Bendy and the Ink Machine - Story Explained

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Hello everyone, and welcome to the next installment of Lore and Order, where I unpack game lore and stories from games. In this one, we look at Bendy and the Ink Machine. There will also be book spoilers in this game, so please be warned!
CHAPTERS
Intro - 0:00
Plot - 0:33
The Books - 4:50
The Studio - 5:23
The Ink Machine - 9:10
Sammy Lawrence - 14:13
Alice Angel - 15:49
Joey Drew - 17:51
Henry Stein - 20:00
The Cycle - 21:19
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[@Becktastic01]

Joey is the worst. Henry should never have gone back to the workshop. I hope it is only a story Joey made up.

[@thefatherrabbit]

Personally I think it is. Sort of. The books portray Joey as a narcissist with a god complex who thought of reality as a story being told before his eyes with everyone else being characters in said story. He also wanted to be able to control or write that story himself. He wanted to be God. Either it's just a story he wrote and nothing more or he found a way to get what he wanted.

[@ashleyjones9756]

@@thefatherrabbit To be fair who doesn't want to be a powerful immortal being?! I can relate to joey on that part but the rest is questionable for me though.

[@eviljoe9548]

Leave me alone

[@N0tilus_]

Boy does the dark revival have a story to tell

[@red-eyeghoul]

It’s sad that Joey was basically like if you didn’t make me succeed then you disappointed me and will know be stuck in your own disappointment. That’s what I took from it. This opened my eyes to a lot of things and makes me even more excited for the new game.

[@thealmightyone6461]

You gotta be amazed at joey drews guts, his suggestion for his employees to spend their 5 unpaid holidays at his amusement park after 5 years of nonstop working just to get his money back. Because that's what a vacation is all about. Going to an amusementpark with the same characters you've been cooped up with nonstop. How any one of them didn't torch the studio down from going insane in that time is just baffling. Joey drew Takes susie out to lunch at JOE'S fine dining... Yeah probably not a coincidence. Not surprising at all either.😅

[@user-hn2ms3lt9v]

Cash grab

[@jeremyglass4283]

One major correction: the ink demon is ink bendy, the monster that chases Henry throughout the game, he's the "he" referenced by Sammy in "he will set us free". Ink bendy was the first attempt of using the ink machine to create a living cartoon by joey drew and Thomas Connor. The animatronic thing is just a little detail without much story significance, likely a FNAF referecne. It was ink bendy who joey had locked away "because he would scare off investors" and who was set loose by buddy, who was later drowned by him in "dreams come to life." Because the ink is alive, the ink demon is essentially immortal/indestructible, so he comes back shortly after. Ink Bendy/the ink demon is largely the central antagonist of the entire franchise, who is a literal embodiment of all of joey's past wrongdoing, and without a soul to guide his character, he is a hollow vessel who only does one thing, and that is to kill anything that moves.

[@wndshldptnt]

Thanks for this super important clarification, that's something in the video that was bugging me a little bit

[@pinkemerald1224]

0:22 I'm watching this video because I DON'T want to play the game or watch people play the game (and get jump scared), but I want to learn about Bendy and the Ink Machine. There you go, now you know why else someone would be watching this video ^^

[@masterzoroark6664]

Sammy drinking the ink reminds me of SOMA and how couple of characters (like Terry Akers) were drinking a substance called structure gel- quite ink looking substance carrying the AI in it These people also start to regard the AI as some sort of saviour

[@shioriryukaze]

Dude....Soma is still ringing in me years later..

[@Huyle18]

Soma had me thinking deep sad thoughts for months.

[@masterzoroark6664]

@@shioriryukaze If a game or movie gets people to discuss phylosophy and it's story for years it usually means it's really well written.

[@shioriryukaze]

@@masterzoroark6664 could you imagine a movie like Soma? Or if soma was made into a VR title???

[@masterzoroark6664]

@@shioriryukaze Maybe, but I do like Soma to be a game- as much as scares weren't it's thing most of it's story is told as you expiriance it's beats and can find more context in world as you explore, movies don't have such freedoms. Tho there are definitely movies that have similar existential hook to them

[@brendagates38]

Could you try doing a story explained video on WE Happy Few it's a pretty interesting game even though it does have a few plot holes but it's interesting how the story goes.

[@AuroraMystique]

yess

[@719Flowers]

Such potential that freaking game had 😭 sucks that it was so mediocre

[@cjanie19]

@@719Flowers I still loved it. Overall themes were great.

[@callmepsycho3132]

@@cjanie19 That’s why you loved it?

[@jackmceneaney5407]

@@719Flowers you should watch wicked wiz he does a series about games that didn't live up the hype and recently did we happy few

[@masterzoroark6664]

Also, some old theories still ring in my head- since all of the employees that are still sane and sapient are characters from the studio cartoons it means that Henry himself is also turned into one. I always presumed he turned onto more or less perfect version of Bendy- quite fitting and tragic since Bendy was his creation

[@AmayzingJack]

I was convinced Henry became a sort of perfect Bendy too because of how Sammy seemed to confuse him with bendy in chapter 5

[@user-wg9xc8sl1q]

I think when Henry walked into joeys workshop and arriving in chapter one it was just a flash back not a groundhog day

[@wutrudoin5431]

No, it's just a loop

[@budchumplaylists6148]

11:15 I'm sorry but- DID ANYONE ELSE THINK TWICE ABOUT 'TOM & JERRY', OR WAS IT JUST ME??

[@damariuswingfield2144]

And when you look at the state of Disney now....

[@meganshaw1949]

It’s possible that Joey didn’t want the public knowing these dark secrets.

[@SoffyChannel]

I'm watching/listening to your videos while drawing and I just want to thank you for the hard work you've put into your videos! I don't play games but I love the Bendy aesthetic and your videos are very easy to follow and just so interesting! Thank you!!

[@DocsGamingLair]

The fact that this game is getting ported to VR makes it a 100% scarier and immersive

[@Proman_Maryro2009]

This game's story is so confusing. But your explanation was so good that I honestly understand everything about the game now. Guess I'll have no problems playing the game now. And waiting for bendy and the dark revival (this game's gonna be amazing). Keep it up boii.....

[@ARC-ENEMY_SLAYER]

If you find this confusing you should watch a fnaf lore vid💀

[@ABANDONED23456]

YAY SOMEONE WHO FINALLY ACTUALLY EXPLAINS THE STORY INSTEAD OF JUST SAYING THE EVENTS OF THE FRICKEN GAME

[@AntoinettexKitten]

The living ink is making me think of Hexxus and Who Framed Roger Rabbit

[@surajitsadhya]

I remember superhorrorbro making a lot of theories on this game. But this will still be a great video!

[@StephandMinnieVODs]

This is so well done, thank you for putting all of this information together! I needed it to catch up before I play Bendy and the Dark Revival tomorrow :D

[@HiLykSpace]

I keep watching this instead of a walkthrough. I also got the game cause I've watch both your videos

[@ashleyjones9756]

I think that they should have made this into a horror movie! Anybody else agree with me?!

[@AbsolAhm]

With the same sort of pseudo-live action aesthetic, I think it would be great. Problem would be getting the people to see it so they could recover their investment of making it. People are too much into superhero stuff now a days and horror is very hard to do.

[@ihavenomouthandimustscream_109]

this aged well.

[@rekoow]

ITS GOING TO!!!!

[@_freedomx]

Guess what!

[@bloodymoonlight69]

i got news for u

[@MegaJesseman]

It was a really interesting concept for the main villain to essentially be some arsehole boss. Anyone in the working world can empathize with his victims. And it makes it very easy to absolutely hate his character and even though he appears to already be dead I want him deader.

[@zenitsu173]

10:40 apparently from a different channel they say that Joey or jerry I forgot his name made the employees sacrifice their stuff for the “gods” prob ritual thing for the ink machine

[@SCARECROW9713]

Henry left before heavenly toys, reson for this is when he left, joey wanted more, and thus created heavenly toys.

[@oscarkageson-loe]

The revival is upon us....

[@falcon70]

Amazing! I already knew most of everything in this video but it still is great.

[@Kurotitan7125]

I'm watching this so I can gain anything before watching people play Bendy and The Dark Revival

[@anneshen2585]

Aw brilliant! Wasn't expecting another lore video this soon, what a treat :) I'll never get around to playing most of these games so I really enjoy watching your vids. Thanks for all your hard work, hope to see more in future!

[@ThisGuy-yo4td]

I think it’s not a cycle but that he did get out and it’s kinda what happened in the fnaf movie where he goes back in his memories and try’s to find out what joey really wanted him to see…

[@DarkScarlettVixen]

Someone sending you a letter to come back to anywhere because they have "something they want to show you" or "a surprise" or whatever is always a trap 😅

[@tigercap5742]

Man , ive been waiting for this for like 4 years and now i found it after just 30 minutes of releasing , 😁🤔

[@Pierrue]

Tysm for this video on the lore! I kinda forgot about Bendy after a while of getting into it when it first came out because fnaf lore took over my life. I’m ready to jump back into bendy now after hearing about the dark revival series.

[@LPB_Games]

You're the best story explained person for games 😸 so thank you very much!

[@emilybader2642]

This is brilliant. Well done

[@BenTheStarr]

Love your vids man!!’ Keep it up and I can see you being a top KZbin!!

[@pikathemimikyu6655]

Bendy and the Ink Machine, I love seeing new videos of it! Its one of my favourite games, I wish I had been a fan in the good times.

[@fairy-dino]

I always thought Alison became good Alice.... oh well maybe another day

[@fairy-dino]

and I thought Tom was Thomas Connor

[@jenh101]

This is great! Really worth all the effort reading the books too, amazing job! Also, I’ll keep saying it till it happens, silent hill 1-3!

[@Lrr_Of_Omikron]

I remember watching Jacksepticeye play this game but I dont remember half of the lore. I think Jack missed some stuff.

[@abbyo5199]

Love your videos!

[@vineetsrivastava5515]

bro i have been following you since a while now, I have been a silent watcher and did not comment. But I today I thought of letting you know that I LOVE your content and the genre of games you play. By the way, which consoles do you own? Keep up the good work! Love and Support from India😃

[@vivlodia]

thanks for making this

[@anthonyfrias5533]

I hope we get an explanation for Joey's connection to the occult in another book

[@TwoGunToast]

I wonder if this is the technology that made ToonTown in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Hahaha thats an interesting thought

[@saloz9483]

I hate the fact to get what the hell is going on you need to read supplement material. I just beat the game and the world seemed interesting and what was going on in the studio as well. Though I still was thinking "what the hell is going on" by the end of it all. In this video I just learned the projection monster, good alice, one of the boris were actual people. The game is never clear about this and I just figured they were sentient ink creations. At least the loop thing is kind of hinted at if you go through the game again with the new item though whats confusing about that is going by the number markings he should know hes in a loop at the very start of the game. If hes not then how does he keep count.

[@tayloredwards9144]

Read the book you'll learn so much more about the game and the characters

[@thefatherrabbit]

All four of the books have a lot of interesting details and information. They completely changed how I thought about the story.

[@Kitunae]

That was very interesting. Thank you

[@nightsgamesofglory5400]

at the beggining you got the lore wrong so here is the real lore of bendy and the ink machine a man called henry stein opens the doors of a studio he worked at taht died out almost 30 years ago as his old bussniess partner joey drew invited him back and decided to power the ink machine up and as a result the ink demon tried to attack due to all the commotion and the unsuspecting prey item above the studio but henry escapes while the ink demon seemingly head back to his lair in the giant ink machine to think while that happens he appears behind henry to crush the roof of where he came from and then knocked him out in his attempt to kill him but that failed so he pressed on and after chapter 2 played out he was knocked out by sammy lawrence andwas goning to be used as a sacrofice to the ink demon but sammy ends up being "killed" by the demon and he chased henry until locked out of a roomand henry encounters boris and they head to his hideout where they leave the safety to find an exit but are attacked by a piper (butcher gang) but they won and stumbled apon alice Angels lair and did her quests so they could escape but she crashes the elevator to steal boris and chapter 4 plays out and boris has been turned into brute boris a horribly deformed version of boris and we defeat him and he dies alongside alice angel but alisson and tom appear and take henry prisoner while alisson is ok with henry tom isnt very fond of him and leave him to the ink demon but henry escapes and goes through the ink tunnel until he finds the lost one village and fights sammy and tom gets the final blow a huge battle insues henry falls down a hole again and find the butcher gang and assembles the pipes for the end reel and the ink demon took it and then theynhead off to his lair and fight and henry alone challenges the ink demon and then he removes the cartoon facade reveals the demon within and they duel it out and the ink demon is defeated and it is then revealed that everything is stuck on an endless loop like vhs tape a world that never ends...

[@fruitedlight]

I wish there was a nice bendy thats alive (the small one) and he would be part of the story

[@KupoTunes]

I didnt know this game was based off walt disney so blatantly. Sure the characters look like old disney, those references are clear as day; but the back story about how joey was the name and face but didnt draw any of it is the same about how walt disney screwed over his business partner Ub Iwerks.. interesting stuff. Ive never played this game but it looks cool.

[@Adog00]

I know this ones gonna be good🙏🏻

[@afallen1382]

Great vid

[@diala2954]

great video and i love your accent

[@mk_scar-4485]

I love this game thanks for expalation

[@TempestAmethyst]

"And they only got 5 paid holiday days a year" *sighs in American*

[@Rudnaz_127]

when i watched dantdm play bendy and the ink machine, i thought the ending was just what happened before you start chapter 1. I didn't realise that it was the aftermath of the final chapter

[@thealmightyone6461]

It's not 5 unpaid holidays PER year. It's 5 unpaid holidays after 5 contineues years. Meaning 1 day per year accumilated after 5 years. That's even worse. And it doesn't say what they will get after that. If they need to work another 5 years for the same "reward". Knowing joey drew it's probably exactly that. You also only state that Joey drew studio's was in danger because of the IRS for not paying taxes. While that news article explicitly was stating it was because of major complaints of former and current anonymous employees and investors claiming it's going bankrupt. The IRS stuff comes later. And i noticed that the taking to lunch susie recording is most likely the first time they met eachother. She was excited to meet him there and talks what a charmer he is (in the way like she didn't know that) and that he called her alice wich she liked. Joey Calling her alice that moment was probably the selling point and moment she started to call herself alice in the third person. The other recording you showed before that one with her saying joey is talking behind closed doors and he's inviting her for another opportunity and she's gonna meet him again and that she's not gonna fall for that smoothtalkers trick and alice didn't like liars is probably her final recording before he killed her. That one had a lot of malice in it contrary to the dining recording.

[@pandanoobgamer9175]

Hey can u pls do among the sleep I would really appreciate it. And I LOVED BENDY AND THE INK MACHINE IT WAS AWSOME

[@JustinWadeShorts]

Can you please do a video for injection 23 ‘no name no number’ and ‘ars regia’

[@theotv5522]

My game theory is that Joey Drew studio made a game that predicted its company’s demise :)

[@Tuna-sub]

Wow he went thru the hole story in 4 minutes

[@shioriryukaze]

You know what the end of this game reminds me of? If anybody remembers The Stanley parable, with the number of different endings that it had, you remember every time you found an ending, the load screen would say the end is never the end. So could this be bendy and the ink machine stuck in the Stanley parable paradox? Will he ever get out of the situation? Or will he be running for the rest of his life like an endless cartoon?

[@initialb5009]

i used to sell the toys but i didnt know anything about this game, never actually kept any of the toys, .. probably should have, they will be worth a few quid in the future.

[@lottiestewart8918]

The sentient ink will go on to name itself Armus and kill beloved lieutenant Tasha Yar

[@shaiyan2]

i was asked if i knew the bendy and the ink machine lore and i said no because i never played the game and they sent me a link to this video. thanks i guess

[@dxcSOUL]

How can someone be poor and NOT struggling

[@brandoncampbell0]

I hope ur doing the sequel

[@Gprostickyearsago]

you will get a 100k man

[@D0vey]

bendy and the dark revival came out so you can now finish the theory

[@dutchvanderbilt9969]

Your a KZbinr Harry!

[@rodrickhatton8636]

Lmao!

[@yashdevtyagi8981]

Lmao bruh

[@dutchvanderbilt9969]

@@yashdevtyagi8981 I actually forgot I made this comment

[@yashdevtyagi8981]

@@dutchvanderbilt9969 well now you remember that you did 🙂

[@maryamirfantanveer]

Joey actually made the loop so bendy couldn’t evolve past his beast form and go out to the real world so basically Henry was keeping his evolution at bay. (From superhorrorbro)

[@killme_yt7160]

superhorrorbro is the best lore / theory bendy channel but people focus too much on bendy the ink monster than the story it self

[@isabellagalvan7056]

I was just singing one of the songs of this game-💀

[@JamieA-nv7oh]

Guys If Henry never went back would ink bendy not exist?

[@AntoinettexKitten]

Joey sounds very familiar. No i don't mean disney

[@kathiejennings5654]

Beckyastic01 he can’t because he is in a loop so when he said oh my old desk I wasted so much time here means he just depressed and misses the real life

[@markbeaurain2187]

If you think about it the bendy lore is similar to the fnaf lore

[@bchandruu]

More like Micky Parody or evil twin

[@God-vz1tp]

I don’t know but think that the entire game I just a dream that joey is having because he is in a coma due to him experimenting the ink machine on himself and it’s never ending and when he defeats bendy he right back at the start and it’s just a never ending cycle until he dies or wakes up this could be further explained but this is just a comment section

[@wutrudoin5431]

Umm.. we play as Henry.

[@Lushmuffin81]

Can you please do the Read Dead Redemption trilogy plzzzzz

[@specialnewb9821]

In America five days of paid sick leave is almost mind blowingly generous

[@Wendisty]

I really like your story explained video's, you do such a great job at clearly explaining what you think is behind everything in a way I think most people can understand. I've also watched some of your gameplay video's and I don't find them as interesting. I wanted to share what I think will make your gameplay video's a bit more interesting to me. You don't have to do anything with it if you don't want to of course, it is just some friendly advice. I've watched some of your 'resident evil: village' series for example and I think it would be more fun for me to watch if you'd talk more at times where there isn't much happening in the game itself. Maybe something funny or weird that happened to you, or some fun facts you came across recently. You can really fill it up however you see fit. I think it would be more engaging that way and make the video a bit more personal. Maybe some people like it exactly how you do it now, but I've noticed your gameplay video's don't perform nearly as well as your story explained video's. So I thought I'd share my thoughts on it. Jeez, I hardly comment on any video ever, I really hope i'm not sounding rude or anything because I don't mean to be.

[@libertadhil]

Story Explained videos are just better, not much he can do to rival a goated series.

[@InTheMindOfDavid]

God, Bendy and FNAF were the bane of my existence when I worked at GameStop. You know how many 6 year olds I had to listen to just jabbing nooon-ffuuuuuckkinggg-stooooooppp about them?! Or parents hunting down every piece of merch for their kid who watched a streamer play these games? Fuck me man, I’m getting flashsbacks…..!!!!

[@Ali89878]

This is also a real story

[@doktorweedus7659]

So the thing confirmed by BATDR is, the Cycle is real and the Ink Machine created the cycle, he trapped henry in the cycle out of anger and spite, and allison made Joeys life better, so he threw her in as a saving grace for henry, eventually after BATDR story ends, Audrey BECOMES the person who controls it

[@Lunar_cosplays]

So ...basically...maladaptive daydreaming is what made joey drew like this?🤨🤔

[@ashleyjones9756]

Sweet Dreams Are Not Made For Joey or Anybody Else For That Matter!

[@nikolascecil6352]

But what about the ink demon?

[@usagi7063]

Searched and it say batdr release 2021 so guessing either end of December or 2022

[@littledevilspongejadedring1012]

It sucks how we don't have an release date.

[@ashleyjones9756]

@@littledevilspongejadedring1012 Hi I have got a question for you. If Bendy was female instead of male then what do you think her name would have been?

[@THE-HORRORCHANNEL_V2]

9K liker

[@MRPOPSVR1]

Based on a true story 💀

[@skubeeraw]

i wish more games like this are on the phones. yes, i have the xbox and ps5 but i play those for AAA titles like Uncharted and Halo. The switch is just a mobile phone without cell service and built in controllers, that's why after watching this video i looked to see if this was on the play store and it was! this type of gfx and gameplay is perfect for mobile (no precise shooting mechanics, relaxed gameplay, cartoony gfx, ect). oh reason why games on the phone is > than the switch? it's 30 on the switch and 7 bucks on a device which you already have, don't need to carry an one trick switch. You're an idiot if you paid for the nintendo tax.

[@arturoramirez3049]

Hello nice wow a didn’t know wow

[@Manicboy1238]

Any one in 2024? Errr I meant 30982839173917374620172347a1274927461926 I bet u didn’t read that whole number and didn’t find the letter

[@obedienthoward]

RYETOAST WANNA BE FRIENDS?

[@milaxxy]

Bendy land.. bendy looks like Mickey Mouse… *disney land*

[@Handlerswithreason]

Bendy is a copycat

[@ashleyjones9756]

@@Handlerswithreason No he isn't.

[@Handlerswithreason]

@@ashleyjones9756 ok so you think bendy is scary then

[@llchillin]

People who think Tom and Boris are brothers👇

[@Q_Nova]

Lol why does this give me William Afton vibes.

[@danninmatthews5640]

Think of Henry Emily invited by William Afton.

[@ashleyjones9756]

NO NO NO NO NOOOO! DON'T YOU EVEN DARE BRING UP FNAF GOT IT?!

[@h1ko393]

Anything for capitalism.

[@phantomknight4758]

Fourth B)

[@eblaser7407]

Remember this game?

[@ashleyjones9756]

Nah I have never played it before. I am not fan of horror games. But I still watch other people play the game sometimes.