- Needle is the first contestant to use a Win Token, using it in “Bridge Crossing”.
- Needle was the first contestant to receive a 2 digit number of votes, in BFDI 7.
- Needle and Golf Ball’s eliminations are very similar.
- Both used their Win Tokens but were still eliminated.
- Both characters had 12 votes which were brought down to 6.
- Coiny having 5 votes in both Cake at Stake ceremonies were what prevented both characters from being safe.
- Needle is the lowest ranking member of the Grapes, as Flower rejoined the game.
- Needle, along with Woody and Pin, are the only contestants to have had a chance at returning three different times in Season 1, yet never return to the game.
- She was also the only Squashy Grape member to have the chance to rejoin three times but never rejoined.
- Needle is the only eliminated contestant in BFDI who was never sent to the TLC via lasers, as she flew herself to the TLC.Needle came in 6th place out of the original contestants in Season 2 voting.
- Needle is the first contestant who has been up for elimination twice in a row in BFDIA.
- This is because she switched to W.O.A.H. Bunch in “Insectophobe’s Nightmare 3” and her team lost for the 2nd time.
- As of “Get in the Van”, Needle has surpassed her BFDI rank by placing higher than 19th.
- She’s the only contestant to have been in all 3 of the main teams at least once in BFDIA.
- Needle has gone from being the lowest ranking Squashy Grape female in BFDI to the highest in BFDIA.
- Needle has competed on almost every permanent team this season, with the sole exceptions of ‘solo’ teams such as Fries and Nickel.
- Because of this, Needle holds the record for competing on the most teams, at 8.
- Counting temporary teams, she’s been on a total of 15 teams.
- Because of this, Needle holds the record for competing on the most teams, at 8.
- Needle is the first contestant who has been on two teams at once, playing for both W.O.A.H. Bunch and FreeSmart in “Respect to the Wicked”.
- With both teams losing in that episode, Needle is also the first contestant to be up for elimination as two separate contestants, even though she is just one.
- Needle holds the record for the most combined likes and dislikes received in a single episode at 93,831 votes in total in “Start the Shift”.
- This is due entirely to the fact that she was up for voting as two separate contestants, giving her twice as many votes.
- As of The Power of Four, her BFDIA counterpart is the only competing contestant voiced by Kenzie Bryant.
- Needle finally reached her first and only merge in “Airplanes in the Night Sky”.
- Prior to Say Hijack, Needle was the highest ranking contestant who never won a prize.
- She’s also the highest ranking contestant who isn’t voiced by the Huang Twins.
- As of Say Hijack, out of all the season 1 contestants who competed in BFDIA, Needle holds the largest placement increase between BFDI and BFDIA, rising from 19th to 2nd.
- Needle is the highest placing season one veteran in BFDIA
- Also as of Say Hijack, Needle is the only BFDIA contestant to have survived more than two bottom twos. All other characters who were bottom two more than twice, Spongy, Golf Ball, Pencil, Fries, Pin, Coiny, and Tennis Ball, were eliminated on their third bottom two.
- Specifically, she survived Start the Shift against Pencil (on FreeSmart), Airplanes in the Night Sky against Nickel, Shattered! against Coiny, and Say Hijack against Tennis Ball, a total of four survived bottom twos.
- Also of Say Hijack Needle has the most elimination votes given to the least voted contestant in one Cake at Stake with 36,198 dislikes.
- As of right now Needle has the most prize votes in total in BFDIA currently having 416,528 likes
- Throughout BFB 11 to 15, Needle is the direct cause of her team winning.Needle is one of the lowest ranking members of The Losers!, as Loser rejoined the game.
- This makes Needle one of the three contestants to be the lowest ranking member of more than one team, along with Dora and Spongy.
- Needle is one of the five contestants who technically ranked better in BFB, despite quitting, than in a previous season due to the 40 way tie for 16th place. In Needle’s case, this beats her 19th place in BFDI. The others are Pin, Golf Ball, Donut, and Puffball.Needle is one of the eight contestants that have been competed in the most seasons of BFDI, at 5. The others are Rocky, Pin, Coiny, Ice Cube, Golf Ball, Tennis Ball, and Pencil.
- As of her joining the same team as Donut in TPOT, Needle is the third contestant to compete on the same team with every BFDIA contestant at least once, along with Bomby, Spongy, Yellow Face, Golf Ball, and Pencil.
- Needle was always the 5th safe when Team8s was up for voting.
- Needle and Pin are the only former members of The Losers competing on TPOT to not be the second person eliminated from their team.
- Needle’s safety got progressively worse by one spot with every TPOT Cake at Stake she was in, as she went from the bottom three, to the bottom 2, to being eliminated.
- With Needle eliminated in “Category One”, she is the lowest ranking member of
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- This is the third team to have Needle be the lowest ranking member, tying her with Spongy for having this happen the most times.
- This is the first time where Needle being the lowest ranking member is due to her actually getting voted off first. In the first two instances, Needle’s rank only fell due to Flower rejoining for the Squashy Grapes and Loser rejoining for The Losers!
- In “Insectophobe’s Nightmare 6”, Purple Face called Needle “Needy Head” without getting slapped by her, marking the first time in series history (if you exclude the events of “BFDI is Back/“BFDI is Snack”) that Needle didn’t slap someone who called her by her nickname.Needle was the 17th character made in BFDI.
- Needle was first created on July 20th, 2009.[3]
- She is known for slapping anyone who calls her “Needy”, but it is unknown why Needle hates being called that.
- Before being sent to the Tiny Loser Chamber, she tried to explain why she didn’t like being called “Needy”, but the Announcer threw her out to the TLC.
- It is possible that Needle hates being called “Needy” because needy can either mean “poor” or “demanding”.
- It could also be that she is being confused with Needy, however they have not yet interacted.
- In “All for One”, she actually called herself “Needy” around 19 minutes and 3 seconds in before getting slapped by Pin, Loser, Coiny, Firey, Clock, and Eggy, all of which responded by saying, “Don’t call you ‘Needy.’”
- She wasn’t called “Needy” once in BFB.
- As seen in “The Glistening”, she doesn’t get angry if she’s called “Needley”.
- The catchphrase “Aw, seriously?” was originally owned by Needle, up until David’s entrance in “Reveal Novum”. She has said the aforementioned phrase most out of any character, excluding David.
- Needle has the most voice actors out of any character, having five, and this is confirmed by the Official Character Guide.
- The Official Character Guide also confirms that Needle’s second voice actor is different than her other voice actors.
- In addition, Needle is the only OG contestant (alongside Ice Cube) to not still be voiced by Michael or Cary. It may be likely that the reason for this is due to Cary hitting puberty and not being able to still do Needle’s voice, which is why from episodes 1-4 of BFDIA, Needle’s dialogue is only recycled lines.
- The Official Character Guide also confirms that Needle’s second voice actor is different than her other voice actors.
- Discounting contestants with stick bodies, Needle is the thinnest contestant after Lollipop.
- In “Insectophobe’s Nightmare 3”, when Needle is sweating as Coiny threatens to call her “Needy” 3 times in a row, her sweat is Teardrop’s asset.
- Needle has the same sideways idle throughout the BFDI to BFB intros.
- In the TPOT intro, she is given a slightly different pose.
- Needle’s name was never directly mentioned in BFB until “Get to the Top in 500 Steps”.
- In “The Four is Lava”, it is revealed that Needle is lava proof.
- Needle is the only contestant who didn’t get an updated asset during BFDI 24-BFDIA.
- Needle turned into CGI in BFB 11 and didn’t revert back until TPOT 2, meaning that Needle has been in her CGI form for approximately 4 years.
- She is technically the only contestant to have 3 eyes due to being a needle, which has an eye (hole) on the top.
- Needle is the 4th left-handed character, with the others being Lollipop, Pie, and Pillow.
- A community post from jacknjellify’s YouTube channel has confirmed Needle is apparently “adopted”.
- Needle is usually seen facing the side.
- Discy, a failed TPOT joiner also is seen facing the side, however, unlike Needle, Discy is designed to face the side, since both of their eyes are on two different sides on their body.
- Before her elimination in “Puzzling Mysteries,” Needle had slapped 13 times.
- Counting temporary teams, Needle has been on the most teams of any BFDI contestant. She has been on a total of 12 teams, those being:
- In BFDI:
- Squashy Grapes
- Trio with Coiny and Ice Cube
- In BFDIA:
- Team No-Name
- WOAH Bunch
- The Beautiful Face Devotion Institute
- Freesmart
- Duo with Pencil
- The Quasi-Rhombicosidodecahedrons
- Friesmart
- Top Dogs
- The Contract
- Freesmart Final Four Friendos (FSFFF)
- In BFB:
- The Losers!
- In TPOT:
- Team8s
- In BFDI:
- Needle is featured on the annual Trans Day of Visibility posts alongside Book, Bottle, Bracelety, Cake, Cloudy, Donut, Eggy, Firey, Flower, Fries, Gaty, Golf Ball, Lightning, Marker, Pen, Pie, Pin, Price Tag, Profily, Remote, Saw, Teardrop, TV, and Winner.[4]
- If FreeSmart Needle got the most dislikes in “Start the Shift” she would have been eliminated, as confirmed in a meetup QnA.
- As of Say Hijack Needle holds the most elimination votes with 153,060 being the only character to have over 150,000 elimination votes.
- Needle won her first, and the last prize of BFDIA.
- In “She Deserves This", Needle claims she is made out of silver. Coincidentally, she placed 2nd in BFDIA which the 2nd place’s color is silver.
- and yes I did do this because needle is my favourite character
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