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| “ | Shut up and bleed you motherf- | „ |
| ~ Sweet Tooth's most iconic line. |
Sweet Tooth, is the most famous character and mascot of Twisted Metal. An insane clown who drives a modified ice cream truck, Sweet Tooth's portrayals have varied greatly over the course of the series, with his mental instability, appearance and his vehicle of choice usually being the only real thing each version has in common. Originally simply a psychotic clown for the first two games, his most famous and darkest incarnation saw Needles transform into pure, sadistic evil; He is a brutal serial killer who butchers everyone in his path and is the split personality of Marcus Kane.
Portrayals[]
- In Twisted Metal and it's FMV cutscenes, Sweet Tooth was played by Robert Goodens.
- In Twisted Metal: Black, Twisted Metal: Lost, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale and the 2012 Twisted Metal game, he was played by J.S. Gilbert, who also played No-Face in the same game and Kingdok in the Bone video games.
- In Twisted Metal: Head-On, he was played by Fred Tatasciore, who also played Jubair al Hakim from the Assassin's Creed series, Kakuzu from Naruto, Malthus from Annabelle and Annabelle: Creation, Cthulhu, Dracula, and Thanapod from Love, Death and Robots, Dennis from SpongeBob SquarePants, and Zeus from the God of War series.
- In the Peacock TV series, he is portrayed in his body by AEW wrestler Samoa Joe and voiced by Will Arnett, who also played Stranz Van Waldenberg
Biography[]
Twisted Metal[]
Needles then was seemingly arrested again and thrown into a mental asylum. Sometime later, he broke out and went off the grid. Soon, a man known as Calypso would approach him, giving him the opportunity to join his motor derby of death known as Twisted Metal. Needles agreed as this would allow him to regroup with his best friend, Crazy Harold the Wacky Lunch Snack.
If he is to win Twisted Metal, then he drives up to Calypso's hideout with a hostage tied-up in the passenger seat, where he is waiting surrounded by his scantily clad women. Needles then explains his wish to Calypso. Calypso is flabbergasted and amazed by Needles' ridiculous request. He then comes to the realization that he is not kidding. Calypso sends one of his women to give Needles' his prize. Needles then rants about how difficult the tournament was before taking a gun and shooting up the place. His hostage then breaks free and points a gun at him, explaining that she is going to steal his truck.
Twisted Metal 2[]
Needles, now going as Sweet Tooth returned to the next Twisted Metal tournament, this time with another odd wish. His wish is to turn into a bug so he can kill others without people calling him crazy. Thus, if he is to win Twisted Metal, he asked Calypso to turn him into a bug and let him live in a garden in the country, far from any humans that could call him crazy. Calypso granted Sweet Tooth's request and he enjoyed his new life. He was able to kill as he pleased in peace and whenever he grew lonely for humans or rather their flesh, he would look up and dream of the day he crawled back into their world.
Twisted Metal 3[]
*Twisted Metal 3 & Twisted Metal 4 are confirmed to be non-canon and a separate timeline from the canon events, as such several events retcon earlier and later ones.
Sweet Tooth returned to compete in Twisted Metal yet again, with yet another bizarre wish. If he is to win, Sweet Tooth is now able to eat all the sweets and ice cream he wants, which Calypso granted. However, he ends up strapped into a dentist chair with drills trained on him, with Calypso saying he should have brushed between snacks.
Twisted Metal 4[]
Sweet Tooth serves as the main antagonist in the game. When Sweet Tooth was a child, the Twisted Metal tournament took place in his town and had an extreme impact on him. He had constant visions of death and mayhem and continued to follow the tournament for years until he finally was able to become a competitor. Sweet Tooth proved to be an extremely skilled competitor being a professional murderer, taking out many opponents, but it soon lost its appeal. He realized that Calypso was just using him as a pawn to collect souls and become stronger. Thus, when Sweet Tooth won the tournament, he used his wish to take Calypso's place as the head of Twisted Metal. He was now the ringmaster instead of the clown, running things from his carnival like lair with his horde of maniacal clown minions. Sweet Tooth also served as the final challenge to any competitor who made it to the end with his upgraded ice cream truck. He also had Calypso's twisted sense of humor when it came to granting the request of the winner. Often twisting their words to harm them in some way.
Twisted Metal: Black[]
- Main article: Sweet Tooth (Twisted Metal: Black)
*Twisted Metal: Black is implied to take place inside Sweet Tooth's depraved mind.
Sweet Tooth was once more imprisoned. As a matter of fact, this was up to this point the longest he had been confined. This would give him downtime. He began to grow more and more angry with his curse and dreamed of it to be gone. Calypso eventually showed up, offering Sweet Tooth a place in the Twisted Metal tournament. If he won, then Calypso would show the clown how to undo the curse and Sweet Tooth agreed to compete.
In his respective ending, Sweet Tooth went to Calypso to claim his prize. Calypso gave the clown a vial containing the blood of the preacher who cursed him. Calypso told him if he drank it, the curse would be removed, but if he went back to his killing ways, the curse would come back. It took Sweet Tooth only 10 seconds to decide that he'd rather be cursed than give up his life as a killer. He smashed the vial and killed Calypso, officially becoming the greatest killer of all time. He drove away into the night, satisfied.
Twisted Metal: Small Brawl[]
*Twisted Metal: Small Brawl is dubiously canon, and it is also possible that the Sweet Tooth shown here is a different person. However, this is unconfirmed.
Sweet Tooth was the youngest and most mischievous of the kids in the neighborhood. He entered Billy Calypso's RC car tournament just wanting a little ice cream and some fun. In his ending, Calypso gave Sweet Tooth an ice cream truck, noting that he thought such a small request was stupid, but Sweet Tooth strapped Calypso to the front of it and started driving around with police cars in hot pursuit.
Twisted Metal: Head On[]
Sweet Tooth, having competed in and won the Twisted Metal tournament many times, was one of Calypso's finest killers. However, he was growing tired of the repetitive pattern of the tournaments and decided that he wanted to be in control of the tournament.
In Sweet Tooth ending, he crashes into Calypso's lair. Calypso was there waiting, asking what his wish was this time. Sweet Tooth said he'd been getting tired of his job as a simple driver and noted how they'd been going through the same events year after year. He then made his wish, that he and Calypso would change places. Calypso said he would never grant such a wish, but Sweet Tooth pointed out that he had no choice. The two suddenly changed into each other. Calypso tried to get his guards to kill Sweet Tooth, but Sweet Tooth made them kill him instead.
In his alternate ending as Dark Tooth, he meets up with his split personality, seemingly, having now been separated. The two encounter the nonoperational Tower Tooth, a humongous and terrifying modification of Sweet Tooth's truck. Marcus asked who he was, but Sweet Tooth replied that he was Marcus. Confused, Marcus wondered why this all happened, but Sweet Tooth persuaded him to forget it. The two then climb in Tower Tooth, powering it on.
Twisted Metal (2012)[]
- Main article: Sweet Tooth (Twisted Metal 2012)
Sweet Tooth, or as he is known as outside of the tournament, Needles Kane, is the alter ego of a man named Marcus Kane. Marcus was a middle-aged man who lived with his wife and three children whilst also working as an ice cream man for “Sweet Tooth's Ice Cream Company”. Marcus was seemingly a normal happy man living a normal suburban life. Inside, Marcus was feeling a burning rage and hostility that he repressed into a dark, split personality named Needles Kane. This other personality wore away at him, until he finally snapped. He carved his iconic mask, meant to look like the mascot of the company he worked for, and was completely taken over by Needles. Needles murdered Marcus‘s wife, baby daughter, and attempted to kill his daughter Sophia, however, she was able to escape his grasp by stabbing him in the eye with scissors. He also let his son run off, although badly scarred, in order to have a successor. This began his killing spree. He would go on to murder countless individuals. Sweet Tooth had grown angry and bitter due to him not being able to successfully kill Sophie. This would eventually grow into an obsession that would drive and motivate him to hunt her down.
Sweet Tooth eventually pursued her to a hospital, where he wiped out numerous patients, doctors, and police officers in his search for her. However, Sophie had left before he arrived, officially becoming the only person to have ever escaped him. He would then once more enter into the competition, wishing to finally kill the one that got away. His first match was in Sunsprings, California, where Calypso welcomed him and established the challenge. Sweet Tooth managed to win and continued to advance through the tournament. Finally, he headed back to Sunsprings for his final challenge, where he faced off against Mr. Grimm's gang, who were using a pair of giant monster trucks. Sweet Tooth managed to take one down, prompting the other to activate a powerful suit of armor, making it invincible to attacks. However Sweet Tooth's gunner had him get under the truck, allowing him to get under it and plant some C4. But when the gunner asked him to come back and pick him up, Sweet Tooth just detonated the C4 anyway, killing his gunner and destroying the armor, before he took down the last truck. He then went to Calypso, demanding to be sent where Sophie had been all these years.
However, she had killed herself before Sweet Tooth attacked the hospital, thus Calypso teleported him into her coffin, burying him alive. But Sweet Tooth had not killed his older son, Charles Kane, precisely so he could carry on his legacy if anything ever happened to him. His son headed to the grave and dug it up, taking his father's mask and lighting his head on fire, before racing off in Sweet Tooth's ice cream truck to kill Calypso and avenge his father. But after he left, Calypso went to the grave and brought Sophie back to life, wearing a clown mask and with her head on fire similar to the first Sweet Tooth. Now dubbed "Sweet Chick", Sophie would become Calypso's enforcer and bodyguard.
Personality[]
Sweet Tooth is extremely twisted and psychotic. he embodies hatred, mayhem, and destruction. He is a complete maniac who takes enjoyment only in spreading death and havoc. Sweet Tooth prides himself on being the greatest serial killer in history, willing to do anything to keep his title. He is also seemingly somewhat of a narcissist and has misogynistic tendencies.
However, his personality seemingly changes depending on what game he's in. Such as in the first game, he's simply just an insane man who enjoys mayhem and wants his paper bag friend back. In Twisted Metal 3 & 4, he is overall sillier and much more of a clown. While in Twisted Metal: Black and the 2012 game, he is a sadistic murderer who enjoys only the pain and suffering of others.
Appearance[]
In his first appearance in the original game, Sweet Tooth looked relatively normal. He had a bloodied and somewhat torn red and white clown suit with creepy face-paint, that reflects his inner evil. He also did not have his iconic head of flames at this point, instead having curly, dyed, green hair. In Twisted Metal 2, Sweet Tooth had a white clown costume with a large collar and three red pom-poms. His face-paint was much sharper and overall meaner looking. He also now had his flaming head. In Twisted Metal 3, he had a pink and red dress suit, with blood red pin stripes. In Twisted Metal 4, he had his strangest design yet. He now wore a blue and gold ringmaster costume accompanied by a red cape. Starting in Twisted Metal: Black and carrying over to every other appearance, he was now shirtless, exposing his muscular body. He also now wore white pants with red polka dots. Rather than face-paint, he now wore a disturbing clown mask.
Vehicle[]
Sweet Tooth drives an ice cream truck with the same name. It is equipped with Gatling guns on the sides and spikes on the front. It can fire the “Napalm Cone” from the clown head on the top, but later fires the clown head itself as a homing missile that can even pass-through objects, called “Laughing Ghost”. The Sweet Tooth truck has also been able to transform into a robotic tower-like form with numerous missile racks and even an all-out robot, called the Sweet Bot, which can fly and slam onto the ground to unleash a shock wave attack. In Twisted Metal 4, the truck could attack by firing three orbs, one that trapped the opponent, and the other two attacked with missiles and flames.
Other Media[]
Twisted Metal (2023)[]
- Main article: Sweet Tooth (Twisted Metal TV Series)
Sweet Tooth appears in the 2023 post-apocalyptic action comedy Peacock television series of the same name, based on the video game franchise of the same name.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Sweet Tooth is considered the mascot of the Twisted Metal series.
- Sweet Tooth was seemingly originally an homage to The Joker. As they were very similar in his first appearance.
- A bonus costume based on Sweet Tooth appeared in War of the Monsters if the player has saved data from Twisted Metal: Black on the same memory card. Sweet Tooth also appeared in a commercial for the PlayStation 3 where he is sitting at a table playing chess with the mascot of “LittleBigPlanet”, Sackboy.
- Twisted Metal 1, and Small Brawl are the only games where Sweet Tooth doesn't have his signature flaming head. Although in Small Brawl, his hair resembles flames.
- He has the most connections with the contestants within the Twisted Metal series, with the majority of them are found in Twisted Metal: Black.
- Sweet Tooth's truck is the only vehicle that appears in each game and has the same driver.
- In Twisted Metal (2012), Sweet Tooth has his own gang, the Clowns, similarly to his gang in Twisted Metal 4.
- Needles was considered to be in Mortal Kombat 9, instead of Kratos. However, Ed Boon decided to have the latter instead of the former.
- Sweet Tooth was featured in an episode of Screwattack's popular show, DEATH BATTLE, in a fight to the death against the Joker and lost.
- Sweet Tooth appeared in the video game, Outcast, as a skin that players could unlock if they pre-ordered Twisted Metal 2012.
- Sweet Tooth also appeared in the video game, War of the Monsters, as a giant robot that players could unlock by beating Twisted Metal Black as Sweet Tooth.
- The ice cream truck made an appearance as a customizable skin in Rocket League.
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