Twisted Metal: Black's Strange Alternate Cutscenes 

I kinda like Dollface's original story more. Her father hated loud noises, so she decides to drive a huge truck with a blaring horn.

Too me Baby Dolls is the one that hurts the most from the changes. Making it her Dad puts a whole other spin on her Story. It went from a confusing Story of how she let her Boss do this to her, to it being her Dad. Someone she trusted while she was still to young to fight back. Far more believable and tragic.

I remember David Jaffe mentioned that when it came to the secret characters, they started to run out of money when it came to their cutscenes

No wonder Preacher's former story was the most messed up. Even Sweet Tooth called him up on that during the loading screen of the Prison Ship level.

Sad they had to turn down the Dollface story. I understand they didn't want to put child abuse, but interestingly enough they may have also overcompensated by splitting their filial relationship. It could've been fine if they kept her at her college age and still make them family. It also lessened a lot the impact and consequences of her ending, from just killing a random asshole dude to killing her own father.

Someone commented on a video with the altered cutscenes that Yellow Jacket sounds like Chris Chan and I can't unhear it.

Theirs a lot in the manuals that goes further still. Doll face hints more at the fact that her anxious personality is as a result of abuse from her dad.

I don’t know if anyone else mentioned it, but props to you on the alliteration of “Sad Sally sounds so stupid, seriously” 😅

I still remember the beta cutscenes for the original. The talk about speaking over Black's ending just unlocked TM1 Calypso screaming "BLAAAAACK! BLAAAAACK! NO, BLLAAAAAACK!!!!" Iin my brain.

I was worried this video wouldn't be made. Glad to be back in the world of twisted metal

Bloody Mary's eye flashback shows her beaten by a metal pipe when she was a child, AFTER the boy rejected her and pushed her in the mud.

I kinda like Black's normal voice. More scarier when you think of horrible things that he would say. Imagine him saying, "You can't run forever, Calypso." In a monotone voice. Sends chills up my spine

When it comes to psychological horror, less is indeed more at it's far more terrifying to let the audience fill in the blanks rather than to spell it out in detail...

Minor thing in preachers scene is the removal of the bible verse he mentions before he jumps- falls

Dollface was always my favorite. There was something about her taking the key at the end, not to remove her mask but just to get her revenge against the man that hurt her that always made her a little more demented.

I bought this game specifically to unlock all the cutscenes dark as hell and creative. Plus I like the rolling stones. I wish they would make another twisted metal black. The taxi kid sounds like Chris Chan 😂

The cut baby drowning scene always made me think that one of the devs secretly had a hatred towards babies

I love your Twisted Metal content. I'm grateful for randomly getting recommended one of your TW videos several months ago because I've ended up binging a ton

Crazy 8 fucked me up back in the day. Did his story once and never again to not have to see the body horror face anymore in my childhood. can't imagine the nightmares I'd have had if the whole procedure was shown

I always enjoyed a lot of your Twisted Metal games that you’ve done. To the character’s endings to Sweet Tooth’s lore is one of the most enjoyable things I like in your videos.

Yellow Jacket sounds like Tobias Fünke (Arrested Development) auditioning for an acting job.

Bro I have been binging your twisted metal stuff. I was a kid for the majority of playing this series so I never had deep thoughts in to the story or the lore. Just liked blowing things up. I spend a lot of my free time drawing and growing up I used to draw a lot of twisted metal stuff. Watching your videos makes me want to revisit getting back in to making twisted metal art.

something that may have also influenced the change in Outlaws ending, is the fact that he is killed at the end. It's already a pretty rough watch, but having the context of what he'd gone through already makes it far too cruel and mean spirited. I get that TM has twisted endings that can be darkly comedic, but having the real world connections take it from black comedy(?) to just depressing.

That outlaw ending is intense

They should have kept Outlaws ending. Killing Nazis is always the better story.

LOVE your Twisted Metal content. Good work!

i wish they keep these in the 90s and 2000s were so edgy and dark i miss those days.

I was entirely too young to be playing this as a kid but my neighbor and I had great fun playing vs. against eachother. We found the story mode really scary! When I replayed it a few years ago in my mid-20s, it seemed much more "dark and edgy" but theyre still really well done and hold up today as highly atmospheric horror. Gameplay is a blast too obviously

Yo.i still think of these cut scenes. Thank you!

If I had to make a guess, I think roadkills driver was implied to be a neo nazi and the racist tattoos and placeholder name Ed is in reference to American history X and actor Edward Norton who starred in it I do recall David Jaffe was also loosely inspired by that film when he created Kratos

@ 6:34 You want to know what's weird? When Tactical Bacon said that medical horror is one of the few genres that gets under his skin, it instantly reminded me of the song "Hamburger Lady" by Throbbing Gristle. I doubt he would stomach that particular song, but in my opinion, it's one of the most disturbing songs that I've ever heard.

Sorry I slept on this for a few days Tac, gold as always. As subtle as many of the changes are, you gotta love the bits they committed to; I honestly expected it to be a lot more egregious. You also had the opportunity to make an awful No Russian joke, but took the high road, bless you 😂

Twisted metal black was the first game I ever played as a kid, the franchise has always held a special place in my heart, the last twisted metal they made came out on my birthday too, I hope we get a new one soon.. I can see how the gameplay is outdated now but the graphics and gore could be insane

TMB Was An Absolute Masterpiece

Wow, the stand in voice for Charlie sounds like how some people voice Shinji.

Hell yeah love your twisted metel content been scratching my neck waiting for more lmao

4:37 this image alone just makes me laugh hysterically

TBH Sad Sally sounds like the name of either a Children's Story Character a Point And Click Horror Game or a Emo Rock Band

Yellowjacket sounds like Bill Burr doing one of his voices lol

I won't lie playing black at 10 years old Raven was my favorite character for reasons I'd yet to understand but have since figured it out If my dating history and wife are anything to go by

5:15 I remember the developers talking about this cut scene in one of the extras in twisted metal head-on and I didn't think it would've actually been animated at one point

Great vid and really informative…never in all my years would I have thought I would hear someone say they play such a dark series for escapism

Good work as always. Love the thoughts that go into the TM franchise bc I remember playing TM2 a ton when I was younger & then the series fell off for me as I got older.

The driver of Shadow (Raven), is actually like 16 in her driver bio in game! I always thought it was kinda strange how that was the case since yk.. what goes down in Twisted Metal Tournaments 😂

They also have the cut endings from The PS3 twisted metal on RU-vid. They're unfinished but you can tell what they were going for.

This comment might surely be controversial but getting rid of Nazis isn't

Seriously, not hating on the originals, but a few of these deleted storylines could’ve been more interesting.

roadkill was probably called Ed after Edward norton. fightclub, american history x. he is a pretty clean cut reference.

I think a video covering TM2012's cut endings would be intersting, espically regarding the canonical oddities like the return of blackgate asylum and Sweet Tooth falling in love with Sophie...before she became his daugther.

Black sounds less like an intimidating villain, and more like an evil Power Rangers character.

I feel like Black's alternate ending the idea of Black being another being is a tribute to the lost endings of TM1 "Mr Ash" says he (Black) "is the most powerful demon he ever gave powers to" while TM Black's would've gone poorly I like the idea of Black being bigger or posing its own threat towards the contest

For me personally, I absolutely think things like Outlaw’s original ending is necessary in storytelling media, depending on the tone of the story. Of course it’s important to be able to escape and forget about the world’s problems sometimes, video games are great at that. But they also can be great ways to explore things that make us super uncomfortable in a safer environment. Mafia 3 involves you playing as a mixed race man named Lincoln Clay in the 60’s in the Deep South. The entire game you’re subjected to the racism and hatred of that time, and it really helps sell the reality many black people had to live through. Many people forget about just how bad it was for black people at that time, and the prejudice they had to fight, using the interactive aspect of video games to give players a taste of that so they have a better understanding of what it was like is a good thing in my opinion. Don’t let people forget our history and all. Berserk is another great example for comics, or manga if you want to call it that. If you think Black is dark, Berserk… is something else. But instead of it being an edge fest of hate and nihilism, it’s really a story about trauma and healing, learning to love the world and accept that you can always move forward no matter how horrible your situation might be. It has r*pe, children being killed, horrific “gods” showing what the afterlife truly is, yet none of that is used to push some message of hopelessness or despair. What happens to Guts is tragic, horrifying, yet it never feels forced. Guts is at his worst in the very first arc, the Black Swordsman, but it makes way more sense why he’s such a jerk once you get to the Golden Age arc. It never excuses how he acted, but it *does* contextualize it, and make you understand just how much he’s had to suffer through, as he has to relearn how to love and care about the people around him. It’s a story of darkness and despair, and how Guts even through all that uses it to find the small beacons of light and hope. It’s a *heavy,* incredibly uncomfortable story, but Guts is often considered to be one of the best protagonists of all time for a reason. In truth, he kinda shares a lot with Kratos. He fights monsters and godlike beings far more powerful than any human could ever hope to stand against, yet he does it anyways, in his case, to survive. He had his “family”, or even, families, and watched as they all crumbled and died, almost completely breaking him mentally. He turns into a monster, someone consumed by hatred and rage, yet, similar to modern Kratos, he slowly learns to temper it, and realizes the importance of protecting the people he cares about. I think dark subjects are great things to explore when handled with care and grace, with an understanding of what makes them dark and depressing. Personally anyways.

That JonTron cut in during Warthog’s segment was perfect.

Sweet new Twisted Metal Content. Awesome

Alright. This has to be the strangest Mandela effect, but I remember some of these cutscenes from when I played it. I don’t know if they were on a demo disc, or some behind the scenes thing, but I distinctly remember some of these.

Axel's is so heart wrenching, Baby Doll's is pretty deep too

The tattoo on John Doe kind of resemble the key for doll face's mask

I remember playing this game. It was hard as hell but really fun.

Wow, a funky key that activates a rube goldberg machine which kills someone, and being forced to wear a mask. 3 years before Saw was released in theaters. Huh.

Little interesting bit regarding sweet tooth’s visuals. The final product kill he slices calypso’s neck, but an oversight can be seen in the hair on his mask being gone while the in development scene where he just gut stabs has his mask hair still on. Just a thing I noticed

That was some mad alliteration

the thing that bugs me about preacher is if he is just insane how the hell did he curse sweettooth?

Didnt Bloody Mary killed the child at the beginning off her flashback, but was cut from the final release?

thank you I needed this video

I always wonder how does Frank even drive?

Man, can't look at Babydoll without thinking she's a discount Hexadecimal.......

I can’t wait to see what the game for PS5 is going to be like. It’s a shame that they cancelled a lot of sequals to this game I hope with the PS5 and the TV show coming out they will think about green lighting them and continuing from where black left off along with some DLC.

You mean I'm not the only one who had the Mandella effect that the advisor was an American turncoat?

As much as I know there are certain lines we have to draw, it’s always a shame when censorship takes away from the heart of a story or lore-bit. I know dark subjects are still a very taboo thing, but if we can’t find some ways to communicate about it we can never expect to prevent negative outcomes in the future.

Didn't know about some of these! 👀 Good watch!

I wish they kept the more hardcore backstories and integrated them into the final product. Outlaw having flashes back to what happened when he was a kid and seeing these cultists reminded him of the bastards who killed his life. Raven(boy am I happy they changed her name) having more context to what happened would've been obviously better. Dollface having been wearing the mask since she was a child would've been more disturbing yes but make it feel more personal especially since it was her clearly deranged father. Axle, I agree the son would've made more sense seeing as how Sweet Tooth's whole thing is a clown driving an icream truck which would attract more kids than adults unless they made it to where both were killed by him at roughly the same time. For Grimm, changing the dude from Russian to some random white guy with a gold tooth that's a Veitcong advisor is just stupid since media at the time was still showing the animosity between the west(especially the U.S.) and Communist Russia. All in all I love Twisted Metal Black not for the gameplay but the world and its characters. I got the game as a kid thanks to my mom and while the game scared me because of some of the characters, most of them stuck with me. Their interesting backstories and personalities were more interesting to me than the vehicle combat.

I mean dead space killed kids

Its funny to me, they removed the reference to the guy being Russian in Grimm's ending, because they didnt want to portray Russians as evil. Something Ive heard people complain about in the story line of MW2&3, and the MW reboot...

Do you want to talk about the EU version of TM:B? I think you have already talked about them.

idk how outlaw's race war story would be more disturbing than sweet tooth or preachers' child killing stories

I so wish they kept Outlaw’s original story, it just made more sense why he did what he did

Personally for me I prefer the darker endings. I would have much rather see those come into the actual release or if they were to remaster the game. Have therapy adoption to play with the darker in the house. Cuz I think a lot of them make more sense. And plus the game as dark as hell already. Might as well go all the way

8:05 chris chan lmao

The voice actor for Yellow Jacket sounds like it could actually be David Jaffe himself, the series creator.

Game was so good

Thanks youtube for unsubbing me, I totally wanted to see this 12 days ago. Great video as always dude Also props on Minute Hour in the vid

I have to say it's pretty interesting how Black and 2012 are dark and edgy in different ways. 2012 is pretty fun edge. It's almost cute in how hard it's trying to be dark and gritty. It's so over the top it becomes pretty endearing and goofy. Black is... definitely not that. It's honestly pretty disturbing and unsettling. But in a really fascinating way. It's very cool and, as someone who never played Twisted Metal growing up, makes me really want to purchase it off PSN

That intro looks delicious.

"something terribly offensive" thanks for reminded me of that I've been trying to find that video for awhile i just subscribed

Fun fact, there are some flash animations made to promote the game

Not sure if anyone else has commented on this but outside of the wording on John doe's tattoo, the symbol is a Slavic sunwheel, or atleast a version of it. A simple used by some far right extremist groups in both Eastern Europe and America. So it could've been removed due to certain laws on the display of far right imagery in places like Germany. Though that symbol is widely unknown even today, let alone when the game came out. So yeah the cult was definitely explicitly far right even disregarding the wording

I like how the ending for Yellow Jacket is almost identical to Twisted Metal 1's Yellow Jacket Lost ending, basically both ending up being Calypso's tournament star.

Twisted Metal Black had some amazing endings/cutscenes. I just wish they kept up with it instead of going waaaaay off track and turn into stupid endings again.

The kid voice kinda sounds like it could be David Jaffe

You can not match the power of "random person on youtube with 250 subscribers"!

Omg, these characters sound awesome! 😮

13:55 Maybe they were going to name him after Edward Norton

At first I thought the voice for Black was Mr. Ash. But sounds like it’s supposed to be someone else who acquired black somehow. Very odd

I just appreciate the changes to the writing of some stories because the original versions of a few of them just tend to come off like the edgiest imaginings of a 15 year old atheist.

Raven's friend, Kelly, looks exactly like a Sister of Battle from Wh40k. The short white hair, tattoo near her eye

"Then Bopped him one last time! Then he's gone..."

I see you are a man of culture 8:18 The narrator for crazy taxi sounds just like turnip similar to a minute hour

Me and a friend played this game so much. We felt so badass lol

Twisted Metal video? *Neuron activated *

I'm surprised you decided to cover this topic so soon after your rant about RU-vid censorship with God of War.