Kidball

Kidball
First appearance	38: Apple Jacks
Appearances	35

For a list of comics, see Comics featuring Kidball.

Kidball is a stick figure character in xkcd. His appearance is like a Cueball, but as a child. He commonly appears in classrooms led by Miss Lenhart (or her substitute, alongside other kids like Jill.

Name

The name "Kidball" is derived from Cueball, taking the suffix of Cueball's name and adding "Kid" as a prefix. See Proposals § New Character Proposal for Kid Cueballs for more info.

Personality

Kidball somewhat lacks a distinct personality, mostly appearing as a 'filler character' for comics, perhaps with other children in classroom or play-based scenes. This is similar to their adult counterpart Cueball, which they were for a long time just conflated due to being as much a child-sized 'everyman' (or even being several such examples, in the same comic). They even used to be counted as a 'full' Cueball when used directly alongside an adult version, in situations where their obvious status as a child was set them out as most deliberately distinctive from any other character they appeared alongside. They rarely speak, with a few exceptions such as 3132: Coastline Similarity, where Kidball, not knowing about continental drift states a belief that one continent plagiarized the other.