrance if he reaches you. He still does this in ''Plus'', only now teleporting you to a random part of the facility, and only you.

* BerserkButton: If the player runs from his test, he chases them with a hammer and uses it to shrink them and other characters he runs into while hunting for them.

* IncredibleShrinkingMan: Anyone hit by his hammer will shrink briefly, limiting what the player and other characters can do.

* ParentalAbandonment: Implied. That he says his parents would have been proud of him suggests they aren't around. Worth noting is that his expression will change to a frown after saying this line, unlike the other post-purchase quotes. mystman12 even responded to a emailer asking if Johnny's parents are live, "Johnny has a pretty sad history..."

* AntiVillain: Wanting nothing more than to destroy the game he's trapped in, presumably with the help of the player, he heavily suggests, [[spoiler:begs, screams, shouts, and even outright tries to hunt you down in a separate game-mode, complete with a surprise boss fight]] in order to attempt doing so. [[spoiler:For his efforts, he ends up getting [[RetGone Ret-Gonned]] out of the game after completing NULL mode for the first time.]]

* DeadpanSnarker: [[spoiler:Find Baldi's Basement before you've finished NULL Mode, and he'll appear and comment that you shouldn't be down there before jokingly assuming you're trying to find lore in a game that has none.]]

* SdrawkcabSpeech: One of the dialogues he can say in NULL Mode is him chanting "Destroy the game" backwards, and then asking if that was supposed to be scary.

* YouAreAlreadyDead: In ''Classic Remastered'', during [[spoiler:NULL Mode, he will ''gleefully'' rub this trope in the player's face if he's in pursuit while the player has no items and is out of stamina, as NULL is faster than the player.]]

* NoSell: Spraying soda at him does not affect him[[note]]in the original version of the camping minigame, if the player brought a [=BSoda=] into the field trip and used it, only then would he be pushed by it, likely because instead of standing still he is now moving[[/note]]. He probably enjoys it, being a FatBastard and all. He is also unaffected by Gotta Sweep, who just passes right through him.

* GuestFighter: In another indie game called ''Strange Terror From The Deep'', Baldi has a small chance of appearing, out to punish the player as usual.

* AdaptedOut: Is completely absent in ''Classic Remastered'', not even appearing in the Demo Style.

* TurnsRed: When angry, his voice becomes even more distorted than before and his model is colored as if he's under a sunset.

* PermanentPlaceholder: [=mystman12=] originally intended Doctor Reflex's name to be a placeholder name, but ended up sticking with this name in the final version of the character.

A doctor at the Super Schoolhouse whom gives reflex tests to people. Walk away, and he will use his hammer to shrink the player to force them to take their test. Also, the first character in the game since Baldi to originally appear in the Baldimore comics.

A doctor at the Super Schoolhouse whom gives reflex tests to people. Walk away, and he will use his hammer to shrink the player to force their test. Also, the first character since Baldi to originally appear in the Baldimore comics.