Gent Corporation

This article refers to the establishment. For other uses, see Gent (disambiguation).

"The future has arrived. I just didn't know it would get here so soon. Some of the stuff that's coming out of Gent doesn't follow any of the rules of physics that I know. Hard to believe they started as a brick laying company once upon a time." — Eugene Lloyd's "Daily Headache" memo.

The Gent Corporation, simply known as Gent (stylized as GENT), is an American corporation headquartered in Brooklyn, New York City, known for publishing installments, including tools and machinery, for a wide plethora of purposes. Adjacent to that, the company's dark and disturbing side reveals itself to be abducting homeless people and even their employees for malicious experiments to turn them into ink-made monsters.

History

Early life

Gent was originally founded as a brick-laying company. While the identity of the founder(s) is not clarified, Alan Gray is the company's CEO. The only pieces of direct involvement with Joey Drew Studios is a sponsorship of the animation studio's Construction Corruption cartoon.

Partnership with the studio

After the partnership with Joey Drew Studios, Gent was commissioned to create a machine that would be used to bring cartoons to life. Designed by Thomas Connor, the Ink Machine was created and later installed at the Joey Drew Studios building by mid-1940s. However, Joey had stolen the machine for and through unknown means; Gent still owned the machine by contract, however, and threatened to take it and other property back in the event of the studio's closure.

During when Joey Drew Studios was operating, employees of Gent started taking over the studio in numbers while worrying the studio employees like Lance Derby due to thinking it was unnatural for them to watch over a cartoon studio with the amount of people there. While the studio was still open, Gent built an underground tunnel connecting Joey Drew Studios to the Gent building so they could have better access to the location with Jack Fain later moving his office into this utility shaft. When Joey Drew Studios was on the verge of bankruptcy, Gent kept funding the studio in order to continue their experiments to the confusion of the studio's accountant Grant Cohen. Grant also stated that Alan Gray wasn't doing it for money, but rather was likely doing it in order to continue the experiments. At some point in time, Alan Gray wrote the book A Theory about Spaces with a copy of this book being later found in Wilson's library.

Experimentation and condemnation

At some point, Gent started advertising jobs of becoming a test subject and promised to pay volunteers $350 per week. Later, Gent had used the human test subjects, who were down on their luck and in poverty, in their experiments which resulted in the deaths of multiple people. Among the victims were also Gent staff such as handyman Steve McGregor. After the victims were killed, the bodies would be sent down a chute to an area known as "The Pit" where their bodies would be mixed together with ink to create monsters. The old Gent building where these experiments would take place stayed active for at least four years after Joey Drew Studios went bankrupt in 1948 before it was condemned on October 31st, 1952.

Reclaiming the machine

Alan Gray, the CEO of the corporation, following Arch Gate Pictures acquiring the rights to the Bendy cartoons and taking the Ink Machine from Joey Drew's apartment, made several attempts to retrieve the machine while visiting Arch Gate Pictures. The Ink Machine, several of its pedestals, and a copy of The Illusion of Living was seen loaded into the back of a Gent Corp. truck, presumably stolen by Gent in order to continue their experiments.

Employees

There are currently 6 known members of the corporation altogether.

• Alan Gray (Chief executive officer)
• Thomas Connor (Mechanic, repairman, and liaison for Joey Drew Studios)
• Steve McGregor (Handyman)
• Eugene Lloyd
• Riley Wells

Test subjects

• Archie Carter
• Riley Wells (presumably)

Branded material

The Gent Corporation possesses or distributes multiple branded material, such as contraptions and tools, including;

• Ink Machine - The titular large machine that not only produces ink but is powered by it, all the while being lowered into the depths.
• Flashlight - A tool used while exploring in darker areas.
• Pipe - Three pieces of Gent-branded piping fashioned together to form an improvised bludgeon.
• Valve panel - A panel consisting of three tubes filled with ink. To make the lids unlockable for obtaining the valve cores, the ink's measurement from all three tubes must reach to black circles in the middle.
• Elevator - The main transportation. Its function is opening and closing the gates, along with transporting to different levels - Level K, Level 11, Level P, Level 9, Level 14, and Level S.
• Ink Maker - A machine requiring thick ink to create several items, such as a mug, gear, music radio, bone, Gent pipe, and the plunger.
• Vaults - The vaults are used throughout for the archives and the cavern.
• Barge - This machine was used as a boat by Henry to cross the Ink River. One of the machines is seen being destroyed by the Giant Bendy Hand during the ride in the river.
• Hall drainer - Appearing in the Gent Home Office, these machines drains the flooded assuage to the Film Vault.
• Electronic locks - A panel mounted to a wall that allows the player to insert a charged Gent Pipe and throw a levered circuit breaker to deactivate Gent locks. Gent locks can be seen next to doors and near signal towers.
• Signal towers - Large metallic towers are seen throughout the studio, keeping the citizens of the ink realm at bay. They will weaken the Ink Demon into his smaller form, and they nullify Audrey's powers, unless turned off by a Gent lock. Wilson confirmed they were made by Gent rather than him, as Gent "had a demon problem of their own, long ago".
• Barrels - Wooden barrels that were most likely designed to contain ink. It was first seen in the gameplay trailer at the end of a hallway. Some (but not all) bear the Gent logo.
• Recharge station - A lathe-like machine that allows the user to use a battery to recharge the Gent pipe's door unlocking/shock functions.
• Upgrade stations - A mechanism found on multiple walls, and allow the player to modify your Gent pipe's appearance and abilities. It was first found in the locker room, behind a Gent security door. It requires a schematic in order for the Gent Pipe to be upgraded.
• Cards - An access card the employees use for one-time access to the Safe & Sound lockers.
• ID card - An ID card the employees use to access the Gent Workshop.
• Lockers - A locker used to store important items, such as: Gent parts and toolkits. They can only be accessed with the Gent card.
• Truck - A box truck that is transporting the Ink Machine and items related to it. On its roll up door reads "GENT CORPORATION", confirming it belongs to Gent. The only part seen is its trunk and the rest of the truck is not visible.
• Security Turrets - A mechanical defense machine found on multiple Gent Workshop levels. Their primary intent was to defend the workshop and shoot any intruders that got close to them.

Behind the scenes

Gent is the antagonistic corporation first mentioned in Bendy and the Ink Machine, although some of its licensed installments were first seen in the initial DLC release of Chapter 3: Rise and Fall prior to the game's last remastered update for the fourth chapter's DLC release where the company's name is chronologically first mentioned in Thomas Connor's ink input schedule from Chapter 1: Moving Pictures.

In Bendy and the Dark Revival, when it was first released on Steam, players could find a set of coordinates hidden within a vent in Animation Alley. These coordinates lead to the real-life location of the Dennings Point Brickworks in New York, a turn of the century and now-abandoned factory similar to what the Gent Corporation started as. Unfortunately these coordinates were later removed in a patch due to concerns over fans trespassing into dangerous areas.

Development

"Look pal, if you think I'm doing my job AND yours, I'm outta here!" - Wally Franks

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Gallery

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Installments

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  The Ink Machine.
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  The Gent pipe.
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  The Gent Card.

In other languages

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See also

• Gent Workshop, the company's headquarters in Brooklyn.