Respect Sweet Tooth the Clown!
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Known as the most twisted character in Twisted Metal, Needles Kane is the very embodiment of hate and destruction on an epic scale—A serial killer who uses a ice cream truck and demented clown theme to perform mass homicide to the highest degree. He is truly evil, and thinks nothing of anything but the joy and desire of death and chaos.
Blackfield Asylum Patient Profile

- Name: Needles Kane
- Info: Male
- Age: Unknown, Estimated between 30 to 40
- Weight: Killed the medics before weight could be established
- Height: 6 feet
- Birthplace: Unknown
Disorder: Unspecified Psychotic disorder; Homicidal tendencies; insomnia.
Treatment: Warning: Meds have no effect; Lost cause.
Psychological Profile
Unfortunately we have never been able to obtain a satisfactory glance into the psyche of Needles Kane (herein referred to as “Sweet Tooth”). Attempts have indeed been made to analyze him, but results proved fatal as he killed our first analyst and critically injured the next one. The third was driven mad by his inability to come to a satisfying analysis and subsequently took his own life.
Patient History
Sweet Tooth was once Marcus Kane, a middle-aged man who lived with his wife and three children and worked as an ice cream man. However Marcus constantly felt a burning emptiness within him that eventually formed into a dark split personality, known as Needles. This other personality wore away at him until he finally snapped, carving his clown mask and letting the other personality take over to become Sweet Tooth. The first time he killed someone he didn't even flinch, doing so as skillfully as a trained surgeon and without regrets. After the first one, he quickly developed an insatiable thirst for blood; it was obvious that he had found his calling in life. Sometimes his victims were meticulously hunted down, but most were randomly chosen and just unlucky to have crossed his path. When he was finally caught after his abundant murders, he was to be executed via electric chair usage. The Preacher cursed Needles Kane, burdening him forever with the flames of Hell, as well as enhancing his physical abilities.
WARNING: Sweet Tooth can breath fire. Do not approach.
Physical Stats
• Speed
Despite his massive size, Sweet Tooth is surprisingly fast on his feet.

• Strength
Sweet Tooth is a muscular giant who regularly carries a heavy 20 lb chainsaw.

• Durability
At his death penalty, Sweet Tooth resisted and survived the electric chair.

I.) Sweet Weaponry

Sweet Tooth carries a wide assortment of tools for committing murder. He loves anything and everything that can be used to spill blood from his victims. Those pants of his must have big pockets.
Machete
Sweet Tooth's signature weapon. |
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- Sweet Tooth takes pleasure in terrifying Sophie Kane.
- Blade combat against Kratos.
- Killing spree going up a twelve-story hospital.
Chainsaw
Every day is a chainsaw massacre for Sweet Tooth. |
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- Single-handed chainsaw action while driving a motorcycle.
- Sweet Tooth's chainsaw lariat attack.
Shotgun
This trusty 12-gauge shotgun really delivers the message. |
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- Shotgun blasting.
- More shotgun blasting.
- Sweet Tooth quick-drawing his shotgun.
Landmines
You'd better watch your step when Sweet Tooth is around. |
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- Sweet Tooth planting a mine.
Molotov Cocktails
Sweet Tooth just wants to watch the world burn. |
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- Sweet Tooth tossing bombs.
Nuke Missiles
KA-BOOOM!!!!!!! |
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- Sweet Tooth remote-controlling a missile.
II.) Sweet Vehicles

1) "Sweet Tooth" the Ice Cream Truck
Needles Kane has always driven an armored ice cream truck that can be declared as a one man army in a world war. "Sweet Tooth" is an old-fashioned ice cream truck (Chevrolet Step Van) with pink polka dots patterning its white-painted chassis, and a trademark macabre clown head atop the roof for decoration. Its appearance makes it easy to lure his most innocent victims. And more often than not, the freezer is used to store other 'items' besides frozen treats. The ice cream truck favors its power/armor of a tank rather than speed/handling.

- Vehicle Type: Armored Ice Cream Truck
- Speed: ☆☆ out of 5
- Armor: ☆☆☆☆ out of 5
- Special Weapons: ☆☆☆☆☆ out of 5
License Plate: SWEET
Components | Description | __________________________ |
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| The armored truck is equipped with two machine guns on the sides for double-action rapid fire. |
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| Two missile launchers pop out of mechanical sliding windows on both sides, which normally act as serving hatches for ice cream sales. | |
| The truck fires homing pink ice cream cone missiles that wave in mid-air and are more accurate from longer ranges. | |
| The clown head can launch off the truck and will pass through walls (like a ghost) to reach its target. | |
| When activated, Sweet Tooth's vehicle will transform into a towering contraption, setting numerous hidden missile racks to firing position before firing its payload. |
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1.5) "Sweet Toothimus Prime"
The secondary special weapon is for Sweet Tooth the Ice Cream Truck to transform into a bipedal mecha robot AKA "Sweet Bot". It has the abilities to fly, slam down on the ground to send out a shockwave, and throw its clown head like a grenade. This vehicle also has incredible ramming power when it turbo-charges into opponents with the 'Sixaxis Slam', being able to even inflict heavy ram damage on Darkside. Its extra mass and heightened stats are due to it being a transforming mecha.
- Vehicle Type: Mecha Robot
- Top Speed: ☆☆ out of 5
- Armor: ☆☆☆☆ out of 5
- Special Weapons: ☆☆☆☆☆ out of 5
License Plate: SWEET
Components | Description | __________________________ |
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| Sweet Bot is equipped with a large jet pack with extreme rocket power, enough to support the massive robot for steady flight. | |
| The mecha robot has one rotating multi-barrel gatling gun attached to its left arm. | |
| This attack is similar to its previous "Laughing Ghost" version. Sweet Bot detaches his head and throws it like a hand grenade at his target. |
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| Sweet Bot can propel downwards and punch the ground, creating a shockwave that damages and knocks away enemies. |
2) "Dark Tooth"
Dark Tooth is basically an enlarged and more heavily-armored Sweet Tooth. It is a massive ice cream truck (the size of a large house), at least 6 times the size of Sweet Tooth, and can destroy full-healthy small cars by simply running them over. The monster truck's image is black with pink polka dots, and includes a massive demonic-looking clown head in Sweet Tooth's likeness. This is essentially a large opening-and-closing 'mouth' at the front of the truck, which is Dark Tooth's special weapon.

- Vehicle Type: Monster Truck
- Top Speed: ☆☆☆☆☆ out of 5
- Armor: ☆☆☆☆☆ out of 5
- Special Weapons: ☆☆☆☆☆ out of 5
License Plate: U SCREAM
Components | Description | __________________________ |
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| The monster truck has a large spiked chomping mechanism at the front, which can crush and devour through anything in Dark Tooth's path. | |
| Dark Tooth uses dual-homing Napalm Cone missiles for its machine guns, in place of regular bullets. As such it is capable of making short work of a 15k Tanker Truck. | |
| The truck can fire oversized bombs (with clown faces) that bounce off of walls and explode upon hitting its target. | |
| Dark Tooth can catapult its explosive flaming head forward in the direction of its target. |
3) "Tower Tooth"
Tower Tooth is basically four Ice Cream Trucks (attached to two tank treads) with a mechanical clown head on top, and underneath a framework structure that connects the bottom half to the top, which is a full-sized ice cream store. Atop the store building is a very humongous, flaming, and demonic clown head (that too resembles Sweet Tooth). Being given the name Tower Tooth, it is the tallest vehicle of all the Twisted Metal series.

- Vehicle Type: Tower Giant
- Top Speed: ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ out of 10
- Armor: ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ out of 10
- Special Weapons: ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ out of 10
License Plate: ???
Components | Description | __________________________ |
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| The bottom mechanical clown head rotates 360° and shoots a flamethrower from its mouth, which will follow the target.
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| The launchers at the bottom can fire a rapid fusillade of a dozen homing Napalm Cone missiles. |
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| The top half of Tower Tooth releases a shocking omni-directional tazer that locks onto a vehicle and inflicts damage. |
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4) "Gold Tooth"
Gold Tooth is just the gold-plated version of the original ice cream truck, with slightly stronger stats. The vehicle's weapons and design remain unchanged from the original, besides a new shiny gold finish.

- Vehicle Type: Armored Ice Cream Truck
- Speed: ☆☆ out of 5
- Armor: ☆☆☆☆ out of 5
- Special Weapons: ☆☆☆☆☆ out of 5
License Plate: SWEET
III.) Henchmen / Clown Gang


"The Clowns" is the name of a gang led by Sweet Tooth. They follow Sweet Tooth with a cult-like devotion, going so far as to build a giant armed circus tent on wheels in his honor. It is unknown how Sweet Tooth was able to conjure this group of numerous followers. However, as stated by Calypso, they were each dedicated to serving Sweet Tooth, as they believed he was a 'god' and 'king'.
The Carnival of Carnage

Sweet Tooth's "Carnival of Carnage" is a massive memorial built in his honor; When Needles Kane died, the Clowns became obsessed with preserving his memory of him alive and believed he would rise, stronger and madder than before. Together they built a thematically carnivalesque and brutal mobile fortress, outfitted with various advanced technologies (including sophisticated weapons, dangerous self-supporting traps, and an electric force field).
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# | Carnival Sections | Start Time | Description |
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1 | The Underbelly | [0:00] | The underside of the fortress is a large self-defense system which consists of an electric cage, multiple machine gun turrets, and flamethrowers. Many Clowns patrol the underbelly of the Carnival in their own personal Sweet Tooth vehicles, guarding the largely open areas of the underbelly. |
2 | The Pinball Chamber | [0:31] | Inside of Sweet Tooth's Carnival of Carnage is a huge room which resembles the inside of a pinball machine, complete with giant bumpers, colorful lights, and large, explosive pinballs. Protected Clowns armed with chainsaws are running around. |
3 | The Obstacle Course | [1:13] | Surrounding the Carnival and leading to the very top of the structure is a line of twisting halfpipes, which are protected by numerous traps (including over-sized maces, flame-spewing exhaust pipes, giant blade-edged fans, and titanic axes). |
4 | Sweet-in-the-Box | [1:53] | The Carnival has its own horrific clown head adorned on top of it (modeled after Sweet Tooth), which is the primary control room. The mechanical head can release a volley of large fireballs from its mouth and fire a barrage of missiles from a cannon within its nose. It also has the assistance of an endless horde of Clown-piloted Sweet Bots, equipped with flight capabilities and time-delayed self-destruct sequences. |
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