Hank Hotdog

"Dinglenuts"

## General

**Hank Hotdog** is an animatronic entertainer and main antagonist of The Hotdog Archives. He is the mascot of the Hank's Hotdogs restaurant and lead singer of their animatronic band, The Sausage Symphonies. Violent and ill-tempered, he is not to be trifled with...no matter how goofy he looks.

## Description

Hank is an animatronic hotdog, so naturally...he's shaped like a hotdog. His costume features a long, cylindrical red base, reminiscent of a sausage. Along his stomach area is a wavy yellow "mustard stripe," and he features a goofy little "mustard drop" on top of his head. Surrounding his body is an orange "jacket" meant to represent hotdog buns.

Underneath his suit is his endoskeleton, which is mostly dark grey in color, save for the base of his fingers, which are a lighter shade of grey. He has massive claw fingers for some inexplicable reason. His arms and legs are covered in cylindrical casings the same color as his "jacket;" two on each arm and two on each leg. His pupils are a pale green, and he has two rows of three, straight teeth. In addition to his claw hands, he has multiple live wires exposed on various parts of his body, namely on his right eye and mouth.

In his withered state, he appears largely the same, except for a hole in his torso and a generally more decrepit appearance. He is also missing his forearm casings and seems to have a tear in his costume's left eye socket.

## Abilities

Hank possesses great physical strength, far surpassing that of a human's. He was easily able to break down both a metal and wooden door with relative ease. Because of the fact that he is haunted, Hank also possesses the supernatural ability to manipulate technology, such as flashlights, as well as video cameras and other recording devices. He often uses this ability to corrupt any footage taken of him, glitching them out or projecting images of his distorted face.

It seems he can also stretch his costume's eyesockets to an unnatural degree, as well as shrink his pupils. He is often seen doing this when under his spirit's control.

## Personality

Hank is quite violent and ill-tempered. He mercilessly killed Joel Lorenzo and Raymond Diggle after they made fun of his big forehead and stupid hair, going as far as to chase them into a storage room and beat down the door until it gave way, allowing him to finish them off. Apparently he has been like this for a very long time, as the night watchman training tape from 1976 warns the viewer that Hank is notably very aggressive to staff and patrons alike. This is evident when he attacks a night guard who demanded he stop playing his music at 2:00 in the morning.

He seems to be on poor terms with the spirits trapped in the other robots, as implied by his monologue at the end of ***The Hotdog Archives II.***

## Relationships

Mason Wharton - Designer/Builder (Implied Inhabitant)

Pizo the Pizza - Bandmate

Nancy the Nugget - Bandmate

Johnson Bohnson - Bandmate

Joel Lorenzo - Victim

Raymond Diggle - Victim

## Gallery

Hank Hotdog's Official ArtYou got the job!Hank Hotdog (left) with Nancy the Nugget (right) having a pretty bad time.Hank, seen not having a good day.Hank, seen seeing you.Hey lil mama, how u doin?Hank lurking in the hall.Hank violating personal boundaries.Hank really violating personal boundaries.
## Trivia

• Hank Hotdog would absolutely HATE the Broadway musical "Hamilton," according to THA co-creator Ajacks13.

• The second installment seems to suggest that Hank is in fact possessed by Mason Wharton, who's spirit became bound to him after he un-alived himself in the backstage room.