C4 Charlie

"Charlie was an absentee on the first day of military school so he missed the most important rule of explosives handling. After lighting the fuse, STAND BACK. Nevertheless, he can blast his way out of any tricky situation."

- BATTD Description

C4 Charlie is a Character in Bloons Adventure Time TD. He is unlocked in Haunted Swamp campaign Loch'd and Loaded on any difficulty. An explosives expert, Charlie operates like the Bomb Shooter, throwing bombs that can be upgraded to deal extra damage to MOABs and stun bloons, among other things.

Description
C4 Charlie is a short brown haired monkey with the typical tan face. He wears a lime green Brodie helmet with a grey "C4" on the top of the lid. A pair of goggles are wrapped around the top of the helmet, alongside a long antenna on the right side of the head. Besides the head, C4 Charlie wears an ascot of the same lime green coloration, a backpack and green gloves.

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 * Cost: $600
 * Damage Type: Explosion
 * Attack Speed: 0.67
 * Range: 40
 * Damage: 1
 * Pierce: 1

Upgrades

 * Long Range Bombs - $250 - Increases Charlie's range
 * Attack Speed - $500 - Charlie attacks faster (Increases speed roughly by 15%)
 * MOAB Mauler - $800 - Devastating missiles designed for MOAB damage (Locked by Bouncing Bombs, main explosion attack now deals 60 extra damage to MOAB class bloons)
 * MOAB Assassin - $4000 - Ability: Targets largest MOAB for massive damage (Locked by Signal flare) [Immediately launches missile towards strongest MOAB class bloon for 8k damage attack, can damage only one target, 8 k is amount of health regular ZOMG has in the game(MOABs have 200 health, BFBs have 2k health, they have way more health than in BTD 5)]
 * Bigger Bombs - $350 - Bombs are bigger, louder, and more devastating (piercing + 4 and blast radius increase)
 * Bloon Impact - $1500 - Explosions will stun Bloons caught in the blast
 * Signal Flare - $3000 - Ability: Strips all modifiers from all bloons on the field (Locked by MOAB Assassin)
 * Burny Stuff - $2000 - Red hot explosions set fire to Bloons (All character caused burning DOT causes cash generated halved for bloons popped by it, only 1 in 2 bloons giving cash, trinkets and weapons inflicted DOT doesn't suffer from this punishment. Also Banana Replicator doesn't work with any DOT. Only buy this skill when you are about to face really hard round with lots of bloons and there is no need to earn cash anymore)
 * Frag Bombs - $400 - Sharp frags fly out of explosions(releases 6 frags around explosion, all frags will hit a single target if it's big enough, starting with MOAB, otherwise only 1~3 frags hit a bloon depending on angle, doesn't benefit from damage increase, unless using bloon specific damage increasing trinkets, like Engineers Blueprints and such.)
 * Bouncing Bombs - $1750 - Bombs bounce to other bloons on detonation (Locked by MOAB Mauler)
 * Double Bomb - $1250 - Exploding bombs leave behind a second explosive

Star Boost
Charlie will receive the following permanent boosts as he levels up:
 * 2 stars - Base attack blast radius increased by 2
 * 4 stars - Base attack speed increased by 0.1
 * 6 stars - Base range increased by 5
 * 8 stars - Base attack blast radius increased by 2
 * 9 stars - Base attack speed increased by 0.1
 * 10 stars - All attacks can pop black and zebra bloons

Strategy
C4 Charlie serves as a Bomb Shooter analog for Bloons Adventure Time TD, firing off a simple explosive attack that packs a punch and is resisted by Black and Zebra Bloons. Typical upgrades such as Bigger Bombs, Frag Bombs, MOAB Mauler, Cluster Bombs, Bloon Impact, MOAB Assassin, make returns from main series BTD5 and BTD6.

Mortar upgrades can be seen on this monkey as well: Burny Stuff and Signal Flare. You may not make triple barrel fast Mortar, Pop and Awe ability and Nuclear path of Mortar on him, but Mushroom Bomb is in the game, so you can nuke stuff with him if you want to, it's not absolutely gonna be the only way to make him viable though, that's for sure.

As any normal cannon would, C4 Charlie is a phenomenal tower when it comes to blasting large piles of non-MOAB Class bloons, with upgrades like Bouncing Bombs and Double Bomb being very effective at maximizing Charlie's damage output on top the many resulting frags from each explosion. It can be seen that the sheer quantity of frags and explosions even outshines the MOAB Mauler upgrade in terms of raw power, as Trinkets that increase damage are more susceptible towards the attack type with many low damage attacks to magnify. It would be great path to go if you don't have MOAB Assassin ability unlocked yet.

A weakness that Charlie inherits from the original towers is the lack of Black and Zebra popping outside of Frag Bombs, lacking common workarounds such as Bloon Impact being able to damage explosive-resistant bloons in BTD5. To compensate, C4 Charlie can purchase the ability Signal Flare, allowing him and other non-Camo detecting towers to attack Camo Bloons, allowing for the other major weakness of Cannons to be bypassed. A new threat in BATTD is also in the form of Ghost Bloons, preventing all forms of damage by explosive-type attacks. However the upgrade Burny Stuff will just easily burn through them. Fortunately, the Dagger of Chilled Glass bypasses his default lack of Black-Popping Power.

The MOAB Mauler Can rip through MOABs with ease if given enough speed Trinkets and the Time Bomb Weapon. Though Engineers Blueprints may not seem like it would help, it will effect frag bombs and help a bit more at attacking MOAB Class Bloons.

His MOAB Assassin skill is much more impressive than his group MOAB-class damage capability against single targets.

Charlie's Signal Flare ability is useful against DDTs because it can decamo them, allowing towers without Camo Detection like Supermonkey to attack them.

He is definitely a great ranged character. Just one attack type he uses makes it easy to understand it. Place it the way that will make hard MOAB class bloons pop easier. May you give him good range upgrading trinkets of 8 + range to make him really good at reaching MOAB class bloons and be a very good expert at long range explosive warfare.

Quotes
When Placed: When Selected: When Upgraded: When Using an Ability: When MOAB Class Bloons Appear: When MOAB Class Bloons Are Popped: When leaking a bloon:
 * "Things are about to go BOOM!"
 * "Bombs away!"
 * "The fuse has been lit!"
 * "Hey, Sai! Can I get one of those Flash Bombs?" (when you place Sai the Shadow)
 * "Hey phoney! You're gonna get blown up!" (when placed in Cursed Mirrors)
 * "Ha!"
 * "Watch out!"
 * "Ready to blow!"
 * "Ooh! Ooh!"
 * "Ahh! Don't touch that!"
 * "Can't you see I'm holding a bomb?" (when annoyed)
 * "Bigger! BIGGER!"
 * "This is the bomb!"
 * "What a BLAST!"
 * "FIIIIIIREE! HAHA!" (MOAB Assassin)
 * "Can't hide from me!" (Signal Flare)
 * "Woooh! That guy would make the BEST explosion!"
 * "BOOM! This is my favorite part!"
 * "We're getting blown up here!"

Trivia

 * Many of C4 Charlie's upgrades derive from the Bomb Shooter and Mortar Monkey upgrades.
 * For Bomb Shooter, Frag Bombs, Cluster Bombs (Bouncing Bombs and Double Bomb), Bigger Bombs, Bloon Impact, Extra Range (Long Range Bombs), MOAB Mauler, and MOAB Assassin.
 * For Mortar Monkey, Rapid Reload (Attack Speed), Burny Stuff, and Signal Flare.
 * His "Attack Speed" upgrade could have been called "Rapid Reload" to match the name of Mortar Monkey's speed increasing upgrade rather than bearing a generic stat name for an upgrade.
 * The "phoney" he is referring to is the shadowy version of himself, since Finn mentioned in the Cursed Mirrors intro that the real one is inside the dome-shaped chamber at the center of the map.
 * He shares a name with Charlie, one of Jake and Lady Rainicorn's five children from the main Adventure Time series.