Gaskette

This article refers to the cartoon character. For the ink realm counterpart, see Gaskette (ink realm).

Gaskette is a vehicle-based cartoon character and an antagonist of the Bendy cartoon Death and Taxi created by Joey Drew Studios.

Description

Creation

Gaskette was created by Riley Wells. He was inspired by his creator's childhood trauma, back at age 6 when she saw her parents getting killed in a car accident. Riley, out of trauma, usually sketched drawings of Gaskette with blood to reflect the death of her parents, leading to her termination from Joey Drew Studios.

Regardless of Riley's firing and what Gaskette is based on, he still made it into a known Bendy cartoon.

Physical appearance

Gaskette is an anthropomorphic cartoon taxicab, modeled after the 1920-30s checker cab. He has a checkered banner on both doors and a taxi on his roof. He sports head-light eyes each with cartoon pie pupils, and a radiator grill filled with large triangular teeth.

Personality

Gaskette is not evil at first, however, when Bendy tried to get a ride without paying his fair, that's when Gaskette starting pursuing Bendy. When angered Gaskette will do anything within his power to get revenge on the one who crossed him.

Appearances

• Death and Taxi - Gaskette's only known cartoon appearance, where he angrily gives Bendy a chase for trying to get a taxi ride and refusing to pay.

Gameplay

"Not a scrap of that mess be a-sellin'! Probably have to melt it all down to be rid of it all." - Shawn Flynn

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Gaskette, referred as "CabBoss" in the game files, appeared in Bendy in Nightmare Run as the game's second boss and fought at the Death and Taxi level.

Like all the bosses in the game, Gaskette disposes of a land-attack, an aerial one, the abilities to throw obstacle on the lines and summoning minions and his own special attack:

• First introduced in Act I, he pulls his motor out of his mouth and uses it to blanks everything on the ground of the targeted line and damaging the player if he is running on the said line.
• Later introduced in Act II, he throws a spiky wheel on a line, killing Gwens and removing the flying items. The wheel then falls on the line's ground damaging the player if they stay on it.
• Later introduced in Act III, he throws gas barrels on a random line, the barrels are jumping and stomping, they can be avoided by doing a double jump or simply changing lanes.
• Finally introduced in Act IV, Gaskette targets a random line and launch laser out of his eyes for short instances, the only way to avoid the laser is to change to another line, so this attack makes a line completely unusable for an instance.

Gaskette can be used as an advantage to instantly kill enemies (Krawls, Stickles, and Gwens) by running them over. In Nightmare Mode, Gaskette becomes faster, especially when his health meter is at the low health, and when his health is reduced to 0 then he will revive himself angrier than before until the player character finally dies.

Gaskette's health increases as the level's acts progressed:

Act	Health
Act I	30
Act II	36
Act III	42
Act IV	48
Final Act	54
Nightmare	60

Behind the scenes

Gaskette first appeared in the now-discontinued Bendy in Nightmare Run game as one of the bosses. He later returned in Bendy: Secrets of the Machine where his origins were heavily explored.

Inspirations

Gaskette's design is seemingly inspired by other anthropomorphic cartoon cars in the rubberhose-era animations, such as the taxicabs in Mickey Mouse's 1931 Traffic Troubles cartoon.

Etymology

Gaskette's name is a pun on the word 'gasket', which is a mechanical seal designed for car engines.

Other information

Gaskette's attacks in Bendy in Nightmare Run seem to reference phrases that go along with cars, roads, etc. For example, his motor attack appears to reference the term, "motor breath", his spiky tire attack references "tire spikes", a method used by police to slow down criminals driving cars, and his laser attack references "high beams", a term used for the headlights of a car.

Gallery

Main article: Gaskette/gallery

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  Gaskette's character bio.