Cakeman (character)

## Cakeman

**Cakeman** is the titular antagonist of the 2017 short film *Cakeman*. He is an enigmatic entity that abducts children on their sixth birthdays and takes them to his pocket dimension, where he tortures them with birthday-themed methods.

He is portrayed by Strange Dave.

## Physical Appearance

Cakeman is a tall, thin humanoid man with pink skin. He has a big red nose like a clown, sharp teeth, and knives for fingernails. Instead of hair, he has a hair-like glob of pink icing on his head with multiple lit candles on it -- which upon closer inspection are actually children's fingers.

## Characteristics

Cakeman is a soft-spoken, maliciously jovial entity that has a fascination with birthday parties. He appears to have a fascination with the number six (6), as his prime targets are six year-old children that have been born on June 6th.

## Background

Every year on June 6th, Cakeman picks six six year-old children born on that day to harvest. At 6:00 PM, a box that contains a portal to his world will appear in his target's bedroom. Once he’s lured all six children inside, he cuts off their fingers to replace the ones on his head as they burn out.

## Crypt Monster Universe

### *Cakeman* (2017)

In the beginning of the film, Cakeman tortures James by lighting his fingers on fire. Meanwhile, his box is delivered to a little girl named Libby, who has just turned six. Libby takes the box up to her bedroom after being disappointed that there's nothing inside, but once she is alone the box begins to glow as the "happy birthday" song plays from inside. Cakeman then emerges from the box and drags Libby inside.

Libby wakes up on the ground with frosting stains on her neck, and she sits up to see that she is in a strange playground with a black sky. Four other children -- all with bandages over their hands -- are there as well, and Henry tells Libby that he's coming and they need to hide. Libby stands up, afraid of where she is, and Cakeman appears behind her. He hushes her and takes her hand as she tries to scream, telling her that she's just in time. He forces Libby to sit at the picnic table, her fingertips now on fire like birthday candles, and she screams for her mother to help her as Cakeman cuts off her fingers. Libby's mother rushes into Libby's bedroom and sees the inside of the box glowing. She inches closer, and screams in horror as Cakeman comes out of the box.

## Crypt Extended Universe

### Watermelon Baby VS Cakeman: Food Fight

The narrator tells the story of the Food Fight at Baby Cheyenne's, a battle between Cakeman and the Watermelon Baby. Cakeman appears at a baby shower for a young woman, and begins shooting the guests with a gun that shoots lit birthday candles. As he prepares to shoot the mother-to-be, he is shot at by the Watermelon Baby, who has similarly come to life. The monsters have a shoot-out with one another, and start physically fighting one another when their guns run empty. The Watermelon Baby attempts to strangle Cakeman with its umbilical cord, but Cakeman grabs it and slams it down on the ground. Though Cakeman won the fight, this was allegedly just the first fight that would go down between him and the Watermelon Baby.

## Powers and Abilities

### Unique Abilities

* **Pyrokinesis:** Cakeman has some level of pyrokinesis, as shown when he lights Libby and James's fingers on fire.
* **Dimensional Travel:** Using his box, Cakeman can pull people into his pocket dimension.
* **Telekinesis (supposedly):** Whether this is Cakeman's doing is unknown, but after Libby took his box, the candles on the table arranged to six tally marks.

### Equipment

* **Cake Knife:** Cakeman possesses a cake knife that he uses to cut off the fingers of the children he captures.
* **Birthday Box:** Cakeman's entire dimension appears to be contained in a large box that is meant to look like a birthday present. When opened, Cakeman will exit the box and abduct whomever opens it.
* **Candle Gun:** In the Cakeman VS Watermelon Baby creepypasta, Cakeman wields an Old West-style gun that shoots candles.

## Victims

### List of Victims

#### Crypt Extended Universe

 **Watermelon Baby** | Smashed on the ground by Cakeman.

## Trivia

* Once Cakeman takes all the fingers off of an abductee's hands, he will kill them.
* On February 1st, 2022, a video of a glowing purple wheel was released with a symbol on it pertaining to Cakeman. Cakeman was later one of the monsters confirmed as playable characters for Monster Fight Club, although the project was cancelled later that year. Cakeman's symbol later appeared as one of four symbols in the Scamp Collection.

## Gallery

### Promotional Material

The wheel released on February 1st, 2022Still image of the wheel

## References

1. ↑ Tweet by Crypt TV; https://twitter.com/CryptTV/status/1479533242688573441?cxt=HHwWgsCsvabprYgpAAAA
2. ↑ *Cakeman* (dir. Sofia Garza-Barba; August 23rd, 2017)
3. ↑ *Watermelon Baby VS Cakeman: Food Fight*. Najam, Omar (writer) & Shih, Kevin (developer) (April 22nd, 2019)
4. ↑ Removed Tweet by Crypt TV: https://twitter.com/CryptTV/status/1488614490010578946 (February 1st, 2022)