Balk

Balk is a Flexers Mixel.

Description
Balk’s most amazing feature is his head. Like a rubbery mallet allows him to ram, swat, crush and pummel whatever he comes across. It is just too bad he hits it so much that he is now a bit scatterbrained and can’t always remember what he was going to say. Like the other Flexers he is very intellectual.

Personality
Balk is the anomaly to the Flexers' intellectual nature. While it is true that he still is pretty smart, he is also very scatterbrained thanks to his abilities not translating to the inside of his head and has a tendency to space out at times. He is the most immature of his tribe, preferring to play rather than show off his smarts.

Physical Appearance
Balk is mostly orange in color. He has a very squat body with a tall and well-defined jaw. His eyes are on stalks that stick out on the sides. They have a black stripe near the base, which also houses four tentacles, two small ones and two longer ones. His upper jaw has three teeth that point downwards, while his lower one has two spaced-out buck teeth that point upwards. He has three bowing orange legs with a grey line at their base. He has angular orange feet with black fronts.

Nixel Mix Over
Balk and Lunk were going to play "Slingshot". Balk called the painted Nixels "little Mixels". He asked if they wanted to join them.

Elevator
It is his birthday in this episode, and most of the Mixels (the only one who doesn't is Flain) attend his party. He appears at the end when the Lunk and Tentro mix crash into the cake, just as he is about to blow the candles and make a wish.

Mixed Up Special
He was one of the Mixels at the mix festival.

Other Flexers
Neutral so far.

Infernites
Neutral so far.

Cragsters
It was rumored that the Flexers disliked Krader, but this was proven false. The other Cragsters are neutral so far.

Electroids
Neutral so far.

Frosticons
Neutral so far, although he may be friends with Lunk.

Fang Gang
Neutral so far.

Set Information
Balk was released as part of the Mixels sets in the June 2014 product wave. His product number is 41517 and contains 68 pieces.

In-Booklet code
Balk's in-booklet code is HA8ERHE5AD, which is HammerHead when decoded.

Trivia

 * His name is derived from the word "balk", which means "to baffle or confuse", something that happens to Balk a lot.
 * It is also possible that his name is derived from "bulk" (thanks to his strength) and "stalk" (thanks to his eyes being on eyestalks).
 * It is also possible that it comes from "Ball".
 * He likes tap dancing as seen.
 * He is one of the nine Mixels to include a Nixel.
 * Balk bears a resemblance to a hammerhead shark.
 * Some people say that his three legs might actually be fins, and his long head is similar to said shark species' head.
 * He is the least intelligent of the Flexers.
 * His birthday might be June 26, the release date of Elevator.
 * He is fourth in line standing on the "Mixels" logo.
 * He has the least amount of pieces out of the Flexers.
 * In his Upset video in Calling All Mixels, his eyes inflated and eventually popped, revealing his eyes can inflate like balloons and explode and that he has sensitive eyes.
 * Balk was originally going to have flimsier tentacles, smaller pupils, and have been much shorter and stockier.
 * Being a Series 2 Mixel, he appeared in 3 out of 10 episodes so far (tied with Tentro). His absences were Wrong Colors, Bar B Cubes, Snow Half-Pipe, Hamlogna Conveyer Belt Madness, Vaudeville Fun, Fang Gang Log Toss, and High Five.