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2:

  • There's plenty of Monumental Damage throughout the franchise, but 2 goes the extra mile with Lady Liberty. First strike sets her torch aflame, another strips her down to a hot skimpy red bikini, while another inexplicably makes her super fat (still in the bikini), before a last strike finally destroys the whole thing.
  • The ending for Hammerhead has the duo drivers wishing they could fly. The moment Calypso says he granted their wish, they immediately jump off the building and fall to their deaths. Calypso's reaction shows he wasn't even planning for them to do that.
    Calypso: (legitimately befuddled) Good thing these first-class tickets are refundable…
  • Upon selecting Spectre, Ken Masters' portrait changes to an image of him pulling down his shades and flashing a Twinkle Smile at the player.
  • Spectre's ending has Ken Masters wish for the world to know his face. Calypso grants this by stretching his face out to cover the entire planet. Horrifying on its own, but it's Calypso's response afterward that sells it.
    Calypso: The driver of Spectre had gotten his wish! Now the entire world knew Ken's face. And to tell you the truth, I rather like seeing his face every day. It's a nice face. I do not regret what I did.
  • In Shadow's ending, Mortimer tell Calypso he has a gift for him which turns out to be the souls lost in the competition who take Calypso away and leave him on the wing of a flying plane. What's amusing is how chill Calypso is about it. Doubles as a moment of awesome given how Mortimer manages to get one over on Calypso.
  • Minion's ending. Especially Calypso's childish and frightened begging as Minion throws him into Hell. Even more-so when you hear one of Calypso's reasons in his begging:
    Calypso: It's scary down there!

3:

  • Minion's ending. Here, he just wants to go back to Hell, so Calypso grants that wish, sending him to Hell… Michigan.
  • Sweet Tooth's ending. His wish is to eat all the candy and sweets he wants. Cut to him having to get dental surgery because he didn't bother brushing and flossing.
  • Mr. Grimm's ending. Unlike the other endings, Calypso doesn't need to use his powers to grant his wish, which was his soul. He just stomps on him with the sole of his shoe.

4:

  • Pizza Boy's wish is to get a super fast tricked out car for street racing. When he tries it out in a drag race, the rocket boosters are so powerful, it sends him flying into space and into a black hole.
    Clown: "Instead of looking out for potholes, he should've been looking out for black holes! AH HAHAHAHA!"
  • The Joneses want a simple wish of a brand-new feature-loaded RV camper and to have Sweet Tooth accompany them as the driver for their next vacation, which he obliges. Cut to them driving along a canyon road, singing "99 bottles of beer", and Sweeth Tooth grimacing at what he probably considers a Fate Worse than Death... Before turning sharply, forcing the RV off the road, careening into the canyon.
    • They list all of the features one at a time until the clown is finally fed up with their annoying behavior and demands that they end their wish.
  • Meter Maid's ending has her deliver Sweet Tooth the bill for all of the millions in unpaid traffic fines that he's racked up, with a promise that he can pay it off with just a few minutes of... community service. Sweet Tooth's clown minion protests that he'd never take such a deal, only for Sweet Tooth himself, clearly thinking that Meter Maid's "deal" is a euphemism for sex with the babe in the stripperiffic meter maid uniform, to interrupt and tell him that he's taking the deal. When Sweet Tooth finds out it wasn't a euphemism, all he can do is shake his head as he and his minions are forced into a driver's education course.
  • General Warthog wishes for the greatest military machine on earth, fit for war in any terrain. Cut to him commanding what turns out to be a toy tank as a child's hand rolls it across a sandbox.
  • Mr. Zombie's ending is both this and Awesome. having him apparently knowing who's Calypso and what will be the end of the tournament. His wish? "Let this world hear the wails and war cries of a dead man's soul." The wish is granted by having Rob Zombie as his real-life form performing "Superbeast", no strings attached.

Small Brawl:

  • The premise itself could give a few laughs. This time Calypso is a neighborhood bully called Billy Calypso who still somehow has the power to grant wishes, who organizes an RC car demolition derby. The drivers this time are kids who want to get back at him for his bullying along with those who want their wish granted. So imagine someone like Spectre as a kid wearing a bedsheet ghost costume or Sweet Tooth as a kid in clown makeup.
  • Shadow's driver Mortimer is a nerdy boy who just wants to rescue his pet frog from Calypso. In his ending, however, he decides to let Billy keep the frog. Why? Well, the frog has been exposed to radiation, and when the bully goes back to his shed, it bursts open revealing the frog mutated! He gives out a shrill cry as he's Eaten Alive! Before that, you can hear Mortimer running off cheering "victory!".
  • Warthog's ending involves a kid wearing a tank costume with a working cannon trying to blow up Calypso. The only thing is, Calypso has a cardboard cutout of himself standing over dynamite, and thus he ends up blowing himself up.
  • Twister's wish was for a thrill ride, so she finds herself on a kiddie ride. Only Calypso reveals it's on top of a missile!
  • Crimson Fury is a boy called Agent Stone who acts like a James Bond expy. In his ending, he encounters Calypso in a secret lair who's acting like such a cliche Diabolical Mastermind that he actually has a cat in his lap complete with exaggerated accent! And how does the agent dispatch the bully? By spraying his cat with a water pistol, complete with a great Oh, Crap! face on the cat before getting sprayed. Agent Stone leaves and we see Billy Calypso crying for mommy in a corner!
  • Outlaw is a kid wearing a cop uniform that clearly doesn't fit. He tries to blow up Calypso with a missile (never mind how he got it and how he hid it in that tiny RC car) but misses when Billy falls down a manhole. Guess what he hits instead. No really, guess. A real cop car. Cue Outlaw getting hauled off by the actual, very pissed-off police.
  • Hammerhead's wish? To become a real rock star. Calypso's twist? The young metalhead is in a stereotypical late '90s Boy Band called the Silky Boys, and lets out a scream of despair as he realizes what Calypso did to him.
  • Sweet Tooth's ending. All he wants is a little ice cream. Calypso gives him an ice cream truck asking if that's really all he wants. Sweet Tooth gives a sinister laugh, and we immediately cut to him driving down the road in a high-speed police chase with Calypso tied to the front!
  • Slam gets revenge on Billy in the greatest way possible! The construction worker buries the bully in sand and puts a porta-potty on top of Calypso's head sticking out of the sand! The last we see of Calypso, a construction worker is going to the bathroom...

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Head-On:

  • Axel's ending. A Mad Scientist bound him to his old car, and forced him to enter Twisted Metal as payback for replacing the arms and legs Axel tore off in his ending in the second game. Axel was supposed to give his wish to the scientist, but after seeing all of the death and destruction caused by the contest, decides against it. Realizing what's happening, Dr. Zeemu shocks Axel, causing his wish to come out as, "I wish for Peace-AHHH!"
    Calypso: "Peace-ahh?" Pizza! Your wish for pizza is granted! (Drops a single pepperoni pizza in from of Axel's vehicle)
  • Shadow's ending. One of the few times Calypso doesn't even try to screw over the winner for once (though he did try to suggest that Mortimer wish for killing the kids who woke him up). He actually complies with Mortimer's request and sends him back to sleep in his grave. How, you ask? In a move that's equal parts heartwarming and hilarious, he does so by reading him a bedtime story about his victory while he's lying in his coffin with a teddy bear, complete with kindergarten-style crayon drawings! Keep in mind both people involved are in their late 30s at the youngest.
  • Gene Ruttish's Ending has him with to become a Chick Magnet. While the end result is rather disturbing, there's also something hilarious about how even Calypso calls him "quite the catch" right after the wish is granted.
  • Cousin Eddie's ending. Calypso is already pissed that Eddie shows up in the contest uninvited and refusing to grant his wish. However, Eddie forces him to fulfill his greatest wish: a better [truck]. What's funnier is the simple fact that Calypso is unable to spitefully twist such a simple wish from a simple-minded hillbilly like Eddie.
  • In his ending, Chuckie Floop's last words before getting crushed to death by a pile of money are a mildly disappointed "Weak..."

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