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  • Demonic Spiders: The Araknits are not capable of taking much damage, but can drop from almost anywhere endlessly, and considering The Bandit can only attack from a specific spot and somewhat slowly, it's likely the player will die to them multiple times.
  • Fan-Preferred Couple:
    • Penny/Miss Undertaker, despite the two of them never interacting in canon, is immensely popular among the fans.
    • Similarly, Doc Carver/Banker has gathered a pretty big following.
  • Fanon:
    • A lot of fans like to characterize Bandit as a huge flirt and Casanova Wannabe who hits on just about anyone in Showdown Valley, regardless of gender or appearance.
    • Partially due to the massive popularity of Penny/Miss Undertaker, Miss Undertaker being a lesbian or at least having a huge soft spot for Penny is a fairly common headcanon. It doesn't help that in episode 1, a note can be found in which Miss Undertaker complains about the closing down of Penny's store.
  • Friendly Fandoms: With Bendy and the Ink Machine. Not really surprising since the games are from the same studio and a lot of Showdown Bandit fans have played Bendy before.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: The in-universe show's cancellation, when you consider what happened to the game itself.
  • Overshadowed by Controversy: With no further chapters in development, and Chapter 1 itself being pulled from sale, discussion of the game has primarily shifted to the poor management of Kindly Beast. Further details are available on the YMMV page for Bendy, but Showdown Bandit itself is seen as the biggest example of the studio's mismanagement; due to poor oversight and communication from project head Mike Mood, the team's original version of Chapter 1 ended up not being what he wanted, leading to him deciding to cancel the whole thing last-minute and quickly rush out an entirely new build made solely by him and theMeatly, containing "All new code, all new story, all new levels, added voice work and a large number of new models and textures", within exactly three weeks.

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