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Sweet Tooth, real name Marcus "Needles" Kane, is a fictional character from the ''Twisted Metal'' video game series.〔"Two classic characters, one class brawl: Optimus Prime (''Transformers: The Game'') vs Sweet Tooth (''Twisted Metal'' Series)," ''GamePro'' 235 (April 2008): 24.〕 Sweet Tooth is designed around the premise of a killer clown that drives a combat ice cream truck, and his face has been featured on the cover of every ''Twisted Metal'' game to date, making him the series mascot.〔 While being in every title of the series, he has not always been immediately available, requiring to be unlocked in some. He is the only character (besides Marcus Kane), to drive more than one vehicle in any of the games, being the driver of Head-On's Dark Tooth, Tower Tooth, and as of ''Twisted Metal: Lost'', Gold Tooth. Sweet Tooth has the most relationships to any group of characters in the entire series: his father Charlie Kane (driver of Yellow Jacket in the first game)〔Yellow Jacket ending cinematic from ''Twisted Metal''〕 and Marcus Kane (split personality,〔Marcus Kane bio, ''Twisted Metal: Head On''〕 Roadkill's driver). He is also Dark Tooth in the second game. Spectre's ending in the first game strongly hints that Sweet Tooth was the serial killer who killed the driver of Spectre five years before the competition.〔"For the last five years, you have been a spirit, a ghost, a dead guy. Stabbed by a maniac serial killer at a local circus, you were killed instantly."-Spectre's ending from ''Twisted Metal''〕 He has an unnamed brother that only appeared in ''Twisted Metal: Black'', who drove that game's Yellow Jacket vehicle.〔Yellow Jacket storyline cinematics from ''Twisted Metal Black''〕 He is also directly responsible for the creation of that game's Axel, whose wife he killed,〔Axel ending cinematic, ''Twisted Metal: Black''〕 and Cage, who wishes to be a greater killer than Sweet Tooth.〔Cage bio, ''Twisted Metal:Lost''〕 The character has gone through several redesigns differing from game to game, similar to fellow character Calypso, and his personality has grown progressively darker along the way. Despite the changes some factors remained uniform, notably the perpetual flame on his head introduced in the second game. Starting with ''Twisted Metal: Black'', his design became a large, somewhat overweight bare chested clown with a flaming mask locked into a permanent maniacal smile. ''Head-On'' expanded on this idea, changing the mask to face paint and the smile to his own.〔Dark Tooth ending cinematic from ''Twisted Metal: Head On''〕 ==Design and history== Sweet Tooth's original look featured him as a green haired, slim simple circus clown who had escaped from a mental institution.〔Sweet Tooth's ''Twisted Metal: Urban Assault'' storyline〕 The design was expanded upon in the second game in response to changes to the truck's design, notably due to the clown head adorning the truck now featuring a personality of its own.〔"The Darkside vs. Sweet Tooth image marks the first time an artist gave the ice cream truck head a living personality, seeing the clown with such an evil personality inspired the team to flesh out the driver of the truck itself, applying the vibe of the head on the truck to the driver inside." Factoid 4 in ''Sweet Tour'', ''Twisted Metal Head-On: Extra Twisted Edition〕 The result gave Sweet Tooth the flaming head design seen on the character since. 989 Studios, who handled the next two games, put more emphasis on the clown design, redesigning his attire to that of a ringmaster in ''Twisted Metal 4''; neither design was held in high regard by the developers, with David Jaffe stating his dislike of III's look.〔Twisted Metal documentary bonus video, ''Twisted Metal Head-On: Extra Twisted Edition''〕 As of ''Black'' and beyond, the design was modified heavily, giving him increased bulk and other features that would be called his "classic look" by Incog Inc.'s design team.〔"As you can see from the photograph taken during filing of the ''Twisted Metal 1'' end movies, Sweet Tooth was at the start simply a circus clown. He did not even have his trademarked flaming hair. But by Twisted Metal: Black, the classic look of Sweet Tooth had emerged. From chicken scratch sketches to full blown CG character models, no expense was spared in bringing this mascot character to his current incarnation." Factoid 10 in ''Sweet Tour'', ''Twisted Metal Head-On: Extra Twisted Edition〕 The ice cream truck was actually designed well before the driver himself, and ''Blacks incarnation took six months and many concept sketches to finalize. Labeled early on "DEMONIC ICE CREAM TRUCK", attention to details such as the head adorning the vehicle and the contents of the back of the truck were focused on during development.〔"The ice cream truck for Twisted Metal: Black took six months to design, with over three hundred concept sketches done before the team locked on the final version. In the following images you can see the attention to detail that went into everything from choosing the right clown head to figuring out what was inside the back of the truck itself. You can also see the original art of the ice cream truck labeled DEMONIC ICE CREAM TRUCK that was designed well before the character of Sweet Tooth was even conceived." Factoid 25 in ''Sweet Tour'', ''Twisted Metal Head-On: Extra Twisted Edition〕 Boss variants of the truck have also appeared regularly in the series starting with Dark Tooth in the second game (which was a re-textured version of the original Sweet Tooth vehicle). While the designs for the vehicles have progressed steadily, care has been emphasized to keep them rooted to the simple ice cream truck structure yet unique, something that has become harder and harder for the team as the games go on.〔"With each title it gets harder and harder to design a Sweet Tooth boss that is unique and special enough to be a boss character while still retaining the core elements of the very simple ice cream truck design." 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