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That's literally what the aesthetic is referencing
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* Whether it's intentional or not, the sepia-toned color scheme calls to mind the fact that ''animation cels'' in the black and white era were [[https://dyn1.heritagestatic.com/lf?set=path%5B2%2F4%2F3%2F3%2F9%2F24339557%5D%2Csizedata%5B850x600%5D&call=url%5Bfile%3Aproduct.chain%5D painted with cream colors.]]
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* Whether it's intentional or not, the The sepia-toned color scheme calls to mind the fact that ''animation cels'' in the black and white era were [[https://dyn1.heritagestatic.com/lf?set=path%5B2%2F4%2F3%2F3%2F9%2F24339557%5D%2Csizedata%5B850x600%5D&call=url%5Bfile%3Aproduct.chain%5D painted with cream colors.]]
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* Whether it's intentional or not, the sepia-toned color scheme calls to mind the fact that ''animation cels'' in the black and white era were [[https://dyn1.heritagestatic.com/lf?set=path%5B2%2F4%2F3%2F3%2F9%2F24339557%5D%2Csizedata%5B850x600%5D&call=url%5Bfile%3Aproduct.chain%5D painted with cream colors.]]
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* While some players call Bertrum Piedmont's ride in Chapter 4 a merry-go-round, it's actually the type of ride known in the United States as a Scrambler, in Australia as a Cha Cha, and in the UK as... a Twister. Making it an unexpected Twist, and Bertrum decidedly Twist-ed.
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* While some players call Bertrum Piedmont's ride in Chapter 4 a merry-go-round, it's actually the type of ride known in the United States as a Scrambler, in Australia as a Cha Cha, and in the UK as... a Twist. Making it an unexpected Twist, and Bertrum decidedly Twist-ed.
** Unless this is referring to very specific small parts of the UK, it’s inaccurate - it’s known as a merry-go-round or carousel in the UK.
** Unless this is referring to very specific small parts of the UK, it’s inaccurate - it’s known as a merry-go-round or carousel in the UK.
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* While some players call Bertrum Piedmont's ride in Chapter 4 a merry-go-round, it's actually the type of ride known in the United States as a Scrambler, in Australia as a Cha Cha, and in the UK as... a Twist. Twister. Making it an unexpected Twist, and Bertrum decidedly Twist-ed.
** Unless this is referring to very specific small parts of the UK, it’s inaccurate - it’s known as a merry-go-round or carousel in the UK.Twist-ed.
** Unless this is referring to very specific small parts of the UK, it’s inaccurate - it’s known as a merry-go-round or carousel in the UK.
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** Unless this is referring to very specific small parts of the UK, it’s inaccurate - it’s known as a merry-go-round or carousel in the UK.
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** This might be Wild Mass Guessing territory. We're not completely sure. Though it would explain why Bendy is after Henry, but he doesn't know what happened, and this is assuming the Bendy chasing him is the ''real'' one.
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** This might be Wild Mass Guessing territory. We're Actually, while Henry did create Bendy, that tape is not completely sure. Though it would explain why Bendy is after Henry, but he doesn't know what happened, and this is assuming referring to Bendy, who was revealed in the Bendy chasing him is books to have been created before the ''real'' one.studio was even created.
** In an interesting note, Henry and Joey's last names both reflect on things the ''other'' did. Henry ''drew'' things, while Joey brought monsters to life like Frankenstein.
** It's also likely a hint to the studio not being the real one, but rather a twisted and warped reflection of it, as is revealed in the sequel. Joey's office is at the very bottom of the studio in the game, and in the books, his office was described as being on the very top floor. The entire building is literally an inverted reflection of itself.
** There's not actually two. They're both parts of the same machine.
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* Depending on how you interpret the ending. If you take it as a flashback to pre-Chapter 1, it means that Joey sealed his tortured, miserable, test-subject employees who were driven mad from his greed behind a locked door to duke it out for ''30 years'', (with it getting so bad that Allison Angel doesn't even ''remember her own name''[[note]](this doesn't seem to be a side effect of the transformation. Susie calls herself "Susie" and Tom responds to "Tom" despite being a perfect Boris)[[/note]] and pretending like it never happened, leaving them all to suffer.
** In relation to the above: We never see what happens to Henry after he defeats Bendy. The game instantly cuts to a flashback. It can be interpreted that Joey sent Henry to clean up his mess with ''no way for him to come back.'' As far as Joey is concerned, Henry killing Bendy is 'the end' of the story, so there's no need for him to figure out how Henry is supposed to go home to his family, or what's to become of Alison and Tom and everyone else still there...
*** Note how Joey phrases his request to Henry. 'Come visit the old studio; there's something I want to show you.' He makes it seem like he would meet Henry there later, or would be waiting for him inside the studio. Instead, Joey sends Henry there ''alone'', knowing exactly what (and who) is waiting for him down there...
** Another theory: Back in the 1920's and 30's when Henry and Joey created these characters and into the 40's, people didn't watch cartoons on television. They watched them in movie theaters, often on a continuous loop. Henry reaching "The End" doesn't really end things, it just resets everything for another loop.
* Henry first left the studio because he wanted to spend more time with Linda. If you believe the theory that Henry and everyone else are trapped in a never-ending time loop (like the hidden golden notes suggest) that means that as long as the cycle continues, he’s never going to see her again.
** In relation to the above: We never see what happens to Henry after he defeats Bendy. The game instantly cuts to a flashback. It can be interpreted that Joey sent Henry to clean up his mess with ''no way for him to come back.'' As far as Joey is concerned, Henry killing Bendy is 'the end' of the story, so there's no need for him to figure out how Henry is supposed to go home to his family, or what's to become of Alison and Tom and everyone else still there...
*** Note how Joey phrases his request to Henry. 'Come visit the old studio; there's something I want to show you.' He makes it seem like he would meet Henry there later, or would be waiting for him inside the studio. Instead, Joey sends Henry there ''alone'', knowing exactly what (and who) is waiting for him down there...
** Another theory: Back in the 1920's and 30's when Henry and Joey created these characters and into the 40's, people didn't watch cartoons on television. They watched them in movie theaters, often on a continuous loop. Henry reaching "The End" doesn't really end things, it just resets everything for another loop.
* Henry first left the studio because he wanted to spend more time with Linda. If you believe the theory that Henry and everyone else are trapped in a never-ending time loop (like the hidden golden notes suggest) that means that as long as the cycle continues, he’s never going to see her again.
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** In relation to the above: We never see what happens to Henry after he defeats Bendy. The game instantly cuts to
*** Note how Joey phrases his request to Henry. 'Come visit the old studio; there's something I want to show you.' He makes it seem like he would meet Henry there later, or would be waiting for him inside the studio. Instead, Joey sends Henry there ''alone'', knowing exactly what (and who) is waiting for him down there...
** Another theory: Back in the 1920's and 30's when Henry and Joey created these characters and into the 40's, people didn't watch cartoons on television. They watched them in movie theaters, often on a continuous loop. Henry reaching "The End" doesn't really end things, it just resets everything for another loop.
* Henry first left the studio because he wanted to spend more time with Linda.
** This is made even worse by the reveal in the sequel that he's been a copy of Henry all along. Close examination of his model reveals he's wearing a wedding ring--the Henry we know can never return to the family he dearly loves despite having never met, because the real him never left in the first place.
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* Doubles as FunnyAneurysmMoment, but you know how people found hitting the Bendy cutouts with the axe cathartic in Chapter 2? "Alice" reveals that Inked Bendy [[BerserkButton does not like that]] just after you destroy four more cutouts. Suddenly, it's not as fun.
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* Doubles as FunnyAneurysmMoment, HarsherInHindsight, but you know how people found hitting the Bendy cutouts with the axe cathartic in Chapter 2? "Alice" reveals that Inked Bendy [[BerserkButton does not like that]] just after you destroy four more cutouts. Suddenly, it's not as fun.
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** Although in a related note, there is a character in the original novel named Henry Clerval, who serves as Victor's {{Foil}} and is his closest friend. Sounds an awful lot like Henry's past relationship with Joey, doesn't it?
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* The Ink Demon has throne in his lair in Chapter five, but if you ignore the dangling chains and pipes wedged into the top, it looks rather like a large, somewhat ostentatious chair. Now realize that Joey’s office lacks any chair at all for his desk, it’s very close to the lair, and of course Joey would only buy such a nice chair for himself. The Ink Demon ''stole'' Joey’s chair! Talk about petty revenge.
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Story theory is basically disproven by the books
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* Depending on how you interpret the ending. If you take it as a flashback to pre-Chapter 1, it means that Joey sealed his tortured, miserable, test-subject employees who were driven mad from his greed behind a locked door to duke it out for ''30 years'', (with it getting so bad that Allison Angel doesn't even ''remember her own name''[[note]](this doesn't seem to be a side effect of the transformation. Susie calls herself "Susie" and Tom responds to "Tom" despite being a perfect Boris)[[/note]] and pretending like it never happened, leaving them all to suffer. Another (slightly crackpot)interpretation could be an AndIMustScream situation, where they're not "really" real, just ink creations from the ink machine in Joey's house with "imprints" of employees used to tell a story to Joey's niece/nephew. Born insane, born to suffer and to die for the entertainment of a child, over and over again.
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* Depending on how you interpret the ending. If you take it as a flashback to pre-Chapter 1, it means that Joey sealed his tortured, miserable, test-subject employees who were driven mad from his greed behind a locked door to duke it out for ''30 years'', (with it getting so bad that Allison Angel doesn't even ''remember her own name''[[note]](this doesn't seem to be a side effect of the transformation. Susie calls herself "Susie" and Tom responds to "Tom" despite being a perfect Boris)[[/note]] and pretending like it never happened, leaving them all to suffer. Another (slightly crackpot)interpretation could be an AndIMustScream situation, where they're not "really" real, just ink creations from the ink machine in Joey's house with "imprints" of employees used to tell a story to Joey's niece/nephew. Born insane, born to suffer and to die for the entertainment of a child, over and over again.
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Susie and Joey never had an ‘affair’?? They’re not married to anyone, and they had lunch, once. Plus Joey is repeatedly stated to never be interested in women.
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* The backstory that Susie had an affair with Joey Drew, and that it was implied that either because of or despite the affair he fired her from the Alice Angel role. It's a sad truth revealed in 2017-18 that in the film industry, executives exploit actors and actresses in this fashion and it has most likely been this way since the time period in which Bendy is set.
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** The "mask" itself is also clearly broken so Sammy can see and be heard.
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story theory has long since been disproven
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* While the implication that the entire game was all just a story is somewhat calming, the fact that the bloody ''Ink Machine'' exists in the real world isn’t very calming at all!!
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* Bottles of ink are labelled with the skull-and-crossbones logo. Ink is often made of horribly toxic ingredients. Of course, this *particular* ink may also be supernaturally evil.
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* Henry first left the studio because he wanted to spend more time with Linda. If you believe the theory that Henry and everyone else are trapped in a never-ending time loop (like the hidden golden notes suggest) that means that as long as the cycle continues, he’s never going to see her again.
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** She introduces herself via a JumpScare, and then, less than an hour later, makes him watch as she tortures a Butcher Gang clone, all while [[MoodSwinger switching rapidly between multiple different moods]]. This display quickly establishes her as psychotic and unpredictable, and not only that, [[SinisteSurveillance but she can tell wherever Henry is and what he's doing]], showing that she has some sort of power outside of her equipment. After all that, Henry doesn't want to speak and risk accidentally saying something that will anger her.
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** She introduces herself via a JumpScare, and then, less than an hour later, makes him watch as she tortures a Butcher Gang clone, all while [[MoodSwinger switching rapidly between multiple different moods]]. This display quickly establishes her as psychotic and unpredictable, and not only that, [[SinisteSurveillance [[SinisterSurveillance but she can tell wherever Henry is and what he's doing]], showing that she has some sort of power outside of her equipment. After all that, Henry doesn't want to speak and risk accidentally saying something that will anger her.
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* Although Henry doesn't seem to have any problem speaking to many of the strange characters he meets, he noticeably never says a word to "Alice", by far the most talkative character in the game. Hell, he doesn't even ''mention'' her until he sees what she's done to Boris. There are two possible reasons for this:
** He's channeling Chell from ''{{VideoGame/Portal}}'' and doesn't want to give this psychotic AttentionWhore the satisfaction of speaking to her.
** She introduces herself via a JumpScare, and then, less than an hour later, makes him watch as she tortures a Butcher Gang clone, all while [[MoodSwinger switching rapidly between multiple different moods]]. This display quickly establishes her as psychotic and unpredictable, and not only that, [[SinisteSurveillance but she can tell wherever Henry is and what he's doing]], showing that she has some sort of power outside of her equipment. After all that, Henry doesn't want to speak and risk accidentally saying something that will anger her.
** He's channeling Chell from ''{{VideoGame/Portal}}'' and doesn't want to give this psychotic AttentionWhore the satisfaction of speaking to her.
** She introduces herself via a JumpScare, and then, less than an hour later, makes him watch as she tortures a Butcher Gang clone, all while [[MoodSwinger switching rapidly between multiple different moods]]. This display quickly establishes her as psychotic and unpredictable, and not only that, [[SinisteSurveillance but she can tell wherever Henry is and what he's doing]], showing that she has some sort of power outside of her equipment. After all that, Henry doesn't want to speak and risk accidentally saying something that will anger her.
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* While the implication that the entire game was all just a story is somewhat calming, the fact that the bloody ''Ink Machine''exists in the real isn’t very calming at all!!
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* While the implication that the entire game was all just a story is somewhat calming, the fact that the bloody ''Ink Machine''exists Machine'' exists in the real world isn’t very calming at all!!
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** In relation to the above: We never see what happens to Henry after he defeats Bendy. The game instantly cuts to a flashback. It can be interpreted that Joey sent Henry to clean up his mess with ''no way for him to come back.'' As far as Joey is concerned, Henry killing Bendy is 'the end' of the story, so there's no need for him to figure out how Henry is supposed to go home to his family, or what's to become of Alison and Tom and everyone else still there...
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** In relation to the above: We never see what happens to Henry after he defeats Bendy. The game instantly cuts to a flashback. It can be interpreted that Joey sent Henry to clean up his mess with ''no way for him to come back.'' As far as Joey is concerned, Henry killing Bendy is is 'the end' of the story, so there's no need for him to figure out how Henry is supposed to go home to his family, or what's to become of Alison and Tom and everyone else still there...
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* Sammy wears a Bendy mask, followed by the Ink Demon killing him. The Ink Demon hates when cardboard cutouts of him are broken. How else could Sammy possibly get that mask?
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* There's a severe amount of religious imagery, specifically "the creator lied to us." So the creator could be:
** Joey, who made the cartoons and was generally a Jerkass.
** The Ink Demon, a "god" who betrays Sammy.
** Twisted Alice, a religious figure who betrays Henry.
* The Butcher Gang generally gets shafted in merch. That makes sense due to being mooks, but think about this: it's a meta way of reflecting the poor business decisions Joey made.
* If Alice dolls would've been made at that time, they would've had steep competition from the Shirley Temple doll. Joey's ego means he would've overcharged for them, hence why they didn't sell well and likely lost to the similar Shirley Temple doll.
** Joey, who made the cartoons and was generally a Jerkass.
** The Ink Demon, a "god" who betrays Sammy.
** Twisted Alice, a religious figure who betrays Henry.
* The Butcher Gang generally gets shafted in merch. That makes sense due to being mooks, but think about this: it's a meta way of reflecting the poor business decisions Joey made.
* If Alice dolls would've been made at that time, they would've had steep competition from the Shirley Temple doll. Joey's ego means he would've overcharged for them, hence why they didn't sell well and likely lost to the similar Shirley Temple doll.
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*** But then again, what happens to a cartoon after it's ended its run? [[spoiler: It enters syndication and gets rerun for the indefinite future.]] And sometimes [[spoiler: television networks will add their own minor edits to the original footage in an attempt to keep audiences watching]].
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*** But then again, what happens to a cartoon after it's ended its run? [[spoiler: It enters syndication and gets rerun for the indefinite future.]] future. And sometimes [[spoiler: television networks will add their own minor edits to the original footage in an attempt to keep audiences watching]].watching.
