Bendy Cartoon Headcanons

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(Plus some IRL Bendy stuff where applicable.)

• Bendy never stops smiling. His eyes and body language are properly emotive, but even in bad situations he keeps his grin. It’s unnerving.
  
• The earlier cartoons contained a lot more hell-like imagery and themes. Later episodes tuned it down slightly due to PC complaints about the show “promoting satanism” (but really, how ridiculous is that?).
  
• Each episode followed more of less the same formula: Bendy starts off perfectly friendly, but then encounters someone doing something rude, morally wrong, or otherwise “sinful“ (smoking, drinking, swearing, lying, what have you). He then spends the rest of the episode 1-upping the person in question.
• In the earlier episodes, the people were always obvious jerks who deserved what they had coming. In later episodes however, he seemed to go after more harmless people, making things considerably less enjoyable.
• Extra materials describe his character as “well-meaning, if not a bit mischievous, who wants everything to be fair“.
  
• There was music and noise in the cartoons, though no characters use actual words, just sounds. Joey provided Bendy’s “voice“.
• IRL Bendy and Boris also just make noises, which is why they write on the walls to communicate.
  
• “Little Devil Darlin’“ was the first episode produced and served as Bendy’s introduction.
• Bendy has fire powers in the cartoons, and is often shown doing things like taking a “shower“ in fire or plucking the flame off a torch to drop it on the antagonist of the episode.
• He can also teleport. One episode had the villain tie him to a board to off him with a axe, only for Bendy himself to tap him on the shoulder from behind and hand him the axe in question.
  
• There wasn’t any continuity between episodes.
• Likewise, the writers couldn’t seem to agree if Boris was Bendy’s enemy or friend. He’d switch between episodes with no explanation as to why.
• “Sheep Songs“ involved a farmer who lied about having food to sell. Boris wanted to steal his sleep (possibly to eat, it was never explained), so Bendy teamed up with him to help lure the sheep away pied-piper style.
• The first episode shows that Bendy sleeps in a cave-like area with a pitchfork hanging on the wall.
• Bendy can remove his head - it’s used in a lot of visual gags, such as setting it on the nightstand while he sleeps or rolling it bowling-ball style to trip up a nemesis.
• IRL Bendy can do this too. It’s just not as… pleasant.
  
• Every episode had some type of music, whether it be a sing-along song or just a tune. Bendy always joins in with some type of dance and some trippy visuals.
• Several episodes, such as “The Dancing Demon“, were more or less just war propaganda.
  
• Henry wanted to move the style into something more modern as time moved on, while Joey insisted it stayed the same. These creative differences are one of the main reasons they split.
• Storyboards drafted by Joey always showed Bendy as a more aggressive, persistent character with harsher punishments, while Henry’s showed him as being more playful and teasing.
• Every episode ends with Bendy looking at the camera and an iris shot that pauses on his head while he gives a wink to the viewer before closing out completely.