History VideoGame / BendyAndTheInkMachine

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* BonusBoss:
** In Chapter 2, after activating the second valve, return to the room at the very beginning of the chapter and find [[spoiler:a Searcher wearing a mining helmet. Although you can kill it with your axe like other Searchers, you can also lead it all the way to the sewer where you encountered Swollen Jack, and crushing the Searcher with the crate will trigger a hallucination]].
** In Chapter 3, when Twisted Alice sends you an axe, break open the boarded up door on Level 9. [[spoiler:In addition to a hidden audio log, there is a second axe.]] Before taking the elevator to Level 14 for Twisted Alice's final task, [[spoiler:take this axe and head up to Level K and go to the toymaking workshop. Break the wall made of boards to find a lever. Pull it to spawn a horde of Searchers in the large room. After killing them, pull it again to spawn a lot of Butcher Gangs. And after them, [[RuleOfThree pull it a third time]] to spawn a ''giant Searcher'']].
** If you ''really'' want a challenge, [[spoiler: do the two above bosses. Then, in Chapter 4, after getting out of the Butcher Gang's room and pulling the second lever, go back in. There's a cache of empty bacon soup cans for you in the back room with Lacie's audio log. Escape the room again (''Don't throw the cans.'') Now just use the cans to kill Bertrum and Brute Boris. [[SarcasmMode Easy]]. '''''Then''''', in Chapter 5, at the corridor maze, lure the Butcher Gang out when Ink Bendy passes through to have him kill them. Once you've finished the pipework, head back towards Joey's office and you'll find a SinisterScythe outside. Pick it up and get a bunch of Searchers, one of which is wearing Sammy's mask. Kill him last since the scythe breaks on him.]] Congratulations, you've unlocked [[DecadeThemedFilter black and white mode.]][[note]]that is assuming you ''also'' never died throughout the game[[/note]]

* ''Bendy And The Ink Machine Dreams Come To Life'' (2019) - A young adult novel written by Adrienne Kress.

*** Using the Seeing Tool on Shawn Flynn's audio log in chapter three reveals the phrase "[[LetsPlay/{{Jacksepticeye}} Top of the Morning]]".

* TheCameo: One of the audio logs from Chapter 3, made by a Mr. "Shawn Flynn", [[spoiler:was voiced by LetsPlay/JackSepticEye]]. [[spoiler: A hidden audio log in the same chapter is by Grant Cohen, voiced by [[Creator/DAGames Will Ryan]]]].

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: At the beginning of Chapter 5, [[spoiler:Allison Angel tells you about the secret messages only visible through a special seeing device. When you use this directly after she gives it to you, there's a message scrawled on the wall: "SHE WILL LEAVE YOU FOR DEAD". Later, when Ink Bendy has almost breached the safehouse, Allison does leave you for dead, albeit regretfully.]]

** Any given players' reaction when they see that [[spoiler:[[FiveSecondForeshadowing Bertrum's voice is being subtitled, not shown in the normal Audio Log window in the Attraction Storage room when they activate the Recorder.]]]]

** Bertrum.

** Any given players' reaction when they see that [[spoiler:Bertrum's voice is being subtitled, not shown in the normal Audio Log window in the Attraction Storage room when they activate the Recorder.]]

*** There's also an [[Creator/MichaelEisner E. Misner]]. Fitting, considering how much of Joey Drew and his Studios is [[Creator/WaltDisney inspired by another animator and studio head]] that had big [[Main/ArcWords dreams]].

* ''Bendy Cartoons'' (2019) - Seven official animated shorts: [[https://youtu.be/a0uJbCJsXR4 "Tombstone Picnic"]], [[https://youtu.be/kVMp4blt-Os "Haunted Hijinx"]], [[https://youtu.be/uWmWM9SBXUo "Cookie Cookin'"]], [[https://youtu.be/E6L4_4Vi43g "Hellfire Fighter"]], [[https://youtu.be/3RmZDZja4Hs "Snow Sillies"]], [[https://youtu.be/MX9x1oCGzX0 "Tasty Trio Troubles"]], and [[https://youtu.be/oN4jmLFQ5a4 "Cheap Seats"]].

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!!The Bendy Cartoons provide examples of:

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* ButtMonkey: Bendy is typically this in the cartoons.
** In "Tombstone Picnic," his lunch gets stolen by Boris and tormented by a skeleton.
** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWmWM9SBXUo "Cookie Cookin,"]] Bendy makes a gingerbread man, but as he pulls the tray out of the oven, he finds that it's empty because Boris is already eating Bendy's cookie.
** And in "Haunted Hijinx", Bendy falls victim to a prank in an attempt to scare Boris. He runs away and Boris takes the bag Bendy left behind.
** "Snow Sillies" is probably the worst of them all. Just when Bendy makes a new friend, it melts just seconds later. [[Main/KickTheDog Then Boris eats the carrot for the snowman]], and at that point Bendy ''cries''. [[DownerEnding And that's where it ends.]]
* CreepyJazzMusic: The cartoon's soundtrack is a ragtime riff.
* ADayInTheLimelight: "Tasty Trio Troubles" is centered mostly on the Butcher Gang, who haven't appeared in the shorts prior to it.
* EnemyEatsYourLunch:
** In "Cookie Cookin," Bendy pulls his gingerbread man tray out of the oven and finds that it's empty because Boris is already eating his cookie.
** In "Tombstone Picnic", Bendy trips and loses his picnic basket. Boris takes it and starts eating nonchalantly. Bendy, after demanding his picnic basket back and getting ignored, [[KarmicTrickster sprays Boris with a shaken soda bottle]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: At the end of "Tombstone Picnic", Bendy cowers from a large, shadowy figure as the cartoon starts flashing white. [[spoiler:In Chapter 3, released after the cartoon, one of your enemies is the large, inky figure of the Projectionist, whose projector head shines a bright light on everything in front of him.]]
* GenreBlindness: In "Tombstone Picnic", let's just say a graveyard is no place for a picnic.
* JustIgnoreIt: In "Tombstone Picnic", Boris' response to Bendy indignantly poking him is to pay no mind to him.
* ShaveAndAHaircut: Plays at the end of "Haunted Hijinx".
* {{Troll}}:
** In "Tombstone Picnic", the skeleton in the graveyard trips Bendy ForTheLulz.
** And Boris in the "Haunted Hijinx" seems to have been pretending to be asleep and scares Bendy into dropping his candy bag.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In "Tombstone Picnic", Bendy's only reaction is annoyance when a skeleton grabs his leg and trips him. Then again, he's a demon, so he's probably seen this sort of thing before.
* UseYourHead: In "Cookie Cookin," rather than use a rolling pin to flatten the dough, Bendy resorts to this trope instead.
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*** There's also an [[Creator/Michael Eisner E. Misner]]. Fitting, considering how much of Joey Drew and his Studios is [[Creator/WaltDisney inspired by another animator and studio head]] that had big [[Main/ArcWords dreams]].

** After unlocking the Seeing Tool, looking through it at Shawn Flynn's audio log in Chapter 3 reveals the message "[[LetsPlay/JackSepticEye Top of the Morning]]".

*** And one [[Film/ADayAtTheRaces Doctor Hackenbush]].

** If you ''really'' want a challenge, [[spoiler: do the two above bosses. Then, in Chapter 4, after getting out of the Butcher Gang's room and pulling the second lever, go back in. There's a cache of empty bacon soup cans for you in the back room with Lacie's audio log. Escape the room again (''Don't throw the cans.'') Now just use the cans to kill Bertrum and Brute Boris. [[SarcasmMode Easy]]. '''''Then''''', in Chapter 5, at the corridor maze, lure the Butcher Gang out when Ink Bendy passes through to have him kill them. Once you've finished the pipework, head back towards Joey's office and you'll find a SinisterScythe outside. Pick it up and get a bunch of Searchers, one of which is wearing Sammy's mask. Kill him last since the scythe breaks on him.]] Congratulations, you've unlocked [[DecadeThemedFilter black and white mode.]]

** If you ''really'' want a challenge, [[spoiler: do the two above bosses. Then, in Chapter 4, after getting out of the Butcher Gang's room and pulling the second lever, go back in. There's a cache of empty bacon soup cans for you in the back room with Lacie's audio log. Escape the room again (''Don't throw the cans.'') Now just use the cans to kill Bertrum and Brute Boris. [[SarcasmMode Easy]]. '''''Then''''', in Chapter 5, at the corridor maze, lure the Butcher Gang out when Ink Bendy passes through to have him kill them. Once you've finished the pipework, head back towards Joey's office and you'll find a SinisterScythe outside. Pick it up and get a bunch of Searchers, one of which is wearing Sammy's mask. Kill him last since the scythe breaks on him.]] Congratulations, you've put yourself through a load of difficult and nonsensical tasks and gained nothing from it. Give yourself a pat on the back.

* SerialEscalation: The studio becomes progressively more Eldritch throughout the chapters, ''most'' of what you see in the first two chapters is something you could reasonably expect to find in a real animation studio, with the weirdest thing (that isn't clearly connected to the Ink Machine itself) in them being the presence of an infirmary, something that while highly unlikely ''could'' have a mundane explanation. Chapter 3 has the giant empty rooms, long hallways that only serve to have projectors randomly placed in them, and toy department mentioned above, this is the point where it becomes impossible to ignore that the scale of what you're seeing is [[BiggerOnTheInside far too large for the tiny building above it]] and AlienGeometries become apparent. Chapter 4 is when it gets outright cartoony with a secret society of lost ones, a library and an ''an entire amusement park that even contains a haunted house ride'' being revealed to be part of the studio. By chapter 5, the game has completely given on any pretense of the location truly resembling a realistic studio, revealing ''A SMALL CITY'' on the lowest level, still being connected to the main studio.

*** In the Bendyland storage room in Chapter 4, the Seeing Tool can reveal a large curly mustache painted onto the giant Bendy cutout head, a reference to LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}}.

* AprilFoolsDay: On April 1st 2022, Joey Drew Studios released [[https://youtu.be/ypHMXCDQvaA this trailer]] implying it will be a multiplayer fighting game called ''Bendy Royale'' before saying April Fools at the end.

* AmbiguousTimePeriod: Considering the animation style being in vogue thirty years ago, you might think the game takes place in TheSixties, except for the cassette tape players scattered about, which themselves seem to record things from decades ago.

* AnAxeToGrind: Henry arms himself with an axe [[spoiler:after falling into a hidden room below the exit]] in Chapter 1. He continues to use an axe at least once per chapter.

* [[AprilFoolsDay/VideoGames April Fools Day]]: On April 1st 2022, Joey Drew Studios released [[https://youtu.be/ypHMXCDQvaA this trailer]] implying it will be a multiplayer fighting game called ''Bendy Royale'' before saying April Fools at the end.

** After [[spoiler: Henry kills Brute Boris,]] he's saved from Twisted Alice by [[spoiler: Allison and Tom]]... who then proceed to throw him in a cell. Even though they saved his life, that doesn't mean they're going to automatically trust some random guy they've never met, especially in [[EldritchLocation a place like this.]]

* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: [[spoiler:Bertrum has become]] a spinning amusement park ride.