As the big boss of everything, he wore a ringmaster uniform. They also figured out the fire effects with the animation this time, so his head was inflamed again. He would be the one granting and twisting wishes this time around. Flanked by his loyal army of vertically challenged clowns, Sweet Tooth usurped Calypso, stole his powers, and became the new host and even final boss of the Twisted Metal contest. The plot of Twisted Metal 4 was that Sweet Tooth had grown tired of being a contestant. When 1999 came rolling, 989 Studios went all-in on Sweet Tooth. Neither quite had that staying power, sadly. Each game featured a character with a similar unhinged, marketable goofball vibe, such as Captain Cutlass (a pirate host of a kid’s show who got fired and turned to bloodlust) and Richard “Dick” Biggs (a hockey mask-wearing fast food chef who drives the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile). Interestingly enough, without the Twisted Metal franchise, SingleTrac created two vehicular combat titles with Critical Depth and Rogue Trip to fill the void. The 989 Studios Era: What a Jokeįor 1998’s Twisted Metal III, development was given to 989 Studios. When granted his wish in his ending, it was played as ominous despite his happy reunion with his family, as if something was still very wrong. Marcus was a crazed homeless man, insisting that the world was wrong, like they were in a simulation of some sort. This is a game that outright named one of its drivers Ken Masters, like the guy from Street Fighter, so this could have just been a creative oversight at the time. The game in no way suggested a relationship between the two outside of the last name. The driver of Roadkill’s name was Marcus Kane. Outside of that crazy boss battle, there were no outright connections to Sweet Tooth on the roster. That didn’t completely hinder his impact, as the game’s final boss was an insane Charlie Kane now driving Dark Tooth, a freaky cross between an ice cream truck and a monster truck. Sweet Tooth was not part of the base roster, but a hidden character whose stats made playing with him a handicap. The drooling psycho was just constantly on fire and never referenced it. There was no in-story explanation for it at the time. As the game had a more comic book aesthetic with animated stills, they redesigned Needles so that his clothing was more classical Pagliacci with the baggy onesie and fuzzy buttons, but this time gave him a head covered in fire. The tragedy of his search was that he would have to kill Needles in the contest in order to discover their familial connection.ġ996’s Twisted Metal 2 would feature the flaming clown head with the logo, but the box art would feature four different cars – also, the Eiffel Tower to show that this contest was no longer contained in LA. Meanwhile, a cab driver named Charlie Kane entered Twisted Metal in order to find information on his missing son. His ending revealed that he was killed outside of a circus, presumably by Needles. One driver was a ghost fighting for his chance to come back to life. While one of many playable drivers, he was relatively more prominent due to having some connections. Needles was depicted as a lunatic in a clown costume who was willing to leave a mountain of wreckage and broken bodies in exchange for a paper bag from his childhood that he considered his best friend. As the game was meant to originally have live-action cutscenes, Needles appeared on the select screen looking like a wide-eyed and unhinged visualization of what Krusty the Clown would look like in real life. Even the iconic flame-headed clown look was just a logo on top of the deadly ice cream truck. Similar to Frankenstein’s deal, “Sweet Tooth” was originally just the name of the vehicle and not the driver. Whether it’s something as mundane as money or something as outlandish as resurrection, proof of extraterrestrials, ownership of a hellspawn, time travel, or Calypso’s very soul, each driver had their own reason to enter the contest. Hosted by Calypso, a demonic genie in a three-piece suit, the competition featured various drivers battling for supremacy and destroying both their opponents and the city itself in order to earn an audience with Calypso and be offered one wish. The SingleTrac Era: Send in the Clownsġ995’s Twisted Metal, originally planned to be called High Octane, told the story of a deadly contest across Los Angeles that mixed the Purge with an over-the-top demolition derby. Here is the character’s full history from initial conception to television. Now a chaotic entity on the streaming series played by Samoa Joe and voiced by Will Arnett, Sweet Tooth went from a novelty character choice to a larger-than-life marquee who eclipses the rest of the cast. Throughout all of those games, one character who has always been there is Sweet Tooth, the psychotic clown.
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