The Questions of Bendy

[Fierce1]

This discussion is meant to record all the questions that Bendy & the Ink Machine posed in each question and figure out whether or not they were answered by the end of the game.
SPOILERS AHEAD!

-CHAPTER 1-
1--Who locked Henry in the studio after he entered?
2--Are the Bendy Cutouts (other than the Wandering Ones) actually alive?
2B----If not, then who DID move the one that appears in the hall? Or looks from around the corner?
3--Who actually off'ed the Boris found in Chapter 1?
3B----If it was Alice, why did she kill him up there rather than bring him down to her lair?
3C----If it was Alice, was she the person who wrote "Who's Laughing NOW?" on the wall? If so, why?
3D----Whoever killed him, why didn't they just leave the studio since the exit is right there?
4--Why are there no windows? If Joey Drew was actually trying to save money, why not add windows to use natural lighting over just electricity?
5--Who or what is hiding in the room with the light coming from under the door?
6--How long had the Ink Machine been dormant before Henry turns it on?
7--If the Ink Machine requires "offerings" of items from the employees on that floor, wouldn't they have run out of stuff after 30 years?
8--How long has it been since the studio was last operating under "normal" circumstances?
9--Who is the "creator"? What did they SPECIFICALLY create? What did they lie about and to whom did they lie?
10--Who was it that boarded up the room to the ink machine after Henry activates it? (The same person who left the human footprints.)
11--How do a couple of planks of wood stop a monster that can practically teleport and walk through walls?
12--When Henry falls through the floor, why didn't the ink from above that was flooding the entire building floor flow down with him? (The debris may have clogged the shaft but still.)
13--Henry steps into an occult ritual-ish circle. Passes out after having visions. What exactly do the visions have to do with each other, and why specifically did he see THOSE 3?

-CHAPTER 2-
1--What's with all the occult stuff throughout this chapter? (And the game as a whole.)
1B----Was that all Joey's idea or Sammy's?
1C----Supposedly the Bendy (and other monsters) we encounter throughout the game is a failed creation of a "living" model of sorts, so the ink machine basically created it like a toy, but how does the occult stuff connect to the ink machine specifically?
2--How does the Bendy Cutout in the ritual circle keep repairing itself?
2B----ARE the Bendy Cutouts actually sentient or not?
3--ARE searchers former people or are they just blobs of ink that are technically alive but lack minds?
3B----The one with the hat points to the former, but does that count for ALL of the searchers?
4--Is the "Sammy Lawrence" we meet THE actual Sammy?
4B----DID he get killed by Bendy?
4C----Why did Bendy kill him?
5--Again, how is Bendy stopped by a door if he can walk through walls?
6--Why is Boris friendly when everyone else isn't?
7--Why are there more than one Boris?
8--Why is Boris seemingly the ONLY character to have been created right?

-Chapter 3-
1--How long has Henry been living in the safe room with Boris between chapters 2 and 3?
1B----What makes Boris' safe room actually "safe"?
1C----What was with the bizarre motif mishmash of cutouts and such on the wall?
2--How long have we been under the surveillance of Alice?
3--How is she able to see and track us? (This studio was from the earliest era of animation, so high-tech security monitoring hadn't been invented yet.)
4--Why does the elevator not reach the first floor of the studio? (Or rather, why are there no buttons for the highest floor or the lowest that it reaches?)
5--Tom claims he'll take the stairs, but then why do the stairs not reach the highest and lowest floors of the complex?
6--What makes the extra thick ink of the fat searchers and such so special?
6B----IS Alice a combination of Susan and someone/something else?
6C----How did Susan get that way?
6D----I get that Boris is the most perfected of the various ink creatures, but what makes the one we're with the MOST perfect of them?
7--What happened to Alice when Bendy supposedly touched her previously since she never wanted him to do so again?
8--Bendy is shown to be able to walk through walls, cause them to bleed and rain ink, kill you the instant he touches you, and yet... How is he unable to open the Heaven Stations when they aren't even lockable?
9--What was the original purpose of Heaven Stations when the studio was operational?
10--If breaking cutouts pisses off Bendy, why hasn't it been brought up before now?
11--How long has the Projectionist been walking around aimlessly down there?
11B----How did he get to the upper floors and then back down to the lower one that he patrols?
12--Who actually DID the Tommy Gun belong to?
13--How was Alice able to bring down the elevator?

-CHAPTER 4-
1--How long was Henry out THIS time?
2--What actually happened in the garbled recording? Who was making that noise? Why?
2B----What did all the wall writing in said room mean?
3--What happened to the "frozen" ones seen on the stage?
4--Why was there a HUGE chasm built/dug beneath the studio? (Buying land for construction is far cheaper than trying to dig out a space THAT large)
5--What do the various visions that Henry has of things moving, hands in the walls, etc. mean?
6--Who are the "lost ones"? Former employees or someone/thing else? Why don't they try to escape?
7--We are climbing through a vent duct and encounter Bendy with only a panel seperating us from him, why doesn't he just rip the panel off and kill us?
8--How does the parts-maker machine work?
9--Is Bendy Land/Hell actually THE theme park that Joey hired Bertrum to build?
9B----If not, where is it?
9C----If so, why is it underground?
10--Why would anyone keep employees around who keep losing their keys and locking themselves out of their work stations to the point of rigging carnival games to being what opens the locks?
11--How did Bertrum manage to become the ride? Why did he do that?
12--Is the Projectionist we encounter the same one from Chapter 3?
12B----Why did he suddenly vanish when the lights went out for an instant?
12C----Why did Bendy kill the Projectionist, take his body, sever his head, and leave instead of killing Henry and then doing all that in addition?
13--Again, HOW is Alice able to keep surveillance and watch us at nearly all times seemingly?
14--When we encounter "Boris" again, he's a monster. What DID Alice do to him to make him like that? Especially since she supposedly took what was inside him (including his heart)?
15--Where does Alice come from after Boris dies?
16--Where does Allison come from after Alice in order to stab her from behind?
17--Where does Tom come from after Allison in order to stand next to her at the end?

-CHAPTER 5-
1--Why did Allison and Tom save Henry and then lock him up?
2--How long is Henry held prisoner?
3--If Allison had the magical looking glass and was peering at messages on the wall, why didn't she try to figure out the "She's going to leave you for dead" message in that very room?
3B---- Why not look at the wall in Henry's cell and do something about the secret exit?
4--Why does Tom go by "Tom" and Allison by "Allison"?
5--Why does Tom hate Henry so much?
5B----Tom is later revealed to be unbelievably strong, why doesn't he just break the boards of Henry's cell and let him out?
6--When Henry escapes the cell, you can see a fish tank with live fish on one side of the room. How have they kept that going for 30 years or so?
7--How are there boats made specifically for navigating a river of ink?
7B----What the hell IS that giant monster living in the ink river?
7C------------This is especially confusing when you realize there's only 1 Bendy, and apparently if any of the ink-made beings go into that much ink, they lose their individuality like a drop of water in the ocean, so how does the giant creature living in the river work?
8--How deep is the river of ink?
9--HOW is Sammy Lawrence alive? Is that even the same Sammy from Chapter 2?
9B----Why does Tom save Henry if he hates him so much?
10--Why do the Searchers and Lost Ones work together?
10B----Why do they try to kill Allison, Tom, and Henry?
10C----How was Sammy supposedly keeping them at bay before?
11--How are there STILL more offices this low down in the building?
12--Why does Joey Drew keep an ink fountain right outside his office?
13--When the ink stains and pulsating as though Bendy appears, where is Bendy that time?
14--DID Joey actually plan and set all this up before sending Henry in?
15--How did Henry suddenly realize that Bendy had "something they needed" in order to defeat it?
16--If Tom is strong enough to punch out a vault door, again why didn't he let Henry out at the start?
17--Why DIDN'T Tom or Allison give Henry a weapon before sending him into the Ink Machine?
18--Why is the true Ink Machine so huge?
19--Why was there a specific message with instructions SPECIFICALLY about killing Bendy on Bendy's throne? Why was the very thing necessary for killing Bendy there on his throne?
20--Why did Bendy suddenly transform into Beast form?
20B----Was he always capable of that? If so, why didn't he transform before now?
20C----Why did Bendy run all over aimlessly instead of gunning straight for Henry?
20D----What exactly was the purpose of part 2 of the battle with Bendy? Breaking 4 glass tanks in a room, but how does that affect anything?
20E----Where did Bendy go when the lights flashed?
21--How does simply seeing the words "The End" appear on projection screens actually cause Bendy to die?
22--What happens after he dies? Henry is just standing there and then the screen goes black. Credits roll. What HAPPENED?

-ENDING-
1--Why does Joey say "you should have pushed harder" to keep him on the right path? How is literally ANY of what happened to Joey Drew Studios, Henry's fault or responsibility, ESPECIALLY 30 years later???????

[axe]

Chapter 1:
- He just got there, he's not going to leave after he just got to the studio.
- No
- Idk
- It was Alice. If you have the seeing tool in Chapter 1 and go to the Boris's Corpse, there'll be text that says, "She's Heartless", (ironically enough, the Boris doesn't have a heart anymore.) There's not any other female in the character in the game we know to have killed a clone, so i'm guessing it's Alice.

[Fierce1]

Originally posted by DeJectedAxe:

Chapter 1:
- He just got there, he's not going to leave after he just got to the studio.
- No
- Idk
- It was Alice. If you have the seeing tool in Chapter 1 and go to the Boris's Corpse, there'll be text that says, "She's Heartless", (ironically enough, the Boris doesn't have a heart anymore.) There's not any other female in the character in the game we know to have killed a clone, so i'm guessing it's Alice.

-If there's nobody there, why wouldn't he leave? He has no idea what he's supposedly being sent there to see, so how would he have known if he saw it?
-No what?
-?
-Sure, it's probably Alice, but the main point of this discussion is pointing out questions that the game doesn't specifically give us full answers to. Granted this one it's pretty obvious, but if she got that high up, why didn't she leave the studio? What's stopping ANY of them from just walking out? Their "cursed" inky forms aside, why not leave and actually seek help? Alice is insane, sure, but what kept the rest from leaving? Obviously Boris tried to get out, but Alice caught up to him before he could.

[RajS]

Chapter One:

1. Probably nobody. They're locked probably because to tell player that you can't leave.
2a. Not They aren't.
2b. Sammy did.
3a, b, c, d. Alice Angel did.
4. Stupid question.
5. Again, it could be Sammy.


I'm done :)

[Fierce1]

Originally posted by RajS_SFM_:

Chapter One:

1. Probably nobody. They're locked probably because to tell player that you can't leave.
2a. Not They aren't.
2b. Sammy did.
3a, b, c, d. Alice Angel did.
4. Stupid question.
5. Again, it could be Sammy.


I'm done :)

1- But who locked him in?
2- Then who was the one moving them around in chapter 1?
2B- I repeat: In Chapter 1.
3- Yes it was likely Alice, but the other 3 sub-questions still stand. Why didn't she leave? Why didn't she bring him down to her lair? If she wrote "Who's laughing NOW?" on the wall, what did she mean by it?
4- It's a fair question considering the size of the facility, and while most of it is underground, why didn't they add windows to the top? Realize that fresh air would have to be pumped down to the lower levels, so it would be even more expensive without windows to at least air out the first (couple) floors.
5- In chapter 1? And, keep in mind these are questions that aren't necessarily answered in-game, but should have been. It points out how the ending failed to answer the questions the game posed to us.

[BrazenMason]

it's all just a story that joey drew is telling to his niece

[BrazenMason]

Originally posted by DeJectedAxe HAPPY NEW YEARS:

Chapter 1:
- He just got there, he's not going to leave after he just got to the studio.
- No
- Idk
- It was Alice. If you have the seeing tool in Chapter 1 and go to the Boris's Corpse, there'll be text that says, "She's Heartless", (ironically enough, the Boris doesn't have a heart anymore.) There's not any other female in the character in the game we know to have killed a clone, so I'm guessing it's Alice.

how did you make it so then it was invisible?

[GET GOOD]

i have better question about chapter 3
why bendy can stuck in obsticles and he is scripted to chase you regardless how far you run away that doesnt make any sense

[CyanDoomdragon]

Originally posted by skywolf:

Originally posted by DeJectedAxe HAPPY NEW YEARS:

Chapter 1:
- He just got there, he's not going to leave after he just got to the studio.
- No
- Idk
- It was Alice. If you have the seeing tool in Chapter 1 and go to the Boris's Corpse, there'll be text that says, "She's Heartless", (ironically enough, the Boris doesn't have a heart anymore.) There's not any other female in the character in the game we know to have killed a clone, so I'm guessing it's Alice.

how did you make it so then it was invisible?

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[𝕊𝕠𝕡𝕙𝕚𝕒]

interesting

[Fierce1]

Originally posted by help:

i have better question about chapter 3
why bendy can stuck in obsticles and he is scripted to chase you regardless how far you run away that doesnt make any sense

Horror game mechanics.

[GET GOOD]

Originally posted by Fierce1:

Originally posted by help:

i have better question about chapter 3
why bendy can stuck in obsticles and he is scripted to chase you regardless how far you run away that doesnt make any sense

Horror game mechanics.

i dont remember how slender was able to stuck in threes
so i disagreee with that sentence

[𝕊𝕠𝕡𝕙𝕚𝕒]

Originally posted by help:

Originally posted by Fierce1:

Horror game mechanics.

i dont remember how slender was able to stuck in threes
so i disagreee with that sentence

yea that not how game mechanics looks like and if you think this is design how it should be
there is something wrong wi th you

[GET GOOD]

Originally posted by legacy of fire and ice:

Originally posted by help:

i dont remember how slender was able to stuck in threes
so i disagreee with that sentence

yea that not how game mechanics looks like and if you think this is design how it should be
there is something wrong wi th you

exacly
they ♥♥♥♥ this up and they probably do that again in batim 2

[𝕊𝕠𝕡𝕙𝕚𝕒]

Originally posted by help:

Originally posted by legacy of fire and ice:

yea that not how game mechanics looks like and if you think this is design how it should be
there is something wrong wi th you

exacly
they ♥♥♥♥ this up and they probably do that again in batim 2

i hope not but after seeing what they did i sadly really expect that

[GET GOOD]

Originally posted by legacy of fire and ice:

Originally posted by help:

exacly
they ♥♥♥♥ this up and they probably do that again in batim 2

i hope not but after seeing what they did i sadly really expect that

me to