Sado

Sado in Combat Arena X.

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**Sado,** also known by the full title of **Dark Clown Sado,** is a non-playable character and antagonist across several different sections of *The Hex*.

## Personality

Catarina describes Sado as someone who gleefully creates chaos, with no particular motive for doing so other than for its own sake. She is entertained by toying with other characters, as seen in how she interacts with Rust McClain. She calls herself a performer and may act the way she does in order to be more entertaining to the Player. On the other hand, she is described as having powers "far beyond a mere Player Character," and may simply be exploiting the Player for her own ambitions.

## Story

### Combat Arena X

In Combat Arena X, Dark Clown Sado was the number one ranked fighter, and as such is Bryce's final opponent. After being easily defeated in one hit, she reappears as a gigantic figure in the background, beginning a 3 phase boss battle.

* The first phase begins simple, with standard attacks from a training dummy. More advanced techniques are added on, such as Bryce's health bar swinging down to strike, and a timed-punch mechanic after taking enough damage. Once the training dummy is defeated, it's revealed to have actually been Bhakto, now heavily beaten.
* Her second phase is a shell game consisting of a rubber duck in one of three top hats. The player has to keep track of which hat the duck is in while dodging attacks from the hats as they move around.
* In the third phase, Sado attacks directly with her hands in high and low attacks.

When all three phases are beaten, she can be knocked out in one hit. As Bryce is removed and the screen fades to white, she opens her eyes and looks at the screen.

Sado in phase 1The dummy phase of Sado's boss fightThe hat guessing game phase of Sado's boss fightThe giant hands phase of Sado's boss fightSado after being defeatedBhakto being revealed after completed the dummy phase
### Waste World

In Waste World, Sado appears as a "boss fight" after The Vurm in the Boss Rush Mod. She is described as "an enigmatic figure." She has 24 health and 16 attack, as well as infinite range. She cannot be harmed or killed except by using the shift+K exploit, and she exclusively targets Rocky. After attacking Rocky, the forced turn reverse sets in motion Rocky's deletion, after which she makes Rust go through Hardcore Mode. After that, she manipulates Rust into thinking that things are back to normal, before taunting him again. She lands a final hit on him, and Rust ends up at the Six Pint Inn.

Sado more than likely wasn't the force that deleted Rocky, as his character's deletion was seemingly set in motion by Lionel Snill. However, she did use the knowledge or opportunity to make things a lot worse for Rust for no reason.

Sado's boss symbol in Waste WorldSado's combat sprite in Waste WorldSado revealing herself after impersonating RockySado when controlled by the player, shooting RustSado's appearance when using the Shift+K exploit
### Vicious Galaxy

Inside the Gameworks Department of NPCs, Sado is seen imprisoned in the maximum-security cell. After Lazarus busts the locks by the instruction of Jeremiah, she takes over, killing the other NPCs in their cells, but teleporting Lazarus to where The Artifact is located. She appears in a 6-legged spider form and decides to play around with Lazarus rather than letting him easily access The Artifact. In this boss battle, she once again has 3 phases.

* In the first, she releases a knockoff Pokémon, whose weak point is its rear.
* In the second phase, she teleports Lazarus to a battleground arena parodying PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. There are 100 'players,' and the goal is to be the last one alive. During the round, a force called "The Blue" appears, swallowing the map and killing whatever is in its way, starting at the bottom left and making its way up.
* In the third phase, she eats a mushroom that makes her larger, and she fights Lazarus directly with two different attacks.
	+ The first is trapping Lazarus in between her hands, which he has to shoot to keep away. If Lazarus is touched by the hands, they appear in a shadow-claw form and instantly kill him.
	+ Her second attack has her summon spiders from her mouth that Lazarus has to shoot and kill before resuming the fight.

After being defeated, she disappears. When Lazarus leaves, Sado appears as a small spider that scurries out of the shadows.

Sado escaping her cellSado's spider form"Pokemon" phase of the fight"PUBG" phase of the fightGiant Sado's phase of the fightSado being held in prisonSado chasing Lazarus after being freed
### Walk

Sado's appearance in Walk is brief, but the game reveals more details about her development. Lionel mentions that his childhood friend Carla Dosa created Sado with the alleged intent to "[push] Gameworks to its limits." The pentagram star next to the computer where Sado's section occurs supports the theory that occult or satanic powers were potentially involved in her development. After Sado's creation, all of Lionel Snill's games began to have "weird, annoying bugs." The errors that occur in her section include black bars obscuring the screen, a black and warped hand, and a red and black glitching eye, the latter reoccuring in every coding puzzle thereafter.

Alongside the normal gameplay, you can find a Tarot card titled "The Error" that represents Sado. Catarina clarifies that Sado causes errors, but "her creation was very intentional." She has abilities far more powerful than others, but has no "discernible motive...other than gleefully creating chaos."

Carla's desk, where Sado was createdSado's tarot card
### Secret Ending

In the secret ending of Walk, found in Beneath the Surface, "Sado.exe" downloads itself onto the player's computer at the end, resulting in Sado's face appearing over and over again, covering the screen.

### At The Six Pint

Sado does not directly appear at the Six Pint Inn at any point. On the title screen, however, there is a silhouette visible in the window visible when the lightning flashes that could be her.

During the opening of The Hex, she crawls in from the ceiling, still in the small spider form that she transformed into after Lazarus defeated her. When the portal opens, she jumps into it. As a result, she is now in "the real world," seen in the scene after the credits.

Sado as a spider, to the left, in front of JeremiahSado in the real world
### Other Games

Sado has appearances in two other games by Daniel Mullins so far.

The first is in *Solipsis*, a game in Dread X Collection 2 on Steam. By either starting the game once the moon is completely dark or by typing "Lionel.exe" on the title screen, you can see her.

The second is in *Inscryption*, frames of her eye pattern have been found, but most notably is that she appears in the same frame that the character Luke Carder is shot dead by a Gamefuna representative.

Sado in *Solipsis*, on the moonSado in *Solipsis*, after typing "lionel.exe"Sado in *Inscryption*, for a frame with the death of Luke Carder
## Gallery

Sado on the cover art of the Combat Arena OSTSado's spider form talkspriteSado's steam emoteA hill in the background of the Super Weasel Kid mod, which appears to have Sado's eye on itSado as seen on the Combat Arena X tierlist
## Trivia

* Her name is an anagram of Dosa, her creator's last name.
* She uses many different "voices," usually switching sounds per sentence, but occasionally within the same sentence.
* Sado appears to have the ability to shapeshift or something similar as she can change form at will, impersonate other characters, and even disguise characters or objects as other things.
* Sado is often seen looking at the "camera" or player, implying she is self aware of the player's presence.
* It's possible that the figure in the hex-shaped window on the title screen is her, evident by the top hat the figure wears.
* Sado's eye symbol and her mouth can be found floating in Entervale, though it's unclear why.