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** The cliffhanger of the fourth chapter will make you rip your hair: [[spoiler: the psycho Alice who tormented you is literally backstabbed by ''another'' Alice with a Boris of her own. If Alice Prime was a human-cartoon fusion driven mad by her components' unability to get along, who is ''this'' Alice?]]
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* TroubledProduction: InUniverse, the composer Sammy Lawrence would interrupt music recordings for the animation productions. He would mess with the projector and run back to it, to the band's bewilderment.
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* BeaconOfHope: While most of the cartoons are villainous and trying to kill Henry, Boris the Wolf is the exception, being a friendly, calm cartoon character that helps Henry in his quest to atone for past sins. Though he's cowardly, he shows that he is possibly the only good cartoon in the studio.
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* AllHailTheGreatGodMickey: [[spoiler:In-Universe cartoon character Bendy (a Mickey Mouse Expy, no less!) is treated as a feared deity by just about everyone in the studio. [[Main/EldritchAbomination And for a good reason, too]].]]
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** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQJz1aNBkv0 Find The Keys]]'' and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEPNlpFyIHQ Cells No More]]'' by The Stupendium, which are appropriately full of animation puns.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: In chapter 2, Susie Campbell, the voice actor for Alice Angel, says she feels like a part of her. [[spoiler:In chapter 3, it turns out that Susie makes up part of Alice, due to Joey's actions.]]
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* {{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.]]
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Two official shorts were created as well. [[https://youtu.be/VGtfNngBIb8 "Tombstone Picnic"]] and [[https://youtu.be/9ysjpJpoqrs "Haunted Hijinks"]].Hijinx"]].
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!! Tropes for the Bendy Cartoons Featured in the Trailer:
* ButtMonkey: In his cartoon shorts, Bendy apparently is one, where Boris steals his lunch in "Tombstone Picnic".
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* {{Troll}}: The skeleton in the graveyard trips Bendy ForTheLulz. And Boris in the "Haunted Hijinks" seems to have been pretending to be asleep and scares Bendy into dropping his candy bag.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In the promotional Bendy cartoon, Bendy's only reaction is annoyance when a skeleton grabs his leg and trips him.
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->''"Fear the Machine."''
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[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/870695568_preview_bendysteamimage_chapterone01.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:The Creator lied to us...]]
''Bendy and the Ink Machine'' is an indie puzzle horror EpisodicGame created by theMeatly, and is currently in progress.
You are Henry, a former traditional animator. You get a strange note from a friend, Joey Drew, that invites you to your old workplace. While there, you have to turn on the ink machine, which apparently powers the place. Nothing is as it seems, however. What happened to your old work buddy? Why does Bendy appear to follow you everywhere you go?
There are a total of five chapters for this game. Chapter 1 was released on February 10, 2017. Chapter 2 was released on April 18th, 2017. Chapter 3 was released on September 28th, 2017. The release dates for Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 are currently unknown.
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!!''Bendy and the Ink Machine'' provides examples of:
* AmbiguousSituation:
** The first chapter being only 15 minutes, there's very little information that isn't left up in the air for interpretation. The [[spoiler:murder and dissection of Boris the Wolf]] is an especially big point of contention, since [[spoiler:the candles on the floor suggest it was Joey's doing, while the message on the wall suggests it was Bendy, and adopting either viewpoint changes the game's narrative significantly]]. The second chapter clears it up a little bit, [[spoiler:by showing that Bendy is, indeed, murderous]], but just what went down at the studio is still a mystery.
** It's also becoming rather unclear if the Bendy we saw is the real Bendy. Because, even after [[spoiler:the Ink Machine is activated and Inked Bendy is released]], the cutouts that were active beforehand don't turn hostile and remain curious and sometimes helpful.
** The cliffhanger of the second chapter will leave you asking questions as well. [[spoiler:Yes, Boris seems to have saved you from Bendy, but is he your friend, or does he simply want you for himself?]] More importantly, [[spoiler:how exactly is he still ''alive'' given what we saw in Chapter 1? Was he resurrected? Are reanimated cartoon characters actually unkillable and what we saw was just a temporary setback? Is he even the same Boris?]]
** The third chapter reveals a bit more: [[spoiler:Boris is friendly, and he's not the same Boris as the one from the top floor. It also seemingly answers a question from Chapter 1 as well: [[TakeAThirdOption It's implied that]] '''[[TakeAThirdOption Alice]]''' [[TakeAThirdOption killed the Boris on the top floor, as well as several others, to]] [[EvilIsPetty maintain her "beauty"]].]] However, it also brings up a few more questions of its own. [[spoiler:Alice claims she knows "why Henry is really here", and that she "won't let him get in the way of what has to be done", but she never explains what she means by that. Why did Henry come to the studio? Does he want to shut down the Ink Machine? If so, why would he turn it on in Chapter 1? Did he come here for some other reason? Or is Alice's line just a result of SanitySlippage?]]
* 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]].
* AndIMustScream: In chapter 3, [[spoiler:"Alice"]] describes being "returned to the ink" as being trapped inside of a well full of endlessly buzzing, screaming voices.
* AntiFrustrationFeatures: With the chapter 3 update, any progress-critical item will now shine, making them easier to discern among the sepia environments.
* ApocalypticLog: The tape recorders strewn around the studio count as this. Some have workers complain about Joey (and Sammy) suffering SanitySlippage, others relate to everyday work at the studio. They often contain clues.
* ArcSymbol: Bendy's cheery mug, as seen above. Also, pentagrams.
* ArcWords: "He will set us free."
* AsYouKnow: The note from Joey specifies that he and Henry worked at the animation studio thirty years ago and have fallen out of touch.
* AwesomeButImpractical: On a tape recording in Chapter 1, one employee, Wally Franks, mentions that the ink machine is noisy, uses a lot of ink, and seems pretty useless. In addition, it means the animations aren't getting done on time.
* BigOMG: Henry utters one upon seeing [[spoiler:Boris strapped to the table]].
* BodyHorror:
** [[spoiler:Sammy seems to have become part-ink during his time beneath the studio.]]
** The ink monsters in chapter two.
** [[spoiler:Alice Angel, the Butcher Gang, and Norman are NOT pretty to look at. AT ALL.]]
* BoundAndGagged: [[spoiler:Henry near the end of Chapter Two, after Sammy captures him.]]
* TheCameo: One of the tape recordings from chapter 3, made by a Mr. "Shawn Flynn", [[spoiler: was voiced by LetsPlay/JackSepticEye]].
* CandlelitRitual: At the end of Chapter 1, Henry stumbles upon a room with [[spoiler:a pentagram on the floor]] and some candles. It's currently unknown what exactly these were used for, but it's strongly implied they were put together for some sort of dark ritual.
* CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase: The title.
* CheckPointStarvation: A ''very'' common criticism of Chapter 2 is the fact that ''there are no checkpoints''. If the player dies at any point, it's straight back to the beginning with absolutely no progress saved, which can mean up to twenty minutes of backtracking to get another try at what you messed up on.[[note]]Though there aren't very many places where the player is in extreme danger, the first ink monster attack catches quite a few players off-guard enough to send them back to the start, and the second one is a ZergRush that, combined with the axe's slow swing speed and short reach, is also quite difficult.[[/note]]
** Later fixed in a patch. The game now autosaves just before those two points.
** Chapter Three introduced a respawn mechanic, turning this into a case of DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist. However, if you quit for any reason, even if it's not your fault, the game will disregard any saves and send you back to the beginning of the Chapter on the next playthrough.
* {{Cliffhanger}}:
** The first chapter ends on one. [[spoiler:You are trapped under the exit to the studio, armed with an axe as Bendy begins to emerge from the darkness.]]
** As does the second one. [[spoiler:You have just escaped Bendy and someone has barred the door behind you. As you call out to your mysterious helper, Boris emerges from behind the corner.]]
** Third one does the same thing. [[spoiler:Henry wakes up after the elevator crash and sees Boris trying to revive him, with Alice sneaking up from behind and winding up to strike Henry's only friend in this place in the back.]]
* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Since the release of Chapter 3, Henry respawns after death without losing any progress, with punch clocks serving as checkpoints and Bendy statues serving as respawn points.
* EasterEgg:
** After you turn on the Ink Machine, return to the room where Boris is in and walk through the wall with the poster on it to find [[spoiler:a secret room containing the mascot of the game's developer, theMeatly]].
*** You can also do this in Chapter 2, by going through the [[spoiler:Boris Poster next to the Piano after turning on the Flow Control]].
** In chapter two, playing the radio in [[spoiler:Sammy's office]] will play [[spoiler:a special swing version of [[Creator/DAGames Build Our Machine]]]].
*** Another radio [[spoiler:added to Chapter 1 in an update, in the room where the light turns off]] plays another fan-created song: [[spoiler:Bendy And The Ink Machine, by Kyle Allen]].
** A slightly freakier secret as of the Chapter 3 update -- if you hack or glitch into an area where you're not supposed to go, you come across [[spoiler:a Bendy cutout with realistic eyes and what appears to be BloodFromTheMouth, holding a sign that reads WANDERING IS A TERRIBLE SIN.]] Apparently this was put into the game to discourage hacking.
* EldritchLocation: [[spoiler:As of Chapter 3, the animation studio seems to be turning into this. Not only is the basement impossibly big for the tiny building above it, it also has things that just don't make sense for an animation studio to have, like giant open rooms with nothing in them, a department for producing plush toys of the characters, and several long hallways that serve no purpose but to have random projectors placed in them at random. Henry points out that he doesn't remember these rooms, but it's not clear if it's a result of the Ink Machine and Joey's experimentation, or if they were just built during the thirty years between his retirement and the game.]]
* {{Expy}}
** Bendy seems based on Mickey Mouse and Bimbo the dog, being a primarily black cartoon creature with white gloves. His mischievous personality is more like Bimbo, but his design recalls Mickey more.
** Boris resembles Goofy.
** Alice Angel is likely based on WesternAnimation/BettyBoop, being a more realistic counterpart to Bendy (Betty was once a dog like Bimbo) with a sexy design and popularity that is said to be greater than the original star.
* FilkSong:
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZstsPUKT5CI Build Our Machine]]'' for Chapter 1 and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Jco30RGuHo Gospel of Dismay]]'' for Chapter 2, by Creator/DAGames.
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wecPcDgO6o Bendy and the Ink Machine]]'' and its [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=346m3ByAXyw remix]] by Kyle Allen Music and Creator/TheLivingTombstone respectively.
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avVUXOGMpyY Bend You Till You Break]]'' by [=TryHardNinja=].
* FoodAsBribe: [[spoiler:You can convince Boris to escort Henry out of the safehouse by heating up two cans of bacon soup for him.]]
* FourFingeredHands: A feature of all cartoon characters, complete with WhiteGloves. [[spoiler:The inked-covered Sammy Lawrence also has these without the gloves, while Bendy in his Inked form has five-fingered hands seemingly growing through his gloves.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In chapter 2, Susie Campbell, the voice actor for Alice Angel, says she feels like a part of her. [[spoiler:In chapter 3, it turns out that Susie makes up part of Alice, due to Joey's actions.]]
* GoryDiscretionShot: We don't actually see [[spoiler:Inked Bendy tearing Sammy Lawrence to pieces]].
* {{Homage}}: The whole game shows love for traditional black and white animation in the {{Creator/Disney}} and Creator/FleischerStudios style.
* HyperactiveMetabolism: In chapter two, you can replenish your health by eating bacon soups, though who knows what's actually in them.
* IronicNurseryTune: [[spoiler:Sammy]] sings one as he's about to [[spoiler:sacrifice Henry to Bendy]].
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Sammy is killed in the same way he tried to have Henry killed.]]
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:Sammy is killed by Bendy]] behind closed doors, but not out of Henry's earshot.
* JumpScare:
** Bendy's cardboard cutout appears at random times, though you never see it moving. [[spoiler:Except for one time, when it peeks around a corner to look at you. And it happens again in Chapter Two and Chapter Three. All times, they actually seem to be helping, as they do that when you're reaching an area of importance.]]
*** As of September 28, you can now open the door that's on the left side of Wally Frank's tape now. [[spoiler: Guess what suddenly peeks out at you while you are opening it?]]
** After you turn on the ink machine, [[spoiler:"Inked" Bendy appears with a ScareChord, forcing Henry to run]].
** In chapter two, you have [[spoiler:the appearance of the ink monsters, who are quite fond of this. Also, Bendy does this again by the end of the chapter]].
* MysteriousWatcher:
** Bendy seems eager to follow you and watch your actions. And he also seems more proactive than most. [[spoiler:The cutouts are sometimes placed near objects or areas of importance. And, as mentioned above, they thrice peer out at you from a corner, seeming to point you in the right direction.]]
** In chapter two, after you close the ink flow and go through the recording room, if you look up at the projector booth, you can see [[spoiler:Bendy's cardboard cutout accompanied by Sammy, both watching you intently, though you won't know who the latter is yet]].
* MortonsFork: In Chapter Three, [[spoiler:Henry finds Alice Angel confronting him. She "persuades" him to become her "errand boy" because her alternative is to tear him apart, or to leave him for the Searchers, Ink Monsters and Bendy. She also admits that she just might let Henry live long enough to get the items she needs, so at best Henry is buying time before Alice kills him. Either way Henry is dead.]]
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: [[spoiler:Alice Angel succeeds in capturing Boris because he left the safehouse to help Henry.]]
* OffscreenTeleportation: The cardboard cutout Bendy is very fond of this. In the second chapter, he can even regenerate if you chop him off with the axe and reappear as soon as you take your sight off it.
** Though this is only if the cutout is positioned in front of a Pentagram.
* OhCrap:
** Henry gasps when he sees Bendy's cardboard cutout in the middle of the hallway. [[spoiler:And it wasn't there before.]]
** Henry reacts this way upon seeing [[spoiler:"Inked" Bendy and makes a break for the entrance]].
* RandomlyGeneratedLevels: All the maps are currently fixed, but there are some gameplay elements that are mixed up between each playthrough.
** In Chapter One: The [[FetchQuest six objects you need to collect]] are shuffled around in different places with each playthrough.
** In Chapter Two:
*** The switches you need to find to open the first gate shift locations with each playthrough.
*** [[spoiler:To enter Sammy's sanctuary, you must play four instruments in a specific order while the projector is running to open the gate.]] The combination needed is delivered via a tape recorder. MadLibsDialogue allows for multiple options for the unlock.
* RealityEnsues: Even if an animation boss is respected and talented, he'll lose his employees' confidence if he undergoes SanitySlippage, introduces an AwesomeButImpractical machine, and allows for unsanitary working conditions. On Wally's tape recorder in Chapter 1, he threatens to quit if another pipe bursts.
* {{Retcon}}: Whenever a new chapter releases, the previous chapters tend to get updated along with it.
** After Chapter 2 released, Chapter 1 featured some new rooms, a redesigned Boris, and an artistic overhaul for [[spoiler:Inked Bendy]]. After Chapter 3, yet more new rooms were added, including one that features the new Punch Clock introduced in said chapter, there's a new audio log regarding a plumber named Thomas Connor, who worked on the Ink Machine's pipes, that rightly decided to [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere never work for Joey Drew again]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Bacon Soup cans were added]].
** Chapter 2's Searchers were updated to be the more pained, less upright ones from Chapter 3.
* RecycledInSpace: The entire setup is basically [[WholePlotReference Lovecraft's]] ''From Beyond'' [[spoiler:with the titular Ink Machine playing the part of the Resonator... and what it brings into the world is just as unfriendly as it is in the story. Amped up even further when you realize that Alice Angel/Susie is playing the part of Praetorius...to the death]].
* RitualMagic: [[spoiler:Joey was up to some seriously occult business in the studio, and if his insistence on "sacrificial" items for the Ink Machine and a gutted real-life Boris don't sell you, the satanic pentagram hidden under the studio will.]]
* RogerRabbitEffect: Features living cartoons (who are fictional in-universe) emerging from the machine as you explore the abandoned animation studios. In Chapter 1, [[spoiler:Bendy himself]] appears to be out for blood, while you can also find [[spoiler:his old partner/nemesis Boris the Wolf, strapped to a table and vivisected]]. Chapter 2 gives us [[spoiler:Boris alive and well]]. And then there's [[spoiler:Sammy Lawrence, [[BodyHorror who at this point is a hybrid of human and ink-dripping cartoon]]]].
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
** Wally Franks's recordings always end with him threatening to quit if another bad incident occurs in the studio (ie. another pipe bursting). Thomas Connor ''did'' quit.
** Henry, to his credit, tries when [[spoiler:he sees "Inked" Bendy. The problem is that he then falls through a secret room]].
** An audio log added to chapter 1 after the release of chapter 3 has a man named Thomas Connor having to fix Sillyvision's pipes to the Ink Machine, and decides, partly because of how frustrating repairing the pipes are, but primarily in how he has a bad feeling about said machine, that he's never doing another repair job for the company again.
* ShoutOut: The book you find in chapter one is called [[Literature/TheIllusionOfLife The Illusion of Living]].
* SubvertedKidsShow: Puts an interesting spin on this. The Bendy cartoons the plot revolves around are cute and family-friendly, with an old-fashioned rubber hose Creator/{{Disney}} style. However, in the studio, [[spoiler:there's an actual Boris the Wolf, cut open and strapped to a table, and some toothy cartoon monstrosity (that resembles Bendy) comes after you while you're unable to escape]].
* TapOnTheHead:
** [[spoiler:Sammy knocks Henry out]] near the end of chapter two, and yet Henry's perfectly capable of running and swinging an axe shortly afterwards. Granted, he was also fearing for his life at that point. Adrenaline can do amazing things. [[spoiler:Then it's subverted when chapter three reveals that Henry spent time recovering in the safe house while Boris cared for him and played cards with him.]]
** Subverted when [[spoiler:Alice Angel crashes the elevator holding Henry and Boris, and the impact knocks out Henry. Boris barely manages to rouse Henry, who can't warn Boris about an approaching Alice Angel. Then Henry lapses back into unconsciousness after seeing Alice take Boris, and Alice assumes he is dead.]]
* TroubledProduction: InUniverse, the composer Sammy Lawrence would interrupt music recordings for the animation productions. He would mess with the projector and run back to it, to the band's bewilderment.
* WhamLine: Found [[spoiler:in the room below the exit]]: "The Creator lied to us".
** In Chapter 3:
--> '''[[spoiler:Alice Angel]]''': [[spoiler:I see you there.]]
** Chapter 3 also has [[spoiler:Alice's [[EvilLaugh maddened cackling]] while you're in the elevator, revealing that you're not quite out of the woods yet. Then she says, "I know who you are, Henry! I know why you're here!"]].
* WhamShot:
** [[spoiler:Boris is strapped to a table, his mouth open. It's not clear if he's alive, though the amount of rib cage showing, coupled with his WingdingEyes showing X would normally indicate otherwise. He ''is'' a cartoon, though, so...]]
** After gathering all the necessary items, you have to head to the projector room to hit the ink flow button. [[spoiler:On the way there, you catch a moment's glance of the Bendy cutout peering out at you. When you round the corner, you find it propped up against the wall, with fresh ink at its feet...]]
** [[spoiler:After activating the Ink Machine, Henry rounds the corner to find it boarded off -- before "Inked" ''Bendy'' appears right before his eyes.]]
** [[spoiler:After you escape from a fully formed Inked Bendy, you walk down a hall and find none other than Boris. Alive and well.]]
** What remains of [[spoiler:Sammy Lawrence]], shown in the {{Stinger}}.
** In Chapter 3, you and Boris come across [[spoiler:an entire room full of Borises and Butcher Gang members having been killed in a similar manner as Chapter 1]]. A moment later, and we get another: [[spoiler:Alice torturing a Butcher Gang member, revealing that she's the one responsible]].
* WhiteGloves: All the cartoon characters wear them. Amusingly, Alice seems to wear the traditional WhiteGloves over a pair of elbow-length HighClassGloves.
!! Tropes for the Bendy Cartoons Featured in the Trailer:
* ButtMonkey: In his cartoon shorts, Bendy apparently is one, where Boris steals his lunch in "Tombstone Picnic".
* CreepyJazzMusic: The cartoon's soundtrack is a ragtime riff.
* EnemyEatsYourLunch: 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]].
* GenreBlindness: Let's just say a graveyard is no place for a picnic.
* JustIgnoreIt: Boris's response to Bendy indignantly poking him is to pay no mind to him.
* {{Troll}}: The skeleton in the graveyard trips Bendy ForTheLulz.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In the promotional Bendy cartoon, Bendy's only reaction is annoyance when a skeleton grabs his leg and trips him.
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->''"Fear the Machine."''
-->-- '''{{Tagline}}'''
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[[caption-width-right:350:The Creator lied to us...]]
''Bendy and the Ink Machine'' is an indie puzzle horror EpisodicGame created by theMeatly, and is currently in progress.
You are Henry, a former traditional animator. You get a strange note from a friend, Joey Drew, that invites you to your old workplace. While there, you have to turn on the ink machine, which apparently powers the place. Nothing is as it seems, however. What happened to your old work buddy? Why does Bendy appear to follow you everywhere you go?
There are a total of five chapters for this game. Chapter 1 was released on February 10, 2017. Chapter 2 was released on April 18th, 2017. Chapter 3 was released on September 28th, 2017. The release dates for Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 are currently unknown.
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!!''Bendy and the Ink Machine'' provides examples of:
* AmbiguousSituation:
** The first chapter being only 15 minutes, there's very little information that isn't left up in the air for interpretation. The [[spoiler:murder and dissection of Boris the Wolf]] is an especially big point of contention, since [[spoiler:the candles on the floor suggest it was Joey's doing, while the message on the wall suggests it was Bendy, and adopting either viewpoint changes the game's narrative significantly]]. The second chapter clears it up a little bit, [[spoiler:by showing that Bendy is, indeed, murderous]], but just what went down at the studio is still a mystery.
** It's also becoming rather unclear if the Bendy we saw is the real Bendy. Because, even after [[spoiler:the Ink Machine is activated and Inked Bendy is released]], the cutouts that were active beforehand don't turn hostile and remain curious and sometimes helpful.
** The cliffhanger of the second chapter will leave you asking questions as well. [[spoiler:Yes, Boris seems to have saved you from Bendy, but is he your friend, or does he simply want you for himself?]] More importantly, [[spoiler:how exactly is he still ''alive'' given what we saw in Chapter 1? Was he resurrected? Are reanimated cartoon characters actually unkillable and what we saw was just a temporary setback? Is he even the same Boris?]]
** The third chapter reveals a bit more: [[spoiler:Boris is friendly, and he's not the same Boris as the one from the top floor. It also seemingly answers a question from Chapter 1 as well: [[TakeAThirdOption It's implied that]] '''[[TakeAThirdOption Alice]]''' [[TakeAThirdOption killed the Boris on the top floor, as well as several others, to]] [[EvilIsPetty maintain her "beauty"]].]] However, it also brings up a few more questions of its own. [[spoiler:Alice claims she knows "why Henry is really here", and that she "won't let him get in the way of what has to be done", but she never explains what she means by that. Why did Henry come to the studio? Does he want to shut down the Ink Machine? If so, why would he turn it on in Chapter 1? Did he come here for some other reason? Or is Alice's line just a result of SanitySlippage?]]
* 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]].
* AndIMustScream: In chapter 3, [[spoiler:"Alice"]] describes being "returned to the ink" as being trapped inside of a well full of endlessly buzzing, screaming voices.
* AntiFrustrationFeatures: With the chapter 3 update, any progress-critical item will now shine, making them easier to discern among the sepia environments.
* ApocalypticLog: The tape recorders strewn around the studio count as this. Some have workers complain about Joey (and Sammy) suffering SanitySlippage, others relate to everyday work at the studio. They often contain clues.
* ArcSymbol: Bendy's cheery mug, as seen above. Also, pentagrams.
* ArcWords: "He will set us free."
* AsYouKnow: The note from Joey specifies that he and Henry worked at the animation studio thirty years ago and have fallen out of touch.
* AwesomeButImpractical: On a tape recording in Chapter 1, one employee, Wally Franks, mentions that the ink machine is noisy, uses a lot of ink, and seems pretty useless. In addition, it means the animations aren't getting done on time.
* BigOMG: Henry utters one upon seeing [[spoiler:Boris strapped to the table]].
* BodyHorror:
** [[spoiler:Sammy seems to have become part-ink during his time beneath the studio.]]
** The ink monsters in chapter two.
** [[spoiler:Alice Angel, the Butcher Gang, and Norman are NOT pretty to look at. AT ALL.]]
* BoundAndGagged: [[spoiler:Henry near the end of Chapter Two, after Sammy captures him.]]
* TheCameo: One of the tape recordings from chapter 3, made by a Mr. "Shawn Flynn", [[spoiler: was voiced by LetsPlay/JackSepticEye]].
* CandlelitRitual: At the end of Chapter 1, Henry stumbles upon a room with [[spoiler:a pentagram on the floor]] and some candles. It's currently unknown what exactly these were used for, but it's strongly implied they were put together for some sort of dark ritual.
* CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase: The title.
* CheckPointStarvation: A ''very'' common criticism of Chapter 2 is the fact that ''there are no checkpoints''. If the player dies at any point, it's straight back to the beginning with absolutely no progress saved, which can mean up to twenty minutes of backtracking to get another try at what you messed up on.[[note]]Though there aren't very many places where the player is in extreme danger, the first ink monster attack catches quite a few players off-guard enough to send them back to the start, and the second one is a ZergRush that, combined with the axe's slow swing speed and short reach, is also quite difficult.[[/note]]
** Later fixed in a patch. The game now autosaves just before those two points.
** Chapter Three introduced a respawn mechanic, turning this into a case of DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist. However, if you quit for any reason, even if it's not your fault, the game will disregard any saves and send you back to the beginning of the Chapter on the next playthrough.
* {{Cliffhanger}}:
** The first chapter ends on one. [[spoiler:You are trapped under the exit to the studio, armed with an axe as Bendy begins to emerge from the darkness.]]
** As does the second one. [[spoiler:You have just escaped Bendy and someone has barred the door behind you. As you call out to your mysterious helper, Boris emerges from behind the corner.]]
** Third one does the same thing. [[spoiler:Henry wakes up after the elevator crash and sees Boris trying to revive him, with Alice sneaking up from behind and winding up to strike Henry's only friend in this place in the back.]]
* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Since the release of Chapter 3, Henry respawns after death without losing any progress, with punch clocks serving as checkpoints and Bendy statues serving as respawn points.
* EasterEgg:
** After you turn on the Ink Machine, return to the room where Boris is in and walk through the wall with the poster on it to find [[spoiler:a secret room containing the mascot of the game's developer, theMeatly]].
*** You can also do this in Chapter 2, by going through the [[spoiler:Boris Poster next to the Piano after turning on the Flow Control]].
** In chapter two, playing the radio in [[spoiler:Sammy's office]] will play [[spoiler:a special swing version of [[Creator/DAGames Build Our Machine]]]].
*** Another radio [[spoiler:added to Chapter 1 in an update, in the room where the light turns off]] plays another fan-created song: [[spoiler:Bendy And The Ink Machine, by Kyle Allen]].
** A slightly freakier secret as of the Chapter 3 update -- if you hack or glitch into an area where you're not supposed to go, you come across [[spoiler:a Bendy cutout with realistic eyes and what appears to be BloodFromTheMouth, holding a sign that reads WANDERING IS A TERRIBLE SIN.]] Apparently this was put into the game to discourage hacking.
* EldritchLocation: [[spoiler:As of Chapter 3, the animation studio seems to be turning into this. Not only is the basement impossibly big for the tiny building above it, it also has things that just don't make sense for an animation studio to have, like giant open rooms with nothing in them, a department for producing plush toys of the characters, and several long hallways that serve no purpose but to have random projectors placed in them at random. Henry points out that he doesn't remember these rooms, but it's not clear if it's a result of the Ink Machine and Joey's experimentation, or if they were just built during the thirty years between his retirement and the game.]]
* {{Expy}}
** Bendy seems based on Mickey Mouse and Bimbo the dog, being a primarily black cartoon creature with white gloves. His mischievous personality is more like Bimbo, but his design recalls Mickey more.
** Boris resembles Goofy.
** Alice Angel is likely based on WesternAnimation/BettyBoop, being a more realistic counterpart to Bendy (Betty was once a dog like Bimbo) with a sexy design and popularity that is said to be greater than the original star.
* FilkSong:
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZstsPUKT5CI Build Our Machine]]'' for Chapter 1 and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Jco30RGuHo Gospel of Dismay]]'' for Chapter 2, by Creator/DAGames.
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wecPcDgO6o Bendy and the Ink Machine]]'' and its [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=346m3ByAXyw remix]] by Kyle Allen Music and Creator/TheLivingTombstone respectively.
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avVUXOGMpyY Bend You Till You Break]]'' by [=TryHardNinja=].
* FoodAsBribe: [[spoiler:You can convince Boris to escort Henry out of the safehouse by heating up two cans of bacon soup for him.]]
* FourFingeredHands: A feature of all cartoon characters, complete with WhiteGloves. [[spoiler:The inked-covered Sammy Lawrence also has these without the gloves, while Bendy in his Inked form has five-fingered hands seemingly growing through his gloves.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In chapter 2, Susie Campbell, the voice actor for Alice Angel, says she feels like a part of her. [[spoiler:In chapter 3, it turns out that Susie makes up part of Alice, due to Joey's actions.]]
* GoryDiscretionShot: We don't actually see [[spoiler:Inked Bendy tearing Sammy Lawrence to pieces]].
* {{Homage}}: The whole game shows love for traditional black and white animation in the {{Creator/Disney}} and Creator/FleischerStudios style.
* HyperactiveMetabolism: In chapter two, you can replenish your health by eating bacon soups, though who knows what's actually in them.
* IronicNurseryTune: [[spoiler:Sammy]] sings one as he's about to [[spoiler:sacrifice Henry to Bendy]].
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Sammy is killed in the same way he tried to have Henry killed.]]
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:Sammy is killed by Bendy]] behind closed doors, but not out of Henry's earshot.
* JumpScare:
** Bendy's cardboard cutout appears at random times, though you never see it moving. [[spoiler:Except for one time, when it peeks around a corner to look at you. And it happens again in Chapter Two and Chapter Three. All times, they actually seem to be helping, as they do that when you're reaching an area of importance.]]
*** As of September 28, you can now open the door that's on the left side of Wally Frank's tape now. [[spoiler: Guess what suddenly peeks out at you while you are opening it?]]
** After you turn on the ink machine, [[spoiler:"Inked" Bendy appears with a ScareChord, forcing Henry to run]].
** In chapter two, you have [[spoiler:the appearance of the ink monsters, who are quite fond of this. Also, Bendy does this again by the end of the chapter]].
* MysteriousWatcher:
** Bendy seems eager to follow you and watch your actions. And he also seems more proactive than most. [[spoiler:The cutouts are sometimes placed near objects or areas of importance. And, as mentioned above, they thrice peer out at you from a corner, seeming to point you in the right direction.]]
** In chapter two, after you close the ink flow and go through the recording room, if you look up at the projector booth, you can see [[spoiler:Bendy's cardboard cutout accompanied by Sammy, both watching you intently, though you won't know who the latter is yet]].
* MortonsFork: In Chapter Three, [[spoiler:Henry finds Alice Angel confronting him. She "persuades" him to become her "errand boy" because her alternative is to tear him apart, or to leave him for the Searchers, Ink Monsters and Bendy. She also admits that she just might let Henry live long enough to get the items she needs, so at best Henry is buying time before Alice kills him. Either way Henry is dead.]]
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: [[spoiler:Alice Angel succeeds in capturing Boris because he left the safehouse to help Henry.]]
* OffscreenTeleportation: The cardboard cutout Bendy is very fond of this. In the second chapter, he can even regenerate if you chop him off with the axe and reappear as soon as you take your sight off it.
** Though this is only if the cutout is positioned in front of a Pentagram.
* OhCrap:
** Henry gasps when he sees Bendy's cardboard cutout in the middle of the hallway. [[spoiler:And it wasn't there before.]]
** Henry reacts this way upon seeing [[spoiler:"Inked" Bendy and makes a break for the entrance]].
* RandomlyGeneratedLevels: All the maps are currently fixed, but there are some gameplay elements that are mixed up between each playthrough.
** In Chapter One: The [[FetchQuest six objects you need to collect]] are shuffled around in different places with each playthrough.
** In Chapter Two:
*** The switches you need to find to open the first gate shift locations with each playthrough.
*** [[spoiler:To enter Sammy's sanctuary, you must play four instruments in a specific order while the projector is running to open the gate.]] The combination needed is delivered via a tape recorder. MadLibsDialogue allows for multiple options for the unlock.
* RealityEnsues: Even if an animation boss is respected and talented, he'll lose his employees' confidence if he undergoes SanitySlippage, introduces an AwesomeButImpractical machine, and allows for unsanitary working conditions. On Wally's tape recorder in Chapter 1, he threatens to quit if another pipe bursts.
* {{Retcon}}: Whenever a new chapter releases, the previous chapters tend to get updated along with it.
** After Chapter 2 released, Chapter 1 featured some new rooms, a redesigned Boris, and an artistic overhaul for [[spoiler:Inked Bendy]]. After Chapter 3, yet more new rooms were added, including one that features the new Punch Clock introduced in said chapter, there's a new audio log regarding a plumber named Thomas Connor, who worked on the Ink Machine's pipes, that rightly decided to [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere never work for Joey Drew again]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Bacon Soup cans were added]].
** Chapter 2's Searchers were updated to be the more pained, less upright ones from Chapter 3.
* RecycledInSpace: The entire setup is basically [[WholePlotReference Lovecraft's]] ''From Beyond'' [[spoiler:with the titular Ink Machine playing the part of the Resonator... and what it brings into the world is just as unfriendly as it is in the story. Amped up even further when you realize that Alice Angel/Susie is playing the part of Praetorius...to the death]].
* RitualMagic: [[spoiler:Joey was up to some seriously occult business in the studio, and if his insistence on "sacrificial" items for the Ink Machine and a gutted real-life Boris don't sell you, the satanic pentagram hidden under the studio will.]]
* RogerRabbitEffect: Features living cartoons (who are fictional in-universe) emerging from the machine as you explore the abandoned animation studios. In Chapter 1, [[spoiler:Bendy himself]] appears to be out for blood, while you can also find [[spoiler:his old partner/nemesis Boris the Wolf, strapped to a table and vivisected]]. Chapter 2 gives us [[spoiler:Boris alive and well]]. And then there's [[spoiler:Sammy Lawrence, [[BodyHorror who at this point is a hybrid of human and ink-dripping cartoon]]]].
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
** Wally Franks's recordings always end with him threatening to quit if another bad incident occurs in the studio (ie. another pipe bursting). Thomas Connor ''did'' quit.
** Henry, to his credit, tries when [[spoiler:he sees "Inked" Bendy. The problem is that he then falls through a secret room]].
** An audio log added to chapter 1 after the release of chapter 3 has a man named Thomas Connor having to fix Sillyvision's pipes to the Ink Machine, and decides, partly because of how frustrating repairing the pipes are, but primarily in how he has a bad feeling about said machine, that he's never doing another repair job for the company again.
* ShoutOut: The book you find in chapter one is called [[Literature/TheIllusionOfLife The Illusion of Living]].
* SubvertedKidsShow: Puts an interesting spin on this. The Bendy cartoons the plot revolves around are cute and family-friendly, with an old-fashioned rubber hose Creator/{{Disney}} style. However, in the studio, [[spoiler:there's an actual Boris the Wolf, cut open and strapped to a table, and some toothy cartoon monstrosity (that resembles Bendy) comes after you while you're unable to escape]].
* TapOnTheHead:
** [[spoiler:Sammy knocks Henry out]] near the end of chapter two, and yet Henry's perfectly capable of running and swinging an axe shortly afterwards. Granted, he was also fearing for his life at that point. Adrenaline can do amazing things. [[spoiler:Then it's subverted when chapter three reveals that Henry spent time recovering in the safe house while Boris cared for him and played cards with him.]]
** Subverted when [[spoiler:Alice Angel crashes the elevator holding Henry and Boris, and the impact knocks out Henry. Boris barely manages to rouse Henry, who can't warn Boris about an approaching Alice Angel. Then Henry lapses back into unconsciousness after seeing Alice take Boris, and Alice assumes he is dead.]]
* TroubledProduction: InUniverse, the composer Sammy Lawrence would interrupt music recordings for the animation productions. He would mess with the projector and run back to it, to the band's bewilderment.
* WhamLine: Found [[spoiler:in the room below the exit]]: "The Creator lied to us".
** In Chapter 3:
--> '''[[spoiler:Alice Angel]]''': [[spoiler:I see you there.]]
** Chapter 3 also has [[spoiler:Alice's [[EvilLaugh maddened cackling]] while you're in the elevator, revealing that you're not quite out of the woods yet. Then she says, "I know who you are, Henry! I know why you're here!"]].
* WhamShot:
** [[spoiler:Boris is strapped to a table, his mouth open. It's not clear if he's alive, though the amount of rib cage showing, coupled with his WingdingEyes showing X would normally indicate otherwise. He ''is'' a cartoon, though, so...]]
** After gathering all the necessary items, you have to head to the projector room to hit the ink flow button. [[spoiler:On the way there, you catch a moment's glance of the Bendy cutout peering out at you. When you round the corner, you find it propped up against the wall, with fresh ink at its feet...]]
** [[spoiler:After activating the Ink Machine, Henry rounds the corner to find it boarded off -- before "Inked" ''Bendy'' appears right before his eyes.]]
** [[spoiler:After you escape from a fully formed Inked Bendy, you walk down a hall and find none other than Boris. Alive and well.]]
** What remains of [[spoiler:Sammy Lawrence]], shown in the {{Stinger}}.
** In Chapter 3, you and Boris come across [[spoiler:an entire room full of Borises and Butcher Gang members having been killed in a similar manner as Chapter 1]]. A moment later, and we get another: [[spoiler:Alice torturing a Butcher Gang member, revealing that she's the one responsible]].
* WhiteGloves: All the cartoon characters wear them. Amusingly, Alice seems to wear the traditional WhiteGloves over a pair of elbow-length HighClassGloves.
!! Tropes for the Bendy Cartoons Featured in the Trailer:
* ButtMonkey: In his cartoon shorts, Bendy apparently is one, where Boris steals his lunch in "Tombstone Picnic".
* CreepyJazzMusic: The cartoon's soundtrack is a ragtime riff.
* EnemyEatsYourLunch: 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]].
* GenreBlindness: Let's just say a graveyard is no place for a picnic.
* JustIgnoreIt: Boris's response to Bendy indignantly poking him is to pay no mind to him.
* {{Troll}}: The skeleton in the graveyard trips Bendy ForTheLulz.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In the promotional Bendy cartoon, Bendy's only reaction is annoyance when a skeleton grabs his leg and trips him.
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