Bendy VS Springtrap

 


"We are unfashioned creatures, but half made up."

-Victor Frankenstein


Bendy the Ink Demon, the greed and envy of Joey Drew ink-carnate.


William Afton the Springtrap, the former co-owner of Fazbear Entertainment turned undead serial killer.


Corporate greed and petty desires are never a good mix, as the creations they brew ultimately cause more harm than needed. Give an envious man the power to enact his bitter desires, and he shall do so in a way that defies humanity itself. Coat that toxic intuition in a thick layer of childhood nostalgia corrupted beyond belief, and you’ve got our two combatants. When it comes to these inner demons turned outward armageddons, who would win in a DEATH BATTLE?

Before We Start


We’re not gonna sugarcoat it. There are a lot of things that need to be established about this fight that other fights have the luxury of not having to worry about.


First and foremost, we will be compositing the characters specifically known as the Ink Demon and William Afton. This is because the exact nature of “canon” between their main stories and side material is up for debate - as per the intention of their developers. Five Nights at Freddy’s in particular loves to play with the premise of alternate (and equally canon) timelines, even employing this strategy for its box-office-smashing movie. However, this caveat only accounts for relatively similar variations of them. For instance, we will not be including variations of the characters that deviate heavily from their “main” counterpart, such as Springtrap from FNaF World or Freddy in Space as well as the cartoon incarnation of Bendy from the various animated shorts, comics and Nightmare Run. These are essentially entirely separate characters that share no actual relation with their physical, most true self.


Secondly, powerscaling by nature has a higher burden of proof than theorizing. As these two franchises (and the subgenre they eventually spawned) essentially rely on their canon’s purposefully vague status, this makes it incredibly difficult to pinpoint exactly what is definitively factual and what is simply a surmisal based on pre-existing information. As such, any information that must be led with the caveat of “it’s only a theory” must be taken with a grain of salt and, more likely than not, will not play a major role in the final verdict. Specific examples of this phenomenon will be given before the verdict in a (hopefully) brief QnA.


Thirdly, and arguably most importantly, this fight will take place within The Cycle. As the series currently stands, the Ink Demon as most recently depicted at his strongest within Bendy and the Dark Revival cannot exist outside the otherworldly representation of Joey Drew Studios, and many of his powers are fundamentally exclusive to this setting. Based on the information we currently know, Springtrap’s abilities should not be weakened in any way by this specification in scenery (unlike a certain other matchup), so giving Bendy this leeway has been agreed upon by the researchers to be the most fair situation for the fight to take place in.


FInally, spoilers for the Five Nights at Freddy’s movie. We will be addressing it within this blog; there are aspects of it that simply cannot be fully obscured. While we’re aware that this movie is simply the first in a series and more info will likely be revealed over time, we can’t sit on this blog forever. This is your first and final warning.


With all that out of the way, let the good times roll.

Background

Bendy


“My ink swells and boils. It consumes. I... am the Ink Demon. This realm is mine. You were born from it... you belong to it…”


Joey Drew was many things. A dreamer, a father, a brilliant mind… but a satisfied soul is far from his list of accolades. His eponymously named Joey Drew Studios sought to be the next step in animated entertainment, creating iconic characters such as Alice Angel, Boris the Wolf, and who could possibly forget Bendy the Dancing Devil? With animated success after success, it seemed that Joey had the world in his pocket.


But he wasn’t satisfied. He wished for his characters to be animated like no other. His ultimate goal was to bring his creations to life in the most literal sense imaginable. Not to mention, he wanted to get back at his old business partner Henry Stein for walking out on him so early in their endeavors. So, in his blind infatuation, he partnered with Gent Corporation to create the Ink Machine, a marvel of technology housing an entire parallel world within it. A world of ink, with the potential to create living cartoons. Add on the fact that it also doubled as an eternal purgatory for an inky replica of Henry Stein as a means to provide Joey’s own cruel enjoyment, and Joey couldn’t wait to get started on testing it.


His first test was on his most iconic character: he attempted to create Bendy himself. The Ink Machine spat out a being that certainly looked like Bendy, but all of those involved on the project felt something sinister beneath the surface. His smile was a tad too crooked, his eyes a bit too mischievous, and a few workers could’ve sworn they saw it moving out of the corner of their eye. This creature was living, yes, but it, quite literally, lacked the required soul.


So, he turned towards his most loyal employees who… *ahem*... willingly volunteered to be part of Joey’s experiments. Their souls combined with the Ink created a breakthrough in Joey’s pursuits: real, genuine cartoons! He couldn’t believe it, but he knew this had to be developed further.


Unfortunately for him, however, Joey’s partnership with Gent had finally come to a close. The untold sums of money he was indebted to the company financially ruined him. He was forced to foreclose his precious animation studio, and he slowly regressed towards becoming a recluse, living in a shoddy apartment in New York City, with nothing left but a defunct machine and his shattered dreams.


Now, the Ink Machine has been left to rot, churning through its various cycles on end. With each new story comes a new protagonist… and the same old Ink Demon to chase them down.

Springtrap


"Hide if you want. It did not save the others. It will not save you."


Going by many alternative names, such as Dave Miller and Steve Raglan, across his career, William Afton was many things. A dreamer, a father, a brilliant mind… and, deep below the calm, charismatic veneer he presented, he was a twisted, malevolent soul. Simply lying in wait for the perfect moment to take control.


William, straight out of his college years, worked with an old buddy of his named Henry Emily to reinvent the child entertainment genre as they knew it. Together, with Afton’s brains and Henry’s passion, they created Fredbear’s Family Diner, a restaurant with mechanical hosts. These animatronics, developed by Afton’s subsidiary company known as Afton Robotics, were as technologically brilliant as they were careless. They served as both animatronics and suits; simply cranking back the springs within the casing pushed the animatronic parts outward, creating just enough room for a person to slip in and pilot the suit manually. Genius, Afton would tell you, but he would see the fruits of his shoddy design sooner rather than later.


In 1983, William lost his youngest son to a springlock malfunction in the Fredbear animatronic at the aforementioned diner. His older brother, Michael, was antagonizing him due to his fear of the robots, so he decided to hold his younger brother in the mouth of the animatronic to scare him. The young boy's tears loosened the spring locks holding the mouth open, and it slammed shut with the boy inside.


On the boy’s deathbed, William made a promise to him. To find a way to put him back together.


Something snapped within Afton after that point. He became infatuated with the concept of defying death and devoted the next chapter of his life to determining a way to live past the human body's natural expiration date. He combined his natural affinity for robotics with a dive into the macabre to discover a potential answer to his problems: remnant, a resource harvested from human souls.


Afton immediately got to work. His first victim was Charlotte Emily, the only daughter of his coworker Henry. Afton proceeded to kill dozens of other children at various Fazbear-brand pizzarias, including Elizabeth, by using a decommissioned springlock suit from the original Fredbear's as a disguise to gain the children's trust. He harvested the remnant from his victims, agitating their restless spirits. In an attempt at vengeance, five of Afton's victims materialized in front of him to chase him into his Spring Bonnie suit. The suit experienced a springlock failure, much like the one that killed Afton's youngest child. Afton's body was impaled several times over as his body bled out. However, due to the amount of remnant Afton had collected, his own soul had bonded to the Spring Bonnie suit, effectively giving him the immortality he sought so long for.


Afton lay dormant for thirty years before eventually being unearthed by the creators of Fazbear's Fright, a horror attraction based on the rumored murders at the Fazbear Entertainment locations. He was taken into the attraction as a set piece, but he desperately sought to seek out the only remaining member of his family: Michael. After burning Fazbear's Fright to the ground, he sought out Michael at the latest establishment in the chain: Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place. However, this was all a ploy by Henry Emily, Afton's original coworker. Henry burned the establishment down with Afton and several of his victims inside, laying their souls to rest and damning Afton to an eternity in a hell of his own design.


Equipment

Bendy

Claws


Bendy’s go-to weapon. Crude, but effective.

Ink Machine


The eponymous Ink Machine. Joey Drew’s magnum opus, brought to reality by the brilliant minds at Gent Corporation. The ink it creates is pure, pumping and distributing it across the studio like a beating heart. Its supply seems limitless, its possibilities endless. 


The Ink Machine is the catalyst for the Cycle and everything that transpires within the series. It acts essentially as a massive 3D printer, bringing fiction to life and dropping it within an alternate reality to our own. With its Ink, it can replicate anything, from gears and pipes to entire characters. With its ever-flowing supply of ink, Bendy can theoretically coat the battlefield in as much of it as he wishes.


At some point, the intention was for the Ink Machine to extract these prints and return them to the real world, but the existence of the Ink Demon made that mission nigh-impossible, as he killed basically anything that moved within the machine. As shown by the end of Bendy and the Dark Revival, this dream was eventually realized as Audrey and an innocent Bendy were brought into Archgate Studios.


At the end of Bendy and the Dark Revival, the Ink Machine was confiscated by Gent Corporation, likely meaning Bendy would not have direct access to it in any meaningful way.

Bendy Cutouts


You can’t have a mid-2010s indie horror game without cheap jumpscares! Bendy loves setting up these little cardboard cutouts of his cartoonish form to get a cheap scare out of his victims. They pose no actual threat by themselves, however, and can be broken with a single swing of an axe. Don’t break too many, however. It hurts his feelings. 

Santa Hat

Who said Ink creatures couldn't celebrate Christmas?

Springtrap

Spring Bonnie Suit


What used to be Afton’s primary disguise now takes the role of his personal prison, with sprockets and wires piercing into his flesh at all times. While the man inside the suit, by all biological definitions, is very much dead, his symbiosis with the suit has given him new life beyond the grave.


Afton’s flesh has physically fused with the springlock suit, essentially making the two things one individual entity. Despite the wear and tear, the suit is still just as durable as most other Fazbear Ent. animatronics. Being one with the machine grants Afton a greater control over all things robotic, but we’ll cover that more in depth later.


Knife


A simple knife that Afton often keeps on his person. While his animatronic strength is often more than enough to seal the deal, sometimes it feels more gratifying to look his prey in the eyes as this wedge of steel pierces their flesh. Before he was springlocked, this was his primary tool of choice for taking care of his victims, but after his unification with his suit it’s more of a formality than anything.

Illusion Discs


The Illusion Disc is a small metal chip that is often inserted into Afton’s various machines. When activated, it emits a high-pitched whine that can induce severe visual, auditory, and tactile illusions cast across the animatronic that dons it. This sound, at close range, can also enforce a feeling of nausea, even inducing instant vomiting if switched on within mere feet of an individual.


At a basic level, this chip is used to disguise basic animatronics, allowing them to take on forms based on how an individual perceives that robot. For example, children who’d only seen commercials would see the animatronics as cartoonish, brightly-colored robots, whereas those that are scared of the animatronics perceive them as exaggeratedly horrifying monstrosities, even feeling like such when touched. This illusive appearance also makes the animatronics hard to detect on camera, as their form appears blurry. Animatronics can also use these chips as a beacon, allowing them to sense the possessor. However, this frequency can be inverted, turning those holding the chip completely undetectable to the animatronics. Killing the animatronic, or at least rendering them unconscious, kills the illusion though it still emits the sound, inducing nausea post-death.


However, these Illusion Discs also have an interesting set of effects when amplified by a person’s sense of self, allowing them to remain alive despite their poor condition. For example, in Lucky Boy, the starring figurine of which is implied by the Ultimate Guide to have an Illusion Disc, Sergio remains completely unaware of the mutilation he inflicted upon himself, even when made aware of the body parts that were dropping off him. To Be Beautiful and Frailty both demonstrate something similar, with pendants that, so long as they remain worn by Sarah and Jessica respectively, keep the two alive and appearing human, even when all organic matter had been removed from their beings and all that remained were animated piles of trash. This effect only wore off when the pendants were either removed or whittled down to nothing.


Whether or not it’s due to his body partially decaying from his time as Springtrap, in Fourth Closet, William seems to experience no side-effects when in close vicinity to Circus Baby, despite her Illusion Discs being constantly in effect.

Animstealth Module


The Animstealth Module is part of the technology used in the creation of the Fazbear Funtime Service animatronics, giving them a wide variety of new abilities. An email between staff members of the Customer Service team heavily implies that William connected himself to the service without the team’s knowledge, meaning that he would be equipped with the same module as all the other animatronics. For the most part, the animatronics share the same set of capabilities, with small differences in how different animatronics perform them. For example, animatronics can track players through the Special Delivery app when roaming around towns, allowing them to home in and attack them.


Once an attack has begun, however, is where most of their abilities are recognized. Animatronics turn themselves invisible while waiting to attack, allowing them to roam around the player unseen. This invisibility also protects them from the player’s controlled shocks, allowing them to run through the electricity unharmed during Fakeout charges. However, they create static on the player’s device when it faces their direction. Springtrap in particular creates the least amount of static of all animatronics for stealth, however it’s reasonable to assume he can create more, similar to other animatronics, but chooses not to. Similarly, animatronics can produce a more severe static in the form of Interference, preventing the target from using their device until they clear the static. Animatronics are also capable of performing Haywires, where they become visible and glitch out both themselves and the player’s device followed by instantly attacking the player if they’re stared at for too long or returning to roaming if left alone.

MODs


MODs are chip-like modifications that can be used to upgrade an animatronic’s AI, enhancing different aspects such as their visual disruptions, map movement, or resistance to wear and tear. Each animatronic has a maximum of 4 slots for equipping MODs, and mods can be changed incredibly easily, as their descriptions imply that they simply attach to the animatronic’s endoskeleton in order to work. MODs come in various ranges of quality, but only the most powerful iterations of mods will be cataloged here.


While the MODs themselves are exclusively only available via player input, given that Afton has been “delivered” to their location, it’s not too out of the realm of possibility to entirely dismiss. Think of MODs as something similar to TM moves or held items from Pokemon; at his peak, he would have access to them, but the process of equipping them requires a third party. We’ve decided to leave this up to reader interpretation as to whether Afton should be allowed them.


Note: Most MODs come in two variations: ones that make the animatronic easier (which likely wouldn’t matter), and ones that make the animatronic harder, which will be marked in bold.


Visual Disruptions


Whenever an animatronic makes itself known to a victim, it is able to cause intense amounts of static within any monitors that they may be using, such as cameras and tablets. These MODs increase the potency of these disruptions.


  • EM Booster: Increases chance of disruption by 50%

  • EM Jammer: Increases the amount of shaking it takes to clear disruptions by 50%


Map Movement


Whenever an animatronic is “shipped” to the user via the Special Delivery app, it travels that distance on foot. Springtrap is one of the faster animatronics in this situation, at around 170 MPH, but this speed can be altered using MODs.


  • Friction Regulator: While traversing the greater environment around the player, decreases the amount of time before closing in on the player’s resident location to attack by 85% (or a x6.66 speed boost)

  • Hydrostatic Booster: While traversing the greater environment around the player, increases the amount of time before closing in on the player’s resident location to attack by 75% (likely wouldn’t be used, exists for player convenience)


Attack Movement


In addition to moving to reach the player’s location, the animatronics must also move in order to attack the player. Once again, Springtrap’s speed in this category may be boosted by this MOD.


  • Servo Boosters: While roaming around the player, increases the animatronic’s speed by 17%


Haywire


Sometimes, while attacking, Springtrap can enter a Haywire state, which makes him incredibly volatile. The proper reaction to the Haywire may be determined by the color of Springtrap’s eyes; red means look away, white means maintain eye contact. Failure to abide by these rules, or an attempted assault, will result in an immediate jumpscare.


  • Gear Booster: Decreases the amount of time the player can safely look at an animatronic’s haywire by 24%

  • Gear Regulator: Increases the amount of time the player can safely look at an animatronic’s haywire by 24%


Wear & Tear


Animatronics may or may not suffer extraneous damage during the encounter process. Naturally, this damage would be best to be avoided for both the animatronic and the player, so naturally they may be equipped with MODs that reduce damage.


  • Hydropneumatic Suspension: Decreases the amount of damage suffered from wear and tear while attacking or salvaging by 30%


Salvaging


After an animatronic encounter is resolved, the player receives a plethora of bonuses afterwards, called the Salvage. These aren’t really important for VS, but don’t let it ever be said that we forgot something!


  • Intake Booster: Increases frequency of salvage checks by 30%

  • Magnetometer: Increases chance of common salvage by 50%

  • Pulsed-Field Magnetometer: Increases change of rare salvage by 50%


Stalking


The actual encounter against the animatronic is called the Stalking phase. Naturally, Springtrap has MODs that can further capitalize on his already aggressive nature.


  • Stalking Actuator: Increases minimum stalking time by 50% and decreases maximum stalking time by 100%

  • Stalking Booster: Decreases stalking time by 95%

  • Stalking Regulator: Increases stalking time by 75%


Twisted Animatronics


The Twisted Animatronics are a roster of five robots of Afton’s own design, each one equipped with his most potent technology. The group consists of Twisted Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, and Wolf (ah, come on, who doesn’t remember Wolf, the classic FNaF character?) These animatronics heed Afton’s every command via his connection to the Fazbear choreography system, which can also allow Afton to take direct control of them momentarily, perceiving the world through their eyes and ears.


The animatronics are nocturnal in nature, as they burrow themselves underground during the day. At night, they burst out of the dirt and proceed with Afton’s orders. All of them are equipped with an Illusion Disc as well as a full internal operation system made specifically for capturing adult-sized people (which, if you know Afton, is quite the departure from the norm.)

Endoskeletons


The Endo units are the most bare essentials of any animatronic. Every single animatronic in the series is one of these at its absolute core, and Afton always seems to have a few of these lying around. They’re equipped with Illusion Discs that allow them to take Afton’s own appearance for the sake of distraction, intimidation, or just general misdirection.

Balloon Boy Horde


This is exactly what it sounds like. It’s as horrifying as you’d imagine.

Abilities

Bendy

The Ink


Ink is a viscous, pitch-black liquid that is often used in the creation of art pieces and writings, as its defined color and controllable nature lend well towards making permanent inscriptions on various pieces of parchment, canvas, or other surfaces. But you probably knew all that already.


In practice, the Ink used at Joey Drew Studios is also known as “Thick Ink.” Produced by the Ink Machine, it courses life into all things within the Cycle. The Ink has a plethora of abilities, but the ability associated most with The Ink is its ability to create. Ink’s formless nature lets it take the form of various individual items. Given the direction of the Ink Machine, it can replicate mundane items such as gears, axes, pipes, and other tools. But, when a soul is allowed, something more can be created.


If a human being dies while submerged in the Ink, they are reincarnated as a creature made from ink, as seen by Buddy, Wilson, Audrey, and many others. Their soul becomes bonded to the Ink as a collective mass, and upon their death in this inky body they are once again given new life through the Ink.


Though not nearly to the same extent, Bendy can create his very own Ink to use, as his mere presence in some situations is enough to flood portions of the studio or coat the surrounding walls in the stuff, However these ink shadows are still capable of damaging or killing some creatures, like the searchers or the butcher gang. It Also does still slow others down, making them easy prey, he can also use this inky aura to serve as a detection range.

Inky Physiology



Spawned from the Ink Machine, Bendy’s very being is fundamentally made of the Ink. Without it, he is essentially nothing. There are a few notable aspects to briefly mention about Bendy’s inhuman biology that will play into the verdicts. We’ll go ahead and rapid-fire them here. 

  • Despite the Ink Machine’s purpose being to create “living ink”, Bendy notably does not have a soul.

  • Bendy is entirely made of Ink. Unlike the other named characters within the Cycle, he has no organs or inner workings. He’s a living, moving, viscous blob of ink.

  • Any ink that comes into contact with Bendy can be used in any way he sees fit, including regeneration.

  • Bendy evolves at a rapid rate, developing the ability to speak fluent English after less than a year during a single loop of the Cycle. He also has shown to grow in sense during a loop, going from average height in Henry's cycle to 11ft in Audrey's. According to Buddy, he also grows stronger with time, to the point of being seemingly immortal by the time Audrey enters the cycle. Henry Also stated that if Bendy got even stronger as time went on, he would be capable of going against the rules of the cycle itself.

  • Bendy does not require food, water, or air to live. He’s ink.

  • As shown by Audrey, ink creatures can move and bend their bodies in odd ways.


Regeneration


As long as Bendy has a solid supply of Ink to draw from, he can reform his body should it be separated from him. Using the Ink, he can heal himself, from as little as mending incisions to as much as regrowing entire limbs. Bendy was also once completely melted and mixed into a puddle of ink, yet managed to reform, showing that he has "liquidy" regen, much like that of a symbiote. As long as there’s Ink nearby, Bendy can recover from basically any injury.


Emotion Manipulation

The Ink brings out the deepest, darkest sides of those that come into contact with it. If a being makes contact with The Ink, their various emotions are heightened, specifically the ones which they choose to repress the most. For example, Constance becomes irrationally angry some time after coming in contact with the ink, likely due to repressed feelings regarding her home life and the inadequacies she felt regarding it. These are the victim’s “true selves” that they often keep locked away.


While many may see this as a bad thing, victims of the Ink’s manipulation often testify that they are happier in their current, true state. Whether these are their true feelings or simply another trick of the Ink is hard to definitively say.


Supernatural Presence

“The Ink Demon Is Coming… Hide.”


Throughout the entire series, the Ink Demon has shown to cause several weird occurances to happen with just his mere presence, such as, causing light bulbs to flicker off, cause random flashes of light or give others weird visions (more on that later). As stated before, his mere presence creates a large amount of ink and/or ink shadows across the halls in seconds, he can flood portions of the studio with good amount of thick ink to slow others down, create splotchy ink patterns that flow around or cover the person's sight with ink by simply coming closer to them in the mobile port, the closer he gets the bigger and thicker the Ink becomes.


Though most importantly once the Ink Demon spawns, everyone’s put at unease, as shown in the first novel, though the Ink Demon was initially harmless and made no attempt to hurt anyone as he merely wandered around the studio, it did stil put some of the staff in a sense of unease due to his unearthly presence. As time went on this presence would grow, as it would evolve from uneasiness into downright fear. When he's making his way to your area, your heartbeat starts pumping rapidly, you start suddenly hearing random noises such as whisper-like audience, your sight turns black & white and even the most willed characters such as Audrey become nothing but cowards and hides away from him.

Horror Visions

Wouldn't be a horror game without off the wall illusions and visions. In the events of BATIM, Henry would at times get struck with hallucinations, at times they would be visions of something important or something that would happen in the future, other times they work as terrifying illusions, such as when suddenly several inky arms sprouted from the walls to try and grab henry or when numerous vault lids opening and closing wildly, along with lanterns and the ceiling chandelier lamp swaying.

Soul Consumption


Thanks to the automatic processes of the Cycle, the creatures of the ink are unable to stay dead forever. Their souls are trapped, constantly forced to resurrect anew with every death. This is also the case for Audrey, though Bendy, alongside a few other select powerful ink creatures, have a way to stop this unending curse. By consuming his victims within his inky body, Bendy can completely stop this process of revival.


This process happens with the Widow King, the Lurker, Shipahoy Wilson, and, most importantly, all of the Ink Demon’s jumpscares, however his final confrontation with Audrey after killing Wilson is a bit different.


Instead of devouring Audrey's soul to destroy it, the Ink Demon asked Audrey to become one with him which she would incline, fusing the two together to become one perfect entity; the daughter of Drew and his failed creation, making them much more powerful, however this also gave Audrey partial control of the body due both becoming one, which would soon be his downfall.


Searchers


“YOU DON’T HAVE TO KILL US”


The Searchers are the most lowly type of ink monster, created from simply a splotch of ink and a wayward human soul by the Ink Machine. They appear in droves within the Cycle, often mindlessly lashing out towards anyone in close proximity. Though individually they are incredibly easy to dispose of, they can easily overwhelm a target with their numbers, they Also appear from small puddles, making it hard to know when they're coming and Just like the Ink Demon, they can go back into the Ink and teleport wherever they want.


There are several varieties of the Searchers, Swollen searchers who are a more buffier variant made from the unusual looking ink known as “extra thick ink”. Miner Searcher, which is just a searcher with a miner hat. Searcher minibosses, which are taller, stronger and faster searchers that come in a group of 12, they Also take more damage to deal with. Besides that they're also one of the only enemies who do not retreat once Henry goes into the little miracle station and instead waits for him to leave. Lastly there's the Searcher boss, which is the tallest, strongest and most durable version of all the Searcher variants. It also wears a neat top hat.


The Ink Demon shows no remorse for the Searchers and will kill them for food if needed.

Lost Ones 


"ONCE PEOPLE, NOW FALLEN INTO DESPAIR"


The Lost Ones, much like the Searchers, are some of the most lowly forms of creation within the Cycle. Unlike the Searchers, however, they show an actual sense of identity and humanity, able to develop friendships and complex emotions. Some are friendly, some are hostile, but all are potentially dangerous. The lost ones usually carry some weapons with them, may it be a regular wrench, machete or a gent pipe. There's even a Santa lost one! 


Bendy has shown to be capable of summoning the lost ones for his aid and controlling them, whether they want to or not. Like the Searchers, the Ink Demon shows these creatures no heed and will gladly hunt them down if it benefits him. However, thanks to the Cycle, lost ones are never truly dead and will respawn quickly unless Bendy consumes them.


Banishment


“The powers of the Ink are yours to command.”


Gifted to Audrew Drew by The Ink itself, this supernatural ability allows the wielder to banish unaware individuals back to the puddles of black. If Audrew catches an ink monster unaware, she may completely dissolve them back into ink upon contact, restoring a portion of her health. Since this ability was originally owned by The Ink, and since Audrey and the Ink Demon became one entity at the end of Bendy and the Dark Revival, it can only be assumed that the Ink Demon would also eventually possess this ability, as well as all of Audrey’s abilities during the climax of Bendy and the Dark Revival. Whether he had this ability before absorbing Audrey, let alone whether he would use them is another question, since we don’t see the usage of Banishment at all during Bendy and the Ink Machine.


How this ability would work on an individual not made of ink is unknown, as all individuals within The Cycle are tied to The Ink in one way or another. Additionally, stronger or more cognizant individuals, such as the Keepers, the Lurker, and the Cyclebreakers are immune to its effects.


Flow


A skill present in nearly all creatures of the ink and coined by a Lost One known as Porter, the Flow ability lets its user disappear into inky nothingness before reappearing several feet forward from where they started. Though the ability has an apparent cooldown of about 10 seconds between uses, it is useful for stealthy approaches as well as for accessing hard-to-reach places.


Irregardless of Audrey’s abilities, Bendy, as well as other creatures of the ink, seem to be able to use this ability innately. Sammy Lawrence is the most predominant example, though Bendy himself exhibits strikingly similar abilities during the games, such as suddenly appearing and disappearing In front of Audrey to kill her. 


He also showed something very similar during his final encounter of Henry’s Cycle, where he showed to be capable of phasing through several walls at rapid speed, without the cooldown seemingly. Besides The games, the Ink Demon has also shown to be capable of vanishing from thin air in the novels, such as when he suddenly disappeared the moment Buddy opened the door only to appear a few seconds later behind him.

Fast Travel


The pools of ink are more than just a resource; they serve as a nexus for travel as well. Bendy, as well as several other creatures of the ink, possess the ability to disappear into the ink, reappearing in a separate puddle far away. Dubbed as Fast Travel by Heidi upon bequeathing the ability to Audrey, Bendy replicates this technique several times throughout his time in the Cycle. This technique shares a cooldown with Flow.


While Audrey requires the usage of various open pipes scattered around the Cycle to effectively warp, Bendy can keep track of Audrey’s location and warp to her regardless of the presence of pipes. Bendy has Also shown during Henry's cycle to be capable of traversing through any ink and using them as portals to travel through the entire cycle, he's capable of hiding in them before it's the right time to strike.


Telepathy 

While at first he couldn't do anything but make eerie noises, after Wilson took over the cycle, the Ink Demon evolved and learned how to communicate, however, instead of using his jaws, Bendy communicates telepathically, capable of letting his voice and thoughts be heard throughout the entire area or speaking directly into your mind and trash talk you as much as he wants (Yeah he's kind of a dick at times).


Bendy’s whispers are capable of turning one's mind into nothing but dark, unspeakable trash, making them go completely insane and he has also shown to be able to have full control over the Lost ones.

Superhuman Senses



"Have you met him? The Ink Demon? They say he hears everything. Every creak of the floor. Every rustle of paper. I wouldn't run so fast if I were you. You never know what will draw him in." - Alice Angel


Bendy is described by his peers as having immaculate senses, despite his apparent lack of eyes and ears. He can hear even the most miniscule of sounds from very far distances, letting him hone in on his victim’s spot very efficiently. Whether this can be attributed to the Ink itself or simply one of Bendy’s innate properties is to be left up for discussion.

The Cycle


“This studio is a monument to choosing the wrong road. Now whether it was built for revenge or regret, I don't know. That's my riddle to solve.” - Joey Drew


Brought about by the influence of the Ink Machine and initially created by Joey Drew as a personal hell for Henry Stein’s ink replica, the Cycle is Bendy’s realm of operation, and seemingly where his power originates. Within the Cycle, time is an abstract concept that, as the name implies, flows in a circle. All individuals within the cycle have little to no knowledge of previous instances of the cycle, with few exceptions known as the Cyclebreakers. The Cycle is an alternate dimension that distorts those that enter it, turning ordinary humans into creatures of ink. It mimics the look of an early cartoon, much like the ones that Bendy himself starred in.


The Cycle resets upon the playing of the Last Reel, which disintegrates the Ink Demon in the process. This is the only way shown to “permanently” kill the Ink Demon, though the process is ultimately rendered ineffective since the Cycle repeats immediately afterwards. Without the Last Reel, the Cycle cannot repeat.


The longer a Cycle lasts, the stronger the Cycle’s respective Bendy becomes. During a “normal” cycle, Bendy is animalistic and barbaric, but during Wilson’s extended reign over the Cycle (lasting roughly 211 days), Bendy evolved to be capable of speech and grew so powerful that nothing within the entire establishment was capable of harming him.


Despite the repeating nature of the Cycle, each repetition slightly differs from the last as time continues. As seen within Bendy and the Dark Revival, the studio has rotted and deteriorated since Henry Stein’s original venture. However, everything else pertaining to the facility, such as the lives of its various inky inhabitants, is fully restored.


Those who die within the Cycle are reincarnated into a new inky form. These revivals can take as little as minutes, since Sammy Lawrence was killed in Chapter 2 of Bendy and the Ink Machine only to show up later (albeit as an easter egg) early into Chapter 3. More often than not, they take the appearance that they had in their previous lives, but they also have a chance to become utterly lost souls, trapped within the space between the Cycle and reality and unable to return to either.


Springtrap

Remnant


For those of you unaware, Five Nights at Freddy’s dabbles in many different ways of organizing its power system. For the longest time, it mainly relied on sci-fi elements, mainly enhanced robotics, to sell the abilities of its characters. However, at some point, something snapped within Scott Cawthon’s brain that made him want to implement a second power system on top of that.


Thus, Remnant, or soul energy, was born.


Remnant is essentially a person’s soul when it cannot leave the physical world. Normally, when a person dies, their soul immediately ascends or descends to the afterlife, but immense amounts of emotion, most often negative emotions, can tether the soul to the world of the living. In this state, it can be harnessed.


Remnant comes in two forms. When observed by an individual that cannot perceive ghosts, (the vast majority of people), it appears to be an aurora-like ball of light. In this form, it is much more ethereal than anything, existing as a wisp of soul energy that is difficult to capture.


However, when this substance is either exposed to high levels of heat or is used to possess an object, it molds itself into more of a liquid form. This form can be easily manipulated and split apart by outside forces, allowing those with less innate soul power to manipulate it easier. Though, it must be noted that heating Remnant to too high of a degree can cause it to destabilize and forcibly eject it to the afterlife, though the exact extent is finicky. Beings fueled by Remnant have withstood fires before without passing on, most notably Afton himself.


In its liquid form, Remnant can be injected into living beings in order to commune with the spirits the Remnant was gathered from. As Afton can view the souls of the victims of the Missing Children Incident, it is implied that he has injected at least a portion of their Remnant into himself.


Re-absorbing lost Remnant can restore one’s memories as well as repair damages to the object the spirit is possessing. It’s even been shown that absorbing other people’s Remnant, such as in Special Delivery, can be used to strengthen animatronics, making them harder to defeat during attacks. The process of absorbing Remnant is simple: if it is Remnant in its raw forms, such as its wisp or liquid form, it’s as simple as touching it. However, if one wishes to extract Remnant from a non-deceased individual, they must use alternative means.

Possession / Immortality


When faced with horrid events, such as murders, the agony one experiences during that event seeps into the very objects around themself. In the instance of William, after being springlocked, his agony seeped into the very suit he was stuck in, causing him to possess his own mangled corpse. Even well into the future, when his charred corpse was left alone, detached from the suit it was originally fused to, William wasn’t able to escape his own body until Andrew destroyed it. It was only after his body was destroyed that William was finally able to start moving around and possessing other objects.


Spirits, so long as they lack a desire to move on to the afterlife, can stick around for as long as they want to. If capable, they can roam from body-to-body, possessing a multitude of different objects. This does have the drawback of leaving behind part of one’s remnant with each possession, however.


While possessing objects, such as animatronics, spirits can keep those objects alive and capable despite severe damage to the pieces that allow that object to roam around, such as wires, computer chips, or even the endoskeleton itself. Even when reduced to merely the suit’s head, as seen in FNaF 3’s bad ending, the spirits will still stick around if they’re unwilling to leave, keeping the head alive. William’s own corpse was being kept alive by Andrew during Man in Room 1280 despite immense charring from repeated burnings as well as several murder attempts from the hospital’s nurses.


After being freed from his own body, William attached his soul to Andrew’s, staying hidden for years while Andrew possessed a number of different animatronics and other toys. It wasn’t until well after Andrew, possessing the Fetch toy, was connected to the Stitchwraith that William finally made his presence known.


In the case where multiple spirits are possessing a singular body, such as with the Stitchwraith, the spirit with the most willpower maintains the most control, being the only one capable of controlling and perceiving through the possessed machine. Other spirits can still use their own supernatural abilities as well as attack each other, but so long as the leading spirit can maintain superior willpower, they can prevent the other spirit(s) from gaining control. With enough willpower, spirits can even read the thoughts and memories of other spirits.

Ability Corruption


While hiding in the Stitchwraith, Andrew tried to shock several people as a prank using the electricity from the Stitchwraith’s battery pack, though that shock ended up killing them despite not being Andrew’s desire. This is heavily implied to be William’s doing given he had attached his soul to Andrew’s and had been present in the Stitchwraith alongside them.


Eleanor was doing similar things to the other animatronics and toys Andrew had possessed, being responsible for most of the events that take place within the Fazbear Frights’ stories.

Corrosive Shocks


While Andrew was releasing electricity from the Stitchwraith’s battery pack as playful shocks, they were corrupted by William to induce some kind of corrosive effect. At first the shock is described as inducing convulsions and a pain so excruciating that it annihilates the victim’s consciousness, but quickly after it’s described as withering the victim’s body to near mummification.


William himself has not shown the ability to produce these electrical shocks due to the springlock suits lacking battery packs while William’s wearing it. However, given there was nothing special about the electricity Andrew used, it’s likely William could corrupt any kind of electrical shock so long as he’s near it. Given the surplus of electrical devices within the Cycle, as well as Afton’s supply of electricity from the Twisted Ones and the Animstealth Module, it’s certainly likely that William would eventually find a conduit, if not just innately use one on his person.

Guilt Storm


When one experiences immense amounts of regret and guilt, this can cause the weather to quickly turn to the worse, creating town-wide storms overhead that follow the individual, only letting up once the guilt has placated.


It should be noted that this ability has only ever been used unwillingly and subconsciously, without any proof that a person can purposefully create such a storm. William in particular has also never created one of these storms, due in part to having no regret for the disasters he’s caused, but if he were to ever face guilt for what he’s done, there’s no doubt he’d have enough guilt to produce one.

Supernatural Presence


Across the series, possessed animatronics showcase the strange capacity to enforce supernatural occurrences within nearby objects. For example, randomly changing posters and drawings into newspaper articles or haunting, glitched portraits. Blood can randomly appear on walls, dripping from childrens’ drawings or simply written out in threatening warnings. Beyond that, objects can suddenly move around the pizzeria, such as the storage room’s empty animatronic heads turning to face the camera or the Balloon Boy Paper Pal moving between rooms.


Hallucinations also seem to be animatronics’ favorite, inducing haunting visions of animatronics or even William’s gorey fate.


William in particular, in the Fazbear Frights 6’s Stitchwraith Stinger, was described as producing an “invisible force” so evil that even the living could feel it, making it difficult for them to stand. This force stretched out across the entirety of an abandoned factory, still being felt across the work yard.


Certain individuals, such as Jake, are able to sense this connection, identifying spirits by a unique sensation similar to scent that each spirit possesses. More evil spirits, such as William’s, smell especially foul. Through this sensation, Jake was even able to sense the presence of Remnant injected into different entities, whether through possession or soul poison.

Soul-on-Soul Combat


Spirits are capable of grabbing onto and clawing at each other. This capability has also been used to pull unwilling spirits out of objects, such as when Jake tried to carry Andrew to the afterlife, as well as drag spirits back into objects, such as when William pulled Jake back into the Stitchwraith. As demonstrated by Andrew, possessing enough hatred or anger can produce an aura that also pains nearby spirits. Andrew also demonstrates that these spirits are capable of affecting and damaging physical objects as well through use of their different abilities.


While possessing the Stitchwraith, William was able to temporarily eject his soul from the endoskeleton, allowing him to lunge out and grab onto Andrew, and later Jake, before pulling him back into the Stitchwraith.

Soul Poison


During his time as the Agony Amalgamation, Afton stabbed Detective Larson with his mechanical hand. While stabbing the detective, Afton injected part of his soul into Larson, infecting him with a poison which would slowly threaten his life throughout the rest of the encounter, leaving him woozy after some time and unable to stay awake. Purple boils started to form around the area of the incision, and, if not treated, Larson would’ve likely died soon after.

Phantom Animatronics


The Phantom Animatronics, composed of old, burnt versions of Freddy, Chica, Foxy, Balloon Boy, Mangle, and the Marionette, are a group of illusionary beings capable of creating potent visual, auditory, and tactile hallucinations. Much like Springtrap’s own Supernatural Presence, they can change drawings and move around objects in the surrounding environment, but they can also flood a room with animatronic parts, bring objects to life to shred apart other illusions, make arms burst out from the walls of a hallway, give victims a swirly, slam their heads into arcade machines, throw them across hallways, trick their senses into accidentally brutally cutting themself, etc.


All illusory, of course.


Except for the pain and trauma. That’s VERY much real.


Despite being illusory, the Phantoms are also capable of manipulating technology, disabling Michael’s devices as well as causing the lights to flicker around them.


Sound Mimicry


The Phantom Animatronics also possess the ability to replicate the voices of people familiar to their victims, reciting memories, both good and bad, to taunt them. These voices never seem to originate from the actual phantoms, unless Springtrap himself is speaking in the stolen voices, instead seemingly originating from the void itself. Similarly, the animatronics are capable of producing computer dial tones. As the Agony Amalgamation, William’s also capable of causing his pieces to whisper in the voices of children, echoing in the heads of his victim.

Telekinetic Technopathy


In The Twisted Ones, by linking himself to the animatronics’ choreography system, Afton has demonstrated the ability to manipulate technology. On a basic level this allows him to take direct control of various animatronics, such as the Twisted Ones, but it also allows him to telekinetically control animatronic parts, such as when he commanded a group of cables to reach out from across the room and grab and restrain Calton.


In Fazbear Frights, William shows a similar capability, being able to create a telekinetic suction around himself, dragging nearby scrap towards his body and allowing William to fuse it together into a large amalgamation dubbed “Agony”. Despite being repeatedly referred to as weakened during this story, William was still capable of creating a suction so powerful it could physically lift endoskeletons and other parts off the ground.


Later in Fazbear Frights, after gaining a boost in power from absorbing Eleanor, “Agony” is able to telekinetically disassemble a forklift that was stabbed into its torso, fusing it into his body. Given William’s weakened state during this encounter, likely from spending years in a coma during UCN, it’s likely William could have performed a similar feat were he closer to his prime as Springtrap, considering the feats he was already able to perform via this tech suction ability.

Silver Tongue

William is described by Scott as being a “snake oil salesman”. It’s through his capability to “convince anyone of anything” as well as his natural charisma, at least prior to his killing spree, that he was able to get as far as he did in life. Even after losing some of that charisma, he still remained a very theatrical person, allowing him to come up with entire roles, such as Dave Miller, on the fly.

Stealth


Can YOU spot the Springtrap in this image?


Throughout FNaF 3, Springtrap hides in the more secluded areas of the cameras’ field of view, often hiding in shadows as much as possible to remain seen as little as possible. With the Animstealth Module, Afton produces the least static while looked at and walks around with very little noise, making him by far the most elusive of the animatronics.

Drug Resilience

In the Fourth Closet, after being surgically removed from Springtrap by Baby, William was in so much pain from the missing chunks of flesh as well as chunks of metal stabbing into him that he required enough medication to kill a person just to sleep for a minute or two.

Forms

Bendy

Cartoon Bendy


"He's too powerful to destroy. So we sealed him away, trapped him in a different form. One that was smaller, harmless." - Wilson Arch


After continued amounts of torture done by the Keepers, Bendy’s physical reformed to that of his cartoon appearance, likely as a form of trauma from the continued quarter-hourly experiments. Known as Cartoon Bendy, or Buddy Bendy, this version of the Ink Demon is much more docile. Friendly to Audrey and lacking the power attributed to his true form, this form is more of a limiter than anything.


Bendy is forced into this form while in proximity to the Gent suppression towers, which are sporadically constructed across the Cycle to keep Bendy in check by Wilson. Extraneous amounts of physical trauma, such as when Audrey accidentally activated her Banishment ability, are able to snap him out of this state and revert him to his normal form, though being close to the Gent towers overrides this.


While it bears a striking resemblance to the genuine cartoon form of Bendy the Dancing Devil, it must be clarified that this is simply a lesser form of the Ink Demon. 


Beast Bendy



“You have nothing. You are without purpose. Your very existence... was a terrible lie. You're a mistake. A monster. Like me. But I will make you strong. I will make you meaningful.”


Beast Bendy is a special form taken by the Ink Demon after he has culminated enough power, whether that be through sheer rage or by fusing with another ink-fueled partner. Much larger in size in comparison to his previous form, this iteration of the Ink Demon is an unstoppable force. It is much stronger, faster, and more durable than the Ink Demon’s base state, but within this form he seems to give into his more animalistic state of mind, allowing for mental attacks to be extra potent, as seen with Audrey.

Springtrap

Dark Springtrap


“I’m Dark Springtrap brah”


When Springtrap gets especially angry, he turns into Dark Springtrap. This transformation does absolutely nothing stat-wise and was essentially invented by Funko in order to sell a brand new marketable collectible.


I wish I was joking.

Agony Amalgamation


“I… am Agony.”


(render by u/_Alexissss on Reddit)


Also known by names such as Afton’s Amalgamation, the Amalgam, or simply the Agony, Afton can take the form of a 15-foot tall mass of randomly slapped together animatronic parts. The miscellaneous parts, such as using an animatronic foot as part of its hand, on top of other trash that got sucked up as well, means the amalgamation is full of potential weaponry to use for stabbing victims.


These individual pieces were brought to life by William’s agony, causing the parts to whisper, sing, and dance amongst each other for comfort, causing the abomination to appear as if it’s constantly squirming and in motion. While the Agony used to be one with the Stitchwraith, it has since departed with it and now contains the parts of Fetch, Foxy, the Plushtrap Chaser, Ella, and many more that we never get to see. However, the concept of the Agony is not limited to these specific animatronics, and a similar form could be replicated using any abundance of spare parts.


Glitchtrap



“I… always come back… let me out.”


Warning! Warning! We’re entering… the Subjectivity Zone.


While William Afton’s corporeal form likely died during the events of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator, it’s clear that his consciousness is still floating around in some way, shape or form.


One example of this is a mysterious being found within the Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience’s code.  Although it is not confirmed to be the case, it is highly implied that this entity may have come into the game through the scanning of old circuit boards. One of which may have belonged to the old Spring Bonnie suit that William Afton was trapped inside of for decades and later burned to death in. That same circuit board may have contained William's spirit, which burrowed into the video game code to become a complex and malicious sentient code, allowing William to be reborn again.


Glitchtrap exists essentially as a digital backup of Afton’s consciousness. It can be transmitted from device to device, and can eventually attach itself to an individual, heavily corrupting their thoughts and forcing them to act irrationally as a form of influence of mind control. However, while it exists within the digital world, it can multiply and spread to multiple other devices. During the midst of Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach, Glitchtrap’s presence can be spotted across the three Princess Quest arcade machines littered around the establishment. Within these arcade machines, Glitchtrap effectively has full control over the digital world, spawning shadowy figures to attack the protagonist of the game. However, killing all of these digital proxies across all the worlds in which they inhabit can lead to his mind manipulation breaking, as seen with Vanessa in the “True” ending of the game.


However.


At a certain point in the narrative, a being known as The Mimic was introduced, which is an artificial intelligence that mimics behavior that it sees in order to replicate human experience. As time goes on, more information comes up regarding the Mimic, leading many to believe that Glitchtrap is actually another alias of the Mimic rather than being an extension of Afton’s will. For the sake of completion, we’ve attached Glitchtrap to the blog in the case of our initial summation being true. However, take it with a grain of salt and come up with your own stance on the matter. I could sit here all day and discuss the factors for and against Glitchtrap (and our next form) being either Mimic, or Afton, or some combination of the two, or some third party that hasn’t been revealed to us. It’s best not to lose sleep over it.


Burntrap




Once again, put on your Speculation Goggles™ and bear with me for a moment.


During Gregory and Glamrock Freddy’s journey through the Pizzaplex, they might eventually stumble on a collapsed path under Roxy Raceway. Taking the path down leads to a sinkhole that the building was built on top of, containing… the pizzeria from Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator. The layout, the doors, and the remnants of past devices lay strewn about the dilapidated funhouse. And, at the heart of it all… lies Burntrap. 


A walking, shambling pile of steel, felt, and flesh, Burntrap emerges from his slumber to personally put Gregory away for good. He shuffles around the halls, activating TVs to take over Glamrock Freddy’s mind from a distance, all while sending the broken down versions of the other Glamrocks after you, using his control over them to take Gregory down. However, Gregory is able to hold out, activating furnaces below the room and setting the building ablaze. As Gregory and Freddy make their escape, Burntrap stalks towards them, outstretching an arm, but is quickly taken by the Blob, an amalgamation of all of Afton’s past mistakes. The Pizzaplex falls, and Afton is never heard from again.


…if only it were that simple.


Once again, the topic of the Mimic comes up. There are many factors that could explain what Burntrap actually is, with some pointing to the Mimic and others pointing to Afton. First of all, his appearance: while inconsistent with Springtrap’s prior appearances, it still contains pieces of flesh and felt that would only naturally belong to the Spring Bonnie suit. However, the endoskeleton seems to more so resemble those from the Glamrock era of design, implying that the Spring Bonnie suit was taken off of its original endoskeleton and plastered onto a new one.


One could certainly argue that the Mimic that we see during Ruin is simply Burntrap without the flesh and tatters on him. However, this doesn’t account for the various extremities on the suit that are clearly made from bone, as well as other various inconsistencies within the models, namely proportions, the number of toes, and the rabbit ears that are seemingly attached to the endoskeleton.


We simply don’t have enough information at this point in time to come to an objective conclusion as to the identity of Burntrap. Thus, we’ve included it for completion’s sake but implore our readers to consider the context before coming to their own conclusion.

Feats

Bendy

Overall

  • Is the most powerful creature within The Cycle and effectively rules over it as a godlike figure, requiring immense setup from Wilson to eventually dethrone him

    • However, this defeat didn’t last long at all, and he was eventually able to reclaim dominion thanks to Audrey’s interference

  • Battled Henry Stein’s ink replica across at least 102 continuous Cycles, killing him thousands of times over

  • Defeated several Lost Ones, The Projectionist, and Shipahoy Wilson

  • Became one with Audrey Drew, gaining her power and bolstering his physical form (albeit briefly)

  • Was the first creation of the Ink machine.

  • If time went on, he would get strong enough to break the rules of The Cycle.

  • Has an entire cult and religion around him.

Strength


Speed

  • Routinely chases down both Henry Stein and Audrey Drew

  • Catches up to Audrey during a chase and pushes her over (42 m/s)

  • Can tag Audrey while using Flow, who uses various Ink abilities to increase her speed, including:

    • Flow, which can propel its user at high speeds in a straight line (47 m/s - 61 m/s), can be used to dodge gunfire (95 m/s) and can be used to move in tandem with a train in full motion (793.179 m/s) (Debatable, see verdicts)

    • Fast Travel, which trivializes long distance travel between two set points (50 m/s)

  • Fixes Bendy Cutouts as soon as you look away (60 m/s)

  • Faster than Alice Angel/Susie Campbell, who drags Boris away incredibly fast (67 m/s)


Durability

  • Is unphased by ax swipes, swings from the Gent Pipe, and tommy gun fire

  • Sees full-power swings with a pipe wrench from Brant as “gentle taps”

  • Described by Wilson as being unkillable by anything within the Cycle

  • Endured quarter-hourly torture for days on end from Wilson and his Keepers

  • Is more durable than anything harnessable within the Cycle


Springtrap

Overall

  • Has murdered lots of people, both directly and indirectly, including… 

    • Charlie Emily, Henry’s daughter and the soul inside the Puppet

    • The five victims of the Missing Children's incident who went on to possess Classic Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, and Golden Freddy

    • The six corpses found within the Save Them minigame, implied to have possessed the Toy Animatronics

    • Elizabeth Afton, his own daughter, via the automatic processes of the Baby animatronic

    • The two mechanics tasked with scooping Ballora, who were presumably killed by Baby through Afton’s influence

  • Despite being caught red-handed, was able to smooth-talk his way out of any sort of sentence

  • Led a successful restaurant chain alongside Henry for several years

  • Invented springlock technology, illusion discs, and various other gadgets leased by Afton Robotics, and eventually perfected his robotics through the Funtime and Twisted animatronics

  • Made breakthroughs via the discovery of Remnant in an effort to bring his first son back to life

  • Survived the burning of Fazbear Frights

  • Lasted within the springlock suit for 30 years before being unearthed

    • Even after this, was able to persist in tracking down Michael Afton for assumed years until he was cornered within Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza Place

  • Even after his “death,” his influence has yet to diminish due to the efforts of Vanny, Eleanor, and the Mimic

  • Uploaded a replica of his consciousness to a circuit board and lived on through Glitchtrap, with the assistance of the Mimic

  • Eventually mastered his own personal hell, which consists of 59 animatronics simultaneously hunting him down, each with different strict mechanics to abide by

Strength

Speed

  • Supposedly has a running speed of 170 MPH (76 m/s)

    • However, this is more of a travel speed, given it’s only shown in large, open areas

    • Can rush the player when Express Delivery is ordered (119 m/s)

  • Perception-blitzed Michael Afton and Officer Dunn, the latter of which had his finger on the trigger of a gun

  • Comparable to other Fazbear Ent. animatronics

    • Plushtrap can fly from his chair at high speeds (39 m/s)

    • Foxy can move as quick as a blur

    • Withered Bonnie can charge the player within a blink

    • The Nightmare Animatronics can come to a complete standstill before being illuminated by a flashlight

  • Traverses the Fazbear Frights facility with ease via “blinks” from camera to camera, almost as if he was teleporting

    • The furthest of these blinks goes from one point in a vent shaft to another (196 m/s)

  • Various MODs can boost speed from 17% to 666%, depending on application


Weaknesses

Bendy


“You see, there's only one thing Bendy has never known: He was there for his beginning, but he's never seen... The End.” - Joey Drew


At the end of the day, the Ink Demon’s defining trait, his lack of a soul, also serves as his greatest weakness. Without the life that makes other ink creatures such as Allison and Tom sentient, Bendy is no more than a near-mindless beast in his most raw form. While he can gain intelligence quickly, nothing shows that he’s smart enough to mimic advanced human activity, such as using weapons or devising strategies. Additionally, this lack of a soul leaves him an outcast of the Cycle’s own rules: without a soul to put into another body, Bendy can’t reincarnate in the same way the other creatures of ink can. A full reset of the Cycle is required to bring him back to life.


This lack of a soul also makes him incredibly easy to possess by anybody with remotely strong willpower. When Bendy consumed Audrey in the finale of Bendy and the Dark Revival, Audrey was quick to assume control of his body, overpowering Bendy’s will and flipping the script on the Ink Demon. Anyone with a similarly powerful soul would likely be able to replicate such a feat.


Additionally, Joey and Gent Corporation’s fear of the Ink Demon drove them to create precautionary measures to contain it in the likelihood that it broke free from the Ink Machine. Within the realm of ink lies several Gent Corporation tesla towers that dispense a signal able to completely neutralize the Ink Demon’s dangerous form, instead reducing him to a harmless child. While this variation of the Ink Demon can be freed from this form through intense emotions, he can be returned to this form upon drawing near the Gent towers.


Bendy does have one definitive kryptonite: the Last Reel. Playing this reel in any sort of projector will immediately cause Bendy to evaporate into nothingness and start a new loop of the Cycle.

Springtrap


“As for one of you… the darkest pit of hell has opened to swallow you whole. So don’t keep the Devil waiting, old friend.” - Henry Emily


While William’s intelligence is nearly unparalleled, he often struggles with realizing other people’s plans before it’s too late. He’s been lured into traps countless times, often by utilizing his murderous desires to distract him with the cries of children, one of which actually resulted in his death by fire.


Speaking of which, immense heat is able to destroy remnant, though he’s shrugged off fires before. Heat is also immensely useful in releasing victims from Afton’s soul poison, boiling it to the point it ejects from the victim’s body long before cauterizing wounds. Similarly, Afton, as well as other animatronics, have been shown repeatedly to be temporarily warded off by electrical shocks, having been damaged by controlled shocks.


On the topic of Afton’s soul poison, it is also extremely slow-acting, as even despite receiving several grievous wounds and experiencing immense blood loss, it still took several minutes for the poison to take effect, although once it had it was rather fast-acting, rendering the Detective unconscious and unable to fight in seconds.

Summary

Bendy


"This realm is mine... and the cycle will continue!"


Advantages:

  • Significantly stronger as Beast Bendy

  • Far more experienced in direct combat

  • The Cycle, as well as Bendy’s natural abilities, provide near infinite ink for Bendy to use, whether offensively or to regenerate

  • The Ink allows Bendy an easy way to retreat in the case that things get dire

  • Turning Afton into a creature of the ink would immediately provide several methods of ending the fight, such as Banishment

  • Fusing with lost Ones or just his natural progression in power could allow his strength to grow mid battle

  • Doesn’t have a soul for Afton to target…

  • Is not British


Disadvantages:

  • …but this lack of a soul also means he can’t come back from The Ink if reduced to nothing

  • Weaker as the Ink Demon

  • Backup is weaker and lesser in number

  • Significantly less intelligent

  • Unlike Afton, has not fucked (let alone thrice)

Springtrap


“You may not recognize me at first… but I assure you. It’s still me.”


Advantages:

  • Far more intelligent

  • More versatile in abilities and equipment

  • Has several options at his disposal for disorienting, distracting, or evading Bendy

  • Corrosive Shocks could be very effective against Bendys physiology 

  • Has a more direct form of immortality that doesn’t rely on The Cycle’s influence

  • Technopathy can affect several things within the Cycle, including various Gent appliances and the Ink Machine itself

  • Can restore/empower himself via extracting remnant from Searchers and Lost Ones

  • Is the reason Bendy exists


Disadvantages:

  • Weaker than Beast Bendy

  • Depending on how the Ink interprets “death”, Afton could be turned to ink quite easily

  • Bendy’s inky regeneration could make physical damage difficult to sustain

  • His soul could possibly be turned into that of a creature of the ink if killed whilst submerged within it

    • Though this does technically keep him alive, he would now be rendered vulnerable to many ink-specific abilities, such as Banishment or general assimilation

  • The Cycle’s ability to trap souls within its borders imposes an effective time limit

  • Hates the pill


Before the Verdicts…


Now, for those of you that are passingly familiar with these characters, you may have a few questions about how this blog is presented. We’ll do our best to answer the concerns that we anticipate the most.


Spoiler: it’s (mostly) FNaF stuff. Figures.

Book & Movie Canonicity


When Scott Cawthon was asked about the canonicity of the Silver Eyes trilogy, he had this to say:


“Something that I said in one of the forum threads about this, is that sometimes the lore of something can become so crowded that you can't tell an original story anymore. The games and the books should be considered to be separate continuities, even if they do share many familiar elements.”


“So yes, the book is canon, just as the games are. That doesn't mean that they are intended to fit together like two puzzle pieces. I would actually ask anyone wanting to read the book, even if you are a devout fan of the games, to read the book for the sake of enjoying the book, and don't try to "solve" anything. The book is a re-imagining of the Five Nights at Freddy's story, and if you go into it with that mindset, I think you will really enjoy it.”


The Silver Eyes trilogy takes place within the canon of the Five Nights at Freddy’s series, but exists as its own separate continuity. While the Springtrap that Michael Afton warded off in Fazbear’s Fright and the Springtrap that Charlie and friends fought with under the ruins of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza have experienced different things, they are undeniably the same character. Just placed into different situations. For the sake of the blog and covering everything, we’ve elected to include this alternate timeline, as the Afton within it is just as valid as the Afton encountered within the games.


As for the Fazbear Frights series of short stories, those have always been canon to the game’s narrative, at least to an extent. Scott has directly stated that they take place in the pre-existing Five Nights at Freddy’s universe, sometimes even directly tying into elements of the games. The Freddy Files reference the Stitchwraith storyline, implying that it has some precedent in canon. Though there are some stories that blatantly do not exist within the main universe, most others are assumed to be canon as long as they don’t massively contradict confirmed events in the game’s story.


The movie is a similar situation to The Silver Eyes, as it exists only with the context of the first three games. Several reveals within the movie, such as Vanessa being William Afton’s daughter, directly conflict with the main narrative of the games, implying that this is an alternate timeline. As such, we’ve elected to include it in our research for similar reasons as The Silver Eyes.


Into the Pit and Time-Travelling Ball Pits


The first of many Fazbear Frights stories, titled Into the Pit, details the story of Oswald, a ten-year-old boy who, while visiting the ball pit of his local pizza place, accidentally stumbles through some sort of rift in time inside a ball pit, placing him at a Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza location in 1985. There, he is stalked by the Spring Bonnie suit until he attempts to return to his normal reality, in which Spring Bonnie follows him back to the present, kidnaps his father, and subtly replaces him until Oswald breaks through the illusion and goes back to rescue him. This is frankly an insane storyline that likely has more layers than we’re seeing, but at face value this seems like Spring Bonnie is implied to have some sort of vague ability to time travel, including dragging other people through time as well.


Notice how I’m calling the entity in this story “Spring Bonnie” and not “William Afton.”


Surprisingly, the entity that stalks Oswald is never referred to as William Afton, Springtrap, or any other moniker that he has been known to go by. Since the timeline places the events of this story in 1985, the same year as the Missing Children’s incident (which we know happened late in the year), we can assume that, for once in his entire life, William Afton was not involved in traumatizing this child. Directly, at least.


In the Flesh and… THAT Ability


Another story, titled In the Flesh, details a game developer named Matt developing a fangame called Springtrap’s Revenge, in which the player escapes from an artificial intelligence based on William Afton. While the Ultimate Guide conflates this AI with Glitchtrap, there is no proof in the actual story that leads to this conclusion, especially within the context of the setting, that being a world in which Five Nights at Freddy’s is a cultural icon that warrants fangames, much like The Scoop. 


This means the events of this story likely cannot be tied to William Afton nor Glitchtrap. Which means, no. William Afton cannot induce male pregnancy via electric shock. A real gut-wrenching revelation, I know.


The Steel Wool Era and the Mimic


Recently, a few stories have come out of Tales from the Pizzaplex, a continuation of the Fazbear Frights short stories, involving a character called the Mimic. To make a long story short, many of the actions that we used to attribute to Afton post-PS have been effectively retconned to have instead been performed by an animatronic known as The Mimic, containing an AI that grows and learns by replicating human life. Unfortunately, the human that it decided to replicate was William Afton, and it eventually made its way into the Pizzaplex system. The abilities and appearances that we attribute to Glitchtrap and Burntrap are quite possibly rather the efforts of the Mimic.


As of the Ruin DLC to Security Breach, we have no reason to deny the existence of the Mimic in the storyline. There’s no definitive way to determine exactly where Afton ends and Mimic begins, since one was specifically trained to operate off of the other.


We’ve decided to take a holistic approach to the situation and consider every possibility as equally likely until proven otherwise. This means that Glitchtrap and Burntrap will be considered to an extent. This distinction shouldn’t be a make or break issue for the sake of the debate, though. Mimic’s showings aren’t too impressive in comparison to a prime Afton.


The Guilt Storm


If you read Springtrap’s ability section, you’ll notice a section highlighting a moment in which we claim William is capable of creating a town-spanning storm using purely his guilt, or possibly his Agony as well. While the energy that creating the storm requires can certainly be calculated (and has been in the past), actually scaling the characters to it is another story entirely, as the process of creating a guilt storm is completely involuntary. 


While Agony is indeed classified as the strongest emotion, which would include being stronger than guilt, we have no way of properly pinpointing how exactly Agony interacts with physical abilities. Thus, we’ve decided to only include it as a form of environmental destruction rather than a feat of attack potency, though it could be argued either way.


The Fazbear Fanverse Initiative


Scott Cawthon gave his fanbase the chance to profit off of their fangames via the creation of the Fazbear Fanverse Initiative, a program that gives developers the resources to create, publish, and profit off of their fangames set within the theming of the FNaF series. 


So, are they canon? And can they be used for scaling purposes?


The concept of a “fanverse” implies that there are multiple universes at play. The tagline of the initiative is “because every franchise needs a multiverse,” which implies that these stories take place within separate canons as the main games. Even as far as alternate continuities go, such as Silver Eyes, they have all religiously been referred to as a single universe. Thus, the Fanverse series would likely be too separated regardless to be seamlessly integrated into the series’ main canon.


While the games do technically exist under the umbrella of the Five Nights at Freddy’s franchise due to the Fanverse Initiative, they deviate too far from the standard of canon established by other “alternative” tellings of the story, such as Silver Eyes and the Fazbear Frights short stories. Besides, the Fanverse wouldn’t supply much except possibly scaling, and the characters where scaling would matter (i.e. Flumpty) have no logically sound way to actually scale back to Afton himself. While the Popgoes/Five Nights at Candy’s universe does have a character meant to be a stand-in for Afton (known as Simon Fitzgerald), the differences between the two are far too great to consider them as alternate universe counterparts of one another. Besides, Popgoes is currently undergoing a massive overhaul in its story, meaning that all information we know about Simon is likely to be outdated by the time of Popgoes Evergreen’s release.


UNIVERSAL BENDY


After Bendy and the Dark Revival was released, some pretty interesting arguments came from it. Most notably, at the end of Dark Revival, Audrey uses The End to put an end to their current Cycle while merged with Bendy, and in the next scene, her and Bendy are seen to be alive and well, now in full control of the Cycle. The Cycle has previously been referred to as a parallel world to our own, and seems to contain stars and celestial objects the same as our own as well. So does this mean that Bendy took a universe explosion to the face? Can the Ink Demon throw hands with Asura? No, not really.


Here is the scene. The ending of Dark Revival, as with the first game, is a little ambiguous, but essentially what happens is that Audrey, while merged with Bendy, turns on “The End”, which normally does a total reset on the Cycle and returns it to how it was previously. However, this time, what happened was that it caused Audrey and Bendy to unmerge and escape the studio into the real world, thus giving Audrey total control over the Cycle from the outside. Bendy, meanwhile, was reduced to cartoon Bendy, but we do not know why. There is very little explaining what happened here, but all it visibly did was allow them to exit the Cycle, thus making them immune to the effects of the Cycle's resets. There is no reason to take this as Bendy surviving a physical force that destroys the universe.

Verdicts



(Art by Shadow)

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Buttersamuri

Alright, coming in to work on this reminded me why I actually enjoyed this match up. It was fun figuring out this fight. I hope that my contribution helped get things done faster, I know the wait time for this was a bit more extended than what was hoped for. But we got it done. Now, who’s going to win this fight? Here’s my thoughts.


Strength/Durability

This one is very clear cut. Bendy scales to 3 gigajoules vs Afton scaling from 169 to 388 megajoules. I personally buy the 169 Megajoules as more accurate, though considering both. Afton is about 8 to 18 times weaker than Bendy. You might think that's all that needs to be discussed, but I would like to address something first. 3 Megajoules, is an at least low end for Bendy. From the footage we had, this is the number we got, however, it can be notably higher. This feat can be performed from the edge of the room, making the distance greater, and thus, the results would be much higher. This is important to keep in mind. An issue that might be brought up is the distance and if it even applies as an earthquake. But, it’s too potent not to be one. While saying it’s a short distance and thus it doesn’t count is an argument brought up a lot, that just doesn’t apply here. It’s rare that it ever actually applies to these kinds of feats. Quakes aren’t nearly as hard to cause as you might think. Even read the degrees of them on the magnitude chart, and it had comparisons to real life equivalents of what people could do to cause them. Heavy machinery, and construction work can cause a nearby house to shake slightly. And we qualify these as earthquakes. A tiny magnitude sure, but You don’t need to make the entire tectonic plate shake in order to cause one. Part of one shaking still qualifies as an earthquake. The potency is also way too large to ignore. This isn’t a simple, slight shake, maybe something fell over, or water bouncer. Things were breaking all over the place as a result. And the distance covered rooms, halls, and more, make them not that small to begin with. Not to mention, the intent is very clear there. This isn’t a dramatic screen shake. The place visually shakes, the roof cracks, walls break, barrels and pipes from across the room shatter. And this is clearly done from the shaking. He didn’t strike the ground and everything immediately shattered. Striking the ground multiple times causes it to shake enough to break them. That’s clear intent right there. That’s as small level quaking as you are getting.


Speed

Speed is a bit more of a toss up depending on what you buy. Afton scales to 196 m/s, where Bendy hits 793.179 m/s, giving a 4 times advantage. While there’s a method to make Afton much faster by using the files to get a different vent speed. That’s pushing it way too much. We have no visual, audio, or any other means to confirm it realistically, and it comes from breaking into game files to even see. Bendys, happens visually on screen. As far as arguments against Bendys speed feat for the train. First off, Audrey is capable of dodging the train in game. While you have to time it correctly, it’s entirely possible. Any issue of how it was measured doesn’t hold much water, as the game's mechanics don’t change any. An example, let’s say an open world game has a gun that shoots a bullet that keeps up with a bolt of lightning. I measured how fast it shoots on the “A side” of the map, where the lightning is. And then I run to The very end, or “B side” of the map. Fire it at someone, and they dodge it. You can use that speed for that gun. The mechanics of said gun didn’t suddenly change. Same logic applies here. The train moved the same speed and frames then as it did when The Flow was measured. 


But that’s where MODs come in. Those can give an upgrade up to 666% in additional speed. Safe to say, With those, he would have an immense advantage. If he actually had them. The problem is, he really shouldn’t have them. They don’t really belong to him. It’s not particularly standard, or ever brought back. But for arguments sake, if you gave it to him. Then he reaches 1305.3600000000001 M/S. A 1.6 speed advantage. No, I’m not including the highest end for Aftons 1 frame vent speed. MODs can actually work in Afton if he actually had them. So there’s an argument there at least. But the vent speed is specifically a feat that just doesn’t work. So I will not include it.


Abilities

Here’s a less straightforward one. Both have a variety of abilities to use to fight each other. Starting with, both have ways to passively get stronger during the fight. Nobody initially has the advantage there. Aftons got stealth in Animstealth module, which gives him invisibility, plus his own skills in stealth, this offers a good way to stay out of direct combat, bide time, and surprise attacks. He can create illusions, both visual, and auditori to fool people, or mess with their head. He can shock opponents, manipulate weather or technology, and even poison souls. Speaking of, if he does get killed, there’s always the chance he can possess people or objects around him.


Bendy has control over ink. Able to fill rooms with them to immobilize people, portal across the areas, create several ink creatures, and more. His senses are abnormally high. Even slight creaks or steps will make him aware of his opponents presence. A slight rustle of papers will be heard. He can seemingly consume souls, manipulate emotional states, create illusions, regenerate from puddles, manipulate his inky body, and lacks a soul entirely. So who would I give this too? Afton has more abilities to work with compared to Bendy, however, I think Bendy counters a good chunk of his stuff. Attacking his soul won’t work, as Bendy lacks one, with such superhuman senses, and able to cover the area in ink and ink creatures, Afton isn’t going to be able to hide for that long even if invisible. Technology and weather control is kind of useless, Both can make illusions, And possession isn’t going to do much if Bendy consumes his soul. Even then, people have fought back possession in the fnaf series by having a strong enough will. I’m not confident in saying he can take control of bendy. Though, I’ll give, I think Afton would be much smarter all together with his abilities. But, It seems while he has less to work with, Bendys abilities are stronger in this case from the counters it offers to Afton


Verdict

Afton is a character to be feared. But I don’t see him winning this. First of all, the AP is just too much. Bendy will do loads of damage, where Afton does very little in comparison. Speed isn’t big enough to matter in the long run, given how little of an advantage it is compared to Bendys AP. But, let’s give Afton the benefit of the doubt. And give him Mods. This would make a 666 percent boost in speed at best. Bendy still has answers to this, among it not being that notable of a speed edge. The sheer number of ink creatures, covering the area in ink to slow down and immobilize him, or even slamming the ground hard enough would all work. Aftons stealth isn’t going to keep him hidden for very long for the same reason, and even if it did, all it does is delay the inevitable. It’s not like he has some bonus move he can resort to with time. All he can do is try to make a plan, but get overwhelmed by sheer numbers and power. Let’s go back to the Earthquake calc. Remember, that from a distance, the shake was still strong enough it broke metal barrels and pipes from across a room, and broke down entire walls. If Bendy starts to do the funny DK strat, Afton is taking damage even from a room's distance away. Even if it isn’t notable, it will wear him down. 


Bendys AP advantage is at least 8 times stronger and tougher, and 18 with Aftons lower end. Meanwhile Aftons speed when giving him something he shouldn’t likely have, is 1.6 times faster. So let’s do it like that. Bendy is 8 times stronger, but Afton is 1.6 times Faster. Who can counter their disadvantage the best here? Afton needs to figure out how to get past the ink creatures, stay out of ink piles, and attack something who’s AOE spreads across a room causing damage, and hit it enough times that it dies, On top of overwhelming his regeneration. 


Bendy has to use the ink he can spread around the room to slow opponents, portals to get across the entire area, ink creatures to surround the area even more, superhuman senses that can sense even moving too fast. He has a lot of means to catch Afton despite speed and stealth. Even if we really stretched it to giving Afton 1 frame vent speed. Afton in the considered “blitzing” area. But bendy just one shots with ways to slow down, and use AOE attacks to catch Afton despite the speed.


And with how much stronger he is. If he gets his hands on Afton once, there’s not much reason Afton can break free. Aftons only going to extend the fight, but he can’t do a lot to end it in his favor. It’s truly a game of Cat and Mouse. The mouse can really only run, but eventually, in this fight to the death, the cats is going to get it. My vote does to Bendy from the Ink Machine.

KingCorporeal


“ok guys but what about the laser eyes”


It’s good to be back, ladies, gentlemen, and those of unspecified or otherwise ambiguous gender!


If you don’t know me, I’m KingCorporeal, administrator of the Death Battle Wiki and general bonehead of the community. This is my third blog contribution in this series (fourth counting Bill vs Discord), and oh boy it’s a matchup I’m passionate about. Hopefully, I can pick myself up from my absolutely HUMILIATING 1-4 conclusive vote I suffered last time I showed my ugly mug here. (I was objectively correct, by the way. Everyone else is wrong. Trust me.)


If you know me outside of these blogs, you’ll know that my history with the character of William Afton in the context of VS is long, complicated, and ultimately layered with history, spanning years of research, debates, and matchups up the wazoo. I’ve never really gotten a chance to fully flex my knowledge of the character, however, so I am incredibly thankful to TMK for letting me participate in this project. 


Of course, I don’t want to go in completely blind to Bendy’s capabilities, so I spent basically the entire front half of the research period devoted to learning the series inside and out. I even got my hands on one of the books to double check our work. I may have a fascination with Springtrap in terms of VS, but please do not conflate that interest with bias. I appreciate Bendy and his series to a large degree, and I have no intention of misrepresenting it or otherwise hyping the shit out of Springtrap in order to get a “certified Afton dub.” I’m eccentric, not egotistical.


So, with that precedent being set, let’s get into the specifics. Buckle up, because you’re about to read the longest verdict in G1² history.


First of all, these two characters have some glaring high ends that need to be addressed for the sake of providing a clear ground for these two to stand on. Let’s start with the greater, and more easily refutable, of the two; Bendy and his potential Universal scaling.


I’m not entirely sure who decided to spread this claim around, but I think it’s absolutely bogus. Any further inspection within Bendy and the Dark Revival proves as such. Basically, the proposition goes as such: The Cycle is an alternate dimension that exists in parallel to our own, although it is warped and deteriorated. Bendy shows some sort of dominion over the Cycle, so he should scale to its full scope.


Wording it like that makes it seem a bit more bogus, no? First of all, the nature of the Cycle itself, most notably its size, is left ambiguous for the most part. Within the Cycle, we never leave Joey Drew Studios, so it’s basically impossible to determine what exists outside it. Even then, the Studio has a definite beginning and end, as well as a top and a bottom (being Wilson’s Penthouse and the Gutter respectively.) Even if we were to assume that the Cycle is infinite in size (perhaps through a generous interpretation of the events of Boris and the Dark Survival), assuming that Bendy can effectively create or destroy a structure of this size is baseless conjecture. Bendy is shown to be powerless when it comes to disrupting the cycle, much less destroying it, so there’s no possible way to come to the conclusion that he could simply blip the Cycle out of existence. Otherwise, he likely would’ve done so already.


The second claim that I would like to discuss is one that, if you’ve engaged in conversation with me about Afton’s stats, you’ll find all too familiar. The Guilt Storm.


While the feat itself is entirely legitimate, questions come up on whether it should be directly scaled to Afton’s physicality. This question caused a bit of discourse within our circle, but for the sake of the blog we elected to dismiss it. Ultimately, the divide between Agony and other emotions might be too great to definitively say that Afton can channel this power in a raw, physical state. He could potentially replicate the storm if the emotional influence of the ink caused him to repent, but his strikes would likely not be hitting with the full power of it. In most other debates, I’d have a few scans to pull up that would say otherwise, but the others were insistent on not using it for the sake of a more engaging read. I figured that things would be more interesting if we leveled the playing field, so the Town-City level high ends for Afton will be disregarded in this verdict.


With those clarified, let us begin


There are a lot of moving parts in this debate, definitely due in part to the setting of the fight: The Cycle. This is fundamentally Bendy’s home court, and having him fight outside of it would be a bit of a letdown. So, since it doesn’t change Afton at all, we decided to give it to him. Would Heracles vs Jack the Ripper have been interesting if it wasn’t in London? Didn’t think so.


Since setting plays such an active part in this discussion, it allows a lot more opportunities not just for Bendy but for Afton as well. But, before we get into the intricacies of it, let’s briefly discuss stats.


Stats


For AP and Durability, both are quite impressive. In Bendy’s normal Ink Demon form, Afton should be leagues stronger. While Bendy’s feats in this form are impressive and would likely be able to at least contend with that of Afton’s cavalcade of machines, comparing to Afton himself is another story. Without his springlock suit or Remnant of any kind, Afton was able to dismantle the Classic animatronics, who were going blow for blow with the Twisted animatronics. The Twisted Ones were able to take an entire river of gasoline blowing up in their face, which, at bare minimum, is tens of times stronger than anything the Ink Demon can dish out. However, Beast Bendy flips the script on Afton, as his room-shaking and door-destroying feats are about five times stronger than anything Afton has taken. Of course, this is given that Bendy even has an opportunity to go into his Beast Form, which, as seen in the finale of Bendy and the Ink Machine as well as the novel Dreams Come to Life, requires an excess amount of ink as well as a bit of time in order to transform into.


There are higher ends that we came to the conclusion of, getting upwards of 14 gigajoules if taken at face value, but I have issues with these calculations that my blog-mates do not share. Mainly, the calc treats the shaking as if it was a literal earthquake, evidence that has not been substantiated in any sort of way. The size of the shaking area is not nearly large enough for me to constitute it as an earthquake in good faith, and there’s no confirmation in-universe that there’s tectonic activity going on. To quote VS Battle Wiki’s stance on using the earthquake method…


“For the purpose of these calculations, shaking a minor area should not be assumed to automatically translate to an earthquake. Either a large area being shaken or evidence that we are dealing with something earthquake-like and not just some minor shaking would be needed.”


Both are able to grow in strength throughout the fight, however. Bendy has been shown to naturally adapt to the Cycle after spending a prolonged amount of time alive, while Afton can empower himself via extracting Remnant from any creatures within the Cycle. I’ll talk about this more in-depth during the conclusion, but this could possibly even the playing field on either end, depending on interpretation.


That leaves speed, where, for once in his entire matchup spread, Afton’s got the advantage! Bendy is very consistently shown moving around 75 m/s; the usage of Flow, Alice’s reaction speed, and repairing the cardboard cutouts all land between 60 and 90 m/s, putting him at a very consistent range. Meanwhile, Afton’s pinnacle of speed allows him to move at 196 m/s, over double Bendy’s average. Afton is used to moving through tight corridors at maximum velocity, so his reactions would need to at least be somewhat comparable to his travel speed in most instances. Even if we were to buy Bendy’s highest end of speed, 1200 m/s off of frame-1 shenanigans, similar arguments can be made for Afton in order to buff him to a similar speed. Including MODs that can adjust an animatronic’s speed (which Afton would have no reason to not be using, considering that the events of Special Delivery are “canon” at some point in the timeline), Afton can get up to 6 times faster than Bendy’s absolute highest possible value, which is enough for some to consider it a “blitz.” Normally, however, Afton is faster regardless, being upwards of 3 times faster without MODs, and about 20 times faster with them.


Once again, the blog listed a calc that puts Bendy at around 800 m/s by scaling him to the movement of a train, with some of my blogmates buying a variant of the calc that gets into the thousands of meters per second. But, once again, I have several issues with this argument. We’re simply missing too much information about how this train works.


The ghost train that we’re scaling the Flow to has no frame of reference as to how fast it’s moving. When TMK did the calc, he was able to surmise that the train was going 6.3 centimeters per frame, or around 4 m/s, but he also assumed in the exact same calc that the train was going 36 m/s based on real-world parallels, which is nine times faster than we see the train going in-game. This shouldn’t be applicable for several reasons. First and foremost, the train he is comparing the ghost train to is an entire coal-powered engine, not the individual car that we see go by. Add on the fact that his calc assumed that Flow could go upwards of 3 meters in a single frame, something we know for a fact it can’t based on consistent prior showings and is likely a highly warped statistic due to the visual effects of using Flow distorting the screen, and I simply can’t take this feat at face value in good faith. Audrey never meaningfully interacts with the train in-game: she doesn’t dodge it, she can’t board it, she can’t even physically touch it. It was added post-launch as a fun little easter egg with an incredibly specific timing window in order to see it. Assuming that the train is moving at a speed several times faster than we actually see it move in game would inherently imply so many nonsensical things, such as Audrey simply walking being calculated at dozens of meters per second. It feels kind of dishonest to compare Audrey’s speed for a single frame to this dramatized portrayal of a train and then immediately use that claim to say that everyone scales to that 1 frame movement because Bendy was able to tap Audrey in the middle of her flow. I think it’s much easier to assume that the train is just going slower for visual clarity (even though the train is still going pretty fast in-game) and that it wasn’t meant to be read into to this extent.


But still, a decent speed advantage isn’t all that’s needed to win a fight. You need a way to capitalize on that speed. And, for Afton, strength may not be enough to put down Bendy for good. This is where we have to discuss factors such as abilities and hax, and both have a daunting amount to sift through.


First off, the elephant in the room. Afton’s technopathy has been shown to affect non-Fazbear animatronics in the past, so it’s very likely that it extends to general technology. This likely includes the Gent signal towers riddling the Cycle as well as, funnily enough, the Ink Machine itself. Afton should have the means to manipulate the battlefield just as much as Bendy, both being able to cut off his ink supply as well as dampen his power into his lesser, cartoony form.


But Bendy can possibly be snapped out of this form via extreme trauma, so it likely wouldn’t last for long. Bendy would probably retreat somewhere in which the Gent towers lack the range to cover, so that puts the fight at a relatively equal footing outside of that. Of course, you could argue that electricity in general could cause Bendy to retreat into this lesser form, but we see no real proof of this within the game: specifically Gent’s towers are able to repress Bendy. Other sources of electricity, such as the Gent Pipe’s built-in taser, do nothing to put Bendy into a weakened state. With that being said, let’s look at both’s options and see how effective they would be, starting with…


Bendy’s Wincons


The Ink: The Ink can do a few things to possibly harm Afton. Afton likely wouldn’t be turned mindless due to his physiology. While the Ink Machine is known for extracting souls, it also requires a human body to steal the soul from. Afton, as an undead monster, would likely not be affected by this particular drawback. The Ink can also possess people, as shown with Sammy Lawrence, but this process takes place over a matter of days to weeks, so it’s unlikely that Bendy would have the time to. This leaves turning Afton into a Lost One via direct contact with the ink itself, but this option poses an interesting thought experiment: would the Ink consider Afton “dead” by its own logic? If it does, then being submerged fully within it could likely convert Afton into an ink creature, much like it did to Buddy, Wilson, and Audrey. But, if you consider Afton to be “alive”, then the ink would likely do nothing until his body “died” which is basically impossible due to its makeup.


What does the Ink define as death? I’ve always interpreted it as “when the body is no longer capable of containing the soul.” Based on Afton’s possession and its limits, this would mean that, even if Afton were to be decapitated, the Ink wouldn’t consume him. Bendy would have to basically crush every single part of his body to bits in order to potentially turn Afton to ink, all while making sure he’s fully submerged in a thick pool of the stuff. And it’s very possible that he could achieve this, thanks to his…


Strength Advantage: While the Ink Demon’s base form has never shown any signs of being on par with animatronics, Beast Bendy is easily stronger than Afton and could likely pull him apart if needed. With the highest ends of Afton’s stats, he would still be weaker than Beast Bendy by around 5-7 times. If Bendy were to catch Afton or any other animatronic with a clean hit, it would likely be devastating, though not utterly damning. 


Banishment: We’re never given the exact specifics on how Banishment works, but we only ever see it work on low-level ink creatures. Stronger creatures, such as the Lurker, the Widow King, and Amok, as well as creatures of a higher sentience, such as Alice and Wilson, don’t seem to be affected by it. Therefore, even if it could banish non-ink creatures, it’s likely that Afton wouldn’t be affected in his normal form. If Afton were to become a Lost One, then I believe it would be possible, though certain Lost Ones are able to retain their identity and resist Banishment, such as Amok and Porter. I’d leave it as a potential option, but nothing set in absolute stone.


Additionally, I feel like we should mention that we don’t even know if Bendy can use Banishment. We’re assuming he possesses this ability, as it was given to Audrey by The Ink, a substance which Bendy is made from, so it would only be natural for him to have it. We never actually see Bendy employ any form of Banishment in-game, so it’s not likely that he would think to do it.


Soul Consumption: If Bendy ever fully consumes Afton, he can force the serial killer to become one with him, consuming his soul and denying him any sort of revival, regardless of the current pace of the fight. This relies on Bendy even being able to catch the rabbit, but given the right situation Bendy can essentially force Afton into fusing with Bendy, barring him from hopping to another animatronic or anything of that sort.


Heightened Senses: As shown throughout the game, Bendy’s able to sense the player incredibly easily, implied to be through hearing. As Alice describes the demon’s abilities, he can hear “every creak of the floor; every rustle of paper.” This would certainly aid in tracking down Afton in order to more effectively use his abilities.


The Cycle: This is single handedly the most interesting part of the debate. The Cycle provides a lot of anomalous alterations to the fight, but most notably it creates a constant loop of life and death. Those who die within the cycle are brought back ad infinitum, even within the same cycle, as seen with Sammy Lawrence, who dies at the end of Chapter 2 but is miraculously alive again as early as Chapter 3. Those within the Cycle are never given rest, as they are returned to the ink and rebuilt from the ground up. Certain individuals, referred to as Cyclebreakers, retain their individuality between cycles, but lesser ink creatures such as Lost Ones are haphazardly thrown from body to body until, eventually, their souls get trapped within the space between the Cycle and reality.


This setting poses a few general questions about how it would interact. First of all, would simply entering the cycle turn Afton into ink? I’d wager not. Despite any humans that enter taking on an inky form, animatronics are relatively intact, as shown with Bertrum Piedmont. Bertrum is actually in a similar position as Afton: trapped in the soul of a machine. Upon entering the Cycle, Bertrum remained in his carousel form and did not turn into ink. So, there’s no reason for Afton, a being of a similar makeup, to be any different.


Secondly, since Afton isn’t a creature of the Ink, what happens to his soul if it leaves his body? Afton’s a special case in which his soul can exist outside of his body without necessarily being registered as “dead.” Afton exists in an extant form of undeath, and he retains full autonomy over his soul even after his physical body gives out. Going by this logic, I doubt that The Ink would register Afton’s existence as “death.” If Afton’s soul were to be physically defeated by some means, he would likely be reborn as Ink via the standard processes of the cycle, opening up Bendy to much more options to kill Afton, such as using Banishment or just simply beating the shit out of him over and over again until his soul gets trapped outside the Cycle. That’s a valid form of BFR, and would result in Bendy’s victory.


So, with those major factors being analyzed, Bendy has a very clear goal when it comes to fighting Afton - turn him into Ink. It doesn’t matter how this happens; extended exposure to the ink, a trip through the Ink Machine, or just “killing” Afton’s soul through brute force while the soul doctor is submerged in ink would likely turn him into a Lost One, which Bendy can easily take care of permanently through (debatably) Banishment or eventual BFR.


So we know precisely what Bendy is trying to do. Whether Bendy is smart enough to enact this plan is another story, but it’s likely that many of these conditions would be naturally met just by the fight playing out naturally. So, let’s see what Afton could potentially do to counter this as well as his own wincons as well.


Springtrap’s Defenses


Immortality: This is the most blatant thing that I can think of. Simply put, Afton’s spirit can and will not move to the afterlife (or perhaps count as a “death” for the purposes of the Cycle) if he does not want to. Afton’s soul can cling to his animatronic body for as long as it needs to, even persisting with as little as just a head. Add that onto Afton’s notable durability in comparison to even Bendy’s strongest forms, and sheer strength will be an incredibly difficult method of killing Afton. Not to mention the fact that, even if Bendy did demolish the springlock suit enough to jettison Afton out of it, there aren’t any instances in canon of Bendy physically interacting with souls. Many people misconstrue Beast Bendy grabbing Joey at the end of BatDR as soul manipulation, but there’s actually nothing proving that the Joey that we meet in the Cycle is a spirit. As far as we know, he’s an ink replica, just like Henry and Allison. Then there’s the claim that ink naturally adheres to souls, but that only works when souls are specifically bonded with the ink, such as with the various ink creatures. Simply lobbing a bit of goop at a soul won’t trap it in the ink like a Pokeball. That’s what the submerging process is for. With that being established, there’s no reason to assume he’d be able to physically do any damage to Afton in his soul form without some form of hax. And that’s assuming the best, given…


Speed Advantage: With all MODs equipped and all high-ends taken into consideration, Afton is 6 times faster than Bendy at both’s best. This means a lot of things, but most importantly it means that Bendy is going to be hard-pressed in finding an opening to even land a hit on Afton. While spreading the Ink could work as potent AoE, Afton’s sheer running speed is enough to move faster than Bendy can physically lob the Ink, making many forms of offense require either intense setplay or genuine luck to actually use. While this speed, within context, is only used when traversing the outdoors, the various hallways of the Cycle are rather spacious at many times. In addition, the Cycle does indeed have an outdoors, meaning that Afton could take the fight to a much more open field where hit-and-run tactics would be most effective.


Stealth: Afton’s naturally a stealthy guy, constantly hiding in the shadows. Giving him the Animstealth Module adds even more onto this package, letting him turn completely invisible and muffle his footsteps. While Bendy does have incredibly good hearing, he’d likely not be able to pick up on Afton as easily as he would other prey due to these factors. Besides, he’s probably going to be too distracted to properly track Afton regardless. Why, you may ask? Because of Afton’s…


Technology: While Bendy has a lot of raw supernatural abilities via his inky physiology, a majority of Afton’s best equipment comes from the various gadgets that he has at his disposal. The Animstealth Module lets him go completely invisible while not attacking Bendy, the Illusory Discs can induce chaos on the battlefield and disorient Bendy to an absurd degree, and the sheer plethora of animatronics that would reasonably be at Afton’s direct beck and call would not only keep Bendy and whatever other ink creatures appear busy but also potentially convince Bendy that he’s won the fight despite only killing an endoskeleton with an illusion disc. The Twisted Animatronics alone can provide a wonderful distraction against Bendy while Afton slinks away to hatch a plan or simply go in for a sneak attack. Add in the added illusions from his other equipment, and you’ve got a recipe for a chaotic brew. And that’s not even including…


The Phantoms: Afton’s original henchmen back in the days of FNaF 3, the Phantom Animatronics are much more competent than you might imagine. They can do everything that Afton’s technology can do to a similar degree; visual and auditory illusions, creating targets for Bendy to target that aren’t Afton, overriding nearby technology… hell, they can even mimic voices to fuck with Bendy a little bit extra, even if they don’t know who the voice belongs to. If one of the Phantoms chooses to imitate Joey Drew to taunt Bendy, I’d imagine he’d be thrown into a blind enough rage to let Afton slink out of any danger.


Those are the main talking points on that front. If Bendy tried to submerge Afton in ink, Afton would likely be able to either be fast enough to avoid most attempts at such or have the right tools to avoid being detected in the first place. If Bendy tries to do things the old fashioned way, he has no way to continue the assault on Afton after he becomes a spirit, essentially leaving the fight in a state of nullity. In order for Bendy to land his definitive wincon on Afton, he’d need an insane amount of luck. Otherwise, the best he can do is simply suppress Afton enough either to the point where his soul willingly attempts to move on (only to get reincarnated in the Ink) or to the point where his soul gets lost within the between worlds.


So, it’s gonna be tough for Bendy to genuinely seal the deal, but it’s certainly possible if he’s able to overwhelm Afton, which becomes easier as the fight progresses due to Beast Bendy’s increased stats. But what about the other direction? What can Afton do to genuinely harm Bendy? Let’s talk about it.


Springtrap’s Wincons


Beating Bendy to Death: Yeah, this one’s exactly what it looks like. If Bendy dies within the Cycle, he doesn’t have a soul to reincarnate with. Therefore, if somehow Bendy were to die before the Last Reel was played, he wouldn’t come back until the Cycle fully reset. This means simply beating Bendy down through sheer force is more than a viable solution to the problem. If Afton can get the jump on Bendy in his Ink Demon form, he could possibly hit hard enough to kill him before he even has the chance to activate Beast Bendy. Besides, even as Beast Bendy, Afton isn’t too much weaker. It’s only about a 7 times difference at worst, meaning that he could still likely make up the difference with other means, such as using the Twisted Ones to add to his firepower or by becoming the Agony, effectively combining all of his minions and himself into one towering monster. Add other factors in, such as his speed advantage and the support of his minions, and it’s likely that he’s going to get this opportunity sooner rather than later. Oh, yeah, speaking of minions…


Spare Robots: You know what’s better than one animatronic beating Bendy to death? SIX animatronics beating Bendy to death! With support from the Twisted Ones, who reasonably should be about as strong as Afton himself, Bendy’s going to have a hard time evading all of that firepower. And this isn’t even the peak of Afton’s robotic entourage! In addition to the Twisted animatronics, Afton can also gain support from a few spare Endo units (who, let’s not kid ourselves, are likely no more than cannon fodder that can distract Bendy at best) as well as the Balloon Boy Horde (who serve a similar role as cannon fodder, but hey, every attack aimed at them is an attack not aimed at Afton!) Hell, even the Phantom animatronics can get in on the action despite lacking a physical form: their illusions, presence, and sound mimicry would definitely irritate Bendy enough to target the nonexistent entities. With all of these supporting troops, it sure would be convenient for Afton to have a tool that could potentially work super effectively against ink creatures! …right?


Corrosive Shocks: So this one’s a bit of an odd argument, but I promise you that it pays off. One time, William was sharing possession with this being known as the Stitchwraith, which can produce shocks from its fingers. While the dominant inhabitant of the Stitchwraith, Andrew, was only intending on producing playful shocks, similar to that of a static shock from rubbing socks on the carpet, William was able to dial up the shock’s power enough to the point where it wringed out all of the water inside the target, basically to the point of mummification. All that was left in terms of moisture in the body were a pair of black streaks running down the victim’s cheeks, likely a negligible amount of liquid. Everything else was missing to the point where the narrator called it an “annihilated consciousness.” I’d call that evaporation.


While William can’t administer these shocks himself, there wasn’t anything notable about the Stitchwraith’s battery pack, meaning that any source of electricity could likely reach similar results, if not more.


For reference, the human body ranges from around 55-70% water. For an average sized person, that’s going to be about 11 gallons, or 0.04 cubic meters of water, in a single shock.


Ink is 95% water.


With this, granted that Afton has access to a source of power (which shouldn’t be too difficult), he could essentially invalidate Bendy’s primary source of power, evaporating it into basically nothingness en masse with as little as a light shock. Remember, the original power of the shock that Afton corrupted was only a “playful shock.” Comparing that to a static shock, that’s only a starting power of 4 millijoules. If Afton gets his hands on anything more powerful than that, it’s absolutely certain that his shocks would also be more powerful. God forbid he gets his hands on a Gent Pipe. Using a taser as a base, which has a current flow of 1.76 joules, utilizing shocks from the environment would be 435 times more powerful than Andrew’s playful shocks.


Let’s do some last-minute verdict math! As we established prior, the Stitchwraith’s shocks are equivalent to “playful shocks.” Those reached 107 megajoules. Adding the 435 times multiplier via my conjecture equates to around 46.5 gigajoules of energy; more than enough to bypass even Beast Bendy’s durability and evaporate him into nothingness. I’m not using this to argue that Afton is physically stronger; I don’t think that, in this situation. More so, I’m arguing that these shocks might have the potential to just evaporate the Ink, creating an easy path to victory for Afton.


Additionally, the original shock was able to evaporate 11 gallons, right? Well, multiply that by 435, and you get a total of 4,785 gallons of evaporated ink, or about 18 cubic meters. That’s a lot of Ink.


Basically, as long as Afton has a source of power to draw from, he can counter the Ink. And it’s not like he’s going to be short on electrical items, given his…


Technokinesis: Working in conjunction with the previous win condition, Afton can’t activate his corrosive shocks without an electrical source. While it would be relatively simple for Afton to simply break a light fixture at some point in the Cycle, he will have absolutely no shortage of options given his final transformation: the Agony. In this form, his presence is strong enough to draw in mechanical objects all around it, from animatronics to forklifts. I’m positive that this would have a similar effect within the Cycle, making sure that Afton always has a source of power to draw his shocks from. Given his animatronics likely have battery packs as well, he likely wouldn’t even need to rely on the surroundings, but in the case that his entourage gets prematurely executed, he won’t be shit out of luck.


Soul Poison/Possession: This one’s really weird. Now, your knee jerk reaction to this would probably be “But Bendy doesn’t have a soul to poison!” And that would be true… if that was how the ability even remotely worked. Soul Poison isn’t an ability that poisons souls, no. It’s a soul that poisons you. By stabbing Bendy with his metallic fingers, Afton can literally inject a piece of his soul into Bendy. Normally, the product of this would be, after a few minutes, the target would start to develop festering purple boils and eventually die of infection, but Bendy isn’t entirely flesh and blood. I doubt that a common cold would be enough to do any lasting damage to the Ink Demon. But, that’s not the part of the ability that’s interesting. No, the actual process of artificially giving Bendy a soul is the interesting part.


While souls are a very present factor of the Bendy franchise, we never actually get any elaboration on them, much less what would happen if an ink creature had a portion of a soul. But, in the case that Soul Poison was used, what exactly would that mean for Bendy? The ink only serves as a vessel for the soul that lives inside it, so if Afton used this ability would it simply turn Bendy into a second Afton? If that’s what you think, then Afton can win with simply a single touch. But let’s dwell on this a bit more. 


Giving Bendy a soul would also let him into the reincarnation cycle, meaning it would be much more difficult to kill him than it already is. However, it poses the question of whether simply a portion of a soul would be enough to be considered, and, if so, would it also be enough to override Bendy’s current personality. Bendy and the Ink Machine does little to elaborate on the nature of a soul, hardly as much as FNaF does with the existence of Remnant, but let’s think about what could happen in this situation.


If a portioned soul is enough for Afton to take control, then the Ink Demon simply dies and reincarnates as a duplicate of Afton. Granted, Afton would have to actually kill Bendy first, but this would likely be much easier if the Soul Poison is doing work to overtake Bendy’s body, in much a similar way as Audrey did. Worst case scenario for Bendy, Afton takes over his body immediately upon injecting him and the fight is over.


If a portioned soul isn’t enough to control Bendy’s body, but is enough for Bendy to be indoctrinated into the reincarnation cycle, then it’s curtains for Afton. He would have to physically get rid of all of the ink within the entire Cycle to “kill” Bendy at that point, and, given that Bendy already wasn’t going down easy, this is a task much easier said than done. Granted, this does also pose the question of, if this soul were to be taken, such as if it was lost within the between worlds, if Bendy would simply regain full autonomy of his body or if he would be left inert due to the closest thing he ever had to a soul being missing.


It hurts my head to think about this for too long. So let’s simplify things. This win condition comes down to the question of “how easy would it be to override Bendy’s consciousness?” And, thankfully, we’re handed an answer to that on a silver platter.


In the finale of Bendy and the Dark Revival, the main protagonist, Audrey, suffers a crippling blow from Shipahoy Wilson and is currently dying on the floor before Bendy comes in and takes care of the creature. With no other option, Audrey opts to fuse with Bendy, allowing the two creatures to share a body.


At the start, Bendy has control, but after Bendy kills Joey with his newfound power Audrey finds the power to take over Bendy’s body. She grabs The End, crashes through the walls of the facility in Bendy’s body, and puts the reel on the player, ending Bendy for good.


So, this is definitive proof that, if a second particularly powerful consciousness were to possess Bendy, that consciousness would be able to take over Bendy’s body with enough motivation. Given that contact with the Ink amplifies emotions, I have no doubt that someone with a soul as powerful as William Afton could replicate such a feat. Which means, after everything has been considered, soul poison would work on Bendy, not as a means to kill him but rather as a way to possess him and turn him into another Afton.


And that’s not even getting into Bendy’s ability to consume the souls of others. If Bendy even tries to consume Afton fully, I see no reason why Afton’s superior soul power wouldn’t simply overtake Bendy’s will, allowing Afton to survive within Bendy. From there, he can either find the Last Reel and reset the Cycle to “kill” Bendy, or simply come to terms with the fact that this is who he is now. A bit unorthodox, but a wincon nonetheless.


Now, how can Bendy respond to these attacks?


Bendy’s Defenses


Regeneration: This is probably Bendy’s best shot when it comes to weathering the tide. Basically, in the Dreams Come to Life novel, it was shown that Bendy can rapidly heal from wounds. These wounds can range from as minor as cuts and scratches to as large as entire missing limbs. At one point, Buddy and Dot (the protagonists) dropped Bendy into a massive reservoir of Ink, and Bendy literally mixed into it, only to reappear beneath the floorboards to drag Buddy into the depths. It’s safe to say that it’s going to be hard to accumulate damage on Bendy as long as he has Ink in reserves. Even Afton’s most devastating assaults could potentially be healed away, given that Bendy didn’t immediately die from the onslaught.


Additionally, Bendy’s been shown to be capable of producing his own ink; about enough to coat the walls of a room in a single burst. Even if he enters a dry spell, he has the resources needed to make his own ink, then use it to heal himself. This constant source of healing is definitely going to be tough to circumvent.


Ink Minions: Hundreds of Lost Ones and Searchers can be found crawling around the halls of the Cycle, many of which are loyal to the Demon’s cause. Whether that be out of fear, admiration, or a mixture of the two doesn’t matter; these are meat shields that can be thrown in front of Afton if Bendy ever needed a moment of reprieve. In a worst-case scenario, killing these minions would also provide the Ink Demon with a smidge of Ink, letting him heal all the little bit more. Granted, depending on the intricacies of how Remnant works, Afton may also benefit from slaughtering these minions, but the important part is that Bendy can be given a bit of a break if he ever needed to catch his breath and heal.


Fast Travel: With a simple trip through the Ink, Bendy can appear basically anywhere within the Cycle. This can be useful for ambushes, surprise attacks, or even retreats if the situation calls for it. If Bendy is quite literally backed into a corner, all he needs is a little bit of ink to disappear within the walls of the facility and pop back out somewhere more advantageous.


And that’s about everything in regards to the back-and-forth of this one. Let’s summarize.


Conclusion


So we have a pretty solid idea of what this fight will look like. Bendy and Afton both have their wincons established, so now it’s only a matter of discerning which one is more likely. 


I’m not going to keep you in suspense for very long. I’ve mulled over this debate for months, consuming media and running hypothetical after hypothetical in my head, basically accounting for everything that I could. And after all of that, to be blunt, I feel that Springtrap has this one in the bag.


If we set abilities aside and compare strictly their raw stats, Afton has a notable strength advantage over the Ink Demon, and a notable speed advantage over Bendy in any form. (Even if we’re taking the train feat at face value, Afton can still be argued as faster via buying high ends, allowing the usage of MODs, or both.) If Afton is able to capitalize on that speed advantage, he can do monstrous amounts of damage to Bendy before he has the chance to reform, especially if you consider his corrosive shocks, which are capable of simply evaporating Bendy’s ink, or possibly even his body if taken at face value. Given the scale at which Afton could likely transform the ink, it would very well be possible for him to simply defeat Bendy in a single touch.


Even without corrosive shocks, Afton could potentially find a way to match Beast Bendy in strength alone? Remember back during the stats portion when I said that both could grow in power? We’re talking about that now.


Bendy was shown to get stronger and stronger during his time alive within the Cycle’s stand-still era, though we’re never given a definitive answer as to how this increase functions. However, we do know the timeframe: an entire year. If we were to believe that this growth was equally distributed across the entire loop, I don’t see why Bendy’s power growth would play a major role in the fight. We don’t see him get notably stronger without usage of his Beast transformation in either game over the course of the narrative, which likely means that either a) this “growth in power” is referring to the Beast transformation itself (which, I’ll admit, is sort of headcanon), or b) the growth that Bendy experiences is so slow that it wouldn’t play a part in a relatively short fight.


Afton, on the other hand, does have a way to increase his power on the fly. By bolstering his own soul with Remnant, he can make himself stronger and more durable, albeit to an unknown extent. While we can’t quantify exactly how much tougher Afton would be, we can at least assume that it would be to a notable degree, since Special Delivery implies that its effects are noteworthy. We can certainly say that he wouldn’t be lacking in a source of Remnant throughout the fight, so you could argue that Afton could theoretically boost himself enough via Remnant to keep up with Beast Bendy, regardless of his own “growth.”


This isn’t even mentioning the illusion discs and the phantom animatronics, which would utterly cripple Bendy in terms of his viability as a fighter. According to Audrey, Bendy’s senses are heightened to the point that he can hear even the tiniest noise at any point in the Cycle. It’s my belief that Afton’s auditory-based trickery would not just effect but utterly shut down Bendy’s capabilities, as the illusion disc essentially works by bombarding the senses with false information through a high-pitched whine. With the illusion discs, Afton can basically convince Bendy that reality is whatever Afton chooses it to be, giving him free reign to do whatever he desires in order to win. Since we know that Bendy’s ability to hear is drastically overtuned in order to hunt prey, Bendy would essentially be helpless to these illusions unless he randomly was able to break all of the illusion discs in the battle by blindly swinging at the Twisted Ones. Bendy’s hearing may be sharp, but it’s that sharpness that would make the Twisted Ones’ discs all the more effective.


Speaking of the Twisted Ones, Afton’s minions are much more versatile than Bendy’s. Lost Ones are weak and fragile, and frequently get one-shotted by Bendy himself, even whilst on the edge of his attacks. I struggle to see how a Lost One would be able to hold their own against a Twisted One, even if they were to be given a numbers advantage. Even if Bendy were to summon tons of them, he likely would be wasting his time, since corrosive shocks could take care of them quite easily.


All of Afton’s abilities in conjunction with one another (his natural stealth and celerity, the Animstealth Module, the Illusion Discs, and the Twisted Ones) make him an incredibly tough opponent for Bendy to properly track, especially given his usage of hearing in his hunts. Sure, Bendy’s warping abilities would allow him to close the gap, but Bendy would have to actively know where Afton is in order to warp to him, something that the Illusion Discs can trick Bendy in regards to. Even though Bendy could theoretically spread the Ink far enough to the point where it covers the entire battleground, giving him free range of instantaneous movement, it doesn’t matter much if he’s constantly being fed false information as to where Afton might be.


But even if you believe Bendy could break through all of Afton’s evasive techniques, I don’t see a way for Bendy to actually put Afton down. In his Ink Demon form, he is several times weaker than Afton as well as slower, so Bendy would be losing the fight from the get-go. Once he enters his Beast form, the odds even out, but even with an AP advantage, I don’t see Bendy killing Afton. To put it simply, he always comes back.


Bendy can beat Springtrap within an inch of his life, tear him limb from limb, crush his body into bits with his superior physicality, but Bendy has never shown the capability to physically swipe at souls, much less put them down. If Afton’s soul were to leave his body, he would essentially be intangible from Bendy’s point of view.


That is, unless Bendy consumes him.


If Bendy can consume Audrey’s soul via ingesting her body, as well as possibly the souls of many other Lost Ones within the Cycle, it’s fair to assume that he could attempt to do the same to Afton. If Bendy consumes Afton’s body, including his soul by proxy, you’d imagine that would be curtains, right?


That’s where you’re wrong.


When Bendy consumes a soul, the soul isn’t eradicated. It simply joins Bendy’s mass, ultimately improving his physical form. The Ink is an unorganized mess of a hivemind, constantly talking over itself with possibly hundreds of voices. Bendy is physically made of this Ink, and he seeks to empower himself via osmosizing more souls into himself.


We see this happen to Audrey throughout the entirety of Bendy and the Dark Revival, as every time Audrey dies to Bendy (as well as other notable boss characters), she doesn’t respawn immediately like normal. Instead, she’s met with a Game Over screen, implying that she was beaten into submission and added to the mass of voices within the Ink.


However, Audrey is able to circumvent this fate in the finale of the game; crippled by Wilson’s attack, she has no choice but to submit to the Demon. We then see from Audrey’s (from within Bendy’s body) point of view as Bendy kills Joey Drew, her adoptive father, spurring Audrey to take control over Bendy’s body from the inside. She then takes Bendy’s body on a wild rampage throughout the Cycle, mowing down Lost Ones and getting help from her friends, even being able to communicate with them with her own voice through Bendy’s body, all while his will is being clearly suppressed, as he shows disbelief and defiance during the start of the takeover.


I see absolutely no reason why Springtrap wouldn’t be able to replicate such a situation if he were to be consumed. Not only does he have a soul, much less one that’s been fortified several times over by Remnant and Agony, but he also has a history of possessing objects. Hell, his primary state of being is a direct result of his possession prowess. 


Even if by some fringe chain of logic you want to argue that Audrey was a special case and Bendy wasn’t traditionally possessed by her via consumption, that doesn’t necessarily mean that Bendy can’t be possessed in any sort of regard. That requires the burden of proof, something that I haven’t seen within conversation regarding this matchup. Bendy has never shown he’s immune to possession, so why exactly couldn’t Afton possess him? Audrey being able to control Bendy shows that he’s capable of being possessed, regardless of how it’s triggered. Given Afton’s speed advantage, he could likely try and possess Bendy regardless of whether he was consumed or not.


So, if Bendy chooses to absorb Afton, it’s game over. What else can he do? Well, he can try to submerge Afton in the Ink, turn him into a Lost One, and then banish him, right? Well, not really.


Obviously, the Ink Machine is likely off the table as a way to turn Afton into Ink, since that isn’t a thing that Bendy simply carries around with him. If you were to argue that Bendy could take Afton to the Ink Machine to turn him into a powerless goon, you’d also have to argue that other things around the Cycle, such as the Last Reel and the Gent towers, would be readily available for either party to use, which would be far more likely to hurt Bendy than help him.


In order for you to believe that Bendy’s naturally spawned Ink would turn Afton into a Lost One, you’d have to assume that the Ink would accept Afton as dead. Which is a whole can of worms that’s really hard to work the logistics out of, but let’s assume the best for Bendy. Congratulations, the Ink transformed Afton. Now what? Bendy has no control over what form Afton takes after being exposed to the Ink. He could be a Lost One, sure, but he could also turn into a Boris, or a Henry, or just a particularly strong Lost One like Amok. This renders Banishment useless, even assuming that’s something Bendy can do, since it’s one of Audrey’s abilities that we’re simply giving to Bendy via virtue of Audrey learning it from a nebulous source. And we already know that he can’t assimilate Afton while he’s a Lost One, since that would just result in the same thing as before.


This leaves only one surefire way to take out Afton: kill him. Over. And over. And over. Until his soul gets lost in the Cycle and doesn’t return.


In order to argue for a Bendy win, you’d have to argue that Bendy wouldn’t try consuming Afton once, despite that being his main method of killing Audrey within the main game of Bendy and the Dark Revival, and that Bendy would be able to fully submerge Afton in ink, despite him having a super handy way to negate the Ink’s effects, and that Bendy would be able to kill Afton in his inky form an unspecified amount of times before the Cycle takes him, despite Afton’s soul-based abilities that should still theoretically have as a Lost One, including possession and soul poison.


Or, you could argue that either Afton evaporates Bendy’s Ink with his corrosive shocks and kills him through brute force, or that Bendy tries to consume Afton only to get controlled and brought to the Last Reel (or otherwise killed by Afton’s minions as Afton returns to his original body.)


It’s much easier to argue that Springtrap wins this fight, as he has to go through much less hoops in order to achieve his win conditions. And that’s not even including other factors such as the Animstealth Module, the Phantom Animatronics, and the illusion discs that would make Afton a living nightmare to fight against. Or soul poison just turning Bendy into a second Afton. Or any of the other fuckass wincons we inevitably forget to include on this blog because reading is hard and the lore is an absolute mess.


While it’s certainly possible for the Ink Demon to spring William’s trap, the Purple Guy had the exact right tools for the job to make sure he didn’t keep this Devil waiting. With an impressive arsenal of soul-based abilities and ground-breaking technology at his disposal, William Afton will make sure this foe never comes back.


See you in Riku vs Meta Knight, everybody! If Riku vs Meta Knight is actually next I’ll probably shit myself.

Pasbros

“Who stops me from feeling, healing emotions”


Ello Ello, it's been a while hasn't it? This took quite a while, I haven’t been in these for some time, like my last and technically first one i was in in G1^2 was Zoro Vs Robin Hood, which Also took a long time…. Huh… i think i am cursed- Anyways, I am Pas, but I go by many names in this community, Perfect Boy, Male Wife, PG Incineroar and Schrödinger. So, Bendtrap was announced in April and now It's nearly the end of the year, crazy i know, you can tell we worked hard on this one, we probably didn't need to take so long but, ay, we're finally finished.


Now about Bendtrap, well I think it's simple to say that I do very much like this match up and I think it is very much the best for both. Freddy isn't even fair and for the fight to even happen William needs to be asleep (somehow) and enter the dream world, where he loses all his abilities and literally becomes Freddy's bitch. Dio is a fucking meme. Junko is such a tonal whiplash, like come on. The “Man In The Suit” has literally done nothing yet people, stop it and Sachiko… it's cool, I do like the theme of the mu and it does strike one of the key points i think a Springtrap mu needs.


Well for Bendy all he really has is Cuphead and Skitzo and they're both…. Fine. Though I don't think Cuphead really uses what made Bendy so popular … The fan art is cool though. 


I can probably talk a lot about why I love this mu but others already have, so I'll just keep it brief by the fact that both are childhood moments. So about time we'll see who will win, will the Ink Demon die in a fire or will the Man behind the slaughter face reality, Let’s find out!


BUT WAIT!!! We can't start yet


So about this fight, due the dynamic and these fuckers having so many “Random bullshit go!” powers, i will have to split this into several, several sections. So Let us begin with an easy but Also not so easy section! Oh Also uhhh, this blog might get outdated due Bendy getting 3 new media during this blog that we couldn't cover yet… yep…  I do like this design…

ANYWAYS


STRENGTH AND DURABILITY

To start off simple, Bendy in his base form massively upscales to several feats in the series due being the literal strongest motherfucker. So he’d scale to Striker causing a hallway to shake (1.4 megajoules) (My first calc baby) and Audrey smacking a vent reeeeal good (2.3 megajoules). He himself has a pretty casual feat of covering entire halls in ink. (12 Megajoules). Impressive but it's still leagues below Springtrap's best like the twisted ones burying themselves underground (9.2 - 23.1 megajoules) and some of them surviving getting ignited inside (169 - 388 megajoules) though 169 megajoules is the much safer option.


But of course That’s Bendy at his base while being very casual, if the Ink Demon gained the feeling that someone’s going to an actual threat to him or if he gets a bit of the anger, he can simple decide to massively grow in size (as if he wasn't fucking tall already) and grow in power. Thanks to this form known as Beast Bendy, he would be capable of creating a small earthquake in a giant room and causing everything to just break. This little spectacle was put at 3 Gigajoules which is a massive 18 times difference in strength compared to Afton, Hell even putting him at 388 Megajoules, would still roughly make it a 8 times difference. More than enough to crush him into paste and reminder this is a minimum, Bendy can do the same attack but from the beginning of the room and cause the same reaction, it's also plausible that the earthquake affected more than just 1 room. Essentially Bendy is way too strong and durable for Afton to do anything besides tickle him.


However Afton caaan get stronger by taking the remnant of the lost ones or if he's super lucky and has enough electronics around him he could become the amalgamation to become even stronger, potentially making the gap a lot smaller, However, Bendy himself can also become much much stronger by simple fusing with lost ones as well Or ink in general. There's also the fact that Bendy naturally gets stronger (and more but on that later) during The Cycle. While the extent is unknown, The same would be said about Springtrap's amps, even then, we know from Henry that if Wilson's reign over The Cycle continued, Bendy would get strong enough to defy the rules of said Cycle. Which is certainly nothing to scoff at, so even if Springtrap tried to get stronger, Bendy would always have the major strength advantage, big enough to turn him into dust with a good smack. While Afton can’t even put a dent in the fucker.


But of course, raw strength and durability aren’t everything (Though at times it is), I mean this is: Death Battle we're talking about! So it's about time we check the next big stats game and that is…


SPEED

However this one isn't as rough as strength, Springtrap ain't bad he has a running speed of 170 MPH which would get him to 76 m/s, scales above plushtrap that just yeets himself extreme fast at 39 m/s And at his best can go from one point to another in “blinks” putting Afton at a whopping 196 m/s. However Bendy doesn't need to bring the Beast form for this one, Bendy in his base form can tag Audrey mid flow, which propels Audrey at fast speeds (47 m/s - 61 m/s), can dodge gunfire (95 m/s) And can move in tandem with a full speeding train which would put Bendy at 793.179 m/s, meaning The Ink Demon would be at 4x faster than Afton, not the biggest difference in the world but this is Bendy upscaling in his base form, he could likely get faster by either going beast bendy or thanks to his natural evolution. There is another argument for Springtrap, using the same vent feat but doing 1 frame instead, something that isn't usable and is just breaking the games code and we can do the same for Bendy, so Bendy seems to have speed. However so can Springtrap, thanks to the MOD- Huh what’s that?


Receives script


Huh…. Alright… well then, uhhh this is something alright, yeah uhh, Springtrap really shouldn't get those huh? I want to put this easy but, yeah no they just aren't Standard, too start with, MODs are technically what the Player places and takes from the animatronics meaning Springtrap wouldn't really have it on his person, think of it like… YOU! Yes, you! You give a random Pikachu, a gun in some random game and then that Pikachu never uses it or is ever even mentioned in canon that he even has that gun or at least knows it exists, hell you might've already taken the gun away from that Pikachu, even better yet! That Pikachu you gave the fucking gun too might not even be the real Pikachu that appeared in canon, meaning you gave a nobody Pikachu the gun but not the Pikachu that’s about to fight Dark Magician Girl! That’s what the MODs are to Springtrap, a chip that isn't his, he needs outside help to get, said outside help can just take it away, The fact he never uses or mentions it in canon, ever, The fact that it might've just been a fake Springtrap (With fake i mean the one Springtraps you can buy in AR) the chip was given too and not the real Springtrap to begin with and the biggest one of all, the possibility the chips might not even work on the real Springtrap. He's more meatly than animatronic. (No one's getting that joke). But being generous and giving Springtrap the 666% boost, would give him the advantage in speed, However it's so miniscule that it doesn't matter as Bendy has several ways to simply go against that speed advantage which we'll talk about later.


So simply put, speed is not Springtrap's game either, While it's a lower gap, it's still a noticeable one and giving him the MODs is wack. However if we're lenient and do give him the MODs the gap is pretty miniscule, only a 1.6 times difference, but as we go later on, that small gap won’t do anything for Springtrap and without MODs he's practically an elderly man too Bendy. So no matter what Bendy will stay on Springtrap's ass in speed or just downright surpass it.


Seems like The Ink Demon is much more powerful, faster and more durable then Springtrap, adding The demon’s physiology (more on that later), putting him down would be a choir for Afton + The fact that a good swipe would knock him on his ass means he has to play careful, but here's where things get a bit spicy… you see this is the perfect match up where stats doesn't mean everything just yet and Also a great mu to talk about an interesting dynamic, where William needs to keep on his toes and play a dangerous Cat & Mouse game of his life… Now then on to the big part.


ABILITIES 

“now this is where the fun begins”


As i said i will be putting these in sections, because there's a LOT to talk about in abilities, like way too much one might say, but hey that's what you get in a mu that's practically, indie horror game foster fathers. You'd pretty much expect bullshit abilities at this point. So let us start with the fight's main point that i would like to call


Hide and Seek

Anyways strap on folks, this ones a doozy. So, as i said before to perfectly describe this match up’s dynamic is a dangerous cat & mouse that ups in scale as time goes on, becoming more dangerous for Afton, due to Bendy having much more superior stats, if he would want to survive and not get pasted into oil, Afton would need to play it very carefully and very sneaky, However, Springtrap does not have the worry as his kit would be perfect for this particulier fighting style. His evasive abilities, stealth skills, animstealth module and illusionary disc would allow Springtrap to pretty much help Springtrap through rough times, make it harder for most to even see him and make him practically invisible. This would easily give Springtrap the upper hand at the beginning and would give him a free jump at the start, definitely thanks to his much superior intellect, but Bendy has some good counters against most of Springtrap’s sneaking attempts, because ready or not, The Ink Demon knows where you are and he's coming. 


For starters, Bendy’s supernatural senses are frankly… dumb, no matter how sneaky or invisible Springtrap is, even a small creek in the entire cycle would be heard by Bendy and he would immediately know that it was specifically you, who made that sound, his senses are that insane, While the illusionary disc have shown to be capable of making very deafening sounds, that’s honestly not going to help Springtrap all that much. Reminder that the Cycle is all but quiet, a lot of sounds are going through there, including a lot of of whispers of the damned, Bendy being able to ignore all those screams, begs, cries and people in agony to pinpoint exactly where both Audrey and Henry are, even if they're miles away from where he is, kinda just shows how ridiculous his senses are. Besides his unnatural senses, Bendy’s supernatural presence Also helps Bendy in here, most importantly the Ink aura he produces. His mere presence being capable of creating so much ink would be troublesome for Afton, the ink would not just cover the walls, it would also get on Afton and fuck with his sight as well, not only giving him away if he's invisible but also rendering him open for a moment, but besides covering Afton, the ink does more than that. Even if we argue that the sound disc produces would stop Bendy from hearing Afton, he doesn't have to, The Ink doesn't just act as a weapon, it also serves as a detection range, meaning that even if Bendy became deaf & Springtrap is a few halls away, Bendy would still know where he is thanks to the inky aura, it's also very possible that all the Ink in the studio has the same detection effect thanks to Bendy’s connection to the ink.


Speaking of ink, yeah the ink just makes Springtrap's attempts to run away for a quick breather or planning somewhat pointless, as it has even more uses besides the afterformentioned abilities, mix that in with Bendy’s much better speed, it wouldn't look all to good for Afton in the hiding game, However, even if like i said be super generous to Afton give him the MODs and say that it would work on him. That would mean that he would have a slight advantage in speed for this fight, there's a problem though… The fucking ink… with it he can completely negate Afton's small advantage with stuff like; creating ink to make Afton move slower, open portals towards wherever Afton is to get to him or to take Afton to him or to simply entrap Afton in very thick ink. There's Also the possibility that the Ink that Bendy creates with his presence could get on the MODs and mess with it, seeing how it has mess with lightbulbs before. Bendy can also just simply teleport to Afton no problem with ink or no ink, essentially, even if we're generous to Afton, the 1.6 difference won’t as useful as one may think, Bendy just has much more mobility compared to Afton and has several ways of limiting Afton’s already limited mobility and speed. Even if Bendy decides to not do any of that, Bendy's AoE is big enough where Afton even from far away will suffer big damage, While not a possible one shot, even a few meters would cause irreparable damage.


To clear a big misconception, Bendy is NOT blind, i repeat, Bendy is NOT blind, he can see perfectly fine and has shown to be capable of seeing Audrey’s pretty little legs being separated from her entire body. Besides sight he's Also shown to be capable if sniffing you out like a dog… buuut Afton corpse is completely mummified, so he wouldn't smell him, hmm… maybe he can small emotions Idk, anyways back to what's important, his sight, there's also been a statement that, Bendy’s is capable of seeing everything, adding the fact that Bendy senses being completely off the wall and the ink also working as a detection alarm for him, it's easy to see that statement as true, which makes it even rougher for Afton.


Yeah, Springtrap is a great hider, the problem is that in this game, he's going against a seeker that counters him really well. His unnatural senses and the fucking ink makes it so that, Springtrap can only hide for so long until The Ink Demon gets to him and the moment he gets caught, he likely isn't going to be able to escape, and with the fact that Bendy is faster and more mobile, The chances Springtrap gets even far in the first place is a tad bit questionable.


Certainly not on his own…


But who said he had to be alone…


Support 

Twisted Animatronics, Phantom Animatronics, Endoskeletons, Balloon boy horde, yeah Springtrap has a lot on his side, said Endoskeletons can be equipped with illusionary discs to make them look like Springtrap and the phantom animatronics themselves have their illusion effect on others. However Bendy himself has a bunch of Lost ones under his control that he can use to not only fight against the others he can also use them for either more power or regeneration, same with the searchers and many variants being able to be a pain in the ass. So the big talk is, whose support is better and more useful for this fight… which is a bit difficult to say both teams got some big hits. 


Let’s start with Afton, While the Balloon Boy horde and Endoskeletons are a lot more useful as bait, The twisted ones are the real terror here, being much stronger than Bendy's team and the phantom animatronics would be a pain to deal with. So at minimum Afton's gang is much stronger. However there are likely a lot more Lost Ones and Searchers, with searchers having a lot of variety. However there's one big advantage Bendy has over Afton in this, Bendy has an easy time bulldozing through all of Afton's minions, thanks to being so much stronger than them, portal them to another place or simply flood the room and while the same can be said to Afton getting rid of Bendy's support, unlike all of his support, thanks to The Cycle, they will always come back. 


Turning the tides big time on Afton, While his Twisted ones are more stronger then the Lost ones and Searchers, The Cycle makes it so that at the end of the fight, Bendy possible only loses a few of his soldiers but the rest are all still in peak condition, while Afton lost all of them, is fighting an army that constantly respawns and is likely worse for wear. While at best they're more of an annoyance to him due their lack of strength and Afton can use the remnants of the lost one to restoren himself, it would still be dangerous for William, as he's still on the run for the Ink Demon and wasting even an ounce of time on a lost one could cost him the entire fight as that is also a way for Bendy to quickly figure out where Afton, so he could simply teleport to him for a big smack. So easily put Bendy is going to catch Afton no matter what.


Up close and personal 

If I may be frank, this is most likely how William will actually take the fight instead. He's smart but it's pretty odd to argue that he’s always on the run even during the fight and always perfectly evades Bendy every move, while using animatronics (that got destroyed a long time ago by the way, kinda odd to give him them but i digress) to try and get away from him. It is just very speculative, especially as Afton doesn't know what the Ink does and as we go on about that later, is going to be a huge problem for Springtrap. He also doesn't know anything about the Cycle or what the Lost Ones even are making that advantage of him extracting remnants also small. It's much more likely that Afton attacks Bendy head on which, well with the enormous stat gap, you can tell how it'll go. With the Ink Demon himself, he has a straightforward fighting style, which is a monster hunting his food, While Also consistently making fun of him and trying to get in his head. Even if Afton does go for the stealth route, Bendy’s plethora of ways of catching up on Afton is so big, he's going to be forced to face dancing little demon head on Anyways.


Now enough talk about the characterization, now part of a big issue of the debate. 


Immortallity

A big part of those 2 characters is just the fact that both of them are such a pain in the ass to kill, characters like Springtrap, even when their vessel is destroyed, can keep going as a ghost as long as he thinks he still has a reason to be here on earth meaning if you Don't have the right way of ending him such a pain and as i said before Springtrap can simply restores himself if he absorbs and remnant. While for Bendy it might be even more problematic, Bendy has shown to be capable of recreating his own mass, capable of undoing any damage done to him with just a simple snap, he can regrow lost limbs and come back undamaged after being reduced to a puddle! Too add on to that, after being melted, he fell into a giant pool of ink, mixing the Ink Demon with the Ink itself, completely dissolving him, yet he quickly came back, just fine and just as strong as he immediately after coming back to life, snapped Buddy in half like a Kit-Kat bar and then just drowned him in ink, like jeez. With that in mind it's very possible that even if there's only a tiny bit of Bendy’s original ink left right next to more ink, Bendy would be able to form back his body and would immediately regain his strength. 


However the question is if either of them can get past this really dumb immortallity and regeneration as brute force won't be the way to put either down. Well Springtrap might have one going for him by the name of Corrosive shocks, a very powerful shock that Stitchwraith did after Springtrap corrupted him. Or so i thought, well to not drag this on through the mud… or ink rather, this is not really usable in here, not only is this a move that Springtrap has never even done it before and we know by fact that other remnants have done different abilities Springtrap himself doesn't even have, Springtrap would also need something to be capable of shocking others in the first place and trying to find one in a place like this, it's unlikely he'll be able to do just that. Which even that is questionable if it's just anything shocking or if it's specifically the battery that needed to be used to cause it. There's also the fact fluids still came from the officers meaning that it's not even going to stop the regen in the first place and lastly is the fact that Springtrap and the others are consistently weak to electricity and shocks in the Fnaf at Freddy's series and not even like uber strong electricity, so it would be weird that Springtrap himself would be able to it, at least in the body he's in rn, but to make matters worse Audrey herself have shown to be capable of taking electricity strong enough to power the Gent pipe, several times even and the Gent pipe is capable of powering up giant doors and rooms, with both being made from the same ink and Bendy just being, leagues more durable like it's ridiculous, He would be able to take the hit head on, hell, Audrey herself would most likely be able to ust eat the corrosive shocks. So to sum it up, there's too much speculation on an ability Afton never used, probably can't use for several reasons, likely doesn't even know how to use in the first place and even if he used it there's the probability that it doesn't even kill the big fucker.


Well, does Afton have any other ways to kill Bendy? While physically beating him up is damn near impossible due to the differences in stats and thanks to Bendy’s bullshit regen. Any of Afton's soul based abilities is also pretty much useless here thanks to Bendy explicitly not having a soul, which means his offensive options are severely limited and the soul poison not only takes too long to work, but the poison side effect won't even do anything as Bendy has no organs or flesh. So what leaves is only Springtrap delaying the fight, but even things like illusions, supernatural presence and having dangerous charisma is something The Ink Demon has as well.


So Afton is extremely limited in offense, what about Bendy? Can he murder Afton? Well yeah kind of easily too, unlike Bendy, Springtrap cannot reform himself after being squashed into a tin can or by getting just devoured. If Bendy simply eats him, something he does to so many other lost ones to the point it's pretty fair game, he would immediately negate Springtrap’s immortality as he VORES his soul.


“But Pas, you absolute GOOBER, wouldn't that just make Afton possess Bendy like what happened with Audrey?”


And to that i say…. 

“Not exactly.”

You see, the whole point of the final scène was completely different to what Bendy does to Audrey like every other time. The whole point of the scene was after finding out that Audrey is the artificial daughter of the man he despises the most, Joey Drew, he wanted her to join him into becoming one, The failed creation of Joey, that he neglected and his other creation, the perfect daughter that he cherished. Bendy specifically went out of his way to save Audrey, which he normally would never care to do and then throw all his insecurities {Yeah he has insecurities, I guess that happens when you get wrongfully locked away the first few months and then tortured for the next, crazy.} against Audrey, to make her think they're one of the same and them becoming one is the best for both, something he has never done during all his other jumpscares, hell he didn't even know who she was until after the reveal. There's Also the fact that before Bendy murdered Joey, he had no issue of Audrey moving the body mostly because he didn't see this of her suddenly gaining will and taking over, they were simply one entity now. 


Though let us say Springtrap attempts to possess bendy anyways, however might not even work, the fact that in the Fnaf series, there's been several cases of people fighting back against getting possessed due to strong enough willpower, same thing could be happening here, so let's see how rough and mighty the Ink Demon truly is? Well as you all remember Bendy has been going through quarter-hourly torture on days on end with no end near until Audrey came in. Reminder, Wilson's cycle lasted at least 211 days, meaning Bendy was getting tortured for months upon months straight and never gave in nor got washed. Even if we say that Wilson probably never caught Bendy instantly once he got inside the machine and some days he didn't get tortured for hours, 200 or even just simply 100 days alone of straight physical and mental torture, hundreds upon thousands of murder attempts and several forceful surgery on him to try and remove his powers only to fail would mean Bendy’s willpower is through the Fucking roof, definitely compared to regular humans in Fnaf. He's going to shrug Afton's possession like it's no one's business or atleast long enough to force Afton to go inside the body of a random lost one or even worse, a Searcher, so that Bendy can go in for a quick kill.


Speaking off willpower, that's something Bendy knows all too well and knows how to destroy it. The Ink Demon is pretty much a rapid telepathic shit talker, he loves belittling you, hell he lives for it. He knows exactly what your insecurities are, what little thing makes your a tad bit worse, what makes you feel like a wet sack of shit and makes you lose sleep at night, he loves laughing at your misery and plowing you down bit by bit until you Don't even know what you are, something he used well to make Audrey accept his proposal to join him. Essentially a battle between wills is not one Afton could take. 


But besides Bendy eating Springtrap or putting him inside a lost one is there any other way to kill him?… Well, yeah.


The Ink & The Cycle

Yeah Bendy's entire physiology just nukes Springtrap, as i said before how it completely screws over any stealth attempt Afton can pull or how it makes Bendy nigh-unkillable to Afton, it can also just instantly finish Afton off. Let me explain, so in the BatIM series, lost ones are essentially human souls that appeared in The Cycle and possessing an inky body after getting inked all over, what does this mean for Springtrap? Well Springtrap is a human soul that is currently possessing his own rotting corpse. Yeah you can see where this is going, That means that Bendy can put minimal effort and either destroy his body in one punch or jusy simply just flood the entire Room they're in with ink and Afton becomes a lost one. It might not even have to be fully flooded, it’s likely even a small Slob of ink getting on Afton's rotting body would immediately make him part of the cycle due to him being a soul. Actually Bendy might not have to do anything, if Springtrap ever tried to possess Bendy and leaves his own body, he lost, as he will immediately become a part of The Cycle. That's how counteractive the Ink is against Springtrap. 


As a lost one, Afton is pretty much fucked, not only does he lost a lot of his powers and stats, but he's now forever stuck on a never ending Cycle, honestly a poetic way to go for the Man Behind the slaughter, stuck in a never ending hell made from someone elses design and even if he tried to stil fight Bendy, he just one smacks him back to the ink, even in base and as time goes on Afton would get more insane while Bendy would simply get stronger until the Cycle repeats, but it's not just that, Afton being a lost one now means Bendy can simply control him, turning him part of the baby bitch course but If Bendy is feeling mercifull, he could use banishment to kill Afton for good and If Afton is super unlucky, instead of becoming a lost one he could get stuck between The Cycle and Reality unable to get to either, unable to do anything but moan in Agony.


Simple put, Bendy's main schtick, can really fuck Afton over and very quickly too.


Conclusion

To keep this brief, Springtrap is no one to be messed with, However he was sadly fighting a character who counters his most useful powers, While at the same time he's very vulnerable and unable to counter the other guy's main schtick. It really speaks volumes that it's really hard to think how Springtrap wins here, Bendy is at least 8 - 18 times stronger, pretty one shot worthy and is 4x faster. Unless you're extremely generous and give him something that he doesn't own nor is standard, he would only be 1.6 times faster, which still wouldn't help due to Bendy’s portals, teleportation and ink to slow Springtrap down or just instantly trap him forever and make him part of the cycle. Bendy's wincons are Also much easier to argue, nothing is stopping bendy from flooding the place, something he does constantly, sometimes with just his presence and for Springtrap to not get immediately turned into a lost one he would need to play the perfect game of running away. Another problem for Springboy is that he's fighting an enormous shape shifting blob that can heal from anything he can throw at him and his one way too maybe end him is an ability Springtrap never uses, doesn't even know how to use and is very unlikely to use it in the first place due to either A. Bendy being constantly on his ass and knowing his every move, B. Springtrap not even having the right requirements to use that move in the first place, hell he does still suffer like the others from the classic, gets shocked once and he's down or C. him even thinking about using this one specific move before Bendy does anything, like just hitting him, real good and as said before possession is more detrimental to Springtrap because there's the fact with how the Cycle works he instantly loses the moment he jumps out of the vessel and the issues just keep on piling on, like a never ending cycle.


Don't get me wrong Springtrap’s better intelligence, greater tech and good stealth skills might have gotten him further than most people would do while inside the Ink Demon's domain however Bendy's much better stats, unnatural senses, ridiculous physiology and overwhelming power just made it a no go for Afton. I guess William Afton couldn't think this one through. Sadly he got stabbed in the heart and then got shot and expired, he got taken apart… i hope this is what he desired.


The Winner is Bendy.

I'll see y'all soon since i am pretty much joining any revealed blog that isn’t Kat Vs Shiki.

Caden_Da_Monkay

(art by p0nyplanet)


Welp it’s finally happening, after many setbacks the blog you all thought was never releasing is finally here, and boy am I excited to talk about it. The name's Caden, I’m the guy who got Springtrap to stalemate Dio(iykyk) so you know this verdict is coming from a credible source. Jokes aside, big thanks to TMK for letting me on this blog. I love this match to no end, easily the 2nd best pick for an Afton opponent with such great potential plus a really good debate that was super fun to help figure out on the blog.


Now then enough with the prelude it’s verdict time. This one’s going to be fairly short at least compared to the others, I don’t want to just repeat the same things for 10 paragraphs as they’ve already covered it greatly, but there are some things I definitely want to cover. 


Starting off with stats, I’d say this section is pretty clear cut. Bendy has a solid strength advantage with the megajoules vs gigajoules gap, and while yes Afton would be stronger then normal Bendy, it’s unlikely Bendy wouldn’t attempt to enter his beast form. Meanwhile Afton has a solid advantage in speed, being about 2x faster without MODs and up to 13x faster with them. Now the elephant in the room here is the train feat for Bendy. With this feat Bendy would definitely be faster however you can quite easily poke some holes in it. First and foremost the feat itself is kind of weird, we have no proof Audrey can actually dodge the train and so all we have to go off is a comparison of how fast two different things can move in a frame, which isn’t the most solid basis for a feat and can quickly not make sense when applied elsewhere. Secondly, if you look closely there's actually two speeds in the calc for the train. If we go by how far the train actually moves in game during the frame, it’s traveling at 4 m/s, not slow by any means but a far cry from the 36 m/s speed the calc assumes, a 9x difference. This throws into question the legitimacy of the calculation, not to mention given the calc is done by comparing two different speed calculations you could argue it’s just calc stacking. Lastly, while I hate to be that guy there is the outlier possibility, Bendys speed feats are all consistently in the 60-90 m/s radius, and then in comes a feat significantly faster than all of them that already has holes in it. I think this feat just has too many holes in it to use. Plus even if we give the benefit of the doubt and use this train feat, Afton would still be faster with MODs, albeit to a far lesser extent. So Bendy takes strength and Afton takes speed. 


Stats can only get these two so far however, given how helpful their abilities are. Starting with Bendy, the ink in general is his biggest asset. His physiology makes physical damage difficult, while he is a solid mass he is capable of shapeshifting into more “liquidy” forms and if you’ve ever tried punching water you can probably guess why that’d be a tricky thing to deal with, not to mention if he actually does take any damage his regeneration is there to help. The other big asset of the ink is its capabilities in affecting Aftons soul. Soul Consumption is a solid shot at keeping Afton down permanently given his immortality is soul based, and if he manages to turn Springtrap into a creature of ink by killing him whilst submerged in it, then options like banishment are now on the table along with just making Afton more vulnerable in general. As for Springtrap, his biggest assets are his illusions and corrosive shocks. Afton has many illusionary devices he can throw at Bendy, and while these illusions are already extremely potent, against someone with enhanced senses like Bendy they’d be even more potent and an easy way to disorient them. As for the corrosive shocks, they’re Aftons best option against Bendys physiology. The corrosive shocks were potent enough to vaporize all the water in a human body, if used on a more liquidy character like Bendy it’s effects would be devastating. Considering ink is over 90% water, eliminating such a key component in bendys makeup could effectively render their body useless for the time being if not outright kill them then and there. Now Afton doesn’t have immediate access to an electrical power source, but his supports do. All it would take is a formation into the Amalgamation using his animatronics and he’d have what he needs, that or just use one of the many electrical devices inside of the Cycle. Speaking of the supports, Aftons are generally more useful here. Afton’s are stronger, faster, tougher, and has better abilities, plus he just has more. Granted, Bendy takes the advantage in his allies' longevity, as he can continue to summon or create more whereas Afton has a more limited amount. I think overall though Afton has the better abilities for this fight, his illusions and superior support give him greater control of the battlefield, he generally has a more versatile set of abilities and arsenal, and they equal out in counters to the others unkillable-ness, but on that note let’s talk about…


How the fuck do they kill the other?? Yeah unsurprisingly the most complex part of this debate is actually putting one down for good, so I’ve given it it’s own segment. Starting with Bendy again, while he can’t reincarnate through the cycle, his shapeshifting and regeneration make leaving any lasting damage incredibly difficult given he could just slip away, summon some ink to him and he’ll get better. As for Afton, because of his soul based immortality, Bendy has no way to physically kill him, even completely destroying the springtrap suit won’t do him any good since Aftons soul will still persist and can just go possess another body/object or even reform his body with technopathy. So it seems like neither has any good ways to physically affect the other, which is somewhat true but their immortalities do have limits. Bendys regen while useful, it doesn’t have the most impressive showings. The feat of him getting “melted” into ink really isn’t a regen feat, he hasn’t lost any ink here given he’s just going into more ink so there’s nothing to regenerate, it’s more a showing of his shapeshifting. Without that his best showings are regenerating lost limbs, still good but if enough ink is lost he may not be able to continue. Afton on the other hand has a different issue, being a wandering soul in the Cycle is very risky business. While Aftons soul is able to go from vessel to vessel, the ink traps souls within it, meaning if his soul is consumed by Bendy or turned into an ink creature he’d have no means of escape. So then with these limits we can tell what wincons both would have. In order for Bendy to win he would have to either consume Aftons soul into his body or turn him into a creature of ink and then banish or absorb him. Meanwhile Afton has to destroy a majority of Bendys biomass until he’s in a state where he can no longer keep going. So then, who’s wincon do I think is more likely???? Let’s find out.



Conclusion:

If you just skipped to this part then I can’t blame ya, there’s a lot to read here lmao. Anyways to quickly summarize, Bendy takes Strength and Stamina, Afton takes Speed and Abilities, and both are almost equally hard as balls to kill, but there is definitely one who’s harder to kill, and I think it’s Springtrap. Now let me make this abundantly clear, Bendy is no push over, hell I sided with him for like 40% of this blog’s production time while flip flopping in who I thought won, but I think Afton has what it takes to put this demon down. Firstly while Bendy does have an immense strength advantage, physical damage isn’t that useful against Afton. Sure it means Afton will have a way harder time killing Bendy, but being stronger doesn’t help Bendy much in terms of killing Springtrap given his soul will still go on, something physicals won’t help against. To follow up on this, bendy getting the chance to use his strength advantage won’t be easy either, Aftons taking speed by a good amount and coupled with his superior battlefield control and illusion spam, Bendy is gonna have a hard time tracking him down. Granted Beast Bendys AOE helps a lot here but as long as Afton plays it safe he shouldn’t be in too much danger, especially because once again physical attacks won’t do bendy much good. Bendys only way to finish this fight is by forcing Afton to be consumed by the Ink, drowning and killing Afton in the ink would work but that’s easier said than done when he can turn into a trash kaiju twice bendys size(and theoretically keep growing). There’s also the debate on what the ink would count as dead, Afton is technically both dead and alive at the same time, what it would take for the ink to see him as dead be it just fully submerging him into the ink or needing to destroy his body as well, I’ll let you decide yourself. Personally I lean more towards the latter but I don’t think it matters too much given that fully submerging Afton in any way would be tricky. Especially since it brings Bendy in close, giving Afton the chance to use his corrosive shocks. These shocks would at minimum mess Bendy up to a huge degree, and possibly just kill them outright, if his ink is annihilated at this level he’d likely be unable to regenerate and thus die as without a source of ink to regenerate with bendy is vulnerable to physical damage. There is the other option for Bendy to kill Afton however, consuming his body and by proxy his soul into himself. This wincon is likely easier to pull off but it could very easily backfire. Remember when I said soul consumption was a solid way to keep Afton down, well I lied sowwy. Taking Afton's soul into himself runs the risk of him possessing Bendy, something we know Bendy is susceptible to. When Bendy took Audrey’s soul into them(there’s no reason to say this was a different ability given he shows nothing else like this) at the end of Dark Revival, she was able to fight back control and take over Bendy. Now replace Audrey with a likely far more powerful soul and one with actual experience in possession and you have a recipe for disaster. Once Afton has possessed Bendy, he’d have full control of his body, if you don’t want to count that as a win already then there’s nothing stopping Afton from just sitting back in Bendys body as he forces them to not fight back against Aftons wave of minions and corrosive shocks. Plus this isn’t just a possibility if Bendy decides to try and consume Springtrap, if Aftons body is destroyed there’s nothing stopping him from just invading Bendys body and taking control. Afton’s possession poses an extreme threat to Bendy in this battle, and if they don’t take care of Aftons soul quickly then it can quickly be game over. Finally there’s something else I’ve been saving for the conclusion, that being the difference in intelligence. Bendy is by no means stupid, I mean he learnt English and that language is stupid, but he can’t compare to Aftons genius. While he is less experienced in battle, Afton is undeniably the smarter combatant and would be far more likely to piece together what he needs to do to win then Bendy is. This combined with Afton’s superior speed, abilities, and more readily accessible wincons of corrosive shocks and possession means that it’s just more likely for him to land a finishing move first. All in all, while Bendy certainly has a shot at winning, Afton has what it takes to ensure this demon won’t get its revival, putting their name on his slaughter. The winner is Springtrap.


The Monster King

Don't lock us away we're not what you're thinking


I'm pretty sure this took longer than Zorro vs Robin Hood to finish. Should it have? Probably not no. But if you're reading this and it hasn't been delayed for another three months then that means we finally finished it. 


Bendy VS Springtrap, the Ink Demon and the man behind the slaughter. Despite how uncomfortably rigorous and intense this research has been, I've come to the conclusion that this is without a doubt the best matchup for both of them. I think like, pretty much every idea people have for Springtrap is goofy. They either have serious tonal clashes, don't really work as a fight, are hilarious stomps, or like, are just impossible to take seriously. I used to like Sachiko, but it's not really that fair. It's just Springtrap being killed by an obscure animal girl who is kind of like his victims, not balanced at all. Freddy Krueger is kind of hard for me to take seriously as a fight, I'm sorry but you can never trick me into thinking that Springtrap would ever have the upper hand against a dream world Freddy. Dio and Junko… Come on. 


On the other hand, Bendy has Cuphead. I know why that exists, but it doesn't really utilize Bendy as like, how he is in his actual game. It feels like a bit of a waste to get an episode for him against someone that doesn't really parallel the story or basic beats of his game and what Bendy really is as a character. 


Bendy and Springtrap parallel each other very, very well. It's almost as if one of them took inspiration from the other. Both FNaF and Bendy and the Ink Machine at their core is about a man who attempted to mess with the forces of life itself to breed new life into their children's entertainment mascot, only for it to go horribly horribly wrong, causing them to meet their fates at the hands of their creations. It's basically Victor Frankenstein being forced to confront a parallel to his own creation, but with exploitative nostalgic old children's  media dashed in as well. It's also like, probably the only FNaF fight that doesn't have a complete aesthetic clash, though that's probably because Bendy came from the same sub-genre that FNaF popularized.


If that isn't enough to convince you, they are fairly similar in scale as well, and their specific abilities and skills directly counter each other so well that it's insane. You'll see more of what I mean later down in my verdict, but it has a really unique stealth vs hunter aspect to the fight that isn't found in a lot of matchups, and would work very well for a horror fight like this. 


Also, Lofty wanted me to do this matchup, then he evaporated…


There are a lot of very cool aspects to this fight, but before I get into the X-Factor stuff, I need to go over my personal stats for these two characters. That will help contextualize how they can use their powers and skills in relation to each other, as they aren't terribly far off from one another.


With Bendy, he has a good amount of feats to scale to for his standard form. Brute Boris and Shipahoy Wilson can both throw really heavy things like anchors and carts pretty fast, which gets up to the high kilojoule to low megajoule ranges. This is further substantiated by Henry surviving a pretty long elevator crash and Audrey breaking open metal vents, and Bendy has also once flooded several halls and rooms with ink, which can equal 12 megajoules of energy.


By contrast, there are quite a few feats in FNaF that match or surpass that level of power. There are a lot of moments where the animatronics can bust through walls and can bust decently large objects, such as Twisted Freddy smashing through walls, the Twisted animatronics in general being able to bust open a large crater of dirt, said Twisted animatronics also surviving an ignition of gasoline, Montgomery Gater holding up a large bucket filled with plastic golf balls and Afton himself surviving being caught in a fire that can melt aluminum. These feats can all pretty consistently reach into the megajoule ranges of power, even up to a hundred or so megajoules, dwarfing many of the feats of strength in Bendy and the Ink Machine.


Of course, however, that is not the end of the story. Bendy can enlarge himself into Beast Bendy, and when he's like this he can dish out way more power, easily one shotting many of the standard enemies in the game. More specifically, he's able to create small earthquakes which can shake the whole room that he is in, and in doing so, objects caught a fair distance from Bendy will literally combust. 


Measuring the distance between Bendy and the outer hit box of his attack, we can tell that in order to produce so much energy, he must have been hitting the ground at minimum with a force of 3 gigajoules of energy, which is at least about ten times more powerful than anything you can give Afton. I've heard the argument that the force may have been divided as Bendy slams the ground repeatedly, but I'm not sure if that's the case. Repeatedly hitting the ground with the force of say, 1 gigajoule, would only result in propagating the quake at the same range it is - it would not combine like that to reach a larger area. In general though, I think it's more likely that Bendy is hitting the ground harder and harder after every slam, which causes the range to increase with each new hit box. Even if you were to scrutinize it to that degree (which I'd find unreasonable), it is a lot easier to scrutinize the gasoline feat and use a rectangular volume, which would bring it down to about 169 megajoules, keeping about a consistent ratio in a strength differential. This is also consistent with internal calculations that use alternative methods such as reversing surface area proportionate to the fragmentation of the doors, and remember, the calc for the quake uses a very, very conservative estimate for the intensity. In all likelihood, it is probably a bit higher than what was given.


Now it is worth mentioning however that Springtrap does in fact have ways of growing in strength over the course of the fight to potentially close the gap. For instance, he could try to extract Remnant from the Lost Ones, or maybe even use the Amalgamation, under the correct circumstances. However, Bendy can do the same. He can also fuse with the Lost Ones if he needed to in order to increase his strength, and his power naturally grows stronger over time as he is in the Cycle. Because of this, Bendy can always ensure that he has a consistent, and notable edge in raw power during the fight. This is only as Beast Bendy of course, but we've seen that he can transform into Beast Bendy fairly quickly, and we would be taking them both at their peaks in this battle.


As far as speed goes, Springtrap doesn't really fare much better. Springtrap moving between locations within “blinks” can get him as high as 196 m/s. Bendy on the other hand is able to catch Audrey mid-flow, which is fast enough to move faster than a train while in full motion. I don't think there is any real reason to assume that it is slower than an actual train, the ghost train is supposed to be a representation of a literal train that crashed before. Calculating the distance Audrey can move relative to the train would mean that her flow can move nearly 800 meters per second, four times faster than Afton's best speed feat. Oh yeah, I also don't really think that MODs should be used as a multiplier here. It's kind of weird, but in Special Delivery the player can control different animatronics they can collect, one of them apparently being Springtrap, and you can modify them with MODs to do things such as increase their speed. It's completely player dependent, but the more pressing issue for me is that it's not really something that Afton owns himself, and I kind of doubt that he has any MODs in later events like Pizzeria Simulator, so it's probably not really standard. It is kind of like giving a Pokémon HM/TMs. If you did give it to him and stacked that multiplier onto his calculated speed then he'd have a slight speed advantage, but you should also know that in Special Delivery Springtrap has a clearly stated and enforced speed of 170 mph, or about 76 m/s. For as hyper-scrutinized as the train feat is, that fact has been kind of just ignored. If we were to be completely conservative with their speed then they'd be in very similar ranges with each other thanks to Bendy's lower end feats, and Bendy is still able to keep up with higher end interpretations. If given equal leeway I don't see Springtrap having a substantial advantage here.


So with that, Bendy is stronger, tougher and can match Afton's speed, if not outright surpass it. Springtrap can't handle a direct physical altercation with Bendy, and his amorphous body will only make matters even worse for him. Bendy is a being completely made up of ink, and because of that he's been able to do things such as regenerate entire limbs and dissolve into a puddle of ink without dying. It's basically like trying to fight a symbiote or a logia user, which is only made worse when said amorphous blob is a lot tougher than you too.


So, Afton obviously isn't winning a boxing  match against Bendy. Still, Springtrap isn't completely helpless, and this is where the fight becomes really fun. Afton has a lot of good evasive skills and abilities that can allow him to get away from Bendy and formulate some kind of scheme to take the Ink Demon down, namely his illusion discs, support, stealth skills, and the animstealth module, which lets him become invisible. Afton can potentially escape Bendy from within the Cycle for a short time to catch a breather or get the jump on him, especially since he is a lot smarter, but Bendy actually has a lot of very useful tools for dealing with this.


Bendy can like, pretty easily and quickly destroy any physical support Afton may try and throw his way, or he can combat them with his own support in the form of the Lost Ones, or he can circumvent them entirely either with his own portals or flooding the location with ink. Speaking of, even if Afton held an advantage in speed, Bendy could always just portal to his location or entrap him with ink, or both. While Afton may be incredibly sneaky and can become invisible, he's never had to deal with someone whose senses are so superb that they can sense faint rustling of paper from across an entire studio. There is also nothing saying that Bendy's superhuman senses would leave him more sensitive or vulnerable to auditory attacks. If anything, I feel that Bendy being able to hear specific subtle footsteps and rustling of paper among all the noise in the studio implies that he would be able to better deal with Afton's auditory distractions. It may help him confuse Bendy at first, but he cannot ultimately escape the Ink Demon for long. I just feel that Bendy's senses are a lot more of a positive than a negative for him.


Okay, but just because Bendy can eventually catch Afton doesn't mean he wouldn't be able to pull something off, right? Sure, but before we go on, I'd like to remind everyone of something very important here. William Afton has zero knowledge about Bendy or how the Cycle works. By assuming that he would opt for conveniently evading Bendy at the start of the fight and being ultra evasive instead of just attacking him like what he would probably do, we are already granting him pretty generous circumstances. To then take that and argue that he would somehow stumble upon the gent towers, the last film reel or the Ink Machine, know their purpose and how they work, and then use them against Bendy veers very heavily into “controller up the ass” land. I don't really seriously consider them as win conditions in this fight, William will need to rely on his own abilities to get the job done here, so let's focus on them.


I think the most obvious thing to get out of the way here is that Afton cannot directly target Bendy's soul as he does not have one. This fact alone kind of limits a lot of Afton’s options, as he's forced to confront a very unkillable creature that doesn't even have a soul, and also prevents him from attempting to extract any remnant from Bendy. I also think the whole soul poison stuff probably would not be an optimal strategy for Afton here either - we don't know what having a “portion of his soul” implanted into Bendy would mean, but I think given how souls and remnant works in fnaf it just refers to an extension of himself. You'd probably need more evidence to say that this would create a duplicate Afton inside Bendy or anything to that effect, and of course, the physical ailments it could cause wouldn't do anything to Bendy due to being made of ink.


Similarly, the whole corrosive shock thing I think leans too heavily on unproven assumptions. In addition to having to assume Afton would be able to do this with any source of electricity, there is nothing saying that it evaporates all of your bodily fluids, and in fact we know it does not as the person who fell victim to this was oozing bodily fluids from his face as he died. Personally, I think that was blood that had darkened, which is entirely possible after something like… that, happened. Regardless, I think there is too much ambiguity behind what exactly happened to say for sure that it would actually do anything meaningful to a being like Bendy. You kind of have to give Afton quite a lot of credit here to say this as a reliable win condition.


So Afton's options are a bit limited, but what can Bendy do in return to actually kill him? Uh, anything pretty much. Namely, just beat him up. Bendy, being physically stronger, can just tear him apart, killing the vessel and thus causing him to become a Lost One as per the Cycle's influence. Remember that technically, every being in Bendy and the Ink Machine is a soul that is possessing an ink body, and once their bodies are killed or destroyed then their souls will go back into the ink, and it likely wouldn't be very different here either. Even if he did persist with a lesser body, Bendy can still just destroy him further, and it's not like he needs to atomize him or anything, or that Afton can even do very much in such a state. 


It is possible that Bendy might be able to banish Afton as a Lost One, but really, I don't think it is very necessary. When you kill a Lost One, they don't just immediately respawn in the same location you are at. They just die, and presumably revive far away from yourself. That would probably count as a victory as far as Death Battle is concerned, especially since Afton will be forced to wander the Cycle as a blobby mindless beast for eternity. Bendy has physically beaten a lot of foes before, such as the Projectionist or Shipahoy Wilson, so this wouldn't be out of the question.


Still, there is also the chance that Bendy could decide to simply eat him, devouring Afton as well as his soul. This would definitely kill Afton for good, as he has not shown regeneration beyond his soul before, and this specifically stops soul based resurrection from the Cycle. But what about the end of Dark Revival? Audrey managed to take over his body, couldn't Afton do the same? Possession is a pretty common theme in FNaF, after all. This is where things get a little complicated…


You see, throughout Bendy and the Dark Revival, whenever Audrey, the player character, gets killed, she will revive with a new inky body as if nothing had happened. However, if caught by the Ink Demon, instead what will happen is that Audrey cannot revive and gets a game over - for all intents and purposes, Audrey is dead. A few other enemies, such as the Lurker and Shipahoy Wilson can do the same, basically killing Audrey and giving her no opportunity for resurrection, rendering her non-thinking, if you will. Or just, dead. However, at the end of the game, after Bendy saves Audrey he will offer her to join him as one entity, making her stronger than ever before by fusing into himself. Audrey will accept, and after this happens, she can see from Bendy's vision and control his actions. What's important here is that she is still very much conscious and alive before she even takes over Bendy's body, a stark difference from how Bendy will usually consume her and kill her, which does not offer her the same opportunity. 


Really, a lot of Springtrap’s biggest arguments all rely on convoluted scenarios or extrapolating information out of things that aren't really there, while for Bendy it's kind of just… He has better stats, his abilities counter Afton a lot better than vice versa, he is tougher to kill and he just beats him up. Afton's options are going to be severely limited here against an opponent like Bendy, like… What does he do when Bendy floods the room in ink and entraps him? What does he do when Bendy smashes his body apart and he becomes a Lost One? His best potential option here is possession, but even that is going to be hard to get to, especially in comparison to Bendy's own win conditions. Afton is fighting a much stronger opponent who has no soul, is completely amorphous and can regenerate damage, can match his support, can tech out his stealth options, and can completely nullify his own soul based defenses and immortality. Do you see why this is a highly difficult battle for William to win? In order for Bendy to be put on the back foot by contrast, you'd have to rely on very specific and contrived circumstances regarding Afton's abilities. I think Bendy just clearly takes the majority of advantages in this fight, and it's a lot more likely than not that he either just destroys Afton, resulting in him becoming a Lost One, or eats him and his soul.


I think that this fight is really fun, it's basically an ultra intense game of cat and mouse. Ultimately though, Bendy’s path to victory is just a lot more solid and less strenuous. Springtrap has a lot of neat skills and gadgets, but he can't really stack up to the Ink Demon's superior power, defenses, and inescapable abilities. The winner is Bendy.



Team Bendy - Buttersamuri, Pasbros, The Monster King, Lofty


Team Springtrap - KingCorporeal, CadenDaMonkay



Next time…


Comments

  1. OswaldDecember 6, 2023 at 12:22 PM

    I prefer junko vs springtrap but nice one

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  2. OswaldDecember 6, 2023 at 12:27 PM

    Why isn't baby and the funtimes part of the arsenal

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  3. OswaldDecember 6, 2023 at 12:33 PM

    He was only able to control the technology cause the the duit was connected to them. He wouldn't be able to control the claddic animatronics

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  4. OswaldDecember 6, 2023 at 12:52 PM

    Lmao you people genuinely believe the mimic was a retcon even though the books were plans eons before the game even came out?

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  5. OswaldDecember 6, 2023 at 1:03 PM

    The only reason why william was able to stay that long on earth was cause of eleanor. There was a evidence he would be able to just stay on earth effortlessly as a soul without dying close toa object or machine machine possess.

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  6. Jean DuréDecember 6, 2023 at 2:55 PM

    Damn, this blog sucks, what a bad job at explaining anything, maybe that's why y'all don't really accurately predict anything on Death Battle lol

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    1. OswaldDecember 8, 2023 at 6:19 PM

      First of all what the hell Is up with dumbass. Secondly, the g1 blog does better research a lot of times over death battles. And this isn't even the the g1 blog lol they have only done one matchup and it was correct. Also do you idiots understand the current death bstle research team is the original g1 blog? What do you think makes them better dummy?

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    2. NestleCritFebruary 12, 2024 at 2:29 PM

      I disagree with either of your guys' attitudes lmao. VS debates ain't that serious.
      On the other hand, though, I disagreed starkly with the "Steve VS Terrarian" blog, and have made numerous comments telling why. Don't know enough about either of these two to make a verdict, though.
      These guys' research isn't perfect, and their interpretations should be taken with a grain of salt.

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    3. OswaldFebruary 13, 2024 at 8:49 AM

      My attitude is objectively correct

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    4. JHBloggerFebruary 24, 2024 at 7:10 PM

      I doubt that.
      There is no excuse to be rude.

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  7. greymerlion2December 19, 2023 at 1:18 PM

    Good blog

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  8. GermFebruary 5, 2024 at 8:49 AM

    There's too much hate in these comments.

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  “No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”   - Aristotle Bill Cipher, the Nightmare Realm’s Dream Demon from Gravity Falls . Discord, Equestria’s Lord of Chaos from My Little Pony. The laws of reality are something that we all must answer to. What we can do, how we do it, and what obstacles stand in the way of various accomplishments. But for beings like these two, there are no such laws dictating their deeds. Only their morals and the goals that they choose to follow. The Dream Demon and the Chaos Lord both laugh in the face of physics and reality, but for being so similar, there are few beings so different. Both seek to change their worlds in a new era of weirdness and chaos, but to what ends will they bring it about? And what will become of the world after their battle? Will Bill Cipher succeed in liberating the world and ushering in a new era of partying, or does Discord truly wield the most powerful magic of all in friendship? The fabric of worlds will rip an
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Light Yagami VS Walter White

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  "He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one." -Alexander Pope Light Yagami , otherwise known as Kira, the wielder of the Death Note and God of a new world. Walter White , otherwise known as Heisenberg, legendary drug kingpin and the one who knocks. There are people among us that are extraordinarily gifted, intelligent individuals who are able to contribute greatly to society. However, their talents are not always used for the right causes, yet their vanity may convince them that their acts are only being done for the greater good. After all, they are at the top of the food chain. Who can tell them otherwise? And yet, after committing these heinous acts for so long, maybe they are no longer righteous. Maybe they've become heinous themselves. Or maybe they always were. When the legendary Kira and Heisenberg butt heads, God vs the Devil, who will come out on top? And who will face
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