Bongo the Clown

**“***Once upon a time, there was a clown named Bongo. He was very lonely. Bongo's only friend in the whole wide world was gone. Bongo was very sad, he couldn't go on. He took a rope from--- and hung himself. Just like his best friend.***”**
— **Bongo's TV text after playing VHS tapes in the right order, *Nun Massacre***

**Bongo the Clown** is a re-animated clown doll and a character in *Nun Massacre*. He also appeared in *Evil Clowns* as in the novelization of Nun Massacre.

## Description

He's a very small clown, roughly the size of an actual doll, wears blue-white dotted trousers, a black cap, colored shirt, and red hair. His facial features consist of a toothbrush-styled red mustache, a red clown nose, and a smirking mouth with goofy teeth.

## Role

### *Nun Massacre*

Bongo can be seen inside of Mrs. McDonnel's house sitting on a drawer in a room that can't be entered. He also appears in the televisions when Mrs. McDonnell inserts VHS tapes to distinctive VCRs. He will forgive her once this objection was accomplished by collecting and inserting all video tapes, unlocking the good ending.

Bongo was later physically seen hanging by a chain in the room where McDonnell is preparing to burn the Nun alive. Interacting the doll as an attempt to communicate with him simply displays the text - "`It's hanging by a chain`". After Mrs. McDonnell kills the Nun by burning her, Bongo says *"You are forgiven".*

#### Definitive Edition

Bongo appears as an item in the Circus level in the Definitive edition of Nun Massacre. Once acquired, Bongo is then placed on a chair at the bottom of the vent. The killer Nun in the circus level also has Bongo's texture.

### *Evil Clowns*

Bongo is one of the main enemies and is armed with a pocket knife, as well as appearing in large groups. He wanders the halls and will chase and attack the player. Because of his small size, he's relatively fast, making him difficult to kill. Bongo only takes 10% of the player's health. If the player manages to escape from him, Bongo will continue wandering the halls in search of the player.

### *Night of the Clowns*

Bongo briefly appears in the prototype version of Night of the Clowns. He can be seen sitting on the chair in one of the dark corridors. Shooting Bongo will do nothing but to waste bullets. When clicking on Bongo, the protagonist will say *"Thanks, I hate it."*

### Blood Maniac

Bongo only appears as a collectible item in Blood Maniac. There are 8 Bongo the clown dolls scattered across the town. This was, however, left unfinished.

### Christmas Massacre

Much like in Blood Maniac, Bongo only appears as a collectible item doll that can be found at different locations. There are in total 8 Bongo dolls, once all 8 dolls have been collected, a doll mode will be unlocked. By activating doll mode, players can become very small.

### Nun Massacre: The Book

**(Spoilers ahead)**

In the prologue, Bongo is mentioned when Sister Euphemia finds Janie in the school bathrooms. 30 years later in 1978 at the same school while Dawn was searching through the dark corridors she entered the chapel and found Bongo on the pew. She examined Bongo and found it weird what a doll like Bongo is doing here, and how it's not dusty. She left Bongo on the pew, but on the second thought, she felt bad and decided to take him to the dining hall where the others were. In the dining hall, the high school graduates talked about their future and about Bongo. Some were making fun of the doll while some expressed how creepy the doll is. While they were talking, Mrs. McDonnell, who was looking for her daughter Janie appeared and recovered Bongo from the teens. Later on when Dawn found Barbara's corpse she also found Bongo the doll next to Barbara and realized who the actual killer is. At the grave, she used Bongo to lure Mrs. McDonnell, who was desperately looking for the doll. At the end when Dawn returned home and went to bed, Bongo was sitting on the edge of the dresser, looking at her. Dawn just laughed and said *"I guess I owe you one for all this, huh, pal?"* to which Bongo didn't reply, just smiled.

## Trivia

* Bongo the Clown's model is actually created after a real-life doll owned by Puppet Combo's friend.
	+ Bongo originally had a right blue sleeve and a left yellow sleeve, while his in game model symmetrically has both yellow sleeves.
* Puppet Combo was thinking about developing Bongo's own spin-off game some day in the future.

## Gallery

Bongo the Clown as seen in the *Nun Massacre* game's cover art.Bongo inside of Mrs. McDonnell's home (Nun Massacre)Bongo attacking the player (Evil Clowns)Bongo in Night of the Clowns.
## References

1. ↑ "*My friend's clown Bongo ended up playing a key role in Nun Massacre Get the game: https://puppetcombo.itch.io/nun-massacre Delighted to be in the top 5 horror games on itch! Grateful to everyone who picked it up! The sales are slowing a bit but it's been a fun ride! #gamedev #lowpoly #horror*" - Puppet Combo. October 4, 2018. Twitter.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "*Here's the real Bongo btw. Spin off game at some point? I think so*" - Puppet Combo. October 4, 2018. Twitter.