Needles Kane

Needles Kane, also known as Sweet Tooth and Marcus Kane, is a major character from the Twisted Metal series.
== Charactah Account ==
Needles Kane is notable for his flaming head and driving the Sweet Tooth, and he is also the leader of The Clowns.
Known as the most twisted character in Twisted Metal (which is saying something), he is the very embodiment of hate, anger, and destruction on an epic scale. Each interpretation differs from each game, but he has kept a consistent image throughout the series, being the poster mayhem icon for the series theme. Needles is truly evil, and thinks nothing of anything but the joy and desire of death and chaos. His character in Black and the 2012 reboot are his most famous incarnations of Sweet Tooth. A serial killer who uses a ice cream truck and demented clown theme to perform mass homicide on innocent people or fellow contestants.
His mask is a part of his evil motives as he made it as an escape from his alter ego Marcus Kane. Sweet Tooth is also the most colorful character; he dresses like a circus clown, and has a colorful vehicle with designs that match that of a local circus clown. He prides himself in being the best serial killer of all time and will stop at nothing to make sure his title remains intact. In some incarnations, he has a great love for ice cream and frozen treats: he keeps these in the back of his ice cream truck along with his various killing weapons and the bodies of his unfortunate victims.  
== Appearance ==
=== Video Games ===
* Hot Shots Golf 2
* ModNation Racers
* Payday 2
* PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale
* Rocket League
* Starhawk
* Twisted Metal
* Twisted Metal (2012)
* Twisted Metal 2
* Twisted Metal 4
* Twisted Metal III
* Twisted Metal Small Brawl
* Twisted Metal: Black
* Twisted Metal: Black ONLINE
* Twisted Metal: Head-On
* War of the Monsters
== Trivia ==
* Needles Kane is considered the mascot of the Twisted Metal series.
* Needles Kane is often referred to as Sweet Tooth, the name of his truck. This happens in the official ending of TM(1995) (but not the Lost Ending) and the TM2 endings. It also happens in TMIII and TM4, but happens to many other drivers in those games as well. Needles is referred to as Sweet Tooth in the newspaper headlines in TM:B, and is referred to as Sweet Tooth by Calypso in TM(2012). As a result, Calypso in TM:H-O has been the only person to call him by his actual name.
* Needles Kane (Dubbed "Michael") appeared in a 2011 live-action PlayStation commercial, sitting at a table playing chess with Sackboy, a mascot of another Sony franchise, "LittleBigPlanet".
* Needles is one of three characters to have appeared in every Twisted Metal game, along with Calypso and Mr. Grimm.
* His surname, Kane, is an alternate spelling of Cain, who was infamous for being the first of murderers in the Bible after he killed his brother Abel out of jealousy.
* Sweet Tooth is the only character in Twisted Metal that would actually dethrone Calypso and take control of the contest (TM4 & TM:H-O).
* In TM(1995) and TMIII, Needles does not have his trademark "flaming head".
* It is possible that Needles could be based off the serial killer John Wayne Gacy, judging by how he has no remorse, and, as stated in his file in TM:B, he has homicidal tendencies. Another point is that he killed his youngest son in TM(2012), which links to what the real life homicidal clown who killed his only son (who was at the age of 5) in his sleep.
* Needles is considered one of the most famous characters in the series because of his appearances in each and every one of the Twisted Metal games.
* Sweet Tooth's favorite flavor of ice cream is probably strawberry, as we mostly see him holding a cone with a pink scoop of ice cream.
* Ed Boon (One of the creators of Mortal Kombat) said that he thought about putting Needles in Mortal Kombat (2011) as a playable fighter. Kratos was chosen instead. Incidentally, both Needles and Kratos were created by Dave Jaffe.
* Needles Kane is the epitome of what people with a "fear of clowns" (Or Coulrophobia) think about all clowns, who are depicted as homicidal killers, evil maniacs, and sexual deviants towards people with this disorder. Though loosely based on this, Needles does exhibit the callousness and brutality expressed in this disorder; he probably used the mask as an intimidation tool to terrify his victims. Also, the complete randomness of his murders (as evidenced by him killing a staff member of the asylum) shows how people with this disorder depict clowns as evil and irrational beings that are wildly unpredictable as to what they would do next.
* In April 2015, ScrewAttack placed him #3 in the Top 10 Psycho's in Video Games list.
* In TM(1995) and TM:SB, his wishes are somewhat alike; his wish in TM(1995) was a paper bag, and his wish in TM:SB was ice cream, though he really wanted the ice cream truck.
* In the Season 8 episode of SpongeBob SquarePants titled "Demolition Doofus", there's a character named "The Cackling Cruiser" who is a clown. Due to him being in a demolition derby event, this could possibly be a reference to Needles and Sweet Tooth.
* In the +18 game Shady Lewd Kart. A secret kart can be unlocked with the name Twisted Terry that is a armored Taco Truck with a flaming clown, raccoon head on top of it. The driver of the kart is a large, dark anthro raccoon with a flaming head and light clown make up.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Needles Kane at Twisted Metal Wiki
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