It actually goes a little deeper than that. So, in accordance with Minion's secret messages, we know this game entirely takes place within Sweet Tooth's head space. This is the world "As he sees it" and this explains a lot of seemingly illogical things at first. Why they all start in the same cell. Why No-Face hasn't died from lack of food or water. Etc. But this also explains why the entire cast is fucked up, too. Because these characters, arguably, don't exist. They're merely extensions and fragments of Marcus Kane's personality, the true person behind Needles Kane. As described through the messages, Marcus has to conceal himself in his own subconscious, lest Needles, his conscious self, discover he's still alive in there somewhere and try to suppress him entirely. So he takes the persona of Minion, the "winner of last years contest" according to Needles. The "former" big guy, aka, the previous owner of their shared body. Ever think about how weird it is that every contestant "falls asleep" right after the Minion fight? That's because the fight didn't happen. Originally, that's just Marcus feeding Needles a narrative while Needles is asleep. But it also happens for every other character, implying they are all connected to Needles in some way. And interestingly enough, we know Needles in particular sleeps a LOT outside of what we see in the game. How? At his character select screen, he's uniquely described as someone with "Insomnia". No other driver has this listed and it's being paired with things like "Homicidal Tendencies" and "Psychotic Disorder". Awfully odd and out of place thing to add in for no reason, right? Wrong. It's there as a connection showing that these dreams Needles is having are where our visions of the other drivers are coming from. All of them. Even Minion, which is why he speaks in code. When Needles is not actively being played, this is what is going on. And every character has an odd connection with him too. Yellow Jacket for example being a direct familial tie to Needles. But then consider that Twisted Metal 2012, a game that largely takes after Twisted Metal Black, establishes that Needles killed his own family (Implying this may have always been a planned detail given the devs actually wanted a TM Black 2). And he had two daughters. Suddenly, the tale of the enstranged goth girl that drives Shadow makes a little more sense, as does the tale of Axel whose wife was "murdered by Sweet Tooth", interesting considering Needles murdered Marcus's wife, too. How about Needles' obsession with his mask in both games, and how he is more concerned with "getting his mask back on" after fighting off guards during his execution? Yeah, No-Face encapsulates that disconnect with his real face, and No-Faces' story even in some ways parallels Needles' malevolence towards Marcus as seen with the doctor and No-Face. These same themes are recaptured with Junkyard Dog who, once again and oddly enough, has the themes of having his face fucked up, murdering his wife, and then kills some other third string man who had been fooling around with her. Even characters who seem so physically opposed to Sweet Tooth such as the Priest have off connections; the Priest's story being one about him thinking there is another demonic murderous half to himself only to come to grips with the face that it was just him all along. But then why all of the virtuous denial? Does he have split personality disorder? Is he... Like Marcus? This is the real story underlying the ENTIRE game... We just never noticed. And once again, knowing TM 2012 was an attempt to recapture the original intent for a Black sequel, it makes a little more sense why most of the cast is suddenly missing but all of their cars are available.
Notice how in the other campaigns, if your wish is to do something malicious or to cause harm, you get exactly what you wish for and something a little extra. But if your wish is to improve your life or set something right, there's always a monkey's paw twist. No doubt Calypso could make someone fall in love with Bloody Mary, but where's the fun in that?
They didn’t really wish for them though. In this game Calypso pretty much goes up to them with an offer they can’t refuse pretty much, and they accept it then take part in the contest.
@@FireIsTheCIeanser he was sent by the FBI I think. He was a demon in the original game that won the contest to collect calypsos soul and take it back to hell
@@idlehour Well… for Dollface, the mask was stuck to her face, and Mr. Grimm gets really pissed off when you touch Benny's skull. Also, I don't think masks and not wearing a shit compare to literal weaponry
So what are you in for? Sweet Tooth: I tortured and murdered dozens of people. Brimstone: I burned down a church and killed all the parishoners. Darkside: I spilled coffee on some papers. I guess they were really important papers.
Black was such an amazing game. Sick, twisted, dark. The endings had 2 themes, if you were selfish you were screwed. If you wanted revenge, Calypso was your best friend.
i liked the dark horror themed backstories of this characters. dark horror drama. hope this new tv series in 2023 keeps most of that. the trailers seem all too goofy and comedic. what did you guys think?
@@streetplaya23 Black is like the edgy teen. But they did keep alot of stuff from Black. The ONLY 2 characters i didnt like what they did with were Preacher and Mr. Slam.
@@Darksky1001able 😥 look like thats another tv series i'll just watch a recap on. i hope one day there's at least one 80% accurate and faithful to in-game story vg adaptation in the future, hopefull GTA IV, niko story was good
I love how Junkyard Dog is like "its only the second time ive killed someone" ah yes we will just ignore the bosses you killed and the other contestants lol
I mean in his defense they were trying to kill him too, I think it was more like the second time a murder was personal but I agree he did over look the contest lol
As a 8-10 year old, this game was SCARY AS HELL. Yet, I couldn't stop being intrigued by it. My older brother and I would play it in our bedroom and try to figure out the story for every character. I would want to beat the game with every character to unlock more of their 'puzzle' but I knew that meant I would end up hearing Rolling Stones' "Paint it Black," which would also make me scared, haha. I even remember that song coming up for an ending and I got up to use the bathroom to diffuse some of the tension I felt. This game was awesome and it sparked my imagination like crazy. Despite it being scary as hell and like a way more intense Courage the Cowardly Dog, it was a moment in time for childhood for sure.
LOL Paint it Black also gives me PTSD from this game. No one gets it when I say it's a dark, spooky song. Guaranteed we're similar ages. This game terrified me, pretty sure I had to return it. Too dark for me as a kid.
Same, I remember trying to return it to Walmart after beating because it would still creep me the eff out. Really enjoying the TV series now that I can appreciate the story.
Gents, are we going to act like we've never seen an auto or burst fire long rifle in a game before? Homeboy's only across the street. Roadkill shoots him with a pistol.
I love how in almost every game Sweet Tooth becomes a danger to Calypso when he wins yet he still insists that Sweet Tooth enters everytime. There was even one game where Calypso became a playable character and had to take his contest back from Sweet Tooth lmao.
sweet tooth won the tournament one year and his wish " i want to be the star of twisted metal" means he get an automatic invite every year so calypso stuck with him
@@the.dandy.man2 Yeah, while most characters are there for the wishes and stuff, Sweet tooth is one of the few that actually enjoys being there, all he wants is to kill people and he can do that forever in Twisted Metal.
@@ericdickert9795 Oh yes, the creepy as heck vibe in Twisted Metal: Black is very much intentional. Now combine this intentional creepiness with the dated, grainy, uncanny graphics seen here, and you have a recipe for one of the most haunting cutscenes ever created.
If I were Outlaw and knew what would happen in my 2nd try, i’d still take it anyway. At least I wouldn’t go to the other side with innocent lives on my conscience.
To this day, after all these years, I’ve never been able to forget Preacher’s ending. Sometimes you want something so bad your mind makes you see what’s really not there...simply....Twisted...
We people always twist objective reality in our minds in order to make that reality more comfortable and convenient. Our minds aren't as reliable as we would like; we make our own realities and rarely is anyone willing to confront objective reality. Cognitive dissonance comes to my mind.
Outlaw's ending was the best. He travelled back in time (so somehow resurrecting all people that died in Calypso's contest) and saved that inoccent family. Even if he died at the end, that's a noble way to do it.
@@kennysnow7647 the creator is just making up stories of multiple playable characters. The canon is who you choose unless there is a sequel like Twisted Metal 1,2,3 and 4.
I think the smartest part of Mr Grimm's dialogue is how he never explicitly mentions cannibilism or eating people until the very end when he admits to himself that he's started to appreciate it more
I think we can all agree that Shadow had the best ending in terms of state of mind. She still felt like her friend was with her and she got her revenge without going insane
Crazy 8 got his revenge and got to walk off scott-free without calypso screwing him over again like he did the others, and he got his first ever one-punch KO too
@Jessie Sewell I think it’s more of his sane self(Marcus) sub consciously existing and showing he’s buried under sweet tooth. And he misses being in control.
I miss this game. Don’t even think it could be remade and that makes me sad. The right amount of “dark”. Everyone flawed with an interesting story. The gameplay was so fun as a kid.
I never played this game as a kid (my brother's did) but I was obsessed with the stories. I would just watch them over and over. Spectre was my favourite. Now I'm 31 and I still love weird creepy shit.
@@TheHippyProductions Mr. Grimm mentioning that though he hated it, he had a strong craving for human flesh. It shows he's still human despite the broken mind after all those years.
Considering the fact that Calypso can send people back in time and lift curses supposedly bestowed by God, it's not that much of a stretch that he could grant a man some sort of magical sight
He could have just been referring back to his boxing days back when he could see when he said that. Maybe he went up against a pretty weak opponent at some point or something.
@@elmerromero6694 It's complicated, basically Twisted Metal takes place in multiple realities. As far as the main canon goes (made by the same company reformed multiple times), there's a cartoony universe which is TM1 -> TM2 -> TM Headon, and then there's a dark and serious universe which is TM: Black -> TM: Harbor City/Lost (unreleased). Twisted Metal 3 & 4 & Small Brawl aren't really considered canon (at best another alternate reality) because they're made by a different company and really don't fit in well with the other games. Here's where it gets really fucky though, the "dark and serious universe" is actually inside Sweet Tooth's head with every character in Black (including Calypso - notice how Calypso is missing the same eye as Sweet Tooth and has similar scarring on the chest etc?) being representations of Sweet Tooth's psyche. ...and in Twisted Metal 2 & Head-On it establishes that Marcus Kane is actually the split personality of Needles Kane (Sweet Tooth), and his endings hint that even the cartoon reality may be a fake one concocted inside his head.
"Maybe it wasn't all my fault." That's... something I hope to hear from more abuse victims. Some of them do think it is their fault. While most repond to abuse differently, it is never their fault for someone like Mr. Creel. Her story was the hardest to hear. I know she's fictional, but she represents a huge problem, and the victims of such a problem I just wanna hug and make them feel better about themselves. I'd hug her myself if she were real. And you know what? When she took the key and Mr. Creel's life deciding to become a vigilante? I'm more than fine with that. As far as I can tell, she broke beyond her trauma and has become a hero.
So I’m noticing the asylum let outlaw keep his swat gear, namely his armored uniform and what appears to be a few grenade rounds. Can’t help but feel like they weren’t taking their jobs very seriously...
Then again, if you play as Minion and decipher his messages, all of this is in Sweet Tooth's mind so it could be why we see that because we're seeing through his eyes.
@@NinjakXNot sure if this 100% explains the question but he has a dog in the car that barks. Not sure how that exactly helps him see but it's the only reason we have
Wait, i'm confused about Darkside...SHE was the victim, yet She got locked up in the asylum? for what? getting a mask almost permanently attached to her head? for spiling some Coffee??
its a mental asylum. I'm pretty sure after dealing with that abuse and getting a mask bolted onto you you'd suffer some huge mental trauma. Even in the character select screen it says she's bipolar, has catatonic features and brain damage.
Well i agree that she would end up with some mental trauma, but That asylum is Waaaaaaaaay~ above a normal mental hospital, that place looks like it is meant for the Clinicly Insane, Sweet Tooth and the other guy who wanted to be a better killer than Sweet Tooth definetly belongs there, but Darkside? yea-no, wrong place for that i think.
48:53 listen closely, you’ll hear the tune that plays when you unlock Minion. It probably happens in other stories, but the fact it’s Sweet Tooth’s makes it so interesting
Basically it’s because Minion and Sweetooth are the same person. Markus Kane/Minion is the “sane” side of their personality. Needles Cane is his psychotic alter ego.
Yeah, he didn't do any sort of ironic twist to it. He just lobotomized someone and it didn't take... that's not even giving the wording of the contract.
I think there's probably a requirement that someone has to die in order for the wishes to be granted, in this case he could only grant it in a way Mary would be killing the suitor.
It's crazy that Sweet Tooth made up all the events in the game. The clues was in our faces. The first dead giveaway was Axel storyline, Charlie Kang, and Marcus which his language is all in number codes.
Could be that Marcus like the other games think it’s fake cause it’s hell on earth but actually is not There is no reason to trust Marcus is correct. I mean he is like that all the time
Twisted Metal Black takes place completely within Sweet Tooth's mind. The most obvious clue is Calypso himself, he and Sweet Tooth both share the same bad eye. It would only make sense that Sweet Tooth would put himself in a position of power in a world he's in control of.
Another thing worth taking note of is how drivers from previous games appear in Black. They are as Sweet Tooth sees them. Mr Grimm is a cannibal because he was an eater of souls previously. Bloody Mary is obsessed with her vanity and being loved, just like Ken Masters. YellowJacket is Sweet Tooth's father he sees as being dead to him. Also how different drivers make appearances in other driver's stories... Sweet Tooth's mask being made in Dollface's story, John Doe being "reconstructed" as Bloody Mary's groom, Preacher performing an exorcism on Billy Ray and Annie's baby, John Doe's gang in Outlaw's ending, Preacher cursing Sweet Tooth, etc. They're interwoven because there is no world outside of Midtown in this universe. Nearly every character is associated with another because they only exist to drive Sweet Tooth's narrative.
You should watch the three part twisted metal retrospective, David jaffe himself says that he only wrote that for minion because it was rushed and he wanted to be lazy.
The definitive proof that it is in his mind are the codes deciphered from Minion loading screens. They state: 1) I do not think this is real. 2) I must speak in code or he will discover me. 3) We are trapped in his head. 4) This is how he sees the world, how Sweet Tooth sees his life. It is not real. 5) All of us are trapped in his head. 6) I miss the old colorful world. 7) We will return to our world one day. 8) In the real world my name is Marcus Kane
I find it hilarious that Outlaw was allowed to keep his SWAT helmet in the insane asylum. His story is a nice way of exploring a real problem. In fairness to Mr. Grimm before he went insane he didn't have a choice. Roadkill has such a tragic double-twist at the end.
WarHawk was meant to be playable but they scrapped the idea because he's way too op and can fly however you can find his files in the game originally he had a red helmet that covering his entire face when you inspect the driver.
Characters who wanted revenge: Junkyard Dog Mr Grimm Crazy 8 Shadow Axel Characters who wanted to fix a past event: Brimstone Outlaw Darkside Sweet Tooth Yellow Jacket Characters who had desires unrelated to their past: Spectre Warthog Characters who wanted answers: Roadkill Characters with a certain enemy in TM (Unknown Story): Manslaughter Minion
It's crazy how interesting each and everyone of the characters had a touching backstory of why they fought in the tournament. Makes you feel sorry for them...well, maybe except for Sweet Tooth.
@@kenobigaming5755to me it’s junkyard dog that’s the most sympathetic character , someone he loved tried to murder him, and then take his property and money 💴, I’m not justifying what he did, but we gotta keep in mind that when people are in anger, they would do anything that they wouldn’t normally do . Just saying
There is a certain beauty in the way these stories capture human agony. The emotion gut punches and the raised hairs on my neck only illustrate the madness that can be human.
These guys will be completely insane and will have killed 5 people then be like: “I was locked up for 3 months, it’s the longest I’ve ever been behind bars.” Like huh?
Twisted metal black backstories in order: Junkyard dog-farmer turned murderer Brimstone-evangelist turned lunatic Outlaw-officer turned sorrowful murderer Mr.Grimm-Vietnam veteran turned cannibal Roadkill-FBI agent with amnesia Crazy 8-boxer super Star turned freak bent on revenge against a hateful surgeon Spectre-bride maid turned jealous psycho soon to be married (not!!) Dark side: clumsy employee wanting to be set free of the doll face mask her boss put her in forcefully Shadow: girl trying to fulfill best friend’s dying wish and avenge her death Sweet tooth: ice cream driver with split personality turned (cursed) sociopathic killer Yellow jacket: Small boy made dead father remote controlled just so he could be “alive” again Axel: severely depressed man wanting revenge against sweet tooth for his wife’s murder years ago Warthog: serial killer wanting to remove emotions when he kills people so he doesn’t have to be sad about them dying(not a patient surprisingly) Manslaughter: (not an asylum patient)(no info)
Calypso in this game is in really Needles Kane without your mask because the black universe pass into Needles Kane mind are 3 Needles Kane in this game 1 is "Calypso" 2 is Sweeth Tooth and 3 are The Minion who is really Markus Kane the sanity version inside the clown mind
@@-AceItX- Calipso has power to turn back time and lift curses but he is afraid of one FBI agent haha. Anyways thanks for the answer, at least now I know.
They making a new tv show Twisted Metal 2023. In these cutscenes, i liked the dark horror themed backstories of this characters. dark horror drama. hope this new tv series in 2023 keeps most of that. the trailers seem all too goofy and comedic. what did you guys think?
With outlaw even though he was killed in the end, technically calypso was still a good guy cause he gave the man his second chance and he saved the family.
There's a theory that says that the guy who kills agent Stone was possessed by calypso so he could get away with his usual monkey paw shenanigans. This Is possible if you look at the guys left eye which is blacked out like calypso's. This could also explain how the guy lands a fatal shot. From a building away. Without aiming and bleeding out. With a headshot. WITH A PISTOL
I think it could also just be interpreted as from the perspective of Sweet Tooth. It’s all happening but the look of it is from his eyes. The minion codes mention that he wants to go back to the “colorful world” a reference to past twisted metal game designs so it could all still be happening In the world
@@falafel1980that’s exactly my point. He lives in a world with demons, the grim reaper, cops in space and rob zombie Like mr Grimm being a Vietnam vet is interesting until you remember the twist and realise “oh yeah in the real world he’s actually the reaper of souls”
twisted metal story lines are always a mess, they always contradict other games, and even other characters stories in the same games- but the characters are so damn cool
One of my favorite all time games. This is the best TM game imo. Wish they would remaster this for next gen. Or even make a new one along the lines of this one. The dark & gritty nature fits this franchise so fucking well. I like the characters stories better then the earlier goofy ones. 🤞🏻 hopefully we see one in the future
Unpopular opinion: they should ditch the vehicular combat. Keep the tone and storytelling of this game, but make it a third person game where the gameplay through each character's story is different. Dismemberment is a must.
@@vanillawafer1182 Ditch the literal main unique thing of the series? Nah dont do that. We've got enough gritty dark gorey 3rd person games, Vehicular combat is probably one of if not the most uncommon game types out there. Especially ones like Twisted Metal. Personally I dont think the dark and gritty nature fits all that well, I mean the face of the series is literally a dude whose head is on fire and he's cool with it. Head-on had, imo, the best balence between the dark and gritty as well as the silly and ridiculous.
These really have that early 2000s vibe, even the song that plays on the very first one sounds like some of the music in the McGuire's Spiderman movies. I love it!
51:53 I never knew Yellow Jacket had this kind of a tragic backstory. The boy just wanted to keep his dad alive but Calypso destroyed the thing keeping him alive
It may not be what he wanted but it is what the boy *needed.* He needed to learn to let go. And his dad is dead, the boy was controlling the car through his father's remote controlled corpse.
Darkside, Grimm, Crazy 8 and Spectre are my personal favorites to play. Bought this game for nostalgia on the PS4 2 years ago digitally. Loved it, still creeps me out and I'm 22!
"I had developed a special craving...." Good. I like the trail off, decent way to en- "....for human flesh." Yeah, we figured that part out Mr. Grimm, thank you.
@@Lowpropo Actually if you pay attention during the coma after you see a few flashes of "radar vision" akin to what Daredevil from Marvel has and that movie came out around the same time as this game so it was likely in the dev's minds.
@@majinvegeta7777 Sit down because this on is a doozy Black is in fact sent with the single minded motivation of killing Calypso and he knows nothing else except this. The reason being someone else sent him to do it and to this day hasn't been revealed but there are two speculations 1. The C.I.A of the Black universe took someone and made him into the ultimate killing machine to hunt down Calypso simple and to the point. 2. Black is actually a Demon from the O.G. Universe as seen in the Twisted Metal Lost ending for Darkside, and that this demon was sent to the TM: Black universe to kill the much darker and more twisted version of Calypso
Man...I remember playing this as a young teenager with my buddy, trying to get all the endings...we liked all the characters and wanted to see what happens. Got pretty good at the game, too!😁
Junkyard dog: it may have only been the second time I killed someone.
Me: did you forget about the murder tournament you were just apart of?
Shhhh.
He means personally
Yeah, slight continuity error there...
Oh well, still a great story.
Self-defense doesn't count.
Lol i made a comment like this i didn't realize someone else did
Was anyone else scared shitless of this game when they were younger lol
dude yea. im 22 now and it's still scary.
I was at least 7 and I was scared but I realized none of this was real it was a video game of made up story’s good memories.
Gave me nightmares no bullshit
same here, i couldn't even look at the cover without getting chills
gave me nightmares back in 1999 but still played anyways
For anyone wondering how the contestants leave, It's stated in the manual that Calypso killed the guards
Yknow I figured he just kinda got em released with his power, unless his power also includes a glock.
Man, I miss game manuals. This game had an awesome one in my opinion.
Coolest manual ever
It actually goes a little deeper than that.
So, in accordance with Minion's secret messages, we know this game entirely takes place within Sweet Tooth's head space. This is the world "As he sees it" and this explains a lot of seemingly illogical things at first. Why they all start in the same cell. Why No-Face hasn't died from lack of food or water. Etc. But this also explains why the entire cast is fucked up, too.
Because these characters, arguably, don't exist. They're merely extensions and fragments of Marcus Kane's personality, the true person behind Needles Kane. As described through the messages, Marcus has to conceal himself in his own subconscious, lest Needles, his conscious self, discover he's still alive in there somewhere and try to suppress him entirely. So he takes the persona of Minion, the "winner of last years contest" according to Needles. The "former" big guy, aka, the previous owner of their shared body.
Ever think about how weird it is that every contestant "falls asleep" right after the Minion fight? That's because the fight didn't happen. Originally, that's just Marcus feeding Needles a narrative while Needles is asleep. But it also happens for every other character, implying they are all connected to Needles in some way. And interestingly enough, we know Needles in particular sleeps a LOT outside of what we see in the game. How? At his character select screen, he's uniquely described as someone with "Insomnia". No other driver has this listed and it's being paired with things like "Homicidal Tendencies" and "Psychotic Disorder". Awfully odd and out of place thing to add in for no reason, right?
Wrong. It's there as a connection showing that these dreams Needles is having are where our visions of the other drivers are coming from. All of them. Even Minion, which is why he speaks in code. When Needles is not actively being played, this is what is going on. And every character has an odd connection with him too. Yellow Jacket for example being a direct familial tie to Needles. But then consider that Twisted Metal 2012, a game that largely takes after Twisted Metal Black, establishes that Needles killed his own family (Implying this may have always been a planned detail given the devs actually wanted a TM Black 2). And he had two daughters. Suddenly, the tale of the enstranged goth girl that drives Shadow makes a little more sense, as does the tale of Axel whose wife was "murdered by Sweet Tooth", interesting considering Needles murdered Marcus's wife, too. How about Needles' obsession with his mask in both games, and how he is more concerned with "getting his mask back on" after fighting off guards during his execution? Yeah, No-Face encapsulates that disconnect with his real face, and No-Faces' story even in some ways parallels Needles' malevolence towards Marcus as seen with the doctor and No-Face. These same themes are recaptured with Junkyard Dog who, once again and oddly enough, has the themes of having his face fucked up, murdering his wife, and then kills some other third string man who had been fooling around with her. Even characters who seem so physically opposed to Sweet Tooth such as the Priest have off connections; the Priest's story being one about him thinking there is another demonic murderous half to himself only to come to grips with the face that it was just him all along. But then why all of the virtuous denial? Does he have split personality disorder? Is he... Like Marcus?
This is the real story underlying the ENTIRE game... We just never noticed. And once again, knowing TM 2012 was an attempt to recapture the original intent for a Black sequel, it makes a little more sense why most of the cast is suddenly missing but all of their cars are available.
@@Impalingthorn dude chill out its just a game
Calypso. Can literally turn back time and end curses. Can’t however, make a man fall for Mary.
@Great Gio I’m sorry your girl messes around. :(
Seems to be common among stories about wish granters that they cannot make someone love you. Remember the genie from Aladdin? Same rule applied.
Only the revenge murders got happy endings.
Notice how in the other campaigns, if your wish is to do something malicious or to cause harm, you get exactly what you wish for and something a little extra. But if your wish is to improve your life or set something right, there's always a monkey's paw twist. No doubt Calypso could make someone fall in love with Bloody Mary, but where's the fun in that?
@@Midnight-Starfish you know my comment was a joke right?
The Moral of this game's story was pretty much If you're going to wish, wish for revenge. It won't backfire unless you're ManSlaughter
Or to sleep, just like Mortimer.
They didn’t really wish for them though. In this game Calypso pretty much goes up to them with an offer they can’t refuse pretty much, and they accept it then take part in the contest.
why did calypso try to blow up manslaughter
@@FireIsTheCIeanser Because Manslaughter wanted Calypso dead and he knew about it beforehand.
@@FireIsTheCIeanser he was sent by the FBI I think. He was a demon in the original game that won the contest to collect calypsos soul and take it back to hell
I love how outlaw is allowed to keep all of his tactical gear inside of the asylum. Like bruh are those tear gas grenades?
Well this game does take place inside sweet tooth’s head so maybe that’s the only type of cop Needles had ever seen
Yeah, but that burst fire bolt action rifle that he doesn't even use the scope to aim with, tho.
N doll face keeps her mask, mr grim his mask, sweet tooth his mask, John Doe his no shirt
@@idlehour Well… for Dollface, the mask was stuck to her face, and Mr. Grimm gets really pissed off when you touch Benny's skull. Also, I don't think masks and not wearing a shit compare to literal weaponry
I just noticed that too. Didn't remember that as a kid. That one arm quickdraw pistol headshot from building to building was ridiculous too.
Warhawk: Step our of your vehicle and surrender peacefully!
Axel: Bruh... you shitting me?
Warhawk: tough shit. **fires rocket**
I AM THE CAR
Mr. Grimm: You mean step OFF of your vehicle?
*Man in helicopter* "Time's up!"
HOW DID HE DRIFT IN THE STADIUM ENTRANCE CUTSCENE
Everybody: My life’s F’d up!
Calypso: *jangles keys*
Everybody again: *HoW cOuLd I rEfUsE?*
well your choices are either rot in your cell lamenting your screwed up life or take the keys and gamble on the chance that you can fix it
@@the.dandy.man2 and probably die in the progress, oh well, atleast ya aint in the cell anymore
And in the end, be sure to wish for revenge. Do not ask for a second chance and to know some things. It ends badly for the wrong wish.
Fr 💯💯💯💯🤣
@@twistedaxles9126 At the end of the day, it's still worth it for them, sadly
"Calypso, he called himself. It was a stupid name. I wanted to kill him there and then." DAMN Sweet Tooth's a savage lol
Hopefully we get a remake of twisted metal black for all consoles .
@@Thebroshow13It's a Sony 1st Party title.
Cheesy
''Wanting to straight up kill people because their name is cringe''
Wow he is literally me.
At least Sweet Tooth was honest with his insanity 😂😂
Crazy 8
How can I refuse
Me:HOW CAN YOU SEE
How could he say yes
"I had seen fear in a mans eyes before but this was different"
It was him talking in his head probably?
How can you even DRIVE THE DAMN CAR lmfao
@@abohsukampret blind driving
*Meanwhile at Blackfield Asylum*
"Time to wake up buddy, it's time for your breakfa- oh god damn it. Another inmate escaped again. I am so fired..."
*SEES THE INMATE DRIVE A WHOLE FUCKING TRUCK OUT THE ASYLUM*
Then instantly locks themselves inside the box the inmate escaped from
"Hey Scott, how's the guy doi- oh for fucks sake thats the third one this month."
*Guard walks by and sees door open.*
"Who left the damn locks unlatched?!"
lol i doubt it. they probably pretty willing to keep the employees actually willing to work there
So what are you in for?
Sweet Tooth: I tortured and murdered dozens of people.
Brimstone: I burned down a church and killed all the parishoners.
Darkside: I spilled coffee on some papers. I guess they were really important papers.
Junkyard: I murdered my wife.
Outlaw: I wanted to commit suicide.
Shadow: I lost my friend and kept carving her name on my skin.
@@bossshun9 carving
Dollface's truck theft was probably one reason.
Mr grimm: I fuckin ate a man alive
@@bossshun9 Outlaw killed a mother and child…
Black was such an amazing game. Sick, twisted, dark. The endings had 2 themes, if you were selfish you were screwed. If you wanted revenge, Calypso was your best friend.
I think you meant selfless not selfish.
You forgot the third.... if you were sweet tooth
i liked the dark horror themed backstories of this characters. dark horror drama. hope this new tv series in 2023 keeps most of that. the trailers seem all too goofy and comedic. what did you guys think?
@@streetplaya23 Black is like the edgy teen. But they did keep alot of stuff from Black. The ONLY 2 characters i didnt like what they did with were Preacher and Mr. Slam.
@@Darksky1001able 😥 look like thats another tv series i'll just watch a recap on. i hope one day there's at least one 80% accurate and faithful to in-game story vg adaptation in the future, hopefull GTA IV, niko story was good
I love how Junkyard Dog is like "its only the second time ive killed someone" ah yes we will just ignore the bosses you killed and the other contestants lol
"Thems wasn't people I killed this week, thems was cars."
😂
@@TheGiggleWarehouse lamoo
Gotta love the oversights in video games
I mean in his defense they were trying to kill him too, I think it was more like the second time a murder was personal but I agree he did over look the contest lol
@@TheGiggleWarehouse😂😂😂😂😂😂
As a 8-10 year old, this game was SCARY AS HELL. Yet, I couldn't stop being intrigued by it. My older brother and I would play it in our bedroom and try to figure out the story for every character. I would want to beat the game with every character to unlock more of their 'puzzle' but I knew that meant I would end up hearing Rolling Stones' "Paint it Black," which would also make me scared, haha. I even remember that song coming up for an ending and I got up to use the bathroom to diffuse some of the tension I felt. This game was awesome and it sparked my imagination like crazy. Despite it being scary as hell and like a way more intense Courage the Cowardly Dog, it was a moment in time for childhood for sure.
LOL Paint it Black also gives me PTSD from this game. No one gets it when I say it's a dark, spooky song. Guaranteed we're similar ages. This game terrified me, pretty sure I had to return it. Too dark for me as a kid.
Same
We are the same person
this song scared me for a while too wow, no one gets it like us
Same, I remember trying to return it to Walmart after beating because it would still creep me the eff out. Really enjoying the TV series now that I can appreciate the story.
I forgot how 100% of these stories sound like they were written by the edgiest kid in your middle school class
Yeah, but it's one that had some talent.
@@madzoroark5396 amen to that, brother!
Err, you ARE a male right?
@@shannonbateswillis5022 gender doesn’t matter. Nobody matters
@@dingus1655 Behold, the edgiest kid in your middle school class
@@chitoryu12 yo mama
Automatic sniper rifle
Glad someone said it
Bozar
Gents, are we going to act like we've never seen an auto or burst fire long rifle in a game before?
Homeboy's only across the street. Roadkill shoots him with a pistol.
Also the Where's the magazine
Why about them?
I love how in almost every game Sweet Tooth becomes a danger to Calypso when he wins yet he still insists that Sweet Tooth enters everytime. There was even one game where Calypso became a playable character and had to take his contest back from Sweet Tooth lmao.
sweet tooth won the tournament one year and his wish " i want to be the star of twisted metal" means he get an automatic invite every year so calypso stuck with him
@@the.dandy.man2
Yeah, while most characters are there for the wishes and stuff, Sweet tooth is one of the few that actually enjoys being there, all he wants is to kill people and he can do that forever in Twisted Metal.
TM4
Hell in one game he even straight swaps bodies with Calypso and has Calypso in ST's body get shot down
@@zeospark9715 TM Head On
The cut-scenes in this game aged like fine wine.
Really tho.
@@ericdickert9795 Oh yes, the creepy as heck vibe in Twisted Metal: Black is very much intentional.
Now combine this intentional creepiness with the dated, grainy, uncanny graphics seen here, and you have a recipe for one of the most haunting cutscenes ever created.
it has aged like silent hill 1 cutscenes. not exactly good but as you said, in an uncanny and atmospheric way
You kidding? They look awful, and the story acting in most of those is just cheesy as hell.
@@OCTO358 then you don´t understand our point
Outlaw's ending is depressing. To be fair though, a lot of these endings are.
That's the them of twisted metal ever since the first game in 1995
If I were Outlaw and knew what would happen in my 2nd try, i’d still take it anyway. At least I wouldn’t go to the other side with innocent lives on my conscience.
Hence the title of the game
Especially Roadkill, Darkside, and Raven's.
Sweet Tooth wavs happy end.
"I've seen fear in a man's eyes but this was special"
-the man with no eyes
thats one hell of a plot hole huh? XD
Maybe it was special cuz it couldn't see?
Its a strong statement. Fear can be sensed. He also drove so well while blind. Well enough to navigate new areas and murder people
He can smell and hear the fear is what he meant. But, yeah 🥃🥃🤔🤔
It's mentioned off-hand how he somehow gained the ability to sense his surroundings after some time in the asylum.
To this day, after all these years, I’ve never been able to forget Preacher’s ending. Sometimes you want something so bad your mind makes you see what’s really not there...simply....Twisted...
We people always twist objective reality in our minds in order to make that reality more comfortable and convenient. Our minds aren't as reliable as we would like; we make our own realities and rarely is anyone willing to confront objective reality. Cognitive dissonance comes to my mind.
@@bannedaccount3752 maybe the true reality stone was inside us all along
Unpopular opinion: they should ditch the vehicular combat and make this a gorey story driven game from a third person perspective
@@vanillawafer1182 Your opinion is unpopular for a reason.
@@loganmcleod3593 Unfortunately
Drip stays on during solitary
Full swat gear
damn straight
gonna need a fucking army to take these camo crocs off me
Outlaw's ending was the best. He travelled back in time (so somehow resurrecting all people that died in Calypso's contest) and saved that inoccent family. Even if he died at the end, that's a noble way to do it.
Apparently the next game revels that he is stuck in a time loop, what is way more depressing.
@@BNK2442 There is no canon to Twisted Metal, as the creator said, so who knows what is actually going on lol
@@kennysnow7647 the creator is just making up stories of multiple playable characters. The canon is who you choose unless there is a sequel like Twisted Metal 1,2,3 and 4.
@@areaxisthegurkha Well like the creator said, Sweet Tooth from 3 isn't the Sweet Tooth from 2 and etc. So sequels doesn't mean canon either
I played the game, but had only seen a couple of the endings.
13:53 just love how he turns a bolt action in to a fully automatic
When this game was released, it was trendy to focus on the words, now everyone pays the most attention to the guns
Future technology, I guess
it was an m16 in the beta cutscenes then they made the change for no raisin
Thought the same
I like to think it's some form of burst-fire sniper
I think the smartest part of Mr Grimm's dialogue is how he never explicitly mentions cannibilism or eating people until the very end when he admits to himself that he's started to appreciate it more
I think we can all agree that Shadow had the best ending in terms of state of mind. She still felt like her friend was with her and she got her revenge without going insane
True. Also, I feel she was probably also the most sane of the roster. Besides her, Outlaw and Darkside, everything was messed up.
Crazy 8 got his revenge and got to walk off scott-free without calypso screwing him over again like he did the others, and he got his first ever one-punch KO too
@@johngennaria Roadkill looked somewhat sane too. The others are lost causes though.
@@crack4184 that is true. Dude just wanted to remember who he was
It’s stated that she’s become a hero in TM: Lost
Did anyone else get this randomly recommended to them, then end up watching the whole thing because the stories are actually pretty good?
Yup
Me too
8
And yes
No. I came here myself to reclaim old memories. It was worth it.
It got recommended but I grew up with this game so I verbatim spoke every line of dialog as they said them.
If this game really is all Sweettooth's head,he would do a great fanfic writer
Lmao. The black guy died
@@josephhensley2601 and white people died too😂
@@iloveseeingtheworldburn4035 but the only black guy died. I was making a joke
@Jessie Sewell I think it’s more of his sane self(Marcus) sub consciously existing and showing he’s buried under sweet tooth. And he misses being in control.
@@iloveseeingtheworldburn4035 N
story: some of the darkest psychological horror ever put gaming
gameplay: *VROOM VROOM PEW PEW*
16:51 Damn, headshot from a distance while bleeding out on the floor. Hell of a shot, rip agent stone. 🙏
It makes no sense lol. Like, how did that many bullets not take the dude down? How does he pull off a headshot with a pistol at that distance?
@@comettamer calypso got that aimbot lol
@@bandawin18 Clearly lol
@@comettamer Even Agent Stone Talks even when he's dead.
With a pistol
I miss this game. Don’t even think it could be remade and that makes me sad. The right amount of “dark”. Everyone flawed with an interesting story. The gameplay was so fun as a kid.
You played this when you were a kid 😱😳? I first played this in college and was disturbed by it back then.
@@joshzumstien6289 im 12 bruh
It's available on PS4/PS5. Not a remake, but still fun to play.
Why not?
@@joshzumstien6289 dude I played this game when I was 7
I never played this game as a kid (my brother's did) but I was obsessed with the stories. I would just watch them over and over. Spectre was my favourite. Now I'm 31 and I still love weird creepy shit.
I like Mr.Grimms
My favorites were Mr.Grimm, Sweet Tooth and Crazy 8
I love the outlaw siblings
Manslaughter was the only character calypso flat out said "screw you" and tried to kill him with a bomb. 🤣🤣🤣
Lol
Even funnier that it did absolutely nothing to manslaughter.
@@adekaiwamisou Sumbitch took it about as hard as a stubbed toe.
Completely fine, yet Pissed.
it's bc hes a project from the CIA to find calypso and put an end to him and calypso realized that so yeah, pretty much said "nope, fuck you" xD
Because Black wanted to kill Calypso in sight.
"it may have only been the second time I'd killed someone"
Literally kills hundreds of others who are in the contest
NPC count as people? :v
Regardless, this is all on Needles' mind.
no he just non lethally exploded and ran people over.
Well, you see they happen to be in the way at the time. So, they didn't count. 🤔🤔🥃🥃
I really loved Crazy 8's story, his way with words had a nice charm to it.
the faster, less durable cars were more difficult to win with but had the best stories imo as it should be
@@TheHippyProductions Mr. Grimm mentioning that though he hated it, he had a strong craving for human flesh. It shows he's still human despite the broken mind after all those years.
“…You know, that was the first time I ever knocked someone out with one punch.”
Definitely one of my fave ending lines.
As a kid I was terrified of his cutscenes but now adult me I really do liked his story and the car Crazy 8 looks so amazing
Im here wondering how tf he’s able to see where he’s driving.
"I'd seen fear in a man's eyes before, but this was special"
Excuse me, but how??
He just gone insane.
Edit: For a second, I thought you were talking about Junkyard Dog.
Considering the fact that Calypso can send people back in time and lift curses supposedly bestowed by God, it's not that much of a stretch that he could grant a man some sort of magical sight
He could have just been referring back to his boxing days back when he could see when he said that. Maybe he went up against a pretty weak opponent at some point or something.
@@IkariMetalSlugger But what about when he drives and all that, how TF he can see if his eyes are shut. LOL
@@Vaygon I dont know the answer to the questions here, but his eyes arent closed. Theyre gone. The doctor removed them.
The outlaw end was weird... the Terorist had better aim with a Pistol and heavily injured then the Protagonist himself...
if you look closely the terrorist had a black eye and bald head like Calypso so that explains the magic of it all.
AWP vs Deagle
The fucking sniper rifle had full Auto
The terrorist that shot him was Calypso, at least in the "new" version Outlaw had won in the contest
@@kruterchraft454 It's a burst fire, long ranged rifle. He's only accross the street to so he could probably shoot someone successfully with a pistol.
"A man cannot hide from himself; There is only one path before me..."
That line honestly hits hard even if Grimm's does too
Wait minute is this not a sequel to twisted metal 4
@@elmerromero6694 It's complicated, basically Twisted Metal takes place in multiple realities. As far as the main canon goes (made by the same company reformed multiple times), there's a cartoony universe which is TM1 -> TM2 -> TM Headon, and then there's a dark and serious universe which is TM: Black -> TM: Harbor City/Lost (unreleased).
Twisted Metal 3 & 4 & Small Brawl aren't really considered canon (at best another alternate reality) because they're made by a different company and really don't fit in well with the other games.
Here's where it gets really fucky though, the "dark and serious universe" is actually inside Sweet Tooth's head with every character in Black (including Calypso - notice how Calypso is missing the same eye as Sweet Tooth and has similar scarring on the chest etc?) being representations of Sweet Tooth's psyche.
...and in Twisted Metal 2 & Head-On it establishes that Marcus Kane is actually the split personality of Needles Kane (Sweet Tooth), and his endings hint that even the cartoon reality may be a fake one concocted inside his head.
An older friend came to spend the night one time and brought this game and my first ever energy drink, a Rockstar original. Life was never the same.
So your friend introduced you to TM and drugs…? What a guy 😂
@@philiptucker7590 One hell of a friend, indeed
Me and my older brother used to play our PS2 as kids this game scared the shit out of me
Reminds me of when I found my cousins copy of RE2 on release week and it had a bag of weed in it.
But then calypso visited you and offered a Monster energy.
The fact that we're not getting a new twisted metal game puts a tear in my eye
I thought they did like a few year's back?
@@jdturnier8539 That's 2013 back on the PS3
@@DoGDarkBurner2736 2012*
It’s a cruel world we live in
it just makes the original that much better, nothing like that ps2 nostalgia
"Maybe it wasn't all my fault."
That's... something I hope to hear from more abuse victims. Some of them do think it is their fault. While most repond to abuse differently, it is never their fault for someone like Mr. Creel. Her story was the hardest to hear. I know she's fictional, but she represents a huge problem, and the victims of such a problem I just wanna hug and make them feel better about themselves. I'd hug her myself if she were real. And you know what? When she took the key and Mr. Creel's life deciding to become a vigilante? I'm more than fine with that. As far as I can tell, she broke beyond her trauma and has become a hero.
True that man, true that.
She's more of a antihero
Unfortunately Lost has other ideas. In her profile in Lost the mask caused brain damage and now she's gone over the borderline.
Shut up
So I’m noticing the asylum let outlaw keep his swat gear, namely his armored uniform and what appears to be a few grenade rounds. Can’t help but feel like they weren’t taking their jobs very seriously...
Then again, if you play as Minion and decipher his messages, all of this is in Sweet Tooth's mind so it could be why we see that because we're seeing through his eyes.
@@Playernumber141 Elaborate
@@chefboiardeeznutz9881 We're playing inside Sweet Tooth's mind
@@ghiyas3968 that's cool af
@@Playernumber141 that would explain outlaw's three round burst .308 sniper rifle
Mr.Grimm on a bike:
Dude in chopper: "step out of your vehicle and surrender peacefully"
pfft
Crazy 8’s the one that always sticks in my head all these years.
He still has a snap in that Left hook of his
How is he able to see aren’t his eyes removed and eyelids sewed shut?
@@NinjakXNot sure if this 100% explains the question but he has a dog in the car that barks. Not sure how that exactly helps him see but it's the only reason we have
00:00 - Junkyard Dog
05:51 - Brimstone
11:18 - Outlaw
17:13 - Mr. Grimm
23:23 - Roadkill
27:50 - Crazy 8
32:40 - Spectre
37:42 - Darkside
42:08 - Shadow
46:34 - Sweet Tooth
51:53 - Yellow Jacket
54:38 - Axel
56:26 - Warthog
57:51 - Manslaughter
It’s strange how doll face’s name has been changed to darkside
Shadow is my favorite
@@doominator1587 stink Dookey
Appreciate it
Where is axles opening story?
Wait, i'm confused about Darkside...SHE was the victim, yet She got locked up in the asylum? for what? getting a mask almost permanently attached to her head? for spiling some Coffee??
She probably needed help with her mental damage after the traumatizing event.
its a mental asylum. I'm pretty sure after dealing with that abuse and getting a mask bolted onto you you'd suffer some huge mental trauma. Even in the character select screen it says she's bipolar, has catatonic features and brain damage.
Well i agree that she would end up with some mental trauma, but That asylum is Waaaaaaaaay~ above a normal mental hospital, that place looks like it is meant for the Clinicly Insane, Sweet Tooth and the other guy who wanted to be a better killer than Sweet Tooth definetly belongs there, but Darkside? yea-no, wrong place for that i think.
@@ForemostCrab7 Hmmm.... Maybe she accidentally killed someone while she was still traumatized and it caused her to be locked up?
@bob bobthebobbobofbobby Good question.
48:53 listen closely, you’ll hear the tune that plays when you unlock Minion.
It probably happens in other stories, but the fact it’s Sweet Tooth’s makes it so interesting
Basically it’s because Minion and Sweetooth are the same person. Markus Kane/Minion is the “sane” side of their personality. Needles Cane is his psychotic alter ego.
@@Forbiddensirenz exactly
"the clown is dead.... but so is my wife" I felt that homie
"I will never be free..."
@lessthanpropane thank you it makes me happy knowing someone else found that as funny as i did
Sometimes, the revenge we want will only give us heartache, loneliness, and sadness once we get it.
That outlaw ending was some cod mw bs right there
Aimbot head ass Calypso.
Had to remove my like to soak in the number of likes...carry on
And then Calypso offered me a glass of chocolate milk. How could I refuse an offer like that?
Lmao 😂
Calypso really embarrassed himself with Spectre there, he barely put any effort into granting that wish
Yeah, he didn't do any sort of ironic twist to it. He just lobotomized someone and it didn't take... that's not even giving the wording of the contract.
he was hoping she'd take the hint and come back... for him :(
I thought the same thing he didn't even remotely give her what she asked for.
Might even say he twisted what he promised to give 😎
I think there's probably a requirement that someone has to die in order for the wishes to be granted, in this case he could only grant it in a way Mary would be killing the suitor.
It's crazy that Sweet Tooth made up all the events in the game. The clues was in our faces. The first dead giveaway was Axel storyline, Charlie Kang, and Marcus which his language is all in number codes.
I don't think that's Canon but I might be wrong
@@jayflow3745 Nan, it's canon.
@@Bluesit32 cool cool
@@jayflow3745 yeah none of this is connected to the main lore of the series. However, Black told a very good and or goofy story.
Could be that Marcus like the other games think it’s fake cause it’s hell on earth but actually is not
There is no reason to trust Marcus is correct. I mean he is like that all the time
This was my first PS2 game back when it came out. After years, 20 years in my case, these cutscenes STILL give me goosebumps
Twisted Metal Black takes place completely within Sweet Tooth's mind. The most obvious clue is Calypso himself, he and Sweet Tooth both share the same bad eye. It would only make sense that Sweet Tooth would put himself in a position of power in a world he's in control of.
Another thing worth taking note of is how drivers from previous games appear in Black. They are as Sweet Tooth sees them. Mr Grimm is a cannibal because he was an eater of souls previously. Bloody Mary is obsessed with her vanity and being loved, just like Ken Masters. YellowJacket is Sweet Tooth's father he sees as being dead to him. Also how different drivers make appearances in other driver's stories... Sweet Tooth's mask being made in Dollface's story, John Doe being "reconstructed" as Bloody Mary's groom, Preacher performing an exorcism on Billy Ray and Annie's baby, John Doe's gang in Outlaw's ending, Preacher cursing Sweet Tooth, etc. They're interwoven because there is no world outside of Midtown in this universe. Nearly every character is associated with another because they only exist to drive Sweet Tooth's narrative.
I didn't notice that
Also during 8-ball's cutscenes you can hear the opera Pagliacci the sad clown.
You should watch the three part twisted metal retrospective, David jaffe himself says that he only wrote that for minion because it was rushed and he wanted to be lazy.
The definitive proof that it is in his mind are the codes deciphered from Minion loading screens. They state: 1) I do not think this is real.
2) I must speak in code or he will discover me.
3) We are trapped in his head.
4) This is how he sees the world, how Sweet Tooth sees his life. It is not real.
5) All of us are trapped in his head.
6) I miss the old colorful world.
7) We will return to our world one day.
8) In the real world my name is Marcus Kane
Sweet Tooth = ghost rider + joker
Naaa mr grim is ghost rider
Yes, but the ghost rider never harmed the innocent, at least not on purpose.
Sweet Tooth insanity makes the Joker look normal.
@@IMZ44 honestly since he killed his own family
I find it hilarious that Outlaw was allowed to keep his SWAT helmet in the insane asylum. His story is a nice way of exploring a real problem.
In fairness to Mr. Grimm before he went insane he didn't have a choice.
Roadkill has such a tragic double-twist at the end.
At least he died doing the right thing.
dont forget his automatic sniper rifle lol
They need to make a comic book or some form of extended universe
there was a rumor that there was gonna be a tv series
@@RegrettableQueso is not just a rumor
@@archam123 it could happen
This $hit would make a bad ass movie or mini series
@@RegrettableQueso k
That poor helo pilot man.. he needs his own story for going what he's been through that many times
WarHawk was meant to be playable but they scrapped the idea because he's way too op and can fly however you can find his files in the game originally he had a red helmet that covering his entire face when you inspect the driver.
@Rat in the toilet Yes he does you dweeb. Stop trying to prevent others from having fun.
You can play as him in the game after this one
@Dick Trickle nah it needs to happen
“aaaaaaaaaAAA”
-Warhawk, Circa 2001
Characters who wanted revenge:
Junkyard Dog
Mr Grimm
Crazy 8
Shadow
Axel
Characters who wanted to fix a past event:
Brimstone
Outlaw
Darkside
Sweet Tooth
Yellow Jacket
Characters who had desires unrelated to their past:
Spectre
Warthog
Characters who wanted answers:
Roadkill
Characters with a certain enemy in TM (Unknown Story):
Manslaughter
Minion
Lmao yoooo why is this years old, and people barely commenting on this? Did anyone else just start randomly getting twisted metal suggested videos??
Every so often I like to rewatch the cutscenes of the games. Especially the driver endings.
Yeah, suddenly been getting reccomendations for Twisted Metal endings bro
Yes
Yea
Yep, and I'm glad. I have been enjoying the cutscenes, binging on all the Twisted Metal Series
5:11 I think I played too much New Vegas to not recognize this damn song.
Wait, what?! That’s a reall song?! Cool! What’s the name of that song?
@@shannonbateswillis5022 You Let The Blues Move In by The Roues Brothers
Man, the amount of work they put into each individual storyline... Amazing game
Except the last three. They were shit
@@SilkyLew That's because they ran out of time.
*Sweet Tooth's story begins*
"3 months in the nut--!" *buffers*
o_o wait, what??
Sweet Tooth always the chad. 😂
(´⊙ω⊙`)...
( ´⊙∇⊙`) the what
3 nuts in the monthhouse
@@TheIndustrialRevolution. _Needles is hella horny_
But he himself said it, a man has to have his p r i o r i t i e s.
@sir_sandvich he's been stuck in a nutshell for 3 months.
"No more...Headaches."
*Scalp literally on fire*
It's crazy how interesting each and everyone of the characters had a touching backstory of why they fought in the tournament. Makes you feel sorry for them...well, maybe except for Sweet Tooth.
Sad part is that mr Grimm has the most realistic backstory
@@kenobigaming5755to me it’s junkyard dog that’s the most sympathetic character , someone he loved tried to murder him, and then take his property and money 💴, I’m not justifying what he did, but we gotta keep in mind that when people are in anger, they would do anything that they wouldn’t normally do . Just saying
Don’t forget about Cage
There is a certain beauty in the way these stories capture human agony. The emotion gut punches and the raised hairs on my neck only illustrate the madness that can be human.
13:50 "Automatic" Sniper Rifle, not even using the scope and also not shouldering it. 🤣
20:03 i get chills i also love the way the music builds in, it like the evil of a man
I like Grimms story
THE BEST STORY FOR ALL THESE CHARACTERS. THE NEW GAME IS SO DAMN LAME COMPARED TO THIS.
These guys will be completely insane and will have killed 5 people then be like:
“I was locked up for 3 months, it’s the longest I’ve ever been behind bars.”
Like huh?
Everyone is special lol. They just need some candy.
Shadow is possibly the only TM character to get her wish fulfilled without negative ramifications.
What about Roadkill from TM2?
@@twistedaxles9126 I feel like something negative was implied with that ending, but just not directly shown
Sweet tooth got his wish, but refused it because he wants to kill more LOL.
There’s a couple somewhat positive endings throughout the series but they certainly aren’t common… gotta be very careful with the wording of the wish.
Junkyard dog one was pretty chill too
Twisted metal black backstories in order:
Junkyard dog-farmer turned murderer
Brimstone-evangelist turned lunatic
Outlaw-officer turned sorrowful murderer
Mr.Grimm-Vietnam veteran turned cannibal
Roadkill-FBI agent with amnesia
Crazy 8-boxer super Star turned freak bent on revenge against a hateful surgeon
Spectre-bride maid turned jealous psycho soon to be married (not!!)
Dark side: clumsy employee wanting to be set free of the doll face mask her boss put her in forcefully
Shadow: girl trying to fulfill best friend’s dying wish and avenge her death
Sweet tooth: ice cream driver with split personality turned (cursed) sociopathic killer
Yellow jacket: Small boy made dead father remote controlled just so he could be “alive” again
Axel: severely depressed man wanting revenge against sweet tooth for his wife’s murder years ago
Warthog: serial killer wanting to remove emotions when he kills people so he doesn’t have to be sad about them dying(not a patient surprisingly)
Manslaughter: (not an asylum patient)(no info)
And then there's Minion, whom is nothing more than Marcus Kane trapped in the mind of Needles...
I'm not a huge fan of the Calypso design in this game. The other design from the previous games were better.
@@karthrukon2692 Freaky fred
Calypso in this game is in really Needles Kane without your mask because the black universe pass into Needles Kane mind are 3 Needles Kane in this game 1 is "Calypso" 2 is Sweeth Tooth and 3 are The Minion who is really Markus Kane the sanity version inside the clown mind
This design reminds me of Freddy Kruger.
@John Smith I can actually see that look on him, but I think the devs wanted to make this series of TM dirty and brutal.
He looks like Bruce Willis
"The doctor said it was some kind of amnesia" John Doe aka Roadkill has the most intriguing story in my opinion.
hahay yea and why did Calipso end him?
@@aimless-drifter he was a FBI, Calipso was his #2 on most wanted so he killed him off to prevent him from catching him
@@-AceItX- Calipso has power to turn back time and lift curses but he is afraid of one FBI agent haha. Anyways thanks for the answer, at least now I know.
Calypso: I could use these mystic powers but…..
Pop pop, watching contestants drop!
They making a new tv show Twisted Metal 2023.
In these cutscenes, i liked the dark horror themed backstories of this characters. dark horror drama. hope this new tv series in 2023 keeps most of that. the trailers seem all too goofy and comedic. what did you guys think?
I love how all the dudes have these elaborate, fleshed out backstories and Bloody Mary's is just "I wanted to get married so bad I went crazy"
With outlaw even though he was killed in the end, technically calypso was still a good guy cause he gave the man his second chance and he saved the family.
Good for him
There's a theory that says that the guy who kills agent Stone was possessed by calypso so he could get away with his usual monkey paw shenanigans. This Is possible if you look at the guys left eye which is blacked out like calypso's. This could also explain how the guy lands a fatal shot. From a building away. Without aiming and bleeding out. With a headshot. WITH A PISTOL
@@jamestheboss1883 calypso hates cops lol
Tooth went from demanding a paper bag to ending the curse.
And then goes you know what? Naaaa and Decapitates Calypso
I like how you can feel for most of these characters, makes you want to fight for them even more
If this really takes place in needles head then he’s both the most creative yet unimaginative person of the planet
I agree. At least he makes the slaughter of a Twisted Metal competition interesting with the competitors having goals and backstories.
@@mcknightmorgan2021 “THE NUMBERS MORGAN! WHAT DO THEY MEAN?!?!”
@@mcknightmorgan2021 they do?
I think it could also just be interpreted as from the perspective of Sweet Tooth. It’s all happening but the look of it is from his eyes. The minion codes mention that he wants to go back to the “colorful world” a reference to past twisted metal game designs so it could all still be happening In the world
@@falafel1980that’s exactly my point. He lives in a world with demons, the grim reaper, cops in space and rob zombie
Like mr Grimm being a Vietnam vet is interesting until you remember the twist and realise “oh yeah in the real world he’s actually the reaper of souls”
twisted metal story lines are always a mess, they always contradict other games, and even other characters stories in the same games- but the characters are so damn cool
wow you really don't get it
@@crash3711 he's right
@@itssonotover961 logically yes but very plainly stated for the "big mood" the franchise is known for
I heard from one of the devs in a retrospective video that most of the Twisted Metal stories are like fairytales and non-canonical
@@duck7322 probably because they switched dev teams 3 times. The franchise could benefit from connecting the games better
As a kid this all made sense to me. Now I see Crazy 8 talking with no tongue and driving around with no eyes.
One of my favorite all time games. This is the best TM game imo. Wish they would remaster this for next gen. Or even make a new one along the lines of this one. The dark & gritty nature fits this franchise so fucking well. I like the characters stories better then the earlier goofy ones. 🤞🏻 hopefully we see one in the future
I hope they remake it on ps4 or 5 and keep the story intact
Same man same. A new dark twisted metal with a bunch of different stories would be sick
Unpopular opinion: they should ditch the vehicular combat. Keep the tone and storytelling of this game, but make it a third person game where the gameplay through each character's story is different. Dismemberment is a must.
@@vanillawafer1182 Ditch the literal main unique thing of the series? Nah dont do that. We've got enough gritty dark gorey 3rd person games, Vehicular combat is probably one of if not the most uncommon game types out there. Especially ones like Twisted Metal. Personally I dont think the dark and gritty nature fits all that well, I mean the face of the series is literally a dude whose head is on fire and he's cool with it. Head-on had, imo, the best balence between the dark and gritty as well as the silly and ridiculous.
how cool would it be to go against like 100 people online in an arena? we dont have nearly as many characters but it would be cool if they added more
"it took me all of 10 seconds" lol...the toxicity! a true psychopath! Man they nailed his cutscene
These really have that early 2000s vibe, even the song that plays on the very first one sounds like some of the music in the McGuire's Spiderman movies. I love it!
Redemption. . .
" That's a big thing to offer a man without a hope in hell "
Well dayum..
Crazy 8 is the real Deadpool
51:53 I never knew Yellow Jacket had this kind of a tragic backstory. The boy just wanted to keep his dad alive but Calypso destroyed the thing keeping him alive
😭
It may not be what he wanted but it is what the boy *needed.* He needed to learn to let go.
And his dad is dead, the boy was controlling the car through his father's remote controlled corpse.
In the mainstream TM universe. The driver of Yellow Jacket is Sweet Tooth's father.
@Jarock316 I mean it sorta was. It was a kid controlling his dad controlling the car. Remotes for your remotes.
Darkside, Grimm, Crazy 8 and Spectre are my personal favorites to play.
Bought this game for nostalgia on the PS4 2 years ago digitally. Loved it, still creeps me out and I'm 22!
Why is Outlaw allowed to dress in tactical swat gear while locked up in the asylum?
I mean then u got someone in a bride dress covered in blood
Lmao the entire asylum doesn't have a washing machine
It’s not actually real, it’s all in Sweet Tooth’s head. Which is why a lot of things don’t make sense
@@sethstoll8525 Isnt sweet tooth the kid?
Why is mr Grimm allowed to wear a human skull in the asylum?
When you're in violation of Midtown city code 4432 and they want you to step out of your vehicle immediately
46:50 I remembered these words my whole life
Same here man, I quote it all the time haha
Fam..Me too.
WTF with Outlaw sniper? His sniper was in burst mode
Auto aime is activated
Perfect weapon for hostage rescue missions 👍
Recoil : 1000
dahl sniper
It could’ve been an ar with a sniper scope ya know the recipie for call of duty players.
"I had developed a special craving...."
Good. I like the trail off, decent way to en-
"....for human flesh."
Yeah, we figured that part out Mr. Grimm, thank you.
Lol how was crazy 8 seeing anything like the docs scared look....how was he driving. Dude had some sick skill to drive blind
I 100% bet that the character designer knew this and laughed. They were probably told edgy and funny was the only factor in each character.
Calypso had many powers. He most likely used said powers to give him the ability to see so he can compete in the contest.
He could visualize using Soundwaves
@@Ghoffman91 think they meant before he got sent to the assylum
@@Lowpropo Actually if you pay attention during the coma after you see a few flashes of "radar vision" akin to what Daredevil from Marvel has and that movie came out around the same time as this game so it was likely in the dev's minds.
Out of all the stories, Shadow’s felt the most sympathetic.
She actually had something to fight for lol. It always made me tear up as a kid
I feel sorry for Darkside's driver.
I also felt bad for outlaw
@@mylastaltsrrsly5967 No-Face and Dollface were sad to see. Same for Grimm...
How tf could neither of them swim though
21:30 approx. I love how he wears his friends skull. Not in a messed up way but more in a poetic way.
Why did Calypso do manslaughter like that 🤣 “screw you, love Calypso” 🤣
Manslaughter joined the contest to kill Calypso
@@zecaeru5151 can you elaborate friend?
@@majinvegeta7777
Sit down because this on is a doozy
Black is in fact sent with the single minded motivation of killing Calypso and he knows nothing else except this.
The reason being someone else sent him to do it and to this day hasn't been revealed but there are two speculations
1. The C.I.A of the Black universe took someone and made him into the ultimate killing machine to hunt down Calypso simple and to the point.
2. Black is actually a Demon from the O.G. Universe as seen in the Twisted Metal Lost ending for Darkside, and that this demon was sent to the TM: Black universe to kill the much darker and more twisted version of Calypso
He owes him money.
@@bossshun9 🤣
Man...I remember playing this as a young teenager with my buddy, trying to get all the endings...we liked all the characters and wanted to see what happens. Got pretty good at the game, too!😁
Still remember my dad letting my play this when I was a kid. It really freaked me out. Legendary game. It aged so nicely.
As a Kid?
Man, i am an old fart and this Scenes creeps me out
I love how all of them where in Jail on a full attire.
Ikr
Outlaw in full body armor no less.
They weren’t in a jail there in a asylum moron go play the game.
@@karpsquad6993 that doesn't make it any less silly.
@@ImTakingYouToFlavorTown I know but if people are going to say it’s at a certain place in the game they need to check there facts first