The Cameramen are the main protagonists of the Skibidi Toilet series and our way of seeing into the world, first appearing in Episode 1.
They used to be the main enemies of the Skibidi Toilets. However, as the series progressed, they became situational allies against a common enemy - the Astro Toilets, specifically past Episode 74.
They are a part of The Alliance, along with the Speakermen and the TV Men. The Camera race were the first Alliance members or Hardware Heads in the series and have been fighting the Skibidi Toilets from Episode 7 to Episode 74. Their main ability is to be able to take information in through their camera heads, recording their perilous battles, and record all the videos. They are also the backbone of the Alliance as the series progresses. Being more than espionage, they perform scientific research with other Alliance members to enhance all Cameramen, Speakermen, and TV Men alike, battles usually involve more cameramen than most races, they offer technology and decent combat performance, over time they are also the race with the most casualties as the result of their role as the main enemy of the Skibidi Toilets and as the main force on the battlefield.
Variants
Unique
Combat Unit
Experimental Unit
Combat Command Unit
Combat Unit
Heavy Infantry Unit
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Secretive
(detained)
(discharged or disguised)
(discharged or disguised)
Auxiliary
Spy Unit
Heavy Tank Unit
Heavy Tank & Orbital Unit
Aerial Transport Unit
Aerial Combat Unit
Communication
The Cameramen communicate non-verbally and don't make any sounds (except for Titan Cameraman, as he is seen talking in the end of Episode 72 and during Episode 73). They use hand Gestures such as waving, pointing, giving a thumbs-up, shrugging, giving a thumbs-down, or showing the middle finger. These gestures have different meanings, such as appreciation, dissatisfaction, or disrespect.
However, this is different for between certain cameras with a special connection. For some, they are able to communicate in a spiritual way, appearing in their past human form and speaking clearly to their allies. How this exactly works is unknown and will likely never be fully explained due to its nature.
Technology
The Cameramen have invented and developed various technology. They were the First Faction on earth to create lasers as seen in episode 17 and these lasers were then used by the other earth factions (Skibidi Toilets, Speakermen, and TV Men). The Cameramen has developed their own version of heavy duty lasers which was used by Titan Cameraman and showed stunning properties when used by him against G-Toilet in episode 73.
They were the first to create holoshields on earth as shown in episode 64 which is capable of blocking physical and energy based attacks,holoshields are now used by other races too due to their versatility. The cameramen have also developed them to where they can also serve an offensive purpose as shown by Fred in episode 77 who stunned the Specialist Astro Toilet by ramming into him with the shield and they have seemingly copied the Astro Toilets' hexagonal shield by creating their own version of it as shown in episode 79 as the Cameramen bases shield.
They are the first faction on earth to create the gravity arm which has high potential as the Astros invented their version of it first and it's even used by Duchess Astro Toilet, she showed that the gravity arm can be used to catch energy based projectiles, this indicates that the gravity arm can be used as a form of defense similar to the detainer claw but possibly maybe a much better type of defense as it may potentially be able to catch projectiles like G-Toilet's purple or green orbs without being affected by them due to catching projectiles in a different way. Plungerwoman's gravitational plungers have shown to be able to attach themselves to enemies similar to the Duchess Astro Toilet's tentacles, and considering the energy of the cameramen is capable of stunning or paralyzing enemies then its possible her plungers can also paralyze enemies similar to the Duchess's gravity tentacles.
Cameramen have developed and integrated gravity tech into their melee weapons that can slow down opponents as seen with Plungerwoman's plungers in episode 77 against the Specialist Astro Toilet, this allows them to slow down the speed of opponents and would potentially be effective against fast or agile opponents such as the Astro toilets who have a variety of troops who are very fast.
The cameramen have been developing electric based weaponry shown by Plungerwoman's electric beams. In episode 79, they are researching Astro warp rings and further developing electricity based technology as seen through CH4D Cameraman. Electricity was first used in their stun rifles, which was used to stun Skibidi Toilets. Electricity could be used to stun or possibly disable enemy systems such as shield generators or maybe core absorption.
The energy of the cameras is capable of stunning enemies as first shown in episode 57 by Titan Cameraman against G-Toilet or slowing them down as seen in episode 77 by Plungerwoman against the Specialist Astro Toilet, cameraman energy has been developed to a point where these effects have been integrated into their energy based weaponry such as the blasters of the Large Cameraman or Cameraman 3.0 or their Camera Striders.
They had created Anti Parasite technology within a very short amount of time of getting a parasite sample, this helped them with the disinfection of Infected alliance troops during the dark phase and proves how fast they can adapt to new technologies such as the parasite.
The cameramen have invented lock-on technology as shown by Plungerwoman and have also developed energy based homing technology as demonstrated by the Orbital camera 2.0. This holds massive potential against agile enemies who use flight as for example this paired with an energy based weapon like the Juggernaut Astros Toilet's blaster would be devastating and difficult to evade.
They have also developed Stealth detection and tracking technologies,this allows them to catch hidden enemies using stealth and to keep track off them and was first shown in episode 78 by the Buzzsaw Skibidi Mutant 3.0 who's portable camera caught a Specialist Astro Toilet trying to sneak into the teleportation gas when Large TV Man was teleporting away.
They have developed the Camera Strider which in its original form served a fire support role but with its upgrade, it can now serve a close air support or air superiority role. They have created energy weaponry for their infantry such as blasters, snipers, pistols/revolvers and large blasters as well as upgrading their vehicles such as the Plasma camera tank or the Camera van. The appearance of the Samurai Cameraman shows that the Cameramen are developing energy blades following the TV Men's creation of energy blades.
The Cameramen as seen in episode 79 are still developing technologies. However the state in which they are in means that if they are saved from Watchman of Doom they will have to find a new base or develop their tech at speaker or TV bases and it is highly likely that they will not be the powerful leading main force for a while until Titan Cameraman returns and gets upgrades and with him,the creation of a Camera Armada to counter the arrival of a more advanced Astro Fleet is possible.
Relationships and Connections
Factions & Affiliations
Allies
- The Alliance - Belonging Faction
- Speakermen - Ally Faction
- TV Men - Ally Faction
- Skibidi Toilets - Allied Faction (Post-Episode 75)
- Skibidi Mutants - Allied Sub-species
- Humans - Allied Species
Enemies
- Astro Toilets - Main Enemy Faction
Sizes
(To note, these size measurements may not be accurate). Cameramen's sizes can be classified into eight categories:
| Size | Image | Typical size compared to Normal | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Micro | 0.125 | Camera Rover
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This size is rare and is only seen in the early Episodes of Skibidi Toilet. |
| Mini | 0.5 | Camera Toilet
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This size is most likely the rarest size of Cameramen with its one and only appearance surprisingly being only five seconds. |
| Normal | 1.8~2 | Normal Cameraman
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This size is the most common size of the Cameramen, with it being a basic prototype size for all future Cameramen.
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| Medium | 2 | Engineer Cameraman
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This size is often over looked as it is in the middle between Normal Cameramen and Large Cameramen. Their heads and shoulders are taller than normal sized Cameramen. |
| Semi-Large | 3.5~5 | Large Cameraman
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This size is the second most common size of the Cameramen and is a prototype to Titan Cameraman and Titan Speakerman, with all three of them sharing a same/similar body shape. |
| Large | 4-7 | Very Large Cameraman
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All the things said about the previous size apply here along with this size being a taller and most of the time, bulkier |
| Giant | 8-16 | Camera Attack Helicopter
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This size of Cameramen is the size that introduced non-body Cameramen, meaning all of the Cameramen in this size are cameras only.
Also, this size takes 1st place in terms of the amount of different unique entities in one size with 12 different inhabitants for this size
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| Titan | 75 | Titan Cameraman
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Titan sized Cameramen are the strongest, heaviest, and most durable size of the Cameramen. |
Trivia
- Cameramen in older Episodes showed human skin in some places, sometimes their hands, their necks, or their arms, but these changed overtime, and now we know that they're more robotic. This may also be a way of hiding the weakness of flesh and leaving behind their previous life.
- The Cameraman race, through series, has spied in some situations, they were activating Orbital camera button and the Baba Booey Button from the buildings in the city, and being baits to record while Large TV Man or another TV Man was broadcasting it (they are on non-battle missions).
- The first Cameraman would canonically appear in the Skibidi Toilet pilot (Only in the fullscreen version). Their first actual debut would be in Episode 7, where the shadow of the POV-Cameraman can be seen as he walks up to a Normal Skibidi Toilet.
- The Cameramen appeared in Blugray-Demand, which was later reused in the series.
- The Cameramen look similar to the Cameramen from No More Movie Thief, a Japanese Anti Movie Piracy.
- Titan Cameraman is the only cameraman with verbal communication, as no other cameramen have this ability.
- In Episode 56, the POV-Cameraman uses a tablet labelled as CAMERAMAN_1247, hinting that there may be more than a thousand Cameramen in existence. However, the meaning of it is still unknown.
- In the full-screen version of the first episode, there are two Cameramen that are taller than Humanoid G-Man, which is same height as Humans, but Cameramen afterwards seem to be the size of them. It is probably a mistake, or those Cameramen changed/turned into Large Cameraman. They wouldn't just shrink.
- There are four notable re-occurring Normal Cameramen that appear occasionally in the series, that being the 51MP Cameraman, Plungerman, Lucky Cameraman and Scientist Cameraman 1337.
- The Cameraman race have the most largest variety of vehicles out of any faction in the entire series, having the Parasite Disabler Laser Tank, Parasite Disabler Laser Tank 2.0, Paralyzer Laser Tank, Cameraman Dropship, Orbital camera, Camera mech, Plasma camera car, Armored camera van, Camera attack helicopters and Cameramen transport helicopters, giving them eight known types of vehicles.
- The runner ups are the mostly/seemingly extinct and beat the Speakermen who have the Speaker Plane, Speaker van, Speaker Helicopters (3 known varieties), and Toilet Car, giving them six known types of vehicles.
- Cameramen's vision flickers or becomes distorted when they are frightened or exposed to loud noises, just like in Episode 75.
- It seems frontline the Camera race must wear a coat to avoid confusion with the other species. Even though they need to wear a coat, there has been sometimes other species like Medics and certain Science Team members that were in the frontlines despite not wearing a coat.
- The Cameramen appear to be the largest faction in The Alliance and the second largest faction of all, the first being the Skibidi Toilets.
- The Cameramen's primary color is blue, specifically a sky-blue.
External links
- Cameramen on the Heroes Wiki
