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“	Arnold: Villainy is a dog-eat-dog world, little boy. You gotta be cutthroat to survive! That's why every moron stays a minion, and the people with any REAL value move up! Bugsy: That's how it is all the way to the Tippy-top of the pyramid scheme!	”
—"Redwood Run"

The Banzai Blasters are an infamous criminal organization in Sweet Jazz City that runs on a pyramid scheme. It primarily appeals to teenage delinquents and disenfranchised divorcees.^[2]

History

Past

Sometime after the organization's founding, low-ranking Banzai Blasters and Captains became notorious for small and petty crime. Eventually, the Sweet Jazz Police began to ignore them, viewing any time to deal with the ruffians as not worth it.^[2]

One day, a group of Banzai Blasters found a family who had dug up a golden box. They stole the box and than shot the parents, leaving their daughter unharmed but orphaned.^[3]

Bugsy Pugsler and Arnold Markdown joined the Banzai Blasters. Both managed to be promoted to Banzai Vice Principals.^[4]

Dark Star, Car Crash, Crusher, Ben, Flamethrower, and Spike joined the Banzai Blasters and became apart of a leaderless Banzai team.^[2]

Giovanni Potage joined the Banzai Blasters and was assigned to the leaderless team with the aforementioned six blasters. He was initially mocked by his teammates for bringing creampuffs to their first meeting. However, Giovanni unofficially led several of their missions, including replacing a gas station's hot dogs with cattails and stealing miscellaneous items to present at team-based show-and-tells. The rest of the team warmed up to him, causing Dark Star to unintentionally give him the nickname "Boss" from the team following his ideas. The name stuck within the group.^[2] Giovanni was eventually promoted to Banzai Captain.^[5]

"Museum Arc"

to be added

"Western Arc"

to be added

Prison of Plastic

After leaving the Banzai Blasters after the end of the Western Arc, Giovanni Potage held a meeting in Crusher's Treehouse, where the two of them and the rest of Giovanni's Team decided to leave the Banzai Blasters and create their own organization.^[2]

Ranks

Banzai Blaster

Banzai “Blaster” is the lowest rank that someone can be in the organization. At first, a blaster is a generic grunt in the generic Banzai Blaster uniform (As seen by Ben). Once a blaster has done something cool enough to make them stand out, they get a nickname and they are allowed to customize their costume a little bit (as seen by Car Crash).^[6]^[7] Anyone who wants to become a blaster has to pay $49.99 a month (plus tax).^[8] However, they would only start caring enough to come after you if you stopped paying at higher levels.^[9]

Banzai Captain

Banzai Captains, like Giovanni Potage, get to lead missions and get to add one big accessory to their outfit, along with a few other subtle changes. Giovanni, for example, added a cape.^[6]

Banzai Vice Principal

Being a Banzai Vice-Principal gives you multiple benefits such as even more customization options and silly cartoon gloves (as seen by Arnold & Bugsy). Vice Principals come in pairs but only one of them is ever able to rank up. This is apparently done to encourage infighting.^[10]

Banzai Associate Justice

TBA

Banzai Valedictorian

TBA

Banzai Senpai

TBA

Banzai Baron

The Banzai Baron is the supposed leader of the Banzai Blasters.^[11]

Members

Valedictorians

DC Bell

Vice Principals

Blasters

Mohawk BB
Female BB

Female BB
Motton Chop BB
Jenny/Banzai Red
Niffer/Banzai Green
Jen/Banzai Yellow

Bugsy's Flunky
4 other unnamed Banzai Blasters
DC Bell's Banzai Team

Former Members

Captains

Giovanni Potage

Giovanni Potage

Blasters

Equipment

Uniform: to be added
Peashooter: to be added
Manual: There is a Banzai Blaster Manual that lists Ramsey Murdoch as a contact for appraisal.^[4]

Merch

Doll

A Banzai Blaster doll was sold on Makeship.com.^[12]
- They sold out/ended on October 16. 2020.^[12]
These Dolls appeared in HEIST NIGHT.^[13]

Hoodie

Because the Prison of Plastic Kickstarter reached the $310K stretch goal, the backers got to vote to make either a Molly or Banzai Blaster Hoodie. The Molly hoodie won the poll and the Banzai Blaster Hoodie was never produced.
Both Hoodies would have been produced at the $375K stretch goal, but it wasn't reached in time.

Trivia

The "W"s on the Banzai Blasters' uniforms are actually confirmed to be sideways "B"s for Banzai^[14].
Three of the Banzai Blasters are a Heathers reference^[15].
- Since all three of them are named Jennifer, the crew goes with their nicknames Jenny, Jen and Niffer respectively.^[16]
- JelloApocalypse said that the blonde Jennifer is his favorite, despite the fact that she "absolutely doesn't matter and doesn't have a name"^[17].
The Banzai Blasters were heavily influenced by Team Rocket and Giovanni's pink hair was inspired by the team's grunts having pink hair^[18].
- The Banzai Blasters were also named after the Bushido Blasters from Girlchan in Paradise!!.
If one of Giovanni's boys mentioned that they didn’t like being called a "Boy" he’d stop, but to him "MY BOYS" is a gender-neutral term, hence why he calls Molly and Spike boys.^[19]
Jello imagines that the Banzai Blasters have a small unit who goes around and shakes down members for late fees, but that probably only happens if you’re at Captain rank or higher.^[9]
There are so many low-ranking Banzai Blasters that Jello doesn’t really think they care if they stop paying and fall off the map.^[20]
People solely join this organization because they are idiots.^[21]
The higher the rank, the nastier and more dangerous a Banzai member is.^[22]
If the Banzai Blasters were a group of villains from a Pokémon game, they would use Falinks as the grunts' main Pokémon. ^[23]
Jello stated that male Banzai Blasters uses the generic model of Ben.^[24]
Molly was an unofficial member, since she joined Giovanni's team. Although since Giovanni left the Banzai Blasters this no longer applies.
In general, the organization is not environmentally conscious.^[25]

Adaption from Anime Campaign

In the original Anime Campaign, they are called Bushido Blasters. In Epithet Erased, they are called Banzai Blasters.^[26]

Gallery

Main Article: Banzai Blasters/Gallery

References

[EP5-1] Epithet Erased | EP5 - Redwood Run

[PoPProB-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 Prison of Plastic, Prologue B: The Banzai Blasters

[3] Great at Cowboy Extended

[:1-4] 4.0 ^4.1 Epithet Erased | EP5 - Redwood Run

[EP1-5] Epithet Erased | EP1 - Quiet in the Museum!

[:2-6] 6.0 ^6.1 Epithet Erased on Tumblr in reply to aikeji - November 29, 2023

[7] Baszai Blasters Trivia 1

[8] Epithet Erased | EP2 - Bear Trap

[:3-9] 9.0 ^9.1 Ask:what happens when a banzai blaster doesn’t have... - JelloApocalypse - December 25, 2019

[10] Bugsy Trivia 1

[11] Arnold Trivia 1

[:0-12] 12.0 ^12.1 https://www.makeship.com/products/banzi-blaster-doll

[13] HEIST NIGHT

[14] ttps://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/189394251227/heya-i-wanted-to-ask-what-the-w-on-giovannis

[15] ttps://twitter.com/BrendanBlaber/status/1190431683247521792

[16] ttps://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/190198786622/bowblasters-welcome-to-the-ee-heathers-tumblr

[17] ttps://twitter.com/brendanblaber/status/1201728583271665669

[18] ttps://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/189376659342/im-going-to-ask-the-obvious-question-did-you-get

[19] ttps://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/189851198967/ah-just-read-your-lgbt-answersthank-you-for

[20] ttps://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/189866450537/what-happens-when-a-banzai-blaster-doesnt-have

[21] ttps://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/190084833687/if-the-banzai-blasters-are-so-obviously-a-pyramid

[22] ttps://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/190091391507/are-there-any-actual-criminal-masterminds-or

[23] ttps://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/190088599072/if-the-banzai-blasters-were-a-bad-guy-team-in-a

[24] ttps://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/613322520839487488/hi-sorry-if-anyone-has-already-asked-about-this

[25] Writing "Epithet Erased" Songs - Great at Crime

[26] Anime Campaign EP1 - (Official Upload)

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@@ Line 53: / Line 53: @@
 ==Members==
-===Banzai Vice Principals===
+===Valedictorians===
+<gallery>
+File:D.C. Bell.png|[[DC Bell]]
+</gallery>
+===Vice Principals===
 <gallery>
 File:Bugsy map icon.png|[[Bugsy Pugsler]]
@@ Line 59: / Line 65: @@
 </gallery>
-===Banzai Blasters===
+===Blasters===
-{{Expand}}
+<gallery>
+Mohawk BB Infobox.png|Mohawk BB
-====Jen, Jenny, and Niffer====
+Ben2.png|Female BB
-{{Rewrite}}
+Mutton Chop BB Infobox.png|Motton Chop BB
-Three female Banzai Blasters, based off the Heathers from the film and musical of the same name. Jello states their names in the [[Winner Take All|Episode Seven]] commentary.
+Jenny map icon.png|Jenny/Banzai Red
+Niffer map icon.png|Niffer/Banzai Green
+Jen map icon.png|Jen/Banzai Yellow
+</gallery>
+* Bugsy's Flunky
+* 4 other unnamed Banzai Blasters
+* [[DC Bell's Banzai Team]]
-=== Former Members ===
+===Former Members===
-==== Captains ====
+====Captains====
 <gallery>
 File:Giovanni map icon.JPG|[[Giovanni Potage]]
 </gallery>
-==== Blasters ====
+====Blasters====
 <gallery>
 File:Flamethrower map icon.png|[[Flamethrower]]
@@ Line 85: / Line 97: @@
 ==Equipment==
 *'''Uniform''': ''to be added''
-*'''Peashooter''': ''to be added''
+* '''Peashooter''': ''to be added''
 *'''Manual''': There is a Banzai Blaster Manual that lists [[Ramsey Murdoch]] as a contact for appraisal.<ref name=":1">[[Epithet Erased]] | [[Redwood Run|EP5 - Redwood Run]]</ref>
@@ Line 101: / Line 113: @@
 *The "W"s on the Banzai Blasters' uniforms are actually confirmed to be sideways "B"s for Banzai<ref>https://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/189394251227/heya-i-wanted-to-ask-what-the-w-on-giovannis</ref>.
 *Three of the Banzai Blasters are a ''Heathers'' reference<ref>https://twitter.com/BrendanBlaber/status/1190431683247521792</ref>.
 **Since all three of them are named Jennifer, the crew goes with their nicknames Jenny, Jen and Niffer respectively.<ref>https://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/190198786622/bowblasters-welcome-to-the-ee-heathers-tumblr</ref>
-**[[Brendan Blaber|JelloApocalypse]] said that the blonde Jennifer is his favorite, despite the fact that she "absolutely doesn't matter and doesn't have a name"<ref>https://twitter.com/brendanblaber/status/1201728583271665669</ref>.
+** [[Brendan Blaber|JelloApocalypse]] said that the blonde Jennifer is his favorite, despite the fact that she "absolutely doesn't matter and doesn't have a name"<ref>https://twitter.com/brendanblaber/status/1201728583271665669</ref>.
 *The Banzai Blasters were heavily influenced by [https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Team_Rocket Team Rocket] and Giovanni's pink hair was inspired by the team's grunts having pink hair<ref>https://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/189376659342/im-going-to-ask-the-obvious-question-did-you-get</ref>.
 **The Banzai Blasters were also named after the Bushido Blasters from ''Girlchan in Paradise!!''.
 *If one of Giovanni's boys mentioned that they didn’t like being called a "Boy" he’d stop, but to him "MY BOYS" is a gender-neutral term, hence why he calls Molly and Spike boys.<ref>https://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/189851198967/ah-just-read-your-lgbt-answersthank-you-for</ref>
 *Jello imagines that the Banzai Blasters have a small unit who goes around and shakes down members for late fees, but that probably only happens if you’re at Captain rank or higher.<ref name=":3" />
 *There are so many low-ranking Banzai Blasters that Jello doesn’t really think they care if they stop paying and fall off the map.<ref>https://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/189866450537/what-happens-when-a-banzai-blaster-doesnt-have</ref>
 *People solely join this organization because they are idiots.<ref>https://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/190084833687/if-the-banzai-blasters-are-so-obviously-a-pyramid</ref>
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 ===Adaption from ''Anime Campaign''===
-*In the original ''[[Anime Campaign]]'', they are called '''Bushido Blasters'''. In [[Epithet Erased|''Epithet Erased'']], they are called Banzai Blasters.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK0V6dS5gBo Anime Campaign EP1 - (Official Upload)]</ref>
+* In the original ''[[Anime Campaign]]'', they are called '''Bushido Blasters'''. In [[Epithet Erased|''Epithet Erased'']], they are called Banzai Blasters.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK0V6dS5gBo Anime Campaign EP1 - (Official Upload)]</ref>
 ==Gallery==