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Taco is a female contestant on Inanimate Insanityand Inanimate Insanity IV. Taco's nonsensical behavior and tendencies made her well-liked by the viewers. This, plus her winning multiple immunities on Team Chickenlegand in the merge helped her make it to the finals. When she lost in the final challenge to OJ, she revealed her more sinister and manipulative side, fleeing after attempting to steal the cash prize. Though not as a competitor, Taco returned as the secondary antagonist of Inanimate Insanity II. She committed a few schemes in hiding, most notably working with Microphone to split the cash prize until pushing her too far. Towards the end of the season, she realized her villainous ways and intense investment in the game had cost her all her friendships, and began to seek redemption and attempted to repair the relationships she'd lost, with mixed results. She returns to competing in Inanimate Insanity IVas a member of Thematic Cats, while also continuing her journey of becoming more ethical. She is voiced by Rheagan Rizio.

Appearance

Taco is a hard-shelled taco filled with tomatoes, lettuce and refried beans. She also has a pair of arms in her shell that she can hide at any time.

From "Mine Your Own Business" to "Truth or Flare", her shell was dented after she was hit by a gemory. Her shell was fixed after dying and being recovered by MePhone4.

She has black thin limbs, two black circles use for hands and two black ovals use for the foot

Personality

At the start of the series, Taco was known for her strange and dim-witted personality, most notably for shouting random words like "sour cream" and "sprinkles", as well as spitting lemons. Unfortunately, she lost this ability causing her to lament over it for a short period of time. Taco usually appeared completely oblivious to all conflicts and remained motionless with a sideways smile on her face. Overall, Taco is a peculiar character, as she has a self-proclaimed IQ of 7, listed as having mental problems for unknown reasons by Dictionary, and has been said to speak only French and know a few bits of proper dialect, though this was eventually proven a façade later on in the show. Despite her bizarre character, Taco illustrates that she is a fierce and antagonistic competitor throughout many episodes, such as in "A Lemony Lesson", where she instantly wins for her team by spitting up dozens of lemons, and in "Inanimate Smackdown", where she dominates the wrestling challenge. Taco reveals over time many abilities that were previously unknown, such as in "Aquatic Conflict", she casually declares that she has arms, unbeknownst to her friends, such as Pickle. She also would occasionally shift into moments of impressive intelligence, such as in "Crappy Anniversary", where she analyzes her percentage of landing in the water, but immediately changes back to her old form after landing in the feces. This slow shift in Taco's character eventually leads to the grand reveal in "Journey Through Memory Lane (Part 2)", where Taco loses the competition and unravels her true identity in a fit of anger when OJ wins. Taco reveals that she merely played a role and created her stupid persona as part of a plan to gain love from the viewers and not be seen as a threat, resulting in what should have been her win (as she proclaims). Taco's true identity is vastly different from her outrageous and moronic persona. She is rather intelligent, deceitful, manipulative, tactful, sensitive and mischievous, with a hankering for evil. Although her plan to steal the million-dollar prize in Inanimate Insanity was thwarted, she continued to pursue the same prize once again in Inanimate Insanity II until "Truth or Flare", since she stopped caring about getting the prize. Initially hiding in the bushes for the first half of the season, Taco remains as a spectator to the competition in order to find an accomplice. Taco eventually narrows her choice on Microphone, a competitor who struggles to succeed in challenges and feels overlooked despite her efforts. After Taco begins tormenting Microphone in "Rain On Your Charade" by reading through her personal diary, she opens up to Microphone to convince her to join sides with her in order to split the million-dollar prize 50/50 in exchange for help and advice throughout the rest of the competition. Microphone refused but eventually agrees and they form a sort of alliance. From here, Taco further exhibits her true personality. She has little regard for genuine morals in order to advance in the competition, such as in "Kick the Bucket" where she instructs Microphone to paralyze Balloon with the intent to hinder his ability in the challenge and mentions how she enjoys messing with others. She also displays having a high value in her strategies and efforts, arguing with Microphone whilst she hesitates to use the paralyzer to attack someone. However, she admits Microphone some respect when she was able to manipulate Balloon into giving in to anxiety, making him fail within the rules of the game. She views Balloon and Suitcase'sconflicts as petty and "adorable." Taco gradually grows more respect for Microphone, begrudgingly letting her return the temporary paralyzer to Test Tube in "Alternate Reality Show" despite seeing no benefit in it. Still, she has a low opinion of the other competitors, such as her showing little concern for Test Tube and Lightbulbgetting lost through time, or her description of Knife as a "simple bully." Yet, when she saw the time portal, she's shown that she secretly wants a second chance at friendship. Taco shows particular resentment towards Knife in Mine Your Own Business, viewing his past and present 'savagery' as brutish and inexcusable despite her own actions. Though she initially plots to get Knife killed, Microphone stops her, and she offers to apologize, stating she could stand to be a bit more open. Despite her becoming more casual and less belittling around Microphone, she is still secretive and stealthy, as seen not only by her and Microphone's use of the InvisiBows throughout the episode to operate unseen, but also by her avoidance in telling Microphone about her past. In "Truth or Flare", it confirmed that Taco had a plan with MePad, hinted at in the previous episode. In this same episode, she is shown to have a sensitive side, as tears welled up in her eyes when she realizes that it's time for her to face her own truth, which causes her to literally fall apart, killing her. At the end of the episode, following MePad's advice, Taco decides that she's done hiding away from society, and prepares to start over.

Abilities

Taco is known for her unique abilities, such as:

• Retractable Arms In the episode 'Aquatic Conflict', Taco revealed that she has retractable arms. She can withdraw her arms at any time and appear as an armless contestant.
• Lemon Spitting: From "A Lemony Lesson" till "The Great Escape", Taco is able to spit lemons as projectiles. She later uses this ability to spit candy at OJ in "Journey Through Memory Lane/Part 2".

Trivia

• Taco has hosted her own Taco Show where she has interviewed OJ and answered questions from the viewers.
  • The Show lasted for only 2 episodes, "The Juicy Interview" and "4,000 Subscribers".
• Taco's trademark line "SOUR CREAM!" is said in almost every episode of Season 1.
• Taco has barfed lemons in "A Lemony Lesson", "The Arena of Death", "4Seeing The Future", "Crappy Anniversary" and "Inanimate Smackdown". She lost this ability in "The Great Escape" but shot a final lemon in "Journey Through Memory Lane (Part 2)".
• Taco is one of few characters that speaks with an accent that differs from the majority of contestants, the others being The Floor,Suitcase, Silver Spoon, Tea Kettle and Yin-Yang.
• Taco was originally the smallest character but became the second smallest once Bow joined.
• Taco is the only character to have retractable arms.
• Taco is the only contestant on Inanimate Insanity to be featured in all the episodes of season 1.
  • Taco is also one of few characters to have spoken in almost every episode of season 1, along with MePhone4.
• She is the highest-ranking female competitor in the first season.
  • Out of every female contestant in the series, Cabby and Suitcase can be considered to rank both lower or higher as they were previously eliminated in their respective seasons.
• In The Taco Show, she states that her number one wish and dream was to be “some sort of underwater sea animal that lives on land with waterproof fur”. However, this may no longer be canon after The Taco Show’s deletion.
• In "The Tile Divide", Taco became the last female contestant after Bow's elimination.
• Taco is one of the few two original contestants to have never gone to Idiotic Island. The other one is OJ.
• Taco, has the third most voice actor changes throughout the whole series, with a total of 4, behind Salt with 5, and Pepper, with 6.
• Not counting her loss in "Journey Through Memory Lane (Part 2)" as an elimination, Taco is so far, the only season one contestant who hasn't been eliminated, though, it could potentially happen since she competed in Season 4
• In "Mine Your Own Business", Taco’s shell has broken by a gemory. The crack in her shell remains throughout the entirety of the episode and "Hatching the Plan" and also appears in official merchandise, therefore making it the first temporary change to appear in merch (it also appears in the current banner).
• Taco has gone the longest with a temporary character design change out of any character, holding the record for six years from 2018 until 2024's "Truth or Flare".
• Taco received enough votes to compete in Inanimate Insanity Invitational, however, was excluded from consideration along with Lightbulb, Knife and Suitcase due to their ties to the story of Inanimate Insanity II.
• Taco is also British