Ranking The Moral Alignment In Every Twisted Metal Game 

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I like to think that when Calypso was a race car driver, he raced Charlie Kane. Maybe that is why he respects him so much, and he always invites at least one member of the Kane family every tournament because of their driving skills.

The erratic placement of Sweet Tooth in the evil category is just so Sweet Tooth.

Something tells me Rob Zombie wouldn't be offended if he was portrayed as evil in TM4. I think the more evil the more he would like it :D

I get that Pizza Boy is technically a psychopath that destroys people's birdbaths, but I mean... he still delivers their hot/delicious pizza in under 30 minutes... and he has a cool car so I think the TM4 devs saying he's just plain "good" makes the most sense in my (totally not bias at all) eyes

30:20 oh trust me you’re more than right. I grew up in a neighborhood where people would throw out-door house parties down the road at 10p.m., sometimes lasting past midnight, blasting music. Not kidding.

After seeing Dollface's story in Black I would loved to have seen her act as a twisted anti-hero/vigilante going after some of the more evil characters.

Grimm in 1 is true neutral. Death is just a natural thing, takes the good and bad alike. It’s just nature.

For Small Brawl, it's worth mentioning that the intro and manual say that Warthog was bullied by Calypso and wants revenge, meanwhile it doesn't say if Outlaw was bullied or not. So it could be argued that Warthog's motivation is more selfish than Outlaw, and I'd say that's a more sound argument than "Warthog's stupider"

Throwing water at a cat: caotic Using a missile: lawful

A year ago, I never would have thought someone could make so much high quality content about this series. Thank you.

This moral alignment list reminded me how geuinely funny some of the Twisted Metal characters' backstories are in context, even in some of the games that are generally considered on the lower end of the quality spectrum.

Preacher in Black in could've sufficed as Lawful evil better than Grim. Preacher commited awful crimes while under the impression he was doing the work of the lord. Granted that also sounds chaotic since he was unaware of his crimes until the very end.

Maaaybe im stretching things here, but I feel like for Black: Yellowjacket would also fit in chaotic good? Just a kid wanting everything everything to be okay again, just going about it.... chaoticially, to say the least.

25:52, "Now for *once* Sweet Tooth is not chaotic evil, but rather neutral evil", according to you, he was neutral evil in TM2 as well

Here's a ranking video idea for Twisted Metal: how annoying each vehicle is to defeat when driven by the AI

Was kinda hoping he'd cover the TV show. Especially after calling Black's Agent Stone the most morally good character in the series. Because hoo boy did that not carry over!

Oooh he’s got a format and he’s running with it

dollface:krista sparks grasshopper:krista sparks did Calyspo just randomly turn hid daughter to a murderer for a game

22:12 I agree, it's a great Soulfly song.

26:26 Talk about a half-literal way of someone losing their humanity.

And I thought something like Legacy of Kain/Blood Omen would be tough. This whole thing makes LoK/BO look much easier by comparison. Honestly this was probably the best one could do with Twisted Metal. And it actually works pretty well. The most recent game just happens to have fewest characters to work with and required rule breaking.

Warthog's wish in Head-On results in him basically becoming The Punisher, who imo is the textbook definition of Chaotic Good

Ooc, have you seen the cut endings of Twisted Metal PS3? Apparently the three playable characters were supposed tp have 3 endings, but they were cut. David Jaffe shared the endings on his channel.

Great video of your Lawful Good video. So great job with your projects TBP!👏👏👏😊😊😊👍👍👍♥️♥️♥️

Babe wake up TBP uploaded a new twisted metal video.

Cool video concept ^_^. Surprised no one's covered it before now.

30:48 I thought the thing with that ending was that the dump itself had radioactive material. Or maybe I'm confusing it with Blaster Master.

Hey TBP, I love your videos, more when ya talk about Twisted Metal. I would love to see a video of every car of the franchise from worst to best, if I could make a suggestion. I know this type of video can be a lot of work, but it would be awesome! Thanks a lot for your incredible work!

Nice takes on all the characters. When you're blowing stuff up with a missile it's easy to lise track of the moral spectrums across the games.

There’s a theory I came up with the Joneses being the fact that Mitch resembles Sweet Tooth as a boy and it can be implied that, either of his parents are related to Charlie Kane

Yay I love moral alignment charts!

aww i was hyped waiting to see the alignment of my favorite character from black, the preacher :c

Nice. But I think it would be ok to have more than one entry to each Alignment. Especially if it is your opinion.

"for once Sweet Tooth is not chaotic evil" says the guy who placed Needles in Neutral Evil twice in prior games... At least ya know I'm paying attention to your video 😅👍🏼

This is exactly what I wanted.

Oh god.. He has to decide things on TM3.. Ok, he made it super-quick. Thank you.

39:16 You might want to rethink that one since she gets resurrected by Calypso as a contestant

For TM1 I would have put the guy that wanted to recording of aliens to hide from the public as lawful evil

Is the drum roll you used from the rugrats theme song?

I have to say that the intro is just god

If I had a nickel for every time a real musician was a shoe-in for true neutral in a video game...

I love this new series Xd

That Was A Good One...🦁

I'd like to see your review of a game called "Rogue Trip" for PS1. During that era, many companies tried to piggy back off of the success of twisted metal and the car battle genre, and among all those games, "Rogue Trip" was a hidden gem , in my opinion. It never got the attention and popularity it deserved, and maybe it's just my nostalgia talking, but "Rogue Trip" is so underrated. I'm new to the channel, so if You've already reviewed it, I apologize, but if you haven't, I think you'd enjoy it and give it the attention and respect it deserves. 😊

In which alignment would you say Grasshopper in Head-On would fit?

If we are talking about DnD similarities, Flower Power seems a lot like a Shadow Druid. Which apparently are True Neutral despite their actions.

I'd have said that Outlaw in Head on (or at least Carl) was chaotic good. After trying to resolve things the lawful way had gone poorly Carl was more than happy to just put a bullet in Calypso's head to bring an end to Twisted Metal.

I wish you had Brimstone on here for TM Black

A lot of the "I just want x"...personal wishes boil down to some form of Neutrality. They're mostly interchangeable, though you can infer their personality and leanings from their presentation in those cases. For example: TM2 Axel's intentions are entirely selfish on paper, but done in the cause of justice as he's righting a great wrong committed against him. Unlike so many similar character stories in TM, he doesn't actually take revenge on his tormentor but takes the moral high road and walks away as a free man. Those are all very laudable traits and actions, so to me that makes him some form of Good (leaning Lawful). Roadkill by comparison, is kind of all over the place and not so easy to pin down. Marcus Kane is shown to be a man who wants to quiet his inner demons and escape the nightmare world that he created for himself. For the brief moments of lucidity and peace he gets, Marcus largely comes across as a decent person. No saint, but far from someone prone to bloodlust and a callous disregard for human life. On the other hand...canonically, he is supposed to be Sweet Tooth, or more accurately, Sweet Tooth is who Marcus could be if he were to give in to his deepest, darkest desires. The duality of man within his own mind is the broader point of the character (at least when he isn't being a 4th wall wrecking ball).

I would have said the create a car was the true neutral of TM4.

Can you do the moral alignment vid on the Arkham series?

Great vid I really hope we do get a new twisted metal game for PS5 before the end of the decade this series needs to keep going and who knows what VR might do to the series. I thought Yellowjacket in black seemed like lawful chaos cause he wants to bring his dad back and he has no idea sweet tooth is his brother and Calipso grants his wish and finds someone to takeover the contest in the future so that ending works out for everyone.

I like to think in Small Brawl, true neutral would be Piecemeal and chaotic neutral is Darkside. Piecemeal has no motivation, and Jimmy Ash is a kid pretending to be Satan (at least on the surface) according to concept art that didn't make it into the game. But in my headcannon, I think Jimmy Ash has something to do with Billy Calypso granting wishes. But if the concept art is taken at face value, his motivation isn't known but he is portrayed as a kid Satan that to me says we don't know what he's planning.

I’m here too

Only thing that really bothered me is getting revenge on somebody is not considered lawful. If you're going on the d&d scale then you misread something

I love your work but have you ever considered the timeloop possibility that axl is dollface?

Mr. Grimm is very Lawful Neutral in TM1. As much as it sucks to experience it, Death is not inherently evil force in the world; quite the opposite it's very necessary and natural. If Grimm is just enforcing the natural order of things, that falls under True Neutral by D&D logic. (entirely amoral, natural forces are NOT considered Lawful in D&D's alignment, but neutral) I'd argue Sweet Tooth could be Chaotic Neutral specifically in Twisted Metal 1's published ending because he's literally just a crazy dude looking for his imaginary friend. In the Lost Ending, he's indisputably evil and keeping in line with the Sweet Tooth we see throughout the rest of the TM series. Minion is most definitely Evil by nature even if he's doing the world a service by casting Calypso into the fires of Hell. As a demon from Hell, he's acting entirely within his own best interests and nobody else's and is shown to gladly revel in the sheer destruction he causes basically everywhere else he shows up. Only in TM3 where his wish is literally reduced to a pun, is it suggested he just wants to go home and that is oddly, subtly Good (or at least Neutral) behavior. That said, his persona and M.O. definitely paints him as anything other than a good guy.

if i won a twisted metal contest id wish from more wishes

Okay...so I got an issue with this chart from the simple fact that Twisted Metal is literally an illegal tournament where the entire purpose is to kill the other drivers to win a prize. There should not be any characters that are considered lawful, considering that participating in the tournament is inherently unlawful.

Mmmm I wonder where MR.slam fits in TM2

Funny how a cop character always got Lawful good, up until Head-on; I don't know if FBI agents still classify as cops

I enjoyed the video I just think you didn't need to do the work to fit them into each box like you said. I know it would be boring if it's all versions of evil but I do think your sticking to the 9 grid square too closely

Holy shit, never knew pizza boy from 4 is from Philly!

Flower Power reminds me of Poison Ivy but wothout superpowers, who is is more neutral/evil. But Flower Power haven't unalived children (as far as we know), but as she clearly wouldn't care if children would be unalived, makes her a bit more good than Poison Ivy. As some versions of Poison Ivy did unalive kids, even main universe version (depending a bit on continuity, because reboots and time alterations). But same time Flower Power can be seen as more good than other chaotic ones, but it doesn't make her actual good.

wonder if this type of video format will catch on, like it when people delve into the mind s of fictional characters.

How did I miss this?

You should have done the newer 5x5 alignment system

I am really enjoying the series. Please consider a New Vegas episode.

Ranking all twisted metal characters???

You gave Goggles a better score than TM2 grim? A pathological exterminator is better than an addict? They would both lead to our extinction, but Grim doesn't want to eat everyone's soul for the sake of it.

Funny how the 4 main characters (Calypso, Sweet Tooth, Grimm and Warthog) are evil at least in 1 TM title, Warthog is mostly good, but in Black he is the most evil of the entire franchise, yeah, i know he's not present in the 2012 title, only his vehicle in Black, but still, 7 games out of 8

And once more, nothing for DollFace

TIL the word Hayseed

Can you be really neutral if you are participing in a game where inoccent people can die?

Why didnt yiu talk about mister slam?

I'll disagree that crimson fury is chaotic good, he's putting too many lives at risk just to prove that aliens exist I'd argue that he would be chaotic neutral at best.

nEAT.

I thought lawful evil would he calypso Finally reached game 3.. I thought bosses were playable, so I assumed Calypso was playable in games 1 and 2. My bad.

Im an axel main

No body wants to die is an interesting and highly inaccurate statement

Was that a name reveal?

As a twenty year DnD vet, I'll tell ya, Alignment debates are some of the worst fucking things in the world. If you go into the semantics, people will argue the meanings of the terms "Lawful" "Chaotic" "Good" and "Evil" forever.

I think you are biased against Sweet Tooth. He was not that evil in the original game.

Oh sweet first one here 😎

But... Where do you belong on the alignment chart ? One thing about your lists though, just because they are a cop does not make them lawful or even good.

It's interesting to see how you place everyone, especially considering all the characters have to have some evil in their hearts, given that they all joined a contest that requires you to kill to win.