Wally Franks

"I'm outta here!" — Wally Franks' catchphrase.

Wally Franks is a previous Brooklyn resident, former janitor for Joey Drew Studios, and the apparent founder and owner of Franks Handyman Service. A man who is willing to go along with Joey Drew's strange practices as he writes the paychecks, Wally explain his views on how the studio runs and his day-to-day routine. Shown from the Ink Machine's blueprints and design sheet, Wally is the attendant and designer of said machine.

History

Early life

In his younger years, Wally attends Brickmore High School.

Working at the studio

He talks about Joey Drew's plans and the Ink Machine, claiming he doesn't understand Joey's plans for the workshop. He also claims that the animations are not being finished on time and the Ink Machine's noise and tendency to leak is making things hard to work. Wally then mentions the bizarre command Joey gave to his staff; including Wally himself, to donate things from their workstations and set them on pedestals in the break room in order to "appease the gods". Wally then claims that he will leave the company if any other pipes burst.

He later complains that he lost the keys to his cleaning closet, most likely in one of the garbage cans while making his rounds a week ago and has a bad feeling about what Sammy would do if he ever found out.

Thomas Connor tries to teach Wally what to do when the ink pressure reaches over 45, but Wally has trouble understanding him. He then states that if Thomas thinks Wally's going to do his job and Thomas', he's leaving. He later complains about the behavior of the studio's staff members, wandering around in the room while likening their faces to being as if they were angry or grieving when they should be positive given how they should make cartoons. Wally threatens that if the attitudes of the people in the studio do not change, he will leave his post.

He complains about the workers in the warehouse getting involved playing games while he is stuck cleaning up after they leave. One day, he tells them the idea about rigging these games up to knock the door open if they win, so his trip down will be saved every day, and they went for it like "a dog to pot roast." Wally threatens that if anybody doesn't start realizing who the real genius is (referring to himself), he will leave this area. Wally reveals that the day where he cleaned up some of the offices around 2 AM was his lucky day because a large chocolate cake was on one of the chairs, which (according to him) was yelling his name. Wally states that as a janitor, he works hard and earns his pay on every dollar. He then claims that the studio is missing little, benefiting perks, and believes that the chocolate cake he got was a perk. Wally then states that he hopes that no one would find out about what he did, and proudly claims that if anyone finds out about his work, he will leave.

Wally rants about Thomas Connor's bossiness towards him, even boasting that he is smarter than Thomas having received a formal education. Wally later documents a personal account of a shift of cleaning the floors in what was once the employee coat room now converted into a laboratory by Thomas Connor, for use by Gent, when a puddle of ink would not come off the floor. He then goes on to mention that the ink only expands as Wally mopped. He then declared that he would leave should the inky messes spiral out of control.

Wally talks about how Thomas Connor started taking over the entire back of the locker room how he'll will have to move his office of cardboard boxes somewhere else. He also wrote down that Thomas gave him the door code if he ever needed to clean up in there, so he wrote the code down and put it in his locker, but Wally states that if Thomas keeps on causing trouble for him, then he's outta there.

Legacy

Wally retired as a Joey Drew Studio crew following the studio's closure as he moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida with his family and opened up his own company Franks Handyman Service.

Personality

Though Wally has never been seen in person, he comes across as an "average Joe," a regular working man whose only real concern at the studio is getting his work done. After the introduction of the Ink Machine, he appeared suspicious of the workshop but never bothered to looker deeper than his job required. Judging by him losing his keys in the Music Department and a conversation with Thomas Connor on working on the ink pressure, he is somewhat absent-minded. He also seemed to have felt somewhat annoyed about some situations within the company, such as the Ink Machine's abundance of leaks and why most of the staff appeared to be angry when they were making cartoons at the studio. In terms of social behavior, he is noted to be friendly and easy to get along with, with his note (from Joey Drew's apartment) also revealed that Wally is surprised that Joey remembers him since Wally was not especially memorable among his coworkers.

Documents

Audio logs

• Offering to the Dogs - Found in Chapter 1: Moving Pictures of Bendy and the Ink Machine.
• Lost Keys - Found in Chapter 2: The Old Song of Bendy and the Ink Machine.
• Crack a Smile - Found in Chapter 3: Rise and Fall of Bendy and the Ink Machine.
• The Creators - Found in Chapter 3: Rise and Fall of Bendy and the Ink Machine.
• Warehouse Games - Found in Chapter 4: Colossal Wonders of Bendy and the Ink Machine.
• Cake - Found in Chapter 5: The Last Reel of Bendy and the Ink Machine.
• College Boys - Found in Boris and the Dark Survival.
• Connor's Laboratory - Found in Boris and the Dark Survival.
• Chapter One - Found in Chapter 4: Factory of Horrors of Bendy and the Dark Revival.

Memos

• Untitled letter - Found in Chapter 5: The Last Reel of Bendy and the Ink Machine.
• Locker Code - Found in Chapter 2: The Demon's Domain of Bendy and the Dark Revival.

Behind the scenes

Wally Franks first appeared in Bendy and the Ink Machine, although his voice was only heard in audio logs found in all five chapters. His voice later returns in two audio logs in Boris and the Dark Survival, and his memo appears in Bendy and the Dark Revival while his "Offering to the Dogs" audio log reappears.

Development

In the prototype demo for the first Bendy and the Ink Machine chapter, while his audio log was on the shelf instead of the table (until Chapter 4), Wally's recording had no transcript to go along with it, meaning that his name was initially unknown until it was added in from the first remastered update. From the prototype and the chapter's first remastered update, Wally was also the only radio speaker of the whole chapter until Thomas Connor's audio log was added in the second remastered update.

In Bendy and the Dark Revival, it was stated that the reason why Wally or Norman Polk did not have as many audio in the game was because there were just too many other characters and not enough material to add to their stories.

Portrayal

He is voiced by the series' creator theMeatly.

Dialogue

Main article: Wally Franks/dialogue

• "I think he's lost his mind, but, hey, he writes the checks. But I tell you what, if one more of these pipes burst, I'm outta here."
• "I just hope nobody tells Sammy. Because if he finds out I lost my keys again, I'm outta here."
• "I'm tellin' ya. If these people don't start crackin' a smile every now and then, I'm outta here."
• "I tell ya! If these guys don't start realizing who the real genius is, I'm outta here."
• "Hopefully no one finds out what I done. Cause if they did, I can tell ya what would happen. I'm outta here."

In other languages

Language	Name
Chinese (Simplified)	沃利·弗兰克斯 Wò lì·fúlánkè sī
French	TBA
German	TBA
Italian	TBA
Japanese	ウォーリー・フランクス U~ōrī furankusu
Portuguese (Brazil)	TBA
Russian	Уолли Фрэнкс Uolli Frenks
Spanish (Spain)	TBA