The Bendy cartoons are a series of animated shorts made as promo material for Bendy and the Ink Machine. Unlike the game, they're generally innocent and family-friendly, with little-to-no of the overt horror elements the main series is known for. The short "Tombstone Picnic" is the most directly connected to the plot of the game and was first revealed in chapter 2.
The Bendy Cartoons provide examples of:
- Butt-Monkey: Bendy is typically this in the cartoons.
- In "Tombstone Picnic," his lunch gets stolen by Boris and tormented by a skeleton.
- In "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. Then Boris eats the carrot for the snowman, and at that point Bendy cries. And that's where it ends.
- Creepy Jazz Music: The cartoon's soundtrack is a ragtime riff.
- A Day in the Limelight: "Tasty Trio Troubles" is centered mostly on the Butcher Gang, who haven't appeared in the shorts prior to it.
- Enemy Eats Your Lunch:
- 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, 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. 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.
- Genre Blindness: In "Tombstone Picnic", let's just say a graveyard is no place for a picnic.
- Just Ignore It: In "Tombstone Picnic", Boris' response to Bendy indignantly poking him is to pay no mind to him.
- Shave And A Haircut: Plays at the end of "Haunted Hijinx".
- Troll:
- In "Tombstone Picnic", the skeleton in the graveyard trips Bendy For the Lulz.
- And Boris in the "Haunted Hijinx" seems to have been pretending to be asleep and scares Bendy into dropping his candy bag.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: 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.
- Use Your Head: In "Cookie Cookin," rather than use a rolling pin to flatten the dough, Bendy resorts to this trope instead.
