Showdown Bandit

*This article refers to the character. For the game, see Showdown Bandit (game).*

## Background Information

### Role in the show

Main character
Western robber

## Ingame Attributes

### Weapon

Bandit Pop Pistol

"*Hey-Hey, Kids!* "
―Showdown Bandit from the release date trailer.
**Showdown Bandit** is a wooden cowboy marionette and the titular anti-hero character of the discontinued puppet television series *The Showdown Bandit Show*. He serves as the titular protagonist of the game.

## Appearance

He's a slightly pale puppet with orange hair and four red marks on both cheeks, as well as a cut along the right side of his face, with two silver staples holding up his jaw.

He wears a fading black hat with bullet holes and a purple band. He wears a red bandanna and a purple shirt with rolled-up sleeves underneath a black vest with red trim and two gold buttons on the right side. He also wears a belt with the same pattern, dark brown pants and black boots.

## Personality

Although he doesn't talk during the whole game (except on a TV commercial), his posters and hinted on the TV commercial shown in one of the rooms of Episode 1 hint that he seems to be cheerful, but also calm, seen when all the stringless puppets and other monsters that try to kill him.

## In-Game Role

### *Episode I: Showdown Bandit and the Trail of Shadows*

After being released from his box by Miss Undertaker, Bandit falls out of it as he is stringless. Later, two lines of strings are shot onto Bandit's wrists. Failing to struggle free, he is pulled upwards and starts screaming, before being fully controlled by strings.

Bandit wanders around the stage, meeting up with some of his allies and new stringless enemies. As he reaches the final room, he is surrounded by masked figures, not long before being grabbed by a human hand, which might be the one pulling his strings.

Dialogues

•Ha ha ha ha! Hey kids.

•Hey Kids!

•Alright friends! Let’s get ready for adventure!

•(screaming)

•Every boy and girl should have a wamtor sparkblaster!

## Trivia

* Showdown Bandit appears to be inspired by the 1947-1960 television character Howdy Doody, a puppet dressed in cowboy attire (minus the hat) whose show of the same name was co-hosted by Buffalo Bob, who also wore Western attire. The show itself was half-western and half-circus themed.
* Showdown Bandit’s line “Hey-Hey, Kids!” is a reference to the fictional character Krusty the Clown, from the ever-popular The Simpsons franchise.
* Showdown Bandit is voiced by Lani Minella, who previously worked with Kindly Beast on *Bendy and the Ink Machine*, where she voiced an engineer named Lacie Benton.

## Gallery

### Teasers

Showdown Bandit's original teaser image seen on the Kindly Beast's website before announcement.Showdown Bandit from his teaser video.Showdown Bandit pointing at you.Bandit almost looking you.Showdown Bandit on the background for Showdown Bandit's announcement.Showdown Bandit almost attacked by a Cutter.Bandit almost gets attack by an Araknit in another trailer.Poster of the Showdown Bandit showDittoShowdown Bandit in his show.Showdown Bandit looking at the Stringless.Showdown Bandit waking up.Showdown Bandit walking around Araknits.Showdown Bandit in the Steam's thumbnailA hidden teaser found in the steam info.Bandit in the PosterBandit's ShadowShowdown Bandit in the other Poster
### Gameplay

Bandit, being pulled by strings.Bandit, approaching another, hung up, Bandit.Getting the Bandit Pop Pistol for the first time.Ditto.Bandit, Miss Undertaker and Banker's posters, in game.Showdown Bandit in Wamtor.
### Merchandise

Showdown Bandit PlushShowdown Bandit Action FigureOthers

Showdown Bandit's Model without texture.Showdown Bandit's model with it's respective textures.Twitter Image