Bendy is an imaginary friend and the titular main antagonist of the episode "Everyone Knows It's Bendy", which is his only appearance.
Appearance[]
Bendy is a yellow (shown a little bit green) imaginary friend with large, black eyebrows, a spiked hairdo, and black, zig-zagging stripes. His design bears a resemblance to a Dr. Seuss character.
Personality[]
Bendy is a troublemaker and blames everyone for vandalisms he made and cries when those he blames claim their innocence and his guilt to gain sympathy. He seems to have the same negative attitude as Terrence, Mac's bully of an older brother.
History[]
He was brought to the house after his child's parents couldn't take his troublemaking anymore. Frankie and Mr. Herriman thought that it might just be his kid blaming him, which is apparently very common, but in truth it really was Bendy.
Bendy knocked a vase off the arcade TV, but Frankie and Herriman believed Bendy saying that it wasn't him who did it. Later, he left a lot of potato chips on the floor, got mud all over the floor and walls with Wilt's muddy boots, ruined a cake, and drew all over a wall. Because of this, Coco, Wilt, Eduardo, and Bloo get confined to their rooms. He brought more trouble to Foster's when he started blaming everyone for the pranks he did, like breaking a window with a baseball and speaking through the intercom. Bloo, in advocating determination, eventually found a way to expose him for the troublemaker he is. Bloo personally told Frankie and Herriman that Bendy did all the trouble and was using them for saps, but he still got in trouble by revealing his methods that caused Foster's to get flooded.
He also makes a cameo in the credits of the episode. When Wilt is walking in the hallway, he sees that Bendy wrote "Wilt, clean this up! Bendy" on the wall. Bendy then runs off, leaving Wilt disappointed in cleaning the writing up.
Bendy, being one of the most disliked characters in the series, only appeared in the episode "Everyone Knows It's Bendy", and the games Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends for the Game Boy Advance, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends for the Leapster, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends for the Didj and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Imagination Invaders.
Trivia[]
- Bendy is the first character to be considered by Faust and McCracken as non-canonical to the whole series of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (meaning having no relation to the show). He became a non-canon character by the writers as a result of backlash and hate from critics and fans of the show. The episode he was a part in was also declared as non-canon to the show, and so were the actions taken by Mr. Herriman and Frankie.
- Despite not appearing in any other episode of the show, Bendy's signature was seen on Mac's 'Goodbye' card in the series finale episode "Goodbye to Bloo".
- Boo flooding the house was also mentioned by Mac in "Setting a President". However, Bendy's name isn't mentioned in that instance, meaning Mac could've been referring to an instance of house flooding that wasn't Bendy related (Bloo mentions a flooding incident involving water balloons in "Beat with a Schtick"), if seen still as non-canonical to the show.
- His golden trading card statistics from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends Leapster game include:
- Likes blaming everyone else
- Can dish it out, but he can't take it
- Doesn't think Frankie is "punk rock"
- Is NOT a nice Imaginary Friend
- Because Bendy was never seen again after the episode "Everyone Knows It's Bendy", it is highly possible that Bendy might have been caught eventually for his misdeeds and got kicked out of Foster's off-screen. Another theory could just be that, since he and his episode were both declared non-canonical to the series by both Lauren Faust and Craig McCracken, the whole issue of Bendy's nature had never occurred; and that Bloo, Wilt, Eduardo, and Coco were never unfairly punished by Mr. Herriman and Frankie.
- A character similar in appearance to Bendy named Stok appears in an episode of Wander Over Yonder, another show by Craig McCracken and Lauren Faust. Stok is always seen in a garbage can, possibly referencing the negative response to Bendy, and his primary goal throughout the episode is to annoy and enrage Sylvia. There is also an extended sequence of Sylvia tearing apart what she believes to be Stok only to realize it's a puppet of him, similarly to how Bendy always escaped punishment for his actions. The end of the episode has Stok get kicked off a high ledge after his cheating in a race disqualifies him from winning.
- Scientifically speaking through a psychological evaluation, Bendy does seem to have the signs of conduct disorder, which is a real-life existing group of behavioral and emotional problems characterized by antisocial behaviors, and a high disregard for the care, concern, empathy, or even sympathy for other individuals. Knowing the effects of conduct disorder, it could be that whomever Bendy's creator was, he/she could have had such a similar condition (or set of conditions), and had such tendencies and addictions for wanting to commit wrongdoings; which could help to explain why Bendy had acted the way he did. The disorder from the creating child may have passed onto the imaginary friend, which could help to explain his disgustingly cruel and vile nature. Bendy has been shown to show a complete want to disregard all rules and also wanting to cause hurt onto others (more than even Bloo does in general since Bloo does still have care for others, and isn't out to want to cause pain).
Gallery[]
Bendy's signature is on the bottom right-hand corner.
