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~Captain Carl "Buzz" Roberts, an LAPD officer wanting to end Twisted Metal, wins the tournament, and wishes for a world without Twisted Metal. [[JackassGenie Calypso being Calypso, he "grants" the wish]] [[LostInSPace by launching Carl and his patrol car into outer space]].\\

[[WMG: Gene Ruttish is Boomhauer from King of the Hill:]]
He learned how to control his powers and moved to Arlen to start a new life

[[WMG: Twisted Metal and Videogame/{{Five Nights at Freddys}} take place in the same universe.]]
The Colour scheme of Twisted Metal:Black and Five Nights at Freddy's are similar to each other. The same Brown, Black, Gray and Orange colour scheme that was seen in Black. ''World's most famous family pizza place'' is apparently not the strangest wish Calypso would have granted. Not to mention Twisted Metal 3 and 4 have very similar graphics to FNAF in their endings. Plus Sweet Tooth murder's children, it is entirely possible he was the murderer. His Ice Cream Truck may have also been a former truck that was owned by the Pizzeria.

The Colour scheme of Twisted Metal:Black and Five Nights at Freddy's are similar to each other. The same Brown, Black, Gray and Orange colour scheme that was seen in Black. ''World's best family pizza place'' is apparently not the strangest wish Calypso would have granted. Not to mention Twisted Metal 3 and 4 have very similar graphics to FNAF in their endings. Plus Sweet Tooth murder's children, it is entirely possible he was the murderer. His Ice Cream Truck may have also been a former truck that was owned by the Pizzeria.

[[WMG: Twisted Metal and Videogame/{{Five Nights at Freddys}} take place in the same universe]]
The Colour scheme of Twisted Metal:Black and Five Nights at Freddy's are similar to each other. The same Brown, Black, Gray and Orange colour scheme that was seen in Black. ''World's best family pizza place'' is apparently not the strangest wish Calypso would have granted. Not to mention Twisted Metal 3 and 4 have very similar graphics to FNAF in their endings.

[[WMG: Twisted Metal and Main/{{Five Nights at Freddys}} take place in the same universe]]

[[WMG: Twisted Metal and {{Videogame Five Nights at Freddy's}} take place in the same universe]]

[[WMG: Twisted Metal and {{Videogame Five Nights at Freddys}} take place in the same universe]]

[[WMG: Twisted Metal and {{Five Nights at Freddys}} take place in the same universe]]

[[WMG: Twisted Metal and {{Main Five Nights at Freddys}} take place in the same universe]]

[[WMG: Twisted Metal and {{Five Nights at Freddys}} take place in the same universe]]

[[WMG: Twisted Metal and {{Videogame Five Nights at Freddy's}} take place in the same universe]]

[[WMG: Twisted Metal and {{Five Nights at Freddy's}} take place in the same universe]]

[[WMG: Twisted Metal and {{Five nights at Freddy's}} take place in the same universe]]

[[WMG: Twisted Metal and {{Videogame/Five Nights at Freddy's}} take place in the same universe]]

[[WMG: Twisted Metal and {{Five Nights at Freddy's}} take place in the same universe]]

~Circa-1900s: A traveling circus/demolition derby called "High Octane", run by an enigmatic man named "Calypso"[[note]]this isn't THE William Sparks Calypso... [[LegacyCharacter at least, not yet]][[/note]], traveled from town-to-town, allowing prospecting contestants to compete in a vehicular BloodSport to claim one wish. When High Octane travelled to one town in particular, a young boy named Needles Kane[[note]]this isn't THE "Marcus Kane = Needles Kane"... [[RunningGag at least, not yet]][[/note]] was enthralled by the destructive circus, and ran away to follow it wherever it went.

~Circa-1930s-1940s: Finally getting old enough to drive, Needles Kane hijacks an ice cream truck, and uses it to enter one of the High Octane contests. After winning the contest, Needles presented himself before Calypso, and asked for his prize: namely, that he'd be the "star" of the High Octane competition. Calypso granted this wish, [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor but there's a little catch]]: while Needles would be able to compete in the High Octane competition as a "star", [[InTheBlood his entire bloodline would be cursed with his bloodlust and dementia]], [[YouCantFightFate and would be forever damned to become murderers who eventually join the High Octane competition]]. Naturally, [[CardCarryingVillain Needles being Needles, he had NO problem with that whatsoever]].

~1970s-early 1990s: Fast-forward decades later, and the latest line of the Kane family, Marcus Kane, would be born in Alabama in 1974. He would eventually grow up to be a family man, but the spirit of the ''original'' Needles Kane would haunt him, eventually performing a SplitPersonalityTakeover that got him committed to the psyche ward (yes, I'm basically implying Marcus Kane is basically the IdenticalGrandson to Needles Kane. [[FlatWhat What?]] It's not like Twisted Metal isn't MindScrew-[[BuffySpeak ey]] anyways...)

~1993: A man named William Sparks, his wife, and daughter Krista died in a terrible car crash (which may or may not have been William committing suicide after suffering bouts of depression over his dead sister). Although it's not exactly known what happened to his wife and daughter at the time, William went straight to hell, and spent two full years trapped down there.

~1995: William eventually encountered Minion, the real manager of the High Octane competition (with "Calypso" merely being his human form's pseudonym). Minion, in his arrogance, accepted a little challenge from William: if he could outdrive him in a race, William wouldn't just get out of hell free, but would also obtain Minion's powers to offer wishes. Beating all odds, William outdrove Minion, and claimed Minion's powers from his own.\\
~William also made a deal with {{Satan}} to come back to life in exchange for souls from running Minion's High Octane competition, sending both the losing drivers and killed bystanders alike straight to hell. This newfound power attracted Satan's most powerful demon, known only as "Black", to Calypso's side, which manifest's itself as his prized possession - a [[RingOfPower ring]].
~William re-emerged from Hell and adopted Minion's former pseudonym of Calypso, and took over the High Octane traveling circus, renaming it as the Twisted Metal Tournament. He placed the Arena for the competition in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles, and holds the first annual Twisted Metal Tournament there.\\

~1996-2004: The Twisted Metal competition was held on an annual basis in L.A., steadily becoming more ambitious and destructive in its scale. Local law enforcement, the military, and even mercenaries and hitman are called upon to stop the tournament and Calypso, but all to no avail. In, the 10th annual competition, Minion is the winner (although whatever wish he had is not known, it's likely meant to be only the first step to getting revenge on Calypso for stealing away his tournament).

~Mr. Ash and Mr. Grimm both compete to lay claim to Black, and Calypso's soul, respectively. However, both of them fail to do so, and Mr. Ash may indeed have been killed in the attempt (or at least, never competes again).\\
~Captain Carl "Buzz" Roberts, an LAPD officer wanting to end Twisted Metal, wins the tournament, and wishes for a world without Twisted Metal. [[JackassGenie Calypso being Calypso, he "grants" the wish by launching Carl and his patrol car into outer space]].\\
~In the contest, both Marcus "Needles" Kane and his father, Charlie Kane, would be "killed" in the tournament, but thanks to the original curse placed on the Kane family, neither of them "stays" dead - Needles Kane would manifest as a LiteralSplitPersonality from Marcus Kane, leaving Marcus "free" from Needles, but utterly baffled at the world around him. Convinced the events of the series were AllJustADream, he steals the abandoned Roadkill, and plans to enter the next competition to free himself. Charlie Kane, meanwhile, would be recognized for his raw driving potential by Calypso, and ends up as his personal slave, being given the "Dark Tooth" vehicle to compete next year.\\

~The LAPD dig up the remains of Krista Sparks, and piece what's left of them into a machine designed to detonate and kill Calypso after she won the contest. However, this plan becomes moot when Krista is defeated and killed (again) during the competition.
~Captain Jamie Roberts, who joined the competition to find her missing brother, wins the competition, and wishes to be with her brother again. Like the first time, [[JackassGenie Calypso abuses the wording to launch Jamie into outer space too]], but since Jamie was more GenreSavvy, [[CrazyPrepared she had her squad car outfitted with rocket boosters to navigate her car back to Earth after saving Carl]].\\

~Needles "Sweet Tooth" Kane wins this competition (and this time, [[KillEmAll it seems like NOBODY ELSE survived]] and even Mr. Grimm was so badly mangled by Sweet Tooth that he deluded himself to be APirate400YearsTooLate). This time (instead of the stupid-ass "I want to eat all the candy and ice cream I want" ending from Twisted Metal III), Sweet Tooth wished to rule Twisted Metal, and made good on this wish by leading a coup against Calypso with a pack of midget clowns. [[DestinationDefenstration Calypso was tossed out of his office window]], Sweet Tooth claimed the PowerRing with Black's powers still inside of it, and officially took control of the Twisted Metal competition.

~Calypso wins the competition, and demands to take control of his demon, Black (through the PowerRing he had manifested in) and the Twisted Metal competition. When Sweet Tooth and his clowns refuse, Calypso fights them over the ring, and in the process, they end up releasing the souls from the ring, blasting Needles, Calypso, Black and even Marcus Kane into the ''TwistedMetalBlack'' universe (with Marcus' assumptions that ''Black'' [[YourMindMakesItReal takes place in Needle's head being only]] ''[[FromACertainPointOfView sort of]]'' right, as it was the ''[[JustForPun black]]'' [[MentalWorld imaginations of both Needles and Calypso that lead to the creation of the "Black" universe]].\\

~In the ''TwistedMetalBlack'' universe, Needles, Calypso, and Black had all lost memories of the "real world", with only Marcus holding an inkling of what really happened. Eventually, Marcus "Minion" Kane wins the Twisted Metal competition (or at least manipulates events so the contest winner would fulfill his wish), and takes himself, Needles, Calypso and Black back to the main timeline, and in doing so slams a giant ResetButton back on Twisted Metal 2 , leading to the events of Twisted Metal: Head-On.\\

~Like last time, Jamie won the prior competition. Only Mr. Grimm, Marcus Kane and Axel return from Twisted Metal 2, with the others presumably being killed by the ResetButton, (although Mr. Slam and Krista Sparks CameBackWrong as {{PhysicalGhost}}s).\\

~The Marcus Kane of the Reboot timeline is convinced to carve "Needles" Kane in the form of a mask, and when he does so, Needles performs a SplitPersonalityTakeover on Marcus - he then proceeds to butchers Marcus' wife and youngest son, with only his daughter, Sophie Kane, escaping. Either because Needles was so blinded with revenge against Sophie, or because he wanted another "heir" for his work, he left Marcus' eldest son, Charlie Kane, alive. Over the years, Needles would hunt for Sophie Kane, until he competed and won the first Twisted Metal Tournament hosted in the ''2012'' game. Demanding Calypso send him to Sophie now, Calypso does so - [[spoiler: but reveals that Sophie had committed suicide sometime ten years ago, and as a result, Needles would be BuriedAlive with her rotted corpse. Needles would spend his final moments angrily screaming empty threats at Calypso.]]\\
~1 Year After Needle's Story: After his top lieutenants, The Brothers Grimm, were murdered by Needles Kane, Daniel Grimm competed in the Twisted Metal competition one year after Needles Kane. He ultimately triumphs, although this version of Dollface (either [[NamesTheSame a person who just HAPPENED to have the name of Calypso's daughter]], or was some sort of SplitPersonalityMerge between Main!Krista and Black!Dollface that had GoneHorriblyWrong for both of them) survived plummeting into Devil's Canyon after Grimm destroyed the Iron Maiden. Daniel Grimm gets sent back before his father is killed attempting a stunt, [[spoiler: but only results in killing his father in a car accident when he shows up in the back of the truck, and ends up with Future!Grimm fighting with his father over control of the truck before crashing. While both Past!Grimm and Future!Grimm survive, Past!Grimm grabs his father's revolver, and shoots Future!Grimm dead, not knowing it would be his future self]].\\
~1 Year After Mr. Grimm's Story: After barely surviving the last tournament, Krista "Dollface" Sparks competed in the next Twisted Metal competition, which culminates in her destroying Sweet Tooth's Carnival of Carnage (which Needles' followers, The Clowns, created after [[spoiler: Needles was killed by Calypso]].) Believing that she would only go back to the start of her career if she took the mask off, Dollface wishes to star on the biggest runway [[spoiler: and winds up on the biggest ''airport'' runway instead, [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe getting her lower half crushed under a commercial jet's landing gear]].]]\\
~Some Time After Dollface's Story: [[spoiler: A short while after Dollface won Twisted Metal, Charlie Kane goes out to his sister's[=/=]father's grave, and digs up Needles Kane's mask. Taking up Sweet Tooth's mantle, Charlie Kane vows to use next Twisted Metal to claim revenge on Calypso, and sped off. However, shortly after he left, Calypso takes himself over to the grave, and resurrected Sophie Kane as his latest minion, giving her an altered version of Dollface's mask. It's unknown what'll happen now, but with [[BigScrewedUpFamily both of the Kane children in play]] ([[CainAndAbel and likely at each other's throats]]), it WILL end with blood...]]

~Circa-1900s: A traveling circus/demolition derby called "High Octane", run by an enigmatic man named "Calypso"[[note]]this isn't THE William Sparks Calypso... [[LegacyCharacter at least, not yet]][[/note]], traveled from town-to-town, allowing prospecting contestants to compete in a vehicular BloodSport to claim one wish. When High Octane travelled to one town in particular, a young boy named Needles Kane[[note]]this isn't THE "Marcus Kane = Needles Kane"... [[RunningGag at least, not yet]][[/note]] was enthralled by the destructive circus, and ran away to follow it wherever it went.

~Circa-1930s-1940s: Finally getting old enough to drive, Needles Kane hijacks an ice cream truck, and uses it to enter one of the High Octane contests. After winning the contest, Needles presented himself before Calypso, and asked for his prize: namely, that he'd be the "star" of the High Octane competition. Calypso granted this wish, [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor but there's a little catch]]: while Needles would be able to compete in the High Octane competition as a "star", [[InTheBlood his entire bloodline would be cursed with his bloodlust and dementia]], [[YouCantFightFate and would be forever damned to become murderers who eventually join the High Octane competition]]. Naturally, [[CardCarryingVillain Needles being Needles, he had NO problem with that whatsoever]].

~1970s-early 1990s: Fast-forward decades later, and the latest line of the Kane family, Marcus Kane, would be born in Alabama in 1974. He would eventually grow up to be a family man, but the spirit of the ''original'' Needles Kane would haunt him, eventually performing a SplitPersonalityTakeover that got him committed to the psyche ward (yes, I'm basically implying Marcus Kane is basically the IdenticalGrandson to Needles Kane. [[FlatWhat What?]] It's not like Twisted Metal isn't MindScrew-[[BuffySpeak ey]] anyways...)

~1993: A man named William Sparks, his wife, and daughter Krista died in a terrible car crash (which may or may not have been William committing suicide after suffering bouts of depression over his dead sister). Although it's not exactly known what happened to his wife and daughter at the time, William went straight to hell, and spent two full years trapped down there.

~1995: William eventually encountered Minion, the real manager of the High Octane competition (with "Calypso" merely being his human form's pseudonym). Minion, in his arrogance, accepted a little challenge from William: if he could outdrive him in a race, William wouldn't just get out of hell free, but would also obtain Minion's powers to offer wishes. Beating all odds, William outdrove Minion, and claimed Minion's powers from his own.\\
~William also made a deal with {{Satan}} Mr. Ash to come back to life in exchange for souls from running Minion's High Octane competition, sending both the losing drivers and killed bystanders alike straight to hell. This newfound power attracted Satan's most powerful demon, known only as "Black", to Calypso's side, which manifest's itself as his prized possession - a [[RingOfPower ring]].

~1996-2004: The Twisted Metal competition was held on an annual basis in L.A., steadily becoming more ambitious and destructive in its scale. Local law enforcement, the military, and even mercenaries and hitman are called upon to stop the tournament and Calypso, but all to no avail. In, the 10th annual competition, Minion is the winner (although whatever wish he had is not known, it's likely meant to be only the first step to getting revenge on Calypso for stealing away his tournament).

~Captain Carl "Buzz" Roberts, an LAPD officer wanting to end Twisted Metal, wins the tournament, and wishes for a world without Twisted Metal. [[JackassGenie Calypso being Calypso, he "grants" the wish by launching Carl and his patrol car into outer space]].\\
~In the contest, both Marcus "Needles" Kane and his father, Charlie Kane, would be "killed" in the tournament, but thanks to the original curse placed on the Kane family, neither of them "stays" dead - Needles Kane would manifest as a LiteralSplitPersonality from Marcus Kane, leaving Marcus "free" from Needles, but utterly baffled at the world around him. Convinced the events of the series were AllJustADream, he steals the abandoned Roadkill, and plans to enter the next competition to free himself. Charlie Kane, meanwhile, would be recognized for his raw driving potential by Calypso, and ends up as his personal slave, being given the "Dark Tooth" vehicle to compete next year.\\
~The other "survivors" of the 11th Twisted Metal include Bruce Cochrane, Mr. Grimm ([[TheGrimReaper not that he could've been killed to begin with]]), and possibly Jeff and Mike (assuming the "Mike" from Mike and Stu isn't the same guy).

~2006: The 12th annual competition is held, this time on an international scale after the last Twisted Metal Tournament completely obliterated Los Angeles. ''Twisted Metal 2'' takes place here.
~Captain Jamie Roberts, who joined the competition to find her missing brother, wins the competition, and wishes to be with her brother again. Like the first time, [[JackassGenie Calypso abuses the wording to launch Jamie into outer space too]], but since Jamie was more GenreSavvy, [[CrazyPrepared she had her squad car outfitted with rocket boosters to navigate her car back to Earth after saving Carl]].

~2007: The thirteenth annual Twisted Metal Tournament is held ([[ThirteenIsUnlucky fittingly, as out-of-universe, this is where the series goes downhill]]) ''Twisted Metal III'' takes place.
~Needles "Sweet Tooth" Kane wins this competition (and this time, [[KillEmAll it seems like NOBODY ELSE survived]] and even Mr. Grimm was so badly mangled by Sweet Tooth that he deluded himself to be APirate400YearsTooLate). This time (instead of the stupid-ass "I want to eat all the candy and ice cream I want" ending from Twisted Metal III), Sweet Tooth wished to rule Twisted Metal, and made good on this wish by leading a coup against Calypso with a pack of midget clowns. [[DestinationDefenstration Calypso was tossed out of his office window]], Sweet Tooth claimed the PowerRing with Black's powers still inside of it, and officially took control of the Twisted Metal competition.

~Calypso wins the competition, and demands to take control of his demon, Black (through the PowerRing he had manifested in) and the Twisted Metal competition. When Sweet Tooth and his clowns refuse, Calypso fights them over the ring, and in the process, they end up releasing the souls from the ring, blasting Needles, Calypso, Black and even Marcus Kane into the ''TwistedMetalBlack'' universe (with Marcus' assumptions that ''Black'' [[YourMindMakesItReal takes place in Needle's head being only]] ''[[FromACertainPointOfView sort of]]'' right, as it was the ''[[JustForPun black]]'' [[MentalWorld imaginations of both Needles and Calypso that lead to the creation of the "Black" universe]].\\

~In the ''TwistedMetalBlack'' universe, Needles, Calypso, and Black had all lost memories of the "real world", with only Marcus holding an inkling of what really happened. Eventually, Marcus "Minion" Kane wins the Twisted Metal competition (or at least manipulates events so the contest winner would fulfill his wish), and takes himself, Needles, Calypso and Black back to the main timeline, and in doing so slams a giant ResetButton back on Twisted Metal 2 , leading to the events of Twisted Metal: Head-On.
~As an aside, the aforementioned ResetButton also leads to the Twisted Metal 2012-{{Reboot}} verse.

~Alt!2007: The ''other'' thirteenth annual Twisted Metal Tournament commences, and ''Twisted Metal: Head-On'' takes place here.
~Like last time, Jamie wins the prior competition. Only Mr. Grimm, Marcus Kane and Axel return from Twisted Metal 2, although Mr. Slam and Krista Sparks CameBackWrong as {{PhysicalGhost}}s.
~It is unknown who "wins" this competition, but during the competition, Marcus and Needles Kane "meet" each other again, and perform a SplitPersonalityMerge with each other, and claim control of the vehicle only known as "Tower Tooth".

~PS3 Reboot!Timeline: The events of the 2012 Twisted Metal game take place - presumably takes place over the course of three years, with each of the three contestants fulfilling their storylines in chronological order.
~The Marcus Kane of the Reboot timeline is convinced to carve "Needles" Kane in the form of a mask, and when he does so, Needles performs a SplitPersonalityTakeover on Marcus - he then proceeds to butchers Marcus' wife and youngest son, with only his daughter, Sophie Kane, escaping. Either because Needles was so blinded with revenge against Sophie, or because he wanted another "heir" for his work, he left Marcus' eldest son, Charlie Kane, alive. Over the years, Needles would hunt for Sophie Kane, until he competed and won the first Twisted Metal Tournament hosted in the ''2012'' game. Demanding Calypso send him to Sophie now, Calypso does so - [[spoiler: but reveals that Sophie had committed suicide sometime ten years ago, and as a result, Needles would be BuriedAlive with her rotted corpse. Needles would spend his final moments angrily screaming empty threats at Calypso.]]

~1 Year After Needle's Story: After his top lieutenants, The Brothers Grimm, were murdered by Needles Kane, Daniel Grimm competed in the Twisted Metal competition one year after Needles Kane. He ultimately triumphs, although this version of Dollface (either [[NamesTheSame a person who just HAPPENED to have the name of Calypso's daughter]], or was some sort of SplitPersonalityMerge between Main!Krista and Black!Dollface that had GoneHorriblyWrong for both of them) survived plummeting into Devil's Canyon after Grimm destroyed the Iron Maiden. Daniel Grimm gets sent back before his father is killed attempting a stunt, [[spoiler: but only results in killing his father in a car accident when he shows up in the back of the truck, and ends up with Future!Grimm fighting with his father over control of the truck before crashing. While both Past!Grimm and Future!Grimm survive, Past!Grimm grabs his father's revolver, and shoots Future!Grimm dead, not knowing it would be his future self]].

~1 Year After Mr. Grimm's Story: After barely surviving the last tournament, Krista "Dollface" Sparks competed in the next Twisted Metal competition, which culminates in her destroying Sweet Tooth's Carnival of Carnage (which Needles' followers, The Clowns, created after [[spoiler: Needles was killed by Calypso]].) Believing that she would only go back to the start of her career if she took the mask off, Dollface wishes to star on the biggest runway [[spoiler: and winds up on the biggest ''airport'' runway instead, [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe getting her lower half crushed under a commercial jet's landing gear]].]]

~1 Year After Dollface's Story: [[spoiler: Three year's after Dollface won Twisted Metal, Charlie Kane goes out to his sister's[=/=]father's grave, and digs up Needles Kane's mask. Taking up Sweet Tooth's mantle, Charlie Kane vows to use next Twisted Metal to claim revenge on Calypso, and sped off. However, shortly after he left, Calypso takes himself over to the grave, and resurrected Sophie Kane as his latest minion, giving her an altered version of Dollface's mask. It's unknown what'll happen now, but with [[BigScrewedUpFamily both of the Kane children in play]] ([[CainAndAbel and likely at each other's throats]], it WILL end with blood...]]

* Probably jossed, as they "star" in this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMrWrCSP9Cw promotional webisode for TM Black]]. Not only do they look different from the two guys who drowned Kelly (although they're definitely {{Jerkass}}es for hijacking their current ride from somebody), but atop of that, [[spoiler: [[TooDumbToLive they get themselves killed]] [[MuggingTheMonster by trying to jack Mr. Grimm's motorcycle]], [[CurbStompBattle and end up on the losing end of a]] NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from him.]]

Sure, the painting is basically Hell, and Calypso himself is basically the reboot universe's version of {{Satan}}, ''but'' (assuming the painting holds the souls of those who were killed in the Twisted Metal tournament) with [[MonsterClown Needles Kane]], [[ScaryBlackMan Mr. Grimm]], [[DarkActionGirl Dollface]] ''and'' [[BadassPreacher Preacher]] inside of it? Come on, a breakout is just ''begging'' to happen with [[LikABadassOutOfHell those kind of inmates inside of the asylum]]. Assuming the painting prison takes cues[[BedlamHouse Blackfield Penitentiary]] from ''Twisted Metal: Black'', this can even happen with Reboot!Mr. Grimm and Reboot!Dollface double-teaming with their ''Black'' counterparts - come on, who wouldn't want to see a driver[=/=]gunner team of [[DreadlockRasta a Dreadlock Biker]] and [[ImAHumanitarian a Cannibal]] ShellShockedVeteran from TheVietnamWar, or an AxCrazy, ItsAllAboutMe ActionFashionista with a NiceGirl [[WomanInBlack In Black]] [[GoodIsNotSoft who's still]] [[BewareTheNiceOnes willing to]] PayEvilUntoEvil? ''[[TheyFightCrime Together, They'll Fight Calypso!]]''

* Probably jossed, as they "star" in this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMrWrCSP9Cw promotional webisode for TM Black]]. Not only do they look different from the two guys who drowned Kelly (although they're definitely {{Jerkass}}es for hijacking their current ride from somebody), but atop of that, [[spoiler: [[TooDumbToLive they get themselves killed]] [[MuggingTheMonster by trying to jack Mr. Grimm's motorcycle]], [[CurbStompBattle and end up on the losing end of a]] NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from him.]]

Sure, the painting is basically Hell, and Calypso himself is basically the reboot universe's version of {{Satan}}, ''but'' (assuming the painting holds the souls of those who were killed in the Twisted Metal tournament) with [[MonsterClown Needles Kane]], [[ScaryBlackMan Mr. Grimm]], [[DarkActionGirl Dollface]] ''and'' [[BadassPreacher Preacher]] inside of it? Come on, a breakout is just ''begging'' to happen with [[BadassOutOfHell those kind of inmates inside of the asylum]]. Assuming the painting prison takes cues[[BedlamHouse Blackfield Penitentiary]] from ''Twisted Metal: Black'', this can even happen with Reboot!Mr. Grimm and Reboot!Dollface double-teaming with their ''Black'' counterparts - come on, who wouldn't want to see a driver[=/=]gunner team of [[DreadlockRasta a Dreadlock Biker]] and [[ImAHumanitarian a Cannibal]] ShellShockedVeteran from TheVietnamWar, or an AxCrazy, ItsAllAboutMe ActionFashionista with a NiceGirl [[WomanInBlack In Black]] [[GoodIsNotSoft who's still]] [[BewareTheNiceOnes willing to]] PayEvilUntoEvil? ''[[TheyFightCrime Together, They'll Fight Calypso!]]''

As something of a bonus in the game, we see Preacher Jebediah in a few cutscenes, claiming he will stop Calypso. He later ends up [[spoiler: trapped in the painting alongside a horde of people]]. At first it looks like he just got defeaed by Calpyso, like everybody else. But pay attention to his speech earlier in the game: "[...] I will wake the suffering from their slumber of fear! And once awaken, we shall rise on this very night and tear down your tower OF SIN!". [[BatmanGambit Being trapped there was his plan all along, so he could create an uprising from within the prison to free the people trapped in there]].

~1985: A young boy named Marcus Kane finds himself amazed by the contest. He steals an ice cream truck and runs off in its pursuit. Though he'd later abandon this pursuit and become a family man and ice cream seller using the same truck, the experience would always stay with him, causing a boredom with his life which would grow into the split personality Needles and even drive him into a mental ward.

~He came across the traveling circus. He took over and renamed it the Twisted Metal tournament. He placed the Arena in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles.\\

~Needles Kane escapes from a mental ward after finally getting Marcus to make the clown mask and taking over his mind, then kills Marcus's wife and youngest son (daughter Sophie got away, Needles didn't see eldest son Charlie) and becomes a serial killer called Sweet Tooth. Among his victims shortly after was a man named Scott Campbell at a local circus, who became a wandering spirit.\\
~Three days later, Scott's wife gives birth to a little girl.\\
~Sweet Tooth starts searching for his friend from the psych ward, Crazy Harold the Wacky Lunch Sack.

He would make a DealWithTheDevil to get revenge on Calypso for tricking him. Also, it would make for an interesting MythologyGag from Black.

[[WMG: The two boys that drowned Raven's friend are the TM Black version of Mike & Stu.]]

[[WMG:''TM 2012'' Calypso [[spoiler:can [[InterContinuityCrossover cross through]] [[AlternateContinuity the other canons]] as a power, assuming they're not just his illusions altogether.]]]]

[[WMG: In Twisted Metal 2, Mortimer is the son of the Teacher from Pink Floyd's The wall]].

And Calypso is actually Eddie the Head from Iron Maiden!!! I Can't resist!!!

As something of a bonus in the game, we see Preacher Jebediah in a few cutscenes, claiming he will stop Calypso. He later ends up [[spoiler: trapped in the painting alongside a horde of people]]. At first it looks like he just got defeaed by Calpyso, like everybody else. But pay attention to his speech earlier in the game: "[...] I will wake the suffering from their slumber of fear! And once awaken, we shall rise on this very night and tear down your tower OF SIN!". [[BatmanGambit Being trapped there was his plan all along, so he could create an uprising from within the prison to free the people trapped in there]].

[[WMG: The Preacher in the 2012 version [[spoiler: actually WANTED to be put in Calypso's painting/prison!]] ]]
[[spoiler: The 'suffering' he was talking about 'waking from their slumber of fear' was actually Calypso's collection of victims! He's going to come back in the sequel with a storyline of his own and his own gang, comprised entirely of people he's saved from Calypso's clutches.]]

~His newfound power and his resurrection manifested into a demon named Black, which inhabits his prized possession - a [[RingOfPower ring]].