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Battle for BFDI

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Sad moments in Battle for BFDI.
  • For those who were fans of FreeSmart in BFDIA and IDFB, seeing them crumble apart in BFB can be really disheartening. From Pencil becoming a Hate Sink out of nowhere in contrast to her normal, Adorkable, Rebel Leader self (so much so that she ends up being the first contestant eliminated in the season), to Match becoming a protege of this new Pencil who seems misguided, to Ruby and Bubble being left on their lonesome and later getting eliminated during the second half of the show, and worst of all, Book and Ice Cube (though, Icy tried to come back for a little bit) wanting to leave FreeSmart behind for good and never looking back. Even in TPOT, where Pencil eventually gets to compete with Book and Ice Cube in the same season, both of them want absolutely nothing to do with her, leaving her without any alliance at all. Seeing what was once a fun, rebellious, heartwarming team break down bit-by-bit until it's FUBAR feels like a massive gut punch. In the end, Golf Ball was probably right about alliances with 4 or more members not being built to last.
  • Watching Book regress from a polite, soft-spoken nerd to a short-tempered Jerkass with a scathing hatred for Taco can be more than a little disheartening, especially for those who were fans of her.
  • In "Getting Teardrop to Talk", Bubble being manipulated by Pencil to try to zap Fanny with Lightning. It’s incredibly heartbreaking to see her cry.
  • Poor Taco gets trapped in a jawbreaker for around 20 days after Nickel tells David to give up on licking it long after BEEP loses and can’t be heard by the other contestants, even though she can hear them just fine. It gets worse in "Why Would You Do This On A Swingset", when her teammates think she has died permanently (Lollipop and Gaty) or abandoned her (Book and Ice Cube), all while she angrily yells at them to break the jawbreaker. Incredibly heartbreaking to watch. When she finally does escape, she's treated as a social pariah by the majority of the other contestants for the rest of the competition.
    Book: Taco was probably recovered too, and is still alive!
    Taco: That’s right!
    Book: So the reason she’s not here is...
    Taco: ...IS THAT I’M STILL TRAPPED IN THIS JAWBREAKER!
    Book: IS THAT SHE ABANDONED US!
    Taco: Book...no...
    Book: She must've gotten fed up with how slow our team chased the basket and went rogue! And... oh, the BETRAYAL! [pulls Ice Cube into a sad hug]
    Taco: No, Book! That’s not true! I’m right here! I’M RIGHT HERE!
  • In The Stinger for "Enter the Exit", Taco tries to talk to Bell and apologize for deceiving her in "Four Goes Too Far", but things do not work out well. The depressed look on Taco's face hammers it home when Bell tears into her. As the camera fades to black, we see Lollipop watching the entire scene unfold. In fact, the scene ends up being sad for both fans of Taco and fans of Bell alike.
    Taco: Uh, so, Bell...
    Bell: UUUUGGGHHHH!!!!!! Now, what are you trying to do?! Any twinkles I can take off the moon for you?!
    Taco: Bell, I am only making conversation with you.
    Bell: Oh, uh-huh, just like last time?!
    Taco: Listen, Bell, I'm sorry about...
    Bell: [furious] Have you considered that "sorry" might not cut it!?
    Taco: [sadly] You'd think I would know that by now.
    Bell: You set a reputation for yourself, Taco. For all I know, you could be using me as a tool to make your team win right this second! Just deal with it! I don't trust you, anymore! [with a bone-chilling Death Glare as she turns away] And I probably never will!
  • This exchange after Loser is eliminated in "The Liar Ball You Don't Want".
    Donut: Loser, we haven't heard much from you today... any last words?
    Loser: Y'know what, I do. Guys, thank you for doing your best to make me feel welcome. I know it didn't last long, but I'm going to miss what we did together. We had fun, and that's all that matters. Good thing Four is gone, at least I can spend my last few days with you. I'm proud of you, and I hope we can meet again.
    • Even worse considering Loser said this only after he was eliminated, and is likely to spend his last few days hurtling through space alone. And with Donut's Diary.
  • "Get To The Top In 500 Steps":
    • During Leafy's rejoin, Bracelety is about to ask her to take her drawing of Ice Cube and give it to her after Four refused to, but before she can finish her request Leafy grabs it, uses as a tissue and crumples it. It gets sad seeing how she destroyed her only memory of Ice Cube.
    • Bubble's outburst at Match for her treatment of others and unfair cruelty of others. It's filled with so much emotion and Bubble's confession hammers it in to Match how much has changed ever since the first season. Match apologizes but isn't forgiven easily which she herself understands. Crosses into this again when the following episode's pre-release voting results showed that Match will still be eliminated even after apologizing which means Bubble will lose another friend when they were about to redeem themselves. In the episode proper, Bubble took Match's elimination very poorly, blaming herself for getting her "Best Friend" eliminated, and attacking Fanny for saying she didn't need Match.
  • "Don't Dig Straight Down":
  • "The Four Is Lava":
    • Gaty believes she is going to be eliminated and tells Saw that she doesn't want to be eliminated before breaking down in tears. It certainly doesn't help that her voice doesn't sound anything like her typical Vocal Dissonance. Saw tries to comfort her, but doesn’t get far.
    • It turns out that Firey is pretending not to know Leafy because everybody hates her and if people found out that he was friends with her then they would hate him too. This makes Leafy sad and upset and asks Firey why he would do this before asking Firey to stop. Firey refuses and thinks Leafy is being selfish for asking that before Leafy and Firey decide to not be friends anymore for real. Needle slapping Leafy just for trying to help Taco, telling Leafy to mind her own business. Poor Leafy. Not to mention the ending of the episode: Leafy finally finds a friend in Eggy after Firey tells her she has no friends, only for Firey to turn Eggy against Leafy by telling her that Leafy stole Dream Island. If that wasn't enough, during The Stinger, Eggy, Needle, and Firey talk bad about Leafy behind her back while Leafy just sits there, overhearing everything and being very sad. Luckily, Coiny has overheard and oversaw everything and tries to be kind to Leafy, but still.
    • Clock died off-screen somewhere between "Enter the Exit" and "Get to the Top in 500 Steps", and was forgotten by his own team, The Losers! who couldn't even remember his name. In the stinger of the episode, when Clock finally gets recovered and Eggy lies that they missed him all along in an attempt to spare his feelings. Clock is frustrated and walks away from his team after hearing this, sarcastically talking about how cherished he feels by his team before realizing he's just talking to himself.
  • Needless to say, just about all of Four's fans felt sorry for him when Two took his spotlight and stole most of the contestants away. It gets worse when Four asks X if he will leave him for Two, while suffering the loss of all of the other contestants, X replies to Four that he may, only for Four to snap and cry and angrily makes X go. This causes X to feel so bad as he very reluctantly goes.
    Four: [sad and angry] Go! Just GO! [breaks down crying in his elbow and makes stifling sobs noises as X watches with sympathy and very reluctantly goes]
  • "X Marks the Spot":
    • Poor Four feels extremely guilty for forcing X to stay with two in the beginning of the episode. He even decides that the challenge is to bring him back, which everyone refuses to participate in until he offers to put the original BFDI back in as the prize.
    • It is quite subtle, but Ruby being threatened by Blocky from his gem-shears and her screaming is quite scary and a bit tear-inducing towards the audience as Ruby is a sensitive girl.
  • "Take the Tower":
    • Leafy suffers from an anxiety attack from having to fight Firey on the other team. Considering their past, this hits hard.
    • It is very subtle, but, there's Ruby fighting Taco and getting badly punched by Taco. Considering how much of The Cutie and how sensitive Ruby is, this is quite hard to watch.
  • In "Fashion Four Your Face!", Purple Face escapes his box and chases the Have-Cots in an attempt to eat them! Leafy breaks down in tears and cries as she screams that she doesn't want to be eaten. She ends up OK, along with the others, but still...
  • "The Game Has Changed":
    • It's very hard not to feel bad for Flower as she states that she knows that her bad attitude got her eliminated first in BFDI when she thinks she is eliminated. Fortunately, Blocky was the one who was really eliminated.
    • In the same episode, Gelatin gently but firmly tells Teardrop about her violent behavior towards him as of late, and asks Teardrop to leave him alone because of it. This causes Teardrop to sadly walk away, while Gelatin solemnly thanks her. Lollipop even states that she feels bad for Teardrop.
    • When Blocky gets eliminated, Woody hugs Blocky and cries, while Blocky comforts him, saying that he has to go.
    • Leafy gets scolded by Lollipop for no reason other than for accidentally interrupting the conversation between Firey and Lollipop. Poor Leafy is still treated horribly by the others.
  • After nearly eleven long years since the series began, Firey finally suffers his very first elimination in "The Tweested Temple" (by release dates, as In-Universe it is his second due to being eliminated in BFDIA) due to deliberately flunking the challenge in order to finally make amends with Leafy by building another ferris wheel that both of them could enjoy. He's screaming in terror as he's hauled into the sky to the BRB, and Leafy desperately doesn't want to let go of him out of guilt for making him lose another prize. Losing out on the prize is the least of Firey's worries, though, as he's glad that, at the very least, he and Leafy were able to bury the hatchet. It probably made fans regret voting him off.
  • You might fail trying not to cry while watching the ending of "B.F.B. = Back From Beginning". Prior to that scene, X worriedly wonders where Four is and if he's coming back, as a Lonely Piano Piece version of the intro plays in the background. X then looks at the ground, sad, and the screen fades to black...
  • "Chapter Complete":
    • Six words: "I really did win, didn't I?" For context, Flower was a narcissistic and egotistical Alpha Bitch at the start of the first season of the show, even going as far as to destroy all the recovery centers and murder Bubble in the season 1 finale. But thanks to Flower going through some massive Character Development for the entire course of the fourth season (to the point of donating all the money given for her fashion line to save the show from being cancelled in the episode prior), she won the season in a landslide victory. She even gives her secondary prizes back to Four and Announcer and gives the grand prize to Gelatin, saying that winning any show was the only prize she needed, and that Gelatin won the competition too by making many great friendships. This was truly a moment for fans of Flower seeing just how far she has come. Doubles as a massive heartwarming moment.
    • Four's imaginary section with the eliminated contestants. Anyone who didn't feel bad for him already definitely will.
    • Gelatin's Nostalgic Narrator moment near the end. It's just so good to see the contestants just be themselves.
    • After many years, Firey and Leafy finally get a happy ending, as they sail away to find a new Dream Island.

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