Kidball
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| First appearance | 38: Apple Jacks |
| Appearances | 34 |
- 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[edit]
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[edit]
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 perhaps 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.
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