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Giblet and Chum Chompkins: Your Guides Through the Labs
Meet the Labs resistance: Giblet, the inside out dog toy who saves your life, and Chum Chompkins, the double agent whose mouth becomes your hiding place.
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Giblet: the heart of the Labs
Giblet is the first kindness in Broken Things, and Poppy Playtime 5 for Android character files give him top billing for it. A small chihuahua like toy with inside out skin, one magenta flower shaped pupil and a missing eye covered by a leather patch, he intervenes when an Outimal has you cornered and decides, on the spot, that you are worth saving.
He is no mascot. Giblet knows the Labs, the Outimals, the Prototype habits and the shape of the plan to reach the data center, and his hideout is the resistance headquarters such as it is: notes, routes and two toys who refused to give up.
Chum Chompkins: trust, earned the hard way
Chum is Giblet opposite: enormous, mouthed, hungry and deeply distrustful of you, which the chapter demonstrates by having him nearly eat you at your first meeting. Giblet talks him down, and your errand for the research notes is as much a trust exercise as a story beat.
The payoff is the hideout sequence: when the Prototype enters, Chum hides you inside his own mouth and holds still while the puppetmaster searches the room. Whatever Chum was before, in that moment he is the bravest toy in the factory.
The pair as a team
Together they are the chapter thesis in miniature: broken things, inside out and mismatched, organising against the experiment that made them all. Giblet plans, Chum enforces, and their arguments carry exposition that would die as a cutscene.
Their dynamic also runs the Labs act structure, which Poppy Playtime 5 Walkthrough Part 1 walks in order. Spend time in the hideout; the notes there are the densest lore in the chapter.
Why they matter beyond Chapter 5
Playtime has always excelled at monsters. Giblet and Chum prove it can do citizens: toys with a society, a resistance and opinions about the Prototype that predate you. The factory feels lived in for the first time, and the endgame plan feels like theirs, not a script you wandered into.
For the full cast picture, the Poppy Playtime 5 Characters files every major figure in Broken Things in one place.
Quick Answers
Who saves the player in the Labs?
Giblet, a small inside out dog toy, who drives off an Outimal and takes you to his hideout in the Labs.
Why does Chum Chompkins grab the player?
Chum distrusts strangers and nearly eats you on first contact. Giblet vouches for you, and fetching the research notes earns his trust.
How does Chum hide the player from the Prototype?
Inside his mouth. When the Prototype searches the hideout, Chum holds you hidden and still until the danger passes.
What does Giblet look like?
A small chihuahua like toy with inside out skin, one magenta flower shaped pupil and a leather patch over his missing eye.