"Beware the Ink Demon. Stay out in the open for too long and he will find you."
— "Alice" warning Henry about "Bendy",Chapter 3
"Bendy" is the main antagonist appearing in Bendy and the Ink Machine from Chapter 1, 2, 3 and 4. He is an ink-covered, humanoid-like monster resembling Bendy as well as sharing the same name of thestudio's popular mascot.
"Bendy", first shows up in the beginning chapter after the Ink Machine is activated, responsibly by Henry. From the old workshop to the underground facility, "Bendy" dwells inside every location and considers Henry as an enemy, constantly hunting him down, then attempting to kill whenever Henry was caught in his surroundings.
"Bendy"
Also known as
Ink Demon[1] Figure of ink[2] The Demon[3] Ink Bendy[4]
Voiced by
N/A
In-Game Information
Class
Corrupted Trio
Damage
Instant death
Speed
Average - fast
Danger rating
Hostile
Hit Points
N/A
Bestiary
Description
"Bendy" appears as a malformed, skeletal figure with his skin covered in black ink resembling tar. His head highly resembles that of the original Bendy, but the top area of his head appears melted while obscuring his eyes. His horns are slightly more curved and pointed in appearance, and they appear to move side-ways similar to animalistic ears. His toothy cheshire grin, with sketch-like shadings, shakes constantly. As seen from the side view of his head, the front and back of his head are fairly flat. His spine appears slightly crooked or curved, referencing the spinal condition scoliosis. His slightly hunched back also sports spiky-looking spines.
His left arm is slightly longer than his right, looking thinner and less human. On his left hand, he wears an oversized white glove but does not sports two buttons like Bendy. His right hand appears a bit smaller and more human-like than a glove. His feet are also mismatched; his right foot faintly resembles that of a human, while the left is just a lump-covered stump, which gives him a limp.
He also wears a bowtie close to the middle of his chest, which appears almost identical to Bendy's except being larger, and is slightly rotated to his right to give him a misshapen appearance.
Considering his stature, "Bendy" appears to be taller than any persons, and eventually towering over Henry. His tall, lanky physique, along with his behavior makes him vastly different from his cartoonish counterpart.
Behavior
He is not capable of speaking through the duration of every chapter and only making noise through breathing, moans, and grunts. However, in Chapter 4, he is also capable of making a whistling sound, as heard when shushing Henry in the Vent. It clearly appears that he holds a grudge against Henry, as evidenced by how he attempts to kill him throughout the first three chapters but Chapter 4.
"Bendy" has an unnatural ability to cover areas with ink-coverings and make ink rain from the ceiling whenever he appears. These ink-covers turn out to be strong enough to kill certain enemies (the Butcher Gang enemies for example) nearby. He can teleport in an unexpected manner by emerging from walls with ink-substances in a frightfully quick speed in front of or away from Henry; giving a startling jumpscare.
From Chapter 3, it is shown that "Bendy" heavily dislikes it when the Bendy cutouts are destroyed, as it will make him spawn and hunt down anyone whoever does so, according to "Alice". He will even react to the broken pieces of the cutouts upon discovering them: If he does, he will look around for whoever caused the cutout to break.
Strategy
Although there is no actual strategy of killing "Bendy" due to his invincibility and immune to all weapons. The only survival tip is to run and hide from him in order to go for the next objection.
"Bendy" will not appear until Henry completely solves the puzzle in order to activate the Ink Machine. However, on the way to the break room after activating the ink pressure from the projector room, Henry can possibly hear "Bendy" crawling through the pipes toward the Ink Machine room, beginning to be created.
Henry walks back to the Ink Machine's room after completing the puzzle to activate the machine but noticed with several boards blocking the entrance. Once approaching, "Bendy" will suddenly pop out behind the boards along with a bright flash. He attempts to snatch up Henry briefly but made him falling backward, and then sinks back down to the ink puddle just when the whole area and hallways slowly flood and collapsing.
Just before the chapter ends in the pentagram room while Henry seeing some paranormal moments."Bendy" can also be seen for a brief second during Henry's visions, where he appears in the final vision image from the utility shaft 9 location.
"Bendy" appears in the second chapter and now hostile towards Henry. He is first briefly mentioned bySammy in the audio log found in the utility shaft 9, being referred as Sammy's "lord" and "savior".
Later on from the ritual room with Henry tied up, according to the believers, they must honor "Bendy" as Sammy mentions. Soon, "Bendy" can be heard crawling through the pipes presumably from under the ceiling of the ritual room where both Henry and Sammy are at, drawing Sammy's attention. He was later summoned by Sammy from his room and being commanded to sacrifice Henry, so Sammy will be freed out of his own ink-like form. However, "Bendy" refuses to accept Sammy's desire and eliminates Sammy instead.
Walking down the hallway while chopping the boards down once exiting the ritual room, "Bendy" once again can be heard crawling through the pipes from the uppercase ceiling above, following Henry.
As Henry tries to escape by heading to the exit from the ink-flooded area, "Bendy" emerges from the ink out in front of him. He then proceeds to chase Henry for a period of time all through the maze before reaching the S3 vault for safety.
Should Henry fail to be quick enough to head inside S3 vault safely or ending up running towards the dead end of the maze for the first time, "Bendy" will catch and outright kill Henry, sending him to respawn from the Bendy statue of the maze. Even if running towards "Bendy" as soon as he spawns before the chase, it gives Henry a same death result. After respawning from the Bendy statue when killed, "Bendy" will spring out again from another ink pool and continue to chase down Henry until finally reaching the S3 vault location, hopefully without getting caught again to start over.
After heading inside S3 vault, Henry approaches the sealed door to ensure he's still safe while listening closely to "Bendy's" sound to decide. He can faintly hear the sound of "Bendy" banging on the door for only a few times, trying to break the door down but quickly giving up. Continuing to listen carefully, Henry also hears the footsteps growing quiet from "Bendy" walking away.
"Bendy" returns in the third chapter still hunting for Henry. "Bendy" will first become active and can randomly appear to start hunting down while Henry is doing "Alice's" tasks around the different areas. He can spawn in all locations except for the safe house, the dark hallway, Level 14, Level 9 and Level S.
When "Bendy" is nearby as he spawns, a sound of heart beating will be heard, along with the whispering-like ambient growing louder, and the area surrounding him becoming coated with web-resembled ink. Boris will even cover his face in fear when this happens.
Henry has to hide in the nearest Little Miracle Station or run in the elevator and close the doors, otherwise, "Bendy" will spot Henry and rush at him quickly. Upon getting caught, "Bendy" instantly kills Henry, sending him to a Bendy statue for respawning. The chances of "Bendy's" chase increases if Henry sprints too much or if he destroys specific Bendy cutouts. "Bendy" will stop chasing when Henry is lucky enough to head inside the Little Miracle Station. It is possible when "Bendy" leaves, he can spawn in the same room again.
During the task of finding and destroying the Bendy cutouts, "Bendy" will spawn after all the cutouts are destroyed, as he despises their destruction. Breaking the cutouts when he spawns can slow him down.
Unlike other hostile enemies, "Bendy" is completely invulnerable to every weapon Henry uses, even theTommy Gun. Henry will have no choice but run and hide from him.
When choosing the "demon path" room, "Bendy" seems to be more active and appear more frequently. In the "Path of the Demon" post-credits image, "Bendy" is shown standing next to the doorway of the ink-filled room with the "Butcher Gang" enemies (Piper, Fisher, and Striker) and a Swollen Searcher.
"Bendy" again makes his appearance in Chapter 4, although he only appears twice and is oddly less hostile towards Henry.
The first time "Bendy" appears is when Henry is crawling through the vents after meeting the Lost Ones. As Henry approaches a vent cover that lets out into a room with a Bendy cutout and a desk,"Bendy" appears suddenly in the room, seeming to shake with rage, but strangely does not try to get through the cover to reach Henry. Instead, he gently runs one finger along one of the cover's slats before slinking away.
Later on, "Bendy" appears in the Maintenance department of Bendy Hell, bursting through the sealed door to fight the Projectionist, who was about to attack Henry inside a Little Miracle Station. "Bendy" and the Projectionist exchange blows before "Bendy" lifts the Projectionist off his feet and tears off his head, throwing it against the Little Miracle Station where Henry is. "Bendy" then looks into the Little Miracle Station, seemingly aware of Henry's presence. He does not attack Henry, though, and instead takes hold of the Projectionist's inky body and drags it away, disappearing with it through an inky portal off-screen.
Mods/spin-off appearances
This section contains non-canonical source, and is not considered as an official part of the series or the overall plotline.
From all three chapters in Bendy and the Ink Machine, "Bendy" is completely replaced by the Neighbor from the game Hello Neighbor to take his role. Despite his entire replacement, however, he still appears in the final flashback image from the end of Chapter 1 and the "Path of the Demon" ending of Chapter 3.
From the mod for Hello Neighbor, "Bendy" made multiple cameo appearances as environments for the game such as the water tower.
Cartoon appearances
This section contains non-canonical source, and is not considered as an official part of the series or the overall plotline.
In the noncanonical animated short, "Bendy" briefly appears in the scene where he rises from ink behind the original Bendy then "kidnapping" him and melt away.
Since "Bendy"'s eyes are completely covered with ink, it is entirely unknown how he can actually see while chasing Henry. However, it is said by "Alice" that "Bendy" still has a sense of hearing to be able to hear sounds, such as footsteps and floor creeks.
Yet in Chapter 4, "Bendy" appears to actually "see" Henry in the vent. He also knows when Henry is in the Little Miracle Station, despite that Henry didn't even make a sound.
"Bendy's" movable horns are strikingly similar to the way how his original version's horns does from the animation seen in Chapter 1'sprojector room.
From the first prototype to over next updates until Chapter 4, "Bendy" undergoes many redesigns.
"Bendy's" beta model from Chapter 1's prototype before Chapter 2's release.
From Chapter 1's early known prototype before Chapter 2,"Bendy's" beta design is entirely different comparing to his future redesigned builds, having a large body and lacking both arms and legs. His head is very much human-like in shape, along with his body. His horns are less curved and very similar to those of a goat. His bowtie has a different shape. He also appears at the same height of Henry. This model was originally designed by theMeatly before hiring Pascal Cleroux to redesign the model.
Interesting enough, his beta face used as one of the images for official merchandise is identical to his texture file, only with lack of "shadings".
Despite himself being drastically redesigned, his beta image is still seen in the credits for all current updates.
"Bendy's" early design forChapter 2 and 3's release untilChapter 4.
For Chapter 2 and 3's release prior to Chapter 4 coming out,"Bendy's" design almost resemble his final, current build. His body still closely resembling a human, left glove hand covered with drenching ink and a humanized pinkie-finger to total up five fingers, a puddle-like left foot flatter and less lumpy-looking, a less wide grin, lacking visible hump spines, and his right human hand was partly painted with white colors.
From old previous updates of Chapter 1 and 2 before the release of Chapter 3, the horns of "Bendy" does not move due to lack of modeling bones, and entirely lacks the ability to cause web-like ink spread on areas from his surroundings.
The current quality of "Bendy's" official rigged model is unofficially released onto Steam's Source Filmmaker Workshop and included in the first SFM pack along with Sammy's and Boris' models.
The official Funko POP! product for "Bendy" was originally titled "Monster" before renaming to "Ink Bendy". The Funko POP!"Bendy's" prototype design is also slightly different that includes a nearly visible pie eye located from the right side of his face.[5]
"Bendy's" appearance could be eerily similar to the Blotlings (especially the Shadow Blot or a scrapped boss Storm Blot), the enemies from the game Epic Mickey.
Being a combination between a live human and a cartoon character, "Bendy" may have inspired by the idea of a character from the original draft of the live-action/animated hybrid 1992 film Cool World, who is an adopted daughter of a cartoonist also appearing as a half-live/half-cartoon human/monster.
Although not in-game, there is a poem mentioning "Bendy" himself by the name "Demon" from the tweet posted by theMeatly on Twitter:
↑"I summon you, ink demon! Show your face and take this tender sheep!" - Sammy, Chapter 2
↑"He appears from the shadows to rain his sweet blessings upon me. The figure of ink that shines in the darkness. I see you, my savior. I pray you hear me." - Sammy's first radio speech, Chapter 2
↑"I will not let the demon touch me again." - "Alice", Chapter 3
↑"In ch1? That doesn't fit with the story or the character, that was just a test that ultimately didn't make canon. ;)" - Mike Mood. October 30, 2017. Twitter.
↑"BOO! #BATIM" - Mike Mood. October 8, 2017. Twitter.
"Bendy's" beta model from Chapter 1's prototype before Chapter 2's release.
"Bendy's" early design forChapter 2 and 3's release untilChapter 4.
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