History Tearjerker / BendyAndTheInkMachine

[[folder: Chapter 1: Moving Pictures]]

[[folder: Chapter 2: The Old Song]]

[[folder: Chapter 3: Rise and Fall]]

* After spending a while with Boris helping you get through the ruins of the studio, you wander into a room and find ''[[MesACrowd dozens]]'' of Borises, [[LastOfHisKind all dead and gutted]] just like the one in Chapter 1. Definitely a PlayerPunch, after most players have gotten close to him. Boris's reaction is worse, [[HeroicBSOD where he stares at one of his gutted clones and examines it]].

** What about his bad leg? If you pay attention how he walks in-game or have [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uv_OO247Z4c watched]] [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ufUdzzWpdN8 Pascal's]] [[https://youtu.be/DOlgifGtG6c videos]], it's painful to see him limping around.

--> '''Lost One''': *crying* H-He's going to find me! He always finds me! Oh no! I just want to go home! *crying* When do we go home? WHEN DO WE GO HOME!?

--> '''Henry''': (horrified gasp) Boris!! No, no... What has she done to you?!

--> '''Joey Drew:''' --but I'm paying for living attractions, not weird ''abominations''! Whatever that grinning thing I saw wandering around your office, you better keep it ''locked up tight''!

** Becomes even sadder if you view him telling Henry that he (Henry) should have "pushed harder" as a case of NeverMyFault. Even with everything that's happened, Joes can't fully accept that all of this madness was his and only his fault, and would go so far to protect his denial as to ''blame the one person who had absolutely no involvement.''

* [[TheCameo Shawn Flynn]]'s tape is a FunnyAneurysmMoment. He talks about how he painted some Bendy dolls with a "crooked smile" and calls Alice's merchandise "angel whatchamacallit". Then you realize that Shawn was probably [[DeathByCameo killed]] or turned into an ink monster.

* Susie's entry in Chapter 2 becomes [[HarsherInHindsight much]], ''[[HarsherInHindsight much]]'' [[HarsherInHindsight worse]] when you find her first tape in Chapter 3. All she wanted to do was voice Alice and make people happy, but then the role that could have been her big break was just yanked out from under her at the last second. It's also implied that she was dating Joey at one point before she got the job. [[KickTheDog Ouch]].

*** Might get slightly less-worse when you consider that his autobiography shows Joey was very, very, very likely gay and found the idea of dating a woman vile, and so probably wasn't dating Susie at any point.

** He also mentions that he hasn't seen a "Linda" in days due to being in the studio. Was this Linda his [[MarriedToTheJob significant other]]? His [[PapaWolf daughter]]? Whatever they were, did the studio ultimately destroy their relationship?

* [[TheCameo Shawn Flynn]]'s tape is a FunnyAneurysmMoment. He talks about how he painted some Bendy dolls with a "crooked smile" and calls Alice's merchandise "angel whatchamacallit". Then you realize that Shawn was probably [[DeathByCameo killed]] or turned into an ink monster. It's like hearing that ''LetsPlay/JackSepticEye'', his voice actor, was hurt.
** Mitigated at the end of the game when his name is not found on any coffins, so it's likely he was merely fired and lived his life elsewhere.

** If you listen close enough, you'll realize that Boris [[SayMyName actually says Henry's name]] before the fight. If you give Boris a bone back in Chapter 3, he will still have it; a clear sign that this is indeed ''OUR'' Boris, which makes this all the more heartbreaking. The one who appears at the end is named Tom, which means our Boris is most likely [[KilledOffForReal gone forever]].
** This fight becomes even worse when you analyze how he's damaged. Every time Henry damages Boris, his pipe disappears from his hand, meaning it either dissolved or got ''shoved inside Boris''. And you have to do this ''three times''. If the poor thing wasn't in agony before, he certainly was when he died.

* Sure, she was a ManipulativeBitch turned Ax-Crazy murderer, but you can't help but feel a bit bad for [[TragicMonster Susie.]] A woman who just wanted to play a character. Deceived and led on by Joey (maybe even an affair), being kicked out of the role with no prior notice, and slowly being driven mad by the Ink Machine and studio. By the time her transformation into Alice is complete, she's gone completely insane and is barely recognizable as the woman she once was. [[AlasPoorVillain Driven to become a homicidal maniac by trauma, stress, and madness...]] I'd almost call Susie!Alice being stabbed and killed by Allison!Alice a MercyKill.

* Allison Pendle has been trapped in the studio for so long that she can't remember her own name.

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[YouAreTooLate Found Boris...]]]]

* In a meta sense, seeing the studio in such heavy disrepair. The place is extremely dirty, there's ink everywhere, and not a person in sight. You listen to the tapes scattered all around the place, and you see how everyone was pushed to their breaking point by whatever Joey was doing, with formerly-enthusiastic members of the team [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere threatening to quit if anything else goes wrong]]. Bendy and Boris once came to life on movie screens, bringing joy and laughter to their audiences, but now they'd be lucky to be part of a film history class.

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[[folder:Let's Plays and Cartoon Shorts]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTAvPyqa6Mc Players' reactions]] to [[EnemyRisingBehind Alice taking Boris]]. At least half are futilely trying to warn their new buddy, screaming [[BigNo Big "No"s]] and swearing to [[IWillFindYou save Boris]].
--> '''[=AaronSayWhat=]''': "I'm going to find you. And I will kill you, Alice Angel!"
** Becomes even worse with the ending of Chapter Four. Dawko and [=DAGames=] outright cry when Boris dies.

--> '''Invisible Message:''' I'm sorry, buddy.

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* With the ending in mind, (specifically the fact that [[spoiler:Joey sent Henry on an unknowing quest to kill the Ink Demon]]), quite a few of Bendy's actions against Henry seem less out of crazed bloodlust... and more like an effort to survive. Bendy [[spoiler:clearly knew that Henry was going to use "The End" against him and stole it, only attacking him when the man got his hands of the reel.]] Several encounters with him in the previous chapters, many of which were just jump scares that caused no harm, may have been his attempts to simply scare Henry off.
** If you go with the above interpretation, [[spoiler:Bendy convulsing, crawling, reaching towards Henry and screaming as "The End" plays and causes him to evaporate]] becomes difficult to watch.
** The way Bendy [[spoiler:gets distracted from Henry and wanders over to watch what's happening on the screen is almost... childlike.]] One can't help but wonder what would have been different if he hadn't been cast aside or if Henry had still been working in the studio during his creation.

* Several of the audio logs are about the creation of the Ink Demon himself... and it's rather sad. He was the one and only Bendy ever created and brought into the real world. Why? Because he was deemed such a failure Joey didn't want to risk making another imperfect replica of his cartoon star. One log shows Joey demanding that "that grinning thing" get locked up... for no other reason than the possibility that Bendy's appearance may give the company bad PR. to make it worse, there's no indication in the audio logs that Bendy had ever done anything bad up to that point. As far as we're told, all he did was ''wander the halls and act as an in-universe case of UncannyValley.'' Makes one [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation wonder]] if he only became what he is in the game proper due to the [[GoMadFromTheIsolation forced isolation]] and a [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal desire to strike back at those who've hurt him.]]

** If you go with the above interpretation, [[spoiler:Bendy convulsing, crawling, reaching towards Henry and screaming as "The End" playes and causes him to evaporate]] becomes difficult to watch.

* Henry's attempt to rescue Boris from Alice. Just when it seems he will face Alice in the Haunted House, Henry is confronted by a frankentoon monster Boris created by Alice after she successfully took the wolf's insides. The Frankenstein Boris is now a mindless monster loyal to his kidnapper and hellbent on killing Henry, [[MercyKill forcing Henry to kill his friend]]. When you finally slay Frankenstein Boris, Henry goes to Boris's side and can only watch as the lifeless body of his friend dissolves away.

* After getting the Seeing Tool; going back through the other chapters (mainly Chapter 2) and finding all the graves with named characters on them. They did not deserve this.

* Several of the audio logs are about the creation of the Ink Demon himself... and it's rather sad. He was the one and only Bendy ever created and brought into the real world. Why? Because he was deemed such a failure Joey didn't want to risk making another imperfect replica of his cartoon star. One log shows Joey demanding that "that grinning thing" get locked up... for no other reason than the possibility that Bendy's appearance may give the company bad PR. To make it worse, there's no indication in the audio logs that Bendy had ever done anything bad up to that point. As far as we're told, all he did was ''wander the halls and act as an in-universe case of UncannyValley.'' Makes one [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation wonder]] if he only became what he is in the game proper due to the [[GoMadFromTheIsolation forced isolation]] and a [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal desire to strike back at those who've hurt him.]]

* When Joey finds out that the reason Bendy "failed" was because he lacked a soul the first thing he does is go to Susie and manipulate her into becoming the first Alice Angel.