MOAB

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Mother of All Bloons
Massive Ornary Air Blimp

Card art for the MOAB in Bloons Card Storm

The MOAB, short for both Mother of All Bloons and Massive Ornary Air Blimp,^[sic] is a Bloon introduced in Bloons Tower Defense 3.

Gameplay

Bloons TD series

The MOAB is a MOAB-Class Bloon and usually the first MOAB-Class Bloon the player encounters during a game. It moves slowly, but has high health. When popped, it spawns four Ceramic Bloons.

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  MOAB (BTD3)
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  MOAB (BTD4)
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  MOAB (BTD5)
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  MOAB (BTD6)
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  MOAB (Battles)
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  MOAB (Battles 2)
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  MOAB (BMC)
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  MOAB (BATTD)

Bloons Supermonkey series

The MOAB is a MOAB-Class Bloon in Bloons Super Monkey and Bloons Supermonkey 2. In the first game, it moves around the screen erratically, spawning Red Bloons each time it takes damage and exploding into Red Bloons and Yellow Bloons when popped. If not popped quickly enough, it escapes and leads to a game over. In BSM2, it moves like a normal Bloon, only spawns Bloons when popped, and does not automatically cause a game over if it escapes. In BSM2, a boss version of the MOAB is first encountered in Level 25 in the mobile version and Monkey Lane Stage 5 in the Flash version, which has higher health and takes knockback when hit.

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  MOAB (BSM)
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  MOAB (BSM2)

Bloons Pop!

The MOAB is a rare Bloon that first appears on Level 70. It has high health and spawns random Bloons in a circle around it when it takes damage, leaving behind four Ceramic Bloons when popped. It always occupies the middle of the screen horizontally and it cannot move past the middle of the screen.

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  MOAB (Bloons Pop!)

Bloons Card Storm

The MOAB is a Large Bloon card with no special properties. It has two variants: the Damaged MOAB, which is cheaper but starts out partially damaged, and the Undead MOAB, which can only be spawned by the Prince of Darkness.

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  MOAB (BCS)
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  Damaged MOAB
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  Undead MOAB

Characteristics

Artwork in Bloons TD Battles 2 depicting the anatomy of a MOAB

The design of the MOAB varies depending on the game. In Bloons Tower Defense 3, MOABs are depicted as light grey dirigibles with white stripes, and the four Brown Bloons they carry are visible on top. In Bloons TD 4 and Bloons Super Monkey, they are redesigned to be larger and rounder, and have blue stripes that run from the front to the tail fins. Starting in Bloons TD 5, MOABS are primarily blue with white front sections, thin dark blue stripes, and large horizontal white stripes around the rear of the envelope. The Ceramic Bloons are no longer visible on the outside, but are apparently stored inside the envelope.

MOABs are relatively small by MOAB-Class Bloon standards, but are still much larger than regular Bloons. Like DDTs, they are propelled by a single propeller attached to the rear. The insides of MOABs are supported by a metal framework, as seen on the MOAB remains on MOAB Graveyard in Bloons Monkey City and Helium Heights in the mobile version of Bloons Supermonkey 2.

Nomenclature

In a round comment in Bloons Tower Defense 3, "M.O.A.B" is stated to stand for "Massive Ornary Air Blimp",^[sic] and that it does not stand for "Mother of all Bloons". This may be a reference to a real-life weapon called the GBU-43/B MOAB, which officially stands for "Massive Ordnance Air Blast" but is colloquially called the "mother of all bombs". However, in Bloons Pop! and Bloons Card Storm, the MOAB is explicitly referred to as the "Mother of All Bloons", and an answer on the Ninja Kiwi Blog states that "Mother of All Bloons" is considered "one of the correct full names". "Mother of All Bloons" is referenced in other games, such as in Bloons Adventure Time TD, where the MOAP is stated to stand for "Mother Of All Pineapples".

The word "ornary" in "Massive Ornary Air Blimp" appears to be a misspelling of ornery, a word used to describe something as having an irritable dispostion or as being difficult to deal with or control. This spelling is consistently used in instances where this name is written in full.

The formatting of the "MOAB" acronym is inconsistent. In Bloons Tower Defense 3 and Bloons TD 4, the acronym is punctuated as "M.O.A.B" in pre-round comments, but is formatted without punctuation in some related terms (such as the MOAB Mauler and MOAB Madness challenge). Starting in Bloons TD 5, the non-punctuated form is the most common. Tutorial text in Bloons TD 6 refers to MOAB-Class Bloons as "M.O.A.B. Class Bloons", and challenge parameters in BTD6 capitalize the acronym as "Moab", as seen in the text "Moab Speed Increased/Decreased" and "Moab Health Increased/Decreased". "MOAB" by itself is occasionally used to refer to MOAB-Class Bloons as a whole.

Hero voice lines in Bloons TD 6, Bloons TD Battles 2, and Bloons Adventure Time TD pronounce "MOAB" as either M-O-A-B or /ˈmoʊ.æb/ ("MOW-ab"), depending on the character.