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Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two

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The Power of Two is easily the darkest installment in the Battle for Dream Island series yet, especially with One in the picture, and these examples prove just why.


  • In BFDIA 5e, Yellow Face's corpse was glued down in the desert. Cake encounters its skeleton ten years later in "Gardening Zero". Also, any water it touches is apparently cursed. The Funny Plant immediately disintegrates upon coming into contact with the cursed water.
  • Snowball can be considered unhinged in TPOT 3 and TPOT 4. Especially towards Grassy. In TPOT 3, he punches Grassy so hard that Grassy flies through the sky and off-screen. Then, when Grassy returns, Snowball ties him up and tries to get Two to make him into a punching bag. In TPOT 4, he lights Grassy on fire! What makes it worse? No one, except Basketball, finds anything wrong with it, even though Grassy is in visible pain.
  • Marker eating a cheesecake covered in glass in the stinger for TPOT 3.
  • Marker catching fire in TPOT 4 after accidentally coming in contact with Grassy, who had been set alight by Snowball and apparated in front of Marker after his teleportation bracelet burnt off. This is not even played for Black Comedy, as Marker is screaming in agony throughout as he drags himself on the ground.
  • Puffball forcing Death P.A.C.T Again to make a Sadistic Choice, either save Ice Cube from slowly dying horribly and painfully or complete their challenge, in TPOT 4.
  • In TPOT 5, TV (who was accidentally kidnapped, belongs on Are You Okay?) and Robot Flower team up to hijack The Strongest Team on Earth's "Robotic Fish Monster" by blowing it up. This kills the entire team and causes their elimination as a result of this.
  • While the actions of the narrator of "Just Not's Journey" are Played for Laughs, it doesn't change the fact that it's relentlessly tormenting Just Not for seemingly no reason and even tries to get them to commit suicide. Unlike all of the other nightmare fuel characters on this list, they're a narrator, so there's absolutely no hiding from them either if they decide to torment someone.
  • In TPOT 7, Tree's death is pretty intense, as Black Hole accidentally rips his head off while trying to save him from Fanny and Pillow, who were about to chop him up.
  • TPOT 9 involves a full-blown Zombie Apocalypse that strangely gets played grimly straight after a zombified Barf Bag begins to infect the other contestants, leading the survivors to flee from their former friends to avoid getting turned themselves.
    • What makes TPOT 9 more terrifying is the fact that this is the first time a host truly has no control over the challenge; even the lava incident from BFB 14 doesn't cross this threshold because Four was never in any real danger from it.
    • Pillow's Ax-Crazy personality is taken up a notch when she starts murdering the rest of her team one by one, since she believes the challenge is really about "two teams—completely wiped out—". She eventually decides to cover herself in Book's remains and, on top of that, gets a chunk torn out of her by Price Tag. The fact that it wasn't enough to kill her makes her look and feel terrifying.
    • Two in their zombified state is... unnerving, to say the least. They're locked into a blank pose with an equally blank facial expression; the few lines they get before we actually see them are whispered in a voice that barely sounds anything like them; they glide instead of walking; they only seem to care about teleporting the contestants to the elimination area, and they get more sloppily-drawn between the two times they appear — almost as if their appearance is uncontrollably degrading.
    • The mere fact that this could very well have been the end of the series if the cure wasn't found is highly unsettling; had it not been for some lucky coincidences including Teardrop curing Barf Bag by accidentally falling into her, the zombified Snowball's hit against the hotel causing GB and TB's cure to fall out the window, and Yellow Face being there to toss the concoction, the zombies probably could've overtaken Goiky incredibly easily, leading to a very bleak conclusion.
  • TPOT 10, Oneirophobe's Nightmare: While most of the nightmares are rather silly in nature, Black Hole's nightmare isn't. Case in point, it demonstrates exactly why Black Hole is so obsessed with preventing death: because if he doesn't, he could end up destroying the entire universe.
    Black Hole: And that's it. That's what's gonna happen if I betray the P.A.C.T. There'll be nothing. Absolutely... nothing.
  • TPOT 11 shows why the eliminated contestants from pre-split BFB still haven't returned even in the three years after the show ended: Four meant Eternal Algebra Class very literally and intends on keeping them there for the rest of their lives. They've spent four years looking for a way out, which is easier said than done, because Four is a Super-Persistent Predator who seems to always know when the EXITors are trying to escape. Even once they actually do manage to escape, Four is perfectly ready and willing to shove them all back inside, only stopping due to Two's intervention.
    • While it happens rather briefly, Match's two panic attacks — once over the possibility of never getting to see her friends again, and once after being locked in the hotel kitchen seemingly indefinitely just after she and the rest of the EXITors finally managed to escape — imply that those traumatic four years had caused permanent damage to their mental states.
  • TPOT 12: This episode finally gives us a proper introduction to One, and something about her is... off.
    • She starts out by kidnapping both Bomby and Bell at their elimination.
    • She then kidnaps Fanny and Ice Cube and makes deals for them to regain their missing body parts in exchange for... well, whatever her end of the bargain consists of.
    • In The Stinger, in addition to the reveal that the people she had just helped were only on the start of her checklist, she seems to be fully aware that Basketball is watching her behind a bush, deciding to kidnap her as well seemingly to make another deal with her.
      One: Hello, Basketball. (teleports to Basketball) Let's chat.
      Basketball: Wait, no! (is teleported away with One in an instant)
    • The very next episode reveals what One's deal is: she wants to take Two's power for herself. Given that she's already powerful enough to — among other things — cause the storm that is the catalyst for that episode's challenge, it just begs the question as to why she needs it.
      • It's also revealed what happens to those who don't accept her deals (or actually do, as revealed later): they are sent to what appears to be Limbo, a bluish landscape with a dark sky and nothing else. Barf Bag and Needle are shown there, and she offhandedly mentions that Bomby and Bell were sent there as well.
      • Even when Basketball does accept her deal, she upholds only half of the deal by restoring Robot Flower's original personality and not stopping the storm, meaning that her deals can be one-sided if she wants them to be. She discreetly tells Basketball that she lied before sending her back.
  • TPOT 13: While she was already nasty since season 1 Flower's personality was installed into her, Robot Flower is at her very worst here, using her teammates on Death P.A.C.T. Yet Again to kill the bugs when they are supposed to be preventing death. They try to stop her, which results in a fight scene that is much more brutal than the ones previously. To wit:
    • Gaty gets slammed against a wall so hard that she ends up dying from the impact, and is later impaled by both Pin and a stake.
    • Marker is electrocuted to death, and Robot Flower uses his lifeless body to draw a smiley face on her now-broken screen.
    • Robot Flower takes a lot of punishment before going down: getting stabbed in the face by Gaty and Pin (which then turns red), pelted with food by Tree, nailed by a lamp during her scuffle with Marker, her face stomped by Fanny...and only the last one temporarily takes her out of commission.
  • TPOT 14:
    • Pencil’s obsession with reforming her old alliance turns disturbingly intense. She jump-scares out of a flyer, drags Book and Ice Cube into a rebuilt clubhouse, and rants about cross-team alliances. After the former are pulled away by Price Tag, she builds the "CloudYay Mega SuperVan" and has a manic meltdown—slamming on the dashboard until it catches fire, then furiously kicking the van, sending it crashing into the hotel.
    • Golf Ball builds a drill in order to drill inside the volcano. Unfortunately, the drill is not very heat resistant and Donut begins to litterally bake due to it. Then it gets so bad he EXPLODES from the heat, getting his "blood" everywhere causing everyone (except Pillow, of course) to freak out.
    • The crushing deaths are particularly gruesome. Basketball, in particular, is completely deflated, and Pencil is broken into multiple realistic-looking pencil shards.
  • TPOT 15:
    • The episode starts with the typical anniversary wheel featuring the TPOT contestants and Two, only for it to suddenly glitch out with the contestants replaced by the rejects (barring Nonexisty) and Two replaced with One. During the glitching, the word BEWARE appears where the cake should be.
    • Black Hole reacting as the timeline shifts, getting increasingly more confused and panicked as everyone except him seems to be affected by the timeline shifts, with everyone reacting as if nothing was wrong. In Golf Ball's words, she's "never seen Black Hole this frazzled before", clearly indicating that something is wrong.
    • Three occasionally appears as the host due to the timeline changes, where they just silently stare and smile with ominous sounds playing whenever they're in focus.
    • The climax of the episode sees the world literally collapsing, with CloudYay trapped in the past and the Yoyleite that allowed contestants to go back in time has been neutralized by One. Black Hole outright states that they're doomed and that there is nothing they can do about it. The only reason everything goes back to normal is because One reverts everything after pressurizing Gaty into signing the contract.
    • Pillow, who barely reacts to anything except with a small smile on her face, is visibly shaking in fear when she witnesses the large crack in the sky as reality collapses. This speaks measures of exactly how major the damage would end up being if not for Gaty signing the contract One gave her. O.O.C. Is Serious Business indeed.
    • After Gaty signs One's contract, she expects to be sent back like the others who've signed. When Two goes to check on her after One resets everything, she's nowhere to be found.
    • Despite One seemingly reverting everything back to normal, the crack in the sky is still present, meaning something in the past was changed permanently.
  • TPOT 17 has its moments:
    • Pillow and Yellow Face's eliminations. For Pillow, Four basically makes her implode before sending her to the elimination area, with disturbing sound effects playing throughout. For Yellow Face, Four stretches his arm out at him. Yellow Face tries to keep him at bay by throwing off the limbs he stole from Ice Cube and Donut earlier at him, but this does absolutely nothing. He is then left begging to not get sent away as the inevitable happens, which occurs with a detail increase that's made much more noticeable due to Yellow Face's normally limited animation and design, after which Four looks back at the remaining members of CloudYay with a Slasher Smile before making his leave.
    • Ice Cube and Fanny's whiteboard with notes on one has been scrambled in the eyes of everyone besides from Fanny, who can still see the original contents. The really creepy part is the ruined version of the whiteboard has multiple threats in various kinds of code such as — "FANNY" "I AM WATCHING YOU" "SNEAKY SNITCH" "YOU HAVE MUCH TO LEARN ABOUT WHY I AM HERE" "DONT TEST"
    • Tree, Grassy, TV, and Donut are sent into a haunted mansion as part of the episode's challenge, and inside there is a gigantic robot spider that commands a legion of mini-spiders. TV gets caught by it at one point after being left behind by the former two, and later takes control of it to enact his revenge. He actually ends up killing Grassy and pinning Tree down, fully intent on killing him as well.
    • As for Donut, he accidentally gets kicked into a dark room inside the mansion... which later turns out to be One's room. Just like with Fanny and Ice Cube, she makes a deal with him to gain back a lost body part: his arms. Unlike those two (or anybody else that One offered a deal with), he not only tries to back out, he also ends up kicking her at one point out of defiance. Big mistake. One furiously rips off his legs one by one before kicking him out of her dimension, leaving him completely limbless. He gets his limbs back shortly after, but that moment serves as a grim warning of what could happen to those who do not accept One's deals.
  • TPOT 19:
    • The setting of this episode is appropriately bleak, as the sky is darkened with greyed-out grass, leafless vegetation and what appears to be strands of black goop being visible all throughout Goiky. It makes the once-pleasant grasslands look like Mordor.
    • Pencil has been an absolute menace ever since she joined the season, as she is willing to hurt and even kill other contestants to win. Now that she's given Two's power, she's even worse than before; her killing Fanny by bringing her close to Black Hole's event horizon until her head pops off is just the start of it. When she looks back at the hotel where the others at in and says "Run.", everybody starts scrambling for safety as she searches for anybody to kill and absorb more of Two's power. Yes, this even includes her former friend Book, whom she kills with indifference at best now that she's not her friend anymore. She's quite literally unstoppable at this point, and not even Four can stave her off, especially when she takes his power too.
    • Remember when Liy implied she was a Serial Killer back in BFB 5? This episode shows that side of her off in full force. When Winner and Price Tag rally the failed debutors (minus Tape and arguably Nonexisty, who were not present) and they are attempting to escape the hotel, she picks off three of them from the shadows. When she comes face to face with them and flips her switch to the wooden side, you can guess what happens after. For those who can't: she mercilessly kills off all of TPOT debutors using nothing but brute force. Not some, all of them, and that includes Price Tag and Winner. The whole sequence plays out like a Slasher Movie! Thank goodness she is killed before she can continue her rampage (no thanks to Pencil), but imagine if she was the last one standing by the end of the challenge...
    • It's minor compared to everything else, but Tree's Accidental Murder of Golf Ball isn't pleasant to watch either since she is painfully warped until she is turned into a puddle of water.
    • One appears to Donut again, and he is still defiant in not signing her contract. It's here where she reveals what she did to Gaty back in TPOT 15... she erased her from existence. The fact she can just do this on a whim is terrifying on its own, but when Donut continues to defy her, she also deletes Barf Bag (his best friend) and Basketball, with a disturbing Slasher Smile as she does so. Imagine one of your fellow objects being with you one second, and in the next they just vanish without a trace beyond your memory of them.
      • Thought everything was relatively safe with Black Hole keeping the rift shut? You'd be DEAD wrong, One transports him away with about the same ease as the other objects. It's terrifying for Black Hole too, as he is exasperated by the whole ordeal.
        One: I think we should chat, Black Hole! I'm getting REEEAL tired of you holding back that rift of mine.
        Black Hole: YOURS?! WHAAAT?! [after he is sent to One's room] Uhh, hello?!
    • The ending. One manages to get not only Two's power, but Four's as well (again, no thanks to Pencil), meaning she is now free to do whatever she pleases with absolutely nobody being able to stop her due to almost the entire cast being either dead or out of commission. Grassy is the only contestant left alive by the end of the challenge, and is stuck crying in the hotel's ventilation unaware of what is going on. Suddenly, the world begins to shake (which also distorts Grassy, causing him to scream in either pure fear or utter pain, if not both). Cut to the present, and it's The End of the World as We Know It with everything turned blood red and in silhouette. The Silent Credits that follows right after makes it worse.

  • TPOT 20:
    • Three's death, where she gets covered in cracks and explodes while screaming in pain and begging for help as the other Algebraliens watch by in horror. Even Four is visibly horrified at what she did.
    • The ending, where One blows up Nine's planet and sucks them, which then cuts to the voice acting credits before it shows what she did to them.

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