Jan-24-2012 - I Love Twisted Metal
Twisted Metal Marathon:
Jan-26-2012 – Games of Vehicular Mayhem
Feb-02-2012 – All Things Sweet Tooth
Feb-09-2012 - ???
Minor Spoilers
Sweet Tooth is probably the most famous character of the Twisted Metal series. He’s on the cover of every Twisted Metal game and has been known to appear in multiple other games including Hot Shots Golf 2, ModNation Racers, and War of the Monsters. He’s even gone beyond games and appeared in memorabilia including shirts and action figures; but, how did this all happen and where has it brought him? Let’s find out; that’s right boys and girls, we’re talking about the history of Sweet Tooth! So turn up the tunes and get ready to blow shit up because we’re driving with a maniac!
Twisted Metal Tunes:
Twisted Metal 4 – Chaos, Skold:
Twisted Metal 2 – Antarctica theme, The Pinnacle Group:
The release of Twisted Metal 1 featured a roster of mostly unstable characters but little more than that. There were 2 bold exceptions: Sweet Tooth (AKA, Needles Kane), which was a serial killer driving an ice cream truck with a devilish clown caricature sprung on the roof. There was also Mr. Grimm, the Grimm Reaper riding a motorcycle (but that's another story). All the contestants wished for generally standard valuables or something that rather logically matched up with their character. However, Sweet Tooth was insane and wished for something that truly separated him from the pack. It was one of a kind and it was for a maniacal mind. I won’t reveal what it was but it showed such a strong relation to the mind of a psychotic serial killer through and through.
Trivia Video #2- This time, some removed secrets get revealed
Up next was Twisted Metal 2; it featured a decent number of new characters with Axel standing out as a particularly unique design. This time around, Sweet Tooth was even more insane as his head bared an iconic, burning flame. He wished for something even more insane, and this is where Sweet Tooth started to get affiliated with Roadkill (AKA, Marcus Kane). From this point on Sweet Tooth was getting affiliated with a lot of characters, more than any other character to date.
Twisted Metal III then came and boy, what did they do? Focusing on just Sweet Tooth, what the hell happened?! His wish was stupid, his character looked really plastic like, and they gave him a crap colorized hair style for his burning head. How the hell do you make somebody this badass look so awful? Oh god, I can’t take typing about it anymore! Next Game!
How could they do this; actually, what the hell is this?!
While working at this article I had a bold idea: what if Sweet Tooth was a Batman villain?
Twisted Metal 4 made Sweet Tooth the new ruler of the tournament by throwing Calypso off of the helm. His head of fire was back, but there was something slightly off about him. He still looked a bit plastic like and though he was still a twisted mind; he had a generally empty feel with his character and felt a lot like he was just there. He also never talked and spent a hell of a lot of time just juggling in the background. And his vehicle wasn’t an ice cream truck; it was just a corny, unoriginal design.
With what I’m saying, I had to search and read into what involved Sweet Tooth. Not everything stated is necessarily factual, some of it definitely is observation based like his weight.
Twisted Metal: Black brought him back in full force; while his character had struggled to rise since III, BLACK showed him off with a darker side beyond what had been seen… An obsessive serial killer seeking a greater and greater body count… and to be known by it. It also introduced the idea of his burning flame being a curse and his Ice Cream Truck transformed into a missile launching robot. This game also became highly recognized with the, ‘other side’ of characters with many fans.
Done up just like a profile from Arkham Asylum, I invite your intakes.
Twisted Metal: Small Brawl tried to make everything into a, ‘for children’ design; Sweet Tooth was purely a little hell raiser. It was a decent persona given that you can’t have a murdering child for this game, but his ending was just 20 seconds long. Let’s be honest here, there’s very little you could make Sweet Tooth into for a kids game; his full grown self is a much more dangerous and interesting character.
“I think my mind bent so much it snapped in two.”
With Twisted Metal: Head-On, it stayed more with the Sweet Tooth we knew in Twisted Metal 2; it got much deeper into the connection between Needles & Marcus Kane. For all this time since their coexistence, Marcus tried to figure out the world he was in, while Needles lived it like Twisted Metal was his perfect world; it would only be so long till their selves met…
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So, that’s actually just about all the games have told us about Sweet Tooth. And on Sweet Tooth, I’d like to devote this week’s topic of the idea of Sweet Tooth becoming a Batman villain…
From the Lost entry of the series comes this week’s desktop [http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/14/140440/2096540-sweetooth_running_week_2_sc.png], a rare shot of Sweet Tooth running in an abandoned asylum with his flaming head and sinister smile.
[http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/14/140440/2096540-sweetooth_running_week_2_sc.png]
Time to dig my hand into a good old bag o' extras for you viewers. Now let’s see here, a copy of a canceled Twisted Metal 64? Nah; oh, oh here we go, a semi corny but also funny trailer for Twisted Metal 4:
TWiSTEDmerc
Twisted Metal Marathon:
Jan-26-2012 – Games of Vehicular Mayhem
Feb-02-2012 – All Things Sweet Tooth
Feb-09-2012 - ???
Minor Spoilers
Sweet Tooth is probably the most famous character of the Twisted Metal series. He’s on the cover of every Twisted Metal game and has been known to appear in multiple other games including Hot Shots Golf 2, ModNation Racers, and War of the Monsters. He’s even gone beyond games and appeared in memorabilia including shirts and action figures; but, how did this all happen and where has it brought him? Let’s find out; that’s right boys and girls, we’re talking about the history of Sweet Tooth! So turn up the tunes and get ready to blow shit up because we’re driving with a maniac!
Twisted Metal Tunes:
Twisted Metal 4 – Chaos, Skold:
Twisted Metal 2 – Antarctica theme, The Pinnacle Group:
The release of Twisted Metal 1 featured a roster of mostly unstable characters but little more than that. There were 2 bold exceptions: Sweet Tooth (AKA, Needles Kane), which was a serial killer driving an ice cream truck with a devilish clown caricature sprung on the roof. There was also Mr. Grimm, the Grimm Reaper riding a motorcycle (but that's another story). All the contestants wished for generally standard valuables or something that rather logically matched up with their character. However, Sweet Tooth was insane and wished for something that truly separated him from the pack. It was one of a kind and it was for a maniacal mind. I won’t reveal what it was but it showed such a strong relation to the mind of a psychotic serial killer through and through.
Trivia Video #2- This time, some removed secrets get revealed
Up next was Twisted Metal 2; it featured a decent number of new characters with Axel standing out as a particularly unique design. This time around, Sweet Tooth was even more insane as his head bared an iconic, burning flame. He wished for something even more insane, and this is where Sweet Tooth started to get affiliated with Roadkill (AKA, Marcus Kane). From this point on Sweet Tooth was getting affiliated with a lot of characters, more than any other character to date.
Twisted Metal III then came and boy, what did they do? Focusing on just Sweet Tooth, what the hell happened?! His wish was stupid, his character looked really plastic like, and they gave him a crap colorized hair style for his burning head. How the hell do you make somebody this badass look so awful? Oh god, I can’t take typing about it anymore! Next Game!
How could they do this; actually, what the hell is this?!
While working at this article I had a bold idea: what if Sweet Tooth was a Batman villain?
Twisted Metal 4 made Sweet Tooth the new ruler of the tournament by throwing Calypso off of the helm. His head of fire was back, but there was something slightly off about him. He still looked a bit plastic like and though he was still a twisted mind; he had a generally empty feel with his character and felt a lot like he was just there. He also never talked and spent a hell of a lot of time just juggling in the background. And his vehicle wasn’t an ice cream truck; it was just a corny, unoriginal design.
With what I’m saying, I had to search and read into what involved Sweet Tooth. Not everything stated is necessarily factual, some of it definitely is observation based like his weight.
Twisted Metal: Black brought him back in full force; while his character had struggled to rise since III, BLACK showed him off with a darker side beyond what had been seen… An obsessive serial killer seeking a greater and greater body count… and to be known by it. It also introduced the idea of his burning flame being a curse and his Ice Cream Truck transformed into a missile launching robot. This game also became highly recognized with the, ‘other side’ of characters with many fans.
Done up just like a profile from Arkham Asylum, I invite your intakes.
Twisted Metal: Small Brawl tried to make everything into a, ‘for children’ design; Sweet Tooth was purely a little hell raiser. It was a decent persona given that you can’t have a murdering child for this game, but his ending was just 20 seconds long. Let’s be honest here, there’s very little you could make Sweet Tooth into for a kids game; his full grown self is a much more dangerous and interesting character.
“I think my mind bent so much it snapped in two.”
With Twisted Metal: Head-On, it stayed more with the Sweet Tooth we knew in Twisted Metal 2; it got much deeper into the connection between Needles & Marcus Kane. For all this time since their coexistence, Marcus tried to figure out the world he was in, while Needles lived it like Twisted Metal was his perfect world; it would only be so long till their selves met…
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
So, that’s actually just about all the games have told us about Sweet Tooth. And on Sweet Tooth, I’d like to devote this week’s topic of the idea of Sweet Tooth becoming a Batman villain…
From the Lost entry of the series comes this week’s desktop [http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/14/140440/2096540-sweetooth_running_week_2_sc.png], a rare shot of Sweet Tooth running in an abandoned asylum with his flaming head and sinister smile.
[http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/14/140440/2096540-sweetooth_running_week_2_sc.png]
Time to dig my hand into a good old bag o' extras for you viewers. Now let’s see here, a copy of a canceled Twisted Metal 64? Nah; oh, oh here we go, a semi corny but also funny trailer for Twisted Metal 4:
TWiSTEDmerc