YMMV / Bendy and the Ink Machine

For the YMMV page of Bendy and the Dark Revival, go here.

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• Alternative Character Interpretation: Has its own page.
• Aluminum Christmas Trees: A classic 1920s/30s-style cartoon about demons and Hell couldn't possibly have been a thing in real life, considering how conservative America was at the time, right? Actually, there were a number of macabre and occult-themed cartoons at the time, in which characters like Bendy wouldn't have been out of place.
• Awesome Art: The most universally praised aspect of the game is its art style for being a highly effective translation of early 30s rubber hose animation into 3D and including hand-drawn elements such as the textures and outlines.
• Ass Pull: There's several points throughout the game where The Ink Demon could have killed Henry, but doesn't. Even saving him at one point and staring right at him while the man is crawling through the vents. This may in fact be an in-universe example, depending on how you interpret the ending.
• Broken Base:
  • Jacksepticeye's voice cameo in Chapter 3. Depending on who you ask, it's either an innocent cameo meant to expand Jack's voice actor portfolio and provide theMeatly with a fitting voice for a certain role, or a shameless attempt at pandering to Let's Players and a sign that the game is devolving into nothing more than YouTube fodder.
  • The End, big time, with the implication that everything is the result of a "Groundhog Day" Loop. Is it a neat and clever ending that answers some (albeit not all) of the game's questions, or is it a complete mess of a resolution that doesn't answer anything and just makes the whole events of the game even more confusing?
• Catharsis Factor: Allison killing Twisted Alice when the latter was about to murder a grieving Henry. Susie totally deserved it after yanking around Henry's chain for two chapters, then kidnapping and brainwashing Buddy Boris.

• Creepy Awesome:
  • Sammy Lawrence's terrifying insanity and evil is what makes him memorable, not to mention his tendency to call Henry his "little sheep".
  • The Ink Demon is a creepy ink monster with a disturbing smile and heavy evil implications. He is beloved by the fanbase for it.
  • Twisted Alice, whose nightmarish actions and human mentality give her a unique edge due that leaves her more disturbing than the other villains.
• Crossover Ship:
  • There are some people shipping Bendy with Spinel due to both being a homage to 30's animation and being abandoned by their creator.
  • Bendy and Cuphead, which has enough of a following to the point where it borders on One True Pairing. See Friendly Fandoms below for further information.
• Cry for the Devil: The Ink Demon may be a rampaging monster that kills anyone he comes across, but it's hard not to feel a little sorry for him since it's heavily implied that he was locked up beneath the studio for years just for being a failed experiment that looked scary and lacked a soul, even though there's no evidence he ever tried to harm anyone. From this, it's pretty easy to see why he turned out the way he did.
• Disappointing Last Level: A number of fans have found "The Last Reel" rather sloppy, mainly due to still failing to address the flaws of previous chapters (almost all of which were patched to heavily downplay or streamline said elements), namely the frequent backtracking, strange emphasis on the awkward combat of the game, along with the generally disliked fetch quests. Not helping matters is that the game ends almost abruptly with a number of questions still unanswered, with the answers given being confusing at best.
• Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game: Many fans think that what it lacks in gameplay, the game makes up for in style and story.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Wally Franks might count as one. Mostly because his audio logs come off as a welcomed comic relief in every chapter.
  • Sammy Lawrence only appears in Chapter 2, along with a surprise appearance in Chapter 5, but he quickly cemented himself as one of the most popular characters in the game due to his unique design, Cold Ham tendencies, and memorable insanity.
  • Thomas Connor, due to the fact that despite only being contracted to work for Joey Drew Studios, he's easily the most stable employee, and seems to be one of the only people to not take Joey Drew's antics. This combined with the fact that he was only one smart enough to try to get out when he could led to people relating to him quite a bit.
  • The Projectionist is rather popular, with quite a few seeing him as the scariest enemy in the game besides The Ink Demon, thanks to his intimidating theme and freaky design.
• Evil Is Cool:
  • The Ink Demon, the game's mascot, is a Nigh-Invulnerable Humanoid Abomination rightfully feared by all with his unsettling presence.
  • Sammy Lawrence is this as well, thanks to his cool design and Creepy Awesome behavior.
• Fan Nickname: It's fairly common to refer to Twisted Alice as 'Malice Angel' as a way of distinguishing her from toon Alice and Allison.
• Fandom Rivalry: Although they used to be Friendly Fandoms, after Bendy and the Dark Revival was released in late 2022, there seems to be a bit of a rivalry between Bendy and the Ink Machine fans and fans of Poppy Playtime with many fans of the former accusing the latter of being a rip-off.
• Fanon:
  • Fan artists usually depict Bendy and Boris with a pointy devil's tail and a wolf's tail respectively, even though they're canonically tailless. On the same note, the wingless Alice Angel is often given angel wings in fan art.
    • It was revealed by theMeatly in his Q & A video that while his original Bendy design didn't feature a tail, the copious amount of fanart to feature a tail lead to him considering it a possibility.
  • Thanks to some of the custom music videos, it's also common to see Bendy using a real world L pipe as a cane to dance with.
  • It's extremely common in Fan Works to depict toon Bendy melting or oozing ink when very emotional or stressed. A rarer variation is Bendy being able to switch between a stable 3D version of his 2D appearance and his Ink form, seemingly at will. The latter became somewhat canon in Dark Revival.
  • Despite apparently being rivals in the cartoons, Bendy and Boris are usually depicted as being best friends. This is most likely because there are currently few characters for Bendy to properly interact with, outside of Boris and Alice Angel. While it is possible that Ink Bendy was responsible for gutting Boris in the game and it turns out he's actually not, most fanart and fanfiction pre-Chapter 3 depict Joey as the culprit, with Ink Bendy either trying to avenge him or bring him back to life. This was eventually made Ascended Fanon with the release of the comics, which have the characters being more akin to partners in crime rather than rivals.
  • It's pretty common in fanwork to depict Bendy's voice having a Brooklyn accent, this is possibly because of his trickster depictions in fanworks and the Bendy cartoons reminding people of a more well known trickster toon. Conversely, Boris is usually depicted with a Southern drawl to mirror Goofy (albeit often with a much deeper pitch).
  • Due to the time period and the pressure Joey Drew puts on them, it's common for fans to depict several of the studio workers as smokers. Particularly Thomas Connor, presumably because of his deep and scratchy voice.
• Fanwork-Only Fans: Much like Five Nights at Freddy's, a good part of the fanbase has never played the game and is only aware of it due to the fan content, like theories, fanfiction and in this case especially, the fan songs. Even people who dislike the game itself tend to enjoy the tunes the fanbase produces.
• Friendly Fandoms:
  • With Cuphead, since both games have an old-timey cartoon aesthetic. According to Fanon, however, the titular characters don't seem to get along well. For sort of obvious reasons.
  • As for the horror side, it's friendly with the Five Nights at Freddy's, Tattletail, and Hello Neighbor fandoms. The latter especially, to the point the antagonist showed up in a Halloween update for the game, replacing Sammy and Ink Bendy, while Hello Neighbor got a Bendy-themed official mod for those who pre-purchased the game.
  • Due to both games having an emphasis on ink as well as being a Darker and Edgier take on classic cartoons, the game has caused a renewed interest in Epic Mickey.
  • This also leads into being friendly with Mickey Mouse himself, seeing as Bendy is supposed to be a passionate homage to his early works. This also extends to a number of other early cartoon characters, such as Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Felix the Cat, and, in very rare circumstances, Sonic the Hedgehog (who amusingly HAS dabbled in the same retro artstyle before◊, though as a parody).
  • Crossover fanart depicting Bendy with Impmon is also quite popular.
  • Someone on tumblr started an au where all the old timey cartoons co-exist called "Bendy and Boris: the Quest for the Ink Machine". The tumblr is called thebbros.
• Good Bad Bugs: Brute Boris' boss fight originally had the cars he threw fall to pieces before they even left his hands, making the third phase nearly impossible to lose.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • One of the major aspects of the game's narrative is how Joey's poor business sense inadvertently damaged a bunch of people's livelihoods. Kindly Beast, the company that Mike Mood and theMeatly established after buying out Karman Interactive, would face criticism from former employees who were the victims of a layoff, who stated Mike and theMeatly tended to ignore the concerns of more experienced workers, not being upfront about the unclear future of the company, and long periods of time where no work was done due to the board being difficult to contact.
  • Similarly, Joey has apparently been taking credit for his employees' work. As it turns out, the creators of the game themselves are guilty of plagiarism.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Artist katelynntheg has a Bendy and the Ink Machine OC named Rodney Ravenclaw, whose voice claim is Jacksepticeye (as demonstrated here). Chapter three then includes a tape recording of Shawn Flynn, a Heavenly Toys division employee who is officially voiced by Jacksepticeye.
  • Bendy was featured as one of the boss fights in DAGames's Brothers in Arms music video for Cuphead, albeit in a much more monstrous form. As pointed out by Will himself multiple times, Bendy's final form in chapter 5 turned out to look pretty damn close to the design in the Animation.
• Hype Backlash: Somewhat inevitably, the massive amount of hype, fanart, and Filk Songs for the game has led to some disappointment about the quality in various ways — in particular the fact that most chapters can be completed in less than an hour total, the gameplay is underwhelming at best, and the actual story isn't nearly as expanded on as one might be led to believe listening to said filk songs. The Disappointing Last Level didn't help matters.
• Idiosyncratic Ship Naming:
  • Joey/Henry = Creatorship.
  • Sammy/Jack = Coffeecake.
• I Knew It!:
  • The Searchers being former studio workers was guessed to be the case as far back as Chapter 2, and fully confirmed in Chapter 4.
  • There was a proponent of fans who believed Bendy wasn't Joey Drew as the game supposedly kept hinting. This was proven correct in Chapter 5.

J-Z

• Jerkass Woobie: Sammy Lawrence, a former employee who's gone insane after all the chaos in the studio. He's been turned into a monstrous ink creature and tries to sacrifice you to him in exchange for his human body back. Even with this, it's hard to not feel bad for him as you hear him plead for mercy as Bendy supposedly kills him. At least until he reappears in the final chapter.
• Love to Hate: Twisted Alice is easily the most despised character in the game due to continuously mocking Henry while forcing him to do dangerous tasks for her before betraying him anyway, killing Buddy Boris and turning him into a brainwashed minion to fight Henry, and just being a Psychopathic Womanchild in general. However, it makes her eventual fate of getting stabbed in the back by her good counterpart all the more satisfying.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Bacon Soup. ^explanation  The only source of food in the entire studio and the game's only health item. Naturally, plenty of players thought it absolutely hilarious that it was "bacon soup" of all things.
  • "Can I get an amen? I said, can I get an amen?" ^{explanation (Spoilers)}  A line said by an increasingly unstable Sammy Lawrence on his audio tape...and then said again when the tape stops. Many first-time players were rather caught off guard hearing this.
  • Sammy Lawrence's redesign as of the updates of the previous chapters that came with Chapter 4 has been regarded as Mr. Fanservice to a lot of fans, due to having more defined muscles under the ink casing and looking overall more human.
  • Wally Frank's catchphrase, "I'm outta here!", has become rather popular with the fandom due to the hammy way he tends to say it.
  • Henry's absolutely inhuman serenity even as he traverses deeper and deeper into a studio full of horrors is subject to many jokes that he went through so much after he left that he's Seen It All by now. Rather justified considering what Bendy and the Dark Revival reveals him to actually be going through.
  • "THE CREATOR LIED TO US." ^explanation  A message spread in ink commonly found throughout the entire studio. Often used when a fan of a work feels like they've been lied to or received false information by the creator of said work.
  • The End ^{explanation (SPOILERS)}  Some fans thought how exactly the Ink Demon is defeated, getting shown an ending card and told his series is over, was ridiculous.
• Moe:
  • Bendy in the cartoons, due to his cute classic Disney-style design and his childlike demeanor in some of the shorts and his dialogue only consisting of silly sounds, and the ending of the "Snow Sillies" toon will make you want to give him a hug.
  • As the "Tasty Trio Troubles" short goes, Edgar is absolutely adorable for a spider, first being seen pulling a string toy duck behind him cheerfully. He even makes squeaky toy sounds!
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • In addition to being a terrible boss overall, Joey crossed it when he decided to start using his employees as human sacrifices, in order to use their souls to create living cartoons.
    "After all, I own thousands of them!"
  • Sammy crosses it when planning to sacrifice Henry to the Ink Demon, despite recognizing him. Sammy gets eaten for his troubles.
  • At least The Ink Demon's excuse for trying to murder Henry is that he's an Eldritch Abomination based off a trickster toon that operates on Blue-and-Orange Morality, but Twisted Alice is aware of who Henry is and knows he had nothing to do with her getting fired. So she threatens Henry's life to get him to run errands for her, kidnaps Buddy Boris to make herself "beautiful," goads Henry about trying to save Buddy Boris knowing that it's too late, and orders Brute Boris to murder Henry. No one sheds a tear when Allison stabs her through the stomach.
• Narm Charm:
  • Sammy Lawrence calling you a sheep sounds like an affectionate pet name at first, and some people chuckle at it. After learning he plans to use you as a human sacrifice, it becomes really disturbing.
  • The Projectionist/Norman Polk is shown to have No Object Permanence, as after you get in a little miracle station even just when he's chasing you down, he simply continues wandering around. It's ridiculous and might just be Artificial Stupidity, but when you think about it, it might actually be a way to show how mentally gone he truly is.
• Nightmare Retardant:
  • The very first enemy inkblobs you face appear with a scare chord... and die in a single blow to an axe, or two blows from a plunger, making them little more than pests. They also evaporate instantly when you hide from them, even if you were in sight seconds before.
  • The Ink Demon's initial design looks like a poorly-made clay model the more you look at him.
  • A Halloween patch for the game included a crossover with Hello Neighbor can be... extremely underwhelming for those playing the game for the first time. Rather than being faced with Ink Bendy and or Sammy, both of their character models are replaced by the droopy-eyed, small-moustached Neighbor. The patch was only around for a limited time, but threw off a number of gamers.
  • The Ink Demon's final boss form looks kind of ridiculous from the waist down. His arms and head have grown to massive size, but his legs have shrunk into tiny nubs.
• Player Punch: Twisted Alice taking Buddy Boris away at the end of Chapter Three....
  • ...And then having to put him down in the Chapter 4 finale, after Twisted Alice transforms him into Brute Boris.
• Overshadowed by Controversy: In more recent years, Bendy and the Ink Machine has become better known for accusations from ex-Kindly Beast employees that leadership ignored employee concerns, were dishonest about the uncertain future of the company, and went silent for long periods of time, preventing work from being done. This is exactly the kind of poor workplace culture that Bendy criticises, and contributed to the poorer quality of the game's later chapters, which suffers from Game-Breaking Bugs and uneven gameplay and storytelling. As a result, discussions of Bendy often turn to Kindly Beast's mismanagement and mistreatment of its employees, in contrast to the game's initial popularity back in 2017.
• Paranoia Fuel:
  • Bendy's cutout follows you around during the game. He never moves except to peer at you from a corner, and his expression never changes, but dear God.
  • In chapter 1, the Bendy sketches on the desks move when you're not looking at them. They never do anything beyond simple pose changes, but what the fuck?
• Portmanteau Couple Name:
  • Bendy/Alice = Benlice.
  • Sammy/Henry = Senry.
  • Sammy/Joey = Jammy.
• Scrappy Mechanic:
  • Combat in general is rather finicky, even with the targeting crosshair, because it's hard to judge the distance of what you're going to hit with it, leading to frequently missing. Since the enemies move toward you, it's even harder to know when you should strike. When Chapter 4 was released, what came with it was rather severe Hitbox Dissonance on the part of the enemies (with some even able to hit you even as you're backing away from them when they stop to take a strike), which resulted in even more demands to fix the combat on the Steam forums.
    • Made even worse by the Checkpoint Starvation in Chapter 2. Couldn't judge the distance right a few too many times? Back to the start with you!
    • Since the release of Chapter 3, Death Is a Slap on the Wrist, so this is no longer an issue. Unless your game crashes...
  • The lack of leniency in aiming the melee weapon is a sticking point for a lot of people. If your crosshair isn't directly on the enemy, you miss. This might work with a gun, but a melee weapon with a wide swing should be more forgiving.
  • Sometimes, the game will start you off with a sensitivity that's hard to handle.
  • The way the camera just keeps on swaying back and forth, as if Henry was either drunk or inside a ship on a sea. No option in the settings is able to turn that off, and quite a few people had to give up on playing the game because of this, due to motion sickness.
• Special Effect Failure: In the original version of the first chapter, Ink Bendy was scary for about a second before the player realized just how very bad the model looks, being incredibly blobby and having no defined body outside of a head and torso. The game's developers even later referred to this model as "bird poop with a smile". Later updates replaced the model with something much more frightening.
• Spiritual Successor:
  • It's a better video game adaptation of Abandoned by Disney than the fangame directly based on it.
  • It could also be considered one to Epic Mickey, considering that it's focused around 1930's animation with the Big Bad being a huge black blob.
• Spoiled by the Format:
  • Chapter 3 gives Henry a means to finally escape from the studio, via the elevator that Twisted Alice lets you use, provided you do something for them. Given that there are two more Chapters, it's easy to infer that Henry fails to leave. Twisted Alice destroys the elevator by the time the episode ends, and likely put you even deeper into the facility than before.
  • Chapter 4 gives us Bertrum Piedmont's boss fight which begins with the player listening to a tape recording from Bertrum himself, who reveals at the end of the recording to be in the same room as Henry and attacks after the tape is finished. However the player is unlikely to be caught off-guard since the delivery of the recording is different from every other tape so far, with subtitles instead of a transcript card.
• Squick:
  • Several of the ink creations could elicit this reaction. Especially with the amount of Body Horror involved with several of them. One example is the Butcher Gang — beings that seem to have actual organs.
  • A more obvious one would be having to remove a boil from a swollen searcher and using it to make a gear.
• That One Boss:
  • While Bertrum Piedmont, Brute Boris and even Beast Bendy all have predictable patterns that can make them fairly easy (or at least not overwhelmingly difficult) to defeat if you know what you're doing, and The Projectionist, while harder to kill than any of them is never required to be fought, Sammy Lawrence is much less restricted in his movement than any other (required) boss and while he periodically stands in place to swing his axe, the animation of him doing so doesn't last very long. Your best bet is to just constantly run away from him and hope you have enough time to safely hit him whenever he starts swinging his axe. Doesn't help that the fight is immediately succeeded by the horde of searchers and lost ones mentioned below either.
• That One Level:
  • That one part in Chapter Two where you have to run down to the Orchestra Room after turning on a projector and play different instruments correctly which doesn't sound so bad, except the projector is timed. Not to mention, there are twists and turns and the controls can get sloppy if you don't have a compatible controller. And chances are, the projector will turn off before you reach the room or finish playing Sammy's song. Rage is perhaps imminent, though you can activate the projector by standing on the chair underneath it to save some time.
  • Nearly the entirety of Chapter 3 is this already, due to a series of four fetch quests in a row from Alice Angel, the third and fourth ones only broken up by fighting multiple waves of enemies (Ink Searchers and Butcher Gang members) who spawn in droves and can easily gang up on you. Complicating this is the fact that you're forced to use the lead pipe rather than the more damaging axe (for instance, the Ink Searchers are killed in two hits by the lead pipe but only one hit by the axe). Not to mention, you have to be on the lookout for Ink Bendy almost the entire time. The Chapter was patched the week afterward, with one of the major points being that it cut down on the fetch quests, putting the tasks on particular floors instead.
    • There is also a glitch where the fourth gearbox (during the second fetch quest) won't let you open it, making the objective unbeatable unless you restart it enough times that it lets you open it.
  • The hit the bottle game in Chapter Four. If you're using a mouse, it'll be an absolute nightmare trying to hit them, and if you managed to, chances are only one or two will fall.
  • Fighting the large group of searchers and lost ones in Chapter 5. They can very easily overwhelm you if you're not both exceedingly skilled and exceedingly lucky. It's most convenient to just sit back and let Allison and Tom do all the work, but that takes nearly 30 minutes.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • Some players found it hard to bond with Buddy Boris in Chapter 3 due to the character never uttering a single line, barely expressing any sign of emotion or connection with Henry through body language, makes no outward reaction upon discovering the Boris clones having been disemboweled in a twisted experiment carried out by Twisted Alice, and spends the rest of the second-half of the chapter waiting in an elevator while the player explores the area and carries out all sorts of tedious fetch quests. Buddy Boris' capture by Twisted Alice by the end of Chapter 3 was met with more indifference rather than actual concern of their companion's predicament.
  • Some players assumed Joey Drew was being built up to be the Big Bad of the entire game, that he purposely set the events of the plot into motion with a nefarious intention behind them. Quite a few people also incorrectly guessed Joey Drew was actually Ink Bendy himself, that he was cartoon Bendy's human host and Joey let Bendy's demonic mischievousness overwhelm him. At the end of chapter 5 it's revealed Joey is just some decrepit old man who invited Henry back to see the studio, and while it is unclear if his intentions were benign or evil, he actually has very little to do with the game directly, other than to set it into motion in the backstory.
  • In spite of the fact that the titular Bendy is the Big Bad and Final Boss of the game, he doesn't really have any motivation to what he does ... in fact, it's not even entirely clear what he's trying to do in the first place. It's insinuated he's responsible for turning real people into inkblot people, but why he's doing this or to what ends is never revealed, nor if he's actually trapped in the studio and wants to get out, or what his personal grief is with Henry, if any. The fact that does not speak and has no facial emotions (his eyes are always covered by ink and he has a plastered, frozen 'Bendy' grin on his face) does him no favors, and in the end he comes off as less a calculated character (unlike Sammy or Twisted Alice, who had clear motivations), and more a mindless beast who does the things he does just because he's a "demon".
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • Some people who've played the game like the concept (a horror game about living cartoon characters), but feel the execution is flawed for one reason or another. One complaint is that the game takes itself too seriously, and would be better served playing up the "cartoon" aspect of the "evil living cartoon" conceit. Many of the scary moments in the first chapter (as you are unarmed and face unknown horrors) are defused in the following two chapters as you get an axe and wade through relatively harmless blobs of ink like an action hero.
  • The fact that with the exception of Ink Bendy who is the one and only, there can be and in fact are multiples of characters such as Boris the Wolf or Alice Angel running around, and how they may interact with one another. One version of Boris that follows the player around does get to see other Boris copies gut open and harvested, but he has absolutely no reaction to them, and he dies before Tom/Boris appears. Twisted Alice and Allison only interact when Allison sneaks up behind Twisted Alice to stab her in the back and otherwise do not share a single line of dialogue.
  • There's also the fact that it's almost like there's a whole ink ecosystem down there, between the Searchers, Lost Ones, Ink Demon, other transformed humans, and other cartoon characters (and which of the latter two categories do Allison and Tom fall into anyway?). And whatever the fuck the giant hand in the river is. There's potential for far more than simple shock horror here - and none of it's explored further than the scares need.
  • While certainly effective as a horror game, there was plenty of potential for it to focus also on the awe and wonder of such a scenario, and have the plot be more about saving the benign ink beings and unwillingly affected humans - and possibly even restoring or removing the corruption from the Ink Machine. This potential is even alluded to with the arc words "set us free". Instead, the game ends with a Final Boss fight against Ink Bendy's One-Winged Angel form, and a Gainax Ending afterwards.
• Unpopular Popular Character: In spite of her in-universe reception being rather tepid, Alice Angel is among the most popular characters within the Bendy fan community.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: There are quite a majority of fans who think Lacie Benton is male, due to her deep voice and rather androgynous name.
• Viewer Species Confusion:
  • Boris the Wolf, especially due to being stylistically based on Goofy, can be easily mistaken for a dog.
  • Bendy is a demon as the game says. However, some fans have mistaken him for being a weird looking black cat (thinking his horns are ears).
• The Woobie:
  • Henry was just coming to see Joey. He didn't want to find out his best friend was involved with the occult, and he certainly wasn't planning on getting attacked by ink monsters and almost sacrificed. Taken up to eleven if you believe in the "Groundhog Day" Loop theory. Living through all that was bad enough already... imagine doing it over and over again, with no hope of escape.
  • Boris the Wolf or "Buddy Boris". In Chapter Three we learn that Twisted Alice killed many Boris copies, and Boris, unable to speak, can only stare at his vivisected double. Then when Twisted Alice crashes the elevator he and Henry are riding, she grabs Boris when he is checking on a semiconscious Henry. He was only in danger because he tried to help! It's all good though, because we'll get to save him in Chapter 4, right? HA HA HA, nope. He gets horribly mutilated and turned against Henry, who is forced to put him down.
  • Poor Alice Angel. She wound up assimilated with Susie into a psychotic toon/human abomination, and it's heavily implied that she's actually ''aware'' of what she's become but is not in control of her actions. And then she ends up getting killed because of what Susie did (although it could arguably be seen as a Mercy Kill). All the poor girl wanted was her big break...
  • The Ink Demon. He was the only attempt to bring the cartoon character to life but failed due to not having a soul. After coming to life all he did was wander the studio not hurting anyone at all and merely creep them out. The latter caused Joey worry the press wouldn't like it and he had Thomas Connor lock him up in the bottom of the studio for that reason solely. You almost can't blame for being the way he is.

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