Game Theory: You Are Being LIED To! (Bendy and The Dark Revival)

Friends, after 5 years of silence the Bendy franchise has returned from the inky depths, with Bendy and The Dark Revival! Our favorite ink boy has brought with him all kinds of LORE except… it’s all WRONG! I’m on to you Joey Drew, why don’t YOU stick to drawing adorable children's cartoons while I’m over here fixing your lore FOR you!

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Credits:
Writers: Matthew Patrick and Tom Robinson
Editors: Dan "Cybert" Seibert, Jerika (NekoOnigiri), JayskiBean and Dom Sealion
Assistant Editor: Caitie Turner (Caiterpillart)
Sound Editor: Yosi Berman

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[islandsicedtea]

Matt: “The OBVIOUSLY evil janitor”
Mark: “I am fully convinced this man’s evil appearance is just a red herring and he’s actually a normal, innocent man”

[Jumpyman_thegamerYT]

I'd like to point out that Audrey is part of a long line of experiments. There's a secret note that you can find in the Keepers Lair that says something along the lines of "Nearly all of them have called me 'Uncle'. But this one called me 'Dad'. For this, I am proud, as she is practically my daughter in every way". If y'all remember at the end of BATIM, a young girl's voice says "Tell me another one Uncle Joey". Now, knowing what we know in BATDR, we can work out that this young girl is one of the early prototypes for Audrey.

Edit: Damn, 5.3k likes? I never expected to get so many!

[asage]

“Clearly evil janitor”
Mark: “..nah I trust him”

[Zyraphim]

Love how Mat usually has to dig through mountains of content to get to the lore, but immediately rejects it when it's served to him on a silver platter

[tornikeantia]

Seeing MatPat doing a theory on Bendy feels like 2017 all over again.

[AuroraLullaby]

Game: *Gives A Lot Of Lore*
Matpat: Its all a Lie!
Game: *Gives Literally One Piece Of Lore*
Also Matpat: *Makes 7 Different Theories Based On That One Piece Of Lore*

[PramkLuna]

As terrible Joey was to his staff, I do feel bad with how he or his soul died. And happy his pencil and a dream came to life.

[Afishmechina]

One small thing you missed: Joey wasn’t salty when he sold over the rights to bendy, Nathan bought the rights from Joey’s estate when he died

[twstedcut]

If I’m being honest, this game kinda was a “sorry for previously being a game with a vague story line just so Matpat has theories to make about it, here’s a game with a clear story that even casual players can pick up” and I liked that.

[HoodyBlk]

I love it when game developers (and those alike) are aware of MatPat and his theory crafting because game lore is important.. finding a deeper story and hidden meanings to events is added fun for the brain..

[ABsnova]

Glad I'm not the only one who thought joey being nice was strange after doing all of that horrific stuff.

[ezrato]

This really checks out when you consider that Wilson created the house maid in the image of his mother (the maid reveals this in the last chapter) - this makes a lot of sense for him to do if his mother had been killed by Joey and he was missing her.

[Truebro]

The fact that Mike Mood was one of the main creators of the first game but proceeded to lie to his real life employees about his companies financial situation 2 years after he made the main antagonist of his game do it in the game, is actually insane to me.

[misswitch]

One detail I've noticed recently is the character's eyes. Henry, Allison and Alice all have normal, human looking eyes. But Audrey, Wilson and even the inky creatures and monsters have glowing yellow eyes. I wonder if that might mean something? I haven't seen anyone else mention it before, so I thought it was worth making a note of.

[Celtic]

Another thing this theory blatantly ignores is that the Ink Demon calls Audrey the "Daughter of Drew" and he didn't here Joey's speech earlier in the game or he would've been hunting Audrey. He also has no motive to lie about this. So Audrey being Joey's daughter has to sources now. Also claiming that her soul must have been Wilson's mother is completely outlandish because for one thing I highly doubt he could get her to visit a friend of her husband's workplace and secondly it falls into fan theory "this offscreen character is the same gender as this character so they must be the same" energy.

[mas]

Matpat sure has been going on this streak of “the game was lying!” theories quite a bit lately, hasn’t he? First Golden Freddy wasn’t real and now Bendy lies.

[thegravityguy]

Regardless of what the real Joey may have done, I suspect that ink Joey genuinely believes what he’s saying.

[jasminemohamed]

At this point I think matpat just lost his mind due to how complicated the lore used to be 😂😂

[Razgriz]

Considering the game is supposed to take place in the 1970s, it's comes off as strange that Audrey has a hair and clothing style that you'd see in the late 30s through the 40s.

[UserSJ]

I don't think I've ever felt more intimidated when MatPat said that the hotdog was an important clue.