Gelatin (BFB 1-18)

Gelatin is a major character in Battle for Dream Island Again, a minor character in IDFB, the secondary antagonist of BFB, and a cameo character in TPOT. He is a hyper piece of jello who is one of the contestants of BFDI.

During the first half of BFB, however, he was flanderized to the point where he's outright intolerable.

Why He Deserved To Be Zapped By Four (And Was a Prick)
NOTE: This page will only be talking about how he acted like in the first half of Battle For BFDI, as he is much more likable before and after the first half of BFB.


 * 1) He got horrendously flanderized, as he went from a nice, calm, laid-back, intelligent, sane, chill, go-with-a-flow, smart, kind, and friendly contestant with occasional moments of selfishness to a more reckless, obnoxious and inconsiderate prick who has the maturity of a baby
 * 2) * He has completely lost all of his charm he had in the earlier seasons, until the second half of BFB.
 * 3) * He has been very seriously dumbed down to having the mind of a baby in this season, as he does a lot of immature, childish and infantile stuff such as playing tag with Naily, crying whenever he doesn’t get his way, laughing like a childish idiot, and doing juvenile things such as throwing forks and acting like an moron.
 * 4) * Gelatin could act selfish or immature sometimes in the earlier episodes, as he sometimes pushed off his teammates on Puffball and even mockingly called Book "well-read", but not to this extent since he had a good heart in the past seasons.
 * 5) * Making an intelligent, sane, and slightly problematic yet caring, helpful and nice friend and changing them into a troublesome, obnoxious, immature and selfish jerk is an EXTREMELY ABYSMAL IDEA! This caused so many fans to stop liking Gelatin as a whole due to his infamous flanderization changing him into an irresponsible bastard.
 * 6) He has the tendency to do terrible things, such as when he threw forks at Four.
 * 7) He is sometimes a huge jerk to his teammates, especially Donut, for example, he insulted him and called him a "party pooper" in BFB 4, which is also rude and disrespectful. He also doesn’t seem to care about how others feel.
 * 8) He has a habit of using Bomby for protection purposes in challenges, for example, he decides to use him in BFB 1 & BFB 5. Only to get an overreaction out of Donut.
 * 9) He can sometimes act like a sociopath, for example, he didn’t feel bad for Donut when he died in BFB 14, and just made a pun about him by making dark humor as well as pushed one of his teammates (Naily) off when Bomby exploded to establish some room for himself.
 * 10) He was at his absolute worst in BFB 16, where he was rude to Four, threw a tantrum when Four didn’t give him a speck of dust, made incredibly blunt comments, and generally acted obnoxious.
 * 11) He always makes bad decisions, such as when he did a cannonball in Barf Bag.
 * 12) Much like Lord Betrayus, his extreme levels of flamboyance, pettiness, incompetence, immaturity, arrogance, overreaction, hamminess, buffoonery and occasional sarcasm are generally taken to the point of being stale and irritating.
 * 13) His beatboxing skills are mediocre and can be seen as annoying too.
 * 14) He is often shoehorned in the episodes of this season compared to most of the other contestants, this is to the point where characters like Rocky, TV, Bomby and Puffball are often used in the background with no speaking lines in the episodes. Sounds familiar?
 * 15) He is one of the reasons why Donut is so irritable and cranky all the time, which makes sense considering Gelatin is quite the nuisance.
 * 16) While he's (arguably) the secondary antagonist of Battle For BFDI next to Four and to some extent, X, he is not very good at being an antagonist and comes off more as an annoying yet pathetic, incompetent and harmless nuisance than an absolute threat.
 * 17) * Likewise, while he does try to help his team, he admittingly comes off as more of a menace and hindrance than a useful helper.
 * 18) Even though Graham Taylor does a good job voicing him, it can get very annoying at times, especially in BFB 16.
 * 19) Unlike most of the other contestants, He never learns his lesson, and if he seemingly has, it gets reversed in the next episode.
 * 20) While his design is still good, it can look a bit mediocre at times and is a slight downgrade to his design in BFDIA & IDFB.
 * 21) He barely has any character development nor character arc in this season, and he seems to get worse and worse as the first half of BFB go on.
 * 22) He never listens to his teammates. For example, he will do the exact opposite of what people say to him.
 * 23) Overall, Gelatin's flanderization damaged some of his reputation as a whole, it's to the point where some consider him even worse than Four.

Good Qualities

 * 1) He was a much better character in BFDIA and IDFB and redeemed himself during the second half of BFB.
 * 2) He still cares about his teammates at times, especially in BFB 3, where he says "Team Ice Cube Goes Hard!". He also does not mean any harm to his teammates in this season despite his extremely troublesome and irresponsible behavior.
 * 3) He usually does get punished for his reckless actions, for example, Four zapped him in BFB 3, so it’s needless to say he isn’t a Karma Houdini in the slightest. He was also pushed by Flower in BFB 15 and Donut would also lash out at him often for his rude and irresponsible nature.
 * 4) Graham Taylor does a great job voicing him most of the time.
 * 5) His design is still good, despite it being a bit mediocre at times.
 * 6) He is very funny most of the time.
 * 7) * "Dark humor is the way some people cope with tragedy."
 * 8) He wasn’t as badly flanderized as Four, although that isn’t saying much.

Reception
Gelatin has proven to be one of the most polarizing and controversial characters on Battle For Dream Island since the fourth season started, with a few viewers criticizing him for his careless and reckless behavior - especially how the trouble he causes and how his antics create disasters for everyone - and for how much of a nuisance he has become. While some have disliked him as early as BFB 3 showed how much a troublemaker he has become, BFB 16 was the episode which escalated his hatedom. his Flanderization in that episode showed he has become such an obnoxious and annoying prick and nuisance that some of the viewers started to hate his character as a whole because of this.

Despite all the aforementioned criticism, however, Gelatin does have a sizeable number of fans in this season, as he has shown time to time again that he cares about people and regrets his mistakes despite his reckless, dickish and immature ways, which perverts him from being the most hated character in the season, and it's also worth noting he was better received in BFDIA, IDFB, and the second half of BFB.

Trivia

 * His birthday is on June 29, 2012, which is the same day BFDIA 1 came out.

Videos
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hR4-N8jIoc8 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wcMnh7F1QKE