History NightmareFuel / BendyAndTheInkMachine

** The most unnerving part, however, is the Norman's audio log in the Projectionist's lair. It's like he knew and accepted what was going to happen or was happening to him.

--> '''Henry''': Oh my god... Joey, what were you ''doing?''

-->'''Sammy''': (on the tape) But sometimes... love requires sacrifice. Can I get an amen? (tape ends; [[OhCrap in the room, out of view]]) [[WhamLine I said...]] ''[[WhamLine can I get an amen?]]''

--> '''Henry''': If anybody finds this... my name is Henry. And I'm trapped far below Joey Drew Studios, a man I used to work for. There's crazy things happening down here: Monsters, demons... Angels. And right now, 2 of them are holding me prisoner. I don't know how to get out of here... but there's more. There's a secret hiding in the shadows. [[NothingisScarier I-I just feel like I'm being watched.]] There's something else at work here. If anyone finds this, you must not- ''(loud clanking noises)'' Hold on... They're coming back!" ''>Tape Ends<''

-->'''Joey Drew''': And in response to your previous memo: if you claim your failures are because these things are [[TheSoulless soulless]], then damn it, [[YourSoulIsMine we'll get them a soul!]] [[BadBoss After all, I own thousands of 'em!]]

** The sequel, ''VideoGame/BendyAndTheDarkRevival'' makes the above point even ''more horrifying'' with TheReveal that the "Henry" we've been playing throughout the game was never the ''real'' Henry, [[CloningBlues but an inky clone of him created by Joey Drew]][[note]]Which explains Henry's superhuman resilience and his ability to respawn at Bendy statues after being killed[[/note]]. And the reason Joey created him? So he could have him tormented endlessly out of hatred for the real Henry for abandoning their cartoon empire. That's right. All the suffering, all the nightmares Henry has had to endure throughout the game? All the product of one man's madness and spite. HumansAreTheRealMonsters indeed.

* When you find out what happened to Norman Polk, the studio's projectionist. He is no longer human, and has become an ink-drenched, MechanicalAbomination with a running projector serving as his head and wires connecting from the projector to his back. Whatever human consciousness he had is long gone, reducing him into a feral monster that constantly stalks the dark studio halls in search of prey, ironically living up to his role as a projectionist.

** Chapter Three seems to shed some light on this. Twisted Alice says that she had been "returned to the ink", and that the ink is a "well of voices". Perhaps Henry becomes [[AndIMustScream a victim of this]], becoming just another voice in the ink?

** As of Chapter Three, Twisted Alice states that Ink Bendy gets angry when his cutouts are destroyed. The situation surrounding the cutouts themselves is still a little ambiguous...

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzj007eqD-U The Trailer]]

** Sammy sounds like a cultist the whole way, praising Ink Bendy as a god. He states that he plans to sacrifice you to Ink Bendy, which would hopefully cause his "god" to free him of his warped body. What's more, one of his lines implies that he ''recognizes'' Henry, so they could once have been friends a long time ago. Sammy leaves the room, and is immediately attacked and either murdered or tortured by Ink Bendy. You then have to run away from the ink demon down several boarded-up halls, frantically chopping away for your life to escape. [[FromBadToWorse Then your axe breaks, leaving you without a weapon.]]

* Rather minor, but the interactive pool table added in the Chapter Four update has [[EyeScream an honest-to-the-Ink-Demon EYEBALL on it.]]

** You finally activate the ink pump, clearing the stairwell of the ink leaked from the broken pipes. You head for the exit... and suddenly get knocked out. When you wake up, you're tied up and greeted by Sammy Lawrence, an employee of the studio who's been trapped here ever since Joey's experiments went horribly wrong. He doesn't even look human anymore; he's just a human-shaped blob of ink, clothed in what looks like paper overalls, with a Bendy mask for a face.

* Finally, the ending.

*** The update that came with Chapter 3 now has you running through a mazelike corridor as you run from Ink Bendy. Any wrong turn can lead you to a dead-end where Ink Bendy can corner and kill you.

*** Oh, Chapter Three confirms that there ''are'' copies. But so far they're only of the Butcher Gang and Boris...

* There are far more [[ApocalypticLog audio logs]] littered around the basement. Some are pretty harmless, talking about things like a new voice actor getting excited for her new role as a new character in the Bendy cartoon, but then you find one that has a deranged employee called Sammy talking about how "[[ArcWords he will set us free]]". His entire speech sounds like a cultist praising his deity. That's creepy enough as is... but then the tape ends, ''[[OhCrap and Sammy keeps talking]]''.

* You find another one later, hidden and locked in a closet. Here Sammy sounds more and more like he's lost his mind, talking about sanctuaries in the basement, and gives instructions on how to open his personal one.
* Yet another one talks about just how bad the actual working conditions really were in Joey's studio: Most of the employees had to work in a stuffy basement with no visible ventilation, all the while the noisy ink machine rattled above them and made it impossible to focus. The real kicker came when several of the pipes above started bursting, flooding parts of the basement with ink. It's stated that this even happened at the ''stairwell'', leaving employees trapped down there until the mess was cleaned up.
* Early in the second chapter, you find several ''moving'' puddles of ink on the ground. Shortly after turning on the power, one of the puddles of ink takes the shape of a human-shaped ink monster that's called a Searcher, and charges straight at you. Shortly after you kill it, more Searchers spawn around the area to attack you.

*** The objective is merely "RUN AWAY". You can't fight him at all, especially without the axe, so that's all you can do.

* As of the September 28 update, you can hear music coming from a locked room that's lit up. The light shuts off loudly as you pass it after collecting at least two objects, and that's when you can open it. But nobody's inside and the music has stopped playing...

* In the update that came with Chapter 3, once you've pressed the Flow button in the theater room, a pipe will burst and ink starts gushing out, flooding the room.

* The sequel has teasers in the form of [[https://bendy.fandom.com/wiki/Bendy_and_the_Dark_Revival Audio Logs from the various studio staff]]; [[https://bendy.fandom.com/wiki/File:Unknown_-_April_14 the last recording, however,]] belonging to an unknown character, is spliced from the previous Audio Logs twisting the character's words into an ominous warning that something big will happen at Joey Drew Studios while a ScareChord builds and ends with a creepy voice commenting after the recording is over.
--> '''Unknown''': How very interesting. Such... Knowledge.