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I THINK IVE FIGURED OUT HOW HENRY BEAT BENDY AT THE END.

This is just a theory tho, its not canon. But it's what i got out if it. Feel free to theorize/debate with me lmao

When you defeat bendy you play a tape that simply says the end and then bendy just straight up dies. BUT I KNOW WHY NOW

In one of the recordings in chapter 5 someone mentions that only one attempt at making bendy was made, but he was "otherworldly". Bendy himself never actually happened. He was never real. Bendy was never joey or any other character either. It was a literal demon using ink as a physical material and bendy's appearance to build itself. Thats why bendy never acted like himself, because not a scrap of bendy's personality was there, only his form.

Now for the next thing

In all the official bendy cartoons released for trailers and stuff, none of them ever had an end screen.

The ink demon might not have been bendy but he was still a cartoon nonetheless. When the end screen played it killed the demon because he was bound by the cartoon's rules, and he lost his physical existence because the cartoon was free. And without the cartoon the demon has no body or form, so it just disappears into thin air.

Because of this its also possible that all of the creatures in the studio taking a cartoon form, like alice, tom, and the butcher gang all disappeared as well. After that its all a matter of interpretation whether or not henry escaped or died in the process of killing bendy.

This means that bendy as the character never existed in real life, which means there never would have been a way to save him. The only reason i mention that is because i know a lot of us wanted bendy to be good and be saved, myself included. And he was. Because bendy was never the ink demon, he was never the bad guy of the game. He's still the cute little cartoon we all know.

Ive also heard it theorizes that the game itself is a story told by joey to linda, henry's daughter(?) but i think my theory still fits into that one.

What do you guys think? Do you agree?