List of antagonists in Bendy: Dreams Come to Life
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This article contains a list of all antagonists in Bendy: Dreams Come to Life.
List of antagonists
Main antagonists
Joey Drew
- Maim article: Joey Drew/novel
Joey Drew is the founder of the declining Joey Drew Studios. After his studio began to fail, Joey decided to bring his character to life for the upcoming amusement park Bendyland. To successfully do this, he started using his employees' souls to turn them into the characters themselves by using the Ink Machine.
Joey acts like a mentor figure towards Buddy Lewek throughout the story of Bendy: Dreams Come to Life. However in Chapter 24, he reveals that this was merely because he wanted to use Buddy's "perfect soul" to create a perfected cartoon character.
Ink
- Maim article: Ink/novel
The ink is an unnatural living organism that was created after regular ink was run through the Ink Machine, causing the machine to give the inanimate object sentience and intelligence. After its creation, the ink was pumped through studio's pipes; this would allow the ink to infect and kill various individuals after getting inside of their body.
The ink acts as an ongoing threat in the story of Bendy: Dreams Come to Life, pursuing Buddy and Dot, causing Sammy to become increasingly strange and an antagonist, and eventually battling against the protagonists alongside the Ink Demon.
Major antagonists
Ink Demon
- Main article: Ink Demon/novel
The Ink Demon is a failed experiment at creating the famous cartoon character of Bendy. He was created as a first attempt for the living cartoons project, without a soul, causing him to appear deformed and monstrous. After which, he was locked away in the infirmary of the studio because of his unworldly look.
The Ink Demon becomes a prominent threat in the later chapters of Bendy: Dreams Come to Life. First appearing in Chapter 11, he acts as the main threat of Chapter 14 and Chapter 23; pursing Buddy, Dot, Jacob, and many other studio employees and successfully killing many of them.
Minor antagonists
Sammy Lawrence (ink realm)
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Sammy Lawrence is an ink reincarnation of Joey Drew Studios' music director of the same name. He is an insane version of the man he used to be, becoming deranged after the ink got inside his body, and being manipulated into worshipping the Ink Demon as a god and using the studio employees as sacrifices to "please" him.
He mainly appears in Chapter 21 of Bendy: Dreams Come to Life as a minor threat. He attempts to sacrifice Buddy and Richie to the Ink Demon before being defeated by Dot by the end of the same chapter, ending his part in the story.
Antagonistic characters
Sammy Lawrence
- Main article: Sammy Lawrence/novel
Sammy Lawrence is the music director of Joey Drew Studios. Thanks to his consuming job at the studio, Sammy had became quite rude and bossy towards other employees. This only gets worse after he gets infected by the ink.
While he isn't an active threat, he does act antagonistic and pushes the story of Bendy: Dreams Come to Life forward by becoming a minor antagonist later on.