Bendy

**Bendy**, also known by his corrupted physical form **Ink Bendy**, is the titular secondary antagonist of the *Bendy* franchise.

He serves as the titular secondary antagonist of *Bendy and the Ink Machine*, the titular main protagonist in the mobile spinoff video game *Bendy in Nightmare Run*, and the main antagonist of *Boris and the Dark Survival*. He also appears in the novel *Dreams Come to Life*, once again as the main antagonist.

In *Bendy and the Ink Machine*, he is the main antagonist of Chapter 1 and 5, the secondary antagonist of Chapter 2, and an anti-hero in Chapter 4.

Ink Bendy is set to return in the second installment *Bendy and the Dark Revival*, although his role is unknown.

A cartoon devil created by Joey Drew and Henry Stein for their cartoon, Bendy was then brought to life susceptible by the Ink Machine as Ink Bendy, who is a malformed ink humanoid version of Bendy made by the Ink Machine by Joey Drew in an attempt to bring cartoons to life.

## Appearance

Bendy resembles that of an old-fashioned cartoon character: having a black and white color scheme, cartoonish gloves, and a cheerful-looking expression (which apparently never changes). In addition to this, the top of his head resembles cartoony "horns", he wears a white bow tie, and sports black shoes. His eyes are in a pie-cut style, resembling that of an old, 1920s cartoon character.

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Ink Bendy is an ink character similar to the original Bendy, except that he himself has a huge humanoid shape; his face is covered with dripping ink, and he has a large left arm and a small right arm. His left hand appears to have a glove, whilst his right hand appears to have a glove "painted" on it. His bowtie is also crooked on his body, being more in the center of his chest rather than the top. His right foot appears more claw-like, while his left foot appears to just be a blob. This form is also notably taller than Henry.

Beast Bendy is the second form of Ink Bendy, having a slightly similar appearance. However, unlike Ink Bendy, Beast Bendy is taller and skinnier, showing much broader spines on the back and the shoulders, and bearing rows of sharp teeth and longer but slender horns.

## Personality

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Unlike his cartoon counterpart who is a friendly, harmless, kind and heroic cartoon character, Ink Bendy is deranged, hostile, dangerous, destructive and homicidal, as he first attacked and tried to kill Sammy Lawrence (but didn't due to Sammy escaping or Bendy sparing him) and then tried to kill Henry next. However, Ink Bendy has spared Henry multiple times. One example is in Chapter 4, when Henry is climbing through the vents and Bendy jumps up and garbs the vent but makes no attempt to harm Henry. Later in the same chapter Bendy appears to save Henry from The Projectionist when he corners Henry in a Little Miracle Station. While they traded blows, Ink Bendy overpowers Norman and strangles and decapitates him, and afterwards looks into the Miracle Station and sees Henry, only to drag The Projectionist's corpse into the darkness with him and spare Henry's life.

Ink Bendy also appears to be slightly narcissistic, as he reacts poorly to having his cardboard cutouts destroyed and violently hunts down the perpetrator until they're dead.

In Chapter 5, an audio log from Joey Drew showed that Ink Bendy used to be harmless and merely wander around the studio, not harming anyone but was locked up by Joey, due to concerns that he would scare people and was implied to have been driven insane as a result. Bendy is also implied to be unaware of what he is doing due to the fact he is soulless.

Chapter 5 also shows the one thing that can wipe that grin off of his face is discovering that his show has ended, meaning that he is not supposed to exist anymore which causes him to breakdown, as he disintegrates as a result of this.

In the *Dreams Come to Life* novel Bendy was shown to be sad about being locked in the infirmary. When Buddy releases Bendy, Bendy pushes Buddy but doesn't kill him and quickly escapes. Later Bendy faces off against Buddy and his friend Dot. Bendy is shown to toy with them as he squeezes Dot, "Not hard enough to kill her but hard enough to hurt her.". Bendy kills Buddy after Buddy tries to drown him in ink. Bendy also tries to kill Buddy as Boris in *Boris and the Dark Survival* however, in chapter 3 of *Bendy and the Ink Machine* Bendy never attempts to kill Buddy as Boris (Buddy is the Boris with Henry in chapter 2 and 3 and who is turned into "Brute Boris" by Alice in chapter 4).

## History

### *Bendy and the Ink Machine*

#### Chapter 1: Moving Pictures

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Ink Bendy first appeared in the first chapter as the main antagonist, although also as a cardboard cutout. Several of these can be seen throughout the Workshop (the setting in the game). Some of these cutouts appear to move on their own, especially the one that pops up near the theatre room, and the other appearing behind Henry in a hallway.

Bendy also appears on multiple posters throughout the workshop and sticker-like objects on the walls and desks. Several sketches of the character also appear on some desks, especially one of his head with a sticky note reading "NO" on it. After Henry collects all six items, Bendy appears on a projection in the theatre room.

After Henry activates the Ink Machine, the entrance to the Ink Machine's room is suddenly boarded up. Upon getting closer, Ink Bendy will burst from the boards, attempting to grab Henry while screeching. After seemingly failing, Ink Bendy retreats back into the Ink Machine room, whilst the hallway that Henry is in begins to fill with ink.

Ink Bendy can be seen again when in the Pentagram Room. He appears for a split second in two flashbacks, along with a wheelchair and the Ink Machine, before Henry passes out. Originally before the Bendy flashback Ink Bendy could be spotted standing near Henry's desk.

#### Chapter 2: The Old Song

Ink Bendy reappears again in Chapter 2 as the main antagonist. Bendy also appears again as a cardboard cutout. However, these cutouts can be destroyed by Henry with an axe. Some cutouts, especially ones in front of a pentagram, reappear when Henry turns his back on them, seemingly untouched.

In the orchestra room, several Bendy cutouts appear, depending on where Henry is in the room. If downstairs, multiple cutouts spawn in the upstairs room, increasing if Henry leaves and reenters the room. This also occurs if Henry is in the upstairs room, only the cutouts spawn downstairs on stage. A maximum of nine Bendy cutouts can appear here.

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Bendy also appears as sketches, drawings, and "stickers" throughout the music department, both on desks and on walls.

Near the end, Sammy Lawrence summoned Ink Bendy in an attempt to sacrifice Henry and appease him, hoping that Ink Bendy would free him from his ink-covered body. However, Ink Bendy seems to kill Sammy instead, although this is unofficial because the death happens off-screen. This gives Henry time to escape. Near the exit, Ink Bendy will suddenly pop up in front of Henry, blocking the exit. Forced to find another way out, Henry is then forced to run from Ink Bendy, until he reaches the vault. Having blocked the door, Henry is seemingly safe from Ink Bendy.

#### Chapter 3: Rise and Fall

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Ink Bendy appears once again in Chapter 3 as the secondary antagonist and the biggest threat Henry faces. He lurks throughout the department, where Henry is forced to hide from him in order to escape. Twisted Alice seems to despise and even fear him and his ink.

Ink Bendy is able to teleport to Henry by warping through the walls if he lingers for too long in an area. Henry can avoid him by hiding in one of the Little Miracle Stations, after which he will see Ink Bendy lumbering past him before disappearing into another wall. Henry may also escape him by returning to the elevator before he is caught. Ink Bendy can also kill the Butcher Gang members albeit by accident and with his ink. Ink Bendy cannot be hurt, let alone killed, by any of Henry's weapons, including the Tommy Gun which has the ability to kill The Projectionist in seconds. Physical Alice also mentions that Ink Bendy hates it when his cardboard cutouts are destroyed, and after Henry destroys them, Ink Bendy chases him down once again.

At the end of the Chapter, if Henry chose the Demon path earlier, the post-credits image shows Ink Bendy in the doorway with a Searcher and several Butcher Gang members, implying that he is raising a massive army of ink creatures.

#### Chapter 4: Colossal Wonders

Bendy appears in Chapter 4 twice and seems to be an anti-hero. Bendy first appears when Henry is climbing through the vents as he grabs the vent shrieking in rage. Strangely Bendy makes no attempt to harm Henry and seems to tell him to be quiet. The next time Bendy appears he attacks the Projectionist and saves Henry. After killing the Projectionist Bendy sees Henry but leaves and takes the body away.

#### Chapter 5: The Last Reel

Ink Bendy returns in "The Last Reel", the fifth and final chapter to the game as the final boss and main antagonist. Bendy is first seen when Henry gets a pipe walking along the balcony. If the Butcher Gang are there Bendy can save Henry from them with ink by killing them. Bendy will pose no threat to Henry in this scene. Bendy is referenced inside the Film Vault, where he had previously stolen a film reel from the vault for an unknown reason, forcing Henry to go into the demon's lair. Later, as the player is walking to the lair, Bendy is spotted walking down a parallel hallway, a glass window between the two sides. Afterwards, the player comes across an ink river between them and Ink Bendy's lair, causing Henry to leave Allison and Tom behind, for they can't cross it safely. Walking into the lair, Henry rather quickly finds a makeshift throne for the beast, made out of objects and surrounded by screens showing snippets of Bendy cartoons. Henry then finds and plays a cassette recorded by Joey by the throne, explaining that they created life both on the screen and in the hearts of those who saw the moving pictures. Joey then goes on to say that when the tickets stopped selling, "only the monsters remained... shadows of the past.", but explains Henry can save them, and says there's one thing Bendy never saw: "The End".

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Immediately after this recorded speech, Bendy suddenly appears behind the "throne", before transforming into "Beast Bendy", a monstrous form with a short lower half, giant, muscular arms (which, due to his short and weak legs, are used as legs) and his face becoming a large ghastly maw of razor-sharp teeth. After swatting Henry away, the first stage of the final boss starts, where Henry must flip switches in the hallways before the throne to open a door while avoiding the stampeding Bendy, for touching him is an instant kill attack. After opening the door into a small room, Beast Bendy appears and the second phase starts, where Henry must trick the brute into slamming into all four of the large, ink-filled glass pillars in the room, breaking them. After breaking all four pillars, the lights in the room flicker off, and the beast vanishes, but once Henry walks back to the "throne room" and pushes in the "The End" tape into the film player by the throne, the beast reappears, but gets distracted by one of the screens turning on. Once two screens show "The End", the beast tries to make a grab for Henry, but a very bright light (possibly coming from all the screens in the room showing the same ending card) stuns, then disintegrates the beast, ending the threat once and for all.

### *Dreams Come to Life*

Daniel Lewek discovers Ink Bendy for the first time from the other room after the infirmary, with Ink Bendy crying and sadly moaning. Daniel enters the room only for Ink Bendy to escape after pushing Daniel out of his way. Later, Ink Bendy chases Daniel and his friend, Dot, around the studio, and at one point rips an arm of the dead man called Dave straight out of his socket. Ink Bendy squeezes Dot hard, but not enough to kill her. Daniel rescues Dot and Dot cuts off Ink Bendy's hand. Ink Bendy is later dropped into a trapdoor, seemingly killing the creature. However, he catches Daniel and pulls him into the trapdoor, and kills him by drowning him in the Ink.

### *Boris and the Dark Survival*

In the prequel to *Bendy and the Ink Machine* and the sequel to *Dreams Come to Life*, Ink Bendy returns as the main antagonist. He acts like in Chapter 3, appearing randomly, and Boris (Who is the playable character) can hide from him by hiding in the Little Miracle Station. Ink Bendy is slower than Twisted Alice, but around the same speed as the Projectionist.

### *Bendy and the Dark Revival*

Bendy will return in the upcoming second game in an unknown role.

### *Bendy in Nightmare Run*

Bendy appears in the spinoff as the titular main protagonist, where he partakes in endless runs being chased by monsters and collecting Bacon Soup.

## Trivia

* Despite the presumed melted ink covering his face, Ink Bendy can still sense Henry around him.
	+ It's implied that the sense can be either through the ink around the Workshop or through Henry's silent breathing. It is also implied that Ink Bendy may also be able to sense the vibrations caused by Henry's footsteps.
	+ It is possible that Ink Bendy cannot really see, and believes that Henry may be Joey, which could be why he attempts to attack him. Although it is also likely that Ink Bendy can see just fine.
* Bendy originally had three darts on his gloves, but they were redesigned into two buttons on each due to a potential similarity with Mickey Mouse (i.e. the gloves).
* There were several theories involving the origin of Ink Bendy until Chapter 5 confirmed that he was really a failed attempt to bring cartoons to life:
	+ One theory stated that he possessed a victim in a ritual, which explains a wheelchair seen in Chapter 1 and the fact that Ink Bendy himself has a twisted ankle.
	+ However, other theories suggested that Ink Bendy is Bendy but a failed attempt to be created into the latter.
	+ It was also predicted that Ink Bendy is in fact Bendy himself, incarnated by the Ink Machine.
	+ It was theorized that Joey transformed himself into Ink Bendy, this being hinted at by the fact that the Demon path contains a recording of Joey while the Angel path contains one of Susie. In the recording, Joey discusses the idea that belief can make one powerful, rich, and even enable them to cheat death, musing over such a positively silly thought but with such a tone that he seems to want to try it. This implies that Joey, in his older years, was suffering from health conditions and may have been the one bound to the wheelchair until he learned to control the Ink Machine, turning himself into his own character so as to become immortal. This would explain why Joey was obsessed with keeping the Machine running.
		- With Joey later turning out still alive albeit remorseful for the damage he had done in the studio, it's turned out that Ink Bendy is indeed Bendy incarnated by the Ink Machine in an attempt to bring his characters to life to help the public understand how he perceives them by letting them meet in person. The project took a blow when an attempt to create Bendy had a less-than-favorable outcome and no attempt to perfect the dancing demon was attempted ever again.
* Ink Bendy's design from the game's beta lacked arms and legs and had a different head shape. During this time, Ink Bendy also had a different behavior in Chapter 1: Instead of trying to grab Henry, Ink Bendy just looked around, seemingly checking the place out.
* Bendy appears on the loading screen in the bottom right corner for a short time.
* Bendy appeared on a Steam Summer Sale banner in a 1920's swimsuit.
* From the audio logs in Chapter 5, Ink Bendy seemed like a harmless entity, as he only wondered around the studio. Although, the other workers at the studio seemed to have felt threatened by his appearance and behavior, and he was eventually locked away.
* Bendy fought Cuphead on *DBX* and won.
* When asked in his first QnA video regarding the relationship between Bendy and Alice Angel, theMeatly remained silent about the subject.
	+ It's later implied that Bendy and Alice Angel were lovers based on a description of her merchandise posted on Tumblr, although this post was later removed.
	+ Ink Bendy and Physical Alice are very obvious adversaries to one another, as Alice states that Ink Bendy hates when she destroys his cutouts.
* Despite being the main antagonist, Ink Bendy is less evil than Physical Alice. Ink Bendy due to not having a soul may not be aware of his actions and saves Henry more than once. Physical Alice is aware of her actions due to being a toon/human hybrid and has a higher body count and spares Henry only so he can do her errands before trying to kill him twice.

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