Bread

"Why are you pushing me to say something negative?"

-Bread, Forged Together

Bread is one of the competitors in Object Invasion. He first competed on the Steaming Sandstorms of Rage, but is currently competing on the Winning Whales as of Episode 7, as its self-imposed team captain.

Appearance
Bread resembles a short classic baguette which is horizontally orientated.

Pre-Episode 1 (Early Development)
Bread exhibited three humps and a rather plastic tone. The bottom of his body was not flat: it was curved slightly upward on either side. There was a thin shadow on his right side, as well as smaller shadows between his humps. The color of his body was a brownish dijon. The asset made in early development was fashioned using the Scratch 2.0 art engine.

Episodes 1-2

Bread's asset was simplified even further than the previous one. The bottom of his body was changed to be almost completely flat, but still curved upward on either side—albeit the curves were nearly indiscernible. He still exhibited three humps, although they were flattened considerably as opposed to before. The small shadows between his humps were eliminated, as was the thin shadow on his right side. These shadows were replaced by a single shadow (much lighter in tone) encompassing nearly the entirety of his left side. There was also a highlight, which was very difficult to spot, on his right side. Bread's color, which was previously a brownish dijon, was brightened slightly. This asset, along with all of the following versions, was not created in the Scratch 2.0 art engine.

Episode 3

Bread's asset went in the opposite direction of simplification: at the time of Episode 3, his asset featured irregular shapes of the three humps, four cracks along the top, and four also irregularly shaped humps on bottom. The single shadow was repurposed to cover the lower section of Bread's asset rather than one side; the new shadow maintained the incongruous shapes of the four humps below it. Bread's body at this time could be described as being narrower than before. His color is (to the naked eye) the same as the previous asset—however, the base color was changed to a slight gradient. The old highlight on his right side was removed.

Episode 4

Bread was arguably simplified once again, except, at the time of Episode 4, he gained an extra hump on top. The shapes of the humps, both on top and on bottom, were changed to be mostly consistent in shape. Each hump on top was allotted its own crack, which was placed in nearly the exact middle. The single shadow on bottom was changed to reflect the consistent shape of the lower humps. Additionally, the shadow curved upward to cover a small portion of Bread's left side. Bread's color was still mostly the same, although it was darkened slightly, mirroring the early-development asset. The outline of his asset was also decreased in thickness.

Episode 5

Bread's length was shortened. The humps along the bottom of his body were smoothed out, to the point of being reduced to only two perceivable humps. Bread's shadow was changed to conform to this. Once again, his color was brightened—returning to the color cast of the Episode 1, 2, and 3 assets. The outline of his asset was reverted back to its original thickness before Episode 4's asset.

Episode 6

Bread's asset underwent nearly imperceptible changes: the thickness of his outline was increased, the color of his outline was darkened, and his body was made slightly narrower.

Episode 7

Bread's body was both shortened and stretched out vertically, which effectively made the smoothed-out humps on the bottom of his asset appear even smoother and more polished. He also underwent massive color changes: all of his colors took on a slight gray cast, possibly because of saturation. What resulted was a brownish-flaxen color.

Beta-Late Episode 8

Bread's asset may have undergone very slight changes in length, but the changes are nigh indistinguishable. Yet again, the color cast was overhauled; his color palette took on a redder and darker tone (his base color was redder, while his outline was darker). Thus, his color was changed to a brownish gold. While not undergoing any perceptible shape changes, Bread's asset was yet again revamped in the color department. Red was removed from his base color, and instead was added to his shadow and outline. In general, the entirety of his asset was brightened significantly. His color was, at this point, a brownish butterscotch.

Early-Late Episode 9

The humps on the bottom of Bread's asset were finally removed. The bottom of his asset is now flat—completely flat, for the first time. His base color and his shadow were brightened, resulting in his current color being a brownish canary.

Personality
Early on, Bread was shown to be sarcastic, as well as victimized by Lamp. As the show progressed, his true personality emerged: he is intelligent, logical, irritable, and contemptuous. Usually, the incompetence and lack of logic shown by others is what annoys him the most. Additionally, he dislikes being proven wrong or being countervailed. Recently, however, Bread has shown self-control with his irritability, such as shrugging it off when Grapefruit accidentally brained him with a stack of metal sheets.

Overall, Bread's personality has been rather erratic. In Episode 1, he was victimized. In Episode 2, he was sarcastic. In episode 3, he was considerate and irritable. In episode 4, he was resourceful. In episode 5, he received a hugely greater amount of screen time than before, and was irritable and pragmatic. In episode 6, he was irritable and pragmatic again. In episode 7, he became a self-imposed team captain and was irritable and pragmatic once again. But in episode 8, he was no longer irritable—however, he was still pragmatic, and was also a sore loser. Arguably, he was resourceful as well.

It could be possible that Bread used sarcasm as a coping mechanism to deal with Lamp while his archenemy was still present in the game. Around the time Lamp was eliminated, Bread stopped using sarcasm. It is also possible that Bread used Lamp's elimination as a stepping stone to improve as a person, as he developed qualities of leadership and eventually, in Episode 8, learned to repress his irritability.

Additionally, it is also possible that Bread, who has been shown to think of efficient plans within very small periods of time, is significantly more intelligent than the other contestants. Most of his pragmatic comments are based around a realistic approach to things, and Bread (usually) never does anything spontaneously. Possibly, he believes that he is intellectually superior to others, which causes him to become a self-imposed team captain. Additionally, this belief would explain his irritability. In Episode 8, Bread expressed anger at being beaten by another team, which implies that he did not expect a product of his own ingenuity to be overcome by a product of another's. Interestingly, he developed this belief of his superior intelligence (for the most part) after Lamp was eliminated. This insinuates that before Lamp's elimination Bread was too insecure to consider himself smarter than others, and that he became secure enough with Lamp's absence to do so. Essentially, there was both a positive and negative change in Bread's character (security and vain superiority respectively) resulting from Lamp's elimination.

All in all, Bread's personality has (for the most part) undergone a positive change over the course of the show—so far, anyway. He began as sarcastic and became pragmatic and actually resourceful.

Coverage
In Blending the Consequences, Lamp calls for Bread's attention. Bread is clearly annoyed in his response, but obeys Lamp's command to stand by a lake out of what seems to be fear. Once he arrives by the lake, he is kicked by Lamp, sent flying into the lake itself. It is unclear whether he drowns. Later, Bread stands idly while Dollar, Skittle, and WAW discuss ideas for the challenge. However, he comes to life when OJ brutally punches Skittle. At first aghast, then enraged, he expresses his angry disapproval of OJ's actions. Soon after, Bread assumes a disdainful pose on the "Vote On Which Contestant to Be Eliminated" screen. In this episode, Bread is up for elimination. He does not have immunity.

In Don't Strike, Spare My Life, Bread expresses his happiness at his low number of dislikes. Bread is standing near iPad while he says, "We're gonna miss him OJ." Bread denies this, saying, "I'm not!" iPad doesn't react. In the Episode 2 Deleted Scenes, it is shown that Bread got a strike. Bread receives 4 likes at the elimination, placing him fifth out of eleven (5/11) for the most likes. Bread receives 2 dislikes at the elimination, placing him in a four-way tie for the second-lowest disliked out of eleven (2/11). He ties with Grapefruit, Elastic Band, and WAW.

In Chilled to the Bone, Bread explains that Pool's body is decomposing, after Button expresses horror at Pool's leg popping off. He goes on to briefly explain more about bodily decomposition. Bread also says that he never remembers Pool being alive. When Lego arrives, and expresses even more horror than Button, Bread states that Pool is decaying. After Lego beats himself up over his belief that he doesn't pay enough attention to his team members, Bread seems concerned. Later in the episode, Bread expresses his disapproval of iPad's technological incompetence, rhetorically asking, "Why did we join this guy's show?" Bread is teleported to a giant wooden stair-like structure, which is probably a bleacher. His expression is that of general disapproval. During the challenge, Bread watches the racers take off, his expression still of general disapproval. Bread assumes a harshly disapproving pose on the "VOTE SOMEONE TO BE ELIMINATED" screen. In this episode, Bread is up for elimination. He does not have immunity.

In Never the Same, The exact amount of votes Bread received isn't shown, but he got the second least amount of votes on the team next to Dollar. When Ethan gets arrested, iPad asks what just happened. Bread says Ethan got arrested, followed by Lamp being sarcastic and telling him he went to a magical land. Bread asks him to die. When trying to think of a strategy to find Cup and Phone, Bread suggests to waiting to see what the other team does, follow them, and try to snatch them back. Dollar agrees to go through with his idea. When the SSORs are running through the sewers, Bread gets carried by Jelly Bean.

In Snow More Puns, Lamp announces that with Dollar being dead, he should be the new team captain. Bread asks why he should be the team captain and tells him not to be like OJ. Lamp tries insulting him saying that he stinks, which Bread replies to by asking what sort of insult that was and if he was in kindergarten. He then gets annoyed at Lamp's idea of not putting windows in their snow fort, and explains how they won't see anything and the fort will be easily destroyed. Lamp ignores the criticism and they go through with his plan. During the snowball fight, the SSOR's fort starts to collapse and Lamp gets worried, Bread sarcastically calls him a fearless leader. Having enough of his insults, Lamp throws Bread at the opposing team's fort. When their fort eventually collapses, Bread tells Lamp that he told him he would lose. Because they lost the snowball fight, Bread and his team is once again up for elimination. When the revived Dollar is informed his team lost, Bread blames Lamp, who kicks him into the lake again.

In The Crate Outdoors, Bread is safe from elimination again, this time at the bottom four with 77 votes. He is happy when Lamp is eliminated, smirking at him before he's eliminated and also telling Jelly Bean how happy he is that he was gone. Jelly Bean then asks what he'll do now, since all he's done is complain about him. Bread tells her that the team will only do better and that Lamp was just a hindrance. When deciding on who's pushing the crates, Dollar assigns Bread to push a crate with W.A.W. When trying to think of the armless contestants will cross the gap, Dollar suggests Bread and Grapefruit holding onto his legs while he swung across. However, they both think this is disgusting and Grapefruit instead of wrapping their legs around his like a pretzel. Bread tells Dollar that his idea was better. After pushing the crate to the end, Bread remarks on how surprisingly easy it was.

In Evade from the Crowd, When iPad announces that the two teams will be splitting into three and that you couldn't switch teams, Bread seems annoyed. When his new team tries to think of a team name, they come up with the Winning Whales. Bread shows annoyance, saying he doesn't want to be associated with a massive fish. Glasses corrects him, saying that whales are mammals, but this gets him to glare at him. When the team tries to figure out where Ethan went, Pool suggests the forest due to being uncivilized, but Bread says that he would have to worry about the contestants finding him and that he could sneak around the areas. They instead go into the sewers, and Elastic Band complains about the smell. Bread tells them to calm down, but Glasses says that it was too dark. Bread realizes they forgot to bring flashlights and starts to curse. Later on, Glasses spots Phone and Cup and warns the team about them, but when they look, the two disappear. Bread scolds Glasses for startling them. The Winning Whales are later seen in the sewers (with flashlights this time) and bump into Dollar and Jelly Bean. Bread asks what they were doing there before his attention is brought to the Aquatic Avocados running past them with Ethan. Bread orders his team to try to get Ethan back (although this was in Grapefruit's voice so it may have not been intended to be him), but despite their efforts, the Winning Whales lose the challenge along with the Dreaming Dragons and are up for elimination. Bread receives no votes at the elimination.