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Bendy and the Ink Machine is an indie puzzle horror Episodic Game created by Kindly Beast. ^note Owned past theMeatly, formerly theMeatly Games.

Henry Stein, a former traditional animator, gets a foreign note from an sometime friend, Joey Drew, that invites him to their old workplace. While there, Henry discovers the ink machine, which apparently powers the place, and decides to activate it. Nothing is as it seems, nevertheless. What happened to his sometime work buddy? Why does Bendy appear to follow him everywhere he goes? And when did these strange occurrences suddenly start?

There are a total of v capacity for this game. Chapter one was released on February 10th, 2017. Chapter 2 was released on April 18th, 2017. Chapter three was released on September 28th, 2017. Chapter iv was released on April 30th, 2018. Affiliate v was released on October 26th, 2018.

It was released on consoles in 2018 via a partnership with Rooster Teeth.

The game was followed by:

• Bendy in Nightmare Run (2018) - A spin-off mobile Endless Running Game available through app stores, or through the official Bendy website, joeydrewstudios.com.
• Bendy Cartoons (2019) - Seven official blithe shorts: "Tombstone Picnic", "Haunted Hijinx", "Cookie Cookin'", "Hellfire Fighter", "Snow Sillies", "Tasty Trio Troubles", and "Cheap Seats".
• Joey Drew Studios Employee Handbook (2019) - A guide book written by Cala Spinner and published past Scholastic.
• Bendy And The Ink Car Dreams Come up To Life (2019) - A immature adult novel written by Adrienne Kress.
  • Bendy And The Ink Machine The Lost Ones (2021)
• Boris and the Dark Survival (2020) - A small spin-off survival game focusing on various "Boris the Wolf" copies attempting to escape the studio, and the wrath of his rival Bendy.
• Bendy: Scissure-Up Comics Collection (2020) - A compilation of comics written in the manner of In-Universe Comic Strips that were published from 1931 to 1946 created past Vannotes and Mady Giuliani.
• Bendy: The Illusion of Living (2021) - A memoir of Joey Drew.
• Bendy and the Dark Revival (TBA) - A sequel appear February ten, 2019 On Apr 14, 2019, its name was revealed.

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Bendy and the Ink Machine provides examples of:

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• Accidental Hero: In chapter 4, information technology's debatable if Ink Bendy saving Henry from the Projectonist is this or a Villainous Rescue example.
• All There in the Script: The name of the more stable Alice in Chapters 4 and 5 is, according to the game files, "Allison".
• Ambiguous Situation:
  • The first affiliate being just 15 minutes, there'southward very footling information that isn't left upwardly in the air for interpretation. The murder and dissection of Boris the Wolf is an especially big indicate of contention, since the candles on the flooring suggest (and Henry himself seems to believe) information technology was Joey's doing, while the bulletin on the wall suggests it was Ink Bendy, and adopting either viewpoint changes the game's narrative significantly. The second chapter clears it upwardly a little bit, past showing that Ink Bendy is, indeed, murderous, merely just what went downwards at the studio is nevertheless a mystery.
  • It's besides condign rather unclear if the Ink Bendy we saw is the existent Bendy. Considering, even subsequently the Ink Automobile is activated and Ink Bendy is released, the cutouts that were active beforehand don't turn hostile and remain curious and sometimes helpful. Ink Bendy likewise seems to kill Sammy Lewarnce when he attempts to kill Henry just still goes afterwards Henry afterwards.
  • The cliffhanger of the second chapter volition leave you asking questions equally well. Yes, Boris seems to have saved y'all from Ink Bendy, but is he your friend, or does he only desire you for himself? More chiefly, how exactly is he still live given what we saw in Chapter 1? Was he resurrected? Are reanimated cartoon characters actually unkillable and what we saw was just a temporary setback? Is he even the same Boris?
  • The tertiary chapter reveals a bit more: Boris is friendly, and he'south not the same Boris as the one from the top floor. Information technology as well seemingly answers a question from Chapter 1 as well: Information technology's unsaid that Twisted Alice killed the Boris on the top floor, also as several others, to maintain her "beauty". However, information technology too brings up a few more questions of its ain. Twisted Alice claims she knows "why Henry is really here", and that she "won't let him make it the fashion of what has to be done", but she never explains what she means past that. Why did Henry come to the studio? Does he want to close downwards the Ink Car? If so, why would he plough information technology on in Chapter 1? Did he come here for another reason? Or is Twisted Alice's line merely a effect of Sanity Slippage?
  • The cliffhanger of the 4th affiliate volition brand you lot rip out your hair: the psycho Alice who tormented you is literally backstabbed past another Alice with a Boris of her ain. If Twisted Alice was a human-cartoon fusion driven mad by her components' inability to get along, who is this Alice? Ink Bendy also seems to be less hostile towards Henry and saves him from the Projectionist, but why he did that is unknown.
  • And the 5th affiliate ups the ante and fury with a scene which could exist a flashback indicating the origin of the whole scenario, or which could indicate a Stable Time Loop in play. Additional surreptitious letters revealed via the Seeing Tool provided in this chapter, which can also now be used in earlier capacity, can be read equally supporting the latter interpretation but are in no way conclusive. As well, while Ink Bendy's backstory is revealed and he'due south defeated, neither Henry'south escape from the studio nor the fate of the other ink creations — monsters and otherwise — are revealed, and nor is shutting down the Ink Motorcar (beyond damage dealt to the larger construction in the final boss fight).
• Cryptic Time Menstruum: Considering the animation fashion existence in vogue thirty years ago, you might call back the game takes place in The '60s, except for the cassette record players scattered about, which themselves seem to tape things from decades ago.
• Ambiguously Evil: While the cartoon Bendy is clearly non evil, the Ink Bendy is up to debate. In chapter 1, he grabs at Henry after the ink car is activated only does non actually take hold of him, nor does he hunt him afterward. The cutouts follow Henry and seem to move by themselves but seem curious rather than hostile. In affiliate two, Ink Bendy attacks Sammy when he tries to sacrifice Henry just still chases Henry subsequently. If he catches Henry, Henry seemingly dies instantly, only information technology's unknown if information technology's catechism or a game mechanic. Since he's respawned through a Bendy statue, it'southward as well implied but unknown if Ink Bendy is the one reviving Henry. In affiliate 3, Twisted Alice (who's worse than Ink Bendy) seems to detest Ink Bendy likewise, and Ink Bendy will chase and volition notwithstanding kill Henry if he catches him, just as well kills other hostile antagonists. In chapter 4, Ink Bendy scares Henry in the vents, merely doesn't attack him (The Employee Handbook confirmed that he was "only toying with you", showing that he could accept killed Henry, but spared him on purpose) and seems to warn him to exist quiet against the Butcher Gang. Ink Bendy also seems to save Henry from the Projectionist and doesn't endeavour to kill Henry then. In chapter 5, a giant mitt tries to drown Henry, but it'southward unknown if Ink Bendy is decision-making information technology. Ink Bendy tin can also kill the Butcher Gang for Henry. While he does mutate into Fauna Bendy and try to kill Henry, that simply happens when Henry comes to Ink Bendy's lair and picks upward the weapon to kill Ink Bendy.
  • In the Dreams Come To Life novel, when Buddy frees Ink Bendy from his imprisonment unknowingly, Ink Bendy but pushes Buddy down and doesn't impale Buddy. So when Buddy and Dot face up Ink Bendy, he merely squeezes them and kicks them, but information technology is pointed out that he is not trying to impale them. He merely kills Buddy afterward Buddy tries to impale him past drowning him in ink. He also spares Buddy Boris (Buddy transformed into Boris) if he gets in the elevator with him in affiliate iii, but does kill Butcher Gang members who are hostile.
• Amusement Park of Doom: Chapter four'southward Bendy Land, although information technology was never completed. Not only are there ink monsters lurking throughout different parts of the product, just Henry is unarmed for almost of the chapter. There's an animatronic Bendy that Lacie Benton swears in her sound log has been moving when she isn't looking — although this never attacks Henry. There are even two boss fights in Bendy Country: one with Bertrum Piedmont, who's go an amusement park ride and 1 fix past Twisted Alice inside the haunted firm.
• An Aesop: A workplace where a boss or bosses don't care near your well-existence is chancy, in more means than one. In addition to the supernatural dangers, workers via audio logs complain about realistic safety hazards, missed schedules, and in some cases, ruined careers.
• An Axe to Grind: Henry artillery himself with an axe after falling into a subconscious room below the leave in Chapter 1. He continues to utilise an axe at least one time per chapter.
• And I Must Scream: In Chapter three, Twisted Alice describes being "returned to the ink" equally beingness trapped within of a well full of incessantly buzzing, screaming voices.
• Anti-Frustration Features: With the Chapter 3 update, whatsoever progress-critical item volition now shine, making them easier to discern among the sepia environments.
• Apocalyptic Log: The tape recorders strewn effectually the studio count equally this. Some take workers complain near Joey (and Sammy) suffering Sanity Slippage, others relate to everyday work at the studio. They frequently incorporate clues.
• Arc Number: 414. The trailer for the sequel dropped on April 14th, the audio log with the unknown speaker released to promote said sequel had the aforementioned date (with the year scratched out), and the tally marks you lot tin see in Affiliate i with the looking device add up to 4 hundred and 14.
• Arc Symbol: Bendy'due south cheery mug, equally seen above. As well, pentagrams, which happen to accept a shape within them resembling Bendy'south caput.
• Arc Words: "He volition set usa free."
• Art Initiates Life: The Ink Auto is used to bring Joey Drew Studios' cartoon creations, such equally Bendy, to life.
• Art Shift: The end of Chapter 5 (and technically the beginning of Chapter one) instead of the cartoonish studio, takes place in a realistic surround, that being Joey Drew'due south apartment. You even meet the man himself, and he's a very far cry from the cartoon characters in the studio.
• As You lot Know: The note from Joey specifies that he and Henry worked at the blitheness studio xxx years ago and have fallen out of touch.
• Crawly, just Impractical: In an sound log in Chapter 1, i employee, Wally Franks, mentions that the ink auto is noisy, uses a lot of ink, and seems pretty useless. In improver, information technology means the animations aren't getting washed on time.
• Bait-and-switch: The dominate fight with Bertum'south monster class in Chapter four is precluded with an sound log by him, which has subtitles instead of a transcript like other audio logs. At the end of Chapter 5, the boss fight confronting Animate being Bendy is precluded with an audio log past Joey Drew, which has subtitles instead of a transcript similar other sound logs. So Ink Bendy is the monster course of Joey, right? Nope! The audio log was actually part of a Batman Gambit past Joey hoping that Henry could find information technology and acquire what the one thing that tin destroy Ink Bendy is: a flick reel featuring "The Cease".
• Big "OMG!": Henry utters one upon seeing Boris strapped to the table.
• Bittersweet Catastrophe: By the end of the game, the Ink Demon is finally killed. However, a lot of people even so died due to the ink, and with the final scene being more than of a prequel to the game than annihilation else, nosotros don't know if Henry, Allison, or Tom made it out. Also, The Stinger shows that Joey really has another Ink Machine in his house, and while he seemed regretful of all that he'south done, at that place'southward always the hazard...
• Blood from the Mouth:
  • The Wandering Sin Bendy cut-out.
  • Bertrum.
• Torso Horror:
  • Sammy seems to accept become office-ink during his time beneath the studio.
  • The Searchers.
  • Twisted Alice, the Butcher Gang, the Projectionist, and Bertrum are not pretty to await at. AT ALL.
• Bonus Dominate:
  • In Chapter ii, after activating the second valve, return to the room at the very outset of the affiliate and detect a Searcher wearing a mining helmet. Although you tin kill it with your axe like other Searchers, y'all tin also lead information technology all the manner to the sewer where you encountered Swollen Jack, and crushing the Searcher with the crate volition trigger a hallucination.
  • In Chapter 3, when Twisted Alice sends you an axe, break open up the boarded upwardly door on Level ix. In addition to a hidden audio log, at that place is a second axe. Before taking the elevator to Level 14 for Twisted Alice's final task, take this axe and head up to Level K and go to the toymaking workshop. Break the wall made of boards to find a lever. Pull information technology to spawn a horde of Searchers in the big room. After killing them, pull information technology again to spawn a lot of Butcher Gangs. And later them, pull it a third fourth dimension to spawn a behemothic Searcher .
  • If yous actually desire a challenge, practise the ii above bosses. So, in Chapter iv, afterward getting out of the Butcher Gang's room and pulling the second lever, become back in. In that location's a enshroud of empty bacon soup cans for you in the back room with Lacie'due south audio log. Escape the room again (Don't throw the cans.) Now simply use the cans to kill Bertrum and Animate being Boris. Easy. Then , in Affiliate 5, at the corridor maze, lure the Butcher Gang out when Ink Bendy passes through to have him kill them. Once you lot've finished the pipework, head back towards Joey's office and y'all'll find a Sinister Scythe outside. Selection it up and get a agglomeration of Searchers, one of which is wearing Sammy's mask. Impale him concluding since the scythe breaks on him. Congratulations, you've put yourself through a load of hard and nonsensical tasks and gained nothing from it. Give yourself a pat on the back.
• Bottomless Pit:
  • Henry comes across i (and comes beyond ane) in chapter four.
  • The Ink Machine room is now a behemothic shaft that stretches all the fashion to the bottom of the studio; you can await into dissimilar sections of the shaft once per chapter and see the Ink Machine riding down to the bottom.
• Bound and Gagged: Henry virtually the finish of Chapter Ii, afterward Sammy captures him.
• Boss Arena Idiocy: In chapter 4. Miss Angel, what was your reasoning in leaving a perfectly usable crafting car where you planned to have us fight Beast Boris?
  • Likewise, at that place's an ax in the room where Henry fights Bertrum. Bertrum fifty-fifty conveniently breaks the desk that contains it, allowing Henry piece of cake access to information technology.
• Dominate Boxing: Affiliate 4 has two, one against a possessed merry-go-round (yeah, really) and the other versus a brainwashed and crazy Boris.
  • Affiliate 5 ups the ante with Ink Bendy's One-Winged Angel class.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: In affiliate four, Twisted Alice "modifies" Boris, turning him into her brutish henchman and ordering him to impale Henry.
• The Cameo: Ane of the audio logs from Chapter 3, made by a Mr. "Shawn Flynn", was voiced past Jacksepticeye. A hidden audio log in the aforementioned chapter is by Grant Cohen, voiced by Volition Ryan.
• Candlelit Ritual: At the end of Affiliate 1, Henry stumbles upon a room with a pentagram on the floor and some candles. It's currently unknown what exactly these were used for, but it's strongly implied that they were put together for some sort of dark ritual.
• Bandage Total of Crazy: It appears that the Ink Automobile (or only the studio conditions) take driven nearly of the named employees insane.
  • Sammy Lawrence eventually turned to worshipping Bendy.
  • Susie Campbell begun identifying with Alice to the betoken she chosen herself an "angel".
  • Norman Polk ended upward sticking a projector machine on his head and turning into an ink monster.
  • Grant Cohen was driven utterly mad by the company'southward money, up to turning his function into a Room Full of Crazy.
  • Bertrum Piedmont grew so obsessed with making sure that people recognized his work that he was corrupted by the ink and had his caput implanted into a merry-go round.
  • It'south uncertain what happened to Wally Franks, but in a Twitter AMA, it'southward been implied that his mind is "waaaay outta hither". The end of Chapter 5 reveals that he went to Florida with his wife.
    • I judge y'all could say that makes sense.
  • Joey Drew himself seems to exist the kickoff (or among the offset) to lose his mind — in an sound log, Wally complains virtually Joey's attempts to "appease the gods" and so comments that he thinks he's lost his mind. The stop of Chapter five reveals that he realized what he had done at some point, and it's implied that the reason why he invited Henry to the studio was to stop Bendy.
• Character Name and the Noun Phrase: The championship.
• Checkpoint Starvation:
  • A very mutual criticism of Affiliate two is the fact that there are no checkpoints. If the histrion dies at any point, it'due south straight back to the beginning with absolutely no progress saved, which can mean up to 20 minutes of backtracking to get another attempt at what you messed up on. ^note Though at that place aren't very many places where the histrion is in extreme danger, the first ink monster set on catches quite a few players off-guard plenty to send them back to the start, and the second one is a Zerg Rush that, combined with the axe's slow swing speed and curt reach, is too quite difficult. This was later stock-still in a patch, and the game now autosaves just before those two points.
  • Chapter 3 introduced a respawn mechanic, turning this into a case of Death Is a Slap on the Wrist. Nevertheless, if yous quit for any reason, even if information technology'due south not your fault, the game will disregard any saves and send you back to the showtime of the Chapter on the next playthrough.
• Cliffhanger: Once per Episode.
  • The first chapter ends with you trapped under the exit to the studio, armed with an axe every bit Ink Bendy begins to emerge from the darkness.
    • This one was updated with the release of Chapter Two. At present, you enter a room, step on a pentagram, and see some images (the Ink Machine, a wheelchair, and Ink Bendy) in rapid succession before finally collapsing.
  • In the 2d i, you have just escaped Ink Bendy and someone has barred the door behind you. Every bit you call out to your mysterious helper, Buddy Boris emerges from behind the corner.
  • Third one ends as Henry wakes up after the lift crash and sees Buddy Boris trying to revive him, with Twisted Alice sneaking up from behind and winding up to strike Henry'due south only friend in this place in the dorsum.
  • Fourth ane ends with more than of a Wham Shot than a straight-up cliffhanger, as Twisted Alice is stabbed through the chest by an attacker who turns out to be... some other Alice, with a good for you Boris in tow.
• Combat Pragmatist:
  • Due to being an old guy trapped in an Eldritch Location, Henry uses all the tools and strategies he can to survive.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy Brute Boris throws every particular that he can at Henry.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: Co-ordinate to Twisted Alice, in Drew'southward studio "either y'all were in someone's pocket, or you were putting someone into yours".

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• Death Is a Slap on the Wrist: Since the release of Chapter 3, Henry respawns later expiry without losing any progress, with punch clocks serving every bit checkpoints and Bendy statues serving as respawn points.
• Double Meaning:
  • "He volition set us gratuitous". Sounds like it'due south talking about Bendy, correct? Information technology also could refer to Sammy Lawrence, who acted as a leader of sorts to the Searchers and the Lost Ones in hoping that he could accomplish out to Ink Bendy, or it could as well refer to Henry. He ultimately sets anybody hugger-mugger free from terror afterwards he kills off Ink Bendy for skillful.
  • Henry'southward first lines in Chapter ane. At this point, new players are under the assumption that they're here to meet Joey Drew. The catastrophe of Affiliate five puts said lines nether a new light: Henry had recently met Joey at his apartment. Joey requested Henry to become to the studio to see something, which is essentially where Chapter i and Henry's lines begin.
• Early Installment Weirdness: Of a sort; equally the game updates, it changes previous chapters to exist more consistent with later ones. The Ink Machine, for example, was large and sat around in an otherwise non-descript room. By the time the Affiliate four update rolled around, the size of the room and Machine were increased significantly, and now the Ink Machine is held up on chains.
• Easter Egg:
  • Later on you plough on the Ink Machine, return to the room where the deceased Boris is in and walk through the wall with the Boris poster on it to find a cloak-and-dagger room containing the mascot of the game'south developer, theMeatly.
    • You lot can too do this in Chapter ii, by going through the Boris Poster in the workroom by Sammy's part after turning on the Catamenia Command.
    • Later finishing all of Twisted Alice's tasks in Affiliate 3, you lot can notice theMeatly behind a Boris affiche on Level P, although y'all need to take the stairs there as using the elevator triggers the ending cutscene.
    • Afterwards opening the door to the archives right at the beginning of Chapter 4, find theMeatly having a cookout behind the Boris poster in the closet across from Grant'southward role.
    • And finally, in Chapter 5, theMeatly can be found behind a nearby poster afterwards completing the pipework exterior the corridor maze.
  • In affiliate ii, playing the radio in Sammy's office volition play a special swing version of Build Our Automobile.
    • Another radio added to Chapter 1 in an update, in the room where the light turns off plays some other fan-created song: Bendy And The Ink Auto, past Kyle Allen.
    • All radios play fan songs, and tin be found among musical instruments in the stairway outside Level eleven in Chapter iii, made with the beginning Gent machine in Chapter four, and found in a box in the vault in Chapter 5.
  • A slightly freakier hole-and-corner equally of the Chapter three update — if yous hack or glitch into an area where y'all're not supposed to go, you come across a Bendy cutout with realistic optics and what appears to be Claret from the Oral fissure, property a sign that reads WANDERING IS A TERRIBLE SIN. Apparently this was put into the game to discourage hacking.
  • Various posters and artworks are from fan contests.
  • Abreast Shawn Flynn'due south audio log in Chapter 3 is an ink toy that when interacted with changes betwixt a Bendy plush, a Boris costly, an Alice Plush, and a model Ink Automobile. However, it also has a tiny adventure of briefly taking the shape of a skull betwixt transformations.
  • Chapter 3 has a pair of cleaved headphones on Level fourteen because of the YouTuber that bankrupt his while playing the game.
  • Chapter 3 has 2 hidden audio logs. The outset can exist constitute on Level 9 afterwards Twisted Alice gives you the axe, which you tin can apply to break open a boarded up door and admission the room across, which contains an audio log from auditor Grant Cohen. The other is in the flooded room outside Level P, which must exist drained using a valve backside the starting platform on Level xiv, behind some boards you lot can suspension with the pipage (or the tommy gun, if you managed to get information technology). Returning to the room allows y'all to listen to an audio log... from yourself.
  • At the offset of Affiliate five, Allison Angel gives you a seeing device which allows you to see hidden messages. Using on her reveals a glowing halo to a higher place her head. If you gave the os to Boris in Chapter iii, use the device on Tom. He has a glowing os in his oral fissure.
  • While walking through the ink towards the Ink Machine in Chapter 5, the inky form of Chester from Bendy in Nightmare Run can be found on some rocks.
• Eldritch Abomination:
  • The ink produced by the Ink Automobile acts equally The Corruption and tin plough people into living cartoons.
  • Ink Bendy exhibits a agglomeration of baroque traits that make him unusual even amid the beau ink monsters.
    • He can teleport — several times, you can see trails of ink that atomic number 82 into a solid wall. If you lot tin can see him vanish from a Phenomenon Station, you lot can actually see a pool of ink open on a solid wall every bit he enters it, closing right behind him.
    • His appearances are accompanied by splashes of ink that environs him wherever he goes and vanish as soon as he moves away.
    • He'due south apparently the forcefulness behind player respawn, as Henry returns to the earth in front end of his statues.
    • He knows when i of his cut-outs is destroyed, even if he's not in the room when it happens.
    • He seems to be able to control his cut-outs as seen in Chapter 1. But he didn't pop upward until the Ink Car was started support.
• Eldritch Location:
  • Equally of Affiliate iii, the animation studio seems to be turning into this. Not only is the basement impossibly big for the tiny building above it, it also has things that just don't make sense for an animation studio to accept, like behemothic open rooms with nothing in them, a department for producing plush toys of the characters, and several long hallways that serve no purpose but to have projectors placed in them at random. Henry points out that he doesn't remember these rooms, merely information technology's not clear if it's a result of the Ink Car and Joey'due south experimentation, or if they were merely built during the thirty years between his retirement and the game.
  • Chapter 4 then ups the dues by having a bottomless pit in the heart of level S, and an entire haunted firm ride.
  • In Affiliate five, afterwards leaving the film vault, you walk by Henry's old desk from chapter one again, despite the fact that it was on the surface and the rooms shouldn't be connected similar that.
• Elevator Failure: Henry tin can listen to an audio log in Chapter 3 where maintenance worker Thomas Connor complains about Joey Drew Studios' possessor neglecting the lift, outright maxim that "someone's sure to finish up falling to their death". Afterward in the chapter, Henry and Boris are sent plummeting when the evil version of Alice Angel sabotages the lift.
• Empty Room Psych: Quite frequent, merely moreso in the Affiliate ane, when there were no enemies yet.
• Everything'due south Improve with Spinning: Bertrum has become a spinning entertainment park ride.
• Expy:
  • Bendy seems based on Mickey Mouse and Bimbo the dog, existence a primarily black cartoon brute with white gloves. His mischievous personality is more like Bimbo, but his pattern recalls Mickey more.
  • Boris resembles Goofy.
  • Alice Angel is probable based on Betty Boop, being a more realistic analogue to Bendy (Betty was once a dog like Bimbo) with a sexy design and popularity that is said to be greater than the original star.
  • Joey Drew and Henry are perhaps inspired by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, where the latter co-created an iconic graphic symbol solely attributed to the former.
• Fate Worse than Expiry: Information technology'southward unsaid in chapter iv that the ink people passively standing around or crying in corners are former employees of the company, transformed by the motorcar and forced to remain in the studio forever. Chapter 5 confirms this.
• Fetch Quest: At that place's one in Affiliate one involving collecting six objects; one in Chapter 2 where Henry must detect Wally's lost keys; and a bunch in Chapter 3, which Twisted Alice sends Henry on for her amusement. In Affiliate v information technology gets a Lampshade Hanging when Allison tries to send y'all on another ane before Tom ends up Cutting the Knot.
• Five-2nd Foreshadowing: At the outset of Chapter five, Allison Angel tells y'all about the secret letters only visible through a special seeing device. When you use this straight after she gives information technology to y'all, at that place's a message scrawled on the wall: "SHE WILL LEAVE Yous FOR DEAD". Afterwards, when Ink Bendy has well-nigh breached the safehouse, Allison does go out yous for dead, albeit regretfully.
• Food every bit Ransom: You can convince Buddy Boris to escort Henry out of the safehouse by heating up two cans of bacon soup for him.
• Foreshadowing: In Chapter 2, Susie Campbell, the vocalisation actor for Alice Affections, says she feels like a part of her. In chapter 3, it turns out that Susie makes up office of Twisted Alice, due to Joey'south actions.
  • In Chapter 4, the Lost Ones seem to revere Bendy as their god, sound familiar? Turns out they were Sammy's congregation, and when Henry and Tom kill him in a rematch, they pull a Face–Heel Turn.
• Four-Fingered Hands: A feature of all cartoon characters, consummate with White Gloves. The ink-covered Sammy Lawrence also has these without the gloves, while Bendy in his Inked form has five-fingered hands seemingly growing through his gloves.
• Gainax Ending: The concluding scene of the final episode takes place in full colour, and somehow Henry finds himself meeting with Joey Drew at his abode before he opens the go out to the house, only to reveal the studio from when Henry enters somehow, right down to the commencement lines Henry speaks.
• Gone Horribly Wrong: Affiliate 5 reveals that Joey Drew wanted to use the Ink Machine to bring his cartoons to life so that people could know them as well as he did, starting with Bendy. Unfortunately, creating Ink Bendy was a failed experiment, and as such, no other attempts to create him have happened ever since.
• Gory Discretion Shot: We don't really see Ink Bendy trigger-happy Sammy Lawrence to pieces.
• "Groundhog Solar day" Loop: Information technology'southward revealed in the catastrophe that Joey Drew sends Henry to alive throughout his inky adventure once again and again and over again as a loop. He himself seems to be aware of this fact, because it's implied that all the invisible messages from chapter ane to chapter 5 are written by him and refer to how he keeps looping. Players can read these through the Seeing Tool equally a New Game+ bonus.

  The first invisible message seen later Henry'southward first drop: I Ever FALL

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• Hallucinations: It'south implied that Henry is starting to have these in Chapter Four, as two times, the game suddenly shifts pallette and strange things happen, only to vanish a moment afterwards and for things to return normal. The same visual effects happen when Ink Bendy attacks the Projectionist, but when they stop, both ink monsters are still there (one of them expressionless), putting into question what was and wasn't real.
• Hellevator: The ride shown in the "Hell in a Handbasket" poster counts every bit one.
• Hell Is That Noise: The audio log in Grant Cohen's office, presumably created by him, consists of screams of pain and horror, that gradually turn into a low, bassy gurgling.
• Homage: The whole game shows honey for traditional black and white animation in the Disney and Fleischer Studios fashion.
• Human Resources: While the Ink Machine doesn't strictly need man souls to create living cartoons, sacrificing the studio employees to the ink served to "perfect" them.
• Hyperactive Metabolism: In Affiliate 2, you can replenish your wellness by eating bacon soups, though who knows what'due south actually in them.
• "I Know You lot're in There Somewhere" Fight: Averted; Henry has no fourth dimension to reason with Brute Boris or beg him to stop fighting him in Affiliate Four. He has to kill Brute Boris in cocky-defense.
• Image Song: Alice Angel has one in the form of Lonely Affections/I'll Be Your Angel.
• Allowed to Bullets: Ink Bendy, in Chapter iii.
• Improvised Weapon: Henry's main weapon in Chapter 3 is a "Gent" pipage, which too comes into play at the end of Chapter 4. If he backtracks in Chapter 4, he may choose to wield a plunger instead of the pipe.
• Incompetence, Inc.: The manner it's been presented so far, Joey Drew's studio was a nightmare to work at. The ever-present, all-encompassing Ink Machine ensured that the identify was perpetually loud and covered in ink leaks, the artist's desks were tucked into every corner of the studio, and Drew's outlandish ideas, from the Car itself to an entire theme park dedicated to Bendy, were so expensive, Grant Cohen really went insane trying to make the company finances work. Yet, as by the time Henry arrives, the studio has been defunct for years, if not decades.
• Invisible Writing: The studio has letters all over its walls. Some of them can't be seen without a special tool that Allison gives Henry.
• Ironic Plant nursery Tune:
  • Sammy sings one as he's about to sacrifice Henry to Bendy.
  • The Alice Angel theme song that plays as Henry is introduced to the... real-life version.
• Jump Scare:
  • Bendy'due south cardboard cutout appears at random times, though you never see it moving. Except for one time, when it peeks around a corner to await at you. And it happens again in Chapter Two and Chapter 3. All times, they actually seem to be helping, equally they do that when you're reaching an surface area of importance.
    • Every bit of September 28, you tin can at present open the door that'southward on the left side of Wally Frank's record now. Guess what of a sudden peeks out at you while you are opening it?
  • Later on you turn on the ink auto, Ink Bendy appears with a Scare Chord, forcing Henry to run.
  • In Chapter 2, yous have the appearance of the Searchers, who are quite fond of this. Also, Ink Bendy does this again by the end of the chapter.
  • Chapter 3 has Twisted Alice all of a sudden slamming her hands against a previously-dark window at the finish of her theme vocal, shrieking at Henry before vanishing.
  • Chapter iv has several, some of which seem to be hallucinations of Henry's.
• Justified Save Point: In case anything goes wrong, punch clocks can be used to save your progress.
• Karmic Death: Sammy is killed in the same way he tried to take Henry killed.
• Killed Offscreen: Sammy is killed past Bendy behind closed doors, only non out of Henry's earshot. He survives.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: If Tom's Cutting the Knot moment is whatever indication, he's just equally sick of the game's frequent Fetch Quests as quite a few players probably are.
• Permit's You and Him Fight:
  • Affiliate 4 has Twisted Alice sic Brute Boris on Henry in an endeavour to kill him.
  • It'southward implied that this is why Joey sent Henry to the studio then he can stop Ink Bendy for practiced.
• Logical Weakness: Being a cartoon, Ink Bendy is instantly annihilated upon finding out that his show has officially ended.
• MacGuffin Commitment Service: Henry goes on a agglomeration of fetch quests for Twisted Alice, in which he retrieves the parts needed for her machines. This allows her to gear up them to plough Buddy Boris Brainwashed and Crazy.
• Mad Scientist: Twisted Alice is conducting experiments on other ink creatures in attempts to "brand herself beautiful". In Chapter 4, she even graduates to having a hardhearted minion of her ain creation.
• Morton's Fork: In Chapter Three, Henry finds Twisted Alice confronting him. She "persuades" him to become her "errand boy" because her alternative is to tear him apart, or to get out him for the Searchers, Butcher Gang, and Ink Bendy. She also admits that she just might let Henry alive long enough to become the items she needs, so at best Henry is buying time before Twisted Alice kills him. Either mode Henry is expressionless.
• Mysterious Watcher:
  • Ink Bendy seems eager to follow you and watch your deportment. And he also seems more proactive than most. The cutouts are sometimes placed near objects or areas of importance. And, as mentioned above, they thrice peer out at you from a corner, seeming to point you in the right direction.
  • In Chapter 2, after y'all close the ink catamenia and become through the recording room, if yous look upwardly at the projector booth, y'all can come across Bendy's paper-thin cutout accompanied by Sammy, both watching you attentively, though y'all won't know who the latter is yet.
  • Chapter 4 is filled with these, as Henry encounters more than than a few "ink people". The ones who aren't crying are watching him attentively.

    Northward-Southward

• No Off-white Cheating:
  • The game tin't be saved if you skip to later chapters using the select option.
  • Using hacks to move through sure blocked doorways will atomic number 82 you to a disturbing looking Bendy cutout holding a sign saying "WANDERING IS A TERRIBLE SIN".
• No Expert Deed Goes Unpunished: Twisted Alice succeeds in capturing Buddy Boris considering he left the safehouse to help Henry.
• Notice This: Progress-critical items will shine, making them easier to spot.
• Number of the Beast: Appears on the train of the "Bendy in Train Problem" poster.
• Offscreen Teleportation: The paper-thin cutout Bendys are very fond of this. In Chapter 2, some can even regenerate if you interruption them with the axe and reappear as shortly as you look away, though this is only if the cutout is positioned in front of a Pentagram.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Henry gasps when he sees Bendy's paper-thin cutout in the eye of the hallway. And it wasn't there earlier.
  • Henry reacts this style upon seeing Ink Bendy and makes a break for the entrance.
  • Any given players' reaction when they see that Bertrum'southward voice is being subtitled, non shown in the normal Audio Log window in the Attraction Storage room when they activate the Recorder.
• Ominous Obsidian Ooze: The eponymous Ink Motorcar seemingly both runs on ink and produces it in infinite — and exponentially growing — quantities. The ink covers the unabridged studio, and tin can both bring cartoon characters to life (admitting with a salubrious dose of Body Horror) and turn humans into ink monsters, the most common of which are the Searchers, plain-featured and incomplete beings of ink, and the Lost Ones, humanoid masses of dripping, shifting ink.
• Randomly Generated Levels: All maps are fixed, but there are some game-play elements that are mixed upwardly between each play-through, and older versions of the game had more.
  • In Chapter 1: The six objects y'all demand to collect used to be shuffled effectually in different places with each playthrough.
  • In Affiliate 2:
    • The switches you lot demand to discover to open the first gate used to shift locations with each playthrough.
    • To enter Sammy'due south sanctuary, you must play four instruments in a specific order while the projector is running to open the gate. The combination needed is delivered via an audio log. Mad Libs Dialogue allows for multiple options for the unlock.
    • Wally'due south keys are in a unlike trash tin every fourth dimension.
  • In Affiliate three:
    • Twisted Alice'southward quests used to exist open up to the unabridged map aside from the concluding one. At present they're all restricted to a single flooring each.
• Retcon: Whenever a new chapter releases, the previous chapters tend to get updated along with it.
  • Later Affiliate 2 released, Chapter 1 featured some new rooms, a redesigned Boris, and an artistic overhaul for Inked Bendy. Afterwards Chapter 3, yet more new rooms were added, including one that features the new Punch Clock introduced in said affiliate, there'southward a new sound log regarding a plumber named Thomas Connor, who worked on the Ink Car's pipes, that rightly decided to never work for Joey Drew again, and Bacon Soup cans were added.
  • Affiliate 2'south Searchers were updated to be the more pained, less upright ones from Chapter 3.
  • The satanic pentagrams were replaced with a new pattern in the Chapter 4 update, with the new line formation nonetheless beingness round, but with a formation within it that looks roughly similar to Bendy's head.
• Recycled IN Infinite!: The unabridged setup is basically Lovecraft'due south From Beyond with the titular Ink Auto playing the part of the Resonator... and what it brings into the world is just every bit unfriendly as it is in the story. Amped upwardly fifty-fifty further when you realize that Twisted Alice is playing the part of Praetorius...to the death.
  • Even amend, what was Lovecraft's unnamed protagonist's name in the showtime draft? HENRY.
• Red Herring: Two in Chapter iv.
  • You volition but need to use i of the Miracle Stations scattered throughout the level.
  • The "Gent" machine has the option to create a bone, which volition exercise absolutely nothing when fighting Animate being Boris.
• The Reveal: The very end of Affiliate five reveals that Henry visited Joey in his apartment before heading to the studio. Joey, now a regretful old man, sent Henry into the Studio and so that he could permanently end the Ink Demon's reign.
• Ritual Magic: Joey was up to some seriously occult business in the studio, and if his insistence on "sacrificial" items for the Ink Motorcar and a gutted existent-life Boris don't sell y'all, the satanic pentagram hidden nether the studio will.
• Roger Rabbit Effect: Features living cartoons (who are fictional in-universe) emerging from the auto equally you explore the abandoned blitheness studios. In Chapter i, Bendy himself appears to exist out for blood, while you can as well find his onetime partner/nemesis Boris the Wolf, strapped to a tabular array and vivisected. Chapter 2 gives us Boris alive and well. So at that place's Sammy Lawrence, who at this point is a hybrid of human and ink-dripping cartoon. It turns out that the entire plot began because of this ane trope: Joey commissioned the Ink Machine in an attempt to bring his characters to life to help the public sympathize how he perceives them by letting them meet in person. The projection took a blow when an attempt to create Bendy had a less-than-favourable outcome and no attempt to perfect the dancing demon was attempted e'er once more.
• Room Full of Crazy: Grant Cohen's office at the start of Affiliate iv has scribbles all over the walls and floor, as the human was plainly driven mad trying to make sense of the company's finances. Highlights include repeating "time is coin" over and over, scribbling random sums, and declaring that "information technology doesn't add together up".
• Screw This, I'yard Outta Here!:
  • Wally Franks' audio logs always stop with him threatening to quit if some other bad incident occurs in the studio (ie. another pipe bursting). The end of Chapter 5 reveals that he went to Florida with his wife.
  • Henry, to his credit, tries when he sees Ink Bendy. The problem is that he and so falls through a secret room.
  • An sound log added to Affiliate 1 afterward the release of Chapter 3 has a man named Thomas Connor having to set the pipes to the Ink Motorcar, and decides, partly because of how frustrating repairing the pipes are, but primarily in how he has a bad feeling about said machine, that he'southward never doing another repair job for the company over again.
• Cocky-Deprecation: In Chapter v, to enter Ink Bendy's sanctum, Allison starts rattling off a variety of equipment she needs to open up the door for Henry to get. Tom just breaks the door open, echoing a complaint near the abundance of Fetch Quests in the game.
• Sequel Hook: "Tell me another 1, Uncle Joey."
• Shout-Out:

• Subverted Kids' Evidence: The game puts an interesting spin on this. The Bendy cartoons the plot revolves around are cute and family-friendly, with an old-fashioned rubber hose Disney style. However, in the studio, there's an actual Boris the Wolf, cutting open and strapped to a table, and some toothy drawing monstrosity (that resembles Bendy) comes afterwards y'all while you lot're unable to escape.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Fifty-fifty if an animation boss is respected and talented, he'll lose his employees' conviction if he undergoes Sanity Slippage, introduces an Awesome, but Impractical machine, and allows for unsanitary working conditions. In Wally's sound log in Chapter 1, he threatens to quit if another pipe bursts.
  • After Henry kills Brute Boris, he's saved from Twisted Alice past Allison and Tom... who then go along to throw him in a cell. Even though they saved his life, that doesn't mean they're going to automatically trust some random guy they've never met, especially in a place like this.

    T-Z

• Tap on the Caput:
  • Sammy knocks Henry out most the end of Affiliate 2, and yet Henry'due south perfectly capable of running and swinging an axe shortly after. Granted, he was also fearing for his life at that betoken. Adrenaline can do amazing things. And then it's subverted when Chapter iii reveals that Henry spent time recovering in the rubber house while Buddy Boris cared for him and played cards with him.
  • Subverted when Twisted Alice crashes the elevator holding Henry and Buddy Boris, and the touch knocks out Henry. Buddy Boris barely manages to rouse Henry, who tin't warn him about an approaching Twisted Alice. Then Henry lapses back into unconsciousness after seeing her have Buddy Boris, and Twisted Alice assumes he is dead.
• "Examination Your Forcefulness" Game: In Chapter 4, amid the attractions in Bendy Land is a strength exam game. Hit the bell will crusade Twisted Alice to sarcastically remark that Buddy Boris' rescue tin can expect.
• Tragic Monster: Chapter v reveals Ink Bendy to be this. Turns out he was the start and only attempt to bring the cartoon graphic symbol to life. Since he has no soul, the attempt failed. However, he did little more than wander effectually the studio, not harming anyone, but due to him perhaps scaring people off, he was locked away.
• Troubled Production: In-Universe, the composer Sammy Lawrence would interrupt music recordings for the animation productions. He would mess with the projector and run back to it, to the band's cliffhanger.
• Unintentionally Unwinnable: Most the start of Chapter 2 when you have to find and press 3 buttons, 2 of them are supposed to start about the bottom of the stairs just the game volition occasionally simply load one of the 2 buttons meaning the histrion has to restart the chapter all over again.
• Unusual Chapter Numbers: Of a sort. The floors accessible from the lift are, from pinnacle to bottom, "K", "11", "P", "nine", "14", and "Southward".
• Unusual Halo: Twisted Alice has a semi broken halo that appears to be partially fused with her caput.
• Villainous Rescue: Ink Bendy can save Henry from Sammy, the Projectionist, and the Butcher Gang.
• Wham Line:
  • Found in the room below the go out: "The Creator lied to united states".
  • In Chapter ii, later you lot listen to an sound log that ends with "Can I become an amen?", you hear the same phonation say "I said can I get an amen?", but the record is off and the vocalization sounds like information technology's coming from just effectually the corner.
  • In Chapter three:

  Twisted Alice : I see yous there.

  • Chapter 3 too has Twisted Alice's maddened cackling while you're in the elevator, revealing that you lot're not quite out of the wood nevertheless. Then she says, "I know who you lot are, Henry! I know why yous're here!".
  • Chapter iv - For anyone not tipped off by the subtitles, there's the line at the cease of Bertrum's "recording" inside Bendy Country: "You lot may remember I've gone... But I'm however here!"
  • Between Capacity 4 and 5, the developers released an audio log of Henry, seemingly recorded between the two chapters. It's mostly an Apocalyptic Log recapping the events so far... simply and so he states this particularly heart-catching line, which throws our perceptions of Allison and Tom into question (though there'southward notwithstanding the possibility that he's talking about someone, or something else):

  Henry: There'south crazy things happening down hither... monsters, demons, angels... and correct now, two of them are property me prisoner.

  • The start of Chapter 5 reveals that they had a perfectly practiced reason to: They didn't trust him yet.
  • And and then there's the terminal line of the game, which is besides the first.
• Wham Shot:
  • Boris is strapped to a table, his oral fissure open. Information technology's not clear if he'south alive, though the amount of rib cage showing, coupled with his Wingding Eyes showing X would normally indicate otherwise. He is a cartoon, though, and so...
  • Later gathering all the necessary items, y'all have to caput to the projector room to hit the ink flow button. On the way there, you take hold of a moment's glance of the Bendy cutout peering out at yous. When yous circular the corner, y'all find it propped upwardly against the wall, with fresh ink at its anxiety...
  • Subsequently activating the Ink Machine, Henry rounds the corner to discover it boarded off — before a deformed monster resembling Bendy, better known every bit Ink Bendy or the Ink Demon, appears right before his eyes.
  • After you escape from a fully formed Ink Bendy, you walk down a hall and discover none other than Boris. Alive and well.
  • What remains of Sammy Lawrence, shown in the Stinger of Chapter 2.
  • In Chapter 3, you and Buddy Boris come up across an entire room full of Borises and Butcher Gang members having been killed in a similar fashion as Chapter 1. A moment later, and we get some other: Twisted Alice torturing a Butcher Gang member, revealing that she's the one responsible.
  • Near the terminate of Affiliate 4, Henry is riding a cart through the haunted business firm, when the cart is suddenly stopped past two enormous hands that poke out of the darkness... so the mutated visage of what is unmistakably Boris rises into view.
  • Chapter 4 ends with Henry having to fight a monstrous Boris fabricated by Twisted Alice. Later killing it, Twisted Alice tries to strangle him, only to be killed by... another, less corrupted version of Alice with her ain Boris.
  • Affiliate 5 ends with Henry revealed to accept visited Joey in person before the beginning of Affiliate 1. The latter so asked him to go to the studio in the back of his flat for unspecified reasons.
• White Gloves: All the cartoon characters wear them. Amusingly, Alice seems to wear the traditional White Gloves over a pair of elbow-length Loftier-Class Gloves.
• Why Won't You Die?: Twisted Alice says this nigh word-for-word equally Henry kills Fauna Boris.
• "Will Return" Explanation: All chapters finish with Bendy will render.
• Would Exist Rude to Say "Genocide": In Chapter 5, you wipe out a Searcher and Lost Ane village. Admittedly, they leave you little other pick with their attacks, and might be able to return from the ink, but still.
• Zerg Blitz: Chapter 5 has an attack past a large number of Searchers and the Lost Ones. Luckily, you have Allison and Tom by your side.

The Bendy Cartoons provide examples of:

    Bendy Cartoons

• Butt-Monkey: Bendy is typically this in the cartoons.
  • In "Tombstone Picnic," his lunch gets stolen by Boris and tormented past 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 abroad and Boris takes the bag Bendy left backside.
  • "Snow Sillies" is probably the worst of them all. Just when Bendy makes a new friend, information technology melts but seconds later. So Boris eats the carrot for the snowman, and at that bespeak Bendy cries. And that's where information technology ends.
• Creepy Jazz Music: The drawing'due south soundtrack is a ragtime riff.
• A Solar 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 human tray out of the oven and finds that information technology's empty because Boris is already eating his cookie.
  • In "Tombstone Picnic", Bendy trips and loses his picnic basket. Boris takes information technology and starts eating nonchalantly. Bendy, after demanding his picnic handbasket back and getting ignored, sprays Boris with a shaken soda bottle.
• Foreshadowing: At the end of "Tombstone Picnic", Bendy cowers from a large, shadowy effigy as the cartoon starts flashing white. In Chapter 3, released after the cartoon, ane of your enemies is the big, inky figure of the Projectionist, whose projector head shines a bright light on everything in front end of him.
• Genre Blindness: In "Tombstone Picnic", let's just say a graveyard is no place for a picnic.
• Just Ignore Information technology: In "Tombstone Picnic", Boris' response to Bendy indignantly poking him is to pay no mind to him.
• Shave And A Haircut: Plays at the cease 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 comatose 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 once again, he'south a demon, and then he'south probably seen this sort of thing earlier.
• Apply Your Head: In "Cookie Cookin," rather than use a rolling pivot to flatten the dough, Bendy resorts to this trope instead.

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