- And yet, they are stated to be biodegradable, according to the round 38 pre-round comment in BTD2.
- This also explains why there is a new "ultimate" bloons in the sequels; the side attacking knows that their strongest bloons aren't cutting it.
- They build and send Bloons to test each other, where they think another tribe is weak, and build defenses to rebuff/showcase their ability to stand up to the pressure. PvE modes represent you playing as one tribe, co-op modes have you playing as allied tribes, and PvP modes make both players into rival tribes. If a tribe can't repel the Bloons, it's known their ability to defend themselves is weak, and they have to capitulate to whatever demands the sender is making, or outright surrender and join/submit to their tribe.
- Likely Jossed, Vortex has been confirmed as the next boss to be added in update 31.0.
- Yes, but considering BTD6 doesn't have much in the way of plot...
, every Bloons game takes place in the same universe/timeline. Thus, I have made up an interpretation for what the chronological events of the Bloons games are.- First up, the original Bloons games and Hot Air Bloon. A bored Dart Monkey decides to throw darts at balloons. He finds it rather fun, and traverses the world just to pop more bloons. He then decides to try out bigger targets, specifically, an entire airship which he tries to crash in Hot Air Bloon.
- Next! BTD 1 to BTD3. The Bloons take revenge, and an ever-growing small band of monkeys come out to defend themselves. A small arms race between the two sides begins.
- BTD4. It gets serious, and war is officially declared. The Bloons bring in new weapons, like Camo and Airships, while the Monkey Army comes out with new tech and some support from the Sun God themself.
- BMC. To defend themselves from the Bloon threat, which has occupied a large part of the world, two Monkey Cities are formed in the Grassy Pass and Bloon Dunes. They both prove to be an effective solution, but lack of communication causes the two cities to declare war on each other, sparking the events of BTD Battles.
- BTD5! The two cities have stopped war and united into a singular Monkey Kingdom. However, the Bloons have also improved their forces, sending in their gods, the Boss Bloons, to battle the Monkeys. They are held off for a time, with the help of Super Monkey from BSM2, but eventually, the Bloons win, and the Monkeys retreat to another location.
- BTD6... and also Bloons Pop. The Monkeys have advanced so much that they decide it's time to take back their city. The Bloons are utterly unprepared for this, and lose to the rapid advancement of the Monkeys. A new sport is created taking inspiration from the events of Battles, sparking off Battles 2.
Red, Blue, Green, Yellow and Pink Bloons are the MOABs scouts, hence why they are always fought early on, because the MOABs are yet to determine your actual location and bring their soldiers to bear against your forces. They keep on fighting even after actual soldiers get there because the scouts still are fast and numerous enough to make good canon fodder and the MOABs are trying to deplete your ammo supplies/use them to Draw Aggro from the actual soldiers/they just have a surplus.The Black, White, Lead, Zebra, Purple, Rainbow and Ceramic Bloons are all different varieties of soldiers produced by the MOABs to deal with rivals and assault the Monkeys. The Bloons are in fact capable of some sort of attack which they perform when they get to the end of the track, i just haven’t figured out what it is. (yet)The Camo and Regrow Bloons are modifications the MOABs make to their soldiers and scouts to better allow them to penetrate your defences once you’ve become enough of a threat that they are forced to do so, that or they are special forces of some sort.
Every MOAB contains 6 special Ceramic Bloons which act as Drones, they each contain the MOABs DNA in addition to their normal properties and when a MOAB dies all remaining Ceramic Drones detach and rush the killers in an attempt to take them down and ensure the MOABs previous children’s survival. The reason I say 6 Ceramic Drones is that 1 Drone is detached as soon as the MOAB is fully grown and they MOAB have detached an average of 1 drone before the fight.Outside of this, every Ceramic Drone flies or floats absent-mindedly around the environment until it encounters another MOAB, once it does so the Ceramic Drone is brought inside the hanger of the MOAB and spends the next few months maturing in there (we will refer to the parent of the Drone as the “father” and the MOAB upgrading the Drone as the “mother”) before the mother drops it somewhere safe and it burrows into the ground using its new parts. From there on, the Ceramic Drone spends the next few years building up its outer casing and the newly-added parts into the beginnings of a MOAB’s outer frame while the Rainbow Bloons inside morph into the more organic parts of the new MOAB. The new MOAB has much more genetically in common with the father then the mother. Should a Ceramic Drone lose its outer casing and lack the regrow property its children will be unable to fulfil their purpose, leading to sad, lonely bloons who are occasionally kept as pets by those MOABs who enjoy such morbid affairs.
The MOABs were initially thought to be solitary creatures, however by the time of BTD3 it has been learnt that actually, they live in vast Fleets that can number anywhere from less then a dozen to the thousands. It is rumoured that some of the larger fleets destroyed entire cities by sending in armies of Bloons so large they blotted out the sun and the defenders fell after long sieges in which even the True Sun Gods avatars fell to their onslaught. If this is true, remains to be seen, but contact has been lost with a few cities and never reestablished… Worse yet is the stronger varieties of MOAB, as MOABs are, by and large, asexual but alloromantic and polyamorous, a curious quirk of their psychology is that almost always the MOABs relationships end up with many of them intertwined so that all or almost all are in relationships together, in their culture the ultimate act of devotion, similar to marriage, is to fuse together, crafting lovingly over many, many years the massive frames we know and love as BFBs and ZOMGs. This act is considered sacred to Bloonarius. The DDTs, by contrast, are an entirely different breed, Bloons who, out of desperation or devotion, have turned to Vortex for aid and been answered, transformed into deadly but unrecognisable entities whose personalities are now replaced with an unending hatred of the Monkeys. The BADs are much worse, made from the best and brightest of a Fleet and empowered with dark blessings of the entire pantheon, they are the tyrannical rulers of the Bloons and the reason that they stay on this path of destruction.
Meanwhile, the reason of the war between the Monkeys and the Bloons? Divine Conflict.The Monkeys worship The Sun God, while the Bloons worship a different pantheon of gods who desire the world for and only for their children, while The Sun God desires to create a world where this conflict is no longer necessary. The Sun God fought them for a time, but the Bloon Gods have already conquered much of the world and as the conflict wore on, while all have sent avatars to aid their sides, only Blastopopulous and The Sun God have actually taken to the battlefield in person.Although their genders aren’t confirmed IIRC, among these dark gods are:
- Bloonarius: The god of swamps, loyalty and the lesser Bloons that the MOABs make, master of the water and said to have been the creator of the first Bloons. Bloonarius used to get along with The Sun God, but they had a falling out a long time ago. Among the pantheon, Bloonarius has always been their leader.
- Vortex: God of the air, storms and uncertainty, where Bloonarius made the first Bloons, Vortex taught them to fly. A scout and messenger, Vortex is brash at most times to cover up the fact that their judgement can be clouded by their Bipolar Disorder.
- Blastopopulous: God of wrath, flames and passion, Blastopopulous was among the first of the Bloon Gods to head directly into battle and as of yet the only such god to use their true form in the war. Blastopopulous brought their might to bear against Monkey City, leading to a battle that lasted around a year. However, by the end the city and every single inhabitant who didn’t evacuate in time was dead, although Blastopopulous had also fallen when the cities heroic mayor desperately strapped all their remaining explosives into a fly fortress and flew it into Blastopopulous’s exposed core, killing them both.
- Lych: God of death and ruler of the underworld, the Bloons claim that it was Lych who first invented necromancy, only for the Monkeys to steal it through trickery. Lych, oddly enough, is rumoured to have been the lover of The Sun God and hide a soft spot for him even to this day.
- Dreadbloon: God of soldiers, endurance and adaptability, when predators (yes, these things have predators!) threatened the first Bloons, Dreadbloon took pity on them and hardened their drones armour, misunderstanding their complaints. When The Sun God explained what they actually *wanted*, Dreadbloon is said to have laughed (or the Bloon equivalent thereof) heartily and helped make the first soldiers.
- Phayze: just what Phayze is is entirely uncertain, their true motivations, goal and origin is a mystery. However, ever since Phayze arrival, they’ve been slowly manipulating gods and mortals alike to create and escalate the war. As of now, none of the other Bloon Gods suspect Phayze’s fins, but none of them exactly trust Phayze either. Their motivation could be the death of the other gods so as to claim the throne, softening both sides up for an interdimensional invasion or linked somehow to the DDTs, I’ll need more time to figure this one out.
