Ice cream characters

Ice cream characters
Overview
Gender	Various
Species	Ice cream
Faction	Unspecified
Health	1 hit
Level(s)	All
Status	Alive, eating fruit
Game(s)	Bad Ice-Cream series, Super Stock Take, Leap Day

The ice cream characters are the main characters of the Bad Ice-Cream series.

Appearance

Shaped like a swirled scoop monstrous of ice cream, the ice cream characters are made of three layers that lessen in length towards the top. Their facial features are two thick, brown eyebrows, thin black slits for eyes and a mouth spanning the distance between their eyes. Two tiny feet stick out from under the ice cream characters for walking.

Depending on the player's choice in the game's menu, they may be brown, white or pink coloured, representing chocolate, vanilla and strawberry flavours. In Bad Ice Cream 2, there are three new flavours: sorbet (yellow), mint-choc-chip (green), bubble gum (blue). These characters were later added to the original Bad Ice-Cream.

Game information

Throughout the games, the ice cream characters must collect all the fruit present in each level in order to progress. They possess the ability of blowing out cold air to create rows of ice blocks and smash a row of them when put together on the same line, usually used for defense against enemies within a level. Contact with an enemy causes an ice cream character to fall backwards and melt into a puddle.

Spoiler
The game concludes with the ice cream characters happily residing on ice cream cones, with fruit below them and confetti falling from the sky. The story behind the levels leading up to Bad Ice-Cream's ending is unknown.

Bad Ice-Cream 3 flavors

On December 15 2013, Nitrome announced a new flavour of ice cream; Licorice. They also released a preview image of the new female ice cream character. Nitrome also stated on December 17 2013, that there would be a smokey bacon flavour. 

The preview image

Another preview image

Other appearances

• Super Stock Take - At the bottom of the right shelf in the background of Super Stock Take is a box with an ice cream character on it.
• Ice Temple skin - The three original ice cream characters appear. A chocolate ice cream is watching the strawberry ice cream blowing ice and the vainilla ice cream squished by a Steamlands tank.
• Icebreaker skin - A vanilla ice cream character appears standing on an ice block. A bubble gum ice cream character appears blowing ice onto a Viking.
• Avalanche skin - A vanilla ice cream appears running away from an avalanche.
• Bad Iceberg skin - A vanilla ice cream appears to be giant in order to crash everything in the skin.
• December 24 2012 Friday update - A vanilla ice cream is seen kicking Cuboy.
• Leap Day -
  Spoiler

  Vanilla and Strawberry make a cameo appearance in Whip's second Selfie.
• HTML5 games announcement - A strawberry and a vanilla ice cream are used in all of the advertisements for the HTML5 games, as Bad Ice-Cream was the first game to be ported to HTML5.

The ice cream character in Super Stock Take

The ice cream characters in the Ice Temple skin

The ice cream characters in the Icebreaker skin

The vanilla ice cream in the Avalanche skin

The vanilla ice cream in the Bad Icebreg skin

The strawberry ice cream in an advertisement for Nitrome as seen in Icebreaker A Viking Voyage

The vanilla ice cream is seen kicking Cuboy in the December 24 2012 Friday update

Smokey Bacon in a Christmas blog post alongside Cuboy, Stretchy dog, Takeshi, Zapo, Dirk Valentine and the Nitrome Boss

Strawberry and vanilla in the mobile slider image for the HTML5 games release

Spoiler
The vanilla and strawberry ice cream characters in Whip's second selfie pose

Gallery

All images are found throughout the Bad Ice-Cream series unless specified.

The three ice cream flavours as they appear on the character selection screen in Bad Ice-Cream

The strawberry ice cream character being selected in Bad Ice-Cream

An ice cream character blowing out ice from the front

An ice cream character inhaling air to blow ice

An ice cream character exhaling air to blow ice

A melted bubble gum ice cream character

Portraits

Vanilla in the Bad Ice Cream series

Strawberry in the Bad Ice Cream series

Chocolate in the Bad Ice Cream series

Sorbet in the Bad Ice Cream series

Mint choc-chip in the Bad Ice Cream series

Bubble gum in the Bad Ice Cream series

Licorice in the Bad Ice Cream series

Smokey Bacon in the Bad Ice Cream series

Trivia

• When playing in multiplayer mode, the two ice cream characters cannot pass each other on the same line.
• The ice cream characters may be based off Pac-Man.
  • They are also based on Goombas because of their appearance and how they're armless.
• The strawberry, mint-choc-chip, and smokey bacon ice cream characters are the only ones to have orange lips, the rest have pink lips.
• There are two ice cream characters who are females, sorbet and licorice. The rest are males.
• Initially the smokey bacon flavour started out as a joke, but with some research to prove the flavour's existence, it became a real flavour.
• In Leap Day, the character Whip bears a resemblance to the ice cream characters. Also, there is a character in the audience for this game and Super Leap Day who also resembles an ice cream character.